Leicester Chronicle or Commercial and Leicestershire Mercury from Leicester, Leicestershire, England • 4

LEICESTER CHRONICLE, March 13, 1852. YANKEE 'CLTEXESS AND ENTERPRISE. POETRY. PBSALTT or SpK Ji AINO iNr LONDON MARKETS. bnt for sometime without success.

At length, on the 23rd of February, the water in the ditches round Williamscott being much lower than it had been for some time previously, a constable, named Newton, discovered a great coat embedded in the mud of a ditch near the road from which the prisoner is supposed to have made his way from the scene of the murder across the fields. This coat was identified as the property of Mr. Kalabergo, which had been placed in his cart with two others when he started on his last journey, and had been missing ever since. Continuing the search, a short distance from where the great coat was found, a pistol was discovered, which was identified on the trial by Mr. Welch's shopman as the one he sold to the prisoner on the 15th of December.

The pistol was not loaded, and two exploded copper caps were on it. The name of "Welch" was engraved on the handle. The only motive which could be suggested for the commission of the crime by the prisoner was, that tbe uncle had made a will leaving to him a considerable part of his property, and he might have been impatient to become possessed of his inheritance. It was elicited, in cross-examination by the counsel for the defence, that a short time before the murder, an Italian, known by the name of Peter Romano, had been frequently at Mr. Kalabergo's, taking his meals, but not lodging in the house.

This man had siuce disappeared, and no account could be given of him by any of the witnesses for the prosecution. Mr. Pigott addressed the jury on the part of the prisoner, and spoke for upwards of three hours. Mr. Justice Wightman then summed up, and The jury retired, but in les3 than a quarter of an hour returned into Court with a verdict of guilty.

Mr. Justice Wightman then put on the black cap, and in a brief and solemn address pronounced upon the prisoner sentence of death. The sentence was commmunicated to the prisoner by M. Maggione, the interpreter, but he appeared to display "little emotion, and quitted the dock without making a remark. NOTTINGHAM ASSIZES, Mabch 8.

(Before Chief Justice Jervis.J CHARGE OF MURDER. Samuel Sims, 38, George Dunlop, 31, John Moak, 21, and George Bowshill, were indicted for the wilful murder of William Roberts, in the liberty of Rufford. There were three other indictments against the prisoners, charging them with the commission of minor offences. Mr. Wilmore, Q.C., and Mr.

W. H. Adams conducted the case on the part of the Crown. Mr. Sergeant Miller appeared on tbe part of the prisoners Sims and Moaks, and Mr.

O'Brien for Dunlop and Bowshill. There were two other persons also originally charged, but tbe bill was ignored as against them by the grand jury. Tbe facts of this case were as follows On tbe night of the 13th of October last, ten keepers in the employ of tbe Earl of Scarborough, armed with flails, and distinguished by white sashes, were out on the watch for poachers in the liberty of Rufford, and near a place called Matcbell's Gorse. On nearing the gorse voices were heard as of persons concealed therein. Some of tbe keepers were at this time in the road, and a net was discovered, and subsequently nets to the extent of upwards of 500 yards were taken.

From what afterwards occurred, tbe number of persons supposed to be out poaching amounted to between 30 and 40. Among tbe keepers out on this occasion was Roberts, the deceased. Certain of the keepers, when in the road, observed a quantity of stones on one side, which had been gathered off the fields, and which were called boulder stones," and some of the persons alleged to be poachers were seen to go up to the heap, and fill their pockets. The keepers also availed themselves of the same heap. The men who were near the nets ran away upon seeing the keepers.

They were followed by the keepers, who struck tbe men as they got up to them with the flails with which they were armed. A keeper named Charlesworth struck Sims on his arm, which he stated be heard crack," and, in fact, it was broken by the blow he dealt him. Another keeper, named Frederick Edward Brock, stated he knocked several men down, and left them on the road one in particular he knocked down, and then struck him purposely three times over the legs in order to disable him. That man was Moaks, who begged that he (the keeper) would not murder him. A stone that was thrown at the keepers hit tbe cap of a pistol Long Sutton.

A whole family, at Long Sutton, have been nearly poisoned from partaking of a pudding boiled in a pan which had been recently used by a relation for boiling arsenic. It had been subsequently scalded, and this was deemed sufficient to avert any ill effects. The Price of Iron. At an adjourned meeting of the ironmasters of South Wales, held on Tuesday, at Morley's Hotel, the following decision was come to una niraously That a general reduction of the make of iron, although in itself desirable, does not appear to this meeting, under existing circumstances, to be capable of being carried out by arrangement at the present time." Equalisation of the Poor-rate. The Home Secretary has informed the honorary Secretary to the City Society for promoting the equalization of the City poor-rate, that he will receive a deputation from that body on an early day, for the purpose of conversing with them upon the subject.

It is said to be the intention of the present government to introduce a measure for the purpose of equalising the rates after the new Parliament is chosen. A Precocious Couple. On Wednesday, Mr Wak-ley, held an inquest at Somers Town, on John Walter Atkins, aged five months. Amelia Atkins, apparently fifteen years of age, stated that she was deceased's mother, and had been twelve months married. On awaking last Sunday morning she found the infant dead at her side under the bed-clothes.

The husband was of the same age as the wife. The Coroner said it was disgraceful for a clergyman to marry such children Verdict, "Accidental death. Highway Robbery in Northumberland. On Monday evening Mr. John Rampoldi, of Newcastle-apon-Tyne, was proceeding in a gig to Haydon-bridge, in the western part of Northumberland, when he was accosted in a lonely part of the road by a young man, who asked him for a ride in his gig.

Almost immediately after three men, two of whom wore masks, rushed out from the hedge. All four fell upon Mr. Rampoldi, dragged him out of his vehicle, and robbed him of 20 in gold, about 5 in silver, his lever watch, and a gold ring. The thieves then made off, and Mr. Rampoldi proceeded to Haydou-bridge aud gave information of the robbery to the police; but, as yet, no traces of the thieves have been discovered.

A Demoralized Police The Liverpool Chronicle states that it is notorious that the police force of that town is iu a state of total demoralization, presenting an example of ferocity, duplicity, and corruption, of party likes and hatreds, such as is wholly unparalleled in any other town in the kingdom. Mr. Mansfield, the able stipendiary, has declared that he will continue his efforts to reform the character of the force, many of whom, according to the local paper referred to, are habitually bribed, the pickings" of some of them amounting to more than double their weekly wages, and their moral sense being debased to the lowest degree. The system of collusion, the Chronicle states, has long since passed iu a by-word, conveying an equal amount of scorn and lepioach. Awful Fatality in one Family.

On Saturday information was sent to Mr. Bedford, the coroner, of the death of a fine child named Farmer, which occurred when she was in great agony, and it is said that two of her brothers also lost "their lives some months back, in a dreadful manner, at Millbank. The poor child had been doing something at the fire, when her clothes caught the flames, and she was dreadfully burn: before the fire could be put out. She was then conveyed to the hospital, but all hopes of saving her life were given up, so extensive were the injuries she had sustained, and she expired ou Saturday. The Gladstone Anti-Tractarian Movemest.

A meeting of Mr. Gladstone's committee was held on Monday evening at the school rooms behind the chapel. It was announced that the attendance at the first lecture, ou Thursday evening, at the Freemasons' Tavern, was very large; and the demand for the tickets for the succeeding lectures, to be delivered on Thursday and Thursday week, was very brisk. Many letters of sympathy were read from various evangelical elergv-men. The subscriptions received had already exceeded the expectations of the committee.

Several letters of sympathy were also received from various dissenting ministers; and. singularly enough, one from a Roman Catholic, expressive of approval of Mr. Gladstone's independent stand in behalf of what he deemed the truth," although opposed to his (the Roman Catholic's) opinions. It was also said that 1,000 copies of the lecture were ordered by a single individual, and a very great sale was anticipated, in consequence of the interest taken in the movement. It is believed that these lectures will giva rise to a counter series of lectures, and thus lead to a lasting controversy.

