The Sun. — London, England, 1863-04-10 00:00:00

THE C AMERICA. (From the Times Correspondent.) NEW YORK, March 27. The political optimists are still in the ascendant. The credulous public shuts its eyes, opens its mouth, and awaits the plum which it thinks the Govern ment will drop between its teeth as a reward for its general good behaviour and patient expectancy. Wall -street for the first time for many months is sanguine that the Union will be restored. It believes that South is starved out, and must surrender be fore many weeks. Furthermore it believes that the Polish Revolution has so completely engrossed the attention and so seriously endangered the peace of Europe as to render it unlikely that the Emperor of the French will recognise the South or concern himself any further in the American quarrel. And last of all it affects to believe that American liberty will come out unscathed in a single feather of its snow-white wings from the fiery ordeal of the war, and that the large debt incurred will be cheerfully paid by an invigorated, happy, and prosperous peo ple. Credulous Wall -street ! Sanguine brokers!! Innocent bankers ! Guileless merchants! What will they say or do if no great victcry rewards the Federal arms,—if the veer drags out its slow length as indecisively as ever—if, when the weeks and the months pass, the South, having found corn and pork enough to fight upon, scorns to yield, refuses co partnership with Yankees, and manifests a power of resistance, intensified by every incident and hour of the struggle ? Judging from their present undue ela tion of mind, they will run to the other extreme. A fit of despondency, longer lived than their fit of joy, will take possession of them. Gold, the barometer of their fears, will mark 70 or 80. Mr. Chase will be de posed from his high place in their affections, and his five-twenties, now such favourites, will go begging for purchasers. Mr. Lincoln will be vehemently called upon to change his Administration; and all that is now rosy-tinted as morn in their imagina tions will be black as night. The present confidence of all classes of the public amounts to a hallucina tion. It is founded upon nothing —except upon the hope that famine will complete the work which the fleets and armies of the North have been unable to accomplish ; and upon the calculation that not even a victory by land or sea is necessary to give the re bellion the coup de grace. The Government may possibly be in possession of information which tends to support this sanguine view of the immediate future, but nothing is known to the public that can justify it. The Confederate newspapers speak of scarcity at Richmond, Mobile, and Charleston, but not of famine. They betray no despondency, and are in all respects as defiant and as confident as ever, while the movements of the Southern armies in Kentucky and Tennessee show a vigour and activity that are far more suggestive of approach ing victory then of defeat. The objects of the Loyal and National Union Leagues that have been organised so suddenly throughout the North are at length avowed by their promoters. They are nominally to strengthen the hands of the President and the Administration in the prosecution of the war, bat really to strengthen the hands of the Republican party in their hold of power and patronage, and to take all necessary mea sures for controlling the Presidential election of 1864. The Union Leagues have as yet no candi date. Mr. Lincoln will be endured as long as his term lasts, but will not be proposed for re-election. In the meanwhile the organisation of the party will be so extended and completed as to confront the Democrats at every election, local or general, -where a victory may be won. Among other important cities where it has been deemed expedient to establish a "League" is Washington. It does not appear from the published reports that any speaker of great note or character was present at the inauguration ; or even that the Government which it was intended to support was represented et the meeting. The principal orator was a person commonly called Jim Lane, the representative of Kansas in the Senate of the United States. Mr. Lane was well known in the days when the " Bor der ruffianism of Kansas was the staple subject of the denunciations of the Republican party, and when a Border ruffian was supposed to be a Pro slavery Democrat, whose peculiar business it was to prevent free discussion by the agency of the re volver and the bowie-knife. Mr. Lane is not a Pro slavery Democrat, but an anti-slavery Republican, —and the fiercest of all the " Exterminators" who have arisen during the war to throw odium on the form of Government that could produce such politi cians as he is and make Senators of them. A few of the salient points of his speech will show the ideas ho entertains of liberty, and the manner in which he would enforce them. "It is a disgrace to the country and the Government," he said, "that a sympathiser with treason, whether male or female, should be permitted to rest his or her foot on the soil of the district of Columbia. I would purify the soil of them by sword and fire. (Cheers.) In Kansas, where I live, a Copperhead is not allowed to remain in the State. If he does not leave when he is ordered to leave, we shoot him down." (Loud applause, and cries of " That's the way !") "I am informed by the Go vernor of our State that no longer ago than last Saturday a Copperhead who refused to leave the State in the morning was found before night with two bullet holes through his body. (Cries of " Good, good V') It had been said that we ought not to use the negroes. So far es lam concerned, I would rather that every rebel should be bent to hell by a negro than a white man. (Great laughter and loud applause.) I would like to live leug enough to see every white man now in South Carolina in hell, and the negroes occupying his territory. (Cheers.) All this may sound to you very wicked—(cries of No, not at all !)—but no place on the face of the earth ought to be desecrated by a traitor. I bid you God speed in clearing out sympathisers with treason in the district of Colum bia. It would not wound my feelings any day to find the dead bodies of rebel sympathisers pierced with bullet holes in every street and alley of the city of Washington. (Vociferous applause.) I would regret the loss of the powder and lead. (Laughter.) It would be cheaper and better to hang them, and save the ropes. Yes, hang them ! and let them dangle until their stinking bodies rot, de. compose, and fall to the ground piece by piece." (Enthusiastic applause.) The published reports do not state what sort of an audience it was which greeted this disgusting brutality with approval. Possibly the audience was largely composed of the th;eves by whom Washington is infested, who came to listen, in the exercise of their vocation, with the double hope of amusement from the mouth of a kindred rowdy, and of a stroke of business to be done in the 44' Door 4- of any army contractors or suttlers who might have been attracted by curiosity to the gathering. Certainly they could not have been intelligent, honourable, or decent men or such blackguardism, if u t tered in their hearing ' , would have been hooted down afte r the first mouthful. Senator Lane's affection for bullets may be explained life in Kansas, when h e by an incident of his early deliberately shot a neighbour for presuming to drin or draw water out of a well on his property. R ow he escaped the gallows for that offence is only to to accounted for on the supposition that there was no law in Kansas at the time, and that every man was judge, juryman, and executioner in his own cause. Perhaps the consciousness that he not only deserved the gallows, but the warmer doom to which he would consign every in white man in South Carolina, may have rendered him familiar with the idea of the rope and the gibbet, and lent that fervency and point to his oratory which so charmed the ears of his audience. But if elections are to be conducted under the auspices of such " Border rsffianism" as t hi s man preaches, a military dictatorship cannot come too soon to save the country from anarchy. And