The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUI-;, y:aOINDON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPFEMBER 16, Ho.

POLICE IN TELL IGE NCE This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

George nickett, a potboy, was charged with stealing a
box containing property to the amount of £6O.
Mr. Watson said he kept the Queen's Arms public-house,
Queenhil he. The prisoner had been in his service about
two months, This morning he (witness) found he
had been robbed of some property from a drawer in
the bar parlour, which he had locked about two
minutes before. The prisoner was at time in the kitchen.
After he (witness) had locked the cash box, in a few
minutes he heard the barmaid calling " George has stolen
the cash box." He came up stairs as soon as he,
could, and found the cash box gone. He gave
information to the polica, but when the prisoner was
taken in custody, he denied all knowledge of the robbery.
There was £29 108 Od in gold and various other property
in the box, worth in all, to about £6O.
Prisoner—lt's all false.

Ellen Woodward, barmaid in the service of Mr. Watson,
said—When Mr. Watson went from the bar-parlour, she
saw the prisoner go behind the door and put something un-
der his waistcoat. She asked him what he got, and he said
"Nothing." He then rushed out of the house, and she
gave an alarm that he had stolen the cash box.
Prisoner—l went behind the bar to get a knife and fork
for a customer, nothing else, All the witness says is false.
George Richards said he saw a man about eleven
o'clock this morning give a man on Bull-wharf
a box, which he had concealed in a handkerchief, and then
ran away. The prisoner was the man who had
the box in the first instance. He knew him to be
in the service of Mr. Watson.

Alderman Carden—Well, prisoner, what have you to say
to that ?

Prisoner—Why, he spoke false as well.
Alderman Carden—All three of the witnesses, you say,
stated untruths ?
Prisoner—Yes..

Alderman Carden—Well, I don't think so. There is
reason to believe the man to whom you gave the boa can
be discovered, and.therefore I shall remand you till Friday.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
COMMITTAL OP DANGEROUS FELLOWS.--TWO young
men, named John Hart and Willi nn Sullivan, was charged
with loitering in Hemming's-row for a felonious purpose.
The evidence of Mr. Gordon, 336 A, went to show that
on the previous night he saw the two prisoners with three
other fellows visiting the urinals in Hemming's-row and
Duke's-court, several times in company. Knowing that
their purpose in doing so was either to extract money from,
or to rob gentlemen, he kept a close watch on them, and
heard a gentleman in Castle-street call "Police," and saw
him'knock one of the prisoners down. The whole of the
fellows then ran up Castle-street followed by the gentle-
man, and after a sharp pursuit, assisted by Waterson, 144
C, he (Gordon) eucceeded in securing the two prisoners.
On the spot a hat, either belonging to the gentleman or
to one of the prisoners' companions, was picked up.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, Waterson said he had
known the prisoners for two years past as loiterers about
urinals, and had cautioned them several times.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked if it was known who the gentleman
was, and Gordon said that he seemed frightened and went
away.

Mr. Tyrwhitt committed thP fellows for three months
each, at the same time stating that such dangerous fellows
would always be sharply dealt with by him.

Day.

