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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1864.

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Carge of Fraud.

no case whatever made out against him, and that he had
committed no offence at all known to the law.

Mr Ellison considered that there was such prima facie
evidence as rendered it imperative the case should go for
trial, unless the defendant could adduce such testimony as
would do away with it altogether. One of the pretences
charged against the defendant was contained in the letter
produced.
The defendant said that letter was written when ho was
tipsy, and that was the whole fact about it. -Ile should pre-
fer calling some counter-evidence now, as it would confirm
what he had stated. Ire then called—

Mr Emile Cuzal, of the firm of Rivers, Cuzal, and Co,,
who remembered complainant calling in Canonbury-place
the day after the defendant had left. He was excited, but
said nothing about paying the defendant £5, or any other
sum. The witness suggested the propriety of his going
round to see the defendant, and Miss Edwards, who was
present, gave him her father's address, and he wrote it down
in his pocket-book. When he suggested he had better go
and see the defendant,the complainant seemed disinclined,
but went
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saying he partshould
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Miss Aurelia Sophia Edwards, defendant's daughter, was
present in Mr Cuzal's apartment when complainant came
there. She gave him her father's address, and he wrote it
down. Mr Ouzel said she had better take Mr Cullen home
with her to see her father, and ha walked with some dis-
tance, but when about 50 yards from their residence he
ran away. Mr Cullen made no complaint about any
money.

The defendant said there was one question he had to
put to his daughter, which it .was imperative on him to put,
to show that he could not have received this £5 as alleged.
'Was she not aware that on the morning of the 6th—that
after the night this money was said to have been paid him
—he was totally without money, and that on her mother
asking him for money he told her he had none to give her ?
And was she not obliged to go with him to his brother's to
borrow some money? To both these the witness answered
" Yes,"

Cross-examined—Her father came home that night quite
early—about 10 o'clock, and she was quite sure he did not
go out again. He was not the worse for drink—he was
quite sober. She thought that what her father said about
being the worse for drink was not true,
The defendant said that that was, perhaps, because he did
not show it much.

Mr Chipperfield said he had communicated with Sir F.
Smith, who was unable to attend, but he considered the
false pretence to be clearly established without any addi-
tional proof of it.

The defendant said he should have much liked to have
Mr Lawford called, and he had other evidence to produce,
but, as the case was to go for trial, he should reserve that,
and any further defence he had to offer till then. He sup-
posed the same bail would be accepted for him as before.

Mr Chipperfield had no wish that the bail should be in-
creased, and, the depositions having been completed by Mr.
Hurls one, the chief clerk, the defendant was committed for
trial, but admitted to bail, one surety in £25, and his own
recognizances in £5O.

Preparations are made at Plymouth for supplying
with coal the ironcased screw steamship Prince
Consort, 35, Capt. George 0. Willis, C. 8., and the
iron ship Hector, 24, Capt. George W. Preedy,
C. 8., expected to arrive in the Sound yesterday
evening or this morning.
The system introduced by Major Palliser, 18th
Hussars, of strengthening and rendering services
able the old OS•pounder guns (a detail of which has
been given in The Sun) was yesterday put to a
severe test on the butt on Woolwich Marsh, by a
lengthened course of proof. Since the former trial
the gun has been rifled in four grooves, and on
Thursday it was again proved by firing two rounds,
with charges of 201 b. of powder and 1101 b. shot.
The proof was satisfactory, and a continuation was
ordered to be carried out yesterday, with charges of
161 b. of powder and 1101 b. shot. Accordingly, 20
rounds were fired with the most favourable results
as anticipated. There is now no doubt that the
method of boring out and applying an inner tube of
charcoal iron adopted by Major Palliser will suffi-
ciently strengthen the old guns and enable the
Government to bring into effective use as rifled
guns the whole of the cast-iron ordnance at
present laid aside. The gun proved yesterday has
fired 24 rounds with severe proof charges, and on
withdrawing the tube it was found clean and per.
fectly whole. It will now go to Shoeburyness and
will be put to a test of 1,000 rounds to try its power
of endurance. The shot used at the proof were the
round-headed Armstrongs from which the coating
of lead has been removed. The method thus effi.
ciently applied for bringing the old guns again into
use is said to be exceedingly economical, and will,
moreover, require no alteration in the mode of gun
carriage at present in use.
The Lords of the Admiralty a snort time since

issued an order for the discharge from Devonport
dcckyard of a number of hired mechanics and la-
bourers. On Thursday morning that order was
rescinded and the men continue in the yard.

