The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-18 00:00:00

THE GERMAN LEGION AT THE CAPE.

Sir DE LACY EVANS asked the Sc.cretary of State
for War, from what fund the German Legion at the
Cape of Good Hope had been paid during the last year
;he fiel,l allowances and full pay which the governor of
that colony waiFtated to have issued t e them

General PEEL said ti at thepay and allowance re-
ferred to had been paid by Sir George Grey out of the
coeutnibgariat cha-t instead of out of the col thial rove..
nue. L,;rd Panmure, when in office, sent out instruc-
tions that the Gmnan Legion muit be paid by the
colony and nog by the imperial Givernment, and he
(Gen. Pee') entirely agreed with the noble lord, and bal
rypeated them wince he had been in office.
KISSING A YOUNG LADY AGAINST HER

WILL.
Mr. FITZROY, amidst cries of "hear, hear," and
cheers, asked the Secretary of State for Vac, Home
Department whether his attention had been called to a
case which had recently occurred before the Wareham
Petty Session, when a carper.ter of tb e name of Craft was
sentenced, under the Aggravated Assaults Act, to six
mo:tths' imprisonment, with hard labour, for kis,ing the
daughter of the Rev. B. C. Collins, of Farringdou Rectory,
Devon, on lauding from a stea, er between Poole and
Swanage. The bon. gentleman in the course of his
observations:said that the act referred to which he in-
troduced was very often perverted from its original
intention.

- Mr. WALPOLE said his attention bad not been
called to the case intimated by the hon. gentleman's
question, but if his hon. friend would procure the facts
to be laid before him he would look into them and see if
the act of which he was the author required amendment
or not. The preamble was very different to the body of
the act. (Hear, hear.)
CHINA.
Mr. HORSF ALL asked the Under-Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, whether there was any truth
in the reports which appeared in the French papers of
an arrangement restricting the discretionary powers of
the plenipotentiaries in China, and ordering them to ne-
gotiate at Canton, Pain, or elsewhere.
Mr. S. FITZGERALD said there was no truth in
the reports that fad appeared in the hewepapers re-
specting a restriction of the di,cretic nary powers of the
plenipotentiaries.
THE SLAVE TRADE.
On the motion for the adjournment of the house till
Monday,
Mr. P. O'BRIEN called the attention of her Majesty's
Government to the inexpediz,ncy of maintaining the large
naval force at present employed upon the west coast of
Africa and on the West India waters, for the suppres•
siou of the slave trade.
THE MILITIA.

Colonel FRENCH asked the Secretary of State for
War if it was his intention to recommend the disembodi-
ment of any additional regiments of militia, and if he
would inform the house on what principle the sixteen
regiments lately disembodied were selected 1
General PEEL said it was not the intention of her
Majesty's Government at present to disembody any more
regiments of militia. The drafts of troops that went
out to India was only the usual monthly demand. A
larger number will be sent out next month in conse-
quence of a necessary delay this month. The principle
adopted for disembodying these regiments was that those
regiments that had given their quota to the line and
were efficient should be retained, and those that had
given the ncarest quota and were efficient were to have
the preference over those who had not given any.
THE WELLINGTON MONUMENT.
Mr, STIRLING asked the Chief Commissioner of
Works, if it was the intention of her Majesty's Go-
vernment to order any one of the Priz Designs for the
Wellington Monument, now exhibited in the conference
room, to be executed for St. Paul's ; and, if not,
whether he would state the coarse which the
Government proposed to adopt with regard to
the design and construction of the monument.
He characterised the exhibition of models as a failure,
and it was to be regretted so much time and labour bad
been thrown away in producing models totally unfit for
the severe style of Wren in connection with St. Paul'e-
Lord J. MANNERS said he would answer the ques-
tion at a liter period of the evening.
THE INFORMER BURKE.
The O'DONOGHUE asked the Attorney-General fer
Ireland, whether he had any objection to lay on the
table a copy of the notes taken by the Solicitor-General
kr Ireland in his examination of the informer Burke,
after the revelations said to have been made by Berke
to the policemen and driver of the car who took him
from Nenagh to Roscrea ; and also a copy of
Buike's evidence on the trial of the Clorrnacks
He had reason to believe the cause of Burke's second
I statement was the threat of the resident magistrate that

unless he told who murdered Mr. Ellis he should remain
in gaol till he rotted—he being in confinement at the
time. The honourable gentleman also took occa-
sion to complain of the proceedings on the trial
of the Cormacke, especially the irregular discharge
of the jury on the first trial, because they did not agree
to a verdict, and to the manner in which the jury for the
second trial was selected. Mr. Justice Keokk, who tried
tho prisoner, charged the jury in a manner as be (Mr.
O'Doeoghue) hoped juries were seldom charged within
these rt,altns, for he frightened the jury in a verdict of ,
condemnation. Every attempt was made to save them,
but without success, and the men were executed on
the 11th of May. Since then circumstances had
occurred that tended to shake the belief in
the credibi:ity of the witnesses. There was grave
matter for investigatio❑ (hear, hear), and it was not
right to put Burke out of the way to prevent it.
There were persons to be found that had beard him
say be made the statement on the trial to please the
public. The ease roust sooner or later be investigated,
to satisfy public indignation of feeling in Ireland.
sir. GILPIN urged that the circumstances of the
case should be fully investigated.
Mr. BAGWELL said the greatest excitement
prevailed in the county of Tipperary respecting this
trial. There bad never been a trial in Ireland before
this where the public feeling bad been so much excited,
Were was a prevalent feeling that justice had not been
done.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to cases of
this kind being brought hi fore that holm', so as to make
it a c,lurt of appeal against a conviction. The right hon.
gentleman referred to the position of the late Mr. Ellis
in Kerry, and the circumstances connectinvihis murder.
Tee men who were executed were in Mr. Ellie's employ,
and were well paid. Spillan, the informer, and Burke,
were also in the deceased's employ. The Cermacks re-
sided rear where Mr. E lie was murdered, and it was
proved by independent evidence that the Cormaclis
were in the house, and formed a portion of a card-party
there,near the time where Mr. Ellis passed inhis car. After
referring to other details in connection with the murder,
he said the case was fairly tried, and every justice was
rendered them on this trial. They challenged nearly
thirty jurymen, Burke's reason for not stating on the
coroner's inquest who murdered his master, was, that he
way terrified on seeing him before him—one of the Cur-
tnacks being actually on the jury.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

