The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1868, Page 4

EUROPE. The British Peers in Assault on Disraeli as a Reformer. His “Deceptions,” Insult to Parliament and “Endangering the Monarchy ‘and Aristocracy.” > The Cunard mail steamship China, Captain Hock- ley, which left Liverpool on the 14th at noon and Queenstown on the 15th, arrived at this port at an * early hour yesterday morning, bringing a mail report in detail of our cable despatches, one day later than the advices of the Allemania, published in the HERALD yesterday morning. By mail in England we have advices from Mong , Kong to February 1, Madras February 13 and Ceylon February 15. The Ceylon Odserver says that the health of the country is generally very good, but a heavy cloud still hangs over the unfortunate people of Seven Korles and other districts of the island where the- grain crops have failed, and it does not hear of gov- ernment taking any special steps to inquire as to how the threatened scarcity, if not famine, may be alleviated. ‘The Chinese rebels have, it is said, committed great atrocities in Shantung, and the country people have destroyed a large number of them. Thirty thousand are estimated to have perished in this way and by cold and hunger. Several daring acts of piracy have been perpetrated off the Saddie Islands, near , Shanghae. In Japan the Grand National Council of Daimios refused to meet while foreigners keep up such an ex- tensive fleet in Osaka Bay. “They say they are will- ing to grant everything in reason, but naturally ob- ject to being overawed and coerced into measures by the presence of so many men-of-war.” Admiral Keppel is reported to have decided on gradually withdrawing the British fleet to see if the Japanese are acting in good faith or not. ENGLAND. The Peace Society and the Alabama Cleims— American Consulate in Manchester—Stephen J. Meany’s Health, Adeputation from the Peace Society had waited on Lord Stanley. The object of the interview was to present a memorial from the society in favor of re- ferring to arbitration the questions pending between Great Britain and America, The late speech of Lord Stanley was spoken of by the Secretary of the Society as wise, calm, generous and conciliatory, and as adapted in every respect @ a salutary and lasting influence on the relations of the two countries. Lord Stanley, in reply, sayl that if the conciliatory dispo- sition of the government was met by a correspond- ing spirit on the part of the American government he had no doubt that the question would be settled. He congratulated the members of the Peace Society upon the fact that the principles they advocatea were becoming more popular and said it was now known. throughout Europe that the policy of Great Britain ‘Was a poticy ot peace, On the 11th inst. a pleasing tribute was paid to Mr. H.W. Lord, United States Consul in Manchester, Mr. Lord, after some years’ service in an office which he has filled with “much satistaction,” is about to retire. A farewell dinnerwas given to him by a number of Manchester gentlemen. The Mayor of Manchester presided and an address expressive of Cordial sentiments of*rriendship was presented to Mr. Lord. Mr. Lord, who was received with pro- Jonged applause, thanked the Mayor ana the framers of the address for the very flattering manner in which they had spoken of him. Among the toasts given were the “Queen and President,” “Peace and pros- bred to the United States,” “The commerce of the United States,” &c. Mr. Stephen J. Meany, who was sentenced to fif- teen years’ penal servitude for the manifestations of treason-felony in his speeches delivered at New York, is said to have so failed in health that he had Ddeen removed from his prison in London to a sani- tary station in the country. irs. Meany, it is reported, had received a letter from the Home Otlice, in London, informing her that her husband would be sent out of the country on bia that he promises never again to return Mr, Disraeli nas a Keformer—The Premier’s Famous Speech and Kadicai Claims in Edine burg—The Premier “ Educating” Parline ment and Revolutionizing the Monarchy and Aristocracy. In the House of Lords, on the 13th instant, the Duke of Argyll rose, in pursuance of the notice he had given, to ask her Majesty ernment whether ‘their attention had been called to the inconveniences arising out of the rate-paying clauses of the Reform act of 1557, and whether any measure was in con- templation for the removal of them. The noble duke said the question was one which referred to a sub- ject of great i st and importance, both politically and soc inconveniences to which the ques- tion referred had become so serious and were cutting 80 deeply into the spirit and temper of the people in many of the great cities of this country that under any circumstances it would e been necessary at a very & period to call the attention’ of the House to the evils which had arisene But he would not deal candily with the House if he did not admit at once that he had given this notic than he had tu ring to the test in statements on the ‘ntly been publicly made by the First » Crown. He must be permitted to he recollection of the House the cl candor of cer Which had re: i c Were usual in the calm and almost ju here of their lordships’ House, but in tern in his opin t more severe than t just and . confidence in the « policy on the subject been a_polic of deceit. TI uke opposite, tie Lord Presi dent of the ( Duke of Marlborough), made h in the course of which he said that Ww What his noble friend meant or what joined by referring t Prime Minis- ter, then Chancellor of the Ex: at Edinburg, in which it was generally understood that that right honorable ge jared that during seven years he had he conservative party to pass a measure, the principal feature of which Was the adoption of the borough franchise which was Suggested by Mr. Bright. To that rejoinder of his r frie Was made from the benches op- ing so, the Prine Minister was in- If to the ordinary channeis of » Which was a parliamentary para- ug to the editors of the newspapers. te did not know that any serious blame could attach to the nobie lord opposite for not having repiled to that speech, Thi were three members of the gov- ernment who had nm introduced into the gov. ernment of Lord Derby under what might be called ‘the conscience clause after the religious instruction had and for whom nothing remained but the secular education of that lay teaching sch He did not think that they were called usta reply to the sp 1 of his noble friend. The Lord Privy Seal (the Earl of Ma mesbury), however, had Deen an original member of the sovernment, and Rad gone through the religious instruction of which they had heard so much, but he supposed that his noble friend had found that teaching powe e attributed to him of which he was 4 Conscious; and he was not surprised, therefore, that the noble earl made no further reference tothe speech at Edin- burg. He would not say anything more upon. the pos tion in which the conservative party were placed that speech. The conservative party was about the most good natured party in the world (a laugh), for he was quite sure that if any such speech had been made hy any cousiderabie member of the Liberal vets in which he said that that party had been schooled and taught by its leaders into a course of policy which they did not intend, they shoud have not one but half a dozen caves of “Adullam full of justly indignant and discontented men. The honor of the conservative pas was in their own keeping; but there were other parties interested in proceeding. * * * * Mr, Disraeli himself— bringing in his Reform bill of 1859, when it was his object to refuse any lowering of the franchise founded upon either rental or rating, gaid:— “There 