The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-22 00:00:00

TEE MIRES CASE.

This affair, came on again on Thursday before the
Correctional Tribunal, M. Solar being in default.
M. Marie, in the absence of M, Mathieu, the counsel
for M. Mires, applied for a further postponement of
the hearing for a week, on the ground that the
investigation into the accounts, although followed
up with unceasing perseverance, was so difficult
that it had been found impossible to bring it to a
close. M. Mires requested permission to say a few
words in support of the application for a further
delay. He had been taken,:he said, to his office, but
on condition that he should be under the surveil-
lance of two police agents. He was to work and.
make his researches under the eyes of those
agents. He had refused to do so, because in the
examination of his papers and books he required
all his coolness and presence of mind, without hav-
ing his attention distracted by the presence of other
persons. A long negotiation had ensued, and it
was at length agreed that the presence of the agents
should be dispensed with, provided he was attended
by an advocate. That pause in the affair had impeded
the examination and caused the loss of time which
had rendered a further delay necessary. Mires,
afterwards, in reply to a question from the President
as to whether all the communications he desired h 4
not been granted, replied that the further delay ap-
plied for was solely caused by the difficulties thrown
in the way of his preparing his defence. M. 6enart
stated that every proper accommodation bad been.
granted, but that when M. Mires had gone to his
office, accompanied by proper agents, he insisted
on turning them out of the room. That pretention,
with the responsibility weighing on them, they very
properly resisted, on which the prisoner got into a
passion, saying that he would not work under the
eyes of the police. In presence of that refusal, Mr.
Mires was taken back to prison. An application on
the matter was made to the Prefect of Police, and it
was at length decided that he should be allowed to
make the researches he required, attended only by
an advocate. M. Senart further declared that every
possible facility had been given to the prisoner, and
that he could not understand the persistence of
M. Mires in making such unmerited reproaches
against the judicial authorities, and occupying
the court with matters purely personal. M. Marie
next gave an account of what had been related to
him by the advocate in question. That gentleman
had told him :—" We were occupied at the office,
when, hearing a noise at the door, we went to see
what it was, and found some police agents outside.
The circumstance annoyed us, and we declared that
we should not remain if agents continued to watch us.
I declare," added M. Marie, " that under such cir-
cumstances I should have acted in the same way,
for the advocate ought to know how to make his
dignity respected. The President then declared
the incident to be at an end, and ordered the names
of the witnesses to be called over. Fifty-two were
then called on in the usual way, and ordered to
attend without further summons on that day week.

On Tuesday last the patent for re-constituting
the Board of Admiralty was formally produced, and the new-
itembers " read " themselves in. Vice-Admiral the lion
Sir Frederick Grey will take possession of the house formerly
occupied by the late Rear-Admiral the Hon. F. T. Pelham
in the Admiralty Yard, as soon as it can be got ready for
his reception.—Army and Navy Gazette.
THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON:DAN
NORTH -WESTERN RAILWAY.—An inquiry was resumed
before Mr. W. S. Poole, coroner, at Kenilworth, yesterday,
touching the death of the two men who were killed by an
accident, the immediate cause of which was the giving way
of a bridge on the London and North-Western Railway,
not far from the above town, and this was pretty generally
attributed to the inadequacy of this bridge to carry the
heavy engines now in use. The jury returned a verdict to
the effect, that the deceased were killed on the 11th
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sponsible for the defect, but that Mr. Sewell, of Coventry,
had not performed his duty as inspector ; and that Mr.
Woodhouse, of Stafford, engineer for this district, ought not
to have overlooked the fact that the girders of the bridge
were insufficient to bear the increased weight of the engines
now in use. The verdict was accompanied by a recommen-
dation for a better system of inspection on the line, and Mr.
Carter, on the part of the company, said he had no doubt
that would be carried into effect.

