The Sun. — London, England, 1862-05-30 00:00:00

THE CIVIL TVAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, MAY 16. If the South is to be finally conquered—which is not quite so certain as the North imagines—it is palpable from every scrap of reliable information which comes from the Cotton and Border States, whether in the shape of official documents, news paper reports, or private letters, that a far more difficult work than that of conquest remains to be accomplished. How is the country to be governed ? Bow are these eight or ten millions of people—not On inferior or an alien race, but high-spirited, proud, and defiant, speaking the same language with their conquerors, and looking upon them with a hatred Rs intense as that which Feenehmen would entertain towards Englishmen, or vice versa, if either country invaded and retained the other in subjection —to be dealt with by a people who have conquered them in the name of freedom and union, both of which will be destroyed in the struggle that pretended to establish them ? Like the Imperial Guard, the ,South may die, but it will not surrender. This truth becomes more apparent every day. General Beauregard, in a proclamation from Memphis, ad dressed to the Southern planters, calls upon them •• to apply the torch without delay or hesitation to nil cotton within the possible reach of the enemy." The order or request, whichever it be, has been very generally obeyed throughout the whole length of the Mississippi Valley. Such is the spirit of the people, their bitter loathing of the Yankees, and their determination, if they must retreat before superior force, to leave nothing but a wilderness be hind them, that they will not only destroy their cot ton and sugar, but their towns and cities, as the in vaders approach. The Mayor and Aldermen of e N w Orleans, nothing daunted by the military force in possession, have refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Federal Government, and have been consigned to prison for their obstinacy—or patriotism, as they consider it; to remain until they change their minds or are released by a general amnesty or the fortune of war. Another circumstanoe shows in quite as striking a manner the temper of the people. General Butler having penned a proclamation to the inhabitants, promising %he protection of the Federal Government to their lives and property, sent it round to all the news paper and firinting offices in the city. Every one of them refused to publish or print it. In this emer gency the general was compelled to appeal to his own army to know whether there were any compo sitors and pressmen in the ranks, and a sufficient number of both having stepped forth, they were marched under escort to one of the newspaper printing-offices, where they set up and printed the document, and afterwards affixed it to the walls and public places of the city. The ladies not only talk secession in the streets, but wave secession flags from the windows as the soldiers pass, and no gentleman who values his social position will exchange a word with a Federal officer, except in reply to a civil question. The Creole population are quite as hos tile as those who speak English, and, as the French language is very little cultivated in the North, and not one officer in a thousand adds any knowledge of it to his other accomplishments, the Creoles hurl Secession sentiments at their heads in French, and utter language which would speedily consign them to prison, along with the mayor and aldermen, if the Federals could but understand it. In Virginia, in the trail of the retreating army, the correspon dents and reporters who accompany the march to Richmond do not find the slightest traces of Union feeling, except among the black population. "The negroes," says one letter, " are, I fancy, the only Union people now in Dixie. With respect to the whites, the feelingthat their country is invaded has overborne all antecedents. They hate us with the hate of hell, and will yet do bloody work if they have the opportunity." " At Williamsburgh," says the Abolitionist on his travels, "no scrutiny 'With candles or by daytime can discover a single Unionist, man or woman." When the people of Williamsburgh discovered that the Fe deral army paid in cash for what they wanted in the stores, " they found," he adds, " the courage to come oat and scowl upon us." " Your soldiers are largely foreigners;' said a Virginian in Norfolk to this gentleman, as the 20th New York, a German regiment, passod up the street, but you yourselves will be conquered soon. This is but a reverse to our arms, and we must expect ups and downs in war." " Yes," replied the Federal, " but does it not strike you that we have all the ups and you all the downs ?" The Confederate turned on his heel, muttering something about Bull's Run, and closed the parley. And while the people of the South, even the armies of the North in actual possession of their soil, are in this frame of mind, and while they have yet two strong armies in the field burning with a fieree desire to retrieve the late disasters of their cause, does it not seem the extreme of folly on the part of a Federal General in command of a great d epartnrent to proclaim the abolition of slavery ? Abolition is not, or has not hitherto been, the policy of the President or of Mr. Seward, and both have taken espeoial pains to make the South understand it as thoroughly as the North. It is not a policy that the majority of the Northern people would re commend or support, but one to which they are, on the contrary, very decidedly opposed. It meets with no sympathy, except from a few ultra-Aboli tionists, who think, with Dr. Cheever, that the ‘" white men of America ought to go down on their knees to the Negroes and ask pardon for the wrongs eoramitted on their race. For taking it upon him *elf to proclaim emancipation at St. Louis with out the authority of the President, and to the sore ernbarraseroent of his Government, Gen. Fremont was deprived of his command at a critical moment, and in the face of the enemy in the field; yet a second General, unwarned by the example, has been found to follow the same course in a still more startling manner. Under date of Hilton Head, South Caro lina, May 9, General Hunter, warm with the thanks of the Government for the capture of Fort Pulaski, issued a proclamation which, unless imme diately disavowed, will be as valuable to the Con federates as an army of half a million of men, and of which the logic is as wonderful as the rashness. He declares that e slavery and martial law in a free country are altogether incompatible. The persons in those three State s , Georgia, Florida, and South C aro lina, heretofore held as slaves, are therebre de clared for ever frees' lost people o f • • are opinion that slaves and martial law are butt compatible, 00 and that (see is exceedingly like the ot her, though neither Om one nor the other has any busin ess • free country. But this is not what theGenlenraal meant. No one, net even an u ltra - Abolitionist, has any idea that slavery can be abolished by the stroke of a pen, whether the penman be a subordinate officer or the President himself. The first its. pression in New York was that the document could not be genuine; but all doubt is at an end on th e subject this morning, and the greatest anxiety is felt to know what will be done at 'Washington. Even if General Hunter's proclamation be imme diatnly disavowed and himself superseded in his co mmand he will have done ekn immensity of mis chief ; for the leaders of the South will take care to use his proclamation as an incentive scarcely needed to the intensity of hatred that rages against the Y an k e es, and will take no particular pains to let it be known that his act had not the autho rity of the Federal Government. But if, as is not very probable, unless there has been a bu dd ea change in Mr. Lincoln's council, th e act be adopted, the last hopes of a speedy ter mination of a war that began to be prayed for in this city are scattered to the winds. The already exasperated South will be exasperated still further. The proclamation will make