The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

THE WESTERN METROPOLIS. (From the 'Special Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORK, Dee. 7. These who love the crush, the racket, and the roar of London would feel very much at home amid the din and rattle cf New York. In the way of noise this city of one street has little to envy the Babylon with the hundred thoroughfares. There is nothing in the world mere distracting, more fretting, more inspiriting than a walk along the Broadway trot toirs from one hour after sunrise till long after the closing of the shops in the evening. In Broadway you have Oxford-street, the Strand, King William street, and London-bridge in one street between two and three miles in length ; one main artery for ,he pulsation of one million human tide. Starting from the Old Battery., at the waters edge, where the North and East Rivers blend their streams, forming by far the noblest harbour and one of the most charming sites upon earth, and making for Union-square or the Park, where interminable rows of dull transverse streets, at right angles, with s , _ately bat silent and somewhat dreary longitudinal s.vanues, spread out into the Belgravias and Tybur rime of this Weetern London, the city has, through out, no other direct line of communication than this one. There is not one omnibus or heavily laden waggon, and hardly a private vehicle or a pedes trian, no matter oa what errand bound, that can avoid the throng and swarth of Broadway, and there is hardly a human face, out of the hundreds of thousands dwelling in the town and its suburbs, that does not love to show itself in Broadway from choice, when not driven into it by necessity. Truly this street, which gives New York its peen. liar character of oneness, is well worth all the affec tion that these Manhattan people evidently bear it. Not that it has any particular - object to attract the attention of a travelled stranger, but it is as gay as the Boulevards, as trim and glittering as Regent street; it has a grandeur and loftiness a ll its own. Shops, I beg their pardon, " stores," that take in the whole, not of a house, but 3f a huge block of houses, basement, ground floor, upper storeys, gar rets, and all ; hotels that p resent 150 ft. front to the etreet, and nearly as high es they are long and broad ; marble warehouses, stylish as palaces, solid as castles; and churches, and hails, and theatres, all that other towns scatter about in their various quarters, much also that other towns bide away oat of sight—all is h ere mustered U p i n two parallel rows of buildings , on a tolerabl y straight, but by no " up town an d d own town. '' means mo notonous line, The real fascination of Broadway, however, lies in its noise ; not in mere brick and mortar, but in the ebb an d flow, in the heaving and eddying of the wa ve that incessantly sweeps along it. The pride of Broadway is the omnibus, that peculiar institu tion of modern Republicanism, which flourishes no where so hantiantly as in this headquarters of the 'Model Republic; the omnibus, not sober and dun as London, not slow and unwieldy as in Paris, but gly and gaudy an d mo tl e y, now a ll beautifully white with red and gold letters, now quaintly daubed over with lana...ca.pes and sea pieces, and the elßgits of odd revolutionary " gays" in cocked hats and pigtails ; a throng of omnibuses, three or four of them often abreast, or as many arrayed against ono another, running foul of each other, tilting with their )ong poles, erumsily driven, with uncouth ehoats and savero oaths, and an occa sional crash, as horses slip, stumble, and tumble ou this the most treacherous and murderous pEi,vcs moat that ever disgraced a Christian community ; for there is no Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in this country, and no one !:as leisure for the cultivation of humane I never once walked along :Broadway, morning or evening, without seeing a least 022:11ckiet:s hoi•ee dewn ; never was in New York on Sunday without being saddened by the eight of cue poor hcrae, the. carcase rotting on the steno where it feel, awaiting the cart which was to con vey it to the lenackee's on the first working day. Through the medley of there busses, and the heavy carts, and the light spider-legged buggies which venture into the fray (cabs are not among American institutions, and the few lumbering hackney coaches doing duty for them do their utmost to scare their " fares" away by thievish charges)—throughout this awful medley, I soy, the great bai,iness of the Western world must force its way. Crossing the street; at Aster-house or at the turning of Wall etazet is by far a greater feat than anywhere in Pic cadilly and Cheapside ; and the softer sex would at ell times give r a p the attempt as hopeless, were it rot for the intervention of a set of loungers, with the garb aed name of policemen, but with the man ners of the daintiest gentleman in all the land, whose only duty is that of squiring the ladies; tall, stal wart men in long frock coats and round leathern e3pes, who take hold of the fir one's arm as they plunge with her into the vortex at one street corner, and never slacken their professional grip until they emerge cut of the melee at the other corner. Through the midst of all this chaos of men, women and things which constitute the ordinary traffic of New York, these warlike times send now a regi ment of foot, now a battery to clog the whole pave bamt with its heavy measured, inexorable tramp; aild more often a fire-engine, or a long row of fire "giute come dashing up, tearing up, fighting their 1 4 ` 7, Nvith hose, escape, ladders and al!, drawn by :it" hatless and coat less, very fiends in human shape, tugging for very life, and curdling your blood with yells borrowed from the wild Indians--the Fire Brigade, " old familiar sight in New York, the pride of A sa ,. ' . !an skill and daring, the kind of work host suited e t o vev i v i ng . cause tha ` 4 temper of a people who, even while humanity, must needs obey the instinct whi c h sites them revel in scenes of ' l evee and destr ee : Such is eutwardaZ: th : , 'Y n ork—a city to the greatness raid prosperity , habitams of wbiehProvi dencE„, h a s set no.bnaits. . etuate, if you will, the N vorl: of the pre sen t Southern Secession ; set up the the East; tiplit up West in open rebellion a gainst the Union into nv,v States mittens; cut no the map pnlolpzsillstroeds and patches Stars and Stripes into as seduce the as now make up the V...ork to that of „ 3. Pe importance of New ears its re capital of the Empire State which b ' ta 'a'a; constitute it into a mere kind of li a nseatic city, and always have hero the centre of North rtt will merican movement and life. Its port and its river, the '1 the White a re a between the Allegheny an d at e " Mountains, will always give Ne w York the raad y e Green mi tr over the trade of the Western w orld- Alrea old shipping importance of Salem, Portland, and Boston itself, and the bankirg 13n: 3, e: 13in : en " of Philade 7 phia, are rapidly absorbed by their Man. hattan rival ; for "unto everyono that bath shaltbe given," and whatever may be the car ee r of New (rleans on the Golf of Mexico, or San Francisco on the Pacific, New York will share with none of her sister cities the sovereignty of the Atlantic. But to the usual,, nehecked, headlong progress—to the iesolent good fortune of this mushroom city, the great civil war has now come to give a fresh, mo:nea tons impulse. The calamities which are desolating the South and crippling the West have thrown many a windfall into the lap of this great eastern emporium, whose shouts of joy have echoed back the groans of New Orleans and the cries of distress ° 'Louis. The whole of America is flocking •to Ne w I a have heard of European travellers in whose opinion New "York is a representative city— th. P a ttern and summary of all Americanism. The etty hog seer in bad odour with the natives them selvep, Cyrn s - .ti vist c h the dwellers therein,who look upon it us the 1 . all alien misery and corruption—the asylum of la w k, a Irish and godless Germans, of all the worst set of adventurera from the Old World. F e w of the Ne w - y orketc Nov yorit. They ere profess to be at home in all people w h o h ave come to eagletheir fortune, 0 ,.. ) , ay . •" mg made it, o nly t arr y till t bay r:Yalie." It is a treating, Ming pepnla sell, and bat tew of th ti on, 'with no roots to the n . u tual lie. Mn. The city is but vvhich bind man to re e th.oronghfare, a place a shop and e to make money it Int but not o ne and to spend Which to enjoy one's leisure or to close one's hepp y d Ede, or to rear ose's children. With all this nomadic character, 6 1 ,,, ever, York is fl crowded i.nce at all times —ju st _ greatly overcrowded plt.ce. la a town W h ere bar: rack-like hot,:lsarci frcrivnt, lz-o less than five Cr six of these establishments en the most gi g „ tie scl!e arc vow Ving