3alistrItautuits.

The Committee on Irish Corruption continues to sit. Mr. Lucas has been again examined. He would not name any persons unless every member of the Committee waived his right that the matter should be treated as one of private confidence. That condition having been complied with, Mr. Lucas named Mr. Butt, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Keogh. For some time the precise accusation he made against Mr. Keogh could not be ascertained from his answers. It was not the selling of places for money ; it was not giving votes to Government for patronage ; it was not " exactly" that Mr. Keogh had given votes to ob- tain places for himself. In reply to a question from Mr. Keogh, Mr. Lucas said—" The charge I mean to make against you is, that in taking place you acted corruptly, and that you have acted corruptly ever since,"—a charge greeted with "loud laughter." Mr. Butt—" Then the entire charge against the Solicitor-General resolves itself into this, that he took office in a manner that you allege to be incon- sistent with his previous position and politics ?" Mr. Lucas—" Nothing more." Mr. Butt—" And then the inevitable inference from that, in your view of the matter, is corruption of the kind contained in the case of Dr. Power ?' Mr. Lucas—" Yes."

Mr. Bright—" You do not mean to tell the Committee that a man cannot change his opinions or his fluty without being liable to charges of cor- ruption ?" Mr. Lucas—" Oh! certainly not."

Mr. Keogh—" It is now about fifteen months since I took office; and you and I, Mr. Lucas, had very strong personal disagreements long before that. Did I not, in fact, looking you full in the face, describe you at public meet- ings as a man who would plunge a dagger in a man's back, although you would never dare to do anything openly and in his presence ?" Mr. Lucas— "1 do not exactly remember the expression, but you charged me with being a calumniator, because I stated that when there was a coalition Government of Whigs and Peelites you would accept the office of Solicitor-General." Dr. Giffard, editor of the Standard, was examined in reference to an anonymous letter printed in that paper, conveying a charge of corruption against Mr. Roche. Dr. Giffard, narrowly examined, said he was accus- tomed to publish letters although he did not know who wrote them, or whether the statements were true or false. As an excuse for printing it, he said if it were false it would not hurt the feelings of any honourable man. All the names had been struck out before the letter was sent to the printer.

Mr. Napier, late Attorney-General for Ireland, said he had a general belief that corrupt practices of the kind in question existed in Ireland ; but he could give no names.

The Chairman of the Committee, Mr. Henley, addressed Mr. Roche, and informed him that no imputation of any kind rested on his character. At the request of Mr. Roche, this declaration was placed on the re- cord—

" I most positively and particularly contradict the accusation or insinua- tion contained in that anonymous letter. I declare most solemnly that it is unfounded; and moreover, I say it is a cowardly and base calumny."

Mr. Thomas Arkins, Sword-bearer of the Dublin Corporation, said that after the passing of the Dublin Corporation Reform Bill, the officers sub- scribed 3001. for Mr. Reynolds, late Member for Dublin ; not so much for his services in Parliament in getting them compensation as to compen- sate himior the loss of his seat and the expenses of his election petition. "And did he take it ?" asked Lord Barrington. "Indeed, he did, sir," was the reply. Mr. Walker, a solicitor, said that four of his brothers had received ap- pointments from Mr. Somers, Mr. Dillon Browne, and Mr. Sadleir. He had never heard it said that money had been received for these appoint- ments.

In reference to the charge about the paid guardianship, Mr. O'Hara said Fair had suggested that he would not hesitate to make a sacrifice if he could obtain the appointment for money. The money was to be given to anybody who could procure the appointment for him. Mr. O'Hara had been present at an interview between Fair and Graham, and not a word passed about money. Mr. Graham, solicitor, corroborated this, and said he had never had more than ten words or so with Mr. Fair. In short, he knew nothing whatever about the matter with which his name had been connected.

Dr. Gray, on a subsequent examination, gave two instances of the difficulty which Irish Members felt in voting against the Government. On Mr. Disraeli's motion on the 13th February 1851, Mr. Francis Scully felt scruples on the subject of voting against Lord John Russell's Go- vernment. Mr. Sadleir met Dr. Gray in the lobby, and said—" Here's Scully won't vote for us after all; giving as a reason that he got an ap- pointment for his brother." Arbitrators were appointed, and they de- cided that Mr. Scully might in honour vote against the Government ; and he did so. On the very same night, Mr. Reynolds refused to vote against the Government ; but Mr. Fagan produced a document in Mr. Reynolds's handwriting containing a list of Members who might be re- lied on to vote against the Government. Whereupon Dr. Gray threat- ened that he would frame and glaze it, and hang it up in the office of the Fteeman's Journal if Mr. Reynolds did not vote against the Government. "Upon my holding out that threat, Mr. Reynolds went and voted against the Government."

