The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-05 00:00:00

Tin IiOTTOMAN EMPIRE• (Fro m 1164 : Paris Correspondent of the ltmes.) CONSTANTINOPLE , Nov. 26. The ma nie for constant c h a nges in the Adminis tration wi hie h has been, to a certain extent, inhe rited by tl ie present Sultan from his predecessor, and the sudden dismissal and disgrace of favourites holding hi gh offices in the palace have been the subject of such frequent comment that the periodi cal edicts c )f the Sultan removing a Minister or dis charging a Chamberlain have ceased to be inter preted into , any political meaning, and no longer excite that emotion in the public mind which his acts called f 'orth in the early days after his accession to the thron e. For this reason, perhaps, the an nouncement that the all-powerful Sheik-ul.lslam (Chief of the Faith) has been superseded will not be received—in Europe, especially—with any particu lar interest ; and yet it may be said that of all the important changes which have been effected under the present .reign this one is, without doubt, the most import, tut and the most significative. Although I:).ie office of Sheik-ul-Islam is in theory only equal in rank with that of Grand Vizier, yet iu reality it ma; r be taken to represent, under the Sul tan, the Brea test power in the State. The high pa tronage whi(th it possesses, the means it affords of influencing tte feelings and destinies of the people in the remote st districts of the empire, the great religious prei3tige which is attached to it, the facili ties, above all, which it gives to the holder for con stant and confidential intercourse with the Sove reign—all these things have combined from early times to irreest this ecclesiastical and judicial office With considerable pomp and almost unlimited power. t has not unfrequently happened, therefore, that the fanaticism of a Sheik-ul-Islam, which has been a h, i , ,reditary characteristic with every successive-oc cup sat of this office, has contributed always to re tard, and often to paralyse, the measures of reform whiic e: have been introduced from time to time, and neu tr alise any progressive tendency which may have maxi Tested itself in the country. For many mouths past .it was known that the now disgraced dignitary adopted as a rule a systematic opposition to every enligh toned measure emanating from the Sultan's "Ministers. It was believed that his influence with the Sultan was so great that all the combined efforte of the Ministry would not be sufficient t o shake .:him from the high ground which he occupied. .Many were the instances cited, on authority, of the impediments which he opposed to any pro j ect sus pected of European origin, or of assimilation with European usage. The consequence was that it not only retarded the execution of many useful schemes, bat :deo nipped in the bud others still more impor tant, the introduction of which was considered hope less under the unconquerable difficulty. In no l as ts nce did this fanatical venom manifest itself mere strongly than in the case of the concession for the imperial Bank. Every argument was used calcid ated to inspire distrust of the foreigners in teres tod in that important affair. The Sultan was known to have wavered, bat fortunately gave way to his own b e tt er i nstincts, and ratified the conven tion. Maddened by this defeat, the cif. its of the Sheik-ul• Islam have since that time been directed towards the overthrow of the Ministry who had dared to thwart him. The great hold he had over the Ulemah party was used to inspire that body With suspicion against the Ministers, who were re presented as upholding the interests of the Giaours ugainst those of the faithful, and of being little !Owl of Giaours themselves. If these pernicious influences had been allowed to operate much longer there is no knowing to what extent the feeling of the country would have been affected. The immediate cause which led to his dis missal was, as I am informed on the best authority, the allusion that was made in the reports accom panying the Budget of an intention to introduce some reforms in the administration of the (Lurch properties (Vaeorffs)—a subject often canvassed and discussed, but never taken seriously in hand, on account of the obstructions with which it was beset. Again, his influence was o mpluyed to induce the Sultan to reject the whole report, and rumours were at tho time spread, not quite devoid of foundation, that the position of the Ministry was very precari ous. Once more, however, the Sultan resisted these evil counsels, and, wearied of this constant interfer ence--imbued, moreover, it is said, with the belief that a progressive policy is compatible with some of the traditions of the past—he shook off the yoke under which he had bent himself for so long, and proclaimed the overthrow of the Sheik-ul-Islam. There is no doubt that the representations of the Ministers, and especially of Fuad Pasha, contri buted, also, to bring about this change. It was a bold measure to suggest, and much interest was manifested as to how it would affect public opinion among the old Mussulman party, and especially the Ulemahs ; but a fall from power in this country is always accompanied by isolation and the desertion of old partisans ; and even fanaticism loses some of its intensity in the face of official disgrace. As far as e , ..n be ascertained there is no reason to suppose that the public mind will be in any way disturbed by the energetic action of the Sultan. The person now appointed to fill this high position is Djelal-Z ide Hussam El-Din Effendi, a man of not much note ; but he is reported to have moderate views, and he is known, generally, to have adhered to the policy of what, in this country, may be called the " Liberal party." It i 5 not improbable that under the new Sheik ul-ssiara the vaco t u he long-talked of measure of reform of handlie g fa may be brought forward. A proper r this question may be made to produce important benefits to the Treasury by increasing of those truistand also to the present administrators that thEl'ea Whose management has been so de fectivetively unfruitful i n i valuabl e p ossess i ons are compara ntheir h a nds. Simultaneou s le motiloftat withßey, the di sm i ssa l o f th e Sheik ui_lslam, e t Y i one of the Chamberlains, and one of th most e opponents . ofthe M inis- try, wae dism e issed, ' W i th a pension of 1,500 piastres (.El4) a mouth. In their effor ts at e " 3 enture as to the cause of the sudden dismissal of the Sh eik-ul-Islam the pub lic have been sta rtin g all kinds 0 1 caizards on the subject, the one most Cdr.culated being an assertion that it arose from the isapprouation expressed to the Sultan of his acceptance of the invitati on t o i attend the proposed Congress in P ar i s. This is what really took piece on the ArnbasSador: —T h occasion of the audience granted to the French arq u i s of the de Moustier made rather a long speech, ente r fully into the different parts autog ra ph lett er S of which he was the bearer, and concluded b y ex pressing an earnest hope that the Sultan would " cept the invitation. The Sultan replied, in the moat courteous been o o f i j courteous terms, that if the invitation had toivseizeda private nature he would have immedia acquaintance of the occasion to make the personal acqu ain his Imperial ally, and would have availed himself of that opportunity for visiting also other par ts of Europe; but that the proposal, as it stood, involved interests of such magnitude that it was no t for Turkey, which had only lately been received into the great European family, to be the first to express an opinion ; that if other Sovereigns, his allies, ac cepted the basis of the proposal he certainly would not be the last to give his adhesion ; but that, under any circumstances, it appeared to him that the sub sects to be submitted to the Congress should be clearly defined beforehand. Th e fact is that the Turks view with ill suppressed ""siness _ a project which if carried out m us t o p en IT qaestions regarding their own internal affairs, which they y o Ns e ould much prefer should be left alone, no doubt that be settled by th emse l ves . There :n an d be e e that it w ou ld b e th e s i gna l f or a host of ambitio us a nd unscrupulous agitators—Ser vians, Roumans, M on tenegrins, &e.