The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-12 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (From the Special Correspondent of the Tunes.) NEW YORK, Oct. 27. The American " Fall " is in all its gorgeous beauty. The weather for the last two or three weeks has been as near perfection as man may hope to enjoy it anywhere out of Eden—neither hot ncr cold, nor damp, nor cloudy, the very best that could be con trived for the furtherance of the arts of peace ; the mast favourable also that could be desired to help on the murderous work of war. Autumn on this continent, however, is a season as fleeting as it is lovely. On Saturday last we had heavy, incessant rain in this. city. Sunday was dark and windy, and we felt the wintry chill in our veins. At St. Louis, Missouri, several degrees to the south of New York, they had the other day six inches of snow, with a sharp frost; the snow, by the latest accounts, lingers still on the ground. If present indications mean anything, we must make up our minds for an early setting in of winter. Every one feels that now or never is the time for the Federal a cnies to be up and doing. But Meade's army of ti,:e Potomac has just been crippled by the destruction of the Alexandria and ()rang° Railroad, and that of the Cumberland, under Grant, has come into the hands of a new commander, who, however quick and far sighted, must yet require a few days to look about him, to take in the difficulties of the position into which his forces were thrown by the blind impetuosity of his predhi ecessor he , may ex- Rosen cranz, and hit upon some plan by ected to move which tricate himself. Gen. Meade is not exp forward for a month. Gen. Grant is said to have to deal with a Confederate force of 80,000 men under Bragg ; a force so aided by the natural and artificial strength of the position, that the i Federals have but against t with success, little chance of ma rching and hardly more probability of marching away from it with safety. General Grant may condense a host of 150,000 combatants at Chattanooga, but the battlefield is not fCaavourable for the man ceuvring of Cavalry is no great help in the nat.- large masses. ro w moan t a in defiles, and artillery little better than a positive e ncumbrance. Bragg, who occupies a ground of his own choice, a territory known to him inch by inch, need hardly shrink from a conflict in which the odds are no worse than two to one. On the other hand, although few here doubt that the object of General Lee in his last movement was merely to place a month's distance between himself and Meade, and that aim was signally attained— although he might now spare a division or two to strengthen Bragg, still it is well to bear in mind that the direct communication between Lynchburg and Chattanooga is through East Tennessee, in the hands of the Federals under Burnside, and that Lee's reinforcements can only reach Bragg by a roundabout way through the best part of the territories of North and South Carolina and Georgia, a distance that can be computed at not less than be tween 600 and 700 miles, and along railway lines which have been so used up, both as to rails and rolling material, owing to the wear and tear of the war, that the rate of travelling is nowhere more than 12 miles an hour. All this leads people here to suppose that Lee's efforts will rather be directed to the demolition of Burnside's army in East Tennessee. Preponderance of numbers on the part of the I North and advantage of position on the part of the South may keep the armies on either side in mute and inactive observation of each other, so that we may have nothing to note down from week to week except unimportant cavalry and light infantry skir mishes, such as the one reported to have taken place on Saturday last near Bealeton Station, when the Southerners, crossing the Rappahannock, drove back Gregg's cavalry and established themselves on the left bank of the river. Should nothing decisive occur either in Virginia or Tennessee during these four or five weeks before the close of the Indian summer brings about a suspension of hostilities in those regions, it is questionable whether the weari some operations of the siege of Charleston and the desultory warfare in the remote South-west will have power to keep up the warlike enthusiasm of the North at its present fever heat. It is not any amount of adversity, not any startling disaster, I take it, that can ever wear out the endurance of these stubborn Yankees; it is the consciousness of the utter impotence of all their encleavoure, as illus trated by day after day, year after year, slow, un eventful campaigning. Nine or ten Commanders in-Cnief have been immolated to their impatience from INl.Dewell to Rosencranz. Broad hints are thrown out now that the authorities of the War office, or, indeed, the whole Administration at Wash ington, should be superseded. An outcry is raised that the way to Richmond is not through Culpep per or Fredericksburg; that a new experiment should be tried of a landing on the peninsula be tween James and York Rivers ; that from No4em ber to February the season is most favourable for military operations on those low grounds, free at tha: time from malaria, and often hardened by frost for the passage of artillery. " The way to Rich mond," people say, "lies to day where it lay two years and a half ago, when Gen. M'Clellan followed it up to the gates of the Virginian capital." But " the only road to Richmond," they add, "lice over the vanity, the arrogance, and self-satisfaction of t . h . e Washington Administration, which, out of hostility to M'Clellan, will not allow the re -11""1 of the experiment in the peninsula." e must not see in these bitter remarks any thing bat the natural outburst of popular impa tience. Were the Government, in obedience to these suggestions, to undertake a second compaign into the Jame the risk or renewing s tntt ,id York River peninsula, and run the calamities which have made that marshy g for ever memorable, I have little doubt the clamour against their reckless im ovidence would b e far louder than it now is ag ainst their temporising the fail of iticlamoae helpl essness . Th e f ac t i s , itself, lik e h o wever gratifying to Northern that of Charleston, vindic tiveness, would not b r i ng the war vanit y and vi n d ic - P s conclusion, and it would hardlyar materially nearer be rash to anti cipate that the new campaigning season in the spring of 1861 will fi nd us no farth er towards the solution of this American advanced rluan puzzle than we are at this moment. Little as one may sympathise with th e snff mock e d and stubborn N orth, it is impossible t o " d eny that it brings into t he cause of Union an amount of l consistency and unanimity which ver y n earl_ re sembles heroism. Th e real peace mea _peao small flock, SO at auy-price men—are a very f ar / am able to count them. Most of the Democrats, lves many of the Southerners themse , evince cm unconquerable tenderness for the preservation or restoration of their great united country. Talk to them of the appalling waste o f human life, talk of national binkruptcy staring them in the face, and their ever recurring argument is , t he dissolution of the Union would be by far the greatest of evils. " Can you cut a man in twain right round the waist and expect him to live ?" they say. " Would England part with Ireland on any terms ? Or would not Austria stake her existence on the integrity of her empire by maintaining her hold on Venetia, or Russia upon Poland? Nut the greatness, merely, and the prospect of boundless empire, but the Peace and freedom, the security and commercial prospe r ity o f th e N or th wou ld b e et an end for ever if it and the South went asunder. The first halving of the great divisions Republic would lead the way to endless and sub-divisions ; and what is now one country and one t na ion would split up into as many wrat,linc, 0 r, Powers and rival fractions of people as now make up the European council of nations." You may well tr them that Such is, ind ee d, reason with them, and tell ,ndeed, lik e ly t o b e th e i r des tiny ; that States of one hundred, or four hundred m illions of people—such as they , expect theirs to i n b ec ome—are not seemingly harmon y with the general scheme of this nether world of ours ; that the dream of world-wide dominion, of universal em pire, is no new phase in the annals of mankind; but that such edifices fall and crumble from mere weight of th eir bulk and exte nt; that e n if the they could get over their p resent