built, W:Y! fited up, end their apartments are already bespoken beforehand,nit by chance travellers, but by resident families, for whom the ease of their inn has greater charms than the sanctuary of a narrow home. The extravagant rise in the price of building lots, the high wages of labour, the scarcity of fuel, and the indifferent quality of domestic service, conspire with the innate "social" instincts of the American to induce him to give preference to this collective and almost commu nistic method of housekeeping. New York is fast being organised into a vast phalanstere and cara vansary. Domestic privacy is gradually becoming the exception; and the Fifth Avenue Hotel, origi- nally intended as a mere house for lodging and boarding, has now become a sort of evening ex change, where "balls and bears° congregate after their dinner, and where they have lately organised over their wine a monster National Bank, after the • most approved Chase pattern, with a capital (paper of fifty millions of dollars., These habits of gipsy life naturally engender luxu rious, frivolous, extravagant habits. The New Yorkers live by the day, crowding their enjoy ments upon one another with restless eagerness, and almost painful alacrity- The city beasts, as we are informed, no less than 20 theatres and other. places of amusement—English, French, Italian, and German, drama and opera, all of an inferior kind, so far as my taste and experience go, without counting free concert halls, saloons, "gardens," w hi c h i t would be difficult to numbar. The Western metro polis beats London in establishments of this nature, and comes up very nearly to the standard of Paris. The rage for spectacles has been greatly in the ascendant since the outbreak of the war, and every public room was this year pre -engaged from October or November up to the close of March and April. Two or three German play-houses have no repose even on Sundays. Nor are private entertainments less brisk. Balls and parties never have been so numerous; never was there so much " going on." French and Italian men-of-war have contributed their share of polkas and champagne suppers ; the r Russians especially have been the lions of the day, only, alas ! to be set down as mere bears the day after, to be scouted as "cursed tallow-eating, irre claimable barbarians." Nowhere perhaps is a more raging thirst for money to be found closely allied to a more utter contempt for money. Now York, one would say, is no better than a vast gambling house. Drive out on any fine Saturday afternoon to hear the music in the new Central Park, and the sight of those thousands of carriages, bran new, flaunting and glittering, will speak to you of fortunes made no sooner than yesterday, to be unmade no later than to-morrow. The thought of the morrow seems to weigh on no man here. That the great financial crash must come, that the day is to dawn in which greenbacks are to be of no more worth than as many dry leave; no man in his senses has the slightest doubt; but it is precisely because the prosperity of the city and the country is so precarious and ephe meral that every sensible man is so anxious to enjoy his own share of the good things of this.world ; it is because Mr. Chase's currency is so flimsy and perishable that they are all anxious to be rid of it, investing it in anything that may look like solid wealth, or yield an hour's gratification and solace. The efforts of the New Yorker, as indeed of the American everywhere out of Boston, are all directed to belie his English origin, and to affect Fiench tastes, habits, and manners. Much of the Anglo e:axon enterptise, strength, steadiness, and lainrious ingenuity lies at the bottom here, but on the surface youvg America apes French levity, and evinces fond partiality for Parisian cookery, millinery, and confectionery. 'We have here much of the glitter, the dissipation, the harum scarum recklessness of Continental European out-of-door life. The Ame rican is a sort of half•Frenchified John Bull. You might fancy Paterfamilias away on a spree for a week or two across the Channel, forgetting himself among the booths and kursaals of a watering place, and indulging abroad in those freaks and frolics of which ho would be heartily ashamed at home. Whatever is not a shop or a banking house in New York reminds you of a large, idle, and somewhat sinful watering-place. I shall not repeat all I read in the newspapers of uncharitable neighbouring cities, especially in those of sanctimonious, emulous Philadelphia, with respect to the thou sands of pickpockets and the scores of thousands of worse "social evils" which prowl about New York streets. That the town is no better than it should be, the most honest inhabitants are at all times anxious to inform you; though they hasten to tell you in the same breath that all the good is in digenous, all the evil of foreign importation. But what I feel inclined to quarrel with is not so much low vice in all its hideousness, the haunts of which yawn at the door of too many low cellars in Broad way or the Bowery, as that rakish fondness for dis sipation, of a more or less harmless character, that distaste for home and settled life, which, coupled with the inveterate habits of town residence in all American communities, and the prevalence of pig ging together at hotels and boarding-houses, has undermined so much of the earnestness, soberness, and healthiness of the Anglo-Saxon character as transplanted into this Western Continent. It was early in October when I came back to this city, after a short Western tour, and I was amazed to find at that early time the whole population already gathered together within their town walls, after a short absence in their idle haunts of Saratoga and Newport. Real country life is nos - there in favour in America. The citizen who is boxed up in his fine hous in Fifth Avenue for at least ten months in the year never leaves town without taking the town itself along with him, his friends and acquaintances, his hotel and his theatre, to the watering-place to which he reluctantly resorts for a few weeks reluctantly, and chiefly to please the queen of his household, who expects to sport more gorgeous silks, more sparkling jewels, and a more outrageously trailing crinoline under the colonnade of the Ocean-house than she ever did on the Broadway sags. Sweet, shady nooks, and charming corners, and comfortable villas dot here and there the vivid green of Staten Island, of the Jersey shore, and of all the environs of this lovely New York bay. Snug rural retreats are to be enjoyed, summer and winter, at a few minutes' distance from Wail-street, just across the ferry. But your real New Yorker is no more to be weaned from his Avenue than the Parisian from his Boulevards, and the country homes round the bay are much more frequently tenanted by new settlers from the Old World than by natives of this conti nent. Even the Briton on his first arri va l soon learns to do at New York as the New Yorkers do; ht, Becomes a gregarious animal, and October and &se a , . 'icaber are still displaying all the gorgeous traits are ae , A Ix La enema " fall," when already fields nil woods lef t to unbroken solitude, and the country is pronouot,,d to be uninhabitable. Truly, the climate is all that 14 wish either in or out of town. The purity 9 : l t ma y la American sky is hardly to be w i t h all litaiti,,, -.Ed itself, lion heated hearths, has no po wer to darken. or Bally the white marble purity of this We stero metiAp o i l the lucky American re joicing in t he bes t - kind of as anthracite coal—a fuel w hich gives heat without di r t, fire without smoke. two day,M, uttoting in the pre serves of Ear: Dudley, at Willey., e destroyed. The week, exactly 2,0D0 head of the Duo d'Aumale, Earl twu , sportsmen were kerville, Sir T. S. Pakington, M. P., M r. p . v e € 3:: Carl Tan- Mr. Dowdeswell, Mr. Cookes, and Mr. n. 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"Fifty years' indescribable mony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, tiatulen.y, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly." —Cure No. -10,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frilnley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth .Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low , T rits. and nervous fancies.-- Cure No. 54,16. The Rev. Jas, , Fakenham , Norfolk, " of indi&eation and torpi dity of the liver, which had resist ' all " medical treatment." In tins. 1 lb., Is. 9d. ; 21b., 4e. 6d , 10 3.—Barry Du Barry an d Co., also Fortnum and Mason ; every town of the United ; resists 115.;21b., 228. ; _4lb ii No. 77, Regent-street, London; _ hi nd all Grocers and Cbeeliets to E adora. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN/NG, DECEMBER 22, 1863. Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. AWARD OF COMMISSIONS AND PRIZES. AND REVIEW OF TROOPS BY THE DUKE OF CAS!. BRIDGE. i t s h a e i de -d Field- Marshalo J. F. ca aide-do camp, Hisp, Colonel: n theg C. i a T - y Dukerh whi , t o t attended Cambridge, General Sir r h Bur goyne, G.C.8., Inspector-General of Royal Engineers, with his aide-de-camp, Capt. the Hon. G. Wrottesiey ; General Sir G. Pollock, K.C.B. ; Major. General Hamilton, Vice- President, and Major-General Sir F. Abbott, C. 8., of the Council of Military Education; Major-General Bloomfield, 1 Inspector-General of Ordnance; General Piers, Colonel Baker, and other officers, arrived at Woolwich yesterday morning about 11 o'clock, to conduct the half yearly inspec tion of the Royal Military Academy, and award commis sions and prizes to the gentlemen cadets, in accordance with previous examination by the Council of Military Education. Arrangements had also been made for a review of the whole of the troops in garrison. A royal salute of 21 guns, fired by a detachment of the Coast Brigade Artillery, from the Green Hill Battery, an- nounced the arrival of his royal highness and staff, who im mediately proceeded to the Royal Military Academy, and were received by Major• General Sir R. J. Dacres, K.C.8.7 Commandant; Major-General Sandham, Brigade-Major Milward, Capt. Nangle, Deputy-Assistaut•Qaartermaster- General, Major Field, &c. The several classes of gentlemen cadets had assembled on the lawn fronting the building in review order, and, after inspection went through a course of manual and platoon exercise in an excellent manner, under the direction of the officers of the military branch 3f the establishment. His royal highness and staff having visited the library, class rooms. and other departments of the establishment, and inspected various drawings, plans of fortification, and other works of art executed by the pupils during the past half- year, proceeded to the school of arms, forming part of the spacious gymnasium recently erected, where the whole of the cadets had assembled, and arrangements had been made to receive the several reports, and award commissions and prizes to the successful condido.tes. The duke and staff having taken up a position at the head of the table on which the valuable prizes were placed, Major-General Hamilton, Vice-President of the Council of Military Education, read the following report of the council : " 13, Great George-street, Dec. 19. ",The Council of Military Education have the honour to submit to his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Command ing-in-Chief their report of the half-yearly examination of the gentleman cadets of the Royal Military Academy. Of 68 gentlemen cadets who were examined for commissions on this occasion, 65 have passed, a result which the council cannot but regard as eminently satisfactory. One-third of the commissions having been announced for the Royal Engineers, the 22 cadets first in order of merit who elected for that service are recommended for it accordingly; the remainder are recommended for commissions in the Royal Artillery. The examiner in fortification con siders the examination in that subject very satisfactory. giving evidence of very careful nrui thorough instruction, and generally of diligence and ability on the part of the cadets, The examiner in surveying reports that a fair pro• portion of the class have done their work with the required degree of accuracy, The council are happy to observe that there are no failures iu this subject. The examiner in chemistry considers that the result of the first division is very fair, but reports the majority of the papers of the second division as of very inferior quality. In natural sciences the examiner reports an ev;dent deficiency of reading as well as of practical study, especially is the branch of practical geo logy. The above subjects were included in the examinations for commissions. In those that follow the gentlemen cadets of the second or third class were finally examined, and the marks gained in them will bo Carried forward to their final. examination. In mathematics the . examiner considers the result as eminently satisfactory. Some of those who have obtained the highest marks exhibit the two conditions of industry and mathematical power; and should they pursue further their mathematical studies, the examiner is of opinion. that they are capable of attaining considerable scientific distinction. The examiner in practical geometry reports the answering of the cadets to have been better than on any former occasion is which he had examined. In French the examiner states that, although iu this examina tion there were fewer instances of very superior attainment than on any limner occasion, the average attainment has been very decidedly raised. The examiner in German re ports that the result was satisfactory, and that the cadets gave evidence of more careful study than on any former examinations. The examiner in landscape drawing reports that the work done by the cadets proves they have applied themselves with groat diligence to that branch of study. (Signed) " Major-General F. W. Ideemeroel, Vice- President, " Colonel G. ELWYN, " Colonel J. E. ADDISON." Colonel Yorke, R.E. then read the following report from Major-General Sandham, heutenant-governor of the insti tution : "I have the honour to report to your Royal llighness that the whole of the gentlemen cadets, of the first-class, who have been under examination, are qualified for com missions in regard to conduct, proficiency in military exer cises, and discipline. The monthly returns of the junior classes throughout the half-year have shown that a satis factory emulation and exertion has existed generally throughout the academy, and the results of the examina tion of the classes show that those reports were well founded. The responsible and snb-divisional officers and corporalshave carried out their duties satisfactorily, with few exceptions, and% a manner to uphold discipline, and to encourage and keep up a proper feeling and bearing amongst the cadets, and, on the whole, I feel justified in making a favourable re port of the company, although I had occasion to bring to your Royal Highness's notice some irregularities which oc curred about two months ago, and which I feel assured were confined to a very inconsiderable number of the cadets, and that the general feeling of the company is entirely opposed to these irregularities ; since that period the conduct of the company has been irreproachable. The officers throughout the establishment have conducted their several duties with firmness and judgment. The professors and masters' have shown a zeal and judgment iu the performance of their re sponsible duties that has led to the favourable report I am able to make to your royal highness. The drills and especial military exercises, riding, gymnasium, and repository drills, have been carried out as fully as the time that could be de voted to those exercises would admit. The successful candidates for cornmi . ssions were then called to the front, and the number of marks gained by each in the several branches of study read over, when his Royal Highness announced that commissions would be awarded as follows, viz, :—For the Royal Engineere--Messrs. Mes cal!, Bucknill, Wood, Elsdale, Savage, Kirkwood, Clayton, Corbett, Ottley, Lambert, Harrison, North, Ommanney. M'Arthur, Macpherson, Denny, Dillon, Jones, Calrow, Dorward, Simpson, and Westaway. For the Royal Artil - lery—Messrs. Doraville, Vaughan, East, Cooper, Bowen, Mowbray, J. Murray, NVace, Law, Davies, Denison, Sal mond, Watkin, Oliivant, Fox, Stone, Wallace, Ewing, Kelsall, Hunter, Taylor, Gerard, Williams, Cripps, Tork ington, Walker, Bailey, Ridge, Downes, Dugdale, Mun day, Fitzgerald, S. 