The Sun. — London, England, 1856-10-22 00:00:00

THE STATE OF KANSAS. Thomas H. Gladstone, Esq., of Stockwell-lodge, Surrey, has addressed a second letter to the editor of the Times, of which the following is a copy : "Sir,—ln your issue of the 11 h of October, you d►d me the favour to insert a narrative of personal experiences in Kansas, designed to exhibit the lamentable condition into which political strife had plunged that territory in the month of May last. " The publication of that letter has occasioned me the necessity of replying to very many questions, of which friends have desired a solution, in; order the better to comprehend ithei extraordinary anomalies which such . a condition'of affairs implies. "In the belief that many of your readers may have felt equally at a loss for a sufficient explanation, I will endeavour, in the form of question and answer, to sum up as briefly as possible the substance of one or two of these conversations, and thus anticipate probably some of those inquiries which may have suggested themselves to the minds of others. "The first and most natural question is—if such fear ful outrages as every mail brings es intelligence of are being committed in Kansas, why are not the perpetrators of these enormities brought to justice ? Is there no judge, no jury, no law to which appeal can be made for protection ? "The answer is simp!e. First, the man is wanting who possesses boldness or rashness enough to bring the offending parties to justice. Murder and cold-blooded assassination were of almost daily occurrence at the time of my visit ; but whoever should repel.: such a case would be at once a marked man, and in all probability, before the day expired, his life would be the penalty for his imprudence in the cause of right. "But, yet more, supposing the offender to be brought to justice, what is the judge, of what character the jury, and, what the law, by which he is to be tried ? "The judge would be such a man as Judge Lecompte —the Jeffreys of the territory. Or, if not the chief of the bloody assizes 'of Kansas, it would be some other minion of the slave power, panting after the extermina tion of every Free State advocate, and pledged by his oath of office to sustain the must offensive measures which the slave power has introduced. It cannot be otherwise - "for every public office is occupied by the most resolute adherents of the pro-slavery cause ; and, lest one should creep in of a different stamp, a test is demanded, contrary to the constitution of the United States, of every cand!dee for office, accord ing to which he is required to subscribe an oath, solemnly .swearing upon the Holy Evangelists of Al mighty God' that he will 'support and sustain the provisions of the act entitled An Act to Organise the Territories rf Nebraska and Kansas,' and the provisions of the law of the United States, commonly known as the 'Fugitive Slave Law.' '( Vide Statutes of the Terri tory of Kansas,' page 488.) Thus, by the law of the territory, no man can sit on the bench or hold any other public office unless he have first specially endorsed and pledged himself to sustain the two most extreme Pro slavery measures that can possibly be cited. "If such be the judge, the jury would also be of a character no lest accurately defined by statute. What is the law of Kansas concerning jurors ?—' No person who is conscientiously opposed to the holding of slaves or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this territory, shall be a juror in any cause in which the right to hold any person in slavery is involved, nor in any cause in whichany injury done to, or committed by, any slave is in issue, nor iu any criminal proceeding for the violation of any law enacted for the protection of slave property, and for the punishment of crime com mitted against the right to such property.' (Statutes of Kansas, p. 378.) Again, by the first section of the act, the power is pl ace d i n th e hands of 'the marshal, sheriff, or other officer, to summon a sufficient number of jurors' (p. 377). With such a law, and with discre tionary power vested in such hands, it will be seen at once what kind of jury must of necessity be procured. " And, if such be the character of judge and jury, what are the laws they have to dispense ? Take a sample : If any person print, write, introduce into, publish, or circulate, or cause to be brought into, printed, written, published, or circulated, or shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into, printing, publishing, or circulating, within this territory, any book, paper, pamphlet, maga zine, hand-bill, or circular, containing any statements, arguments, opinion, sentiment, doctrine, advice, or innu endo, calc ul ated to produce a disorderly, dangerous, or rebellions disaffection among the slaves in this territory, or to induce such slaves to e3capo from the service of their masters, or to resist their authority, he shall be guilty of felony, and be punished by imprisonment at hard labour for a term not less than live years.' (Statutes, cap. 151, sec. 11.) `lf anylfree person, by speaking or writing, assert, or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in this territory, or shall introduce into this territory, print, publish, write, circulate, or cause to be introduced into this territory, written, printed, published, or circu lated in this territory, any book, paper, magazine, pam phlet or circular containing any denial of the right of per sons to hold slaves in this territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labour for a term of not less than two years.' (Laws, chap. 151, sec-12.) " And what kind of hard labour is the Northern man to undergo who should be lucklessly brought before, a Kansas judge and convicted of denying the right to hold slaves in the territory'? It is defined in the same code, where, after providing that every person so sentenced shall' be deemed a convict, and shall be put to bard labour on the streets, roads, public buildings, or other public works of the terri tory, the act continues And the keeper shall cause such convict, while engaged at such labour, to be securely con fi ned by a chain six feet in lengtb,of not less than 4-16ths nor more than iths of an inch links, with a round ball of iron of not less th a n four nor more thanl six inches in diameter attached, which chain shall be securely fastened to the ancle of such convict with a strong lock and key, &c.' (Statutes chap. 22, sec. 2.) " For greater offences against slave property ' the law provides, of course, a severer penalty. To aid in any rebellion of slaves against their masters, to bring into the territory any book or tract calculated to excise rebellion on the part of slaves, free negroes, or mulattoes, to carry out of the territory a slave belonging to aaother, or to assist in the same, are all capital of fences, to be punished by death. But as the utterance of even a syllable against the right of bolding slaves is made punishable by two years' imprisonment and hard labour on the public roads, with a chain of six feet and a round ball of iron attached to the ankle, it will at once be seen whether the law was made for the Pro-slavery or for the Free State man. Add to this the fact that every act of the Free State party, if viewed in the light of the laws as interpreted by the Federal Government, is an act et treason against the Federal Power, and it will be perceived what opportunity is given for the most cruel despotism and the grossest wrong to take refuge in the name and sanction of the law. 'Law,' in fact, was the word constantly in the mouths of the self-styled border ruffians, with whom I myself came daily into contact in Kansas. So far from appealing to it, everything they did, every enormity they committed, was done in the name of the law of the land. The constant taunt thrown out against the Free State party and the chief difficulty they themselves experienced was the opposition in which they stood to the recognised law. Law and order' became the watchword and war cry of the most lawless in the territory ; and the words 'a posse of law and order men' were synonymous with a company of freebootere and murderers ranging the country in search of their po'itical opponents. The law, therefore, was all on one side. And it will be seen that, with enactments demanding the conviction of all who spoke or acted against slavery, and a judge and jury no less desiring their extermination, the wronged Free State man, tboueh he should have been struck down in the high way and robbed of his all, had more to lose than to gain by a recourse to the legal power. "But by what possibility could laws so glaringly un reasonable and unjust become the laws of the land ? By what power or authority were they enacted ? "Answer.