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The long-expected military spectacle—the distribution of the Victoria Cross "for Valour," by the Queen—took place in Hyde Park yesterday. The weather was brilliant, with a light breeze tempering the hot sunshine. As early as nine o'clock a large body of troops arrived on the ground, and formed in line across the open space looking towards Park Lane. On the right were a troop of Horse Artillery, the two regiments of Life Guards, the Enniskillen Dragoons, and the Eleventh Hussars. Next to them were a number of sailors, and a company of the Royal Engineers. In the centre were three battalions of the Guards ; and on the left, a battalion of Marines, the Seventy-ninth Highlanders, the second battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and two field-batteries. Sir Fenwick Williams commanded the Artillery, Lord Cardigan the Cavalry, Colonel Chapman the Engineers, Lord Rakeby the Guards. Facing the troops on the Eastern side of the Park was a long range of galleries, intended for the accommodation of seven thousand persons, who obtained admission by ticket. The whole space devoted to the ceremony was enclosed by a deep mass of the people, who had begun to assemble on the ground at an early hour. The officers who were to be decorated assembled near Grosvenor Gate, under Sir Colin Campbell ; the men, at the Portman Street Barracks, under Lieutenant Knox of the Rifle Brigade. Having marched to the ground, they were placed in a single rank facing the troops in the order of their regiments.

A little before ten o'clock, the Royal cortege entered the Park ; a fact notified to the multitude by a salute from the artillery. Foremost came Captain Sayer of the Staff, and a body of Horse Guards Blue ; then the Aides-de-camp of the Duke of Cambridge and of the Queen ; after them, the Staff of the Horse Guards, and the Duke of Cambridge ; then the Queen, riding between Prince Albert and Prince Frederick William of Prussia. Behind them were the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, the Duchess and Princess Mary of Cambridge in one carriage, the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred on ponies. Horse Guards brought up the rear. The Queen wore a round hat, not turned up at the side, with a gold band round it, and a red and white feather at the right side. A scarlet body made nearly like a military tunic, but open some way down from the throat, a gold-embroidered sash over the left shoulder, and a dark. blue skirt, completed the costume of the Queen, who, like all the members of the Royal party in military costume, wore crape round the left arm. The distribution immediately commenced. The sailors came first; the soldiers afterwards, dicers and men taking rank according to the order of their regiments. There were sixty-two in all. As each approached, her Majesty received the decoration from Lord Panznure, and, stooping from her saddle, fixed it on the breast of the decorated ; who passed on, and formed again in fine behind her Majesty. Some of the officers and men having left the service, appeared in civil costume. One of the late noncommissioned officers wore the uniform of a Park-keeper, another that of a Policeman. When all the medals had been distributed, the troops marched past, first in slow, then in quick time ; the Artillery leading, and the military train bringing up the rear. They then reformed in line, and presented arms. This closed the ceremony. The Queen's procession formed, and retired from the Park.

The general public, the scores of thousands who formed the setting to this splendid show, had but few opportunities of seeing anything ; the ground being flat, and the multitudes far removed. They, however, bore the disappointment with exemplary patience, and cheered the Queen with vigour as she passed to and from the Park

The members of the Junior United Service Club gave a banquet on Monday to celebrate the opening of their new clubhouse. Sir James Scarlett presided. The Duke of Cambridge, whose health was drunk in the course of the evening, replied in a speech of some mark on military education. He said

" It is only by studying our profession that we can hope thoroughly to understand and qualify ourselves for the position in which it may please Providence to place us. Nothing can be of such value to the military service as carefully studying all its details in a practical way. I can speak with some knowledge when I say, that from the attention which I have given to details I feel in the proud position of having confidence in myself.. Cheers.) Most strongly do I feel that the officers of the Army should follow the same course. I have heard it said that it would be too much of the shop' to do that. (Laughter.) Gentlemen, if we do not do that we are not officers ; and what is the use of telling a man that he is doing wrong when we ourselves do not know what is wrong or what is right ? I QM afraid, gentlemen, I shall be thought an extreme bore, but I assure you that I intend to make every officer in the Army study every branch of his duty. I am determined, with the support of my friends and the country, to carry out all those principles to the utmost extent as far as in me lies—that is my firm determination. (Cheers.) It has been said that British officers will not take the trouble of detail to which I have alluded : but I know they will. I have seen their gallantry in the field, and with a good knowledge of the details of their profession we shall have one of the most splendid bodies of officers in the world. (Cheers.) With this knowledge of our duties, gentlemen, I see no reason why the military service should not be as highly educated as any other."