a soldier of every man and boy in the South, and will have an effect in Kentucky and Other Border States which may de prive the Union of some of its most effective legions in the South-west. There are supposed to be at least 30,000 is • mon men from the Border States in the army of general Halleck who will either lay dowa their arms or the President end go over to the Confederates if e" General Hunter's procla matioo, and the war , e xhaustion of the instead Sout h, will of dying out by the be invigorated by a n ew lease of life and hatred that will carry it through a dozen years, unless Europe should, in the meantime, intervene between the combatants. The public mind continues ill at ease on the sub. ject of Gen. Halleek's position near Corinth. His army is believed to be greatly outnumbered by that of Gen. Beauregard. He is untried as a commander, never having fought a battle, and his suh(:rdinates, Generals Grant and Buell,did not win , 1 ch laurels at Pittsburg Landing as to impress the ( ountry and, worse than all, their own soldiers with a high opi nion of their military judgment. Every one admits that they fought well, and performed what it is the custom to call "prodigies of valour," but a true general ought not to allow his army to get into a position where his own personal bravery is needed as much as that of the common soldier to save the whole force from annihilation. It is not the strong arm, but the clear head which is expected in the leader of men, and it was the clear head which was wanting both before and during that obstinate and fruitless battle, in which both sides claim, and neither won, the victory, and in which Grant's di vision was only rescued from utter destruction by circumstances which he did not create. And to in crease the general disquietude caused by this infe riority, both of men and commanders, Mr. Secre tary Stanton, as if he were fearful of bad news and anxious to keep it from public knowledge as long as possible, has issued another of his press ordon nances, prohibiting all newspapers from publishing any telegraphic despatches from Halleck's army, or from Corinth and the neighbourhood, until such despatches shall have been communicated to the War department. People ask why this should be? If there be good news, why should it not be flashed along the wires to every newspaper in the country ? And if there be bad news, why should the official ostrich hide its silly head in a hole, and affect not to know it ? The armies of Halleck and Beauregard have both received reinforcements. Halleck has been joired by General Mitchell (the astronomer), who has made a retrograde movement from Huntsville, in Alabama, to come to his relief; and Beaure gard has received the accession of the army of Gen. Mansfield Lovell, numbering from 25,000 to 30,000 men, which marched out of New Orleans and took the rail towards Memphis, as soon as the unexpected appearance of Commodore Farragut's flotilla at the levee of that city had proclaimed the position to be no longer tenable. The last news from Halleck is a proclamation warning all unauthorised persons from his lines, and ordering that any such persons, whether negroes or newspaper reporters, shall be set to work in the trenches, or to such active labour in the camp as may be deemed advisable, It is not known whether any newspaper reporters have been authorised to remain, or whether this publication is his own work or that of Secretary Stanton. General M'Clellan has taken up a position on the Pamunkey River, within 27 miles of Richmond. His advanced guard is on the Chickahominy, within 17 miles of that capital. It is not now believed that the Confederates mean to evacuate the city and re treat southwards, but that they have raised such fortifications and gathered together such a force as will detain M'Clellan for a month before it will be prudent in him to commence an attack. Both Houses of Congress have Confiscation Bills before them, in defiance of Mrs. Glasse's celebrated maxim that you cannot well cook a hare until you have caught it. The Senate has reported upon the whole batch, which I mentioned in my last, and brought in a new bill, decreeing death and forfeiture of all property—that in slaves included—against all persons who shall be convicted of treason to the United States; and minor punishments, including fine, imprisonment, and disqualification for office, against all future aiders and abettors of the crime. A measure similar in spirit, but differing in some of the details, has been reported in like manner by a special committee of the House of Representatives ; but as both measures reserve to the President the right of proclaiming a general amnesty, and as by virtue of his office he has the power of life and death, it is possible, even if the hare be caught, that it may not be cooked in the exact manner recom mended by the Legislature. The President's proclamation, opening three, not five, Southern ports—New Orleans, Port Royal, and Beaufort—to the commerce of the United States ; and to the foreigner under certain well-defined restrictions, and the re-establishment of postal com munication from this city direct to New Orleans, have been received with great satisfaction by the mercantile community. The arrears of a twelve month's correspondence, principally on business matters, have been thrown into the Post-office in Nassau-street, subject to the liability of being opened and detained on suspicion of containing treason. But the accumulation was so large that very little espionage of this kind was possible, even if the authorities were desirous of exercising it. The principal activity which has been yet shown among that part of the business community whose hopes run on future profits, rather than on the recovery of old debts, is among the wine and spirit merchants, who, knowing that the South drinks much, and that it has for many months been with out claret, champagne, hollands, and stomachic bitters, for all of which it has a liking that the North cannot equal, have prepared large consign ments of those articles for the opening market. How they are to receive payment, when the Confe derate notes are declared to be worth less than 25 cents on the dollar, and while cotton, sugar, and tobacco are consigned on every hand to destruction, is a matter on which they have doubtless made up their minds, and which does not yet concern the outside public. As it is easy to be a lion in New York, the city is seldom without one for the amusement of the inha bitants. But New York lions, though permitted to roar lustily, are not permitted to roar long ; or the great element of loyalty, without which lionism would be a worse nuisance than it is, would be wanting. The lion of to-day. is a certain Dr. Brownlow—" Parson Brownlow," as he is com monly called--a gentleman who unites in his public and private character many pi quan t or i g i na liti e s. He is a minister of the Gospel, yet fights duels and goes armed. He is supposed, from his calling, to be a person of education and refinement, but he swears profanely, and talks and preaches in the vulgarest slang of the streets. Add to these little peculiarities that heis, or was, a slaveholder, and is now a eupporter of slavery, that he was editor and proprietor of a newspaper in Knoxville, Tennessee, suppressed for treason to the Coefederate Govern ment ; that he was imprisoned for many months in the common gaol of Knoxville for his Union prin ciples, and that he was finally set at liberty, appa rently on the ground that his eccentricities almost amounted 10 and tlacit Lc wao aot,in lamo.oy, to be held accountable for his actions, and you have a rough, but not incorrect sketch of the history and character of Parson Brownlow. One of the largest, most respectable, and most enthusiastic audiences that ever assembled in New York gathered together last night at the Academy of Music (or Opera House), with the hope of drawing both amusement and excitement from a speech about the war, and his own personal experience in captivity, which he was announced t o d e li ver . Nor was the audience in any way disappointed, either by his patriotism