there are many symptoms that this military dictatorship is not so remote ft contingency as the easy public supposes. In whatever way the war may terminate, it is clear that the Federal Govern ment will be compelled to maintain a large standing army, which army must either find occupation in a foreign war or in the subjugation of the people. The military machine is already constructed, and only awaits the advent of the hardy engineer who shall drive it over the liberties of the country. That en gineer may be as yet a boy at school, feeding his young', imagination with the bloody pabulum of battles and victories; or he may be a full grown man, already an actor in the events which he may here ab f e t a e r talem o t u h l d a t to o s t h o i l s d i , m a pe ri soundo e s t b t vai that lis but, hus the h ed , s a t a dream r d e ding aarmynd legend beingogf granted, rican people h a lf as j ealous of the i r cons ti tut i onal ca m bl a e st p e a r s w t. il w l a e p r p e e t a h r e in Am du e e . course ) and then the liberty of Federal America will t i e r d rev it o s rights as the British people from whom they bor rowed the ideas and principles on which these rights were founded, they would even now at the eleventh hour, ask themselves whither this wicked and unne cessary war was leading them, and whether it was to be tolerated that men with arms in their hands shoald assemble in public meetings to debate poli tical questions and the conduct either of the Go vernment or the constitutional Opposition. One of the very worst of the many ugly features in the present aspeet of affairs in the North is the discus sion of such affairs by the soldiery —not among each other in their tents and by the camp fire—for such discussions will take place while men are men and feel any interest in the cause which leads them to the battle—but by organised assemblages and deliberate speech making, intended either to control or to support the Government. And worse even than these meetings is the public approbation with which they are received. The Tribune of Wednes day last devotes a whole page to reports of military meetings at Newport News, Aquia Creek, Belle Plains, and Falmouth in Virginia, Fernandina in Florida, Camp Reno in Louisiana, and other places, at all of which the soldiers usurped a function which did not and ought not to belong to them. At a public meeting of the officers and privates of r the 100th Pennsylvanian Regiment, known as the Roundheads, held at Newport News on the 14th inst., the lieutenant-colonel in the chair, a series of political resolutions were unanimously adopted, first by shouldering arms in token of approval, and afterwards by acclamation. One of the resolutions designated all who desired peace as " mean, cow ardly abettors of treason." Another affirmed that the assembled soldiers "spurned with contempt every proposition of Northern Copperheads for compromise." A third declared that these people (the Copperheads) and other sympathisers with the rebellion, " gave aid and comfort to the enemy, disheartened the army by a show of distraction and division in the loyal States, and that they were, in fact, traitors, and merited and should suffer the traitor's doom ;" while a fourth warned the Peace Democracy "that persist ence in their evil courses would bring to their own doors those horrors of civil war which were "now only known at the South." A similar meet ing of the 111th Pennsylvanian Regiment was held at Aquia Creek on the 11th. The resolutions having been drawn up by the colonel, assisted by a major, a lieutenant, and the chaplain, were read to the sol- diers, drawn up on parade for the purpose, and car ried amid deafening cheers. They declared unalter able attachment to the Union; pronounced peace to be impossible, except by the unqualified submission or the subjugation of the South; and denounced the " black-hearted traitors" of the North, who were worse than the " black-hearted miscreants" of the South, inasmuch as they lacked the courage which the latter possessed. One of these meetings, held in Louisiana, was avowedly convened for the pur pose of acting upon the public sentiment in Connec ticut, with the view of controlling the election of Governor. The address to the people of Connecti cut, which was adopted, called upon them to be as brave by their firesides as the Connecticut soldiers were on the battlefield, and to exert all their influ ence against the Democratic and Peace candidate and in favour of the Republican and War candidate for the office of Governor. If these things be done in the green wood what shall be done in the dry ? There can be little doubt that these meetings, from the suddenness 'with which they have been called, and from the fact that they have broken out simultaneously in Virginia, Louisiana, and the West, have been instigated by the Government. The sol diers themselves would not originate them. But it is a dangerous game to play. The army may be in the humour at present to support the Government by its voice as well tt6 by its weapons ; but if Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward do not see the imminent peril of employing it as a political instrument to denounce vengeance against political foes, they are greater imbeciles than their enemies allege. The day may come when the soldiers, having been taught to express their poli tical sentiments in camp, may express sentiments not at all in accordance with those held by the men who are now in power, and when they may give effect to their strong words by stronger deeds, and - - perhaps march upon Washington instead of march. ing upon the "rebels," and make a clean sweep of what they may have learnt to consider, rightfully or wrongfully, the imbecility, the dishonesty, or the treason of the present occupants of office. As the President's reading is said to be confined to "Joe Miller's Jests," "Zsop's Fables," and the New York Herald, he may not be acquainted with the legend of " Frankenstein ;" but it would be well, perhaps, if some one in his confidence—Mr. Horace Greeley, for instance—would read to him the suggestive story of the man who made the monster, and what became of him. He and Mr. Seward have also made a monster. Let them beware of the creature as soon as it ceases to be a machine and presumes to think and act for itself. To teach the individual soldier to think is no crime, bat to teach an army to think en masse is treason to liberty. Two Young Lathes Committed for Theft. On Tuesday an extraordinary charge was heard by the Dover magistrates, in which the prisoners were Eliza Harriet Cook and Marian Cook, the daughters of a deceased Wesleyan minister. The charge was that of unlawfully dealing with and re ceiving change for four £:.5 notes at the Bank of England, on the 18th March, the said notes having been abstracted from a drawer in Capt. Chadwick's room at the military quarters, Western Heights, after seven o'clock in the evening of the 17th. The defendants were fashionably attired, and the crowded audience included the principal inhabitants of the locality, and many officers of the Royal Artillery, 83d, and 59th Regiments. Mr. Ritchie, a clerk in the issue department of the Bank of England, proved that he gave gold for four £5 notes num bered respectively (S.R.) 54,149, (S.X.) 27,418 (T. 8.) 006,207, and (T. 8.) 006,208, to two females, both in dark dresses and wearing bonnets, the younger one giving the name of " Mary Browne," and writing " Dover" on one of the notes, and the cashier at the London and County Bank, Dover, identified the notes as those he had paid to Capt. Chadwick, 59th Regiment, on a cheque drawn by the Paymaster of the 59th Regiment. Capt. Chadwick said that these notes, along with £4 in gold, were on March 14 placed by him in a cashbox, which cashb©x again wa s put, along with other valuables, in one of the drawers of a small chest of drawers in his quarters at the Western Heights, Dover. Next morning the dc or of the room was s op w e e n re a le n f d t was . th s e nd ca o s n h t b h o e x l9th le some papers, amon gst which was ' his commission, missed, but the vaiva b wlaichhadbe key f th en in the box, oo s r ,w m w ere as returned placed under t ohim by post. The the mat at the door—a circumstance of which only he and his servant were aware. Capt. Chadwick admitted having seen the young women at his bar racks about a twelvemonth ago, and that he had seen other young women there . bu s t om no e n o e th fo er r some evi dence time. Ther e were none in his room to his know ledge on the n i g h t in question was given to identify the ivi prisoners as tho se who had cashedthenowte h s. ose d r e . ski Starey, a clerk n the Bank of England, was next to Mr. Ritchie's recognised th e eldest defendant as one of wer e accept The om e d th e e fe t v w ce o wieamsaleswho reserved, haanddprtehe prisonerssent presented the no tes. mitted for trial ; th e b enc h consenting to bail—each party in £5O, and two sureties in a s ira i_ lar amount. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —TwofoId extraordinary cure effected I I by Holloway's Pills and Ointment.-31r. J. Webb, boot and shoemaker, Chapel-street, Cahircevin, Ireland, writes, under date January 10th, 1863, that he had been afflicted 17 years with a most dreadful asthmatic cough and short ness of breath, and latterly was subject to benumbed sen sations in his limbs, attended with heavy drowsy feelings, which threatened an apopletic fit. In alarm he consulted the most skilful of the profession within many miles of his residence without avail, and fruitlessly used every means recommended by his friends,!till he heard of the repute o! Holloway's Pills, and resolved, with death staring him in the face, to give them a trial. They immediately relieved, and ultimately cured him. DENMARK. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) COPENHAGEN, April 5. The meeting in the Casini, of which I spoke in my letter, came off on the 28th, and is considered by its originators to have been a complete success. The resolutions, which have already appeared in your columns, were adopted unanimously, and no doubt really conveyed the full conviction of the assembly, expressed by the different speakers with as much firmness as moderation. While it was de clared that the only way out of the present troubles lay in the giving up of the constitutional union with Holstein and Lanenburg, it was at the same time strongly urged that the Government ought with the greatest determination to keep any description of foreign interference out of Schleswig. To judge from the proclamation signed by the King on the 30th of March, the Government has come to the same conviction, for, as you will perceive from the tenour of it, the general drift of that document is towards the isolation of Holstein. The Go - iernment only wishes to proceed gradually, and to avoid violent or abrupt steps. The proclamation of the 30th cannot be looked upon as having been influenced by the meeting two nights before in the Casini, for it is evidently a long-concerted measure ; but it speaks highly for its having been issued at the right moment that both the Government and the nation at one and the same time have expressed the necessity of such a step. How it will be teceived in Germany is another question; I fear not very well, for the German politicians do not at all wish to lose that pretext for meddling with the affairs of Den mark which the participation of Holstein in the joint constitution hitherto afforded them. The Rigsraad for Denmark proper and Schleswig is to meet on the 22d. We shall then hear of the further measures intended by the Government; and the Holstein Estates will reassemble in the course of the summer, when the Government will make a new attempt (the third or fourth within a few years) of obtaining their assent to the introduction of a morL liberal provincial constitution. The principal topic of conversation of late has been the offer of the Greek crown to Prince Wil- Liam. This plan is not popular here, because the succession depends entirely on the lives of the three sons of Prince Christian ; nor has the circumstance that Lord Russell has urged the matter on with un usual haste predisposed the minds of the public favourably, and some of the papers even affect to consider it a great sacrifice on the part of Denmark. I am, however, positively assured, on the very best authority, that the Government will raise no diffi culties, and the King has already declared that he will raise no objection if Prince Christian is dis posed to receive it for his son. The rumour that the proposed crown had already been accepted by the Prince after the holding of a family council at Laeken, must be received with great caution. The Prince arrived here yesterday from Ballenstedt, in Anhalt Bernburg, where his family still is, and some conferences have been held; but he is not ex pected to decide till Tuesday, when a state council will be held to discuss the subject. If there be difficulties, they will be raised by the family of the young Prince, but not on the part of Denmark. Dreadful Boiler Explosion near Glasgow At an early hour on Wednesday morning a ter rific boiler explosion, resulting in serious loss of life, occurred at the Mossend Ironworks, near Holy town, a station on the Caledonian Railway, about 13 miles from Glasgow. The works in question, which are the property of the Mossend Iron Company, cover nine or ten acres of ground, and comprise seve ral large sheds occupied by forges, together with an extensive rolling mill. The machinery in these two departments was dtiven by separate engines, these again having each its own set of boilers, and it was to the boilers connected with the rolling mill that the accident occurred which it is now our painful duty to record. These boilers were five in number, and were placed side by side on a substantial foundation of brick, their ends pointing towards the north and south. They were all 25 feet in length, and four of them, which were egg-end boilers, were 5 feet in diameter, while the fifth, a flue boiler, had a width of 6 feet. The fire hole extended along the south ends of the boilers. Beyond this is a tramway on which some coal laden trucks were standing at the time of the accident, and south of this again stands the rolling mill. On the west side of the boilers, at a distance of about 20 yards are the forges, and on the east side, about double the distance off, is an engineer's shop. The chimney which carried off the smoke from the furnaces stands on the north west corner of the square site which the boilers oc- cupied. At the time when the accident occurred-2 o'clock in the morning —there were upwards of 300 men engaged in the works, the greater portion of them being dispersed through the forges and rolling mill in the immediate vicinity of the boilers. At the hour mentioned the whole neighbourhood was alarmed by a dreadful crash, followed by a shower of bricks and other debris, which flew in all directions to a dis tance of 300 or 400 yards. On repairing to the site of the catastrophe a scene of ruin presented itself such as has seldom been witnessed. The site for merly occupied by the boilers presented a yawning crater, the force of the explosion having completely torn up and scattered to a distance the mass of sub stantial brickwork. As for the boilers, one with both ends blown out lay along the tramway to the south of the firehole, where it had thrown down the chim neys of two the rolling mill furnaces; the greater part of another lay a little further to the south among the ruins of the rolling mill sheds ; a third had been precipitated about 30 yards to the northwards of its bed, where it lay in the shape of a huge spiral riband, while the remaining two bad bean burled northwards quite out of the works and alighted in a field at a dis tance of about 250 yards. Besides these ponderous masses, domes, ends, and other fragments of boilers had been thrown to great distances both to the north and south. One large piece, for instance, weighing about two tons, had flown across the turnpike road on the south side of the works and alighted in a field at 300 yards' distance. The roofs of the rolling mill sheds were completely destroyed by the falling debris, and those of the forge sheds and the engi neer's shops suffered considerably. But the worst