The Sun. — London, England, 1861-09-24 00:00:00

TRADE OF FRANCE, Now that the Ist of October is approaching, the term at which the Treaty of Commerce with Eng land is to be carried into full execution, the shop keepers in Paris who deal in cotton goods are re ducing their prices to a figure quite unprecedented. They fear it is said, that the French market will be overstocked with British manufactures. Every Englishman they perceive in any public place they imagine to be a manufacturer come to compete with and undersell them. A Rouen paper states that the hotels in that town are filled with English merchants and manufac turers come to make sales of their produce for the Ist of October, the period when a variety of British merchandise will be admitted into France on the payment of a duty of 15 per cent. ad valorem. That paper adds that the prices demanded by the Eng lish dealers are so moderate that they would create surprise, were it not known that English merchants make immense sacrifices in order to become masters of the market. Accounts from Mulhausen state that the great rise in the price of cotton at Havre has produced a corresponding effect in that market. The price of thread has risen from 2-k to 5 per cent., and calicoes from ato 1 per cent. Even at these rates manufac turers refuse to sell, expecting better prices. A letter from St. Dizier states that there is nothing doing in pig iron. Holders of stock, how ever, will not sell at less than 130 f. for the present. A revolution is being made in the manufacture of iron in France by the ironmasters in Franche- Comte, who are using coke in place of charcoal. A letter from Bischwiller, in the Bas-Rhin, says : The ordinary animation of a manufacturing town is at this moment increased at Bischwiller by hundreds of male and female hop-pickers coming to gather the hops grown on 577,526 perches of ground in the suburbs, which promise this year a good half-crop, or about 1,395 metrical quintals, The wages paid for picking a metrical quintal' of hops is generally from 36f. to 40f. Thus, the hop-growers of Bischwiller will in the course of September have paid 55,800 f. to poor families from the neighbouring communes, but chiefly from German Lor raine. The hops, which were attacked in the month of July by insects, again put forth fresh leaves in August, so that three-fourths of the crop will be of the best quality; the remainder was rusted by spiders towards the end of last month. Some sales have been made at such moderate prices that it is probable the entire crop will be shortly dis posed of." The official list gives the following prices for oil in the Paris market :-Rape oil, in cask, 110 f. 50c.; clarified, 120 f. ; linseed oil, 97f. The price of flour was well maintained in the Paris market last week at from 89f. to 95f: the sack of 157 kilogrammes. Offers, however, were more numerous, first from holdets of Spanish flour, and again from northern dealers, whose flour is not in much favour with bakers, who suspect it of being mixed with English or American flour, Flour of the six marks was not in much demand. It was quoted on Monday at from 92f. to 92f. 50c. It varied during the week from 93f. to 94f. It closed on Saturday at 93f, The factors declared on Saturday 1,832 sacks of flour, of which 36 only were of first quality, sold for delivery within 30 days, at from 90f. to 94f. the sack. The price of wheat was still more firm in the Paris market last week than the preceding week. New wheat is quoted at from 75c. tolf. the hecto litre higher. Choice samples were sold at from 50f. to 51f. 50c., and other descriptions at from 48f. 50c. to 50f the sack of 120 kilogrammes. Farmers are slow in offering their corn for sale. What home-grown wheat appears in the Paris market comes from the departments of the centre, Burgundy and the Rhone. Wheat.from the latter department, which is highly prized, was sold at 52f. New wheat from the other departments varied from 47f. to 49f. American wheat is be coming scarcer in the Paris market. It is quoted at from 43f. to 44f. 50c. the sack of 120 kilogrammes. Spanish white wheat, which is more esteemed by French millers, is quoted at 51f. 50c. ; old wheat from Dantzic, at 47f. 50c. The fluctua tions in the price of wheat and flour in Paris have produced no effect at Havre. There were 81,197 metrical quintals of wheat sold in that market last week, of which 9,298 were for immediate delivery. American wheat was sold free at from 32f. s')c. to .37f. the 100 kilogrammes ; American white wheat, 40f. ; Danish, from 35f. 50e. to 36f. 50c. American flour was sold at from 41f. 50c. to 44f. the barrel of 88 kilogrammes; 400 quintals of Ger men flour were sold at 54f. the 100 kilogrammes. The wheat imported into Havre last week consisted of 133,958 quintals, of which 70,361 came from America, 33,347 from England, 23,993 from the Baltic, and the remainder from Iputhern Russia. The corn imparted in to Marseilles last week con sisted of 86,000 hectolitres of wheat, 4,500 of maize, and 1,500 of oats. The sales amounted to 343,000 hectolitres. Wheat has again risen at Bordeaux. The millers, whose stock of flour is completely ei hausted, are constant visitors at the corn market ; 321. 50c. was offered for choice samples ; farmers refused to sell at less than 33f. The price of corn is maintained firmly in the northern markets, not withstanding the large imports into Dunkirk. The Paris corn merchants complain with some reason that the Government has ceased for some time to publish the monthly returns of the quantity of wheat and flour imported into and exported from France. It is at this moment, as they truly ob serve, that merchants, and the public likewise, have need of such information. Some alarm is felt among the labouring classes at the high price of bread, and nothing can tend more to dispel that uneasiness than the assurance that the corn im ported is sufficient for all demands. The telegraph has brought the price of the provincial corn mar kets held yesterday Amit ns.-An ordinary market. No change in the prices of wheat since last week. Barley has risen 50 centimes the 100 kilogrammes ; oats, If. the quintal. Arras.-Wheat has risen 50c. the hectolitre since Satur• day last. Price, from 21f. 50c. to 33(. 75c. the hectolitre ; seed wheat, 35f. to 40f. the hectolitre. Chartres.-A larger market than the last; but still in sufficiently supplied. Sales difficult at a reduction of lf. the sack on wheat. Oats in demand at a rise of 25c. the sack. Dijon.-An ordinary market ; prices well maintained. Flour mills idle for want of water. Wheat, 35f. to 41f. the 100 kilogrammes ; oats, 20f. the metrical quintal ; flour, 68f. the 125 kilogrammes. Marseilles.-Irka wheat for delivery, 37f. the measure of 160 litres ; Marianopoli, 32f. 50c. Melun.-Market tolerably well supplied ; a rise on wheat of lf. sc. the hectolitre; average price, 31f. 20c. A rise on oats of 11c. Metz.-1,673 hectolitres of wheat sold to-dayat an average of 37f. 2c. the 100 kilogrammes, being a further fall of 50c. Montereau.-Market less well supplied ; sales difficult, with a fall on wheat of 75f. the sack. Orleans. -Market quiet, with a tendency to a fall in wheat. At Bordeaux, two evenings back, there was a sort of riot in the Place des Capucines. It appears that a statement was made among the poorer popu lation of that district that the price of bread was about to be raised several centimes per kilogramme, and a great number of persons accordingly collected before a baker's shop to purchase a supply of bread before the increase took place. The baker declared that he had sold off all his day's stock, but the people would not go away. At length, however, the police came up and di&persed the assemblage. A letter from Copenhagen says : " The corn harvest, which is always late in the north of Europe, may be now considered as terminated. In general, tho results exceed the expectations of the growers, and may be regarded as those of a good year. Denmark may, there fore, have a considerable quantity to export, particularly of barley and oats, which is abundantly cultivated both on the mainland and in the Danish islands. The vintage has commenced in the neighbourhood of Lyons. The quality of the wine is excellent, and the grape ferments readily. The celebrated white wine onjondrieu of this year is already offered for sale in the wineshops of Lyons. It is calcUlated that the rain which fell last week will increase the wine crop by full 25 per cent. Accounts from the Drome state that the vintage, Which has commenced