The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-10 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, Aug. 82. The draught is completed in this city, and owing partly to the presence of 50,000 Federal troops, and partly to the reliance of the poorer classes that if draughted the municipality would purchase their exemption, everything has passed over quietly. The Government has thus lost for the present the cemeted opportunity of declaring martial law. But only for the present. If there be any meaning in words, the closing passage of the remarkable letter of General Dix to Governor Seymour clearly points to that ultimate catastrophe. " I desire," says the General, " that the military power of the State o New York shall be employed in case of need to en , force the:draught—because I shall otherwise call on the general Government for a force which shall not only be adequate to secure the execution of the law, but which shall enable me to carry out such decisive measures as shall leave their impress on the mind of the country for years to come.' Without waiting for Governor Seymour's reply to this threatening missive —and Governor Seymour most certainly did not hurry himself to answer it General Dix put himself in communication with Se cretary Stanton; and the result was that New York was invaded and is now occupied by an army almost as numerous as that with which General Meade con fronts General Lee in Virginia and defends the Federal capital from the perils of a new invasion.: Three years ago, before the election of Mr. Lin coln, and when Mr. Seward had a hope that he himself might be the chosen of the American people for the high office of President, he uttered the fol lowing words at a meeting at La Crosse, in Wis consin :—" What kind of a Government would it be if we (the American people) elected a man we did not like, instead of a man we did like ? My impression is that we should have a Government not differing very far from the empire of Austria, where they always manage to elect a man whom the people do not like, and where they have an admirable way of serving the union by organising an army of 500,000 men, armed to the teeth, to maintain in power the man who is not liked." Passing over the error that the Emperor of Austria sits on the throne by the election of the people—which was perhaps a slip of the orator's tongue, or the reporter's pencil—there is sufficient truth in the description to justify the resuscitation of this dead and buried prophecy, and to examine how it fits with the state of affairs in America which Mr. Seward has done so much to produce, and which Gen. Dix is so willing to maintain. In the Federal States, as in Austria, there is an army of half a million of men, "armed to the teeth," to maintain a Union that might otherwise resolve itself into three or four separate parts. Austria proper, Bohemia, Hungary, and Italy, would represent the disinte gration on the one side of the Atlantic ; New Eng land, New York, and the Southern and Western Confederacies on the other. There is this additional resemblance between the two cases—that such armies are incompatible with constitutional liberty; and that they are used to prop up a tyranny that would otherwise fall to the ground. The city of New York is called upon to provide 8,000 or 10,000 conscripts for the prosecution of a war which more than one-half of the people condemn, and lest these 8,000 or 10,000, or any portion of them, should break into revolt, 50,000 men, " armed to the teeth," aided by a considerable naval force, are found necessary to keep the peace, and force the unwilling civilians into battle. The Auqtrianisation of America is almost complete, and Mr. Seward is the Metternich, Gen, Dix the Wiedischgratz, and Gen. Butler the Haynau of the process. The first attempt of the military to interfere in New York with the right of free discussion during the progress of the draught has just beer. made. The victims are a physician of the name of Childs, said to be an Englishman ; a printer named Dickson, and a bill-poster named Johnson, who were arrested en Wednesday—the first for writing, and the second and third for printing and distri buting a placard, which the police declared to be treasonable. The police authorities, having some misgivings whether they had not committed an out rage, for which they might be held to account, con sulted Gen. Canby, second in command to Gen. Dix, and by that officer :they were handed over to the Provost Marshal and committed to a military pri son. The placard impugned was an address to the "Sons of Liberty,"calling upon them, " in the name of God, and that of the signers of the Declaration of American Independence, to arouse from their lethargy," and call a public meeting to raise 50;00 dols. by subscription, in order to employ priperly qualified counsel to test the legality of the conscrip tion before the tribunals, in the case of every draughted poor man who objected to b.acome a sol dier. The concluding paragraph will show alike the style and temper of the writer The Decla ration of Independence positively assserts that all men are born free and equal ! I will ask unpreju diced, reflecting men, immaterial what their politi cal feelings may be, whether a man is free or can only enjoy liberty when he is impressed into the army, dragged from his home, forced to take up weapons to invade a country, ravage it, kill and maim its population, jeopardise his limbs,health, life, and become subservient to a Dictator or Dictators, when these things are repugnant to his honour and manhood ? If this constitutes freedom God have mercy and protect those who are oppressed by teaching them truth, so that they can spurn and defy their oppressors with the weapons of righteousness." The newspapers every day con tain articles far more " treasonable " than this can by any stretch of meaning be fairly considered, and no notice is taken of them. Perhaps the treatment of Dr. Childs is a warning to them of what they must expect if they continue to persuade the labour ing people that the draught is unconstitutional. Immediately that Dr. Childs was taken from his home his wife applied by counsel to Judge Leonard for a writ of habeas corpus, issued to Police Com missioner Acton, who was supposed to hold him in custody. The writ was made returnable on the following day. The Commissioner yielded due obe dience to the summons, and replied that he could not deliver up the prisoner, for the reason that he had not then, and never had, custody of the body. Mrs. Childs and another woman testified that they had gone together to the police head-quarters, that a l l elieeman admitted that Dr Childs was in custody „ wit hin, and he said m oreover th a t h e won d e red wh at Could have induced Mrs. Childs to issue such a hilt ;it was enough to hang a man." Commissioner Retort a dmitted, upon examinati on , th a t Child s h a d been ea tedb over to the y order of Gene ra l C an by an d h an d e d cut Court, under til ody of Provost M ars h a l N ugen t. Th e to the Provon "le circumstances, issued a new writ the body, The eMahal, directing him to produce afternoon. The g ee before Judge Leonard this it, and testified th ' l r e a L et Marshal appeared to answer prisoner was not in his by order of Gener a l keeping—that h e ha ` d t b il e e eate,n sent to Fort Lafayett e c i rcu mstances, he could ° l: 4 lnd that, under the , ivri ."_thing. The judge thereupon issued a third E directed to General warden to the comm eudant, Canby, warden of Fort Lafayette, wh ate ,t h e p janitor, ro p r d or function . may be. And here matter signation or rests. The military authorities • b a be with their answer to any summon s , and D er C hilds - will, in all proba bilit y , be .suffe,red to rot . n • Prison until it shall please Mr. L i nco ln, Mr. Seward Mr. Stanton, or General Dix to release him. And thi s affords another proof of the administratio n of Ame rico, which Mr. Seward dreamt of in 1 860, and which he has in the interval done his best to convert into a reality. The printer and the billposter have been dis charged after a reprimand by the police on the enormity of the e treason " which they severally aided in disseminating, with a caution to sin no more,—a caution which the printer has takengreatly to heart. Lest his business should suffer, and loyal men come no more to his shop, he hes publicly ex pressed his regret at his imprudence, and plainly stated that had he read either the manuscript or the proof of the placard he would have had nothing to do with "such a thing." He could have said nothing more to the purpose had he been in War saw or in Venice. Although Mr. Opdyke's elaborate veto of the ordinance of the Court of Common Council is a against the wishes of a majority of the people. 