The Sun. — London, England, 1862-09-27 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, SEPT.I2, The optimists of Wall-street, and a few news papers which support their views, still affect to be lieve that the " audacious rebels" have rushed to inevitable doom by the invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, the occupation of Kentucky, an d th e beleaguerment of Cincinnati; that the Confederate army is in a trap, and is certain to fall an easy prey to M'Clellan. But the rest of the world is in a very different frame of mind, and sees nothing in store for the Republic but dismemberment and ruin— unless in a turn of iluck and a display of some amount of genius and daring, accompanied by suc cess, in the Federal Generals. But Wall-street sees all things en couleur de rose. Gold is but at 191 per cent. premium and silver at 12, while Govern ment securities hold their ground as firmly as if the country were in the full tide of peace, prosperity, and happiness. But Wall-street has fed upon fat contracts and illimitable paper, and is apoplectic and sleepy. When it wakes up, as it must before many days, it will see sights the like of which it never saw before, and which were never seen in America, or perhaps anywhere else, Meanwhile it snores loudly. Foreign trade is all but annihilated. Domestic trade flourishes only on war contracts and Mr. Chase's greenbacks ; and such business as Wall street loves can be transacted by somnambulists al most as easily as by waking men. But all others than the people of that Sleepy Hollow, and the con tractors who sniff the spoils of civil war with as much gusto as the vulture the decaying carcass, admit that the very existence of the Federal Go vernment is at this moment at stake, and that not even a victory over the Confederates in Maryland, Pennsylvania, or Kentucky can save it from ulti mate perdition. Mr. Lincoln, his Administration, and his Generals are in the position of " Humpty Dumpty," in the nursery ballad. They have had a great fall ; and not " all the horses" and " all the men" of the North can set them up again. It is the old story of the torrent's smoothness ere it dash over the rocks. There is no panic in this city. Everything seems to be going on in its usual manner. The newspapers say little or nothing to disturb the public equanimity; and the telegra phic wires are as discreet and well-behaved as Mr. Stanton can desire. But letters from Washington, Baltimore, and Cincinnati, and wounded soldiers returned from the battle-fields of Bull Run and Centreville, divulge a state of affairs, both civil and military, which makes people shudder. While Mr. Stanton has been peddling in the arrest of small traitors in New York and elsewhere, the whole edifice of the Government has been crumbling beneath the feet of the Government. The Presi dent's name that was once a tower of strength has become a byword. The estimate formed of his character by Mr. Wendell Phillips is accepted by nine people out of ten, and it would almost appear as if that fiery declaimer had only been the first to say what was in everybody's mind, but which everybody lacked the courage or the wit to utter until one bolder than the rest set the example. There seems to be a growing desire for Mr. Lincoln's resignation or deposition, though how either is to be accomplished, or who would be put in his place, no one can tell or has thought it worth while to con sider. And not only is the President accused of incapacity, but the President's wife is charged with treason. It has long been a marvel to the Federal Generals by what occult agencies their most im portant secrets were constantly transmitted to the Confederate camp. The ladies of 'Washington, who are nearly all Secessionists, were looked upon as the guilty parties ; but the question remained who told these ladies secrets that ought not to be known, un less it were Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Lincoln's Minis ters ? Mrs. Lincoln's brother has been fighting in the Confederate army, and was lately slain. Was Mrs. Lincoln the incautious or the treacherous lady who had access to valuable information, and let it ooze through her pen or her tongue ? The charge against her has often been obscurely hinted. It is now openly made, with the addition that General Halleck was so thoroughly aware of her indiscretion—for he gave it no harsher name.—that he stipulated, on assuming the office of Commander in-Chief, that she should leave Washington for her home at Springfield, in Illinois, whither she ac cordingly proceeded three weeks ago. A placard, headed "Mrs. Lincoln a traitress," was exhibited yesterday at one of the newspaper-offices in Nassau , . street, but was pulled down by the police, by order of the Provost-Marshal. It, is a pity that a lady's name should be dragged into the miserable squabble that have broken out in the councils of the North; but the condition of the public mind would not be faithfully represented if an incident so signi ficant were not recorded. If the President were himself equal to his posi tion, it would not signify to the public what Mrs. Lincoln's sympathies were—and it is only his own vacillation, or what it is the fashion in America to call " dough-facedness" that gives them any im portance. Mr. Lincoln—who never had much head, how ever large his heart may be —sways to and fro at evEry gust of popular opinion. One day he deter mineslto let the negro question alone. The next, goaded by his Republican supporters and his Aboli tionist opponents, he yields to the pressure of Mr. Wendell Phillips and such men as the Hon. Thadeus Stevens, who exclaimed three:days ago, at a public meeting, " Abolition! Yes ! Abolish everything on the face of the earth but the Union. Free every slave, slay every traitor, burn every rebel mansion, if it be necessary to preserve the Union." Ashamed of himself for listening to savages such as these, and alarmed at the sight of the precipice to which such guides would inevitably lead him, if he followed them, the President reverts to the study of the con stitution which he swore to uphold, and gives the Abolitionists the cold shoulder. And thus he oscil lates from day to day, displeasing all parties, conci listing none. General Halleck, in the exercise of his authority, is said to have deprive General M'Clellan of command after the battle of Centreville, for manifest and wilful disobedience of orders. But on there boing imminent danger of a mutiny in the capital, so indignant was the army of the Potomac at the degradation of their favourite, the President overrode Halleck's decision, and reinstated M'Clel lan rather than have a disturbance. " Anything for a quiet life," seems to be his maxim, and the re sult:is in his case what it is in every one's else who is affected with a similar weakness—perpetual dis quiet and daily recurring misery. And in the midst of all this the good man perpetrates a joke when ever he has the opportunity as quietly as if nothing in the world was wrong. A suppliant for office of more than ordinary pretensions called upon him lately, and presuming on the activity he had shown on Mr. Lincoln's behalf during the election that raised him to the chief magistracy, asserted, as a reason why the office he desired sh ould - ould be given to him, that he had made hiM President. " You made mo President, did y o u ?" said Mr. Lincoln, with a twinkle of his eye. '` l think I did, said the applicant. 