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-----------------CORN.
CORN. LIVERPOOL. TUESDAY.—There has been very little variation in the market, since Friday, and the fair consumptive business done this morning in wheat was at the rates of that day. Flour un- changed. Indian corn quiet, and rather in buyers' favour—new mixed American quoted at 22s 7^dper quarter. 2 LONDON, MONDAY.—The market was very quiet. A small supply of English wheat, and a limited business done at last Monday's quotations; foreign met a slow sale, and prices were not quite so good as previously. Flour inactive, and prices unchanged. Oats quiet and unaltered. Beans and peas sold well at rather more money. Barley without change. Maize dull at late rates. Seed market quiet. Arrivals: British wheat, 2,831 quarters; barley, 400 quarters oats, 287 quarters flour, 1,200 sacks. Foreign wheat, 35,163 quarters; barley, 20,816 quarters; oats, 39,494 quarters; mair.e, 32,932 quarters; flour 6,249 sacks and 6,169 barrels.
PROVISION'.
PROVISION'. LONDON, MONDAY.—The arrivals last week from Ireland were 255 firkins of butter and 359 barrels of bacon, and from foreign ports 20,734 packages of butter, and 3541 bales of bacon.
WOOL.
WOOL. LION"!>ON, MOXDAY.—-There is a fair amount of business passing in English wool, but prices are scarcely so firm as they were, the recent advance in the quotations being with difficulty supported. Manufacturers regard prices as too high compared with the rates current for manufactured goods. The market for Colonial wool has been steady, without material altera- tion being apparent. The public sales will be commenced on August 20.
BUTTER.
BUTTER. CORK, WEDNESDAY.—Ordinary: Firsts, 102s, seconds, 95s thirds, 88s fourths, 80s; fifths; 67s; sixths, 43s. Mild cured Superfine, 119s firsts, 104s seconds, 97s thirds, 92s. There were 1617 firkins in market.
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CATTLE.
CATTLE. SALFORD, TUESDAY.—The suppty of all kinds of stock was smaller to-day, but the quality was of a fair average character. A good demand prevailed for first-class beef, but prices were unaltered. About 200 American beasts were penned, and fetched about 7qd per lb. A fair trade was done in sheep, at the fu] i. rates of last week. Choice lambs were scarce, and made high figures, but other sorts were neglected. A moderate trade was done in calves, and last Tuesday's prices were well maintained.—Quotations were: Beef, 6d to Sid per lb mutton, 7td to 9.^d veal, 8d to 9d lamb, 9d to 10}d. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—The stock on offer con- sisted of 2.367 beasts and 11,222 sheep and lambs, included in which were 850 American cattle. Fair trade. Rather more cattle fewer sheep and lambs.—Quotations: Best beasts, 8d to 8!d per -z lb; second ditto, 7id to lid per lb; sheep and lambs, 9 jd to lOd American cattle, 7ld to 7Jd.
DEAD MEAT.
DEAD MEAT. LONDON, MONDAY.—Good supplies on offer, and trade moderately active at about previous rates; Beef, 3s Od to 4s 6J; mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 4d. veal, 5s 4d to 5s 9d; large pork, 3s 4d to 4s Od; small ditto, 4s 4d to 5s Od per stone.
COAL.
COAL. LONDON, FRIDAY.—Business has been brisk, with a ready sale at an advance of Is. per ton. Hastings Hartley, 15s. 9d.; Wallsend: Hartle- pool. 17s. 9d. South I lei ton, 17s. 6d. Tunstall, 15s. 9d. Hartlepool, 16s. 6d. South Hartlepool, 17s 6d.; Thornley, 17s. 9d Ships at market, 13 sold, all; contracts, gas. Arc., t.9—61: unsold, 4, at sea, 15.
