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London, England, 1858-03-08 00:00:00

TILE SUN, MYNDOINI, MOIST"
AY EVENTNO IMARCH 8, 1858.

lawyer—" For God's sake,
don't introduce any new ! what_ 120
legislative enactments in
this respect until you have! the
most carefully convinced yourselves that the la .---, 1
is already insufficient for that purpose." 7:7
w
o I la:
which increased penal servitude fr":^i- two to 14
ytahteteprouprpodse%
.7, of such men as
te Emeror's life,
who would stand ating
he gunpowder that
might blow them to atoms in order to accomplish
yearsthose whowo ulhdadafflaetcell
their purpose. It would be absurd to stinpoe that
it would deter such a man as Orsini from carrying
out his design. (Hear.) Lord
Cowley came to the
rescue of the Minister, but it was too late. His
lordship said that if the object was to soothe, it was
important to let time exert its usual influence
Therefore we were not to deny that England was
the workshop of assassination. Now, with regard
to the vote he had given on that occasion, he be-
lieved he had acted in accordance with the opinion
of the constituencyof Chichester and in accordance
with the majority of the people of England.
(Cheers.) He believed there was but one cry—
" Down with the Conspiracy Bill." His lordship
next proceeded to express his opinions in favour of
Church and State, and so long as the Church and
State were united he thought the fabric of the
Church ought to be supported by the State. He
believed the ballot to be a bag of moonshine, and
un-English. He thought the bill lately passed for
preventing briberyand corruption at elections might
be amended. The next question he must touch upon
was reform, but his friends must remember that if
the reform they had was not good it was no fault ,
of the members now in office ; it was the fault of the
Liberals. Sir Jas. Graham-inscribed on his banner
peace, economy, and retrenchment, but his peace
was war with _Russia and China, his economy a
vast increase of the national debt, and his reform
was laid on the table one day and taken away the
next. His lordship proceeded to say he did not
think it reasonable to expect Lord Derby's Ministry
to bring forward a reform bill this session. It was
no act of their own that they had been called toge-
ther. That the Times was the great Leviathan of
the press for intelligence and ability in every respect
no one would deny, and he should be sorry to say
one word to impugn the great and ample services
rendered to the country by that paler. But the
Times in November last stated that a Reform Bill
in 1858 was not possible, "simply for this reason
(quoting the Times) that no person in the House
except the very few with whom such reform happens
to be a crotchet or a personal affair will be able to
attend five consectitive minutes to the subject."
On November 18, in criticising the Roebuck Reform
Manifesto, the Times observed " that such a con-
fluence of considerations suggests the postponement
of Parliamentary reform, that the difficulty lies not
in stating them, but in stating all of them, in doing
justice to their number and force, in not omitting
some while we mention others." The Times (con-
tinued his lordship) then proceeded to point out
the folly of postponing Indian legislation in prefer-
once to Parliamentary reform, and concluded with
a passionate appeal to reformers that parliamentary
reform had better wait even for the sake of parlia-
mentary reform itself, so as to enable us to secure
an effectual settlement instead of a corrupt bargain.
Now he (Lord Lennox) adopted those conclusions.
When Lord Derby left office in 1835, what did Mr.
Richard Cobden say ? He said this :
" I think that the Conservative Government would give
them a better chance of reconstructing an honest patty
both in this house and in the country. I look back with
regret on the vote which I gave on the motion which
changed Lord Derby's Government. I regret the result of
that motion, for it has cost the country 100,000,000 of
treasure, and between 20,000 and 30,000 good lives."
(Cheers.) Let them not, then, be frightened at the
threat of a change of Ministry. The Government
organs abused the Conservatives for adopting the
measures of the late Government—not measure-,
but subjects. India would be treated in a very
different way, and they would. upheld our national
honour in respect to our countrymen in the
dungeons of Naples. (Cheers.) In that amusing
imaginary list of Darby horses taken from Pasch
and inserted in the daily papers he should have
got the "Man at the Corner" to add to that
Sporting Intelligence—Swing list of new favorites
in consequence of Lord Palmerston's British Lion
having on his trial on the 19th broke down, and
been out of training. (Laughter.) He hoped they
would all consider and believe that Lord Derby the
other day had no Other course open to him but to
attempt to form a Government and stand by the
Queen on the present crisis. Lord Granville had
twitted Lord Derby with attempting to form a
Government when he could not do so in 1855, but
he (Lord Lennox) could tell Lord Granville that
the people in 1855 believed the national honour was
safe in the hands of Lord Palmerston, but they did
not believe so now. He only asked them not to be
led away by prejudice. The government certainly
was not composed of the great Whig families, but
such names as Disraeli, Kepley, and Pakington
were associated with it, and, although they might
not be nobly connected, their names were honour-
ably
known. (Cheers.) They ought to give Lord
Derby's Government-a fair and impartial trial. Fair
play was the right of every Englishman, rich or
" poor. His lordshiphaving thanked the electors for
the honour conferred upon him sat down amid
much cheers.
The assemblage then separated.

