The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1858.

THET_
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY 'the language of the P. R., they are very gluttons
COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY for
punishment—receivers-General, who do not
GIVEN, That the Meeting convened .
for TO-MORROW
(WEDNESpAY), to consider certain now pending in seem to know when they are thoroughly and
Parliament, will be ADJOURNED, in consequence of the
Bills not having yet passed the House of Commons. soundly thrashed. Night after night, hour after
By order.
hour, they persevere in their factious and venomous
HENRY OAKLEY, Secretary.
Secretary's Office, King's Cross Station, proceedings. The shafts are dipped in the deadly
London, Tuesday, Ist June, 1858.
extract of the 17 pas tree, but none have reached
the intended mark. They return, like the Aus-
tralian "Boomerangs," to those by whom they
were dismissed, and only wound the hands that
aimed the missiles.
The speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer
to his constituents was sufficiently damaging to
the family party who seemed to think that they
had a " right divine" to place and power, who
could not rest contented in the " cold shade" to
which they had been consigned by their own
truckling and undignified policy ; but its force has
been greatly increased by the wild tactics of the
new confederates. It has again and again been
brought forward, and every time with more de-
cided success to the Ministry. On _ Fri-
, day, Lord JOHN RUSSELL contrived once
more to " upset the coach." The castigaH
which he then received will not speedily
or easily be forgotten. He writhed under the
flagellation, so well merited, and so unsparingly
administered. That did not suffice. The veteran
Viscount—the convenient associate of a dozen
ttdministrations, endeavoured to come to the
rescue, or rather to follow up the .attack. It
seems that the determination was to hunt
in packs —so that what could not be
achieved by individual prowess might be accom-
plished by wearying out the doomed victim.
But the skilful and practised maitre d'armes mot
one even more " cunning defence," fully able to
protect himself, and to retort on his adversary—
old the wild passes of his bottleholders were easily
parried by the accomplished seconds, who entered
the arena after the English M. HYENNE had been
placed hors de combat. Never did the Financial
Minister appear to greater advantage that last
night, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, and
he Attorney• General for Ireland, fully maintained
their well established reputations ! Poor Sir
GEORGE GREY, and still poorer Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, were not merely castigated, but pickled.
The lash was vigorously applied, and every strin-
gent cut struck home, and made the unwilling
recipients wince.
The operations of Friday and Monday were,
as truly stated, " a combined movement," but
they fell completely to the ground. The Right
Hon. Gentleman against whom they wore aimed
was " too cunning of fence," or rather was t
completely armed with the panoply of truth and
justice, to be pierced by such missiles. His oppo-
nents felt and quailed under the scourge. They
howled under the well-merited laceration, and
may even at the eleventh hour, discover that
" discretion is the better part of valour."
Lord PALMERSTON himself occupied too fragile
:5 domicile to indulge in pastime so dangerous and
so unusual. Had there been anything wrong in
the address at Slough, it could not be compared
to the reckless demonstration of the 9th Nov.,
when he cast down his gage before all the great
Powers, or like the excited Hibernian at a
provincial fair, or pattern trailed his "cotamore"
along the ground, and defied any one to tread on
he dust-besprinkled skirt. If everything said out of
the House to constituencies or conviviial
parties—if every postprandial oration was to be
made the subject of repeated and protracted dis-
cussion, the business of the nation will suffer
materially. The Opposition could not sneer at
the alleged shortcoming of the Government,
when they themselves were alone to blame for
the gross waste of much valuable time.
The debates have not, however, been useless ;
the discussions have not been altogether thrown
away, They have exhibited in the strongest light,
the fallacies promulgated by the Whigs—the
absurdity of supposing that either Lord PALMER-
STON or Lsrd JOHN RUSSELL were the recognised
!eaders, or could command the support of the in-
dependent Liberals. On this point, Mr. DISRAELI
made some unpleasing revelations. He said :
" I want to know whether the Bucks speech is
still to be the subject of the adjourned debate, and
what the result is to be. I take it for granted that
there is to be no division. Divisions are no
longer the fashion. As far as I could collect from
the noble lord opposite (the member for London)
on Friday night, the object of the demonstration
was to esshibit the great Liberal party in opposi-
tion to the Government. That is a legitimate and
constitutional course for a party to take. If the
noble lord is a Liberal ; if he sympathises with the
great Liberal party he is perfectly justified in show-
ing to the country the opinions of the great Liberal
party in opposition to the opinions of those who
occupy the Treasury bench. But lam bound to
say that I do not see how that clearly applies to the
Noble Lord who addressed us to-night, because I
cannot understand any feeling, sentiment, or
interest that unites the Noble Lord and the mem-
bers of the late Government with the great Liberal
party. I take the operations of Friday and Mon-
day together because they were a combined move-
ment, and I shall address myself to the united
demonstration, though I confess I cannot clearly
see the drift of the movement. I cannot see how
the two Noble Lords and the great Liberal party
opposite can act together. The great Liberal party
are in favour of vote by ballot. Are the members of
the late Government in favour of the ballot ? The
great Liberal party are in favour of the abolition of
church rates. Is the late Government in favour
of the 'abolition of church rates ? The great
Liberal party is in favour of the motion of the
Hon. Member for Surrey for the extension of the
county franchise. Is the late Government in
favour of that proposal f All we knew is that
they opposed it on principle when it was brought
forward formerly. There is another subject in
which the great Liberal party are interested.
It is the subject of economy. Were the
late Government in favour of economy ?
It is my painful duty every day of
my life to be a witness to the expenditure of
the late government, and a more reckless, ex,ra-
vagant, profuse expenditure never existed. The
groat Liberal party are in favour of publicity.
They always look for publicity in transactions of
the greatest importance. Now, there never was
a government which exercised such a reTsehreveonilny
affairs of state as the late government.
charges which they were always urging against
those who sit here were that they did produce
public documents. The only charge against Ili
was that we published a dispatch ; but no one
can say that we ever intercepted a letter."
if not impossibl©, to
It would be difficult,
expose the falsity of the pretensions that have
been urged, the absurdity of the claims put for-
ward in more decided and unequivocal term;
At all events, we may say, that Lord PALMERSTON
has taken nothing by his motion, and that neiViei
himself nor his new friend have as yet succeeded
in Extricating themselves from the " Slough cf
Despond" into which they were cast, by,, the
skilful hand of the Financial Minister.

