The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-27 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1867

Mr. COBDEN has spoken, and Mr. BRIGHT has
spoken. Perhaps it ought rather to be more ac-
curately observed that they have both written
very recently their opinions upon political affairs
generally—having but small opportunity for
"speaking" those poor Eminent Unfortunates !
At any rate by word of hand if not by word of
mouth, they have each of them somehow given
utterance to theirviews upon the present situation
—the ex-Member for the West Riding, the re-
jected of Rudierafield, and the once popular fa-
vourite, the now ignominiously discarded re-
presentative of the great liberal constituency of
Manchester.

And those Opinions, those Vi--ws, Senti-
ments—what about them? Why, anyone who
happens to have read either Mr. BRIGHT'S letter,
or Mr. COBDEN'S letta, can see at a glance how
very sore they are, how exquisitely they are

smarting under the Stroke of Fortune that, falling
upon them both simultaneously, proved to each a
heavy blow and a great discouragement. Eri-

den tly each of them regards himself as a sort of a
Political AlAttyr or Confessor. They are very ill

used, shamefully treated, ungratefully thrown
overboard—or, if not this, merely after all the
Victims of a Blunder or of a Conspiracy, of some
sudden Surprise, or of some odious Machinations.
Now, distinctly and deliberately, we do here in-
sist that the decision arrived at by the
majority of the liberal electors of Man-

at a correct conclusion. The ordnance and corn.-

missariat estimates are now included, so that the
whole outlay may be ascertaiued without searching

through different departments, and under various
heads. There is no longer that attempt at mys-
tification under which gross jobs were perpetrated,
honourable gentlemen b'ing but too frequently
completely in the dark respecting large sums
which they were recklessly voting. There may cer-
tainly be further ameliorations, but considerable

progress has been made in rendering the public
accounts, as they ought to be, easily intelligible
by every man of ordinary abilities.
The great point is to combine the greatest
practicable efficiency with sound economy. We do
not mean that " penny wise and pound foolish"
policy that in the long run materially enhances
the national expenditure. "Si vis pacem para
bellum" is in every respect a judicious maxim. A.
nation arrogating to itself a high position, and de-
sirous of at least participating in controlling the
destinies of the world, cannot afford to be ever
taken by surprise. She must, in accordance with
the motto of the chivalrous Scot, be " ready, aye
ready for the field," remembering that her honour
and interests may be almost irretrievably damaged,

chester and of Huddersfield meant neither
one thing nor the other—neither a sur-
prise nor a conspiracy. The triumph of AcK-
ROYD at Huddersfield, and of POTTER and TURNER
at Manchester, resulted neither from a blunder on
the part of the defeated candidates, nor from any
insidious machinations on the part of their anta-
gonists. The events we are talking about took
place, recollect, not in a hole in a corner, but
upon a great public arena, in the face of day, under
the vigilant observation of many thousands.
They were decisions pronounced—and so far we
may for once solace ourselves, during the absence
of the Ballot, by drawing an atom of good out of
tons upon tons of evil—they were decisions pro-
nounced, not under the cover of the Ballot-box,
but loudly, bluntly, boldly, vote by vote, at the
various polling-booths erected in that borough of
Huddersfield and in that city of Manchester.
Constituents, observe, at each place knew precisely
what it was they were doing—and they did it.
They did it deliberately and resolutely, in one
case by hundreds, and in the other by thou-
sands. They preferred Mr. ACKROYD to
Ur. COBDEN. They chose to send Sir
JOHN POTTER and Mr. TURNER to the House
of Commons rather than either Mr. JOHN
BRIGHT or Mr. MILNER, GIBSON. Why ? Not
because they were ungrateful—not because they
had forgotten the good services done to the nation
at large years ago by Messrs. COBDEN, BRIGHT,
and GIBsoN. Those good services they still re-
member, those good services we have never ceased
to remember, we cannot very easily cease to re-•
member, vividly and with unaffected admiration
No—but the Free Trade advocates were rejected,
were scorned, were thrown overboard, were ex-
pelled from Parliament, Because—years after
Protection had been dead and buried, done away
with, past and almost forgotten, (partly through
their agency—we will even say principally through
their agency)—they shamefully took advan-
tage of the High Position accorded to
them by a grateful community, to bring
the Liberal Party into ridicule b the
championship of Principles at once the
most unpatrio de and the most preposter-
ous.

