The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-06 00:00:00

thoroughly investigated from the alpha to the omega tho
public will be very much dissatisfied.
Sergeant Ballantine—Every care will be taken tha this
shall be done.
Inspector Mackerell—lt took six constables to get him
into the cell. He res,sted;lmost violently. With regard to
the second man, Mrs. Richardson said she would not charge
him, as he had tried to prevent the prisoner from insulting
her. There were other persons who came to the station at
the same time, and they all said there was very great mis-
conduct. I got the names of two, and they are here now.
This being the whole of the evidence in this (the first)case,
Mr, Knox administered the usual caution to the prisoner
previously to fully committing him for trial.
Mr. Lewis said his client would reserve his defence.
Mr. Knox— I think this case ought to be sent to the su-
perior Court, where it can be tried by the highest judges of
the land.
The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial at
the next sessions of the Central Criminal Court.
Mr. Smith was then recalled, and repeated his former
evidence, adding—The first thing that happened after I took
my seat was that the prisoner took out a whistle. Opposite
him were two ladies, apparently about 18 or 20 years of age.
He placed his face close to that of the youngest, and blew
very shrilly with the whistle. I attempted to stop him,
under the impression that the engineer might take it for
the guard's whistle or signal. He had just finished as the
guard came up and said that three ladies had been complain-
ing of his conduct, and that if he heal d of any more com-
plaints he would report him at Paddington. The prisoner
seemed so drunk that he did not understand what was said
to him. After the guard left the train started. The pri-
soner then took off his hat and placed it on the seat, and
his stick on the top of it. His next proceeding wasto jump
up and down the carriage, treading on the feet of the people.
He then turned round and faced us.
The prisoner had been looking at Mrs. Richardson for
some time, and laughing, and also laughing at any one
whose attention he could direct to himself.
Mr. Knox (to prisoner)—l don't know, Mr. William
Whitehead, what the ultimate result of the case may be,
but I recommend you for your own sake not to stand there
grinning. I recommend you to preserve a more gentle-
manly demeanour.
Mr. Smith continued—The prisoner then suddenly turned
round, took his stick from his hat, and dashed it against
the side of the carriage, and, in consequence of that, two
yoting ladies had to lower their heads while he was strik.
ing, or they would have received the blows of the stick.
Seeing this, I got up and pulled him on one Bide, and
placed him against the door where I had been sitting, and,
taking his seat, placed myself between him and the ladies.
He flourished his stick over a young woman's (Mrs. Fry's)
head. The prisoner's friend said to him, "Don't make
yourself such a fool ; don't insult ladies. If you want to
make yourself a fool, give me a— good punch of the head;"
and he (the other man) put his head up to him. 'Whitehead
seemed to be so drunk that he really could not understand
what was said. The prisoner again pulled out his whistle
and was about to blow it, when the other man said "Don't
fly it till you get to Paddington."
Sergeant Ballantine—l want to ask you one question.
Did the young man to whom you allude make use of any
bad language?
Witness—No, he did not, Although he was very drunk,
he certainly did try to restrain his companion. In conse-
quence of the oaths and language of Whitehead, a lady
fainted, and a gentleman opened one of the windows to let
in some fresh air. His language was very bad indeed. At
Southall I called the attention of the guard to the prisoner,
and said I would charge him for annoying the passengers.
He (the guard) said to the station-master, "What am I to
do ?" I said if he did not lock him up I should report him.
The station-master told the guard to lock the two men in,
and he did so.
In this second case it was decided the charge should
be withdrawn, as no one had been actually assaulted.
Mr. Lewis said he had a few words to say on behalf of
the prisoner. It had been stated that the prisoner was
respectable, and had a wife, who very much deplored the
position of her husband. He had been living in a decent
manner in the country, and gave his address and his correct
name. He was no: there to palliate his conduct in any way.
No doubt he owed many apologies to Mrs. Richardson,
and many had been made by his relatives. It appeared
that the prisoner had been somewhat affected in mind,
and that he escaped from a person who wes with him. He
then went to Langley station, where he got into the train
and committed the assaults. Mr. Smith had stated that he
was so drunk that he really did not seem to understand what
was said to him, and he (Mr, Lewis) thought that it might
be inferred that although the asasult was committed there
was no indecent intention.
Mr. Knox—What, Mr. Lewis, when he shouted out
" Half-a-sovereign ?" Do you think that after that you will
get any one to believe that no indecent intention was meant ?
Mr. Lewis said his application was for bail, not to palliate
his client's conduct.
Mr. Knox assented to bail, the prisoner himself in £5OO
and two securities in £lOO each.
The bail was forthcoming, and the prisoner was released.
Thos. Dudley next appeared on a summons taken out by
Superintendent Durdle, of the company's police, charged
under the company's by-laws with being found intoxicated
in one of their carriages on the 28th ult.
The defendant gave the address 29, Queen street, Edg-
ware-road.
Sergeant Ballantine said,—l have taken a deal of trouble
to inquire as to whether the defendant has committed any
acts of indecency. He was certainly drunk, but from the
evidence of Mr. Smith and others he was satisfied that he
had not committed any act of aggression. The defendant
is a pet son in a humble walk of life, and ought not to have
been in the company that he had got into, We only intend
to go upon the by-laws, and, as no indecency was committed
by defendant, we do not wish to press for the full penalty.
Defendant pleaded guilty, and expressed his regret for
the part he had taken in the assault.
Mr. Knox considered that under all the circumstances the
requirements of the case would be met by a fine being im-
posed upon him of 10s., with the alternative, in default of
payment, of imprisonment for seven days.
The fine was paid.

