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

TIM 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 par'cly 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 coveted 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 of 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 threateningmissive—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 ii 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 cr 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 fore; are found necessary to keep the peace, and force the unwilling civilians into battle_ The Auqtrianisation of America is almost ccmplete, 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 been 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 on 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 hold 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 50,000 dols. by subscription, in order to employ properly qualified counsel to test the legality of the conscrip tion before the tribunals, in the case of every draughted poor man who objected to become 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 DO notice is taken of them. Perhaps the treatment of Dr. Childs is a warning to them of what they must expect it 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 bold 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 . net deliv er u p th e p r i son er ; for the reason that he had not then, and never had, custody of the body. 34 , vs. Childs and another woman testified that they " 64 gone together to the police head-quarters, that a Policeman admitted that Dr Childs was in custody within, ,,, iiiktnn and he said moreover that he wondered a bill; v uld have induced Mrs. Childs to issue such Acton mrarttenough to hang a man." Commissioner been arrestoaebd' upon examination, that Childs hP.d over to the eutiodorder of General Canby and handed Court, under mum !' of Provost Marshal Nugen'c. The to the Provost ivi e a circumstances, issued a e w writ the body. The case r l a tutl, directing him 'co produce before Judge Leonard this afternoon. The Provo:e Marshal appear e d t o answer it, and testified that k ee ping—that he h a d ,a e priccuer was not in his by order of General c " v s tl se nt to Fort Lafayette that, under the circumstances, he po tt i a d n- 1 0 - 7:_:d .. thereupon issued a. third w r i t Q ., t ug. The judge ,directed to General Canby, and to the commandant, alto , And herepthroepmeratdt warden of Fort Lafayette, wha t — 'er, janitor, or •••y er hi s signation or function may be. rests. The military authorities will be eer with their answer to any summons, and I,P r ve Pa!ed • Childs e . to rot i will, in all probabil it y , be suffred until it shall please Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Seward, AL. 11 prison Stanton , or General Dix to release him. And thin affords another proof of the administration of A.me. rice, which Mr. Seward dreamt of in 1860, and which he has in the interval done his best to conver into a reality. The printer and the billposter have been dis charged after a reprimand by the police on the enormity of the " treason " which they severally aided in disseminLtsng, with a caution to sin no more,—a caution which the printer has takengreatly to heat. Lest his busines s s h ou ld su ffer, and loyal menqdme no more to his shop, he has 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 couid 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 matter of comparatively small importance, it never. theless excites indignant comments among the labouring classes, and will effectually cles troy 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. But, 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 t o a ll the rest. It is because I thought the country was free that I came to it, and if I am compelled to become salasvoe. in soldier against my will, I shall consider myse l f a your own language, Mr. Mayor, though you l ap s p a l y y the words to negroes, and not to white men, that whether the man who labours with r hhiesshhaonudlds should be a free man or a slave, whet own w himself hiocrh this nation beownedby isw d n now another, he ise deciding.' ng. ultimate questionAs far as I can I will decide in favour of my owe e m m y u s n e e l r f a t t h i a o t n . I Imdaoy not d o freedom. I wish to possess irr my daily work for fa wish to be owned temporarily or permanently by 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 villany ; but you would compel me to fight against my will, and insult me at the same time by talking of my 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 hi s 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 one 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 dole. It turns out, however, that Mr. Opdyke is not to be impaled upon either born of the dilem ma, and that the Goverment 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 commenced 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 wore 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, uud 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 of the city, when completed, will show some curious figures, and it already begins to be computed by those who devote attention to the matt , er 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, and 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 a simple sum in the rule of three. 