The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

TU:4 WESTERN METROPOLIS. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORK, Dee. 7. Those who love the crush, the racket, and the roar of :London would feel very much at home amid the din and rattle of New York. In the way of noise this city of one street has little to envy the Babylon With the hundred thoroughfares: There is nothing in the world more distracting, more fretting, more inspiriting than a walk along the Broadway trot toirs from one hour after sunrise till long after the closing of the shops in the evening. In Broadway you have Oxford-street, the Strand, King William street, and London-bridge in one street between two an d three miles in length ; one main artery for t h e pulsation of one million human tide. Starting f rom the Old Battery, at the waters edge, where the North and East Rivers blend their streams, forming by far the noblest harbour and one of the roost charming sites upon earth, and making for .11oion-square or the Park, where interminable rows o f dell transverse streets, at right angles, with stately but silent and somewhat dreary longitudinal avenues, Spread out into the,Belgravias and Tybur nias of this Western London, the city has, through- out, no other direct lino of communication than this • one. There is not one omnibus or heavily laden 'waggon, and hardly a private vehicle or a pedes- Man, no matter on what errand bound, that can avoid the throng'and swarm of Broadway, and there is hardly a human face, out of the hundreds of thousands dwelling in the town and its suburbs, that does-not love to show itself in Broadway from choice, when not driven into it by necessity. Truly this street, which gives New York its pecu liar character of oneness, is well worth all the affec tion that these Manhattan people evidently bear it. Not that it has any particular object to attract the attbntiors of a travelled stranger, but it is as gay as the Boulevards, as trim and glittering a s Regent street; it has a grandeur and loftiness all its own. Shops, I beg their pardon, " stores," that take in the whole, not of a house, but of a huge block of houses, basement, ground floor, upper storeys, gar rets, and all ; hotels that present 150 ft. front to the street, and nearly as high as they are long and broad; marble warehouses , stylish as palaces, solid as castles ; and churches, and halls, and theatres, all that other towns scatter about in their various quarters, much also that other towns hide away out of sight—all is h ere mustered u p in t wo parallel rows of buildings, on a tolerably straight, but by no means monotonous line, " up town and down town." Toe real fascination of Broadway, however, lies in its noise; not in mere brick and mortar, but in the ebb and flow, in the heaving and eddying of the ave.ve - that incessantly swseps along it. The pride o f Broadway is the omnibus, that peculiar institu foe of modern Republicanism, which flourishes no where so luxurienly as in this headquarters of the Model Republic; the omnibus, in London, not slow andunwieldy as in Paris, but gity avid gaudy and motley, now all beautifully white WitA red and' go ld l etters , no w qua i n tly dinhtel over with lsnthcapes and sea pieces, and the f!glas of odd revolutionary " guys" in cocked hats find pigtails; a throng of - omnibuses, three or four of them often abreast, or' as many arrayed against one another, running foul of each other, tilting with their long poles, clumsily driven, with Uncouth shouts and savage oaths, and an occa sional crash, as horses slip, stumble, and tumble on this the most treacherous and murderous pave nimt that ever disgraced a Christian community ; for thorn is no Society for the Prevention of Crteclty to Animals in this country, and no one has leisure for the cultivation of humane feelings. I never once walked along Broadway, mcreing or evening, without seeing at least one luckless home down ; never was in New York on Sunday without being saddened by the eight of one poor horse, the carcase rotting on the stone where it fell, awaiting the cart which was to con vey it to the knacker's on the first working day. Through the medley of these busses, and the heavy carte, and the light spider-legged buggies which venture into the fray (cabs are not among American institutions, and the few lumbering hackney coaches doing duty for them do their utmost to scare their " fares" away by thievish charges)—throughout this awful medley, I say, the great business of the Western world must force its way. Crossing the street, at Astor-house or at the turning of Wall steeet is by far a greater feat than anywhere in Pic cedilla- and Cheapside ; and the softer sex would at all times give up the attempt es hopeless, were it not for the intervention of a set of loungers, with the garb and name of policemen, but with the man ners of the daintiest gentleman in all the land, whose only duty is that of squiring the ladies; tall, stal wart men in long frock coats and round leathern capes, who take hold of the fair one's arm as they plunge with her into the vortex at one street corner, and never slacken their professional grip until they emerge out of the 2nelee at the other corner. Through the midst of all this chaos of men, women and things which constitute the ordinary traffic of New York, these warlike times send now a regi ment of foot, now a battery to clog the whole pave ment with its heavy measured, inexorable tramp; and more often a fire-engine, or a long row of fire- Zgines come dashing up, tearing up, fighting their m ar, hose, escape, ladders and al!, drawn by L" hatless and Coatless, very fiends in human shape, Isis • el grog for very life, and curdling your blood with yesl b orrowed from the wild Indians—the Fire ' old f a mili a r sight in New Y or k, the pride of ricen skill and daring, the kind of work best suited to the t em p er o f a people who, even while reviving th e e a.2ase of humanity, must ne e ds ob e y the instin c t w havoc end d estr eh makes them revel in scenes of g e t:„ . Such is outward le e an d proeparity ofll :York —a etty to the greatness the of which Prolvie elen co has set no lu e e ta, the present if you will, the work of present Southern wrest in open rebellion again SecessEast ion ; set up the last the ; split up the Union into new States and, nations; eat up the Stars and Stripes into as many shreds and patches as now make up the map of "Nrew York to th at et e P importance of e ; 'educe the which bears mere capital of the Empire Slate w • rn • "le; constitute it into a mere kind of liano-atio cit y , t _ of or a , a you will always have here the centre d American movement and life. its port an ea raver the and e gap between the Alleghany and " Gre • New Yon,. artery Mountains, will always give over the trade of the Western world. Atread lti : e old shipping importance o f Salem, Portland, and Boston itself, and the banking pre-eminence et Philadelphia, are rapidly absorbed by their At tn . hattan rival ; for "unto everyone tha t bath shall be given," and whatever may be the c areer of New Orleans on the Gulf of Mexico, or San Francisco on the Pacific, Now York will share with none of her sister cities the sovereignty of the Atlantic. But to the usual, unchecked, headlong progress—to the iesolent good fortune of this mushroom city, the great civil war has now come to give a fresh, momen tous impulse. The calamities which are desolating the South and crippling the West have thrown many a windfall into the lap of this great eastern emporium, whose shouts of joy have echoed back the groans of New Orleans and the cries of distress of - St. Louis. The whole of America is flocking to '4 1 1 5 , York. I have heard of European travellers in opinion whose a - on Now York is a representative city— the -In and ser:rear . ; of all Americanism. The city howeve r te in had odour with the natives th sl ve „, even em it as the s_tilanth the dwellers therein,who look upon i of all alien misery and corruption—the axy.uee of l awless _ Irish and godless Germans, of all the worst sea of adventurers from yew of the m the Old World. New York. Th are w t :alaere profess t o b e a t h o m e i n make their fortune, or , .1 all P' . °l) lo who have come to t fame- maoeeel • fill they " realise." i s a a i t, - flitting c )ula h• :th no roots t o the e'P Lion, ea .. 11, and but few of the .;e a which bind ma _ . 0 • ,•- man. The city is but end a thorobglifar e , a • ' l l 3 place to mel-e money e. but•not ea, • a nd to 6 ; rkerc"' wields to e ; or to close cne's ha ra7 one's iciure PEI old age, cr to rear one's children. With all this nomadic character, ""wever, \, ' p Up Y,lrk cro wded Vace 0 all times —just ta w a 1 . • greatly overcrowded place. 