The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, 1110.NDA Y EVENING. MAY 13, 18614

711. E NAPY.

The names of the several steamships ordered to
be constructed at Chatham are the Boadicea, 51 ;
the Achilles, 40, iron war steamer; the Ganymede,
22; the Falmouth, 22 ; the Weymouth, 22 ; the
Diligence, 17; the Tees, 17; the Albatros, 4 ; and
the Salamis, 4.

Admiralty orders were on Saturday received at
Chatham directing the Royal Oak, 91, and the Bul-
wark, 91, in progress at that establishment, to be
suspended building until further orders, and the
shipwrights were accordingly withdrawn from those
vessels.

It was stated at Chatham on Saturday that. with
the exception of the screw corvette Rattlesnake, 22,
400 horse power, no other vessel would be launched
from that dockyard during the present year, the
Admiralty being desirous that all the available
force of the establishment 'should be employed on
the Achilles, 40, in order that no time might be lost
in completing that war steamer.
The Cyclops, 6, paddlewheel steamer, Capt. W.
S. S. Pullen, is being stripped at Sheerness, and
will be paid off on Saturday next.

The Duke of Somerset has appointee Mr. Chas.
Eastlake, who for 30 years has filled the office of
Officiating Judge-Advocate at Devonporf, to the of-
fice of Deputy-Judge-Advocate at Portsmouth, va-
cant by the death of the late Mr. W. J. Hellyar, at
Portsea. His Grace has also appointed Mr. Ed-
ward Hoskins, of Gosport, as officiating Judge-
Advocate at Portsmouth.

The Rinaldo, 17, screw, Commander Hewett,
V. C., was placed in dock at Portsmouth on SaturdaY.
This vessel is so much by the head that considerable
alteration ought to be made in the disposition of
her weights before she proceeds to sea.
The Marlborough's intended docking at Ports-
mouth on Saturday was again put off, owing to the
roughness of the weather.

The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. H. Caldwell, C. 8.,
left Portsmouth yesterday, under steam, for the
North American and West India station, proceeding
out of Spithead by the Eastern passage.
The Avon, paddle steamer, arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday in tow of the Echo steamtug, having
floated off the Shingle Shoal, near the Needles, the
previous night's tide. The amount of damage she
may have received will not be ascertained until she
has been placed in dock and examined. The Icarus,
11, screw, Commander Nowell Salmon, V.C., and
the Flying Fish, 6, screw, Commander C. W. Hope,
have both returned to Spithead from their attend-
ance upon the Avon.

The artisans in the Keyham steamyard are busily
occupied in repairing the rivets, &c., of the screw
steam troopship Himalaya, in No. 3 dock. Her
bottom has been paid with composition.
The paddlewheel steamsloop Geyser, 6, Comman-
der G. M. Jackson, will be out of the hands of the
shipwrights at Devonport about the 16th inst.
The screw steamship Revenge, 91, Capt. C. Fel-
lowes, flag of Rear-Admiral Robert Smart, LH., at
Devonport, will be finished by the shipwrights
about the Ist June.

The gunboat Speedy was removed on Saturday
from the basin into the lock of Keyham Steamyard,
ready for removal to-day (Monday) into Hamoaze,
for a trial of her machinery, before being placed in
the first division of the steam ordinary at Plymouth.
The paddlewheel steam tender Advice, M. Ray-
mond, second master, commanding, was towed on
Saturday from her moorings to the hulk Bellona,
in Hamoaze, to be in readiness for occupying No. 4
dock in the Devonport yard, which will be vacated
to-day by the steamtug Pike.
The screw steamship Cressy, 80, Capt. Harvey,
recently returned from the Mediterranean, got up
steam on Thursday in Plymouth Sound, and in the
evening left for Sheerness, where her crew will be
paid off. She will be placed in the third division
of the steam ordinary.
The Daedalus, 20, at Devonport, was removed on
Friday from the hulk Bellona, and placed along-
side the dockyard to be rigged by the riggers of
that establishment.

The lighter Rochester, E. Heather master, from
Pembroke, arrived at Plymouth on Friday, when
she was towed into Hamoaze and placed alongside
rho Royal William Victualling-yard to unload.
We learn from Glasgow that Messrs. Randolph,
Elder, and Co., of Govan, have received orders to
construct a pair of their double-cylinder engines
for the Constance frigate. The engines will be of
500 orse-pOwer.

