The Sun. — London, England, 1862-04-08 00:00:00

ORTIIERN STATES OF ANERICA (From the Correspondent of the Times,) NEW YORK, MARCH 26. The chiefs and leaders in any rebellion against constktuted authority can urge no valid plea against theiinstice of the maxim which declares that g , Might nleices Right." By the very fact of their rebellion tb .ey try an issue of which Might can be the only 8 xbiter, and they must abide the result. That which was treason in Louis Napoleon Bonaparte at Stras burg and Boulogne ceased to be treason when the :bold adventurer vaulted into the vacant throne of a King, and kept possession as an Emperor. Even the great and pureminded Washington was no better than a rebel till success covered his name with imperishable glory. Tried by this test, what is the preeent position of Mr. Jefferson Davis and the flout} ter." Confederacy ? Is Mr. Davis a rebel or a Ps' eriot ? And is the Confederacy of which he is the leading spirit a conspiracy or a nationality ? -Eve' kits are rapidly deciding the question. A month sg' a, whatever may have been the case in this c ountry, the balance of opinion in England and throughout Europe, inclined in favour of Southern independence. But three weeks have wrought a mighty change in the for tunes of the Republic. Victory, that for a while hovered fitfully over the new flag, appears to have .settled upon the old. The Confederate armies have suffered such a rapid succession of reverses and de feats as to convince not only the waverers, who always go with the winning side, but some of the most ardent and hopeful friends of the South, that the caeoss is all but lost. The Confederate States, had one great opportunity after the battle of Bull "Run,* but they failed to take advantage of it. On the morrow of the panic that beset the undisci- Vrined volunteers of the North the Southern corn :menders might easily have crossed the Potomac and seized the capital. Fortune never again put such a prize within heir reach; and during the many months that have ensued they have been so confident of victory without doing anything to de 'erve it, that they have wasted their strength by inaction, and slept while their enemy waited and watched, prepared and organized. The victories of Fort Donnelson, Newbern, Beaufort, New Madrid, and Pea Ridge, as well as the bloodless triumphs of Florida, have changed the aspect of the war, and driven. Secession into a corner. The Southern leaders will probably make a stand before Rich mond, to await the onslaught of M'Clellan ; but, mom probably, will retire into the Gulf States, lettere, in the approaching sammer, if the war last FA) long, the armies of the North will hesitate to Tollow them. In the meantime, Mr. Jefferson "Davis and his Government appear to lose heart, 'while the press and people, with the ill-feeling that in every enterprise grows with the want of success, are quarrelling with their leaders and with one an other, and weakening still further by their dissen sions a cause which chiefly relied on the enthusiastic unity and determination of all classes. The battle of Pea Ridge or Sugar Creek, of which the principal details were forwarded by the last mail, appears to have been one of the most obstinate of the war; and, with the single exception of the employment by the Confederates of a large body of scalping and tomahawking Indians, under the com mand of Colonel Albert Pike, reflected credit on the bravery of both sides. The Southern journals have discovered that Pike is not one of their people, but a Northern man, from Massachusetts, though they have not yet made any indignant comment on the policy of accepting the aid of such bloodthirsty er.vages as he commanded, but was either unable or "unwilling to control. During the War of Indepen dence nothing so greatly exasperated the American people or brought so much odium on the British Government as the employment of the Indians - against the colonists, as every schoolboy in England knows who has read Lord Chatham's eloquent de nunciations. In this country the "remorseless cruelty" of Great Britain on that occasion is perpe tuated in school-books and popular harangues, and greatly tends to this day to embitter the intercourse between the nations. The Southern leader, if he be wise, will promptly disavow the acts of Colonel Pike, and disband every Indian corps in his service, unless the scalpers can be brought under proper oantrol, and taught to fight like disciplined soldiers, The latest 'victories that have rejoiced the heart of the North are those gained under Gene ral Shields, at Winchester, and the abandonment and destruction by the Secessionists of Fort Macon, rendered untenable in consequence of the Federal success under General Burnside at Newbern and Beaufort. General Shields, a native of the north of Ireland, who acquired distinction in the Mexican war, has been but recently appointed to a command in succession to the late General Landon He had scarcely taken the field when he met and defeated a wing of the retreating army of Manassas, under General Jackson, and forced it back in utter route and confusion upon the town of Strasburg, whither they have been hotly pursued, and again routed, by General N. P. Banks, a civilian commander, for merly Speaker of the House of Representatives, and overnor of Massachusetts, who has now fleshed his maiden sword, and begun to justify the high expectations which his friends and the whole coun try had formed of bis ability. The latest telegrams of this morn i ng lead to tilt, belief that the Confe derates have rallied five miles beyond Strasburg to offer battl e t o the co mbined forces of Generals Shields and Barks,lf so th e i r previous rout was not so complete as has been represented. After the capture of Newbern ) as a glance at the map wilt chow, it was clearly impossible for the enkderates to hold either Beaufort or Macon. Im ra:diately General Burnside bad taken the former :place he despatched an expedition to Beaufort, 'which on its arrival found the town evacuated. Macon, a strong fort, awl cue of the principal ar senals of the United States, was capable of resisting almost any naval forte that could be brought against it; but, taken in the rear by the advancing army of Gen, Burnside, it necessarily shared the fate of Be:aufort. Its defenders did not stop to capi tulate,:out blew up the fort, and destroyed all its kw:es and ammunition. The famous steamer Nash fill°, so familiar to the people of Southampton, had taken refuge under its guns, after a successful run across the Atlantic early in February, when warned away by the British Government, and Capt. Pegrim to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy, set the vessel on fire. The Tuscarora, if still afloat, will therefore have to confine her polite attentions to the Sumter, unless Capt. Pegrim finds another and more powerful ship at Mobile cr New Orleans in which to undertake a new cruise to European waters in search of his old enemy. There has been much premature rejoicing over the alleged capture of Mr. Yancey, a gentleman who is declared to be even more responsible for the Se cession, and th e R e b e lli on than Mr. Jeff. Davis him self and Possession of whos e p erson was l oo k e d upon as MOYe th en set-off for the enforced release of Mason and Slidell; but Mr. Yancey has not been caught, havin g a er i T ved safely at 1\ ew Orleans, where he has been leetur - • lug against the Government of Great Britain for its selfishness or folly in not lend ing the South a helping band. Alas, poor Eng land ! it cannot please eithe r -.y Desirous only of doing t it is declared by both righ et them to be in the wrong, and might well exclaim, Si A p lagu e is e on both " if it were diplow,ntieo kas P your houses, parliamentary whole truth with ttn to speak the etat„ Island No. 10, i n tho 'eh the specimen of the 'wpm , name is another et ex o f v ,_ ingenuity and imagination which th e Acne South, display i n u 7sTle, both of the North and the e menclature of places, in a ddition to that aff or d ede, "Pea Ridge," " Sugar Creek," " Bull Run, " _ ble in the war - --. • Blijff t " and others made memora will hereafter shed historical intereat