The Sun. — London, England, 1863-03-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SCOTTISII CENTRAL. Tho half• yearly meeti❑g was held at Yerth on Friday, Mr. Brue, in the chair. Thu repot t was held as read. The Cita amArr, in moving its adoption, stated that there was au incr e a se o f £5 , 853 i n the cap i ta l accoun t, chiefly occasioned by works at Larbert. The directors had entered into a contract with Messrs. Neilson and Co. for six power ful goods engines and tenders at a cost of £16,386. It had been fcund necessary to renew the bridge over the Forth at Stirling, and instead of renewing it of timber, it had been replaced with iron upon stone piers. The cost would be charged partly to capital and partly to revenue, by half yearly payments. The passenger traffic had suffered con siderably by the International Exhibition. A great many passengers had passed southward last autumn, but compa ratively few tout ists had come north. There was, notwith standing, an increase of revenue of £l7B. The revenue of the half-year amounted to £93,291, and the revenue ex- TA uses and charges t0£60,934, leaving a balance of £32,357- The directors i reposed to pay a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent, and early ove r a b a l ance of £1,007 to the surplus fund, which now amounted to £11,342. The Caledonian directors had, for unexplained and unaccountable reasons, petitioned against the amalgamation of the Central with the Dundee and Perth. They professed to be animated by no unfriendly feelings, but he considered their conduct quite the contrary. Their other ally, the Edinburgh and Glasgow, had acted very differently, and had sent a strong remonstrance to the Caledonian Board. If the Caledonian did not withdrew their opposition, the Central directors would ask their shareholders to relieve them from the obli gation of supporting the amalgamation with that com pany. The directors had given their support to the Bill introduced into Parliament by the Dundee and Perth Company for improving the Newtyle line, but had re solved to oppose the Scottish North-Eastern Company in their attempt to lease the Dundee and Arbroath line. The North British Bill for a railway from Edinburgh to Perth the directors had agreed vigorously to oppose. Mr. MacouFF seconded the report, which was unani mously adopted; and on the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. TURNBULL, the directors were empowered to declare the agreement of November, 1859, at an end in the event of the Caledonian continuing their opposition to the lease of the Dundee and Perth. GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND. The report of the directors states that the revenue for the half-year ending the 31st December, including £2,623, the balance from the preceding account, amounted to £53,694, and the expenditure to £18,615, including £976 for interest and £325 for rent of Old Meldrum Junction Railway, leav ing a balance of £35,079. Of this sum the dividend on the new 4} per cent. shares would absorb.£lo,B46, the new 4i per cent. preference shares £1,326, the proposed dividend on the preference stock at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum £lO,lBB, and the proposed dividend on the original stock at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum £9,690, making together £32,049, ana leaving a balance of £3,030. The working ex penses amounted to 361 per cent. of the gross rece . pts as compared with 33 per cent, for the corresponding half-year. A bill had been introduced by the company in the present session for a 'junc•ion with the Scottish North• Eastern Railway at Ab, rdeen. The company were joint promoters with the Formantine and Buchan Company for an extension to Fraserburgh (16 miles); with the Banff, Portsoy, and Strath:sla of a bill for an extension line along the coast to Buckle and Portgordon (14 miles). for acquiring preference shares in their original undertaking, and for confirming a working agreement on terms mutually advantageous; and with the Banff. Macduff, and Tariff Extension for the con struction of a branch to Macduff Harbour (ono mile in length), to confirm a working agreement, and for other purposes to enable the undertaking to be completed. Those measures would not only secure a considerable ac cession of traffic to the main line, but would supply the district with railway communication where required. The capital account showed that £1,455,756 had been expended, including £428,687, on ten other railway undertakings. The revenue account for the half•year ending Dec. 31 showed that £50,871 had been received, and £'7,638 expended, leaving a balance of £33,233. PERTH, ALMOND VALLEY, AND MET LIVEN. A special meeting was held at Perth on Tuesday; the Earl of Mansfield in the chair. The proposed lease of this line to the Scottish North-Eastern, on condition of being guaranteed a preferential dividend of 4 per cent., was una nimously agreed to. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN. The report of the directors stated that the receipts on the company's lino from Dublin to Athlone and the Longord and Cavan branches amounted to £35,599, against £91,434 for the corresponding half of 1861, showing a decrease of £5,835. The receipts from the incorporated railway and canal were £104,657, and the disbursements, including £3,670 for interest on loans, £53,381, leaving £51,276. To this was added £3,346, the surplus from the preceding half year, making a disposable sum of £54,622, out of which the directors recommendA a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income tax, amounting to £51,583, leav ing a balance of £3,039. The accounts of the extension from Athlone to Galway showed a deficiency on the gross receipts of £2,557 as compared with the corresponding half of 1861, owing to which there was a debit against the baro nies of £2,700 on this account. The net receipts from the Royal Canal were £1,049 in excess of the corresponding period of last year. The line from Longford to Sligo was opened on Dec. 3, and the directors had every confidence that the traffic from this extension would prove most remu • nerative. The Streamstown and Clara line would be opened for traffic on April 1. The directors regretted that the traffic on the Athenry and Tuam branch continued to show a decrease on the working. The Great Northern and Western Company opened a section of their line from Clare morris to Castlebar, a distance of 15 miles, on the 16th of December, thus completing the whole of the undertaking to which the Midland Company were contributors. The capi tal expended on the main lire and extensions amounted to £3,317,014, and in shares of other companies to £116,267, together £3,433,281. SCINDE. The directors state in their report that at the McLeod road station at Kurrachee, more than 100 waggons,convey hag 500 tons of merchandise, are unloaded daily, and addi tional sidings are being laid. The buildings at Joongshaie the central station on the line, have been finished. At Kotree, the upper terminus, the length of the river frontage now available for boats, flats, and steamers is 2,000 feet. The higher level lines have been laid for the convenience of the Indus Steam Flotilla and the Commissariat Depart ment, and the station has been brought up to the level of the rails, affording groat facilities to the through traffic. The stock of locomotives is 20, and of passenger carriages 27. There are now 372 waggons of different sorts. Mr. AP...Neill states. "Over 100 waggons laden with cotton, wool, oil-seeds, indigo, &c., are now brought into Kurrachee sta tion every day," and adds, " It will be interesting to know that we are now receiving machine-pressed bales of cotton and hemp from up-river. Yesterday (sth of January last) a consignment of 411 bales of cotton and 330 bales of hemp were received here at Ferozepore for shipment to England. This is the first consignment of pressed bales that has come down the Indus. It will be a great matter for Indian rail way companies when the cotton and similar traffic they now convey is all pressed. At present, with every care and at tention, we can only load from 12 to 17 loose bales on a truck, averaging,—say, two and a half to three tons, or about half the weight which the waggon is intended to carry; besides, there is the great obstruction which waggons laden with bales of loose cotton or wool present to the progress of a train, the tear and wear of tarpaulins and ropes ; and, above all, the great risk of fire, all of which, in the case of waggons laden with pressed bales, must necessarily be very much decreased. A