The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-23 00:00:00

THE CONFEDERATE STATES,

(From the Special Correspondent of the 2iines.)
RICHMOND, July 14.
Encouraged as the inhabitants of Richmond are
at this moment by the consciousness that grant
with the shattered residuum of his once mighty
host is impotently held in check at Petersburg by
an army which is more than a match for his own,
and by a general who is markedly his superior, it
must be admitted that great and increasing anxiety
is here felt as telegram follows telegram announcing
that General Johnston has again and again fallen
back until the Chattahoochie River has been passed,
and his bold antagonist, General Sherman, is seen
to be within three leagues of Atlanta. The mingled
accents of defiance and dismay which ascend from
New York and Pniladelphia and herald the.:ada
vance o General Early and his Confederates into
Maryland and Pennsylvania are counterpoised by
the gloom which is here inspired at the mere men-
tion of General Sherman and Atlanta. We need a
Scipio Africanus to remind us, as in the famous
speech which Livy puts in to hie mouth, that if
Sherman has seemingly had the best hitherto of the
Western campaign, Lee has foiled greater numbers
and (as the world thinks, though I cannot agree
with it) a more formidable chieftain than Sheridan
in the Eastern, and hce secundce res illas adversas
sustinuerunt. In order to explain the position of
affairs in the West it is desirable that I should say
something as to what is, in my belief, the character
of General Johnston. It is impossible to converse
with General Johnston without perceiving that he
is a more deeply read and scientific theorist on the
art of war than General Lee. He is a grave,
dignified, and self-contained man—one who
has meditated much upon mar celvres, and
would probably study with delight those adroit
moves and countermoves which have made
Turenne and Montecuculi famous as chesaplayers of
war, and which were so highly commended by Na-
poleon. But this scientific study of the military
art, and a consciousness of the reputation which he
has thus gained as a strategist, supervening upon a
cautious and sensitive !emperament, seem to disquas
lify Gen. Johnston, fearless though he be personally,
for the command of a Confederate army in such a
war as this. The moat successful generals of this
war, Lee and Stonewall Jackson, have certainly been
the rashest. If any one doubts this statement in re-
gard to Lee, my assertion might be supported by a
dozen confirmations. Let me instance the audacity
with which, in 1862, Lee left the defeated M'Clellan
with 60,000 men at Malvern Hill (15 miles from
Richmond), and turning northwards with a smaller
but victorious army shattered Pope, and then, cross-
ing into Maryland, fought with 35,000 men the
Battle of Sharpsburg against three times his num-
bers. Nor has the temerity of Lee's tactics at the
battle of Chancellorsville. where, for 16 hours, he
faced with 18,000 men Hooker's 80,000, ever been
surpassed. But of aggressive warfare, such as Lee
delights in, Johnston seems incapable, His notion
is to draw his enemy on and on, to keep retreating
before him, and to await the moment when by some
maladroitness his opponent will be delivered over
into his hands. But such moments appear not to
have hitherto occurred. In the retreat in 1862 of the
Confederate army before M'Clellan two battles were
fought—the first, the Battle of Williamsburg,
which General Johnston has always generously con-
fessed that he had nothing to do with, and of
which the credit is due to General Longstreet ; the
second, the battle of Seven Pines, where General
Johnston made up his mind to strike a blow, which
blow, from some misconception, proved a failure.
It cannot be denied that atter Seven Pines General
Johnston fell greatly in the estimation of wise and
impartial men. But the confidence of the Southern
journals in him remained still unshaken. When
General Bragg fell from grace at the end of 1863 a
great cry for Johnston as Bragg's successor echoed
through the country, was seconded, as lam in-
formed, by General Lee, and, against their conscien-
tious judgment, the Richmond authorities yielded
to it.

