The North Wales Chronicle and Advertiser for the Principality

JtflctropoUtan J&efos. On Saturday a Cabinet Council was held at the Premier's residence in Downing-street. The Right Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P., will preside at the Artists' Bonevolent Fund Dinner, 12th May. A pilgrimage to Rome has been organised. A number of English Roman Catholics leave London on the 24th inst. The Rev. Dr. Manning has had a narrow escape of his life, owing to a tempestuous storm nearly wrecking a vessel in which he was proceeding from Marseilles to Civita Vecchia. The annual exhibition of pictures by artists of the French and Flemish schools—the seventh that has taken place in London-was opened on Saturday morning. The Bishops of Bath and Wells, Lichfield, Llandaff, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Ebury, are among the subscribers to the fund for the prosecution of the Rev. H. J. Hatch's accusers. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—The season at the Royal Italian Opera is to begin on the 10th of April. Mr. Gye promises the programme in the course of a few days. THE NEW ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY.—It is said that this company will have the Princess's Theatre during the season, and will be under the musical direction of Dr. Yech. The annual festival of the Society of St. Patrick was held on Saturday atthe Freemasons' Tavern. The company was more numerous than it has been for several years. Many of the Irish volunteers appeared in their uniform, LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE.—At a meeting of the council at head quarters, on Tuesday, the Lord Mayor, who presided, announced that 1,423 effective members were enrolled up to the present time, and that several further donations had been received. Frederick Gye, Esq, has kindly granted the free use of the Theatre Royal Covent-garden, for a benefit in aid of the funds of the Royal Dramatic College, on Thursday, the 29th inst. Most, if not all, the principal members of the theatrical profession are to be brought together. The Zoological Society of London have just received ft fifte living specimen of the Gigantic Salamanda of Japan, the largest known species of amphibion. It is at present about three feet in length, and is the first of the sort that has been brought to this country alive. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Dallas and Miss Dallas, and a select party, at dinner on Saturday evening, at their mansion in Piccadilly. Lady Palmerston subsequently had a re- ception, which was attended by all the leading foreign diplomatic ministers, and a long list of the members of the aristocracy. Pooit LAW MEDICAL REFORM.-The medical students of University College, London, held a fully attended meeting on the 16th inst., to express their sympathy with the above movement. It was resolved to petition parliament to amend the laws at present in opera- tion, and also to collect funds for maintaining the movement. DEATH OF LADY DovEE.-Lady Dover, widow of the first Lord Dover, expired on Saturday, at her resi- dence, Dover House, Whitehall. Her ladyship was the sister of the Earl of Carlisle, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady Caroline Lascelles (widow of the Right Hon. W. S Lascelles). Lady Taunton, the Hon. and Rev. W. G Howard, the Hon. Charles Howard, the Hon. Edward Howard, and Lady Elizabeth Grey. CIVIL SERVICE APPOINTMENTS.—The select com- mittee appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into civil service appointments met on Monday for the first time, Lord Stanley in the chair. The other mem- bers of the committee present were Mr. Lowe, Sir S. N'orthcote, Sir W. Hayter, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Bright, Sir W. Jolliffe, Mr. Monckton Milnes, and Mr. Maguire. A?e meeting ofuhc Committee of Bankers, on Monday, it was de&nitively resolve d as anticipated, that banking business shall terminate :tS t:cfc\ on Saturdays (instead of four, as hitherto), beginning with the 19th of May. This must be regarded as a step towards the ultimate adoption of two ?o de?ck as the closing hour. Of the concurrence of the Bank of Eng- land no doubt is entertained. DEATH OF Mus. JAmisox.-The death is recorded- after a few days' illness, of Mrs. Jameson, an authoress whose literary works were well known, and who has left friends not onlv in her own country, but in almost every capital in Europe, to lament her loss. Mrs. Jameson was the eldest daughter of Mr. Murphy, painter in ordinary to the Princess Charlotte. She married Mr. Robert Jameson, the late Vice-Chancellor of Canada, whom she survived six years. THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN MOVEMENT.—In reply to a letter relative to the erection of a free drinking  district, Westminster, the  committee appointed to collect funds has received a communication from Mr. Jebb, clerk to the Board of Works for Westminster, expressing the regret of th, bomd that they are not authorised to ap. propriate any portion of the rates for such a pur- .or The object of the application was that dIe board should give a gratuitous supply of water to the pro- posed fountain. HEALTH OF LONDON.—The Registrar-General s re- turn states that in a great part of the weekthat ended ? the ioth inst. the air was exceedingly co^ld it con tinued cold in a less degree till near the end of last week and the Londo?eSexbibitaconsequentin- ?e in the mortality. The deaths, whichhad de. clined to 1,397, rose agam to 1,66^th^w^eek^that ended last Saturda). In the t?n years 1850-59  average number of deaths in the weeks corresp?ndm.g with last   for mcrease of populatIOn, is 1,362. The deaths f last week were therefore m excess of the estimated number b ?201 T%-enty-nine persons died from small-pox, of whom ?early haff were ?ry?:?'ipX- Of 8 death. s pDrJ0oa (juce(j by burns and scalds 2 were those of children wWe clothes had caught ifre, 2 also of children scalded bot coffee in vessels accidentally upset; two women died from their clothes taking fire, and another from burns received when in a state of intoxication. Five children were suffocated in bed; and a woman was choked by a piece of meat. A painter died from ague and lead poisoiiing. r* stonemason in Devonshire street, Bishopsgate, died in "uence of want, and a man aged 71 years, oun"ner R N at 23, UmbeMton-street, St. George's- P, ?h. ?Mt from want of proper and sufficient ?hment." Last week tl/birth, of 1,046 boys ??d ML 7 girls, in all 2,023 children, were regis. tered in London. In the ten corresponding week. of the years 1850-59 the average number vu 1,724. THB TEETOTALLERS AND TUB WINE DUTIM.