in that department, surpasses the hopes of the wine-growers. Thanks to the late abundant rain, the grapes have increased in size, and have arrived at maturity under the influence of a bright sun. The wine crop is abundant, and of ' , try superior quality. The Ittontteur Vint:cote announces that the yin thatit • H la going on very ac ti ve l y i n the erault, and hooaorwpl commence next week in the neighbour- The p r i ce e °f spirit ci , 'Ertilled from beetroot is firm, r and appearances indicate that that firmness will be maintained; From what is already known of the vintage the quality of the new wine will be excel lent, and wine-growers in the south will not use any of it for distillation which they can save. The beetroot crop is not expected to be more than moderate, and consequently the quantity of beet root spirit manufactured will be less than that of last year. Corn of every description is too high priced to be bought for distillation ; neither is the potato crop abundant in France or in Germany. The price of beetroot brandy in Paris is quoted at 90f. the hectolitre. The Constitutionnel announces that in conse quence of the return of fine weather the Imperial f a mily will prolong their stay at Biarritz. The Progres de 1' Oise states that orders have been received at Compiegne to prepare the Palace to receive the Emperor on Saturday, the sth of October. An addition is about to be made to the Exhibition now open at the Palais de l'lndustrie of the produc tions of the French colonies—namely, a collection of articles of the kingdom of Siam which were sent to France by the Government of that country. The public and persons connected with manufactures will thus have an opportunity of examining different articles of raw material, such ae silk, cotton, ivory, Urn, gums, different kinds of wood, &c., and which are similar to the productions of the new French colony in Cochin-China. The Scientific Congress of Franoe is now holding its 28th annual meeting at Bordeaux, with a large attendance of members, French and. foreign. Car dinal Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, has been elected president, and M. Leon Dufour honorary president. - CiIARGE OF CRUEL NEGLECT OF A CHILD. An inquiry has lately taken place before the borough magistrates at Morpeth, on a warrant granted by Mr. Orde, a magistrate of Northumber land, touching the alleged ill-treatment and starva tion of one Isabella Jane Rutledge, an infant of tender years, at which c ircumstances have been elicited causing a painful feeling among the inhabi tants of the town and neighbourhood, and a strong manifestation of public indignation. The investi gation was mainly instituted at the instance of the Hon. and Rev. Francis Richard Grey, the rector of Morpeth, a hrother of Earl Grey, and a brother-in law of the Earl of Carlisle, a hard-working clergy man, who is held in much esteem there, and has been the incumbent for nearly 20 years. A general impression prevails in the locality that, but for his humane and timely interference, the child in ques tion must have perished. The persons charged with neglecting it are man named John Cowens and Isabella. his wife, the former of whom has for some years past acted as a warder in the county gaol of Northumberland, and has until now, it is said, borne an irreproachable character. Some time ago he sustained injuries, resulting in permanent lame ness, while in pursuit of a fugitive prisoner, with whom he had a struggle. He and his wife have latterly resided in a little cottage, consisting of two rooms, formerly used as a toll-house at the bridge, on the south entrance to the town. The subject of the inquiry is a child of nearly six years of age, the illegitimate offspring of a sister of the female pri soner, to whom and to her husband it was confided while the mother was at domestic service at a dis tance, and who are understood to have received money for its maintenance from the reputed father, a person of means. The investigation, which lasted over three sit tings, was held in the Council-chamber, which was crowded, before Mr. M. J. O'Connor, the Mayor, and Mr. Hugh Creighton, another of the borough magistrates. The prisoners were defended by Mr. C. S. Swan, a solicitor. The Hon. and Rev. F, R. Grey was the first wit ness called. He said on Monday, the 15th of July, having heard that a child was living in the house of the prisoners in a dreadful state, he went there between 11 and 12 o'clock in the morning, and found Mrs. Cowens in the house. A healthy child, well-dressed and clean, was sitting upon a table near a window. He asked her if the child was hers. She replied it was. He inquired if she had another child under her care. She said she had. He saw an open door in a corner of the room, and asked if it led to where the child was. She replied " Yes." He said he should walk through and have a look at it. He went and saw in a back yard a miserable little child. He had seen many wretched children, but never one so bad as it. It was like a skeleton, and was covered with filth. It had on a dirty petticoat and jacket, and was without shoes or stockings. The yard in which it was had a watercloset at one end, and an ashpit near it. The child was at first standing near the ashpit, and was afterwards breaking sandstone on the step of the watercloset door. He returned to the house, and spoke to the female prisoner about it. He told her that it was a disgrace for any child to be in such a state, and pointed out the difference between her own child and it. He mentioned particularly the filthy condition in which it was. She said thechild was not dirty. The words she used were, "It is skin clean." He complained of the way in which the child was clothed. She replied it was not dressed, and that she had a child of her own in bed and not then dressed. He then said nobody could ' look at the child without seeing it was in very bad health. He asked if it had been seen by a medical man. She replied that Dr. Paton had seen it. He in quired how long ago. She said not since the winter. He complained again of the condition in which the child was, upon which she said it was a great burden to her, or words to that effect. He asked if she meant to say that she had not received anything for taking care of it. She admitted that she had, adding that it was not likely she would keep the child for nothing. He then told her he should feel it his duty to bring the case before the magistrates. He left the house and went to the Visiting Justices, "who were sitting at the county gaol, and gave information. By Mr. Swan, on behalf of the prisoners —When he saw the child in the yard it was breaking little pieces of sandstone. H e h a d never seen it before. The female prisoner used an expression to the effect that the child was a burden to her. Mr. Grey (the witness) added on a subsequent examination that 1 he had seen the child twice since Monday, the 15th s of July—namely, on the 17th and 19th of July. He was present when the magistrates visited the . prisoners' house on the 17th, and heard what passed. The superintendent of police asked the child where bad children went to. It replied, "To gaol." He asked it where good children went to. It answered "To school." In reply to other questions, it stated that it had tea and coffee for food, that it was 20 years old; and it pointed out the place where it slept—a cradle in the kitchen. He (witness) saw the child on Friday, the 19th of July, in the work house. It was then playing with some flowers. To questions he put it said it liked being there, and would not like to go home. It had some knowledge of the Lord's Prayer. Mr. William Brown, master of the union work house, said the child was Nought to the work house on the 17th of July. It was weighed, an d its weight then, without its clothes, was 161 b. 14oz. It was weighed again on the 27th of July, and was 201 b. soz. The child's whole person, when it was brought to the workhouse, was filthy and its head infested with vermin. He had watched the food the child had taken. It had not re ceived any medicine from the time of its admission. (Witness described in some detail the nutritious diet upon which it had been put in the work house from day to day.) On Saturday morning, the 3d of August, tIP child weighed 221 b. 60z., making a total gain of 521 b. in 17 days. Mr. Matthew Brume'', a surgeon , said at the request of the ma g i s t ra t es he visited the child on Thursday, the 18th o f J u ly. On examination he Every particle it in a very em a ci a ted condition . particle of fat was absorbed, and the muscles were exceedingly wasted. The bones were almostr marks of except with skin. He found no in violence or ill usage upon it. H e considered a ffi e child's health delicate, but found 210 disease su mo cient to account for its extreme emaciation.T child was then five years and nine months old._ On Thursday, the 18th of July, it weighed 171b.0z.d .t 1 had gained the 20th of July, when h e sa w it weighed, a gained 8-toz. ; and on the 27th it weighed 201 b. and 50z., having gained daily upon an average nearly 6ez. Since its admission to the workhouseit bulk. h d gone on steadily improving and increasing in The colour and appearan c e o f its skin were q uite . altered, the unhealthy hue and harsh feeling having, left it. On Thursday, the 18 t h July, the child s thigh, which he measured, was six inches ro und, end on Wednesday, the 24th, it was nearly seven inches. The change had been brought about by proper diet, warmth, and attention. Cross examined—The child answered pertinently all questions put to it, except as to its age, which it stated to be 20 years. The child had been delicate for years. It might be suffering from mese nteric disease. A child subject to such disease would as thrive better in summer than winter ; but tha tve a matter of opinion. He had not noticed a shaking te of the head by the child. If a child were by mesenteric disease to the extent this chi ld emaciated, it would not improve in the degree was had by .any amount of nutritious diet. emaciated by this There no disease about it to account for its emaciation. By thy ; Court---That emaciation, in his opinion, THE SUN, LONDO TUESDAY E VENI SEPTEHBER 24, 1861. was produced by neglect or improper food, or by an insufficiency of food or clothing. He could detect go specific disease. The child since it was taken to the workhouse had been treated for emacia tion, not for disease; and that treatment was one which he himself should adopt. Dr. Paton deposed that at the request of Mr. Woodman, the town-clerk, and by the authority of the Mayor, he visited the child, at the workhouse, on the evening of the 24th of July. He found her to be a pale, emaciated, sickly-looking child, five years and nine months old, with a subdued expres sion of countenance, but intelligent enough to understand what was said to her and to answer simple questions correctly. Her bones were promi nent, the muscular system was very slightly deve loped ; there was scarcely any fat, and the skin moved freely. She walked with an unsteady gait, and weighed in his presence 201 b. He examined carefully and minutely all the principal organs of the body, but failed to detect any disease to account for her emaciated condition. He saw her again on the 26th of July, forty hours after the previous visit, and found that in the interval she had in creased in weight five ounces and a half, showing that the vital processes of assimilation and nutrition were in an extraordinary state of activity, and that her emaciation could not be the result of disease of the organs upon which those vital processes de pended. An apparently healthy female child, aged six years, selected by him at random, weighed 391 b., being nearly one-half heavier than the child in question. With those facts before him, and know ing nothing professionally of her prevous history, he could account for the emaciation in no other way than that the child, before her .admission to the workhouse, did not receive a sufficient supply of food, or that its quality must have been unsuitable for the nutrition of a child of her tender years. Cross-examined by Mr. Swan—He could detect no symptoms whatever of disease of the head, chest, or bowels. Some of the glands of the neck were in a chronic state of enlargement. A child suffering from mesenteric disease might have disease of the heart along with it. A child afflicted with mesen teric disease most decidedly would not improve to the extent that the one in question has. By the Court—Apart from its emaciated state it was perfectly free from disease. A hawker named Mary Carving, who was ac quainted with the prisoners, deposed to bring in their house three or four months ago, and going to the back yard. She saw the child in questin sit ting in a corner in the yard; it appeared cold, and she took it into the house to have it warmed. The female prisoner put it out of the house again, and shut the door. About six weeks afterwards witness called at the house. The back door was half open, and she saw the child sitting in the same place in the yard. On another occasion, after the interfer ence of the magistrates, witness was in the house again, and during a conversation the female prisoner, who seemed much annoyed, said she had no sin in her head about the child, that it was not a thriving child, and thitt she wished it was in hell, for caus ing her and her husband to be so scandalised. Mary Ann Cowens, a single woman, who also knew the prisoners, spoke to being in their house when they lived in another part of the town, about two years ago. She then saw the child standing by the door. The female prisoner knocked it down with her hand, and kicked it twice ; the second time under the table. Witness asked her to whom the child belonged. She replied, " Oh, -- it; it is my sister's." On a subsequent occasion witness was in the house, and saw the child under the table, cry ing. The female prisoner shook her " kneif" (fist) at it, and spoke harshly, upon which it immediately ceased crying. It was then very shabbily dressed in an old jacket, without stockings or shoes, and was nothing like her own child. Witness, in cross examination, said the child appeared healthy at that time, that it was in the same room with the other children, and that it was a common thing for some women to hold up their hands and scold a child when crying. Margaret Potts said that on Wednesday, the 10th of July, she called at the prisoners' house in passing, as it was raining, to ask for the loan of an umbrella. A little girl answered the door ; she went into the house, and asked the girl to show her to the water closet. On opening the door of the closet she saw the child in question, sitting on the floor. It was raining. She spoke to the child, but it did not an swer. She saw the female prisoner, on returning to the house, but did not speak to her about the child. Other witnesses were examined, but their evidence was not material. One of them, Eleanor Wight, who a few years before had lived next door to the prisoners, said the child was then very dull, and was in the habit of moving its head about as if it had a "trouble" there. She also spoke to seeing it getting its food with the prisoners' children without any difference being made between them or in their general treatment. The child was occasionally produced in court for identification. Its appearance produced a general feeling of commiseration among the audience. The defence of the prisoners, by Mr. Swan, was in substance that the child from its birth never throve, that it presented symptoms of a disease in the head, that it suffered from a mesenteric com plaint common among children, and that its feeble and wasted condition was due to those causes, end not to anythin g like systematic cruelty or n eg l ec t on the part of the prisoners, or either of them. He also sought to show that there was no difference between its treatment and that of their own chil dren, and that it was in the habit of resorting to the yard and watercloset to amuse itself, and was not driven there. At the conclusion of the evidence, the material portions of which are given above, the magistrates announced their intention to commit the prisoners for trial. On receiving the usual caution, the male prisoner said he was not guilty. His wife replied she had done nothing wrong, and had, therefore, nothing to answer for ; and that they (the magis trates) were sinning their souls. The Bench intimated that bail would be taken for the prisoners, themselves in £looeach, and two sureties of £5OO each. For want of the requisite sureties the prisoners were conveyed to the county prison to await their trial. They were followed there by an indignant crowd of people. Four of their children were afterwards taken to the workhouse; a fifth, an infant at the breast, was allowed to accom pany its mother. - The whole circumstances have since been brought under the consideration of the Home Secretary, Sir George Grey, by the local authorities. COMMERCE OF NEW YORK. The commercial letters from New York