The Sun. — London, England, 1862-10-11 00:00:00

~~ rte---~ THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING% OCTOBER 11, 1862. THE CIVIL TVAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 26. The President's proclamation, emancipating the sl'Aves in all States in insurrection , without refer ence to the loyalty of their owners, though promis ing compensation to such of them as can prove that they never aided, abetted, or comforted the rebels, has created a very bad feeling in this city. Though not a decree of universal emancipation—for any slaveholding State that remains in the Union and appoints representatives to Congress in the usual manner may continue to keep slaves as long as it pleases—it has alarmed the conservative sentiment of the country, and gone far to show that the threat of Gen. Butler at New Orleans of a servile war, to be provoked and inaugurated, if not ex pressly recommended by the Chief Magistrate, was premature but not unfounded. Wall-street is in a flutter of painful excitement, and gold, the baro meter of its fears, has gone up to 21 per cent. prem. Though many persons hold that the proclamation will be inoperative, the large majority of people be yond the narrow boundaries of New England, who have no social, political, or economic sympathy with negroes, believe that its effect will be to embitter and prolong the war ; and that it will lead to com plications in the North of worse augury for the triumph of the Federal cause than the armed hosti lity of the South. It is evident that the President has not taken this step of his own free will. In his address to the representatives of the Border States, immediately prior to the adjournment of Congress, he warned those gentlemen that a pressure might be brought to bear up nn him by the Abolitionist party which he might be unable to resist, and so lately as the 13th inst., only nine days before he finally committed himself to the Abolitionist party, he expressed to a deputation from Chicago his doubts whether a proclamation of emancipation would do any good, and stated, more suo, his objec tion to issue a document " that the whole world - would see to be necessarily as inoperative as the , Tope's Bull against a comet." At the same interview he admitted he had thought for weeks and even for months upon the subject, and that he was approached by men of different opinions, some defending and some opposing the institution of slavery, but both proclaiming " their certainty that they represented the Divine Will." As both could not be right, he thought that God was just as likely to reveal His will to him as to them, anti told the deputation that he earnestly desired to know the will of Providence in the matter, " and would act upon it if he could but learn it with certainty." But nine days after these sirciple-minded and very remarkable admissions, and without claiming the inspiration of any new light from Heaven, he made a movement towards indiscriminate emancipation by publishing the peril ous halfway proclamation which has created as much alarm as a defeat of M'Clellan would have done, and far more perplexity and discouragement. The defeat of M'Clellan would have but aroused the North to the display of a more obstinate energy, and sent an additional quarter of a million of men to the war ; but the proclamation has darkened counsel with vain words, made the South a more cohesive unit than before, and split up the North more hopelessly than ever. While the legality of the document is question able, its impolicy is most unquestionable. Its re milts in Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and even in Maryland, may yet turn the scales of victory in favour of the South ; and in the North itself they may prove the germ of intestine strife that not even peace between North and South will deprive of vitality. But in taking this momentous step Mr. Lincoln does not appear to be quite convinced in his own mind that he was right. He speaks like a man who was over persuaded by acuter logicians or more pertinacious disputants than himself, like one upon whose weaker mind the impress was made by strong external agencies, against which he had not the in nate and irresistible conviction to contend. He re ceived the honours of a serenade from the Aboli tionists of Washington the evening after the pro clamation appeared, and addressed the crowd from one of the windows of the White House in a few melancholy and almost desponding -words. Allud ing to the proclamation as the only possible cause of the unusual compliment conferred on him, he declared that what he had done he had done after very full deliberation and under a very heavy and solemn sense of responsibility. "I can only trust in God," he added, " that I have made no 7nistake. In my position I am environed with difficulties." Hard indeed would be the heart that would not sympathise with Mr. Lincoln in the sore trials with which he is beset by open enemies, by false friends, and by foolish supporters. He offers to the world the spectacle which the heathen philosopher affirmed to be pleasing to the gods—that of a good man struggling with adversity. But no impartial student of the great events in which he plays so prominent a part can give him {credit for persistent vigour, great capacity, or sound judgment. His vigour is spasmodic; he mistrusts himself continually. He assumes responsibilities that do not rightfully pertain to him. He plays fast and loose with high principles. He acts despo tically, without the force which can alone make des potism respectable. He is as weak and vacillating as Charles I. or Louis XVI., and does quite as much mischief with the best of intentions as those un happy Sovereigns. He would have made an excel lent Governor for the State of Illinois, but hard fate has converted him into an unfortunate and ineffi cient President. It remains to be seen whether, having yielded as far as he has done to the party that nes given up all hope of conciliating the South, and that looks to its subjection by fire and sword, and the extermination, if need be, of the whole of the siaveholding population, as the only solution of existing difficulties, he will hold firm at his present stand-point. Whatever he may do or think on the matter, it is certain that the Abolitionists will strive to impel him onwards. Hard theorists are not to be mollified, except by the full triumph of their theory. They applaud half measures for a little time, just as they ap - I prove the insertion of the thin point of the wedge; but it is the necessity of their position, as well as , of their theory, to drive the wedge home, and to be unsatisfied while anything remains to be done. Hence their cry must be for emancipa tion full and complete, with compensation if the South should yield ; without compensation if it should persist in the struggle. The ery has not yet been raised, lest it should embarrass and frighten I the President, but it is as certain to be heard at its appointed time as night is to follow day. But no one, whether Abolitionist or not, asks What shall be done with the negroes after emanci pation, except Mr. Lincoln. And he knows of no - bette r course to pursue than to expatriate them by wholesale, whether they like or dislike the process. Wh at can come of such wisdom as this but confusion a nd defeat ? I n °lew of the certain extension of the war con- Eeqe eet upon the proclamation, the President is said to be meditating the propriety of calling for the I levy of a r eserve force of half a million of men. They will all be needed. The existing armies of the manifestly insufficient for the work in h lt a e n p d u , b i l f ic are thethretains its purpose of subjection. The swarm s of volunteers raised since the com mencement of th e w ar have been so vast as to cause surprise at thei r number s and t admiration for the patriotism of the people t hat could so readily organize, equip, and send to b attle attle such enormous hosts ; hut it is scarcely less a has become of surprise and wonder to know w h at hae h come of them. General