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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1864

MARKETS—This Day.

Particulars.

Stock this day.... 1
Price of Y.C.
Delivery lastweekl
Ditto from June l'
Arrivals last week
Ditto from June 11
Price 01 Town ....

wry little business has been transacted. Last week's im-
port amounted to 1,509 bales from Melbourne, 2,118 More-
ton Bay, and 1,910 Algoa Bay.
Current prices of English wool per lb.
s d

Fleeces —South Down hoggets 2 1
Halt-bred do
Kent fleeces.
South Down ewes and wethers 2 0
Leicester do.
Sorts—Clothing
Combing

s d
2 2
2 5
2 6
2 2
2 2
2 1
2 31

SEEDS.

Mustard seed is firm, at 108 to lls for white, and 10s to
13s for brown qualities. New winter taros have sold at
Os to 10a per bushel. In otter seeds there is no material
change to notice.

l'urntp,White,p.bus.as to 225
Swede —9 —8
Mustard, Brown lOs
Os Ile
Tares, Spring — 8. a
New winter, bush 9 lOs
Callao', per quarter —8 -
Rye grass, new —s —s
Clover, lied Eng., et. s —s
White
Foreign Red._ —8 —8
White. —s —s
Trefoil new. —3 —e

Carraway n2s 28,
Coriander l2s IBs
II enipseed, per qr sls 58s
Linseed,Eng.soWing 76s 7tis
Crushing

Baltic

(Mop —B —8
Linseed Cake• p ton —8 —0
Eilgiimi .......ClO 03.1;11 108
Foreign .i 9 108.£11 Os
Rape Cakes,p ton.o i los £5 108
Rapeseed, new,pr qr 64s 68s

TALLO W.

The tallow trade is dull to-day, and a further decline
has taken place in prices. P.Y.C. is quoted at 42s per
cwt on the spot, and 44s for October to D.!cember deli-
very, Town tallow has realised 41s 91 to 42s not cash.
Rough fat is selling at 2s 2d per Blbs.

1850.

1881

1862.

1883.

1864.

44.698 38.514 35.454 42,050 ) 42.084
5283 a 48561 to 48s0d to 92801 to 928 Od to
526 81 —s Od --s Od 43s Od 418 31
~ .1 9,17 4,048 1,347 1,379 2,118
48,133 38,680 21,638 14,(86 17,677
9,866 434 1,..44 1,224 2,018
46.037 20,463 18,780 18,092 14,740
55s 01 0,8 1,1 50P 01 438 8d 448 31

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

THE REY. Mr. HIBBS AGAIN.—Mr. Richard Hibbs, a
clergyman of the Church of England, was placed at the
bar, before Mr. Flower, to answer the charge of having
caused an obstruction to the public thoroughfare by preach-
ing in Trafalgar-square.
The rev, defendant begged to be accommodated with a
chair, as he was suffering acutely from rheumatism. He
was at once provided with one, but immedhtely after wards
he appeared to forget his physical calamity and rose from
his seat, and, turning round alternately to the public, the
bench, and the reporters' box, continued speaking and
gesticulating in the most violent and excited manner.
Police-constable A 616 was about to give his evidence,
when the defendant demanded his address, questioned him
in the most iusul:ing manner as to his comprehensLn of the
sacred obligations of an oath, and imputed wilful and cor-
rupt perjury to him almost before he had uttered a sentence.

The officer being at length allowed to proceed, stated
that ho was on duty in Trafalgar-square, at half•past
three o'clock on Sunday afternoon, when he saw a
large crowd of persons assembled in the thoroughfare.
The defendant was mounted on one of the terraces giving
out a hymn. He was stationed near the National Gallery.
Witness went up to him and told him to go away, as ho
could not be permitted to preach there. Tllere was a crowd
of five or six hundred persons gathered at the time, causing
serious obstruction in the carriage-way to the carriages
passing. On Sunday week witness and other constable,
had nmoved him from the same place. The defendant came
down into tho roadway but refused, to leave, and went on
"arguing" with the public. Finding that ho would not go
away witness took him into custody, and the charAl3 was
taken at the station. The defendant, who had several friends
with him, was liberated on bail.
Defendant—Was I not walking towards St. Martin's
Church when you took me into custody ?

Constable— You walked a few yards only. You said you
had a written order from Sir R. Mayne to preach there.

Defendant—That is, not exle.ly an order, but a notice,
which I exhibited here on a former occasion, and which
gives me prmizsion to preach, unless requested by the
inhabitants to desist. Now, sir (to Witness), did I not call
on my friends to follow me to Leicester-square P
Witness—Yes. You waived your hand and said, "Now,
friends, to Leicester-square."
Defendant—ls not this sufficient to prove that tho con
stable has perjured himself. 110 has sworn that I refused
to go, and now admits that I was actually going. The fa t
is, I took his number in my book, and wrote by the side of
the entry the words "Very insolent." Ile then took me
out f revenge.