Her Majesty's paddle sloop Driver on Saturday
sbipped her 100-pounder Armstrong gun, to
re-
place the old 68-pounder pivot gun, and took in the
remainder of her sea stock. She is now awaiting
her sailing orders off Woolwich dockyard, and,
having been inspected by the Commodore !Super-
intendent, the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C.8.,A.D.c.
to her Majesty, is pronounced in admirable trim,
and exceedingly well manned, both in -officers and
men.

The iron paddlewheel steam vessel Antelope, in
basin at Woolwich, was on Saturday ordered to be
brought forward with despatch for the first-class
steam reserve at that port, to replace the Driver,
ordered for service in the Atlantic ; the screw
steamsloop Rapid, 11 guns, to replace the Antelope
in the second class. The Spitfire, lately from the
West Coast of Africa, now in dock at Woolwich, is
likewise ordered to be completed as speedily as pos-
sible for commission.

The progress of fitment for experiments on board
the floating battery Trusty, at Woolwich, having
been delayedby the severe indisposition of Captain
Coles, the work is again proceeded with ; and, as
the basement and main portions of the shield in the
course of erection to protect the guns from the ene-
my's fire are attached to the lower deck, it has been
decided after a careful investigation that the rotten
state of the upper timbers will in no way unfit the
Trusty from being appropriated to the purpose for
which she was originally intended.
The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, tender to the
flag-ship Fisgard, at Woolwich, Mr. J. Petley master
commanding, is under orders to hold in readiness
to proceed on special service to Ostend, it is
under-
stood, to convey his Grand Ducal Highness Prince
Louis of Hesse Darmstadt on a visit to the Court.

The Diadem, 32, screw, Capt. Cockburn, arrived
at Spithead yesterday at 7 a.m. from Alderney,
with the remaining portion of the 30th Regiment,
comprising Brevet-Major F. J. Atcherley, Capts.
C. J. Moorsom and H. C. Singleton ; Dents. J.
Fleming, R. 0. Campbell, and H. F. More ward;
Ensigns 0. H. Garnett and J. Thorn, 14 sergeants,
5 drummers, 15 corporals, 271 privates, 51 women,
and 46 children. The Diadem will go into Ports-
mouth harbour to-day at high water and land the
troops, when they will be forwarded by specidl
train on the South-Western Railway for Farn-
borough, to join headquarters at Aldershott. The
Diadem sailed from Portsmouth, with a wing of the
55th Regiment on board, for Alderney at a late
hour on Thursday evening, the following morning,
in consequence of its blowing a hard gale from the
north east, she anchored for shelter under the
French land in Vauville Bay, whenco a special
messenger was despatched with a telegraphic mes-
sage to Vice-Admiral Bruce, the Commander-in-
Chief at Portsmouth. The gale having abated, the
Diadem left Vauville Bay at 8 a.m. on SatUrday,
arriving at Alderney by 10 30 a.m., when prepara-
tions were immediately made for embarking the
troops, which was accomplished during the after-
noon, tlle frigate leaving Alderney at 8 30 p.m., and
arriving at Spithead at the time stated above.
The iron screw steam troopship Megtora, 6, Com-
mander S. H. Henderson, from Gibraltar May 4,
arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morning,
end went shortly afterwards up Hamoaze for the
purpose
She has on board 347
non-commissioned
children, and four horses belonging to the sth
officerst troops.
and men, 23 women, 41
Brigade of Royal Artillery, under the command of
Col. nutthlorth) 4114 ill medicalcharge of M M.-
ose
o landing

Surg. William Fletcher. The officers are Capts.
Blosse, Greville, and Price ; Lieuts. Trench, Bond,
Hamilton, Prior, and Warry ; and Captain and
Adjutant Collington. Besides the troops the Me-
gwra brought Mrs. Shuttleworth, Mrs. Collington,
Capt. Tupper, Bth Regiment ; Lieuts. Wollsley
and Protheroe, of the 6th ; the Rev. C. Moore,
chaplain to the forces at Gibraltar, and family ;
Mrs. Martelli and family, wife of the Military
Storekeeper at Gibraltar ; two Sappers and Miners ;
.one private, 100th Regiment; fuur discharged pri-
vates, 25th, and one woman of the 7th. She left
at Gibraltar the screw steam brig Ariadne, 24,
Capt. Edward W. Vansittart, and the gunboats
Procris and Cockatrice, on duty in the Bay. The
Argus, from Madeira, arrived at Gibraltar with
mails too late for the homeward-bound packet, and
therefore left for Cadiz on the 4th of May.

