The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

be broken into three or four divisions and incorpc,
rated with other armies in the field, and that as a
separate army it should cease to exist. The President
fears to take such a step, and Gen. Burnside, burn-
ing under a sense of shame at his stupendous failure
at Fredericksburg, has asked for and obtained per-
mission from Mr. Lincoln to move the remnant of
his once noble host across the Rappahannock to make
a second attempt upon the Confederate position. The
story is almost incredible, but is so positively asserted
by people who are known to be behind the scenes
that belief or disbelief is equally difficult. The
telegraphic despatches are of a nature to lead the
public to suppose that something is going on in that
direction, and, if the reports that are in circulation
be true, it is possible that Gen. Burnside will at
last see Richmond, but not as a conqueror, probably
only as a prisoner of war.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.

The traffic receipts of railwa)sin the United Kingdom
amounted for the week ending the 24th January, on 10,588
miles, to £485,456, and for the corresponding week of last
year, on 10,193 miles, to £458,575, showing an increase of
395 miles, and of £26,581 in the receipts. The gross receipts
on the following 14 railways amounted in the aggregate, on
7,268 miles, to £382,996; and for the corresponding week
of 1862, on 7,008 miles, to £360,870, showing an increase
of 260 miles, and of £22,126 in the receipts. The increase
on the Caledonian amounted to £411; on the Great Eastern
to £1,306 ; on the Great Northern to £757 ; on the Great
Southern and Western to £575 ; on the Great Western to
£1,986 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to £1,216 ; on the
London and North Western to £4,994; on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast to £1,121; on the London and
South Western to £2,699 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire to £757; on the Midland to £2,253; on
the North British to £1,470; on the North Eastern to
£1,292 ; and on the South Eastern to £1,289 ; total, £22,126
The goods and mineral traffic on those lines amounted to
£220,543, and for the corresponding week of 1862 to
£205,654, showing an increase of £14,898. The recepts for
passengers, parcels, &c., amounted to £162,453, against
£155,225, showing an increase of £7,228. The traffic re-
ceipt& on 65 other lines amounted, on 3,320 miles, to
£102,460, and for the corresponding week of last year, on
3,185 miles, to £97,705, showing an increase of 135 miles,
and of £4,755 in the receipts. The total receipts of the
past week show a decrease of £1,414 as compared with those
of the preceding week, ending the 17th inst.
Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways.
1863. 1862. 1863. 1862.
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 1,790 1,735
Belfast and County Down— 49 49 566 500
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,175 1,67:1
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 167 5,136 5,051

Caledonian 230 230 16:064 15,653
Cockermouth & 'Workington Bl si 211 298
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 315 325
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 64 134 167
Cork and Youghal . 324 324 522 209
Cornwall 531 53/ 1,067 979
Deeside l7
_.. 17 218 226
....

Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,252 1,289
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,239 1,386
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 4B& 48& 1,282 1,127
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,002 1,100
Edinburgh and Qlasgow l69} 169} 6,514 6,887
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 51 2,367 2,276
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union - 644 644 26,211 24,905
Great Northern 330 330 25,200 24,443
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,669 1,606
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 45} 414 297
'at Southn. &Westn.(lrlnd.) 329 329 7,716 7,141
Great Western 992 964 k 50,017 48,031
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 73& 734 789 653
Irish North-Western 145 130 1,550 1.414
Irish South-Eastern 25 25 271 189
Lancashire & Yorkshire 39 395 20,894 29,678
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 2 26 100 126
Llanelly 4 46 471 442
London & North-Western ... 11791 110 78,123 73,129
London and Blackwall 5 5t 1,640 1,319
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast
London, Chatham, & Dover 72} 721 2,598 1,545
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Shefaeld, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9} 0-1 1,057 1,011
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,354 1,071
Metropolitan - 2,474 -
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630 614} 38,286 36,027
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 249i 192 k 4,313 4,050
Monkland 7l 714 1,439 1,503
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,040 2,332
North British, Edin., Perth

and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Can 8941 867+ 37,853 36,561
North London 9 9 3,049 2,702
North Staffordshire 254 252 7,332 6,369
Oswestry and Newton..
Rhymney l9+ 19} 741 868
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52 1,700 1,953
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern 132 132 4,107 4,458
Somerset and Dorset 39+ 258
South Devon 7s+ 75+ 2,863 2,725
South-Eastern. .. 306 306 16,885 15,596
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Va1e................_ 54 54 4,337 5,159
Ulster 5l 51 ;1,611 1,603

