The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-31 00:00:00

~- ~. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, March 17. The Irish in America are more Irish than their countrymen at home. St Patrick's-day is always celebrated in this city with greater show and splen dour, and with fully as much of the drunkenness and combativeness as attend it from dawn to dark ness in the old country. The streets of New York present at this moment an appearance of bustle, gaiety, and animation such as Dublin or Cork never exhibited on any similar occasion, and probably never will. Even on the day which ardent Americans believe to be much closer at hand than the Fourth of July when the South shall be finally subjugated; the gentlemen conquered by the plebeians, of whom the Vice-President is the representative ; and the Union restored, with or without the liberty and pro sperity that preceded its disruption, it is difficult to imagine that there can be an assemblage of greater or happier looking crowds, a larger display of star spangled banners and green flags of Erin, or a more uproarious jangle and clangour of bells, a more gene ral suspension of business in this mighty emporium of the West. A stranger uninformed of the real facts might imagine that this was neither an Anglo-Saxon nor a composite democracy, but a purely Hibernian Republic, and that St. Patrick was the tutelary saint of the whole people and not of a section. In honour of the occasion, and, perhaps, not without a prudent wish to avoid exciting too much the combative pro pensities of a race that is combative enough when sober, and apt to be a little too combative when the whisky has begun to inflame the blood and enliven its ideas, the draught which commenced the day be fore yesterday was peaceably continued until sun set last evening, was adjourned by authority until to-morrow. To-day, therefore, " the wheel of mis fortune," as the poor call it, will not revolve ; and Paddy fully or only half naturalised will be free for another day to indulge in the fond hope that he need fight in no other field than a street skrim mage, and with no weapon more formidable than the national shillelagh. The draught up to this time has proceeded with remarkable quietude. Notwithstanding all previous intimations, and the obvious necessity for reinforc ing the Federal armies if the war is to be vigorously pushed, the final announcement that proceedings had already commenced took the public by surprise. The surprise, however, it must be added, is not ac companied by much alarm. The believe is so pre valent that the war approaches its end, that Rich mond cannot hold out another month, that if Gen. Lee be not driven out he will be starved out by the occupation or destruction of his lines of supply, and that the occupation of the Confederate capital by Grant or Sherman, whatever may be the fate of Lee's army, will virtually restore the Union and obviate the necessity of any future fighting, except against a few scattered guerillas, that the draughted men look upon the prospect before them without the dread which a mere mention of the conscription excited in the summer of 1863. The Government has sagaciously taken advantage of the state of feeling to render the draught more palatable, and declared its intention to treat every conscription, as far as bounty money is concerned, exactly as if he were a volunteer. In addition to this mode of breaking the weight of the unwelcome infliction, it has ordered that double the number of men required to fill the quota of New York shall be draughted, or 26,000 instead of 13,000. By this means two persons are irtterested in procuring one substitute. In consequence the price of substitutes has risen rapidly. In some instances as much as $l,BOO or $2,000 has been paid by rich men for a duly quali fied deputy on the battle-field. The poor, aware of the efforts thus made, and pacified by the assur rance that although the draught be nominally, it will not be actually, enforced, if volunteering pro vide the requisite 13,000 men within any reason able period, resign themselves to the comfortable conviction that if the worst comes to the worst no man with a family who does not wish to become a soldier will be torn from his home, and that the country, the city, or private munificence will find the means to rescue him. The arrival of Sherman at Fayetteville unopposed, and with his whole army in good health and spirits, and the generally favourable character of the war news from every quarter of the strategic horizon, continues to fill the non-speculative and non-gam bling portion of the public with delight. In com mercial circles, however, there is wailing and gnashing of teeth. The " bears" arc in ccstacies, and the " bulls" roar with rage and vexation. Since the beginning of the present year, or from the 3d of January, when gold was at 230, until to-day, when it touched 159, there has been a fall in the premium of no less than 71 per cent., mainly caused by the Federal successes consequent upon the capture of Atlanta, the unexpected march of General Sherman to Savannah, and the whole chain of military events which have since that time totally changed the aspect and the conditions of the war. Large failures have taken place in Philadelphia and New York—princi pally in the produce trade ; and to-day in this city there is something nearly approaching to a panic in Wall_street, William-street, Exchange-place, and the Produce-market. This, however, is but temporary, or believed to be so ; and the "bull" interest, together with the whole retail and some portion of the whole sale trade, refuse to lower prices, or, at all events, defer doing so until military events become more clearly defined, and victory more thoroughly out of the reach of accident. Notwithstanding the fall, the necessaries and the luxuries of life maintain their war prices, while in house-rent and fuel there has been a positive increase. The owners of real estate, alarmed at the increase not only of Federal, but of State, taxation have in thousands of instances refused to let their houses as in for mer years, and insisted upon selling them, at almost fabulous rates of purchase, in greenbacks. The tendency of this has been to create such a competition for the houses still remaining to be let by the year or on lease for a longer term that the landlords have as a rule added 60 and even 100 per cent. to their previous rentals. New • York is unprecedentedly full. So much money is to be made in it by speculation in gold, in stocks, in railways, and in the newest favourite, petroleum, and so many refugees from the Border States have crowded into it to escape the horrors of war or of military government that if 3,000 or 4,000 addi tional houses had been built during the year there would have been no risk of their remaining un tenanted. But no such houses have been erected. The only building that has been carried on to any extent has been in Broadway and its tributary streets, where the whole business of the city is con centrated, and that only to the extent of converting private residences into stores, warehouses, and offices, and substituting marble or iron places of trade for the modest brickhouses that were formerly sufficient for all purposes either of utility or orna ment. how New York is to lodge itself during the spring and summer is a problem of which the only solution seems to be the erection of new hotels and the overcrowding of all existing boarding-houses. Lodging-houses are compara tively unknown. The stranger cannot hire a couple of rooms or suite of apartments in this city, breakfast at home, and dine at his club or at a tavern, as he can in London or Paris, but he must " board" and eat in public not only with men and women of whom he knows and desires to know nothing, but with their children under or in their teens---a stat e o f t em•s once which is trying enough to Americans, and would be intolerable to any other people. The following advertisement, which appears in the Herald —though an obvious joke —may serve to convey an idea of the difficulty that besets the quiet-loving man, who desires in this Babylon to sit by his own fireside, with his wife and family—" To let, a one and a half story frame house, suitable for a man without wife or children, partly furnished by the owner's grandmother. Rent only $l,OOO per month, payable in advance. No objection to tenant making repairs. Address K, box 1,266: , A remedy for the evils of which this advertisement is not a very flagrant exaggeration has been Enig_ gested, though as yet without exciting much atten tion. It is urged