—to t rum p up grievances agai nst suzerain power, and to cla mour for public gym "oppressed nett PaY in the cause of the so called:tatlities." F rance h as a l wa ys, so to speak, coquetted with these factions in the Eas t, and it is no t surp r i sing that the Turks . should look w ith a pp rehe n sio n nsen a scheme so ob .. scare in its mean in g and yet so Wide in its applica tion.up between the A misunderstanding has sprung gentlemane , Porte and the person who is charged with d'Affaires, has of the Greek Legation here. This it seems is not even accredited as Charge has made application, through the Minister r Foreign Afflirp, for an audience of the Sultan,°tro present a letter from King George of Greece notify ing his elevation to the throne. The Turks have taken a huff at this proceeding, declaring that it Is a breach of etiquette, for that an au-Fence can only be granted to an Envoy. They had them selves intended to send a special Ambassador to Athens to congratulate the King in the name of the Sultan, and they proposed selecting for that mission a person in a high position. This intention must now be abandoned, as they consider themselves under a grievance, and they have notified to the Greek agent that the Minister for Foreign Affairs will take charge of the letter and present it to the' Sultan, but that an audience will not be granted under the circumstances under which it is solicited. It would be a pity if at the very commencement of the new reign in Greece, and through the ignorance or susceptibility of officials, or perhaps only through misapprehension, a hostile feeling shouid spring up between Turkey and Greece, and embitter the re lations between these two countries.. A proposal has been submitted to the Turkish Government by persons representing very consider able financial interests for the establishment in Turkey of a Land Mortgage Bank (Credit Foncier). As I close my letter the information is brought to me in a trustworthy manner that a preliminary convention has been signed at a special Council held for that purpose. It will necessitate some altera tions in Turkish law to facilitate the transfer of land, the principle of which is conceded, but will have further to be worked out. In a country so rich in its soil, and where the present rate of ad vances to agriculturists ranges between 40 and 60 onlyp e r o management importance per cent., such a scheme with !)o may be considered to b e second to the establishment of a national bank. The Im perialiu lend Bankit every n not assistanceonly approvesby the introduction of the scheme, hut some of its own elementsin the proposed under taking. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE, - MIDLA.ND CIRCUIT.—WARWICK, Dec. 4. Baron Martin took his seat in the Crown Court at 10 o'clock this morning, and proceeded to try Charles Beere and Henry Beere, who were indicted for the murder of Charles Plummer. The prisoners also stood charged with the same offence on the coroner's inquisition. Mr. Ed win Bennett and the Hon, E. Chandos Leigh con ducted the prosecution; and Mr. Fitzjames Stephen de- fended the prisoners. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, who was 67 years of age, and who is well known at Warwick, where he has lived for many years, was staying on a visit with his nephew, Mr. Thos. Ricketts, who is a farmer at Fenny Compton, in this county. On the evening of Sunday, the 18th August, the uncle and nephew were walking in a field belonging to the latter, called the Second Ground, through which a public footpath runs, on which the prisoners were walking. Mr. Ricketts had a small terrier with him, which ran towards the prisoners, but did not bark at or offer to bite them. The prisoner Charles made use of a coarse ex pression, whereupon Mr. Ricketts told him to go on and not speak in that way. The prisoner Charles then said, " Who are you?" Mr. Ricketts said, "I am the occupier of this field and the parish constable, and if you don't go on, I will have you taken up for being drunk and disor derly." The prisoners appeared to have been drinking, Charles Beere then said, "I'll let you know whether I am drunk, and whether you are the parish constable," and raised his fists in a threatening attitude. Henry Beere got before his brother Charles and tried to stop him, saying, "You shan't strike him." Charles, however, got past his brother and struck Mr. Ricketts on the head, who there upon seized the stick—a common oak hooked walking stick ----which the deceased, who was lame, carried to assist him in walking, and knocked Charles Beere down with the hooked end. After he was down Mr. Ricketts struck him again once or twice with the stick, and Charles Beere said, " Don't hit me while lam down." The deceased also in terfered, and said, " Don't hit him any more." Mr. Ricketts then desisted, and the prisoner Charles got up and rushed at Mr. Ricketts again, but was a second time knocked down with the stick. He got up and made at Mr. Ricketts a third time, who again struck him with the stick, which however broke in two. Charles Beere and Mr. ilicketts then closed with one another, and after striking a few blows both fell to the ground. Mr. Ricketts got uppermost, and, kneel- ing on the chest of his antagonist, caught him by the throat. Charles Beere then said to Henry, " Why don't you go into him ?" Henry replied, "If you can't go into him I can," and began to kick Mr. Ricketts. Charles also get free, and then both prisoners beat and kicked Mr. Ricketts for some time as fast as they could. During all that time the deceased took no part in what was going on beyond begging the prisoners not to kick his nephew. Mr. Ricketts at last with some difficulty got away from the prisoners and ran towards his farm buildings, which were about a quarter of a mile off, the prisoners pursuing him as far as the stile leading into the next field. On his way to the farm build ings Mr. Ricketts met his servant, Win. Ricketts, whom he sent to take the =en up, while he also sent a little boy for the policeman, and himself went into the house to wash his face. In the meanwhile Wm. Ricketts went towards the scene of the affray, and on arriving within about 160 yards he saw Henry Beere with his hands round Charles's waist trying to pull him back. When he got to a distance of about 70 yards the prisoners ran away, and on going nearer he found the deceased lying on the ground and covered with blood. Mr. Ricketts and the policeman then came up, and the three went in search of the prisoners, leaving the other people who had also come to the spot to carry Mr. Plum mer into the house. They found the prisoners near North End, about half a mile from Fenny Compton, and charged them with the assault. The prisoners said they were going from North End to Fenny Compton, and on being taken into custody began to cry. They were then taken back to Fenny Compton, and driven to Southern in a cart, and on their way Henry Beere said, "Yeti know, Charles, if you had been ruled by me and had not kicked the old man we should not be here." Charles replied, " I know that; I have got in, and must get out the best way I can." The prisoners were then left in the Southern lock up. In the meanwhile Mr. Plummer was attended by Mr. Elkington, of Fenny Compton, who found him with his face covered with blood, which was flowing from his mouth and nose, and in a very exhausted state. On the Monday morning he was unable to speak; he became unconscious about the middle of that day, and died the following morning at 3 o'clock. Afterwards, on the same day, the policeman at the lock-up told the pri soners that Mr. Plummer was dead, whereupon the prisoner Henry said, "If my brother Charles had been ruled by me _ . this would never have occurred. I held him back with all my might, but he got away. I never touched him." The policeman said, " Who do you mean by him?' " He re plied, " Mr. Plummer." Charles said, " That is quit e right; he never touched him." At this time Charles was crying bitterly. Mr. Elkington made a post mortem exa mination of the deceased, in conjunction with Mr. Ebbage, of Leamington, when it was found that externally the head and face were severely bruised. There was a wound over the right parietal bone, and the scalp was torn from the head for some little distance round the wound. There was a similar wound on the other side. There was a wound on the right temple and another on the left of the forehead. The bridge of the nose and a portion of the bone over the left frontal sinus were broken down and driven in. One tooth also appeared to have been driven in. On opening the head there was found an effusion of serum, and in the left hemisphere of the brain a largo clot of extravasated blood, weighing upwards of two ounces. That, in the opi nion of the surgeons, was the cause of death, and was occa sioned by the external violence. The chest was examined, and three of the ribs were found to have been broken. The other organs of the body were all healtb.y. The wounds were such as might have been produced by kicks with a boot. The left boot of the prisoner Charles was examined, and a gray hair was found on the tip of it, corresponding with the hair of the deceased. At the c l ose o f th e p rosecu ti on M r . St e ph ens su b m it te d that there was no case against Henry Beere ; and l i t. ,_i 4 Lordship at once so ruled. .'