The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-02 00:00:00

THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE.

A telegram which we published yesterday gave
our readers the substance of the proceedings in this
extraordinary case on Thursday, and we therefore
now only give in extenso one or two passages in the
course of that day's cross-examination of Major
Yelverton.
Sergeant Sullivan, referring to the performance
of the ceremony in Ireland, said—Had you any
respect for that chapel in which that ceremony was
performed as a house of God? I has, sir.—And for
the minister as a minister of His religion P Yes, sir.
—You went to that altar P Yes.—The priest was
inside ? Yes.—You and Theresa Longworth knelt
down side by side ? Yes.—Did you at that altar
take her to be your wedded wife ? I did,—Did she
take you for her wedded husband P Yes.—Did you
take her for better and for worse ? I don't recollect
these words.—Did you repeat the words after the
priest ? We did.—What did you say ? "I, William
Charles, take thee, Marie Theresa, to be my wedded
wife."—What else ? I can't recollect.—Listent—
" I take thee Marie Theresa, to have and to hold
from this day forward, for better and for worse, for
richer and poorer, in sickness and in health, till
death us do part, if Holy Church will permit, and
thereto I plight thee my troth." On the virtue of
your oath, did you not say these words at the altar?
I can't recollect all these words were used.—But
the substance of them was ? Well, the worst part
of them was, at any rate.—You did that kneeling
at the altar ? You are acquainted with the service
of the Protestant Church ? I am.—Will you tell
me the difference between the marriage services of
the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches; do
you know it ? I could not repeat the Protestant
service word for word. [Counsel here read the
essential portion of the Church of England mar-
riage service, similar to that of the Roman Catholic
Church.]—Did you mean those words to be a
mockery ? I meant to sustain and protect.—Answer
me, sir, did you mean it to be a mockery ? No.—
Did you mean to fulfil the obligation that you
then contracted ? Yes ' • subject to the explanation.
—Did you take her hands? I took one of her
hands.—Did you put the ring on her finger ?
I touched the ring.—Was that a mockery ?
Not altogether.—Was that ring out of her posses-
sion after you gave it to her at Malahide until you
went to Rostrevor ? I think not to the best of my
recollection.—Will you swear it ? I cannot go
farther conscientiously. (Suppressed laughter.)
Did you ever state to any, one that some kind of a
marriage had taken place between you and Theresa
Longworth in Scotland ? I have no recollection.—
Is that entry in the book, " Mr. and Mrs. Yelver-
ton," written as your wife ? Yes, but if I were not
practising some disguise I would have written
" Major and Mrs. Yelverton."—ls" Major and Mrs.
Yelverton" a proper description of yourself and your
wife ? Well, I might have prefixed " Honour-
able." (Laughter.)
Sergeant Sullivan—We will sink the Honour-
able. Have you been round all those places in Ire-
land you have just stated since autumn, 1858? I
went round with Mr. Dwyer, my solicitor, for the
purpose I have before stated.—Did you hear of any-
one else going since ? I believe some one has been
round —Did you hear of anyone going round with
a lock of hair ? I had a lock of hair myself.
(Sensation.)—Was it a lock of Theresa Long worth's
hair ? No.—Where did you get it ? I cut it off a
child's head.—What child ? The child of my
brother-in-law, Major Hawes. (Sensation.)—Did
you see Rose Fagan ? I saw a person of that name,
but should not know her now.—Did you produce
the hair to her ? I think so—if we used it.—There
was a piece of gown too, whose was it ? Miss
Longworth left it behind her at Thomastown.—
What did you do with the lock of hair and the
gown ? I can't recollect, sir ?—Did you journey
with them from Waterford to Rostrevor ? I think
so.—Did you see Bridget Cole ? By the virtue of
your oath, where is that lock of hair ? I cannot
