The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

TVA CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From . the Special Correspondent of the Times,) NEW YORK, Oct. 27. The A merican " Fall" is in all its gorgeous beauty. The weather for the last two or three weeks has been as near perfection as man may hope to enjoy it anyw . here out of Eden—neither hot ncr cold, nor damp, nor cloudy, the very best that could be con trived for the furtherance of the arts of peace; the most faevouxable also that could be desired to help o re the m arderous work of war. Autumn on this c ontinent,, however, is a reason as fleeting as it is lovely. On Saturday last we had heavy, incessant rain in this city. Sunday was dark and windy, and N ee folt the wintry chill in our veins. At St. Louis, eeleeereuri, several degrees to the south of New York, thy had the other day six inches of snow, with a shaep frost; the snow, by the latest accounts, lingers stin on the ground. If present indications mean anything, we must make up our minds for an early witting in of winter. Every one feels that now or never is the time for the Federal armies to be up and doing. But Meade's army of the Potomac has just been crippled by the destruction of the Alexandria and Orange Railroad, and that of the Cumberland, under Grant, has come into the hands of a new commander, who, however quick and far sighted, must yet require a few days to look about him, to take in the difficulties of the position into which his forces were thrown by the blind impetuosity of his predecessor, Rosen cranz, and hit upon some plan by which he may ex tricate himself. Gen. Meade is not expected to move forward for a month. Gen. Grant is said to have to deal with a Confederate force of 80,000 men under Bragg ; a force so aided by the natur al and artificial strength of the position, that the Feder, have but little chance of marching against it with success, and hardly more probability of marching away from it with safety. General Grant may condense a host of 150,000 combatants at Chattanooga, but the battliefield is not favourable for the manoeuvring of large masses. Cavalry is no great help in the nar row mountain defiles, and artillery little better than a pos i tive encumbrance. Bragg , who occupies a grou nd of his ow n choice, a territor y known to him inch by inch, need hardly shrink from a conflict in 'which the odds are no worse than two to one. On the other hand, although few here doubt that the object of General Lee in his last movement was merely to place a month's distance between himself a nd Meade, and that aim was signally attained— although he might now spare a division or two to strengthen Bragg, still it is well to bear in mind that the direct communication between Lynchburg and Chattanooga is through East Tennessee, in the hands of the Federals under Burnside, and. that Lee's reinforcements can only reach Bragg by a roundabout way through the best part of the territories of North and South Carolina and Georgia, a distance that can be computed at not less than be tween 6 00 and 700 miles, and along railway lines which have been so used up, both as to rails and rolling material, owing to the wear and tear of the war, that the rate of travelling is nowhere more than 12 miles an hour. All this leads people here to suppose that Lee's Efforts will rather be directed to the demolition of B urneide's army in East Tennessee. Preponderance of numbers on the part of the North and advantage of position on the part of the South may keep the armies on either side in mute and haetive observation of each other, so that we may have nothing to note down from week to week except unimportant cavalry and light infantry skir mishes, such as the one reported to have taken place on Saturday last near Bealeton Station, when the Southernere, crossing the Rappahannock, drove back Gregg's cavalry and established themselves on the let bank of the river. Should nothing decisive occur either in Virginia or Tennessee during these four or five weeks before the close of the Indian summer brings about a suspension of hostilities in those regions, it is questionable whether the weari some operations of the siege of Charleston and the desultory warfare in the remote South-west will have power to keep up the warlike enthusiasm of the North at its present fever heat. It is not any amount of adversity, not any startling disaster, I take in, that can ever wear out the endurance of these s tubborn Yankees; it is the consciousness of the utter impotence of all their endeavours, as illus trated by day after day, year after year, slow, un• even tf all campaigning. Nine or ten Commanders in-Ce'eef have been immolated to their impatience from INl'Dowell to Resencranz. Broad hints are thrown out now that the authorities of the War (Eel,. or, indeed, the whole Administration at Wash ingtui i, should be superseded. An outcry is raised that the way to Richmond is not through Culpep per or Fredericksburg; that a new experiment should be tried of a landing on the peninsula be tween James and York Rivers ; that from Novem ber to February the season is most favourable for military operations on those low grounds, free at that time from malaria, and often hardened by frost for the passage of artillery. " The way to Rich mond," people say, "lies to-day where it lay two years and a half ago, when Gen. M'Clellan followed it up to the gates of the Virginian capital." But " the only road to Richmond," they add, "lies over the vanity, the arrogance, and self-satisfaction of the Washington Administration, which, out of blind hostility to M'Clellan, will not allow the re newal of the experiment in the peninsula." Ve - Ofeust not see in these bitter remarks any tingibut ethe natural outburst of popular impa tience. Wete the Government, in obedience to "e suggestions, to undertake a second compaign into the Jathe risk of mes ahclitork River peninsula, and run that tut. renewingethe calamities which have made little d43".groundi for ever memorable, I have pro:1411e : the clamour against their reckless im against thei ; w ould be far louder than it now is the fall ot ivethcraporising helplessness. The fact is, however gratii llond itself, like that of Charleston, veuld'uoet bring the vanity and vindic tiveness, , and itring the war materially nearer its conclusion hey ' hardly be rash to anti cipate that the spring . of 1864 will len e a aaz Paigning season in the no further advanced towards te solution e e -we are at h this moment. tb~ American puzzle than Little as one may sympathise w i t hi s. the stiff-necked and stubborn No r th , impos sible it brings int o the cause o f Unio n to deny that an amount of cons istency and unanimity which very nearly re son bles heroism. The real p eace tnen—at- t ii . o m en —are a very small fl eck a any -P , so far as I he b e am able te count them. Most of t moorats, Southerners themselve s , evin ce many of the unconquerable ereati ee tenderness for the pe es an waste . of human life, talk b e t e great united ceuntr " r restoration of t y . Talk to them of the appalling staring them in the f ace, of national bankruptcy and their ever recurring argument is, the disso lution of the Union would be by far the greatest of evil.. twain right round the " Can you cut a man i n e , say .. "W ou l d waist and expect him to liv e e England part with Ireland on any term s ? Or would not Austria stake her existence on the i n tegrity of her empire by maintaining her h old on Venetia, or Russia upon Poland? Not the grea tness, and the prospect of boundless (empire, b u t the merely, m peace and freedom, the security and cornercial prosperity of the North would be at an end for ever it it and the South went asunder. The first halving of the great Republic would lead the way to endless diviaiores and sub-divisions ; and what is now one country and one nation would split up into as many wrangling Powers and rival fractions of people as no make u p t h e E uropean counc il o f nat i ons ." YO U may well try to reason with them, and tell them that- _ ' Such is, indeed, likely to be their des tiny ; that States of one hundred, or four hundred millions of People—such as they expect theirs to become —are not seemingly in harmony with the general schem e of this nether world of ours; that the dream of world-wide dominion, of universal em pire, is