. ur th e 0 .. . . on e 01 le _ tiler prisoner it was contended that the case was dru n k. er T e laughter, and not of murder. The man was received, h ...,uited almost to madness by the blows he had known, iteZlirder circumstances which could not now be the cause of beenpl ummet's ilty of the violence which was an absence of any death. There was, however, the passion aro u „ eci k l u':€ l whatever for that violence except went inflicted up o ," l " iel tile prisoner by the severe punish under similar cire nbasta __A case was cited to prove that wlethwTaaathtoi: amount to manslau g h te r :a the crime had been held to His Lordship, in summiLlY; they believed the killing of7haP,.tlireeted the jury that if Prisoner then had in sequeno of a ny ill• will or ratatl:etathilal: he a mmer was the con hisite f ic o k r e t t h ts e panrid mind towards him, and that th e : sorter to cool between his struggl e the his wounds violence t t o o the died, the off inflicted amount to murder. But, if the prisoner's a oftence would which deee the 'is° deceased d' result of foregone ill-will and malice, b et was not at was is the under the immediate influence of the blows he ' haqpretrated from Thomas Ricketts, without time to cool, and from natural depravity of a man s marting under the in jurtee t & had sustained, that would only amount to manslaugh ter. " I The jury almost immeliately found the prisoner Charles Beere guilty of manslaughter; and his lordship, after re marking that, although in his opinion the offence was m an _ slaughter only, and not murder, yet it approached so near to the dividing line between those two crimes as to require the most severe sentence the law permitted, sentenced the prisoner to penal servitude for life. The other cases disposed of to-day were of no public in terest, and concluded the business of the assizes for this county. The commission day for Lcicestorlis Monday, the 7th inst. HOME CIRCUIT.—IIEnEroun, Dec.,4. CROWN' COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Williams.) The learned Judge this morning charged the grand jury. The calendar contains the names of 25 prisoners, in 14 cases. In three cases there are three prisoners jointly charged, and in one (a case of fowl stealing) not less than six. As men tioned yesterday, there is no case of homicide (though there is one of attempt at suicide), and the cases are mostly of an ordinary character. The only cases at all remarkable are the case of night poaching, in which three prisoners were charged : a case of stack burning, in which three prisoners were charged; a case of maliciously setting fire to farm buildings, with intent to injure —a case in which also three prisoners were charged ; a remarkable case of burglary in the house of the Hon. and Rev. W. Chetwynd Talbot. at Hatfield ; a case in which the robbery (of plate worth £600) is said to have been committed by the butler. The learned Judge, in charging the grand jury, adverted to this case, and recommended them to be very particular in observing the evidence as to the footprints remarked on the hoar frost found in the garden path both to and from the house, and told them especially to observe whether the foot prints in both directions were the same. The case for the prosecution is that they were, and that the butler, with a view to divert suspicion, took the plate basket and put it in the garden, where it was found, according to the depositions, dry, although a hoar frost covered the ground all around and made the footprints quite conspicuous. Tho first case tried was the night poaching case, Two men, described as labourers, one named Hankin, 36 Yeats of age, and the other Garrett, 23, with a youth named Scales, 17, were indicted for being together armed with guns on land belonging to Mr. Puller, M.P., at Thundridge, in this county, for the purpose of taking and destroying game, which by the late Poaching Act includes rabbits. They were also charged with an assault. Mr. Wocllett was for the prosecution ; Mr. Codd for the defence, At 2 o'clock on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 22 last, two keepers saw the prisoners in a lane coming from a wood, the property of Mr. Puller, and attempted to apprehend them. They seized Garrett, who had a gun. A setae en sued, in which happily the gun having been already let off and not reloaded the keepers secured him. The other two ran away, but were taken in the evening at a public-house. The night, the keepers said, was " middling ; misty, but moonlight ;" and they both swore to their identity. On searching Garrett there were found upon him six snares, or wires for snaring rabbits, a powder pouch, with powders and a rabbit, which, having been stuffed, was produced in court amid much laughter. Near the place where the men were seized many fresh pheasants' feathers were found lying scattered on the ground. On searching Hankin's house a gun was found which appeared to have been recently fired, and which he at first said had not been fired for six years, or six months, and then that it had not been fired since "the last currant season." Garrett, when before the magistrates, said, " I suppose the keeper will say I hit him on the head with the gun, but I was not within three or four rods. I was in the lane and ran after the others. I ain't done much amiss as I know of. The rab bit I had I had given to me, which I can call a witness to prove," but which witness was not called. Hankin said, "We were all in the lane. The keeper came and clawed hold of me, and said, Oh I it is you, is it ?' While we were scuffling up and down one of my mates came and got me off. The keepers swear I had a gun, but that is false, for it was in my coat pocket and he could not have seen it. When we were running down the lane it dropped out of my pocket." Scales said, " I was not there and have nothing to say." No witnesses were called for the defence, and at the close of the case for the prosecution, Mr. Codd submitted that there was no case for an assault, because the keepers had no right to seize the men in the lane ; and he cited a case to that effect, but Mr. Woollett said, under the late Act men might be seized anywhere. The learned Judge said, there was no necessity to deter mine the point at present, nor unless the jury should acquit the prisoners on the grayer charge, Mr. Codd, having addressed the jury for the defence, especially as to Scales, urged that there was doubt as to identity. The learned Judge then summed up the case very care fully, and rather favourably as to Scales,pointing out, how ever, that it was not essential, to convict tha other two pri soners, that they should be satisfied as to his identity, sup posing they were satisfied that some third person was;with them, even although he was not Scales. The essence of the offence was in three persons being together at night, armed, and with intent to take and destroy game or rabbits. If they were satisfied that the two men were there with some third man with that intent, then they should convict them of the main offence, whether they were satisfied as to Scales or not; and if they were there with some third person it could hardly admit of question under all the circumstances that they were there with the intent charged. There did not appear to be any doubt that three men were there; the only serious question appeared to be whether Scales was ono of them. The jury consulted a considerable time, and at length they found the two men guilty of night poaching ; and as to the youth Scales they said they thought " the evidence was not sufficient"—in other words, they found him not guilty. Mr. Woollett said it was believed, on the part of the prosecution, that Hankin, who was an old offender, had led the other prisoner into the matter. The learned Judge said there were circumstances in the cases which he should wish to consider before passing sen tence, but he begged to intimate that he should not consider the fact stated, without evidence, that the prisoner Han kin was an "old offender," and the learned counsel would forgive him for saying that ho thought he had said it rather inconsiderately. Mr. Woollett apologized, and acknowledged that the words had escaped him without reflection; his object, however, having been not to aggravate the case as against nankin, but to mitigate it as against Garrett. These observations are deemed worth reporting as worthy of the attention of magistrates, who are a little too careless sometimes in allowing prosecutors or police to describe pri soners after conviction as "old offenders." The law, it should be stated, makes proper provision for the legal proof of previous convictions, and in the very next case—in which three prisoners, of whom one was named " Robert Peel," pleaded guilty to a charge of maliciously setting fire to farm-buildings, and the records of the previous con victions were produced, and the prisoners acknowledged their identity—their sentences were postponed. A youth named Gravastock, only 16 years of age, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary in a farmhouse, where he was servant. Mr. Tayler prosecuted. The learned judge sentenced the prisoner to a year's im prisonment. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCFILESTER, Dec. 3. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) Valentine Barnbrick, a soldier, and Charlotte Johnson, spinster, without occupation, were indicted for violently assaulting Henry Milner Russell, and stealing from his person four medals, of the value of 305., at Aldershot, on Nov. 15. Mr, H. T. Cole prosecuted. It appeared that the prisoners were standing at the door of a lodginghouse in Pickford-street, Aldershot, at night, on Oct. 16. Russell, who was lance-corporal in the com missariat department, came up. Bambrick asked Russell to drink, and he took some beer out of his pint. They then went into Russell's room, who lodged in the house, and Russell said he would stand some beer, and ho was in the act of giving the female prisoner some money to get the beer when Bambrick seized him by the throat, throw him on the bed, and tore from his breast four silver medals, one for the Punjab, one for the Sutlej, and one for the Crimea. Russell called " Murder," and his cries were heard by some of the other soldiers, who rushed in and took Bambrick from off Russell, and he was conveyed to the guardhouse. Two of the medals were afterwards found in the passage. Russell was insensible, having been nearly choked. Bambrick made a long address to the jury. Ho stated that he had been in the service 10 years, and would have been discharged the day after the occurrence. He had a pension of £lO a year, and, what was dearer to a soldier than any other modal, a Victoria Cross; but ho would tell the jury the real facts. On that night, as he was walking with the female prisoner towards this house, in which she also lodged, he heard cries of " Murder." He hastened and ran into the house, and saw a girl named Ilayley coming out of Russell's room. She was crying, and said that Russell had beaten her and nearly strangled her. lie went into the room and struck Russell, and they had a struggle together, and then the soldiers came in and took him up. These facts he could have proved on the first day of the assizes, because then Hayley was in Winchester, but as she was what was called an " unfortunate," she could not afford to remain in "Winchester, The learned Judge having summed up, The jury found the prisoner guilty. The Judge said he should defer passing sentence till the morning. Bambrick—lt is of no consequence what you do now. I don't care about losing my pension; but I have lost my position. I don't care what you do with me. You may hang me if you like. This morning his Lordship passed sentence. He said, — Valentine Bambrick, I don't know that I ever had a more painful duty than in considering your case. I have felt great anxiety about it, and have considered everything you urged in your defence ; but the evidence which satisfied the jury has satisfied me, and it does appear to me to be as clear a case as ever was tried. You say you had a witness, and that witness might have put some other construction on don't think any the matter. If you had made an application to have your trial postponed, I should have been the first to listen to your application, and I can't help thinking, from the intelligence 7", andwitness choked and You displayed, you must have been aware that you could wlihnsedtnedfoonunhditii ntharoat was almost have made such an application. lam bound to say that I witness could have altered the facts. You deadly i s s trugglewi c t l h ea a r n:ither man. F wa ; s e a u id ifo th oa a t t o w d h h e y n t h h e o f p ord v•- -d . ~u Russell swore of your medals and perfectly ..,e was robbed of his 2 60,2 123 of them were fo the woman lodged, R ow and at the house where n ll e ow do d u i h d t they you have cer n , f rom ' co ' - -ti ' d they have come there ? . . she breast of Russell ? I have courage, and hay. vf:xihibited great gallantry and great Had it . notb • entitled yourself to the Victoria een toryour Characte r , l in force ,ho provisions of but c er, should have put cent statute and subjected Y ou ' t p peronal castigation,, as i t is, I deal ' , with your Cross. THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 5, 1863. case with great regret. I should have been delighted if the jury could have seen their way to a doubt. 1 believe that you must have been under the influence of drink, for there was no adequate motive for your act, for the medals are only of trifling value. Your punishment must be very severe. It must be penal servitude for three years. With regard to you, Charlotte Johnson, you took a very subordinate part in the affair— Bambrick, holding up the girl's hand, "Look at this small hand, my lord ; it is absurd to suppose she could have done much against a strong man. She was merely in the room." The Judge—l say she only took a subordinate part. I shall not punish her so severely as the male prisoner. She must be imprisoned, with hard labour, for 12 months. Bambriek—There won't be a bigger robber in England than I shall be when I come out. William Samphee:and John Martingdale were indicted for maliciously wounding Charles Baker, with intent to murder him, on the 23d of July, at Farnham. Mr. Machonochie was council for the prosecution. It appeared that on the 23d of July Baker,boing the master of a small vessel called the Arehimedes,was proceeding in the evening to his vessel which was laying at the quay, when the prisoners came up to him and said, " You are a policeman." Baker said ho was not; he belonged to the little vessel on the quay. They walked on for a short distanco, and then returned, one of them having au iron bar. They said, "Let's do for the old -- and throw him overboard," and they then struck him on the head with the iron bar and knocked him senseless to the ground. The mate, hearing a noise, came on deck, and saw Baker lying senseless on the mud. Baker did not come to his senses till the next morn ing. Ho then went with a policeman to a vessel called the Rose, which was lying near the Archimedes, and he then picked out the two prisoners, and they were then appre hended. Samphee said they should not have done it if Baker had not tried to stab them, The jury found Samphee guilty, and acquitted Matting dale. The learned Judge then sentenced Sampheo to be kept in penal servitude for ten years. George Fry was indicted for assaulting Mary Yates with intent to murder her. Mr. Beetham prosecuted; and Mr. IL T. Cole defended the prisoner. Mary Yates—l am a housemaid in the service of the Rev. Mr. Lewis. The family went to church on Sunday morn ing the 29th of November, shortly before 11. I was the only person left in the house, and the doors were locked. There was a knock at the door. I went to it and asked who was there. The answer was "Me." I knew it was the voice of the prisoner, who was coachman in the family. I let the prisoner in. He followed me into the back kitchen. Ho asked what made me look so cross ? I said, because he was in my way. Ho went away and returned shortly with a new silk dress, which he offered me. I told him I did not want it, as I had plenty of dresses, and it was left on the kitchen table. I went into the dining-room to look to the fire ; the prisoner came to me. I asked him what he wanted ; he made no answer and went away— he returned with a table-knife in his hand, without his coat. He shut the door with his back. He then took me by the right shoulder and pointed the knife at ray side. He said he had been waiting the op portunity, and now he would do it. I told him he often said when he did an evil thing the devil had got the upper hand of him, and he had got the upper hand 01 him then. I asked him to put down the knifo and he put it on the chair. 1 tried to get out of the door, but he told me to stay. At l as t I got out and wont into the kitchen. He followed me with the knife in his hand, which he put oa the table. I tried to get out of the kitchen, but he would not let me go unless I would promise not to tell a living creature. I told him I would freely forgive him. I left the kitchen and got into the garden. He followed me and was much excited, and said he was a ruined man. I remained in the garden till the family returned from church. He never courted me, and we had no quarrel. A policeman said—l apprehended the prisoner on the 29th November. I told him the charge was attempting to kill the young woman. He made no answer. On the road to the station he said she was a girl he would not hurt a hair of her head—he supposed it was lowness of mind that made him do it. Mr. Cole here said the prisoner would plead guilty to an assault. Ho was a man of very good character, but seemed to be in love with the girl. The Judge said there was not attempt to kill ho supposed. The man was in love with the young woman and did not know what to do. He asked the prisoner if he was dis posed to act properly in future. The prisoner said he was, and he was then bound over to keep the peace for 12 months. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Dumuot, Dec. 3, Mr. Justice Wightman opened the commission here yes • terday, after which his lordship attended Divine service at the Cathedral. The calendar contains the names of 12 prisoners charged with various offences. The bills against several of thew were ignored. His lordship sat this morninc at 10 o'clock for the trial of prisoners, and charged the grand jury. Thus. Grant was indicted for a rapo on Margaret Res lop, at Billingha►u, on the 3d October last. Mr. Davison and Mr. Fowler prosecuted, and Mr. Camp bell Foster defended the prisoner. It appeared that on Saturday night, the 31 October, the prosecutrix, who is a married woman with six children, was going from Port Clarence, where she lived with her hus band, to Middlesborough, to make her marketings, about 7 o'clock at night. It was dark, and ehe had to pass along a broken piece of road, over which there was a plank to walk ou. She, being short-sighted, asked a man whom she saw near to assist her over the plank, as it was so dark she could not see it. Ha said, " Yes, ma'am, t will," and did so. She had never seen him before. He then walked alongside of her for some time, and, passing a publiehouse, asked her if she would go in and have anything to drink. She declined, and said she was obliged to him. They walked on, and he asked her if she was married, and where her husband worked, and when about 150 yards past the public house on the path, which is there on the railway embankment, and is very steep, the man suddenly turned round, took liberties with her, attempted to throw her down, and both fell and rolled over and over to the bottom of the bank, where, in spite of her cries and struggles, he committed the offence con plained of. Two persons coming that way heard her cry, "Oh dear, that Irishman." The man bad then run away. Her bon net and dress were torn and covered with mud, and she was much bruised. The man, of whom s h e gave a descrip tion to the p o lice, she swore was th e p r i soner , w h o i s an Irishman, and was engaged as a workman on some new houses building there. One of the persons who came up had seen the man assisting her over the plank, and he also swore that the prisoner was the man. There were other circumstances tending to establish his identity. The defence was that, supposing the jury to be satisfied that the offence chsrged had been committed, the identifi cation of the prisoner as the man who had committed it was not satisfactorily established, as the night was admitted to be dark, and neither of the witnesses who had spoken to the prisoner knew him before. It appeared, also, that upwards of 400 workmen, many of them Irishmen, were employed at a blast furnace close to the place where the offence was alleged to have been committed, many of whom were dressed similarly to the prisoner. His Lordship having left both points to carefully to the jury, _ The jury retired, and on their return found the prisoner guilty. - Ili; Lordship said the case, from its circumstances, was one of great aggravation, and for this offence, not many years ago, the prisoner would have been sentenced to death. The sentence of the Court was that ho be kept in penal servitude for 20 years. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Dec. 4.—ln -.---- for yarns of shipping yarns there has been no bu s i ness whatever to-day, nor has there b een muc h attempt on the p ar t o f se ll ers. P r i ces, w hi c h, as s t a t e d in Tuesday's r e p or t, h ad b een up on the prev i ous d a y t o th e highest point y et attained, have g i ven wa y f u ll 2d, p er lb. all descriptions. But even this decline has not brought buyers into the market. We have had an unusually small attendance, both of spinners and manufacturers, at market to-day, No doubt they had been apprised of the rise in discount tog per cent., and had anticipated the flat ness which prevails. Spinners and manufacturers being deeply Under c on t ract t h ere is less pressure to sell than might otherwise h ave prevailed, considering the rapid rise in the money-market. Cop yarns are quire as difficult to sell as shipping inquiry t o t est values, but it i s qu ite Certain that sellers havest all lo yarns, an there has scarcely been su fficien t they have gained in price last week and up to Mon day evening, The cloth-market has been quite inactive to day, but prices do not appear to have been affected to the same extent as in yarns. Manufacturers would in some cases take r a th er l ow ra t es , e specially those who hold stocks. Many of them a r e h eav ily under contract, and, in such cases, there seem s t o b e little disposition to make any sacri floe. Buy ers h o ld a l oo f, owing to the difficulties interposed by the conditi o n o f th e mo ney-market, but there does not appear to be much pressure to sell, The market closes with a gloomy feeling, but sellers do not apprehend any serious decline in prices for the present. CARDIFF, 4th.—Trade continues brisk, notwithstanding the rise in the price of coal, which has caused a slight dimi nution in the demand for that article. The iron-market is exceedingly firm, and quotations continue nearly stationary. Freights foreign are much about the same, with a rising tendency for the:ntediterranean and East Indian ports. The Coasting trade is tolerably busy, and freights are also increasing, [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Pills— Troublous Times.—Apatheticmust bo that mind which can read the weekly increasing deaths without a shudder for the consequent misery, a prayer for some . means of lessen. ing the deplorable scourge. Holloway's ointment and pills can be fearlessly recommended as the safest, swiftest, and easiest remedies for all fevers, inflammations, ulcerations, diphtherial, and carbunclepso,wtehrefuld i,sueraastelsvewaygiecnhtsaraelwnaoywa tpiroinnscifporalulysioncgcHasoioinioiwngayt,hsis deplorable morality. Instruc envelope the medicaments, which, with moderate attention, will alleviate much suffering and all danger. When the pills and ointment are employed according to the printed directions, the first crisis will be passed over in safety, and the ultimate recovery will be surely reached, The New Stables at Marlborough House. The Prince of Wales's stud has been removed from the Royal Mews to the stables re cently erected at Marlborough-house. The new building, stands upon the north-east side of the mansion, assumes the form of a square block with two wings, and is almost wholly built of yellow bricks. In the centre of the block is the grand or Royal entrance, leading into the gardens, which skirt the promenade of St. James's-park and com municate with the entire interior of the structure. On either aide of the Royal entrance are two coach houses, each divided into three divisions, and each division capable of holding two carriages. The quadrangle in front of these coach-houses and of the Royal entrance is covered by an enormous skylight, supported by light iron columns, open upon its three sides, lighted with gas, provided with clocks, manure pits ingeniously constructed, and well-tapped drains. The stables— some of which are upon a second tier reached by a gradaal ascent behind the east wing of the building —include 45 stalls and 12 loose boxes, and will be as perfect as modern resources can render them. The fittings have been supplied by Mr. Barton, of Oxford-street, and are of iron of a chocolate colour, excepting the vitrified enamelled correbues. The hay-racks are flush with the manger, flat and open at the bottom for the escape of dust, These are filled from time to time by hand, all upper supply of fodder from lofts being avoided. The floorings are of brick, laid edgeways, so placed as to carry off through trapped drains all moisture. Ventila tion is supplied without draught, by open work just beneath the open ceilings. No flanges or pro jections are detectable anywhere, and even the hay racks are provided with " an improved slip-back," to prevent the possibility of the horses' noses get ting caught between the apertures. In the front of the corn-bin, hay-rack, and water-tank, com prising the manger, a friction guard roller is placed, which, besides being a most effective preventive against crib-biting, is likewise, by its turning with the slightest touch, a security against the horse in juring its legs by rearing on to the manger, and "gives" to the contact of its haunches when it is led round in its stall. The stalls are divided by boarding, lasd at a particular angle to insure the greatest possible strength, and to prevent splinter ing by kicking. These divisions are surmounted by "open ventilating Exhibition pattern" iron rail ings, terminated by handsome pillars, with stall rings and chains, the latter gathering up in a some what elegant festoon when not in use. It being'the general opinion that ophthalmia in horses has been aggravated, if not altogether induced, by the glare and refraction of white tiles and other glazed sur faces, the whole of the