—They were enacted by a falsely-chosen but authorit a ti ve l y recognised territorial Legislature. This Legislature, viewed by the general Government as the voice of the people, becomes of necessity lawgiver to the people of the territory ; and not only gives the laws, but assurate; to itself the right to define its own autho rity. In this way the legal existence of this assembly as a legislative body has been determined by itself, and, being backed by the - United States' troops, the so-called Kansas Legislatur e has hard' almost all power in its ow n bands. This is the Legislature for which the votes were taken on the 30th of March, 1855, and which, first meeting at Pawnee, was afterwards re moved to the Shawnee Mission, to be more conve niently near to the Missouri border. It is true, the election was repudiated as fraudulent and unfair by the free State pop ula tion , and that they acted indepen dently of it in causing a fresh election to take place on the 9th Oct., 1855, which resulted in the conven e State G wernm en t e which met at tion for organic trig Topeka, and the subsequent election of State officers and members of the General Assembly. Wh en this Assembly met the second time at Topeka, on the 4th July last, it will be remembered that Colonel Sumner forcibly dissolve(, the Assembly at the head o f a con siderable body of United States troops, at the same time indieating view of the proceeding by stating that it was ` the m ost painful act of his life.' But how, it may next he asked, is this charge esta blished,of of the Legis l a ture t o which the Meet gives the sanction o f its approve a d the its troops being thus falsely and frau r d o u o l f s . ntl L y o c u h g os b e e ni ore "This fact aden;te of very ea s y p the heat election in Kansas a secret socientys the e d b , e ß en lu i e n existence in Missouri, gen erally known Lodge,' th e avowe d pur pose of which i was, bya sys tematic or gan i sat i on, t o co ntrol the elections nK an sas or elsewhere. By this agency immense armed bands of men from Missouri were poured itto Kansas, an d, under the generalshi p o f e ffi cient leaders, so distributed through the electral districts as to outnumber and overawe the resident voters. Th e c h aracter o f these men may chief be inferred from an add ress d e li vere d by one of their leaders, General Stringfellow. As General Stringfellow is the speaker in the Legislative Assembly to which I have referred, the extract will have interest also for those who desire to compare the style of address adopted by the presiding officer in the Kansas Legislature with th a t, commonly heard in our own Houses of Parlia ment : 4 I tell yon to mark every scoundrel among you that is the least tainted wit h free. s oilis m or abolitioMers, and ex terminate him. Neither give nor take quarter from the rasca ls. I propose to mark them in this house, and on the present occasion, so you may crush them out. To those who have qua lms of c onscience as to violating ' the laws State or national , the time has come when such impos itions a r ii mist be disregarde d, as y our rights and danger; and I advise you, one and all, to enter ev er y elec tion district in Kansas, in defiance of Reeder and his vile myrmidons, and vote at the point of the bowie-knife and revolver. Neither give nor take quarter, as our case de. mands it. It is enough that the slaveholding.interest will s it, from which there is no app eal. What right has Go vernor Reeder to rule Mi se vuriana in Kanias ? His prods. mation and prescribed oath must be repudiated. It is your interest to do so. Mind that slavery is established where t is not prohibited.' " nd as their leader advised them so they did: They neither gave nor t lok quarter; they allowed no qualms of conscience as to violating laws • and they entered .every electoral district in Kansa'. and, in defiance of the rightful governor, voted at the point of the bowie-knife and the revolver. The result was a majority, alete . .st as ten to one, in favour of the pro-slavery candidate, Gene ral Whitfield. Exact returns from each district have sincis . been obtained by the Committe e of Investigation, and from their report presented to Congress I will extract one or two examples of the fraud practised by this invading army. The 7th District is a remote settlement, as yet very sparsely inhabited, and contain ing by census not more than 53 voters. In this district alone no less than 597 votes were cast for Whitfield, and seven for another candidate, making in all 604, of which it has been ascertained that not more than 20 were legal, the remaining 584 being consequently illegal votes. In the 11th District, Marysville, 'the total number of white inhabitants, including men, women, and children, was 36, of whom 24 were voters. Yet the poll-lists in this district show that 245 votes were cast at this election ! • • . . By a comparison of the census-roll with the poll-books it appears that but 7 resident settlers voted ; and 238 votes were illegally and fraudulently given !' "And what was done at the election of a delegate to Congress was repeated at the election of the members of the Legislative Assembly. By the report of the Com mittee of Investigation it appears that the proportion of illegal to legal votes was as 4,908 to 1,410 ! From the census it appears there were but 2,905 voters in the ter ritory ; yet 5,427 votes were recorded on the Pro -Slavery side alone ! Many of the Missourians returned the same night, after giving their vote, to their own State. At Leavenworth a great number came down by steam boat from Weston, and having effected their object returned by the same boat. Many affirmed their right to vote as residents, although they might have been only an hour in the territory, and had their home in Missouri. The enormities committed by these armed bands were fearful. Some we read of standing around the polling-place and saying that no difficulty would be male it they were allowed to vote in peace, bat that they were determined to vote anyhow, and that each one of them was prepared for eight rounds with out loading, and would go to the ninth round with the butcher-knife.' If the judges who presided over the elections refused to receive their votes without administering the oath of residence they held their pistols at their heads, while they appointed fresh judges from their own number and proceeded with the election, masters of the position.' So violent was their hatred to the oath that any who professed themselves ready to take it were threatened with in stant death, amid cries of Shoot him !' Cut his guts out !' &c. One of them,' we read in the report of the commissioners, Mr. J. M. Macey, was asked if he would take the oath ; and, upon his replying that he would if the judges required it, he was draped through the crowd away from the poll s amid cries of 'Sill the d—d nigger thief,'' Cat his throat,' Tear his heart out,' Etc. After they got him to the out side of the crowd they stood around him with cocked re volvers and drawn bowie-knives ' • one man putting a knife to his breast so that it touched him ; another holding a cocked pistol to his ear, while another struck at him with a club.' "The whole of the voluminous evidence accompany ing the report submitted to Congress goes to establish a succession of similar enormities in each of the polling districts. These investigations were being carried on within two doors of the place where I was myself stay ing when in Leavenworth ; and it was sufficient to hear the manner in which the Missourians affirmed their