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Captain Walter, brother of Mr. John Walter M.P., has issued an ad- dress to the electors of Reading. He is a Liberal, and will support the present Government ; he is for the abolition of church-rates and in fa- vour of retrenchment in expenditure for he "believes there is no de- partment of the State where a Large reduction may not be combined with increased efficiency." He is utterly opposed" to the ballot.

Mr. John Hardy, of Carlton Terrace, London, is a candidate for the vacancy occasioned by the melancholy death of Mr. Dunn. He is a Conservative and "a sincere supporter of those constitutional principles which have long secured for us the blessings of civil and religious liberty. I am opposed to any rash innovation, which may jeopardize the consti- tution under which this country has reached the high position she holds among the nations of the world." Mr. Hardy addressed the electors on Monday.

Mr. Paget and Mr. Mellor met their constituents on Tuesday evening, at the Exchange Hall, Nottingham. Mr. Paget Bought to exculpate the Commons from the charge of "all talk and no work," and he instanced the debates upon the Budget, the French Treaty, and the Annexation of Nice and Savoy, so that all was not "fruitless talk." Mr. Mellor warmly defended the conduct of the Government with respect to the Re- form Bill, and also vindicated Mr. Bright, "for whose personal character he had a great regard." He was against church-rates, and drew atten- tention to the fact that the much poorer Church of Scotland raised 200,0001. for a sustentation fund. Avote of confidence in both Members was passed.

At the meeting of the South West Midland Agricultural Society at Longford, on the 5th, Lord Enfield made a speech of some interest, since it is another specimen of the Member defending his House.

"With regard to the House of Commons, I have studied since the end of the session the various speeches that have been delivered by my brother Members of Parliament, and though I cannot entirely differ from many of them when they say they look on the past session as one of useless and in- terminable talk, and of very little active work, still I would remind them of the good old proverb, that has not lost its weight by the lapse of years and frequent repetition—that it is "a sorry bird that fouls its own nest." Therefore, though I confess we have talked too much this year in Parlia- ment, and that many valuable measures have not been carried into law owing to the unfortunate propensity for talk, yet, when I consider that the origin of the word 'Parliament' means to talk, and remember, after all, that our Parliament is the freest assembly in the world, where every man may get up and state what he pleases, and cannot be taken to task so long as he keeps within the bounds of decorum and the laws and customs of parliamentary usage and when I remember that, as in the physical body, the exuberance of health sometimes produces surfeits and disease, so in the body politic, that freedom which we enjoy is sometimes carried to excess, yet I am not going to say that it is otherwise than one of the freest, most generous, and, with all its imperfections and anomalies—and no doubt it possesses both—one that faithfully reflects the opinions of the great body of this country, Whatever may be our differences of opinion, when na- tional emergencies arise they are sunk in our regard for the preservation of a great public good. I remember the occasion of the Crimean war, and the breaking out of the mutiny in India, and I am bound to say, although the Government I support was in power, that the conduct of the Opposition was such as to give a warm, a hearty, and a generous support to the Ministry of the day ; and such I trust the liberals, when in oppo- sition, will behave to Conservative statesmen under similar emergencies. (Cheers.) I do not therefore despair, no matter what set of Ministers are in power, so long as public opinion is so well, freely, and generously