Across 130 miles of the most difficult country in
the Confederate States, much of it resembling parts
of the Lowlands and the Ochill hills of Scotland,
Johnston has permitted Sherman and 80,000 men to
advance unmolested. To oppose Sherman he has, I
believe, never had less than 55,000 effective bayo-
nets. Letters from many officers under Johnston,
who have served repeatedly under Lee, speak of
Johnston's present army as the ficest they have ever
been attached to. Compare what an army of about
the same strength under Lee has been able to effect
against the vastly superior numbers of Generals
Grant and Butler, assisted as the latter have been
by gunboats and navigable rivers, and it is difficult
not to animadvert severely upon Johnston's caution
and timidity. It will be remembered by some of
your readers that Colonel Fremantle's pleasing book
exhibits Johnston to us as expressing a prefer-
ence for Marlborough over Wellington as a gene.
ral ; but where has Johnston given evidence
of a tithe of that vigour which was the supplement
of Marlborough's singular prudence, and which
made his onslaught irresistible in five of the greatest
aggressive battles of history ? As there are among
scholars minds which aro enfeebled by erudition,
so are there among soldiers spirits which are robbed
of enterprise and courage by poring over military
teat books. Such a study is an aliment meant for
vieorous stomachs, and while to Marlborough fami-
liarity with Vegetias (his favourite author) brought
nothing but advantage, it is certain that Lee, Grant,
Jackson, and Sherman have lost nothing from their
probable ignorance of the very names of Vegetius or
Jomini.

Although the peril of Atlanta is obviously great,
there is every reason for• thinking that if the F4ecle-
rals succeed in gaining possession of it, it will prove
in their grasp like toe apples on the Dead Sea shore,
"Fair to the eye, but ashes to the taste," To begin
with, I understand that preparation has been made
to evacuate the Government workshops and

and factories of Atlanta, which have contributed so
long and powerfully to the turbulent infancy of the
Confederacy. The removal of these hives of industry
to another point in the interior of Georgia will hare
no more influence upon the vitality of the rebellion
than has the fall or rise of the tides upon the jute•
grity of the Georgia coast. Secondly, the commu-
nication between the east and west of Secessia,
although impeded by the Federal capture of Atlanta,
will not thereby be suspended. There is a circuitous,
but continuous, line of railroad which passes through
Macon and connects Montgomery with Augusta,
and which will be instantly available. But in spite
of the support which most of the Southern journals
never fail to extend to the " masterly strategy" of
General Johnston, there is little doubt that his
evacuatio❑ of Atlanta will be synonymous with his
" decapitation." Reports are already prevalent in
well-informed quarters to the effect that his place
will shortly be taken by General Hood. It is pro-
bable that with the fall of Atlanta, and possibly
even sooner, we shall have heard the last of the
reculer pour rnieux saucer policy of General John-
ston; and no one who has the interest of the Southern
States at heart can fail to welcome the introduction
of General Lee's tactics into Georgia at a moment
when his triumph over Grant in Virginia becomes
more patent from day to day and from hour to hour.

Turning away from Georgia, let me briefly reca•
pitulate the precise situation of affairs in Virginia
and Maryland at one of the most critical and excit-
ing moments which Richmond has witnessed since
the dawn of the war. It is now rather more than a
month since Grant, after throwing up at Cold Har-
bour such a network of entrenchments, covered
ways, bombproof chambers, and earthworks as
would excite the marvel even of that prince of mili-
tary moles, Gen, Todleben, suddenly flung himself
across the James River, and dashed upon Peters-
burg. It is a miracle that the onslaught of twenty
or thirty thousand men should not have swept
Beauregard and his feeble force of 3,000 bayonets
off the face of the earth. By fortunate effrontery
Beauregard held his own for 48 hours, until rein-
forcements joined him from Gen. Lee, and Peters-
burg was safe. Since the onslaught upon Beaure-
gard's lines, which was ao far successful as to drive
him into his innermost works, there has been sub•
stantially a suspension of active hostilities between
Lee and Grant. It is true that the Federal shell-
ing of Petersburg has been uninterrupted from day
to day; it is true that along the rival lines of earth-
work the ping ping of the sharpshooter's bullet is
heard ceaselessly day and night ; but of fighting on
the large scale there has been none, although the
Northern sensationists have constantly been roused
by the cuckoo cry of their journals, announcing
"Terrific fighting bcfore Petersburg," As soon as
General Lee discovered that he had Grant and his
whole army to the south of the James River, he
conceived the design of detaching General Early
and his large corps from the Virginian army, and
dashing them into Maryland. I do nct believe that
since the passage of Claudius Nero across Italy to
surprise Hasdrubal on the Metaurus the secret
march of a considerable army has ever been more
silently or adroitly conducted. A word of warning
was given to the Richmond journals, enjoining un-
usual discretion, and as an evidence of how much
advantage to either belligerent or the daily papers,
of his opponent, I may mention that a correspondent
of a New York journal, writing from Grant's army
in front of Petersburg, says it is impossible that the
rebel raid in Maryland can be serious, because the
Richmond papers have made no mention of it !