right to come over from their own State and vote in the territory of Kansas, and their determination to do so on every occasion and at all hazards, to understand the violence with whices they would assert that right when confronted with their political opponents at the polling places. " Another question may be suggested on this topic —By what right do these Missourians or others from neighbouring States vote in the Kansas elections ? " Icy no right whatever, except that of might. The Missourians have no more right to vote in Kansas than the voters in Middlesex have, after using their rightful suffrage in their own county, to cross to Surrey and re cord their votes a second time, with a pistol at the head of the election officer, in order to control the Surrey elections. Indeed, as the States of the Union are by their constitution perfectly independent of one another and self-governed, the parallel would be truer if we were to picture an army of Frenchmen, larger in number than all our voters who should, at the point of the sword, choose for us our representatives, and return without exception as our rulers men from among themselves or pledged to their own political sentiments. So much was it an act of main force and illegal oppression that among the conclusions which the Committee of Investigation report as established by the testimony they submit, they give the first place to the following : ' That each election in the territory, held under the organic or alleged territorial law, has been carried by organised invasion from the State of Missouri, by which the people of the territory have been prevented from ex ercising the rights secured to them by the organic law.' " And as the fruit of an organised invasion they con clude— Secondly, that the alleged territorial Legislature was an illegally constituted body, and had no power to pass valid laws, and their enactments are therefore null and void.' " While, however, in the first instances, the inter ference of the Missourians was wholly illegal, the Legis lature thus illegally constituted took care to legalise the act for the future. Hence we find them enacting in the act instituting a poll-tax : Sect. 1. That every free white male above the age of 21 years who shall pay to the proper officer in Kansas ter ritory the sum of $1 as a poll-tax, and shall produce to the judges of any election within and for the territory of Kansas a receipt showing the payment of said poll-tax, shall be deemed a legal voter, and shall be entitled to vote at any election in said territory during the year for which the same shall have been paid, provided that the right of suffrage shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States and those who have declared on oath their intention to become such, and shall have taken an oath to support the constitution of the United States and the provisions of the act organising the territory of Kansas.' " In other words, by the payment of a sine‘le dollar any citizen of any of the United States can purchase a voting power in Kansas for a twelvemonth, provided he pledges himself to the support of the Organic Act. In contrast to this, in the 11th section (statutes, p. 282) it is expressly enacted that while every inhabitant of Kansas paying a territorial tax is a qualified elector, yet should he, on being challenged to take au oath to sus tain the provisions of the Nebraska-Kansas Bill and the Fugitive Slave Law, ' refuse to take such an oath or affirmation, the vote of such person shall be rejected.' " Hence, in the new election of members of the Legis lature, the results of whica we daily expect to hear, the Pro-slavery Missourian who pays a dollar receives for it a vote, while the Free Settler in Kansas, though an owner of land in the territory, is denied his right of suf fra2e by the territorial law. The candidates, to be eligible at this election, are also required by the same law to take oath in support of the Fugitive Slave Law. (Statutes, p. 332,) There is little room for speculation, therefore, as to what election results the next American mail will brin , us from Kansas. " At the risk of writing that which is less generally interesting I have presented in this letter numerous extracts from public documents. I have deemed it right to do this because the whole value of the present com munication rests on the authority whence the statements are derived. The reforeoces I have made are to the `Statutes of the Territory of Kansas,' issued by the legislative body, to which, though chosen b y the inha bitants of another state, the Government at Washington gives the sanction of its approval and its military aid, and to the report and evidence of 'the Special Committee appointed to investigate the troubles in the territory of Kansas'—a report which, though dissented from by one member of the committee, contains testimony which can never be overthrown or gainsaid. "My simple object has been to show that the dark deeds of which I was an eyewitness in Kansas, some of which I detailed in my former letter, are no darker than the public acts of the slave-power in that territory, as exhibited in the archives of its House of Asse ..bly ; and that the fearful anarchy and unrestrained lawlessness which reign throughout the territory find both their parallel and their key in the flagrant unrighteousness of their legal enactments." riE SUN. LO WIEDNESD OCTOBER 22, t 56, election of the_.3oth of March, 1855, was con ducted t First, we learn that in the adjoining Slave State, Missouri, a secret society had for some time been in existence, generally known as the " Blue Lodge," the avowed purpose of which was, by a systematic organisation, to control the elections in Kansas or elsewhere. By this agency miserable bands of armed ruffians were poured into Kansas, and, under the generalship of efficient leaders, so distributed through the electoral districts as to o utnumber and overcome the resident voters., Before starting on their disgraceful mission they had been earnestly exhorted by their leader, General STRONGFELLOW 3 now the Speaker of the soi disant Legislative Assembly of Kansas, to " exterminate every scoundrel in any degree tainted with freesoilism or abolitionism." Nei ther "to give nor take quarter," to enter every election district in Kansas, and vote at the point of the bowie-knife and the revolver. This wholesome advice was carried out "au piedlalettre." Some of that highly respectable (I) constituency clustered about the polling places declaring that if they were permitted to vote in peace there would be no difficulty, but that they were determined to vote, and that each one of them was " prepared for eight rounds without loading, and would go to the ninth round with the butcher-knife.' It would be strange indeed if the judgment could be very impartial under such circumstances. If any impediment was raised—if the ordinary oath of residence was directed, the obnoxious officer was ejected from his seat with a revolver pressing against his temples, and a bowie-knife, occasioning a very unpleasing titillation fro on its close proximity to his ribs, and another more pliable gentleman selected in his place. Nor were they contented with repudiating the oath themselves ; but they required all bona fide voters to act in a similar manner. The refusal to take the oath was the test of orthodoxy, so far as the "domestic insti tution'' was concerned, and any failure in that respect earned for the offender the obnoxious and highly dangerous epithet of " nigger -worshipper." Can we feel astonished at any result arrived at under these circumstances ? In the 7th district there were but 53 legitimate voters, but 597 were recorded in favour of the Pro-slavery Candidate, of whom but 20 were legal. In the 11th district there were but 36 inhabitants, 24 only, being adult males, entitled to the suffrage—but 215 votes were registered, 7 of which only had any just claim to the privilege ; and although there wers but 2,905 . v0tes in the entire territory, 5,427 were recorded for the Pro-slavery Can didde. And this was the election which President Pow lent the whole of the executive authority to ccnfirm (I), recognising the