M'Clellan is reported to haveb ad no more than 90,000 men at the battles o f shtv. Psh urg and A n ti e tam, General Butler has no t more th an 10,000 at New Orleans. General Buell is b e li eved to have scarcely 60,000 in Kentucky. Popula r be lief assigns to Ge neral Mitchell, in North Carolina 2 0000 ; ; and to General Wadsworth abo u t 5 0,000 men for the d efence of Wash in gton , and there may bees many as .50,000 more under various officers, distributed in other parts of the couctry, from I Baltimore to St. Louis.f these figures be even approximately correct, the Federal armies, inde pendent of the new levies , few or none of which have been despatched beyond the limits of the States in which they were enrolled, must number less than 280,000 men. This is an i mmense fforce, and only appears small by comparison withl the greater armies which were in existence at an earlier period of the struggle. Six months ago the Federr 1 Government had 700,000 troop , in its pay, and the number was believed to be so much more than sufficient for the suppression of the rebellion ttan a cry arose in the Senate to stop enlistments, and they were stopped accordingly, by authority of the War Department. It appeared, however, on subsequent investigation that only 540,000 men were actually under command; the remaining 160,000 representing the full strength of regiments and brigades that were not complete, although somebody or other in high position, as yet undis covered or unpunished, drew pay and rations for the whole, and allowed subordinates or accomplices to pocket the difference. During those six months the only battles or series of battles attended with severe loss of life to either side have been three. The first was at Shiloh, when Generals Grant and Buell were op posed to General Beauregard, and when the `slaughter on each side was greater than any ad vantage derived by either. The second was in the unfortunate invasion of the Virginian Peninsula by General M'Clellan, and the ill-advised change of his base of operations from the Chickahominy to the James. The third was the masterly movement of the same General from Washington to Sharpsburg, resulting in the quasi-evacuation of Maryland by the Confederates, and what appears to have been, at the best, the drawn battle of Antietam. The pre cise loss cf life on these occasions has never been stated, and is probably unknown, but has been re presented as very large by the Generals engaged and by the tradition of the soldiers who took part in them. If the Federals lost 20,000 men in killed and wounded in each of these series of battles, which is a very high estimate, 60,000 men would be accounted for. But between 540,000 and 280,000 the difference is 260,000. And if only 60,000 have been killed in battle there still remain 200,000 men who have melted away from the armies of the North in this short interval, or, in round numbers, 1,100 per day. Fever, dysentery, and sickness, and the hardships of camp life, operating on the delicate frames of youths of 18 and 20, must have carried off a large percentage. Capture by the enemy will account for many thou sands, and perhaps the military hospitals may at this moment contain as many sick and suffering sol diers as might constitute a respectable army were they competent to take the field. To these must be added the three months' volunteers, who have re turned to their homes ; and if all these added toge ther do not fully account for 260,000 men, the bal ance must be ascribed to desertion. These figures are by no means cheerful, but are quite sufficient to justify the President, if he really means to attempt the conquest of the South and its retention afterwards as a military dependency, in appealing to the North for an additional army of 600,000 men. The number will be none too many for the purpose ; and if, after they are raised and equipped, they melt away as rapidly as the former levies, he will require at least the half-million more which he is said to demand as a reserve, to enter upon the spring campaign, should the war last as long. Can the country stand such a drain ? Is there patriotism, or obstinacy, or settled purpose enough in the North to meet such enormous draughts upon its energy ? The Abolitionists, a large section of the Republicans, a smaller section of the Democrats, and all who are making fortunes out of the war, re ply in the affirmative. These are for the present in the ascendancy, if not in the majority. They rule the country. They overawe or overbear public opi nion in the press. They imprison or otherwise coerce those who dare to differ from them. They bluster so loudly as to affright that large class of timid people who pray for peace and quietness, and only ask of their Government permission to attend to their own affairs, untroubled by war, and untrammelled by politics. But there is a thinking class behind all these,who answer the pregnant question in the negative; who doubt the persistency of their countrymen ; who do not think the retention of the South advisable, if the Southern people object; and who, in any case, are of opinion that the conquest of the whole continent, from Panama to the grave of Sir Sohn Franklin, would not be worth one-half of the treasure that has been expended, or a thou sandth part of the blood that has been shed in the apparently interminable strife. Time alone can I show which of these is right; but if the war party are accurate in their estimate of the resources, the character, and the determination of their country men, neither Persian, nor Assyrian, nor Greek, nor Roman, nor Briton, nor Gaul, was or is equal to the Northern American. The Southern American, being of the same race and equally brave, if not more than equally obstinate—when shall two such giants come to terms ? The premises being granted hostilities must last until either the North on the South be depopulated or exhausted ; and, instead of being a war of 90 days, it will be one of 30 years at the least, Perhaps, however, it may turn out ere all is over that the Americans are not so much better than the rest of the world, ancient or modern, as the largeness of their continent leads them to imagine ; and that pride, and patriotism, and obsti nacy, and " bounce," may all yield at the right mo ment to the inexorable necessity of paying the piper—a personage who takes no more account of great democracies than of small monarchies, and who has no more respect for an autocrat and an Emperor —tracing back his genealogy for a thousand years —than he has for a simple-minded lawyer elected by universal suffrage to the Presidency of a Re public, The turn of this potentate has yet to come ; and his hand, when it falls, will be heavier than has fallen upon any nation of our time. Among the countless symptoms of disunion that begim. to be apparent in the North, the meeting of thirteen Governors of States in convention at Altoona is among the most prominent. These gentlemen, though supporting a war for the suppres sion of " State Rights" in the South, cling more or less to " State Rights" in the North. They deli berated in secret, and adjourned after two meet lings from Altoona to Washington. The Republican journals assert that their only object is to support the Government; while the Democratic journals assert, on the contrary, that their desire is to coerce the Government, and compel Mr. Lincoln, if they can, to dismiss General AlTlellan in favour of Gene ral Fremont, or some other Abolitionist, and to issue at no distant date, a new proclamation of full, complete, unconditional emancipation. These lat ter add that the President wa s f u ll y i n f orme d of and issued his proclamation of the the wind out of th e i r sa i ls. The action 2 their 2 d t o d e t a s i k g e n s , of these persons is not only officious and unwarrant able, but appears to be unconstitutional, if they claim in their assemblage or convention to be any thing more than private citizens. As Governors they have no title or power, when they leave the boundaries of their own little commonwealths, a n d have no