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

THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, .14•... , (Frl)m the Paris Correspondent of the 2tmes.) eONSTANTINOPLE, Nov, 26, The man is for constant changes in the Adminis tration whi oh has been, to a certain extent, inhe rited by the present Sultan from his predecessor, and the sod .den dismissal and disgrace of favourites holding high offices in the palace have been the subject of 'such frequent comment that the periodi cal edicts eef 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 forth in the early days after his accession to the throne. For this reason, perhaps, the an nouncement that the all-powerful Sheik-ul-Islam (Chief of the Faith) has been superseded will not be xeceived—iu Europe, especially—with any particu lar interest ; and yet it may be said that of all the important changes which have been efficted under the presen I reign this one is, without doubt, the Melt important and the most significative. Although the office of Sheik-ul-Islam is in theory only equ;sl in rank with that of Grand Vizier, yet in reality it may be taken to represent, under the Sul tan, the greatest power in the State. The high pa tronage which it possesses, the means it affords of influencing the feelings and destinies of the people in the remotest districts of the empire, the great religious preetige which is attached to it, the facili tios, above all, which it gives to the holder for con stint and confidential intercourse with the Sove reign —all these things have combined from early times to invest this ecclesiastical and judicial office With considerable pomp and almost unlimited power. It has not unfrequently happened, therefore, that the fanecticism of a Sheik-ul-Islam, which has been a hereditary characteristic with every successive oc cupant o f this office, has contributed always to re tard, and often to paralyse, the measures of reform which have been introduced from time to time, and neutralise any progressive tendency which may have .manifested itself in the country. For many mouths pest it was known that the now disgraced dignitary adopted as a ru '0 a systematic opposition to eve r y enlightened measure emanating from the Sultan's Ministers. It was believed that his influence with the Sultan was so great that all the combined efforts of the Ministry would not be sufficient to shako him from the high ground which he occupied. Many were the instances cited, on authority, of the imped imen is which he opposed to any p roject sus peCtel I of European origin, or of assimilation with European usage. The consequence was that it not only retarded the execution of many useful schemes, but a .lso nipped in the bud others still more impor tant, the introduction of which was considered hope lees under the unconquerable difficulty. In no inste ,nce did this fanatical venom manifest itself more strongly than in the case of the concession for the Imperial Bank. Every argument was used calculated to i nsp i re distrust of the foreigners in terested, in that important affair. The Sultan was known to have wavered, bat fortunately gave way to his own better instincts, and ratified the conven tion. 3leddened by this defeat, the eff. , rts of the Sheik-ulelslam have since that time been directed °wards the overthrow of the Ministry who had dared to thwart him. The great hold he had over the Illernah party was used to inspire that body with suspicion against the Ministers, who were re presented as upholding the interests of the Giaours against those of the faithful, and of being little short of Giaoure themselves. If these pernicious influences had been allowed to opere.te much longer there is no knowing to what extent the feeling of the country would have been affected. The iin,nediate 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 iu the administration of the Church properties ( - Vaeuiffs)—a subject often canvassed and discussed, - but never taken seriously in hand, on account of the obstructions with which it was beset. Again, h'is influence was e utployed to induce the Sultan t o reject the whole report, and rumours were at the time spread, not quite devoid of foundation, that th e position of the Ministry was very precari ous. '3nce more, however, the Sultan resisted these evil col , ,nsels, 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 Jar as can 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-Zide Hussain 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 bo called the " Liberal party." It is not improbable that under the new Sheik ul-lalana the long-talked of measure of reform of 1 4 Vacoufs may be brought forward. A proper ire'lltiling of this q uest i on may b e ma d e to produce AP°ttant benefits to the Treasury by increasing '"enue, and also to the present administrators of those tr,,,ts, whose management has been so de ective that these valuable possessions are compara tive!), at in their hands. S ls DA lani ult , l‘ aueo " 1 3' with the dismissal of th e Sh e ik- I tZ l e lEhta r ;sad one f Bey, one o f th e Ch am b er l a i ns, arc, was distais o Mo at activ e opponents of the Minis l4) mouth. 