remains to be told. Of the persons employed in the neighbourhood of the boilers seven were either killed on the spot, or so severely injured that they did not long survive the accident ; while several others were more or less hurt. The following is a list of the killed :—Joseph Swift, leaves widow and 10 chil dren ; James Mulhecom, widow and two children ; John Trueman, ireman, widow and three children; Charles Carrol, boy ; William Douglas, only sup. port of a widowed mother ; John Duncan ; and Peter Tracy, newly married. The following received con siderable injuries :—Henry Leadbetter, Jas. Berry, Bernard Clinton, John Haney, boy ; John Oaks, boy; and Titus Lowe, a young lad. Beyond the range of the works the falling debris injured the roofs of many houses in the village of Messend, and in one instance a piece of a steam pipe was driven through the wall of a house into a bed room, where several persons lay asleep. No one seems to have been injured by these dangerous missiles, though there must have been many hair-breadth escapes. The cause of the accident has of course been a fruitful theme of speculation. The prevailing opinion seems to be that the boilers had been allowed to get overheated, and that while they were in that state the fireman, Trueman, incau tiously turned on the supply of water. In con firmation of this it is alleged that the valves which have been found were open, and that several of the boiler-plates show unmistakeable indi cations of overheating. On the other hand it must be stated that the boilers were supplied with th e usual precautionary appliances, and that True man has always been regarded as a reliable man. In the course of yesterday the local authorities visited the spot, and commenced an investigation into the circumstances. Locomotives were Bret dawned in the reign of Charles the 2d; constant improvements have made them perfection. The same means have now so perfected Herring's magnetic brushes and comb s th at they restore the colour to grey and cure Neuralgia and nervous headache with all but un erring certainty. N.B.—Counterfeits are being Offices, 32, Basinghall-street, London. made.— TIM SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1869. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE, HOME CIRCUIT.--KINGSTON, April 9, (Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury, PAGET V. BIRKBECK. This was an action to recover damages from the defendant for having ridden over the land of the plaintiff, while hunt ing, and damaging his crops ; and the declaration also alleged that he had sustained damage by reason of the de fendant having turned out great quantities of rabbits upon his land, and by his keeping a large number of pheasants. The defendant, by his pleas, denied, generally, having com mitted any of the trespasses charged by the plaintiff, and also " leave and licence," as it is termed. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Patchett were for the plaintiff; Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Sir G. Honey man were counsel for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action is a farmer, occupying a farm called South Park Farm, at Bletchingley, and although he is a Yorkshireman he did not seem to have that love for horse flesh and for the sports of the field generally attributed to the inhabitants of that county, but, on the contrary, there appeared to be no doubt that he was a determined enemy of fox hunting. The defendant is an active supporter of the Surrey hunt, and rides very frequently with the Surrey foxhounds and the Burstow hounds; and the action was brought to recover damages partly for the injuries occa sioned by him and other gentlemen riding over the plaintiff's land, and also for the injury occasioned by the game during the period when he had the right of shooting over the plaintiff's farm. It appeared the plaintiff used to let the right of shooting over his farm, and originally he did so to a gentleman named Arkcoll, who resided at Maidstone, but he gave up his right to two gentlemen named Coles and Strange, and they let it to the present defendant, and from this time serious differences seemed to have taken place be tween him and the plaintiff, chiefly on account of his in sisting to ride over the farm, and the hounds being brought to draw his covers. Upon one occasion it seemed that the plaintiff stopped one of the gentlemen who was follow ing the hounds, and blows were struck, and he knocked this gentleman off his horse. After this the plaintiff sum moned the person who had been assaulted, and the case stood over ; and it appeared that on the sth of Jan., 1861, he was invited to dine at the Greyhound, at Croydon, with the defendant, Mr. Mortimer, the master of the foxhounds, and several other gentlemen who took an interest in the hunt, for the purpose of settling the summons ; and, accord ing to his statement, he was plied with wine and made drunk, and while in that condition ho signed some agree ment, which it appeared he was afterwards desirous to re pudiate. Although the damage done by hunting was inci dentally introduced into the case, the principal ground of injury that appeared to be relied upon by the plaintiff was that alleged to have been occasioned by game, especially by rabbits and pheasants, it being alleged that the keepers of the defendant had turned down large quantities of rabbits upon the land, and that a very large quantity of pheasants had been hatched by hens ; and that those had, together, occasioned the damage of which the plaintiff complained. The plaintiff in his evidence spoke to the above facts, and also to the damage he alleged he had sustained, and he ap peared to estimate the injury at rather an excessive amount. He represented that upon some of his fields he ;had upon occasions grown as much as five quarters of wheat to an acre; and he alleged that owing to the ravages committed by the rabbits and the pheasants during the year 1861 his crops had been almost entirely destroyed. He also s poke to the defendant having admitted to him upon one occasion that he had ordered a number of rabbits to be turned down upon the farm. Mr. Bovill subjected the plaintiff to a very severe cross examination, in the course of which he stated that he only paid ten shillings an acre for the rent of his land, and the defendant paid him two shillings an acre for the right of shooting. He admitted that the land was a very wet, cold clay soil, and that in wet seasons a considerable por tion of it was covered with water. It appeared that there had been proceedings in Chancery arising out of the agreement that had been made by the plain tiff, and that he made an affidavit that he was drunk at the time he made the agreement, but, notwithstanding this, a decree had been made against him, and he was compelled to carry out the agreement. It also appeared that he had sworn during the Chancery proceedings, that he was so drunk that he was compelled to sleep at Croydon on the night of the dinner, and he admitted that this was not true, and that in point of fact, he went home to his own residence, and that, as he said, he found himself in his own bed on the following day. In addition to this, it appeared that on his affidavit made in the course of the Chancery proceed lags he alleged that the defendant had employed persons to fasten up pheasants and rabbits in positions where the labourers of the plaintiff would pass, in order that they might be induced to take them up, and that he then insti tuted legal proceedings against them. Mr. Bovill pressed the plaintiff to give the name of any one of his labourers with respect to whom he alleged such a proceeding as the one he referred to had taken place, but he declined to do so. The Lord Chief Justice interposed, and said he should insist upon the question being answered. It was a most scan dalous imputation to cast upon any one, to say that he had tempted another to commit an offence for the purpose of putting the law in force against him, and if there was any truth in the charge the plaintiff ought to state the name of the person who was so treated. The plaintiff looked very confused, and then, after con siderable hesitation, said