TO THE SPORTING WORLD.

DEER STALKING AND GROUSE
SHOOTING.

The undersigned is at 24, BREWER-STREET, REGENT-
STREET (in a line with Glasshouse-street), until the 10th
July, with all the necessary Clothing for Deer Stalking,
Grouse Shooting, and Salmon Fi-hing ; and some new and
beautiful Tweeds for town wear, &c
Plaids, Tartans, Socks, Cloaks, Winceys, &e.
A large stock of the famous Highland Cloaks, for town
and country use, and for Deer Stalking.
The favourite Flora Macdonald Cloaks for Ladies, in all the
fashionable colours.
Tho Highland Dress made up.
Room open from two to six o'clock, until the 10th July,
when Macdougall returns to Inverness.
May, 1858. D. MACDOUGALL, of Inverness.

ER AI! AJEHVIZE'SNOTIHEATRE
ESTHIS EVENING, Tuesday, June 1, will be repeated
Dieyerbeer's Graud Opera,

LE3 HUGUENOTS.

Il Conte di Sin Brie, Signor Belletti ; Meru, Signor C3.stelli
Raoul di Ningis, Signor Giuglini;
Ii Conte di Nevers, Sig. Aldighieri ' • Tavannes, Sig. Annoni
De Come, Sig. Mercuriali ; De Retz, Sig. Borchardt •
Head of Night Watch, Sig. Albelda ; Marcello, Sig. Vialetti
Valentina, Maddle. Titiens ;
Margarita di Valois, Madlle, Ortoiani; Urban; Mine. Lanai
Daum d'Onore, Madame Ghioni,
Conductor—Sig. Arditi.

