The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-02 00:00:00

THE VOLUNTEERS.

r A committee, consisting of several leading and
influential of in the volunteer service of the
country, has been formed by Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. C. H. Lindsay, for the purpose of establishing
a trophy of high order as an historical record of
the various contests which take place at Wimble-
don from year to year between the picked volunteer
rifle shots of England and Scotland. The object
which the committee will have in vi©w is to raise a
fund by subscriptions from the volunteer rifi,:men
in Great Bcitain, es well as from those Alm, though
not enrolled, aro nevertheless interested in the wel-
fare of the movement and the national pastime of
the two countries, which is undoubtedly the prin.
&pal mainstay to its permanency. The committee
will shortly meet to decide upo❑ the necessary de-
tails for carrying out the work, after which an ex-
ptanatory address will be issued, preparatory to the
arrangement of the machinery best calculated to
realise the object, and which will be conduced upon
as simple and economical a system, in proportion to
the importance of the undertaking, the.t there will
be no fear of an unfavourable result ; for when the
rate of subscription is declared, and the manner in
which it will be levied is understood, the interest
which the production of such a magnificent chal-
lenge trophy es is intended will create throughout
the two countries, in connection with so honourable
a contest, will be sufficient to secure a most satisfac-
tory response.

The annual distribution of prizes to the success-
ful competitors in the Ist Surrey Rifles took place
lest evening in the extensive (hill-shed belonging
to the corps at Hanover-park, Peekhem, which was
well filled with the volunteers and their friends,
The prizes were numerous and handsome, exceed-
ing £4OO in value, and were distributed b'y Lady
Poliock, wife of General Sir G. Pollock, the hono-
rary colonel of the regiment. A prize given by
Mr Dalkon, M.P., was handed to the fortunate
winner by that gentleman himself. The formal
portion of the proceedings having terminated, Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Macdonald, commanding the regi-
ment, expressed on behalf of the corps their sense of
the honour done them by the presence of Lady and
Sir G. Pollock. (Cheers.) He congratulated the
corps upon the great increase which had taken place
in the number and value of the prizes awarded, be-
ing this year 52 as against 28 last year. In conch.
sion the gallant colonel expressed o❑ his own behalf
and on that of the regiment he commanded their
deep regret at the approaching retirement of Col.
M'Murdo, who had done so much to organise the
volunteer force, and to whom the Ist Surrey Miles
were especially indebted. As that retirement was
from the rules of the service inevitable, it was at
least satisfacory to know that Colonel McMurdo
was to be succeeded by Colonel Erskine, who had
co-operated with him, and who had been in his
confidence during his connection with the volunteer
service. (Cheers.) General Sir G. Pollock briefly
expressed Lady Pollock's and his own acknowledg-
ments for the kind mention of the Lieut.-Colonel,
and for the cordial reception which they had re-
ceived from the rtg.rnent. In the Ist Surrey Rifles
he had always taken the deepest interest, and had
witnessed with great satisfaction their performances
upo❑ Clapham-common. Three cheers having been
given in honour of Sir George and Lady Pollock,
the same compliment was paid to Lieut.-Colonel
Macdonald, and the proceedings were brought to a
close.

LORD RUSSELL'S NOTE.

(From tlte index)

