The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

Hoaxing a Wife-hunter,

The Sheffield Independent gives the following ac-
count of a hoax played, a day or two ago, by seve-
ral young Sheffield gentleman on an old man living
near Glossop, who after carrying on a correspond-
ence with whom he presumed to be a young lady,
called to see her. Lothario knocked timidly, cod
was ushered in by the servant. His "Dear Marie,'
who had assumed the name of Housley, adorned in
a profusion of curls and the most elegant of flowing
robes, welcomed him in the person of the jolly
round-faced young gentleman, whose delicate baud
had E 0 thoroughly deceived him throughout a long
correspondence. In a conference of fifteen minutes
Lothariocontessed his age, occupation, and intentions,
and whispered not a few doubts arising from the
fact that there was no such name as "Housley" in
the directory, Sec. Explanations were given, and he
was growing quite easy and at home when dinner
was announced, and, to his consternation, he see.B
led into a room where were assembled fifteen of
Maria's male cousins, each of whom separatkly
welcomed him with the heartiest of shakes. Re
inquired anxiously of " Henry," Maria's cousin,
whether they were all "pious young men." He
was emphatically assured they were, and what
was more, that they were all delighted to see him.
The assurance proved not in the least assuring,
and he expressed a desire to withdraw. The
" family" of course objected to part company with
him so soon After a merciless amount of badi-
nage, Lothario was told that he had come to
Sheffield to be taught a lesson, and that he might
as well take it quietly as not, because take it he
must. He was then placed in the dock, the
judge took his seat on the bench, a jury
were empannelled, and counsel appointed for
the prosecutor and the prisoner, The prisoner was
formally tried for endeavouring to obtain money by
false pretences, perjury, hypocrisy, and various
ether offences. The amorous correspondence with
Maria was read amid roars of laughter. The shaft
of ridicule struck so thick and fast that the o'.d
man now betrayed extreme anxiety to go, end
begged permission to fetch a friend who lived near
to speak to his character. He was solemnly informed
that the trial must proceed, and the counsel for the
prosecution waxed vehement inhis denunciation of
the prisoner's villany. The counsel for the, de-
fence pleaded extenuation, suggesting that if
the prisoner would consent to fulfil his premise
to wed Maria, that ought to be accepted as
a full atonement for his offences. The judge
inquired whether he consented; and, wito, urk
air of puzzled simplicity that produced a perfect
crash of laughter, the prisoner asked whether a
photograph that bad been sent to him was a correct
likeness of her. He was, of course, told that Maria
was before him ; and that lady put on her most be-
witching smile ; but Lothario declined the offer,
declaring, like the youth in the " Merry Wives of
Windsor,"when similarly paired,that he" would not
have had him for a wife if he had married him." After
an able summing up, the jury found the prisoner
guilty on all the counts. He was sentenced to be
shorn of one whisker, and to have his face painted
with paint of many colours. Execution fol-
lowed immediately upon judgment. The culprit
begged for mercy, promising never to offend again,
if let off this time, but was told with judicial stern-
ness that his repentance had come too late. The
doomed whisker was shorn as close as scissors could
shear it. The adornment of the visage followed.
Each" cousin" had a brush and pot of paint of many
colours ready for operations. The ears were painted
black, the forehead brown ; a white border was put
round the face to bring out the colours ; the nose was
white, with a tip of fiery red. I'he rest of the visage
was painted thus : Each artist in turn calmly sur-
veyed the culprit's countenance, and put on a touch
of his own colour wherever he thought it would
be most effective. The result was a conglomera-
tion of colouring indescribably curious. Thus
adorned, the wife-hunter was turned out, and re-
quired to walk direct to the railway station. The
whole family of cousins followed, and at the station
they treated him to beer in the refreshment room,
and then paraded him about the station to be the
laughing-stock of all corners. The old fellow bore
it all patiently, admitting that he was rightly
served. He was seen into the train with his blush-

ing honours thick upon him, and was sent home to
Glossop, it is to be hoped, a wiser if not a betttr
man.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The show of English wheat on the stands to-day con-
slated of a limited fresh arrival from Essex and Kent and of
Monday's unsold produce. Althougk the quantity on offer
was vary moderate, both red and white qualities met a slow
sale at about stationary prices.

