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munications between Delhi and Aboo) informs us
that the wall was breached, and the mutineers
lexpecting the attick. The reference to the muti-
Ineers would make it appear as if natives had con-
veyed the intelligence to Aboo.
Again, we have a letter from Benares, also
dated the 19th of June, which the writer, a
highly respectable missionary, had opened to state
that intelligence had just reached Benares from
Indore (which is about 600 miles from Benares
and 300 from Bombay) that the " rebels had been
defeated and the city re-captured." The news
had come "by telegraph." This looks as if the
communications were pretty well open between
Benares and Bombay, and as far west as Rajpoo-
tana. It is well known how quickly Asiatics,
like the ancient Gauls, can carry intelligence
through vast districts in an incredibly short time ;
hence the Indian Bazaar reports of the capture of
Delhi, connected with that by the letters, renders
it far from improbable.

The fearful atrocities perpetrated by the Indian
mutineers, not onlyon their officers, but on helpless
women and innocent children, demand the most
complete and speedy retribution. The blood of
our brethren, so wantonly and cruelly shed, cries
from the earth for justice on their murderers. In
some few cases feelings of gratitude were displayed
towards those who had exhibited kindness to the
Hindoos, but this was but the exception to the gene-
ral rule. The sanguinary miscreants ordinarily
acted with the most fiendish and heart-rending
barbarity towards their unfortunate victims. We
can scarcely allude to the deplorable and revolting
details. Suffice it to say, that, to ladies particu-
larly, speedy death would have been accounted
mercy. They were treated in the most horrible
manner in the presence of husbands, parents, and
children, who were prevented from aiding them
in the slightest degree; they witnessed those
nearest and dearest to them murdered in cold
blood, and only were suffered to live until every
possiLle ignominy had been heaped upon them.
Their intense sufferings were made the sport of
the malevolent and licentious scoundrels into
whose hands they had fallen. We believe that a
parallel cannot be found to scenes such as those
already narrated, and it is more than probable
that we have not as yet heard the worst. Many
victims have fallen,' whose dreadful fates will
never be detailed, save by the confession of the
cowardly assassins who caused their deaths.

Under sueh circumstances there can be no tem-
porising or compromise with the insurgents.
Tueir guilt is of too deep a dye, too infamous to
listen to any suggestions of mercy. Of course, as
in all such cases, there are gradations in crime,
and we shall be only happy to listen t
any mitigating circumstances in favour of
those who have lent aid or assistance to
English fugitives. But we fear that the number
of those who can truly put forward such a plea is
very limited. A vast, majority have stained them-
selves with the highest possible degree of guilt.
For these miscreants there can be no sympathy,
however terrible may be the punishment they
have so richly merited. Those who have wit-
nessed the sufferings of their countrymen and
countrywomen will inflict exemplary vengeance on
their infamous assassins.

What renders the matter worse, is that the
mutineers had long been treated with the greatest
possible indulgence. Their scruples were respected.
They were petted, and their condition made the
envy of the surrounding population. And yet
these were the very men to massacre their officers,
and, far worse t'Aan all, to maisaera thei r wives
and children, and indeed every English-
woman or chill who fell into their hands I
They set aside every consideration of humanity,
and, if a host of demons had been let loose on
earth, they could scarcely have exceeded the atro-
cities perpetrated by these ruffian Sepoys.
The rumours respecting the alleged fall of Delhi
have assumed a greater degree of consistence, and
there is some reason to hope that its capture had
been effected. The statement was that more than
7,000 of the rebel Sepoys had fallen, while the.
English loss was also very considerable. But
even if the accuracy of the report had been verified
beyond the possibility of doubt, that would not
justify the slightest relaxation of exertion on o.ar
part. Our victory must be complete and decisive
—the retribution terrible—or we shall have all
the work to do over again. After exemplary
punishment it will then be our duty to trace
out the causes of the outbreak. We believe
that it will be found in a great degree to have
been formented by Russian intrigues. The Per-
sian war was also kindled in the like manner. All
the arrows have probably been drawn from the
same quiver ! The Sepoys were influenced and
taught to believe the destinies of the Anglo-In-
dian Empire rested in their hands. Some of the
iniseratele puppets were likewise induced to sup-
pose that they could reclaim the thrones forfeited
by their own misconduct. It is, however, satis-
factory to know that the vast majority of the
chiefs and peoples remained faithful. It has
been a military outbreak, in which the King of
DELHI, the ex-King of OUDE, and possibly the
Rajah of MOORESHABAD have participated. Their
conduct will be strictly investigated, and if their
complicity be clearly established, nothing shall
save them from the stringent penalties they have
so richly deserved.

