The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

HERALD.—Lord Colville fulfilled an honourable,
though, perhaps, not a very popular task. when he
called the attention of the House of Lords to the
doubtful part taken by the Deputy Judge Advocate
General in the prosecution of Coloneral Crawley.
The ordinary acceptation of the duties of that
official is, oh the Whole) Very similar tothat adopted
by Lord Chelmsford. He is not regarded as the
prosecutor, but as the arbitrator between contend-
ing parties ; he has to look after the interests of
both the prosecution and the defence, and as Lord
Chelmsford *ell aptly remarked, ",to see fair play
done to both parties!' That, coo *enters to say, is
the general impression of the role of the Deputy
J udge Advocate General. But what was the posi-
tion of the gentleman appointed to fulfil his duties
at the late court martial ? He appeared virtually
as counsel for the prosecution; he put the questions
into the mouth of the prosecutor ; he replied to the
defence, and yet" he was a permanent officer of that
department which had to revise the proceedings
before they were submitted to the Queen." Every-
body is willing to admit the ability with which the
prosecution was conducted. It savoured almost of
the sharpness of Old Bailey practice. The prosecu•
tion stood on vantage-ground, and availed itself to
the fullest extent of its position, and Lord Colville
by no means overstated the case when he said that
the reply to the defence put into the mouth of the
public prosecutor "dealt with subjects that were
utterly irrelevant to the subject before the Court,and
matters which the prisoner wasdebarred from intro-
ducing into his defence were, on the other hand, un •
fairly used against him by the Deputy Judge Advo-
cate." It was, in fact, impossible to peruse the pro-
ceedings of the court martial without feeling that
this confusion of the duties of Deputy Judge Advo-
cate General with those of prosecutor materially
damaged the defence, and that Colonel Crawley
was very like to suffer from it. We do not, any
more than Lord Colville, make any charge against
Sir A. Horsford, who undoubtedly conducted the
prosecution with propriety and discretion. But we
think there can hardly be a doubt that the principle
of allowing a Deputy Judge Advocate to advise the
prosecutor is most unfair upon the defence, and we
are glad to learn from the Duke of Cambridge that
it is not likely to be adopted as a precedent. The
Crawley court martial is now a thing of the past,
but it is to be hoped its lessons will remain ; and
undoubtedly the chief lesson to be derived from it
is the inexpediency and the injustice of prejudging.
In this instance the authorities acted harshly. They
adopted a prejudice, and they endeavoured to sub-
stantiate it. They failed, but they were either too
deeply committed or too timid to admit their error ;
and Colonel Crawley, after having been exposed to
the cruellest aspersions and to such obloquy as has
rarely befallen " an officer and gentleman" in these
days, is ordered back to India as peremptorily and
unceremoniously as if he had been acquitted by a
legal flaw, instead of having been thoroughly ab-.
solved by a jury of his peers. The legal depart-
ment of the army could in no way better establish
its claim to public respect than in devising some
readier and less anomalous mode of trying military
offences than the present blundering and unsatis-
factory system of court menials,