no new p h ase in the annals of mankind; ' but that such edifices fall and crum bl e f rom the m ere weight of theirbune and extent; that, even if they ceuld get over their p resent difficulty, there Would be no lack of future ca uses of disse nsion, no scarc ity of new s p ri ng i ng from the very blood of the one they vainly hop e new to lay underground." They are not to be reasoned with ; th ey willfight their brethren to th e bitter end, and" tha bl oo d b e upon their own head and en that of their children's THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1863. children." It was only the day before yesterday that at a great Democratic meeting at the Cooper Insti tute it was resolved," That the Democracy of the City of New York, in general meeting convened, again reiterate and declare their unyielding oppo sition to all men and all factions who in any man ner seek to impair or destroy the glorious Union of the United States as a great Confederate Republic; that we will uphold and maintain the Union at all times and under all circumstances by all the means in our power, and that we will never consent to or permit any arrangement by which it shall be either destroyed or endangered." _ On the other hand, the Confederates, elated, as is too natural, by their success at Chattanooga, will come to no compromise that may not be based on the terms of " Recogniti3n by the enemy of the Confederate States; withdrawal of theYank in. Yankee forces from every foot of Confederate ground, chiding Kentucky and Missouri ; withdrawal of the Yankee soldiers from Maryland until that State shall decide by a free vote whether she shall remain in the old Union, or ask admission into the Confe deracy," &c. There is something touching in the language used by the Sou t herners"however w eveir b l oodt h irsty 0 pleading odti rs t t y h their h r t ca ue b se a — n 0 " t H . b o o w x How ever fierce the North ern ers may be theoretically," upon an n t e he yhamveayto fly rant d w they say , , and 1: yet owevwehrenfertohceiioruasrlymitehae stage armies not to be expected, they will see the neces sity of peace. The continuance of the war depends after all not on the scolds who strut the boards of Congress, and the contractors who bloat their purses with dishonest profits, but on the supply of men who do the fighting. The want of these will stop the war. The grand invasion is dying out. " There will be nothing on our part to counteract the disposition to peace which the decaying vigour and promise of the war will necessarily produce in the minds of our enemies. The United States have only to stop. There is nothing to prevent them from doing this at any time. Whatever those may affirm who desire to feed and inflame the war spirit among them, we but speak the universal sentiment of our people when we say that we have no purpose against them that would require them to remain in arms a day. We stand only on our defence. We have only proposed to seek our fortunes apart from them. We care not how happy and prosperous they may be without us. It was no part of our motive, in separating, to destroy or injure them. We made no attack on their people, their property, or their institutions. 'We were simply taking care of our selves. There is nothing to prevent peace and a just settlement between the two Confederacies any day, but the will of our enemies. "There is no question of life or death between us, so far as they are concerned. It is not necessary for them to be destroyed that we may live. They seek our life—we do not want theirs. We have neither the purpose nor the wish to subjugate them. They have no motive for war—have nothing at stake but the advantage they might hope to get out of us by forcing us into connexion or subjugation to them. The hope gone of succeeding in this, there is no motive left. They have no right, no inheritance, no privilege of their own which we seek to destroy or impair. And surely they will not admit that they have not among themselves the elements of great ness and happiness, and that the despised South is necessary to their security." It has been officially ascertained that up to the Ist of January of this year the Northern States have sent 1,276,246 men into the field. New York alone contributed 222,836. This year, as I wrote in a former letter, Mr. Seymour, Governor of the State of New York, has issued 5,000 commissions for officers from January to August. Notwithstanding all this, we hear that the contingent for this State alone, under the new call, added to what is due to make up for previous shortcomiugs, will be 108,085 men. On the other side, Virginia alone, with a population of 1,596,318, has contributed a contingent of 102,915 combatants to the Confederate armies. The average ratio of men that any people can spare for warlike purposes has already loug since been widely exceeded by the two contending parties, and the continuance of the fight must result in a work of awful depopu lation. The public debt of the Northern States on the Ist of September was approximately stated to be 1,228,832,771 dols. This, however, by no means re presents the amount of liabilities incurred by the Northern States in the pursuit of this war. Were the civil strife to come to a sudden stand, and were accounts to be wound up this very day, aud - claims on the Government to be satisfied, I am assured, by persons competent to speak on the sub ject, that the public debt would be between twenty five hundred and three thousand million dollars ! Truly, the finances of the South are in no better condition ; but it is difficult to deny that the power to cry "hold ! enough !" in this contest lies with the North alone—the North which fights for an idea, for the fond notion of a chimerical Union, the empty boast of being the " biggest people inhabit ing the biggest country," and the vain aspiration of having it one day in its power to say that " not a cannon shall be fired in Europe without its good will and pleasure." The spirit of "strike" is abroad among all the industrial classes. Here in New York, at Phila delphia, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Chicago, and other cities the mechanics are astir_ Coopers, carpenters, painters, shoemakers, &c. They say they are unable to live and keep their families at the present prices of provisions, clothing, fuel, &a. Taking some of the necessaries of life, such as flour, butter and eggs, vegetables, sugar, tea, coffee, beef, rice, &c., it is computed that what three years ago cost 9 dols. 67c. is not now to be had for less than 16 dols. 69 e . There is a rumour of a strike among the hotels too, which threaten to raise their daily board from 3 dols., their present charge, to 3 dole. 50c., although there hardly ever were such good times for them within men's recollection, and although some of the New York hotels clear a net profit of 1,500 dole. to 2,000 dole. weekly. '['he daily charges for board and lodging used to be 2 dole. a day. General Rosencranz was received at Cincinnati with loud acclamation, and in an address to his fellow-citizens ho vindicated his conduct from the aspersions to which he had lately been exposed ; he contradicted the rumours that had been spread as to his ill-health, and the abuse of opium to which it had been ascribed ; declared that the President had testified to him by letter his satisfaction with the doings at Chicamauga; and that his suborli nates, M'Cook and Crittenden, expressed to him their regret at the false reports which had been spread of anything spoken by them to their chief's disparagement. The public, however, will not soon hear the last as to General Rosencranz's deserts or demerits. Men of all parties are unanimous in praising the - President'sl:lll answer to the Missouri delegation, Generai a s s I often said, demanded the recall of tievart uolfield from the command of that West all ~ the ° lent. It is doubtful, however, whether exhibited r od sense, moieration, and firmness" 4 7 Mr. Lincoln at this juncture will have power ..e rest ore in those dietract:duything like calmness and security fare will for a i on Missouri districts. Guerilla war- State, but in a i! th t o i me prevail, not only in that the Federals ar e new 8 : Southern territories which duing. The disorder ilelltiler overrunnin g th an sub elsewhere in Tennessee aBi ng more ruthlessly th an of Grant's armies,if " Kentucky,. at l emßt in the rear may believe the assertion of Governor Braealette wafe who says that " no man Can think'tbe latter State, while we have a formidable ' , wore us, of quitting his post raid 1.. , while our banks are robbed, and o il ,. within 40 miles of the capital." ' , owns sacked The New York people would at last se em t 0 be somewhat weary o f the e efforts made by there e cement the goad un derstanding between to those "twin e earth," Russia and g i a nts of the America, The officers of the Russian squadron have had gale ss i onsP public and private days, torchlight proce ovations, n till they ate banquets, reviews, speech es, " of it. They are, and almost declare themselves, sick will be back this evening from an excursion to Niagara (which they insisted should be strictly . , they private, without toasts or speeches) , to which were treated by the proprietors of the Hudson River Navigation, New York Central, and Erie Railway Companies. These, like all other associations of the same nature in this country, are now flush with money, and might well afford to defray the ea. penses of the compliment. People have been busy getting up a grand 15 dol. subscription ball, in honour of " Uncle Sam's natural allies." Hitherto, however, the committee, consisting of the greatest bankers and merchants of the city, have only ma managed to collect the sum of 6,000 dols., and the scheme has given rise to no little grumbling on the part of earnest patriots, who think the Russians can only be disgusted at the heartless levity of a people "fiddling and .lancing"at such a calamitous season as this. It appears that the Russian Admi ral himself has thrown out some hints that " the money would be better employed in aid of the Fund for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Soldiers." The ball is likely to come off neverthe less, and the Russian fever, while abating in New York, is likely to spread to other cities, many of which are vieing with each other in their pressing invitations to " the representatives of the only European Power entitled to genuine American sympathies." Serious Charge of Libel against a Clergy- man. Yesterday, at the Westminster Police Court, the Rev. Thomas Richardson Birch, of 2, Alpha-road, Slough, appeared to a summons, before Mr. Arnold, charging him with unlawfully and maliciously pub lishing a defamatory libel of and concerning Felix Frederick Taylor, of Herschel' House, Slough. Mr. Pawle, of the firm of Pawle and Lovesey, 7, New-inn, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. C. P. Barrett, of Eton, the defence. Mr. Pawle, in opening the case, said he regretted to have to appear at that court to prefer a charge of libel against the defendant, who was a clergyman of the Established Church, at present holding a clerical appointment at 'Windsor. His (Mr. Pawle's) client had two sons, one of whom was in such ill health that he did not think,it advisable to send him to school; he therefore applied to Mr. Johnson, clerical agent, to procure him a tutor for his boys. By him he was introduced to Mr. Birch, and after a correspondence between them, the defendant en tered on his duties on the 3d of June, 1863, and re mained there until the 3d of July in the present year. Shortly after entering Mr. Taylor's family, the defendant succeeded in obtaining the appoint ment to the Windsor Union ; about the same time Mr. Taylor had reason to complain of the way in which the defendant educated his children, and that ultimately led to a rupture between them. Mr. Taylor then again applied to Mr. Johnson, who re commended a gentleman of the name of Lott, but the latter was acquainted with Mr. Birch, and left shortly after accepting the appointment, putting Mr. Taylor to a great deal of inconvenience. A third time Mr. Taylor applied to Mr. Johnson, who then recommended the Rev. Mr. Sharpe, and while negotiations were pending between him and com plainant, Mr. Sharpe received the following anony mous letter, which was the subject of the present action : Windsor, Berkshire, Oct. 15, 1863. Rev. Sir,—For the present, in common justice to a stranger, all are quite willing and ready to believe that you do not know that you have entered into a sink of the gross est crimes and iniquities and vilest disgrace, or else are going so to do. If you still keep your engagement, you will receive, and deserve it too, the contempt of all decent people who are not in the Church, and the greatest disgust of all gentlemen who are so. Inquire of the police of this borough, also of Eton and Slough. If likewise you can make up your mind and think it right, you can apply about these dreadful things of the house at Slough to the ministers there, viz , the Rev. Mr. Cree, the Rev. Mr. Birch, and the Rev. Mr. Sykes—counsellors to one whom we think need counsel, COUNSEL. That letter he would distinctly prove was written by the defendant, and upon its receipt Mr. Sharpe, acting in a very proper manner, took it to Mr. Johnson, by whom he had been introduced to Mr. Taylor (he not having yet entered into his engage ment) and placed the matter before him. Mr. John son at once communicated with the complainant, who at first sight pronounce I the letter to have been written by Mr. Birch, and said to Mr Sharpe " My acts are quite open to inspection ; pray make every inquiry that lies in your power before entering into my family ; write at once to any one you like in Windsor and the neighbourho'd, especially to Mr. Birch." Mr. Sharpe accordingly wrote to the de fendant, and in reply received a second letter, which would no doubt be deemed a privileged communica tion. In consequence of inquiries he felt perfectly satisfied as to the character of Mr. Taylor, and ac- . c , 3pted th e appo i ntmen t, w hi c h h e s till held ; ana it was very probable that, notwithstanding the shameful way in which his character had been attacked, Mr. Taylor would not have taken any steps against the defendant, had he not received on the 25th of October last a letter of the most horrible description. Mr. Pawle then proceeded to read as follows Slough, Oct. 24, 1863.,_ You loathsome and most contemptible animal -- No decent man who knows you could possibly be surprised at anything you cuuld do, but I am disgusted, beyond all power of expression, at your revolting insolence in presuming to address to me or any other gentlemen one of your filthy and contaminating letters—for polluting and contaminating any letters of yours must needs be to any one who is not, like yourself, an outcast from society. As far as I can make what vulgar people of your sort call "head or tail" of your drunken and every way truly disgusting rubbish, you want me to make out that somebody or another has written an anonymous letter about your detestable life. Can they tell me anything about your infamy ? You horrible animal, I know it to my cost already. Is not the allusion to such a letter another rascally scoundrel lie. You know full well that I must be ready to believe that it is. And now as to other lies. You induced me to become the tutor of your bastards—bastards of the most loathsome circumstances of all bastardy, they being the offspring of a low, paltry tradesman at best, by a certain creature whose antecedents, when even imperfectly Bet forth, were disgusting, and are now almost unutterable—by audaciously assuring me in Bond-street, London, that you were a " gentleman of large independent fortune," of considerable landed property in the counties of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire; " that you lived at Herschell House, a small, very small part of your estates, as the third landed proprietor in Buckinghamshire ;" so that you were "an Oxford man ;" that " about 14 years ago you married the daughter of a Colonel of a very distinguished regiment, who was connected with some of the highest families in Eng land, and one of whose ancestors came over with the Conqueror;" that your "dear wife had several of her papa's medals for services performed during the Peninsular war, amongst these one for Waterloo ;" that your house was visited constantly by, and you also visited, all the county families." Many of these detestable lies—as for instance, those about "colonel's daughter," and the "coming over with the Conqueror," were afterwards even constantly persevered in, outrageous as they aro and must be. But also