Sir THOMAS MARYON WILSON is now once
more before Parliament, endeavouring to accom-
plish his private objects by means of a public act.
He has certainly exhibited indefatigable zeal and
energy—a degree of perseverance worthy of a
better cause. But, for all that, we cannot consent
to surrender Hampstead Heath to the hands of
builders and bricklayers, or give up the benefits
provided for the metropolitan community by the
will under which he himself derived his title to
the estate.

Sir THOMAS made repeated applications for a
private bid, but was foiled on every occasion.
A.nd why ? Simply because the learned judges,
who took a merely legal view of the subject, in-
variably reported against him. Their judgment
was not founded on matters of public policy or
expediency, but of absolute right. They con-
sider( d the wishes of the testator, which were,
that so long as lie had the power to create a bind-
ing entail the Heath should not be built on. So
far as lay in his power he dedicated it to the
public use, and the benefit of the bequest should
not be lightly surrendered.
An ordinary person would have yielded to these
repeated defeati. But Sir THOMAS WW, to use
the language of the fancy, "a very glutton in
receiving punishment." Be did not know when
he was beaten, and returned to the charge again
but with triaNinegwvabri
u.nd again.
ilalstiownse.re brought forward,
T
judges were sought in every
shape,he aonpndiiiton of the
judges
note
anti' the faintest pos-'13.1.
:a tty of
;vas removed that the billgeneral
59 accomplish his object, which was practi-
,any a public enactment for the private relief of
Jir THOMAS MARYON WILSON.

That act gave power to the Court of Chancery
,o grant leasing and selling powers to teuant3 for
where provioudy au appeal to the LegiLlA,Arzi

was indispensable. We do not say anything
against the provisions of that bill, which, under
ordinary circumstances, was a very proper one.
But virtually it was framed to suit Sir T. M.
Wasores purposes, and to enable him to accom-
plish in one shape what had been deliberately re-
jected in another. It could not be tolerated that
a single Vice-Chancellor, sitting with closed
doors, should overrule the deliberate opinion of
Parliament, acting on the advice of all the Judges
of the superior Courts of Common Law. A
clause was accordingly introduced, providing that
the power should not exist in any case where there
had been a previous appeal to Parliament rejected
on its merits. This was struck out in the Lords,
but fortunately the Commons were firm, and it
was re-inserted before the bill received the Royal
assent.

This was but list year, but already the indefa-
tigable Sir Tuomes has a new public bill to re-
peal that well-considered provision, and for this
he, yesterday, succeeded in obtaining a second
reading by a majority of 18. We trust that
the popular representatives will not so
far stultify themselves as to permit its passing.
The season is clearly too far advanced for such a
proceeding. We should gladly see a final arrange-
ment entered into by which "one of the lungs of
London" should be permanently retained. It is
said that negotiations are going on with the Me-
tropolitan Board of Works for that purpose ; but
should the present bill be carried these negotia-
tions will be brought to a summary conclusion,
and everyhope of satisfactory arrangement knocked
on the head. In fact, it was distinctly and une-
quivocally avowed, on the part of Sir THOMAS, that
the bill was brought in because there was no public
body ready to purchase the property. He wishes
to be enabled to put on the screw, and will most
assuredly 'do so should the present act unfortu-
nately pass. We hope better things, however, of
the present Parliament, and although 77 persons
were yesterday found willing to vote for the
second reading, we believe that it will be defeated
by an overwhelming majority, when its true intent
and meaning are thoroughly understood and ap-
preciated.

LATEST NEWS.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

(BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

KILLARNEY, THURSDAY, 11.15 A.M.

Last night the shore end of the Atlantic Cable
was handed to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant
on the mainland, near Valentia, and laid in a sa-
tisfactory manner.

VIENNA, THURSDAY.

The Ga.-xtte de Vienne, in its evening edition,
states that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe is recalled
to London en conge. Direct intelligence from Con-
stantinople has been received to the effect that,
under present circumstances, Lord de Redcliffe
will not quit his post at the Porte.

Cleveland and Pittsburg, 1; La- Crosse and Mil-
waukie fell off per cent. from the highest point of
the last board ; Galena and Chicago, Sterling
Exchange closed firm at 9i to 91 per cent. prem.

