The Sun. — London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

NEW ORLEANS. The following letter is written by an American lady resident at New Orleans : " New Orleans, Sept. 1, 1862. " (Fifth month of the reign of terror,) „ dear Mr. --,—Shortly after the opening of the port of New Orleans, I received a kind letter from you, which , bearin g a date a y ear old, never theless gave me much pleasure. As all letters are subject to military supervision, I did not answer it until I thought I had found a safe opportunity of sending a letter unseen by the authorities. Think ing I had found such an one, I wrote you a volume, giving a detailed description of the taking of New Orleans, and the treachery which led to it ; I also enclosed copies of orders and acts of Gen. Butler, upon which the Northern press have made no com ments, preferring to appear ignorant that such acts of barbarism are countenanced by their Govern ment, to criticising them. I only heard a few days ago that the person to whom I entrusted the pack age had found it, necessary to destroy it to prevent its falling into the hands of Government. I cannot tell you how disappointed I felt on many accounts. There were several inhuman threats made in the official journal of Gen. Butler to make New Orleans a second St. Domingo, if there was any attempt to retake it. . . I cannot again undertake the recital of the universal mutiny in the forts Jackson and St. Philip ; the garrison spiking the guns and firing upon any officer who appeared upon the para pets. . . . As war absorbs ail my thoughts, I shall naturally write of nothing else ; in fact we never speak of anything else. The excitement and expectation we are constantly in are enough to wear out body and mind. For three weeks past we have daily, I may say hourly, expected New Orleans to be attacked by the Confederates. The Yankees have thrown down every house in the remote suburbs, including the town of Carrolton, and thrown open the country to the lake, that the Con federates may have no shelter from their fire, and may be seen many miles off. They sleep under arms, and are prepared at all times for an attack. In the meantime, Butler refuses every one a pass to leave town unless they take the oath of allegi ance, and amuses himself by telling all the women who apply for passes that while he is fighting the enemy in the suburbs he will deliver the town to the mercy of 20,000 negroes, and adds that he will leave the town a heap of ashes if obliged to eva cuate. He finds that the women are not to be shaken in their devotion to their country's cause by the threat of rapine and murder, and is tho roughly exasperated with the sex. He says the women were the entire cause of secession, that they tabooed and sent to Coventry every man who would not fight, and that even if they took the oath he would not grant them passes. It is true that we recognise no man who has remained at home and is able to serve in the army. You cannot conceive the horrible position we are placed in here. I will en deavour to give you a faint sketch of what we have to expect. In the first place, we are now subject to the caprices of our servants. Imagine an army where the officers were punished with fine and im prisonment for even enforcing ordinary discipline, such as preventing their soldiers leaving for days at a time, or resenting not only impertinence but personal violence! This is the case with us ;we are invariably told that the testimony of a ' loyal negro' is preferable to that of a rebel, and no asser tion they naake against their masters is too absurd to obtain credence. In the presence of these facts we are disarmed, not being permitted the smallest weapon to defend our houses or persons. Forsee ing that many would not comply with this order, Butter excites the cupidity of the slaves first, by offs ring a reward for every weapon they may find, arid next by offering liberty (which they have al -ready) if they will denounce their masters. This has proved such an inducement to perfidy, that many have hidden weapons in the house and then denounced their master and mistress. Some of our most respectable citizens have been sentenced to one year's imprisonment with hard labour, drag ging a ball and chain, for having retained, some a sword-cane, others a revolver, or bowie-knife. While we are unarmed, Butler arms all the free coloured population, while Phelps drills the negroes in camp to be ready at a moment's warning to be armed. Is it not dreadful ? They endeavour to excite the revengeful passions of the slaves by continually reminding them that the b our of retaliation is come. You hear the creatures in the streets boasting they will wade knee deep in the white man's blood.' " The fear of fire is now added to all these horrors. Three days ago all the operators of the fire tele graph were removed, on the ground that they had not taken the oath. The first day the Yankees had possession two large fires broke out in the heart of the business part of the city ; the flames had made great havoc before the telegraph gave the alarm, and the citizens who ran to extinguish the flames were kept back by the military. Since then fire alarms continue, and we feel apprehensive that they intend gradually to burn the town. " You have heard of the brilliant victory' of the Yankees at Baton Rouge. Notwithstanding the victory' they had to evacuate the place ; in doing so they blew up the State-house, removed the State library and Washington statue, laid the town in ashes, threw open the doors of the Penitentiary, and turned out about 500 convicts, who are now loose en our community. Here also the gaols were thrown open, and murderers and felons were turned loose, a great 'number of slaves among them. Dotft think this is exaggeration. I can assure you I write nothing but facts, which I can vouch for. "The navy boasts of doing nothing against the usages of civilised warfare. Ir returning from Baton Rouge they endeavoured to destroy the towns of Bayou Sara and Donaldsonville ; finding their shells did little damage, they landed the crews with buckets of tar, with which they smeared the houses and then set them on fire, and boasted in their official paper that they had only left a few sticks where these towns formerly stood. The mayor of Bayou Sara had informed them that guerillas were near; they left hurriedly, but returned when the guerillas had departed, and in return for the mayor's kindness laid the town in ashes. It is hard to believe that such things take place in a civilised country; but, nevertheless, every word I have written is true. The fact is, we are such a mendacious nation that I hesitate to write many things which would be considered American exaggeration, to express it in polite term s . " Yo uhave heard of the imprisonment of • Mrs. l ' hilli P s • She is a charming woman, with a large family of children, a ll o f th em unacc li ma t e d, many of them ve ry young, and thus deprived of a mother's care. Whe n called before Butler, he simply asked her if she did not smile when the funeral procession of Captain de R . , 37 ? Passed her house ? She re plied, ' It was possible, as she that day.' Without turteetr .was in good spirits al he sen t e nced her to close confinement on ship Island for an indefinite period. Upon her husband e ndeavourin g to speak for her, he told him that he Wo u ld have if he opened his mouth again. p e,or ve li hi P r n gagged on been snore than two months ' that desolate in sa nd bank without a hope of release. She is wr etched shanty, which neither keeps oat rain nor in a sun; she has had to p ass the entir e night sitti ng under an umbrella ; she receives a soldier 's rations ; she was allowed a servant, but this poor wor ean is not permittsd to leave the room, and has to shar e the close confinement of her mistress. Mrs. Phillip s being dangerously ill a short time ago, her husband was permitted to visit her. She had concealed from him her wretched condition ; they gave her neither a bed nor chair ; she took one of each with her, which comprises t he furniture of her wretched i son . She had been i ll for a week, durin g which time her