18 @ wish—I should once have said @ very ual Wish—that instead of a household suffrage unded upon value, it shall be founded by prefer- ence on rating. J am not at all surpaised that more than one honorable er has received this ob- servation with marks of assent and sympathy. I confess that I was once much biassed in favor of that idea. It appears to me that if you could, to ‘use a common phrase, make the rate book the regis- ter, you would very much simplify the business of an election. But when you come to examine this matter tn detail to see how it will act, ire will find that it 1s involved in dificulties, great, all acknowledge, and I ain sorry to be obliged to confess to my mind’ insur- Mountable. For the purpose of securing the advan- tage of having the rate book the register, you must of course leave perfect disoretion to the overseer, The overseer has an interest in raising the rates, ae may say, or he may be @ very hot litical partisan. Are you prepared to leave the overseer the absolute discretion of ap- Pointing those who are to exercise the # rage? But eyen beyond this there are othe: GiMeulties Whiet you Wii) find most perplexipg. Notwithstanding the Pardehlg] Agsossment Fating of this comntry,ia niost unéé hat, aud ine ii ‘Whose whose business it has been to exam! on this com 1 Ting life as I find it.’ ie was too life a8 we had hitherto been accustomed to find it in the English Parliament. No one was more willing than he was to admit that all their opinions were liable to be biassed by the position in which they were placed. Some opinions they were obliged to modify under the responsibility of office; others they might be tempted to intensify in the heat of opposition. But hitherto the great political of this count had at least manfully avowed the for whic they were contending, and not less manfully had they avowed the objects for which they had ci to contend. | Theso attempts bamboozle a Pariiament nd to detude the peo} new history fhe English Parliament, and he sald that they ten- ded to degrade the noble contests of public life— (hear, hear)—and the honorable rivalries of political ambition. (Hear, hear.) He did not believe that the eople were really deceived. He believed that they new perfectlf well that this account of the reform contest which the First Minister of the Crown has ven them was wholly inaccurate and entirely un- justified by the facts of the case. But he grieved to ‘observe that people were more amused than shocked, and that they were beginning to consider these things as the ordinary tricks of professional politicians. (Loud cheers.) On the eve of @ Parliament to ye elected by household suffrage, was this the example that they were to give to those whom they were accustomed to call the lower classes of this country? He rejoiced that the tones of moral indignation, which were healthy ones, even though they shouid be stiiled and suppressed elsewhere, yet found an echo in the Housce of Peers. They could come from no man better than from his noble friend (Earl Russell). In the course of a long and illustri- ous public career, a career which would be remem- red when most of them were torgotten, the noble earl might sometimes have changed his course or modified his opinions; but he had always manfully avowed those changes and explained their reasons. He (the Duke of Argyll) for one, would not eccept public life on the conditions on which the First Mihe ter of the Crown offered it to them, at least not with- out observation and without protest. (Cheers.) He now asked her Majesty’s government what measures they proposed to take to remedy the at evils and inconveniences which had resulted from a course which he believed they had adopted from nothing but a desire to hide and to conceal from the people of this country the great and revolutionary change which had taken place in their opinions and ideas, (Hear, hear.) The Lord Chancellor said:—The noble duke who has just resumed his seat has addressed to your lord- ships a speech dealing with two subjects dif. ferent in their nature. One part of his speech i may term personal; and to that, with your lordships’ pee mission, I will for a moment defer my reply. The other part of his speech, which I venture to think py far the more important, related to the Reform act of last session, and to its effects, so far as we are ac- quate with them, upon the rating and ratepayers of the country. * * # Nosooner had the government which the Prime Minister had been called upon to form been completed and its various members ti their seats than up rose the noble earl and adc your lordships. “Confidence,” said he, “in such a government! Ican feel no confidence whatever in them any way, because they have confessed them- selves, through the mouth of the Prime Minister, that they, the leaders of the conservative party, through a series of years were furthering a design to intro- duce and to pass a measure which all the while they were persuading their own supportérs to op- pose.” And the noble earl said, “Talk of conduct like that! It is not conduct which would be pursued, I will not say merely by great and illustrious men like Mr, Fox, Lord Grey and Lord Althorpe, buteven by minor and comparatively insignijicant men, like Mr, Pitt, the Duke of Welling- ton and Sir R. Peel. (Earl Russell made a gesture of dissent.) The noble eari denies the statement. Now, an lords, 1 have got the report, and the noble earl will tell me whether it Is accurate or not. He says, as to the comparison with bygones, ‘That is a course of conduct, I must say, which not only men like Mr. Fox, Earl Grey and Lord Althorpe would have spurned, but which men like Mr. Pitt, Sir K. Peel, and the Duke of Wellington would have disdained to adopt.” (Cheers.) But, my lords, there is a much more important point. ‘fhe charge of the noble earl against the Prime Minister is a charge which, if it be well founded, is one relevant to make even in your lordships’ house; and 1 can show your lordships that the noble duke has ppeeniocaly retreated from that charge, and asked your lordships to entertain and foliow him through’ another discussion, friend the Lord President expressed a wisli for an Se opera as to some words which rell froin the noble earl, and the noble earl said:—“ If the noble duke wishes to know what I mean, | am referring to e si] made by the present Prime Minister at Edinburg, in which the course} taken by the govern- ment was not called a course of deception; it was not called, as Mr. Disraeii called the government of Sir Robert Peel, a hypocrisy—it was called a process of education, But the use of that word does not pre- vent the fact being quite ciear, which the present First Lora of the ‘Treasury did not attempt to excuse or apologize for; that for seven years, during which the fears of the country had been excited respecting the reduction of the franchise, against which Mr. Dis- Taeli protested in the House of Commons; during the whole of that time he had been educating his party with a view to bring about a much wider and greater reduction of the franchise—what he would at one time have called a greater degradation of the fran- chise—than any of his opponents would have passed.” Now, 1 ask, is that stated accurately—is it the case? Observe the point of it. It is not a question whether that is what the right honorable gentieman did or not, Witt whether Mr. Disraeli at Edinburg said that he did it. The noble earl goes on, “Of course I have no confidence in a govern: ment which confesses that for a series of years ny intended to bring forward a measure which they had opposed, a government the Prime Minister of which confesses that during that sev ars he had been educating his party with a view to bring about reater reduction of the