,
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath__ 25,i 29 1,712 2,055

Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31395 239
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 )j 961
West Cornwall 27i 27i 636 648
_

W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail 39 29 2,973 3,801
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 580 444
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 823 638
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 718 671

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,008 884
Austrian B2B 828 26,033 29,935
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 261 245 231
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6ll 1614 1,801 2,512
Detroit and 31ilwaukie lB5 185 3,659 3,091
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France lO7B 1060 43,758 16,083
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090 19,551 18,964
Great Indian Peninsula 495 4374 7,382 5,609
Great Luxembourg 134 134 3,690 2,938
Great Western of Canada 345 345 13,135 12,763
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 429 435 14,608 11,345
Northern of Canada ... .....
Northern of France 7Ol 680 48,558 46,034
Norwegian Trunk -
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354 107,333 121,215
Paris and Orleans 1340 1204 53,541 49,142
Pernambuco 7l -- 1,067 -
Royal Danish 69 69 432 360
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,268 1,255
South Austrian
Southern of France
Welland -
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 758 758 32,444 32,152

ton to subscribe ; Cleveland, to extend the line for comple-
tion of works and to raise £75,000; Cockermouth and Work-
ington, for new works and additional capital; Aberystwith
and Welsh Coast, for further lines in the district and to raise
£240,000; Mid-Wales, to raise a further sum of £200,000 to
carry out the works ; Peterborough, Wisbeach, and Sutton,
for a railway between these places, at an estimated cost of
£lBO,OOO. The non-compliance with the standing orders
included the bills of Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurcb,
for divers deviations and extensions, and to raise £240,000 ;
Inverness and Perth Junction for deviations and purchase
of additional lands; 'Whitford and Milford Haven for a
line from the South Wales at Whitland to Begally and
Pembroke, and to raise £240,000 by new shares. The Bill
of the Lytham and Preston Railway was withdrawn.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE---Yesterday.

LAMBETH—COMMITMENT OP A. NOTORIOUS COINER.
—George Vempiny, a hunchback deformed little fellow, but
one of the most ingenious manufacturers of base coin in
Europe, was brought up for final examination.
From the testimony of Inspector Brannan, of the Mint
office, and other witnesses, it appeared that the prisoner was
apprehended at his lodgings in Norfolk-place, Church-street,
Lambeth,while in the very act of manufacturing base coin,
and many of the pieces found on a table by his side were
quite hot. Moulds for the manufacture of sovereigns, half
sovereigns, half-crowns, florins, and shillings were found,
and in fact, all necessaries to carry on an extensive manu-
facture of counterfeit coin, and the prisoner was represented
to be the most iagenious manufacturer of base coin in Eng-
land. One hundred and twenty pieces, consisting of sove-
reigns, half-sovereigns, half-crowns, florins, and shillings
were produced, and the excellence of their manufacturebore
ample testimony of the prisoner's skill. When Mr. Brannan
on entering the room pronounced himself to be an officer,
the prisoner replied, " All right, Mr. Brannan ; you'll find
all you want here." On the officer expressing his surprise
that the punishments which he had endured had not deter-
red him from the continuance of his unlawful practice, the
prisoner said, " I don't wonder, Mr. Brannan, at your talk-
ing so. I had 10 years once, and you and Sergeant Loom
were in it ; but they did not send me out of the country ;
they kept me for five years at Portsmouth, and then dis-
charged me."
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND
NOTES.—A tall, matronly-looking woman, with florid com-
plexion and mild features, who gave the name of Susan
Whitbread, but refused her address, was charged with com-
plicity in uttering two forged Bank of England notes.
The prisoner has been repeatedly remanded upon one
charge, namely, that of having obtained change of a £lO
note, after deduction of a small amount for purchases, from
Mr. Sutton, landlord of the Royal Cricketers public-house,
in Old Ford, Bow, on the 28th of December last, under a
plausible pretext that her mistress, whom she stated to be a
Mrs. Farrant, at 34, Bedford-terrace, in the same neigh-
bourhood, had not a smaller sum, and that, being Sunday,
she must trouble him for credit unless he could cash the
note for her, which he did, having some slight knowldge
that a customer named Farrant so resided. In due course
the note was paid away, but soon returned to Mr. Sutton
stamped "Forged." Mrs. Farrant and her servant had de-
camped. The former could not be found, but the prisoner,
on being accidentally met with in the Mile-end-road, was
taken into custody after considerable resistance.