Mr Flower—l think it very probable that you intended
to go, and that the constable may have been mistaken as to
your in'ention. I shall then fore discharge you, but you
must not preach in public thoroughfares to the obstruction
of the traffic. I darceay you think it is very wicked for
omnibuses and cabs to be cut at all on Sundays, but you must
not expect your judgment to be universally adopted. You
are now discharged.

..,
DJfendant—Oh, Pee not done with this man yet. Now,
sir—and this is—very grave matter, sir—are you the con-
stable that addressed to me, a clergyman of the Church of
England, the offensive words, "none of your slang."

Witness—Yes, I did nee those words.
Defendant (with great vehemence)—Now, sir, let the
public see what sort of men they have to deal with.
His Honour—That was an imprudent remark, no doubt ;
but, Mr Hibbs, you must bear in mind t iat a policeman is
only a man, having blood, heart, and temper, like other
me; and if you, a clergyman of the Church of England,
cannot keep your temper (and any one who has seen your
excited manner must be clear upon the point) you twist not
be surprised if a man in the constable's station in life should
forgot himself also. I dismiss the case.
The de fondant, who seemed anxious to kee p up the case
much longer, then reluctantly retired from
the court.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

kustralia and Mauritius, via SouthernPton"• " s'
_
Sept I.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension and St.
Ps Marseilles ......... Sept. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pac,ket. Oct. 4.
Helena.. Sept. 28.
Iliina, Penang, and Singapore, via Seuthainptnn.SePt. 18
via blareeilles •.. Sept, 12

.__
India (Calcutta), and Celon, via South,"
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton :............. Sept. 10
via Marseilles.... Sept, 12
pton .. Sept. 18
y
India (Bombay), via Southampton ............ S, pt. 10
via Marseilles ................ Sept. 20.
P0rtuga1........
........... ... Oct. 4.
...
Nlalta, Egypt, and Aden, via SouthamPt"... Sept. 10
via Marseilles .........Sept. ept. 12
Newfoundland ............................... l4
Oporto and Vigo ..
.. . ..............
if. S. and British N. America, ty Brit. packet.... Sept. 14
by U.S. Pecket• • • •
by Canadian packet. Sept. 16
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, Sept. 13.
California. and British C01umbia............
j

The General Transatlantic Company's Mail
Steamer Florida arrived at St. Naz Lire on the 11th instant
with 69 passengers ; left Vera Cruz the 14th ult., Santiago
de Cuba the 26th, and Martinique the 26th ; has on freight
390,000 dole. and 290 tons merchandize. All well.
Since the departure of her Majesty from Wind-
sor nearly 200 workpeople have been engaged at the Castle
re-painting and re-gilding the Qeeen's rooms. The stone-
colour which concealed the fine oak-panelled ceiling of the
grand entrance and staircase leading to the marble statue of
NLuriar r
George IV. is be'ng renovated, tn.! other important im-
provements are going forward, undo: the direction of Moyers
and Sun.—Court Journal.
Y did last year.
Spurgeon has
announced his intention of withdrawing from the Evange.
The Polish journals state that the corn crops have
totally failed in Gallicis, and that the province is likely to
sufferA N ellE tchceLhorrors T
iof c
Afamine,LE y E as
T . I
lical Alliance.
EITRAORDINARY RUN OF SALMON,--The recent
fresh in the rivers Ayr and noon, after so long a
drought, coupled with the earlier time for the removal of
the stake nets, afforded scenes on Thursday which gladdened
the hearts of all interested in the re.stoeking of these, of
late years, almost bat ren rivers. Salmon were seen disport-
ing themselves at the mouths of the rivers, making clear
leaps out of the water; and in the river Ayr, it was esti-
mated by the miller and his men, and by delighted disciples
of Walton who watched the sigh', that at least 500 salmon
leapt the dam-dyke at the Ayr mill on Thursday. Now
that the upper heritors of the Ayr and Dome have got their
rivers re-stocked, a grave responsibility rests with them,
to meet and put on watchers to protect the fish in the spawn-
ing season: If this is not done, they may be, sure that, as
in years past, parties who neither know nor care for the
difference between clean and foul fish will spear and use
them.—..4yr "MITI tiser.
A HINT Dolt LocoLL—The following were
among the mottoes inscribed on the banners at the
peace meeting in Syracuse on the 18th ult. :—" No more
victims for the slaughter pan; not a man nor a dollar."
"If Seward touches his bell again the people will stretch
his neck." " Ate Lincoln slaughters white men under the
pretence of freeing niggers." "The peop!o are ready to
take vengeance on the advocates of civil war." "Lincoln
demands blood I Provost inartlela beware, I" "Let the
tyrant tremble when the polio 'Teak." 4. Muriiatiuu
unranked. is despolizin accepted.'• " Crush the tyrant
Lincoln before be crush you." "Free bahots or free bul-
lets." " War is dissolution, speedy and final." " This is a
nigger war." "We will not be cotecripted in a war for the
cananeipatien of slavery." "Humanity commands that
this butchery shall cease." " Lincoln has murdered three
white men to free one negro."