franchise than was ever before proposed.” The noble duke entirely ignores the charge, and the noble earl docs not substantiate it. The noble duke takes a new issue, and asks the House to consider not whether the statement made by the noble earl was correct, but whether a wholly different statement which the Prime Minister has thought necessary to put before the country as to what he said at Edinburg was correct or not. The question is whether it is a well founded charge which tne noble earl made against him, and whether that government, through the First Minister of the Crown stood confessed that it had pursued such conduct. defy the noble carl to substantiate it. I indignantly deny the statement of the noble carl that anything of the kind was said at kdinburg. (Hear, hear.) The nobie duke became extremely fervid and eloquent about the tricks of politicians and the honor of your lordships’ house. I rejoice to think that in your lordships’ house accuracy of statement has aiways been regarded as it ought to be. (Cheers) 1 think, therefore, that before any member of the House makes a charge against the First Minister of the Crown, who cannot be here to retut it, to the effect that he made at Edinburg a partic state- ment which would have the result of depriving his government of confidence, he ought at least to be satisfied that such a statement was made. (Che ) Earl Ki —My lords, there can be no dou whatever that the case of the First Minister of the Crown has been intrusted toa very able and very skilful advocate, The noble and learned lord was not a member of the Cabinet which brought forward the reform bill in ite altered shape last year, but lie has made a kind of speech which we all used to ad- mire when delive in the Court of Chaucery, full of ingenious argument, fall of learning and acquaintance with details, therefore worthy My nobie of ‘your Jordships’ attention; but 1 will say that neither one part nor the other of the argument of my nobie friend turns on the di and neither in the part wgich he considers the I important, but which I consider the most important, nor in the other part, has he at all shaken the arguments of my noble friend the noble duke, * * * Jn these days, when the debates of the House of Commons are printed in every daily newspaper, and when they are read by the whole country, we cannot, 1 think, pretend to ignore what has been said in the other House—I| mean in its general effect, th we can- hot depend on the particular words that in some cases are reported, king, then, into the reports of the daily ieee oO ich are afterwards em- bodied in the volumes of Hansard, we find that on the third reading of the Reform bill last year Lord Cranborne made @ most indignant hin which he satd that all the materials of which pat fo dence was composed had been destroyed that it Would be impossible to depend upon what a rern- ment ora party said. He observed that when one Party prociaimed @ certain We and another party said they would resi that inciple and Propose another course; if tmm ly after that party came into office they threw aside ali that they had professed for years, there would be an end to all confidence in parties and public men and an entire change in the constitution of the country, (Cheers.) Mr. Lowe followed In the de- bate, and said that he had been in frequent and, as he supposed, confidential communication with the heads of the’ government during the time they were independent of omce; that he had always understood that they resisted the lowering of the £10 franchise, on the ground that they were o| to anything like what they call the degradation of that franchise, and that he had relied upon the continuance of thelr Opposition. ‘The Chancellor of the Exchequer spoke F that, but do not find that he repudiated any- thing of that ki I do not find that he said, “Such Were our opinions and such is our belief, but we found ourselves opposed to an immense majority of the people who require reduction of the franchise, and 80 We yielded.” If such been his language I ceriainily should have been dis- posed to respect it. J can understand a great man ike the Duke of Wellington coming forward and openty and avowedly saying 1 have always opposed the introduction of Roman Catholics to Parliament and to office; but there is danger of clvil war. Sooner than risk that danger I would willingly give my life, and I'willingly assent to what I originally opposed. 1 could also per: fectly well understand Sir Robert Peel when a met ure was proposed which he had reaistell, but whic Was in perfect conformity with the principles of free trade, of which he was the great advocate ond de- fenter—I could perfectly well ‘Understand hin say- ing, ‘The state of the country is such that I find Myself obliged to yield upon this question.” But the Chancellor of the Exchequer said nothing of the kind, #0 fer as I can trace in the records of his speectits» | flnd that he had said in issv—seven a YY ‘one bropost might and unwise in politics; but it is a fect: ble one, I therefore concluded from Mr. not hay defended himself and te are or against a Cai nich made a speec! Gross power this House, in whic! he discl od tr imself the suspicion that all the time he was speaking against a reduction of the franchise he had made uD his mind to vote for a still greater reduction, and who, to prove his sincerity, ve uP the seals of the Colo Department—I say could not, in the absence of any contradiction is quite it. Mr, Edinburg, Evening country, phrase—to educate our party. It is a large party, and it requires much Atlentitn and some OreMsUTe, Thad to pre; the minds of Parliament and of this country for the question of reform.” If I was snity of misunderstanding that language, I was guilty with the whole country. (Loud cheers.) If the riglit hon- orable gentleman had to educate the country, and if his party required some pressure, It could not be upon the five points mentioned in his letter. As my noble friend has shown, it would not any pressure at all to adopt those points, but it did require some = to induce them to adopt that reduction of he franchise against which they had for so many ‘3 violently protested. (Cheers.) I must ir. Disraoli was mist rstood, I think it was perianae in me, and in many others. (Chocem: I must now advert for a few moments to ‘hose five points. In the first place he tells us that one of them was that the measure should be “complete; but “complete”? a measure could Not be without a satisfactory redistribution of seats; and I do not think that the government are vi fortunate in the making a final settlement of that matter. The next pols was that the representation of no place should be entirely abrogated. Now, 1 agree that except there is a very strong case of pub- lic necessity the disfranchisement of a represented borough is not justiflable. Bat when you had to deal'with places as they were dealt with in 18% when my noble friend proposed to disfranchis other places last year, I think that such ep 0 justifiable. But when the First Lord of the 'Treasur} introduces this article as one of those upon which his party had to be educated, I suppose that it is one of the principles upon which the government mean tostand. (Cheers.) 