right to confer with each other ex officio, or form alliances for controlling or even advising upon public affairs. Their proceedings, whatever they may turn out to be, will be watched with extreme jealousy ; and if they presume to make stipulations for enrolling volunteers on only such conditions as they may choose to present, they will be clearly liable to the operation of martial law, as set forth in the President's second proclamation of the day before yesterday. The progr4mme of their proceed ings which they have chosen to publish is harm less enough. There was no need of their assem bling at Altoona, or Washington, or anywhere else, merely to inform the President that they supported the Government arid approved his proclamation on slavery ; and hence the wilful public persists in believing that in this case, as in others, there was a wheel within a wheel, and that the particular wheel which they then allowed the world to see was not the main or motor-wheel of the mechanism. have The Republican Conventi on a t S yracuse nominated General Wadsworth as their candidate for Governor of New York. Generals Dix and Fremont disappear from the lists ; and the struggle Horatio Seymour will be a fair and simple issue between the Hon. fid , e . nt of success, a ri d -Wadsworth on the other. The Democrats feel con on the one side and General con which they antiFip be such a . s may inau Ette, the results in Congress will , g should ,a. they ii gain and the im p v o i victory chapter in the history of th e war and the fortunes of Mr, Lincoln's Administratiou. EXTENSIVE AND SINGULAR REFALCA- i.lois O.F A TAX COLLECTOR. A few weeks since considerable excitement was created in Brighton by the fact becoming known that Mr. W. H. Chittenden, one of the collectors for the parish of Brighton, of land, assessed, and income taxes, had been arrested on a detainer war rant in consequence of extensive defalcations dis . covered among his accounts. No public proceedings were taken, the ex-collector being merely lodged in Lewes gaol as a crown debtor, and the local commis sioners of taxes setting to the work of discovering how extensive the defalcations really were. One thousand pounds was the amount named in the detaining warrant, but rumour said this would cover but a small portion of the real deficit ; and so it has turned out_ From a report just issued by the clerk to the commissioners, it appears that the total defalcation is £6,565 Bs. 7d., of which the surety bond covers only £2,500. There is also some per sonal property mentioned, the realisation of which may still further lessen the deficit; but no doubt a very large sum will remain to be reimbursed to the Government by an assessment on the who;e parish. The narrative how the defalcations were brought about contains some rather extraordinary facts. At a certain period after the close of the tax .year, on the sth April, the collector has to deliver a sche dule of defaulters, which should contain a list of the names of all persons then in arrear, with the amounts due from each, and it was on the delivery, at the end of last July, of this list for the income-tax to Mr. Maunder (who had been appointed surveyor for the district in the preceding month of May, that this gentleman first discovered irregularity is the collector's documents, by noticing that th 3 totals cast up at the ends of the schedule were much larger in amount than the amounts placed opposite the names of defaulters in the preceding part, and upon a closer investigation he found that the figures of the totals had been altered by adding, in many instances, the figure I—making, for example, what in the cast column was £B2, in the column of totals £lB2, and altering the figures at the bottom of the cast of the totals by changing 1 to 2 thus making £l,OOO into £2,000. This was dont in so palpable and blundering a manner as to ht easy of detection. The surveyor called in the as sistance of the clerk (Mr. Somers Clarke, solicitor', and the collector was asked for an explanation. Ile stated that the schedule had been carelessly made out by his clerks, who had not taken the trouble to copy out the names of the defaulters in it, and altered the figures to make up the requisite amount to balance the money paid over by the collector, and the amount due from defaulters with the total of the collector's duplicate assessment. This, how ever, was not considered a sufficient explanation. and the surveyor required the collector to pro duce to him his receipt books, that he might check the counterfoils of the receipts with the pay ments to the receiving officer, which he did, and reported to the clerk that there appeared to be nothing wrong in the money. This was so far sa tisfactory that the clerk, who was on the eve of de parting for the continent, did not think it necessary to postpone his journey, the collector having pro mised to make out a correct list of defaulters before his return. A letter from the Board of Inland Re venue hastened the investigation, which the preva rication of the collector could not delay, and he was ultimately apprehended as stated, all his documents and real and personal estate being seized at the same time. At his office were found no less than 54 receipt books for the property tax for the year ending April 5, 1862, some of which were wholly used, some par tially used, and 13 not used at all. These must have been delivered from the surveyor's office in bulk to the collector, and formed a solution to the misleading of Mr. Maunder when he looked into the account, as the collector, instead of producing all his receipt books, produced only such as suited his purpose. A remarkable circumstance brought out by the investigation was that the collector had himself entered all his receipts in the cash book, showing exactly when and from whom the moneys were received, and which entries correspond with the counterfoils of the receipts, and are to a great extent properly posted up in the collector's dupli cate of assessments. This is certainly remarkable when contrasted with the falsified list of defaulters and the large amount of the defalcations. We may here say that the abstractions were of the most wholesale character. The statement of accounts extends only from Oct. 25, 1861, to Sept. 16, 1862, when the appointment of the defaulter was revoked; yet during that time the deficit shown is £6,565 Bs. 7d. Of course peculation had been going on before, but the previous year's account had been balanced and closed as between the Crown and the parish. As an instance, it may be stated that at one time the sum received for income tax in the collector's hands was £1,048 17s. 9d., but the payment made by him, under the sanction of the surveyor, to the bankers for the receiving officer was only £44 14s. 9d. It appears that the check ordained by the Board of Inland Revenue had not been thoroughly carried out by the surveyor. Although the collector weekly transferred his cash to the banker, after which he had no more control over it, and the cash so transferred was supposed to represent the total amount in hand, yet he was enabled by the absence of almost all check to make such large abstractions as we have stated. The report further adds to the extraordinary circumstances attending the affair a statement that the clerk had been totally unable to discover what has become of the large sum of money due from the collector. His unfortunate connection with mining speculations and other transactions arising out of them does not appear to have absorbed more than from £l,OOO to £1,500, and there seems no reason to believe that he is possessed, or any one for him, of any money or effects not discovered. The unfortunate hero of the case is a native of Brighton, and was very much respected in the town. It is not yet known what ulterior proceedings may be taken. It is not surprising to hear that the new collector has not been able to obtain individual sureties. HORRIBLE SUICIDE. An inquest was held yesterday at the King's Arms Tavern, Roadside, Commercial-road, Ratcliff, on the body of a young