The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-25 00:00:00

THE SON. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1861

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Samuel Leman was placed before the Lord Mayor,
charged with obstructing the footway in Princes-street,
Bank.

Police-constable 438 said the prisoner was standing with
his basket of walnuts on the pavement in Princes-street,
and, as ha refused to go away when directed, he took him
to the station-house.
Defendant—Yes, and spilt all my walnuts. I wasn't
obstructing the pavement. I'd just put my basket down
on the kerb to rest when this gentleman comes up and takes
me into custody.
The Lord Mayor—What have you to say to the charge ?
Defendant—What am I to do, sell walnuts or steal ? I
try to get an honest living, and should do so if it was not
for the police. They drive us about Ike dogs.
The Lord Mayor—But you hare no right to cause an
obstruction at that particular place.
Another constable informed his lordship that the boys in
Princes street did something more than sell their walnuts.
Many of them were regular thieves, and gave the office to
their companions, who were engaged in picking pockets,
that the officers were watching them.
Defendant—Have I ever done so ? I know I've been a
bad boy, but you know it's never too late to mend, and I'm
trying to get on honestly; but—(laughter)—one can't do
that if the police is to drive us about.

The Lord Mayor--I shall only inflict a small fine of 35.,
but if you come here again I'll not let you off so easy.

GUILDHALL.

A young man named Wilson was brought before Mr.
Alderman Begley, charged with uttering counterfeit coin.

Mrs. Stevens, the widow of a licensed victualler, carry-
ing on business in Bartholomew-close, said the prisoner
came into her house yesterday, and, having asked for half a
pint of beer, put down the bad half-crown,

Detective Smith, of the City police, said he happened
accidentally to be taking a glass of stout when the prisoner
tendered the money. He questioned him as to how he be-
came possessed of the money, and not receiving any satis-
factory answer took him into custody. As he was proceeding
with him to the station-house he passed throgh Little Bri-
tain, where another publican, who was standing at his door,
said he had taken some counterfeit half-crowns the day be-
fore, which, on comparing, were found to be from the same
mould as that from which the one tendered at Mrs. Stevens's
had been made.

The prisoner said he had received the coin amongst the
money he had had for wages where be was employed.
Smith said the prisoner gave tho address in the New
North-road, but he neither knew the name of the person who
kept the house or the number.
Remanded for further inquiry.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

BußaLAßY.—Alfred Morris, 8, Upper Rupert-street,
John M'Mahon, 5, South-row, and William Byrne, 6,
Carnaby-street, all tailors, and M‘Mahon and Byrne having
been previously convicted, were charged before Mr. Knox
with burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-
house of Mr. Swallow, licensed victualler, 22, Berwick-
street, Soho, on the 21st of September, and stealing several
articles and money to the amount of £lO. There was a
second charge against M‘Mahon of being concerned with
another not in custody in steailng at 56, Wardour-street,
several articles of the value of £lO, the property of Mr.
Samuel, licensed victualler.
Only sufficient evidence was given to justify a remand,
but it appears that entrance to Mr. Swallow's house, the
Blue Posts, Berwick-street, was gained by means of a low
wall, and the property carried off.
Remanded.

SCINDE RAILWAY COMPANY.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING-THIS DAY.

The 15th half-yearly meeting cf this company was
held to-day at the London Tavern; W. P. Andrew, Esq.,
chairman of the board of directors, presided.
The report stated that there had been a gradual increase
and development of the traffic in every description of goods
for the past half-year, fully bearing out former anticipa-
tions. The average gross receipts of the half-year ending
June 30 last amounted to £2,016 per week, being an average
weekly increase of £640, or. 16,683 for the half-year preceding.
The revenue account for the half year ending Dec. 31,
1862, has been submitted to Government, from which it
will appear that, after deducting working expenses and
maintenance, the receipts yielded a net return of £7,141
ss. 10d. The receipts per mile were about £360 Os. 3d.,
and the expenditure £292, leaving a sum of £6B Os. 3d. per
mile to be carried to the credit of the net revenue accc.unt,
in part liquidation of the interest advanced by Government.
Major Malcolm, in his report to Government in March
last, stated that "making allowance for the steady increase
of traffic which way be reasonably expected to continue,
there are fair grounds for hoping that within two years of
the ptesent time the Scinde Railway mey return 5
per cent. plus an annually increasing contribution
towards the re payment of the guaranteed interest
allowed up to that date by the State to the shareholders."
Prior to 1862, a bale of cotton in transit was rarely seen
upcn the Indus. But a considerable supply of this article
is being received from the Punjaub. The value of the
cotton exported for the past year was Rs. 1,43,93,483, or
about £1,319,402 12s. 2d.