servant could not cross the threshold of her door, anal n o o ne entered to see if they required an ything; a litt l e f aro wroot cooked over a piece of tallow candle, was all she could pi ocu plained to him her she sent for an officer, and ee helpless condi tion, and the absolute ne cessit y there r for hot applications. was of her having hot wax He left her, promising t o send her some imme diately. In four hours a fter some was sent. She had had time to di e of her agony. Mrs. Phillips had already been impri soned in Washington, with two lovely daughters, on suspicion of corresponding with the enemy' Though every search was made in their house, even the soiled linen looked through, without any proof against them, they were still retained prisoners till, through the influence of friends, th ey were released on condition of their selling everything they owned within three days, and lea 'ng Wash ington. They unfortunately came to New Orleans, where the brute Butler follows the example of his Government in persecuting her. I have not a doubt he had orders to seize the first opportunity of punishing her_ There are other ladies who have been imprisoned on equally trivial pretences ; but it is useless to cite them. One of our first creole ladies, a Madame Le Beau, near 70 years old, was denounced for having hidden arms. When called before Butler he was most insulting to her, called her that - woman, and sentenced h er to a y ear's imprisonment on Ship Island, but released her on condition that her son would take the oath of allegiance. A nephew of the same lady was sen tenced to a year's imprisonment, and hard labour with ball and chain, for having thrown his arms in the river instead of delivering them to the authori ties. Judge Andrews, one of our best citizens, was sentenced to two years' hard labour, ball and chain, on Ship Island for having shown at his club a small brooch in the form of a cross, which he laughingly \ said ' was made of the bone of a Yankee.' This was six months before the Yankees came here. A Mr. Keller was sentenced to the same punishment for having in the window of his bookstand a skeleton marked ‘ Chickahominy."fo-day a poor druggist has been sent to Ship island for three years' hard labour, ball and chain, for having endeavoured to smuggle quinine across the Yankee lines. His pro perty is also confiscated. He swears he is innocent, and it is said to have been done by a Yankee spy. If I were to undertake to tell you all the iniquitous judgments they would fill a volume ; I only men tion those people whom I know personally. " Sept. 7. " Since writing the above we have undergone excitement and anxiety of various kinds. First, the continued sound of cannon at Canalton led us to believe the attack by the Confederates had begun. It was only the death of some officer and the prac tising of artillery. " On the 23d of this month the Confiscation Act comes into force. The Government organ, the Delta, has spread consternation through the community by publishing the construction to be put upon the terms ' aid, abet, or countenance the rebellion.' According to their construction, there is not one creature of the age of reason who can escape the confiscation of his property. Butler says it will particularly reach the women, and that they should be turned out of their homes and made to work for their daily bread, thus depriving them of the time or disposition to be turning up their not very pretty noses at Union solders. "To give you an idea of the alarm and despair among the timid and wavering is more than I am able to do. We all know what the reasonable con struction of the law would be, but Butler has un limited power and will use it. He is applauded by the populace in the North for his merciless treat ment of ' Southern rebels.' He has an eye to the next Presidency, and is elated and flattered by the popularity his course seemingly gives him, and he will spare nothing. He has no family pride, no honour to uphold. He is of the populace. His brother, Col. Butler, who is at the head of the Com missariat Department, was formerly a negro trader; he has realised a colossal fortune by speculating on our miseries. He has made us pay 40 dols. a barrel for flour, and when the port of New Orleans was open to commerce he would not permit the Govern ment tow boats to bring any vessels up the Missis• sippi, and the owners of cargoes gladly sold to him at his own price rather than lose them altogether,of which they were in danger by passing many weeks at the mouth of the river. Thus for some time he continued to keep the market in his own hands, he being in partnership with his brother the Gene ral. At the same time, through the newspapers, he appealed to the bad passions of the poor, assuring them that the richer classes were the entire cause of the dearness of provisions and of their miseries. Confiscation has few terrors for us. We had long since made up our minds to lose all for our country. The worst feature of it is that we shall not be per mitted to go into the Confederacy, where friends abound, but must starve in the streets of this wretched town. There is a worse fear haunting us every hour—the black population ! There is no longer a doubt that they are armed, and we are de fenceless. Last night theyhad a Union meeting of the free blacks; slaves, of course, composed the majority. I hear they discussed the wholesale massacre of the white population, It is enough to render us maniacs to live as we are now doing. The European nations by merely recognising us would have given us a different position. Ido not know what to make of England. Certainly the whole legislation of the North is ruinous to English commercial interests. Fear of the power of the North seems to have para lyzed her. She is wrong if she imagines the pre sent struggle is going to exhaust the North. When their debt becomes too burdensome they will by an act of Congress wipe off the national debt. What I to them is national honour? Who knows anything l of the rulers after they have passed away ? They are obscure individuals placed in power by the po pulace. Scarcely one of them knows who his great grandfather was ; many have never heard of their father. Springing from the dregs of European po pulation, what do they care for sustaining either their own or a nation's honour ? Had England and France recognised us, and enabled us to break the blockade and get arms, we should have desired no thing more. We have had everything to contend against. We always depended upon the North and England for all manufactured articles, and there fore had no manufactories. Cotton and sugar being most profitable, we cultivated little else. Our ports have been blockaded ; we have been thrown entirely upon our own resources. The war has been carried on in the most highly cultivated and most thickly inhabited portions of the country. The ruin and devastation of the Northern hordes have never been eq ualled by a civilised people. Hav© you read the Northern accounts of the terrible retribution for what they choose to term the murder of General M'Cook ? Seventy-five innocent men who were pursuing their peaceful avocations were hung, 60 houses burnt, while the women and children were turned roofless and p enniless u p o n the world ! committed h it e te c d au m s a e n a y a ou c t le ra rg g y es . a a sh m v r i . ll L e , l ; liot, 'M'Cook was a who was President o f th e F ema l e b a r m u t o e n l g v h others, i m n an N , Academy at Nashville, to be stripped and publicly whipped. It is said he was shot by the brother of a young lady who aysa at school at Nashville, and , who had been insulted by ~ M'Cook. You remem ber a dear friend of mine, whom you knew when you were here; she told me that she saw last Sun day, while standing at her s treet-door, three Yankee officers cross over the street, one of them walked up to a young boy of 19 who is paralysed 1 a Mr. --, and slap him on the face, and curse him as a d Southern rebel, and use other language I could not write, to which the poor cripple made no answer. He then put his hand on his revolver and threatened to shoot him, though inside the door