The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-30 00:00:00

Horrid Outrage at Glarigow,

your crime, bad as it ia, is not beyond the reach of God's
mercy. I earnestly beseech you to pray that you may be
forgiven one of the gravest crimes which I have ever known

to be committed. Pray that you may get a now heart, and
that tho evil passions which led you to this crime may, by
he grace of God, be overthrown in your heart; and if that

be the result, even penal servitude for life will be a blessing
to your soul. The sentence of the Court is that you suffer,

penal servitude during the whole period of your natura
life. The prisoner was then removed from the bar,

Board of Trade Returns

The official returns relating to trade and navigation for

the 11 months ending Nov. 30, 1864, have just been pub-
lished, From these it appears that the total declared
value of the exports from the United kingdom during that
period was £148,340,865, against £132,135,368 in the like
period of 1863, showing an increase of £16,205,497. The
increase is most perceptible in beer and ale, coals and
culm, cotton yarn, cotton manufactures, earthenware,
haberdashery and millinery, hardwares and cutlery, linen
manufactures, and woollen and worsted manufactures. The
Importations of the principal articles were larger for the
11 months as regards live animals, raw cotton, sheep and
lambs' wool, flax, hemp, quicksilver, rice, coffee, brandy,
timber, tobacco, and wine, but there is a diminution in
guano, potatoes, provisions, raw silk, tallow, cocoa, wheat,
barley, flour, currants, rum, unrefined sugar, and tea.
The shipping accounts exhibit a slight increase in the
amount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade of the
United Kingdom for the 11 months, both as regards the
entries inwards and the clearances outwards,

In the coasting trade for the same period 867.853 tons
more were employed than in the corresponding period of
1863 for the entries inwards, while there was a decrease of
11,930 in the clearances outwards.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day

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The excess of stock, about 114,000 bales, has
caused a very quiet market. Sales, uncertain, but
probably about 5,000 bales, at a decline of about *d.
in short and staple cotton.

The return issued from the Bank of France is
likewise unfavourable. The discounts have been
increased £1,380,000, the advances £53,200, and
the notes in circulation £190,000. The bullion
has been reduced by £160,000, but the Treasury
balances show an augmentation of £760,000, and
the current accounts of £600,000.
THE SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRADE.—
WOLVERHAMPTON, Dee. 29.—The preliminary
meeting of the ironmasters of this district was held at the
Swan Hotel this afternoon ; Mr W. 0. Foster, M.P., in the
chair. A resolution was unanimously carried to the effect
that the prices of finished iron remain as heretofore. It was
also resolved that in the interests of the trade a panel of
gentlemen be appiinted to act as a committee of the trade,
and that they, in the rotation of their names, be appointed
to act as chairmen of the iron trade of South Staffordshire
fot one year each. The names of the gentlemen selected to
constitute this panel are the chairman of this meeting, Mr
Wm. Mathews, Mr John Hartley, Mr Win. Barrows, Mr
Gee. Barker, Mr Walter Williams, juu., Mr Frederick
Smith, and Mr W. M. Sparrow—names well known as

being among the beads of the trade in this district, The
course which the smelt men and puddlers will pursue in re-
ference to the proposed reductions in their wages scale is
not yet known, as the notices will be given on Saturday ;
but as the step which the masters have taken has been
forced upon them by the depressed state of the trade, and is,
moreover, a reasonable one, it is to be hoped that the men
will consult their own interests and acquiesce. With the
suffering and desolation resulting from the colliers' strike
before their eyes, no rational man will, it may be supposed,
be lured into a repetition of that folly.

It may be remembered that about a year ago M.
Dubray, statuary, was deprived by an accident of the fruit
of a long labour. He had just completed the model of an
equestrian statue of Napoleon I. for the Hotel-de-Ville at
Rouen, where the iron snpports of the work gave way
beneath the weight of the mass of plaster, and the statue
falling to the ground to pieces. Nothing discouraged, M.
Dubray again set to work, and in ten months the statue has
been again completed, and is now ready to be cast in
bronze.

