The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-03 00:00:00

THE StiN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before Mr. Justice Wighttuan.)
ROBINSON V. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

This was an action for false imprisonment brought by the
plaintiff against the company for alleged trespass and
assault. The plaintiff pleaded not guilty, and a reasonable
excuse. The plaintiff had been in the employ of the com-
pany as a porter, and one M'Grath, an officer of the com-
pany, had some suspicion that another porter had a penchant
for portmanteaus of other Persons,and his being seen to draw
a pair of trousers from a parcel he was taken into custody
and convicted, The plaintiff, who was standing some dis-
tance off at the time, was suspected to be concerned in the
robbery, was taken into custody, and atter being locked up
some time he was discharged, and the present action was
brought for assault and false imprisonment.
The trial was proceeding when we went to press.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Before the Chief Baron, and Barons Bramwell, Martin,
and Piggot.)
THE ALEXANDRA.

The Attorney-General asked leave of the Court to en-
large the time beyond the four days, as there were certain
circumstances which prevented him going on in the bill of
exceptions, or whether he would move for a new trial.
Baron Bramwell said the Court had no power to reject
the application. The only way such a matter could be
dealt with was for the case to be brought forward, and
then adjourned until a future day.
After some discussion the matter was left open until
Thursday, when the Attorney •General will signify the
course he intends to adopt.

COMMON PLEAS.

(Before Chief Justice Erie and Justices Williams, Byles,

and Keating.)
COURTNEY V. WA.OSTAFF -THE " IRON TIMES."

Mr. Denman, Q.C., on the part of the plaintiff, moved
for a rule calling on the defendant to show cause why the
verdict entered for the defendant should not be
set aside and a verdict entered for the plaintiff,
with damages £l5 155., so that a new trial might be
granted on the ground of moderation, and that the verdict
was against evidence. The action was by the plaintiff
against the defendant as the proprietor of the defunct penny
newspaper, the Iron Times, to recover damages for a breach
of contract in the summarily dismissal of the plaintiff, who
was engaged as a reporter on the paper on the usual under-
standing, and a question arose on the trial whether the en-
gagement was a weekly one, terminable at a week's notice.
The Chairman granted a :We to show cause.

watch-chain and locket in the waistband of his trousers.
The prosecutrix valued the whole at £8 10s.
The prisoner, in defence, said he was only taking care of
the watch for his wife, and never intended to steal it.

. _
Mr. Woolrych asked the prosecutrix if the prisoner was
her husband ?

Witness—No, sir ; he is only a friend of mine.
The prisoner—I have been staying with her eight or ten
years every time I came home from sea. I used to wear
it whenever I came home. I have only been home four or
five days. I took the watch to take care of it for her. I
look upon her as my wife when I aril at home—don't I
Meg ? (A laugh.)
Witness—No; you are no husband of mine.
The prisoner—I was boarding in her house. I did not
intend to steal the watch.

Mr. Woolrych came to a different conclusion. He
thought the prisoner did intend to steal the watch, or he
would not have concealed it or denied having it in his pos-
sessior. The temporary companionship of the woman and
the sailor aid not justify the prisoner in taking the watch,
He sentenced the prisoner to two months' imprisonment
and hard labour for the unlawful possession of the pro-
perty.

WESTMINSTER.
"DON'T GET DRUNK."—Edward Hoare, a respectable-
looking artisan, was charged with the following unprovoked
assault:—

Edwari Parrish, hackney carriage attendant, 294, en-
gaged at the Cadogan-pier, Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, said that
at a little before 4 yesterday afternoon, a gentleman came
down in a cab from the East End to make inquiry as to
what cab had taken him from the rank on the previous even-
ing. He called witness to him to inquire about the cab, and
while they were talking, the defendant came up and com-
menced abusing both witness, the gentleman, and the cab-
man. He did not know the gentleman, but prisoner was
drunk. Witness told him he had better go away quietly,
when he called him most vile names, and then struck him
severely in the mouth, cutting his lip, and knocking one of
his teeth out. Upon this, witness, seeing no constable
handy, took him to the station, and he went quietly.
Mr. Arnold—Went quietly after assaulting you in that
manner ?