Morning Advertiser. The Derby Ministry. At least six or seven of the members of the new government have, within the last four or five days, declared, in the columns of the Times itself, that the Derby Government is essentially a Protectionist Government that it was on that distinct understanding that they individually accepted office and that the paramount object which they will have ever preseut to their view, while in power, will be the restoration of a duty on com, both for the purposes of Protection and reveuue. Stranger still, even in the very same impression of the Times, Sir Frederick Thesiger, the new Attorney-General, admitted, in language the most explicit, that the Derby Government is a Protectionist Government, aud that the sole reason of Lord Derby's not proceeding at once to propose thee-impositiou of a duty on corn, is, because he knows that with the present House of Commons he could not carry out his views. Lord Derby," says the Attorney-General "has distinctly stated that whatever his own opinion may be on the subject of imposing a duty upon corn, during the present Parliament he has not the slightest in-teution (a voice 'Because he's no chance') you are perfectly right (laughter and cheers) that he has not the slightest intention of stirring that question.

A gentleman in the crowd says, 1 Because he has no chance that individual has shown his wisdom in this observation, because he is perfectly right, for that is the very reason which Lord Derby has assigned for not bringing forward that question in the present Parliament. Lord Derby knows perfectly well that he is in a minority in the House of Commons upoa that point." So that here Sir F. Thesiger declares in the most explicit language, that the sole reason which Lord Derby has assigned for not bringing forward that question (the question of Protection) is because he knows that he is in a minority in the present Parliament, aad, consequently, could not carry it. If Lord Derby had a majority in the House of Commons, he would bring forward, without delav, a measure for the restoration of the duties on corn. That he distinctly admitted himself in the House of Lords, on the inauguration of his Premiership, and now again one of the most important men in his government the Attorney-General makes a similar admission.

It is only the want of power to carry a measure of Protection in the present House of Com ter from Teheran. if zette of txrriin, states mat trie cause of the 1 agl.e Khan, the late Vizir, was hn Tv-- i ii! tured to point out to the Shah the prorW of hs Majesty's mother. The Shah Greatest tilininn 'mn i dismissed him from his high post. The Vh wards in danger of his life, but his Shah sister, succeeded in rereivm.7 a 1 1 that his life should be spared. The KuL also infprforl mJLj Un uur aiso interiereU.

anu received an 1 1. to the same effect. Subsenuentl, shah, when on a hunting party, allowwl uZ'' worked on hv hi, .1 Zir-s death. The executi-ner, tW him in a bath, and experienced from him resistance A Berlin journal Mates hai late Primo Minister in Persia, has having been convicted peculation ind against Lhe Schah. Mirzas veins er be was irj a bath, and be bled tn rWii, which waa immense, has been confiscated.

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Last week the del series were tolerably good, On the whole the importers are firm, and common sound Congou cannot be purchased under id pgr lb. All green teas are neglected. So public sales are yet declared. Sugar. full average quantity of sugar was brought to the hammer to-day.

Although the attendance of buyers was some-what extensive the biddings were by no means active, yet ail good and fine qualities were disposed of at full quotations. Foreign sugars have been improved request im the prtvate market, chiejiy fur shipment to the continent. The supply of refined goods being on the increase, the demand is heavy, but we have no actual fail to notice in the quotations drown lumps being mostly held at Hi per cwt. 'rushed dull, at 26s 6d to 27s per cwt. for British.

The stock of West India sugar is now 17.531 hhds and tierces; of Mauritius, mats of Bengal and Madras, 321,521 bags and of foreign bags. Molasses. Dealers operate with extreme caution, and late rates are mith difficulty supported. Coffee. We are without public sales to-day.

Privately, the general demand has become steady, and good ord native Ceylon is held at 39 to 35 6d per cwt. The present stock of West India 83 casks of Mocha, 6,273 bales and of Ceylon, bags. For export, the inquiry is very limited. Cocoa. Our market is firm for all good and fine qualities but other kinds rule dull.

Rice. Owing to the comparative heaviness in the wheal trade, most kinds of rice are dull sale, but no fall has yet been submitted to in prices. Cotton. The stock now being very small, and the accounts from Liverpool favourable, the market wears a healthy appearance. Wool.

Selected parcels of colonial wool are tn fair request, at full rates of currency, but all low and middling kinds are neglected. Provisions. Selected qualities of butter are steady, thourjh by no meant active reouest, at very fall prtces, fine weekly Dorset being worth 1 1 is per cwt. but all other kinds command very little attention. In some instances selected parcels of Irish bacon are held for more money, and the trade may be considered firm.

Lard and most other articles support late rates. Metals. Spelter moves off slowly, at from 11 12 6d to 14 js on the spot. Fast India tin is held fir more money Banca, 80 to SO 6d Straits, 7'J per cwt. other metals ire i dull sale.

Tallow. The trade is decidedly fiat, and we have sellers on rather lower terms, Y.C. on the spot is selling at 35 )i for fine. Town tallow 35 fid to 36 per cwt. net cash rough fat 2s per 84.

The slock is now ID, 3 14 casks, against 30,512 ditto at the corresponding period 1851. REVIEW OF THE CORN TRADE DURING THE PAST WEEK. (Abridged from the Mark-Un Express ofMonday.) The arrivals of wheat coastwise into the port of London have not been large, hut they have been about enual to what we usually expect to receive at this period of the year, 1,200 jrs. having been reported during the week ending Saturday evening. Meanwhile, very little has come forward at Mark-lane by land-carriage samples from the neighbouring counties, and the ojfers from Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire have not been by any means numerous.

The trade has nevertheless been languid the operations on Wednesday, as well as on Friday, were unimportant, and quotations underwent no alteration. Factors were generally firm, but the millers acted as if in no immediate want. A cargo of red wheat, to be shipped from the east coast, was said to have been bought on Friday for Antwerp, at 43 per free on board, for t33i. weight beyond this, we have heard of no sales of English wheat for export during the week. ihe receipts from abroad have amounted to of which, however, 5,000 qrs.

consist of Egyptian a quality hardly suitable for our milters, and which will kerf fore b-t probably used for distilling. We have experienced very little country inquiry for foreign wheat, and the local demand has also been of a retail character sellers have nevertheless remained exceedingly firm, and needy buyers had to pay fully is high prices at the close as those current the commencement of the week. 2 he high rates which continue to he demanded on the continent tend to maintain the confidence of parties here having rananed stocks, and where landing expenses have been Incurred, little anxiety is manifested to realize. Very full prices have been realized for cargoes on passage to this country say, S'J per qr cost, freight, and insurance, for Polish Odessa, and correspcadmg rales for other descriptions. In Egyptian Wheat a fair anmunt of business has been done at 20 to 30 per cost, freight, and insurance.

The nominal top price of town-made flour has underipme no change, and though the sale has certainly not been busk, business has been rather more active than it was last weak. Ship fiour has come to hand less freely than of late, and has be'a easily obtained at late rates. American barrels hare met with less attention, the disposition to sprculate having entirely subsided. There was hardly any English barley exhibited on Wednesday, and on Friday (he quantity on sale was again small the maltsters have, however, conducted their operations with much caution, and sellers hae been unable to exceed previous prices, even for the finest qualities. The arrivals this gram from abroad have br-en trifling, and good fresh grinding sorts have been in tolerably active request, at about former rates.

At present there is no pressure on the markets, stocks of foreign barley being short, but we are likely to have good arrivals in the summer from the Danish Islands. The value of malt has undergone little or no change, and the business done in the article has been on a retail scale. In addition to 2.12 qrs. of oats coastwise, we have received qrs. from Ireland, and 11,873 qrs.

from abroad. The market has, during the last fortnight, been rather liberally supplied but if must be recollected that for a considerable time previously the receipts had hn 'vry short, and that many of the dealers had worked nearly out of stock. The trade, which opened rather heavily on Monday, has since slightly improved, and we consider that all good corn was fully as dear on Friday as in the beginning of the week. In English beans there has been very little doing, and quotations have not varied. Another cargo of Egyptian beans is said to have been taken for shipment to Konigsbera, where, accord ing to the latest advices, the article is likely to yield a good profit.

Peas have come to hand sparingly, and have sold on much the same terms as before. The demand for Indian corn has again revived for a cargo of Gatatz arrived off the coast 30 0d. per qr. has been realized, and Egyptian to arrive has oeen Held at 21 bd per cost, freight, and insurance. Cokn Exchange, Monday.

Although the supply of wheat from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk by land-carriage samples to this morning's market was small, met a slow sale, and some quantity remained undisposed of at a late hour, even at a decline of Is. per qr. We heard of no transaction in foreign, but a slight decline would many cases have been accepted had buyers presented themselves. Ihe trade for barley and peas remains the same as this day sennight. Beans are a slow sale, at late rates.

