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London, England, 1864-07-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1864.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

TWO PERSONS STABBED BY AN ITALIAN.--AR Italian,
whose name was understood to be Luigi Panni, and who is
said to be an organ player, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt
with stabbing two young men in the employ of Mr John
Knott, tripe dresser, of Walker's-court, Pulteney-street,
named John Midmer and Henry Bathe.

John Midmer, whose head was bandaged, said—Last
night a little after 12 I was in Oxford-street, near the corner
of Charles-street, seeing a companion home. We went into
an oyster shop, and on coming out saw two organ men with
organs, and the prisoner with a stick, which he was flourish-
ing about. I said to the prisoner, " Mind what you are
about—you will put somebodye:'eS out." We then
walked
away and went into a publichouse to have a glass
together, and the prisoner and the two men followed us.
At the time a policeman was stanling near, but on our
coming out of the publichouse the policeman had gone.
The prisoner then came up and seizhl me by the arm and
turned me round. I asked the prisoner why ho did it, and
told him to go away, as I did not wish to have any words
with him. The prisoner then took a stick from one of the
organ men and made an attempt to strike me, but I caught
hold of the stick and prevented him. One of the organ men
, and the prisoner put
out a knife, and cut
histhenme o
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theonkd the
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ktdheotewpannr, i
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prisoner fell on me,
and tried to cut me again. My companion took the pri-
soner from me, and the prisoner stabped or cut my com-
panion twice.
lNuirr T Prhoner attempt to cut
your
Midmer—l did; with the same knife. The police came,
companionyrw hitt—
?Did you see the
and we were then taken to the Middlea3x Hospital, where
our wounds were dressed.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—ls the other persok who was injured
here ?

hstepkr,ispounter'his hind in my face, and
Whet I first spoke to him
about Midmer—Heflourishi is. T
flourishing the stick,
said he could speak good English.
Mr. Tyrwhitt_Did you do aßyth:lag in the way of
abusing the prisoner ?
Midmer.—Nothing of the kind, sir. I only spoke to him
about flourishing the stick.

Vent into an oyster
shoptho,
Midmer,
said—Last Lawhsitl
en
therei night I
say the two organ men
and the prisoner pass the latter flourishing a stick, Midmer
He
nwriyth BMa
spoke to the prisoner about flourishing the stick, and the
Prisoner then clawed at Midmer's face, saying he could
speak good English. I went with Midi:tier into a public-
house, and on coaling out in about five minutes, we found
the prisoner and the two men waiting at the public-house
door. Tho prisoner then walked up to Midmer and
caught hold of him—following him acros the road to do so
—and Midmer and prisoner closed and fell. Midmer cried out
" Harry lam stabbed," I then went And pulled the pri-
soner cft Midmer, and while doing sc the prisoner stabbed
me under the bladebone, there being a wound six inches
in length, and also in the muscle of the arm about
three inches in length. I did not at first know that I was
stabbed, it was so momentarily done, and I struck the pri-
soner with my injured arm.
Mr Tyrwhitt—That accounts, I suppose, for the blood on
the prisoner.
Batho—lt does, sir. I then became faint from the loss
of blood, but contrived to walk to the Middlesex Hospital.
A certificate was handed to Mr Tyrwhitt from the hos-
pital, stating the injuries the complainant had received.
Mr Henry Francis Martyn, tobiccomst, of 54, Rathbone-
place, proved picking np the knife. There was blood on it
at the time, and he gave it to the police.
Mr Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner for a week.

IVESTAIINSTER.

GENTLEMANLY AMUSEMENT.—Mr Sidney Vara Alston
and Lieut. Rutherford, of the Royal Marine Barracks,
Woolwich, were charged before Mr Dayman with wilfully
damaging the lining of a Hackney carriage, the property
of Mr. Henry Townsend, cab-proprietor.
Thomas Weather, cab-driver, No. 3, St. George's-road,
said that about 5 o'clock that morning he was hired by the
prisoners to go to Sussex-street, Pimlico. Another gentle-
man and two females entered the cab. He had got as far as
the corner of Warwiek.street with them when they all
were about to leave. Upon the prisoner coming out of the
cab witness observed the lining of the roof hanging down.
He called the prisoners' attention to the lining, when one
of the females said that it was cut by Alston. He gave the
prisoner into custody. The females and the other man ran
away. Witness offered to take a solereign for the damage.
Alston offered 55., which witness reused to accept. The
other prisoner was insensibly drunk.
Mr Dayman—What did Alston Say to the charge?

Witness—He said that the lining was torn when he got
in the cab. But the cab had only been relined about a fort.
night. I received no fare.
Mr. Townsend, 2, Regent-street, Westminster, stated
that the damage to the cab and the cost of repairing it
would be about 225.

The prisoner Alston was fined 225,, Rutherford was
discharged, and the cabman was allowed 10s,

THAMES.