Witness—Yea, your worship, I know the man very well.
When he went past his house he wanted to get away, but
I said if ho went in I'd get a policeman to fetch him out.
Mr, Arnold (to defendant)--.What have you to say to
this ?

Defendant—l'm very sorry, but I was drunk. I've lived
in Chelsea the last twenty years, and know Parrish well.
Mr. Arnold—ls that any reason why you should attack
him in this manner?

Defendant—No, your worship, I should not have done it
if I had been sober, for I'd sooner help Parrish than hurt
him.

The police having intimated that the gentleman in ques-
tion had come to the station, and said that he had never seen
a more wanton assault committed,
Mr. Arnola observed that defendant should not get
drunk, and then he would not get into trouble, and com-
mitted him to prison for fourteen days.
Defendant—Won't you take a fine, sir ?
Mr. Arnold—No, I don't think this a proper case for a
fine. You shouldn't get drunk.

Naval and Military Intelligence,

THE NAVY.

A naval court-martial assembled yesterday on board her
Majesty's ship
Victory, at Portsmouth, under the presi-
dency of Capt. Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., for the trial of
Thomas Rivers, a gunner in her Majesty's navy, borne on
the books of the Asia for duty in the Volcano, paddle
steamer (floating factory attached to the rEserve at Ports-
mouth), on charges of desertion and appropriation of the
fuel-money" allowed to the ship to his own private pur-
poses. The Court found the prisoner guilty, and sentenced
him to be dismissed her Majesty's service with disgrace.
A court-martial was opened on Friday on board the Royal
Adelaide in Hatmaze,'Devonport, for the trial of Mr. Job
Annable, assist.-engineer of the screw steam corvette Pelo-
rous, for having on the 17th of October allowed water in
the starboard boiler to get low, thereby endangering the
safety of the crew. The Court sat again on Saturday and
yesterday, when the proceedings were brought to a close.
The prisoner was sentenced to be dismissed from the ship
and to be placed for a period of three years at the foot of
the list of first-class assistant. engineers.

The Falcon, 17, screw steamer, Commander Parker, has
been swung in Portsmouth harbour for the adjustment of
her compass, and will go out of the harbour to Spithead
about Thursday next preparatory to sailing for foreign ser.
v ice.

The Royal Alfred, 35, iron cased frigate, at Portsmouth,
bas at length a gang of 25 shipwrights set to work upon
her; and as more of the same class will soon be at liberty
from the Hector, iron frigate, and will become available for
the Royal Alfred, there is a chance of the latter ship being
eventually finished and launched from her present position,
where she has lain until almost forgotten.
The paddle wheel steam vessel Vivid (Staff Commander
Allen), tender to the flagship Fisgard at Woolwich, returned
to her moorings off the dockyard yesterday morning from
Dover, having conveyed their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess Louis of Hesse to the Continent. The Vivid,
during her passage across the Channel, was struck by a
heavy sea, and shipped a considerable quantity of water in
her cabins. Her Royal Highness was most severely affected
by sea sickness.

Her Majesty's screw gun vessel Ranger, 5, Commander
Henry R. Wratislaw, from the West Coast of Africa, yes-
terday returned to Woolwich to be paid out of commission.
immediately after being paid off the Ranger will be entered
for repairs, and will be placed in the first division of the
steam reserve for recommission. During her last commission,
31 years, she captured two full slavers, which will entitle
tae officers and crew to good prize money. She will be in-
spected at her moorings this morning in the river, when
the crew will be mustered for exercise.
Captain Nangle, Deputy-Assist.-Quartermaster-Gen. at
Woolwich, yesterday inspected the hired troopship Sea
King in the London Docks, taken up with two others for
the transport of troops and war stores for New Zealand.

A large number of 8-inch guns, 68-pou nders,32. pounders,
and howitzers, with platform and full equipment, weighing
140 tons,were yesterday transported from the Royal Arsenal
at Woolwich, and shipped in the Victoria Docks, for the
60-gun coastguard service Hogue at Greenock.
The steam storeship Lord Panmure, Mr. Commander
Mooie, arrived at Woolwich on Saturday, from Plymouth
and Portsmouth, laden with a cargo of guns, 30 in number,
platform carriages, and other war stores. The ship encoun-
tered a heavy gale on Friday, which carried away a portion
of her bulwarks ; she sustained some damage in the storm,
which is stated to have been the heaviest experienced for
many years.