The Educational Conference was opened by Prince Albert on Monday, at Willis's Rooms. The rooms wore crowded. Prince Albert arrived at three o'clock, and took the chair. Among those who sat on each side of him were—Earl Granville, the Bishops of Oxford, St. Asaph, London, Durham, Soder and Man, Winchester, and Manchester, Lord. Brougham, Sir John Pakington, Mr. Robert Owen, Miss Carpenter, and. the Reverend Cenon Moseley.

Prince Albert introduced the business of the Conference with the following survey of the whole question.

"Gentlemen, we have met today in the altered cause of education—of national education. This word, which means no less than the moral and intellectual development of the rising generation, and. therefore, the national welfare, is well calculated to engross our minds, and opens a guestion worthy of a nation's deepest interest and most anxious consideration. Gentlemen, the nation is alive to its importance, and our presence here today gives further evidence (if such evidence were needed) of its anxiety to give it that consideration. Looking to former times we find that our forefathers, with their wonted piety and paternal care; had established a system of national education, based upon the parish organization and forming part of pariah life, which met the wants of their day, and had in it a certain unity and completeness which we may well envy at the present moment. But in the progress of time our wants have outstripped that system, and the condition of the country has so completely changed even within these last fifty years that the old parochial division is no longer adequate for the present population. This has increased during that period, in England and Wales, from, in round numbers, 9,000,000 to 18,000,000; and, where there formerly existed comparatively small towns and villages, we now see mighty cities like Liverpool, Manchester, Hull, Leeds, Birmingham, and others, with their hundreds of thousands, springing up almost as it were by enchantment ; London having increased to nearly two and a half million of souls, and the factory district of Lancashire alone having aggregated a population of nearly 3,000,000 within a radius of thirty miles. Tins change could not escape the watchful eye of a patriotic public; but bow to provide the means of satisfying the new wants could not be a matter of easy solution. " While zeal for the public good, a fervent religious spirit, and true philanthropy, are qualities eminently distinguishing our countrymen, the love of liberty and an aversion from being controlled by the power of the State in matters nearest to their hearts, are feelings which will always most powerfully influence them in action. Thus, the common object has been contemplated from the most different points of view, and pursued often upon antagonistic principles. Some have sought the aid of Government, others that of the Church to which they belong ; some have declared it to be the duty of the State to provide elementary instruction for the people at large, others have seen in State interference a check to the spontaneous exertions of the people themselves, and an interference with self-goveniment ; some again, have advocated a plan of compulsory education based upon local self-government, and others the voluntary system in its widest development. While these have been some of the political subjects of differenee, those in the religious field have not been less marked and potent. We find, on the one hand, the wish to see secular and religious instruction separated, and the former recognized as an innate and inherent right, to which each member of society has a claim, and which ought not to be denied to him if he refuses to take along with it the inculcation of a particular dogma to which he objects as unsound ; while we see, on the other hand, the doctrine asserted that no education can be sound which does not rest on religious instruction, and that religious truth is too sacred to be modified and tampered with, even in its minutest deductions, for the sake of procuring a general agreement. (Much cheering.) "Gentlemen, if these differences were to have been discussed hero today I should not have been able to respond to your invitation to take the chair, as I should have thought it inconsistent with the position which I occupy and with the duty which I owe to the Queen and the country at large. I see those hem before me who have taken a leading part an these important discussions, and I am happy to meet them upon a neutral ground • happy to find that there is a neutral ground upon which their varies] talents and abilities can be brought to bear in communion upon the common object' and proud and grateful to them that they should have allowed me to preside over them for the purpose of working together in the common vineyard. I feel certain that the greatest benefit must arise to the cause we have all so much at heart by the mere free exchange of your thoughts and various experience. "You may well be proud, gentlemen, of the resulta hitherto achieved by your rival efforts ; and may point to the fact that, since the beginning of the century, while the population has doubled itself, the number of wheels both public and private has been multiplied fourteen times. In 1801, there were in England and Wales, of public schools, 2876; of private schools, 487— total, 3363. In 1851, the year of the census, there were in England and Wales of public schools 15,618 ; of private schools, 30,524--tota146,012 ; giving instruction in all to 2,144,37 scholars ; of whom 1,422,982 belong to public schools, and 721,396 to the private schools. The rate of progress is further illustrated by statistics which show that in 1818 the proportion of day scholars to the population was 1 in 17; in 1833, 1 in 11; in 1851, 1 in 8. These are great results, although I hope they may only be received as instalments of what has yet to be done. But what must be your feelings when you reflect upon the fact, the inquiry into which has brought us together, that this great boon thus obtained for the mass of the people, and which is freely offered to them, should have been only partially accepted, and, upon the -whole, so insufficiently applied as to render its use almost valueless ? We are told that, the total population in England and Wales of children between the ages of. three and fifteen being estimated at 4,908,696, only 2,046,848 attend school at all, while 2,861,848 receive no instruction whatever. At the same time, an analysis of the scholars with reference to the length of time allowed for their school tuition shows that 42 per cent of them have been at school less than one year, 22 per cent during one year, 16 per cent during two years, 9 per cent during three years, 6 per cent during four years, and 4 per cent during five years. Therefore out of the two millions of scholars alluded to, more than one million and a half remain only two years at school. I leave it to you to judge what the results of such an education can be. I find further, that of these two millions of children attending school, only about 600,000 are above the age of nine.

