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

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA (From the Times' Correspericknt.) NEW YORK, JULY 25. General HaHeck's promotion to the chief com mand of the armies of the United States was offi cially announced yesterday morning. The appoint ment does not appear to create any exuberant satisfaction. The office may be a popular, but it has not lately proved a successful one. Within a twelvemonth it has been held by four persons. General Scott was superseded in it because he was too old. General M'Clellan was next tried, and was superseded because he was too young. The third dignitary was Mr, Lincoln, who has just superseded himself, for the sufficient reason that he is no soldier. General Halleck, the fourth on the list, is neither old nor young, and has made the art of war his study. He has published an excellent treatise on tactics, in which he lays it down as a fundamental axiom, essential to success, that every General worthy of the name s h ou ld , i n his de- Spatches, represent his defeats t o b e v i ctor i es. He has also shown administrative ability, but has never had the opportunity to fight a great battle. He is neither popular nor unpopul ar , b ut seems to nave inspired a certain amount of confidence by the re spectability of his private and the energy of his public character. All that can be collected as par ticularly distinguishing him above the crowd of generals whose names have become prominent in *he war is that he will neither tolerate negroes nor reporters in his camp ; that he amassed a large army to watch General Beauregard at Corinth, and that Beauregard, by a masterly movement, eva cuated that position, leisurely and in good order, with all his guns, ammunition, and stores, without having once excited the suspicion of Halleck,—a feat which not only set free a large Confederate force to do mischief in other quarters, but which rendered useless the Federal army of the South- West, which has never since found an enemy, or known what to do for itself. The President is said to have made this appointment with the concur rence of Generals Scott and M'Clellan,—the former being too old a soldier to object to a younger man, and the latter too good a disci plinarian to complain. The press and Wall-street had acquiesced in en arrangement which is not con sidered important enough to excite much comment in the one quarter, or the use or fall of stocks in the other. Everybody, in a quiet way, approves the change—firstly, because it will prevent a civilian like Mr. Stanton from interfering ; and, secondly, because it will tend to keep the President himself in subjection to military rule; but nobody expects that it will greatly influence the fortunes of the war. A dull heavy gloom has settled upon men's minds. The war has neither produced a statesman nor a general. Nobody knows what to think or to expect. The recruiting is a dead failure. All the lil-ral bounties offered by individuals, by States, and by the Federal Government, amounting on the average to 250 dole., or £5O a ,man, fail to dra w sufficient out Americans, Irishmen, or Germans In numbers to meet the exigencies of the army before Richmond,—exigencies which are so pressing as t t , cause people to whisper that M'Clellan would show better generalship than he has yet exhibited if he could contrive to evacuate the Peninsula as quietly as Beauregard evacuated Corinth. Were his army doubled in numbers he would not be safe at Harri son's Landing, and much more alarm is felt on his account than any one carrs to express who does not wish to incur the serious imputation of despairing of the Republic. riere is a great show of recruiting in this city. Broadway, the Bowery, and the Park vie with each other in the number of recruiting offices and head quarters of colonels who are raising new regi ments or filling up the ranks of the old. Gene ral Meagher, one of the heroes of the little Irish rebellion of 1848, is to meet his countrymen this evening at one of the theatres in Broadway, to in cite them by fiery elcquence to grasp the bounty money of the North, and earn the glory of sub jugating the South ; and, as he is brave and po pular, and can talk in a manner that the Irish ad mire, he will possibly succeed in adding a few score of men to the greatly diminished ranks of the Irish Brigade. But all these efforts are mere driblets. A Niagara of meu is wauted, and nothing offers itself but a rivulet. An Irish officer who has served in Mielellan's army entered one of the re cruiting depots three days ago, and asked the officer in charge what progress he had made. He was shown a list of names extending to about 280, which had been entered within the week. On ex pressing doubts as to the genuineness of the list, and proving satisfactorily that he was an officer in the Federal service who desired to know the real state of affairs, the exhibitor admitted that the list was " bogus," or fictitious, and that the number of men who had offered and been accepted was not above 30. The objection to a draught or conscription still continues, and the President is therefore urged to call out the militia, amounting nominally to up wards of a million of men. It would not surprise anybody if this course were adopted, though, as the militia are only available for service in their own States, and as the Governor of any State might legally and constitutionally refuse obedience to the Presidential call, it does not appear very obvious that any good could result from the measure, or that M'Clellan, in Virginia, could be reinforced by it to the extent of a single soldier. It is also re commended that no new regiments should be formed, as it would answer better to fill up those vacancies in those already existing, some of which do not number 150 men. By this means it is urged that the soldiers would be brought into contact with hardened veterans, and so rendered fitter for their trade in a shorter space of time ; but, as this would not answer the purpose of political intriguers, and others who raise men to acquire military rank as 'well as pay, the proposition is received with con !iderable opposition. Altogether the state of affairs 1$ not cheerful to the minds of Northern patriots. Cou pled with the fear entertained for the army of the P ot omac, it produces a sobriety of temper and coolness of in dgment which contrast favourably with the bluste r andbraggadocia that have hitherto prevailed. I f the Border States h ave not the solution of the d iffi cu lty in their h ands, they have much power for good or evil at this moment. The President, in his a ppeal to their recent J at the adjournment of Con gt ess, virtually d a mi lled the fact in terms a ; lirtle too bro ad and honest t o , diplomacy. Their representatives h ave DOW left • r g hniagton and re turned among the ir own people. j 44 gl from the president,it Nvould seem u s tone of their reply t o the inions incli nes t h e ir opne, , if the balaner , of biro /114 , v t h e y are dissatisfied with towards the South, that the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbi a and in the Territ o ries, and offen ded b y the consta nt agitation of the negro question both in Congres s and in the Northern press. It will be interestin g to note whether their reappearance in their homes will lead to an increase in the number and audacity of the guerilla bands that have simultaneously ap peared in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri, or whether they will devote their influence to the pre servation of the public peace under the old flag. It seems evident, however, from the military move ments of the Southern leaders, as far as they are known, and from the inevitable tendency of the guerilla warfare in those three important States to occupy the constant energy and watchfulness of large Federal armies, that the Confederate leaders are calculating upon the sympathy and aid of the Borderers, and that the raids of such men as Mor gan in Kentucky, and Reeves in Missouri, are but feints to cover more important movements else where. The people of Cincinnati were so scared', by the near approach of Morgan—who has not fol lowed u p his advantages so rapidly as was expected —that the rich packed up their plate and valuables and sent them to New York for safe custody— where they still remain. To-day