44 Then a precious mess you' ve got me into, that's all," replied Mr. Lincoln, and cl ose d the discussion. The Republicans being in as great a mess as their President, with the country rapidly drifting under their management into humiliations and miseries far worse than the mere disruption of the Union, which might of itself be the very best thing that could happen to the North if the North were only wise enough to seo it, the reorganisation of the great and once dominant Democratic party was to have been anticipated. Many of its principal men are languishing in Forts Lafayette, Warren, and 31‘TIenry, unaffected by the gaol delivery under taken by the Judge-Advocat e ; but the party is s till unconquered, and gives vent to its opinions in the pres s and on the platform, and notably through suc h speeches as those of Mr. Vallandigham, Mr. Fernando Wood, Mr. B. Wood, Mr. Wall, and Mr. Ingersoll, taking the broad ground of the restora tion of the " Union as it was," which not even Mr. Stanton nor the Provost-Marshal of New York can torture into treason. It was the dissensions of this party, and those alone, that enabled the Republi cans to carry the election of Mr. Lincoln. United, the Democrats might havegoverned the republic for 20 -years longer,but as soon as they quarrelled among themselves the cause was lost, and the disruption .:.w"'m' ..,..........1 of the Union, so often prophesied, so long foreseen, and so vehemently deprecated, became the only possible policy of the South. In all the Northern States this party is actively endeavouring to carry the State elections for the next Congas ss ; and in the State Convention for New York, n. w in session at Albany, the ~ Tammany" and " Mozart Hall" sections of the party, so called from their places of meeting in this city, have made up their differences and agreed to support a Mr. Seymour for Governor of the State, and other gentlemen of the same opi nions for the other State offices that are periodically in the gift of the people. There is little doubt that their nominations will be successful, and that the example of New York will act as a powerf ul If stimu lante upon the democracy of other States • so, the party will present a strongi front not only n the States's Legislature, but in the New Congress , to the sore embarrassment of Mr. Lincoln's Govern toioloon with A h lr e . e Sey mour meat, was f a h s e re a e n e d ive th a a b t y sh th ou e la co l n a y st en s en thusiasm said to be utterly unprecedented. The ap plause on his appearance was renewed so often that it seemed as if the immense assemblage had come to shout rather than to hear. When silence was at last obtained he delivered a speech every sentence of which was a new incentive to prolonged plau dits. He denounced the system of terrorism which the Government had endeavoured to establish—de clared that the leaders ofthe Republican party were dangerous and unwise men; that their policy had tended to unite the South, and to distract and di vide the North ; that they were utterly unfit to be entrusted with the control of public affairs—that they were insubordinate to the chiefs of their own electing, and in every sense incompetent and mis chievous. The policy of the Democracy was clear and plain ; it was to support the Constitution and the law: and if the President adhered to the Consti tion and the law, or, in other words, if he would avoid any tampering with the slavery question in the South, he would receive their undivided and earnest support to suppress the rebellion and con quer an honourable and lasting peace. Although the reorganisation of this party must necessarily exercise a powerful influence on the fortunes of the North, it is doubtful, whatever its leaders may say, whether they themselves believe in the possibility of a restored Union, or that they think any peace would be considered honourable or lasting by the South that did not concede national independence, with Virginia,Maryland,Kentucky, and Tennessee, and Missouri as integral portions of the Southern Confederacy. This is not the object of the Demo cratic organisation, though individuals of the party who are not in a position to speak out openly are perhaps of opinion that the North may be unable to make a better bargain. " The Union as it was and the Constitution as it is," is a safe cry in the mean time, and, if the South were of the mind to tinker the old Union, the capture of Washington, the de position of Mr. Lincoln, and the instalment of Mr. Jefferson Davis as President of the restored Union would not be a very bitter pill for many Democrats to swallow. If such a result were to issue from the fiery crucible of the war, and Mr. Davis were to ride in triumph down Broadway, it is likely that he would be received with a fervour of joy and a Royal magnificence such as this country has never exhi bited. But the Southern leaders are too wise and far-sighted to indulge in any such projects, however able they might be by force of arms to realise them. They know too well that the Union is a thing of the past—as dead as the Heptarchy or the Kingdom of Powhattan ; that if they were temporarily reunited to the North the question of slavery would once again he the incentive to new struggles and aggres sions—that the Abolitionist party, though defeated, would not be disheartened, and would recommence the fight with such zealous bitterness that it would be necessary for the South to put a cordon sanztaire around the slave regions to prevent the influx of Abolition preachers, teachers, and lecturers; that all the bloody work of the last two years would have to be done over again, and that dis-Union would be the result in that case, as it is now. So great is the " scare" of the Government that the conscription itself—that essential measure which was to save the country—has temporarily ; dropped out of public view and is no more talked of. The lists axe made out, but no day is fixed for acting upon them ; and such recruits as have been obtained by the recent high bounties appear to be far more troublesome than useful to the State. The Irish, who fell back so eagerly on their British nationality when the draught was first proposed, and who swore so lustily that they would not fight upon compulsion, have been ready enough to take arms under the persuasions of Archbishop Hughes, General Corcoran, and that great recruiting officer the "Dollar." General Corcoran's recruits, who are not yet in a condition to be sent to the seat of war, are encamped in large numbers in Staten Island, to be drilled by officers who stand wofully in need of a course of drill and discipline themselves, and form as motley though far more numerous a multitude than those with whom Falstaff refused to march through Coventry. The need of the Government is such that recruiting agents, who receive two dollars a head from the State, besides a commission on the bounty money, are not at all par ticular as to the height, or even as to the age of the applicants. Judged by appearances, some of the recruits are scarcely 17, while others, though pos- 1 sibly not above the limit of 45, look ten years older. Beardless boys and grey-headed veterans, prema turely aged by hard work or hard drinking, mingle in the ranks. The elder men, who have probably gone through a long period of probationary suffer ing, are careful of their bounty money, but the youths run riot in the wildest excesses. In Staten Island the night is made hideous with their drunken yells, and the hysterical shrieks of their female companions, on whom they waste their few remaining days of liberty and safety, as well as the 1 health that can alone make them good raw mate rial for the bloody business to which they have sold themselves. At Camp Scrogg, within the limits of New York city —as it is to be—but now a semi -rural district on the road to Haerlem, there has been a mutiny among th which has l ost that regiment rb t V t o oth uh C e rghas Chas sours, Govern ment. It was nominally 1,500 strong, and was first organised aboat eight months ago, though it has as yet seen no service. Bounty money was not so plentiful when the originalrecruits came forward as it is now; but the number -being incomplete efforts were continually made to fill up the ranks. The first instalment of bounty money y having been A • ls ivin bursed in riotous l long ago ~. g, and the remain der not being due until the close of hostilities,when to the recruit it will be given himself, if alive or to heirs, his family or if he have di e d i n the s e e service, the men have long bee n clamoro us for their p a y o f 13 dols. a month. This money—although consider ing Mr. Chase ' s fac il iti e s f or printing "gre en b acks " and postage currency there ought not to h ave b een . the matter—h as not an insuperable dif fi culty in been forthcoming; men w ho joined the re g i ment ' six or eight months ago havi ng received only one