To conclude with an entirely New Ballet Divertissement,
by M. Massot, entitled LA REINE DES SONGES. The
principal characters by 3fadlle. Marie Taglioni (her first ap-
pearance this season), Meadlles. Annetta, Rosa, Pasquale,
Morlacchi, and M. Durand.
The Opera will commence at 8 o'clock.
A limited number of Boxes have been secured to the public.
Prize 21s and 31s 6d each, which may be had at the Box
Office, at the Theatre.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—
Titiens, Alboui, Giuglini.
Piccolomini, Ortolani, Belletti, Beneventano, Aldighieri.
TO-NIGHT, Tuesday, June 1— LES HUGUENOTS, and
Ballot; with Madlle. Marie Taglioni.
Thursday, June 3—LE NOZZE DI FIGARO, and Ballet,
with Multi% Pocchini.
Saturday, June S—IL TROVATORE and Ballet.
Monday, June 7 —Grand Morning Performance, DON
GIOVANNI, and other Entertainments. The Ballet will
inc7ude Mesdlles. Pocchini and Marie Taglioni. Morning
dress only will be necessary. To commence at half-past one.
Tuesday, June 8, will be produced (for the first time)
Verdi's opera, LUISA MILLER.
Applications to be made at the Box-office at the Theatre

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.

NEW THEATRE.
The Operi to commence at half-past 8 o'clock.
Third appearance of Madame BOSIO.
Third appearance of Signor GRAZIANI.
Third appearance of Signor GARDONI.
Third Night of LA TRAVIATA.

THIS EVENING, Tuesday, June 1, will be peeormed
(for the third time this season) Verdi's opera,
LA TRAVIATA.

Violetta, Madame Bosio (her 3d appearance this season) ;
Flora Bervoix, Madame Tagliafico ; Georgio Germont, Signor
Graziani (his 3d appearance this season); Baron Duphol,
Signor 'Tagliafico; Marchese D'Obigny, Signor Po!onini ;
OAstone, Signor Soldi; Dottore GrenTil, M Zelger ; Guiseppe,
Signor Rosie ; and Alfredo, Signor Gardoni (his 3d appear-
ance this season). . . .

Our electric communications with the Eist d
with the West, with the United States by way i f
the Azores and across the Atlantic, with India
beyond the Mediterranean and the Persian