"Gentlemen, these are startling facts, which render it evident that no extension of the means of education will be of any avail unless this evil, which lies at the root of the whole question, be removed, and that it is high time that the country should become thoroughly awake to its existence and prepared to meet it energetically. To impress this upon the public mind is the object of our conference. Publie opinion is the powerful lever which in these days moves a people for good and for evil, and to public opinion we must therefore appeal if we would achieve any lasting and beneficial result. You, gentlemen, will richly add to the services which you have already rendered to the noble cause, if you will prepare public opinion by your inquiry into this state of things, and by discussing in your sections the causes of it, as well as the remedies which may lie within our reach. This will be no easy matter ; but even if your labours should not result in the adOption of any immediate practical steps, you will have done great good in preparing for them.. It will probably happen, that in this instance as in most others, the cause which produces the evil will be more easily detected than its remedy, and yet a plat appreciation of the former must ever be the first and essential condition for the discovery of the latter. You will probably trace the cause of our social condition to a state of ignorance and lethargic indifference on the subject among the parents generally; but the root of the evil %Ill, I suspect, also be found to ,extend into that field on which the political economist exercises his activity—I mean the labour-market—demand and supply. To dissipate that ignorance and rouse from that lethargy May be difficult, but with the 'united and earnest efforts of all who are the friends of the working classes it ought, after all, to be only a question of time. "What measures can be. brought to bear upon the other root of the evil, is a more delicate question, and will require the nicest care in handling, for there you cut into the very quick of the working inan's condition. His children are not only his offspring, to be reared for a future independent position' but they constitute part of his productive power, and work with him for the staff of life ; the daughters especially are the handmaids otthe house, the assistants of the mother, the nurses of the younger children, the aged, and the sick. To deprive the labouring family of their help would be almost to paralyze its domestic existence. (Cheers.) On the other hand, carefully collected statistics reveal to us the fact, that while about 600,000 children between the ages of three and fifteen are absent from school, but known to be employed, no less than 2,200,000 are not at school, whose absence cannot be traced to any ascertained employment or other legitimate cause. You will have to work, then, upon the minds and hearts of the parents—to place before them the irreparable mischief which they inflict upon those who are intrusted to their care by keeping them from the light of knowledge—to bring home to their conviction that it is their duty to exert themselves for their children's education ; bearing in mind at the some time, that it is not only their most sacred duty, but also their highest privilege, unless they work with you, your work, our work, will be vain. But you will not fad, I feel sure, in obtaining their cooperation if you remind them of their duty to their God and Creator. (Cheers.) Our Heavenly Father, in his boundless goodness, has made his creatures that they should be happy, and in his wisdom has fitted his means to his ends, giving to all of them different qualities and faculties, in using and developing which they fulfil their destiny, and, running their uniform course according to his prescription, they find that happiness which he has intended for them. Man alone is 'born into this world with faculties far nobler than the other creatures, reflecting the image of Hhe who has willed that there should be beings on earth to know and worship Him, but endowed with the power of self-determination, having reason given him for his guide. He can develop his faculties, place himself in harmony with his divine prototype, and attain that happiness which is offered to him on earth, to be completed hereafter in entire union with Him through the mercy of Christ. But he can also leave these faculties unimproved, and miss his mission on earth. He will then sink to the level of the lower animals, forfeit happiness, and separate from his God, whom he did not know how to find. (Mitch cheering.) Gentlemen, I say man has no right to do this ; he has no right to throw off the task which is laid upon hins for his happiness ; it is his duty to fulfil his mission to the utmost of his power. But it is our duty, the duty of those whom Providence had removed from this awful struggle and placed beyond the fearful danger, manfully, unceasingly and untiringly, to aid by 'advice assistance, and example, the great bulk of the people, who without such aid must almost inevitably succumb to the difficulty of their task. They will not cast from them the aiding hand, and the Almighty will bless the labours of those who work in his cause." (Enthusiastic cheering.) A report was read, which stated that since 1839, 2,000,000/. has bien expended on school-buildings, and 1,250,000/. annually on the education of the poor.

