The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOV, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1864.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE Thiers' Speech on the French Budget, Frightful Boiler Explosion on he Metropo-
• Man Railway,
LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.

The Royal Mail steamship Asia, from Boston on
the 27th and Halifax on the 29th, arrived at
Queenstown at 3.20 a.m. on the Bth May. She brings
110 passengers, 9 of whom, together with 130 sacks
of mails, were landed. The Asia proceeded at 3.40
a.m. for Liverpool. All well.

(Per the Asia, via Roche's Point.)
NEW YORK, APRIL 26 (Evening).
Detailed Red River advices state that General
Banks skirmished heavily with the Confederates
upon the 7th instant. A portion of Banks's army
fought a severe battle on the Bth at Sabine Cross-
roads with the whole of the Confederate army under
Kirby Smith, resulting in a Federal defeat with
heavy loss ; 24 Federal guns being left upon the
field. General Backs retreated on the night of the
Btb, joining the remainder of his army at Pleasant-
hill. The Confederates renewed the attack on the
9th upon the whole of Banks's army at Pleasant-
hill, bat were repulsed with the loss of several
guns. Banks continued his retreat on the 10th, 35
miles, to Natchitooches and Grand Eoore, where he
is re-organising his army and fortifying the banks
of the river.

Dcampaign Banks lost 3,500 men, 18
gone,
atrinang the
and
300
o waggons:Confederate General Hoke assaulted and captured
Plymouth, North Carolina, on the 20th inst., with
1,500 prisoners and 30 guns. It is reported that
the Confederates killed 150 negro troops after they
were captured. Hoke is supposed to be moving on
Little Washington and Newberg. Two rams co-
operated in Hoke's movement.
President Lincoln reviewed Burneide'a army at
at Washington yesterday.
Commodore Parker, who has returned from a
gunboat reconnaissance up the Rappahannock,
states that the Confederates have replaced the tor-
pedoes in that river and all the branches of the
Chesapeake.
General Forrest is reported to be moving towards
Alabama, and Bishop Polk is marching to join him.
President Lincoln has accepted the offer made by
the governors of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
and lowa, of the services of 100,000 volunteers for
100 days for fortification and frontier duty.
In the Senate the New York Legislature have
laid on the table the governor's recommendation
that the interest of the state debt be paid in coin.

(By Telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Morning.)
General Longstreet is reported to have taken up
a position on the left of Lee's army.
Mobile dispatches state that the Red River had
fallen, leaving 40 gun boats and transports unable
to move until the water rises.

The Federals have ordered two French frigates
to return from the James River. They obtained
no tobacco.

The First Auditor of the Treasury has been
ordered to leave Richmond for Montgomery.
The Bremen and the City of Baltimore have
arrived out.

NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Evening).

Advices from New Orleans state that the Federal
gunboats have succeeded in returning to Grand
Ecore, furnishing Banks with ammunition, and
Banks has again advanced towards Shreveport.

No movements by General Lee or Meade have
been made public. A battle between them is
imminent. Both armies are ready for a conflict;
hut their plans of campaign are still kept secret.
The House of Representatives has passed a re-
Eolution increasing import duties 50 per sent. for
60 days. It is reprted that the Senate will modify
this resolution by increasing the tariff temporarily
33 per cent., and exempting bonded goods.

COMMERCIAL.
(Per the Asia, via Roche's Point.)
NEW YORK, APRIL 26 (Evening).

Money higher. Gold fluctuated since Monday
between 1794 and 185, but rumours of fresh move-
ments by Secretary Chase being current, gold de.
clined to-day to 1819, at which it closed. Exchange
on London, 1981. The improvement in stocks con-
tinned yesterday, but the market took a strong down-
ward reaction to-day, and is still tending down-
wards. New York Centrals, 1356; Illinois Cen-
trals, 1314 ; Erie, 1151 ; United States Six per
Cent. Bonds, 1141. Petroleum, crude, 38; refined,
55c. to 58c.

(B y Telegraph to Halifax.)

NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Morning).
Money tight. Gold 1779.
NEW YORK, APRIL 28 (Evening).

Money tight. Gold, 1811--feverish and fluctu-
ating rapidly. Exchange, 197. Stocks dull.
New York Centrals, 135 ; Illinois Centrals, 129 i;
Erie, 1141- ; Six per cent. United States Bonds,
1141. Cotton steady : middling Upland, 83c. to
84c.

Flour heavy. Wheat dull. Corn
quiet. Pro-
visions quiet. Coffee very firm. Sugar good in-
quiry. Molasses steady. Petroleum tending
downwards : crude, 37c. ; refined, 55c. to 070.

