The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-24 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---June 23.

MARYLEBONE.—ATTEMPT AT MunnEn.—A. tall
muscular woman, named Elizabeth Gearing, aged 38, a
washerwoman, residing at 8, Horace-street, Marylebone,
was brought up on remand before Mr. Knox, charged with
the following murderous assault upon Frances Keleher.—
The case was brought before Mr. Yardley originally some
time ago, but such was the critical state of prosecutrix that
prisoner had to be remanded from time to time. Yesterday
prosecutrix was led into court, and heeappearance excited a
great amount of sympathy. She was very weak indeed,
and all about her face bore
-very sad marks of the knife.
Bandages were still about her head, arms, and hands. Pro-
secutrix on being called was allowed to be seated, and the
worthy magistrate (Mr. Knox) went and stood close byher,
and passed her evidence (which she was not able to give
scarcely above a whisper) to Mr. Tate, the clerk, as follows:
My name is Frances Keleher. lam a married woman, re-
siding at 6, Horace-street. On the 31st of May I went out
at five minutes to 12 to get a pot of beer, and met the pri-
soner in John-street. She followed rue to where I got my
beer. (Prisoner—Yon liar; did you not ask me to go with
you ?) At the corner of Shouldham-street Mr. Monro
served me with the beer outside the door. Prisoner was
standing by my side at the time, and as I went round the
corner she took hold of the back of my dress. (Prisoner--
Oh, you liar.) She asked me to come round the corner as
she wished to tell me something very particular. I said it
was too late, and my husband would scold me if I went.
She said to me, " I wont keep you a minute, I am going for
some fried fish to Brown-street." I did not want to go, and
she held me tight by my dress, and I went half way down
Shouldham-street, when she (prisoner) attacked me with a
knife. The first placed she stabbed me was in the chin, and
afterwards in 14 or 15 different parts of my body. We fall
up against Moulding's shop, 34, Shouldham-street, and the
door not being properly latched it gave way, and we both
fell into the passage. After she got me down she placed
her knee on my chest. I screamed " murder," and the
prisoner pulled my clothes over my face and stuffed them
in my mouth. I pulled them out again and still screamed
" murder"—(Prisoner—Oh, you rogue)—and begged for
mercy several times. She said, "I will give you mercy
when I have your life." (Prisoner—You lie, I did not
want your life. You do reckon up a lot of lies.) After she
legs, it
knelt en me she kicked me on my legs many times, and they
are black now from her boots and nails (Prisoner—I don't
think I kicked you.) Assistance arrived, but I was exhausted
whene r
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and there is the mark on it now. Mr. Knox—Was the
prisoner drunk or sober ? Prosecutrix—She was quite sober.
I riever saw her drunk in my life. Mr. Knox—What know-
ledge have you of her ? Prosecutor—She was a lodger in
my house, and had only been there three weeks. Mr.
Knox—lt is a strange affair for her (prisoner) to attack you
like this. Prosecutrix—l never had the slightest contra-
diction with her in my life Mr. Knox—Can u account
for this act Prosecutrix—l cannot. Mr. Knox—Had you
any words? Prosecutrix—She never gave me cause to have
any words. I was taken into Dr. Danford's shop. After this
I was taken to my own home, where I have been over since,
quite unable to attend here through the effects of my
wounds. Mr. Knox—Do you wish to ask this poor woman
any questions ? Prisoner—Me, sir. Oh no; I don't. Pro-
secutrix added to her statement that when assistance arrived
she managed to reach the knife and give it to a young man.
George Morrishaw, a decorator, residing at 11, Shouldham-
street, said—l was at my own door, and heard cries of
" Murder I" I went to Mr. Moulding's passage, and saw
the prosecutrix saturated in blood, and she placed the
knife in my hand. Mr. Knox (to whom the knife, with
a sharp-pointed blade, between nine and ten inches in
length, quite new, and clotted with blood, had been
handed) said—ls this the weapon ? (The sight of the knife
and the determined coolness of the prisoner drew an excla-
mation from all parties in court. The knife had the blood
marks rusted, as it were, into the blade.) Witness—
That is the same. Thomas Williams, a watchman, in
Shouldhara-street, saw the prosecutrix and witness against
No. 34, Shouldham-street (Prisoner—You are a liar;
there was no one there.) They struggled, and fell into the
street door. Prosecutrix fell undermost, and prisoner on
the top. Prosecutrix screamed " Murder I" and I pulled
them both out of the passage by their legs. Prisoner—lf
you saw me attack her, wby did you not see to it before?
You did not see me at all. Witness—l waited till the police
came. She tried to gat away from me, but I held her. Sho
shouted very much. There was plenty of blood in the pas-
sage. Prisoner—Yon are a liar; you 'lid not see blood,
for it was quite dark. Mr. Fred. Danford, surgeon, 11),
Upper Dorset-street, said—The female Karcher, was
brought into ray place it little after 12 on the night
slated covered with blood. 11er clothes, face, and hair were
saturated with it, and she was bleeding very profusely
teem her many wounds. I have been attending her ever
since. On the head were several long incised wounds—also
on the face, hand, and lef., arm. There are also several
punctured wounds about the head, shoulders, and chest.
Most undoubtedly they are such wounds as would be caused
by such a weapon as the knife now produced. Most of the
wounds are very extensive, but fortunately none of them
have gone to any important organ of tho body. She has one
very extensive wound on one of her hands which I have no
doubt has been caused by the knife having been drawn
through it and almost cutting it in two. James Hughes,

