The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-30 00:00:00

people was not always the right voice ; the people
were very often wrong. He opposed the resolution.
They had never been invited to enter Maryland,
and they did not know how they would be received.
If the invasion policy was continued they might
look for the second day, which tried men's souls.
Mr. Foote thought that the voice of the people
must be listened to.

The resolution favouring the invasion policy was
,hen paned by a vote of 56 against 13.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Nov Y0r1,.. Evening Post of the 16th says : "Extra-
ordinary buoyancy on the Stock Exchange is the leading
event in Wall-street to-day, Every department of the
market responds to the cheerful news from the Potomac
army, and the advance on the prices of yesterday morning
averages 11 to 2, with a strong demand on speculation, par-
ticularly for the Eries, which seem to be the favourites of
that locality for a rise. The advance in the active stock
since yesterday have been as follows: 2 per cent, in Go-
vernment Sixes ; 11 per cent. in Government 7.30'5; 21 per
cent. in Tennessee Sixes ; 2 per cent. in Missouri Sixes ; 5
per cent. in California Sevens; 2 per cent. in New York
Central; 21 per cent. in Erie; 41 Ever cent. in Erie Pre-
ferred ; 31 per cent, in Michigan Central ; 11 per cent. in
Illinois Central. After the board there was a reaction of 1
to 1 per cent., with considerable disposition to sell.
Money is easy at 4 and 5 per cent., chiefly at 4 and 4i,
in good collaterals. There is less discrimination as to secu-
rities, but on gold and first-class shares and bonds the sup-
ply at 4 is in excess of the demand.
Gold opened very heavy, selling down to 1161, but after-
wards rallied to 1161 and 117. The encouraging news from
the army entirely upsets the calculations of the croakers;
and buyers of gold on the rebel " invasion," at 119 to 119 i,
have been making haste to sell at the market price. At
the close there are sales at 117, and that bid for more.

Exchange is quiet at 129 to 1291 for first-class bills on
London. Gold is relatively cheaper than exchange.

IRE NAVY.

The gunboat Hind, tender to the Coastguard ship
Russell, at Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Sa-
turday, to collect Naval Coast Volunteers for the
purpose of training, which commences on Wednes-
day, the Ist proximo.
His Prussian Majesty's corvette Arcona, 26,Capt.
Sundewall, which has been thoroughly repaired at
Devonport, got up steam on Saturday and left Ply-
mouth for the Baltic. She conveys from Siam a
considerable number of choice birds and animals,for
one of the public institutions in Prussia. The Arcona
left at Plymouth above 30 of her crew, who will
navigate to the Baltic the frigate Niobe, 26, just
purchased from the British Government.
The screw steamship Exmouth, 90, which was
commissioned at Plymouth in 1850, returned to the
Sound on Saturday, She has been some time en-
gaged in the Mediterranean. She left Gibraltar on
the 16th inst., and came home under canvas only.
The Exmouth brings the crew of the Pantaloon and
above 50 naval and military invalids. She was to
be inspected yesterday by Rear-Admiral Sir Thos.
Pasley, after which her powder will be discharged.
She was to go up Hamoaze, where the crew were to
be paid off, and the ship placed in the third division
of the steam reserve. It is very probable that, in
order to secure some of the experienced hands, the
Gibraltar, 98, will be put in commission at Devon-
port forthwith, The officers and crew of the Pan-
taloon, will, it is expected, be tried at Plymouth by
court-martial, for leaving the sloop on the rocks.
The training ship St. Vincent, in
harbour, which has been fitted with the patent ven-
tilating apparatus by Mr. Phipson, C.E., referred
to in The Sun of Thursday last, has been visited
during the week by a number of naval officers and
gentlemen interested in the question of ventilation,
the majority of whom, it is stated by the officers of
the St. Vincent, have expressed great satisfaction
with the results. So many plans have been tried
during the past few years for ventilating large pub-
lic buildings, and have turned out in so many cases
to be miserable failures, that every fresh scheme is
viewed with distrust. The plan now introduced by
Mr. Phipson to the Admiralty has, however, been
working successfully for several years in some of
the French hospitals. To inform himself as fully as
possible on the subject, our Portsmouth correspon-
dent went on board the St. Vincent at 9.30 p.m. on
Friday, and was accompanied over the ship by Com-
mander Lowther and his officers. The ship is in-
tended to have 600 boys on board under training.
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who wouiu nang tnelr hammocks for sleeping on the