The discussion on the budget opened in the

French Corps Legislatif on Friday.
M. Thiers was the first speaker. He criticised
very elaborately the gradual increase in the ex-

penses. It was difficult to know what was the real
state of the budget, owing to the great pains taken
to disguise its continual accretion. He was not

satisfied with the division into " budget ordinary "
and " budget extraordinary ;" and for this reason

—in the first place, that when an extraordinary
budget had lasted 25 years it became something
very like an ordinary budget—(laughter)—and
next, because, by the aid of the word " extraor-
dinary," the taapayer was made to put up with
many objectionable expenses, and many (so. called)
receipts of a very equivocal nature. In a budget
not called " extraordinary " it would be difficult to
put forth boldly as resources money expected to

come from Cochin China and Mexico. M. Thiera

established an elaborate comparison between the

necessities of state at the commencement of the
Government of 1839, of the Government of the

Republic of 1848, and of that of the Empire of
1852, and drew the conclusion that the present

Government had been by far the moat extravagant

of all. He paid a compliment to M. Gamier Pages
for not having had recourse to paper money in

1848. The orator concluded as follows :--I take

the budget and I find 1,799 millions for
revenue; deduct 92 millions for the sinking
fund, and you have 1,707 millions; take 229
millions of incontestable receipts from the
budget called special, and you reach a figure of
1,936 millions. I discuss too fairly not to put

down the augmentations of receipts. As it
is a question of 1865 we may anticipate an in-

crease of receipts for two years, and taking it at 20
millions each, or 40 millions for the two, we arrive
at the figure of 1,976. Let us even say 1,980 mil-
lions ; still we have not reached 2,300, and every

year you are obliged to apply to the sinking fund
or to the public to make up the deficit in your ac-
counts. Such is the real situation, and who can
dispute it ? Is it true that you have only 1,980
millions of receipts, and that the expenses amount
to from 2,200 millions to 2,300. You will say that

many of those charges are not permanent, and that
they will decrease. I hope that such may be the
case, and it is in order to be sure that it will be so

that I enter so fully into the discussion of the
budget. (Approbation.) Bat in what proportions
do you think that those expenses will diminish ?

The serious error is to have allowed them to reach

so high. The debt will diminish when you shall
have re-established the equilibrium of the budget
and when the sinking fund shall work, and when
can:that take place ? As to the war expenses, we

are told that we shall disarm, but I cannot under-
stand that expression. To talk of disarming is to
make Enrope believe that France is under arms ;
but I affirm that with our 400,000 men we are
perhaps the only Power on a peace footing. To
say we shall disarm is to subject France to a
demand for disarmament. (Approbation.) What
are the countries which are in arms ? Italy
for Venetia, and that is very natural; Austria
for the same motive, and that is very
simple ; Russia on account of Poland, end
also in consequence of the attitude of diplomacy ;
Prussia is in a state of semi-armament; England
is not armed, but she is executing extensive works
of fortifications. We have always had 100,000 men
out of the territory, and we shall have the same
after the Mexican expedition shall be at an end.
Africa will always require 70,000 men, The 400,000
men who compose our army are therefore neces •
nary, and for that force to be too large a moral re-
volution must take place in the world. Italy must
no longer wish to have Venetia, or Austria must
be willing to abandon it ; Russia must give up
Poland, and the latter no longer seek to rise in in-