TRADE,

MANCHESTER, Sept.ls.—Whilethe excitement
in the cotton market has strengthened and led to
a good deal of business in yarns, it has almost para-
lysed the cloth market. Private letters from Liver-
pool report sales yesterday to the enormous extent
of 30,000 bales, while the writers state there is little
doubt that, if there had been a better choice,
buyers would have taken 60,000. Surats advanced
d. per lb., and American and Egyptian Id. told.
The sales again to-day are announced at 20,000
bales. The excitement, as might be expected, com-
municated itself to dealers in yarn and spinners in
this market, and they were yesterday asking an
advance of ld. per lb., and are to-day requiring ld.
per lb. advance on yesterday's rates, and 2d. per
lb. on those of last Tuesday. At these rates
almost everything that could be laid hold of has
been swept out of the market, and we have had a
state of excitement such as has rarely been expe-
rienced here. The sellers of cop-yarns report
prices 11-d. to 2d. per lb. above the rates of last
Tuesday, and while some spinners say the advance
checks business, others speak of the check as mainly
arising from the absence of goods to sell. Boyers
say of the yarn-market that the excitement is such
as practically to have made the market very diffi-
cult to operate in from its irregularity, spinners in
many cases finding a difference of 12d. to 2d. per
lb. in the rates demanded for the same qualities ol
yarn. In the cloth market, manufacturers have ol
course endeavoured to follow the advance; but, fol-
lowing as this impetus does so soon after the pre-
vious one, they appear to have been hardly pre-
pared for it. Some of them, foreseeing the futility of
any attempt really to obtain rates adequate to the ad-
vance which is now required to cover the increased
cost of cotton, refrain from offering their goods
at all. Those who have cloths to sell have in some
cases put up their quotations ls. per piece, and some
Even more than that; but it precludes business. At
the close of last week some of the old London buyers
were in the market for both yarn and cloth for
China; but to-day buyers for all markets appear to
have been discouraged from attempting operations.
Speculators even seem to be chary of taking goods
at the rates demanded. There has been a good deal
of inquiry and hunting through the market in search
of stocks ; but both speculators and bona fide b uyers
alike refrain from offering contracts for future
delivery. Whether the present is considered, in the
language of the market, a " spurt," or otherwise,
there seems to be little confidence in the dura
bility of present rates, and buyers want stocks avai

able for immediate delivery, and stocks are exceed-
ingly scarce. With all the excitement, therefore,
it is generally reported that very little buoiness has
been done in cloths. Buyers have in some instances
to-day refused to give even late rates, and much less
would they give the advances required. On the
ether hand, manufacturers are discouraged, and
give up all hope of conducting a satisfactory trade
in the present wild state of the cotton market, and
talk of again closing their mills until the spirit of
gambling which now seems to reign in Liverpool
has given way to a calmer and more business like
tone. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of the
cloth market :

"In consequence of the rapid advance in the raw
material we have had a very excited marxet here, both
yesterday and to-day. There is great irregularity
in quotations, which must be considered entirely
nominal; but speaking generally we may say that
an advance of something like a shilling per piece is
asked on shirtings, and on other goods in propor-
tion. So far buyers decline to pay this advance,
and there is consequently very little business

doing."
CARDIFF, 14th.—The coal trade continues brisk,
and there is a good demand. Prices are firmer, and

an advance of 3d. and 6d. have been obtained in

several instances. The colliers have commenced a

movement with the view of applying for an ad

vance, but it is not believed that the coal-masters
will accede to the application. There is an ave.

rage business doing in the iron trade, and nearly

all the works are well employed. During the last
five or six days bars have shown a further improve-
ment of about ss. The wages of the paddlers and

others employed about the ironworks are likely to
be increased from sto 10 per cent. The extensive

Plymouth works are about to pass into the hands
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of Messrs. Fothergill and Hankey.
LEEDS, 15th.—There has been a moderately good
demand for cloths in the halls this morning, and
the winter trade is likely to close well. Stocks
of the most current-going fabrics in the hands
of makers are by no means large, and, indeed, the
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quantity of cloth in the halls has not often been
much less than it is at present. The manufacturers

in all departments are well employed, and some of

them are turning their attention to the fabrics for

the spring trade. The range of prices keeps steady,
having an upward rather than a downward ten-
dency. Wools of all descriptions are firm. The

flax trade is Wady in most departments.
ROCHDALE, 14th.—The flannel trade keeps quite
active, the manufacturers being in full employment,
and their products being either made to order or

finding a ready market. There was not a very large
attendance of buyers at market to-day, but they
bought freely, and little of the bulk of stock offered

in the market was left unsold. The demand ex-
tends to both plain and fancy goods, and those of

low quality are scarce. Prices have an upward
tendency, those of wool as well as those of goods.
As long as cotton keeps up wool is not likely to fall
much, though manufacturers buy cautiously.