atrocious Code that disfranchised every person who would not take a solemn oath to support slavery ! What possible chance of fair play was , there under such circum stances ? What chance could there 'be for any person who ventured to differ from parties like " the lighly respectable merchant from Weston," who was thundering forth his determination " to bring spme one down," and brandishing the weapons with which he could have carried his sanguinary intentions into execution ? We fear that similar attempts at fraud will be made at the approaching Presidential elections. The matter has now, hcwever, attained sufficient notoriety, and the Northerns must be prepared for any extremity that may be forced on them. Long impunity has rendered the Southerns reckless. The Free- Boilers can no longer submit to their dictation. Patient acquiescence iu the evil will make them participators therein- They must at last shake off their apathy, if they desire to avoid the re proaches of all civilised nations. The dreadful accident of Sunday night has elicited, naturally, a great variety of opinions in regard both. to the preacher and his friends. Much blame and some commendation has been bestowed upon both, but the truth of the case is now becoming clear. All parties can, of course, be wise after the event, but looking at all things impartially, it is difficult to find just ground for censure, if we except the reckless miscreants who, whether from hostility to the doctrines of the preacher, or to get up a row by which they might profit, wickedly raised the cry which frightened the vast multitude. We trust that they will be discovered and brought to justice. The design to disturb is now established beyond all doubt ; bells were heard tinkling previously to the com mencement of the cry of "Fire !" and one gen tleman assures us that, sitting in the gallery, and preserving his self-possession, and choosing, there tore, to withdraw amongst the last, he saw a decently dressed man, whom he could identify, walk along the gallery, smash every window he came to, and at the same moment repeat the cry of " Fire !" We hope, therefore, some of the authors of this cruel mischief may yet meet the due reward of their deeds. No . thing can excuse their villany. Had they objected ever so much to the preacher's doctrine, it might have partially excused a half involuntary exclamation, but to raise a cry which must drive thousands in a deadly rush to the doors deserves any punish ment short of hanging, if, indeed, it does not well deserve that. We have long been witness to the crowds so near us, who strove in vain to gain admission to Taeter Hall to hear the popular young preacher, hardly, we are informed, yet twenty-two years of age. It was therefore natural that he and his friends should wish to accommodate, if possible, the thousands who thronged after him. It is not in human nature, and certainly not in religious heal, to reject admiring followers, and we ought to give the young man, aad certainly the respect able tradesmen, several of them advanced in years, who manage the chapel, credit for wishing to do good to the thousands who we are constantly told will go to no ordinary place of worship. Why should we think that they engaged the Music flail from any but the usual motives which actuate human beings and religious men ? We have inquired of respectable persons who were present, and they inform us that up to the mo ment, during the prayer, when the bell was heard to tinkle, and the cry of " Fire 1" was raised, no worship they ever attended was conducted with more solemnity and decorum ; that the singing of the hymn by so many thousands of persons, in so Vast a building, was peculiarly impressive ; and that but for the intentional disturbance the effect of the whole must have been all that could be desired. We hardly think any one can be held responsible for not conjecturing that any even of the lowest roughs and rowdies could be found wicked enough to hazard the lives of so many persons, however willing they might have been to annoy one whom they of course judged a fanati cal preacher. One circumstance appears to have been over looked by most of our contemporaries, and to have occasioned incorrect comments. The stairs from the galleries, at one of which the chief acci dents occurred, were exterior to the main body of the edifice. The consequence was that the great majority within, those particularly who were on the platform, with the preacher himself, did . not know of thedisaster which had occurred at the THE LATE VICTORY OF THE CIRCASSIANS. The following is the narrative given by the Jour nal de Constantinople of the victory .1 the Circas pians, a brief account of which reached us a few days ago by telegraph : " SOUDJAK KALE, SEPT. 24. " The Russians having passed the Laba for the purpose of constructing fortifications in Abzech, Sefer Pacha immediately despatched an interpre ter to the Russian commander, in order to know the object of the expedition. The Russian com- T3 ander r e pli e d, ' By th e T rea ty o f Paris Circassia Conceded to Russia, and. I have come to take Poszession of it.' S e f er P ac h a sen t a s eco nd mes senger t o th e Russian commander to inform h i m that Circ ass i a was an independent country, that no one co u ld d i spose of it without the consent of retire forthwith theand Circassians measures to c ompel th its inhabit ants that if the Russians did not em would take prompt " The next day Sefer Pacha advanced with 30,000 men aga i nst th up a position on th e sloe Russians, who had taken easstoefaa ravine with sixteen on lelaanun;. the cTihreeascsoimaebearteplmained three hours and a master of the field, made 800 prisoners, and took all the guns. ic An otheribap - asflo'aui, lifter f t toeor th k pelapcaeestawgeenotry t he K ou b an b y t h e days ago in the , 0 go recruits, The behind. t Russians, who were obliged to retir e with a con siderable loss of men, leaving fiv e viln ed h " The Russian troops were composed and did not stand their ground. e prison ers t a ken by the Circassians are no longer re d uced to slavery. They are admitted into the ranks, or are at liberty to establish themselves upon the land, under the administration of a Naib. " The Circassian deputation which was sent to Constantinople has not returned, but it is thought certain that the Porte and the Western P owers will not support us." The election of Alderman Hale for the ward of Cole man-street was celebrated by a banquet last night at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. It was attended by most of the leading members of the corporation of the City of London. ERINCE'S CLUB.—RA .OQUET and TENNIS COURTS, Hans-place. Be!gray( t•iqttare.—The Racquet Courts ef thit Club are NOT OPEN, compri 'Law three close and two open courts. Gentlemen desirous of becom ing members are requested to forward their names to the secretary, tt the club. By order. CLEMENTS, Secretary. THE PRINCEITES A NI) THE ABODE OF LOVE. The "Somerset County Gazette" of S aturday next, October 25 will contain Part 1 of an elaborate expos dion of the Doctrines, Reli gious Practices, and Social Habits of tl Princeites ; with State ments by former Inmates of the Agape' none. Also, a large and highly finished Engraving of the " Abo de." Order., with five postage stamps for et 'oh copy, should be sent immediately to Mr. W. A. Woodley, Gazette Office, Taunton. THXATRE ROYAL• DR URY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. St with. THIS EVENING , THE LADY OF LYONS. Followed by Burlesque of PIZARRO. To conclude with BALLET DIVERTIS4E7VIENT. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THE &TRE. Under the Management of Ml'. CRAitLas /LEAN Tata EvENING, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. To conclude with PIZARRO. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Backstone. THIS EVENING, WILD OATS. Followed by The Spanish Dancers. After which, THE LITTLE TREASURE. To conende with THE GALICIAN FETE. LYCEUM THEATRE ROYAL, Lessee, Mr. Charles Dillon. THIS EVENING, BELPHEGOR. Belphegor, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Madeline, Mrs. Chas. Dillon. Followed by (for the sixth time) THE KING'S MUSKETEERS, D'Artagnon, Mr. Chas. Dillon; Constance, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with The BILLET from the Burlesque of the " Winter's Tale." Stalls, ss. ; Dress Circle, 45. ; Upper Boxes, 3s. ; Pit. 25.; Gallery. 