The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-18 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oct 17.

The October adjourned general sessions of the peace for
the county of Middlesex commenced this morning at the
Sessions-house, Clerkenwell-greon, before Mr Bodkin (As-
sistant-Judge.)
The calendar contains the names of 84 prisoners committed
for trial, the greater part of whom were charged with felony.
The grand jury having been sworn, the Assistant-Judge
briefly addressed them, and they returned to their room.

Mr Jeaks, Mr Joseph Reed, and Mr H. L. Taylor (the
chairman of the Markets Committee of the city of London,
and a member of the Metropolitan Board of Works) were
introduced, and severally took the oaths on being placed on
the commission of the peace for the county of Middlesex.
Ann Melville and Sarah Williams were indicted for keep-
ing a disorderly house in Oxenden-street, in the parish of
St. Martins-in-the-Fields. Both the prisoners pleaded
guilty.

Mr Le Breton appeared for the prosecution ; Mr Ribton
defended the prisoners, instructed by Mr Abrams,
Mr Ribton, on behalf of the prisoners, submitted that as
the house had been given up and the nuisance abated public
justice would be satisfied by a fine instead of imprisonment,
and that they should be allowed to go out on their own re-
cognisances. He went on to say that the parish authorities
had acted with great unfairness in selecting this house for
prosecution, while many houses in the same street, of a simi-
lar description, had been going on for years with the conniv-
ance and under the sanction of the parish authorities. These
women had only held the house for two years, but many
of the other houses had been going on for many
years, and yet they had been passed by, and this parti-
cular house selected for prosecution. The authorities of
St. Martin's had started up with a sudden zeal and pounced
upon this house, and so far from being guardians of the
public morals, as he had before said, they had connived at
and sanctioned these houses for years past. Under these
circumstances he hoped the Court would not send these
women to prison, but would impose a fine and allow them to
go at large on their own recognisances.

Mr Le Breton said that the overseers had no power to in-
stitute these proceedings unless they were set in motion by
the complaint of two inhabitants, who were required to
enter into sureties that they would prosecute the parties. As
to this house it; was one of the worst conducted in the
street, and the defendants had disregarded frequent
warnings.

The Assistant-Judge said this was a very bad case, as it
was proved in evidence that this place was frequented by old
men and mere children, and the sentence on each of the
prisoners was that they be imprisoned and kept to hard
labour for 6 r.oathp.

Richard Goddard, 19, and James Ward, 20. carmen, were
iadicted for maliciously inflicting grievous bodily harm upon
Henry Spiking.
Mr Cooper, instructed by Mr. Wontner, prosecuted. Mr
Collins, instructed by Mr Abbott, defended the prisoners,
who pleaded guilty to the indictment.
The facts of this case presented some very atrocious con-
duct on the part of the prisoners. The prosecutor lived at
Bath-row, Dalston, and was master horsekeeper to Messrs.
Waring Brothers, contractors to the City branch of the
North London Railway, and the prisoners were is their em-
ploy as carmen. The prosecutor had occasion to speak to
them on the subject of their neglecting their work, and on
Monday evening, the 26th of September, he met them in
Dalston-lane with three carts, and he asked them where the
driver of the other cart was. They used some very vulgar
language towards him, and threatened to pull him off his
horse. When they went to the yard he handed to the pri-
soners their discharge tickets, and an order to receive their
money. Ward wanted to know what the paper was, and
the prosecutor told him it was his discharge, upon
which both the prisoners collared him, and began
striking him, and a struggle ensued, which lasted for about
10 minutes, during which they threatened to kill him. The
prosecutor at last made his escape, and got into the kitchen
of his own house, but even here he was followed by the
prisoners. He took up a poker to fasten the door with it,
but the prisoners burst the door open and took the poker
from him. Seeing the deadly assault they intended, he made
his second escape, when he was followed again by the pri-
soners, who struck him with the poker, and he fell down
insensible, and he remembered no more what was done to
him ; but on recovering his consciousness he found himself
in bed at his own house, wounded all over, and blood run-
ning from his legs, ears, and back part of his head. This
was seen by the time keeper, who saw the prosecutor fol-
lowed by the prisoners outside the gate, and just as he got
outside Ward knocked him on the head with a poker, and he
fell to the ground. As he was falling Goddard kicked him,
and afterwards they ran away, throwing down the poker (a
very heavy one, 3ft in length, and the bottom part about an
inch in width, the top having a large knob). The prosecutor
was led into his own house, and a surgeon was sent for;
but while he was there the prisoners went and looked in et
the window, and Goddard said, " We'll give you your --
dose to-night before you go out of the yard." They then
went towards the gate, where they met the man who had
been bent for a surgeon, and one of them knocked the man
down. Mr Cockell, a surgeon, of Dalston-lane, at length
came, and he found on the prosecutor, on the scalp, a wound
31 inches long, dividing the integuments to the bone. There
was a bruise behind the left ear from which blood was
000 zing, swellings on the jaw on the right side, and the legs
very severely bruised. On the forehead was a bruise, and
over the region of the liver and several parts of the body
were bruises. From the injuries he had received there was
danger for a considerable time that erysipelas would set in,
and it was believed that the prosecutor's recovery was ens
tirely owing to his good constitution.