POST.—As it is an ill wind that blows nobody good, so
we need not be surprised should there be one quarter of the
Continent to which the unsettled state of Europe during
the last twelve months had proved an unmitigated benefit.
While Russia, and France, and Austria have been absorbed
in their own concerns, or the concerns of more westerly
nations, the empire of Turkey has enjoyed a little peace
and quiet, and has been able to some extent to shake off
that incubus of intervention which of late years had pressed
so heavily on her energies. The results of this brief re-
spite, which, let us hope, may now become perpetual, are
visible in all departs of the Government, and in the mate-
rial and moral progress of the entire nation. We required,
indeed, no conjuror to tell us that efforts at self-improve-
ment, whether in nations or individuals, to be successful,
must be spontaneous. Yet this obvious truth seems to have
been partially ignored in all the dealings which have taken
place between the Western Powers and the Porte. And we
can only trust that the phenomena and statistics of the
Turkish empire at the present moment may open the eyes of
statesmen for the future. The Sultan, who from the first
day of his accession hasgiven constant proofs of his vigour,
his patriotism, and his real sympathy with progress,
had laboured hard in thisgood work, and inan astonishingly
short space of time has accomplished the moat arduous re-
forms. To begin with the finances of the empire : many
Englishmen perhaps will not believe, what is nevertheless
quite true, that the Sultan's Government has succeeded at
last in calling in the last of the caimes, and that at this
moment not a square inch of paper money is in circulation
in Turkey. Could those Governments which affect to look
down on Turkey with so great an air of superiority—could
Austria, or could Russia—say as much? The revenue is
rising daily, and commerce and domestic industry are
steadily extending themselves. The Sultan indeed has
devoted his special attention to the development of agricul-
ture, and the Turkish exports are now more than ten times as
great as they were three years ago. It is, however, to the
growth of cotton that he has given the more particular
care ; and the quantity of seed which Turkey, with the
help of the Cotton Supply Association, has purchased from
America, in order to be distributed among the native far-
mers, gives us good promise that the revenue next year
from this source alone will be considerable. Secondly,
and in close connection with the subject of nationa
wealth, are the praiseworthy efforts of the Ottoman Govern-
ment to °instruct roads and railways throughout their vast
dominions, and the liberality with which concessions have
been made to foreign companies for the purpose of attract-
ing capital to a region which promises, under that magi-
cian's wand, to burst into the most luxuriant prosperity.
Thus we see the Sultan is doing all that in him lies to build
up the regeneration of Turkey on the solid ground of mate-
rial well-being. A healthy revenue, a rapidly developing
native industry, both in commerce and agriculture, and the
new lines of communication which promise ere long to knit
together the extremities of the empire with its centre, testify
to the success of his exertions reveal the possibilities of the
future. Rome was not built in a day, and the reform party
in Turkey has an uphill battle to fight. But because this
ancient empire does not at a single stride become exactly
what we are ourselves, must Englishmen shut their eyes to
the gigantic strides which she has taken within the last 20
years, or withhold their sympathy from men struggling in
as noble a cause as can easily be imagined, combining, as it
does, within itself the most devoted patriotism with the
most zealous support of all those arts and sciences which
constitute material civilisation P

Shocking Loss of the Bark Eliza Ann,
Seven of her Crew Starved to Death.

Yesterday the following was received by Captain Halsted,
R.N., secretary of Lloyd's, from her Majesty's Consul at
New York, reporting the loss of the British barque Eliza
Ann, of Plymouth, and the shocking fate of several of her
crew by starvation and exposure.
" British Consulate, NdW York, Feb. 8, 1864.

" Sir,—I have the honour to transmit herewith, enclosed
for the information of the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, a copy of a written report made to me by
Richard Kearney, master of the barque Eliza Ann, of Ply-
mouth, detailing the circumstances of the loss and abandon-
ment of that vessel at sea, and of the rescue of a portion of
the crew by the steamship Edinburgh, of Liverpool, Thomas
Fleetwood Roskell, master. This would appear to have been
a case of peculiar hardship, and great credit is due to the
master of the Edinburgh for his humane treatment of the
shipwrecked crew after their resells. Richard S. Thompson,
chief officer of the steamer, would appear likewise to have
acted in a praiseworthy manner, he having commanded the
boat which took the survivors from the wreck. The amount
of subsistence money which would be due, about £5 158.,
has been offered by me to Capt. Roskell, but refused. Six
of the crew were so much disabled, owing to their exposure
upon the wreck, that it has been necessary to send them
direct to the hospital at public expense, and the master and
two mates are being subsisted by me until an opportunity
offers to send them home. Seven of the Eliza Ann's crew
perished upon the wreck from starvation and thirst, and one
on board the steamer after their rescue. It has been im-
possible to obtain with certainty the names of these unfor-
tunate men, as all the vessel's papers, log books, &c., have
been lost, but the master's report gives them so far as pos-
sible —I have the honour, &c., E. M. ARCHIBALD.
"The Secretary Marine Department Board of Trade,"
" Copy of Enclosure, dated Now York, Jan. 6.