G, JUNE 24, 1863.

3d 11, stated that he took the prisoner in char e, and the
only excuse she gave for corarnittin such an offence was
because the prisoner and others teased her. In reply to Mr.
Knox, the officer said ho had not been able to trace where
prisoner got the knife from. The officer added that the
prisoner was committed to the sessions and sen-
tenced to six mouths' hard labour for stabbing another
woman in September last with a large white-handled
carving knife. After Mr. Knox had given her
the usual caution for prisoners going for trial,
prisoner said—l was going into my own room when the
(the prosecutrix) said she was going for some beer. I said,
" As you are going to the public-house we will has e some
rum." We went to the Horse and Groom. They were
shut up ; and afterwards to the Old Crown, which was also
shut. We then went to the corner of the street ; Ido not
know the sign of the house, and we got some rum in a
bottle, for which I paid. We carried it away with us, and
I said if the fishmonger's was open we would take some
home for supper. When we got half way down the street
I drank some of the rum, and gave her the rest ; awl as she
was doing so I struck her with the knife. I did not kick
her, neither did I put her clothes in her mouth. Both her
and her father teased me.

Mr. Knox committed prisoner for trial at the Central
Court fur the attempt at murder.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

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TIMES.—It in not improbable that the Emperor
Francis Joseph, after all his errors and misfortunes,
may leave behind him a name honoured in history.
Fifteen years ago he ascended the throne a mere boy
in ago and under the guidance of a Minister, able
and resolute, but of the most despotic instincts. He
crushed not only open treason, but the most reason-
able canstitutional demands. TllerFre few short years
have elapsed, and we now find him asidreesing
Message to a great Constitutional Council of his
Empire, and using the familiar phraseology which
all Sovereigns seem to have copied from the Royal
Speeches of England. Teue, in the meantime there
have been important events. The mighty Monarch
in whom all Conservative Governments put their
trust, and who marched his legions to suppress the
Hungarian revolt, fell in a few years after the ex-
ploit, and was only delivered by a sudden death from
witnessing the overthrow of his armies and of the
influence by which he had so long imposed on Eu-
rope. Austrian dominion, Austrian influence, several
semi-Austrian Crowns have passed away in Italy.
Every where the Court of Vienna sees Sovereigns
forced to regulate their actiuns by the wishes of
their subjects, or to prepare for a resistance more or
!ess dangerous according to the spirit of the people
or the grievances from which they suffer. The
merit at' he Emperor is that he has understood the
necessities of his time and has yielded to them ; and
let it not be said that it is no great thing for a ruler
o see what every one else sees—to gather from the
idvice of Statesmen and soldiers and Churchmen
what die nimblest of his educated subjects can
learn from his own observation or the talk of his
friends. It is unfortunately the case that Save-
reigns usually fail to see what is glaring in the
sight of the rest of mankind,—that, they hear
not the voice of the people until is swells
into the shout of revolt. It is no small
merit for the young Austrian Emperor that, brought
up in a retrograde Court and tutored by retrograde
Ministers, he has yet attained to a clearer know-
ledge of his country's needs ti; an is possessed by the
King of Prussia, a Sovereign of twice his age, and
ruling over a people who in culture, if not in genius,
are very far superior to those of the Austrian Empire.
There has seldom been a more arduous political un-
dartakieg than that of uniting the discordant and
almost hostile provinces of the Austrian Empire into
011eaSSEmbly. The Emperor's con ttitutionai leanings
have been, no doubt, encouraged by the idea that
the only way to give unity to the mass of nations and
triboi which he governs is to bring them :nio con-
tact in one Chamber, to make the interests of one
balance those of another, anti in some sense to play
them off, each figaiost the one to which it has been
traditionally opposed. That Germans, Hungarians,
Czechs, Galiciane, and Italians, so far as they tended
to fest!, would consolidate the Empire, and to far as
they retained their rivalries would increase by their
division the influence of their common head, was
perhaps the principal idea which suggested the
establishment of this Imperial Legislature. Now
that the Emperor is committed to the principle
he will, no doubt, work at the realisation of it
with all the obstinate energy which is part of his
character. Prince Schwarzenberge was not more
resolute in his plan of welding together the Austrian