dif ficulty, there would be no lack of future causes of dissension, no scarcity of new hydra-Leads springing from the very blood of the one they vainly hope now to lay underground." They are not to be reasoned w ith ; they will fight their brethren to the bitter end, and " the blood be upon their own head and on that of their children's children." It was only the day before yesterday that at a great Democratic meeting at the Cooper Insti tute it was resolved, " That the Democracy of the City of New York, iu general meeting convened, again reiterate and declare their unyielding oppo sition to all men and all factions who in any man ner seek to impair or destroy the glorious Union of the United States as a great Confederate Republic; that we will uphold and maintain the Union at all times and under all circumstances by all the means in onr power, and that we will never consent to or permit any arrangement by which it shall be either destroyed or endangered." On the other hand, is too natural, by their success at Chattanooga, will the Confederates, elated, as come to no compromise that may not be based on the terms of " Recognition by the enemy of the Confederate States; withdrawal of the Yankee forces from every foot of Confederate ground, in cluding Kentucky and Missouri ; withdrawal of the Yankee soldiers from Maryland until that State shall decide by a free vote whether she shall remain in the old Union, or ask admission into the Confe deracy," Sze. There is something touching in the language used w N e v o e r r t Northerners i m r s a t y y a b t e t t h h e e theoretically," reel ballot-box, c t a . b l i n y x , ': by the Southerne rs in p leadin g thei r cause — " How ever fierce "however r feroc e i i o r u a sy r l mitehseyhamveayto rant fiy uponand new tahnedy bows; say, stage, yet when 1 4. .!' armies not to be expects j• they will see the neces sity of peace, The continuan: e of the war depends after all not on the s co ld s w h o stri a t. prefits,bnten wh t o he blo an at the p ptla. i o ro a f r dms purses Congress, and the contractors who do the fighting, with dishonest The want of these will stop the war. The grand invasion is dying out. "There will be nothing on our part to counteract the disposition to peace which the decaying vigour and promise of the war will necessarily produce in the minds of our enemies. The United States have only to stop. There is nothing to prevent them from doing this at any time. Whatever those may affirm who desire to feed and inflame the war spirit among them, we but speak the universal sentiment of our people when we say that we have no purpose against them that wou;d require them to remain in arms a day. We stand only on our defence. We have only proposed to seek our fortunes apart from them. We care not how happy and prosperous they may b© without us. It was no part of our motive, in separating, to destroy or injure them. We made no attack on their people, their property, or their institutions. We were simply taking care of our selves. There is nothing to prevent peace and a just settlement between the two Confederacies any day, but the will of our enemies. :‘ There is no question of life or death between us, so far as they are concerned. It is not necessary for them to be destroyed that we may live. They seek our life—we do not want theirs. We have neither the purpose nor the wish to subjugate them. They have no motive for war—have nothing at stake but the advantage they might hope to get out of us by forcing us into connexion or subjugation to them. The hope gone of succeeding in this, there is no motive left. They have no right, no inheritance, no privilege of their own which we seek to destroy or impair. And surely they will not admit that they have not among themselves the elements of great ness and happiness, and that the despised South is necessary to their security." It has been officially ascertained that up to the Ist of January of this year the Northern States have sent 1,276,246 men into the field. New York alone contributed 222,836. This year, as I wrote in a former letter, Mr. Seymour, Governor of the State o f Now York, has issued 5,000 commissions for officers from January to August. Notwithstanding all this, we hear that the contingent for this State alone, under the new call, added to what is due to make up for previous shortcomings, will be 108,085 men. On the other side, Virginia alone, with a population of 1,596,318, has contributed a contingent of 102,915 combatants to the Confederate armies. The average ratio of men that any people can spare for warlike purposes has already long since been widely exceeded by the two contending parties, and the continuance of the fight must result in a work of awful depopu lation. The public debt of the Northern States on the Ist of September was approximately stated to be 1,228,832,771 dols. This, however, by no means re presents the amount of liabilities incurred by the Northern States in the pursuit of this war. Were the civil sti Ho to come to a sudden stand, and were accounts to be wound up this very day, and claims on the Government to be satisfied, I am assured, by persons competent to speak on the sub ject, that the public debt would be between twenty five hundred and three thousand million dollars ! Truly, the finances of the South are in no better condition ; but it is difficult to deny that the power to cry "hold ! enough !" in this contest lies with the North alone—the North which fights for an idea, for the fond notion of a chimerical Union, the empty boast of being the " biggest people inhabit ing the biggest country," and the vain aspiration of having it one day in its power to say that "not a cannon shall be fired in Europe without its good will and pleasure." The spirit of "strike" is abroad among all the industrial classes. Here in New York, at Phila delphia, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Chicago, and other cities the mechanics aro astir. Coopers, carpenters, painters, shoemakers, &c. They say they are unable to live and keep their families at the present prices of provisions, clothing, fuel, &c. Taking some of the necessaries of life, such as flour, butter and eggs, vegetables, sugar, tea, coffee, beef, rice, &c., it is computed that what three years ago cost 9 dols. 67c. is not now to be had for less than 16 dols. 69e. There is a rumour of a strike among the hotels too, which threaten to raise their daily board from 3 dols., their present charge, to 3 dols. 50c., although there hardly ever were such good times for them within men's recollection, and although some of the New York hotels clear a net profit of 1,600 dole. to 2,000 dols. weekly. The daily charges for board and lodging used to be 2 dols. a day. General Rosencranz was received at Cincinnati with loud acclamation, and in an address to his fellow-citizens he vindicated his conduct from the aspersions to which he had lately been exposed ; he contradicted the rumours that had been spread as to his ill-health, and the abuse of opium to which it had been ascribed ; declared that the President had testified to him by letter his satisfaction with the doings at Chicamauga; and that his suborii nates, M'Cook and Crittenden, expressed to him their regret at the false reports which had been spread of anything spoken by them to their chief's disparagement. The public, however, will not soon hear the last as to General Rosencranz's deserts or demerits. . . lien of all President's parties are unanimous in praising the which, a s I f aanstwer to the Missouri delegation, often said, said, demanded the recall of General Scholfiel from the command of that West ern gos e o a d t. It is doubtf u l, howeve r , whether all D " e t p h a e rtm exhibited by Mr. Lie,ie, moierati on , an d fi rmne ss" "Qin at thi s j uncture w ill h ave power to restore any tillisinsogurrii l ike calmness and security in those distracted Ntime prevail, G uer ill a war fare will for a long Lail, not only in that St a te, but in all those Southern territories which the Federals are now rather overrun n i ng sub duing. The disor der is ra ging moreu than rutlalessly than e l sew here in Tennessee and Kentucky, m ay in the rear of Grant's armies ,—if, believe the assertion of Governor Bramlette, of the la tter State who says that "no man can think of quitting ' his post while we have a formidable raid before us, while our banks are ro bbed, and our towns sacked within 40 miles of the capital." The New York people would at last seem to be somewhat weary of the efforts made by them t o cement