Mr. temp, the barrister, instructed by Mr. Osborne, of
the Old Jewry, now attended to defend the accused, and a
second charge was preferred, in which it was sworn that the
prisoner passed a £lO note to Mr. Thos. Lewis, upholsterer,
Eldon-street, Finsbury, on the 2d inst., in payment for a
bedstead, and received £7 2s. change. This purchase was
sent,;by her d irection, toWelling ton-street, C ity-road, but the
owner was unknown there, and it was taken back to Mr.
Lewis. Meanwhile the note passed into the hands of Mr.
Ellison, a publican, in Finsbury; then to Messrs. Booth.
the distillers, and four days afterwards Mr. Lewis had it
returned to him, embellished with the stamp, " forged."
Mr. Kemp, in a severe cross-examination, could not suc-
ceed in shaking the testimony of the witnesses with respect
to identity in the second case, but yet strongly contended
that they were mistaken, and at the same time urged that
the woman had been the dupe of others in the former trans-
action. In fact, he said, he had a very good answer to both
charges.

Inspector Brecknell, G division,who has the conducting of
the case, said that in the house 34, Bedford-terrace,he found
communications from prisoners in various gaols addressed to
the late occupants, and it was manifest that a well-organised
system bad been carried on there. Another £lO note exactly
similar in its description to the two in question was in his
possession, but the prisoner could not be identified with re-
gard to that.
An agent, who let the house to the Farrants, said prisoner
had been introduced to him by Mrs. F. as her friend, not
servant, and a number of men and women were always there.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

THAMES..--ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF A PAWNBROXER.—
Mr. French, of the firm of Ogilvie and French, pawnbrokers,
of No. 207, High-street, Poplar, appeared before Mr. Selfe to
answer a summons which charged him with having unlaw-
fully received and taken in pawn of and from Edmund Jas.
Hoy, a person apparently under the age of 16 years, two
petticoats of and belonging to Edmund James George Hoy.
Edmund James Hoy, a boy, said he would be 12 years of
age next birthday, and that the week before last he took
two petticoats belonging to his mother, and without her
leave, to Messrs. French and Ogilvie's shop. A young man
took in the petticoats, and lent him one shilling upon them.
He had sinco lost the duplicate.

Mr. Selfe—No, you did not, sir. Tell me directly what
you did with the ticket.
Witness—l tore it up, sir.

Mr. Selfe—What do you mean by telling lies ? You have
robbed your parents, and aro now telling lies about it. Did
the pawnbroker ask you any questions ?
The Boy—lt was a young man, sir, who lent me the
shilling, and he asked me no questions at all.

Mr. French, in defence, said he had no knowledge what-
ever of the circumstances. One of his assistants had taken
in the pledge of the boy without his knowledge or consent.
He was very sorry that such an irregularity occurred.
Matilda Hoy, the mother of the boy, said he was under
12 years of age, and in consequence of what he said she went
to the shop of French and Ogilvie, and a young man there
gave her a form of declaration, stating that the duplicate
was lost, She had not declared to it, but she brought the
form to that Court, and took out a summons.
Mr. Selfe--Where is the young man who received the
pledge and made out the form of declaration.
Mr. French—l left him in the shop.
Mr. Selfe—Tho sooner 'you bring him here the better.
Fetch the parcel, the ticket attached to it, and the young
man. The case is adjourned for an hour.
When the case was re-heard, Arthur Robinson, assistant
to French and Ogilvie, appeared, and his name was inserted
in the summons, and his employer's name struck out. The
assistant stated in defence of his conduct that the boy said
his mother had directed him to pawn the two petticoats.
He asked him where ho lived and his name.

---Mr.
isnesiofnys,
eEDidyou ask that little boy his age ?
Robinson—Yes,
I did ; and he said he was 16.
Here it may be necessary to state the boy is very small of
his age, and really did not look more than 10 years old.
Mr. Selfe—And you really believed him when he said he
was 16 ?

I did. (Laughter, and Oh, oh.)
Mr.
I will be cleared if people are not
quiet. The Assistant
—i
notiasiltlrY
e court will
matter. You (the assistant)
have put down the mother's name on the form of declara-
tion, which purports to contain an exact copy of the original
memorandum or ticket of which the boy had the duplicate,
and you did so because you knew that no magistrate here
would sign the declaration that the ticket was lost if a boy
presented it. You have told a lie.

The assistant said he had asked every question required,
and received satisfactory answers.