month's pay in that time. - P erhaps Mr. Stanton was too busy in suspending the habeas corpus and arresting suspected trait ors toutten cl to this branch of his business, or pe r h a p s some other and more un accountable form of mis managem ent has kept back the supplies. On Monday last, w hen the regiment received orders to strik e t en t s an d march south wards' to the war, a hum of discontent arose, and the men refuted to march without the payment o ar rears. The o r d er morning, f was postponed until Tuesday 'when being renewed a mutiny broke out, that has resulted in the complete disorganisation of the regiment. No less than 1 , 500 men have received bounty money t ~o enter th i s last it was found that the s corps; but on T ues d a y numbers had been re duced by desertion to about 4 00 rank a n d fil e . Thi s remnant, many of wh om .t 4 1 appears are married men, anxious for the support o f their families dur ing their absence, gave vent to th eir s disgust b indiscriiuinate attack upon and seek of th g o u re i y an tal head uarters, which was only prevented mg fromtl.q culminating into a battle by the adoption of t he most vigorous measures on the part of their officers, and the aid of another regiment, which stood g u aad over the parade ground with rifles loaded. The mutiny appears to have lasted the greater part of three day s , and, considering the circumstances, it is much to the ' credit of the mingled forbearance arid determination of the officers in command that bloodshed was not the result. The regiment has been removed to the ~..~.~ Park Barracks in New York, but not a single com pany is entire, and the probability is that what re mains of it will be disbanded and the men draughted into other corps. It is no wonder, if such gross neglect, mismanagement, and cruelty as this story displays, are not peculiar to this one regiment, that the Southern troops are more than a match for the Northern ones when the two come into collision. One Southern man, fighting for the independence of his country, must be worth fully half a dozen such mercenary Irishmen as these, even if they be paid their money and well treated, which does not appear to have been the case with the Vorburgh Chasseurs. Another regiment or brigade, organised under the auspices of Gen. Spinola, and composed mainly of Irish and Americans, is in the same deplorable state, the troubles arising from no arrears of pay, but from the mutual jealousies of the men who en listed when bounties were low, and those who were cunning and mercenary enough to wait until they were high. The last corners have spent their money in the vilest intemperance, and while the process of disbursement lasted varied their amusements by quarrelling with their poorer comrade. Daily fights have been the consequence, and both par ties have thrown off all control of discipline. Yesterday their behaviour was so bad that it was found necessary to call out the 7th Regiment of the New York National Guards to preserve order. This morning this force, in addition to a body of police, was stationed around the bar racks in East New York, where the mutineers are stationed, and to each man were delivered a day's rations and 20 rounds of ball cartridge. The brigade is reduced to about one-third of its originEl numbers—the low bounty men having disappeared entirely, and many of the high bounty men having imitated their example. No further fears are en tertained of their violence, as the men knew that they are overmatched ; but it is scarcely probable that the Spinola Brigade will take any part in the war, or that anything better can be done with its remnant than to incorporate it with other regi ments ; and thus it happens that the system of high bounties is almost as great a failure as the conscrip tion, and that the Government is more than ever perplexed how to replenish its armies. The National War Committee of this city, a knot of gentlemen mainly of Abolitionist principles, under the Presidency of Mr. Opdyke, the Mayor, who formed the notable project of organising a force of 50,000 men, to be placed under the command of Gen. Fremont or Gen. Mitchell, " with or without the sanction of the Government;' has been rudely awakened to a sense of the impropriety—or the treason -L-of its conduct. The first intimation it re ceived of its excess of zeal was the withdrawal of several gentlemen who had hitherto supported what was believed to be the only object of the committee —" the vigorous prosecution of the war by legal and constitutional means ;" and the next, a letter from Auguste Belmont and Co., the bankers and agents of Messrs. Rothschilds, who had subscribed 1,000 dole. for that purpose, but not for the purpose of organising an Abolitionist army under General Fremont, or anybody else. On Messrs. Belmont and Co.'s remonstrance the committee returned them the money, which they have subsequently divided into two equal parts for the encouragement of re cruiting into the Irish Brigade, and into the Ex celsior Brigade, also Irish, of Gen. Corcoran. At a meeting of the committee held at the Mayor's cham ber on Wednesday, a correspondence was read be tween the Mayor and Mr. Stanton, in which the latter very tempei-ately rebuked his officious friends for their interference. He informed the committee that Gen. Mitchell had been appointed to the com mand of the Southern Department ; that the duty of raising volunteers in New York had been assigned to the Governor of that State, who was faithfully performing it; and that the Department could not consent that any major -general should organise a separate corps. The committee forthwith resolved to take no more action in the matter, and as it was fast becoming a nuisance, and en deavouring, as it would appear, to make itself a power above the Government, or at the least to usurp the functions of a Jacobin Club, a Vigilance Committee, or a Committee of Public Safety, there ' is considerable satisfaction felt that Mr. Stanton was so easily able to bring it to reason. It appears, however, that Major-General Fremont was but too willing to lend himself to the project. He wrote to the committee that it would give him "much ploazure" to accept the appointment which they proposed if it had the sanction of the Government. But he did not explain which Government he meant —the Federal Government or that of the State of New York. As the committee expressly stated that if the Federal Government refused the men and the General, the local Government of New York State should be applied to to accept both, it is to be in ferred from the General's reply that he was willing to act for either master, even if by serving the local Government he should have been instrumental in raising the ugly question of State rights as opposed to Federal assumptions—the question which pro duced the war, and which has as many warm sup porters in the North as it ever had in the South. The publication of the correspondence has brought the "War Committee" to an inglorious collapse, and reduced the previously slender chances of General Fremont's appointment to a new command to the vanishing point, where they cease to be visible. - - THE ALLEGED FATAL PUGILISTIC EN COUNTER ON CLERKENWELL GREEN. Yesterday an inquest was held before Dr. Lan kester, the coroner, at the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-lane, on the body of William Smith, aged 24, a carpenter. Job Smith, residing at 47, Liverpool-street, King's-cross, identified the body as that of his son. Police-sergeant 14 G said, on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning his attention was called to the deceased lying on his back immediately in front of the Sessions House, on the broad pavement o on Clerkenwell-green. He conveyed the body to the hospital. John D. Hill, the !reuse-surgeon of the hospital, stated that he saw Vile deceased on Sunday morn ing. He was the: insensible, and died the follow ing day. He performed a post mortem examination, and found ex:cernally a bruise behind the left ear. There was an effusion of blood over the right hemis phere, hat no effusion whatever over the left hemis phere, where the bruise was. The cause of death was an effusion of blood on the brain. By the Coroner—Witness considered the effusion might have occurred as the result ot'the blow, which appeared to have been asevere one. It was a surgi • cal fact for a blow on the left side to produce an ef fusion as described on the right. Henry Chantry, 61, Turnmill-street, a glasscut ter' deposed that he was in th e company o f deceased on Saturday night at the Red Lion and Punch bowl Tavern, John-street, Clerkenwell. They left the house together at a quarter to twelve. Wit ness bade him good night on Clerkenwell-green, and then stopped to witness a quarrel which had arisen between deceased and a man named White head. H e saw Whitehead run after Smith, and Hawks, a man who was with witness, ran up to Smith, and di rectly he saw Smith fall, and Hawks rcuoantf"ni him. Whitehead and Smith first had their was unable thoen s off to fight but Whitehead's brother took him away, ari d t came up and geteonee it u was p . 