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ioots ' we havo our national honor to I
maintain; the integrity of a great
empire to assist in upholding; free
i-stitutions to protect ; all that makes
\-{c valuable to defend; and, if at-
tacked, ours will ho a sacred duty to
hilfil, and to repel our assailants will
ho just as imperative upon us as to
arrest the burglar who is breaking into
our house, or to smite down the mur-
derer whose hand is on our throat.

Mr. PLANCHE, or the Brothers
BROUGH, never wrote an extravaganza
that will hear comparison, in breadth of
humorous effect, grotesque incident,
and cumulative drollery, with the fifth

«et of the SICKLES' tragedy, as played i
out on the 25th of April in New York.
The closing scene was sublime in its
bathos, from the moment when, in a
court of justice, and at the termination
of a trial in which a homicide had been
airni#ied upon a charge of murder, the
cuiuscl for the prisoner, defying judicial
control and publio decency, oried out;,
" Kow, go it !" to the hour when a senti-
mental hawker of fruit, with a keen eyo
to business (his name is duly adver-
tised in connection with the inoident),

laid a box of oranges, as a votive |
offering, at the feet of the fortunato I

' 'PICKLES.

Wonderful are the coolness and sang-

froid of American reporters, for in

tho midst of a tumult of excitement, by
which every person in court was agi-
tated except the learned Judge, they
note down with minute and patient
accuracy a physiognomical chart of the
prisoner's countenance, and take deep
soundings of his mental emotions at the
crisis of his fate. Although the " veins
" of his temples" were " swollen," " his
*' eye was calm and steady,'' and the
expression of his countenance indioated
such and such feelings. Then we are
told how he was kissed by one of his
devoted friends; how he exchanged con-
gratulations with the jury ; how some-
body connected with some newspaper,
jumping on the driver's-box, drove up a
hack to the Court-house; how all the
hackmen on the stand (also having an
c; c to business) followed his example ;
hew Mr. SICKLES was called upon for a
speech (why not for a comic song?)
when he emerged from the Gity Hall ;
how, as he was faint, he declined ; how
the hero-worshipping crowd would havo
taken the horses from the carriage, but
were prevented; and how they sere-
naded the counsel of Mr. SICKLES, and
would have offered him the same com-
pliment, but, having been politely re-
quested to move on, regaled the jurors

with music instead.

Not satisfied with having fulfilled
what they conceived to be thoir duty,
nine orten of the jurors repaired to "Mr.
" BRADY'S parlor at the National,"
for the purposo of " expressing their
" real sentiments," which were not
sufficiently set forth, we presume, in the
verdict of " Not Guilty," recorded in
the face of the strongest and clearest
evidence to the contrary, and received
in court with a " loud, wild, thrilling,
"tumultuous hurrah;" and very touching
were the confidential revelations, made
in all " the freedom of unrestrained
" conversation" to Mr. BRADY. The

panel was not composed of men who
were willing to hide their lights under
a bushel. " I want you, Sir," said one,
" to tell the people of New York that
" the citizens of "Washington are nob
". behind those of any other part of tin
" country in devotion to the family
" altar." Another juror had solaced
himself, like the Emperor NEBO and
GEORGE IV., by playing on the violin.
Nevertheless, he had been anobjectof sus-
picion to the other jurors, " but," said
-Wr. BRADY-mindful, perhaps, of the
fact recorded by KOBERT BURNS, that

"Tho Deil carno fiddlin' thro' tho toun,"

tnd assuming, therefore, the existence
of an indefinable sympathy between
violinists and those who commit man-
slaughter-" if we had known that he
" played the fiddle, we might have made
" our minds easy, for no fiddler was ever
t( known to find a conviction of mur
" der ;" a novel statement, which pri-
soners' attorneys and writers on
jurisprudence would do well to mako a
note of. Another juryman, addicted to
mimicry and waggery, announced that,
if he had been wronged, like SICKLES,
he would havo brought a howitzer in-
stead of a revolver to bear on the de-
ceased. The foreman was thankful to
have lived to render such a verdict, and
meekly hoped that " his latest posterity
" would honor his memory " accord