With foreign wheat the market was but moderately
supplied. Millers, however, operated to a limited extent in
all descriptions at the rates current on Monday.
Floating cargoes of grain moved off slowly at late rates.
Malting barley was in limited request at Mondiq's
decline in prices. Grinding and distilling qualities were
steady at previous currencies.

Malt changed hands to a limited extent on former terms.

The supply of opts on sale was tolerably large. For all
qualities the trade ruled heavy at Monday's decline in prices
of 6d per quarter.

Beans and peas were in moderate request, and the quota-
tions ruled firm.
In flour about an average business was transacted at late
rates.

ABUIVALS THIS 'WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout.
English.— 430 4lO f 200 1 39) I 340
Irish.
, -
Von-4140a.-- 1,910 I 150_ 1 leo sks,

BOROUGH HOF.
The demand for hops is by no means active. Prices,
however, rale firm.

WHITECHAPEL.
The supply of meat on gale is moderate, and the demand
rules inactive as follows :

Beef, from 28 Gd to 4s 2d ; mutton, 38 6d to 4s 6d,
lamb, 68 Od to 68 Od ; vee.l, 3s 10d to 4,8 8d ; and pork, 3s 4d
:o 4a 4d per 81118 by the carcase.

PORTRAIT OF GENERAL GARIBALDL—On Satur-
day General Garibaldi gave a sitting for a portrait to Mr.
Mayall, jun., the eon of the well-known photographer of
Argyll-place, Regent-street. Favoured by as fine a light
as a photographer could wish for, Mr. Mayall overcame the
shortcomings incidental to outdoor operations, and produced
a highly satisfactory portrait.
Mn. WILLIAM CHAMBERS has long been engaged
upon a history of his native county of Peebleshire, in which
his estate of Glenormiston is situated. The work will be •
extensively illustrated with woodcuts prepared from origi-
nal drawings, and promises to be one of general no less
than of local interest, particularly as regards the earls
British hill forts, border towel s, and other antiquities,

THE LATE FIRE AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE, COWL—.
DUBLIN, April 12.—The Kane-Bullen scandal has
come to an extraordinary and most unexpected conclusion.
When the visitation was opened at the Queen's College,
Cork, this day, counsel for Sir Robert Kane read a letti
from Dr. Ballen withdrawing in the most unqualified man-
ner the serious charges he had brought against him in,
connection wth the recent fire at that institution and other
matters, and tendering an ample apology. Mental excite..
ment is the principal ground on which he excuses his con-
duct. The Lord Chancellor said he would lay the letter
before the Government.

A robbery was attempted three nights since a t
Sept-Freres, near St. Sever (Calvados) on the pre-
mises of a farmer named Hervieu, residing at
some distance from the village. About midnight,
having been awakened by the barking of hie
yard dog, he dressed himself, took his gun,
and went to see whether any person was about
the farm. On approaching a barn a hundred
paces from the house, he saw three men bringing
out sacks of corn and laying them on a horse, the
bridle of which he immediately seized. As soon s
the thieves saw hits, they closed on him so that he
could not use his gun, and t woof them beat him with
sticks, while the third cut him severely on the arm
withaknife.Hervieu however struggled so vigorously
that two of the men at last ran away, taking the horse
with them, but leaving the corn. The farmer, not-
withstanding his wound, held the other fast till the
arrival of his servants, who hE‘d been alarmed by
his cries. The thief, a man named Guezet, was
pinioned, and in the morning given up to the gen-
darmes. He named his accomplices, one of whom
was the owner of the horse, and they were arrested
during the day, but before their capture Guezet
Icommitted suicide in the lock•up by hanging him-
self with his handkerchief.
The course of exchanv at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 177/ to 176/ per cent„ and the premium on
bold is about <percent. At theik: rates 'there is u 0 Pratt
on the iraportationot gold 40= the United. states.

Naval arid Military Intelligence,

THE NAVY.

