The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette

CALENDAR D LIST OF FAIRS, NOTICES, ETC., IN THE COUNTIES OF OLAJTORGIN, MONMOUTH, AND BItECCtN, FOR THE I wBEK. JULY la —6TH SUNDAY AFTER 1'RINITIT.—Morning, 12th ch. II. Sam.; 2nd lesson, 7t!i ch. John #jTe'nif, 1st lesson, 19th ch. II. Sam.; 2iul lesson, 4th '■ Timothy. — George IV. crowned, 1821 Butle of Pyramids, 17SJ8. New Moon mlnutcl past 6 morning 22. Battle of Salamanca, 1812 23. Gibraltar taken, 1704 24. Window tax repealed, 1851 25. James I. crowned "'AIRS. Glamorganshire: Caerphilly, July 20 Ely, » GOWER IDII, Kilvrougb, July 20. — Momnouththire: j .erf?**e»ny, July 20; Caerleon, July 20; Castletown, u'y 25; St. Mellon, July 31 — Breconshire None.

LONDON MARKETS. CORN-KXCH ANGE, MONDAY. receipts of home-grown wheat were 3,600 quarters> /j' foreiun 8,003 qurrter*. From Kent and E<«ex the receipts of home-grown wheat were 3,600 quartern /j' foreiun 8,003 qurrter*. From Kent and E<«ex the 0|,ning,J supply was very <in<ll, but «he continued preva- "«• or extremely fine weather dipo«ed factors to make at 3«. per quarter less money; still millers generally j'r«jerrt:d waiting, and the little buMnea» etfecied was «t a •j.90 of fully 3s. to 4». per quarter siiice Monday last. b°* foreign a decline would als > have been necessary, holder* were indisposed to pre«s sales. 9*s country flour there were 14,153 sacks; of foreigo, ••cks, 493 barrels. Norfolks were offered at 3s. per J! "Eduction, the day's price bein^ 43*. Foreign sam- P M Were #l*o Is. per barrel and sack lower, but not town- fo ^n"r'5' °f English barley was 22G quarters, the ^rei«n being 5,423 q iart*r«. Business was on a very j0*" *cale, but prices of sweet parcels were unchanged. c ,arnple of new from Kent was on the market of fine •our and heavy, held at a high price. *he tnalt trade underwent no alteration. *he totnl supnty of oat« was only 15 761 quarters, of 1,0,1 233 were English, 3050 quarters Irish, aud 11,878 H«arter« foreign. The finene«s of the weather did not ieduce price*, sweet corn being firm. beans there viere ouly 17 quarters English, and 410 ^lrters boilers from Kouig^berg. Both these descriptions Poise were firm, e>peci«lly fine small beans, which in °I2e 'nstances commanded higher prices. eo e reeeiptj of linseed were only 50 quarters foreign per Cak *nt' "ie exports quarters. Piices both of seed and e Ware firmly maintained. «. 8. s. i 8. s. p ^eat English. 51 71 White Peas .40 ..44 30 36 Gray Peas 43 4ti parley va 44 Oats (Potatoe) 25 3o 5?»lt 6*2 78 Ditto (Feed) 21 25 .J^ans 33 3,j flour 41 f>4

T LONDON CATTLE-MARKET. — MONDAY. b 'he trade to-day was very slow indeed for everything, and »th 8l,'erally were lower by 2d. to 4d. per stone of 81 b.; lh was very Urge of both beef and mutton, and inland for the latter article at this time of the year 1 being very great, a large number were turned out 1,° d at the close of the market. 11h e supply of beasts was very large, the number being 'rCf' Scots fell to 4s. 4>f. at the outside. sheep and lambs there were about 27,500. Southdown 'ton went at 4*. JOd. and lambs at 6s. ^ork Wag an inirtive sail* and the veal business was quiet. w<et Od 4. 41 | Veal 3i 4d 4. 4J J U«0U 4, 2d 4s10.1 Pork 3s 4d 4s 4i 5* 0d 6s Od j

I THE METAL TRADE.—SATURDAY. *°N—Bars, Welsh, in London ..ton 8 7 6— 8 10 0 Ditto, to arrive. 8 0 0- 0 0 0 Nail rods 9 0 0- 0 0 0 Bars, Staffordshire, in London 910 0— 9 12 6 Nail itods ditto 9 5 0-10 0 0 Hoops ditto 10 10 0-11 0 0 Sheets (single) 11 0 0-1110 0 Pig, No. 1, in Wales 4 10 0—5 0 0 liefined metal,ditto .•••«. 5 10 0— 5 15 0 Bars cowmun, dltto 7 0 0- 7 5 0 Ditto. railway, dittu 7 0 0- 7 5 0 Ditto, Swedish, in London 14 10 0-16 10 0 Pis. No.I. Clyde 3 11 0—3 15 0 Ditto, in Tyne and Tees 3 11 0— 3 15 0 Ditto, forge 3 10 0- 0 0 0 Staffordshire Forge I'ig 4 15 0— 3 0 0 Welsh Forge Pig 3 15 0- 4 0 0 Stirling's Nou-laminatiug, or Hardened Surface Hail 9 0 0 9 2 0 Stirliug's Patent in Glasgow. 5 5 0— 0 0 0 Toughened Pigs ? inWales. 4 0 0— 5 5 0 Indian Charcoal Pigs in London 7 10 0- 0 0 0 ft,, Wetterstedt's Pat. Metal.cwt. 2 2 0— 0 0 0 -Swedish keg ••••••• ton 21 10 0— 0 0 0 Do. faggot 22 10 0-23 0 0 Co,. SogU.li, Spring 18 0 0-23 0 0 —-Sheets,sheathing & bolts..lb. 0 1 1 0 0 0 Bottoms 0 1 H- 1 2 0 Old copper. 0 0 Hj- 0 0 0 Best selected ton 120 0 0- 0 0 0 Tough cake.ton.117 0 0- 0 0 0 Tile.117 0 0—00 0 Ttx Yellow Metal Sh»aUituy 0 0 ltj- 0 0 0 -Block.130 0 0- 0 0 0 Ba.r 13L 0 0- 0 0 0 Refined .134 0 0- 0 0 0 Bauca. 136 0 0— (nom.) Tim p Straits 132 0 0- 0 0 0 ,L&Tas-IC, Coke box 1 13 0- 1 13 6 IX ditto 1 19 0— 1 19 6 IC Charcoal 1 19 0- 2 0 0 IX ditto a 5 0— 2 6 0 Canada plates. ton 16 0 0-16 10 0 ,j ,?ppES.—The teudency of this metal is in favour of a Ou L.ne—"n ^act> maar consider some reduction in value itj I to ^ave taken place before this, on account of the fall 'h i'C 8tandard of ores, which, according to the result of • last few sales,exhibit a serious decline; however, it ap- alt"* '.as,*fficient to influence the smellers in making any S erahon in fixed rates. At the sale of foreign ores at *b *"sea• on Tuesday, the average standard was stated to be .j, °Ut £ 4 per tou less thau the previous rate on June 23. f lere Was also a decline of from 12-. to 15s. per ton some • days ago at the Redruth sales, and yesterday at the to "'ere was a still further reductiou of about 2OJ. per t °« If these reductions of the raw material were allowed t, Ro by uoaoiiced by buyers, and they pay the smelters ,e «ame price as they did when ores were selling about £ 6 j!6' ton dearer, it will be conceding to very arbitrary and Just terms. The price of the or,' ought certainly to bear jP'oportionate value to the manufactured aiticle and 8,s the smelters adopt some such principle they will give satisfaction, especially just at the present time liifl *ery limited demand for cake can scarcely be said to f smelters in maintaining prices. The enquiries j.0t aheet and sheathiug are lestricted. Several contracts °,r. foreign qualities have been passed, but the price at btch it has changed hands is considerably under the price ?"°led for English. Burra Burra copper being considered > many consumers equal to English, aud the price so much ,.0cler» would naturally gi*e the preference to this quality ,efe is a large quantify here, and probably further arrivals shortly take place. Advices from France state English ,slte to be offering at £ 5 per ton under fixed quotations 1376 tons of ore are advertised for sale at Swansea 0|> Jul, 21. Ri'aoH-—-KaiU are but in moderate request; sellers have «omU in price. English bars are easier, and Staff Ct* h*ve keen effected at £ 7 per ton, at the works. fr qualities have somewhat improved, quotations b»r are to 7s. 6d. per ton higher. Swedish •CU* K°0^ Indian specification, are saleable at from jlOS'to £ 15. In Scotch pigs there h«s been a slight Gline, and the reports from Glasgow state the past week in remarkable in the pig-iron market for the extreme Activity manifested by operators. Orders from the Con- ^^nt come in but slowly, now that the impetus imparted ',lle reduction in tbe Russian tariff has become exhausted, c0t> since the matter has been examined, it is found we look for an extensive demand for our produce from to 4t quarter, as the present high price of Scotch iron allows Russian makers considerably to undersell importers. i 'e Production of the north of England is finding favour fnany parts of the Continent to the exclusion of Scotch I?*1"' while the same remark may in a less degree apply to ^jpnc*ahire. Shipments are on a limited scale, but a falling »« always looked for at this seasou prices have dropped Z*s-» mixed numbers, g.m.b., f.o.b. at Glasgow. —English is dull of sale. Foreign has somewhat >j Proved. Bllnc. sold at JEt36 per ton Strait, 913-2. Ad- to-day from Holland state 300 slabs to have changed Y Qds at 80 florins, being about equal to £ 137 here.