say, unless Mr. Dwyer has it amongst his notes,
taken at the time.—Who did you see at Water-
ford ? The people at the hotel.—Are they here ?
I don't know.—Did you read Mr. Goodliffe's
evidence ? Yes.—You introduced her as your
wife to him ? I introduced her as my wife
—subject to the explanation—l made no special
allusion to the word wife ; it was all her
own arrangement.—Can you tell me what is the
duty a mistress owes her keeper ? To be honest and
true to him.—What is the duty a wife owes her
husband? Very much the same, only there are
additional duties for a wife, I think.—What are
they ? Obeying is one—loving, honouring, and
obeying.—Which you swore to do to Miss Long-
worth ? This is not an ordinary case of a mistress
kept by a man ; I don't pretend that ; in taking each
other in that way, we thought we were performing a
conscience-saving Ceremony that would be binding
upon our consciences, and at that time I intended to
fulfil it ; she undertook never to violate the secret
without' my permission.—Listen to me ; did you
regard her as your wife ? No, sir, not in law.—Did
you regerd her as your 'mistress ? Well, as my mis-
tress, with the qualification that it was not an ordi-
nary case of mistress and man. I did not intend to
desert her when I left her at Bordeaux. The inten-
tion was formed afterwards. My marriage with
Mrs. Forbes was on the 26th June, 1858.—When
you came back to Edinburgh you formed the idea
of deserting her for the first time ? I think so,
although I nursed her as carefully as possible dur-
ing that illness. Still I think there were some
things she was not content with—not being openly
acknowledged.—ln about two months after you had
another marriageceremony in Scotland? About two
months and a half.—Did you on the 26th April
write to Madame Andre, asking her about Mrs.
Yelverton ? You have the date, sir.—You wrote on
the 29th asking for a few lines that you could show,
and begging her to speak of Mrs. Yelverton as your
relation only ? Yes, I was alarmed at not hearing of
her.—On the 12th May, 1858, you write, " Semper
penso a te, carissima mia." What does that mean ?
"I always think of thee, dearest." (Sensation.) And
on 26th June following you married another. Did
you ever say that you would tell your mother of
your marriage as a secret ? I did not.—Was there
ever any talk about it ? She may have spoken to me
or written to me about it. She stated falsely in her
letter that the keeping of our marriage secret was
the only sacrifice she could not willingly make for
me; there was, no sacrifice she was not to make.—
On what day had you arranged for the ceremony
that took place on the 26th June? I think about
the middle of Juno.—When were you accepted p
In May.—What time in May ? The 'latter end
at
married
rd of
May.—Did :you conceal from Mrs. Yelverton
P I did
Leith that you were going to be
not tell her that I was to be marnedon the 26th to
another lady, She might have gon
your banns? She might have postponed my mar-
riage.—Did you propose to her that she should cap-
tivate some rich man—that your mistress should
become tho wife of another man ? I did.—And this
is your notion of honour? Well, Miss Longworth
was perfectly able at that time to take her own
position"; she did not adhere to her obligations to
me. Had the lady you married the name of.having
a large fortune? No, but a moderate fortune.—
Did you pay for goods supplied to Mrs. Yelverton
after you repudiated her as your wife? I was sued
for goods supplied to myself—l was desired to pay
it by my counsel, they undertaking to put in a
saving notice. I was advised that it was cheaper
to pay than to allow the marriage question to be
tried.—Did you know that the debt was your wife's?
Did you swear you knew the goods were supplied
to her ? That was a long time ago.—Did you know
these-goods were supplied to Mrs. Yelverton after
you had repudiated her ? I believe so.—And you
paid the money ? By advice.—Under protest ? Yes.
Sergeant Armstrong—Did you use the bath-room
at Malahide ? Yes ; I used it as a dressing-room.

