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

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 26. The, President's proclamation, emancipating the slaves in all States in insurrection, without refer esca 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 I 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)n 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 emanc i pation would do any good, and stated, more euo, his objec tion to issue a document " that the whole world would see to be necessarily as inoperative as the Pope'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, and 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 simple-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 111 , 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 sults 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 Ronne in e. tew 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 mistake. 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 sllpporters. He offers to the world the spectacle wlich the heathen philosopher affirmed to be pleasi ng to the gods—that of a good man struggling; with adversity. But n.o impartial student of the great events in which he plays so prominent a part can give him eredl i 4 for persistent vigour, great capacity, or sound ior'Agment. 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 a 3 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 lias 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 has 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 slaveholding 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 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 cry has not yet been raised, lest it should embarrass and frighten 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 better course to Pursue than to expatriate them by wholesale, whether they like or dislike the process. What can come et each 'wisdom as this but confusion and defeat In view of the certain ext e nsion of the war con sequent upon the proclamation, the President is said to be meditating the propt i etY of calling for the levy of a reserve force of halt millio n of men. They will all be needed. The existing armies of the Republic are manifestly insufficient for theztkioi:. hand, if the North retains its purpose of nut The swarms of volunteers raised since the com mencement of the war have been so vast as to sass surprise at their numbers and admiration for the patriotism of the people that could so readily organize, equip, and send to battle such enormous hosts ; but it is scarcely less a matter of surprise and wonder to know what has become of them. General M'Clellan is reported to have had no more than 90,000 men at the battles of Sharpsburg and Ant i e t am , General Butler has not more than 10,000 at New Orleans. General Buell is believed to have scarcely 60,000 in Kentucky. Popular be lief assigns to General Mitchell, in North Carolina, 20,000; and to General Wadsworth about 50,000 men for the defence of Washington, and there may be as many as 50,000 more under various officers, distributed in other parts of the country, from even i Baltimore to St. Louis. If th ese figures be approximately correct, the Federal armies, nde 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 immense i force, and only appears small by comparison with' the greater armies which were in existence at an earlier period of the struggle. Six months ago the Peden 1 Gov ernmen t h a d 700 , 00 0 troop i in its pay, and the number w as b e li eve d t o b e so much more than sufficient for th e supp ress i on o f the re b ellion than a cry arose in the S ena t e t o stop enl i stments, and they were stopp e d accor di ngly, b y authority of the War Department. ,It appeared, however, en 1 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, a s yet undis covered or unpuni s h e d, d rew pay an d 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 slaugliter 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 cflife 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, 1,160 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 be 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 John 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 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 eithek 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 i 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 begin 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 ings 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 M'Clellan in favour of Gene ral Fremont, or some other Abolitionist, and to issue at no distant date, a new proclamation of full, complete, unconditional emancip a ti on. These lat ter add that the President was fully informed of their designs, and issued his proclamation of the 22d to take the wind out of their sails. The action 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, and 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 programme 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, merel l t ° inform the President that they supported t he Cl ' ve lninen u t and approved his proclamation on slavery ; and the wilful public persists in believing that i n en j e ld 1.03. 