The Sun. — London, England, 1859-03-24 00:00:00

LIFE IN LUCKNOW. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) JANUARY 30. On Sunday, the 23d, the members of the Church of England attended Divine service in the building which is used as a church, without any pretensions to fitness for the purpose. A large room with whitewashed walls, divided by a line of open arches and pillars, without doors or windows, save such as are rent and broken, is at present the only shelter for the congregation, and the cold draughts which come in at every ape rture were by no means comfortable. There are some hard benches and chairs in rows. Mr. Montgomery and the civil officers of the station, and some military officers and 30 or 40 women and children, a few of the Go vernment employes and their wives, constituted the attendance. Outside in the garden round the house sat the syces, with their masters' horses and bug gies, the native coachmen and servants in their picturesque liveries. Who could doubt as he com pared the two that the English residents were a little aristocracy, and that there is no English corn monalty in India as compared to the natives—an aristocracy with many grades, but of which the lowest members are barons and peers in their own right in reference to the aborigines ? I looked round the church, and there were but two faces which had a darker tinge than European blood alone could give, and they showed tokens of its in fusion, too. The people with those faces sat in the back seats--an ayah and a clerk, judging from their personal appearance. The sermon treated of divine love for all mankind, and I hope we were all the better for it. Lord Clyde attended the service of the Scotch Kirk, which is held in the Little Imaumbarrah—but a short 10 months ago the scene of fierce conflict be tween our soldiers and the garrison of sepoys. I am not quite sure whether we are complying with the promises of the Queen's proclamation m appro priating for divine service a building of a religious character on which the Mussulmans of Lucknow look with reverence. It was not a mosque, but it was a sort of sacred college, and there is a mosque inside its walls. However, Lucknow was the rebel capital, it was taken by storm, and its buildings are not entitled to such nice consideration as would be due to them under different circumstances. in our reparations and constructions we have destroyed many mosques, and the most sacred building in Lucknow, the Great Imaumbarrah, being insde the lines of the new fort, is occupied by the garrison as a barrack. Last Monday morning . I went round the works of the position with Major Crommelin, the officer of Bengal Engineers who has been employed in carrying out the magnificent designs of Sir Robert Napier, prepared ere we started for Rohilcund last year, and adopted with some trifling modifications, mostly connected with questions of expenditure. A powerful European army would find in those massive ramparts, formidable ditches,heavy bastions, and embrasured curtains a most formidable resistance. As to native troops, the fort would, as long as it was provisioned, bid defiance to all the Mahrattas, Sikhs, Affghans, and Rajpoots from Cochin to the Indus. There is a want of cover from vertical fire, but against direct fire or an assault the defences are exceedingly strong. Perhaps the work would be classed as a strong fortress of the third class in Europe. Its great advantage is that it may be defended by 200 or by 2,000 men—that is, the salients and commanding points could be well guarded and worked by the former number, and the latter would not by any means crowd the line of defence and batteries. The Muchee Bawun, restored from the ruin into which it was shaken by the great explosion ordered by Sir Henry Lawrence when he withdrew his troops from it and confined his posi tion to the Residency, presents towards the river a strong wall of whitewashed brick, supported by heavy buttresses. The road, which is now the fashionable evening drive for the Europeans, winds round from the Baillie Guard-gate to the banks of the river below the Muchee Bawun, past the iron bridge, and thence through the grand gateway to the square in front of the Imaumbarrah, passing out of the corresponding gateway through the line of the works towards the Moosabagh. Frowning batteries, armed with heavy ordnance, sweep the bridges, and command the opposite bank of the river. On the city face of the Muchee Bawun and Imaumbarrah the extensive demolitions necessary to form a clear space of 500 yards all round the fort present an extraordinary aspect. When I was last there a dense mass of brick houses, of temples, mosques, shrines, baths, markets, bazaars, honey combed by tortuous narrow streets, stretched from the canal two and a half miles away, up to the walls of the Muchee Bawun and the Great Temple, and enclosing them on all sides down to the very river. For more than a quarter of a mile around them there is nothing now to be seen but vast chaotic masses of brickwork, amid which rise lone columns of ma sonry, the fragments of walls, the gables of houses, isolated meagre cupolas, tottering towers, and some obstinate interiors which have laid open their secrets to the violent wooing of gunpowder, and, upheld by resolute brickwork cemented by cunning hands, whose mystery has not been revealed to the builders of one-and-a-half brick palaces at l'entonville or Xemptown, still maintain their staircases and door ways and ragged joists. A pile of doorposts, lintels, beams, and rafters, stacked and heaped up, looms like a shipbuilder's yard amid the rubbish. Out of the blasted city there has been formed a magnifi cent g lacis, sloping from the open space up to the ditch of the fort. This is not yet complete, and extends only along one side of the Muchee Bawun, but thousands of men, women, and children are employed daily in gathering up the earth and brick work of the debris, and carrying it up to complete the glacis round the other face to the great ditch, the scarp of which on the west face is 60 feet high. As the natives are as obstinate as Irish farmers, v7heelbarrows do not obtain among them, and so they carry the rubbish in wickerwork trays or baskets, which hold only a limited quantity—not quite a lazy man's load. They are paid on the spot on the de livery of each basket load, but what they are paid as td value I have never been able to determine. I know, however, that for each basketful the labourer gets a small univalve shell called a cowrie—that there are 64 cowries in a pice, and there are four pice in an anna, and there are 16 annas in a rupee, and a rupee is equal to 2s. by currency courtesy (though in actual experience of life it is only equal to half a florin), and from this the payment for each basket may be deduced by careful calculation. The labourer changes his or her cowries for a pice, and as soon as the aggregate is sufficient for a meal in the bazaar the labourer departs, and is rarely seen again that day. There are many situations in life of an exciting and unpleasant character, but it strikes me, judging from externals alone, that the local paymaster of the howling, clamorous bands of basketmen and basketwomen whom I saw that morning must have as rugged an existence as any I know of, save Tantia, and the man of the Skerry yore Lighthouse in a heavy sea ; each of them is the perpetual centre of most noisy importunate creditors, all of whom desire to be raid at once — delays to them are cowries' wo rth. This hurry to be rich—the e ff ect o f thi s t .lin g crowd rush ing to and fro, of the h un d re d s of ea rth jets down the bank, of th e moving forests ofbasket work, is quite new and indescribable. Perhaps something like it might have been seen at the Tower of Babel, or when the children of Israel were ma king strawless bricks, or the nations of captivity worked for the rulers of Nineveh. These works offer subsistence to thousands of people, who will be em ployed on the can tonments when our eng i neers are prepared to begin them. The old cantonment, on the left side of the Goomtee, has been abandoned, and the site of the new cantonment has been fixed on:---a very eligibl e choice. Th e high g roun d at the rear of the Dilkoosha , extending by the Beebiapore park, and overlooking the windings of the Goomtee, seem to offer every conven ien ce and desideratum f or a military station, and it is far eno ugh _ from th e more dangerous parts of the cit y to keep the men out of temptation in the summer. The communica tion with the citadel is easy and w ell opened. It is said that Sir Hope Grant will take up his residence in the Dilkoosha, which will be fitted up for his reception. It will form a charming residence for the commander of the troops in Oude, and indeed Luck now, if only there are establishments and Europeans enough to form the materials of private society, will be the most beautiful station in all India. To de scribe improvements in a city to one who has no knowledge of the place is impossible, and the