skirting opposed to the horses' vision is lined with Raviencioni marble of a bluish-gray colour, from the works of Messrs. Burke and Co., of Warwiek-htuse, Regent-street, which, while it absorbs the light, imparts an agree. able effect upon the eye, and certainly gives a relief and finish to the general appearance of the stables. In some of the stables are long rows of slate reser voirs for water, which, when closed, are converted into seats for the ,attendants. The harness-rooms, more particularly those with glass cases appropri ated to the State suits, are very attractive phases of the establishment ; and those devoted to the ordi nary harness, fashioned to the form of the respec tive pieces of the bridle, &c., so that the shapes of the latter when suspended are preserved, and, the air beiug admitted, all injury from damp or mildew is prevented. The sitting rooms, dormitories, &c., for the upper officers and their attendants, are worthy of remark from the manner, it is obvious, their every requirement has been studied ; while the luxury, not to say necessity, of ample bath rooms is always within reach of the lowest of the employes. The builders of this simple yet model structure are Messrs. Smith and Taylor, the suc cessors of Messrs. Kelk ; and the whole of the plans and arrangements have been carried out by them under the direct superintendence of Mr. Penne thorne, his Royal Highness's architect.—Field. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Whatever be done next Session, there is one thing which the House of Commons cannot by any possibility escape—we mean, of course, the dis cussion of the question of Secondary Punishments. Though our columns are not, as during this time iast year, filled with the complaints and terrors of persons who have been, or believe they are going to be, garotted or knocked down by "knuckle dusters" and /° life-preservers," the question has lost none of its importance and little of its interest. It has undergone a thorough and searching discussion, and has now arrived at the stage when decisive action is imperatively called for. The leading ob jections to our present Secondary Punishments may be briefly stated to be that so much of the punish ment as is inflicted in places like Portland is greatly wanting in severity. The food is too good, the treatment too pleasant, to inspire terror into hard ened offenders. The second objection is that the system of tickets of leave has iu practice broken down. The surveillance of the police has been found impracticable, and there is, in truth, no tangible distinction between a ticket of leave holder and a prisoner whose sentence has been remitted alto gether. A third objection is, that remissions of sen tence for good conduct aro little more than a pre mium upon hypocrisy, and are often obtained by the most hardened and desperate offenders, to the tedium of whose imprisonment it is an agreeable relief, in the absence of more exciting employment, to "gam mon the chaplain." Fourthly, it is complained that after subjecting our criminals to a process which does very little for their improvement, we turn them adrift upon a society which they have already wronged, to commence a new career of out rage. The commissioners recommend that we should remedy these evils in the following manner. They do not propose to make the treatment of convicts labour ing on public works more severe, but to commence it with nine months of separate imprisonment, and not to recognise sentences of penal servitude for a less period than seven years. They do not propose to make the diet worse, or the restraint more severe ; they propose to send all who are fit for hard labour during the latter part of their sentence to Western Australia, and that those who are unfit for trans portation should be sot at large under superinten dence at home. No propositions could less corres pond to the reasonable expectations of the public than these. They leave untouched almost every provision to which exception has been taken, ex cept the non -removal of prisoners from this country, and they propose transportation in such a shape as to make it a reward for crime if practicable, and to enlist all the strongest feelings of the colonists of Australia against its adoption. Three persons have come forward to propose amendments on this plan. The first is the Chief Justice of England, who gives hia opinion distinctly against the system of remis sions and tickets of leave, and proposes, we think with the very general consent of the public, that the sentence as pronounced by the Judge shall be lite rally executed in all cases, except where her Majesty shall be pleased to exercise the prerogative of mercy. Lord Carnarvon and the Harepsnire magistrates have devised a plan for greater severity of punishment, and for remissions not based upon good conduct, but upon the amount of labour per formed, those remissions being rather in the severity than in the duration of the punishment. Lastly, Mr. Adderley has expounded in our columns his own views of the subject, which seem to consist in keep ing separate the ideas of reformation and punish ment, in doing away, as the Chief Justice proposes, with remissions or tickets of leave, and leaving the expatriation or future employment of the prisoner when his sentence has expired to private agency assisted by the State. Such is the position of the question at this moment. We subscribe at once to the sound logic of the argument which requires that the sentence as pronounced by the judge should be carried into complete effect; but at the same time we cannot help feeling that this, like many other perfectly propositions,logical involves very considerable diffi culty in practice. Mankind must be governed either by hope or fear, and, if hope be removed, we have nothing left to trust to in our prison discipline, but the number of our werders and the strictness of our regulations. We might abaridon without a sigh the supposed reformatory effects of remissions, in which we have no great faith, but we confess that we should give up with regret the hope of making the prisoners contribute in some degree to the preservation of good order and discipline. We may perhaps be driven to such a course, but it would be with great regret—with diffidence as to the possi bility of maintaining it, and the prospect of a heavy increase to the public burdens by maintainiaoinn every prison a force sufficient to do by comp ti ckets p that which is now obtained by hope. As for of leave, the institutions and habitsof this country to their effi offer, as it seems to us, fatal obstacles ciency. The surveillance which li tll b e e e : n m fo u r li c s e s d i 7 n a l s recommend will never practlbea oyme reailv nothing rickets of leave, therefore, ec , but unacknowledged r emissions of existing sen tences. But, little reason as we have to be satisfied with the recommendation of the Commissioners as regards transportation, we are not prepared with Mr. Adderley to surrender the idea altogether, or, which is much the same thing, to leave it to private agency assisted by public money. If transportation be abed thing, let us abstain from it altogether; if a good one, let us take it inte our.own hands and con duct it by an agency responsible to the public. If we fear, as Mr. Adderley hints, the reclamations of other countries who may object to receive the refuse of our population, that objection will be just es cogent whether we direct the transportation our selves or give money to private persons to direct it for us. The blind would be too transparent to deceive any one, and the responsibility would attach with all the more force from the consciousness of the necessity of the concealment which an indirect pro ceeding would imply. We are convinced that a re turn to transportation to Australia could not be main tained in the face of the opposition I,f the colonists. They would soon place us in the dilemma of giving up our plan or enforcing it by arms, and they expect with no unreasonable confidence that to this last and worst arbitrament no Government would be likely to have recourse. Besides, the transportation to such a country as Australia would be much more of a reward than punishment, and would tend rather to the increase than the prevention of crime. Must we, then, give up the idea of transportation altogether, since we can neither acquiesce in the recommendation of the commission nor in the pri vate agency assisted by public money proposed by Mr. Adderley ? This gentleman argues that punish. ment is one thing and transportation another, and that the end of punishment is to deter the criminal by his own sufferings, and others by the example of his fate. From this he coneludes,as we understand, that, as the business of the Legislature is with punishment, they ought not to meddle directly with transportation, which is not a matter of punishment but of the disposal of the criminal after punishment is over. The whole of this question