The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

The Peace Movement in New York.

The following is the chief portion of the article
of the New York Herald, published on the 13th
inst., advocating a six months' armistice and the
appointment of Federal commissions to proceed to
Richmond with a view to arranging conditions of
pence:—." In the present state of affairs, if we can
do. nothing more, it is all important to the safety of
the country and the administration that we should
place the leaders of the rebellion clearly in the
wrong before their own people and the civilised
world, and the Government as clearly in the right
before all the people of the loyal States in the fur•
ther proreention of this dreadful war. We can do
this througle a special embassy of three peace com-
missioners ter Richmond, if we can do no more.
We believe, however, that throuLeh a movement of
this kind, comprehending an armistice of six months,
and a convention of all the states, euleject to such
conditions and ratifications es may be hereafter
agreed upon, we eau recurs B. permanent pence
upon the basis of the Union. and the Constitu-
tion. Let us suppose, for instance, that Mr Line
cola assuming this responsibility for the make of
peace and a 'decent respect for the °pi:lions of mane
kind,' has detailed three peace commissioners to
Richmond with these simple propositions :—First,
for an armistice for six months; and, second, for a
convention of all the States, to consist of one
delegate from each Congressional district, and two
additional delegates at large feoen each State; and
that said convention, thus constituted, shall meet,
say in Baltimore, on the first Monday is December
next, to consider the ways and means for peace—
could anything, in any event, bat the greatest ad-
vantage result to the Union side of the house ? No.
Rejected or accepted, the loyal States and the
Government have everything to gain and nothing
to lose in the undertaking, If Jefferson Davis, his
Cabinet and Congress, accept the armistice and the
convention, we shall still retain under the first our
blockade, and all the forts and places wrested from
the enemy as now held by our land and naval forges;
and if the convention shall come to nothing we shall
be in a position to resume the war with all, and
more than all, the advantages which we now com-
mand, But we have great faith in the opinion that
the representatives of the rebellious States, in being
brought into familiar council with those of the
loyal States, where they will be relieved of the
despotic authority of Davis, will be so charmed
with the suspension of the war that they will find
a treaty of peace and reunion, satisfactory to
the North and to the South, an easy achieve-
ment, It is probable that Davis may reject
this convention ; it is possible that he may
reject the armistice, or couple its acceptance with
prosperous conditions of Southern independence ;
but the overtures suggested will compel him to show
his hand, and if he shall flatly refuse to listen to
any propositions of peace, expect upon the basis of
a Southern Confederacy, all doubts, all divisions,
and all discords among the people of the loyal States
will be at an end. 2he copperhead peace faction
will be disarmed and powerless for further mischief,
the North will be united, and divisions and dissen-
sions will break out in the South. Let it be made
to appear to those people, in their present crippled,
exhausted, and desperate position, under Davis,
that the Government does not seek their subjuga-
ticn to an abolition idea, or their destruction, but
their reclamation and salvation in the Union, and
President Lincoln will soon realise the immense
advantages of this peace movement, It will serve
the country and make sure his re-election, accepted
or rejected at Richmond ; but, short of some con-
cession to public opinion, he may now even read
the handwriting on the well. Surely, after having
been so far led astray and betrayed, as Mr. Lincoln
has been, by such treacherous guides as Ben. Wade
and Winter Davis, he must now be in a frame of
mind to listen to good advice."

FRENCH ACADEMY CF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting a paper was received from Dr Gaillouste, on
the insufficiency of the means commonly employed against
the bite of mad dogs and the sting of venomous reptiles. In
his opinion, cupping effected on the wound is greatly to be
preferred. The secretary of the Academy, however, re-
marked that cupping had already been tried and a report
been presented on the subject to the Academy ,in which it, was
shown that in most cases the effect of this operation was
only suspensive, that is, that it prevented the absorption
of the virus until other therapeutic agents could be procured
to destroy it. M. Chautard communicated certain results
obtained by him in experimenting on currents of induction
traversing rarified gasses. On examining the spectra pro-
duced in such cases, when the gaseous matter was raised to
a state of incandescence by making a current obtained from
Ruhmkorfi's machine pass through it, M. Chautard finds
that the red and brilliant light emanating from a tube filled
with hydrogen is gradually transformed into a livid greenish
with tint; the spectrum, instead of presenting three magnifi-
cent bands,red, green,and violet respectively,as usual consists
only of a very pale green band. The tube acquires no heat
during the process. In nitrogen also various colours disap-
pear. the red and orande first, the violet last. In carbonic
acid the bands are very numerous under the influence of an
ore nary current, but if the tension of the circuit be dimi-
nished, the same absorption of the extreme shades takes
place. M. M des Essarts sent in a paper on a method of his
for transmittizg the oscillating power of the waves of the
sea to certain appratuses placed on the beach, which may
be substituted for steam engines in the various workshops
of arsenals. _ .