continue, in a guarded manner, to express weariness of the war and desponding anticipations, whatever may be its mode of termination. The difficulty of estimat ing the extent of feeling favourable to a compro mise was undiminished, owing to the stringent measurer, direct and indirect, for putting down all opinions except those of the majority. The ques tion whether abolition is to be recognised as a main issue for which the struggle is to be conducted was equally without fresh light. The most influential recent speaker (the Hon. Joseph Holt) had pro claimed that the war is not a war against the South, but a war for their deliverance from a band of military conspirators. In a subsequent passage, however, the same orator described the conflict as between 20,000,000 in the North, and 10,000,000 in the South. Business generally was more active, but the existing tariff and the doubts as to the possibility of its being permanent prevent mer chants from entering into any transactions that cannot be wound up quickly. As the country can now pay for its imports only by its supplies of grain, a conviction is stated by some of the most expe rienced financiers that if the war continues all the banks will inevitably suspend before next summer. The rate of exchange was very firm, at 1071 to 108, and there were very few drawers. Up to the 6th instant, although the loan of £10,000,000 had been two or three weeks in the market, only £BOO,OOO had been sub scribed by the public. During the few subsequent days the applications are understood to have in creased, but the anxiety of the Government and of the banks was considerable with regard to the pro bable floating of the additional £ 1 0,000,000, which must be paid out in October, and which must be fol lowed by another £10,000,000 in December at the latest.. As nothing could be published in the papers that was not agreeable to the heads of departments the trading community knew little of the operations pending. It had transpired, however, that the ad vanced posts of the Confederates were nearer to Washington than at the beginning of the month, and that the Secessionists in Kentucky were likely, in consequence of the effect produced by General Fremont's proclamation, to succeed in carrying that State oat of the Union. The most important inti mation, however, is that it is believed an expedition is now in course of organisation to attack the port of Savannah as soon as the weather shall become a little cool. The practice of arresting the funds and dividends of Southern proprietors of Federal and State securities, and also of shares in Northern com panies, was calculated to put a final stop to all c h anc e of the negotiation of advances in Europe, since it follows that in case of war at any future time, the policy of confiscation, which waesupposed to have tot ally fallen into disuetude among civilised peoples, will be put in force. During the Crimean war Russia with scrupulous fidelity paid all her dividends due to English and French holders, and Russian funds were equally respectei, on this side. The argument that in the present case the war is w ith " rebels" is not available, the terms of capitu lation granted to the Confederates at Hatteras hav ing put an end to that plea. THE I?UGBY ROMANCE. RUGBY, MONDAY EVENING. The prisoner in this extraordinary case (Richard Guinness Hill) still remains at the lock-up, and although since Sunday he has been visited by seve ral relations and acquaintadces, no bail for his reap pearance has yet been offered, nor is it likely there will be before the next examination. Being only remanded he is allowed to receive all letters and communications which are addressed to him at the prison, and each post since his incarceration has brought him abundance of newspapers containing a history of the drama in which he has played so conspicuous a part. These narratives he has eagerly perused, and he has remarked that it is fortunate for the newspapers that his case has turned up during the Parliamentary vac t ation, whes. He when they has ex perience Edivffiecr3un-ltiog in filling has his day," that " one tale is good until another is told," and that "he has been anxiously waiting for the day when the pub lic will see the other side of the picture." He spends three hours a day in exercise in the yard, and is allowed to have whatever meals he chooses to order and pay for. He denies the identity of the child, and says that there are thousands of women in London who, in order to obtain a reward of £2O, would produce a child, and swear through thick and thin, even if a man's life were at stake. According to the ordinary custom, sufficient evi dence had been already adduced to warrant the magistrates sending the case for trial upon the specific charge of making false statements to the registrar concerning the birth and parentage of the child, but the prosecutors are determined if possible to bring before the public all the surrounding cir cumstances, and a majority of the magis trates have decided in' favour of that course being adopted. ` Under the Act of Parliament 6th and 7th Wm. IV. c. 86, the case can not be disposed of at the quarter sessions, and must be sent to the assizes, which will not be held until December next. The 41st section is as follows :—" Every person who shall unlawfully make, or cause to be made, for the purpose of being inserted in any register of a birth, death, or mar riage, any false statement touching any of the particulars hereinbefore required to be known and registered, shall be subjected to the same pains and penalties as if he were guilty of perjury." These are imprisonment with hard labour for a period not exceeding seven years, to be determined by thejudge before whom the party is convicted. The Globe Inn, where the first scene:of this re markable case is laid, has obtained a notoriety to which its intrinsic merit as a hostelry for travellers do not entitle it. This being one of the great cattle fair days for which Rugby is celebrated, the town was crowded with strangers, a great number of whom dropped in from simple curiosity to have a look at the house. It has the appearance rather of a country beer-shop than an ordinary tavern. It is the first inn going from the railway station to Rugby, and cannot be more than five minutes' walk from the best hotel of which the town can boast. The two apartments on the first floor, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Hill, are of the humblest description; the bedroom being extremely small and ill-fur nished, and the sitting-room, which looks upon some fields, having nothing noticeable in it, except two gaudily-coloured vases on the mantel-piece, bearing the inscriptions, 'Peace, love, and har mony," and " Friendship, love, and truth," which came in strange contrast to the incidents which the room brcaight to mind. LATE LOSS OF LIFE AT BLACKF.RIA.RS BRING Last night Mr. W. J. Payne, the deputy coroner for the city of London, held an inquest at the Rose and Ball, Rennet's -hill, Upper Thames-street, on the body of James Kent, aged 45, a lighterman, who, with six other persons, were in a boat which was swamped by the swell of a steamer at Blackfriars bridge, on Wednesday evening last, when the deceased was drowned. Wm. Bartl e tt, o f t h e C oa l Exchange Tavern, St. Mary-at-Hill, sa id a t a quar t e r before six on Wed nesday eve n i ng he was in a gig with the deceased, having started from Lambeth Stairs, with five other persons. I. ive of the party were rowing, the deceased amongst the number, who was rowing the stroke oar. They had just got through one of the arches of the bridge, near the middle of the river, the tide running down at the time very strongly. The water was very rough when they got through the arch. Witness saw a great swell, when the man who was steering called out " back her." A Waterman was steering. We dashed over the first wave, but some water came into the boat. A second wave came still stronger, which swamped them and the boat went down. All were saved except the deceased, When witness went down he caught hold of the boat, and succeeded in clinging to it, and at length got on the keel of the boat, where he remained until extricated by some persons on board a steamboat. The boat had not struck anything in passing through the bridge. They were all rowing properly and carefully and the whole of the party were quite sober. Thomas William Myers, of No. 50, Great Tower street, said he was in the boat on the day in question. It was a six-oared cutter, and would carry a dead weight of 18 or 20 persons. Witness was steering at the time, the tide running down and near low water. They came through the fourth arch on the City side. It is a clear arch. When they got through the arch there was such an unusual swell that a large skiff could hardly live in it. The cutter gave two terrible pitches in the swell. She half-filled at the first, and then at the second went down. 