statement of the quantity of cotton conveyed during the year 1862 from Kotree to Kurrachee by the Scinde Railway shows that 12,285 bales had been con veyed by steam flotilla and 48,425 bales by native boats, making the total 60,710. These contained 17,138,9001 b. of cotton, and it is estimated that 150,000 bales will be ex ported during the current year. Cotton is finding its way in large quantities from places south of Delhi to Urnritsir, for transport to Kurrachee. For the half-year ending Dec. 31, 1861, the receipts on the railway amounted to £12,299 ; for the half year ending June 30, 1862, to £23,493, including £17,383 for goods; and for the half-year ending Dec, 31, 1862, to £35,934, including £29,457 for goods. The directors congratulate the proprietors on this steady increase of traffic which is limited only by the supply of waggons. The re sults of the trade of Scinde since the commencement of the current e a c i al year are most sat i sfactory, an d prove h ow expansive are the resources of the provinces of the Indus, the value of the trade of the first nine months being 31 m illions ste rling, and the remaining three months, the busiest, are exp ected to raise the amount of the entire year to 5 millions. l en tneisaezepnt et ected that to complete the railway p and construct stock for theations, as well as to provide the necessa ry rolling cita zp d id u l s. , augmenting traffic, additional capital will be required during current year. The financial statement shows from t r h , l e a n nd m t m ha encement the sum of £1,480,234 has been received payments o a n s the es t £1,574,803 11 has been expended. The amount overdrawn,pa current expenditure, has been met by the ac count of the third issue of shares, and b y an arrangement with the Secretary of State for Indiain Council. The finan cial statement of the company's steam flotilla on the Indus shows that £332,905 had been received, and £291,835 ex pended, leaving a balance of £41,070. P UNJAUB. The report of the directors states that the number of pas : ungers carried_ on the section between Lahore and Ilmritsir from the opening of the line to the public on April 10 to Dec. 31, 1862, amounted to 284,806, and yielded a gross re turn of about £l,OOO per month, The goods traffic was commenced in August last. The central station at Lahore, which is on an extensive scale, is not yet finished. The .supply of ballast by the contractors on the first 110 miles of ,he section from Lahore to Mooltan, and by the company's e slgineers on the following 56 miles, has been satisfactory. j :rho permanent way has bees laid for a considerable distance at b l ,th the Mooltan and Lahore ends of the line. The por- CAI o f t L,O line below Mooltan to Sh er Sh a h Gh a t, on th f Chen 41)) 11 miles in length , is now probably open for traffic e From the impossibility of obtaining sufficient supplies of sleepers and ballast, the completion of the section from La hore to Mooltan has bsen unavoidably delayed. But by the use of Groove's patent iron sleepers the dir , etors have every expectation of the line being opened thr iughout be fore the end of 1864. The financial statement shows that from the commencement £1,339,080 had been received and £1,245,081 expended, leaving £64,150 in the t gent's hands, and £31,669 available, DELIII. The directors state in their report that since the last meet ing the direction of the line has been determined by the route already indicated, as far as Umballa, passing by Jullunder, Phillcor, and Loodianah. The Government of India have suggested a deviation from Umballa via Seharunpore and Meerut, instead of proceeding through Kurnaul and Panee put to Delhi. This diversion of the route Ihe directors con sider a decided improvement, as the railway would then tra verse some of the richest and most densely-peopled portions of the Doab ; but they have at the same time urged the peon•• liar claims of the proprietors to independent access to the city of Delhi, over their own rails and without iaterrupt'on, by whichever route may be settled. The direct IT contemplate while their chief agency will be at Lahore that there should be a sub-agent at Delhi. Delhi is the chief emporium in Hindostan, and although it has not recovered from the effects of the mutiny, its trade in 1860 amounted in value to 44,009,000. The attention of the agent at Lahore is directed to the measures required in India for proceeding with the construction of the section of the railway between Umrits;r and Umballa. The receipts on capital account amounted to £912,558, and the expenses to £1,823, The available ba lance amounts to £910,555. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The traffic receipts on this company's line for the week ending Feb. 28 amounted, for local passengers, to 16,071 dole ; for foreign passengers, to 3,634 doll ; for mails, &c., to 3,800 dole; for local freight and live stock, to 51,169 dole ; for timber and lumber, to 3,369 dots ; for firewood, to 370 dole ; and for foreign freight and live stock, to 12,789 dole ; total, 90,215 dole (X L 8,537) ; and for the corresponding week of 1862 to 51,160 dole (X 10,512) showing an increase of 39,P55 dole (£4,024). The total traffic receipts from Jan. 1 to the above date amounted to 745,442 dole (X 153,173), and for the same period of last year to 666,919 dole (X 137,038), showing an increase of 78,524 (Z 16,135). ILLINOIS CENTRAL. The financial statement of this company for the month of February shows that in the land department 18,310 acres of land during the month were sold for 196,019 dole, and from the commencement 1,2',1,223 acres had been sold for 15,474,515 dols. The construction bonds cancelled previous to the 31st Jaa. last amounted to 2,300,500 dole, and the cash collected in February to 100,256 dole. In the traffic de partment the receipts in the month of February amounted on the railway to 265,198 dole, and for February, 1862, to 236,637 dole, showing an increase of 32,561 dols. SERIOUS RIOTS AT STALYBRIDGE. STALYBRIDGE, SATURDAY. Yesterday afternoon some very serious rioting, the first during this period of distress, took place in the borough of Staly bridge, or, rather, in that por tion of it which stands in the county of Chester. A great deal of damage has been done to property, especially the clothes store of the relief committee. The facts which I have been able to collect from various sources may be relied on as strictly accu rate, and they are as follow : ;,At the last monthly meeting of the Stalybridge relief committee, held a week ago, they decided to pay all attending the various schools, excepting the girls who sew, by tickets on shopkeepers, instead of in money. The reasons adduced in favour of the proposed alteration were, that a considerable amount of money given as relief was spent in drink, and there had lately been so much drunkenness on Fri day nights, which is the pay time of the classes, that it had become actual necessity to take some en ergetic means to pat a stop to it. It appeared to the committee that one of the best means to accomplish their object would be to pay sixpenny and shilling tickets on shopkeepers, which tickets wouldspecify that the shopkeeper was to let the bearer have the amount in groceries or butcher meat. Simultaneous with this change from money to tickets it was de cided that a reduction in wages should take place— from 3s. 4d. to 3s. We presume this reduction was owing to the Manchester Central Committee deal ing out their funds so miserly, with an account at the bankers of nearly half a million of money. In addition, however, to the reduction of wages and payment by ticket, the committee have resolved to keep a day in hand. The introduction of these three changes has created a vast amount of excitement amongst those affected by them, and during the week several meetings have been held, and a depu tation waited upon the general committee on Mon day and Tuesday, but with no definite result. Ou Thursday evening a meeting of those attending the schools was held on the Plantation Ground, when several hundred persons were present. For a long time there was only one speaker in the cart, and who in his own plain and unvarnished way put three questions to the meeting, and requested la vote on each. The first was, were they prepared to sub mit to have a day in hand deducted from their wages ? (Cries of No, no.) The next question was, were they prepared to have their scanty wages re duced 4d per week ? (No, no.) Then let them sig nify that in the usual way, by holding up their hands. (The meeting, as it had done before, unani mously responded.) The