The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-16 00:00:00

All was quiet with Grant's army on the let.

General ,Bully's command defeated the Indians
in a battle on Knife River, Kansas, on the 25th ult.,
killing and wounding 150 of their number. Gee.
Sully's logs was five killed and 30 wounded.
Mr Stanton has officially announced that the cre-
dits required by law to be allowed on the different
quotas under the President's last call for troops
amount to 200,000 men, which reduces the number
to be supplied to 300,000.
Ho adds that 100,000 promptly furnished will
suffice for General Grant to give the finishing blow
to the rebellion.

New Orleans despatches to the 24th ult. announce
the arrival at that city of the family of President
Juarez of Mexico.
Juarez himself is reported en route to the same
destination.

Gold, 241.
The Etna takes 129,740 dole. in specie.

Arrival of Muller in England.

• QUEENSTOWN,
Friday Morning.
From the moment the Etna was signalled to the

time she made the harbour, excitement was intense
and, as the vessel containing
the man whom the
people in Queenstown. believed to be the murderer
of Mr Briggs hove in bight, every place commanding
a view of her lights in the distance WAS tenanted, and
applications to go out in the Inman tender to meet
the vessel were very numerous, but all except the
press were refused. The tender left the quay soon
after 7 o'clock, with Captain
Eastman, the American
consul, on board, and steamed away to sea till the
rocket signals in the distance indicated the approach
of the Etna. At this moment the interest and
curiosity of the few on board the tender were raised
to the highest pitch, which continued till the Etna
drew up to the tender. To the question, "Is
Muller on board ? ' " Yee,"
was the reply. All
eagerly rushed on board.
The Etna left New York on the 31 instant, and
Muller, in custody of Inspector Tanner, conducted
himself well during the voyage.
He says he is
innocent. He ate, drank, and slept well, read the
Pickwick Papers, and laughed heartily over them.
He says he shall never forget Sam Weller. He says
he will be able to establish his perfect innocence.
Inspector Kerressey and Sergeant Clark had
charge of the prisoner, who has been kept in the
sick bay or hospital, of which he has had the rangy.
He has never been in irons.
Mr Death and Matthews, the cabins", are on
board and quite well.
Inspector Tanner, with his charge, is well. They
will leave Liverpool on Saturday morning for Lon.
don. Although Muller is the son of very poor
man, and writes badly. Since
parents, he has served some time in the German
army, and seems to understand what he reads, but
is not an intelligent
the trial on the 31st ult. be has had no conversation
with any one publicly. The excitement among the
German population of New York is immense. In.
specter Tanner before he left addressed a letter to
Superintendent Kennedy, of the New York police,
thanking him for the advice and assistance rendered,
and enclosed ten sovereigns for Detective Tiernan,
who zealously discharged the duties entrusted to
him. The crowds at Queenstown were much dis-
appointed on finding Muller had been conveyed on
to Liverpool.
The New York Herald publishes a correspondence
between Inspector Tanner and superintendent Ken
nedy, the former returning thanks for the attention,
advice, and assistance ho received during his visit,
also thanking him for the valuable assistance of
officer Tiernan, and enclosing for him a gratuity of
w thea s gratuity.oo conveyed
vey e
d
Muller
£lO, if allowed to receive it. Superintendent Ken.
nedy acknowledged and permitted Detective Tiernan
to receive
to the Etna in a carriage on
the 3d inst.

ECCLESIASTICAL.--The Rev. P. S. Tyacke has
been nominated by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
to the It eotory of St Levan, Coral'sll,

BA:

.NOE,

(REUTER'S EXPRESS,)
PARIS, September 15.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week, together with the corresponding
figures of the previous account
SEPT. 15.

SEPT. 8.

DR. f. c. f. c.
Capital of the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
Profits in addition toCapital
(Art. 8 law June 9,1857) 5,204,585 44 5,161,780 88
Reserve in the Bank and
its branches
Reserve in landed property 4,000,000 4,000,003
Notes in circulation 761,638,225 752,214,625
Bank notes to order and re-
ceipts payable at sight 5,733,812 70 6,272,919 63
Treasury ac.. cur. creditor 76,833,698 12 72,300,227 24
Current accounts—Paris 104,i,30,705 41 113,775,851 18
Do. branch-banks
Dividends payable
Discounts and sundry
interests 10,687455 49 9,915,269 55
Re-discounts of the last
six months..
Sundries

1,217,705,816 87 1,210,438,779 55

Cn.
Cash in hand and branch-
banks 273,371,823 37 281,021,082 10
Commercial] bills overdue 409,910 91 561,306 90
Commercial bills d iscounted
not yet due ,...333.481,029 40 323,166,932 40
Do. branch-banks 299,921,777 291,863,543
Advances on deposits of
bullion
Do. branch. banks 3,405,500 2,963,800
Advances on French public
securities
Do, branch-banks 8,187,950
Ad vances onrailway shares
and debentures 27,251,200
Do. branch-banks 17,955,950
Advances on Credit Fon-
cier Bonds 416.700
Do. branch-banks
Advances to the State
(Conven. June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 60,000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve 12,980,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes immobilisees (Law
Juno 9, 1857) 100,000,000
Hotel and furniture of the i
Bank
Landed property, bran, hes
Expenses of management 1,191,702 22 1,147,234 55
Sundries 4,977,571 77 5,059,030 70

14,709,900 -8,323,50

27,233,100 --
17,074,050 -

411,800 -
346,700 -

100,000,000 -

8,384,352 -

1,217,705,816 87 1,210,438,779 55
Certified by the honorary Vice-President of the Council
of State, Governor of the Bank of France.
(Signed) AD. V UITRY.