was likely to say, but it appeared to him
as the counsel for the Crown, he ought not to
call a convicted felon, as he considered his evidence
would be of very little value as corroborative testi-
mony, either one way or the other.
Mr. Justice Williams said he should take upon
himself to examine the witness, and Ringshell was
accordingly sent for to the gaol, and he arrived in
a short time and was sworn and examined.
learned judge having cautioned him as to
the importance of his speaking the truth in so
solemn an inquiry, proceeded to put some questions
to him, in answer to which he stated that, on
Wednesday evening, when he wag in the van going
to the gaol, some one asked him what he had got,
and he replied ten months' imprisonment ; but he
swore positively that nothing else passed between
them, and that no other conversation of any kind
took place in the van as it was going from the court
to the gafl , or when it entered the gaol yard.
The jury wished to know whether there was any
one else in the van who could givo any further
information upon the subject ?
The governor of the gaol (Mr. Hatehard) said
that a young woman, the daughter of one of the
turnkeys, was riding in front of the van, and there
was a turnkey, who was her fathor, behind the
vehicle.
The jury said they should like these persons to be
examined.
The learned judge said by all means this should
be done.

of Elizabeth Duncembe, she then being under the age of
16. There was also a coact for an indecent assault.
Mr. Henry Mille appeared for the prosecution • the
prisoners were defended by Mr. Power and Mr. Tozer.
Mary Duncombe, examined by Mr. Mills—l am the
mother of Elizabeth Duncorube. She was 15 years old
last Christmas-day. She lived at home with me. On the
7th of August last she left home between 8 and 9 o'clock
in the evening. She was going to her brother's to sleep.
She did not return. I f aind her at borne again the third
(1,3, after this. I was constantly looking for her. She
we,:t; awzi

Cross-examined by Mr. Power—My daughter comes
, home between 10 and 11 o'clock at night, and sornetiines
goes to dances and fairs alone. A girl named Gurney
often takes her out.
Elizabeth Duncombo (an extremely good-looking girl,
but in appearance consul rably above the age of 15),
examined by Mr. Mille—l left home on the 7th August.
I went with Anne. Gurney to the Axe and Compe.esee.
We raw the defendants outside. We spoke to them. We
then went with theta to the 13,11, at, Eddlesborough. We
had some gin. The defendant:; paid fur it. We stopped
till between 11 and 12 o'clock. There were three other
girl; there ; they left about 11 o'clock, and wo and the
men remained for half-an-hour. We then went to Mr.
Primett's prenisee. He is a married men end has two
children. Simmons is a widower, and has foe'. children.
We stopped till between 3 and 4 o'clock, and then weet
away into the road. The men came with a gig which
holds two. I sat on Primett's knee, and Anne Gurney
sat on Simmons's knee. We drove to Tring. We went by
train to London at a quarter to 8 o'clock. I believe
Primett took my ticket. After breakfast we went by
water to Gravesend and returned the same day to town.
We went to the theatre ; we then went to lodgings.
slept_ with Mr. P. imett, and Anne Gurney with Sim-
mow. We returned to Tring on Sunday, and then
parted cempany, and I went home. I paid no expenses.
Crose-examined by Mr. Po wer—l went straight home.
I have known Primett some months. I have danced wii,h
lyre. lam a good dancer. When I came home at night I
always found the door unbolted and mother in bed.
Anne Gurney is older than I am. We sent in to tke
Axe and Cumpassea to inquire whether the defendants
were there. They came out to us. Mrs. Briuklow came
in. The other three girls ran into the yard because she
is a friend of theirs. We did not run away when she
Caine.