After this narrative, it is hardly necessary that I
should exhume circumstances to convince your
readers of the audacity which choracterises General
Lee's military genius. Quickly perceiving that the
fury of Grant's " on to Richmond " had spent itself
in the three great battles of the Wilderness, Spott-
sylvania Court-house, and Cold Harbour, General
Leo set to work to consider in what way he might
best take the initiative, now that his hardy antago-
nist lay foiled, baffled, and emasculated before him'
The temptation of falling upon Grant and shatter•
log his army was almost irresistible, and so deterio-
rated is the morale of the Federals that there is not
in the Confederate States man, woman, or child
who entertains a vestage of doubt that Grant exists
south of the James River, solely by Lee's suffer.
ante. But it has long been apparent that, until
the reality of war could be a little more brought
home to the hearths of the Federals, there would
he a continued taste for such warlike operation
as have been recently conducted by Sheridan,
Hunter, and Wilson in Virginia, and that a system
which has been encouraged by immunity, illumi-
nated by mendacity, and sweetened by plunder,
would continue to recommend itself to the depraved
palates of President Lincoln and his Generals. I
may mention that again and again have I heard
Southern officers discussing the Gettysburg cam=
paign of 1863 in Pennsylvania. and asserting that
if ever again they had a chance, let General Leo's
orders be what they might, they would be revenged
on thousands of desolate hearts and roofless
homesteads which they have gazed at in Virginia.
The wanton destruction by Hunter of Governor
Lechter's house at Lexington, in Virginia, under
circumstances of peculiar indignity to the latter's
family, and the destruction of the books, papers,
furniture, and homestead belonging to the well-
known Virginian statesman, Senator Hunter, of
Essex County, added fuel to the flame which has
long burnt in every Virginian breast, and doubtless
influenced the decision of Gen. Lee.
Your readers will have learnt the fate of General
Early's inroad into Maryland (which is at this
moment unknown to me) long before the arrival of
this letter. Be the result what it may, there can
be no question that 48 hours ago Washington was
in infinitely greater danger than has ever threatened
Richmond, and that the words of one of your lead-
ing articles, published a few weeks ago, which
spoke of Washington as having already been more
gravely menaced than Richmond, derive additional
significance from the status quo of both cities upon
July 12, 1863. Few persons doubt that if Stonewall
Jackson had been in Early's place, President Lin-
coln's Scotch cap and martial cloak would again
have been in request before this. But, be the fate
of Washington what it may, there will be few per-
sons hardy enough to deny that Grant's campaign
against Richmond, which has for more than a
month been arrested at Petersburg, while Gen. Lee
has himself felt strong enough to detach such an
offshoot as has followed Early into Maryland, can-
not but be pronounced an egregious failure. Unhap-
pily Gen. Grant's knowledge of the depletion of his
antagonist's army, as it lies calmly behind the
trenches which girdle Petersburg, Las not spirited
him on to make any attack upon the
weakened lines of the Confederates, and
thus to gratify the earnest desire of their
General. But if, as is now almost certain, re-
inforcements for Washington have latterly been
leaving Grant's army, it is scarcely probable that he
will be left unmolested, or tf at the example of in-
action which he has set will be followed by General
Lee. I am in a position to state that the details of
General Early's instructions as to his advance upon
Washington were minutely communicated to him
before he started by General Lee, and that the lat-
ter is believed to be satisfied with their execution
hitherto by General Early. It is scarcely material
as Early has got within three miles of Washington,
whether the Capitol and public buildings are at this
moment untouched, or in ruins, bat that the ability
with which this advance has been conceived and
executed is of a very different order from that which
has presided over the many " ons to Richmond"
will probably be admitted even by the warmest
Federal partisans, whether the downfall of Wash•
ington is or is not its climax. But, at any rate, the
advance into Maryland has already realized rich
fruit. At the little town of Martinsburg, on the
Potomac, an amount of spoil, such as is coaspicuous
even in this most wasteful of wars, was secured by
the Confederates. Butler's stores, sent on in vast
masses in anticipation of Richmond falling before
the bovine energy of Grant, and destined to be sold
at Richmond when the stars and stripes should float
above the capital, passed without exchange of gold
cotton, or tobacco, in payment for them into the
hands of General Breckinridge. It is reported that
numerous patent reaping machines, which it was
the Federal purpose to employ in harvesting the
rich crops in the valley of Virginia, were transferred
to Confederate hands, and have supplemented the