SINGULAR ANNOYANCE—KNOCKING UP A RELIEVING
OFFICER.—JuIia Donovan, an Irish midwife, about GO
years of age, and dwelling at No. 18, St. Dunstan's-place,
Ratcliffe, was brought before Mr ?aget, charged with wil-
fully disturbing Mr John Wright at an unseasonable hour
and unlawfully knocking at his door.
Mr John Wright, relieving officer of the Hamlet of Rat-
cliff, in the Stepney Union, stated that a quarter past 3
o'clock this morning he was disturbed by a loud knocking
at the door ,of his house, No. 11, York-square, Stepney.
He leaped from his bed, and before he could open the door
of his room the knocking was repeated. He partially dressed
himself and went to the street door. The knocking never
oeaeed until he:opened,the:door. He taw.the prisoner holding
on by the knocker and very much intoxicated. He asked her
A
what she wanted, and she said, " What about that case ofngell, on Monday ?" He told her his office hours at the
Ratcliff Workhouse were from 10 to 12 in the day, and she
must come then if she had any bus ness with him. She
said she was debilitated, and wanted to go home. He told
her ho had no water for her, and thEt she must go home. She refused to leave. A police-consteble made his appear-
ance, and he gave the prisoner into custody. On the 9th of
April brat she knocked him up at half-past 3in the morn-
ing, and said she wanted an order for the doctor of the
Union to attend a poor woman in labour. He gave her an
order, which she never made
01-In answer to Mr
Paget as to the motive which induced the prisoner to make
such unseasonable calls, Mr Wright
called upon him some time ago,
distress. He relieved her with bread sad oatmeal and went
and said the prisoner
mid she was in great
dis-
tress, her husband could afford bacon fcr his breakfast and
roast mutton for his dinner. He refused, of course, to re-
lieve her
evehde:velling-house. There were lac indications of
any more, and she adopted this system of annoy-

ance.
The prisoner, in defence, said she vas exceedingly de-
bilitated.this morning.
Mr Paget—Yes. You were debilitated, as you term it,
from drink. You were intoxicated at 15 minutes past three
this morning.
The prisoner—No, I was not. I have lived in the hamlet
of Radcliff since 1820.
Mr Paget said the prisoner was
exleedingly bad cha-
racter, and wanted to live on the industry and hard earn-
ings of the ratepayers. He fined her 10G., and in default
orefepayment 14 days' imprisonment in the House of Cor.
io