'Murray, Wynne, Milman, Nutlin, Cur tin, Kennedy, Baddeley, Penny, Plunkett, Hamilton, and Browell. The Duke of Cambridge then proceeded to distribute the prizee as follows :—For exemplrry conduct, to Mr. Mas call, the gold Pollock medal, bearing an inscription "Founded by the British inhabitants of Calcutta, to com memorate the eminent senicea of Major-General Sir George Pollock, G.C.8., and awarded to the most deserving cadets of the season. For exemplary conduct, to Mr J. Hunter — a regulation sword. The remaining prizes, consisting of telescopes, sextants, mathematical instruments, books, &c. To Mr. Mascall, three prizes for first artillery, second artil lery, and first fortifications; to Mr Mowbray, three prizes for second artillery, second topography and geology ; to Mr Bucknill, three prizes for chemistry, natural philosophy, and practical mechanics ; to Mr Nicolson, three prizes for second mathematics, third fortifications, and first practical geometry ; to Mr Ottley, two prizes for first topography and second fortifications ; to Mr Goschen, two prizes for Hin dostani and first mathematics; to Mr Pafford, two prizes for first mathematics and practical geometry ; to Mr Smith, for first French; to Mr Cooke, for second French ; to Mr Studdart, for third topography; to Mr Howard, for first landscape drawing; and Mr O'Grady, for second landscape drawing. His ROYAL HIGHNESS then addressed the cadets in the following terms. He observed that it afforded him much pleasure to receive such favourable reports from the Council of Military Education and the lieuteuant-governor of that institution. Ho wished to impress upon the minds of those cadets who were about to receive commissions in her Ma jesty's service that they must not consider their education to be completed. When they left those walls they would enter upon a career which demanded of them to continue their education and endeavour to keep pace with the spirit of the age. The corps of Royal Engineers and Royal Ar tillery were essentially scientific, and this was in every re spect an inventive and scientific ago ; therefore it was incum • bent upon a pon them, if they desired to be really efficient officer s, to make themselves acquainted with those improvements and diecoveries which were constantly arising. He knew !early offieers who had made themeelves truly scientifi c after obtaining their corarniesions, and he hoped that the cadets present would on a future oceesiou emulate their examp le, But there was another important thing, requisite to con stitute good and efficient offieer, and Chet was disciplue, Without strict discipFne the efficiency of the British army cou was not b e ma i nta i ne d , an d h o b e li eve d th a t an officer who dise4,linarian would not only be more respected, but Was P a -ove 0 most valuable the corps. Whilst, however, he strict advocate of discipline, he would remind them that th ere manner, be i carried o r r a i ,en d o ; e vw r out i at o a a :11: : :11 la s tl en t l i d le C c , ater:nshrseraymryoo,Listts endeavourvvi s a e c r l f u e p , at l b i o a n l n:d m . l o l k ff e t ee e nl r n i i s t : v i offensive li%t e ( no who had the ',kill to . f a tut e h p e t s th er e v l i a c t e t , e ‘ r vo p u l l a d m st a il n i d be whc) Whilst firmly maintainine ostrictsewitdhisweihpolimnehewchairache into contact.essential re spected and f o a r h ho : le i g o Wuhernlefeclasrsbayanadlltshttaff then witnessed a series of gymnasticl hiislloy exerieses, carried out by a number or flee cadets, render the chle Oiroc*i'm Cf S'n'gc`lnt (3 "riMths ; teed s.nbee- quently proceeded, at half-past 1 o'clock, to the common, where the troops were drawn up in review order as follows : The batteries of Royal Horse Artillery on the right ; the field batteries on the left, in close • column of batteries at quarter intervals; and the infantry—comprising the 14th Brigade Royal Artillery, the Royal Engineers, and the Woolwich division of Royal Mar;nes Light Infantry—in the centre, in contiguous quarter-distaace column. The force having been inspected, marched past at slow and quick time, and retired to barracks. The duke and staff then proceeded to the Royal Artillery Riding-house and witnessed the 65 cadets to whom commissions had been awarded go through a-course of equestrian exercise, and after partaking of re freshments at the officers' mess-room, his rcyal highness and tho officers who accompanied him left Woolwich at 3 o'clock, amidst a second salute of 21 guns from the Green Hill Battery. scribed one symptom which he had observed yesterday— viz., a sense of sinking perpendicularly downwards, which was, more than any other, indicative of serious mischief. Other medical evidence was given to corroborate this opinion, The medical witnesses were cross-examined with the view of showing that plaintiff had not been properly treated, and other medical testimony was adduced to show that the probable consequences of the accident were far from being so serious as had been described. The plaintiff, who had been brought forward in the course of the case, exhibited so pitiable a spectacle that he was re moved without any attempt being made to examine him ; one of the witresses, however, afterwards stated that he attributed his present sad appearance to an attack of hysteria, consequent on his general debility, but not re sulting from any organic change in the brain. On behalf of the company it was said that they only desired a fair estimation of the damages, and it was urged that plaintiff was only in humble circumstances, he living in a house at 4s. weekly rent. His Lordship having summed up, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, £1,500. NORFOLK CIRCUIT—NORFOLK, Dec. 21, Mr. Baron Martin proceeded to dispose of the remainder of the charges in the calendar, and commenced business this morning at 10 o'clock by trying the only two cases that appear in the city calendar, one of which is a charge of highway robbery, the other a charge of forgery, in which there are five indictments for separate and distinct acts of forgery and uttering bills of exchange, preferred against the same individual, the sum CO obtained amounting to up- wards of £l6O. James Murgatroyde Hubbard was charged with forging and uttering the acceptance of a bill of exchange for the sum of £45. Mr. Metcalfe and Mr. Sims Reeve appeared for the prose- cution ; the prisoner was defended by Mr. Carlos Cooper. The facts of the case, as stated by Mr. Metcalfe, were simple enough. The prisoner was engaged with his father in a small brewery business in Norwich, and the prosecutor, Mr. Ed ward Mills, who is also a resident in this city, being indbted to the brewery to the amount of 18s., gava a bill at six months for £5, which included 2s. charged for credit, stipulating at the same time that the bill was not to be negotiated. As, however, the prisoner wished to have a bill that could be negotiated, the fit st one was taken back and another to the same amount and for the same period was given in exchange which was negotiable. On giving this the prosecutor required and obtained a receipt for a bill for £5 at six months for account delivered for beer, signed by " ' the prisoner, and then the prisoner took the bill which had been thus given, and placed it to his account at Messrs Gurney's bank (changed, however, from £5 to £l5), re ceiving credit for and drawing upon that amount from time to time. Mr. Mills (who was called to prove the principal part of the facts above narrated, swore that the second bill was drawn for £5, awl that alterations had been made in it by which the word " forty" was prefixed to the word "five" in the body of the bill, and the figure "4" to the figure " in the corner of it ; in addition to which the handwriting upon the bill was sworn to by two persons who knew him well as that of the prisoner, and evidence given of it being placed to his credit at Messrs. Gurney's bank, having pre viously been taken by the prisoner's servant from Mr Mills' house to his counting h,usa, and left upon the prisoner's desk. _ _ Mr. C. Cooper urged that it was very doubtful from Mr. 'Mills' evidence (upon whoso testimony the whole case as far as the forg,ry was concerned rested) whether he took such accurate observation of it as would enable him to say that the bill might not really havo been in the shape in which it appeared ; and, as to the utterirg, that them was no evidence the prisoner dealt with this bill or had it in his possession. His Lordship, in his summing up, went most carefully through the evidence, remarking upon the bill itself that this case ought to be a warning to mercantile men not to accept bills at all unless they are written in the ordinary way, so as to prevent any such thing as this happening. This bill was so drawn that the acceptance, instead of being as usual, written over and upon the body, was inserted in a space left blank in the body, and dividing it as it were in half. The jury found a verdict of guilty of forgery, and the prisoner was sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude. ' • On the other indictments no evidence was offered. As his lordship observed, it was a wholesale forgery of bills. The business for the city being over about half-past 12, his lordship returned to the Castle, and proceeded to dispose of the remainder of the cases in the county calendar. Ho cammonced with passing sentence upon the following pri s mers who had pleaded guilty when arraigned on Saturday. Thos. Smith and Thos. Bugg were indicted for two separate act of burglary in dwelling-houses at C Ingham on Oct. 12. The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said—These are cases of burglary of a very different nature from those that ordinarily appear. I find that you went about in masks and created such terror from your appearance and gestures that the wife of ono of the persons whose houses you attacked rushed out of it in the utmost terror; and then you carried off £27 which you round on the premises. Not content with that you broke into another house, and there, strange to say (for the owner of this, like the former person, was only a labouring man), you found and carried off £55. Such acts as these—aggravated not only by the fact that the persons who are robbed are