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In tins, ~ 22 5. alb Bps,—Barry Du Barry and Co. , No. 7 7, Regeat-street, L ondon • also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Chemists in every town of the United Kingdom, matter of comparatively small importance, it never. theless excites indignant comments among the labouring classes, and will effectually destroy all his chances of re-election to the mayoralty. Mr. Opdyke persistently ignores the grievance of the poor, which is that a man not possessing 300 dols., and not able to borrow it, must, if draughted, go to battle and take the chance of being killed, maimed, invalided, or taken prisoner; while the rich man may exempt himself from all personal danger by a money pay ment of comparatively small amount. If there were no exemption to be procured by money, the draught would be as unpopular among the rich as among the poor. Bat, in American parlance, the Mayor "doesn't see it." He thinks that " a young man in robust health, who has come to this side of the Atlan tic, perhaps from absolute poverty and social degra dation in his own country to such freedom, comfort, property, and social position as so many foreigners have sought here and found before him, is bound to serve personally if draughted," for the reason that " he is offered bounty, food, clothing, pay,threefold what he had ever aspired to in his own country." But, suppose this "robust young man" should say to Mr. Opdyke—rich in esse and in posse by Govern ment favour and the numerous contracts which follow to reward such patriotism as his—" It is true that I came to this country for freedom, comfort, property, and social position,' but I prefer the first of these blessings to all the rest. It is because I thought the country was free that I came to it, and if I am compelled to become a soldier against my will, I shall consider myself aslav a e p . p l ly n your own language, Mr. Mayor, though you the words to negroes, and not to whi te i m that w whether the man who labours th e h n is hands own himself or be owned by another , should be a free man or a slave,wh e i t a he t r ho he should ultimate now deciding.' A s q f arue s a t a i on l which l this nation decide is s n favour of my own e m m y u s n e e l r f a t t ha n t . I Imdaoy not d o my yeddailywishtopossess . work pfoasirrs io wish to be owned temporarily or permanently by for the Government, or by any general under whom I may be ordered to risk my life. The negro slave is compelled to work, perhaps against his will, and You:and the abolitionists cry out against the v ill any ; but you would compel me to fight against my will, and insult me at the same time by talking of m y freedom.' " What answer could the Mayor give to such a speech as this except the answer of a despot ? The Mayor says in another part of his manifesto, that the "policy of the Draughting Act was to provide soldiers for the national armies, not money for the national trea sury." But although the Mayor, as a rich man, may scout the idea, the only effectual mode of carrying out such a policy would be to abolish the commutation, and compel both rich and poor to risk their lives alike, and serve shoulder to shoulder. To test whether such an arrangement would be ac ceptable to the Mayor, an Irish conscript, who signs himself William Collins, jun., has publicly offered to serve in the ranks, provided always that Mr. Opdyke's son —who is also a conscript, will do likewise, and that Mr. Opdyke, sen., will not use any personal or political influence to procure a com mission for the young man as lieutenant, captain, major, colonel, or brigadier -general. This challenge no sooner appeared in the newspapers than every oue who read it came to the conclusion that the gauntlet had been thrown in vain, and that Mr. Opdyke would either himself pay, or allow his son to pay, the 300 dols. It turns out, however, that Mr. Opdyke is not to be impaled upon either horn of the dilem ma, and that the Government in this particular case will get neither man nor greenbacks, inasmuch as Mr. Opdyke, jun., is an invalid, and will claim exemption on the ground of physical disability. What Mr. Collins, jun., will do under the circum stances remains to be seen, but, judging from the tone of his letter, he will neither shoulder the mus ket nor part with his money, but claim his alienage as a British subject. The process of hearing claims of exemption has already comdenced in some of the wards, with re sults that promise but little wool for all the cry that has been made. Yesterday in one district only six available soldiers were procurable out of a list of 66 conscripts. Never had Queen Victoria so many avowed subjects in New York as she has at this day, and never did physical infirmity either of the gravest or the slightest kind appear so pre• cious in the estimation of the unhappy persons afflicted with it as it does now. The total returns az the city, when completed, will show settle curious figures, and it already begins to be computed by those who devote attention to the matter that scarcely one-tenth of the draughted men will ever don the Federal uniform, in the neighbouring State of Rhode Island, with a population at the last census of 174,260 persons, the draught has been completed, the claims of exemption heard and de cided, and the result is 19 soldiers ! The remainder have either proved alienage, physical disability, non-liability, from under or over age, or have paid their money or had it paid for them by their friends. If the State of New York be in the same mood as Rhode Island, contain a similar proportion of aliens, cripples, sick and infirm persons, end heroes who prefer to serve their country with purse rather than person, Mr. Lincoln will draw from it a not very formidable regiment of 422 men ! The population of New York is 3,880,735, and any schoolboy can work out the result on his slate by the rule o f t h ree. a simple sum in But as arbitrary measures are in fashion, as Mr. Lincoln tolerates, Mr. Seward approves, Mr. Stan ton urges, and Gen. Dix is ready, on his own show , ing, to execute them; and as there are 50,000 sol diers in New York who have nothing particular to do, it might be worth the while of the Government, if it needs conscripts so sorely as it pretends, to sta tion two or three regiments and a few pieces of ar tillery in the immediate vicinity of Wall-street, William -street, and Exchange -place. Every day from 11 o'clock until 2or half-past 2 there are con gregated at the corners of those streets from 500 to 600 men, mostly young and vigorous, in the very pride and flower of lffe, who are engaged in gam bling in stocks and shares. The place is a perfect Babel for the up roar an d confusion of tongues, and a worse than Homb urg or B aden Baden for demo ralisation and cupidity. The people who frequent these purlieus are of no use to the community. They add nothing to the national wealth. They are as sordid as thimble-riggers, and have as little heart or conscience as the scrip in which they speculate. Why should not Gen. Dix make a beginning by im pressingthe whole gang and sending them off' to P Such a measu re would the A rmy of the Potomac. be illegal, it is true, but, in the general's own words, "it would leave its impress upon the mind o f the country for years to come ," and would h ave the advantage of ridding the ci ty of New Yo r k o f the 500 or 600 people whom it could most easily spare, and perhaps save from the operations of the draught an equivalent number of carpenters, masons, long, shoremen, and other honest working people. The measure, in addition to these advantages, would be strictly in accordance with the " Austrianization ', of the Republic which Mr. Seward foresaw as the inevitable result of the election of a President MORE FORTUNE-TELLING. Augttsta Leigh, who described herself as a lodging house keeper, of 18, Windsor-place, City-road, appeared yesterday at the Clerkenwell Police-court, before Mr. Mr. D'Eyncourt, charged with unlawfully and violently assaulting Miss Harriet Trimmet. Miss Harriet Trimmer, an elderly female, who gave her evidence in a very precise way, said that she saw in a local journal an advertisement headed, " Home, comfortable." The advertisement then went on to say that " a lady" gave a furnished bed and sitting