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PUBLIC SPEECHES. During the latter end of last and the early part of the present week, addresses have been delivered in various parts of the county by public men. They touched on a diversity of subjects, but none are of any great political importance. On Thursday, Mr. Bouverie, M.P., was at Kilmarnock, and in a speech to his constituents referred to three subjects-the Indian Insurrection, the Commercial Panic in Scotland, and Lord Derby's Government. With respect to the last of these topics, he said "The Ministry we have now got in are not backed by a majority of the House of Commons and Lord Derby and his colleagues started with difficulties. How have they attempted to get over the difficulties? By giving way in defence of their own previous opinions and all their own principles—giving way, when they thought they were going to be defeated, to the Liberal majority of the House of Commons, not by leading the majority of the body iu the course which they considered advantageous to tho public interest, but in following the Liber >1 majority contrary to their own feelings and opinions for the sake of avoiding defeat. Now, gentlemen, is thit a course of conduct deserving the confidence of Parliament or of the constituencies of this country? I have no con- fidence whatever in Lord Derby and his Administration first of all because of his avowed political opinions- and secondly, because of the party by whom he has always been supported. They are the Tory or Conservative party and he the leader. For the last quarter of a century he and his friends have always stood in opposition against anything like advancement, or progress, or improvement, or reform, in this country. Therefore, I say, they are not deserving of your support or mine. But they have endeavoured to obtain the support of the Liberals in Par- liament, and some acts which they have spent their lives in resisting when proposed from the other side have now been agreed to. The speaker then instanced the ad- mission of the Jews into Parliament, and proceeded Lord Derby seemed to be rather like a coquette with two lovers on either side, oding the one, and pressing the foot of the other under the tablo, and trying to persuade both that lie is all in favour of their own views. (Laughter.) Lord Derby tried to satisfy his own friends that he was a good Conservative, and on the other side, pressing the foot f the Liberal party, persuaded them he wanted progress, improvement, and reform, calling upon them to witness what he would do if they would stay and assist him. He was endeavouring to balance himself on a. tight rope, from which be was sure to get a fall. He (Mr. Bouv-rie) had a perfect convictiou that Lord Derby and bis friends, however much they yielded to the Liberal majority in the House of Commons at present, would, if a chance were to turn out, be as vehement Tories as they were before." (Loud applause.) Mr. Labouchere, M.P., was at Taunton, on Friday, and alluded in the following terms to the promised Iteform Bill — It had been announced by her Majesty's Government that a new lieform Bill would be introduc 'd in the next session of Parliament. For his own part, he had no doubt such would be the case, and it was hardly possible but that this bill would materially affect their position and interests as a constituted body. (Hear, bear.) Now, he thought it right to say to them that he considered it would be his duty to consider that measure not solely or even principally as regards the constituency he had the honour to ri present, but in reference to its hearing upon the great interests of the c immunity. (Cheers.) He conceive I that a measure which would affect the future generations of England should be regarded not as to whether this or that set of men shall occupy the bench of office (hear)-and he should look upon it with every feeling of deference to the well-being of the country, and not as a question which pertains to a mere political par- tisan (Ulieers.) He had no wish whatever to see the constituencies of England put up, as it were, to auction —lhear» hear) -to be obtained by the highest, or, it might be, by the most unscrupulous bidder. (Loud cheers.) But if that measure should appear to him calculated to improve, purify, strengthen, and to enlarge our represen- tative system, that Bill should have his support. (Hear, hear.) If, on the other band it be merely a specious pretence--if it should appear to him not to be calculated to produce that end for which alone the representative system was of any value-namely, the good order and good government of the country, he should fearlessly oppose it, and he trusted to the good sense and public spirit of the men of Taunton to support him in that course." (Loud cheers.) On Thursday, M. Kossuth, the ex-governor of Hun- gary, addressed a large audience at Edinburgh, on the Characteristics of European Nations." His remarks were clever and interesting, and displayed considerable shrewdness and power of observation. He commenced by adverting to the antipathies and prejudices with which each one of the great European nations regarded the rest, and proceeded to show that national peculiarities were not fit subjects for mutual ridicule or contempt, but a providential ordinance commanding mutual for- bearance and respect. The diversity of national character ought rather to be the ground of reciprocal esteem. It has been said, and not without foundation, that as the mord personality of the individual in in is made up by the harmonious con- currence of three forces, which, for the sake of brevity, we will call mind, heart, and soul, or intellect sentiment, and will, just so the national genius of the German, French, and English, combined in harmonious symmetry, would form a most perfect collective being inasmuch as each of them corresponds to one of the three spiritual faculties of the individual man intellect or mind being represented by the German, sentiment or heart by the French, and active spontaneity of will or the soul by the English national genius. In fact, on inquiring into the predominant feature of these three national charac era, we find in the German individualism and idealism corresponding with reason in the abstract. In the French we find sociab^eness and communicativeness cor espomling with sentiment, affection, I passion, hear! and as to the English, it being a compound j of half Saxon half Norman, aud, us tho Irish would say, several other halves besides, we find in the English the German individual sm likewise, but not in the ideal line, we find it connected with practical activity it is individual energy applied to substantial results it is the force of the strong will, bent on rendering physical nature sub- servient to tue welfare of nun. M. Kossuth proceeded to contrast the German with .die English character. The German, he said, is undoubtedly the profound-est thinker among all. The individualism and idealism of his national genius pushes him to mediiui .n. His mind is essentially contemplative. He is the philosopher of E trope. "is philosophy is totally diff-.ro:r. ,rom yours. You speak of a natur II philosophy the German not only wonders but shadiers to hear the word 'phiiosophy' applied to a mere study of facts. But you are a matter-of-fact peo le; the Ger- man, on the contrary, is the man of i,leas-to him the whole universe, moral au,l physical, and everything besides, are butmateriitts for speculative inquiry