The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-10 00:00:00

read it aloud. During this ceremony the Pacha ap-
peared much affected. At the passage—" I send you
by, Samy Pacha the Nishen Sadaret decoration of
Grande Vizier," Samy took from a case a splendid deco-
ration set in brilliants, the riband of which, of dark
blue; he placed round the Viceroy's neck. One ex-
pression—"ln accord with the Allied, Powers, the
Government of Egypt was iiranted you hereditarily ;
this honour of the sadaret is personal ;"—was much
noticed. The . reading of the diploma having been
concluded. Mehemet Ali withdrew to a corner of the
audience chamber, where he seated himself: At the
same time the guns from all the forts in the town
and the ships in the harbour fired a salute. Ibrahim
Pacha having stooped to kiss his father's hand, Mehe-
met Ali made him sit down by his side. The offi-
cers of the household in succession presented them-
selves before the new Grand Vizier, knelt down, and
kissed the fringe of his divan. After the
Ulemas retired the Scherif Abdallah, son of
the Scherif of Mecca, who arrived from Con-
stantinople in the Redschid steamer, adVanced to
pay his honage to the Pacha. The ceremony having
been concluded, the battalion of the guard, which
was drawn up in the court-yard, together with their
regimental band of music, withdrew. On this occa-
sion all the Consuls, with the exception of those of
Austria and Russia, hoisted their flags. The latter
plead etiquette, and say that they should have been
informed of the ceremony by a circular. Mehemet
Ali continues to wear his decoration, which gives him
the title of Highness, and places him, in point of rank,
second to the Sultan. On the 23d, sailed from Alex-
andria for Marseilles the Nile steamer, with horses,
shawls, and Mocha coffee, as a present to the King of
the French. Artin Bey, the Paella's interpreter,
accompanies them. The Pacha proposes to set out
for Cairo to pass the month of Ramazan, but before
his departure he intends to dispatch Samy Pacha
again to Constantinople, probably to obtain permission
for the Viceroy to proceed in person to thank his
Sovereign. Other reports say that the Pacha would
prefer the actual appointment of Grand Vizier to the
honorary title. It is said that the Sultan's mother,
the Sultana Valide, wishes to pass through Egypt on
a pilgrimage to Mecca.

THE AFFAIRS OF GERMANY. t
FRANKFORT, Oct: I. ,
—The position of the Press in '
Germany is curiously illustrated by a judicial decision
which was prbnounced lately by one of the higher
tribunals of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Before the
memorable decrees of 1882 Baden had enjoyed com-
parative freedom of the Press. The newspapers were,
indeed, under the control of a censor, but if they
printed articles which he prohibited, no penalty could
be enforced against them, unless a Jury decided that
the article in question was punishable. The Frank-
fort ordinances were chiefly directed against Baden,
as the country which had the best emancipated itself
from the eld-iashioned restraints that were jealously
kept up by Austria and Prussia. Baden, like the
rest, was obliged to make its censorship rigorous, and

fora while freedom of discussion ;vas annihilated.

After the farce of the " demagogische Autriche" (the
emptiness of which was proclaimed last year officially)
was played out, and the serious position in which
Germany was placed by M. Thiers awakened a bol-
der and a better spirit in both rulers and ruled, the
Gazette of Upper Germany was founded by some
public-spirited citizens at Carlsruhe, and did good ser-
vice under the censorship of M. Giehne to the national
cause. At the time it was almost the only paper in Ger-
many that gave leading articles, and therefore com-
manded more attention abroad than all the rest of the
Press taken tegether. Theimpression which these
well penned effusions made in Paris was the best re-
ward of the writer, and the chief object of his exer-
tions. This impression was due to the tone in which
they were conceived, and which left no doubt as to
their expressing the sentiments of an unanimous and
po►verful nation. The impression they made on the
Baden censor was, however, not less apparent. Baillie
Jarvie enforcing the law against Rob Roy, was in no
greater perplexity than the worthy censorial depart-
ment at Carlsruhe on this manifestation of power on
the part of newspaper, which, to the honour of all
censors, seemed to have adopted the plan of taking no
notice of them. Treating them as torments which
might have their use on occasions which it was then
no time to discuss, the editor went on printing in spite
of prohibitions and seizures, paying the dines that'
were laid upon him through the munificence of the
proprietors, and acting as no organ of the Press had
ever done before in Germany. One would have
thought that the Baden' Government, which were to
have had to bear the- brunt of the fray, if an invasion
had taken place, would have felt in some measure in-