that if buildings were erected in a style of architecture similar to some of the mon strous, but very beautiful, dry goods warehouses and banks that line Broadway and the cross streets, and separated into flats or apartments suitable for , families who &sire to keep servants and live pri vately, after the; fashion of the houses of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Parif 3, and Vienna, the speculation would not only confer a public benefit, but prove highly remunerative both now and hereafter to the capi talists who should invest their money in it. Specu lation, however, does not take this turn at present. The holders of real estate are alarmed at the pro spect of being eaten up with taxes, general and local, and have no spirit to entertain the idea of new enterprises. The consequence threatens to be that Manhattan Island, which is only half covered with buildings, and which, to the north of the central-park, presents the appearance of a newly planned city in the wilderness thinly dotted with buildings, will be left unfinished, and that the ad joining towns and villages, separated from it by the Hudson and the East River, and the beautiful Bay of New York, will profit by the greediness or neglect of the property-holders of the metropolis. A much better house can be hired in London for £lOO per annum than can be procured in New York for £3OO. Yet building speculation is dead unless, as before stated, for the conversion of dwelling-houses into ware= houses and stables. Rich and poor suffer alike from this state of affairs, but the poor, of course, the most grievously. The rich suffered onlyinconvenience, the poor suffer from malaria and fever, the consequences of filth and overcrowding, and a new generation rising up among them is either carried prematurely to the grave, or grows up to adolescence and ma turity amid all the demoralising and degrading in fluences so well understood in the Old World by all who have ever devoted a thought to the subject of the dwellings of the people. The authoritative announcement that Lord Lyons is not to return to America has been received with much regret in this city, and with more in Washing ton. It is amusing, however, to note the manner in which the notification that. Sir Frederick Bruce has been appointed to succeed him has been received by the principal journals. Much respect has been ex pressed for the character and services of Lord Lyons, not unmingled with a mock regret that he should have had so hard a time of it as to be compelled to write more than a folio per week in consequence, not of his own cacoethes scribendi, but of that of the versatile and many-sided Secretary of State ; but, although the matter is somewhat jocularly treated, there is a real feeling of disappointment that Great Britain has not thought fit to compliment the great Republic, in its hour of apparent triumph, by sending as its representative a man of higher rank than a mere knight, or even a baronet. When after "Mr." Crampton's expulsion, the Court of St. James's heaped coals of fire upon the head of the Federal Government, and retaliated an insult by sending it a " Lord," the pride of the Americans was tickled. Lord Napier was a great success—not because he was a gentleman, a scholar, and a man of the world, but because he was a " Lord." His successor was acceptable for the same reason, and Lord Lyons, though not so for tunate as Lord Napier in having a lady to ingra tiate herself with the fashionable society of Wash ington, and preside over the elegant hospitalities of the embassy, was highly esteemed on account of personal qualities that seemed all the more bril liant in Democratic eyes, because they were allied with a title of nobility. If the British Government had but sent a Duke—the Duke of Argyll, for instance—instead of Sir Frederick Bruce, the choice of an envoy of such high rank would have been accepted as a proof that England was at last, and not too early, convinced of the policy of cultivating the friendship of " our great country, sir ;" and of establishing an entente cordiale, of which England would reap all the solid advan tages, and America nothing but the placid satisfac tion of knowing that her resources were appreciated and her power feared by the only country in the world of which Americans entertain anyreal jealousy. There is, however, another class of people and poli ticians who affect to despise rank and title, and who object to the appointment of Sir Frederick Bruce, not because he is neither earl, nor marquis, nor duke, but because he has never been known to them to ex press sentiments in any way favourable to America or to Republican institutions. "If," say some of these public instructors, " the British Government had sent either Mr. Cobden or Mr. Bright to represent it at Washington, the American people would have known for a certainty that England desired to be their friend, that it repented of its neglect, to use a mild word, in having permitted the Florida and Alabama to escape from its ports and prey upon the commerce of America, and that in due time it would pay the little bill for the same without mak- , ing unpleasant remonstrances, or forcing Mr. Lin coln- to invade Ireland, bombard Portsmouth, or blockade the mouth of the Thames to obtain the money." In this respect all that need be said is that Mr. Cobden has been in America, knows the country, and would have little to learn or unlearn by a residence at Washington ; but that Mr. Bright has not enjoyed such advantage. Could the peace ful and humble member for the town of swords and guns take to diplomacy; teach his tongue, as a diplo matist should, to conceal at least some of his thoughts ; not persist in always calling a spade a spade; become reticent and observant; and accept the mission to the Federal capital, if Earl Russell or Lord Palmerston would entrust him with it, there is little hazard in predicting that after two or three years of careful study of the working of American institutions, he would return to his own country a good patriot, a true Englishman, and a promising candidate for a high place in the next Conservative Administration. MARCH 18. Two remarkable pronunciamentos are published this morning—one a message from Mr. President Davis to the Confederate Congress, the other a speech by Mr. Lincoln to a crowd in front of the National Hotel at Washington. Mr. Davis conceals nothing from the people. He admits candidly that Richmond was never in such danger from the armies of the North as at this moment, and earnestly repeats that courage, perseverance, self-denial, and abiding faith in th 6 ultimate triumph of the cause are absolutely necessary to retrieve the fallen, but not yet broken, fortunes of the South. He breathes no word of sur render, but at the same time gives the people and their representatives to understand that they must yet make many sacrifices, not only of wealth and life, but even of their liberty for awhile, if they would establish their independence beyond the power of the North, or of any other enemy to overthrow or impair it. Mr. Lincoln's speech takes no such lofty or heroic ground ; nor was it necessary that he should. He nevertheless speaks sensibly and to the purpose; declares the end of the rebellion to be close at hand from the exhaustion of the South in men and means; and administers a caustic rub on the dislocated back of slavery, by declaring that if one fourth of the Southern slaves fight and are willing to fight for the prolonged enslavement of the other three-fourths, slavery as an institution will find its best justification in so strange and abnormal a fact. g p h a t v , i a s n , d resumed this after deliveri ng mThornereinwg,erteharttlmmreurs. Jefferson his message to Congress, had resigned the Presi dency, and had been succeeded as G enera l Lee, as Dictator, amid the acclamati▪ ons of Congress and people. people. It has not been possi▪ ble to trace the report to any trustworthy source, though from many indi cations derived from the South itis not improbable that they may prove the forerunners or prefigur e .. ment of an event that has not yet happened. Th e Northern people have got it into their minds that General Lee would be more likely to agree to terms of submission than Mr. Davis, and hence the rumour has had the effect of greatly increasing the public confidence that the war is near its close, and of sending down the premium of gold. The friends of the South in this city incline to a different opinion, and insist that the investiture of General Lee with supreme power would invigorate and en courage all classes in the South, fill up the armies, and indefinitely prolong the struggle. ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills. Chest and Stomach Complaints.—The source and centre of almost every ailment is impurity of the blood. Dislodge this poison and disease departs. Holloway's pills exercise the inestimable power of thoroughly cleansing each component part of the blood, and rendering this fluid fit to perform its important functions. They cope most successfully with chest diseases, stomach complaints, liver disorders, and many other maladies which were once the besetting dan gers of mankind at certain seasons in town and country. The directions for use enable every one to regulate the operation of these pills with the;greatest nicety. Chronic invalids, nervous sufferers, and all whom other treatment has hitherto failed to relieve, are respectfully invited to try cure Hollowa themy'.s medicine, which will strengthen, and probably ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT—Tm - Tax, March 30. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Crompton) _ . Henry Fisher was indicted for the wilful murder of Mary Fisher, his wife, at Bath, on the 6th of January. Mr. T. W. Saunders and Mr. Murch were counsel for the prosecution ; Mr. Prideaux defended the prisoner. The facts were extremely simple. The prisoner was a journeyman shoemaker, living with his wife at 2, North ampton-street, Bath. He had been married 14 yearn, and he and his wife had always lived together on the, most comfortable and affectionate terms. They had had one child, which happily had died some years since. He was a very well-conducted hard-working man, bearing an ex cellent character. It would seem that his mind became tainted with a melancholy notion that things were coming to a bad end with him, and that the introduction of machi nery in his trade would bring him and his wife to a state of destitution, poverty, and want. This morbid feeling of distress and misery he communicated to his wife. They pondered over it, and one became as much distressed as the other. They came to a resolution to end their woes by putting an end to their existence, and the deceased was heard to say that she should not mind if they could die together. It did not transpire who was the first to suggest it, but they determined to take poison, and a quantity of laudanum was procured at different times and at different shops. On Friday, the 6th of January, the prisoner's stepmother, Mrs. Fisher, called at their lodgings and knocked at the door of their room, but not obtaining any answer she went away. She called again in a later part cf the day, but with the same result. She went again in the evening, and knocked at the door until a faint voice answered, and then the prisoner opened the door. She asked him what was the matter. He replied "I could not help it. She is not dead, but dying." A light was procured. Mrs. Fisher said "What have you been about ?" The prisoner replied "We have taken laudanum by mutual consent. We worked each other up to it. We have each taken seven teaspoonful of laudanum." The woman was lying on the bed in a state of insensibility. Mr. Massey, a surgeon, was sent for, but the woman never rallied. She lingered from the Friday to the Sunday, and then she died. The prisoner was taken to the Bath Hospital, and by great care and skill was recovered. The learned Judge, in summing up, observed that it might be to be regretted that there were not different punishments for different degrees of murder, but the law was clear that in such a case as this the offence was that of murder. If two parties agreed to commit suicide and one only died, the survivor was guilty of murder. The jury retired for some time, and on their return into court gave a verdict of Guilty according to law, but recom mended him most strongly to mercy. The Judge said he agreed in their verdict, and he should join in the recommendation to mercy ; but still the law re quired that he should pass the sentence of death. The prisoner said he had no feeling of revenge or malice ; it was their weak minds, not trusting in Providence, as they ought to have done. Whatever might bo his fate, he hoped it would be a warning to others. His Lordship having put on the black cap, sentenced the prisoner to death with all the usual formalities. The prisoner looked the picture of misery and despon dency. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEEDS, March 30. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Willes.) Dennis Carr, Edward Hall, and Henry Smith were in dicted for a garotte robbery upon Mr. Matthew Coulson Burnby, at Sheffield, on the 23d of December. Mr. V. Blackburn and Mr. Gully appeared for the prose cution ; Mr. Shepherd defended Carr; Mr. Campbell Foster appeared for Hall ; and Mr. Fitzjames Stephen represented Smith. The prosecutor is mineral agent for Earl Fitzwilliam, and before the occurrence in question had been for some time in the habit of carrying home from his place of business in Sheffield to his residence in Victoria-road, Broomhall-park, in a satchel the money he had taken in the course of the day, and which generally amounted to from £lOO to £2OO. On the day in question the strap of the satchel had broken, and, contrary to his usual custom, Mr. Burnby, when he set out to go home between 6 and 7 o'clock in the evening, took no money with him except the loose cash he happened to have in his pockets. He had got within 200 or 300 yards from his house when he was pulled back from behind and swung round. He then found himself in the presence of two men, while a third, who in height and appearance resembled the prisoner Smith, was watching at a distance. Of the two men who stood nearest to him, one struck Mr. Burnby twice on the side of the head with some blunt in strument, which Mr. Burnby believed to be a " knuckle duster." The other man seized him by the throat and held him while the first man struck him several blows upon and below the ribs. Mr. Burnby then became insensible, and was found shortly afterwards lying on the road. He was removed to his house, but remained in a dangerous state for some time, and was not yet recovered from the ill treatment ho had received. Upon examination it was dis covered that £2 or £3 in silver which Mr. Burnby had in his pocket, a silver watch, and a gold pin set with an amethyst had been taken. The evidence connecting the prisoners with the robbery was chiefly that of a man naloed Martin Cooper, a watch maker, who stated that on tho night in question, between 7 and 8 o'clock, the prisoners Hall and Carr came to his house, which was about three quarters of a mile distant from the scene of the robbery. Hall produced a silver watch bearing the same name and number as that taken from Mr. Burnby, and Carr a gold pin with an amethyst in it, which he handed to the witness, saying, "By - ! be careful with it, for there's 20 years and a good flogging for it." Cooper then, by Hall and Carr's directions, broke up the pin and erased the name and number from tho watch, washing it over with aqua fortis to give the scratches the appearance of age. The men then asked Cooper if he would give 30s. for the watch, which he agreed to do. On the following even ing Hall and Carr came again, and were shortly joined by Smith, and subsequently by a man named Skinner. While Smith was out of the room Hall said to Cooper, iu the pre sence of Carr, "Can you pay me for that watch and pin ?" Cooper then gave Hall the 305., and Hall having given Carr 10s. said, " It's a fine lot for five of us to be in. We expected to get £100." The next morning Cooper saw an account of the robbery in the papers, and, taking the watch to Smith, asked him to hide it. Smith did so, and kept it for some days, until Cooper went to him again, and having obtained the watch, laid it in a hedge bottom. He then went to the police and gave information which led to the apprehension of the prisoners. Upon cross-examination Cooper admitted that he had been charged with a burglary at Mr. Myers's at Sheffield, when £5,000 of jewellery was stolen, but was acquitted. In last January he was apprehended along with two other men named Silvester and Jones, having been caught in Mr. Fur ness's grounds as they were about to attempt a burglary but he stated that he had himself given the information which led to the capture and had borne testimony against the other two when they were convicted. He said that, finding himself getting more and more deeply implicated with Hall and Carr, and men of a similar character, his conscience pricked him, and he had resolved to give infor mation. He denied that he had