he was afraid to speak the truth, as if he did there were a dozen witnesses there who would contradict him. The Lord Chief Justice told him that it was ridiculous to make such an excuse as this, and he again insisted upon the question being answered, and he said that if he had told a lie, the best thing he could do was to admit it at once. The plaintiff still would not answer the question, but be came deadly pale, and appeared as though he would have fallen. The jury interposed, and irquired whether they might not stop the case at this point, as they considered it un necessary to proceed further with the inquiry. The Lord Chief Justice said that without some answer being given to the positive evidence of the plaintiff as to the damage, he thought they would hardly be justified in giving a verdict, and the trial consequently proceeded. Mr. Bovill, without addressing the jury, called the de fendant and several other gentlemen as witnesses; and the effect of their evidence went to show that the plaintiff was perfectly sober when he made the agreement referred to, and that at that time he consented to take £8 in full satis faction for all the injury that had been done to his crops by the hounds going over the farm. It was also proved that he expressed his satisfaction at Mr. Birkbeck having taken his shooting, and said he thought he was the sight man, and he should do all in his power to give him sport. With regard to the plea of leave and licence, it was distinctly proved that the plaintiff had repeatedly said that the defendant might turn down any quantity of rabbits he pleased ; and, in fact, upon every point of importance the evidence of the plaintiff was flatly contradicted by unimpeachable testi mony. The Lord Chief Justice having briefly summed up, The jury immediately returned a verdict for the de fendant. This case concluded the business of the Home Circuit. Extraordinary charge of Child Murder. On Wednesday evening Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry at the Prince Regent Tavern, Regent's-road, Mile-end, respect ing the death of the illegitimate child of Mrs. Harriett Pinks. The facts of the case were pecu liar. Ab ou t 1 8 months ago th e h us b and of Mrs. Pinks was kill e d , along with several other men, by being blown up in a fearful explosion at Messrs. Braddart's factory, in Rotherhithe. Large subscrip tions were raised for the widows of the sufferers, and Mrs. Pinks, who had five children, received within twelve months sums amounting to £lOO. She was drunken and dissipated, according to the statement of Mr. Beykett, the relieving officer, and others, and about three months ago she absconded, leaving her children to the care of the parish. On the 28th of March she sent a little girl for a Mrs. Smith, of 99, St. Dunstan's-road, who found her lying on a mattress on the floor of a room at 6, St. Thomas's-road, Mile-end, in an insensible condition. She had, Mrs. Smith said, given birth to a female child, which was lying dead on the floor. Mrs. Smith admitted th at s h e placed an umbilical liga ture on the child, but she positively affirmed that it was not then alive. She got no assistance for the almost dying mother for two days, but on the 30th of March she sent the parish doctor to her. Mr. Stephenson said that he found the woman in a most wretchedly poor state. The child died from suffocation, the mouth and nose being livid from pressure. It was just possible that deceased might not have had ent i rely separate existence when it died, but it had frilly breathed, and was a fine healthy child. The Rev. Mr. "Wilson, incumbent of Trinity Church, Rotherhithe, said that he gave Mrs. Pinks £75 within the last 10 months. The Jury returned a verdict, " That deceased was found dead from suffocation on the floor of a certain room, but whether it had a separate existence there was not sufficent evidence to prove ;" and the jurors added that the conduct of Mrs. Smith, in leaving the mother for two days w ithout proper a id, was inhuman and disgraceful. A NEW DISEASE. --A new disease has lately ap peared in the Potomac army, It is called dry gangrene. The feet seem to decay, and, if not taken quite early, death ensues. It is supposed the disease comes from keeping the boots on week after week, as the soldiers are very apt to do when they have only shelter tents and no fires,—Nissouri Democrat. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—A case of murder just tried at the Cen tral Criminal Court is remarkable for the mixture of certainties and uncertainties pervading the evi dence, and may be ranked, indeed, in the strangest class of these strange and gloomy stories. The crime itself was committed with unparalleled openness and effrontery, the victim being called out of his own house by the murderer and shot dead at his own door. The deed, too, was brought home to the per. petrator by a chain of evidence in most respects sin gularly pieced, but, on the other had, the identifica tion of the criminal was but imperfectly managed, and nothing like a sufficient motive was brought home to the accused. William Davey, a policeman of the T division, was on duty at Acton, his regular beat, in the month of January last. His wife had been put into an empty house in those parts to take charge of the premises, and there she and her hus band lived for the time. Not far off lived two brothers named Brooks—Joseph and Isaac, Isaac being mar ried, and Joseph residing with him as a lodger. On the evening of Jan, 19 Davey went home to supper at about half past eight, and a few minutes after wards there was a ring at his door bell. His wife answered the summons, and heard somebody asking, in the dark, whether Davey was at home. She re plied in the affimative, and called her husband out. He went out, and as he stepped over the thi eahold he was shot dead. His wife, who had scarcely turned round to re-enter the house when the gun was fired, found her husband lying on the ground with his head blown to pieces. Except in Irish murders, where such details are not very uncommon, a more audacious crime has seldom been known. The wife of the victim actually saw the murderer, and was present at the deed. Her husband was killed at her very feet. It was dark, however, and, except for the outline of the man's figure, and the sound of his voice, there was nothing by which he could be identified, Now follows another strange part of the story. The guilt of this dreadful crime was eharged against Joseph and Isaac Brooks, and brought home on the trial to the former of these men, and yet it does not appear that they were bad characters, or that Joseph could have been actuated by any adequate motive in committing the deed. But what did come out in evidence was this:— On the night of the murder, Joseph, Isaac, Isaac's wife, and a young w, man named Jane Lake, to whom Joseph was engaged, were sitting together after tea at Isaac's house. Between 6 and 7 o'clock the two brothers went out together, remained out about a quarter of an hour, and returned. Joseph then sat some time without speaking, till at length he asked what time the pawnshops closed. On learning that they were closed about 10 o'clock, he asked his sister-in-law to take a pair of his trousers to a certain pawnbroker's in Hammersmith, pledge them, and redeem with the money so obtained a gun which he had pledged at the same shop two days previously. Mrs Brooks departed on this errand accompanied by Jane Lake, and in due course the two women returned with the gun, which they gave to Joseph. He took it, and left the house with it, saying that he was going to sell it at a place which he named. After an absence of "about 20 minutes." be came back, looking very hot, and with such an expression of countenance as induced his sweet heart to say that she thought "he had been doing something wrong." So ends the description of the fatal evening. Five hours later three police officers came to the hoase,knocked up the two brothers, and arrested Isaac as he opened the door. They then went upstairs to Joseph's bedside. Challenged by the chief officer, who was in uniform, and with his lamp, Joseph answered " ' Yes,' in a trembling voice." He was then charged