number of my readers who have ever visited Luck now is small indeed. The work done is greater than anything that I know of in Europe, so far as the destruction of houses, s t r eets, &e., is concerned. The labours of Napoleon at Paris offer but a poor parallel to the immense efforts put forth within the :Tam of six months to adapt Luc know to its future late, and to render it at the same time, whatever that fate may be, the most magnificent city in our Eastern dominions, especially when a moderate dis tance lends enchantment to the views of the public 'buildings, and blends stucco ' brick, and plaster into one grand marble-like mass of dome. minaret, colonnade, and portico, surmounted by gilt , cupo;as and polished copper. Colonel Abbott, the .COmniissioner of Lucknow, has shown considerable taste and judgment in the restoration of the bazaar along the great line of streets formed by the bides of the Begum's Kotee, the small Imaum barrah, and the Kaiserbagh. The streets traced tho ugh heaps of demolished house material i n . b ro , t a straight lines, radiating from the circular loth i round the citadel, are magnificent, and the sanii ‘ary arrangements promise to be well developed. Th. e Residency- stands nearly as we found it on takin • the city. There were some subsequent di lapidai ions. Officers directed men to pull down timbers, and as timbers supported walls, roofs, and ceilings, those obeying gravitation, fell, and caused greater ruin than there had been when the enemy left Lucknow ; but the labours of the men were observed and were suspended, and the Resi dency, with all its silent testimony of bul: t-pitted, shot-pierced, shattered walls, its deta • ed posts, torn gateways, and ruinous gables, . ands un touched amid all the changes around it. The walls of the room where Henry Lawrence died still re main. Every shot has its story, every angle its hero, or haply, its heroine—and its victim. " Neill 's Gate" still stands outside the Residency, into which his lifeless body was brought, and where it lies under a becoming tomb. I wish I could say to the people of England, who lamented Havelock so deeply, that the grave of their chosen one is wor thily marked, or that its present condition is worthy of the remains which lie there, or of the country. When I visited the Alumbagh, where Sir Henry Havelock was hurriedly interred on the march of the relieved garrison out of Lucknow, I saw, in the unclean gardenground of the place, open to natives, cattle, and dogs, a shallow sinking in the ground the size of a grave—and it was a grave—and just over it, rudely carved by a soldier's hand on the trunk of a tree, could be traced the letter " H." And this is the grave and the inscription of Sir Henry Havelock ! It is uncertain when Mr. Montgomery will leave Oude for his new trust. A curious instance of the mysticism of Indian government, or at least of the closeness of Lord Canning,may be given here. Mr. Montgomery wrote to Mr. Wingfield, the future Commissioner of Oude, stating what were his views with respect to the management of the province, and what he had already done in the way of settlements and police, for which he claimed a trial from his successor. Mr. Wingfield, in reply, expressed the satisfaction it would afford him to give every advantage to any p l an instituted by the Chief Commissioner and to test it thoroughly, but added that he had received no intimation whatever of his appointment to Oude. Now, it would have doneno harm to let Mr. Wing field prepare himself for his new government by considering its condition, and learning the principles on which his predecessor was acting. The police system will probably meet opposition in many quarters, but as yet it has worked very well. In 65 days from the date of his appointment as Chief of Police, Major Bruce moved out of Luck now and occupied Mulliabad with a competent force, accoutred and sufficiently drilled, of infantry and cavalry. On the 12th a second regiment of police moved out and occupied more ground, and the Kuppoorthallah Contingent was soon after re relieved by a third corps of the Oude police. Sul tanpore was next occupied by Oude police, infantry, and cavalry ; the Cawnpore road was then occu pied and held strongly. On the 30th of July another force was despatched to Ruheemabad ; on the 11th of August Captain Dawson, a most gallant officer, who afterwards died of his wounds, seized upon Sundeela with a force of police, infantry and horse, and from that time, as previously, all our military expeditions were strengthened by bodies of police, which established themselves in solid occupation of the country as the various columns advanced. When Lord Clyde took the field from Lucknow 500 police cavalry and 2,220 police in fantry marched with him, and took post in the Trans-Gogra districts, and wherever they have been stationed there has been, up to the present time, no case of the enemy reappearing or creating a disturbance. Since the beginning of the year the police have been confined to their proper duties, but in the military operations last year they lost 39 men killed and 166 wounded. It has been sug gested that as each district is thoroughly disarmed the police should give up their muskets and bayo nets and retain only their swords, the cavalry being provided with sword, lance, and pistol. The five companies of the battalion of the Rifle Brigade, under Col. Macdonnell, have marched for Agra. The present garrison of Lucknow consists of her Majesty's 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers, two batta lions of Royal Artillery, 1 Bengal Artillery, 23d company Sappers and Miners, 2 companies Royal Artillery, 4th European Light Cavalry, wing . of Beloochees, 3d or Rennie's Punjab Infantry, wing 15th Punjab Infantry, Lahore Light Horse. The 9th Lancers and 79th are expected shortly on their way to their destinations. Her Majesty's 38th is sta tioned at Roy Bareilly. The discontent among the European soldiers of the late Company transferred fiy Act of Parliament to the Crown has not ceased to manifest itself, and some sentences of cow ti-martial are standing over on appeal. The Duke of Cam bridge has authorised Lord Clyde to abolish " stocks" in the Indian army, and to adopt what ever dress for the soldiers he may think best. It may be observed that it would be much better to have the carkee tunics issued to our soldiers made in India instead of England. The material is better and cheaper here, and English sewing does not stand Indian washing. There is no report yet of the effect of the volunteering. Many of our men are actually wealthy, and it remains to be seen whether they will stay to make more, or go home to spend what they have. The 84th Regiment has £15,000 in the savings -bank, and now and then a lucky fellow, like a Rifleman the other day, gets 200 gold mohurs in an old wall. The party of the 88th stationed in the Begum Kotce found, a short time ago, £15,000 in rupees in the enclosure, their attention being attracted to the spot by a midnight attempt of some natives to remove the money. The sun begins now and then to tell us there is a summer coming, and it warns Major Crommelin that there are 12,000 Englishmen to be sheltered from its rays in Oude—where deadly as at Troy those fiery darts have already killed stone dead so many gallant soldiers. It is no easy task, but, as our excellent friend says, " it must be done, and it will all come right in the end"—a most cheering and comfortable doctrine for one of strong will and ade quate means. There is a scarcity of wood in Oude, because the people love the trees they have planted and will not see them willingly cst down—besides these are bases of taxation—besides which, they being mango, peepul, and other spongiose and heart less timbers, are of no good. I do not know if I mentioned that when we made that ineffectual gallop up to the Beyram Ghaut we found collected there on one side of the bank immense quantities of magnificent hewn timber, which had been floated down from the upper forests, worth some £lB,OOO or £20,000. It had been in the hands of the enemy, but our presence made it ours. Our army passed over, and up came from Allahabad, as I am informed, an active and by no means dull compatriot, who at once bought up the timber from the men who had floated it down, giving them a rupee or two as earnest-money for each log, whereon he set his mark. When our barrack builders came to claim it there was the mark in delible, and there, too, was the proprietor, averring that he had contracted for the wood ere the muti nies broke out (which may be quite true), and that if the Government wanted the wood they must buy it from him. There is some muttering about the laws of prize and of prize money, but the astute speculator will probably gain the day and the rupees. Maun Singh's ball took place this evening. It was, after native ideas, a very grand affair. In the evening Maun Singh came to head-quarters to make his final arrangements, and there he heard what caused him to participate in the