1,1 a town w here bm. rack-like hotels are so frequent, I it" o less t five e : six of these establishmen ts on the moat &kaw,,:e scale are now bping built arty fitted up, Rnd their apartments are already bespoken beforehand,not by chance travellers, but by resident families, for whom the ease of their inn has greater charms than the sanctuary of a narrow home. The extravagant rise in the price of building lots, the high wages of 14bcar, the scarcity of fuel, and the indifferent quality of domestic service, conspire with the innate ''social" instincts of the American to induce him to give preference to this collective and almost commu nistic method of housekeeping. New York is fast being organised into a vast phalanstere and cara vansary. Domestic privacy is gradually becoming the exception ; and the Fifth Avenue Hotel, origi nelly intended as a mere house for lodging and boarding, has now become a sort of evening ex change, where " bull 4 and bears" congregate after their dinner, and where they have iately organised over their wine a monster National Bank, after the most approved Chase pattern, with a capital (paper) of fifty millions of dollars.. These habits of gipsy life naturally engender luxu rious, frivolous, extravagant habits. The New Yorkers live by the day, crowding their enjoy ments upon one another with restless eagerness, and almost painful alacrity- The city boasts, as we are informed, no less than 20 theatres and other places of amusement—English, French, Italian, and Germ an , counting free it e drama and opera, all of a n inferior kind, so far as my taste and experienc e g o, without coc., u concer t halls, saloons, "gardens , " 8c would be difficult to number. The Western metro polis beats London in establishments of this nature, and comes up very nearly to the standard of Paris. The rage for spectacles has been greatly in the ascendant since the outbreak of the war, and every public room was this year pre -engaged from October or November up to the close of March and April. Two or three German play-houses have no repose even on Sundays. Nor are private entertainments less brisk. Balls and parties never have been so numerous; never was there so much "going on." French and Italian men-of-war have contributed their share of polkas and champagne suppers ; the f Russians especially have been the lions of the day, . only, alas! to be set down as mere bears the day after, to be scouted as "cursed tallow-eating, irre claimable barbarians." Nowhere perhaps is a more raging thirst for money to be found closely allied to a more utter Contempt for money. New York, one would say, is no better than a vast gambling house. Drive out on any fine Saturday afternoon to hear the music in the new Central Park, and the sight of those thousands of carriages, bran new, flaunting and glittering, will speak to you of fortunes made no sooner than yesterday, to be unmade no later than to-morrow. The thought of the morrow seems to weigh on no man here. That the great financial crash must come, that the day is to dawn in which greenbacks are to be of no more worth than as many dry leaves, no man in his senses has the slightest doubt ; but it is precisely becau,e the prosperity of the city and the country is so ptE . c4rious and ephe meral that every sensible man isso anxious to enjoy his own share of the good things of this world ; it is bec-iuse Mr. Chase's currency is so flimsy and perishable that racy are all anxious to be rid of it, investing it in anything that msy look like solid wealth, or yield an hour's gratification and solace. The tfforts of the New Yorker, as indeed of the American everywhere out of Boston, are all directed to belie his English origin, and to effect French tastes, habits, and manners. Al will of the Anglo. axon enterprise, strength, steadiness, and laborious ingenuity lies at the bottom here, but on the surface young America apes French levity, and evinces fond partiality for Parisian cookery, millinery, and confectionery. We have here much of the glitter, the dissipation, the harum-scarum recklessness of Continental European out-of-door life. The Ame rican is a sort of hallFrenchified John Bull. You might fancy Paterfamilias away on a spree for a week or two aeroes the Channel, forgetting himself among t.hc booths and kursaals of a watering-place, and indulging abroad in those freaks and frolics of which he would be heartily ashamed at home. Whatever is not a shop or a banking house in New York reminds you of a large, idle, and. somewhat sinful watering-place. I shall not repeat all I read in the newspapers of uncharitable neighbouring cities, especially in those of sanctimonious, emulous Philadelphia, with respect to the thou sands of pickpockets and the scores of thousands of worse "social evils" which prowl about New York streets. That the town is no better than it should be, the most honest inhabitants are at all times anxious to inform you; though they hasten to tell you in the same breath that all the good is in digenous, all the evil of foreign importation. But what I feel inclined to quarrel with is not so much low vice in all its hideousness, the haunts of which yawn at the door of too many low cellars in Broad way or. the Bowery, as that rakish fondness for dis sipation, of a more or less harmless character, that distaste for home and settled life, which, coupled with the inveterate habits of town residence in all American communities, and the prevalence of pig ging together at hotels and boarding-houses, has undermined so much of the earnestness, soberness, and healthiness of the Anglo-Saxon character as transplanted into this Western Continent. It was early in October when I came back to this city, after a short Western tour, and I was amazed to find at that early time the whole population already gathered together within their town walls, after a short absence in their idle haunts of Saratoga and Newport. Real country life is nowhere in favour in America. The citizen who is boxed up in his fine house in Fifth Avenue for at least ten moaths in the year never leaves town without taking the town itself along with him, his friends and acquaintances, his hotel and his theatre, to the watering-place to which he reluctantly resorts for a few weeks reluctantly, e ;1 chiefly to please the queen of his household, who expects to sport more gorgeous silks, more spat kling jewels, and a more outrageously trailing crinoline under the colonnade of the Ocean-house than she ever did on the Broadway flags. Sweet, shady nooks, and charming corners, and comfortable villas dot here and there the vivid green of Staten Island, of the Jersey shore, and of all the environs of this lovely New York hay. Snug rural retreats are to be enjoyed, summer and winter, at a few minutes' distance from Wail-street, just across the ferry. But your real New Yorker is no mare to be weaned from his Avenue than the Parisian from his Boulevards, and the country homes round the bay are much more frequently tenanted by new settlers from the Old World than by natives of this conti nent. Even the Briton on his first arrival soon learns to do at New York as the New Yorkers do; he becomes a gregarious animal, and October and N ovember are still displaying all the gorgeous traits °f " American " fall," when already fields and woods areleggyto unbroken solitude, and the country is is all amfacedr to be uninhabitable. Truly, the climate y Italy The purit t; ou t may wish either in or out of town. by American sky is hardly to be matched, ay % in all her glory, and winter all power itself, w to it d h arit 'to million heated hearths, has no y . the white darken sull this Western met of marble purity juicing in the best iti P ti o_l is, the lucky American re• w hich gives heat witaa,ut of anthracite coal—a fuel fire without smoke. --,:__------!--...., z •-...______. uooting in the pre week, BATYuE.---In two c 1, 31 •_ ________ gutt :t: Worcestershire, last serves of Ear: Dudley, at Witley.co destroyed. The sportsmen were , ati n week, exactly 2,000t120 DecDhaeacdd,oAfurnaie ere kerville, Sir J. S. Pakington, 1.P., m r. udley, Earl Tan- Mr. Dowdeswell, Mr. Cookes, and lir. It Seemon, M.P., vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's polio:: health its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, re •r atc Tes in perfect digestion, strong nerves , sound lunga, beat% iivef pure blood, refreshing sleep, functio nal regularity, *ma , fle _ r , to the most disordered or enfeebled . We extract a few out of 60,060 Cures:—Curs No. 53,210 of the Marchioness de Brehan, Paris, of a liver complaint, wasting away for seveu. years, debility, with a nervous palpitation all Over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, themost intolerable nervous agitation, and dreadfully low spirited.—Cure O. 1,771. Lora Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,8.32. "Fifty years" Indescribable aeony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cou'ih, c onstipation, flatulen:7, spasms, sickness, a n d vom iting.—Maria Jolly." —Cure N0..16,270. Mr. James Rob er t s , o f F r imley, Surrey , of thirty years' diseasedlungs, spitting of blood, li ve r derange. ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, cf extreme nervousness, indie:estion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure No. 54,1 , 15. The Rev. Jas. T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indif,rcstion and torpi dity of the liver, w hi ch had resiste i all m e dical treatment. " n tin, l lb., t2s. oj. ; 21b., 4s. (Id ; Mb., lls. ; t2lb., 225. ; 41b 405 p s ar . r y Du Barry an d Co., No. 77, 1? e , eut-street, London • also Fortnum end .Mason; and all Grocers and.Chem4to in e very town of the ' 'United Rin.geten. - THE SJN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECMIBtR 22, 1861 Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, AWARD OF CO NIMISSIONS AND PRIZES, AND REVIEW OF TROOPS BY THE DUKE OF CAM BRIDGE. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Field- Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, attended by his aide-de camp, Brevet Colonel C. Tyrwhitt ; General Sir J. F. Bur goyne, G.C.8., Inspector-General of Royal Engineers, with his aide-de-camp, Capt. the Hon. G. Wrottesley ; General bir G. Pollock, K.C.B. ; Major. General Hamilton, Vice- President, and Major-General Sir F. Abbott, C. 8., of the Council of Military Education; Major-General Bloomfield, Inspector-General of Ordnance; General Piers, Colonel Baker, and other officers, arrived at Woolwich yesterday morning about 11 o'clock, to conduct the half-yearly inspec tion of the Royal Military Academy, and award commis sions and prizes to the gentlemen cadets, in accordance with previous examination by the Council of Military Education. Arrangements had also been made for a review of the whole of the troops in garrison. A royal salute of 21 guns, fired by a detachment of the Coast Brigade Artillery, from the Green Hill Battery, an nounced the arrival of his royal highness and staff, who im mediately proceeded to the Royal Military Academy, and were received by Major-General Sir R. J. Dacres, K.C.B.r Commandant; Major-General Sand ham, Brigade-Major Milward, Capt. Nangle, Deputy-Assistant •Quartermaster- General, Major Field, &c. The several classes of gentlemen cadets had assembled on the lawn fronting the building in review order, and, after inspection went through a course of manual and platoon exercise in an excellent manner, under the direction of the officers of the military branch of the establishment. His royal highness and staff having visited the library, class rooms, and other departments of the establishment, and inspected various drawings, plans of fortification, and other words of art executed by the pupils during the past half year, proceeded to the school of arms, forming part of the spacious gymnasium recently erected, where the whole of the cadets had assembled, and arrangements had been made to receive the several reports, and award commissions and prizes to the successful condidates, The duke and staff having taken up a position at the head of the table on which the valuable prizes were placed, Major-General Hamilton, Vice-President of the Council of Military Education, read the following report of the council : " 13, Great George-street, Dec. 19. ",The Council of Military Education have the honour to submit to his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Command ing-in -Chief their report of the half-yearly examination of the gentleman cadets of the Royal Military Academy. Of 68 gentlemen cadets who were examined for commissions on this occasion, 6:5 have passed, a result which the council cannot but regard as eminently satisfactory. One-third of the commissions having been announced for the Royal Engineers, the 22 cadets first in order of merit who elected for that service are recommended for it accordingly; the remainder are recommended for commissions in the Royal Artillery. The examiner in fortification con siders the examination in that subject very satisfactory. giving evidence of very careful and thorough instruction, and generally of diligence and ability on the part of the cadets, The examiner in surveying reports that a fair pro portion of the class have done their work with the required degree of accuracy, The council are happy to observe that there are no failures in this subject. The examiner in chemistry considers that the result of the first division is very fair, but reports the majority of the papers of the second division as of very iuterior quality. In natural sciences the examiner reports an ev:dent deficiency of reading as well as of practical study, especially in the branch of practical geo logy. The above subjects were included in the examinations for commissions. In those that follow the gentlemen cadets ot the second or third class were finally examined, and the marks gained in them will be carried forward to their final examination. In mathematics the examiner considers the result as eminently satisfactory. Some of those who have obtained the highest marks exhibit the two conditions ot industry and mathematical power; and should they pursue further their mathematical studies, the examiner is Of opinion that they are capable of attaining considerable scient.fie distinction. The examiner in practical geometry reports the answering of the cadets to have been better than on any former occasion in which he had examined, In French the examiner states that, although in this examina tion there were fewer instances of very superior attainment then on any former occasion, the average attainment has been very decidedly raised. The examiner in German re ports that the result was satisfactory, and that the cadets gave evidence of more careful snicly than on any former examinations. The examiner in landscape drawing reports that the work done by the cadets proves they have applied themselves witn gre at diligence to that branch of study. (Signed) " Major- General F. W. HAMILTON, Vice-President, " Colonel G. ELWYN, " Colonel J. E. ADDISON." Colonel Yorke, R.E., then road the following report from Major-General Sandham, lieutenant-governor of the insti tution : "I have the honour to report to your Royal Highness that the whole cf the gentlemen cadets, of the first-class, who have been under examination, are qualified for com missions in regard to conduct, proficiency in military exer cises, and discipline. The monthly returns of the junior classes throughout the half-year have shown that a satis factory emulation and exertion has existed generally throughout the academy, and the results of the examina tion of the classes show that those reports were well founded. The responsible and sub- divisional officers and corporals have carried out their duties satisfactorily, with few exceptions, and In a manner to uphold discipline, and to encourage and keep up a proper feeling and bearing amongst the cadets, and, on the whole, I feel justified in making a favourable re port of the company, although I had occasion to bring to your Royal Highness's notice some irregularities which in curred about two months ago, and which I feel assured were confined to a very inconsiderable number of the cadets, and that the general feeling of the company is entirely opposed to these irregularities ; since that period the conduct of the company has been irreproachable. The officers throughout the establishment have conducted their several duties with firmness and judgment. The professors and masters have shown a zeal and judgment in the performance of their re sponsible duties that has led to the favourable report I am able to make to your royal highness. The drills and especial military exercises, riding, gymnasium, and repository drills, have been carried out as fully as the time that could be de voted to those exercises would admit. The successful candidates for commissions were then called to the front, and the number of marks gained by each in the several branches of study read over, when his Royal Highness announced that commissions would be awarded as follows, viz, ea-For the Royal Engineers-a-Messrs. Bucknill, Wood, Elsdale, Savage, Kirkwood, Clayton, Corbett, Ottley, Lambert, Harrison, North, Onamanacy, M'Artlaur, Macpherson, Denny, Dillon, Jones, Cairo w, Dorward, Simpson, and Westaway. For the Royal Artil • levy—Messrs, Melville, Vaughan, East, Cooper, Bowen, ‘lawbray, J. Murray, 'Waco, Law, Davies, Denison, Sal mond, Watkin, Oliivant, Fox, Stone, Wallace, Ewing, Hueter, Taylor, Gerard, Williams, Cripps, Took ington, Welke r, Ba!ley, Ridge, Downes, Dugdale, Mun day, Fitzgerald, S. Murray, Wynne, Milman, Nutlin, Cur tin, Kennedy, Baddeley, Penny, Plunkett, Hamilton, and Browell. The Duke of Cambridge then proceeded to distribute the prize!: as follows : —For exemplrry conduct, to Mr. Mes cal], the gold Pollock medal, bearing an inscription "Founded by the British inhabitants ot Calcutta, to com memorate the eminent services of Major-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., and awarded to the most deserving cadets of the season. For exemplary conduct, to Mr J. Hunter — a regulation sword. The remaining prizes, consisting of felescopeg, sextants, mathematical instruments, books, &c. To Mr. Mescal], three prizes for first artillery, second artil lery, and first fortifications; to Mr Mowbray, three prizes for second artillery, second topography and geology; to Mr Bucknill, three prizes for chemistry, natural philosophy, and practical mechanics ; to Mr Nicolson, three prizes for second mathematics, third fortifications, and first practical geometry ; to Mr Ottley, two prizes for first topography and second fortifications ; to Mr Goschen, two prizes for Hin dostani and first mathematics; to Mr Pulford, two prizes for first mathematics and practical geometry; to Mr Smith, for first French; to Mr Cooke, for second French; to Mr Studdart, for third topography; to Mr Howard, for first landscape drawing ; and Mr O'Grady, for second landscape drawing. His ROYAL HIOHNESS then addressed the cadets in the following terms. He observed that it afforded him much pleasure to receive such favourable reports from the Council of Military Education and the lieutenant-governor of that institution. He wished to impress upon the minds of those cadets who were about to receive commissions in her Ma jesty's service that they must not consider their education to be completed. When they left those walls they would enter upon a career which demanded of them to continue their education and endeavour to keep pace with the spirit of the age. The corps of Royal Engineers and Royal Ar tillery were essentially scientific, and this was in every re spect an inventive and scientific age ; therefore it was incum • bent upon them, if they desired to be really efficient officers, to make themselves acquainted with those improvements and discoveries which were constantly arising. He knew many officers who had made themselves truly scientific after obtaining their commissions, and he hoped that the cadets present would on a future occasion emulate their example, But there was another important thing requisite to con. stitute a good and efficient officer, and that was discipline. — was a svtrei most :v v o a ca lu te ab o le f discipline; Without strict discipline the e ffi ciency of the British army :lid not be maintained, and he believed that an of fi cer who 'b i le. edop -wa s pa,.strict disci. linarian would not only be more respected, be Carried ' o r n O t he et corps , NV wouldhi s t , remindh o e v however, them that thp, ro two wnyn to carry out discipline. It might one who had the tokill v and an endeavcur to make it as manner, or with tact,an. unnecessary, severe, and offensive little offensive as Tho most valuable officer was t the latter plan, and who, whilst firmly maintainin°;- ,sentiai for the welfare of the strict discipline which was c lad and honoured by Fai th° service, wo uld still be re tie:, • vil so t h whom he came into confect Hi , Royal Highness and aiaff then witnessed a series of gyaillaStie, exeroJaes, carriedout by a number of the eadeto, under t h e a we eireetion of Sergeant Grifrbs; end subse quently proceeded, at half-past 1 o'clock, to the common, where the troops were drawn up in review order as follows : The batteries of Royal Horse Artillery on the right; the field batteries on the left, in close column of batteries at quarter intervals; and the infantry—comprising the 14th Brigade Royal Artillery, the Royal Engineers, and the Woolwich division of Royal Mar;nes Light Infantry—in the centre, in contiguous quarter-distance column. The force having been inspected, marched past at slow and quick time, and retired to barracks. The duke and staff then proceeded to the Royal Artillery Riding-house and witnessed the 65 cadets to whom commissions had been awarded go through a course of equestrian exercise, and after partaking of re freshments at the officers' mess-room, his rcyal highness and the officers who accompanied him left Woolwich at 3 o'clock, amidst a second salute of 21 guns from the Green Hill Battery. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIItCUIT.—LEAvEs, Dec. 21. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) . .„ The learned Judge opened the commission at this town at 10 o'clock, and after attending Divine service, proceeded to charge the grand jury and to try prisoners. The calendar for the eastern division of Sussex contains the names of 11 prisoners, and that for the western division five, of whom two are charged with manslaughter, two as accessories to manslaughter, one with rape, one with arson, one with sacrilege, two with robbery, one with bur glary, one with shooting with intent to murder, one with uttering a forged note, one with uttering counterfeit coin, one with concealment of birth, one with perjury, and one with making a false declaration before a magistrate. James Leppert), 12, was charged with setting fire to a stalk of corn at East Grinstead on the 16th of August last. Mr. Roupell prosecuted. The facts were clearly proved, and the boy had-, indeed, never denied his guilt, nor assigned any reason for the act. The learned Judge left to the jury the question whether the prisoner was aware that he was doing that which was wrong. The jury returned a general verdict o f gu ilt y . Sentence, six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour, and to be once whipped, receiving 12 strokes with a birch rod. Robert killing Ssu and slayingnders,2 ,navvie, was charged with felo niously George Goble, at A m b er ly, on the 27th of October. Mr. Wyatt prosecuted, and introduced the case as being one of anything but an aggravated character, inasmuch as the prisoner had received great provocation, and had caused the death of the prisoner in a perfectly fair fight according to the rules of the prize ring. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, accompanied by a strong recommendation to mercy, ,The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner had been found guilty of the manslaughter of this person, George Goble, and he was bound to say that he thought the unfortunate deceased brought his death upon himself. His conduct was m st provoking, and the prisoner had done everything which could be expected from human nature to avoid the encounter. The deceased put an offence upon him, assaulted him with violence, and compelled him to go from one part of the house to another, and then to go out and fight him. His lordship added that ho was glad to find that the prisoner had the manliness to say he did not wish to go on with the fight, and under the circumstances he felt justified in giving full effect to the recommendation of the jury. The prisoner had already been in prison nearly two months, and he should therefore only sentence him to complete that period, being nine days' imprisonment, with hard labour. George Burns, 19, labourer, was charged with rape upon Jane Bonitace, a little girl, only 11 years of age, at Poling, on the 22d of July last. Mr. Lumley Smith prosecuted ; tho prisoner was undo- fended. The case was clearly Droved, and the prisoner was gen- t enc d to three years' penal servitude. Nelson Hillyer, 16, labourer, AA-as charged with forging a note l'or the payment of £lO, at Brighton, on the 15th of August last. scribed one symptom which he had obseried yestdrday— viz., a sense of slaking perpendicularly downwards, which was, more than any other, indicatiVO Of serious mischief. Other medical evidence was given. to corroborate this opinion. The medical witnesses were cross-examined with the view of showing that plaintiff had not been properly treated, and other medical testimony was adduced to show that the probable consequences of the accident were far from being so serious as had been described. The plaintiff, who had been brought forward in the course of the case, exhibited so pitiable a spectacle that he was re • moved without any attempt being made to examine him i one of the wittesses, however, afterwards stated that he attributed his present sad appearance to an attack of hysteria, consequent on his general debility, but not re sulting from any organic change in the brain. On behalf of the company it was said that they only desired a fair estimation of the damages, and it was urged that plaintiff was only in humble circumstances, he living in a house at 4s. weekly rent. His Lordship having summed up, the jury returned a verdict fur the plaintiff—damages, £1,500. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—NoRFoLK, Dec. 21, Mr. Baron Martin proceeded to dispose of the remainder of the charges in the calendar, and commenced business this morning at 10 o'clock by trying the only two cases that appear in the city calendar, one of which is a charge of highway robbery, the other a charge of forgery, in which there are five indictments for separate and distinct acts of forgery and uttering bills of exchange, preferred against the same individual, the sum so obtain©d amounting to up- wards of £l6O. James Murgatroyde Hubbard was charged with forging and uttering the acceptance of a bill of exchange for the sum of £45. Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Sims Reeve appeared for the prose cution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Carlos Cooper. The facts of the case, as stated by Mr. Metcalfe, were simple enough. The prisoner was engaged with his father in a small brewery business in Norwich, and the prosecutor, Mr. Edward Mills, who is also a resident in this city, being indbted to the brewery to the amount of £4 18s., gave a bill at six months for £5, which included 2s. charged for credit, stipulating at the same time that the bill was not to be negotiated. As, however, the prisoner wished to have a bill that could be negotiated, the fit st one was taken back and another to the same amount and for the same period was given in exchange which was negotiable. On giving this the prosecutor required and obtained a receipt for a bill for £5 at six months for account delivered for beer, signed by the prisoner, and then the prisoner took the bill which had been thus given, and placed it to his account at Messrs Gurney's bank (changed, however, from £5 to £45), re ceiving credit for and drawing upon that amount from time to time. Mr. Mills (who was called to prove the principal part of the facts above narrated, swore that the second bill was drawn for £•V, alai that alterations had been made in it by which the word " forty" was prefixed to the word "five" in the body of the bill, and the figure " 4" to the figure " 5" in the corner of it ; in addition to which the handwriting upon the bill was sworn to by two persons who knew him well as that of the prisoner, and evidence given of it being placed to his credit at Messrs. Gurney's bank, having pre viously been taken by the prisoner's servant from Mr Mills' house to bis counting h use, and left upon the prisoner's desk. Mr. C. Cooper urged that it was very doubtful from Mr. Mills' evidence (upon whose testimony the whole case as far as the forgry was concerned rested) whether he took such accurate observation of it as would enable him to say that the bill might not really have been in the shape in which it appeared; and, as to the utterin g, that them was no evidence the prisoner dealt with this bill or had it in his possession. His Lordship, in his summing up, went most carefully through the evidence, remarking upon the bill itself that this case ought to be a warning to mercantile men not to accept bills at all unless they are written in the ordinary way, so as to prevent any such thing as this happening. This bill was so drawn that the acceptance, instead of b ing as usual, written over and upon the body, was inserted in a space left blank in the body, and dividing it as it were in half. The jury found a verdict of guilty of forgery, and the prisoner was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. On the other indictments no evilence weis offered. As his lordship observed, it was a wholesale forgery of bills. The business for the city being over about half-past 12, his lordship returned to the Castle, and proceeded to dispose of the remainder of the cases in the county calendar. lie commenced with passing sentence upon the following pri soners who had pleaded guilty when arraigned on Saturday. Thos. Smith and Thoa. Bugg were indicted for two separate act of burglary in dwelling-houses at C ngham on Oct. 12. The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said—These are cases of burglary of a very different nature from those that ordinarily appear. I find that you went about in masks and created such terror from your appearance and gestures that the wife of one of the persons whose houses you attacked rushed out of it in the utmost terror; and then you carried off £27 which you round on the premises. Not content with that you broke into another house, and there, strange to say (for the owner of this, like the former parson, was only a labouring man), you found and carried off £•5, Such acts as these—aggravated not only by the fact that the persons who are robbed are poor men, uuable to protect their houses as strongly as those who are well oir can do, but in this par ticular instance by the fact that you knew these poor people, the state of their cottages, and what pl•operty they had, from having worked with them—must be punished in the most severe manner. The sentence of the Court is that each of you be kept to penal servitude for 20 years. llis lordship, in the course of his address to the prisoners, said, —The judges have avoided hitherto saying anything to poor persons about depositing their money in savings-banks, because though they have been often well conducted there have been many instances where frauds have been com mitted, and those who have trusted them have lost their savings; but now, when every one can deposit his money with the security of the State, the case is different, and though the interest given may be small, yet the ample and absolute security so fully makes up for that that there is no reason why the judges should not advise every poor person to take advantage of the security for his savings thus offered by the State. Joseph Wilmot and Richard Hill having pleaded guilty to the charge of setting fire to a black of wheat and a stack of barley belonging to Mr. Rayner, at Litcham ma the 20th of August, the Lordship, in passing sentence, remarked on the num ber of charges of arson which had come before him during his progress through parts of this circuit, this being the ninth case, and of a worse complexion that any he had seen —" for here," said the learned Judge, " you destroy the entire produce of the land belonging to the poor man who has suffered from your wantonness. You knew nothing of him, nor he of you; but, b cause you were hungry and could not get work, as you said, you commit - this atrocious act. Now, I have no doubt that at the time you did this deed, full harvest, time, when work was abundant and labour in request, you could have got work enough to keep you, but Sou preferred hanging about in idleness. This, there fore, is so atrocious a case that I mean to break through the scale of punishment I have given and inflict a heavier one. I therefore sentence you each to five years' penal servitude." George Warner, who also pleaded guilty on Saturday to a charge of wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour. "A more scandalous act," said his Lordship, " I have never met with. You meet with a man at a public house, and, after drinking there, begin to boast of your skill and prowess as a boxer, Baying that you have sparred with Jim Mace ; then on being challenged to fight with the man who has been injured, you fight and are knocked into the hedge, and upon that you follow him with a knife as he is going away and stab him with it." The only case of any importance that is left for trial is a charge against a man named John Lemmon for shooting at Charles Long, gamekeeper to Mr. Fellowes, at Shottesham, on the 29th of November. The case was going on at the time our parcel was despatched ; but from Mr. Balwer's statement, who appeared for the prosecution, the shot that was fired did not do any harm in consequence of the protec tion afforded by the thick gaiters worn by the gamekeeper. Mr. Metcalfe defended the prisoner, the defence being an alibi. With this and the other charges that are left the busi-* noes of the winter assizes for the Norfolk Circuit will cad. MIDLAND CIRCUIT—YORE, Dec. 18. (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) James Isaac Markerow was charged, under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act, 1861, that he, having been adjudi cated a bankrupt, afterwards, with intent to defraui and defeat the rights of his creditors and to conceal the state of his affairs, parted with and destroyed certain papers,writings, and documents. Mr. T. P. E. Thompson and Mr. C, Newton were for the prosecution, which was instituted by order of Mr. Commis sioner Ayrton. It appeared that the papers in question had been taken by the officer of the Court to the office of the official assignee, and abstracted by the prisoner, and the whole or some of them left at the tap of the George Inn, in Hull, with the waiter there, and these subsequently reached the hands of the solicitor through one of the creditors, to whom they had been entrusted by the prisoner; but these papers were found to be of no use in explaining the prisoner's dealings and effairs, and, therefore, not within the mischief pro vided against them by the act. Some other papers it was said (part of those abstracted) were given by the prisoner to ono Farrell for safe custody, and these the prisoner afterwards received back, and subsequently de stroyed, representing to the witnessess that they were of importance in his affairs. The question resolved itself into this, whether these witnesses could be relied upon, or were they telling a trumped up talc in order to get to the assizes. The prisoner was acquitted. This closed the business of this memora ble assize, Whether o as regards the death of a greatly esteemed Judon—oscarlet, went the Northern Circuit at a t w on , Williams, ss Brougham, Pollock, Parke, Crewell,ime r and Patteson were among its merobersA--lodearss relates to the order in Council which has severed York from the Northern Circuit and its associations. Mr. Hurst prosecuted, and Alr. Roupell defended. This wils a singular case. The prisoner, who was stated .1 be very respectably cc,nnecled, went on the night in ques- tion to a Mr. Moon, who keeps the Union Inn, Cidocester lane, Brighton, at