1 that The e policemanHawksran a t ttowardshat time i de ceased.me Re went up to deceased and found thAt he Co nveyed deceased away insensible, B e the Jury Ti e know Smith. deceased at all, nor a" D id Se knew Hawks, but did not see George Whitehead strike was a carman, id he think he did. Hawks By the Father and Br o th had been everdastissepheent about ls. 6d. for act on of deceased—Witness the part of Hawks missing, but a thought it a gratuitou s P, Caisteo.at., coat, and to strike deceased. Deceased stout, but no more in eperroodfuced, and Mr. Job Smith said the ea 15s, in money of his son the not belonging to him had b e that day. th e coat and ex pressed Sewlsaysooret,uarnnotdher medic,aleo: his opinion that deceased Nee , , hos pital, corroborated. Mr. Hill s evidence, s drunk when brought there. Danieldriver of Mr. Gurrier, Belvedere road, a saw deceased at the Red Li 1 Punch-bowl Concert-hal l -on the night in question able to take care of him.. Lam Clark. . on and so drunk as to be scarcely self. He heard a fall on the pavement, and ob otherhat was the matter. he and Chantry went to see w serving deceased there and Hawks running away, The police then came up. sug gested an ad j ournment to enable him to attend to The Coroner at this stage of the proceedings "esced in by the - ury and the adjournment then took place to 111 ' e ngagements, which was at once acquiesced , 4 OIICIE4y neat. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1862. CRINOLINE AND ITS VICTIMS. Yesterday Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the White Hart Hotel, Welbeck-street, Cavendish square, on the body of Elizabeth Anne Lindsay, widow, and landlady of that establishment, who had died on Tuesday last from the effects of burns, caused by her muslin dress catching fire from her candle while she was undressing. It appeared that the servants, alarmed by the smell of fire all over the house, and following the trace of it, had dis covered Mrs. Lindsay lying on the floor of her bed room in flames, vainly trying to roll the carpet round her. The fire was put out, and a surgeon sent for, but he did not find a spot in her body the size of a shilling that was not burnt, and Mrs. Lind say died of mortification in a few hours. The learned coroner, in summing up the case, stated that he held two inquests a month on women burnt to death in consequence of the use of crinoline. This was amongst a population of a million, which would be equal, it might be suppoSed, to an average of six deaths from that cause per month in London. Such a ratio throughout the whole of England rendered the sacrifice of life from crinoline very alarming, and he hoped it would make some impression on society. But the sacrifice did not end there. That objection• able and dangerous style of dress was carried into the factories. It was only the other day that the wife of an engineer was drawn up into the machi nery and frightfully mutilated. Many work-girls had also been destroyed or injured in factories. In Austria some distinguished ladies appeared to be determined not to receive any one that wore crinoline. Some influential persons in this country should now set their faces against it; still, if women would not abandon their present style of dress, it might be as well for him to state that crinoline could be made anti-combustible. He had been written to on the subject by philanthropic ladies. One in Brighton had sent him word the other day that for ls. in the pound dresses could be secured from inflammability. Then there was another preservative necessary, the invariable use of wire fire-guards. He thought it important for juries to take the subject into their serious con sideration, though the pernicious results of the pre vailing fashion might not always be so clearly shown as in this case. Steel crinoline he looked upon as the most dangerous of all, because it was least compressible. Verdict, " Accidental death from fire." POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 26. LAMBETH.—THE SERIOUS AND FATAL CASE OF STABBING.—Henry King, a man about 40 years of age, against whom a coroner's jury has returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder," was brought up on remand, and placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, for final examination on a charge of stabbing and causing the death of Sarah Ann Day, by stabbing her in the abdomen. It will be recollected, from the evidence given on a former examination by police-constables Charles Marks Cooke, 168, and George Pike, 95, of the L division, that about half-past three o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, the 18th inst., the prisoner called at the residence of the deceased, 75, Tower street, Westminster -road, and after some alterca tion with her stabbed her in two places, once with a screw-driver, and a second time with a chisel, in flicting deep and dangero us wounds, which pene trated her abdomen, and caused her death on the following day. It further appeared that the pri soner and the deceased had been married, but the former having discovered that the latter had been been married before, and that her husband, a soldier, was still living, gave her into custody for bigamy. He did not, however, appear against her but the result was a separation for some time. On the prisoner being now placed at the bar the first witness called was Cooke the constable, 168 L, who said he was in the room of and alone with the de ceased when the prisoner came to the house, and on seeing him the deceased said, "Halloo, Harry, what do you want here ?" but he did not remember his answer, nor did he pay particular attention to them while they talked for five or six minutes together. The first thing he remembered was the prisoner saying to the deceased, "Do you intend to come back to me or not ?" and the deceased said " No, King. You never acted like a man to me ; and not all your persuasion shall induce me to return to you." The prisoner made some reply to this, but in so low a tone that he did not hear it. Prisoner then suddenly stepped forward, and struck the de ceased on the stomach with the chisel and a screw driver, and she gave a loud and fearful shriek, During the conversation between the prisoner and the deceased he (witness) asked the former if he had any claim on the latter, and he replied " No." He then said, " Then why do you come here annoy ing her in the way you do ?" 