The oat trade is firm, but business not extensive. Flour is a heavy sate, and in ome instances a slight reduction submitted to. Corn Exchange, Weonesda y. The arrivals of grata since Monday have been moderate the market was thinly attended this morning the demand for all articles slow, and prices of each may be considered nominally as on that day. PKICE OF CORN ga Monday.

Wheat, English Foreign Barley, grinding malting, uew- Oats, English feed Foreign 4' to 52 36 to il 24 to 25 28 to 33 IS Ot t'l IS 11 Rye Beans, Tick-. Pigeon Pens, Boilers 2fi lo '2S 26 to 32 to 34 S-t ID 3ft 29 to 31 32 to 43 Flour, pernack NEWGATE AND LEADEN H.VU. MARKET. Our markets continue to be heavily supplied with country-killed meat, the receipts of which during the past week have exceeded 10,000 carcases but the supplies on offer slaughtered in the metropolis are by no means large. For the pnmest beef and mutton the demand is tolerably steady, at full prices.

In other kinds of meat very little is doing. i'erjtone of lt3. by the carcase. 2s to 3s 2ti 3s 2.1 to 4a Od 2s )(! to 3s h1 I Pork 2s 4d to 3.s HJ Beef Mutton SMITUFIELD MARKET Monday A fair average supply of foreign stock arrived in the port of London last week, 1,539 head. During the corresponding period in 1851 we received 2,327 in 1850, and, in IBtS 701 head.

To-day's market was but moderately supplied with foreign stock, whilst the arrivals of beasts from our own grazing districts exhibited a material fait-ing off, both in number and quality, compared with those reported on Monday last. The attendance of buyers being good, and the weather favourable for slaughtering, the demand for all prime beds was steady, and, in most transactions, prices were 2d. per Ibs higher. The pnmest Scots sold readily, at 3 Sd per Slbs. From Norfolk, ffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,700 Scots and shorthorns, with a few Her "fords from other parts of England, 700 llerefords, runts, Devons, 3fc and from Scotland, 4(J2 horned and polled Scots.

There was a considerable increase in Ihe supply of shep, owing to which the demand for that description of stock was a very inactive state the primest downs ta the wool sold at last week's currencies, from 4 to 4 id per but all other breeds gave way 2d per 86. About 3,000 shorn tkeep were in the market downs out of the wool realized from 3 to 3Srf per 'lbs. The few lambs brought forward met a very dull inquiry at late rates, from 4 to 5 per lbs. We were very scantily supplied with calves, for which the inquiry was firm at full quotations. The pnmest veal sold at tor per 86.

There was a slight improvement in the pork trade, but no advance took place in prices. Perstoneoftlhs. thecarcase. Beef 2s 4J to 3s I Veal 3s 4l to 4s i Mutton 2s ha to 4s 4U Pork ka tfl 3sl0' iiii-ltlinupalvOQ. n.l r.

i Quarter-old Store Pigs 19 Od to 20s OJ LIVE CATTLE AT MiElET Sheep 21,9 '0 Calves Beast 3.K74 Pigs 1 'l SMITHFIKLD HAY MARKET. At per load of 36 trusses. 8fil ltd to 7Hs Od tos Od 7s Od 24s Od i'jn Meadow Hay Clover Hay Straw HIDE AND SKrx MARKETS. i. d.

d. We lesrnfrom the Hampshire Independent that Capt. Mac-kinnon has been delivering to tbe members of the Lymington Literary Institution an interesting course of lectures upon America from one of which we make some extracts bearing on the topics named above He thought there was something very original in the American mind, and that as far as invention went they were tbe first in the world. They were more inventive than the English for the following reasons: If a man invented anything in this country, he was looked upon as a projector, and his efforts did not meet with encouragement but there, if he invented anything, ever so little, he was considered a great man, taken in band by influential people, and made a fortune. He knew several who had amassed large sums from 1,000 to 2,000.

Heshould like to see an Englishman do that be would be laughed at if he expected it (applause). Soon after he landed, he saw a large ship, which was coming to Europe with wheat, and alongside of ber was a curious thing like a mud engine.and several barges full of grain. He was very moch astonished, and went on board to examine the machine, which he found to be a grain elevator, which was intended to pump the grain from the barges into tbe big ship. He at first laughed at it, and thought it a Yankee invention and a fib; but when he got on board he found that it pumped the grain in at such an awful pace that it almost drowned him before he got up the hatchway. (Laughter and applause.) He found it delivered 2,000 bushels per hour.

Suppose," said the speaker, pointing to the ceiling, there was a gTeat hole np there. It would send the grain in at such an awful pace that we shouldn't all get out. We should be drowned quite half of us." (Great laughter.) The next thing that struck him as an ingenious matter was at Cincinnati, where the hogs killed in the Western States last year for exportation were 953.050. There was a man there who had discovered a method of making gas out of hogs' lard. (Great laughter).

It seemed a funny thing, but it was a fact. The Mayor of Mil-waukie city, in Wisconsin, who was a great friend of his, actually told him that he was making a bargain with the man to light the town with gas out of hogs' lard. He certainly did not live there long enough to see it himself, but he was told it was true and he believed it. (Cheers.) Another invention was a zinc paint, which was most beautiful, and worth a trial by all present. Another very ingenious thing he had witnessed at the patent office at Washington.

It had a large handle to it, and was a sewing machine, which could make 17 pairs of pantaloons a day, but it was then out of order, and would not work, and he did not see it himself; and he could not, therefore, vouch for its accuracy, but he believed it to betrue. Another invention was made by a man who had a large dairy, containing upwards of 100 cows, and finding it very expensive to get them milked he set his wits to work, and, by Jove! he invented a milking machine, consisting of India rubber, guttapercha, and springs, and he milked them all out as dry as possible. (Much laughter). The down-East Yankees were the most inventive people possible, and were monstrously clever fellows. They had a story there which was too good to be lost.

The Yankee babies, when not eating or sleeping, were still doing something, and the Yankees asserted that the baby was rolling its eyes round and round, and thinking how to improve the cradle. (Uncontrollable laughter.) He would now say something on tbe various entertainments and fashions. They wore the most extravagant dresses in the world, and the cost of their silk dresses was immense. We couldn't stand it here we do not make money fast enough. Their entertainments, too, were most magnificent, and nothing either in England or France could be compared to it He was at an entertainment in New York, and the supper itself cost 600, and on making inquiry, he found that one dish alone cost 42 dollars about 8 10s.

The dish consisted of English pheasants. Their dresses were so expensive that there was a silk manufactory near Lyons, were they made silks expressly for America they were too expensive for any one else. The Americans were very curious to know all about the social distinctions in this country and he had never found, during the whole time he was there, one single instance of insolence and obtrusiveness. Many said to him, "Well, captain, I suppose you are something in your own country?" He replied, "Oh yea, lam something (laughter)!" Then they asked, "Are there any who look down upon you?" to which he replied, Oh yes, there are some who think themselves superior in point of birth, education, and fortune but they are very much mistaken, you know." (Great laughter.) He became pretty well known in America wherever he went, and the people used to call him "Captain." Frequently he went out shooting, and wherever he went, and met any farmer, he was sure to ask him to his house, for he knew who he was. He would give them a conversation he had with a tall Yankee in the Western States.

It was about last October that he went out with a gun on his shoulder, and an old pointer by his side, to shoot grouse, and he marched along for some time with indifferent sport until he observed, about a quarter a milea-head of im, a tall spare Yankee standing looking at him. Now, they might have been indaced to say, What, can that fellow want to rob me?" hut he knew they were so civil and kind, so be walked right up to him, when he said, do, captain?" He replied, "Oh, how do? how are you?" The Yankee then said he had a duty to perform towards him, and that that duty was to ask him to drink with him, for he was not starched up like other Britishers, and did not look down upon them, and think himself so much better than they were. He invited him to his house, and they repaired there together, and had a glass of grog, which he enjoyed very much. Well, captain, said he, I have a proposal to make and then he told him that he felt a very great interest in the fighting at the Cape of Good Hope, and that he had written to a brother of his to bring out an English infantry musket. Well, he looked into the corner, and he brought it out, and said, Did you ever see such a 'tar- nal varmint as that in all your life? There is a pretty thing to shoot soldiers with." He then directed his attention to a stump 150 yards from bis house, and said, You see that 'air stump, seven feet high, and broader than any man you might fire at it all day, and not hit it half-a-dozen times." And sure enough he was right for whereas the musket wonld not hit it once in twelve times, his own rifle, a seven-barrelled revolver, hit it every time.