1 pass on to the last point, tiat the borough franchise should be establisiied on the earn of rating. The proposition me: ittle initself. A rating of £8 is really equi @ rental of £10. Or, again, when we proposed in 1852 a 25 renial, we proposed what was equivaient to arental of £6 or £7. ‘Thus the rigit honorable gentieman’s polnt might mean any one of three entirely different propositions, It might be equivaient to the old £10 rental, or a rental of £5 or £6, or to a rental of 10s, or 6s., or nothi It does not therefore contain any declaration of princi- ple; it is merely an elastic sort of principle upon which any practical proposition might be founded. Only to think! The late First Lord of the Treasury, Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli, and the Lord Privy Seal, educating their party to accept the principle of rating, which might be simply another way of ex- pressing the £10 franchise! ne idea is so ridiculous that Ican hardly suppose Mr. Disraeli was serious when he told his Edinburg Jriends that that was the principle which he meant to adopt. (Che There are two views in which this matver may be regarded, One—which I rather believe to have been the true one—is, that his own opinion, and the opinion of Lord Derby and his colleagues (except, of course, the three who separated from the governmeut), was that there should be a considerable reduction of the fran- chise; that they would even go as low as household suffrage; but that they did not give out that opinion generally, but instilled it gradually into the minds of their party, not without some pressure, as Mr. Disraeli says, with a view that it should be ultimately adopted. But there is another view, which is a far more serious matter than the question of rating, which the noble lord on the woolsack thinks more important. That view is that their decided opinion upon a great question of state, involving a great organic change in the constigution of this coun- try, has been deliberateyy sacrificed for the mainten- ance of office and power. (Cheers.) Now I will tell your lordships what Mr. Disraeli said in 1865:—Al- though we did in 1359, to a certain extent, agree to some modification of the £10 franchise, I confess that my present opinion is opposed to that course. It is a question between aristocratic government in the proper sense of the term—that Is to say, a gov- ernment by the best men of all classes—and demo- cracy. tis well that the House, before it comes to a vote, should consider that the real issue is between the present constitution and democracy.” I shouid like to know whether that is the opinion which the present Prime Minisier holds at this moment. (Cheers.) It was not an opin- ion formed suddenly, but formed after he for thirty years taken a prominent part in the debates of Parliament. It was not aa opinion formed with- out that consideration which the present Prime Min- ister is no doubt so well able to give. The passage I have read was followed by one of the most eloquent to be found in any speech made in Parliament by any of the great men of former generations. It isa de- scription of what must follow if this country should be ruined, The right honorable gentleman said that France or Germany might apparently be overthrown, and yet either might recover; but he said that if this country ever fell it could never again rise or regain its former prosperity and power. Now, I want to know whether that is the opinion of the Prime Minister at this moment. Because if itis he has done amuch graver thing—he has committed a much graver of- Jence—than if he had concealed his opinions for a time with a view to educate his party and to bring round its opinions to his own, (Cheers.) For what has hedone? For the sake of this prize, or he sake of retaining office for two or three years, he has endan- gered what he calis the aristocratic constitution af the country, but what is in fact a monarchy founded upon the aristocracy and democracy. He has done alin his power, according to his own opinion, to change that constitution into a pure democracy. ‘That is not my opinion, I do not think the act of last year will produce any such effect. (Cheers.) But the right honorabie gentleman entertained the opinion that it would—an opinion formed aiter many engaged in political life. In 1865 he deli ed that opinion in Parliament, and he afterwards repeated it at his election for the county of Buckingham, A graver responsibility was never incurred by any Never was there a wo bargain made by any in of this country. (Loud cheers.) ‘The iL of MALMESBURY said the discussion was years alw: bay that if one the like of which he lad never belore heard in that House, and the lke of which he trusted he should never hear again, Generally speaking their lordships kept strictly to the subject of debate, and they did not bring forward one thing when they were retending to bring forward another. (Cheers.) The noble Earl in conclusion vindicated the conduct of ministers, and argued that they had only at last succeeded In settling the reform ques- tion by treating it no longer as one of party, but by consulting the House of Commons itself on the sub- ject of Ms own reconstruction. The result was that the bill which had been passed was far more the work of the Commons than of her Majesty's govern- ment. If the sure inflicted a hardship upon a certain class of occupiers he was sure it would be considered and redressed; and with that end in view the matter was,being investigated by a committee g ihe other House. Did Disraeli Shake Hauds With the Lord Chan- cellor =A Grand Cabinet Question, [From the London Post, Mareh 14.) We understand that the paragraph which we quoted from the Pall Mall Gazette, stating that @ re- conciliation had taken place between Lord el ford and Mr. Disraeli, was incorrect. The ex-Lord Chancellor still feels himself aggrieved by the Pre- mnier’s treatment; and the report of is having shaken hands with Mr. Disraelt is untrue. He has not seen the Prime Minister since the day he went w Usborne fo resign the Great Seal. Application to Imprison Sir Robert Peel. [From the London Post, March 14.) On Thursday the application was renewed before Vice-Chancellor Malins to commit Sir Kobert Peel to prison for refusing to render the accounts of Tam- worth School, The Charity Commissioners wi the demand made for the accounts by the inhabitants of Tamworth, on the ground that the funds had been aha administered. Sir Robert Peel fied an affidavit that the income of the property had been de- voted to school pul es. Messrs. Cotton and Keke- wich, on the part of the defendant, protested against the application to commit a member of Parliament to |. prison, instead of the usual motion for sequestration, which was the only course open, The argument was concluded yesterday, when the Vice-Chancellor gave judgment. He said the Charity Commissioners ‘would have done better if, inst of making an gication which involved the personal liberty of ste bert Peel, they had in the latter part of 1867 caused an infor! jon to be filed in order to have it decided whether the property wasor was not goes devoted to the purposes of charity. Until that ques- tion had been decided his honor was of opinion that he had no jurisdiction in the matter, and the motion must be ‘afutnissed. Costs were given against the plaintitts, A QUEER Lawsust.—The Dansville (N. Y.) Brpreas is responsible for the following:—One day last week a lawsuit took place before Justice McCartney, the casein point being Charles Ackly against Michael O’Heara. The action was bronght for use of room, lights, fuel, meals, &c., while defendant was “sparking” his Lucinda at plaintif’s house. The rosecut showed defendant was at 9 house from three tu five nights In a weck and usually oe wae oe te S the moi and sometimes er breakfast thet he borned his lights ‘and wood and used his room, and naturally concladed) we take it, that aa he had ail the fun to be derived frot “sparking” at such late hours he ought to pay for the privilege. ‘The case was exceedingly amusing, and of course attracted a large crowd of the “aparking” fraternity, who were tuterested pecuntartly in the result of the action brought, as it might set recedent whereby they might be called ori to “fork over’ a liberal allowance for lights and fuel tf for nothing else, and they felt materially relieved, no doubt, when the Justice rendered lus verdict of “no cquse for action.” NEW YORK CITY. THE COURTS. e UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT. ‘The Chicago and Rock Island Railroad Liti- gation. Before Judge Blatchford. Rufus Hatch vs, The Chicago, Rook Island and Pacije Ratlroud Company.