THE COTTON LOAN.

Mr. Memminger, the Secretary of the Treasury of the
Confederate States, says in his report ;—" The purchases
of cotton under the Act of April 30, 1863, amount to
399,753 bales at the date of the reports last received, at
a cost of £30,314,769. The average price paid was
16 dol. 85e. per lb , exclusive of Sea Island cotton—the
lowest price being 61, and the highest 361, and five-
sixths of the entire purchase-money have been paid in
bonds. The difficulty of procuring reports in detail from
the agents in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas
has prevented a precise return of the cotton which has been
destroyed ; but from the estimates made by each of them it
may be assumed that the entire loss is not more than
3.),000 bales. To this must be added several thousand bales
used for military and naval defences, and also several thou-
sand more turned over to the ordnance and Quartermaster's
departments to fulfil contracts for supplies, and also for
shipments made by the Treasury Department. The whole
of these deductions may be set down at 70,202 bales, leaving
on hand an aggregate of about 329,500 bales, Of this
amount about 30,000 hales are stored in warehouses in
cities, and the remainder in cotton-houses on the planta-
tions where they have been purchased. The time which
has elapsed since much of this cotton was purchased has
damaged the rope and bagging of a portion thereof ; and
the aid of Congress is esked in procuring the means of re-
newing it. I had hoped that the skill of our people would
discover a substitute for rope and bagging, and probably an
offer of a reward for the best plan would produce beneficial
results. If resort must be bad to foreign supplies, the plan
which may be adopted to ship the cotton will furnish the
means of importing the rope .and bagging, and in either view
it will be necessary to make an appropriation to cover the
expense. The cotton interest bonds will naturally fall within
the management of this division of the Treasury Depart-
ment, and it is proposed that they should take that course.
It is not clear what was the design of Congress in authorising
these bonds. The first law passed was in connection with the
Funding Act, and the coupons was thereby made payable at
the option of the holder of the bond in coin, or cotton valued
at Bd. sterling Der lb. The object of this law was obviously to
provide the means of raising money abroad, and after it was
passed I recommended that the rate at which the cotton
was to be taken should be reduced to 6d., or the average
price at Liverpool before the war. At this rate purchasers
could have been produced at any time before the fall of
Vicksburg. The amendment which was made to the law by
Congress reduced the price as proposed, but shifting the
option of being paid in cotton from the purchaser to the
Government. This converted the bond in the view of a
European purchase into a simple six per cent, money bond,
with the interest payable here. The absence of the right to
require cotton for the bonds took away their availableness
in the foreign market, On the other hand, the option which
they allowed the holders to receive cotton at 6d. when it
was selling at three or four times that price made the opera-
tion very unfavourable for the Government unless the bonds
were sold at a large advance. For this reason, I deemed it
my duty, after due explanation of the nature of the bonds,
to advertise for bids; and, as an experiment, I accordingly
offered five millions. The bids ranged at various rates from
par up to 100 per cent. I accepted all the bids at and over
50 per cent. premium, and issued a second advertisement.
The bids which wree offered in both cases were far below
the amount of goods offered for sale. But those bids which
came from persons of known intelligence and patriotism in-
dicated that 50 per cent, was the probable value of the bonds,
I therefore adopted that rate and authorised sales to be made
accordingly. Those sales have been made to a very limited
extent, chiefly because it was believed that the blockade
would prevent the shipment of any cotton to be received in
payment. This impediment was so serious that, in the
judgment of men of business, even a reduction of the price
of bonds to par would not induce large sales."

COTTON GROWING IN ILLINOIS.—The farmers in
Southern Illinois have been busily engaged for sortie weeks
past in cotton picking on high grounds, where the ci'ops
have been little injured by the frost. On the bottom and
low lands the crops are totally ruined. Cotton presses are
going up in Huron and Jackson counties, and gins are
running in every neighbour.hod,—Aelo York Ihrag,