about 10 o'clock, He presented x check, and wished it cashed to oblige a Mr. Lynn, at the corner of Kensington-gardens. Mr. Moon consented, provided Mr, Lynn put his name on it, and sent a man with the prisoner to see that he did so. The check was di awn on the Brighton branch of the Hampshire Banking Company, and was signed 46 W. Elliott." Mr. Moon observed that his man and the prisoner did not take the right turning, and therefore fol lowed. He asked for the check, The prisoner did not give it to him, but threw it on the ground, where it was picked up by Mr. Moon's man. Previous to this he had said that it was not Mr. Lynn at the corner of Kensington-gardens, but another man of the same name round the corner. On cross-examination it was elicited that there were several persons named Lynn residing in the neighbourhood. The check exactly corresponded with ono of two wnich were missing from the check book of the prisoner's uncle, with whom he was living; and it was proved that no person named Elliott had an account with the Brighton Branch of the Hampshire Banking Company. Mr. Roupell submitted that there was no evidence of the forgery. Mr. Baron Piggot ruled tliat there were sufficient to go to the jury. Mr. Roupell, for the defence, urged to the jury that, in strictness, neither the charge of forgery nor the second charge of uttering was proved. lie went through the whole of the evidence for the prosecution, and contended that the case was only one of suspicion, Several Rersons were called, who gave prisoner an excel lent character. The learned Judge having summed up, the jury found the prisoner guilty of uttering, and recommended him to mercy on account of his youth and previous good character. Wm. Molton, 22, labourer, charged with breaking into the parish church at Brighton, and stealing therein a bottle of port wine, was found guilty of receiving the same know ing it to have been stolen, and sentenced to 12 months' im prisonment with hard labour. Mr. Roupell prosecuted. Silias Thomas and Stephen Willett, who were convicted at the Summer Assizes, before Mr. Baron Bramwell, of the offence of concealing the finding of treasure trove, were to day ealled upon to surrender in di sc h arge o f th e i r b a il . Judgment had been deferred in order that an objection taken to the indictment by their counsel might be argued before the Court of Criminal Appeal. This was done last term,_ when that Court held the indictment to be good. It will probably be remembered that in the month of January last a ploughman named Butehers,while ploughing his master's land, at Mountfield, found the progress of his plough obstructed by a quantity of metal, which he sup • posed to be braes. He showed it to Thomas, who afterwards showed it to Willett, who had formerly beeu a Californian digger, Willett sold it to a refiner in London for £530. Both the prisoners were proved to have divided the spoil, giving Butchers a few shidings only, proterising to him that they had sold it for 61 a pound as old brass. There was no doubt that the gold was some very ancient rings and chains, not only of great in trinsic val u; bat also almost invaluable point of view now i rre t r i eva bl A l os t i n Mr. Hance, on beh a lf of the Treasury, stated the cir cumstances of the case, and prayed the judgment of the Court, _ Mr. Baron Pigott fold that he should probably hear from Mr. Baron Bramwell to-morrow morning, and would then pass sentence. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LivEurooL, Deo. 21. CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Williams and Special Juries.) PEARSON V. TILE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. In this action the plaintiff sought to recover damages for injuries sustained through the negligence of the defendants. The defendants had pleaded not guilty, but since the plea they had given notice that they did not intend to dispute their liability. The duty, therefore, of the jury was reduced to that of assessing the amount of damages. Mr. Temple, Q.C., Mr. Bolker, and Mr. Grimshaw were for the plaintiff; the Attorney-General, Mr. James, Q.C., Mr. Aspinall, Q.C., and Mr. Higgins were for the de fendants. The plaintiff, who was a traveller in the perfumery busi ness on his own account, took a third-class place in the 8 o'clock a.m. train from Manchester to Birmingham on t h e 6th of July. While the tickets were being collected at the collecting station an engine and tender ran into the train in which the plaintiff was. By this accident plaintiff sustained a very severe injury to the cheekbone, and was besides greatly shaken and thrown into a state of insensibility, in which he remained for some time. He also sustained inju• ries to the nervous system from which he, will probably never recover. It appeared from the evidence of his wife that plaintiff was 37 years of age, and had two children depending upon him. He came home on the day after the accident, but in such a condition that his wife fainted on beholding him. Before the accident he had enjoyed good health, but since then he had been troubled with sleeplessness at nights, and complained much of pains in the head and of a feeling of numbness, he could not speak distinctly, his appetite was bad, his memory and eyesight defective, and he often fancied he could see people approaching behind him, and would stop and turn round to see if they were there. Mr. Jas. Done, the surgeon who had attended him, de scribed the injuries. The cheekbone was fractured,the face swollen and blackened,and the jaw locked. After four weeks a gathering took place inside his mouth, and his health be. came exceedingly unfavouraVe, causing spprehension of paralysis, and rendering his ultimate recovery exceedingly improbable. Dr. Noble, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, who had visited him three or four times, described his pre sent state, and gave evidence as to the probable effects of the injuries. He stated that he was suffering especially tom shock to the brain and nervous system, that his me mory and sight were bad, and his capacity for thought almost gone. Ms pulse varied freni 9010 120,and altogether this was a very bad case of the kind, and under the most favourable circumstances of rest and attention it would be a long time before he could recover. He particularly de- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—As the Confederacy has copied the prac il-‘: of the Union as regards t he meetin g of Con 'ye at the same time the Mt.E6e4;EB of the grass rinal , we rAtneriaan Presidents. Mr. Lincoln has —erous illness from ad not been prevented by a da l , . Legislature ..terms that will dressing the Federal _enublican satisfy the most extreme zealot of the L tres party, and Mr. Davis, on the other hand, dee the unfaltering determination of his Government to persist in the war, although former victories have not been able to save the Confederacy from calamities inflicted by the superior numbers of the enemy. But the Message of the more powerful magistrate is the document which has the greater interest for Europe. Mr. Lincoln is now pos sessed of an authority within what may be callei his dominions greater than has ever been known even during his hi g te-handed Presidency. A year ago the Democratic pasty was still for midable. The city and to a great extent the State of New York were opposed to the Leo7ern ment, if not to the war. Pennsylvania and Ohio , were hostile; the Western States, with Illinois at i their head, were wavering between a peace policy and the relentless theories of' the Republicans. The President had not been able to abandon the system of espionage and summary imprisonment which he had established soon atter his accession. The forts which were the objects of such indignation to the Democrats continue to receive their unwilling in mates ; and in some of the larger cities it was doubt ful whether a majority of the inhabitants were not as treasonable in thought as those who were immured in any Federal prison. Mr. Lincoln's position is now more secure, and the tone of his Message shows the effect of the last year's success, both political and military. Last year he was about to issue his edict of emancipation amid the doubts and disapprobation of the greater part of the Northern people. This year he has no such thunderbolt to launch, and consequently need not use defiant or deprecatory language to those who are to judge his policy. But he thinks that the successes on the Mississippi and in Tennessee are sufficient to autho rise a proclamation of another kind. The most striking feature of the present Message is the am nesty which Mr. Lincoln thinks fit to proclaim to the Southern people. If the obstinate and fierce tempered population who have been resisting his armies for two years and a half will now abandon the President they have elected, the politicians who administer their Government, the representatives whom they have sent to Congress, the generals who' lead their armies,the naval officers who have defended their seaports and commanded their cruisers, then they will