VALETTA,ApriI B.—The work of clearing out Corfu
and the other islands of ordnance stores continues
to be carried on with the greatest activity, but no
precise date has yet been mentioned when the com-
plete evacuation of the seven islands will take place.
The :Pelican, 17, Commander Comber; Icarus,
Acting-Commander Boger ; Liffey, 35 ; Capt. 0.
Parker, and Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Arm-itage,
have all arrived here within the last few days,
heavily laden with powder and munitirns of war,
and barrack stores of every description, and after
discharging will most likely retiree for fresh cargoes
of a similar kind. They experienced very bad
weather on their passage down. The Liffey will
have to undergo repairs, having injured her rudder.
The Icarus, when off Sicily, was obliged for a time
to stop steaming and proceed under sail alone,
owing to the heavy sea and her being so deeply
laden, The Fox, 2, screw storeship, Staff-Com-
mander T. C. Pullen, left on Wednesday for Corfu
to embark stores, and the Foxhouud, 4, Commander
W. Anderson, is daily expected here from that
island, with a large qeantity of powder, shot, and
shell. The martello tower was blown up at Vido
on the 30th ult. It is said to have been one of the
most effective explosions which have occurred.
The whole tower rose in a mass several feet, then
the lower part flew out in every direction, and the
remainder fell in innumerable fragments, mach of
the clay foundations being carried away by the
force of the exploding mines into the sea. 6,4001 b.
of powder were used in this explosion. The Keep,
Fort George, and a large covered way, and other
works at Vido have still to be destroyed. Nothing
of Fort Abraham remains, but the exterior of Fort
Neuf and other works on the 'island of Corfu are
untouched, and it is believed will be allowed
to remain ; most of these (except Fort) being
of ancient construction, and useless for
purposes of defence against modern artillery. In
one of the explosions on the 29th the second serious
accident occurred, a stone having fallen on a cor-
poral's leg above the ankle, and damaged it so much
that it had to be amputated the same night. The
Orlando, 46, the commanding officer of which, Capt.
G. G. Randolph, is superintending the embarcation
of stores, is before leaving Corfa to try her guns
against the Maitland Tower, and the Royal Artil-
lery have received orders to make a similar experi-
ment. The Royal Engineers expect to quit the place
by the middle of April, by which time they hope to
have completed thF; demolition of all the works that
are to be destroyed. It is said to be the intention
of the King to proceed in Admiral Yelverton's flag.
ship (the Revenge, 73) to take formal possession,
and this will probably occur about the last week in
April. The Gibraltar, 81, Capt. J. C. Prevost, left
Malta on. the 6th inst. for the Piraeus, to relieve the
iron clait ship Resistance, 16, Capt. W. C. Chamber-
lain, ordered to this island. Letters from Corfu
mentio a that the weather has been very bad there
lately. On the 28th it blew a violent equinoctial
gale, ixhich obliged some of the men of war to get
up steam and strike lower yards and topmasts. It
did not clear up till the 31st, when the vessels ready
to leave for Malta were enabled to take their depar-
ture. During the gale the Growler, steam tender,
met with an accident by running into the Magi-
cienne, carrying away her foreyard and mizen-
mast, and causing some damage to the latter
vessel. Her Majesty's surveying steamer Firefly,
Lieut.-Commander G. R. Wilkinson, left Malta on
the st.ta inst. for Marsala. Her orders are to com-
plete the survey of the channel between that part
of Sicily and the opposite coast of Tunis, all of
which region, being under volcanic influences, it is
very important should be carefully surveyed. The
Saltan'e steam yacht Talia, Capt. D. N. Comyn
(an officer of the Royal Naval Reserve), arrived
here from Woolwich and Gibraltar on the 3d inst.,
and loft on the following day for Constantinople.
She made a rapid passage out of only eight days
and a half, including a stay of 24 hours at Gibral-
tar, from which latter place she made the rua in
three days and four hours. The Austrian frigate
Cante Dandolo, Capt. Baron StPrnech, continued
her voyage on Sunday last for Pola. Her Majesty's
despatch vessel Caradoc, Lieut.-Commander E.Wii-
kineon, will leave port in a few days for Constan-
tinople; and the Weser, 6, Commander Johnetene,
has beeu ordered to Malta. Dr, Trower, Bishop of
Gibraltar,wi!l proceed to Constantinople in the Ca-
radoc, for the purpose of holding a confirmation.
On Monday a naval court martial, composed of
Capt. Fulford, of the Formidable, 84, president ;
Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., Cumberland, 70; Capt. Sir
F. L. M'Clintoclr, Aurora, 35 ; Capt. the Hon. G.
D. Keane, Cumberland, 70; and Capt. J. Corbett,
Scout, 21, assembled ou board the Formidable, flag-
ship of Vice-Admiral Sir C. Talbot, K.,C.8., Com-
mander in Chief at Chatham and the Nore, for the
trial of Mr. E. F. Nicholson, assist.-paymaster of
her Majesty's screw steamer Bombay, 67, 400 horse
-power, Capt. C. A. Campbell, on the charge of hay-
Jug on March 30 last been drunk on board the said
.ship and incapable of discharging his duty. Capt.
C. A. Campbell prosecuted, and Mr. Knight, of the
firm of Essell, Knight, and Arnold, Crown solici-
tors, Rochester, officiated as Deputy Judge Advocate
and conducted the case, At the close of the exa-
mination of the witnesses for the prosecution the
prisoner handed in a written defence; he also pro-
duced to the Court six certificates from officers under
whom he has served, but he called no witnesses.
The Court, after deliberating for a short time, found
the prisoner guilty, and sentenced him to forfeit
'three years of his seniority and to be severely repri•
mended.