HUGHES V. LADY DINORBEN.

(Continued from our First Edition.)

Mr. Nethercliffe also pointed out similar peculiarities
in the genuine letters.
Cross-examined by Mr. Macaulay—He had three
times examined the anonymous letters or part of them.
The first time was in 1552. Ooe of the letters sub-
inhted to him as genuine, be had since ascertained was
not so. Seine of the peculiarities of her ladyship's
writing were wantirg in it.
Mr. Adlard gave similar testimony to the last wit-
ness, relative to the handwriting of the anonymous
letters being written by the same person who wrote the
undisputed letters of Lady Dinorbeo. He generally
found that a person attempting a disguise did not sus-
tain it to the end.
Mr. Samuel Hamer, formerly inspector of "franks"
in the General Post office, was of opinion the anonymous
letters were all written by the same person. He be-
lieved the anonym-Ala letters were written by the same
person who wrote the genuine letters. The writing was
hold and clear for a lady. Her ladyship way disposed
t) fliurish in her writing. There was a great peculiarity
about the " w " which pervaded all the letters, both
genuine and anonymou;. He was only doubtful about
the election letter.

David Browne was then cal!ed upon his E übrcons,
but did not answer.
This cl9sed the plaintiff's ease..

Mr. Macaulay then addre sed the jury on the pert of
the defendant, who, he said, was most anxious to give
an indignant, diree, and positive answer to this unjus t
and grievous cal:rnny, under which she had known she
had lah‘oured for twelve months, but which had existed
behind her back for some four or five years. This action
had been brought, not t.) vindicate the plaintiff's charac•
ter, but in order to get rid of a calumny he had cast
upon his aunt about twelve months a2o. The extuse for
not bringing the acti ,n e irly did not apply. The same
evidence that had been given now might have been
given in 1352, except the production of writing, other
than that connected with the case. It was inconceii-
able how Mr. Hughes could have been advised to bri-n2
this action, and cause so much pain to many persons
whose names bad been drag&7ed into this case, because
Sir Richard Bultelcy had blurted out his conscientious
belief of what he h d suppressed upwards of five years,
in which the plaintiff was implicated. The learned
counsel said the Attorney-General hal been made
the mouthpiece of as wilful, malicious, and groundless an
imputation against Lady Dinorben as had ever been
concocted. lie complained of the prejudices that had
been introduced to show an animosity on the part of
the defendant to the plaintiff ; but the facts were
that the plaintiff hail never seen his uncle, Lord
Dinorhon, till he was between 22 and 23 years
of age. He was then at a ball in 'Wales, where Lady
Dinerben was, and she sought him out and male his
acquaintance. On the bllowing reason she took pains
to find h m and sent for him into her opera box, when
she introduced him to hie uncle; by him the plaintiff wAsi
presented at Court; invited to Kinmel Park, but
the acquaintance war not continued. Tin re was
no foundation- for supposing that Lady Dinnri en
wished to prevent his marriage for the rake
of her daughter, and the Attorney-General, in
introducing the care to their notice, ought not to
have accompanied it with the imputation that
L-,rd Dinorben was the only persol who could
have ha.' any cause for preventing the plainiiff'e
marriage with Miss Lid !Ell. The answer to
this action was simply that the anonymous letters
veers not written by Lady Dinorben. She world
go into the box and swear they wire not,
and he should call numerous and respectable
persons who bad transacted business with her,
and who knew her writing well, who would
state tley did not believe the anonymous letters were
in the handwriting of Lady Dinorben, That he thought
would be convincing proof that the evidence of the ex-
perts could not he relied upon. The learned council refer-
red to the evidence of writing, and the difficulty there had
been in proving the defendant wrote the letters, and in
reference to the declaration called attention to the fact,
that after an interview between the attornies on both
sides ref n,ive to the identification of the letters, the
plaintiff's attorney amended his declaration by
adding after the words wrote that her Ladyship
had procured them to be sent. Colonel
Williams and Sir Richard Balkeley both doubted the
authenticity a the libels, and he thought their
evidence was more to be relied on than that of
he experts. Lady Dinorhen's handwriting was of a
,ight and feathering character—peculiarly a feminine
hand, wh,reas the anonymous letters, e-pecially the one
ri ferring to "coals" and " beef " were of a stiff, bold,
upright character, mnre like that of a male's writing
than a female's. Sir R. Bulheley's evidence was the most
important, except that of the post-office clerk, fni he
afterwards disavowed a belief of one of them being in
her band +vriting, and he (qr. Macaulay) should prove
that that letter was net written by Lady Dinorben.
After some further remarks from the learned counsel,
The further hearing of the case wee adjourned till to-
morrow.