poor men, unable to protect their houses as strongly as those who are well off can do, but in this par ticu:ar instance by the fact that you knew these poor people, the state of their cottages, and what property they had, from having worked with them—must be punished in the most severs manner. The sentence of the Court is that each of you be kept to penal servitude for 20 years. His lordship, in the course of his address to the prisoners, said, —The judges have avoided hitherto saying anything to poor persons about depositing their money in savings-banks, because though they have been often well conducted there hale been many instances where frauds have been com mitted, and those who have trusted them have lost their savings ; but now, when every one can deposit his money with the security of the State, the case is differtnt, and though the interest given may be small, yet the ample and absolute security so fully makes up for that that there is no reason why the judges should not advise every poor person to take advantage of the security for his savings thus offered by the State. Joseph Wilmot and Richard Hill having pleaded guilty to the charge of setting fire to a stack of wheat and a stack of barley belonging to Mr. Rayner, at Litcham oa the 26th of August. His Lordship, in passing sentence, remarked on the num ber of charges of arson which had conic before him during his progress through parts of this circuit, this being the ninth case, and of a worse compl,xion that any he had seen —" for here," said the learned Judge, " you destroy the entire produce of the land belonging to the poor man who has suffered from your wantonness. You knew nothing of him, nor he of you ; but, b cause you were hungry and could not get work, as you said, you commit this atrocious act. Now, I have no doubt that at the time you did this deed, full harvest time, when work was abundant and labour in request, you could have got work enough to keep you, but you preferred hanging about in idleness. This, there fore, is so atrocious a case that I mean to break through the scale of punishment I have given and inflict a heavier one. I therefore sentence you each to five years' penal servitude." George Warner, who also pleaded guilty on Saturday to a charge of wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, was sentenced to 18 months' hard labour. "A more scandalous act," said his Lordship, " I have never met with. You meet with a man at a public house, and, after drinking there, begin to boast of your skill and prowess as a boxer, saying that you have sparred with Jim Mace then on being challenged to fight with the man who has been injured, you fight and are knocked into the hedge, and upon that you follow him with a knife as ho is going away and stab him with it." The only case of any importance that is left for trial is a charge against a man named John Lemmon for shooting at Charles Long, gamekeeper to Mr. Fellowes, at Shotteshans, on the 29th of November. The case was going on at the time our parcel was despatched ; but from Mr. Bulwer's statement, who appeared for the prosecution, the shot that was fired did not do any harm in eonsequence of the protec tion afforded by the thick gaiters worn by the gamekeeper. Mr. Metcalfe defended the prisoner, the defence being an alibi. With this and the other charges that are left the busi noes of the winter assizes for the Norfolk Circuit will end. AIIDLAND CIRCUIT—Yogi, Dec. 18. . (Before Mr. Justice Mellor.) James Isaac Markcrow was charged, under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Act, 1861, that he, having been adjudi cated a bankrupt, afterwards, with intent to defraud and defeat the rights of his creditors and to conceal the state of his affairs, parted with and destroyed certain papere,writings, and documents. Mr. T. P. E. Thompson and Mr. C, Newton were for the prosecution, which was instituted by order of Mr. Commis sioner Ayrton. It appeared that the papers in question had been taken by the officer of the Court to the office of the official assignee, and abstracted by the prisoner, and the whole or some of them left at the tap of the George Inn, in Hull, with the waiter there, and these subsequently reached the hands of the solicitor through one of the creditors, to whom they had been entrusted by the prisoner; but these papers were found to be of no 1133 in explaining the prisoner's dealings and rffairs, and, therefore, not within the mischief pro vided against them by the act. Some other papers it was said (part of those abstracted) were given by the prisoner to ono Farreh for safe custody, and these the prisoner afterwards received back, and subsequently de stroyed, representing to the witnessess that they were of importance in his affairs, The question resolved itself into this, whether these witnesses could be relied upo assiz n, or were they telling a trumped up tale in orde r to get to the The prisoner was acquitted. e This closed the business of this memorable adssize o ne who w hether as regards the death of a grea tl y esteem ti e n d i g ejuwhen Scarlet, went the Northern Circuit a Brougham, Pollock, Parke, Cresstwaell, Alderson, W illiams, and Patteson were among its members —or as relates to the order in Council which be severed York from the Northern Circuit and its associations. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.--LEWES, Dec. 21. (Before Mr. Baron Pigott.) The learned Judge opened the commission at this town at 10 o'clock, and after attending Divine service, proceeded to charge the grand jury and to try prisoners. The calendar for the eastern division of Sussex contains the names of 11 prisoners, and that for the western division five, of whom two are charged with manslaughter, two as accessories to manslaughter, one with rape, one with arson, one with sacrilege, two with robbery, one with bur glary, one with shooting with intent to murder, one with uttering a forged note, one with uttering counterfeit coin, one with concealment of birth, one with perjury, and one with making a false declaration before a magistrate. James Leppert), 12, was charged with setting fire to a stalk of corn at East Grinstead on the 16th of August last. Mr. Roupell prosecuted. The facts were clearly proved, and the boy had, indeed, never denied his guilt, nor assigned any reason for the act. The learned Judge left to the jury the question whether the prisoner was aware that he was doing that which was wrong. The jury returned a general verdict of guilty. Sentence, six weeks' imprisonment with hard labour, and to be once whipped, receiving 12 strokes with a birch rod. Robert Saunders, 27, navvie, was charged with felo niously killing and slaying George Goble, at Amberly, on the 27th of October. Mr. Wyatt prosecuted, and introduced the case as being one of anything but an aggravated character, inasmuch as the prisoner bad received great provocation, and had caused the death of the prisoner in a perfectly fair fight according to the rules of the prize r in g. T ju e z m returned mend a n to rd mercy, atio strong he r The learned Judge, in passing sentence, said that the prisoner had been found guilty o f the mansl aughter of this yeict ofaccompanied by a person, George Goble, and he was bound.to say that he thought the unfortunate deceased brought his death upon himself. His conduct was m •st provosing, and the prisoner had done everything which could ba expected from human nature to avoid tho encounter. The deceased put an offence upon him, assaulted him with violence, and compelled him to go from one part of the house to another, and then to go out and fight him. His lordship added that he was glad to find that the prisoner had the manliness to say he did not wish to go on with the fight, and under the circumstances he felt justified in giving lull effect to the recommendation of the jury. The prisoner had already been in plison nearly two months, and ho should therefore only sentence him to complete that period, being nine days' imprisonment, with hard labour. George Burns, 19, labourer, was charged with rape upon, Jane Boniface, a little girl, only 11 years of age, at Poling, on the 22d of July last. Mr. Lumley Smith prosecuted; the prisoner was uncle. fended. The case was clearly proved, and the prisoner was sen tenced to three years' penal servitude. Nelson Hillyer, 16, labourer, was charged with forging a note for the payment of £lO, at Brighton, on the 15th of August last. Mr. Hurst prosecuted, and Mr. B,oupell defended. This was a singular case. The prisoner, who was stated to be very respectably connected, went on the night in ques tion to a Mr. Moon, who keeps the Union Inn, &locester lane, Brighton, at about 10 o'clock, He presented a check, and wished it cashed to oblige a Mr. Lynn, at the corner of Kensington-gardens. Mr. Moon consented, provided Mr. Lynn put his name on it, and sent a man with the prisoner to see that he did so. The check was dr awn on the Brighton