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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 impo=sible. The press has teemed with.
libels against the 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-
knee of these compositions, which more resemble
the reviling of file 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
oft is
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as Commissioner Extraordinary. The lonians may
the spirit of the English Government. If they Were
the subjects of any other European Power their
affairs would long :.go 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 complaints, and the character of Mr.
Gladstone gives every reason to believe that he
will bo more apt to condemn the faults of his own
countrymen than to remain blind to the wrongs of
the natives. Should the result of his mission be
the tranquillization. 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.

SINi

ULAR PROCZEDING.

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 lady in 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 uroseentrix was walking in Richmond Park with
several young ladies, 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 hcr, 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
iosecutrix, which broke, and he made off with a
portion of it and one or two trinkets. The prosecu-
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 aft( r-
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
themselves 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 betbre, 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 beeni-doing any thing that. would make him
afraid of the police, and that, consequently, he
would remain where he was, and it appeared that
shortly after this had occurred he was taken 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 was 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 yet been put in force, and the prisoner still
remains in Horsemong,er-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 hare 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 yestenlay 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 line first-class iron paddle
steamship, 2,5)0 tons register, belonging to tho 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 £70,009 is said to have been done
on the ship at Lloyd's.

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