The Irresistible, 68, 400 horse power, Captain J.
B. Diokson, late of the Dauntless, 31, fitting for the
Coastguard service, is at moorings in the Medway,
-where she is receiving the remainder of her stores
en board, in readiness to proceed to sea. She is
intended to be stationed in Southampton Water.
The screw steamship Nile, 90, Capt. Barnard,
recently returned from the North American station,
'which left Portsmouth on Saturday, arrived in Ply-
mouth Sound on Sunday morning. On Monday
she discharged her powder and shell, and was to be
placed alongside the jetty at the Devonport Dock-
yard, to be dismantled, preparatory to paying off
her crew. She will then be placed in the third
division of the steam reserve at Devonport, but it
is not improbable that she may be stationed in some
port on the Coastguard service, in substitution of a
lesser ship.
Her Majesty's iron ship Buffalo, having returned
to Deptford Dockyard after a three months' trip,
was yesterday inspected by divers for the exami-
nation of Leetch's preservative glass sheathing
applied to a portion of her bottom. The result was
highly satisfactory, and appeared fully to realise
the anticipation of the inventor, as the surface of
the sheathing was then as free from any incum-
brance as when first laid on.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. F. Martin to the Archer,
vice Bythesea, V.C., invalided; Hildebrand W. H.
Stevens, nominated to a naval cadetship ; and John
N. Mercer, midshipman to the Hecate.

THE ARMY.
The coloneley of the 68th Regiment has become
vacant by the death of Lieutenant-General Robert
Christopher Mansel, K,H., who died on Friday last,
after a long iuuess,
Sandgate, Kent, in his 76th
year. The deceased served with the 10th Regiment
in the Mediterranean, and subsequently with the
533 in the Peninsula. He was present at the
battle of Toulouse, where he was severely wounded.
On attaining the rank- of Lieut.-Colonel in 1826 he
went on half-pay. The deceased General was ap-
pointed Colonel of the 68th (Durham) Regiment of
Foot in June, 1837. In 1832 he was made a
Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order,
End had received the war medal and one clasp for
Toulouse. His commissions bore date as follow :
Ensign Jan. 29, 1807 ; Lieutenant Jan. 27, 1808;
Captain Jeb. 4, 1813 ; Brevet-Major July 5, 1821;
Major June 9, 1825 ; Lieut,-Col. June 10, 1826 ;
Colonel Nov. 23, 1841 ; Miijor-Gen. Nov. 11, 1851 ;
and Lieut.-Gen, Oct. 26, 1858.
The funeral of the late Col. Charles Bingham,
who died at Brighton on Wednesday last, took place
yesterlay. He was interred in the old parish church.
yard of Plumstead village, near Woolwich, with the
full military honours due to his rank ES Adjutant of
the Reyal. Artillery.

Cardinal Wiseman on London Architecture.