stood a young lady who must have been shot had he fired his pistol. As soon as 'Air, ' s a g itation permitted him to speak, he demanded the officer's name ; the Coward replied, 'I do not give my name to d---- -- rebels.' He then walked off, but evidently being encourag e d r . aged by , the other officers, he returned and 1" n ''" l.st "i'd another cowardly rui„, slap. Three weeks ago the creants scarcely dared look us in the face, b ut now they can insult us hundreds the should only tire with know . we arc unharmed and they in6ul i t lanunity. I could multiply to we are daily subjected to, but Sou, you must excuse my excited, incoherent style,b ut l am half contending ferdings. w erne __ mad with a thousand of new ind4;nities, new ;: rt our friends but to hear monster Boiler is surrounding With which the life and property to the other vvils, what is loss of us? You English ought to feel sonit-'''' threaten as the events of the Indian war must still c''lmPassion' your memories. be fresh "You have never read of such exalted patriotism as the women possess. To give one's life for one's country is quite natural, but they profess their readi ness to starve for theirs which from present pros pects there is probability of their doing, should Butler carry out his threats. They never lose their faith in our final triumph, and in the many panics which we have been and are still passing through they have preserved their self possession and For two years all social inter bravery . • • - course has almost ceased, and we have been thrown on our own resources. While part of the army was quartered near the town, the oEcers came often to us, and served to enliven our narrow circle; but since the taking the town we all shut ourselves up in our houses, rarely going out for exercise. Not a Yankee officer has penetrated into the interior of a family here, save with a search warrant to lock for silver or arms. We have been very anxious to leave New Orleans on many accounts, but could not get a pass unless we would perjure ourselves by taking the oath of allegiance to the hated Yankee Govern ment, and have preferred running the risk of being massacred here to going upon such terms_ Perhaps you will think this exaltation'—fanaticism. You know we have it in our characters naturally, and the present state of affairs has not weakened it. . . If I had anything but war to write about I would do so ; alas ! there is nothing else. Do take pity on us, and write to us from your peaceful, happy Eng land. If we are living, it will give us infinite plea sure to hear from you; if we are dead, you will have the reflection that your labour was not lost, inas much as it was a request the fulfilment of which I shall doubtless be aware of in the spirit land. . . There is one consolation in living through scenes like these—when death comes we welcome it ; in your happy country,with what horror do you look upon it ! We are all in mourning ; the exception is to find a person in colours: The entire nation has some to mourn. has followed the army for six months to watch her dear boys, whom she has nursed through wounds and sickness. Do you re member little —, in Washington ? He made his arrangements to run away and join the Southern army. He is not yet 16. He has been prevailed upon to abandon it for the present. " Believe me, your friend, asked if they had not effective commissioners there now in the persons of Generals Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Mr. Foote admitted their effectiveness, but their services were required in the field, where they were now prosecuting the war with energy, and he did not desire to have their atten tion distracted by other matters, 2JIE MURDER OF GENERAL NELSCN. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, SEPT. 29.—The Galt House, at about eight o'clock this morning, was the scene of a terrible affair, in Consequence of a diffi culty between Brigadier-General Jefferson C. Davis and Major-General Nelsen. It appeal s that there has been a difficulty between the parties for some time. General Nelson was standing in the office of the Galt House when General Davis approached him and spoke to him. General Nelson refused to listen to him, and used some insulting language. General Davis immediately borrowed a pistol and followed General Nelson, who was going upstairs to his room, and while on the stairs General Davis shot him. The ball entered the heart of Gen. Nelson, who walked into his room and was laid on a mat• trass, where he in a few minutes afterwards expired. There are many conflicting accounts of the shoot ing of General Nelson by General Davis. About a week ago Nelson placed Davis in command of the Home Guard forces of the city. At night Davis reported to Nelson the number of men working on the intrenchments and enrolled for service. Nelson cursed him for not having more. Davis replied that ho was a general officer, and demanded the treatment of a gentleman. Nelson, in an insulting manner, ordered him to report at Cincinnati, and told him he would order the provost-marshal to eject him from the city. This morning Governor Morton of Indiana, and General Nelson were standing near the desk in the Galt House, when General Davis approached, and requested Governor Morton to witness a conversa tion between himself and General Nelson. He de manded of Nelson an apology for the rude treat ment he had received last week. Nelson being a little deaf asked him'to speak louder. Davis again demanded an apology. Nelson denounced him and slapped him on the face. Davis stepped back, clenched his fist, and again demanded an apology. Nelson again slapped him in the face, and again denounced him as a coward. Davis turned away, procured a pistol from a friend, and followed Nelson, who was going up stairs. Davis told Nelson to defend himself, imme diately thereon firing. The ball penetrated his left breast, and General Nelson died in about 20 minutes. We add to this interesting letter the following latest intelligence from New Orleans : " From New Orleans we have advices to the 20th ult. General Butler had issued an order for bidding the transfer of property or rights of pro perty, real, mixed, personal, or incorporeal,—except necessary food, medicine, and clothing, either by way of sale, gift, pledge, payment, lease, or loan, by any inhabitant of the department who has not returned to his or her allegiance to the United States, the person transferring and the person re ceiving to be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both. All registers of transfer of certificates of stock or shares in any incorporated or joint-stock company, or association, in which such person had any interest, were likewise forbidden." None but loyal subjects were allowed to draw a cheque upon a bank. British subjects were desi rous of having one or two of her Majesty's ships at that port for the protection of their interests. " On the 13th a force of 250 was despatched from New Orleans, under Major Strong, to look after a Confederate force under Jefferson Thompson, which was said to be at Pynchatoola. On reaching that place they found it strongly defended. It was, how ever, assaulted, and the Confederates routed. Jef- PIIILADELPHIA, Monday, Sept. 29.—A special despatch to a morning paper, of this city, says that General Nelson called General Davis " a cowardly son of —," when General Davis fired at him and killed him. THE BLACK FLAG.