general regret, perhaps from less interested motives, that Lord Clyde was so unwell that he could not possibly attend. In fact, the Commander-in-Chief would insist the day before on mounting his horse for the first time since his accident, and the charger, a fine spirited animal, had pulled so that the dislocated shoulder was strained, and his lordship had to dis mount, and this morning was in pain. and was, besides, indisposed by a severe cold. It was a great blow to Maun Singh, whose ball was at one stroke deprived of half its significance and importance, and at first he seemed to suspect that his lord ship's illness was a ruse, but Colonel Metcalfe dissipated such unworthy and Oriental suspicions. At seven o'clock the elephants were paraded out side the tents, and at eight o'clock Maun Singh returned to escort General Mansfield and his other guests to th e ball or nautch. The " hatties" were soon load e d ands frunbled off in their waddling, Jack. ashore rolling, fashion, preceded by wild linkmen with • prodigious flambeaux, and followed by an escort of Lahore Horse, with irreular Bankers of Maun Sin g h' s sowars. The Raja ' h sat alongside General Mansfield,. and Major Bruce oc cupied a place in the sam e howdah. A dark cruise of a mile or so over broken ground and through the silent suburb on the left bank of the Goomtee, be tween the iron and stone bridges, which once had been the scene of cannonading and musketry, ended in sight of a long avenue of twinkling lights of rich yellowish lustre, n ot flaring and white-flamed like gas, but golden and mellow. This avenue was formed by a framework of 'wed escoeheons, and hung with bam boos,disposed in heart-shaped with oil lamps. A large triumphal arch of the sa me am bef o r e e tbe fabrication opened on the parallelogr _ oposit the palace, which was a blaze of lig hts. . and palace—a long building with porticoes open. colonnades, in the Italian style—there was erected a very gay but unsubstantial pavilion, covered all over with silver leaf, in the open windows of which minstrels played on with quaint instru m ents, and elicited strains which distance refined into those , d f the more formidable species of bagpipe , min t with song and chorus. On the facade of the silver temple was a golden shield inscribed with the words , " Victoria, Queen of India," and beneath, on each side, golden scrolls bore the names of " Clyde," " Montgomery." A considerable, but not a large number of natives, was assembled in this open space, at the further end of which was a grand il luminated gateway, similar to tlr i at under which we had passed. The elephants were ordered to "bite," and lay down accordingly. It is not a beast of a festive turn, and illuminations distress its sagacity he knows they have sticks, and he has a general very much. The wise creature hate s rockets, for diffidence as to the skill of man in handling oociioo pyro technics, which, combined with t he liveliest obe dience to the first law of nature, o render c a t s l n e f ele phant eminently unhappy n the Oriental rejoicings. Down the ladders we slipped from the howdahs, as though descending the sides of a ship, and, led by Maim Singh, who was dressed in silk and shawls, with a gold embroidered cap on his head, and stocking-clad feet, we mounted to the saloon, a very fine room, hung with glass chandeliers and numerous mirrors, having at the sides colonnades opening to balconies, and galleries above filled with well-dressed natives, and when the General had taken his place the nautch commenced. It is to us a dull and dismal enter tainment. From the end of the room advance two girls of unusual ugliness supported by seven or eight men, who on tom-toms, a kind of violin, and kettle -drums keep up a monotonous but not unme lodious accompaniment to the undulations of the bodies and limbs of the nautch gi r ls. The dress of the girls is classic, beautiful, and modest. The feet are but hidden by the contracted robe, which opens out in a wide flounce on the ground, so as to lie m a heavy fold in front as they retreat, and behind as they advance. Their arms alone are bare—up to the throat there is a maze of silver and gold embroidered filmy gauzes and shawls thrown in rich folds over the attenuated figures, which may well court such disguises. As these young ladies approach, swaying their bodies to and fro, gently waving their arms, and making a pleasant music with the beat of their silver bangles, the mind wan ders back to the days of the post-Adamite world, and sees the singers going before, the minstrels following after the killer of the Philistines ; gets unpleasant reminiscences of Adam's " Roman An tiquities" (article " Triumphs"), and has some con fused ideas about Nineveh, Layard, the Greek chorus, and the Druids. Their songs, those strange, not unmusical cadences, running on unceasingly from strophe to antistrophe, with marked caesura and rhythm enough, must be as old as the hills, whose youth they may have charmed into dancing, and Orpheus may have made Cerebus sleep by a dose of the " Taza betaza," for all we know to the contrary. Had I been Cerberus my resistance would have been feeble, for I admit the effect is monotonous to a degree, though the natives will sit entranced as Pluto, and listen to one or two songs of this sort each an hour long at least the whole night. The men are all- : --young, old, and middle-aged—a dissipated, odd-looking set of men. They are " domes," the musician and fiddler class, who had as much influence in Oude as fiddlers haa in some European Courts in times gone by, and that is saying a good deal. You may catch a hundred of them any time, or rather you might, by sweeping the pit of La Scala on the first night of a new opera. When their pro tegees have sidled and sung and ogled and wriggled their way up the room close to the General, they retire, and others succeed them in the same way, while their predecessors divert those in the other room or at the end of ours. The noise of fiddles and drums from those various parties is overwhelm ing. Mann Singh enters, followed by officers of his household in a brief interlude, and going to the General throws over his head a wreath very rich looking of silver and gold thread with tassels, which he takes from a tray carried by a servant. Then going round all his guests, who are seated to the number of 150 or 160 along the ballroom, he gives to each with his own hands a similar mark of his attention, and the richness of each being propor tioned to the rank of the recipient. A list of guests would comprise all Europeans in Lucknow, except Lord Clyde, Mr. Montgomery, the private soldiers, and a few officers. We had Sir William Mansfield, Colonel Pratt, Major Bulwer, and the officers of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; Colonel Macdonnell and the officers of the 4th Light Cavalry ; Colonel Ridell,: Major Turner, Royal Artillery ; Colonel Harness, Royal Engineers ; Lieutenant-Colonel Crealock, Dr. Gordon, C. 8., Deputy Inspector- General ; Colonel Macpherson, Quartermaster- General ; Major Norman, Adjutant-General ; Cap tain Allgood, Assistant. Quartermaster-General ; Major Torrens, Assistant Adjutant-General, Queen's Troops ; Captaid the Hon. J. Dormer, Aide-de- Camp ; Captain Alison, Aide-de-Camp ; Major Bruce, Chief of Police ; Captain Chamberlain, Oude Police ; Mr. Forsyth, Secretary to the Chief Com missioner ; Major Barrow, C. 8., Special Commis sioner ; Captain Hutchinson, Military Secretary ; Captain Flood, her Majesty's 53d Regiment, Aide de-Camp ; Major Le Geyt Bruce, Dr. Douglas, Major Crommclin, Major Kirby, Major Lennox, Royal Engineers, and others, quos enumerare, &c. There was one other interlude in the nautch, when there appeared six or eight boys dressed as girls, their faces covered with gold-leaf, who per formed an abtruse comedy or mystery, and sang a chorus of an incomprehensible character, from which the company were diverted very pleasantly by an invitation to witness the fireworks from the bal conies, verandahs, and flat roof of the palace. The pyrotechnic display took place in a garden or enclosure in front of the building, and consisted of feeble rockets, maroons, catherine wheels, foun tains of fire, amidst which fire balloons were sent up at intervals. As a specimen of the higher order of art in this fashion the exhibition was marred by some failures. The revolving fireworks would not revolve owing to the infirmity of the posts to which they were attached, and there were some ether small mishaps among the fire balloons ; but as to general effect, the mass of fizzing, crackling, sparkling lights set in a framework of black faces and white turbans was picturesque, and ever vary ing, full of wonderful shade and life. The fire works went out quietly, and then the company with an anxious eye to the supper tables beheld a person with the most imperfect conceptions of the anatomical structure and motion of the bear and monkey endeavour to imitate them in a series of libellous contortions. The great treat for the