The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-28 00:00:00

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THE ARMY.

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A public announcement, offering a reward of £3O, was
last week put is circulation at Woolwich and elsewhere by
the authorities of the War Department for the apprehension
of a recruiting sergeant named James Saunders, who has
been employed in that garrison, it is stated, for many years,
and who, it now appears, lies succeeded in realising some
thousands of pounds, by means of perjury and false attes-
tations. It was his duty to enlist and receive recruits from
other depots, and to carry out the preliminaries for their
being sworn in. On the production of the attestation papers
bearing the signatures of the local magistrate, the majority
of which, it has been prayed, were forged, he was entitled
to a bounty of 153. Considerable sums of money, it ap-
pears, were likewise :paid over to him, under a claim for
rations and pay due to recruits not in exittence. Colonel
Wodehouse, who has recently succeeded to the command
of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, at Woolwich,
having received information which induced him to suspect
the sergeant's probity, he was ordered to the guard-
room, and was placed in charge of Sergeant Harvey,
recently reduced from the grade of sergeant-major for in-
subordination and breach of discipline. At roll call the
delinquent managed to make his escape from the custody of
his guard, and has not since been heard of. The circum-
stances of his escape are suspicious, and Sergeant Harvey
has now taken his place under arrest. Other persons, it
is feared, under authority in the garrison, are implicated.

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Wo have received, in unticipaticill Abelraq, A5;,117'../
files of papers from Calcutta to the 22141 rebreia
and from Hongkong to the 15th of Februity. .. i S
We take the following from the Calcutta Eng.
lialman of the 22d of February :

EWS PAPER

"Letters just received from the frontier bring
the gratifying intelligence that up to the 14th inst.
all was well.

"There is again a rumour in Bombay that the
directors of the Bombay have resolved to increase
the capital of the bank.
"According to the Times of India, the arrange-
ments for opening the Bombay, Baroda, and Central
India Railway to Surat will be completed by the
Ist of April.
" The steamer Carnatic, a ith the London mails
to the 26th of January, has arrived at Galle, in-
wards by which we have telegraphic news to that
date.

"Owing to the intervention of only on© day, and
that a Sunday, between the desw:tch of our over-
land editions Via Bombly and allle, we have no
commercial news to record."

CHINA.

Wo take the following from the Overland Cluna
Mail of February 15
" Oar dates from Shanghai are to February 8,
and from Japan to February 6.
" The past for!right has been marked by no pro-
minent incidents, but the slow current of events is
not without significance. That portion of the pro-
vince of Kiangsu which is south of the Yang-teze,
and which includes Nanking in the east and Shang-
hai in the west, is, over half its extent, again under
the sway of the Imperialists.
" From Pekin we have no news, the cold weather
having closed up the usual access to the capital.
" From Japan the news wears a decidedly pacific
aspect. Ambassadors are again on the point of

setting out for Europe, a fact which may of itself
be accepted as a guarantee against hostilities for
some time to come. The Prussian treaty has at
length been ratified, and the Swiss are said to Lave
obtained a treaty. The American Minister has
procured several important tariff reductions, and
the French Minister has availed himself of the same
privilege.
" In Shanghai settlement the prevalence of crime
is arousing the serious attention of those in autho-
rity, and we hear that arrangements are in progress
for the punishment of native criminals by foreign
authorities. This is an important measure, and it
is to be hoped that it may be successfully carried
out.

" From the ports on the Yangtsza river wo have
no news of importance.

"From Foochow we learn that the district man-
darin is about to be degraded for his inefficiency in
quelling the recent anti-missionary riots.
"SHANGHAI, Feb. 8.

" Imports.—The pressure in the money market
last reported appeared to increase as the day of
settlement, China new year, approached, keeping
all Chinese dealers out of the market. The decline
in exchange has not led to any further speculative
purchases, and the few sales that have been effected
are principally forced ; bat now that the holidays
are over a better demand and improved prices may
be looked for. The transactions in English manu-
factures have been exceedingly small, and prices
cannot be said to have varied from our last. Ameri-
can goods have not been in demand, but stocks are
considerably increased. In metals tinplated have
been inquired for at quotations, bat metals gene-
rally are dull; quotations unchanged. Nothing has
been done in rice ; but, as stocks are very small,
both an advance in price and an active demand may
soon be looked for. Sugar has participated in the
general dullness; the few sales made have been at
our quotations. Coals—Sydney has been in demand ;
other qualities generally inactive."