-A deputation representing several hundreds of temperance societies in England and Wales had an interview with Mr. Gladstone on Monday, for the purpose of pre- sentiag a memorial against the Wine Len es Bill. Mr. Gladstone expressed his conviction that the pro- visions of his bill would prevent the evils which the deputation apprehended. The deputation then brought before the right hon. gentleman certain facts tending to show that public opinion was favourable to a Per- missive Prohibitory Liquor Law. At night, a meeting of the Alliance was held in Exeter-hall. THE METROPOLITAN GAS QUESTION,—We under- stand that the gas companies of the metropolis have at last given way to the pressure put upon them by the delegates from the various parishes. They will, it is said, consent to inspection; to a certain extent they are willing to be under the control of the Board of Trade, and they bind themselves under penalties to supply gas of a guaranteed illuminating power, and of a certain degree of purity. The only point of importance upon which they do not give way is that which proposes to fix the minimum price of the gas. This is reserved to be fought in committee on the bill introduced by the delegates. THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEY MARRYING MRS. BELL- -Within the last few days the public have been in- formed throu?h the press of the marriage of the most noble the Marquis of Anglesey to V.g. e of tl,,e zyost Burnand, daughter of George Burnand, Esq. The lady who has thus donned a Marchioness's coronet was formerly, it will be remembered, the wife of Mr. Bell, at whose suit the noble Marquis and the present Marchioness had recently to appear before Sir Cress- well Cresswell in the character of joint respondents. The noble Marquis is now in his 63rd or 64th year, and he has twice before entered the bonds of matrimony, his first wife having been one of the Campbells of Islay, and h1S second lady a daughter of the late Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B., some time Governor-General of Canada. THE SOCIAL EVIL.—A meeting with a similar object, and promoted, it is understood, by the same individuals as those recently held at St. James's Restaurant, took place at the Lecture-hall, Newington-causeway, at ten o'clock on Monday evening. It was similar in its cha- racter to the meetings referred to, with the exception that the fallen women present, to the number of about 150, were not quite so fashionably attired. The Rev. Hugh Allen, M.A. (the newly-appointed rector of the parish of St. George-the-Martyr l presided, and was supported by a number of other clergymen and gentle- men. At the close of addresses by the chairman and others about 20 unfortunates were conveyed to the Home in Dover-place, and in the course of Tuesday were sent to various institutions. THE BALLOT DIVISION IN THE LORDS.—The four peers who voted on Monday evening for the ballot were, Lords Belper, Llanover, Viscount Enfield, and Lord Teynham. The noes were the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Campbell (Chancellor); Dukes Newcastle and Somerset; Marquis Salisbury; Earls Amherst, Carnarvon, Cathcart, De La Warr, Derby, Hardwicke, Malmesbury, and St. Germans; Winton (E. Eglinton); Viscount Eversley; Bishops Carlisle and Chichester; Lords Aveland, Chelmsford, Churchill, Clifton (E. Darnley), Colchester, Denman, Digby, Ebury, Egerton, Lyveden, Monteagle of Brandon, Overstone, Saltoun, Somerhill (M. Clanricarde), Sun- dridge (Duke of Argyll), Talbot de Malahide, Temple- more, Truro, Wensleydale, Wynford. Tellers-Marquis of Bath and Lord Foley. THE REV. BRYAN KISG.-An address of sympathy, numerously signed by undergraduates of Oxford, was presented last week to the Rev. Bryan King, and has elicited the following reply—" My dear Brethren in the Bond of the Church,-I cannot express to you the deep gratification which I have received from the address of sympathy which has just been presented to me. Assailed on all sides by misrepresentations, and the victim of treatment which in all its bitterness I humbly trust is not wholly deserved, it is a subject of grateful thankfulness to me to find that some other feelings find a place in the generous hearts of so many under- graduates of that university to which I owe so very, very much. May the one Great Head of the Church give us all grace every to be ready both to labour and to suffer for His dear name's sake.—Believe me, ever yours most sincerely and affectionately in Him, BRYAS KINO." Six DAYS FROM CALCUTTA !"—Much gratification was expressed at a proof afforded to-day of the great stride which has been made towards obtaining in- stantaneous communication with India. The first private telegram has come through from Calcutta in six davs. The message in question, which is dated Calcutta, March 10th, has been flashed across the con- tinent of India to Kurrachee, reached Malta by steamer, at 8 p.m., on the 15th (last night), and was received at Lloyd's at 8.22 a in. this morning. It states-" Ship Red Gauntlet, bound to London, burnt and seuttleu; some cargo will be saved." The cargo is believed to consist principally of salt, which is not a very valuable commodity. When the deficient link in the telegraph-viz., that between Alexandria and Malta—is supplied, the transmission of messages be- tween Calcutta and London will occupy less than two days.-—Dji\ News (City Article). M. JULLIEN.—It is with pain we have to announce the death of this eminent musician, whose name has for so many years been a "household word' in Eng- land. He expired on Saturday last in a lunatic asylum at Paris. His remarkable career was understood to have been as successful as it was brilliant, till un- happily he became involved in speculations which terminated in bankruptcy; but it will be remembered that the judicial examination which followed not only acquitted him of all blame, but obtained for him the hi.h eulogy of the court for his integrity of conduct. He resumed his labours, but was unable to retrieve his affairs. Misfortune followed him to Paris; and at [length his unceasing toil, anxiety, and excitement cost him his reason and life. He has left his widow and (we believe) a sister in utter destitution; and the English public, by; coming forward for their relief, will show gratitude to the memory of a man who has done so much to refine and elevate the musical taste of the people. EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS IX NEWGATE-STREET.