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 GovernrAent, 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 thosr..l 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 uproar and confusion of tongues, and a worse than Homburg or Baden Baden for demo ralisation and cupidity. The people who frequent these purlieu 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 pressing the whole gang and sending them off to the Army of the Potomac? Such a measure would be illegal, it is true, but, in the general's own words, "it would leave its impress upon the mind of the country for years to come," and would have the advantage of ridding the city of New York of 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 " Austrianizion,, of the Republic which Mr. Seward foresaw as the inevitable result of the election of a President MORE FORTITNE-TELLING. Augusta Leigh, who described herself as a lodging house keeper, of 18, Windsor-plac'e, City-road, appeared yesterday at the Clerk - enwell Police-court, before Mr. Mr. VEYncourt, charged with unlawfully and violently assaulting Miss Harriet Trimmer. Miss Harriet Trimmer, an elderly female, *ho gave her evidence in a very precide 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 looked 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 ticles the defendant had kept from her. The Complainant—There are two pairs of kid gloves, 2s; a silk scarf, ls ; two sprays of French flowers, is 6d ; a cap front, 6/d ; 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 Kate 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 houses 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 Go 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, who 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. lie 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 he was not aware whether she was a Miss or a Mrs. 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. He had heard the evidence of the constables, and although he would not say that they were not speaking the truth, yet he thought they I 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 f ortune-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 ifshe should be lucky. The f ortune-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. M r. D'Eyncourt inquired if it was true that the com plai•.iant 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. " 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 you are so easily seduced, that you 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. "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 bo loug. " 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 he 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 Destinies Revealed." Mr. D'Eyncourt said it was very foolish for a grown-up woman or for any one to believe in such trash, and asked the complainant whether she was very much hurt from the 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 had 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 defrauded. There could be no doubt as to the character of the house. He 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 will 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 tion. The defendant was then removed in the custody of Turner, the gaoler. The complainant inquired of the magistrate how she was to recover the articles that the defendant had retained illegally. the Mr. D'Eyncourt said she had better make out a list of things, and ask the defendant for them, and if she against the wishes of a majority of the people. 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. lite..._chronic complaints , AZV ERTISEMENT.]—AvoId medicines: they always aggra vate D • Health plaints, but Du Barry ' s Delicious its coat Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty times pure blood, rdietreshing. perfect in other remedies, invariably cures them, restoring ' ec t digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, to the m ain sleep, functional regularity, and energy of 60,000 e_ Bordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out Brau n, parZesot:---Cure No. years, debility, digestion Stuart de Decks, Lord 58,215 of the Marchioness de an Wt:h a nervous palpitation all over, bad a Liver complaint, wasting away for seven at t leeple agitation, and dr eadion s auess, the mostintolerable nervous dySPePsia.—No. 49R32. from yesia- nervousnese tY ilatulem , spasms, sickness Ytliow spirited.—Cure No. 1,771. Lora T i t. of Waterford, of many years' Yeara' indescribable agony ~ aanadthma, v eeugh, constipation, —Cure No. 46,270. Mr. JaMes Robe "litini,g.—Maria Jolly." thirty years' diseased lungs, *3 ritaley, Surrey, of Cur e 4 . 47bilood, liver derange- Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, ind igesito 2 l l 2, ! II ," Elizabeth ment, and partial deafness.— Pittinrth' r --' spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No, so ie luerings, low ; 241 b Fakenham, Norfolk, "of nu11„. e .., h e Rev. Jas. ,-, .....on and ~ the liver, which had r esisted all medical tr 2" ur. P l ' e5......eat„, 21b., 42. ad ; 51b., its. ; nib az In tins , lb., Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, L a. dTilyCaorrnplbl I, ondou ; 40s.