federation by sheer despotic strength than are
Francis Joseph and his present advisers, inciud-
ing, it would seem, the principal members of his
family, in their design of uniting the Empire by
creating a Legislature which all the provinces shall
obey, while at the same time it is open to the influ-
ence of the Sovereign. Much progress, indeed,
appears to have been already made. Although
nothing can conciliate the inhabitants of Venetia,
who still regard themselves as Italians temporarily
kept from their allegionce by a defect in the' Treaty
of 1859,—althongh Hungary is jealous and discon-
tented as ever, yet, on the whole, a remarkable suc-
cess has been achieved, considering the slate of the
Empire and the short time the new institutions
have existed. The Emperor had no reason to be
dissatisfied with the scene which was witnessed last
week, when the second Session of the Imperial
Legislature was opened by the Archduke Charles
Louis, who read the Emperor's Message in the pre-
seece of a large array of members. These, though
they are unfortunately far from representing the
whole Empire, are yet a support to the Throne, such
as it never had when it relied solely on soldiers and
priests. In his Message the Emperor congratulates
the Chambers on the harmony with which the
Reichsrath and the Provincial Diets work together,
thus realising the Imperial principle that " the
necessary unity of the Empire may be upheld, even
though its component parts enjoy the greatest
amount of freedom and independence of action."
Then followed a passage which was heard with
great interest, as indicating the intentions of the
Emperor on the important question which is now
being discussed between the three Powers and
Russia. Whatever may be the warlike instincts of
France or of a small portion of the British public,
we are not to expect that Austria will allow her-
self to be influenced by them at this crisis. She
has a large interest in peace, and no interest at all in
raising up a Poland which would 80011 demand Galicia
of her. Any improvement of the Warsaw Government
which the policy or humanity of the Czar might sug-
gest Would be approved by Austria, and it is in the
hope of such a solution that she addresses him in
company with France and England. But she is
ready for nothing further. Those who thought that
the jealousy, not to say hatred, which has existed
between the two Powers since the Russian war might
possibly incline Austria to an offensive alliance with
France, have underrated the prudence of the Vien-
nese Court. Such at least is the impression which
the following sentence in the Emperor's Message
has produced :—" At the close of the first session of
the Reichsrath Austria was at peace with the whole
world. She still enjoys the blessings of peace, and
it will be the stedfast aim of his Majesty's Govern-
ment that she should continue uninterruptedly to
enjoy them." In ordinary times these would be
thought mere words of coarse, but Vienna under-
stands them as specially applied to the Polish ques-
tion, and is probably right in its opinion. What
revolution can be greater than that a Hapsburg
should pronounce such words as these P—" Pro-
tected by liberal institutions, the intellectual and
material development of Austria .is progressing
rapidly; her power and consideration are continu-
ally increasing." But, however strange for an Em-
peror to pen and an Archduke to read, they are
strictly true. The Emperor announces the happy
results of increased freedom and economy. The
credit of the empire and of the paper currency has
improved, and the state of the fiaauces is such that
the Government will not require the 12,000,000f1.
which were granted for the covering of the ex-
pected deficit. Alterations in the system of direct
taxation will be submitted to the judgment of the
Reichsrath. Draughts of other important laws
will also be ordered for consideration. " A com-
plete code of regulations for the administration of
the penal laws will be laid before you. In the
Criminal Courts there will be publicity, with oral
proceedings, and in those provinces in which the
thing is feasible juries will be established,
to which all the more important cases will
be submitted.' The proceedings in criminal cases
will be simplified and shortened, so that, they may
be in better keeping with the laws for the protec-
tion of the liberty of the subject." To this point has
improvement advanced in .Austria,--" trial by jury,"
"i liberty of the subject." Let not any say that the
Reichsrath is a deception, or that the Emperor is
insincere. No Sovereign who really wished to keep
despotic power in his own
:hands would pronounce
such words or propose such laws. All may not be
done at once, but it is plain that the old Austria has
passed away, never to return—that the Emperor
knows great changes to be inevitable, and wishes
to make them safe.

