The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-09 00:00:00

THAMES.

A STRIKING LIKENESS BY A PHOTOGRAPHER.--John
Richard Kemp, a photographer, of No. 108, Mile-end-
road, was summoned at the instance of a young woman
named Maria Botham, of No. 38, Ball-street, Stepney,
who carried in her arms a fine infant, which she said was
a striking likeness of the defendant, jwith whom sh lived
as his wife. She wished to affiliate the child upon him. It
was born on the 9th of July, 1863. He allowed her ss.
per week for its support up to within the last six months,
when ho discontinued the allowance. She now wished
for an order to make him pay ss. per week.
Daniel Smith, an officer of the court, said the defendant
did not appear to the summons, and that when he served it
upon him he said he could not deny the paternity, and was
willing for an order to be made upon him.
The Magistrate made an order on the defendant for the
payment of 2s 6d per week and 4s costs.
The complainant said defendant was a married man, and
had not lived with his wife fur many years. He could
afford 5s per week, and had allowed her that sum for a long
time. _ _ _

The Magistrate said he could not order more than 2e 6d
per week—the act of Parliament restricted him to that
sum.

THREATENING TO STAB,—Cornelius Hayley, a ta!

Irishman, was charged with assaulting William Burgin, a
baker, of No, 11, Hastings-place, Shadwell.

The complainant said he was having his shoes blackened
and polished in High-street, Shadwell. The prisoner came
out of a public-house and laid hold of him and turned him
round. He asked him what he meant by such conduct,
and the prisoner said, Won't you give me something to
drink—some ale I want ?" He told the prisoner he had no
money. The prisoner, who was very drunk, threatened him.
He went into a beer-shop out of the way and had a pot
of ale. The prisoner came into the beershop, and he offered
him a glass of ale. The prisoner turned him round, and
took a penknife cut of his pocket, and said "11l cut your
belly open." He called for assistance, and as the prisoner
was raising the knife he was seized.

In answer to questions by the prisoner, witness said—
You were not cutting tobacco with your knife. I saw it
taken from your pocket. I have not been transported.
Margaret Binl6y, beershbp keeper, confirmed the evidence
of Burgin, and
The Magistrate sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned
for two months and kept to hard labour for the assault on
Burgin.

The Reward for the Apprehension of Muller.

MATHEWS,.THE CABMAN.

We can positively state that the paragraph which has
been going the round of the metropolitan and provincial
papers announcing that it had been decided to give the
whole of the reward of £3OO for the apprehension of the
murderer of Mr Briggs to Methews, the cabman, is entirely
destitute of truth. Nothing has yet been determined rela-
tive to the payment of the mcney. The whole paragraph
is the imaginative creation of a penny-a-liner.

Liverpool Cotton Itrarket—This Day.

There is a much better and firmer market this
morning. Sales, probably 6,000 or 7,000 bales.

REPRESENTATION OF NORTH WARWICKSHIRE.
—The new candidate, Mr W. D. Bromley, arrived at Hams
Hall, the seat of the Right Hoe. C. B. Adderley, on Tueb-
day evening, and on Wednesday ho paid a visit to the
ancient town of Coleshill. He will remain the guest of Mr
Adderley until Tuesday next, the day of nomination. It is
expected that Jut Bromley will be nominated by his hon.
friend.

The Ocean of Brest sgys—Four Carmelite friars
have just loft for the mission at Bagdad, two priests of the
diocese of Lyons and Clermont-Ferrand for New Mexico,
and five Jesuits for the missions in Bourbon and Madagas-
car. Catholicism is making gratifying progress in the
East Indies, where there are at present 17 bishops, 851
priests, 854,000 Catholics, and 654 Bchuols, attcutled by
25,000 children,"

A letter from Corfu of the 21th ult. mentions the
arrival there of 11.11.1,5. Magicionne, Captain Armytage,
and states that she would leave on the day following for
Patras. Several mercantile failures have been made public
—among them Marchetti and P. Crewidi to a serious
extent.

Passengers for China and Cochin China embarked
three days logo at Toulon fur Alexandria on board the
Eldorado steam frigate. The day before yesterday the
Labrador left for Algiers, having on board 1,000 men be-
longing to different regiments in garrison in the colony.
The Areutz Zeitung of Berlin announces that
the Prussian Government will no longer content itself with
taking measures against the journals which publish letters
hostile to Prussia, but will also attack the correspond& t
themselves. It seems difficult to devise how that can be
done, as the writers evidently reside in foreign countries,
and preserve an anonymous character.

Recent returns state that the number of fairs
held annually in the Governnient of Tobolek, in Siberia, is
165. The value of the merchandise brought to them
amounts to 8,640,321 roubles (4f. each), and the sales effected
to 5,384,686 roubles. The fair of Ischim is the most im-
portant of all. The merchandise brought there amounts
to 2,662,000 roubles, and thesales to 2,341,000 roubles,

The Civii Tribunal hat just given judgment in
the action brought against the Abbe Perreyve by M. Leon
Lacordaire to recover the unpublished manuscripts of his
brother, the late celebrated preacher. The damages were
laid at 100,000 fr. After healing counsel, the Tr,bunal re•
jetted M. Leon Lacordaire's lemands, and condemned him
to pay all costs.