the good understanding between those " twin giants of the earth," Russia and America. The officers of the Russian squadron have had gala days, torchlight processions, public and private banquets, reviews, speeches, " ovations," till they are, and almost declare themselves, sick of it. They will be back this evening from an excursion to Niagara (which they insisted should be strictly Private, without toasts or speeches), to which they were treated by the proprietors of the Hudson River Navigation,New York Central, and Erie Railway Companies. These, like all other associations of the same nature in this country, are now flush with j tug SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1863, that the injured tutor would be inundated with letters teem ing with the records of filth and loathsomeness—references to adultery courts and newspapers containing the reports of crime. I could tell him how the neighbourhood shrieks with the infamy of the man of whom he wrote. Yes, this I could tell him; and while I did so I would bid him do what I have done—tell you all this to your face. A dark, thick cloud is fast gathering, and is ready to burst in well deserved wrath. Evidence is pouring in fast—expeotation is on the tiptoe. A clergyman and his wife remember, you wretched being —I say his wife—have witnesses of your defamation, and that ( 3f the creature, like yourself with whom you live. A virtuous—not a ntock, but really viruous —lady has like wie,-, grounds of libel against you both. Await your day— you will pave 7.eitt long. Thi s , h owever, i s not t h e only which awaits you b o th, even b e f ore an judg n ro ot ent c?.rthly tribunal. The Reverend T. R. Bincll. Mr. Arnold inquired whether Mr. Pawle was in a position to prove that the letter was written by the defendant. Mr. Pawle replied—Most indisputably ; and con tinued—After receiving such a disgusting epistle as this, Mr, Taylor, of course, lost no time in placing the matter in the hands of his solicitor, and a sum mons was taken out against defendant. Mr. Taylor, he might remark, was a gentleman of position and standing, and there was not the slightest foundation for the disgraceful and infamous charges brought against him. The Mr. Sharpe, M r . J o h nson, c l er i ca l agen t, and other Rev . witnesses having been examined, Mr. Felix Frederick Taylor said—l reside at Slough, and am a gentleman of independent fortune. I have for some years resided with my family in the house I now occupy. I know the reverend gentle man a ppears as d e f en d an t. H e occu pi e d the position wh my two sons for thirteen months. In July, 1863 , in consequence of some differences, he left my familyn now of tutor to by request. On the at Brighton with my 2f family of y v O h c e t n o b l e r r e l c e w h a . e s d the stayin g letter dated the 24th of October, through the medium of the post. It bears that date, is in Mr. Birch's handwriting, and is signed by him. lam necessarily well acquainted with his caligraphy, and have consequently no hesi tation in saying that the anonymous letter of the 15th October, addressed to Mr. Sharpe, was written by the defendant. That letter refers no doubt to my self, home, and family. I have not the envelope in wn . f,r.'h it came, nor do I know where it is, but the letter came addressed to me at Brighton: Crosa-examined—l have known Mr. Birch nearly 14 months. The negotiations between us com menced about the middle of May, 1862, and his engagement early in June. Mr. Barrett—How long after he entered your family did a misunderstanding arise between you ? Witness—He fulfilled his duties to my satisfaction, for the first three or four months, and then by degrees he became re miss. I objected to his line of conduct, and finally the determination on my part to procure another tutor took place in June last. The engagement be tween us was broken off simply on account of the misunderstanding between us on scholastic matters, and not from family matters. Mr. Barrett— Were you not co-respondent in a case in the Divorce Court lately ? Mr. Pawle interposed, and submitted that such a question was totally irrelevant to the charge, in which opinion Mr. Arnold coincided. Some further evidence having brought the case for the prosecution to a close, Mr. Barrett asked for a remand, as his client had so recently instructed him that he knew very little about the matter. Mr. Arnold granted the request, and remanded the case for a week, accepting one surety in £5O for Mr. Birch's reappearance. THE RECENT MURDERS. The bodies of the Hunts and their children have been identified by several relations on both sides of the family. Mrs. Hunt's father is a cab ',river, named Blake, living in St. John'sstreet, Smithfield. He fully confirms the reports 'I the neighbours as to the frequency of violent quarrels between - Runt - Runt and his wife. Blake's daughter (Mrs. Hunt's a et about a month ago Hunt made an unsuc• sister) stat es t.. •.,,n his wife. Latterly he used to beat cessful attempt to po is . -eeribes the wound on the un her severely, and th e s i s t er s , s-nua a poker, given to fortunate woman's foot to a blow ';ved is a small her by Hunt. The hcuse in which they .. 4 hearing six-roomed cottage, somewhat poorly furnished, an, every mark of a household going to ruin. It has been represented that Hunt had fitted up a room in the house as a laboratory wherein to experiment on poisons. This is not the case ; the only signs of drugs or chemicals in the house are a number of bottles on the back parlour mantel. piece, most of which are empty, the remainder containing a few such harmless substances as borax, camphor, flavour ing for pastry, and a few other similar preparations that might be found in svery household in the kingdom. It is certain that Hunt well knew the properties of the deadly substances which he used with such terrible effect, but the knowledge was doubtless acquired by him in the course of business. When roused by the police he was in bed reading " Tom Brown at Oxford," and came down to the officers in his night shirt. He must have swallowed the aconito im mediately he found that he was pursued,for the bottle, con tainie g perhaps a couple of drops of the poison, was after wards found in a cupboard in his bedroom. The story he told to the police about Mrs. Hunt having an uncle at Southampton named Campbell, who had given her £5O, is a pure fabrication from beginning to end, the unfortunate woman's friends being all poor hardworking people, living in London. Hunt's body lies at his house, awaiting the coroner's inquest, which will be opened to•reorrow. A post mortem examination will be made to-day by Dr. Puck's'. The guilty man's countenance is most forbidding. A re ceding forehead, singularly massive frontal bones, and a firm-set mouth inspire one with no very favourable opinion of their possessor. The cabman, Gould, who took the Huuts to the Shoreditch station from Camberwell, went to St. Mary's Hospital yesterday evening to identify the bodies lying there. A great deal has been said about the mous tache which was worn by the man in the cab, and sworn to by the cabman, but there seems to be every probability that Hunt wore a false one in order to disguise himself. Hunt must have had some other means of procuring money be sides that afforded by his business, for not only did he leave IS months' salary in the hands of his employers, but £4O in notes was found on his person after his death. At one time he kept a bookseller's and stationer's shop at the corner of Warner-street, Camberwell New-read, but did not succeed in.business. It is also said that he was formerly in business as a chemist and druggist on his own account. —"---- -- 11 afford to defray the m oney, and might we People have been busy a grand 15 dol. subscription ball, in getting up s nle Sams natural allies." Hitherto, consisting of the greatest u e c h o . mpliment. the city, have only ma- P h e o n n s o e u s r 'n o f f t ‘ h ' L -nittee, nf ' and merchants bmgers 4 ' ma managed to collect the sum o. 6,000 ~ mana,, however, the cora sc h e me has given rise to no little g :ambling on the part of earnest patriots, who think the Russians can only be disgusted at the heartless levity of a people "fiddling and dancing"at such a calamitous season as this, It appears that the Russian Admi ral himself has thrown oat some hints that " the money would be better employed in aid of the Fund for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Soldiers." The ball is likely to come off neverthe less, and the Russian fever, while