and even under the most favourable circumstances
the loss of men and money greatly enhanced, by
any temporary failure. It does not, however,
by any means follow that a full war complement

of trained men must always be maintained. It
is the nucleus of an efficient force that is required

THAT—if you will—is the reason of the recent
lecision arrived at by the electors of Manchester ,
tad the electors of Huddersfield I That—in every
sense of the term—is about the English of it !
Not Ingratitude towards the resolute champions
,f Free Trade, observe, but—lndignation at the
advocates of the miserable Peace-at-any-Price
Humbug, those perverse and crotchotty Carica-
i,urists of Philanthropy !
During the last few years Mr. COBDEN
and Mr. BRIGHT and their colleagues have
been talking with au Authority that events
have proved they have really and truly
not possessed. The great Irish Liberator
used to speak, and to speak most accurately, and
with a genuine (and not a merely assumed) autho-
rity not so much as the representative of any
one constituency upon the other side of St.
George's Channel, as literally and. positively
the " Member for all Ireland." And he was
so. He was to all intents and purposes
not so much the representative of a few hundreds,
or even of a few thousands, in any particular
locality, as he was, in point of actual fact, the
representative, the organ, the incarnation of eight
millions of that Roman C?.tholic population ! Mr.
COBDEN and Mr. BRIGHT have been talking arro-
gantly (and, to the more credulous and less dis-
cerning, authoritatively), for some years past—
scarcely so much as the mouth-pieces of the Liberal
party iu the North of England, us actually of
,the
more liberal-minded of the whole Anglo-Saxon
race in both hemispheres. They have been talk-
ing so arrogantly and so long thus, that at last
when a new General Election affords their consti-
tuents, or would-be constituents, up in the North,
an opportunity of repudiating these preposterous
and extravagant pretentious on their part—le !
and behold, a sudden silence falls rather ridicu-
lously upon the roaring of these Political Boa-
nerges. This Light of the Nations, everywhere, is
snuffed out—is extinguished. The Manchester
School is what Brother JONATHAN calls " cata-
wampously chawed. up." The Bubble Humbug
of Politics, has burst—sharing the fate of all
other bubbles : in Speneerian language—
". . Like bladders blowen up with wind,
Which being prickt, do vanish into noughts !"
Into such utter noughts, in truth, that we should
not have cared thus to "point the moral," and
"adorn the tale" of their disappearance from the
legislative arena, but that the Ghosts of them
evidently want Laying—judging from the ap-
parition of the " sheeted dead," as recently wit•
nessed by many persons in the public newpapers,
in the "Letters" of Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. COB-
DEN. There is but one solitary pleasantry dis-
cernable in either, and that is merely implied ;
but it is implied in both ! Evidently both Mr.
COBDEN and Mr. BRIGHT " feel " their Downfall,
but each appears, in turn, to console himself like
Mawworm, in the play, by saying " I likes to be
despised ! "