surrection ; no Power must any longer covet the
remnants of the Ottoman Empire, or Prussia seek
to add to her dominions the territory of some of the
co-federates around her. (Laughter.) The war
expenses cannot, therefore, be quickly decreased,
nor that of the marine until the ships on distant
stations shall have returned. Lastly, the expenses
of collection will not be leseened until you shall
have suppressed the war taxes which weigh on us.
Mexico will, it is said, cease to be a burden. She
will repay all that she owes, and the 100 millions
she has ccs.t us for the last three years will disap-
pear from the budget. You will then return to the
budget of 2,200 millions. The only remedy is,
therefore, to remain at peace, and that I hope we
shall have the prudence to do. In that case, and if
fortune does not abandon us, you may re-establish
the budgetary equilibrium and be in a normal
situation. But after that period of prudence
the war taxes must be abolished; the second
decime, the tax on movable property, and on spirits
—all of which are, in my opinion, war taxes—must
disappear. Then you will arrive at that situation
which reason may avow, and at which foresight
cannot feel alarm. Allow me now to conclude by
a few political reflections. I will begin by saying
that the Imperial Government at its outset mani-
fested inclinations which I am far from blaming,
but which in two budgets had already led to an
increase of 100 millions, and which have since aug-
mented. I have heard many sincere and reasonable
men say—What will you have ? The country
possesses such great activity that it must be con.
stantly supplied both at home and abroad. When
we have not Sebastopol or Milan to enter we must
go to Pekin or Mexico. That is vary true; I
admit that France has a genius of pcwerful activity,
and that a strong aliment must be given to it.
And when I look back two centuries and see
what aliments Providence supplied, I am not
surprised at the desire to procure more, Under
ILouis IV. what sublime aliments were given to
the national genius ! Rocroy, Nerwinde, Almenza ;
at the same time as " Cid," " Athalie," the " Misan-
thrope," and Bossuet's sublime orations. In the
eighteenth century there was not the same
glory. Frame allowed the Great Frederick to
fill the North of Europe with his victories, and
consoled herself with musing over the regenera-
tion of human society. She laboured to that
end by her writers, and exulted in the
glory of Buffon, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rous-
seau. Then came the Revolution, when France no
longer pursued the work of regeneration by the pen
bat by the swords of her generals. She herself was
regenerated. Blood flowed where she passed, but
civilisation followed her; and tae world, while it
detested our glory, was obliged to acknowledge our
benefits. At last came peace. What aliment was
then offered to oar devouring genius P Liberty.
(Loud approbation.) Here, for 30 and odd years, at
this tribune, and before I ascended it myself, I re-
spectfully listened to the great minds of our age
discussing the affairs of France and of the whole
world. Men were impassioned for grand ideas and
and noble causes—for Greece and for Italy. In
these passions and struggles there were illusions,
but they were based on noble motives. The genius
of France was ardently occupied. In 1851, in the
interest of order, it was necessary to drop the curs
tain on this scene; it was requisite to occupy the
country otherwise, and our budget may tell you how
much it costs to occupy the country otherwise than
by liberty. But I hope, if the Emperor persists—
as I have no doubt he will—in his noble policy of
gradually restoring liberty, the issue will prove
that liberty does not deserve all the evil said of it.
And, even if it should, there is one reflection which
you have doubtless made—namely, that if liberty
has all the demerits laid to its charge, there is no
denying the great cost of finding a substitute for it.
(Loud cheers.)
The debate was then adjourned to the next day.

SOUTH YORKSHIRE WOOL TRADE. —The wool
trade in this locality is now almost as brisk as it
will be in any part of the season, but many farmers are dis-
posed to wait for the opening of the Doncaster wool market
on the 28th inst., in hope of obtaining even higher prices
than are paid at the present moment. Fine hog wool is in
great demand, and, although fully 2s 6d per lb is paid, many
farmers and large wool dealers are sanguine enough to be-
lieve that before the close of the season higher rates will be
paid. Whether this will be the case or not the representa-
tives of the leading houses in the West Riding are anxious
purchasers at 2s 5d and 2s 6d per lb for the best descriptions
of wool, and these prices are paid, not only at the various
towns in South Yorkshire, but in the adjacent wide agri-
cultural districts of North Lincolnshire,

This morning a boiler explosion, happily un-
attended with loss of life, occurred at the Bishop's-
road station of the Metropolitan Underground lti,jl •

way. It occurred at five minutes past nine, at which
time a train, driven by William Greatorex, an ex-
perienced driver, was on the point of starting,when
the boiler burst with a terrific crash, throwing the
dome of the boiler, weighing 6 cwt., almost perpen-
dicular to an immense height, and then it fell near
to the Dudley Arms at the foot of the Harrow-road
bridge, a distance of about 2 1 0 yards from the station.
After the steam had escaped it was found that a
large portion of the roof had been blown away, and
one of the approaches to the bridge which crosses
from one platform to the other entirely demolished.
The plate glass windows (1-inch thick) on both
sides of the station were smashed into thousands of
atoms, and the engine—lately full of mechanical
life—lay helpless and a wreck on its resting irons.
Strange to say, the driver, who was on the engine at
the time, escaped unhurt, and T. Mount (the stoker)
received only a slight wound on the top of his
head. In the carriage compartment next to the
engine shock was felt very slightly, but in the next
compartment both the windows were blown in, and
one young gentleman, a passenger, was severely
cut about the head and face with the glass, Im-
mediately after the accident Inspector Egerton and
Sergeant Hawtree, of the D division, together with
a force of men, were on the spot, and assisted ma-
terially in subsiding the confusion. Inspector
Warrele, of the Great Western Railway, was also
there, and gave great assistance.
The cause of the accident is ascertained to be the
worn out eta eof the engine boiler For a number of
years it was worked ou the Great Northern line,
and a few months ago it was altered into a con-
densing engine, which is well known to require
to be double the strength of ordinary locomotive
boilers. At the time of the explosion the indicator
tells that the steam was 110 lbs. on the square
inch, and had just begun to escape through the
safety va ve. It is fortunate the explosion took
place where it did. Had it occurred in the tunnel
the damage done and loss of life must have been
frightful. From late inquiries at St. Mary's Hos-
pital we learn the following list of casualties :
John Crofts, 5, Chichester-place, Paddington,
very severely cut down the forehead and bridge of
nose, also on the crown of the head ; George Hall,
of the General Managers Office, Great Western
Railway, cheek cut; Thomas Mount, 49, Woodford-
place, Paddington, wounded on the top of the head ;
a boy, name unknown, very severely injured on his
head and body ; various other persons more or less
hurt, not taken to the hospital. The dome fell in
Hanover road, in close proximity to au omnibus.