-AMERICAN SLAVERY. (From the Examiner.) The sign of the desperation of the Federal cause appears. President Lincoln has hoisted the black flag. He has proclaimed not the abolition of slavery, but the freedom of slaves in States in rebellion against the Federal authority. Any slave States adhering to, or returning to the Union, are to con tinue to possess the peculiar institutions guaranteed by the Constitution, and condemned by the moral ferson Thompson, ,it was learnt, had been days in Jackson, Mississippi. Among the trophies obtained, however, was Jefferson's sword, presented to him by certain patriots of Memphis, hie spurs, and mi litary saddle. About 25 or 30 railroad cars, loaded with cotton, sugar, and molasses, belonging to the Confederate Government, were set on fire and de stroyed. Having accomplished this, preparations were made to return, when it was discovered that the line of the track was menaced by the enemy's infantry, and that two pieces of artillery were planted so as to command the road. The Federals, however, made good their retreat without loss. Major Strong said a few words of encouragement to the men, and started down the railway track,much of it laid on trestle-work, built over the swamp." judgment J of the whole civilised world. What, then, is slavery in the opinion of the Fede ral Government ? Is it a curse, as the Abolitionists of the North have alleged, or is it a blessing, as its advocates in the South have pretended ? What is it that the President proposes to take from the re bellious and leave to the loyal, punishing the one and rewarding the other ? Emulating Providence, is he chastening where he loves, or to what senti- In the Confederate House of Representatives, on the 22d, the following observations were made by Mr. Foote, of Tennes;ee, in moving that the Corn missioners be sent to Washington empowered to pro- f THE SUN, 71_414914. 4,VitAt st o:pl'lT,lt 14, 186 g. T.—Oct. 13. ment can be ascribed his eradication of a great evil from certain hostile soils, and the sufferance and protection of it in others friendly to him and faith ful to the Constitution ? Is he returning good for evil, and saying to the rebels, as you have smitten me I will deliver your land from its opprobrium and bane ? Though we are taught to love them that hate us, we are not enjoined to injure those who love us. And how are we to account for the President's per mitting the curse of slavery to survive in the States faithful to him ? Why is a loyal State to have the abomination fixed upon it that has been uprooted from the neighbouring rebel community? Which is reward, which punishment ? The reward looks like punishment, the punishment like reward, that is, if there be any truth and sincerity in the tenets of Abolitionists, a large hypothesis we admit. What d oes Mr. Sumner think, what does Mrs. Stowe think, of purging the rebel States of their great offence, and leaving it to scourge the loyal with its complication of mischiefs? Surely they would say to the President, " Reverse your decree. Give the boon of emancipation to the loyal to elevate their condition, moral and industrial, and finally improve their property. Let the curse of slavery be the por tion of those who take evil for good, and who have broken the Union." Where would Mrs. Stowe now for choice place Uncle Tom's cabin ? Should it be in Carolina or Maryland ? Would the black's bon dage be sweetened by the loyalty of a border State ? Would his declared freedom for vengeance be pre cious to a Christian mind in a rebel State ? The decree of the President has, indeed, nothing to do NN ith the question of slavery, morally and po litically considered. How it will affect the blacks has not been thought of, except to turn their hands against their white masters engaged in the Southern cause. Abolition is simply another word for the last and the worst vengeance. It is to destroy what cannot be recovered. To eke out by a servile war what cannot be effected by a civil war. From the first we predicted that in this detestable quarrel abolition would be the last arm of venw2ance; that it would be made a pretence of till the game should appear desperate, and then resorted to as a sure stroke of mischief — sure to carry the war to s son t h g w io e onf h i nifhge though uot egcwomen ferocity natural yo ran protectors a tkr noe sure malcon tenteutecrh t h eoo i sro l - esf the knife to private ho reoae m di e tti d being which black e lidlai l cs e tkth f u t er bb u file n oedol d dd e s t t e undefended, any important intoa p ow d e r g emn magazine g r l z result. on A t fih the fire e brand calculation is that though it may fail of a general explosion, it will fire the loose powder. But in these crooked politics, as in mechanics, action and reaction tire equal and contrary, and President Lincoln's decree will probably make more enemies for him in the North and West than insurgent blacks in the South. Bitterly as the Northern men hate the Southerners, they would not endure the idea of the triumph of the blacks over their white enemies; not that they would care for the sufferings, but that they would grudge the blacks the luxury of inflicting them, and the riot in rape and murders. This would be the feeling of the worst men in the North ; while that of the best must be the revolt of the humane and civilised against any instigation to a war as much worse than civil war, as civil is worse than any other. Jealousies of liberty cannot be all dead in Ame rica, and people must ask whether they are to sub mit to the decree of the poor puppet President as to those of Providence, and to bless his name who giveth and taketh away,—giving liberty to blacks, and taking it away from born freemen. The free dom of the Press, the freedom of speech a re g one ; and arbitrary arrests are as common now in the remnant of the broken Union as they were in the old regune of France, in the worst days of the lettres de cachet and the Bastile. - ----"----- - re be - THE hum GAG.—These Irish outrage. a . coming serious. Besides the scene in Hyde Park, a fight has occurred in Field.lane, in which the police were . defied.. All . this is simply A man was struck down in Broad-street on suspicion of being 4 Garibaldian. Four soldiers have been wounded in 'Tuthill-fields, and the Lord Mayor. has deemed if necessary to refuse the use of the Guildhall to a Garibaldian meeting. right to abuse Garibaldi as much. as they like, but not to stop . other people from praising him, and the tacit permis. until . Catholic SlO7l granted to menaces of disorder are discreditable to our (Alicia bably move in ls. At Birkenhead,pbliygoitolerabie The Irish have a perfect Irish rioters who attacked a .de bating society were sent home by two sensible priests, but, in London we fear the disorders AVM be allowed to continue Y has awakened Protestant fanaticism, and lives have been lost. Then the authorities will pro. little earlier. We are not going to have Judge Lynch en throned in London.--Spectator. earnest, but it might be expedient to do it a pose the terms of a just and honourable peace : "Sir, I have but little hope that our insolvent and cruel foe will listen to this [ roposition favourably. I have but little confidence, I confess, sir, in the wisdom and sagacity, the statesmanship, or the true manliness of spirit, of Mr. Lincoln and his deluded Cabinet councillors. I am not unaware that these personages have been disgracefully driven forward continually, from the first shedding of blood in the affair of Fort Sumter, up to the present moment, by a numerous and active body of infuriated fanatics and un scrupulous demagogues, until they have almost reached the depths of utter hopelessness and ruin. I am not at confident that the weak and vacillating executive chiefs in Washington City has adequate moral courage to receive our Commissioner, should we conclude to send one, even were the sufferings of our Northern enemies far greater than those which they have already experienced, though stimulated, as to some extent the must neces- sarily be, by the apprehension of the far greater suffer ings with which they are now so obviously menaced. But, sir, to these considerations I attach but little importance. I will endeavour to state my view of the subject in a very concise manner, as, according to the rules of the house, I can occupy its attention only for a few minutes. The enemy will either refuse our pro posal of peace, or, perchance, even refuse to receive our commissioner ;or they will be courteously received. Cer tainly it is hardly to be hoped that our proposal of peace will be respectfully considered and agreed to. In the latter case a most bloody and desolating war will be brought to a close; our own beloved country will be relieved from the experience of present sufferings, and be, perchance, saved from greatly multiplied sufferings hereafter. If a just and honourable