Mr. Collins, for the prisoners, said it was quite clear that
the prosecutor first used the poker, and that it was taken
from him by the prisoners in their own defence.
The Assistant-Judge said he never met with a more deli-
berate or Aggravated case than this, for here the prosecutor
was knocked down, and naturally attempted to defend him-
self in the best way he could, but the prisoners took hold of
the poker and struck him on the head with it, and it was a
great mercy that he was not killed ; it was only through
his having a strong constitution that his life was saved.
The sentence of the Court upon them was that they bo each
imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two years.
Edward Bruce pleaded guilty to stealing, on the sth of
September, one coat, a silver mounted pipe, a snuff-box,
and a pair of boots, the property of Thomas Ridley, Waiter
at the Portland Club.

George King, 76 D, stated that nothing was known of the
prisoner, but at the time of his apprehension £1 8s 9d was
found on him, and that his apprehension was entirely due to
the pawnbroker's foreman, G. C. Badrete, in the employ,
of Mr Joseph Baker, of No. 28, Great Marylt bone-street,
who on several occasions had rendered the police great
assistance in stopping and apprehending parties offering
stolen property iu pledge.

The prisoner, who declined to give any account of him
self or how he had disposed of the remainder of the property,
was sentenced to bard labour for six months.
The Assistant-Judge ordered that the sum of £1 8s 9d
be divided between the prosecutor and the pawnbroker.
Henry Brooks, 22, was 'indicted for stealing a watch, the
property of Chas. Wm. Tucker, from his person.
Mr Platt prosecuted ; Mr Ribton defended the prisoner.
_ .

From the evidence it appeared that on the night of the
Ist of October, between 10 and 11 o'clock, there was a
traction engine in the Fentonville-road, and a crowd of
people had assembled to see it. The prosecutor stood at the
corner of Soutbampton•street, and while there he felt a pull
at his watch. He saw the prisoner's hand leaving him, and
he passed something to a confederate who was standing near.
He caught hold of the prisoner, forced him against some rail-
ings, and kept him there until a policeman came, who took
him into custody. The watch was not found.

Mr Ribton made an ingenious defence, but the Jury found
the prisoner guilty. _ . .

The Assistant-Judge sentenced him to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for nine calendar months.

Francis Macnamara, 33, tailor, was indicted for stealing
a box, and other articles, the property of Robert Harding.
Mr Clarke prosecuted t Mr Ribton defended the prisoner.
It appeared in this case that the prosecutor is a cab pro-
prietor and daiver, and on the evening of Tuesday, the 4th
of October, ho was driving a cab from tho Great Western
Railway with two boxes on the roof. When ho was in
Berkeley-street ho heard a chain rattle, and on looking round
he saw the prisoner with his hand on the cord of one of the
boxes, lifting it from the roof of the cab. He stopped the
horses, and jumped down and seized the prisoner as he was
going away, telling him that he would give him into cus-
tody for attempting to steal the box off the cab. The pH-
soner said "Leave go, or I'll knock your head off;" but he
held him until a constable came and gave him into custody,

Mrs Louisa Harding, of No. 4, North-row, Oxford-street,
said she was in the cab on the night in question coming
from the Great Western Railway, and the box mentioned by
the cabman belonged to her. It contained wearing apparel.
Mr Ribton addressed the jury, who found the prisoner
guilty of an attempt to steal.
Sergeant Coot, 8 S, and George Lockyer, of the House of
Correction, was ready to prove several convictions against
the prisoner, and one of them for penal servitude for 6 years.
The Assistant •Judge said he had bad a very narrow
escape in only being convicted of a misdemeanour, and the
sentence of the Court upon him was that ho be imprisoned
and kept to hard labour for two years.

(Before Mr Payne.)

Joseph Brown, 26, and James Skinner, 61, surrendered
to take their trial on an indictment charging them as fol-
lows :—Tho said Joseph Brown for stealing two iron drums
and four tin cane, the properly of Thomas Hubbuck and
others, his masters, and the said James Skinner for receiv-
ing the same well knowing them to have been stolen. This
was a Case postponed from last sessions.

Mr Poland prosecuted, Mr Collins defended Skinner, and
Mr Pater appeared for Brown.
Mr Poland opened the case at some length, and called
Arthur Meek, who said—l am a clerk to Thos. Hubbuck
and others, of Ratcliffe, oil refiners and colour manufac-
turers. On Saturday, Sept. 24, about half-past 6 in the
morning, I met the prisoner Brown coming eut of the wharf
with a can on his shoulder. I stopped him, and ho said the
can was for Messrs Maugham, of Shadwell. Suspecting
him, I directed another clerk to follow him, and he was
given into custody. I Rent to Skinner's house and asked
him if he had received any oil. He said "No." I then
said he must go to tho station. I went to his house with a

policeman, and there saw 12 0r:,14 cans, two of which I
recognised as my master's property.
Robert Morris said—l live at 36, Broad-street, Ratcliff. I
am a clerk in Messrs Hubbuck's employ. I followed the
prisoner for some time, but lost him, I searched Skinner's
premises with the last witness, and found several cans be-
longing to the prosecutors.
Police-constable 45 K said—l took the prisoners into
custody. They denied the charge.
Other evidence having been given,
Mr Collins addressed the jury for his client, after which
Mr Pater made a very telling speech for Brown.
Mr Payne eummed up the evidence.
The jury found Brown Guilty and Skinner Not Guilty.
Mr Payne, in passing sentence, said this was a bad
offence, for which he (Brown) was liable to 14 years' penal
servitude, but the sentence of the Court upon him was, that
he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for nine months.
Chas. Stack, 17, French polisher, was convicted of stealing
a pair of trousers, value 8s 6d, the property of Jacob Lazarus,
Mr Payne sentenced him six months' hard labour.
In consequence of its being supposed that Jas. Rowton,
the clergyman who was convicted last sessions of indecently
assaulting a boy on the London and North Western Rail-
way, would be brought up for judgment, the Court was very
much crowded by persons anxious to hear the result ; but
as the point of law reserved for the Court of Criminal Ap-
peal cannot for some time be disposed of, the prisoner will
not be brought up again until the latter end of November.