himself taken any part in the attack upon Mr. Burnby. This witness was corroborated in some of the particulars Of his account byhis wife and his brother-in-law, who were present at one or other of the conversations between Cooper and Hall and Carr. In consequence of Cooper's revelations Carr was apprehended, when a knuckle-duster was found upon him. Hall was also taken after a desperate resistance, and in his possession was found another knuckle-duster and a life-preserver. At the close of the prosecution, The learned Counsel for the defence contended that there was no evidence against the men for whom they re spectively appeared, except the uncorroborated testimony of accomplices, and Mr. Campbell Foster cited a case of " The King against Neale," in the 7th volume of " Car rington and Payne's Reports," in which Mr. Justice Parke is reported to have held that the testimony of the wife of an accomplice is no confirmation of the evidence of the husband, and that when there is no other corroborative evidence the prisoner ought to be acquitted. His Lordship observed that this was contrary to all his notions. He did not think that because a wife knew that her husband had stolen property in her house and did not at once go and give information to the police she was not to be believed upon her oath. He must suppose that the case referred to had been misreported. Moreover, he was of opinion that in this case there was corroborative evidence independent of that given by Cooper's wife and brother in-law. For the defence it was contended on behalf of Hall and Carr that they had nothing to do with the robbery, that Cooper could not be credited, and that his evidence was not sufficiently corroborated to make it safe for the jury to rely upon it. For Smith, against whom the case, so far as it depended on Cooper's evidence, was weaker, witnesses were called for the purpose of establishing an alibi. Tho trial was not concluded till 4 o'clock, when the jury retired to consider their verdict. After an absence of 25 minutes they returned into court and found Carr and Hall guilty of the robbery, and Smith guilty of receiving the goods knowing them to have been stolen. All the prisoners have been previously convicted. Carr was sentenced to penal servitude for life, Hall for 20, and Smith for five years. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivEnrooL, March 30. CROWN SIDE. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) Henry Dapper Grey, Henry Webb Channon, and David James were yesterday charged, the two former with having burglariously broken and entered the dwellinghouse of William Critchley, and stolen therefrom a great quantity of watches, rings, chains, and other articles of jewelry to the value in all of £1,800; and the latter with having re ceived the property knowing it to be stolen. A man called Augustus Douglas was also in custody charged with being concerned in the burglary, but there not being sufficient evidence against him he was not put upon his trial, and he was discharged on the conclusion of the case. Mr. Aspinail, Q.C., and Mr. W. C. Gully were the counsel THE LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1865. for the prosecution; Mr. Torr defended the prisoner Grey, Mr. Littler Channon, and Dr. Commins James. Mr. Critchley was a pawnbroker in Liverpool, and at the time of the burglary the prisoner Channon was employed in his establishment, and had been so for some time. The burglary was committed by some person concealed within the premises, who had broken out, so as to constitute the offence, and within a day of the occurrence Channon was in the company of Grey, who was at that time in Liver pool. About eight o'clock on the evening of the 2d of January the shop was closed, and a boy named Bethel searched the pledge-boxes and put up the shutters, while Channon stood at the shop door, so that no one could have entered without his knowledge, and it was suggested that the prisoner Grey was secreted in one of the pledge-boxes which the boy did not afterwards examine. About half past 1 in the morning the housekeeper, Mrs. Kent, was awakened by the loud barking of a dog which lay in the par lour at the back of the shop, and the door of which was locked. She woke Channon, and they went down into the parlour with a lighted candle, and Channon coaxed the dog quiet, and, looking into the dark shop with the lighted can dle in his hand, told Mrs. Kent that all was right. They then went to sleep again, and at 5 o'clock in the morning the po lice found the door of the shop into the passage open, and thereupon roused them up again. The door had been opened from the inside by forcing off a padlock, and probably the noise of doing that had disturbed the dog. It was found the next day that Grey had gone to London, and on the sth a box arrived from Liverpool at his lodgings there in Chapel street, Tottenham-court-road. A few days after the box James arrived in the Chapel-street lodgings, Grey living there under the name of Bennett, and James under that of Selby. The men then proceeded to dispose of the property. A ring was given to a Mrs. Hillyard, the wife of a publican. The prisoner James induced a man named Hill to pledge with a Mr. Walter, a pawnbroker, articles to the value of £75, and he himself disposed of rings to the value of £35 to At tenborough, the pawnbroker. The rest of the property they had pledged at Portsmouth, Southampton, Southsea, and other places. Grey was arrested in London by Carlisle, a detective officer. The officer saw him in Drummond street with Douglas, from whom he turned quickly away, when he caught sight of the officer. Carlisle followed him, and said, " Here, my gentleman," when he turned:round and said, " What charge do you want me for, Mr. Car lisle ?" The officer M'Vetey arrested Douglas, and both prisoners were put into a cab. Grey put something into his mouth, and Carlisle put up both windows and desired him to take it out. He took out a sovereign and said, " Carlisle, don't think I am a d— fool to keep any of the stuff about me." He said to Douglas, " You be a man ; know nothing ; say nothing ; watch me, and see how I will do.' , On the way from London to Liverpool in the train he said, jocularly, to Douglas, "If we are Mound guilty, you will get six years and I will get twenty ; and we shall have to put up with it. Inspector Jermyns, of the Portsmouth po lice, searched the lodgings of the prisoner James in South sea, andfound a tin case there containing some gold chains, a gold locket, and others of the articles lost. After the addresses of the learned counsel and the sum ing up of his lordship, The jury, after a deliberation of about 20 minutes, found a verdict of guilty against all the prisoners. Grey and James were sentenced to 14 years' penal servi tude each, and Channon to 12 years. On the conclusion of the case his Lordship called the two officers, Carlisle and M'Vetey, into tho witness-box, and, remarking, that he could not speak in too high terms of their conduct in the case, ordered them to receive a each. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY. From the Wetherby, Lewes, and Reading meetings being on, the attendance of subscribers was confined to about a dozen old stagers, and beyond a trifling outlay on Mail Train for the Northamptonshire Stakes at 12 to 1, not a bet was booked. For the Ten Thousand 7 to 2 was the highest offer against Breadalbano, who in the morning at the Club was backed for upwards of £4OO at that price, and let off with a rising tendency. For the Derby, at the same place, 3,000 to 100 were laid against Chattanooga. The quota tions on the other races were unchanged ; but we should state that Thalestris, Lion, and Arcturus were scratched for the Northamptonshire Stakes yesterday morning. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Skeffington (taken) 12 * to 1 agst Mail Train (taken) 100 to 8 agst Hartley (offered) 14 to 1 agst Battaglia (taken) THE TWO THOUSAND. 100 to 30 agst Liddington (offered) 7to 2 agst Breadalbane (offered, take 4 to 1) 10 to 1 agst Chattanooga (offered) 14 to 1 bar three (offered) BETTING AT MAN MIES TER —T.IIIIRSDAY. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.. 