be allowed to return under the protec tion of the United States, with such property as may remain to them when their slaves are set free. We know not what effect Mr. Lincoln anticipates from this proclamation. A year ago he was prepared with one which was expected speedily to bring the Confederate Government to ruin. A year ago the more sanguine politicians at Washington actually looked upon the war as nearer its end than they do now. A grant of freedom to four millions of slaves must, in their opinion, produce consequences so momentous that the Southern Confederacy would be unable to stand the shock. All, indeed, that the Federals have gained by the capture of Vicks burg and Chattanooga does not equal what the more ardent Republicans hoped for from the Pro. ciamation of January. But that edict produced no perceivable effect upon the Southern people, except to make them more stubborn in their resistance than before. We think it doubtful whether there is any district of the Confederacy where the present proclamation will have a more powerful effect than the lest. In places that are occupied by Federal troops it may be that some of the proprietors will make their submission in order to save their estates from the grasp of military commanders and the adventurers who follow in their train; but, in spite of the hardships the Southern people have under gone, the diminution of their numbers, the wretched state of their finances, and tho loss of some of the most important regions of the Confederacy, there is, we think, little chance that they will accept the offers made to them. When a race of men have been subjected to the trials and excited by the pas sinus of such a war as this, considerations of inte rest and prudence have little weight. The whole man is changed, the temper is made savage, and the antipathies engendered by a furious struggle make the prospect of returning to the companion ship of civil life with the enemy more hateful then the utmost which he can inflict. If the South ern people had been urged on by animosi ties stronger than any which we Englishman have over felt for a foe, they would undoubtedly have come back to the Union when they first found the North resolute in the conduct of the war, and the European Powers unwitting to interfere. It is now eighteen months at icast since they must have been convinced that they would have to struggle against the whole power of the Northern States, about any help from France or England, except at the most an empty recognition, and with the Northern President determined to use, if MOE'S sAry, the arms of the negro against them. They knew that they must undergo a long and doubtful contest, and that even if they succeeded in achieving their independence, it must be at the cost of frightful private calamities, and probably the ruin of that social system which they seceded and took up arms to maintain. I et, though towards the close of last year they might have returned to the Union alines!' in triumph, with the glories of the Chickabominy 8611 bright, and with Lee and Jackson the most popular heroes of a reconstructed Union, they re pelted all the advances of iehe Democrats, saw with out wavering the renewed asentulancy of the party at the North most hostile to themselves, and obeyed a stringent Conscription Act with a readiness an surpassed in history. The class of men, too, who are excepted from the amnesty aro precisely those who are all-powerful in the Confederate States. If the old men and the women and children were de sirous of ending their privations by reunion, their wishes would avail little as long as the country is governed directly by the army, and the army is under the control of the statesmen and Generals whom Mr. Lincoln requires to be left to his mercy. The trials of the army may be great, but soldiers have seldom a strong desire for the termination of a war, uniese, indeed, they are en gaged in monotonous gatrison duties far from the scene of strife. Tee excitement of the campaign and the quickening rivalries which it engenders ere enough to keep troops in the proper war spirit, as long as they are not depressed by want or exhausted by defeats and fatigue. The Confederate soldiers probably suffer less from tee privatiousof the ceuutry than any class of the citizens, for according to all ac • counts every district is put under contribution for them, and the defence of the Republic is made para mount to every private interest. '1 hese consideration s can hardly fail to have been present to Mr. Lincoln's mind, since they have been obvious to the Northern press, and present themselves at once to us. We may, then, presume that his amnesty is rather in tended as a demonstration of confidence in Federal success than a measure likely to have practical con sequences. Indeed, the other parts of the Message, as well as the Reports of Mr. Stanton and Mr. Chase, reveal anticipations of a long war which accord little with the notion of a Confederate submission. Calcu lations as to whether the number of troops to be had for the money received under the last draught will prevent the necessity of another combine with Mr. Chase's statement of the expected state of the finance in 1865 to convince us that the Government does not look for an early termination of the war. The Mes sage of President Davis gives no sign of yielding, though it is said to have a tone of despondency, The loss of an important position, on which Mr. Davis himself sets a high value, may account for this discouragement, and the frustration of his hopes of European interference have no doubt somewhat effected him. But the difficulties of the hour do not appear to suggest any thought of a reconciliation. President Davis addresses himself to the greatest practical questions which press on him—the want of men and money. For the present the latter is the more important, for the Confederate armies have a respite during the winter, but the state of the currency admits neither of delay nor of half measures. Taxation, as a means of raising money and reducing- the present inflated currency, is recommended by Mr. Davis, and in the Richmond Congress, composed as it ie of the chiefs of Secession, he will have no difficulty in carrying through any measures on which he may have resolved. However strong the Governm e t n : of Washington may be, that of 'the Coned States States at least equals it in authority, ° abilities of the leaders equal their pow . no doubt make good the deficien :nieces are to be weaken the Republic. As the v n i a s to be reinforced restored by taxation, so the. a d rin c j,'„ ser iption, and, so by another and a more ° fiber trim onia hf l t a r s e a e s ms as depends i f the n war the ;on would be e e ,r f : t eg h wa e red G i e lo wa w v tu a h i e h st r ie j : l n y t h a u t l r w e it o n nt3 i vigour in the ensuing Sprigg-. Cour t h for ce D ss i t v ab o i r i c s e he a d nia the we su t P e P POST.—As taken its plat© among -far institutions 0 the country, it is sosatisfactory t o Causes must now, find that its ract i ce can n ot be accused of an y unnecessary &- jays . That cases of considerable duration should occa sionally occur is inevitable from the fact that the evidence brought forward is, and must of neces sity frequently be, of a recriminatory character, and thus involves, in fact, a double issue "He who seeks equity must do e * quity," is a maxim the obser vance of which is happily no longer confined to the sittings of th e It. was on _ 0 , , Court of Chancery is Lincoln's - inn. e t the best among the many goad prin ciples laid down for the ft-Jule guidance of the Court by the ) nt h .. 1 , mented Sir CrOSSWOII Cress- well, that no suitor should come into court with out " clean hands," or, in other words, that no relief would be granted to one who was himself or hersel guilty of the same offence which formed the ground of application against another. How much the business of the court was lightened by this single decision is known to those only who were behind the scenes, who had thus the op portunity of knowing not only what cases did actually come to a hearing, but also what t would, under any other circumstances , in fallibl y Lave done so. Even as it is, the time of the judge and t the public is liable to be monopolised by suc h i ev i a ,lin suits as Fitzgerald and Fitzg e:sld, which, after last.' n g for a week, and scandalisi n g the whole town, ends by t neoving that the mountain h as been in labour only to gi ce birth to the most dimi nutive of mice. In this party instance there is as been ieflicted no doubt that serious hardship i t : ie upon one, if not upon two individual.; of whoseun nocence the jury were convinced. But this, i, no fortunately, is a contingency against whi :ll re judge, however able, and no system of pr oc e d-e' n however perfect, can entirely guard. All that eetil be done in this respect has, we fear, been already' an on: nlished, and the only consolation is tha t, were it nut l e e r the stringent regulations now enforced, such cases wound be multiplied ad infinitum. We can only hope that