The Great Fire at Pimlico,

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

This fire has been attended with a far greater destruction
of property than was at firest supposed. It is now stated
that the premises, machinery, and stock in trade were. in-
sured for £22,000, which is only a tithe of the actual loss.
The offices that will suffer by the disaster are the follow-
ing :—The Commercial Union, liabilities, £3,500 ; the
Mercantile, £3,500 ; the Queen. £2,500 ; the Royal, £3,500.
There is a similar amount in the Guardian and another
office. The whole of the arrangements for settling the
claims for the various fire offices have been entrusted to
Mr John James Close, and the superintending of the
buildings has been entrusted to Mr Jennings, of the Guar-
dian office. That gentleman has already given orders to
have the dangerous walls secured, so that the Victoria
station may be guarded from further danger. The side
which the fire had penetrated has already been shored up.
The iron and glass roof shows unmistakable evidences of
the intense heat that prevailed at that part of the station,
for the glass is melted and the ironwork twisted.
At five o'clock last night one of the land steamers was
at work down the yard of Read's marble and stone steam
sawing mills. Five immense jets of water were pro-
jected into the still burning mass. Near the shaft are
several hundred tons of coal burning furiously, and it will
take some time before the fire can be wholly extinguished.
The lofty chimney still stands, and presents a singular
appearance, one side being of an orange colour, owing to
the action of the fl ime upon that particular part. The side
walls adjoining it are in such a state that they are expected
to fall betore they are shored up or pulled down.
The firm was in the constant habit of turning out 1,000
wheels per week; consequently, besides the great number
of men who will be thrown out of employment at the wheel
works, a great many others will suffer from short work in
many of the large carriage and waggon works in London.
Mr Parfrey, the resident partner, was sleeping in an
adjoining house when the fire was discovered, and he states
that when he was called he found the greater part of the
factory in flames. He was certain that the five floors of
the main building were on fire, as well as the engineers'
shops and blacksmiths' shops. Ho also stated that he went
over the works at 11 o'clock on Saturday night, when the
place was to all appearance perfectly safe and free from fire,
All the furnace fires had been extinguished before the men
left off work in the afternoon. He therefore cannot form
the least idea as to the origin of the fire.

The Extraordinary Suicide of a Gentleman.

At noon yesterday Mr Win. Payne, the coroner for the
city of London, held an inquiry at St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital, into the circumstances of the death of Mr Charles Vie
Ridout, aged 65, who committed suicide on the premises of
the West Ham Gutta Percha Company, of which he was
the manager.
Mr W. Hancock appeared to watch the case on the part
of the company.
Wm. Harvey, night watchman at the Gutta Percha
Works, West-street, Smithfield, said that Mr Ridout was
the confidential manager of the works. Witness last saw
him alive at a quarter past 11 o'clock on Friday night. He
had never been so late in the of before. He asked witness
to fetch half a pint of beer, and witness went for it. The
deceased had been writing all the evening—from 6 o'clock,
when he had come to the office. Witness brought back the
beer, but when passing the stable door he heard a noise, ap-
parently from a pistol shot, followed by a groan, Witness
ran into the stable and saw deceased lying on the ground,
with blood flowing from hie head. Witness thought he was
in a fit, and called for help. He tried to lift the deceased up,
and asked him what was the matter, but he did not answer.
A policeman came followed by a surgeon, who said he had
been shot. The police found a pistol in the straw. Witness
found a paper of bullets, powder, and caps, and two letters
(produced). Witness noticed nothing unusual about the
deceased latterly, or when he directed witness to go out for
the beer.

Mr Edward Broughton, clerk at the gutta percha works,
said he had known deceased for three years. Witness never
observed that deceased's mind was disturbed in any way.
The letters produced were in the deceased's handwriting.
Witness knew that deceased was involved in pecuniary
difficulties.

By Mr Hancock—The deceased was in 113 way wrong in
his accounts with respect to the Gutta Percha Company.
Parsons, 232, City police, produced a pocket pistol which
was found in the stable by the side of the deceased. It had
just been discharged.
Mr Alfrel Hancock, joint manager of the works with the
deceased, said he bad known him fur three years and a half.
He was latterly depressed very much. Ho was disappointed
at not getting other employment. He was ablut to leave
the Gutta Percha Company's employment because he was
not required any longer. His accounts were all right. He
was married and had two children, His incame from the
company was £2OO a year, but he had other property of his
own. On Friday afternoon witness saw him, and he was
then rather melancholy.
Mr F. Rowbottom said that latterly the deceased was
dispirited, apparently at the prospect of the loss of employ-
ment. He was disappointed at not receiving certain sums
of money on which he had calculated.

Mr Botolph, house surgeon, said that the deceased was
brought into the hospital insensitle from a bullet wound,
and he died near 3 o'clock on Saturday morning, The bul-
let was found in the upper. part of his brain.
The Coroner said that the letters alluded to by some of
the witnesses were two in number—one was written to the
wife of the deceased, and the other was addressed " To the
Coroner and the Jury."
The letter addressed to the Court was as follows :
" To the Coroner and Jury.
" Gentlemen,—As the law permits, or as it is customary
for you to assume the right, of not confining your inquiry
into the mere fact of death, but to extend it into the causes
which led to self-slaughter, and as it is possible that I may
be branded with the absurd stigma of felo de •e, which was
applicable only in a barbarous age, when, amonget our an-
cestors, men were the property of their lord, I desire to place
at your disposal the best evidence—my own.
" Throughout my life I enjoyed uninterrupted bodily
health, which I thought nothing could break, but utter
helpless, hopeless insolvency has overtaken me and weighed
me down. It is better for a man to owe £lOO,OOO than £lOO
if he is not in a position to pay the latter sum. The sum of
£4OO would more than make me a free man, but that is not
to be got."