We have received the following letter, dated
May 9, from the General Manager of the Metro-
politan Railway Company :
Sir,—I regret to have to inform you that the
boiler of a Great Northern engine burst whilst
standing in the station at Bishop's Road this

morning.
The engine driver escaped without injury; the
stoker, the breaksman, and one of the company's
office boys were badly cut, and were removed to
thd hospital; two or three persons were also
slightly cut.
The engine was removed in about half an hour,
and the trains have since worked regularly.

LAW INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Before the Lord Chief Justice and Justices Blackburn,
Mellor, and Shee.)
THE QUEEN V. THE MAGISTRATES OF LIVERPOOL.

A short time ago Mr. Ed ward James, Q.C., obtained a
rule nisi calling upon the magistrates of Liverpool to show
cause why a writ of habeas should not issue to bring up the
bodies of three Americans nameil Quency, Kelly, and
Clements, of the ship Legerity, now in custody for piracy
on the high seas within the jurisdiction of America. It
appeared that a requisition was made on the 15th of
February to the Secretary of State Sir George Grey, by
the American Minister, 11r. Adams, under the treaty be-
tween this country and America and the Act of Extradi-
tion, or an information duly sworn, in which it was stated
the three persons named had been guilty of piracy on the
high seas; the application being made at the instance of
the Federal Government, and the defendants being
in the service of the Confederates. Upon that re-
quisition the Secretary of State issued the warrant
fur the apprehension of the defendants and their
examination, and, in the event of committal, of being de-
livered up to the American Government under the Treaty
of Extradition. The case was one of great importance, as,
if the interference of the court was not obtained, the defend-
ants might be delivered up to the Federal Government, and
be without any remedy. The contension of the learned coun-
sel was that upon the face of the depositions and evidence
taken before the magistrates it clearly appeared that they
acted only as belligerents and not as pirates, and also that
if they committed an act of piracy, as alleged, on the high
seas, they might be tried in this country in the Court of
Admiralty.
Mr. Lush, Q.C., this morning showed cause against the
rule, and the conclusion of the learned gentleman's speech
the junior counsel followed on the same side, and contended
that the rule ought to be discharged.
The Court had not pronounced its decision when we
went to press, but it appeared to be unnaimously of opinion
that the rule to issue the writ ought to be made absolute.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE COLONEL ITAUGR.—DIVIDEND MEETING.
A. dividend meeting being appointed under this estate,
Mr Munns (Harrison and Lewis) applied for an adjourn-
ment on behalf of the Eastern Banking Cempany.
His Honour said he had thought it had been settled by
Mr Commissioner Evans.
Mr Linklater was of the same opinion.
Mr Munns said it had not, and it involved a very impor-
tant question.
On the proceedings being referred to, it appeared that
there had been a claim for £254,000, and the only entry was
admitted as to 414,500, but it became a question if it was a
proof even to that extent, as there was no affidavit, and it
was urged that that was only in respect of calls, and had
nothing to do with the account.
His Honour questioned whether he had the power to
enforce, and whether they ought not to go to the Court of
Appeal—the first point to discuss was whether the bank-
rupt could be heard here.
Mr Linklater said that proof was tendered January, 1859.
His Honour said that in the absence of Mr J. Linklater,
who had conducted the proceedings, it was impossible to
say what had been done, and it was ultimately arranged
that the dividend should be adjourned till the 16th June,
when the matter might be fully discussed.
A proof by Messrs Laurie and Co,, coachmakers, for
£6OO, which was in a verysimilar position, was also ordered
to stand over.
Adjourned to the 16th July, to which day it is under-
stood the last examination will be adjourned, as Messrs C.
Brown and Dubois have not yet completed the accounts.