8 e ot e ze, as in others, there was a wheel within a _ ..o and that the particular wheel which they then nu wed the world to see was tahte mechanism. not the main or motor-wheel of The Republican Convention ._ Syracuse have nominated General Wadsworth a s Gen t e n rlti r ts ea tah n tre d un i g d go at nle e for Governor of New York. Fremont disappear from the l ists ; and tile pix and will be a fair and simple issue between Horatio Seymour on the one side and Wadsworth on the other. The Democrats feel Genera l eoa: fident of success, and, sh th o e uld res th ul e t y s i g .n ai c n o t n h g e re v s i s ct woz which they anticipate, be such as may inaugurate a new and important chapter in the history of th e war and the fortunes of Mr. Lincoln's Administration, THE surN, LONDON ; SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1862. EXTENSIVE AND SINGULAR DEIALCA noNs OF 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 pariah 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 whole 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 fur the district in the preceding month of May, that this gentleman first discovered irregularity in the collector's documents, by noticing that the 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 done in so palpable and blundering a manner as to be 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. He 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 accoun ts 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 £1,948 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 Ring'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, Ratcliff. 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,sf with o s with r the t observed h when sh e appeare d very composed, and re quested her n urse to prepare some tea, and anxi ously inqui re d w h en the milk woman was likely to eafterwardst that covereda t her he t ad h the n rl sebe h bkae. t the A f e w mher over deceased bedclothes, nu and a s d was hanging on one aide. The nurse spoke to the deceased, and said " not cover My dear woma n , y ou mus t 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 West's brewery them a brewer's m an from Mr. brewery opposite, who endeavoured to remove the razor from the woman's throat, but failed to do so ; and th handle was detached from it, a n d remained in his Rand. Mr. Aubin was then sent for. On his arrival the unfortunate woman was quite de a d. 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 force, and that all the larger vessels were destroyed. Death must have been almost instantaneous. 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 had 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 act which deprived her of life. She managed to obtain possession of her husband's razor and con ceal it in the temporary absence of her nurse. The Jury returned a verdict, that the deceased committed suicide while labouring under mental derangement. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A COLONIAL BROKER IN MINCING-LANE. Yesterday afternoon a long inquiry was gone into before Mr. Payne, the City coroner, and a jury of merchants, at the Commercial Coffee-rooms, Mincing-lane, touching the death of Mr. Arthur Stonehouse Griffiths, a colonial broker, having offices at No. 9 in the above lane, who committed suicide under the following painful circumstances. The inquest-room was crowded by merchants and brokers, friends of the deceased. Mr. Smith, solici tor, attended to watch the proceedings for the rela tives. • It appeared from the evidence that on Wed nesday morning the deceased came to his busi ness at his usual time, ten o'clock. He went into his private office, and told the clerk to say he wis engaged if any one called to see him. A Mr. Whistler, who had an appointment with the deceased about some money matters, called to see the deceased, and after waiting a short time the housekeeper of the chambers looked through the fanlight of the door of the private room and saw the unfortunate gentleman lying back on a chair in an apparently dying state. The room was entered and he was found insensible, and in a few minutes he expired. There was a strong odour of essential oil of almonds about 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 letters 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." Another 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 who persecute me should have succeeded. May those who have so cruelly robbed me be for given ; but my trouble is greater than I can bear.