The deceased then at great length detailed how, three
years ago; he had borrowed a sum of £5OO, and how, to pay
interest on the loan, he had sold £3OO worth of property for
£7O, but that, nevertheless, all his efforts had left him hope-
lessly embarrassed and involved. He continued :

"It (the loan) answered its purpose at the time, but the
end is that I am left without bread at 65. Let no one blame
me for living beyond my means—for what were they P Two
hundred a year to support a wife and family. All those
that knew me know whether my habits were not proper
and sensible.

" The thought of the children and their gentle mother was
the only reward I had for struggling on for yeara in an occu-
pation I held, and an employment I despised. So much for
life—now for death.

"Tb e mind of man depends for its manifestation upon
corporeal functions. A blow on the brain with a hammer
would have converted a Shakspere or a Newton into drivel-
ling idiots. Where, then, would have been their magnifi-
cent creations or grand thoughts ?
" I do not understand entering into eternity.' The
phrase involves a contradiction in terms. Eternity is that
which has neither beginning nor end. I have thought over
all this until my brain has become like that of one that
overhangs a precipice I
" No one has a belief other than fervent hope, earnest
desire I We repeat what we have learned from others like
parrots, There is more honesty in frank doubt than in
weak belief I'

" For my part I can only believe in what I can thoroughly
comprehend.

" I die believing nothing, but hoping all things. I write
all this because there is always so much said about death
being a 'rash act,' a 'rushing into the presence of one's
Maker without God's permission.' I feel but an instru-
ment in God's hand for my own just punishment. I placed
all my happiness in a home to which I had no right, for I
had not the means necessary to keep it up. That darling
angel I If I could possibly I would still struggle for her
sake. And my child's cherub face is before me, saying,
Papa, don't leave us.' What can I do ? But this is going
back again to life. What tricks and subterfuges in order
to make this home happy I
"I am ashamed to make so much fuss about dying, but
the thought of them overcomes me. My dying averts ruin
from anuther, who if I lived would be ruined too. Pardon
me this trouble, but perhaps some of you have children.
Until the age of 60 I never was in difficulty. 1 trust you

will take a charitablo view of all, and pardon me occupying
your time.

" Oct. 14."

" CHARLES VIE RIDOIJT.

"To face death at the cannon's month in presence of
thousands, and with the Victoria Cross to encourage your
spirits is an easy task; but the heart sinks when in the
solitude of a chamber, shame, remorse, despair mock and
mouth at you from the barrel of a pistol, and a little cherub
cries out to you, ' Don't, papa ; papa, don't do it.' "
The Coroner said that it would be for the jury to consi-
der whether the letter read would tend to show that the de-
ceased was in an unsound state of mind. If they were not
of opinion that it did there could be no alternative but to
return a verdict of felo de se.

The Court was then cleared, and after a long delibera-
tion, the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while in a state
of unsound mind,"