PHILADELPHIA, JULY 24.
Stocks heavy. Pennsylvania State, 51-, 85 ;
Reading Railroad, 30 ; Long Island Railroad, 12;
Morris Canal, 521 ; Pennsylvania Railroads, 46k.
NEW ORLEANS, JULY 24.
Cotton sales to-day, 100 bales. Prices have advan-
ced lc., middling qualities improving the most ;
we quote middling at 143 to 14k. The sales of the
week add up 15,000 bales, and the receipts 800 ;
stock 15,500 bales. The receipts at this port up to
the present time, as compared with those of last
year, fall short 248,000 bales. The receipts at all
the southern ports up to this da►e less than those
of last year, are 574,500 bales. Flour dull. Rio
coffee, sales of prime at llic. Sales of week I,Bod
bags. Stock 102,300 bags. Sterling exchange 91
per cent. premium. Other articles generally un-
changed.
CHARLESTOWN, JULY 23.
Cotton sales of the week 2,700 bales, the mar-
ket closing at ic. to lc. advance. We quote good
middling at 14g.
BUFFALO, JULY 24.
Flour dull. Sales 700 barrels, at 6 dols. 37c.
for extra Illinois ; 6 dols. 50c. to 6 dole. 75c. for
extra Ohio ; and 7 dole. 25c. to 7 dols. 50c. for
double extraditto and lowa. Wheat quiet and dull.
Corn closes firm. Sales, 40,000 bushels at 75c. to
75Ac. Oats quiet. Whiskey—sales, 250 brls. at 30c.
OSWEGO, JULY 21.
Flour in good demand, chiefly for the lower
grades. for Montreal, Quebec, and Portland markets.
The interior and west rn demand moderate. Sales,
3,700 barrels, at 6 dole. to 6 dols. 25 cents. for
common State, and 6 dols. 50 cents. for extra
ditto. Wheat easier. Sales, 1,400 bushels, at
1 dol. 34 cents. to 1 dol. 341 cents. for Chicago
spring, and 1 dol. 44 cents. for Milwaukie club.
Corn firm. Sales, 4,200 bushels, at 78 cents.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PORTSMOUTH, NVEDNESDAY.

The Charity steam transport, No. 1, Captain
Charles H. Sivell, arrived at Spithe.td thii day at
noon from the above colony, which she left on the
17th of June.

There is no news of interest in the papers brought
by the Charity. Two severe storms had occurred
in Table Bay, which did much damage to the ship-
ping, but no lives were !est.
The following is abridged from the summary of
the Cape Argus of June 13 :
" Parliament has now been sitting 69 days, and a
great many of the members, especially of the Eastern
Province, have left. Up to this time there has been but
one measure carried that can be considered of any great
importance, and that is the Immigration B;11. The
Harbour of Refuge Bill is not yet carried through the
Council. The bill introduced by his Excellency pro-
posed that 200,0001. should be voted for immigration, to
be spent during a period of five years, but a majority of
the House of Assembly refused to vote so large a- sum,
' but were unanimous in voting 50,000/ , to be spent in
two years, and if the ordinary revenue is insufficient
to meet this, then, and not else, money for the purpose
is to be raised upon debentures, bearing interest at 6
per cent. Agents are to be employed from this colony,
and in England, to cal ry out the provisions of the act.
"The Harbour of Refuge 811 was next in importance
to the subject of immigration. The vessels that uow lie
wrecked upon our beaches—the damaged cargoes and
risk of human life, mill show whether or not we stand
in need of a harbour of refuge in Table Bay. The com-
prehensive plan prepared by Captain James Vetch,
R.E., F.R.S., Engineer to the Admiralty in Englund,
and approved by the Admiralty, deservedly,' as set
forth in the bill, met with universal approval in this
colony.' The Assembly has resolved to accept the offer
of her Majesty's Government, and to pay off the cost of
the breakwater in sums of 25,000/. a-year ; but the Le-
gislative Council have not yet finished with the bill. We
are ❑ow looking anxiously for ward to the commence-
ment of the work. When it is completed the Cape will
occupy a ♦ery different position.
" The subject of railways has been much discussed out
of doors, and the people of tae Western Province and the
press of the Western Province are both unanimously in
favour of commencing a railway. The press of the
Eastern Province declares that the people at the end of
the colony are also in favour of having a railway in the
Eastern Province, but the representatives of the Eastern
Province tell a different tale, as may be seen from the
evidence taken by the select committee of the House of
Assembly.