'ed3 with a pension of 1,600 piastres In their effort, et co of conjecture as to the cause of the sudden dismissal , S. heik-ul-Islitin the pub lic have been starting all subject, the one most circulated of canards on the that it arose from the di ser.nr _tt, being an assertion in arhe invitation to the Sultan of his accepta n j e 7at t ion expressed to attend the proposed Congress the audience really took place on the oecasiou o 'si This is what granted to the French Ambassador;--The de Moustier made rather a lon g speech, Marquis fully into the different parts of the tiutotra el?tering of which he was the bearer, and eon e b, ae r b letter pressing an earnest hope that the Sultan vehex c ept the invitation. The Sultan replied, in the ta ae• t courteous terms, th a t if the invitation had been :it private nature he would have immediately seiz ed the occasion to make the personal acquaintance o f his Imperial ally, and would have availed himself of that opportunity for visiting also other parts of Europe; but that the proposal, as it stood, involved interests of such magnitude that it was not 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 jects to be submitted to the Congress should be clearly defined beforehand. The fact is that the Turks view with ill suppressed uneasiness a project which if carried out must open 11 1 4 questions regarding their own internal affairs, which they would much prefer should be left alone, and 1)e allowed to be settled by themselves. There can be tie doubt that it would be the signal for a host of ambitious and unscrupulous agitators—Ser vians, %amass, Montenegrins, &c.—to trump up grievances against inOnr for Pa h l; the suzerain pow er , an d to cla- B mpattly in the cause of the so called "oppressed n ationalities." France has a l wa y s , so to speak, coquetted with these factions in th e East, and it is not Bared that the Turks should look with apprehension on a scheme so ob its meaning and y e t so scare in wide in its applica tion. A misunderstanding has sp rung With the affairs s o up b etween the Porteand the person who is charged d'Aff it i res, of the Greek Logatiou here. This gehtletta: it seems is not even accredited as Char g e has made application, through the IVlihiater f or Foreign Affairs, for en audience of the Sulta n , to county. present a letter from King George of Greece notify ing his elevation to the throne. The Turks have taken a huff at this proceeding, declarin;; that it is a breach of etiquette, for that an au' ence can only be granted to an Envoy. They had them selves intended to send a special _'‘ in bassador 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 should 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, b u t w ill rate have further to be worked out. i rich in its soil, and where thepr bw present n t4 l county ofyads! v ances to agriculturi s t s ran per cent., such a scheme With rmanagement op er manag may be consider e d t o b e second P 0 n e l t y i e n e n 4O i mp o a r nd t an 6 c o e to the establishm en t of a national bank. The Im perial Bnk not only will leud a it ever approves th e sc h eme , b ut some of its own y assistance by the introdu l ti on o f taking, elements in the proposed under- ►SIZE INTELLIGENCE, MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Wenwscis, 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. Edwin 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 Kenny 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 Boer() down with the hooked end. After he was down Mi. 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. Ricketts 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 hire ?" Henry replied, "If you can't go into him I can," and began to kick Mr. Ricketts. Charles also got 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 aed 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, Wm. Ricketts, whom he sent to take the men 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 Southam in a cart, and on their way Henry Beere said, "Yost 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 Southam 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, wh ereupon 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 quite 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 en 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 large 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 healthy. 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 close of the prosecution Mr. Stephens submitted that there was no case against Henry Beere ; and Ilia Lordship at once so ruled. aye °f the other prisoner it was contended that the case was anirl o u t man_ slaughter, and not of murder. The man was reeei4 a:l h ot excited almost to madness by the blows he had kno w ,. iitl a a d, under circumstances which could not now be the coa ls , otorsubtedly been guilty of the violence which was an absenc e ot 4 • Plummer's death. There was, however, 51. 