Indian Branch Railway Company.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING-THIS DAY.

The second ordinary meeting of the directors and share-
holders in this undertaking was held to-day at the London
Tavern.

The report, which was adopted, stated that the opening
of the Nulhatee line had been delayed, from the roadway
which the Government undertook to deliver to the
company aot having been originally provided with suffi•
cieut openings to carry off the flood waters of the district; the
Government undertook to supply the additional waterway
required, but the non-completion of one of the principal
briiges had up to Aug. 1 prevented the closing in of the
line. The chief engineer, however, expected to get a train
through at a very early day, and then a telegram would
be sent to the board. This announcement is daily expected.
Arrangements had been made with the Government for
extending the Nulhatee line 81 miles to Bogwan-
gola, a port on the Ganges, and the road which
the Government had to make and deliver to the
company was reported in May last as in a forward state.
All (or nearly all) the materials of the permanent way,
locomotives, &c., for the extension had been shipped for
Calcutta : there was, therefore, every prospect that the
whole of this branch line might be opened for permanent
traffic by the middle of next year. The negotiations with
the Government of India for the concession of the whole
system of railway lines in Oudh and Rohilkund were pro-
gressing satisfactorily.

The Withdrawal of the Confederate
Commissioner,

The Index, the London organ of the Confederates,
publishes the following as the text of the letter in
which Mr. Mason announces the termination of the
Confederate mission to England :

" 24, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Sept. 21.
" The Right Hon. Earl Russell, her Majesty's

Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

"My Lord—ln a despatch from the Secretary of
State of the Confederate States of America, dated
4th day of August last, and now just received, I am
instructed to consider the commission which brought
me to England as at end, and I am directed to
withdraw at once from this country.
" The reasons for terminating this mission are set
forth in an extract from the despatch, which I have
the honour to communicate herewith.
" The President believes that ' the Government
of her Majesty has determined to decline the over-
tures made through you for establishing, by treaty,
friendly relations between the two Governments,
and entertains no intention of receiving yon as the
accredited Minister of this Government near the
British Court. Uader these circumstances, your con-
tinued residence in London is neither conducive to
the interests nor consistent with the dignity of this
Government; and the President therefore requests
that you consider your mission at an end, and that
you withdraw with your secretary from London.'

" Having made known to your lordship on my
arrival here the character and purposes of the mis-
sion entrusted to me by my Government, I have
deemed it due to courtesy thus to make known to
the Government of her Majesty its termination, and
that I shall, as directed, at once withdraw from
England.—l have the honour to be yours, &e.,
(Signed) "J. M. MASON."

The same journal makes the following comments
on the foregoing document :
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" We are permitted by Mr. Mason to publish his letter
to Earl Russell, announcing his recall as special commis-
sioner from the Confederate States of America to England,
and the termination of his mission, It will be seen by the
extract given in the letter of recall that it is placed by the
Confederate President on the ground of the persistent re-
fusal of England to enter into the relations of amity usual
between foreign Powers—a condition of things which, in
the opinion of the President, would make the continuance
of the mission ' neither conducive to the interests nor con-
sistent with the dignity of the Government of which he is
at the head.' Mr. Slidell, we understand, will remain in
France as special commissioner to that Government, nor
is it at all contemplated to terminate that mission ; and
yet France, equally with England, has so far refrained
from entering into international relations with the Con-
federate States. All England will admit that the Govern-
ment of those States is in the hands of able, experienced.
and judicious statesmen; and we are sufficiently conversant
with Southern circles and Southern men to know that, with
other marked differences between the sections North and
South in America, there exists this—that in the South the
general feeling to England has been one of good-will and
respect. There must be, then, some over-ruling cause for
the difference thus made between France and England in
the termination of the mission to the one, and not to the
other. To those at all conversant with what is passing
in the Southern States this is no mystery. Mr. Slidell
has been received, and has been unifotmly treated by
the Government of France, with every mark of con-
sideration and respect for the Government he repre-
sents. There may be grave reasons regarding policy or
public law why France, like England, may not deem it in-
cumbent as yet to recognise those States assn independent
political power; but their representative has been freely
admitted to every form of intercourse with the Government
of France, to personal interviews with the Emperor when-
ever he asked for them, with immediate access to all or any
of the Ministry at first request. This would seem, indeed,
but an ordinary courtesy to a gentleman in his position—the
refusal of it would be more than a. discourtesy, it would be
an actual indignity to those whose representative he is. Ia
England Mr. Mason has been held by the Government in
the very opposite position. His correspondence with the
Foreign Office, laid before Congress at Richmond, we
know from the Southern press, produced a feeling of
deep and universal indignation. It showed that, with
the exception of a single and formal interview with Earl
Russell OR his first arrival, appointed at his residence, and
not at the Foreign Office, he had been admitted to no inter-
course whatever with any member of the Government ;
whilst a second interview with Earl Russell, asked for some
months after the first, was by that Minister curtly refused.
It showed further that, to all outward or other manifestation,
the presence of a Confederate commissioner in London was
no further recognised than by brief replies to such commu-
nications as he was from time to time instructed to make
to the Minister of this Government. Whilst we sincerely
regret, therefore, the necessity which has imposed on
President Davis the duty of terminating the Confederate
commission to England, we are bound to admit that
his forbearance has been tested to the utmost.
Earl Russell has now succeeded in establishing absolute
non-intercourse with the Confederate States—those States
where our commerce has found Sources of incalculable
wealth and profitable employment for countless millions of
our capital, with like profitable employment for hundreds of
thousands of the people of England. We say absolute non-
intercourse, because we know through the press that of the
three British consuls who remained in the Southern States
exercising their functions by permission of the Government
there, Mr. Bunch at Charleston, and Mr. M'Gee at
were recalled by this Government; and Mr. Moore at
Richmond was dismissed by the Confederate Government
for contumacy. It remains to be seen hereafter what ad-
vantages France may derive from a course of policy more
consistent with her own self-respect and with national de-
corum."