--Was there any, bed in it ? To the
collection, not.—Did you sleep in it ? I _
Did this lady sleep in this bath-room while you
were at Malahide ? She did not.
This completed the evidence of Major Yelverton.
A great sensation was produced yesterday in the
cross-examination of a witness—Rose Fagan, by
Mr. Whiteside. This woman was a servant in the
Malahide Hotel, and she was produced to swear
that Major Yelverton and Mrs. Yelverton occupied
the same bedroom.
-The-smne-is-thus described-by the Freeman :
And that lady who spoke to you is Mrs. Yelver-
ton ?—lt
Mr. Whiteride--Now bring that woman in.
A young woman • of prepossessing appearance
was then produced, and placed beside the witness.
Mr. Whiteside—On your oath is not that the
person who called on you ?
Witness (after gazing intently for some time at
the young woman).—No.
You swear that. kook steadily. Is not that the
woman who called on you ?
The witness looked again for a long time at the
young woman in apparently a bewildered state of
mind, and at length said hesitatingly—" I can't
swear."
Mr. Whiteside—Don't you know that is the
person who came from Maynooth on tiic ear to you.
Witness (after another long pause, and with the
same bewildered look upon her)—l cannot swear.
Will you swear it is not the person who called on
you ?—I will not.
She may be the person who called upon you, eh ?
Witness—She may.
Mr. Whiteside—ls she not the person who called
on you ; come ?
Witness (still gazing at the young woman)—l
can't say.
Mr. Whiteside—Look at her again steadily.
The witness did look at her again steadily, and
after another pause repeated "I can't swear."
Mr. Whiteside—You can't swear she is not the
person who called on you ?
Witness (evidently breaking up fast in her mind
on the point)—No.
Mr. Whiteside—She may be-tae, pelson whom
you told about the lock of hair ?
The witness looked again at the young woman,
and then at Mr. Whiteside, and then again at the
young woman, and after gazing at the latter for
some time admitted that " she might be."
[lt would be impossible -to give any adequate
idea of the scene which was presented in court when
this young woman was confronted with the witness.
The court was hushed in expectation as Mr. White-
side triumphantly called for the production of the
party; and when the witness and she were placed
face to face with each other, every eye was fixed on.
them. Mr. Whiteside, who had poured his ques-
tions on this point in quick succession, and with
that vehemence and vigour for which he is cele-
brated, threw himself back, and gazed at the wit-
ness as he paused for her reply. The witness,
pressed by his questions, hesitated, wavered,
doubted, and at length admitted, as above stated,
that the young woman now quietly looking at her
might be the, person who had visited her as she had
detailed. Then a buzz went through the court as
everybody remarked to everybody else how singular
it was ; and, in truth, a more exciting scene has
rarely been witnessed in a court of justice.]"
The Freeman's Journal, in reporting Thursday's
proceedings, says the court and all the avenues lead-
ing thereto were, as on previous days, crowded to
excess long before the proceedings commenced. In
consequence of the peculiar nature of the cross-exa-
mination of the:defendant on the previous day, no
ladies were present:on this occasion, even those who
are the immediate friends of Mrs. Yelverton, and had
been excepted from the order of his lordship. The
audience included a large number of respectable
persons who were admitted on tickets issued by Mr.
Monahan ; and there were also present during the
proceeding the Earl of Howth, Lord Wm. Butler,
and Lord Monck.
At the close of the day's proceedings, some dis-
cussion took place, and it was understood that the
evidence for the defence would close in the course of
yesterday, and that Sergeant Armstrong would ad-
dress the jury for the defendant. There will be a
rebutting case, which it is believed will be short.
Mr. Whiteside, Q.C., is expected to address the jury
on Saturday, and an effort will be made, if possible,
to finish the case on Saturday night. During the
entire day a large crowd blocked up the entrance to
the court, which was defended by strong barriers in
charge of the police. By evening the multitude in
the hall was so great as to fill it almost entirely,
and when swelled still further by the outpour from
the court, presented a scene of a most unusual cha-
racter. Loud cheers were given when the learned
advocates of Mrs. Yelverton appeared, and in their
progress across the hall they received a perfect
ovation, especially Mr. Whiteside, Q C., and Ser-
geant ullivan.
The carriage which was occupied by Mrs. Yel-
verton and her friends, as it drove up Sackville-
street in the evening from the courts, was followed
by hundreds of persons, who cheered loudly as she
proceeded to the Gresham Hotel. A large crowd
collected around the principal entrance, and as she
alighted she was received by all present witkevery
mark of respect.
The Belfast Morning News says :—"lt is quite
true that Major Yelverton contracted his second
marriage with the widow of Professor Forbes,
and it is equally true that he considered he
was obtaining a magnificent fortune ! But
by the Professor Mrs. Forbes had two children,
and all the property he died possessed of was
settled on them, with a moderate jointure to his
widow. Under ordinary circumstances public
sympathy would be deeply excited on behalf
of Mrs. Forbes, but we have good reason to believe
that before her marriage with Major Yelverton she
was warned, but she accepted, we suppose, what-
ever explanation he gave, and committed her fate
to him."