room, with attendance and every comfort, for 6s. per week, but if with partial board it would be 7s. In consequence of that she called on the de fendant, and after an interview with her engaged to lodge with her. On the day appointed she went to the house with her luggage, and then it was that she discovered that it was a house of ill-fame, for she had not been there long before improper words were made use of to her, and she was told that she could not sleep in the room she had engaged ex cept with a companion. She locked herself in in the first floor front room, and then the defendant broke the room door open, assaulted her, and said that that room was re quired for a gentleman. The defendant made use of very bad language, and as she (the complainant) found that she was in a bad house, she went away, but the defendant detained some of her goods for her rent, which was not owing. A day or so afterwards she again went to the defendant's for the goods whch she detained, but the defendant declined to give them to her, and again assaulted her. The complain ant described the house kept by the defendant as one of the most notorious brothels in the neighbourhood. Mr. D'Eyncourt inquired of the complainant what ar ticlesa silkT e s e c a o r m f, p a s in—Two;n a tw t aapr h a e y r a e a a f r e F t ren c p h a f r a s w o e f r k a the defenda n t h a d k ept from her. i :d ia gl 6 o d ve ; s a , ca2sp , front, bid ; and ribbon velvet and black lace, ls. Why, sir, you would hardly believe it, but the very flower that she (pointing to the defendant) is wearing now in the front of her bonnet are the very ones that she took away from me. The Defendant, clasping her hands, and looking up to the ceiling, exclaimed in a theatrical tone of voice, " Oh you wicked old creature, how can you stand there and say such false and malicious things of me , you ought to be choked for doing so. As for my house, it is the only re spectable one in the neighbourhood, but the houses near me are gay. lam disturbed all night and all day by per sons —some of them captains and real gentlemen—coming to my house and asking for Rate and other ladies. All my lodgers are highly respectable, and there is not one woman there that would speak to any man but her husband, and as for me doing so, I have done speaking to men, for I have a supreme contempt for them." Three Police-constables were called, and stated that the house kept by the defendant, as well as two other ho uses next her, were known and had the name of being brothels. They had seen loose, dissipated girls, prostitutes that walked the City-road to ply their unlawful avocation for a liveli• hood, go into defendant's house; and even as late as Saturday morning, between two and three o'clock, a man and woman went in there the worse for liquor. During the time of the Dog Show cabs with men with loose women, who walked about Islington, were in the habit of going to the defendant's house at all hours of the day and night. The Defendant again denied that her house was "gay," or that she kept lady lodgers. She also denied striking the complainant, and said that when she first came to the house she was drunk. The complainant had not been there long before she wanted her (defendant) to co with her to a for tune teller in Bath-street, City-road. She said that she was a single woman, and had been living with a married man. That the man had left her to go back to his wife, as the wife was near her confinement. He had given her some flowers, and as she perfectly well knew the language of flowers, she could tell that her lover's wife would have a son—that she would die in her confinement—that the child would also die, and that her lover would be very disconsolate for a time, and then return to her fond embraces; all would be for given and forgotten, and that she should then be married, and all would go on happy and comfortable. She (defend ant) did not go to the fortune teller's with the complainant, but one of the lady lodgers did, and when the complainant came back she said she knew all about her and her house; that she was a " Capricorn," and that she was plotting secretly against her, but that she would not so easily get over her as she thought, and if she did her triumph would not be long. Defendant said she could show that her house was respectable, and called Wm. Wilkes, whe said he was a watchmaker, and worked at 13, Northampton-street, St. Luke's. He resided in the de fendant's house with his wife, but should not do so if it was not respectable. He was married at a church, but he could not exactly recollect when or where. He knew that there was a young woman in the house of the name of James, but hp was not aware whether she was a Miss or a Mrd. She sometimes had a gentleman call to see her, but he could not say whether it was her husband or not, and as for seeing anything wrong, that was not very likely, as he did not think that they would be fools enough to let him. The complainant when she came to the house was perfectly sober. He was not aware that loose women visited the defendant's house. Ho had heard the evidence of the constables, and although he would not say that they were not speaking the truth, yet he thought they were alluding to the next house. Mr. D'Eyncourt had the constables recalled, and asked them if they might not be mistaken in the house, and whether what they had stated might not apply to the houses next to the defendant's. The constables replied, that they were not mistaken in the house. The two houses next that kept by the de fendant were brothels, They had been called to the de fendant's house to quell disturbances between prostitutes. A broker's man was called by the defendant to prove that she kept a quiet house, for he had turned disorderly pros titutes out of her rooms, as she did not take them,nor would she allow them to be in her house. Emma James, who resided in the defendant's house, was called, and at first stated that she was a Miss and then a Mrs. She was married about 12 months ago at St. Martin's Church, but did not know where her husband lived, as he only called once a week at her residence. She never saw anything at the defendant's house but what was respect able. When the complainant first came to the house she was drunk, and brought with her a bottle of gin and a bottle of whisky, At the complainant's request she went with her to a fortune-teller's in Bath-street, where she paid 2d, and had her fortune told. The complainant told her she had been living with a man for 5 years, that his wife would shortly die, and he promised to marry her ; but she wanted to go to the fortune-teller's to see if she should be lucky. The fortune-teller told her that Fate would be favourable to her, and gave her a paper. The Defendant—Yes ; and when she came back she said I had deceived her. Mr. D'Eyncourt inquired if it was true that the com plainant had been to a fortune-teller's. The complainant said that she had been induced to go by Miss James. She went to Bath-street, and consulted the "oracle," and the " wise man," and when she had paid her 2d. he gave her a printed paper, of which the following is an exact copy : " Answer to Capricorn and Saturn. 4 , The Horoscope or nativity announces that you will suc ceed in all your enterprises, by all the cares and Troubles you have given yourself, in spite of that you will have Crossings to endure; do not alarm yourself because you will surmount them in a manner that will not be perceived by any one, and you will discover many plots got up secretly against you, that will cause you to be on your guard, but yon are so easily seduced, that y ou would again give your confidence to people of bad faith. Your economy will give you the conveniences of life, and you will repose in your old age. ~~ " Capricorn and Saturn. di Beware of those who flatter you, it is only to deceive you ; you are so honest that you believe every one to be like you. "Your great confidence will render you the dupe of some bad persons, but their triumph will not be long. " They will rob you of something, but you will soon find it again. "Fate will be favourable to you, because you have no ambition. " You will never be rich, but you will never feel the needle of misery. " You have a project that you will not put in execution for a certain time, and not then without great trouble, but your enterprise will be crowned with success. "Learn, if thou art Sage, Science sooner than Heritage. When Heritage fails thee Science shall nourish thee. "N.B.