—Barry 2s. Od. ; also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Chemi s t s 1u every town of the United Kingdom. THE SUN, LONDON, THQRSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1863. did not give them up, then to bring an action for their re covery or value in the County Court. Inspector ryfe, G Division, said that two girls, who had run amity 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. (Before Mr. Sergeant Gazelee.) THE CASE OF HENRY CONDEROT. At the sitting of the Court Mr. Metcalfe said before the first case was proceeded with he wished to draw his Lord ship's attention to a case which was tried yesterday—that of Henry Conderot —in which he appeared for the prisoner. He was compelled to go away before the case was concluded, but he found it reported that Mr. Sleigh had made some re flections upon him in putting the prisoner forward as a re spectable man, but he could 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 of the 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. shawls, tablecovers, blankets, sheets, and £2 Bs. 6d. in money, the property and moneys of Elijah Lane. Mr. Bebley prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. chEesitiej r a . h Bt L re a e n t e , , Hrr th a ep o r w osecutor, was examined by Mr. Bes - ley. He said--I am a c ab proprietor, and live at 67, Wood- Ju-lry°,adh.aviinhgadseeknnohwimn a the w prisonerork with previous to the 18 th other men at a builaing 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 gene. About half the feathers were taken out of the bed, and a great quantity of wearing apparel. Three boxes con taining various articles were taken away. All these 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 of July. 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 ho 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 o a f p my tol wife's a weari ng about app £lo, arel o ,was far saabr as ou I about £lO. Her wearing pa abletojudge. Cross-examined by Mr. Ribton---My wife never left me before for any length of time except to go into the country to visit her friends. She never left my house before with • out my consent. NVe 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 Gazeleo thought that such observations ought not to be made. ___ Mr. Itibton—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 Ni as not very likely. I did not wear the watch I have lost con stantly, and my wife sometimes wore it, perhaps once a mouth. It was not her watch. Two of the boxes taken away were used to keep clothes in, the other for articles used in the house, such as tablecloths, counterpanes, &c. Th e sheets, blankets, and counterpane I found on the bed I know belonged to me. I identified the sheets by the peculiar way in which they were hemmed, as my property. Af ter they left my place they had been marked with the letters c , (Edward Head). There was a peculiar mark round the blankets by which I knew them. I bought the watch in Oxford-street and also the chain. There were three anti macassars taken, found in the box of which the prisoner held the key, which I also identity as my property. Sarah Ann Lane, daughter of the prosecutor, said her mother was at home on the 17. h July, but she went out and remained out the whole of that night. On the 18th July her mother came home about 11 o'clock, bringing the pri soner 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 li the kitchen and heard a cart 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. I went 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, r have no recollection of my mother leaving her home before. I never heard my father tell her to leave and go away. My father and mother had no quarrel the night before, but my f a th er wou ld not allow my mother to bring another wo man i n t o th e house. My mother then went out and stopped 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 eeen 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 hio arm He opfdra to Mro. Lan, nil had,7ooll 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. He 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 came 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 living with her sister, and she had given up housekeeping, The next day they brought 4or 5 boxes in a cab, and the prisoner and the man took the boxes 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 4, 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 b 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. Ho saw a box opened, out of which one 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 sute that the box was locked. Witness said to prosemtor, " 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, John-street, Tottenham-court. road, with the prosecutor and Mr. Grove. He saw the prisoner on the bed, and Mrs. Lane 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 sect 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 vant, and she had scarcely a hit of shoe to her feet). Mr. Ribton then addressed the jury for the prisoner, and, after citing several eases which had been decided, contended that no felony had been made out in this ease, as the wife 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 he 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 wars 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 OF 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 Lord 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 least 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 British 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 Bien 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 fact 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 citizeus 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 Government 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 question endanger the public peace. If they are not proceedings proscribed by law, Go vernment can bring no law to bear upon them. NA , hat Ministers ready 