The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-28 00:00:00

BRISTOL- SUGAR-FEB. 27.

The market has been rather quiet this week, and the only
sale reported is a cargo of 3,200 boxes Havannah for arrival,
and for which former prices have been obtained. Refiners'
prlduce still meets with a good demand, especially for all fine
and middling qualities, and prices are fully as dear; hut pieces
and treacle are rather dull of s tie. In rum we are without
transactions to report, the recent arrivals not being yet ready
for the market.

COAL MARK
Prices of Coal per ton at
d.
Bebside's Hartley 14 6
Longriclge's Wst Hartley 14 6
North Percy Hartley _l3 0
Walker Primrose 13 0
ranfield Moor l3 3
Walleend, &c.
Pensher 15
Harton

EL—FEB. 27.
the close of the must.
IVirsllsend, &o.

cl.
Framwellgate l6 0
corn Close l5 3
Eden Main l6
qaswell 18 0
[lough Hall 15 9
Kelloo 16 9
south Kelloe. 16 9

glhips at market... 3:?, I Sold. 3O

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY.
kmaterdam .. • • .... 11 i 6 Gibraltar ...... •• •• •• ••
Ditto, three months .. 11 18 Leghorn ..........„ ,29 45
Rotterdam ............ 11 18% Genoa . 25 75
&ntworp .............. 25 50 Milan ...... • • ......
Brussels .............. 25 50 Venice

ilamburgh ............ 13 B 4 Naples
- . ...... ......• .. 43%
kltona .. • • ............ Palermo .... •• " 129%
Paris.— •• • •..... • • .... 25 27% Messina ... ... 130
Ditto• three months .. 25 70 Lisbon ..
Marseilles ......• •• •• •• 25 70 , Oporto .• •• •• •• •• •••• •
•• 52 Bourdeaux .. • • ........ ! Rio Janeiro ..... ....... •-. Frankfort-on-Maine •• .. 119% Buenos Ayres.... •• •• .. -
Berlin
................ - ;New Yorki6o dayesight -.
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Vienna .......... •• .... 10 29 Philadelphia .... ......
••rriesie......•• •• .... 10 30 palm or xtriatoN, rim oz.
Petersburg ........... 37% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid. ••• .. •...., .... 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Cadiz ......... •• ".... 49% Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
Barcelona ............ - , New Dollars ....
Seville.. •• - .......... - !Saver in bars ...... 0 5 1%

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 27.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was an advance in prices, and
a fair business was done, quotations closing as follows :
South Eastern, 23i 4—Caledonian, 341—Midland, 84i s—.
London :and North Western, 101 —Eastern Counties,
10j Lancashire and Yorkshire, 104—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, 37/ —North British, Hi—Black-
burn, 6 per cent., 231—Bank of Liverpool, 21,

MANCHESTER, FEB. 27.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-- The market is active, and very firm.
Cheshire Junction, 704—Blackburn, B.i—Sheffield,
Ditto, Pref., 12A—Leeds, 101.i--Eastern Counties, 101— Midlands, 85—Dover, 23 11-16—London Stock, 10t4—
Gr
eat Western, 621—Lanca3ter and Preston shares, 22 p.
Preston and Wyre, Pref., No. 2, 714.

BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 27.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —This market continues steady
to-day. Groat Westerns closed at 68 j z d.—London and
North Westerns, 106 i I—Midlands, 82 834 a d.--Bir-
mingham Canal, 92A 3—Birmingham Gas, buyers, 138--
Birmingham New Union Mill shares were done at n.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Jane Hallett, of Whitty Head,
near Netherbury, Dorset, buffered for many years from
a bad leg. From the knee to the ancle it had several
wounds, so that she was unable to stand or move about
the house. She tried a variety of means and applica-
tions, but without obtaining a cure. By the blessing of
God and using only three pots of Poor Man's Friend,
and taking three boxes of pill', she was perfectly cured.
Dr. Roberts's Poor Man's Friend,
a::
mwoeudinedinseanvdenedrourp.
tions of every description, is sold in pots, ls. lid. and
2s. 9J. each. His Piluhu Antiscrophulas, fur all im.
purities of the blood, is sold in boxes, ls. lid., 2s. 9d,,
a
throughout. 6d. , lls.t,h e andu United
e ch,
Kingdom.by all

LBIRTHS.

OF • SON.

Cu On the 26th inst., at Cheddington Rectory, Lady Emmet Emmett.
On the 26th inst., at 1, Alfred Villas, Enfield-road, Kings
la -
OF A bACCIIITER.
ROn times Wile 27th inst., at Tring-park, llerts, the wife of the
Mrs. William Henry Dowsett.
On the 26th inst., at 3, Bedford-row, Clapham-rise, the
wife of J. P. Lafrentz, Esq.
envd.,
J liams.