VACANCIES,. APPOINTMENTS. 4.0

- THE CIVIL SERVICE.—.War-office.—Mr. C. T.
Fearon has been appointed conveyancing clerk in
the Solicitor's-office, London ; Deputy-Assistant
Commissary-General L. W. Blacker (Commissariat
Department) has been promoted to be Assistant-
Commissary-General, vice T, F. Moore, placed upon
half-pay. Home-office—Mr. J. K. Thornton has
been appointed a clerk in the Census-office, London,
and passed his examination; Mr. W. Lane has been
appointed a clerk in the Census-office, London, and
passed his examination; Mr. W. A. Andoe has
been appointed a clerk in the Census-office, London,
and passed his examination. Public Record-office—
An assistant-keepership in the Public Record-office
has become vacant by the death of Mr. J. Hunter,
first-class assistant-keeper. British Museum—Mr.
J. T. Taylor has been appointed an assistant in the
principal librarian's office, and passed his exami-
nation ; Mr. F. Mooney has been appointed an
attendant, and passed his examination. The Ad-
miralty.—Mr. Henry Hinde has been appointed a
clerk in Somerset-house, and passed his examina-
tion ; Mr. John Conroy Hutcheson has been ap-
pointed a clerk in Somerset-house, and passed his
examination ; Mr. S, Walters has been appointed
first class inspector a shipwrights, Devonport
Dockyard, vice Lumpen, superannuated. Customs.
—Mr. Richard Allerton, first class clerk in the East
and West India Docks, has been promoted to be
principal clerk ; Mr. William Warburton, second
class clerk in the East-and West India Docks, has
been promoted to be first class clerk ; Mr. Richard
Partridge, third class clerk in the East and West
India Docks, has been promoted to be second class
clerk ; Mr. Francis Molony, fourth class clerk in
the East and West India Docks, has been promoted
to be third class clerk ; Mr. Joseph W. Culling,
fifth class clerk in tree East and Wrest India Docks,
has been promoted to be fourth class clerk.
Inland Revenue Department.—Stamps and Taxes
Branch.—Mr. M. Kelly, surveyor of taxes, has been
promoted from Norwich second district to Mon-
mouth district; Mr. E. Borkaardt, supernumerary
surveyor, has been promoted to be a surveyor, and
appointed to Norwich second district; Mr. IV. H.
Last, second class supernumerary surveyor, has
been promoted to the first class. Excise Branch.
—Mr. J. Dockeray, supervisor of Sheffield second
district, Sheffield collection, has been appointed to
Wakefield first district, Leeds collection; Mr. E. J.
Lanyon, officer of Millbank first division, London
south collection, has been appointed to Dartmouth
division, Plymouth collection ; Mr. John Davy, offi-
cer of Dartmouth division, Plymouth collection, has
been appointed to Millbank first division, London
south collection. East Indies—Mr. G. C. Barnes,
C. 8., has been appointed to officiate as secretary to
the Government of India in the Foreign Depart-
ment; Mr. S. G. Wyatt has been appointed to offi-
ciate as first assistant to the Auditor-General for
India, and secretary to the Board of Audit ; Mr. H.
Hudson has been appointed to officiate as fourth
assistant to the Auditor-General for India ; Mr. H.
Woodrow, inspector of schools for South Bengal,
has been appointed to officiate also as an inspector
of schools for South-west Bengal; the Hon. H. B.
Devereux has been appointed a magistrate and
collector of the first grade in Patna, but to cons
tinue to officiate as Junior Secretary to the Board
of Revenue • Mr. G. A. C. Plowden has been ap-
pointed to officiate as commissioner of revenue and
circuit of the Burdwan division ; Mr. E. E. Lowis
has been appointed to officiate as joint magistrate
and deputy-collector of Moorshedabad ; Mr. A. R.
Gordon has been appointed a deputy-collector of
the first grade, and posted. to the district of
Allahabad, and placed in charge of the Treasury
at that station, vice Mr. P. B. Reid, retired on a
good service pension ; Mr. S. M. Moens, 8.A.,
assistant-magistrate and collector of Bareilly, has
been appointed to officiate as assistant-secretary to
Government North-west Provinces. The undermen-
tioned officers have been appointed to officiate as
joint magistrates and deputy-collectors :—Messrs.
K. A. Harrison, assistant to the magistrate and
collector of Azimghur ; J. Cco Colvin, assistant to
the magistrate and collector of Moradabad ; A. C.
Syall, assistant to the magistrate and collector of
Bareilly ; C. W. Moore, assistant to the magis-
trate and collector of Ghazepore ; P. Wigram,
assistant to the magistrate and collector of
Humeerpore ; W. Oldham, assistant to the
magistrate and collector of Banda ; C. Rabin-
son, assistant to the magistrate and collector of
Furruckabad ; J. Sladen, assistant to the magis-
trate and collector of Moradabad ; and C. H.
Crossthwaite, assistant to the magistrate and col-
actor of Bartill, Mr. J Clarke, deputy-collector
of Bareilly, has been transferred to Morada-
bad, as deputy-collector, and placed in charge
of the treasury of that district. Captain
H. P. Babbage assistant eommisionner, has been
transferred from the Rawal Pindee to Pind Dadun
Khan, in the Jhelum district ; Mr. W. B. Jones,
assistant-commissioner, has been transferred from
the Goojranwalla to the Rawul Pindee district,
and posted to Attock ; Gen. H. C. Van Cortlandt,
C. 8., deputy commissioner of Hissar, has been de-
puted on special duty to Cashmere; Mr. J. D. Sim
has been appointed Secretary to Government in the
Revenue and Public Works Department, Madras ;
Mr, W. Hudlestone has been appointed secretary
to the Board of Revenue, Madras; Mr. G. Vans
Agnew has been appointed sub-collector and joint
magistrate of Tinnevelly ; Mr. J. A. Baumbach has
been appointed director of the Government savings-
bank, Bombay, in the room of Mr. M. C. Wilkin-
son, resigned,—Civil Service Gazette.

