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

A committee, consisting of several leading and
influential officers in the volunteer service of the
country, has been formed by Lieutenant-Colonel the
lion. 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 view is to raise a
fund 'by subscriptions from the volunteer riflemen
in Great Britain, as well as from those who, 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-
cipal mainstay to its permanency. The committee
will shortly meet to decide upon the necessary de-
tails for carrying out the work, after which an ex-
planatory address will be issued, preparatory to the
arrangement of the machinery best calculated to
realise the object, and which will be conduared upon
as simple and economical a system, in proportion to
the importance of the undertaking, that 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 as is intended will create throughout
the two countries, in connection with so honourable
a contest, will be suflioient to secure a most satisfac-
tory response.
The annual distribution of prizes to the success-
ful competitors in the Ist Surrey Rifles took place
last evening in the extensive dill•shed belonging
to the corps at Hanover-park, Peckhem, which was
well filled with the volunteers and their friends,
Ile prizes were numerous and handsome, exceed-
ing £4OO in value, and were distributed by Lady
Pollock, wife of General Sir G. Pollock, the hono-
rary. colonel of the regiment. A prize given by
Mr Daulton, 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 on 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 Rifles
were especially indebted. As that retirement was
from the rules of the service inevitable, it was at
least satisfactory to know that Colonel M'Murdo
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 regiment. 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 Lient.-Culonel
Macdonald, and the proceedings were brought to a
close.

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LORD RUSSELL'S NOTE.

(From the 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 Lai-
pendance Beige and other journals not prone to
credit too easily anything favourable to the South.
Chia rumour was to the effect that the America❑
policy of the Foreign Office was undergoing essen-
tial modifications, and that, while England would
not take the initiative, an opportunity would be
welcomed for joining France in any steps in which
the latter assumed the chief responsibility. We
did not, and do not now, attach any real
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 tb 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 the North, we cannot see how,
ander present circumstances, be 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.
tore at Washingto❑ claimed to 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.
[he executive and legislature which commence
their term of authority on March 4 cannot, and do
not, set up any such pretension. This new govern.
went 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—
fennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri—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 bcea totally
lost, and that the captain had been drowned. Thenews was
communicated by the mate, 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. Sho 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. safely. The Tartar was on
her voyage from Ci,tl3 to Hull when the sad disaster oc-
curred. Hie was an iron slip, and hailed from London.

The lambing season has already commenced in
Cornwall, Mr Chndleigh and Mr Muchmore, farmers, near
Liskeard, having this week received several additions to
their flocks.

[ADvErtilsrariT•-i —Holloway's Ointment.—Painless
Cures.—Sores, wermus, u!cEratior c, and other diseases
affecting the skin arc amendable b 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 soothing
effect of this ointment can form an idea of the comfort it
bewows by restraining ifilimmation and allaying pain.
Whenever this ointment has been once used it has estab •
lished its own worth, an has again been eagerly sought for
as the easiest and safest remedy fur till ulcerous complaints.
la neuralgia, rhAnultisin, and gout, the same application
properly 1,1e(1 gives wonderful relief,

WAR OFFICE, Nov. 30.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders
for the appointment of the undermentioned ullicers to 'bo
Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Third
Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order c./ the
Bath, viz. :—Captain John Montagu Hayes, R.N. ; cp
tain William Montagu. Dowell, R.N.; Captain John noab_,.
house Inglis Alexatider, R.N. ; and Lieutenant-Colonel
Grigor Suther, of the Royal Marines.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. I.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Donald
Malcolm Logic, Esq , now Legal Vice. Consul, Canoellkr,
and Registrar of the Cousular Court at Smyrna, to be her
Majesty's Consul-General at Constantinople.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Signor Fortv„.
nato Lawouroux as Consul at Calcutta for his Majesty the
King of Italy.

DEC. 2.
The Queen. has been pleased to approva of M. Philip
Douglas Alexander as Vice-Consul at Bristol for his Royal
Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenturgh.
WAR OFFICE, FALL-MALL, DEc. 2.
58th Regiment of Foot-1114or-General Charles Crau.
Turd Hay to be Colonel, vice General Edward Buckley
Wynyard. C. 8., deceased.