Lord Brougham reviewed the history of the efforts in behalf of educetimi, and defended the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He said that much might be done by enlisting on their side the great emplAyers of labour, and by means of the masters influencing the men to avail themselves more extensively of the means of education for their children which are brought within their reach.

The Bishop of Oxford observed, that besides the causes for the absence of young. children from schools as described by Prince Albert, there was another reason—the want of firm authority on the peat of parents,

and the want of a willing obedience on the part of the children. The Reverend Canon Meeeley made similar remarks on the same subject.

Prince Albert then formally declared the Conference opened, and adjourned the proceedings until next morning. On Tuesday the Conference met in sections, at the Thatched House Tavern. There were five sections, engaged on different branches of the subject of education, under the presidency of the Bishop of Oxford, Mr. William Cowper, Sir J. K. Shuttleworth, the Dean of Salisbury, and the Dean of Bristol. The amount of attendance varied in the different sections ; a large number of clergymen connected with schools for the working classes forming the majority. The mode of proceeding adopted was first to read a paper, and then discuss it. Section A was engaged in considering the causes why children are taken from school at such an early age, and in discussing the best mode of meeting the evil: Section B considered the causes of the removal of children from school in Continental countries showing that the same evil is felt there also. Section C deliberated on the means whereby parents might be induced to keep their children at school for longer periods—such as granting prizes and certificates of attendance; the latter plan finding most favour. Section D discussed the operation of the half-time school system in factories, evening factory schools, and factory schools in general. Section E was devoted to various supplemental subjects,—juvenile delinquency and its relation to ignorance, industrial schools, and the effect of improved dwellings on the habits of the poorer classes. In each section the business was conducted with a view to some practical resolution, to be reported to the general meeting on Wednesday. Among those who read papers, were the Reverend Mr. Mitchell, Inspector of Schools, Mr. Goodman of Birmingham, Mr. Joseph Kay, M. Eugene Rendu, Mr. Winfield of Birmingham, Mr. Akroyd M.P., the Reverend P. Marshall of Hulme, Mr. Seymour Tremenheere, the Reverend J. P. Norris and the Reverend W. J. Kennedy Inspectors of Schools, Miss Carpenter, the Reverend Mr. Girdlestone, and Mr. Joliner Symons. The final meeting, on Wednesday, was held, like the opening meeting, in Willis's Rooms. Earl Granville presided. The mode of proceeding now was for the chairman of each section to bring up the report of hit section, and to move a resolution, founded upon it, and unanimously adopted by the section. The report of Section A was brought up by the Bishop of Oxford. The gist of the report was, that poverty is not commonly the cause of the early removal of children from school, but that the main causes arc the value of the children's labour and the viewd of the parents. Bishop Wilberforce moved " That it is the opinion of this Conference, that the greater number of the children of the working classes are removed from school at so early an age as seriously to interfere with their education. That while this Conference is precluded from entering on the question of legislative interference, it would call the attention of the friends of education to the positive amount of good which may be affected as to increasing the age to which children continue at school by the improvement of the schools themselves, and bringing moral and religious Miluencea to bear upon both the parente and children."