amongst those lies, outrageously told me in Bond-street aforesaid, and afterwards as outrageously re peated at Slough, are these • that there wis "no one of the ladies of this place—as they called themselves—whom your wife could visit, because she had from her very childhood been so very chaste and virtuous that she could not bear the presence of those who were not quite like herself I" You say something in the letter which you have had the unequalled impudence to send me, about " a criminal court." Is or is not that a place in which rascals, scoun drels, rogues, scamps, and blackguards, appear to an swer for running away with the virtuous wives of other men, "colonel's daughters" and wine-dealers' consorts ? Or is it a place in which a brother of a colonel's daughter might appear to receive the sentence of transportation; or further still, is it a place in which those stand who can be charged with crimes still more horrible? For the present I seek this; information if you can believe I do so. You also, I think (your sottish jargon is all but un intelligible; you could not yourself the next morning dare to hope anyone could understand it) speak of a "strong tight arm ready to defend you." For whom these words are intended it is utterly impossible for me to conceive, but they do suggest to me this inquiry—Do you, or do you not, you wretched varlet, you, remember the evening when, in the place towhich your lies entrapped me for my corruption and pollution, my upraised arm and clenched fist accompa nied the expressions of my honest heart's indignation at your beastly outrage in taking my wife into public with yourself and that woman, and your bastard cowardice found a vent only in a horrid stench, which compelled me to eject you from the room—a being loathsome first to my eyes and then to my nostrils ? If the " anonymous writer" were not one of your lies, but a real character, I could tell him of the r ia e lay l anonymous letters with which I was assailed as to abo minaZl l e th i L t, v ti i lany of one detestable and low-lifed wretch who could "Barlow" _ .e to ensnare even a clergyman into an association the f ta 111111 (a clergyman's wife into a contaminating intro duction • first took out the ' aza,my). sharer—the worthy sharer—of his gross, I would tell him of the shouts of Bastards," whichassailed my ears when I modest women either offspring. I could tell him that all under an honest p ren t olfi lived, d s _d e d e i ved an "'Z i m e r shunned the house in which the tutor to the horror of seein g him of the blasphemous obPPea squab bles, amidst which these prorraatided. tutor—lived, or visited it only tehtehat they should never be subjected . pup l il c s o . u l ld co t e u l l l d h t i e m l I children .nity; drunkenness, and that the injured tutor would be inundated with letters teem ing with the records of filth and loathsomeness—references to adultery courts and newspapers containing the reports of crime. I could tell him how the neighbourhood shrieks with the infamy of the man of whom he wrote. Yes, this I could tell him; and while I did so I would bid him do what I have done—tell you all this to your face. A dark, thick cloud is fastgathering, and is ready to burst in well deserved wrath. Evidence is pouring in fast —expectation is on the tiptoe. A clergyman and his wife remember, you wretched being —I say his wife—have witnesses of your defamation, and that of the creature, like yourself with whom you live. A virtuous—not a mock, but really viruous—lady has like wise grounds of libel against you both. Await your day— you will not have to wait long. This, however, is not the only judgment which awaits you both, even before an earthly tribunal. The Reverend T. R. Bincn. Mr. Arnold inquired whether Mr. Pawle was in a position to prove that the letter was written by the defendant. Mr. Pawle replied—Most indisputably ; and con tinued—After such a disgusting epistle as this,n d m — r" Taylor, o r receiving f course, lost no time in placing t i e r ,o the matter in the hands of his solicitor, and a sum mons was taken out against defendant. Mr. Taylor, he might remark, was a gentleman of position and standing, and there was not the slightest foundation for the disgraceful and infamous charges brought against him. The Rev. Mr. Sharpe, Mr. Johnson, clerical agent, and other witnesses having been examined, Mr. Felix Frederick Taylor said—l reside at Slough, and am a gentleman of independent fortune. I have for some years resided with my family in the house I now occupy. I know the reverend gentle man who now appears as defendant. He occupied tutor my two sons for thirteen months. , in consequence of some d th i ff e e p r e o n s e t e i o s In he of Juy, 8 left eflt to m lyf6a3m family by request. On the at Brighton with my f 2 a s m t y o f w O h c e t n o b l e r r e l c e w i v a c s d staying tter dated the 24th of October, through the medium of the post. It bears that date, is in Mr. Birch's handwriting, and is signed by him. lam necessarily well acquainted with his caligraphy, and have consequently no hesi tation in saying that the anonymous letter of the 15th October, addressed to Mr. Sharpe, was written by , the defendant. That letter refers no doubt to my self, home, and family. I have not the envelope in which it came, nor do I know where it is, but the letter came addressed to me at Brighton. Cross -examined—l have known Mr. Birch nearly 14 months. The negotiations between us Com menced about the middle of May, 1862, and his engagement early in June. Mr. Barrett—How long after he entered your family did a misunderstanding arise between you ? Witne ss —H e fulfilled hi s d ut i es to my satisfaction, months, and for thenby the first thr ee or f our degrees he became re miss. I obj ec t e d t o hi s line of condu c t, an d fi na ll y the determinati on on my part to pro cure anot h er tutor took place in Juno last. The engagement be tween us was broken off simply on account of the misunderstanding between us on scholastic matters, and not from family matters. Mr. Barrett—Were you not co-respondent in a case in the Divorce Court lately ? Mr. Pawle interposed, and submitted that such a question was totally irrelevant to the charge, in which opinion Mr. Arnold coincided. Some further evidence having brought the case for the prosecution to a close, Mr. Barrett asked for a remand, as his client had so recently instructed him that he knew very little about the matter. Mr. Arnold granted the request, and remanded the case for a week, accepting one surety in X5O for Mr. Birch's reappearance. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The iron-cased screw steamship Royal Oak, 35, 4,065 tons, Capt. Frederick A. Campbell, one of the Channel Squadron, continues in Dock No. 1 at Keyham. The state of the lower tier of her iron plates, which have been so much pitted and damaged by galvanic action arising from the copper sheathing (Muntz's metal) below, continues to at tract attention. After due consideration the Lords of the Admiralty have determined to adopt a course which it is hoped will prevent the repetition of the injury. One of the plates most pitted, No. 14, which belongs to the lowor tier or layer, and is fixed at a point equidistant faom the main and mizenmasts, has been removed, and is now in one oftthe fitting shops of the yard. It is 15ft long, 2ft 10in deep, and 41in thick, and weths four tons. The inner side, it is sa tisfactory to know is perfect, notwithstanding the appear ance of the very suspicious-looking black fluid mentioned in the report on the plating of the Royal Oak which appeared in The o'un of the 28th ult. The bolt holes in plate No. 14, like those in all the rest of the Royal Oak's armour plates, are llin in diameter. They are to be increased to a dia meter of tin, which will be the standard in future, it being considered that 2-in bolts are requisite for the duty of re taining these ponderous plates securely against the ship's sides. All the outside facing of the Royal Oak is to be thoroughly cleansed, the red lead is to be scraped off, and the recently made pits aro to be filled with composition. The course adopted on by the Admiralty is to use Brown's Pa tent Vitreous Sheathing for the purpose of protecting this tier from the galvanic action of the copper. In order to effect this arrangement the upper course of the metal