peace be madly refused us, then upon the heads of our heartless adversaries will be accumulated all the re sponsibility connected with them evils which may be here after inflicted upon the general interests of the civilised world ; the oceans of blood which may be hereafter shed, and all the immeasurable horrors which must inevitably result from a war conducted as it has been heretofore con ducted by our heartless enemies, in utter disregard of all the well known principles of civilised war. We cannot, in any state of thiligs which can be possibly conceived of, be at all injured by the pursuing of the line of policy suggested in the resolution. Our brave armies in the field will not feel less inclined to prosecute the war with energy and re- solution, because their Government manifests a disposition to save them from the necessity of incurring further hard ships, and shows a disposition to restore them once more to the blessings of peace, of domestic happiness, and of social beatitude. On the contrary, I shall confidently ex. pect the exhibition of a still sterner resolution, a still fiercer military zeal, and still more glorious achieve ments, when they shall thus find it demonstrated to them that there is no possibility of peace with our perse cutors, save by resorting, in a spirit of just retaliation, to those terrible expedients which may be calculated to impress upon their own obdurate hearts the intense consciousness of those horrors of which they have been the sole origina tors. If our proposition should be declined, and there be any good men yet left in the North, friends to justice, to the laws of Christian humanity, and the general happiness of the world, they will at once make their presence known, organise and embody their energies against an insolent and barbarous Government, drive Lincoln and his myrmidons from power, and elevate to the seats of official authority wise and upright statesmen, through whose efficient instru mentality this sanguinary struggle may be at last brought to a termination. Sir, it is not even possible that our moe tives or objects in taking the initiative in the noble work or pacification can be misunderstood either by the enemy or by the rest of the civilised nations of the world. We are thus far completely victorious in the war. In all the nume rous battles which have been fought we have been most signally successful. We have driven or are now driving the vaunting hosts of the North beyond our confines, and our victorious standards are now being planted upon the terri tory of the foe. Such a succession of brilliaa and deci• sive triumphs has never heretofore adorned the page of our history. Our successes have been acknowledged in the most emphatic manner even in the columns of the Northern newspapers. In sheer magnanimity we are bound to offer terms of peace to the enemy. Wi th us alone can a proposition of peace ori g i nate without the deepcst dishonour. If the war is not to be inter. m inable (and who des ires this ?) the first move menttowards a settlement of existing difficulties must be made by one o f the parties contestant; and as the enemy cannot be expected under existing circumstances, to send to us a proposition for the present termination of hostilities, it results that th e c i v ilised world has a right to look to us for such action as the resolution proposes. 11Zr. Speaker, I know well that I shall be denounced in certain quarters for my present con duct. I shall be probably chargoidianwiirathex. I shall not be excessive modera tion, and perchance even of pin. ity at all surprised if all who are especially interested in the continuance of the war shall resort even to ridicule and de nunciation. To all this lam prepared to submit, confiding as I do in the general good sense and elevated moral senti- Inent of my h onoure d coun t r ymen, and being perfectly per suaded that this resolution, if it should be fated to rejection, will awaken a responsive echo in the bosoms o f g ood and wise m en elsewhere, which will more than compensate for present misjudgment and undeserved obloquy, Mr. Wilcox POLICE BOW-STREET. —ATTEMPTED MURDER 0/ 1 A BROTHER.—A decently-dressed man, named James Joseph Parker, was brought before Mr. Henry at this court, on a charge of attempting to murder his brother Matthew Parker, by firing a pistol at him. Matthew Parker, the prosecutor, apparently somewhat younger than the prisoner, deposed—l reside at No. 57, Museum-street, and have no occu pation, but live on my own private means. The prisoner is my brother. He is a grocer's assistant, but I believe he is out of employment. This morning, at about half-past 11 o'clock, I had been collecting the rents of some houses of mine, in George-street, St. Giles's, and was passing through that street when some person came up to me from behind, and when I looked round fired a pistol in my face. I then saw that it was the prisoner. 1 was at first staggered for a moment ; but presently I turned round, and fearing that he might fire again, I ran away up George-street and into Great Russell-street. As I turned the corner into Great Russell-street, the pri soner, who was running after me, drew another pistol from his pocket. 1 continued running on and called to the people to stop him. I ran as far as the corner of Hanway-street, where the prisoner was stopped, and I gave him into custody. I went I to the hospital, where two or three shots were ex- tracted froin my face. Mr. Henry—How far was the prisoner from you when be fired at you ? Witness—Only a few feet. Mr. Henry (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to put any questions to this witness ? The Prisoner—No, sir_ I only wish to say that I have repeatedly applied to my brother for assist ance, being in great distress. Mr. Peter Shepherd.—l am a pianoforte-tuner, and live at Hamilton-street, Camden Town. This morning, about half-past eleven o'clock, I saw the prisoner pass me at the corner of Bainbridge-street and George-street. Immediately after he passed me he made a rush at the last witness, and dis charged a pistol in his face. The prosecutor ran away, followed by the prisoner, who had another pistol in his hand. I followed with two or three other persons. By the time we got to Hanway street a crowd had gathered, and some of the people stopped the prosecutor instead of the prisonei. The prosecutor was running fast. When the prisoner was stopped he was reaching over another man's shoulder to aim at his brother with the second pis tol. I took it from him, and removed the cap for fear it should go off. I dropped the cap by accident, and before I could pick it up some one had trodden on it, and it was flattened as it now appears. The prisoner said he would give himself up to the police. I did not hear him say anything else. The Prisoner—l deny that I pointed the second pistol at him. I was stopped too soon for that. Inspector Honey, of the E division of police—l was on duty at the station-house when the prisoner was brought there on this charge. After entering the charge I read it to him, and he made no re mark. The pistol produced was delivered to me by the last witness. It was loaded to the muzzle with gunpowder and slugs. Afterwards I went to the hospital, where I saw the surgeon extract from the prosecutor's cheek the two shots produced. I did not hear the prisoner say anything about the charge, but I heard him say that he had a wife and children. Police-constable Head, 89 E, deposed—l was on duty in Tottenham-court-road, and saw a crowd at the corner of Hanway-street. I went there and found the prisoner in the custody of the private con stable on duty there, who said that he was charged with an assault, without mentioning the nature of that assault. I did not at that time know that he was charged with firing a pistol at his brother. The prisoner said, " All right, policeman, I will go with you." Oa the way to the station he added, " He has done me out of some money, my wife and my child are starving." At the s t a tion-house I searched him, and found on him a p istol, which I now produce. It had evidently been recently dis charged, being unloaded, and having on