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 profess to be very disinterested in this matter. To say the truth we are by no means sure that the trade in questioa 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 the future the establishment of the doctrine s ould 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 in noxious rights of neutrals have been recently enlarged t here 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 anatisfactory state. At present it appears that if a citizen of a neutral Power cannot 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 la w—ire terms which show that be 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 all 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 Federale. There is an equally general impreaminn :hat 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, but 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 0 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 British Minister, acting under the power of the Foreign Enlistment Act, to order the detenti on o f 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 6480 IS probably within the statute, ought not Lord Russell to cxerc i so hi s power of detent i on ? The building of these rams does in fact `` tend to `larger the peace and iv,Ar.re of this Liilgd lm en , - , (preamble of the act); the sailing of these r ams m ar — an d we are told, probably precipitate all England into a hurwi;and for ll— what, or wh ose b ene fit, i s En g land For the pri va te be ne fit o f Mr. Laird, g e to th 7 e i: ' n this risk shipbuilder? —unless it he for the Confederate s. If " the peace and welfare of t his kingdom" be the right point of view, and it can execute our own laws, it is q uite ot. secondary im portance to consider at this be n o degradation to moment the limits of . commercial licence tolerate d to ne utrals by purely international law. In such gdit 4 , What a lawy er matters as peac e I or war, as Mr. Burke has sai d , tells me I may do" is not enoug h, But it seems that your corre spondent, who justi 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 was 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 belligerent. 3. The allowing or forbidding , the exportation of any article is equally an act of hove reigntyl and the operation of allowing the exporta tion of ships of war for both the present belligerents 2s not equal ; it is very unequal. The Federals can build war fillips for themselves; the Confederates cannot build ; the Federals have a commercial navy to be ravaged; the Confederates have none. But, farther, 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 Vette' 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 mado not byim 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 operations of either belligerent. If either North or South, themselves abstaining from taking arms from England, had remonstrated with us for suffering the export of arms to the other bellige rent, and remonstrance not prevailing had declared war with us, persons not gunmakers might think we should not have been fighting fur a good cause. The same perswis may now wish that her Majesty had exercised her statutory right of forbidding by order in Council the export of arms, &c., to either Federals or Confederates (16 and 17 Victoria, cap. 107, sec. 150), This riglit 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 snail 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 obedient servant, 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. Chatnerovzow 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 rion seems to be justice for the negro and injustice for every one else. What right have they to advo cate arbitrary confiscation ? We may have a great horror in England of slavery, but that 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 has been harassed by a species of piracy carried on iu the name 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 own poiicy, if not to spare us as a nation the igno miny of his capitulation and surrender of English interests 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 groaned ; but as having " never blushed." Could we say that after striking the colours of our commerce in the Mersey at the dictation of a demagogue cabal in America ? "On anti-slavery grounds alone," urge the memorialists, "such interference is justifiable." We submit, however, that the Government of Great Britain is not a mere committee of philan thfopists dominated by a single idea. We would add, too , that philanthropy itself is abused and misrepresented by them. They would dig myriads o f g raves 1 nor white men, and desol a t e ent i re re • g i on s of the globe in order to aboli s h a part i cular institution. T he ? would make of the negro at once a freeman and a me:rderer, for in the same breath they summon him to revolt and to consecrate his first hour of liberty by z'assacre and pillage in the planter's home. W e t e ll th es e f anat i cs t h at t h e policy for which th ey c l eft. : ur is drenching the earth with blood, is demoralising a great people, is destroying the constitutionalism o.C.America, is mul tiplying atrocious crimes, is laying in ruins, and plucking up harvests by the mots, is en gendering the most deadly hatreds and encou raging the moat hideous tyranny; an that were it finally triumphant its fruit, gathered in a wilderness of ruin and slaughter, would prove a bitter gift to the negro. Bat 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 aborigines