sheathing, to a depth of 16in, has been entirely stripped off. The vitreous sheathing will commence at the new upper edge of the metal, and ascend sft, which will of course be 3ft Bin on the iron plates. It will be fastened to the wood portion of the ship's side by mixed metal nails in addition to the cement (a glue manufactured by Messrs. Hall and Co.), and on the iron plates by the glue only. The plates of vitreous sheathins going en are 16in wide by 4in deep, and they are so thin that 24 aro required to obtain the thickness of an inch. This extreme thinness makes them almost flexible. The vitreous sheathing will be moulded expressly to meet the shape of the bows. The communication between Mutz's metal and the iron plates is hoped to be thus completely closed, the galvanic ac tion thereby prevented, and the constant necessity for scraping, painting, &c., which has been of such frequent occurrence, will be avoided, as the vitreous sheathing is said to be easily cleansed by scrubbing, either in dock or afloat. The same kind of sheathing is on the Warrior, Hector, and Royal Sovereign, and it is to be applied to the Ocean, now receiving her armour plates at Keyham. This :tin d of sheath ing was also fixed to the Resistance, and several of the plates came off. The patentees allege that this failure arose from the fact that some of the materials of the composition with which the bottom was covered were not suitable for use with the glue (Hay's), used in fastening the vitreous sheathing. The proprietor, Mr. Hall, in fixing his plates or sheaths to the Royal Oak, will use glue of his own manufac ture. The black liquid which continues to eon out between the armour plates of the Royal Oak appears to come from salts water leakage, which goes in between the butts, &c., gets discoloured by the tarred felt behind, and then comes out in a blackened conditionr This state of affairs ought not to exist. It is evident that from whatever cause the black liquid arises its presence inside the plates must tend to relax their hold upon the sides of the ship. It is surmised, first, that the fitting of the plates was not very exact when they were laid on, and next, that they expand in hot and contract in cold weather, when the ends are sufficiently open to admit water. If this be the result of the experience of the Roya Oak's four months' trip in the British seas, what would be the effect of a three years' station in a warm latitude? The ends of the armour plates are fashioned otherwise in France. There the outer edges of the plates nearly touch each other, while the inner edges retreat from each other, thus leaving a hollow triangular space, the base being formed by the ship's sides. This space is calked tightly with prepared oakum, and by this means all humidity is said to be excluded from inside the plates of French iron-cased ships, as the caulking material expar ds sufficiently, when the plates con tract, to prevent the water from entering. Higher up the Royal Oak's side, next the vitreous sheathing, there will be a rubbing piece (of wood) to receive blows from boats or the chafiing cs any substance floating alongside. The rub bing piece will be 3ft deep and 3 in. thick in the middle, tapering off and above below to a feather edge. This rub bing piece will extend towards the stern about two-thirds the length of the ship, according to the judgment of Mr. Peke, the master builder of Devonport Dockyard, and will be fastened to the armour-plates by Sin. scaews tapped three-quarters of an inch into the plates. The heads of the screws will be counter-Sunk three-quarters of an inch into the rubbing •piece, and plunged over all. In relation to the line of flotation, it may be stated ihat all the vitreous sheath ing will be under water ; indeed the lower edge or the rub bing piece will be lft below, and the upper edge 21t. above the water or load line. Her Majesty's ship Ranger, paid out of commission on Tuesday at Woolwich, was yesterday docked in preparation for a thorough overhaul and speedy recommission. The screw steam ship Sea King, having embarked mili tary stores and artillery, troops for New Zealand, yesterday departed from Woolwich for her destination. The whole of the supernumerary seamen now on board the flagship Fisgard, at Woolwich, will be transferred this morning to the iron-cased ship Caledonia in order to navi gate that ship from the Victoria Docks to Sheerness. The men will be berthed on board the Formidable for distribu tion. The four heavy guns brought to Woolwich from Low moor, weighing 20 tons each, were yesterday landed with safety. The guns were manufactured by Capt. Blakely's order, and have been brought to Woolwich for proof. It appears that the chain which gave way a few days ago, in the attempt to land one of the guns by means of the ordi nary hand crane, had undergone a tensile strain, under proof, up to 21 tons. The accident is accounted for by one of the links which had lapped over, and fallen again into its place ; the link had snapped asunder under the extraordi nary weight. Capt. Wm. H. Stewart, C. 3., was yesterday appointed Captain-Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, vice Capt. Edward G, Fawshawe, promoted to the rank of Rear- Admiral. THE RECENT MURDERS. The bodies of the Hunts and their children have been identified by several relations on both sides of the family. Mrs. Hunt's father is a cab iriver, named Blake, living - in St. John'-street, Smithfield. He fully confirms the reports of the neighbours as to the frequency of violent quarrels between Hunt and his wife. ,Blake's daughter (Mrs. Hunt's sister) states that about a month ago Hunt made an unsuc cessful attempt to poison his wife. Latterly he used to beat her severely, and the sister ascribes the wound on the un fortunate woman's foot to a blow from a poker, given to her by Hunt. The house in which they lived is a small six-roomed cottage, somewhat poorly furnished, and bearing every mark of a household going to ruin. It has been represented that Hunt had fitted up a room in the house as a laboratory wherein to experiment on poisons. This is not the case ; the only signs of drugs or chemicals in the house are a number of bottles on the back parlour mantel. piece, most of which are empty, the remainder containing a few such harmless substances as borax, camphor, flavour ing for pastry, and a few other similar preparations that might be found in ‘very household in the kingdom. It is certain that Hunt well knew the properties of the deadly substances which he used with such terrible effect, but the knowledge was doubtless acquired by him in the course of business. When roused by the police he was in bed reading "Tom Brown at Oxford," and came down to the officers in his night shirt. He must have swallowed the aconite im mediately he found that he was pursued,for the bottle, con taining perhaps a couple of drops of the poison, was after wards found in a cupboard in his bedroom, The story he told to the police about Mrs. Hunt having an uncle at Southampton named Campbell, who had given her £5O, is a pure fabrication from beginning to end, the unfortunate woman's friends being all poor hardworking people, living in London. Hunt's body lies at his house, awaiting the coroner's inquest, which will be opened to-morrow. A post mortein examination will be made to-day by Dr. Puckle. The guilty man's countenance is most forbidding. A re ceding forehead, singularly massive frontal bones, and a firm-set mouth inspire one with no very favourable opinion of their possessor. The cabman, Gould, who took the Hunts to the Shoreditch station from Camberwell, went to St. Mary's Hospital yesterday evening to identify the bodies lying there. A great deal has been said about the mous tache which was worn by the man in the cab, and sworn to by the cabman, but there seems to be every probability that Hunt wore a false one in order to disguise himself. Hunt must have had some other means of procuring money be sides that afforded by his business, for not only did he leave 1 8 months' salary in the hands of his employers, but £lO in notes was found on his person after his death. At one time he kept a bookseller's and stationer's shop at the corner of Warner-street, Camberwell New-road, but did not succeed in.business. It is also said that he was formerly in business as a chemist and druggist on his own account. FIRES