He then said he had a proposal to make to the British Government. He (Capt. Mackinnon) replied, Oh, it is no use for me to take it, for 1 should be absolutely laughed at; but 1 will tell you what I'll tell them of it at the Lymington Literary Institution, where I sometimes deliver lec tures." (Cheers). The Yankee said that was quite as well, and would make a regular shindv in America. This was his proposal.

He said he could get 5,000 men like himself, each armed with a rifle similar to his own and if the English would send some of their ships with them to the Cape of Good Hope, they would clear out the Caffres for and that this would be cheap, for the war had already cost 2,000,000. The English soldiers were as good as any in the world but they did not possess such weapons as the Americans, and therefore could not stand against them. If these 5,000 men, then, landed at the Cape of Good Hope, they would soon make mince-meat of the Caffres. (Laughter.) Before he bade the lecturer goodbye he offered him a chaw of tobacco, which he, of course, respectfully declined. (Continued laughter).

Now here was a positive proof, that another nation, with whom we were now, fortunately, on friendly terras (which he hoped would continue), possessed much better weapons than we do; and he did not think sufficient stress was laid on the improvements in our arms. He hoped they would reflect on what this Yankee had told him. If one man, armed with this rifle, was equal to six persons, it became a matter of serious consideration. They had all heard that Nelson was killed by a musket ball from a line-of-battle ship. It was Nelson's opinion that small arms in tops and sharpshooters would not kill a sufficient number of men to effect tbe result of an action but he never looked forward to such improvements being made in the weapons as were now introduced.

A sharpshooter on the top was now a terrific weapon. Take a man on the top of a line-of-battle ship. He could, in less than a minute, if he was a first-rate marksman, kill or wound seven men. Ten persons would kill or wound 70 men in a minute and a-half. But Englishmen adhered too much to Nelson's maxim, that sharpshooters and tops were no good they stuck too much to precedent, and did not advance as much as they ought.

The arms of America and France were much superior to ours. If ten men on each top could kill 210 men in two minutes, the whole system was changed for whereas in the time of Nelson they were firing at him the whole blessed day before they killed him, they had now brought matters to a much higher perfection. But a rifle had since been invented of the most extraordinary power. It would fire 24 times without reloading and the astonishing circumstance connected with it was that it had only two barrels. (Applause).

The gallant captain then read a paper to prove that the original discoverer of America was not Columbus. He afterwards shewed that, in the matter of fishing at sea, the Americans were behind the old country, and described his attempt to teach Jonathan the use of the trawl net They had as fine turbot there as we had, but did not catch them, because they only use the hook and when he brought the fish in, the fisher men said that it was all very fine, but it was a very mean way of catching fish." (Laughter.) Generally speaking, the Americans were very liberal in opinions, but this was certainly not a specimen of it. Since his return he had investigated the subject, and he was convinced that the turbot they had there was decidedly different from ours, but they were the same fish as ours as far as eating was concerned and he was as convinced as that he stood there that, if a company was formed to go and trawl on the shores of the United States, they would make a fortune for, with a miserable net such as he had described, he had more fish in a given time than he had ever done with the finest nets in this country. (Applause). He had bronght with him a few specimens of the Yankee handiwork.

The first thing he would show them was a Yankee clothes-brush, which cost and would brush the dirt off in no time. The next was a Yankee broom a most excellent thing. (The gallant captain here commenced sweeping the platform, to the great amusement of the audience, and expressed a hope that the ladies would try it, remarking that the handle of it was light, and that they could wipe their husbands down with it," if they came home late at night). Having shown them some American buckets, and a fine buffalo skin, which he had brought from Missouri, he produced a clog, formed of Indian rubber, and shod with nails, which was a great protection to a person travelling over ice. In conclu-siou, he remarked that success in life depended chiefly upon oneself.

The way to succeed in any undertaking was to put the whole energy of mind and body into it, and then they would be almost sure to succeed. Having remarked on the deep interest he felt in the LymiDgton Institute, and handed in a donation of 10 from his father, the gallant captain concluded thus i And now here is my Yankee chair. If you Bit down in it you can turn round any way you please so that if you get into the fashionable habit of cutting your friends, it will be very convenient, because when they come up to you, you can turn round directly." Dispatch of Newspapers by Railway. A few weeks ago we referred to an important arrangement entered into by the London and North Western Railway Company, for facilitating the dispatch of the morning newspapers from London, by which means they were in the hands of readers in Manchester and Liverpool about two hours earlier every day than had previously been the case. When we alluded to this arrangement.

We also noticed the comparative disadvantages under which Leeds would be placed unless some similar measures were adopted by the railways communicating with this town and the metropolis. We have now the pleasure to announce that the Midland directors, rightly viewing the requirements and claims of the district, have acted with praiseworthy promptness in the matter, and on Monday last commenced arrangements by which the London morning papers now arrive in Leeds at one p.m. instead of three p.m. This is a great convenience to the inhabi tants, who, we have no doubt, will applaud the spirit and enterprise of the company to whom they are indebted for its possession. Leeds Mercury, The Sweeping of Chimneys by Boys.

Mr. Baron Alderson, interrupting the Hon Adolphus Liddell, on Saturdav. during the trial of a master sweep in Northumberland for manslaughter, said the practice of sweeping by boys was unlawful. There might be these old chimneys, but it was au unlawful practice. He should not judge of the prisoner by the evtremity of the law in this case though he should if a prisoner were charged with putting boys up a chimney.

He knew the law was often evaded. He knew that many chimneys, which it was said could not be swept by machinery, could be so swept; but it cost a little more. Humanity was expensive, and so was not generally followed. He should not have interposed but if he had not, it might have gone forth, on the learned counsel's authority, uncontradicted by him, that the practice was not unlawful. TIS SWEET TO LOVE IN CHILDHOOD.

BT ELIZA COOK. TU tweet to lore in childhood, when the aouli that we bequeath Are beautiful in freshness as the coronals we wreath When we feed the gentle robbin, and caress the leaping honnd, And linger lateat on the spot where buttercups are found When we eeek the bee and ladybird with laughter, shout, and oog, And think the day for wooing them can never be too long i Oh 'tis iweet to lore in childhood, and though woke by meanest things, The music that the heart yields then will never leave lU string. Tis sweet to love in after years the dear one by our side, To note with all the miDgled joys of passion, hope, and pride; To think the chain around our breast will hold still warm and faat, And griere to know that Death must come to break the link at But when the rainbow span of bliss is waning hue by hue, When eyes forget their kindly beams, and lips become less true When stricken hearts are pining on through many a lonely hour, Who wonld not sigh 'Tis safer far to love the bird and flower 'Tie sweet to love in ripened age the trumpet blast of Fame, To pant to live on Glory's scroll, though blood may trace the name "Tis sweet to love the heap of gold, and hug it to our breast To trust it as the guiding-star, and anchor of our rest. Bnt such devotion will not serve, however strong the zeal, To overthrow the altar where our childhood loved to kneel. Some bitter moment shall o'ercast the sun of wealth and power, And then proud man would fain go back to worship bird and flower.

Eliza Cook's Journal. VARIETIES. Flattest is like a flail, which, if not adroitly used, will box your own ears instead of tickling those of the corn. A man in Pawtucket lately made application for insurance on a building situate in a village were there was no fire-engines. In answer to the question, "What are the facilities for extinguishing fires he wrote "It rains some-times." A Dutchman being called upon for a toast said, Here ish to de heroes who fith, pleed, and died mit the patties of Punker Hill of whom I am ojte." Drunk standing.

An American, on being asked bow he liked the denuded statue of the Greek Slave, exhibited at the Crystal Palace, replied, I reckon that where she was raised cotton was dreadfully scarce." Owe of the drollest instances of Yankee borrowing we have ever heard of ie told by Mrs. Moody, in her new work, entitled, Roughing it in the Bush, or Life in A maid-servant asked her mistress to go out on a particular afternoon, as the was going to have a party of her friends, and wanted the loan of the drawing-room. A Playycl Hobse. la your horse perfectly gentle, Mr. Trotter Perfectly gentle, sir the only fault he has got if that be a fault is the playful habit of extending the binder hoofs now and then." By extending the hinder hoofs1, yon don't mean kicking, I hope." Some people call it kicking, Mr.