'Witness saw the breakers a-head and called out to all to ease off. Witness and another man swam on shore leaving those who could not swim to hang on by the boat. A steamer had just gone up from Blackfriars-bridge, and there was a heavy cross swell at the time. She went down after they had got about 20 yards through the bridge. All who were in the boat, ex cept Mr. Bartlett, were watermen and free of the river. The deceased sank in about 12 feet water. George Maxwell, of Willow-walk, Bermondsey, watertnan, said—All the five who were rowing the boat were watermen. They eased off in passing through the arch. The man who was steering called out to " Back her astern," but they were not able to do so in time, and the swell struck her. A Citizen boat had just passed through the arch as they got there. Everything was done by those rowing to save her from sinking, and he (witness) remained in the boat until he was up to his middle in water, when the boat canted and rolled over. The cause of this was the steamer going so furiously through the arch of the bridge. Witness did not see the deceased, but when he got ashore he in quired if all were saved. He was told by a gentle man that all were, but unfortunately he found that such was not the case, as the deceased was drowned. The Coroner summed up the evidence, and said that it was important matter for consideration that the whole of those in the boat, with the exception of Mr. Bartlett, were watermen, and had consider able experience on the river. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The deceased has left a wife and three children quite unprovided for. A LUNATIC SCALDED IN A BATH AT BAN WELL. Yesterday afternoon Mr. G. S. Brent, deputy coroner for West Middlesex, held a lengthy inquiry in llanwell County Lunatic Asylum, on the body of a patient named William Edwards, aged 36, lately an egg merchant, of H ea thp oo :- s t ree t, Pad dington, whose death was occasioned by severe scalds in a bath at the above institution. The evidence set forth that the deceased was sent from Marylebone 'Workhouse to the above asylum in Sept. last, He was demontea and suffering from paralysis, the latter affection producing dirty habits. On such occasions le was subjected to a warm bath, and a like event occurring on the 26th ult., a bath was about to be prepared for him by Taylor, an attendant in the epileptic and idiotic ward, while Paris, another attendant, undressed the pa tient in his room. Before the bath was ready, Paris let the man out in his shirt and boots, Taylor at the time having turned boiling water first into the bath instead of cold, contrary to custom. The patient stepped into the boiling water, and suffered the most excruciating agony. He w®s then taken from the boiling water and put upon a seat, when his boots were taken off; and a consultation was then held between the two attendants as to what course should be adopted. They decided on sending for Dr. Ellis, who attended, and subsequently Dr. Begley visited. The feet of the deceased were dressed, and he was put to bed. On the following day the unfortunate man was removed to the in firmary, where he lingered till the morning of Thursday, the 19th inst., when death terminated his sufferings. The jury remained in consultation with closed doors, when, on the re opening of the court, the fol lowing special verdict was returned : " We (the jury) find that on the 13th of Sept., Wm. Edwards did die from the mortal effects of in flammation of one of his intestines, called the duo denum, caused by his feet having become scalded accidentally; and that his feet were scalded as afore said by his having stepped into the bath containing hot water only; and the jurors further say that there was great neglect on the part of the attendant on Wm. Edwards aforesaid, but that this neglect was caused by the want of proper rules in the asylum ; and the jurors further recommend that no patient in this asylum should be allowed to enter into the bath room until the bath is properly tem perated." THE GREAT EASTERN. From communications received in town yesterday regarding the actual damage done to the ship, the result of a personal inspection and survey by the officers of the local marine board and the directors of the company, it appears that the boss of the paddle wheel is gone, but that the paddle boxes of the vessel remain uninjured ; the rudder head is broken off short, and the stern post, looked upon as the most serious damage, carried away. The inter nal fittings of the saloons and berths are found not to be damaged to one half the extent represented, and the rigging has not materially suffered. The passengers will either be provided with berths by other ships, or have their passage money returned. The Cork Examiner supplies the following :—. " From some passengers who landed from the Great Eastern to-day wo learn the following particulars with regard to Thursday night :—A very few of the passengers were much frightened, but much more so perhaps on account of what they had already undergone than from any present cause or alarm. One lady, whose nerves seemed to have been com pletely shattered, was in a state of great terror, and fainted several times. A gentleman who had several children with him, anxious for their safety, secured them all to life preservers. Tne passengers generally, however, both ladies and gentlemen, were free from any uneasiness, and were able to enter with great spirit into the amusements that had been got up, two gentlemen who came ashore this morning declaring that it was the jolliest night they had spent aboard. The passengers with whom we had an opportunity of conversing speak very highly of the way the ship was managed during the night, and state that the good spirits which reigned on board were in a great degree o•ving to the confidence felt in the captain. A fatal accident, we regret to say, occurred on board this (Friday) morning. One of the quartermasters was stationed with others at the wheel on the lower deck, which sometimes, owing to the state of the rudder gear, jerked violently. In one of these jerks one of the handles struck the quartermaster on the head with such force as to batter in his skull, causing instant death. No other accident, I believe, occurred while she was out. After the anchor had been let go on Friday morning, the vessel forged a-head a little and struck an American barque, the Samuel Maxley—which was lying at anchor near— with a pretty smart shock, damaging her towards the stern, and carrying away her davits and one of her anchors and chains. This occurred about Bor 9 o'clock this morning. The amount of damage done to the Samuel Maxley has not yet been ascertained. It is said that the vessel will be brought in a little further, if possible, but owing to the state of her steering apparatus it will be a work of great diffi• culty, unless she has the aid of some powerful steam tugs. She is, however, perfectly secure from danger where she is. One of the directors was expected to arrive at three o'clock by the Dublin train." THE PONT(; ON BRIDGE AT ALDER- b'HOTT. Referring to a paragraph which appeared origi nally in the Army and Nary Gazette, but which has since been extensively circulated, and which as serted that 50 men had been drowned off a pontoon across the canal at the Aldershott camp, the West Surrey limes of Saturday says ;—" Having now visit( d the spot and made inquiries, we are enabled to state that the paragraph is full of inaccuracies. From the pontoon bridge itself, which is a substan tial wooden platform 12 feet wide, supported on floating barrels firmly lashed together, scarcely one person has fallen into the water; although it is not improbable that in the whole of the Basingstoke Canal, which divides the North from the South Camp, there may have been, since the first esta blishment of Aldershott as a military rendezvous, 50 deaths from drowning. The way in which these have occurred, however, for the most part is this : When a new regiment arrives at the North Camp and the men ebtain passes to be out till a late hour, they invariably make their way across the pontoon and through the South