DISTRICT MARKETS. ABERYSTWYTH.…
DISTRICT MARKETS. ABERYSTWYTH. MONDAY. The prices at this market were as follows:- Wheat (new,) 7s 6d to Os Od per bushel Wheat (old,) 7s Od to 8s Od per bushel; Barley, 4s 9d to 5s Od bushel; Oats, 3s 9d to 4s 6d; Beans; Os Od to Os Od Potatoes, 5s Od to Os Od per cwt. Beef, lOd to OOd pel lb Pork, 8d to Od per lb Mutton, 10d to OOd per lb Lamb, Is Od to Os Od per lb Ducks, 4s Od to Os Od per couple; Geese, Os Od to 0s Od per couple; Fowls. 2* fid to Os Od per couple Eggs for a shilling, 20 Fresh butter, Is 2d to Is 4cl per lb; Uhees, 4d per lb. BANGOR, FRIDAY. Prices Wheat, 41s Od to '45s Od' pfr quarter; barley, 31s Od to 36s Od oats, 26s Od to 29s oats meal," 37s Od to 38s Od per 210 lb. Potatoes, 3s 6d to 4s 0 per cwt. Fresh butter, 16d to 18cl per lb; Beef, 9d to lid per lb mutton, lOd to lid veal, 7dto 8d; bacon, 7dto 9d; best home-cured hams, lid to 12d. CARNARVON, SATURDAY. The following is a list of to-day's prices :-Beef, 7d to 10d per lb; mutton, 10d to lid; veal, 8d to 10d; pork, 8d to 9d; bacon, 7d to 9d. Cheese, 7d to 9d per lb. Fresh butter, 18d to 22d per lb; pot ditto, 14d. Fowls (dead), 2s Od to Os 0,1 ei,cli ditto alive, 14d to 15d: ducks, 3s to 3s 6d geese, Os Od to Os. Bggs, IS for Is. Pota- toes, 7s to 7s 3d per cwt. Wheat, 40s to 45s Odperqr; barley, 32s to 3(Îs Od; oats, 27s Od to 293; oatmeal, 35s Od to 38s Od per 240 lbs. CONWAY, SATURDAY. Wheat, 14s 6d'to 15s Od per hobbet; barley, lis Od to 13s Od per hobbet; oats, 10s d to lis Od per hobbet; beans, 00s Od to OOs Od per hobbet; oatmeal, 36s Od to 38s Od per 240 lbs. DENBIGH, WEDNESDAY. The quotations at to-day's market were as fol- low .—Wheat, 16s Od to 16s 6d per hobbet; bar- ley, lis Odto 14s Od; oats, 7s Od to 8s Od. Fresh buttei, 12d to 14d per lb ditto pot, 17d to 18d. LLANRWST, TUESDAY. The prices at this market were as follows;- Wheat, 16s Od to 17s 6d per hob; Wheat (old,) ODs Od to 00s Od per hob Barley, 13s Od to 14s 6d per hob Oats, 8s Od to 9s 6d per hob Beans, 00s Od to 00s Od per hob Oatmeal, 45s Od to 46s Od per 252 lbs. Potatoes, 14s Od to 15s Od per hob. Fresh butter, 22d to 2-ld per lb. Beef, 8d to 10d per lb; Pork, 00s Od to 00s Od per lb Veal, 7d to 8d per lb; Mutton, lod to Is Od per lb Lamb, lOd to 12d per lb; Ducks, 5s to 5s 6dper couple Geese, Os Od to Os Od per couple Fowls, 4s 6d 5s Od to per couple Eggs for a shilling, 12. OSWESTRY, WEDNESDAY. The following were the quotations: Wheat, 6s 6d to 6s 10d per bushel barley (malting), 6s Odto 6s 9d; oats, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; "butter, 13d to ltd per lb; eggs, 12 to 14 for a shilling; fowls, 3s 6d to 4s lid per couple ducks, 4s 6d to 5s Od per couple geese, Os Od to 0s Od cach; turkeys, 10s Od to 00s Od each potatoes, 12 lbs to 13 lbs for a shilling. P WI J L HE LI. — WEDNESDAY. The following wen; the quotations:—Barley, 20s per 220 lbs; oats, 28s per 315 lbs; oatmeal, 33s per 240 lbs; Indian corn, 17s per 240 lbs. Fresh butter, Is lid per lb; pot ditto, Is 4d to Is 5d per lb. Beef, 9d to Is 2d per lb mutton, lid to Is 2d per lb veal, 8d to I Id per Ib: ducks, 2s each fowls, 1 s 9d each eggs. 6s Od per 120 potatoes, 16s per hobbet. RHYL, THURSDAY. Very few farmers attended the market to-day. All sorts of supplies sold slowly. Wheat, 15s 6d to 16s barley, 10s to 13s beans, 13s 6c to lis oats, 8s to lis. WREXHAM. THURSDAY. The prices at this market were as follows:— White wheat, 6s 9d to 7s 3d per measure red do, 7s 3cl to 7s 6d per bushel of 75 lbs. Potatoes, 7s Od to 8s Od per 120 lbs. Fresh butter, 16d to 17d per lb. Beef, 9cl to lOd per lb; mutton, 10d to lid veal, 7d to 8d. Fowls, 3s 6d to 4s 6d percouple.
ITHE RESERVES.