into the absolute reason, 1? ° the infinite substance, infinite power, infinite form ..I. Kossuth wont on to contrast the French and English character. With the Engli»b, he said, the man, tho indi- vidual, is everything. Society is to him but the frame iu which expands his individual energies but it is not on society he relies he relies on himself. We read of St. Olof that on asking one of his warriors, In whom dost thou believe?' the warrior answered, 'I believe in myself.' That man must have been the progenitor of the An<do- Normau race. With the French, on the contrary, society is everything. The individual regards himself but as a component part of society, a drop mixed up with millions of drops he believes not in himself, hut in society and it is from this belief that each Frenchman might say, 'My name is legion.' People in England will say, I am an Englishman there you have the article of individuality 'an,' and thoie you have the 'man.' You have him in the Scotchman, Irishman, nobleman, gentleman, alder- man, yeoman, the liveryman, and in the old form of ad- dress, Ye mail of England'-everywhere you meet the man. The designation of nationality, rank, office, are but adjectives with him the man is the substantive. Your neighbour there across the Channel will not say he is a Frenchman he will say that he is French, he drops his personality and makes himself an adjoctive, his coun- try is his substantive. Verily, tho language of a. nation is the mirror of its character. Hence the French genius centralizes; the English individualizes. The French can tell of a powerful State the English of a free nation, which never feared, nor never will fear, any Power on earth. The French have struggled much for freedom, but scarcely ever were free the English have strugg ed but little for it, and nearly always were free. M.°kossuth proceeded to say that the Frenchman's theorv of Govern- ment was centralization he had yielded hifj'libei ties to a ctmtral power, and he took his faith from a central source. ihe Englishman, ou the other hand, asserted his indivi- dual rights and his will in political matters, aud his liberty of conscience in religious belief. Every cuter- prise into which the French nation entered w. s guided and controlled by the central Government; evcu their system of colonization was under S'ate direction, ami hence its comparative failure. English commerce, on the ot ier hand, only wanted freedom and it spread over the world, and its colonies had laid the foundations of new empires. The political condition of France was a bitter irony on the gigantic efforts which that great nation had made for liberty. The failure of its past exer- tions were directly traceable to centralization for cen- tralization must lead to absolutism—it was absolutism in the germ. The French genius tended towards levelling individuality, the English towards its ex- pansion. France had acquired equality without liberty England had freedom with social ine- quality. M. Kossuth came to what he termed the ra- ther amusing chapter of the social relations of France and England. A Frenchman and his wife stood on terms of equality in England no such equality existed Mar- riage in France was a company formed under a tacit un- derstanding of limitel liability;' in England it was a solemn contract, in fulfilment of which, when affeetion subsided, duty took its place. The house of the English- .hw ""canary, his castle. The Germans would .H,e.ls a.Vils house,' and tbe French, He is chez lui,' w- T7- 1m8i i (Laughter.) We Hungarians, too, (said os^l,th) have our word home and it is indicative of our national character that we apply it to our private homes, the door of which is seldom shut, and to our na- lonal home, onr fatherland. Love of private home and love of national borne form the ground work of the charac- ter of Hungary. Ju.lge, thou, from this what it is for a Hungarian to be an exile. An Englishman, resumed M. Kossuth, would live 2 ) years in his house without know- ing his neighbours; a Frenchman would know all of them in 24 hours. Let the sociable Frenchman be planted among the tatooed islanders of the South Sea, and in two years he would be found tatooed; put an Englishman in the same position, and he would be king of the island in that time. The lecturer also referred to the communica- I tiveness of the French character—a quality which was not only individual but national, and hence the electric cele- ri y with which the throb of liberty communicated from aris, spiead throughout the continent, and male every l European despot tremble. France, ruled by one ambi- IOUS man ( e saiu), might be a standing menace to Bri- ain u roin ree I ranee she had absolutely nothing to fear. Let Britain therefore, withdraw her hand from propping the established order of things'-an order which rightly should be ca.led disorder,' for freedom was order, and despotism was the anarchy that should be feared Let tho rising tide of the aspiration for freedom now spreading over the continent relievo the French nation from the apprehension of foreign co-tli tioiis-let only once- more-reviving France remember that the freedom of Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Poland was the best and °nly guarantee of her own freedom, and they should see the dead weight of centralization fall from off her breast, and France would stand in the face of day free as the freest of all On Tuesday, Sir Charles Napier and Mr. Locke, members for Southwark, addressed their eonstituents. Mr. Locke s speech did not contain any point of special interest, but Sir Charles Napier thus referred to the National Defences :— ''e/li .(^ l°ng thoiight that our means of defence were 110^ sufficient. He had said so for years, and he had stated it at meetings where th- opinion was not popular, owing to the fear of increased taxation and at last Lord Hardwire had spoken out, and had stated that the coun- try was not in a proper state of defence. He did not find fault with Louis Napoleon for increasing his navy or his harbouis whenever he thought proper. He bad just as much right to build ships ami to open docks and harbours as we ha.) but h3 (Sir C. Napier) asked the country to take care that we proceeded in such a way that the ships which Louis Napoleon built and the docks he made should not. he dangerous to the s.ifety and ihe liberties of Britain. (Cheers.) He was glad to saythat we had been making lately great exertions and improvements in our dockyards, and ia cutting down old sailing ships which were now useless, and converting them into screws, which would be useful. Ihis country must not be left in a. state of tindefence. (Cheers ) He wanted no expense, He desired economy in carrying out these measures but economy was not to be secured bv pavinu off a fleet in 185", and recovnmissioning the same 'fbet in 1853. In 1815 ail Europe was friendly to 11i, but in 1858 we had hardly a friend in Europe. He believed it was impossible that a despo'ic nation could long be the friend of a free and liberal nation. He had no doubt that the French alliance, if it were sincere, was the greatest bleasing that couid happen to the world, because, if France ant En<»- 6 ? land were united, not a shot would be fired in anger ?n Jiurope. He repeated that it w.« not possible that a despotic nation and a country which, was governod by a King, Lords, and Commons could long march ou together. Ihe longer toey did so the better but it was our duty to look out for a rainy day.