debted to so seasonable an ally. But the editor, like
those conscious of strength, was not always particular
as to the direction in which he used it, and seemed to
think that the remedying of abuses at home was as
good a way as any other to make Germany respected
abroad. We English, too, unhappily did not of late
stand much in the Editor's favour, from the influence
of a proprietor who, amongst many amiable qualities
and great diversity of talent, has lately had a propen-
sity for cotton-spinning, or from the not uncommon
notion that manufactures are the only means to make
a country rich, and that we prevent all the rest of the
world from manufacturing. The Baden Govern-
ment, however, did not interfere to prevent the cen-
sor from pursuing his attacks, and he, of course, was
encouraged to increase their severity. A Commissary
of Police was sent into the printing-office to examine

the manuscripts, and carry off any winch might be in
process of printing in contravention of the censorial
prohibition. This course was, after some trials, dis-
continued as unadvisable, and the system of confiscat-
ing the numbers at the Post-office adopted. This
allowed the proprietors to commence a suit at law
for indemnification for their loss. The Magis-
tracy of Carisruhe, in the first instance, in every
respect, decided against the Editor, and sentenced
him to the usual fine for contumacy against. the
censor. An appeal was made to the Court at Rad-
stadt, which has decided against the Lower Court,
confirming the fine, which was not disputed in
the appeal, bat ordering the property to be restored,
and condemning the seizure as illegal. M. Sander,
the popular Deputy, was the pleader for the paper.
This decision deserves to be known in England, as it
shows the respect for private property which is found
where the Courts of Justice are independent, and
must, of course, influence the projection of such un-
dertakings as the transit of the Indian mails, or other
cases of trust.

In Prussia another case of hardship has, I am
sorry to say, been added to those of Messrs. Jacoby
and*Hoffman. The principal teacher of the Gymna-
sium of Konigsberg was accused of contributing some
of the leading articles of the greatest effect to the
paper of that city, which, since the accession of the
present King, has been foremost in the Liberal ranks.
He was required to produce a certificate from the
Head-master that he performed his duties satisfac-
torily. The Master gave him a brilliant testimony as
to his- efficiency, but when the leading question was
put to himself whether he thought it advantageous to
the school to have its teachers writers in newspapers,
he,-of course, replied in the negative. On this M.
Witte was immediately dismissed from his post.
Judging from the manner in which M. Witte is re-
spected-in. Prussia one would think that a censorship
with any pretensions.to the character of utility would
use every exertion to get the papers into such hands
as this instead of discouraging men of respectability
and talent from supporting them.