has, like many others, been perplexed by a careless assumption of the principles upon which it is to be decided. The business of the State is not only punishment, but the prevention of crime by all efficient and proper means. One of these means is punishment, but it is not the only one. Crime may be prevented by fear, but this is not the only means of prevention. Take, for instance, capital punishment. The man who is executed can commit no more crimes, not because he fears, but because he is for ever deprived of the power. So with regard to imprisonment. While a man is in prison he cannot commit crime, because the confinement deprives him of the oppor tunity. Crime, then, can be prevented, not only by example, but by interposing physical obstacles to its commission. Perpetual imprisonment or death cannot without inhumanity be inflicted for the greater number of offences, but a man may without inhumanity be removed to a place where, while enjoying a certain degree of freedom, he is just as incapable of renewing his injuries to the society he has already wronged as if he were kept in the midst of it in the strictest confinement, We cannot see why this simple and efficient means of preventing crime—the more simple and efficient because it does not rest on any illusory theory of reformation, or on the supposition that the criminal will carefully lay to his heart his own sufferings or the example of others—is to be given up. We cannot afford to forego any advantage in our struggle with crime. Every means of repres sion which we neglect is a wrong to the honest part of society. The problem, therefore, resolves itself into finding a suitable place for the transportation of criminals, and devising such regulations as, without unnecessary severity, may prevent those who are sent there from repeating their injuries to their fellow-men. It is probable that if our worst criminals were thus disposed of we might be able the more readily to dispense with the remission of sentences for lighter offences. HERALD.—In the accounts of the progress of the Polish rebellion at Warsaw and elsewhere there is so much colouring and exaggeration, so mach of what is clearly fabulous mixed up with what is cre dible, that the result is as Lir as possible removed from the usually sober tenor of current history. The telegrams from Cracow and Breslau will inform us one day of atrocities that make the blood run cold, of men brutally butchered or more cruelly tor tured to death, of women flogged or hanged, of a reign of terror more hideous than that of Merat or Carrier. When our sentiments of pity and indig nation are just excited to such a point that we are willing to give all our sympathy to the cease of the patriots, we are roused from our dream, and cancel our vows of vengeance, for a very circumstantial statement has reached us from St. Petersburg, proving the utter impossibility of the perpetration of such outrages by arguments of time and place which we cannot gainsay. Very much in the 83E140 way the stories that coma to our ears, from Russian sources, of poisoned daggers, the hanging of pea sants, attempts at assassination, and a system of secret intimidation by a revolutionary junta, are, in their turn, flatly contradicted by the organs of the Polish insurgents. With no witnesses on whom we can rely, except such as live at a distance, and whose knowledge must come to them ey hearsay, we are in a sad quandary as to what we are to believe as to the progress or prospects of the insurrection, as to whether the war is carried on by either side or both sides in the manner of brute beasts rather tban of Christian combatants. Wo would willingly, if we could, disbelieve all the stories, blot out with one common erasure these averments on either side of atrocities which fill us with horror and disgrace the whole family of man. But is the history of events occurring. is a country which, by express travelling, we can reach in two or three days, events which pass as it were before our very eyes, to be nullified and made a tabula rasa. reckoned as much a myth as the early history of Rome when dissected by Niebuhr ? It seems as if it were so, as if we had no choice but to suspend our judgment as to every matter of fact, to disbelieve every statement, how ever plausibly made, unless supported by absolutely incontrovertible testimony. If the result of this incredulity should be to damage the cause of the Poles more than that of the Russians, it is the Poles themselves who are to blame for it, for they it is who favour us with most of the intelligence of the progress of the rebellion, and they have been re peatedly convicted of having falsified and fabri cated this intelligence in such a manner as to tell in their favour and to the discredit of their enemies. No cause, however just in itself, can be served by falsehood. In the case of the secret document alleged to have been found among the papers of Count Andrew Zamoyski, in the perquisition made in his palace at Warsaw, after the attempt on the life of General De Berg, the charge of bad faith is retorted by the Poles against the Russian Government , w hich is accused of having forged it. A small piece of crumpled tissue paper, that seemed to be striped with blue lines, is said to have assumed, under the focus of a magnifying glass employed by the police, the pro portions of a lengthy document in writing. It was no less than a " plan of the Polish revolution," bearing the signature of Mieroslawski. On the first aspect of the matter there is much that is ihaprobable in the story. The tiny piece of paper, to be concealed in the quill of a pen or the cover of a watch, and the blue lines of microscopic writing, are probably details invented by men who have a natural love of the marvellous. Nor is it likely that this wily agi tator would have appended his name to a treasonable document intended for wide circulation. With these reservations we are inclined to believe that the document is authentic. Were it a forgery, we should expect to find a more truculent tone pervad ing it. It would be to the interest of the Russian Government to represent the Polish leaders as organising a wide-spread plot for the extermination of the Russians, the, assassination of lukewarm Poles, and so forth. This plan of the revolution bears in itself the stamp of its authenticity. It ex plains the constant agitation kept up by the Agri cultural Society during the rule of the Grand Duke Constantine, and for two years at least before the conscription in the spring of this year. This " plan of revolution" bears date on. March 1, 1861. The s ehe b ee of a rising was thus long ago prepared. The first step.'wero to be taken in a very cautious and wily manner: The offers of the Russian Government, then proposing :o emancipate the serfs throughout the empire, were to be outbid by the emissaries of the Secret Committee at Warsaw, which, in the name of the Polish landowners, eetas to promise in all the provinces of Poland that the peasants should be amicably endowed with the " sta fate lands." The proprietors were to ply the Czar wit:1 11 s e e es e it, he this boon to the peasants. Should he 1 Should was to be held up as the common encrust petition.s for - b ae elerted he, on the other hand, grant it, it was too to it b y everywhere that he had been compelled p any intention of keeping it. This "l a m erits, at all intimidittion, and was not making the promise with was clever and dishonest enough• t events, the teward." It was s foreign propagandism n t s d o s f e ret emissaries to th e G praise which w as bestowed upon the s secret machinations of th e " un j ust to be followed up by a n active for o a n n d d e n c t s o u a r over by means of newspaPerocolorernetssp Eu rope, especially those of France and England. These powers were to be " tired out" with repre sentations of Polish discontent end Russian oppres sion. While Europe at large was to be persuaded, by fair means or foul, of the vitality of Poland and the utter impuissance and approaching ruin of Russia, the chief aim must be to compromise to wards Russia the Governments of France and En land.s'o_sfstuhreesde ofthe sympathy, or at least of the support Governments, having tightened the relations which bound up their cause with that of the " Italians and H ungarians, nationalities which aspire ne break the Austrian chain," the leaders of the Polish people were to excite in the population of east and west a " patriotic exaltation," and dis cipline them secretly to arms. A premature rising was deprecated, but as soon as ever offensive opera tions were commenced by the Russian soldiery, the patriots everywhere were to join without the least hesitation the popular mas 0 i. " That the rebellion was thus provoked while yet premature is now mat• ter of history. To elinplete the miserable narrative will have ere long to be added that the snows of winter have quenched those last embers of revolt which were not trampled out by the armed heel of the Russian. COUNTRY MARKETS• WAKEFIELD —FRIDAY. The show of wheat to-day was moderate. Last Friday's rates were fully maintained, but sales very dull. Barley in slow demand, and prices lower. STAMFORD—FRIDAY. An improved trade in wheat to-day, at is per qr d e arer. —White wheat, 42s to 44s ; red, 36 s to 40 per 36 stone. Barley, malting, 35s to 375; grinding, 31s to 34s per qr. Oats, 20s to 24s per 21 stone. Beans, old, 40s to 42s per qr. ; new, 34s to 365. LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY". At this day's market we had a small attendance both of millers and dealers, with a quiet business in wheat —to effect sales Id oz 2d less money would have been accepted. Flour a dull sale, but not cheaper. Indian corn easier, and very dull. FRIDAY. offer at our market to -day, ,r best descriptions. Barley IST. Barley, grinding 28s to 335 Oats, old, .. 