na tives yet remained. They crowded the galleries to see the Feringhees at supper. Maun Singh is a Hindoo, but the flesh of the sacred bull—rather an ancient one too—decorated his tables, aided by great joints of cow-beef, and holy Mussulman looked down on the unclean feeders who devoured ham, to him an abomination, conjoined with fowl, which is to the Hindoo as revolting as pig is to the former. The equipments of the tables were imperfect— officers drank champagne out of soup-plates, and the clever feat of the fete champetre, by which bottles are decapitated, fingers cut, and wine spilt, was frequently accomplished. There was great abundance of ligneous tongues, which had often neighed cheerfully at the aspect of the nose-bag, and the fowls and joints, hostile in death, had apparently been kyanized, and resisted fire and sword. But still somehow, with chips off one thing or another—pies and patties, and gypsum confec tionary—the " dura ilia militurn" were satisfied, and a general wish was expressed for " Jones" to sing " Vilikins and his Dinah." (We are much behind the age in our melodies.) But before that painful ceremony , was begun—if indeed Jones ever got through it—the band of the 23d Fusiliers in an ad joining room summoned the more prudent guests away from the tables. Had the night ended so all would have been well, but I regret to have to re count an instance of the gross vulgarity,bad taste, and coarseness which does us more harm, even though it be but exhibited by one man, on such an occasion as this than a mistake in administration. A person whose rank is unknown to me, but who, uninvited, went to the ball with a captain of one of her Majesty's regiments, who had received no in vitation either, went up to Maun Singh, and actu ally requested him to take his cap off his head, and, as I understand, clapped it on his own. Now, to uncover the head of an Asiatic is a great insult. I scarcely can find a parallel for such an act, for to suppose that a gentleman would pull off a duchess's wig at her own table is scarcely possible, nor is it easy to imagine one of the Duke of Devonshire's guests " bonnetting" his grace, " just by way of a lark," at the horticultural show. Maun Singh be haved with great forbearance, but an officer who was present assured the " gentleman" he would report him to the Commander-in-Chief. Thereupon he of course protested " he meant no offence," "he was very sorry," &c., and when I happened to be passing I saw Mann Singh taking his cap from his attendant, and looking with a puzzled expression at a few red-faced young men who were dancing before him, and declaring that he was " a right good fellow ; he's a jolly good fellow, which nobody dare deny, with a hip, hip, hip, hurrah !" &c. In deed, one jolly companion found the premises so very comfortable that he slept on a chair all night. Maun Singh had to keep some of his guests com pany till four o'clock next morning. With this brief statement I leave the subject. Maun Singh, in speaking of it, has shown the best spirit, nor would he make any complaint to General Mans field, who was naturally much distressed when he I beard of the occ urr ence. n Mane. Marie de la Rechejacquelein, daughter of the marquis and senator, t oo k the veil three days ago in the Convent des Oiseaux. The Bishop of Poitiers officiated. ' [A..ovEnTis 8 Dis E e mm e NT.]—Holloway's Ointment aid Pills.— Child ren cough affli c t .t., mostcoo a n s ed s ru . c oht—cftMeasles , them safety toa scarlatina, ha p and p y w h o terminationoin ildren ; to avoid them generally is impossible, t o Ointment well r u b bed is within the every mother or nurse. Holloway's wpg the throat is a safe and sure the chest, back, and glands of sinks into a natural keleiNwhich calms the treatment. It is absorbed, out, moderates sur r inflammation, checks keeps the rash fully the cough, and allays the fey whilst using the ointment, e the s effect is more The little sufferer, saved from pain, the combined action th_e e . medicines the cir culation and soothes the nerves. patient can swallow chancesther ap i d P . greatly diminished. illsß o , f y subsequent diseases are THE SUN,I ?LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 1859. THE NAVE The Cadmus, 21, screw corvette, in dock at Cha tham, is nearly ready for the pendant, and will be • undocked during the next spring tides. Her Majesty's sailing frigate Severn, 50, is to be taken into dock at Chatham dockyard, for the pur pose of being converted into a screw steamer and fitted for sea. The Severn was built at Chatham, and ever since her launch has been attached to the ordinary at that port. In consequence of the pressure of work at Cha tham dockyard, consequent on two screw line-of battle steamers and three frigates being just laid out, the whole of the smiths are employed from six in the morning until eight at night. The 300 additional shipwrights and the other extra artisans have all been entered, and all the departments are at work in full activity. It is expected that a large num ber of additional labourers will shortly be entered, the present labourers, and also all the convicts em ployed in the dockyard, not being sufficient for the requirements of the establishment. The Mersey, 40, screw steam frigate, Capt. H. C. 8., went out of Portsmouth harbour at noon yesterday to test her speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay. The results of the trial gave great satisfaction both to the contractors for the en gines and the Government officials on board. There was not the slightest appearance of " priming of boilers" or " heated bearings," so common in first trials. This is all the more extraordinary as the Mersey gives the highest return of indicative horse power of any ship yet tried out of Portsmouth har bour. vas nominal power is 1,000 horse, but on the trial yesterday it as worked up to the enormous power of 4,000 horses. The average results of speed obtained in the four runs at the measured mile gave 13.290, or better than 13 1 knots ; pressure of steam, 20 ; vacuum, 24 t revolutions, maximum, 56, mean, 551 ; diameter of screw, 20 ; pitch of ditto, 29 ; im mersion 6 in. ; force of wind, 1 . 0 ; direction of wind , N.W. ; draught of water forward, 20 ft. 8 in. ; do. aft, 22ft. 7 in. ; coals on board, 850 tons ; consump tion of fuel at full speed, about 140 tons every 24 hours ; thermometer in engine•room, 62.0 ; ditto, stoke-hole, 100.0 ; ditto on deck, 52.0 ; length of stoke-hole, 68 ft. 10 in. ; breadth of ditto, 10 feet ; number of fires, 32. The tops of the boilers are three feet under the load water line, and another important feature is, that the engines are placed abaft the mainmast, which may in consequence be stepped in the keelson. Three auxiliary or "don key" engines are fitted on board, two to supply the boilers, and the other as a steam fire-engine, which is fitted with a 4 inch copper pipe from the ship's side, under the beams of the orlop deck, fore and aft, with seven 21- in. pipe branches up through the lower and main decks, each branch with two nozzles to screw on lengths of hose, and four branches on to the upper deck, with the same means of screwing on hose lengths. In the event of a fire breaking out in any part of the ship, it is only to turn on the main cock at the ship's side, set the steam fire engine at work, and any amount of water can be instantly conveyed to any part of the ship. In the event of fire breaking out in the orlop or lower decks of the ship during action, the engineer and his staff could at once deluge the part with water, and extinguish any fire without the necessity of ringing the fire bell and calling the crew away from their guns, or creating the confusion and alarm which would ensue under existing regulations. Should any portion of the pipes be shot away, turn cocks are fitted so as to turn the part injured off, and not impair the efficiency of the rest. To make the engine complete for the purposes it is intended for it should have a small boiler fitted for its special service, and not have to draw upon the main boilers, as, in addition to its usefulness as a steam fire engine, it also, by an ingenious and simple con trivance, hoists all the ashes up from below, pumps out bilge-water, and draws water for washing decks. The Mersey's armament consists of, on the upper deck, 12 8-inch pivot guns, 10 feet 6 inches long, throwing a solid shot of 681 b. Main deck, 28 10-inch guns, 9 feet 4 inches long, throwing hollow shot of 841 b. The total weight of the guns (with out carriages) on the upper and main decks is 178 tons 3 qrs. 2 cwt. A broadside from her would give to an enemy in action 1,6521 b. of iron. The Mersey has more stores yet to take in to nearly the extent of 250 tons. The ship appears to have but one serious fault, and that lies in her steering appa ratus—in the position of the after sheaves for her wheel ropes, which are placed in direct opposition to all mathematical principles. We understand that all steamships are in future to be fitted with steam fire-engines on the Mersey's plan. THE ARMY. Colonel Eyre John Crabbe, died on Satur day last, at his residence in Hampshire, aged 68 years. The gallant colonel had received the silver war medal and eight clasps for his early career in the Peninsula, and was made a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Order for his military services. The deceased served in the Peninsula from January, 1810, to the 31st of December, 1812 ; and again from June, 1813, to the end of the war, ine:uding the whole of the retreat to the lines of Torres Vedras, battle of Busaco, the advance from the lines to Guarda, first siege of Badajoz, siege and storm of Ciudad Rodrigo, siege and storm of Bada joz, battle of Salamanca, capture of Madrid and subsequent retreat through Spain ; battles of Nivelle, Nive, Tarbes, Orthez, and Toulouse, and the whole of the various minor affairs during that period. For many years the gallant deceased com manded the 74th Highlanders. His commissions bore date as follows --Ensign, the 11th of June, 1807 ; lieutenant, the 11th of May, 1808 ; captain, the 19th of May, 1814; major, the 31st of January, 1828; lieutenant-colonel, the 6th of November, 1841 ; and colonel, the 28th of November, 1854. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Russell, M.P., was expected to leave Calcutta this week on his re turn home on leave of absence, after an arduous and most creditable career with his reg iment, the 7th Hussars, in Oude, during the recent hostilities in that province. Lieutenant-General Sir Harry G. Smith, G.C.B : , is still detained in town from the effects of his acci dent. THE REVENUE OF INDIA.—A return to the House of Lords, yesterday printed, shows that for four years there has been a net deficit in the revenue of India, after de ducting the charges in England. This deficit is set down as follows—viz., in 1853-54, £2,044,117 ; in 1854-55, £1,707,364; in 1855-56, £972,791; and in 1856-7, £143,597. In 1857-8, there was a net deficit of £1,911,986 ; and in 1848-9, of £1,473,225. In four years (1849-50 to 1852-53) there was a continuous surplus, varying from £354,187 to £531,265. The deficit appears to arise from the charges in England being included, as otherwise there has been a large net surplus in India itself ever since 1847-48, varying from £1,104,086 to £3,386,076; thus, in 1856-57 the total income was £29,702,854, and the expenditure £26,316,778, leaving a net surplus of £3,386,076. The total debt of India on the 30th of April, 1857, amounted to £52,074,986, and the annual interest actually paid to £2,100,554. The registered debt is £45,369,21 0 . Treasury notes figure for £1,126,644, temporary loans for £219,656, and deposits for £5,359_,566. The sum total of the balances in all the treasuries of India amounted on the said 30th of April, 1857, to £13,009,664, or 13,87,69,749 rupees. [ADVERTISEMENT.] — ThorIey ' s Food for Cattle is now beginning to seriously attract the attention of the farmer, breeder, and feeder of stock. Two years of unremitting care and attention have enabled its inventor to take high ground as a benefactor to these interests ; and notwithstand ing the many drawbacks, the malevolent shafts hurled against it and its probable utility, the food, from its admitted value, will become a necessity to the agricultural interest. Experience has proved, first, that it affects a considerable saving in the consumption of provender • secondly, that it produces health and vigour in all animas subjected to its influence : and lastly, increases in a remarkable degree an early development of fat. Mr. Thorley, originating this singularly efficacious food, aimed at a compound calculated to supersede, to a certain extent, the tedious and expensive mode then prevailing of fattening stall-fed beasts. In this he happily succeeded ; and success prompted a very natural desire to improve upon the invention, so as to make it ap plicable to every description of domestic animal. The Eng lish farmer was slow to encourage its use, and manifested an unwillingness to rely upon its efficacy, fancying he possessed in the produce of his farm, ample materials whereby to feed and fatten his cattle at a cheaper rate than by the employment or addition of artificial food. The tests to which this food has been subjected have proved its perfect admissibility as a cheap addition to the natural produce of the farm ; inasmuch as in all cases a subtraction of one-third may be safely submitted to in the usual food of animals ; and that the produce will be realised, and rendered marketable in two-thirds of the time usually consumed in developing fat ; it, therefore, becomes apparent that a certain saving is effected by a fair application of Thorley's Compounded Food. It is believed that the present unprecedented low price of wheat has induced its very gene ral use, in preference to any other of the usual articles of food ; it is, however, much questioned whether wheat is a nourishing and proper food for the working horse, certainly it is not for cows or pigs. Mr. Thorley's Food, besides possessing the advantage of greatly invigorating the health and increasing the physical power of all animals, is a tonic and gentle stimulant, and when mixed with their other food, materially assists their digestive powers—a matter of groat consequence, since it is an undoubted fact that the nourishment contained in their ordinary food is lost, conse quent upon the impaired or defective action of the digestive organs ; it will also be found to be particularly beneficial in restoring to good working condition horses which have been over-worked, or become weak from disease, or are naturally of a feeble constitution. In cows its effects are undoubted, indeed almost marvellous, nearly doubling the yield of milk and butter, whilst it at the same time enriches the quality of both. In pigs its fattening qualities are still more remarkable, displaying in a few weeks its manifest superiority over every other kind of compound or manu factured food adopted in the feeding of swine. Such has been its marked success, that at all our great cattle shows, Royalty, noblemen, and others who have fed the ir cattle on Thorley's Food, have invariably carried off the principal prizes, whilst cards of commendation have been awarded. The patronage of Royalty, of our principal nobility, the clergy, and of our leading agriculturists, must prove a great incitement to this gentleman to pursue his onward course ; and he may confidently rely, in producing so highly-favoured a compound, on a continuation of such high and distinguished patronage. THE REV. ALFRED POOLE'S CASE. Mr. Poole has at length arrived at the result for which he has long been striving; that is, an emphatic condemnation, by the highest ecclesiastical authority, of his peculiar views upon the subject of Confession, and a formal confirmation of the sentence by which his licence was revoked. There is not another word to be said against the manner in which these final proceedings have been con ducted, although undoubtedly, the Archbishop of Canterbury had been misled in the first instance by wrong advice. It was a monstrous thing that Mr. Poole should have questioned women in a locked vestry upon their violation of the Seventh Com mandment. It was almost equally monstrous that he should be condemned unheard. The Court of Queen's Bench has put the archbishop right, and the archbishop has put Mr. Poole right, and the matter is now brought to a satisfactory conclusion. Henceforward let us hope that the archbishop and his successors will not visit curates with so severe a penalty as the revocation of a licence implies with out giving them a full opportunity of defence ; and, further, that curates will abstain from walking in the steps of Mr. Poole in this particular matter. It is but fair to that gentleman to state that the Bishop of London, after due investigation, seems to have arrived at the conclusion that he had not addressed to his penitents the filthy questions of which we have heard so much. Of this he stands fully acquitted ; on the other hand, it seems to be equally clear, upon his own admission, that he had interro gated women 'won the matters referred to, and that he justified his conduct as consistent with the rubrics and doctrines of the Church of England. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London now tell us that this is not so ; that the views of Mr. Poole on the subject of Confession generally, and especially upon Confession where a violation of the Seventh Commandment is at issue, are of a dangerous tendency, and calculated to bring scandal on the Church. It is curious to mark how numbers of excellent people, simply by dwelling for a length of time exclusively upon one idea, can arrive ultimately at conclusions which they would have spurned before the process of intellectual and sentimental incuba tion began. Here is Mr. Poole, now—we doubt not a most excellent and moral man—who, after a due course of the one-idea fever, found himself locked up with a woman in the vestry of St. Bar nabas, putting searching questions to her on the subject of her unchastity. Be it most clearly and broadly understood that we do not mean to suggest the faintest shadow of an infer ence against Mr. Poole's personal morality. We quote him but as an example of an excel lent but simple young man whose brains had got muddled on the point of Auricular Confession, just as Don Quixote's wits were turned on the sub , ject of chivalry. Could the Knight of La Mancha, when in his sober senses, and before he took to his library of romance, have seen a picture of himself charging the windmills or stabbing the wine-skins he would surely have said, " Why, that's the pic ture of a madman !" In the same way, had Mr. Poole, before his head was addled by the perusal of such little volumes of nonsense as the one which Mr. Gresley has given to the world upon this particular subject—had he, we say, seen himself ' locked up in the vestry of St. Barnabas and con ' ferring with a Pimlico Magdalen upon the Seventh Commandment, he would have deemed himself a fit inmate for Bedlam. Granting - 7 ,as we are fully prepared to grant—that he himself was pure as the topmost drift of snow on the crown of Mont Blanc, would it be so with others ? Was this a practice which would be tolerated in the British Islands— save by the Roman Catholic portion of the popula• tion—in the year 1859 P There is no doubt that step by step a man may ascend the ladder of mental delusion until he has forgotten how far he has left the solid earth, upon which human beings must be content to walk, beneath him. Ordinary men of our time, however, have no sympathy with these acrobats of imagination. As was well remarked by an old divine, though not one of Mr. Poole's school, " True religion is the 'most common sense thing in the whole world." When you arrive at such conclusions as Mr. Poole deduced in the ves try of St. Barnabas, there is something false in your premises or your reasoning. Your conclusion is a practical absurdity, and therefore some or all of the steps by which you reached it are false. The subject is so delicate an one that we almost fear to remark upon it at all; yet surely it cannot be wrong that an independent voice should be up lifted somewhere to warn these excellent young gentlemen that they really must abstain from cross examining English women upon such subjects. With the great bulk of the middle classes they can do but little harm, for there they have to deal with occupied and educated people. The sect to which Mr. Poole belongs may be fashionable for a season in Belgravia and other polite quarters, but it came in like crinoline, and like crinoline it will go out. In those regions its success is based upon the idle ness and ennui of the population, and generally of that graceful and interesting section of it which is composed of young ladies under twenty-five years of age. With the humbler classes the evil is greater, for with regard to them, no doubt, the priest has the advantage of knowledge and position, as op posed to ignorance and no position at all. The machiiery of charities, and doles, and cus tomers and employers, and lady-visitors, too, can be thrown into gear for their benefit with startling effect. It is just the old story of electioneering oppression as applied to matters ' of religion. Certain of the humbler classes are at the mercy of their employers and patrons, and these persons choose to establish a religious test as the price of their favours. We must in justice to the High Church say that instances of a similar system ' of oppression committed by the other side have been brought under our notice. Such and such an Evan gelical minister, again, has before now been as much the spiritual inquisitor of his flock (and the crooks of these gentlemen have been pretty long ones) as any . Anglican priest who ever laboured at the Con fessional. It does not signify much, if the inquisi torial process is to take place at all, whether the penitent be standing, sitting, or kneeling. It is not a question of a posture, but of a fact, and the fact is the abuse of priestly power. The abuse of this power has been brought very offensively before the public in this case of Mr. Poole, but we are far indeed from asserting that cognate abuses do not ! take place on the other side. The matter must be left, after all, to the discretion of the heads of families. It is their business—indeed, one of their highest duties—to guard all persons under their authority from such dangerous delusions. In case of abuse it only requires that the fact should be L made public, and publicity will soon supply a remedy sharper than any in the laboratory of bishop or archbishop.— Times. UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION, WHITEHALL- YARD. On Friday, March 18, a lecture was delivered in the theatre, Major-General Stanhope in the chair, by Lieut.-Colonel E. Hawley, R.A., on " Frederick the Great's Campaign in 1757." The lecturer de scribed the general nature of the operations in this, one of Frederick's most famous campaigns, and sought by means of its incidents to illustrate some of the principles of war. It begun by a sketch of the geographical features of the Prussian province of Silesia and the frontier between it and Moravia, the Austrian province through which lay the most direct route to Vienna. Though this was, in the abstract, the most eligible territorial line of operation, yet, in 1756, Frederick justly considered that it was better to begin with pos sessing himself of the secretly hostile country of Saxony, which lay between his hereditary domi nions in Brandenburgh and the Austrian army in Bohemia. In 1757, Saxony being in his power, there was no longer objections to the territorial line of Moravia, yet Fre derick chose to operate in Bohemia, which line offered far greater difficulties to his enterprise. He commenced with a double line of operations from Lusatia and Saxony, converging on Prague. The defects in the Austrian dispositions, whether for attack or defence, were shown, and Frederick's mode of passing the mountains, and effecting a combined movement on Prague, was contrasted with that of Napoleon in 1800, showing the great superiority of the latter as a strategist. The use of interior lines against a double extension line was illustrated—and it was shown how the Austrians, instead of availing themselves of their advantageous position, suffered the Prussian s (notwithstanding their erroneous system of attack) to combine before Prague. After the defeat at Kollin, Frederick retreated from Bohemia before the superior forces of Austria. The French, too, now threatened him, coming from the Maine ; but in these difficult circumstances all his genius and energy were called forth. Applying the principle of interior lines, against the double lines of the French and Austrians, he prevented them from uniting till he had overwhelmed the former in the famous battle of Itosbach, when, marching to the aid of his lieutenant, who, opposed to the Austrians, h a d b een d efeated by them, from act ing on a line too widely extended, he joined his forces t o th e b eaten Prussian arm;', and by a second brilliant v i c t ory, over greatly superior numbers at Leuthen, recovered Silesia, and forced the Aust r i ans b ac k w i th i n their own frontier.' The lecture concluded with an enumeration of the faults committed by the Austrians, and a sum mary of Frederick's characteristics as a great general. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—LEWES, March 23. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Wightman.) Henry Edward Mitchell Randall, 16, a good looking lad, was indicted for feloniously inter marrying with one Lucy Bray, his wife Emily being at the time and still alive. Mr. Wyatt prosecuted; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Roupell. The circumstances of this charge were of a very extraordinary character. The prisoner, it appeared, was employed as a file•cutter at the Brighton Rail way Station, and he became acquainted with a young girl, named Emily Tupper, in the course of last year, and on the sth December they were married at Brighton, the prisoner giving the name of Henry Edward Mitchell Randall. Four years before this he had been " courting" a young girl, named Lucy Bray, who lived with her parents at Ringmer, and it appeared that a few days after the marriage at Brighton ho went to Ringmer, and on the 27th of December he again went through the ceremony of marriage with Lucy Bray. It trans pired in the course of the evidence that there had been an improper intimacy between Lucy Bray and the prisoner for a considerable time before the marriage, and that she was in the family-way by him, and expected to be put to bed in June next. It also appeared that the prisoner had gone away from Ringmer on the day the first marriage took place, stating that he was going to London, and having marries his first wife he stopped a short time with her, and then returned to Ringmer, when the second marriage took place ; and four days after the second ceremony had been performed he told his second wife that he had been married before, but said he did not think it was a good marriage, because he was married in the name of Randall, whereas his real name was Mitchell. The jury found the prisoner guilty. The learned judge said that, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, he should take time to consider what sentence ought to be pronounced. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—March 23. (Before Mr. Pashley, 4.C., Assistant-Judge.) Henry Pettingall, 18, was indicted for stealing 20 muffs, 30 boas, and other articles, value £l4O, the property of Edward Boyd Roberts, his master, a furrier, 239, Regent -street ; and Charles Daw, 25, and Marian Oliver, were indicted for feloniously receiving the same with a guilty knowledge. Mr. F. H. Lewis conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Cooper defended Oliver; Mr. Ribton, Daw; Pet tingall was not defended. This case was very complicated, and occupied a considerable part of the day. The robbery was com mitted upon the premises of the prosecutor in August last, and in January a cabman gave infor mation to the police which led to the apprehension of Daw and Oliver as the receivers of the property. Inspector Holden and Sergeant Silverton, 239 A, had charge of the case, and they apprehended Oli ver at 21, Pitt-street, Tottenham-court-road, where she had lived with a brother of Pettingall, and they found in her possession a large number of skeleton keys—some of which were so covered with wax that on being inserted in a lock they would receive the impressions of the wards or tumblers by which an adept could file them so as to fit the lock—files, jemmies, and an instrument made for the purpose of unlocking a door by being passed through the keyhole, or a hole made in the door by a bit. They also found in her room a boa and a muff, which were identified as part of the stolen property. Daw was taken at 53, Frith-street, where he was em ployed, and according to the cabman's evidence he received a parcel which contained some, if not all, of the stolen property. The evidence led to the conclusion that the boy Pettingall, and another who had since absconded, committed the robbery, and The Jury, after a lengthened defence by the learned counsel, a reply by Mr. Lewis upon evidence as to facts which had been adduced, and the sum ming up, retired, and ultimately found all three prisoners guilty. Oliver had been convicted before. The Assistant-Judgesaid he would consider wha sentence to pass. Mary Ann - O'Connor, 17, was indicted for having stolen a will, a cashbox, a policy of insurance, and £l5O in notes, gold, and silver, the property and money of Susan Maddox, her mistress. She pleaded Guilty. From answers given to questions put by the Court it appeared that the prosecutrix was a widow, and kept the King and Queen publichouse, in High street, Kensington, and the prisoner had been in her service to take care of an invalid daughter sub ject to fits. The cashbox was kept in a bureau in the bar parlour, to which the prisoner had access, and she absconded, taking with her the money which had been placed in the cashbox. From in formation given the police found her on board the Venus training ship at Woolwich, where a brother of hers was, and about £5O of the money had been recovered. The prisoner said there was only about £7O in the box, and that was all she took, b u t that was manifestly a lie. She obtained the situa tion under false representations. The Assistant-Judge said, this was a very serious and aggravated case of robbery by a servant, and, after carefully considering the whole of the cir cumstances attending it, the Court felt it to be its duty to sentence the prisoner to three years' penal servitude. A prisoner named Williams, convicted at the last sessions, at Clerkenwell, of stealing a bag from the London and North-Western terminus, was brought up for judgment. He was remanded, in cons equence of his having pertinaciously insisted that the officer of the House of Correction, Cold bath-fields, was mistaken in stating that he was known as having been in that prison, and the result was that two former convictions were now proved against him, and evidence adduced by the police to show that he was a regular haunter of railway stations, living by plundering luggage, and a mem ber of a gang who followed the same pursuit. He was known by the name of Maguire. The Assistant-Judge said, it would not only be for the benefit of the public, but of the prisoner himself that he should be removed for some time from the scene of his operations. He sentenced the prisoner to seven years' penal servitude. John Busier and John Toomey, costermongers, were convicted of attempting to steal a bag from a cab, and being known offenders were sentenced each to 18 months' hard labour. (Before Mr. Payne.) Mary Mordan, 37, and Thomas Mordan, 14, mother and son, were indicted —the latter for steal ing and the former for feloniously receiving three brushes, value 3s. 6d., the property of James Taylor, the boy's employer. They were found guilty, and the mother was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour. Sentence on the boy was deferred. Elizabeth Jackson and Mary Ann West, two prostitutes, were indicted for assaulting Adam Wagner, and, by violence, robbing him of a watch and chain, his property. The prisoners enticed the prosecutor into a brothel in Flower and Dean-street, and one seized bim by the hands from behind and held him while the other forcibly took his watch and chain. Others entered the room they were in to aid the prisoners in escaping, and as be attempted to prevent their getting away he received a blow on the head from a poker, and the prisoners got out of the window. The jury found them guilty, and former convic tions were proved against them. Mr. Payne sentenced each of them to five years' penal servitude. Arnold Baumgarten, 26, was indicted for stealing the tooth of a sea horse and a horn, the property of Robert Lubinski. He was found guilty, and sen tenced to nine months' hard labour. Mr. Langford prosecuted, Mr. J. P. Doyle was for the prisoner. POLICE I NTELLIGENCE.—March 23. - MANSION-HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor, when the police cases of the Justice -room were terminated, spoke as follows upon the subject of his decision in a case which came before him a few days ago :—I do not know whether I am right in what I am about to say, because I think a magistrate is not bound to volunteer his defence of anything which he may do in his judicial capacity, but in the case of Mary Do novan I have received a great number of letters, some of which contain small contributions for her benefit, and others are filled with the most violent and scur rilous abuse of myself. I shall take no notice of the latter, but with respect to the contributions, I can, if the contributors desire it, apply them as requested to do, for her use and benefit, when she comes out of prison ; but I think it right to say, that if the whol e o f th e case h a d b een published, there would ha ve b een no sympat h y an d n o contri butions. It is well known that the girl had been o inf assembling thestreets here before, and th a t s h e an d th ose with whom she associates have be en l ong in as th s e gr e habits together and annoying the pen with the most disgusting language ; and, in fact, she proved what a mistress of foul language she was while she was awaiting her examination in this house. Altogether her conduct has not by any means been such as ought to excite sympathy. Sb.e is not so pure as she wished to appear to be. If she had gone away from the place when the policeman requested her to do so she would not have been brought before me, but instead of going away she resisted the officer and tried to excite pOilic sym pathy, and she collected a crowd around 'tier to the great inconvenience of passers by. I know it is quite impossible in a police report, condensed as it ue3essarily must be, to state all the facts of such a case, and, therefore, I have no fault to find with the accuracy of the report. ram willing to take upon myself all the responsibility of the case ; but it is, I must say, something new to me, after 30 years of devotion to the principles of justice and humanity, and of anxious zeal to rescue such girls as Mary Donovan from a life of misery and vice, to be accused of all sorts of crimes against justice, and even, I may say, common humanity ; and if it had not been for the contributions I should have thought it altogether unnecessary to offer any remarks whatever upon the case. If after this it be still the desire of those who have sent their contributions that those contributions should be applied to the use of Mary Donovan, I will place the money in the hands of one of the most humane clergymen in the city to do everything with it for her service ; but I must again say that in my opinion the case is not one which ought to excite public