1.. Commence at 7. Half•price to all parts at 9. Box Office open , daily from 11 till 4. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPHI Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, IRELAND AS IT IS. Followed by DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To conclude with LUCIFER MATCHES ; OR, THE YANKEE - ! srR IND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. T. Payne. THIS EVENING, THE OLD COMMODORE. • After a lic L h oo , OUT ON T SE. Followed by an original Burlesque, entitled BELPHEGOR. Mesdames Cuthbert, Woollldge, and E. Jacobs; Messrs. H. J. Turner, Herbert, Clarke, &c. To conclude with The Ballet of POL ICHIOELLE. Messrs. W. A. Barnes and Mithenson. Commence at 7. Stalls, 3s.—Boxes, 28.—Pit, Is.—Gallery, 6d. ROYAL OLYMPIC TEIEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING, RETRIBUTION. To conclude with THE FIRST NIGHT. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, (69th Night !) Shakspere's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD, with Equestrian Illustrations by Mr. W. Cooke's stud of trained horses. Richard, Mr. James Holloway. After which, The SCENE% in the CIRCLE. To conclude with a Pot Pourri of Amusing Entertainments. Commence at Seven. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr, W . West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. inn. RIGA WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS Dior—Morn. 24, min. aft. 8 —Evening 12 min. aft. 9 T , I-ritOßEOw—lforn. 56 min. aft. 9—Evening 36 Tam, an, 10 THE WEATHER—SurN OFFICE, OCTOBER 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHAM 63 —highest sines noon yesterday. i 0 —lowest this morning and during the night. 62 —this day at noon. BAROMETEB, 30.44. WIND—S. to S.S.E.—Light, with very fine weather. STAMPED EDITION OF " THE SUN." The Latest Edition cf The San, Stamped, in time for Post, may always be had from half past 5 till 7 o'clock every evening. Subscribers in the Country will please to observe that the heading " THIRD EDITION" is always to be seen on the papers containing the latest news. If any difficulty be experienced in obtaining that Edition, a communication to The Sun Office will remedy it. Sun. Office, 112, Strand. r - 7 5 9 cirF‘ lANDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1856, It is now many years since Sir ROBERT PEEL announced that " the battle of the Constitution was to be fought at the registries." The slave owners of the Southern States of America appear to have profited by the aphorism. Their efforts at Kansas have been mainly directed to the falsification of the lists of voters, and, by the most unconstitutional and illegal proceedings, to return quasi representatives, totally opposed to the wishes and feelings of the legitimate voters. And yet the miscreants who took part in such atrocious proceedings, who had the audacity to rob, maltreat, and too frequently murder, those who dared to resist the enrolment of their fictitious suffrages, or to exercise their own irresistible rights, were pleased to style themselves the friends of law and order ! A letter addressed by Mr. THOMAS GLADSTONE, of Stockwell Lodge, Surrey, to a morning contem porary, which we have extracted into another part of this day's impression, so clearly and graphi cally details the nature of the proceedings that have taken place, that wa cannot hesitate to repose implicit credence in the narrative. Mr. GLAD STONE has not sheltered himself under any dis guise. He has boldly hnd manfully come for ward, giving name and address, so that any person desiring to test his respectability and credibility may have ample opportunities for so doing. It requires a. high degree of moral courage for any gentleman to submit to the slanderous imputations that may be hurled against his devoted head by the planters and their unscrupulous ad herents. Yet Mr. GLADSTONE has not shrunk from the responsibility. In the cause of truth and justice he has voluntarily exposed himself to all the personal annoyance and inconvenience that may result from the publication of his testi mony, and the unflinching exposure of the nefa rious transactions in which the " border ruffians" were implicated. This is a great test of veracity, and we aca l t d wl ys alo o n i e K wa irresistible. Kansas verisimilituderrn st aboutterritory,implicitTh e t br references e r sgr e t iea d vnt e iec n nme c gs e' Bu t there chapterut t o that theut isstatute i)e r i f is l and verse—even the very pages of the Pro-slavery Code, in which are found enactments such as never had been paralleled in any country pretending to civilisation—must remove every doubt from the minds of the most sceptical. What, then, do we hear from this trustworthy witness respecting the mode in which the so-called bottom of the north-west staircase. Hence the cries to " Go on," to " Preach his Sermon," &c. —the persons who called thus only supposed there was a little disturbance at the doors, which would soon be quieted if the preacher resumed. To this circumstance it is, we have learned also, to be attributed that a collection was made. On account of the size of the building a large num ber of collectors had been distributed all about it, who acted as if nothing but ordinary confusion had taken place. The preacher himself had no idea, it appears, that anything serious had occurred till the last moment, and when informed of it, turned pale, and having pronounced the benediction in great distress, immediately retired. This is, perhaps, hardly the occasion to criticise the youthful preacher's general style of sermo nising, much less his theology. The latter, indeed, is least of all things the province, as we conceive, of a daily journal. We speak with modesty, for a morning contemporary has been very diligent of late in instructing the Licensed Victuallers anent the orthodoxy or heterodoxy of a hymn book, published by a dissenting poet preacher. On this occasion the efforts of the preacher, as we are informed by all present, to impart confidence to the excited multitude, and divert their attention, were most creditable. As to the literary merit of his sermons, it would be unfair to judge them by the ordinary standards of taste. Perhaps had DANIEL O'CONNELL been a baptist preacher, he would have indulged in a very similar style. The broad, unqualified, confident assertions of what he fully be lieves, language chosen not from books, or the conventional pulpit dialect, but from the shop, and the social circle, great natural dramatic powers, an obviously humorous turn, yet, as so fre , quentlyhappens, in combination with almost equal powers for pathos, add to all this a voice heard with ease, and pleasantly too, by ten thousand at once, and it is not wonderful that Mr. SPURGEON is folloWed. If he were a speaker on Chartism or Toryism, Unitarianism or the Highest Cal vinism, he would still be followed ;,he is essentially an orator for the many. CANADA. LIVERPOOL Oct. 22.—The Quebec and Montreal screw steam - ship Indian has arrived, with dates from Quebec to the 11th inst., and from New York to the 10th inst. _ _ _ The steam-ship Niagara, hence, had arrived at Halifax, and the steam-ship Arago, from South ampton, at New York, on the Bth inst. At the nomination of candidates in the western division of Upper Canada, which had taken place at Chatham, the show of hands was in favour of Mr. Rankin. A. poll was to take place. For the Rideau division, the Hon. Mr. Van Koughnet had been elected without opposition. So far the elec tions have been unfavourable to the Ministry. _ _ His Excellency the Governor-General had arrived at Montreal, and reviewed the volunteer militia force. He was to leave for Toronto on the 18th inst. At Quebec the business of the week in produce had been considerable, and the market was quite bare. The quotations for flour were 335. 6d. to 335. 9d., and for Western Canada white wheat 7s. 6d. to Bs. Ashes reached 435. 