23s to 254 New do 20s to 25s 1 Beans. 38s to 41s 1 Beans, new 34s to 385 1316 680 151 LINCOLN. A fair quantity of wheat on and prices fully is advance lo dull. Beans scarce, and as de White wheat new, 42s to 46s Red do. 383 to 408 Old white —s to —s Red do —s to —s Barley, malting 34s to 38s CORK—FRIDAY. The following. were the quotations this morning wheat, Ss Od to 8s 10d; white, 8s Od to 9s 8d , barley, 6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d to 68 2d ; black do., 4s 4d to 58 U. DUBLIN• A very dull market, withoi Tuesday. —FRIDAY. .t any quotable change from a. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 Oatmeal Beans.. Bere . Rapeseed Bakers' flour L B 0 . ; 0 0 . ttt t 0 0 00 0 s. ;0' Indian corn BRISTOL SUGAR—FIIDAY. The market for sugar is very inactive, and prices ars, fully is 6d lower. Rt.,finers' produce also neglected, Oa Is 6d to 2s lower. Rum in good demand. COAL fdAitK.BT. Prices of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. a. d. d I Tanfield Moor Butea..l s 6 Byass's Bebside West Hartley . .. 16 0 Holywell 17 6 Walls End. 6 . 20 West Hartley 16 0 I Hetton r North Hartlepooh.• ••• 15 v :et, 7 ; sold, 7. Ships at marl RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts.-. Railways. --...--, 1863. 1862. 1863. 15C 0 £ £ 1,961 10" n 601 6(3 1,879 1, 175 , 6,338 6, 25 1 16,925 15. 616 4 307 401 126 151 391 288 1,286 1. 076 272 3 1 L. 468 i ..,42. 1,627 1. 6 ' 12 1 197 405 1,927 7,903 Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 Belfast and County Down 49 49 Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 Bristol and Exeter 1214 1214 Caledonian Cockermouth& Workington B4 8 4 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 6 1 Cork and Youghal .. 324 324 Cornwall 654 534 Deeside l7 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 554 484 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1694 1694 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness, &c 5O 5 ) Glasgow & South-Western Gt. Eastern,Nrtk.,&E.Union 663 614 Great Northern 353 851 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 lit. A ortnn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 714 564 Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3734 329 Great Western 10564 10324 Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 864 Inverness & Perth Junction 1194 Irish North-Western 145 145 Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 3954 Limerick and Ennis.. 244 241 _... --• - „ 60 0 3,022 ' , 0 ,5 9,137 29,462 25,621 31,312 2 8 . 49 4 1,786 2, , "1 46 8 3 ° 8,030 56,948 52 -",;‘, 3115 1 ::52: 1 (6,71 9 0007 0 31 :: !;,../ 0 .5 1" 76 /25 584 585 95,635 87, 598 1,747 1, 18,160 1 6,2 1 15,462 1 6 . 22 ' 4,199 2 7°5 1,000 15 0 1.166 1,013 17,363 15. 95 1 1,211 1,0 06 1,440 1,272 Limerick and Foynes 261 26; Llanelly 4O 46f London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5l 51 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2611 2414 London, Chatham, & Dover 72f 72; Do. Metropolitan Extension 1 0 64 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sliellield, & Lineolnsh 239; 239; Rauch. S.J un.& A ltrincham 9; Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan 3l Midland (inol. N. -Western) 641 Midland Gt.Westat. of Irind 219 Monkland 714 Monmouthsh. RaiL & Canal 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Dad 1095 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 , Oswestry and Newton... 5O Rhymney l9 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 66 South Devon 7s} South-Eastern 306 Taff Vale 67 Ulster 614 Vale of Clwyd. . . lO Vale of Neath 32} Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 274 W.HartlepoolHarbr.&RaiL 4B W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 Whitchaven Junction l2 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction 2 Bombay, Baroda, & (,en. India 185 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l Detroit and Milwauk,ie lB9 Dutch Rhenish lOBl 6141 1926 71} 44 4101 10771 132 i 301 751 306 Eastern of France East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada 1 Great Indian Peninsula [167 - 9331 1090 538 k ---- -- _ Great Luxembourg l3 4Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650 Northern of Canada ... N o rthern of France 697 Norweg„rian Trunk O t t oma n .• Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco 77i Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian - . . 1430 Southern of France • • •....„‘„, Victorian 196 Welland . 000000 ••••••••••• • 00000 • • 25 West 14 landers 75 W. and N.W. of France. 932 828 264 1321 161 t 189 1061 1081 639 1090 4371 134 48} 16M 143} 1,852 - 43,610 40,034 4,419 4,009 1,683 1,659 1,761 2,456 11,645 10.547 55,972 52,826 3,317 2,98 9 8,872 7,9 68 1,093 911 970 88 2,164 2 , 1 *" 5,072 4, 623 4,640 646 3 ,r a 3.113 17,806 17,94 5,882 21. 59 1. 148 17,6 2,368 310 `"'"/ 1,159 1, 746 706 25 4,120 0 .',3 598 742 975 •• 860 2 41 , : ( 362 ) 8 6 658 ! 318 ;" 1133 j 2,842 1 , q3 5,371 4 •30 3. 4,223 8 0 56,322 52 : 9 01 16,389 1 „ % '7.26 20,808 xllO 7,112 f 330 4,201 7 . 4 58 '499 „ 3 ,96 11,942 1 0 +,1 19,294 13 , '`, 1 5 1,385 1, 9 0 57,583 550' 0 3 3,059 V 435 4 7 112,940 13 5 1 3 2 71,006 498 480 644 444 11 N : 5 1 ig 74 4 2 2 3 6 7,486 409 463 9 13 40 ,9 90 8 37,013 Foreign Mail Packet Lis MAILS DUE. Dec. 19' Australia and Mauritius via " th i , soa_amp_on. ..... • Dec. 3. via Marseilles ........ .-v 4 brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet........ Dee. .9. Cape of Good Hope, Asce ns i on , an d St. lielena,.Dee. China, Penang, and Singapore, vi via Mar s° a S o uthatuptun• '2. illes DDec.ec' 13. —• • • Gibraltar, via Southampton Falkland Islands ..... .......... India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. De- il:‘ via plarseilles....De c. ',,. India (Bombay), via Southampton ............ Dec. I ,' . via Marseilles ................ Do. 0 , Portugal.... .......... 12. .................. Dec. V. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... Dec. via Marseilles ....... Dec. 6 6 ' . Newfoundland .Deo- Oporto and Vigo .. . ........ U. 6. and British N. America, by Brit. packe t Dec. by "U.S. packet ,. by a n packet Dec. 1 . W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerifle Dec. J`,.,' Peru, Dec. ,2,5. Bahamas, via New York .............. Dec. I ,„'' •iv. Mexico. . All parts of West Indies, including Chili, California. and British Columbia.. ..t...i. Births. BEVAN.—On the 4th inst,, at Rosendale, Sydenhaub wife of Wm. Bevan, Esq., of a daughter. a.„ of HOGG.—On the 3d inst., at 9, Eaton- p l ace, the W- Lieut.-Colonel Hogg, of a son. m uNo y.--On the 3 d inst., at Suhsex.road, Holloway) lar°l Giles Munby, of a son. siw3E y.—On the 3d inst., at 3, Adelaide-street, stria' t h e wife of the Rev. Henry Swabey, of a daughter' Marriages. gti& CLONVES — CA.VENDISH.—On the 3dinst , a t Okeover, fordshire, S. W. Cli m ' es, Eeq , of B;oughton O orola Lancashire, and Woodhouse Eaves, Loughbug'ihe of the Hon. Adel a id e C avend i sh se cond daughte r late Lord Wat er p ar k , o f Doveridge Hall, Devonshire' o f, LlND—DA.vis.—On the Ist inst., at the British Era b , o a r El pst Paris, C a pt a i n J ames B urnie Li n d, B en gal Staff (Joie, to Florence, youngest daughter of Sir John F. Bart„ K.C.B. FLETCHER—On the 2d i D ns e t at " j hB F . l et ch eE Esq•, L F E e z h o h ir.--- i On g n ed th B ,2d inst., at Pepe r ; nsarOvil .surrbit m the Viscount Midletou, aged 72. OLESIVORTIL—On the 3d inst., at West Brorapton, 01. Wm. Molesworth, Esq., Paymaster R.N., aged 3 q. SUTTON.—On the 3d inst., at Bideford, Devon, Thoutas Sutton, Esq. J. SMITHER.—On the 3d inst., at Durham, Mr. Smalle r, of 3, Fridaystreet, London. • •T SMITH.-02 the 2d inst., at Dalton, suddenly, Cap Smith, formerly of Hull, aged 8 2 . T EI snALE.—On the 3d inst., M r. James Teasdale, Water street, Blackfriar....••••l London: PKtiz.2d and Pubfished by WILLIAM AND, u. f of No. 112, Stran d, Printer, at VIE SUN Office o Strand, in the Pi-Cella of the Savoy. in the Cou O KiddlegeL—Saturaay,. Decembeos,_lB63. 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