" Education is not likely to be advanced much by the
Colonial Parliament for some time to come, although so
much was promised by those who agitated in favotir ofthe
Constituti m. Session aftar session passes over, yet nothing
is done. The Colonial Secretary brought in shill grounded
on resolutions passed by the Parliament last ses-
sion ; but bitter sectarianism stifled it. The bill was
grounded upon the principle of grants in aid, but it was
suspected of being a concoction of the Bishop of Cape
Town, which was of course sufficient to provoke the op-
position of everybody not of the bishop's way of thinking.
"The House of AsE.,embly and the Legislative Council
are upon the best of terms. They play at cross-purposes
to a considerable extent. What is done by one house i-
undone in the other. Their lordships are likely to stand
in the way of the Governor's frontier policy. The
Governor wishes to destroy the power of tho Caffre
chiefs, and is availing himself of the present half-starvt d
state of the Caffres to induce them to come and work in
the colony. A bill was brought to the Assembly by his
Excellency and passed by which Caffres who came into
the colony might be hired under contract for three years.
The Council struck out all the substantial portion of the
bill, and sent it back mutilated to the Assembly ; the
Assemb!y have sent back again a conciliatory or rather
a suppiicant message to their lordships, begging them
not to persist in their so-called amendments. What is
to become of it remains to be seen. There is little doing
in the commercial world ; freights there are none to
be had."

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

- On Thursday morning at daybreak the Agamem-
non came to mooring in Queenstown Harbour at a
distance of about a third of a mile from the United
States' frigate Niagara. Before noon one end of
each cable was carried to the opposite ship, and
so joined up as to form a -continuous length of
2,500 miles, both ends of which were on board the
Agamemnon. One end was then connected with
the apparatus for trans nitting the electric current,
and on a sensitive galvanometer being attached to
the other end the whole clb'e was t steel from end
to end, and found to bo perfect.
As these operations had worn far int ) the night,
the arrangements for attaching tho ree'arling in-
struments to indicate signa's were left to be corn-
plet -d in the morning. The atnount of electric
power developed at the further end, and exhibited
by Mr. Whitehouse's magneto-electrometer,
amounted to an attractive force of 25 grains. As
three grains are a sufficient force to record inteli-
gible signals upon the receiving apparatus it will
he perceived that a considerable surplus of electric
power remains, a convincing proof, if any were
needed, at once of the perfect integrity of the cable
and no less of the careful adaptation of scientific
means to the desired object.

On resuming the operations on Friday morning
it was found that all communication was cut off,
and after under-running the poi tions of cable laid
out between the two ships it was aicertainei that
one had been completely severed by entanglement
with the mooring chains during the time the Aga-
memnon was swinging with the tide, and that the
other portion was so injured from the same cause
as to be unfit for use.

During Friday the officers of the company were
engaged in relasing the broken wires and re-con-
necting the conductors.

On re-establishing communication bet wean ship
and ship the transmission of electric telegraph mes-
sages through the entire length of 2,500 miles was
immediately commenced, and proceed satisfactorily
during the who'e of Saturday.
In carrying this out each terminal station or end
of the cable was separa'ely connected with the
e +rth, as is usual in lines laid out in actual length,
and the electrician noted that a considerable interval
of time elapsed during the passage of the current,
the amount of retardation being equal to nearly a
second and thr,re-quarters upon each electrical wave
or signal. Yet, notwithstanding this, it was found
that three signals could be practically and intelli-
gibly transmitted in two seconds. This confirms
the accuracy of the previous experiments made upon
shorter circuits of wire, by which it had been demon-
strated that several waves of electric force can co-
exist in a long unbroken length of completely in-
sulated conducting wire, and yet reach their termi-
nal destination with sufficient intervals between
them to record intelligibly the indications they are
intended to convey.
The battery employed by Mr. Whitehouse con-
sists of a voltaic series of 40 cells, the plates of
which are formed alternately of zinc and platinised
silver, each about nine inches square. The exciting
fluid or medium is simply diluted sulphuric acid,
the troughs containing which are swung upon a
gimballed frame, to prevent the fluid from being
washed over the connexions b3tween cell and cell
by the motion of the ship.
The force developed by this battery in its direct
action is so great that a piece of iron three inches
long and three-eighths of an inch in diameter can
be entirely consumed in a few minutes by the heat
developed on retaining the two poles of the battery
simultaneously in contact with it.