Mr. Selfe said the assistant had taleen in a pledge of a boy
apparently under 16 years of age, which was a violation of
the law, and then filled up a false declaration, which he gave
to Mrs. Hoy to hookvvink the magistrate. It was a most
scandalous proceeding—a wicked thing altogether. The boy
had robbed his mother, and the pawnbroker's shop afforded
him ready facility for disposing of the plunder. Nothing
tended more to the encouragement of crime than receiving
stolen property of children. He fined the assistant £3, and
if either of his employers bad taken in the pledge the penalty
would have been £5.
The money was paid.

GREENWICH— -THE RIGHTS OF LICENSED VICTD A.L-
LEns.—Mr. Thos. G. Doust, landlord of the Ship and Sailor
public-house, Greenwich, appeared to summonses, at the
instance of the police, charging him with allowing card-
playing in his house, and also prostitutes to assemble therein.
Mr. Carttar appeared for the defendant.
Sergeant Wright, 23 R, said that at a quarter to 2 on the
morning of the 22d inst., he visited the defendant's house,
and in front of the bar found 12 prostitutes, 6 of whom were
partaking of refreshment. He afterwards proceeded upstairs,
and in a back room which he entered he saw the defendant
and six other persons sitting at a table playing at cards,
money being on the table opposite the defendant. On speak-
ing to the defendant respecting the females he found in the
house, he said they had taken advantage of his absence from
the bar to be there.

...,
Mr. Traill inquired the general character of the house.
Inspector Ellis replied it was a house seldom closed until
3 o'clock in the morning, and that the persons then leaving
had often to be locked up, it being impossible to prevent dig.,
turbances in the streets.
Mr. Carttar said he would not attempt to deny the ser-
geant's statement as to what he saw on the morning in ques-
tion. It was true the house was open, the fact Iveing that it
with the Thames, who had to go o
was near the waterside, and was resorted to by persons con-
nectedthe
night
to
meet
vessels. With rest' ect to the charge of
card-playing, the defendant was 4. :small private room
with his two brothers and fo'a ‘aatermen, merely for the
purpose of amusement, a- d -
, r watermen,
admitting that the cha-
racter of the whole •-• • 4: even
in the house at the time
1:4:c at all hours of
was that spoken • "
no disturbance,
•ouch byas they werer making
the defer:Aaut
tended, inas• „,__,"'
justified in turning
would noty have been
there Out, Mr. Mau4field at the ,Daryl© bone bone Police-court,
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dt
thee sweeTeant he (Mr. Carttar) con-

a few days since, having decided that a publican, who had
given a man into custody for breaking glass while being
turned out of the house and refused to be served because
he was a " bad character," had no right to have turned
the man out of the house unless he knew him to be "a
thief." It was not shown that any one of the women had
ever been convicted of felony, and he had also to urge
that the defendant had kept the house for six years, and
had never before been summoned.

Mr. Traill said there was no objection to defendant keep-
ing his house open to the hour stated, so long as it was pro-
perly conducted. The defendant had a perfect right to have
a private party in his house, and to play at cards, so long as
it was shown that such play was not general, and resorted to
by customers for the purpose of gambling. He (Mr. Traill)
was not disposed to look seriously at this part of the charge
against defendant, but tke allowing of prostitutes to resort
to the house, as stated, was very reprehensible, and could
not be permitted, otherwise it would be impossible for the
police to perform their duty in keeping the streets from
disturbance during the night. He should now order the
defendant to pay the cost of the EUMM snses, which would
stand over for a month, to allow of the police making a re-
port as to the future conduct of the house.
The defendant paid the money, and left the court.

WANDSWORTH.—THE ALLEGED MURDER AT NINE
ELmS.—Mr. Dayman proceeded with the charge against
Samuel Hillier, a carman in the service of Mr. Bryant, a
coal merchant at Nine Elms, for causing the death of Chas.
Champion, a carman in the employ of Mr. Hunt, a contrac-
tor, also at Nine Elms, who died in St. Thomas's Hospital
from injuries to his spine, the cause of which has not yet
been explained.
Inspector Abrook, who took the prisoner into custody,
informed his worship that a witness he had summoned was
present.
Charles Clark was then examined. He said he was a
carman in the employ of Mr. Wood, of Old Change, City.
Ho knew the prisoner by sight about Vauxhall. He recol-
lected the night in question. He was at the stables at the
rear of the Nine Elms Tavern, assisting a friend named
Jenkins. He saw the deceased standing at the back of the
tavern about half-past seven o'clock. There was some
person with him, but witness did not take notice of the
man. It was dark, and he merely saw the back of the de-
ceased. About ct quarter of an hour after wards he was
called out of the stable, and found the deceased lying on
the ground, about half a dozen yards off. The witness
added that he heard no noise; all was quiet. Jenkins was
sober.