ingly; while another gentleman took
upon himself to anticipate a ratification
of their decision by the Supremo
Being ! Nothing less than " DAVID
" dancing before the Ark of the Taber
" naclo " will suffice as a suitable
simile for tho reporter in describing
the saltatory vivacity by which Mr.
STANTON expressed " the emotions
" of his big heart." A Mr. PHILLIPS
"" wept, like a child." A Mr. GRAHAM
was " passive and undemonstrative."
Mr. MEAQHER, of the sword, " clapped
" reople on the back, and asked if it
" was not glorious ;" and, as to the
gaoler, poor soul! ho blubbered Uko
STERNE'S fat, foolish scullion wench,
when CorporalTRiM pathetically dropped
his hat upon the kitchen floor; while the
district attorney, cautious functionary,
u thought it would bo so," and " his

" associate avoided the scene."

Altogether, the acquittal of Mr.
SICKLES was a memorable event-a sorb
of aj el! cosis of Judge LYNCH. Homage
was done to the " wild justice of ro
" venge " as to a great and sacred prin-
ciple by the people of New York, and
" every man his own executioner " will
henceforth be the watchword of thoa 3
"who aro inclined to infiiot summary
punishment upon men from whom thoy
have "received groat wrongs. ,Tho
commission of an act of homicide,
where the culprit has sustained peculiar
provocation, is not only sanctioned by
the verdict of a jury, but it elovatei
the bloodshedder into tho hero of the
lour. Vehement advocates cry, " Go it !"
to a noisy public in a court of
justice, and execute something resem-
bling the celebrated " nigger break
" down," in order to testify their in-
tense satisfaction at the result of tho
irial. Soft-hearted gaolers weep pita
culy, und sympathising fruitsollors

tender oranges, without stint and with- .
out charge, to tho manumitted culprit.

Ho is moro popular than PICCOLOMWI, ¡
and attracts more notice than did ths ,
woolly horse. Broadway mercers will
no doubt, take advantage of the exo'Ue

m»nt to design a SICKLES mantle or n. i
SICKLES robe ; and if theinoidents of fch's
tragical occurrence and the subsequent
trial were dramatised, the play would
probably enjoy as lengthened a ran
upon the New York stage as " Oov

"American üousin" has done. Indeed, I
we are not sure, if a Presidential elec-
tion had boen immediately at baud
that Mr. SICKLES, assuming him to have
attained the necessary age, would not
have been installed in the White Hou> ;
as First Magistrate of the Unit i 1
States, on the strength of his having
shot Mr. KEY, under the peculiar cir-

cumstances, and of his having been !
acquitted of the offeuoe.

An addition to our collection of Euro-
pean livo stock lins boen mado by the arrival
in tim Omeo of about two-and-a-half dozen of
earp. Several other descriptions of fiBh vvoro
placed on board, which, wo aro informed by Cap-
tain M'Mcckau, died in consoquenco of tho sovo
rity of tho weather, notwithstanding ovory possi-

ble caro was bestowed on them. Wo regret to j

add that a numbor of birds of song, which were
shipped in tho Ornoo, died during tlio voyage

from tho same causo. <

Tho Trinity Terni sittings of the Supremo (
Court having closed, his Honor Mr. Justic . [
Molesworth will to-day resumo tlio hearing of tlio
nisi prii/S cases, before Bpecial juries of four,

which were held J over in conscquenco of tho ii - .
torvontion of sittings of tho Court in Banco. ¡

Tho fouudation-stono of tho Town Hall at St. ,
Kilda will bo laid to-morrow afternoon, at3 o'clock, ,
by tho Chairman of the Municipality, Mr. Alex- *
andor Fraser, M.L.O. A handsome silver trowel, /
withasuitable inscription, will bo presented to Mr. ,
Fraser on tlio occasion by his brother councillors, I
as a mark of the ostoom which thoy entertain for

him. '

Wo notice that tho Philosophical Instituto have j

commenced tho erection of tho edifico which is

intended to bo used as a nail, and for other ,
purposes in connection with this association. '
Tho sito granted by the Government for tha
building is a triangular pieeo of ground in La

Trobe-stroot east, and adjoining Carlton Gar- ,
dens. Tho plan of tho structure ivas prcparod .

and exhibited several months since, and is of » ¡

l.ighly ornamental character.