10 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken) 100 to 9 agst Hartley (taken) 100 to 8 agst John Davis (taken) 100 to 7 agst Huntsman's Daughter (offered) 100 to 6 agst Fantail (taken ane offered) 20 to 1 agst Skeffington (offered) 25 to 1 agst Swordsman (offered) 25 to 1 agst Gibraltar (offered, take 30) 100 to 3 agst Grinder (offered) 100 to 3 agst Vest colt (offered) 40 to 1 agst Lion (taken and offered) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 10 to lon the field (offered) 20 to 1 agst Lanpoon (offered) 25 to 1 agst Mail Train (taken) 100 to 3 agst Swordsman (taken) CHESTER CUP. 11 to 1 agst Lori Zetland (taken) 13 to 1 agst Lion (offered) 100 to 6 agst Ackworth (offered) 25 to 1 agst Grinder (offered) THE GRAND NATIONAL HUNT STEEPLE CHASES. The success of Wednesday was more complete than we at first supposed; nearly 40,000 people are estimated to have been present on the ground, and the stand receipts were close upon £6OO, £5O in addition being taken for the car riages. The only thing wanting was the brilliant sunshine we were favoured with to-day (Thursday).- The air was like May or June, and it was strange to hear that there had been snow in London. The only race of interest to day was the Great Yorkshire open handicap, which afforded a very brilliant finish between King of Hearts and Creole, the former winning by a head. The rest were farmers' events. The only drawback lo the success of the meeting has been the sad want of punctuality in keeping the hour fixed on the card. The stewards seemed unable to keep any regularity in this respect, and the proverbial dilatori ness of gentlemen jockeys was allowed the utmost limit. The Bramham Moor Cup, of at least 60 sovs, given by the town and neighbourhood of Wetherby, added to a sweep stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, for hunters ; to be ridden by gentlemen or by farmers. Distance, about four miles. 7 subs. Captain Vyner's Bryan, aged, 13st (Captain Knox). 1 Mr. R. Vyner's.Hinda, ?god, 13st (Mr. Coventry) 2 Mr. H. V. Wilkinson's Magpie, aged, 13st (Owner) 3 The following also ran :—Cock Robin, King Arthur, Buceleueb, and Maria. Betting-7 to 4 agst Buccleuch, 100 to 30 each agst Bryan and Maria. Bryan took a commanding lead, with nothing else near him, the others, apparently under the impression that it was no start, pulling up, but upon finding their mistake, going on again. It was too late; however, to reach Bryan, who, though passed at one time by Hinda, soon resumed his lead, and won easily by six lengths. Magpie was a bad third. An objection to the start was overruled. The Great Yorkshire Open Handicap Steeplechase, of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 100 sovs added. About four miles. 20 subs. Mr. J. J. °Aden's King of Hearts, 6 yrs, list 21b (Page 1 Mr. Welfitt's Creole, aged, 12st 41b . .......(Waddington). Mr. F. Trardinge's RM. D., 5 yrs, 12st (Mr. Thompson 3 Mr. B. J. Angell's Bridegroom, aged, list 121 b . . . (Mr. Coventry) 4 Mr. F. Milbank's Rathronan, 5 yrs, llst 91b (Captain MGrath) 5 Foresight and Fly-by-Night also ran. Betting-6 to 5 agst Creole, 4to 1 each agst Bridegroom and King of Hearts, sto 1 agst Fly-by-Night, and 6 to 1 agst Foresight rushed to the front, followed by R.M.D., Rathronan, Creole, and Bridegroom, Fly-by-Night bringing up the rear. The leader continued the running until falling apt the first fence after passing the stand. He left Bride groom in the van, who went on with Creole in attendance, close up with whom were R.M.D. and King of Hearts, Fly-by-Night retiring about this point. On the far side the last time round King of Hearts improved his position, and a very fine race ensued between him, Creole, and R.M.D., Mr. Welfitt's horse coming with great gameness at last, but failing to reach King of Hearts, who won by a head, R.M.D. finishing three-parts of a length behind Creole. The Dealers' Stakes, of 5 sovs each, with 25 added ; the winner to be sold 150 sovs ; if for 100 sovs, allowed 71b ; five-yr-olds to carry 11st ; six-yr-olds, 11st 91b ; aged, 12st. Winners of 50 sovs 51b extra, of 100 sovs, or upwards, 101 b extra ; half-breds allowed 71b. About 3 miles. i Mr. R. Walker's Miss Joyce, aged (h.b.) lOst (£lOO (Mr. R. Walker 1 Hon. C: L. Fox's Miss Active, 5 yrs (h. b), lOst (£lOO (W. Snowden 2 Mr. Marley's Maid of the Mill, aged, 11st 71b (£150) (Mr. Marley) 3 Mr. R. Barker's Arbitration, aged, list 71b (£100) (P. Smith) 4 Chain Jumper and Magician also ran. Betting—Even on Miss Joyce, 3 to 1 agst Magician, sto 1 agst Miss Active, and 6 to 1 agst Chain Jumper. Miss Joyce and Miss Active jumped off with the lead, and continued the running without being approached. Chain Jumper refused, and Magician fell. The others were never in the race, and Miss Joyce won a good race from Miss Active by a neck. Maid of the Mill was a very bad third. The winner was not sold. The Farmers' Open Steeplechase, with at least N soys added, for horses the property of farmers occupying 100 acres of land in Great Britain. About four miles. Mr. Bygott's Bridegroom (h. b.), aged, 12st 101 b (Mr. G. Harland) 1 Mr. D. Collings's Express, aged, 12st 101 b (Owner 2 Mr. L. Nicholson's Jane Duff, 5 yrs, 12st (Owner 3 Mr. RoUghead nas Maria (h. b.), aged, 12st 101 (Mr. Coulston) 4 Mr. Kirk's Westwick (late Useless Brute), aged 12st 101 b (Mr. R. Balty) 5 Mr. J. Shepherd's Bounding Brick, aged, 12st 101 b (Mr. R. Shepherd) 6 Mr. H. Lambert's Dr. Bowe (h. b.), 6 yrs, 12st 61b (Mr. Fewson) 7 . . . Betting-5 to 4 agst Bridegroom, 7to 2 Express, 7to 1 agst any other. Bounding Brick made play, followed by Express and Dr. Bowe, and continued in front until passing the last turn, where he fell, one fence from home, and the race was left to Bridegroom and Express, the former winning by a length; Jane Duff was a bad third. LEWES SPRING MEETING—TuunsDAY. The Welter Cup Handicap, value 50 sovs, by subscription of 5 sovs each, with 30 added ; winners extra; gentlemen riders ; professionals 71b extra. One mile and a half. 16 subs. Capt. Vibart's Llangollen, 4 yrs, 105 t... (Mr. Whiteside 1 Mr. C.P. Hudson's Warwick, 4 yrs, 10st 31b...(Fordham 2 Mr. F. Fisher's Walpole, 6 yrs, lOst 71b ... (Nightingal I 3 The following also ran :—Corinthian Tom, The Lee, and Duenna. Betting-2 to 1 agst Warwick, 4to 1 each agst Llan gollen and Walpole, 5 to 1 agst Corinthian Tom, 6 to 1 agst Duenna. Walpole made play at a slow pace, followed by Llangol len and The Lee. Coming down the hill Corinthian Tom ran into third place, Warwick going on fourth. Nearing the distance, Warwick took second place, and, challenging Llangollen, the pair ran a good race, which ended in favour of Llangollen by a head ; Walpole a bad third; The Lee, pulling up, was fourth; Duenna fifth, and Corinthian Tom last. The Castle Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 40 added, for two and three-yr-olds ; two, 6st 121 b; three, 9st 41b ; the _ _ winner to be sold for 100 sovs. Certain allowances. T.Y.C. Mr. Samuel's Birague, 3 yrs, Bst 111 b (£5O) (Pordham) 1 Mr. R. Porter's Master Shutt, 2 yrs, 6st 21b (50) (Cdrrol) 2 Mr. E. J. Sayers's Indian Star, 2 yrs, Gst 51b (.£5O) (Hartley) 3 Ptarmigan also ran. Betting—Even on Indian Star, and 2 to 1 .ggst Birague. Master Shutt made the running till within th© distance, where Birague, after a little rousing, joined him, and won easily by two lengths; Indian Star beaten a length and a half for second place. The winner was bought by Mr. S. Thellusson. for 150 guineas, and Indian Star was claimed by Mr. Porter. The Two-Year-Old Stakes of 5 sous. each, with 40 added; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 71b ; winners extra. Half a mile. 16 subs. Mr. Hartley's Alberta, Bst 71b (Payne) 1 Mr. H. Savile's William Pitt, Bst 101 b (J. Goater) 2 Mr. H. Ten Broeck's Fickle, Bst 121 b (in. 51b extra) (Hibberd) 3 The following also ran :—Acrobat, Katie, Mary Hill, Cynthia colt, Crafty, Woolwich, and Her Ladyship. Betting-3 to 1 agst William Pitt-5 to 1 each agst Katie and Mary Hill-6 to 1 agst Alberta-7 to 1 agst Crafty -10 to 1 agst Woolwich—luo to 8 agst Fickle. A tedious delay oocurred at the post. Katie was very unmanageable, and Woolwich, overpowering Mi. Boyce, more than once ran a considerable distance. William Pitt quickest on his legs, got off in front, followed by Alberta, Crafty, Mary Hill, Fickle, and Woolwich. Approaching the distance Fickle looked most formidable, but gave way on the hill, and Alberta, upon nearing the stand, challenged William Pitt, and won a good race by a neck ; a length divided the second and third ; the Cynthia colt was fourth ; Woolwich was fifth, and Katie sixth; the others well up, close together. The Craven Handicap of 5 soya. each, with 40 added, for three-yr-olds and upwards; Winners extra. T.Y.C., about five furlongs. 