abating in New York, is likely to spread to other cities, many of which are vieing with each other in their pressing invitations to " the representatives of the only European Power entitled to genuine American sympathies." Serious Charge of Libel against a Clergy- man. Yesterday, at the Westminster Police Court, the Rev. Thomas Richardson Birch, of 2, Alpha-road, Slough, appeared to a summons, before Mr. Arnold, charging him with unlawfully and maliciously pub lishing a defamatory libel of and concerning Felix Frederick Taylor, of Herschell House, Slough. Mr. Pawle, of the firm of Pawle and Lovesey, 7, New-inn, conducted the prosecution, and Mr. C. P. Barrett, of Eton, the defence. Mr. Pawle, in opening the case, said he regretted to have 1.4: appear at that court to prefer a charge of libel against :he defendant, who was a clergyman of the Established urch, at present holding a clerical appointment at NV inds,:7- His (Mr. Pawle's) client had two sons, one of whom N,Tas in such ill health that he did not think it advisable to send him to school ; he therefore applied to Mr. ,Tohnson, clerical agent, to procure him a tutor for his boys. By him he was introduced to Mr. Birch, and after a correspondence between theta, the defendant en tered on his duties on the 3d of June, 1863, and re mained there until the 3d of July in the prese nt year. Shortly after entering Mr. Taylor's fam il y , the defendant succeeded in obtaining the appoint ment to the Windsor Union ; about the same time Mr. Taylor had reason to complain of the way in which the defendant educated his children, and that ultimately led to a rupture between them. Mr. Taylor then again applied to Mr. Johnson, who re commended a gentleman of the name of Lott, but the latter was acquainted with Mr. Birch, and left shortly after accepting the appointment, putting Mr. Taylor to a great deal of inconvenience. A third time Mr. Taylor applied to Mr. Johnson, who then recommended the Rev. Mr. Sharpe, and while negotiations were pending between him and com plainant, Mr. Sharpe received the following anony mous letter, which was the subject of the present action : Windsor, Berkshire, Oct. 15, 1863. Rev. Sir,—For the present, in common justice to a stranger, all are quite willing and ready to believe that you do not know that you have entered into a sink of the gross est crimes and iniquities and vilest disgrace, or else are going so to do. If you still keep your engagement, you will roc&ve, and deserve it too, the contempt of all decent people who are not in the Church, and the greatest disgust of all gentlemen who are so. Inquire of the police of this borough, also of Eton and Slough. If likewise you can make up your mind and think it right, you can apply about these dreadful things of the house at Slough to the ministers there, viz,, the Rev. Mr. Cree, the Rev. Mr. Birch, and the Rev. Mr. Sykes—counsellors to one whom we think need coun.7elo COUNSEL. That letter he Would distinctly prove was w ritten by the defendant, an. upon its receipt Mr. Shar p e, acting in a ver y prop er Lnanner, took it to Mr. Johns on , by w h om h e h a d b een L:\ trociuced to M r . I Taylor (h e no t h av i ng ye t entere d into L's enr;.afoe ment) and placed the matter before him. Mr..).. -- son at once communicated with the complainant, who at first sight pronouncel the letter to have been written by Mr. Birch, and said to Mr Sharpe " MY acts are quite open to inspection ; pray make every inquiry that lies in your power before entering into my family; write at once to any one you like in Windsor and the neighbourhood, especially to Mr. Birch." Mr. Sharpe accordingly wrote to the de tendant, and in reply received a second letter, which would no doubt be deemed a privileged coromunica lion. In consequence of inquiries he felt perfectly satisfied as to the character of Mr. Taylor, and ac cepted the appointment, which he still held ; and it was very probable that, notwithstanding Ile shameful way in which his character 11',Id been attacked, Mr. Taylor would not have taken any steps against the defendant, had he not received on the 25th of October last a letter of the most horrible description. Mr. Pawle then proceeded to read as follows ; Slough, Oct. 24, 1863._ You loathsome and most contemptible animal —. No decent man who knows you could possibly be surprised at anything you could do, but I am disgusted, beyond all power of expression, at your revolting insolence in presuming to address to me or any other gentlemen one of your filthy and contaminating letters—for polluting and contaminating any letters of yours must needs he to any one who is not, like Yourself, an outcast from society. As far as I can make what vulgar people of your sort call " head or tail" of your drunken and every way truly disgusting rubbish, you want me to make out that somebody or another has written an anonymous letter about your detestable life. Can they tell me anything about your infamy? You horrible animal, I know it to my cost already. Is not the allusion to such a letter another rascally scoundrel lie. You know full well that I must be ready to believe that it is. And now as to other lies. You induced me to become the tutor of your bastards—bastards of the most loathsome circumstances of all bastardy, they being the offspring of a low, paltry tradesman at best, by a certain creature whose antecedents, when even imperfectly set forth, were disgusting, and are now almost unutterable—by audaciously assuring me in Bond-street, London, that you were a " gentleman of large independent fortune," of considerable landed property in the counties of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire; " that you lived at Herscholl House, a small, very small part of your estates, as the third landed proprietor in Buckinghamshire ;" so that you were "an Oxford man ;" that " about 14 years ago you married the daughter of a Colonel of a very distinguished regiment, who was connected with some of the highest families in Eng land, and one of whose ancestors came over with the Conqueror ;" that your "dear wife had several of her papa's medals for services performed during the Peninsular war, amongst these ono for Waterloo ;" that your house was visited constantly by, and you also visited, all the county families," Many of these detestable lies—as for instance, those about "colonel's daughter," and the "coming over with the Conqueror," were afterwards even constantly persevered in, outrageous as they aro and must be. But also amongst those lies, outrageously told me in Bond-street aforesaid, and afterwards as outrageously re • peated at Slough, are these : that there w„s "no one of the ladies of this place—as they called themselves—whom your wife could visit, became she had from her very childhood been so very chaste and virtuous that she could not bear the presence of those who were not quite like herself 1" You say something in the letter which you have had the unequalled impudence to send me, about "a criminal court." Is or is not that a place in which rascals, scoun drels, rogues, scamps, and blackguards, appear to an swer for running away with the virtuous wives of other men, "colonel's daughters" and wine-dealers' consorts ? Or is it a place in which a brother of a colonel's daughter might appear to receive the sentence of transportation; or further still, is it a place in which those stand who can be charged with crimes still more horrible ? For the present I seek this information if you can believe I do ao. You also, I think (your sottish jargon is all but un intelligible; you could not yourself the next morning dare to hope anyone could understand it) speak of a " strong right arm ready to defend you." For whom these words are intended it is utterly impossible for me to conceive, but they do suggest to me this inquiry—Do you, or do you not, you wretched varlet, you, remember the evening when, in the place towhich your lies entrapped me for my corruption and pollution, my upraised arm and clenched fist accompa nied the expressions of my honest heart's indignation at your beastly outrage in taking my wife into public with yourself and that woman, and your bastard cowardice found a vent only in a horrid stench, which compelled me to eject You from th o room — a b e i ng l oa th some fi rs t t o m y e y es an d than__ to my nostrils ? If the " anonymous writer" were not v one of a l ° 1 Your lie s , b u t a rea l c h arac t er , I cou ld t e ll hi m o f th e with presum n e otnoymenostinsarleetetevresna which I was assailed as to the il anY of one d e t esta