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On the 24th ire`„ at AR,II ED.
Taunton, Lieutenant-Colonel Evan
Morhc.late Ad gan, of St. Helen's, Swansea, to Maria Rodney, daughter
of tmiral Winthrop.]
On the 24th inst, at Brighton, Francis Stedman Ashby,
of Eling, near Southampton, to Elizabeth Rebecca Jupp, the
eldest daughter of Henry Jupp, Esq„ of Chestnut-lodge,
Cobham, Surrey,

On the 27
th inst , at Hawke-house, Sunbury, Sarah, wife
of Alderman Sidney. , aged 49.
On the 2Gth inst., at Aston House, Tetsworth, Oxfordshire,
Anna Maria, wife of Sir Henry John Lambert, Bart., aged
57e

On the 26th inst., Mr. A. Bachhofl'ner, of Everett-street,
Russell-square, aged 41.
On the 25th inst., at Peckham-rye, Nicholas Skottowe,
Esq., aged 67.
On the 25th inst., at Gravesend, Captain William Rogers,
of the West York Rifles, late 96th Regt.,
aged 33.
On the 26th inst., George James Edward Brown, Esq., of
Tostock-place, Bury St. Edmund's, aged 34.
On the 26th inst., at Cheltenham, Anne W.
Duncan, wife
of Major Hugh Mackenzie, c engal Army.
On the 23d inst., Mr. John Sutton, of Forest-row, Dalston,
late of Union-court, Old Broad-street, city, aged 80.

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THE MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER IN
CUMBERLAIVD.

At the Carlisle Spring Assizes, on Thursday, before Mr.
Baron Martin, William Graham was tried for the murder
of Thomas Simpson •gamekeeper, in the service of Mr.
FeatlArstenhangh, Staffield Hall, in the county of Cum-
Lisrland. Mr.' Overenl, Q.C., and the Hon. Mr. Liddell
were conn4el for the proskation, and Mr. Monck, Q.C.,
with Mr. Looming, for the prisoner.
The widow of the murdered man, Margaret Simpson,
would have been called as the first witness, but she was
confined on the vary day of the trial. Her evidence, taken
before the wagistrAes, was read, and showed that, on the,
night of the 15th November last, her husband came in from
watching about 9 o'clock. -,Ho pad been out several times
through the evening. He heard several guns fired, but
thought They wore on Sir G. Musgrave's side, over the
river Eden. :He put on his upper coat about ten. Ho drank
up his coffee, and went out in a few minutes. He put his
pistol in his inner breast pocket. He said he was going to
the place where he generally went to watch at night, be-
hind some wall. He -wavalone. He went out, and she
beard him run up the'gatdon. In a very short time she
heard a double-barrelled gun fired close at hand up the
field. She heard nothing more. He never returned. She
heard him say on the day- before his death, or the day be-
fore that, that he had seen one of the Grahams swaggering
with his gun, but that he (her husband) did not let Graham
see him. He said he believed they were poaching, and he
was going to look aiterthem. On the morning of his death
he got up before daybreak. to look out for the Grahams. He
did not say that be suspected any other persons. Next day,
which was a Sunday, men went-out to search for Simpson,
who had not been seen anywhere since he left home. His
toe coat was found that day. James Elliott, the farm
bailiff, and John Pharaah, one of the County police, on
Monday found the man's dead body lying in the river.
There were marks of blood from the river to a spot near it,
where brains sada piee,aolaknil were found scattered about,.
The man's head had been smashed to pieces. It was proved