Camp into the town. On returning they stray from the right road, and sud denly find themselves on the bank of the canal. They don't know which way to turn to get to the pontoon, and even if they did they know that it is shifted in order to clear the water way, between retreat' (at. present 6 o'clock p.m) and reveil (half-past 5 a.m.) ; the canal looks little more than a ditch, not being above sixteen yards wide, and rather than be late in quarters, and rendering themselves liable to punishment, in the dash, with the idea of getting across in no time. There are at least two or three feet of tenacious mud however at the bottom of the canal, and as the men who do such things are usually more or less inebri ated, they flounder, get confused, and are at last drowned. There is a permanent bridge half a mile higher up, and another a short distance lower down the canal ; but rather than go round by these, the unfortunate men who have met their deaths have resolved upon fording the water. One or two may have walked into it unawares, for on a dark night it is scarcely to be seen, and it is undoubtedly per fectly unprotected; but so far from the pontoon being the scene of the accidents, the very reverse is the fact, because a Sapper is stationed there night and day, and if a man attempted to cross at that spot, after it was shifted, he would be deterred. Hence, soldiers who want to cross rather avoid the pontoon, and make their attempt usually some forty or fifty yards on either side of it. Since the last accident a lamp has been erected at the pontoon, and a guard of three men has been told off to the assistance of the Sapper. As the pontoon bridge is in the direct line from the town to the North Camp, we:hope that a permanent bridge will ere long be erected there ; and in the meantime we would sug gest that tho Sapper in charge—who is a most careful"man and has bee❑ instrumental in saving several lives—should be supplied with drags and life buoys. By these means we believe accidents of a fatal character might be materially reduced in number." - - - DOMESDAY BOOK. The publication of the part of Domesday Book relating to Cornwall has now been before the public for some time, and, as is stated in the introductory remarks to this volume, the prosecution of the pub lication, county by county, must depend more upon the wishes of the public than upon the Govern ment. The . publication of the part relating to Cornwall was permitted by the Government as an experiment to test the vale;of the art of photozincography for producing facsimiles of our ancient records, and was intrusted to Colonel Sir Henry James, the di rector of the Ordnance Survey, the original being of suchinestimable value that it could not be allowed to pass into the hands of any private person, even supposing any private person was evable of copying it by this new art. The art of photozincography has, in the hands of the officers of the Ordnance Survey, been greatly improved since the publication of the part of Domesday relating to Cornwall, and perfect as this copy appears to be, and in reality is, still, by slight modifications in the details of the process, the copies now produced have a sharpness and clearness in the outline not before attained. That authentic copies of the part of Domesday re lating to each county must be highly interesting to the inhabitants, and especially to the landed pro prietors, cannot be doubted ; but, on the other hand, it cannot be expected that Government should pro ceed with the publication of the whole work with out knowing by some practical test that the publi cation is desired by the public. Some of the gen tlemen of Cheshire, who are desirous of having the part relating to their county published, therefore propose to guarantee the purchase of 5) copies, at a cost not exceeding 103 . a copy , and if this example should be followed in other counties there would be no longer any question about proceeding with the publication of the whole w ork, as this sum from each county would cover the co st of its production, and the Government will h ave performed its duty in permitting the copies to be taken. lf, therefore, the gentlemen of other parts of England are desi rous of having facsimiles of the parts relating to their counties copied, they should follow the course adopted by the gentlemen of Cheshire, and commu nicate with Sir H. James at Southampton, who will publish the several parts in the order in which he receives the guarantees from the counties. DEATH FROM VIOLENCE.—On Saturday, Mr. Herford, city coroner, held an inquest on the body of a man named John Barrett, aged 23, who resided in a court in George Leigh-street. It appeared from the evidence that about a fortnight ago the deceased was present when a row was going on in the neighbourhood where he lived. The next morning he told his mother that he had been struck in the chest with a poker, in mistake, by a man named Mark Hines, as ho was leading home another man who had been concerned in the row. He compl &hied much of a pain.at his chest, and ultimately died from pneumonia and peritonitis caused by a broken rib. Just before his death his deposition was taken by Mr. Le Court, assistant magistrates' clerk, and he repeated his statement about Hines having struck him with the poker. Hines was acc zdingly taken into cus tody by Inspector Taylor, and was present at the inquest in charge of the police. He said he bad never used a poker during the disturbance, and that he never saw the deceased. Michael Higgins, the man whom the deceased said he was taking home when he received the injury, also said he did not see the deceased at all ; and as there was no evidence to corroborate the unfortunate man's statement about his having been struck by Hines, the jury returned an open verdict, 4 THROWING STONES AT RAILWAY TRAINS. At the Croydon Police court, on Saturday last, before Mr. T. Byron and other magistrates, Wil liam Woodman, a boy about n i ne years o f age, was charged with having, on the sth of September inst., wilfully and maliciously thrown a stone at a down train, travelling on the London, Brighton, and South-Coast Company's line, in th e hamlet of Pe n ge, near the Crystal Palace. The evidence of the en gine-driver proved that ou Thursday, the sth inst., he had charge of the engine attached to the 2 30 p m. train, express from London to Itamsgate, and that in passing Annerley-bridge he received a vio lent blow on the head from a stone. He imme diately looked up and saw a boy on the bridge, but as the train was going at the rate of 25 miles an hour, and as he felt very much stunned, it was totally cut of his power to swear to the boy. The cap which he (the driver) wore at the time had a broad thick leather band on it. Notwithstanding that the stone cut- completely through the leather and struck his temple so violently that a serious wound was inflicted thereon, and the blood flowed freely. He suffered eight or nine days afterwards with pain in the head. The train was stopped at Norwood, where he reported the circumstance. The station-clerk at that station, John Deacon, imme diately proceeded to the Annerley-bridge; and there found two boys, one of whom was the pri soner. On taxing them with having thrown the stone at the-train, the prisoner at once admitted that he had done so, and had hit the engine-driver on the arm. He then picked up. a stone rather larger than a 'walnut, which he said was the size of the one he threw at the train. The magistrates then charged the second boy William George Privett, with aiding and abetting Wood, but as the evidence appeared feeble he was ultimately dis missed with a serious admonition. The chairman, in addressing the prisoner Woodman, who was accompanied into court by his father, said,—"Wood man, the Bench have considered your case, and, although they do not consider you intended to injure the engine-driver, yet it is necessary for us to pass a heavy punishment upon you in order to protect the lives of railway passengers. It is a pity, I think, that there is no Act of Parliament which would authorise the police to drive boys off railway bridges with a stick. We shall applaud all police men who do so, as that will be the only means to prevent them from continuing this highly danger ous and increasing practice among boys. It is always a reluctant duty of the Bench to send boys of such tender years to prison, and we shall avoid doing so now if possible. The railway company has chosen to proceed against you under their mildest Act ; otherwise ; there is