Mr. Samuel Bindon, barrister, deposed, that during Lord Derby's Go- vernment a man named Enright solicited him to get him a place in the Customs—offering 9/. Mr. Bindon smiled at the idea ; but on his ask- ing why 91. and not 5l. or 10/. was offered, Enright said that 91. was the sum given by the person who had vacated the office to Mr. Reynolds M.P. for obtaining it.

Mr. Reynolds was not permitted, at that stage, to say anything in evi- dence; but he declared that when called upon he would contradict in the most positive terms all the reports to his prejudice.

Mr. Francis Scully voluntarily appeared before the Committee yester- day, and said that "the statement of Dr. Gray is not only utterly false, but a base and wilful calumny." No such arbitration as that which Dr. Gray mentioned had occurred. "The whole story is utterly without foundation."

The order of the Garter, vacant by the death of the Marquis of Lon- donderry, is to be conferred on the Earl of Ellesmere.

Baron Groeben has arrived in London on a special mission from the Prussian Government, instructed, it is said, to explain how Prussia stands in relation to the Eastern question. In reply to a letter from Messrs. M nest-

ing to be informed whether, in the eve ..)11,. bet1iiti country and Russia, Russian goods imported from • &lila ports wduld be consi- dered contraband or admissible into England," Sir James Emerson Ten- nent, on behalf of the Board of Trade, states that, "in the event of war, every indirect attempt to carry on trade with the enemy's country will be illegal; but on the other hand, bond fide trade, not subject to the ob- jections above stated, will not become illegal merely because the articles which form the subject-matter of that trade were originally produced in the enemy's country."

Result of the Registrar-General's return of mortality in the Metropolis for the week ending on Saturday last.

Ten of Weeks

1844,53.

Week of 1864.

Zymotic Diseases 2,020 .... 254 Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable seat 504 .... 67 Tubercular Diseases

Diseases of the Brain, Spinal Marrow, Nerves, and Senses ,

1 :71: .•. 5

Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 407 . •• . . ....

'145193

53 Diseases of the Lungs, and of the other Organs of Respiration 2,339 • • • • . • . 295 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 692

Diseases of e Kid.eya, &c

129 • • • • 20 Childbirth, diseases of the Uterus, fic 112 .... 10 Rheumatism, diseases of the Bones, Joints, ikc 75 .... 6 Diseases of the Skin, Cellular Tissue, fie 17 • • • • 3 Malformations

16 • • • •

11 Premature Birth 259 .... 49 Atrophy 200 • • • • 44 Age 606 ....

so

Sudden 121 .... II Tiolence,Privation,Cold, and Intemperance 265 • • • • 43

—

— Total (including unspecified causes) 10.833

1,343

The Speaker held his first levee on Saturday, after his fifth Parliament- ary dinner.

The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner-party on Saturday, including the Earl and Countess Clarendon, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, and. Sir Hamilton Seymour.

Lady Stratford de Redcliffe, with her daughters, has left England to join her husband at Constantinople.

The Earl of Clarendon gave a grand banquet on Wednesday. Among the guests were the Duke of Cambridge, the French Ambassador, Lord and Lady Raglan, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, and Lord Brougham.

The remains of the Bishop of Salisbury werkinterred on Wednesday, in Salisbury Cathedral.

• The funeral of Dr. Jenkyns, Master of Balliol College, took place at Wells on Tuesday.

The Marquis of Londonderry's remains were conveyed from London to Wynyard on Monday night, by the Great Northern Railway, preparatory to the interment at Long Newton on Thursday. The Second Life Guards were drawn up within the railway station to receive the body : the Marquis was Colonel of the Regiment, and the men requested to be allowed to pay this last mark of regard.

Tte Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha left Paris for Germany, via Brussels, on Sunday night.

There is a rumour current in Vienna that the Emperor of Austria, now at Munich, will visit Baden ; and that an interview, somewhere on the fron- tier, will be arranged between him and the Emperor of the French.

The Prince de Chimay has been made Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour.

The Princess Lieven has taken up her residence at Brussels. It is said she has been trying her blandishments on the French exiles Changarnier.

B6deau, and Lamoriciere; but the Generals intimated that are still Frenchmen, though unfriendly to the ruler of France.

General Prim is about to leave Spain to join the camp of Omar Pasha. Queen Isabella has presented him with a magnificent horse.

Abd-el-Kader has given 6000 francs towards the expense of the Turkish war.

The legal confirmation of the betrothal of the Sultan's eldest daughter to Redschid Pasha's son has been celebrated at the Palace at Constantinople with much pomp. A long train of people carried presents from Redschid Pasha to the Palace—" a sight rather barbarous and queer than pretty or imposing " : the damsels, however, wore very transparent veils—the prettier the face the more transparent the veil.

Count Thibaudeau, once a member of the National Convention, subse- quently a Councillor of State under the first Napoleon, and Senator under the present Emperor, died last week at Paris, in his eighty-ninth year.

