MONDAY, JULY 8TH.

A Pommel, association in the West Riding, called the Armley Reform Association, has accused Sir J. Ramsden of breaking his pledges, by not supporting Parliamentary Reform and the abolition of the Paper Duty. Sir J. Ramsden, in his reply, defends his poli- tical consistency, charges his accusers with garbling and falsifying his speeches, and reads them the following severe lesson :

"Yon will not, therefore, be surprised at my informing you that I cannot so greatly insult the West Riding as to accept the Armley Reform Association as a type of the honesty or morality of those whom I should acknowledge to be my judges; and still less can I admit them to be a sample of the sound intelligence and liberality of the electors of the West Riding.

" So far from reflecting the sentiments of that great and influential body by whom I was returned to Parliament, I should imagine that the members of the Armley Reform Association constituted a very small section of self-styled Liberals, extreme in their opinions, and intolerant in their acts; and who, refusing a public man the exercise either of his discretion or independence, would also mischiev- ously absolve him from all real responsibility by degrading him from a represen- tative into a delegate. " The vast majority of the Liberal electors of the West Riding, whom I am proud to represent, can have no sympathy with such pernicious doctrines—they know how to estimate aright the higher principles of representative government, which they and I hold in common, and although occasional differences may arise as to the best time and mode of giving effect to our common principles, they would be ashamed on that account to identify themselves with the intolerance of the Armley Reform Association, and fetter the representation of the ' greatest constituency in the realm' with such conditions and restrictions as would render it, in the eyes of every man of sound principle and right feeling, not the highest honour to be sought, but the most conspicuous degradation to be avoided."

At the next election Sir J. Ramsden will probably learn that smart writing of that kind is a very costly enjoyment.

— The second day's meeting of the National Rifle Association, held at Wimbledon, went off much better than the first. The com- petitors had got accustomed to the wind, and the shooting was ex- cellent. Sergeant Duggan, of the 26th Lancashire Rifles, was first in the general contest for the Queen's prize, that is the contest among all comers, the first twenty of whom receive each a superb Whitworth rifle, and then compete among each other for the great prize. Mr. Duggan scored 23, and eleven other competitors from 17 to 20. Mr. Ross, the champion shot of last year, was not even in the list. A. considerable company watched the proceedings, which will not end till Saturday next, but even on the great day, not above eleven thousand volunteers are expected to be present. The choice of Wimbledon Common as the place for the next review is much objected to, as the station is small and the ground rough, cut up, and over- grown with furze. The volunteers are called on to support the National Association, which, as yet, they have not sufficiently done.

— The Metropolis Roads Commissioners have decided that Mr. Train must take up his tramways on the Bayswater-road. The opinion of the neighbourhood seems very much divided, but as a rule those who keep carriages and the tradesmen are opposed to the tram- ways, and those who travel by omnibus support them. They cer- tainly do not cause accidents in the Champs Elysees.

— Captain R. F. Burton and Mr. J. Hunt, Secretary to the Eth- nological Society, have written to the Times partially defending Mr. du Chaillu for Society, attack on Mr. Malone. The latter, it is agreed, gave great provocation, as the meeting was not convened to try Mr'. du Chaillu, but to hear a paper by Captain Burton. Mr. Malone distinctly denied Mr. du Chaillifs honesty. There seems, from their letters, little doubt that Mr. du Chaillu was justified in resenting an unwarrantable attack, and as little that he adopted a mode of so doing long since exploded in civilized society. — The coroner's jury who inquired into the cause of the recent accident on the North Staffordshire line, have returned,the following verdict : "That the train was travelling at too great a speed, and the road was not in a good state, and that the engine and guard's van

were thrown over in consequence ; and that the said John Smithy John Tamms, and Robert Gardner were thereby killed." It seems proved that the sleepers on the spot where the accident took plaids! were very rotten, and some of the chair fastenings were out. There was an effort to prove that the oscillation of the engine at its high speed—forty miles an hour—" burst" the road. — A careful experiment with various steam-ploughs is now going on. at Garforth, near Leeds, under the superintendence of the Royal Agricultural Society.