THE QUARRELS OF AUTHORS. A case which promises to be of considerable interest in ILeraiy and club circles. and which wid raise an im- po taut and novel point, is to be tried by one of the com- mon law court* at West-funster, probably during the sittings it nisi prius after the present term. It arises out of the dispute betvveeo Mr. ThacLeray and Mr. Ed- mund Yates, both members of the Garrick Club, which arose under the following circumstances:—Under the title of Literary 'ia.k, Mr. Yates published an article having for its subject Air. \V. M. Thackeray, snd thus described his appearance": Mr. Thackeray is forty- six_ years old. though from the sifvery whiteness of his hair he appears somewhat older. He is very till, stand- ing upwards of six. feet two inches, and, as he walks erect, his height makes him conspicuous iu every assem- bly. His face is tloodles*, and not particularly expres- sive, but -emarkaole for Me fracture of the bridge of h.s nose, the resul. oi an accident in youth. He wears a small grey whisker, bit otherwise. is clean shaven. iNo one meeting him would fail to recognise in him a gentleman, llis bearing his cold and uui viting his style of conversation either openly c.yni'.al or affectedly good-natured and benevolent; his bjiihonwtie is forced, his wit biting, his prid e easily touched, but his appear- ance is invariably that of a cool, stune, well bred gentle- man, who, whatever may be rankling within, suffers no surface display of his emotion." Mr. Yates then pro- ceeded to comment on Mi'. Thackeray's genius :—"It was with the publication of the third and fourth num- bers of Vanity Fair' that he began to dawn upon a reading public as a great genius." Then, 4, His success culminated with Lectures on English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century,' which were attended bv all t},» court and fashion of London. The prices were e^trava gant; the lecturer's adulation of birth and portion was extravagant; the success was ex rava^ant." The publi- »i t ° ai 1C( u t^uestiou ha .ing been brought to the knowledge of Mr. Thackeray, he wrote to Mr. Yates witii whom he had been on speaking terms as members ot the same club, in which he described the aiticle to be not offensive and unfriendly merely, but slanderous and untrue." Mr. Thackeray concluded with the fo lowing admonition I beg as I have a right to do, that you will refrain from printing com- ments upon my private conversation, that you will forego discussion, however blundering, on my private affairs, and that you will henceforth please to consider any question of my personal truth and sincerity as quite out ot the province of your criticism." Mr. Yates im- mediately rejoined by a letter,in which lie rejected Mr. Thackeray's angry understand ng" of his pbrazes, ad- ding, If your letters were not slanderous and untrue, I should readily luvo discussed the subject with you, and avowed my earnest and frank desire to set riirht anything which I may have lefi wrong." Mr. Thacke- ray theu submitted the correspondence which had passed between Air. Yates and himself, together with ibeoonv ot the article to which lie bad taken exception, to the committee of the Garrick Club. 1 think" wrote Mr hackfray, I may fairly appeal to the committee of the Garrick C ub to decide whether the complaints I have against Mr. Yates are wtdl-founded or not, and whether the practice of publishing such articles, as that which I enclose, will not be fatal to the comfort of the club, and is not intolerable in a society of gentlemen. I Mr. Yates having heard that Mr. Thackeray had adopted this eourse, wrote to ask the committee to suspend thair judgment until he could consult his friends, and prepare bis own version ot the case to la\" bdo\ è !he:\). This was on the 19th of June, but on the 2Jrd Mr. Yates wrote to the committee, qustioning their right to enter- tain the matter at all. Tiie article" he said, may be in exceedingly bad taste, but the committee is not a committee of taste The committee held a special meet- ing on the 26th and came to a decision expressed in cer. tain resolutions. They resolved that it was competent for them to entertain Mr. Thackeray's complaint, that the complaint itself «aa well grounded, and that the practice of publishing such articles, being reflections by one member of the ciub against any o tier, would be fatal to the comfort of the club and intolerable in a so- ciety of gentlemen Ihe committee further resolved th t Mr. Yates was bound to make all ample apology," or retire from the club. Mr. Yates declined either to reireortoapotogise. and stated that he would appeal to a general meeting on two questions-first, whether the case between Mr. I nackeray and himself was such a ca-ie as should be submitted iu the committee at all • and second y, whether Mr. Thackeray has any right to call for an apology from me, when he has so very arro- gantly and coarsely addresstd me." The result was that Ait. Y ate-, s subscription was returned, and it was intimated to him that he was expelled the club. He has therefore it.stttuted all action against the committee for trespass, in refusing to allow him to enter the club, and tins will raise the important question, as affecting the rights of members ctenerall" whether the club had the right to expel Mr. Yates or not. It is understood that there will be a large array of leval talent on both sides, and the trial, boili from the natuie of the issue and the position of the parties, will possess great interest. The Attorney-General has been retaine for the committee of the Garrick Club. Mr. Ed win James. Q C., is to lead the case on behalf of the plaintiff Mr. Edmund Yates A correspondent of the Post, from which we take this, writes that the stafelllent is tolerably accurate, up to a certain point ft omits to state that "d general meeung o the Club was called, that it was more Wgdy attended than any meeting of the Club since its forma- tion, and that the re-ult of Mr. Yates's appeal,' is to be found in resolutions by which, in a majority of two to one, the Garrick Club decided that its committee had dctea rightly, and empowered it to ict for the future as it unfortunately was compelled to, namely, by expelling inir. xates, wiio then has recourse to attorneys." -T"

IIOKUIBLK MURDEK.—Mr. William Parsons, of And- over, draper and outfitter, left his home on Monday evening last about 10 o'clock, for the purpose of postinsa letter, but it seems previous to his leaving home he wrapped himself up in a rough common overcoat, as tuough he intended staying out longer than for a mere visit to die p.'St-offioe. As tune passed ou and the unfortunate -nan did n return, Mrs. Parsons naturally thought that n. »Un h NVUh, 8: m': lnend whom he was spend- i J °Ur.' a 8 le "tired to bed about her usual tim<* ttle die,-tining of the horrible fate which had befallen her unfortunate husband. Considerable unt-asioesa was ^ls "°t returning home all night, and between 7 and 8 o'clock in the morning some of his own shopmen were out for their custowary walk, previous to the shop being opened, and as one of them, was strolling along the Salisbury turnpike road, about half a mile from the town his attention was suddenly attracted to the body of a man lying in a field cloee to the r- ad, with his face to the ground and his clothes covered with frost, as though he had been there all nigbt. On entering the field and ap- proaching the body he discovered uumistakeableevidence of a horrible murder having been perpetrated, and, with- out ascertaining who the unfortunate victim was he made all haste towards the town, and gave information of what he had seen to the police, who immediately pro- ceeded to the spot. It was evident that the deceased, who was found to be Mr. Parsons, had met with his untimely death from the hands of a murderer, from the Lature of his wounds, and from the fact of an ash bludgeon of about the thickness of a child's arm lying close by the body, the big end bearing bloody evidenoe oftbe foul murder committed by its aid. It was evident that the murder was cot committed for the purpose of plunder, from the fact of the watch and purse of the deceased, containing L3 12s. 6d., being found in his pockets, together with bis handkerchief, pockelbook, and many other things. The deceased has left a widow and four children. The police are using every endeavour to discover the perpetrator of the crime.

BRIDGEND. REVIVAL OF THE HACKS IT OX OGMORE DOWN. At a meeting hcld In the Town-liall, Bridgend, on Fri- day evening last, Mr. Joseph Cragoe, of the Wyndham Arnvs Hotel, in the chair, it was resolvetl to revive the Bndgend Races, and for that purpose a highly respect- able and influential committee was appointed, ilr. 1. g- Smith, manager of the National Provincial Branch Bank, was appointed treasurer; and Mi. Joan Gnffiths, of the BruZnd Chronicle, was unanimously elected secretary Subscriptions to the amount of £ 112 have already been promised. The first race meeting will take Place in the Spring of 1859, under the stewardship of three of the leading gentlemen of the county. Ogtnore Down, upon which the race-course is situate, is about 2t Voiles from Bridgend, and commands a clear view of nearly the whole of the Bristol Channel and the beauti- ful scenery of the lower part of the county of Glamorgan, to gaze upon which is alone a treat sufficient to repay the trouble and trifling cost of a visit. We wish the promoters every success.