DUBLIN, FRIDAY.

The case for the defendant closed to-day, after
which Mr. Whiteside, for the plaintiff, examined a
few witnesses.

Sergeant Armstrong then commenced his address
Ito the jury for the defence, and had not concluded
'at the rising of the court. He will resume to-
' morrow, and will be followed by Mr. Whiteside for
the plaintiff. It is understood the Chief Justice
will sum up on Monday.
The greater number of the witnesses exa-
mined to day were persons connected with the
different hotels at which Major and Mrs. Yelverton
stopped when in Ireland in 1857, immediately be-
fore the Irish marriage ceremony. Their evi-
dence went to show that Major and Mrs. Yelver-
ton had three rooms at each of the hotels where
they stopped—viz-, a sitting zoom, dressing and
bed room. On cross-examination it was elicited
that there was a bed in the so-called dressing room,
but witnesses could not swear whether it was made
use of for Major and Mrs. Yelverton.
Bridget Cole, who was housemaid at Sanxter's
Hotel, in Rostrevor, in 1857, still recollected Major
and Mrs. Yelverton being there in that year. She
stated that she saw the same lady last June near
the quay of Rostrevor, and on asking her if she was
Mrs. Yelverton she replied yes, and entered into
conversation with her, offering her a situation if
she would go to London. After some farther exa-
mination, a lady, who bore a striking resemblance
to Mrs. Yelverton, was brought into court and
confronted with the witness, who immediately on
seeing her said she was the lady who was at the
hotel in Rostrevor in 1857, and whom she after-
wards met as stated.
Mr. Geo, Patterson, an advocate of the Scotch
bar of 26 years' standing, was examined with re-
spect to the improper interpretation of the Scotch
law of marriage, several cases being cited in which
decisions in the 'House of Lords and of the inferior
courts were read by plaintiff's counsel which were
at
opinions expressed by the witness.
maFirdland Crabb was examined by
Miss
sanEcme with
Mr. Whiteside for the plaintiff, and stated that she
had been in the employ of Mrs. Yelverton as coin-
panion. It was she who visited Rose Fagan and
Bridget Cole, but she denied having offered them
any situations or employment in Scotland.

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t 0 YAL ENOLI SH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W.
Harrison, Sole Lessees.

'MIS. EVENING, LE DOMINO NOIR. Miss Louisa
Fyne, Miss Thirlwall, Miss Leffler ; Messrs. H. Haigh, H.
Corri, A. St. Albyn, and Horncastle.
To conclnde with a Divertissement.
Conductor—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Commence at Seven.

THEA'FRI..4.;-ItOYAL, RAYMARKET.
Lesgee, Mr. J. B. Baokstone.

THI:z EVENIN(;, the performances will nommense with
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Miss llardcastle, by Miss
Fanny Stirling; Tony Lumpkin, by Mr. Buckstone.
After which, a new Pantomime, QUEER LADYBIRD
AND HER CHILDREN. The Pantomimists by the =-
rivalled Leclereqs, Herr Cole, and Fanny Wright.

Commence at 7.

'ROYAL PitINCESS'S THEATRE.--
Lossee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris.

THIS EVENING, the Farce of A.S.S.
To be followed by DON CAESAR DE BAZAN. Don
Caesar, Mr. Fechter. Supported by Messrs. Basil Potter,
F. Matthews, J. G. Shore, Miss M. Harris, .Hiss C. Leclercq
and Mrs. Weston.

After which, a new Christmas comical pantomime, entitled
ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, Harlequin Friday, and the King
of the Caribbe Islands : in which Monsieur Espinosa and
Mdlle. Marie Dumilatre, of th• principal cantinental theatres
will appear. Clown, Mr. A. F. Forrest.

THEATRE - ROYAL LYCEUM.
So..e Lessee and Directress, Madame CELESTE.
THIS EVENING the new drama, THE HOUSE ON THE
BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME. Principal characters by
Mr. G. Vining, Mr. J. Johnstone, Mr. Villiers, Mr. Clifford,
Mr. John Rouse, Mr. Forrester, Mr. Morris ; Miss M.Ternan,
Miss K. Saville, Miss L. Thompson, and Madame Celeste.
After which, the Lyceum Christmas Comie Extravaganza,
CRYSTABELLE ; or, The Rose without a Thorn, showing
THE vistov OF A ROSE, ITS FADING AT EVE,
AND THE MAY-BLOOM OF THE WILD BRIAR.
To conclude with a new Divertissement. Miss Annie
and Miss Marie Collinson, ar.o.

11\4 D gLpHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Bent. Webster.
THIS EVEN ING, AN UGLY CUSTOMER. Messrs. J.
L. Toole, C. Selby, and Warde ; Miss K. Kelly, and Miss E.
Thorne.
After which, THE COLLEEN BAWN. D. Boucicault, D.
Fisher, Billington, Falconer, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer.
Miss Agnes Robertson, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and
Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravaganza, entitled
BLUE BEARD FROM A NEW POINT OF HUE.
Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith; Miss Woolgar,
K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and IC. Thome.
Doors open at hall past 6—Commence at 7.
Box-offloe open from 10 till 5.
No charge for booking.
Private boxes, £2 28. ; Family Boxes, XI.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, :S. ;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager. Mr. WM. BATTY.