bl e an d l ow -lif e d wretc h w h o cou ld clergyman into an association with him ( a clergyman's duction with th e she . rer l --the worthy sharer—of his gross, abominable infamy) would , . tell him of the shouts of "Barlow" and 'I Ba s t ar d' Nvh lehassailed my ears when I first took out the rascal's offsprin g , mo dest women either shunned the house I could tell him that all house in which the tutor nd. — d ece ived and defrauded tutor—liv o ed i , or his puils never b visited it subjected only u nder an honest promise that they Rh cou e tell to the horror of see in g the p arents of him of the blasphem ous obscenit y , drunkenness' i e and could • blee, amidst which these chi l dren lived. I could tell hima FIRES AND LOSS OF LIFE, Yesterday about noon great alarm was caused in the neighbourhood of Wormwood-street, Bishopsgate-street, from the outbreak of a fire on the premises of Messrs. Fisher and King, livery-stable keepers, No. 2, Helmet court, Wormwood-street, Bishopsgate. The fire commenced in the stabling, and as it was rapidly extending into the work shops over belonging to Mr. J. Sheppard, cabinet maker, it was expected that the buildings around would have been destroyed. The engines of the parish and several of the London Brigade, including ono of the laud steamers by Shand, Mason, and Co., quickly arrived at the spot. and a good supply of the New River Company's water having been procured, the firemen, under the direction of Captain Shaw. aided by 56 hired auxiliaries, did all that was pos sible to prevent the flames from reaching the houses in Wormwood-street and several others in Helmet-court. At the same time the residents commenced removing their goods. Captain Shaw, in order to satisfy them that no danger existed, sent Engineer Flinn to procure a couple of lengths of ladder from his engine, so that he could mount the upper floor of the burning building. Whilst he was gone Captaia Shaw procured a ladder, and just as Flinn arrived with his ha mounted the temporary one, and whilst in the act of swinging himself upon the flap of the front warehouse, the sudden jerk caused the chains of the flap to give way, and the gallant captain was precipitated head long to the ground, falling upon Flinn. Captain Shaw, and also Engineer Flynn, were at once removed to their stations, where it was found that Flinn was not very seriously injured; but the captain was very much hurt, and Dr. Saunders, of Queen-street, Cheapside, was sent for, and, seeing the serious nature of the case, re commended, if the captain wished it, that Dr. Hewitt, of Chesterfield-street, Mayfair, should be also called in. That was done. The fire was at length extinguished, but not until the premises of Messrs. Fisher and King, and the workshops over, were nearly destroyed, and the premises of Messrs. Sheppard and others were severely damaged. The princi pal loss will fall upon the Sun Fire-office. An alarming fire also took place on the premises of Mr. West, a steel polisher, 94, Great Saffron-hill, Clerkenwell. This fire commenced in the upper floor, used as the work shops, and which contained a valuable stock in trade. The engines soon attended, and plenty of water having been obtained, the firemen went to work, but the premises of Mr. West were nearly burned out, and the two houses ad joining, Nos. 92 and 93, the property of Mr. Topp, were much damaged. The lois will fall upon the Liverpool and London Fire-office. A fire cf a very distressing character also happened in the premises occupied by a female, 81 years of age, who resided in Redcross-court, Redcross-street, Southwark. The fire was caused, it is supposed, by the unfortunate female falling into the fire. She was so terribly burnt that, in spite of the services rendered by Dr. Donohoo, of the Westminster road, who was passing at the time, the poor creature perished. The body awaits the coroner's inquest, Naval and Military Intelligence, THE NAVY. The iron-cased screw steamship Royal Oak, 35, 4,065 tons, Capt. Frederick A. Campbell, one of the Channel Squadron, continues in Dock No. 1 Keyhem. The state of the lower tier of her iron plates, which have been so much pitted and damaged by galvanic action arising from the copper sheathing (Muni z's metal) below, continues to at tract attention. After due consideration the Lords of the Admiralty have determined to adopt a course which it is hoped will prevent the repetition of the injury. One of the plates most pitted, No. 14, which belongs to the lowor tier or layer, and is fixed at a point equidistant faom the main and mizenmasts, has been removed, and is now in one ofithe fitting shops of the yard. It is 15ft long, 2ft 10in deep, and 4lin thick, and we'ghs four tons. The inner side, it is sa tisfactory to know is perfect, notwithstanding the appear ance of the very suspicious-looking black fluid mentioned in the report on the plating of the Royal Oak which appeared in no Stns of the 28th ult. The bolt holes in plate No. 14, like those in all the rest of the Royal Oak's armour plates, are ltin in diameter. They are to be increased to a dia meter of 2in, which will be the standard in future, it being considered that 2 -in bolts are requisite for the duty of re taining these ponderous plates securely against the ship's sides. All the outside facing of the Royal Oak is t o be thoroughly cleansed, the red lead is to be scraped off, and the recently made pits are to be filled with composition. The course adopted on by the Admiralty is to use Brown's Pa tent Vitreous Sheathing for the purpose of protecting this tier from the galvanic action of the copper. In order to effect this arrangement the upper course of the metal sheathing, to a depth of Iflin, has been entirely stripped off. The vitreous sheathing will commence at the new upper edge of the metal, and ascend sft, which will of course be 3ft Bin on the iron plates. It will be fastened to the wood portion of the ship's side by mixed metal nails in addition to the cement (a glue manufactured by Messrs. Hall and Co.), and on the iron plates by the glue only. The plates of vitreous sheathins going on aro 16in wide by 4in deep, and they aro so thin that 21 are required to obtain the thickness of an inch. This extreme thinness makes them almost flexible. The vitreous sheathing will be moulded expressly to meet the shape of the bows. The communication between Mutz's metal and the iron plates is hoped to be thus completely closed, the galvanic ac tion thereby prevented, and the constant necessity for scraping, painting, &c., which has been of such frequent occurrence, will be avoided, as the vitreous sheathing is said to be easily cleansed by scrubbing, either in dock or afloat, The same kind of sheathing is on the Warrior, Hector, and Royal Sovereign, and it is to be applied to the Ocean, now receiving her armour plates at Keyham. This kind of sheath ing was also fixed to the Resistance, and several of the plates came off. The patentees allege that this failure arose from the fact that some of the materials of the composition with which the bottom was covered were not suitable for use with the glue (Hay's), used in fastening the vitreous sheathing. The proprietor, Mr. Hall, in fixing his plates or sheaths to the Royal Oak, will use glue of his own manufac ture. The black liquid which continues to oozo out between the armour plates of the Royal Oak appears to come from salts water leakage, which goes in between the butts, &c., gets discoloured by the tarred felt behind, and then comes out in a blackened conditionr This state of affairs ought not to exist. It is evident that from whatever cause the black liquid arises its presence inside the plates must tend to relax their hold upon the sides of the ship. It is surmised, first, that the fitting of the plates was not very exact when they were laid on, and next, that they expand in hot and contract in cold weather, when the ends are sufficiently open to admit water. If this be the result of the experience of the Roya Oak's four months' trip in the British seas, what would be the effect of a three years' station in a warm latitude? Tho ends of the armour plates are fashioned other wide in 'ranee. There the outer edges of the plates nearly touch each other, while the inner edges retreat from each other, thus leaving a hollow triangular space, the base being formed by the ship's sides, This space is piked tightly with prepared oakum, and by this means all humidity is said to be excluded from inside the plates of French iron-cased ships, as the caulking material expar ds sufficiently, when