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expressed as n this country. I therefore still fondly hope, notwithstanding our differences of opinion and shortcomings during the past session of Par- liament—and I confess there have been some—that the Parliament of this country has proved itself worthy of being elected by the people. Let us consider the elements of which it is composed. On the other hand, we have those who hold the reins of power, and they are bound to talk, and talk much. They have to explain their policy, introduce measures, and carry them, if they can. On the other hand, we have an Opposition, whose duty it is first to listen, then to discuss the measures, find fault with them, carp at them, it may be in a hostile spirit, and throw them out, if they can. These I will style the drag-chain of the political coach, and they would be wanting in their duty if they did not criticise, amend, alter, and perhaps throw out bad measures. Then there is that class to which I endeavour to belong—viz., those who represent counties—men not given to talk, but who wish to work. I look upon the House of Commons not as an arena for the display of personal vanity, and to bring men's names' prominently forward that their constituents may say, 'Our Member spoke 178 times last session '—(Laughter)—but for the discharge of public business and the passing of good measures, and to give constituents an opportunity of saying, See how many good measures have been passed, which, according to the divisions, our Members have assisted in carrying !' I wish the country gentlemen of England to belong to that class ; and when I consider it is composed of the Wilson Fattens, the Mileses, the Trollopes, the Henleys, the Barings, and the Ellices—who talk but little and are looked up to as authorities in the House—it is my ambi- tion to be classed among those quiet legislators. Then there is a fourth class, to whom, however, I cannot accord the same need of praise—viz., those who are always putting themselves before the House and talking on all subjects, whether they understand them or not—men who mcve the ad- journments, interrupt business, and often ask insignificant and irrelevant and vexatious questions—who, instead of contributing to pass good mea- sures, from their love of talk often stop their progress.Their faults, how- ever, may be corrected in two ways: first, by their constituents complaining of the manner in which they have wasted valuable time, and so taking the conceit and vanity out of them; and secondly, by the judicious conduct of a body of men who do the public an immense amount of benefit, and can do them still more. I do not know if I am speaking in the presence of re- porters, but if I am, I say, 'For Heaven's sake don't report all the bad speeches uttered in Parliament.' (Laughter.) I often sit eight hours of a night in the House of COMTIIMIE listening to speeches deficient in point of purpose, ungrammatical, and the speaker's ideas so entangled, that it is impossible to know which side he intends to support ; but on the following morning, when I take up the newspapers, I find column upon column of speeches containing good grammar and good sense ; but if the reporters would not report these bad and irrelevant speeches, and if Members found out that their efforts of eloquence were snuffed out by the common consent

of the reporters, another great benefit would accrue to the people of this country."

The annual meeting of the Huntingdon Agricultural Association took place on Friday week. In responding to the toast, "The Army, the Navy, and the Volunteers," General Peel enumerated the details of the several forces, making up an aggregate of 600,000 men. Yet it Was said England was not a military nation : for the purposes of aggression he hoped we never should be ; but for the purposes of defence he hoped we should ever be found a very military nation. Upon the subject of defence we entertain strong ideas, one of them being, that if a foreign foe was ever to be allowed to land, he should never be allowed to get back again. The Volunteer movement is now a great fact ; the Government is en- titled to credit for the assistance they had rendered. Sir William Arm- strong told him, with reference to iron-cased frigates, that if we can pro- duce iron-cased vessels with anything like the same speed and as sea- worthy as ordinary men of war, no other vessel will have the slightest chance against them. If true, we must entirely reconstruct our navy. The expense will be enormous, as two vessels ordered by Lord Derby's Government will cost a million-and-a-half each. Cost what it may, we must not be behind any other nation. The Duke of Manchester, Lord Robert Montagu, and Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., also addressed the meeting.

The Society for the Advancement of Education in North Staffordshire, held its annual meeting on Mondy. Mr. Adderly, M.P., and a consider- able number of local promoters of education were present. M. Gamier Pages, who was Minister of Instruction in France in 1848, and M. Ernest Desmarest were also present. Lord Ingestre, M.P., was in the chair ; he described the Staffordshire system—the prize system— He should have been glad if the scheme had been more progressive, be- cause it had worked remarkable well. It was a matter of great satisfaction to the children, and also to their parents, that one of the first rules of the society was carried out so satisfactorily—namely, that before a child could obtain any other prize a Bible prize must have been obtained. Believing that the Bible ought to be the basis of education, he congratulated the society on the maintenance of that rule. After the Bible came the money prizes. One of the greatest difficulties which the society had to contend with was the requirement for the labour of children which prevented their education being carried on in an effective manner ; but the prizes given to those children who had left school, as an inducement to persevere in their education, had produced a beneficial effect. It was the duty of all persons to exert themselves to the utmost for the promotion of education in their re- spective districts. A great deal had been said about her Majesty's inspec- tion and the system of competitive examination, but a great deal might be done by individual exertion, as an instance of which he might mention a school in which he provided for the education of sixty children for 501. a year. If these sixty children had waited until a Government grant could be obtained, they would have received no education up to the present time.