Lord Russell's reply to the Confederate Commis-
sioners, acknowledging the receipt of an official
copy of the manfesto put forth by the Congress of
the Confederate States, takes us, we confess, some
what by surprise. It is true that for a short time
, past a vague rumour has been afloat in diplomatic
circles on the Continent, and has even found ex-
pression in the Paris correspondence of the R'.
pcndance Beige and other journals not prone to
credit too easily anything favourab:e to the South.
This rumour was to the effect that the American
policy of the Foreign Office wes undergoing essen-
tial modifications, and that, while England would
not take the initiative, an opportunity would be
welcomed for j 'ining France in any steps in which
the latter assumed the chief responsibility. We
did not, and do not now, attach any real im,
portance to such diplomatic chitchat, and yet
Lord Russell's note surprises us. Not that,
intrinsically, it contains anything more than
what belongs to the formula of international
civility, but because it is prompt, courteous, and
—though it repeats that jargon about strict and
impartial neutrality which, in the Foreign Secre-
tary's mouth, has often sounded ironical—it prac-
tically recognises the political equality and identi-
cal title to consideration of the two belligerent fede-
rations. This is, on Earl Russell's part, an im-
mense step in the right direction. It would be
churlish in us to grudge him credit for it. But if
he intends to be consistent, and if he once admits
that the same measure mus: by right be meted to
both the South and tae North, we cannot see how,
ander present circumstances, he is to stop short of
actual recognition. We will not repeat arguments
which frequent reiteration has rendered hackneyed,
we will only observe that after the 4th day of
March next the last pretext for further delay will
have disappeared. On that day a government will
go into operation at Washington in which the
States of the South have confessedly neither lot
nor part nor voice. In the election of the Bth of
last month the vote of every state not actually in
the Union or in the occupation of the Union armies
was, by an act of Federal Congress, formally ex-
cluded. The highest legislative authority of the
United States on' that occasion decreed that the
States of Virginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana,
Arkansas, and Texas, were not among the number
of the United States, The government organised
upon the basis of the election of the Bth knows
them only as foreign enemies, to be conquered by
force. So long as a Federal executive and legisla.
ture at Washington claimed ta represent all the
States which formed part of the Union in 1860, and
could date their existence back to a period when all
the States did so form part, there might be an ex-
cuse—albeit an unsound and sophistical one—for
foreign powers to consider that executive and legis-
lature as the rightful authority over all the States,
The executive and legislature which commence
their term of authority on March 4 cannot, and do
not, set up any such pretension. This new govern•
ment at Washington presents to Europe no title
which is vested with even greater validity in the
government at Richmond, which is by three years
its senior. The only possible technical conflict of
jurisdiction is narrowed down to three States—
Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouti—which are
equally claimed by both governments. With this
exception, which cannot cause any serious difficulty,
the diplomacy of neutrals is now free to act as it
the United States and the Confederate States were
situated in different continents.

Loss OF ANOTHER HULL STEAMER.—On Wed-
nesday evening the sad intelligence arrived at Hull that the
screw steamer Tartar, Captain White, belonging to Messrs
Bailey, Leetham, and Co., of that port, had been totally
lost, and that the captain had been drowned. Thenews was
communicated by the mato, in a letter dated from Christian-
sand, on Saturday last. It stated that on that day the
steamer had gone on shore in a heavy gale. She soon
became a total wreck, and the captain was unfortunately
swept away by the heavy sea and drowned. The remainder
of the crew managed to land in safety. Tho Tartar was on
her voyage from Gelb to Hull when the sad disaster oc-
curred. She was an iron ship, and hailed from London.
The lambing season has already commenced in
Cornwall, Mr Chudleigh and Mr Muchmore, farmers, near
Liskeard, having this week received several additions to
their flocks.

[AnvEnTisearENT.)—Holloway's Ointment.—Painless
Cuies.—Sores, wounds, uleeratione, and other diseaees
aff..cting the skin are amendable by this cooling and heal
ing unguent. It has called forth the loudest praises from
persons who had suffered for years from bad lege, abscesses,
and chronic ulcers, after every hope of cure had long passed
away. None but those who have experienced the seething
effect of this ointment can form an idea of the comfort it
bestows by restraining id' Immatian and allaying pain.
Whenever this ointment has been once used it has estab•
lished its own worth, and has again been eagerly sought fur
as the easiest and safest remedy for all ulcerous complaints.
an neuralgia, rheumatism, and gout, the same application
properly used give 4 wonderful relief,

Bank of England Return,.—Last Evening-,
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Sth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 30th day
of Nov. 1864 :

ISSUE DEPAMTMENT.

Notes issued '5,261 Government Debt £11,015,1CC
Other Securities ..
G old Coin Si Bullion 13,2u5,2C0
Silver Bullion

027,855,260
13A.NKING
oprictors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Reot
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ao-

.£27,855,2,0

. -
.EPARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities - (including
Dead WeightAn-
unity) £10,474,542
Other Securities 18,629,163
Notes
Gold and Silver 7t4, 66k
Coin

counts) 6.2,01,202
Other Deposits 13,274161
Seven Day and
other Bills 507,955

£37,020,520,

X 37,920453
'. MILLER, Chief Cashi(z.