SHOCKING DEATH OF A GENTLEMAN.—.—YeSterk
day Mr Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, held
an inquest at St. George's Hospital, upon the body of
Mr George Gi'strap,' aged 40, of the firm of Gilstrap and
Sons, misters, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, who was
crushed beneath an express train at 13alham station, on the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. From the
evidence it appeared that on the 26th inst. the deceased was
noticed upon the platform of the Balham station waiting
for a train. Before it arrived, however, ho left a little boy
who was with him and proceeded to the end of the platform.
At this time the one o'clock express train from Hastings was
due, and the driver of the engine, whilst at 150 yards
distance, noticed the deceased standing on the line, and
from the manner in which he was arranging his dress,
believed he had got down from the platform for a natural con-
venience. The engine driver sounded his whistle at once, but
without avail, and before the deceased could got out of the
way the buffer of the engine struck and hurled him beneath
the train. The train was pulled up as soon as possible, when
the unfortunate gentleman was found upon the line most
dreadfully injured. Without delay he was placed in the
guard's van of another train and brought to the hospital.
0 ther evidence showed that the deceased had no right to have
gone to the p'.aco he did, as every convenience was provided
at the station. Mr Barker, house surgeon of the St George's
Hospital,stated that ho found on theadmission of the deceased
that ho was in an extreme state of collapse. The left leg
was completely smashed, the bones protruding, whilst both
foot had been severed. The left arm was fractured, and the
back severely injured. Every possible remedy was adopted,
but the deceased gradually sank, and expired about half-
past three o'clock the same day, ftom the combined injuries
he had received. The deceased was, notwithstanding,
sensible up to the time of his death, and spoke of the cir-
cumstances of the occurrence as borne out by the witnesses.
The coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict
of " Accidental death."

LORD MACAULAY, paesing one day through
Seven-dial P, one of the lowest neighbourhoods of
London, bought a handful of ballads from some street folk
who were bawling out their contents to a gaping audience
Proceeding on his way home, ho was astonished, on Pud

denly stopping, to find himself surrounded by half a score of
urchins, their faces beaming with expectation. " Now,
then, my lads, what is it ?" said he. " Oh, that's a
good'un," replied one of the boys, "after we've come all
this way." "Bat what are you waiting for?" asked the
histori,m, astonished at the lad's familiarity, " Waiting
ford Why, ain't yeu going to sing, gu,v'ner

At the Glasgow winter assizes, on Wednesday, before
Lord Ardmillan, Mike M'Glinchy was charged with rape,
" in so far as, on the 16th July last, on the Broomloan or
Sandy Holes-road, parish of Govan, he attacked Margaret
Addie, and did strike her on the head and face, and knock
her down, and pull her along the ground into a field, and
did there kick her on the head and face, and compress her
throat and ravish her." He was also charged with intent

to ravish.
The prisoner, who pleaded guilty as libelled, is about
25 or 30 years of age, and did not exhibit any signs of
brutality.
The Advocate-Depute stated tlr.t, after deliberate consi-
deration of the case, he had decided to restrict the pains of
law to an arbitrary punishment.
Mr Male, who appeared for the prisoner, called several
witnesses, who gave him an excellent character up to the
time of the outrage in question. They described him as
being very inoffensive, and as having conducted himself in
a regular manner.

The prisoner's counsel addressed the Court in mitigation
of punishment. It appeared, ho said, that the crime was
committed under the influence of drink, and although in
general drink is an aggravation of an cifence, yet in a
peculiar case of this nature—a case caused by excitement

of passion—it might have been in a moment of almost
what ono might call temporary insanity that ho was ltd to
commit this most brutal and unjustifiable assault.
Lord Ardmillian, in passing sentence, said to the prisoner
—According to the law of Scotland, as still unaltered, rape

committed under circumstances such as the present, is a
capital charge, You may consider yourself most extremely
fortunate that the prosecutor has felt it to be his duty not
to demand a capital sentence. Had he demanded that
I should have had no alternative but to have pro-
nounced it. As it stands, however, this is a confession of
rape—completed rape upon the person of a woman, and
committed under circumstances of the gravest and most
aggravated character—an outrage such 'as has rarely
happened in Scotland. In the midst of summer, ere day-
light had altogether departed, a respectable woman walk-

ing alone—having retired to no lonely spot, but walking
where she was en itled to expect to be free from such vio-
lence—is seized, attacked, and assaulted in the most furious
manner, grievously injured, and ravished contrary to her
will, and notwithstanding her resistance. The law of this
country protects the honour of a woman as much as the life
of a human being; and there is no graver offence than wil-
ful, violent forcing of the honour of a woman. But the
commisssiun of this acE, under the circumstances here set
forth, was accompanied by violence of such a charac.
ter as to make this one of the most fearful outrages
that this country has ever seen ; and therefore the sen-
tence of the court in your case must be one which pro.
tects the public in all time coming from your violence;
and it must further be ono which will duly warn all others
in whom violent passions, inflamed by drink, might pro-
duce such fearful consequences. Having said this, I have
not another word to add to pain your heart under these
circumstances. But if you have a heart at all, I would, in
one word, pray you to remember that whatever may be your
guilt, and though no human law can do no more for you
than close you up in penal service for the remainder of your
life, there is a law which you have broken in regard to which
mercy may be obtained; and I pray you to remember that

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

EALING STEEPLECHASES.

There aro at last strong sympto;;o;:tlhese steeple.
chases, so frequently postponed on account of frost, will
come off. The promoter of the meeting informs us that in
consequence of the decided thaw which has set in there is
every probability of the sports being held on Tuesday and
Wednesday next, and the meeting is once more put off to
those days. Owners and trainers will thus have time to
send their horses to the scene of action.