— Yours, " A. S. GRIFFITHS. " Comfort my mother if you can." _ _ _ The other leiters 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 tha deceased de stroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity. ALLEGED PROFLIGACY IN A WORK- HOUSE. OFFICIAL INQUIRY. Yesterday morning, Mr. R. B. Cane, one the in spectors of the Poor Law Board, opened an investi gation 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 ; and 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 she 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 publichquse 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. He 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 awl 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 tha t Gibles was the father. Mr. Onion called on her after her confinement, but did not ask her to write a letter. She had got a person named Newsom to write the letter produced. Four days after it was written Mr. Onion called on her. He did not call upon ber twenty times, but he might have done so twelve times. He gave her no money. H e took her clothes and k e pt th em to s h o w, b eca use she gave them t o hi m. M r. M err i ck forc ibly threw her on the bed. She screamed out, but she did n ot scratch him. Miss B rewer ' s room wa s near, and a scream might have been heard there. She was ten minutes 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 g ot into the room— when he locked the door. Sh e knew what he was going to do, as he had in his office asked her several times. She did not scream very lend, 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 ?" 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. Orion 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 INTELLIGENCE.—Oct.IO. 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. Masterman's. He should charge him with stealing those two cheques, and also with forging and uttering 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 mcelled cheques and a blank cheque. The two cancelled cheques purported to be signed by the prisoner. He after 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 he 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 kspt an account at their bank. The cheque for £64 75., 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, Birchin-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. H, 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 MAYNE.—John I'aget 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.0.5., and licen tiate of Apothecaries-hall, said—l live at North side, 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 right 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 better read that letter, Mr. Lane ; you will probably re member that the persons referred to 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 erred. You seem to have thought that you had a grievance, and that Sir Richard Mayne wished to withhold from you the name and number of the policeman. Now, you were quite rong in that. There is no hesitation or difficulty about giving his name and number. However, No if there were, nothi ng can j us tify suc h threats. _ antecedent letters, no p rev io u s circumstances what ever could justify them. think I was The Priso ner —l b eg your pardon. I d e termined t o quite justifi e d . I on l y say I am as do what he did. have an answer as Rash was to There is no threat in that. Mr. Henry—No re asonableperson would interpret it as you say. The Prisoner—Had that letter been written t o an ordinary private indi v idual would you h ave taken any notice of it Position in life of the parties makes no difference whatever. The Prisoner—Tlie decisions of m ag ist ra tes vary so much, that the law is nothing but a lottery. The prisoner then re-called Mrs. Harvey, to grope that he (tho 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 ma. 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 he would give up letter-writing altogether. The rccognisances were entered, and the prisoner liberated. WESTMINSTER. THE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF FELONY AT THE MILITARY STORSE. —John Morelle, an Italian master-tailor, of the Grenadier Guards, residing at 9, Cornwall-street, Pimlico, appeared for final 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. H. Lewis, barrister, ap poied for the accused. In repto an inquiry from Mr. Paynter, it was stated that tit:Quartermaster of the 47th Regiment, spoken of by the prisoner in his defence on the last examination, was n ot in England, but could be brought forward if necesslcirY• At Mr. Lewis's request, Colonel Daubeney, in spector of the army clothing, st6od in the witness box for cross-examination. Mr. Lewis inquired when be was appointed to his present post, and followed it up by - asking whether there was not a prescribed allowan6e 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 lient 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 nnike 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 keepinZ what was left had subsided into a custom. . Mr. Paynter remarked that it was not a legal custom. He thought it use2ess for Mr. Lewis to pursue that line of defence, as tie 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. Dauben eY 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, hut 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' ance 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 133,000 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 Goverment. 