next question was, would they receive their wages in tickets ? (Shouts of " no, no.") That was all he wished to ask them; but perhaps some other person would come forward and say something. He trusted there was no cowardice amongst them, and that they would follow up the resolutions on the following evening, and he was confident that they would gain a great moral victory. After the speaker sat down, an apparently young man, who said he had been a soldier, mounted the cart, and characterised the conduct of some of the schools as shameful. Each school should have had elected two delegates, and they ought to be then in the . cart. It was cowardice, of which a true soldier would be ashamed, and he trusted it would never occur again. At this period Mr, J. F. Cheetham appeared in sight, and he was received with much derision. Soon after the meeting terminated. On Friday morning one of the officers of the cen tral committee visited the Independent School, for the purpose of paying them with tickets, but the scholars would not have them. At the Working Men's School, in Melbourne-street, the offer was more successful, some of the men taking the tickets under the impression that Mr. Occleshaw would change them. When this was found out to be a mistake, several scholars visited the Castle-street school, and told the scholars what the committee ' were doing. Shortly afterwards Mr. Bates and Mr. Kirk were riding in a cab through the streets, visiting the different schools, when the windows of the cab were smashed. It was reported, that after this time Dr. Hopwood, the mayor, proposed to the men that they should be paid this week in money, and Mr. Bates said they should not. Although this report was un true it was generally believed, and serves to explain the strong animus shown against Mr. Bates. The men waited in the schools until about four o'clock, when they received word at different schools that if they were willing to receive tickets they would be paid. At about four o'clock, when all the schools break I up, a vast crowd had congregate d around Castle street Mills, which belong to Mr. Bates, and at which place there is a large educational class numbering 376. Early in the afternoon many of the men at tending the class had themselves become very riot ous, and had broken portions of machinery, windows, and other things within the building. A body of constabulary, under the superintendence of Mr. Chadwick, chief constable, was sent for, but seeing their inability to cope with the mob outside, pro. ceeded up Castle-street towards Caroline-street. The mob had by this time become very excited, and stones and other missiles were hurled at the win dows of the mill, and soon one or two entire window frames were c om pl e t e l y smas h e d . A m i dst a yell of das if by hooting a and shouting, th e mo b f o ll owe d t h e po li ce, an given signal a volley of stones and brickbats was suddenly hurled at them. The officers at once took to their heels. One was bleeding from been hit just previo us ly a w i c t u h t an n earheavy e at e o y n e e ,.h avgT i hney ran over the river bridge and proceeded in different directions, some taking up Water-street, into Market-street, followed rapidly by the mob, which carried on a- running fire of every kind of missile, and numbered many hundreds. One of the officers entered the shop of Mr. Brierley, druggist, and being perceived by some of the crowd, the building was stoned and many of the win dows were immediately smashed. The ring leaders evidently desired the mob to spare Mr. Brierly's property, and on several hands being held up in different parts the throwing was at once discontinued, and a cry raised, "Now for Dyson's." Mr. Dyson keeps an eating-house opposite Mr. Brierley's and next the Post-office, and is a prominent employe of the committee, and from this fact much prejudice exists against him. The mob at once turned on Dyson's shop, and in two or three minutes every visible pane of glass was smashed. They then repaired to the police•office, en route to the residence of Mr. Ralph Bates, hono rary secretary of the relief committee. The shop• keepers in Market-street were now busily engaged in putting up their shutters, everybody being afraid that the infuriated mob wuuld next turn on their premises. Bat the whole of the animus was directed at the more prominent members of the relief coru mittee, who seemed to be regarded by them as their more than arch enemies. At the police-office and adjoining offices many windows were smashed, but the appearance of the mayor (R. Hopwood, Esq.), D►. Harrison, Esq., deputy lieutenant, A. Halt, Esq., and George Taylor, Esq., town clerk, who came forth from the town hall into the street, seemed to have some effect in subduing the violence of the mob, but the greet bulk immediately rushed up Cockerhill to Mr. Bates's house. Here the mob got fresh supplies of stones, and a complete shower of such missiles was hurled at the capacious windows. Lasses in their blue Garibaldi jackets cheered on the wild Irish lads who took the most prominent part in this most disgraceful proceeding, and often the young women aimed a stone at the windows with telling effect. They spoke of the wanton de struction in high glee, and declared often enough, amidst the loudest jeering and laughter, what a rare thing it would be for the glaziers. Many valuable pieces of furniture weredestroyed in addition to the windows at Mr. Bates's residence, and the interior afterwards presented the appearance of a signal wreck of malicious destruction. An empty mouse fronting Cockerhill Chapel, which is said to be long to Mr. Bates, was also stoned and most of the windows smashed. Having completed the work of destruction on Cockerhill, the mob again turned their faces to the town, and proceeded, some along Market-street, others by Melbourne-street end Castle-street, and Caroline street. Many of the youths could not resist having a last throw at the police ocffie windows as they passed, and they did, of course, without molesta tion. From the outbreak of this popular indigna tion, to the arrival of the military, mob-law may be said to have reigned supreme, and the town was in the hands of this most disgraceful mob of excited beings. A vast concourse assembled opposite the Central Committee Rooms in Melbourne-street, and smashed every window about the place. Mr. Emmett's, the photographer, whose shop is next door, did not escape unscathed, many windows being broken on his premises. Some of the young fellows, from a mere wanton desire, hurled stones through windows as they passed along the street, without any fear of molestation. The town was in their hands, and they did what they liked. In Caroline-street they proceeded to the shop of Mr• Ashton, another gentleman of the relief committee, and the precaution of closing up the shop, which other people had by this time followed, was not taken here. The large plate-glass windows were smashed in a moment, and bottles of pickles, canis ters, packages, and groceries of every description, were thrown about and destroyed in a savage man ner. They_also commenced an onslaught on the co-operative stores, seemingly at first believing that it was Mr. Ashton's shop, but on finding out their mistake they desisted. Two of the adjoining shops are used as stores for men's and women's clothing, and on these stores the mob now turned their atten tion. Both shops were quickly broken open, and now commenced a proceeding even more disgraceful and barbarous than any we have yet recounted. It was now about five o'clock. In these stores were piled up heaps of moleskin jackets, trousers, waistcoats, stockings, calico and linen under-clothing for females, besides large quantities of moleskin and other clothes for making up into garments. As fast as u score of lads and lassies could pick the goods up were these useful things burled out of the upper windows to the people in the street. Complete showers of jackets would fall on the uniifted hands of hundreds of people in the street, followed by bundles of stockings, or waistcoats, or flannel, or skirts, or chemises. People kept con tinually leaving the crowd with armfulls of all kinds of clothing amidst the jeers of many, but there were ❑ot a few who expressed their utter abhorrence of such plunder, but who were at the same time care ful to express themselves with a prudent reticence. One man told a youth who came up with a bundle of clothing which he could scarcely carry, to convey them into a house near at hand by the back way, and to return as quickly as possible. The young fellow did as he was told, and