Mary Anne Dunning, the young woman referred
to, was then examined. She stated that she was
riding outside the van on Wednesday evening, and
heard some conversation going on inside; but could
not hear what was said. There were t ffo or three
voices. The talking began soon after thevan started,
and continued till it stopped at the prison, and
when it had entered the gates it commenced again,
but her father, who was riding behind the van, then
interfered, and put a stop to it, as it was against
the prison regulations for the prisoners to talk to
each other.

Stephen Dunning, the father, was also examined,
and he said that he heard talking in the van when
it was at the gaol gate, but only two or three words,
and that he immediately put • a stop to it, and
threatened to report all the prisoners for breaking
the gaol rules.
_ _

•Ily the Lori Mier-Justice—l knew what a man was
before I saw Primett.

This being the case for Abe pro3ecntion, the I:49rd
Chief-Justice ruled that there was no case agabiA
Sitnniong.

Air. Justice Williams put some questions to the
witness, in anseter to which he said that the com-
partments in the van were all separated entirely
from each other, and they were ventilated by grat-
ings outside the van. He said that ii was possible
the prisoners might communicate with each other
as the van was going along, if they spoko very loud.
The jury eventually expressed a desire to exa•
mine the van, and they went out, accompanied by
a bailiff, for that purpose. It turned out that, in
addition to the gratings for ventilation at the sidei
that there were others at the top of each compart-
ment, which afforded a ready means to the pri-
soners for communicating with each other.
This closed the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Sergeant Parry then• proceeded to address
the jury for the prisoner, and, although he appeared
to be labouring under iedisposition, and asked for
the indulgence of the jury on that ground, he made
a most eloquent. and telling soee:11 on behalf of his
client. Ho said he should not for a moment at-
tempt to deny that a most foul and cruel murder
had been committed ; but the proposition, and the
only ono he should endeavour to make out to the
satisfaction of the jury on behalf of the wretched
man at the bar—wretched, if he ware innocent,
and doubly wretched if guilty—would be that the
evidence against him was not of that direct and
conclusive character as called upon them, in the
pet fcrmar,ce of the solemn duty iu which they were
engage 1, to return a vet list the effect of which must
inevitably be to cousin a living, bleathing human
being now standing before them in the full vigour
Of manhood to a felon's death on the scaffold. That
it was a case of suspicion against the prisoner—of
strong suspicion, if they pleased, he could not deny;
but no man's life, he said, ought to be taken upon
suspicion only ; and even if they should be of opi-
nion that there was moral doubt of his guilt, still if
the evidence did not establish it in a clear and con-
clusive manner, it was the duty of a jury, and they
were only acting in strict conformity with thelaw,and
pet forming the obligations of the solemn oath they
had taken, to say that he was not guilty of the crime
alleged against him. The theory of the prosecution
if he could be permitted to apply such a term to an
inquiry of this solemn character, appeared to be
that the unfortunate deceased had received special
instructions on the day of the murder to watch the
prisoner, upon the supposition that ho had com-
mitted some offence, and that this had led to the
fatal encounter between them, but he said that the
evidence failed, as it appeared to him, altogether,
to make out that fact, and all that was proved ap-
peared to be that the deceased had received instruc-
tions to be about the neighbourhood of Norton
Green Farm, and-to report himself -asnine O'clock ;
and he urged that -although they might have their
suspicions - upon the subject, their was no direct
testimony to show that the prisoner a,ndthe deceased
over came in contact with each other on this
fatal night.. He therefore contended that the case
for the prosecution failed at the very onset, and
that all the other circumstances that were relied
upon might be explained in a manner consistent
with the innocence of the prisoner. The learned
sergeant then proceeded to observe upon the fact
of the blood-stains being found upon the clothes of
the prisoner, and ho said that nothing was more
likely than that such marks should be discovered
when it was proved that his nose was in the habit
of bleeding, and that only a short time before he
had
been engaged in performing an operation up an
some pigs, which caused them to bleed a great deal.
With regard to the evidence given by the policeman
.Quinte he called upon them to dismiss it altogether
froth their consideration, as unworthy of belief. He
said he was contradicted in severed material parti-
culars by the other persons in the van, and he
me improbability that
have such a statement to
mana
re-
ferred to the other facts in the case, and concluded
e j
a most able speech by calling. upon the jury to say
thelr g d
prisoner uponof
whom
t h shouldhiY e t
knew
eextremeew
nothing.
Ho
then
by their verdict that the charge was not proved,
and therefor® that they
acquitted the prisoner.
The learned Judge then summed up the whole
case with great care. and minuteness,
and the jury
retired to consider their verdict.
They returned into court in about half an hour,
when they stated that they found the prisoner not
guilty, but at the same time said that th y thought
it was a case of great suspicion against him,
there but that
wt sufficient direct
evidence to justify I
them iu find as not sufficient direct evidence to justify
them iu finding him guilty of the crime with which
he was charged.
. There was an attempt at applause when the ver-
was speedily suppressed.
aasntdhietn ordered te be discharged,
'ev d the business of the assizes.
diet was delivered, which turned out to proceed from
some relatives of the prisoner who were in the gal-
al enrTdv
apt
prisoner
)es
TO.l court,onetird