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 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 magisrate'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 other men, would come to the conclusion that the stolen the cloth; and if character was of any ad .vantage to a man, he surely had it ; for he obtained . prisoher had his present appointment by that and his ability. Instead of beine• 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, disgracea granrl there still might fortunately pro oa bhappened himtot texistat jury, who ' by ignoring the bill. He (Mr. Lewis) would call Co l. Burnaby, of the Grenadier Guards, through w hose kindness the prisoner was professionally de fended that day, to speak to his character ; but it s uggested itself to him that Col. Daubeney might feel it his duty to withdraw this prosecution f or felony, alter an explanation which showed that the act at most was mainly referable to a prevailing system. Col. Daubeney observed that it was to put dowt that system he had brought this ca se forward. had always had the highest opinion of the prsoner, Mr. Lewis said it was sacrificing a respect able man to a system. Colonel Burnaby was called for the prisoner, and said he had recommended him to the authorities 3 as a highly respectable man ; he had. known him in ti mately since 1855. In answer to Mr. Paynter, Colonel Daubeney B,lld the mark now on the cloth was not strictly identical with that used font pin 1859. Both: ound in prisoner's pos years ago. There was a nOw stamp . s tamps were on the cloth I session. Had not known ii,,stances of returning remnants to the Government b tores, but it was the master tailor's duty to return w hat was left to the quartermaster. ease was a clear Mr. Paynter observed that the I' Government one, as regarded his duty, to commit fo r trial. Pri soner bad been found in possession o stores at his private residence, having ,leitner right nor authority to take them away from where he was employed on any occasion. The d e fence he made was, that when in a similar capacity v 'ith the 47th to that he had lately held in the Gree,adier Guards, the quartermaster allowed hint to keep the remnants, and that Col. Hudson subsequently gave him leave at Dover to keep some cloth he had saved- Col. Hudson might have said indifferently that he was to keep the cloth, but be never could have said he was to keep it for himself. It was unreasonable to suppose he would have done so ; and even if he bad he would not have been justified in doing so, as one person in the Government employment had no righ t or authority to give any of the stores away to an other. As regarded general custom, if such custom wasillegal, no defence could be based upon it to a criminal act. A man might be honest four years ago, but dishonest now. It would seem probable by the mark on the cloth that it had. been taken at two different times, as there were the old and the new marks. Prisoner would not have been employed at all had he not borne a good cha racter; but he (Mr. Paynter) could not act on cha racter. tie had felt bound to remand the case, but at once admitted the prisoner to bail. There was too much precodence i to justify the peculation com plained of as far as t could be, and he thought that there would be no such saving as the £13,000 per annum spoken of if peculation amongst master tai lors continued, as it might be only equal to the quantity purloined. The prisoner was' then committed for trial, but admitted to bail, Colonel Burnaby kindly being one , of his sureties. GOUNIR Y DIARILL'i s. LIVERPOOL-OCT. 10. The trade rather slow to-day, and prices were the turn lower, and rather irregular. k 'lour also dull, and the turn cheaper. Indian corn steady, ,though not active. Other articles unchanged, WAKEFIELD—.OOT. 10. Our market to-day was slow for .u'heM ; good old and dry new sorts hardly maintained their villue, and other quali ties at lower prices. Fine barley as be kre ; inferior a shade easier. Beans, oats, and shelling were' quiet, and rather cheaper. Averages for the week : Wheat 1,649 qrs., at . 49s 7id 8ar1ey..... Peas ,••• Oats 42 .. 27s 5d Rye — —a Od Beans STAMFORD—Om 10. New wheat, 52s to 54s—red, 48s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley, 300 to 40s per qr. Oats, 23s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, 40s to 44s per qr. EXETER—OcT. 10. Wheat, white.. 6s 3d to 6 s 6 d I Barley. .. 4s Od to 4s 6cl Pitt') red. .6s Od to 6s 3d l Oats 2s 10d to 3s 2d t'lour, fine, 37s to 38s ; seconds, 35s to 36s per sack. CATTLE. The supply of all descriptions of stock this morning very plentiful. Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to 10s6d I Ewes, per lb ....7d to ltd Pork carcases, 8s 6d to es 6 d Wethors , 61d to 7d Lamb, p 1b....... nd to 8d Fat calves, d0...51d to 6/ J. Rough Col, 3/d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—OcT. 10. There has been a quiet bueness done this week in raw sugars. Merchants are stiff in their demands, and will not meet buyers' prices, and manufaOturers cannot, at the pre sent rates at which their goods ha ve to be sold, afford to pay so dearly for the raw material. Refined goods a quiet sale. In rum there is more activity than fcr some time past, and several parcels of Demeraras have elmmged hands at prices the turn dearer. COAL M. alloes of Coal per Ton at s. d. Wylam ..16 0 LARK E T. t the close of the market. •e. d. North Pelton Ga 5..... 