was on the spot again immediately afterwards, eager for further plunder. Women concealed things about them in the street, and many left with bundles of every description of wearing appdrel. The young fellows who were throwing the goods into the street continued with unabated energy at their work for at least half an hour, end we noticed the sweat rolling down their cheeks pretty freely. A cry was got up that the soldiers were coming, but amidst much laughter the mob declared it was only a woman in a red cloak, and no further notice was taken of it. In the store where the linen goods had been kept several things were wantonly set on fire, but it did not extend to any dangerous point. This work of destruction continued until a little after half-past five o'clock, when a company of the 14th Hussars from the Ashton Barracks, under the command of Captain Chapman, appeared in sight. A loud cry of "the sol diers are coming" was raised from one end of the street to the other, and the hussars galloped along. Every one now looked after his or her personal safety, and fled from off the street immediately. Those in the stores prepared to beat a hasty retreat, but just at the entrance several fell, and those be hind were thrown down, and we should say they were at least five or six deep, male and female, in the doorway when the soldiers galloped up, The police were almost as soon as the hussars on the spot, and some of those who had created much havoc in the clothing stores were easily captured. The troops were preceded on horseback by the mayor and Mr. Harrison. The whole of them were re ceived by the mob with hooting and yelling, and amidst such discordant noises Mr. H,rrisun read the Riot Act to the populace. No missiles, how ever, of any description were thrown either at the police or the troops. After the Riot Act had been read the troops commenced to clear the streets, and proceeded up and down driving the people before them, The police were now engaged in capturing those who had stolen things from the stores, great quantities having been conveyed into the Irish people's dwellings contiguous to the spot. In some of the houses the people commenced burning the clothing in order to escape detection ; others threw it into the canal, and various articles of wearing apparel might be seen floating on the water for some time. One large bundle of moleskin could only have been carried away by a very strong person, and bundles of stockings and other clothing were continually turning up at some unexpected corner, and conveyed to the stores. Vast quantities, how ever, are missing. From the arrival of the military there was no other riotous proceedings further than vast crowds perambulating the streets. Most of those who had been prominent in hurling stones and creating the sad havoc we have above detailed, were chiefly young men and lads, the great bulk being low Irish lads, who appeared to be exceed- ingly excited and irritated, though these were fol lowed by mobs of older people of both sexes. Many girls mixed in the crowds, and hooted and shouted and threw stones with as much gusto as the lads themselves. In the evening the following magistrates met and swore in special constables—Messrs. Hopwood (Mayor), J. Cheetham, W. Milburn, J. Pearson, and • J. Marsland, Mr. Little, deputy chief constable of the Cheshire county constabulary, had just arrived, _ .. . having made arrangements for the calling in of 50 of the Cheshire police force, should their services be required. As the military paraded the streots they were followed by large crowds of men, women, and children, and it was consequently judged.advisable THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCEL 23, 1863. by the justices that they had better retire a short distance out of the town, and hold themselves in readiness should they be called upon. This was done, a few only being left to parade in front of the demolished stores in Caroline-street. Several of the policemen are much hurt, and had to take refuge from the stones and other missiles which werethrown at them. Inspector Wright Broadbent, when oppo site Messrs. Hall, Bates, and Co.'s mill, where the mob was smashing windows, was thrown down, and kicked severely, the ankle-bone of the left leg being broken. Ho was injured that he had to he carried to bed, where Mr. Pearson, surgeon, attended upon him. The police, under the protection of the sol diers, visited Sampson's-court, Woolley's-yard, and other placed inhabited principally by Irish people, where they found largo quantities of the clothing which had been stolen from the relief stores. Large numbers were taken into custody with the clothes on their backs. On it becoming known that the houses were being searched many persons were caught hiding the stolen property hi all manner of places. One man was found storing a suit away in a swill tub. Some were found in entries, privies, &c., and a vast lot of new things were thrown into the canal and the river Tame; in fact, the streets in the above vicinity were strewn with wearing ap parel of all kinds. There were upwards of 60 per sons taken into custody. A great proportion of the persons apprehended were females, who, along with many of the male prisoners, were caught with the stolen property in their possession. The dancing and singing of the women in the cells, and the continued " thunging" of the men, made the place appear as a very Bedlam. At ten o'clock the military were called uff, and the town is left to the guardianship of the police and special constables, all being quiet ; but the magi strates still remain at the Town Hall, along with several other it fluential gentlemen. To-day the magistrates sat in the Town Hall to examine the prisoners, and the facts elicited went to prove what is above stated. In the Castle-street mills the real rioting first commenced among the low Irish, those who had ben kindly received into that school by Mr. Bates, after their own (St. Peter's) was, for some reason or other, broken up. Indeed, if it had not been for the disaffcted Irish there would have been no riot and no disgrace at taching to the town, as Mr. J. Cheetham, one of the magistrates, wisely remarked; and it is a pleasing thing to reflect that no Englishman was connected with it. The magistrates committed Pat Spellman, James M•Cabe, James Riley, J. Manning, Jas. Shearne, Pat Beattie, J. Hayes, E. Moran, Jas. Moran, Michael Cooley, J. Leonard, Jas. Maloney, J. M'Dermott, John Coggin, Jas. Coggin, Christopher Toolan, and Michael Loge.n, to take their trial at the next Cheshire assizes for riot ; and Jas. *Donald, Jas. Cassidy, Michael Lee, J. Harman, E. Buckley, H. Crossley, J. Cooney, P. Hearne, Thomas Oats, J. Timson, J. Hopkins, and W. H. Carter, to take their trials at the same assizes, for riot and feloniously breaking into the stores of the relief committee. All the female prisoners were discharged, as were 11 men, amongst whom the evi dence was so slight as to render it doubtful whether they could have been convicted, although, as the ma gistrates said, there could be no doubt that they had taken part in the disturbance. Mr. John Cheetham said that he hoped the committal of the men above named would act as a warning to the rest, for he could assure them that whatever form the riotous proceedings might take, they would be effectually put down, let the cost of putting down such disgraceful proceedings be what it may. This warning, like all warnings, had but little effect upon the populace, if indeed it bad any, for almost immediately after news was brought to the magistrates that another attack was about being made upon Mr. Bates's mill, in Castle-street. This was about 1.15 p.m., and the magistrates ordered the troops to be called out forthwith, and a strong body of police-officers and special constables were dispatched to protect the mill. On arriving at the mill the police almost immediately returned to the Town Hall, after having first ascertained that no breach of the peace was imminent as alleged. The rumour had arisen through the mob hooting Mr. Bates as he went to and from the mill. But from this time strong boales of polioe patrolled the Istreets. Why the people here should have such an an tipathy against Mr. Bates can in no way be accounted for, seeing that although he is a com paratively young man he is, and ever has been, notable for his kind and humane disposition. In deed no better proof of this could be adduced than the fact of his having received into his school in the mill in Castle-street those who had previously at tended the St. Peter's Catholic School, and the fact that