4 11 7 cause whatever for that violence except the passim ) , went inflicted the prisoner by the severe punish -oa:a:lces the crime had been held to punish under simila r 0 4 114 :- A case was cited to prove that amount to manslasi His Lordship, in Biteara rlY. dected the jury that i t h e y believed the killi ng ot l harlesir Plummer was the con f ' l ice th e prisoner then had i n sequence of any ior his mind towards! him, and that ti ler h n e Thos. Ricketts and soner to cool between his struggle wit was time for the pri ataied, ttherwards inflicted u act was not the thehis violence wounds t t o o the hr deceased, j e t a ha s et e , di,f deceaseda th nd e th offence would amount to mur. •prisoner' s l ue a n n c d e of themalice, blows h PerPetrated result of foregone ill-will the immediate e had received from Thomas Ricketts, without time to cool, and f res , u' natural depravity of a man sm artin g u nder the tnjuries"ahe e had sustained, that would only am o unt to manslau ghter. The jury almost immeliately found th e prisoner C harle s Beere guilty of manslaughter; a nd his lordship, after marking that, alth oug h in his opinion the offe nc ewas ma rts slaughter only, an d no t mur der, yet it approached so nea r to the dividing- line between those two crimes as to requi re 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 erest, and concluded the business of the assizes for this The conamiseionday for LeicesterLis Monday, the 7th inst, HOME CIECUIT.—HEREFORD, 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 th a t th ey were, and that the butler, with a view to dive r t 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. The first case tried was the night poaching case, Two men, described as labourers, ono named nankin, 36 years 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 included rabbits. They were also charged with an assault. Mr. Woollett 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 scuffle 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 powder, 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 ho 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. Rankin said, "We were all in the lane. The keeper came and clawed hold of me, and said, Oh 1 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 graver charge. Mr. Codd, having addressed the jury for the defence, especially as to Scales, urged that there was doubt a s to identity. The learned Judge then summed up the case very care fully, and rather favourably as t o Scales,pointing out, how ever, that it was not essential, to convict the 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 t h ere w i th the intent charged. There d i d not appea r t o b e any doubt that throe men were there; the only serious question appeared to be w h e th er Sc a les was one 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 net sufficient"—in other words, they found him not guilty. Mr. Woollen said it was believed, on the part of the prosecution, that Rankin, who was an old offender, had led the ether prisoner into the matter. The learned Judge said there were circumstances in the cases which he should wish to consider before passing son trmce, but he begged to intimate that he should not consider the fact stated, without evidence, that the prisoner Ran kin was an "old offender," and the learned counsel would forgive him for saying that he 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 Rankin, 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 Gravestock, only 16 years of age, pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary in a farmhouse, where he wad servant. Mr. Tayler prosecuted. The ,learned judge sentenced the prisoner to a year's im prisonment. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—WINCILESTER, Dec. 3. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) Valentino Bambrick, 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 lodginghonse in Pickford-street, Aldershot, at night, on Oct. 16. Russell, who was lance-corporal in the com missariat department, came np. 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 he was in the act of giving the female prisoner some money to get the beer when Bambrick seized him by the throat, threw 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. He stated that he had boen in the service 10 years, and would have been discharged the day after the occurrence. He had a pension of .£l.O a year, and, what was dearer to a soldier than any other medal, a Victoria Cross; but he 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 Hayley coming out of Russell's room. She was crying, and said that Russell had beaten her and nearly strangled her. He 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 r 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 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 You displayed, you must have been aware that you could hand on hi s c have made such an app li cat i on. lam bound to say that I don't cre think any witness could have altered the facts. You andfottnd in a d ea dl y struggle with another man. He was v., a a e:l yon,os t and witnesske d ani said suffocatedthatw hbeyn the he pressure found youof your Russell medals thro and some of t, It i s perfectly clear he was robbed of his of them were f oun d at the house where the woman lod gam . How did they cern, from no doubt yo u h ave courage, and ha ve could they