M. Gamier Pages spoke in French, and described education and in- struction as two different things.

"With respect to education the first point was to train up the mind and teach us to love our neighbours as ourselves. Our first duty was to honour and succour our parents, who take care of us in our infancy, and to whom we are so much indebted ; and he called upon all the children present to show their affection and regard to their teachers and the supporters of the schools which had been established for the purpose of training them in such an excellent way. Another duty was to love our country, showing our- selves ready:in the most extended sense to defend it, and to die for it in case of need. While exhorting all present to love their neighbours and their country, he hoped, as a foreigner, that their love would not he bounded by the Channel, but would be extended to France and to all mankind. (Loud cheers.)

M. Ernest Desmarest expressed his happiness that so much regard was paid to education in England. When he reflected on all the extraordi- nary things he had seen in this country—when he looked at the beauti- ful buildings, the immense industry, the excellent agriculture which ho had everywhere witnessed—he was perfectly convinced that education must have been progressing most rapidly, and had no doubt that it would be indebted to the rising generation for more marvellous things than she had yet seen.

Mr. Adderley, M.P., first kindly complimenting the two strangers, passed to Mr. Norris, her Majesty's Inspector of Schools— No doubt, that gentleman experiences a sort of parental feeling towards the society, inasmuch as he was the founder of it, and it was through his incessant exertions that it had thriven. But the debt of gratitude to Mr. Norris connected with this prize system ought not to he limited to Staf- fordshire. On the contrary, be was entitled to the national thanks, not only for having orginated the scheme, but for his energy in developing it. As a Staffordshire man, knowing ninny of the children present, and the schools from which they came, he could assert that the scheme was telling, not only at Stoke, but throughout the whole of the division. It tended to keep many children for a longer period at school, and gave them an honourable incentive to increased exertion. When Mr. Norris first propounded the scheme it was said that it was a bribe to the children to do that which they ought to have higher motives for doing ; but the reply was, " Why should this class be the only class to which an incentive should not be herd out ?" But, perhaps, the prize system was even more important in the encouragement it gave to the schoolmasters themselves, and it was of great advantage to the country in enabling it to be ascertained the schools from which the best scholars came.

Mr. Adderley urged that the principle of instruction to be adopted in future with regard to children before being employed in coal mines, should be extended to every species of employment, and, after the Social Science Congress at Glasgow had adopted the same idea, he had written to the Home Secretary, urging that the Government should introduce a bill.

The prizes were then distributed to the children, accompanied by ex- hortations from Lord Ingestre, who excited great enthusiasm by the promise of a visit to Alton Towers, the seat of his father.

The Canterbury Diocesan Board of Education held its twenty-first meeting at Croydon, on Thursday. The Archbishop of Canterbury pre- sided. The Society had expended in grants to schools 312/. lls. 7d., and had applications amounting to 12101. The report also alluded to the proceedings of the Committee of Council on Education. By the minutes of that body, in the schools hereafter to be formed wishing to

partake in grants from Government, a system of secular education is to be adopted in opposition to the former system, which required all chil- dren in those schools to be educated in the principles of the Established Church of England. The Earl of Romney, in moving a resolution, said there were still strong reasons why this Society should be supported, for it was their duty, as Christians, to proMote the education of the people in the principles of Christianity. Mr. Henry Hoare, the banker, and Mr. Hardy, M.P., also addressed the meeting. Mr. Hardy is opposed to the projected innovation—

In the year 1839 there was an effort to advance education, and a body of persons then rose up who had never subscribed to the building of their churches, had taken no part in the education of the people, or in the pro- ceedings of their schools. They had risen up as mere talkers on the aubject, and wished to introduce into the schools of this country an education like that then prevailing in foreign countries, where there were no distinctions of creed and where persons of every opinion could resort without their reli- gious opinions being interfered with. The mind of the country, however, was strongly manifested against the introduction of this system, and thought that before they began with this the advocates of it ought to show the triumphs of their system over others before they went further. They had a right to ask, " Where are your triumphs of secular education ; for you have had the world before you as the religious people had before them, to i show that they had failed n the spread of education ?" In 1839 the Com- mittee of Council began to act, and founded a minute on education ; but he would not go into the details on that subject, although he could do so, whereby the State agreed to make advances for strictly religious purposes, and to deal equally with all, with a fair allowance to meet voluntary con- tributions. It was agreed that those who gave their money to the schools should have the control over them, subject only to inspection by the State, to see merely that they were carried on properly, but not subject to any State control. Why, then, he would ask, was the Church of England now to be called upon to make an alteration in their deed of trust, and to be put on a principle that, as regarded the Roman Catholic or Presbyterians, could not be done by the Committee of Council on Education Without religion he would rather see no education at all, for although in America there was a rate of 2/. for every boy put to school, yet they found the clergy making great efforts to obtain the assistance of the parochial system. A Meeting of the "Northamptonshire Society for Promoting and Ex- tending Education in accordance with the principles of the Established Church," was held on Saturday ; Earl Spencer in the chair. The ques- tion for discussion was the removal of the training school from Peter- borough to Northampton. The Chairman was in favour of the removal. But Lord Overatone was in favour of dropping the training school.

