The Sun. — London, England, 1855-11-13 00:00:00

r. MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly, but with more choice than it opened with, at the extreme prices of last week. 10,000 bales disposed of, 1,600 for export, and 1,000 on specu lation, comprising 600 Bahia 6d. to fid. ; 300 Egyptian 6d. to 7d. ; 2,500 Surats 31d. to 41d. and 200 Sea Islands 9ld. to ls. Old. per lb. The Railway Share Market was quiet, closing rather lower than at the opening. The continental commercial accounts contain very little of general interest. The late advance of the Bank charges for discount was reported to have affected the extensive manufacturers and mer chants, but retailers were doing a good business, which was expected shortly to improve whole sale orders. In Paris manufacturers were busily employed furnishing large orders on hand for Britain and the United States ; otherwise the manufacture and sales of tissues for the depart ments had generally slackened. November, how ever, is considered the dullest month in the year. Meanwhile stocks on band are being worked off by the retailers, and an improvement will probably take place next week. From Spain we learn, by recent accounts, that the Government have decided, in virtue of a decree of 3d January, 1852, concerning a treaty with the State of Mexico concluded in 1836, that ships of the marine belonging to that State visiting the Spanish peninsula will be exempt from navigation dues. The Customs' Commission at Madrid have terminated their labours relative to the proposition of the Junta of Tariffs to lower the duties on cer tain articles of consumption, the spirit of which they have given their assent to. The state of affairs in the Paris Bourse yes terday showed a marked improvement ou that of the previous day. The public funds were dealt in extensively, at an advance of 25 centimes on the 4 per Cent. stock for money, and 50 centimes, for the close of the month ; and the 3 per Cents. for money were buyers at a rise of 15 centimes and for the account 25c. Money was reported to be easy, both in and out of doors. The Share Market was favourably influenced by this improve ment in the funds, and there were purchasers of Credit Mobilier Shares at an advance. Austrian Railway Society Shares, and those of the principal French lines rose accordingly. The additional intelligence from New York, re ceived this morning, notices a quieter tone in the market for breadstuffs, but large quantities were still being forwarded to Europe. Monetary affairs were tolerably steady, and no pressure was expe rienced among the mercantile body. Cotton bad declined id. per lb., and telegraphic accounts from New Orleans stated that the Southern receipts showed an excess of 19,000 bales, compared with the like period of 1854. Accounts from Honduras report no improvement in the condition of trade, and money was scarce. Mahogany was expected to increase in price, and cutting during the ensuing season would be more limited. The demand for discount accommodation has, within the last day or two, decidedly increased, and yesterday it was very active. It is expected in some quarters that renewed pressure is near at hand, and there are certainly indications of such a course of events ; but whether it will be to the ex tent which many predict is somewhat doubtful. The forthcoming payments of the instalments due on the English and Turkish loans will absorb a large amount of capital, for which also full employment is being found in Mincing-lane. Most articles of Colonial produce are in request, but in sugar and tea an active speculation now prevails. The English Stock is flatter again to-day, and the tendency in prices is towards a further decline. There are very few dealings, however, the condi tion of the money market inducing most parties to suspeni operations for the present. The next Bank of England statement is looked forward to with some anxiety, and the general impression is that it will be unfavourable. Consols for money have been as low as 88k for money, but are now 88k. The account prices opened at 88i and have since been 88k, sellers. At the present moment 88 are the quotations. The Reduced Annuities are 874 4, and the New 3 per Cents. 87 to 884. Exchequer Bills are heavy, at 7s. to 4s. discount. India Stock is marked 226. For Foreign Securities there is likewise a dull market. Turkish 6 per Cents. have been kept comparatively steady, being soi to 80k, but the New Scrip is heavy at 34, on account of rumours to the effect that Turkey will soon require a new loan. This, however, is generally considered pre mature. Spanish Bonds are weak, the 3 per Cents. being 38k, the New Deferred 1.9 i to 20, and the Passive 6. Venezuela Deferred Bonds are 194. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. ruled steady at 634, and the Four per Cents. at 93i and 94. Mexican Stock is 19! Spanish Five per Cents. 1001, and Brazilian Five per Cents. 99k. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6,1 to 71 ; Mexican, l 9 to 4 ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 52 to 4; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 -to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88; Spanish New Deferred, 19,4 to 204 ; ditto Three per Cents., 384 to 38g. ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 4 ; ditto Pas sive, 6 to 4. Railway Shares are decidedly flatter, and North Western, within a day or two, have fallen 1 per cent. Great Western are lower, and Midland have declined The French and Belgian lines are in most cases nominal. Mining and Banking Shares aie quiet, and with out variation. Canada Government Debentures are per cent. lower. Van Diemen's Land are higher. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICI: S. (Prom Eye Oficial List. iinginess done Bank Stock .......... 3 ~er Cent. Roducod Annuities I i 8 per Cent. Consols Annuities BBi i i New 3 per Cont. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 . 3 7-16 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 161 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 3 6 Consols for Account BBl i Exchequer 13111 s, 24d. £lOOO. ..-••••.. &nail . Exchequer Bonds 1858,3 i per Cent.... 98i Ditto 1859, ~ ... 984 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. Ditto Small Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent Grenada Bonds, 16 per Cent. ... .... .. g ( i )4 4 Grenada Bonds, Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the account l9a Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1811 Ditto 4 per Cont. Ditto for the Account 436 Ditto 4 per Cent ......... ........ S +rdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent E s i Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto for the account 3BA Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto for the account 2O 19i Ditto Passive 6 p Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4! Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto for the Account Boi 80liBi Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account... iltvidencla on the above inlYable in Londe. Belgian Bonds, 26 per Cont. ex. 25 fr — Ditto 46 per Cent. Ex. 25 fr 92 x d D itch Exchange, 26 per Cent. 12 Gull 634 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates 94 3} THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto for Account, 6th Dec 88! 6 The report of the Agua Fria Mining Company, to be submitted on the 22d inst., states that of the additional subscription of 20 ,0001., required at the last meeting to pay debts of 9,0001., and furnish a working balance, only 10,0201. have been contributed, and that, owing to un foreseen accidents, a further debt of 7,0001. has now been contracted, but that the operations have at length been brought to a point which give a profit, the average yield of the ore being 3/. 131. per ton, while the cost of raising it is 21. The directors therefore recommend the shareholders to supply what is wanted to enable the undertaking to be continued, Should this be refused they will feel it desirable to resign office, . LAW INTELLIGENG (This Day.) COURT OF EX_C IIEQUER. (Sittings in B anco.) (Before Chief Justice Jervis, Chief Baron Pollock, Barons Parke, Platt, and Alderson, Justices Wil liams, Crowder, and \Vines.) GREGORY V. COTTERELL AND OTHERS. Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., said tb is was an error from the I Court of Queen's Bench. The declaration stated that the defendants broke and entered the dwelling•house of ' the plaintiff, and seized certain goods and chattels. The defendants pleaded the usual pleas as officers of the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex. It appeared that on the 30th Jan., 1854, Mr. Thomas Baker, Parliamentary agent, issued a writ fi fa for 2701. against the plaintiff, formerly M.P. for Dublin, residing at 14, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, and on Saturday, the 14th February, a man named Lewis, assistant to Jones, a sheriff's officer, seized the plaintiff's go ads, in virtue of that war rant. On the Monday following, the plaintiff paid to Lewis, at the office of Jones, in Red Lion-passage, the debt and costs, and the man was withdrawn from pos session. The money not being paid over to the sheriff he was unable to return the rule of the writ, and issued a warrant to Sloman, who seized on the 23d February, re , maining in possession till the 2d March. The plaintiff claimed that he bad already paid the amount under the first proceedings, and took out a summons and appeared before Mr. Justice Crampton, at Chambers, to set aside the second levy, when an arrangement was entered into between the plaintiff and the Sheriff, whereby the latter agreed to pay the money on the plaintiff entering into a bond to repay the amount should an action he undertook to bring against the defendants be unsuccessful. The action was tried before Lord Chief Justice Campbell, when it was contended on the one hand that Lewis was authorised by Jones to make the levy and receive the amount, which was paid to him and the man in posses. sion withdrawn ; and, on the other, that Lewis had no authority, had made no return of the receipts of the money, and that Jones, who was then in, extrtntis and had since died, could not be examined to state whether he had or had not received the money. The jury, on the ruling of Lord Campbell, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 4001., the defendant's counsel at the time tendering a bill of exceptions to the learned judge's ruling. The learned Counsel contended that the Sheriff was not liable, because Jones had thought proper to delegate his power and authority to another person, and that Lewis, by that delegation of authority, had no more authority to execute the warrant than if he had found or stolen it. To make the sheriff liable under the first warrant something should have been shown to have been actually done by Jones, to whom the sheriff dele gated his authority. It might be very convenient for these officers to have an office, and for persons to pay money to any person they might find there ; but they did it at their own risk. The learned counsel had not concluded his arguments when our despatch left. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco.—Before Lord Chief Justice Campbell, Justices Coleridge, Wightman, and Erle.) The Court was occupied the greater portion of the day in hearing arguments in a demurrer, relative to the seaworthiness of a vessel on which an insurance had been effected. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) SOI7THWARIC. PICKING POCKETS ON GUY FAWKES' DAY. —John Clark, a smart-looking lad, about 14 years of age, was brought up in custody charged with being concerned with two others in stealing a pu►se containing 10s. from the person of Mary Deane, under the following circum stances : The prosecutrix, an elderly female, said that on the morning of the sth inst. she was standing at the end of St. Andrew's-road, Horsemonger-lane, looking at a for midable sort of a living Guy Fawkes which had stopped in the road. She had then her purse, containing 10s., in her pocket under her dress, and a minute or two afterwards a lad came up to her and told her she had been robbed, and she saw three lads running away. She then found that her purse was gone, and saw two of the lads secured ; but the third, whom she believed to be the prisoner, escaped. The latter was seized hold of by a gePtleman, but he managed to slip his coat off and so got away, at the same time leaving his coat behind. James Macready, a very intelligent lad, said he saw the lady standing at the corner of the St. Andrew's -road looking at a Guy Fawkes, when the prisoner and tAo others surrounded her. Re distinctly saw the prisoner lift up her dress, put his hand up, and take a purse from her pocket, which he ran away with, followed by the other two. They were all seized, but the prisoner slipped his coat off and left it behind. He was sure the prisoner was the oue who picked the lady's pocket, and the coat produced was the one he had on at the time. James Thomson, another lad, said he saw the prisoner running away from the lady with a dark looking purse in his hand. He was joined by two others, and he saw something pass between them. The prisoner made his escape. The magistrate asked whether the gentleman was present who caught hold of the prisoner and retained his coat t The constable replied in the negative. The prisoner's companions were convicted on Thursday last for the part they took in the robbery ; and he apprehended the pri- soner from a description he received of him yesterday afternoon on Newington Causeway. He then denied being in Horsemonger-lane or Saint Andrew's-road on Guy Fawkes' day. The prisoner was connected with a gang of expert pickpockets who were under the tuition of a well-known thief in the Mint. The magistrate said that ho should commit the pri soner, but prior to that he must have the evidence of the gentleman who seized hold of him. Under those cir cumstances he should remand him until Thursday next. THAMES. AN INIORRIGIBLE YOUNG PICKPOCKET.—James King, aged 13, who has been frequently in custody of the po lice, was brought before Mr. Ingham, charged with stealing a pocket-book containing a quantity of papers, a bill of exchange, and other documents, from the per son cf Andrew Povelovitch, a foreigner, who described himself as a farmer, residing in Wellclose-square. The prosecutor stated that he was passing along Up per East Smithfield, a thoroughfare where pickpockets abound, when he was informed by a man that a boy had just taken his pocket-book out of his pocket, and pointed to the prisoner, who ran away. He pursued him and caught hold of him, and he made a violent re sistance, and said he had got no pocket-book, and that another boy had it. Whilst he was struggling with the prisoner a man came up and took his pocket-book from the lad's bosom, under his shirt, where he had con cealed it. William Murray, a sailor, stated that he saw the foreigner hauling the boy about, and asked him what was the matter. The foreigner said, "He has stolen my purse." The boy then struggled violently, and com menced biting the foreigner, and said another boy had got the pocket-book. A bystander said "He has got it in his breast," and he opened his clothes and found the pocket-book there. Mr. Ingham—Does it contain any money ? The prosecutor—No, sir, only papers and documents, but they are of great value to me. George Coa, a police-constable, No. 138 H, said the prisoner was released from the House of Correction, after an imprisonment of one month, on the sth instant, and there were three summary convictions against him pre viously. Mr. Ingham—Has he been whipped The boy answered this question in the affirmative, and, in answer t) another question, said he would be tried by the magistrate. Mr. Ingham sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three calendar months, DEFRAUDING A SAILOR OP HIS WAGES.—Robt, a rough and forbidding-looking fellow, described as a ship lumper, of 12, Half Nicholi-street, Bethnal-green, was brought before Mr. Ingham, charged wish stealing two 51. Bank of England notes, the moneys of Eu gene O'Connor, a seam an belonging to the town of Kinsale, in Ireland. The prosecutor, an intelligent•looking and well dressed Irishman, said he had recently been paid off from his ship, and on Saturday last he fell in with the prisoner who began talking to him, expressed his readi ness to serve him, and " persevered with hint" until he prevailed upon him to part with two 5/. notes, and he bad kept them. Mr. Ingbam—Why, how could you be so feolish as to part with your money to a stranger you had never seen before ? O'Connor—He professed great regard for rne, your worship. (Laughter.) . Mr. Ingham—And displayed it by keeping your two notes. O'Connor—He told me there were a great many thieves and sharpers about London. Mr. Ingham—And he told you the truth, and th ey are ever on the look-out for sailors. (- : ) 'qctuiliF-4g(l 4 lp_saicl my notes would be: safe; in his bands than mine—(laughter)—and I believed him and let him have them. Mr. Ingham—Well, I am surprised that a man appa rently of intelligence and respectability should have been so easily duped. O'Connor—l discovered him this morning in the City and gave him into custody. The prisoner, in defence, said he took care of the sailor's notes while the latter went home with a female he met with, and on his return he gave him back the notes. In the evening they adjourned to a house where they had sausages for supper, and gin and beer, and he left the sailor there. O'Connor—He kept my notes. My Lill of wages was wrapped round them when I parted with them to that villain. Mr. Ingham—You gave him the notes, and you can sue him for them in the County Court. You have bee made the dupe of a designing villain ; but I can do nothing in the matter, and he is discharged. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13,.1855 SIR COLIN CAMPBELL. In giving publicity to the following letter from Colonel Sterling we, Times, feel bound to admit that the paragraph to which he has taken exception does not do justice to the good services and well won claims of one of the most distinguished and deserving officers in her Majesty's army. We have been assured, moreover, that the return of Sir Cohn Campbell to this country is in no way con nected with the promotion of Sir W. Codrington to the office of Commander-in-Chief of the Army in the Crimea, Sir Colin's application for leave of absence "on urgent private affairs" having been made b3fore the news of Sir William's appointment could have reached the Crimea : " Camp Kamara, Oct. 19. "Sir,--I have read with amazement a leading article in the Times of the 4th of October on the subject of the command of this army. One para graph of it I particularly wish to remark upon. I have italicised the parts on which I mean to touch : " A single year of warfare has disposed of the whole of those veterans, with the exception of Sir Colin Camp bell, who has been laid up in lavender all the winter with his Highlanders, and whose military talents, if we may judge of them by his exploits in the Punjaub, do not en title him to aspire to a great command. We have seen the result of sending a young army into the field almost entirely led by old chiefs, who owed their rank to seniority and brevet promotion ; the best of them have either fallen in battle or sunk under disease, and those who remain are mere obstructions to the real strength of the army.' " The first assertion here is that Sir Colin Camp bell and bis Highlanders were laid up in lavender during the winter ; I was also in lavender with them, and have better reason than the writer of this article to know what the fact was as to our comforts. The three regiments, the 42d, 79th, and 93d were united in front of Balaklava on the day after the so-called action of Balaklava. Their business was, aided by the brigade of Royal Marines, consisting of some 1,200 men, and several thou sands of the poor Turks, who were driven out of the redoubts on the day of Balaklava, and who nearly all died during the winter of the cold and hardship which the sturdy Scotchmen endured without a murmur, under the cheerful, noble, generous leading of Sir Colin Campbell,—their busi ness, I say, was to finish the works on the heights, and construct .trenches in mud, and frost, and snow, and, when made, to guard them. The guard ing consisted in the whole of the soldiers being fully accoutred all night and every night ; one-half of them lay every night in the trenches, and the other half in the muddy tents from the 25th of October till the Gth of December, when the Rus sians retired across the Tchernaya. During this period, and for many weeks afterwards, they were never dry. Immediately on the enemy's retreat the fatigue parties to the front began ; on which subject I beg to introduce an extract of a letter from Sir Colin Campbell to Major-General Airey, dated 'January 29, 1855, Lamp in front of Bala klava' " Camp Dalaklava, Jan. 29. " `Sir,—During the last eight weeks the European troops under my command have been employed on fa. tigue to a very great extent; when I understood from the artillery officers here that the progress of the siege would be assisted by my doing so, I employed, of my own accord, and without any order, all the available soldiers in carrying to the park the following ordnance stores, besides a quantity of shot and shell, of which I have no account—viz , 33 platforms of 60 pieces, each being a load for 120 large platform sleepers Iron shoes for platforms, and 90 packets 90 " 450 packages About 60 fascines About 30 cwt. of coals, for platform shoes, &c. Total " Besides which these men have carried to Lord Raglan's house nearly 4,000 bags of biscuit, being 13 days' consumption Ix 25,000 men. Frequently 1,300 Europeans and from 300 to 500 Turks have been thus employed. At the same time the troops had to carry up from Balaklava the whole of their rations, their re gimental transport having been taken away from them by the Assistant-Quartermaster-General of the First Di vision, and their public animals by the Commissary, the latter for carrying the rations of the First Brigade of the First Division. During these fatigues there fre quently remained to protect the position merely the or dinary day guard and the cooks. These fatigues usually lasted from seven to eight hours daily, during which time the men were mid-leg in mud. —I have, scc " C. CAMPBELL, Major-General, " Major• General Airey, Quartermaster-General.' " Until the 6th of December the small British force in the lines of Balakiava had 18 battalions of Russian infantry and. 24 guns in position close overhanging them, and threatening an attack at any moment. The vigilance, the energy, and judg ment displayed all this time by Sir Colin Campbell will long be remembered by those who witnessed the exhibition. That officer during the winter exposed himself to more cold and hardship than all the other Generals in the army and all their Staff officers put together ; always on parade with all his men and officers, in rain and mud, before daylight, he slept in his clothes regularly for eight months ; and this is the 'lavender' you write about. " The next point is a reference to Sir Colin Canipbell's exploits in the Punjaub, which can be called nothing but a depreciatory one, since the deduction drawn is that they did not entitle him to a great command. I should be glad to know what does entitle a man to a great command. See Sir Charles Napier's despatches when he speaks of Sir Colin. The latter, when he left India, brought with him letters from Lord Dal housie, containing the highest possible encomiums on his whole military conduct in the Punjaub, &c. His leading the 61st Regiment at the battle of Chillianwallah decided the action and saved the British army ; the feat of this regiment on that day, under Sir Colin Campbell's leadership, was pronounced by the Duke of Wellington, as may be seen in his Grace's letter, preserved in the erderly-room of the 61st Regiment, to have been one of the most brilliant exploits ever performed by the English army. Do you, sir, know by whom and for what reason Sir Colin Campbell was spoked against in India ? Sir Colin Campbell resigned the lucrative appointment which he held at Peshawur because he would not allow the Governor -General's political agents to dictate to him how ke should fight, and the Gover nor-General preferred losing his services, which he acknowledged in the most flattering terms, rather than have an independent man fighting the battles of England with an energy and skill equalled by none except Sir Charles Napier. In Hart's Army List there are recorded some parts of Sir Colin's exploits. His early ones were in the Peninsula, and may well be called so, as he commanded the storming party at St. Sebastian, and was twice wounded in the breach ; but it is the fashion now to laugh at Peninsula heroes. Sir Cohn com manded, and with' constant success against the enemy, from five to six batteries, as many cavalry regiments, and up to 14 battalions ; besides which, at one time, he had also held the command of the Punjaub Division, consisting of 54,000 men of all arms. " The third point is the sentence about old chiefs who owe their rank to seniority and brevet. It so happens that Sir Colin was promoted to a company out of his regiment for distinguished con duct ; that he purchased his regimental majority over another officer's head, and also purchased an unattached lieutenant-colonelcy ; his rank of colonel he got by being made Queen's Aide-de- Camp for his service in China ; and he was selected to be a brigadier-general in this army on its for mation,—so that he never got a single step either by brevet or seniority. " The last point is the accusation implied of being a mere obstruction to the real strength of the army. This is very curious. I do not believe there are many men in the British army who could outrun him, even now, and not one who could out ride him or endure more fatigue. " With all this great experience and practice in war, joined to a wonderful physical vigour, an un tiring energy and will, a care and providence for his soldiers not to be surpassed, it seems to me that if any man could be selected more fit than another to command this army, that man is Sir Colin Campbell. " It is not a command to be wished for by a wise man, considering the terms on which it must he held ; it is the last thing which any friend of Sir Colin's would wish to see him accept ; but that is no reason for allowing him to be assailed in your columns without a reply. " If you really have the honest wish to keep the English nation well informed as to facts concerning the officers out here you will publish this letter. I pledge my honour to the truth, or to my belief in the truth, of them, and few people have better means of getting at the truth than I have had in this case. I have to assure you that Sir Colin Camp bell has not seen this letter, nor does he know that 1 am writing it, and " I have the honour to be, &c., " A. C. STERLING, Lieutenant-Colonel, Assistant-Adjutant-General, Highland Division. CRYSTAL PALACE.