AND LOSS OF LIFE, ---, Yesterday about noon great alarm was caused in the neighbourhood of Wormwood-street, Bishopsgate-street , from the outbreak of a fire on the premises of Messrs. Fisher and King, livery-stable keepers, No. 2, Helmet•court, Wormwood-street, Bishopsgate. The fire commenced in the stabling, and as it was rapidly extending into the work shops over belonging to Mr. J. Sheppard, cabinet maker, it was expected that the buildings around would have been destroyed. The engines of the parish and several of the London Brigade, including one of the laud steamers by Shand, Mason, and Co., quickly arrived at the spot, and a good supply of the New River Company's water having been procured, the firemen, under the direction of Captain Shaw, aided by 56 hired auxiliaries, did all that was pos stble to prevent the flames from reaching the houses in Wormwood-street and several others in Helmet-court. At the same time the residents commenced removing their goods. Captain Shaw, in order to satisfy them that no danger existed, sent Engineer Flinn to procure a couple of lengths of ladder from his engine, so that he could mount the upper floor of the burning building. Whilst he was gone Captain Shaw procured a ladder, and just as Flinn arrived with his he mounted the temporary one, and whilst in the act of swinging himself upon the flap of the front warehouse, the sudden jerk caused the chains of the flap to give way, and the gallant captain was precipitated head long to the ground, falling upon Flinn. Captain Shaw, and also Engineer Flynn, were at once removed to their stations, where it was found that Flinn was not very seriously injured; but the captain was very much hurt, and Dr. Saunders, of Queen-street, Cheapside, was sent for, and, seeing the serious nature of the case, re commended, if the captain wished it, that Dr. llewitt, of Chesterfield-street, Mayfair, should be also called in. That was done. The fire was at length extinguished, but not until the premises of Messrs. Fisher and King, and the workshops over, were nearly destroyed, and the premises of Messrs. Sheppard and others were severely damaged. The princi pal loss will fall upon the Sun Fire-office. An alarming fire also took place on the premises of Mr. West, a steel polisher, 91, Great Saffron-hill, Clerkenwell. This fire commenced in the upper floor, used as the work shops, and which contained a valuable stock in trade. The engines soon attended, and plenty of water having been obtained, the firemen went to work, but the premises of Mr. Weet were nearly burned out, and the two houses ad joining, Nos, 92 and 93, the property of Mr. Topp, were much damaged. The leis will. fall upon the Liverpool and London Fire-office. A fire of a very distressing character also happened in the premises occupied by a female, 84 years of age, who resided in Redcross-court, Redcross-street, Southwark. The fire was caused, it is supposed, by the unfortunate female falling into the Aire. She was so terribly burnt that, in spite of the services rendered by Dr. Donohoe, of the Westminster road, who was passing at the time, the poor creature perished. The body awaits the coroner's inquest. THE ARMY. A circular memorandum was received yesterday from the War Department by the officials of Woolwich Arsenal, in forming them that permission had been granted to Mr. Cox well to repeat his aeronautical experiments for military pur poses. He will reconnoitre the movements of the troops, who will be marched some miles into the country beyond the arsenal, where the ascent will take place. He had pro vided a balloon of much larger dimensions than the former one, and will be supplied from the arsenal gasometer with 75,000 cubic feet of gas for its inflation. Mr. Coxwell will be accompanied, as on the former occasions at Aldershot and Woolwich, by the scientific committee of officers of the Royal Engineers, who originated the experiments, viz, : Capt. Beaumont, Lieut, Grover, and others. The ascent is intended to tako place at Woolwich ie a few days, the wea ther permitting, in the presence of the principal officers of the garrison. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Wednesday Evening. DEATH OF A TRAFALGAR HERO. The list of survivors of the glorious but sanguinary day of Trafalgar has one name erased from it by death within the last two days—of Commander Rawdon Maclean, who contributed to the crowning victory that cost the nation the heroic Nelson, at the expense of a shattered arm. He was examiner of the Dublin Marine Board, and was at business on Saturday, and attended church on Sunday, but an attack of gout in the stomach carried off the veteran before Mon day morning. THE NEW ARCHBISHOP. The provincial press approves the elevation to the see of Dublin of Dr. Trench, without political distinction. The Belfast News Letter, representing Conservative principles in Ulster, pronounces the Government selection to be a very good and satisfactory one; and the Belfast Whig admits its unexceptionable character, whilst holding the opinion that a better was possible, oven within the Irish episcopacy. The new archbishop i 3 sure of a fair hearing, and his prospects of popularity and tranquillity are very good. THE ACCIDENT TO THE ANGLIA. The Anglia is stilt in Galway Bay. No official report has been made as to the injury she has received. Iler Liverpool passengers have been landed at Galway, and the mails returned to Dublin. Judge Ball has not resigned. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Ilorniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 45. "High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in Dockets. 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They procured a subsidy from Lord Derby's Government by methods and arguments which Conservative speakers ware after wards driven to justify upon principles worthy of Sir Robert Walpole. Having signally and re peatedly failed to fulfil the conditions of their con tract, they treated the forfeiture of it as 814 insult to Ireland, and rallied their countrymen of all par ties to their rescue. The screw was put on and kept on with such relentless dexterity that Lord Pal merston's Government gave way under it, and actually consented to renew the subsidy. It is true that they affected to shelter themselves under the report of a committee, and even went through the form of treat ing the question as one of public interest; but the trick was too simple to deceive any one, and, to do Lord Palmerston j ustice, was never intended to have this effect. It was no secret that the £70,000 a year was to be paid by the Post-office, not for the more speedy conveyance of our American mails, but as a peaceoffering to Irishmen. From this point of view there was, perhaps, no need to be ashamed of it. It is ten times more important that Ireland should be satisfied than that we should hear from America, a day sooner or later, and no less than this was the real consideration for the bargain. Still it was hoped that, just to save appearances, the steamers would keep their time, and not break down too often. If there had been no fleet at all, it might have been worth while to pay the money, but Mr. Alderman Reynolds and others had been careful to inform us that there was a very fine fleet all ready, to enumerate the number and tonnage of the vessels, and to adopt a high tone, as though the arrangement had not the least taste of a resem blance to an Irish job, or what Lord Ulanricarde happily called " eminently an Irish question." This bold play, as we have said, deserved better Luck than has befallen the Atlantic Company. We have not before us a detailed list of all the disasters that have occurred on this line since it was reopened, bat we know quite enough to make us sympathise with all those who have anything to do with it. If the stars in their courses had fought against the shareholders, their elite. comfiture could not have been more complete. Either on the high seas, or in entering tome hat , I .bour, or in quitting some harbour, something is sure to go wrong with their vessels. If they are not °Aught in a fog the machinery gets out of order, and if the machinery does not get out of order they come in collision with a rock. This is whet has hap pened to the last of which we have any intelligence. "The Atlantic Royal Mail steamer Anglia, from Liverpool to Boston, went