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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1857

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.
WILSON'S 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 last year, but already the indefa-
tigable Sir THOMAS has a new- public bill to re-
peal that well-considered provision, and for this
he, yesterday, succeeded in obta;ning 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 every hope 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 nopul.‘lic
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 E WS.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

(BY BRITISH AND IRISH MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

KILLARNEY, THURSDAY, 11.15 A. 31.

Last night the shore eud 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 Gazette de Vienne, in its evening edition,
st.itei that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe is recalled
to Loudon en conge. Direct intelligence from Con-
stantinople has been received to the effect that,
und,r present circumstances, Lord de Redoliffe
will not quit his post at the Porte.

Cleveland and Pllt,burg, 1. La Crosse and Mil-
waukie ft ll uff per cent. from the hig'.est point of
the last board ; Galena and Chicago, Sterling
Exchange closed firm at 91- to 91 p=r cent. prem.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 24.

Stocks heavy. Pennsylvania State, si, 85 ;
Reading Railroad, 301 ; Long Island Railroad, 12;
Morris Canal, 52i ; Pennsylvania Railroads, 46/.
NEW ORLEANS, JULY 24.
Cotton sales to-day, 100 bales. Prices have advan-
ced lc., middling qualities improving the most ;
we quote middling at lg 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 date less than those
of last year, are 574,500 bales. Flour dull. Rio
coffee, sales of prime at 11/c. Sales of week 1,80)
bags. Stock 102,300 bags. Sterling exchange 9/
per cent. premium. Other articles generally un-
changed.
CHARLESTOWN, JULY 23.
Cotton sales of the week 2,700 bales, the mar-
ket closing at tic. to lc. advance. We quote good
middling at 141.
BUFFALO, JULY 24.
Flour dull. Sales 700 barrels, at 6 dols. 37c.
for extra Illinois ; 6 dols. 50c. to 6 dols. 750. for
extra Ohio ; and 7 dols. 23c, to 7 dols. 50c. for
double extra ditto and lowa. Wheat quiet and dull.
Coin closes firm. Sales, 40,000 bushels at 75c. to
75ic. Oats quiet. Whiskey—sales, 250 brls. at 30c.
OSWEGO, JULY 21.
Flour in good demand, &lied), for the lower
grades. for Montreal, Quebeo, and Portland markets.
The interior and westtru demand moderate. Salts,
3,700 barrels, at 6 dots. 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. Salts, 4,200 bushels, at 78 cents.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PORTS kOUTH, WEDNESDAY.

The Charity steam transport, No. 1, Captain
Charles H. Sivell, arrived at Spithead this 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 lost.
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 Bill. The
Harbour of Refuge Bill is not yet carried through the
Council. The bill introduced by hie Excellency pro-
posed that 200,000/. 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 carry out the provisions of the act.
" The Harbour of Refuge Bill was next in importance
to the subject of immigration. The vessels that now lie
wrecked upon oar beaches—the damaged cargoes and
risk of huMan life, still show whether or not we stand
in need of a harbour of refuge in Table Bay. Tile co.n-
prehensive plan prepared by Captain James Vetch,
R.E„ F.R.S., Engineer to the Admiralty in England,
and approved by tne Admiralty, deservedly,' as set
forth in the met with universal approval in this
colony.' The Aa,,enobly has resolved to accept the offer
of her Majesty's Government, and to pay off the cost of
the breakwater in sums of 25,0001. a-year ; but the Le-
gislative Council have not yet finished with the bill. We
are now looking anxiously Imward to the commence-
ment of the work. When it is completed the Cape will
occupy a very different' position.
" The subject of railsayii has been much discussed out
of doors, and the people of the Western Province and the
press of the Western Province are both unanimously in
favour of commencing a railway. Tile 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
evidenoe 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 favour ofthe
Constitution. Session after session passes over, yet nothing
is done. The Colonial Secretary brought in a bill grounded
on resolutions passed by the Parliament last ses•
don ; but bitter sectarianism stifled it. The bill was
groumuied upon the principle of grants in all, but it was
suspected of being a concoction of the Bishop of Cape
Town, whic'A was of course sufficient to provoke the op-
positinxi of everybody not of the bishop's way of thinking.
"The Hone of Afoeinbly and the Legislative Council
are upon the best of terms. They play at cross-purposes
to a considerable extent. What .s done by one house i,
undone in the other. Tneir lordships are likely to stand
in the way of the Governor's frontier policy. The
Governor wishes to destroy the power of tint Caffre
cinefe, and is availing himself of the present half-,tarvt d
state of the Caffrey 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
Assembly have sent back again a conciliatory or rather
a supplicant 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."