upon the dreary shores of the " Father of Waters." The island has been very strongly fortified by the Confe derates, and has for nearly a fortnight opposed a stubborn resistance to the Federal forces, which have laid regular siege to it by land and water. Last week it was reported and believed in New York that it had been captured, with all its stores, am munition, and men: but. Commodore Foote, th e Fe deral commander, a very bluE and outspoken N ew E n g la uaer, has written to Washington to say that, a t hou,gh he % R i g it " a very hard nut to crack," h e e xpects to cra c k it "in short metre." The phrase * Not Bull's y, printed savours strongly of Puritanism and the conventicle, but is well understood i n N ew E ngland. For the ' present all the interest that would otherwise be ex cited by the forward march of the army of the Po tomac is concentrated upon " No. 10." The words are in everybody's mouth, and the fi t impulse of every one in reading the telegrams that are posted in public places, or printed in the newspapers, is to ascertain whether it has yet fallen. Since Thursday last its capture has been hourly expected, but it still holds bravely out, though so strongly belea guered as to make its destruction or surrender a matter of certainty, unless it be relieved by a supe rior force, of which there appears to be no pro bability. If the Confederate States be compelled, either temporarily or permanently, to return to the Union which they abhor, they will have to blame their un wise expectation of assistance from Great Britain and France even more than the victorious armies of the North. The ruin of the South has been its too confident reliance upon the efficacy of " almighty cotton" to relieve it of all difficulty. It expected England to be so dependent upon cotton as to be coerced into a recognition of Southern independence, rather than forego a supply of the all-important article ; and so strongly was the Southern mind impregnated and permeated by this hallucination that it neglected to take ordinary measures of precaution and safety, waiting for extraneous help that did not come. At the com mencement of the struggle the South had every thing in its favour—the habit of authority, the choice of time, a foregone conclusion cunningly pre pared and planned, the best officers in the United States army and navy, the sympathy of the great Democratic party in the North as well as in the South, the fear and hatred inspired by the ultra- Abolitionists, the treachery of men in high places, and the aid, concurrence, and co - operation of what was called the best society, and especially of the ladies; while the North was not only unprepared to resist so formidable a movement, but incredulous that the South was in earnest in the attempt to dis solve the Union—without an army, without a gene ral, without a plan, and without money. But, after it recovered from the first stunning sensation and surprise of the blows that were struck at Fort Sumter and Bull Run, it discovered that it had a strong purpose, large credit, and the passionate en thusiasm of the Northern and Western people. With these levers it has since wrought wonders. It has relied on no one but itself, has put forth all its available strength, and is now in a position in which its retention of the whole of the Border States may already be considered as a fait accompli, and its subjugation or conciliation of the cotton States a question of expediency. The President, whom the responsibility of power hes converted into a very cautious Conservative, seems to feel that the total discomfiture of the South, by making it de facto a conquered country, would be as fatal to the unity of the American Re public as the success of the Southern Confederacy, and is said to be only waiting for a grand victory by M'Clellan to hold out the olive branch to the South, and entice back to the fold of the Union the wandering sheep of the cotton regions. If this be so, what is to become of the Republican party ? And, more important still, what is to be come of Negro Slavery To hang the rebels is not to be thought of, To attempt to wheedle back the Seceded States,without offering them some guarantee for the existence of their " peculiar institution," would be utterly hopeless; so that, if the Union be restored as a consequence of the present position of military affairs, Negro Slavery must not only be ac knowledged as a constitutional right of the cotton States, but must be fenced round with guarantees and bulwarks, and solemnly recognised as one of the bonds of the American Union. Is this what the North is fighting for ? Perhaps ; and one section of the North—the Democratic party—is candid enough to say so. The Democrats, as distinguished from the Republicans, have no affection for the Negro or his cause, and detest a Northern Aboli tionist far more cordially than they do a Southern Secessionist, as may be seen by the treatment experienced by Mr. Wendell Philippe, who has been pelted with rotten eggs and atones at Cincinnati, and barely escaped with his life from the indigna tion of the free people of that non-slaveholding city. The truth is that slavery in America is not looked upon with disfavour except by a small minority of able and earnest men. It has not anywhere been abolished from motives of pure philanthropy. In the cold North the institution does not pay. It has no chance of life in any district where the white man can do the work of the field or the farm, and, when the Northern and Western States abolished it they did so from motives in which philanthropy had doubtless some part, but in which social and commercial considerations were largely intermin gled. In the district of Columbia, and in the Border States,where it does not pay,slavery will be abolished before many years, or perhaps months, but that it will be abolished in the cotton countries, where it pays enormously, is more than any one can believe who studies the temper of the American people, or knows anything whatever of the motives by which ' they are actuated. The love of negro slavery is not confined to the South; and if the six small States of New England were left out of the reckon ing , it is all but certain that a poll of all the remainder of the Union on the direct question of the abolition or retention of slavery would be a majority of three to four, if not of nine to one, in its favour. The city of New York would certainly give an overwhelming majority for the Southern " institution ;" and so, perhaps, would Cincinnati, if one may j ud ge by its re cent treatment of Mr. Philippa, and any attempt on the part of the President and his Cabinet to play into the hands of the ultra•phi lanthropists, who love a black man better than they do a white, or to agitate for the abolition of Slavery in the Far South, with or without compensation to the slaveowners, would inevitably protract the war, retard the progress of the whole country, and pre pare the way for a new secession more formidable than the first. Looked at in any light, the ques tion of Slavery is the drop of black and bitter gall in the overflowing cup of this Republic. It will not be ignored, it cannot be settled. The utmost that can be hoped as the result of the actual con test is, that it may be driven from the Border States and confined to the cotton-growing regions. But, as this result might have been attained in the ordinary course of nature, and from the operation of strictly commercial causes, there was no necessity for the Ultra-Abolitionists to exasperate the whole South into a civil war, which has already cost more money—to say nothing of the blood, the misery, and the suffering that have marked its progress— than it would have cost to purchase and set free the whole of the slaves in Secessia. The result of the debate en Mr. Gregory's motion in the House of Commons and of Lord Campbell's in the House of Lords on the subject of the block ade has been received here with general satisfaction. 