Admiralty orders have been received by the officials at
Sheerness that it is not intended that the Salamis padole -
wheel despatch vessel, 835 tons, 250 horse-power, should be
brought forward for immediate Commission. The vessel is
to be kept in the state ordered by the Steam Reserve in-
structions, and to be inspected and reported upon when
complete for the Ist division.

The Salamander, 6, paddle-wheel sloop, 818 tons, 220
horse-power, was docked in Sheerness yard yesterday, in
order that her bottom and the Kingston valves may be
finally examined before she is put in commission. It is re-
ported in the dockyard that the Salamander will be imme •
diately commissioned by Commander the Hon. John Car-
negie, and will proceed to Terris Straits, New Holland, on
surveying service.
The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Commander W. H. Phipps, to the Blenheim ;
Lieut. John V. D. Butler, to be Flag Lieut. to Vice-Admi-
ral Sir Chas. H. Fremantle, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief
at Devonport ; John J. A. Gravener, master to the Cum-
berland, for the Fawn ; Frederic W. R. Ford, nominated
to a naval cadetship ; Ferdinand Burne, paymaster to the
Styx; William J. Eames, confirmed to the rank of Burg.;
Walter V. Browne, master assist., to the Falcon; Owen
Jones, chief engineer, to the Liverpool; Thomas H. Pun-
shon, promoted to chief engineer, and re-appointed to the
Chanticleer ; Ossian L. Carlisle, William Curtin, and
Charles Beal, promoted to chief engineers, and discharged
to half-pay.

MARKETS—This Day,

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 5s Od ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 68 to £1 13s per load.
;
Demand inactive.
CUMBERLAND.--Meadow--Meadowhay, £3 Os to £4 5s clover,
£4 Os to £5 lOs Od ; and straw, £1 63 to £1 138 per load.
Trade dull.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £4 58; clover.
£4 Os to £5 10s Od ; and straw, £1 68 to £1 38 per load,
A moderate supply. Trade slow.

Foreign Mail Packet List,

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton.
.........Nov.. Nov. 18.
via Marseilles .....
brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet........ Nov. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Nov. 30.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Nov. 2.
via Marseilles ...Nov. 12.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton ..................Nov. 2.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Nov. 2.
via Marseilles ....Nov. 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton ............ Nov.ll.
via Marseilles ................Nov. 5.
Portugal.... ................................ Nov. 4.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nev. 2.
via Marseilles
.. Nov. 5.
Newfoundland ............................... Oct. 31.
Oporto and Vigo .............•.
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Nov. .
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Nov. 7.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and. Tenerife Nov. 10.
Bahamas, via New York Nov. 19,
Mexico ................................... Nov. 28.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Pern, Nov. 13,
California. and British Columbia,,

COSTLY CONVERTS.