Inspector Abrook said Appleford, who first found the de-
ceased, told the coroner that Jenkins was " beery."
The witness Clark said he had not seen the prisoner that
night.
Mr. Wilson, who again defended the prisoner, stated that
on Monday last the jury, after several adjournments, re-
turned an open verdict, that the deceased died from mortal
wounds, but there was no evidence to show by whom caused.
Mr. Dayman said the evidence of Clark rather threw the
case back than otherwise, and the only way to reconcile the
evidence was, that the deceased must have strayed from
where he met with the injuries, and had fallen where he
was found.

Mr. Wilson said a suggestion was thrown out before the
coroner that the deceased, if he had been maltreated, was
carried to the place where he was found.
Mr. Dayman thought there was not sufficient evidence to
detain the prisoner, and he therefore discharged him.
The widow of the deceased was then called in, and
his worship ordered her to receive a sovereign from the
poor-box.

THE LEICESTERSHIRE TRAGEDY.

GREAT DALEY, Friday.

The inquiry touching the death of the man named
William Harvey, who was shot at the farm-house of Mr.
Thomas Flavell, Ashby Lodge, Ashby Folville, on Sunday
last, was resumed at eleven o'clock this day (Friday), at
the Royal Oak public-house, Great Dalby (a village three
and a half miles from Melton, and about three miles distant
from the scene of the tragedy), before Mr. E. H. M. Clarke,
one of the coroners for Leicestershire.

The proceedings commenced with the reading over of
the depositions taken at the opening of the inquest at Ashby
Folville on Monday, when Mr. Flavell spoke as to the man
ner in which he found the body of the deceased on his re-
turn from church. The witness loaded the gun on the 23d
November with No. 4 shot, and he kept it in his bedroom
until within ten days back, in consequence of the reports
about robbers. The prisoner neglected his work, but had
been on friendly terms with the deceased.
Mr. N. Whitchurch, surgeon, spoke to the cause of
death, which arose from a gun-shot wound under the right
ear, of a somewhat oval nature, 1 inches long and 1 inch
across. It was surrounded by a black charred circle of 2
inches in diameter, and the hair was singed. He probed
the wound with his finger, and found a small particle of
leather and some shot corn. His finger passed directly to
the spine, which was fractured. Mad since made a post-
mortem examination, and found that the shot corn had
passed directly under the second cervical vertebra, fractur-
ing it into many pieces, destroying the spinal marrow, and
cutting the carotid artery and jugular vein on that side of
the neck. He was convinced that death was immediate,
and that the muzzle of the weapon was very near the neck
of the deceased.

Police-constable Isaac Foster stated that he went to the
house, and saw the deceased. He found two letters before
the deceased, which he produced; also a Bible near to the
deceased's head on the table, and the gun, which had been
recently discharged. Prisoner was missing, together with
his boots and coat. He gave information to Sergeant Platts.
Mr. Flavell, recalled, said—The inketand produced is
mine. I did not find it in the place where I left it.
By a Juror—l have no reason to believe that there is any
ground for a report of jealousy existing between the de-
ceased and the prisoner in regard to a sweetheart.
In reply to a Juryman, the witness said the deceased had
his watch on him on Sunday morning.

This was the whole of the evidence for the prosecution,
and the prisoner, after being duly cautioned as to whether
he had anything to say, replied—." I have nothing to say."
The Coroner then summed up the evidence, and the jury
were left at 1.25, and at 1.40 they returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder" against the prisoner, who was conveyed
to Leicester Gaol the same night to await his trial at the
Spring Assizes.

Prisoner was not in the slightest way affected by the de-
cision.

RECENT WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Right Hon. Charlotte, Dowager
Countess of Ashburnham, late of Southwood Lodge,
St.Lawrence,Ramsgate, and Eaton-square, London,
was proved in the principal registry, and the per-
sonalty sworn under £12,000. The executors no-
minated are Sir Henry Percy Gordon, Bart., and
Lady Elizabeth Sophia Ashburnham, the daughter.
The testatrix, who attained to a great age, was the
daughter of the first Earl of Beverley. Her lady-
ship married, in 1795, George, third Earl of Ash-
burnham, K.G. The will was executed in 1854,
and her ladyship disposes of her freehold residence
at Ramsgate to her daughter, Lady Elizabeth, and
on her decease to her other daughters for their re-
spective lives, and then devises the estate of South-
wood Lodge to the children of her daughter, Lady
Wodehonse, absolutely. To her son, Lieutenant-
General the Hon. Thomas Ashburnham, C. 8., a
legacy of £l,OOO is bequeathed, and to her daughter,
Lady Wodebouse, a like sum of £l,OOO, in addi-
tion to her marriage portion. The remainder of
her property is left equally amongst her unmarried
daughters.