there are reports o f' a plot of some o f the principal inhabitants of St. Louis to seize that city on behalf of the Confede rates. The people of New Orlean s b e li eve i n a re capture of their city, and scowl with all their wonted hate at the Federal soldiers in their streets. The people of Nashville are also taking heart of grace that they shall be relieved of Governor John such places as York t own son, and even at men, women, and children open ly boaat that their old friends are coming back again to pull down the "stars and stripes" and flaunt the "stars and bars," Baltimore is not without hope that Gene ral " Stonewall" Jackson, the favourite of the South, and the real hero of the war, may pay it a visit, if he have not devised a still m re brilliant and startling conquest in another diree ion ; and little Vicksburg has successfully defied the combined fleets of Farragut and Davis. These might, perhaps, have captured the city by this time, and opened the Mis sissippi to commerce, had Gen. Butler been able to spare a few hundred men from New Orleans to help them ; but this was impossible. The safety of New Orleans forbade. Farragut has, therefore, returned to the lower waters whence he came, and Vicksburg commands all the upper trade of the river ; it stands riddled with shot, but still proudly defiant of the Federal authority. The negotiations commenced by Gen. Dix with Gen. Lee, for a mutual exchange of all prisoners, great and small, have ended favourably. North and South will, perhaps, know each other-better, when these thousands on each side return to their homes, and tell the tale of what they have seen, heard, and suffered in the enemy's country. The North, how over, will have most to learn, for it has positively known nothing of the South—not even that it was in desperate earnest ; while the South have known as much of the North as it cared to inquire, and far more than was consistent with the safety of the Northern armies. There have been rumours for some days that Mr. Seward was about to retire from the Government in consequence of his disapprobation of the growing influence of the Radicals, as the Abolition party is now called, in the councils of the President. Mr. Seward, who is strictly a constitutionalist and a Conservative, appears to have satisfied himself that Mr. Lincoln's views are in accordance with his own, that the Radicals are not as powerful as they think they are, either in the Cabinet or in the country, and that it is his duty to support the Government by remaining in the position of Secretary of State, at least foi the present. Mr. Seward's retirement would be generally regretted, while that of Mr. Stanton would be hailed with delight by the coun try and with calm indifference, amounting almost to satisfaction, by Mr. Lincoln. But, as Mr. Stan ton will not resign, and the President is too good natured to dismiss a man whose greatest fault has been excess of zeal in wrong directions, he has been shorn of much of his power, and allowed to remain in office as long as he pleases. There have been considerable arrivals of gold from California during the week, which have had the effect of giving a temporary check to the alarming rise of the premium on the precious metals. Gold that was last week at 20k, and on Wednesday at 1 19, dropp e d yesterday to 171, and silver, that had I been as high as 14, dropped to 10. To-day, at the first Board of the Stock Exchange, gold fell to 14 per cent. premium, but rallied at the second Board to 17, amid the general belief of Wall-street that it will be up again to 20 by Monday. Nobody ex pects to see gold again in the ordinary transactions of life until long after the close of the war; but every one complains that silver should be almost equall y invisible. Even the dirty, ugly, little nickel cel.t.g that have hitherto done duty in small purchases, and for omnibus and ferry boat fares, have begun to disappear, and reached a premium of 2 per cent. To remedy the evil the Government induced Congress to make postage stamps of one and three cents and upwards a legal tender; and such in consequence has been the demand for this new species of paper money, which the Government cannot manufacture fast enough to meet the public exigency, that even these have reached a premium of three and in some cases of five per cent. Mr. Chase will gain considerably by this operation. The issue of stamps is and will be so largely in excess of the wants of the public as regards letter writing, and they are, moreover, so small, thin, fragile, and unfitted to stand the wear and tear to which they will be subjected as a currency, that it is highly probable that fully one-half of them will be lost or destroyed. What the people lose the Government will gain. And, perhaps, when the end comes it may be found that postage stamps and " green backs" may act precisely in the same manner, though the " green backs" may claim the merit of doing damage on a larger scale. There are, however, a hope and a chance that the silver and the nickel, which are not sent out of the country as the gold is, may be liberated at some distant day, and the postage stamps reserved for their legiti mate purpose. The Tax Bill, which might have come into opera tion on the Ist of May, it Congress had been ear nestly desirous of passing it, became law in suffi cient time to date from the first of the present month. It was publicly announced that it was to take effect from that date, and a whole army of office-seekers forthwith proceeded to Washington to invade the privacy of the President and his Secre taries and of everyone else who had or was sup posed to have influence in the bestowal of nearly 1,000 places, varying in value from 3 dole, to 5 dole. per day, exclusive of percentages. Washington has swarmed with them for the last six weeks ; and, although the members of both houses have gone home, or betaken themselves to the cool watering places on the sea coast of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, they still remain in the hot and dusty capital to try their fortune with the solitary President. Mr. Lincoln, however, or those who in his name look to this department of public business, has managed to try the patience and test the patriotism or party-fidelity of these gentlemen by postponing the operation of the Tax Bill till the Ist of September, the latest day allowed by the act. The British reader will ask, why ? The answer is, that the local elections for the Northern and Western State Legislatures take place in August, and that Mr. Lincoln, before bestowing any office under the Tax Act, will have the opportunity and the means of being thoroughly assured of the ap plicant's politics by the manner of his vote. The ballot boa affords no secrecy in America, though perhaps Mr. Berkeley and Mr. Bright, and a few other people in England, may not be aware of the fact. Mr. Lincoln will thus run no risk of giving office to any but members of the Republican party, unless he do so wilfully and with his eyes open. No Democrat will be permitted to have a chance of 5 dols. a day and a percentage under the Tax Act ; and, as the State elections influence the elections to Congress, it will be seen that the move, as a party one, is able and far-sighted, even although the country lose by the delay the amount of taxa. tion that would have fallen due in the interval be tween the earlier and the later date. Mr. Lincoln in this but imitates the example of his Democratic predecessors. Had a democratic President been in office he would have pursued the same course, although there is this to be said for the Democrats, that under a Democratic President the South would not have seceded, that there would have been no cioil war, and that, consequently, there would have be en t 0 duties tianecessitY for a Tax Bill. Nevertheless, the stood thaatt 4 men owe to their party are so well under one complains of the Presidential strategy i n this respect. Even the Democrats think it fair warfare, ara t t o n a d t resign themselves accordingly. to -day thi4riictledible announcement has Post-office is not to issue postage -stamps for curre: been m ade The but that the Treasury is to issue the t m h : t n th %ct e a Y pt i ver or cardboard mi t be used for postal but for currency only purposes, Never since the a ink applied A Treasury - to such a purpos • note for a sum so invention lura in ed, of so printing were paper au • . old fogies of Europe, vf he low as one cent., or an English h al i verull Only have think of this, ye and learn from thi s Youn g faith in gold and silver, -re are notes (for if they a re to be eight different kinds of and vigorous nation a lesson in finance! Th. not to be available for the payment of postage they cannot justly b e ca lled postage stamps), of which _ the followin g li st an d description h as been pub for general information and guidance:- 1 cent Franklin •• Blue. 3 cent • . W as hi ng t on . • Pink. 5 cent .