6.nd he made no reply. In cross-examination by Mr. Beard, who ap peared for the prisoner, the witness said the first time he saw the prisoner was about five weeks be fore the occurrence : and at that time he was in the company of the deceased. He did not then know that they were married, nor had he seen the deceased before. On the 18th inst. he was at the house of the deceased by invitation, and taking tea with her when the prisoner called. Was not then aware that she was a married woman ; on the contrary, he had been given to understand that she was not. Had known the mother of the deceased, who lived at 75, Tower-street, and the deceased resided with her, and not in Stargate .street as he was aware. He did not know of his own knowledge that the pri soner was a carpenter, but believed he was; and would therefore require such articles as those he carried with him on the day of the fatal occurrence, namely, a hammer, a chisel, and screw-driver, in the course of his trade. Did not hear the prisoner when he first came to the deer ask the deceased for a pair of stockings ; but on seeing him witness knew him to be the person who had been married to the deceased. Did not hear the deceased say to the prisoner, in allusion to him, " I told you I had a young man," or anything to that effect. If she had said so he thought he must have heard and noticed it. Did not hear the deceased use any bad lan guage to the prisoner for the three or four minutes he was in the room, and before he struck her. The deceased had told him that she had been married to the prisoner about three weeks, or it might be a month ago. He had been frequently to the house of the deceased on her invitation, to take tea, and once dined there, and at the time of the alleged fatal occurrence he was alone with her at tea, and the only persons present were the deceased, the prisoner, and himself. - Mr. Elliott—When the deceased told you she had been married to the prisoner, did she say any thing about their separation ? Witness—Yes, sir. She said she was separated from him by a process of court. George Pike, 95 L, said he found the chisel he produced in the bed of the deceased, and on com paring it and the screw-driver, also found in the room, withthe marks on the clothes of the deceased they fitted exactly. Mr. Donahoo, a surgeon' in the Westminster road, said that on the day in question he was sent for to attend the; deceased, whom he found bleeding profusely from two wounds, cne on the left side of the abdomen, inflicted with some blunt instrument, and another nearer the hip, by some sharp instru ment. She was in a very dangerous state, and he attended her up to the time of her death, which took place on the following day. On making a post-mortem examination he found both wounds extended to the cavity of the abdomen, and that internal hemorrhage was the cause of death. Ann Jones, residing at 74, Tower-street, said that on the afternoon of the 18th inst. she heard a great disturbance next door, and saw the policeman Cooke in the act of scuffling with the prisoner, removing him from the house. She went down to see what the matter was, and saw the deceased standing by the foot of the bed, and heard her exclaim, " Oh, dear, lam in such pain ! I believe that King has stabbed me." She (witness) assisted in shifting her and putting her to bed, and saw that the de ceased had two wounds, one on the side of the ab domen and the other near the hip. About five weeks ago the prisoner came to the house of the de ceased fora looking-glass which he elairned,and some person whom she could not see gave him one. The prisoner by his motion appeared as if he had at tempted to strike the person on the head with the glass, and appeased to be in a great passion. She heard him then quarrelling with the deceased, and heard him say, "You --., I'll murder you. If I can't have you, no one else shall, for I'll do for you and myself." Cross•examined—He did not say this in reference to the looking-glass, that if ho did not have it no body else should, She first told this to Cooke, the policeman, but thought Pike was present at the time. Sergeant Thompson said he was on duty in Tower street when the prisoner was brought there in charge of Pike and Cooke, and took down the charge against him. In doing so he asked the prisoner what he had to say to the charge of stabbing his wife, and the constable Cooke said she was not his wife. The prisoner replied that she was his wife, but had left him to go with others, as she had with him (point urder. leg to Cooke). Witness asked him what he meant by making such a charge against the constable ; and that his wors'eiP he replied, " Oh, she has been carrysug it on with him for some time, and ho knows it." Mr. Beard expressed a hope from the would not feel called on to commit the prisoner on Cooke, th e e charge of wilful murder, contending that, after and unfortunate De e testimony of the woman Jones, and had been regulaurir who l ied b to the present The prisoner, by up the constable Ceasene bore noue of the characteristics of wilful m it not been for the improper A tof the Constable o ccurrence bore ts. , a excellent character, married to the deceased , and had -mproper conduct Cooke, who had much to answer for, his worship would never have been troubled with the case. The fact was, that the prisoner, who had sii;pt with the deceased on the night before, had called at house for a pair of stockings, and finding Cooke there at tea caused the annoyance which led to the fatal result. The act, however, had been unpremedi tated, and it never would have occurred but for the presence of the constable, and under all the circum stances he hoped his worship would commit for the manslaughter only. When asked by the magistrate if he had anything to say, Prisoner replied that there was a great deal more passed than what Cooke, the constable, had men tioned ; and if he spoke like a man and stated the truth, the case would bear a different appearance. The prisoner was fully committed for the wilful murder. 711 E EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FORGERY. Luther Yeats, a middle-aged man, residing at No. 1, Langport-place, Camberwell, and lately carrying on the business of an accountant at No. 14, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury, was placed at the bar of the Mansion-house, yesterday, in the custody of detective officer Spinal, before the Lord Mayor, to undergo a further examination upon a charge of forging and uttering certain deeds purporting to have been signed by Admiral Sir John West, G.C.8., with intent to defraud Lieutenant-Colonel John Temple West, of Ryde, isle of Wight. Mr. Lewis again attended for the prosecution, and Mr. F. H. Longley appeared for the prisoner. From Mr. Lewis's opening statement on the previous examination it appeared that the prisoner had at some time or other been in a solicitor's office, and in addition to his having gained a know ledge of the mode of making out deeds of convey ance, &c., he appeared by some means or other to have obtained a knowledge of the existence of some property known as the St. George's Estate, and that it belonged to Admiral Sir John West, and that he availed himself of that knowledge, and forged at different times within the last few years a number of deeds of conveyances, purport ing to be signed by Admiral Sir John West, con veying to him certain houses in West-square, Lambeth, which comprised the St. George's estate, upon consideration of certain sums of money, and that having forged the deeds, he mortgaged them and obtained advances upon them from different solicitors. By this means he appears to have obtained advances to a very large amount, and was negotiating with a solicitor for an advance apon another deed, but that gentleman happened to hear of the death of Admiral Sir John West, and upon examining the deed, he noticed it was dated subse quent to the death of the admiral, and he accord ingly instituted an inquiry, and the deed was dis covered to be a forgery. It will be remembered that upon the last examination a deed upon which the prisoner had obtained money from a gentleman named Parker, a solicitor, carrying on business at Bedford-row, was proved to be a forgery. Although upon the last examination Mr. Lewis stated that the amount which had then been ascer tained to have been obtained by the prisoner was upwards of £6,000, it has been subsequently ascer tained that the amount is much larger. Yesterday Mr. Lewis called John Morgan Deere, solicitor, Lincoln's-inn-fields, who said he acted as solicitor for the prisoner in the year 1860. On the 7th of August in that year he saw the prisoner exe cute the mortgage deed then produced by Mr. Parker, and attested his signature. The deed pur porting to be signed by Admiral West purported to be attested by James Bennet, land agent, Portvale, Hertford. He handed the mortgage to Mr. Parker. He did not remember seeing the original lease. He received a copy of the lease from Mr. Yeats