woman named Elizabeth Rose, who committed suicide in her dwelling, No. 3, Caroline-street, Rateliff. It appeared that the deceased, who was not quite 21 years of age, was the wife of a labourer, em ployed in the establishment of Messrs. Ravenhill and Salkeld, the engineers, in Ratcliff, and was the mother of three young children. She had been suffering from a tertiary fever for a few days only, and had been attended by Mr. F. G. Aubin, a surgeon and apothecary, of No. 18, Arbour terrace, Stepney, under whose treatment she was progressing very favourably until Tuesday after noon, when she appeared very composed, and re quested her nurse to prepare some tea, and anxi ously inquired when the milk woman was likely to call with the milk. A few minutes afterwards the nurse observed that the deceased had covered her self over with the bedclothes, and that her head was hanging on one side. The nurse spoke to the deceased, and said "My dear woman, you mist not cover yourself up in that manner, and don't lay your head on one side." No answer was returned, and the nurse turned down the bedclothes, and to her great horror and surprise noticed blood flow ing copiously from her mouth, and the handle of a razor projecting from it. The nurse called aloud for help, several persons rushed into the room, and among them a brewer's man from Mr. WeEt's brewery opposite, who endeavoured to remove the razor from the woman's throat, but failed to do so ; and the handle was detached from it, and remailed in his hand. Mr. Aubin was then sent for. On his arrival the unfortunate woman was quite (had. He succeeded in extracting the razor with a pair of forceps. Mr. Aubin, in his evidence, said the razor had been thrust down the deceased's throat with great all bllteheen almostlargery ta vessels were D fo e rc a e th a m nd hustthaatv The deceased lost a large quantity of blood. She lived on the best of terms with her husband, and was very fond of her children. She bad been in a low and melancholy state since her illness com menced, and talked somewhat incoherently to her husband the night before she committed the dread ful at which deprived her of life. She managed to obain possession of her husband's razor and con ceal tin the temporary absence of her nurse. Th Jury returned a verdict, that the deceased comtitted suicide while labouring under mental deragement. iIIEJANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A COLONIAL BROKER IN MINCING-LANE. Y6terday afternoon a long inquiry was gone into )efore Mr. Payne, the City coroner, and a jury of rerchants, at the Commercial Coffee-rooms, Mining-lane, touching the death of Mr. Arthur Storehouse Griffiths, a colonial broker, having office at No. 9 in the above lane, who committed suicie under the following painful circumstances. Theinquest-room was crowded by merchants and bro]ers, friends of the deceased. Mr. Smith, solici tor,thended to watch the proceedihgs for the rela tives. I appeared from the evidence that on Wed neslay morning the deceased came to his busi ne& at his usual time, ten o'clock. He went int( his private office, and told the clerk to say he was engaged if any one called to see him. A Ar. Whistler, who had au appointment with thedeceased about some money matters, called to see the deceased, and after waiting a short time the housekeeper of the chambers looked through the far.light of the door of the private room ani saw the unfortunate gentleman lying back on a chair in an apparently dying state. The roan was entered and he was found insensible, and in a few minutes he expired. There was a strong odour of essential oil of almonds abut the place, and there was a glass near the deceased, which contained a few drops of that Poison. On the table of the room were several letter: which the unhappy man had just written. One addressed to Mr. Whistler was to the following effect:— " Whistler forgive me. I did not intend to rob you. I have been swindled. "A. S. G." Anther letter was addressed to Mr. Parrott, who was a large creditor. It was as follows : " Thanks for all your kindness. May God repay you for it, and forgive me all my sins. I have tried earnestly to pay every one, and were it not for one or two wh, , pprgpeutp ni should have. succeeded. May those who have so cruelly robbed me be for given ; but my trouble is greater than I can bear.— Yours, " ck. S. GRIFFITHS. " Comfort my mother if you can." The other letters were to his mother and to Mr. Whitmore, who was formerly in partnership with him. Mr. Albert Smith, of Tower-street, a friend of the deceased, said he had recently noticed him to be very much depressed, which he attributed to his pecuniary affairs. He alluded to his old partner being in debt to him, that he had tried to meet his engagements, and that he was endeavouring to liquidate the debts of the old firm. Deceased was 24 years old. Mr. Nathan Smith James, managing clerk to Mr. Rae, solicitor, said they had been concerned for Mr. Parrott in a claim of some £2,000 or £3,000 against Mr. Griffiths, and a judgment had been obtained, but there was no pressure put upon him, and he was to pay off the creditors as the old debts were got in. Deceased seemed depressed, but he was told that with a little care he would go safely through his affairs. He did not know what the deceased meant by alluding to those who had so cruelly robbed him. The creditors did not press him, and Mr. Whitmore could not have done more than he had to arrange the affairs. Mr. Lewis, surgeon, having deposed to the fact the deceased died from the effects of poison, the Coroner summed up, and after some deliberation the jury returned a verdict that the deceased de stroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity. ALLEGED PROFLIGACY IN A TVORK- HO USE. OFFICIAL INQUIRY. Yesterday morning, Mr. R. B. Cane, one the in pectors of the Poor Law Board, opened an investi gsition in the board-room of the Bethnal-green Workhouse, Waterloo-road, Victoria-park, with respect to certain charges of a grave nature against Mr. 'Theobald Merrick, the master of Bethnal-green Workhouse. Mr. Lewis, of Ely-place, appeared on behalf of Mr. Theobald Merrick, the master of the work house ; aad Mr. Angel, solicitor, represented those of the parishioners whose memorial had given rise to the present inquiry. Mr. Cane said that there were several charges to be investigated, but he should only at present enter into that of :Mary Ann Scanner. Sarah Anne Smith, 18, Buck's-buildings, Homer ton, said that nhe was a married woman. Her maiden name was Scanner. She was formerly a trousers-maker, and then went into service. She was in service with two families and then went as a seamstress to a lady at Clapham, and afterwards in the Globe-road. After she left that place she entered the Bethnal-green workhouse, because she had no clothes, and thought she could get a place afterwards from it. A Miss Brewer was then living in the house. Only the staircase separated Miss Brewer's room from the master's. - Witness entered the house on the 19th of January, 1861. One Sun day morning afterwards she was going up to Miss Brewer's roam with some water, when Mr. Merrick called out to her, and she went to see what he wanted. He told her to come into the room. When she did so she found that he was only partly dressed. He instantly locked the door, and seized her by the shoulders, and threw her on the bed. She screamed but he said he would take care of her. He effected his purpose. When she got away she met upon the stairs a Mrs. Brown, an inmate, and told her what had happened. Witness was crying. Mr. Merrick solicited her frequently afterwards, but she refused. Three weeks afterwards she was leaving the work house, when the master sent for her to his office, and told her not to tell any one what had happened, and he would do well for her. He would give her always plenty of clothing. She said she had told Mrs. Brown about the matter. Mrs. Brown was sent for, and was told by the master that he would punish her if she told anything about it, and that it'was not true. "Witness also told her