or his buffoonery, or by the recital of his sufferings. He declared the late President, Mr. Buchanan, to be " a miserable mockery of a man ;" that " such a President as Andrew Jackson would have crushed the rebellion out as sure as God made Moses;" that " President Lincoln would crush it out with the aid of the people ; and, When that was done, they (the people), after a few weeks to recruit strength, would lick France and England, too, both on at once." This amiable sentiment —which I regret to say, is very popular just now —wax received with reiterated rounds of applause. He fa r th er stated that the leaders of Secession " had bought up the Southern editors, to the last devil of them ; " that every outr a ged Union-man in T ennessee ha d a devil in his bosom the size of a bat; that Mr. Yancey once asked him on a public platfoem why he, a minister of the Gospel, meddled with politics ; that he said to Yancey, as Christ said to the Devil, " Get thee behind me, Satan ;" that he fully expected that Yancey would knock him down, but that he (the parson) had a cocked Derringer in his pocket, and fully intended that if he went down Yancey should go down on the other side; that he wanted to have the pleasure of tying the rope around the neck of every traitor in Tennessee; that the last suit of clothes worn by Henry Clay would make a better President, without a man in thew, than any President of recent time ; that the Seces sionists in Knoxville had entered his house three times in search of arms and got two guns and a pistol, but that being a D.D. he was not largely provided, and had the balance under his clothes ; that when they asked him to take the oath of alle giance he rose up several feet in his boots, and swore that, preacher though he was, he would see thorn down in the infernal regions before he would join them, and that if he owed the Devil twelve of the most revolting and degraded wretches the world ever saw, he would make his Satanic Majesty a tender of twelve Northern sympathisers with seces sion. All the fashion of New York were present to hear the speech from which I have culled these flowers of rhetoric, and the flutter of white hand kerchiefs when anything particularly racy or em phatic was uttered was unprecedented since the days when Jenny Lind excited the sensibilities of the fair wearers by gentler and more humanising influences. Commodore Wilkes himself was not a greater favourite for the moment that this fire-eating parson. Doubtless he will soon blow over, and be forgotten. In the meantime all the world desires his autograph and his carte de visite ; and the suc cess of his entertainment was such as will enable him to carry away from New York as much money as will re-establish his newspaper on its ancient footing, as soon as Knoxville is once again a safe place for se vigorous a parson to abide in. The desperate character of the two conflicts pend ing at Riehmond and Corinth, and the uncertainty of the issues in both, have acted for the last three days as dampers on the speculative ardour of the Stock Exchange, but there has been as yet no marked decline in Government or other securities. HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY SVENING, MAY 30, 1862 thin the condition of the heart and lungs before the administration of chloroform, The Coroner a9ked if the medical man was pre• sent who administered the chloroform, when Mr. Perry, the summoning officer, answered in the ne gative. The Coroner then'gave instructions to the con stable to summon the three medical men who had the case under their joint charge, and adjourned the investigation for their attendance. LA TV INTELLIGENCE.—May 29. ROLLS COURT. (Before the Master of the Rolls.) THORNTON V. HOWE. This suit raised the question whether a gift of an estate for the purpose of propagating " the sacred writings of the late Joanna Southcote" was void, on the ground that they were of a blasphemous and immoral character ; and if not void on that ground, whether it was not void under the Statute of Mort main. The suit was instituted by Eliza Thornton, of New Hampton, the niece of the donor, Ann Essem, formerly of Hampton, now deceased, for the purpose of administering her estate. After leaving some legacies to her friends, the testatrix bequeathed all the remainder of the estate, both real and per sonal, that she might be possessed of after the pay ment of her debts, funeral and testamentary ex penses, to Benjamin Howe, of Old-street, St. Luke's, his heirs and assigns for ever, upon trust to apply all the produce of her real and personal estate in the printing, publishing, and propagation of the sacred writings of the late Joanna Southcote. The plaintiff charged that the trust was void at law, and that the heir or heiress, or co-heiress-at-law to the testatrix, became at her death beneficially entitled to her real estate, subject to the trust for payment of her debts. The defendant, on the other hand, contended that the trust was legal, but that if not he was beneficially entitled to the estate. Mr. Fooks was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Selwyn and Mr. Speed for the defendant. The case was argued some weeks ago, when judg ment was reserved. His Honour, in delivering judgment to-day, said that he had investigated the writings of Joanna Southcote, and had found in them nothing likely to corrupt the morals of her followers, or to make her readers irreligious. She was, in his opinion, a foolish, ignorant woman, of an enthusiastic turn of mind, who imagined that the Almighty had selected her as a special instrument to promote some good on the earth. Every person who had attained such a pitch of self-confidence seriously believed himself to be an organ of communication with mankind, specially selected for that purpose by the Creator. The Court therefore must declare that the gift was not invalid by reason of any im moral tendency in the writings of Joanna South cote. But there remained the more serious objec tion, whether the gift was not invalidated by the statute of Elizabeth with regard to gifts for chari table purposes. He was of opinion that if a bequest were made for printing works of a religious tend ency or for the extension of the Christian religion, the Court, on proper application, would sanction and settle a scheme for those purposes. In fact, he had recently, in chambers, settled a scheme of that description; and in that respect he was of opinion that the Court of Chancery made no distinction be tween one sort of religion and another—that they i were equally bequests included n the general terms " charitable bequests." Neither did the Court make any distinction between one sect and another. The testatrix was a decided believer in Joanna South cote. Joanna Southcote, it was obvious from her writings, was a very sincere Christian. She laboured under the delusion, at ail advanced period of her life, that she was made the medium of miraculous birth of a child, and that thereby an advancement of the Christian religion would be produced. Her writings, he believed, were intended by her to extend the in fluence of the Christian religion; and he could no t say that a bequest for the publication of works for the support of the Christian religion was not a charitable bequest. If a testator were to leave a fund for the purpose of publishing, at a reduced price, religious works, that, in the opinion of the Court, would be a charitable bequest. But this tes tatrix had bequeathed not only personal but landed property for the purposes of the trust in question. Under the Statute of gortmain the 'gift of landed property for these purposes was void, and there must be a declaration to that effect. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Wight, Mr. Justice Crompton, and Mr. Justice Blackburn.) THE EXPLOSION AT SHO.REDITCIL We published yesterday an account of a shocking explosion of gas, which took place in Shoreditch, causing damage to about 30 houses, and severely injnting several persons who were on the spot at the time. Several of these were sent to the hospital. The unfortunate woman, Mrs. Smith, was at tended to by Mr. Adams, the house surgeon of the London Hospital, but such was the serious nature of the burns, and general shock to her system, that, according to the statement of the house surgeon, she lived not more than a few minutes after her ad mission. The same official informed our reporter that there were two boys and two men still remain ing in the hospital; and a little girl, who had been also removed to the same hospital, under the surgical treatment of Mr. Adams, was so far recovered as to be able to be removed to her home. Ike other four cases, although of a serious character, are not expected to terminate fatally. The scene of the desolation which was presented yesterday was such as can hardly be described with any degree of accuracy. That portion of the street where the explosion took plaee having been left in total darkness during the night, at daybreag men were employed in shoring up the tottering build ings. The house of Mr. Hayes, bootmaker, which suffered the most severely, was, as has been before stated, blown to the ground, but it seems that the inmates must have received some premonitory notice of the gas eseaping, and lodging in the basement of their house, as they all ran away, with the excep tion of one man, who stood at the door, and he was hurled a considerable distance by the force of the concussion. The actual cause of the catastrophe is to a certain extent differently stated. The contractors for the main sewer in course of construction attribute it to the main pipe of the Commercial Gas Company, which ran under the pavement and passed over the archway of the houses forming the cellars, being defective, and the gas escaping into the premises occupied by Mr. John Hayes, at No. 151, it became ignited in the cellar, blowing up the front of the house, tearing up the pavement, and causing the party-wall of the adjoining house, 150, to fall down, the force of the concussion from the explosion shattering the windows and fronts of ten houses. On the other hand, the inspectors of the Commer cial Gas Company attribute it to the weight of superincumbent stonework breaking in the arch and tearing down the pipes. It is certain, however, that the explosion first took place in the cellar of Mr. Hayes's house, as the portable engine and the main beams and uprights of the sewer are not dis turbed, except at that portion of Mr. Hayes's house blown up. Soon after the occurrence Mr. Superin tendent %bite, Inspectors Osborne, Broad,and Den • by,with a strong body ofpolice from the Spital-square station, were on the spot, and took every precaution to prevent any further accidents. Very little damage was done by fire, as the mains were cut off and secured from Rose-street to Brick-lane, thus putting a stop to any further escape. Mr. Hayes, with his wife and child, the only inmates, smelling the strong escape of gas, fortunately ran into the street and escaped. The whole of the front of the house is torn out, the back and flooring, with part of the fur niture, remaining. By direction of Mr. Reeves, the police-surveyor of the district, the works on both sides have been boarded up, and the houses adjoining that of Mr. Hayes shored up; the latter is insured in the Scottish Provincial. Information has been forwarded to Mr. Hum phreys, the coroner, of the death of the woman Smith. The inquest will not take place before to morrow. DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM. Yesterday an inquiry was opened by Mr. H. Raffles Wal:hew, the deputy coroner fcr the county of Middlesex, at the Dock Hotel,Upper East Smith field, Tower-hill, respecting the death of Pierre Pelletier, aged 35 years, a Frenchman, lately em ployed at Sir Anthony Rothschild's gold refinery, adjoining the Royal Mint, Royal Mint-street, Tower-hill, who died from the administration cf chloroform. Mr. E. T. Wingate, the solicitor, attended to watch the case, by the direction of Sir Anthony Rothschild, and the utmost interest was manifested during the proceedings. The body of the deceased had been exhumed from the Tower Hamlets Cemetery by the warrant of the coroner, as the deceased had been interred without an inquest. The jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the remains of the dcceased,which were lying in the dead-house of Aldgate Without, Cartwright-street, Upper East Smithfield. Upon their return the following evidence was adduced : Pierre Dumesnil, who resided at No. 19, Royal Mint-street, deposed that he knew the deceased, who worked on the same premises. He was present when the deceased died from an overdose of chloro 4'ozu.. TI. yy uk, t.."..u.a.at) Ty licu thu Maus IT nistered to allay the pain of an operation which he was to undergo for fistula. Deceased had been [afflicted for 10 years, but ne had been able to follow his occupation. Dr.Diendonne,Southarnpton-street, Strand, a French physician, had been his medical adviser, and he had taken medicine for the malady. The operation was to have been performed at the deceased's residence on Monday, the 12th inst., and a consultation took place, when another French physician and Dr. Marshall, of Tichborne street, were present. The first named gentleman ad ministered the chloroform by the desire of deceased, but the drug did not take effect for several minutes, when more was given to him, and he became un conscious. The next minute he was found to be dead. By the Coroner—l believe the deceased died from the chloroform, and before he became insensible he was pinched and pricked several times, which showed that the drug had not taken effect. After the deceased expired the physicians tried artificial respiration by rubbing the body and breathing in the mouth, but their efforts were of no avail. They left the deceased soon afterwards, and the attendants thought that he breathed, when they sent for Mr. Cook. the surgeon, of the Minories, whose assistant attended, but he pronounced life extinct. Mr. F. G. Gant, surgeon and pathological anato mist of the Royal Free Hospital, was then called, and said he had performed a post mortena examina tion of the body since the exhumation. He found sufficient to account for death if chloroform was ad ministered. Tbere was long existing disease of the heart, and death would inevitably ensue from the administration of such an agent. He found the walls of the heart very thin, and the opening between the auricle and th e r i g ht ven t r i c l e su ffi c i en tly large to admit d four of hi s fingers readily. The heart had unergone fatty degeneration. The lungs wers strongly adherent th r o ug h ou t—more especially the right lung. The adhesions were very firm, and it required c onsiderable force to remove them. He was of opinion that, with the feebleness of heart and lungs, the administration ' of chloroform would stop the action of the first named organ, and produce paralysis and death without any warning. By the Coroner —It was very essential to ascer- ROTIIERA V. CLARKE. This was an action tried at Guildhall, at the last London sittings after Easter Term, in which the plaintiff, a jockey, sued the defendant, a trainer of race-horses, for arrears of wages, and for certain money considerations to which he was entitled for each race that he rode, whether he won or loot. The conditions of those pecuniary considerations were, that he was to receive five guineas in the event of his winning the raee, and three guineas should he lose it. He had ridden at Ascot and other races, and won and lost. The defendant, at the trial, pleaded payment and not indebted. The jury having heard the evidence, returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., now moved for a rule calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the ground of the defendant having been taken by "surprise," and of verdict against evidence. Another ground upon which he thought the action could not be maintained was that lye years had elapsed since the plaintiff had been in the defendant's service, namely 1857, and from that time down to the trial the other day, he lay luietly by, never raising a question about these claims, claims whieh he (the learned counsel) submitted had been discharged while plaintiff was