Mr. Power then addres cd the jury for Primett.
The Lord Chief-Justice summed op, r.nd told the jury
that if they thought the girl had been allowed by her
mother to run hose, although the mother sail it was
against her will that hsr daughter was taken away,
yet it waa for the jury to say whether she had any wi!l
in the matter ; and, however immoral the conduct of the
defendant might be, unless they believed that he took
her out of the possession and against the will of her
mother, he was not guilty of an offence against the
statute.
The jury -without any hesitation acquitted the
defendant.

LL OF LORD MAR B.ND OINT.

(From the Daily News )
If the fall of Lord Ciarenden and his Ministerial
abettors be considered only in the light of an exemplary
punishment inflicted by the representatives of the nation
on a man who had betrayed the most peculiar trust, and
on those who were guilty of passive comp.ic;ty therein,
it must be felt to be an incident worthy not only of pro.
found attention while still recent, but of a conspicuous
place in our constitutional history. Parliamentary cen-
sure, by way of deliberate and unrescincled resolution,
is the modern form of criminal proceeding for political
offences, which has,gradualle come to supersede the cum-
brous and clumsy method of Impeachment; and it cannot
be denied that in roost respects, and in the great majority
of instances, it combine, all the advantages of celerity,
certainty, and justice, which law reformers look for in their
amendments of other branches of our Jurisprudence.
The public mind is longer divided by pity for the offender
and desire to see the off-ece adequately punidsed.
Personal danger or pecuniary penalty no longer
plead in deprecation of our just resentment. There is
nothing really left in question but political reputation,
and the power of doing mischief in future ; the infinite
flexibility of the vocabulary of condemnation insures an
adaptation of the censure to the sin ; and once the sen-
tence is pronounced end the delinquent excluded from
further opprtunities of mischief, the public resentment
is appeased without any tear of the public conscience
being subsequently troubled by remorseful qualms. In
the present case then is an universal feeling of sarisfac-
tion that we have at leegth got rid of a bad Foreign
Minister ; and there is hardly an audible muttering of
regret in any quarter that Lord Clerendoti'm adminietra-
tivo career is closed. But a far more important question
remains. Is it only the man we have got rid of, cr the
system of he was at once the master and the slave
—the instrument and tho impersonation ?
Po!itictl systems, whether departmental or dynastic,
when their appointed • hour is come, commonly break
down through the personal weakness or personal blun-
dering of him who fur the time is supposed to embody
their highest pretensions. Royal statecraft was bAleved
to have reacho the 'acme of perfection under Louis
Philippe. Amoeg the monarchic marmuvrers of Europe
he was looked up to as a model. and example ; and by
every member of the covenanted service of diplomacy
he was hero- worshipped as the modern tflyesys. Yet it
was emphatica'ly by the fairindtenrtedneFs and folly of
Louis Philippe himself that Louis rbilippteistn was
levelled to the ground. in our own country we haws
witnessed a hardly less striking instance. Peelisrn was
confessedly the invention of him whose name it batre—
a subtle, specious, cuenner, and candid contrivance, fur
making Toryism leek like Liberalism, and forsubstituting
expediency fur truth nod right. The late Sir Robert Peel
was regarded by his followers as the nearest known ap
pr,ach to political omniscience and infallibility. He
might not always be popular, but, according to them, in
his calculations he never could be wrong ; ho might not
always go as fast as his adversaries desired, but his party
had the comfort of knowing that they might safely go to
deep so long ne hie constant and croons-pact band was
at the helm. Yet Peelism was undermined and laid in
ruins by the very hand that bad piled it together ; and
the catastrophe was effected not by any momentary act
of rashness or pas-ion, nut by the very quintessence et
furtive wisdom and smuggler-like caution of which its
indefatigable author was so proud. Yesterday has sup•
plied uswith an equally clear andpalpablo specimen of the
same sort of thing. Secret diplomacy with all its sit ;ter
fuges and shrill ,ws, its public sayings and private un-s.ay-
lugs, its infinite tissue of un-realitynmake-believe, evasion,
has broken down suddenly and shamefully in the hands
of the man who, above all ethers, was supposed to have
raised it to its highest perfection. Had souse novice in
the art been -artist into Downing-street, or some favou-
rite of the popular will acnisterned to feel manfully and
speak eloquently been entrusted with the seals of the
Foreign-office, the catastrophe might have been as com-
plete ; but the lesson Ought would have been far less
instructive. We should then have been told that the
dancer had arisen from permitting inexpert hands to
meddle with grent affairs; and every apologist of the
corrupt system would have been ready to promise confi-
dently all manner of good Irons its resuscitation ar.d nen-
tinuance. But the specificvaina of what we have recently
witnessed consists in this, that the system has broken
dowreof itself, and- in consequence of its own inherent
rottenness. It was a system of secrecy, and secrecy
has been its ruin. It was a system of double dealing,
and its ambi-dexterity has lost it the garnt. It was a
system that sought to baffle parliamentary control, and
by parliamentary censure it 11;18 been del berately ctn.
derened. It was a -system that strove to set up oligar-
chic opinion attaiirt the national will, and it has been-
abandoned by the oligerchy in its hear of need to the
execrations of the people.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.-111iRTFOB,D, Melton G.
CROWN COURT.
(Before Mr. Justice Williams.)
THE STEVENAGE MURDER.