3d. for pots, before the news by the Anglo-Saxon of a further great advance in Britain was received, and it was ex pected the price would again advance notwithstand ing increasing rates of freight and insurance. There was no change of importance to note in other articles of produce or in the Money Market. We have received the following telegraph from New York to the 10th inst. :—" Money not so plenty, and firm, at 7 per cent. for call. Stocks dull, and lower. Exchange lower, 91 to 9i. Flour market without important change. Sale, 7,000 barrels. 6 dol. 25c. to 6 dol. 30c. common ; choice super, at 6 dol. 65c. to 6 dol. 800. for extra State ; 6 dol. 25c. to 7 dol. 25c. for super and ex tra Western. Sales 200 barrels. Canadian flours 6 dol. 50c. to 7 dol. 50c; Sales small lot. Wheat market firm. Sales 20,000 bushels, 1 dol. 42c. to 1 dol. 50c. for red. Southern, 1 do. 60c. to 1 dol. 67c. White Canadian, 1 dol. 40c. to 1 dol. 50c. Red Illinois corn dull ; small sales, 60c. to 66ic. Pork better ; sales, 1,000 barrels, 20 dol. 25c. to 20 dol. 50c. for mess ; 17 dol. 75c. to 18 dol. for prime. Lard steady. THE " MARIANNE." We extract the following from the letter of the Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition) : " It is rumoured that a good deal of agitation has recently occurred in the department of the Deux-Sevres, of which Nort is the chief town. indeed, it is said to have lasted the whole of Sep tember. The arrest of a repris de justice led to the discovery of the existence of a new and very dan gerous society, which had held, I believe, but one nocturnal meeting at Maye, near Lonzy. The project attributed to these conspirators was nothing less than the destruction by fire of the crops of as t the e of re 60i a persona result nn e , o f corn, (Vc., and of houses, and the ext erm i na ti on of aristocrats, priests, and the ri c h.' Th e mot c t / h 'o e r s d e r proceededeinthe denunciationssoc iet society known from Poitiers. was the arrest near the canton of Th ouars . Th e accuse d are affi liated" After the last affair at Angers all communications in writing and all meetings were interdicted to the Marianne of more than two, three, or, at most, four members, in order not to attract attention. All internal quarrels were rigorously prohibited. They were to salute each other with the left hand, placing at the same time, and in a seemingly care less manner, the right hand on their breast. The sign of recognition was by touchingeach ether's hand three times, pressing the lower joint of the middle finger, and pronouncing the word ' Lyon ' with the lips half closed. If they perceived or suspected that they were heard, they were to separate with association is divided into tens and hund reds, and , a the w words e ' case e i s (it fait chaut ici.) The hot previous societies, the affiliated only know the chief of their section. A canton is placed under the immediate direction of a chief known only to the centurions. " When the persons just mentioned were ar rested the canton became agitated ; the wives of the prisoners ran crying through the villages, and a number of peasants, armed with pitchforks, threa tened destruction if the gendarmes did not instantly let them go. It is said that the gendarmes were forced to yield them up, and with some diffieulty kept themselves from being disarmed. The agita tion increased, and a large band gathered together tumultuously at Briou. The Prefect put himself in movement with the gendarmes of Bressiures, Ohiche, and Geais, and was accompanied by the Procureur-General. On arriving at Brien the re volters at first showed signs of resistance, but in a short time were dispersed, and they took refuge in the fields and woods. The prisoners have been tried and sentenced to various penalties by the tribunals. Among them is said to be a person of superior class, who is sentenced to a year's im prisonment, for having made use of seditious lan guage against the Government. The high price of food is no doubt the immediate cause of those dis turbances ; but it is evident that such associations as the Marianne, and others which depend on it, profit by every circumstance to advance the main object they have in view. " Fresh arrests appear to have been made in the Faubourg St. Antoine within the last few days. They have nothing to do with politics, but are at tributable to the strike whioh has taken place in an establishment of that quarter, and which menaces to extend to others. The workmen de clare that, owing to the high price of every article of necessity and increased house rent, they cannot go on, though the daily wages for that class of workmen (paperstainers) is from 4f. to 6f. They demand an augmentation of lf. d " y. The Queen held :a Privy Council this day at Windsor Castle. His Imperial Highness the Hereditary Prince of Tuscany has returned to the Clarendon from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. We understand that a matrimonial alliance is about to take place between Mr. Charles Fox Webster, second son of the late Colonel Sir Henry and Lady Vassal Webster, and the only daughter of Sir Henry Calder, Bart., and the late Lady Frances Calder. Lord Malmesbury has arrived at Turin. Lord Brougham has left Paris for Cannes. H.M.S. Hannibal, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, left Malta for England on the 11th inst. M. Antonini, the Neapolitan Ambassador, will quit Paris this week, leaving a chargi d'affaires for the con duct of current business. LATEST NEWS. The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition) says : " It was yesterday given as certain that M. Antonini, the Neapolitan Minister at this Court, • would quit Paris immediately for Brussels. In this there was nothing extraordinary after the rupture of diplomatic relations between the Courts and the official announcement of the fact in the Moniteur. Besides, M. Antonini is the Envoy of his Sicilian Majesty to the Court of Brussels as well as to that of Paris. I learn today, however, that the rupture which has just taken place is not of so stern a character as to require the departure of M. An tonini, and that he will not quit us unless he receives the special and peremptory order of his Sovereign to do so ; or, what certainly is much less probable, unless the French Government sends him his passports, accompanied by as peremptory an order to evacuate the capital of the French Empire as our iMinister received at Madrid in 1848. It is also said that Baron Brenier (the French Minister at Naples) will not leave his post immediately. He will still remain some days, perhaps some weeks, at Naples, while there yet remains a hope that the King will relent. It is anticipated here that, notwithstanding the official rupture, an arrangement which will not hurt the amour propre of any of the parties interested is not impossible. The King of Naples is impressed with the belief that the Emperor Napoleon is very unwilling to push matters to an extreme. Queen Maria Christina intends quitting Paris soon, and will spend the winter at Rome. The Vienna correspondent of the Times (second edition), in a letter dated Oct. 18, says : " Certain remarks which have reached my ears during the last few days induce me to fancy that the foundation for a future alliance between Russia and France has already been laid, but it is possible that the atmosphere of Vienna makes me over-suspicious. Austria is for the moment almost isolated, and it is not clear to me where she is to find allies, unless indeed she can manage to effect a complete reconciliation with England and Prussia. It is still positively affirmed here that the Emperor of Russia never expressed his disap probation of the policy of Austria to Prince Ester hazy, but you may be assured that he did so. I re peat that the Czar, at the Congratulation Levee, told the Austrian Ambassador Extraordinary that he received his personal congratulations with plea sure, but added, You may write to your Court that I prefer actions to words.' The sentence quoted was repeated more than once, and was heard by two or three persons who were standing by. Prince Esterhazy was deafer than usual, and did not choose to hear what