—SHILLING DAY, Nov. 12.—Ad missions on payment, 1,285 ; ditto by season tickets, 239.—T0ta1, 1,524. Corresponding day last year, 1,708. The Siren, Hellyer, has arrived from Port Natal, whence she sailed on the 6ch of September, and is the first vessel that has brought direct a cargo of the pro ducts of that settlement. J'be principal item is wool, but she also has ivory, wood, tallow, hides, and miscel• laneous articles, in addition to a sample shipmen of Natal sugar. GENERAL CANROBERT'S MISSION. STOCKHOLM, Nov. G.—Up to a late hour last night numerous groups crowned the Holms, and other elevated situations, from whence a view of the channel, with the open sea in the distance, could be obtained, in the hope of welcoming Gen. Canrobert on his landi ng on S we di s h so il. Thi s morning, at an early hour, the steamer Gauthiod, from Lubeck, was signalised, and the news flow from mouth to mouth with such celerity that a very large crowd had assembled at the landing place by the time the steamer had come alongside, who cheered the General vociferously on his step ping on shore. It is not only to General Canrobert, ex-comman der-in-chief of the French army in the Crimea, that this ovation is paid, the belief is general that he comes the harbinger of war. It is thought that the moment has at length arrived when Sweden *ill gird on her armour in right earnest, and be ready to take a gallant part in the good cause. I have reason forasserting that great numbers of the Swedes are in favour of takingan open and honourably active part in the war against Russia. The excitement on the subject appears now to have reached its climax. Enthusiasm in favour of war is not only to be found in the members of the army and navy of all grades, but it swells the bosoms of the farmer, the artisan, the manufacturer--in fact, civilians of all classes. All eyes are, therefore, turned on the French general who comes among us at this critical junc ture, and rumours of all sorts are in circulation. In the military creles the plan of next year's cam paign is the general theme of conversation, and those cfficers who have been in Finland and Rus sia are listened to at the mess table and in the club rooms with the most profound attention. I have been assured on good authority that a general officer, who has access to royalty, has stated to his military friends that General Canrobert has full powers from the Emperor of the French to con clude a treaty of offensive and defensive alliance with Sweden, and to settle the needful stipulations. To show how far men's minds have become fami liar with the idea of hostilities with Russia, I will give a plan of operations which is circulated very extensively and discussed here. Of course, under present circumstances, I do not claim for it any authoritative origin. It is said, then, that Sweden is to furnish an arm of 60,000 men, besides her fleet and 200 gun-boats, which are, however, to undertake operations in Finland under their own' commanders and quite independently of the Allied forces • that the Swedish contingent is to enter. Finland in the spring at three different points si multaneously, and in corps of nearly equal strength,. about 20,000 men in each. OA corps will be con centrated on our northern frontiers during the winter ; it will march by land, entering Finland by Tornea, whilst the other two corps will be sent across the gulf by water, and landed under cover of the fleet and the flotilla of gun-boats upon two points which it would be unwise at the present moment to further particularise. The Swedish plan even goes further and em braces the operations of the allies in the Gulf of Finland with a force of 50,000 men, land troops, which will be quite sufficient to hold the Russians in check, and enable the Swedes to overcome all difficulties in Finland, and arrive without serious opposition at the land gates of Sweaborg and Wy borg, where they would find the allied fleets ready to co-operate with them from the sea-board. Under these circumstances, it is not to be won dered at that not only the citizens of Stockholm, but the inhabitants of Sweden generally, hail the arrival of General Canrobert as an event of the greatest possible importance, and await the result of his mission with intense excitement. THE FLOATING BATTERIES. The 21Ioniteur of yesterday opens with an essay, in large type, on the merits of the new floating batteries. The invention of these new engines Of war is ascribed immediately to the Emperor. His Majesty, whom previous studies had made familiar with questions connected with the use of artillery, had from the first seen that the Russian admirals might refuse to leave their fortified ports in the Baltic and Black Sea, and that in that case to attack the forts with valuable ships would be most unwise. His orders on this. point were emphatic. The Emperor's expectations were realised, and his Majesty then considered how a marine siege train, so to speak, might be formed, ordinary ships being constructed merely to fight with other ships, while it was desired to find a vessel with which forts of masonry or earth might be successfully assailed. The Emperor's aim was to find out a way of construct ing ships which should be cheaper and more easily and promptly built than ships of the line, drawing little water, capable of being served by a smaller crew, and covered with an armour, against which hollow shot fired from Paixhan's guns should be broken like glass. Experiments were made at Vincennes on the required strength in the defensive iron plates, and the necessary thickness having been ascertained the Emperor drew the plan of the new engine, as it now exists, with a single tier of guns, its external covering defying alike solid or hollow cold or red-hot shot, and gave it the name of " floating battery," to indi cate that it was not a"ship built to pursue or avoid an enemy, but a veritable siege battery, capable of attacking with energy and persistence fortifica tions heretofore regarded as unassailable by sea. " As soon," says the official writer, "as the pre liminary artillery trial s h a d b een made, and before the plan had been actually wrought out, the Em peror lost no time in transmitting the result to our faithful and great ally. Competent judges, men of knowledge and experience expressed some surprise , for the problem had been regarded as insoluble ; but the trials made in England confirmed those made in France, and the two Governments re solved each to construct a certain number of these floating hatterieS, which have just been employed for the first time at Kinbourn. The projectiles which have struck them, though of great dimen sions, have not been able to penetrate or damage their surface, while the floating batteries have opened practicable breaches in walls of masonry. Thus not only have they annulled the properties of Paixhan's shells, which produced effects so disastrous at Sinope, but experiments prove that they are proof against solid shot. Our navy and that of our allies now know the properties of this new engine of war, and will be able to make a very good use of it. The Emperor had previously given France a field artillery, which did good service at Alma, Inkerman, and Traktir ; he has now given to the navy an arm altogether new, the power of which the future will reveal." REAM OF LORD TRURO. We have to announce the demise of Lord Truro, who, after a protracted illness, expired, shortly after 10 o'clock on Sun-lay night, at his house in Eaton-square. The noble and learned lord during the last two sessions of Parliament had been compelled to absent himself from his place in the House of Lords, having suffered for nearly two years from an affection of the. heart, and latterly from dropsy. Th e d ec eased, Thomas Wilde, Baron Truro, was eldest son of Mr. Thomas Wilde, at torney, of College-hill, and of Saffron Walden, Essex. He was born in London in 1782, and was consequently in his 73d year. The learned Peer was educated at St. Paul's