— Mr. Roundel' Palmer, the new Solicitor-General, met the electors of Richmond on the 9th inst. After a compliment to Mr. Rich, who had retired partly from ill-health and•partly from deference to Government, Mr. Palmer proceeded to say that he had never sought the Solicitor-Generalship. He had lost his seat because he could not agree with Lord Palmerston on the China war, and had remained out of Parliament because he could not follow Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli, while he could not bind his conscience with the pledges asked by the popular constituencies. Lord Pal- merston knew the principles he had professed ; and lie also must have been aware that he would not swerve from them. Notwithstanding this, he had thought well to honour him with the office of Solicitor- General. He must confess himself not to be indifferent to that feel- ing of ambition which was common among men, but he hoped that in accepting office under the Government he was chiefly moved by that more honourable ambition to serve his country to the best of his. power. His principles might be summed up in a few points. He was at present, and always had been, an ardent lover of the people, and an ardent lover and advocate of civil and religious liberty ; but he was not one who had courted the name of Liberal rather than follow the principles that term expressed ; neither had he, to earn a credit for superior liberality, supported measures which, although popular with a certain class, were what he considered detrimental to the interests of the country. On the other hand, he was most heartily attached to the mixed form of Government under which he lived„ and to the great institutions of the country in Church and State ; and no one could be more determined to hand them down to pos- terity as unimpaired as he had found them. But that attachment was not blind and unreasoning. He thought war a curse, but would maintain the national honour at any cost. The Oxford University, it is understood, still intends to elect Mr. Palmer on the next va- cancy.

— A ship has just been turned out of Mr. Langlq'syard, Dept- ford-green, which it is supposed cannot sink. She is divided into separate compartments, and separate decks, the two lower decks not communicating with each other. If, therefore, the bottom were in- jured or torn away, the ship would still float, while in case of fire the space between decks might be filled with water like a tank. The vessel is of 1100 tons burden, and is intended for the Cape line. — A cricket match of a somewhat novel description was played at Lord's, on Saturday, between eleven members of the Government side of the House of Commons and eleven of "her Majesty's Oppo- sition," each side having the services of a professional bowler. The result was a decided triumph for the latter, the score being—Go- vernment, 90 and 51; the Opposition, 128 and 14 (9 wickets to go. down).

TUESDAY, JULY 9TH.

— Mr. J. It. Hind has suggested that the very singular appear- ance presented by the sky on the evening of Sunday, 30th June, was caused by the earth being enveloped in the tail of the comet. Mr.

E. J. Lowe accordingly writes to the Times to describe this appear- ance. He says : "Without being aware that the comet's tail was

surrounding us, yet being struck by the singularity of the appear- ance, I recorded in the day-book the following ; 'A singular yellow phosphorescent glare, very like diffused Aurora Borealis, yet being daylight such Aurora would scarcely be noticeable' The comet itself had a much more hazy appearance than it has had since that evening." — A deputation of Mexican bondholders, on Monday, presented a memorial to Lord John Russell, praying attention to the robbery of six hundred thousand dollars, the breach of contracts assigning the Customs revenue, the necessity of appointingagents to receive these assignments, and the frittering away of the Church property, amounting to sixty millions, and which ought to have been used to- pay foreign creditors. In reply, Lord J. Russell stated that with regard to the first point the bondholders had, in fact, been robbed by the persons then holding power, and that the Mexican Govern- ment were bound to make it good. As to the second, there are various payments out of the Customs duties, including some to the French. The agreements with Captains Dunlop and Aldham, how- ever, must be carried out. Upon the third point lie was not pre- pared to answer. He mentioned that Sir Charles Wyke was very anxious that the British claimants should be satisfied, and was exces- sively indignant at the disappearance of the Church property. He (Lord J. Russell) had reason to know that the French Government took a view similar to that of the English, and that, from the con- tinued breaking of pledges by the various Mexican Administrations, they saw the necessity of speaking firmly. Her Majesty's Govern- ment were disposed to do the same.