of all the 356 attending Mr. Bates's school not more than 50 of the number were his own work people. I am told that on Friday afternoon the infuriated mob attacked Mr. Bates's mother, near the Town Hall, and well nigh tore her clothes off her back. Whether she was much injured person ally I am unable to say. Later on this afternoon, as it became known that the 23 men above named would be sent to Chester Castle, many thousands of men, women and youths, assembled in front of the Town Hall and along Stam- ford-street, which leads to Ashton, At that end of Stamford-street, nearest the Town Hall, a troop of the 14th Hussars, under Captain Chapman, were drawn up, and the square immediately in front of the Town Hall and Police-office was kept clear by a large body of police. At the door of the Town hall stood two omnibuses, with the horses' heads turned in the direction of Stamford-street—a ruse to induce the people to believe that the prisoners would be taken along that street, while it was all along in tended to take them round the Police-office and Market-street to the railway station. The trick was a clever one, and it succeeded admirably. Directly the prisoners were placed in the omnibuses, amidst the hootings and cheers of the mob, the horses' heads were turned, and rounding the Police-office they drove along Cocker-hill into Market -street, and straight along thence as rapidly as possible to the station. So soon as the mob in Stamford-street taw that they had been tricked hundreds of them dashed across gardees, over walls, and along alleys towards the station, but to find the approach thereto Eocked most effectually by Mr. I. Cheetham, another magistrate and a few policemen. By-and-bye the omnibuses drove up escorted by the hussars with drawn sabres. The excitement at this moment was so gre,t that it beggars all description_ The moment the omnibuses emerged from under the railway arch to proceed up the approach to the station, hats, caps, and handkerchiefs were waved, and then followed, amid cheers and hootings, a shower of stones, which were intended for the police on the omnibuses, &c. They fell almost as thick as hail, and one had the misfortune to be so well directed that it struck police-sergeant John Shelton, a fine young athletic fellow, on the light ear, and knocked, to all appearance, the life out of him, for he fell senselkss into the arms of a brother officer who was sitting by his side on the top of the omnibus. He was taken into the railway station, and Dr. Hopwood, the surgeon, was promptly in attendance upon him. Several other persons were struck with stones, and more serious things would have been done but for the timely pre- cautions of Mr. J. Cheethatn. Indeed, it is just probable that an attempt at rescue would have been made. The hussars and police succeeded in forcing the mob out of the street, and it made its way into the town• Many persons, however, preferring to stand on the hill overlooking the railway to witness the departure of the prisoners at 4.50 for Chester. There was great excitement during the evening, and it was feared that a further attempt at riot would he made, consequently the troops and the police continued to patrol the streets till a late hour. At 10.30 to-night another troop or two of the 14th Hussars were despatched from Manchester, to re- lieve and strengthen those quartered in the town. The soldiers and the populace seem to be on excel lent terms; but not so the latter and the police. The amount of damage done is great ; I am told between two and three thousand pounds. Mr. R. Ashton's damages alone is estimated at £300; Mr. Bates must have suffered to more than double that amount; and £5OO or £6OO worth of clothing, Bze., must have been destroyed, or stolen from the Re lief Stores. Mr. Commissioner Farnall visited the town yes- terday, and had an excellent opportunity of wit acs:ilog the half. shown excit.otnent of Lauco-Che ,hire mob. STALYBRIDGE, Sunday. Last night there was wore riotous conduct on the part of the mob, who deliberately walked into such shops as they saw open—such as bakers' and provi sion shops, and seized whatever they could lay their hands on. Several parties were app:chended. To day all is quiet, but much excitement prevails. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. SATURDAY REVIEW.—It was one of the fanciful caprices of the tryanny of the Emperor Nicht las to order thous ands of persons on the borders of Poland end Russia Proper to join the Greek Church, and to compel a powerful sect, that had long hovered be tween the claims of the Churches of Rome and Bys antium, to renounce all communion and inter course with the Pope. This mantle of compulsory Greek orthodoxy has long been worn with silent discontent, and now the time has come when its wearers are beginning to dare to throw it off. They become at once Catholics and insurgents, and fight fora cause which has even a stronger hold over a semi-barbarous population than the ties of nation ality. Mr. Kinglake, in his history, warns his readers that they must not judge of the enthusiasm and power which religion imparts to warriors by the languid indifference of the West. Catholicism is to a Pole what the Orthodox Church and the blessing of St. Ser. gius are to the Russian, or the prospect of houris and a cool green Paradise were to the followers of the Maliotnetan Caliphs. It is the embodiment of all those aspirations and hopes which make him feel better and higher than the beasts of the forest among which he lies down. It is the link by which he is bound to his forefathers—the title by which he expects one day to rejoin the dear ones from whom death or exile, inflicted by the oppressor, has sepa rated him. The half-savage Pole who joins Gene ral Langiewicz literally thinks he is making the best of both worlds, and this combination of induce meets is the most powerful spring of human action. The voice of public opinion in behalf of Poland has again been loudiy raised during the past week in France and England. Prince Napoleon has played his accustomed part, and has given voice to the generous imprudence of which the Emperor likes to have the credit, and which there is every reason to believe have a real abiding place in some corner of his mind. As usual the Government orator has been ordered to make things safe, to unsay all that the Prince has said, and to leave the general impression that very likely the Prince is right after all. The French Senate is a body composed of men as lithe desirous of war in the abstract as any in Europe. But the French Senate feels too sensibly the pressure of the enthu siasm of France to be wholly dumb and purely submissive when the fate of Poland is the topic of discussion. The meeting at the Guildhall appears to have been as successful as such a meeting could be. It was attended by politicians and men of influence and station, and soared tar above the kind of gatherings for which Mr. Seward is grateful, and at which all England is discovered to be enamoured of the Federal cause. It also expressed strongly what the English nation feels strongly, and its leaders had perfectly good grounds for asserting their expectation of its leading to a practical issue. It is quite untrue that we can do nothing unless we are prepared to go to war. If Russia could easily put down the insurrection, and if Russia were of one mind, sending diplomatic remonstrances against tyranny would be like whistling against the wind. But if the Poles make anything like a success ful stand, it will be a great support to them, and a great discouragement to the Russians, that England and France pronounce the cause of Poland good, and the cause of Russia execrably bad. In Russia itself, too, there is apparently a diversity of opinion. It seems that the officers cannot rely on their troops, and the troops cannot rely on their officers The strength of Russia no longer moves, as under the Emperor Nicholas, like a vast machine, impelled hither and thither at the will of a single man. Western thought has penetrated Russia, and Western thought teaches the Russians whom it influences to quail before the moral rebuke of England and France. LONDON REVIEW.