American Affairs,

A writer in the Times says—The progress of the
campaign verifies the opinions which have been ex-
pressed in your columns. No Northern general has
equalled Grant in perseverance and recklessness of
life, but in military judgment, the most essential of
all qualities in a commander, he seems below the
level of most of his discarded predecessors, No two
men could be foiled who had more eigetally proved
their military incompetence than Butler auei Siegel.
These were the subordinates he approved. A third,
whose miserable failure in South Carolina gave him
some claim to compete with them in imbecility, was
Hunter, and he of course was the. next appointment.
The judgment displayed in these arrangements has
been carried out in his operations in the field. With.
out one exception Grant has failed in every movement
of the campaign. He failed to get between Lee and
Richmond, his object when he crossed the Rapidan ;
he failed to reach Spottsylvania before him, or to
break him there, or to pierce his lines at Cold
Harbour. He failed to seize Fort Darling, or to
surprise Petersburg, or to enter Gordonsville, or to
reach Lynchburg. He has indeed succeeded in
tearing up rails at several points, putting the Rich-
mond Government to the trouble of replacing them,
which is usually done within 24 hours by a gang
of men kept on the alert. With the Spring wasted,
and a loss of 80,000 men, he occupies today a posi-
tion twice as far from Richmond as Malvern-hill,
where his transports might have placed him on the
Ist of March without his burning a cartridge. The
siege of Richmond has miserably come down to that
of Petersburg, and the general who undertook to
surround the cepital is unable to invest so much as
half of the southern side of a little county town.
When, after his terrible repulse at Cold Harbour,
it became necessary for Grant to find some other
point of attack, Malvern-hill at once presented
these advantages. It was within 10 miles of Rich-
mond, with no difficulty on the way; it was clear of
the swamp, and the James river brought supplies
right up to it. Ib oonla he made impregnable
against attack in front, and there could be no enemy
in the rear. Discarding all these considerations,
with rare obtuseness of judgment, Grant decided to
take the south side of the James river, which pre-(
sented the following requirements,— first, to take
Petersburg, which could not be left in his rear ; then
to cross the Appomattox; then to force back the
enemy over more than 20 miles and several strong
positions; then to take Fort Darling, which could
not be left on his right flank; then to besiege the
suburb of Richmond, which is south of the James
river. Having effected all this, he would find an
impassable river between himself and the city, and
not only does an attack from the south involve two
sieges instead of one, but the main city, standing
on high ground. commands the southern bank of
the river, which would be untenable if it were ever
gained. It is true some shells might be thrown into
the city, but they would be returned, and Richmond
is no more to be terrified by Greek fire than
Charleston.
It would seem as if Grant had directed his choice
by studying, not the art of war, but the New York
papers, whose pet scheme of starvation he evidently
adopted. Into Richmond there run not only four
principal lines of railway, but also a canal of un-
usual magnitude, and a river flowing for 150 miles
through a region untouched by the war. It is a
very hopeless project to starve a city so situated,
and whieh it was impossible to invest. But if this
were the design the measures taken were singularly
ill-judged. Instead of withdrawing a corps from
Butler, he should have been strengthened so as to
overthrow Beauregard and ee'z'e the Southern
lines, while Grant, holding on to his intrenched
position, detained Lee in his own front. It was
clear, that if he himself moved, Lee would be
free to respond with the advantage of an inner
line, probably it was hoped that the fleet might
render assistance, as at Vicksburg, when the opera-
tions were connected with the river. If this was
the idea, it is a curious result that Grant should
order vessels to be sunk to protect his own fleet from
the enemy. A New York paper of June 29, when
deploring the uselessness of the navy, observes, " It
has been discovered that God Almighty had not
made the James river to fit the Federal gunboats."
Sherman's position is even less enviable than that
of Grant. After a long pause he has suffered a dis.
estrous repulse, and failed to carry any point of
Johnson's position. If carried, his next march
would bring him to the Chattohoochee, a formidable
river to cross, and beyond it Atlanta would be found
just as strongly fortified as Lynchburg proved to be.
It might hare been wise had Johnson drawn him
further into the State. As it is, Sherman's position
is fall of peril. Sturgiss, moving to his aid from
Memphis with a column of 8,000 men, suffered the
most thorough defeat since Bull Run, none of his
infantry escaping except as fugitives. Forrest,
after this victory on his road, will soon be heard of
in Sherman's rear, and part of the force no longer
needed beyond the Mississippi is now pressing on
to Georgia. It appears a choice for Sherman whether
to make a disastrous retreat or to hold on and be
hemmed in by armies in front and rear.
Meantime another enemy is in the field of whom
the Federals have long been warned in vain.
Bankruptcy approaches with steady step, and no
"flank movement" or " change of base" will stop
it. Mr. Chase has set at defiance every rule of
finance and every dictate of prudence. He has
ingeniously contrived a system of compound infla-
tion. Not content with the effect of his green.
backs, he has contrived to swell the currency by
means of his funded stocks. By creating what are
called "National Banks," he made his stocks the
basis of another mode of augmenting the cur-
rency. For the time he thus produced an artifi•
cial market for his securities, well knowing the
ultimate consequence. It was "Let us eat and
drink, for to-morrow we die." The machine might
as well take its chance of a crash at tL e bottom of
the hill as be upset at once in the attempt to control
it. There are, however, some things that will read
badly on the page of future history. The Federe:l
Government has invented a number of crimes un-
heard of before. It is now a crime for a New York
merchant to buy or sell gold on the public exchange,
he may be sent to gaol for it. It is a crime for him
to buy a bill of exchange, and pay for it by a cheek
ou his banker; he may be sent to gaol foe this sin. It
is a crime to do what prudence often demands—that
is, to contract for exchange to be delivered when a
remittance will have,to be made ; he may be sent to
gaol for this wickedness. Was there ever in the re-
cords of China or Japan a law in which the rights of
persons, property, liberty, are so ignominiously de-
based ? And merchants of the city of New York
submit to have such laws as these made for them
To make the matter worse, there is the silliness of
such things. Gold was at 95 when this Act was
passed to depress it, and a few days afterwards it
was at 145 premium. The ostrich that thinks to
become invisible by sticking its head in the sand is
about as near the mark as the legislators who
imagine they can arrest the depreciation of an in-
flated currency by such means as these.
The good people of Germany continue to buy
Federal Stocks. With terrible loss on what they
have bought, they propose to mend the matter by
going on. Mr. Chase's last loan may be bought
to-day to pay 14 per cent. interest or more. With
gold at 258, the Lincoln dollar is worth is Bd, which
looks tempting. But these German Federals might
do well to inquire how the Union paid a similar
debt—that of the Revolutionary war. That debt
was trifling for the population and resources of the
day when contrasted with the present sum total.
Yet when the excitement of the war ceased, though
the war was entirely successful, it was found im-
practicable to pay, and the settlement that was
made by no means amounted to so much as two.
pence in the dollar all round. Hence even from is
8d there is very considerable room to tumble.

—Assuming that the utter failure of the Federal
operations cannot now be far distant, the question
that arises of chief interest to Europe is whether
the event will end the war. Undoubtedly it is
difficult to imagine how such financial machinery
can revolve much longer, for prices rise in response
to gold, and the enormous expenditure of the Go-
vernment increases daily. Its issues of paper in
one form or other mast, therefore, grow more pro-
fuse. But the stock of belief in the most credulous
of tall civilised people is not to' e exhausted in a day.