Immense success of " Tu-pin's Ride to York."

6th appearance of Mons. Hillier, the Greatest Equestrian
of the day, who has just arrived from Lisbon.
THIS EVENING. will be reproduced TURPIN'S RIDE
TO YORK, Ac4D THE DE AT II OF BLACK BESS, in
which the Brothers Edwin will appear with their celebrated
Steed Black Bess.
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To be succeeded by, Scenes in the Arena, supported by
talented Parisian and British Artistes.
Concluding with Batty's Prize Equestian Comic Panto-
mime, for Good Little Boys and Girls, by T. L. Greenwood,
entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE WONDERFUL
HORSE ; or, Percinet and Grociosa, the Ugly Duchess and
the Greedy King, produced with Gorgeous Scenery, by Mr.
Cuthbert, new Costumes and Appointments, and introducing
in the cornie scenes Ratty's Prize Equestrian Harlequinade,
and the celebrated Old Bob Ridley.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—Mr. Pearson.
Commence at 7.

CANTERBURY-HALL CONCERTS!!!
Westminster-road.

Proprietor.— ....C. Morton.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new Opera,
IL CORSARO,

(This opera has never been produced in this or any other
country, except at these Concerts), having met with that de-
cided success which charactise the most popular works of
this eve Master, will be performed EVERY EVENING ;
together with a Selection from LA FIGLIA DEL REGGI-
MENTO, by Donizetti,
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Madame Maria, Miss
Tyrrell, Mr. H. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, H. Drummond, and
C. W. Bernard. Director, Mr. F. Jonglamins.
The Comic Department comprises Messrs. E. Marshall, A.
B. Hollingsworth, J. Blanchard, F. Bell, W. H. Welland, and
the Brothers Conrad.
John Martin's I hree celebrated Pictures will remain on
view a short time longer in the Fine Arts Gallery of the
Establishment.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.
In consequence of Its Great Success,
THE ENCHANTED HASH
EVERY EVENING,
The whole of the Characters by Messrs. E. MARSHALL
and F. BELL.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tins am—Morning, sh. 27m.—Afternoon, sh. 43m.
To-idowtow.-Morning, 6h. 9m.—Afternoon, 6h. 28m.

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1881

Halving Rome seems to be the Imperial solution
of the Papal-Imperia! difficulty. We gather thus
much at least from the telegrams of the Prince
NAPOLEON'S speech yesterday. The French
Senate, in discussing the reply to the EMPEROR'S
speech, did not want defenders of the Bishop of
ROME'S temporal power, nor is this to be wondered
at. There has been no want of defenders of the tem-
poral powers of the twenty-six bishops who in this
country, as we all know to our cost, exercise their
temporal powers in the House of Lords, to the
obstruction of every liberal measure, till the lay
lords drop some hint that they must hold their
temporal powers in abeyance, " or set their house
in order." And, if temporalities of a more personal
kind are at stake, " the Church in danger" is the
watchword immediately passed down the Conserva-
tive benches. With such specimens of the temporal
power of our English Right Reverend Fathers
before us daily, and such proof of their zeal for tem-
poralities, we must not be too hard on the Holy
Father for reluctance to part with his secularities
of a Princely and Financial kind, and on those
worthy or furious Papal Conservatives who can see
nothing but ruin to religion in driving the POPE to
become simply a religious official. All the good
Churchmen in this kingdom would be in alarm if a
Bill were introduced to relieve the Bishops of their
Baronial Honours, of their Palaces, and of their
Episcopal estates at once, and to throw them on
the offerings of those who admired a Church
government by unquestioned successors to the
Apostles.

Looking, therefore, with the patience learned by
looking at home on the French defenders of Papal
Temporal power, we yet notice with some pleasure,
one step more in advance towards the liberation of
Rome from its present secular rulers. After some
flourishes on the liberal principles of Imperial
France, principles for which she is, of course, chiefly
indebted to her Imperial head, a few words in
defence of the English Alliance, and of sympathy
withVenetia, deprecating, at the same time, an un-
seasonable attack, the Prince turned to the
" Roman Question "—there the great difficulty,
be told us, as we have been told for the hundredth
time, is to "insure the independence of the POPE ;"
this cannot exist if he be subject to another
Sovereign (as he is now to France),—but his
independence can be assured "by securing to the
-POPE the right side of the City of Rome, with a
Papal garrison, and a Papal budget guaranteed by
the Powers:,