—That the volunteers require further aid may be taken as admitted. The cap tain of a corps in the rich suburban district about Harrow, and one commander of a country corps in Sussex, whose affairs seem to have been managed with unusual judgment and economy, told the Corn mission that they could do without it. But these are exceptional cases ; and if such corps as these will not be the better for the aid proposed, they will scarcely be the worse for it. On the other hand, the evidence was overwhelming to show that, without aid, especially in clothing, very great efforts would be necessary everywhere to keep the force at all on its present footing, and that many of its most valuable portions, as for instance the arti san corps of Glasgow and other places, must infal libly fall to pieces. The country has scarcely a right to call on volunteer officers for such efforts as in some places they are making, for what is, after all, a national purpose, even were it likely that such efforts could continue. In one great English town, it is said, the method of obtaining new uni forms is as follows. The volunteer, when he finds his uniform getting shabby, absents himself from drill. 0-i remonstrance from his captain, he in forms him that he regrets his inability to attend, but that his uniform is not fit to appear in; upon which the captain writes back to say that if the volunteer will call at a certain tailor's, he will be measured and supplied with a new uniform, of course at the captain's expense. This state of things is scarcely desirable, and must soon end. On the other hand, the proposed extra vote of £200,000 for volunteers, a mere drop in the ocean of the army estimates, will relieve many zealous supporters of the movement, and will be felt as a burden by no body. The volunteers of the war against Napoleon were regularly paid as soldiers are, whenever they assembled for drill and training. Moreover, the existing act gave exemption from the hair-powder tax, then a real exemption from a tax of over a year certainly to many, and probably to al volunteers; and exemption from the Militia bal lot, then an important privilege, now a dead let ter. The only public privilege the modern volun teer enjoys is that of passing a toll-gate when in uniform for nothing. Besides these exemptions, and their pay when called out, it appears from a War Office return appended to the Blue-book, that the old volunteers received a free outfit, a clothing allowance of £1 per man every three years, and Os. Bd. per head per annum for repair of arms; and that their average coat per man per annum was 14, exclusive of arms and ammunition. In view of these advantages enjoyed by the old volunteers, some of the witnesses before the commission sug gested that some really valuable exemptions should he extended to the volunteers of the present day ; that the horse-tax or the dog-tax should be remitted to an effective volunteer, and that they should be exempted from serving on juries. But ate the volun teers worth all this expenditure ? Adam Smith somewhere says That ior a people to be untrained tc arms is as disgraceful as for a man to be effeminate or emasculate. And surely in modern, as in ancient times, it may well be thought the duty of the State to promote the physical as well as the moral train ing of its inhabitants. It is no small thing to have, in - case of invasion, 160,000 men well-armed, tole rably trained, subject to martial law, and organised in companies and battalions. But whatever would be the worth of the volunteers if called on to face an enemy, at least they have given confidence, pre vented panic, taken away our reproach as a shop keeping nation, utilised in some degree for war like purposes those sturdy and laborious classes whom, otherwise, nothing but the conscription or the Militia ballot could ever have touched. Rifle shooting steadily extends and improves. We have, and as long as volunteering continues we are sure to have, the best rifle instructors and shots in the world; and our schools of musketry have been raised from mere army into national institutions. We have lately seen what the volunteers are as part of a great national pageant or festivity. Again, the effect of volunteering upon the habits of all classes has been excellent : a sergeant in the London Scottish, himself a jobbing workman, actually declared, in his evidence hefore the Commission, he considers "that a man who is a volunteer is worth, in money value, 3s. a week more to a jobbing master than a man who is not." The proportion of town to country population every day grows larger; And if the volunteer movement can be consolidated by Government help, the town y corps, admitted to be the most valuable, should year by year steadily in crease. Every great centre of po , ulat iont where wealth most tempts invasion, would have it s own citizen army, which, it invasion threatens-d, could meet and train in brigades and divisions without deserting their usual occupations. Bristol, Liver pool, Brighton, London, can concentrate with ease their 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, or 20,000 men ; and what is done now for purposes of mere amusement ttrid holiday making, is but a small measure of what w ould surely be accomplished, if patriotism called for it and the country really needed it. SPECTATOR.—There is a curious episode in the early life of the present Emperor of the French, i little known n th.s country, w hi c h t h rows a flood o f light upon his charact er , an d srrangely connects him wi▪ th the history of modern Poland. Having fought in the rev o lt o f t h e C arbonari, fled, under the gui▪ dance of his mother and with the help of an English passport, through France into Great Britain and back agai n t o S w i tzerland, Louis Napoleon Arrived at Areneoberg at the beginning of August, 1831. He had not been many days at the quiet chateau, and was just beginning to settle down to his military studies, when he way interrupted by the ~ ,rrivai of two foreign gentlemen, who announced themselves as deputies of the NJ( tonal Government of Pola?,d. Their card , bore the names of General Knaiz,wiez and Count Platen, and they stated themselves authorised to offer to Lou's Napoleon the crown of Poland, under condi tion that he would join immediately the insurrection ary forces, taking the command-in-chief and super seding General Skrzynecki. As proof of their man date they handed to the Prince a long letter, signed by the Marshal of the Polish Diet, Count Ladislas Ostrowski, and several of the leading members, the concluding paragraph of which was as follows : " We cannot trust the final direction of our enter prise into better hands than those of the nephew of the greatest captain who ever lived. The mere appearance on the territory of Poland of "a young Napoleon Bonaparte, carrying aloft the Imperial tricolour, would ha sufficient to raise the national enthusiasm to the highest pitch, and produce a moral effect the consequence of which would be in calculable. Do not hesitate, then, we entreat you, to follow the call of a whole people ; but come to us at once, confiding the fortunes of Cm3ar, and, what is more, the fate of liberty to a gracious Providence. The love and gratitude of the Polish nation, and the admiration of the universe, await you, Prince," The reading of this manifesto made a profound im pression upon Louis Napoleon. With his Italian dream of glory fresh upon his mind, the prospect of a crown, of power and fame, wildly excited his imagination, making him ready to follow on the instant the messengers from Poland. But his mother at once checked these exuberant aspirations. Having but a few months before seen her eldest son die in the struggle of the Carbonari, ex- Queen Hortense had lost all faith in revolutions and in surrections, and look' d upon the deputies from Warsaw as birds of ill omen, come to entice her only remaining child into perdition. She opposed their errand by all the means in her power, not forgetting to cast doubt upon their ambassadorial character. All the arguments brought forward fell dead upon her ear, and seeing that Count Platen and his colleague were gaining an im►amense ascendancy over her son, she at last sternly forbad them further stay within the chateau. The Polish noblemen thereupon quitted Arenenberg ; but only to take up their quar ters at the neighbouring town of FrauenfeHen, the capital of the canton of Thurgovia. Here they had daily interviews with the Prince, which ended in the latter promising to go to Poland, even without the consent of his mother. All the necessary pre parations were made in the greatest secrecy, and when the Duchess of St. Leu entered the room of her son on the morning of Sunday, the 4th of Sep tember, she was horror-struck on finding that he had left her —gone, as expressed in a note, " a la recherche dune couronne." The chateau of Are nenberg at that time counted among its inmates a very notable personage, an old friend of Hortense Beauharnais, Dr. Henry Conneau. Oa discovering the flight