The will of Gen. Sir Philip Bainbrigge, K.C.8.,
of St. Margaret's, Tichfield, Southampton, was
proved in the London Court on the Bth inst. The
executors and trustees therein appointed are Lady
Bainbrigge, his relict; his sons, Colonel Philip J.
Bainbrigge and the Rev. John H. Bainbrigge, 8.A.;
and his son-in-law, Franklin Lushington, Esq., C.B.
This gallant general officer was colonel of the 26th
Regiment, or Cameronians, and had seen much
active military service, and won many badges of
distinction. Sir Philip attained to the age of 76.
His will bears date November last, and is very
brief. The testator directs that the income of Lady
Bainbrigge shall be increased to £3,000 a-year,
which is to be in addition to the pension of £l2O
coming to her ladyship as a general officer's
widow,
and that his personal property shall be divided into
seven equal parts amongst his seven children, three
sons and four daughters.
The will of Mr. Francis Fox, of Tottenham, Mid-
dlesex, was proved in London, on the 2d inst., under
£60,000 personalty, by the affirmation of the execu-
tors, namely, Francis Edward Fox, the son ; George
Fox (the brother), of Devon, banker; and the tes•
tatory cousins, Samuel Fox, of Tottenham, and
William Ball, of Gienrothay. The will was made
in November, 1860, whereby the testator disposed
of his shares in the London and North-Western
Railway, and all his furniture, wine, and other
effects to his daughter, Mary Jane Fox, leaving to
her an equal share with his son in the real estate,
and dividing between them the residue of the per-
sonalty. To his (the testator's) brother, George
Fox, he leaves a legacy of £3,000 ; and there are
several legacies to relatives and friends, as well
as to his servants, proportioned to their length of
servitude.

Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
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TIMES.-It is well known that within the last
few weeks great efforts have been made in this
country to obtain demonstrations in favour of the
Federal cause. It is said, probably wtth truth, that
agents of the Northern Government, provided with
funds from America, have been at work on the
familiar business of agitation, in order to restore
their discredited party at home by making it ap-
pear that English opinion supports them in their
acts. But, wherever the agitators come from, they
have been especially busy for the last two months.
It has been promised that the real sentiments of
Englishmen should at last be made known. If
meetings could be organised, if the subject could be
properly discussed, and public opinion set free from
a Press which misrepresented it, then America might
see that the feelings and the judgment of the old
country were with her in her noble crusade for the
freedom of the negro. The result of the great move-
ment was given in this journal yesterday. For weeks
it has been announced that there was to be a " mon-
ster demonstration" in Lcndon in favour of the
North. Provincial meetings had been already held,
and had been most provokingly avoided by any one
whose opinion was of the slightest importance. But
in London better luck might be hoped for. This is
a great metropolis, and on the 29th January, a week
before the meeting of Parliament, it must be full of
persons of considerable eminence and of all shades of i
opinion. The most distinguished names of a coun-
try
where freedom of thought is carried into eccen-
tricity were sure to be within reach of the Emanci
pation Society's circulars and and advertisements.
What doubt, then, what an imposing meeting, at-
tended by men of genius, of high attainments, of
great social position, of political renown, would bear
witness to the interest with which large and influ-
ential sections of English society follow the pro-
gress of Mr. Lincoln's policy ? If even what is called
the world—the frivolous, unthinking people who
take their opinions from the Press, who dislike Yan-
kees for their pertness and boasting, and admire Lee
and Jackson for their unexampled heroism,—if even
jealous politicians or illiberal soldiers stood apart,
surely there would be enough of the more original
thinkers to fill a platform ? More than this, in
the centre of this great capita], with its hundreds
of churches, in the neighbourhood of men who have
spent their lives in advocating every charitable
cause, it might have been thought that a meeting
professedly in favour of Negro Emancipation
would not have wanted names of eminence.
After weeks of preparation the meeting took
place the day before yesterday. The speakers were
a minor novelist and two or three Dissenting
ministers, who seem to be of the usual intellectual
calibre. Not one man whose opinion the country
would listen to on any political subject, not one
statesman, not one person endowed with genius,
however self-willed and erratic; no representative of
the Peerage, only one of the House of Commons,
not one of the Church, or the gentry, or the com-
mercial world—was found to stand on that platform
and make himself responsible for Mr. Lincoln's pro-
clamation. Of the eminent men who in past years
have struggled, and will still struggle on for years
to come, against oppression and evil-doing all over
the world—of the philanthropists whose names are
identified with this very phase of negro emancipa-
tion—there was not one who felt that he could in
conscience come forward and encourage a ruthless
invasion, and a still more hateful scheme of domes-
tic warfare, by giving aid and comfort to Mr. Lin-
coln's tottering Cabinet. The persons we alluded
to were left alone to hold forth to the audience.
What they said it is needless to comment upon, for
it is quite in accord with their personal insignifi-
cance. For our own part we cannot but rejoice that
there has been at length an organised attempt to
evoke English opinion in favour of the war. It is well
to know the full strength of one's own opinions, and
to be able to calculate with certainty on the mea-
sure of assent which the world will give to them.
That for two or three months a number of men
have been agitating to change the sentiments of
Englishmen on this important subject, and that
the result of the mountain's labour is the birth of a
most ridiculous mouse, is especially satisfactory to
us, who have for so long been labouring to promote
a peaceful settlement of an unnatural quarrel. We
now know that, in spite of importunity the most
pertinacious and offensive, every man with a poli-
tical character to lose has stood aloof from the
Federal partisans in this country. Even the mem-
bers for our populous boroughs, though their posi-
tion often compels them to succumb to schemes of
this kind, have in this case felt it necessary to their
own dignity and the feelings of their respectable
constituents to give a rebuff to the agitators. Hap-
pily, the situation of affairs in America is becoming
such that the friends of peace in this country need
fear no misrepresentations of the " Emancipation
Society," or of the " wire pullers'' who stand behind
it. While weakminded men are congri,tulating Pre
sident Lincoln from this side of the water, the public
opinion of his own country is becoming every day
more settled against him. The Proclamation, by
the confession of its authors, iN as intended to do two
things—first, to eonciiiate European opinion ; and,
secondly, to terrify the south into submission. Taut
the first object has not been attained we think is
pretty clear, and the other, which is by far the more
important, has been equally missed. Whatever may
be the merits or faults of Mr. Lincoln's policy, his
Proclamation has had but one effect, and that is to
make the Confederates more fierce and resolute than
ever. When the last news left more than a fortnight
had elapsed since the Proclamation, and no sign of
wavering had appeared at the South. The Confede-
rates had opened the new year with a victory at
Galvaston, and at Vicksburg had inflicted on the
Federals a defeat hardly less bloody, and quite as
important as that of Fredericksburg. Two military
disasters and a rise of gold to 50 premium are the
first fruits of the masterly document of the 2d of
January, and a still more important matter is the
widespread anger of all but the Republican zealots.
New York has spoken through Mr. Seymour, and
now the Governor of Kentucky, a firm Unionist,
and a man to whom the North is mainly indebted
for keeping the State from Secession, denounces the
President and his schemes in a State paper which is
certainly one of the most remarkable we have ever
read. There are at last signs abroad that the bank-
ruptcy of the North, the desolation of the South,
and the ruin both of white man and negro will pro-
voke some political reaction in the Federal States.
At such a conjuncture it behoves us to stand aloot,
and not to applaud assumptions of arbitrary power
which are being sternly rebuked by the ablest men
of the country where they have taken place.

POST.—For the first time we find ourselves in a
position to believe that the question of the Greek
succession is virtually arranged. The various pro-
posals on this subject which have been before the
protecting Powers have succeeded each other with
such rapidity that the intelligence of one day has
antiquated that of the preceding one. Hitherto
there has, properly speaking, been no candidate for
the Greek throne. We have ourselves on successive
occasions mentioned the names of the princes most
in favour among the Greeks and with the protecting
Powers. In an unofficial sense, indeed, there may
have been many who would gladly have accepted
the throne if offered to them by the three protec-
tors. But between those who would not accept it
and those to whom it was not offered there has been
no candidate formally put forward until the present
announcement of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg as the
nominee of those who are entitled to recommend
one to the Greek people. We believe that the
course of the negotiation was as follows. After the
joint withdrawal of the names of Prince Alfred and
the Duke de Leuehtenberg from the list of possible
candidates—during the course of which other names,
such as those of the Archduke Maximilian and
Prince Nicolas of Nassau, were discussed at the
Courts—it was resolved to offer the throne to King
Ferdinand of Portugal. This prince, however, was
better known to the diplomatic world than to the
Greek people ; and his own retired habits of life led
him to decline the proposal. By that time a con-
siderable number of royal and serene names, never,
perhaps, seriously entertained, had been eliminated.
It Was then subsequently resolved to make the same
offer to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. But
after some negotiation with this prince his condi-
tions of acceptance were regarded as inadmissible.