THE MYsTERIOUS POISONING CASE

AT HOXTON.

On Saturday afternoon Mr. John Humphreys,
the coroner for East Middlesex, resumed the ad-
journed inquiry, for the fourth time, at the Brid-
port Arms publichouse, Bridport-place, New North-
road,. Houton, respecting the death of Mary Ann
Harker, aged 17, and her female infant, who died
from the effects of poison under the following
mysterious circumstances
:
It will be remembered that the deceased was a
single woman, residing with her aunt at No. 118,
Bridport place. She had been keeping company
with a young man named Woodman, the son of a
tradesman living in the Kingsland-road. Woodman
had been paying his addresses to her, and had pro-
mised to marry her. In March last he was invited
to tea at the deceased's residence, and reached there
about five o'clock in the afternoon, when deceased
was quite well and cheerful. They remained toge-
ther for some hours, when the deceased was seized
with alarming illness and violent vomiting. The
aunt was called, and when the deceased was about
to retire to bed the young man (Woodman) left the
house. The deceased c-mtinued- to get worse, when
a medical gentleman was called in, who pronounced
the deceased to be suffering under the effects of
some powerful irritant. Antidotes were adtninif,
tered, but the deceased became unconscious, and
expired on the following morning. Shortly after
death the deceased was delivered of a dead
child. The r gam was searched, but nothing
of a deleterious character could be found. The
vomit had been thrown away by her aunt, but
the coroner ordered a post mortem examination of
the body, when the medical gentleman secured the
contents of the stomach and intestines, which were
sent to Dr. Letheby, of the London Hospital, tor
analysis. After a very searcl.ing and minute
microscopic test for various mineral and vegetable
poisons, he discovered traces of mercury and sul-
phate of zinc. The stomach and intestines exhi-
bited unusually red patches of irritation of the in-
ternal surfaces, indicating the recent presence of
some powerful irritant, which had been thrown up
by frequent vomiting. He was of opinion that the
deceased had died from the effects of poison taken
into the stomach.