Dec. 4, 1861.

Mr Fergusson states that the survey of Jeru.
salem under Lieut, Wilson and his pariy of Sappers; is
going on most satisfactorily. " Th 3 Pacha's authority
' affords them comple't protection, and ho gives them every
7 facility they require, so that by next summer we may hope
. to have as perfect a survey of Jerusalem as we have of any
, English city, and to know as much as can be known of its
mysterious water supp y and of the means by which its
sanitary condition may be improved."
UP A TREE.—A Prince Edward Island paper re.
fates the following :—"Last week Mr I. M`Dinald,
of Cambelton, whilst searching in the woods for his cattle,
came euiden'T acre 33a Lieur With MO cubs. M'Donald
was accompanied by a boy about 15, s-ad they, seeing the
bear was making for them, both ran away—the boy bound.
ing off like a deer in one direction, and M'Donald in
another, and the bear :all pelt after I‘l'llonald. Over wind-
falls and through hemlocks and cedars they go; the Scotch•
man strong and active, and the bear bounding like a bull,
the woods echoing, twigs snapping, and dast flying at
each spring. For nearly half an hour the race goes on,
M'Donald, beginning to find his strength failing, his heart
grows faint as he finds the monster gaining on him.
Soon a tree catches his eager eye, he grasps the friendly
branches, but the savage brute grasps his heel and draws
him down, but only for a second. Another spring and
M'Donald is well up, the bear eagerly following, but down
he falls, and falls at each furious attempt to ascend. Fur
a considerable time did the brute try to get up, and
M'Donald's courage reviving, he looked calmly down and
said, " Dick, it herself had her gun but she would give
somesin." M'Donald threw down his coat in hopes of the
bear going away, which he did, after tearing the coat to
shreds with one grab. The boy had in the meantime ar.
rived home and alarmed the settlem,nt, who entered the
forest at dark, with guns, &3. Soon M'llonald's about was
heard, and the answering cheer sent back caused a thrill of
joy to.vibrate in his heart. The tree that saved him was a
spruce about eight inches through.
THE CHANCES OF WAR.—On the evening of the
6th of November, Sergeant Marvin, of the 2d New
York Cavalry, and Corporal Bennett, returning to camp
near Cedar Creek, were captured by some of Mosby's men.
Mosby, having captured 22 other men, had determined to
hang seven of then., in retaliation for seven of his men.
having been hung by General Custer, and the selection
was made by lot. But it turned out that two
of those who drew the seven " prizes " from the hat were
men who had befriended a Confederate family in the
vicinity, and Mosby decided that if any new prisoners
were brought in before the execution, two of them should
ba substituted for these two men ; and accordingly Marvin
and Bennett were put upon the death-roll. Lieut. Smith
was, detailed to conduct the execution, which was to take
place on the Winchester Road, where the Federal troops
would be sure to find the bodies hanging in the morn-
ing. On the march to the spot, th. 3 night being dark, one
succeeded in slipping from his wrist the cord which bound
the seven together and making his escape. The other six
arrived at the appointed place, and three were hung up by
the neck to the limb of a tree. Th© remaining three begged
so hard to be shot that Lieut. Smith yielded to their en-
treaties, and they stood up in a row to meet death in that