1 One journal alone—to be praised by which is to incur obloquy—takes occasion of the circumstance to assert that, although England desires to wash her hands clean of the troubles of America, she will find out before long that the American Republic has not done Mith her, and that both North and South —to whom she has played false in the war--will seize the opportunity to unite their forces and pay 1 her off for her perfidy. Threatened people live P long ; and, if the Americans were not wiser than some of their newspapers —and this one in particular —the United States would become the very Ishmael , lof nations. But worse even than the newspaper in question, if that be possible, is the conduct of a_ reverend gentleman—H. W. B eec h er — w h o h as been lecturing and preaching on the conduct of the British Government in the affair of the Trent. whe n our rebellion broke out," said he, "if there was any nation under H klympatily anti help it was th e mo th er country, — sympathis-ed vith But h ow d i d she treat us ? She 0 all engaged with the enemies, and wh en we were we could do on o ur han re a bels, an d h a d as much as temptiblo fuss about the 'tila r he kicked up th a t con citizens from , us. O,' sal e:. and took our re b e l e mphasis, , it as nlhe'ttio , %%eau!" Th e he, itte,k with sarcastic a udience cheered the sentiment. ' 97 ,l e what are we g,oing to do about it? ' no v w i f said get this war off our hands, and ha ve time nwe to attend to these matters (suiting a strong pugilistic action THE SUN, LONDON, T to the word), shall we give England what she de serves ?" The house came down with thunders of applause of assent. As it subsided, "No !" said he, "we will do no such thing. That would not be right; that would not be Christian. Do not nail his ears to the pump," it would not be Christian. But is it Christian in this Boanerges of the Taber nacle to lash up the popular mind to a frenzy o f hatred in this manner ? There are many here who think not, and I am of the number. New York is beginning to wake up a littl e on t h e subject of the Tax Bill, which does not improve in popular favour as its details become known. The impression gains ground that it will ultimately be superseded by a new measure which Mr. Chase has already framed, simpler in its details and more pro ductive to the Treasury in the comparatively few articles which are to be brought under its opera tion. The war, even under the most favourable aspects, is likely to retard for a whole generation the progress of the country, but if the Tax Bill in its present shape were to be passed by Congress and maintained without revision or repeal the whole trade, manufactures, and industry of the Union would be stunted for half a century, and it would lose far more by its unwise fiscal legislation than it gained by the strategy of its generals or the con ciliatory home policy of its statesmen. The leading merchants of this city do not yet consider it quite safe from the Merrimac, or any other marine monster of the same kind, that might feel disposed to pay it a flying and snorting visit from Norfolk or elsewhere. The Chamber of Com merce has had several meetings on the subject, and has, it is alleged, resolved to appeal to the public to raise by voluntary subscription the sum of 500,000 dole. to put the harbour in a proper state of defence, by means of iron-clad boats and batteries. The Board of Aldermen, at a meeting held on Mon day evening last, accepted and adopted the re port of a special committee, recommending the im mediate issue by the city of New York of the same sum in Harbour Defence Bonds. Boston and Phila delphia are also stirring with a similar object. These cities have not considered the subject a moment too soon. The South is believed to have at least a dozen Merrimacs ready to steam up their harbours, and their means of defence against such unwelcome visitors are confined to the Monitor and the Stevens battery—the one very effective in esse, the other in posse, but neither of them übiquitous, and the latter labouring under the serious disad vantage of not being completed. The new Secretary at War, whose vigour offers a remarkable contrast to the dilatoriness of his prede cessor, has created quite a sensation by suspending no less than three newspapers —one in Boston and two in New York—for the publication of news pro hibited by the War Department, as being of a nature to give dangerous hints to the enemy. One of the offending papers is the New York journal of Com merce, a great authority on all monetary and com mercial affairs, but with Confederate " proclivities" a little too decided to be agreeable to the Govern ment. Not only have the three papers been sus pended, but the three editors have been summoned to Washington to be tried by court-martial for vio lating the 57th article of war. It is not likely, however, that they will be severely dealt with, the temporary suppression of their newspapers being punishment enough to act as a warning to other editors, and to show that the Government is in earnest. On Monday, in Wall-street, 3,000,000 dole. of the 7'30 per Cent. Treasury Bonds were offered for sale by the United States' Sub-Treasurer, by telegraphic order from Washington. They found ready pur chasers at par, with accumulated interest, and the whole operation was accomplished in less than a quarter of an hour—a fact which shows in a striking manner the reviving confidence of commerical men, consequent upon the late successes of the Federal forces. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) - WASHINGTON, MARCH 25. _ _ , . ! Written amid the troubles of arranging for a passage with the expedition,.and of the prepara tions necessary for it, this must be a brief letter. Every day troops are starting from Alexandria for Fortress Monroe. There are now about 38,000 or 40,000 men assembled near Old Point Comfort, in addition to the force under General Wool, and about 45,000 are following, so that M'Clellan will take the field at the head of at least 85,000 of the best infantry which the United States have in the field, with upwards of 100 guns and 4,000 cavalry. The opening of the Potomac has rendered it possible for this force to be moved without ap prehension of calamity. Had the Confederates retained their batteries the steamers crowded with masses of men could not have been despatched, and much delay would have been caused in sending them round by Baltimore. Heintzleman has al ready landed his division at Newport News. No thing is known of the Merrimac, but she is supposed 1 to be undergoing repairs. If she made her appear ance among the flotilla it would be like a hawk swooping on a flock of sparrows, and I am not quite sure but that she may be preparing for some such onslaught. The Monitor is lying in readiness for her, and the Mystic, another steaming gun-case in armour, will soon be down there. All the naval authorities here tell me they will be quite prepared for her in ease she tries to come out, and that she will not be permitted to do any mischief. The events of the week so far as they are known since last Saturday are the check of the Federals in their attempt to force Island No. 10 above Memphis, and the defeat of the Confederates under Jackson, in an attack en the Federals at Winchester. It seems that after his arrival at Cedar Creek General Banks received orders to march across towards the old position of the Federal troops in front of Manassas, and he started accordingly, leaving a division under General Shields in Win chester. As soon as Jackson heard that Banks had left the place he made a dash at it, either under the idea that it was unoccupied, or that he could overwhelm the force in possession of the works. Shields was apparently outside the town, and might' have been marching on Strasburg, which is not yet in the hands of the Federals. Jackson, having with him the troops of Smith and Longstreet, attacked with 15,000 the division of 8,000 or 9,000 strong under Shields, It must have been a very heavy skirmish on an extended and protracted scale, rather than a general action, inasmuch as it lasted eight or nine hours, and the Confederates lost but 500 or 600 men—the Unionists some 400 or 500. The former fled in great confusion after dark, pursued by Shield's cavalry, throwing away their muskets, of which more than 1,000 have been found, and leaving two guns, caissons, and several hun dred prisoners in the hands of the enemy. A letter to a friend of mine from a surgeon in the field says the write: counted 226 dead Confederatgs on the field.. The pursuit was continued y es t er d ay, and some skirmishing occurred, but there are no precise accounts from the field. This bold attempt of Jack son to create a diversion on the Federals' flank, and to menace Harper's Ferry and Maryland, has how. over been quite frustrated. General M'Clellan and headquarters have gone to a house on the hill near Alexandria, and they will brobably embark this week, CRTPPLEGATE SAVINGS-BANE.