I THE RESERVES. RIOTOUS CONDUCT AT PORTSMOUTH. On Saturday morning last a continued disband- ing of the rescr\ es stationed in Portsmouth garrison took place, and about 1000 more men were des- patched to their homes. Some 300 men from the outlying forts at Gosport were marched to the dockyard to take passage in the Cymha for Dublin. The men on the inarch had behaved in a very riotous manner, and, just before arriving at the dockyard, they broke through all restraint, and swarmed into the public houses. Tho officers and a number of pickets did their utmost to get the men into the dockyard, but it was more than an hour before they succeeded. The non-observance of discipline on the part of the men was resumed at the ship, on board which large numbers, many of whom were drunk, refused to go. Eventually, after a deal of persuasion, all were got on board, and the ship sailed for her destination. One of the soldiers fell down the hatchway, and sustained such serious injuries that it was considered desirable to remove him to the military hospital. Several hundred men of the- army and militia reserves were disbanded at Chatham on Saturday last, and left for their homes. Many of the men wished to remain with the colours, but the authori- ties would not sanction their doing so. There were about 1200 reserve men altogether at Chatham.
THE AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF…
THE AUSTRIAN OCCUPATION OF BOSNIA. PROCLAMATION BY THE EMPEROR JOSEPH. VIENNA, July 27, EVENING.—In view of the approaching occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Austrian Government has prepared a proclama- tion, which is to be translated into the native language of the two provinces, and distributed amongst the population. It commences by stating that the troops of the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary are about to cross the frontiers. They come as friends to put a stop to the evils which for many years have disturbed not only Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also the provinces bordering on 'Austria-Hungary. It is then declared that the Emperor has learned with sorro w the sufferings of the land, and that his Majesty, since the Govern- ment of the country is incapable of permanently restoring order, could no longer look on while force and turbulence reigned in the vicinity of his provinces, and want and misery were knocking at the frontiers of his own States. "The Emperor, therefore, directed the eye of Europe to your position, and in the council of nations it was decided with one voice that Austro-Hungary should give you back your long-missed peace and pros. perity. The Sultan commits you to the protection of his mighty friend, the Emperor and King. The troops bring to you not war, but peace. They will protect each, and oppress none. All sons of the country shall enjoy, by the command of the Emperor, equal rights in the eyes of the law, and protection for life, faith, and property. The established customs and institutions will be re- spected, the revenues will be applied solely to the wants of the country, the arrears of taxes for past years will not be collected, and the troops will pay for their own requirements." In conclusion, the proclamation calls upon the inhabitants to gather in full confidence under the shelter of the glorious flag of Austro- Hungary, to receive the soldiers as friends, to obey those in authority, to resume their ordinary avocations. They shall then be protected in the enjoyment of the fruits of their labours. The Austrian proclamation to the inhabitants of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has been published here to-night, has been received with general satis- faction. The passage in which it is stated that the Sultan has committed the Bosnians to the protec- tion of the Emperor is interpreted as pointing to the arrangement effected at the Congress, and not to a special convention. Mehemet Ali Pasha had a conference with Count Andrassv on Thursday; and to-morrow both Mehemet Ali and Caratheodori Pashas will have an interview with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, for the purpose of definitely set- tling the formal arrangements connected with the occupation, which have as yet scarcely advanced beyond an agreement as to the principle of the measure. The reports that the troops have already crossed the frontier are premature. BELGRADE, July 27.-The Austrian subjects re- siding in Servia, several thousands of whom belong to the first, second, and third class reserves of the Austrian Army, have been peremptorily summoned to join their respective battalions. This measure creates uneasiness here, as it is regarded as indicat- ing a far greater army mobilisation on the frontier than that intended for the occupation of Bosnia. The 10th of August is Prince Milan's birthday, and great festivities will be held this year in celebration of the independence of Servia.
LORD BEACONSFIELD AND MR GLADSTONE.