b; anch of the Hampshire Banking Company, and was signed 6, W. Elliott." Mr. Moon observed that his man and the prisoner did not take the right turning, and therefore fol lowed. He asked for the check. The prisoner did not give it to him, but threw it on the ground, where it was picked up by Mr. Moon's man. Previous to this he had said that it was not Mr. Lynn at the corner of Kensington-gardens, but another man of the same name round the corner. On cross-examination it was elicited that there were several persons named Lynn residing in the neighbourhood. The check exactly corresponded with ono of two wnich were missing from the check book of the prisoner's uncle, with whom he was living; and it was proved that no person named Elliott had an account with the Brighton Branch of the Hampshire Banking Company. Mr. Roupell submitted that there was no evidence of the forgery. Mr. Baron Piggot ruled that there were sufficient to go to the jury. Mr, Itoupell, for the defence, urged to the jury that, in strictness, neither the charge of forgery nor the second charge of uttering was proved- He went through the whole of the evidence for the prosecution, and contended that the case was only one of suspicion. Several persons were called, who gave prisoner an excel lent character. The learned Judge having summed up, the jury found the prisoner guilty of uttering, and recommended him to mercy on account of his you th and p r evious good character. Win. Holton, and stealing therein a bottle of port wine, was fou nd g uilt y of receiving the same know ing it to have been st olen, and sentenced to 12 months chur c h 22a,t labourer, Brighton, the parish im prisonment with hard labour. Mr. Roupell prosecuted. Silks Thomas and Stephen Willett, who were convicted at the Summer Ass: , zes, before Mr. Baron Bramwell, of the offence of concealing the finding of treasure trove; were to day galled upon to surrender in discharge of their bail. Judgment had been deferred in order that an objection taken to the indictment by their counsel might bo argued before the Court of Criminal Appeal. This was done last term, when that Court held the indictment to be good. It will probably be remembered that in the month of January last a p l oug hman named Butchers,while ploughing his master's land, at Mountfield, found the progress of his plough obstructed by a quantity of metal, which he sup • • posed to be brass. He showed it to Thomas, who afterwards showed it to Willett, who had formerly been a Californian digger. Willett sold it to a refiner in London for £530. Both the prisoners were proved to have divid e d th e s p o il, g i v i ng Butchers a few shillings only, professing to him that they had sold it for Gd a pound as old brass. There was no doubt that the gold was some very ancient rings and chains, not only of great intrinsic value, bet also almost invaluable in an antiquarian point of view now irretrievably lost in the melting pot. Mr. Hance, on behalf of the Treasury, stated the cir cumstances of the case, and grayed the judgment of the Court, M r , Baron Pigott said that he should probably hear from Mr. Baron Bramwell to-morrow morning, and would then pass sentence. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 21. CIVIL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice Williams and Special Juries.) PEARSON V. THE LONDON AND NOILTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. In this action the plaintiff sought to recover damages for injuries sustained through the negligence of the defendants. The defendants had pleaded not guilty, but since the plea they had given notice that they did not intend to dispute their liability. The duty, therefore, of the jury was reduced to that of assessing the amount of damages. Mr. Temple, Q.C., Mr. Holler, and Mr. Grimshaw were for the plaintiff; the Attorney-General, Mr. James, Q.C., Mr. Aspinall, Q.C., and Mr. Higgins were for the de fendants. The plaintiff, who was a traveller in the perftimery busi ness on his own account, took a third-class place in the 8 o'clock a.m. train from Manchester to Birmingham on the 6th o f July. While the tickets were being collected at the collecting station an engine and tender ran into the train in which the plaintiff was. By this accident plaintiff sustained a very severe injury to the cheekbone, and was besides greatly shaken and thrown into a state of insensibility, in which he remained for some time. He also sustained inju • ries to the nervous system from which he will probably never recover. It appeared from the evidence of his wife that plaintiff was 37 years of age, and had two children depending upon him. He came home on the day after the accident, but in such a condition that his wife fainted on beholding him. Before the accident ho had enjoyed good health, but since then he had been troubled with sleeplessness at nights, and complained much of pains in the head and of a feeling of numbness, he could not speak distinctly, his appetite was bad, his memory and eyesight defective, and he often fancied he could see people approaching behind him, and would stop and turn round to see if they were there. Mr. Jas. Done, the surgeon who bad attended him, de scribed the injuries. The cheekbone was fractured,the face swollen and blackened,and the jaw locked. After four weeks a gathering took place inside his mouth, and his health be. came exceedingly unfavourab:e, causing apprehension of paralysis, and rendering his ultimate recovery exceedingly improbable. Dr Noble, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, who had visited him three or four times, described his pre sent state, and gave evidence as to the probable effects of the injuries. He stated that he was suffering especially from shock to the brain and nervous sys , etn, that his me mory and sight were bad, and his capacity for thought almost gene. His pulse varied from 90 to 120,and altogether this was a very bad case of the kind, and under the most favourable cireamstances of rest and attention it would be lorg time before he could recover, Ile particularly de- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL TIMES.—As the Confederacy has copied the prac tice of the Union as regards the meeting of Con greas, we receive at the same time the Messages of the rival American Presidents. Mr. Lincoln has not been prevented by a dangerous illness from ad dressing the Federal Legislature in terms that will satisfy the most extreme zealot of the Republican party, and Mr. Davis, on the other hand, declares the unfaltering determination of his Government to persist in the war, although former victories have not been able to save the Confederacy from , calamities inflicted by the superior numbers et the enemy. But the Message of the more powerful magistrate is the document which has the greater interest for Europe. Mr. Lincoln is now pos sessed of an authority within what may be called his dominions greater than has ever been known even during his high-handed Presidency. A year ago the Democratic party was still for midable. The city and to a great extent the State of New York were opposed to the Govern ment, if not to the war. Pennsylvania and Ohio were hostile; the Western States, with Illinois at their head, were wavering between a peace policy and the relentless theories of the Republicans. The President had not been able to abandon the system of espionage and summary imprisonment which he had established soon alter his accession. The forts which wore the objects of such indignation to the Democrats continue to receive their unwilling in- mates ; and in some of the larger cities it was doubt ful whether a majority of the inhabitants were not as treasonable in thought as those who were immured in any Federal prison. Mr. Lincoln's position is now more secure, and the tone of his Message shows the effect of the last year's success, both political and military. Last year he was about to issue his edict of emancipation amid the doubts and disapprobation of the greater part of the Northern people. This year he has no such thunderbolt to launch, and consequently need not use defiant or deprecatory language to those who are to judge his policy. But he thinks that the successes on the Mississippi and in Tennessee are sufficient - to autho rise a" proclamation of another kind. The most striking feature of the present Message is the am. nesty which Mr. Lincoln thinks fit to proclaim to the Southern people. If the obstinate and fierce tempered population who have been resisting his armies for two years and a half will now abandon the President they have elected, the politicians who administer their Government, the representatives whom they have cent to Congress, the generals who lead their armiese he naval officers who have defended their seaports and commanded their cruisers, then they will be allowed to return under the protec tion of the United States, with such property as may remain to them when their