LOVE IN A DRAPEIt'S SHOP.—In an accident
that has just occurred in Liverpool we have another
evidence of bow the po.werful ptomptings of a "tender"
heart control the more reflective senses of the mind. In a
rather extensive business establishment ire Liverpool,
where several assistants are engaged, there might have
been seen, a week or two since, a youcg man of command-
ing deportment and of agreeable features, who gave effect
to his avocation behind the counter in a manner that was
at once inviting to the customers and conducive to the
success of his master. With many purchasers he became
a favourite, but with ono in particular. More than once—
sometimes mere than twice—in the course of a week, a car-
riage would be drawn up ac the shop door, from which would
emerge a lady, apparently between 30 and 40 years of age—
tall, of delicate appearance, bat with an outline of features
that unmistakably indicated an aristocratic descent. If the
young gentleman—we say young, for ho was scarcely 21
years of age—was not at his accustomed position behind
the counter upon her entering the shop, she made the most
urgent inquiries after him, desiring that ho should attend
to her and no one else. The worthy proprietor was always
too happy to comply with her desire, for she was one
of those first-rate customers that settled a good ledger
account once in six months without the allowance of the
ordinary discount. The favourite salesman was soon at his
post serving the lady, and though a goodly number of
articles might be disposed of, there appeared to exist a
" peculiar something" in " business transaction" which
in the course of time looked *very much like a warm cordi•
ality of sentiment, and a recipocity of feeling and idea
bordering upon mutual attachmCnt. Of course the
young man was " chaffed" exceedingly by his envious
shopmates, who were wont to ejaculate in their
strange surmisings that it was a sort o: proceeding
"no fellah could understand." Since one day last week,
however, the buxom stripling has become non est as far as
the establishment is concerned, while the face of the Itty as
well has not presented itself within the visionary region pf
the other assistants or their employer. It is stated that a
letter was addressed by the young man to his mother on
the eve prior to his leaving stating " that he had left his
old place to better himself elsewhere. Fortune had sud-
denly smiled upon him in a wondrous manner I" lle
assured his mother also that, "the next time she con-
fronted her ' darling boy' she w ould see him a gentleman
of the first stamp. lle should then decline to say where
he was gone, but he trusted she would not be nervous on
that account, as she would hear from him again shortly,"
On inquiries being instituted it was discovered that the
lady too had been missing for several days from her home.
No traces up to Thursday last—nearly a week having then
elapsed—had been discovered of her whereabouts, She
has been a widow for five years and is without encumbrance.
She has been residing in a rather picturesque village in
Lancashire since her widowhood, and is in receipt of a
liberal income, Under present circumstances we omit the
names of the parties.--Liverpool Courier.
NEUTRALISATION OF MILITARY HOSPITALS IN
TIME OF WAR.—The deliberations of the International
Medical Centel ence at Geneva, have terminated in the con-
clusion of a convention iu 10 articles, which affirm the neu-
tralisation of all military hospitals, of the whole official
medical staff, and of the wounded. Twelve States only
figure therein a contracting parties, namely, France, the
Grand Duchy of Dijon. Belgium, Denmark, Spain, the
Grand Duchy of Hesse, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Prussia,
S'Ai!7,,,,rland, and WurtemLu7g ; tut the protocol having
been left open, all the other Powers can accede to the con-

vention.
An interesting ncremony took place two days
igo in the Church of La Chart et LyonF, shere
Mgr. do Charbonnel otdained, as priests, two young
deacons belonging to the establishment of the African :Mis-
sions, and who are about to proceed to the Kingdom of
Dahomey. rie also baptised a young negro about eleven
years of age, a native of that c •entry. The church was
crowded with persons to witness the ceremony.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-.PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGEN'3E,—This Day,

STOCKTON RACES—Tnis DAT.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEG:APII,)
BIENNIAL STAKES,

Finesse
Windham
Major
Dead heat between first and second.
CLEVELAND STARES.

Fair Melrose
1
Sweet Jessie
.. "
Brown Bread

Eight ran.
TRIAL STAKES.

Dübiay
East Lynn
Hiss Armstrong

3

Six ran.

Brindisi Lot here.

Murder throug.li Jealousy

•

Yesterday morning a murder was committed in Cross-
street, Hatton-garden, the murderer being a man named
Henry Wilkinson, aged 29, a stonemason's labourer, re-
siding at 9, Cross-street, and the unfortunate victim his
wife, Eliza, a woman of prepossessing appearance.
Between one and two o'clock this morning a fearful dis-
turbance was heard in the apartments occupied by the pri-
soner, his wife, and another lodger. On police-constable
Cock, 116 G, entering the room he found the deceased
woman lying on the floor. She had been attended by 1)1',
Gibson, who said that death bad been caused from the
combined effects of kicks and blows in the stomach. There
was but little blood about the deceased's person, although
there was a good deal about the.place.
It would appear that yesterday some friends of both
parties called to see them, and spent the clay with them. In
the evening', they all partook of a little drink, but none of
them got intoxicated. Shortly before thedeparture of the last
train on the Metropolitan Railway,
the deceased and her hus-
band went to see their friends off. Before they parted one of
the men kissed the deceased. This seemed very much to
annoy and exasperate the prisoner, who swore and threatened
her in a most dreadful manner, and it is stated that whilst
standing in the Farringdon-road he struck his wife in the
face. Being fearful that she should be still further ill-used
and beaten if she stayed there, the unfortunate woman
returned home, and telling one of the other lodgers that
the was afraid the prisoner would injure her, asked
her if she would allow her to sleep with her until
morning, when she thought her husband's wrath would
be appeased. Her wish was complied with, and both
women retired to rest, As before stated, the husband re-
turned home shortly after one o'clock, and finding that his
wife was not in his room he called for her. He then went
into the lodger's room, and finding that his wife was in bed
swore at her and pulled her out with great violence, He
knocked his wife down, and while she was on the ground he
billeted a most fearful kick in the stomach, The poor
woman said to her husband, "You have now given me my
death blow," rolled over, and fell insensible. She never
spoke more, and the prisoner, who then appeared very
sorry, went out and fetched a surgeon, and when he re-
turned he was taken into custody.
Information has been forwarded to Dr Lankcster, the
coroner for Middlesex, and the inquest will be held this
day.

At the King's-cross police station, when the charge was
read over to the prisoner by Acting Inspector Baldock, I
G, he said, "I know she is dead, but it is not from the
many blows I have given her now, She has died from those
I gave her on Friday."