the plates con tract, to prevent the water from entering. Higher up the Royal Oak's side, next the vitreous sheathing, there will be a rubbing piece (of wood) to receive blows from boats or the chafiing cs any substance floating alongside, The rub bing piece will be 3ft deep and 3 in. thick in the middle, tapering off and above below to a feather edge. This rub. biog piece will extend towards the stern about two-thirds the length of the ship, according to the judgment of Mr. Peke, the waster builder of Devonport Dockyard, and will be fastened to the armour-plates by Sin. scaews tapped three-quarters of an inch into the plates. The heads of the screws will bo counter-sunk three-quarters of an inch into the rubbing-piece, and plunged over all, In relation to the line of flotation, it may be stated that all the vitreous sheath ing will be under water ; indeed the lower edge or the rub bing piece will b 3 lft below, and the upper edge 21t. above the water or load line. Her Majesty's ship Ranger, paid out of commission on Tuesday at Woolwich, was yesterday docked in preparation for a thorough overhaul and speedy recommission. The screw steam ship Sea King, having embarked mili• tart' stu.7 s and artillery, troupe for New Zealand, yesterday departed from Wou:wicli for her destination. The whole of tiie supernumerary seamen now on board the flagship Fisgard, at Woolwich, will be transferred this morning to the iron-cased ship Caledonia in order to navi gate that ship from the Victoria Docks to Sheerness. Tho men will be berthed on board the Formidable for distribu tion. The four heavy guns brought to Woolwich from Low moor, weighing 20 tons each, were yesterday landed with safety. The guns were manufactured by Capt. Blakely's order, and have been brought to Woolwich for proof. It appears that the chain which gave way a few days ago, in the attempt to land one of the guns by means of the ordi, nary hand crane, had undergone a tensile strain, under proof, up to 21 tons. The accident is accounted for by one of the links which had lapped over, and fallen again into its place ; the link had snapped asunder under the extraordi nary weight. Capt. Wm. 11. Stewart, was yesterday appointed Captain-Superintendent of Chatham Dockyard, vice Capt. Edward G. Fawshawe, promoted to the rank of Rear- Admiral. THE ARMY. A circular memorandum was received yesterday from the War Department by the officials of Woolwich Arsenal, in forming them that permission had been granted to Mr. Cox well to repeat his aeronautical experiments for military pur poses. Ee will reconnoitre the movements of the troops, who will be marched some miles into the country beyond the arsenal, where the ascent will take place. He had pro vided a balloon of much larger dimensions than the former one, and will be supplied from the arsenal gasometer with 75,000 cubic feet of gas for its inflation. Mr. Coxwell will be accompanied, as on the former occasions at Aldershot and Woolwich, by the scientific committee of officers of the Royal Engineers, who originated the experiments, viz. : 7 Capt. Beaumont, Lieut, Grover, and others. The ascent Is intended to tako place at Woolwich ie a few days, the wea ther permitting, in the presence of the principal officers of the garrison. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Wednesday Evening. DEATH OP A TRAFALGAR HERO. The list of survivors of the glorious but sanguinary day of Trafalgar has one name erased from it by death within the lest two days —of Commander Rawdon Maclean, who contributed to the crowning victory that cost the nation the heroic Nelson, at the expense of a shattered arm. He was examiner of the Dublin Marine Board, and was at business on Saturday, and attended church on Sunday, but an attack of gout in the stomach carried off the veteran before Mon day morning. THE NEW ARCHBISHOP. The provincial press approves the elevation to the see of Dublin of Dr. Trench, without political distinction. The Belfast News Letter, representing Conservative principles in Ulster, pronounces the Government selection to be a very good and satisfactory one; and the Belfast Whig admits its unexceptionable character, whilst holding the opinion that a better was possible, even within the Irish episcopacy. The new archbishop is sure of a fair hearing, and his prospects of popularity and tranquillity are very good. THE ACCIDENT TO THE ANGLIA.. The Anglia is still in Galway Bay. No official report has been made as to the injury she has received. Her Liverpool passengers have been landed at Galway, atd the mails returned to Dublin. Judge Ball has not resigned. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 48. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. ADVERTISEMENT.]—Avoid medicines: they always aggra vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Health Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, restoring Perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, Paris, of a liver complaint, wasting away for seven years, debility, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, the most intolerable nervous agitation, and dreadfully low spirited.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many yr on ra, _ dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable apalion, Y from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation" Jolly." flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. — —Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Fri Y mle surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of bl ood, 3. Miss atherin Elizabeth liver derange • . 1[ meat, and partial deafness.—Cure No. i 4 7 es. 2 g g s, low Jacobs, of extreme nervousness , In d spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,81 6 . The Rev. Jas , Norfolk, " of indigestion and torpi dity of the liver, which had reste I all medical treatment." In tins, 1 lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21 b. , 4s. 6d s ; 51b., lls. ;. 121 b., 225. ; 241 b 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Gucers and Chemists in every town of the United Kingdom. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The good fortune which is said to wait upon valour does not always attend jobbery, however determined and courageous. If ever a body of men had this title to success, it was the promoters of the famous Galway Company. They procured a subsidy from Lord Derby's Government by methods and arguments which Conservative speakers were after wards driven to justify upon principles worthy of Sir Robert' Walpole. Having signally and re peatedly failed to fulfil the conditions of their con tract, they treated the forfeiture of it as an insult to Ireland, and rallied their countrymen of all par ties to their rescue. The screw was put on and kept on with such zelentless dexterity that Lord Pal merston's Government gave way under it, and actually consented to renew the subsidy. It is true that they affected to shelter themselves under the report of a committee, and even went through the form of treat ing the question as ono of public interest; but the trick was too simple to deceive any one, and, to do Lord Palmerston justice, was never intended to have this effect. It was no secret that the £70,000 a year was to be paid by the Post-office, not for the more speedy conveyance of our American mails, but as a peaceoffering to Irishmen. From this point of view there was, perhaps, no need to be ashamed of it. It is ten times more important that Ireland should be satisfied than that we should hear from America, a day sooner or later, and no less than this was the real consideration for the bargain. Still it was hoped that, just to save appearances, the steamers would keep their time, and not break down too often. If there had been no fleet at all, it might have been worth while to pay the money, but Mr. Alderman Reynolds and others had been careful to inform us that there was a very fine fleet all ready, to enumerate the number and tonnage of the vessels, and to adopt a high tone, as though the arrangement had not the least taste of a resem blance to an Irish job, or what Lord Clanricarde happily called " eminently an Irish question." This bold play, as we have said, deserved better luck than has befallen the Atlantic Company. We have not before us a detailed list of all the disasters that have occurred on this line since it was reopened, but we know quite enough to make us sympathise with all those who have anything to do with it. If the stars in their courses had fought against the shareholders, their dis • comfiture