' great deficiency of labour under which the inhaLi-
tants of the valley have long laboured. There can-
not be a doubt that the unprecedented haul of
horses will furnish fresh teams for General
Early's ninety guns, will remount his cavalry, and
admit of largo supplies being hauled into Virginia.
And whether it be reserved for General Early to
enter Washington or to fall back with ample " loot"
across the Potomac, he will in either case establish
the fact that the crushed, starved, broken-backed,
down-hearted "rebellion" of the Northern journals
has vitality enough left in it to strike home to the
very heart of its antagonist ; nor will there be want-
ing evidence in the smoking ruins of Governor Brad•
ford's house and in the demolished bridges which
separate Baltimore from Washington, that in the
fourth year of a colossal war less than five millions
of Anglo-Saxons could so far triumph over the
vastly superior resources of 23 millions opposed to
them as to carry fire and sword into the very
suburbs of Washington, at a moment when Rich-
mond never laughed more scornfully at the puny
onslaught of her foe.
I have never been of the number of those who
believed it possible for General Early to capture
Washington. Such a feat would have been pos-
sible for Stonewall Jackson, but nothing less than
the prestige and fierce fanatical zeal of Jackson
could have roused his troops to the necessary energy
and celerity. On the other hand, I have never had
the least misgiving as to the safety of General
Early and his army. Little opposition worthy of the
name could be expected from the " hundred days'
men," the heavy artillerymen, and the local militia
which constitute the garrison of Washington, and it
is competent to General Early to retreat across
any of the many fords of the Potomac, in case
he finds himself menaced by troops subtracted from
Grant's army. As to the recruits which have again
and again been promised to the Confederates in
Maryland, I have never believed in their existence.
The Northern men with Southern proclivities who
are prepared to stand or fall with Jefferson Davis
have long ago ranged themselves under his banner,
and from those who for more than three years have
stood aloof, little was, in my judgment, to be ex-
pected. But the strength and quality of the Confe-
derate troops which followed Early into Maryland
were such as to forbid the probability of their being
overtaken with disaster. With him went the very
flower of Lee's army. Under him served some of
the best officers in the South—Breckinridge,Rodes.
the chosen and ablest son of the Military Institution
of Virginia, Gordon, of Georgia, who shared with
Rodes the honours of Chancellorsville and surpassed
him at Spottsylvania Court-house, Ramseur, of
North Carolina, one of the most promising of the
young Major-Generals, and, in command of the
cavalry, an energetic and able officer in the person
of General Ransom. It is strange that the detach-
ment from his strength of so valuable a contingent
should have left General Lee for the last five weeks
more than ever lord of the ascendant in Virginia or
that it should be imagined by any reasonable man
that General Grant, who must be daily losing
strength by disease, desertion, and the expiration of
his soldiers' term of service, is likely to make any
impression upon Richmond, when one of the finest
forces which ever issued from Secessia threatens
Washington at its very gates.