SPIRIT OF THE PITBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—Our last intelligence from Australia had
prepared us for the angry and, as we think, ill advised
communication from the Ministry to the Governor
of Victoria which we publish today. Melbourne has
long been in a ferment of agitation about the cons
tinuance of transportation to Western Australia. It
is not enough that the proportion of convicts
hitherto sent thither should not be exceeded ; the
colonists demand that the system should be aban-
doned altogether, whatever the inconvenience to
Great Britain or the other parties concerned, Fail-
ing to obtain the unconditional submission of the
Colonial-office to these terms, they have meditated
various kinds of reprisals on the mother country. In
the last session of the Melbourne Parliament it was
gravely proposed to vote a sum of money to retrans•
port ticket-ofeleave men to our own shores. The
motion was successfully resisted by the Government
on the ground that it was premature, and that it
would be better to wait for another despatch before
taking any violent course. The despatch proved
unsatisfactory, since it did not recognise the vali-
dity of the claims founded on the alleged influx of
convicts from Western Australia, and did not report
the passing of any measure for the abolition of
transportation. Hereupon Mr. Edward Wilson came
forward with a scheme of his own for effecting the
same object by voluntary subscription. The plan
was to invite "expirees" to emigrate homewards,
granting them free passages. The very worst ruf-
fians among the expected applicants were to be se•
lected, and, lest captains should be averse to have
them on board, these gentlemen were to sign an
engagement pledging them to go into irons upon the
commission of any outrage. The idea had been
warmly taken up, and large subscriptions were pour-
ing in, according to our correspondent, when the
last mail left, The present mail brings the news of
another measure already adopted by the official ad-
visers of Sir Charles Darling, though the power of
carrying it out must partly depend on the coopera-
tion of other colonies. " Upon a careful considera-
tion of Mr Cardwell's despatch, written in the face
of all the earnest representations addressed to her
Majesty's Government"—so runs the minute—" it
has been forced upon the attention of myself and
my colleagues that further remonstrance is in it-
self useless, and that the time has arrived when
it is incumbent upon us, in the exercise of our
powers of self-government, to initiate legislation,
in connexion with the colonies whose interests
are alike affected, for our common protection."
The Chief Secretary goes on to say that he has
urged the Governments of the other free colonies to
frame identical bills for cutting off Western Aus-
tralia from all intercourse with the rest of the con-
tinent, that her position as the only convict colony
may be distinctly marked. He does not doubt that
this suggestion will be universally approved, and he
further requests the Governor to notify formally to
the Imperial authorities that on May 1, 1865, the
Victorian Government will.cease to contribute toe
wards the postal subsidy of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company, and will have nothing to do with
the pending arrangement for a fortnightly service,
unless the Company's ships be forbidden to touch at
King George's Sound, or anywhere in Western
Australia. This decision is stated to have cost its
authors inexpressible pain, but to have been dictated
by a sense of their responsibility to the people of
this colony, on whose behalf they charge her Ma-
jesty's Government with injustice to Australia, and
in particular with a deviation from the terms of a
previous declaration of the Duke of Newcastle.
Upon the language and spirit of this document we
forbear to comment. It would ill become the
Minister of a great nation to allow his counsels to
be swayed in dealing with a great question by the
more or less respectful tone of remonstrances against
his policy. If the temper of the Victorian public
does not permit them to feel compunction or regret
at the prospect of a collision with this country, the
pride of the English public should not restrain
them from confessing how deeply they would de-
plore it. We can afford to look at the situation of
public aff.iirs without passion or resentment, and
consider what ought to be done as though no threat
had been used. Long before excitement at Mel-
bourne had reached its present pitch, we often had
occasion to express our opinion on the right and
expediency of transporting criminals to Western
Australia. The right, in the abstract, we hold to
be clear. Except upon the theory of the Monroe
Doctrine—a theory which, as applied to Australia,
the Anti-Transportation League of Victoria have
expressly disclaimed—no colony can possibly be
entitled to control the relations of the mother
country with another colony. To maintain the con-
trary would be to claim for a dependency higher
privileges of sovereignty than belong to an inde-
pendent Power, for no Europen State would pre.
sume to require a neighbouring State to keep its
convict establishments at a distance from the fron-
tier. Legal right, however, is an unsafe and inade-
quate guide in difficulties of this kind. If the free
colonies of Australia are materially, though inci-
dentally, injured by the limited transportation to
Western Australia, there is no class or party in
Great Britain that would refuse to take their com-
plaints into account. What, then, is the fact P We
believe, in the first place, that there is a law in
the colony of Victoria prohibiting the immigration
of any criminal, unless his sentence has expired at
least three years. It is not easy to reconcile this
with the article of the Victorian Constitution which
confers a vote on " expirees," and even on those who
have receivcd a conditional pardon, being otherwise
duly qualified. However this may be we should have
thought the Exclusion Act, if enforced by an effi-
cient police, ought to be an ample safeguard against
the overflow of convicts from Western Australia,
and we find that, in fact, it is so regarded at Port
Adelaide, where no such laser' exists, and where the
Legislature is urged to pass one exactly similar.
Still, we are positively assured that iu spite of all
precautions many convicts do find their way to Port
Phillip, and commit atrocious crimes there, and there
seems no doubt that bushranging has revived on
an alarming scale. Whether the " panic" produced
by this danger in Australia, or the " panic " pro-
duced by garotting in England, be the more reason-
able, or the more ignoble, and whether either panic
has had anything to do with the conflict between
the Colonial Office and the Victorian Government,
we need not here discuss. It is enough for us that
a fixed belief exists in that colony that a vital
injury is inflicted on it by transportation to Wes-
tern Australia, and that the belief is at least not
altogether unfounded. Unlike the older Australian
settlements this flourishing province reaped, as it
were, that which it had not sown, and from the first
obtained a sufficient supply of labour without hav-
ing to petition for convicts. Colonial memories are
short, and probably no Victorian politician remem-
bers or would care to recall the resolutions passed
but twenty-five years ago by the Legislative Council
of New South Wales, deprecating any change in
the practice of assigning criminals as domestic ser-
vants, and recording their opinion that no other
system of penal discipline would be found "so
cheap, so effective, and so reformatory." The Mel-
bourne Cabinet takes its stand on the present inte-
rests of Victoria alone, and it has a right to do so.
The other colonies have still to speak for themselves
on the point now submitted to them, and we are
quite sure that any grievances which they may
allege will receive calm and impartial consideration
from Mr Cardwell. We do not envy him the task
of reconciling the prerogatives of the Crown with
the pretensions of Sir Charles Darling's "respons-
ible" advisers; but he will possess one inestimable
advantage. He represents a client who has no
other desire or object than to do what is just to all,
neither more nor less, and who will gladly endorse
any settlement of the question, cost what it may,
that does not involve the sacrifice of a higher duty
than conciliation.

POST.—To-day a bazaar will be opened at Liver-
pool in ail of a fund recently established in this
country for the relief of those Confederate soldiers
who have been made prisoners of war, and who,
but for the assistance furnished them by their
friends, would be exposed in all their severity to
those privations which are inseparable from cap-
tivity in an enemy's hands. In the Northern Sratee
a similar fund exists for the relief of Federal prig
soners, and in the one case, as in the other, the dis-
tribution of the proceeds thus raised is entrusted to
the Government which is unavoidably compelled to
deprive those who are the objects of the charity of
their freedom. The civil war now raging in
America has worked so many social changes in the
condition of the population, it has awakened such
apparently inextinguishable hatred between men
previously united by all the bonds of a common
citizenship, and glorying in all the greatnees and
prosperity of a common State, and has, unhappily,
left to be recorded on the page of history deeds
which posterity may well hesitate to believe were
committed by a Christian people, that it is with un-
feigned gratification that one turns to the contene
plation of acts which prove that war, even in its