with the murder, and asked if he had any firearms. He said that he had a gun, but that it was at the shop at Acton. Being told to get up, he rose, and the officer then found concealed between the bed and the mattress a gun, black and greasy with powder, and smelling as if recently discharged. This was the gun which had been redeemed from pawn, which, when re deemed, was clean, and which Joseph said he was taking out to sell. In one of Joseph's pockets was a powder flask, in another some loose shot, which corresponded exactly with those extracted from the murdered man's brain. Those were the strong features of the evidence against the prisoner. The evidence brought to establish the fact of Joseph's having been at Davey's house was not strong. Mrs. Davey herself only saw "the cap of a man over the pillar of the garden gate," so that her observation in this respect went for little. She had heard his voice, but she identified it, to the best of her belief, as the voice, not of Joseph, but of Isaac, though this might have been accounted for by the fact that Isaac was made to speak before her at the police court, and Joseph was not. Four wit nesses were then produced, who spoke to having seen a man in such places and at such times as would consist with the theory of the prosecution, but only one of these witnesses expressed a strong belief as to the identity of Joseph Brooks with the person observed. The descriptions given by the others were not actually at variance with this assumption, but they did not tend much to establish it. Then came the point of the motive, and this certainly seems as weak as could well be imagined when ba lanced against the atrocity of the act. The two brothers were workmen in the building trade, and it appears that some o ld woodwork had been 'felo niously carried off from a house in the neighbour hood. The attention of the police had been called to this theft, and they were asked to keep an eye upon the building, so that if Joseph had been the thief he might have felt a grudge against the con stable whose vigilance annoy e d hi m . B ut t h e theft, such a s it was, was not brought home to the brothers, nor had they, as far as any proof went, been concerned in the matter at all. Nevertheless, this was all the motive that was even suggested for a murder committed with such extraordinary cir cumstances of deliberation and audacity. The cri minal turns over in his mind the means of procur ing his weapon, sends his own sweetheart and sister in-law to fetch it, rings the door bell of his victim, calls him to the gate, and shoots him dead at the feet of his wife. There was no evidence of any previous quarrel. It was quite true that the two brothers knew of the charge given to the police to keep an eye upon the building from which the wood had been taken; in fact, it was Isaac Brooks himself who called upon poor Davey, and gave him the mes sage tnt his effect; but all this had been taken in good part. Not a glimpse appears of any such qUarrel as might have been expected to end in blood. So completely was the evidence confined to the actual circumstances of the deed that at first Jane Lake herself, who went and fetched the gun for Joseph, was committed for trial also, as implicated in the crime, and was released only upon re-consideration. Isaac actually was placed at the bar, but he was proved to have remained in his own house during the time of the murder, and was acquitted without the trouble of defence. Such are the particulars of the Acton murder. For deliberation of purpose on one side, and slightness of provocation on the other, the deed has rarely been equalled. For a mixture of strength and weakness in the evidence the trial could hardly be matched. The jury, apparently, had very little doubt. The Judge was perfectly satisfied with the verdict, and yet he was compelled to observe that the motives which had prompted this most wilful and bloody murder remained, to a great extent, a secret still. Truly may we say that the mysteries of crime are unfathomable. HERALD.-It looks very much as if the Greeks would get their King upon the self-same day that their Kalends become due. The Sovereign of whom they had made sure seems to have a chance of escap ing from their clutches, and if they lose him, whom can they get? Earl Russell, who has assumed the duty of finding them a Sovereign, searched in vain amongst the petty houses of Germany for a prince ling so strangely ambitious, or so desperately weary of a humdrum life, as to accept their throne. It was refused point-blank, without a minute's reflection, by the captain of a British man-of-war, and all hope of filling it seemed gone, when Earl Russell pounced upon Prince William of Denmark, and by his im portunities obtained from him and his father a promise to take the matter into consideration. Prince Christian now puts forward the condi • tions he had reserved, conditions which the organs of the Government assure us cannot be granted, and the King of Denmark, in his turn, has named the terms which he must demand for his assent. Whether the conditions named by Prince Christian and the King of Denmark be exorbitant and inadmissible or not, the English Go.ernment and its organs have not the slightest right to attack them. Both had a perfect right to refuse that assent, and both could give very excellent reasons for their refusal. Earl Russell has no claims upon the grati tude of the Danish Government which should induce it to sacrifice one of their heirs to the Throne to get him out of a difficulty. The throne of Greece is no such great chance for Prince William that his father ought to have unconditionally accepted it. On the _ contrary, any father might well refuse to allow his son to accept such a throne, and would be bound to take certain securities on his behalf. We do not yet know what the conditions demanded by Prince Christian are, and therefore we say, let theM be ever so inadmissible, the English Minister has no right to complain. According to the showing of his ovn organ, Prince Christian, whilst expressing a gene ra l assent to the proposal, declared that if he did ac cept it, he would only do it under certain conditions which he would formulate, and if Earl Russell has been imprudent enough to take the acceptance for granted before he gets the fin a l answer of Prince Christian, he is deservedly punished by conditions which he cannot accept. He h as no right to com plain of Prince Christian, and his organs will de ceive nobody by their absurd attempt to cover their employer's folly by denunciation of the Prince, and the King of Denmark, The King of Denmark has, on the contrary, especial reason to complain of the conduct of Earl Russell. The succession to the Danish throne has been settled by treaty to ' Prince Christian and his sons, and upon the failure of that hue the whole vexed question as to the 811C cession of Holstein would be reopened. Denmark cannot, therefore, afford to lose one of the three sons of Prince Christian, and if she should resolve to give him up to the Greeks she has a right to ask as some compensation that the security of the succession shall receive any further guarantees possible. And we believe Denmark has asked nothing more, although, in her natural indigna tion at the treatment she has received from Earl Russell, she might well do so. A con temporary has made a great noise about the con ditions suggested by a leading Danish newspaper, as if they were the conditions of the Danish Government, but there is no reason to believe that Danish writer referred to anything more than the natural resentment of the public, and, on the other hand, there is good ground to assume that the Danish Government has asked nothing but a guar tee of the succession as regulated in 1852, and, per haps, some stipulation for the abandonment by Prince William of Greece for Denmark should the throne of the latter country become vacant and none of his line remain to fill it. There is nothing ex travagant in this demand. The terms of Prince Christian are, we are told, inadmissible, but so were those of the Duke of Saxe Coburg, and no one denies him the right to refuse the throne except upon his own terms. We shall be sorry for the Greeks if they are again disappointed, but the disappointment will again be the work of Earl Russell. If he had adopted a more conciliatory tone towards Denmark, if he had treated its King and Government with a little more courtesy, the business would not have met with these difficulties. But his lordship never forgives those whom he has insulted and attempted to injure, and at the very time that England is drawn, by the marriage of a Princess who has won the hearts of all to the heir to its throne, into closer connection with Denmark, Earl Russell takes the occasion to show, in every possible way, his spite against the Danish nation. — MORNING PosT.