He doubted the expediency of the training school altogether, because he believed that training was essentially an imperial, a metropolitan measure, that a school where all should be trained ought to be in London, and that there the great central establishment for the kingdom ought to be located. They had their societies for this purpose already in existence. They had their National Society, their British and Foreign Society, and their Home and Colonial Society. Let these undertake the great central, metropolitan work of establishing schools for training masters. He thought great evils would arise from localizing these training schools, and that any funds they might have for such a purpose could be far more efficiently applied than in endeavouring to promote such an object. This was the principle he had acted upon through life, where money was to be most advantageously ex- pended, and it would continue to guide him henceforward. Lord Overstone touched another point with great felicity. Moreover, he was one of those -who preferred a county town to a cathedral town for the locality of such an institution. With all the deference he paid to the clergy of this country— Abe noblest body of men for every educational, useful, and benevolent pur- pose in the world—he, nevertheless, was not prepared to allow—on the con- trary, he would be exceedingly cautious in allowing them to have an ex- . _elusive voice in giving the tone to education. Hence, he preferred the . :county town. Re was strongly in favour of a large and intellectual body of the laity bearing a part, and an influential part too, in the promotion of the education of the masses of the people. The great subjects the clergy handled must ever command for them the proper degree of respect and im- portance to which they were entitled ; but it was because he firmly believed that a large practical infusion of lay influence in the education of the people of this country was essential to the real benefit of the masses, that he hesi- tated not thus plainly to express his views upon the subject. He therefore preferred Northampton to Peterborough. He liked the one better than the other, but he objected to both. Re believed London was far superior to both and to all. (Applause.)

The resolution of the Dean of Peterborough, " that it was expedient to carry on the training school at Peterborough," was carried by 20 votes against 13.

The Reverend Canon Stowell attended the annual meeting of the Sal- ford Operative Protestant Association, on Tuesday evening. The report read on the occasion expressed a hope "that the wonderful events now occurring in Italy might result in the uprooting of all error and supersti- tion." Mr. Stowell delivered a speech from the high Protestant-Evan- gelical point of view : he has recently seen Popery in France— The priests were a crest-fallen class, who have lost all their influence, and feel that such is the case. There is not among Frenchmen that open brow and clear, calm eye that we see among Englishmen. Distrust and restless- ness reign among them. Under all that is beautiful, sparkling, green, and fair, there is a deep volcano of anarchy, and revolution ; and while that most crafty and mighty man who sits at the head of affairs amuses people with display, he at the same time knits more closely his net of steel around them, so that while the military are true to him, all the mighty population are as completely in his hands as the greyhound in the leash, or the sheep in the slaughterhouse. He blamed not theEmperor for this, so long as the Parisians proved themselves unfit for liberty ; but he did blame him because he did not try to raise them up by giving them a free Bible and Protestant Christianity ! Leaving France, Canon Stowell turned his attention to Italy and Gari- baldi, whom he believed to be a great man ; the Canon had read Gari- baldi's autobiography and had the profoundest respect for him— However despots might denounce and hate Garibaldi's love of liberty— however much those who would gloat over Italy's debasement might hate his patriotism—however a venal press might endeavour to blacken his cha- racter, or Jesuits and their emissaries might try in every possible way to circumvent and mislead him—however much he might at times, perhaps, come a little under the influence of extreme men, and be bordering upon peril—yet, "take him for all in all," a nobler hero has not risen in these later times. (Loud cheering.) Garibaldi is a man of truthful and honest simplicity, of fearless bravery, yet consummate generalship ; a man who can fight upon the waters and upon the land ; one who fears not the face of man, but, as his memoirs show, who honours and trusts God ; a man who longs to see his country free—and a poor country, with freedom, is happier and more truly wealthy than the most fertile country trodden by the foot of a tyrant, and bound with the chains of despotism. ((heers.) Of course, Canon Stowell turned the stream of his discourse into mat- ters theological, and introduced the Pope in terms of sympathy— They had recently seen that the Bible was publicly sold in the streets of Naples. They might as well almost have supposed a short time ago, that the Protestant Bible would be sold in the very vestibule of the place of woe. And then what is to become of the poor old Pope ? It is said that the Em- peror of the French lies a berth ready for him, and it is also said he was going to Jerusalem and even to Ireland. His prayer for the Pope was that he might himself become another man, and give up his pretensions to be the vicar, and become the lowly servant and minister of Christ. He ex- horted the "Protestant watchmen" 'before him not to run away with a false notion. As the Pope did not make 'Popery, but Popery made him, so, if he were shut up in St. Helena, millions would still stick to the sys- tem. The downfall of the temporal power of the Papacy might shake, but it would not destroy Popery. He Urged them, therefore, to go on with their work. The false prophet, Mehemet, is near his destruction, and he believed the false priest would not be long after him.