it was not true. He gave witness then a black silk mantle (produced) and a shilling. She went into service as a housemaid. When she went out for her holi day she used to visit the workhouse and see Mr. Merrick. He gave her a dress and boots (produced). She subsequently gave birth to the illegitimate child in her arms at the Mile-end Workhouse. Mr. Merrick was the father of the child. Before she entered the workhouse to be confined she had to give up her situation in Oxford-street at Mr. Smart's publichouse and go to reside at a Mrs. Hickman's. She told Mrs. Hickman what had oc curred and sent her to Mr. Merrick. The child was born on the 7th of January last. Subsequently she took out a summons before a magistrate to affiliate the child upon Mr. Merrick, Before the summons came due Mr. Angel and Mr. Onion called upon her, and a proposition was mrde to her by the former, in consequence of which she received money. Mr. Lewis objected that Mr. Merrick was not proved to have known about the proposition or the money. Mr - . Angel said that would be shown in evidence. Witness—Mr Angel gave her £2O in sovereigns. That was in the Mile-end Workhouse. She went back to Mrs. Hickman, and remained with her for two months. She then married her present husband. Recently a tall gentleman, whom she did not know, called and asked her whether she would deny at the inquiry coming on that Mr. Merrick was the father of the child ? He came again on Saturday week and took her and her husband to a public•-house, and said that Mr. Merrick sent him to ask her if she would deny the whole affair, and he would give her any amount of money. She said she would not. Ho said that as she had not taken an oath (before the magistrates) they could not now punish her for denying the matter. She still refused. Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—She was a per fectly innocent girl before she entered the Bethnal green house. Never saw the man Gibles in her house. Gibles, a sweep, was brought in enc l . confronted with the witness, Witness said she would swear she never saw the man before. She had seen Mr. Bolderson, the enginer, she thought, once. He never complained of her to the master. She was once before the master, and she told the master that Bolderson had been improperly intimate with another person. A girl named Marshall never asked her what she was doing in the clerk's office, and never threatened to report her if she kept going about the workhouse as she was in the habit of doing. Mr. Ayles, the porter, never taxed witness with being in the family-way, and she never told him that Gibles was the father. Mr. Onion called on her after her confinement, but did not ask her to write a letter. She had g ot a p erson named Newsom to write the letter produced. Four days after it was written Mr. Onion called on her. He did not call upon her twenty tim es , b u t he might have done so twelve times. He gave her no money. He took her clothes and kept them to show, because she ga ve them to him. Mr. Merrick forcibly threw her on the bed. She scr e amed out, but she did not scratch him, Miss Brewer's room wa s near, and a s cream might have been heard there. She was ten minute s or a quarter of an hour in the room. She only screamed once. She did not scream very long The screams were directly she was got into the room— when he locked the door. She knew what he was going to do, as he had in his office asked her F. everal times. She did not scream very loud, because he told her not to do so and he would take care of her. He threw her with great violence on the bedstead, and her knee was struck by the post and bruised. Her hair was all disarranged, and her cap pulled off. She was crying when she left the room, and when she met Mrs. Brown on the stairs. Mrs. Brown said, " You have been in the master's bedroom. You will remember it, too, for you are not the only one." On subsequent occasions the master sent for her to his office under pretext of fetching some thing, and solicited her there to a renewal of the familiarity. The cross-examination of the witness was con tinued to a great length, but apparently without shaking her evidence in effect. Mr. Wm. M'Donald, master of the Mile-end Workhouse, swcrn, said that last witness was deli vered of a child at that workhouse on the 7th of January last, Mr. Merrick called twice at his office and asked what had taken place between the girl and Mr. Onion in the office. He said on the second occasion he wished he could know how the girl could be got out of the way, and he would not mind giving £5O. Witness told him he had better see the girl, but he said he would not. Witness then said, " Well, could you not manage to get some one else to see her, and take her away 9" He said he did not know what to do. He asked if witness could ascertain for him from the girl what witnesses she was to bring up at the police-court. Witness asked her the following morning, and she refused to tell. He wrote to Mr. Merrick that he had the girl in the office, and she would not say who the witnesses were. He had no further communication with Mr. Merrick on the subject. Cross-examined--Mr. Merrick did not say that there was a conspiracy between Mr. Onion and the girl. He did not say that his object was to find out the names of the witnesses, that he might institute inquiries as to their character. Witness did not say," Such a summons is an awk ward affair, and you must get the girl out of the way." He might have said that the best way would be to get her out of the way. Witness was not in terested in destroying Mr. Merrick or otherwise. Mr. Merrick might have said, " I would have given £lO or £5O rather than have such a charge against me." Witness did not recollect his saying that in his position such a charge, right or wrong, was an exposure. It was not Mr. Merrick that said the charge reflected on all the masters. It was not witness said so. Mr. Merrick never said he was anxious to meet the charge, but was at a loss how to set about it. Witness had seen Mr. Onion about the case, and went to a public-house with him. Mr. Ooion told him he was a guardian of the poor in Mr. Merrick's union, and that he was getting up an inquiry. Witness never received a present of any one, or anything else from Mr. Onion. He said he called on witness in consequence of having received a letter from Sarah Anne Skinner. Mr. Merrick had called on witness in consequence of a message from witness that inquiries had been made about the case at the gate. The proceedings at this stage were adjourned. POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE.—Oct. 10. MANSION-HOUSE.—A gentlemanly-looking young man, about 27 years of age, named Thomas Heeps, was brought before the Lord Mayor, in cus tody of George Russell, detective officer, upon a warrant charging him with stealing an order for the payment of £127, the property of his employers, the Brighton Hotel Company, limited. Mr. Builton, the solicitor to the company, prose cuted, and Mr. Wontner appeared to watch the case on behalf of the prisoner. Mr. Builton said the prisoner had been in the service of the Brighton Hotel Company as secretary, and a cheque for £127 was given to him for the purpose of paying in to the bankers to the company's account, and instead of doing so he had paid it in to his own bankers. On the 16th August last an ac count was due to a Messrs. Barker and Son, and at a board meeting on that date a cheque for £64 was drawn for the purpose of paying that account, and given to the prisoner for that purpose. He had, however, paid that cheque in to his own account at Messrs. Vl as t e rman's. He should charge him with stealing those two cheques, and also with forging and utttring an endorsement to the cheque for £64. He was not in a position to complete both the cases against the prisoner; but he would pro ceed with the charge of stealing the cheque for £64, and forging the endorsement, as all the wit nesses were not then present. George Russell, detective officer, said he appre hended the prisoner at Pimlico, on the previous evening, upon