have com e th ere ? e rzn ib the b reast of Russell ? I have well entt!tdi great gallantry and g rea t Cross. Had it notb een for your ched yourself to the Victo r i a a recent statute I should h ave p u t in force the provision s of you to persona! castigatio n , b ut, as it s i deal with your 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 servitule 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. Bambrick—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 %vita council for the prosecution. It appeared that on the 23d of July Bakor,being the master of a small vessel called the Archimedes,was proceeding in the evening to his vessel wh:ch was laying at the quay, when the prisoners came up to him and said, " You are a policeman." Baker said he was not; he belonged to the little vessel on the quay. They walked on for a short distance, and then returned, one of them having an 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 cane to his senses till the next morn ing. He then went with a policeman t o a vesse l ca ll e d th e Rose, which was lying near the Ar c hi me d es , an d h e th en 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 Saraitee guilty, and acquitted Marling. dale. The learned Judge thm sentenced Samphee to be kept in penal servitude for ten years, George Fry was indie:ed for assaulting Mary Yates with intent to murder her. Mr. Beetham prosecwed; and Mr, H. T. Cole defended the prisoner. Mary Yates—l am a tousemaid 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. He 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 ti 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 my side, He said he had been waiting the op portunity, and now ho 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 of him then. I asked him to put down th e k n if e and he put it on t h e c h air. 1 tried to get out of th e d oor , but he told me t o stay. At last I got out and w en t i nto t h e kitchen. He f o ll owe d me with the knife in his h an d, w hi c h he put on the t a bl e. I tried to get out of the kitchen, tut 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 vas a girl he would not hurt a hair of her head—he supposal it was lowness of mind that made him do it. Mr. Cole here said th 6 prisoner would plead guilty to an assault. He 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 he supposed. The man was in love with the young woman and did not know what to do. lie 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 I months. NORTIIERN CIRCUIT.—DuIun.m, Dec. 3, Mr. Justice Wightman opened the commission here yes :erday, after which his :ordship attended Divine service al ;he Cathedral. The calendar contains the names of 12 prisoners charged with various offences. The bills against several of them were ignored. His lordship sat this morninc at 10 o'clock for the trial of prisoners, and charged the grand jury. Thos. Grant was indicted for a rape on Margaret 1B:s -lop, at Billiagham, on the 3d October last. Mr. Davison and Mr. Fowler prosecuted, and Mr. Camp bell Foster defended the prisoner. It appeared that on S aurday night, the 3d 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 markotings, about 7 o'clock at night. It was dark, and she had to pass along a broken piece of road, over which there was a plank to walk on. 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. He said, " Yes, ma'am, 1 will," and did so. She had never seen him before. He then walked alongside of her for some time, and, passing a publichouse, asked her if she would go in and hare 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 coining that way heard her cry, " Oh dear, that Irishman." The man had then run away. Her bon net and dress were torn and covered with mud, and she was much bruised. The man, of whom she gave a descrip tion to the police, she swore was the prisoner, who is an Irishman, and was engaged ad a workman on some new houses building there. One of th e persons w h o 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 charged 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, Tho jury retired, and on their return found the prisoner guilty. His Lordship said the case, from its circumstances, was one of great aggravation, and for this offence, sot many years ago, the prisoner would have been sentenced to death. The sentence of the Court was that he be kept in penal servitude for 20 years. STATE OF TRADE, MANCRESTER, Dec. 4.--In shipping yarns there has been no business whatever to-day, nor has there been much attempt on the part of sellers. Prices, which, as stated in Tuesday's report, had been up on the previous day to the highest point yet attained, have given way full 2d, per lb. for yarns of all deseriptbns. But even this decline has not brought buyers into the market. We have had an unusually small attendanc e , b o th o f spinners and manufacturers , at market t o -d ay. N o d ou b t th e y had been apprised of the in the rise in di scount to S per cent. , an d had anticipated the flat ness which prevails. Spinners and m anufacturers bein g deeply under cont rac t there is less pressure to sell than might othe rw i se h ave preva iled, considering the rapid rise money-market, Cop yarns are quite as difficult to sell as shipping yarns, theta has scarcely been s u ffi c ie nt inquiry t o t est va l ues, but it is quite certain thaE dete r s have lost all they have gained in price last week and up to Mork: day e vening. 