LORD BEACONSFIELD AND MR GLADSTONE. Englishmen (says the Times) will wonder at the curious little burst of irritation against Mr Glad- stone, which, on Saturday last, detracted from an otherwise effective speech. A statesman who has been Lord Beaconsfield's great rival, and who, with all his defects, must ever be one of the chief figures in the parliamentary history of England, is called a sophistical rhetorican, inebriated with the ex- uberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with that egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself." That invective is open to the grave artistic charge which Lord Beaconsfield once directed against the invective of his present col- league, Lord Salisbury. It wants "finish." The laborious construction of it is not redeemed by weight or point. It suggests some surprise that so consummate a master of the great art of silence should have forgotten that one of its chief uses is to hide wounded feelings; and we shall pay Lord Beacoiisfield the compliment of assuming that he read his words on Monday morning with wonder rather than admiration. The cheers and laughter which greeted the passage on Saturday night may give place to less flattering expressions amid the coolness of daylight reflection. The D lily News remarks—The personal attack on Mr Gladstone was not merely in outrageously bad taste, but it was in a bad taste'which belongs to the political controversy of an age quite different in its ways from ours. The public in general will read it probably at first with more of mere aston- ishment than any other feeling. It reminds us only of the sort of discussion which was carried on between Mr O'Connell and the rising orator who was then Mr Disraeli. There is this difference, however, apart altogether from any question of altered manners, that Mr Disraeli knew when he attacked Q'Connell he was a ssailing one who was sure to give him at least as good as he brought; whereas in our day there cannot possibly be any public man who would reply to Lord Beaconsfield in the style that Lord Beaconsfield has revived. The Prime Minister will be left to the undisturbed monopoly of that style of political warfare so long as he chooses to maintain it. Even in his triumphs the public seldom take Lord Beaconsfield quite seriously, and he therefor,e may venture with com- parative impunity upon a style of rhetoric which in any other public man, supposing any other to have such extraordinary inclinations, would be looked upon as a serious scandal. The old story comes back to mind of the converted and civilised Red Indian, who, after acting for thirty years as a respectable missionary, suddenly one day broke out with the war-whoop of his youth, and made for the scalp of some imaginary enemy. After long years of restricted parliamentary struggle, after all the regulating influences of high official life and the gravest responsibilities. Lord Beaconsfield has suddenly shouted again the war-whoop of the O'Connell days, and tried to get an enemy's scalp. The exhibition was painful as well as grotesque, and we trust is not to be repeated.
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ATTACK A POLICEMAN WITH A…
ATTACK A POLICEMAN WITH A STABLE FORK At the Preston Police Court, on Saturday, Hugh Wareing, a carter, was charged with stealing six stones of straw, ten stones of hay, and ten lbs. of provender, from the stable of Mr Blundell, coal merchant, Mount-street; and also with violently assaulting Police-constable Lee. At an early hour on Thursday morning last the constable was on y 11 duty near to the prosecutor's stables, when he saw a light, and, en breaking into the place, found the prisonerss with a lighted candle: in his hand prisoner immediately blew out the light, an escaped into an adjoining stable. Lee followed, and Wareing then made a rush at him with a stable fork, inflicting serious wounds on his head, and also attempted to stab him in the stomach. The magistrates characterised the case as a very serious one, and committed the prisoner to the sessions for trial.
OBTAINING POSSESSION OF A…
OBTAINING POSSESSION OF A CHILD. On Saturday, at the Lancaster County Petty Sessions, William Robertshaw and Sarah Holt, a married woman, both of Bradford, were charged with assaulting Louisa Trees, wife of John Trees, also of Bradford.—Mr Tilly, for the complainant, stated that the husband of the female defendant was the promoter of a divorce case, in which Robertshaw was the co-respondent. Mrs Trees was entrusted with the custody of Mr Holt's child, a little boy three years old, and Mrs Trees and her mother were leading him on the promenade at Morecabe, when the defendants came up and forcibly took possession of the child. Mrs Holt seized Mrs Trees violently by the nose, threatened to screw it oil', and scratched her face, whilst Robertshaw struck her three times in the face.- After hearing the evidence the bench sentenced Robertshaw to six weeks' hard labour in Lancaster Castle, and ordered him to pay the costs, X2 lis 4d, or be further imprisoned for fourteen days. Mrs Holt was lined £2, and X2 Is 9d costs, or one months imprisonment.
THE SPIRITUALISTIC DIVORCE…
THE SPIRITUALISTIC DIVORCE CASE. It will be remembered that some days ago we reported a local divorce suit, Holt v. Holt," in which Mrs Holt, of Beaumount-street, Liverpool, sought separation from her husband on the ground of cruelty and of his criminal intimacy with Mrs Elizabeth Oulsen, a spiritualistic'medium, who, it was stated, had obtained great influence over him. Mr Holt and Mrs Oulsen both denied that there had been any impropriety of conduct between them, and the suit was dismissed. Since then wai rants have been isued for the apprehension of John Holt and Elizabeth Oulsen on a charge of perjury. Two London detectives have been on the look out for them, and with the assistance of one of the local detectives they succeeded in appre- hending both parties in a house in Liverpool. The prisoners were conveyed to London on Saturday, and will probably be charged there to-day.
SINGULAR DIVORCE CASE.