, the murder .foldranother man, Francis 'Boustead, that he
was going out to shbot the% night. Ile-said he knew where
their game ftt. lie knew every-foot and track of the grpund,
and." if their -- keeper comes to me this night out gops
his brains-; but I3will speak once to him. rwill tall himio
stand back, and ii(hq stirs an inch towards me after I4peak .
out goes his brains. I neither fear heaven nor hell; God or
devil. I will be in either heaven or hell before a Month is
over. will never die with my shoes off. Now, mark law
"words 'this night, this vary night, I will be the --end.'
Ile t n put his haul !` up table breast and said, lam the
h[..
man t at'll do,the deed. Thou knoivs all about it. More
never phall a ---- ttbout Staffield-hall tale 'me." Rd then
Lititarill hand up to his neck and said, " I doa't care a'-- f-„
if
.Lturned
I bb hung up by the neck to-morrow. He and
went straight out,: An hour or two afterwards he came
vey tipsy to the,house of a woman he knew, Susan Ho-
gart,h, with 'a gun.. He-said 'it was fine and leet and he
worild fetch them doivd. She 'said,' " William, go home
and.go to bed ; that man will be watching." She meant_
Mr: Featterstonbaugh's keeper. The prisoner replied;.-
“,/let the.— stand back." She said, " Williamiwo home
and go to bed. God bless you! Go home and,go to bed,
dO." And he said, "I will, Susan, I will;" and shut the
door, and she saw him no more.
After prisoner was taken in custody he made, on the
.21st Deceniber, the following statement :—"I was:very
drunk, and I went out to shoot, in Eden Banks.. I saw a
man. He told me to stand. I ran away, and he fired a
pistol, which did not hit me. After running ten or a dozen
yards I tumbled. He came up and got hold of me, and
we had a- scuffle. He tried totet the gun from me. I
cleared myself of him, and then struck him two or -three
times with the small end of the gun. The third blow
felled him, and the grin broke off behind the lock. I then
took the stock from the barrel, and brayed him till he was
dead. I trailed him to the water, and put him in." -
The prisoner's brother, Henry Graham, stated, that on
the day after the murder prisoner told him the same.
This being the evidence, the learned judge observed that
there was but ono point in the case which required consi-
deration. If thepistol were really fired; the man had a
right to act in self-defence.
Mr. Monck then addressed the jury for the defence, stig-
matising as a growl fabrication the story of Bonstead, upon
whose
_testimony alone the charge of malice aforethonht
could be sustained. , ' . .

Hie lordship likewiie in summing up treated that =wit-
ness's evidence 4, vile concoction, simply and solely for
the, purOose of-obtaiding the reward of 1001. which had
been offered; If the jury were of the same opinion, it
would be their duty to bring in a verdict of manslaughter;
if not, it would require a jury of lawyers to distinguish
the casegrom one of wilful murder, were it even susceptible
of such a distinction.
The jury consulted for a few minutes, and then found a
verdict of " 4iyuslaughter."
The announcement was received with loud cheers and
clapping of hands.
His Lordship then sentenced the prisoner to be trans-
ported forlif% retharking that his crime approached As
near to that of murder as could possibly be.

Tn-E,JqFiIE MURDEI?, AT TVELLS.