POST:—Anile we aro speculating on the nature
of the answer which the Russian Government will
accord to the collective notes, it is natural that the
statesmen at St. Petersburg, should be engaged in
a series of conjectures with reference to the temper
of the Powers by whom those notes were addressed.
There can be doubt that they will be guided in fram-
ing their reply by the recounts which they receive
from their diplomatists abroad of the degree to
which public opinion in foreign countries may have
been excited. Considering the present internal con-
dition of the empire, it must be the first object of
those who control its destinies to stave off all risk of
a European war, but it is possible that the tone of
the foreign prows, no less than of the Cabinets of the
Great Powers, may have lulled them into suet oecti•

rity upon the subject, that they may be induced to
trust so far to the peaceful disposition of Europe, as to
try it beyond what it will bear. We have been fres
quently reproached with cruelty towards Poland,
in exciting her population to continue an insur-
rection which looked hopeless, when we had no
intention of giving them more substantial assist-
ance than that which they might derive from
R barren sympathy; but it is as unfair to
Russia to allow her to suppose that it will
be impossible for her to force Europe into war for
the sake of Poland. All experience has shown that
the most certain way of being dragged into war is
to sot out with the loudly-expressed declaration
that under no circumstances will it be undertaken.
Thus it was that in 1853 Russia was encouraged by
the tone of the Cabinet and the press of this country
into acts which excited the public to such a pitch
that a war became inevitable, However much we
should deplore the recurrence of such a contingency,
it is as well that Russian statesmen should bear in
mind their last bitter experience, and should not
place too much reliance in the imperturbability of
spectators more or less interested in watching the fate
of their fellow-Men. In England the final appeal
must ever be to the public feeling of the great mass
of the community ; and however earnest may be the
desire of the Government to control the national
impulse, there is a point beyond which it is power.
less, and is compelled to carry out the will of the
people it represents. We do not mean it to be sup-
posed that there has been as yet any popular expres-
sion of sentiment which should justify our antici-
pating a contingency so much to be regretted as a
European war in which this country should take
part, but we do deprecate the announcements we
eccasionally see made in leading journals that any
such cootie gency is itnpeeeible. We are too any ions
to avoid drifting into war to wake any such dan-
gerous declaration ; and we warn the Russian Go-
vernment that, by a policy of savage vengeance in
Poland, and of contemptuous indifference to remon-
strances addressed to it from without, it may excite
public feeling in England to an uncontrollable
pitch. As to the motives which might impel either
France or Austria in the same direction, the re-
presentatives of Russia in Paris or Vienna are
as welt qualified as we are to instruct their
Government upon the subject. They can estimate
at its true value the force of French public opinion
and the nature of those political considerations
which may influence the Emperor towards an active
intervention. They can perhaps penetrate farther
than we can into the views of Austrian statesmen,
and judge of their tendencies in the same direction.