in defendant's employment. The Court thought there ought to be a rule nisi. Rule granted accordingly. WICKHAM AND OTHERS V. BURGESS AND OTHERS. This was an action brought to recover a sum of £4,000 on a policy of insurance effected by the plain tiffs on a ship called the Ganges, and disputed by the defendants on the ground that the ship was not sea worthy, and that they were induced to enter into the policy by representations which were not borne out by the facts. The action was tried before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a special jury, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs for the amount claimed. A rule was obtained oa behalf of the defendants, calling on the plaintiffs to show cause why the ver dict should not be set aside on the ground that it was against evidence, and on other grounds, and why there should not be a new trial. The Ganges, it appeared, was a flat-bottomed ship, built for the navigation of the river Indus, and was chartered for Kurrachee or Calcutta, She was represented to be in every way fitted for ocean as well as river navigation; but it turned out that she was not, and that she foundered, and was lost by the perils of the sea. Mr. Lush, Q.C., and Mr. Chitty now showed cause against the rule ; and Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. M‘Namara having been heard in support of it, The Court intimated that they would take time to consider. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings in Banco. before Lord Chief Justice Erle, and Justices Williams, Willes, and Byles.) HERMANN Y. SENESCHAL-UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF PASSING BAD ➢IONEY. The plaintiff in this case was a musician engaged at a theatre, and on his way home one night he went into the defendant's shop to purchase a cigar. According to the plaintiff's case he handed the de fendant a shilling and received the change, but the defendant immediately afterwards followed him and gave him into custody upon a charge of passing a bad florin. He was locked up, but the magistrate discharged him, and this action having been brought to recover damages for false imprisonment the jury awarded him £5. The question now was whether a rule to enter a verdict for the defendant should be made absolUte. Mr. Shaw appeared to show cause, and Mr. Ser geant Petersdorff and Mr. Giffard to support the rule. It was stated that the 24th and 25th Vic., cap. 99. enacted that any person who, acting under that act, gave another into custody upon a charge of passing bad money should be entitled to notice of action ; and the jury in this case found that the defendant bona fide believed that the plaintiff had passed bad money, but that he had no reasonable ground for so believing, and the question was, whether this finding entitled the defendant to notice of action. The Lord Chief Justice thought that the govern ing question as to the right to notice of action was, whether the defendant really believed that the facts existed which brought the statute into operation, and honestly intended to enforce the law; and the jury having found this in favour of the defendant, ne was entitled to notice of action, notwithstanding they thought that he had no reasonable ground for the suspicion which he entertained. Rule absolute. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sittings in Bunco, in Trinity Term, before the Lord Chief Baron, and Barons Bramwell and Ciaannell.) SAUNDERS V. EASTABLE.-ACCIDENT. This action was brought by a cab driver against the contractor who supplies horses for the en gines at the Watling-street Station of the Fire Brigade, for bodily injuries sustained by a col lision with a fire engine in Finsbury-square. The trial took place before Mr% Baron Martin at the sittings in Westminster after last term, when the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages £25. Mr. M. Chambers, on the part oi the defendant, now moved for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against the weight of evidence. He stated that no evidence was given for the defence, but one of the plaintiff's witnesses, the engineer who accompanied the engine, said that the accident arose from the plaintiff disregarding the approach of the engine and driving right across it, notwith standing the loud calls which were made to warn him. Under these circumstances the learned coun sel concluded that the accident was either inevitable or that the plaintiff so far contributed to it as to deprive him of any cause of action. Mr. Baron Martin read over some portion of the evidence from his notes, and said he was not dissa tisfied with the finding of the jury for the plaintiff, who had sustained very serious injuries. The Lord Chief Baron—The Court think that the verdict should not be disturbed, Rale refused. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Cresswell.) STEWART V. STEWART AND HARDY.-CURIOUS NO TION RESPECTING THE MARRIAGE LAW. This was a suit instituted by Donald Stewart, a mariner, for a divorce on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent, who was also a mariner. The parties were cited, but there was no appearance. _ _ Dr. Spinks was counsel for the petitioner. It appeared that the petitioner and respondent were married at the Roman Catholic chapel, North Shields, in 18M, and cohabited in that town until 1856. In that year the petitioner, who was gene rally engaged in the coasting trade, went on a voyage to the Mediterranean, and was absent from home longer than usual. On his return he discovered that his wife had married the co-respondent, and they were both living at his (petitioner's) house. She expressed much surprise that he should have objected to her marrying another man during his life-time, and said that he was at liberty to do the same. (Laughter.) The Court granted the decree nisi with coats. BAILEY V. BAILEY AND SHENTON. This was the petition of Mr. James Philip Bailey, described in the marriage register as a gen tleman, praying for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-re spondent, who was also in a respectable station of life. Neither the respondent nor co-respondent en tered an appearance. Mr. Hume Williams was counsel for the peti tioner. From the evidence it appeared that the marriage was solemnised at the parish clyarch of St. Giles, Camberwell, on the 23d of April, 1840. Some time subsequent to the marriage Mrs. Bailey contracted habits of intemperance, which necessitated their occasional separation, but with these exceptions they lived together until 1859, when the parties went to reside at Wandsworth, and here they be came acquainted with the co-respondent. They afterwards removed to Deptford, and here they were visited by the co-respondent who was living at a cottage in East Wickham, where he invited them to see him. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Bailey dis appeared, taking £5 with her, and she was traced to the cottage of the co-respondent. She said that she derived much benefit from the change of air, and requested to be allowed to remain at the co respondent's house for some time longer in com pany with his daughter, who was 25 years old. The petitioner then made arrangements for her remaining, and allowed a sum for her maintenance. She returned home at the end of six weeks. It was discovered that afterwards she spent three nights living in a coffee-house with the co-respondent. Amongst the witnesses examined was a young man, the eldest son, issue of the unfortunate mar riage, and the evidence was of a most conclusive character. The Court pronounced a decree nisi, and con demned the co-respondent in costs. LANG V. LANG. This was a petition of the wife for a dissolution of marriage on the pound of her husband's cruelty and adultery, to which there was no appearance. Mr. Gibbons was counsel for the petitioner. The parties were married at Knightsbridge, in 1856, and they lived together until 1860. The re spondent was a commercial traveller, and according to the evidence of the petitioner, he commenced ill treatment three months after marriage, and ulti mately his conduct became so violent that she had frequently black eyes and bruises, the result of his blows. He was in the habit of leaving the petitioner frequently, and in 1860 he deserted her finally. It NI , as also proved that he had been cohabiting with another female since 1861. _ _ The Court pronounced a decree nisi with costs. ALLBUT V. ALLBUT. This also was an undefended suit by the wife for a divorce on the ground of adultery and cruelty. Mr. Collier, Q.C., and Mr. Turner were counsel for the petitioner. The parties are in humble life, and were married at Redditch, Worcestershire, in Jan., 1844, and after 16 years of cohabitation the respondent deserted his wife. Both allegations of the petitioner were made out to the satisfaction of the Court. Decree nisi with costs. BAIL COURT. Sittings at Nisi Prius at Westminster.