—Secret Looking Glass, to show the Ladies their present or future Husbands, and Gentlemen their present or future wives. Admission 2d .—Nativities calculated, and complainant or for any whether one to bel ie v e she Destinies Re vea l ed. " Mr. D'Ey ncourt said it was very foolish for a grown-up woman was very i much htu m such trash, and tfro th asked the e effects of the defendant's -violence ? The complainant replied that she did not now feel any pain. She was more shook than hurt. The defendant—lt is not likely that I would hurt her. Mr. D'Eyncourt said it was plain that the defendant bad inveigled the complainant into her house, and then when she found out its character, and wished to leave endeavoured to bully her out of some money. It was not to be tolerated that respectable women were to be served as she had been. There could be no doubt but that the complainant was a weak minded woman, but that was no reason why she should be abused and defr a ud e d. T here could be no doubt as to the character of the house. H e should fine the defendant £ 5 and costs for the assault, and in default of payment she would be imprisoned in the House of Correction for six weeks. The Defendant—l have not got £5 to pay; but I hope that you wi ll give me a little time, and not allow me to go to prison. Mr. D'Eyncourt said, as she kept such a house she was deserving of no pity, and declined to grant her applies- The defendant was then removed in tho custody of Turner, the gaoler. The complainant inquired of the magistrate how she was to recover the articles that the defendant had retained illegally. Mr. D'Eyneourt said she had better make out a list of th e things, and ask the defendant for them, and if she ~~:. did not give them up, then to bring an action for their re covery or value in the County Court. Inspector Fyfe, G Division, said that two girls, who had run away from home, and were leading a dissolute life in London, were found by their parents lodging in the defend ant's house, and were taken away from there. The defendant some years since was several times re manded at this court on a charge of committing a mur derous assault on her servant, a girl she had taken from the Islington Workhouse. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—Sept. 9. Beoffort eheMcr.ouStetrgiveanr.tmGeatozafeleee.o)aid own was se proceeded dh o i hm with H EN RY Re appeared wished cor drawE t ß foo O r T t he rs Lord ship'sr e r Hfires t i k nt t ryc t a h sce e sitting ( before the attention to a case which was tried yesterday--that of He was compelled to go away before the case was concluded, but h e found it re p orted that Mr. Sleigh had made some re flections upon him in putting the prisoner forward as a re spectable man, but h e cou l d assure his Lordship that up to the time he read the report in the paper he had no idea whatever but that the prisoner was a person of good cha racter, nor was he aware o f th e previous French convictions. As to his having reflected upon the conduct of the prose cutor, that was done in consequence of the instructions re ceived by the attorney who instructed him, and from the prisoner, and he should always deem it his duty and should adhere to his practice of putting the prisoner's case as strongly as he could before the jury, leaving them to be the judges of the facts. Mr. Besley said only a fewmoments since he had spoken to Mr. Sleigh, and he could say that throughout he guarded himself against attaching any imputation . to Mr. Metcalfe that he was aware of the prisoner's previous character. Mr. Metcalfe said he knew nothing of any previous con viction. Mr. Sergeant Gaselee said he did not for one moment mean to say that Mr. Metcalfe did know of the previous convictions- Of that he was quite certain, and after the explanation of Mr. Besley it really seemed to him there was no one to blame at all in the matter. Edward Head was indicted for stealing a brooch, watch, watchguard, s hawls, tablecovers, blankets, sheets, and £2 Bs. 6d. in money, the property and moneys of Elijah Lane. Mr. Be b l e y p r osecuted ; Mr. Ribt o n defended 'be prisoner. Elijah Lane, the prosecutor, was examined by Mr. Bes • ley. He said—l am a cab proprietor, and live at 67, W ood chester-street, Harrow-road. I had known the prisoner previous to the 18th July, having seen him at work with other men at a building going on five or six houses off from that I occupy. On the evening of the 17th July my wife came home to my house, being accompanied by a woman named Oakley. I refused to admit the woman Oakley, as she was the worse for drink. My wife came into the house, and afterwards went out again and did not return that night. I did not see her at all on the 18th. I did not see her again until the 24th August. Before the 18th July I had some bed linen in the house, a watch and chain, stock ings, and other articles, but after the 18th July they ware gone. About half the feathers were taken out of the bed, and a great quantity of wearing apparel. Three boxes con taining various a r ti c l es were ta k en away. All th ese things had been taken away without my consent. It was several weeks after this that I saw my wife again. I tried to find out where she lived and followed her for about 16 miles, when, being tired, I was obliged to give up the pursuit. I gave directions to some person in reference to the prisoner, and in consequence of what he told me I went to No. 32, John-street, Tottenham-court-road. I watched the house on two or three occasions to see if my wife went in there. I went to this house on the 24th of August, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. I returned to it about 9 o'clock the same night, when I went upstairs into a back attic. I found my wife lying under the bed and the prisoner lying on it. I there saw some of the property I had missed from my house on the 18th o f J uly. The first thing I saw was a box which had been taken from my house, but the contents were gone. I found three boxes in the room. One of the boxes the pri soner said belonged to him, which was locked, and he gave the key of it to a policeman. In that box were found a silk dress, a tablecover, and a number of articles that I cannot now recollect, which belonged to me. The blanket, sheets, counterpane, and pillow-cases on the bed I identified as my property. I did not recover them. I have seen nothing of my watch or chain since. The value of the property I lost independent of my wife's wearing apparel, was about £lO. Her wearing apparel was worth about £lO, as far as I am able to judge. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton—My wife never left me before for an y l ength of time excep t t o go into the country to visit her friends. She never left my house before with • out my consent. We were on good terms together, but like other persons, we may have had a word or so, but no thing more. We never had any serious quarrel except upon one occasion, when she came home the worse for liquor. Mr. Besley objected to such questions, as they did not go to impeach the veracity of the witness. Mr. Ribton said he had never heard such an objection in the course of his experience in the criminal law, and he was sure it would not have been taken by any counsel who knew his business. Mr. Besley said such observations applied to him were most impertinent. Mr. Sergeant Gazelee thought that such observations ought not to be made. Mr. Ribton—Then I will retract it. No one doubts that Mr. Besley knows his business, in fact he knows too much. Cross. examination continued—My wife did not leave me before. I knew that my wife went away upon one occasion, but that was with my consent. I never desired her to leave her home. On this occasion I did not tell her to go. I did not say if she did so she might have her things. That aas not very likely. I did not wear the watch I have lost the blankets by which I knew them. I bought th e watch in Oxford-street and also the chain. There we re three con er round con stantly, and my wife sometimes wore it, perhaps once a month. It was not her watch. Two of the box es t a k en away were used to keep clothes in, the other for articl es used in the house, such as tablecloths, counterpanes, & a . T he sheets, blankete, and counterpane I found on the b e d I know ftl 1- belonged to me. I identified the sheets by the pe cu li ar way r h o p t h e mark tlye. After they letters r o ‘ : 1 I a t c e e e theythey d w ) . e r he Therea hemmed. d been w m : marked as k a e m d yw peculiarl: t (Edwardliellftmy p Head). which anti macassars taken, found in the box of which t h e ,prisoner held the key, which