Sir John Pakington seconded the resolution. He commented on the success of the Conference and believed its deliberations would be attended by marked reault2 We have had too much of" displays of eloquence" on the subject. While we are discussing and talking, other nations are going ahead of us on all sides. Perhaps he might be permitted to remind them of the words he had made use of at a similar meeting on a former occasion, when he said that there were three indispensables requisite to a perfect plan of education,— first, that the half-time system should be extended to all England ; second, that a better system of organization for the schools should be adopted ; and lastly, that there should be a more abundant and certain supply of money-for educational purposes. The Marquis of Lansdowne supported the resolution. He said it would give him great joy if the Conference produced beneficial and satisfactory results. They must remember, as Mr. Burke had said of the British constitution, it was the work of many minds and many ages; so let this great system of education be the work of many minds in our age, combining in the most perfect unanimity the united efforts of those persons who would be able to apply and spread their principles throughout the districts in which their influence prevails.

The resolution was carried nem. con.

Mr William Cowper reported on the facts ascertained by Section B; and moved, "That throughout the North of Europe the children of the working classes are kept for a longer period at school, and to a riper age, than in this country." The resolution was seconded by Mr. Akroyd, and adopted unanimously. Sir J. K. Shuttleviorth presented the report of Section C. A resolution moved by him, nd seconded by Mr. Baines, was adopted. It affirmed, "that registration, certificate and prize schemes, have been shown to have been applied in certain localities with advantage, and to be worthy of more extensive trial."

The report of Section D, brought up by the Dean of Salisbury, recommended for further trial the voluntary half-time schemes which have been adopted with success iii certain localities. A resolution to that effect was moved by the Dean, and seconded by Mr. Samuel Morley, who in his speech energetically advocated the voluntary system. The resolution was carried.

The report of Section E, brought up by the Dean of Bristol, stated that "it is desirable to encourage to the utmost the introduction of the industrial element in our schools for the working classes." He moved a resolution founded on that statement ; it was seconded by the Reverend Grantham Yorke, and carried. The last resolution adopted by the Conference adjourned the meeting sine die, and referred to a General Committee the task of preparing and publishing a report of the proceedings and a selection of the papers. But before this was carried, the Reverend G. S. Bull moved an amendment, stating that it would be expedient, at future meetings of the Conference, to admit the fullest discussion of every means of promoting education. He pointed out, that while they were restricted from even alluding to legislative measures, some persons had been allowed to advocate the voluntary system. After an irregular discussion, which ended by an expression of regret from Mr. Morley that he should have impugned the principles of any of his hearers, the amendment was withdrawn, on the understanding that at future meetings the voluntaries should abstain

from comments adverse to legislative enactments with regard to education.

The Society, of Arts celebrated its hundred-and-third anniversary by a dinner at the Crystal Palace on Tuesday, over which Lord Stanley presided. In proposing the toast of the evening, "Prosperity to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce," Lord Stanley narrated the history of the society ; showed how, although, from time to time, different branches of science had beenseparated from the original institution, and had established themselves as distinct societies, yet that the duties of the parent society had not diminished. The number of members is above 2000, and the society is not less vigorous than formerly. It has not obstinately adhered to old and obsolete ways, but has adapted itself to the altered and improved system of the day. Among the other speakers were Colonel Sykes, Chairman of the Council ; Mr. Cahd M.P., Mr. William Brown M.P., and Sir Joseph Paxton M.P.

A sum of 40,000/. is required for the purpose of completing the buildings of King's College Hospital, now too small for the demands made upon them. A meeting was held, on Saturday, in the great hall of Lincoln's Inn, to promote the collection of this sum. The Duke of Cambridge presided, and testified warmly to the good management of the institution, in support of the demand for further funds to increase its means of relieving the sick poor. The Bishop of Oxford, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir Page Wood, Mr. Alderman Copeland, and the Bishop of St. Aeaph's, spoke in behalf of the object of the meeting ; and at its close the Duke of Cambridge stated that 15,0001. has already been subscribed.