SINGULAR DIVORCE CASE. In the Divorce Division, on Friday last, the wife of Mr John Nelson Varley, who is well known in the musical world, sought a dissolution of her marriage on the ground of his adultery and cruelty. The respondent filed an answer, denying the charges, and in kis answer to the original petition there was a plea of condonation. The matter was only part he ml at the rising of the court. It appeared that, from what was stated for the petitioner and by Mrs Varley herself, the respon- dent used to make use of bad language to her, and had, by his misconduct, contributed to her illness. At Bradford he swore at her, and at a dinner given by a Germaii friend of the petitioner's, who is herself a native of that country, Mr Varley was guilty of violent language against the nation alluded to. The case was adjourned. Upon resuming the trial on Saturday morning, Mr Varley, in his defence, made a total denial of the adultery, or that by his acts with other women his wife suffered in health. Sir James Hannen thought the case was made out, and granted a decree nisi tor a divorce, with costs.
CONSPIRACY TO MURDER.
CONSPIRACY TO MURDER. William Ryan. Thomas Clifford, and Henry Leverson, formerly belonging to the ship Argosy, were [charged on remand at the Thames police court, London, on Saturday last, with combining to murder the captain, mate,, boatswain, and steward. The prisoners joined the Argosy at Adelaide, and it appeared from the evidence of a seaman named Jacobson that one evening during the voyage home, while off the Cape of Good Hope, he heard Leversou propose to murder the captain and the others, but Clifford expressed dissent. Several witnesses were called, more or less incrimi- nating the prisoners, and, after hearing their evi- dence, Mr Lushington said he did not think there was evidence with regard to Clifford for the attempted conspiracy to murder, and that charge would be dismissed. The other two prisoners would be committed for trial for a conspiracy to murder; Ryati for a mutinous assault on the captain; and all for a mutinous assault on the mate, and misconduct.
THE DEATH AT THE WESLEYAN…
THE DEATH AT THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. The Rev. P. C. Horton, who died very suddenly while taking part in the proceedings of the Wes- leyan Conference at Bradford on Thursday last, was a retired minister of that denomination, and resided at Southport. In the course of his ministry he had been connected with some of the most im- portant circuits, including Manchester, Sheffield, and Liverpool, and here his remains found a resting place. The funeral took place on Monday, and the peculiar circumstances of the death, together with the esteem in which the deceased minister was held, attracted a numerous congregation to the Wesleyan Chapel in Stanhope-street, Liverpool, where a special service was held on Monday afternoon, pre- vious to the funeral. The pulpit was draped in black, and a sombre pall of velvet covered the coffin, which rested between the pews and the pulpit. The Rev. J. Harvard and the Rev. E. Lightwood had been deputed by the Conference to attend the funeral, and in addition to these there were also present the Revs. F. Kellett, W. H. Tind ill, G. S. Weston, J. B. Maltby, G. Scott, W. H. Dallinger, J. Bowman, J. Hornabrook, W. ,Y) Impey, a missionary returned from South Africa; Mr Johnson Cooke, Mr Elkanah Healey, Mr James Birch, &c. The service commenced with a hymn, followed by a portion of Scripture, and Mr Harvard then offered prayer. The lesson in the funeral sfcu-vice [I Corinthians, xv.] was read by Mr Horna- brook, and Mr Lightwood gave an affecting account of the closing scene of the deceased minister's life, and a sketch of his character and ministerial work. A procession was then formed, and the relatives and friends of some of the ministers were conveyed, preceded by the hearse enclosing the coffin, to St. James' Cemetery, a short distance from the chapel. The service was concluded at the grave by the Rev. William Impey. —
"It's thyme you rose Mary,"…
"It's thyme you rose Mary," as the florist called to his daughter, early in the dewy morning. On several occasions lately Captain Shaw has been able to repoit that there were "no fires in the Metropolis." Considering the price of coals, this is not surprising. GIANTS.—The two giants, whose wedding at- tracted attention in London several years ago, Captain Bates and Anua Swan, are now living quietly near Rochester, America. He is seven and a half feet high, and she an inch taller; and each weighs more than four hundred pounds. The rooms of their house are eighteen feet high, and the doors twelve feet high. Their bedstead is ten feet long, and all the furniture is proportionately large.
DElTlt SE.NTEN0K ON A MOTHER.