—In consequence of a conjoint arrangement between the Metropolitan Board of Works and the City Com- missioners of Sowers, an important improvement in the usually thronged thoroughfare of Newgate-street is now being effected at a cost of several thousand pounds. During the last few days a number of workmen have been engaged in removing ten of the houses in Newgate- street, King Edward-street, and Bull's-head court, for the purpose of widening the roadway. These improve- ments will stretch from 77, Newgate-street, on the western side, eastward to King Edward-street, and thence northward to Angel-street, St. Martin s-le- Grand, the whole of which premises will be set back in a line with the newly-erected buildings in Newgate- street, lying westerly from the General Post Office. Bull's Head-court w'ill be destroyed, and the whole of its quadrangular space built upon, thus giving several th u_ s _d.?are feet to the public way, and so far facilitating the daily increasing traffic, at present so in- sufficiently provided for in this part of the city. THE CITY CORPORATION REFORM BILL.-A Court of Aldermen was held on Saturday at Guildhall, the Lord Mayor plesidin, to consider the Government Bill for the better regulation of the corporation, and more par- t ticularly the resolutions passed by the Court of Common Council relating to the Court of Aldermen. A report came up from the Privileges Committee, calling attention more particularly to the resolution passed by the other Court for amending the Bill by de- riving those aldermen who might not be re elected of their seats in the Court of Aldermen, while permitting them to continue justices, and giving the Court of Common Council power to remove justices, not being aldermen, if from any cause they should become unfit to discharge the duties of their office; and to a further resolution for depriving the Court of Aldermen of the privilege they now enjoy, of approaching the Throne as a distinct body. The committee recommended that these amendments should be opposed, and that the re- port should be referred back to the committee, with power to take such steps as they might think fit for that purpose. The report was agreed to unani- mously. NEW ARTIFICIAL GAS FOR LIGIITTNG.-The ob- noxious monopoly of the gas companies is likely to meet with a corrective agent in superheated steam, which being charged with coal tar produces with marvellous rapidity, and at an excessively low price, any quantity of very rich gas for lighting. Careiul analysis has shown it to be composed of free oxygen, 1.8; oxide of carbon, 3; carbonic acid, 5.8; bi-par- buretted hydrogen, 17.8; and proto-carburetted hy- drogen. 71,9. Compared with ordinary coal gas, this ar?ndal gas is found to contain nearly one half less oxide of carbon, and twice as much bi-caruretted hy. dr?o?n i? intrinsic value is therefore twice as great. Besides, its composition proves tht it is a very pema. nent mixture or wmbmanon.^w^hicc h remains intact for any distance it may be conduced. After bemg kept for five months g ometers jt exhibited no change and left no deposit. A rator capable of furnshmg in four hours the light & city of 30,000 souls, and g g 000 bumess, is now in course of construct.ion. ? its practical utility will soon be faidy tested. The en?e absence of sul phuretted hyoen in this gas not the least o( its recommendations to careful tnal. Photograph: Ne vet. THB PAPER DUTY.—Returns containing statistics re- lating to the paper duty were issued on Tuesday. In 1837, the year succeeding that in which the duty on all kinds of paper was equalised, the amount of duty re- ceived was L655,942, and from that time the annual sum has increased steadily, till in 1859 it was 1,429,490/. The quantity of paper exported in 1837 was 2,569,2231b,1 and this quantity increased each year (a temporary check to its growth being, however, received in 1848) till in 1859 it was 20,142,3501b. The quantities of paper imported from abroad fluctuate very consider- ably, but in no year mentioned are they Bumciently large to be of importance.

Hontfon voliff Oourts. PROJECTIONS OVER PUBLIC WATS. i- At Southwark, Messrs. Powis and James, en Lueers, Webber-street, Blackfriars-road, were charged under the Metropolitan Management Act with refusing to re- move a certain projection in front of their premises, to the annoyance of the public. It appeared that for some years the premises in question had been in a dilapidated state, and the front in the Blackfriars-road was occupied by small shop- keepers, who placed their goods out for sale three feet from the frontage, where there was an old railing. About two years ago Messrs, Powis and James took the whole of the extensive range of buildings on a long lease, and rebuilt them at considerable expense, ana finding their pavement in a dangerous state they re- paired it, and fixed a substantial iron railing to protect their boundary. It appears that the inhabitants of the line of houses from Boundary-row had given up their frontage to the parish authorities, who paved it, and now Mr. Wellman, the surveyor of pavements of St. George's, sought to compel 17..r.. Powis and J.. to surrender the frontage, which they had been at so considerable an expense in repairing. Mr. W. Edwin, who attended for the defendants, contended that the frontage belonged to his clients, and that it had been railed in from time immemorial. The had never given it up to the parish, and as so n as t? e defendants found ttat their frontage was in a dilapidated state, they substantially repaired it, and now it was of great utility to them. In fact, it was necessary to them in their business. (Mr. Edwin here produced a photographic view of the premises for his worshi inspection.) Mr. t urcham said that he had seen the premises, and the property adjoining. There were railings in front of the Magdalen, and a vacant space paveable, and he supposed that a few years ago the frontages of the houses in the Blackfriars-road were all fenced in. The question was, whether the frontage now in the occupa- tion of Messrs. Powis and James was ever given up to the public. Had it been paved by the parish authorities ? Mr. WellmaR replied that it had not, and for more than twenty years he had observed an old railing in front; but still, if given up to the public, it would be of great advantage, and do away with the annoyance complained of. Mr. Burcham observed that Mr. Wellman's evidence was a strong fact that the frontage belonged to the premises in the occupation of Messrs. Powis and James; and, as far as he had seen, there did not appear to be anything inconvenient or annoying to the public, there- fore he should dismiss the complaint. THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF INDUCING A YOUNG LA-DY TO LEAVE HER HOME. At Lambeth, Charlotte Eliza Beaumont, late a ser- vant to Mr. Lombard, a gentleman of property, residing in Addington square, Camberwell, was further ex. amined before Hon. G. C. Norton, on a charge of stealing about £ 60 in money, the property of her master, and also inducing a young lady, not 19 years of age, the ::t tFrLt:r:ldr:o ih:ho:g;è uncle, for an improper purpose. Serjeant Bell, who has the case in hand, said that since the last examination he discovered that the per. son who had spent several days with the prisoner and her young mistress at the coffee. shop, in Long acre, and who had