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which they now live was devised for them by Ear/
Grey. Of this system it is sufficient to say that it
would be dangerous even if established among a
people as sober and as trained in free institutions
as the English. In the lonian Islands it has been
foundentirely impracticable. The press was allowed
perfect liberty. The Assembly, chosen by univer-
. sal suffrage and vote by ballot, elects the Senate;
- and the Lord High Commissioner and the Senate
together form the Executive. It is as if such a
House of Commons as Mr. Bright would give us
elected the Cabinet directly, and the Queen were
bound to acquiesce in the choice. The lonians, so
far from being-satisfied with this almost unlimited
liberty, have only taken advantage of it to make
government impossible. The press has teemed with
libels againstthe Queen, the English Government,
the English people, and the constituted-authorities
of the islands. Nothing that is written in this
country can give a notion of the foulness and viru-
lence of these compositions, which more resemble
the reviling of the East than anything to which we
are accustomed. The Assembly meets every year
only to indulge in such frantic declamation as to
insure its immediate prorogation, and last year even
the ordinary precedent of violence and intemperance
was grossly exceeded.
It is to see if no remedy can be found for a state
of things so untoward that •Mr. Gladstone goes out
as Commissioner Extraordinary. The lonians may
see in the selection of such a man how forbearing is
the spirit of tie English Government. If they were
the subjects of any other European Power their
affairs would long ago have been put into the hands
of some prompt old General, who at the first breath
of sedition would send off half the Assembly to
gaol. Our Government, after years of provocation,
has selected a statesman of the highest repute, one
eminent for his learning and eloquence, and for his
sympathy with the land and the literature of the
lonians, to inquire and to reform. He will proceed.
to Corfu, and, without superseding the lord High
Commissioner, will endeavour to remove the obsta-
cles which impede the working of Government. If
the people have anything to complain of he will
listen to their compisints, and the character of Mr.
Gladstone gives every reason to believe• that he
will be more apt to . • e faultetef his own
countrymen than to Wig' of
the natives. Should mission.
the tranquilization of the islands it will afford a
good precedent for availing ourselves hereafter of
the services of our great Parliamentary statesmen
on a wider_sphere of usefulness than the wordy
contests of Westminster.

SING

TAR PROCEEDING.

At the recent quarter sessions for the county of'
Surrey a young man named James Clark, alias
Mack, was convicted under very peculiar circum-
stances of the robbery of a young ladyin Richmond
Park, and was thereupon sentenced to three years'
penal servitude, there being very good ground for
supposing, from what occurred at the trial, and
from what has since transpired in reference to the
matter, that the prisoner is totally innocent of the
crime of which he was convicted. It appeared that
the prosecutrix was walking in Richmond Park with
several young lathes, when a man walked up to her
and deliberately accosting her, said that he must
have the watch and chain she was wearing. She
told him that he should not, and he then attempted
to strike her, but one of her companions came to
her assistance and a scuffle took place, during which
one of the young ladies was struck by the robber,
and at length he made a snatch at the chain of the
rrosecutrix, which broke, and he made off with a
portion of it and one or two trinkets. The proseca-
trix immediately proceeded to the police-station at
Richmond,• and gave information of what had oc-
curred, and at the same time gave a description of
the man by whom the robbery had been effected,
and it appeared that, in Consequence of this descrip-
tion, the prisoner Clark was taken into custody in
the neighbourhood of Richmond a day or two after-
wards, and the prosecutrix immediately identified
him as the thief; he at the same time strongly pro-
tested his innocence, and declared that he could
prove that he was at work in London at the time
the offence was committed. The magistrates, how-
ever, upon the evidence of the prosecutrix, felt
tkemselves compelled to commit him, and the case
came on for trial at the sessions. The prisoner had
no counsel, but he made a most earnest and sensible
speech to the jury on his own behalf, and after posi-
tively asserting his innocence he asked them whe-
ther it was likely, if he had committed such an offence
so shortly before, that he should have gone to the very
place where it occurred, and where he was almost
certain to be taken into custody ? He said also he
was told that the police had been making inquiries
respecting a person who answered his description,
and that if he had been doing anything wrong he
had better " step it," and his reply was, that he had
not been doing any thing that would make him
silortfy alter tnis-naa occurred ne was taxen into
custody. In addition to this, three witnesses were
called who swore positively that at the time the
robbery was alleged to have been committed in
Richmond Park, the prisoner was employed in
wood chopping at Westminster, and although these
witnesses were severely cross-examined by Mr.
Wood, the counsel for the prosecution, their evi-
dence was not shaken in any material particular,
and the general impression in court *as that they
were speaking the truth. The chairman evidently
was impressed with this idea, for he summed up
the case to the jury very strongly for an acquittal,
but, to the surprise of almost every one present,
they returned a verdict of " Guilty," and the pri-
soner was thereupon sentenced to three years'
penal servitude. The feeling, however, was so
strong in the mind of the bench and bar in favour
of the prisoner's innocence, that the sentence has
not Tet been put in force, and the prisoner still
remains in Horsemonger-lane, and it is understood
that a memorial will be sent to the Secretary of
State praying for a pardon for the prisoner, as
from subsequent inquiries that have been made,
there appears to be very little doubt that the wit-
nesses for the prosecution were mistaken in speak-
ing to his identity, and that he is really innocent
of the crime of which he has been convicted.

ANOTHER LARGE STEAMER DESTROYED BY FIRE.
—A heavy loss to the underwriters at Lloyd's was made
known yesterday by the receipt of a telegram from Bremen
announcing the destruction by fire of the Hudson steamer,
which took place on Tuesday night in the port of Bremer-
haven. The Hudson was a fine first-class iron paddle
steamship, 2,500 tons register, belonging to the Bremen and
New York line of mail packet steamers, and was compara-
tively a new vessel, having made but two or three trips.
She was appointed to take her departure from Bremen on
Saturday next, and is supposed to have been partly laden
with cargo. Upwards of £70,000 is said to have been done
on the ship at Lloyd's.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—OUR MEDICAL LIBERTIES 1 1 !--
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TH EATR E-R OY AL, DRURY-LANE.'
Under the Management of Mies L. Pync and Mr. W.
Harrison.
T HIS EVENING, MAP.ITANA. Characters by Miss
Louis* lryo, Misa Susan-ryne, Miss M. Prescott, Mr. Ferdi-
nand Glover, Mr. George Honey. Mr. J: G. Patty, Mr. Bar-
tleman, Mr. Kirby, and Mr. W. Harrison.:
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon.
To conclude with a new Ballet Divertissement, LA FLEUR
D'AMOU It : Mesdlles. L. Michelet, Morlacehi, and Pautuale.

ROYAL 'PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Under the Mana,e;ement of Mr. Charles Kean.
.THIS EVENING will be presented Shakspere's Play of
. . KING JOHN.
King John, Mr. C. Kean—Constance, Mrs. C. Kean.
Preceded by the Farce of
AWAY WITH MELANCHOLY.

HEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Lessee. Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING will be performed LONDON ASSU-
RANUE : Mr. and Mrs. C. Matthews, &c.
HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR.
JACK'S RETURN PROM CANTON.
And ANY PORT IN A STORM.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE,
Lessee and Directress, Miss Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, WOOING IN JEST AND LOVING
IN EARNEST; Messrs. Selby, Porsche, and Miss Swan-
orough.
Alter which THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE.
Followed by THE BONNIE FISH WIFE.
And MY AUNT'S HUSBAND ; Mr. Swanborough, Mrs
;:ii:Selby, Miss Ternan.