In reforonoo to tho writ recently issued for tho ,

olo-tion of a successor to tho lato Mr. John H.

i ¡iltorson in tho representation of tho North- '
W.stern Province, the Mount Alexander Mail

Bays that no offort has b. on mndo to induco Mr. '
Mitchell to como forward, and that thoro aro no

rumors of other candidates intending to près mt ¡
themselves ; but adds that it is alleged that M ..
Mitchell intends to wait for ono of tho longer
vacancies which nve oxpected to occur on the an-

ticipated resignations of Mr. Keogh and Mr. '
Urquhart. ,

A somewhat tumultuous meeting was hold at '
the Oastlemaino Mechanics' Hall on Thursday !

evening, to tako into consideration tho mos j

eligible site for tho railway terminus in that town-

ship. Local interests and prejudices dovelopoi ?
themselves in a variety of resolutions and amend

ments which were proposed. Tho proceedings, ¡
howovor, terminated in tho adoption of an amend- ,
li.i nt submitted by ono of tho ratepayers, to tin '
effect that it was inexpedient that any stop3

should bo taken in tho matter until the intention I
of tho Government had been mado known i i I

reforenco to it. I

Tho City Council havo deemed it necessary to '
tako some stops to abato the nuisance arising |
horn the smoko omitted from locomotivo and i
and steamboat engines. Considering only the \
limited number of eithor in the vicinity of Mai- I
bourno, intorferonco on tho part of tho Council

might seem premature, but there is a signili- I

caree attached to tho matter which doai

not appear at first sight. In conscquenca ¡
of disputes which are understood to havo alison I
between tlio Gas and Coko Company and '
tl.o Directors of the St. Kilda and Mol- '
lomne and Goolong Railways, tho latter

] rve abandoned tho use of coko, and resorted to i
in 1 and wood. Tho comfort and convenience of

I! c passengers may not havo entered into calcu- '
lr Ton in making this chango, but those who aro
(1 iged to avail themselves of tho facilities
i ' orded by the lines in question must submit
cither to the carriage-windows boing1 closed
during a considerable portion of the journey, or
dso inhale an atmosphère of Bulphur and smoke,
and arrive at the ond of thoir journey with soiled
apparel, mid faces begrimed with sooty flakes.

Tho usual weekly meeting of the City Council
will bo hold to-day. The business will bo oon
f.i ed chiefly to tho consideration of routine re-
ports from the various Committees ; that of
1 ublic Works brings up a schedule of works to be
e.-.ccuted under tho provisions of tho Govemmont
grant. The samo Committee anuounco that thoy
have ordered the erection of four stand-pipes

Swanston-street, for thopurposoof testing theprao
tieability of watering the streets by hoso attached
to them, with a viow to their general adoption.
Thoy also recommend that Spencer-stroot should
bo korbod and channolled, at a cost of £1,600.
An order of tho day suggests tho propriety of
instructing tho Legislativo Committee to frame
a by-law to abato tho nuisance occasioned by
smoke from the funnels of locomotivo and steam-
boat engines. A letter from tho Commissioner

of Crown Lands and Survev pnolnüínrr it »t-ni-,.1.

of a proposed roadway tlirough Richmond Park
to Swan-street, will bo brought beforo tho Council,
and, as a deputation has already waited on the
official head of tho department to protest against
this innovation, the subject will, probably, give

i ¡se to considerable discussion.

The long-talked-of football match between the
Melbourne and South Yarra Clubs was com-
menced on Saturday afternoon, upon the Mel-
bourne Cricket Ground, which was allowed to be
used for the occasion. As far as roping off the
arena and posting flags went, all that could be

desired was effected by Mr. Bryant, who has for
a long time had the catering for the M.C.C. ; but
as it was distinctly understood that the pavilion
— or, at any rate, the verandah of the
pavilion — was to be set apart for ladies,