TH ATE 4NTIC TELEGRA

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 transmitting the electric current,
and on a sensitive galvanometer being attachod to
the other end the whole ctWe was t,sted from end
to end, and found to be perfect.
_ . _

As these operations had worn far int) the night,
the arrangements for attaching the recording in-
struments to indicate signals were left to be corn-
plet,d in the morning. The amount of electric
power developed at the further end, and exhibited
by Mr. Whitehouse's magneto-electroineter,
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
be perceived that a considerable surplus of electric
power remains, a convincing proof, if any were
needed, at once of the perfect integrity of thecable
and no less of the careful adaptation of scioatffic
means to the desired objec'. _

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 ascertained 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 co'aipany were
engaged in releasing the broken wires and te-con-
necting the conduct ers.
On re-establishing communication between ship
and ship the transmission of electric elegraph 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 separately connected with the
e trth, as is usual in lines hid out in actual lengal,
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, e-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, bywhich 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 aLout 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 between 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
simultaueously in contact with it.

The battery- current thus generated is, however,
only the primary agent in the act of telegraphing
through the c able, and is solely used as a means of
inducing, through the aid of tilectro-magnetic elec-
tricity, a current of the, suitable character for being
transmitted through such long distancos. The elec-
tro-maguetic electricity actually einployed is ob-
tained from 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 sev, ral
thou4and yards of thin copper wire, insulated with
silk wrapped by means of machinery round every
portion of the metal, and much less in di imet,r
than the conductor c.inAittring the centre of the
cable, to the end of which it is joined up, and of
which it forms a continuous part when niquired fur

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 gut,a percha ap-
plied so as to fit it equally on all sides. Over the
intervening guta percha 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
su.•h a manner that not on'•y can the circuit bemade
and broken at plesure, but that in s;gnall,ng 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 taus described when
set in motion. The currents generated in the voltaic
series pass simply through the thick wire between
pole and pole of the battery, and in their passage
temporarily convert the hollow cylinder of iron
into a powerful elects-magnet, the position of the
poles of which may be reversed with each alterat; on
In tit) direction of the current through the thick
wire.

The electro-magnet thus formed reacts upon the
great length of thi❑ wire wound round the cylinder,
inducing in it a current of electro-magnetic electri-
city posses,ed of an energy adequate to the length
of cable it is required to pass through.

It will be seen that the nature of tiiii secondary
current may be varied at will by the employment of
bateries 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 made in this manner for
the through transmission of the electric curnnt,
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 the well known marking
instrument invented by Professor Morse.

Mr. Brooking, Mr. Pickering, Mr. Croskie, Mr.
Logie, Mr. Brett, director#, 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 nigh
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 Western Railway, proceeded immediately on
his journey.
He will remain the guest of the Knight of Kerry
during the operation of attaching the shore end of
the cable to the Irish coast. Mr. Job, lately an in-
fluential member of the Council of Newfoundland
(in the absence of the Attorney-General of that
province, who is unavoidably prevented from at-
tending), was also present, and will await the com-
mencement of the great work.
The British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Come
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 ent!red into be-
tween the magnetic and electric companies, the
whale 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 Killorglin,
where the Magnetic Company have established a
temporary station.
The entire through communication to Valentin,
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 staff
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. Berriman, and the Victory, Capt. Sluyteer,
re at Trinity Bay, where they will wait the expe-
dition, and will then assist in landing the Newfound-
laud 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
Valenti.% Bay, about three miles from Cabirciveen,

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 Onief Justices, and—what happens in Dublin
only on special occasions—the court was crowded the
moment the doors were opened and long before the
judges took their selts upon the bench. Two hours
previously James Spollen was conveyed in a co-
vered car fro-n Richmond Bridewell to the yr is.on 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 axle
address thus directed their attention to the bills
about to be sent up to them in the Bruadstone
murder case :

"From what I have seen of the informations (said his-
lordship),_which it was my duty to look into, I have to
tell you that this case is one in which you will be ca'led
on to find a bill not upon the direct 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 or chain of circumstances or facts, estab-
lished by the testimony of a number of witnesses,
ail tending to furnish the same cone usion and to lead to
the same ultimate inferences, must not only from the
number of witnesses whose credit is committed, but
also from the wider range and nature of the examina-
tion, give a greater opportunity of a full and ample in-
vestigation 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-.
ing the statement of counsel upon the circumstances by
which the case is to be made out ; you will not have the
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 whichyou 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 fiat 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 teudered 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 rne, 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 you should be
apprised beforehand 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 theee weapons,,ie one of the circumstances or matters
of tact in the chain of circumstances roost material for
your consideration. Having ascertained the cause of the
death of the deceased, and the wanner of it, and the
important matter of identification that I have alluded
to, you will then; I think, properly proceed. to ascertain.
the persons who last saw the deceased alive. They will,
of course, be prodeced before you. They will give you
an opportunity of fixing a point of time most material.
And then, gentlemen, I think the next important
po nt 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 will become
very important with respect to the prisoner. It may
appear to you (I am merely putting the case hypotheti-
celly, 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 approacacd 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 cannixima with the prisoner. You will
confine too witnesses to the matters of fact. You will
not receive from theca inferences or suspicions ; it will
be for 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. Tee law presumes every man to be
innocent, and you must do all in this ease until the
presumption is satisfactorily removed by a chain of evi-
dame repelling that presumption of innocence. 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 grant jury
came into court, and the foreman announced that they
had found a true bill against James Spollen for the
murder of Mr. Little.