was said by the Czar, but he called on Prince Gortschakoff on the day after the levee, and relatad what had passed. ' I made no reply to his Majesty,' said the Austrian Ambassador, " because I did not consider either the place or the occasion (ni les lieux ni l'oecasion) fitting for such a description of conversation.' Did not the Hungarian Prince display more tact than the Russian Emperor ?" FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. " We are assured on good authority," says the Verite, " that the Marquis d'Antonini, Neapolitan Ambassador at Paris, and the Commandeur-Mar quis de Cito, first secretary of embassy, are about to proceed to Brussels. These diplomatists will await in that city the termination of the crisis which has disturbed the relations between France and the Court of Naples." " Not only is the resignation of Marshal Serrat, • positive," says a Paris letter in the Independance of Brussels, " but he has announced his firm in tention of persisting in his resolution, whatever may be the answer he receives from the Narvaez Cabinet. The Duke de Rivas appears to be the statesman who has the greatest chance of being ap pointed as successor to Marshal Serrano." A telegraphic despatch from Toulon of yesterday states that nothing has been seen of the English squadron since its departure from Ajaccio. The French squadron was still off Toulon, but ready to put out to sea. The following order of the day was lately ad dressed by Marshal Randon to the troops on his return from Kabylia : " Soldiers,—ln the course of a few weeks you have met the enemy twenty times, and in those different com bats your valour has always been crowned with victory. The tribes of the Jurjura, who had revolted, have re ceived a severe and well-merited chastisement. You have valiantly executed the task which the Emperor had entrusted to you, and it only now remains to confer recompences on those who have more particularly dis tinguished themselves. I shall on the subject make warm representations, which, I have no doubt, the Minister of 'War will receive with;. favour. Soldiers. you will not have to bid a long farewell to the moun tains which you have just gone over, for you will have to again appear there in spring, when we will achieve the conquest of that Babylia where no one will have penetrated before you. Prior to dissolving the expedi tionary corps of which I bad the command, I address to the generals my thanks for the most useful and de voted co-operation which they have afforded me on every occasion.' Amongst the banns of marriage posted yip at Algiers lately was that of Viscount de Salignac Fenelon, colonel of the Ist Chasseurs d'Afrique, with Mlle. Randon, daughter of the Governor. General of Algeria. _ _ BOURSE, Oct. 'AIL—The following were the last quotations : Cash. fr. 5. End of Month. 41 per Cents 9O 90 —f. —O. 3 per Ceuta 66 75 67 New Loan 66 70 — Bank Shares 3,930 -- Roman ............... 87 Credit Mobilier 1,460 Austrian _ ........ 87 Belgian Fives 99l— Spanish Threes ..... . Piedmontese(s) 69 Home Debt .„....,. 38i RAILWAYS—von Caen. fr. c. fr. c. Orleans - Northern Lyons .,....1,280 New Ditto Mediterranean — Grand Central 6lO Lyons Geneva 720 Teste Cette 692 50 Austrian Ccm. 785 THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Vienna of the 17th, in the German Journal of Frankfort, says:—" In answer to the application made to the Austrian Cabinet by Count Walewski on the subject of the prolonged occupa tion of the Danubian Principalities, it was replied that the first application of the Porte on the sub ject would be attended to by Austria." We find on this snbject, in the Vienna Gazette of the 17th, a second article on the subject of the occupation, from which the following is an ex tract : " In order to still more complicate the present state of affairs, France is more persisting than ever on the subject of the evacuation of the Principalities by Austria, that is to say, the abandonment of them to an unknown destiny. The considerable sacrifices which Austria has made in the occupation hid for object to guarantee the Principalities from the attacks of Russia, as well as from those - of anarchy. It was for that purpose that in the treaty concluded between the Porte and Austria, to the assent of the Western Powers, was given the evacuation was made dependent on a private convention which was to take place between Austria and the Sublime Porte. But at this moment the Porte does not demand the evacuation of the Principalities. Under existing cir cumstances it would, on the contrary, regret that a power should not occupy them, and offer a guarantee against disorder and violence, without interfering in the internal affairs of the country." The Journal de Dresde has a Paris letter, in which it is stated that the meeting of th e C ongress i s no t only fixed, but itis doubtful if it will take place at all. The Oest. Deutsche Post pretends that England has asked and obtained a reunion of the naval squadrons as the minimum preliminary to more decided action, reserving, however, to herself the adoption of ulterior measures independently of France. M. Lindenberg, the principal editor of the Gazette Patriotique, has been found guilty of defaming the Prince of Prussia. H e h as b een con d e mned by the Tribunal of Potsdam to nine months' imprison ment and the deprivation of all civil rights. Gen. Gerlach. appeared as a witness. THE LATE MURDEROUS ASSAULT IN PARLIAMENT-STREET. Ths report published in an evening paper last night, that death had terminated the sufferings of Cope, turns", out, on inquiry at the Westminster Hospital this morn ing, to be entirely without foundation. At a quarter to 8 o'clock last evening the operation of trepanning was performed by Mr. Bernard Hole, and in a short time after the pressure upon the brain Was removed, the unfortunate man Cope recovered his enses. This morning the surgeon again saw him, and declared him to be a great deal better than he was last night. Although the unfortunate man is at present quite sensible, he has not yet recovered bis speech, so that he is unable to answer questions beyond a shake or nod of the bead. Notwithstanding the injuries Cope has re ceived, he is likely to recover. Joseph Jenkins, the young man apprehended on Mon' day night for a murderous attack on Richard Cope, assistant to Mr. Berry, jeweller, of Parliament-stteet, was brought before Mr. Jardine yesterday at Bow street. The following evidence was adduced : George Lerigo said—l am porter to a milliner in Regent-street, and live at 11, Chapel-street, Oxford street. At half-past nine last evening I was passing Mr. Bsrry's shop in Parliament-street, and I heatd a slight moaning. I said, " What is that ?" There were two or three men on the steps. One of them said, "It is only a man and wife quarrelling." I went on a bit, and returned. When I came back I saw the prisoner strik ing a man with some instrument. I think it was a life preserver. I could not swear. The man who was struck was behind the counter, crouching down almost on his knees. I cried ont, "For God's sake secure him ;he is murdering the man." The prisoner went behind the do r and picked up a parcel, then he came •out of the shop smoking a cigar, and walked away. He turned the corner of Cannon-row. I followed and raised the alarm, and then he be - ; an to run. I pursued him till be stopped. A crowd of people joined in th e pursuit. I kept halloaing "Stop him." He was stopped by the Waterman at the cab-stand in Palace-yard. Thomas Allen said—l am a hackney-carriage et* tendant, No. 5, and was on duty in Palace-yard last night (Monday), at half-past nine. I sa w the prisoner running away and a crowd after him. Hearing cries of " Stop him," I did so, and Lerigo charged bim with assaulting and nearly murdering a man in Perlin' ment-street. I took him to the station-house. Se re' fused to give his address. There were marks of blood on his hands; he had no weapon, but he had a lighted cigar in his hand. Mr. Berry said that the young man injured svas Lis journeyman. He (Mr. Berry) called a t the shop at nine o'clock, and left the young man t° close. His name was Richard Cope. It was his bug' ness