—It appears from the annual statement of accounts of this establishment, re cently published, that the number of contributors for the year ending November last, including six charitable institu tions and 13 friendly societies, Was 3,700; and the total amount of balance due to them was £70,125 16s. 4d. The sums received f rom d epos i tors w i thin the year amounted to .218,564 lls. 4d., and the amount repaid during the same time, including interest, was £23.444 lls. sd. The ex penses of management during the year amounted to £389 lls. Bd., and the surplus which had accrued for the same time was £64165. 6d. After the payment of all the depositors the whole of their claims in full, there remained a clear surplus of £864 15s 6d, exclusive of the bank pro perty. [ADvERTIB2I-ali n — Holloway's Ointment and ?Ms.—. which for their Sound Skin.T eur he e re only are many complaints of the :skin require domestic management, and for which the mother or nurse, armed with Holloway's remedies, is the best doctor. The proper and active use of his Ointment, when resorted to early, ensures recovery. It at once cools and soothes the inflamed vessels and irri tated nerves, , and arsists all acrid discharges. It draws out the seed of every- eruption, and equalises the circulation through the capillaries, from which it removes all spas modic contractions. As the blood is the seat of health or sickness, it is a matter of primary importance that Hollo way's Pills should be taken at the same time to purify the,' t fluid. V.l T ESDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1862. LA TV INTELLIGBNCE.-April 7. might better understand the nature of the case, he thought it right to inform them that the prosecu tor, Mr. G. England, was the father of the young lady, and he was a gentleman filling a very respect able position in society, and had several other chil dren. The defendant paid attentions to the young lady, and in the course of last year a conversation took place between him and the prosecutor upon the subject of the intimacy that existed between them, and the prosecutor obj ected to his continuing his attentions to the young lady, on account of the disparity of their ages and other circumstances ; but he promised that if he would refrain from press ing his suit upon her for two years, at the end of that time he would permit him to pay his addresses to her. The defegdant promised solemnly to do as he was requested; but on Jan. 4, upon the occasion of the young lady going to the Crystal Palace, the defendant met her and took her away, and nothing more was seen of her until some time afterwards when it was discovered that they were married. It was under these circumstances that the present charge was preferred against the defendant, the allegation on the part of the prosecution being that this marriage had been procured by means of the defendant making the false statement that the father of the young lady had given his consent to the mar riage. Formal proof was then given of the procurement of the license by the defendant, and that the mar riage took place at Lambeth Church on the sth of January, under that license. One of the witnesses stated, in cross-examination, that the defendant was a person of respectability and good position. Mr. G. England, the father of the young lady, was then examined. He said—My daughter was 18 years old last July. It is not' true that I ever consented to her man:age with the defendant, as he has alleged in his affidavit. He used to visit at my house, and paid attention to my daughter, and in January last year I had a conversation with him on the subject, and wrote down in my diary what took place between us. The witness read the entry he referred to, which was to the following effect:— "Friday, Jan. 25, 1861. Mr. Fairlie.—Had a long conversation respecting Lizzie. I told him that if ho takes no steps in that direction for two years from this day, I will give him the same powers as Dixon (this referred to a gentleman who was court ing another daughter), to use his powers to win the affections of my daughter, but on no account to make attempts to pave the way before that time." I showed the defendant what I had written, and he promised solemnly that he would fulfil the agree ment, on the honour of a man and a Freemason. Upon the faith of this promise I permitted him to continue to visit at my house, but I observed that he was not keeping faith with me, and that he was still paying attentions to my daughter, and I spoke to him upon the subject, and observed that he was not fulfilling the conditions he had promised, and begged him to cease to continue his attentions, and told him that if he did not I should request him to cease to visit at my house. This conversation took place in September last, and after that time the defendant did not come to the house. My daughter went to the Crystal Palace on the 4th of January, accompanied by her sister and Mr. Dixon, and I did not see her again, but I beard afterwards that she was married to the defendant, and that she had gone away with him from the Crystal Palace. In January I thought the defendant was in Spain. The witness was cross-examined at considerable length by Sergeant Ballantine.—He said that of course - his object in the present proceeding was to convict his son-in-law of perjury, and he considered that, under the circumstances, he was justified in H , tir COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Registrar Roche.) ]N RE GEORGE STIFF. This bankrupt was a newspaper proprietor of 334, Strand. This was a meeting for proof of debts and choice of assignees. Subjoined is an abstract of the preliminary ac counts given by the bankrupt :—Dr—Unsecured creditors, £31;352 2s 5d ; secured, £20,600 ; total, £52,252 2s sd. Cr.—London Journal, £52,000 ; Guide, £5,00) ; TVeekly Times, 4-sth share, £10,000; buildings, £5,500; ditto, £2,000; ditto, £2,500 ; machinery, £3,500 ; book debts, £4,000 ; total, £84,500, Mr. Linklater appeared for Mr. M'Murray ; Mr. Lawrance and Mr. Pook for other creditors ; and Mr. C. E. Lewis for the bankrupt. The bankrupt was examined at some length by Mr. Lawrance, with a view to show that his pro perty had been sacrificed by Mr. M'Murray. It appeared from his statement that the London Jour nal had been sold in 1857 to Mr. Ingram and Mr. M'Murray for £31,500, and that it was re-purchased by the bankrupt in 1859 for £33,000. Mr. M'Mur ray was a secured creditor for from £14,000 to £17,000. Mr. M'Murray held a mortgage of the copyrights of the Journal, the Guide, and the Weekly Times. On the Bth of March, 1862, he took possession under his mortgage, and, as he (the bankrupt) had been informed, Mr. M'Murray sold the property within a week from the seizure for £lB,OOO. He (the bankrupt) estimated the value of the property thus sold at over £50,000, the pro fits being £17,000 a-year, and three years' purchase was a fair price for such property. Further examined, the bankrupt stated that no publicity was given by Mr. M'Murray to his inten tion to sell, and he (the bankrupt) did not know that Mr. M'Murray was negotiating a sale until it was completed. And this sale (which was a sale to Mr. Johnson, of St. - Martin's s -lane) was completed within a week from Mr. M'Murray's seizure, and the price paid was only £lB,OOO, scarcely more than one year's profit of the property. Mr. Wrig le y had offered '..on the Wednesday after the seizure t o Pay Mr. M'Murray the amount of his mortgage. The day after he (the bankrupt) was informed that the property had been sold, without consultation for £lB,OOO. It was in his opinion worth £60,000, and if fairly realised would have left him in posses sion of a surplus of £20,000. Re-examined by Mr. Linklater—He had not said that the London Journal had produced a profit of £lO,OOO a year, but he would pledge his oath that the net profit therefrom during the last three years had been from £6,000 to' £7,000, or upwards of £2,000 a year. He had similarly made a profit of £6,000 during the same period from the Weekly Times. He owed Mr. M'Murray from :X14,000 to £17,000 on the secured account. He had never said he owed him £22,000 on that account. According to Mr. M'Murray, the amount was £28,000 on the secured and unsecured accounts, but he (bankrupt) Mr. Lewis, the bankrupt de v ni u ed rth th e a r t e s x t a a m te i m ne e a nt ltogetherbay. said Mr. Ingram and Mr. M'Murray agreed to give £30,00 for the London Journal. Since the repeal of the paper duty had taken full effect he had de rived therefrom an advantage of £7,000 a year. The London Journal and the Guide required 800 reams of paper per week. Each ream weighed 331 b, and the difference in price was 11d. per lb. A calculation was here made by Mr. Pook that the advantage thus gained amounted to about £8,580. ql b' Mr. Spencer Johnson, examineL y Mr. Law ranee, said he was a printer in St. Martin's-lane, and claimed an interest in the London Journal, the Guide, and the Weekly Times. He purchased the whole of them on the 12th of March from Mr. *Murray, who came to him and named the price for which he would sell the property (£18,000). Prior to this he (Mr. Johnson) had heard all sorts of reports to the value of the publications, as much as £30,000 being mentioned. He thought the sum of £lB,OOO a fair price, and did not (see Mr. Stiff at all on the matter. The day he made the purchase the publications were transferred to his name at Stationers'-hall. He was satis fied that Mr. Stiffs estimate of the profits was a perfect fallacy. He made the purchase on Mr. M'Murray's statement only, and without exa mining the books. He calculated that the London Journal had a circulation of 300,000 odd, and he made the estimates of expenses incidental to the publication himself. Mr. *Murray told him that he had bought the London Journal in 1857 for £30,000, which included stock and block, and that he had afterwards resold the same to Mr. Stiff for £33,000. He (Mr. Johnson) purchased the copy right of the three publications for £lB,OOO, which he thought a fair price. The copyrights of the Weekly times and the Guide were valued at no thing, and were put in as a makeweight. He thaught the Guide might be worth £5OO a year. He (Mr. Johnson) had bought the copyright of the Illustrated News from Mr. Ingram, and knew the value of copyrights. He thought three years' pur chase a fair value for the bankrupt's publications. He considered the London Journal was worth £6,000 a year. He paid money and bills for the purchase —LIO,OOO in cash, the remainder in bills. He was not prepared to say he would relinquish the pro perty on repayment of the £lB,OOO. He had re fused an offer of £25,000 for it from the bankrupt. appealing to the law for protection. _.te sak Lan he was aware that after the marriage the defen• dant and his daughter went to Spain, and during their absence he prepared the present bill of indictment against the defendant, and he said he did so by the advice of Mr. Norton, the magistrate. His daughter had no property in her own right, and he said he would take care that she should never have a farthing of his money after what had occurred. The defendant was perfectly well aware that his daughter had no property in her own right and that all her expectations were from him. The defendant gave him a bracelet last year for his daughter, and witness gave it to her, but did not tell her who had sent it to her. That bracelet was now in his own possession, and he would take good care that she would never have it. His daughter left the bracelet behind when she eloped, and this was how he became possessed of it, and he meant to keep it. The defendant did not give his daughter a valuable watch and chain, but he remembered he told him that he intended to make his daughter a present of a watch on her 18th birthday, which was his custom with all his children, and the defen dant told him he had a very good watch and chain, and he gave him £2l for them, and afterwards made a present of them to hie daughter. He was on very friendly terms with the defendant, who used to call him "Father Tom." This was in allu sion to the piece of the " Colleen Bawn." The de fendant used to be called " Miles," and he called his daughter "Lily," and witness was "Father Tom," (A laugh.) In answer to further questions that were put by Sergeant Ballantine, the witness said that he had run away with his present wife, who was the mother of the young lady in question, and that he had a wife living at the time. He added that he lived with this lady for several years, but could not marry her until his wife died. The moment, however, that event occurred he married By Mr. Linklater—He should think that the dif ference between £lB,OOO and £30,000 would be made up by stock, machinery, &c. He relied entirely on Mr. M'Murray's statement, which, having regard to his position, he believed he might rely upon as correct ; otherwise he should not have bought the pig in the pock. (A laugh.) Re-examined by Mr. Pook—He paid the £lO,OOO by a check on the London and Westminster Bank. It was nothing to him who found the money. Neither Mr. Levy nor Mr. M'Murray found the money. By Mr. Lewis—Before the repeal of the paper duty the London Tournal was worth £5,000 a year. The repeal in question made a difference of £5,000 a year extra. At three years' purchase this would make a difference of £15,000 in the increased value her. Sergeant Ballantine submitted that after the fact that had just been stated there was an end of the case. The prosecutor was not the lawful father or guardian of the young lady, and the defendant could not, therefore, be said to have falsely stated that he had the consent of such parent or guardian. He would have been perfectly justified in declaring that there was no person connected with her who had the power to give or withhold his consent to the marriage, and he contended that his statement that he had the consent of the father was perfectly im material. Mr. Giffard argued at some length that the Act of Parliament was intended to apply to every per• son who stood in the relation of natural guardian to the person who was married under such circum of the London journal. Full 48 hours intervened between the sale and the registration at Stationers'- hall ; he thought about six days. He never offered Mr. M'Murray less for the property than the £lB,OOO asked. He relied upon his statement alone. It was not in one check that he had paid the £lO,OOO, but he thought by a check for £5,000 and other checks. His banker's pass-book was at their service, and would show how this was. He would swear that the checks would show an amount of £lO,OOO then paid, within a faw shillings. Mr. M'Murray had not found any part of the money. It was a bonafide transaction. The bills given in purchase were four or five months' bills and were the bills of himself and partner (Mr. VV ilson), who had paid him £7,000 for a third share in the business. The sale of the London Journal was now 313,000, and it had varied stances. The Recorder left the court to confer with the Common Sergeant upon the point, and when he re turned he said that as a general rule he was always unwilling to stop any case upon a point of law, but in the present instance, where he had no doubt whatever upon the question that had been raised by the learned sergeant—and he might say that the Common Sergeant entirely concurred with him— he thought that he ought to do so. In his opinion the charge had not been established; in fact, the allegation in the indictment that the prosecutor was the natural and lawful father of the young lady had been negatived, and he should therefore direct the jury to acquit the defendant. A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly recorded. There was :a slight attempt at applause in the - - . between 