CWMBRAN. Elfea "Williams, aged 14, was playing on Saturday last with a number of other children in an outhouse be- longing to her father, Mr. James Williams, and when In the act of lighting a fire, her clothes ignited, upon "'hlCh she ran out and a neighbour threw three buckets Of water over her before she c tuld extinguish the flames. The poor girl was so dreadfully burnt that she died on the following day. An inquest was held on the 21st Instant at the Pontnewydd Inn, before William Henry Brewer Esq., deputy-coroner, and a respectable jury, ^hen the above facts were proved, and a verdict of "Accidentally burnt" returned.

BLAENAVON. CONCERT.—On Monday evening a concert, chiefly oi sacred music, vocal and instrumental, was given at the Infant School-room, by the Illaenavon Choral Society, under the patronage of Mr. R. F. Davi', Mr. W. Plum, and the Rev. J. Jones,. In a short time after the doors Were opened the room was crowded, and many persons were obliged to return home, unable to obtain admit- tance. A platform was erected for the -reserved seats, with sixty sittings, all of which were occupied by the gentry of the neighbourhood. The following ladies and gentlemen were among the company :—Mr T. W. Plum, Mr T. Plum, jun., Miss B. Plum, Miss Wakely, Master F. L. W. Plum, the Rev. J. Jones and family, Mr J. E. Steele, Master and Miss Steal, Mr J. Haris, Miss Davis, Mr Evan Saunders and family, Mr Israel Morgan and family Mr J. G. Williams and family, MrW. Barfield and family, Mr James Price and family, Mr F. Thomas, the Misses George and Master J. George Mr Cousins, Mr J. Kay and family, Mr Prosser, Mr J. Jenkins, Mr B. Po.vell, Mr Warren, Mr Campbell, Mrs J. Vin- cent, Miss Phillips, &c., &c. The following were in- strumentalists :-Piano-forte, Mr Clarke; Violins, Messrs Harris and Lucas; Violoncelio, Mr J. Lucas Flutes, Messrs D. West and J. Phillips. The pro- gramme was follows — PART 1ST. GiffchoroV'i'raise the Lord," .J, Fawcett. Solo (" Lord remember David, IIamleL °°1° Mr. S. Deakiu ( Quartette PrayingSpirit," I Xicbolls. Chorus Swift to my rescue j Air > i*.ut th?" d!dnfc."i? 11'6 1 Handel. ^lr ( bus soul in h"11,1 Deakin, j Solo & Chorus To tlie Great Lord," Rossiui. Duet & Chorus ( '• Teach me 0 L"rd the way i ( of thy statutes, > TU I PART 2ND. c" From J udas Muccabaeus Ilandel. Chorus | See tha Conqu ring Hero ) { comes," •••• •{ Air f Angels ever bright and 1 Handel. 1 fair Miss Bartle .•••) Shor«S \VakotheBongofjubile«, „- Ha>. n- D«et "Coraaeversmiliug liberty, .Handel. Recitative Thus s:«.ith the Lord. Solo O worship the Lord, Mr. S. Deakin tNicholls Tri0 ■< And the ransomed of the j Lord," Chorus Gry out ancl 8bouV' Trio, Duet, & J .< Lord, what is man ?" J J. Fawcett Chorus I J FiDale God save the Qa<en.' The overture and march were very well performed by the band, as were also the accompaniments throughout. Mr G Deakin sung his solos in capital style, and was loudly encored. Miss E. Bartle sang Angels ever bright and fair," verv tastefully, and being encored, s;m* Ruth entreat me "not to leave thee," and was 1 udly applauded. 44 Come ever smiling Liberty, was \ery well sung by Miss Rees and Miss Bartle.

CARDIFF. TOWN-HALL, CARDIFF.—Fiudaw [Before R. O. JONES, Esq and Dr. VACHF.LV] nf fh»Tn°NS ro —William L'ewellyn, keeper a?d ■Anchor beerhouse, Bute-street, and Nicholas BaUer, lun41orj of the R Standard house were charged w.th having, on the 6th ins-ant, unlawfully and „nowingly suffered bad woman to assem- ble at* and continue in, their houses. Mr. Superinten- dent Stockd.ile and P.S. Cambridge proved the charges. In Baker's house 14 prostitutes and about 160 men chiefly foreign seamen, were found drinking and carous- ins and in Llewellyn's about the same numbers were present, many of the males being not more than about 17 years of aije a stage was erected in the^ laige room in which they assembled for acting or singing, and many of the prostitutes we,e in fancy costumes for at™;™ Mr Owen appeared for Baker. 1 hey were »; .hi, MONDAY. [Before R. O. JONES and W. DONE BCSHELL Esqrs ] SMUGGLING.—The captain, mate, und cre\ Maltese ship Creole, were charged with concealmg 1401bs. of tobacco, on board their ship. The Custom- house officers deposed that they visited the ship on Sun- day, about a quarter of an hour after her arrival in port; the captain was ordered to bring forward all the tobacco he had on board, and after what the crew brought forward had been sealed up, 1401bs. more was found on board in a box concealed in the ballast. Mr. "Wilcocks appeared for the captain. The case was ad- journed to Wednesday. „ SHIP ROBBERY —Goschief Nasthing and Garl Atkin- son, two Prussian youths, belonging to the Hemtein, ■were charged with stealing a quantity of old rope, can- *as, &c. Thev had been apprehended by the Bute Dock police. The iletich were of opinion that the case did to felony, and the case was dismissed. The constable (Markhai No 9) was told by the magis- Ann Mm d°ne his duty rfmarkabl? We\ i Ann Morgan, an unfortunate young girl, was chargod ^ith robbing John J Jat Penarth. The prosecutor did Oot ap'p4P^ Jp 41 deposed that prosecutor told him he LA fid in a house of ill fame by be.en ^bbed of 9s. 6d. lane, on Sunday morning. Prisone011^' I?°r A RUKAWAY.-D*nie8, had been found in the streets in a statl .• He stated that he was an apprentice^ t0ltea°sf, desU\uUon; Gloucester. He was ordered to be sent until his master could be communicated with Unlon AGED DEPKAVITY — Dennis Morrison, a man beyond the middle age, and Ann Jones, wearing a widow's cap and apparently more than 50 years of age, were charged "With being found on the Taff Vale Railway beyond the terminus at the docks, indecently conducting them- a selves. They were reprimanded and discharged. lern-

THE LAW COURTS. 4 COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. — WESTMIXSTEH, NOVEMBER 22. (Sittings in Banco, Michaelmas Term.) (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) NICIIOLSON V. THE GREAT "WESTEKX RAILWAY COMPANY. Mr Manisty, Q.C., moved for an injunction against the defendants* company to restrain them from giving undue preference to the Ruaban Coal Company. In the application made a short time age by the same complain- ant in which the master reported, the master ought to have brought the facts more fully before the Court, so that the Court might see whether the facts put forward inferentially were correct or not. If the cost of the carriage of the Ruabon coal were investigated the cOTi- plainant was confident that it was not remunerative to the defendants to carry it; or, if remunerative, that it was not nearly so remunerative as the carriage of the Forest of Dean coal. The Ruabon Coal Company con- sisted entirely of the oifiaials of the railway company, and on that fact the whole question turned. In making their calculations the railway company took 100 miles as their b:1si", and said that if other companies would send them the same quantity of coal to be carried the same distance, they would give them the same advan- tages. This was a mere delusion, for it was now sworn that nine-tenths of the coal carried for the Forest of Dean Riilway Company went to stations less than 100 miles distant. It was therefore absurd to make such an offer. The company stated that the Forest of Dean Company did not send full trains, and that their trains wese con- sequeiitly broken up at the various stations; but the facTt was that the Forest of Dean Company had ceased to send full trains at the request of the defendants company. Mr. Justice Crowder: The railway company s.vore in the last case that git was more advantageous for them to carry for the Ruabon Company on the terms they did than to carry for your company. Th it you did not answer. Mr. Manisty said the parties had conducted their own case before the arbitrator. Mr. Justice Crowder: Then you now undortake to prove that the company cannot carry for the Ruabon Company with the same advantage to themselves as they can carry for you, on the terms imposed ? Mr. Manisty Yes. Mr. Justice Williams: You may take a rule, but with this caution, that you may have to pay the costs, and possibly you may have to pay the costs even if you stlccel.d,-Rule nisi granted. COURT OF PRO HATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the JUDGE-OUDINAHY, and a Common Jury.) MARGHMONT v MARCHMONT.