The trial of the prisoner Jeremiah Carpenter, for
the murder of John Starkins, the policeman, was
resumed this morning at nine o'clock, and the court
was filled the moment the doors were opened.
Mr. Hawkins and Mr. C. Pollock appeared on
the part of the prosecution ' • and Sergeant Parry,
specially retained with Mr. Watkins Williams, for
the prisoner.
The evidence adduced on behalf of the prosecu-
tion established nearly the whole of the material
facts detailed in the opening speech of the learned
counsel for the prosecution, but the counsel for the
prisoner, by an adroit cross-examination, succeeded
in establishing an apparent discrepancy as to the
time when the prisoner and the unfortunate man
were last seen on the night of the murder. He
also elicited the fact that the prisoner's nose was in
the habit of bleeding, and that shortly before the
murder he had been assisting to ring some pigs, and
that they bled a good deal during the operation. In
answer to questions that were put at the sug,gestion
of the jury, it also appeared that no special instruc-
tions had been given to the deceased to look after
the prisoner particularly on the night of the mur-
der, but his directions were to look about the fields
in the neighbourhood of Norton green Farm on t het
evening until nine o'clock, and then to report him,
self at the police-station. The case for the prose-
cution was closed by a piece of evidence of an extra-
ordinary character.
William Quint, one of the Herts cons'abulary,
deposed that on Wednesday evening, at the breaking
up of the Court, he was ordered to attend the pri-
son-van to the gaol, and he was placed. inside. There
were separate compartments for the prisoners. C sr-
pen ter was one who was placed in the van, and a
man who had been convicted of receiving stolen
property and sentenced to ten months' imprison-
ment was in another. He was in a posit:on where
the prisoners could not see him, and, jest before
the van started, he heard the prisoner say to the
other man—" What have you got ?" and he re-
plied—" Ten mouths." The prisoner then said
I have n,,t•had my trial ;" and the other
man asked him what ho was in for, and he said in
reply—" For the murder of Starkins." Noth;ng
more passed until the van arrived at the
prison gates ; and when it stopped the pri-
soner again addressed the other man and
raid—" Do you know whether Shepherd (one of
witnesses for the prosecution) has said anything?"
The man replied " No," and the prisoner then said
—" If ho has he will do me." The van was then
driven into the gaol-yard, and, when it got inside,
the man said to the prisoner—" Do they know wire
done it'?" and the prisoner replied—" 1 done it but
nobcdy knows it." ,