The body of Geo. May, cnginedriver, in the mill-
wright's shop in the Devonport dockyard, was found
yesterday morning with the head in a very mutilated
condition. It is supposed that he was in the act of
oiling the machinery when he lost his life.
The following appointments and promotions were
made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander
John Shears to the Victory; Henry AV. Davidson,
master's assistant, to the Victory ; Alfred B. Scott,
master's assistant, to the Tamar; Adolphus An•
drews (acting), Stephen Judd, Leonard Blackler,
Edward Keen (acting), and W. A. Houghton (acts
ing) promoted to the rank of engineer. _

The following appointment has been made in the
Royal Naval Reserve :—John Paterson to be hon.
lieutenant.

Lord R. Montagu on the Utilization of

Sewage.

ST. IVES, Friday Evening.

The annual meeting of the Agricultural Society
of this small, but well-cultivated, county was held
at St. Ives today. The show was of the ordinary
character, and there was nothing to particularise
in it. At half-past three o'clock a dinner was held
in the Corn Exchange, which was to-day opened for
the first time, the Earl of Sandwich presiding. M
E. Fellowes and Lord R. Montagu, the county
members, were present. After the customary toasts
Mr Tebutt, of Bluntisham, proposed "The Health
of the Chairman," referring at some length to the
evils of the " gang" system in the villages.
In responding, his Lordship said he should be
wanting in good feeling if he did not rise to return
thanks for the way in which his health had been
drunk, and for the flattering reception they had
given him. It was a proof at least that he had en.
demoured to do his duty in that part which he had
been called upon to take. It afforded him great
pleasure to be at the annual meeting of the society,
embracing us it did both the Huntingdonshire and
St. Neots Society. They would pardon his referring
to 27 years ago, when he presided there at the intl■
guration of the society. He saw rrtany young men
before him—many they had not had the pleasure
of seeing there before—and it was a proof of the
good the society was doing at large. There were
so many of those meetings that .t was very difficult
to find any subject to talk upon. He still held the
opinion which he had given before, that they must
not look for the future to the crop of wheat for
their mainstay. He felt convinced that they must
look to the increase of cattle and sheep. His lord•
ship referred to the price of wool, but would not
hazard an opinion whether it was or not the effect
of the American contest. That price would, how-
ever, tend to the advantage of the farmer, as wool
was very much encouraged in the manufacturing
districts. In passing, ho did not agree with the
"gang" system—of women and children being

farmed off in different parishes. Many years ago,
when the people were migrating to Lancashire, he
thought the time would come when they would feel
it. They moved away from their own counties, and
they found more miserable cottages than those they
left behind them and more hard work, and the
time came when they were thrown upon the
resources of their friends. Labourers' cottages in
England were receiving that attention which was
due to them, and which tended to their health and
the benefit of society. lie referred to the superiority

of the bread and water made from wheat grown on
the Continent, but remarked that there were no
cattle like ours, and sat down amid great applause.
In answer to " The County Members,"
Mr E, FELLOWES said that, as one of those re■
ferred to in the toast, he returned his sincere and
hearty thanks. It was gratifying to them at each
return of their annual meeting to find that they still
held the good opinion and goodwill of the electors
of the county. He asked permission to address a
few practical remarks to them, as he believed it
was not their wish that the meeting should be de-
voted to matters of a complimentary nature only.
It was their wish that if any practical subject could
be discussed, any interchange of ideas take place
L that might be attended with beneficial results, it

K-1 -T-i-7-47Lki4e-W.
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chould he to. He would sppi Airrisliftl6/Alliirt-
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minutes to the application of ste IftsporteOetp,cr,
greater extent than it has boon use Uli)-Coittc- v.:4Z—
sent time. He did not refer to steam ilioughit ar.4
cultivators, because he was well avian that the cost
was too great, and they were generally of so expen-
sive a character that farmers could not make u-,e of
them. What he referred to more particularly was

steam tnraihing, steam for the crusting of cake,
and the bruising of oats. He was fortified in this