to fur nish to Mr. Parker in Bedford-row. _ The Lord Mayor asked Mr. Lewis how many of the cases he intended to go into. Mr. Lewis said he proposed to prove eight out of about eighteen. His lordship said he should have thought two or three separate cases already proved would further the ends of justice, and be as well as going into so many. Mr. Lewis said so far as the prosecution went two or three cases would be sufficient, but the friends and family of the late Admiral Sir John West were anxious that it should be understood that all the deeds of conveyance executed by the prisoner were forgeries, and it was necessary to prove as many cases as possible to prevent litigation, otherwise in the course of 20 years or so the holders of the mortgages might probably come upon the family for payment. His lordship said, under those circumstances, he had nothing more to say. Mr. Ebenezer Morley, a solicitor, at King's Bench Walk, Temple, vas then sworn, and said in the year 1859 ho was acting as solicitor for a Mr. Hopley, and Messrs. Brandon, of Essex-street, Strand, ap plied to him on behalf of the prisoner respecting a mortgage, and on Oct. 14,1859, a deed of mortgage was executed in his presence. Tne mortgage wags four houses, Nos. 45 to 48, West-square, Lambeth, both inclusive. He produced the deed of mortgage and the lease, which he received fromN,essrs. Bran don in the presence of the prisoner. There was at that time annexed to the lease the receipt produced purporting to be a receipt from James Bennet for the last two quarters' ground rent. The signatures of the prisoner and Sir John West were attested by James.Bennet, Hertford. Upon the mortgage of that lease he advanced to the prisoner the sum of £7OO on behalf of Mr. Hopley, and the prisoner had since been punctual in paying the interest due upon that mortgage. In January, 1861, he was acting as solicitor to Miss M'Bride, and the pri soner applied to him to advance the sum of £l,OOO upon a mortgage of a lease purporting to have been executed by Sir John West of four houses, 25 to 28, West-square, inclusive. The lease was dated 12th Dec., 1860. He consented to advance him the sum of £BOO, on behalf of Miss M'Bride, on Jan. 17, and in 1861 he (prisoner) executed a mortgage, which he produced, and handed over to the firm the deed of mortgage, and the lease which he also produced. The prisoner had paid the interest on the mortgage from time to time since that period. Mr. George M. Arnold, solicitor, practising at Gravesend, said he knew the prisoner. He had three transactions with the prisoner. He produced an assignment of a lease of Nos. 18 and 19, West square, Lambeth, dated Aug. 29, 1859, granted by Sir John West, to Luther Yeats, the prisoner. He made an advance upon the assignment of that lease of £375 on the part of his client, Mr. Cheeper. He likewise produced a mortgage dated 20th March, 1860, made between the prisoner and Mr. Alfred Talhurst, who was a client of his, of a lease which he produced. It was a mortgage dated Feb. 25, 1860, purporting to be made between Sir J. West and Luther Yeats, of houses 20 and 23,West-square, inclusive. The prisoner applied to him for the ad vance of £750 upon that property, and on the 25th March he made him the advance, and then received the deed of mortgage and lease. He also produced a deed of mortgage dated Sept. 30, 1861, between himself and the prisoner. It related to a lease dated Sept. 30, 1861, of houses 45 to 48, West-square, and purporting to be executed by Sir John West to the prisoner. Mr. Lewis remarked that the prisoner had forged the leases for those four houses, and had obtained money upon each of them. His lordship said, that if he understood the case rightly, the prisoner had been in the habit of con cocting fictitious deeds of conveyance upon the pro perty in question over and over again, and then mortgaging them. Mr. Lewis said that was just the case. The witness then continued his evidecce, and said he advanced the prisoner £750 upon that lease. He likewise produced a lease or mortgage, dated Sept. 30, 1861, between himself and the prisoner on a lease dated Sept. 10, 1861, and purporting to be signed by Sir John West, in favour of the prisoner, of houses Nos. 44 to 48, West-square. The prisoner personally applied to him for an advance of £BOO upon that lease, and he made him the advance, and received the deed of mortgage and lease which he produced from him. In two instances the signature of Sir John West was alleged to have been attested by James Bennett, house agent, of Portvale, Hert ford ; and in the third instance by James Bennett, jun., of the same place. Mr. James Lay, solicitor, of 44, Poultry, was then called, and said he had known the prisoner about 12 years. He produced a lease dated April 10, 1862, made in favour of the prisoner, and purporting to be executed by Sir John West, in respect of four houses, situate Nos. 25 to 28, West-square, both in clusive. He advanced the prisoner £l5O on the 10th of May, 1862, on behalf of one of his clients,and the prisoner deposited the deed with him as security. He believed there were negotiations with another solicitor for a mortgage upon the same deed for a much larger amount. He likewise produced a policy of insurance on the property. Mr. Lewis said the latter was not necessary. There was no carelessness attributed to the solici tors, who had had transactions with the prisoner. Mr. Lay said he wished to make a complaint to his lordship with regard to some observations which fell from Mr. Lewis upon the last examination, and which he did not think he was at all justified in making. It appeared in all the papers that that gentleman had stated that Mr. Lay was not present, and that he was afraid he was keeping out of the way on purpose, and would not produce the deed. lle wished to state, however, that he was away on business at the time the subpoena was served at his office—which was not un til about au hour before the case was called on, and be being away his ben Was subpoenaed instead, but he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of the deed. He did not consider that such observa tions ought to have been made, and be had rendered Mr. Gamlin every assistance in his power. Mr. De is said that he was sorry Mr. Lay had alluded to the maiasit would compel him to say what otherwise he wonot have said. He con sidered he had very just groum:29 for the observa tions which he made on the last oectOion, as Mr. Gamlin had seen Mr. Lay on the previous day, and Mr. Lay then said he did not think he should at tend at the examination of the prisoner at the Mansion-house, and the lease which had been left at Mr. Lay's office, instead of being left out to be produced, had been put away, and, in addition to that, he had lodged a detainer on the prisoner's Ac count at his banker's on the previous day as soon as he knew the prisoner was in custody; and if his lordship wished it, he would call Mr. Gamlin. His lordship, however, said it had better rest as it was. Mr. Lay said Mr. Gamlin bad told him that he intended to go into several other cases, and he thought his attendance would not be required. Mr. Francis Hilbury said he was an articled clerk, and resided at Bexley, in Kent. He produced a mortgage, dated Sept. 16, 1859, made between the prisoner and Francis Hilbury, his father, of a lease dated July 27, 18.59, in respect of houses 18 and 19, West-square, purporting to have been executed by . Sir John West to the prisoner. He saw the pri soner execute that mortgage, and attested it. He produced the lease to which the mortgage related. The sum of £3OO was advanced upon that lease. Mr. Gamlin was then sworn, and said he had looked at the leases produced by the several wit nesses, and the signatures were not the writing of Sir John West. Augnstus Baley Bushnell, cashier of Gosling and Co. bankers, Fleet-street, said they were the bankers of Sir John West for many years. He had the management of Sir John West's account amongst others. He had looked at the deeds produced, and was quite sure the signatures were not in the hand writing of Sir John West, nor did they bear any re semblance to it. Thos. Knight, superintendent