— Mr. Turnbull, the gentleman who recently resigned his place at the State Paper Office in consequence of a memorial representing that, as a Catholic he could not be safely entrusted with historical records, has brought an action against the Secretary to the Pro- testant Alliance for libeL The libels are contained in a series of letters, too long for our columns, but the gist of them is con- tained in a charge of unfitness based upon the following grounds : "That Mr. Turnbull is not only a Roman Catholic, but an avowed defender and admirer of the Jesuits, for whom he expresses, in. his Dye of Father Southwell a ' natural bias,' and holds them 'in the highest veneration, honour, and esteem,' and has, in the same work, manifested this 'natural bias,' by calling the Jesuit priest, Garnet, who was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot, a 'well-known martyr,' and the conspiracy of Babington against the life of Elizabeth and the State of Englsnd, a 'gallant confederacy ;' that in another work he designated the Reformation a mischievous event,' and has declared that he would rather be condemned with a Papist than saved with a Puritan." Mr. Turnbull was summoned, and deposed that he was ap- pointed by the Master of the Rolls, whom he had never seemeto calendar foreign State papers between the accession of Edward vT. and 1688, at eight ,guineas a sheet, which sum he expended on books of refer- ence. " My duty was to make a full and complete abstract of every document to be found among the foreign State papers, whatever the language, to arrange them chronologically, print them with full and complete index, and such remarks and introductions as might be necessary relative to the number of pages, condition of document, injured njured by fire, damp, or otherwise, and, in short, to present to the world a complete view of the nature of each document. I did my best to perform my duty ; my whole heart was in it, and I had the public and the Master of the Rolls to satisfy. (The witness here became somewhat affected.) My first volume was completed and published in January, 1861. This is the volume. My second, com- prising Mary's reign, is now ready. In the first volume there is very little allusion to religious matters. In the second, the only exception is a sermon in Italian, which I found to be by Cardinal Pole, a trans- lation from one delivered in English. There are documents referring to religion, but none important; not one relating to the Reformation; merely gossip of the day. I had not come to the Thirty Years' War, nor to the periods mentioned in the letters of Mr. Bird. If I could have used photographs I could not have made a more correct abstract of the documents." The assistant-keeper of records, Mr. Duffus Hardy, denied that the papers contained any religious or controversial matter, or that Mr. Turnbull had been specially supervised, evi- dence confirmed by the Reverend J. T. Brewer, reader at the Rolls. On the following day. the Chief Justice summed up strongly in favour of Mr. Turnbull. "If," said he, "Mr. Turnbull were guilty of the misconduct of which the defendant appears to think him capable, he would be a most odious man. What are his antecedents? He is a man who has passed the middle period of life with honour and distiuction, an accomplished scholar, known as such to men of all nations. Could Mr. Bird, from such antecedents, fairly draw the conclusions to which, it is said, he has arrived? When the order of the Jesuits was first established, it was founded on principles of most enlightened beneficence, but some Jesuits deserve one character, and some another. Mr. Bovit is right when he says that the very word Jesuitical has been taken to mean the same thing, as deceitful but can it be said that when Mr. Turnbull expresses his esteem and reve- mace for the Jesuits he means that he advocates deceit? He has been held up as a subject of Protestant panic because he calls Gar- nett a martyr ; and Mr. Bovill says of the plaintiff that he admires a man guilty of treason. But let me tell you that the trial of Garnett has been much discussed; and in the State Trials during the times of the Stuarts there are to be found instances of convictions which any man capable of weighing criminal evidence must look upon with great dissatisfaction. There has been a controversy on two in particular. Sidney and Lord William Russell have been called martyrs. Is it fair, then,- to say that Mr. Turnbull sanctions treason when he takes one side of a controversy ? Many people will agree with Mr. Turn- bull, when he uses with reference to Babington's plot the term `,pliant confederacy ;' but although Babington pleaded Guilty,' he said he formed one of a band of gentlemen who had determined to release Mary Queen of Scots, and that he had been led away by one man, who advised the death of Elizabeth." Time jury found a verdict for the defendant. Mr. Turnbull has been hardly used, but his action was ill advised. The right to comment on the propriety of any Government appointment is too well established to be resisted. No amount of such actions could prevent a Member of Parliament from saying what he liked about any appointment, or the Press from re- porting his speech.

