The Sun. — London, England, 1862-11-04 00:00:00

71IE CONFEDERRICAATE S7A7ES OF AME. arm the Tones' Correspondent.) 66 RICHMOND, Ocr, S, T he spirit of liberty in the Southern States is more Idgh and haughty than in the Northern. In the Carolinas and Virginia they have a vast multitude of slaves. Where this is the case in any part of the world, those who are free ar m 'y far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. Preedom is to them not only an enjoyment, but a kind of rank and privilege. Not seeing there that freedom, as in countries where it is a common blessing, and as broad and reneral as the air, may be united with much abject toil, with great misery, with all the exterior of servitude, liberty looks among them like something that is more noble and literal. I do not mean to commend the superior morality o f this sentiment, which has at least as much pride as virtue in it ; but I cannot alter the nature of man. These people of the Southern colonies are much more strongly and with a higher and more stubborn spirit attached to liberty than those to the northward. Such were all ancient Common wr-,alths; such were our Gothic ancestors ; such in our days the Poles ; such will be all masters of slaves. In 'mai a people the haughtiness of domination combines with the spirit of freedom, fortifies it, and renders it invin cible." Such were the memorable words uttered on the 22d of March, 1775, in the House of Commons by Edmund Burke, to whom more than to any other child of man it was given to look over the heads of coming centuries, The stranger who wins his way this day to Richmond will find the fullest realisation of these prophetic words on a far mightier field of action than was within the purview of their inspired utterer. It is not too much to say that the most fanatical believer in the ancient Union, be he Mr. Seward himself, would despair of tb.e faith that is in him, and acknowledge himself, is Victor Hugo's phrase, the " somnambulist of a vanished dream," could he walk the streets of Itichmond this day, and gauge the spirit and feel ing of its pe ople after nearly 19 months of such warfare as the world never contemplated before. "'he streets are crowded, the hotels refuse to con tain their shoals of guests; everywhere the quiet- ness and confidence of a people secure in its own strength is incontestably evident. Everything ne czqsary for life, most things requisite for its luxu rious enjoyment, as it is interpreted on this conti nent, are to be found in abundance. There is absolutely only one commodity of which the ab sence is gravely felt, that commodity being ice. boes the Federal Government hope by such a frail rudder to steer the Southern Confederacy back into the harbour of Union? Of course, with many of the supplies sucked in through the most ridiculous of blockades, and trans ported over the enormous area which separates Richmond from the cities of the Southern seaboard, prices are high. The board and lodging in the hotels amount to 4 dole. per day ; clothing and boots are extremely dear, but are to be had by paying for them ; medical supplies are scarce, but are con stantly being introduced in not insufficient quanti ties across the Potomac and through the cities of the coast. And here, from personal experience, I may express my conviction of the utter impossi lity of blockading the Potomac and the Ohio, and shutting off the South from supplies, along a fron tier which from Fortress Monroe to distant Kansas extends for some 1,500 miles. If the whole Fede ral navy was concentrated in the Potomac, it would be utterly inadequate effectually to block the innu merable creeks and reaches of that river. Add to this that on both sides the stream dwells a popula tion of which not more than five per cent. are in favour of the Union. In several counties in Mary land the Frovest-Marshal is described as being the only Union man, and it will be believed that the life which he leads is none of the easiest. As for the draught in Maryland, it will be much worse than a farce. There are few able-bodied men left, and of those who remain how many will fight for the Union ? If any such there be, and they are ever led into action by Federal officers, how many of those officers will survive the first melee which they share with their disaffected troops ? Along the Potomac there was, 18 months ago, a very large prop°, tion of population averse to secession, reluc tant to embark upon it, and loyal to the old flag. But with the war came the Federal troops, squat ting first upon Maryland soil and praying upon its entrails, without offering one farthing in compensa tion for cattle and sheep, hogs and poultry, maize and wheat, oats and hay, indiscriminately seized L.ed devoured, to say nothing of horses stolen, houses and fences torn down and burnt, havoc and rapine scattered broadcast over the land. Next came Virginia's turn. Starting from Fortress Monroe, and running westward to Winchester, scarcely a house within 50 miles of, the Potomac but bears evidence of Yankee greed and spoliation. In nearly every county the Court-house, in which the assizes for each county used to be held, is rudely demo lished, doors and windows torn down, while within, upon the white walls, in every phase of handwrit ing, are recorded the autographs of the Vandals whose handiwork surrounds the beholder. Stories upon stories have reached me detailing how the wives of Federal officers, represented by my exas perated informants as having usually " hailed from" detested New England, forced their way behind the Federal troops into the fine family mansions of the Old Dominion, and personally superintended the abstraction and transmission northwards of old family china, silver, glass, pictures, books, furni ture, and pianofortes. A Virginian lady, who re monstrated with one of these Yankee hen-harriers, engaged in packing up valued family china, was met by the rejoinder, " You are a rebel, and have no rights that I am bound to respect; your property, therefore is mine !" In short, such a picture of desolation as the northern frontier of Virginia and the lovely Shenandoah valley, the Paradise of Ame rica, exhibit can be likened only to the Palatinate after Tilly's final visit, or to Attica, as Thucydides paints it, after the annual Lacedwmonian incursion during the Peloponnesian war. The upshot of this system of restoring the Union will readily suggest itself to the reader. I have travelled far and wide through Virginia; I have conversed with men, women, striplings, and chil dren in that State and in Maryland; I have seen men, formerly substantial and thriving,whose every thing has been devoured by the Federals, but never Li one single instance have I heard a word of regret to its issue, a sigh breathed over the departed Union, a ghost of a desire expressed in favour of compro mise or reconstruction. On the contrary, one uni versal chorus echoes through the length and breadth of the land, " The net is broken, and we are deli vered," Mr. Everett and his votaries, who still be lieve in imprisoned loyalty as existing in the South, might as well search in the British islands for a man who desired them to be annexed to France. So united, so homogeneous a community as the States of the Southern Confederacy finds no parallel in liar o w annals. No war that E ngland has waged for hundred nimous, 1 ; years has met with such cordial, una- French u ndivided support. The war against the against Russia a lic had its Charles Fox ; the war ouch character in its tb ßichard Cobden. There is no of the Federals in tlel• Southern States. The victory not the defeat ofis exasperated struggle means, the pos session of Rich mond , Charleston , So u th ern armies, not the pos mond, bile, and Ne w orlean,Charlesten, Savannah, Mo to a conclusion of the' wwarhitchl would no more lead Isle of Man. A F e d eral ". the seizure of the earth but the exterrainatio y means nothing on 11 and annih - 1 .