" The Eliza Ann sailed the 31 January, 1864, with a
cargo of timber. Experienced a succession of terrific gales
and sea, which swept the decks, and the vessel became water-
logged, notwithstanding that every effort was made to keep
her clear. It was impossible to secure any provisions ex-
cept a barrel of potatoes, and we were entirely without water
at the same time. All the effects of the crew and myself,
along with the ship's papers, were lost; and for many days
we were upon the point of starvation, and without any water
except such as was caught by the rigging in passing showers.
We all suffered fearfully, and for almost a week were abso-
lutely without food. Seven of the seamen died upon the
wreck from exposure and starvation. Their names I am
unable to state with certainty, but believe them to be as
follows :—Jacob Halsin, Francis Hans, Augustus Brown,
Peter Coffee, Charles Pingfoot, Francis Veturan, and John
Branham, mostly Germans. Upon the 25th ult., the Edin-
burgh, Thomas Fleetwood Roskell master, of Liverpool,
fell in with the wreck and took off the survivors (ten in all).
While on board the ship Patrick Ryan, a seaman, died from
the effects of the exposure to which he had been subjected.
We were all treated with great kindness on board the Edin-
burgh, and upon this day the remaining nine were landed
here."
The ship was insured at Lloyd's.

THE PILATE OF NATIONS.—The Pays calls Eng-
land the Pontius Pilate of Politics, because our only voca-
tion is now to wash our hands of others' guilt while
acquiescing in its results. There is something in the taunt.
Pontius Pilate was well-meaning, ;but weak, and had a
dreadful fear of being " Cmsar's" foe ; and that is very
much the state of mind of our own Government.—Spectator.

COUNTRY MARKETS•

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LIVERPOOL—FRIDAY.
There was a limited attendance of the town and country
trade to-day, and but little inquiry. lied wheat suffered a
decline of ld ; white Dantzic, with more pressure to sell, 3d
per cental on the week. Flour was equally dull, and
6d
lower in price. Oats and oatmeal unaltered. EgYPtian
beans very dull, at the rates of Tuesday last. There via?
very little doing in Indian corn, and prices were lully 30,
per qr lower on the week.

WAKEFFIELD—FRIDAY.
Only a small business was done in wheat to day, slid
the prices of last Friday generally made. Barley meet 1
steady sale at barely former prices. Other articles WWI
tained late rates.

STAMFORD—FRIDAY.
White wheat, 42s to 44s ; red, 38s to 41s per '36 done'
Barley, malting, 33a to 35s ; grinding, 29s to 329 per 9r•
Oats, 18s to 22s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 40s to Per
qr. ; new, 34s to 365.

LINCOLN—FRIDAY.
White wheat new, 42s to 48s ' Barley, grinding.. 305 to 33s
Red do. 36s to 41s Oats, old, ........13323s to 26.1
Old white
—s to —s New do .......... to 2'2s
Red do. —s to —8 8ean5............ 40s to 4.2 a
Barley, malting 348 to 368 Beans, new...... 348 to 360

CORK—FRIDAY.
The following were the quotations this morning :---fte
li,g
d
wheat, 8s Od to 8s 10d ; white 8s Od to Os 8d , barleY,
6d to 8s Od ; oats, 4s 10d to '6B 2d ; black do., 4s 4d to
5s 3d.

BRISTOL SUGAR—FRIDAY.
The raw sugar market exhibits a steady business doing
this week, and prices are fully 6d per cwt. higher than lag
week. Refine I goods sell freely, at full prices to 6d at
vance. The demand for ruin is good :or Deraeranol/2 and
prices unchanged.