M. Menjaud, a well known actor at the Theatre
Francais many years ago, hat just died at Tours.
TROUBLES OF AN ORDERLY SERGEANT.—The
New York Times publishes an extraordinary letter
sent lately to Gen. Thomas, commandirg the army of the
Cumberland, by an orderly sergeant of the sth Tennessee
Cavalry, on duty in various tuarters of the middle section
of the state. It might be supposed to be intended as a
burlesque, but it is stated tc be a letter wrung from the
writer by his troubles and perplexities. The following
are the most striking passaps in this strange epistle :
"Major General Thomas,—Dear sir,—Where a company
boards at half a dozen different places, ranging from 100
yards to a quarter of a node from headquarters, is the
orderly sergeant bound to nuke out regular and irregular
details, notify the men, and leave them ready to start on
a scout or other duty at a moment's notice ? If the
orderly sergeant tries to get tle privates to fall into rol:-
call, and privates tell him to go to is the orderly
sergeant bound to go there/ In cavalry service how
often must the orderly sergeant notify a private to go
on duty before he is clear of any wrong himself ? And
after notifying private soldiers the proper number of times
to go on duty, is the sergeantbound to catch and saddle all
their horses, and after putting on all their equipments, and
furnishing those who by carelessness or otherwise have
no arms with the necessry weapons, to take said
private soldiers by the naps of their necks and the
seats of their breeches and put them in their saddles
After serving as orderly servant in a company over 13
being disorderly, unruly, conten-
mtieounst,hsTbotahredienogmpy
out' at as navy different points of the
beinghea u
troublesomearte rs as
generally,cou findand
p
cu7samienePgs"etßoveirrbyoomacrxdecroatmitOnpaanntdoyget tie orderly sergeant to resign
and retire to private life, in older that some one of them
company,luigh t get
theid it g hightreating tin
position' of orderly sergeant of the
said orderly sergeant with justice
to take a private from the ranks—one of the most contrary
men, too (and I know who is contrary)-L-and put him over
the said sergeant as sece,nd Itutenant, just because the
colonel of the regiment is sifted of his men, and is afraid
to take control of them and govern them ? If there is
maiming and killing men a thy or two after their sur-
render, carried on by the men of a regiment, whose duty
is it to put a stop to such conduct—l mean if such conduct
is wrong ? If it is all right, no une ought to put a stop to
it. Have commissioned (Zees, non-commissioned offi-
cers, and privates in the United States service, any right
to take horses frem the enemy and sell them, and apply
the proceeds of such sales to their own use ? If so, an
affirmative answer to that qu3stion may be of great
benefit to my wife and sick boy. If such horse trading
is lawful, I am willing to resign my position as sergeant,
and go to trading in theta. I can make it pay better, and,
so far as my observation goes, it it a great deal less trouble,
especially if the man board out." On these and other points
the orderly sergeant entreats the .iommanding (Siker to en-
lighten him.

TI OF AlR.—Winds are air put in
rta LIA motion,ho Their influence is most benefi-
cial, Were there no winds, the Tapours that rise from the
CIRCULATION
sea would be returned back front the clouds, in showers, to
the very same places in the sea whence they came. On an,
earth where no winds blew, we Rhould neither have green
pastures, still waters, nor running brooks. Air is more
liable to pollution and corruption than water; stagnation is
ruinous to it. Ceaseless motion has been given to it; per-
petual circulation and intermingling of its ingredients are
required of it. The necessity of ventilation in our buildings,
the wholesome influences of fresh air are universally acknow-
ledged. The ory in cities for fresh air from the mountains
or the sea, reminds us continually of the life-giving virtues of
circulation. It has been well said that the girdling encircling
air makes the whole world akin. It is the laboratory for the
wh, le animal and vegetable kingdoms. The carbonic acid
with which our breathing fills the air to-day, to-morrow
seeks its way round the world. The date trees that grow
round the falls of the Nile will drink it in by their leaves ;
the cedars of Lebanon will take of it to add to their .tature.
The oxygeu we are breathing now was distilled for us, some
short time ago, by the magnolias of the Stuquehanns , and
the great trees that skirt the Amazon. By the winds,
superfluous water is carried off and removed to other lands,
where its agency is required ; or it is treasured up, as the
material of clouds, in the crystal vault of the firmament, the
source, when the fitting season arrives, of the showers which
provide for the wants of the year.—All the Year .Round.

The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric state of Europe yes-
terday Ttie fall in the barometer slowly con-
tinues on England, the Bay of Biscay, and Spain,
and bad weather again becomes probable for the
west and north-west of Europe. On tho Channel
anti the French coista of the Atlantic the winds
have already veered to the S. or S.W., and on all
those regions the weather is showery and the sky
cloudy. En Russia the rough weather is proceed.
ing towards the Black Sea ; the barometer at Mos-
cow has fallen 13 millimetres, and at Odessa the
winds begin to veer to S.W."
During the last few days there has been an
absence of animation in the Foreign and Colonial
Produce Markets, The public sales of tea have
proceeded very slowly ,zud sugar has been neglected.
Coffoe has sold at rather easier rates, as also cocoa,
rice, and fruit. In tallow there has been a moderate
business reported, at steady rates, for both present
and forward.

About £42,000 in bar gold was taken into the
13ank yesterday,