on the Black Rock in Galway Bay at 5 a.m. to.day." This beats every thing. In Galway Bay, the very station of which the capacity and safety were so much extolled, and which was to become the great Atlantic port of the British islands, a vessel well found and skilfully commanded runs straight upon a rock. However, it is not so bad as it might be, for "it is expected that she will be got off safely at high water." This reminds us of the language in which the American newspapers are wont to announce the usual result of a Federal invasion. The " safety" of a vessel that is floated off a rock close to the Irish coast in an attempt to cross the Atlantic at express speed is like the safety of a conquering force that is withdrawn by a strategic movement behind intrenchments. The Anglia may . be saved from shipwreck, but can she possibly arrive punc tually at her destination ? If we may waive for a moment the reserve which makes us unwilling to put this company on its defence, we would fain ask what conceivable claim it can have to public sup port unless it can fairly beat all competitors in the time of transit. On the supposition that there was no job in the case, Galway was selected not as the most convenient starting point in other respects either for passengers or goods traffic, but simply as the nearest port to America. It was assured that the mails, at least, could be transmitted from one con tinent to the other with the utmost despatch and regularity. How have these expectations, if they deserved to be called so, been fulfilled ? We will not go so far as to say that not a single voyage has been made within the agreed time, but we may safely assert that such voyages ha"Ve been the ex ception, and not the rule. Again and again the news brought by these vessels has been anticipated, and the practical inferiority of the Galway route established by the only test that we can apply. One purpose, and one only, has hitherto been served by it, that of facilitating the passage of emigrants from Conuaught to New York. This is not the place to inquire whether this is a proper object of Imperial policy, but it was not the motive assigned for the grant, and Mr. Gregory would scarcely advise us to provide the United States with recruits at our own expense. Now, either the penalties for these inces sant defaults will be enforced or they will not. If they are not, the other Companies who now compete handicapped with the Atlantic will have the best possible reason to complain, and the job will have been carried beyond the limits of fair play. If they are, they will eat into the profits of the concern and bring down the dividends terribly. Nor can we see any fair prospect of improvement. After the former breakdown, and the fierce agita tion both in and out of Parliament about the rights and wrongs of Galway, we may take it for granted that every precaution of which their means ad mitted was taken by the directors. Accidents may happen, but they do not happen with the unifor mity of a fixed law, and though " misfortunes," as the shying is, " do not come singly," they rarely come in such numbers and with such regularity un less where they have a permanent cause. It will be impossible to evade the question whether the Galway experiment has not been tried long enough. Ireland had set her heart on its being made, and it has been made for many months under every advantage. So far it has proved a dead failure, and a eecond set of shareholders are threatened with ruinous loss. Must this company be tested, as cannon are tested, up to the point of a destructive explosion, or shall some other gratifi cation be provided for the Irish nation in lieu of it? This is what Parliament will have to consider. If the directors can show that they are the victims of a fatal series of mischances, or the peasantry of Connaught can make good their demand for a cheap means of transport under the name of a postal service,, we have not a word to say against it. We have long advocated the concession as a pecuniary largess to Ireland, and we freely admit that the recipients should be consulted as to the form in which they will take it. POST.—If the author of the grim tragedy, the last act of which came to a close on Monday night, had not been a man skilled in poison—specially educated, so to speak, in a department of science which he turned to such devilish account—many individuals, conscious of being the objects of some outstanding feud, might well resolve to live exclu sively on eggs. The subtle power at a poisoner's command of inflicting sudden and silent death was perhaps never more forcibly illustrated than by the murderer Hunt on Saturday night. The conditions under which the wife and two children succumbed to poison without the circumstance being discovered until the cab door was thrown open, its destination being reached, are so extraordinary—would have seemed, had they not actaally occurred, so impro bable—that the author of a sensational novel, drawing on his imagination for the results, would hardly have escaped the imputation of transcending the probable to a wholly unwarrantable degree ; nay further, we argue that if the wretched mur derer-suicide had given himself up to the police at once—as soon as the hue and cry was raised—de nying his cognisance of the deed, and throwing the accusation on his wife, the probability of such aver ment would have been strong that whatever the coroner's jury might have done, the judge's jury would never have convicted on the strength of such evidence as has been hitherto adduced./ That, when the man Hunt got out of the cab opposite Furni val's-inn, his wife and children were alive, and that, subsequent to his departure, the fatal dose of prus sic acid was adminstered by Mrs. Hunt, would have been an hypothesis so plausible that it must have commended itself to a jury if backed by Hunt's own asseverations. This view of the case will be come the more evident if we pass cursorily in review some of the specialities of prussic acid. Quite true it is that real, absolute, undiluted prussic acid is so dire a poison that a mere drop of it let fall, not t() say upon the tongue, but into the eye' the killsa strong animal—a dog, for instance— with sud denness of a lightning stroke or a cannon til- ball ; but this sort of prussic acid we apprehend mus t have person rt esacnn* n be o e t n b o e u b t o o u f g t h h t e ; q i u t es m ti u o s n t . be ln p r t e h p e a r fi e r d s t place, by tbe decomposes. If th e using it, and when prepa red must be ke p t sue-. murdererrounded by bought ice, itprrsepsiidelyaeid, it could not h ave had more than five per cent. strength, and most pro acid i h chem is try intermediate hibly only three p er cent. It is indeed com p ete nt to a s he w assum:s_thmatanHutu. was—manufactured prussicainte d w Hunt—acquainted in strength between that of absolute acid and the dilute liquid of the shops ; but even this assump tion, if adopted, by no means rem oves the d i ff i culties which beset the case. Whatevert be orgi nal strength, it would seem to have been diluted by mixture with beer; and for that reason it is with the hypothesis of dilute prussic acid that we have to concern our selves. Now, the progres s o f symptoms —dil ute prussic acid being swallowed in a fatally poisonous dose— is somewhat a s follows ; — For seconds, or a b out, no effect will be perceptible three tirble;the patient, noticing a strong taste of bitter almonds, will heeome conscious that some extraneous mate rial has been swallowed, no more. With the fourth , second, or about, comes a convulsion, probably a shriek, then short, sharp, muscular twitches, and gasping supervene, and, usually before a quarter of a minute has gone by, practically speaking, death; though the heart may continue throbbing up to the end of half a minute. Such being the normal march of symptoms, the difficulties of assumption is rela tion to this case begin. In the first place three individuals coald have not drunk simultane ously of one pot • the drinking must ha ve been consecutive; and the case required that the third individual should have swallowed the fatal dose before any cognisance, or even suspicion of foul play, had arisen on the part of the two pre ceding. It is necessary, in point of fact, to assume that the triple poisoning should have been accom plished in three seconds of time. Such