a warrant signed by the Lord Mayor. He read the charge to him, and he said he had written to the chairman, explaining the matter. He took him to the station, and on searching him found, amongst other things, two c tncelled cheques and a blank cheque. The two cancelled cheques purported to be signed by the prisoner. He atter wards went to the prisoner's house, where he found a cash-box, containing £lBO in gold and two pass books. One of the pass-books belonged to the com pany, and ho found inside it two cancelled cheques on the City Bank, which he produced. One of the cheques was for £64 75., dated Aug. 13, payable to the order of Chas. Barker and Sons, and purport. ing to bear their endorsement. The other pass-book was in the prisoner's own name, with Messrs. Masterman's. Robert Smith, ledger-keeper at Messrs. Master man and Co., bankers, Nicholas-lane, said the pri soner kept an account at their bank. The cheque for £64 Is., dated Aug. 13, was paid in to the prisoner's account on Sept. 2. _ _ Ed. Gibbons Mullins, cashier at the City Bank, said the Brighton Hotel Company kept an account at that Bank. The cheque produced for £64 7s. was passed through the clearing-house, and was charged to the account of the company. The cheque was payable to the order of Messrs. Barker and Sons, and would require an endorsement purporting to be theirs, before it was paid. Henry Evans, cashier to Messrs. Baker and Sons, Birehin-lane, advertising agents, said there was an account of £64 7s. due to that firm on the 15th of August from the Brighton Hotel Company. That account was paid on Sept. 25, but not with the cheque produced, nor by the prisoner. The endorse ment on the back of the cheque purporting to be the signature of Messrs. Barker and Sons was not signed by any member of the firm. Mr. IL Linford, secretary to the company, said he believed the endorsement at the back of the cheque to be in the handwriting of the prisoner. The ac count of £64 7s, was paid to Messrs. Barker by him on the 25th of September last. The chairman of the company said he signed the cheque produced, at a board meeting, on the 13th of August, and it was given to the prisoner for the pur pose of paying' Messrs. Barker's account. The prisoner was remanded. BOW-STREET.—THREATENING SIR RICHARD MAINE.—John Paget Tremlett was again brought before Mr. Henry on the charge of writing a threa tening letter to Sir R. Mayne. Mr. Wm. R. Fredk. Lane, M.R.C.S., and licen tiate of Apothecaries-hall, said-1 live at North aide, Bethnal-green. I have attended the prisoner for months. I think he is in his right state of mind, but when excited he is somewhat rash and disposed to use stronger language than is prudent, Mr. Henry—Do you think he is competent to distinguish between rig ht and wrong ? Mr. Lane-1 have never had reason to suppose to the contrary. He is very exciteable when put out or when he has been drinking, and if he thinks he is in the right he will go to great lengths. Mr. Henry—Ah, but he must be restrained from going great lengths as to threaten persons with the example of Rush and Williams. You had_ _ y better rea d that letter, Mr. Lane ; you will probably re member that the persons referred t o were persons who were executed for murder. Mr. Lane, after reading the letter, said he did not consider that the defendant's mind was disordered. The prisoner, addressing the magistrate in an angry and vehement manner, said he should be very guarded in his observations, as it had gone forth that at the former examination he expressed him self incoherently. Mr. Henry—Now, Tremlett, let me advise you to be calm. The Prisoner (fiercely)—Calm, sir ? Oh, I will be calm! I will be calm ! Mr. Henry—You certainly were very excited yesterday. The Prisoner —Any man may be excited at times. Mr. Henry—Yes, but I want you to endeavour to control that excitement. I want to point out to you how you have err e d. Y ou seem t o have thought that you had a grievance, an d that Sir Richard Mayne wish e d to w i thhold from you t h e na me and number of the p o li ceman . N ow , you werequite ui t e wrong in th a t. Th ere i s no h e sitation o However, if or difficulty about giving his name and number. there were, nothing can justify such threats. No antecedent letters, no previous circumstances what ever could justify them. mr n I tink I was The Prisoner—l beg your pado as . te rde think to quite has° a j n us answer as Rush I onl Bal wasato do what he did. u There is no threat in that. Mr. Henry—No reasonable person would interpret it as you say. The Prisoner—Had that letter be en wr it ten to an ordinary private individualo wo u ld you have __ taken any notice lit MrHenry—Certainlythe positio n i n life of the parties difference whatever. The Prisoner—The makes n decisions of . magistrates vary so much that th e law is nothing but a lottery. The prisoner then re-called Mrs. Harvey, to prove . that he (the prisoner) had never been informed of the policeman's number. Then prisoner then went into a number cf details as to the correspondence, all of which Mr. Henry reminded him he had already stated. Mr. Henry then said—ln that last letter you have certainly used language calculated to excite alarm ; and, as it is the opinion of medical men that you do understand the difference between right and wrong— Prisoner (emphatically)—Certainly I do. Mr. Henry—Therefore I must hold you to bail, to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for the next 12 months, in two sureties of £5O each, and your own recognisance of £lOO. The Prisoner—That is pretty heavy bail. Mr. Henry—And let me caution you that if you write to Sir Richard Mayne, or any one else, any more letters containing similar threats you will be committed for trial. The Prisoner—No jury in England would con vict me. Two gentlemen, neighbours of the prisoner, offered themselves as bail. Both, however, re quested the magistrate to fix a lower amount, sug gesting that £25 would be sufficient. Mr. Henry—l think not. I have considered the matter carefully, and 1 think fixing that amount may have the effect of restraining him. You appear to be his friends, and he would probably be reluc tant to subject you to the loss of the money. One of the sureties admitted that ;he should not like such language to be written to himself; the other said, if the prisoner would take his advice lie would give up letter-writing altogether. The rccognisances were entered, and the prisoner liberated. WESTMINSTER. THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FELONY AT TIE MILITARY STORSE. —John Morelle, an Italian master-tailor, of the Grenadier Guards, residing at 9, Cornwall-street, Pimlico, appeared for fitial examination, charged with stealing a quantity of cloth belonging to the Secretary at War. Mr. Sayers attended to watch the case on behalf of the• War Office ; and Mr. F. 11. Lewis, barrister, appeared for the accused. In reply to an inquiry from Mr. Paynter, it was stated that the Quartermaster of the 47th Regiment, spoken of by the prisoner in his defeneZl on the last examination, was not in England, but could be brought forward if necessary. At Mr. Lewis's request, Colonel Daubeney, ii;- spector of the army clothing, stood in the witness box for cross-examination. Mr. Lewis inquired when he was appointed to his present post, and followed it up by asking whether there was not a prescribed allowance for the clothing, when Mr. Paynter observed that it was not of the smallest importance to this inquiry, and called the barrister's attention to the fact that there was a piece of cloth of 3 yards produced on the last exa mination. Mr. Lewis urged that, in his line of defence, the questions he was putting were important ; his client had recommended certain reductions in the amount of cloth given out. Mr. Paynter, as the question was about to be pressed, pointed out that the defence set up by the prisoner on the last occasion was that Col. Hudson had given him leave to appropriate the property. Mr. Lewis contended it was material to his client that his cross-examination should be