—Mining "Urnal.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, | HOUSE OF LORDS. —FRIDAY. Petitions praying for the removal of Jewish disabilities were presented by Lord Leigh from 3,000 inhabitants of Birmingham, including the Mayor, Aldermen, and Town Council; also from 200 members of the Hebrew congrega- tion of the same town. Earl Granville moved the second reading of the Oaths bill, and at some length recapitulated the stock arguments in favour of the admission of Jews to Parliament. The Earl of Derby moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. In doing so he strongly enforced the arguments that the admission of Jews would uo- christianise the Legislature. The noble Earl cleverly anti- cipated the arguments of Lord Lyndhurst iu favour of the bit) by quoting the noble Lord's own word*, and describing the Jews as aliens" in blood, in religion, and in hngualtp," Lord Lyudhurst, the Duke of Somerset, the Duke of Nor- folk, and the Bishop of London severally supported the bill, which wru opposed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Earl of Shaftesbury said he had always been op- po.ed to the admission of Jews to Parliament; but he could not, by giving his vote against the second reading of this bill, declare that the oath of abjuration ought to remain in its present form upon the Statute-book. That oath was one which everybody disliked, and which many persons took with xidicule. Ttie noble E»rl here read the oath of abjurition, and observed that the conclusion of the oath invoked the name of the Almighty in attestation of that whieh 11Ild 110 existence, and he cunsldered that it was little shoit of blasphemous. He was, therefore, ready to vote for the second reading of this bill. arid to incur any hazard radlpr than be a party to imposing upon succeed- ing generations the necessity of taking an oath so repugnant to common sense and decorum. At the same time he con- ¡ si'.leted that the form of oath proposed by the bill was very oi jeciiouable, aud might with advautag<s be altered in Committee. Loid Biougham ridiculed the Holion of the admission of Jews to Parliament unchristianising tha Legislature. If that objection wa, ever worth anything 8t all, it was useless now, sin,e the House of Commons had declared by larjre maj irities in favour of the principle j and surely, whtu bot" the House of Commons and the country were in favour of it, it could not be contended that their lordships with- holding their assent to the princirle was all that stood be- tween tlirf nation and an unchristianised Legislature. The Bishop of Oxford thought that their lordships were being led away upon a false scent, by their attention being directed to the Otth of abjuration, which was entirely foreign to the sulj-'Ct at isme. He was prepared to brave the chatge of intolerance in the cause of truth, and should un- hesitatingly give his vote ill support of the ainendmeut. In special lefeience to the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Bishop said the noble Earl, not so practised in the great histrionic art as Lord Brougham, mallfully laboured in pain and sorrow under the awfultas! whi:-h he had undertaken; because he must have felt, and he (the Bishop of Oxford) saw in every word that he spuke that he did feel, that his soul was so pos- sessed with the exceeding wickedness of this oath of abjura- tion, a wickedness tremb'ing on the very edge of the great sin of blasphemy, that it was difficult for himself and for I others, knowing his principles, to understand how he had remained for many years a member of both Houses of Par- liament, repeatedly tailing this almost blasphemous oath, and yet never endeavouring by a single argument, by a single protest, by a single vote, to remove from his own con- science, or from the consciences of other members of the science, or from the consciences of other members of the two Houses of Parliament, this great sin whidl wn being by them so perpetually repeaterl. After a lew remarks from the Duke of Argyll, their lordships divided, when there ap- peared :—For the second reading—contents: present, 91; proxies, 4S—139: for tbe amendment—non-conteuts: pre- sent, 109; proxies, 64—173. Majority for the amendment, 34,—Their Lordships then adjourned until Monday. MONDAY. Lord Eilenborough again called the attention of the House to the alarming condition of ou empire in India, nud complained of the smallllmount of oflicial information that had lieen affurded on the subject of such paramount im- porta nee. He, indeed, congratulated the Uovernmenton the judicious appointment they had made in selecting Sir Colin Campbell to succeed the late General Anson as Commander- io-Chief in India. In order, however, to give full effect to the abilities of Sir Coliu Campbell two things were necessary — 1st, that he should be completely emancipated from the thraldom of politicals; and, secondly, that he should carry ith liini the whole weight and authority of the Governot- General. Ha thought also the temporary appointment of Sir Patrick Grant a very good one. He was not disappointed at not hearing of the capture of Delhi by the present mail, for he thought it could hardly have fallen within the time that had elapsed since the last advices. The main thin-j, however, for consideration was 80 to take measures flS to to have a really efficient force in the field by the 1st of November, before which time our reinforcements could hardly reach India. The leait force which we ought to have was eight or ten regiments of infantry, six regiments of cavalry, aud 12 batteries of artillery, for which last horses O'ight to be seut from Europe, and gun carriajtes ordered in India. With this force, which he would make up by di- virting the regiments nowdesliued for China, the existing rebellion might be stamped out; but their Lordships might rely upon it that it could only be extinguished by prompt and vigorous means, and that any temporizing measures would only entail on us a succession of bloody and doubt- ful campaigns, and perhaps destroy our Indian empire altogether. He concluded by askiug for further oflicial iHtor.natiou tuuuccic.i with the Indian mutinies. Lord Granville replied that the Government were only at present in possession of the telegraphic message which had been already made public. Further information might be expected that evening or in the course of the next day, the substance of which would, of course, be published. With regard to the whole question, he could assure Lord Eilenborough that the Government were not at all inclined to treat the matter lightly, and though he could not agree with him when he talked of calamity and disgrace, and though he dpclined to follow him into the rpalms of pro- phecy, Lord Ellenborouloth might rest assured that the go- vernment were prepared to act with the greatest vigour in this emergency. Lord Melville, in an impressive speech, caned the atten- tion of the house to the bad discipline which had existed for years past in the Bengal army as distinguished from those of the other Presidencies, and supported his assertion by examples derived fiom his Indian experiences. A few remarks from Lord Albemarle concluded the dis- cussion. A debate then arose, in which Lord Malme*bury advo- cated the claims of certain officers of the late Swiss Legion, with whom, as he alleged, the War Depaitment had broken faith. Lord Panmure however declared that the agreement upon which the claim of these officers was founded was forged by a member of the committee of officers and inserted into the articles without the consent of the remaining members of the committee. He utterly denied tbat the Government had broken faith with the Swiss Legion, towards which, on the contrary, he asserted great liberality had been shown. Lord Malmesbury returned to the charge, which