which can easily be added to in the hour of emer-

gency. Every single man will be able to take
charge of one or more recruits, to lick the raw
material into shape, and to teach the yokel not
merely to fight in a manner befitting an English
soldier, but also to perform all the multifarious
duties comprised in " the art of war," not the
least important whereof is the science of cookery,
so utterly unknown in the English army.
This is the policy which Lord PALMERSTON advo-
cates, and which he has expressed in the following
manner, viz., that "while our military establishment
is not numerically larger than is really required
for the emergencies of the time, it ought to be so
I organised as to be capable of speedy and great en-
largement, and to contain within itself those ele-
ments of science which are becoming every year
more necessary for military establishments, and
also that those who may have to command it
should be practised in those military evolutions
which they nay have to perform on taking
the field at home or abroad !" This is the
correct principle. Theory is very well in
ifs way but it is " practice that makes
perfee." We cannot, of course, expect to have
all the incidents of a real campaign in these
" piping times of peace ; " but sufficient may be
learned of mimic warfare, in all its details, to
render the soldiers skilful marksmen, able to take
care of themselves in an enemy's country, and to
keep themselves, their horses, weapons, and
ammunition—in fact, all the personnel and materiel
of war—in good working order and condition, to
be as little dependent on others as possible in all
that conduces to their own comfort and efficiency.
It is, therefore, that we regard the outlay on
Aldershot as money well applied, although the
practice may be rendered much more efficacious in
producing men qualified for any emergency to
which they may probably be subjected, at the
shortest possible notice.
We need only add that the total increase over
the estimates of 1853-4 is 1,611,5261. That for
the effective service is 1,658,787 —it being
9,025,3601. against 7,404,2911. in the corres-
ponding year ; while there is a decrease in the
non-effective branch of 9,5341., and in the charge
for the Yeomanry, which it is not proposed to
call out this year. Some of these charges, too,
are merely temporary, being incidental to the
state of transition from war to peace, through
which the country is now passing. In the above
we have merely looked to general principles, which
are on the whole satisfactory, there are, however,
some of the details that may require future
, notice.

The Countess of Dunraven gave a grand b al last even-
ing, at' the family mansion, in Belgrave-square. His
Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meinin-
gen honoured the countess with his presence. Their
Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of
Saxe-Weimar were also among the early arrivals.
Lord John Scott has arrived at the Clarendon from
Canston Rugby, Warwickshire.

The Rev. Mr. and Lady Frances Simpson have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel.

Hans Christian Andersen is about to visit England
and to accept the hospitalities of Mr. Charles Dickens,
under whose auspices he will doubtless see London and
its inhabitants in the best light.

MONEY ORDER OFFICE.—On the Ist of June money
as-
order offices will be opened at Lacock, Wilts, and at
sage, West Cork.
DEATH OF Ma. R. HALL, M.P.—We s'i nounce with
tench regret the death of Mr. Robe-
.c the new
member fee Leeds. Mr. Hall bar' been for some few,
ill. The fa'igef., of the late Parhamen
days dangerously
tary contest, acting on a frae
which had never quite
recovered from the shock of, the fearful railway accident
nervous system, had we fear,
which some two years ago completely shattered his
much to do with accele-
rating the inean ;poly event. Mr. Hall was universally
l
respected at 0".,e bar, and Wel), esteemed wherever he
wasi
The age was 56. He was called to the
bar
k in
and went the Northern Circuit. At the
Wir'.; Riding Sessions he had for some time a leading
practice ; arid as a thoroughly soun-1, ingenious, and
learned lawyer, had few superiors in Westminster Hall.
I DEATH OF MR. DAVIES, M.P.—We regret to record
the death of D. A. S. Davies, E.g., M.P. for Carmar.
thenshire, which event took place suddenly, at the
University Club, on the evening of Friday last. Mr.
Davies, who was a barrister-at-law, and for many years
chairman of the Cardiganshire Quarter Sessions, was
first returned for Carmarthenshire in 1842. In politics
be was a Cou=ervative, and he voted against the Go-
vernment on the subject of the Chinese war. Mr.
Davies was in the 66th year of his age.
THE LIBERAL CAUSE IN SOUTH ESSEX.—The Right
Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, has consented to preside at a public dinner,
which is to take place at Chelmsford, on Wednesday,
June 10, to celebrate the return of Mr. Richard Baker
Wingfield, and the triumph of the Liberal cause at the
late general election. The right bon. gentleman will be
supported by Mr. J. A. Hardcastle, M.P., Sir E. N.
Buxton, Bart,, M.P., Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., Mr. G.
Rebow, M.P., Mr. Western, M.P., Major Warburton,
M.P., Sir John Page Wood, Bart., and Sir C. C. Smitb,
Bait.

It is rarely indeed that it falls to the lot of the
Prime Minister to discharge the functions of a
subordinate official—it is still more rare to find a
man ably and efficiently fulfilling the duties which
he performed nearly half a century previously.
These phenomena were, however, witnessed in the
House of Commons on Monday evening, when
Lord PALMERSTON, with a degree of tact and
vigour peculiarly his own, brought forward the
Army Estimates, clearly and distinctly explaining
the nature of the changes that had been intro-
duced, and the nature of the principles that
regulated the force to be maintained during the
present year, and generally in times of peace, and
fully justifying many items—we cannot say all—
of the additional expenditure required for the
military establishments. The comparison was
very properly made with the corresponding period
of 1853-4, being the last year before the com-
mencement of the Russian war, when there
was general tranquillity, and our forces were on
the Peace Establishment.