The Murder on the North London Railway.

ADJOURNED INQUEST.

Yesterday morning Mr Humphreys, coroner for East
Middlesex, resumed his inquiry into the circumstances
attending the death of the late Mr Thomas Briggs. Mr
Moojie, solicitor, was in attendance, as representing the
friends of the deceased. The jury having answered to
their names,
Mr Charles Young, assistant to Mr Annie, pawnbroker,
of 121, Minories, was called, and having been sworn
deposed—l received the chain now produced in pledge on
Tuesday, the 12th July, at about two o'clock in the after-
noon. I should not remember the person who pledged it.
I know it was pledged by a man. I lent him £1 108 upon
it. He gave the name of John Miller, 22, Jewry-street. I
did not spell the name to him when I gave him the ticket,
nor did he spell it to me. I had never to my knowledge
seen him before. (Witness produced the ticket, which, as
to name and date, confirmed his statement.)
Godfrey Ferdinand Repsch was next called, and deposed
—I live at 121, Jewry•street. lam a journeyman tailor,
and work for Mr Hodgkinson. I know Franz Muller very

well. He did not lodge with me, but came sometimes, Haifa
lodged with me, and he and Muller were great friends. I
have known Muller for about two years. I saw Muller in
my house on Friday July Bth. He worked a little and
went out again. He was making his things to go to Ame-
rica. I had given him leave to make up his things in my
house. He left Mr Hodgkinson's a fortnight before he lett
England. I don't know at what time he left my house on
the Friday. He came to my house also on the Saturday,
and did more work then to his clothes. I left my house that
night about six o'clock, leaving him there. I don't know
whether he kept company with anybody. I next saw him
between 10 and 11 o'clock on the Monday morning. He
then came to my house. He showed me a new chain which
he took out of his waistcoat pocket. It was not attached to
his button-hole, but in his pocket. It was a new chain. Ho
did not take it out of a box. He said he was going to buy
his ticket for the ship, and had met a German there who
had several chains and rings, and he bought it of him. He
told me that he met the German on board. He showed mo
also a ring which he said he had bought. The chain pro-
duced is the one he showed me, I remember it, the stone
be'ng on one side, the same as his (prisoner's) chain had.
I had never seen the chain before. He sai I be paid £3 las.
for the chain and 7s. 6d. for the ring. Having shown me
the chain he put it in his but Lon-hole. He did not attach to

it a watch, nor did I see him with a watch then or at any
time after. Ido not know whether his dress was the same
on Monday be wore on Saturday. When he came on Mon-
day he had on an overcoat and light trousers. I noticed he
had a new hat, and I said to him, " You have got anew hat
again." He replied, " Oh, I had this two months ago." It
was in a good state. He said he had only worn it three or
four tim s. I took it in my hand, and saw that it was a
very good hat. Ha said he had given 14s. fid for it. I did
not notice the maker's name. He left my house between
twelve and one on Monday. It was about my dinner hour.
He came back about five or six o'clock in the evening, and
went out with Haifa. I saw him again on Tuesday. He
was at my house some time on that day, going on with his
work. The same thing took place on the Wednesday.
On Thursday he came to my house about nine o'clock, and
I went with him to the ship the Victoria. Nobody was
with us. It was about ten o'clock when Muller and I went
out to go to the ship, I want with him on board and
remained about three-quavers of an hour, when I came
away leaving him on board. On the Wednesday afternoon
when he came back to me, about 4 o'clock, he said he wanted
12s to make up his passage money and to pay his lodgings
and other little things. He produced the ticket of a gold
chain, and said "This is the ticket of the chain I showed
you, and I wish to sell it, for I cannot take it out of pledge
when lam in America." I then went with him to Haifa
at Mr Hodgkinson'a, to ask him to buy the chain. Rs said
he had no money, but that he had got a suit of clothes in
my house, and told me to go and pawn it and give Muller
12s. I did 80. I did not see Muller speak to anybody when
he went on board. I did not see any difference in Muller
from the week prior up to the time of his sailing. I pawned
the clothes for the sure stated, 12s, and gave both the money
and ticket to Haifa. I saw Haifa give the money to Muller.
I saw Muller give Haifa the ticket for the chain at the same