"Spoiler' 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
magistrate, he was dressed in a blue frock coat, dark
rest and trousers, and altogether presented a very peat
and clean appearance. He advanced rapidly to the bar
of the dock, looked steadily towardi 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
agy symptoms of uneasiness.
' The Clerk of the Crown then formally indicted him
for having on the 31 of Novembtr, 1856, at the Broad-
stone, wilfully murdered George Samuel Little, and asked
him if he were guilty or not I
" The prisoner, in a low but perfectly audible voice,
replied Not Guilty.'
" Clerk of the Crown.—A re you ready for your trial !

" Prisoner.—Yea, 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 aliowed to give us a copy of the
panel. I understand there is a 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 ail one acting for the prisoner to inspect the
panel in 09 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 himself 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 CASE OF BIG-ANL—At the
Wakefield petty sessions, on Monday, a man named
Pease, a cottage and farm labourer at Horbury, near
Wakefield, was charged with having neglected to pro-
vide for his wife, she thereby becoming chargeable to the
township. of Horbury. Mr. Barrat, who appeared for
the defendant, put the wife, Sarah Pease, under a sever,
cross-examination, from which it appeared tbat 14 years
ago she left her husband and went to America, taking
aith 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 heard that she had
written letters to Mem:is in England, in one of which
(produced) she said she was married to a man in New
York, named Rae, and signed herself " Sarah Rae."
Nothing more was heard of her till a few days ago, when
she presented herself at Pease's house in Horbury, and
prefi rred her claim as his laeful wife. Both Pease and
his second ,wife objected to recognise her claim, and shf
subsequently threw herself on the parish. During the
evidence she denied the authenticity of the letter pro-
duced ; but acknowledged, after great hesitation and I.
barefaced attempt to evade the questions ofltbe attor-
ney, that she had lived with Raein New York, and ha-
had a child by him, but denied having been married t,
him. The magistrate doubted the truth of her latter
assertion, but said that, even supposing it was true, thi
law said that if it were proved that the wife bad coal-
witted adultery, the husband was not liable to main.
taiu her. According to her own acknowledg•
meat, she had been living with the man Rae, and,
cording to her letter, she bad been married to hint
The case must therefore be dismissed. At the conclusio
of the bearing there was a " scene" outside the court
house between the friends of the two wives, those of th
first expressing their determination to have Pease appre
hended on a charge of bigamy. An intimation to the
effect having been given to the magistrates' clerk, ht
said if a warrant were applied for he would advise the
magistrates to refute it.

LONDON AND SOUT:I-77.ESTERN
RAILWA/.

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 reads

Terre was a very thin attendance—less than we ever
recollect to have seen at the rueetings of this company.
The CHAIRMAN said that the dividends for the 1 tst 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 36,5001., and
that put agoinst the apparent deficiency of the trsffio
this half•year would give a balance in favour of t:te 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 htlf-year.
He yet hoped they would be able redeem the
past, and show a satisfactory result for the current year.
The report stated that the company had paseed through
its Parliamentary struggle unscathed, and he assured
the meeting that they were free from aggtettsion both on
the east and west. The hon, gentleman then entered
'nto 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 t s-
port relative to the state of the line and the roiling stock.
He moved the reception and adoption of the report.
Mr. THOBALD seconded the motion.

Mr. HEBAPATH referred 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, Loked upon each other
like dog and cat, from each conideriog the other bad in-
vaded their territories. He urged the necessity of
friendly relations between the two companies.
Mr. TITE, M.P., addressed 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 brie, and
had no doubt the dividend would again rise. He was
a large shareholder, and had no intentio❑ of disposing
of any of hls stock.

Mr. HERAPATH said that he bad been informed that
this company intended to go to Brighton, lie expressed
a hope that such was not the case.

The CHAIRMAN said such was not the case.

Mr. HERAPATH said be 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 aleo unanimously agreed to.
The arrangements proposed with the London,
Brighton, 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.

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

A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors ter.
mivated the proceedings.

NEW SOUTH WESTERN STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.

MEETING THIS DAY.

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

The report and accounts were theu read by the
Secretary, and agreed to. The guaranteed dividend of
5 per cent. per annum was decla,r6d, and the meeting
separated.