The Devon Riflemen assembled at Newton Abbot on Tuesday, and had a grand rifle contest. The Grand Duke Michael of Russia and his suite were present; they passed along the whole line and minutely in- spected the men. General Hutchinson was the inspecting officer, and was received with a general salute, executed in splendid style. Lord Devon presented an address to the Earl Fortescue, Lord-Lieutenant, who replied-

"Mv Lord Devon and Gentlemen of the Association—I beg to return you my most heartfelt thanks for the far too flattering terms in which you have done me the honour to address me. For the great national movement which has given birth to your Association, I have spoken on more than one occasion, and I have expressed my opinions upon it. I never believed in the hostile disposition of France. But when all Europe, and France in particular, is bristling with arms, I think it nei- ther consistent with our dignity nor honour that we should owe to the good will of our neighbours, rather than to our own strength, the continuance of the blessings of peace. Truly, then, did I rejoice at the call which was first made by the Government of Lord Derby on the loyalty and patriotism of the people of Great Britain—and which was reechoed and extended by the present Administration. Most cordially do I agree with you in the paramount importance of giving permanency to the Volunteer movement. And most earnestly do I hope that the meeting of this day for prize rifle shooting will be the first of a series of social gatherings having the same ob- ject, as it is the surest means of keeping alive the national interest in this truly national cause." (Cheers.) The claim made by the French Government through their Consul, M. de Pianelli, on behalf of the owners of French vessels entering the port of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to enjoy the same privileges as the freemen of the town of Newcastle, under the 10th article of the treaty between France and ,England, has been satisfactorily arranged. The reply of the cor- poration to the Government of France at once showed that the demand was not tenable. The proper authorities have, therefore, received direc- tions, and with the concurrence of the two Governments have issued the following regulation for the future guidance' of the collector and comp- troller of customs at Newcastle, which is as follows- " That no local dues of any description must be levied on French vessels or their cargoes, other or of higher amount than are levied on British ships and their cargoes ; but it must be distinctly understood, that these directions have exclusive reference to national privileges, and not to peculiar privileges of particular classes such as freemen, which cannot be extended to subjects of this or any other country not being freemen."

Mr. M. D. Hill, Q.C., opened his court at Birmingham on Monday. Ad- dressing the Quarter Sessions Grand Jury, he congratulated them on the diminution of juvenile crime which he attributed to the preventive and