The battery current thus generated is, however,
only the primary agent in the act of telegraphing
through the cable, and is solely used as a means of
inducing, through the aid of electro-magnetiC elec-
tricity, a current of the suitable character for being
transmitted through such long distances. The elec-
tro-magnetic electricity actually employed is ob-
tainedfrom large induction coils, which are con-
structed in the following manner :—Around a hol-
low cylinder of soft iron nearly five feet long is
wound with great regularity a length of several
thousand yards of thin copper wire, insulated with
silk wrapped by means of machinery round every
portion of the metal, and much less in diameter
than the conductor constituting the centre of the
cable, to the end of which it is joined up, and of
which it forms a continuous part when required for
use.

Each layer of this insulated wire is covered with
thin waxed paper previously to the application of
the succeeding layer, and the whole, when com-
pleted, is surrounded with sheet gutta percha ap-
plied so as to fit it equally on all sides. Over the
intervening gutta perch a is then wound a shorter
length of copper wire many times larger in diameter
than the previous length of thin wire, but insulated
in the same manner.

The extremity of tHs latter wire is brought into
connexion with the battery by means of a key used
by the operator for the transmission of signals in
such a manner that not only can the circuit be made
and broken at pleasure, but that in signalling a dis-
tant station by the simple process of raising and de-
pressing the handle of this key the operator never
sends two currents successively from the same pole
of the battery, but transmits alternately negative
and positive electricity. The following phenomena
are developed in the apparatus thus described when
set in motion. The currents generated in the voltaic
series pass simply through the thick wire between
pole and pole of 'the batt pry, and in their passage
temporarily convert the hollow cylinder of iron
into a powerful electra-magnet, the position of the
poles of which may be reversed with each alteration
in the direction of the current through the thick
wire.

The electro-magnet thus formed reacts upon the
great length of thin wire wound round the cylinder,
inducing in it a current of electro-magnetic electri-
city possessed of an energy adequate to the length
of cable it is required to pass through.
It will be sewn that the nature of this secondary
current may be varied at will by the employment of
batteries differing in character (as may be found
most suited to the occasion), attached to the thicker
or primary wire of the coil ; and that further, as
the current which passes into the cable is originally
generated in a wire of only one-seventh the area of
the main conductor, no ill effect can occur to the
conductor, which might result if the battery itself
were in direct connexion with it.

Provision having been male in this manner for
the through transmission of the electric curr-nt,
the adaptation of an instrument suitable to the in-
dication or recording of signals is simply a matter
of mechanical ingenuity, and any of the sensitive
indicating or recording instruments now in use
may be employed for the purpose.
The form of instrument at present used for de-
veloping signals by the Atlantic Telegraph Com-
pany is a modification of ths well known marking
instrument invented by Professor Morse.

Mr. Brooking, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Crosbie, Mr.
Logie, Mr. Brett, directors, accompanied by Mr.
Saward, the secretary of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company; Mr. E. Bright, the secretary of the Bri-
tish and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company ; Dr.
Palmer, of the United States frigate Niagara, and
other gentlemen interested in the success of the
undertaking, reached Killarney on Saturday night
en route for Valentia. •

His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland,
who intends to be present at the starting of the ex-
pedition from Valentia, arrived at the Railway
Hotel, Killarney, this day (Monday), and, after
partaking of an entertainment given to his lordship
and the representatives of 'the Atlantic Telegraph
Company by the directors of the Great Southern
and We3tern Railway, proceeded immediately on
his job rney
He will remain the guest of the Knight of Kerry
during th 6 opeiation of attaching the shore end of
the cable to the Irish coast. Mr. Job, ,lately an in-
fluential member of the Council of Nowfoundland
(in the absence of the Attorney-General of that
province, 'who is unavoidably prevent .-d from at-
tending), was also present, and will await the com-
mencement of the great work.

The British and-Irish Magnetic Telegraph Com-
pany are progressing very rapidly with the erection
of an overground line of telegraph along the high-
way between Killarney and Valentia for the pur-
pose of connecting the existing telegraph system
with the Atlantic cable at the latter place, by means
of which, under an arrangement entred into be-
tween the magnetic and electric companies, the
whole of the lines in the three kingdoms, 10,000
miles in extent, will be available for the rapid
transmission of intelligence between Europe and
the American continent. •
The line is already completed beyond Killorglip,
where the Magnetic Company have established a
temporary station.
The entire through communication to Valentia
is expected to be completed by the middle of next
week, when intelligence as to the progress made in
the paying out of the cable will be daily received
and sent forward by Mr. Saward, the secretary of
the company, who will remain there with the stiff
of manipulators until the completion of the under-
taking.