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—.WORCEST, MARCIE G.
(Bcforo Mr. Baron Watson.)
Benjamin Wettings, weaver ; ltabtrt
TELE KIDDERIUINSTER ELECTION'
Pitt,west
wbuotocahi
; Henry Westwood, publican ; Geo.
Barker,
Joinerweav ; William Wood, weaver ; Samuel
p.,vne ok, Elizabeth Bentley, John Drury,
males 111,Laa, rasaoa ; George Parker ; J.
Swain, weaver ; John Stevens, umbrella maker ; and
Charles Partri'go, weaver—were indicted for riotously
asSembliug Kidderminster on the 4th day of Apri:,
and attacking several persons.
the poll dayel:fuo;bri• leaiinleleruriuster, at the last ge,eral elec-
and Mr. Kettle Were counsel for
:hil'oi"4prrc.ors‘eVa, etbi.l:ttegifneYrj'io-Q:n,*(jd.kr. Uuddlaston Q.C. and Mr.'
Byrne for the accused. ,
All the parties had been at large on bail.
011 .the parties being called upon, they pleaded guilty,
it Laing understood that if tlsey-did cu t'aey would,. be-
discharged on their Own rscoguisanc:.s.
The prisoners were then bound over on their own
recognisancesin 100/, each to apPear when called upon.
BURGLARY WITII VIOLENC2.—SENTENCE Oy DEATH.
win Gordon and Charles Pearson were inWcaid
for breaking iota the dwelling-house of, Thos. Cartwright,
at Tingley, on the 26th December, and stealing inaney
and goods, and with cruelly beating and ill-treating the
prarecutor and his wife.
The prosecutor is an aged labourer, and lived with his
wife, ako in years, at Braadmal'sh; Ilagky. On the
of Dacernbcr his house was broken
into by three rnen; end the old people were savagely
night of the 261 h
treated. The P:isoaers were two of the neon, the thirstbeing This,Paid"; who was now admitted Queea's
eviderce. H 9 detailed the particulars ofathe plot, its
plan and execution ; proved the murderous vialence used
towards the old couple,
and the subsequent distribution
of the spoil amongst them. The prosecutor was still in
a very weak state from the treatment he bad receive',
and his head was harlaged. He bad been cut in seve-
ral places with a billhook. Gordon attacked the old
avoaran, Peaaaaa ransacked the bogs in the room, arid
the third kept watch. She rave Pearson her purse,
containing 11, to save her life. The police, on arriving
at the cot ale, found a pool of blood which had flawed
from the old man's bead.
1-.3'.t'n were found guilty.
Hie lordship cammented on the enormity of the
crime, and on the necessity of protecting person and
property from lawless violence. Gordon had used the
billhook, and it was no want of will of his that the
wounds he lead ir Rioted on the old man bad not been
fatal. He, therefore, sentenced him to death in the
usual form, without any hope of mercy. Sent9nce of
death was also recorded against Pearson, but without
an intimation that his life would be spared.

One honeA, straightforward, courageous utterance of
the feelings and sentiments of the country, *:vould have
renewed Lerd Clarenflon's lease Of office, and reprieved,
perhaps, for a season the wrqched system of which he
Nas the a;ipropiia'.o !sslinkter. Rut _o
no cunceptienuf itsp,licy or value, ever occurred to him.
ri. wah,woirs a•eh was not anewered when it
ought to have been, becau.';e unfortunately it has nut been
the custom for Parliament to supervise the coriduc's, of our
foreign affairs, cr to inert upon knowing what is cluing,
or being left undone, until all inquiry is useless. Lord
Clarendon relied upon his irresponsibility for impunity.
al
ct
cnoeuvnetr
we
inttheiln.e da la
mi o
ti eha tfor ha
a nt
yh
nee
tshhoeu find
ightcachoemduitiat
or leave unperformed. Had L rd Palmerston been at
the-ForLzi:.-offica when the insolent missive was reeeivrd,
it is not impossible that he might have penned on the
inetant (though. he would hardly face ventured wi,hout
consultation to transmit) a suitable reply. The ox-Pre-
mier has great fault.,?, but they have of .en been redeemed
b 1 his instinctive sense of what is right ; and a life
spent, in the House of Commons has naturally kept.
alive in him some degree of Sympathy with the fear-
less and outapoken spirit of the nation. Unluckily for
Lord Clarendon,ho %.?asi not fred in that hest 5e.,00l
of English statesmaMhip. lie was reared in office,
and he has never b-en accustomed to any more Open
attnoThere of discussion than that of the salon, The
Cabinet, and the House of Lords. It is not unworthy
of remark that thr6ugbcut the whole of Lie five years'
tenure of the Foreign-office, he has uniformly been
treated with consideration and compliment in the Upper
House, and that cot a :irwle member of that asserunly•
appears to have uttered one syllable of remonstrance cr
protect the doctrines set forth by him in his
recent (I,:fence of his conduct. To truth is, he was,
and they felt him to be, the Foreign Minister 01
Oligarchy in secret league with Ab,olutisno, and they
desired to let him fall as softly a 3 might be. Can any
right-hearted man entertain a doubt, after what bas
l'aPPPLed, that in future the Foreicoi Minister of Eng-
land ouzlit to be a member of the Hon e of Couiraons