COAL MARKET.
Mos of Coal per Ton at tile close of the market. d.
®,
(1.
Bates'sWest Hartley ..14 0
Bower's West Hartley.l4 9
liyass's Bebside West
Hartley ...14 9
Carr's Hartley. ..14 9
Lambert's West Hart-

ley 14 6
Davison's West Hart-
ley
Wylam 17 0
Cowpen Hartley 14 9
West Hartley 14 9
alker Primrose 12 0
Eden Main ..17 3
ranileld Moor Butes..ls 0
Ships at market

Walls End.
.. 19 0
Haswell . • ... Q 9
East Hartlepool .....
17
South Hartlepool- .• • is 6
Trimd on Hartlepool.... 6 3
Tr imd on Thornley
18
Kelloe
Eieugh Bail ........... 18 3
South Kelloe. ........... 6
Tunstall ........... 3
16 6
Riddell ............. 16
Harton .............
.16 30
Wharncliffe .......
... is
Cassop ............ .
...15 0
Hartlepool • .....
82 ; sold, 64.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEI('
Miles Opened. Rem

Railways.

1864.

Belfast and N. Counties I3G
Belfast and County Down 49
Blyth and Tyne . 28
Bristol and Exeter l2ll
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington Bi
Cork and Bandon 2O

Cork, Blackrock, &Passage...
Cork and Youghal ......
Cornwall
Deeside
Dublin & Belfast Junction
Dublin and Drogheda

Dublin and Meith
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Furness, &•3
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union

3261
651
17
63
75

91}
169*
50
198
663

Great Northern 353
Great North of Scotland 5B
t..N orthn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll
rit.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 373/
Great Western 1056/

Inverness & Aberdeen Juno
Inverness & Perth Junction
Irish North-Western
Lancashire & Yorkshire

86i
1191
145
402

Limerick and Ennis... 24}
---•- -

Limerick and Foynes 266
Llanelly 46f
Londen & North-Western
London and Blackwall sf
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 261
London, Chatham, & Dover 72
Do. Metropolitan Extension 103/4
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheilield,& Lincolnsh 239,t
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham clf
Haryport and Carlisle

Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western)..

31
641

_.eland (incl. IN.- v, ,
nidland Gt.Westn. of Irind 259 i
Monkland 7l
noninouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee

N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 2M

Oswestry and Newton... 5O
Rhymney l9/
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central

Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Tail' Vale
Ulster

1051

Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath
- -

Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77

West Cornwall

W.ll artlepool Ilarbr.&RaiL 52
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

1863.

Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B

Belgian Eastern Junction
Bombay, Baroda, & Ceti. India
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Detroit and Milwaukie
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France

East Indian

Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Indian Peninsula

Great Luxembourg.
...

lili
£45

Great Southern of ....
Great Western of Canada....
Madras

261
185
161
189
104
110
135

936}

48i
169}
5)
198
64i
351

711
329
10324
861

134

145
3951

1179,t

441

61
421
2391

636
259/
71/

Madrid, Saragossa &Aiicant 650
Northern of Canada 94
Northern of France 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman ..

48}

4104
10794
9
254

Paris, Lyons, & Dlediterrn 1805
Paris and Orleans 1614
Pernambuco 77i
Royal Danish
69

138
394
751
305

481
1713
1494

.03
11.447 1851
50,914 47'g76
3,149 ,916
8,40 7'869
1,109 924
983 005
2,070 2.20/
4,468 4746
4,950 4.36
641 .98
2.975 *s+
15,493 4 43
5,738 3'016
2,321 'ist
141 1.529
2,384 345
8 00
930 -'793
800 3.435
4,079 5.5
676 933
1,053 801
1,034

Sai.abre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian .. 1527
Southern of France 770
Victorian 196
Welland
`West Flanders 75
W. and N.W. of France

I 691
1,168 -.764
30, 2 011 17
314 1.772
3,066 „; 3;4
2,433
,809
4,730 - 3--
- ,7°3
52,134 53 0,901
10,042 ;9 553
18,-18 '1,371113
10,324799 4' 5
701 1
09
13,399 '1703
5243 1902/
16,101
3,784 Ag 21
4 ,
6 549 459
624. 321
688 387 120'288
160,679