• Jefferson .. Chocolate. 10 cent .. Washington .. Green. 12 cent .. Washington .. Black. 24 cent Washington 30 cent Frankli n yellow . 90 cent .. Washington Bine. It the Americans were not a serious people, en gaged in a very serious business, Mr. Chase's sub- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1862. stitntes for small change would be laughed at in America as heartily as it will be laughed at in Eng land. Perhaps the next novelty to be introduced by this great financier will be a gutta percha coin age ! Cowries have not yet been tried in civilised communities, and who knows but that Air. Chase may even give them a turn? unless, indeed, there should be a demand so much greater than the supply as to send them, and all other descriptions of shells, oysters included, up to a premium as high as that upon silver. New York made itself merry a month ago at sight of a few Confederate notes for 10c. that had been rifled from the pockets of the slain on the battle-field, and brought North to be exhibited as curiosities of the war. But the Confederates, in all their distress, never issued notes of a lower de nomination than 10c. It was reserved for Mr. Chase to set a new example, and to make 500 little bits of printed pasteboard, with the head of Ben jamin Franklin upon them, a legal tender for a sum representing an English sovereign. The Americans are a docile and a long-enduring people, and it is possible they may endure even this. It is just as possible, however, that they may revolt against the indignity, and insist upon a copper currency if they cannot have a silver one. The whole project is absurd and mischievous, and, as far as regards the 90c. stamps are concerned (blue, with the head of Washington), will afford an ample field of easy cul tivation to the forger and counterfeiter. THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF WHOLESALE POISONING. Last evening Constance Wilson, alias Catherine Taylor, was again placed at the felons' bar, at the Lambeth police-court, before the Hon. G. C. Nor ton, for further examination on the distinct and separate charges of having caused, by the admi nistration of poison, the deaths of Mrs. Anne Atkinson and Mrs. Soames. The court, as on the former occasions, was densely crowded, and the utmost interest and ex citement prevailed during the whole of an unusually , protracted inquiry. That interest was greatly in creased vy2en, in the course of the proceedings, a third charge was ventilated in relation to the death by poison of a young gentleman named James Dixon, with whom it was proved the prisoner had cohabited, and who died two months before the late Mrs. Soames. Mr. Chipperfield, as before, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Neale was again in atten dance to watch the proceedings on behalf of the prisoner, who, notwithstanding her late attack of illness, seemed to have regained her accustomed health. Mr. Chipperfield, on opening the proceedings, said that to-day he should propose to give further evidence relating to the death of Mrs. Soames, and that evidence would be of an important character, as it tended to show a motive for the commission of the offence with which the prisoner stood charged. In cases of this kind where it might be somewhat doubtful as to the immediate cause of death, motive was of the highest importance. He should show that as early as Dec. 10, 1855, within six weeks after the prisoner had gone to reside at Mrs. Soames', she commenced borrowing money from the deceased lady. He should prove that she had pledged almost everything, and on Christmas-day she had alleged that she had been robbed in the street of be tween £6O and £7O, and sent to Mrs. Soames a rer son whom he should call, to borrow a sovereign. This she obtained, and in January following she was still more pressed for money, and having in duced the deceased to join her in a security, she ap plied to a loan society, and subsequently, in April, obtained a loan of £2O. There could be no doubt that the prisoner had obtained from the deceased up to the 15th of October no less than £BO ; and the £9 which the deceased had that day obtained from her brother, Mr. Barnes, had got into the hands of the prisoner, for after the death only a few shillings were found in the house, and therefore if he showed that the prisoner was living extravagantly, having an income that he should prove was only £49 per annum, which she derived under the will of the late Captain Mower, of Boston, who died under her care, there was more than an inference that the money she was spending was irregularly and improperly obtained. About the commencement of 1856, she was cohabiting with a person named Dixon, who used to be visited by a friend named Scott, with whom the prisoner opened a correspondence, and he should put in six letters addressed by her to Scott, in which she stated teat she was expending a large amount of money on this Dixon, and declared that expenditure to have amounted from the pre ceding Michaelmas to £9O every farthing of it. In another she spoke of an expenditure of £27 on Dixon, while his earnings were only 255. a-week, Dixon died in 1856, precisely 2 months before the late Mrs. Soames, and the prisoner declared in one of her letters to Scott that the cause of his death was rapid consumption. The learned gentleman here read ex tracts froth a correspondence, commencing March, 1856, and continued down to July 18 in the same year, to corroborate the statement he had made, and also to show that the spelling in them were similar to those in the remarkable one received by the family of Mrs. Soames, subsequent to the death, and the contents of which was a mere fiction. That letter, the Court would recollect, purported to emanate from amen with whom the deceased lady had formed a connexion, and was, as the prisoner alleged, on the point o l ma rriage. The letter was couched in the following language : cc Dear Maria,—l hope you was not very hurt at my not being at home on Friday i was surprised to here a lady in black wanted me I cant let you have the 80 pounds now but if you will let me have £lO more i will by next Monday come to the corner and dont say any of what you are going to do to any body Send me word if you was not well after you got home on Wednesday as you was unhappy in the afternoon direct the letter as the first used to be for the old Postman found fault in the street be chereful and come on Wensday I will be there write by return—Yours." In comparing this letter with those he (Mr. Chip perfield) had q'ioted from, it would be found that in no less than twelve particulars were they inden tical in many leading features, He should now call the daughters of Mrs. Soames, who would state all that had passed from the Wednesday when their mother had visited their uncle, and obtained from him a loan of £9, up to the time of her death, and this would negative the story the prisoner had set up, that the deceased lady formed some connexion with this unknown and nameless man, which had been kept back fr om h er daughters; that she had gone to her brother and obtained the loan of £lO ; that she had afterwards seen this man, and that he had made som e di sclosures w hi c h trou bled the mind of the deceased, and thereupon she had come home and committed suicide. Mrs. Meacke was then called, and examined by Mr. Chipperfield. She deposed that she was the wife of Mr. Herman Meacke, who was a watchmaker, residing at Brunswick, in Germany. She was the daughter of the late Mrs. Soames ' and was living with her mother in Alfred-street, Bedford-square, when the prisoner came to lodge there in Novem ber, 1855. The prisoner had the first floor unfur nished, and became very intimate with her mother almost immediately after she came there. Witness