"The right side "—when we first read that, it
reminded us of the old distich, giving us the rule
for passing each other in travelling—
The rule of the road is a paradox quite,
For as you are passing along,
If you go to the left you are sure to go right,
If you go to the right you go wrong.
Now most certainly if the Holy Father, as
Temporal Prince, went left hand to the wall, he
would be right for Italy, right for himself, right
for his spiritual power ; but if he goes to the right,
as the Prince will have him, he goes wrong. No
politician but must see that such a compromise,
however it might do for a while, could last no longer
than the complete consolidation of Italian unity and
strength. The independence of POPES lies in the

Porn themselves, not in their petty temporalities.
Nothing can conquer a firm mind which is at the
head of the creed of several great nations, let
the possessor dwell wherever he pleases ;
no temporal power, possible to be possessed
by such a person, can make him indepen-
dent, if he be naturally a trimming favour-
seeking soul. The secret of Papal indepen-
dence lies in placing intelligent, prudent, firmness
in the Chair of St. Peter, and nothing can remedy
the mischiefs of not doing so. The present dif-
ficulties are all caused by a weak and obstinate,
though pious Pope, with an unscrupulous and cruel
Ecclesiastic as his adviser, whose stronger mind
dominates that of poor Pius the Ninth. Had
the good heartedness of the old gentleman, nomi-
nally the Prince of Rome, but had in ANTONELLI
an adviser, who saw that the POPE'S temporal
power could only be preserved by seeularising
the Government, and that in a style so liberal
that the King of Piedmont would have been
outbidden, and had this but been done in time,
the States of the Church, the Legations included,
might possibly have been under the Pope's rule
to this hour, and for a long time to come.
There is no help now for excluding the Bishop
of ROME from the list of territorial princes. Prince
bishops are become indeed but an antiquarian curio-
sity ; they are either mediatized or have had their
rights absorbed by the Crown, as in England; and
the Centaur-like monstrosity is not destined to be
restored, or its lifeless skeleton to be preserved—
VICTOR EMMANUEL will, in fact, take far better
care of the POPE than he can of himself, and much
better than ANTONELLI takes of him. All the
money he needs can be supplied him by the contri-
butions of Catholic nations, and a convention of all
the nations interested can assure, if it be needed,
any such status as may be desired for him.
Rome, however, will be Italian, both right
side and left side of it, in spite of any agreement
between Pope, Cardinals, Kings, Emperors, and
their Ministers. This, indeed, the latter know full
well; they merely leave the ecclesiastics to learn
from the only teacher who can " pierce the obtuse-
ness of their mental being," the lesson which is to
themselves so obvious. Indeed the other represen-
tations of the Prince include this, as the greater does
the less. "The peoples," he said, " are not mis-
taken if they rely on NAPOLEON 111., who will not
fail in his mission." The alliance with England
was an alliance, " not with some particular
Ministry, with the great and liberal English
people,"and its use was that by its help " we can
defend the great principles of liberty and pro-
gress." Suppose all this oratory to mean realities,
and the oppressed Romans, the Venetians, the
Hungarians, ultimately, perhaps, the very Poles
are not to want a friend.