The annual meeting of the Society for the Protection of Life from Fire was held in the Guildhall Council-chamber on Monday. It appeared from the report, that the Society maintains 52 fire-escapes; that during the past year its servants have attended 390 fires, and saved 70 lives ; since its foundation, in 1843, it has saved 410 lives. The income of the Society last year was 47241.; the expenditure 435G1. The Lord Mayor, who presided, distributed twenty-eight rewards, including five silver medals, for daring conduct.

On Wednesday, the centenary of the battle of Massy, a meeting was held in Willis's Rooms for the purpose of taking measures to erect a memorial to Lord Clive. Lord Hill presided; Earl Stanhope, Sir Lawrence Peel, the Duke of Cleveland, and Lord Dungannon, took part in the proceedings. The meeting resolved— "That, inasmuch as the services of the great Lord Clive, the founder of the British Empire in the East, have not been commemorated by any public monument, it is in the opinion of this meeting, assembled on the hundredth anniversary of the victory of Plassy, desirable to record the national gratitude for those services by erecting a statue on some conspicuous site in Shreasbdry, the chief town of Lord Olive's native county.'

A committee was appointed to carry out the objects of the resolution.

At a meeting of the Court of Aldermen on Wednesday a report was read from the Committee of Privileges on the allegations against Sir William Magnay. The Committee report that they are unable to investigate the facts, as they cannot compel the attendance of witnesses ; and they express sympathy ead regret at the position in which Sir William is placed. A letter from Sir William Maguey was read, tendering the resignation of his gown of office as Alderman of the Ward of Vintry.

A meeting was held at the London Tavern on Wednesday, Sir James Duke in the chair, to hear from M. de Lesseps an explanation of his project for a ship-canal across the Isthmus of Suez. M. Lesseps and Mr. Lange, the English agent of the company, explained the scheme and described its advantages ; and the meeting adopted a resolution recognizing the utility of the project.

On Thursday evening, about five thousand persons, chiefly working men, met at the foot of the new bridge connecting Chelsea with Battersea Park. Their object was to protest against the imposition of a toll on the bridge —a measure that would practically close the park to the poor. Sir John Shelley, General Evans, Mr. Alcock, and Lord Robert Grosvenor, were the principal speakers. Lord Robert said, he had been a Rebeccaite for many years, and he hoped the time would come when toll-reform would be general. The meeting adopted resolutions against the toll, and appointed a deputation to wait on Lord Palmerston and Sir Benjamin Hall to enforce its views.

An action to recover money lost at a gaming-house known as the "Berkeley," in Albemarle Street, was tried in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday. Mr. Sidebottom, a Manchester cotton-manufacturer, sought to recover 86251. the amount of seven checks handed by him to one Adkins the kee r of a gaming-house. It appeared that Sidebottom had lost nearly 25011/. at different times : part of the sum he paid in ready money, part by bills, and part by checks on his bankers. The money was lost at hazard ; the adverse player was a person technically termed a "bonnet," and the dice used by him were loaded. The case was not contested. Adkins, who had surrendered securities which a previous trial had shown he oould not enforce in a court of law, consented to a verdict "for the sum in the particulars of demand" ; and the Jury, directed by Lord Campbell, found, accordingly, a verdict for the plaintiff for 66251. During this trial the Prince of Wales occupied a seat on the bench; and on quitting the court he shook hands with the Lord Chief Justice.