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1:1 ti t i
(From the Tikes.)
~t 1 • -0-
We are bold enough to think that :=
can concern the public at large more k." ' '-'
than that which Lord Campbell mooted lastag- ca
with direct reference to the press and we 'a area
joiced to see that he had the support of Lord Wens-
leydale. The interests at stoke are certainly not
those of journalism alone, but those of society. It
has recently been declared as the law of the land
that if a reporter makes a bona fide report of the
proceedings at a public meeting, and this report is
published in due course, the publication, supposing
it to contain slanderous words spoken at the said
meeting by A B against C D, gives C D the right
of an action, not against A B, the author of the
slander, but against the journal in which the speech
1 is reported, although no plea of malice may be set
up. We have already expressed our doubts whe-
ther tbis.de_cisi_on was so absolutely sod. inanifes ,ly
I in accordance with the old commoo law of England
as to dessrve an immediate ani unhesitating deli-
very, but we now omit this point of the question,
and address ourselves to that elem"nt of common
reason which is taken to be the basis and essence
of law itself,
-Under certain conditions we can understand
both a charge and a penalty at'acbing not only to
the author of slander, but to the person or persons
who gave -that slander a currency which it would
not otherwise have obtained, and. rendered it,
therefore, proportionately more , injurious to its
object The distinction drawn between spoken ,
and written words appears to have had its origin
in some such assumptions as those to which we
are alluding. The great element of slander is
publicity. We express the unbounded liberty of.
purely private opinion 'by the common Proverb
that " thoughts are free!' We enlarge .the •
limits of .this freedom a little by allowing lati-
tude to private conversation, as also to communi-
cattons professedly private hetwecn one person and.
another ; and as no such interchange of ideas
could attain the publicity which follows upon cir--
onlation inliritit, it may have been argued-that the
person who gave thiS publicity to theoraatter-s-lir
i wor#4s- tho:peigieliorrair. iiiiiiesilialaiejer -zeg::kiii4t
nibie ;of the -dinrvire- • dceasi6ned than thtratilerr- - -
himself. Some such idea as this Was inala.essed,
ott
we presume, on Lord CamiA)ell'i mind, when, on
introducing-the subject to trite notice of the Loris a' .
few days sixicei daepl;gerverl,-1",4t its been said that
the person calumniated may bring an action against
the man who makesa‘ speech ; but it mist be re-
Membered that a speech spoken is a smaller off:nee
than one that is published and sent all over ,the .
world." i :
,W . now proceed to show how entirely reconciles . •
ftble Aie i§ vv'aftf,the ease asitlithna which %link' T •
exe t the press from the liability at packing. to it,- :'.
.
and ' support of our -proposition we siill.,appeal, ~
not our own. interests, bitiOthose of all parties --
nlike ; -In-n few words," we .a.linit that pobliaity
cons tutee the gravamen of slander, but we affirm
t 14 :that publication in questionsh-ould be charged
i
to the man who knowingly-utters:such slaiider at a
Fublic meeting, and not to,the joarnal *hi*, me-
chanically, without feelipl, and in the course of its
.duty reports the proc-TeMic,rs. -Dou-htfeasiTtre-sy- .- e •
tern Of rep4itiiig Ali to the' 1i:11W-city:of oiviiiibiid
.110 delivered, but- that ii Simply an incident of the
,times in which we ,live, and, unless it is Age in-
jurious, cannot be more accountable for the results
thanany other of the agencies, such as steam, rail-
ways, and so forth, by which the circulation of
opinion is facilitated. We maintain that when-a
man rises to speak at a public m,eting he does so
with all the obligations of. the positioo, including
that of being reported. He knows and should feel
that his words will be taken down, and that, if the
subject or the speaker be of sufficient importance,
they will come' in aTe* hours to thi) knowledge of
millions. We say:that a speaker in public, under
these conditions, is himself -the puOlisher,of his
speeeh. He is the author 'lot only of
the slander, if slander it- Contains, but of the -ppb-
licity too. lie took all the steps required for its
publication when he uttered .it.knowingly within i
reach of an echo which would repeat his words a -,
thouisand times. The newspaper represents not4ing '
but he rak -from which the voice -reverberatts,
nothing but the substance on whiclithe photograph '
*taken. -All the Consequences attach to the speech
Moire. If there. is a *difference 'between ‘sgoken. and
written wordq, it prevails eragy b:tween 'wofds
spoken in private and spoken,_. public. - -Men
they are spoken in public the speaker speaks Chem
and writes them too. He seaks, as it were,
_..,
thropigh a ipeaking tube, .eich, as lee well knows, -
wilPatid 'must carry his words over the whole liade
of the country. Whatever novelty or aggravation
of character mg be: impartedto apt Ily. O(34Et .
Mau is is imparted. by the speaker. himself when be
deliberately resorts to a public meting for the de-
livery of his Opinions.
-
Will anybody urge that this system of publiett-.
tier-I:and reporting is undestrabre..in Itself' and
should therefore be deprived of ' protection tWe
think not. The gentlemen with whom we have
. ~
had the greatest differences about the functions of
the press are precisely those who uphold this one
function above every other. We recollect when
Mr. Cobden seemed disposed to limit the duties of
newspapers to reporting public speeches, and, if
there is one point in which the instrumentality of
the press is more prized than another, it is that by
which every public speaker is enabled to address
not only his own audience, but his countrymen at
large. We cannot, indeed, pretend to doubt the
opinions of the country in this respect, and we
ask therefore, with entire confidence in the jus-
tice of our claim, for simple protection in the
discharge of a public and a serviceable duty.
As it is, the responsibility is shifted from those
who should bear it to those who are in no'
way chargeable with it—who have no malice,
and no intent, indeed, of any kind, except
that of professional accuracy. In reality, it is quite
impossible for us, even if it were so unreasonable
as to-demand it, that we should supply that caution
which speakers ought to exercise themselves. With
reports from all quarters and on all subjects pour-
ing in upon us ; with sometimes a total absence of
information about the parties or politics locally con.-
cerned, and with a few hours only in which to re-
duce all these materials to order, it is out of the
question, if - we are to be responsible for anything
said About anybody, that we could steer clear of
offence; in fact, if the law is held to bass it is, and
advantage were commonly taken of it, newspapers
would be compelled to give up reporting altogether.
We hold to this one proposition—that the publi-
city of the meeting and the bona fide character of
the report should decide the whole case. If the
meeting were not a public meeting, or not such an
one as would be reasonably thought open to the
publication of its proceedings, then there would be,
good ground for argument against any journal
which, by publishing such proceedings out of the
Common course of its duty, had given extraordinary
currency and effect to any slander which might
have been uttered. [f, again, the report could in
any way be convicted of malice in the prominence,
colour, form, or any other attribute given to the
words of the speaker, an action might fairly lie
against it ; but these are precisely the points for a
jury to consider. We do not ask to be relieved of
fair responsibility. We ask only that in the dis-
charge of a duty which the country expects at our
hands, and which is admitted to be a great public
benefit, we should be protected against charges
which-properly appertain to others. This would be
justice to the press ; as justice to the press it would
be an advantage to the public ; and if, as regards
speakers at public meetings, it should impose upon
them the obligation of a little more care, we do
not think anybody would be found to regret the
result.