MDLLE. PATTI'S BENEFIT AT PARIS, the other
night, realised for the fortunate artzsts £6OO.
SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—A frightful tragedy was
enacted at the village of Bradley, within the town-
ship of Huddersfield, on Saturday. Joseph Pogson, a cloth-
worker, aged 61, who had retired upon a small sum of
money which he had accumulated from his earnings, lived
with his niece, to whom he had been attached from child-
hood, at the house of her husband, a man named Joseph
Haigh,who was also a workman at the mill at which Pogson
had formerly been employed. Haigh was regarded as a
steady, religiously disposed man, but latterly he has become
very morose and has indulged in fits of violence towards his
wife, by whom, however, no complaints were made. On
Saturday morning he awoke his wife about 4 o'clock with
the strange request that she would pray with him, and she
complied with his request. While repeating the Lord's
Prayer he suddenly struck her a violent blow on the face
with his fist, and accused her of mocking him. She pacified
him for the time being, but in about an hour the paroxysm
of violence returned, and she fled out of the house in terror,
being clothed in nothing but her night dress. Her intention
was to alarm the neighbours, but before doing so she ven-
tured to return again into the house, Immediately on doing
so her husband laid violent hands upon her, and her screams
and those of the children in an adjoining room rang through
the house. The old man, Pogson, was alarmed and went to
his room door in his night clothes to ascertain what was the
matter. Haigh no sooner saw him on the landing than he
relinquished his violent grasp of his wife, who again fled for
safety into the street, and vented his frenzied violence upon
Pogson. He throw him down, jumped and trampled upon
all parts of his body, especially upon his head, causing his
right jaw to protrude from his cheek, and fracturing his
skull in a frightful manner. The old man never spoke or
manifested signs of conscientiousness afterwards, and did
not survive his injuries three hours. Haigh was taken
before the Huddersfield magistrates and remanded to Tues-
day to await the result of a coroner's inquest, which will
be held on Monday. It is presumed by his friends, judging
from his manner both before and after the commission of
the murder, that Haigh is insane. He is between 40 and
50 years of age.

FZ)
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HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, May 7.
The Queen and Princess Louise walked and
drove yesterday morning.

MAY 8.

The Queen drove out yesterday with Princess
Helena, attended by Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge.
Prince Leopold, attended by Lord A. Paget and
Mr. Buff went on board her Majesty's ship Prince
Consort, in Cowes Roads.

This morning herMijesty the Queen, their Royal
Highnesses Princess Helena and Louise, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice attended Divine
service at Osborne.

The Rev. G. Prothero performed the service.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales held
a Levee at St. James's Palace on Saturday after-
noon on behalf of her Majesty.
His Royal Highness, escorted by a detachment
of the Ist Life Guards, and attended by Lord Alfred
Hervey, the Hon. R. H. Meade, and Major Tees-
dale, left Marlborough-house at five minutes to 2
o'clock.

11;s Royal Highness wore the uniform of a Gene-
ral Officer with the Orders of the Garter and Star
of India;

The Prince of Wales rode out in the afternoon,
attended by Major Teesdale.
The Princess of Wales drove ont in the afternoon,
attended by the Hon Mrs. William Grey.
Their Royal Highnesses gave a dinner party in
the evening. The following were invited :—His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Mar..,
chieness of Ely, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the
Danish Minister, Earl and Countess de Grey and
Ripon, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, M. de
Quaade, M. do Krieger, Lord and Lady Churchill,
Sir A. and Lady Paget, Baron de Bertouch, Baron
Gueldencrone, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. H. and
Mrs. Byng, the Hon. Mrs. William Grey, the Hon.
R. H. Meade, Lieutenant-General Knollys, Colonel
Tyrwhitt (Equerry in Waiting or. the Duke of
Cambridge), the Rev. C. F. Tarver, and Major
Teesdale.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Hon„
Mrs. W. Grey and Major Teesdale in waiting, at-
tended Divine service at the. Chapel Royal, St.
James's, yesterday morning. The Communion ser-
vice was read by the Rev. the Sub-dean, the Rev.
J, V. Povah, and the Rev, C. F. Tarver.

The Rev. C. F. Tarver, Chaplain to her Majesty
and Royal Highness the Prince of Waits, preached
the sermon from I. St. Peter, c. 4, v. 7.
Anthem—" Lift up your heads "—Handel.
Mr. Goss presided at the organ.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales drove to Kew in the afternoon.