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. The Government
inspector yesterday approved of the works of the junction
lines with the Great Northern Railway at King's-cross,
and through/ trains will run between parriDgdon-street
station and that line on and after the Ist October ri‘-'lO.
"Striking a light" fifty years since was done by a ftini.ln"
steel, and a Inciter match was considered a physical imposs;--
bility. Many are still sceptical of the fact, patent to thou-
sands, of Herring's magnetic brush and comb restoring the
colour to grey hair, and curing the severest cases of neuralgia
and nervous headache. Recent improvements prevent the
possibility of their failure. N.l3.—Couilterfeits are being
made. Offices, 12, Basiogliall-street, Loicl9n.

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MANHATTAN AT IT AGAIN.

"PEGGING AWAY" AT TIIE ENGLISH MINISTRY.

There is but one opinion of the acts of the Eng-
lish Ministry; there can be but one wherever God's
sun shines upon people who can read the A B C
and write—even in the colonies of England—and
that is this: that the English Ministry had one of
two courses to pursue, a right one and a wrong one.
A right noble one would have been, if they deemed
it for the interest of England to acknowledge the
South, to have done it in a noble open manner, and
have let the consequences take care of themselves.
If they had done this they would have dismembered
the United States for e.e.r, and, at this moment,
the Confederacy would have been independent, and
a grateful friend to England. This was a right
course for an English Ministry to pursue. The
Ministry was too small potatoes and too few in a
hill to do anything so grand and so noble. They
wished to sneak into doing good to the South, and
so they allowed English capital, English sailors,
English shipbuilders, English boiler•makers, and
English everything else makers, to fit cut ships
in English ports es pirates to go on to
the Atlantic Ocean, and there, under the rag
adopted by our Southern brothers, to burn and de-
stroy millions of property belonging to merchants
and shipowners, like old-time pirates, without much
regard to whether the property was American,
English, or Swiss. Is there a reflecting man in
England, or a true-born English child between the
age of three and twelve, who will say that that was
the right cheese ? Or is there one who is proud of
the achievements of such a glorious ministry ? Yet,
as the man said to Noah, "1) your old boat ; I
don't believe there is going to be much of a shower."
So even now the organs of the English ministry,
while territory after territory, each vaster in extent
than all Europe, is weekly passing from rebel do-
minion, hopelessly and irrevocably, these organs
declare that the South has just began to fight, and
that the Confederacy was never so prosperous—and
the stock gees up.

" A SLASH' AT NAPOLEON.