the nipple an exploded cap. I also found on him ninepence in money. Mr. Henry—Anything else ? Was he carefully searched to see if he had any other weapon ? Witness—Yes, Sir, That was all. Mr. Samuel Jones Gee—l am house surgeon at University College Hospital, and was in attendance this morning when the prosecutor was brought in. I found seven or eight small circular wounds scat tered over his face, especially about the forehead and the right cheek. They were mere abrasions of the skin, with the exception of two, from each of which I extracted a small shot about the size of a pea. The shots were just under the skin. I de livered the two shot to Inspector Honey. Mr. Henry (to the prisoner)—You have heard the evidence in this very serious charge against you. Do you wish to say anything in reply to it P If you do say anything, it will be taken down in writ ing, and may be used in evidence against you at the trial. The Prisoner—All I have to say is, that I have been in a state of destitution. Mr. Henry—Do you wish that written down ? The Prisoner—l do. I have been in great dis tress, and in very bad health. I have made re peated applications to my brother to assist me, and he has promised to do so, but has not kept his word. He made'promises in the presence of my father on his death-bed. My father left the property to be divided amongst us all, but he has kept it all to himself. The prosecutor said this was not true. Mr. Henry said it was not necessary to contra dict such a statement, which had nothing to do with the case, though he had not interrupted the pri soner, as in such a case the defendant was allowed to say whatever he liked. The prisoner must be committed for trial for shooting at his brother with intent to murder him. After the prisoner had been removed, The officer stated that the prisoner's wife had ap plied to him for the sum of 9d., which he had found on the prisoner. Might it be given to her ? Mr. Henry—Certainly. Let her have it. LAMBETH.—EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY OF A VALUABLE DIAMOND RlNG.—Elizabeth Wilson, a young woman dressed in deep mourning, who was said to be living under the protection of "a gentle man," at 64, Walnut-tree-walk, Lambeth, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, and charged on suspicion with being concerned, with a Frenchman riot in custody, in stealing a diamond ring of the value of £65, the property of Mr. Richard Atten borough, pawnbroker, of Knightsbridge. Charles Palmer, assistant to Mr. Attenborough, deposed that on Saturday afternoon, between the hours of four and five o'clock, a middle-aged foreigner called at the shop of his master and re quested to be shown a diamond ring which was exhibited for sale in the window, and which was marked at 75 guineas. Mr. Basset, the foreman of the shop, took the ring from the window, and placing it on the counter the man took it up, and counting the number of stones which f or med the cluster, and taking out his pocket -book appeared to calculate their value separately, and ultimately purchased the ring for £65. He then requested that a person might be sent with him to his residence, 64, Walnut-tree-walk, Lambeth, where he would pay for it. Witness accordingly accompanied the man to the house mentioned, the door of which was opened by the female then present, and the man, on meeting the prisoner in the passage, addressed 1 her in the most endearing terms, calling her his " darling," &c., and said he had intended to be home much sooner. They then entered the parlour, and he (witness) went in there also, when the man wrote one or two notes which he handed to the pri soner, and she left the apartment. The foreigner then said he kept his money upstairs, and asked witness to let him have the ring to show it to his friends upstairs, and he would then bring him down the money. Not suspecting anything wrong he let him have the ring, and he left the parlour, closing the door after him. In about five minutes after th e prisoner returned to the parlour with a dog in her arms, asked him if he was a judge of dogs, and b e .. gan to speak of the qualities of the animal for the purpose, as he believed, of engaging his attention while the man was making his escape. He at length ' asked her if the man was not her husband. The prisoner replied that he was not, and that she knew no more about him than having met him in the 1 street the night before. Witness finding that the man was gone away with the ring went to the station-house, and having obtained the assistance of Sergeant Shepherd, a detective, he gave the prisoner into custody. Sergeant Shepherd said that on going to the house No. 64, Walnut-tree -walk, with the last wit ness, the prisoner informed him that all she knew .nr of the Frenchman who had stolen the ring was her merely meeting him for the first time en Friday night night in the Kennington -road, and his B rier also with her for that night only. The prisoner the said that on leaving her on Saturday man said he was going to call on theF be back in the sador to get some money, and should a _ r ni en ° c h ambas , course of the day. I ascertained parlours of _le (wi.tnessn)ehtvido that the prisoner had occupied t s he was under the the house for some months, thastaw other vors. protection of a gentleman, btehtat the foreigner who The defence set up was effect stranger to her be stole the property was '.' 13 ,;, - ce , and that she had no pond one night's acquai.nt a the robbery. participation whate.ver a l remand was requested. For the prosecution_ _ t i but consented that th . !) Mr. Elliott granted kai ii vved ' to go at large on good 1 prisoner might be . ft- :tit on the bench Mr. On taking ilis .seat of the Inspectors of the L .. called ' the atte . nti? _ communication be b a d re division of Pollee t ° 4 Elliott _ ,' ri ..,, ceived from the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, amount of the purchase money and his commission, stating that a fair was about to be holden on a piece we ber himraill— have the bills. of ground, on which Vauxhall - ga r d ens stood, which TYou beli eve the roone.v had been paid used to be called the Royal Property, and hoped for which he produced hen r.neipt ? that steps would be taken by the magistrate and The Prosecutor—Cery. police to avert so serious a nuisance. Cross-examination: continued'—The prisoner re- Mr. Mould (the inspector addressed by the maxis- ferred another " house " and on the Friday to us as to his tr usmorning tworthi trate) said that information of the intended fair Hess for £lOO or £ 2OO ; had reached his superintendent, and he had sent to he came to us he asked us if we bad heard from Mr. the parties engaged in getting it up, to caution them Spence, and we wrote a letter in his presence to the of the consequences. At a later hour of the day the effect that we had known him eighteen months, and inspector informed Mr. Elliott he had discovered considered him trustwortky for £lO ox 1200. the landlord of the property and gave him the ne- William Alfred MaugharC , partner it' the firm, purl the for wbieh the cessary ca u ti on , an d that everything should be done gave corroborative testimony - as to the interview by Mr. Bickers, or his superintendent, to prevent with the prisoner, and the pu the lair being holden. bills were given. He added—On meeting the prisoner, on Saturday, in London, I told him I under stood there was no such person as B:yth living in East-street, Walworth, and that unles s he took me at once to the man, or returned me the bills, I would give him into custody. He repiieil that we might depend upon having the iron during the week. . _ s,nd took him. SOUTHWARK.—SERIOUS CHARGE OF STAB BING.