did not know of any pecuniary transactions be tween them, and her mother had never told her of any. Up to the night of Wednesday, the 15th Oet., 1856, the night she was taken ill, her mother en joyed extraordinary good heath, suffering only from a bilious attack every now and then, which gave way at the end of a day. On the day just mentioned she recollected her mother visiting her uncle at Holloway, and returning about four in the afternoon, when they had tea together, and she was then in her usual health and spirits. After tea the prisoner came down stairs, and asked the deceased to go upstairs to her room, saying she wanted her. The deceased went up, and she saw no more of her until six o'clock on the following morning, when she came down stairs to call her (witness) and her sister. The deceased said at the time that she had got one of her bilious attacks—a very bad one—that she was very ill, and that she must go to bed again. Witness did not see her again until a little before dinner time, when she found her very ill and very sick. She complained of pains in her chest as well. The prisoner was in attendance on the deceased, emptying the basins, and talking to her. The attacks of vomiting came on very frequently. She should think every ten minutes. Witness wished her to have a doctor, hut her mother said "No ; Pm sure I'll get better soon." At nine o'clock the same even ing:the vomiting was still continuing and her mother was, if anything, worse. The retching was as vio lent as in the daytime until the witness went to bed. On that night she was frequently in the room and always found the prisoner with her mother, attending her solely as her nurse. Her mother complained, besides sickness, of pains in the chest and great weakness. The doctor, Mr. Whidborne, was sent for on the Friday morning, but witness was not present at the interview of the doctor and her le4,riday) mother, but the prisoner was. Medicine was sent tta un _ n i . ).f i ter the doctor left, and witness saw it veered several times, and always by the pri adnajuistnra took it down stairs with he,r after every havi ng tai l.° ll . In the course of Friday, after mother on th a n t the deceaseTtnaeajci"' it did not seem to relieve the least. Witness sat up with her said she felt easieratu of the family night, and when the rest about 12 o'clock, the deceased was present, sa i d, P,°, ll ,,which the prisoner, who Ar e must take some more medicine; it is time." a bottle of meai n i ne, t ,hen went down stairs, into a glass, a n d a t r ?ili e which she poured soon after she had takeit t . o d, n it became very awhP°o fetchedr v t i e ° r ny much worse, complained of violent pains in her chest, and said, " She was sure it was the medicine, and that she should not take any more of it." Mr. Norton—Did you ever hear your mother say anything about the medicine being hot and burn ing to the mouth ? Witness—No, sir, I cannot say I did. By Mr. Chipperfield—The colour of the medi cine was a light brown, or duskish yellow. When the deceased said she would take no more of the medicine the prisoner said to her, " Oh, it is sent to you to do you good." Her mother became much worse, and she went for the doctor and returned in half an hour, and found her mother worse, and the prisoner told her that the deceased had been so ex tremely ill while she was away that she did not think she would live till she came back. Her mother appeared in great agony, and to be suffering dreadful pains in her chest, and she died in half an hour after witness's return. The prisoner did not say anything to witness as to the cause of death. After the inquest, or rather very soon after her mother was buried, the prisoner told wit ness that her mother had borrowed £lO from her. Witness said she did not know anything. about that before, upon which the prisoner replied she could produce a receipt, and she gave her a piece of paper, on which was written, " I promise to pay the bearer or holder the sum of £lO on de mand," That paper was lost or destroyed, but it was signed in her mother's handwriting, and wit ness gave her the £lO. After her mother's death, witness discovered that there were only a few in the house, and she was therefore obliged at once to borrow a sum of money from her uncle to pay the necessary expenses. Her mother had complained that her property, which consisted of houses, had been very worrying to her. She, how ever, paid her way very regularly up to within the last six or seven weeks before her death. The tradesmen's accounts, which used to be paid weekly, were kept back. Her mother's property she estimated at £l5O a-year, exclusive of what she made by letting lodgings, while their expenditure did not exceed 30s a-week. In cross-examination the witness said that she had attended the inquest on her mother with the prisoner, but was not in the room when the latter was examined. When asked whether she had any reason to find fault with the prisoner's attention to her mother she (witness) burst into tears, and replied, " No." The first circumstance which occurred to raise a suspicion in her mind against the pri soner was a letter which her uncle had written to her to Germany. At the time of her mother's death her uncle had suspicions about the prisoner, but she (witness) had no suspicion herself at that time. She never knew her mother to lend the prisoner money, or that the prisoner had lent her mother money, until the prisoner made the demand for the payment of the £lO Remembered something being men tioned about a pork pie of which her mother had partaken. 'Witness's sister said that she (witness) had partaken of it also, but she had no recollection of having done so. Her mother conducted her own affairs in an economical manner, and was not in the least extravagant. On re-examination the witness was asked how it was that the prisoner had left her residence, and she replied that it was because the prisoner had alleged that a robbery had taken place in her apartments, that no one in the house believed. The prisoner came home one night, and called out to Mrs. Hawkshead, who was in the kitchen down stairs, that her apartments had been entered, that her drawers had been ransacked, and that a large box containing valuable property bad been stripped of its contents. On going up it was found that various articles were scattered about, and a watch was lying on the floor inside the doer. At first wit ness thought there bad been a robbery, until she took up a dish which the prisoner said had held a goose, and which the witness found to be perfectly clean. She was also strengthened in her belief that there had been no robbery by the circumstance that Mrs. Hawkshead declared that the large box, said to contain valuable property, had been brought into the house perfectly empty. The police were sent for, and it was their opinion that no robbery had taken place. In reply to Mr. Norton, The witness said that neither before nor after her mother's death did the prisoner say anything to her about poisoning. Elizabeth Hill was the next witness called, and this witness, who had been servant to the prisoner, and came to town with her from Boston, deposed to the prisoner's pecuniary position before and after she had taken her about at the house, and said that her circumstances were so straitened at times that she was obliged to pawn her property, although in the receipt of £B9 a year. After leaving the pri soner's service, witness once called on her, and found her in newly-furnished apartments, and the prisoner said she had been able to procure the fur niture by a loan of £2O, for which Mrs. Soames had been security. The witness was also shown the letters produced and commented upon by Mr. Chipperfield, and identified one of them as being positively in the handwriting of the prisoner; and said that four others, to the best of her belief, were also in prisoner's handwriting, while the last was in the handwriting of a person at Boston. Mr. Blakey, of 23, Argyle-street, King's-cross, proved that he had known the prisoner since 1854, when she lived as housekeeper to Captain Mower, of Boston, and he remembered her coming to live in London in 1855. At first she was in good cir cumstances, but towards the end of that year her means were very straitened, and to his surprise he found her residing near his own residence in Liver pool-street, with