Lord Panmure acain repelled. Tbe debate then degenerated into a general discussion as to the policy of foreign enlist- ments at all. At this stage Lords llardwicke and Clancarty took it up. It then languished and dropped. After a discussion as to the grant of money for the im- provements in St. James's Park, in which Lords Malmes- bury, Granville, and Montesgle took part, The Obscene Publications Prevention Bill was read a third time and passed, after considerable discussion, in which Lords Campbell, Shaftesbury, Lyndhurat, and Wens- leydale took part. Lord Campbell brought up the report of the Select Com- mittee on the Reports of Public Meetings, which he ex- p)ainedvto the House at some length. Their Lordships then adjourned. TUESDAY. Lord Granville read to the House a series of telegraphic messages from officials iu various parts of India, relating to the spread of mutiny through the Sepoy regiments. Some other business was then despatched, and their Lord- ships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. On Tbur8Jay, at the morning sitting, on the order for going into Committee upon the Reformatory Schools bill, Mr. Alcuck moved to defer the Committee for three months, his chief objection to the bill being that it was compulsory, and would therefore interfere with voluntary efforts. The amendment was seconded by Mr. Hanbury, who argued that the measure was not called for, and that it would impede rather than facilitate the Reformatory move- ment. Sir G. Grey said the speech of Mr. Alcocks had no refer- ence to this bill, wbich he could not have read. The bill of last session was compulsory, but that principle had been expressly excluded from the present bill. In the debate which ensued, the main objections urged against the measure were that it would Cut a heavy burthen on the ratepayers, and impede voluntary action in the re- formatory movement. On a division the amendment was negatived by 168 to 37, and the House resolved into Committee upon the bill the details of which occupied the remainder of the sitting. At the evening sittiog Mr. Scholefleld, Chairman of the Mayo Election Committee, brought up a special report, stating that letters addressed to Colonel Higgins bad been laid before the Committee containing the information that certain persons named therein, in consequence of their having given evidence before the Committee, had been at- tacked, and one of them seriously injured. Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald said he hoped to be in Dublin on Friday, and anticipated no difficulty in placing these parties on their trial at the approaching Assizes. The Lunatic Asylums (Scotland) bill was read a second time, after considerable discussion; and the Fraudulent Trustees bill passed through Committee. The Banking, the Boundaries of Land (Ireland), the Militia Ballots Suspension, and the Metropolitan Police Stations, &c., bills were read a second time. FRIDAY. Mr. Turner enquired whether any communication had takeu place between the English and French Governments respecting the exports of negroes from the West Coast of Africa to tbe French colonies in the West Indies, and whether the noble Viscount (Palmerston) was aware in what manner the negroes were to be obtained? Viscouut Palmerston replied that her Majesty's Govern- ment had received information that a contract had been entered into by the authorities at Martinique for the supply ot 1200 Iree negroes from the Coaet of Africa, and they felt that, although slavery had been abolished in the French colonies, the bringing of negroes from Africa would in all human probability degenerate into a slave trade. Attempts had been made by Great Jiritain to obtain free emigraots from the West Coast of Africa to our West India Islands, and had failed, and there was a great probability that the French Government would be equally unsuccessful, and that if the contract should be carried into effect, it would be productive of the evils connected with the slave trade. In confidential communications the French Government had given an assurauce of its auxioui desire to prevent this re- sult. The coble Viscount added (iQ reply to Sir E, Buxton) •hat the Government li/td been ioforrraed that there hac1 been emigntions from the East C a>t of Africa to the Isle of Bourbon, but he was it t able to state to what extent. The House Ihen rescJlved in!ocommittee on the remaining clauses of the Probates and Letteis of Administration Bill, beginuitig with clause 40, in which an amendment abolish- ing the limir contained in the bill as to the grant of probates in common form by County Courts had been carried in op- position to the Government on Monday. The Attomey-Gereral now proposed to negative the clause as it stood, and to bring up a new clause, enlarging the I mit from JH.500 to £3,000, except .as regarded funded and share property; iotimatiog that, if the cIllu!e were maintained as amended, the Government would not be dis- posed to go on with the bill. This proposal met with strong opposition in the com- mittee. Ultimately the di«cussion was postponed, and several other clauses were agreed to. On the order for going into committee on the Election Petitions Bill, Sir G. Grey objected to discussing the details ofsuchameaeureatthattatehour. Mr. Adderley complained bitterly of the obstacles to the progress of the bill. After some further discussion the House divided upon a motion of Mr. Ayrton for an adjournment, which was Cir- ried by 95 to 25. The House was then adjourned until Monday. MONDAY. In reply to an inquiry by Mr. Disraeli, L')rd Palmerston said, the only information her Majesty's Government bad received from India was that communi- cated by the telegraphic message-, and which was as well known to the public as to the Government— namely, the death of the Commander-in-Chief fur Indb: the disaffec- tion of a few additional regiments of the native army that a large number of the Bengal Sepoys had disappeared, having returned to their homes that, on the oilier t« uid, n an encounter with the mutineers uuder the wails of Deihi they had lost 26 pieces of cannon, enforced to ulke refuge within the walls of the citv, which, it was exiitcted, would immediately be assaulted. When the despatches arrived he added, the Government wou d be ready to lay before Par- liament and the public whatever papers were cgjntiat to full inf r'ttntOn with respect to the course of events. Mr. Disraeli inquired further, whether information had been received from Herat that the person nominated gover- nor of that city had sworn allegiance to the Shah of Persia that the Shah bad accepted his allegiance, and authorized' him to coin money,—a proceeding at variance with hisea. gagements under the treaty ? L >rd Palmerston replied that Her Majesty's Government had received no information tending to confirm this report. In answer to Sir J. Pakington, the uob!e Lord stated that Lord Panmure had taken immediate steps to select a Commander-iii-Chief in India that an oifer of the post had been made to Sir Colin Campbell, who had accepted it; that, when asked how soon he would be able to start, Sir Colin replied and accordingly, the offer having been made and seconded on Saturday, he had set off on Sunday evening, a telegraphic despatch having been sent to Marseilles to stop the steamer till his arrival. Lord Palmerston proceeded to state that, in addition to the 14,000 troops under orders for India, aud which had partly em- barked, more were to be sent; that LordCanning had written to Lord E/gio to divert to the Indian service some pirt of the force destined for China; and that such arrange- ments would be made, if any of these troops were actually diverted from their original destination, that there would be ample means to carry on operations in China. On the order tor going into a Committee of Supply, Lord Elcho moved