of her son on the morning of the 4th of September, Hortense immediately sought Dr. Con- Dean, bidding him to follow in the traces of the lost one. At Augsburg, Dr. Conneau, attracted by the I , sound of French voices, entered the ancient hostelry of the " Three Moors." The first person who met his eyes was Prince Louis Napoleon, sitting at a table and reading a German newspaper. In large letters, on the top of the first paragraph, was a despatch from Poland, announcing " Order reigns at Warsaw." His Excellency Field-marshal Prince Paskevitch had forestalled his Imperial Highness Prince Louis Napoleon. Threw days after Louis Napoleon was again at Arenenberg, and at the end of a fortnight entered himself as a student at the military school of Thun, his mind devoted to artil lery—still dreamily engaged " a la recherche d'une couronne." EXAMINER,—Of all the commodities consumed by man, air and water excepted, tobacco stands foremost, a position it owes to its narcotic quality, and to the facility with which it is produced over a geographical surface embracing fitty degrees on each side of the equator. We ourselves consume of it yearly—and we are very far from being the greatest consumers—about 16,000 tons, and if the rest of the world does but as much, the consumption of mankind will amount to from six to seven mil lions of tons, which is more than the entire mer cantile navy of the United Kingdom and its colonies would carry. Ail this is the creation of about two centuries and a half, and has c'.)me by imitation from the savages of America, in whose country alone the plant was a native. It was all in vain that our Scottish James blew his counter-blast, and his equally foolish contemporaries, the Great Mogul and the Emperor of Japan, issued their decrees against it. The fascination of the weed has over come all opposition. The Mahomedans, who at first strained against coffee, lest it might by possi bility contain alcohol, embraced the tobacco-pipe without a scruple. The Hindus have done the same, and the Chinese and Japanese, who had no scruples to overcome, have become, perhaps of all people, the most general consumers of tobacc Savages take to the weed very kindly, and the Maories of New Zealand end naked blacks of Aus tralia smoke as industriously as the dandies of Lon don and Paris. On Thursday the Chancellor of the Exchequer's new Tobacco Duties Bill passed through committee. The existing rates of duty are excessive, and hence tobacco, an article that bears rough handling without detriment, is the main subject of the smuggling trade, the onerous duty being, of course,a perpetual temptation to defraud the State and the fair trader. Mr. Gladstone'a measure is not com prehensive, and indeed, considering the vast sum he must risk, we do not see bow it could well be so. As far as it goes, however, it is judicious, and founded on principle. As our readers know, our financiers— and they are right—consider tobacco as a mere in strument of taxation. With this view, the culture of the plant at home is interdicted, a matter of no hardship, since in our climate we cannot produce it either cheap or good. Hence the whole revenue derived from it is collected by the levy of a custom duty on the foreign article. On leaf or unmanu factured tobacco the present rate of duty is nearly 3s. 2d a pound, which at the valuation of 10d. a pound—that of the tables of the Board of Trade— will give a tax on the value of 380 per cent. On the manufactured article, in the shape of snuff; the duty is 6s. 3d., and at ls. a pound, the price of the Board of Trade, the tax is here an ad valorem one of 415 per cent. The duty on cigars is 9s. 6d. nearly, and on the Board of Trade price of Is. a pound, the tax conies here to one on the value of 950 per cent. All these duties are so excessive as to make tobacco the main object of smuggling, and this more especially on the manufactured article. Mr. Gladstone, leaving the duty on the unmanufac tured article as it stands, or simply taking off the odd 2i, a pound, reduces th e d u ty on f ore i g n high dried snuff to 4s. 6d., and on cigars to 58. a pound. The home manufacturer had a protecting duty of 3s. ld. on every pound of snuff, and of no less than 6s. 4d. on every pound of cigars, and has still one on snuff of 3.. 3d. and on cigars of ls. 6d., and vet he complains, through the throats of Messrs. Roe buck and Ayrton, fur monopolists are never to be satisfied. It is to be hoped that th ese amel i orations may produce some increase of revenue and diminu tion of smuggling, but we confess that our expecta tions are not very sanguine. At present the gross amount of the tobacco duty, in round numbers £5,500,000, is respectable, equalling that on tea, sugar, and malt. Were it'safe to make a large pre sent sacrifice of revenue, by a sweeping reduction of all the duties on the article, we do not doubt but that the suppression of the contraband trade in it, and ultimately a large increase of revenue, would be the result. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE, OXFORD CIRCUIT—STAFFORD, March 20. (Before Mr. Baron Channel].) Mary Ann Barlow (on bail), was charged with feloniously by letter threatening to accuse the Rev. John Tyson, on the 29th December, 1862, at Wol stanton, of an attempt to com m it a rape on her person, with a view to extort money. The indictment contained eight counts, of which the first three were framed upon section 46 of the recent Criminal Law Consolidation Act. The first charged the prisoner with sending a letter to the prosecutor, accusing him of having attempted and en d eavoure d to comm i t a rape upon her, with the int en t th ere by t o e xto r t money, setting out the letter as hereinafter appearing. The second count was in like form, but setting out part of the letter containing the accusation. The third count was in similar terms, but omitting to set out the letter or any part thereof. The next set of counts were framed upon section 44 of the Act. The fourth count was for sending a letter demanding money from the prosecutor by menaces and without any reasonable or probable cause, and setting out the letter. The fifth and sixth were the last, the one setting out part of the letter, and the other omitting it altogether. The seventh and eighth counts proved to be immaterial. Mr. Huddleston, Q C., Mr. Kenealy, and Mr. Holroyd appeared for the prosecution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Matthews. The nature of the case will be best gathered from the following evidence;— Betsy Miller, the wife of the sexton of Woistan ton, proved that on Monday, December 29, the pri soner came to her (witness's) house, and asked for her husband, who was from home. She then gave witness a letter, and requested that it might be given to witness's husband to take to Mr. Tyson, which was accordingly done. William Miller, sexton of Wolstanton, proved the delivery of the letter to Mr. Tyson, and that he waited in the kitchen until the letter was delivered. Mr. Tyson gave witness a letter to take back to Mrs. Barlow, which witness did. Prisoner asked witnk ss bud t- , 2;:n Mr. Tyson, to which he replied in the affirmative. Cross-examined by Mr. MAtt hews—Mr. Bentley (Mr. Tyson's nephew), asked witness if he knew what Mrs. Barlow meant by sending such a letter. Witness said be was not. aware that the letter was objectionable, and Mr. Bentley then read it to wit ness. The letter was put into an envelope imme diately after it was read, and delivered to witness to take bock to prisoner. Witness could not repeat the letter. Rc-examined—Mr. Bentley read the letter to witness once. Remembered that part of the letter where prisoner said she would have written before, but feared it would stop Mr. Tyson's visit to her mother. Recollects she said she must be paid, and that Mr. Tyson's conduct was very base. Robert Bentley—l am nephew of the Rev. John Tyson, and am an undergraduate of Cambridge. I was present when Miller brought, the letter to the Vicfrrage. It was brought into the room by the cook and handed it, to Mr. Teson, who opened and read it. He then handed it to his wife, who was present. I went with the letter to Miller, and called him into another room and read it aloud to him, in Mr. Ty son's presence. I took it back to the dining -loom, and Mr. Tyson enclosed it in an envelope and sent it back. The letter was in these terms,—" Rev. Sir,—The secret sin must come out. I should have written to you after the second offence, but did not wish to prevent your visits to mother. Your in gratitude to me has been base after my putting up with it so long. Oh ! the