Two More Shockinz Deaths from Excessive
Drinking,

On at urd Mr. John Humphreys, the Mid ale: ex
coroner, held an inquiry touching the death of James
Hooper, aged 47 years,
Henry Sayer, 5, Anchor-elley, St. George's-in-the-East,
said that the deceased was a mariner. On Wednesday week
he returned from Melbourne, Australia, in the ship Sussex.
Upon his arrival in the East India Docks the deceased re-
ceived £lO. He spent the whole week walling about the
s:reets from public house to public-house drinking rum.
During the whole of that time he had not been sober for a
single hcur. Oil last Tuesday night two men brought him
home to witness's house drunk. He had not even a half-
penny left out of the £lO. Deceased was what was called
a " quiet soaker"—he used to drink by himself, and never
ask any one to join him. During the night he kept calling
out, " Give me more rum ; I want more rum, more rum."
In the morning he suddenly pulled the clothes over his
head, fell forward, and died. Witness had offered him
coffee, but he declined it.
Dr. Brookes deposed that the death of the deceased arose
from effusion on the brain, caused by excessive drinking.
The jury returned a verdict of death from effusion on the
brain arising from excessive drinking.
The same coroner held a second inquest on the body of
llugh Bordner, aged 45 years.
Deceased was a bootmaker, residing at 2, Spencar-road,
Hornsey Now Town. On the 3d of March his wife died,
and since that time he had Rot been sober. On last Satur-
day evening he was fcund lying on the floor of his room
insensible, and his heat covered with blood. Ho had fallen
from the top to the bottom of the staircase while drunk.
He was conveyed in a cab to the London Hospital, where
be expired on Wednesday last.
Mr. Hughes, surgeon, said that the deceased died from
delirium tremens brought on by excessive drinking.
Verdict, "Death from delirium tremens, brought on by
excessive drinking."

THE STEAM RAMS.—Oa Friday the commission
to examine the Paslia of Egypt, in the case of the Attor-
ney-General v. Laird and Others, was despatched to Cairo.
Sir Laurence Palk has given notice of a metion in the
House of Commons, on the re-assembling of Parliament
on the subject.
A MARRIAGE WITHOUT A MINISTER.—At
Gles-
gow, on Monday, says the .North British Mail, s
long-betrothed couple intended being joined together in the
"holy bonds," but at the last hour found themselves em-
barrassed by the fact that the bridegroom had not resided
the legal period in this country. He had, ignorant of the
requirements of the Scotch law, left England last week, and
arrived at Glasgow, anticipating no difficulty in the way of
being at once married. The want of domicile qualification
appeared, however, an insurmountable barrier, and business
preventing a long stay in the country he seemed likely to re-
turn to England alone, a sadder and a wiser man. A.
lawyer was applied to, as being the most likely person
to solve the dilemma arising from the law; and though, as
Shakspeare says, "marriage is a matter of more worth
than to be dealt in by attorneyship," the perplexed bride-
groom found that the assistance of a shrewd lawyer was
everything on the occasion. The friends of the
bride and bridegroom having assembled at the dining
hall of the Bedford Hotel at noon, the bride, accompanied
by Mr. W. M. Wilson, writer, was introduced, and the'
affianced parties having been arranged, the exchange of ma-
trimonial consent was duly accredited, confirmed by mutual
joinder of their hands, attested by the holy close of lips and
strengthened by the interchange of rings. The narrative
of this ceremony was then served before witnesses, and the
parties and witnesses then proceeded to the County Build-
ings to wait upon Sir A. Alison. The sheriff at the time
was deeply engaged in the decision of a case of great impor.
tance, but on Mr. Wilson's explaining the peculiar circum-
stances of the occasion, and on seeing the bride, who was
gifted with a more than ordinary power of beauty, looking
all the more engaging from the natural timidity arising from
her unusual position, he gallantly consented. The previous
contract of marriage having been formally attested by two
witnesses, Sir Archibald, by sign manual, certified the fact,
and that the registrar of the Blyswood district was entitled
to register them as married persons accordingly. The mar-
ried couple with their friends thereupon proceeded to the
office of Mr. Struthers, and having been duly registered,
shortly afterwards started for London.

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