—(Before Mr. Justice Mellor and a Common Jury.) DE ROYER V. VALLER. This was an action for the unlawful conversion of certain household furniture, for illegally seizing and taking the same away, &c. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and leave and license. Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Honeyman were counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr. Prentice were counsel for the defendant. Mr. Huddleston, in stating the case to the jury, said the plaintiff was a French lady who had resided for some time in this country under the protection of a gentleman, and the defendant carried on part nership with a person named Bolton as upholsterer and money lender, carrying on business at More ton-street, Pimlico. The lady resided some time since in Sutherland-street, Pimlico, where the trans actions in question first commenced, and afterwards she removed to Essex Villa, Kensington, where she now resides. The learned counsel then called the following evidence:— Madame De Royer deposed through M. Albert, interpreter—ln December, 1861, I had some goods warehoused at Messrs. Price and Clark's, Chancery lane. On the 24th December the defendant Bolton agreed to advance me £6O on them, and I gave him a bill of sale for £69; he was to be paid ls. in the pound per month iuterest money. About a fort night afterwards I received a further advance of £lO, for which I agreed to give him £2 interest. I gave him a bill of exchange for £l5, being £5 in terest for the loan of £lO for 13 days. Bolton I brought the bill drawn out, and I signed it. After that I had another £6O to be paid the same time as the first £6O, and at the same rate of interest. Bolton, however, brought me on the 22d Janne' y a bill for £75 payable in seven days, which I signed. I did not then observe that it was made payable seven days after. A few days after I received a letter from Bolton stating that I must be ready to pay the money. I wrote to him expressing my surprise, and asked him to call on me and explain his conduct. I told him I was much surprised at his charging me £75 for £6O only advanced a few days. I told him that I would pay him and have nothing more to do with him. He demanded £145 altogether from me. I declined to pay it, and said that if he did not take £134, I would apply to a magistrate, He accepted that sum, and the bill of sale and the bill of exchange were given up to me. Bolton called afterwards about taking the bill of - sale off the registry, and said that for the future he would act more honour ably if I would do business with him. I said I would try him again, and as I was in want of £BO, he agreed to advance it on the furniture, and on the same terms as the first, ls. per pound per month. The day after he brought me the money and the bill of sale for £lOO for me to sign. He asked for the first bill of sale for the 'purpose of taking a copy of the inventory, and I gave it to him. 1 have not had it back. Eighty pounds were advanced in cash, and a bill of sale was given for £lOO on the Bth of March, repayable £5 on the sth of April, £5 on the sth of May, and the £9O on the sth of June. I also gave him a bill of exchange, payable in a month, for £lOO. The bill was drawn by the defendant, and accepted by me, and when it was given Bolton gave me an undertaking in writing, " binding himself not to take any proceedings on the bill of exchange unless in default of payment of the bill of sale, nor make any application for any portion of it unless default as aforesaid, and on the bill of sale being paid the bill of exchange to be null and void. The bill of sale was not read over to me or translated to me. I did not read it, be cause I cannot read English. Bolton knew before this that I al as looking out for a fresh residence, and he wrote my week's notice to quit Sutherland street, Pimlico, on the 19th March. I had taken I.4ssex Villa, Kensington, and I arranged with Bol ton for him to remove my furniture to that house, charging me with the expense. The house at Ken sington not being ready for my occupation on the 17th, I took temporary lodgings at my milliner's, Itawstone-street, Montpellier -square. Between four and five o'clock in the afternoon of the 19th, Bolton came, to me and said a dirty looking man had followed the van—(laugh ter)—and that he de c li ne d t o sa y w h y h e did so. I replied, " Who can he be—what can I do ?" He said, " I think it would be better to let him come up." I said, Then let him." The dirty-looking man then came up-stairs, and I asked him why he followed the van ; upon which he gave me an account from Messrs. Hewetson, for £lB, the balance of account, and asked me to pay it. I said, " You don't look like a clerk of the house, and I don't know that I ought to pay you." He replied, " If you don't pay me I will continue to follow the van." He then went down stairs at my request, and I then asked Bolton what he thought I had better do in the matter—whether I ought to pay the man the money ? Bolton said, " I don't think you should pay such a dirty-looking fellow, but to some body who looked more respectable." (Laughter.) I could have paid the money if Bolton had advised me to do so. I told Bolton to take the goods to the house and see that the dirty-looking man did not make a disturbance. (Laughter.) I afterwards went out, and on my return I found my dressmaker very excited. The dirty.-looking man was there. He gave me Messrs. Hewetson's claim and a copy of a writ. I was also informed that the furniture had not been taken to my house. I then consulted my solicitors, Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, having previously received a letter from Bolton dated the 20th. [lt was dated "8, Moreton-street, Pimlico," and stated that Mr. Waller had instructed him to write and inform her that the furniture had been removed there for the sake of safety under the exist ing state of affairs, and not with the intention of taking it from her, and that Mr. Waller was not prepared to entertain any proposal for giving up the furniture unless he was satisfied no other per son had a claim against her, and that he had removed the goods according to instructions from her agent. Enclosed was a list of goods brought there awaiting her pleasure. Everything was safe, and was taken as much care of as if they were in her own keeping, and that if her agent would call on him and represent her views on the subject, he had no doubt he should be able to satisfy him that what he had done was absolutely necessary under the circumstances, and that no ad vantage was intended or would be taken of her in any way whatever.] There was £l5O worth more of furniture taken in the vans than was at Price's in Chancery-lane. In consequence of Bolton's taking away my furniture I have had to hire furni ture, for which I paid £2O per month. On the Bth of April I received a notice stating that the bill drawn by Waller for £lOO was lying due at 8, Moreton-street, Pimlico. I afterwards received a writ for the amount at the suit of Waller. The bill was dated Bth of March, and the writ was issued on the 9th of April. It came enclosed in a letter ad dressed " Madame de Royer, private, with Messrs. Lewis and Lewis' compliments." Inside was writ ten " Please receive the enclosed from Mr. Waller" —(the writ.) (Laughter.) Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, Ely-place, are my solicitors. After the 25th April Bolton came with two men to Essex Villa, and in spite of my servant they got into the house, saying he had come to fetch some articles that were in the bill of sale, but which he had not got. He took several things—my writing-desk, but I first took my letters out. (Laughter.) Among other things he took a poker, first saying that if I wanted a poker he would leave it. Cross-examined—l came first to England about four years ago. I have always gone by the name of De Royer, and no other. I have never been married. I have not gone by the name of the Countess Dutremont. The letter produced is in my handwriting, and is signed Dutremont, because I once lived with a gentleman of that name. I was obliged to do so. When living alone I always go by the name De Royer. I have property of my own, a farm in France, and some railway shares. Mr. Coleridge—l suppose you have not a castle in Spain ? _ _ Witness—No. I did not refuse to sign the second bill of sale. I did not say after I had got the money that "I would show him how ladies do such things in France." (Laughter.) He did not say that ill treated him so he would sue me—it is all lies. (Laughter.) I did not tell him that he should have his money, but no interest. I never mentioned to Bolton the name of a major with whom I was living, and that I could get the money to pay him with from that gentleman. I will not enter into my pri vate affairs. I once went in my carriage to Bolton's but not to ask him to lend me money. I applied to a loan office before applying to Bolton, but I did not get an advance. I did not ask Bolton to borrow the money for me from Waller. He always spoke of Waller as a man beneath him. Bolton knew what creditors I had. I did tell him my furniture was paid for, and that no one had any claims against me. I was introduced to a working furni ture maker, named Morrell. I advanced him £B6 to purchase material and make it up into furniture. He afterwards made a claim against me for £lBB, for which I was sued, and through the inattention of my previous solicitor the verdict went against me for £lO2. At the time that action was tried I was in Germany. On Saturday last I was arrested for 194 balance due, and was confined till Monday, when the money was paid. Re-examined—l have deposited £5O with Messrs. Beck and Co. for the furniture I am using belong ing to them. This case was in the paper for trial last week, and I was arrested on Saturday by Mor rell. He is here with Bolton. They are always together. (Laughter.) I don't know how the de fendant has got a letter of mine produced dated Baden Baden. Waller and Bolton's names were on the van that removed the furniture. The learned Judge interposed, and asked, as many points of law must arise on this whether the parties could not come to some reasonable terms of settlement. It would be a long time before any points of law could be settled, considering the arrears of business in the court. Both parties ought to be reasonable, because it was not to their interest that litigation should proceed further. Mr. Coleridge said there was no objection to give the plaintiff her furniture if she would pay the de fendant his money. Mr. Huddleston said the defendant should be paid his money, and 6 per cent. then in court, on his giving up the furniture and paying the costs of the trial. A consultation took place between the defendant and his counsel, which resulted in the defendant re fusing to accept the terms offered. Other evidence was then called in support of the plaintiff's case. Mr. Coleridge, for the defendant, submitted that by the wording of the bill of sale, the furniture was transferred absolutely to him, with certain powers in the event of the non-payment of the instalments, removal of the goods from Pimlico, damage, &e., or being sued by creditors. The learned Judge held that the plaintiff was entitled to the possession of the goods. Mr. Coleridge, in addressing the jury for the defendant, cautioned them not to be led away that the plaintiff was a person unused to the ways of the world. The rate of interest charged by money lenders depended of course upon the risk, and the Duke of Wellington never spoke wiser than when he remarked that "the rate of interest was to be measured by the rate of risk run." That the de fendant under the circumstances took a large rate of interest was to be expected, and was not sufficient to disentitle him to fair consideration, more especially when they remembered that the plaintiff wa s a person who was likely to disappear from the scene in a few weeks, and the defendant be deprived of his money and his goods. He hoped the defen dant's case would not be prejudiced because he was a money-lender and obtained a large interest, and observed that he thought it was very much like a case of " diamond cut diamond." At this stage another conference took place be tween the parties; and Mr. Huddleston said they had agreed to terms. The verdict would be entered for the plaintiff for nominal damages subject to terms agreed upon. Verdict accordingly. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—May 29. CLERKENWELL.—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN TIIE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.--John Freeman, aged 30, a discharged soldier, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by endeavouring to throw himself into the cutting of the Metropolitan Railway, at Charlotte-street, St. Pancras. From the evidence of Richard Parker, a watch man employed on the line, it appeared that that morning, between 3 and 4, he saw the prisoner clamber up the walls enclosing the railway and get over. He ran and caught hold of his hand, and held him. Had it nut been for the assistance of two of the neighbours, who ran out in their shirts, he must have let him fall into the cutting, a dis tance of about 50 feet. On the way to the station the prisoner said he was a discharged soldier, and had had a wound in his head, which sometimes took away his senses. The defendant said he was sorry for what he had done, but he did not know what he was about. Mr. D'Eyncourt sent the prisoner to the work. house. • THAMES.—CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER. George Cochrane, a man about 25 years of age, who has been in custody a fortnight, and appeared very ill and dejected, was brought up on remand before Mr. Woolrych, charged with the wilful murder of Thomas Courtenay. The prisoner and the deceased were both labourers in the employ of the Grand Surrey Canal Dock Company, and were on good terms with each other until the morning of the 16th inst., when the affray which resulted in the death of one of them took place. imel Bolas, a Waterman and was the principal witness, stated i that ig h h t e e r 9 m a a w n 1 C whooch rane, Courtenay, and two other men coming down Old Gravel-lane, towards Wapping-dock Stairs, Adjoining the Thames m annel entrance. They were all intoxicated and quarrelling. The prisoner an Courtenay pulled off their jackets and began fight ing. After a good many blows were exchanged, and Ccchrane had been twice knocked down, he got up and said he had lost a sixpence, and that he would fight all the harder, providing he found it. The money was not found, and Cochrane said he would fight no more. The deceased, however, struck at him again, used very bad language, and said, " You are bound to fight me, and fight me you shall." Some more blows passed between them ; the prisoner got the worst of it, and was anxious to cease fighting, but the deceased, who pummelled him unmercifully, would not allow him to do so. Cochrane also twice said, "I'll allow you to be the best man." At last the prisoner said, "If lam to fight it shall be with this," and put his hand in his left trousers pocket and took from it a knife, with which he struck at the deceased, who staggered ten or twelve feet and fell. A police-constable, named Edward Bishop, 506 A, saw the deceased struck with the knife, and saw him fall. He caused the deceased to be conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he died a few days afterwards. Mr. Daniel