a resolution, "That in the present position of the Ordnance survey of Great Britain, the sur- vey on tbe six inch t-cale ought rot to be proceeded with without further inquiry, and that an address should be pre- sented to Her Majesty praying Her Majesty to appoint a Itoyal commi-sion to inquire into the whole subject of the national survey, and report upon the ncale or scales 011 which it should be made and published." He entreated the House not to take a hasty and irrevocable step in this matter, and to refer the question to a competent tubunal,- a Royal Commission, fairly constituted. Lord Palmerston recommended the House not Co be tempted into a renewal of the discussion upon this subject, after their late decision, which tbe Government had adopted. He could not, he said, agree to the resolution but if Lord Elcho would consent to strike out the first part of it, and simply move an address to the Crown, he would not object. The motion was negatived, after a short discussion. The House then went into Committee of Supply upon the remaining Civil Service Estimates, and after a long discussion several Bills were forwarded a stage, and, On the motion of Mr. Cowan, the House adjourned at the uiiuutes to 1 o'clock. TUESDAY. Mr. Disraeli inquired whether the Government could give more detailed and authentic information respecting the exact posture of affairs in India, and whether they would afford the House early opportunity of expressing its opinion upon the causes and probable cousequences of this state of affairs ? Lord Palmerston replied that the despatches which had been received contained in more amplification and detail the information as to the events in India of which the clec- tric telegraph had previously communicated the substance; and that the intelligence received by the Government did not vary from that published in the newspapers, and was not fuller. He thought it would be desirable, before the sub- ject was discussed in the House, that the papers should be laid upon the table, which j-hould be done without delay. Lord J. Russell hoped that the reinforcements which would be Bent to India would be sufficient, ami that Ih" (; vernment would make a complete statement of their iuteu. tions, which, he thought, would supersede the necessity of a discussion. Lord Palmerston said that previous to the receipt of the despatches, which arrived on Monday, the Government had made arrangements for sending large reinforcements 10 India—larger, in fact, than Lord Canning had asked for. Although they felt no apprehension or alarm, they had acted as if there were real reason for alarm, resolving to leave nothing undone to provide for any possible emer- gency. Some further questions weie put and answered before the subject was allowed to drop. Lurd Goderich mowed It resolution -"That the experience acquired since the issuing of the Order ill Council of the 21st of May, 1855, is in favour of the adoption of the prin- ciple of competition as a condition of entrance to the Civil Service, and that the application of that principle ought to be exteuded, in conformity with the resolution of the House, agreed to on the 24th of April, ]856." Observing that he had no alternative but to bring for ward this motion, since the hopes which had been held out by the Govern- ment in July last had not been fulfilled, and there was no ground for expecting that they would be fulfilled, Lord Goderich proceeded to state the purpose and intention of his motion-namely, to obtain an expression of the opinion of the House that the system of competition was one which it approved and desired to see extended. That system, he insisted, was well calculated to secure the efficiency of pub- lic servants, and. as far as it had been tried, had been at- tended with most satisfactory results. In anticipating ob- jections to the extension of the system, he contended that the patronsga system, if it had any real political influence, was for that leason objectionable, such influence, apart from any idea of corruption, being undesirable. On the other hand, an extended system of competition would be one of the most potent agents in the work of popular education. In conclusion, he suggested reasons for disssnting from the amendment of which Lord Iiaynham had giveu notice in favour of a system of limited competition. Loid Raynhatn, in moving his amendment, to add at the end of Loid Goderich'a motion the words, "and that it is dei-irable that the nomination of all persons desirous of com- peting for vacant appointments in the Civil Service should rest with the heads of the departments in which those vacancies occur," stated his objections to open competition, arguing that there should be some guarantee that candi- dates for public employment possessed other qualities be- sides those of the intellect. No member seconded this amendment, which was there- fore not put. The Chancellor of the Exchequer explained the nature of the competition sanctioned by the Order in Council; this was not au open competition, against which he had always contended The principle of limited competition, be had before said, and he repeated, it was desirable to apply to certain classes of appointments, the principle being inap. plicable to some classes, and he read a list of offi-es in which this prtuctple was followed. In other departments, including the Foreign-office, the competitive principle would be introduced. Having stated these facts, he thought the House would agree that the Government had not only not refused to fulfil their pledges upon the subject, but that they had carriod out the principle to a considerable length, and he hoped Lord Goderich would not think it necessary to press his motion to a division. Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. Joseph Ewnrt, Mr. Adams, anù Mr. Clay, having spoken in favour of the resolution, Lord Palmerston said, be agreed with what had been said by Mr. Clay, that the difference between Lord Goderich and the Government was exceedingly small—so email, indeed, that he thought it hardly worth while to give the House the trouble of recording its vote by a division. He accepted the motion according to the interpretation Lord Goderich put upon it, and he agreed with him that tho principle of com- petition, running one candidate against an other, was better than that of individual and separate examination, since it brought out the character and presence of mind of the candidates, and be had adopted that principle in the Treasury. Taking the motion, therefore, upon Lord Gode- neh's own showing, be wae not prepared to negative it. After a few words from Lord Goderich the motion was agreed to. Mr. Lindsay moved an address for copies'of Mr. Marcy's letter to the French Government in answeMo the com- munication of the resolution of the Paris Conference upon the subject of privateering; and of any other papers or correspondence that may have passed between the Biitish government and other powers upon the same subject, supporting his motion by an argument in which he discussed the question of the rights of neutrals in time of war. Lord Palmerston said, it was not usual to ask, or for the Government to grant, copies of correspondence between two foreign States. In fact, the Government were not iu otncial possession of a copy of Mr. Marcy'a letter. The reo solution of the Paris Congress had been communicated by the parties thereto to all the other maritime States, and among othets, to the United States of America, the Govern- ment of which replied that they were ready to agree to the proposition, provided private property at sea was to be no longer subject to capture. Before an answer was sent to this communication a new President entered upon office, who stated that it was not his wish that any answer should. be sent to the proposition of his predecessor, and desired that the correspondence