— Mr. Atherton, Attorney-General, has been re-elected for Dur- ham without opposition. His election speech contained nothing of interest.

— A amusing case was heard on Monday before the Divorce Court. Mr. F. Radford, a builder, applied for judicial separation from his wife on the ground of cruelty. From the first three weeks -of their marriage his wife had treated him cruelly, spat on him, beaten,.and bit him. Twice she locked him up in his bedroom without. any cause, whatever. One day in bed she thumped him, kicked him, grinned at him, and pulled off the bed-clothes. The witness narrated various other acts of cruelty, which terminated in his being laid up with fever of the brain. In cross-examination, Mr. Radford admitted having called his wife a strumpet. Three or four witnesses corroborated his statements, as did his wife iu part, but she added that lie called her foul names, put his arm round her and hurt her, threw sugar into her eyes, threatened her child, spat at her often, and assaulted her in various ways. Sir Cresswell Cresswell observed that a man seldom condescended to come into Court to defend himself from his wife, and the jury found that the happy couple had been mutually guilty of cruelty, and mutually condoned each other's offences.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10TH.

— A case of some interest has been tried at the Court of Common Pleas. A Lieutenant Allen, of the 82nd NJ., was convicted by

an Indian court-martial of the manslaught er of a native, and sen- tenced to four years' imprisonment. He was at first imprisoned in the Agra Fort, but then sent home, and shifted from prison to prison, till he applied for a writ of habeas corpus. The writ was granted, and on investigation the detention was pronounced illegal, and he was set at liberty. He now sought to recover damages against the Duke of Cambridge as having signed the warrant which led to his illegal detention and transfers. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, fixing damages at 290/., a singular verdict, as the Duke only acted in his official capacity, and had no idea but that he was bene- fiting', Mr. Allen in sanctioning his transfer to England. Five pounds damages would have marked the illegality of the forms observed, and met the justice of the case. — A public meeting of the officers of the merchant marine was held on Tuesday at the London Tavern, to consider the Government regulations under which the masters and mates of merchant vessels may be enrolled as officers to the royal naval reserve force, and to consider how the owners, masters and officers of the merchant service might effectually assist the Government in procuring the number of seamen required to complete the force : W. S. Lindsay, Esq., M.P., in the chair. Mr. Lindsay said he was surprised to find only five thousand out of twenty thousand men belonging to the merchant service had entered the naval reserve. They wanted their officers, and with regard to them the regulations proposed by the Admiralty were, that four hundred masters and mates of the mercantile service should be invited to join the reserve ; that they should consist of two ' classes—first, the masters of merchant vessels who had obtained extra certificates under the Mercantile Marine and Merchant Ship- ping Acts, and who had for three years commanded vessels of not less than 500 tons burden; and, secondly, of chief mates, who had sailed in that capacity two long voyages, in ships of similar tonnage, or who had served for two years in steamers of 700 tons. The first of those classes would be eligible as lieutenants or masters of the naval re- serve, and the second as sub-lieutenants, to rank with, but after, the lieutenants of the Royal Navy; the same arrangement to be made with the sub-lieutenants. He wished to remind the meeting that the officers of the volunteers of shore ranked with, but after, their equals in the regular army, and that appeared to be a precedent for the pro- posals of the Government with regard to the naval reserve. The first-class officers would receive five shillings a day pay, and the second-class two shillings and sixpence while on drill, and when on service obtain the pay and allowances of the Royal Navy. No ob- jection was offered to the pay, time meeting confining themselves to the question of rank, on which the general feeling was expressed in the following resolution and speech by Captain Congalton " That this meeting is of opinion that the ranks of lieutenant and sublieu- tenant, offered by the Government, will be accepted by the masters and mates of merchant vessels, provided that the rating shall imply equality with the corresponding rank in the Royal Navy, and that the officers of the reserve shall not be called upon to serve under any officer of inferior rank to that of commander in the Royal Navy." He said the qualification required was such that it would place men of experience under those in the Royal Navy who had not seen any- thing like the service the officers in the merchant service had. There were very few who would agree to go in and rank after the officers of the Royal Navy, for that would be creating another class of officers. (Hear, hear.) What captain of a first-class ship would accept such terms? (Hear, hear.) For himself, lie would rather be pressed in an emergency into the Royal Navy as an able seaman, and serve at a gun, than accept the terms offered." (Cheers.) One or two captains supported the Government proposal, but the resolution was carried, with anotherproposing that a memorial embodying the sense of the meeting should be transmitted to the First Lord of the Admiralty.