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 rather low rates, especially those who hold stocks. Many of them are heavily under contract, and, in such cases, there seems to be little disposition to make any sacri fice. Buyers hold aloof, owing to the difficulties interposed by the condition of the money-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 Jo • reign are much about the same, with a rising tendency for the:tnediterranean and East Indian ports. The coasting trade is tolerably busy, and freights are also increasing, [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills— Trnublous Times.—Apathetic must be that mind which can read the weekly increasing deaths without a shulder for the consequent misery, a prayer for some means of lessen. ing the deplorable scourge. Holloway's ointment and pill s can be fearlessly recommended as the safest, swiftest, and easiest remedies for all fevers, inflammations, ulcerations, diphtherias, and carbuncles, the diseases which are now occasioning t u i r o i n n s cfiporalul y singHolloway's powerful curative agent s a l ways i s deplorable mortality. Instruc envelope the medicaments, which, with moderate att ent i on, 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 reacted. 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 side 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 gradual 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 corn-bins. 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 Warwick-house, 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, &e., so that the shapes of the latter when suspended are preserved, and, the air being 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 bo 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 last year, filled with the complaints and terrors of persons who have been, or believe they ere 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 oar 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 in 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 are 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, i❑ ,he 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 whieh 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 ate 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 set at large under superinten dence at home. No propositions could legs 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 his 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 Hampshire 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 meet, its doing away, as the thief Justice proposes, wit.`', remiePions or tickets of leave, and leaving the of future employment of the prisoner expatriates.. -‘1 has expired to private agency when hi s sentene.. Cash is the position of the assisted by th e St a t e . T. , subscribe at once to question at this moment. NI ich requires that the sound logic of the argument wt. should be the sentence as pronounced by the judgt. - me we carried into complete effect; but at the same ti.. cannot help feeling that this, like many other perfecti, logical propositions, 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 warders and the strictness of our regulations. We might abandon 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 ma intaining . i every prison a force sufficient to do by compulsion t i c kets that which is now obtained by hope. As of leave, the institutions and habits of their this country offer, as it seems to us, fatal obstacles to Commissioners effi ciency. The surveillance which the recommend will never practically be e nforced, and tickets of leave, therefore, become f re e l iti n n o , th s i e n ti g . but unacknowledged remissions 0, 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 into 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 of 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 concludes,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 jusc 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 sentencee 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 much of what is clearly fabulous mixed up with what is cre dible, that the result is as far 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 wore hideous than that of Murat 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 same way the stories that coma to our ears, from Russian sources, of poisoned daggers, the hanging of pea sante, 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 by 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 than of Christian combatants. We 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 in 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 bad 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 v convicted of having fal s ifi e d an d f a b r i- eased 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, which 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 improbable 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 