I also identify as my pr o p erty. Sarah Ann Lane , daughter of the prose cutor, said her mother was at home on the 1 7 1 July, but s h e went out and remained out the whole of that night. O n t h e 18th July her mother came home about 11 o'clock, bringing the pri Boner with her. Her mother packed two of the boxes, and the prisoner packed and corded another, He was there about a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes. He went away before her mother with the boxes. Her mother then went out, and she did not see her afterwards. Witness was in the kitchen and heard a cast come up, and the boxes were put into it. The things produced were packed that morning. Cross-examined —l did not hear my mother ask the pri soner to cord the boxes, IWe up into the room and saw the prisoner cording one of the boxes. There was no one but my mother with the prisoner. I went upstairs when I heard the prisoner come in. I have no recollection of my mother leaving her home before. I never heard my father tell her to leave and go away. Ai_ y father and mother had no quarrel the night before, but my father would not allow my mother to bring another woman into the house. My mother then went out and stopp e d out all night. She came on the following morning and began to pack up her clothes. By the Court—l saw a donkey. cart come for the boxes, and a young man was with it, but the man was not the pri soner. Elijah Wheatley said he lodged with Mr. Lane. He had not seen the prisoner before the 18th of July. He saw the prisoner and Mrs. Lane near the Bishop's-road Station of the Metropolitan Railway. He was carrying her shawl and parasol on his arm. lle spoke to Mrs. Lane. Ho had seen the prisoner on several occasions. Cross-examined—He lodged with Mr. Lane for 6 months. Mrs. Lane was out for two nights while he was there. Ho asked her what she was doing, and to return to her home. She said she would not. She never mentioned the name of her husband. Mary Ann Black said,—l keep the house No, 32, John street, Tottenham -court-road. The (prisoner cams to my house about taking a room on the 20th or 21st of July. He was accompanied by Mrs. Lane, whom he represented as his wife. The woman said they wanted to come in immediately, as they had been li v i ng with h er s i s t er , and i she had given up housekeeping, The next day they brought 4 or 5 boxes in a cab, and th e pr i soner an d t h e man t oo k th e b oxes up stairs together. The blankets, sheets, and counterpane on the bed did not belong to me. Robert Grove, a cab proprietor, said on the 24th of August he accompanied the prosecutor to a house, No. 32, John-street, Tottenham-court -road, and went to the back attic. He saw the prisoner lying on the bed. and Mrs. Lane lying under the bed. The prisoner's first, words were '‘ Go out of my room, or I will d— soon put you out. Wit- ness asked the prosecutor if he had any knowledge of any thing that was in the room, and ho said the boxes in the room belonged to him. He also said the blankets on the bed were his. Mrs. Lane said they were not, and that they be longed to the landlady. He saw a box opened, out of which ohe of the prosecutor's stockings was taken. The box was locked, and the key of it came out of the prisoner's pocket. ___ Witness was sure that the box was locked. Witness said to prosecutor, " Here is a box which we have not examined, and it had better be opened." John Baker, 42 E, police constable, said he went to No 32, Jolitt-s treet, To tten ham-court. road, with the prosecutor and Mr. Grove. He saw the prisoner on the bed, and Mrs. Line crawled from under it. He asked whom a box belonged to, and the prisoner said it belonged to him. He took a key from his pocket and the box was opened. In it were found some articles which the prosecutor identified as belonging to him, and a letter addressed to the prisoner from his wife, whom he had sent down to Sidmouth, in Devonshire, with her children. (In this letter, which was couched in affec tionate terms, she applied to the prisoner for money, as the children were in want, and she had scarcely a bit of shoe to her feet). Mr. Itibton then addressed the jury for the prisoner, and, after citing several oases which had been decided, contended that no felony had been made out in this ease, so the wife I, 1863. had a right to her wearing apparel and the boxes to contain it, and as to the prisoner cording her boxes there was no proof that he had not done so at the request of the woman Whatever opinion they might form as to the morality of the prisoner, no felony had been established against him, and he asked them to acquit him of the offence with which ho stood charged. After a summing up of the evidence, The jury consulted together for about half an hour, when the foreman said as there appeared to be a doubt whether this was an act of felony they gave the prisoner the benefit of it. The prisoner was then discharged. Mrs. Lane was sitting outside the entrance to the court during the trial, and was laughing and joking with her acquaintances. SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.—We cannot expect that the doubting public will derive any great assurance from the letter of Mr. Vernon Lushington on the Steam Rams in the Mersey which we publish this morning. The assumption with which our correspondent commences his argument begs the entire question practically at issue. If there were "evidence of the fact" that these vessels are actually destined for the use of the Con federate States and also a certainty, or a reasonable amount of probability, that this would bring the adventure within the scope of the Foreign Enlist. ment Act, nobody can deny that Lard Russell might " exercise his power of detention" and forbid the ships to leave the port. But, unfortu nately, neither of these conditions can be easily satisfied. That there is not, or was not, sufficient evidence of the fact we know from the avowal. of Lord Russell himself, and that there is nothing positive in the applicability of the Foreign Enlist ment Act to the case must be inevitably inferred from the experiment tried upon the Alexandra. The ques tion actually pressing for decision at this moment is, doubtless, as Mr. Lushington states it—" Ought not Lord Russell, as British Minister, acting under the power of the Foreign Enlistment Act, to order the detention of the steam rams in the Mersey ?" This question, however, can only be decided by evidence which does not appear to be forthcoming, and it does Lot help the case in the tk,lst to assume the discovery of what cannot be found. A few days ago Lord Russell did certainly not, by his own admission, conceive himself to possess, as Britisti Minister, any sufficient warrant for the sug gested exercise of power; and unless we are mis informed, he has since that time received assurances of the really innocent character of the sus pected vessels. On this point:, however, we cannot expect the public to be very credulous. Probably nine people out of ten are prepossessed with a pretty firm opinion upon the ultimate destination of these ships of war, but Government can act only upon stronger grounds than this, and such grounds had not lat en discovered at the date of Lord Russell's letter. Nor can we think our correspondent's argu ments are any more conclusive when they are based upon the actual circumstances of our present posi tion. It does seem to be the f...ct that the construc tion of these vessels in British yards " tend to endan ger the peace and welfare of this kingdom ;" inso much that we have been actually threatened with war in case any more such cruisers should be allowed to escape from our ports. It is also true that not only the preamble of the Foreign Enlistment Act, but the broader theory of international law, forbids as unlawful any such acts on the part of citizens of a State as tend to compromise the public secu rity. But it needs no argument of ours to prove that this doctrine can only be laid down with limi tations. The acts in question must be such acts as a foreign State can only complain of, but complain of with reason; otherwise any Government might at any time dictate to any other Uovernment a modi fication of its laws under threat of war. We have been repeatedly placed in imminent danger of war by the acts of private citizens as well as by the policy of Government. Scarcely a foreign Court but has remonstrated with us more or less fiercely on some of the results which the rights of political asylum and free discussion are calculated to produce. On these occasions we have always