• every man, woman, and c hi ld in t he I anon of Southern Con federacy. There is no passion , tofrensy, universal language. The intensity ithe hate the flushes the cheek and clinches th e tee t h,t but fi ds little expression in feeble words. If an y thing, th e thing, th e exuberance of animosity is more perceptible in the flashing eyes and eager earnestness of the 'wome n but the settled and uncon q uerabl e firmness -01 the men requires nothing to he added to it. The' possibility of Richmond's falling is calmly discussed, and preparations have long been made for such a contingency. Surprise is expressed that possessed themselves of Federals hav e not long a go of several other Southern cities as well as New Orleans. The possession of a capital city in these days of railrc ads is a very different thing from w hat e it used to be in the days of Vor,. gram and Jena. Great suffering might be inflicted upon women and children if Mobile and Charleston fell; suffering which there is only too much reason to f ea r would be most acceptable to the Federals, judging from the record of their deeds during this last year and Ttill Stilq, - LONIIOII, TfrgSDAS 1-71VM WWI, NOVPIAIFAR 4, 1882. a half. But every considerable city in the South might be reduced to ashes without chan , ...,ing the mood or undermining the resolution of thp feeblest heart, if any feeble heart there be, in thJ Southern Confederacy. It should bo noticed, before leavinT the subject in reference to the blockade, that, while four-fifths of the smuggling vessels on the Potomac, and two thirds of the seagoing vessels on the coast are in variably successful in their entrance to and exit from " Dixie's Land," there are occasional seizures effected by Federal vessels, which are made the most of by the New York press and in Mr. Seward's despatches. As an instance, it may be - mentioned that Mr Vizitelly, the well-known and popular correspondent of the Illustrated London News, has been singularly unfortunate in the de spatches which during the last six weeks he has addressed to England, and which have, without ex ception, been subjected to moving accidents by flood and field. But the fact remains that the South, though sorely vexed by the blockade, is penetrated [ and reached by vessels every day and night, and that, consequently, there is no such scarcity as the Federal journals have loved to paint. The influence of the blockade is felt in enhanced prices, but even here there is a compensation. The South, cut off from external facilities, has been taught to look to itself for a thousand commodities which it once drew from the North, and of which it is has now no alternative but to improvise, however lamely and inadequately, the manufacture and production. It makes but little difference to a nation which is re- ceiving little from abroad that exchange on Europe should be at a fabulous premium. But it is a serious and momentous circumstance for the im- porter at New York, and still more serious for the consumer whom he supplies, that exchange on Eng land should rise from par or 109 to 135 and up- wards, when it is considered that such is the magni tude of the New York imports that nearly a million and a•half of dollars are the weekly receipts from Customs duties upon them. The South, poor in specie and thrown on its own resources, is unable to spend money; but there are not wanting persons who assert that the compulsory absence of Southerners for two summers from Newport, Saratoga, and other Northern watering-places will save enough money to pay not less than one quarter of the entire cost of the war. The blockade, designed to beggar, will in the end strengthen and consolidate a nation which can waste nothing upon luxuries, and is carrying on its war at a cost the aggregate amount of which will fall far short even of the sum which has illicitly gone into the ravenous maw of the Nyms and Bardolphs of the North. It remains for me to recapitulate from Southern sources the narrative of the month's proceedings which followed the restoration of General M'Clellan to supreme command on the eccasicn of the head long discomfiture of the forces commanded by General Pope. In connection with these battles the traveller's attention is called to a crowd eagerly sur rounding the store of the principal bookseller in this town. Upon examination he will discover hanging in the window a coat, to which is attached the fol lowing inscription : " This coat was taken from the wardrobe of Major-General John Pope, captured at Catlett's Station by Major-General J. E. B. Stuart, and di rected to be placed at West and Johnston's, with this inscription : " < Taken from the man who said he never ex pected to see anything but the backs of the rebels." It will be remembered that General M'Clellan resumed the chief command of the Federal armies on the 2d of Sept. On the 14th of that month he fought his first battle in Maryland, called the battle of South Mountain, against the rearguard of the Confederates. No one is so willing to give M'Clellan credit for bringing his raw and demoralised troops into action upon so early a day as the Confederates themselves. General Lee had witnessed their panic rout after the battles at the end of August, had seen Pope's shattered columns driven like huddled sheep into Washington, and it was not unreasonable to suppose that a considerable time would elapse before they would again leave its sheltering fortresses. The only step by which it was possible to inspire confidence was taken, and General 1/I.‘Clellan was reappointed. To him, and to him alone, is due the credit for reorganising and reinspiriting his broken hosts, and it is freely accorded to him in this section of the country. It appears to have been General Lee's principal design, when he crossed into Maryland, to seize Harper's Ferry, and to test the spirit of the Mary landers by his temperate proclamation. In order to be unmolested in his attack on Harper's Ferry, he threatened Pennsylvania from Hagerstown, throwing Governor Curtis into hysterics, and ani mating Baltimore with the hope that he would emancipate her from the iron tyranny of General Wool. He had little serious expectation of being able to reach Pennsylvania, but if General Pope had been continued in command, and Maryland had been more free to act, there can be no doubt that Baltimore and Washington would have fallen. But when M'Clellan took the field, and the army's con fidence again sprang aloft, General Lee had no other purpose on the soil of Maryland than to capture Harper's Ferry. General Jackson, after reaching Hagerstown, fell suddenly and silently back upon Harper's Ferry, and enveloped it closely upon every side. At this moment the fame of M'Clellan's early I approach, with the design of reinforcing Harper's Ferry, overtook General Lee. He immediately threw General G. Hill's division of from 12,000 to 15,000 men back to a strong position upon South Moun tain, where, on September the 14th, General M'Clel lan attacked them with not less than 70,000 men. ' The Southerners fell slowly back before this im posing force, but not without inflicting upon it such a loss that it was not till September the 17th that M'Clellan forced on the momentous battle of Antie tam Creek. The morning of the 17th found Gene ral Lee strongly posted, but with not more than 45,000 men when the battle commenced, For once the Federal papers, which are in the habit of re presenting that their armies are but handfuls of men fighting against overwhel m i ng h or d es o f re b e l s, do not claim that their all ege d v i ctory was won against superior numbers of their opponents. How great the disparity was at the commencement of the battle is probably known to General M'Clellan. It is believed by President Davis, whose calm and dispassionate opinion will command more respect in England than the rhapsodies of the Federals, that the Southerners were at first outnumbered more than three to one, At noon the übiquitous Jackson th rew hi mse lf and g his (possibly 12,000 m en ) upon t h e h Federals. He had p rev i ous l y forcedrit N ig o theV division n g a r f therison of Harper's Ferry to surrender to