MAILS FOB MATJRITILTS,—The Government of Mauri-
tius have altered the arrangements for the departure of
the colonial mail packet from Adea to Port Louis, and,
in future, the packet will leave Aden after the arrival of
the mail.; de:patched from London on the 4th of each
month via Southampton, and on the 10th of each month
via Marseilles. Additional mails for Mauritius, how-
ever, will cintinue to be made up for conveyance as far
as Aden, by the packets leaving Southampton on the
20th of the month, and by the route of Marseilles on the
26th of the month.

SouTaAmProx, Tuesday.—The screw steam-ship Be-
renguer, Captain Mercadal, sailed today for Havre,
Santander, Corunna, Vigo, Cadiz, Malaga, Carthagena,
.Alicante, Valencia, Byrcelesia, and Marseilles ; she has
six paasengers, and a cargo consisting of 456 bags of
cocoa, 100 cocoa nuts, 39 bales of cinnamon, and 86
packages of general cargo. The Saxon, belonging to
the Union Screw Company, Captain Balaton, from Ham-
burg for Liverpool, laden with grain, spirits, and a
general cargo, has put in here for repairs, having broken
her shaft on Monday, off 0 wer's Point, and lost her
screw. The screw steamer Petropolis has been examined
to day in dry dock, and it being found that her screw
has received no damage. she proceeds to sea at midnight
on her voyage to Lisbon and the Brazils.
PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is
about 6 per mille premium, and the short exchange on
London is 25.271 per 1/. sterling. On comparing these
rates with the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d per
ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is nearly
2-10ths per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By
advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4231 per
mark, and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per
U. sterling. Standard gold at the English Mint price is
therefore nearly 2-10ths per cent. dearer in London than
in Eirmburr. The, rcurie of exc'lsnr,,. mt New York on
London for bill 4 at 60 days' eight ik• 1091 percent.. which,
when compared with the Mint prop rti >ns between the
two countries, shows that the exchange is about at par.
And after making allowance for charges of transport
and difference of interest, the present rate leaves a trifling
profit on the importation of gold from America,

No apology was required from the Pre-
mier for undertaking this work. It would,
indeed, be far better if the explanation of
principles should be made, on every occa-
sion, by the Ministerial leader, in the repre-
sentative branch of the Legislature, and that the
support of the various details only devolved on
arm who had not a seat in the Cabinet. It is an
unque,tion,tbie improvement to find everything
connected with tne milltAry expenditure contained
in the same set of estimates, so that a synoptical
view may be taken by those iptereeted in arriving

THE SUN, s LONDON, WEDNESDAY E,i• Nr3, Mt V 27, V 4.57

It is est'nated that the Ltindhill Colliery explosion
will entail an expense of from 12,0001. to 15,0001. on the
proprietors, apart from the loss of int-rest on capital,
PARLIAMENTARY BILLS.—Lord Palmerstob's Olth
Bill, the Lord Advocate's Reg,i-tration of Voters (Scot-
land) Bill, and the Attorney General's Fraudulent Trus-
tees Bill were issued yo,terday,
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE —LIVERPOOL,
Tnesday,—ller Mhje,ty's ship Agametnnon is 4xpeeted
here to load with tha . part of the came manufactured at
Birkenhead, and which was intended for the Niagara.
Her Majes,37'.l ship St. Jean d'Acre will be fitted up for
the conveyance of the portion of the cable manufactured
on the Thames.

LATEST NEWS.