been resolute in maintaining our privileges, and it is not so very long since a Government was overthrown in an attempt to give greater stringency to English law at the presumed instance of a foreign Power. It is not enough, therefore, to allege that "in fact" the proceedings in q ues ti on en d anger t h e pu bli c peace . If they are not proceedings proscribed by law, Go vernment can bring no law to bear upon them. What Ministers reaily want is plain enough from Lord Rus sell's letter. They want producible evidence of the fact that the Steam Rams in the Mersey come within the Scope of the Foreign Enlistment Act, or such evidence as will at any rate justify them in detaining the vessels and leaving the case for the judgment of a Court. Their anxiety to obtain this evidence, and their readiness to act upon it when obtained, are so plainly visible that the Federal Government ought to give us credit for fair intentions. We may say, too, that the public is of the same mind also, and that the news that these Rams had been stopped would be received with general gratification. We do not profeat to be very disinterested in this matter. To say the truth we are by no means sure that the trade in questioe could be proved to be unlawful either by British or American law; but we are perfectly sure that if it could be stamped as unlawful for th, future the establishment of the doctrine would be very much to our advantage. We concur, too, in the idea of our correspondent, that as international law is always making, and as the innomous rights of neutrals have been recently enlarged there would be some propriety in seizing the opportunity to limit neutral rights in the more ques tionable kinds of commercial adventure. We must confess to an opinion, after a vigilant observation of this controversy, that nothing less than a distinct proscription of the trade in question would suffice to place the law in a satisfactory state. At present i appears that if a citizen of a neutral Power canno actually sell a vessel like the Alabama to a belli gerent without offence, he can so very nearly do so that the impediments in his way are of little avail. The sale of the Alabama herself could cer tainly have been de fended perhaps even successfully. The particular acts required to make the transac- tion unlawful can so easily be omitted, disguised, or suspended, while the real bargain goes on all the while, that the law is almost powerless. Our cor- respondent speaks of the Foreign Enlistment Act itself—that act on which he would have Ministers ground their proceedings irrespectively of inter national law—in terms which show that he can put little faith in its operation. There is nothing for it but to declare the sale of ships of war to a belli gerent plainly and indisputably unlawfu:. This would be an innovation, but the innovation would be a',l in our own interests. It would altogether relieve us, as neutrals, from 'the recurrence of predicaments like the present, and it would protect us as belligerents from the operation of a practice which could not but be troublesome, if not danger- ous. After all, however, perhaps our correspondent is simply, though insensibly, expressing a desire, which we have no doubt is pretty generally felt, that Government would cut a vexatious knot by detaining these two steam rams and trusting the case to trial. That is a matter for Government itself to consider. There is a very common belief that these vessels, to whatever order they were originally laid down, or through whatever hands they may be intermediately passed, are des tined in the end for the service of the Confede ..... rates against the Federals. There is an equally general impression that if we were in the position of the Federals, and had suffered as they have from the operations of such vessels, we should be unlikely to take the matter quietly. Nor can we say that we should expect to find much counterpoise to these opinions in any sympathy for that " commercial adventure" which selects channels of such equivocal propriety. In short, if Ministers detained these vessels we do not think they would be hardly judged, bat the question depends upon evidence which can only be known hereafter. The following is the letter referred to above : Sir, —The letters of your able correspondent " Phocion" may lead some of your readers from the true and urgent issue, which is not—What is the duty of a neutral State by international law ? but this—Ought not Lord Russell, as BritiA Minister, acting under the power of the Foreign Enlistment Act, to order the detention of the steam rams in the Mersey ? It is to this latter issue I would recall the attention of your readers. That the building of these steam rams is with in tent that they shall be employed in the service of the Confederate Government, and that this is positively or probably within the terms of the 7th section of the Foreign Enlistment Act (59 George 111., cap. 69) I assume; for I do not know the evidence, and I will not trouble your readers with the cum brous terms of that ill-drawn statute. Assuming that there is some evidence of the fact, and that the case is probably within the statute, ought not Lord Russell to exercise his power of detention ? The building of these rams does in fact " tend to en danger the peace and welfare of this kingdom " (preamble of the act); the sailing of these .11 rams unchecked may — and, we are told, pro b a bly w el t for precipitate all E ng l an d i nto a h uge wa r ; what, or w h ose b ene fi t, i s Eng l and to run this risk For the pri va t e b ene fi t o f M r. L a i r d, the shipbuilder —unlessit be for the Confederates. If " the peace and welfare of this kingdom" be the right point of view, and it can be no degradation to execute our own laws, it is of quite secondary im portance to consider at this moment the limits of commercial licence tolerated to neutrals by purely international law. In such great matters as peace or war, as Mr. Burke has said, " What a lawyer tells me I may do" is not enough, But it seems that your correspondent, who justi- L fies our allowing the sale of ships of war by a British shipbuilder to the Confederate Government, may be answered on his own ground thus :-1. The British shipbuilder veag not before the war accus tomed to build ships of war for the Confederate Government. 2. The British shipbuilder was not accustomed to build ships of war for powers actu ally belligetetit. 3. The allowing or forbidding the exportation of any article is equally an act of sove reignty, and the operation of allowing the exporta tion of :thios of war for both the present belligerents is not equal ; it is very unequal. The Federals can build war ships for themselves; the Confederates cannot build ; the Federals have a commercial navy to be ravaged; the Confederates have none. But, further, it may be questioned whether it is to be considered as settled and now binding inter national law that, on the breaking out of a war a neutral State may freely sell or export to belligerents among its wonted productions articles contraband of war, subject only to capture at sea. It is true that Vattel and Kent, the Supreme Court of the United States, and statesmen in the present war, have said more or less authoritatively, that the sale and exportation of munitions of war to bellige rents (both belligerents) is not unneutral. It is true that neutrals have often sold arms to one belligerent and have justified it, and that the other belligerent has submitted. But precedents made by politicians in international transactions, though always to be considered,lare comparatively of slight authority, for they are precedents made not by im partial judges, but by interested parties, and judicial precedents in such matters are apt to be founded on slender experience, and, moreover, as they grow old to lag behind the world. International law is ever making, and at the present time, when it is un doubtedly undergoing great changes, when the truely pacific rights of neutrals are enlarged and rigorously guarded, it becomes a part of the general international policy to exclude as far as possible neutrals from those commercial transactions which are begotten by the war, and directly minister tc the war opera' ions of either belligerent. If either North or South, themselves abstaining from taking arms from England, had remonstrated w;.th us for suffering th:.t export of arms to the other beihgc— r,n-it, and rernanAr.tnce not prevaiiing had declared war with us, persons not gunmakers might think we should not have been fighling for a good caube. The same persons may now wish that her Majesty had exercised her statutory right of forbidding by order in Council the export of arms, &e., to either Federals or Confederates (16 and 17 Victoria, cap. 107, sec. 150). This right was exercised before the breaking out of the Russian war. But in any case there are reasons, which others have pointed out, for drawing a distinction between selling a ship of war to a belligerent and exporting arms. I may add that one way of reading the 7th section of the Foreign Enlistment Act (not, however, a sound one in my opinion) is that to equip without license a ship with intent that it shall be employed in the service of a foreign State " as a transport or storeship," whatever that may mean, is a misde meanour, whether that State be at war or not. I am, sir, your obedi en t servan t, _. Temple, Sept. 8. VERNON LUSHINGTON. HERALD.