—Mr. Serjeant Pigott, Dr. Deane, Q.C., Dr. Spinks, Mr. Tindal Atkinson, and Mr. J. F. Smith were counsel for the petitioner Mr. R. Macaulay, Q.C., Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey for' the respondent. The petitioner, Caroline Maria Marchmont, prayed for a judicial separation from her husband, Henry Marchmont, a Dissenting minister, at Islington, on the ground of cruelty. She alleged that he had treated her with the graatest uukindness and cruelty, and had extorted large sums of money from her by threats and violence. Various acts of cruelty were specified in the petition. The respondent denied all the allegations of cruelty, and also pleaded condonation. The statements made by the petitioner in her examination showed plainly that she had led a most unhappy life with her husband, who, it appears, had several children by a former marriage. The following portions of her testimony may be taken as samples of the who!c :—Mrs. Caroline Maria Marchmont, examined by Dr. Deane, said: I was married to the respondent on the 17th of October, 1857. I had known him since December, 1856. I was a widow, and had £50,000 at my own disposal, which had been left me by my first husband. Mr. Marchmont first proposed to me in Februaty, 1856. I did not then accept him. After we were married we went to Tun- bridge Wells. Before my marriage I had lent Mr. Marchmont'a father £ 900. He had also had £ 110. I advanced this at Mr. Marchmont'a request. I had lent Alr- ilia,chmol,t XIOC). We remained about five weeks at funbridge Wells. Several unpleasant things occurred between my husband and myself. Mr. Marchmont's children joined us there. Oil the 18th of November he told me to go and hang or drown myself. On the next day he s:tld he should leave me, and told the children to taken off the things I had bought for them, and put on their own. A few days afterwards, while we were out for a walk, he called me a liai, and when I made some observation he said it was a ——— lie. The day after the marriage I gave him £100, and afterwards lent him £ï 1. Eirly in December, Mr. Marchmont called me a mean- spinted thing, or wors", and said he wished me to go away. I went out of the house, and he then told me to go back and pay the —— bill, adding that if I did not he would throw ine into the sea. lie was very white, and his eyes titled fire. One morning he insisted on having a chtok tor £100, and an ther for 1;15, and stood over me with his fist up until I yielded. lie was continually telling me to go to the devil and to hell, calling me names, such as "cat" and "dirty slut." He expressed a wisli to separate and to have £10,000. lie would go off in his temper at any moment, and I was so frightened that, at his request, I wrote to my trustee expressing my readiness to give him that sum, and to sign a deed if separation; but he did not let me send it. Two days afterwards be was ill-humored and macte use of some dreadful expressions, and as he was shaving threatened to out his own throat. lie took my keys from we and locked them up, and told me to go downstairs and find half a dozen blank checks, and he would fill them up. When I went down he got into a passion in consequence of something I sai l, and said he would knock me down, and he did not mind dying for me. He also repeated his demand for £ 10,000. lie threatened to call a policeman and to say I was mid, ground his teeth at me, and Called me hell-lire spit-fire cat. He then became calm. lie afterwards broke out again, said I had £ 50,000, and he did not see why he should not have half. 1 repeated the words that he had used to the servant. The day afterwards, when I objected to go out in (he carriage, he said he would not mind swinging" for I was so frightened that I ran out of the house to a neighbour. On the 25th of February, my husband came to me at Mr. Walmslcy's. We were at diuner. He said I must go with him, and I went without bonnet or shawl, lie to k hold of me and thrust me into a cab, and forced me down. lie was in such a passion that he trembled and could scarcely speak plain. (The wit- ness with considerable reluctance mentioned some of the epithets applied to her by her husband. They are too gross for repetition.) I screamed, and he put his hand before my mouth and tried to stop me. lie loosened my teeth, and he threatened to throw me out of the cab and let the wheels pass over me. I begged and prayed him, for God's sake, to stop, and he said he did not believe there was a God, for if there was, he would not be per- mitted to fed what ho then felt. A gentleman stopped the cab, hearing the screaming. I begged to be takeu to the station house. The cabman drove there, and my husband then asked me nut to give him in charge, and after more than an hour's hesitation I yielded and went home with him. I made him a present of £ 220, as I thought it would make him kind to me. lie went with me to the banker's. He wrote this paper at the banker's. The documeat was as follows:— I promise and swear three things to thee. First, to renounce all other women, and cleave only unto thee. Second, to endeavour to curb my temper and restrain all augry expressions. Third, to love thee with all my heart, disinterestedly, purely, constantly, devotedly, and until death. I am, my dearest Caroline, thine affectionately, H. MARCHMONT." Within a day or two before he Ind asked me to write to my trustees about giving him the lease of the house in Percy-place. He shook his fist at me, and repeated the names he had called me in the cab. Several letters written by the respondent entreating forgiv'en<-ss for his conduct, and promising amendment, were then read. They were in the same tone as that we have already given. In one he compared himself and his wife to a sweet rose and a pure tulip whi^h had been separated, and asked whether they were ever to be united. In others he inserted copies of verses— Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream," and similar productions. He begged his wife not to expose family quarrels, or listen to the advice of law- yers, who, he said, would always say there was a good case where there was money. He also spoke of the effect of the exposures which had already taken place upon his own prospects, and that anonymous letters were rmiriDe in UP0" him—he had just been obliged to pay 91 f one The reading of the letters occupied a consi A 1 w- time and caused much amusement in the fewrt. deraWo ume ana ^61^ Marchmont gaid Mr M \Crnnt" did very little for me. He was writing all Marchmont When he wont scratch, scratch, day long m my ro • rauch, but when he stopped scratch, it annoye lazy. I was pleased at his writing I did not say he> «a } hftye 80ineti[ne8 staying with me. Mr. Marchm J j washed and dressed children, a fire in my bedroom, but 1 did not | ^xnense. lighted in the drawing-room on account o He had good wine, but he gave me bad w complained of it. I told him he thought anything g enough for me. I did not call him a fool in the pre- sence of the children, or at any other time. When he pro- posed a separation the reason why