Transportation to Western Australia.

The excitement on this subject in the colony o:

Victoria would appear to be increasing rather than
diminishing, if we may judge by a letter which
appeared in the Melbourne Argus a few days prior
to the departure of the last mail. The letter to

which we refer is from the pen of the proprie•
tor of the Argus, Mr Edward Wilson, an old and

well known colonist, and it had created a grew

sensation in the colony. Many hundreds of pounds
had been subscribed to assist in the project, and
it seems we may expect the arrival ere long of a
choice selection of ruffians, We subjoin the letter :

TO TIIE EDITOR OF TILE ARGUS.
Sir,—l, for one, have had enough of it. There is a poin

in a contest at which larthur diseussion degenerates into

ehildishness. There is a limit at which petition, address,
and remonstrance dwindle into slavishness, For more than
twenty years I have watched and shared in this anti-trans-
portation struggle, aad 1 think it quite time that it should
be brought to a conclusion. I can form no conjecture as to
what the Government, the Legislature, or the league con-
siders it desirable to do. But, as a private colonist, I con-
ceive that the time is come for action. I find the feeling
participated in by others ; to what extent I do not know.
But with many associates, with a few, or alone I shall begin
to take decided steps to show that what we have been talk-
ing about so long I have been quite in earnest about all the
time. Ido not pretend to know much of the ordinary run
of political affairs in the colony. I do not take any very
great interest in your ministerial or parliamentary complica-
tions. The entanglements of your innumerable lands bills
have long since quite bewildered me. I scarcely know one
of your more recent politicians even by sight. But with
this transportation question I am pretty well acquainted,
and I wish that it should be followed out in a reasonably
manly and consistent style.
It seems to me that we aro not only being disgraced in
the eyes of the world by a pusillanimous tone upon a most
vital subject, but that between two fires we are in circum-
stances of extreme danger. Upon one side we have Western
Australia ; a mere cesspool for the reception of the most
desperate felons of the mother cJuntry. On the other we
have Now South Wales and Itiverina, over which men like
Morgan and Ben Hall rule with a rod of iron—in which
police protection is becoming a mere joke, and sympathy
with the outlaw is showing itself so widely diffused that
even Italian brigandage seems likely to be improved upon.

Separated by an arbitrary boundary, we cannot hold our
own;against such influences. If we succeed in doing so now,
we shall fail in the next generation. Outrage of the Round-
hill stamp will come down to meet those of the Collingwood
bank complexion, and our rising youth will more and
more desire to emulate the chivalrous deeds of the bank
robber, station burner, and bushranger. A country sinking
into this condition is either a country to leave or a country
to be fought for. And as I, for one, have no intention of
leaving Australia, I look round and deliberately select some
other alternative.

The new imperial bill, passed upon the report of the com-
missioners, though not adopting all their suggestions, is
steadily passing through its stages. The Secretary of State,
with a flourish of trumpets, summons us to be thankful that
he sends us only 600 convicts a year instead of all. Your
special correspondent at "Western Australia has proved in-
contestably that three-fifths of this number make their way
to the other side, meaning South Australia and Victoria;

so that each year about 360 of these ruffians are being
poured upon us. Considering the superior attractions of
this colony, probably 300 of them may eventually make
their way here, any one of whom may be as bad as Gardi-

ners Morgan, Hall, Woods, or Barrett.
With such reinforcements it is almost hopeless to struggle