could not have been more complete. Either on the high seas, or in entering some har bour, or in quitting some harbour, something is sure to go wrong with their vessels. If they are not caught in a fog the machinery gets out of order, and if the machinery does not get out of order they come in collision with a rock. This is what has hap pened to the last of which we have any intelligence. "The Atlantic Royal Mail steamer Anglia, nin Liverpool to Boston, went on the Black stock in day." T -b; .s beats every thing.Galway Bay at 5 a.m. to- In Galway Bay, the 'very station of which the capacity and safety were EC much extolled, and which was to become th e great Atlantic port of the Britishislands, a vessel well found and skilfully commanded runs straight upon a rock. However, it is wet so bad as it might be, for " it is expected that she will b e go t o ff safely at high water. " This . reminds us o f th e l anguage in which the Amerman newspapers are wont to announce the usual result of a Federal invasion. The " safety" of a vessel that is floated off a rock close to the Irish coast in an attempt to cross the Atlantic at express speed is like the safety of a conquering force that is withdrawn by a strategic movement behind intreneheeents, The Anglia may be saved from 4hipwreek, but clan she possibly arrive punc tually at her destination ? If we may waive for a moment the reserve which makes us unwilling to put this company on its defence, we would fain ask what conceivable claim it can have to public sup port unless it can fairly beat all competitors in the time of transit. On the supposition that there was no job in the ease, Galway was selected not as the moss convenient starting point in other respects either for passenge rs or goo d s traffic, but simply as the nearest port to America. It was assured that the mails, at least, could be transmitted from one con tinent to the other with the utmost despatch and regularity. How have these expectations, if they deserved to be called so, been fulfilled ? We will not go so far as to say that not a single voyage has been made within the agreed time, but we may safely assert that such voyages have been the ex ception, and not the rule. Again and again the news brought by these vessels has been anticipated, and the practical inferiority of the Galway route established by the only test that we can apply. One purpose, and one only, has hitherto been served by it, that of facilitating the passage of emigrants from Connaught to New York. This is not the place to inquire whether this is a proper object of Imperial policy, but ir was not the motive assigned for the grant, and Mr. Gregory would scarcely advise us to provide the United States with recruits at our own expense. Now, either the penalties for these inces sant defaults will beenforeed or they will not. If they are not, the other Companies who now compete handicapped with the Atlantic will have the best possible reason to complain, nod the job will have been carried beyQOd the limits of fair play. It they are, they wilt eat into the profits of the concern and bring down the dividends terribly. Nor can we see any fair prospect of improvement. After the former breakdown, and the fierce agita tion both in and out of Parliament about the rights and wrongs of Galway, eve may take it for grant e d that every precaution of which their means ad mitted was taken by the directors, Accidents may happen, but they do oat happen with the unifor mity of a fixed law, and though " misfortunes," as the saying is, " do not come singly," they rarely come in such numbers and with such regularity un less where they have a permanent cause. It will be impossible to evade the question whether the Galway experiment has not been tried long enough. Ireland had set her heart on its being 0 made, and it has been made for many months under every advantage. So far it has proved a dead failure, and a second set of sh are h o ld ers are threatened with ruinous loss, Mu s t thi s company be tested, as cannon are tested, up to the point of a destructive explosion, or shall some other gratifi cation be provided for the Irish nation in lieu of it ? This is what Parliament will have to consider. If the directors can show that they are the victims of a fatal series of miechances, or the peasantry of Connaught can make good their demand for a cheap means of transport under the name of a postal service, we have not a word to say against it. We have long advocated the concession as a pecuniary largess to Ireland, and we freely admit that the recipients should be consulted as to the form in which they will take it. POST.—If the author of the grim tragedy, the last act of which came to a close on Monday night, had not been a man skilled in poison—specially educated, so to speak, in a department of science which he turned to such devilish account—many individuals, conscious of being the objects of some outstanding feud, might well resolve to live exclu sively on eggs. The subtle power at a poisoner's command of inflicting sudden and silent death was perhaps never more forcibly illustrated than by the murderer Hunt on Saturday night. The conditions under which the wife and two children succumbed to poison without the circumstance being discovered until the cab door was thrown open, its destination being reached, are so extraordinary—would have seemed, had they not actually occurred, so impro bable—that the author of a sensational novel, drawing en his imagination far the results, would hardly have escaped the imputation of transcending the probable to a wholly unwarrantable degree; nay further, we argue that if the wretched mur derer-suicide had given himself up to the police at once—as soon as the hue and cry was raised—de nying his cognisance of the deed, and throwing the accusation on his wife, the probability of such aver ment would have been strong that, whatever the coroner's jury might have done, the judge's jury would never have convicted on the strength of such evidence as has been hitherto adduced. That, when the man Hunt got out of the cab opposite Furni val's-inn, his wife and children were alive, and that, subsequent to his departure, the fatal dose of prus sic acid was adminstered by Mrs. Hunt, would have been an hypothesis so plausible that it must have commended itself to a jury if backed by Hunt's own asseverations. This view of the case will be come the more evident if we pass cursorily in review some of the specialities of prussic acid. Quite true it is that real, absolute, undiluted prussic acid is so dire a poison that a mere drop of it let fall, not to say upon the tongue, but into the eye, kills a strong animal—a dog, for instance—with the if casud denness of a lightning stroke or a cannon-ball; but this sort of prussic acid we apprehend must have prepared r fi e r d s place,t by be i° p n b o ee t n b o e u b t o o u f g t h h t e ; q i u t es m ti n o s n t . the person using it, and when p re p ared mus t be kept snt• rounded by ice, or it rapidly decomposes. If the murderer bought his prussic acid, it could not have had more tha n five p er cent. str ength, and most pro! bably only three per cent. It is indeed competent to assume that Hunt—acquainted with chemistry as he was—manufactured prussic acid intermediate i n strength between that o f absolute acid and the dilute liquid of the shops ; but ev en thi s assump tion, if adopted, by no means removes the difficulties which beset the case. Whatever the orginal strength, it would seem to have been diluted by mixture with beer; and for that reason it is with the hypothesis of dilute prussic acid that we have to concern our selves. Now, the progress of symptoms—dilute prussic acid being swallowed in a fatally poisonous dose—is somewhat as follows :—For the first three seconds, or about, no effect will be perceptible ; the hbaesco beenm e conscious patient, noti c i ng a that someas te of extraneous bitter almonds, m a mate r will swallowed, no more. With the fourth second, or about, comes a convulsion, probably a shriek, then short, sharp, muscular twitches, and gasping supervene ' and, usually before a quarter of a minute has gon e by, practically speaking, death; though the heart may continue throbbing up to the end of Lail a minute. Such being the normal march of symptoms, the difficulties of assumption is rela tion to this case begin. In the first place three individuals could have not drunk simultane ously of one pot • the drinking must have been consecutive; and the case required that the third individual should have swallowed