---Aithough sufficient time has not elapsed in order to obtain the opinion of the people of Holstein on the proclamation lately issued by the King of Denmark, there seems little reason to doubt that it will not be received with uni versal satisfaction. Between Holstein and Schles wig there exists no other connection than the fact of the German language being spoken by a large sprinkling of the population of the latter. We throw out of account the circumstance of their both owing allegiance to the Crown of Denmark, because Holstein has long and consistently endeavoured to shake that allegiance off. Holstein is a duchy, and, as such, is a mem ber of the German Confederation. Schleswig is, and has been for centuries, intimately connected with the Danish Crown. There is no more reason therefore why Schleswig should be taken under the protection of the Diet than Jutland, and to dictate to the Danish Sovereign in the government of the one is just as unreasonable as it would be in the other. However, the distinction between the rela tions of Holstein and of Schleswig to the Danish Crown is so clear as to exclude the possibility of any difference of opinion between persons prepared to investigate the subject with impartiality. It is evident, therefore, that if the Estates of Holstein should refuse to accept the constitution now offered to them on the ground that its provisions do not apply to Schleswig, they cannot justify such a course on any grounds which established Govern ments could consent to recognise. If they have been, as they have hitherto represented themselves, struggling for a constitutional government, they fought to be satisfied with a form of government which must satisfy their every wish, which grants them the supreme control of their own finaneee, and which secures the fullest enjoyment of civil and religious liberty. But, on the other hand, if they set themselves forward as the champions of others with whom, except by that weakest of all bonds, a spurious nationality, they possess no connection ; if they demand not only certain privileges for them selves but for the inhabitants of another and totally distinct State; if, in a word, they require that the existing Government of Denmark should be en tirely changed, and the monarchy itself dismem bered, then the public opinion of Europe will im mediately pronounce their demands to be prepos terous, and the independent Powers of Europe will interpose should any attempts be made by foreign aid to carry them into effect. The Estates of Hol stein would do well to reflect before they yield to pernicious counsels, and, by refusing to accept the form of government which is now offered to them, place themselves in the wrong in the eyes of the entire world. The present arrangement has been consented to by the Danish Crown with the view of finally determining its relations with the Federal Diet. Those relations arise entirely from the con nection of Denmark with the Duchy of Holstein. In the government of Schleswig the Danish Crown cannot, and will not, recognise any interference, either by Holstein or any of the other States which constitute the German Confederation. QUEEN_—The latest phase of the Polish insur rection is, that the Grand Duke Constantine has withdrawn from the command of th e R uss i an arms in Poland, and that he is succeeded by Gen. Count Theodore de Berg, the ablest, but at the same time the cruellest and most unscrupulous soldier in the Russian service. Gen. de Berg is a commander of the old Suwarrow stamp ; a man who does not make war with kid gloves, but who does what he is ap pointed to doper fas aut nefas ; in a word (to bor row the description which was once applied to another commander), a soldier who would rather cook his supper over a blazing hamlet than at a common fire. The appointment of this man shows that Russia means to use her power in the harshest, the cruellest, and the most unscrupulous manner to crush out not only the flames of insurrection, but every spark of liberty in Poland. Meanwhile the diplomatists are talking about a triple letter of re monstrance addressed to the Czar by England, France s and Austria—a measure which may be com pared to the conduct of a man who, on hearing that his friend and near neighbour is being murdered in his bed by villains, does not hasten to his assistance, but calls on the man next door and the man over the way to join him in a polite letter requesting the murderers to be kind enough to desist. If, however, the Polish insurrection survives a month after the new appointment, Russia will tremble. At the pre sent juncture of affairs, either England, Turkey, or Austria, by taking action, might arrest her in her course for ever. - Alleged Enlistment of Irish for the Federa] Armies. We have been favoured with the following cor respondence which has taken place on this subject, and which speaks for itself : "Thornhill-house, Elderslie, April 1, 1863. " Dear Sir,—My attention has been called to the remarks of a late Cork paper, which insinuates, in very plain terms, that the remarkable emigration now going on from the south and west of Ireland to tie United States of America is caused by agents of the latter Government enlisting men for the army and navy of the United States. This charge has since been repeated by a Liverpool paper, and ex tensively copied into other journals. I also observe that, in the debate last Friday night in the House of Commons on the Alabama, Lurd Palmerston made use of the following language, viz.:—' We have been informed—it may be erroneously—that not only have arms gone to the northern part of United States, but that endeavours have been made, in Ireland especially, to enlist persons to serve in their army and navy.' As it is of the utmost importance at this moment that such statements, if untrue, should be contradicted, I take the liberty to inquire of you, as the official representative of the United States in Glasgow, whether you are cognisant of any such acts of the Government you represent, either in Scotland or Ireland, and also what the general tenor of your instructions are upon this subject.—l remain, dear sir, yours most respect fully, "A. F. STODDARD. I 44wr. L. Underwood, Esq., U.S. Consul, Consulate G o la f s t g h o e w' United States, Glasgow, April 5, " My dear Sir heretofore fo re noticed the charges to which you call my attention in your favour of the I s t instant. B ac customed to th e misrepres entations I onsamansdo much suppres sions of truth in publications intended for the British eye concerning my country, that I had passed b y the mis-statements to which you refer , with that neg li genc e with which I ha ve taught myself to regard this class of injuries. I am happy to inform you, however, that the United States looks alone—and with that confidence whi c h unbroken experience teaches—to the loyalty of her own citizens to crush the impious rebellion so causelessly waged against her constitution and laws ; that she had had no agents enlisting men for the army and navy of the United States' outside of her own territory ; and that by no agent of hers have endeavours been made in Ireland especially to enlist persons to serve in her army or navy.' Not only the general tenor of my instructions,' but their letter also, is in conflict with any such ac ti on ; and 1 such I believe to be the case with all the United States Consuls in Great Britain. And I have—and I believe they have—faithfully obeyed these in structions, Neverthelt ss, scarcely a day passes over my head but repeated applications are made to me by citizens of this country for facilities to go to mine, which lam compelled to deny. And perhaps no higher compliment on earth can be paid to our country than that, even in the midst of her calami ties and war, she still by her plenty and her pri vileges wooer the poor and the oppressed of other nations to her shores.