38 subs., of whom 23 pay 2 sovs. Mr. Henry's Kangaroo, 3 yrs, Gst 91b (J. Grimshaw) 1 Lord St. Vincent's Surney, 3 yrs, Gat (Elphick) 2 Mr. R. Bland's Pegasus, 4 yrs, 7st Mb (Hibberd) 3 The following also ran :—Land of the West, Benanoar, Boleno, and Fancy. Betting-2 to .1 on Kangaroo-7 to 1 agst Landpf the West-10 to 1 agst any other. The favourite, pulling hard, lay off till halfway up the hill, where Grimshaw let him out, and without being ex tended he won easily by half a length ; Pegasus was third, beaten three lengths, and Fancy and Benanoar were the two next. A Selling Stakes of 3 sova each, with 25 added, for three . yr-olds and upwards ; weight for age; mares and geld ings allowed 31b; selling allowances. One mile. Mr. Breary's Confusion, aged, Bst 21b (£3o)...(Hibberd) 1 Mr. E. Brayley's Anadyomene, 3 yrs, 6st 61b (£3O) (Carroll) 2 Mr. E. Brayley's Corinthian Tom, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (X3O) (Cannon) 3 Betting-6 to son Anadyomene, 7to 4 agst Confusion. Corinthian Tom held the lead for the first three-quarters of a mile, where Confusion slipped the pair and won in a canter by ten lengths. Corinthian Toni beaten off. The winner was bought by . Mr. G. Reynolds, for 80 guineas. The Town Plato (Handicap) of 40 Bova, winata a after the publication of the weights 71b extra. Seven furlongs. Mr. G. Fenwick's Queen Bee, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (S. Adams) 1 Mr, G. Hodgman'i flawkshaw, 4 yrs, Bst 101b...(Morris) 2 Mr. Elphick's Noisy, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (W a ll s ) 3 The following also ran :—Rapture, Olivia, Antonia, and Diploma. Betting-5 to 2 agst liawkshaw, 7to 2 agst Rapture, 4 to 1 agst Olivia, 6 to 1 agst Antonia, 7 to 1 agst Queen Bee. Queen Bee made the running, her immediate followers being Hawkshaw, Diploma, and Rapture, to the dip, where Hawkshaw took up the running and held a slight lead of Queen Bee. When half way in the distance, the pair, being clear of their horses, raced home together, the result ending in favour of Queen Bee by three-quarters of a length ; Diploma a bad third ; Antonia was fourth, and Noisy fifth. READING OPEN AND ALDERSHOT CAVALRY BRIGADE STEEPLECHASES—THURSDAY. The infantry Division Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, -with 70 added; 12st each, with penalties. About two miles. Mr. Lake's Sir Stephen, 12st 51b (inc. 51b ex.) (Mr. Heeley) 1 Mr. Young's Gehazi, 12st (. Creagh):o Betting-5 to 4on Sir Stephen, who won easily. A Selling Steeplechase of 3 sovs each, with 30 added; weight for age, with selling allowances. About two miles and a half. Mr. Adams's Sinite (.£5O), list 71b (J. Land) 1 Mr. Peyton's Almeric (.£3O), list 71b (Rickards) 2 The following also ran:—Waterman, Witch, Moscow, and The Trapper. Betting-6 to 4 agst Sinite, 2to 1 agst Almeric, sto 2 agst.Waterman. A fine race, ending in favour of Sinite by a nbck. The winner was bought in for 50 guineas. The Cavalry Brigade Cup of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 60 added ; 12st each. Three miles. Mr. Shaw's (14th Hussars) Merrimac, 13st (inc. 141 b ex.) (Mr. Knox) 1 Major Ainslie's (Royal Dragoons) Remedy, 13st (inc. 141 b ex.) The following also ran ;—Badger, Bravo, Dragoon, Palermo, Jerry, The Scrub, and Winnifred. Betting-6 to 4 agst Remedy, 2to 1 agst Merrimac, 6to 1 agst Miss Arthur. A most exciting race, won by a short head ; half a length between second and third. Dragoon was a good fourth. Tho Waterloo Handicap of 5 sovs each, 2 ft, with 40 added. About two miles. Mr. B. Land's Ironsides, aged, 12st 71b (H. States) 1 Mr. H. Wright's Attaman, lOst 121 b (Pickett) 2 Wedding Ring and Deception also ran. Betting—Even on Ironsides, 2 to 1 agst Attaman, 3 to 1 agst Wedding Ring. Won easily by two lengths. Wedding Ring and Decep tion fell. The Scots Greys Light-Weight Sweepstakes of 2 sovs each, with 40 added; 12st each ; winners extra. About two miles. Mr. Pigott's Scrub, 12st (Owner) 1 Mr. Du Cane's Jerry, 12st (Mr. O'Brien) 2 Bob, Gummy, and Deerfoot also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Scrub, 2to 1 agst gummy, sto 2 agst Bob. Won by six lengths ; Deerfoot fell ; Bob put his foot in a grip, broke his leg, and was at once destroyed. Match : 50 sovs each ; 12st each. Two miles. Mr. F. Cundle's Chicory, 12st (J. Ricaby, jun.) 1 Mr. G. Fidler's Goldseeker, 12st (J. Land) 2 Betting—At first 6 to 4 on Goldseeker, and then 6 to 4 on Chicory. Won easily. The Royal Dragoons Welter Cup, a sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, with 30 added ; 13st each. About three miles. Mr. Williams's Banker, 13st (Mr. Hutton) 1 Mr. H. Stubbers's Master Arth ur , 13 s t (Mr. Malian) 2 Lutestring, Bantam, and Old Ploy also ran. Betting -2 to lon Bantam, who came to grief, and Banter won easily. A Hunters' Race for a Silver Cup; weight for age, with penalties. About threo miles. Capt. Wellgans ns Weddingßing, 12st 121 b (Mr. Harford) 1 Mr. Roberts ns Odds and Evens, 12st 121 b ...(A. States) 2 Mr. Payton ns Alm er i c , 12 s t 71b (Owner) 0 Betting-6 to 4on Wedding Ring, who won by two lengths [ADVERTISEMENTS.] Now ready, price 2s. 6d., by post 2s. Bd., "BAnY's TURF GUIDE." Spring edition, 18'35. London :A. H. Baily, Cornhill. G. R. GLENIA Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park, supplies the Latest Edition of " THE SUN " round the Royal Oak and Notting-hill by eight o'clock. Baily's Spring Turf Guide, this day, 2s. 6d. post free.— Commissions executed. PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO TIIE LATE JAMES WATT.—At a meeting held at Birmingham yesterday, over which the Mayor presided, it was determined to erect a public memorial to James Watt. The sum of £4OO was sub scribed iu the room. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIDIES.--This last year we were in the very heat of the conflict between Denmark and the great German Power. We did not cease to remonstrate, even after .hope had fled, or to point out how shadowy were the advantages which it was sought to gain at the expense of so much misery and so much injustice. We exposed as well as we could the shallow and shortsighted policy which induced two Powers of the first rank to fall upon a feeble and almost helpless adversary, and we never ceased to urge the policy of referring all matters in difference to a Conference, instead of casting aside every principle upon which the safety of Europe is founded, and opening a new period of revolution by a series of acts of wrong and violence. The counsels of all those who advised moderation and a respect for treaties were disregarded. Prussia and Austria believed they had found a great opportunity—the one for consolidating and increasing her interest in Germany, the other for raising her military reputa tion and acquiring a large portion of valuable terri tory • while the rest of the G erman C on f e d eracy looked on with bitter hostility at the brilliant part played by the two belligerents—a hostility mainly traceable to envy that they were not permitted to share in the military glory to be reaped by the two Powers. A year has passed, everything has succeeded according to their wish, Austria and Prussia have far transcended anything that could have been ex pected from them in rapacity and injustice. Plun dered of her territory, heavily amerced in large sums of money for having exercised the most ordinary rights of war, Denmark has been compelled to ac cept a peace in the condition of which nothing was wanting that could ruin her resources or exasperate her pride. It is worth considering, then, how far the victorious States and the German Confederacy, which originally goaded them on, have reason to rejoice in the success their arms have achieved— whether they have gained all that Denmark has lost, or whether the whole affair has not been a profligate and useless waste of honour, of character and of human happiness. If any one ought to be happy at the results of last year's war and negotiations, it should surely be Prussia. She has not gained much real glory to be sure, for there was very little to be got ; but she has made the most of her vic tories, she has parodied Napoleon's proclamations, and excited transports of admiration throughout the whole of what used to be considered quiet and mo derate Germany. After her conquest of !Denmark there is no enterprise, however hardy and desperate, to which she is not believed to be more than ade quate. She is even now in possession of the terri tory which she conquered on behalf of the Confede racy, and has gained whatever gain there was to be made out of a very shabby transaction. Surely Prussia must be united at home, and glorious and successful abroad? It is quite true that she holds military possession of Schleswig-Holstein, but it is equally true that she dares n ot annex the territory she has acquired. She is beset by the jealousies of all