a man, taking all their arms, munitions of war, and cannon ; and, thoug h dela y ed longer than was expected, he arrived soon enough to attack ITClel- I lap. The ground won the morning by the in Federals, who were in tremend ous force u p on their right wing, was swiftly recovere d, and held until the end of the day. At 4 in th e afternoon General . ed the ' A. P. Hill's division came up and join Con federate right. It was well that General Burnside's advance on the Federal left was so long delayed, and was eventually made with overwhelming numbers. The day closed with General Burnside clinging closely to the bridge, beyond which he could not advance, with General Jackson on the same ground as the Confederates held in the morning, upon as level and drawn a battle as history exhibits. But it was fought for half the day with 45 , 000 men i on the Confederate side, and for the remaining half with not more than an aggregate of 70,000 men, against a host which is admitted to have consisted of 130,000 men, and may have been much more. No battle of th e war has done more to convince the Con- I matters Federates th at i t little what is the disparity of numbers between old and held by the ratified b y the insolent themselves and their foe. The This, then, is contempt of their enemy originally which General 3,1 own side of 15,000 Southerners in this at about 25,000 dead, ro e M'Clellan, admitting reader who remembers I t il he e General Lee's forces will credulity. True it is that manybattlesandsmile Confederates, who have wore regard for Gen. M'Clellan than is Celt by his own Government, affirm that the despatches put forth in his name are lardy his own - abrication. I am told by the highest authority that the official statement, comprising the most minute details of the Confederate loss at the battle of Antietam Creek, estimates the whole less in der..d, wounded, and missing, at 6,000 men. Another circumstance is noticeable. A Federal loss of infinite magnitude would evoke no sigh of sympathy, no moment of sadness, except so far as it was supposed to defer the restoration of the Union. But the whole Con- 'ederacy bewails the 6,000 v i c ti ms a t Antietam _ _ Creek with brotherly affection and sympathy. Nor is that appalling indifference which amazes and paralyses the spectator in Washington and New __ _ York affected Here. Scarcely a lady but wears mourning, proud to display that she has lost a re lative fighting in a cause dearer to her than life— scarcely a person but speaks sorrowfully and with affliction of a loss which seems to them appalling, though not more than one-third of that inflicted upon their poco curante foe. That the battle in _ . question was no Federal victory is best evinced by the inaction on both sides on the following day. Thursday passed and no attempt to press Gen. Lee was made, notwithstanding the enormous numerical superiority of his foe. At length, slowly and un molested, on the night of Thursday, having effected the reduction of Harper's Ferry and fought on equal terms with his enemy, the Southern army was arawn to the southern bank of the Potomac without losing a cannon or wasting a Life. We come next to an episode in the war which is naturally ignored by Mr. Stanton and the Northern press. It appears that, discovering that his enemy had retreated across the river, Gen. M'Clellan, on Saturday, the 20th of September, threw some 3,000 men across in pursuit. The movement was observed by General A. P. Hill, who left a few field-pieces in position, from whieh he fired feebly upon the advancing Northerners, giving orders to his men to retreat hastily as they approached. The Federals rushed on the guns, and followed eagerly after what they imagined to be a broken and panic struck foe. But when they had got about a mile and a half General Hill opened upon them with grape and canister, and the slaughter is described as having been the most appalling which the war has witnessed. - I am assured that not one-tenth of the invading force escaped—that the river was literally choked with the bodies of the dead and dying, who had rushed into the stream and struggled , frantically with each other to escape the pursuit. It is evident that the lesson taught on that day to General M'Clellan has borne bitter fruit, and that his pursuit will heneeforth be more wary. In fact there is great reason to suppose that his next move will be, not against General Lee at Winchester, but against Richmond by some new approach. We hear that a large force is gathering in Hamp ton Roads, and it is thought that the next ap proach against Richmond will be by the south bank of the River James. With his right resting on the river, and his left thrown southwards into the in terior, M'Clellan may attempt another advance. It would ill become me to disclose the preparations which await him at Drury's Bluff (called by Federal papers Fort Darling), and elsewhere; but it is safe to assert that he will find the lower bank more difficult of access than he has already found the upper. Nothing is more likely than that the with drawal of many troops before General Lee will open Maryland again to the latter. The Federals have just as much as they can do to keep roofs over their heads in Washington during what remains of fight ing weather. The mysterious announcements of the Northern papers that some great movement is in contemplation excite little interest or apprehension here. The experience of the past gives such con fidence about the future that it is felt no Northern army will ever capture Richmond without such an effusion of its own blood as would change the howl of Northern exultation into a nation's wail of woe. Weil may a nation be confident of winning its in dependence which can exhibit such a spectacle as every day produces wherever a Southern army is in the field. There, in poverty, hunger, and dirt, shoeless, with shirts ragged and rent, often without hats, their feet bleeding as they drag their weary limbs through dust and brier, are serving in the ranks the gentlemen of the sangre azul of the South. Many a man who, until the commencement of this war, had scarcely a thought beyond the Cafe Foy and the Boulevards of Paris, and to whose morning toilet every diversity of cosmetic was as necessary as water, has for months been marching under a musket, without one single change of raiment, feed ing often on green maize and raw pork, lying at night on the bare earth, with a single blanket be tween him and the canopy of heaven. Where all are fearless it were invidious to select one State in preference to another as bearing away the palm ; but it seems generally conceded that General Butler has converted the sons of Louisiana mothers, the husbands and brothers of Louisiana wives and sisters into demons of more than earthly ferocity. And these men, many of them bearing some of England's most honoured names, and descended from England's best families, are in the field, and have been so for 19 months, fighting against mer cenaries who have repudiated England as though she were governed by a Nero, and have escaped from German penury and conscriptions. Whatever may have been the truth last winter, it is not pre tended now that the Northern armies are not mainly composed of men of foreign birth ! Where are the native Americans of weight and influence serving in the Northern ranks ? Why does not Wendell Phillips take the field ? Men older than he is are serving by dozens in the Southern ranks. Where is Charles Sumner's musket ? The Senate could spare Senator Baker, in nowise Mr. Sumner's inferior in intellect, and it were a noble answer to the South, which sneers at non-duellists for want of courage, to show how one of that class can comport himself upon the perilous edge of battle It is but too probable that with unopposed command of the sea and great rivers during their autumn floods the South may lose thousands more of her sans, in ad dition to that great sea of blood which has already been cheerfully poured out in her defence. But let her be left without a single city