The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-01 00:00:00

rfiE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 1860.

THE BRIBERY COM3IISSION.

BERWICK-UPON-TWEED.

The commissioners re-assembled this morning in the
Committee-room No. 10, House of Commons.
The first witness examined was William M'Gall, who
took a very prominent part in the election with regard to
which the present inquiry was instituted. He admitted
having received money from Captain Gordon :for distribu-
tion among the poor, but not for the purpose of bribing the
electors. He had received a large sum from Captain
Gordon on one occasion. Ho recollected having upwards
of £5OO. The chairman then went through the
list of voters on the occasion, and asked the witness to
signify those who had received money from him out of that
sum. M'Gall, when the list had been gone through, ac•,
counted for about £lO, when the Chairman informed him
that it would be absolutely necessary for him to furnish the
Commissioners with the names of the parties who had re-
ceived the greater part of the money, as it appeared to him
to be perfectly impossible that he (M'Gall) could have for-
gotten the names of all the parties to whom he had paid
money with the exception of the £lO ho had accounted for.
The Commissioners would insist that by to-morrow morn-
ing the list might be forthcoming. The whole of the money
it was not expected could now be accounted for, but
at all events the greater part he thought the witness
could account for if he felt so disposed, and under
such circumstances it was imperative that the directions
of Commissioners should be obeyed. The examination of
the witness was then proceeded with. He said he had
never, previous to the election of 1859, given bribes
to any of the electors, freemen or non-freemen.
After some other questions had been answered by the
witness all bearing on the distribution of money, the com-
mittee adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(TIII8 DALE)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE COMING " FIFTII OF NOVIAMBER."—A boy named
George Tracey was charged before Mr. Beadon with dis-
charging fireworks in the public streets, to the danger of
the, passengers.

A constable, 53 E, proved geeing the boy, who was in
company of several others, discharge some fireworks in
the neighbourhood of Tottenham-court-road, and then
took him into custody.

It may be stated that the nuisance is nightly 'increasing,
Inspector Garforth, of the E division, stating that on the
previous evening a person complained to him of a boy
having thrown a lighted squib into a room, the window of
which had been left open. _ _

Mr. Beadon said he would not permit fireworks to be
discharged in the streets. The sth of November was
coming, and if persons were brought before him he would
fine them heavily. The religious distinctions were fast
being put an end to, and very properly so ; and in his dis-
trict, at all events, he would try and stop it. He would
discharge him this time, but he would caution him not to
discharge fireworks again.

THIS DAY'S MARKETS.

DEATII OF THE EARL OF DUNDONALD.

The Earl of Dundonald died yesterday morning
at one o'clock, at his residence in Kensington. His
lordship was in his 85th year.
The venerable nobleman retained all his faculties
to the last. It will be in the recollection of many
of our readers that his lordship, though in advanced
years, underwent a painful operation for the stone,
from which, by the skilful treatuAent of his medical
attendants, and a naturally vigorous constitution,
he had completely recovered. On Tuesday after-
noon at half-past five o'cloc'k he was suddenly at-
tacked with alarming illness, and at one a.m. yes-
terday he expired. Owir,g to the suddenness of
the attack several meroibers of his family were
unable to have the consdation of being present at
his dissolution.