BANKRUPTS,
That portion of the Gazette containing the Bankrupts had
not arrived when we went to press.

Course of Exchange,—This Day,

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 10
Antwerp - 25 571
Brussels — 2.5 57i
,
Hamburg — 13 8
Paris . Short. 25 17/
Ditto
Marseilles — 25 67/
Frankfort on Maine —12 w,
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 29/
Berlin —

11 1G
11 191
12 19
25 621
25 621
13 81
25 221
25 60
25 62±
120/
12 10
12 10
29

Madrid

Cadiz

Leghorn.. — 20 . 4470 25 75
Milan — 25 7uo 5
75
Genoa — 25 70 25 75
Naples
Palermo .— 26 721 25 77i
Messina - 26 721 25 77i
Lisbon
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).... ..per oz., £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars .• •

TFIE CUANCES OF WAR.—On the evening of the
Gth of November, Sergeant Marvin, of the 2d New
York Cavalry, tied 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 there, 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
b 3 substituted for these two men ; and accordingly Marvin
and Bennett were put upon the death-roll. Lieut. Smith
was, detailed to conduct the executior, 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, the 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. The 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 thenext man, tloffiegale ;
the ball struck him in the arm, and he 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.—New York. 2 lines.
A CONVICT'S VIEWS ABOUT CONVICTS.—The
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 probab!y no sys
tem could be devised, short of one involving the most re-
volting cruelty, which would not come after a while to bo
borne with indifference. Thus, there is scarcely a prisoner
to whom the routine and confiement of prison life continue
to be a sourco of anything like acute suffering after the
first year, or whom the close of the second year does
not tied 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 aro touched
through their affections, and it is hard to cause any but
the finer and more highly educated natures much suffer-
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
acorns to be possessed by a'l 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. On 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 the

exercise-grounds at Fremantle, and you will say that no
party of pleasure was ever apparently so free front distutb-
ing influences, or displayed so great an amount of tranquil
enjoyment as the denounced and exiled men before you. And
so completely is this the result of other causes than light
punishment, that those undergoing the additional
and terribly severe sentences• fur attempting to
escape, and other prison offences, are as careless and
happy as the rest. Loaded, many of them, with 281 b of
iron night and day, condemned to wear them for one to
three years; placed, some of them so loaded, on lib of

bread a day for GO or 70 days at a lime, and presenting,

after such fasts, such a spectacle of emaciation that, if they
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Were to appear (just as they are) in the streets of London,

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they would raise a general burst of indignation ; they yet

dofy it all. Their punishment is very painful at firkt,
and sufficiently painful all along to make them feel
very savage, and quistly cherish a future revenge, But

after th© first 14 days, which they say is worse than all the

rest. they suffer no acute pain. Borne up by the elasticity
of youth—strong in their motto, " I can do it," and becom .
log better able mentally, if not physically, to bear their

sufferings every successive day—they grow as inditlerent to
their own additional sentence as they did to their original
one.—Cornhll Magazine.

A YOUNG WOMAN MURDERED BY lIER SWEET.'
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 Ystrad, Glaruurganshire.
Suspicion fell at the time on a
young man named Thomas
Williams, who was known to be paying his addresses to
die deceased, and he was apprehended and committed for
trial on the charge of murder, u-as tried at the
43tlauturgaubbire u4t.i.:teE, but ths evidence being incomplete
the jury rc-turnil a verdict of not guilty. Williams has
just died, and a few hours befura his death ho made a lull
confession that he was the murderer of Jane Lewis, his

Fortner sweetheart.
EMIGRATION FROM LIVERFOOL.—The monthly
return of the Government Emigration effi,cra 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 TJuited
States—ono with 371 passengers, for Queensland—
ttd three eliii llwl' ro:seng(:rs, for Victoria, There
also sailed, independent of the act, 13 vessels, with 518
ii, with
passengers.
_Five, with '248 passengers, were tor the United
States—one for New South Wales, with 28 passengers—
one for Victoria, with 44 passengers —and the remainder to
other pone.