—We published yesterday two docu ments which showed in striking contrast one with the other. The first purported to be a memorial to Earl Russell from the British and Foreign Anti Slavery Society on the subject of the steam rams in the Mersey. The second was a quotation from an address recently issued by the Central Association for the Recognition of the Confederate States. It is interesting to compare these papers, which illus. trate with wonderful truth the difference between mock humanitarianism and genuine humanity. The committee which authorises Mr. L. A. Chamerovzow to append his very continental signature on their behalf complain of the vessels, with iron rams and turrets, that would have frightened Troy, which are now in preparation in what Gibbon called " the active waters" of the Mersey and the Clyde. They are designed, affirms the memorial, for the service of the American rebels. Whence comes the information of these positive gentlemen ? Appa rently they resemble the lecturer who assured his audience that he had the utmost contempt for facts and confined himself to principles. The principle of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Associa tion seems to be justice for the negro and injustice for every one else. What right have they to advo cate arbitrary confiscatiou ? We may have a great horror in England of slavery, but th - at is no reason why we should violate the law; and if our Foreign Secretary has really given way, upon the false and flimsy grounds alleged, and resolved to detain the ships of Mr. Laird's construction, he may bring the Crown itself into Court and be compelled to prove his justification by evidence. If he need not do this—if the Queen, whose prerogative he and his colleagues direct, can in these matters do no wrong —what will be his position, as the cringing agent of Federal America, in the sight of Federal America ? Is it not enough that our Ministers have already disgraced us beyond remedy by their pusillanimous submission to insolence and outrage? We have been virtually blockaded out of our own ports and our commerce nits been harassed by a species of piracy carried on in the tame of a violated inter national code ; and now our shipbuilders, we are told, must be punished upon charges supported by no evidence whatever. We know, however, what the public opinion upon the question is, and if Earl Russell does not, he will learn in time to repent his ow❑ policy, if not to spare us as a nation the igno miny of his capitulation and surrender of English nterests to the Federal Cabinet. There is a poem which the late Sir Robert Peel was in the habit of quoting. It spoke of England as having in the course of her history grieved, wept, and g roaned ; but as having " never blushed." Could we say that after striking the colours of our commerce in the Mersey at the dictation of a demagog ue cabal America? in "On anti-slavery grounds alone," urge , 11 i t n h t a e t r fe t r h e e n c G e o t s j v e r u n s t m ffi e a n b t e o . ' f ' the wre m s e u n a b o m r i i a t i s h t s o , w ‘ e ‘ ve r s uc Great Britain is not a mere committee of philan thropists dominated by a single idea. We would add, too, that philanthropy itself is abused and misrepresented by them. They would dig myriads of graves for white men, and desolate entire re• gions of the globe in order to abolish a particular institution. They would make of the negro at once a freeman and a murderer, for in the same breath they summon him to revolt and to consecrate his first hour of liberty by massacre and pillage in the planter's home. We tell these fanatics that the policy for which they clamour is drenching the earth with blood, is demoralising a great people, is destroying the constitutionalism of America, is mul tiplying atrocious crimes, is laying cities in ruins, and plucking up harvests by the roots, is en gendering the most deadly hatreds and encou raging the most hideous tyranny; and that were it finally triumphant its fruit, gathered in a wilderness of ruin and slaughter, would prove a bitter gift to the negro. But these gentry, who assume to monopolise the humanity of the world, who scoff at legality, who favour the employers of hired informers and spies, and who have no objec tion to contraband bargains in war materials with the stranglers of blacks beneath the lamplights of New York, resemble those other champions of aborigisies who hate an English sailor, but would cherish a Malayan pirate, who call our soldiers cut throats while they are tender to Bosjesmen and Kaffirs, and who, like them, deem that a doubtful liberty secured for the African labourers in the I Southern States m a y we ll an d merc i fully b e punished I by obliterating for a century the civilisation of half a continent, slaughtering a million of men, and trampling a gallant and Christian people either into extermination, or into political and social slavery. It is a relief to turn from them to the Central Association for the Recognition of the Confede rate States. Its address is signed by men of all shades of opinion in party matters. We make no account of their general politics when scanning what may emphatically be termed an eloquent list. The organisation is assuming, we rejoice to observe, formidable proportions. Among the sig natures are three peers, many members of Parlia ment, numerous clergymen. an immense array of commercial influence, and not a few men whose hearts are fervently in the cause of emancipa tion, but who have not been duped by the tardy hypocrisy of the North, with its shame ful and bloody holocaust of negro victims at New York. These memorialists declare that Great Britain, France, and Belgium, with any other Powers which may be willing to assist, have a perfect right to interfere and put an end to " a world-wide calamity ; " that the Southern States can never, with ou t i nfamy, cease the conflict, unless by arbitration and in indepen dence ; that the " awful human butchery " is likely to go on for years if not terminated by the supreme mandate of Europe ; that the Federals may annihilate, but cannot reconcile ; that " our own guiltless and suffering people " ought to have their interests regarded by a British Cabinet; and that every day of hesitation is a day of torture to humanity. To this appeal most Eng lishmen respond. They are weary of the far-spread and result:ess devastation in America, weary of famine in Lancashire, weary of the patient subser viency exhibited by Ministers whose habit has been to boast of themselves as the only patriotic states men in the realm. When, however, is the disgust of the nation to be manifested in a form that shall elicit a distinct policy from amid the simpering sub tleties and diplomatic abasements of our Foreign office ? Will it be w hen Earl Russell b r i ngs his country to further shame b y p a t r onising professional delation, receiving his instructions f rom a foreign cabinet, and playing the pirate, so t o express it, by proxy, in the British dockyards on the Mersey. THE HASTINGS LIFEBOAT. During the high windand heavy sea which prevailed'. on Monday morning last, an attempt was made to give' the new lifeboat her first trial on this coast. Accordinglp , the Victoria was manned by her coastguard crew, 15 in number, with Bingley as coxswain, was drawn upon her carriage to the slip-way opposite Warrior-square, where it was decided that the launch should take place. The boat was followed by some hundreds of spectators, who, having been disappointed by the unavoidable postponement of the regatta, were no doubt pleased at the prospect of witnessing' something which might be termed a sight. The sea was running in with suc h