The following biog...aphical notice of the de-
ceased nobleman is fro m Men of our Time :
Thomas Cochrane Dundonald, tenth Earl of
Dundonald, better -known as Lord Cochrane, was
born
Dec. 14, 1775, and when only five years of
age, his name wan entered on the books of the
Vesuvius,
bomb, commanded by his uncle, Captain
Cochrane, who transferred it successively to the
Carolina and Sophie, He did not go to sea till the
27th June, 1193, when he embarked with his re-
lative in the Hind, of 28 guns. Previously to this
he had been gazetted to a captaincy in the 79th
Foot, but had not joined his regiment.
On the 17th May, 1795, when acting-lieutenant
of the Thetis, 42, commanded by his uncle, he con-
tributed, with the Hussar, of 28 guns, to the de-
feat, on the coast of North America, of a French
squadron of five sail, two of which were captured.
His confirmation to the Thetis took place May 24,
1796, and he subsequently joined, after serving in
various ships, the Queen Charlotte, flag-ship, in
the Mediterranean, of Admiral Lord Keith.
On December 21st, 1799, he was sent from Gib-
raltar Bay in command of the boats of the Queen
Charlotte and the Emerald frigate, to relieve the
Lady Nelson cutter, then surrounded and attacked,
off Cabritta Point, by several French privateers and
Spanish gunboats, some of which he pursued and
boarded with the most undaunted gallantry, chasing
others under the very cannon of the harbour. On
the capture, Feb. 18, 1800, of the French 74, Le
Genereux, he was appointed her acting captain; but
on 28th March following he was promoted to be
Master and Commander of the Speedy, sloop-of-war,
of 16 guns and 54 men ; and in the ten succeeding
months he took 33 vessels, carrying, in all, 128
guns, and 533 men, besides assisting at the capture
of many others. For one of these, the seizure by
boarding of the Spanish frigate El Gamo, 32 guns,
off Barcelona, on the 6th of May, 1801, he received
his commission as post captain, dated August Bth
following. He succeeded in cutting out a Spanish
convoy at Oroposo, lying under the protection of a
strong battery and numerous gunboats. On the 3d
July, however, the Speedy was herself captured by
the French squadron under Admiral Linois. On
this occasion Lord Cochrane's courage had been so
conspicuous that, on presenting bis sword to the
captain of the French 74, Dessaix, it was returned
to him, with the request that he would continue to
wear what he had so nobly used. On the 6th of
the same month he was on board the French squa-
dron when attacked by Sir J. Saumarez in Algesiras
Bay, and being soon afterwards exchanged he re-
turned to England, and went on half-pay.
On the sth. of October he was appointed to the
Arab, 22 guns, from which ship, after serving at the
blockade of Boulogne, he removed on the 3d Dec.,
1804, to the Pallas frigate, 32, in which in the fol-
lowing year he was sent out with despatches to his
uncle Admiral Sir A. Cochrane, at that time em-
ployed in the blockade of Ferrol. Whilst cruising
off the Spanish coast in March, .1805, he made a
considerable number of prizes, amongst which was
the Fortuna, from Rio de la Plata to Corunna, with
specie to the amount of £150,000 sterling, besides a
considerable quantity of merchandise, but he gene-
rously returned 10,000 crowns to the Spanish cap-
tain and supercargo. Early in April, 1806, the
Pallas was employed in the Gironde, a river very
difficult of navigation ; and on this service he suc-
ceeded in cutting out the Tapagense corvette of 14
long 12 pounders and 95 men, and notwithstanding
she lay 20 miles above the Cordovan shoal, under
the protection of two heavy batteries. In the fol-
lowing month, with the marines and boats' crews,
he destroyed the semaphores along the French
coast, and bore off the signal flags. The bat-
tery at Point d'Equilon he carried by storm and
laid in ruins, spiking the guns, burning the car-
riages, blowing up the barrack and magazine, and