middle and lower decks. At present she has only
375 on board, but the whole of these, together with
40 seamen, were sleeping on the lower deck, which,
although not at all crowded, was therefore suffi-
ciently full to test the efficiency of the proposed
system. This lower deck has a capacity of 70,000
cubic feet. The night was unusually oppressive, and
it was a dead calm, thus affording an excellent op-
portunity for testing the apparatus in the severest
manner. Passing along the lower deck underneath
the swing hammocks the temperature was taken by
a thermometer at various places. The maximum
was found to be 72 deg. and the mean 68 deg. At
the mouth of the shaft which delivered the air from
above the current was felt with considerable force.
A few yards from the shaft, however, the flame of
a naked candle was scarcely disturbed, and, at the
same time, clear forward, where there is no commu-
nication with the deck above, nor opening of any
kind, the cool air could be perceptibly felt moving
along underneath the line of hammocks, and this
was further confirmed by the readings of the ther-
mometers. In measuring the force of the current
over the fan in the cowl on deck with one of Biram's
patent anemometers it was found that 507,000 feet
of air were then being thrown down upon the ship's
lower deck per hour, the engines working at about
three-fourths of their power. Mr. Phipson believes
that this large volume of air passes in a continu-
ous steady form, without draught, along the entire
deck underneath the hammocks, and expels the foul
air above at once where there isa hatchway or other
outlet. Where there is no outlet, as in the foro part
of the St. Vincent's lower deck, he thinks the pure
air ascends and rolls back to the hatchway the im-
pure air floating over the faces of the men. It is to
be hoped that if the system should be found to pos-
sess all the merits claimed for it by the inventor
other ships may also enjoy its advantages, and that
stokers, above all, working in stagnant air with the
thermometer at 146 deg., as was the case in the Re-
sistance on Thursday last during her trial trip,may
be allowed to share the benefits.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty:—The Hon. P. J. Stanhope,
midshipman, to the Sutlej, as supernumerary; H.
P. Smith and Lewis F. Wells, midshipmen, to the
Euryalus, as supernumeraries; Francis Chalmer,
naval cadet, to the Narcissus, as supernumerary ;
M, M'Causland, naval cadet, to the Euryalus, as
supernumerary ; F. G. Deedes, naval cadet, to the
Barrosa, as supernumerary ; John Hill, engineer,
to the Cumberland, for the Osprey ; Henry Cook,
engineer, additional, to the Fisgard ; Henry D.
Garwood, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Asia,
for the Swinger ; William W. Webber, first-class
assist.-engineer, additional, to the Fisgard; William
F. Rowe and W. H. G. Webb, second-class assist.-
engineers, additional, to the Fisgard ; Richard L.
B. Head, assist,-surg., to the Barrosa; Henry G.
Ruby, assist.-surg,, to the Squirrel ; James Thom-
son, assist.-sorb., to the Fisgard ; and Francis T.
Helby, master's assistant, to the Perseus.

CYRUS REDDING'S NEW NOVEL.—Poetry, like
wit, is always young, and we nowhere meet more graceful,
pure, and glowing portraits of feminine beauty than in the
romantic pages of this marvellous octogenarian. The book
too has all the other evidences of young and healthy mental
action. It teems with clear and original observation, and
is rich in those suggestive phrases which condense thought,
and imply, rather than fully express, the results of a long,
varied, and sagacious experience. Mr. Redding too knows
life thoroughly, and can describe it without one particle of
that cynical leaven which belongs not to age but to charac-
ter. His own is naturally genial, and is toned, moreover,
by religion, and he delights rather in the study of human
nature than in the dreary anatomy of mere worldliness.
Neither is he lcudator temporis acti, but in all respects
abreast of the age in which he lives and work—as energetic
a friend of progress, and as keenly alive to all that passes
about him, as a man just entering on active life. He illus.
trates in the field of letters, as Lord Palmerston does in the
richer one of politics, how much error lies in ascribing to
age itself the weaknesses engendered by the enervating cir-
cumstances with which it often prematurely environs itself.
To
live and labour—as long as health is spared—among
younger men, is the true
au 46 elixir Vitffli".—Dl46l4.lt Unii;cr.
sityz9wahe.