a t remen d ous f orce and the waves w ere rising to so great a height, that a scene of an exciting cha racter was N ery naturally expected. The arrangements for the launch were, it appears, carried out under the superin tendence of Captain Go ug h, R.N., the chief officer in this district. When the att e mpt t o l aunc h the boat was m ade it was about an hour before th e ti me o f high water. The carriage was drawn down the slip- wa y to the edge of the water, and at a given signal the boat left the carriage end glided into the sea in admirable style. Immediately, how' ever, a heavy sea broke over her, and for the moment the men were almost hidden from view by the wave and the dashing spray. They succeeeded, however, in retaining a firm hold upon the rope by which they wore hauling off; but no sooner had the first wave passed than a second and a third of equal force came down upon them. Several of the men were washed from the hauling-off rope, but suc ceeded in regaining their g ras p. A s soon as they had passed the heavy seas—through which th e boat carried t hem ' admirably—the " lizzard," a ro p e th roug h which the hawser passed at the bow of the b oa t, g a ve way, end the boat was immediately broadside and k n o c ked ashore on the groyne a short distance eastward o f th e s p o t where she had left the carriage. The excitement a mong th e spectators was intense. The boat, however, did not rest upon the groy ne ' but another strong sea came and carried her over, daeing her broadside against the parade wall. The position wa s most perilous one for the crew, and a number of the by staneers, fishermen, and others ran into the water to rende r assistance. Some of the crew jumped out, and in so doing were slightly injured, and one man name d G reen field, ch ief boatswain at the Priory station, had previously been knocked down senseless in the boat. Ultimately a rope was throivn to the parade, and she was drawn up to a high spot on th e beach. A hole was stove in her side, which it is thought Was caused while she was upon the g r oy ne . Th e damage, hall,:ever, ever, is not considered very serious, and the boat with ."'" doubt, be repaired in this town. Fortunately no serious iv juries were sustained by the crew, who certainly had a earl narrow eseme, and acted in a very brave and undaunt ed, manner throughout. Their conduct drew forth great prate from among the i L undreds of spectators who witnessed th e scene. The crew it seems have the greatest confidence 01 the boat; but the trial shows very plainly Cue difficulty be encountered in launchii2g from this part of the coast during a high and heavy sea, From a harbour or pier th e boat could no doubt be put off in perfect safety; but it is to be feared that a launch from our shores during a rough sea a will always be attended with considetable difficulty as danger.—Sussex Advertiser. COUNTRY MARKETS. -- NEWARK—WEDNESDAY. 10 A moderate supply of wheat at our market, and pric°, B 0 to 2s per qr higher, with a more active demand. 1 15 ' 11 0 . 0 more doing in in malting barley, and ext-eme prices W made Oats a fair sale at former rates. Beans were g al,,, as well sold. White wheat new, 49s to 52s Barley, - grinding .. 30s to 3 0 2 : Red do. 43s to 48s Oats, old, .. 2BB t° 3 Old white 4Bs to 53s New do 24s to 27 0 qd Red do. 46s to 49s i Beans.. 39 $ to 4 -, —s to ''''' Barley, malting.... 368 fo 40s 1 Beans, new HULL—TUESDAY. At to-day's corn market there was a fair show of Eligt wheat, chiefly new, which was taken off at rather over ..,, prices of last week. Foreign at late ra t es . M o re in , l lllr , l t for malting barley, and grinding sor t s a l so i n r e ques t ,t , 0 last week' s p r i ces . B eans an d peas were una l tere d. ''' met a fair sale at last Tuesdey's money. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr Old red If New white .. „ New red .... „ Barley.... English malting ** 2 3 44344 6 2 65649 s s :sss 6 0 °°°°° d d dci6dd t t ttt °tt 0 0 0000 3 441 2 :3 6 69°687 $ 5500: 0 :°°: t i lt 114 Grinding Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3 os Od t o 310 o a Grinding 2Bs Od to 31 0 A A Oats English, old 26s Od t o 280 u`; Archangel and Riga, per st osl2,ld to V I I Friesland and Dutch o Bl3d to 031 a Swedish and Danish Beans ....English, old, per qr 43s s sl o 2r to to 45 0 11 New pigeon 42s Od to 4 1 s „ A New tick Egyptian ** 30s Od tc 33s A Peas Foreign boilers ... 36s Od t' 31;s r; Grinding Tares ....Spring. ~ Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) Foreign Bl5 oto 0 Rape cakes i 1 0 6 OO 0 o 0 0 : 0 tt to £ 6 0 i :0 ,; I , Bones lo 6 5 oto LYNN—TUESDAY. At this day's market there was only a moderate shoW o f wheat, which met a fair sale at about the rates of last week. White 448 to 46s j Barley 37s to 400 .11,,,d .. 42s to 44s I grinding ..30s to 32 0 Beans .3Bs to 40s j Oats.. New —s to —8 i Peas —8 to --41 COAL ti Prima of Coal per Ton al Byass's Bebside West Hartley 16 2 Carway and Duffryn Malting ... 20 0 Walker Primrose 12 6 Eden Main .....16 9 Whitworth l5 6 Pelaw Main ...14 3 Walls End. Russel's Hetton 17 3 Braddyll'a Hetton. 17 3 Ships at mark td.A.RKET. ,t tae close of the market. 8. d. 0 . d. Walls End. Haswell.... .......... 18 6, I Frarnwellgate ...... 16 v, ...... South Hetton ... 18 u Cassop . 16 9 ..... Heugh .......... 17 n 3 East Hartlepool ...... 18 L . 4 South Hartlepool... ••• 17 - I silos South Kelloe ...• 17 °- Thorpe 1 59 Trimdon Hartlepool 1.7 A, 42;' sold, 39. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. ‘ustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton Sept. via Marseilles 3razil and Cape Verds, by B r iti s h p ac k e t. Cape of Good Hope, A scens i on , an d St. Helena....S SO e ee p pt t t. :l B g: China, Penang, and Singapo r e, v i a S ou th am pt on . Sept. 1 „ via Marseilles _Sept. I', Falkland Islands 10. Gibraltar, via Southampton .. - t• ls ' India (Calcutta), an d C e yl on , v i a S ou th amp t on Sep . ~,, via Marseilles Sept. 1 5 . India (Bombay), via Southampton Se p t ' 20. via Marseilles Oct. 5 ' P0rtuga1.......... 0. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via South am pt on Sept. 1 - via Marseilles Newfoundland .. Sept. " Oporto and Vigo .. .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Sept. 11, by U.S. packet.... i i. by Canadian packet. Sept. .10. W.C. of Af r i ca , M a d e i ra, and Tener i ffe .. S eP t ' Bahamas, via New York Set. 2 _ 4 8 : Mexico.. .... Sept. .4 All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru 1 Sept. 14 ' California. and British C o l um bi a.. ' - ) The French Court of Accounts has m ade it° official declaration of the correctness and regularity of the Public Receipts and Expenditure for the year 1861. 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CAMPBELL.—On the Bthins a t d te.a,uagt h Ed r. in burgh, Lady CAMP' bell, of Dunstaffnage, of GRUNDY.—On the Bth inst., at Royston, Herta, the wife of E. Herbert Grundy, Esq., of a son. ST. VINCENT.—On the 7th inst., at Godmersham-Peri f t Canterbury, the Viscountess St. Vincent, of a son. WlLLts.—On the 6th inst,, at Epsom, Surrey, the wife of of a daughter. Marrnaduke James Willi s , Esq., Marriages. CAYLEY—MOLINE.—On the Bth inst., at All Sain ts' hurch, Blackh ea th , Arthur Cayley Esq , Sadleriall Professor at Ca m b r i dge University, to Susau,. youngest daughter of Robert Moline, Esq., of Greenwich. LEITH — SHAW,--0 11 the Bth inst., at St. John's, Padding' ton, Major J ames Leith, V.C. late of the Scots Greyoi to Isabe l l a , younger daughter of Thomas Shaw, Efcl' , °f 16, Hyde -park-square. Deaths. BEATTIE.—On the 6th inst., Henry Beattie, Esq., o f 26 High Petergate, York, aged 54. BLUNT. — On th e 25th July-, at Kirkee, Bombay, Henry , infant son of Captain Arthur Blunt, R.H.A. DAwsorr.—On the 6th inst., at 6, Norfolk-street, Park" lane, Lady Elizabeth Emily Dawson, aged 64. DOWNES.—On the 2d ult., at Port Louis, Mauritius, th e infant son of Captain Downes, R.A. Fowxn.—On the Bth inst., at Lowesby Hall, Leicester shire, the Dowager Lady Fowke, aged 74. READ.—On the 7th inst., at Walthamstow, S. Read, Esq. , late of ll.M.'s Dockyard, Sheerness, aged 68. SHAw.—On the 4th inst., at Kenward, Penabury, Kent , Maria, the wife of Sir John V. K. Shaw, Bart. Woons.—On the 9th inst., at 25. Queen Anne-street, Mr' Harry Bristow Woods, aged 62. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS I of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office No. 11 2 : Strand, in the Precinct of the in the County of ifiddleeez —ThursdaY, September 10, 1863 ,4111