A VOLUNTEER FINED.-Yesterday, at the Man.
cheater Police-court, Thomas Marsland was summoned for
non-payment of 265., the amount due for his subscription
to the 28th Lancashire Rifle Volunteers. The defendant
did not appear. Captain Scott pressed for the infliction of
the full penalty of double the amount of subscription, feel-
ing assured that it would have a beneficial effect on others
who neglected to contribute to the funds of the regiment.
The idea existed that these contributions were not recover-
able, and it was desirable that it should be known that the
law under which the volunteers are constituted expressly
provided for these cases. The magistrate inflicted a penalty
of double the amount sued for.
POPULATION AND HOUSES.-A careful analysis
of the Census Returns just issued by the Registrar-General
shows that, with the exception of the metropolitan district,e
a
there is generally a gratifying increase inthe
Thus .modation of England, as compared with
1851.
Bed-
fordshire had 5.0 persons per house
1861 ;
in 1861 and 4 9 in 1861 •
Berkshire, 5.3 in 1851 and 4.9 in
Buckinghamshire,
4.9 in 1851 and 4.8 in 1861; Cambridgeshire, 4.9 in 1851
62 1861 ; Cumberland, 5'3 •
in 1861 and 5.1 in 1861 ;
b shire, 4'9 in 1851 in
and 4.8 in
andCornW6aliln,
1851 and 5.0 in 1861 ;•
51286inl ;1851and Cheshire,
5.0
Derbyshire,
years; Dor t
1861; Devonshire,
lurinham, 6.0 185 Se
811iPe'
5.1 in
1851 and 4.9 in 1861 111 and 5.9 in 1861 ;
Essex, 5 oin 1861 and 4.9 in 1861; Gloucestershire, 5.3 in
51
and 5.2 in 1861; Hampshire, 5.4 in. 1851 and 5.5 in
1188 61; Herefordshire, 4'B in both years; Hertfordshire, 5.1
in 1851 and 4.9 in 1861
i n 1861
Middlesex, ;
; Huntingdonshire, 4.8 in 1851
and 4.7 in 1861 ; Kent, 51 in 1851 and 5.8 in 1861; Lan-
cashire, 5.8 in 1851 and 51 in 1861 ; Leicestershire, 4'
.
71:49inicnoln1s8h5irle,an5d.0 in8.118113.511an86d1
4in.7 liBnsllBanad; 4
(overcrowding, it will be seen, is increasing in the metro-
polis) ; Monmouth, 5.4 in 1851 and 5.3 in 1861; Norfolk,
4.7 in 1851 and 4.5 in 1861 ; Northamptonshire, 4.8 in
1851 and 41 in 1861 ; Northumberland, 6.3 in 1851 and
6.1 in 1861; Nottinghamshire, 4.9 in 1851 and 4.7 in
1861; Oxfordshire, 4.9 in 18131 and 4.7 in 1861; Rutland-
shire, 5.0 in 1851 and 4.7 in 1861; Shropshire, 5.0 in both
years ; Somersetshire, 6.2 in 1851 and 5.1 in 1861; Staf-
fordshire, 5.2 in 1851 and 5.1 in 1861; Suffolk, 4.8 in 1851
and 4.6 in 1861; Surrey, 6.2 in 1851 and 6.3 in 1861 (me-
tropolitan influences at work again here) ; Sussex, 5.7 in
1851 and 5'5 in 1861; Warwickshire, 4.9 in 1251 and 4.8
in 1861; Westmoreland, 5.1 in both years ; Wiltshire, 4.9
in 1851 and 41 in 1861; Worcestershire, 4.9 in both years ;
and Yorkshire, 4.9 in 1851 and 4.8 in 1861. Some persona
have endeavoured to prove that the decline of the popula-
tion in purely rural districts has been caused by their bad
house accommodation, but taken as a whole, the foregoing
figures do not support the conclusion ; the real cause of the
falling off is inadequate remuneration for labour, and the
cheering intelligence received from relatives who hay
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