RUSSIAN FORCE IN THE
SLACK SEA.
SEBASTOPOL, SEPT. 11.—The fleet which sailed
from this harbour about a month since, to cruise in
the Black Sea, and to exercise the crews at their
guns, returned about five days since. It anchored in
the roads, where it presents an imposing appearance.
This squadron is composed of six ships of the line,
two frigates, and three sloops. The names of the
line-of-battle ships are—the Twelve Apostles, bear-
ing the Russian Vice-Admiral Arvinoff's flag, and the
Three Saints, both three-deckers, carrying 120 guns.
These two superb ships were built at Nicolajeff, and
are quite new. The crews of each consist of 800
men, and their guns are—two-thirds of 48 guns, and
the remainder of 36. The other ships mount 84 guns,
and are called the Mahmut, Silistria, Adrianople, and
the Three Hierarchs. Their crews consist of 600
men each, and their guns of 32-pounders. The Silis-
tria having run aboard the Adrianople during the
late cruise, and damaged her, the latter has been laid
up in dock, and it is doubtful whether she can ever
be fitted for sea. Besides this fleet there are in the
inner harbour six other ships fit for service, viz., the
Warsaw, a three-decker, carrying 120 guns, and five
carrying 84 guns. A new ship, the Varna, is daily
expected from Nicolajeff. Besides the ships already
mentioned, there are six others unfit for service. The
Russian fleet in the Black Sea comprises, besides the
ships above named, six frigates, eleven sloops,
and six steam-boats, which are almost all employed
on the coast of the Caucasus, to prevent any commu-
nication between the mountaineers and the Turkish
ports in Asia Minor, whence the Circassians used to
draw their supplies of provisions and ammunition.
The works of the fortifications of Sebastopol are car-
ried on with the greatest activity. The two forts at
the entrance of the bay, named Alexander and Con-
stantine, which are mounted with 320 pieces of cannon,
are completely finished. The works of the great fort
St. Nicholas, which consist of three rows of cannon
one above the other, are nearly complete. This edifice
of extraordinary magnitude is, intended to defend,
with 260 cannon, the harbour and docks, but at, this
moment there are but .50 guns mounted. The most
extensive works that the Russians hare effected here
are, without comparison, the docks for repairing ships
of war. These works shauld be seen in order to have
an idea of this colossal enterprise, which was com-
menced twelve years since, and is still continued, not-
withstanding the numerous difficulties which were
opposed to the filling those docks with sufficient water.
For this purpose it was necessary to form a canal, 18
versts long, to convey the water from the river Tcher-
naia Retchka. This canal passes through several
tunnels and aqueducts. It is a British engineer named
Hopttm who is directing those works. The Emperor
is so much pleaSed with the exertions of this gentle-
man that he has conferred on him a decoration, toge-
ther with the rank of Colonel. The Russian Admiral
Lazareff, a man of great activity and an excellent
seaman, is at present here, occupied in inspecting the
works of the fortifications. When he has concluded
this operation, he proposes to return to Nicolajeff,
where he resides, with the rank of Commander-in-Chief
of the entire Russian naval force in the Black Sea.
Intelligence has just been received here that Lieut.
General Golowin, Commander-in-Chief of the Pro-
vinces of the Caucasus, has been recalled, and replaced
by General Neidhart, one of the Emperor's .Aides-de-
Camp. The Prince Tschernitscheff, Russian Minister
of War, still remains in Circassia.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY- EVENING, OCTOBER 10, 1842.

16th of August. When I got to the toll-gate I saw
a body of men coming towards me. They were
making a very great noise, and beating the turnpike-
gate with bludgeons. Standevens pressed me close
against the railings, and called out to the others,
" Now, lads." I saw him put his hand in his bosom
and pull out something like a pistol, and swore he
would take my life away because I was a ringleader.
The others all surrounded me, and raised their
bludgeons as if to strike, and I struck at them, fought
my way out, and ran away. lam quite certain about
Standevens ; he appeared to be the leader of the mob.
Jonathan Large—Was acting as special constable
on the night of the 16th August. When we got to
the turnpike it was about eleven o'clock. I was not
alarmed, although the others were. The mob were
making a great noise. I volunteered to go down
with Ford to the gate. They stood opposite Ford's
uncle's house. I heard Standevens say to the others
" halt." They had hedge-stakes in their hands.
Standevens said, " We will kill all the special con-
stables in Stoke." He lifted his cudgel to Ford, the
last witness, and said, " Now, for your life, or I will
kill you !" Ford then ran oft; and Standevens
shoved me off the road. I followed the mob. The
other constables then came up, and all three prisoners
were taken. lam sure the three prisoners were of
the party. Standevens and Handcock were very
fresh in drink.