throwing all the shells into the sea. On the 23d
of August he assumed the command of the Impe-
rieuse, 44 guns, and between the 13th of Decem-
ber, 1806, and the 7th of January, 1807, some days
short of a month, he took and destroyed fifteen of
the enemy's ships, chiefly laden with wine and
provisions. He was afterwards sent to co-operate
with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, and
on the 21st of July, 1808, he compelled the sur-
render of the castle of Mongat, by which the road
to Gerona, then besieged by the French, had been
completely commanded. In September he re-
newed his operations against the semaphores, on
the coast of Languedoc, and blew up the newly-
construsted semaphoric telegraph at Bourdique,
La Pimede, St. Maguire, Frontignan, Cault, and
Foy, with the houses attached to them, fourteen
barracks of the gendarmes, a battery, and the
strong tower upon the Lake of Frontignan. In
1809 he volunteered for the defence of Trinidad
Castle, attached to the fortress of Rosas on the
coast of Catalonia, then besieged by the French.
At the head of 80 of his own men, and about an
equal number of the Spaniards, he repelled 1,000
of the enemy in an assault on the castle. He
protracted the siege for twelve days, but on the
citadel capitulating he blew up the magazine of
Trinidad Castle, and retired to his ship. In April,
1809, he was selected by the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, from his daring intrepidity, to command
a fleet of fire-ships intended for the destruction of
the French fleet then lying at anchor, and
blockaded by Lord Gambier, in the Basque Roads.
On the night of the 11th of that month he went on
board one of the explosion ships containing 1,500
barrels of gunpowder, and performed the hazardous
service confided to him most effectually.
For his signal gallantry on this occasion he re-
ceived the Knighthood of the Bath. He had been
chosen M.P. first for Honiton, and afterwards, in"
1807, for Westminster, and as he intimated his
intention to oppose the vote of thanks proposed by
the Government to Lord Gambier, who had the
chief command in the Basque Roads affair, that
nobleman was subjected to a court-martial, but
acquitted. In the early part of 1814 Lord Coch-
rane fell into the snare of some designing knaves
and was charged with fraudulent designs on the
Stock Exchange. The fraud in which he was said
to have been implicated was committed by a rascal
named Random de Berenger, who contrived that,
on February 22, an express should be sent from
Dover with the information that a French officer
had arrived announcing the death of the Emperor
Napoleon by assasination. The funds rose nearly
10 per cent. in consequence of the false news.
The fraudulent speculators anticipated to rea-
lise a considerable amount by their ne-
farious conduct ; but they were disappointed
in their evil gain, as all bargains on that account
were nullified. Lord Cochrane and others were
tried and convicted. His lordship was sentenced
to pay a fine of £5OO, to be imprisoned for twelve
.the
months, and at the end of that time to stand
pillory ; but the last disgraceful part of his punish
ment was remitted on account of his greatpoPu-
larity. He was expelled the House of Commons
on his conviction, in which assembly
he took, how-
ever, the oaths and his seat on his temporary escape
Tilly,
able of the
1815. The
from the King's Bench Prison in
public, at least, did not believe him cap
re-elected him
base act laid to his charge,
for they
sion, and
as a further
eleven days after his exPu
l
proof of their belief in hisb a innocence,, defrayed the
penny subscrip-
fine imposed by the judg y
es
tion." That his lordship was the dupe of designing
persons there is not the remotest doubt, but the
popular belief at that time was that he was the
victim of political or interested knavery. Perhaps
the greatest indignity he had to suffer for his in-
discretion was his degradatica as 11 might of the

(From Ike Doily News.)
Great Britain has lost the last of her ancien,
Sea-kings. The paragon of the British navy in its
heroic age, the brilliant rival in desperate service
and dauntless exploit of Nelson himself, the sync -
sure of Nelson's bravest captains—Thomas Coch
rane, Earl of Dundonald, is gone, in the fulness cf
years and honours, to rejoin the company of his
departed countrymen and comrades. In the peace
ful quiet of his English home, this illustrious cap-
tain, whose name was the terror of the enemy's
coasts, and a legend in every sea from the sun-
rise to the sunset, when as yet our grand-
fathers were boys, sinks at last into wellwon
repose. When the present century was only
dawning, young Cochrane was doing deeds by-
sea and land which will be remembered as
long as Europe has a history. From his by-
hood he pursued death and glory with all the
eager passion of a lover. The flag of his country
was his lodestar, and, by day and night, throngs
battle and tempest, through the iron hail of the
enemy's guns, he watched over its stainless glory
with unsleeping jealousy and insatiable devotion.
The name of Cochrane is to this hour, and must
ever be, a living and speaking memory and tradi-
tion in the noblest national service in the world.
From 1795 to 1814 it was the astonishment and ad-
miration of all the gallant enemies of England.
" Not even the British Navy could do it," is a
saying which the career of Cochrane might have
justified, if a Blake and a Nelson had never
lived. Nowhere, we believe, is this great name
more honoured, nowhere will the news of this
death be receiv ed with a thrill of more generous
emotion, than among the gallant countrymen of
Linois and Dessaix. For as all the world is the
tomb of heroes, so among the brave even an
" enemy" is cherished as a comrade when ti
battle's done.
The scroll of Lord Dundonald's services is
nothing more nor less than the naval history of
that " war of giants." In the Channel, in the
Mediterranean, in the Bay of Biscay, in the
Atlantic his energy and activity were übiquitous
and incessant, and fortune favoured his audacit_yr;
But his daring did not surpass his genius. 11,
fertility of resource, in instant perceptihotn n
opportunity, in calm, decisive forethouvigill,
thei
unwavering judgment, in tenacity as f
never want-
most dashing and reckless advent
(:•es, as they
seemed to the timid or the dull, werets of the sea-
ing. Detesting and despisitn,
lawyer species, and marti
sternness in such a
ilehigl.Poerd Cochrane was
a stern disciplinaria.sn.thei3
lt that savours a ship's
ll
captain as Cochrane
beana ill day for England
company; and it loste that savour ! To say that
when her navy has
seas and swept the enemy's
Cochrane scoured th
y and creek where an enemy's
flag from every .
.ibsasto record literally the exact na-
flag could lurk,were performed by him
ture of the service which America, in Gibraltar Bay,
in the coast of
jNohrnths,
along the coasts of France'
in the Gulf
Span. of
fConYstantly opposed to forces vastly
and nurnrebear,aanad metal, he never paused to
superior in enemy, because he never
take them easu
enemy
.. ula get the better of his
believed that
an7ln cutting-out expeditions, in
own resolute will
boat actions, in sudden raids upon the enemy's
coasts, his life at sea was a continual romance, and
will remain the wonder and delight of sailors in all
ages of all nations.
wads the misfortune, however, of Lord Cochrane
that he was a man of genius, and by nature impa-
tient of mediocrity, odious to officialism, and—in a
word--intractable ashore, as often as he found him-
self under the thumb of privileged incompetence
and intrigue. It is painful to Englishmen of all
parties, though the shame belongs to the Toi ies, to
reflect that this British hero and worthy, whose
loss we are now deploring, was once branded by
his Government, deprived of all his bard-earned
honours, expelled from the House of Commons, and
obliged to break out of prison to take his seat for
Westminster. To his dying day he never forgot
those liberal electors of 'Westminster ; and in the
dedication of his autobiography he identifies his
name for ever with their patriotic suffrages.
The Liberal party has not upon its conseie.illitene
the reproach of having driven Lord Cochranrae into
exile. But in exile the hero was still the cha.sp‘; _
of freedom. In South America, in Greecy!ticinp,
WM the as of nibtional independence. At
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Bath, for in August, after his conviction, his
lord- the triumph of liberal principles at home restored
ship's arms and banner were removed by the heralds him to his country, and to the service he had covered
with contumely, and kicked out of Henry Vll.'s with glory. Not with the best grace, but by iater-
chapel in Westminster Abbey. His name was mitteut fits of tardy repentance, the men in power
likewise removed from the Navy List. Lord Cech- atoned for the injuries which their predecessors had
rave declined to come forward previously to the inflicted. For 15 years t:ie ictim of party rancour
has survived the wounds of calumny and injustice.
general election in 1818, having accepted the com- His latest years were devoted to his country, and to
mand of the naval force of the then new republic the interests of the service he loved so well. Genius,
of Chili. Having become " a sailor of fortune," it science, experience, he freely and faithfully devoted
was to be expected that by " deeds of daring" he to naval questions • and at the age of more than
would maintain that reputation he had
gained four-score years the latest theories of gunnery
or " reconstruction" were discussed by him with all
in the service of his country, and which none the buoyant zeal and far-sighted shrewdness of
of the most bitter of his personal enemies could, in early years. It is a happy thought that he had
their malice, deprive him of. He took the com- finished the second volume of an Autobiography'
mend of the navy of the new state of Chili, and which ought to be a classic in every English
when
afloat and ashore. He leaves us at a time
by his exertions and achievements finally secured
whicnh the Navy is undergoing a tranformation
the independence of that republic. His cutting out has yet to be tested. But of this we may
of the Esmeralda, a large 40-gunirigate, on the sth be certain—no transformation of materials can dis-
of November, 1823, from under the guns of the pense with Nelsons or Cochranes, or replace them.
castle of Callao, was one of the most daring, as well No substitution of steam for sails, of 10 inch
as the most celebrated of his ex sgeuns for carronades, can ever persuade British
lofts. Subsequently,
to pl yat loLngebouwslshweah;nwthiteuvescsa,n
then,come
he was, by the Emperor Don Pedro, appointed to toacuinloeae
quarters.
the command of the Brazilian fleet, and in 1823 was in the face of the world,t by the honours we pay
by that monarch created Marquis of Maranham. to our national Captain, that his spirit still breathes
His lordship next gave his services to Greece, and and burns in every seaman that serves under the
was employed in that country from 1827 to 1828. British flag,
and in every Englishman who loves
sacred and eternal cause of liberty which
In 1830, on the accession of the Whigs to office, among its heroes a Cochrane, a Charles countsj
James
under King William IV., Lord Dundonald was re- Napier, and a Garibaldi—kinsmen in courage, in
instated in his rank in the British Navy from a suffering, and in genies.
feeling that he had been made the victim of party,
and on May 22, 1847, the Order of the Bath was
restored to him. He succeeded his father as Earl
Dundonald in 1841, and became Vice-Admiral of
the Blue, Nov. 23, 1641.
He was appointed Commander-in-Chief on the
North American and West Indian Station in 1848.
In 1851 he became Vice-Admiral of the White, and
in 1854 Rear-Admiral of the United Kingdom. Be-
sides his other honours he was a baronet of Scot-
land and Nova Scotia of 1671 ; G.C.8., 1847 ;
Grand Gross of the Imperial Brazilian Order of the
Cruzero ; Knight of the Royal Order of the Re-
deemer of Greece, and of the Order of Merit of
Chili. He enjoyed a high reputation for his scien-
tific attainments, and was the author of a pamphlet
entitled " Observations on Naval Affairs," in which
he inserted a summary of his naval services and ex-
posed several acts of injustice which he had experi-
enced in the performance of his duty. He long ago
invented a project for blowing up and annihilating
fleets, which was submitted to the Government ;
and it is said that it was so overwhelmingly
destructive that, at the personal request of George
IV., he not only abstained from using it, but
pledged his honour to his Majesty that he
would never use it without the sanction of the
Crown. He is understood to have suggested seve-
ral valuable hints for the improvement of our steam
navy.
To those desirous of a more detailed record of his
career we refer them to " The Autobiography of a
Seaman," the first volume of which, from the pen
of the noble admiral, has been published, and the
second and concluding volume has been announced
as " nearly ready."
In 1856 the lamented admiral was elected an
elder brother of the Trinity House ; was restored
in 1847 among the knights of the Order of the
Bath, being reappointed 22d May that year a Grand
Cross of that most honourable institution of knight-
hood. For his emineat services abroad he was
decorated a G rand Cross of the Order of the Cruzero
of Brazil, a Knight of the Saviour of Greece, and
of Merit of Chili. The late admiral's commission
bore date as follows :—Lieutenant, May 24, 1796 ;
commander, March 28, 1800; captain, August 8,
1801; rear admiral, May 2, 1832 ; vice admiral,
November 23, 1841; and admiral, March 21, 1851,
and was rear admiral of the United Kingdom.
The late earl of Dundonald succeeded to the
ancient honours of his house on the death of his
father, who died in his 84th year, in 1831. Th e
late earl married Bth August, 1812, Katherine
Frances Corbett, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas
Barnes, and leaves surviving issue by her ladyship.
who survives her husband, four sons and a daughter,
namely, Thomas Barnes, Lord Cochrane (now the
Earl of Dundonald), born 18th April, 1814, and
married Ist December, 1847, to Louisa Harriet,
daughter of Mr. Wm. Alexander Mackinnon, M.P.,
formerly in the 2d foot ; Hon. Horace Bernard
William, born in 1818, and married to Frances
Jacobina, only daughter of the late Alexander
Nicholson ; Captain the Hon. Arthur Auckland,
R.N., C. 8., born in 1824 ; Lieutenant the Hon.
Ernest Grey, R.N., born 4th June, 1834; and
Lady Katherine , Elizabeth, born December, 1821,
and married to Mr. John Willis Fleming, of Stone
ham Park, Hants.