School. Ho was articled as an attorney, but af terwards adopted the higher branch of the legal profes sion, and at the age of 35 years he was, in 1817, called to the bar at the Inner Temple. Mr. Wilde eventually rose to considerable eminence as an advocate, and realised a handsome fortune from his professional labours. At Easter Term, 1824, he became a Sergeant-at-Law, and King's Sergeant at Trinity Term, 1827. The learned deceased entered the House of Commons in 1831, when he was returned for the borough of Newark at the head of the poll. At the general election the ensuing year he was the unsuccessful candidate. He was again elected i in 1835 and 1837, a n d was re-elected ▪ n December, 1839, on becoming Solicitor-General in the place of th e present Lord Chancellor. He was appointed Attorney. General in June, 1841, in the place of Lord Campb e ll, appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Si▪ r Robert P ee l coming into office on September following, Sir Thomas Wilde had to retire with the other members of Viscount Melbourne's Administration. Sir Thomas Wilde repre sented the city of Worcester from July, 1841, to July, 1846, when he again accepted the office of Attorney- General. He had scarcely entered on the duties when be was raised to the bench. The death of that venerated judge, Sir Ni c h o l as C. Tindal, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pl eas , oc curring that month, the ChiefJUE ticeship was offered to Sir Thomas Wilde, which he at once accepted, and was created a member of her Majesty's Privy Council. In July 1850, he was made L or d Ch an cellor, and cre a t e d a pee r by the title of Baron Truro, of Bower Manor, i n th e county of Middlesex. The noble and learned lord filled that exalted office up to February, 1852, when the Earl of Derby succeeded to the head of the Government. In consequence, as before men tioned, of impaired health, the noble and lea rne d l ord has been unable of late to take part in the proceedings, judicial or otherwise, in the Hou s e of Lords. The lat e lord was twice married ; first, in 1813, to Miss Wilernan, daughter of Mr. Wm. Wileman, which lady died in 1840 leaving a daughter, married to Mr. Wild e , Q .C., and three sons ; and, secondly, in 1845, Augusta, Mdll e D'Este, daughter of his late Royal Highness the D u k e . of Sussex, who survives his lordship. The eldest son of the deceased peer, the Hon. Charles Robert Claude, born in 1816, succeeds to the peerage. The late learned lord founded a prize in 1851, in "grateful acknowledg ment of the benefits derived by him from hi s e d ucation in St. Paul's School," investing for that purpose the munificent sum of 1,000/. Three per Cent. Console. Professor Wilson i s t o give his introductory lecture before the University of Edinburgh on Thursday week, his subject being "The Agriculture of the French Ex hibition." Professor Wilson was one of the English jurors. MARYLEBONE. MELANCHOLY EFFECT OF LAZINESS. —A young man of the name of Beach, respectably connected, was charged before Mr. Broughton with causing a disturb. ance at the house No. 2, Manchester-terrace, Kilburn. Mr. Sedy, the landlord, said that he was a wholesale ironmonger, and that about ten o'clock last night the prisoner knocked at the door and obtained admission. Ile went into the pas , age upon being informed by the servant that the prisoner was there. Upon seeing the prisoner, he asked to see his brother who lodges in wit ness's house. Witness being aware that his brother had refused to see him directed him to leave. He refused to go until he saw his brother. Witness then called him. His brother came down staies and he requested the pri soner to leave. Upon his objecting to do so he laid hold of his arm to put him out. He resisted, upon which witness offered his assistance and forcibly ejected him. When the prisoner was in the street he rang the bell and knocked at the street door so violentiy and made such a disturbance that witness was compelled to give him into custody. Mr. Robert Beach, the prisoner's brother, said that he conducted a wholesale fishmonger's establishment at the West•end, and that he had repeatedly assisted his brother, who was too lazy to work. A short time ago his brother's wife, who had four children, was left by him, and she wrote to him (witness), stating that she was destitute and in want of assistance. Above a twelvemonth ago witness and some other members of his family collected above 4/. for his support. He bad at other times assisted him, but he had found it of no use to continue his aid any longer, and he should not do so. The Prisoner observed that he had only been once assisted by his brother, and that if he bad only a few shillings be should be able to sell some confectionery. His brother refused to do anything more for him. Mr. Broughton observed that he must not annoy his brother, and that if he wanted relief he must apply to the workhouse. The prisoner was discharged on promising not to annoy his brother. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S RECEPTION AT THE LORD MA I OR'S BANQUET. ( From the London Correspondent of the Liverpool Albion ) Behold to what a pass Lord John Russell has come ! Hissed and hooted yesterday in that very hall where, five years ago, he was hailed as the bulwark of the Constitution, the spear and shield of Britannia's self, and where copies of his Durham epistle, in letters of gold, were sold at a crown a-piece. Nemesis is the only impartial divinty, after all. Here, in the scene and cen tre of his former fraudulently acquired triuwpb, was he abashed and abased, and on an occasion too of :Mothers the most destructive to the prestige he thought he had built •up ; for if ever a friend to civil and religious liberty, who had (metaphorically) fought with Hampden in the field, and did other remarkable things with other remark able people elsewhere, had a right to expect a respectful. reception, it would be when a guest in Guildhall of a Li beral Jew Lord Mayor of London. This treatment of Lord John in such a place is something altogether startling. There is no precedent for it, considering the time the place, and the company. Ina festive assembly, politics excluded, ladies present, the noble member for the City, long the fore most man in the country, and, until lately, high in the councils of his Sovereign, is assailed with expressions of public antipathy that render it impossible for a word to be heard that he had said in responding to a toast from the chair on behalf of the House of Commons. Why it is hardly credited in London to-day ; and the first re pole-, of it that reaches the Crimea will assuredly be put down to that accursed Tatar who took Sebastopol upwards of a year ago, and who will be supposed in the camp to have been living here on the fruits of that inimitable hoax ever since. The late Canon of St. Paul's used to say that there was no getting into Lord John's head anything he didn't like, except by a process little short of trepanning—that is, taking the roof of the skull off. It is to be presumed that there was small need of that last night to get in the thing of all others Lord John has the most mortal dislike of, and that is the idea that he isn't both the greatest man in the world, and the greatest favourite with all other kinds and classes of men, and in the metropolis of all other places on the face of the earth. No other man similarly placed, if any but he could be so placed, would have dreamt of going to the Guildhall ; but the temptation to keep himself in some shape before the pub lic eye was too powerful for his philosophy, and he yielded to it, with disastrous results. It is the same morbid craving for notoriety and dread of extinguish meet that impels him to lecture at Exeter-hall next Tuesday, on the impediments to civilisation, or some such platitude ; and, more remarkable still, to preside, on Monday next, at the Warehousemen and Clerks' As sociation dinner, at the London Tavern—a thing he would never think of doing were he not on the very last legs of political decreptitude, and which he now does by way of advertiserw nt that he is to be had by any provincial Mechanics' Institute, or village Odd Fel lows' Hall, who c ttl't get a less dilapidated celebrity. Last night's scene at Guildhall may be taken as the serving of an emphatic notice of ejectment from the City on his lordship. If he had a particle left of that " high thoughted spirit " hymned by Moore five and thirty years ago, he would nut stand upon the order of his going, but go at once and seek a seat elsewhere. MARKET NEWS.--(This Day). HAY MARKETS. SMITRFIELD.—Meadow hay, 31 lss to 616 s ; clovci ditto, 4/ 5s to 6/ 153 ; and straw, 11 7s Od to 11 lls Od per load. moderate supply and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 31 18s to 6/ Si; clove] do., 4/ 5s to 6/ 12s ; and straw. 