Mrs. Parker, the woman who was so horribly ill-treated
by her husband on Tuesday, the 10th inst., lingered until
tbenextllionday, but was never ableho utter a sound that-
was atl'iatelligible. The prisoner, since his committal,
seeps td have bv.T.,nro perfeetlr!pensible of the fearful tra-

Oa Virechieacloy, at the reopening °file omit, the ooroner
stated to the jury, that by the courtesy of the mayor he was
enabled to have the prisoner brought before them. He was
then ordered to be brought up, and his first appearance ex-
cited a feeling of commiseration, as supported by two po-
licemen, pale as death, with his eyes closed, he was led into
the room. Upon his entrance, the coroner informed him
that he had no wish to cause him unnecessary pain, or to
have him made a spectacle of ; but that he deemed it proper
that he should have an ovortunity of hearing the evidence
brought against him, so as to be able to confront his accu-
sers; however, if he wished, he might retire.
Prisoner, in a sad tone—l know lam guilty. I mean to
plead guilty at my trial. I don't wish to live. I've brought
ruin and desolation on all my family. Let the matter bo as
short as you can, and have no more ceremony than is re-
quisite. I shall plead guilty at my trial. In the same
mournful tone he said—l was urged to it. I was worked
up to madness by an accessory. That accessory has mur-
dered ley wife. We ought to be hung side by side. I don't
want to save my life ; I would not raise my finger to save
it. The man who urged me to it always heard all he could
and published it. I was driven to it.
The Coroner—Will you name him ?
Prisoner—lt is of little use ; the whole world knows it. I
have nothing more to say.
The jury, after five minutes' deliberation, returned a
verdict of wilful murder against Josiah Parker, and he was
ordered to be committed for trial.— Wilts Independent.

THE EXPLOSION AT THE FOG SIGNAL FAO
TORY OF 2HE EASTERN COUNTIES RAIL
WA Y.

The inquest on the bodies of William Beckingham, aged
25, John Jackson, aged 14, servants in the employ of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company ; and Jas. Beckwith,
a master blacksmith, killed by the explosion of the fog-
signal factory, was held at Stratford, on Thursday night.
Mr. Bell, of the storekeeper's department of the com-
pany's works at Stratford, stated that Beckingham super-
intended the manufacturing of the fog-signals, and that
Jackson was the only boy employed under him at the time
of the accident. The witness produced a fog-signal, which
when empty is a circular tin case about half an inch deep,
and said that it was the boy's duty to fix three percussion
caps or three nipples in the interior of the cases ; that
Beckingham then filled up the cases with gunpowder, fas-
tened on the lids, and returned them to the boy, who se-
cured them with tape, and they were then complete.
There were about 12 gross of signals manufactured and
stored on shelves round the interior of the building. On
a moderate calculation the 12 gross contained 441bs. of
powder and 5,184 percussion caps. Besides the fog-signals
there were about 1201bs. of gunpowder in the building in
21b. zinc cases.
In reply to the Coroner, the company's storekeeper at
Stratford stated that the distance from the signal-house to
the centre of the rails of the Cambridge line was 170 feet ;
to the Colchester line 157 feet ; to the nearest point of the
general stores 37 feet ; to the public high road 102 feet ;
and about 374 feet to the Stratford Station ; and that there
were usually from 600 to 700 people employed at the
works. The witness further stated that about 2001bs. of
powder was kept in the engine-house, but every precau-
tion was taken to prevent accident. In his opinion the
explosion resulted from the ignition of the powder, and
not from the manufacturing of the fog-signals, the whole
stock of which, 12 gross, with the exception of about half-
a-dozen, was found uninjured and unexploded.
The Coroner suggested the propriety of an adjournment.
He put it to the jury whether the existence of such a
building, and the quantity of powder which it was admitted
it had contained, close to works where some hundreds were
employed, and the constant passing of trains on the Col-
chester and Cambridge line, was not fraught with eon-
, siderable danger to the lives of the public.
Several of the jury acquiesced, and it was agreed to ad-
journ the proceedings for a few days, in the hope that the
Board of Trade would direct their attention to the case.

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