Among these conditions was that of his serene high-
ness's retention of his ducal d,nninions in Ger-
many. It was felt desirable that the new King of
Greece should become naturalised as much as
possible to his new country ; that he should be
henceforth as much of a Greek and as little of a
German, as was possible. On the raising of these
and some other conditions, the British Government
then proposed to offer the throne to the Prince of
Leiningen. With the fullest recognition of the great
merits of the Duke of S ixe-Coburg and Gotha,
there was at the same time this constitutional diffi-
culty ti' be encountered in his case, that the Duke is
required, by the constitution of one or other of his
two duchies, to reside in that duchy for a consider- ,
able period of the year. The choice of the Prince
of Leiningen also recommended itself on the ground
that he was free from any restriction of this sort.
Until, therefore, within the last three days, the ne-
gotiations were actually taking place with the
Prince of Leiningen, and with him alone. But this
prince, for the reasons which we stated yesterday,
declined the arduous responsibility which it was
proposed to throw upon him. There then became
no alternative but to resume negotiations with the
Duke of Saxe-Coburg. We understand, therefore,
that it has been wisely resolved to take Duke
Ernest at his own terms ; and on these the Duke is
consistently prepared to accept the throne of Greece,
with remainder to his nephew. We believe that
the Russian Government will offer no objection to
what, in all circumstances, is the best settlement of
the Greek throne that could be devised. Russia
has even a distinct object in the realisation of such
a choice. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg has long been
the consistent and vigorous opponent of Russian in-
tervention in Germany, and his presence in the Con-
federation has long been the mainstay of the Na-
tional and Liberal party—that is, the party who
oppose foreign meddling and interference, such as
Russia has so long exercised in Germany. Russia,
therefore, could desire, for the sake of her German
policy, nothing more than that the Duke of Saxe-
Coburg should go to Greece, where also his good
administration might be supposed to favour her
traditional policy of raising the condition of
the Hellenic people. At the same time, it is
scarcely necessary to rest the acquiescence
of Russia on such grounds as these, substantial as
they nevertheless are. Since the withdrawal of the
names of Prince Alfred and the Duke de Leuchten-
berg Russia has shown every disposition to agree
with France or England on the Greek question.
The concert of the British and French Governments,
now conclusively arrived at with the Duke of Saxe-
Coburg, really settles the discussion; but we have
no doubt of the entire harmony of the three Powers.
It now, therefore, remains for the Duke to obtain
the requisite alteration in the terms of the Gotha
constitution, which he and his council have autho-
rity to do. We incline to believe that this choice,
though arrived at late, is one of the best that could
have been made. Duke Ernest has commonly passed
for the ablest crowned head in Germany. His
abilities, equal, probably, to those of the late Prince
Consort, have taken a practical and administrative
turn. He is understood to express a desire to govern
the Greek kingdom with a view, not to showy de-
monstrations, but to solid and permanent improve-
ment, and to make his Administration conduct itself
with credit in the eyes of Europe. He has long
been known in Germany as an energetic reformer
of abuses. In Greece the field before him will be
almost illimitable. That the Greeks will cheerfully
receive him there can hardly be a doubt; and we
could call to mind no other man more likely to im-
press them with a sense of authority and good
counsel. We have no doubt that the meeting of
Parliament will be found to lend a formal and offi-
cial corroboration to this view of the Greek ques-
tion, and that the new King may, with little further
delay, commence his administration.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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LIVERPOOL-JAN. 30.

At this day's market there was a small attendance of the
town and country trade, and wheat met a limited demand ;
holders, however, remained firm. Flour in fair request at
5d per barrel lower. Oats realised fully former prices, and.
oatmeal 6d per load advance. Barley, beans, and peas re-
mained steady as last quoted. Indian corn was scarcely
asked for, and must be quoted 6d per qr cheaper on the
week.

WAKEFIELD—Jew. 30.

The wheat trade rules dull to-day, and factors generally
require last week's prices. Beans and barley steady. In
oats and shelling there was no alteration.
Averages for the week :
Wheat 1,703 qrs., at 498 51d
8ar1ey.....,... 318
Peas
Oats
Rye
Beans