the inadequate provision made for their
comfort, and the indiscriminate manner
in which all sorts of people, not members of the
club, were allowed to crowd into the enclosure
and occupy the best positions for viewing the
match, reflect grave discredit upon the person
who distinctly stipulated to keep a man for the
express purpose of excluding those who did not
possess the right of entre. The heavy shower
which fell during the afternoon affords some
excuse for the rush which took place
into the pavilion, but when it was
over the process of elimination might
have been easily, and would have been
advantageously, proceeded with. This being
the second occurrence of a similar character
within a very short period, points the Committee
of the M.C.C. towards the necessity of either
taking the management of affairs of the kind
into their own hands, or of making such an
arrangement as will preclude the possibility of
prescribed formulae being transgressed by
any third party for the future. But to
return to the match. Within a few
minutes of the specified time, all prelimi-
naries having been arranged, the blues and
whites took up their positions opposite each
other. The captains were — for South Yarra, Mr.
Hammill ; and for Melboume, Mr. Hammersley ;
and the rules of the Melbourne Football Club,
as lately revised, were agreed to be played by.
Melbourne losing the toss, had the kick off
against the wind, and in the direction of Princes

Bridge, the match-ground being marked off
about east and west. Spectators mustered in
great force, which was the more remarkable

as a powerful visitation of Jupiter Pluvius ap-
peared imminent long before the commencement
of the contest. The fact, too, that several of the
stakes defining the bounds gave way under pres-

sure from without showed that considerable in-
terest had been excited. For about a quarter of

an hour it was difficult to say which was the
better side, but as the forlorn hope of the blues,
who fought manfully until pulmonary diffi-
culties supervened, gradually slackened in

their efforts, the superiority of the Melbourne
club became manifest, for, in spite of tremen-

dous "spurts" — and many gallant ones were
made — a strong head-wind blowing into the bar-
gain, the ball was kept up near the South Yarra
goal almost uninterruptedly, until Mr. Wray
who had, as is his wont, been in

close proximity to the enemy's quarters
ab initio, managed to make up for a pre-
vious mistake by kicking the leathern sphere
as cleanly between the posts as even "Old
Brooke" could have desired. This first reverse
seemed to put the South Yarra men on their
mettle, for they now had to contend both against
superior play and the wind, which for a long time
baffled their opponents. Gallantly they strug-
gled, and during many a tough bout for supre-
macy, neither side could fairly claim themselves
to be the best men.

" Backward still and forward
Wavered that deep array,"

the severely-punished ball running now east and
now west, with occasional leeway, as the fall of
the ground or malpropulsion caused the diversion,
until a sharp shower of rain caused all to run
hurriedly to cover. Needful refreshment, con-
gratulation, and condolence, restored the com-
batants to full vigor ; and the fight
raged anew with undiminished zeal on
either side, and with no definite result,
until coming night compelled an armistice. A
renewal of hostilities is contemplated on Satur-
day, the 23rd. We have purposely omitted indi-
vidual mention of the players, as, with hardly an

exception, all acquitted themselves most credit-
ably. We cannot, however, conclude this notice
without giving our highest commendation of the
pluck and vigor displayed by the South Yarra
gentlemen, who, though a man short, and mani-
festly inferior to their opponents in strength
and skill, fought an up-hill match in a manner
which has not only won the admiration of their

opponents, but enlisted the sympathies of all

lookers-on. It is worthy of notice that the game
was conducted throughout with the most perfect
good feeling on both sides, and that in each case
of acknowledged infringement of the Melbourne
rules, a "free kick" was conceded without a

murmur.

A robbery was committed on Saturday, in Little
Bourke-street, on the premises of Mr. Charles
Cupit, a baker. A man named William Cassells
was detected in the act of carrying away a bag of
flour. He was arrested, and lodged in the Swan-
ston-street lock-up.

A man named George Doran, a butcher, resid-
ing in Collingwood, poisoned himself at his own
house, on Saturday evening, by taking arsenic.
Dr. Andrew Livingston and Mr. Robert Cowie

were immediately sent for, and employed the

usual means to save the life of the unfortunate
man. He was removed to the Melbourne Hos-

pital the same night, and died shortly after his
admission. An inquest will be held on the body
to-day, at 12 o'clock.