slaves are set free. We know not what effect Mr. Lincoln anticipates from this proclamation. A year ago he was prepared with one which was expected speedily to bring the Confederate Government to ruin. A )ear ago the more sanguine politicians at Washington actualiy looked upon the war as nearer its end than they do now. A grant of freedom to four millions of slaves must, in their opinion, produce consequences so momentous that the Southern Confederacy would be unable to stand the shock. All, indeed, that the Federals have gained by the capture of Vicks burg and Chattanooga does not equal what the more ardent Republicars hoped for from the Pre clamation of January. But that edict produced no perceivable effect upon the Southern people, except to make them snore stubborn in their resistance than before. We think it. doubtful whether there is any district of the Confederacy where tre present proclamation will have a more powerful effect than the lust. In places that are occupied by Federal troops it may be that some of the proprietors will m7ke their submission in order to save their estates from the grasp of military commanders and the adventureis who follow in their train; but, in spite of the hardships the Southern people have under gone, the diminution of their numbers, the wretched state of their finances, and the loss of some of the most important regions of the Confederacy, there is, we think, little chance that they will accept the offers made to them. When a race of men have been subjected to the trials and excited by the pas sions of such a war as this, considerations of inte rest and prudence have little weight. The whole man is changed, the temper is made savage, and the antipathies engendered by a furious struggle make the prospect of returning to the companion ship of civil life with the enemy more hateful than the utmost which he can inflict. If the South ern people bad been urged on by animosi ties stronger than any which we Englishmen have ever felt for a foe, they would undoubtedly have come back to the Union when they first found the North resolute in the conduct of the war, and the European Powers unwilling to interfere. It is now eighteen months at least since they must have been convinced that they would have to struggle 'against the whole power of the Northern States, sithout any help from Franco or England, except at the most an empty recognition, and with the Northern President determined to use, if neces sary, the arms of the negro against them. They know that they must undergo a long and doubtful contest, and that even if they succeeded io achieving their independence, it must be at the coat of frightful private calamities, and probably the ruin of that social system which they eecceled and took up arms to maintain.. s et, though towards the close of last year they might have returned to the Union almost in triumph, with the glories of the Chickahominy Aid bright, and with Lee and Jackson the most popular heroes of a reconstructed Union, they re pelled ail the advances of the Democrats, saw with out wavering the renewed ascendancy of tie party at the North most hostile to themselves, and obued a stringent Conscription Act with a readiness un surpassed in history. The class of men, too, who are excepted from the amnesty are precisely those who are all-powerful in the Confederate States. If the old men and the women and children wore de sirous of ending their privations by reunion, their wishes would avail little as long as the country is governed directly by the army, and the army is under the control of the statesmen and Generals whom Mr. Lincoln requires to be left to his mercy. The trials of the army may be great, but soldiers have seldom . a strong desire for the termination of a war, unless, indeed, they are en gaged in monotonous garrison duties far from the scene of strife. Tne excitement of the campaign and the quickening rivalries which it engenders ere enougn to keep troops in the proper war spirit, as long as they are not depressed by want or exhausted by defeats and fatigue. The Confederate soldiers probably suffer lees trom the privations of the country than any class of the citizens, for according to all ac • counts every district is put under contribution for them, and the defence of the Republic is made para mount to every private interest. litsse considerations can hardly fail to have been present to Mr. Liecoln'e mind, since they have been obvious to the Northern press, and present themselves at once to us. We may, then, presume that his amnesty is rather in tended as a demonstration of confidence in Federal success than a measure likely to have practical con sequences. Indeed, the other parts of the Message, as well as the Reports of Mr. Stanton and Mr. Chase, reveal anticipations of a long war which accord little with the notion of a Confederate submission. Calcu lations us to whether the number of troops to be had for the money received under the last draught will prevent the necessity of another combine with Mr. Chase's statement of the expected state of the finance in 1865 to convince us that the Government does not look for an early termination of the war. The Mes sage of President Davis gives no sign of yielding, though it is said to have a tone of despondency. The loss of an important position, on which Mr. Davis himself sets a high value, may account for this discouragement, arid the frustration of his hopes of European interference have no doubt somewnat affected him. But the difficulties of the hour do not appear to suggest any thought, of a reconciliation. President Davis addresses Himself to the greatest practical questions which press on him—the want of men and money. For the present the latter is the more important, for the Confederate armies have a respite during the winter, but the state of the currency admits neither of delay nor of half measures. Taxation, as a means of raising money and reducing the present inflated currency, is recommended by Mr. Davis, and in the Richmond Congress, composed as it is of the chiefs of Secession, he will have no difficulty in carrying through any measures on which he 1 11 Z have resolved. However strong the GoT d nm a ` te of Washington may be, that of the Sates at least equals it in authority, eTae o th o' will abilities of the leaders equal their . power,ies es hicle now no doubt make good the defic is to are to be weaken the Republic. if the is to be reinforced with by another and a more:onto: e i a- d -rin co Y oscription , and, E 0 restored by taxation, soAt; rigid o f the Governme nt be renewed ar us depends on the s Court for Divorce anti Matrimonial fresh i ts place among the established institutions of ivtigspeooefsrris.nitsAhief9 tethlnleseuwinagr spring.• Causes must now, we suppose, be regarded as having itahkeecnountry, it is 80 far satisfactory to find that its oruct i ce cannot be accused of any de lays, That cases of considerable unnecessary duration occ asionally occur is inevitable fromom the fact should thatoul d the evidence brought forward is, and must of neces sity frequentlyinbe,faofta recriminatory character, arid seeks equity must do e thus involves, :qu a it c . l y ou ” b i l s e a is m su a e xim ‘; Vance of which is hconfined to the apply no longer hHeeobwsehro sittings of the Court of Chancery is Lincoln's-inn. It Was one of h e best among the many good prin ciples laid down for the futute guidance of the Court by the late Imnented Sir Cresawell Crees- -11. that no suitor should come into court with w` - • it cle. on hands," or, in other words, that no ° r il l , \void sp., :_nted to one who was himself or -tote offence which formed herself pill , of toe a ets s li htened by . iainst . another. How the ground of applic ation much the business of the moat g this single decision Is known to thosa only who were behind the scenes, who bad thus t, ;e op portunity of knowing not only what cases actually come to a hearing, but also what. woted, under any other circumstances, infallibly have done so. Eren as it is, the time of the judge and of the public is liable to be monopolised by such leviathan suite as Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald, , which, after lasting for a weal, and scandalising the whole town, ends by proving that the mountain hao been in labour only to give birth to the most dime' nutive of mice. In this particular instance there la no doubt that serious hardship has been inflicted upon one, if not upon two individuals, of whose in nocence the jury were convinced. But this, un-. fortunately, is a contingency against Which na judge, however able, and no system of procedater however perfect, can entirely guard. All that caA be done in this respect has, we fear, been already' accomplished, and the only consolation is that, were it not for the stringent regulations now enforced, such cases would be multiplied ad iyinitunz. We can only hope that those who have hounded on 'Mr& Fitzgerald to