The appointment of a Select Committee of
Inquiry into the constitution of the Board of
Admiralty was, last evening, at the instance of
Admiral DUNCOMBE, and after a rather smart dis-
cussion, agreed to by the House of Commons. It
has latterly become the fashion with some to de-
precate the notion of these kind of Select Com-
mittees, to deride theM as altogether useless, and
so forth. Now, without for an instant wishing in
any way to claim for these same Committees
of investigation any marvellous or miraculous
power of doing good, of dissipating abuses,
and scattering to the winds of heaven
seemingly imprescriptible anomalies and evils
of all kind, we do nevertheless maintain
most earnestly that the hard work got through
session after session in the committee-rooms, is of
incalculable advantage to the public service, and
ought not in any way, by the community at large,
to be thus frivolously and ungratefully depreciated.
Take as a case in point that famous committee of
Mr. ROEBUCK'S, secured by him and presided over
by him in the very midst of the "horrible and
heart-rending" accounts coming to this country
half a dozen years ago, from the seat of the Russian
war in the Crimea via that dreadful slough of
despond for the British troops, the seven miles
between Sebastopol and Balaklava. Cavillers may
yet object that the evils then and there complained
of had almost to the very close of that ter.
rible war, disastrous fruition in the squan-
dering of human life on the side of the
Allies to the number altogether (in battle
and out of battle) of 100,000 men, and to the
simultaneously squandering of gold upon the
contest to the fearful amount of £100,000,000.
Yet who shall say that in our own regard,
that in reference to the reorganisation of our
War Departments generally, that maligned
and contemned Committee of Mr. ROEBUCK'S did
not sweep clear countless abuses from those
departments by the sheer force of its appalling
revelations ? As evidence, as conclusive and
irrefragable evidence, of the accuracy of which
conviction on our part, it is only necessary now to
bear in remembrance the contrast presented to view
upon a comparison of the Russian expedition sent
out half a dozen years ago merely to the other side
of Europe, to the Crimea, to be landed at Eupatoria
and reinforced at Balaklava, and that resent Chinese
expedition of ours sent forth to the opposite end
of the earth, to the Gulf of Pechili, to
advance through Tien-tsin to the very
walls of the almost mythic city of Pekin,
yonder, as we have said, at the opposite extremity
of the globe--at the other side of this old eastern
hemisphere ! Thanks to Mr. ROEBUCK and his
Committee—thanks, we do really and earnestly
believe in a very great measure, to the voice of
Public Opinion speaking through Mr. ROEBUCK
and his Committee--this latest warlike expedition
sent forth from these shores to the conquest of the
capital of the Chinese Empire—of that vast empire
peopled by one entire quarter of the inhabitants of
the globe—is allowed upon all hands to have
been, is known to have been, the most per-
fectly organised, the most admirably equipped,
the most entirely successful that ever carried any-
whither on the surface of the globe the dominant
banners of England. The contrast already spoken
of is consequently one as wide, as vivid and startling
as any such contrast could by possibility be. 1t is
the contrast there of the most profligate, here of the
most thrifty expenditure —there of inextricable

confusion, here of the most perfect order and dis.

cipline—there of rags, and filth, and disease, and
absolutely at times, in spite of the costliest coin-

missariat (remember the green coffee berries, and
the insufficiency of bread, bread that the soldiers

of England had at times to receive
as a bounty from their generous hearted
French allies !) absolutely at times, in spite

of our commissariat, the actual semblance of desti

ution, here (in this recent Chinese expedition) good

clothing—and plenty of it—cleanliness, health, and

abundance! That is no over-painting of the con-
trast visible in the retrospect of our troops as they

were seven years ago in the Crimea, and as they
were seven months ago among the Chinese ! And

for the happy result of the comparison .to the
latest of these remarkable expeditionary forces, we
have to thank, as we have said, as we can-
not tire of saying, Mr. ROEBUCK'S Committee

—a Committee of Inquiry into abuses long
either darkly suspected or flagrantly noto-
rious. It is unjust, therefore, it is absurd, it is un-

grateful to deride and depreciate as useless what
have so often proved pre-eminently advantageous
to the public service, that is to say, namely, these
select Committees of Inquiry appointed by Parlia-
ment.