John Bennet—l acted as a special constable on the
light in question. I saw the mob of eight or nine
lerons opposite Mr. Ford's. I saw Standevens and

Wright aitiong the mob.
James Lovatt—l apprehended Standevens on the
night of the 16th of August. He was waving a
bludgeon over his head, and I asked him what he
was doing disturbing the peace, and ordered him to
" disperse." He said that was his way home, and
was but he would go that way. He went on
shouting, " Come on, lads, we will clear the town
of every constable." When he got to the Brook-
bridge he turned back, and said he would go and
fetch the others, and pull the town down. He
said he would cut the head off any constable that
laid a finger on him, and I took hold of his collar.
Two other constables came to my assistance, and we
took him into custody. He raised his bludg:on to
strike me, but it was taken out of his hand. When
we were taking him to the lock-up he cried out,
" Frost, Jones, and Williams," and " Britons\ strike
home." He shouted that several times, and it created
a great uproar in the town, and I believe it brought
out the cavalry. His head was bleeding, and he
wiped it down with. his hands, and said he would
wash them in English blood. I believe he was struck
by one of the constables when I laid hold of him. He
was very drunk. I did not see the others taken.
Mr. NEALE addressed the Jury for the prisoners.
Mr. Baron ROLFE having summed up, the Jury re-
turned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners.
Thomas Bennett was indicted for a riot at Stoke-
upon-Trent, on the 16th of August last.
Thomas Bassington—l am a shoemaker, and acted
as a special constable during the disturbances. On
the 16th of August, towards evening, there was a
great row at the bottom of the street. The prisoner
was standing by himself, and threw at the troops with
great violence. I crossed over and asked him how he
could think of throwing at the soldiers ? He said,
"D— your eyes, what have you to do with it ?" and
wanted me to fight. There was a great crowd assem-
bled. He was taken into custody, and made great
resistance.

John Roland—Acted as special constable. Is cer-
tain the prisoner threw a stone at the soldiers. When
he was brought up to the Town-hall he declared be-
fore the gentlemen sitting at the Town-hall that he
was a Chartist, that he had thrown stones at the yeo-
manry, and would la so next day if he had an oppor-
tunity. Ile had a clasp-knife in his hand open, and
witness made him close it.
The Jury found the prisoner Guilty.

THE LATE ATROCIOUS MURDER
AT LINCOLN.
(Abridged from the Stamford Mercury.)
The Jury re-assembled on Friday night last to
pursue the investigation of circumstances inducing a
belief that the mother of the murderer was a partici-
pator in the crime. The first witness examined was
Mary Smith, the female who saw the death-blow
given to Mary Lilburn, and who had frequently heard
the old woman threaten the deceased to get her mas-
t .tr (meaning her husband) to give her a good beat-
ing. The witness had also within the last three
weeks heard the old woman tell her husband (Ed-
ward Lilburn, pipe-maker of the waterside), to beat
his wife. As late as the day before the fatal blow
was given she heard the mother eall the deceased abo-
minable names, and incite him to ill use her, and, in
fact, it would seem from the evidence generally that
the poor wife was almost invariably spoken of and to
by some opprobrious term, and seldom addressed by
name.