Mr. Baker, 111 r. Atkins, and other medical gen-
tlemen were examined by the coroner, and cross-
questioned by the solicitor and jury, and they agreed
with the opinion expressed by Dr. Letheby.
On the previous inquiry the young man, Wood-
man, was present, and, after being cautioned by the
coroner, said that he knew the deceased was en-
ceinte, and he acknowledged that he had seduced
her. Ho had promised to marry the deceased ; and.
is reply to Mr. Beard, he said that if a report had
been circulated round the neighbourhood to the
effect that he had seduced five girls, it was untrue.
The coroner said they had exhausted all the tes-
timony that could be obtained in the case, which
was fraught with great suspicion and he would
further adjourn the inquiry if there was any chance
of getting additional evidence to unravel the
mystery which surrounded the death, or the inves-
tigation could be closed with an open opinion of the
jury.
After some further discussion, the jury returned
the following verdict :—" That the deceased died
from the effects of a certain poison ; and the jurors
do further say under what circumstances the said,
poison was taken they had no evidence to prove.
The proceedings, which excited unusual interet,
were then terminated, but will be again resumed
if any further teAiru9n7 ;should be pbtaiod•

PRICE 4D*, STAMPED, SD.

THE 4lUE111( AN CRISIS.

A public Meeting was held in Edinburgh on
Thursday evening for the purpose of hearing an
address from the Rev. Dr. Cheever, the Abolitionist
preacher on slavery, with reference to the present
crisis. The chair was occupied by Dr. Guthrie,
who in the course of a lengthened address said,
I heard yesterday a circumstance that illustrates
the state of matters in America. There is an
episcopal clergyman in New York, or in one of
the largest towns of America, who has four sons.
Two of them aro in the South, in the ranks of
the Southerners. His other two sons—his Joseph
and Benjamin—armed to the teeth, are off to
fight the Southerners ; and perchance these brothers
may meet foot to foot and sword to sword in that
shocking battle. Think of the state of that
father. Whom is he to pray for ? For which
side is he to ask the victory ? A bullet from a
brother's rifle strikes a brother's heart. Which-
ever side may gain, that father loses. A civil
war is, of all calamities that can befall a country,
the most dreadful; and what aggravates the state
of matters in America is this—the wretched cause
of this war and the terrible spirit of vengeance
which men are carrying into it. How does the
haughty pride of both parties flare out, glare out,
in the answer given by President Lincoln's secre-
tary to a letter sent by the Governor of Mary-
land, who, deprecating this dreadful bloodshed,
and anxious for a peaceful settlement, proposes
to the President of the United States that the
matter should be referred to our Ambassador,
Lord Lyons, and that he should be asked to
arbitrate. between the contending parties—a most
Christianlike proposal ! How is it received ? Re-
sented, and resented with: a fling at Monarchy.
The President's secretary writes back and asks how
any man could propose that the matter should be
referred to the arbitrament of a European
Monarchy ! Monarchy ! What is the Moilartby
to which the Governor proposes to refer ? Un-
questionably it is not the Monarchy of Russia, not
the Monarchy of King Bomba, or King Bomba's
son—(laughter)—it is the Monarchy of their own
mother, and surely it is a mother's part to step in
between her sons, when, knife in hand, they are
about to plunge them into each other's breasts. A
European Monarchy, forsooth! I am very much
mistaken, if many in the United States at this
moment would not be glad to be in a European
Monarchy, and if they would not be thankful for
the motherly patronage of our good Queen Vic-
toria. lam very much mistaken if they would not
be thankful to be under a Monarchy where there
is a Sovereign, but no slave—where every honest
man can sell his work to, the highest bidder, and
go to work when he likes—ay, and strike when he
likes—where we have markets for the sale of
cattle, but not of men or women. Monarchy, for-
sooth ! I must say to my friend, Dr. Cheever,
that the pride of his people seems to be unex-
tinguishable—sneering at a Monarchy when their
own Republic, like an old house, is tumbling down
about their ears, slavery being the dry rot, the
untempered mortar, that is fatal to the whole
building." He concluded by expressing the hope
that the time woald soon come when the signs of
true repentance would be shown by the people of
America, when in their solemn fast they would
" undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go
free," when they would join in saying, like Joseph's
brethren, " We have been verily guilty concerning
our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his
soul when he besought us, and we would not hear;
therefore is this distress come upon us."

7R-E TvAGEe QUESTION IN LANCA-

SHIRE.