sympathy. Some years ago this girl was placed in the King Edward's School of Industry and Refuge for Girls in Spitalfields, and extraordinary re sults were anticipated f rom h er ev id en t na tural abilities, but after two years of training for a pupil teacher, with the view of opening up to her a resp e ctable and useful mode of support, the authorities of the e s t a bli s h men t were compe ll e d to dismiss her for her disorderly conduct, and since that time she has b een li v i ng i n Flower-and-Dean street, Spitalfields, a locality chosen rather by per sons of most irregular habits ; in fact, by thieves and prostitutes, than by those who live by honest industry. However, as I said before, if, after this statement, those who have sent their contributions still wish their contributions to be applied to the use of Mary Donovan when she comes out of prison, I will see that they shall be so applied, and I have already written to Mr. Cohen, the chaplain at Holloway-goal, requesting that he would ascertain if there be any chance of doing her any real and permanent service, but I must add that the contri butions usually sent to this court are for the benefit of the deserving poor and not for the criminal. This girl has been in prison before. She had been long under the notice of the police, and was the ringleader of a gang of girls who have been long complained of by the inhabitants of the district in which she was apprehended for their habit of col lecting round the Royal Exchange and the Fen church-street railway station for the purpose of importuning gentlemen for money, and it was well known if their importunities were unsuccessful the vilest abuse followed ; and there is strong reason to suspect that the combs and other articles which these girls carry and ostensibly offer for sale are carried, not for sale, but to enable them to effect other objects. Among the letters sent to me with small contributions I have had communications forwarded by several papers. Those sums I shall apply with the others, if the donors still desire it, and I wish to say that, however harshly some of the papers have acted towards me, I shall not be prevented from endeavouring in the most earnest manner to rescue this girl from a life of vice. I must add that on the very day she was brought before me, and imme diately after the case was ended, a gentleman came forward to complain of her conduct, but said that he did not dare to make the complaint in open court, because he was convinced that if he made the complaint his windows would have been broken next morning by her companions. I have only to add to these observations that I shall re quest that the press will acknowledge my receipt of all sums I have received for Mary Donovan. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWARK—MARcn 23. The show of wheat at our corn market to-day wag tolerably good, and in improved condition, at a slight sd vance in prices. There was a moderate supply of barley and other grain, and the trade ruled quiet. White wheat, new, 43s to 47s Red do. 3Bs to 42s Old white 438 to 47s Red do. 38s to 42s Barley, malting 388 to 44s Barley, grinding 28s to 30 9 Oats, old, .. 3os to 349 New do 24s to 28s Beans. 44s to 48s Peas .... - - a to ...s BOSTON-MARCH 23. There was a tolerable quantity of wheat on offer to-day, and prices for all descriptions were about is higher. Bar ley a limited show, and sales flat at about last week's rates. Beans were in scare supply, and prices firm. Oats in fair sale, at previous rates. Wheat, 'white 4os to 45s Beans, Mazagan..—s to -- 0 I red 36s to 39s Middle & small 40s to 440 Barley 3Bs to 40s White peas 3Bs to 470 I Oats lBs to 242 Grey.. —s to MARK ET HARBOROTJGH-111Anon 23. At yesterday's market the show of wheat was moderate. The trade in other descriptions of grain was slow. • MELTON MOWBRAY —MARCH 23. At yesterday's market there was but a moderate supply of wheat, and with a quiet demand the rates of the previous week were fully supported. Barley was an average show, and as dear. Oats sold at the currencies of the previous week, and were a dull sale. Beans scarce, and the trade less firm. The young grain in this district is looking veil healthy, Wheat ...37s to 41s Oats.... White do .40 s t o 43 s B eans Barley .38 s t o 42 s Di tto, old ' .-344285 s to ot tO --3468:s DUBLIN—MARCH 22. No alteration to-day in the price from Tuesday could be made in either barley, flour, oats, or beans. Wheat WO scarce and wanted. a. d. s. d. s. d. ■. d. Wheat, white.. 22 6to 25 6 Do., new Do., red...... 21 6 to 23 6 I Bere Do., new .... 21 6t024 6 Rapeseed Barley Oats Do., black lO 6to 11 0 Indian corn .. 28 oto3o 0 COAL MARK] (Prices of Coal per Ton at :T--111Ancit 23. the close of the market.) s. d. Bates' West Hartley..l3 6 Davison's West Hart- Walls End. 8. cl. Horton .. l3 3 Benson,.,, l4 v, Trimdon Th o rnl e y 13 °. Braddyll's Hetton 15 0 South Hetton 16 9 Eden Main l4 6 Tees . l7 0 Kelloe l5 t South K e ll oe l5 '„ Whitworth l4 6 l' A Powell'aDuffryn Steam 21 v West Hetton . 14 . Eden 14 . 7 N or th um b er l and 14 u Acorn Close l4 6 . Wharncliffe 13 0 Framwellgate l4 0 Caradoc ley _ 15 6 Grey's West Hartley...l4 6 Lambert's West Hart- ley ..15 0 Wylam Tanfield Moor 11 3 Tanfield Moor Butes 11 3 Benton West Hartley 14 6 Walker Primrose 11 0 Hastings Hartley. l5 3 North Percy Hartley 14 3 Walls End. South Hartlepool 15 0 Haswell l7 0 8rand0n....... l6 6 Heugh Hall 14 6 Hatton.... l7 0 Ships at market, 99—Sold, 59. POSTAL OFFICIAL CIRCULAR AND DAILY P l icicrr LIST. —On the Ist proximo the title of the " Daily Packet List" win be altered as above, and the publication 'will un dergo considerable change, including the issue of a weelf l 9 edition. By means of the "Postal Circular and DWI Packet Li s t" th e pu bli c w i ll continue to be supplied wit° various information respecting the sailing of packet boat! and private ships conveying mails, and with notices of au alterations in the despatch or arrival of mails, in the rate of postage (whether inland, colonial, or foreign), or in elll other postal matter of public import. The "Postal Official Circular and Daily Packet List" will be published, and sent, as at present, without charge for postage to the sub scribers, by Mr. Shanly, 7, Red Cross-square, Londoo9 E.C., at the foil' ing charges, p a y a bl e i n advance :—Dailf edition, £1 pel• annum; weekly or Saturday ditto, ss. ditto; single numbers, lid. each. By purchasing the daily editil of the " Postal Official Circular and Daily Packet List,,, and the quarterly edition of the " British Postal G u ide,. any person may alway s b e i n possess i on of the earliest arid fullest information regarding postal matters; and this ob ject may in a great measure be attained by the purchase et the " British Postal Uruide" and the weekly edition of the "Postal Official Circular and Daily Packet List. By Cow mend of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND HILL, Sec retary.—General Post-office, March 22, 1859. BIRTHS. PRENDENSTEIN.—On the 19th inst., at Homburg, near Frankfort, the Barone s s Grenoss von Frendenstein) of a son. Royal-parade_ t Cb.elten• GORDON.—On the 21st inst., at 17, ham, the wif e o f It. Clifton Gordon, Esq., of Bath, of son. MAcnoNALD.—On the 21st inst., at 40, Montagu sq uare, London. the lady of Chessborough C. Macdonald, of Ca' dargah, N.S.W., of a son. STEPRENS.—On the 23d inst., at Lee-road, Blackheath, Mrs. W. It. Stephens, of a son. MARRIAGES CRAWSHAY-IVIATHISON. — On the 17th inst., at Bambrof Northumberland, Edmond Crawshay, Esq., of Benshanst Durham, third son of George o Hatch, and Montague-street, Russell-square, to Mari Jane, eldest daughter Crawshay, E sq ., o f Coluei Fenh am, Northumberlaira. John Mathison, Esq., ° DIXON—ELLTs.—On the 23d inst , at St. Saviour's, Maid° . hill, Robert Dix on, E N , eldest .fion of the late R. Divot, Esq., barrister-at-lavf, to Julia Louisa, youngest daug l . l ,: ter of the late CaptFAin George Ellis, of the Bengal A.rtu lery. BARNETT.—Ou the DEATHS. Barnett Barnett, at n S ixeter, Robert Hen r i, Ese i , of Magdalen . College, Cambridge, aged 3 " OARR UTHEN_S.—On the 19th inst., at DaLston-rise, Jam es Carruth , Jrs, aged 60. GO WLAY,TD.—On the 22d inst., at 4, Crooked lane, B. VAowland, aged 35. H AY. KEY.—On the 23d inst., at 5, Hyde-park-gardens, W' Alers Hankey, Esq., of Fenchurch-street, aged 88. NETTERVILLE. —On the 21st inst., at Clapton-square' Hackney, John Edwin Netterville, for 54 years a mai' ber of the Stock Exchange. POWELL.—On the 20th inst., at Bath, Captain Frederick Thos. Powell, Assistant-Superintendent of the WW I Navy. im RAVEN.—On the 22d inst., at Blackheath, Capt. Miem — Raven, R.N., aged 75. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TA6 Sun Office, NO. 1121 Strand, in the Precinct of the S av oy, in the coctY ° Middlesex, Thursday, March 24, 1459. OR ,Itesort Pike, jn Ital Irnpot 116: lntere GEO] EC 245. p( Dozen rs.pot blishe Dozen Per GI iStroni Dozen i ; a,Ci la. per Paid. 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