time. He told me on the Monday that he had bought the
chain and ring of the German that morning. I lived at 22,
Je win-street before I lived at 121, and Muller lived there
too, but ho had left before I went to live there. I went down
into his berth when I went on board the Victorfa, and saw
his boxes and things there, He wore the same hat then I
had seen him wear on the Monday.
By the Jury-1 saw him every day during that week till
he went away. We had some talk of the murder, but
nothing particular. I spoke to him of it on the Monday,
saying that was a shocking thing, that murder on the
railway; the people were all there talking about it. lle made
no remark in reply.
By Mr Moojie—When he told me he had given 14s 6,1 for
the hat, I said it was a very cheap hat for the money—" it
is worth a guinea." He did not say anything in answer.

By the Coroner— The hat had no mourning hat-band upon
it. I saw him on the Wednesday (I think it was) trying to
put a hat-band on it. He did not succeed, and gave it up,
I do not know that he was in mourning. He did not tell
me why he wanted to put the mourning band on. I do not
think I should know the hat he formerly wore if I saw it.
Mrs Elizabeth Sarah Itepsoh, wife of the last witness, was
next examined. She said—l know Muller. I saw him at
our house on Saturday, 9th July. He came in about one
o'clock, and set himself down to work. I went out between
seven and eight o'clock, when he was still there with Haffa.
I next saw him on the Monday morn ng. I heard the con-
versation about the chain, and saw him take it out of his
waistcoat pocket. He told me he had bought it of a man at
the docks that morning. I had it in my hand, and examined
it. The chain produced was the same. He said he had given
£3 15s for the chain, and he showed me a plain ring with a
white stone, whioh ho said he had bought at the same time
for 78 6d. He said he had been to the docks to buy his pas-
sage ticket, and had mot the German, I understood him to
say in the docks as he was going to the ship. I never saw
him with that chain before. When he showed it me I said,
"It may be dangerous for you to wear the chain loose, you
might lose it ;" and I lent him a locket which he attached
to it, and put the chain through his button-hole. He re-
turned the locket on the Monday morning, On the Saturday

when ho came, he wore dark trousers, and when he came on
the Monday he wore light trousers, otherwise he was dressed
the same. I noticed he wore a new hat on Monday morning.
I observed it first and said, " Oh, how extravagant you are to
have another new hat." He replied, " I smashed tha other
one and threw it in the dust-hole, and I have had this about
a month." He told me he had paid 14s Gd for it. My hus-
band said it looked more like a guinea hat than one at 14s
6d. He came on the Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
to our house to work, but he did very little work. I was
present on the Wednesday when he said he wanted 12s.
He said ho was 12s short, and asked my husband to buy
the ticket of the chain I had seen. My husband told him
he could not,'and they left together to go to Mr. Haffa. I
saw my husband give the 12s for the suit ho had pawned
Haffa. I saw Haifa give it to Muller, and Muller give the
ticket of the chain to Haffa. I saw Muller try to put on
the black band to the hat on the Wednesday. He did not
say why he wished to put it on. It was a black cloth band.
When he found he could not get it on, he threw it on one
side, and it was left at my house. The reason he could not
get it on was that it was on the right side. I did not refer
to the murder of Mr Briggs in his presence. He came be-
tween nine and ten on Thursday, and nay husband went
out with him at ten o'clock. I have not seen him since.