bitterest and most relentless form, cannot entirely_
counteract the humanising influences of religion and
civilisation. As belligerents, the North and South
meet on the battlefield ; the exigencies of warfare
require that they shoal I respectively employ every
means in their power to secure victory, even though
it must be purchased with thousands of lives; but
when the battle is over, when the last shot has
been fired, when the vanquished, despite all their
valour, have been compelled to retire, and wbe,n
the victors find, thickly strewn amongst the slain
over the hard-won field, men who have fallen die
abled fighting no less valiantly than themselves;
and who may yet live again to draw the sword
under happier circumstances in defence of tbetr
State, then it is when the more kindly feebeg0
of human nature reassert themselves, and the
captors and the captured are fain to acknowledge,.
that they belong to one great family, and are knl.t
.
together by ties which mortal strife can never
entirely dissolve. The progress of civilisation bas
never been more strikingly marked than by, the
manner in which, from time to time, the asperpe
of warfare have been tempered, and so deeply into
:
rested is the entire human race in these anaelte•e
tions that nothing serves to excite more universal
odium than any apparent retrocession on the per'
of a belligerent in the mode of conducting war'
Savages slay their captives on the field of battle,or reserve them for cruel tortures. Civilised men
give quarter, and content themselves with depriv-
ing those who fall into their hands of the mean.
of doing further injury by retaining them in eeli.
tivity till the conclusion of hostilities. It is, how
ever, a further step when the conquerors express
their willingness to distribute amongst their prte°•
ners such necessaries as their friends may tbi0K
proper to supply them with. The opening of
the bazaar in aid of Southern Soldiers' Relief F.tle!,
reminds us that the Governments of both sector
of the former American Republic have generoualt
co-operated in carrying into effect the wishes of.th,o
friends of those prisoners who have fallen into
their hands, and we take the present opportuntt;
of noticing a circumstance which is as creditable to
the one as it is to the other. It is certainly not
surprising that an effort should be made in Liver"
pool to aid those who, in supporting the Confede:
rate cause, have fallen into the hands of their fee!'
and who, wounded and sick, are, notwithstanding
the humanity of the Federal Government, noes;
eerily deprived of every little comfort which coold
.
make their thraldom endurable. Lancashire owes
her wealth and her prosperity mainly to the
Southern States of America; and, although eh
has suffered in common with those other State'g
through the present war, still she cannot but e 1,1,:
tertain a sympathy for those to whom she is I'
debted for so much, and may well afford, on au
occasion like the present, to evince that symPetbio
in a substantial form. It is scarcely necessary to
say that however desirous a belligerent PeWhe,,
may be of alleviating the miseries of those v?'1„
are made prisoners of war, it is compelled
withhold from them almost everything whichis no.,
a necessary of life. The population of the Norther:
States, recognising this fact, have from their cosli
paratively boundless resources with ease obtain°
and transmitted to the South for distribution
amongst the Federal prisoners large quantities f
medical stores, wine, clothing, books, Sec.
iT:r
people of the South are differently situated. latio
territories have supplied for nearly four years
battle-ground for the contending armies, the%
country has been ravaged and devasted, their per..
blockaded, their commerce extinguished, and thet
energies and resources taxed to the utmost in orde'
to enable them to cope successfully with the gigeei,
tic armies launched against them by a populate'
not only five times more nnmerous than their oWno
but, with an open seaboard, enabled to recruit these
armies from every quarter of the globe. The Con`
federate Government willingly act as almoners Or,
those who are desirous of befriending the prisoners
whom they are compelled to detain, but the straits
in which their own people are placed preclude the'.„:
from furnishing the same ample opportunities to
the Government at Washington of performing ,e,,
reciprocal office. It is more blessed to give than.
receive, and perhaps there are no occasions on vehle.
the truth of this saying is more apparent than ~
the performance of what we may be permitted to
call acts of international kindness and benevolence:
States have begun to lose that isolated character 01
which in former times they seemed never capable
of divesting themselves, and at length acknowledge
the connection which subsists between them. The
sympathies of mankind have ceased to be confine'
within the spheres of those who acknowledge the
same Sovereign or live within the limits of the same
State. The calamity which strikes down one peee
is, for that very reason, considered as specially a
culated to awaken the benevolence of those who
have escaped the blow ; and hence it has happen°.
that, despite difference of race and of creed, nation',
have (more especially during the past few years,'
gladly—indeed we might say eagerly—seized ever!
opportunity of furnishing mutual assistance'
Turkey, notwithstanding the crippled state or her
resources, a short time since generously lent a helps
ing hand in alleviating distress in this country,
and England, in her turn, raised a fund to aid the
Turkish Government in diminishing the horrors
which attended the Circassian exodus. Notwitb.
standing the prejudice entertained against Greet
Britain by the population of the Federal States,
they chartered a magnificent vessel and loaded be;
to the bulwarks with stores to be distributed
amongst the operatives of Lancashire who had been
thrown out of employment by the suspension of the
Southern cotton trade. The Southern Confederacy
is for the present cut off from the rest of the world;
it cannot give, and it is almost equally precluded
from receiving. It would therefore be a most fitting
and suitable mode of manifesting sympathy, with',.,„
out at the same time infringing that neutrality
which should be observed between the belligerents'
if those who have benefited so much in past tz0305
by the Southern trade, and who look with eager°
ness for its re-establishment, should now contribute
to a fund which is intended solely to alleviate the
.
hard lot of men whom the fortune of war has sePed
rated from those to whom they were a solace, an 9
in a large majority of cases, a support.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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COLCHESTER—Oar. 15. ket
We had a small supply of wheat on offer at our mar di
to-day, and previous quotations were fully maintains,
Fine barley saleable at late prices ; other sorts a slow sale'
Beans rather cheaper, and peas maintain their value.
Wheat, white 40s 46s Beans, Mazagan .. 330 AOO 36S
red 36s 42s middle & 5ma11.358 ~,,
Barley
Oats . 20s 258 grey 368 ''

GLOUCESTER—OcT. 15.
ar
There was an average supply of wheat to-day at o•
market, which sold slowly at late prices. Foreign was „111
extremely limited demand, at former rates. Barley am
oats dull. Beans unaltered.