det a ils 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 scheme of a rising was thus long ago prepared. The first steps were to be taken in a very cautious and wily manner. The offers of the Russian Government, then proposing to emancipate the serfs throughout the empire, wero to be outbid by the emissaries of the Secret Committee at Warsaw, which, in the name of the Polish landowners, was to promise in all the provinces of Poland that the peasants should e amicably endowed with the " statute lands." The for proprietors were to ply the Czar with petitions for this boon to the peasants. Should he Should was to be held up as the common enemoy.e asserted he, on the other hand, grant it, it was t lled to it by everywhere that he had been coOpe refusesh, he the plan • ;midation, and was not making the ins._ of keeping it. This part at all any int.. d dishonest enough. It merits, prey :Ilse with was clever aie. e which was bestowed upon to events, the praie, o unjust steward." It was ive foreign propagandism to be followed up by an fict'Orrep.nondents and secrets secret machinations o: the. bymearis of new7olsrrnment: ant - 2 Courts of En emissaries to the those of France end England. rope, especially These power s w er e to be " tired out" with repre sentation 9 of p o li s h 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 end approaching ruin of ilxssia, the chief aim must be to compromise to wards Russia the Governments of France and Eng land. Assured of the sympathy, or at least of the support of these Governments, having tightened the relations which bound up their cause with that of the " Italians and Hungarians, nationalities which aspire to break the Austrian chain," the leaders of the Polieh people were to eeeite in the population of east and 'not a " patriOti3 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 m* e s." That the rebellion was thus provoked while yet premature is now mat. ter of history. To complete 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. --~_~.l----- -. 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 dearer. —White wheat, 42s t0144s ; red, 36s to 40s per 36 stone. Barley, malting, 35s to 375; grinding, 31s to 345 per qr. Oats, 20s to 2is per 24 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 or 2d less money would have been accepted. Flour a dull sale, but not cheaper. Indian corn easier, tuld very dull. LINCOLN.--FRIDAY. A fair quantity of wheat on offer at our market to-do'', and prices fully is advance for best descriptions. Bald dull. Beans scarce, and as dear. White wheat new, 42s to 46s Barley, grinding.. 28s to 3 36 Red do. 3Bs to 408 Oats, .old, 235 to 256 Old white Red do —s to —s I Beans. Barley, malting.., 34s to 38s Beans, new 3 4 2 0 38s ss to 41532 8 5 s Rs CORK—FRIDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :- -11ed wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d; white, 8s Od to 9s Bd, barley, , 6d to 83 Od ; oats, 4s 10d to 6s 2d ; black do., 4s 4a t ° 5a 3L DUBLIN—FRIDAY. A es v a e a rj oot . dull market, without any quotable change f Tu s. 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 s. d. 5. a. Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 0 Beans.. - 0 Ben!, - 0 Rapeseed - 0 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY. The market for sugar is very inactive, and prices I fully is 6d lower, Refiners' produce also neglected, Is 6d to 2s lower. Runs in good demand. COAL MARKET. ?noes of Coal per 'roll at the close of the market. e ' Byass's Bebside West s. cl. I Tanfield Moor Butes ..15 4 " Hartley . ... 16 0 Holywell l7 6 Walls End. West Hartley 16 0 I Hetton .20 6 ..... 6 I North Hart1ep001...... 16 et, 7 ; sold, 7. Ships at marl RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEIC. Railways. Miles Opened. 1863. 1862. Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 Belfast and County Down 49 49 Lslyth and Tyne 2B 28 ,ris' ... I'n,.. Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington B4 81 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 Cork and Youghal 32 321 Cornwall 655 534 Deeside l7 17 Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 Dublin and Meath Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid 554 181 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1694 1694 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness, &c 5O 5 Glasgow & South-Western GLEastern,Nrik.,&E.Union Great Northern 353 351 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 (it. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 715 56/ Gt.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3731 329 Great Western 10561 10321 Inverness & Aberdeen Junc 864 86/ Inverness & Perth Junction 1194 Irish North-Western 145 145 Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 3954 Limerick and Ennis Limerick and Foynes 264 264 Llanelly 461 465 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 55 6 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2615 211 London, Chatham, & Dover 724 724 Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 51 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Slietneld, & Lincoinsh Mauch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 94 94 Maryport and Carlisle Metropolitan Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 259 Monkland 7ll Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee . 414 N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 North London 9 North Stallbrdshire 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 South-Eastern Taff Vale . (314 i 1921 71t 44 Ulster Vale of Clwyd Vale of Neath 32} Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 27 W.Haztlepool H arbr.B6ltail 4B W'haven,Cleatorot Egrrunt 7 Whitehaven Junction l2 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian B2B Belgian Eastern Junction 26 Bombay, Baroda, & c'en. India 185 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France ... 1167 East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 5381 4101 10771 132 k 3?i 75i 306 11,645 10,547 55,972 52,826 3,317 2,989 8,872 7 . 95 1 1,09 3 5). 8 970 8* 2,164 153745 888 6460164 017 630 b; 2 4. :,:t 1 6022 1 2,'59 1.‘ 4 5 148 . 1 076 2,368 k.O 4 0 1,159 '' , 7 46 706 0 ;26 4,:;20 .4;3 598 7 42 975 6;8 860 13/ 52 '1,280 828 34,680 0 1, '".1. 365 2d 32". „ 1321 2,t62 1000 ),, 1611 2,842 1,8 , 7 , 180 5,371 4.77 0 ' 10 8 t 4,223 3,,- 1081 56,322 52,50,1 639 16,389 1090 20,898 4371 7,112 3, - ,0 134 4,201 4 .7,4 79 499 4 ,,A"" 335 11,942 13,'''".1 490 19,294 15, 0 ' - ° „ Q I 1,385 1,9,11 6 v. 57,583 55% 0 3 '3" 44 1,059 .- 48} 435 '2l 1676 142,940 135,6,, 1434 71,006 6Vf....2 Great Luxembour g l3 - Great Southern of India Great Western of Canada 345 N M o a r d t r h i e d r , n Sa o r f a c g a o n ss a at a .. Alicant 66 9 59 4 07 Northern of France Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn... • 1805 Paris and Orleans 1614 Pernambuco ~•• • • 77i 69 Sabre and Meuse .......... . 68 Royal 770 i3B V ° i uu ct tt o lhi r e i pAr a n n aun . : . if France .. hts . r . i a . n • . . 196 ..... .. • 1 430 Sambre .--••—• .... Welland ..... • 25 West Flanders .• • • 75 W. and N.W. of France .-„ X 498 69 644 4 ° - is 1,538 1444 1315 5`1,765 54,%136 680 26,871 i 2; t 6 151 7,466 ' , 409 25 46 3 91 3 75 1,912 813 49,908 37,013 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. (iustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... D ec ' lg. n, 13. via Marseilles ......... " c* 4. brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. ......• Dec* Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helen a.. Dec. China, Penang, and Singap ore , via Southarupton,Dec. via Marseilles ...Dec. Falkland Islands Dec. l''' Gibraltar, via Southampton ............ India (Calcutta), and Ceyl on , v i a Southall' 19. ptou pell . 3 . via Marseilles Dee. 1 Dec. L., India (Bombay), via Southampt o n .. ---via Marseilles Dec. , Portugal.... Dec. ',, 4 , Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dell. Dee. " Newfoundland ................ • • via Marseilles ........ Dec. 6. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec. 9' by - U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Dec, 4' W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerille .......... Dec. 10° Bahamas, via New York .................. Dec. li , Mexico. ................................. Dee. 'fr All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, o s, Dec. -. California. and British Columbia.. 1 Births. of a daughter. 00 BEVAN.—On the 4th inst., at Rosendale, Sydenharat s E t. B , q. a 9 t 9, Eaton-place, the w"" , f ,„ of of a son. i i :: L ti wG N ileiG ß ea. y t—On — CloV o nlni n otnh. t : h ßl e 3el-1 3 vd d :ngi i ng n ' st., at Suk.sex•road, Holloway, SO' Odes Munby, of a son. S W ABEY.—On the 3 d inst., at 3, Adelaide-street, straoelf the wife of the Rev. Henry Swabey, of a daughter. Marriages. fordshire, S. W. Clewes, at CLONES—CAVENDISH.—On the 3dinst,, at Okeover, ' o lif Old "*". to Lancashire, and Woodhouse Eaves, Loughberouglhe Esq., of Broughton , The Hon. Adelaide Cavendish, second daughter ot late Lord Waterpark, of Doveridge Hall, DeVOn B h ire. „p LIND—DAVIS.—On the Ist inst., at the British En i t i :, o 3- 10, Paris, Captain James Burnie Lind, Bengal Staff ~v i s , to Florence, youngest daughter of Sir John F. I °' Bart„ K.C.B. ° . R —On the 2d inst., Deaths. FLE "Clasl:letcher, Esq., MS• S't ot Fe i : ham 0 , , a,,,e . d 82 MIDLETON Surref' —On the 2d inst., at Pe per Haws'', the Viscount, Midleton, aged 72. P MOLESWORTII.-021 the 3d inst., at West Bromptou. 11)r. Wm. Molesworth, i'..qq., Paymaster R.N., aged 34 ' ' NI , SUTTON.—On the 3d inst., at Bideford, Devon , Thooo Sutton, Esq. ,-, •tlter , SMITHER.—On the 3d inst., at Durham , Mr. J. 0 1 ' 1 ' . of 3, Friday-street, London. "s 1 * SMITH.—On the 2d inst., at Dalt CaP 4 on, suddenly, .51 Smith, formerly of Hull. aged 82. a ter" TEA,suALE.—On the 3d inst., Mr. James Teesdale, 1, sti ... ctriarafl ... l 7 1' ........ .........„,„......----r - _ ‘ '...••••% _ -- _—_ _ - -- - ti .A_ xe London: Prlut an d Pubilshed by WILLIAM AN -1 11 3 , of No. 112, Strand , Pr inter, at THE SUN Office •-•ty of Strand, in the Precin ct of the avoy, in the O° Middlesex.--Saturilay„DeCenter 5,„3,863. t ') Fy FS 1 ~ T O Wo. 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