The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA Y EVE NINO, MARCH 7, 1861,

true gentleman, for her Champion—and the defen-
dant, that quasi " Honourable " and soi disant
officer and gentleman (her Husband !) for her
Antagonist, her Vilifier, and her Repudiator—as for
the Hon. Mrs. YELVERTON, as we may now hence-
forth always designate her until she may come, in
the course of nature, to be the Viscountess AVON-
MORE - what said the Lord Chief Justice
MONAGHAN " This girl," said his lordship, and the
words that follow will long ring in the popular
recollection like trumpet notes—here of sympathy
and admiration, there of horror and indignation—
" This girl," said his lordship alluding to the inter-
view which took place in the Hospital of the convent
at Galata, where
_Major YELVERTON met Miss
LONBWORTH, the latter arrayed in the sacred dress
of a Sister of Charity—" This girl, who underwent
one of the most searching cross-examinations I ever
witnessed, and in whose conduct up to this
moment there does not appear to have been any-
thing that would be discreditable or improper in
any woman, excited the admiration, love, and
affection of this man, as he tells us ; but, my
God ! should not the garb in which she appeared,
and the work of charity in which she was en-
gaged, have had some influence on this man, and
driven from his mind the idea which he says
he entertained at the time ! My God, gentle-
men ! all of us see in this city numbers of young
and beautiful women who are engaged in this
holy work of charity, and though men may enter-
tain different opinions as to the prudence and
propriety of a conventual life, there is not a man
among you who would be capable of offering an
insult to those young and devoted women, as they
go to and fro in their mission of charity, visiting
the haunts of suffering and misery." Enough,
however. There cannot remain two opinions as to
the necessity about which Major GAVIN is going to
ask the Under Secretary of War this evening—the
necessity for the erasure forthwith from the " Army
List" of the blackened name of Major YELVERTON.

How came the hop growers and their advocates
on Tuesday night to omit the most touching argu-
ment for their case ? Not one word was said by the
mover and seconder, or by even our imaginative
ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, of the beauty of
our hop gardens. Yet what has our agriculture to
compare with the beauty of its hops. A field of
oat panicles trembling in the breeze is a pretty
sight, and soft and pleasing is the waving green,
or the waving brown of a wheat field, bending
before the breeze in late summer or autumn ; but
what are they beside the festoons, and clusters, and
garlands of our high creeping hops, as, in every
fantastic variety of twist, bend, and curve, they
interlace among and between the poles which sup-
port them ? How was it that the yet young
Lord HOLMESDALE did not tell his opponents, if
they would not pass the resolution now, to
take all of them a trip to Farnham next
Autumn,—to see the hop-gardens for themselves—
and then ask if they could again vote that the pro-
fane
hands of the exciseman should meddle with
and pollute England's most beautiful Georgics.
What else have we so like the " Married elms " of
Lombardy? What on which the eye of the Foreigner
would rest, more for its graceful and romantic
beauty than its utility. All our crops, uncon-
sciously to ourselves, delight our eyes partly through
the secret recollection we have of their value as food
—our hops are, themselves, " pleasant to the eyes,"
as well as" good for food." Nor will we disparage
them even in comparison with the produce of Italian
vines—for if the beautiful clusters of the grape
speak of mirth and cheerfulness, so the not less
beautiful clusters of the hop tell of the tonic
beverage, of whose soul-stirring virtues our
Scottish HORACE has sung so well.
If, however, we are forced to look upon our hops
simply as an article of production, we feel
that all the inspiration of the appeal for mercy is
gone at once. Cuts. of hops have nothing more
propitiatory to the eye or to the ear than bushels of
malt. " GLADSTONE spare those clusters," has
something in it—but " GLADSTONE spare those
1121bs."—Pshaw—all the tea, coffee, tobacco, and
snuff in the kingdom could say as much. So
strongly did the Anti-Hop-Duty advocates feel this
that they were fain to plead chiefly that hops were
the most gambling crop grown in England ! This,
indeed, the betting world did not need to be told.
The Derby does not more regularly transfer hun-
dreds and thousands to hands that probably, for the
more part never toil for what they gain or lose, than
does the amount of the Hop Duty perform the
same valuable service. Not that this service,
exactly, was pleaded as the ground of
exemption. Of course it was the sufferings
of those, who, if lucky, might by the
cultivation of hops get gold by the hatful, but who,
if unlucky, would lose at the same rate, which
formed the plea. But, then, the reply seemed to
be, " if hops be a gambling cultivation in :our
climate, why expose yourself to the hazard of the
loss ? You are not forced to grow hops. There is
other produce certain on the average of years to
pay fairly ; if you must have a field or two as a
kind of agricultural lottery ticket, why grumble
because Government taxes your lottery ? Govern-
ments are prone to get something by lotteries when
they allow them." Had Mr. DODSON bethought
himself of our gracefulness and beauty argu
ment, and launched it in reply to all the prose
of two Chancellors of the Exchequer, he would,
as old FULLER has it, " surely have gravelled him
therewith•"