Germany, which stoutly resists the idea of allow ing Prussia to conquer for herself a member of the Blind which had committed no other offence than that of being estranged from the fatherland by the power of an alien and hostile Prince. She is enjoy ing a feast of the Barmecide, or, rather, of Tantalus, for the viands are displayed before her which she is not permitted to eat. Schleswig and Holstein, who have invited the invasion, are, we may say in passing, just as unhappy as any one else. Their prayers have been heard to the full, their wishes have been granted, and yet we hear of nothing but murmuring and repining. Schleswig is said, in de fiance of Prussian repression, to be getting up peti tions to the Emperor of the French to deliver her from the hands of Prussia, and to restore her once more to that Denmark from which she has been so violently dissevered: Holstein views with abhorrence the prospect of annexation to Prussia, and prays for the Prince of Augustenburg to put an end to a weari some and harassing interregnum. But we have not yet done with Prussia. We have seen what are her external relations, and how little strength or satis faction she has obtained by her inglorious conquest; but if we wish to see the full embarrassment which she has created for herself we must look within. It was supposed that by the success of his foreign policy Count Bismark had so cajoled and over awed the Prussian Liberals that he had no fur ther opposition to fear, and that the nation was pre pared to accept the tinsel glories of Missunde and Duppel as a complete satisfaction for the downfall of Parliamentary Government and the loss of her domestic liberties. This, however, does not appear to have been the case. The Prussian Assembly was not, indeed, wise enough to reject the honours of an easy conquest, but all the glory of war has not melted the hearts of those who hold in their hands the purse-strings of the people. The whole quarrel of the Budget is not a step nearer settlement than it was three years ago. From. its Assembly the Go vernment cannot extract a single thaler, and yet it is afraid to dissolve, because it believes that the Assembly which would succeed it would be Rtill more mutinous and rebellious than the body which it finds at present so unmanageable. Affairs are at a dead-lock, and, as far as we can see, there is no extrication from them for anybody. We have as yet said nothing of Austria—Austria who has been so well content to aid Prussia in all her undertak ings, in the hope at once to consolidate her power in the Federation, to check the revolutionary spirit of Germany, and obtain by boundless concessions to Prussia a firm and trustworthy ally. We need not say how bitterly all these hopes have been dis appointed. The relations of Austria with Prussia have been for a long time strained and uneasy. Per petual quarrels and remonstrances have been very thinly concealed by hollow professions of amity and goodwill. Austria has not abandoned her normal and traditional policy ; she is intriguing against her dear and faithful ally in the Federal Diet, according to her immemorial use and wont ; nay, so little is she satisfied with the proceedings of Prussia, that we really believe nothing but the state of her finances prevents her from altogether abandoning the hollow and delusive alliance between herself and Prussia. In the meanwhile, the Confederation itself has just as little reason to be pleased as its two leading States. It has seen itself set aside in a struggle carried on in its name ; it sees Prussia in wrongful possession of those Duchies for the sake of which the war was waged ; and - as for the Duke of Augustenburg, whose cause it has always vigo rously supported, he finds no more favour with Prussia than he did with Denmark. Such are the relations, such are the positions of Austria, Prussia, the German Confederation, the Duchies, and the Duke of Augustenburg, the principals, the accesso ries, and the abettors of the great iniquity of last year. We may, almost reverse the Latin proverb, and say " Vce victorious," instead of " Vcc victis." They have broken into their neighbour's garden, they have eaten his fruit, and are waking to the conviction that it is sour and unwholesome. We cannot wish things otherwise. It is the interest of all mankind to support the principles of public morality, and the example would have been too tempting had this nefarious enterprise not ended, as it seems likely to do, in general mortification and disappointment. POST.—A former ambassador of Austria at the Porte, on learning another of the many concessions which the late Sultan was making in favour of the Rayahs, declared that there would thenceforth be nothing more for his highness to do but to declare himself a Christian. The successor of Abdul Medjid, however, has found that the best models of Euro pean government may be yet further adopted in the Turkish empire without going the length of a reli gious apostacy on the part of the Sovereign. An official paper of great curiosity and importance has just reached us, which promises a complete trans formation of the whole system of Turkish adminis tration. A change so comprehensive must of course be a work of tune, and a work, too, dependent in the nature - of things upon several contingencies. But, nevertheless, there appears good reason to an ticipate that this organic change in the internal government will be eventually carried into force throughout the empire. This paper amounts to the promulgation of a new constitutional law for a dis trict of European Turkey known as the Vilayet of the Danube ; which is, however, by degrees, to be extended to the whole of the empire. It would be unnecessary, and would perhaps be tedious, to fol low this scheme of administration through all its details. The most salient characteristic of it is that it is drawn bodily from the systems of bureaucracy prevailing in the West of Europe, with just so much of decentralisation, in spite of the generally centra lised character of the scheme, so coincides with the present efforts of the French Government to throw a certain degree of local liberty and independent authority into the administration of the depart ments. This Vilayet of the Danube—a Turkish administrative term—is formed of the old province of Silistria. The Vilayet is divided into seven " Sandjaks," which coincide with the French arrondissements ; and each Sandjak in turn is divided into a certain number of Cazas, or cantons, while the Caza again is subdivided into communes. This is the fourfold territorial division compre hended in the new system. Into the province of Silistria it is introduced as a permanent constitu tional change ; but it appears at the same• time, in its relations with the whole empire, to be to a cer tain extent an experimental or rather preparatory institution. The operation of the new system is first to be tried in the Vilayet of the Danube, and it will be afterwards applied elsewhere. The Govern ment of the Vilayet, as just decreed, may be re garded as a model to which the rest of the Turkish internal government is to be conformed. At the head of the Executive is a Governor-General, termed, in local phraseology, the " Vali," and it is easy to perceive that the Yali is another name for a prefect of a department. His immediate superior is the Ottoman Porte itself, and he is charged with administration of the whole province. He has, how ever, a staff of Ministers under him ; and so far, perhaps, he has higher attributions than a prefect — in proportion, howe v e r , on ly as th e area of his juris diction is greater. These Executive officers are to consist of a Minister of Finance, a Minister of Public Works, a Minister of Agriculture and Com merce, and a principal Secretary—these personages having, however, technically the titles of directors instead of Ministers. Besides these four depart mental officers under the Vali, there is a Council of Administration, who form, in fact, the Council of the Vali. They consist of the above ex officio mem bers and of six others, of whom three are to be chosen by the Mussulman, and three by the Chris tian population. This characteristic of the spirit of national and religious liberality under which the present reform has been projected, involves one of the most important points in the whole scheme. Hitherto the Turks have claimed for themselves an exclusive position in their country. They have made certain concessions, indeed, in recent times to the Rayahs ; but these concessions have alviays borne some debasing badge or other ; and the Rayahs have never wrung a single exemption