Gulf, are at length in a fair way of being carried
out in the rig/it direction and upon the right
principle. Hitherto England has not been secur-
ing to herself what has nevertheless been all along
entirely at her option—a perfect and absolute in-
dependence. AS Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY took
occasion to remark while he was President of the
Board ofTrade, this country has hitherto been in-
curring a terrible hazard in the event of war, the
risk of having abruptly cut off at any moment the
accustomed channels of intelligence. The obso-
lete semaphore was perpetually liable to the most
tantalising interruptions by reason of a fog, of a
mist, of any unexpected obscuration of the atmos-
phere. The electric wire is continually in yet
greater jeopardy of being at any instant rendered
altogether useless. Traversing as it does one after
another of the continental nations, it may be a'iy-
where in its course snipped by the intervention
of a popular insurrection, or by a rupture with
the Government. If not destroyed it may be
turned to our own serious and immediate disad-
vantage. Through it information of the most
vital importance may be transmitted to the enemy
most inopportunely. The necessity of obviating
this liability to fatal consequences as speedily and
effectually as possible has been rapidly becoming
more and more obvious to the whole community,
and has at length forced itself upon the recognition
of the more enterprising and intelligent. An under-
taking of the most daringly comprehensive kind,
well imaginable, has at last been set on
fool-, and happily with every reasonable prospect
before it of being carried before long to the most
satisfactory conclusion. Reference is here made,
of course, to the project for the laying down, by
moans of an electric cable, of a grand European and
American Telegraph—a submarine line, in fact,
not simply either European or American, nut
merely both together, but one literally bringing
the ends of the earth into instantaneous commu-
nication, linking the eastern with the western
hemisphere, knitting closely with one another the
extremities of Asia and the extremities of Ame-
rica by a metallic cord running from one to the
other between the African and the European con-
tinents, namely, along the bed of the Mediter-
ranean. A preliminary meeting in furtherance of
this great object has been held in the City of
London, and a lucid explanation of the whole
scheme was then given by Mr. Moslem CLARKS,
the eminent civil engineer, and previously by the
distinguished chairman of the occasion, Mr.
JAMES WYLD, M.P. for Bodmin, a man, whose
opinion is undoubtedly of the very highest value
and importance upon the subject—Mr. WYLD
being, as every one knows, one of the most gifted
and authoritative of all our living hydrographers.
It is proposed by the adoption of this new route
that England shall at last be rendered alto-
gether independent of the nations of the
European continent in regard to its electric
communications with Hindostan. It is in-
tended, for example, in the first instance, to
carry a line right on front Plymouth to
Alexandria by way of Gibraltar and Malta—our
own military stations—or still by a submarine
electric cable to our remote Asiatic possessions.
Turning in the.opposite direction, it is suggested
that from Lisbon the cable should branch west-
wards by way of Flores, one of the Azores, to
some point on the coast of the United States—say
to Boston or Charlestown. As to the engineer-
ing difficulties in the way of such an extraordinary
double enterprise, what are the distinct and
authoritative views most recently expressed ?
Why, Mr. WYLD has directly asserted, that " so
far as the line between Plymouth and Lisbon,
and thence to Malta was concerned, which was
the part he was anxious to see first undertaken,
there was not the slightest room fur doubt
respecting the laying of the cable, as the sound-
ings of every inch of the ground were already
accurately known." The honourable gentleman
having already remarked that " difficulties fully
as great as those which might be anticipated be-
tween the Azores and Boston, or Charlestown,
had been successfully overcome in the Mediter-
ranean lines, where the cable had been laid over
chasms in the bed of the sea, as deep as any that
would in all probability be encountered in the
Atlantic." Upon this point, Mr. EDWIN CLARKS
was afterwards, if possible, still more explecit:
" From Flores to Boston," he said, " over
the Atlantic, he could only judge by analogy and
comparison. There might not be a plateau, or
There might ; but that was of no consequence,
and very little advantage. There might be chasms;
but these had been found in the Mediterranean,
and the lines had been successfully laid over them.
Depths there were ; but these were not obstacles,
nor difficulties, they were only special circum-
stances, requiring special treatment on the part of
the engineer. Where he had found difficulties in
laying down cables—and he had submerged four
across one sea between Holland and England—he
had found no difficulty from depths, but rather
from the want of depths. The shallows, not th©
depths, were troublesome." Opinions like these,
remember, are the satisfactory and reliable results
of practical experience. Than the deliberate
views thus expressed by an eminent geographer
like Mr. WYLD, and subsequently by an eminent
engineer like Mr. CLARKE, nothing, we con-
ceive, could well be more satisfactory. Every
syllable is full of encouragement. As regarded
that part from Lisbon, by the Azores to Boston,
Mr. CLARKE said "he could answer for the
space from Lisbon to Flores that there was no
engineering difficulty in submerging the cable
that came within his own knowledge." As to tLe
practicability of trailing the cable along the bed
of the Mediterranean—that has been already
again and again conclusively demonstrated—even,
as we have seen, to the crossing of chasms "as
deep," according to the Member for Bodlnin,
"as any that would in all probability be
encountered in the Atlantic." From Flores
on to Boston we shall see soon what
the chances of success are likely to be from the
result of the new enterprise now on the eve of
being carried out in-mid-ocean for the laying down
of the transatlantic telegraph. From Alexandria
on to Hindost tn the route has yot to be selected.
According to Captain POLLEN'S statement, ad-
dressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and
dated "Suez, April 15, H.M.'s steamer Cyclops,"
THE NEW INFANTRY REGIMENT.--We learn from Que-
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HEAD- MASTERSHIP or TUE CLIARTER-HOUSE.—At
jury." Than this nothing could very well be more curt
tended by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of
straightforward or more satisfactory. A company Buccleuch, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earls of
evon,Howe, Lords Panmere, Cranworth,
is forthwith prepared with the funds necessary JDoehr by,n R. Du
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others the Rev. R. Elwyn, M.A.,
for the immediate carrying out of the whole of late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and galliccr
this magnificent enterprise—if aided only by the master, vacant by the lamented death of Dr. Elder.
sympathy and the guarantee of her MAJESTY'S THE WEXFORD MURDEa.—Thomas Cooper, charged
Government. We cannot for an instant dal bt recent murder of Michael Ilwan near Ennis
with the
worthy, has been fully committed to take his WA at
that this encouragement will be at once accorded, the approaching assizes.

The whole nation will rejoice at the accession
to office of Sir E. BULNVER LYTTON. He is in-
deed a great man, capable of adding strength to
any Government, and his absence from office was
felt as a material drawback on the formation of
the present Cabinet. He is now a Secretary of
State, and we are convinced that the highly-
cultivated intellect, the mental power for
which he is so remarkably distinguished,
will be displayed to the best advantage in the
administration of the affairs of our numerous and
important colonies. We believe that the com-
munity at large will cordially concur in the opi-
nion that the new Ministerial arrangements are
the best that could be formed under the peculiar
circumstances.