upon the subject should be sus- pended. It was, therefore, not advisable to lay these papers b fore Parliament. As to the mode of dealing with private property in time of war, that was a question which could not be properly discussed upon a motiou of this sort. After some observations by Mr. Bentiuck, Lord John Russell, and Sir C. Napier, the motion was withdrawn. Mr. Charles Buxtou moved an address to Her Majesty, praying that she will be pleased to employ a l the means in her power in order to put down the African slave tiade, and to obtain the execution of tbe treaties fta*e for that purpose with other Poweri, He desired, he mid, not to embarrass the Government, but to strengthen their haiid^. He urged the increase of rhe Cuban slave trade and its hor- rors; on the other hand, he dwettuponthe near prospect of a supply of cotton from Africa, which noth ng could facilitate more th..n the suppression of the slave trade, the tolerance of whith by Spain was in direct contravention of treaty engagements. He suggested whether, under the circumstances, we could not adopt the same course with Cuba as we had so successfully taken with Brazil. He dis- cussed other expedients which had been proposed for the extinction of this detestable traffic, which occasioned a frightful waste of life in Africa itself, and which now existed only in Cuba, The motion was supported by Mr. Newdegate. Mr. Watkin attributed the extension of the slave trade to the increased value of slave labour where it was required, and contended that Englaod encouraged that trade by its large imports of slave-raised cotton. Lord Palmerston admitted that the motion was calculated to strengthen the hands of the Government. We had to lament, he said, that Spain had not been so alive as she ought to have been to her treaty obligations aud money payments; but there were temptation, at Cuba which it was difficult for the Governors to resist. He thanked Mr. Buxton for having elicited what be was convinced would be the unanimous opinion of the Hou.e in favour of his motion, and he assured him that no efforts should be wanting 011 the part of the Government to give full effect to it. The motion was agreed to. Mr. Cowper had leave to introduce a Bill to amend the Public Health Aft, 1848, and to muke further provision for town improvement. Mr. Griffith, in moving the second reading of the Rail- way Traffic Act Amendment Bill, explained amid much interruption the object of the Bill, which was to remedy certain allegad partialities on the part of railway companies. Mr. L<>we said, any person to whom a railway company denied proper facilities had a remedy under the existing law. He ot.j cted to the bill as unfair to the railway com- panies aud the public. He moved to defer the second reading for three months. On the motion of Mr. Huggessen, the Hou^e adjourned at a few minutes after half-past 12 o'clock.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. CONSERVATIVE REGISTRATION. In addition to the electors who do not avail themselves of the rights of the franchise, another section of the great Conservative party require to be aroused from their inglo- rious apathy. We allude, of course, to that large class of Our fellow-countrymen holding the same political princi- ples as ourselves, who will not take the trouble to assert their claims and get their names enrolled on the register. Many non-electors are aware that they are properly qua- lified, but, for fear of a little exertion, allow their claims to remain in abeyance. Others, deterred by dread of opposition, permit the first objection to intimidate them, and will not come forward to substantiate the same. There may be some who are really ignorant of the fact that they possess the necessary qualifications yet this, after all, is but a lame exeme. Every good citizen will seek to perform his duties towards his feliow-meu and of course his first step will be to endeavour to ascertain in what those duties and obligations consist. However, for the information of those who will not go to the trou- ble of investigating for themselves, we may cs well state that, with respect to county qualification, the 20th of July in each year is the last day for making the claim of regis- tration. If this opportunity be neglected eighteen months must elapse before a new voter can exercise the right. Consequently, all persons who do not register before Tuesday week cannot by any possibility record a vote until after the 1st of December, 1858. There is no time for delay, and we would strongly urge everj Conservative anxious to become an elector at once to ascertain whether he can produce the necessary qualification, either by tree- hold, copyhold, leasehold, or occupation as tenant, to entitle him to vote at any one or more county elections, Haviug obtained the requisite information, let him aive due notice of his claim or claims to the proper authorities, which must be done, as we have already staled, on or before the 20th of the present month. The watchword adopted by Sir Robert Peel many years ago—"Register, register, register"—we now repeat. In earnestness, and with all sincerity, we call upon the Con- servatives in town and country to bestir themselves. They jiossi-ss the elements of success in their own hands let them exert themselves, and victory is certain. Their leaders in both branches of the Legislature have nobly sustained the conflict; and if the Conservative electors and non-electors of the United Kingdom will only follow their example, a strong Government will speedily be in office. It is in vain for people to argue that party distinc- tions have been obliterated, and that the old warcriet are forgotten. We have already pointed out the fallacy of this view. Conservatism has still its mission to perform its full advantages are not yet secured for the nation. The great requirement of the hour is good government. We have only had one glimpse of such a blessing since the fall of Sir Robert Peel's Cabinet in 1846, and for a fe .v months in 1852, when a Conservative Government held office. Why should the nation ba denied the advan- tages of sound legislation, \vhijn able administrators are prepared to take office 1 That is a question to which the <ron8ervuii.( tho Ki„6jum uhJuc give a satisfactory reply and had they done their duty in the spring, we should not have been under the necessity of propounding it at this juncture. —Morning Herald. THE MUTINY IN INDIA. The mutiny in the army of India, or more correctly in that of Bengal, to which it is confined, shows clearly enough that the so-called mild Hundus are capable of be- coming under excitement blind and truculent suvages. We propose giving our readers some account of the causes which led to the atrocity. The regular native army of the Bengal Presidency consists of seventy-four regiments of infantry and ten of cavalry, and amounts in all to about 80,000 men. The Hindus form the great mass of this force, the Mahomedans being few in number, and even these but converted Hindus, or hybrids, with the manners, habits, and prejudices of the people they mainly sprang from. The Hindus, and speaking gene. rally, we may add the Mahomedans also, are all of one nation, speaking one language. All who enlist must be men of pure or high caste, —men of low caste or of no caste at alllbeing expressly excluded, or, if by chance found in the ranks, ignominiously expelled, in order to gratify pride of caste. Thus the Bengal army is aD army of small aristocrats of caste. The whole of this army is levied from a locality of comparatively narrow limits, the greater portion of it from the lately-annexed kingdom of Oude and adjacent British provinces, constituting the very focus of pure Hinduism. Out of a population of 130 miltions the whole Bengal regular army is probably levied from not above four or five milliongi for we have to exclude