opinion by what, he had seen when last in Scotlane.
East 1,-,thian was far celebrated for its farming, aad
the steam engine was employed there in the way to
which he had alluded. He thought the time vt-ond
came when that would be required, and his reason
for stating it was the following :—They ware all
well aware of the dreadful war which had long
been going on in America. In nansequence of that
war the supply of cotton ill this country was FO
materially diminished as to cause great distress in
the cotton tuanufacturing•districts. Although out
of employment none of the operatives would return
to their old homes and pursuits, and under
those circumstances it might be supposed that
other hands would be requild to do the
work. When the Ameriean war should be
brought to a close there would be a large supply of
cotton from the Southern States, and again the
millowners would want additional hands to work
their mills, obtaining them by sending their agents

nto other parts of the country. Again, in tho

agricultural districts there was a &creAse in the
population between 1851 and 1861, although the

population of the country had very much increased.
It was on this ground, he ventuied to say, that it

would be worth their attention to consider whether
the time was not come when they should economise
their manual labour, and introduce in some measure
steam machinery, It would certainly be worth a
trial, but he should be very glad to hear a practical
opinion upon it. A remark had been made by their
chairman concerning the increase of stock upon
their farms, and their not turning their attention
to wheat, bat to sheep. He had some reason to
think_that wheat would never be as high as it had
been, and ss. a bushel they would have at one time
have considered a low price indeed. He thought it
would be advisable for them to turn their attention
to the increase of sheep in this country more than
anything else. It was very well known that the
number of sheep bred was not equal to the demand,
and although, generally speaking, supply follows
demand, it did not in this case. He was very glad
•
the subject of gang work had been brought under
their notice, as a more demoralising system then
the gang system could not exist. They were all
aware of the evil of bringing young men and young
women together in the field. After some further
remarks Mr Fellowes resumed his seat.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, OUT. 8, 1864.

According to the prevailing rule, the discussion
of political questions is usually excluded from
agricultural assemblies. The members of the As.
sociation and their guests examine the exhibition
ce!ebrate their annual festival, and discourse upon
the prospects of the crops and the condition of
the labourer. When a foreigner is among the
company, however, it is natural there should be
some little variation, and more especially when
that foreigner bears so distinguished a name as
Baron BUNSEN. Therefore, at the recent assembly
of the North Walsbam Agricultural Society, in
Norfolk, at which the son of the late Prussian
Ambassador was a guest, it is not surprising to
find the vexed question of the dispute between
Denmark and the Duchies brought under conside.
ration. It is worthy of notice, however, that
although the Baron spoke at some length in favour
of his countrymen, no Englishmen followed suit.
Politeuess krbade their contradicting their guest,
and the suhjict was therefore prudently but
markedly avoided. It must really have required
all the patience which his audience could muster
to lister. to the Baron's arguments without in:me-
. te contradiction. it certainly needed some
moral courage to confront a body of Englishmen
and gravely declare such sentiments ; bat we give
Baron BUNSEN credit for their being his delibe-
rate convictions. Re started with the assertion
that "the Schleswiggiolsteiners had been at war
in the right, that the Danes were in the wrong, and
that the Germans were bound by every consideration
cf self respect and national duty to separate and
save the Schleswig-Hulateiners from the oppression
of the Danes." In support of this theory, he
triumphantly declares he will ask a few home clues.
tiono, which are, let, How it is that during the