happy days when I could receive the sacrament with an inward and spiritual grace. I must be paid and receive compensation for the loss of my peace of mind." The letter was signed " Mary Ann Barlow." Those were, in substance, the words used. Mrs. Barlow came to the Vicarage afterwards, and I was present when she came. I went with Mr. Tyson to his solicitor, Mr. Lichfield. She came to the Vicarage on the Friday following, about 8 o'clock iu the morning. Mr, Lichfield and myself were in the drs wing -room, and she was shown in to us. Mr. Tyson herd then left the room by Mr. Lichfield's direction. She said she wished to see Mr. Tyson. I said she would see no one in the house but Mr. Lichfield and myself. Mr. Lichfield asked her whether it was not an unfounded charge she had made against Mr. Tyson. She said she did not wish to hurt Mr. Tyson's feelings. The question was repeated, and she then asked whether, if she an swered it, would the matter be settled that night ? Mr. Lichfield said he should hold out no hopes of such a thing. She said if she could see Mr. Tyson she would confess all. The servant ~ad been sent for three times to show her out ; prisoner showed great hesitation in leaving, but left on the third occasion. Cross-examined—She showed a strong desire to see Mr. Tyson. I have stated the words of the letter to the best of my ability and recollection. I read the letter before I left the room, when Mr. Tyson received it, ano afterwards again. The words were " I should have written to you." The words " secret sin must come out" were part, I think, only of a sentence, but I cannot supply the remainder. There were some words between this part of the letter and the part which appears next, as I recollect it, but I cannot furnish them. I cannot pledge myself as to the accuracy of the order of the words and sentences I have given. Perhaps I may at one time have trans posed portions of the letter. I don't remembez any thing in it about " consolation," nor the word "repaid." I don't think they were in the letter " what does she mean ?" This was when he handed the sitter to Mrs. Tyson. There was nothing in the letter which was obscure or unintelligible, and no allusions to any thing which had passed between the writer and Mr. Tyson further than what appeared in the letter itself. I asked Miller if he knew what were the con tents of the letter, to which he answered " No." I then read it to him that he might know the con tents. I read it because I thought it right he should know them. I made a note of t he words of the letter the next morning, which I left in a writing-case, and have not seen it since. The writing-case is one which is placed on the table for genera, use. The note I made is not here. (The witness here, at the request of counsel, again repeated the letter, trans posing those passages commencing' Oh ! the happy days," and " I must be paid.") I was before the magistrates the Saturday after. I don't think the words about ingratitude were " your ingrati tude after putting up with it has been base" (omitting the words "so long" after "it"), but will not pledge my oath those were not the words ; nor will speak positively as to the precise arrangement and co location of the words of the letter in general. Mr. Tyson first read the letter; then Mrs. Tyson, who read it out ; and I read the whole of it to Mil ler afterwards. Re-examined—l have not looked at the note I made of it because I did not think it necessary. There was nothing to qualify or alter the sense of the words as I have given it ; had there been such I should have remembered it There were some words which followed the words " the secret sin must come cut," but nothing which altered the sense. I understood by the letter that it accused Mr. Tyson of having attempted improper inter course with the prisoner, and that she intended to divulge it. I understood by the words "I must be paid," that she wanted and demanded money. Mr. Matthews having addressed the jury for the prisoner, His Lordship carefully summed up, explaining to the jury the technical difficulties which rendered the two sets of counts necessary, and pointing out that before they could enter upon the questions arising upon the two branches of the case they must first be satisfied that the letter was really one of a threatening nature. They would, therefore, have first to say whether, in the absence of the letter itself, which had been imprudently parted with by the prosecutor, they were of opinion they could rely with safety on the recollection of the witnesses under whose observation it had come as to the ex pressions it contained and the object of the writer. The jury, after a brief consultation, acquitted the prisoner, the foreman observing that in the absence of the letter itself they were of opinion that they could not safely convict. COUNTRY MARKETS. ---... YORK— SATURDAY. A small supply of wheat to-day, and the weather having been mare wintry during Ihe week there was an improve ment in the condition of the bulk of the samples. A healthy trade, and prices is higher. Barley and beans scarce, at late rates. Wheat, red 4os to 44s 1 Oats.... ........ 20s to 24- 42855 s toto 3 5 5 0 8 s i iß,eeaasn .. ................. White do Barley.._4o B - ((;.) 4 - 2s s Malt, 62s to 64s per qr. ; rye, 345 per qr.; flour, 34. , to 36s per sack. LE ICE ST ER—SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 56s to 60s ; new, 47s to 50s per 36 stone. Old red, 48s to 58eper 36 stone. Barley, malting, new, 35s to 39s per qr.; grinding, 28s to 30s ; old oats, 27s to 325; new oats, 22s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans, new, 33s to 378; old, 42s to 44s per 38 stone. NORTHAMPTON—SATURDAY. New wheat, 46s to ,52s ; old, 42s to 528. Barley, 27s to 39s per qr. New oats quoted at 208 to 24. ; old, 28s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 36s to 38s; new, 34s to 365. Peas, 36s to 44s per qr. NORWICII—SATURDAY. There was a more liberal supply of wheat to-day, but the millers not being disposed to follow any advance, prices were no higher than last week. For barley former prices were fully supported. Little passing in other grain. White wheat. 45s to 46- I Red wheat ........ 41s to 45s Malting barley ... 38 s t o 40 s I Chevalier barley...B6s to 37s Distilling d 0..... 33s to 35s I Oats.. ............ 24s to 28s Flour, 34s Od to —s Od p er sack from the miller. NOTTINGHAM —SATURDAY. There was barely an average supply of wheat to-day at market, but the demand was steady, at rather higher rates. Barley in limited show, at previous prices. Other articles were held for late currencies. White wheat, from 43s to 55s ; red wheat, 428 to 495. Barley—malting, 33s to 43s ; grinding, 27s to 295. Oats old, at 25s to 31s Od ; new, 22s to 275. Beans sold at 32s to 45s per qr. Flour, 31s to 40s. Births. GALE.—On the 23th inst., at Sheffield -gardens, the wife of Edward Morant Gale, Rig , of a daughter. GOVETT.—On the 19th inst., at Richmond, Mrs. Chas, A. Govett, of a son, ROYDS.—On the 20th inst., at Ousecliffe, near York, the wife of the Rev. Ch ar l es Twemlow Royds, of a son. ROYSTON.—On the 19th inst., Mrs. William IL Royston, Chelsea, of a son. Marriages. BIANCHI—VERBEEMEN.—On the 20th inst., E. Bianchi, Esq., Sebeto House, Vincent .street, Ovington-square, Brompton, to Mary Sophia, youngest daughter of the late Francis Verbeemen, Esq. MASSY—BUTLER,—On the 19th inst., at Mount Juliet, the Hon. John T. W. Massy, second son of Hugh, 4th Baron Massy, to the Lady Lur.y Maria Butler, daughter of Somerset Richard s 3d Earl ot Carrick. Deaths. BENNETT.—On the 19th inst., Mr. Stephen Bennett, of Eaton-place, Pimlico, aged 92. COULTRARD.—On thehard 19th inst., at T n lli ngton-road, Lon don, William Coult, Esq., of Morecambe, : 11 Lancas ter, H ouse , Chi c h ester, ter, aged 67. RAncEs,—On the 19th inst,, Rich ar d Mee Raikes, Esq., of N ,' P t i h a o c e p e : 2: D t:h g v e e i d r n ' s6at3.ged 80. it 0..., iI. to : SELBY.—On the 21st inst., at 17, Henrietta -street, Covent garden, Ch ar l es S e lb y, the Well-known comedian. r 1 1 i e . —e ti3 1 n eloryy-n• it SINCLAIR.—At Thurso Castle, Caithness, N. 8., the Lady Camilla Sinclair, aged 70, STEBEING.-- On the 19th inst., at 29, Inverness- road, Hyde park, Henry T, & -, e ebbing, Esq., late of Rotting D ean , aged 37, London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS.. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TIIE SUN Office, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County o hit ti f ilenex.—Monday, Mara 23„1863. tin ks DoE au] Etr 3 tho (-10 11 Ao ;rue Jo w /. GI A. ( J. I ( - r IT. I