Such being our dispassionate and conscientious
estimate of the particular system of investigation
we have here referred to as in vogue in the House of
Commons, we cannot but feel peculiar satisfaction in
noticing the circumstance of Admiral DUNCOMBE'S
success last evening in moving for a Committee of
this very kind to inquire into the construction of
the Board of Admiralty as it is. Parliament
having now decided upon the appointment of that
Committee,we may rest pretty confident that sooner
or later the Board of Admiralty as it is, as it has
so long continued to be, is t• all intents
and purposes doomed. Whatever Sir FRANCIS
BARING may say to the contrary, the abuses and evils
rife in that nest of mismanagement are visible be-
yond the possibility of misapprehension. They are,
many of them, abuses and evils that have long stunk
in the nostrils of the community. The Board of
Admiralty,as at present constituted,has been only too
painfully appreciable an illustration of the old say-
ing that what's everybody's business is nobody's busi-
ness. There has been then hitherto—at the Admi-
ralty—the utmost amount of inefficiency, and the
least amount of responsibility. Insomuch that only
three or four years have elapsed since the appalling,
but at the same time ludicrous result had been
reached in the marine department of the greatest
maritime power upon the face of the globe, the
frightful but ridiculous result, that an annual
expenditure of millions sterling upon the Royal
Navy of England, had left England without the
smallest vestige of a Channel Fleet ! And had
enabled the most powerful and at the same time
the nearest of our neighbours to multiply her
steam war vessels so much more rapidly in propor-
tion than ourselves, that England had the im-
minent prospect before her had this state of
things been allowed to go on, of witnessing
gradually slip from her grasp the meed of all her
naval glory, the priceless recompense of her mari-
time supremacy. It is only since the date of Sir
JOHN PAKINGTON'S occupation of office as First
Lord of the Admiralty under the Earl of DERBY'S
Administration, it is only since then that
the national service of Great Britain, the glo-
rious navy of England, has been recovering
lost ground, and making good once more
our British claim to maritime supremacy. This,
recollect, not by means of, but actually and literally
in spite of the administrative machinery of the
Department as it is at the Board of Admiralty.
That machinery is not simply supposed to be old-
fashioned and ricketty, out of place and out of gear
—it is seen to be all that and much more. England
has long been pining to make an end of it. In
its very title it is avowedly the merest temporary
makeshift and stop-gap. For is it not in its very
name, style, and title the Board of the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty, Commissioners ap-
pointed by the Crown to discharge the duties and
to acquit themselves of the responsibilities as they
best may—duties and responsibilities hitherto
in years long past devolving upon a high
and mighty personage, whose office has
for more than a reign fallen into desuetude—to wit
the Lord High Admiral of England ! The last
Lord High Admiral—and even then the revival
of the office was purely temporary, and in
every respect quite exceptional—being his
Royal Highness the Duke of CLARENCE,
afterwards his Majesty King WILLIAM IV.
Instead, however, of many such high authorities as
a Lord High Admiral, instead of this present in•
efficient and irresponsible Board of Admi-
ralty, what England wants, what England's
navy wants for its more efficient and
responsible administration—is a Minister of
Marine, call him what you will, and together with
the Minister, his Secretary ! Whatever may
eventually be substituted for the Board of Ad-
miralty—SOMETHlNG, we may now reasonably
expect, will be substituted in the fullness of time,
directly or indirectly, through the agency of Ad
miral DUNCOMBE'S Select Committee.

The Emperor of AUSTRIA is in a panic, and has
fled for protection to our Court of Chancery. He
tried first our Foreign-office ; there, indeed, he
found a person, we are sorry to say, as willing to
oblige him as Sir JAMES GRAHAM was in olden
times to oblige despots, and get the noblest patriots
shot, by violating the secrecy of our Post-office.
But the Foreign-office was "in a fix." The law
officers told it, it could do nothing—nothing
directly, at least—but it was suggested, if you
put two detectives into a cab and send there!. to
'Messrs. DAY, who have lithographed the ROSSUTH
notes, they may get up a case. Off accordingly
started the detectives, with all the dignity of
the Foreign-office at their backs, and were accord-
ingly shewn, we are told, very politely through
that fine establishment, just as, we presume, any
respectable person, with a proper introduction,
would be asked to look through any first-rate

manufactory in the Kingdom. What, however, is
as discreditable as can well be conceived to some
F party in office is the fact that though the Messrs.
DAY were carrying on their business thus in the
light of day, some one was guilty of a
deed of darkness in which he found a
willing coadjutor in English or Austrian authori-
ties. There must have been a thief, and a receiver
of stolen goods; the proof was given in court by
the receiver, or the friends and agents of the re-
ceiver, for one of the notes was produced in court.
The note could only have been obtained by
purloining it. The purloiner must have
been either iustigated to the act or re-
warded for it ; which, indeed, of the two, makes
little material difference, unless a dealer in marine
stores has been occasionally rather hardly dealt
with. The damning fact remains, that either some
honest servant's fidelity was tampered with, and
the man or boy corrupted ; or some worthless pil-
ferer was encouraged by those who wanted to pro-
duce the note in an English court of justice.
As his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador
swore that he had obtained possession of
one of the notes, it seems to us that
he ought to be called to account for its owner-
ship, and unless he can give a satisfactory account
of it, to be treated with a sight of the usual recep-
tacle for the receivers of stolen goods.
As to the merits of the legal application we can
hardly doubt that the injunction will be dis-
solved ; indeed, to our non-technical appre-
hensions, it is only wonderful that one
was granted even temporarily. It would, how-
ever, be well, lest there should be some techni-
cal grounds of sustaining the Austrian Ambassa-
dor's application, which laymen cannot conceive of,
that the case for KOSSUTH should be well brought
out by competent and willing counsel. The case
would seem to be one of the simplest, nor is there,
that we can see, any offence known to the English
law which would be committed by the circulation
of the note.

The printing of the notes is in the Hungarian
language ; they have the Royal arms of Hungary
at the bottom of them, and the translation of the
note is as follows :—" One florin. This monetary