an Act of Parlia ment which treats an offence of this kind with its due gravity, and punishes the offender by empower ing the magistrates to send him for trial to the county assizes, and, if a prima facie case were made out, he would either be transported or sen tenced to penal servitude for a very long period. The result in the present instance might have been very serious indeed ; the stone might have cut the man's eye out, or, what is more probable, he might have been killed on the spot. We shall now adjudge you to pay— or, at least, your father must pay for you—the mitigated penalty of £3 and 13s. cost. In default there will be no alternative but to send the boy to prison, say for 14 days, after which imprisonment we should send him to a reformatory for two years, as before he can enter such an establishment he must have been in prison for a short time at least." The prisoner's father promised to pay the £3 13s. in three weeks' time, the magistrates having agreed to allow him that period. Mr. John Carpenter, superintendent of the police in the service of the Brighton Company, informed the. bench that the practice among boys of throwing missiles at rail way trains was becoming very serious, as it was more than ever prevalent. Only recently seven or eight carriage windows had been broken at Annerley-bridge, and an engine -driver on another part of the line had been severely hurt by a stone thrown at him ; but the perpetrators had not been discovered. The magistrates expressed a hope that this case might be published in the leading newspapers. TH4SQU4RES IN PARIS AND LONDON. The Constituttonnel contains the following re marks on the new squares in Paris, as compared with those in London :—" The municipal authori ties of Paris have established squares in every place where large masses of people threatened to render the atmosphere heavy—in all the quarters too far distant from the Tuileries, Luxembourg, and Bois de Boulogne, for the inhabitants to be able to reach them easily. In London, on the contrary, with some few exceptions, there does not exist a square worthy of mention except in the rich and airy quarters. The finest and largest gardens are at the West-end, in Belgravia, and Brompton—that is to say, at the gate of Hyde-yark. With us, trees have been planted with a hygienic object ; squares have been formed more particularly in quarters where the air stood most in need of being purified, and for that purpose trees of a special kind, and especially absorbent, have been chosen. Fountains also have been erected, which impart that salutary freshness to the air which is so necessary for the workman after being cooped up for the whole day in the heavy atmosphere of the workshop. In London the principal object thought of appears to be the health of the trees, and there has been chosen for them a mild and wholesome climate and a dear air in the neighbour hood of the parks, in order that they might not suffer too much from nostalgia. We do not mean to say that the city and other parts of London are completely void of squares, but only that they are so paltr3 - that they might be said to have been blown there by the wind. But the general quar ters of poverty—those masses of close and un healthy houses, and the networks of dark and nar row alleys—in a word, every part which stands in need of pure air and of the light of day have been forgotten, or rather neglected in this partition of life and health. In Paris the squares are open to every one ; in London they are locked up, sur rounded with high iron railings, and planted with shrubs, which prevent any one from seeing what is going on in the inside. On payment of a sum which generally amounts to £1 sterling, each oc cupier of the houses which form the four sides of the square is entitled to a key by which admission is obtained to the garden. For a poor person, therefore, to have the power of taking his family into one of those enclosur es h e must i n the first place inhabit one of those houses, of which the rent is exceedingly high, and then pay 25f. a year towards the expense of the garden. It will be, perhaps, said that this excites emulation, and is an encouragement to the endeavour to become rich. In London the squares are private property, with which the State has no concern. In `.France, on the contrary, the initiative of these municipal im provements belongs to the Government, and it is to the city that we are indebted for their execution. The square of St. Jacques-de-la-Boucherie alone cost upwards of 2,000,000 f. The Imperial concep tions have yet reached only the commencement of execution ; we have already the Bois de Bon• logne, the Bois de Vincennes, and the transformed Champs-Elysees, and we shall soon have public promenades in other parts. Before long Paris will be an immense garden. One need only walk in the middle of the day in the neighbourhood of the squares of the capital to see with what eagerness and delight the working classes avail themselves of them. To mention only one exa m pl e , i t i s almost impossible to get into the square of the Arts et Metiers after 4 o'clock, so great is the crowd of per sons assembled there. An objection was formerly made that the establishment of a public garden is an idea very practicable in London, but not feasible in Paris, where the turbulent and destructive people would soon break down the trees and tear up the flowers and shrubs. Experience has shown how ill-founded was that opinion. On the inauguration of the park at Monceaux all the gates were opened to the crowd, and no surveillance was exercised over the 50,000 persons who thronged the walks and alleys. At the end of the day the damage amounted to only 45f. for the turf trampled down along the edges. This example appears to us to be conclusive. The squares have, moreover, been already for some time open to the public, and it has been found that the greatest decency and good order are observed. This is because the people compre• hend that they are at home, and that the gardens have been formed for them. They feel that by breaking a flower they injure their own property, and they besides feel a respectful gratituae for the hand which has given it to them." The flowers in Covent-garden surpass those of every other country; for the reason that every improvement in their culture is instantly adopted. From the same cause Her rincr's magnetic brushes and combs surpas i every other means for restoring grey hair to its original colour, and curing the most inveterate cases ofneuralgia and nervous headache. They do this with almost undeviating certainty. N.B.—Counter felts are being made. Offices, 32, Basinghall-street, London. 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In rectifying disorders of theecsli! against a th r e k proTp tgeesstt p i v r e e v a e p n p t a i all approaching maladies, and preserve fr h and life, es ness, health, THE STRENGTH OF GUNS. .~. ~ It has been lately stated that the Ordnance Select Com mittee of Woolwich Arsenal, being anxious "to prove the extreme power of resistance" of one of the 100-pounder Armstrong guns, have tested one with much severity and with the following results :—The gun has undergone 100 rounds of flung, with charges of 141 b of powder, and pro jectiles increasing in weight from 100 lb to I,ooolb. The I,ooolb projectile was of such length as to extend nearly two feet beyond the muzzle. Ten rounds were fired with these enormous bolts, and the guu is reported to be totally uninjured. The recoil of the gun was very violent. It is understood to be the unanimous decision of the select com mittee that no further attempt should be made to burst it, as its strength is deemed abundantly sufficient for all prac tical purposes." To those who know little of guns this may seem a severe test indeed ; but those better informed will be aware that it is hardly, if at all greater than a good cast iron gun of the same weight (70 cwt.) ought to withstand. The 100 lb gun is not far from 61in. bore, the 801 b Arm strong having a bore of 6in., the weight being 63 cwt. Let us see, therefore, what has been done by cast-iron guns of weights and sizes approaching those of the 100-pounder ex perimented upon. Colonel Eardley Wilmot has stated, in the Institution of Civil Engineers, that a 681 b cast-iron gun had been subjected to the following tests at Woolwich. With charges of 161 b of powder, or 21b more than those used in the " extreme test" of the Armstrong gun, ten rounds were fired with a cylinder weighing 681 b, ten rounds with one weighing 1361 