blacken the character not only of her husband, but of a purely imaginary rival in his affections, may receive a partial recompense of their deserts in the shape of a handsome bill of costs, for which all Mr. Chambers's eloquent denunciations on the opposite side will be but a poor consolation. In spite, however, of the obstruction which has been unavoidably created by this cause celibre " stopping the way," we must congratulate Sir James Wilde upon the energy and success with which he has grappled with the mass of arrears bequeathed to him in consequence of the premature death of his predecessor. Not only would the mantle of Sir Cresswell Cresswell seem to have descended upon him, but, fortified by sound precedents, and with a bar which has been gradually trained and discip lined to a somewhat repulsive task, he has even im proved upon the expedition of the late judge in the despatch of business. When Sir James Wilde tool` his seat, at the commencement of Michaelmas Term, a printed list of no less than one hundred and nine divorce cases, not to speak of the busi ness in the Court of Probate, ominously stared him in the face. Of the will causes, we believe that not one which was ready for hearing now re mains undisposed of. Of divorce cases, tOe Court has decided, during the contiouatice of the present sittings, no less than seventy-one, including all that were ready for hearing among those which had been set down for trial without a jury. In eleven more instances proceedings have been stayed by co nsent for various reasons, and these cases have beet.) struck out of the paper accordingly. Twenty-seven only stand over for bearing until next ter m, and even of these several hate been respited upon th 9 application of the parties concerned. Among theca are probably some of an important character; as, while seven only of the number are set down fee trial without a jury, twelve are common jury caseEt and in eight notice has been given to impanel special jury. In all human probability, however, by the end of next Hilary Term Sir James Wild e will exhibit the enviable spectacle of a judg e p re' siding in a court with no arrears at all, and one ill which suitors may obtain a relief as immediate 0 can be granted with a due regard to those form s which are requisite to ensure the proper adminir tration of justice under any circumstances. Til a) consummation is the more satisfactory, because, le the first place, it is the direct reverse of what we were told to expect when the Court was originally established; and in the second, there is no Court in which the subject-matter of the suits stands more ill need of a prompt and early iavestigation. We el remember the ill-ornericd vaticinations of the pre; phets who dinned in our ears that those who touche d pitch could not be otherwise than defiled themselv es ,: and that the morals of society would be undermine,''' were that relief which was always open to the Tie': vouchsafed to men of more moderate m eans. Thew many foul scandals have been brought to light, w e of course cannot deny ; but that any real evil h' been done to society by setting free a certain num' her of innocent individuals from their guilty par tlers for life we are fully persuaded. Upon 0.3,e, second head there can be no mariner of doubt. 11, some of the most difficult and delicate relations °I life are to be inquired into and criticised, and eve : regulated by judicial authority, it is of the essercw of justice that the necessary inquiry should foi l° as closely as possible upon the commission o f the specific offences which form the subject of complaint. There are few things more painful to the feelings of all concerned than the opening afresh of a wound which the gentle influence of time has begun to heal, or the raking up of a controversy with regard to speeches and actions which are either remembered imperfectly, or which halve gradaally lost their first and most painful impressions upon the mind of the witness. There are certain kinds of proof, as there are certaiu classes of offences, with respect to whic h h the freshness of the testimo n y adduced is half te bettle. As we roust have a Divorce Court, it should be one in which justice. if sharp, should be als° short and spec.y. Sir James Wilde deserves all the credit of an attempt to make it so. The success of this, his first effort, tney , we think, be regarded as an augury of his future fitness for the difficul t and disagreeable task which has been assigned la m. COUNTRY MARKETS. ,I.___ COLCHESTER—DEC. 19. There was a moderate supply of wheat at our marke t dto day, and thl currencies of last week were about :naintain( . In barley, which was scarce, full p rices were ulaue Beans and pea loer. . Vs Wheat, +whites rather 44s w 50s I Beans,Mazagan..2°° 36, red ...40s 44s middle & small.32s 355 Barley Oats GLOUCESTEIt—DEC. 19. froo There was a fair show of English. wheat to - f l , s t , : l vour; the farmers which sold at prices rather in buyer s ;Jos °L Foreign wheat was dulj, wit h n o advance on the C'c l but last week. Oats, barley , b eans, and peas were du ' unaltered in value. CHELSFORD--Ec. . „ Dug' At this corn exchang M e to-cay there was 18 an insc"-waia ness dews—the prices of las week being barely 'ltes; rained. Barley also dull, and beet sorts a t p revious, .e d `, s " , interior, is to 2s per qr cheaper. Other grain linen in price, with a dull trade. Wheat, old white 30s 46s i new 44s 49s old red 34s 39s new 38s 41s Barley 27s 375, Chevalier 2Bs 39s Grinding 22s 31s idalt. Chevalier . 64s 69s Oats 20s 28s qg g 29$ Fens, Partridp.;u-.•.'v- 39s IVhite .......... 3 8 4 15 Boilin ...... 3 „ 6 363 Dun ............ ms s 3 ` )3 Ditto new ...... 39s Beans, Tick, old new. • 40$ Harrow Ticks ••"" ............ 385 Mazagan .. .. . KIRKCALDY GR2!-IN—DEC. 19. ~0 1 0 t We had fair supplies of barl 6 y and oats at at , % '`," e o ur to-day, but small of wheat. Sales w ere brisk, at the rencies of last week. Wheat. Barley. Cats- Wheat. Od I 258 Od 1 16 3 Gd Second ..37s Od 26s Od 17s 6d Third....4os Oct 29s Oct 19s Gd COAL asitz ET. vie elohe of the otillet. I'rloes of Coal per on al R. d. Buddle'sWest Hartley 16 6 Byass's Bebside West Hartley 16 6 Cowpeu Hartley 16 6 bambert's West Hart- Walls End. . is Tanstall ..... . HaSWell ‘2.o 0 Hatton ........ •' • .20 0 S out h Hettou ...... • • :19 0 Brs,ddyll'a Hetton .... 9 Hartlepool ............ 2 L' ti 0 East Hartlepool l9 0 Hough tI BO .... ....... 1 8 9 South fiartlepoo . .1 u n Otos ......... ,t, 60 ; sold. 47. - le y_--- _ 16 3 West Hartley 16 6 Holywell l7 9 Hastings Hartley l6 6 l'anfield Moor Butes 15 0 Men. . 18 b Waldridge Gas l6 6 Ships at marki ANKETELLi i --- int O hea l e ; :i2 y e t rh PS T . I : x lit ‘ r i i L e Le ll z o :F or . I:° C ‘o: l ? ve O n t a a h i e t s h h : h a 9 o s r i t 1 . , o a t t a 34 B l . he Willows, West 1-100 be hvg;:ei11:511613: Ay:i:nni;n o teh ( eT a al..lh:' de Hampstead, Ea Ea 1" tl i r. a nt w if° Of W. Sheltord, the cpu Pe tN of a son. inst., at 28, Belgrave-roa d, , celeston-square, grfh Marriages. 13nOCKWELL—Boys —On the 19th inst , at Hartuneronitbo Yorkshire, to Clara, youngest es4tsci...i.ugh.ter of the late tie' r i?,s .li q u ., t o le t r . R E oc r h oc e k st w e e r l . l : F q of 'Bridlington Qt!yt A Bo rt y l : ME e% W — KENDALL.—On the 19th inst.. at Saint Georg, ~_ Bloonn , bury, Fredk. Mew, Esq., of 30, .I)9ughtystr. Meeklenburi-- s quaro, to Anna Maria Martha], the el. w l, daughter 0 1 Henry E. Kendall, jun., E,:1., of Bruu sw square. Deaths. COLLLSON.—On the 1 9 th ins t . , at Brixton, John Coßison. Esq., of East Bilney Hall, Li cham , Norfolk, aged 7 4 ' , DREssLER.—On the 19t h in st., at his residence, Gustav% Dressler, Esq., of The Russettinge, Streathato. all Corbet-court, city. Fox.—On the 21st inst., Miss Fox , of 13, Redcross-slrect' Cripplegate, agcd 54. it GLYN.—On the 20th inst., at 37, U pp er Brook. s tree , ' t Richard Plumptre Giyn, B art., of Gaunt 's House, set, rig% d 76. n A GRAHAME.—On the 19 td inst. , at Newport, 1.W., V . Grahame, Esq., of Glenny , late Captain sth Fusiliers. POOLE.—On the 20th inet., at 48, Avenue-road, Beger;LtlA park) Moses Poole, Esq., eged 74. TA.TE.—On the 19th inst. , I%ir. W. Tate, of Warn fol' court, city, aged 57. Londcn Prlraod and P u blished by WILLIAM A:Wilk-A. P. of No. 112, Strand , Printer, at THE '5uN Office Strand, in the Precinct of the lavoy. the (7 0010 December 22, .1663. Pr lp b , EST.: 4 EEI - 10 PROPER ne vough ou An. 67, Chf "FREE PP of landed t he nobler cottaze j OWNERS. l ' P aCe the 'Fords by "state' Of Lumley c inhere the Inc: the d Venienc es THE • chase r is knd the n Audio ---________ I\ - T i •0 R, FIT ,;11!3 Cc cantll i scale or r , ttreet. r p ‘ - ' , .P:tal X Dep os i t I C O fut not lest WM La Liverp Mont 0 !131 Anthony Georz e Joseph alla 'MII Staur ThoB 7 Railw needle w. Smit T homas Bank, 'aotain astei ooseph est). 841 1 k o: ds•• Ge of £ Cont cola( any I yen of fh T ~0„ Fi► E