A FRENCH TRANSLATION OF CHARLES DICKENS'S
" Old Curiosity Shop" has just appeared iu 41 quarto volume
in the "Romans Pepulaires Illustti,s," under the title of
" Lo Mnrchsndd'Antignitie*," illustrated with thirty plates
by Lertall,

SURRENDER OF MULLER.

QUEENSTOWN, Sunday Night.

The excitement in the court-room at New York
on the re-examination of Muller on the 27th ult.
was intense. The prisoner on entering, accompanied
by his counsel, appeared totally indifferent to the
charge against him. Amidst profound silence, Mr
Blankman said the questions arising in the case
were intricate, and required careful attention, and
asked for an adjournment for a week. As a prece-
dent he referred to the case of Anderson, who fl,d
to Canada after committing murder in the United
States. The case was adjudicated upon in England,
and resulted in the release of Anderson on the
round that he was a slave. and that the deed was
committed in making Lis escape. Ho also referred
a) a murder committed on an American vessel by
pirates and murderers who escaped to Liverpool
nd the case was adjourned from month to month,
and the British Government declined to give up the
prisoners. Another feature in the present case was
.hat no finding of a coroner's inquest had been pro-
duced, but if the documents showed that a case of
murder bad been made cut his honour's duty was
clear ; but if the case was ono of manslaughter it
did not fall within the treaty of 1842. His client
asserted his innocence of the charge, and he thought
the Cour: ought to grant a postponement.
Mr Marbury said it was not his honour's duty to
try the guilt or innocence of the prisoner, but to
ascertain if there was suffietient evidence to justify
the committal of the prisoner. He did not wish to
say anything harsh against the unfortunate man,
but the ease seemed to plain that the Court could
not refuse to send the prisoner back to England,
where ha would have a fair trial according to the
law of the land.

Mr Blankman maintained that the question was
one of guilt—that was a preliminary question. Was
it probable the prisoner was guilty ? He was a
German, and his fellow•citizens of America were
interested in justice being done to him. It was not
a question whether Mr. Seward should touch his
bell and issue orders that the accused be spirited
away secretly and withhut the forms of law; but
the rights of the prisoner were to be guarded, and
hence his demand for postponement.
His Honour did not think the interest of the pri-
soner would suffer if he refused the application.
Mr. Schaffer then moved for the prisoner's dis-
charge, arguing that there were insuperable objec-
tions to his detention. The law must deem him
innocent, and if he declared his inten'iln of be-
coming a citiz3n the shield of the country would be
thrown over him, and there was, in his opinion, a
sublimity in the sudden awakening of England to
revenge the blood of one of its citizens. He con-
sidered the treaty to be a violation of the constitu-
tion. An amendment provided that no man should
be put in peril of his life without indictment by th•
grand jury. The treaty of 1842 provided that fugi.
tives should be rendered up on certain conditions,
and if the prisoner was rendered up he would be
convicted before ho was indicted. It was a prin-
ciple of national law that a state of war nullified all
treaties True, it might be said that theme was no
war b3tween the two countries in their sovereign
capacity, but there was between the citizens of th•
two countries. There were three sorts of war—pri
vato, public, and mixed war. Mixed war could only
be carried on between a nation on one side and indi-
viduals of a natiun on the other, which was divided
into solemn and unsolemn war. Englishmen who
were committing depredations upon our commerce
must be restrained by their Government or they
would be in state of war with America, and to say
that such a state of war did not c list with Great
Britain would be to forget the events of the past
three years with England, which fact did away with
,the operation of treaties. li© then reviewed the
evidence against the prisoner, and contended that
accused was not one of the two men who entered
the railway carriage with Mr Briggs, and that
there was no evidence to detain him.

Mr Blankman called Inspector Tanner, who de-
poced—l have seen Frarz Muller. I should judge
him to be five feet six inches. He has no beard, I
should think he never had any. Ido not call him
a tall thin man, nor a thickset man. He has no
whiskers nor any signs of having ever had any.
This closed the case for the defence.