or village, with nothing but her internal fastnesses and her immense area of territory, and though every man in the North under 50 were to take the field, they would be insufficient ever to make such a nation as the South lie at the feet of her enemy. The two races have come into collision ; on one side an aristocracy, agricultural, sparsely settled, given to field sports, living in the saddle; on the other, a democracy, which has been travelling down wards for 80 years, which is numerically four times as strong as its opponent, which breathes only an atmosphere of dollars, and has no aspirations be yond commercial gain. Which is the more fit for the conduct of war ? It is not too much to say that but for their gunboats the Yankees would, before this time, in American phrase, have bcen " whipped out of their boots" by a population scarcely more than one-fourth of their number. But in the South, in spite of its lawless population, a certain rough discipline is not impossible, and an incident which occurred two days ago in this city has never been attempted in the Northern hosts—the execution by shooting of two deserters, and the administration of 50 lashes to a third. Such executions have already not been unfrequent in the South; whereas, in the North, after the defeat of Pope, hundreds of de serters crossed the Potomac every night, of whom it is not improbable that 40 per cent. have again en listed, accepting the enormous bounties proffered by the North. If any man desires to gauge the reck less and extravagant waste which has from the first characterised all the Federal operations in the field, let him notice the fact that on both sides the Poto mac it is hard to me et a man or bo y amon g tha t am phibioushaslt is safenot a also Federalte assertj ac that ket, cap, or pair of tr ousers. It who popul t a r t m ilitary, have in mere practice fire t d he aw F a e y de m ra e l re offi p c e e w rs d , er na th v a a n l and s been expended in anger by the South. 7. -- [ADVERTISEMEST.]—HoIIoway's Ointment.—ln bad legs, ulcers, scrofulous sores, and glandular swellings, this ointment operates surely. and with i a rapidity that re sembles magic. It should be rubbed into the parts affected atter they have been fomented with lake-warm water. The purifying and curative powers o f this unrivalled unguent fair have never been disputed by any o ne who has give nita trial. It contains not a particle of any substance. of a noxious nature, nor is there a case on record in which it has done the slightest harm, while there are authentic reports _ mild cures effected by it in all countries. It is Z eo i t l 4 in its action as it is Nwerfui and beneficial in its LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 3 COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. WESTCOTT V. THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY COMPANY.-ACCIDENT. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for injuries sustained by his wife in consequence of the alleged negligence of the de fendants' servants. The defendants paid £3OO into court, and resisted the plaintiff's claim for larger compensation, The action was tried at the last July sittings in London, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a special jury, and resulted in a verdict for the plain tiff, with damages £450, being £l5O more than the defendants paid into court. It appeared that the injury sustained by the plaintiff's wife was a fractured leg, by which he had lost the use of her services, and she had suffered much. She had been conveyed to an hospital for treatment, and was removed thence by he:• husband, in compliance with her own importunate desire, prior to the completion of cure, and against the re monstrances of the surgeons under whose care she was, and in whose opinion removal was premature, and might be productive of bad consequences to her case. The Lord Chief Justice, when the jury had re turned their verdict, asked whether they had con sidered the second part of the question submitted for their consideration, namely, whether the symp toms of the conditions of the plaintiff's wife had been aggravated by her removal from the hospital, contrary to the remonstrances against it of the surgeons. The Foreman, in reply, stated that that had been their main question, that they thought the authori ties in the hospital did not use sufficient remon strance, and that they ought to have spoken strongly to the husband and to his wife, and urged upon them the imprudence of removing her so soon from the hospital. The Lord Chief Justice then addressing them, said, do you give the £l5O additional to the plain tiff in consequence of that P Foreman—Yes, we agreed to consider that ques tion. The learned Judge thereupon made an order to stay execution. Mr. Bovill, 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 verdict against evidence. The Court having heard the learned gentleman granted a rule nist. THE QUEEN (ON THE PROSECUTION OF MESSRS, WATER. LOW) Y. BRAY. This was a prosecution instituted by Messrs. Wa terlow, stationers, against the defendant, for alleged perjury, said to have been committed by him in his evidence on a trial before Mr. J ustice Mellor, at Westminster. A report of the case appeared in the Times news paper, and the solicitor of Messrs. Waterlow cut it out, and submitting it to the learned judge (Mellor) at the Guildhall sittings, asked him to c,rtify that the case was one wherein a prosecution ought to be instituted against the defendant. The learned judge having looked at the report certified as required. Application was now made to the full Court to rescind the learned judge's certificate on grounds that it was informal ; that it was not customary with learned judges to grant certificates in such cases on newspaper reports; and that the allegations of perjury should have been made on affidavit. The Court having conferred, concurred in the opi nion that it was not customary for judges to grant certificates in such cases on newspaper reports; but said in this case the facts were fresh in the learned judge's memory, and that there was therefore nothing wrong in his having granted his certificate in the manner complained of. Certainly, it was al ways desirable that such applications should be sup ported by affidavits; but the learned judge, in this case, did not consider there was any irregularity in granting the certificate in the manner stated. Order certifying affirmed. HODSON V. TODD..--BREACH OF PROMISE or MAIIRIAGE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a spinster end household servant, to recover compen sation in damages against the defendant, a young farmer, for breach of promise of marriage. The case was tried at the assizes of Durham, before Mr. Justice Mellor, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages £l5O. It appeared from the evidence that the plaintiff, who is ihe daughter of a poor man, a miner, lived as servant in the household of the defendant, and that becoming enciente, she pressed him to marry her. She left the family, and correspondence was alleged by her to have been subsequently carried on between them, he addressing letters breathing love and constancy to her, and promises of marriage, notwithstanding what his " dear old mother" might say to the contrary. Four of those alleged letters were put in as evidence on the trial, and the jury believing them to be genuine, and that breach of promise was thereby established ; gave their verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. C. Foster now moved on affidavits for a rule calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the ver dict should not be set aside and a new trial had, first, on the ground of surprise, the defendant de nying all knowledge of the letters; second, that they were forgeries; and third, of verdict against evidence. With regard to " surprise," the defendant was not prepared for such evidence as that alleged in the letters put in, and he (Mr, C. Foster) was fur nished with the affidavits of five persons who were well acquainted with the defendant's handwriting, all deposing that the letters were not written by him. The learned gentl eman th en rea d t h e l etters , in one of which . the defendant, as alleged, address ing the plaintiff, said " My dear, you will think I am leaving off writing to you ; but don't be uneasy, I mean to marry you. I think the house is not safe when you are not there, my dear. I mean to make you a lady. Never mind what my old mother says. I shall make you my dame—l shall make you my wife, and that before the child is born." That letter was signed " Ant-o n y," without the " h." 