last 13 years of,,undisturbed Danish rule in the
Duchies, a rule which was tolerably, some say in-
tolerably, strict, not one single newspaper in
Schleswig-Holstein advocated the Danish view ?
2dly, Ilbw it was that during that time the Duchies
had failed to obtain anything like a majority in
either Parliament ? and, 3dly, How it was that,
while the political refugees now returning from
Germany are everywhere welcomed by the inha-
bitants of the Duchies, the Danes had at all times
met with a very bad reception ? Baron BUNSEN
did not perceive that the answer to some of these
queries have exactly the contrary effect to what
he intended. It is scarcely "an intolerably strict
rale which permits the whole power of the press
to be directed against the CiDsernment. The Prue.
sian journals of last year might tell a very difo
ferent story, but the first movement of a despot
is to curb the power of the press. Where that is
left free and unfettered there is little reason to
apprehend an oppressive administration. In the
second place, it is not very clear on what grounds
two provinces of a kingdom should expect
or wish for a majority in its united councils.
Englishmen would certainly not be well pleased
if the chief proportion of their representatives were
Scotch or Irish, not from any prejudice against
their fellow-subjects, but because such a Parlia.
ment would not fairly represent the nation. As for
the political refugees returning from Germany in a
time of excitement, when the Germans are masters
of the field, and when everything German is the
order of the day, it is not very likely that they
would meet with other than a favourable reception.
Baron BUNSEN tells us that the greater number of
the young Schleswig-Holsteiners are sent to the
German colleges—another fact which looks oddly
enough, considering the severity of the Danish rule.
Baron BUNSEN is not much happier in his replies
than in his questions. He gave, he said, " the most
unqualified contradiction" to the charges, that the
object of the war had only been obtained by num■
hers, that the Danes had been treated with cruelty,
and the Schleswig-Holsteiners with harshness, and
that the King of PRUSSIA meant to keep the coun-
try for himself. The Baron frankly admitted that
he did not approve of the preponderance of Austria
and Prussia in the affair ; but he was absolutely
certain that the King of PRUSSIA never entertained
for a moment such a shameful idea. Baron BUNSEN
is one of the members of the Prussian opposition.
If all his fellows were equally credulous, M. Von
BISMAEK will have an easy time of it. Perhaps he
has not seen a significant paragraph which was
going the round of the journals, in reference to a
change in the advisers of the Duke of AUGtSTEN•
BURG, with a view to a close connection between
Prussia and the Duchies. There are more things
!n heaven and earth than are dreamt of in Baron
BUNSEN'S philosophy, but certainly his idea in some
points are novel and striking. He says of the extor-
tionate levies that the money was mostly spent in
the country it was taken from, so that the in•
habitants were better off than before. To what
school this aphorism belongs is not clearly apparent,
but it is as good an excuse as any other. " The in

habitants of the Duchies think themselves very
cheaply delivered from their oppressors," but the
address to the Danish KING the other day did not
indicate much content. As for the charge of

cruelty, Baron BUNSEN is forced to turn the tables
upon England, and to rush wildly from Kagosima
in 1864, to NELSON at Copenhagen in 1807, to
prove either that the English are cruel, or that the
Germans are not; but which is his meaning is not
very clear. He paid a tribute to the bravery and
readiness for war of the Prussian army, and hints
that after all the Gltrmans would not be such a bad
match for the French. In fact, their superb
triumph over poor unaided little Denmark, who is
behind the age, not in courage, but in military skill

and appliances, seems to turn the heads of the wise
Prussians, who seem to regard the subjection of
Sonderborg as another siege of Sebastopol—while
in the open field, Salamanca and Vittoria were

nothings to their victories. We omit Waterloo,

because everybody knows the' Prussians won it,
and the Eng only looked on. But Baron

BUNSEN, though doubtless he inherits many o;
those talents that made his father's fame, has not
succeeded in the art of proving that black is white

and we give hi n credit for believing a further ac.
quaintance with the intentions and policy o:
Prussia will considerably modify his opinion cx
the case.

The reports which continue to be received from
various quarters respecting the progress of the
cotton cultivation give us every reason to anticipate
its steady advancement. The success has, of course,
varied in the different places in which the experi-
ment has been made, having in some instances far
exceeded expectation, and in others from unfavour-
able weather, parasitical insects, deficiency of la-
bour, and other drawbacks, it has by no means
fulfilled the hopes of the sowers. Altogether the
prospect is satisfactory, and it is gratifying that
in many quarters they are preparing themselves
for a possible competition with American cotton,
so that there will be less likelihood of future dis-
appointment and abandonment of the scheme. It
has been proved by the researches made in conse-
quence of the present demand for the raw material
that cotton is indigenous in many places. At the
recent meeting of the Cotton Supply Association
a letter was read from Buenos Ayres, stating that
in the province of Corrientes and in the Gran
Chaco wild cotton grows in the greatest abundance.
Millions of pounds could, it is said, be gathered
with very little trouble or expense, but no one
takes the trouble to do so. This is surely worth
further inquiry, since if the account received is but
half true, it promises a most valuable source of
supply. That it is not entirely illusionary is proved
by the fact of a quilt and a sample of the cotton
of which it is made being forwarded to
the Association. We shall probably learn
from a future
meeting w
of this production, and what theisht a
estiismatetdhovuaglhuet
of the cotton. At all events a soil which grows
cotton of any sort spontaneously can hardly be
otherwise than favourable to the cultivation
of the
better kinds, so that we may hope a valuable field
will be opened in this quarter. The success of
the experiment in the Bahamas has been very
striking. Long Island is said to be covered with
cotton fields, 900 or 1,000 acres being now planted
with it, instead of only 130 as was the case when
the last report was sent. One man, who planted
some cotton in the spring of last year, had no
assistance but that given by his own children ex-
cepting on one day when he hired a man for 2s.
This planter has since sold his cotton for £125. The
only difficulty arises from want of labour, but it is
thought something might be done to remedy this
evil, in this and the neighbouring islands, by assist
ing the poor white population of. Barbadoes to
emigrate thither. Iu Syria the cotton crop has been
much damaged by a caterpillar which has, it is said,
destroyed 30 per cent. of the plants, but about
80,000 bales will still be left. In Salonica a strong
wind had proved unfavourable, but the crop has, in
the opinion of competent observers doubled since
last year. In other parts of the Turkish empire
great efforts are being made, bat the tax gatherers
often hamper the progress of the experiment. At
all events there is no lack of exertion and enter-