There was indeed one BRIGHT argument—as
BRIGHT as other Brummagem wares—" Paper first,
then hops !'' There is, to be sure, the fact that paper
is a question to the revenue of £1,300,000, and hops,
at the outside, of only the odd £300,000. Yes, says
JOHN BRIGHT, but it is worth the odd million to
humble the Lnrds ; come hop-tax, come shilling
income-tax, come any tax in what shape it will—
" Paper first." Help us, says Mr. BRIGHT, to
make a great hole in the revenue, and we will
help you to make a little one ; it will look like
nothing after our exploit. Well, in conclusion,
we have a little bit of advice to offer the repeaters
of duties, whether on paper or on hops. It is this
humble and sage counsel—first earn your repeal.
England will no longer tolerate her enormous, as
well as unjust income-tax. Lessen that—get rid
of that; put your broad shoulders to Admiralty
and Dockyard Reform, and you may soon earn
enough, with advantage, not injury to our defences,
to repeal the Paper Duty and the Hop Duty, too.

His Royal Highness the Prince Consort visited
Chichester Cathedral yesterday. The Prince arrived at
Chichester from Osborne at eleven o'clock, and was met at
the station by the Duke of Richmond and the Mayor of
Chichester. Proceeding direct to the cathedral, his royal
highness was received by the Bishop of Chichester, the
Dean, and Mr. Gilbert Scott, tho architect. After having
made a minute inspection of the ruins, the Prince accom-
panied the Duke of Richmond to Molcombe, where his
royal highness partook of luncheon, returning via Chiches-
ter to Osborne at two o'clock.

The Prince Rodolph Leichtenstein has left Cla-
ridge's Hotel, for Southampton, to embark at that port for
DI adeira.

The Duchessoflnvernessentertained their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess
Mary at dinner last evening at Kensington Palace. A
select party were invited to meet their royal highnesses.

The Countess de Persigny and family left Albert
Gate House, yesterday, for Folkestone, on their way to
Paris.

Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for
assemblies on Saturdays, the 9th and 16th inst.

Lord and Lady CLurchill have left St. George's
Motel.

Lady Charles Wellesley has left Claridge's Hotel
on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, at
Burleigh House, Stamford.

The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Pierrepont have
arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Northamptonshire.

The Hon. Frederick and Mrs. Walpole have left
own on a tour in Spain.

The Right Ron. Laurence and Lady Jane Peel
have arrived at their residence in Great Stanhope-street,
from Brighton.

General Gillant has just died at Rutranges, in
the Moselle. He entered the army in 1792, on the day on
which he attained his sixteenth year, and saw much
service.

ALL SOULS.—The Archbishop of Canterbury will
deliver judgment in the All Souls College case, in the Hall,
Lambeth-palace, on Saturday next, March the 9th, at 10.30
a.m.

ESSAYS AND REVIEWS.—We learn that the
Archbishop has fixed next Wednesday, at half-past eleven,
to receive, at Lambeth, the deputation of the clergy, by
whom the Address, now in course of signature, will be pre-
sented.—Record.

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.—A perfectly successful
attempt has been made to illuminate the Courts of the
Tuileries and the Place du Carrousel by the electric light.
The illuminating power is so great that the ordinary gas
jets seem absolutely lightless. The appearance of these
localities every evening is that of an animated fair.—
Atheneun t.

The Orpheus left California for England on the
39th of January with 24,000 sacks of wheat and 6,000 half
sacks of flour; and the Flying Childers with 26,000 sacks
of wheat.

EXCISABLE A RTICLES.—In 1859 the quantity of
hops retained for home consumption was 67,143,6521b5. ; in
1860, only 10,352,5201b.—n0t a sixth of the previous year's
crop. The quantity of malt also fell off from 47,746,239
bushels in 1859, to 41,754,050 bushels in 1860. British
spirits from 23,878,688 gallons in 1859 to 21,404,088 in 1860.
The quantity of paper increased from 197,684,6871 b in 1849
to 207,182,0131 b in 1860.