THE PROPORTION OF BIRTHS TO POPULATION is
1 in 28 in England and Wales ; 1 in 29 in Spain
and Bavaria; 1 in 30 in Belgium, Holland, and Norway;
1 in 32 in Sweden, 1 is 33 in Hanover, the Hanse Towns,
and Denmark; 1 in 31 in Greece, and 1 in 38 in France.
Consequently the natural increase of population is lower in
France, in spite of the high marriage rate, than in any
other European State. More fertile than England are only
Wurtemburg, where the proportion of births to population
is lin 26; Russia, where it is lin 25; Austria, Saxony,
and Prussia, where it is 1 in 24 ; and Poland, where the
proportion is lin 23. It is, probably, a fact not generally
known that the women of the unhappy country now in the
throes of revolution form, as far as fruitfulness is con-
cerned, the vanguard of their sex in Europe.
VIOLENT OUTRAGE ON A YOUNG LADY.--At the
Newport Police-court, on Saturday, John Williams,
a young farm labourer, was eharged with assaulting and
attempting to violate Amy Daniel, niece of a farmer re-
siding at Nash, on the previous Monday evening. The
young lady being sworn, said--On Monday evening, at
half-past five, I want from my uncle's house to visit a
friend. I was quite alone. When going past the Newell
Farm the prisoner passed me just as I entered the first
of two fields I had to go through. When I reached
near the end of the second field, a little before six
o'clock, I heard footsteps behind me, and turning 'my
head I saw him. I walked a little slower to let him go
before me over the plank of a small bridge. He said,
" Good evening, miss ; are you going far ?" I said
" Only as far as Salt Marsh." " Shall I come with you ?"
he asked. " Oh, no, I can go by myself," I replied.
" Then," he said, " I must have a kiss." " No, you
won't," I told him ; but he immediately caught me round
the waist, and threw me on the ground. I screamed as
loud as I could. He knelt on me and dragged up my
clothes; and I struggled with him, and pulled his hair,
and tore his shirt ; but he scratched my face and my
hands. He was muttering something all the while to
himself, but I could not tell what he said. We struggled
on the ground for five minutes; but he hurt me further
than 1 said. As I thought he might be trying to rob me,
I begged him to let me get up, and I would give him all the
money I had in my pocket. He said, " How much have
you got ?" I said, "I do not know, but if you will let me
get up I will give you all I have." Then he let mu get
up, and I gave him all I had, which was 61d., and I ran
into the "rhino" (the ditch), and waded through the
water, and got under some briars to escape from him.
He went away, and I came out again to get my hat and
umbrella, and the apples, which I had lost in the struggle.
He ran back after rue again, when I
jumped into the
rhine again, and was up to my waist in the water. [The
poor girl here wept, and could not be induced to repeat
the disgusting threats which the prisoner had used to her
if she did not come out of the water. She said it was too
disgusting to repeat.] When the prisoner aid at last
go off I got out and ran as well as I could to a little
cottage, where they took off my wet clothes and then con-
veyed me to my uncle's house. A police-constable said he
went in pursuit of the prisoner, and apprehended him at
Chepstow. When taking him from the cell to the railway
station he said, " What will be done tome ? I suppose they
will send me to gaol." Witness replied that he did not
know. In the train prisoner said, " I wonder what
they will do with me—l suppose they won't transport a
fellow ?" Witness again replied, " I don't know," The
prisoner being asked if he had anything to say, replied, "I
am not guilty." He was fully committed to take his trial
at the next quarter sessions(

