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

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 23, 1864.

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 have
no more influence upon the vitality of the rebellion
than has the fall or rise of the tides upon the into.
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 Seuthern journals
never fail to extend to the " masterly strategy" of
General Johnston, there is little doubt that his
evacuation 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 mieux Sauter 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 beyonets
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 so 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 before 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
I should exhume circumstances to convince your
readers of the audacity which characterises 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
Lee 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.
ing 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.
ance. 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
be 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 Lee'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 hits 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 each 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, has 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 that the example
of in-
action which he has set will be followed by General
Lee. lamin 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, but 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 "ens 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 coespieueus
even in this moat wastelul of wars, was secured be:
the Confederates. Butler's stores, sent on in vast
masses in anticipation of Richmond falling
the bovine energy of Grant, and destined t,J be sold
at Richmond when the stars and stripes, should float e
above the capita?, passed without e-change of gold
cotton, or tobacco, in payment 1-Jefore
for them into the
hands of General Breckinride
numerous patent reapir -
e. It is reported that
machines,
the Federal purpose
g i which it was
rich crops in the v i
re employn harvesting the
to Confederate alley of Virginia, were transferred
Peeds, and have supplemented the a

great deficiency of labour under which the inhabi-
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 large supplies being hauled into Virginia.
And whether it be reserved for General Early to
enter Washington or to fallback 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 Washingtos, at a moment when Rich-
mond never laughed more scornfully at the puny
onslaught of her foe.
I have never been if the number of those who
believed it possible hr General Early to capture
Washington. Such a feat would have been pos-
sible for Stonewall :ackson, but nothing less than
the prestige and fierce fanatical zeal of Jackson
could have roused hi; troops to the necessary energy
and celerity. On tie 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
tcouldheheavy
ebae " 'Acted from the " hundred days'
men," vyar illerymen, and the local militia
which constitute the garrison of Washington, and it
is competent to General Early to retreat across
anyfords of the Potomac, in case
he finds thehi many
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 aever believed in their existence.
The Northern mei 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 Spottsylvasia 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, cesertion, 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 isszed 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 Annis, pawnbroker,
of 121, Minories, was calla], 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. 1 should not remember the person who pledged it.
I know it was pledged by a man. I lent him £1 106 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 12i, 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, Haffa
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 ray
house. He left Mr Hodgkinsoa's a fortnight before he lett
England. I don't know at wtat time he left ray house on
the Friday. He came to my louse 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 or the Monday morning. He
then came to my house. Heshowed me a new chain which
he took out of his waistcoat locket. It was net attached to
his button-hole, but in his picket. It was a new chain. He

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 ho met the German on board. He showed me
also a ring which he said h; had bought. The chain pro-
duced is the one he showed me. I remember it, the stone
being on one side, the sam( as his (prisoner's) chain had.
I had never seen the chainbeforo. He said he paid £3 15s.
for the chain and 7s. 6d. fa the ring. Having shown me
the chain he put it in his bation-hole. He did not attach to
it a watch, nor did I see hin with a watch then or at any
time after. Ido not know whether his dress was the same
on Monday he wore on Satirday. When he came on Mon-
day he had on an overcoat Ind light trousers. I noticed he
had a new hat, and I said t, him, " You have got a new hat
again." He replied, " Oh,l had this two months ago." It
was in a good state. He aid he had only worn it three or
four times. I took it in my hand, and saw that it was a
very good hat. He said le had given 14s. 6d. for it. I did
not notice the maker's nano. He left my house between
twelve and one on Mouthy. It was about my dinner hour.
He came back about fiveor six o'clock in the evening, and
went out with Haffa. Isaw him again on Tuesday. He
was at my house some tine on that day, going on with his
work. The same third took place on the Wednesday.
On Thursday he came ',;) my house about nine o'clock, and
I went with him to the ship the Victoria. Nobody was
with us. It was aboutten o'clock when Muller and I went
out to go to the ship. I went with him on board and
remained about three-guar:era of an hour, when I came
away leaving him on bard. On the Wednesday afternoon
when he came back to tie, about 4 o'clock, he said he wanted
12s to make up his paslage 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 Amerief," I then went with him to Haifa
at Mr Hodgkinson's, b ask him to buy the chain. He said
he had no money, bui that he had got a suit of clothes in
toy house, and told tic to go and pawn it and give Muller
l2s. I did so. I did nit 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 sum dated, 12s, and gave both the money
and ticket to Haffa. I saw Haffa give the money to Muller.
T

=alv. Muller give Haffi the ticket for the chain at the same

time. He told me on the Monday that ho had bought the
chain and ring of the German that morning. I lived at 22,
say
Jewin-streot before I hired at 121, and Muller lived there
too, but he had left before I went to live there. I went down
into his berth when I want on board the Vietorfa, 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 )ad some talk of the murder, but
nothinggtphaartticwualas a
shackingr.lspok thing, that murder on thee to him of it on the Monday,
in
railway; the people wer3 all there talking about it. He made
no remark in reply,
BY Mr Moojie—Whea he told me he had given 14s 0,1 for
the hat, I said it was a very cheap hat for the muney—" 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 Waluesday (I think it was) trying to
put a hat-band on it, lie did not succeed, and gave it up.
I do not know that he
Nos 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 ho formerly wore if I saw it.
Mrs Elizabeth Sarah Ilpseb, wife of the last witness, was
next examined, She said—l know Muller. I saw him at
our
'clock,
on F..aturday, 9th July. He came in about one
oclock,
and set himself docn to work. I went out between
sever and eight o'clock, when he was still there with ll,Affa.
r
, next saw him on the Mcnday 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. lie said he had given
£3lss for the chain, and he showed me a plain ring with a
white stone, which 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 met the German, I understood him to
say in the docks as ho was going to the ship. I never saw
him with that chain before. When he showed it me I said,
"It may bo 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. Ho re-
turned the locket on the Monday morning. On the Saturday

when he 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 the other
one and threw it in the dust-hole, and I have had this about
a month." He told me he had paid 14s 6d 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 ha wanted 12s.
He said he was 12s short, and asked my husband to buy
the ticket of the chain I had seen. My husband told him
he could not,land they left together to go to Mr. Haifa. I
saw my husband give the 12s for the suit he had pawned
Haifa. I saw Haifa give it to Muller, and Muller give the
ticket of the chain to Haifa. 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 my 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 1.5. We left the pier at a quarter before
eight in the morning. We had between 20 and 30 passen-
gers on board, I went as far as the light ship off Bognor
in 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 ho spoke that he was a Gorman. 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. 11. 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 think you will have no objection to
granting the application that the recoguisances 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 iady herself.
" I have further to state that I regret to learn you still
labour under the impression that I assaulted you. I can
quite understantl 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.

" 11. L. BATEMAN.

"To Mrs Bristowe. Aug. 23, 1364."
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 could have nothing to add, and should therefore apply
to the Court that Mr Bateman be discharged from his re-
cognisances.

His Lordship said he could see no reason to the contrary.
The recognisanees were accordingly discharged, and thus
ended the Adelphi 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
Itiereury 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-
selves 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 ono
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 £5 to the police fund rather than 1
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 towards the police ; that collision took
place, 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 soldier
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 wore:glad what 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
colonels, 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 Effie 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
tba 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 caso 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."

TIIE STRIKE AT HANLEY.—The colliers and iron
atone 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,