SETTLEMENT OF THE NEUCHATEL
QUESTION.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The Moniteur publishes the following :

LEVEE AT LIOLYROOD PALACE.—The second levee of
the Lord High Commissioner was held in Holyrood
Palace on Saturday morning. In addition to a consider
able number of private gentlemen, the judges of session
and justiciary, along with the gentlemen of the bar in
their judicial robes, attended the levee. Shortly after-
wards they returned to Parliainent.equare in a long line
of carriages. The Lord High Commissioner o❑ Sunday
attended Divine service ih the High Church, with the
usual attendants, Lady Belhaven occupying the pew to
the right of the throne —North British Mail.
TEE FORBES MACKENNE ACT.—We understand that a
deputation of the licensed victuallers of Scotland pro-
ceed this day (IVlonday) to London to urge on Parlia-
ment the necessity of a committee of the House of Com-
mons to inquire into the working of this act, on which
such a diversity of opinion exists. We believe they are
assured of considerable support from a number of Eng-
lish members, who consider that the Public houses Act
of Scotland may with justice be assimilated to that of
England.—Nortlt British, Mail.
THE GREAT GLOBE.—An addition has been made to
the numerous attractions of the Great Globe in Leices-
ter-square, in the shape of a grand moving diorama of
the scenery of Upper India and the Gauges. The dio-
rama comprises no fewer than forty-two tableaux of
the principal cities, temples, palaces, and mountains,
with scenic effects, illustrative of the menueis and
customs of Indian life. Calcutta, the City of Palaces,
of course open the series, and ite memorable localities
and buildings are fully and truthfully .presented.
Thence the spectator is conducted by boat and dawk up
the country, passing in his route the famous temple of
Juggernaut, during the period of the great festival of
Rath Jattra, till be arrives at the sacred City of Be-
nares. Numerous ♦iews are given of the celebrities of
the great centre of Hindoo devotion. The remaining
scenes conduct to the capital of the Mogul dynasty at
Agra, closing with the famous Taj-Mahal. The dio-
rama is accompanied by au explanatory lecture, which
is admirably delivered. The views are very beautiful,
and elicited repeated expressions of admiration.
MURDER IN LicsarooL.—On Monday night a man
named Davis, a tailor, formerly in the police force, arei
Robert Reuses, a sailor; belonging to one of the Cunard
steamers, were drinking together at a public-him-4e in
Liverpool. Reuse, left Davis in the public-house, and
the letter, at whose house Reuses lodged, on going home
found his wife and the sailor together in the bedroom.
He immediately ran out and came back accompanied by
an acquaintance named Hodson. They found Reuses
alone in the bedroom, and Davis stabbed him several
times in the breast with a pair of scissors, crying out to
Hodson, "Keep out of my way, or I'll serve you the
same." Reuses died in about ten minutes, without hav-
ing uttered a. word. Davis was brought before the
magistrates yesterday, when he admitted the murder,
but urged that he had sufficient provocation.
THE CANTERBURY MURDER.—The magistrates of Can-
terbury having investigated the conduct of Inspector
Parker and police-constable Elvey, in perraithing the
young man Fox to go at large after their attention had
been called, on the evening of May 13, to his murderous
designs upon Mary Aun Hadley, designs which, through
their neglect, he was able to execute on the fo lowing
morning, the decision of the court was that Inspector
Parker he suspended for the space of six calendar menthe,
and that Pelice-constable Elvey be suspended for one
month. One of the magistrates remarked that there ap-
peared to be a great mistake in the minds of the p lice ;
they seemed to think that they must not take persons
into custody unless they were given in charge. That
was quite wrong. When they found a ma❑ about to
commit a felony they should take him into custody at

" The Plenipotentiaries of France, Austria,
Great Britain, Prussia, Russia, and Switzerland,
assembled together to-day, at the Ministry for
Foreign .Affairs, and signed a treaty, which settle,
in definitive manner, the question of Neuchatel,

by the renunciation of his Majesty the King of
Prussia of the sovereign rights which treaties at-
tributed to him over that Principali,y, and by
means of engagements contracted by the Swiss

Confederation, which are of a nature to satisfy
the high solicitude of the King Frederick William
for the Neucatelons.

" The text of the treaty will be published after
the exchange of ratifications, which will take
place in one-and-twenty days."