We would merely take the opportunity of impress-
ing upon the Cabinet at St. Petersburg, while con-
cocting their answer to the notes now under their
consideration, not to overtax the patience and good
nature of Europe if they desire as earnestly as we do
the pacific solution of the Polish question. The fact
that the Polish debate has been postponed until the
arrival of the answer from St. Petersburg, is most
fortunate in this respect, that it will force the Rus-
sian Government to respond without delay if they
desire to prevent a very loud and angry expression
of opinion in the House of Commons. Had the de-
bate already taken place those opinions might still
have been expressed, but the storm would have
blown over, and Prince Gortschakoff might have
taken his time. As it is, the storm is brewing, and
will increase in violence just in proportion as it is
pent up. Every day new facts come out to add to
the cenibuetible materials already collected. In our
impression of yesterday we published the original
instructions issued by the Government of the Czar to
General Mouravieff, upon the appointment of that
officer to the chief military command in the revolted
Polish provinces, in which, says his Imperial
"his excellency should take every oppor-
tunity of acquainting the peasants with the paternal
intentions of the Czar towards them, and or demon-
strating that the landowners are their enemies and
oppressors. if his excellency considers it ad-
visable, he can also furnish arms to those
among the peasants who are attached to the
Czar and to Russia." The effect of arming a peasant
after you have instructed him to consider his master
as his enemy and oppressor it is not difficult to
imagine. How are veto believe the denial by the
Russian Government of atrocities committed by the
peasantry, when we have this proof of the Imperial
instigation ? Again," his excellency should oppose
certain demonstrations of the women, and for their
hindrance will even adopt severe measures against
them." It is true that the punishment of the knout
is abolished in Russia, but the punishment of
flogging with other instruments than those made of
thongs of sharp leather is in full force; and when
the Government denies the truth of the proclama-
tion attributed to Mouravieff, it may do so con-
scientiously so far as the knout is concerned; but we
should be glad to know what the severe measures
alluded to by the Emperor and enforced by Mount.
vieff are if one of 'them is not the old established
punishment of flogging. However, we do not re-
quire to go into the region of conjewure to find
fresh instances of Russian barbarity and treachery.
Lord Palmerston told the House an anecdote on
Monday night to which we might venture to point
the moral. It would seem that near Wilna one
hundred and twenty Polish insurgents, finding
themselves surrounded, laid down their arms and
surrendered as prisoners of war, when ninety of
them were slaughtered then and there by order of
the Russian officer commanding. How are we to
expect, in the face of such au experience that the
Poles can trust in any armistice? What guarantee
can Rnssia offer the. Powers that the act of treachery
perpetrated by the Russian officer en a small scale
might not be applied to the nation at large when
once it had consented to rely on Russian honour ?
So far, then, as public opinion is concerned the
sooner the reply is sent from St. Petersburg and
the debate comes on the better for Russia, for every
day that passes only makes the case against her
stronger.