from the field of enlistment all Bengal Proper with its forty millions of urnvarlike inhabitants, many other provinces, and everywhere the men of low ca^e. Let the constitution of this army be compared with those of the armies of Madras aud Bombay; in that of Madras there has been but one mutiny, and that fiflv years since; in that of Bombay never one at all whereas in t e army of Bengal there have been at least half-a- dozen serioui ones, ending with the wholesale murderous revolt which has just taken place. The armies of the two subordinate Presidencies, which amount to about the same number as that of Bengal, are levied, instead of from a nation, from no fewer than six, speaking as many distinct tongues. In the ranks of that of Bombay are even to be found black Jews and Nestorian Christians. In both are to be seen, side by side, the Brahmin and the outcast. The armies of Madras and Bombay are levied for general service, but the army of Bengal for home ser- vice only. The first proceed on foreign service, as does any European force, but the latter must be solicited to volunteer as a matter of favour, and they do so not by regiments, but by individuals, and very sparingly. In this respect, therefore, the Bengal almy is but a miliria. But it may be asked what caste consists in. It consists s:mply in being irrationally fastidious and troublesome about what you eat and driuk, when and where you eat, with whom )OU eat, and from whose hands you will ac- cept food. It is difficult to imagine anything more in- compatible than these senseless usages with the essentials of a soldier. Missionary propagandism has been affirmed by some parties who were beating about for a reason, to be the cause of the present mntiny, but for this there is obviously not a shadow of a foundation. Catholic missionaries have for 300 years been actively employed in the work of conversion, and Protestant mis- sionaries tor at least eighty, without ever producing dis- turbance or revolt, or even complaint. The assertion, then, is too absurd for refutation. The truth is, that matter of caste apart, which is not the religion, but sim- ply the social position of Hindus, they al e tolerant or indifferent as to mere creeds, for a man may be of any religious opiuion, or of no religion at all, which last is actually the case with many of the educated Hindus of the present time, and still be a good Hindu. Again it has been alleged, and wonderful to say, this comes from the very scene of the calamity, that secret foreign agents have been at work, and by their machinations brought about the mutiny, but as this is but a repetition of the Russian chimera, it is no less unworthy of serious notice than the Misstonaiy hypothesis. That the entire affair was nothing but a mad military outbreak we may be per- fectly assured from several circumstances which accom- panied it. Thus the officers'native servants continued faithful to a man. Even some of the men of the revolted regiments adhered to their officers, and the neighbour- ing landholders not only did not join or even counte- nance the mutineers, but protected the fugitive Euro- peans from their fury, while the native princes near the scene had sense enough to see that a rebellion against our power was hopeless, and tendered their assistance toward suppressing the revolt. A sweeping reform of the native army of Bengal-indeed, in many respects, of the whole native aimy of India, is loudly called for. Our corps of Sikhs, Ghoorkas, Scindians, and Belochees, must be increased in number, aud eventually we may draw levies even from our Malay and Peguau subjects. The number of British officers for the Indian force must be increased, for at present it is ludicrously inadequate. To a regiment of infantry in the Queen's service, composed of our own coonfrymen, there are thirfy-five commissioned officers, and to a native regiment of the same strength, deducting those employed in civil service there is scarcely one-half of this number. But above all, the proportion of European to native troops must be increased over all India. By British aims and*pluck was our Indiao domi- nion conquered, and by them only can it b, maintain51. As to the existing mutiny, in so far at least as the mutineers concentrated at Delhi nre concerned, we l ave not the least doubt but that tiie first mail will bring an account ofitscompiete extinction. — Examiner. THE MARRIAGE OF ADULTERERS. The Church of England has ever been the faithful servant of the civil power. In fair weather and iu ioui her motto has been, obedience to the powers that be. With certain perhaps inevitable exceptions, and these few and far between, she has showed a just appreciation of those broad principles ou which the Constitution is founded aud with some deductions, for which causes inseparable from au established religion are answer,iblc, h.ii proved herself the steady friend of civil aud religious liberty. TCI suci an extent, indeed, has her submission to the temporal rul-r and her toleration of doctriual differences been carrie0, that ¡ her enemies have long taunted her '.villi the appellation of a Parliamentary Church and a latitudinarian reiigion. Narrowminded men cannot comprehend Ihe charac-er cf tI Church in whose dogmas there is no bigotry, and in whose devotion there is no cant. But the buik of the English peo- ple love and reverence these qualities with an unconscious ardour that renders our national Church the most powerful institution in the realm. Theyaie qualities'Jiat speak a: once to the sober earnestness and traditicnary leanings of ihe English urdeistan'Mng; and we h ive on more than one occaeiou sought to impress upon the English clergy the policyofpreserviugthcrn. While they dn so, the Church if united, could overturn any Ministry and remod?l any Parliament. But her principles, under ordinary circum- stances, lead her to abstain from political agitauou. Aud it is this which constitutes so peculiar a claim on the for- bearanee of her rulers. Let us only imagine for a moment what would be the effect upon the EngH-h Government of a really ag'tatii'g Church-of a Church that should follow the example, for instance,of the Belgian or Irish Romau Catholic*, and exert, all their energy to thwart the* authority of Government instead of lending the whole weight of their influence to its support. Then indeed we might ask to some purpose, how shad the Queen's Government be carried on? But, notwithstanding her disapproval of vaiious recent acts of legislation, true tl) the principles she ha? professed fen three ceuturieF, the Church has declined to interfere; and her spititual rulers evince their sen-e of the obligations by which they believe themselves bound, bv according a gene- ral suppoi t to the Government of tue uay on all questions of a strictly political character. But these obligations should furelj be to some extent reciprocal. If the Church defer to the Crown upon civil questions, it is but equitable thst the Ministers of the Croivu should ehow some deference to the wishea of the Church upon spiritual ques- tions. Thu plain duty surely must have escaped the con- sideration of the House of Lords when they enforced the insertion into the Divorce Bill of so obnoxious a clause as t'uat which compels theclergy to perform the marriage ser- vice between actulterer,. We sincerely tru.