of police, borough of Hertford, said he knew a place called Portvale. He believed he knew every one who lived in Port vale, and from the year 1859 to 1861 there was no such person as James Bennet, a house agent, living there. There was a family named Bennet living at Porthill, but he was a shoemaker. A gentleman, whose name did not transpire, said he wished to say a few words to his lordship if he could be allowed. The Lord Mayor asked the gentleman if he would be kind enough to say who he was. He replied that he was another victim of the prisoner, but he did know not whether Mr. Lewis would like to go into his case. Mr, Lewis, addressing the speaker, said he was serry to have to state that this was one of a great many cases against the prisoner, into the circum stances of which he had forborne to enter. The Lord Mayor said that if Mr. Lewis was anxious to prevent litigation hereafter, or to restore the purity of the title, as far as he was concerned he should have no objection to have all the cases against the prisoner investigated. Mr. Lewis conferred with the gentleman, but as he was not prepared with the evidence necessary to complete his case it was not gone into, and Mr. Lewis said that although he bad only gone into those few cases against the prisoner, it was not be cause the other deeds executed by the prisoner were not forgeries. They were all forgeries—and although he stated on the last examination that the prisoner had obtained about £6,000, since that time several other cases had been discovered, and he believed the whole amount which the prisoner had obtained by means of forging deeds such as had been produced that day was not less than 110,000. The family of Sir J. West were anxious to make it known that the whole of the deeds fabri cated by the prisoner were forgeries, although they deeply regretted the losses sustained by those with whom the prisoner had mortgaged them. His lordship suggested that Mr. Lewis should consider with his client whether it would be pru dent to go into the other cases. Mr. Lewis thanked his lordship, and said he should ask his lordship to commit the prisoner for trial upon the cases which he had already proved. The prisoner was committed for trial accordingly. Mr. Longley, who had refrained from asking the witnesses any questions, asked his lordship if a gold watch and chain which was found on the prisoner at the time of his apprehension, might be given up to his wife. An execution had been put into the house, and everything had been swept away, and his wife and a family of six children were left des titute. His lordship said he could make n 6 order. FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER. (From the Paris Elegant..) Heaven be praised my dear and gentle readers, we need no longer refer to the weather, unless to speak of that happy change from foul to fair which has now continued for seve ral weeks. We enjoy these sunny days the more for hav ing so long been deprived of them. For, truly to speak, we we have scarcely seen a fortnight's summer this year; our pretty light dresses have been useless; and, what is still worse, we have been quite puzzled to know what to wear. The season is not summer, nor is it exactly winter, nor even spring, which least of all it resembles. The nearest approach it makes to anything seems to me to be autumn; and yet, when we look at nature and nature's flowers, we cannot make up our minds to put on the dry leaf dress, whilst the verdure of the trees is still smiling above our heads. What then shall we wear ? Shall it be muslin and transparent tissues ? They are too cold. Shall it be silk ? It is too heavy. It does not feel too warm, perhaps; but it feels heavy, which is a great objec tion. Don't you thank, ladies, the case is enough to embarrass any one ? lam sure you must. That which this year appears to be preferred to all others is the white dress, and justly so. It had been discarded, I cannot tell why. But it was resolved to resume this kind of dress, and every effort was made to effect the object. But how could it be done whilst the rain was pouring down upon us ? Scarcely a single peep of sunshine came through the wet clouds. For all that, our Parisian fashionables persisted, and many were the white muslin robes which appeared in the streets, even without toilets ; the most ele gant ladies went out in the morning on foot in these dresses. But they were finally worsted and obliged to yield ; for how could they stand such deluges of water ? But mixed cos tumes are not so easy to manage. To bo thus armed and prepared against all contingencies we ought to bo rich, and in possession of a well-stocked wardrobe. The custom is to order ono's dresses at the beginning of the season ; when it is over, either these dresses are faded, or else they are put by for the following year. It is not every lady who can afford to have auxiliary toilets, adaptable to every change of temperature. Yet, this summer, such dresses were absolutely indispensable. Since, then, the time is peculiar, and what I term auxiliary toilets must be bad, shall I give you a pretty,ser • viceable, and cheap one as a model ? It is, perhaps, a little strange and eccentric, but, in such a case, eccentricity is allowable. It is a dressing-gown. You must, of course, have a dressing.gown of some sort, especially if you live much within doors. Tho following is a most ingenious contrivance, and may serve for a double purpose : Of course you know what is Persian calico, unstarched— the real Persian calico, I mean, such as used to be worn by our grandmothers ? Only theirs were the genuine oriental calicoes, whilst ours are but imitations. They are sold everywhere, from 7d. to 10d. a metre, our metre being 3 inches longer than the yard English. You see it is not over. expensive. You purchase a piece sufficiently long to make up a robe a rideau, Louis XV. style, suited to the occasion—that is to say, puckered in front instead of being flat. But do you know what a robe a ridcau is? It is a large blouse forming a long queue, with three hollow tucks in the back, like the collars worn by priests ; these tucks are formed upon a piece which is brought in front. This piece is loose and open en caw, and surrounded with a ruche of narrow ribbon to match the special colors of the dress. This ruche is carried on in front to form round the sleeves, which are tight to the elbow and wide at the bottom. This dress, you see, is extremely pretty without being dear. Let us now prepare for autumn, with cool mornings and evenings. For this you have a caraco of the same Persian calico, lined with Florence, quilted and wadded. This quilted lining turns back all round the sleeves and the caraco. This can be put on at pleasure, and will enable you to keep your dressing-gown in use till winter, when you re place it with flannel and cashmere. Bows or stitched claws are employed to fasten the surtout in front. Fashion, just now, is not to be looked for at Paris, but rather at the baths and watering-places, at Baden-Baden especially. What a choice of fine toilets, what a number of pretty things are seen. It is like the Gardens of Armida like a terrestrial paradise I The dresses which decorate the theatres aro indescrib able ; so they are at the public promenades, and everywhere you go. The 20 effect is magical—entrancing. Among ladies you meet, 18, be sure, have got the little hat, what ever their age may be. Their shapes aro infinite, and no shape in particular can be said to have a preference. It is a true republic this little lady's hat. The dresses are exceed ingly long, wide, and flowing; they certainly occupy m ore room than the hoops of the last century. They are not mu c h trimmed for visiting, and when they are trimmed they aim at the extraordinary employing fantastic ornaments, lozenges, semiwreath , claws, ruches, &c. The medley is so inconsistent and cc 'used that there is no definite mean ing to be traced. A w small flounces, one or two at most, deco-ate the ski Heaps of sailor vest match the dresses, white and striped burnous— thes he most general garments now in wear. The hair .11y arranged a la Regence, that is, with large em t; forehead. No