COLLIERS' STRIKE.—Great uneasiness is at pre-
sent manifesting itself among the coal miners in
the neighbourhood of Ashton, owing to the dis-
putes at present existing between them and their
employers. Yesterday morning, the miners em-
ployed at Limehurst Colliery, near Ashton, refused
to go to work, in consequence of their masters
offering a reduction of one penny in the shilling.
ASIITON.—It is in contemplation by several of
the millowners in the Ashton district to commence
working short time. Whether it will become
general or not, remains yet to be ascertained
Messrs. Leech and Co., Bardsley Mills, near Ash-
ton, have given notice to their workpeople that
they will begin to run four days a week after the
present week. We learn that Water-street Mill,
Staleybridge, is stopped for a month.
BOLTON.—A deputation from the self-acting-
minders of the Bolton district, now on strike
against the proposed reduction of five per cent.,
had an interview, yesterday, with a deputation of
masters from the Cotton Spinners' Association. The
deputation from the men produced a new list of
prices, which they said was calculated on the prin-
ciple of a five per cent. reduction; but the masters,
on examining the list, found that on many of the
sorts the prices, so far from being five per cent less,
were actually higher than the amount now paid. It
appeared that No. 50's was taken as the basis of
calculation, and that as they advanced above that
number or fell below it, the prices varied, the old
list being arranged on a different principle. The
masters, therefore, objected to the list; and the depu-
tation from the men then proposed that hands should
resume work at a reduction of 21 per cent., and
continue at that rate until a more satisfactory
list could be prepared, and agreed to by both par-
ties. The masters replied that the-Association had
resolved upon a reduction of five per cent., and that
if the men returned to work at a reduction of only
21 per cent. the probable result would be' he delay
or rejection of a new list, based on a reduction of
five per cent. The proper course, in their opinion,
would be for the self-acting minders to resume work
at the proposed reduction, and then agree utpaotn:
list satisfactory to both parties. The deputation
u io
t
from the operatives said they were not
terminated,to negotia leaving h
negotiate upon theset ed
iapo
terms,t
ethe t m
and
same
e au
in thorised
to
interviewposition
as before.
COLNE.—As we have before stated, the strike
terminated last Wednesday week, and since
that time a considerable number of operatives
have resumed work. There will be from 250
to 280 weavers and tenters who will have
to seek employment elsewhere, as the total
number of hands imported during the forty-nine
weeks which the strike has lasted is 233. It seems
that there are at present employed in the mills at
which the weavers struck work last May about 775
weavers with their proportion of tenters, twisters,
beamers, and drawers-in ; and that out of 3,845
looms contained in the same mills, there were, yes-
terday, about 2,240 running, the rest being let to
weavers and in course of preparation for work ; but
it will be from a fortnight to three weeks before
the whole can be got into full operation, although
some will be re-commenced every day. A few
words as to the cost of the strike may not be out of
place on this occasion. It is estimated that from
£30,000 to £32,000 have been paid in contributions
by the operatives in work for the support of the
turn-outs, who have sacrificed in the way of wages
from £60,000 to £6s.ooo—making an aggregate
loss to the operatives of about £95,000. The
masters' loss must also have been very-
great. In reference to the charge of cruelty, men-
tioned in the Strike Report for this week,
we have the' authority of the various masters to
state that they have engaged weavers indiscri-
minately for the vacant looms since the' strike
ended, giving them to all who applied, in the order
of their application, and that they have treated all
with the greatest courtesy and consideration.

we are re"
tions made
THE PROBATE COURT.—Every year
minded of the extravagant grant of conWohnesart
when the Probate Court was reformed, bYe',vononth. ln
of a list of the annuities paid during thectews, ' blication
they amounted
1860, after buying up 268 small allowances,
registrars receive
to £115,987. Some of the proetforrosto
° Robert Moore 47,990 a
their labours, one re-
agbisotvraerialt,ooovoa a33:eoaoro,foarncdeasinfi
, othrpensation, which we believe is
from td"%be work done by this rev gentle-
manotof
nearly
iilno
,000 London,a year,ttn danodf thethe
granted,
stupendous. The salaries and ex.
should have tyheeariargjeustdgevinerg
penses of th.:try,
London reg,
for the Courts of Probate in London and
entire ollarg° .
these compensations)
min (including
al:rico:Litt
reached £180,144
pu"-- 1860. The fees ho year es
ix, t received in those courts
amounted to £61,903, leaving a deficiency„mon of £118,241 it
seems that this may be reduced by the fees in the country
district registries exceeding the salaries
the deficiency appears to be
still Ant £lOO,OOO a year, to
In pia frog the publio Pune,