^t that this por. Hunofthe new Divorce Bill mdyreeeive the reconsi iera. tion of her Majesty's Government before it comes under the discussiou of the Lower House, end that a measure calcu- lated in many ways to promote the happiness of the people will not pass iuto law disfigured by this cruel and unwar- rantable provision. We would most distinctly impress upon our readers that the opposition to this enactment springs from no thee- logical party in the Church. Tne disapprobation of the Primate was as distinctly expressed as that of Dr. Wilb-r- force. M ich ingenuity has been exercised in framing meanings for words to suit the conflicting tenets of different schools of doctrine; but we venture to say this resource is entirely out of the question in the present instance. No words cm possibly be plainer than those by which tLe Church holds herself bound to refuse the rite of marriage to adulterers. Opinions will always differ about the exact force of any obligation; and the complainants in the present instanee do but ask that a man and Woman shall not be en- abled to fix upon any clergyman they choose, who is known to disapprove of the principle, and compel him either to violate his conscience or lose his preferment. Priests will always be found who take a more lenient view of these questions, and who can perform the service Without iujuiv to any one. To make it compulsory upon all is practically so needless as tn wear very much the appearance of Ii ttudied insult. To say that clergymen will not be required to comply with the law, so far from being any recommendation is in our eyes the strongest objection to if. In that case the only object gained is to remind the clergy that they have no will of their own, and to teach future legislators how they may violate principles without even the excuse of expediency. A mote inopportune moment for this exercise of power could not easily be found. At the time when a most imoortant change in the religious char. acierof our representative body is under discussion, it is most ill-judged to throw a fresh torch of dissention among the disputants. An Act of Parliament by which the Church is made to feel so acutely the presence of a hostile element in the Legislature is not calculated to recotDmend a proposal by which, in the opinion of many conscientious men, that element will be strengthened. We are uufeignedly sorry that the question should ever have been raised; and we trust that her Majesty's Ministers, by a large timely con- cession to a just demand, m1Y avoid bringing odium on the cause of i eligious liberty, and that the loyal clergy of the Church of England may not be driven to believe that the phrase means little mori- than liberty to think as they like -unless they disagree with Gùverumenl.-Press. MISS MADELEINE SMITH'S CASE. If romance and mystery cau insure rpmeruurance, the terrible case which was yesterday concluded at Edinburgh will have an abiding place in ilie mmala uf criminal justice, j Madeleine Smith has, after nine dajs' trial, been acquitted, and goes forth again free into the world. On the first charge of attempt to poison she has been found "Not Guilty," while the second charge to the same effect and the actual murder have been declared "Not Proven." The death of Pierre Emile L'Atigelier is pronounced by the jury to be a mystery, which the evidence brought before them was uuable to solve. Thus ends the case! Human justice acknowledges itself baffled, and ceases its attempt to unveil what perhaps is for ever destined to be hidden. The last few years have certainly been a period full of startling crimes. The old times of wantand discontent in these islands, were, no doubt, prolific of much murder- ing and riot, arson, and forgery but the offences of our own day seem to have no connexion with any public dis. order. They are isolated tragedies, in which the hunger after gain or the thirst of blood has alone prompted the murderer. There was nothing in the example of the world about them which should urge Hush to his ven- geance and the Mannings to their treacherous design, which should tempt Palmer and his miserable imitator Dove to destroy those most closely connected with them by blood and friendship. Similarly unaccountable have been the crimes committed of late by women. While it is admitted on all hands that never at any former period were domestic manners so unexceptionable, we are shocked with the continual recurrence of attempts by women against the lives of husbands, paramours, and children. Poisoning especially has become almost a domestic institution. The friendly arsenic has always been ready in the cottage of the peasant or in the lodging of the mechanic, to rid the impatient wife of a tiresome husband, or the thrifty housewife of parents, or relations, who have become a burden. So, when it was announeed that in a higher rank of life a similar crime had been committed, there was interest and excitement, but without surprise. Scotland has been for nearly four months occupied with Miss Madeleiue Smith aud her lover, and though there is still sufficient distinction be- tween the two countries to give a Scotch case some diffi- culty in achieving an English reputation, yet since the commencement of the actual trial the interest of the South has not te^n less than that which prevailed beyond the Tweed. And well it might be so, for never were the chances of condemnation and escape so evenly balanced. A Scottish jury decides by a majority, and the majority has declared that the evidence is not sufficient to prove the prisoner guilty. But to the last there were many who believed that the opiniou held by the miuoiity would pre- vail, and that the unhappy girl would suffer the penalty of the crime alleged against her. The dead man L'Angelier is not one whose fate there is any need to commiserate. His conduct to one who had been his victim was base and unmanly in the last degree, and can only be excused on the ground stated by the Lord Advocate, that by the law of Scotland an irregular marriage might be held to have taken place, and that L'Angelier had a right to consider Madeleine Smith as his wife and to prohibit her union with another man. It appears that the prisoner left her Clapton boarding- school iu 1853, when she was only 17 yeais old, and that within two years of that time she met the deceased, said to be a native of Jersey, and at that time in the employ- ment of a Glasgow warehouseman, at a 6alary of 8s. or 103. a week, with his board and lodging. L' Angelier paid his addresses, which were well received by the young lady, but forbidden by her parents, who doubtless thought hie position and prospects not such as would entitle him to ask their daughter's hand. Months passed, however, and the intimacy of the pair continued. Madeleiue slept on the ground door, and used to receive the visits of her lover first at the window, and then in the room itself. In the spring of 1856 we find from her letters that she had been seduced by L' Angelier, and from that time to the close of the year she writes to him almost daily in the wild style with which the readers of the trial are familiar. By the beginning of the present year, however, her passion had cooled. A Mr. Minnoch had proposed inaitinno. cence to her, and in spite of stolen interviews and board- ing-school heroics she thought it better to have a solid Glasgow man of business than a French clerk on £ 3 > a year, who boasted to everybody of his successes with women in general, and herself in particular. But L'Augelier had no notion of giving her up. He did not, it appears, insist ou ber marrying him, but he would not allow her to malt). any one else. It was ia vain that she wrote to him that their love had mutually growu cold and that they had better forget each other. Emile would show her letters to her father and to Mr. Minnoch if the match were not at ouce broken of. This was the motive for the crime alleged by the prosecution. Under the threats of the Frenchman, Madeleine is obliged to write back that the affiir with Mr. Minnoch is a false re- port. She seems desirous to get L'Angelier away, so that her marriage might take place before he could pre- vent it. L' Angelier, however, remains and persists in his threats. On the 9th of February she is distracted with terror. She implores him not to bring her to open shame, and solemnly declares that she has no other engagement —having, however, promised her hand to Mt. Minnoch on the 28th of the previous month. Dates now become of importance. The prisoner, for some reason or other, feigns a renewal of ber attachment for L'Angelier. She wishes to bring him back to her the prosecution say that she may poiBon hirn-ehe says that she might coax him to 17""If" irivebitck the letters. On February 17¡IJ dines with Miss Perry. He tells her that he is to see Mi«s Smith ou 'tie 19th. We know not if he did see !