he did not have tilp £10,00? was because he could not get it. The offer of a separation and the payment of £ 10,000 to him came from him not from me. I very seldom called him a liar. If any one was coming towards us at the moment, he might have used such expressions 8Sn v make 8uch a noi«e; behave like a lady," iiemember we are strangers here what will people think of us. Ho would say things of that kind without any provocation. I certainly did not lay bold of him by the hair of his head, as he was stooping down to unlock my trunk. I very likely gave him small sums, even to 2d. to the sliowm&Q of a cathedral, as they were wanted. ge ought to have carried money himself. If I had given lim a large sum of money he might have left me. I did lot forbid more than two meals a day abroad he and ,he children might have had tea if they pleased. I left ny boa at Ostend and bought a new one at Dover, but [ did not tell my husband in the hearing of the shopman vhen it was boing bought that he knew nothing about t, or order him to walk out of the shop. If I did it was lone kindly. He did walk out of the shep and wait for ne. The quarrel on Sunday, the 10th of January, did lot originate in my saying that I would leave him. When he was in his ill humours I never siil anything .0 him it would have. been as much as my life was worth. He often spoke about having a third servant. When the Newfoundland dog was brought home I lid not say "There were dogs enough already- [ have four to maintain, But I did object to lis cutting a piece off the roast beef for the dog. Mr. Macaulay; Did you ever swear at him?—Wit- nesss I May have said —— you once or twice when he wasteltin" dreadful stories. Mr. Marchmont and the two servants tried to prevent my going out of loors. The servants did not hold me. He did not come to me in the dining-room and say he hoped the storms were over, and pour out some wine and water or me, aor did I throw the wine and water over him. He did sot S;¡y H"re is a pretty example for the children," nor lid I answer that I wished he and his children were in eternal perdition. 1 did not tell him that his congregn- ;ion at Stoke Newington was a blackguard gang of hypo srites but he told me that a letter had been written and should be bonneted" if I went to his chapel. I never said to him that I supposed while 1 had been away he uust have had a nice time of it with his nasty women. When I hid a dispute with him it was my habit to ring Pur the servants. On the 19th of March I rang for them, mil went to the window and screamed. lie thrust me MI the sofa. I trembled before him, and he knows it. When he caught mo in the garden, after I had esc aped from the house, he flew upon me like a tiger. When we were in the house I did not swear at him and say, You murdered your mother, and now you want to mur- ler me." I was locked in ;.H day, and became ill. Me lid not attend upon me. lie slept in the same bed with me that night, but remained at as great a distance MS he jould from me. He did not sleep with me on the Sunday -,j;rht.—Mrs. Marchmont, in further cross-examination, said I requested Mr. Marchmont to give me his opinion .If my character a few weeks before our marridge, and he wrote the following statement:— My dearest Caroline,—As you wish to have my opi- nion of you, I will candidly tell you that I think you kind, generous, truthful, loving, benevolent, sympathising, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, devoted in friendship, and truthful m affection. 1 love you above all the world. As to myself, I am irritable, unkind, false-hearted, jealous, harsh, deceitful, changeable, proud, unforgiving, hasty, ungenerous, malicious, and utterly unworthy of that love which you have so generously bestowe.l upon me. I am, my dearest love, yours, living and dying, "HENRY MARCHMONT." (The reading of the document was received with much laughter.) I threw some wine and water over Mr. Marchmont after he had been saying something very bid to me. He raised objections to my writing to my friends. lie would not let the servant post letters for me, and nil the letters brought to the house were taken to him. His m'.m cr was sometimes very mild. Our differences never arose from my accusing him of going with other women. Mrs. Louisa Charlotte Davis, said 1 live at Blackheath and am the petitioner's only sister. She and her first husband, Mr. Locket, always lived on very good terms. When she came to my house, two days before Christmas, she was in a very nervous condition. She left me to re- turn to her husband on Christmas-day. When she came to me on the 16th of May she was also very nervous, and her wrist was sprained. She seemed to be very unhappy. As soon as Mrs. Marchmont saw him coming, she jumped out of the window and begged the servants to hide her in the coal cellar. He rushed past me at the gate, exclaim- ing that he had come for his wife, and that he would have her, I said he should not, and he replied that he would search the house for her. I called the coachman to keep him out of the house. In the morning Mrs. Marchmont went home. I received a note from her, in consequence of which I went to her house about the 7th of June. She repeated to me the names that Mr. March- mont had called her in his presence. He did not deny the language which she attributed to him. As I was leaving the room my sister called me back, and told me her husband had put his fist in her face and threatened to make her pay for what she had told me. She requested me to go to the solicitor, Mr. Barnard, and I went. I was present at the service of the warrant on the 1st of June. Mr. Marchmont was very violent; at first he tried to shut the door, and afterwards carried my sister into the dining-room, where she fainted. He threw her into a chair and held her down. Mr. Mitchell was sent for. When she recovered Mr. Marchmont went on his knees and beggpd her not to send him before the ma- gistrate. Bridget Tobin, who hail lived in the service of Mrs. Marchmont for five years, gave evidence with regard to the event which occurred in Percy-place, and substan- tially corroborated Mrs. Marchmont's statements. Mrs. Mackenzie, to whotn'Mrs. Marchmont had gone upon two occasions, and who had known her for 30 years, stated that on her arrival the first time she seemed ilmost paralyzed. When Mr. Marchmont came, the first thing he said was, Well, I've found you at las', Caro- ino. Money I want, and money I'll hnve." LIe Ureatened to send for a policeman and have her taken )efore the Lord .Mayor. On the second occasion, Mr?. Marchmont took lodgings under the name of Mrs. Scott," so that he should-not find her out. Mr. March- nont said he f ,und her out by watching Mrs. Davis's house at Blackheath, und when s ie posted a letter, bribing a man to let him see the a ldress. He used very foul language as he was going home in the cab, and said lie would have £ 25,000. Mr3. Marchmont was very much frightened. The next morning she was ill. Mr. Marchmont repeated his demand for money. Witness left because he called her a spy. lie afterwards brought her a few bottles of port, and said be was afraid the case would go htud with him if it went into court. On the fourth day of the trial (Wednesday) Mr. N. Macaulay replied on behdf of the husband, Mr. M irch- mont. Ho contended that in order to make out a case )f cruelty, it must be proved by the person seeking a judicial separation that the cohabitation of the two par- ses was p rsonally unsafe, by reason of bodily injury ind menaces of bodily injury unprovoked by anything lone by tha respondent. The law did not allow | ersons to separate because ti;ey lived uncomfortably together, or Uecause a jury might think that a wife was, on