Mr. Atkinson, a master mariner, of 2, Laura-terrace,
Campbell-road, Bow, having been sworn, deposed—l have
given up the sea since November last ; but being out of
health I went out in the Victoria as pilot, thinking it would
benefit me. I joined her in the London Docks on Friday
morning, July 15. We left the pier at a quarter before
eight in tue morning. We had between 20 and 30 passen-
gers on board, I went as far as the light ship off Bognor
in her. I did not know Muller, but a passenger came to
me on the Friday afternoon, between 3 and 4, and asked me
if I would take a letter on shore. I refused to do so, tell-
ing him that next day would be in time for all passen-
gers' letters. He was a foreigner, I thought that by
the way he epoke that he was a German. I
received a lot of letters on the Saturday to take on shore
from the passengers, but I cannot for certain say that
the foreigner gave me one. I received 26 letters alto-
gether and the passengers all came ;to me with them
together as I was about leaving. I imagine he came
with the rest, but lam not certain. I cannot identify
the photograph portrait produced as that of the foreigner
who asked me to take the letter on shore. I posted all
the letters but one. The letters I put stamps upon I
marked with a private mark. I did not notice the ad-
dresses. If I had done so and had seen one addressed to
Bow, it would have struck my attention.
The Coroner here observed that the only other witnesses
whom it was thought necessary to examine at present were
absent from England, and it would be some time before
they could be back; it would be better to adjourn for three
weeks.

It was stated that Mr. Briggs's chain had been taken out
to New York as a necessary link in the evidence which
would require to be given there.
The inquiry was then further adjourned to Thursday,
September 8, at ten o'clock.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS-Aug. 22.

(Before Mr Sergeant Gaselee.)

The grand jury having been sworn,
His Lordship briefly addressed them upon the nature of
their duties, and discharged them to their room.

THE RECENT THEATRICAL SCANDAL,

Mr F. H. Lewis, addressing the presiding judge, said—
Allow me, my lord, to make an application in the matter of
a gentleman of the name of Bateman, who is charged with
assaulting a lady named Bristowe. The lady instituted these
proceedings for the purpose of protecting her daughter's
character, and after the apology the gentleman has made in
a letter I will read, I thick you will have no objection to
granting the application that the recognisances be dis-
charged. The letter was as follows :

" Madam,—As my attentions and acts of friendship to
your daughter have been so widely misrepresented to you,
and so greatly misunderstood, I deem it but proper to assure
you, on the honour of a gentleman, that, as far as I am
concerned, I have never acted in any other way than a
gentleman should do. I declare solemnly that no impro-
prieties whatever have taken place, and I regret extremely
that you should be under the contrary impression, I may
also add that the sole reason of my meeting your daughter
on the evening of the Ist of August was to dissuade her
from fulfilling her engagement at Paisley without your
consent.

" I am only too anxious to convince you that your ideas
are erroneous, and I hope you will consider that I have
done all in my power to do so, especially for the sake of the
young lady herself,

" I have further to state that I regret to learn you still
labour under the impression that I assaulted you. I can
quite understand how in the excitement of the moment you
may so imagine. If, indeed, I accidentally touched you,
thus causing such erroneous impression, I can have no hesi-
tation in expressing my regret that even that occurred.

" H. L. BATEMIN.

"To Mri Bristowe, Aug. 20, 1861."

Mr F. H. Lewis went on to state that after this and the
oath of her daughter that nothing improper had occurred
between her and Mr Bateman, she did not consider herself
justified in further prosecuting the matter; and it was only
due to Mr Bateman to state, that reports being rife as to the
matter being settled for a money consideration, he, on the
part of Mrs Bristowe, begged to give such reports the most
positive denial.

Mr Sleigh, who appeared for Mr Bateman, said that after
the letter which had been read, and Mr Lewis's statement,
he cou:d have nothing to add, and should therefore apply
to the Court that Mr Bateman b© discharged from his re-
cognisances.

His Lordship said he could see no reason to the contrary.
The recogni,ances were accordingly discharge 1, and thus
ended the Adelkli drama,

The Lord Mayor of York and the 16th

Lancers.