NORTHAMPTON—OCT. 15.
Wheat in moderate show to-day, and met with rather;
firm inquiry, at fully late quotations. Barley was in fat.
supply at late prices. Oats were in fair supply. Beans fla
—White wheat, new, 39s to 41s ; new red, 36s to 40s
old, 37s to 41s per qr. Barley, new malting, 32s to as'
Beans, 39s to 425. Peas, 37s to 42s per qr.

CHELMSFORD—OcT. 14.
At this corn exchange to-day the supply of wheat via!
plentiful, but we had a dull trade, and no advance was
made on last week's quotations. Spring corn very inactlYo
at about late rates.
Wheat, old white 40s 45s
new 40s 41s
old red 39s 40s
new 37s 40s
Barley 25s 32s
Chevalier ..26s 33s
Grinding 20s 28s
Malt. 6ls 67s
Chevalier 64s 68s
Oats 20s 265,

Peas, Partridge 36s
White 30s 01'
Boiling 3Bs 420
Dun 31s 35!
Ditto new —B ---"„
Beans, Tick, old 34s 3i:
new —s -"
Harrow Ticks 3ss 381
QAA
Mazagan 33s u"-

KIRKCALDY GRAIN—OcT. 15.
We had small supplies orwheat, barley, and oats to-dials;
which sold freely, and prices were much the same as ."1
week,

Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First....36s Od 24s Od I 17s 8d
Second ..38s Od 25s Od 18s 6d
Third....4os Od 27s Od 20s Od

Births.

----
APPELBEE.—On the 16th inst., ut the Bank, TawkeebtillP
the wife of Thomas Appelbee, Esq., of a daughter. 0
BARCHARD.—On the 15th inst., the wife of Elphinst°ll
Barchard, Esq., of a daughter.
CUFAUDE.—On the 15th inst„ at Acle, Mrs. Hy. Curial°,
of a daughter.
lIOLT.—On the 17th inst., at 18, Lower Bo!grave-8004
tho with of Vesey W. Holt, Esq., of a son.

Marriages.
ARNOLD—CAsToN.—On the 13th inst., at Saint Jaruel
Taunton, Captain Arnold, of Nethercott Hall, Do'".,'
to Georgians Elizabeth, only daughter of J. C. Castc"
Esq., of The Priory, Taunton.
ROGERS—FAWSSETT.— On the 15th inst., at Kensingli
George A. Rogers, Esq , of The Grove Ealing, l'air
Doctor's-commons, to Rose, daughter of the late
Fawssett, Esq., of Edwardes-square, Kensington.
'l

Deaths.
CA NWELL —On the 16th inst., William Canwell, Esq.' of
4, Blomfield-terrace, Bayswater, and Old Jewry Chaff'
hers, ages 33.
FRICKER.—On the 16th inst„ Mrs. Pricker, of The ShlPt
Essex-street, Strand.
FEHT.—On the 16th inst., at Chevely Villa, Croydl9ll:
Edward, youngest surviving son of the late Chas. Feu°
aged 21.
HUGUES.—On the 14th inst., at Cheltenham, the WI"
Mrs. Hughes, aged 64.

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THE SOUTHSEA PIER HOTEL COMPANY
(Limited).
Offices —6, John-street, Bedford-row, W.C.

7th October, 1864.
~NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an ORDINARY
1-'NERAL MEETING of the Shareholders of this Com-
teY Will be held at the Southsea Pier Hotel, Southsea, in
e county of Hants, on THURSDAY, the 20th day of Octo-
o Instant, at Four o'clock in the Aftermon, for the purpose
liirx.eceiving the REPORT of ihe Direct( rs, and to elect three
auditor
and an Auditor in the room of the Directors and
dltor who will retire fro m office at such Meeting.
By order,