A Suggestive Chapter on English
Missionaries.
(From the Saturday Review.)
One of the cries of the day is " payment for re-
sults." No doubt Mr. Lowe, in using the phrase for
the particular purpose to which he applied it, only
availed himself of the most palpable and undeniable
truism ; and when people are very strong in en-
forcing a truism, they have generally some sinister
end to serve. It was thought to be so in the case
of the Revised Code. The payment, it was argued,
was no payment; the results asked for by Govern.
ment were said to ho fallacious results ; and the pro.
portion between payrnent and results, so the objec-
tion ran, was a glaring disproportion. The pro-
priety of every term of the dictum, as applied to the
particular case, was disputed ; yet nobody pretended
to say that payment for results is not a fundamen-
tal axiom of common sense and common honesty.
Recently the doctrine has been applied to some of
the Missionary Societies; but, as the charge that
the Missionary Societies are a large and costly
machine, which turns out but little work, was
couched with very inconvenient vagueness, not
much came of it. Still it is not to be denied that
results are a fair test of all institutions, religious as
well as secular. It must be admitted that a vast
organisation which spends a great deal of money and
has little or nothing to show for it is amenable, if
not to censure or discredit, at least to inquiry. In
the case of missions to the heathen, be they of the
Propagation Society, or the Church Missionary
Society,; or the various Dissenting bodies, there is
generally something to show. In every anuual report
there is sure to be some striking case produced;
and a woodcut and some very bad English go a
long way with the annual meeting. Subscribers to
missions are a patient and 1,-1)g-suffering race, and
also a forgetful one. The great work of Cochin
China serves the turn for a season ; and the next
annual report shifts " the great work" from Peru to
Zembla. Still we must admit that, in the case of
the heathen, if there is not much done, there is not
an entire blank. But we have other missionary
societies besides these for the benefit of the heathen.
The Church of Englnnd, in the true spirit of charity,
gives abroad what it wants at home. Not having
yet converted its domestic infidels and heretics, and
not content with the work of evangelising, or trying
to evangelise the hundreds of millions of Pagans, it
extends its converting labours to the Jews—thoagh
why the Turks are left without a mission it would
be bard to say.
The London Society for promoting Christianity
among the Jews" has issued its fifty-fifth annual
report. It is a society, we suppose, identified with
the Church of England. Its vice-patrons include
the majority of the English bishops. It is favoured
alike by High Church and Low Church. The
Bishops of Oxford, Salisbury, and St. David's pair
off with the Bishops of Winchester, Durham, and
Norwich. The Jews' Society, as it is commonly
called on the locus a non lucendo principle, its ob-
ject being to exterminate Judaism, has a very fair
income. The creditor side of the General Fund
account for the year ending March 31, 18133, reaches
the handsome sum of £43,400 odd. This sum is
made up of a balance from the previous year of
£lO,OOO, of £30,000 accruing from subscriptions and
and £3,000 apparently anis-
the proceeds of sermons,
iug from dividends and house property. What the
i expendture is we shall see
society's presently.
111eanwhile, it is something to know that there is
at least one missionary association which is any-
thing but insolvent. The Jews' Society carries over
£B,OOO to the account of 1864 ; or, to be very pre-
cise, its current balance is £7,984 2s. 2d. A mis-
sionary body with its £5,000 of Exchequer Bills,
its lands and tenements, i is funded property, and
its balance at the bankers, is a rarity, and therefore
its accounts deserve all the publicity which can be
given to them. Perhaps the object of this society
has coloured its management, and it is only natural
that anything connected with Jews should be pros-
perous in money matters and stand well in Capel-
court. Somehow or other, however, the Society
did contrive to spend in this last year as much as
£35,424. It maintains " 134 missionaries and other
.agents " to the Jews. It maintains an " Episcopal
Jews' Chapel" in London also. We were not aware
that there were so many Jews who had been made
bishops that they required a special chapel, but per-
haps we do not understand the phrase "Epis-
copal Jews." The society spends money in preach-
ing, money in tracts, money in warehousing its
printed stock, and—need it be added ?—money in
salaries, travelling expenses, office expenses, secre-
taries, district secretaries, See. The last item alone
reaches to a sum of something more than £5,000.
Speaking roughly, the items of expenditure are
£26,000 on missions and schools, £2,500 in publi-
cations, £5,000 on office and officers, and about
£2,000 on pensions and sundries,
These 134 missions are studded all over the world.
As the Jews are a dispersed people, the missions
must be scattered also. The names of the stations
form an epitome of the Gazetteer. We have Abys-
sinia, Amsterdam, Bagdad, &c., down to Tunis and
Turin. What principle of selection is adopted by
the Society in preaching to the Jews puzzles one
exceedingly.
we suppose it must be somehow con-
nected with the statistics of Judaism; where there
are most Jews there ought of course to be most mis-
sionaries. There may be a great concourse of the
Beni-Israel at Creuznach, Constantina, and Breslau,
welch have missions; but we should have thought
a priori that there were more Jews, say, at Vienna,
Moscow, and Algiers, which have no missions. But
let this pass. Tne London Society for Promoting
Christianity among the Jews has 33 stations at
various points of the three old continents ; it has,
as we have said, 134 missionaries, and it has an in-
come of £43,000. This is the payment, the ma-
chinery, and its cost. What are the results?
The report for 1862 informs us that " the number
of adult baptisms throughout our missions was over
60, besides the 30 in Abyssinia" whose case is in
some respects so singular—" deeply interesting" is
the expression used by the report—that we have
no particulars of it. " Twenty-four baptisms" are
also reported as having been heard of, though
not " in immediate connexion with our mis-
sions"—a mode of drawing out a statement
of results much the same as if a bankrupt were to
enter in his balance-sheet, as assets, £5OO at his
banker's, and £5OO which is his next door neigh-
bour's balance. However, the society has, by its
own agents, converted in one year 60 adult Jews,
including a Jewess aged 80, dwelling at Bucharest.
At Jerusalem—where there is a bishop, a cathedral
church, a hospital, a house of industry, a medical
establishment, schools, and other institutions sup•
ported by the society at the annual cost of £4,444
—the baptised converts reported are four. It is
curious that these figures admit of so very easy a
calculation, and we therefore set down the cost of
converting a Jew at Jerusalem at exactly £l,lll,
while the Abyssinian mission, which produces 30
converts, only costs £l,OOO. This perhaps is as it
ought to be. The pure Semitic Jew is a costly
and noble convert, and is doubtless cheap at
£1,100; but the curse of Ham and poverty, is on
the land of Abyssinia, and au African Jew can
be done into a Christian at the low figure of £33'
But, taking the average, we find that the Society
has spent £35,000 in one year, and has proof
_u.
60 converts, including " the aged J owes
bs
o above
charest, who is asserted by the Jewsi to
y converts
80, and is all but perfectly blind.
at £35,000 is as nearly as possiblejaft(tjhhSre:rsatittelhoitfyi6oo
had
per baptism. We must say that
been originally propagated sat
hhteahtis cost the Apostles
philosopher's stone.
must have been possessed of t
silver and gold I have none,'w as
inquiries;the first great
" Silver
missionary's declaration to his
and gold I have, and I can spend it at the rate of
£OOO per convert," is the boast of the modern mix_,
sionary. We say nothing of the Jerusalem Jew ;
the blue blood of Abraham in the city of David may
price. To convert a Jew at
reasonably raise its
Jerusalem is a feat as difficult as producing ice at
Singapore, or growing melons at Spitzbergen ; and
though the article is not a low priced one at I:1,100,
still it ought to be considered cheaper for the money
than an ordinary Jew converted out of Hounds-
ditch, and reaching as high as £6OO. A Jerusalem
Jew, we should say, is worth more than twice as
much as a Dulte's-place Jew: just as a cedar of Le-