— Both Houses of Convocation met yesterday, when the report of the Lower House on Essays and Reviews was read in the Upper. The Bishop of Chichester said that upon that resolution a question would arise whether the Upper House would enter upon the subject of adopting that or any similar resolution with regard to the Essays and Reviews. Their Lordships were in a different position from the members of the Lower House, inasmuch as they were under the pre- sidency of his Grace time Archbishop, who, with the Bishop of Lon- don, might under certain circumstances be called upon to act in a judicial capacity, arising out of a suit which the Bishop of Salisbury had thought it right to institute against the Rev. Dr. Row- land Williams, vicar of Broad-Chalk in the diocese of Salisbury, one of the authors of Essays and Reviews. If that should be the feeling of the Archbishop and the Bishop of London, the other bishops would have to discuss the volume in their absence, and thus much of the weight which would otherwise attach to their decision would be lost. He would therefore propose a resolution adjourning The further consideration of the subject pending the course of the suit: The resolution was carried unanimously, and Convocation is accordiligly rid of the question. Archdeacon Hale gave notice of a motion to %e discussed next year for presenting an address to her Majesty, praying her to take into consideration the designs openly set forth by time enemies of the Church of England. The Rev. R. Seymour proposed an address to the Archbishop, praying him to lay down rules for the establishment of Protestant Sisters of Mercy, and the House was prorogued to the 13th of August.

— Mr. W. Crabb, inspector of permanent works on the Great North of Scotland line, has met with his death in a somewhat sin- gular manner. He was standing on a ladder about eighteen feet rom the ground, examining a water tank at time Dirce station, when the ladder slightly swayed. To steady himself, Mr. Grabb seized the handle of the stop-cock, and the water rushed out with s force which

swept him off the ladder. His head struck a rail, and he expired in ten minutes, his skull having been severely fractured. — Mr. Roundell Palmer, the new Solicitor-General, was elected for Richmond on Tuesday, without opposition. In returning thanks, he observed that he hoped to support the great ends of the new Lord Chancellor, and more under him in the direction of legal reform. (Applause.) He fully believed that the office of Lord Chancellor was never in hands more promising than in Sir R. Bethell's. It should not be his (Mr. Palmer's) fault, at all events, so far as will was concerned, if the efforts of that high officer of state were not duly seconded. From him personally not much would be required by the Government in any other department, yet he would not omit to say that the policy of his friend, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, following as lie did in the track pointed out beforehand by the successful triumphs of free trade, had his warm and cordial approbation. Of course, on particular measures of finance different opinions would exist; but as he was not the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, he did not pretend to say that this tax and that tax was always the best to be taken off or put on. Such questions appeared to him not to be of that great importance which some people attri- buted to them, in comparison with the general character and ten- dency of the financial policy pursued in this country. The present character and tendency of that policy was to remove, as far as may be, all the remaining fetters of trade; and he was quite sure it would succeed. He thought the country might trust its foreign policy to Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell ; and as for Reform, he should follow the lead of the Government while he remained in office.