also absconded with a gold watch and chain belonging to the latter, was in custody at Maid- stone on a charge of stealing two pairs of ladies' kid boo s. This person, who went by the names of Pitman, Picton, and Fanning, had formerly been a Serjeant, belonging to the 5th Dragoon Guards, and in the 10th Hussars, but was ultimately drummed out of the regi- ment, while it was serving in India. On making in- quiries at Maidstone, in company with Mr. Lmt.d, he (Bell) found that on the 25th of last month Picton, or Captain Picton, as he called himself, after leaving the prisoner and her ung mistress in Long acre, made his appearance at g,,aidstone and engaged a house there, which he represented to be for two ladies, and said he should be married to one of them in about a month. After taking the house he paid a visit to some of the fashionable shops, ordering about 30 shillings worth of otto of roses in one, and two pairs of ladies' kid shoes at another, but unfortunately for him he was suspected at the latter place, and on leaving was taken into custody with two pairs of ladies' kid boots he had not bargained for in his possession, and for this offence he was committed to take his trial. lIe was also tried on the day before, before Mr. Justice Wightman, and sentenced to six months' hard labour. In order to make sure of prisoner's identity, he (Bell) took Keeley down to Maidstone to see him, and the only doubt that witness had was that his whiskers and moustache were not so black but this was easily accounted for from the fact that, when at large, he dyed his moustache and whiskers, but since his apprehension he had not the opportunity, and they naturally looked much lighter. Keeley, the coffee-shop keeper, made a long state- ment of the conduct of the parties while at his house, observing that the drummed-out serjeant required as much attendance as any gentleman in the land. This being all the evidence, Mr. Norton told the pri- soner that the charge against her at the present moment was for stealing a sum of money belonging to her mas- ter, though there might, on a future day, be another of inducing her young mistress to leave her home for an improper purpose; and he was ready to hear anything she had to say, but at the same time must caution her, that what she did say might be taken down and used in evidence against her. The prisoner made a lengthened statement that, in the first place, she used to admit a gentleman to her master's house for improper purposes, and that for weeks her young mistress and herself had con- templated leaving home and living together at the West end. The scene, as described by the prisoner, was one of gross profligacy, and at the end of her statement she was remanded for a week.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. THE ACCIDENT AT EARL GRANVILLE S II BIG PIT." At Stafford, James Gallon, engine tenter, was ar- raigned for the manslaughter of one of the nine colliers who were killed on the 5th of May last, by being drawn over the pulley at Earl Granville's Big Pit, at Stoke. upon-Trent. It was shown that the prisoner had charge of the engine at the time of the accident, and that he knew that men were coming up, yet he neglected to stop the engine before the cage, containing twelve men and b'oys, was drawn over the pulley, and nine of the number were killed by being precipitated down the pit, and three by falling upon the pit bank. When the engine was at work and the prisoner was at the handles, two men entered the engine-house (contrary to rule) for shelter from the tain. By this circumstance the atten- tion of the prisoner seems to have been called off only long enough to permit the engine to make half a stroke, wnich comprised a period of ten seconds, yet in those ten seconds the cage ascended about twenty feet, and the catastrophe described was the result. The government inspector of coal mines for North Staffordshire deposed that it was to the loss of those ten seconds that the accident must be attributed. The jury convicted the prisoner, but recommended him to mery. In this the prosecutor and the govern- ment inspector joined. Mr. Justice Keating said he should take these recom- mendations into account, and also the fact that four hundred colliers, who worked at the colliery, had peti- tioned for the prisoner to be kept in Earl Granville's service, and should sentence him to six weeks' hard labour. ALLEGED MURDER OF AN INFANT. u Mary Nolan, 24, servant, was charged with wiliully murdering her infant child, on the 9th December last, at Markeaton, near Derby. Mr. Boden prosecuted; the prisoner was defended by Mr. O'Brien. The case against the prisoner, which mainly rested on the evidence of a police constable, was that she had taken her illegitimate infant, about three weeks old, from where it had been placed to nurse, and had drowned it in a pond, which she pointed out, and whertthe body was found. His Lordship said the question for the jury to decide was whether they were satisfied from the evidence that she put the child in the pond alive. If they were so satisfied, they would find a verdict of guilty of murder but if they were not satisfied, they must acquit her. His Lordship also expressed regret that a surgeon had not examined the child in order to have given an opinion upon it, as to whether it was thrown in alive or not, or whether an opinion could be formed either way. The jury, after a few minutes' consultation, returned verdict of Not Guilty. HUBDSR OF A CHILD BY ITS LUNATIC MOTHER. Mary Titley, a inarricd woman, was arraigned at the Staffora Assizes on Friday, for the murder of her child, a boy about three years old, on the 10th instant, at Wednesfield, near Wolverhampton. The dreadful act was perpetrated with a razor, with which the child's head was nearly severed from ith body. Some time ago the prisoner was in the County asylum, but in May was liberated, cured. When called upon to plead, she looked very vacant at the judge and said, "I certainly did murder the child." Mr Scotland, who appeared for the defence, suggested that the prisoner was not iu a fit state to plead; and Mr. Justice Keating ordered the jury to be impanelled to try whether she was now in a state of mind which enabled her to understand the meaning of a plea. Mr. Hughes, surgeon, deposed that from conversations which he had had with the prisoner, he was of opinion that she was labouring under delusions, but that she was competent to plead. Dr. Bower, the chiet medical superintendent of the Staffordshire Lunatic Asylum, believed that the prisoner was unable to understand the difference between guilty and not guilty. The jury returned a verdict of In- sanity;" and Mr. Justice Keating ordered her to be kept in confinement during Jier Majesty's pleasure. CIURGE OF EMBEZZLBMENT AGAINST A CLERGYMAN. At Derby, the Rev. Henry Godden Garrett, late curate of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, was charged with taking and converting to his own use, on the 6th of December last, 18/. 