Green, but it is only a slight reaction of tbe muscles a disease rather than a vice." Exit Green, whistling. Ah Intellectual Yootg Lady. Oh, mamma, I asked Miss Brown what is dew. She says it is the moisture imbibed by plants during the nights of the summer montha. Now, mamma dear, dew is the condensation of aqueous va pour, by a body which has radiated its atomic motion of caloric below the atmospheric temperature." It is said that when earth is flung to the surface when digging a well, plants will spring up which are not found in the surrounding country, seeds having quickened in light and air, which bad lain buried during unknown ages no unapt illustrations for tbe way in which forgotten things are brought up from the bottom of one's memory.

Life of Sou they. Epitaphs From Dorchester, Oxfordshire Here lies the body of an honest man, And when he died he owed nobody nothing." From Bideford, Devonshire The wedding-day appointed was, And wedding-clothes provided; But when the day arrived did, She sickened and she die did." From Ulverstone: Here lies my wife, Here lies she Hallelujah, Hallelnjee." From Doncaster Here lie two brothers, by misfortune surrounded, One dy'd of his wounds, and the other was drownded." Sacred to the memory Of Miss Martha Gwynne, Who was so very pure within, She burst the outward shell of sin, And hatched herself a cherubim." CzEEMONiors CmxiTT WASHINGTON. Careless of himself and his own personal comforts, Washington gives in one of his letters a valuable dictum, upon which his conduct towards those around him seems to have been uniformly based. It is a maxim altogether anti-Chesterfieldian, but is well termed by the editor of Chesterfield a golden rule. It is this that ceremonious civility is tantamount to incivility.

How many men, especially men in high station, never acquire friends, simply because they get into a habit of treating all persons who approach them with a ceremonious civility." Washington was too simple-minded to fall into a mistake. Grave, unimpassioned, and benign," there was little in his thin, tall figure to win affection at first sight, but no one was ever placed within the reach of that kindness and attention which he showered on all around, without discovering that, like all the greatest of mankind, if unattractive at first, it was merely because he was utterly devoid of all the arrogance, the self-conceit, and other showy qualities of the pretender, "No man," says Lord Mahon, whether friend or enemy, ever viewed without respect the noble simplicity of hi6 demeanour, the utter absence in him of every artifice and every affectation." Gentleman's Magazine for March Review of Lord Ma-bon's History of England. Idolatry in Ibeland. About seven miles distant from Bingham Castle, in the Atlantic, is the Island of Inniskea, containing, I believe, about 380 inhabitants. They have very little intercourse with the main land and their state of spiritual darkness is deplorable.

It is hardly to be credited that amongst British islands heathen idolatry is to be found, aad that a stone, carefully wrapped np in flannel, is brought out at certain periods to be adored by the inhabitants of Innisket. When a storm arises this heathen god is snpplicated to send a wreck on their coast, Since writing the above (says the Earl of Roden, in his Progress of the Reformation in Ireland) I had had a communication from a gentleman living in the neighbourhood, who more than corroborates the above statement. He says The islands of Inniskea which form the northern point of entrance to Blackshod Bay, are inhabited by a population of about 180 people, who support themselves chiefly by fishing and the produce of their potato plots the most infirm and indigent deriving their principal subsistence from shell fish and sea-weed. They all speak the Irish language, and among them is a trace of that government by chiefs, which in former times existed in Ireland. The present chief or king of Inniskea is an intelligent peasant, named Cain.

His authority is universally acknowledged, and tbe settlement of all disputes is referred to his decision. There are not here ten individuals who even know the letters of any language. Though nominally Roman Catholics, these islanders have no priest resident among them and their worship consists in occasional meetings at their chiefs house, with visits to a holy well, called in their native tongue, Here the absence of religion is filled with the open practice of Pagan idolatry, as fearful to contemplate as that prevalent on the banks of the Ganges. Tn the South Island, in the house of a man named Monigan, a stone idol, called in the Irish Neevongh', has been from time immemorial religiously preserved and worshipped. This God in appearance resembles a thick roll of flannel, which arises from the custom of dedicating a dress of that material to it, whenever its aid is sought this is sewed on by an old woman, its priestess, whose peculiar care it is.

Of the early history of this idol no authentic information can be produced, but its power is believed to be immense they pray to it in time of sickness it is invoked when a storm is desired to dash some hapless Bhips upon their coast and again, the exercise of its power is solicited in calming the angry waves, to admit of fishing or visiting the main land." The Geeat Sea Serpent Caught at Last. The New York Tribune publishes a long letter from Charles Seaburv, master of the whale ship Monongabela, giving an account of the capture of the sea serpent, in latitude 3 deg. 10 min. and long. 1S1 deg.

50 on the 13th of January. After describing the various manoeuvres execnted to kill and catch the monster hitherto deemed fabulous, the captain describes it As I am preparing a minute description of the serpent, I will merely give you a few general points. It was a male the length 103 feet 7 inches; 19 feet 1 inch round the neck 24 feet 6 inches around the shoulders and the largest part of the body, which appeared somewhat distended, 42 feet 4 inches. Tbe head was long and flat, with ridges the bones of the lower jaw separate the tongue had its end like the head of a heart. The tail ran nearly to a point, on the end of which was a flat firm cartilage.

The back was black, turning brown on the sides then yellow, and on the centre of the belly a narrow white streak two-thirds of its length there were also scattered over the body dark spots. On examining the skin we found, to our surprise, that the body was covered with a blubber like that of a whale bnt it was only four inches thick. Tbe oil was clear as water and burned nearly as fast as spirits of turpentine. We cut the snake up, but found great difficulty, and had to flense" him the body would not roll, and the blubber was so verv elastic that when stretched 20 feet by the blocks it would, when cut off, brink to 5 or 6 feet. We took in the head, a frightful object and are endeavouring to preserve it with salt.

We have saved all the bones, which the men are not done cleaning yet. We found it had two spout holes or spiracles, so it must breathe like a whale it also had fonr swimming paws, or imitation of paws, for tbey were like hard loose flesh. The heart I was enabled to preserve in liquor and one of the eyes, but the head, notwithstanding it is cool, begins to emit an offensive odour bnt I am so near the coast now that I shall hold on to it as it is, nnless it is likely to breed a distemper. Every man in the ship participates in my anxiety. Terrible Explosion op Ftre Damp.

A very serious explosion of fire damp occurred on Friday morning, at Birchwood colliery, near Alfreton. At two o'clock, it appears, the holers," according to their general custom, went to work at the pit between five and six they were followed by the other workmen, and there were then 45 men and boys in the pit following their accustomed avocations at six o'clock a fearful explosion of firedamp occurred, doing great injury to the works, and endangering the lives of the whole body of colliers, some of whom, it was bebeved, will not aurvive the extensive injuries they have received from the burning gas. At 9 o'clock four of them only bad been got out of the pit, their clothes and hair being completely burnt off their persons they were all suffering greatly, and were not expected to survive. The most active exertions' were being used, when our informant left, for the release of the remainder of the workmen, and we trust the efforts to administer succour will be successful. The report of the explosion was heard considerable distance from Birchwood, and such was its force thtt corf, pieces of coal, and rubbish were blown out of tbe pit with great tont.Dtrtfthire Courier.

MISCELLANEOUS. Heh Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, left Bucking-ingham Palace at twelve minutes past ten o'clock on Saturday morning, for her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. We have reason to believe her Majesty will not take any long marine excursion this year before Jul v. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, it is said, will have a thorough re6t, and will be in the dock-yard men's nanus until toe middle ot June. nited Service Gazette.

Dissolution of Parliament. "We have referred, in another article, to the probability of an early dissolution We may, indeed, say, not only that a dissolu tion of Parliament is imminent, but that the present rarnament will not re-assemble atter roaster. This comes to us from a source which leaves no room to doubt its accuracy. Morning Advertiser. Ministerial Explanations.

It is con6dentlv stated that no formal ministerial statement is likely to be made oetore Monday next, when, in both Houses of Parliament, new explanations from Lord Derby and his col leagues may be looked for all decidedly in favour of a protective policy. Globe The Crystal Palace has been partially made accessible to the public in rather a singular way. The interior fittings are now on sale by public auction, and, as it is neeessary to admit purchasers, the price of a catalogue, which is sixpence, secures the entree. The sale of catalogues, which on tbe first day amounted to 200, now, after the interval of a week, reaches 1,500. The Difference between Men and Soldiers.