The English ministry did wrong, and if they
remain in power when the South caves in there
can be nothing else than a long and bloody war
with America. It is as inevitable as that the tides
ebb and flow. God in mercy avert it. Of course if
the English people want war with America, they
will have it by keeping in the present ministers,
who have made such a lovely mess of everything.
But I suppose the million of pounds sterling that
Napoleon is said to spend yearly in London to keep
his viceroy Palmersto❑ in power will have its effect,
and that he will command his deputy to plunge
England into the coming war that we are to have
with France, use her as he did in the Crimean war,
and as he does when he pleases, as the monkey did
the generous cat, to pick the chestnuts out of the
fire for his Majesty's own eating, while the unsus-
pecting cat burned her own paws. England, great
and glorious as she has been, must to eternity com-
mand the respect of mankind, and of those who
speak the English language all over the world, no
matter what their nationality, when she leads in
the affairs of the world and of the great nations on
its outside surface. But how low she sinks when
no great measure can be started by her ministers
until a telegram has been sent to and received from
Paris. I trust and I pray that whatever England
may do in the coming contest, she will do it as mag-
nificently as of old, and not as second fiddle to the
French Emperor. It is a reflection upon the mil-
lions of hogsheads of English blood in human sys-
tems on this continent and elsewhere, to suppose
that England—old powerful England—is afraid to
go to war without the backing of the legions of
Paris No. 2.

EDWIN JAMES REDIVIVUS !

Edwin James is in deeper trouble for his slander
of the English widow. It will be a rich trial when
it comes on. Mr. James enjoys himself in the new
country. He is not an early riser, but sits up late
at nights to equalise it. It is asserted that he will
soon lead to the Hymeneal altar a beautiful girl,
daughter of an ex-governor of this state, with in
her own right a million. When the marriage is
over the parties will probably go abroad.

YANKEE SQUEAMISHNESS ABOUT Bullock's BLOOD.

We have an amusing war at the present time
between the butchers of New York and the city
inspector, Boole. He is opposed to the system of
slaughter-houses, with blood running in the gutters
of our best streets. It is a great nuisance, and is
a source of sickness. It is to be hoped that Mr,
Boole will be the conqueror.

CLEVER APPLICATION OF A PROVERB.

The retreat of General Bragg from Gen. Rose-
,ranz has surprised many. It only proves the truth
of the old English saying, " Brag is a good dog, but
Holdfast is a better one."

WAR 1 WAR I I WAR i I: WITH FRANCE.

A war between France and the United States is
inevitable; but may Heaven avert a war between
England and this country. It must come with the
present ministry. The ministers are so leagued in
with France that war cannot be avoided, if Napoleon
wishes; and it is folly to suppose that this country,
when the rebellion ceases, will be powerless. The
anxiety to wipe out the past disgraceful civil war
will make our new war ferocious. If the rebellion
is crushed, the Government will have to go into a
foreign war. France is fair game. She only has
given us cause of war. We need Mexico now, and
we will have it. It was a great blunder of Polk's
administration that he did not keep Mexico when
we had it, and Scott with his army was in Mexico
city. It was prevented by the Southern statesmen,
who opposed annexing it for the same reason that
they always opposed annexing Canada, viz., it
would have enlarged and strengthened the free
states and free territory.
[Not a word about the human blood now, (for two
years) flooding—not the gutters of New York but
the vast countryside of what was once the Union :
not one word about this fearful pouring out of
human blood, says Manhattan l]

MARKETS---This Day.

MARK-LANE.

A moderate supply of English wheat was on sale here to-
day. Factors were somewhat firmer in their demand, but,
owing to the considerable arrival of wheat and flour from
foreign ports, buyers operated cautiously at Monday's de-
cline in the currency.
The market was well supplied with foreign wheat, in
which sales progressed slowly at late rates.
In floating cargoes of grain a limited business was trans-
acted, yet no change took place in the value either of wheat
or spring corn.
There was a somewhat increased supply of barley on
offer, and the trade ruled heavy at barely stationary prices.
The malt trade was in a sluggish state at about previous
rates.
The supply of oats was tolerably large. All descriptions
met a slow sale at Monday's reduction in prices.
Beans and peas were in slow request at late prices.
Flour moved off slowly at previou. quotations. The
supply of barrels was somewhat extensive.

ARRIVALS THIS 'WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flom.
English ~1,960 1 730 1,460 1 40 i 580
~
Irish. -
FOrelgll.... —20,110 7,450 18,390 ,19,1•61 g
bekrisi

NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supply of meat on sale at these markets is moderate,
and the trade rules firm at quite previous rates.

Per 81b. by the carcase.
sdsd
Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 2
Nliddling do. .. 3 4 3 6
Prime large do. 3 8 3 10
Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2
Large pork .... 3 8 4 6
Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8

adsd
Middlingmutton 3 10 4 4
Prime do 4 6 4 8
Vaal
Small pork .... 4 8 5 0
Lamb ........ 0 0 0 0

BOROUGH HOP.
New English hops ars in good request, and fine samples
command enhanced rates. In yearling and old hops only
a moderato business is doing ; nevertheless, prices rule
firm.
New Mid and East Rents Li lOs to £8 *Os per cwt.
Weald of Keats
Sussex . 4 lOs to 658 '3: