The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-20 00:00:00

THE ADDRESS.

The report of the address having been brought up and
read,

Mr. D. GRIFFITHS made some observations which he
said were of a secondary nature, and afterwards went on to
condemn the policy of the Government declaring war in
Abyssinia without first consulting the House of Commons.
Mr. MAGUIRE urged upon the Government the pro-
priety of sparing the lives of the persons now under
sentence of death who were called Fenians. There was a
prevailing sentiment throughout the country that mercy
ought to be tempered with justice, more especially as the
evidence offered at the trial had completely broken down.
Five men were originally tried, found guilty, and sentenced
to death, yet in a very short time after the representatives
of the Crown, feeling tha evidence did nut fully bring home
the crime to one afterwards obtained for him a freo pardon,
and this after he had been sentenced to death. He hoped
the Government would, before it was too late, listen to the
voice of mercy. The hon. gentleman then referred to the
state of affairs in Rome. He said the attempt to destroy
the Papacy would miserably fail, and that all oiern Italy
had done for Rome was to create anarchy bloodshed.
It never would succeed in driving the Pope from Rome ;
and the present position of matters showed most incon-
contestably that when assistance was required for theiPope,
that assistance immediately sprang up in some quarter.
If they were to succeed in driving tho Pope from Rome
what would they do with him. Why they must give him
Rome. If Italy were to succeed in making Rome its
capital, what would that now bankrupt and desolate
couatry do with it? Why, its treasures of art would be
seized, distributed throughout the world, and sold to pay
the army, which now was kept up by Italy, and after all
they would have to ask the Pope to return to the city
from which folly and treason had driven him.
Lord STANLEY said ho had so recently stated the
views of the Government with respect to the temporal
power of the Pope that he did not feel called upon to allude

to it on that occasion, and he rose for the purpose of saying
his silence must not be construed into an assent to the
opinions of the hon. gentleman who had just sat down.
Tho hon. gentleman had referred to the position of
Catholicism in the United States. Italy, it seemed to him,
would be quite satisfied if it had the same footing in Rome
as Catholicism had in the United States. He did not,
however, gather from the observations of the honour-
able gentleman that the question of the government of the
Pope would ho considered settled if it was sub-
initted to the vote of the people of Rome. With regard
to Abyssinia as the papers had been laid on the table in
the house last night, he did not think it would be wise to
make any further remark on the subject at that period
furth•;r than to say Government would at the proper time
be quite ready to justify the steps they had taken. How-
ever, there was one thing he might say, Government. did
not intend to do and that was to hold any part of that
country for any period, either as a guarentee or otherwise.
The report on the address was then received,
after which the house adjourned.

LAW INTELLIGENCE,---This Day,

THE COURT OF PROBATE.
(More the Right Hon. Sir J. P. Wilde.)
PEARSE V. PEARSE AND OTHERS.

This suit, which is instituted for the purpose of
testing the validity of the will of the late Mr. Pearse,
a solicitor in Westbournc-terrace, was further heard

Lis moruing,

Miss Louisa Searle, examined by Dr Tristram,
said that she was the eldest sister of Mrs.

Pearse. Witness was present when they returned
from their wedding tour. Witness had seen so
many acts of cruelty from Mr. Pearse to his
wife that she could hardly specify any parti-
culars. He used to perpetrate the most disgusting
cruelty. Ile ,would twist her arm, take off her
wedding ring, punch her, and turn her out of her
bedroom. On one occasion she had seen him take
a knife, and threaten to stab her because she
would not lie in the position he wished her.
Witness ran between them, and rang the bell,
and sent to her father. In 1851 she had
the small-pox. In 1853-54 they went to Brussels
and lodged at Madame Hank's, then he turned her
out of her bed-room, and she came to witness's
room and he afterwards threatened to stab her: In
1857 Mrs. Pearse was confined of a little boy, and
Mr. Pearse objected to have a wet nurse, and said
it would not be his child but the nurse's. He spat
on the child and detested it. He said he did not

like the expense. Witness only stayed till the
child was six weeks old. She was invited by
Mr. Pearse. She never went there unless
so invited after the first year. She went because
they were afraid he would murder her. She remem-
bered the Duke of Wellington's funeral. They all
attended it. Mrs. Pearse sent to say that she was
locked up. She dined with them that day, and the
next day Mrs. Pearse went with her father to Mr.
Borthwick. She had heard mention made by Mr.
Pearse of a lady named Mary. She had heard him
say that he wished he had married her rathor than
her sister.

Cross-examined by Dr. Spinks, Q.C.—Witness
did not know what age her sister was when she was
married. She thought about 20 ; but he could find
out. (Laughter.) She could make no calculations
without putting pen to paper. When Mr. Pearse
committed the acts she had described he looked like
a madman. He was a most incomprehensible man ;
he would fly into a passion in a moment. He
also threatened to stab his wife a few
weeks before the first little child was
born. Her father was a clergyman in Hampshire,
and was now unable to speak. At the time of the
marriage he was living on his means iu London.
He did not keep his bed, and that was the worst of
it, because it was impossible for him from the nature
of his illness to do so. He could speak to his
family, but he could not keep up any conversa-
tion, &c.

(The case was still proceeding when we went to
press.)

THE ILLNESS OF MRS. DISAAELL—We regret
to say we have no improvement as yet to report to-day.
FLOGGING A SERVANT.—At the Hastings Town
Hall, on Saturday, Mrs. Sarah Skinner, wife of a farmer,
was charged with having committed an aggravated assault
upon her servant, a girl about 19 years of age. Defendant,
acting on the advice of her solicitor; pleaded guilty, with
the object, it seemed, of stopping the case. The magis-
trates, however, decided to hear what the complainant had
to say. It appeared that her mistress had beaten her with
a doubled strap about the arms and back. A long time
ago she knocked some of the girl's tooth down her throat
Of several bruises which she bore upon her body, some.
were caused with the strap and others with the broom.
The magistrates decided to adjourn the inquiry, in order
that additional evidence might be obtained.
DR. LIVINGSTONE.—Sir Roderick Murchison has
received a letter from Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar, dated the 28th
of September, stating that he has seen a native trader who
had just returned front the western side of Lake Tan-
ganyika, and who gave him a detailed account of having
seen a whits man travelling in that very remote region.
The letter will be read on Monday next at the meeting of
the Royal Geographical Society.

THE OAKS CoLLIEItY. -It would almost appear
as if the engineers in charge of the Oaks colliery are unable
to devise any successful means for entering the workings
and recovering the remains of the men entombed in them.
Since the explosions of the sth iust. all attempts in that
direction have nearly ceased.

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