'The child was born in April, 1861, and yet some of those letters were dated in 1862. Looking at all the circumstances, he hoped the Court would grant the rule. The Court—Take a rule nisi. Rule nisi accordingly. IN RE JOBSON—MR. DISBAELI, M.P.—MANDAMUS. Mr. Jobson appeared on the floor of the court, and applied for a rule calling on Mr. Alderman Carter to show cause . why a mandamus should not issue, comman ding him to hear and adjudicate upon an a pplication by him for a warrant against Mr. Ben jamin Disraeli, for assigned perjury alleged by the applicant to have been committed by that gentleman in a prosecution in which he (Mr. Jobson) was the defendant. It appeared that Mr. Disraeli deposed that he had received numerous threatening letters from him ; but he (Mr. Jobson) was prepared with affidavits to prove that he had never sent a threat ening letter to him. He was wrongfully found guilty, and sentenced to imprisonment for the alleged of fence. He submitted his affidavits of his innocence to Mr. Alderman Carter, and that official said he would take them home, read them, and give his opinion next day. On the next day he said he had looked into the affidavits, and that there was no case to warrant him in exercising jurisdiction. Now he (Mr. Jobson) had no satisfactory proof that Mr. Al derman Carter had ever read his affidavits, and he therefore hoped that this Court would issue its man damus commanding him to hear his complaint. He had also to call their lordships' attention to the con duct of Mr. Arnold, the magistrate presiding in the Westminster Police-court. He had also applied to that functionary to exercise his jurisdiction in the ca se, but he refused altogether to hear him, and ordered him to leave the elurt. Lord Chief Justice—Perhaps you used violent language. Mr. Jobson—Oh, no, my lord, no more, I assure your lordships, than I am using at this moment in my address to your lordships. I was as mild and as subdued as a man could be in my language, and when he ordered me out of court I was as much sur prised as if he had given me a slap on the face. (Laughter.) I therefore hope your lordships will do me justice, and issue your mandamus to Mr. Alder man Carter to hear the case. Lord Chief Justice—Do you say you never wrote any threatening letters to Mr. Disraeli ? Mr. Jobson—Never, my lord. I certainly threat ened to post him, and did post him. Lord Chief Justice—And do you not call that threatening ? Mr. Jobson—But with regard to Mr. Alderman Carter, my lord ? Lord Chief Justice—We have jurisdiction to issue a mandamus to a magistrate in a case where it is shown to us that he has refused to hear a complaint on affidavit ; but in this case Mr. Alderman Carter said he would take your affidavits home and read them. We must assume that he read them, and finding that he the next day said there was " no case," we must de c li ne t o assen t to your application. Rule refused accordingly. Mr. Jobson then folded up his papers, and left rre:Be Wells al r the Court with a rap id s t ep , ev idently much disap pointed at the r esu lt o f hi s application. LOXLEY Y. RICE. This was an a c ti on brought by the plaintiff, a professional claimed by him as sa lary alleged to be due to ssion singer, to recover a sum o f £ B9, him by the d e f en d an t, u nder the terms of an engagement which he entered into to sing at Sad ie hewaatrse. wholly l'h i n competent as a singere defence set up was that the defendant to fulfil the engagement into which he had en. terea. The action, tried before Mr. Baron Bram well, result e d i n plaintiff's favour, giving him a verdict, with damages, £5O. M. Sergeant sh ee ):LIOVed for a rule calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial had. The plaintiff had entered into an engagement to play what was called the primo tenore, and was to take part in an operetta called " Fair in Love and War ;" but the evidence was that he was utterly incompetent to sing, and that another person had to take the part. In the morning, at the rehearsal, he sang well enough ; but at night, when he came -before the audience, he could not sing at all. Such was the evidence on the part of the defendant, and it was supported by that of Mr. St. Luke, the stt'ge manager. _ Lord Chief Justice Cockburn—Was there not any evidence that the plaintiff could sing ? Mr. Sergeant Shee said he was engaged in an other court when the trial was called on ; but he was informed by a learned friend who held his brief, that no one said the plaintiff could sing, but himself. The Court said they would confer with Mr. Baron Bramwell on the subject, and give the learned ser geant an answer on a future day. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. ;Sittings in Banco before Lord Chief Justice Erle, and Justices Williams, Byles, and Keating.) NEW QUEEN'S COUNSEL. Shortly after the sitting of the Court this morn ing, Mr. Kenyon, Mr. Southgate, and Mr. Hob house were called within the bar, they having been appointed "her Majesty's counsel learned in the law." CHENEY V. COURTOIS.-POINT OF PRACTICE. This was a❑ interpleader issue which had been tried before Mr. Baron Wilde, at York, when the verdict was for the plaintiff. Mr. Kemplay now moved for a rule to enter a verdict for the defendant, on the ground that the affidavit of the execution of the bill of sale was in formal. The affidavit was entitled in the Queen's Bench, but was sworn before a commissioner for taking affidavits in the Exchequer: Mr. Justice Williams suggested that the entitling of the affidavit was unimportant, inasmuch as there was no proceeding in any particular court. Mr. Kemplay said that such affidavits could be filed only in the Queen's Bench, and it was always the practice to entitle them in that court. The Court took time to consider the matter. WHITE Y. STEELE—CHURCH RATES. This matter has been several times before the public, the circumstances being shortly these:—The plaintiff was sued in the Consistory Court for his contribution to a church rate made for the formation of a new burial-ground. There was also an appeal to the Court of Arches, the decision in both courts being against the plaintiff. Thereupon he proceeded in prohibition, and the issue in prohibition simply raised the question whether upon the making of the church rate a poll was demanded and refused. This question came on for trial before Mr. Baron Martin in Surrey, when the jury found for the plaintiff— damages 40s. Mr. Sergeant Shee now contended that the plain tiff, having recovered in prohibition, was entitled not simply to 405., but also to £9O, the amount of ex penses which he had incurred in the Ecclesiastical Courts, in proceedings which, it was now established, had been wrongly decided against him. The Lord Chief Justice said he was of opinion that there should be no rule. There was no authority for saying that the costs in the Eccle siastical Courts could be recovered as costs by pro ceedings in prohibition ; but the present plaintif f endeavoured to obtain payment of such costs under the name of damages. The statute of 1 Wm, IV. enacted that the jury might give damages ; but the Legislature had not given the slightest intimation as to what were the matters in respect of which the jury might give damages; and, for his part, he was clearly of opinion that it was not intended that a plaintiff in prohibition should recover as damages the costs incurred in the Ecclesiastical Courts. Rule refused. A CASE FOR A DIVORCE