b, ten with 2041 b, ten with 2721 b, ten with 3401 b, ten with 4081 b, ten with 4761 b, and six with 5441 b, - when the gun burst. ' A Spanish 321 b cast-iron gun, weigh ing 45 cwt., had withstood the following rounds :-211b of powder, 641 b of shots and two wads, then 91b of powder, 641 b shots and three wads, the last charge being repeated and fired 827 times without injury ; with 91b powder, 961 b shot and two wads ; then with 91b powder, 1281 b shots and two wads ; and then successively with 91b of powder at each round, with 1601 b, 1921 b, 2241 b, 2561 b, 2881 b, 3201 b, 3521 b, and 3841 b shots when the gun was full to the muzzle. After this the gun was fired with 121 b powder and 3201 b shots, 151 b powder and 2881 b shots, 181 b powder and 2561 b shots, 211 b powder and 1241 b shots, 241 b powder and 1921 b shots ; and finally with 271 b powder and 1601 b shots, when the gun, full to the muzzle, burst. It' thus took to burst the gun an aggre gate of 3 tons 13 cwt of powder, 2,5 tons 8 cwt of shot, and 2 tons 19 cwt of wads. An American 9-in cast-iron gun, weighing 81i cwt, had, Col. Wilmot added, been fired with the following charges :—Two rounds with 151 b powder and a 901 b shot, then 1,506 consecutive rounds with 101 b powder and a 721 b shell, then five rounds with 151 b powder and one 90,b shot, then five rounds with 151 b powder and 1801 b of shots, then two rounds with 151 b of powder and 2701 b of shots, then three rounds with 15Ib of powder and 2801 b of shells, then seven rounds each with 201 b of powder and shot shell weighing respectively, at each round, 3421 b, 4681 b, 6121 b, 6301 b, 7201 b, 8101 b, and 9001 b, when at the last charge the gun burst. Taking into account the great com plication and cost of the Armstrong guns and the compara tively low extreme test to which they have been subjected, fur a few seconds only, they cannot be considered to show any remarkable superiority.—Engineer. DREADFUL RAILWAY CATASTROPIIE IN AMERICA. The following additional account of the terrible disaster on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad is furnished to the St. Louis Republican:— The catastrophe occurred at Little Platte river bridge, nine miles east of St. Joseph. The bridge was a substan tial work of 100 feet span and 35 feet above the river. The binders of the bridge had been burned underneath the track until they would sustain but little more than their own weight, and the fire was then extinguished, leaving the bridge a mere shell. The train, bringing from 85 to 100 passengers, including women and children, reached the river at eleven o'clock at night, and the bridge looking secure, - passed on ; but no sooner had the locomotive measured its length upon the bridge than some 40 or 50 yards of the structure gave way, precipitating the entire train into the abyss below. All the seats in the passenger coaches were torn and shoved in front, carrying men, women, and children in promiscuous heap down the declivity, and and burying them beneath the crushed timber, or throwing them out of the cars through the broken sides. Some were mangled by the machinery tearing through the timbers ; several were caught between planks pressing together like a vice; others were struck by parts of the roof as it came down with mighty force; and others were cut with pieces of glass, while wounds and blood and agony prevailed all over the frightful scene, and shrieks of pain were mingled with cries of terror. In this manner the two last cars of the train went down, pitching the passengers into the wreck or throwing them into water, which at this point is about a foot and a half in depth. Only three persons, J. W. Parker, superintendent of the United States Express, Mr. Mars, mail agent, and Mr. Hager, were abje to afford assistance to the suffering, the remainder of those who were not killed outright being so disabled as to be helpless. After doing all that was pos sible for those requiring immediate attention, Mr. Hager at midnight left the wreck to go to St. Joseph for medical and other assistance. He walked five miles of the way, when he found a hand car, upon which he proceeded the remainder of the journey. Two hundred yards west of the bridge he cl , scovered a heavy oak railroad tie strongly strapped across the track, and two miles further on he found the trestle work over a small stream on fire, which, however, had not as yet been so badly burned that trains could not pass over or could not be easily extinguished. Arriving at St. Joseph the alarm was noon spread, throughout the city, and although it was 1 o'clock at night, 75 men, including all the physicians in the neighbourhood, volunteered their service, and at half-past 3 o'clock a train fully equipped, supplied with medical stores and other ne cessaries, was at the scene of the disaster. The wounded had emerged from the wreck and were lying on the banks and upon a sand bar in the river. Seventeen dead bodies were recovered, and it is believed this number embraces all who were killed up to that time. Two were so badly mangled that it was not expected they would sur vive till morning, while many others were dangerously' wounded, and would have to be well taken care of to re cover. Many who will escape with their lives will be maimed and crippled. COUNTRY MARKETS. GLOUCESTER—SEPT. 21. An average supply of English wheat, which realised in some instances an advance of h upon last week's rates. Barley is higher. No change in the value of oats, peas, and beans. COLCHESTER—SEPT. 21. A good supply of wheat was taken freely at the full rates of last week. Barley in good demand for malting, and 18 dearer. Beans and peas unaltered. Wheat, white. 548 64s Beans, Mazagan..34e 380 red ..46s 628 middle & small.3Be 440 Barley Oats CH ELM SFORD—SEPT. 20. A good supply of wheat, the best samples of which rea lised is more money, with a firm trade. In spring cora prices also ruled firm ; if anything the shade dearer. Wheat, old.white 31s 62s Peas, Partridge.... 368 409 new 52s 68s White .......... 38s 440 old red 318 50s Boiling . . .......40s 46s new 57s 62s Dun ............ 34s 389 Barley 29s 40s , Ditto nay- Chevalier 5 -9; ifs Grinding ...... 26s 35s Malt. 6ls 67s Chevalier 64s 69s Oats 23s 30s, Beans, JIV .... Ti . Tick, old ..36s 420 new. .. .—s Harrow Ticks 38s 440 new..--s —0 Alazagan 34 360 KIRKCALDY GRAIN—SEPT. 21. We had fair supplies of grain to day. Sales ready. Wheat about is per qr dearer. Barley and oats much as last market day. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....4os Od 24s Od I 24s Od Second:..s6 s Od 33s Od 28s Od Third....6l s Od 38s Od 30s Od COAL MARKET—SEPT. 23. (Prices of Coal per Ton at the ohne of the market Camay and Duffr yns. d. I Walls End. Malting .. 24 0 Russel's Hetton ...... 18 3 Do. Anthracite— 21 6 Hetton Lyons ........ 17 6 \Vylam l5 3 Tunstall ........ 17 3 Holywell Heugh ranfield Moor Butes: . 1 1 3 2 5 0 9 3 1 : : 1 1 7 6 7 9 0 9 North Pelton S. Durham ...... 16 6 Ships at market, 39; sold, 29: ..... S. d. BIRTHS. AB he Hon M . Mrs. Abraham RAHA.— On the 13th inst., at B arton Mills, Suffolk, t, of a daughter. DRUMMOND.—On the 22d inst., at Ardvorlich, Perthshire, Mrs. Robert Drummond, of a son. FrTzuoY.—On the 21st inst., at 23, Grosvenor-street, the Lady Frederick Fitzroy, prematurely, of a daughter. 111A.RRIAGE S. FoLKARD—Box.—On the 21st inst , at St. John's, Hack ney, George Maut e i to Elizabeth, daughter Pof°lkthaerdfatEesciJio'honf Hon. E. I. C.S, MARSHALL--lIARDY. On the 17th inst., at Shurdingtorl B M o i x s , tl E ey s , ci E . Church, near Cheltenham, Capt. Wm. E. Marshall, of H.R.'s Bengal Staff Corps, to Caroline Sylvia, y ou/3 0 1 s; daughter of the late Colonel Edmund Hardy, of Bomb , Ar tillery. ,ssoefx,the DEATHS. DASIIWOOD.—On the 22d inst., at Kirtlington-park, Oxon, Sir George Dashwood, Bart., aged 75. DASHWOOD.—On the 15th inst , at Florence, the Hon. Georgians, widow of the late Bateman Dashwood, Esq. PITZDOY.—At 23, Grosvenor-street, Helen, infant daugh ter of Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzroy., MA RsIL—On the 20th inst., at Bath, Major Henry Marsh agod 79. S TICKNEY.—On the 22d inst., John Stickney, Esq., O f Lloyd's, at his residence, The Oaks, Clapham-park, Surrey. SYMPSON.—On the 22d inst., Mr. Peter M. Sympson, of North Brixton, aged 49. LONDON : Pri n t e d an d Pu b l i shed b y ALUEDO YOUN G , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office, No. 112,Strand , in the Preci nct of the Savoy,in the County of lillidleee , " T uesday September 24, 1861. ■ U t I