the whole, entitled to a separation. Upon the evidence, as it now stand, he submitted no bodily violence whatever had ever been offered to this lady by the respondent, and there was not the slightest pretence for the allegation that money had been extorted from her by violence and threats. Speaking of the wife, Mr. Macaulay s .id, h-1' attachment to money amounted almost to insanity. She was passionately fond of her husband, but a few months after the marriage 'his affection gave place to a mad jealousy, for which there was not the slightest fotinda- tion. Her husband assented to all her "arrangements, but she nevertheless led him the life of a dog with regard to household expenses. lIe was not looked upon by the tradespeople who noticed her conduct as her hus- band, but as some humble dependent who could not call bis soul his own. There were instances of gross conju- gal misconduct on the part ot the lady, who, nevertheless, represented that she trembled before her husband. Sae conceived a jealousy, and became impressed with an un-- founded belief that he was in the habit of improperly consorting with other women. She acted on that belief by insisting on accompanying him wherever he went, ind on seeing his letters, and nothing that he did could iispel her delusion. She was always fond of the shildren, and treated them aa kindly as her stingy dispo- jitioa would allow. That was the best part of her cha- racter, and although she was sulking with her husband, the returned to him when she heard that one of the children was ill. For a few days they appeared to be on good terms, but her suspicions as to his moral character influenced iier whole conduct. They slept together, but she repelled him, because, as she said, she was afraid'that lie might have been with other women. It was this jharge which almost maddened him, especially when she repeated it in the presence of a servant. On the 10th of June he was bound over to keep the peace, but that fact was of no importance whatever in this inquiry. On the 3rd of June he had been obliged to go to Homerton to correct some proofs for the press. She imagined he had ?°ne to see some woman, and, although they were quite h lendly, she went to her lawyer. The next morning be asked whether she had been to her lawyer. She refused to answer, and, his wrath becoming excited, he said he had a right to know. The bell was rung, another quarrel took place, his anger was aroused, and he no doubt used foul and improper language. He did this because he was exasperated by her behaviour, but he did no more, and she went to a neighbour's house. After Mr. Macaulay had addressed the Court, Mr. Marchmont was examined at great length. In the course of his evidence he gave the following instances of his wife's miscondnctI brought some East India sherry from London. She said I had picked out the worst in the celiar for her, but she would teach me a lesson before she had done with me. She added that she should regret having married me to the day of her death. She called me a fool for giving the children a little wine. I said, This is a nice example for my children, who have never heaid a profane word," and I told them to "0 away. She flew into a violent passion and said, H Don't let them go away with my things on; let them put on their Qwn rags." At dinner, I requested her not to take too much wine. She said I should not see what she took and drank the wine during dinner out of the bottle instead of the glass. I told her she must not leave me without money, having brought me down there "sr,hhi uu„?r. £ d -kiss lit' She seized me by the hair of my head .rid pulled me away as I was leaning down to open it. I neither struck nor threatened to strike her. I used no terms of I anger. She gave me the money at last, and then went down stairs screaming. She said, You wretch, you have been trying to break open my trunk." I only said, Caroline, behave like a lady we are strangers here, and what will people think of us if you act like this on and what will people think of us if you act like this on a Sunday afternoon ?" She went upstairs and put on her bonnet. I reasoned with her upon her folly, and said, If what you told me before our marriage is true, you cannot be happy without me, and I am free to confess that life is valueless to me withoutyou." Sae did not get drunk, but what she took caused her temper to become IIngoverwtble. Shedrank halfabuttlea-day. Idranknone As we were out for a walk at Dover, Marian, one of my children took my arm. She s"id, I don't see why I should not have your arm." She became angry and withdrew her arm. I said I would go back if she walked in that manner. I insisted on her taking my arm, and held her hand tightly. She struggled, and I said, I "Pray be quiet; that policeman on the other side of the road will think you are mad." She got away, and I pursued her, but without success. She never allowed me to have one penny in my pocket all the time we were abroad. On our return we went into a shop to buy a boa. The young man put one into my hands. I said it seemed a nice one. She said, What is that to you ? j Walk out of the shop in the most angry, insolent, and oppressive manner. All the young people laughed at me, and I walked out of the shop —[ Fo the Judge She called me a ——— liar. I said Oh, what a little spitfire you are She said, "I don't mind if you call me a hell-fire." I never used the words, "hell fire cat." I said" she was an insolent little puss."]—In the study I found my wife writing in a black account book the words drunk or mad." I said, We want no re- miniscences of disagreeable matters. This is the kind of record you told me you used to keep. With your permission I shall get rid of it." I put the book in the j fire. She took hold of the collar of my coat and shook j me violently against the wall. The back of my head struck against a picture-frame. I said, 11 Oh, Caroline, you are a woman, and that is your protection." She took the book from the fire, and with her whole force struck me across the face. The book was in flames, and the clasp struck under my eye. I have the mark to this day. My daughter had witnessed what passed. I said, I will not stay with a woman who denies me a candle and strikes me. Good God if I were to retaliate I will leave the house for my own protection." I told the children to get their bonnets and caps. Tobin said, Don't go out, Sir. with that mark on your face." I cooled down, and told the housemaid to light a fire in the drawing-room. My wife said the drawing- room was hers, and the children should not go into it. She said You had better go better go back to the set of hypocrites," meaning my congregation, and called them an infernal gang. I said, You must have learnt ftiat language at Billingsgate." I never used the ex- pression faggot" to her. She stamped her foot and said, It is a lie. You are a -liar." I raised my hand, thinking she was coming forward to strike me again, and put it on her forehead to prevent her from advancing. In doing so I gave her a slight push, but did not move her one inch. I said, Oh, you insolent little creature." She ran into the kitchen, screaming Now he has struck me that's what I wanted." She asked the servants if they saw a mark, and they said, "No." I said I did not strike her. At bod time I went down again to her in the kitchen, but she would not see me. She refused to sleep with me, and I offered to give her up the bed, but she said she should sleep in the servants' room. The Court again adjourned. (Continued in another page.) Sittings at ,Ytsi Prius, at Guildhall, during Term, before Mr. Justice CKOMPTON, and Common Juries.) BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. HAYNES