~er on that day, but we know from ihe testimony of his landlady that on that night he was seized wiih sudden illness—as men are ill from arsenic. That the prisoner administered poison on this 19th of February is the first charge of which she was found Not Guilty. Every Glasgow chymist's books were searched, and no purchase of arsenic was proved prior to the 19th, so that with respect to this first day there was sufficient doubt to justify a verdict of full ac- quittal. But oti the 21st Madeleine purchases arsenic at the shop of Mr. Murdoch. She signs her name as re- quired by Act of Parliament, and not only gives her real address, but has the dose, value sixpence only, put down to her father's account. M ss Smith explains the purchase by stating that she used arsenic as a cosmetic, by dissolv- ing it in the water with which she washed,—a process re- specting which scientific opinions are divided. How- ever, L' A ngelier is ill again on the night of the 22nd, but recovers a second time. Tirre passes on, and we must conciUue there are more negotiaiions for the surrender of the tetters, for Miss Smith still keeps on her engagement with Mr. Minnoch. On March 6th she again buys arsenic to poison rais or improve her complexion, according to her various accounts—and this time it is in company wiili Miss Buchanan, a young lady from the Clapton school. L'Antielier goes to Bridge of Allan to recruit his he^l; and not the Isle of Wight, 500 miles off, as his mistress advises him. There he writes her a letter, saying h6 beliefs that she is going to marry Mr. Minuoeb, and de- mands direct answers to several questions on the subjec'. He is proved lo be anxious for a letter in ansuer to this last missive when he receives it he returns in perfect health. He comes horns in the highest spirits, and 6a)1I the letter has brought him back. On tbe 22nd of March he goes out a little before nine o'clock. He is seen saun- tering along in the ueightlourhooci of Blythswood-square about 20 minutes past nine. Abotlt half-past nine he makes a call on a friend, who is not at home. Then we lose sight of him for two or three hours. He had gone out to fee the prisoner, having come back all the way from Bridge of Allan for the interview he had reacbed the neighbourhood of the prisoner's residence—the question is, —Did they meet 1 The prisoner say s no that the in- terview was for Saturday not Sunday. The prosecution asserts that they did. At all events L'Angelier is found four hours afteiwaids in agonies at his own door. He is doubled up, speechless, and has not strength to turn the latchkey. He dies and dies of arsenic. The prosecution, aver that he is poisoned by the prisoner she declares her innocence, and suggests that he must have done it himself in a fit of jealousy. Evidence is adduced that he was vain, foolish, and extravagant, always talking of love affairs, and threatening suicide when he was disappointed. This is all the light that can be thrown on the terrible occuirence. That the jury should declare the crime Not Proven is hardly surprising; for the cireumfacces are as mysterious as any that have ever been related in a court of justice. If on the one hand the prisoner purchases arsenic, and thinks of her complexiou for the first tiina when fhc is distracted with terror respecting her good nume, on the other hand she bu_\s it so openly that a jury- man might well think her conduct incompatible with a murderous intention. In her fiist letter, after the purchase of arsenic in February, she tells her lover that "I am taking some stuff to bring back the colour." Of course, the prosecution look upon this as a proof of consummate cunning the defence declare it to be a corioboration of the prisoner's statement. If L' Angelier indeed poisoned himself, he must have been the most extraordinary of men; for he not only makes two unsuccessful attempts, and goes to the country for his health afterwards, but he relates how he was made ill by his paramour's chocolate, says jokingly he would forgive her if even she were to poison him, and a month afterwards, just before he is supposed to poison himself, he tells his friends he is going to Blythswood-square, and actually loiters in the neigh- bourhood for the purpose of making the world believe he is poisoned there. Was L'Angelier likely to commit self- murder, and in sucii a manner as wilfully to bring on Madeleine Smith the suspicion of the deed ? These ques. tions are now beyond human investigation. The jury by their verdict have declared their inability to decide. In this verdict we must concur yet we Bee no reason for the cheering and the manifestation of joy which greeted it. Madeleine Smith goes forth free from the penalties of the law—aud that is all.—Times. » How Miss SMITH LEFT THE COURT.—The circum- stances of the ruse adopted by one of the Glasgow agents employed in the case for getting oil' Miss Smitb unmolested by the v"8t crowd waiting in the Parliament-square and neighbourhood for her exit after her trial were, we are told, as follows He had provided himself with the dress worn ou the previous days of her trial by Miss Smith, and on her liberation from the bar he asked the sergeant of police in attendance whether be could find him a girl about tbe size of Miss Smith to personate her and go through the ordeal of driving in a cab to the gaol down the High-street. The sergeant immediately recollected a girl who had for several days imporiuned the police officers to get her a sight of the prisoner, saying she would give anything for the privilege. This girl was got, and, being told that not only would she get a sight of Miss Smith, but also her dress, and a douceur besides if she would represent her in a cab in order to disperse the mob from the square, she undertook the job, and was dressed (by Miss Smith berseif) accordingly. In the meantime a rumour was circulated through the crowd that Miss Smith was to drivfr to the gaol to change her dress before going at large, and orders were given to clear a space about the court-rcom doors. This being done, and the anxiety of the crowd raised to tbe utmost pitch by tbe perpetrators, up cams the cab, and out came the fabricated girl ia nearly a fainting state, and, being with some little diffi- culty got into the carriage along with the usual police, ofr drove the vehicle at a breakneck pace, followed by the whole rabble of expectants, and in a trice the Parliament-street and all the thoroughfares about it were completely cleared. Miss Smith then having been taken round through the Ad- vocates' Library, and put on a different dress, with a coloured veil. quietly walked away, accomp: nied by her brother and another youug gentleman to tbe front of St. Giles's Church, where a cab was in waiting, and, entering it quietly, Jehu drove away ro Slateford, where she met the Caledonian train to Glasgow, and was carried by it to that city. She proceeded, we believe, straight on to Rowaleyn, her father's residence, near Helensburgh. On dit that on the day of the Lord Advocate's address she was asked what she thought of it 1 She replied, Wheu I hear tbe Dean of Facility I will lelI yuu, I oever like to give an opiuion till I have heard both sides." She pronounced the Lord Justice Cterk "a tedious old man" on the first evening of big summing up.—Nurlh British Daily Mail.

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