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REPORTED DEM AT
lOH .
OF ALBERTO
AR

Yesterday we noticed the rumour current in
Newcastle that our brave young townsman, Mr.
Alfred Gorringe, had fallen in the first encounter
of the British Brigade before Capua ; to-day we
learn, by private letters from Naples, that Signor
Alberto Mario, the husband of Madame Jessie
White Mario, has also been killed. He was sent
by Garibaldi, at the head of a coluinn of one thou•
sand men, to put down a reactionary movement in
Molise. The patriots were overpowered and cut
to pieces by a body of Neapolitan soldiers six times
their number. Only forty out of the thousand are
reported as being saved, and in that number Mario's
name does not occur. The encounter is said to have
been tremendous, the Garibaldians having fought
like lions, and against desperate odds.
Signor Mario was a member of a very old Vene-
tian family who have lived on the same estates for
centuries, and have suffered severely from time to
time by the persecutions of the Austrians. He was
a barrister by profession, but in the siege of Venice
in 1848 and 1849 he fought under Manin. Although
he entered the service as a common soldier his skill
and courage soon raised him to a superior command.
After the fall of Venice he retired to Genoa, where
he supported himself by writing for the liberal news-
papers and by teaching. In 1856 and 1857 he
took an active part in organising the expedition
which, under the brave Pisacane and Nicotera,
sailed for Naples on board the Cagliari. For his
complicity in this matter he was driven from Genoa
by the Sardinian Government. For a short time
he resided in Switzerland, and then came to Eng-
land, where he lived for some months, and then,
in company with his wife, went to America. He
returned to this country in the beginning of last
year, when he and Madame Mario went to Italy.
The Sardinian Government refused to allow
either of them to remain, and after having suffered
a short imprisonment as suspects, they were re-
leased by the urgent entreaties of Garibaldi, and
allowed to go again to Switzerland. They lived
there till the expedition to Sicily, in April last. ,
when Mario and his wife joined Garibaldi. The
former took the charge of the military school,
organised by the Dictator in Palermo, while the
latter superintended the hospitals. When Gari-
baldi landed in Calabria, Mario was one of his
staff, and in that capacity continued till he was
sent on the fatal expedition which we have men-,
tioned.

Mario was about 32 or 33 years of age, active,
and of a fine soldierly appearance. He was an
ardent republican, and a devoted follower of Maz-
zini. His literary attainments were considerable,
n d he was a regular contributor to many of the
first-class continental magazines and reviews.
Garibaldi had a strong personal attachment to
him, and he was one of the few men to whom the
Dictator was understood to be at all communicative
respecting his military or political projects. He
was in the neighbourhood of Newcastle for some
time, along with his wife, in the spring of 1858, and
his untimely death will be a source of great regret
to the many friends he made while here.
Madame Mario follows the camp of the Gari-
baldians, and has the chief command of all the hos-
pital arrangements. Her energy and good-
heartedness have won her troops of friends, even
amongst the partisans of Cavour, who look with
horror on her political opinions. She was married
shortly after her release from prison in Genoa, in
1857.—Newcastle Chronicle.