TILE ALLEGED MANSLAUGHTER IN

CLERKENWELL.

Yesterday evening Dr. Lankester, one of the
Middlesex coroners, resumed the inquiry at the
Royal Free Hospital respecting the death of George
Smith, aged 24, who it was alleged was killed in
a quarrel originating in a concert-hall in St. John-
street, Clerkenwell.
Mr. J. Pitney, of 37, Clerkenwell-green, said
that on Saturday night week he heard a disturb-
ance, and upon looking out he saw seven persons.
Two of them took off their coats to fight, and after
sparring and striking at each other, deceased ran
down the hill, the other pursuing him. Deceased
slipped and fell, when a female came to the other
man and induced him to go away. Deceased then
got up, and was putting on his coat, when a short
man came up to him and said, " You coward; you
say you can fight, and you run away. I can fight
such a fellow as you myself." Deceased said some-
thing which witness could not hear, and the short
man struck him a tremendous blow on the side of
the head. Deceased fell fiat at once, and the short
man ran away.
George Whitehead, a glasscutter, said that on
the night in question he was at the concert-hall of
the Red Lion and Punch Bowl, in St. John-street,
Clerkenwell, and there he saw deceased, Robert
Hanks, two other young, men, and two young
women. On their way home witness remonstrated
with deceased for being quarrelsome, upon which he
took off his coat and told witness " to take it out of
him." Some sparring ensued, but no blows were
struck.

John Hahn, 35, Clerkenwell-green, gave the same
account as the previous witness, of deceased being
struck down with fearful force by a man whom he
believed to be Robert Hanks. Deceased's head struck
the pavement with a noise as if a gun were let off.
The Coroner then summed up, and the jury re-
turned a verdict of manslaughter against Robert
Hanks.

The Coroner then made out the warrant for the
committal of Hanks for trial at the ensuing sessions
of the Central Criminal Court.

THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER AND

MUTILATION OF A WOMAN.