Mr. Bass, M.P on Mr. Somes's Bill,

At the dinner of the Manchester and Salford Vic-
tuallers' Association on Friday evening,
Mr. BASS, who presided, took occasion to observe
that the licensed victuallers of the kind= had set
an example to all other tradesmen, by showing the
manner in which the legitimate interests of a trade
could be fostered and protected. When they came
to consider the peculiarity of their business in being
licensed and privileged, and therefore perhaps more
liable to be carped at than others, they would see
the necessity of banding together, not only to keep
general order among themselves, but with a view
to guard against encroachments. He hardly knew
whether it was quite to the point to remark on the
legislation of the past Parliamentary session which
was promoted by Mr. Somes and others. The
noise that was made by that party of temperance
orators led to considerable apprehension, and many
thought the licensed victuallers' party would be in
a minority. He believed that many who took part
in the temperance movement in Parliament were
most sincere, and believed they were attempting
what would be righteous and good by putting an
end to all drinking whatever. But the members
in Parliament who in their hearts supported the
views advocated at present by Mr. Somes, Mr. Law-
son, and a very few others, were very small indeed.
Ho could relate an anecdote proving this. On the
evening of the division on Mr. Somes's motion, he
(the chairman) was in a downstairs room in the
House of Commons, where honourable members,
overcome with fatigue, or oppressed by the elo-
quence of talking members, sometimes assembled
to chat and smoke cigars. (Cheers.) One gentle-
man there said to him, in reference to the subject of
the bill, " What -- nonsense it is. (Loud cheers
and laughter.) Without swearing, however, he
(the chairman) entirely agreed with this remark.
But when the house a few hours afterwards went
to a division, he saw this gentleman coming out
of the one end, while he (the chairman) was coming
out of the other., The gentleman excused himself
by saying that he knew there was no harm in
doing wheat he was doing, as Mr. Somes's party
was sure, to be in a minority. (Laughter.) And
this was no solitary instance. He know that
the far larger proportion of those who voted
for the second reading of that bill did so
without any expectation that it would be car-
ried, and no doubt they were pressed into it by
the temperance people. He was quite persuaded
there were not a dozen men in Parliament in favour
of this temperance movement. (Cheers.) Not-
withstanding this, it would be very unsafe for the
association to remain quiet, for ho had had personal
proof of the indefatigable restlessness of these
people. No man in the world could be more op-
posed to intemperance than he was, and no man
could accuse him of ever being under the influence
of liquor, or of contributing to make any other man
so. There scarcely could be any more unhappy
position than that of a man who drank himself
senseless. But was this any reason why they
should be denied the use of those things which the
Almighty bad placed within their reach? If that
measure of Mr. Somes had been passed, it would
have been a rank injustice if they did not lock every

cellar door in England from 'Saturday night till
Monday morning. (Cheers.) It was almost amusing
when one came to consider how these temperance

people estimated the vast interests concerned. It was

calculated that from 86 to 100 millions sterling were

invested in the trades in which the licensed victual•

lers were concerned, and all this would be put an

end to if the teetotallers succeeded in their proposal.
The capital of the licensed victuallers was be-

tweet 50 and 60 millions of money; and the com-

mon brewers had no less than 20 millions actively
engaged in trade. It was a curious fact that the

trade done by common brewers was the largest trade
done by any tradesmen in the world. (Cheers.)
There were many brewers who manufactured and

sold an article to the amount of a million a year.
Ho knew a gentleman who sold last year £1,100,000
worth of beer. (Cheers.) And yet all this was a
mere bagatelle to those people who wished to de-
stroy the trade upon which 600,000 persons were
dependent for their livelihood. (Hear, hear.)