pursued as he was conducting it. A person who did what the prisoner had done to effect an enormous saving was not a likely man to commit a felony. Mr. Paynter said the prisoner was allowed at his own earnest request to make his full defence on the last occasion ; he was not aware of any suggestion that prisoner had made any saving, nor was it im portant to this inquiry. Mr. Lewis declared that through the prisoner's instrumentality £13,000 per annum had been saved. Mr. Lewis put two or three other questions to Col. Daubeney, who disclaimed any knowledge of the saving spoken of, and who said there were 200 master tailors in the army, some of whom were soldiers, some civilians. Mr. Paynter again said that these inquiries were irrelevant. Mr; Lewis persisted that the inquiries he was about to make were most important. He not only could show the saving he had mentioned, but that after the stipulated quantity of cloth was given to a master tailor, there was no return of the remnants. The practice of keeping what was left had subsided into a custom. • Mr. Paynter remarked that it was not a legal custom. He thought it useless for Mr. Lewis to pursue that line of defence, as the defence was that Col, Hudson had given him permission to keep the cloth. He thought the time of the court was being wasted. _ Mr, Lewis suggested that the time of the court was being more wasted by the magistrate's frequent interruptions. In answer to his further inquiries Col. Daubeney said he did not know of a master tailor returning remnants of cloth to the War Office ; it was his duty to return what was left to the quartermaster, from whom he received it, in order that it might be left in the regimental stores. Regimental master tailors worked in the regimental shop, and could not lawfully take an ounce of thread out of it with out permission. Mr. Lewis said that while speaking of strict rule he would inquire of Col. Daubeney whether he had not himself used the regimental cloth for a table cover at the War Office. Colonel Daubeney replied that he had an obsolete piece of green cloth on his table, but he had had the War Office authority to place it there. Mr. Paynter having stated that there was no necessity for answering that question, which Col. Daubeney, however, immediately replied to, Mr. Lewis observed that Mr. Paynter appeared to take a strong view of the case, and not in accord ante with that of the public. Colonel Hudson, superintendent of the manufac ture of clothing, was then called. In cross-examination by Mr. Lewis, he said that prisoner was so first-rate a master tailor that he had received his present post in that capacity through the instrumentality of General Crawford ; it was at the general's request, and for his ability and general good conduct in the 47th. The mini mum quantity of cloth was served out for the sol diers' clothing; as little as was possibly thought sufficient to make the article. One yard and seven teen inches of cloth was given out to make a tunic before the prisoner became the master tailor, but the prisoner made calculations and produced pat terns to show that a much less quantity of cloth would be sufficient for the purpose. The patterns were submitted to Sir Thomas Troubridge, and being approved of, a great saving was effected. Could not say that £13,000 per annum had been saved by prisoner, but there certainly was a most considerable saving to the public; witness thought in consequence of prisoner's plans being brought under the notice of the Government. None of the remnants were ever returned to the Government stores. It was the practice to retain the remnants, witness thought, to repair the sol diers' clothing. Prisoner had 700 suits of clothing to cut out while in the 47th. In 1858 the prisoner showed him a piece of cloth at Dover, and said he I had some left after making the clothing. At that time prisoner spoke and understood English very imperfectly, and it was difficult to make him un derstand. The piece of cloth prisoner showed him witness told him to keep. He said, "Keep it here." He meant with the stores of the regiment, as it would have caused a great deal of trouble had it been returned to the place whence it had been issued. Never knew of any cloth being sent back by any regiment to the military stores. Remem bered prisoner making several patterns of coats, and thought he had gone to the expense of buying the cloth, for which witness expressed regret, upon which prisoner told him he had made them from the remnants. Did not tell the prisoner it was wrong to make the patterns which were sent to Sir Thomas Troubridge from the Government cloth. Shell jackets might have been made from the rem nants, and sold by the master tailors, but not with the sanction of Government, Mr. Lewis observed that he gathered from what had occurred that it had been the magistrate's in tention to commit the prisoner for trial, but he hoped that from the fresh complexion put upon the case by the cross-examination the magistrate's view of it was altered. The question for the magistrate's consideration was not whether the prisoner had kept the cloth back from an error in judgment, or upon strength of a prevailing custom, but whether he had withheld it feloniously; and he submitted that there was nothing to constitute a charge of larceny. No jury of master tailors, or any o th er men, would come to th e conc l us i on tha t the prisoher had v s t a n n i en tag t e h teoea man, cloth; and if character wa s of an y ad he surely had it ; for he obtained his present appointment by that and his ability. Instead of being guilty of peculations, he showed how two inches of cloth, which he might have kept, could be saved in every tunic, and that surely did not savour of dishonesty ; and he trusted that the accused was not to be put to the shame and disgrace of a trial by a jury upon this charge. If committed, there still fortunately happened to exist a grand jury, who might p robabl y s ave him that disgrace by ignoring the bill. He (Mr . Lewis) would call Col. Burnaby, of the Grenadier s professionally Guards, s whose kindness the prisoner w de fended that day, to speak t o his ch ar acter; but it suggested itself to him that Col Dau beney might feel it hie duty to withdraw this prosecut i on the for felony, after an explan a ti on which act at most was mai n l y showed t hat referable to a prevailing system. Col. Daubeney observed that it was to put down. that system be had brought th is case forward. Hner_ e had always had the highest opi nion of the priso Mr. Lewis said it was sacrificing a respectable man to a system. Colonel Burnaby was called for the pri:soner, and. said he had recommended him to the Ruth a highly respectable man; he had known hits inti— mately since 1855. In answer to Mr. Paynter, Colonel Daubenev said the mark now 011 th e orities as cloth was not strictly identical with that used foe! oh years ago. There was a new - stamp in 1859. $ stamps were on the cloth found in prisoner's pO5- session. Had not known instanc es of returning remnants to the Government stores, but it was the master tailor's duty to return what was left to the quartermaster. Mr. Paynter observed that the case was a clear one, as regarded his duty, to commit for trial. Pri" soner bad been found in possession of Governme nt stores at his private residence, having neither right nor authority to take them away from where he was employed on any occasion. The defence 110 made was, that when in a similar capacity with the 47th to that he had lately held in the Grenadier Guards, the quartermaster allowed him to keep the remnants, and that Col. Hudson s ubsequ,9ntly him leave at Dover to keep some c loth he !Lad aal eu• Col. Hudson might have said indifferently that be - e sa id was to keep the cloth, but he never could nal> he was to keep it for himself. I t was unreasonk3hll to suppose he would have done so ; and even if he he would not have been justified in doing so, as Or, nerson in the Government employment had no rig h t o r authority to give any of the stores away to en othei-. As regarded