EPIGRAM.

G)o,1 people oft display great contrariety ;
So one wo know, religious to satiety,
B.g:ns to show a liking for variety.

London, May 31, 1853,

The enormous, indeed, we may say without exagge-
ration, the absolutely incalculable advantages
accruing from the completion of such an under-
taking, cannot by possibility be overlooked by the
-Administration. Once let us realise this magni-
ficent projeel-, and we shall be independent of
foreign nations, and whether in peace or in war
our vast and scattered dominions will be perma-
nently consolidated by means of one comprehen-
sive system of electro-telegraphic intercourse.

The Ministerial arrangements necessitated by
the resignation of Lord ELLENBOROUGH have been
completed. Lord STANLEY is to be the President
of the India Board, and Sir E. BIILWER LYTTON
the Secretary for the Ck.donies, We need scarcely
repeat what we have so oftou declared, our deep
regret at the loss of the inestimable services of
th© Noble Earl, who, with the peculiar chivalry
for which he has ever been conspicuous, offered
himself up as a voluntary sacrifice to allay the
acrimonious spite of the Opposition. Had he not
done so, the Ministerial triumph would have
been signal and complete. The " anti-con-
fiscation" policy, which he so ably and
so nobly advocated, would have been sanc-
tioned by both Houses of Parliament as it has
been by the voice of public opinion, speaking
trumpet-tongued in his praise. At Cannon Row
the Earl of ELLENBOROUGH was " the right man
in the right place." He was peculiarly qualified
for the position. His great experience, combined
with the energy and decision indispensable, were
all that could be desired or hoped for.

By the death of the Duchess d'Orleans the French
budget saves 300,000 f. a year, which neither the Republic
nor the coup d'cgat attempted to withdraw, it being the
national dowry settled by France, bnt there is no rever-
sionary interest in the Count de Paris.
The Board of Trade have advertised the corditions of
tender for the construction of a single line of railway and
telegraph at the Cape from Capetown to Wellington,
via Stellenbosch, under a guarantee from the colony,
which will also fernish the requisite land. The parties
tendering are to state the rate and duration they will
require as regards guaranteed interest, and alio the
period to be allowed them for completing and opening
the undertaking.
OPENING/ OF THE LEEDS NEW TOWN HALL BY HER
MAJESTY.—LEEDS, Monday.—We have great pleasure
in announcing that her Majesty the Queen has graciously
signified her intention of being present in Leeds at the
letter end of August, for the purpose of inaugurating
the noble Teivn Hall of this borough.
The Hainpdtire 9clrertiser contradicts the statement
that Portsmouth is being etrongly fortified, and asserts
that '` the old forts.are not worth the mud they consist
of."

It is not any disparagement to Lord STANLEY
to say, that we regret the change, although there
is no doubt'diat he will make an excellent Indian
Minister, second only to the Earl of ELLEN-
BOROUGH. His talents have been duly appre-
ciated by friends and foes. Thera has been no
Administration for several years that had not
courted his aid. He was justly looked on
as " the coming man," the incipient Statesman
who might yet be called on to direct and control
the destinies of the United Kingdom. He is
well acquainted with Indian affairs, and he did
not acquire his information by any royal road.
He travelled and encountered all the inevitable
difficulties and annoyances to which the Indian
wayfarer is exposed. But he acquired knowledge
in the only way it could be won, and perhaps,
next to Lord ELLEmsorrouall, ho is the very best
man for the situation.

•
It was intimated yesterday to the London bankers by
the Board of Inland Revenue that, except in the mutual
arrangements between bankers, clerks presenting cheques
will not be recognised as representing their employers so
as to exempt such cheques when drawn payable to "self "
and riot to bearer from the penny stamp. This decision
will be satisfactory to the public, since the other prac-
tice would have led to numerous inconvenient and petty
evasions, which in the aggregate would seriously have
interfered with the revenue expected to be derived from
the new impost.
The rate of interest on French Treasury Bonds has
been fixed at 3 per cent, for those of from 3 to 6
menthe,, and 3 per cent. for those of from 6 to 12
months. This involves no alteration except a reduc-
tion of a half per cent. in those having more than
11 months to run, which, since the 18th of last March,
have carried 4 per cent.
The telegrams from Bombay describe an adverse
tendency in the market for manufactured goods. There
is eotne discrepancy in-the quotation of the rate of ex-
change, but it is believed to be 2s 1; d, which would show
a further improvement of a half per cent, in our favour.
In the prices of Government Stocks there was no altera-
tion, the 5 per Cents. being at 92, and the 4 per Cents.
at 82/. There has been no later intelligence from
China.