COURT. Patrick John Ruddy, alias Readdy, alias Hen riques, an Irishman, about forty years of age, ap peared yesterday before Mr. Selfe, at the Thames police-court, on a summons, charged with assault ing his wife Maria Young Ruddy. Mr. Abbott, a solicitor, of St. Mark-street, White chapel, conducted the prosecution. Mr. Wakeling, a solicitor, of Clerkenwell, defended the accused. Mr. Abbott, in opening the case, said it was one of a grievous nature. The complainant was a lady of high respectability, and was married to the defen dant, then in poor circumstances, eight years ago; she brought him a fortune of £l,OOO, and £4O a year besides. The defendant had most grossly illtreated his wife, and after turning her out of a large-eight-roomed house, near the Victoria Park, and proceeding to Scotland upon business, she was obliged to seek a temporary shelter with her three children in a stable belonging to her husband, and to apply to the parish of Bethnal-green for relief. All this time her husband was living in the most luxurious style, and when she contracted debts for common necessaries befitting her position and nothing more, he caused to be printed and cir culated a bill, of which the following is a copy ; " This is to give public notice that I will not be answerable for any debts my wife Maria Ruddy may contract, nor for any act she may do. I therefore caution any person not to trust her, and as she represents me as the owner of house pro perty. I take this opportunity of denying the same. —P. J. Ruddy, 23rd January, 1862. N.B.—Pro ceedings are being instituted against those persons who assisted the said Maria Ruddy in unlawfully secreting her husband's property." Now it was not true that Mrs, Ruddy had secreted her husband's property, or instigated others to do so. At the time the bill was issued, the defendant was trading in his wife's maiden name, as " Henriques and Co., ship chandlers, and general railway and machinery fur nishers, 3, Queenhithe, Upper Thames-street, and 18, Great Alie-street, Minories." Mr. Abbott put in defendant's trading card as above, and sa'd Ruddy was in affluent circumstances when he published the printed bill, and would not allow his wife com mon necessaries. The defendant wished to drive his unfortunate wife, a lady by birth and education, into a workhouse, and, failing in that, had the audacity to issue another printed bill as follows :—" This is my third caution to guard the public against giving trust or credit to a woman who goes about in hat and feathers, and grand silk dress, calling herself Mrs. Ruddy ; although I allowed her to call herself my wife, she has no right to do so. She took from me last January in cash .£225, after breaking and smashing the windows. She sold and made away with the furniture of an eight-roomed house which I then rented for her. She sold, to Dillon, the beer-shop keeper, Green-street, and others, lime and sand which cost me £5O, and was worth a good deal more to me. She went round, assisted by a house-agent named Brown, to the persons accus tomed to do business with me, stating the money was theirs and not mine. She has taken the money from some of the customers, and others who would not pay her she abused and caused great disturb ances at their houses, and therefore prevented them dealing with me. She declared she did not care, provided she ruined me for her satisfaction. In her efforts to get trust she said her husband was in a large way of business, and the owner of house pro perty. Ido hereby declare lam not the owner now of any house or other property.—July 27, 1862. P. J. RUDDY." Mr. Abbott said the placard was a gross and ma lignant libel on a respectable lady. The parties were married, and he handed the marriage certifi cate to the magistrate. The defendant had made his appearance before the City Chamberlain, the courts at Westminster, police courts, and county courts, as Ruddy, Ready, and Henriques ; he had taken away two of his children and would not let their mother know where he lied put them, and had finally assaulted her in a savage manner. Mrs. Ruddy, a care-worn lady, corroborated the statement, and gave a history of her privations and ill-treatment since she had been married to Ruddy, and said her marriage was a mistake and most un fortunate. She went to her husband's premises, 18, Great Alie-street, which he had vacated and emp tied on Friday, 233 ult., and was sheltered by Mr. and Mrs. Clare, who occupied apartments there. On Monday, the 27th, her husband, who did not expect to see her there, arrived with five van loads of merchandise, and upon seeing her called her a stinking faggot, and a thick-ski nne d d ev il, an d sa id " I'll do for you." He then proceeded to use her with great roughness, tore her dress, and threw her w ith great violence into the gutter. She got up and made an attempt to enter the promises. Her husband closed the door upon her, and her dress was caught in it. He wanted a police constable to take her into custody, and he refused to do so. He then seized her and threw her into the street a second time. He had been in the practice of turning her out of doors, and leaving her destitute occasionally for several years, Her only offence was, she had outlived his liking. She was left destitute four or five weeks ago. In cross-examination by Mr. Wakeling, the wit ness denied that she was addicted to strong drinks. She sold some woollen rags which she found in his warehouse for £1 14s. Her husband was a genera merchant and a rich merchant. In re•examination by Mr. Abbott, the witness said her husband had been away from her a fortnight before she sold the rags. She had never abandoned her husband and children. Mrs. Pearse Patchett, of 18, Great Alie-street, confirmed the statement of the complainant as to the assault on the 27th ult., and said Mrs. Ruddy fell near the feet of a horse attached to one of the vans. mr. w o wi ng , ic.r ow defence, mßde elaborate speech, and said both parties were equally in fault. He complained that his friend Mr. Abbott, had ex aggerated this case and put a ruddy complexion upon it which it did not deserve. There were un happy differences beaween Mr, and Mrs. Ruddy four years ago. About three months ago Mrs. Ruddy stripped her house and put her husband to great expense and inconvenience. Since then he had agreed to allow her Bs. per week, to be paid through the hands of Mr. Gabb, relieving officer of Newington, Surrey. After she agreed to accept this stipend she went to his place of business in Great Alie-street, and he put her out, using no more violence than was necessary. She became extremely violent and was conveyed to the station. house, and, after being released, came back to the place in Great Alie-street and broke some windows. He believed the parties never would live happily to gether any more, and it would be better to come to an arrangement. Mr. Selfe—liii hat say you to such rascally slander as this? (Holding up the last placard issued.) Mr. Wakeling—l am very sorry the printed bills have been issued. Mr. Ruddy was badly advised by his friends. He did it on the presumption he had a right to do it. Mr. Selfe said he would adjourn the court for 20 minutes to enable the parties to come to an arrange ment. On resuming his seat, Mr. Wakeling said—The other side want £5O down and £2 a week afterwards. It is too much. We cannot do it. Mr. Abbott—The defendant bad £l,OOO and £4O a year with his wife. He has freehold and lease hold property ; here is a list of the houses and land. Mr. Wakeling—All the property is heavily mort gaged. We can allow her 10s. a week. - Mr. Selfe—lt is not enough, Let the case pro ceed. Mr. E. J. Southwell, vestry clerk and clerk to the guardians of Mile-end Old Town, who came into the court on other business while the magistrate was absent, said Mrs. Ruddy had been chargeable to the hamlet for a short time. On Friday, the 24th of October, the relieving officer met the defendant at the Bow County Court, and brought him to his (Mr. Southwell's) office, and after some discussion, and a