— The daily papers have failed to give any account of Sir Francis Palgrave, K.H., whose death occurred at Hampstead, on Saturday last, the 6th instant, at the ripe age of seventy-two. Had his death occurred some ten or twenty years ago, it could scarcely have failed to arrest attention, as, in his own line, very retrospective and anti- quarian it must be owned, and not much to the taste of the present generation, lie was a "man of mark"—a follower of Hallam, and Sharon Turner, and Macaulay, as a student of early English litera- ture and constitutional history. He was of Israelite extraction, his father, Mr. M. Cohen, we believe, having lived and died a member of the Jewish religion. He was born in London, in 1788, but of his early education little or nothing is known, and indeed he rarely alluded to the days of his youth, even amongst his intimate friends. The leading events of his life are few. He was called to the bar about five-and-thirty years ago, at an age somewhat more than usually advanced ; he acted as one of the Commissioners on Muni- cipal Corporations, on which subject he published an able pamphlet ; he held for many years the post of Deputy-Keeper of the Records, and until within about a month of his death, though very feeble, he used to come daily into town by the omnibus from Hamp- stead, where he resided, and discharged his public duties with unremitting zeal, in spite of growing deafness and other in- firmities. life edited, about the year 1838, three volumes of im- portant documents from the Record Office, relating to the con- stitutional history of the thirteenth century, which were recognized at the time as a great addition to our antiquarian stores, and were printed at the expense and command of Government. About the same time he published a work embodying historic truth with fiction, under the title of the Merchant ant the Friar in which Marco Polo and Friar Bacon figure respectively, and are made to illustrate the constitutional history of the age in which they lived. Besides the above works, we believe that Sir Francis was the author of The Handbook of Northern Italy. By his wife (who died eight or nine years since, and who was a daughter of the late Mr. Dawson Turner, of Great Yarmouth) he had four sons, of whom one is a clerk in the Houses of Parliament, another is a Jesuit priest, who narrowly escaped with his life in the recent massacre of Christians near Aleppo and Damascus, and the eldest is Mr. Francis Turner Pal- grave, of the Educational Department of the Privy Council Office, and is an occasional writer on subjects connected with art educational questions in Fraser and other periodicals, and the author of several publications on those subjects. Sir Francis Palgrave received the Reyal Hanoverian Guelphic Order of Knighthood from the late King, in 1832, in recognition of his eminent services to literature. His house at Hampstead was "the home and haunt" of many of the chief literary men and women of the age that is passing and hasjust passed away ; and his loss will be regretted, both at Hampstead and else- where, by a large circle of attached friends.

THURSDAY, JULY 11TH.

,-- The Queen's birthday was celebrated yesterday, the Secretaries of State giving State dinners, while a part of the capital was illu- minated.

— A deputation waited on Lord Palmerston yesterday, at Cam- bridge House, to confer with his Lordship on the suppression of the slave trade. The deputation made no particular request, but the Premier stated that the Portuguese Government was very willing to suppress the trade, but had to deal with distant and corrupt officials. The Government of Spain had shown great want of sincerity, but had given the British Government a categorical explanation on the subject of slavery in San Domingo. The United States had recently done more to suppress the trade under their own flag than had been the case for a considerable time, and the emigration of " free" labour from Africa, which was slavery in its purest and simplest form, had been stopped by order of the Emperor. Mr. Buxton, in the course of the interview, expressed a hope that the exportation of slaves from Whydali would be put an end to by force, if need be. — The Red Sea Telegraph Company are negotiating for the transfer of their line of telegraph to the Government. A new line of