—Ann Ulman, a middle-aged woman, the wife of a shoemaker, residing in - Queen-street, was brought before Mr. Burcham, charged with mali ciously stabbing Eliza Aldridge, thereby inflicting grievous bodily harm. The complainant, whose head was bandaged up, and who appeared to be suffering from loss of blood, said that she had known the prisoner some years as a fellow lodger, but had not recently lived with her. Witness and her husband, who worked at Deane and Dray's, lived in Angel-court, Blackman. street. On Saturday night last, about 11 o'clock, witness went up to bed, leaving her husband and a friend below. About a quarter of an hour afterwards she heard the prisoner making use of foul language at the door, when her husband called her down. She descended in her night-dress and asked what the prisoner wanted. She said she wanted her daughter. Witness told her that she did not know where her daughter was, as she had not seen her for eight or nine months. The prisoner then made use of foul language, rushed at her and struck her on the left eye with something sharp, which nearly stunned her and she was blinded with blood. She fell down exhausted, but a constable fortunately came up and procured a snegeon, who attended upon her and strapped up the wOund. Mr. Burcham asked i s er . if she saw any knife or other instrument in the pr i,soner's hand before she struck her. the violence was She replied that she did not, ati, pvt her hands up so sudden that she had not t ime to to protect her face. She Lne ver gave Ole prisoner any provocation, or spoke an ang r y word iso , quor. she perceived she was under the influ ence of The prisoner here said that her daughter Lad been inveigled from home, and Mrs. Aldridge knew where she was. She was told so, and that was the reason she went there, but she had no knife. Mr. Burcham asked the prosecutrix whether she knew anything of the prisoner's daughter. She replied that she did not. Philip Yates said that on Saturday, about half past 11, he was with Mr. Aldridge after his wife went upstairs to bed. The prisoner then came up to the door and said she wanted her daughter. Mr. Aldridge told her he knew nothing about her, and called his wife down. As soon as the latter came to the door the prisoner rushed at her and struck her on the face, and blood immediately flowed from a wound near the left eye. Witness seized hold of the prisoner and secured her until a constable came up, when she was taken into custody. Mr. Jas. Henderson, surgeon, of Trinity-square, said that on Saturday night, a little before 12 o'clock, he was called to the station-house, and saw the prosecutrix bleeding from a wound on the side of the left temple. He examined it, and found an incised cut two inches deep, and down to the bone. It was in a slanting direction, and had it been a quarter of an inch lower down, must have proved fatal: It was inflicted with a sharp instrument, and not with the key found in the prisoner's pos session. Josiah Welsh, 185 M, said that when he was called he found a mob of nearly 100 persons about the door. He secured the prisoner, and had the prosecutrix conveyed to the station-house, where last witness attended upon her. The prisoner ad mitted striking the complainant, but she said it was not with a knife, but a key. Mr. Barcham asked whether any knife had been found. Witness replied in the negative. He found a large key in the prisoner's hand, but there was no blood on it. In defence the prisoner said she had been told by a woman that the prosecutrix had inveigled her daughter away from her home for an improper pur pose. She accordingly went to her house, and asked for her, when complainant struck her in a passion, and she struck her again with the key. She had no knife. Mr. Burcham told her that the evidence of the surgeon proved that the wound was inflicted with a sharp instrument, therefore, under all the circum stances, he should commit her for trial. I Cold him I would not wait an hour, a, with me to the Jerusalem Coffee-house. There he pretended he wanted to leave for a necessary pur pose, and went on to an upstairs landing. I waited below ten minutes, and on my brother coming in I left the prisoner with him, tel ling my brother not to leave him, as I had another engagement in the City. I returned to the Jerusalem Coffee-house in about 20 minutes afterwards, and then found they had both left, my brother hav in g left word that he- had gone into Cannon-street. Mr. Traill—Did the prisoner say who the person was of whom he was to purchase the iron ? Witness—He said he was a dust collector, but was a very wealthy man, although, at the time of their coming over together to this country from. Germany, he had not a rag to his back. (Laughter.) Mr. Lewis addressed the magistrate for the pri soner, contending that no fraud had been intended, and that the iron, for all the prosecutors could tell, would have been delivered at their works within the time named. Mr. Traill said he considered the case as clear a one of fraud of its kind as could be. '1 he prosecutors had parted with the two £75 bills on the faith of the receipt produced by the prisoner that the pre vious bills of £5O each had been paid on account of the iron. He should remand the prisoner, but would accept bail in two sureties of £l5O each, and the prisoner himself in £3OO, for his apps trance that day week. The required bail was immediately tendered and accepted. PURSUIT AND CAP7uBE OF A RUNAWAY HUSBAND. A rather funny case has just transpired at Liver pool. It originated near Carlisle, and ended, so far as present appearances are concerned, in the detec tive office of Liverpool. A few days since, a man named Joseph Storey, a well-to-do farmer, residing in the neighbou.thood of Carlisle, left his home with one of his female• domestics, taking with him about £7OO, and leaving behind those other inconvenient articles to him—a wife and four children. From some information which the deserted wife received, she started off to LivCrpool, accompanied with a stout female friend. al their arrival there they put themselves in communication with a detective officer of that place, and afterwards proceeded to a coffee-house, in Islington, where they found the runaway husband and his paramour. The .scene can be better imagined than described. The gay Lothario was thunderstruck, while his frail one at once made " tracks," not before, however, she re ceived a parting recognition from Mrs. Storey's stout female friend. The old delinquent now be came penitent, and made the most religious vows as to his future good conduct. The tears of repent ance rolled down the old sinner's cheeks while ho asked forgiveness of his injured spouse. This was all very well until his wife cried out, " Where is your money P" This brought Mr. Storey to his senses, and with a look of dismay he answered, " Eh, she has gone and taken a' with her." The husband without the money was indeed poor com fort, and Mrs. Storey thought so. She at once bundled him out in search of a police officer, while she herself and her friend kept on the look-out. for Meg. Eventually the services of Detective Carlisle were secured, and very soon Meg was discovered in a lodging-house. Without any attempt at conceal ment, the girl delivered up to the detective nearly all the money which old Storey had given to her to take care of. The amount was about £6OO in notes and gold. The money was handed over to Mrs. Storey, who left at once for Carlisle, the old gentle man preferring to stay behind for a few days. When last seen, he 'was in the condition which people generally find themselves in who keep their spirits up by pouring spirits down. COUNTRY MARK.L'i .1. , -------- - COLCHESTER —Oar. 11. The supply of wheat to-day at market was not large ; prices were about the same as last week. Barley dull, and and cheaper. Beans and peas steady. Wheat, white 48. s 54s Beans,Mazagan..34s 36s red 44s 52s middle & small.33s 37s Barley - 42s 44s Oats GLOUCESTEII—OcT. 11. To-day there was a moderate ,Ripply of English wheat of market, and the demand was fair, at fully late rates. Foreign in slow demand. Barley, oats, beans, and peas at former prices. IRD—Ocr, 10. at about late rates. Spring ins is cheaper. Yeas, Partridge..... 378 41s White 398 40s Boiling 4os 438 Dun 358 38s Ditto new —s —s Beans, Tick, old 34s 39s • new -8 Harrow Ticks 3ss 408 new —s —s Blazagan 3os 388 BIRTHS_ GREENWICH: EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF OBTAINING BILLS OF EXCHANGE BY FRAUD.