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A series of despatehes, &c,, occupying p
o .;,;es, respecting the above case, were isidd£l s
on Friday. On the Sth of October, last year, Try.
w. Irvine, her M»jesty's charge d'afft.ires at
Waslaington.transmit ted to the Foreign-office a note
from Gen. Cass, requesting h,r M.Jest3 Govern-
ment to issue a warrant " to deliver up the person
of a man of colour named John Anderson, who h is
been charged with the commission of murder in the
State of Missouri, and who has fled to Canada. and
has now been arrested and confined in the jail of the
town of Brantford." Our foreign Minister at once
directed the necessary steps to be taken for comply-
ing with this application, "should there be no ob-
jection thereto." Before January in the present year
the whole facts of the case had become known
through the legal proceedings at Toronto; and the
Duke of Newcastle sent immediate notice to the
officer administering the Government of Canada,
that the extradition could only take place by a
warrant under the hand and seal of the Governor,
and that in any case he was to abstain from com-
pleting the extradition until her Majesty's Govern-
ment had had further opportunity of considering
theiennttithe
question,ee Government.o i
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present is, and it is,
by the Court of Queen's Bench in _England the
Duke of Newcastle writes to "the officer adminis-
teringt go government r
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therefore, possible thatyou may not be called on to
take any action in the matter. But in the event of
your being called upon to do so, I think it advisable
to instruct you that you are at liberty to follow
such advice as you may receive from your law ad-
visers after full consultation with them.
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Lord Lyons, writing to Lord J. Russell from
Washington en the Bth ult., says, "When I de-
spatched the requisition for the surrender to Canada
I was not aware that John Anderson had been a
slave, or that there were any peculiar • I•eumstances
in the case. If, however, I had been aware of all
the facts, I could not, of course, have done other-
wise than forward the requisition to be dealt with
by the proper authorities in Canada."
Meanwhile the , isoner had been liberated "on the
ground," writes Lieut.-General Sir W. Williams,
"of a technical infovmality in the earlier stages of
the process before the committing magistrate."
The following despatch from Mr. Dallas, late
American Miniister,in London, to a member of his
..own?.Gavernment, is the only other docuntent of
general interest
Legation of the United States,
London, Jan. 16, 1861.
" Sir,—Since the acknowledgment made in my
note of bhe 20th December last, of No. 291, I have
had the honour. to receive from the department the
despatches numbered 292, 293, 291, and 295. The
claim made by the United Stets upon the Govern-
ment of Canada for the extradition of one -- An-
derson, a fugitive slave, charged with the crime of
murder, committed in Missouri, has awakened, as of
course, so much interest in this country, and has in-
voked so much professional astuteness to defeat the
operation of the 10th Article of the Treaty of 1845,
that I have thought it expedient to place in the pea-.
session of the department the annexed papers relat-
ing to that subject. It is scarcely necessary for me
to remark on the pungent and uncompromising
hostility to social bondage which prevails through-
out thii country ; that, as it has already led to giv-
ing by statute to the American slave who deserts his
ship a discriminating immunity over the freemen,
so it cannot be expected to shrink from another ma-
nifestation in the interpretation of an international
convention for the mutual surrender of culprits. In
truth, it may be said generally, that in British
opinion the status of slavery incapacitates the indi •
vidual for contract or crime. You will notice that
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, of the Queen's Bench
has with surprising celerity' allowed a writ of
habeas corpus, addressed to the jailer in Canada, to
issue; and that Anderson will thereupon be brought
here, notwithstanding the very full and deliberate
decision of the Colonial Court of Queen's Bench,
ordering him to be delivered up. The learned
judge appears to have stated, among the reasons
for his decision, that the case affects
the construction of a treaty which is
matter of imperial concern.' It may perhaps be
thought expedient that on the argument of the
question, the interpretation given by our Govern-
ment should, in some form, be distinctly commu-
nicated. I beg to add that, to avoid delay, the
ample report of the shorthand writers is forwarded
without having been first copied in this legation.—
I have, &c., (Signed) "G. M. DALLAS.
" Hon. S. J. Black, Secretary of State,"