MR. R. COBDEN.—Mr. Alderman Heywood has
given notice that he shall move the following resolution in
the Manchester City Council next Wednesday week :
" That this council recognises the important benefits which
have been conferred by Richard Cobden upon the great in-
terests of this city and district ; and, as the representative
of a large manufaoturing and trading population, tenders
to him this renewed public expression of its gratitude for
his eminently successful services, by which commercial in-
tercourse has been extended between the people of France
and England, and the cause of peace greatly promoted."
SETTLEMENT OF THE STRIKE AT BLACKBURN..--
BLACKBURN, Tuesday Evening.—The mills of this town,
with one or two exceptions, which are undergoing some re-
pairs, are again in operation, on the terms agreed to be-
tween the manufacturers' and the the operatives' commit..
tees. There is also a resumption taking place throughout
the district on the same terms, and it is anticipated that in
a day or two all the operatives now unemployed will have
returned to their looms. If this be not the case prior to the
14th inst. the manufacturers who signed the document to
close their establishments on that day unless this condition
were complied with will positively do so, and thereby throw
out of employment about 16,000 or 17,000 operatives. It
is to be hoped the weavers will not bring the severe crisis
that would inevitably follow such a result upon themselves.
COAST DEFENCES.—Ground to the extent of
I between six and seven acres has been selected and staked
out by the Government on the South Denes, Great Yar-
mouth, adjoining the haven,7for the purpose of erecting. a
fort for the protection of the harbour and reads. The

works will be very important, and will cost, it is estimated,
from £16,000 to £20,000 ; the batteries will be casemated,
and heavily mounted with Armstrong guns, and the forti-
fications will, in every respect, be the most considerable on
this part of the coast. Close to the site of the proposed
fort is the South Battery, in the hands of the Artillery
Volunteers. The guns of both will command St. Nicho-
las's Gat, one of the entrances to the roads ; and it is ex-
pected that a similar fort or battery will be erected on the
north of the town, where a sandheap dignified with the
name of battery until lately stood,: so as to command the
other entrance, the Cockle Gat.
THE YELVERTON CASE.—It will be seen by re-
ference to the Parliamentary notices for this day that
Major Gavin will ask the Under-Secretary of State for War,
"whether his attention has been called to the case of

Thelwall v. Yelverton; and whether the name of Major
Yelverton is to be retained in her Majesty's Army List."
The London correspondent of the Dublin Evening Post
writes .—" I have heard that the resignation by Major Yel-
verton of his commission as captain in the Royal Artillery,
forwarded from Dublin on Friday last, has been received at
the Horse Guards. Further, I have learned that General
Sir George Brown, commander of the Forces in Ireland,
had received orders from the Horse Guards carefully to
watch the proceedings in the Yelverton trial in the Court
of Common Pleas." The Scotsman says :—" An action is,
we believe, still in dependence before the Court of Session,
having for its object to establish the validity of the alleged
Scotch marriage of Major Yelverton with Miss Longwerth.
The action has been allowed to sleep by a sort of consent
of both parties till the result of the action in the Irish Court
of Common Pleas, indirectly involving the same point,
should have been concluded ; but is now likely to resume
its progress."
SHOCKING MURDER NEAR WISBECH.—A shock-
ing tragedy occurred on Saturday last, about eight o'clock
in the evening, at the small village of Parsondrove, seven
miles from Wisbech. A Mr. Augustus Hilton, occupying
a small farm there, drove his wife to Wisbech Mart, dining
together, and leaving for home between six and seven
o'clock, the husband being at the time the worse of liquor.
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said she would leave him and go to his
father's. She then loft the table where the tea was
ready, and went upstairs. Her husband followed her
and cut her throat, nearly severing the head from
the body, and causing instant death. He then drove
to his father's, a respectable farmer at Gedney,
Hill, about three miles distance, and told them that he had
had as good a wife as ever walked, but he had cut her
throat. In a few minutes he was in the hands of the
police, and was instantly conveyed to Wisbech gaol. On
Monday morning he was privately taken before a magis-
trate, and remanded until the next day to await the deci-
sion of the coroner's inquest. The inquest was opened on
the same morning, and adjourned till to-morrow (Friday).
On the following morning the prisoner was again brought
before the magistrates, and was fully committed for trial on
the charge of wilful murder. The friends of both mur-
derer and victim are very respectable, the murdered woman
being an only daughter, and within six weeks of her con-
finement. Her father is a railway contractor.