3s. 9d., the property of the Rev. George Butt, vicar of Chesterfield. This case excited intense interest, and the court was much crowded. Mr. Boden prosecuted; prisoner was defended by Mr. Stephen. The prisoner was last year the curate of the parish church, Chesterfield, of which the Rev. George Butt is vicar, and the offence charged against him was, that he appropriated a sum of money which had been collected in the parish church, in aid of the Church Missionary Society, and which had been entrusted to him, to his own use, instead of using it for the p tlrpose, for which it was collected. Evidence having been gone into, The Judge said he was of opinion that it was a case of civil liability, and not one for a criminal prosecution. Prisoner had done an act which he ought to be ashapied of, but- which clearly did notcome within the act of par- liament. The prisoner acted as treasurer to the society, and the parent society ought to have made him pay it in a civil court. Under the whole of the circumstances, the prisoner must be acquitted on this charge. There was a second charge for stealing 10s., the pro. perty of the clothing club, but Mr. Boden declined to offer any evidence. His Lordship said the jury would return a verdict of not guilty; at the same time they could not but lament to see a clergyman placed in such adisgraceful position. to see a clergnhen left the dock; but as he was going out of the court door he was apprehended on a warrant by Superintendent Radford, of Chesterfield, on a charge of embezzlement at Cardiff. There was a second officer in attendance with a war- rant against him.

imperial parliament HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. -1 The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH drew the attention of their lordships to the present state of affairs at Naples. It seemed clear that affairs could not continue in their present state, and as a great number of English ships were in the Bay of Naples, he should like to know what were the instructions given to the officer in command of those ships, and whether in the event of the Kin" being driven to ask for protection it would be afforded to him. The Duke of SOMERSET said there were no special instructions. The ships were sent there merely for the purpose of protecting persons persecuted by the Neapo- litan Government. The Earl of CARNARVON called attention to the tele- gram received from Turin, stating that arrangements had been made between the King of Sardinia and the Emperor Napoleon for the cession to the latter of Savoy and Nice. He pointed out the difference between the telegram and the dispatches which had been written by M. Thouvenel, and asked whether the Government were in the possession of any information which would throw a light upon the extraordinary circumstance. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said the question was most extraordinary, and protested against the practice of asking questions in that House upon telegrams pub- lished in the newspapers. The dispatch to which the noble lord had more particularly referred had only been received at the Foreign Office within the last twenty- four hours, and he must really be excused from entering upon a discussion of its contents. The Government, he was sure, could not be accused of keeping any infor- mation on an important subject from the knowledge of the house. The Earl of MALMESBURY said the noble duke was quite justified in the answer he had given, and declined to enter into a discussion on the subject of a dispatch which had been but recently received. He thought the noble duke was rather hard upon his noble friend, who had merely asked for information. The house then adjourned. u_- HOUSE Or UUMMUJNS. Mr. BRIGHT drew the attention of the house to a per- sonal matter having reference to his hon. friend the member for Rochdale. The hon. member for North Warwickshire had made a statement in a speech on the Budget, in which he attributed to Mr. Cobden being in- fluenced in regard to the commercial treaty by his lean- ing towards the policy of the Emperor of the French. That statement was made upon the authority of a Man- chester paper notoriously hostile to Mr. Cobden. He (Mr. Bright) had received a letter from Mr. Cobden disavowing altogether the sentiments attributed to him, and requesting him to ask Mr. Newdegate to retract his assertions. Mr. NEWDEGATE said that there were some inaccura- cies in the report of his speech on the occasion alluded to. At the time he made the statement complained of, he had read a letter in the Manchester Guardian attri- buting to Mr. Cobden the political sentiments which he considered him to have entertained. However, he did not rest his opinions on that letter, for he considered that Mr. Cobden had for years advocated institutions which were not free institutions. The hon. member here read the letter in question, as well as extracts from various speeches delivered by Mr. Cobden during some years past. He was frequently called to order by the Speaker, and interrupted by loud cries of Oh, oh." Mr. BRIGHT said he was not able to gather from what the hon, gentleman had said whether he perse- vered in his statement, or retracted it. Mr. Cobden ut- terly denied the statement. Mr. NEWDEGATE said he did not retract his opinion, but he had endeavoured to state the grounds of h; The subject then dropped. Mr. STEUART gave notice that on the report on the Adulteration of Food Bill, he should move its recom- mittal, with a view to the extension of its provisions to counties in England and Wales, and also to Ireland and Scotland, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to a question on the paper, but not put by Mr. E. James, relative to extending to those who had beer licenses a refreshment license, and also a wine license, would say he did not think the effect of the enactment was rightly understood. The Bill had two principal objects, one of which related to refreshment houses universally, and was intended to remedy an evil justly complained of, that they were entirely exempt from the supervision of the police. If the Bill was approved of, the keeper of :1fhls odlc= :J!dfea license at a low rate, and they would then come under the super- vision of the police. The next point had reference to what was called eating houses, a definition of which term was given in the Bill. Eating-house keepers might apply for a license to sell wine. As to beer-houses, he did not propose to touch them; and the question he supposed was this, whether a beer license disqualified the holder from obtaining a wine license. To this he would say, that it was for the house to determine whe- ther such