curative agencies now established. Several Reformatories had been closed for lack of inmates. The late Mr. Jardine, just before his death, had pub- licly admitted steady decrease of crime in his district. Upon one point, the Government maintenance of Ragged Schools, Mr. Hill emphasized at length —" But the position and prospects of the Free Day School-or Ragged School are, I grieve to say, far less encouraging. For a short period they bright- ened, and the Privy Council, in a gracious frame of mind, opened their hand ; when we, profiting by the opportunity, and happily ignorant of its evanescence, enlarged our means of usefulness by extending and improving our schools of this description. Then, alas ! the hand closed upon us in all but utter denial. Gentlemen, I have felt compelled to occupy you with this long, and I fear tedious explanation, in order to justify myself in urging the necessity for a universal manifestation of opinion, to the effect that if public money is to be spent on education at all, the schools which I have now described ought to be the first objects of the public bounty. I, gentlemen, am no enemy to what I may call the luxuries of education. I am quite content to bear my share of that taxation of the country which maintains the British Museum and similar foundations, although if you divide the an nual cost of the British Museum by the number of visitors, enormous as that is,_you will find that each visit of each visitor costs the nation several shillings. I am glad to see Schools of Design spreading over the country, and Igrudge notthe ex- pense. Indeed I should be glad to see it much larger than itis. But, neverthe- less, I do say that if I were called upon to defend such an employment of the revenue, I should not find my task altogether free from difficulty. "Whereas inasmuch as in the nature of things the people of every country must be governed, and as thatgovernment must be paid for from a common fund, if it shall be found that instruction and training when applied to qualifying the recipient for performing his duties as a member of society, and thereby reducing to a minimum the expense of governing him, then and so far I look upon education to be a part of government itself; and consequently where the cost of tuition connot be extracted from its natural sources, I con- sider it self-evident that it should be furnished by the State. Whether it should come from the Privy Council or from the .Home Office—whether it should be charged upon the general revenue of the country or raised by local rates—these are questions into which I will not enter. But I stand upon the bread and irrefragable truth that, as the disbursement is called for by the interest of the State, by the State ought it to be borne and I must unite my humble protest to the masterly speech of Sir John Pakington in Parliament, the fervid appeals of Dr. Guthrie, and the unanswerable re- monstrace of Mary Carpenter, against the huckstering frugality with which our Ministers let go their coin shilling by shilling, to the Bagged Schools— a parsimony which, when contrasted with the plenitude of their munificence in favour of classes of the community able and willing to contribute to the education of their children—strikes me as the moat astounding example of inconsistency which has occurred in my time."

The Reverend Edward PoteNeale, vicar of Horsey, charged Joseph Fish and Ann Nockolds, with "vexing and troubling" him, the vicar, by sing- ing a hymn over the grave of an unbaptized child on the 29th of August last. The proceeding was taken under the recent Act passed to purge St. George's- in-the-East from rioters. The vicar's evidence explains the transaction of which he cOmplains. On Monday, the 27th of August, I called on Mrs. Webster, having heard that her child was dead and unbaptized, and in as vale and kindly a manner sal could, I told her I should be unable to per- form the burial service over the child, and that I was sorry she had neg- lected to have it baptized. She said, "Then I shall have prayer and singing over it," to which I replied that such a thing would be illegal, and I hoped she would not think of it. She chose the spot where she would wish the child to be buried, and we then parted. Next night, having heard that she intended to have singing over the grave, I went to her with my wife, and in the kindest manner begged her not, saying that if she would give up the idea, I was quite willing that she should have the child buried on the spot she had selected, and that I trusted we should continue to live in love and kindness as heretofore. After a great deal of abuse from her, I asked her as a favour to myself to have no singing, and she promised distinctly that there should be none. I then appointed the funeral to take place at one o'clock the next day. On the Wednesday, I heard praying outside the church gate (which I had told her could be done,) and shortly afterwards I was informed That singing was going on inside, and on going, I found Joseph Fish, Mrs. Noekolds, and several others, singing over the grave. I said, 'Joseph Fish, and all here present, I most solemnly protest against what you are now doing,' which I repeated three times, but they did not desist. I felt very much vexed and troubled, particularly as it was against a decided promise given to me, and on which promise I had allowed the grave to be dug where at was. Several of my parishioners were present,. and saw my authority set at defiance. The family had only lately come into the parish, or, had I known the child was unbaptized, I should have asked the parents to have the rite performed." The defendants werelned one shilling each, and costs twelve shillings.