Thewitneqs, upon being cross-examined by Ser-
geant Parry, said that this was the only time hw
had ridden in the van, and it was quite accidentally
that he had done so on th's occasion. He did not
know the name of the man who had the conversa-
tion with the prisoner.

Sergeant Parry was about to proceed with the
crow-examination of the witness, when he fell down
iu a fit, and it was found necessary to remove him
from the Court.

After waiting for sometime, an intimation was
given by Dr. Taylor, who attended upon the wit-
ness, that he was nbt likely to be in a condition for
some time to undergo futher examination and the
Court was adjourned.
At the catnu3encenuent of the proceedings thin
morning the cross-examination of the witness Quint
was proceeded with, but he persisted in declaring
that he heard the conversation referred to between
the. prisoner and the other man, but he could give
no further information respecting that person than
that he was a prisoner-who had been sentenced to
10 months' imprisonment.
Mr. Straight, the deputy clerk of assize, observed
that the only prisoner sentenced to that puni4ll-
- was' a man
.named Henry Ringshell for re-
ceiving stolen property.
The jury said they considered it of very great
importance to know whe•her this man would con-
firm the statement made by the constable, and they
thought he ought to be examined.
erSower,,g.eant Parry said he ought to be called 'by the
o
Mr. Hawkins said he had received no information

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PRICES OF SHARES.

Prom the Official List.
rUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EvENai„
LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1858.
CANALS.

.3 1 ~i Dividend
Names of ,%) Dividend' Names of ,3,
5... per
Companies. g Price.' per Companies. :g Annum. Price.
cn Annum. T:
Ashtit &01,111 98 7.. p. ct. teak Forest. is 51. Os
Birmingham 40 4l: 90% :Reg,en t's• ••• 30 17s 1618
Coventry... • 100
.11/. 190 Rochdale.... 85 V. 84
Derby ...• • • (00 61. 15s. ' Stilrd &Wort 40 281
Orand.T.inctn (00 21. pr. et. 50% Stourbridge. 145 121. 10s.
Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 61 pr. ct. . Severn and}
211 1/. 16s.
Grand Jnion 100 7s. 6d I Wye Ball.
Kennt & Avn 40 63. 6 'Warwickl &
n 21. 24
Leeds &L'vrr iGO 251. Birming. j UN,
Leicester..:. 00 51. Warwick &1 21. 9
Leicstr &Nth 83 11.55. 12 Napton.. j 100
Loug,hborogh [43 701 Worcstr &}
78 10s. 19
Macclesfield. !00 21. 10s. . Birming.
Neath ...• 100 161. Wilts & Brio. 7s. Od.
Oxford.... • • 100 , 105

Name of Company.

Berlin
East London
Do. 4 per Cent Pref.
Do. 5 per Cent Pref.
Grand Junction ......

Do. New ......

Lambeth ...... • . • .

Yew River Company..
Southwark & Vauxhall
\Veit Aii,lcilesex • •
Do. Do, .. •• •

WATER-WORKS.

Dividend
_ per

Annum.

Name of Company.

fiongerford.... ••
Southwark

Ditto New of 7% p.c.
Waterloo ..... ........
Ditto Old Ann. of Si.

Ditto Nw ditto of 71.
Vauxhall ............

Name of Company

Commercial .......„

Do. .Praerence
East and West fudia..
(i rand qtrry D. & Canal

Po. Loan Notes .. ..

Amount
of
Share.

Do, 5 per cent. Prof.
London ,• • -•••• ••
qatnarine .• •• •• ••
Southampton .. •• •• ••
Victoria•• •. •• ••••
Ditto New

Paid