the fatal dose before any cognisance, or even suspicion of foul play, had arisen on the part of the two pre ceding. It is necessary, in point of fact, to assume that the triple poisoning should have been accom plished iu three seconds of time. Such a result would not seem easy to bring about. Three seconds would appear to be inadequate for the taking of three draughts, each by a different person, from the same vessel; even though the marked odour of prussic acid (resembling that of bitter almonds) had not been present. We do not mean to assert that the progress of results, as recited, is absolute to the letter—that it may not be subject to variations ; but the latter are slight, and even if admitted, they import difficulties to take the place of others elimi nated. If, for example, the time between adminis tration of the poison and death be extended, then it is accordant with what experience has shown, to assume a prolongation of convulsions, shrieks, and other demonstrations ; sufficient, it may reasonably be assumed, to have challenged attention on the part of the cab-driver. It needs no words of assur ance on our part to make the public understand that, but for the closing of this horrible drama, we should not have felt ourselves justified in offering these remarks. Justice to the prisoner would have prompted an absolute reticence on a topic the dis cussion of which should in common fairness be determined by a criminal court only. His death has removed all such scruples. We, in common with toxicologists and the public, may now study the case apart from every consideration of human interest, regarding it only as a probl em , very much as the chess player might st u d y a series of combination s on hi s chequere", b oar d, The tale has a mor a l, one t h at t h e very 'oighest - liv ing authority on p o i sons inculcated 'long ago, that may bring confidence and console pion to the nerves of some people who, perusing poisoning, may apprehend d a record of modern Master poisoners, anger to themselves. actor to Christison, must henceforth be somew of their art. The - mat deeply versed in the science present case justifies that observa tion; and . the poisonirgs accomplished by CatherinP., Wilson do not constitute an exception. Passtg now from the murdered wife and children P .ar Hunt himself, the poison aconite, with which be elected to cut short his evil career, merits a remark. Aconite, the active principle of monkshood, has no affinity whatever with strychnia, although certain contemporaries have stated the reverse. Neither are the effects similar; for whilst strychnia pro duces horrible convulsions, aconite has the remark able property of wholly destroying sensation with out motion ; in other words, giving the indivinual poisoned by it a total immunity from pain. We cannot but regret that the ends of justice were de feated by the folly of the police, who went in uni form to Hunt's house and knocked at his door, thus giving him the opportunity of swallowing the fatal draught. The public, however, may derive some consolation from the consideration that the whole case is one of an extraordinary exceptional nature. COUNTRY MARKETS. 1 1. NEWARK.--.IVEDNESDAY. A tolerable quantity of wheat on offer at our market to day, and the demand was fair, at a slight decline on the rates of last week. Barley and other articles were not ma terially changed. White wheat new, 43s to 46s ' Barley, grinding.. 30s to 320 Red do, 37s to 42s 1 Oats, old, .. 2ss to 28 0 Old white 42s to 46s New do 20s to 240 Red do. 41s to 44s ( Beans.. 37 s t o 400 Barley, malting.... 36 8 to 40s 1 Beans, new 32s to 340 HULL-TUESDAY. At this day's market the show of English wheat was moderate, with a ready sale, at fully late currencies, and in some instances an advance of le per qr was obtained. Foreign held firmly at rather more money. Barley met a slow sale, and prices in favour of buyers. Beans and peas were quiet. Oats dull, but not quotably lower. Wheat.... Old white per qr. .... 43s Od to 45s 0 6 Old red 31 New white .. „ New red .... „ Barley.... English malting 32s Od to 36s Od Grinding 26s 6d to 28s Od Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 31s Od Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per at oBl2ld to 13c1 Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 08130 Swedish and Danish OslVd to osl3cl Beans ....English, old, per qr 44s Od to 43s Od New pigeon 42s Od to 41s Id New tick Egyptian Peas .. Foreign boilers ... 32s Od tc 345 91 Grinding Tares .... Spring. Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushine , Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 5 0 to £0 0 0 Foreign . •8 15 oto 9 0 0 Rape cakes 6 0 ot o 0 0 0 Bones 5 5 oto 510 0 MELTON MOWBRAY-TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat, 41s Od to 4.5 s Od ; new red, 39s Od to 43s per 36 stone beans, 39s to 41s for old ; new sorts, 36s to 38s per 38 st : barley, 35s to 37s for malting, and 28s to 32s per qr. for grinding; new, oats, 20s to 23s Od per 24 stone; old, 24s to 295. LYNN-.TUESDAY. At to-day's market there was a short supply of wheat , and the prices of last week were fully supported, Other articles as before. White ..45s to 46s / Barley 37s to 39S Md..: 40s to 41s I Grinding ..29s to 32s Beans .40s to 44s Oats.. New 38s to 40s I Peas s to --0 Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Nov. 15. via Marseilles Nov. 12. brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Dec. 4 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Ilelena Nov. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Nov. IS. via Marseilles Nov. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 11. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. 18. India (Bombay), v i a Southampt a n Nov.ll. via Marseilles Nov. 20 . Portugal.... Dec. 4. Marseilles Nov. 12 . .. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampt on Nov. 1 1 . via Marseilles N ov . 12. Newfoundland .. Nov. 11. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Nov. 11' ' by U.S.' packet.... by Canadian packet. Nov. 13. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and TeneritTe .. ..Nov. 10. Bahamas, via New York ....N0v. 20. Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I i Nov. 13. California. and British Columbia. PRUSSIAN POLES.—Out of 352 Prussian deputies, elected in the proportion of one for every 50,000 of population, 27 this time are Poles. As the Government strains every possible influence to exclude them, the return of so many is good evidence of the vitality and power o f the Polish element in Prussia, which may thus be estimated roughly at 1,350,000. —Spectator. Births. Kino.'s County, the wife ' 3th Depot B atta li on , of a Booyfp MajorOn the it ot 9 e t r h t in ß s . t. 13 , a o t yd ß7r l son. LEVETT —On , th of e a 11th inst., a t 21 , Chesham-place, Lad,' Jane Levett son. NA.PIER. — On the 10th inst., at Broadmeadows, Selkiect the Hon. Mrs. William Napier, of a son. SomERvELL.—On the 9th i nst., at Hendon, the wife of w 'Somervell, Esq., of a son. Marriages. MITCHINSON— LIVINGSTONE.—O n the 10th inst., at tb i Holy Trinity Church, Tu n b r id ge - we ll s , M a j or -Gene% Regimentward HelyHutchinson, l a t e comman di ng H . M.'s 35 ho e, to Margaret Bell, daughter of th e late . I ° Livingstone, Esq. THOR NTON—BoxALL.—On the 10th inst., atWisboroug green, Sussex, the Rev. Dr. Thornton, vicar, to Jane' the daughter of the late Mr. Jesse Bom a n, of (Julldforuf Surrey. Deaths. • BAIRD.—On the Bth inst., at Ventnor, Thomas IL Ba ird ' Esq., of the India-office, aged 22. BATEMAN.—On the 10th inst., at Walthamstow f I ° B°ll Bateman, Esq., LL, D. CIIESHAM.—On the 10th hat , at 19, Grosvenor-4011°re' Lord Chesham, aged 71. CouslNs —On the 9th inst., at 24, Camden-square. gill° Jane Cousins, aged 33. R Id FITZGERALD.—On the 9th inst., at The Firs, Bin-eld' Berke, the Hon. Cha r l o tt e , w if e of G era ld FitsGert o ; Esq., youngest and o n ly surv i v i ng d aug ht er of the Baroness Talbot de Malahide. R.I.P. MUNROE.—On the 10th inst,, at 99, George-street. Ecli°; burgh, Major David Munro, late of the Old 9 4 th Scotch Brigade, aged 79. FARRER —On the 9th inst., at Ingleborough, Yorkshiryret James William Farrer, Esq. , late Master in Chance / aged 79. of WILLIAMS.—On the 9th i ns t., 'tees Williams, Aberpergwm, Glamorganshire, London: Pririted and Pubilahed by WILLIAM ANDRE of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN Office No. 1 1 `': Strand, in the Precinct of the `Savoy. 'n the CoulatY of ifiddlelex..—jhursclah:licweinPer 12,_1863.