An action for criminal conversation was tried in the Court of Common Pleas on Monday. The plaintiff was a Mr. Armitage, a retired Indian lawyer ; the defendant was Colonel the Honourable James William Macdonald, Aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge. Mr. Armitage married Anne Macdonald, at Inverness, in 1847—he then being thirty-seven, she seventeen years of age. For some reason not explained, Mrs. Armitage, a short time after her marriage, would not live with her husband ; in 1850 he lost sight of her altogether, and vainly endeavoured for a long time to find her. At length he found that she had been living in intimate relations with Colonel Macdonald ; that she visited him at his lodgings in the Albany, and that he visited her at her lodgings. When the Guards troops quitted London in 1854, Mrs. Armitage went with them to the platform of the South-Eastern Railway station, London Bridge. There were some officers there ; among them was Colonel Macdonald, and when he came to Mrs. Armitage he embraced and kissed her a good many times : she wae very much affected, and when Colonel M'Donald bid her good-bye and got into the saloon carriage, she ran up to the carriage and threw in a handkerchief. Raying, "There, Jemmy, is my wedding pocket-handkerchief. Good-bye.' Evidence was given to show that Mrs. Armitage went by several names, and that "cousins" frequently called on her. The Jury wore not asked to give heavy damages, as Mrs. Armitage had not been debauched while living with her husband. The Jury found for the plaintiff—damages 1001. An action for libel was tried in the same court on Tuesday and Wednesday. Dr. Jones was the plaintiff, and Mr. Hales, registeredproprietor of the Daily News, the defendant. The Ration was brought in consequence of some statements to the detriment of Dr. Jones reported by the Paris correspondent of the journal. Mr. Alfred Brettle died in Paris in November 1850 leaving his fortune to an English lady. Dr. Jones was sent for from England to attend Mr. Brettle. He gave him some medicine, a "white powder," and Mr. Brettle died in two hours. Sergeant Byles, who opened the case, said the effect of these statements was that persons in Paris believed that Dr. Jones had murdered Mr. Brettle. The defence wee, that the statements published were true. An attempt was made to substantiate the truth by evidence' medical witnesses were examined on both sides. It appeared that Mr. Brettle had been injured by a fall from a carriage, and that he suffered from delirium tremens. Dr. Jones gave him tartar emetic; that was the white powder; and the question whether that was fit medicine or not, caused much difference of opinion among the medical witnesses. The Jury found for the plaintiff—damages 1501. A very pretty case was tried before the Court of Exehequer on Thursday. The London Gas-light Company sued T. Kirk on four bills of exchange amounting to 2601. Kirk denied his liability, on the ground that the bills had been given to compromise a felony. Kirk had changed certain burners, thereby defrauding the gas company ; he was threatened with a prosecution, but an offer was made to let him off for 300/. ; he paid 60/. in money, and the bills for 2501. The defence set up for Kirk was that he had stolen the gas. The Jury seem to have thought he had, and they found a verdict for him. Mr. Baron Martin said it was his impression that the Gas Company had committed an indictable offence.

A Court of Error sitting in the Exchequer Chamber has affirmed the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench in the ease of Mansell versus the Queen in error. Mansell is a soldier convicted of murdering a comrade. The objection taken to the conviction rested on a technical point in tho proceedings at Maidstone. Mansell, therefore, now stands for execution.

The interminable British Bank case again came before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd on Wednesday. It was a meeting to receive the accounts of the Directors, but no accounts were ready. Mr. Iluddleston explained, that Mr. Stapleton had been unable to prepare a balance-sheet because several of the directors had fled the country; and he urged that no balance-sheets ought to be exacted until after the directors had been tried on the criminal charge made against thole—they ought not to be exposed to the liability of supplying evidence against themselves. Mr. Linkluter. eombated this view. He could not state what use would be made of the balance-sheets by the Attorney-General ; the trial would not come on till December. The Commissioner said, the balance-sheets must be filed in the usual way; he had nothing to do with the criminal charge. It was explained by Mr. Mason, that the " new " direotors—Gillott, Butt, and Hurst—are very anxious to file their balance-sheet, but the accountant had not yet been able to complete it. After hearing counsel for other directors, the Commissioner ordered that the balance-sheets be tiled on the 1st September. Mr. Linklater took the opportunity to make some explanations. Ten of the persons connected with the bank arc to be tried criminally ; Mr. Gillett is not one of these. Cameron was leaving France in custody while Mr. Linklater was addressing the court. No expense will fall on the creditors from the prosecution. A final dividend of 28, may be expected from the assets of the bank, making 10s. in all.