prise in the matter, and we ought before long to
reap the fruits of all these endeavours in the re.
duced prices of this useful material.

Thursday morning witnessed an interesting and
in some degree a novel spectacle in the venerable
old city of London. The first railway train that
has entered its ancient precincts passed over the
new Bridge at Blackfriars to the new Ludgate
Station, and returned thence to the station in the
Blackfriars-road, from whence it had started on its
eventful journey. The Fenchurch-street station
and the Farringdon terminus of the Metropolitan
Railway are not, strictly speaking, within the limits
of the City proper, although they are commonly
regarded as City stations, and therefore we may
look upon Thursday's adventure as the pioneer of
those fiery horses which are about to transform our
traditionary City, making its confusion worse con-
founded, and tearing breathless through its few
quiet and secluded spots. Anyone who has not
visited the City for six or eight months, may well

pause amaz2d at the alterations. Ever the grave
old Charterhonse, though spared itself, must look
round upon the devastation and commotion. The

whistle of the guard, the shriek of the engine,
will accord but ill with' its sombre grey walls ;
but it cannot expect to be exempt from the general
transformation. Bat the railways are working
changes in every quarter; and Charing-cross itself,
with its iron bridge in place of the Hungerford Sus-
pension, and the monster hotel rising con fronting old
St. Martin's, is scarcely recognisable. The citizens
for the most part look with some suspicion on the
innovation, whose advantages they will be the first
to recognise and to profit by when the lines are

fairly at work. The wise supervision of the Houses
of Parliament has restricted the reckless folly of
speculators, who only thought of turning the tide
of the time to suit their own fortunes, with little
regard to the public safety or requirements. It
schemes are good and practical they will not suffer
by a year or two's delay. Oa the contrary, the
public wi!l be better able to appreciate their utility,
and will be less inclined to offer unreasoning oppo-
sition to them. Should it, however, prove that the
lines already in course of construction are amply
sufficient for the wants of the day, there will be no
need to cut the City up further, destroying property
and occasioning inconvenience. At any rate, the
managers of that enterprising company of the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway, whose opera-
tions Punch has warned us will in due time require
the appropriation of Windsor Castle and the Crystal
Palace, have reason to congratulate themselves on
the successful progress of their arduous undertaking.
The new bridge over which the train passed on
Thursday was a work of no slight labour, 300 men
and boys having been constantly employed on it from
the close of January to the last day of September.
It consists of four lines of railway, the whole of
which are not yet completed. Telegraph wires, of
course, run overhead, and they are arranged in a
new fashion, which adds to the beauty of the struc-
ture. Some of the directors, the managers, the en-
gineers, and contractors, and other gentlemen
interested in the progress of the line were in the
train, which, like the bridge, was gaily decorated
with flags, and the assembled workmen, whose
strong hands had carried out the designs of the
others, looked on with satisfaction, and cheered
heartily as the carriages moved across the river.
The first City line was, therefore, inaugurated with
every prospect of success without a single draw.
back. We trust its public opening will prove
equally satisfactory, and that when it and its
competitors come into play they may serve they
may serve to relieve, in some measure, the exaes-
sive traffic of cur streets, which is now not only
productive of great inconvenience and delay, but is
becoming fraught with absolute danger,