T. HAYNES. Mr. Lilley and Nir. Laxton appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. Barrow for defendsnt. The declaration alleged that the plaintiff and defendant had agreed to many, that a reasonable time had elapsed and alt hough the plaintiff was ready and willing to marry the defendant, the defendant had neglected and refused to marry her. The defendant pleaded Not Guilty." Mr. Lilley, in opening the case, represented the plain- tiff, Miss Amy Ann Hiynes, as 22 years of age, the daughter of respecable but humble parents, and the de- fendant, Mr. Thomas Ilaynes, as 40 years of age, a sub- stantial farmer living in the parish of Chiddingstone, in Kent. They were distant relatives, and in 1855, the ptaintttfwenttoiive as* housekeeper to the defendant, upon the marriage of her sister. Subsequently his mother died, and his father moved to his sister's, leaving the p aintiff and defendant the sole occupants of the farmhouse. Irj 1837 she became enciente, and she was delivered of a child in January of the present year, whieh oaly survived its birth a few days. Itwasailged thatthepronii.se to marry had bsen repeatedly made in the presence of witnesses by the defendant, and that he had offered subsequently £100 as compensation. The following evidence is part of that offered :—Mrs. Maria Martha Smith: I am the aunt of the plaintiff. ¡ The defendant is also a farmer, living about four miles from us, at U-tle Farm. 1118 mother and father, who were very aged, were living in 1855 in the same house, but they are sincft duad. The plaintiff lived witli him for two years and a half. The plaintiff and defendant were left living together in the house alono, with the ex- ception of a lunatic biother. They came to my house frequently, alil I judged them from their conduct to be very fond of each other. He used to drive her about in a light c-ut, visiting. Early in September, 1857, I noticed t :at she had the appearance of being in the family-way. They still visited together. They were both at our house together in October. They had been to chapel together. It was not apparent to other persons that she was in the family-way. The plaintiff sent for me on the otii of October, and I went to the defendant's house. In the course of conversation he said two or three times, that he would marry her. I said it was a three times, that he would marry her. I said it was a very gr. at disgrace to her family. He said I lleed not I put myself the least out of the way about it, for he should marry her. He said he hoped I should excuse hun. Cross-examined I knew the house at Hale Farm per- fectly well. I knew the plaintiff's bedroom. olliv way to m-t to her bedroom was through the defendant's beUroom. The defendant's father removed about three months after his mother died. The housekeeper then left, rlnrl the only inhabitants of the house then were the defendant and the plaintiff and his lunatic brother. I do not know from her that after the month of April, 1857, the plaintiff occupied the defendant's bedroom aad sUpt with him regularly, nor do I think it was so. I have heard her repeatedly say that she did not. October the 5th, 1857, was not the first occasion when I had conver- sation with the defendant about marriige. He had always said he would marry her. I have never pressed him to many her. I have asked the fellow, but I should consider her much better off as she is than to have such a fellow a8 that. He is the wrong sort to be in diffijul- lies, I do not believe it. l\{ r. Joseph Barton.—I live at South-street, Cambcr- well. About 12 months ago I occupied a farm adjoining the defendant's. In February or March last he came to me and asked if I could give evidence in a case pending between him and Amy Ilaynes. lie asked if I could say that I had seen anything improper in her conduct. I told him I never had. He said, "If she has only given you a kiss, or you have taken any other little liberty." He gave me to understand that if I could say that had been the caso I should have £ 5 for my trouble. I told him I could not think of anything of the sort, because I did not like it. He said he would give me time to think, and would call at the situation where I was to see if I had thought of anything or could think of anything. He did call, and I said it ivas no use his calling, for I could not say anything disrespectful of her. Mr. Francis IIaynes.-I am father of the plaintiff. I am a flv-propriet ir, and live at Lewisham. Before I went to Lewisham I owned a farm in the neighbourhood of the defendant. On the 3J of October, 1857, my daughter came to my house, and requested me to go to Sevenoaks, to meet the defendant at the Chequers. I knew of my daughters state at that time, but her ap- pearance did not sho.v it. I met the defendant on the road. He said." Thid is a serious concern"; I said "Yes, it is and what do you think to do in this case ?" lie said that if I could take her home and put her away, he would marry her as soon as she was confined, for the disgrace would be so bad to get married then. He after- wards asked what I would take to take heroff his hands at once, and would I take £100. He came in about a fortnight and said, I don't see any occasion for marry- ing. This is an every day's occurrence among young ladies. I will pay you 10s. per week if youlik-s to keep her at your house, or else put her out, and I will pay all ex- penses." The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff,—damages £150. J

THE WEATHER.—The Timet of Wednesday, contained a letter from A, r. G. J. Symons, of Camden Town, dated on the previous day, upon the subject of the recent excessively low temperature. The writer says :—" As I found this morning that my thermometer had registered 20.6 deg., and that there was every probability of a very low mean daily temperature, I resolved to take hourly thermometrical and hygrometrical observations. The results show that this day has been almost as much below the mean as June the 16 was above. I do not find in the Greenwich observations, or elsewhere, any instance of so low a mean temperature in this month since Nov. 23, 1827 (thirty-one years to a day), when it was 24.6 deg., although it was closely approached in 1829 and 1819. There has been much positive electri- city, the gold leaves of the electrometer diverging considerably." The maximum temperature in the shade was 32.7 deg.; minimum, 20.6 deg.: range, 12.1 deg. mean, 25 9 deg. mean from Greenwich Observatory, 41.4 deg.; difference, 15.2 deg.

slffi61106 t0-day! aB<l to whom Sergeant Scarry gave °u-mcient money tt pay their fare by train, bat they have not obeyed thG summons, and I have no .v to ask for a lurther remand. th • ^Ven The prisoner has been rcnaandai twice or » rice. and now, that you fail to identify him, you ask or a further remand. Remember, gentlemen, that the transaction it is sought to bring home to the prisoner °ok place thirty-three years ago, and that the only Persons who can possibly prove the identity of the pri- soner with David Samuel have to-day been examined, ai\d they positively assert that so far as they know the Prisoner is not the man—they do not know him he is a ttanger to them. However, should you, as you have Power, remand him, I hope you will accept bail for ls appearance, as lie- is a most respectable man of eXcellent character, and can obtain security to any amount. P-S. David Scurry was then called, and proved the of a summons on Mary Davies, wife of Davia Navies, sawyer, and that he gave her as. to pay her fare to Carmarthen.' „ „ t The magistrates having consulted for a few minutes, resolved to remand the prisoner for a week, and refused to accept bail; the prisoner was accordingly remanded ^Otil Ssturday next.