Princess Metternich died, in the Austrian states, on the 2d instant. She had long suffered from the disease which eventually proved fatal.

The Infanta Isabella Ferdinand Bourbon of Spain has given birth to a prince, at Brussels.

Rubini formerly the greatest of Italian tenor-singers, died on the 2d in- stant, at komano in Bergamo, aged sixty.

Madame Berlioz, still remembered as Miss Smithson, the English tragic actress, has also departed from the terrestrial scene.

M. Jules Janin, who has a fine collection of books, has taken care to pre- vent their dispersion on his death, by bequeathing them to the town of St. Etienne, his birthplace. The King of Naples has become quite the and has given two balls, the last in costume. The Court were dressed in active, style of the age of Louis the Thirteenth of France.

The carnival at Naples this year has been a failure : the people have no heart for such things.

Mr. Thackeray is in Naples, whence he sends his monthly instalments of The Newcomes to delight his Eqglish readers ; and Mr. David Roberts is also there, sketching the scenery.

The new Lilliputian five-franc gold pieces are in great favour at Paris, especially with the ladies. An artist has invented a tiny porte-monnaie to be worn on the finger to contain these little pieces.

We are authorized to state that Lord Willoughby D'Eresby's steam-plough is now completed and available for general use. Any gentleman who wishes to see it in operation may do so on application, by letter, two days previously, to Mr. Scott, Edenham, Bourne. Lord Willoughby wishes it to be under- stood that free permission is given either to take drawings of the machinery, or to make any use that may be desired of the invention, gratis—Times.

On the 1st of April and thenceforward, increased facilities will be afforded in procuring money-orders, and in obtaining payment of them, when such payment is to be made through a bank. The Postmaster-General has directed that some of the precautions required for the security of ordinary money- orders shall in these cases be dispensed with.

The Red Jacket, about to be despatched to Australia by Messrs. Pilking- ton and Wilson, will carry bullion-safes, and be fully armed ; and we under- stru2d that other emigrant-vessels are about to adopt the same precautions. The cause of this is probably the rumour that has been spread lately of Russian vessels of war having been seen cruising in the neighbourhood of Madeira.—Liverpool Standard.

A line of steamers has been announced to run between Hull and the Prus- sian port of Pillau in the Baltic taking goods for Memel, &c., for the purpose of carrying on trade between England and Russia.

The Greek and Latin clergy at Jerusalem have resumed their contests about the Holy Places, and have come to blows. Some persons were killed. The Turkish pashas, in consequence of the drain of troops for the war, are left without the means of enforcing their authority in Syria.

Calabria has been ravaged by very destructive earthquakes. The loss of life is estimated as high as 3000.

The Neapolitans have been expecting an eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

A duel has been fought between a gentleman of Florence and an Austrian officer, in consequence of the Florentine contemptuously leaving a box at a theatre on the entry of the Austrian. The officer was wounded. Both this and another duel of a similar origin were fought in the houses of Austrian officers, in order to prevent an interruption by the Police.

The Czar has got a very seasonable legacy. Sir James Wylie, for a long time chief physician to the Russian Court, recently died at St. Petersburg ; and he has left the whole of his very large fortune to the Emperor. Sir James was a Scotehman, and was born in 1768. He was knighted by the Prince Regent in 1814, and created a baronet at the request of the Emperor Alexander, on his departure from England.

There was a decline of from 3s. to 4s. in the price of corn at Mark Lane on Monday as compared with that day week.

The personal estate of the late Sir Ralph Lopes, in the diocese of Canter• bury, has been sworn under 180,000/.

in the year ending Lady-day 1852, the revenue of the turnpike trusts in England and Wales was 1,854,0811., and the expenditure 1,863491/. The financial condition of the trusts, spite of a diminished income, is improving ; for the debt is steadily reduced in amount, with of course a diminution of interest payable.

Last year the amount paid to the trustees and treasurer of the Prince of Wales, on account of the Duchy of Cornwall, was 37,225/., leaving a balance in hand of 6000/.

The championship of the Tyne has been contested between James Mes- senger, of Teddington on the Thames, and James Candlish, of Gateshead. The sum at stake was 2001. The Londoner had a very easy victory.

A man formerly a shoemaker has died in North Wharf Road, Paddington, at the advanced age of nearly a hundred and three. Till within two months of his death he was in the habit of attending his chapel early each morning and again in the evening.

A Preston firm has hinted to its young men, in the most polite terms, that they are not to wear the moustache—they are "requested' not to sear it " during business hours."

Among the mourners that followed the late Captain Sir Everard Home, R.N., to his grave in New Zealand, was a favourite Newfoundland dog; which plunged over the side of the vessel, and followed in the wake of the boats conveying the corpse and the mourners. The animal entered the church with the coffin remained quiet whilst the service was performed, and afterwards resumed his place in the return procession.