Aim, the wife of Joseph Lamb, cooper, corrobo-
rated the statement with regard to the continued ill
treatment of the deceased, and that the old woman
frequently instigated the son to beat her, and swore
that within a fortnight of the death she had heard the
old Nvornan say to the son, " Here's Mary been drink-
ing again, and if you don't lick her well for it I'll
leave you."
The old nurse who equivocated at the former exa-
mination, was examined, after being warned of the
responsibility of an oath in a religious sense, and as
regards the laws of the country. On Wednesday
morning, the 28th ult., the day after the death of the
deceased, the old woman, addressing the witness, said,
"Coyne up stairs, I .NS'atit'yote." When they got up
stairs, the old woman continued, «If you look over
the rack, you'll find a cameral ; take it, and put it
into the false room, for my son never hit his wife with
it." The reply was, " I shall do nothing of the kind,"
and the witness left the old woman up stairs, and
went out upon a trifling errand. On returning
_she
met the old woman in the gateway, who said, "Now
be sure to remember what rye told you." The re-
ply was, "Pm sure I shan't ;" and the witness after:
wards seeing Philip Lilburn, a brother of the mur-
derer, told him what had passed, and he cautioned
her to let the cameral remain where it was, and let the
police find it. Two hours after the death, this woman
went and applied for a certificate for burial. The
police, on the Wednesday morning, were sent to
watch, the house, that nothing should be taken away,
and the cameral which was produced was found by
policeman Blow on the ledge of a wall above the pun-
cheon-rack, the place described by old Mrs. Lilburn
to the nurse Asman.
At this stage of the inquiry some new features were
presented. The bedding and other articles taken by
the police were found to be saturated with blood ;
there was the appearance of blood in the out-house,
and the old woman was shown to have thrown a basin
of blood down the gutter. The medical men, on the
post mortem examination, found the stomach in a
healthy state, with the exception of slight disease of
the liver; and having stated that the extravasation of
blood upon the brain, caused by the stroke from the
cameral, was the cause of death, they ceased from the
examination, and the body was interred on Thursday.
afternoon.. After the interment, circumstances of ill-
treatment transpired which were before unknown, and
one was hinted at too monstrous and too indelicate for
relation. The Jury, for satisfaction, determined that
the body should be exhumed, and a second medical
examination made, and the inquest was adjourned to
Saturday.
The body was taken up and again examined; the
suspicion hinted at proved to be entirely groundless,
and the blood remained entirely unaccounted for.
The Jury again met on Saturday morning, and
proceeded with the inquiry.
Sarah Stainton deposed that on Wednesday and
Thursday, the 14th and 15th of December last, she
went to the house of the prisoner and saw the deceased,
who showed one of her legs much discoloured, from
ill-usage, the deceased told her, on the part of her hus-
band. The prisoner was then ill ; and upon Mrs.
Arnold, his sister, coming in and inquiring how he
was, the old woman replied, "He is almost heart-
broken about that b-h ;" I wish she
was gibbetted alive." Mrs. Arnold replied, "You may
wish me the same ; but you have not a child that will
not curse the hour they had a mother." The deceased
came frOm the kitchen, and telling the old woman to
wait upon her son herself, the latter replied, " You
b h, you shall have it; and on the 15th the pri-
soner lifted up a pump-handle and endeavoured to
strike her with it. The next morning he threatened
to knock out her brains, if she did not get a clean shirt
ready for him to put on. The deceased had repeatedly
told witness of the incestuous intercourse, and said,
"What should you think of it, if he was to leave you
in bed, and go to his own mother ?" Other circum-
stances, which are too disgusting for detail, were sworn
to on this head.
Mary Smith and Ann Lamb was again examined,
and re-affirmed their former statements.
The fact of the decea.sed's being confined naked,
was corroborated by Eliz. Jenkinson, a servant, who
lived with the 'Albums at the time, and who stated
also that Mrs. Lamb came and took her away.
It was proved that Lilburn had been heard to
say that if his mother was to die, he should throw him-
self into the river and drown himself, he loved her so.
The Jury, considering that they had sufficient evi-
dence against the mother to warrant a verdict of "ac-
cessory before the fact," the inquiry was closed on
Saturday afternoon, and the Coroner made out his
warrant for the committal of the old woman.
She was conveyed to the city prison in a fly, fol-
lowed by an immense mob, who had anticipated that'
she would be taken in a cart, and that there would be
an opportunity of stoning her. All parties speak of
the deceased as a steady and uniformly well-conducted
woman prior to her marriage, about four or five years
ago; after that event she became habituated to drink-
ing; and the old woman also seems to have been a
great spirit-drinker and laudanum-taker.
Lilburn, after his committal, made an assignment
of his property ; but the intent of it has been fustrated