Dixon. Shortly after Christmas the prisoner called upon him and asked him to join Mrs. Soames in being her security tor £2O, which he refused. She afterwards came to him to an nounce the death of Dixon, and subsequently brought him information of the death of Mrs. Soames. She • did not state of what Mrs. Soames had died. Dr. Whidborne called, and examined by Mr. Chipperfield, said he was a surgeon, and resided in Guilford -street, Russell-square. About two months or six weeks before the death of Mrs. Soames he was called in by the prisoner to see Dixon two days before his death. The prisoner told him that Dixon had been ill for some considerable time, and that she understood his constitution, for that he was her brother. She stated that he was a great drinker of brandy, and had been long subject to rheumatism, for which he had been in the habit of taking colchicum. Witness remarked that colchi cum was a very dangerous remedy, unless admi nistered under medical authority, upon which the prisoner said, Oh, yes, I understand all about it ; for I have been accustomed to use it as a remedy for gout and rheumatism." Witness cautioned her against using it, as likely to do serious in jury to him. He found Dixon labouring under sickness, pains in the stomach, severe pains about the body and limbs, like rheumatism of a very vio lent and inflammatory character. His system was altogether out of order, and he appeared as if he had been a drinking man. The first time he saw him witness thought him dangerously ill; so seri ously so that he visited him three times that day. Witness prescribed for him iodide of potassium, hut not colchicum. There was nothing the matter with his lungs, for he was a strong, broad-chested man. He died of inflammation. Mr. Norton—And yet the prisoner told his uncle, Mr. Atkinson, that he died of galloping consump tion. Mr. Chipperfield—Yes, your worship, and that statement is repeated in some of the letters I put in to-day. Examination continued—To the best of witness's belief Dixon's lungs were not in the least effected. Besides the pain in his body he was cramped and had violent retebings. All these symptoms might have been produced by overdoses of colchicum. Witness was called in to attend Mrs. Soames on the 18th October, 1856, and was informed she had been taken ill on the day before by a bilious attack. In his opinion an egg beaten up with brandy would not be a proper thing to administer to . a bilious pa tient. It would, however, be a form in which col chicum wine co u ld b e administered without being tasted. Mixed with egg and brandy colchicum might be given in large doses that would produce great pain and sickness, and every dose would con tinue the mischief. Colchicum would be likely to produce all the symptoms he found to exist in the case of Mrs. Soames when he was called in to attend her on the Friday preceding her death. Miss Sarah Soames, another daughter of the de ceased, was next examined, and corroborated the evidence of her sister in its leadin g particulars. In addition she proved that during the Thursday she saw the prisoner give her mother brandy with eggs mixed up in it, which the prisoner prepared and brought up with her, and her mother was no better after taking it, f or th e s i c kness continued. This mixture of brandy an d eggs was administered three times by the pris oner , and it might he oftener , b ut witness did not r eco ll ec t a t what intervals. Her mother did not obj ec t t o t a k e the mixture, but coal plaited frequently of thirst, and called for tea , which witness prep are d f or her. In cross -examinati on the witness said her atten tion was first till e d t o thi s prosecution by reading the vitriol case, an d s h e i mme diately thought the party accused was M rs . Wilson, the prisoner With respect to her mother, witness never suspected that the prisoner hRd poisoned her ; but when she read the vitriol ease she felt certain of it. the deceased for y ears , p rove d t h a t o n the day be- Ril charwoman, who had worked for foi 7 e a t i h 'y edeath , o a f Mrs. Soames she went to that lady's house, Ft rid the prisoner, who was in attend ee on her, said th e d ecease d h a d emptied out h er n ow slops. once Mr. E. Mathews deposed that she had known the deceased for nearly 20 years, and had been on friendly terms with her. She had taken tea and spent the evening with her on the Friday prior to her death, when she was in her usual health and quite chee . l•ftf.. On the Saturday following she re ceived a note acquaintaing her with the death of the deceased, at which she was mrech struck. She went there on Saturday and saw the daughter, who was so affected as not to be able to speak to her, She also saw the prisoner, but had no conversation with her on that day, but on the Sunday she went again and expressed a wish to see the corpse. The prisoner, who had the key of the room in her pocket, took her upstairs and showed her the body. Witness remarked how bad the corpse looked, upon the agonising appearance of the face and the fact of the hands being closed, as all indicating great suffering, and said it was very shocking. The pri soner remarked, in a very peculiar way, " Yes, poor dear, but you do not know all." Witness said, "What do you mean by saying, ' not know all ?' On which the prisoner replied, "The man, the man, I mean." The prisoner proceeded, with the most mysterious air, to say that the deceased had formed a connexion with some man, to whom she was about to be married very shortly, and that the man had deceived her with regard to his circumstances, after borrowing large sums of money from her, which had caused her great grief, The prisoner stated that the deceased received letters from this man once or twice a-week, but to keep the matter a profound secret from her daughter the letters always came addressed in her (prisoner's) name. She added that another letter would come, with the old tale, asking, and men tioned the time it would arrive. Mr. Norton—When the prisoner said that this grief affected the deceased, did she say anything about the deceased having poisoned herself? Witness—No, not a word, but she spoke in a very significant manner and mysterious way. Examination continued—Witness went down to tea with the daughter, when the prisoner, who ap peared to have been out, brought in a wine bottle half full of some liquid, with a label on it, marked " cough mixture," which she said she had found on the door step, She refused to allow any of them to examine the bottle near the light, alleging that it would explode, and darkly insinuating that there was some improper design on the house. The bottle was corked, was about half full, and, as far as witness could see, the liquid in it was quite clear. The prisoner put it into the road, and it was seen to be picked up by a cabman who was passing. The prisoner subsequently endeavoured to bring the daughter of the deceased and witness to believe that the deceased had formed some league with some man, and witness thought she had stated she had seen the man and Mrs. Soames frequently together. Witness was greatly surprised to hear this, because she knew Mrs. Soames to be of a very different character. A short time before the death of Mrs. Soames there had been a robbery from the house of silver spoons and plate while the deceased was at Deptford ; and further, while the deceased was lying dead a silver pepper castor was taken some days after the affair of the bottle. Witness saw the prisoner and asked her if the letter from the " man" had come, upon which the prisoner replied, "Oh, yes, it came right enough, and as I told you, it was for some more money." The prisoner also told her the deceased had borrowed £lO from her to give to the man one day, and that she would give the poor dear thing anything she asked for. As the hour was far beyond the time to which the Court ordinarily sits, Mr. Chipperfield applied for and obtained a further remand. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—GUILDFORD, August 7. The business for the county of Surrey commenced this morning, at 10 o'clock, in the New Courts. They are exceedingly commodious, and appeared to give satisfaction to the Bar, the Judge, and all persons having to attend the assizes. Baron Martin sat on the Civil Side, and Baron Bramwell presided in the Crown Court. There are only 19 prisoners for trial, and most of the offences are of an ordinary character. CROWN COURT. James Holt, 42, a post-office letter-carrier, pleaded guilty to an indictment which charged him with feloniously stealing a letter containing two half-sovereigns and two postage stamps, the pro perty of the Postmaster-General. Mr. Harrell and Mr. C. Pollock conducted the prosecution. The prisoner was employed as a letter-carrier and sorter at the Epsom Post-office, and while em ployed in those capacities it appeared that he com mitted the offence imputed to him. He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude. Charles Rawson, 50, described as a tutor, was charged with feloniously setting fire to a stack of straw, the property of Thos. Lemand, at Kingston. Mr. Kingston prosecuted. The prisoner was de fended by Mr. Oppenheim. The prisoner was committed for trial at these assizes in 1860, but upon that occasion it appeared that he made a desperate attempt to destroy him self, and there was no doubt that he was insane, and the jury found that he was not in a fit state of mind to plead. Upon this he was sent to Bedlam as a cri minal lunatic, and since that time, as his mind has become restored, he was, by order of the Secretary of State, sent back to take his trial. The evidence went to show that prosecutor was a farmer, living near Kingston, and that in the beginning of 1860 the stack in question was discovered to be on fire. The prisoner was met by a police-constable coming from the spot, and it appeared he admitted that he had set fire to the stack, and his conduct was such as to leave very little doubt that he was at the time in a state of insanity. Mr. Oppenheim having addressed the jury for the prisoner, they returned a verdict of not guilty on the ground of insanity, and the prisoner was or dered to be detained during her Majesty's pleasure. Robert Randall, 37, painter, was charged with feloniously cutting and wounding Anne Hills, wail intent to murder and do her grievous bodily harm. The prisoner was also charged with bigamy, in having feloniously intermarried with the same pro secutrix, he having a wife alive at the time. The Hon. G. Denman and Mr. Sharpe conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Treasury. The prosecutrix in this case was a woman about the same age as the prisoner, and it appeared that they were married at Croydon in Sept., 1860, and lived together in that town, and about a year after the marriage had taken place the prisoner admitted that he had a wife living. On July 25th the real wife of the prisoner came to the house where the prisoner and the prosecutrix were living, and ex pressed her intention to give prisoner in charge, and he asked the prosecutrix whether she would aa- She told him th a t s h e wou ld , pear against him. and he then pulled her upon his knee and wanted to caress her. She requested that he would let her go, and got away from him, and went to another room, and the prisoner's wife told her to put on her bonnet and shawl and go with her to the police station, and they went out together, The prisoner followed them, and they met a policeman, and the wife wanted to give him into custody for bigamy. The police-constable, however, refused to take the charge without a warrant, and the two women and the prisoner walked on towards the police-station. When they had gone a short distance the prisoner addressed the prosecutrix, and said, " Anne, do you mean to press the charge against me ?" She leplied that she did. The prisoner then said that she had better say " No," and if she did he would go right away, and at the same time put his arm round her neck, and again urged her not to press the charge. She told him that she would, and the prisoner in stantly made a desperate attempt to cut her throat with a razor, and wounded her in two places in the neck. The injuries, however, were not of a very serious character, and this probably arose from the fact that she had on at the time a thick woollen shawl, which was cut completely through before the skin was reached. After the act had been com mitted the prisoner went into a shop, where he was seen to close the razor, and he then went to his own house, where he was taken into custody. It was stated in the course of the case that the prisoner had been at one time insane, and was confined in a lunatic asylum, but that he was discharged cured. The prisoner cross-examined the prosecutrix at some length in a rambling incoherent man ner, his object apparently being to show that the prosecutrix had conducted herself in an immoral manner. She denied that this was true, but she admitted that she lived with the prisoner for some time after sbe was aware that he had been married before and that his wife was living. When he was examined before the magistrate it appeared that the prisoner said "I am not going to condemn myself much ; my first marriage was a very unhappy one , and I walked the streets of Lon don all night, and was eventually sent to a lunatic asylum ; but thank God I am now cured, and am perfectly sane." The prisoner, when called upon for his defence, addressed the jury in an excited manner, and de clared he loved the pr o secutrix most dearly—that he loved th e ground she walked on, out she had acted most cruelly towards him, and she and her companions had assaulted him, and he was driven beside himself. Barou Bramwell having summed up, the jury found the prisoner guilty of wounding the prosecu trix with intent to do her grievous bodily harm. Evidence was then gone into upon the charge of bigamy, and it was clearly made out that he had married his first wife 16 years ago, and that she was still alive. He was found guilty, and Mr. Keene, the gover nor of Horsemonger-lane Gaol, stated that the pri- Boner had been convicted a great many times of violent assaults. Baron Bramwell, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner had been convicted of a very serious offence, and there was no doubt that he was a very violent man, and it was absolutely necessary to pro tect the public from him for a very considerable pe riod. Something had been said about his mind being affected, and if it should turn out that this was the case, it was possible if he was cured that there might be some mitigation of the sentence, but at present he felt it his duty to order him to be kept in penal servitude for 15 years. When the sentence was pronounced the prisoner became very violent, and he made use of most, foul language to th e prosecutrix, and it was with consi derable difficulty that he was removed from the dock. George Rayson,• 29, labourer, was indicted tor feloniously being at large before the expiration of a period of penal servitude to which he had been sea tsnced. Mr. Oppenheim prosecuted. The prisoner pleaded guilty. This prisonef was one of three men who, it will be remembered, escaped from Horsemonger lane Prison a short time ago, and the whole of them have since been retaken. He was sentenced to six years' penal servitude, that being the sentence he was undergoing at the time he made his escape. He had served a portion of that time, but his present sentence will commence from the present conviction. James Mitchell, 52, labourer, was charged with feloniously shooting at Richard Lawrence, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. Mr. Wors'ey prosecuted. The prisoner was de fended by Mr. Pearce. It appeared that the prisoner lived at 'Woking, and that on the Bth of June there had been a cricket n2L;tch in that neighbourhood, and there was a good deal of drinkin g and disturbance. Even tually some quarielling and fighting took place, and the prisoner was tilreatened with some violence, and it appeared that he produced a stick and a gun, and fired the latter among a crowd of persons who had assembled near his cottage, and wounded twv of them, one of whom was the prosecutor, who was shot in the face, but fortunately not seriously injured. The jury found the prisoner guilty of unlawfully wounding, but recommended him to mercy, and he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. CIVIL SIDE. (Before Baron Martin.) The cause list was made up this morning, and it appears there are 107 causes entered for trial, 27 of which are to be tried by special juries. The learned Judge, at the opening of the Court, announced that it was arranged that at the conclu sion of the criminal business Mr. Baron Bramwell would dispose of the whole of the common jury causes from No. 50, and all the special jury cases would be tried in one court. The special jurors are not summoned to attend until Monday. BATSON V. TROUNCE AND ANOTHER. This was an action to recover the sum of £lOO that had been placed in the hands of the d, fen dents under the following circumstances : Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Biren were for the plaintiff; Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., ap.