general custom, if such custom was was no defence could be based W u it to a criminal act. A man might be honest - four years ago, but dishonest now. It would seetil probable by the ma rk on the cloth that it had been taken at two different times, as there were the old and the new marks. Prisoner would not bale been employed .at all had he not borne a good OW (k'tr. Paynter) could not act on OA: ratter; but he He had f It bound to remand the case , ant ratter. at once admitted OW prisoner to bail. There Nva° too much precedence' to justify the peculation com plained of as far as it e. -mid be, and he thought t hat there would be no such saving as the £13,00 0 P e ! annum spoken of if pecufm.4ion amongst master t al e lors continued, as it might be only equal to t h quantity purloined. The prisoner was then comnOted for trial, ba t admitted to bail, Colonel Burnaby kindly being 0 11° I of his sureties. COUN2.RY MARK.L'ILS. LIVERPOOL—OeT. 10. The trade rather . slow to-day, and prices were the tuiy lower, and rather irregular. Flour also dull, and the er cheaper. Indian corn steady, though not fictive. articles unchanged. WAKEFIVJD-0 CT. 10. Our market to-day was slow Kw wheat ; good old and dr ; new sorts hardly maintained their value, and other uaf; ties at lower prices. Fine barley as before ; inferior a ehr, easier. Beans, oats, and shelling were quiet, and TStPv cheaper. the wee at • 3 4 8 9 : 611 Wheat —s Od Peas Barl e y . . .. . A . . Averages e1176g4 2 e9 0 s f o qrs.,r— -' 27s 5.1 Oats 42 --- —a Od ßye — —' 42s Od Beans l2 OcT. New wheat, 52s STAMFOltD to 54s—red, 48s to lo 52s per 36 0-4 Barley, 30s to 40s per qr. Oats, 23s to 26s per 24 0 0 ' Beans, 40s to 44s per qr. EXETER—OcT. 10. 4.8 63 Wheat, white 6s 3d to 6 s 6d 8ar1ey........ 4 s Od t o 0 I Ditto red .6s Od to 6 s 3d Oats .. .... 2s 10d t o 35 Flour, fine, 37s to 38s ; seconds , 35s .to 36s per sank. CATTLE. The supply of all descriptions of stock this morning I re/ plentiful. to 71 4 Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to 10 s 6 d Ewe s, p er lb .... 7d Pork carcases, 8s 6d to 9s 6d Wethers, d 0..... 6id t 61 4 o 7 ~ 1 Lamb, p 1b....... 7id to 8 d Fat calves, d0...51d to Rough fat, aid per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—Oar. 10. of There has been a quiet business done this week in —ot sugars. Merchants are stiff in their demands, and will t i t . e meet buyers' prices, and manufacturers cannot, at the P 4 sent rates at which their goods have to be sold, a fford top s so dearly for tho raw material. Refined goods a quiet 13 :',4 In rum there is more activity than for some time p ast, , fig several parcels of Demeraras have changed hands at P 1 the turn dearer. COAL MARKET. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. 0. %, s. d.l Wylam ..16 0 ; North Pelton Gas ..... 13 Carway and Duffryn Malting 23 6 Walls End. 0 Do. Anthracite 21 6 , Haswell ........ 186 Holywell ..15 6 I Heugh Hall .......... 16 6 Eden Main l6 0 Stewart's 17 0 Byass's Bebside West South H atton 18 6 Hastings Hartley ....15 6 i Hartlepool.. l7 3 ‘l , alker Primrose 12 6 1 Tunsta.11 Tanlield Moor 12 6 Eden 16 16 6 Tanlield Moor Butes ..12 6 Acorn Close --- 3 Carr's Hartley 15 6 Belmont ............ 1u Ships at market, 102 ; sold. 60. FOREIGN MAIL PAGIET L 187: MAILS DUE. 19' Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Oc t' ,3, via Marseilles .. Oct. ' 4 , Airazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Nov. „,,, 1. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... o°v of China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southarnpton.Oc t. via Marseilles ...Oct. I. .. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Oct. i s. via Marseilles... • Oc t * 15, India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. .- 9. via Marseilles Oct. 4, Lisbon Nov; s. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct- '9, via Marseilles ...... O Oct. 1 5, Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet... • s' e- ' by U.S. packet ... • ~ O. by Canadian packet. oo. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe 23 ' Bahamas, via New York • Oct. 4 9, Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Oct. I¢' California, and British Columbia.. •••••• ." DANGER OF JESTING IN BUSINESS MATTEB - 4 ; A letter from Prague, of the sth, mentions a curious 01'' w hich proves that jesting in matters of business naaY s° t he times cost dear. About a fortnight ago a hop. dealer o' d e neighbourhood entered th e coun ti ng -h ouse of a ifl e r ;l merchant at Prague, with w h om h e h a d h a d contra er ; i l g relations. The latter asked him how business NVa°g ° o st on, when he repli e d, " I amdoing so little that I am ,.ini inclined to enter your service as clerk."—" Wha t s o il- 00 0 should you requ i re ?" as k e d the merchant.—" 0;1 1 9 i' a t florins a year," replied the other, laughing. The nieregia• shook hands with him, saying, " Then it is a boxg,T r elt After a little further conversation the hop-dealer re, ''of and neither one nor the other appeared to thia l a ble more of the matter. Six days after a collai der e po rise began to take place in hops, and the o'e r to went to Saaz, the largest market in Bahen:Atbat make purchases, and, to his annoyance, few: 0 _ 1 00 1 the dealer had got the start of him, and purchased 7,,aat could find. Meeting the dealer in the street, the toe ru ' ic ar asked him what hops he had purchased, and th o 0 0 " That is my affair," was the reply. " What do Y° ll 7 e rlft by your affair? You forgot, then, that you are raY f a ir and that I have a right to inquire what business you act on my account. You are free to cancel your envio ment hereafter, but for the present you act for me. dealer went to consult an advocate, w ho told him thay.tiici engagement was valid, and that in any ca se a trials o be a tedious affair. He then went to the merchant'ol.) after a long discussion agreed to re pa y 4,000 florins, (10,° damages for cancelling his enga gement in order to o p for his own account the profitable speculation he had de' When the money had teen paid, the Prague mercha ll , 0 4, dared that he would not keep a farthing of it, a nd do buted it among some poor relations of the dealer. BIRTHS. ... v olt .. DUPUIS.—On the 9th inst., at the Vicarage, iti cw- „ s urre y, the wife of the Rev. H. Dupuis, of a B° ',. )s teaof NEAVV.—On the 9th inst., at Oair - hill House, 119133 ' the wd© of Sheffield Neave, Esq., of a daught er ' v ORD.—On the 2 th inst., at St rea th am -hill, Sarre the ."' wife of George Rice Ord, OrrLEß.—On the 9th inst., at 31, Arundel-sqaar° - the wife of Adolph Oppler, RAWLINS — WILTON O I‘ . I e — A O rOlto. Esq., of a daughter. north, n R l I t A h. e G E 9t S ll Esq., of a daughter. 'St r 4, fir 1 Hanover-square, George Rawlins, Esq, e to Villiam, eldest e.._IL, the OP daughter of Lieut.-C? Wilton.rlotte Ata lia Si' Vil ,... J at p TOMPKINS -- WINCKWORTII.— On the 9th i.„,-- o l a gio - i inst., at so S . t. o r. s -° ,,. ) ltt e s John the Baptist's, Kentish-town,William E. -1- the Odes Esq., of the War-office, Pall-mall, to Eliza, _4O daughter o f H enry Wi nc k wor tb, Esq., of sproaa Lodge, Camden New-town. DEATHS. -II c a ttert °ll CH ins., ATTERTON.—On the 10th inst., James l'' of Esq., M.R.C.S., of Kingston-on-Thames. wife CEAL.—On the Bth inst., at Sunbury, Eliza Aire, Owen Ceal, aged 49. perbl'bity GOLDSTEIN.—On the 7th inst., at Matlock, ~, j3OO l the Rev. Dr. Goldstein, Chaplain of Shol a p or ' , . Presidency. ea, S. l ' ii -PL'-' fi rC, LEVY.—On the 9th inst., at St. Leonard's -0 a,..fiqa Portia Levy, Esq., of 16, Gloucester-piace, of aged 80. aIY se* s• MoJLRIs.—On the 10th inst., Marcus Virilliara, , Bi gloP Mrs. Grace Morris, of the White gart gotel, gate-street, RC, E ._,.__._._ ,ged 0. ______.....____..„„......---""°_____--- --- ---- r ,i,11 4, - - -- AT CIIA 4. 0 LONDON : Printed and Published by JOl - 1- w 0.1 1 ,1 of N 0.112, Strand , Printer, at THE S UN Offiee&waty pt Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in tb6) Aiiddlesex.—Satßtday, Qctober 11, 1561 • - r