1,288
03404,;,
44,900
.577
220! *029
9 FA.
597
1,022 34.171
36.709

1468
680
196

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE. 20'
gar.
kustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ....... gar.
via Marseilles .........
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British paOzet. ..... •
28.•
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. „„.0.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton-:eb.
via Marseilles .•

.... ...._ 26*
Falkland Islands
....
Gibraltar, via Southampton ................. :/tiar3,.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southanipton..pb,Kl,.
. via Marseilles.• • fob. .!'.
India (Bombay), via Southampton ............ gar.
via Marseilles ............... mar. ~,-
Portuga 1....
. .
Kalta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton •• ~F r:,
via Marseilles ..... ...Ina'
Newfoundland ........ . .................... ,
Feb,2s
Oporto and Vigo
.. . ........ • . .. X
.0 -
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet,k -o b. 26'
by U.S. pile- k;t....- e 10.
by Canadian Pack . gar' it,
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ........ . Mar' 29.
Bahamas, via New York .....................
.feb.
.. • • • 29.
Mexico. .
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, x
California. and British Columbia. ..........

THE EDINBURGH AND DUBLIN 13'•"° Via'
—.----
QUESTION.—The Scotsman says:'— Frebeeed.l):
te.l4;
burgheurt
has
Dublin dispute on the right of
etCsha.ocenho.trash ans.been settled by the Privy Council declaring jio/1
municipality
hicaipnadl,ittyheehEarlleehmaavne,p;
jnocuedrnenaciestialytoe:r_.na,t,e,rlY;oeciaercsit:
arrived
isatt neither city is to have precedence.
111
have right of pre-audience."
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Births. ..0, o
n ar
BEAUMONT.—On the 25th inst., at Setbrington goabot,
York, the wife of Captain Godfrey Wentworth 1366
Scots Fusilier Guards, of a BOIL ,he t °
PETRE.—On the 22d inst., at 66, Westbourne-terra f
Hon. Mrs. Henry Petre, of a daughter. wife Of
SHUTE.—On the 24th inst., at 28, Rutland-gate, tile ,
Colonel C. Cameron Shute, of a daughter.
the wife Cl 4
STEPRENSON.--On the 24th inst , at PutneY,
Robert Stephenson, Esq., C.E ~
of a daughter'
Marriages.
philip Lo
ser tli;
LELE:ToIIf 015S0, NlLOBOMea.u—vooinr.theerr2lll iiinsint.9
Harriet, only daughter of Joseph itosenbglBol(ll3l,46(l' °f
15, Devonshire-street, Bishopsgate. at T ea'
rio"
HuNTEit—BLomFIELD.—On the 25th inst I-- of w
Church, Clapham, Zaccheus Joel hunter, late
tham, to Margaret Maria Blomfield, of
p
Deaths. Rs, Thos.
ALLEN.—On the 25th inst., at St. Leonards-oa"
Allan, Esq., of Macclesfield, aged 54.ttlieW Pio • Vic'
Al
Dicx.—On the 24th inst., at Chelsea, Ma
aged 69. .. A Derelf
DOREY.—Oa the 26th inst , at Camberwell, giss
formerly of Chaseside, infield, aged 84. „Tic' 00.05
Gow.—On the 24th inst., at Shoreham, StisselL' '—
Esq., aged 69. a 99 l'i"te.ti
OLIVIER.—On the 21st inst.. suddenly, at TorcPwiits, ag
6C90.10nel Henry Stephen Olivier,sogferdo3t:te; nes.,:des,..lotarnlcect:
ROBERTS.--011 the 23d inst., at 7. ,-;-•
Llewelyn Lloyd Roberts, Esq,,
SELF.—On the 26th inst., at 8, Regent's-Plir
Self, Esq., aged 60.

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London
'ldiesex.—Saturday, Februry' 27.
Strand, al the Precinct of 3o°l'
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