11 8s to 11 138 per load. Trade tolerably firm, at full prices. WII ITECRAPF4L.—Meatiow hay, 3115 s to 6; 6a; clov:•:r do., 4/ 5s to 71 Os ; and straw, 1/ is to 1/ lls per load. Both bay and straw sold freely, at fully late rates. COLONIAL. ---- TEA.—The market has rather advanced, owing to a large speculative demand. Common congou, 90 to 10d, the bulk of the sales showing an advance of id per lb. SUGAR.—Market very firm, purchasers waiting for the public sales, which take place to-day (Tuesday). COFFEE.—A large amount of business has been done at a further advance of 18 61 per cwt. Ordinary native Cey lon, F.G. A cargo of Rio afloat realised 46s per cwt. RICE.---A large business is doing. Two cargoes of Ar racan Fuld at 13s; Madras, 14s 6d to 15s ; Bengal, 15s 3d to 158 6d. TALLOW continuer to advance in price. Y.C. on the spot 70s per cwt. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Nov. 13.—Wind this day at noon, N.N.E.; light breeze and cloudy weather. GRAVESEND, Nov. 12.—Wind calm, cloudy. —Arrived. —Breeze, from Malaga ; Archimedes, Quebec ; Caldera, Colombo ; John Anderson, George Town ; Soubandar, Calcutta ; Ellen, Manilla ; Monduras, Rangoon ; Urda, Umea ; Naiad, Demerara ; Syren, Port Natal ; Per Aspera ad Astra, Hong Kong ; Staghound, Denia ; Prince Albert, Guerney ; John Pardew, Patras ; Augustine, Caen ; Iris, Konigsberg; Eugenia, Dantzic ; Cogstadt, Dram ; Trona, Havre; Albion (s.), Boulogne; Ravens• bourne (s.), Antwerp ; Ann and Jane, Antwerp ; Fye noord (a.), Rott er d am ; Ci ty of Hamburg (s.), Hamburg ; Zacharias, Shelleftea. GUERNSEY, Nov. 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Haabets Anker, from Christiania, for Morlaix. BRIDGEWATER, Nov. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Or well, from Quebec. BRISTOL, Nov. 12.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—Affghan, from Quebec. Sailed—Minerva, for Trinidad. GLOUCESTER, Nov. 11.—Arrived—Cheabrezo from New York. , SWANSEA, Nov. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Minerva, from Arica. (PLR ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived—Despatch, steamer, Alice and Edward, and Mary, from Jersey ; Atlanta, steamer, Havre. Sailed—Cheshire Witch, Othello, Salome, James and Catherine, and Alarm, for Newport; Wonder, steamer, Jersey ; Alliance, steamer ifievre. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind S. Arrived—Carthagena, from Alexandria; Emigrant, Now Orleans ; Thor, Seville ; Alfred, Malaga. Sailed—Princeton and De Witt Clinton, for New York; Tuscarora, Philadelphia. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 11. Wind S. Arrived—San Dromsia, from Galatz ; Whalton, Syra; Glenmanna, Callao ; Elizabeth, Berger • Roscoe, Akyab. DUBLIN, Nov. 12. Wind S.S.W. Arrived—Uncle John, from Havre; Mary Sweet, Oporto. (BT SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPFJ.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.41 a.m. Wind E. light ; tide 6i hours' ebb; cloudy. Arrived, Nov. 12.—Ann Livingston, from Konigsberg ; London, Denia. Sailed.—Ocean, for Mauritius; Thomasine, for Rio Ja neiro ; Beate, Constantinople. .... DIAL, Tuesday, 9.32 a.m. Wind, E. by S., moderate. Passsed—Santoe Segango, from London, for Lisbon ; lonic, Shields, Boston. Sailed, in tow.-.ooQmiul, for London. THE REV. DR. 'VAUGHAN. At the Lambeth Police Court yesterday, the Rev. Dr. John Vaughan, incumbent of St. Matthew's Church, Brixton, appeared by counsel before Mr. Elliott, to answer a summons obtained against him last week at the instance of the churchwardens, who alleged that the rev. gentleman had been in the habit of falsifying the regie tere for his own personal benefit and advantage. From the statement which had been made by Mr. Clarkson, when applying for the summons, it appeared that the rev, doctor had been in the habit of keeping the registers of burials in the district of which he is the in. vubent, and that it was his practice to bury Persons who had resided out of the district in the burial ground of the church, charging double fees for them, whereas for the parishioners who died only single fees were charged. These double fees had been taken in many cases, and the registers had been falsified for the pur pose of enabling the incumbent to place the difference in his own p oc k e t, i ns t ea d o f accounting for it, 0.3 he ought to have done, to the churchwardens. It was fur ther stated that in the cases charged against him the rev, gentleman had stated that the person on whose ac count he had received double fees had resided within the district, knowing it to be false, and upon that pretence had only accounted for single fees. The case excited great interest, and the small inconvenient court was densely crowded. Mr. Parry applied for a postponement of the summons granted against Malby, the sexton, on Thursday last, at the instance of Dr. Vaughan, for alleged perjury at the Lambeth County Court. Mr. Ballantine (who . had been instructed by Dr. Vaughan to prosecute) said he had no objection, and the case was ordered to stand over for a week. The original case against Dr. Vaughan was then pro. ceeded with ; Mr. Clarkson appearing for the prosecu tion, and Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Prideaux for the rev. defendant. Mr. Ballantine said that, in accordance with the sum mons, Dr. Vaughan was in attendance, and he suggested that the rev. gentleman should be given into custody in the usual manner, so that it might be known who were responsible for the case. Mr. Clarkson said that the reverend gentleman would appear to the summons. Mr. Ballantine said that this summons was a scheme to shift the responsibility from the churchwardens to the magistrate. Persons had ventured to come behind a man's back and to make a slanderous statement against him, but did not dare to give him into custody. (Hisses in court.) After some further discussion, the rev. gentleman was given into custody by Mr. Alfred Staft Mr. Prior, and Mr. John Edwards, the churchwardens of St. Matthew's district church, of which Dr. Vaughan is the incumbent-. The rev, gentleman was then placed at the bar. Mr. Clarkson, on behalf of the prosecution, said he would at once proceed with the charge against the doc tor in reference to the case of Mr. Raven. Mr. Thomas Booth, of Russell-grove, Brixton, said he was the registrar of the second part of Kennington. Stockwell-grove was in his district. He registered the death of Wm. Raven, of Stockwell-grove, in his district. (lie produced the certificate.) Upon registering that death he gave the certificate required by the ae..t of par liament to the person who registered the death. Mr. Charles Rogers, solicitor to the prosecution, said he obtained from Dr. Vaughan a certificate of the burial of Raven, showing the place at which the deceased was supposed to have died. It was a copy from the original entry in the register. (This document was put in, but its contents did not transpire.) Mr. Frederick Hayden said he was an undertaker, re-iding at Stockwell. He conducted the funeral of Win. Raven. Raven resided in Stockwell-grove, in the dis trict of Kennington, not in that. of St. Matthew's, Brix ton. In order to the interment of Raven, he applied to Malby, the sexton, on the evening previous to the funeral. Malby refused to take the interment, unless witness saw Dr. Vaughan, as the deceased lived out of the district. On the following morning witness saw Dr. Vaughan, who at once refused to take it. Witness represented that Raven's friends were very anxious that he should be buried there, as a child of his had been buried there a few weeks previous, Dr. Vaughan then consented, and witness paid him double fees at the doctor's request, the amount being 1/. 