DElTlt SE.NTEN0K ON A MOTHER. A PITIABLE STORY. At the Crown Court of the Assizes, on Tuesday, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn,Ellen Loughlin, a middle-aged woman, was indicted for having, at Liverpool, murdered two of her infant children on the 17th of May last. Mr McOonnell and Mr Shand appeared for the prosecution, and the prisoner was defen ded by Dr. Commins. Mr McConnell, in opening the case for the pro- secution, said this case seemed to be one of the saddest and most melancholy that liad ever come within his experience—sad in the history of the Unfortunate woman in the dock, and sad as affected her future when the jury came to decide whether she was guilty or not. She was a married woman, and, unfortunately, her husband was a Irnatic, an inmate of the asylum at Rainliill, where he was taken in September of 1873. She was then left alone with two children, now about five and six years of age. She kept for srnne time in Richmond- row a small shop, where she sold ginger-beer and small articles, and she struggled liai d for some time to support herself and her eLildren. There came, however, a man to lodge with her named McLoughlin, whose conduer, showed he was a very worthless fellow, as he took advantage of her, and an adulterous connection was formed between them. She supported him out of the takings of her little shop till all her money was exhausted, and she had to sell off all that was in the place. That was in January of the present year, and she went with McLoughlin to live with a woman named Fletcher, of 25, Morlcy-street. She had previously sent away the two legitimate children of her marriage to Manchester. Being in the family-way and destitute in April last, McLoughlin having deserted her, she went to the workhouse hospital, where, on the 30th of that month, she was delivered of twin daughters. One of them was vaccinated successfully, but in the other the vaccine matter did not operate. On the 14th of May she left the hospital and went back to Mrs Fletcher's, taking the two children with her, and stayed at the house till the 17th. At half-past eight in the evening of that day she went out, taking the twins with her, making a statement to the effect as to where she intended to go. On the following day she returned in the afternoon, saying that she had put the children out to nurse, and was paying a weekly sum for their maintenance. The next day she left again, saying she was going to Manchester for a situation. On the 19th an infant was found in a pond near Stanley-road by a Blue-coat boy, and the wrap- pings of the bedy would be identified as forming part of that belonging to the prisoner, and on the arm of the child were found vaccination marks. The prisoner was taken in custody on the 31st of the month, at Hooley-lull, near Ashton-under- Lyne, by Detective Cozens, and when charged with the murder of her child she made a statement which was a very important one, and which, there- fore, he (the learned counsel) would leave the wit- ness to give to the jury. His Lordship.-I think that ought to be stated in the opening. Mr McConnell.—I thought my friend might per- haps challenge the circumstances under which the statement was made. I am only trying to do my extreme duty. His Lordship.-I always think it better that the whole case should be stated. Mr McConnell.—Very well, my lord. The police- man, on charging her with the murder of her child, said the charge was a serious one, and she was not compelled to say anything unless she liked. But she replied:—" I wish to tell the truth, and plead for mercy. It was poverty and not cruelty that made me drown my children. I put them m a pool of water in a field off Stanley-road. I took one out soon after and thought she not dead, but found she was. I put the body in the ash pit off Brisbane-street, where it was found. I remained in the field crying all nh.dit, and I have cried about my children every day since. I was desti- tute. I had no home, or bed to lie on. After my husband,Edward Lauigan, was taken to the Lunatic Asylum, Rainhill, five years next September, I did my utmost to support my four children. I kept a shop, 25, Richmond-row, where I sold gingerbeer and sweets. Last June I had a lodger, named James McLoughlin, a plasterer, and one night when under the influence of drink he forced him- self into my bedroom and took advantage of me. I afterwards lived with him as his wife, but he gave me no support, and I was obliged to sell everything I had. He deserted me seven weeks before the children were born. I feel easier now that it has been found out, and I hope I may be mercifully dealt with." Before the magistrates she said:- On the night I took the children out I did not take them with the intention of drowning them. I was willing to work for them, but I could get no person to take them to nurse. I asked young Mrs Fletcher if she thought Mrs Tyson would take them and nurse them. I never was a bad one to my children. I worked six years for them. Evidence was then adduce^l, beginning with Maria Swan, a nurse in the lying-in ward of the workhouse hospital, who proved the birth of the children. Julia Fletcher, at whose house the pri- soner and McLoughlin lived in Morley-street as man and wife, said McLoughlin was a hard-work- ing man, but he drank very heavily and ill-used the prisoner, and he gave her no maintenance." When they came to Morley-street she was in the family-way, and after Meljoughlin deserted her she went into the workhouse to be confined. She came out on the 14th May, and presented herself with the twins at 49, Berry-street, whither witness had removed. She stayed till the 17th, and then went away with the babies. Returning, she said that she had left them well done for"—to be nursed in Christian-street, at a friend of hers. On the 21st she said she was going to Denton, near Manchester, and she went away. She paid witness as long as she had any money. Cross-examined: She ap- peared fond of the children. Frances Fletcher, mother of the former witness, corroborated her evidence. James Humphreys, a Blue-coat boy, aged 13, proved finding the dead body of a child wrapped in the clothes produced, and which were identified as belonging to the prisoner. Dr Hugh Williams, of the Stanley Hospital, who examined the body of the child, sa;d it appeared to be that of an infant a month old. Suffocation was the cause of death, but there were no internal marks of water in the stomach or lungs The clothes enveloping it were wet. It was evident the child had not been dead long, because the post- mortem rigidity had not passed away. There were no marks of violence of any kind on the body. Detective Cozens, who arrested the prisoner, proved the statement she made, as already given above. He said that she had four children now alive, and her husband was ill the Rainliill Asylum. From inquiries made, lie believed she had been a sober, steady woman, striving to sup- port herself honestly until McLoughlin came to live with her. When witness saw her, after her committal for trial, by leave of the magistrates, to make some arrangement about her ^hiMteh, sho told him her mind was distracted when she left the house, and she had no intention of drowning them. This was the case for the prosecution. For the defence, Dr Commins, addressing the jury, said that after the statement iiiale by the prisoner it would be useless for him to contend, as lie might have done, and done successfully, had it not been for the statement that she had not disposed of the child in the way alleged. The only questions were, did the child come by its death at the hands of the prisoner, and what state of mind the prisoner was in at the tune. In this, as in many other cases, the greatest criminal escaped and the least guilty had to bear the consequence. McLoughlin was the true culprit, a mur without a single manly principle or a spark of manliness or humanity. Counsel proceeding, dwelt on the sadness of the story told, and its "miserable pathos," and con- eluding by reminding the jury that they had the privilege as well as a duty to porlorm in their hands—viz., that of raising their voices in a plea for mercy. His Lordship, in summing up said, no doubt the prisoner was distracted to a certain extent when she made away with her child. She was torn to pieces by conflicting feelings and emotions calcu- lated to excite our pit;, and which, perhaps, would excite pity elsewhere, but there w"i nothing what- ever to show that this was not the act of a person in quite sufficient possession of a sense of right and wrong. The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy. In passing sentence of death upon her his Lord- ship said theie codd be no doubt whatever of her guilt. He woUid say nothing to aggravate th& sadness of her position. The jury had recom- mended her to mercy, and to that recommendation he would add his own, and it might be that these recommendations might induce those in whose hands it rested to extend the merev of the Crown to her. He had, however, no alternative but to pass sentence of death upon her. His Lordship then pronounced the sentence of death. The prisoner, who had cried throughout the hearing, was then removed below, the second charge, that of murdering her other child, net being proceeded with..
MR GLADSTONE AND THE PRIME-MINISTER.
MR GLADSTONE AND THE PRIME- MINISTER. The following is Lord Beaconsfield's reply to the letter addressed to him by Mr Gladstone, which was read in the House of Commons on Tuesday night 10, Downing-street, Whitehall. r, Lord Beaconsfield presents his compliments to Mr Gladstone, and has the honour to acknowledge the receipt of his letter of this day's date referring to some remarks made by Lord Beaconsfield last evening, in the House of Lords, and rcquestin"- to be supplied with a "list of offensive epithets, applied not merely to Lord Beaconsfield'smeasures bat to his person and character, and with a note of the times and piaces at which they were used." As this would require a research over a period of two years and a half, during which Mr Gladstone, to ubG his own expressions at Oxford, has been counter-working by day and night, week by week, month by month, the purpose of Lord Beaconsfield. Lord Beaconsfield, who is at this moment much pressed with affairs, is obliged to request those gentlemen who are kind enough to assist him in the conduct of public business to undertake the necessary researches, which probably may require some little time. But that Lord Beaconsfield by such delay in replying to Mr Gladstone may not- appear wanting in becoming courtesy, he must observe, with reference to the Oxford speech re- ferred to in the House of Lord, and which was one long invective against the Government, that Mr Gladstone then remarked that when he spoke of the Government he meant Lord Beaconsfield, who was alone responsible, and b) whom the great name of England had been degraded and debased. In the same spirit, a few days back at South- wark, Lord Beaconsfield was charged with an act of duplicity, of which every Englishman should be ashamed—an act of duplicity which has not been surpassed, and Mr Gladstone believes has been rarely equalled, in the history of nations. Such an act, however, might be expected from a Minister who, acconding to Mr Gladstone, had sold the Greeks. With regard to the epithet devilish," which Lord Beaconsfield used in the House of Lords, he is informed that it was not Mr Glad- stone at Hawarden, who compared Lord Beacons- filed to Mephistophiles, but only one of Mr Gladstone's friends kindly inquiring of Mr Glad- stone how they were to get rid of this Mephieto- philes. But as Mr Gladstone proceeded to explain the mode—probably the Birmirgham caucus- Lord Leaconsfield may, perhaps, be excused for assuming that Air Gladstone sanctioned the pro- priety of the scarcely < eniplimentary appellation.