Within the last few weeks the Commander in Chief has
been engaged in considering a matter which has been
brought before him by the Lord Mayor of York. The Leeds
Mercury reports that—" In June his lordship wrote to the
Under Secretary of State for War, stating that now the
16th Lancers had entirely left York, he deemed it his duty
to lay before the Secretary of State for War the conduct of
Col. Dickson and the officers, and the state of the discipline
of the regiment. In the first place he complained of being
grossly ;nsulted by Colonel Dickson and the officers, by
the commission of a most uncourteous and ungentlemanly
act,' this being by their neglecting, as is customary after
the election of the Lord Mayor, to leave their cards at the
Mansion-house, and then subsequently sending him an in-
vitation to attend a ball without any cards even accompa-
nying the invitation, In ordinary life, the Lord Mayor
added that this was an incivility that would not be over-
looked. His lordship's next complaint was that a couple
of the officers, on a certain Sunday night, had amused them-
se!ves on the way to the barracks by endeavouring to extin-
guish the gas lights, for which conduct they were sum-
moned before the magistrates, and fined £2 each. That
subsequently Col. Dickson, on leaving a ball, assaulted one
of the policemen who had been the means of convicting his
subordinate fellow officers, for which he was summoned
before the magistrates, and after a number of adjournments
of the case eventually paid Xi to the police fund rather than
that a conviction should follow. The officer having set such
an example, it was alleged that the soldiers under them har-
boured an ill feeling toward. the police ; that collision took
piece, and that his lordship had found it necessary to write
to Colonel Dickson, threatening to lay the matter before the
Horse Guards unless the soldiers were kept quiet. On one
occasion, the complainant goes on to say that when police
officers were endeavouring to identify an offending suldie:
on parade the soldiers hissed them ; that on another the
soldiers used strong language to the Volunteers, of one of
which corps the Lord Mayor was an officer ; that his lord-
ship had, on the occasion of a Volunteer non-commissioned
officers' ball, been compelled to order special means to pre-
vent a disturbance on the part of certain of the Lancers,
who were taking supper in the neighbourhood ; that numer-
ous reports were made to his lordship by the police of the
conduct of the 16th Lancers, who had latterly seemed to
have had the upper hand, and did as they liked, and that his
lordship and the citizens were glad wt en the regiment left
the city. On the citizens becoming aware of the course the
Lord Mayor had taken in the matter, they at once got up a
memorial to the Duke of Cambridge. which was signed by
the reccrder, sheriff, nine aldermen, 29 councillors, eight
magistrates, three deputy-lieutenants, the clerk of the peace,
city coroner, the under sheriff, one admiral, two retired
colonel-,, two bankers, and several other gentlemen and
tradesmen of the city, certifying that the conduct of the
regiment was not such as to justify the complaints the
Lord Mayor had made, but that, on the contrary, Colonel
Dickson and those under his command, both officers and
men, were held in very high esteem and respected by the
citizens, who greatly regretted their departure from the
city. A similar memorial was also sent from the officers
of Rifle Volunteers, and the statement was further en-
dorsed by an influential inhabitant of the neighbourhood
of the barracks, by the town clerk, and by an extract from
the minutes of the 'Watch Committee of York. Colonel
Dickson himself also explained that the non-calling at the
Mansion-house was the result of ignorance of the custom,
and that the invitation to a military ball sent to the Lord
Mayor was given as a compliment, and not as an insult.
To the latter invitation Colonel Dickson further alleges that
the Lord Mayor gave an uncourteous reply, and this was
the sole origin of a systematic display of ill-feeling on the
part of the Lord Mayor. The result of the investigation of
this singular case is, that the Commander -in-Chief has given
a decision to the effect that the conduct of the regiment
while in York was not such as to justify the complaints
preferred against it."

THE STRIKE AT HANLEY.—The colliers end iron
stone miners employed on the extensive works of Earl Gran-
ville at Hanley have had an interview, by deputation, with
the managers. The interview was satisfactory and amicable
and after mutual explanations had been made and reported
by the deputation, the men resumed work at a reduction of
6d per day.