15s. He gave two sovereigns to Dr. Vaughan, who gave him a receipt and five shillings. When Dr. Vaughan handed him the receipt he said that if any person asked him where the funeral carne from he was to tell a lie, and say Robert-street (in St. Matthew's district). By Air. Ballantine—lt c'ztainly struck him as very strange that a clergyman should direct him to tell a lie in such broad terms, He did not consider it to be his ' duty to remonstrate with Dr. Vaughan. The rev. gen tleman said, "Tell a lie," and did not at all conceal his object. He had destroyed the doctor's receipt, it being ha custom to burn such documents as soon as his cus tomers settled his bills; George Malby, the sexton of the district church of St. Matthew, Brixton, said he knew the person of the late Mr. William Raven, who lived at Stockwell-grove, which was without the district of St. Matthew. The fee pay able for the ground to persons residing within the district was 65., while it was double, or 125., to those without. j He remembered the application to bury Mr. Raven being reaele by Mr. Haydon, an undertaker, in consequence of which he went to Dr. Vaughan's and Haydon fol lowed him. The object of the undertaker's interview was to ascertain whether Dr. Vaughan would take single fees for the burial of a body where death took place out of the district. The doctor's reply to this was, that be could not take less than double fees. Dr. Vaughan said to Haydon, that if anybody asked him where the funeral came from, or what were the fees, he .was to tell a lie, and say it came from Robert-street. The single fees were —ground fee, 63. ; the death fee to the minister, 3s. 5,1.; the clerk's fee, Is. Eed. ; and the sexton's fee, 6e. 4d. ; mating altogether 17s. 6d. Haydon paid 353., being double fees all through. The rough book (now produced) is that in which Dr. Vaughan entered his fees. He found the burial of Mr. William Raven entered on the 19,1 September, 1554. There was the following entry in Dr. Vaughan's handwriting:—" William Riven, Robert-street, 33 years of age-11. 155." By Mr. Ballantine—Re thought it was rather a cool thing for the parson to ask the undertaker to tell a lie ; The Vaughan had never directed him to a lie about matters of business. The rev. gentleman had given lim money to pay a distress out of his house. It was on the 12th of July, and the amount was 121. It was very generous and kind. Witness subsequently brought an aGtion against the rev, defendant fcr 27. 103., when Dr. Vaughan pressed him fur the 127., brought an action alainet hirn for the amount, and recovered it in the C :unty Court. Witness hail never been accused by Dr. Vaughan of stealing the burial fees. In the case of a person named Harrison lie received permission from Dr. Vaughan to keep back 68, in order to return it to the relatives of the deceased. It was the custom of the doc tor, in cases of poverty, to return the fees, and this was one of those cases. Mr. Rogers, in order that his testimony might not be repeated i❑ the other cases charged in the summons, put in a copy of the registry of burial of Mr. Itiven, which he had obtained from the parish registry, and also a copy of the registry of burial of William Begbie, who died at Guy's Hospital on the 20th of November, 1854, and in the case of Jane Webb, who died out of the dis trict. In all these cases Mr. Clarkson showed, by the document produced, that, although the doctor had n ceived double fees, he hal only accounted for single fees to the churchwardens. This was the case for the prosecution as far as the ewe of Raven was concerned. Mr. Ballantine contended that this was an infamous and maligns of charge, concocted by persons whom de fendant had offended, and encouraged by others in a higher position in society. Dr. Vaughan repudiated the charge with indignation and horror, although per haps he had fallen into mistakes inconsistent with the character of a minister of tare Gospel. Dr. Vaughan was a man of property and position, and he was charged with having pilfered small sums which would probably amount to 41. or 51. a year to add to a large fortune, of which he was possessed. The learned courrpel desig nated the whole proceedings as a base and vile conspi racy, and contended that there was no ground for send ing Dr. Vaughan to trial on the testimony of such wit nesses as Ilaydon and Malby. It was absurd to sup pose that Dr. Vaughan should have been so madly reck less, so careless of reproach, as to ask an undertaker's man to tell a lie in order that he might rob the parish of a few shillingl, inviting the whole world to come down to denounce him as a liar, a swindler, a scoundrel, and a thief. Mr. Joseph Mary-Church Vaughan, a son of the reverend defendant, and a member of Trinity Hall, Cam bridge, said that about the middle of September, in 1854, while the cholera was raging, Haydon and Malby came together about the funeral of a person named Raven. The docto r me t th em a t th e d oor , and said that there had been com pl a i n t s a b ou t th e nu mber ecif.d ft .in termentse that had taken pl ace i n th e c hurchyard, , could not be troubled w ith th e ap pli ca tion. He refer them to the chu rc h war d ens . No remark wa t e ll a s made to about money. If th e d oc t or h a d told Haydon lie he must ha ve h ear d it. S uc h an observation certain was never made. He rememberedas father his he w making the entry of Raven's death in his b o ok. It was that of Raven, of Robert-street. The amoun t entered down what the sexton was 6s. for ground fee. He told him, and there was no gist put down certificate pro duced. There was a great t difficut ar y a t that time in procuring registrars' certificates. By Mr. Clarkson—There had s been two meetings i n the parish in reference to his father. He went to th e i di b d e n h o a t lf f o et f c r, h r, p . e v op a l u e a f t rona lal. first, but it was comp osed of inferior persons, and he di d not attend the second. Witness London to attend the meetin g t on He went into the parish of St. Clement Dane, Strand, said he would aw a per, where his father was formerly curate, and he s d Pearce, who attend the meet ingome others with him. He did not son name and bring s knew what business in thefirst Pearce wa s •in , or in what street i ' h e lived, but i t was street past Temple Bar. Pearce and his friends came down in cabs, and after the meeting was over they asked for their expenses. Witness said he would call upon them in the morn ing, and he did so. Pearce said his expenses had been 13e., and witness gave him 17s. Pearce wanted more, but witness would not give them more, as he said be should not like Dr. Vaughan to know that he had paid,thern to corn() and show their respect. (Laughter.) Five men came down and proceeded to Dr. Vaughan's house, where they were invited to partake of refresh ments—beer and wine. He never heard that directions were given to the men to put out the lights of the meet ing, to have a rap at the chairman, and to put an end to the proce e di ngs . Dr. 'Vaughan went into the room while the me n were t h ere. He d i d not converse with the wasthenl, but he m i g ht h ave spo k en t o th em . When men cams back from the meeting they said that theY' had no opportunity of showing themselves, as the meeting so violent, and all one way. (Laughter-)' 1 aatilorifild by By Mr, Ballautine—Aticas 1et...14-14c= his father to employ Pearce. He took the Course he adopted solely upon his own responsibility. By the Magistrate—When therehad been a difficulty as to obtaining the recristrar's certificate, Dr. Vaughan had taken the sexton's word when he was certain as to the place where the funeral had come from, upon a pro mise that he would produce it as soon as possible. He recollected that that was the case upon-Raven's funeral, and afterwards in the funeral of a person named Begbie. (Witness withdrew this statement shortly afterwards, alleging that he had been confused by the laughter of the persons near him.) He recollected the case of a person named Harrison, in which the certificate was not produced. Miss Lydia Broughwu Vaughan, a daughter of the, defendant, remembered the application about the funeral of Raven. Malby and Haydon came to her father, who said he could not entertain the application but referred the case to the churchwardens.. She stood by her father the whole time Malby and Haydon were there, and she was sure that-no money or papers passed between them. By Mr. Ballantine—She recollected five men coming to her father's house ie the evening -appointed for the meeting, to which she beard they were going. They had refreshments. Mr. Clarkson —Have you been in this court before ? Witness—l don't kno A what that has to do with it. Mr. Clarkson—l only want an answer. Witness—A person insulted myself and my sister, and we brought him to this court. Mr. Clarkson—What did the magistrate do with the case ? Witness—The man was discharged, and the summons was dismissed. Mr. Clarksou—Did the magistrate say he could not believe you ? Witness—Certainly not. Miss Decima Vaughan confirmed the statements of the last witness. Dr. Vaughan did not direct Haydon to tell a lie. If he had done so she must have heard it. No money or paper passed between them. By Mr. Clarkson— She remembered the five men corn ing to her father's house, but he did not talk to them. Her mother was in the room, but to the best of wit ness's belief she had no conversation with them. The men, she believed, came to attend the meeting as old parishioners of her father, but she had no knowledge of her brother having gone to London to fetch them. Mary Smith, a servant in Dr. Vaughan's house, con. firmed the evidence of the Misses Vaughan, and spoke positively to the fact that no money or paper passed. This completed the evidence in the case of Raven, and the magistrate said