countrymen for his exertions in endeavouring to promote
the cause of national freedom of those nations who
stood in need of it. The Government was fully aware
of the sympathies of the British nation in favour of the
cause of Hungary, but of course, as the organ of her
Majesty's government, in friendly alliance with great
foreign powers which had been referred to, it could not
be expected that he should concur in some of the
expressions which had been used in the addresses. He
felt, however, that it was highly gratifying to have been
instrumental in aiding the cause of the patriotic
Hungarians and Poles, who without British intervention,
would no doubt have been doomed to perpetual
imprisonment and sacrificed their freedom, if not even
their lives, in the cause of their country's independence.
They never could have been rescued from the fate which
awaited them, even by the aid which the government
of this country was enabled to afford, had not the
government been backed by public opinion here. There
was no question of the great moral power which the
government of this country had over foreign affairs so
long as the government were backed in the exercise of
that power by the public opinion of the people. No
doubt the noral power of the British government was
immense, more than people generally imagined, but it
would be only effective so long as the people and the
government went together. There could be no doubt
but with regard to its Hungarian policy the government
had been backed by the people, as was instanced by the
fact of the appeals which had been made from all
quarters, and from all the large towns and cities in the
kingdom, urging on the government of this country to
interfere in that important question. It was not
necessary that England should exercise a power with its
armies, with its bayonets, or with its cannons. The
moral power, where the government was backed by the
people, would do a great deal more. The moral power
was greater than anything else, but even that could not
be made effective, unless the Government and people
acted in unison. The government, more especially the
foreign department, were sometimes accused with
keeping so much secrecy with regard to their transactions
with foreign powers. It was said there ought not
to be so much secrecy in diplomacy; but upon the same
ground that men in the ordinary business transactions
of life, did not make public all the details of such
transactions until the bargains in which they might be
engaged were completed, so also was it necessary that
the publication, of the proceedings of diplomacy should
be left to the judgment and discretion of that department
of the government, in order properly to transact
the business of the nation. Lord Palmerston concluded
by repeating that the reception of these addresses, and
the general expression of approval of his conduct on the
part of his countrymen, afforded him unfeigned pleasure
and gratification.

NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

At the Central Criminal Court, on the 29th of October,
Ignatius Francis Coyle was tried for Forging and Uttering
a Promissory Note for £1150. The note purported
to be signed by Viscount Clifden, and was given to
Captain Alexander M'Eachey Alleyne. Coyle is a bill-
discounter, and keeper of a betting establishment near
Leicester Square. Captain Alleyne had betted with
him, gone shares in bets, and lent him money.
As a security for the money lent, Coyle gave the
note in question; he subsequently admitted that it
was forged, implored Captain Alleyne to forgive him,
and at length obtained a partial pardon: the Captain
took a promissory note for the money due to him, and
refrained for a time from prosecuting the forger. The
chief effort made in defence of the prisoner was an
attempt to damage the character of Captain Alleyne
and his brother by cross-examination. Mr. Kennedy, a
young officer in the army, had lost £7000 to Captain
Holder Alleyne, brother to Alexander; the money was
lost by a bet on the trotting powers of a certain
American mare: she was well known as "Fanny
Jenks" in America; Captain Holder Alleyne brought
her to England, but changed her name to "Pigeon;"
and of course the object of the cross-examination was to
show that thus Mr. Kennedy was tricked of his money.
A letter of Captain Alexander Alleyne's talked about
"borrowing a house to do a plant," and of "nice young
fledglings," apparently to be plucked there. The
Captain admitted that he would call a certain. Mr.
Flower, a "fledgling": that person lost £8000 at the
Derby in 1850. Captain Holder Alleyne, on his cross-
examination, said:—"I don't consider that I am a
defaulter. I owed about £12,000 after the Derby 1850.
I don't know that I was posted as a defaulter on the
settling-day. I had won about £3000. I left the army
because I wished to leave it, and for no other reason. I
was in Canada, and formed an acquaintance there, I am
sorry to say, with Mr. Kennedy. I won 7000 guineas
of him; which sum he paid me. Mr. Kennedy was not
an old man. I don't know that he was not more than
nineteen when I won the money." The witness added,
that he was "not aware" that Mr. Kennedy left
England a ruined man. Witness had quitted the turf,
and followed the occupation of "a married man." The
counsel for the defence suggested that Coyle might
have taken the forged note in business; urged that the
character of the Alleynes was not such as to make their
testimony worthy of acceptance; and declared that their
motive was to get rid of an obnoxious witness in Mr.
Kennedy's case. The jury found the prisoner guilty of
uttering the instrument knowing it to be forged. Judgment
was deferred, but on the 1st inst. Coyle was sentenced
to imprisonment for twelve months in Newgate.

Christopher Brooks was indicted at the Central
Criminal Court, on the 3rd inst., for Cutting and
Wounding Elizabeth Rothero, with intent to murder
her. The prisoner, a young man of 20, was house-
porter to Messrs. Terry, carpet merchants, of Chiswell-
street, and prosecutrix was their cook. The prisoner
had borrowed of her a small sum of money, and upon
her asking him to repay her he refused. They in consequence
had some words, and she threatened to tell his
master of the circumstance. Next day they had some
further words, and in the evening Brooks came behind
her and struck her with a knife. She screamed murder,
and he then struck her in the face, making a gash on
her nose. She put up her hands to defend herself, and
got them cut in several places. The prisoner then threw
the knife away, and ran out of the house without his
hat on. Her cries brought the nurse to her assistance,
who found her seated by the sink almost insensible
from loss of blood. Upon being undressed she was
found to have been stabbed between the shoulders; a
surgeon was called, and she was removed to St.
Bartholomew's hospital. The jury found the prisoner guilty
of wounding, with intent to do bodily harm, and the
common serjeant said, if he had been convinced of the
intent to murder, he would have been hanged. He was
ordered to be transported for fifteen years.

On Saturday night the 1st inst, a Murder and Suicide
were committed by the wife of a young man, of the
name of Blakemore, who has for many years been in
the service of Mr. Level, copper-plate printer, of Greek-
street, Soho. Mrs. Blakemore, it appears, contrary to
the advice of her medical attendants, had persisted in
suckling her child, and while so engaged, during the
evening in question, on the return of her nurse, who
had gone out to make some purchases, the door of
the deceased's room was found locked, and no
reply being given to the applications for admission, it
was forced open, when the mother was found lying at
the foot of the bed on the floor, and a large carving
knife resting upon her shoulder, as if she had dropped
in the last struggle of death. She was in a pool of
blood, and there was a frightful gash on the neck,
extending from the left ear nearly to the other. The
poor child was then sought for, and she was found in
the bed with her throat cut nearly to an equal extent.
On the arrival of medical assistance the mother and
child were pronounced to be quite dead. An inquest
was held on the bodies, when, in the case of the child,
the Jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against
the mother, and in the case of Mrs. Blakemore herself,
found that she had destroyed herself while in a state of
insanity.

The Court of Queen's Bench, on the 4th inst., granted