HERALD.—The telegraphic accounts from America
have for some time past been pointing to a result
which is anything but encouraging to those who,
presuming on the certain triumph of the Northerners
in the present campaign, have bid us prepare for
the reconstruction of the broken Union, the realisa-
tion of the dream of a united America. Bit by bit
the scheme has broken down, and the edifice faded
before our eyes like an unsubstantial pageant. The
plot was well imagined. A series of vigorous and
well-directed attacks being levelled against various
exposed positions of the Confederacy at nearly the
same time, there seemed a fair chance that by divid-
ing the forces of the South they might all prove suc-
cessful, while it appeared inevitable that one at least
of these determined assaults would carry all opposi-
tion before it, and by breaching the fortress, pave
the way fbr the full accomplishment of the pro-
gramme. The territory at present defended by the
Southern armies may be said to bo three-cornered,
and each of these corners is more or less open to
attack. One of them is in Virginia, and is repre-
sented by Fredericksburg, on the Rappahannock.
Another is on the Atlantic seaboard, where Charles.
ton and Mobile constitute the chief points of con-
tact between th© Confederacy and the Eastern world.
The third is on the Mississippi, where Vicksburg and
Port Hudson, with the stretch of river bets een them,
represent the claim of the South to the territories of
the far West, and the right of the South to command
the communications between the North-West and the
Gulf of Mexico. These positions have been manfully
held by the Southern chivalry. It is already mat-
ter of history how the Northern squadron of iron-
clads dashed itself in vain against the forts of
Charleston, and retired discomfited from the
defences of the Mobile River. The Northern army
has been beaten back disastrously in its headlong
onset against the defenders of Richmond. Two of
the angles of this position of strength having been
thus assailed in vain, it remained to be seen
what impression could be produced by a concentra-
tion of land and naval force against the positions in
the west. The iron squadron succeeded in forcing
the river, and rode up and down insultingly between
Vicksburg and Port Hudson. One powerful and
seemingly irresistible army crossed the river under
their protection, and fought its way onward till it
arrived beneath the walls of Vicksburg, with a far
better prospect of success than the expedition which
so rashly attempted the same enterprise last year.
Another army, after ravaging the fertile country of
Western Louisiana, crossed the river ton, and pro-
ceeded to assault Port Hudson, Generals Grant
and Banks have been equally unfortunate. After
having had the cup of Tantalus presented to their
lips, it has been rudely snatched away from them
just as they were counting upon its enjoyment. The
only object which can excuse the sacrifices of this
campaign is the capture of Vicksburg and Port
Hudson, one or both of them. The fall of either
would in all probability involve the surrender of the
other. Bet Grant, successful up to that point, has
failed egregiously before Vicksburg. Banks, boas t-
ing of his numberless victories, finds that he can
make no impression on Port Hudson. When Grant
retires from Vicksburg his other successes will be
found as bitter and as unsubstantial as the apples
of Sodom. When Banks retreats to New Orleans
he will leave behind him scarcely a record of his
victories. The country of the Bayou Teche has
been already re occupied by the Confederates.
The country between Jackson and Vicksburg, as
far as the Black River, is swarming with
Southern batialions, which are gradually closing in
on the rear of Grant. The Federals here are the
besieged instead of the besiegers. There is news of
a Southern division at Milikeri's, Bend, 20 miles
above Vicksburg, if so it may soon place iu danger
the communications of Grant by the x szoo River.
‘r
There are Confederate troops below Vicksburg, be-
tween Grant and Warrenton ; Jbbnatone is grade-
ally accumulating hie forces behind him, and Pem.
berton is well able to bold out in front. The position
of Gen. Grant and his army is already one of inarni-