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In the case of Messrs. Mayne Brothers, tried at Belfast assizes on Monday on a charge of fraud in the grain trade, Mr Alexander .viavne was dis- charged by order of the learned judge, and in the case of Mr T. J. Mayne the jury were unable to agree to a verdict, and he was released on bail. A charge of attempting to defraud the Admiralty of over £ 600 was made at the Bow-street (London) police-court on Monday, against two young men, named Ilugall and Phillips. Mr Poland, who pro- secuted for the Treasury, explained that Hugall had been employed as a "writer" both at the Admiralty^ and in the Inland Revenue, and had thus acquired the knowledge by means of which the fraud was attempted. The prisoners were re- manded. At Chelmsford Church, on Sunday, sermons were preached by the Bishop of St. Albans and the Bishop of Brechin in reference to the death of the Ven. C. A. St. John Mildmay, archdeacon of Essex. At the morning service a bank note for £ 1000 wa& placed in the offertory bag, with directions for one half of the amount to be devoted to the Chelms- ford Infirmary and the other half to the Chelmsford Dispensary. SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last, John Bright, permanent-way manager, and Henry Seargill, engineer for Captain Ingham, coalowner, Thornhill, near Dewsbury, were killed through a locomotive, driven by the latter, running down an embankment. They were shockingly mutilated. They were following three runaway waggons which had broken loose on a steep incline. WESLEYAN METHODISM IN W.u.rs.—At the Wes- leyan Conference on Tuesday, the Rev. John Bed- ford raised a question in reference to the appoint- ment of a Welsh minister to the English work, and it was proposed to appoint a promising young Welsh minister to an English circuit. The Rev. W. Davies, the chairman of the Welsh district, opposed the proposal, and requested that the minister should be retained in Welsh work. The Rev. Dr Osborn asked if Methodism was to be ex- tinguished in Wales. Some people said. "Yes; the lauguage was doomed." He did not believe that the language would go out in our time. It was not likely to be absorbed in the period of our r sponsibility, and the best policy was to make Welsh Methodism as good as possible by keeping up a good supply of Welsh ministers. The Welsh people were born theologians—tl. ;y we:e logicians and divines by nature. He was satisfies that they could not trample out the Welsh !Pii,li:,)I,o, or the marks of nationality associated with it. ° TEKKIULE SCENE AT A WKKCK.—The Melbourne Argus of June 10th has particulars of the wreck of the iron ship Lock Ard, from London to Melbourne, which struck on a rock and foundered whrv. v-n a day's sail of port, near the oi u,e aw brook Creek. Out of 17 passengers and a large crew only two persons were saved—Miss Eveline Car- michael, passenger, and Thomas Pearee, mid- shipman. Pearce got ashore by the help partly of the boat, and partly of a table. Miss and Miss Eaby Carmichac-1 ran up the companion, and at the deck the captain said, "If you are saved, let my dear wife know I ditd—like a British sailor :—at my post." He was only married six weeks before he left London. A sea swept the ladies overboard. Miss Eveline found that she had hold of a hencoop; she was joined by Mr Reginald Jones and Mr Arthur Mitchell. They heard the screams of the persons still on boa- d ;"the ship waa sinking fast. The three were lifted into the entrance of a gorge, and then the two men quitted the hencoop for a spar, but they were caught by the underflow and carried out to sea. Miss f: mjchael, who must now have been a long time in the water, caught sight of Pearee on shore, and s( reamed out to him. He bravely swam out, found that she had become-insensible, and got her safelv to land. Pearce placed Miss Carmichatl in a cave, gavo her some spirits, to be had in plenty on the boach, and then climbed to the top or the cliffs in search of assistance. He stiueL: a path, and followed it for several hours until he fell in with a 11.-m. named Ford. The two men jet:;rned to the snore, got down the cliffs with the help of a rope, and then found to their horror, that the lady had si rayed away. They did not discover her till long a iter dark. Even then she was only found by accident, for she lay in a semi-comatose state- under some bushes.