13 3 Carway and Duffryn Malting 23 6 Walls End. Do. Anthracito 21 6 Haswell lB 0 Holywell ..15 6 I Heugh Hall 16 6 Eden Main ...16 0 1 Stewart's ..17 6 Byass's Bebside West lietton • • lB 0 Hartley ....15 6', South Hetton ...... ...18 0 Hastings Hartley ....15 6 , Hartlepool.. l7 6 k‘ alker Primrose 12 ti ' Tuwitall •••..••• . • • • 16 3 Panfield Moor l2 6 Eden . . 16 3 Tanfield Moor Butes 12 6 Acorn Close 16 6 Carr's Hartley 15 6 Belmont 16 3 _ _ .... Ships at market, 102 ; sold. 60. .FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Aunralia and Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. 19. via Marseilles ... Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Nov. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Oct. 19. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Falkland Islands .. . Nov. 4. Gibraltar, via Southampton ... Oct. 15. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 19.. via Marseilles Oct. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 15. via Marseilles Oct. 9. Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 15. via Marseilles' Newfoundland .. Oct. 15. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 15. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Oct. 10. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Bahamas, via New York ' Oct. 23. Mexico All parts of West Indies, including C hili, Peru, 1 Oct 14. California, and British Columbia DANGER OF JESTING IN BUSINESS MATTERS. -- A letter from Prague, of the sth, mentions a curious affair which proves that jesting in matters of business may some times cost dear. About a fortnight ago a hop.dealer of the' neighbourhood entered the counting-house of a large merchant at Prague, with whom he had had commercial relations. The latter asked him how business was going on, when he replied, "I am doing so little that I am almost inclined to enter your service as clerk."—" What salary should you require ?" asked the merchant.—" Only 2,000 florins a year," replied the other, laughing. The merchant shook hands with him, saying, " Then it is a bargain." After a little further conversation the hop dealer retired, and neither one nor the other appeared to think any more of the matter. Six days after a considerable riso began to take place in hops, and the merchant went to Saaz, the largest market in Bohemia, to make purchases, and, to his annoyance, found that the dealer had got the start of him, and purchased all he could find. Meeting the dealer in the street, the merchant asked him what hops he had purchased, and the price? " That is my affair," was the reply. " What do you mean by your affair? You forgot, then, that you are my clerk, and that I have a right to inquire what business you trans act on my account. You are free to cancel your engage ment hereafter, but for the present you act for me." This that he dealer went to consult an advocate, who told him engagement was valid, and that in any case a trial would be a tedious affair. He then went to t h e merchant, and after a long discussion agreed to pay 4,000 florins, (10,000 f.) damages for cancelling his engagement in order to retain for his own account the profitable speculation he had made. When the money had teen paid, the Prague merchant de clared that he would not keep a farthing of it, and distri buted it among some poor relations of the dealer. BIRTHS. wife of DUTUIS. the 9th inst., at the Vicar age , Ri c h m ond, Surrey, the the Rev. 11. Dupuis, of a so n. wife o f Sheffield Neave, Esq., of a daughter. 9th inst., at Oak-hill House, HaMpStOadf HEAVE. —On the 00 rn t w h r i the 2th inst., at Streatham-hill, Surrey) t he the Rice Ord, Esq., of a daughter. "—e L 7 .-012 the 9th inst., at 31, Arundel-square north, t h e wife of Adolph Oppler, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES. RANVLINS—WILTON.—On the 9th inst , at St. Georg e% Hanover-square, Ge orge William, eldest son of Sanwa George Rawlins, Esq., to Ch ar l o tt e A me li a , the eldes t daughter of Lieut.-Col. Wilton. M TOPKINS .—WINCK IN' ORTH.— On the 9th inst., at St. John the Baptist's, h entish-town,William E. ToroPh ie l Esq., of th e War-office Pall-mall, to Eliza, t h e eldest daughter of H enr y Winckworth, Esq., of Sproughton Lodge, Camden New-town. DEATHS. C HATTERTON.—On the 10th inst., James T. Chattertoll Esq., M.R.C.S., o f Kingston-on-Thames. maes CEAL.—On the Bth inst., at Sunbury, Eliza, wif e of Owen Ceal, aged 49. GOLDSTEIN.—On the 7th inst.. at Matlock, Derbyshire, the Rev. Dr. Goldstein, Chaplain of Sholapore, Bombay Presidency. LEVY.—On the 9th inst., at St. Leonard's-on-Sea , 14 ; Levy, Esq., of 16, Gloucester-place, Portman - egl w " aged 80. of MORRIS.—On the 10th inst., Marcus William, only • Mrs. Grace Morris, of the White Hart Hotel, Bishop gate-street, E.C,, aged 40. - - - - - - LONDON: Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLL", of N 0.112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sus Office, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County Aumesos.--Saturday, October 1861 No. 112! -~~° •