cent peril. The attack upon Port Hudson on May
27 by the troops of Geo. Banks seems to have been
characterised by as much impetuosity, to have re-
sulted in a failure as complete, as that of Grant's
army upon Vicksburg about the same time. NI
meet here with a melancholy episode in the fate of
a negro regiment of slaves, who have been snetched
front servitude and hounded against their masters
by the cruel policy of the North. Thesa negroes
were sent on to storm the alm astimpregnable defences
of a forlorn hope. The poor demi-savage sprang on
like tigers, gave no quarter, received none, and when
dying fought with their teeth in a frenzy of despair.
Six hundred out of 800 of the Second Louisiana
blacks were put to the sword, 200 escaped by
ing over the battlements. The negroes in arms are
treated by the Southerners as traitors, every one
of them taken alive being immediateiy hanged•
We can hardly find fault with these persecuted
whites of the South for endeavouring, by sharp
and stern measures, to avert from their country
and their homes the horrors of a servile war.
The news which we expect every day of the
raising of the siege of Vicksburg, and the precipi-
tate retirement from before Port Hudson of the
army which has lost one of its leaders in the death
of General Sherman will complete the picture which
we have long since drawn by ant:cipation of the
utter failure of the Federal campaign of 1863.
Triumphant on all quarters against an insolent
enemy who bad been reckoning on the overthrow
and dividing the spoils of the South, the Confederal!)
leaders may not rest content with a defensive atti-
tude, but may think that their turn is come to as-
sumo the aggressive, and act upon the suggestion
of. their countrymen that it would boa well to trans'
ter the war to Northern soil. An invasion of
Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio would bring the
eYII:3 of war more home to the feelings aed.
cou-
ecianees at the men of the North. It would be their
fields now that would be wasted ; their villages that
would be burned ; their hearths that would be made
desolate. Such an invasion would add to the disaffec-
tion that has already placed the States of the North-
West in an attitude of hostility to the Government ;
it would suggest a with for peace even to the trucu-
lent and unfeeling democracy of New England.
There seems every reason to suppose that Gen. Lee
is preparing for an advance upon Washington or an
invasion of Maryland. He is said to have received
such large reinforcements that his army is nog
far more than a match for that army of Hooker's
which was defeated at Chancellorsville. A part of
Lee's army has been moved to Culpepper, between
the Rappahannock and the Rapidan, Gen. Stuart
being there with a strong force of cavalry. A Fede-
ral reconnoisance, under Pleasanton, was pushed
across rifle Rapnahannnek on Tuesday, June 9, as
Beverley's and Kelly's Fords, north of Culpepper,
but had to recross in haste after a smart engagement,
in which it was very severely handled. Far to the
north, at Leesburg, a party of Confederate cavalry
has crossed the Potomac and terrified the inhabi-
tants of the town of Poolesville, in Maryland. If
any considerable portion of Lee's army should march
in this direction, it will necessitate the hasty retreat
of Gen. Rooker upon Washington, or the capital of
the old Union, attacked in the rear, would become
an easy prey to the Southern invaders. The tidings
from America, however satisfactory to us, are be-
coming almost monotonous in their tenor. On the
part of the nation with which our Government will
persist in maintaining the most cordial relations,
and addresses as if it were sole mistress and at biter
of the destinies of America, Lhese tidings tell us of
one defeat after another, of disappointment heaped
on disappointment. We hear of victory after vic-
tory won by the great people of which diplomatists
take no more notice than if they lived in Central
Africa near the Mountains of the Moon, a nation
which having passed through so long on ordeal,
and for nearly three years maintaining its freedom
by the sword, has not only a claim to our sympattlY,
but a right to demand our recognition of the fact
of its existence.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LEEDS-TUESDAY.

The weather here is splendid. Today there was e
small supply of fresh English and foreign wheat, which
sold at about the rates of the previous week. Spring corn
firm.

LYNN—TUESDAY.
Wheat has shot into ear in this neighbourhood, and is
looking most luxuriant. Barley, oats, and beans also look
very satisfactory.

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White . 45s to 50s I Barley. .'....32s to 34s
Red .. 44s to 45s I Grinding ..26s to :30s
Beaus .368 to 38s I Oats..
New —s to —s I Peas —s to --3

MARKET HARBOROUGH—TUESDAY.
White wheat, 46s to sis ; red, 42s to 46s per 36 stone.
Malting barley at 33s to 37s per qr.; grinding, 27s to 30s
per 30st, Oats, old, 26s to 275; new, 24s to 28s per 2'l
st. ; beans, 37s to 445, per qr.

LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY.
At our market to-day there was a thin attendance both
of millers and dealers, and wheat experienced a slow sale,
at a decline of 2d per cental from the prices of Tuesday last.
Flour met only a moderate sale, at a decline of Gd pet barl.
Oats and oatmeal were at late quotations. Beans rather
lower again, about 9d to Is per qr decline on the week.
Barley and peas only saleable in retail. Indian corn Was
Gd decline on the prices of last week.

SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY.
There has been a fair business doing in wheat to-day
Last week's prices were taken for most articles.
Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels 16s Od to 17s °1:1
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Grindinc, barley, per qr 3os Od to 3250
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Flour, 1s 7d to 2e 2d per stone.

MELTON MOWBRAY_TUESDAY.
The following were the currencies :—New white wheat!
fiOs Od to 63s Od ; new red, 405,:,0d to 49s per stone!
beans, 37s to 43s for old; new sorts, 34s to 59s per 38 st: 1
for
barley, 368 to 38s for malting, and 27s to 29s per V'
grinding; new oats, 21s to 27s Od per 24 stone.