VALENTIA, WEDNESDAY.
The Niagara, Capt. Hudson ; the Susquehanna,
Capt. Sands ; the Agamemnon, Commander Nod-
dall ; the Leopard, Capt. Wainwright; the Cyclops,
Capt. Dayman ; and the Advice, Capt. Raymond,
have arrived at Valentia, all well. The Arctic,
Capt. Bel rirnan, and the Victory, Capt. Sluyteer,
»re at Trinity Bay, where they will wait the expe-
dition, and will then assist in landing the Newfound-
land end of the cable. Everything is in complete
readiness for effecting the landing of the Irish end ;
a favourable spot has been selected on the shore of
Valentia Bay, about three miles from Caltireiveen,

and the operations will be commenced immediately
the weather will permit. The Lord Lieutenant is
at Valentia to inaugurate by his presence the under-
taking. A grand banquet was given yesterday to
his 'Excellency and the directors of the company by
the Knight of Kerry. The most complete confi-
dence prevails as to the undertaking.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 5.
THE MURDER OF MR. LITTLE.

The commission was opened yesterday before the
two Chief Justices, and—what happens in Dublin
only en special occasions—the court was crowded the
moment the doors were opened and long before the
judges took their seats upon the bench. Two hours
previously James Spollen was conveyed in a co-
vered car from Richmond Bridewell to the pi ison in
Green:street, under an escort of for mounted
policeman. Lord Chief Justice Lefroy charged the
grand jury, and in the cour-e of a clear and-able
address thus directed their attenti in to the lolls
about to be sent up to them in the Broadstone
murder case :

" From what I have seen of the informations (said his
lordship), which it was my duty to look into, IL have to
tell you that this case is one in which you will be called
on to find a bill not upon the (Erect testimony of any-
body who has seen the transaction, which is charged to
be a wilful murder, but by a chain of circumstantial evi-
dence—a chain oefacts—which will be presented to you
as establishing by presumptive evidence the guilt of the
prisoner. That sort of evidence, gentlemen, is not only
proper, and legal, and allowable, but in some respects
perhaps it may be considered as a firmer basis upon
which to come to a conclusion than 'simply the direct
evidence of a witness who has witnessed the fact. A wit-
ness may be deceived, or may err,or may desire to deceive,
but a long train pr chain of circumstances or facts, ie-tab-
, fished by theeftestimony of a number of witnesses,
all tending to furnish the same conclusion and to lead to
the same ultimate inferences, must not only from the
number of witnesses whose ctedit. is committed, but
also from the:wider range and nature of the examina-
tion, give a greater opportunity of a full and ample in-
vestigatien of the case; and of any defence that may
arise in the face of the proceeding. You are placed under
great difficulty, for, although this is a case of the nature
I have mentioned, you will not have the benefit of hear-
log the statement of counsel upon the circumstances by
which the case is to be made out ; you will not haveithe
means from the informations—for they are not to go up
to you—of knowing what are the particulars of the case,
or the order in vvhichyou should examine into these parti-
culars, and therefore it has occurred to me to make afew
observations merely to the extent of suggesting to you
the order in which it appears to me convenient for you to
enter upon and pursue the investigation of this case.
The first and most earnest observation I should make to
you is, that you will divest your minds of everything that
you may have heard or read respecting this charge. No
evidence will be tendered to you which will not be legal
and proper for you to receive, and if through inadver-
tence or any other cause evidence may have crept into
the case from any former stage of it upon which any
question could be raised, that evidence will not be ten-
dered to you. The course which, as it strikes me, is
proper for you to pursue is to begin by ascertaining, in
the first instance, the condition of the case, en as to as-
certain whether the death of the deceased party was
caused by violence, and the nature of the violence as
tending to indicate by the assistance of competent
judges on that point the nature of the weapons by which
the violence was inflicted ; for in the progress of the case
it may be of the utmost importance that yoo should be
apprised beforehaiid that probable evidence of the nature
of the weapon by which the crime was committed, if
tending more or less to bring the prisoner into connection
with these weapons,;is one of the circumstances or matters
of tact in the chain of circumstances most material for
your consideration. Having ascertained the cause of the
death of the deceased, and the manner of it, and the
important matter of identification that I have alluded
to, you will then, I think, properly proceed to a-icertain
the persons who last saw the decevsed alive. They will,
of course, be produced before you. They will give you
an opportunity of fixing' a point of time most material.
And then, gereleuntm, I think the next important
Font to which your attention should be directed is the
ways of access to the room where the deceased was
found„ and the ways of escape from that room. That
it is reasonable to expect may be a very important con-
sideration in the progress of the case. It wilt become
very important with respect to the prisoner. 'lt may
appear to you (I am merely putting the case hypotheti-
cally, for you will take the evidence of the witnesses as
it appears to yourselves) necessary to ascertain whether
these were not means by which other persons—stran-
gers—may have approacscd to or may have escaped
from that room, so as not to fix your attention on
any one, and to say that you will exclude from
your consideration the possibility of other ways of
approach or escape. You will next direct your atten-
tion to the property that may be brought before you as
having been found in or taken from the room at the
time of the murder. The identification of the body will
be one of the facts requiring your careful consideration,
as will also be the circumstance under which it was found
in a particular place, and everything relating to the con-
dition in which it was so found, as tending to bring it
more or less in connexion with the prisoner. You will
confine t'le witnesses to the matters of fact. You will
not receive from them inferences or auspicious ; it will
be ter yourselves to draw the inferences from the facts
that will be proved before you. There will also be pro-
duced to you weapons alleged to have been used in the
commission of the crime, and you will attentively con-
sider as material any evidence that may tend to bring
them more or less in connexion with the prisoner. When
you have ascertained, by satisfactory evidence, these
various circumstances upon which you will found
your inferences, it will be for you to say whether
these circumstances, all taken together, do fur-
nish enough of proof. in your minds satisfactorily to
repel the presumption of innocence to which every pri-
soner is entitled. The law presumes every man to be
innocent, and you must do all in this seise until the
presumption is satisfactorily removed by a chain of evi-
deuce repelling that presumption of innccence. But,
if upon a consideration of all the facts and circumstances,
your judgments and consciences are led to the convic-
tion of the guilt of the accused, you are not only allowed
by law, but you are bound by your oaths, to find true
bills.
"At five minutes to 4 o'clock the city grand jury
came into court, and the foreman announced that they
had found a true bill against James Spollen for the
murder of Mr. Little. _ .