—After a few introductory observations by Mr. O’Conor in reference to some passages in the discussion of the previous day, the legal arguments were yesterday morning resumed in this case, Mr. Burrill "proceeded to sustain the plaintiff's case. He contended that his client, Mr. Hatch, the plaintiff, being the owner of seventy-five thousand shares, did represent the company. It had been alleged that the capital stock of the consolidated company in April, 1867, should be fourteen millions of dollars, whereas he contended that there were about eleven millions of those shares never issued at all. It never was the intention of the directors of the consolidated Soa to extend the road one mile beyond the city of Moines toward lowa, and he would undertake to satisfy the court that no such intention ever existed on the part of those directors. The whole project to extend the road to the Missouri river was held in profound secresy from the shareholders of this corporation. He prayed the court to restrain the directors from issuing an extension of $5,000,000 on any project whatever, and to impound those 49,000 shares so often re- ferred to. He would undertake to satisfy the court that it should interpose its authority and restrain the directors in the issue of shares or the raising of an increase of capital whether the legality or illegality of their action should be established. It was stated that the Executive Committee of the direc- tors of this consolidated company were five in num- ber, namely, Messrs. Durant, Cooke, Grant, Tracy and Dow; but he would undertake to satisfy the court that John F, Tracy held the entire management, direction and control of the corporation, irrespective of the presence or influence of any other person. The issue of those forty-nine thousand shares was a secret issue, and they were all thrown upon the market on one day, and thereby, as counsel charged, perpetrat- ing a fraud and enabling Tracy and Durant to realize large sums by their short sales and carry out the system, as counsel asserted, of fraud and falsehood by which they reaped large profits. Mr. Dow, in reply to an affidavit of Mr. Johnson, made a remarkable statement, that when asked as to the amount of the capital stock of the company he stated that he had entirely forgotten the 49,000 shares on that occasion when he was speaking with Mr. Johnson on the subject of the capital stock of the corporation, After tise 49,000 shares had been thrown upon the market, those five gentlemen of the Executive Committee refused to give a word of in- formation on the subject; they refused to show their books, and those books were not be found either in New York or Chicago, or in the State of Illinois, ‘They kept all things secret, they made misrepresenta- tions, and the stockholders of the corporation were kept in obscurity and ignorance on the question of their property, and refused all explanation by those gentlemen of the Executive Cominittee, or rather by Mr. John F. ‘tracy himself alone. He removed those books, he closed the transfer books and removed all those out of the way, and beyond the jurisdiction of the State; he appointed a new secretary and treasurer, without the concurrence or the slightest Knowledge on the part of the share- holders of the corporation. And he would ask, was a board of directors to meet when and where they pleased, and hold their deliberations and execute their own designs outside the jurisdiction of the State in which the headquarters of the corporation is situated, and do all things as they pleased, with- out the supervision of their shareholders and inde- pendent of law? The learned gent‘eman then read sections from the statute on railroads and exiracts from decisions bearing on the case, according to his view of things as they stand on the present motion, and continued, contending that this was notan lowa corporation, ‘fhe New York Legislature might as weil attempt to legislate with respect to this corpora- tion and declare it illegal as for the lowa Legislature to declare that this stock was valid. No one could pretend that there was any power in the Legislature of the State of lowa over the property of this corpo- ration, except over so much of it as lay in that State. This company could not issue any more stock than it was entitled to issue prior to the consolidation of both companies, Counsel called attention to the case of Black, cited on the motion to remand, a case in which a coporation was formed under the laws of Indiana and Ohio, Such a corporation, according to a learned judge, could not have any legal existence in a State except by the laws of the State. ‘The manner in which the bill had been procured by the directors in the Legisla- ture of lowa to legalize their actions showed, said the learned counsel, that they were anxious to do something to protect themseives in any manner they could, Counsel then adverted to the question of the removal of the books of the company from New York. It was done, he stated, without the consent of the Executive Committee, and the testimony went to show that Mr. Tracy had attended a meeting of the Executive Committee and had caused the books to Temoved by the secre- tary. He contended that Tracy never con- suited his confreres with respect to the affairs of the company, and seemed to do with them just what he pleased, ‘This was an action brought by parties representing the shareholders to investigate the con- duct of the Board of Directors. While Mr. Burrill was stating the eserrged of jurisdiction of the court Mr. O’Conor said that there Was an utter Want of capacity in the court to give relief with respect to the alleged illegalities compiained of by the plaintiit, Mr, Bur- rill said that they were not seeking to punish this corporation for any alleged criminal offence. They were merely seeking to recover property, and if he were now in the courts of Iowa he could not get the relief his Honor could give them, Suppose he went to lowa; he would only find a freight depot and a road; but he found no board of directors there—no President there. Then he might be told to go to Illi- nois, But there was no board of directors there either, And was he to be told that the laws of the State could not reach the board, who, at William street, in New York city, conducted the business of the company? He denied that, because a corporation was creaied in the State of fowa, where ithad no property, it could not be reached in angther State, Where its business was conducted and its board of directors sat and heid their meetings. ‘The arguments had not coneluded at the rising of the court. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. The Sherry Wine Trinl—Disagreement of the Jury. . Before Judge Blatchford. At half-past twelve the Marshal came into court and intimated to Judge Blatchford that the jury de- sired to be summoned before him, that body having been locked up all night. The Judge ordered them to be brought into court and asked them if they had agreed to a verdict. The foreman answered no; that every argument had been exhausted, and there was not the slightest probability of an agreement. Another juror said there was not the least chance of agreement, and a third said that were he kept in for a year it would not change his opinion. A juror was about to explain the diiference of opinion between them and how the case stood, but the Jadge inter- posed and said it was impor fora juror to make any statement of the kind, and then ordered that the jury should retire. The Marshal then reconducted them back to their room. At half-past two o'clock the Jury came into court a second time and stated to the Judge that they could not agree. Judge Blatchford accordingly dischar; them. The jury stood six for the claimants and five for the government, one juror being absent from in- disposition. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. The Stuyvesant Divorce Case at Reference. Theodore Stuyvesant vs, Adelaide Stuyvesant.—The examination of witnesses on the part of the defend- ant in this case, in denial of the allegations charged against the defendant, is still proceeding before the referee to whom the trial of the issues was referred by the court, Testimony has been given by Mr. Boyran Poh denying every charge ie by other witnesses, Mr. Stuart, Jr., counsellor-at-law, deposed that after the complaint had been filed by the plaintiff? he saw Mrs. Stuyvesant at the plaintiff's office at dinner. Edwin James and George Shea for Mrs. Stuyvesant; Messrs, Phillips and Tomlinson for the plaintii, COURT CALENDAR—THIS DAY. Supreme Covrt—Circvuit.—Part 2—Nos. 3736, 4044, 4006, 4216, 4238, 4354, 1568, 1890, 1936, 2402, 2562, 2104, 3026, 8116, 3160, 3176, 3238, 3242, 3272, 3320, 3608, od 8678, b> pa ah tan test lige aoUraante COURT—CHAMBERS.—Nos. 26, 70, 96, 98, 107, 185, 107, 200, 241. Pd Count—SPRCIAL TERM.—Nos. 09, 146, 187, SUPERIOR Court—Triat TERM.—Part 2—Nos, 8852, 3906, 3912, 0914, 3016, 3918, 3920, 3922, 3924, 2026, 3028, 3030, 3932, 3034, 3936, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Bod ROBBERY OF TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS IN Cnuecks.—On Monday last George Jenkins, alias Wheeler, & young Bostonian, and two other men, whose names are unknown, accosted Mr. Francisco J. Cartissoz, as he was superintending the loading of a truck in front of his store No. 39 Peck slip, when Jenkins asked him if he knew a man named Wilson, and propounded other irrelevant questions, In a few moments Jenkins aires away, leaving his com- anions conversing with Mr. Cartissoz, and, as is jewed, ran up irs in the office and stole from the desk drawer $10,000 in certified checks on various city banks, and $17 in Treasury notes, with which he returned to the the walk, and beckoning to a man on the opposite side of the street, gave hima package. The cng he walked pate / and so did Jenkins; but before the lat- ter was far distant Mr. Cartissoz missed his checks ‘and money, when aT ig chase and succeeded in overtaking him, Jen! but ey failed rpose. Jenkins was taken before Justice ‘and ‘committed to the Tombs for trial in default of $10,000 ball. SHaRP TRANSACTION.—Joseph Durand, @ merchant, doing business at 24 Broadway, was brought before Justice Hogan, at the Tombs, yesterday afternoon by oficer Keirns, of the First precinct, on a charge of grand larceny preferred against him by Alexander Kennedy, a broker, of 25 Broad street. yom the af- fidavit in the case it appears that on Tuesday last Mr. Kennedy called on tf risoner, having with him four drafts of the value 613 44, which the latter agreed to take and pay Mr. ennedy, 659 44, then due, for the payment of which sum he held the drafts as security or mai Mr. Kennedy handed Durand the drafts in faith, and upo! him for a certified check, velope, which the broker believed contained drafts, but on m: an examination only dupli- cates of three of the drafts were discovered, which are of no value whatever, Being unable to obtain his money or the drafts, Mr, Kennedy was left no alternative but to make a charge of larce! t the defendant. Mr. Durand, who is thirty-nine years of age and @ native of South America, was com- mitted to the Tombs for trial in default of $15,000 bail, He pleaded not guilty to the charge preierred against him, : CITY INTELLIGENCE, INTERNAL REVENUE DEPARTMENT—SEIZURES.— Yesterday afternoon Deputy Collector Purdy, of the Eighth district, seized the rectifying establishment of Hughes, Adair & McAllister, Twenty-seventh street, near Eighth avenue, for alleged violation of the Revenue law. Collector Shook, of the Thirty- second district, has seized 481 bales of Alabama cot- toi in this city, by direction of Deputy Commissioner Aarignd, on ee icion that it was removed from the State in which it was produced on fraudulent per- mits, Two hundred and eighty-one baies were found on the piér, and the remaining two hundred bales were on storage. PROPOSED GRANT Mass MEETING.—The Exccutive Committee of the General Grant Club met at their headquarters, Broadway, corner of Twenty-third street, last evening to perfect arrangements for hold- ing a large mass meeting at the Cooper Institute on the evening of April 9, the anniversary of the surrender of General Lee. &. Delafield Smith occupied the chair, Owing to some misunderstanding relative to the holding of the meeting, the attendance was limited. Mr. Rufus Andrews assured the committee that General Ingersoll, Governor Har- , of New Hampshire, General Sickies and Governor Ogiesby,: of Illinois, had promised to be reseni at that time and address the popuiace. ‘The ‘Treasurer of the committee desired that they adjourn until Tuesday night; that the prominent members be notified; that they might be interested to that extent ‘as to aid them pecuularily, ‘The Treasury was de- pe money was Wanting, debts were avcumu- ating and relief must be had. This motion was carried, and soon after the Grant headquarters were slient. UNWHOLESOME PorkK.—The returns from the Fifth police precinct, signed by Sergeant Washington Mullin, contained the following item yesterday moruing:—“At an early hour this morning informa- tion was received at this staton that two truck loads of one hundred and flity unsound hogs had beon taken into the pork packing establishment cor- ner of Hudson and Leonard strects. Roundsman Du Bois was sent to ascertain the facts. When the third load, some fifty hogs, arrived it was tmmediately seized and taken to this station by the officer. Ser- geant Thompson, of the sanitary squad, was notilled, who took charge of the whole loi, numbering some two hundred hogs, all in a very bad condition.” Locomotives FOR THE CENTRAL PaciFio RAt- ROAD.—Yesterday the Prima Donna, of the Com- stock line, for San Francisco, was being loaded at pier 21 East river with four locomotives and a large quantity of railway material and stores for the Central Pacilic Raitroad, the works of which are now being vigorously pushed forward. The Magnet, for the same destination with further consignments, will leave in the course of a fortnight, VALUABLE PRIVILEGES TO THE SECOND AVENUB RaILRoaD.—The Councilmanic Committee on Rail- roads met yesterday afternoon in the Vity Hall and adopted a resolution directing the Clerk to prepare a report to be submitted to the Board of Councilmen, in favor of permitting the Second Avenue Railro: Company to lay switches, side-tracks and turnouts, in certain streets up town. A motion in favor of permitting all the city railroad companies w use Sait on their switches Was laid over for further con- sideration, AUCTION AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS.—The office of the property clerk at police headquarters was yester- day the scene of ong of those sales which occasion- ally take place of the old clothes, pistols, hammers ‘and @ multitude of other conceivable and inconceiv- able things whieh fall into the hands of the police in the course of their wanderings through the streets of the city, The assembiage was by no means of the most fashionable or aristo- cratic order, nor were the tongues of the ladies conspicuous by their silence. Tuey—the ladies not the tongues, came from the Fourth ward and many places in the vicinity, including Baxter street and the Five Points, to speculate, and were eager in their biddings to catch possession of anything that may yieid a profit upon its third or fourth sale. Two horses, very weak looking about the knees, were knocked down—no joke intended—the one, the more delicate and consumptive looking of the two, for $20 and the other for $50. The buyer paid down the money and helped the animals home to their future residence. A large number of revolvers brought Broadway retail prices. The proceeds of the sule amounted to about $1,200, PRorosED EXPERIMENTAL TRIP ON THE ELEVATED RaiLwa.y—Yesterday the directors of this under- taking decidedgon making an experimental trip on 3d of April over the completed section of this line, between Castle Garden end of Greenwich street and Liberty, and it is understood that several Members of Assembly, the Mayors and Corporations of New York, Brooklyn, New Jersey and scientific men Will be invited to be present nd the occasion. _ Rescur oF A Pitor Boat.—Yesterday the New York Submarine Company succeeded in raising the pilot boat Edmund Blunt and bringing her up to this port from Staten Island, Not MEMBERS.—The two young men, named Peter Cullen and John Daly, recently arrested charged with breaking into the premises 101 Bayard street on the night of the 15th inst., and stealing therefrorn ready made clothing valued at $200, are not members of the social club Known as the “Franklin Stars."” Howse Or REFUGE, RANDALL’S ISLAND.—The forty- third annual report of the managers of the Seciety for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents has just been published, and shows a very satisfactory state of affairs, for which the officers of the House of Re- fuge on Randall’s Island and the members of the society deserve to be highly commended. The whole number of children received into the house since its opening in 1826 is 12,276; number of children in the house on the ist of January, 1867, 971; number re- ceived during 1867, 804, making a total of 1,775; and of these 779 were either indentured or discharged during the year, leaving 906 in house on the Ist January, 1868, 748 were white boys, 186 white girls, 45 colored boys, and 17 colored girls. As regards nationality the ih were in a@ majority, and next them come the Americans, while Austria, Prussia, and Italy are each represented by & unit. ‘Twenty-seven wy committed for grand larceny, twelve for burglary, one for forgery and one for rape. ‘The remainder were in either fur vagrancy or petit larceny. The average age was thirteen years and wa months, and, remarkable to state, the majority them had both parents living; while the number of that class from which it would be expected the young delinquents would come—that is, orphans who have lost both parenta—is but seventy-nine out of the whole total, SUSPENSION OF PUBLIC OPINION REQUESTED.— James K. Place, merchant, who was recently arrested on the complaint of Brown Brothers & Company for the alleged obtaining of property on false pre- tences, gives public denial of the charges preferred against him and requests the public to refrain from any opinion on the subject until the case is presented on its full merits, KILisp in a Lumber Yarp.—An inquest was yes- terday held at Mount Sinai Hospital, by Coroner Rollins, on the body of Andreas White, a German, thirty years of age, who died from a fracture of both legs and other injuries received on the 22d instant by a pile of lumber falling on him tn Crane's lumber yard, foot of Thirtieth street, North river. The jury rendered a verdict of ‘Accidental death." FATAL K&ROSENE OIL EXPLOSION.—Coroner Rol- ins was yesterday notified to hold an inquest at Ne 623 East Eleventh street, on the body of Ellen Wallace, @ woman about thirty-three years of ago, whose death was the result of extensive burns received on Friday last. Deceased was anxious to makea fire in haste, and to facilitate matters took a can of kero- sene and poured some of the oil on the kindling wood, The oil ignited, bursting the can and fatally burning the imprudent woman. THE FOURTEENTH WARD HOMICIDE. Case Adjourned for a Fi: To-Day—Appearance of ticians Present. ‘This case, an exclusive report of whi appeared in the columns of the Heranp of Wednesday, was resumed, under adjournment, inan apartment over ing Was held until Detectives ; the Dead House, in the yard of the Gity Hospital, at half-past ten o'clock yesterday, when the testimongt of the surgeon, pro tem., of the Hospital, Stuyvesant F.Morris and Mra, Mary Ann Lewis were taken and! Tead, after which Coroner Flynn adjourned the ine Soar $0 2naAR TERS 8 taone orclock in the afternoon,| room rear of the Twenty-sixth police cinet, at the Clty Hall, oer hee At both seasions yesterday snumber of gentlemea Well known in political circles, particularly in the Fourteenth ward, were present, and appeared to be deeply interested in the progress of the case. Byrnes, the person accused of killing Henry Wes- cott, alias Wallace, sat ually, Dear @ window and seemed during the taki sorbed in thought. There appeared noting of ite manner of quarrel those with whom he associated. a Ay averment of Mary Wallace, alias Hi whe yesterday afternoon deposed that on frequent occa bions during the last years they had lived together he cruelly used and abused her, ~ TESTIMONY OF STUYVESANT F, MORRIS. This witness testified that he was Resident Sur. in pro tem. at the New York Hospital, and that leceased, Henry Weseott, here present, was admitted about two o’clock Tuesday morning to the Hi ital suffer from a lacerated and contused wou! the face, just above the lobe of the right ear, ru: upwards and inwards to the tragus; this was jo! by aconverse incision, about one and a half inches long, which extended forward toa point just over the zygomatic process; the cartilage surround- ing the mealus auditorius was ruptured; there was a puffy tumor of scalp just anterior to the left parietal bos, and also severe contusions of the head, right side of the neck, both eyes, nose and lij the mucus sur’ of which were lacerated; ceased was almost totally insensible and laboring under severe concussion; gradually about eight A. M. symptoms So em came on, and finally he died at one A. M. on Wednesday; a post mortem ex- amination shows meninges and both lobes of the brain very much congested, especially at their osterior border, where a clot of extravasated blood found and considerable ly serum; the brain is of the normal size; the lungs were especially their inferior lobes; the other organs were examined but nothing special was found. In the surgeon’s opinion death was due to the compression of the brain and the severe shock produced by the in- juries received. TESTIMONY OK MRS. MARY ANN LEWIS. This witness testi! that she was the owner of the house 45 Houston street, where the deceased came by his death on the 23d inst., about eight o’clock in the evening; Mrs. Wallace came to my room and said that Mr. Wallace had come home intoxi- cated and was very ugly and abusing her; she re- quested me to go to the room and try to quiet him, which I refused to do, saying that she had better try to coax him without my assistance; several times during the evening she came with the same com- plaint, and remarked that she was afraid of her life; about twelve o’clock they had a loud and angry quarrel; she told me that he had choked her, threw her upon the bed and bruised her very badly; she showed. me the bruise at that time; she told me that she had wished to leave the room, but he had told her she should not leave the room alive; she raised the window and threatened to call a policeman; he said no pojiceman should take him out unless they carried him out; while this angry dispute was going on with the window