S. 0. RATTENBURY, Secretary.

ATL ANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Offices-2, Old Broad-street, London, E.C.
ISSUE OF SECOND MORTGAGE BONDS,
(Ohio Division)
Payable in London.
4,C00,(00 Dollars. Due in 1883,
Coupons due Ist January and Ist July.
~SeCured by a Registered Mortgage on the Income and all
koorporate Rights, Privileges, Lands, Franchises, Plant, and
The
41' perßyt of the Ohio Divi,ion of the
in New Railwa.
Bonds are redeemable at par York, or in Lon-
!an at 4s. 6d. per dollar, and are transferable wi bout stamp
ur endorsement ; Interest Coupons•are attached to the B
L aYable semi- annu,l y, at the Cons lidated Bank in London,
the fixed rate of 4s. to the dollar. The Bonds will be
red at 66 at wh ch rate Bonds 01 1,000 dollars will cost
48, 1011., carrying Coupons due January 1, 1865.
1,,,ue Coupons represent £l4 per annu on each Bond of
The
dollars, or 94 per cent interest on price of issue.
~;,...4he immense development of the Western States of Ame-
, without any increase in the mean. of transit to tho
oastern ports, has given the At antic and Great Western
ail Way, as raplaly as the different sections have been
Pened, an unexampled success. The whole line is now fully
ieady for uiness and thoroughl ballasted, but the demand
47, business and thorou°hly ballasted, but the demand
r rolling sock has been so far in excess of anticipation that
,equate provision for it has not been made, and 200 miles of
Zue Main line has remained shut up until now. Great eff,r s
;,',ve been made to supply locomotives, carriages, and trucks.
ilioe Company has built extensive works for -their construe-
Fan, and are now turning out one locomotive complete every
tirr days, and ten freight cars every day. In this way the
Mand will, in reasonable time, be supplied.
LAs the entire through traffic to and from New York will
ass over the Erie Railway, it is but reasonable that that
,Prnpany, which will so largely benefit, should furnish a por-
on of the rolling stock, and to meet this a treaty has been
made with the Erie Directors for the expenditure of five
Million dolars in the construction of engines and cars. The
entire amount is now under contract for rapid delivery, and
as received will be used exclusively for the through traffic
'(3.,:fer the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, the latter
fYraPany on its part agreeing to supply a similar quantity
ur the same purpose.
Following the financial policy, adopted at the outset, of
:fling' securities to the public only after so much of the line
,r.as finished as would secure the necessary income for pro-
b„ld„le' the interest, the Company feel justified, now that the
4-"uing of this great railway is complet d, in making this
dditional issue of Bonds.
beLitiring the last ten years no railroad of any magnitnie has
en built on the American Continent except the Atlantic
tand Great Western, in which period the population and all
raduce, agriculturali and mineral, have largely increased;
Who results the pro perous state of most of the railroads,
ise net receipts have enabled large dividends to be paid
t?tutshe stockholders, after providing interest on indebtedness,
The Clevela- d, Columbus, and Cincinnati Rail-
,T,ll' a Y divided last year
e Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton
The Little 31,ami
i,peMichigan Central
" L Make Shore, Cleveland, l'ainsville, and Ash-
18
tabula
?Ad it cannot ba doubted that the Atlantic and Great Wet-
ti„TOssesing almost a monopoly of the petroleum traffic,
Pissing over the extensive coal fields of Ohio, which are
ngteater extent than even the large field 4 of Pennsylvania,
,71,1,1 show results at least equal, and moat probably exceed-
'4, some of those above named.
0 The lisist of
whole system el this Railway, when in operation, will
The Main Line - Sa'amanca to Dayton 385 mites,
Branch to Cleveland 67 „
Franklin Branch and Buffalo Extension. 80 „

Total 532
tif
Buthis 322 miles have been successfully worked during the
eeTll,er ; for the last three months the earnings having ex-
eilet`eu 1,000,0G0 dollars. Es imating the receipts on the
4. ire line to be only as great in proportion (and unques-
Lionably the will be considerably larger), there would
erne_

Dols.
A gross receipt of
Deducting 50 per cent. working expenses .. 3,373,708

Leaving net gain 3,373,7v8
Interest on total Bonded Debt, in- Dols
eluding pre,ent Issue
Rent of Leased Lines

1,266,560

Leaving surplus 2 107,t18
,_This, under ordinary circumstances, would be applicable
r Dividend on Steck, but for the amount required to pay
at the
on Ponds (717,861 dollars being payable in London,
4t the fixe 1 rate of 4s. per dollar, and the rate o' exchange
413._present ruling exceptionally high), a rortion of above
lus would be absorbed in the premium for gold.
•,„'t ls thus evident that the resources of the road will be far
lu
z;_iore than equal to meet the charre tor interest, even should
e rate of exchange rule much hrgher than at present,
111:he several divisions of the Atlantic and Great Western
4.41 Way have been c9nsolida'ed under the government of
I.;`nes Robb, Esq., whose reput tion as a Banker and Rail-
_Cy Administrator is estabdshed in Europe as we I as in
wrlterica. Mr. Robb. as President of the Atlantic and Great
estern Railway, joins the Direction of the Erie and other
11,no forming- the Throu.i Route between iNew York and St.
Tr, so as to secure unity of action.
r„,,e price of issue has been fixed at (6.
The terms of issu; are as follows :
1, £ S. d.
10 cent on application, being 11 5 0 per bond of 1030 doll.
15 on allotment „ 22 10 0 „
15 19th November „ 33 15 0 „
21 „ 19th D,cember „ 33 15 0 „
19th January „ 47 5 0 less £7 Coupon due
tat ' January

£l4, 10 0
nqvSubscribers have the option of paying the instalments in
11 "ce, and will be allowed a discount of 9 per cent per an-
„biter such pre-paymen s.
allot 1,, t S • Certificates will be issued to
m n , Serb
to " These Ctificates will be exchanged for Bonds
bearer" on paymeernt of the final instalment.
11, °rats of Application may be obtained at the Consoiidated
treet n, or at the offices of the Company, No. 2, Old Broad-
, London, E.C., or of
E. F. SATTERTHWAITE, Broker,
18, Throgmorton-street, London, E.C.
London, Oct. 12, 1864.
AT

LANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
FORM OF APPLICATION.
T, be forwarded to the offices of the Company. No. 2, Old.
'ircad-street, London, E.C., after payment of the prelimi-
-31411 Deposit to the Bankers.
No
ITO the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company.
01 ,aving pal(' to the Consolidated Bulk (Limited) the sum
Xrae. , I hereby request that you will allot
tuici G dols, Second Mortgage Bonds of the Atlantic
likre reat Western Railway (Ohio Division), and I hereby
ttlive to accept such Bonds, or any less number that may be
Led to me.

I am, your obedient servant,
Signature
Address in full .. .
Date

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