who hate an English sailor, but would cherish a Malayan pirate, who call our soldiers cut throats while they are tender to Besjesmen and Kaffirs, and who, like them, deem that a doubtful liberty ser , nred for the African labourers in the Southern States may well and mercifully be punished 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 o „serve, formidable proportions. Among the sig namo are three peers, many members of Parlia ment, nth 2erous clergymen, an immense array of commercial u ifitience, and not a few men w h ose hearts are ferve , : tl Y in the cause of emancipa tion,pot been dup e d b y t h e tardy hypocrisy .' of t o North, with i ts shame fulbut who haa: and bloody holocaust of neg ro v i a i ms a t New York. These memori..lliats declare that Great Britain, - France, and Be)Oium, with any other Powers which may be willing to assist, have a perfect right to interfere and put 1.11 end to " a world-wide calamity ; " th at t h e aouthern States can never, without infamy, 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 guiltl ess an d s uffering 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 a ppeal most Eng lishmen respond. They are weary of the far-spread and resuillees devastation in America, weary of famine in Lancashire, weary of the patient subser viency exhibited by Ministers whose habit has be en to boast of themselves as the only patriotic states men in the realm. When, how ever, 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 when Earl Russell brings his country to further shame by patronising professional deletion, receiving his instructions from a foreign cabinet, and playing the pirate, so to express it, by proxy, in the British do ck yards on the ersey. THE HASTINGS LIFEBOAT. During the high wind and heavy se a which prevailed , n on Monday morning last, an attempt was ,ade to give the new lifeboat her first trial on this coast. Accordingly, 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 , it where was decided that the launch should take place. T he b o at was followed by some hundreds of spectators, who, having been disappointed by the unavoidable postponement o f t he regatta, were no doubt pleased at the prospect of witn essing something which might be termed a sight. The sea was running in with such a tremendous force and the waves were rising to so great a height, that a scene of an exciting cha racter was N ery naturally expected. The arrangements !or the launch were, it appears, carried out under the superm: tendence of Captain Gough, It.N., the chief officer in this district. When the attempt to launch the beat was made it was about an hour before the time of high water. The carriage was drawn down the slip-way to the edge of the water, and at a given signal the boat left the carriage Ewa 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 were 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 grasp. As soon as they had the heavy seas—through which the boat carried theta admirably—the " lizzard," a rope through which the hawser passed at the bow of the boat, gave way, and the boat was immediately broadside and knocked ashore on the groyne a short distance eastward of the spot where she bad left the carriage. The excitement among the spectators was intense. The boat, however, did not rest upon the groyne, but another strong sea came and carried her over, dash in g her broadside against the parade wall. The position wa s it most perilous one for the crew, and a number of the by' standees, fishermen, and others ran into the water to render assistance. Some of the crew jumped out, and in so doia . ; were slightly injured, and one man named Greenfield, chi ef , boatswain at the Priory station, had previously been knocked down senseless in the boat. Ultimately a rope was throw!' to the parade, and she was drawn up to a high spot on the beach. A hole was stove in her side, which it is thought wag caused while she was upon the gr oyne. The damage, how ever, is not considered very serious, and the boat will, no doubt, be repaired in this town. Fortunately no serious ill' juries were sustained by the crew, who certainly had a vet/ narrow escape, and acted in a very brave and undaunted manner throughout. Their conduct drew forth great praise from among the hundreds of spectators who witnessed the scene. The crew it seems have the greatest confidence in the boat ; but the trial shows very plainly the difficulty to be encountered in launching from this part of the coas t during a high and heavy sea. From a harbour or pier the 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 will always be attended with considerable difficulty and danger,—Sussex dvertiser. COUNTRY MARKETS. ►' NEWARK—:WEDNESDAY. A moderate supply of wheat at ,our market, and prices 1 0 to 2s per qr higher, with a more at, rive demand. Radl er _ more doing in in malting barley, and ext. eme prices vire,7, made Oats a fair sale at former rates. Beans were qui' as well sold. White wheat new, 49s to 52s Barley, grinding.. 30s to 3 25 Red do. 43s to 48s l Oats, old, .. 2 BB to 3 05 Old white 4Bs to 53s 1 New do Red do. 46s to 49s I Beans.. Barley, malting....36s to 40s 1 Beans, new ~ 2_ 3 4 , a s s tt t 00 0 1 4 7 2 0: HULL—TUESDAY. At to-day's corn market there was a fair show of Englisp'e wheat, chiefly new, which was taken off at rather over tu prices of last week. Foreign at late rates. More inquiry for malting barley, and grinding sorts also in request, i,r_ last week's price s . B eans an d p eas were una lt ere d. Oar .s met a fair sale at last Tuesdey's money. Wheat.... Old white.... per qr Old red ff New white .. „ New red .... „ Barley.... English malting Grinding 244443 6 5664 1 6 °°°°° d ddddd t t °tttt 0 0000 44 2 . 