The inquest upon the body of Thomas Harrison murdered last week at IJrpeth Mill, near Gateshead, was held on Monday at Chester-le-Street. Mrs. Lackey's narrative reveals the whole of the revolting details. "On Saturday night, the 29th of September, about half-past six, I was in the kitchen, and Thomas Harrison was in bed. My husband, Milner Lockey, came in and said, Honey, how are you getting on tonight ? ' I said, 'What has brought you down here tonight ? ' He replied, 'You —, you'll find it out before it's long.' I said, 'Don't you come here to make any kick up, or I'll be forced to send for a policeman.' Then he called me a foul name. I said, 'Can you prove that ? ' Ile said, 'No, I cannot.' I said, Where's your face, or where's your tongue, to call me that name.' He sat down and put off his hat. He then came to me and got hold of me, and worked with a knife about my breast and stomach. He tried to stab me in the lower part of the bowels. He did uot succeed in doing so, but drove the knife he had in his hand right through the inside of my thigh. The knife passed the bone, and came out on the outside. My boy Samuel came running down stairs, and shouted to him 'Oh! don't kill my mother, and I'llall you father ; ' and the deceased Harrison, who was ill in oed, said to my husband Don't kill your mistress.' My husband left me, and I im- mediately after saw Harrison bleeding from the breast. Harrison got his arms round my husband, and said hi me, Oh! take the knife out of his bands; he has stuck it into my heart.' I wrought on until I got the knife out of my husband's hand. I put it into my breast (the breast of my gown). I put it into my breast open. I then called Mr. Harrison' twice over, but he did not speak. I said, Lockey, thou has murdered that man.' He replied, 'Ye —, I'll murder ye belore long.' Harrison sat down on the chair, and never moved. My husband took hold of me and brought me away from Harrison. Now,' says he, we'll have a cup of -tea together, for it will be the last cup of tea we'll get.' Harrison never moved after he sat down' to my knowledge. My husband said, It is the last cup of tea we'll get, for I will go through the whole fleet this night. I know that I will be hung for this job.' He told me to put the kettle on, and I took it to the door with a view of making my escape out ; but he fol- lowed me closely. He brought me in, and asked for the key, to lock the door; but I told him that there was not a lock or key on the door. I had not one. He took mein and put me on the chair, I myself thinking I would drop every minute through loss of blood. I said to Lockey, hinny, spare me for my three helpless bairns.' He replied, I will be through the whole fleet of you this night.' I asked him to let me go out to get some coals. He did not speak. I got to the door, and I saw Hart and Wright ; I fled to Hart, and told him that hockey had murdered another man. My husband came to the door, and Hart and he were talking. I made up the bank as hard as ever I could. I could not run, through loss of blood. When I got round the turn in the bank as you come through the wood, I heard my husband's voice. I turned round and saw him running after me. He had his hat off. He several times cried out, Take time, you —." I shouted out I was going to be a murdered woman. I shouted, • Murder!' three or four times. I flew towards a barley-field near Mr. Heslop's out- buildings, and got away from him. I think that he went up the lane. I made to the colliery, and the first door I got to I went in. I gave the knife to the county police, No. 25. [The knife was produced. It is a long Spanish knife, with a spring back.] That was the knife my husband stabbed Harrison and me with. My husband was jealous of Harrison and me ; but he had no reason."

Milner Lockey was committed by the Magistrates for the murder of Harrison on Wednesday. He made a statement, in which he alleged jealousy as the cause of the murder.

Mr. Robert White, one of the firm of White Brothers, was brought before the Magistrates at Nottingham on Tuesday charged with forgery. A great number of bills have yet to become due, which it is suspected, have been forged. The firm suffered from a fire recently; two brothers are still at large, and the prisoner was arrested just on leaving for America.

The Birkenhead Commissioners and Birkenhead Railway Company had a fracas on Tuesday, in which policemen on the part -of the Commission and porters on the part of the Company were the belligerents. The cause of the dispute is the right of the Company to run a steamer across the Mersey; and it is referred for solution to Westminster Hall.

An old woman residing at Saltash, near Plymouth, was buried on Sunday With military honours. She was carried to her grave by non-commissioned officers in the Royal Marines, whose band. headed the procession and played the Dead March of Saul. The old lady had been purveyor of shell-fish to the barracks.

A second fatal accident occurred at the Midland Railway station, Notting- ham, on Tuesday. John Cotham, an engine-driver, went into the goods' yard to adjust a "break" which was loose. It is supposed that he had not seen some carriages shunting towards him ; and being knocked down was killed on the spot.

Mr. Robert Pordage, a tradesman of Southampton_, committed suicide on Tuesday, by throwing himself out of his window ; he fell on his head, and died almost instantly. A disappointment in a business is stated to have been the cause.