The Globe says" One remark of Napoleon the elder, as recorded by Xapoleon the younger, we would have read, marked, learned, and inwardly digested 1 A nation, when it has to repel an invasion, never wants men, but too frequently it wants soldiers' Louis Napoleon, President of the French, resided for several months in Clarendon-square, Leamington, about four years ago. The Morning i'ost contradicts, on authority, the rumour that a marriage is in contemplation between a near relative of Mr. Quintin Dick, and the Duke of Newcastle. On Saturday evening, Viscountess Palmerston had an assembly at her ladyship's mansion, Carlton gar-dens. It was numerously and brilliantly attended by the members of the corps diplomatique and most of the aristocracy and beau monde.

CocsT d'Orsay has just been charged by the French government with the execution of a statue in marble of Marshal Prince Jerome, to be placed in the museum at Versailles. Mr. James Mather, from Florence, had an interview, on Thursday week, with the Earl of Malmesbury, at the Foreign Office. The Rotterdam Couranl announces that an English engineer is at present in Holland for the purpose of cnoosing a lavourable spot lor the establishment of an electric telegraph between Harwich and Helvoetsluys. Suicide at Bristol On Friday evening, Mr.

John M'Lean, the chief engineer of the Rose steamer, which trades between Bristol and Waterford, committed suicide by blowing his brains out in his own house. He has left a wife and five children to lament his loss. Wesleyan Missionary Society The accounts of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, preparatory to the annual general meeting of the members, have been made up, with the exception of some balances from provincial associations The receipts for the year 1851 will, it is said, be 190,000. Munificent Donation. We understand that the Rev.

Dr. Warneford, who has so repeatedly given large sums towards the erection of churches and schools in this diocese, has sent a cheque for the amount of .30,000 to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, to be applied to certain charitable purposes in proportions mentioned in his letter. BristolJournal. Importation of Foreign Clocks.

It is shown in a Parliamentary paper just issued, that in the month ended the 5th ult clocks to the value of 17,653, were imported against ,5,483 in the corresponding period of last year. Fbom a return printed by order of the House of Lords, it appears that on the 1st of January last, the amount in cash and securities of unclaimed dividends in the Court of Bankruptcy was 32,931 6s 7d 303 8s 2d being in cash, aud 32,627 18s 5d in stock. Ihe Suffolk farmers be well to do. One of them, tired of his wife, has made a present of her to a brother farmer, and given him a wheat rick and 100, that he may once more enjoy the luxury of single blessedness. Conversion from Popery.

On Sunday evening, the Rev. George Evison, late a priest of the Church of Rome, renounced the errors of Popery in the church of St. Paul's, Bermondsey. This gentleman was late chaplain of the Roman Catholic congregation at Port-sea. A Lover of Good Old Ones." A fair patron of a fair" bookseller in Bishop Auckland, anxious to revive her acquaintance with "good old" novels, lately sent him the following note "Pleas to send Marey Simpson Gipesey Mother, or the Scottashe Cheafs, or the Cottage on the Clif, or eney eudoldon.

Gateshead Observer. A very Heavy Article." By far the heaviest article ever inserted in our broad sheet (says the Salisbury Herald) since it made its first appearance more than a century and a quarter ago, was contained in it on Monday last, when a female infant was discovered enveloped in a copy of it on the Wilton-rcad. Hanging Heaton Affiliation Case. The Bishop of Ripon has deprived the Rev. Stephen Matthews of the incumbency of Hanging Heaton and its emoluments, for adultery.

The case some time ago was investigated several times before the magistrates, before whom the Rev. Mr. Matthews was charged with being the father of the illegitimate child of Mary Helliwell. Thb Anti-Corn Law League. The subscription list to Monday includes the names of the Right Hon.

the Earl of Radnor, 100; Thomas Thornely, Esq 100; Mr. James Pilkington, Blackburn, gives 1,000 Mr. B. Oliveira, London, 1,000 Messrs. G.

Andrew S0119, 500 and Messrs. Dixon Son, 500. Total to Tuesday, about 40,000. A Young Female, who has the monomania of homicide, has just been arrested and sent to the Prefecture. She had attempted, but fortunately without effect, to murder her father, her mother, her sister, and several females of her acquaintance, declaring that she wished to annK their blood.

Galignani. A reward of 100 has been offered by the friends of Alfred Jewell, who was found drowned under the Kent-road bridge of the Surrey canal on the 14th to any person who will give such evidence as may lead to the discovery, apprehension, and conviction of the parties who were instrumental in causing his death. This reward is offered under the belief" that the "deceased met his death by unfair means." Important Accession to the Ranks of Free Trade and Reform We have learnt with unmingled satisfaction, that one of the leading men in this county Sir Wm. Heathcote, of Hursley Park has renounced all faith in Protectionist delusions, and is prepared to assist in consolidating the operations of Free Trade, and to support an extension of the suffrage at least as far as the late proposal of Lord John Russell. Hants Independent.

The Arctic Search. The Earl of Malmeshnrv just forwarded to Sir R. Murchison, as President of the Koyal Geographical Society, orders from the Emperor of Russia which have been made out at the re quest of the British Government to all the authorities along the coasts of Eastern Siberia and Russian America, directing them to afford every assistance in their power to the private expedition under the command of Capt. Beatson in search of Sir John Franklin. A Firm Foundation In case of an invasion, the walls of Old England would be formed by every man turning out a brick, and by the ordnance supplying all that might be necessary in the way of mortar.

Punch. Mr. Parker, of Northampton (Justice of the Peace), and Mr. John Latchmore, of Northampton, had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole on Wednesday, at the Home Office, and submitted depositions on behalf of the condemned convict, Elizabeth Pinckard.

Embezzlement. We understand that a gentleman, at one time officially connected with one of the banks at Birkenhead, is in custody on a charge of embezzlement. The magistrates on Saturday last examined the prisoner in private, and adjourned the inquiry. Bail would have been accepted but as the amount was heavy, the prisoner is still in custody. The next hearing of the case will be in public court Liverpool Mercury.

Juvenile Simplicity. Spell cat," said a little girl of five years of age, the other day, to a smaller one of only three. I can't" was the reply. Well, then," continued the youthful mistress, If you can't spell cat' spell that he had in his pocket, which went ofJ, doing no injury. Brock also stated he received a blow from a stone on the side of his head near one of his ears, which felled him to the ground.

The fact was there was a regular hard battle, in which hard blows, and many of them, were dealt on both sides, and from the injuries received by Roberts on the night in question, he died after lingering two or three days. It was proved that Roberts died from a fracture on the skull. He died on the 17th of October. Mr. Sergeant Miller and Mr.

O'Brien addressed tbe jury on behalf of their respective clients, when the learned Judge having summed up, the jury, after retiring for some time, found a verdict of Guilty of manslaughter, whereupon his lordship passed a sentence of 14 years' transportation. A point was subsequently taken by Mr. Sergeant Miller, on behalf of Sims and Moaks, that, inasmuch as they were disabled by the blows they received in the early part of the fray, and before the mortal wound was inflicted on the deceased, they could not be considered as taking part in the manslaughter which was the result of that wound. This point was reserved. RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

Thomas Bremer was indicted for manslaughter. Mr. Partridge prosecuted, Mr. Sherer defended. The prisoner was an engineman in the service of the Midland Railway Company.

The deceased was a stoker in the same employ. The prisoner started from Nottingham at 6.30, while deceased was with a passenger train starting at seven. Owing to some obstruction, prisoner's train was delayed more than half-an-bour at a station about a mile out of Nottingham, whereby the passenger train became due. The prisoner should have signalled the passenger train of the obstruction, but this he neglected to do, and the oonsequence was a collision took place, and Taylor was killed. Mr.

Sherer contended there was a mere error of judgment, and for that prisoner was not responsible. The jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment and hard labour. THE MURDER NEAR BANBURY. At Oxford assizes, on the 3rd instant, Gulielmo Giovanni Bazetti Kalabergo, a young Italian, of slight figure and respectable appearance, was placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Kalabergo, at Williams-cott. Mr.

Maggione was sworn, and acted as interpreter duriDg the proceedings. It appeared from the statement of the counsel for the prosecution, and the evidence adduced in support of it, that the deceased, who was well known by the name of John Kalabergo, was uncle to the prisoner, and had lived for many years at Banbury. He was a native of Italy, and had left his country in early life to escape from the tyrannical conscriptions of the Emperor Napoleon. He was by trade a jeweller and silversmith, and had commenced at first in a very small way of business, but being a man not only of popular manners, but also of industrious habits, he had increased his trade to a great extent in the neighbourhood, and amassed considerable worldly substance. Some years ago he left England and proceeded to Italy, and wa3 absent about twenty months.