200,000 and 400,000. With a circulation court when the verdict was delivered, but it was of 313,000 and a profit of £6,000 or £7,000 a-year repressed by the officers. he considered it a first-class paper for sale. Anthony Dutlein, 31, pleaded Guilty to a charge Mr. Lawrence commented upon the very remark- of embezzling the several sums of £ll and £5, able manner in which the bankrupt's property had the moneys of Mr. Alderman Wilsen, his employe r , been transferred to Mr. Johnson. It was impossible and likewise feloniously forging and uttering a re the case could end where it was. It was a case that ceipt for £3 with intent to defraud Mr. Charles could not be too fully investigated, and it was de- Turner. sirable that the name of Mr. Ward should be added Mr. Kemp, who appeared for the prosecution, as assignee to those of Mr. McMurray, Mr. Hodge, briefly stated that the prisoner was in the employ and M r , Edward Hart Messrs. Hart and Hayles). ment of Mr. Alderman Wilson, at head-quarters in r, Lewis and Mr. Pook took the same view. Finsbury, and in that capacity he forged a receipt said his clients represented three- for rent, and after receiving some sums of money fourths Alr.:-....2 creditors. They were of to the amount of £l6 he left the country and was Liinnkvlaati,Z of —alit the broth, and ultimately apprehended in Germany. opinion that too many cooks bv, . _„" would see He was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. that Mr. Hodge (Spalding and Hoag, ,„ Spal- Herbert Brown, 17, clerk, was charged with hav that justice was done to all parties. Messrs.., . embezzld severa sums of mon belonig to ding and Hodge were the largest creditors (Z10;Oue mg masters, e Messrs. l Carliles, Pittman, an g d n odd). It had been stated that the bankrupt realised his . _- men , Bow-lane, City. Co., £lO,OOO a-year by the London Journal. It now warehoass.rr nrosecuted ; the prisoner was undo turned out that th e sum was X 2, 000 a•year. The Mr. Oidge k value of a thing was very different )71 1 en subjected fended. • to the test of the cold climate of a public rezket. It appeared that the prisms_ was in the service Mr. Hodge and Mr. Hart were then chosei; of the prosecutors as cashier, ant: .it was his duty to assignees. re,;_ive the money from the warehoub..7men for cash After some reference to a claim on the machinery parcels, and enter the amount so receivt2sd in his of the Morning Chronicle, of which the bankrupt petty cashbook, and account to Mr. Carliles al.` the was also proprietor, end of each day. The custom was that he should Mr. Linklater said the assignees proposed to take a check, h with the amount marked on it, from grant an allowance of £5 per week to the bankrupt. Instead re ouseman ; but it appeared that he had, Mr. Lewis concurred, of so doing, taken the money himself, had o ;:tered the goods in the rough journal, and marked o eas e against them, but had not carried the 1 amounts received into the cashbook. It was proved that three separizO sums of £1 Os. lid., £1 18s. 2d., and 13s. 7d. were pie' to him by different cus tomers, who produced feceipts for those sum t s in the prisoners handwriting, but he had no ac counted for them i n the cashbook, although they a ppeared in the rough journal. w ilt y, and recom- The jury fou n d the prisoner gm t. mended him t o merc y on account of his yo allh mounts ud ecl to Mr. Pittm an sa id the three a There were about 29 were In2t the only ones. . fi3o others, amounting in all to about I, , that Aidin The Recorder, in passing s entence, ss as usual to p,ass a such cases cases as the present b ut as a the jury had igcom tence of penal servitude, to me . rey he should only sen tence him to 18 raoa-1113' i mprisonment with hard labour, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT,-3.larch 7, ac onnse affidavit a Francis Fairlie, a gentlemanly-looking between 40 and 50 years of age, surrendered to take his trial for misdemeanour, in man, Robert apparently and corruptly made a certain falso state Mont at the office of the Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctors'-commons, with a view to Pitena, A having wilfully ;Gsiffe'argrdeant marriagil licence, and Mr. "'eland condticted the prose cutionßallantine was specially retained Lewis on behalf of the defendant.l Mr. Giffard, wi M th r M . r. F. 1 - 1. in opening the case to the jury, said that the present charge was framed under an act of Parliament that Majesty George iv ., was passed in the reign of his late and the object of which was families, and to prevent marriages g place betw een young persons without the he protection cf o l f ic t e h n e c ir e at Doctors'-commons for his t p ,r t i t a r t e parents. . t, h T e h e 4 o t h ffe o n f c y e a inp a u r t y e imputed ob tainedthe defendantaB, that on the 4th of Yanuary he ob mar- riageYoung lady named Eliza England, who was only 18 years of age, and that he made defendwaintt;:waas, upon that occasion that the father of the young lady had consented to the union, which was not true, and it was for making this false statement that the present charge was pre faored against him, In order that the WV NEW COURT. (Before Mr. T. Chambers, Q.C., Common Sergeant.) Mary Coucher, a respectable-looking woman, sur rendered to take her trial for perjury. Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Orridge prosecuted ; Mr. ltibton and Mr. Poland defended. The circumstances giving rise to the prosecution were these •--The defendant is the matron of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum at Bow, and among the women employed upon the establishment in the laundry was one named Mary Lawton, who up to the time of the occurrence out of which these proceedin g s arose had been so for about seven months. he woman was allowed to have brogen victuals given to her to take home, anti upon the evening of the 16th of January she was quitting the establishment by the lodge gate, having with her a basin containing some dripping, and also some cold meat and a piece of bread, which were wrapped up i n a piece of paper. As Lawton was just quitting, defendant came up and said, " What have you got there?" Lawton said, "My supper;" upon which the defendant added, " That is all I want;" and tak ing the parcel from Lawton, went into the house. Lawton then went back to the kitchen, and waited there for about three-quarters of an hour, and com plained that the defendant did not come back and give her some reason why she had taken her supper from her. Defendant, however, did not come to her, and Lawton went home, and shortly after wards the police inspector came and took her into custody upon a charge of stealing three half-quar tern loaves and 21b. of uncooked meat. Lawton was then taken by the police to the Asylum, aid there the defendant produced, tied up in an old apron, not belonging to Lawton, three loaves, 21b. of uncooked meat, and the cooked meat N7hich had been given to her, and said that was the trundle which she had taken from Lawton and was in the same shape as when she (the defendant) took it from, her. This Lawton strictly denied at the time, ana and protested that all the defendant took from her was the cold meat and the dripping. Upon Law ton's trial at the sessions she repeated the same story and called two witnesses,—one the cook, whom she had the cold meat from, and the other a fellow laundrymaid, who swore that she was with Lawton up to the time of her being stopped by the defendant, and that she had no bundle then in her possession. The jury, notwithstanding, found Lawton guilty, and she was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. The evidence this day bore out the facts above given, and the woman Lawton was brought up by habeas to give evidence, and she most positively swore that all the defendant took from her was some cold meat in a piece of paper and some drip- . ping. The witnesses were very closely cross-examined, but nothing was elicited tending to show that the defendant had any motive for making a false charge. She had always thought well of the woman Law ton, and upon one occasion when she had missed some trifling article, and suspected one of the women, and found she was wrong, she at once told the other servants to let their fellow-servant know that she was in error. Mr. Ribton, upon the part of the defendant, said the charge was a most monstrous one, and, if sue cessful, no prosecutor would be safe. His client had only done her duty to the institution she had to manage. The learned gentleman then most dis passionqtely reviewed the whole case, and expressed his gratification that his client's acquittal could not be given by the jury as the result of any doubt in their mind, but as an opinion of her entire innocence of the charge. Several clergymen gave the defendant a high character of many years' standing. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The Common Sergeant—And with that verdict I most heartily concur. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-April 7. L MARYLEBONE.—Constance Wilson, aged 40, a well dressed woman, who refused to give her ad • dress, was charged with administering poison to Sarah Cornell, residing at 108, Crawford-street, Marylebone. The prosecutrix said—l live at 108, Crawford , street, and let out lodgiugs. Ido not live with my husband. He has been away from me about nine months. He introduced the prisoner to me by the name of Taylor, and I have been in the habit of visiting her since last July. Every time I visited her and took dinner or tea with her I was taken On Thursday, the 13th Feb. this year, the prisoner came to my lodgings. I was ill all that day. I sent her for a little brandy and an Abernethy biscuit, thinking that it might do me good. The prisoner pressed me to have fourpennyworth of tincture of rhubarb, and I gave here the money and a bottle to fetch it in. There was nothing in the bottle at the time. She brought me what she called a "soothing draught," andsaid that the doctor would net serve her with the rhubarb. I was in bed at the time, and my child came into the room, and she sent him out for something before I took the draught. She gave me the glass with part of the medicine which she had fetched in it, and just as I had got it in my hand she poured a little more into the glass which imme diately became hot. It was a little glass. I said, "You have been warming the glass." She pretended notito understand, and said, "Drink it up, the doc tor says it will warm you." I put it to my mouth, but it burnt me, and I threw it at once from me. ' My son came into the room at the time, and I told him to take the medicine to the chymist and tell him he had given me poison. There was a little milk at hand, which my son gave me, and which relieved my pain. My lips and tongue were burnt severely. None of the mixture went down my throat. I spilt the stuff upon the sheets, as I was in bed at the time. My son came back and said that Mr. Beacham said the medicine was all right and I had better take it. This I declined to do, and told him to throw it away, and he accordingly put it in the slop pail. The sheets were taken from me the next day, Friday, by a Mr. Graves, who handed them to the police. William Robinson, an intelligent lad, son of the prosecutrix by a former marriage, said—On the 3d February the prisoner was in my mother's room. Between 9 and 10 at night I noticed a small bottle on the mantlepieee. I wanted to get a pen and ac cidentally knocked it over. The prisoner told me to let it alone. The colour of what was in it was a dirtyish white. The stuff came out of it, as the cork was in the bottle. The prisoner said, "Don't knock my smelling bottle over." Mother told me to take the bottle and glass back to the chymist's, and I took it to his assistant. He tested the contents of the bottle, but not the glass, and said what was the the bottle was all right. The glass felt rather warm. Mr. Beacham, chemist, of 105, Crawford-street, said,—On Thursday evening, the 13th of February, the prisoner came to our shop and purchased a black draught of me. I took it from a drawer where there are bottles all ready. Soon afterwards the son brought back half of the draught and a cup. I did not taste what had been in the glass, only in the bottle. I detected nothing more than is usual in it when the boy brought it back. Thomas Charles Kirby, surgeon to the police, re siding at 77, Connaught,terrace, Edgware-road, assaid he thoughta nd said,—On the day mentioned Inspector Burrows about o rn eBl with o'clock hihim n n the i d evening, i n c b a r m ou e gh t t o me, Mrs Cornell I that she had taken something deleterious. He brought me some pieces of linen which appeared to be rotten, and I tested them f or ac id. I placed them in distilled tained sulphuric acid. It was very almost burned my tongue. A sheet and night dress were here produced,and seemed to be so rotten from the effects of the liquid ejected upon them that care had to be taken in handling them. Dr. Kirby, after looking at them, said they sere in a similar state to the piece which he received, and they seemed to have been destroyed by strong acid being thrown upon them. If the acid were thrown upon a fender or fire-irons it would pro duce a greyish rust. He attended upon Mrs. Cor nell and thought she had taken some strong acid. There were large scales about the mouth. Her togue was very much swollen, with white patches on it. He gave her medicine for the purpose of allaying these symptom. Oil of vitriol poured into a glass in which there was another liquid would gradually make the glass grow warmer. William Boden, detective officer, attached to the D division, deposed,—On Sunday, 16thhofstyebt ruary, I went to No. 10, Lough b oro u g h-street, Kenna: where the prisoner rem several ii:nes, but rece ived no answer. I g ot over the garden wall at the back and found the hou se since traced her from evening p place to lace, empty. I kt• a e s - st c 7 on Saturday I was in and about hall-ph. '^mden-town, when I saw her Randolph-street, . ;th Mr. r.Cornell. I stopped walking arm-in-arm them and said, " Good Ken g, Mrs. in Wilson." j told her I was a police-officer, and what I charged • her with, and gave her the usual caution. She trembled very much, and seemeo agitated. I placed her in a cab and conveyed her to the station. Mr. Yardley remanded the prisoner, but refused WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday, Timothy Santry and Francis Joh nston, two pow er f u l men o f 30, were charged before Mr. D'.4 l "yncourt with the following outrage. A cabinetmaker named Jones, who was so weak from loss of blood that he was obliged to be seated while giving his evidence, stated that ho had been wounded while returning home through Commer cial-street, Spittalfields, about two o'clock on the ' , receding morning. A man and woman were walk ing together before him, when in consequence of a movem ent the woman made her cloak fall from her shoulders aud dropped into the mud. The prisoner Santry instantly picked it up, and was hastening away with it, but the witness interposed and desired him to restore it to the owner. The moment he had said so, the prisoners made a simultaneous at tack upon him. One of them tried to strangle him, but he succeeded in getting away. He ran off as fast as he could, but the prisoners pursued him, and ono of them, whom he could swear to be Santry, 411.