AMERICA.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LITERPOOL, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The Liverpool and Philadelphia Screw Steam-
ship Company's screw steamship Kangaroo is off
the port, with advices from New York to the
14th inst., one day later.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.
It is asserted that the protocol on the Neu-
chatel question was signed this evening. -
A letter from Nantes of the 24th in the Con-
stitutionnel gives an account of the Grand Duke's
visit to Indret :
" When the authorities came out in the Pari-
sien steamer to pay their respects to the Prince
they found the Reine Hortense at anchor, but as
his Imperial Highness was reposing, after the fati-
gues of a very rough passage, they were compelled
to remain until he was visible. When the Grand
Duk 3 entered the cabin where the authorities were
assembled, he was astonished at seeing so many
embroidered uniferms, and said that he had hoped
to be received without any ceremony. The Prince
and his suite then embarked on board the smaller
steamer, which proceethd on her way under the
direction of Lieut. de Werneia, who has the com-
mand of the port and of the pilots of the Loire. A
handsome breakfast was ready, with covers laid
for eighteen persons, and during the repast an
animated conversation was kept up. The Prince
appeared to take pleasure in speaking of the cour-
teous attentions which he had received fr. m the
Emperor, and of the amiability of the Empress.
Soon atter two o'clock the Parisien arrived at Ind-
ret, where the Grand Duke was received at the
landing-place by M. d'lngles, the director of the
eAablishment, and M. Moll, the suh-director. The
Prince wore plain clothes, and es a fine, cold rain
bad been falling during the whole day, over a
black frock coat he on had a cloak in caoutchouc,
with a la,ge hood. He wore on his head a small
naval cap without any distinctive mark beyond a
white band. He carried in his hand a thick knotty
stick, on which he leant, and appearel to show, a
little lameness in walking. The Prince imme-
diately proceeded to the works under the girdatice
of M. d'lngles. He first went to the fenedry,
where a magnificent scene awaited him. At the
moment he entered, a quantity of liqeid iron was
being poured out into moulds ranged along in sym-
metrical order. The quantity thus cast was the pro-
duce of 6,000 kilogrammes of iron. Numerous other
articles were afterwaris cast in presence of the
Prince. From the foundry, the Grand Duke went
to the forges, where he saw a block of red hot iron
weighing 16,000 kilogrammes turned round and
round wh le being beaten with a hammer wighing
8,000 kilog., every blow from which made the very
ground tremble. This mass is intended for the shaft
of a steam engine of 900-horse power. From this
place, the Graud Duke proceeded to the engine-
room, where he stopped for some time, admiring
the machinery prepared for the Massena, of 90 guns,
now being built at Toulon. The Prince appeared
to take great notice of everything he saw, and made
frequent remarks to a captain in the Russian navy
who was with him, and who has been for some time
at Bordeaux, superintending the construction of
the Russian vessels now on the stocks in that port.
The whole visit occupied nearly three hours ; after
which the Princes and his suite re-embarked on
board the steamer, and returned down the river."
The Moniteur states that the Reine Hortense ar-
rived at Lorient on the morning of the 24th, and
left again in the night of the 25th for Brest.
BOURSE, May 26.—The following were the last
quotations :