—l am, very truly, your friend, " W. L. UNDERWOOD. "A. F. Stoddard, Esq., Thornhill-house,Elderslie.' THE LEEDS MURDER. Contrary to expectation, the military pensioner, John Gair, charged with the wilful murder of his paramour, Alice English, and the attempt to com mit suicide at Leeds, under circumstances stated in a paragraph in our paper of Monday last, is likely to recover from the severs wounds in his throat. The inquest on the body of the murdered woman was formally opened on Monday, when evidence was given that Gair had long been disgusted with her dissolute habits, and had found that she was in the habit of keeping company with a fishmonger named Davis, a married man with 10 children. A witness said he bad often heard Gair declare that it he continued to live with her he should be hanged. On Wednesday the Leeds Coroner resumed the inquest, and Ann M'Manus, the wife of a shopkeeper, whose house Gair and the deceased went to and slept at on Thursday, deposed that up to that time she always thought Gair and deceased a happy couple, but they quarrelled then, and the woman said she would no longer live with him, and he said he would be the death of her or of Davis. After that Gair said he loved her, and he ce'ild not do without her, for she earned so much money in selling old clothes. They afterwards had a quart of ale together but soon quarrelled again. Gair said he would go to North Shields and leave her, and they parted. No sooner had he gone than the deceased began to re gret that ho had gone. He returned unexpectedly about half-past ten, and then she huddled and fondled him. On Friday morning she began to upbraid him with having come back, but he set off again, and then the deceased began to say she doted upon him. He returned once more in the afternoon, and she being out he went to look for her. He came back about ten o'clock saying he had been nearly killed with a poker at a house where he knew the deceased was in the habit of meeting Davis. They kept jarring until three o'clock in the morning, and then the deceased went to bed. Witness's husband called out that he thought Gair was dying, but the de ceased only said " she hoped he would be stiff in the morning, and she should get £7 to bury him with, and she could have a good rant." Witness's husband persuaded Gair to sleep with deceased, and nothing more came under witness's attention until about 6.10 the following morning, when she heard something like the squirt of a ginger -beer bottle, and saw blood flying on to the wall, and heard it running on to the floor. She cried out that John was murdering Alice, and her husband got up and took a razor from Gair's hand. She saw Gair lying on his back in bed with a razor at his throat, but hurried out of the room and saw no more. Other witnesses were examined to the same effect, and the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against John Gair. The alleged murderer, Gair, still remains in the infirmary. He can now talk a little, and it appears that he has also written on several scraps of paper some rambling and almost unintelligible statements of a personal nature. According to one of the local papers one of those statements was to the effect that "his wife (deceased) had cut his throat, and then cut her own." The Coroner, who has possession of the papers, ;ook the opportunity of stating that there was no thing of the kind in those documents. It is now pretty generally understood in Leeds that Gair and the deceased were married, although he has a wife and she a husband living in other parts of the country. COUNTRY MARKETS. b. MANCHESTER-APRIL 9. A moderate attendance to-day, with a slow demand for wheat, Englisb sorts maintaining last week's prices, while American was fully as dear. Flour neglected, but there was no change in prices. Oats and oatmeal moved off at barely late rates. Indian corn the turn lower. English beans were firm. BIRMINGHAM —APRIL 9. English wheat was sold at 48s to 56s for white, and 400 to 54s per 36 stone for red, Barley, now malting, 33s to 42s per qr; grinding, 24s to 28s. Oats, old, 24s to 30s per 30 stone ; Irish, 22s to 255. Beans, 40s to 445 - . per qr. Peas, 40s to 48s per 36 stone. EDINBURGH GRAIN—APRIL 9. A small supply of farmers' wheat: to-day, which met a brisk sale at the full prices of last week. Wheat on the top 3s Od up average Os 7d up. Barley on the top 5s Od down .average is ld down. Oats on the top 3s Od down average Os 7d down. Beans on the top 3s Od up average is 3d up. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ... 560 qrs Sold 309 qrs Barley... 544 qrs Sold 408 qrs Oats Beans ll5 qrs Sold 75 qrs Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 44s Od; extras, 41s 6d; superfine, 39s Od ; fine, 37s Od. CORK—APRIL 8. The following were the quotations this morning :—Rod wheat, 6s id to 98 6d ; white, 7s Od to 11s Od , barley, 6s 6d to 7s 4d ; oats, Gs 6d to 8s 2d. ; new ben, —s Od to —s 013 DERBY, SMITHFIELD—APRIL 7. A good supply of fat beasts to-day, and late prices were maintained. The number of sheep was also good, but there was a short supply of pigs. Fat and store calves plentiful, and readily disposed of. Beet 6id to 7id Veal ... 7id to Od Mutton ... 8141 to 9dPork . bd to bid Lamb —d to —d Rough fat, 4s Od per stone. Hides, 3d to 4td; calf skins, bd to 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUR.i Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Apr. 18. via Marseilles Apr. 12. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. May 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 3. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Ap r . 18. via Marseilles Apr. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Apr. 18. via Marseilles.... Apr. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Ar. 10. via Marseilles 4pr. 20. Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Adon, via Southampton Apr. 10. via Marseilles May. 5. Newfoundland ..Apr. 16. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Apr. 16. by U.S. packet.... b C W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Ty e neriffe anadian packet. Apr. 10. A 10. Bahamas, via N ew Y ork May . 7. Mexico ..... .. ......... All parts of W es t I ndies, including Chili, Peru, ....Apr. 28. California, and British Columbi a . 1 Apr. 13. Births. -- --- AGNEW.—On the 9th inst., at the Earl of Gainsborough's, in Portman-square, the Lady Louisa Agnew, of a daughter. Bun/.—On the 7th inst., at 48, Rutland-gate, Viscountess Bury, of a son. Noß.B.is.-o.n the Bth inst„ at Ashley House, Epsom, the wife of James Norris, Esq., of a son. PARKER.—On the Bth inst., at Long Melford, Suffolk, the wife of Sir William Parker, Bart., of a son. Marriages. FRANCIS—HARVEY.—On the Bth inst., at Godmershani parish church, near Canterbury, Swinford Francis, 21, Richmond Villas, Holloway, and 8, Finch-lane, city, solicitur, to Julia, second surviving daughter of John F. Harvey, of Godmersham. PR OCKTER — PEACOCK.—On the 9th inst., at St. James's, Bermondsey, Jas. S. Prockter, Esq., of Beckwith House, Grange-road, to Sarah Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. Wm. Peacock, of Grange-road, Bermondsey. Deaths. BYRON.—On the 7th inst., at Coulsdon Court, Surrey, T. Byron, Esq., aged 54. BOLTON.—on the Bth inst., at Kilburn Parsonage, Mids. dlesex, the Rev. James Bolton, aged 39. BYnAm.—On the 7th inst., at Studley-road, Stockwell, Martha, the wife of Henry Byham, Esq., of the War office, aged 31. CooK.—On the 7th inst., at 11111-end, Hitchin, Herts, Mr. John Cook, aged 66. DEFRIES.—On the Bth inst., at 5. Fitzroy-square, Mr. N. Defries, aged 61. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWff, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Surf Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the C 91111 0 .44 Midellesez.—Friday, April 10, 1863,