form. Bennett was shot through the head, and instantly
killed. A revolver was discharged at the next man, II effingalc ;
the ball struck him in the arm, and ho fell to the ground,
and had the presence of mind to pretend to be dead. The
third was Marvin. A man put the muzzle of a revolver to
his head, and pulled the trigger; the cap did not explode.
Marvin is a powerful fellow, and quick as thought he knocked
the man down and ran for his life. The guard started in
pursuit, and fired a number of shots at him, but none of
them took effect. Reaching a piece of wood he dashed in
and climbed a tree, and though his pursuers passed close by
the darkness of the night enabled him to escape discovery.
Lieutenant Smith returning went up to Hoffingale, who
still lay motionless in the road, and after kicking him said,
"He is dead," and left him there; but he is alive and
safe and will recover. Marvin says Lieutenant Smith and
his men said they regretted the necessity of having to exe-
cute the prisoners, but must obey orders.—Nete Fork, 2 inics.
A CONVICT'S VIEWS ABOUT CONVICTS.—Tho
only thing you have to guard against is keeping
them in prison too long. Long imprisonments defeat their
own end. In the first place, after a time they lose their
power to pain ; so all powerful is use that probably no eye
tern could be
.devised, abort of one involving the most re-
volting cruelty, which would not come after a while to be
borne with indifference. Thus, there is scarcely a prisoner
to whom the routine and confiement ef prison life continue
to be a source of any thing like acute suffering after the
first year, or whom the close of the second year does
not find callous and comfortable. All would prefer
being at large—some for love of wife or child, left in the
hard world outside—all for love of personal independence.
But few feel much, those who feel at all are touched
through their affections, and it is hard to cause any but
the finer and more highly educated natures much sulllr-
ing even through these. The same relief comes to them
which seems to come to all in great and irremediable
trouble. . . . This power of living for the present
seems to be possessed by al alike. It is by no means
confined to the class of which I am now speaking. The
dark, morose, sullen ruffian, and the conscience-stricken
melancholy criminal, who is the convict of our imagina-
tion, has no existence in reality, or is to be found only
during the first few months after conviction. .0n the,
contrary,', such unvaried cheerfulness, such general for-
bearance, such a power of taking everything pleasantly
as animates, almost without exception, those who have
been long in confinement is not, perhaps, to be met with
in any other social circle in the world. Look into thu
exercise-grounds at Fremantle, and you will say that no
party of pleasure was over apparently so free from disturb-
ing influences, or displayed so great an amount of tranquil
enjoyment
that those undergoing the additional
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punishment,
and terribly severe sentences for attempting to
escape, and other prison offences, aro as careless and
happy as the rest. Loaded, many of them, with 281 b of
iron night and day, condemned to wear them for ono to
three years ; placed, some of them so loaded, on llb of
bread a day for GO or 70 days at a time, and presenting,
after such fasts, such a spectacle of emaciation that, if they
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defy it all. Their punishment is very painful at first,
and sufficiently painful all along to make them feel
wily savage, and quietly cherish a future revenge, But
after the first 14 days, which they say is worse than all the
rust. they suffer no acute pain. Borne up by the elasticity
of youth—strong in their motto, "I can do it," and becom
ing better able mentally, if not physically, to bear their
successive day—they grow as indifferent to
their own everyaddi additional sentence as they did to their original
one.—Cornhill Ittagazinc.

A YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED BY HER SWEETI
HEART.—CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER.--About
two years ago a young woman, named Jane Lewis, was
brutally murdered on her way to chapel on a Sunday even-
ing, near the village of Cwm Yatrad, Glareurganshire.
Suspicion fell at the time on a young man named Thomas
Williems, who was known to be paying his addresses to
the deceased, and he was apprehended end committed for
trial on the charge of murder, -Williams was tried at the
alamorganshire assisce, but the evidence being incomplete
the jury retyrned a verdict of not guilty. Williams ha
just died, and a few hours before his death he made a lul

confession that he was the murderer of Jane Lewis, hig
former sweetheart.

EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL.—The monthly
return of the Government Emigration officers shows that
during November there sailed from Liverpool 21 ships
under the act, conveying 5,539 passengers. Of these, 17
vessels, conveying 4,251 passengers, were for the United
States—one ship, with 371 passengers, for Queensland—
and throe shipe, with 917 passengers, for -Victoria. There
also sailed, independent of the act, 13 vessels, with 548
passengers.,,Five, with 248 passengers, were for the United
States—one for New South Wales, with 28 passengers—
one for Victoria, with 44 passengers—and the remainder to
other ports.

At the Liverpool
Quarter Sessions yesterday
policeman was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for
extorting
into custody.
into
y from a young man in lieu of taking him