open, Mr. Byrnes came in and said to me, ‘Phat man up stairs must be whipping his woman again, as 1 hear loud words;” as Byrnes was under the influence of liquor | tried to persuade him that such Was not the case, as their freguent disturbances had annoyed him very much; wiile this was transpiring in the basement Mrs. Wallace called to my servant out of the window to come to her room immediately 5 the servant rushed to my room excitedly and said thab Wallace wanted to sce me at once; Byrnes remarked to the servant, “Go and tell Mrs. Wallace that itis her place to come to Mrs. Lewis, and not Lewis’ place to 0 to’her;”’ I started to go out of the room whem yrnes remarked that I had better not go up stairs, that he would go and talk to him; in the meantime my housekeeper had assisted Mrs. Walla ak escape out of the room, and in so doing had recevell a biow in the face from Wallace; Mrs. Waliace secreted her- self under my ironing tabie; she said she was afraid to return to the room; when Byrnes went to the room Wallace was alone; I heard loud and angry words, but did not suppose it would amount to anything, as Wallace was always taiking fight when under the influence of liquor; I could not hear distinctly alt that was said; heard Wallace dare Byrnes to light him, but asked him to go to the corner of Spring aud ‘Thompson streets to do it; 1 went to the kitchen where Mrs. Wallace and the housekeeper were, and very shortly after heard a tall; | thought they were equally matched and both abie to take their own parts, and did not immediately go up stairs; 1 heard @ pounding noise and rushed up stairs to the room; opened the door and Byrnes came out; saw Wallace lying upon the floor, but did not go in; lasked Byrnes what had happened, and he said that Wallace wanted fight and he aad given him a ight; my housekeeper then went up to the room, and . Wallace went te headquarters for a doctor; since | have known Mr, and Mrs. Wallace, which is about one year, on seve- ral occasions he has beaten her very badly; at one time she was laid up for several days from a severe beating adminisiered by him; I went to her rescue at the time; several times sie has told me that she was afraid of her life; tat Wallace had threaten er. On the above statement having been read to the jury the Coroner anuounced that in consequence of the coldness and darkness of the room they were then in he would postpone taking the testimony of the other witnesses uutil three o'clock in the r= noon, when the jury would sit at the Twenty-sixth wolice precinct. At a@ little past the hour nameg for the inquest, witnesses and the friends of both parties appearing, the Coroner instructed his deputy to resume the taking of such testimony as might be offered. TESTIMONY OF OFFICER PEARSON. The witness on being sworn said—! am doorman at Police Headquarters; I was on duty on Tu morning, March 24, at about half-past twelve o'clock; the woman that lived with deceased came into the hall; she told me there was a man lying around the corner; Went around with her to the house 45 East Houston street and found the deceased dying in tue arms of the housekeeper, bleeding; 1 returned to headquarters, went up stairs and woke the doctor, aud went uround there with him; the doctor ex- amined the deceased and said deveased’s skull was fractured; he told me to help and take tl man to the hospital; I sent around for ptain Gariand, of the Fourteenth precinct, for help; he sent me two policemen and [ took the man to the hospital; Dr. Pooler told me to arrest the man that had done this; 1 asked the in- mates of the house who had done it, and no one would answer me; | walked down stairs and bad a talk with the landlady; 1 told her the man who had done this had better get out of the way or give hun- seif up, for the man would die; she then went to the house Where he was and found him, detective Irving following her; she went into the house and then came out; | met her at the door of the prisoner's house, and she told me that it was ail right, that he was coming out; the oiileer stepped around the corner, and when Byrnes opened the door sav to him, “You are my pris oner;? he took him to Police Headquarters and locked him up; myself and detecuve irving went around and searched the house; we found one pistol under the pillow of deceased, and another pistol in the bureau drawer, in the same room; we went inte the kitchen and found another piscol, which we sup- posed belonged to Byrnes; 1 then went around to the ison; I accused Byrnes of using deadiy weapons; ie suid he had not; i then asked him how he did it; he answered me that he went Up Stairs to stop de- ceased from making 80 much trouble in the house; he opened the door, and deceased got up and said, “What did you come here for?’ Byrnes gave uiter- ance toa few angry words, and then the deceased pee hold of both his (Byrnes’) arms; Byrnes said ie threw deceased and heeicd him; 1 found blood on the hegi of Byrnes’ boot; no weapons were found on him except a small penknife, TESTIMONY OF MARY WALLACE, ALIAS HOUGHTON. Mary Wallace, alias Houghton, sworn, said—L reside at 45 Kast Houston street; the deccased was my friend; on Monday evening, March 23, about eight o'clock, deceasea came inio the house intoxi- cated; we went together up to the room; when he first came in he was pleasant, but soon grew angry about acarpet bag he liad bought; we had a lew words; he then went across the street and drank more; he was in a quarrelsome mood ali the even- ing; { was standing by the bureau when he assault ed me; he put is hands around my throat and choked me and then threw me violently upon the bed; as he threw me on the bed my timb was bruised badly against the bedsiead; | got up and told him wanted to go down and see Mrs. Lewis, as 1 thought she was @ better friend than he was; told me I should not leave the room; IF think he then threatened my life; I soon after sat down by the window, when lie cailed me out of my name; | then opened the window and called Mrs. Lewis’ servant, who was in the basement; I called to her to tell Mrs, Lewis to come up; he then unlocked the door and told me 1 could go; I started to when be cen nee of me iM oy fair “oe me not to go; at the door 2 use- keeper; Sie joined With déveased In persuadiig me to stay, but f refused and went down stairs; Nellie followed me, and and I secreted myself under the table; Mrs, Lewis then came into the room, and said “Pat has gone up stairs,” and she was afraid there would be @ fuss, as he had a pistol; by Pat she meant Mr. Byrnes; in @ few minutes after this I heard a fall, followed by several knocks or pounds; Nellie ran up stairs, and called the ser’ to go for a doc as she thought Mr, Wallace was dying: I was ly up the stairs when heard her say niet Had come tail as ae Pn A al = ie after I heard the fail; after glancing at decease {na around to Police Headquarters and asked where I could get @ doctor; they said there was one there and Dr. Poole came soon after and ordered dece: soot to the hospital; they took him away in @ carriay accompanied by a policeman; Mrs. Lewis said she declined to go When | first asked her, a3 he would be so ashamed whien he got sober; I had to leave him twice on account of his abuse, often beating me; once, especially, he gave me such a bad face that f was unalie to go out unvatled fora long time; | have considered ty life in danger while living with hun for Mo past three years on account of his dissipated habits. By a juror—Byrnes went up just after I got under the table; Byrnes interfered ouce before with Wal- Jace White intoxteated, At this stage of the proceedings the Coroner agnin announced that he would adjourn the case until three yok to-day, When the inquest would be coutinued at the Coroner's oflive ia Centre street.