The Momiteur announces that on and after the
31st of May the interest on Bons du Tresor will be
3 per cent. for those of from three to six months,
and 3!li per cent. for those from six to twelve
months.
THE LATE HUGH MILLER.—It is perhaps not generally
knoWn that a fund is at present being raised to secure
the permanent maintenance in this country of the valu-
able museum collected by this distinguished geologist.
Government had destined 5001. for this purpose, but the
sum of 1,000 guineas having been off,...red by an Ame-
rican college, it has become necessary, in order to secure
the deposition of the collection in one of our national
institutions, that the sum offered by Government should
be supplemented by public or private contributions,
and a subscription has accordingly bean commenced in
Edinburgh, under the aupices of the Lord Provost.
About 3001. are still needed to complete tbo purchase-
money and cover the expenses of removal and arrange-
ment.
DEATH OF STEPHEN COPPINGER, ESQ.—This gentle-
man, who had been an active member of the Roman
Catholic Association, died rather suddenly yesterday.
He attended the funeral of Mr. John O'Connell, on
Friday, when he appeared in good health. Mr. Cop-
piner way a barrister, in the enjoyment of emolunoen-
tary practice.
TRINITY MONDAY.—Yesterday being Trinity Mon-
day, a special general court was held at the Trinity
House, on Tower-hill, at which his Royal Highness
the Prince Consort was unanimously re-elected master,
and Captain John Shepherd deputy master, of that
ancient corporation, for the ensuing year. The Court
then proceeded to the parish church of S'. Olave, in
Hart-street, where Divine service was performed, and
an exctl ent and appropriate sermon preached by the
Rev. William Cureton, M.A., canon of Westminster,
and chaplain in ordinary to the Queen.
MORE MURDERS IN TIPPERARY.—Another murder is
reported from Tipperary. On Sunday night an inoffen
sive man, named Larkin, was stabbed with a knife, in
the town of 13orrisakane. His death was instantaneous.
This deed was perpetrated whilst the police were still
engaged dragging the river in which the body of Greene
was found, in search of the instrument used in his mut,
der.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—Three motions on this
subject are on the eve of coming under discussion in the
House cf Commons. The bill for the abolition of the
property qualification will go into committee on Wed-
nesday, the 2d inst. ; Mr. Berkeley's ballot motion
stands for Tuesday, the Bth ; and the Chancellor of the
Exchequer has granted Thursday, the 10th, to Mr.
Locke King, for his bill for the extension of the county
franchise.
BRUTAL MURDER.—A most brutal murder was com-
mitted at St. Anthony's, near Newcastle-on. Tyne, on
Sunday morning, and from such particulars as have
transpired it appears to have originated in those
unhappy differences that have existed in Tyneside
between the Irish Roman Catholics and Pro-
testants recently. On Saturday afternoon a newly-
married couple named Mearne, residing at Bill Point,
about four miles below Newcastle, visited that town,
where they purchased a quantity of furniture,
and late in the evening they set out for home,
carrying their purchases with them. They called
at a beershop at St. Paters on their way home, where they
fell in with a man named Kane, Mrs. Mearn's brother-
in-law, who proceeded towards their home with them,
along with two other persons. Nothing cf any particu-
lar moment occurred until they were passing a public-
house where an Orange lodge is held. A group
of men were standing near this house, and from all that
can be gathered some one in the group must have fired
a pistol at Kane, for his sister and brother-in-law, who
were in advance, were startled by its report, and on
turning back saw Kane lying on the, ground, and the
men who had been standing in a group attack ng him.
One of them was striking him with a knife. After
killing him they flat.. The unfortunate man must have
died instantaneously, for in addition to the pistol around
he had received two or three stabs in the back and a
frightful gash on the right side of the throat. The Nor-
thumberland County Constabulary have apprehended
Michael Marn, John Jarvey, Patrick Brown, and Jo-
seph Johnstone, on suspicion of being concerned in the
affray, and they have been lodged in the Moot-hall,
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
BODY OF A MURDERED CHILD FOUND IN THE
REGENT'S-CANAL.—On Sunday forenoon, as police-con-
stables 218 and 364 N, were on duty by the Haggerstone
Gas Works, Shoreditcb, their attention was called to a
basket in the Regent's-canal. Upon its being taken out