effectually with the criminal class. Indeed, the day may
easily oomo in which that class will get the upper hand.
And the system of terrorism Which now paralyses the law
across the Murray may place us at the mercy of such men,
and sympathy with them may load to our cheering the ac-
quittal of notorious murderers in our metropolitan courts.
If we are to do any good, we must first stop the desolating
stream of felonry. It will then be comparatively easy work
to cow the existing herd of desperadoes.
Whatever course others may decide upon, then I shall
begin to act. No form of language of which our language
is capable will convince the English people that our oppo-
sition is anything more than an affected one, or based
upon imaginary evils. Prejudice runs too strongly against
us, and words are thrown away. But our countrymen
at home are a practical-minded people, with a great love of
facts, and I shall take steps to present them with a few. I
shall set to work to carry out as far as I can the scheme
that has been talked of since 1848, and which should have
been adopted then. I shall begin to send home some of the
worst specimens of the expiree class that I can induce to go,
and I shall continue to do so as long as I have the means to
do it with, and the convict stream flows hitherward from
Great Britain. My modus operandi will be a very simple
one. I shall advertise for offers to emigrate to England,
select the worst men I can get, leaving the whole arrange-
ments in the hands of a respectable solicitor. The ship-
ping agents or owners will be, as a matter of course,
warned of the one or two such men that may go by any
ship; the captain will be placed upon his guard ; and each
man shall sign an agreement to submit to irons for the
rest of the voyage for any offenco he may commit on board.
Such a man is free. He has as muehright to go to Eng-
land as any of us. Nothing but an Act of Parliament can
stop him. If he should risk a little in the too liberal con-
struction of a conditional pardon, the penalty, if discovered,
is his.
I get out an honest agricultural labourer for about £l4.
Perhaps it will require twice that turn to send an expiree
home. We ought to send at least the number we are now
receiving, but I see no reason to limit ourselves to that.
The numbers are not material, however, for if half a dozen
are known to go, all the crimes committed in England will
in six months be attributed to them.
If anyone still seeks a justification of such a course, I
point to Round 11ill—to a drunken ruffian firing promis-
cuously amongst unarmed men—to the pursuit and
slaughter of poor MeLean—to the police•ellicer shot like a
dog while attempting to do his duty—to the undoubted fact
that half Riverina is at this moment cowed and dominated
by this man ; and pointing to all this in one direction, I
point in another to England cruelly supplementing these
hosts of scoundrels by a regular supply.
I have said that lam not alone in this matter. I believe
there aro thousands who think as I do, and are prepared
to take as energetic measu es. I believe in my heart
that it is the only mode of bringing this affair to a con-
elusion. I believe we are justified in the eyes of God acd
man in resorting to any steps to bring this great wrong to
an end. Great Pritain has long enough harried us with
the murderer, the burglar, and the bushranger. We are not
only justified, but bound to try the effect of giving reality
to Ler impressions on the colonial aspect of the question.
" Similia curantur" is sometimes a sound doctrine,
even in national affairs. The word " Garotter '' drove her
mad, and made her tyrannically unjust. Probably the words
" Returned Convict" will restore her reason.
Let those join me, then, who think and feel as I do. And
let those stand aside and look on who prefer to argue the
matter for another twenty years, or are satisfied to continue
their allegiance to what we may call the Morgan-and-Gar-
diner dynasty.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
July 18. EDWARD WILSON.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day.—Thurs•
day, Sept, li.—Admissions on payment, 3,666; do, by
season tickets, t;29— total, 4,495,

The

JEDBURGH.—The weather for the past week has
been unsettled, and the gale of last Friday has done
much harm to the corn, many farmers having suss
tained severe loss by it. A fine field of barley at
Larkhall, about fourteen acres in extent, belonging
to Mr. Ormistone of Glenburhall, has been almost
entirely destroyed. Mr. Bell, Cresford, and Mr.
Johnstone, Crailinghall, have also had very heavy
losses. Mr, Johnstone's loss is spoken of as being
about £6OO. The great bulk of the corn in this
district has, however, been cut, and much of it is
secured. The rain will do much good to the turnip
crop, which has a very promising appearance.
Potatoes will also be benefited by the moisture,
and with the exception of a few patches which were
hurt with the frost at the end of last month, they
are likewise looking well. The pastures have now
a greener appearance, but the rain has been tco
long in coming to do very much good ; and farmers
we fear will have to rely more upon artificial feed.
ing for their cattle than on the pastures. Yesterday
rain fell pretty heavily.
STRATHALLAN.—In this somewhat late district,
harvest has made comparatively little progress.
Cutting on the low grounds has been going on for
some time, but more than the half of the crops is
still untouched by the sickle, and too green to admit
of harvest being pushed to an early termination.
On the slopes of the ()chile, most of the farmers
have made a commencement, but little has been
done. The grain has ripened very irregularly, and
a large number of fields have been entered upon, and
some small patches cut. The wheat crop will yield
fa good return, and the quality of grain is very fine.
Barley will be light, and oats will be below the
average. Many fields of the latter are quite green,
and will not be ready for three weeks. The turnip
crop has a fine appearance, and will be very bulky.
The fine weather of late has made a marked im-
provement in their growth. Potatoes look well,
and will afford a fair remuneration. The crop will
not be a heavy one, but prices are high.
Pastures are improving, and cattle are mending
wonderfully.

SUSSEX.—A private letter from Hamsey, near
Lewes, dated 13th inst., says :—" We are sorry to
read th© accounts of the disastrous gales in Scot-

land, but you may be assured if half of your nor-
thern crops perish it will affect the market but little.
We have more old wheat stacks standing than I
ever knew, of the best quality ; and this years
crop is all secured without rain, and is very heavy.
It vems wrong, but they are grinding a great
quantity of the very best wheat for fattening pur-
poses, being the cheapest of any grain. Water is
still very short, but we have still just showers
enough for the pastures, which are now beautiful
and producing plenty of feed, and keeping back the
price of hay."