Yesterday evening an elaborate lecture was de-
live,:ed by his Eminence Cardinal Wiseman to a very
numerous audience in the Architectural Museum,
South Kensington Museum, on the following sub-
ject, " Judging from the past and the present, what
are the prospects for good architecture in London ?"
After referring to an architectural tour in which he
and other students took part under the leadership
of a learned archaeologist very many years ago in
the Campagna of Italy in quest of monuments of the
past, the cardinal proceeded to say that a national
style of architecture should be born, bred, matured,
and consolidated by the people of the land. Was
there, then, anything in the public architecture of
England at the present time to show future ages
what type the present generation preferred ?
Would it not be said that they were
divided between the mediaeval, the renais-
sance, and the classical ? (Laughter.) He
could not, indeed, shut his eyes to the
results of private enterprise directed by private
taste. It was where they would least expect to see
it—in the chief business parts of London—that they
had lately seen substituted for a class of buildings,
deserving only the name of" warehouse," structures,
elegant, beautiful, and solid, which had transformed
public streets into places of study and con•
gratulation, (Cheers.) As to themansions of the aris-
tocracy generally, they consisted, as Canova re-
marked, of long lines of brick walls with open slits.
(Laughter.) The wealth created by commerce, how-
ever, had flowed back upon art, and manifested itself
in splendid architecture. A foreigner standing at a
point commanding a view of the Bank, the Man-
sion-house, the Exchange, Goldsmiths' Hall, and
the Electric Telegraph-office, would grasp with his
eyes the keys of England's greatness. The lecturer,
after remarking on the harmony which existed in
Belgium and other countries between past architec-
ture and the peculiarities of the people, and observ-
ing that all private dwellings were essentially ephe-
meral, contended that trade itself—a name often
uttered with contempt—might and ought in this
country to be made subservient to the development
of grand and durable architecture. Although Lon-
don possessed architects equal to any work, there
was no general rule or design in building. Here
was the Tudor, there the classical—here the renais-
sance, there perhaps the Turkish. (Laughter.) In
religious architecture the public taste seemed now
to be gravitating towards what was great and good ;
although in numerous cases solidity was found
without a sufficient admixture of grace, an inclina-
tion to sacrifice beauty to mass. Sometimes vast
lines appeared to be grimly disposed, and symmetry
a little too conspicuously despised. (Laughter.) By
degrees, he thought, genius would purge archi-
tecture of its glaring defects, and a style be
struck out which would be thoroughly rhyth-
mical. A kind of bricks often entered into our
modern public buildings which marred the general
effect. The brick of Nero's age was much more
durable and attractive. Terra cotta, of which he
had recently seen some beautiful specimens in
buildings, promised to aid the work of improvement.
It might be objected that he had been speaking as
if London would be destroyed. He certainly did
not anticipate that as a result of fire, now that every
parish had its engine; and diplomacy had now
clearly taken the place of ploughing up cities and
sowing the ground with salt. (Laughter.) As to
the future, he did not believe any city could go on
advancing in prosperity for ever, and architectural
as well as other changes must come in the course of
time. The feeling which ought to be cultivated in
reference to public architecture was one of reve-
rence—a respect for everything that was great or
good, everything that was beautiful in itself or its
associations, everything that was national or his•
torical—a feeling that there was in all this a value
not to be balanced by passing advantages or pecu-
niary gains. (Cheers.) His eminence then alluded
at considerable length to the disturbance of public
and other buildings, and even public burial grounds,
inflicted or threatened by railway and other enter-
prises, strongly condemning the last-mentioned, and
contrasting it with the reverence for the dead mani-
fested by the heathen people of Rome. After de •
scribing very fully the Capitol and acqueducts of
Rome, the latter still supplying, he said, 321
gallons of water for each inhabitant, he concluded
by saying that he should be very glad if what he
had said should contribute in any way to the im-
provement of the architecture of London, and by
expressing a hope that art and science would unite
for that purpose, and endeavouring to excite in our
people reverence for the sacred and taste for the
beautiful. (Great cheering.)
On the motion of Mr. Beresford Hope, thanks
were voted by acclamation to the Cardinal for his
lecture.

The lecture, which occupied upwards of two hours,
was listened to throughout with well-sustained in-
terest. At the request of the assembly, his Eminence
consented to publish his lecture.