it was too late to proceed with the other cases to-day. Mr. Ballantine assured the magistrate that he should be able to answer the charges against Dr. Vaughan in every particular. Tile - further hearing was adjourned till Friday, and Dr. Vaughan retired, having found the necessary bail. BOUTS-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The following communication from the South- Eastern Railway Company has been addressed to the editor of the Times : "Sir,—The severe strictures to which you gave in sertion in your `Money' articles of Wednesday and Thursday last, and the observations made by 'E. T.' in the Tunes of this day, on the arrangements at the Folke stone harbour station, call for some explanation on the part of the South-Eastern Company, and I therefore venture to request the favour of your inserting the fol lowing remarks on the subject. "In the first place, I beg to observe that the merchan dise traffic with the continent, via Folkestone and Bou logne, to which your correspondent refers, is as yet but in its infancy. The first goods'-boat was placed upon the station only in July last, previous to which time merchandise was conveyed between the two ports in comparatively small quantities by the passenger-boats. In anticipation, however, of a considerable merchandise traffic being created, the directors in June last, after conferring with the Custom-house officials at Folkestone as to the further accommodation required, ordered the construction of a new examining warehouse for import goods, which :the engineer informs me is now complete, and will be taken possession of by the surveyor of cus toms this day. This new warehouse is so laid out as to be capable cf future enlargement, according to the re quirements of the traffic. Additional sidings have also been laid down during the last fortnight, and others are in course of formation, with a view of giving such faci lities to the export trade as shall not only fully meet its present requirements, but prepare for its further de velopment. "With respect to - the alleged deficiency of labour at Folkestone-harbour, I_ feel Justified in stating that no such r penny wise and pound foolish' policy as that mg ger,ted by your correspondent has been adopted by this company ; but that the officials there have full power to employ labour to the extent adequate to meet the re cylirements of the trade. I may also add that the di rectors have their attention directed to the necessity of making ample provision for the large increase in the traffic, and have for some time past been making ar rangements with the view of removing all reasonable grounds for complaint on this score. " The existing provision for the accommodation of passengers at Folkestone-harbour is admitted to be de fective. The present buildings were erected with the view of affording temporary accommodation until some experience of the traffic had been obtained, such as should enable the directors to form a correct opinion as to the accommolation to be provided in the permanent buildings now about to be erected. The temporary buildings have served their purpose, ar d will shortly be cleared away from before the new Custom-house (now completed) and new station buildings erected along the quay, including a baggalze examining room 96 feet by 45 feet 6 inches, commodious waiting and refreshment rooms fur passengers, with other arrangements suitable to the comfort and convenience of the public. The plans of the new buildings have alrea4 been settled by the .directors alter consultation with the Customs' au thorities, and the works will be proceeded with and completed without delay. " It is matter of regret to the directors of the company that circumstances, which need not here be explained, had concurred to prevent the erection of the new station buildings in anticipation of the large increase in the pas senger traihc cf the present year, and consequently that inconveniences, arising from the defective temporary accommodation, should hr,ve been experienced by the public. Under even the most favourable circumstances, the unprececientealy large number of passengers arriving at FolkeaoLe on c. rtain days, accompanied with an almost incredible quantity of baggage, must have involved con siderah!e delay, not to speak of an immense increase of iahonr (wlic!_i has been eheetful:y rendered) by the Cus tem-liouse searchtrg. Eut it is matter of congratulation to the directors, nevertheless, that the continental ser vice via Boulogne and Folkestone has on the whole been conducted with regularity and despatch, even during the busie;:t months of the season: ,They also trust that the arrangements which they are now actively engaged in carrying into effect, with a view to the public conveni ence and accommodation, will give increased attractions to the Folkestone and Biulogne route, and amply justify its designation by your correspondent the highway to Europe.' The directors aro cot without hopes that the autho rities may yet ha disposed to accede to the request, ur gently made to them on the part of the company, to per mit the through passengers' registe re d b aggage ( t h e ex amination of which i s the cause of mull' delay at Folkes tone) to be carried forward to London direct, as is per-• milted by the French authorities in respect of baggage reghtered at London f, , r Paris. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " S. SMILES, Secretary. "South-Eastern Railway-office, London Terminus, Nov. 12." HIGHIVAY _ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT ED MURDER NEAR BRISTOL. BRISTOL, Monday.—A very daring highway robbery, accompanied by an attempt at murder, was committed last night at Knowle, near Bristol. A young man. named Roberts, a native of London, who bad been stay ing on a visit with a relative at Knowle, had occasion to go into Bristol to fetch two accordions, bw— hic“ be had b een somewhat delayed he w as ''' sent to a musical instrument maker's to repair, Owing to the repairs having pre vented from quitting the city until nine o'clock at night, when it was very dark. His nearest course lay across , the fields, but a pp rehending danger (although he took the p r ecaution of g oin g round b y the turnpike-road ke.radhoe b . H ad no e par , ticulor grounds for suc h apprehension), Toll-gate, an d wa s h a d passed th rou g h the Totter ding g to the Redoat c h Farm, pwrhoecneebdieusgawdo:wvno a mt esitlteinadgi o n n a stile, and wished them ~Go o d night ;" but they male him no reply. In a m inute or two he heard them behi n d him, and almost he received a blow with a heavy bludgeon t i n stantaneously g a r c o ro n s n s d. the One back of of the villains then knelt upon his chest, estnuing h h i i tn s m a: mouth fi the full same time with instant death if be ed the head, which felled him to the of mud, and throttled him, threat dared to m a k e th against th e road e least noise. They then beat his head at the same time , so as to render him all but insensible, all the me plundering his pocket of his watch and money he had about him, and robbing him of both . It was the accordio ns . It evident from their language and mariners that the villains thought that they bad killed him, and they then seized theother b s • d him, one by the shoulders and y the legs, and carried him to a field belong ing to a gentleman named pond. The poor fellow during this time was ficaroelY con scions of what they were doing with him, a s the violence to his head had partially stupified him, but u pon his fall ing into the pond the cold water- revived him, and he succeeded in getting to the bank and s crambling out. ' It was a very fortunate thing for him that he was an ex , pert swimmer, as the water in the pond was eight feet deep, and, there being no assistance within hail, his death must otherwise have been inevitable. He succeeded io, reaching his relative's hous e and gave the alarm, but the robbers had decaroped. His that was found the next day in the pond into which the robbers threw him. Information of the outrage was given to the police, who are exerting themselves in the hope of tracing out its perpetrators, to whom there is, as yet, no clue. D ar i n g the last winter several daring highway rob u beries, with violence, were comm itted the same h i g hwa y , which leads from upon travellers by a nd it is thuught now that the Bristol to Wells, Ro b e rts for a yourg farmer who villains mistook poor resides near the lane. THE PARISIAN E XPOSITION.—Her Majesty the Queen, having, when in Paris, selected from the Universal Ex position several of the splendid silks and velvets exhi bited by MeEnrs. Frainais and Gramagnac, of 82, Rue Richelieu, Paris, those articles were yesterday delivered to the British A m b assa d or b y M . Durantoff!ingP" of the Palace of Industry. ~,-,.