once.
RIOT AT THE WOOLWICH THEATRE.—At the Woes
with Police-court yesterday, Mr. William Holbrook
proprietor of the Woolwich Theatre, applied to the ma
gistrate for summonses againt several persons for com-
mitting a large amount of damage to the building on the
previous Saturday night. It appeared that HOMO dispute
had taken place between Mr. Holbrook and his pr des-
sionals, and at the close of the first play on Saturday
night they came to him and demanded their week's
salary, or refused to go on with the performances. Mr
Holbrook replied that he would pay at the close of the
performances. Oce of the actors then went upon the
stage and informed the audience that the curtain would
not again rise, and advised all present to get their money
returned. uch confusion ensued, and ultimately the
gas pipes were torn up, the seats broken, doors taken off
the hinges and destroyed, and every window in the
building smashed. Mr. Holbrook narrowly escaped
being severely injured, and the estimated damage to the
building exceeds 501. The summonses were granted,
and two persons have since been apprehended for steal-
ing property during the confusion which prevailed.
rn t
CRIMINAL RETURNS FOR THE METROPJLIS.-The
Commissioners of the Metropolitan Police have issued a
appearst
f aconi mMetropolitanout hitn:dre
to Police,n
return of the number of persons taken into custody by
h a
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tonal
nisnu7al
3t, ,2b4ionro:laFwn.
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custody It
45,941 were males. Of that number there were dis-
charged by the magietrates 36,551, those eunentarily die.
po4eil of amounted to 33,451, and 3,238 were corninitt-d
fur trial. The proportion of male and female prisoners
committed was 2,502 males, and 716 females, and the total
of both convicted was 2,053 males and 534 females. ,1
Of the prisoners taken into custody 12 were charged with
murder, 79 with cutting and wounding, 10 with mar-
slauehter, 6,763 with common assaulte,2,9l4 with assaults
on the police, 185 with burglary, 2,501 with having stolen
from the person, 12,720 with drunkenness and d.sorderly
conduct,' and 3,259 were taken into custody as vagrants
CELIBACY OP FELLOWS OF COLLEGES.—The follow.
ing memorial has been addressed to the Cambridge
University Commissioners by Fellows of Ce!leges :
Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned graduates of the Uni-
versity of Cambridge, beg leave respectfully to address
you upon the subject of the compulsory celibacy of
fellows of colleges. The time is approaching when you,
in conjunction with the governing bodies of the
several colleges, will be called upon to carry
the Cambridge University Act into effect,
Among the many questions which will be sub-
mitted to you for deliberation and derision, we feel that
none is more important in all its bearings, whether aca-
demical or eoc!al, that' that affecting the restriction upon
marriage, to which the tenure of fellowships is now sub-
ject- e, therefore, venture to solicit your earnest con- ALEGERIA.
Bide:ation of the subject, aed to express the hope that -----
l oniteur Algerien, of the 20th, in reference
—Jou will give your sanction to such changes in the pre The il
sent " condition of the tenure of fellowships," as are to one of the pieces where the expeditionary
calculated to augment the influence and extend the Caliam will have to encamp prior to its attack,
utility of colleges of the University of Cambridge.— says :
Caraleidge Independent Press.
" El Birin is one of the most important southern points
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day's sale of these copyrights, at Messrs. Southgate and having an extent of from 6to 8 kilometres five-eighths
Barrett s. " The Crescent and the Cross ; or, Romance of a mile each, in length from east to west, by three to
and Realities of Eastern Travel," sold for 420 guineas ; four kilometres in width from north to south. It is
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11., with Life and Notes by Lord Braybrooke," fifth to the surface by means of pumps, they have opened
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8 v0i5,,•1854, with Portraits of every queen, and 1.722 As a numerous population with their immense flocks have
copies of different volumes in cloth and quires, .7,1151., El Birin as their chief resource, the neighbourhood of
sold to Messrs. Kent and Richards. The sale of this lot the wells is constantly surrounded day and night by peo-
was delayed a short time, on account of a claim made ple and animals waiting their turn to get a supply of
on the part of Miss Strickland. Lots leo3o and 31, Sir water or to drink. The Governor-General bas just
Bernard Burke's "Three Dictionaries of the Peerages of given orders for these wells to be repaired with masonry
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-4,9001. ; and 1,619 copies of different parts, &c. a' 4s. ing from El Birim to Medeah is the ferril • region of
7d. per part. The five lots brought more than 14,7001. Tittery. The Bach Agha Ben Yahia has added to the
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577.—T0tal visitors, 7,709. to a traveller without having his own house disturbed."
INCIDENTS OF A TRIAL.-06 Thursday last, at the The following is the text of the proclamation
intermediate sessions held in Preston, two prisoners whit!!
was addressed to the Kabyles by Marshal