Biddle, house surgeon at St. Thomas's Hospital, stated that he saw the dead body of Courtenay. There was a wound two inches in length extending downwards from the breastbone and upwards. The pleura was wounded to the ex tent of half an inch. Inflammation extended over the whole pleura. There was profuse hemorrhage, The internal mammary artery was punctured. The wounds described were the cause of death. Bishop, the constable who had charge of the case, produced a sharp clasp knife which he took from Cochrane. There was fresh blood upon it when he first saw it. The prisoner, who was deeply affected, said that what the witnesses had stated was quite correct. The deceased provoked him to fight ; and although he gave Courtenay the best of it, be fought again and knocked out one of his (Cochrane's) teeth, and knocked him down twice. He gave the deceased the best of the fight again, but was again beaten and knocked down. His ankle was sprained and very weak, and he took his knife from his pocket and thought to stop the prisoner. He had no in tention of using the knife or to strike the deceased with it, and the first time he struck at him with the knife it was shut. He was very sorry indeed for what had occurred. Mr. Woolrych said the offence did not amount to wilful murder. There was no malice prepense, and it appeared that Cochrane did want to leave off fighting more than once. He felt bound, under all the circumstances, to commit the prisoner for trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions for manslaughter. HAMPSTEAD.—LADY THIEVES ON HAMP STEAD HEATH—A NARROW ESCAPE.—EIIen Lax ton alias Allen, alias Williams, and Mary Stevens, who were dressed in the latest approved fashion, were charged on remand before Mr. J. G. Hoare, Mr. J. Marshall, and Mr. G. J. Redman, on suspi cion of stealing, in company with others, a watch, also a port-monnaie, during an inspection of the Ist Royal Middlesex Militia by Col. Graham at Hamp stead Heath on Friday last. Mr. Wakeling ap peared for the prisoners. James Peene, an elderly gentleman, said—l am an organist. On Friday last I was on Hampstead Heath, looking at the inspection of the militia; two men came in front of me, and almost immediately there was a rush ; in a minute after I missed my watch, which had been wrenched from my guard, and which was safe just before the rush. Miss Ware, of High-street, Hampstead, was on the heath looking at the militia, when she felt a female pressing against her; she put her hand into her pocket and found the woman in the act of draw ing her hand from it with her purse. She seized her hand and took the purse from her and said, "How dare you pick my pocket?" The woman re plied, " Oh no, miss, I was not picking your pocket, but pushing rather hard against your crinoline." Witness pointed the woman out to a man who was standing near, but she escaped before the arrival of a policeman. Alexander Burks, a gardener, residing at Golden square, Hampstead, deposed—l was on Hampstead Heath during the militia inspection. I saw both prisoners in company with several men and women. From their manner I suspected they were thieves, and watched them. I saw the two men mentioned by Mr. Peene with them. I also saw the woman mentioned by Miss Ware with them both before and after the attempt to steal the purse. A railway porter proved seeing both prisoners in the crowd working together; one getting in front of ladies, the other behind, apparently for the pur pose of picking pockets. - Mr. Inspector Webb said that both prisoners had been recognised by Mrs. W oo d an d M rs. H owe, chief 'warders of the House of Detention and Tot hill-fields, as having been repeatedly in prison. Layton was convicted in 1854, and again, in the name of Allen, with a man who gave the same name, for picking pockets, in September, 1859, and sentenced to three years' penal servitude, and the reason of her now being out of prison was owing to a regulation where convicts who conducted them selves well had three months given them off every twelve, so that, instead of her having three years' punishment, she received little more than two. She had a sister now doing penal servitude. The con victions against Stevens had not yet been traced. Both prisoners had been visited since being in cus tody by some of the most notorious thieves in Lon don. Mr. Hoare said the bench had no doubt prisoners had come to the heath to pick pockets, but he did not think they had done quite elough to convict them. It was a very narrow map% for them, for if they had done a very little more they would have been sent for three months' hard labour. As it was they would be discharged. COUNTRY MARKE 2S. •.• MANCHESTER-MAY 29. Moro disposition to buy wheat, but as holders resisted any further concession in price, sales took place very slowly in either English or foreign. Flour difficult to sell, and at barely the prices of last Tuesday. Oats and oatmealwere the turn lower. Egyptian beans declined 6d to is poi qr. Indian corn 3d to 6d dearer. BIRMINGHAM-MAY 29. There was a short supply of English wheat, which soil slowly at is to 2s per qr under the currency of this dal week. Oats, beans, and peas were taken at late prices. PLYMOUTH-MAY 27. The wheat trade since our last has been rather dull. Wheat and flour sold at about last week's rates. White wheat, 62s to 66s ; red, 63s to 64s per qr ; French do., 60s to 62s ; American, 58s to 63s ; Spanish, 74s to 76s ; Rus sian, 60s to 625. Barley at previous rates-34s to 38s per qr for malting; grinding, 28s to 30s; oats, 22s to2Bs ; and beans, —s to —s; flour, 40s to 42s Od. CORK-MAy 28. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, —s Od to —s Od ; white, 22s Od to —s Od; barley 14s 6d to —s Od ; oats, 13s Od to 16s Od. •MAY 27. [Less transacted to-day, and s. d. s. d. Do., new . 0 to 0 Bere — 0 to 0 Rapeseed Oatmeal l3 0 to 16 0 Bakers' flour l7 0 to 21 0 Indian corn DUBLIN• There was scarcely any bu prices are merely nominal. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 30' ‘ 0 to 35 0 Do., red 26 0 to 33 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black l3 6 to 15 0 EDINBURGH GRAIN-MAY 28. Wheat on the top is Od down Average Os lld down. Barley on the top 2s Od down.......average Os 4d down, Oats on the top ; - s Od up. average is bd up. Beans on the top is Od up ...... average is 8d down Total Supply and Sales. Wheat .. 803 qrs ........ Sold 660 qrs 8ar1ey........ 197 qrs ........ Sold 120 qrs Oats Q3O qrs Sold 808 qrs Beans 3l qrs Sold 30 qrs DERBY SMITHFIELD—MAY 27. The supply of fat beasts to - day was sh or t . A l arge att mdance of buyers, and an advance was obtained. Sheep in average supply, at former prices. F at and store calves plentiful. Fat pigs still scarce. Beet ............61d to 6/d Veal 6d to 61d Mutton .. . 61d to 7d P ork _ 51d to6u Lamb .. 81d to 9d Rough fat, 4s Od pe r s t one . Hides, 3d to 4id ; calf skins, 5d to 6d. BIRTHS. CLIFFORD.-Ott the 28th inst., at The Grange, Farnham, the wife of J. Clifford, Esq., 9th Lancers, of a son. MARTIN. -011 the 29th inst., at 14, Berkeley-square, the wife of John Martin, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. DIT NN - -MEYLER.—On the 28th inst., at Saint Michael's, Gloucester, William Dunn, Esq , of Frome, Selwood, to Alice, younger daughter of William Morgan Meyler, Esq., of Ashmeade House, Gloucester. GREA.TOREX—PARKES.—On s the 29th inst., at the parish church, Heston, Reuben Courtnell Greatores, Esq., of Upper Westbourne-terrace, Hyde-park, to Rachel Had den, eldest daughter of the late Richard Parkes, Esq., of Handsworth, Staffordshire. DEATHS. HARVEY.—On the 28th inst., at Sunnyside, Waltner, Katherine, wife of Captain Henry Harvey, R.N., aged 44. MARTIN.—On the 28th inst., at the IsT,Tkinger House, Bermondsey, Charles Martin, Esq., aged 60. PARKER.—On the 28th inst., James Parker, Esq., of Baddow House, Essex. PEEL.—On the 27th inst., Jane, eighth daughter of the late Jonathan Peel, Esq., of Accrington House, Lanca shire, aged 64. LONDON : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of N 0.112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Micidleeez.—Friday, V10y.300862.