of the water, the body of a child was discovered in it
much mutilated. There was a flatiron in the basket fas-
tened round the neck of the child, which was no doubt
put there to prevent the body when in a state of decompo-
sition rising, and there were also several rounds of wire
about the body with an iron hoop attached to the
handle of the flet;ron. There was also in the basket a
black watered silk apron with lilac-coloured rows at the
bottom of it. An inquest was held yesterday at the
Black Horse, Kingsland-road. Mr. Jas. Clark, sur-
geon, Acton-place, Kingsland-road, said that he exa-
mined the body of the deceased, which he found very
much mutilated. He believed that the deceased was
about six years af age (Some of the jury said they
thought she was older.) The body was that of a female ;
and had been dead about 10days. The bones of the head,
from having been so long in the water, had become
separated. There was a fracture of the temporal bones,
which in his opinion t .ck place before death. The
frontal and occipital bones, as also that of the nose,
were fractured. The body presented the appearance of
having been subject to burning after death to prevent
identification. It looked as if it had been semi-roasted.
From the appearance of the body he was of opinion
that the child had been killed before it was put into the
water. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder
against some pereon or persons unknown."
AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS.—Farming prospects in
the north-midland counties are generally of the most
satisfactory character, A more favourable spring than
the present, both for seedling operations and cleaning
the land, has never been known, and, as there have been
frequent showers of rain within the last month or two,
all the grain crops have come up remarkably even and
well, while the root crops give promise of unusual
weight and promise. There is no deficiency of wheat
plant anywhere ; on the contrary, it stands much too
thickly on the ground ie many places, notwithstanding
the efforts that have been made to reduce the superabun-
dance. The prevalence of cool, dull, and rather humid
weather has had the effect of turning some of the crops
yellow in places, and instances are reported of the plant
being already laid by the rains; but re 3 the temperature
has now taken a higher range it may be hoped that the
crops thus deteriorated will soon recover. If the weather
snould prove bright and warm for the greater part of the
next two or three months there will be an abundant wheat
harvest. Barley has generally come up even and fine,
and promises to be of excellent qually gentalls•
Beans and peas look very healthy. Potatoes also
have a vigorous appearance. Turnips and mongold wurt-
zol are now generally above ground, and have come up
very satisfactorily. Orchards arid fruit gardens give pro-
mise of unusal abundance. Generally speaking there
has been a large fall of lambs?, but in sonic districts con-
siderable losses of ewes have been en ,tained. Sheep-
shearing has been rather later than usual thisyear owing
to the coldness of the weather, but on all hands a goqd
crop c f wool is spoken cf. The hay harvi st will not now
to so late as was at one rime anticipated. Both mea-
dows and old pastures bare a luxuriant appearance.
LORD BROUGHAM AND GOVERNOR HINCKS.—Lord
Brougham, in his speech at the meeting of the Anti-
Slivery Society, adduced a fact, upon un leviable
authority which completely explodes the statements
put forth by the opponents of West Indian enaenci-
pation, that sugar caereit be cul•ivated at a re-
munerative profit without tdave lab •ur. The authority
was a let er from the Hon. F. Hincks, formerly Prime
Minister of Canada, anti now Gas erner-Gere -
rid of the Wind we/el I lands and the fact ref_rred to was,
that an estate in the is land of Berbadeee, which was sold
in 1833, under the impression that sugar gro wing could no
longer be succesefully prosecuted,is now producing, by freel,
labour, three times as much sugar as it then did, ar d,
lately been sell at an enormously enhanced price. Such
facets as these are held by hie lordship to prove that the re-
sults of free labour are as beneficial to the proprietor of
the soil as to the labourer, the greatly increased value
of the estate sufficiently showing that the augmented
productiveness of the estate had not been brought about
by an expenditure which left no profit.—Liverpool
Albion.

L &TEST NEW

VIENNA, MONDAY EVENING.

On the 29th of May the two French liners left
Gravosa, but they have received orders to remain
in the Adriatic until they receive further iustruc-