named James Walmsley, and William Fielding, were
Randon at the moment of entering on his expodi-
tried in the second court on a charge of stealing a hen,
the property of John Morris, of Blackburn. When the Lion :
case closed for the prosecution the prisoner Fielding "Kabyles,—We have frequently offered to you the
called to witnesses to speak to his character. The first advantages of peace, and a participation in the benefits
said he did not know the prisoner, but knew his father of our commerce ; to allow yea to travel through the
to be a very respectable man ; the second said he did not countries subjected to our rule, and to carry back to
know the prisoner at all. The prosecutor then volun- your monntains the information which you might thus
teered to speak to the character of Walrneley, the other acquire. Some of you have comprehended our good
prisoner, and said he had known him from his cradle ; intentions, but others have been led away by their
he knew nothing bad of him, only that he bad been in violent antipathy to strangers. France has now re-
gaol two or three times. After the chairman (Mr. Peter solved to carry her victorious standard into the very
Catterall) had addressed the jury, they expressed a desire heart of your mountains. The hour has arrived for
to retire to consider their verdict, and on their return those who have been faithful to us to be rewarded, and
into court the clerk asked them if they had agreed upon for intriguers and agitators to be punished. It
their verdict. Foreman—Yes, we find them both guilty. is to you more particuiarly, people of the Reni-Raten,
Clerk of the Court—Guilty of what ? Foreman—Of that we address ourselves. You have violated sworn
what they are charged with, and we recommend them to engagements ; you have set at nought the obligations
mercy. Chairman—On what grounds do you recom- imposed on you by your promises made, first to the Sebt
mend them to mercy ? Foreman—The evidence is not of the Bem Yahia, and afterwards renewed at Algiers.
so strong. Another of the jury—Bemuse the evidence You have dared to raise the standard of nsurrection in
is not sufficient to convict them. Walmsley was son- opposition to France. You have not only excited die-
tenced to three months' and Fielding to one month's turbance in your own country, but you have preached
imprisonment.—Preston Chronicle, up revolt among your ne ghbours, who have long
A SWIMIING FEAT.—A swimming feat of rather a enjoyed all the blessings of peace tinder our pro-
novel character, which occasioned considerable excite- tectiou ; and, lastly, you have dared our power
ment at:none/a the undergrates and others who assembled by attacking Tizi-Ouzou. You have ti arefore
to witness it, was performed in the river Isis at the con- only yourselves to blame for the ravages of war, and the
elusion of the University eight-oared races on Monday many misfortunes it brings in its train. You will be re-
last. The feat originated in an offer to lay 251 to 11.; sponsible to your brethren, who only wish to profit by
that an undergraduate, well known in the University, the benefits of tranquillity. We shad know how to di--
could not, clothed in thick trowsers, heavy boots, and tinguish between tho-e who, like you, have been the in-
a jersey, swim from the Christ Church barge to the terested advisers of disturbance, and those who have
white willow, opposite Wyatr's, at Iffiey. The wager been led astray. The former will feel the whole weight
was made, and at exactly 8 o'clock, the swimmer, accom• of our severity ; but to the latter we still offer our in-
pulled by friends of both parties, in boats, commenced diligence, if they come to us with pledges of their good
his task. As no specified time was named for its accom. intentions and of their sincerity. We do not come to
plishment, the gentleman swam very quietly, occasion. deprive you of your property ; we do not wish to change
ally resting his arms by floating on his back. The your institutions, which are similar to our own, but we
weather had been very warm during the day, but a require that the chief authority shall e noose() from us—
fresh breeze bad now sprung up, and rendered the air that your leaders, when elected by you, shall be con-
very chilling. Soon after passing the Long Bridges lei firmed by us. Your own functionaries shall still
experienced an attack of cramp, which it was feared manage your tribes according to your habits and
would compel him to resign his task. By a great effort, customs, but French authority shall give the impulse
however, be overcame it, as be did also one or two sub- to all the elements which have hitherto been only
seqnent attacks, and confirmed leirurr-17 on his coUrse, by personal caprice er blind hatred. To see, there
arriv'ng at his destination amid the bearty cheers of the Btu:-Fraralsiiee, C'if,i?), and
assembled spectators, having completed the distance, one Beni-Yailia, we offer oblivion sod pardon kw tile past, if
and a quarter mile, in 56 minutes. The gentleman on you desire it, fur you have been only led astray ; but to
landing showed but little signs of fatigue, and, without you, Beni-Raten, who have sought for the struggle, the
stopping to change his clothes, started back to Oxford punishment of your faults, and afterwards the clemency
at a brisk run,..arford Chronicle. lof the conqueror. To All the blessings of peace, the

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