• peared for the defendants. From the evidence adduced for the plaintiff it ap peared that a person named Harrington, who car ried on the business of a wine and spirit merchant at Gloucester, became insolvent at the close of last year, and, in consequence of certain statements that were made by him upon his examination at the Bristol Bankruptcy Court, the Commissioner, Mr. Hill, gave directions that proceedings should be instituted against him for perjury, and he was taken into custody and underwent an examination before the magistrates upon that charge. The plain tiff, who it appeared was Harrington's brother-in law, went down from London, where he resided, to assist him during t hese procceedings, and being anxi ous that he should be liberated upon bail, he applied to the defendants, who carry on the business of auc tioneers at Gloucester, to become sureties for the ap pearance of Harrington upon his second examina tion. They consented to do so, but only upon the con dition that plaintiff should deposit in their hands the sum of £lOO, which was the amount of the bail they were required to enter into, and that sum was ac cordingly handed to the defendants by the plaintiff. From circumstances that subsequently transpired, it appears that the commissioners rescinded the order that he had made for the prosecution of Harrington, and directed that no further proceed ings should be taken in reference to that charge, and an application was made to the:defendants to refund the money, but they declined to give it back upon various pretexts, and at last the plaintiff was compelled to bring the present action, and the above facts were distinctly proved by the plaintiff and other witnesses. Baron Martin asked the learned counsel for the defendants what answer he was instructed to make on their behalf to the present action. Mr_ Hawkins said he should submit that the liability of the defendants had not ceased, and that subsequently they were justified in retaining the money until that liability was put an end to, in accordance with the conditions under which the money was placed in their hands. He called as a witness the clerk to the magis trates before whom Harrington was examined, who merely proved, however, that the defendant, Harrington, was remanded, and that the defendants became bail for him. It was admitted that the magistrates had received notice that the Commis sioner had given directions that the prosecution for perjury should not be proceeded with. Baron Martin said he was of opinion that no answer had been given to the plaintiff's case, and that he was entitled to recover. He added, that in his opinion the defence that had been attempted to be set up was merely a fraudulent pretence to keep the plaintiff out of his money. The jury immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. Hawkins said he should except to his lord ship's ruling upon the question of law as to the point whether the liability of the defendant had ceased. Mr. Baron Martin said, with some warmth, in reply, " And I shall order immediate execution." If the plaintiff is not entitled to his money now he will never be able to get it, and I will do all I can to put a stop to such proceedings as these. BRECKNELL V. PAGE. This was an action to recover £590 and interest, which it was alleged had been paid by the plaintiff for the use of the defendant. Mr. Hawkins, Q C., and Mr. Watkin Williams were for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Parry for the defendant. The plaintiff was stated to be a person possessed of some little property, and it appeared that he and the defendant had been for a great many years on the most friendly terms, and it was admitted by the plaintiff that he had at one time placed a consider able sum in Consols in the name of the defendant, although he at the same time had a power of attor ney, by which he kept the control over the stock in his own hands. The case on the part of the plain tiff was that about three years ago he had advanced the defendant nearly £6OO to put him into a public house in Brewer-street, upon the understanding that he should assign the property to him as secu rity. He, however, never did so, and when the plaintiff applied for his money, the defendant as serted that the money was not advanced as a loan but as a gift. This was the defence that was set up to the present action, and the defendant swore that the money was given to him as salary for services he had rendered to the plaintiff during a great num ber of years. The latter swore positively that there was no foundation for this statement, and his evi dence was confirmed by a witness, who proved that upon one occasion the defendant had admitted that he owed the money to the prosecutor. Baron Martin, in summing up the evidence, said it was perfectly clear that there must be gross and deliberate perjury on one side or the other, and it was for the jury to decide where the truth really laid. The Jury, after a very short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. THE FORGERY CASE AT CIRENCESTER.—In The Sun of Friday last a report appeared of the examination at Cirencester of Captain John Alexander Conroy of her Majesty's Indian Army, who forged a cheque in the name of Major-General Darmes on the morning of his marriage with the daughter of Mr. T. Date, of the King's Head Hotel, Cirencester. On Saturday morning Mr. Date re ceived a letter from a gentleman named Ingram, residing at Hampstead, to the following effect :—" 45, Robert-street, Hampstead-road, N.W., Aug. 1, 1862.—Sir, —I perceive in The Sun of tc-day an account of a swindler who has brought misery on your family. I have no doubt if you apply to Mr. Wm. Dawson, innkeeper, of Windsor, you t will ou. find this fellow's antecedents may be ef some benetit oalymut I have no doubt this man is the same who last winte r ,.edh niece, Jaauary, put up at Mr, Dawson's house, rnar to and forged a bill for £lOO, which purporteadrnp his father, General Scott. He shortly dee ermanedfrleort b d u o t n tb o e t re kn w o i w ll his poor wife (only 21) without a penn‘rvs.onl, n W t S i O n n th h e as n l o iv y e a d l the name of the tavern kept by be no difficulty in finding it ou t, M w a r si i i ; a ll e . servant there all his life, and his m h Acting upon tbis your obedient servant, R. Ill" proceeded to Windsor, found household. Hoping the rascal ;_vri_llAgme. his deserts, I remain hint, Mr. Date immediateely d 'i n quiries, which resulted in the out Mr, Dawson, and znawas the person who married Mr. discovery that charge Coll of bigamy will therefore be pre- Dawson's niece. A -6 only left his wife at Windsor on the ferred agaidst the prisoner, in addition to the forgeries. It appears that I? King's Head Hotel, Cir encester, of April, encester, Candrjrived at the the 16th of the same month. The prisoner broug ht up yesterday on remand, w hen various wit posed to the facts s t ate d i n the paragr aph a b ove :88s referred to. He was again remanded. In addition to the charge of bigamy front Windsor, it was asserted that the prisoner has also a wife and faugly at Chesterfield, THE AG.RIC TULTU_RA.L SHOTV, LIMERICE 1., WEDNESDAY EVENING. The annual show oft he Royal Agricultural Society was opened here at 2 o'clock to-day. Limerick is the capital of the sout h-west of Ireland. It is in the centre of the mo: t fertile district in Ireland. The richest parts of th. 3 counties of Clare, Tipperary, and Limerick convert ;e upon it. It was by no s me ans as succe ' . .sful as relight have been expected. This was in no r , aspect th e fault of the citizens, or of the gentry of tL'e county. They did everything they could to product. asa tisfactory result. All the arrangements were ac'palr . able, and the committee, sec retaries, and other on 1 1.. ct als were most obliging in their attention to visito r s • One could not help, therefore, feeling saddene. 