THE CONFEDERATE CRUISERS FLORIDA AND
ALABAMA.—The Courrier de Havre publishes the
following from a correspondent at Cherbourg :—" The Con-
federate cruiser Alabama will probably be in Cherbourg in
a short time. It is known that, a few days ago, a ship-
broker of this place received a letter addressed to Captain
Semmes, and this has confirmed the rumours in cir-
culation."—The Florida is being rapidly repaired in
une of the Government basins at Brest. Her screw has been
detached, and several parts of her machinery have been re-
paired or replaced. With respect to the claims made upon
her by certain French merchants for property destroyed, it
is stated that Captain Maflit has offered to deposit a sum of
money sufficient to pay all demands until the tribunals
have decided upon the claims. It would thus appear
that, so far as the provisional embargo on the Florida is
concerned, it will not interfere with the freedom of her
movements whenever she is ready to put to sea. The
Opinions Nationale, in its Saturday's impression says :
" Our coadjutor, who left Brest on Thursday morning,
assures us that there was no question in the town of the
seizure of the Florida, on the demand of two shipowners,
victims of the ravages of that cruiser. On Wednesday
evening he witnessed the opening of the immense metal
bridge which separates the commercial from the Govern..
ment port—and which is never opened except for our own
men of war—for the passage through of the Florida. The
Southern cruiser has obtained the exceptional favour of ad-
mission for reparation to a careening basin of the state. The
Florida floats very low in the water, and is of great length.
She is the best sailer known, making 16 knots an hour, a
speed never previously attained by any vessel? She only
carries seven guns. It is reported that each sailor belong-
ing to the Florida is entitled to 45,000 f. (£1,800) as his share
of the captures, amounting in all to 4,000,000 f, Before the
Florida is ready to put to sea the Federal men-of-war will
certainly be on the look• out for her at the mouth of the
harbour. But it is not likely that she will expose herself
to this danger. It is said that as soon as repaired she will
be offered for sale, and that her place will be supplied by a
vessel constructed on the same model in some unknown
shipyard of England. This vessel will be manned by the
crew of the Florida, and commanded by the same captain.
AVALANCHES have been observed in the canton of
Appenzell and in the chain of the Alps on the side of the
valley of the Rhine. A terrific avalanche precipitated itself
froeu the top of the Falkniss into the valley.

A REMARKABLE DREAM.—On Saturday morn-
ingman about 30 years of age, named Benjamin
a
Collins, was found drowned in a small dam belonging to the
White-hall pit, at Wyk°. When found ho was kneeling
in the water with his head down, being only up to the
shoulders in the water, lie had been drinking for several
days, and became restless, He got up about 2 o'clock in
the morning, partly dressed himself, and said ho could not
sleep. Soon afterwards he went out, and about 4 o'clock
his uncle, Mr. Mark Collin, of Lower Car Close farm, went
in search of him in the barn and stables, but not finding him
there returned to the house. Mrs. Collins then desired her
husband to go to the place where the body was found, as
she had just dreamt her nephew was drowned there. Mr.
Collins acted as his wife requested, and, to his amazement
and horror, saw the literal fulfilmeat of her dream,-....r0rk
Herald.

THE GREAT DRAUGUT MATCH.—This tedious
and wearisome con test—ifeontest that can be called
which consisted in the unvarying repetition of precisely the
same series of moves—terminated yesterday. When the
farce had been solemnly performed up to the very last game,
the English champion, Mar tins, suggested whether it was
worth while to go through it for the fiftieth time ; and
proposed that the match should be considered wholly " a
draw." This proposition was assented to on the other
aide; and so both parties took themselves off with thc.
proud consciousness that if they had done no good to their
friends they had done them quite as little harm. The
issue, and still more the character, of the contest, have
caused much disappointment among skilful and enthusi-
astic players. It is but just to Wylie, however, to say that
he made repeated overtures to his rival in favour of import.
ing something of life and reality into the play by a variation
of moves, but Martins declined, arguing that while it might
be all very well for Wylie, surrounded as he was by his sup-
porters, to venture on such a course, yet he, in justice to
his chief backer, who was absent, could not adopt a change
of policy. At the close a proposal to play a game or two
for a couple of pounds a-side was rejected by Wylie, on the
ground that to do so might interfere with another match,
designed to come off in London, for which arrangements are
now being made—indeed, we understand that all which is
needed is that iartins should fix the time.—North British

ALARMING ANNOUNCEMENT.—A. MAGAZINE AT
OUR ANTIPODES I—A magazine has been started at Auck-
land, New Zealand, and is called the " Southern Monthly
Magazine."

" WINE—THE VINE AND THE CELLAR"—is the
title of a new book about to be published by the bleasre.

SECOND EDITION•

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

DONCASTER RACES—Tms DAL
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