513 69 : sss s : u " : " I : IS i fijcl Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danish 3os Od to 31s 0 ' Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st osl2ld to 13(1 Friesland and Dutch osl3d to 081 3 1 . Swedish and Danish osl2 Icl to os l3 ' Beans ....English, old, per qr. New pigeon New tic. Egyptian Peas Foreign boilers .. Grinding Tares .... Spring 3 3 4 344 36 0 0 32 ss s s ss 6 0 00 ° Idi ld tt t t tt cL0 0 0 : 33 4 3 1 4 :010 0 6 ° Ii i —s Od to - - s ,`; Indian Corn Linseed, feeding Od crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) 110 '' 40s ss to o cid t 0 00 ° '54 26i g 9 0 Foreign Bl5 oto A 0 0 Rape cakes 6 0 oto "in 0 Bones 5 5 oto Sx" LYNN-' .IJESDAY. At this day's market there was only a moderate show of wheat, which met a fair sale at about the rates of last week• White .. 44s to 46s f Barley . .. ..... ..37s to 40e 11r.d .. 42s to 44s 1 Grinding ..30s to 32 0 Beans .38s to 40s 1 Oats .22s to 240 New —s to —s I Peas —s to —4l COAL ry ?deer; of Coal per '1 on al .ARK ET. the ()lose of the market. s. d. Byass's Bebside West Hartley . 16 2 Carway and Duffryn_ Malting - 20 0 alker Primrose 12 6 Eden Main l6 9 Whitworth l5 6 Pelaw Main ...14 3 Walls Fnd , . Russel's Hetton 17 3 Braddyll's Hetton l7 3 Ships at mark B. d. Walls End. Ha5we11......,.. ..... 18 Framwellgate.. ...... 16 t°, South Hetton ........•16 9 .18 u Cassop Heugh l7 3 East Hartlepool lB , South Hartlepool 17 Kelloe .. South Kelloe.. .... 17 Thorpe 15 9 , Trimdon Hartlepool 17 " 42 ; sold, 39. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Sept. 1 8 ' via Marseilles Sept 1 . 2 " Jrazil and Cape Vents, by British packet. Oct. 5 . Cape of Good Hope, Ascen s i on , an d St. Helena Sept. 28 .: China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Sept. 1 , via Marseilles Sept. l'''' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Sept. 11:4 India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 19. via Marseilles Sept. 1 • India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Sept. 1 ,; :) ,* via Marseilles Sept.?" Portugal.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampt on Sept. "' via Marseilles Sept. 1 "' Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .. U. b. and B r iti s h N. A mer i ca , by B r it. p ac k e t.... Sept. 11, by U.S. packet.... W.C. of Af r i ca , M a d e i ra, and Teneriffo by Canadian packet. Sept. .. Sept. ~.,jr i n i' Sept. Bahamas, via N ew Y or k Mexico.. All parts of W es t I n di es , i nc l u di ng Chili, Peru i Sept.'Y 1.184: ,California. and Briti s h Columbia ' Sept. } The French Court of Accounts has made it° official declaration of the correctness and regularity of the Public Receipts and Expenditure for the year 1861. [AuvEunsl mENT.]-11olloway's Pills.—Nothing bet" ter.--These inva2uable pills exert a greater and more bene' ficial influence ow r the nervous disorders than any other medicine. This mole of action is thoroughly consonant with reason—they coviDletely purify the blood, relieve both head and stomach of ai. l faulty functions, and expel all op pressive accumulations i:rom the bowels. With t h e blood purified, and all poisons pu:ged from the system, regularity must prevail throughout the body—aches and pains ta ust cease, healthy energy must supplant weariness, and the shaky nerves must regain their wholesome tone. A course of these pills eradicates low spirits, nervous excitabilitP hysterics, neural g i c t w itches, and other derangements de pendent on nervous maladies, which every considerat e per' son may thus certainly and safely remove. Births. C A b N e i l l; , B o E f L u — n O st n aff t a h a e g B e t , h of in a st d . a , u a g t h E te d r n Camp' i . burgh, Lady Ca GRUNDIT.—On the Bth inst., at Royston, llerts, the wife O f E. Herbert Grundy, Esq., of a son. ST. VTNCENT.—On the 7th inst., at Godmershani-park' Canterbury, the Viscountess St. Vincent, of a son. L . WILLIE.—On the 6th inst,, at Eps om , S urrey, t h e wife o f Marmaduke James Willis, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. CAYLEY—MOLINE.—On the Bth inst., at All Saints' Church, Blackheath, Arthur Cayley, Esq., Sadleril Professor at Cambridge University, to Susau, younge st daughter of Robert Moline, Esq., of Greenwich. LEITH--SHAW,—On the Bth inst., at St. John's, Padding ton, Major J ames Leith, V.C. late of the Scots Groya to Isabella, younger daughter of Thomas Shaw, Eb ( l9 16, Hyde -park-square. Deaths. BEATTIE.—On the 6th inst., Henry Beattie, Esq., of 26 High Petergate, York, aged 54. BLUNT.—On the 25th July, at Kirkee; Bombay, Henry' infant son of Captain Arthur Blunt, R.H.A. DAWSON.—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, tile infant son of Captain Downes, FowKE.—On the Bth inst., at Lowesby lfall, Leicester. shire, the Dowager Lady Powke, aged 74. READ.—On the 7th inst., at Walthamstow, S. Read, E O l l late of H.M.'s Dockyard, Sheerness, aged 68. SHAW.—On the 4th inst., at Kenward, Pembury, Kent/ Maria, the wife of Sir John U. K. Shaw, Bart. WOODS.—On the 9th inst., at 25. Queen Anne-street, Mr• Harry Bristow Woods, aged 62. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TAE S UN Offi ce No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the %Lvoy, in the County of ididdlesex—TburedaY, September 10, 1868 r~i ~...--