" Spolien was immediately afterwards placed in the
dock for the purpose of being formally arraigned. In-
stead of the working man's attire which he wore when
undergoing the preliminary examination before the
magistrat-, he was dresred in a blue frock coati dark
vest and trousers, and altogether presented a very neat
and clean appearance. He advanced rapidly to the bar
of the dock, looked steadily t wards the bench for a short
time, and then glanced somewhat hurriedly round that
section of the court which was in front of him, but did
not, during the short time he remained in court, betray
any symptoms of uneasiness. •
" The Clerk of the Crown then formally indicted him
for having on the 3d of November, 1856, at the Broad
stone, wilfully murdered George Samuel Little, and asked
him if be were guilty or not ?
" The prisoner, in a low but perfectly audible voice,
replied Not G.iilty.'
" Cleak of the Crown.-7A re you ready for your trial ?

" Prisoner.—Yes, Sir."
After some discussion, it was arranged that the
trial should commence at the sitting of the Court
on Friday:
" Mr. Curran.—l have now to apply to your lordships
that the sheriff may be allowed to give us a copy of the
panel. I understand there isa very large panel summoned.
We have information that certain gentlemen expressed
such opinions on the case as would be a ground for
challenging them, and the object of the application is to
facilitate the selection of a jury.
" Mr. Corballis said there could be no objection to
allowing any one aoting for the prisoner to inspect the
panel in the sheriff's office, but that it was an unusual
application to ask to have a copy furnished.
" The Chief Justice remarked that he did not see the
difference between allowing a party to go into the office
to get a copy for hini,elf and furnishing it to him.
"It was then directed by the Court that the parties
representing the prisoner should have liberty to inspect
the panel and take a copy of it.
"The Right Hon. the Attorney-General entered the
Court-house in undress while the grand juries were being
sworn, and occupied a seat on the register's bench dur-
ing the charge of the Lord Chief Justice.
The prisoner was then removed."