telegraph has been successfully laid from Newhaven to Dieppe, but the Channel Islands telegraph is abandoned as not profitable. Mes- sages will be sent through the alternative line from Jersey to Contances. — Mr. W. R. Mackley, mentioned above as accused of falsifying the certificate of the death of his housekeeper, has been committed. for trial on a graver charge. At the inquest, Mr. James Field, sur- geon, deposed that Mackley had asked him for advice to procure abortion, stating that he (Mackley) had already tried every means he could think of, including a strong pointed wire. Witness told Mackley he would kill the woman, and there would be an end of him. It was proved that the attempt charged would have produced the symptoms complained of, and the accused was committed on the charge of wilfurmorder. There is no private prosecutor in this case,. the inquest havina been ordered by the Secretary of State on private information. The neighbours apparently suspected nothing, nor did the father of the deceased, who was summoned just before his daughter died. — The shooting for the Queen's Prize at Wimbledon terminated. yesterday. There were forty qualified competitors, of whom one was absent, and five resigned, and the contest lay principally between Mt_ Jopling, 2nd South Middlesex; Mr. Bingham, of Bristol; and Lord Bury. Their scores at the close of the match exhibited a triple tie of 18, and Mr. Jopling was declared the winner, he having won most points in the earlier stages of the contest. The shooting was at 600, 800, and 1000 yards with the Whitworth rifle. Mr. Jopling holds office in the Adjutant-General's department, and learned to shoot as a volunteer. Neither the Duke of Cambridge nor the Duke of Wel- lington's prizes were decided, but a double series of extra prizes given by the society was competed for with the following result: For the first series of seven shots at 800 yards, the following was the order of merit : Mr. Leece (Manchester), Major Moir (Stirling), Mr. Edward Ross (Cambridge University), Mr. WFarlane (Aus- tralian Free Rifles), and Mr. Thornbury (Victoria Rifles). The second series of extra prizes offered for the five best shots at 600, yards was awarded in the following order : Sergeant Jeston

Service), Mr. H. T. Dickens (Victoria Rifles), Mr. Compton (2nd. South Middlesex), Captain Wigram (Coldstreams), Mr. Porter (Queen's Westminster). There was a very large company on the ground, who manifested great interest in the proceedings. — The Horticultural Society yesterday held their grand rose show in their new gardens in South Kensington. The rose show was very inferior, almost all the specimens being overblown, but the sight attracted a crowd of ten thousand persons, including, it is said, nearly half the peerage. As the tickets were five shillings each, the show added a considerable contribution to the funds of the society. — Jane Palethorpe, who was accused of the murder of her child by administering laudanum, was yesterday acquitted. She had beers deserted by her husband, and discharged by her employer, and was in painful distress of mind. She had always treated her children kindly and there was little proof of an intent to murder. Indeed, whatever the intent, the poor woman was evidently at the time scarcely respon- sible for her acts.

FRIDAY, JULY 12TH.

— Some very beautiful statues have just arrived at Woolwicls from Cyrene, where they have recently been exhumed by Lieutenant Smith, RE., who was associated with Mr. C. T. Newton, of the British Museum, in his excavations at Halicarnassus. They are des- tined for the British Museum.

— A woman living near Epworth, in Lincolnshire, has murdered her three children by forcing them through the manhole into the cis- tern. She then calmly listened to their cries till life was extinct,. went to her husband, and told him that they were safe in heaven. She is believed to be insane.

— The Morning Post published a long narrative of an extraor- dinary attempt at murder. The Baron de Vidil, a Frenchman, long settled in England, married, in 1835, Miss Sasannahjackson, a young lady of considerable property. Her property was settled on his son, now twenty-three years of age, and in a position to claim his fortune. It is supposed the father has spent his money, but at all events, on Friday, June 28th, the father invited his son to take a ride in Twickenham. They called at Claremont House, where he was received by the Due d'Orleans, and on their return the baron struck his son in the forehead with a life-preserver. He repeated the blow, when persons came up, and the young man was attended to London. The father accompanied him, dined at the Travellers' Club, and then fled to France. The police are on his track.

— Mr. Edwin James was married on Tuesday at the British Embassy, Paris, by the chaplain of Earl Cowley, to Mrs Millard, a widow lady, who has resided a good deal on the Continent, and is well known to a wide circle of our countrypeople abroad. A brother of Mr. Edwin James and a very few friends of the lady and gentleman were present at the wedding. Mr. and Mrs. James left Paris on Wednesday afternoon, but not for America.