a result would not seem easy to bring about. Three seconds would appear to be inadequate for the taking Of three draughts, each by a different person, from the same vessel; even though the marked odour of prussic acid (resembling that of bitter almonds) had not been present. We do not mean to assert that the progress of results, as recited, is absolute to the letter—that it may not be subject to variations ; but the latter are slight, and even if admitted, they import difficulties to take the place of others elimi nated. If, for example, the time between adminis tration of the poison and death be extended, then it is accordant with what experience has shown, to assume a prolongation of convulsions, shrieks, a nd other demonstrations ; sufficient, it may reasonably be assumed, to have challenged attention on the part of the cab-driver. It needs no words of assur ance on our part to make the public understand that, but for the closing of this horrible drama, we should not have felt ourselves justified in offering these remarks. Justice to the prisoner would have prompted an absolute reticence on a topic the dis cussion of which should in common fairness be determined by a criminal court only. His death has removed all such scruples. We, in common with toxicologists and the public, may now study the case apart from every consideration of human interest, regarding it only as a problem, very much as the chess•player might study a series of combinations on his chequered board. The tale has a moral, one that the very highest liv ing authority on poisons inculcated:long ago, that may bring confidence and consolation to the nerves of some people who, perusing a record of modern poisoning, may apprehend danger to themselves. Master poisoners, according to Christison, must henceforth be somewhat deeply versed in the science of their art. The present case justifies that observa tion; and even the poisonings accomplished by Catherine Wilson do not constitute an exception. Passing now from the murdered wife and children to Hunt himself, the poison aconite, with which he elected to cut short his evil career, merits a remark. Aconite, the active principle of monkshood, has no affinity whatever with strychnia, although certain contemporaries have stated the reverse. Neither are the effects similar; for whilst strychnia pro duces horrible convulsions, aconite has the remark able property of wholly destroying sensation with out motion ; in other words, giving the indiviaual poisoned by it a total immunity from pain. We cannot but regret that the ends of justice were de feated by the folly of the police, who went in uni form to Hunt's house and knocked at hia door, thus giving him the opportunity of swallowing the fatal draught. The public, however, may derive some consolation from the consideration that the whole case is one of an extraordinary exceptional nature. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWARK.-WEDNESDAY. A tolerable quantity of wheat on offer at our market to day, and the demand was fair, at a slight decline on the rates of last week. Barley and other articles were not ma terially changed. White wheat new, 43s to 46s Barley, grinding.. 30s to 3' 26 Red do. 37s to 42s Oats, old, .. ..25s to 288 Old white 42s to 46s New do 208 to 24S Red do. 41s to 448 1 Beans.. 3 7 8 to 405 Barley, malting.... 368 to 408 1 Beans, new 3.28 to 34S HULL-TUESDAY. At this day's market the show of English wheat sval moderate, with a ready sale, at fully late currencieo, an d in some instances an advance of is per qr was obtained . Foreign held firmly at rather more money. Barley met 6 slow sale, and prices in favour of buyers. Beans and pea ° were quiet. Oats dull, but not quotably lower. Wheat.... Old white per qr. 43s Od to 450 06 Old red 7, New white .. „ New red Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 36s Od Grinding 26s 6d to 2Ss Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 31s 04 Grinding 2Bs Od to 31s On Oats English, old 22s Od to 24s Od Archangel and Riga per st oBl2ld to 1 3 d Friesland and Dutch ' osl3d to Oal3ld Swedish and Danish osl2kd to osl3d Beans ....English, old, per qr 44s Od to 43s Od New pigeon 42s Od to 44s Od New tick 4os Od to 42s Od Egyptian Peas Foreign boilers .. 32s Od tv 34s Od Grinding Tares .... Spring. —s Od to —s Od Indian Corn 0 Linseed, feeding . 52s Od to 665 (J,,,1 crushing • , 40 s Od to 525 "''' 0 Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 60to £0 „ Foreign Bl5 oto 9 0 un Rape cakes 6 0 o to 0 0 0 0 Bones 5 5 oto 6 10 MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat , 41s Od to 45s Od; new red, 39s Od to 43s per 36 stone beans, 39s to 41s for old; new sorts, 36s to 38s per 38 et. barley, 35s to 37s for malting , and 28s to 328 per qr. f° ,, grinding; new oats, 20s to 23s ' Od per 24 stone; old, P' to 295. LYNN—TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a short supply of wheat , and the prices of last week were fully supported. Oth er articles as before. White .. 45s to 46s f Barley 370 to 3 9 . RA.. 4os to 41s 1 Grinding ..29s to VI Beans .4os to 44s f Oats.. New 386 to 4Us 1 Peas —0 to •-'4 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Nov. 1 8 ' via Marseilles Nov. 1 2 . Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Dec. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 22' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southam p t on N o v. lo• via Marseilles Nov. 12. Falkland Islands .. Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 11 ' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. 18. via Marseilles Nov. 13 ' India (Bombay), via Southampton Nov. l l:, via Marseilles Nov. Portuga 1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov. I via Marseilles Nov. 1 1 ,' ' Newfoundland .. Nov. 1 1, Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Nov. 11 ' by U.S. packet.... f W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and IbienCeanriglianpacket.Nov. Nov. Il' , 3 Bahamas, via New York Nov. 2 0. Mexico. Nov 2 8 ' •••• • All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, j Nov. 13. California. and British Columbia.. PRUSSIAN POLES.—Out of 352 Prussian deputieor elected in the proportion of one for every 50,000 of population, 27 this time are Poles. As the Governme nt strains every possible influence to exclude them, the return of so many is good evidence of the vitality and power of the Polish element in Prussia, which may thus be estimated roughly at !,350,000. —Spectator. Births. BOYD.—On the 9th inst., at Birr, King's County, th e w ife of Major Robert B. Boyd, 13th Depot Battalion, of 0 ' son. LEVETT —On the 11th inst., at 21, Chesham-place, Lady Jane Levott, of a son. NAPIER.--On the 10th inst., at Broadmeadows, SelkA the Hon. Mrs. William Napier, of a son. SOMERvELL —On the 9th inst., at Hendon, the wife of Somervell, Esq., of a son. Marriages. A t tbe HUTCHINSON—LIVINGSTONE.—On the 10th ins', A- _ ro ,l Holy Trinity Church, Tunbridge-wells, Major-Ge n e Edward Helyllutchinson, late commanding H.llL's John Regiment, to Ma rgaret B ell, daughter of the late Jo n Livingstone, Esq. THORNTON— BOXALL.-011 the 10th inst., atWisborou.o e green, Sussex, th e R ev. Dr. Thornton, vicar, to J 3l/ d ' the daughter of th e l ate Mr. Jesse Boxall, of Uuildfor Surrey. Deaths. BAIR.D.—On the Bth inst , at Ventnor, Thomas H. 1311Ira' Esq., of the India-office, aged 22. BATEMAN.—On the 10th inst., at Walthamstow, Jo seph Bateman, Esq., LL.D. CHESRAM.—On the 10th ilist., at 19, Grosvenor•sfi llareP Lord Chesham, aged 71. COUSIN'S —On the 9th inst., at 24, Camden-square. Id° Jane Cousins, aged 33. neldf FITZGERALD.—On the 9th inst., at The Firs. 1 3111— id, Berks, the Hon. Charlotte, wife of Gerald FitzGe%t Esq., youngest and only surviving daughtar of the 31' Baroness Talbot de Malahide. R.I.P. MUNROE.—On the 10th inst., at 99, George-street. Ellin' burgh, Major David Munro, late of the Old 94th Scotch Brigade, aged 79. FARRER —On the 9th inst., at Ingleborough Yorkshire! James Farrer, Esq., late Master In Chancery, aged 79. of WILLIAMS,—On the 9th inst., R ee s Williams, xas C l'' Aberpergwm, Glamorganshire, aged 25 . , 'London: Prlnzed and Pul , ...ished by WILLIAM ANDR .I% ? ,' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office No. Strand, in the Precinct of the lavoy, n the COUntY ° A htiddleeex,—Thursday,;November 32,_863. On Tt ri T',