to pack up every night the greater part of the stock and remove it. He would rather not ray where it was removed to ; it was done with great secresy. A dummy was made up and taken by the young max to his private residence in Stafford-row, Pimlico, to divert suspicion. On this occasion the young man bad packed OP the stock, when witness called. Nothing of any valu e was missing. What the prisoner had carried away Iva ° the " dummy." The young man had been removed to the hospital. Inspector Bradstock took the charge at the station, and noticed the prisoner's bloody hands. He caused search to be made for the life-preserver and parcel, but in vain. Probably he had associates, among wilu l33 ,' doubtless, were the men who misled Lerigo, by Bar ri ° it was a quarrel between husband and wife. To sou ° of these he must have passed the parcel and weapon; Witness had visited the shop, and found the wall habil the counter splashed with blood. Had seen the mum ' 4 ' the hospital. He was conscious, but could not spear' The surgeon stated that he had a severe scalp-wou nd ' which had induced paralysis of the left side. It a} peared that he was quite insensible when removed fro ° the shop, and for some time after his admission to t he hospital. The prisoner offered no defence. He was remanded for further examination. THREAT TO MURDER SIR RICHARD MAIM BY AN EX•POLICEMAN. John Casey, a discharged constable from the R divi sion of police, was placed at the bar before Mr. Seeker , at the Greenwich Police-office, yesterday, charged ° ll d warrant with having knowingly and feloniously utters to Mr. Superintendent Mallalieu a letter of a th re atening. character, implying that he would murder Sir Richa rd Mayne, the head commissioner of police. Mr. Francis Mayall Mallalieu, superintendent of th e R division of police, stated that on or about the 15th instant he received by post the letter now produced, bearing date 12th October instant, and signed " Jam e° Casey." He knew the handwriting to be that of Jame° Casey, as he was formerly a constable in thkß divisions but was discharged from his office by the commissioner e of police about three years azo. Since that time he (the superintendent) had received several letters from hire; complaining of the injustice of his dismissal, and COlr, taining language of a threatening character towards the commissioner, Sir Richard Mayne, and from the nature of such threats, and the destitute condition of the said James Casey, he apprehended that he would commit an alt of personal violence cn Sir Richard Mayne, and con sequently took the present proceedings. Mr. Boustead, the chief clerk, then read the following extract from the letter "I will make him (the first part of the letter alluding to Sir Richard Mayne) a living memento of my Ve n „ . geance, na matter what the suffering afterwards. It will be a terrible lesson for other commissioners, sou : teach them how to act in a fair manner to all under them." The same letter contained another paragraph to the fol.' lowing effect : " I have no hesitation in saying that his tyrannical' conduct in my case has made me as deadly a nd ito veterate an enemy against him as can be. I hail endeavoured by all means in my power to obtain living, no matter how degrading. I will not exist /fitl y out having a terrible revenge on him. My mind is mad e up, and should I be drove to it I will make him suffer as much, if not more, than he has made me experience, fo r the last three years." Mr. Seeker (to Mr. (Mallalieu) —Have you seen tb: prisoner or had any con versa ti on w i th him on the su bjec of his conduct ? Mr. Mallalieu replied that he had seen him about three weeks since at Scotland-yard, when he spoke to h llll ,, upon the impropri e ty o f hi s conduct. He could 13°' ascertain what object he had in view. In reply to the charge, the prisoner said he had 00 1 to object to the wording of the charge on the warrant'He did not th reaten " to murder ;" he only wished to 1 contrast the puni s h ment h e m i ght give him (Sir Richard Mayne) with what he bad given him (the prisoner). Mr. Secker having referred to various parts of th l letter, one portion of which stated " that he could 13 ° shoot him, as he was not worth a pistol," said be b e , i lieved he had committed an offence under the 10th an 11th Vice., whi c h se t s f or th " t h at any person knowingly .7, uttering any l e tt er t h reaten i ng to mur d er, " &c. this case, although he did not pointedly use the words: still it was ar gumen t a ti ve , an d was a case f er t h e dee', sion of a j ur y as to t h e construct i on. H e b e liev . cu , that the words, "he has made m e as d ea dl y and veterate an enemy as can be," were of s t rong irnplic 3• tion, as well as making him " a living memento of 03 1 0 vengeance." However, he should f or th e p rese nt, I order that further inquiries might be made res pecticg him, remand him till Monday n ex t. Th e pr i sone r Ic ao then removed. SUSPECTED MURDER. Reports have been published in the newspapers yell recently of a man, named Thomas Willett, having beets committed for trial at the next South Lancashire assizes/ charged with attempting to murder hi s w if e a t Li ve rpool , by cutting her throat. He also cut and wounded a Ma ri . at Liverpool who interfered to rescue his wife from hie 3 ' Since his committal circumstances have come to the knowledge of the Manchester police which throw til e . suspicion of a previous crime upon him. It appear ° that he had been living in the neighbourhood of Chan cery-lane, Manchester, for several years with a worae who passed as his wife, and this woman died a few dgg before he attempted the crime with which he is ch a rgeu at Liverpool. Instead of getting the corpse interred its his own neighbourhood, he went and made arrangement° to have it interred at Christ-church, Hulme, the other extremity of the town, and on the night before the fu neral conveyed the body to the grave-yard on a band' bairow. After the f unera l h o l eft Manchester, sayisg. to a friend that h e was go i ng to Li verpool to murder bl' wife, and that he should be in Kirkdale gaol before night. He attempted to murder his wife at Liverps° l that same day. Hi s M anchester w i fe d i ed after an ill ness of a few days only, and in consequence of informs' tion in possession of the Manchester police, Mr. Sayri? f ' superintendent of the C division, made a communicatio n to the coroner of the city, by whose directions the boa"' iu Christchurch graveyard was disinterred yesterday morning. An inquest was opened yesterday afternoo s at the Greyhound public-house, Chester-road, Haire/ but the proceedings will have to await a post-morta l examination. The police found a paper containing th e remains of some kind of powder in the house where b e lived in Chancery-lane, and this will probably have to be analysed also before the inquiry can be completed. "A GENTLE SIVAIN."—A young gentleman at Weston is in want of a wife, and, as he does not wish to marl foolishly, he desires that the lady who may favour hirs with an offer must be prepared to make the very m ode' rate bid of 1001. per annum—i.e., the lady's incocn e must reach that amcunt. Au advertisement in the Clit ton paper makes known the denre of this "gentle swain, and it is to be hoped that some of the eligible young ladies in that fashionable suburb will deign to rail° upon him. TRADE REPORT.— MANCHESTER, Tuesday.—The ad vanced price of the raw material in Liverpool, and th e prospect of a supply less adequate for the increasieg consumption, and consequently of still higher rates, gi gs cr. hardening t en d ency to t hi s mar k e t—th e prices °f manufactured ar ti c l es b e i ng quo t e d propor ti on ateli higher. The condition of the money market, howeve r ' restricts the operations of buyers, and the day's transa-' t ions will be inconsiderable. WEST KENT Fox HOUNDS.—It is reported that M r Colyer's hounds will commence hunting in a few daV'' and that he has made a valuable addition to his stud 17 1 purchasing some first class hunters, and also to his Ice; nel from d raug ht s m ad e f r om som e o f th e crac k 104 in England.—South-Eastern laze*.