In the latter end of October, 1851, his nephew, the prisoner, came over from Italy to reside with his uncle, and to assist him in his business. Mr. Kalabergo was in the habit of making circuits, generally about twice a week, round the neighbourhood of Banbury in a trap or light spring cart, in which his goods were placed. Ou these journeys his nephew had accompanied him since his arrival in England. On Friday, the 9th of January in the present year, John Kalabergo started with his nephew upon one of these tours.

The several witnesses deposed to seeing the deceased and the prisoner together in the cart on the road. At the Rose and Crown, Chipping Warden, the deceased and his nephew were seen by a publican and baker named Walker, who was travelling with a companion in a covered cart. Mr. Walker left the Rose and Crown after Kalabergo, but overtook him near the Williamscott-gate, on the Banbury road. At the time the baker's cart passed him, the deceased was walking slowly up the hill, aud his nephew wa9 oy me side ot nis norse.

Having passed on a short distance, Mr. Walker and his companion heard the report of fire-arms, and almost immediately afterwards a second shot. About the time the first shot was fired, a man was seen near their horse's head, coming towards them, from Banbury. The person in the cart thought nothing of the matter, and drove on to Banbury, entirely unconscious of the fatal occurrence which had taken place. On the same evening a carrier, named ard, left Banbury with several passengers, and drove in the direction of Wil-liamscott.

In the road he met a cart without a driver, which proved to be Mr. Kalabergo's and near the Williamscott-gate, his passengers having got out to walk up the hill, one of them. who was in advance of the others, discovered the body of the deceased, which was subsequently placed in a cart and removed to Williamscott. At the time of the removal of the body, two hats were found near it, one belonging to the deceased, lying close to it, aud another, afterwards proved to belong to the prisoner, at a little distance from it. Upon a post mortem examination of the body, it was found that a bullet had entered the skull above tbe right ear, passed through the brain, aud lodged in the skull over the left ear, from whence it was taken by the medical man, and produced on the trial.

It was composed of a white metai, ana a similar bullet was found in the cart in which the body had been placed when first discovered. There was also a lacerated wound on the forehead, which, in the opinion of the medical man, might have been caused by a bullet or any hard substance, and there was likewise a slight abrasion on the left cheek, apparently caused by the falling of the body to the ground. The boxes in the cart, containing jewellery, had not been opened, nor had any attempts been made to force them. At the time the body was discovered nothing was seen of the prisoner but in the course of the evening, he was met at a place called the Huscot Cottages, on the Banbury-road, by a labourer named James French. He was then without his hat, and seemed to be crying uery much, and to be in great distress.

He called out, Master, master and pointed in the direction of Williamscott. After this he appears to have gone to the house of Dr. Sandy, the Roman Catholic priest, at Banbury, where he knocked at the door several times, exclaiming, Priest priest Uncle dead!" but could not obtain admission. About half-past six be came to his uncle's house, when he was seen by a woman named Sophia Roberts, his uncle's housekeeper, and by two young persons named Harriet and Louisa Egg, who carried on the millinery business and lodged in the house. Hi3 first exclamation to Sophia Roberts was.

Uncle dead! uncle dead Go priest priest!" He appeared much agitated, and said something about three men," making motions with his arms as though his uncle had been beaten. Upon this Sophia Roberts hastened to Dr. Tandy, who arrived soon afterwards and found the prisoner still in a state of great agitation. Dr. Tandy asked him, in Italian, what was the matter.

The prisoner said that his uncle had been killed that three men had jumped out upon him and he added something about "sticks but Dr. Tandy could only imperfectly understand the peculiar Italian dialect which the prisoner spoke. It was then suggested that the police should be sent for, and Dr. Tandy proceeded with the prisoner towards the house of the superintendent of police at Banbury. At Banbury Bridge they met Kalabergo's cart, and the prisoner then asked if his uncle was dead.

Upon being answered in the affirmative, he broke out into fresh paroxysms of grief, and sobbed and cried bitterly. Besides, Dr. Tandy, the prisoner was visited on the same evening by Mr. Samuelsou, an iron-founder in Banbury, who also spoke Italian. To this gentleman the prisoner stated that he and his uncle had been attacked by three men as they were coming down the hill at Williamscott.

A man jumped out of the hedge and asked them for their life or their purse. His uncle took up the stick which he bad in his hand, and aimed a blow at a man with it, but the other man then fired at his uncle, and he (prisoner) was pursued by a third man across the fields. The man called out to him, Stop, stop," and followed him for eight or ten minutes. He also said he had afterwards met a man with a horse and cart, and had en. deavoured to alarm him, but the man could not understand him.

On that evening the prisoner was given into custody, and on the following day (Sunday; he expressed a wish to write a letter to a friend of his uncle, a Mr. Stophani, whose address he did not know, although he believed it to be somewhere in Red Lion-street, London. The circumstances of the prisoner's arrest and the stranze story which he told having excited the greatest consternation in Banbury, several persons came to see him whilst in custody on the Saturday and Sunday. Amongst them was a shopman to Mr. Welch, a gun-maker of Banbury, named Watkins, who at once recognised the prisoner as a person to whom he had sold a double-barrelled pistol on the previous 15th of December.

Hp also gave him a bullet-mould with the pistol, in which he made a bullet to show the prisoner how it was used. Upon the clothes ot tbe prisoner being examined after his arrest, a small quantity of gunpowder was found in his waistcoat pocket, and also a copper cap. it was also shown that on the evening of the 10th of January he was asked for the key of his uncle's cart, and denied having seen it exclaiming, Me no key uncle got the key." After this he was observed to go into a yard attached to the house in the direction of the privy, and was seen within a very short distance of it. On the following Mondav the privy was searched, and a key found lying on the top of "the soil, which proved to be the key of tbe cart. Mr.

Kalabergo's premises were subsequently strictly examined, and a bullet-mould, which was identified by Mr. Welch's shopman as the one sold to the prisoner on the loth of December, was found concealed in a stable rack. On further search heinp- mnde herweeri an r.1,1 chimney board and the rafters of the stable were found a woollen pistol bag, six whole bullets of white metal, an unfinished one of the same material, together with a leaden bullet and seven bullet shanks, or tops cut off after the bullets had been taken from the mould which had been previously discovered. After the prisoner had been taken into custody he 'was conveyed to Wroxton and locked up, with two constables in the same room. Notwith-scanding this precaution, he managed to jump out of an open window, but, being injured by the fall, he was re-captured, after running about two hundred yards.

Great exertions were then made by the police to discover if any pistol had been dropped or concealed near the spot where the murder had been committed. i DAYS. 1 2 I.2.S. 1,2, I L. Class Class I P.M.

P.M. I 1S4 rj'10' l)n 2 0 1-17 1 l- 2'8 fl-27 srV ti :2 2 2 i I 2 6" 55 1 2 1 42 Class. Class. GOV A.M. 12 Depart from Melton Kirby Brook sby Rearsby Leicester P.M.

J-20 a-S3 O'Vo 9-aO LEICESTER WD BCRTn KKiM 11 LEICESTER TO BURTON. 1 21 2 1,2,3 1 2 vl GOV. I L'Jl' Depart from a.m, a.m. p.m. p.m.

mm Leicester 615 100 215 Vl" Desford 7 i 10-22 3 5 7" It 10-33 3 T. Coalville 7-25 10-43 5 57 TW 1 Swanninuton 7'2 3'30 Ahby 7 KHO-55 3--12I fi-k' 7 V'i Moira 7' -47 112 s-J Bit Creslcy 7-5-I 1 L'fl fi-Jf Burton 815 11-25 115 fj'K, v23 7 11 mons, not the want of will, that prevents Lord Derby from introducing such a measure at once. Morning Advertiser. The Engineers' Strike. The struggle between the engineers and their employers seems drawing" to a close.

Vp-wards of 7,000 workmen, it appears, have accepted the terms offered by the masters; and Mr. Newton's confession, that already some 10,000 of the Amalgamated Society have been absorbed by the contest, attests the rapid exhaustion of the meaus for carrying on the war. No other result could be expected. The laivs of society, if allowed free action, will ever iu the long run be more than a match for the artificial combinations which selfishness or benevolence may devise to control them. Free trade that is, the natural order of things, spontaneously developing itself in entire freedom, here as everywhere else, is sure to win the victory.