doubt this next winter we shall have the pocAudes of the restoration, for we are rapidly tending that way. At the recent concert a Sivori , at which Yivier and Madame Battu were present, the latter wore a tuh 'e dress, trimmed from top to b o ttom with small narrow I mffings. These puffs were held up here and there by ribbo. as pro ceeding from the waist. Over this jupe was thrown a gos. samer veil, turned up on either side with bunches of d, Head-dress to match. Mad. ame Emile do Girardin, a, t the same concert, wore a muslin Lkress lined with rose taft, . I ra- She had on a lace pelerine, or rather a kind of hood, whikql, completely covered her. The effect was very fine. The Princess Menschikoff wore a ta.rlatane dress with sleeves,. a mauve underdress, a rice-straw' hat with mauve flowors 7 and a burnous made a splendid black Chantilly. The Baroness de Morthorn appeared in a muslin robe with embroidered flounces, a sort of black tunic over it,, with groseille flounces to hold it u.:?, and with grapes inter twined with her hair- A young lady, belonging to a family of condition, a few ago went through the ceremony of assuming the Car melit:e habit. Nothing was to be heard in the church but sobs an wailings. The state the poor mother was in pierced the heart of every spectator. She knew she was never to see a,ivain the face of a beloved daughter, for such seclusion is detail by anticipation. And yet they arehappy creatures these, t o whom God assigns His love for a voca tion. In His bosom I.IIOY find a refuge against the t storms of life; for them it has no torments, no perplexities, no grief; death itself is disarm& d of its terrors and apprehen sions. There alone can peaces be found here below, and Providence does not allow ins any perfect happiness be sides this. _ _ But now let me describe the toi7et of this young postu lant, and I am greatly mistaken if it does not please you. It was a white tarlatine dress, la, k 1 upon waves of muslin and tulle—that is, upon at least ti tree transparent petti coats. The trimming of this dress co. usisted, first, of a very thick ruche of tarlatane, scalloped; above this three very puffy bouillons ; and over these a similar ruche to the one below. The corsage, partially cpen on a stomacher, was likewise adorned with a berthe with small puffs . , surrounded with a ruche. The sleeves, trimmed with lon,r, puffs, di vided by small ruches, were extremely gracei;u l . This same pattern may be composed of gossamer tulle 011usion) for under-sleeves, but then the ruches are made of taffeta, which has a very pretty effect. The youthful nun had a veil, a bouquet, and a wreath of orange blossoms, like a bride. This parure would I:.`x3 a very delicate one for a bride who was not rich, or for a young girl going to a ball. I shall not torment you any longer with the sad picture or this fair postulant, but proeeed to describe to you a few more ball-room dresses; and if you dwell among the vota ries of dancing they may possibly be of use to you. One of these is a tulle dress of pearl grey, with two large puffs to match, divided by two small grey taffeta flounces, scalloped a l' empor le-piece. The same flounces are re peated over and under the puffs, making six flounces in all. On the puffs are strewn twigs of ruse acacias without leaves, The corsage a deuce pointes is arranged in the same manner. The same style of dress may be made of tarlatan() or white tulle, and, instead of flounces and flowers you apply pinked ruches. This is exquisite. A robe of white tarlatane may be trimmed with seven fluted flounces, all of them edged with black guipure. The corsage and sleeves must have three rows of it; the falls of a long sash are edged in the same way, and so are the flounces of a straight mantle, which must be worn when this dress is worn as half toilet (demi-toilette). • The sailor vests, or sautes-en•barcues, are still in high favour; they are preferred to the Talmas. Bear in mind that they are especially suitable to ladies of large frame. They are expected to outlast the winter, and they already talk of trimming them with lace and fur. There will be a peat deal of lace worn by-and-by. The Princess R has had two burnous made, one of Chantilly and the other of needlework. The cost of the latter was so enormous that I dare not name the price. It is fastened with rose ribbons, instead of tassels. The black has two white bows. Burnous of embroidered muslin, and still more plain burnous, are much better adapted to minor fortunes; and they are pretty and elegant. Let me show you the king of round hats, after which we may put out the lights; it is a hat the shape and distinc tion of which at once challenge respect to the wearer. This hat, then, is a Mademoiselle, with turned up edges at the side; it is made of grey straw, with no ornament but a single pintade plumet, of the same grey as the straw ; the base of this plumet is of red water feathers. A ribbon of the same shade is put round the crown, to fasten behind; the falls do not come down very low. With this headdress, and by way of completion, some venturous ladies would put a net of the same colour as the water feathers. A grey one might be added, but black is always the best colour. B ound or oval bats, and, in fine, hats without strings, are now making great way among the fashionable. They have been resolutely adopted in all watering places, even for very mature young women. They have more than doubled in number in Paris, but only among young women less mature. One of you has inquired of me, and asked my advice about a riding habit. If it is for town wear you must be particular, adhere to good taste, and shun the appearance of a professional equestrian. Consequently a riding dress made of English cloth, a mademoiselle hat, with or without plumes, a small black lace veil, a high collar, a small cra vat, tight sleeves, and ruffles inside. Then, if you wish to be smart, let your riding habit be green or blue. If it be for country wear you may be more fanciful. In which case a black alpaca or dark-coloured dress, a large Louis XIII. basqaine, with white sleeves; a grey felt hat, with a plume falling over the back, may be attainable . Even some nankeen and ticking dresses have been worn. However, do not forget that no toilet requires more good taste and simplicity than a lady's riding dress. We must beware of all exaggeration, and avoid every approach to the tumbler, the mountebank, and the acrobat. Caprice is so fond of liberty when she indulges, that, when once it carries us away, it is like a horse running away in a fit of terror, which could not stop if it would. MARQUISE DE BERMS. GOUN2RY MARALIAS. ►~ LIVERPOOL-SETT. 26. Our market to-day was extremely quiet, and wheat only in limited demand, at Tuesday's prices. The same may be said of flour. The Indian corn trade was steady, making former prices. WAKEFIELD-SETT. 26. New wheat was in good quantity, and sold at fully is per qr lower. Parcels not in good condition could only be sold at low prices. New samples of barley is cheaper. Beans, oats, and shelling rather in favour of the buyer. Averages for the week : Wheat .1,078 qrs., at sss 84d 8ar1ey......... 20 Peas .... Oats nye — Beans STAMFORD-SErr. 26. New wheat, 50s to 58s—red, 52s to 56s per 36 stone. Barley, 29s to 40s per qr. Oats, 22s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, 42s to 44s per qr. EXETER--SErT. 26. The trade rather slow to-day, and prices as follow : Wheat, white.. 7s 3d to 7s Gd Barley ..4s Od to 4s 6d Ditto red. .6s 6d to 6s 9d f Oats ..3s Od to 3s 6d Flour, fine, 38s to 39s ; seconds, 37s to 38s per sack. CATTLE. The supply of all descriptions of stock this morning very limited. Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to 10s6d Ewes, per lb .... 7d to 71d 1 Pork carcases, 8s Od to 9s 6d Wethers, d 0..... 6id to 64d Lamb, p 1b....... ltd to 8d Fat calves, d0...6d . to —(1 . Rough fat, 3/d per lb. -- 0 BRISTOL SUGAR—SETT. 26. There has been but little business done this week, both grocers and refiners showing an indifference:to operating except for immediate wants. There are no sales to report in rum. 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