those who have hounded on Mrs, Fitzgerald to blacken the character not only of her husband, but of a purely imaginary rival in his affections, may receive a partial recompense of their deserts in the shape of a handsome bill of costs, for which all Mr. Chambers's eloquent denunciations on the opposite side will be but a poor consolation. In spite, however, of the obstruction which has been unavoidably created by this cause célèbre " stoPßin i g the way," we must congratulate Sir James Will° upon the energy and success with whic h he hi° grappled with the mass of arrears bequeathed ta him in consequence of the premature de ath of hie predecessor. Not only would the mantle a Sir Cresswell Cresswell seem to have descended ell'° ll him, but, fortified by sound precedents, and with a' bar which has been gradually trained and disci lined to a somewhat repulsive task, he has even ill" proved upon the expedition of the late judge in the despatch of business. When Sir James Wilds took hie seat, at the commencement of Michaelmas Term, a printed list of no less than one hundred and nine divorce cases, not to speak of the bug" nese in the Court of Probate, ominously stared him in the face. Of the will causes, we believe that not one which was ready for hearing now re' mains undisposed of. Of divorce cases, the Court t has decided, during the continuance of th e p resen sittings, no less than seventy-one, including all that were ready for hearing among those which bad been set down for trial without a jury. In eleven more instances proceedings have been stayed by c onsent for various reasons, and these cases ' have been struck out of the paper accordingly. Twenty-sevell, only stand over for hearing until next te rm, a n even of these several have been respited upon the application of the parties concerned. Among the ta are probably some of an important character; 059 while seven only of the number are set down fo r trial without a jury, twelve are common jury 06°4a and in eight notice has been given to impannel special jury. In all human probability , b owe l ' by the end of next Hilary Term Sir Jame s Wilu° will exhibit the enviable spectacle of a judge pit siding in a court with no arrears at all, and one which suitors may obtain a relief as immediate A° can be granted with a due regard to those forto which are requisite to ensure the proper ado:till's,: tration of justice under any circumstances. 0 ,7, consummation is the more satisfactory, because, the first place, it is the direct reverse of what Vie were told to expect when the Court was originally e established; and in the second, there is no Court ":" which the subject-matter of the suits stands OW e need of a prompt and early iavestigation. °- remember the ill-omened vaticinations of the Pr o ; phets who dinned in our ears that those who t oucheu• pitch could not ba otherwise than defiled thenteelvel and that the morals of society would be und ermine r were that relief which was always open to ie then' vouchsafed to men of more moderate means. rlls" many foul scandals have been brought to light, we of course cannot deny ; but that any real evil he° been done to society by setting free a certain nura" her of innocent individuals from their 010' Par e tiers for life we are fully persuaded. U p on ti second head there can be no manner of doubt. 11 some of the most difficult and delicate relations e: of . n nc life are to be inquired into and criticised, a d ev regulated by judicial authority, it is of the esse of justice that the necessary inquiry should follow as closely as possible upon the commission ot the specific offences which form the subj ect of complaint' There are few things more painful to the feelings of all concerned than the opening afresh of a wound which the gentle influence of lime has begun to heal, or the raking up of a controversy with regard to speeches and actions which are either remembered imperfectly, or which has e gradually lost their first and most painful impressions upon the mind of the witness. There ere certain kinds of proof, as there are certain classes of offences, with respect to which the fresnness of the testimony adduced is half the bottle. As we must have a Dieoree Court, it should be one in which justice, if sharp, should be also short and speeeye Sir James Wilde deserves all the credit of an attempt to make it so. The Woos of this, his first effort, may, we think, be regarded as an augury of his future fitness for the difficul t and disagreeable task which has been assigned to COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—DEC. 19. There was a moderate supply of wheat at our market to day, and the currencies of is week were about maintained. pe w as hi r c a h th w er a l s ow S V. Ce' I B n ean b s ar a l n ey S 32s Wheat, white 44s 50s Beans,Mazagan..2Bs ~6, red ..40s 44s middle & small.32s ' ss Barley lull prices were sae. 32s 42s Peas, white ...... 3 5 s 3 6 $ Qats GLOUCESTER—PIc. 19. from There was a fair show of English wheat to-deti your' the farmers which sold at prices r ather in buyers' . I , ces of Foreiga wheat was dull, with no adv ance on the PI but last week. Oats, barley, beans , and p eas were till" unaltered in value. CH. . At this corn exchange to-day there was lB an inactivel33l2i3,ll; ness done—the prices of las week being barely r aces: rained. Barley also dull, and best sorts at previous 1.3..,;ed i n terior, is to 2s per qr cheaper. Other grain unclit' in price, with a dull trade. Wheat, old white 30s 46s new 44s 49s eld red 31a 39e new 38s 41s Barley 27s 37s Chevalier 2Bs 39s Grinding . .22s 31s Malt 6ls 67s Chevalier . 64s 69s Oats 20s 28s "65 390 Peas, Partridge- 39a White .......... S 4 41 , Bulling ......... 39s ,„_ um ............ 334 n Ditto new .. •.. 390 Harrow ße ails' T k _- 3 5: : 4 3 - 8 0 M azaga n .. • • ' 3°B KIRKCALDY GRAIN—DEC. 1- 9 . r ra alket We had fair supplies of barley and oats at Dour to•clay, but small of wheat. Sales were brisk, at the cur rencies of last week. Wheat. First....3ss Od Second ..37s Od Od Oats. Barley. 1 6 s 6d 25s Od I v s 64 2Gs Od vs 0 29s Od COAL MARKET* erfoes of Coal per "on at th e close of the market. fl. d' s. d. Buddies West Hartley 16 6 13yass's BeWide West Hartley ....16 6 Cowpen Hartley 16 6 Lambert's West Hart- Walls End. Tunstall . .......... 18 Haswell ........ ..•. .. .20 0 Hotton .............. 2 'l b South Hett on ......... 20 A u 13raddyll's Ilettou ..... 19 A u Hartlepool ......... ..19 East Hartlelaool ...... 20 0 lieug,ll ...00....... 19 0 South Hartlepl..• • " 18 9 ......... ...... 19 0 ii , t , 60 ; sold. 47. ley 16 3 West Hartley ..16 6 Holywell Hastings Hartley ....16 6 tautield Moor Bates ..15 0 Eden Main lB 6 Waldridge Gas l6 6 Ships at inariti Bir tbs. • t at Hampstead, the wife of 18 5 ins ~ , ANKETELL,—On the 21st Anketell, Esq., of a son. Fitz. Ameline M , aE th in.t., at The Willows, West Ilate, gELLy.— on. the rally, R.N., of a son. the wife of C a ptai n 19th inst., aadta2uBg,hßteerlfrave-road, the SIIELFOHD• wine of W c; : 5 the ijaetilll 2 : O rd t l h 9' inst., at 34, Eeeleston-square, Arill' TAjetigeCavendish Taylor, of a son. Marriages. BROCKWELL—BOYS —On the 19th inst., at Hammersmith, Arthur Butler Brockwell, Esq., of Bridlington W Gee O': Yorkshire, to Cl ara, youngest daug ht er of the late Boys, Esq , o f R ochester. MEW—KENDA L ~ L—On the 19th inst at Saint Geo r g e'ef Bloom-bury, P re dk . M ew, E sq ., o f 30. Mecklenburg square, to Anna Maria M arden, the elec;eo; c i c daughter oi " li.eury E. Kendall, jun., E s q ., of Brunswi square. Doughty-stri Deaths. COLLISON.—Ou the 19th inst. , at Brix ton, John Collisont Esq., of East Bilney Hall, Li chain, Norfolk, aged 74. DREssLER.—On the 1 9 Th inst., at his residence, Gustal Dressler, Esq., of The Russett in g s, Streathaw, an Corbet-court, city. Fox,—On the 21st inst., Miss Fos, of 13, Redcross - s treal Cripplegate, aged 54. GLyN.—On the 20th inst., at 37, Upper Brook-street, 114 Richard Plurnptre Glyn, Bart., of Gaunt 's House, per set, ng. d 76. GRAHAMS.—On the 19td inst., at Newport, LW., D. P. Grahame, Esq., of Glenny, late Captain 6th Fusiliers., POOLE. --- On the 20th inst., at 48, A venue-road, Regent park, Moes Poole Esq., 'Ted 74. rd• TATE.—On s the 19th , inst,, Mr. Win. Tate, of virarn. r o court, city, aged 67 ----- '`VS London : Fria Z.‘!ci and PuNtshed by WILLIAII A itiDlth . , of 'No. 112, Strand, Pri nter, at THE SuN Offlce Vo•I', u 1 .,' Strand, in th e Precinct of ibe lav e y . n t'e C.A.ItY hlilatil'ex.--TUef3:4Y, December 22, 1863. be ki PLO n Zdol goods at Ciergymer from disp' Every aril 5,(3,1+1 t' G :‘ISEE art are ( quailed I p admirable k edsteads Post-tree c omplete 841 e A i rog'ether of valnabl earDet, 01 chn and icheste Wells, 03 rnfneter 8 1% Alban Wrexh an Britain.. Co n bridg e L Nr R This C Ale'canti asal e of Partict street. Nor Life P addition During. Prof Pt oI varinz Lile Sum The PANY' REDII , r ()N EI B(vAL Insnr liberal Form the lie: tONDO ~DINR THE TIIE T POW. r 1111N1 JOll n I John .1 , Charlt Renr3 Thom anlin Jame E C. W. 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