Three porsons were admitted on Saturday into
the Melbourne Hospital, suffering from the
effects of injuries which they had accidentally

sustained. Their names are — Alexandre Som-
nier, a French cook, who had been kicked by a
horse in Collingwood ; John Jackson, a sailor,
who, whilst engaged in blasting stone in one of
Mr. Bruce's quarries at Jackson's Creek, severely
lacerated his arm ; and Charles Kempton, a
butcher, who, in getting out of a waggon, which
he was driving, near the Diggers' Rest, became

entangled in the wheel, and fell. Two of
the wheels of the waggon went over his leg,
crushing it in a fearful manner. All of the
sufferers, we find, are favorably progressing.

In the City Court on Saturday, the case of a
burglary committed on the previous day on the
premises of Mr. Leon Naij, who keeps an iron
store in Littlo Bourke-street, was partly heard.
The place was broken into, and a quantity of

metal stolen. Mr. Naij subsequently discovered

a portion of the property concealed in a closet in
Osborne's boardinghouse, in the same locality
The remaining portion was found in the posses-

sion of two men named Combs and Lidgatt, who

were apprehended on the charge of breaking into
Mr. Naij's promises. The prisoners gave lame
account of the manner in which they had become
possessed of the property, and were remanded for
further examination to this day.

A burglary, which, from the nature of the
circumtances attending it, is almost without a
parallel in its character, was committed early on
Saturday morning, at No. 19 Elizabeth-street.
The facts aro as follow : — The constable on duty
in that part of the street inspected the premises

in question, both in front and in the rear, at
half-past 2 o'clock, at which time everything was

apparently correct. At a quarter-past 4 he dis-
covered that the back part of the promises had
been forcibly broken into. He entered, and
found a massive iron safe, which had been forced
open, lying in the middle of the passage. The
contents were scattered about in every direction,
the ledgers and cash-books being torn, and bear-
ing marks of having been thrown about and
trampled on. Cases were broken open, drawers
unlocked and ransacked; in fact, everything

was in disorder, and bore the marks of violence.

The attention of the constable was then

directed to a heap of papers partially
consumed, which, on examination, were

found to be documents relating to various
and extensive monetary transactions. He also
discovered that the burglars had turned on the

taps of nearly all the hogsheads of liquors and
spirits, and allowed the contents to run to waste,
flooding the whole of the promises. The damage
done will, it is said, exceed 400l. The only pro-
perty actually taken away appears to be three
sovereigns and a one-pound note ; a cheque by
Mr. George Duncan of Pentridgo, for 4l. 16s. 6d.,
payable to the Bank of Australia ; one I. O. U.
for 5l. 18s. 10d., 1s. 9d., and 4s. 4d., a cheque for
1l., and a four-bladed knife. Three cash-boxes
had been broken open, and were found in different
parts of the store. No one resided on the pre-
mises, which were secured by the storeman at [?]

o'clock on Friday evening. The polico are ac-
tively engaged in investigating the matter, and,
from circumstances which have come to light,
have discovered a clue which will probably be the
means of bringing the thieves to justice.

GAOL RETURNS.— The following is the num-
ber of prisoners at present confined in the Central
Gaol, together with the circumstances of their
detention :—Awaiting trial, 24 ; remanded by the
magistrates, 3 ; from out-stations, 4 ; under sen-
tence of death, 3; road-gang, li; sentenced to
hard lnbor, 94 ; to imprisonniont, D2 ; debtors, 5 :
total, 241.

MUSEUMS.-Tlio number of visitors to tlia

Museums of Natural History, Geology, Miuiusr,
&c., at the University, during the week ondiiig
July 9, was 571. Amongst the additions to the
Zoological collections during the week may be
particularised extremely fine specimens of the
large Trogons, called calura resplendens, the most
magnificent species of that family. They are
placed in one of the South American cases.

WESTERN AUSTKALIA.-WO (South A ustralizn
lUgistcr) havo Perth papers to tho lßtli June,
l'hoy contain no uovvs of importance. At a
inciting of the York Agricultural Socioty, hold
at Perth on tho 14th May, resolutions wera
passed, .condemning tho Commissariat Depart-
ment for the practico of obtaining supplie3 of
Hour from Adelaide, and praying the Govornor
of tho colony to prevent such a course for tho
future. Several arrests had taken placo ainoiij
tho official persons connected with tho Convict

. Establishment.