persons should also have a wine license; but he would further say, that it was not the intention of the Act to disqualify beer license holders from also having a wine license. Mr. HALIBURTON called attention to the encroach- ments of the French in Newfoundland. The French had made extraordinary claims on portions of Newfound- land under British sway, and had actually given 2,000 British subjects notice to quit their dwellings and go elsewhere. The French had also created a large fishing interest, which was now their nursery for seamen. The French had 40,000 seamen in this trade. This nursery for seamen was of more consequence to France than coal was to this country. He wished to know what steps had been taken to stop this encroachment (hear). The other question he had to put had refeience to the fortifications erected by the French recently on the Island of St. Pierre, an island in close neighbourhood of our Canadian possessions. The French had also es- tablished a naval station there, and had laid in a large supply of coals. Under pretence of receiving themaUs, a large number of war steamers were congregated at that; island. He was of opinion that the French ha no nght to do what they had done; and as it would, m case of hostilities, prove a source of serious danger totlll3C0^" try, he wished to know whether the attention of Go- vernment had been called to the matter. By treaty the Pnnch had no right to fortify the island; they had, however, done so in de&ance of the treaty, although they had consented not to do these things. Mr. KINGLAKE drew attention to the determination of the French Emperor to annex Savoy, and asked for the latest information on the subject. He hoped the rumour that the French Emperor meant to annex Savoy and Nice together with Chablais and Faucigny, without consulting the Great Powers of Europe would be con. tradicted by Government. Sir R. PEEL called attention to the danger likely to follow from the proceedings of the Emperor of the French, with reference to the countries about to be an- nexed to France. In the last dispatch on the subject, it was clear that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg had taken up a dignified attitude on this question, and he thought this country and every country in Europe ought to take the same attitude against this policy of annexation. Mr. WHITESIDE asked a question relative to the laws of Spain which compelled British residents and subjects to send their children to the Spanish Schools. Lord J. RUSSELL said the attention of the Foreign Office had been called to the question respecting French doings at St. Pierre, and the reply was, that it was doubtful whether the French had violated any treaty. With reference to Mr. Whiteside's question, there was no doubt, constant difficulties arising from the bigotted nature of the rel' on the Government, and the peo le of Spain. The 1* tLh Government had repeateny called attention to the hardships complained of, and had only been able to procure partial modifications of them. To the question of Mr. Kinglake, he would say that Prussia and Russia entirely agreed with the views of England on the subject of the annexation of Savoy, and steps had been taken to lay the objections of those Governments to the annexation again before the French Emperor. From the low tone in which the noble lord spoke, it was impossible to understand what he said or what he meant the house to understand. The noble lord was believed to say that he did not think Europe would be consulted in reference to the contemplated annexation, or, if consulted, that France would be bound by its decision. The question, he admitted, was one of gravity, especially to the neutral Powers, and re- quired the most careful consideration of the Govern. ment (hear). Sir DE LACY EVANS moved a series of resolutions on the subject of China and Chinese policy, concluding with an appeal to her Majesty to send out a Plenipo- tentiary of experience, good temper and conciliatory manner to :attempt to arrange the causes of disagree- ment which existed between this country and China. Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply, said Lord Elgin would go out to China, and he considered that this was the most fitting appointment that could be made. Lord Elgin was now at Paris, giving explanations on matters yet unsettled between this country and France. The noble lord then entered into the circumstances which led to the ascent of the Peiho, and contended that it was es. sential for the interests of this country to have a Minis. ter who had access to Pekin. After an animated discussion, in which Sir J. Elphin. stone, Mr. Bright, Mr. S. Herbert, Sir J. Pakington and Mr. Hope took part, Viscount PALMERSTON contended that Mr. Bruce had strictly followed out his original instructions, which were, to make his way to Pekin, and to take a suffi- cient" force with him to effect that object. Mr. Bruce found an obstruction at the mouth of the Peiho, and he was justified in calling upon the force that accompanied him 1. remove it. Had r. Bruce not acted as he did, there would have been a just ground of complaint against him. As it was, no censure could fairly attach to his proceedings. Then, with respect to the failure of the attack on the forts, there never was a greater display of heroism on all sides than on that occasion (hear). Government had been asked what was their policy. He must respectfully decline to state the exact course of proceeding prescribed to Lord Elgin, as dis- closure might defeat its object. After a few words from Mr. Whiteside, Sir De Lacy Evans withdrew his resolutions. The house then went into Committee of Supply on the vote for China. The house resumed, and after some further business had been disposed of, adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. Lord TEYNHAM, in a speech of some length, moved to resolve that it is expedient in the election of members to serve in parliament, that the votes af the electors be taken by secret voting. He was briefly replied to by the Duke of NEWCASTLE, and their lordships divided, Before the numbers were declared, the Earl of DERBY interfered, and said that the only three noble lords be- sides the tellers who had voted for the resolution were none of them technically within the house. Lord BELPER and Lord LLANOVER, two of the noble lords in question, asserted that they were within the body of the house. Earls DE GREY and RIPON admitted that he was in a position which was not strictly within the house when the question was put. His vote was therefore dis- allowed. The numbers were then declared to be-For the mo. tion, 4; against it, 39 majority, 35, The Selling and Hawking Goods on Sunday Bill was read a seco I time. The Attorneys and Solicitors Bill and the Valuation of Rateable Property (Ireland) Bill were read a third time and passed. The Consolidated Fund ( £ 4,500,000) Bill was read a second time. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The report of the Beverley Election Committee was brought up, declaring the sitting member, J. R. Walker, Esq., duly elected. Mr. A. KINGLAKE said that he had been informed that the municipal council of Nice had declared for re- maining under Sardinia; and that if France declared that that state of things was dangerous to her frontier, then that Nice should be erected into an independent state. The council had passed a vote of thanks to three members of the house, two of whom were Mr. Fitz- gerald and Sir Robert Peel. He asked Lord J. Russell whether the government had received the appeal ad- dressed by the Swiss government to the powers, and whether it would be considered before an answer was sent to M. Thouvenel, and whether the government would put itself in communication with the powers to which the Swiss note had been addressed. Lord J. RUSSELL said no note had been received from the Swiss government. As to the course which the go- vernment was to take, he appealed to the house for for- bearance, to allow the government to deliberate freely on the answer they were about to give. On the motion that the Reform Bill be read a second time, Mr. DISRAELI criticised the bill at some length, but was not prepared to move its rejection on the second reading; and taking no party view of the question he did not say whether he ?wou d take the responsibility of proposing any amendments in committee. The right hon. gentleman concluded by denying, looking to the state of Europe, and of France especially. avowedly bent on universal dominion, that this was as timely an opportunity for a Reform Bill as had occurred on pre- vious occasions, and he hoped that the measure would be withdrawn. Mr. I.EATHAM supported the bill as an extension of the franchise, but did not think it dealt sufficiently with the arrangement of the constituencies. Mr. H. J. B ULLIE was of opinion that of the present property franchises in boroughs he should prefer house- hold suffrage. He was also in favour of the abolition of nomination boroughs. He objected to the diminu- tion of of the county franchise to f 10. Mr. BAXTER having spoken on the whole in favour of the bill, but dwelling on its omissions, Mr. ROLT looked on the measure as a great step in the direction of separating the representation from the pro- perty of the country, and from that point of view he considered it with dismay. Mr. W. F. CAMPBELL, as a member for one of the boroughs which will lose a representative, was under- stood to oppose the bill. After some observations from Mr. LIDDELL, Mr BRIGHT said he was prepared to discuss the mea- sure with a desire to assist the passing of a useful MU, and to make every ce for the difficulties of the government and the- h4in connexion with this ques- tion. The bill had fulfilled the pledge given by the government and Lord John Russell. He was of opinion that reform in parliament should go by steps the ques- tion of the franchise being settled first, and afterwards that of the distribution. The bill, while it dealt with the franchise, only just touched, and did not settle, the subject of the distribution of seats, which was the very pith of parliamentary reform. Was it satisfactory that there should be a million of voters to seven millions of men in the country ? The present bill, while it would do something to remove the anomaly, did nothing to cause any of the alarm which had been expressed. It was said that there was no clamour for reform; but let Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli say that there should be none, and there would soon be clamour enough. By the bill not more than 100,000 of the working-classes would be added to the franchise. As to the objection that the bill was not extensive, that a more rational one; but if the measure was one which had gained a large amount of acquiescence on the ground of its admitting a number of persons to the franchise, because he wished that twice as many should enjoy it. The bill added perhaps 30 or 40 per cent. of electors to the larger bo- roughs, but something below 25 per cent. to the con- stituencies of the small boroughs, thus showing how little could be done for them by any extension of the franchise; while the disproportion of members was still more striking. Where the bill failed, even in that which the government were pledged to accomplish, was to be found in the introduction of ratepaying test into the county franchise ranging between £10 and E60, which did apply to occupations above £50. He also obJooted to the condition where in the case of £10 occu- piers having no house on the land he occupied there should be a tenement of JE5 value on it to give him a vote; but it should be so arranged as that the county franchise should be equivalent to the Xd house occupa- tion in boroughs. He wished that the names of all tenants whose rates were paid by the landlord should be inserted in the rate-books, or else a large number of persons would be disfranchished. Ae to the ballot, it must not be supposed that because it was not in the bill that it would not very soon have to be considered and settled; for, when this bill passed, the necessity for it would be greater than ever. He concluded by advising the opposition to accept this measure, lest something in a more decided shape should be demanded of them- a measure which, considering all the circumstances, was worthy of acceptance. Mr. KNIGHTLEY having spoken, The debate, on the motion of Mr. STANSPELB, was adjourned. On the report of supply on the vote for China, General PEEL urged that the sum estimated for the army must be very largely exceeded. No provision was made in the estimates for the proposed army of reserve, or for the extraordinary expenses of the force in China. A gross sum of at least 4500,000 in excess would be re- Mr. S. HERBERT quoted^itatistics to show that the sum asked for would be quite sufficient for the required purposes. After a discussion, the report was receind. The other business was Lposed of, and the house adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. Earl DE GREY and Ripow stated, in answer to the Earl of Shaftesbury, that it was intended to disembody four regiments of militia, of which the Forfarshire, the Edinburgh, and the Waterford would be three. The Marquis of NORMANBY complained of having re- ceived an evasive answer from the government to a question which he put at the beginning of the session with regard to the annexation of Savoy and Nice to France, of which intention it now appeared the Foreign Secretary had long been aware. He should take an early opportunity of moving a resolution on the subject, and asserting the necessity of dealing with all such matters by official communications, instead of by pri- vate letters between the Foreign Secretary and our ministers at foreign courts. The Duke of NEWCASTLE denied that any such eva- sive answer had been given, and urged that such an assertion was a reflection on Lord Granville, by whom the answer was given. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. H. BEBXELEY moved for leave to bring in a bill to cause the votes of the electors of Great Britain and Ireland to be taken by way of ballot. He never felt more the necessity of such a measure than now, when a Reform Bill was introduced, with no provision for the ballot. Recurring to the general election of 1852, he stated that the corruption was so great that a committee was appointed to inquire, and the result was a measure called the Corrupt Practices at Elections Act, which was a fine specimen of how not to do it," and which was satirised by the late Mr. Coppock from that point of view. It had turned out not only useless, but posi- tively mischievous. This bill was now before a com- mittee of the house, and what iwas to be done with it he did not know. He saw no hope of the ballot being treated with the consideration with which other ques. tions were treated. He claimed the right which other members had to have his bill read a first time, though he doubted whether it would be granted him. The ar. guments of the distinguished men who had opposed him on this question reminded him of the argument of Sir F. Kelly in Tawell's case, when he tried to persuade the jury that a woman who had been poisoned with prussic acid had died from the effects of eating apple- pips. As to the ballot being un-English, it was used in every election in this country except in parliamentary and municipal elections. In open voting electors were deterred by fear or favour from exercising the trust committed to them freely and indiBerently, and many declined to be put on the register rather than be callel on to exercise that trust. Having dissected certain speeches on the ballot of his opponents, especially Lord Palmerston and Lord J. Russell, the hon. gentleman combatted the arguments of the Times against it. He then quoted from a speech of Lord Macaulay, urging the ballot as a protection for the tenant against the land- lord at elections. In Australia secret voting had worked a bloodless revolution, and changed anarchy and confu- sion into peace and tranquility. He concluded by urg- ing that he was asking that which was only a right of the electors of this country. Lord HENLEY seconded the motion. Mr. MARSH stated that he knew that great corrup- tion still existed in New South Wales, notwithstanding the existence of the ballot. He knew an instance of a man in the capacity of a servant who was also a justice of the peace, a position he had attained because he had been an electioneering agent. The :system of ballot there was very imperfect, and did not providetboroughly for secrecy. Certainly the ballot had not prevented in. timidation in Australia. He was on general grounds Opsed to the system. oPï{:.e.tF::had once given a vote in favour of the ballot, but since that time reflection had induced him to change his opinion, and he was now opposed to it; his Australian experience .at the Colonial-office having strengthened his feeling against it. Mr. LAWSON supported the motion. Lord PALMERSTON said that Mr. Berkeley's less amu- sing and not more argumentative speech than his pre- vious ones, had not altered the opinions he entertained on this question. He still retained his opinion that the franchise was a trust, and every exercise of the trust ought to be open and public; while the doctrine that it was a right would go to legalise bribery, for a man could do what he liked with his vote and might sell it. He contended that even in clubs voting by ballot did not tend to procure secrecy. But in the exercise of a political function secrecy would tend to the degradation of electors, and would make them either law breakers or haocrite yhille it would not here, anymore than it did Austra, prevent corruption and intimidation. On a division the numbers were;— For the motion 147 Against it 254—107 Mr. T. JJUNCOMBE movea tor leave to onng in a Dill to amend the act admitting Jews to Parliament, by doing away with the necessity of the passing of a resolution by the house on the election of each Jewish member, enabling him to be sworn according to his own belief. Lord R. CECIL did not think this a matter of much importance, but it was a specimen of what were called settlements of questions in that house. Sir G. GREY denied that any one who advocated the Jewish claims thought the existing arrangement a settle- ment and it was only adopted in order to obtain the ::{ of the House of Lords to %eoi:it}j et: to parliament. Mr. NEWDEGATE would oppose the bill on its second reading. After few words from Mr. ROEBUCK, leave was given to bring in the bill. General UPTON was making a motion, when the house was counted out at half-past eight. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEBNMDAr. Mr. DJLLWYN moved the second reading of the En- dowed Schools Bill, the object of which was to remove the disqualification of dissenters from acting as trustees of endowed schools in the trusts of which no mention was made of any particular religious teaching. Mr. Lowp hoped to induce the house to reject the bill. The decisions of the Courts of Equity-that in all eases where no mention was made of any special re. ligious teaching, that teaching should be according to the tenets of the church of England—had given rise to the bills on the subject. Mr. SELWYN formally moved the rejection of the bill. Mr. LONGFIELD seconded the motion. Mr. ROEBUCK asked whether he understood Mr. Lowe to say that he was desirous that dissenters should be trustees of schools, and the children of dissenters ad- mitted into the schools; and if so, would the govern- ment support such a proposition ? Mr. LowB could not answer for the government, but he should himself be disposed to support such a propo- sition, especially if it was provided for by a separate measure. On a division, the bill was rejected, the members being, for the second reading, 120; against it, 190; maj oritv, 70 Mr. CttooK moved the second reading of the Bleach. ing and Dyeing Works Bill. in\tr!:n moved the rejection of the bili. Mr. ROEBUCK drew a powerful picture of the suffer- ings of the operatives, especially children and women, in factories working for 37 hours, and he implored the house not to participate in the guilty cruelty which the hon. member for Manchester would induce it to sane- tl(> ti°Âfter a few words fiom Mr. Richardson, Mr, Conolly. and Mr. A. Egerton, the house divided, the numbers being-For the second reading, 226; against it, 39; majority, 187. The other business was disposed of, and the housd adjourned.