CONVERSION OF THE THAMES TUNNEL INTO A
RAILWAY.—Tho annual court of the Thames Tunnel Com-
pany was held on Tuesday at Radley's Hotel, Blackfriars,
Mr. Wollaston in the chair. Mr. Mason, the secretary, read
the report, which stated that the balance in hand on 31st of
December last was£7B9l2a. 3d., the tolls amounting to £4,052
10s. 2d., the rents from stalls to £399 17s. 6d., the rents from
heinses to £515 6s. 6d., and the amount received from guide
books £7 35., making the total receipts £5,755 N. sd. The
expenditure for machinery, salaries, &c., was £343 7s.
Ild., and, after payment of £1,578 12s. 6d. to the com-
missioners of loans, there remained a balance of £744 98.
The report having been adopted, the chairman said, with
reference to the state of the company generally, there had
been an increase in the receipts during the year of £2OO
There was no particular cause to account for that increase ;
it arose principally from the general increase of traffic.
The expenses during the year being rather less, they had
been enabled to pay to the Government an increased sum of
£•00. At the last meeting he had informed them that they
had entered a provisional agreement for the sale of the
tunnel to a railway company. The amount promised by
the promoters of the railway was a large amount, but
not sufficient to pay the Government. He had pur-
posely withheld the amount offered, as he thought it
might affect the interests of the company. The promoters
came before Parliament with their scheme, but expe-
rienced a very strong opposition, which made the promo-
ters feel that they had no hope of getting the bill passed
through. Th• agreement of the company with the pro-
moters was for two sessions, and during the present session
they had not brought it in, although the company had
often asked the reason, but had received no answer. The
directors had been in communication with the Government
with respect to the scheme. Ile was not justified in telling
them the nature of those negotiations, as they had to feel
their way wilh the Government ; but he could say that the
Government had not bound themselves in any way. The
company was now open to an agreement with other parties
for the sale of the tunnel. It was probable that the tunnel
would ultimately be converted into a railway. The retiring
directors were re-elected, and the meeting separated with a
vote of thank' to the chairman.

LArIEST NEWS.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING.
The Moniteur of this morning announces that
Duke Tascher de la Pagerie and Gen. Montauban
have been appointed senators.
The Moniteur also contains decrees appointing
several vice-admirals, rear•admirals, and other
high naval functionaries.

VIENNA, THURSDAY.

An imperial autograph letter sanctions the as-
sembling of a Servian National Congress in Kar-
lowitz, under the Presidency of the Patriarch
Rajacie, before the opening of the Hungarian Diet.
The Congress is to be composed of Servian deputies
only.

POSEN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

Prince Gortschakoff has appointed a delegation
of 24 citizens of Warsaw, eight of whom are alter-
nately to sit at the Town-hall for the purpose of
arranging measures for the maintenance of public
order.

This appointment has produced a satisfactory
impression, and it is hoped that order will not
again be disturbed.

The revolutionary party is small, the people
being convinced that any rising, not supported by
foreign intervention, would have no result.

The garrison of Warsaw is being nightly in-
creased by other troops,

BERLIN, MAnCTI 7.

According to reliable information Prussia has,
in the conference on the affairs of Syria, proposed
a compromise tending to the prolongation of the
French occupation until June.

PARIS, MARCH s (Evening).

In to-day's sitting of the Senate, the committee
appointed to examine the draft address proposed
the following amendment, which was agreed to :

" We remember the deeds of our friends of Sol-
ferin3 and Magenta, and it is therefore our duty to
take them into consideration,"

The amendment in favour of the temporal power
of the Pope was then discussed.
Senator Casablanca, in the name of the majority
of the committee, opposed the amendment, and
requested the members to have confidence in the
Government of the Emperor. He maintained that
neither the committee nor the Government dreamt
of abandoning the chief of the Catholic Church.
Senator Bourqueney and the Duke of Padna
supported the amendment.
Senator Barthe likewise defended the amend-
ment, and reproached Piedmont for having fol-
lowed the advice of England and despised the
counsels of France.

M. Baroche opposed the amendment, considering
the draft address was quite sufficient. He main-
tained that there was nothing to indicate any in-
tention on the part of the Government of withdraw-
ing the French troops from Rome ; on the contrary,
everything tended to show that they would remain
there.

The amendment was then rejected by 79 against
61 votes.

The further discussion of the address was ad-
journed until to-morrow.

THE HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
ITZEHOE, MARCH 6.
The Estates have been opened to-day.

M. Plessen has been elected President.
Government submitted a communication con-
.cerning the project of the Constitution of 1859, and
also a project of law relating to the provisional
position of Holstein.

The following are among the royal proposals
submitted to the Estates of Holstein :

" The project of a Constitution to be valid for
the whole monarchy.
" The establishment of two Legislative Cham-
bers ; the Upper Chamber to be composed of ZO
members appointed for life.
" A distinct position for the army of Holstein.
" Holstein to contribute two millions towards
the expenses of the State."

COPENHAGEN, MARCH 6.

Government, besides making proposals respect-
ing the common Constitution and provisional
arrangements, offers to Holstein a revised special
Constitution for interior affairs, with a responsible
Minister, independence of judges, freedom of press
and of association, habeas corpus, religious liberty,
financial competency for the Estates, and inviola-
bility of its members.

MADRID, MARCH 5.

In to-day's sitting of the Senate Government
announced that they had resolved upon stationing
cruisers on the coast of Africa.

These cruisers would be authorised to visit Spa-
nish and English vessels, in order to prevent the
slave traffic.

The Ministry seized the opportunity to again
repel the accusations of Lord Palmerston in regard
to the slave trade, which accusations they stigmatise