banon from Lebanon is more valuable than a seed-
ling from Mr. Veitch's nursery. There are in the
world, according to the received estimate, as many
as five millions and a half of Jews ! and if the Lon-
don Society purposes, as doubtless it hopes, to con-
vert them all, and if the present quoted price is to
rule the market, Lord Shaftesbury, who is president
of the society, must manufacture green backs as a
sort of inconvertible conversion currency. California
and Australia could not keep up the supply of bul-
lion which would be needed if the London Society
were fortunate enough to hit upon a Xavier among
their missionaries. Another question arises.
If an ordinary anonymous Jew costs £6OO,
what would be the tremendous outlay on
the baptism of Baron Rothschild ? Not a
single name of a single convert of the whole sixty
is given, except that of one" Maurice Blum, seaman
on her Majesty's ship Mars ;" and if he is a £6OO
Christian, what would be the cost of converting Dr.
Alder ? The society, or its officers, will perhaps
say that conversions and baptisms are not the test
of its efficiency; because although, in nine missions
out of ten, there are no actual baptisms to report,
there are always a great many inquirers." A
Jewish inquirer, we suppose, represents the blank
leaf between the Old Testament and the New. He
is a sort of religious hat flitting about between day
and night—a chrysalis, neither worm nor butterfly.
According to the Report, these intermediate reli-
gionists, these transitional Jews and inchoate Chris-
tians, are very abundant, and the cost of raising an
inquirer must be taken off the cost of producing a
full-blown convert. If so, we should like to see the
present price-current accurately made out, with a
clear distinction between the market value of con-
verts and inquirers. Expositors of prophecy, we
believe, are agreed that the conversion of the whole
Jewish people must precede the Millennium. We
leave it to Dr. Cumming to reconcile his dates with
the present cost of a single Jewish convert. If the
MillenniumLis to take place in 1870, which is the
latest date according to the last American computa-
tion, as much as three thousand three hundred
millions of pounds sterling must be raised in seven
years at the present price of Jewish conversions.