demand from Mrs. Ruddy of 13s. per week, her husband agreed to allow her Bs. per week, and paid her 6s. on account. She tacitly consented to the arrangement. _ _ Mr. Seffe was not blaming Mr. Southwell, who did not know all the circumstances, and who did right in relieving the hamlet of a burthen, but he could not help thinking that Bs. per week for a lady in a respectable position was a very shabby allowance; it was not enough. The man had £l,OOO with his wife, and £4O a-year afterwards, and he wants to get rid of her on the paltry pittance of Bs. per week. Mr. Abbott—And he is trading as Henriques and Co., and has money in his bankers' hands. Mr. Wakeling—Not a penny: Mr. Abbott—And he has lately erected two eight roomed houses near the Victoria Park. William Ford, 114 H, said he was called upon to interfere at the premises of Henriques and Co. on the evening of Monday, the 27th ult. There was a mob at the door. Mr. Ruddy wanted him to put his wife out of the house, which he refused to do. Mr. Ruddy then carried her out, and put her upon her feet in the street. The parties afterwards came to the station-house, and the defendant gave his wife 25., which he said was the balance of her weekly allowance. Mr. Wakeling—And we now offer to increase it to 10s. Mr. Selfe—That is quite absurd. Your client had £l,OOO down when he married his wife, and £4O a-year afterwards. He won't get rid of his wife se cheaply. I convict him of this assault, and sentence him to be imprisoned for one month in the House of Correction and kept to hard labour. Mr. Wakeling—The assault was a slight one. Mr. Selfe—The woman has forfeited none of her rights. She had a right in her husband's house, and only to turn her out of it was an assault. The previous conduct of this man gives a character to this assault which makes the punishment I have inflicted a very light one. Mr. Abbott—We shall now go to the Court of Probate and Divorce for alimony. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Nov. 3. BOW-STREET.—PERILS OF THE STREETS OF LONDON.—George Roberts, alias Crews, alias Creasy, a burly-looking fellow wearing a beard and moustache, and James Anderson, alias Rettey, &c., both of whom are well known to the police, both previously convicted, and both alleged to be re turned convicts, were charged with knocking down a gentleman named Ryk Le Sueur, in Bloomsbury street, at six o'clock in the afternoon of the 23d ult., and robbing him of his watch. r. Le Sueur, who is himself a well-built, active, powerful-looking man, deposed—On the afternoon of the 23d ult., at about six o'clock, I was passing through Bloomsbury-street, when I felt some one push against me, and then some one knocked me down by a blow on the mouth, which broke one of my teeth and loosened several others, cutting my lip. I remained insensible for some minutes, and when I came to myself I gave information to the police. then went to the hospital to have my lip dressed. I was perfectly sober. Chas. Hood, a boy of 14, who was passing at the time, said he saw a man push against the gentleman (the prosecutor), and also saw Anderson knock the gentleman down. He also saw Anderson stoop and rifle the gentleman's pockets_ He looked Anderson fair in the face, and was quite sure it was the same man. He ran away towards Thorney-street and through several other streets, pursued by witness. Getting into a cul de sac, Anderson turned back and again faced witness. Witness accused him of the robbery_ A crowd gathered round, and a policeman coming up to disperse the crowd, ordered them all away before witness had time to tell him what had occurred. Witness afterwards saw tho prisoner (Anderson) at the station-house with a number of other men, and picked him out of the crowd. Could not identify the other man. Was not sure whether Roberts was the man or not. Did not notice the man sufficiently, his attention being fixed on An derson. Mr. Edward G. Webster—l am a licensed vic tualler, and keep the Old Dog publichouse, in Holywell-street, Strand. At the time stated I was passing slung Bloomsbarystreet, and saw the pri soner Anderson push against this gentleman (the prosecutor). I then saw Roberts strike the prose cutor in the face and knock him down. They both got away, but I gave a description of them to the police, which led to their apprehension. After their apprehension I picked them out and identified them from amongst a crowd of men at the police-station, Roberts last night and Anderson this morning. Police-constable Ackrill, F 48, deposed that on the 23d tilt., a little after 5 o'clock, he saw the pri soners together in Endell-street, walking towards Bloomsbury-street. Shortly after 8 witness was at the station-house and heard Mr. Webster give the description of the prisoners. Sergeant Holmes, of the F division, deposed— Having received the description of the prisoners, and knowing them before, I went in search of them. On the evening of the 24th ult. I saw Anderson in Endell-street, walking by the kerb-stone. I went up to him and asked him what he was doing. He said, " Nothing ;I am going home." I said, "Is there anybody with you ? " He replied, "No." At the same time I noticed Roberts hiding in a dark doorway. While I was waiting for another con stable to assist me in apprehending them Roberts observed me and went away. Another constable came up and I gave Anderson into his custody. I then went in pursuit of Roberts, but he escaped me. ' Police-sergeant Gordon, 28 C, deposed that on the 30th ult. he saw the prisoner Roberts in the Tot tenham-court-road. He knew Roberts before, having had him in custody, and was then in search of him to apprehend him on this charge, from the information he had received. He apprehended the prisoner and took him to the police-station in Bow street. On the way to the station-house, at the corner of George-street, St. Giles's, the prisoner made a jump and got away from him, leaving the cuff of his coat in his (witness's) hand. He then struck witness a violent blow in the face, saying, " You are going to take me for putting the mug on him ; I'll put the mug on you." Witness, recover ing from the blow, seized the prisoner by the tail of his coat. The prisoner then kicked him on the hip r causing him to fall on one knee. They fough.kt. f o r about 10 minutes, the prisoner kicking and stri i t n a g him several times. A gentleman then put a . s ff into his hand, with which he struck the st p e r r i e s d on th e e r two or three blows, sand ultimatelyt.onhehomuase. prisoner and took him to the I t a a m i ined the witnesses and pointed out the The prisoner Roberts cross-exam ined with great skill and inge.nui It was ho who discrepancy that on knocked the prosecutor down, whereas another said is true then is that difference. e witnessY'said it was Anderson. both struck him . I don't know. It mmitwteidthfor violence,tr i trial, b oatnhdoßn Roberts e rts charge also Perhaps Mt..e is a questio nr y oue for a jury. o ci n f ih h ge e hy ewhwaaey: rob bery ge e c o o of assaulting the officer. THE HARVEST IN THE NoRTB.--I n the hilly districts of Yorkshire the frosts and winds of the past week have enabled the farmers to secure a good portion of their crops, but the harvest is yet far from complete in some of the most exposed positions, and in places crops are even yet uncut. As may be expected, the grain is much deteriorated in quality, but, owing to the low temperature, not so greatly " sprout e d " as might have been supposed. The moorland farIPAQ4 Al it, of owe, lies hore to gale Witval MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OP AN EN- GINIYR. Dr.Lankester, the central Middlesex coroner, pro -Becuted an inquiry at the Prince Albert Tavern, Wharf-road, Islington, yesterday, into the painful circumstances attending the death of John Ballard, a working engineer, said to be a well-known tem perance lecturer, residing at 37, Southampton street, Pentonville. The body having been identi fied, the evidence went to prove that on Friday evening, John Simmons, in the service of Mr. Mills, of 2, Wharf-road, was requested by his employer to go into a loft, adjoining the premises, which had been recently hired by the deceased. Simmons finding the door locked on the inside, looked through the window into the loft, and there found the de ceased hanging to a beam in the middle of the room. He straightway fetched police-constable 412 A, on the beat, who forced open the door and cut him down. Medical aid was obtained, but life was totally extinct. A brother-in-law of the unfortu nate man deposed that he had been for many years in the employment of Mr. Thomas Cubitt, of Pim lico, and for the past seven years foreman to the firm of Messrs. Cubitt, Gray's-inn-road, whose ser vice he had recently left in consequence of his irrit able disposition, and had frequently declared his intention to make away with himself. He was a man of studious habits, a good Greek and Hebrew' scholar, a clever lecturer, and entirely self-taught. Twelve or thirteen years ago he was attacked with a brain fever, arising from over study. Since leaving Messrs. Cubitt he had accepted a contract to repair 500 iron bedsteads, and, though cau tioned, he accepted the contract at 3s. 6d. each, and it proved most unprofitable. He could only attri bute the cause for self-destruction to these disasters, the deceased's habitual dread of failure in anything he undertook, and the fact that he had a sister a lunatic for 18 years. Verdict, " Suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind." A MAN SUFFOCA7ED BY A PIECE OF MEAT, Yesterday evening Mr. Langham held an inquest at the Westminster Brewery Tap, Holywell-street, Westminster, touching the death of Geo. Charles Knight, aged 56, a tailor, lately residing at 48, Marsham-street, who was choked whilst eating a piece of meat on Friday evening last. Police -constable Cooper, who resided in the same house where deceased lodged, said on Friday even ing last he was called upstairs by deceased's wife, who said she thought her husband was choking. He went up and set him on a chair, and ran for Dr. Pearce, who attended in about three minutes. They went upstairs together. Deceased only breathed about twice afterwards, and died. He saw some bacon, beef skirt, and melt on the table. Wm. Pearce, surgeon, of 46, Marsham-street, said he was called to deceased about seven o'clock on Friday evening. He found him lying on the bed on his back. He made one or two efforts to breathe and then ceased to exist. He had made a post mortem examination. He discovered a large piece of meat firmly fixed in the larynx, which had caused suffocation. The piece of meat weighed about one ounce and a half. He thought it was melt or sweetbread. It would have been difficult to swallow it had it gone down the right passage. He had been told by the wife that her husband had been drinking all day, and that when he was in toxicated she was in the habit of feeding him. When she found him choking she put her fingers down his throat to force the meat down. Witness thought that by this means it had got more firmly fixed in the larynx. There was no doubt as to the cause of death. The Coroner having summed up the evidence, The jury returned a verdict that the deceased Oa accidentally suffocated. GOUN2.RY MARA.E2S. COLCHESTER—Nov. 1. A moderate supply of wheat, for which last week's rates were easily obtained. Fine barley is rather dearer; other samples no material change in value. Beans and peas are a slow sale, at late rates. Wheat, white 62s 56s Beans,Mazagan..34s 26s red 44s 62s middle & amall.36s 4 4 ! Barley Oats GLOUCESTER—Nov. 1. We had very large supplies of grain today. Wheat sold at last week's rates. Foreign wheat in fair demand' Barley and beans were unchanged. New oats were dal!, but old firm. CHELMSFORD—OcT. 31. The supply of wheat to-day at market was fair, and the trade was moderate. P rev i ous p r i ces were maintained for all kinds of grain. Wheat ; old white 39s 56s new 39s • 52s old red... 44s 50s new 40s 48s Barley ..30s 37s Chevalier .......30s 40s Grinding 24s 32s 61s 67s Peas, Partridge 37 s 410 White 39s 400 Boiling 4os 43° Dun 35s 38 ; Ditto new .. —8 Beans, Tick, old 34s 0 ", new —s Harrow Ticks 3ss 400 new --s Mazagan 3os 380 Chevalier . 64s 69i Oats 20s 28s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—NOY. 1. To-day there was a moderate supply of all kinds ° 1 grain. Sales steady. Wheat and barley is per qr dearer , Oats much as last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....36s Od I 23s Od 2os Od Second ..42s Od 27s Od 22s Od Third... Xis Od 33s 6d 26s 3d COAL MARKET. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. s. d. g. Wylam ..16 6iNewton Main ..1 4 West Wylam 15 9 ' Carway and Duffryn Malting Do. Anthracite 21 Lambert's West Hart- Walla End. 6 19 6 i Hetton .. ; couch Hetton 19 6 Russel's Hetton 19 0 ) Thorpe .. ..1S 6 i Haswell l9 :et, 35 ; sold, 34. ley 17 9 Tanfield Moor Butes 14 6 Ships at mark, FO.R.EION MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. -,2. 19 Aur.ralia and Mauritius, via S ou th amp t on .. No. via Marseill es .. Nov. la' Arlan and Cape Verds, by British packet. NOV Cape of Good H o p e , A scens i on, and St. Helena.. Dec. ;'' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southarnpton.Nov. i t via Marseilles ...Nov. ~ Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via S ou th am pt on Nov. ~`" India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov• 13. via Marseilles N°°' 0, India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Nov. i --via Marseilles Nov. '' Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov' 17 via Marseilles Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... NO 6. _ by U.S. packet.... /. by Canadian packet. Nov. , 0. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe N ov. 4, Bahamas, via New York ... No v •' 4 4). ~ Mexico.. - All Westparsoandßr itish lndie s , tish C includingolurabi. a Chili, Peru, j N o v. California, Vis th o r e The Telegraph° of Barcelona stat es that there 1° now living at Almagro a woman of th e most extraordineri ed e a , ug has had ad t :: fecundity. She married on© of her cousins 20 y ears ag°: and, although at y ears p o re n se o n n t e on o l o y ea 4o 6o f ag t c h h r il e d e r t e i n m , e n s i , n a e nd, being hying. She has had twins two of birth. _......1 BIRTHS. eigt a " DA.vins.—On the 31st ult., the wi fe of the Rev, J. "" n 33 of Moor Court, of a daughter, Esq., - of Ralston, Glasgow' , ; f a Of RICHARDSON.—On the 2d inst., at Brighton, the W"I ar d E s o . TArsoN.—On the 2d instat the UrTorr.—On the Ist inst Thoma s i n fof Captain n'ieh Clapton, Mrs. JosePliA. Topsoil, of a daughter. w Upton of a son. at San Salvador, Southse9, BLAKISTON--BA r LLI M .— AR On it Chur io c , h, S usthsird Hu A D 11::: the I t A h i:E IB S t . inst., at li e goili s. t o d L a tu g t h e t n e a r n o t f P t e h y e to l n ate ß ‘ l v ak m is . toA r i l d 'oiiiip Esq., of Bath. ic — UsuErtwoon.—On the 30th ult., at St' e J o o hr: Paddington, Henry Hudson, Esq., of Gipton 11, be rt Leeds, to Harriet Hannah, daughter of the late v Usherwood, Esq., Bagdale, Whitby. I3URRA,GE.—On the 31st p u E lt A , T a lc 0 ., 1.: li t , Sent-place , "- al to road, Edward E. Burrage, aged 39. EvArrs,—On the Ist inst., at Winsborough House, ° " Ir33:11P0: stead, David Meredyth Evans, Esq., 268, Pent road,ged 36. of FIELD. — aged 36. FIELD—On the 31st ult., George Veutris Fieldj oi g o rjh Mansion House, Finchley , and Ely-place, li. A solicitor. St.o L lt. e , ge a r t , E 10 8 , (1 13 ,, eorikerlearqq.aill, G R R A u P g E b . y .-- : O H n en th ry e a3ortahpeu:tisciat, W ag i e ll d ou 7 g B. hby vicarage , ::::: ST.A Antony Butler F th ra e nc 3 i l s st Yorkshire. ,- 6 00 WATTSFORD.*-011 the 30th ult., at Greenwich, INT. 0 Wattsford, E s qaged 68. LONDON= Printed and Published by JOHN CLIA.PI,II; of N 0 .112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sux Office, V0•110' St ran d,, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the countY giddleoexe-rAwficlay, ,Noyumixtr 3, .1863.