The Central Criminal Court was occupied on Friday and Saturday last in trying a ease of fraud which had some peculiar circumstances connected with it. John Hind May, William Taylor, and George David Myers, were charged with having conspired together to obtain by false pretences a large quantity of goods from Mr. Gorman and Mr. Lawson, anufacturers of cambric handkerchiefs at Lurgan in Ireland. It will be sufficient for showing the nature of the case to describe how Mr. Gorman suffered. Taylor acted as a commission-agent in London ; he offered to sell goods for Mr. Gorman, and the latter consented to forward handkerchiefs to the amount of 8471. Taylor wrote to Mr. Gorman that he had got a customer in May ; Mr. Gorman, having heard something of this man's bad character, would by no means accept him as a purchaser. Subsequently, Taylor stated that Messrs. Myers and Co. would purchase the goods ; Myers is a man of substance, and Mr. Gernaau forwarded the goods' intending that they should be sold to him. Taylor at first pretended that Myers had bought them ; but afterwards he sent a letter to Mr. Gorman containing a check for 1001., and at the same time stated that Myers and Co. repudiated the bargain, that May had turne 1 out an "out and out" villain, and that he had intercepted the goods and sold them, and run away with the money. The prosecutor, who up to this time had not the least idea that May had anything to do with his goods immediately came up to London, and going to the counting-house of Tailor, inquired of him how it happened that May had become possessed o the goods when he bad distinctly refused to accept him as the purchaser ? Taylor replied, that May had come to his warehouse and taken away the goods without his consent,. that he had in fact stolen them, and that he ought to be hanged. What really took place was this; Taylor and May, who were closely connected, opened the eases when they came from Ireland, and May set about selling the goods. Be offered them to several drapery houses in vain ; but at length he got purchasers in Messrs. Mocking and Co. of Holbornwho, for goods of the "manufacturing value" of 647/., gave only 409/: It would seem that Myers had at first really intended to purchase the goods ; it was not shown that he had anything to do with the sale of them to Meeking and Co. ; but he was exceedingly intimate with May, and after the sale May had paid into the banking account of Myers two checks for 501. and 100/. *Mr. Lawson's goods were also sold by May to bfeeking and Co. Sergeant Ballantine defended Taylor. In the course of his speech, he endeavoured to show that Taylor had done nothing more than any other honest broker in the city of London would have done ; and said he thought he bad good grounds for complaining that he should have been placed in his present position, while the Messrs. Mocking, who had purchased these goods so much under their real value, were salved over as respectable people. [This observation caused a burst of applause from persons in the court.] Be urged that there was no proof that Taylor had any of the money. A number of witnesses gave Taylor an excellent character. Mr. Robinson, for May, submitted that his behaviour should have come before the Bankruptcy Court rather than the Criminal Court. Mr. Hawkins, for Myers, contended that no case had been made out : Myers had defied Mr. German—would he have done that had he been guilty ? The prosecution was commenced to endeavour to extort from him the value of goods misappropriated by the other prisoners. Myers received a good character from many witnesses. In summing-up, Mr. Baron Channell said that Myers certainly stood in a different position from the other prisoners. The jun' acquitted Myers, but convicted May and Taylor ; they recommended Taylor to mercy on account of the good character he had received ; and they expressed an opinion that Meeking and Co. "had not exercised proper caution in purchasing the property under such circumstances." Baron Channell entirely concurred in the verdict. "He must also say, although it was not strictly, perhaps, any part of his duty to do so, that he concurred in the observation of the Jury, with reference to the conduct of Messrs. Meeking in purchasing these goods so much under their value ; and he did so because it was of importance mportance in a commercial city like this that all business transactions should be conducted with -honesty and fairness, and such a proceeding as this was calculated to strike at the root of all honest commercial transactions." The Judge sentenced Taylor to be imprisoned for six months, and May for twelve months.

James Geary, the young man who stabbed his newly-married wife in the neck, was convicted, and sentenced to six years' penal servitude.

An assault ease brought before the Thames Police Magistrate, on Tuesday, disclosed some disgusting facts. A Chinaman was fined for hitting a fellow countryman on the head with a hammer. In the course of the evidence, it appeared that at Bluegate Fields, Shadwell, a colony of Chinese of the vilest class have established themselves ; some keep brothels; upwards of fifty Chinese vagrants lodge with them ; these vagrants traverse the streets of London during the day, especially patronizing the West-end, and solicit alms. The apparently miserable Celestials collect a good deal of money in the daytime ; at night they return to Shadwell, become "jolly beggars," and associate with a number of English girls. Mr. Yardley said that this nest of infamy must be looked after closely by the Police, or it will become "a horrid pestilence" : it would not exist but for the mistaken benevolence of those who give money to Chinese mendicants.