or privilege from their masters without its carrying with it a convic tion that they were an inferior people. Now, how ever, the Christians appear to be put upon a nearly equal footing with the Mussulman population themselVes. Throughout the inferior administra tive organisations provided for this Vilayet, the same corresponding privileges run as between the Mahometan and the non-Mahometan. In the administrative councils chosen for the inferior juris diction there is just the same equality; it is quite true that the communal administration of Turkey was never marked by any great illiberality ; and there local self-government was the rule, although the law in this respect was not always observed. That that was so, arose chiefly from the fact that there was a great want of the necessary staff of offi cials to form a regular bureaucratic system ; and it was from much the same reason that the Turkish revenues were generally framed, there being no staff of collectors. Bureaucracy, however, is by no means an unmixed advantage ; and we should be sorry to see it everywhere established i n Turkel, even if it were proposed to do so, or the material could be found for it. The constitutional law thus promulgated for the province in question appears to amount to what we might call, in the jargon of the day, local " constitutional" government. It provides responsible administrative officers, at the head of the Vilayet, at the head of each Sandjak, and at the head of each Caza ; and it then divides the authority between the functionaries nominated by the Porte and certain nominees of the community—in which the dominant religion and the Christian and other religions each participated in an equal degree. W° look upon this change as one that is likely to pro duce two distinct classes of advantages, and both of them of very great importance. In the first place, it will tend to diminish the animosities, and als°, the cause of inequality between Mussulman and Christian, by placing them in a position of common authority under the functionaries of the Porte, I . IIU by accustoming them to work together for the com mon good. In the second place, it will tend to raise the standard of local intelligence and activity. We shall witness with great interest the effect of the measure which now has its preparatory introduction into the province of Silistria ; and we anticipate a practical result that will encourage the Porte to carry out the design of rendering it the general con stitution of the empire. COUNTRY MARKETS . ,q,_.._ BP IS T OL-THURSDAY. On our market to-day there was a moderate supply of English wheat, - which sold slowly at last week's pri ces• In foreign but little doing ; prices unaltered. Malting barley quite as dear. For grinding barley a good inquiry, at an advance of 6d per qr. Fine oats fully as dear, while black and tawny improved 3d to 6d per qr. Indian corn/ peas, and beans each is per qr. dearer. BIRMINGHAM-THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a fair supply of wheat which sold slowly at an advance of is per qr. ; barley 6d t ° ls. ; oats, beans, and peas 6d per qr. higher. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 40s to 44s '•• red s 369 to 41s per 36 stone. Malting.barley, 28s to 34s • grinding' 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 30s ;..Irish, 19;lo '24s per 30 stone. Beans, 38s to 42s ; and peas, 38s to 40s per (11.• BURY ST. EDMUND'S-WEDNESDAY. Thero was a fair supply of wheat at this market to-dql , which meta dull sale at is per qr. advance on last we e Barley was in short supply and quite as dear. Beans, pea s ' and oats met a free sale. Talavera wheat, 45s to 495; red ditto, 37s to 40s; bark'' , 32s to 355; secondary ditto, 28s to 30s per qr. Averages : Wheat, Wl2 qrs., 37s 6d ; barley, 827 qrs., 28s Od; oats, 58 qrs., 25s Bd. • MANCIIESTER—TnuusDAY. At our market this rporni , e English wheat was again 15 per qr. dearer, but millers were not free buyers at the ad vance, and only a limited business occurred. Foreign must be quoted ld per cental higher. On flour we raise our quotations 6d per sack, but the dealers and bakers having generally stocked themselves, sales were restricte d. Oats ld per 461 b. and oatmeal 6d per load dearer. ile w English beans and Indian corn brought 6d per qr. more money. EDINBURGH—WEDNESDAY. At our market there was a large supply of county wheat, which sold well, and prices were at is per qr a vance on the rates of last week. Wheat on tho top, Os 6d up average, Os Sd 111) , Barley on the top, Os 6d down average, Os 2d up• Oats on the top, is Od up average, is Od Beans on the top, is 6d up.... average, is 7d 11P. Average prices. Wheat, 37s lld 1 Oats, 22s 5d Barley, 27s 9d) Beans, ...37s ld Total supply and sales. Wheat 1291 qrs sold 910 Barley B3O qrs sold 702 Oats 1836 qrs sold 1374 Beans 179 qrs sold 129 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 36s 6d; egg superfine, 35s Od ; superfine, 33s 6d ; fine, 325. GLASGOW—WEDNESDAY. This day's market was well attended. Fine wheat r o % lised an advance of 6d per 2401 b., American having t i . preference ; choice brands of barrel flour 3d to 6d desro4, per 1961 b.; foreign sack flour firmer ; barley in 5e,, 1 ,1 0 favour ; beans stiffer ; peas, Indian corn, and oats, sad Gd per boll, and oatmeal 6d per load higher. Foreign Mail Packet List. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton April B ' 1 Ditto, via Marseilles Apri l 12 " Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pito, et April G. Ditto, by British packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 2 3 ' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou hampton April 4. Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 29 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., April 4. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Mar. '29. Ditto, via A.larseiiles .. - „Mar. ---• Mauritius, via Southampton April 1 1 4 Ditto, via Marseil e 4... Newfoundland April 124 Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ...... ... . • .• United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp tcn Ditto, via •C:;rk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Mar• 31. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .....April 12• West Indies and Pacific (except Baha,,,as, Cuba, and Mexico •••. . ...Mar. 31. Bahamas, via New - York. Apri , 6 . Bermuda, ditto April 12. Cuba and Mexico ..... Mar. 31' Births. BARTHORP.—On the 27th inst., at Hollesley, the wife Of Barthorp, Esq., of a son. pnos ELLIOT.—On the'2d ult., at the British Legation, -v,-; 11 ,,t, Ayres, the wife of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Chas. "'" C. 8., of a son. ROBERTSON.—On the 27th inst., at 29, Lower Fitzw a ,:: street, Dublin, the Lady Katharine Eustace Itober` s- of a daughter. Marriage& ' HASTINGS—HOLT.—On the 28th inst., at Saint George,,6',. Hanover-square, Graham Hastings, Esq., of Li ncolo ;f inn, barrister-at-law, to Constance A., eldest daughter 0 , the Rev. E. C. Holt, of Eccleston-street, Chester-scltr JEREMY—EVANS.—On the 28th inst., at Tavistock, 187.6 !' - e D. Jeremy, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, to Grace Caro 1010; fourth surviving daughter of the late Rev. Richd. Ei 1.413 of Swansea. Deaths. BRIGHT.—On the 29th inst., at Rhyl, Brailsford Esq., aged 85. BUTLER.—On the 30th inst., at 32, Merrick-square, ,-, Charles Butler, aged 30. h re, HOBSON.—On the 2 9 th inst., at Long Sutton, Lincolus ~„. John Allenby Hobson, 8.A., of the London -Univers,'l' aged 33. .0 0 7 LAlm3.—On the 29th inst., at 75, Queen-street, Ch esP— James Lamb, Esq., aged 64. a t LTWOOD.—On the 29th inst., Mr. Ephraim Illv°°"' The Retreat, Albany-r oa d Camberwell, aged 65- MASSET.—On the 29th inst., at Sanford-place, Stoke 1 11 . 31. ington - common, Alfred Moise Masset, Esq., late of Custom aged 38. PABBISH. s, On the 27th inst., at Clophill, Beds, " I. ' joe o Thomas Parrish, aged 54. f 0 9 / POPE.—On the 29th inst., Dominick Pope, Esq.: G- Fenchurch-street, aged 52. -- _ __ _ _ _ London: Printed and Publifihed by WIL LULU .AN- n .; 0 ;W 0. of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at Tun SUN 000 e, i ' ft) of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in t he CO 3liddiesex.-Friday, March 31, 1865. , THE Capital paid ( Furthi J. R. T Londe Londe John Ha H. Mays Port Henry ] Grace( Joseph I don as Arthur I Messrs Londo MessrE Cornhill. BROB/ needle-si AUDIT London) M'essrs This C plying a trading T steam co In ordi ness to 1 only nec tained b ampton 1 It is it mouth of mails an( There traffic. 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