-- Philip Litoun, 22, a German, described as a general dealer, of 4, Gloucester-terrace, Gloucester-road, Upper Grange-road, Bermondsey, was placed in the dock, before Mr. Traill, charged with fraudu lently obtaining two £5O bills of exchange and two similar bills for £75 each, from Messrs. Maugham Brothers, scrap ironworks, Greenwich. Mr. Lewis appeared for the prisoner. Henry Maugham said—l am in partnership with my brother Wm. Alfred Maugham, as manufacturers of scrap iron. Th© prisoner has been in the habit of purchasing old iron for us, and about a fortnight since he came to our works and said he had had a cheap lot of scrap iron offered him, at £3 per ton, which he was willing to let us have at an advance of ss. per ton as his profit. We agreed to make the purchase, and on Monday last he again called upon us at our works, and, saying he had paid a deposit of £4O on the iron, asked us to give two bills of £5O, at one month's date, we promising to let him have the balance in cash in a few days. We gave him those two bills on that day. The bills were drawn by the prisoner and accepted by me. He came again on Friday last, and produced a receipt for £l4O, which went to show that amount had been paid on account of the iron, the descriptions of iron being set forth, and that the £4O deposit would be forfeited unless the balance was paid in 10 or 12 days, lam ni;+ sure which. I told him he had better look up on Mo2day for £lOO, but ulti mately he said that two bills to: £75 each at short dates would settle the matter at conCe, and the iron would be commenced to be delivered on Monday at the rate of 20 tons per day. We gave him t hose bills on Friday, he undertaking to bring a receipt 1,7 full on the evening of that day. The receipt he produced for £l4O had the signature of " Blyth" as a sur name, but I do not recollect what Christian name it bore. There was no address, but he said the person of whom he bought the iron lived in East street, Walworth,:and was his schoolfellow—they came to England in the same ship from Germany together. After we had parted with the bills I feared we had not acted altogether regularly, and sent my clerk in the evening to make inquiries at East-street, Walworth. I saw the clerk on the following morning, and he told me no such person as Blyth was known at the address given. The prisoner did not bring the promised receipt in full on the Friday evening nor on the Saturday morn ing, but my brother met him in London on Satur day, and threatened to give him into custody unless he took him to the person to whom he had paid the £l4O, or returned their bills. My brother took him to the Jerusalem Coffee-house, City, where I met them, and the prisoner said he would satisfy us all was right, and indved me to go with him a few yards, where he had left a pony and chaise, promis ing us,we should,' have the last two £75 bills back, saying': some one in the Mile-end-road held them, and that he would take me to his own wharf and let me have goods to the value of the first two bills of £5O each. The prisoner met some acquaintance on the way, and they walked together a few yards before me, when I met a person who I thought knew something of the prisoner, and while making some inquiries of this person in Cannon-street, City, the prisoner and his acquaintance suddenly dived down through some doorway, and I lost sight of them, remaining nearly two hours, but neither of them returned. - By Mr. Traill_At the time he asked for the two £5O bills he described the quantities to be pur chased, viz., 20 tons of tires, 20 tons of lump iron, and 40 tons of horse shoes and stubs (nails), about 25 tons being horse shoes, and more valuable than the nails. He also gave us the name of "Blyth" as the person of whom he was to obtain the iron, but did not give us his place of residence, saying he did not live very far off, and he did not wish to in troduce us direct to his connexion. By Mr. Lewis—We have not had more than half a-dozen transactions with the prisoner. Perhaps three or four of these have been bill transactions. The prisoner has been the drawer of those bills, but he is not liable to pay more than one, and that not of a greater a mount than £5O. The purchase of iron which forms the subject of the present charge WaS not to have been a r eady-money trans ac ti on. We gave him t he two £5O bills to discounted , get debe tt better and to pay for the iron. W hen he p r oduct d the re ceipts for t he £l4O, be told us he bad tna use of the two £5O bills than discounting them, as he had paid them away to a Mr. Bowles lor lead, and had sold the lead, the proceeds of which he had paid away in cash on account of the scrap iron. He did not communica te with m previously to negoti ating ther iroli ewas e a meworanduin given a u t s in b g y t t h b o e s bills. e prisonerbl. s that would be delivered at our works between the a 6 th and 18th inst. The , ti t on. He suggested £l5O, d to the mouth of e two £75 bills were anted we should Sep tember at prisoner's sug g e s and knowing not be over-paying him the CHELMSFO The wheat trade was dull, corn was a shade lower. Bei Wheat, old white 39s 56s new 39s 54s old red 44s 52s new 43s 51s Barley 30s 308 Chevalier 3os 42s Grinding 24s 32s Malt.... .. 6ls 67s Chevalier 64s 69s Oats 2os 28s KIRKCALDY RAIN—OCT. 11. We had very small supplies of grain today. Wheat and barley a slow sale, at last week's rates. Oats were is to 2s down in price. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First ....35s Od 21s 6 - cl l 6s Od Second ..40s Od I 25s Od 20s Od Third ....51s Od 31s 9d 28s Od COAL M LARKET. (Prioea of Coal per Ton at s. d. Bower's West Hartley 15 9 Wylam ..16 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting 23 6 Do. Anthracite 21 6 Holywell 15 9 Co*pen Hartley ..15 9 Eden Main..., .......16 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley ....15 9 Hastings Hartley ....15 9 Tanfield Moor 12 6 Tanfield Moor Butes l2 6 North Pelton Gas 13 3 Craighead Steam 13 6 the close of the market. Walls End. e. d. Ships at market Haswell Heugh Hall 16 3 Stewart's 17 6 iletton South Hetton ..18 0 H ar tl e pool 17 6 South Hartlepool ..16 (1 Trimdon Hartlepool ..17 Ridde11...... l6 0 S. Durham 15 9 Russel's Hetton l6 3 Brsddyll's Hetton 16 6 Byron l6 6 Tunstall ........ • • l6 3 elloe l6 6 41; said. 55. BEDELL.—On the 11th inst., at Wanstead, Essex, Mrs. C. Bedell, of a daughter. DALRYINIPLE.—On the llth of a st., at 31, Do ver - s t ree t, the e, son. V Y .--0 isC°Un n the 1. teDoatihrYinst., p i HA at Sandgate, the wife of Lieut.- Colonel Drummond Ha y , 7d th Highlanders, of a son. PAGET.—On the 11 th inst., at Farnham, Surrey, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel Patrick L. C. Paget, late Scots Fusi lier Guards, of a daughter. QUAYLE.—On the 14 th inst. at 10 , Denmark-street. I s lington, the wife of Mr. William Quayle, of a son. M`Pherso,C.B. MARRIAGES. er n cr — hl, H ß u o n st D o L n 7 J T o o h N n .— Fi O sh n e t r h , e a Esq., toi‘thiSryt.Blterblpahra': daughter of the late G. Huddleston, Esq., and niece of F C G B E rh e General , a u POWELL—SXELTON,—On the 11th inst., at St. Luke 'a Church, Cheltenh am tain Ashmore Powell, R , N. , C. 8., s on o f the late 'Col. P POwell, to Mary Evelina, the eldest daughter of G. H. Skelton, Esq., of Langtea H ouse, Cheltenham. DEATHS. ATTRIDE.—On the 4th inst., at 5, M i nerva -t errace , New CI oss, Ernest William, aged 3 years and 4 months, only son of Wm. T. Attride, Esq. ; and on the Bth inst., Wri3. T. Attride, Esq., of the Stock Exchange, aged 29. BRYAN.—At the residence of his sister, 14,Victoria-terrac e ' Notting-hill, Mr. Joseph Bryan, la te of the Wo ods an" Forests, aged 65. EDWARDS,—On the 11th inst., at Tynemouth, Edward Edwards, Esq., Military Store Staff. MAINGAY.—On the 11th inst., Fredk. T. Maingay, of Tunbridge-wells, aged 27. MASTER.—On the 12th inst., at 17, York-street, Portman square, Major Whalley Master, late 7th Bengal Lig ht Cavalry. Srirrm—On the 11th inst., at Milton-next-Grave send ' h ent, John Smith, Esq., aged 74. __„ Lorniox : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, St ra nd, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Co unty 01 Middieseire;-=Tuesday, O c t o b er 14, 1862. No. 112! -14. (