Mr Marbury said it was never a question for the
courts to decide whether a treaty be in force or not ;
that was the prerogative of the executive. The clues.
lion was whether the evidence was sufficient to
justify his honour, as committing migistiate, in
holding prisoner for trial. The evidence went to
show that Mr Briggs entered the railway carriage,
and a few minutes afterwards was found moaning
on the track suffering from wounds in the head,
from which he died on that same night. Muller
was absent from his usual lodgings. In the com•
partment of the railway car was found a bat known
and proved to have belonged to Muller. Mr Briggs'
hat was gone, and when the prisoner was arrested a
bat similar to Mr Briggs's was found in his pos-
session. A watch and chain belonging to Mr Briggs
were missing, and two days after the murder Muller
went to Mr Death's and exchanged a chain
answering the description of Mr Briggs'e, and Mr
Death positively identified the prisoner as the man
who exchanged the chain. He was &so fully
identified by Matthews. In regard to Mr Lee's
testimony concerning tho two men seen in the same
compartment with Mr Briggs, there was nothing
to show that the same two men remained there or
in the train after it started. There seemed on the
whole to be abundance of proof that Muller was the
murderer. Mr Marbury concluded by saying the
chain of evidence was complete, not a link wanting
to connect the prisoner with the commission of the
crime with which he was charged, and called upon
the commissioner to grant the necessary certificate
of extradition in order that the case might undergo
investigaticn in England.

Commissioner Newton then delivered his deei-
bion. He said—My simple duty in this case is to
determine whether there is sufficient evidence to
enuble me to remand the prisoner that he may have
an opportunity of being tried where the crime was
committed, and there prove his innocence, or if
guilty be punishad. It is not necessary for me to
determine absolutely his guilt. The question to
determine is, has a crime been committed ? If so,
there is a probable cause from the evidence to show
that the party accused is the one who committed
the crime ? My duty is simple and plain. Ido not
desire to sit in judgment over this man ; far bo it
from me. I wish it were in my power to discover
a trace of innocence to justify me in withholding
the certificate of extradition, but I am free to say
all the circumstances point fatally to the prisoner
as the guilty man. So clear and distinct is the
question of probable cause that I cannot for one
moment have a doubt as to the proper course to be
pursued. Under these circumstances lam cons
strained to grant a certificate, and the prisoner,
therefore, stands committed.

This decision was received by some of those pre-
sent with evident astonishment, but Muller himself,
whose demeanour throughout was more that of a
spectator than a criminal, was not in the least
moved.

The prisoner was then handed over to the cue•
tudy of the British officers, and will probably arrive
in England on the 15:h inst.

ANOTHER SHAKSPERIAN DESCENDANT !—With
a grave souse of humour, tLe Athotuceni remarks
as follows—We regret to have to announce " The Rev.
Thomas Shakspere 1" We aro sorry to say it, but ho claims
to bo anotker kinsman of the bard 1 No, wo do him wrong;
his friends insist upon the consanguinity. A writer in the
Card!" Times has encountered this effshet of the Warwick-
shire family at Nailswortb, in Gloucestershire, and has
found that the rev. gentle Man was content to designate
himself as a" poor travelling preacher." lie seems to ,be
a man of some sense, for " ho res3lutely persists in refusing
to trace the discont by baptismal register." He comes from
the neighbourhood of Stratford, amd remembers that his
grandmother had the Shakapore arms suspended not in
the best parlour, but in the kitchen. The Cardiff cor •
respondent was, of course, "struck by his eiugular like-
ness to several of the great bard's portraits," which was an
unlucky etroko, for this would prove that the travelling
preacher cannot closely resemble the swan of Avon."
But then this Shakbrarian Thomas preaches with "a bold
thought and true poetic utterance not unworthy of the
great Poet himself!" Thomas Shakrpere was sent up
to the Stratford Jubilee, where, wo are told, that "standing
on the tomb of the bard, his legs trembled ; nature indi •
cated the tier' We do not rice the canaiou,

Election Intelligence.

ASHBURTON.

Mr. Rogers, a gentleman living at Wage.liouse,
near the town of Ashburton, has offered himself as a
candidate for the borough in Liberal interests, and
it is said that another gentleman, Mr Jardine, will
probably be brought forward by the Liberals. M
Astell, the present Conservative member, won by a
majority of one only, and it is said that there is an
excellent chance of the Liberals regaining the seat,
provided they are united and bring out ono candi-
da'e oLly. ---
EXE TER.

Great preparations are b?ing made by both plrties
in this city for thu forthcoming registration. The
narrow majority obtained by Lord Courtenay over
\lr Coleridge has stimulated the Liberals to z3alous
ff)rte, and as Mr Coleridge has prorniked to fi.;tit
'he battlo again at the next general elcc!ien, the
Ustnral party feel confident of regaining the scat.