VERDICT OF AVILFUL°M URDER AGAINST SAM.
GARDINER AND ELIZABETH HUMBLER.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. W. J. Payne, the deputy
coroner, resumed the adjourned inquiry, at the
Saracen's Head Tavern, Northumberland-street,
Fenchurch-street, as to the circumstances connected
with the mysterious murder of Elizabeth Gardiner,
in that court, on the morning of the 15th inst. This
was the third meeting of the jury, and long before
the time of meeting the house where the inquest
was held was crowded with persons interested in
the proceedings.
It will be remembered that at the close of the
proceedings on Wednesday last the Coroner ordered
the husband (Gardiner) and the woman Humbler
to be taken into custody, since which time they
were taken before the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-
house, but merely a repetition of the evidence taken
by the Coroner was given, and they were remanded
to await the result of the coroner's inquiry.
The jury having answered to their names, with
the exception of Mr. Boss, whose recognisances
were estreated,
Elizabeth Caplin said she saw Mrs. Gardiner sit-
ting on the step of the door at 7 on Sunday evening.
Geo. Goulburn, 25, Cold Harbour-street, Hackney-
road, lamplighter, said—l have known Samuel
Gardiner for some years. I recollect last Monday
week, when this happened. I saw Gardiner that
morning, at twenty minutes before five, in Leaden-
hall-street, going towards Cornhill. le had his
chimney-sweeping machine with him. I said, " Good
morning," and he returned the compliment. He was
then near to Sussex Hall. lam sure Gardiner was
the man I spoke to. I saw him again at 8 o'clock
the same morning. Temple, the policeman, called
to me to fetch his brother officer, telling me what
had happened, and I did so. I was about going into
the house, when Gardiner said, " Stop, there is
enough in already." He appeared cut up, and
looked pale.
Thomas Raffield, of Belvedere-place, Southwark-
bridge-road, carpenter, said—l have known Samuel
Gardiner for four or five years. I recollect last
Monday week. I saw Gardiner at the top of the
alley, in Fenchurch-street, at two minutes to seven,
as I was waiting to get into the shop. I was too
late for six o'clock, and I was waiting for seven, to
go in. I work for Mr. Turnbull, and if we are too
late to go in at six we go in at seven. Gardiner
said " Good morning," and I said the same. He had
his machine on his shoulder. I did not notice if he
had a bag with him. His face was towards Fen-
church-street. He appeared to have just turned
out of Northumberland-alley. I have not seen him
since.
John Maguire, 4, Aldgate, photographic artist,
said—l know Samuel Gardiner, and have done so
for two years. I recollect Monday week, the morn-
ing this happened. I saw Gardiner at five minutes
to seven o'clock, near Moses and Son's, in Aldgate,
between the Minories and Jewry-street. I spoke to
him, and he replied to me. He had his sweeping
machine with him, and a bag over his left shoulder.
I saw him the same morning at 20 minutes past
seven, between Billiter-street and Callum-street, in
Fenchurch-street. He was sitting on a rail at the
corner of Star-alley. That is beyond Mark-lane.
The Coroner said the object of calling these
witnesses was to show that the statement of Gar-
diner was incorrect, if their statements were true.
Mary Bywater, 14, Swan-street, Minories, said
—I am married, and my husband works on the
railway at Haydon-street. I knew Mrs. Gardiner,
who was a customer at my shop. She came to my
shop on the Saturday before this happened.
She said she fell down stairs and hurt herself.
She said she supposed she should have to go to the
Bow Union. She said she was very bad, and said
she saw no other resource but to go to the union.
She always appeared very deep in trouble. I saw
her twice on the Saturday. I told her I was sorry
for her, and heard no more of her until I was told
that she had been found with her throat cut.
This being the whole of the evidence,
The Coroner said it was highly gratifying to him
to find that the jury had given so much attention to
this case, and which would satisfy the public that
the matter had not been slurred over, that pro-
per attention had been paid to it, and that the whole
of the subject had been gone into. Having given
the subject a calm and patient consideration, there
would be two principal questions for them, and,
whether they determined one or the other, out of that
question then another one would arise. It was shown
by the evidence that the deceased was found with
her throat cut, and the first question they would
have to consider would be, was that her own act ?
If they should be satisfied of that, then they would
have to consider the state of mind she was in when
she did it. If, on the other, they were of opinion
that it was not her own act, then they would have
to be satisfied who was the guilty party, and did
the evidence show that any one was responsible for
her death. It appeared from the evidence of several
witnesses that the deceased had been for some time
in a low and desponding state, which might be ac-
counted for from the fact that the man to whom she
was married had brought home another woman to
live in the house, which seemed to worry her a good
deal, leading to frequent bickerings, and on more
than one occasion he had given her black eyes. On
the Sunday before her death the deceased com-
plained of the treatment she had received from his
paramour Humbler. He said that next morning
he would put a stop to it, but that Gardiner ex-
plained by saying that what he meant was that
Humbler should go away that morning. It also
appeared that several valentines were found,
which appeared to have worried her a good deal.
As to the idea of this being a suicide, they had
the evidence of the medical men that one finger
was cut entirely through, and that it was not pos-
sible for the deceased to have grasped any sharp
instrument tight enough while in the agonies of
death, and so have caused these wounds in her hands
herself. Dr. Sequeira and Dr. Conolly, who
assisted in the examination, both declared that this
was not the act of the woman herself; and, although
a knife was found in the deceased's right hand, yet
curiously enough, the back of it and not the edge
was placed towards the throat. This was one of
those important facts which sometimes came out,
and it would lead in this case to the conclusion that
the knife had been afterwards placed in her hand,
but that the person putting it there had accidentally
put it with the back instead of the edge towards the
throat. The evidence appeared to him to be nar-
rowed into those two points,
and he would remark
that the jury would not have to try any one, but to
ascertain whether there was such aprima facie case
of suspicion against any one as to justify them in
putting him on his trial at the Old Bailey on a
charge of murder. It must be a charge of murder,
for it would be quite impossible to reduce the offence
to one of manslaughter.
Sergeant Mobbs said he wished to give some ad-
ditional evidence as to a statement by Gardiner.
He said—On Wednesday last on conveying Gardi-
ner to the station-house Gardiner said, " I am glad
I am given into custody. something will come out."
I cautioned him as to saying anything, and he said
no more.
The Coroner then proceeded to read over the evi-
dence of the different witnesses, commenting briefly
upon parts of it as he
proceeded. He said as re-
garded Gardiner there was not an absence of a mo-
tive, which was to live uncontrolled with Humbler;
and there was a great discrepancy between the
statement of Gardiner as to the time he left the
house on the MoudaT and the evidence of the wit-