The Amalgamated Society has sought to interfere with the natural course of the world, and will be beaten for it has long being obvious that it is no emancipating move; no vindication of the liberty of the workman against tyrannical and selfish restrictions imposed on his time and labour by the cupidity of his employer. On the contrary, it has distinctly aimed at founding a new constitution of the commercial world it has tried to supersede nature bv arrangements framed to secure special advantages for a particular class upon strict principles of protection and nature has proved, too strong for it. The same fate would have attended a similar conduct on the part of the masters. Artificial schemes, however skilfully planned, for depressing wages below the natural level of their market value, are equally certain to fail. If the labour of the operative is in demand, the eagerness of masters to obtain possession of it will break down every resolution to keep down his remuneration at a theoretical price.

When trade is good and hands are scarce, wages must and will rise, whatever edicts may have been previously fulminated to the contrary. In all these matters there is only one danger to be apprehended the interposition ol impediments to the most complete freedom of action. That freedom alone is the guarantee for justice to both parties; the sole pledge that each shall obtain that portion of the profit which fairly belongs to him under the actual circumstances of trade. Protection, whether of workman or master, is the child of cuvetousness and the pareut of injustice and by a righteoas law of Providence, commonly works as uiu'jh injury to those in whose behalf it is set up as to those agaiust whom it is levelled. This law has received au illustration in the present contest which is much to be regretted.

The masters, in taking back their men, have required them to sign a pledge that they would not belong to any kind of trades' uniou. We are not prepared to assert that under the actual circumstances of the struggle the demand of such a security could be avoided, yet neither are we convinced of its imperative necessity. The workmen are returning to the shops because they are the losers in the fight; the loss and suffering they have sustained are the best guarantee against a repetition of their aggression. On the other hand, such a pledge is a clear restriction on freedom of action it sets up a bad example it keeps alive the idea of artificial regulations and is very likely to be turned against its inventors at some future day. It will be appealed to as a justification for some counter-pledge hereafter.

Daily Sews. THE LEICESTER POST OFFICE. MAILS LEAVE 1. For London and Southern Parts, West of England, and Lancashire, at 6 30 a.m. (The box is not closed for this mail.) 2.

For Melton, Grantham, Stamford, Derby, and Northward the West of England; Ireland and Scotland, at 2 p.m. (Box closed at 1 45. Fee Id.) 4. For London and the South the West of England Lancashire and the Xorth Ireland and Scotland and all parts of the county of Leicester, at 10 15 p.m. (Box closed at 10.

p.m. Fee Id.) ARRIVALS OF MAILS AND DELIVERIES. 1. All letters arriving in the night (comprising London, and almost all parts of the kingdom), and those received by country messengers, are delivered at 8 a.m. 2.

Letters arriving by the London day mail, and from the West of England, Lancashire, Ireland, and Stotland, are delivered at 3 30 r.M. The Money Okder Office is open from 9 a.m to 6 p.m (Sundays excepted.) the delivery Ansty Aylestone Belgrave BirstaU Barkby Barkby Thorpe Beebv Blaby Baggrave Billesdon Burton Overy Bushby Carltcn Curlieu Cosbv Desford Evington En derby Glenn, Great Glenn, Little Galby Goadbv Glenfield Grooby Grooby Lodge Humberstone Hungarton Houghton-on-the-Hill Ilalstead Huncote 'Ingersby Kevham Kilby Knighton Kirby Frith Kirby Maxloe Lowesby "Leicester Forest Littlethorpe Markfield Norton Newton Harconrt Newtown Unthank Newtown Botcheson Newtown Linford Narborongh Oadby Queniborough Rearsby Rollestone Rat by Sapcote South Croxton Stewards Hay Shaw Lane Stoughton Stretton, Great Stretton, Little Syston Thurnby Thurmaston Tugbv Tilton Wigston Whetstone Wistow Wanl Thosemarked part of the way by messengers. Great Glenn i3 free Little Glenn is free only to Blaby. Bnr.TuN to i. rcf sti n.

I 2 1 211,2,3 UOV I a.m. a.m. p.m. I S- 40 1 1- ml 5-0 I 52 11-55, 5-15 1 1 1 ki 1 I Depart from- Hurtoi) Ores ley Moira Aahby Swnnnington Coalville Bas worth Desford Leicester p.m. 1 5ft 12 2 1 5-2 'J-5 12101 ry.iu 0 -22 3-311 Iff (,11 1 1 J-l 0-18 12-23 8- 27 12-34 9- 37 12 5-4'l 5-43 553 fi-5 1 :1 0 36 Dm; 10-0 1-10 NOTTINGHAM AND LINCOLN.

WKIK DATS. DOWXTltAISS. 1 2 Uh MaU. Class. Class.

Class. A.M. A.M. P.M. l.M.

3-10 7-45 6 -45 7-3 1 6-5 1 2 I Mm 1. 1 "If 1 Depart from Nottingham Carlton Newark Lincoln A.M. 3 4 0 8- to 1 20 7 40 4 55 9 30 2 0 I ft-30 WEEK UAVS. UP trains. 1,2,4.

1 2 1,2,3 1 1 Si Class. Class. Class Clas- oov Depart from Lineoln Newarke Carlton Nottingham A.M. I A.M. I P.M.

'0 110 I 4-0 8- 43 -35 4- 40 9- -40 12 -20 5 30 STAMFORD, ROCKINGHAM, AND Hi i-in Stamford to Rockiogham, Market Harborough, aad Rq7 ft. 15 and 11 a.m. and 4.35 p.m. Rockingham to Market Harborough and Rugby, tU-1' 11.17 a.m. and 5.7 p.m.

Market Harborough to Rugby, at a.m. ind '4 5. 20 p.m. Rntrby to Market Harborongb, Rockingham, and StaiuM a.m., 1 1 and 7 p.m. Market Harborough to Rockingham A Mamf'fd, 1 .57 and 7.57 p.m.

Rockingham to Stamford, at 10. 40 a.m., 2.19 ind-'T9? No Sunday trains. Printed and published bv THOMAS THOMPvN JAMES THOMPSON, of the Market -p parish of St. Martin, in the Borough of rl Printers and Publishers, at their Market-place aforesaid, in the 1 -f' St. Borough of Leicester aforesaid.

Order anil VlverUmsmtfnUfor tbr CM following Agenu. Newton. iqu.r.-. Mr H.lfk-- Kj rrwj; Mr. Deacon.

1, Wilbrk Mr i rteyoell. ''lo. Mr Hammond. 27. Lombar and r.

MucheJ'. Lion-court, Heet-Hirert ffincil. Mr. Short, W.kneller. Loughtmrough.

Mr. A dam. 4(WI. aI Mr tinltin. Mmtkrx it fa rVtfft.

Mr Ufaj-tr tiM mui. Hexiit.lKk'i Harnjruugk. -Mr Rland. boVik-llar. Mnunlsitrrri.

Mr. Hrewin trappr 4j YD (r27 4 541015 I Nil 1 1 2 I iJ i- n. VP 'j- 3-0 li'-U 1 If to 0 2 per lb. 0 A 0 3 Calfskins, light 0 each. 6 0 7 9 Ditto, full Horse Hides Polled Sheep Downs Shearlintrsi.

Lamb Skins HOP MARKET- BoaocoB, Monday. The business doing in our market is only to a moderate extent, and prices remain unaltered at the quotations of this day week. Mid. ami East Kents Weald of Keuts Sussex Pockets per cwt. -7 0 to 12 10 6 0 to 7 5 5 12 lo 6 4 TALLOW MARKET MomdaT.

The deliveries for the past week having fallen to 2,160 casks, (he demand for all kinds of tallow to-day is heavy, and prices are Qd per cwt. lower than on Monday last. P. Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 35 94 Scarcely any transactions have taken place for forward delivery.

Town tallow is 33 Qd to 36 per cwt. net cash rough fat 2 )d per 86. We perceive that a great improvement has been made in Bradshaws Railway Guide so as to make it mucn more easy ot reference, and of course so much more useful to the public. Market to 41bs Do. 64 72lhs 0 Do.

72 HOlbs 0 Do. 8 HHlba ii Do. Hg 961b 0 Do. 96 104lbs Do. 104 llilbs 0 Alhrrtlo-.

Mm. Davia. hookwller LiUlertrurik. Mra.Bottnll and Mr. Woodward.

Saturday, ihe iJth day i Mai'.