EXTRAORDINARY DOUBLE CABE OF BIGAMY.—At the
Wakefiel 1 petty sessions, on Yleuday, a man named
Pease, a cottage and farm labourer at Horbury, near
Wakefield, was charged with having neglected to pro-
vide for his wife, sheaherafty becoming chargeable to the
township of.Horbury. Mr. Barrat, who appeared for
the defendant, put the wife, Sarah Pease, under a sever,
crone-examination, from which it appeared that 14 years
ago she left her husband and went to America, taking
with her a considerable sum of money, wearing apparel,
and other articles—in fact, She had stripped the man.
Subsequently, the husband heating she was dead, mar-
ried again ; but soon afterwards he beard that she bad
written letters to friends in England, in one of which
(produced) she sail she was married to a man in New
Yorknamed R-te, and signed herself Sarah Rae."
Nothiiong more was heard of her till a few days ago, whet
she presented herself at Pease'a house in Horbury, and
prat, rred her claim as his lawful wife. Both Pease and
his sccond,wife objected to recognise her claim, and ate
subsequently threw Lerielf on the parish. During the
evidence a:e denied the authentici!y of the letter pro-
duced ; but acknowledged, after great hesitation and a
barefaced attempt to evade the questions of the attor-
ney, that she had lived with Rae in New York, and bad
had a chill by him, but denied having been married to
him. The magistrate doubted the truth of her latter
assertion, but said that, even supposing it was true, the
law said that if it were proved that the wife bad com-
mitted adultery, the husband was not liable to main
taiu her. According- to her own aeknowled•
meet, she bad been living with the man Rae, and, as
cording to her letter, she bad been married to him
The case must therefore be dismissed. At the conclusiot
of the hearing there was a " scene" outside the court-
house between the friends of the two wives, those of tie
first expressing their determination to have Pease appre
heeded on a charge of bigamy. An intimation to that
effect having been given to the magistrates' clerk, he
said if a warrant were app4ed for be would advise the
magistrates to refuse it.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTER,N

RAILWAY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this
railway was held this afternoon at the company's offices,
Waterloo Station, Waterloo-road—Mr. Chaplin in the
chair.

The report and accounts already published were taken
as read.

There was a very thin attendance—less than wo ever
recollect to have seen at the meetings of this company.
The CHAIRMAN said that the dividends for the hat five
years had shown progress, and it was to be regretted
there had been a change this year in that respect ;
but it Arose from exceptional causes. The amount re-
ceived in 1856 for the conveyance of troops, and also the
public to witness the naval review, was 36,500/ , and
that put against the apparent deficiency of the traffic
this half•year would give a balance in favour of the com-
pany of 21,0001. in reference to the year 1855. In
July, 1856, 8,2761. was received alone for the convey.
ance of troops, which would also account for
the • decrease in the traffic shown this half-year.
He yet hved they would be able redeem the
pa,t, and show a satisfactory result for the current year.
The report stated that the company had pa• Fed through
its Parliamentary struggle unscathed, and he assured
the meeting that they were free from aggression both on
the east and west. The hon. gentleman then entered
into the details connected with the Parliamentary pro•
ceedings In reference to this and the competing com-
panies, and in conclusion congratulated the meeting on
the satisfactory state of the traffic and the engineer's re•
port relative to the state of the line and the rolling stock.
He moved the reception and adoption of the report.
Mr. TILOBALD seconded the motion.

Mr. HERAPATEE refer►ed to the arrangements made
with the London and Brighton Company. It appeared
to him that though the two companies appeared to be
on friendly terms, they, in fact, looked upon each other
like dog and cat, from each considering the other had in-
vaded their territories. He urged the necessity of
friendly relations between the two companies. -
Mr. TITS, 1V1.P., addr-ssed the meeting in favour of
the arrangement with the Brighton Railway Company,
With regard to the Wimbledon 'and Croydon lines. -He
expressed his confidence in the working of the line, and
had no doubt the dividend would again rise. He was
a large shareholder, and had no intention of disposing
of any of hls stock.

Mr. HERATATII said that he had been informed that
this company intended to go to Brighton. He expressed
a hope that such was not the case.
The CHAIRMAN said such was not the case.

Mr. HERAPATEI said he should be sorry to see this
company go to Brighton, or the Brighton. Company go
to Southampton.

The report was then unanimously agreed to.
The resolution declaring the dividend at 'the rate of
4/. 15s. for the year was also unanimously agreed to.
The arrangements proposed with the London,
Bright-m, and South Coast, and Wimbledon and Croy-
don Railway Companies, respecting the Wimbledon and
Croydon Railway, and also agreements with the Salis-
bury and Yeovil and Salisbury Market-house and Rail-
way C )mpanies, were submitted to the consideration of
the meeting and agreed to.

Oa the motion of Mr. MORTIMER (director), seconded
by Mr. HERAPATH, it was resolved that the fire insurance
of the company should be increased from 1,2001. to
24,0001.

A vote of tbanks to the chairman and directors ter-
minated the proceedings.

NEW SOUTH WESTERN STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held this
afternoon, at the Watertio Railway-station, Waterloo-
road ; Mr. Lacey in the chair.

The report and accounts were then read by the
Secretary, and agreed to. The guaranteed dividend of
5 per cent, per annum was declared, and the meeting►
separated.