3 with the air of depres sion and discomfort which pervaded the whole ex hibition and all parties co, scerned. 'lke rain, as usual on the days of agricultural shows in this country, came down in torren Is just at the critical time. The streets were flooded . The green sod in the show-yard was speedily cot averted into a mass of mud, ankle-deep. It was nE ;cessary to construct footways of planks to render tl - Le sections accessible and keep up the communicati ,ons between one de partment ank -1 another. Perhaps the state of the wer Other accounted for the thinness of the attendance and the dismal aspect of what would other\ vise have 'been a gay and animated scene. But it did not account for the serious falling off in the entries, the total of which, exclusive of implements, was .163. There were only 59 short horns in Class A, against 110 last year in Belfast and 100 the year before in Cork. There was not a single English or Scotch exhibitor in shorthorns, nor were there many from tile other provinces of Ireland. This was not from anT difficulty or want of inducement as to the c onveyanCe of the stock to 1 Limerick. The Great Southern and Wcstern Rail. way Company and all the other vamp anies were r ,-ady to convey all that came. The steamboat cot. npanies were equally liberal in their ae commo de- I tion • Yet the show was the worst in poin tof num bers ti'at the Society has had for several years. In quality t`he inferiority was not so great. Lard Clan . tarty said at the banquet that, as far as h e cou'ld judge, with Out having both together, the b est be ast I in the show to-, 'lay was as good as the hew t at the T.,ondon. Taken as a who le, ho w " r ecent show in A ever, the feelin; ' of disappointment abc nit this Limerick exhibitio, 'I was universal. There was no wa,-it of inducements on the scor e of prizes. The Roytl.. Agricultural Soniety alto . ' cated £7OO for this put 'pose, and the local branch the South-West Agric u. ltural Society—also contri buted liberally. There' were six challenge' cups. The Fitzwilliam Cup, vs Joe 50 sovereigns, for the best animal of the neat cattle class, was wc, , n by' 1 Capt. Ball, of Adair, son o f Judge Ball. He is it• member of the council of the society, and a very su , , !cessful exhibitor. On t his occasion he carried off the gold medal for the best of all the prize heifers'. The gold medal, val ue ten sovereigns, was awarded to Mr. Coppinger, oi'' Barry's Court, Cork, for the best of all the prize bulls . . The Croker Chal lenge Cup, ci , lue 50 sovereigns, .for the best weight bearing tlaoronjh-bred stallion .v gas won by Young Captain, the proinertY of Mr. Let te, of Kanturk. A piece of plate, w o rth 50 guineas, was awarded to Brown Stout, th,4 property of I.‘ll-. Forshaw, of Lancashire. This tiers,: has won numerous prizes at other shows. In sheep, which we. Ye well represented, the Cork Challenge Cup, £5O, w. as won by Mr. George Tea - - +he best ram. UNI I a At' AR, - -------- - --- BIRMINGHAM— -ArG. 7. There was a short supply of 2 nglish wheat to-daft which could not be bought cheaplar. American is per qr lower. Barley unsaleable in quan tit, ' except at a declin e. Oats 6d per qr dearer. Beans firm. Teas hold for some , advance on last week's rates. MANCHESTER—AI G. 7. Wheat was taken in retail at the curreneies o f this dal week. Barley beans, and peas also held for form er price?. An average attendance to-day. There was heavy rain during the night and this morning. BOSTON—AVG. G. A very small supply of English wheat on offer to -day, which met a dull demand, at about last week's currencies. Oats in request, and the turn dearer. Beans as previously reported. The weather continues fine. EDINBURGH GRAIN-4%u°.6. A fair supply of country wheat to-day, which sold slowly at the prices of this day week. Barley in good request, At rather higher quotations. Wheat on the top Os d 6up .. .average Os 4d up. Barley on the top is 6 d up average Os 8d down. Oats on the top is 6d up average Os 6d up. Beans on the top is Od down average is Od down. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat . ... 791 qrs .. Sold 637 qrs 8ar1ey........ 15 qrs Sold 12 qrs Oats 1397 qrs Sold 924 qrs B eans 69 qrs Sold 38 qrs Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 48s Od; extras, 46s Od; households, 38s 6d ; shop, 36s 6d. CORK —AuG. 6. The following' were the quotations this morning :--fte d wheat, —s Od to —s Od; white, 22s Od to —s Od; barley 145 6d to —s Od ; oats, 15s 6d to —s Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD—Ara. 5. A moderate show of fat beasts to-day ; beef was in re" quest, and most of the animals were disposed o f. A large s upply of ; heep and lambs, which sold at late rates. Fat ant store calves were an average show. A less supply of fat pigs. Beet 6lsl to 7d Veal . 6d to 611 INlutto,a ... Girl to 7d: Pork .... , sld to 61 4 Lamb .. ...8d to Bid Rough fat, 4s 6d per stone. Hides, 3d to 41c1; calf skins, 5d to 6d. y,OItEION MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. AuKralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Aug. L S ' via Al arseilles Aug. 1 /' razil and Cape V erde, by British packet. Aug. " Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena, Sept. L. , China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Aug. 1' via Marseilles — Aug. 1 2 . Falkland Island 5.... ' Gibraltar, via Southampton .... Aug. r" India (Calcutta), and Cleylcn, via Southampton Aug. 1,,S via Marseilles Aug. l'' . India (Bombay), via Southampton Aug. , 11 ' via Marseilie.9 Aug. D. Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 1' via Marseilles Aug. S • Newfoundland ** • • Aug. 6. Oporto and Vigo . Aug. -„*" U. S. and British N. America, by B tit. packet.... Aug. 6. by U.S. packet.... , by Can adian packet. Aug. ''' W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe , . Aug I° ' Bahamas, via New York .Aug. Mexico . All parts of West Indies, including Chili:, Peru, I Aug , 13. California, and British Columbia...... A Paris correspondent of the Journal du Hote states, on what he considers good authority, that the nomr nation of M. Troplong as Chancellor of France is to 0 1( 1 place on the occasion of the Emperor's fete on the 16th inst. The writer adds that M. Delangle is expected to r place M. Troplong as President of the Court of Cae stv tion. BIRTHS. CLIFDEN.—On the 6th inst., at Dover House, Whitehall' the Viscountess Clifden, of twin daughters. CRIEPS.—On the 6th inst., at Cirencester, Mrs. EdWar a Cripps, of a daughter. FELTON.—On the 7th inst., at Kensington-park-gardc o ' the wife of William J. Felton, Esq., of a son. KENNEDY.—On the 7th inst., at 27, Palace-garden VillB, Kensington, the wife of B. E. Kennedy, E sq ., o f a aon• MARRIAGES. DA NION.—On the sth inst., at S a i n t Georg: vEY—D Camberwell,° Horace Davey, M.A., of Lincoln's-in°', !-} ` o f Peter Davey, Esq. , to Louisa Hawes, daughter ol l a t e John. Donkin, Esq., of Ormond H ouse , Old 1 (3 road. s• G IL EGORY—BooRD.—On the sth in s t., at Saint Stephen , C an onbury, Islington, Mr. Joseph Gregory, of Que en e t, road, Dalkon, and Great St. H e l en ' s, Bishopsgate-strera, to Maria Grover, only d aug h ter of M r. S a muel B° ° of Canonbury, London, formerly of Bristol. D in tATITS. BAMFORD.—On the sth road, James Bamford Es q, , C 8 B C A h N e E a . pi i 0 ,3 e n , L a it t t Y le o ott H eri o d u g.f se: : : l s r e eet: a th g e ed 4t 6 h 9. ins ' t , at , CANE -- of Padding . ton, abed 73, formerly o . On the 4th - t Langley, Miss • Eliss beth Cane, late of Carnar von, age . atßucks, .i. Hig h oflV t y h c e o Wycombe B e n h c a k r s i e , sArrnn. Crane,Cathe D n . Catherine Crane,. , late perr eldest daug 11 tc te perpetual cura SCR - L TTON.-- inst., atlslington , On the sth Mr. ea Scrutton, aged 74. STsv, . 00d , EE LE.—On the 4th inst suddenly, at St.. John $ ~ iteoinient , tbe Lieut. •Col. Edward Steele, C. 8., late 83J n , o f the Youngest son of the late Sir Richard Steele, Bari, County of Dublin. ' -... THRuPP.—On the 6th inst , at 77, liatnilton-terraeel 11. sq., aged 70. LONDON: Pri;tedand—Published-by JOHN of N 0.112, Strand, Printer, at Tu n SUN OffiCo Cow e, N 0.19 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, ill the_ AY • AttOdleaol..—Friday, August 8, 1862. Mllar. F I-- 3s " It 1 1 .;