•••••••••••• ••/. struck him a violent blow on the back,, the othe. r prisoner inciting him i and calling out, " Give him another, the -- ." Hr did not know a' the mo mt.nt that he had 1-1 len seriously injured, but he directly after felt au acute pain in his side, and ea hi s hand tkt ere found that he had stabbed, dl patting an a that 11 1 oocl was flowing from the wound down his troll, lent ,police to the pavement. Sharp, a constable o v the e H division, deposed' to hearing loud cries of . and on hastening t 3 P " found the prosecutor and prisoners engaged in an:. a ltercation. The form, c.a charged the prisoners with.. striking and Lltabbing h . ins, and drew his attention. to the blood running front the wound in his back. Both prisoners Denied the Charge, but he took them into custody, and on the r.oad to the station he , picked up a claspk - rife which ht:d hen flung away = about 30 yards from where the injury was inflictedl Mr- Gayton, a surgeon, stated that he was fetched on the preceding afternoon to the house a f the pro— secutor, whom he found suffering from a w ound ia the back, near the spine, and in a state of great. exhaustion. The wound was three inches in length,' more like a slanting cut than a stab, but he could 'not specify its depth. It was just such a wound as might be itLflicted by the knife produced by the police. Aitho ugh he did not apprehend dangerous consequences from the wound itself, though a severe one, it was wholly against his wishes that the pro secutor was in attendavce, as ho had given directions that he was not to be mov ed„ Mr.D'Eyncourt ordered bat`h men to be remanded , a nd agreed to accept ball for lohnson, but positivel3 refusui it for Santry. Anotior power.ful fellow wao directly after this Case charged with .a brutal garoti'e robbery, and was also remanded, Mr:. Safford, the derk, drawing Ml'. D'Eyncourt's tittenti: on to the fearful increase of robberies of this cities in that district. SOUTHWARK.—S'ar'ah Beech, a I mascnline looking woman, with am infant in her ai"ree, Nvlte charged with mali c i ous ly wounding Edwart.lßee en t her husband, with a knife, and nearly severing the nose from his face. The following medical. certificate was put This is to certify that Edward Beech has a WY severe cut across the nose r in fact, it is nearly severed from the face. Erivsipelas may follc"W' which world be dangerous. W. Tow SEND, Surgeon." Edwin Coleman, 53 M, said hat on Sunda forenoon, between 10 and 11 o c l ock, he was onr duty in Newington-cause way, when a young matt came running up to him atzd tob i him he believed a woman had murdered her hus band in Tiverton street, close by. The witness proceeded there, and on entering No. 11 in that fa 'met he saw the prisoner in a very excited state. He was shown hate a room, where he saw the injured man under the treatment of a surgeon. He was cover ed with blood. His nose had been cut so deep down from the bridge that it actually hung fron. l a piece of skin above the upper lip. The doctor strapped up as well as he coui,d, and stopped the hrem orrh age , when the prisoner w4's painted out as the per,lee who inflicted the wound, and he then took her in ce custody. Witness understood that they (the pr,' soner and her husband) had been quarrelling all the morning, and that in her passion she snatchea up the knife, rushed at him, and cut him over the nose with it. The prisoner here said that the man was not he e husband, but that she lived w ith him as his vil' He struck her first, and in a .state of irritation .she snatched up the knife to defend herself. Mr. Burcham observed that according to the) medical certificate erysipelas was apprehended, and if that took place death might soot' follow. Under those circumstances he should reman d her for a week. The Rev. Mr. Tugwell, the inc umbent of St. Andrew's District Church, Stamford-s treet, attended before Mr. Burcham to complain of thke annoyance caused by a large number of lads asoembling on Sunday to gamble under the arches of tLie Charing cross Railway, in the vicinity of his churoh. el kept quarrelling and swearing . a l l day. The nui sance at last got so intolerable that he communi cated with Sir George Grey on the subject, the result of which wasi that the police had orders to interfere and take into custody all offending. Oa Sunday, during Divine service, there was a COar plete riot, and one of the constables was yell roughly handled by the mob. Mr. Burcham said there had been cases of the same kind before but that he bad been compelled to dismiss the prisoners, as no one really annoyed had prosecuted. Benjamin Smith, 35, a labourer, was charge d _ with inciting a mob to assault the police, throveie 6 stones, and causing the rescue of a prisoner. Police-constable 52 L said that on Sunday 110011: e' he saw several lads tossing under the railwa y arch in Brad-street. They were throwing up cored money, and swearing dreadfully. One of the fau' was taken into custody by a constable, but 300 e r , 400 ruffianly fellows surrounded him and rescue d him. The witness went to the officer'e assistance' when he was attacked with stones and brickbats. One of the latter struck him on the head, cutting a large hole in his hat and injuring him severely. 1 1 ° saw the prisoner throw something at that tira c t and, with the assistance of a railway constable, took him into custody. Stone, an officer employed by the Charing-cros s. Railway Company, corroborated the constable's statement. Mr. Burcham fined the prisoner 200., with the alternative of 14 days' hard labour. COUNIRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER —Arum 5. A small supply of wheat to-day, but quite sufficient for the demand, with a very slow sale. Barley for malting 0 very scarce, and is per qr dearer. Beans were rather on the decline. No peas at market. Wheat, white. ;. 64s 66s BeanMazags.n..3ss 3614 red 46s 62s midde & small.37s 400 Barley Oats —s —s gray ...... 3.80 20 • LD—APRIL 6. unpicks shown, au d too many prices barely' maintained. fur damp samples reduction. except beans, which were lei Peas, Partridge 37s 410 White 398 420 Boiling 4ls 440 Dun 36s 400 Ditto new Beans, Tick, old 338 38s new 33 5 385 Harrow Ticks 3 713 430 new 35s 408 Mazagan „ „ 3o s 400 BIRTHS. CHELMSFO: To-day a very few good s of inferior description ; late the best conditioned parcels; Spring corn was at late rates ; cheaper, but trado slow. Wheat, old white... 26s 68s new ..45s 65s old red....25a 50s new -60s 61s Barley 30s 39s Chevalier ..30s 42s Grinding 24s 32s Malt. Chevalier 64s 69s Oats 23s 30s GLOUCESTER-APRIL 5. A moderate supply of English wheat, which met a firm' sale at farmers' prices. Foreign sold very slowly, at ra: ther lower rates. Oats more active. Barley, beans, an peas dull. KIRKCALDY GRAIN—APRIL 6. Wo had moderate supplies to day of all descriptioil S of grain. Sales ready enough at previous prices. k Wheat. Barley. Oats. r ' First....4os Od I 26s:Od 2os 04. 1 . ' ‘ Second ..48s Od 298 Od 23s Od Third...sss Od. 32s Od 27s Od; COAL N rloes of Coal per Ton a' LARKET. t the close of the market Wails:End. Cassop .......... l6 9' Hartlepool.. l7 5 Caradoc ..16 9 Braddyll's Hett0n.....17 South Hartlepool,.... South Kelloe 16 Tees l7 6 Heugh Hall 16 3 25 ; sold, 23. s. d. Buddle's West Hartley 17 0 Hartlepool West Hart- ley Carway and Duffryn Malting. Do. Anthracite 21 6 Walls End. . Tunstall Ships at marks CAumv.—On the 6th inst., at 12, Eaton-place, the wifo of Lieutenant-Colonel F. Carey, 26th Regiment, of° daughter. CHILD.—On the 6th inst., at 17, Hanover-square, the wif° of Co les Child, Esq., of Bromley-place, Kent, of a 801 l and heir. HEATH.— On the 6th inst., at Clayhill, Enfield, the wife of Henry G. Heath, Esq., of a son. LEE. —On the 6th inst., at Paley House, Tollington-parks the wife of John Leo, Esq,, of a son. MARRIAGES. MILNE— HuGHEs.—On tho 3d inst., at Hampstead, Tame° Dundas Milne, Esq., R.N., to Harriett, only daughter of Colonel Robert Hughes, of Belgrave-road, St. John's' wood. PRICE—NUGENT.—On the 3d inst., at Portaferry Church, Captain George B. Price, Royal Scots Greys, to Frances Isabella, only (laughter of the late John Nugent, Esq., of Portaferry House, co. Down. DEATHS. CHALK.— On the 6th inst., at Dover, Stephen Chalk, Estll solicitor, aged 64. ELLIOT —On the 4th inst., at 29, Cadogan-Place, London, the Hon. John Edmund Elliot, Into M.P. for the county of Roxburgh, and youngest son of Gilbert, first Earl of Minto, aged 74, HALLETT. 7 OH tho 3d inst., at Brighton, Willm, Hallett, Esq., aged 69. HOUSTOUN.—On the sth inst. , at Torquay, G enera l Si r Robert Houston'', K. c . 13,, of Clerkington, Idaddington shire, aged 82. WARING.—On the 3d inst., at Burwarton, Salop, Mary, wife of Archdeacon Waring. WILLIAMS.—On the 2djust., at Bryn Bolla, Geneva, Annabella, wife o f Major - General Molyneux K.II. k) Pr i n ted and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN? , (i f I, (J o Nin N o: r . : 112, Strand, Printer, at TILE Sux Office, N 0.112, ''' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County a xiddiesez.—Tuesday, April 8, 1862. . , PF t ex agl hei r of 6 ,r f 4 4P nd Airok h Ai vorn i Lo: To t 1) qi(,:, z V