The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1862.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, SEPT.I2.

The optimists of Wall-street, and a few news-
papers which support their views, still affect to be-
lieve that the
,' audacious rebels" have rushed to
inevitable doom by the invasion of Maryland and
Pennsylvania, the occupation of Kentucky, and the
beleaguerment of Cincinnati ; that the Confederate
army is in a trap, and is certain to fall an easy prey
to M'Clellan. But the rest of the world is in a very
different frame of mind, and sees nothing in store
for the Republic but dismemberment and ruin--
unless in a turn of luck and a display of some
amount of genius and daring, accompanied by suc-
cess, in the Federal Generals. But Wall-street sees
all things en couleur de rose. Gold is but at 191
per cent. premium and silver at 12, while Govern-
ment securities hold their ground as firmly as if the
country were in the full tide of peace, prosperity,
and happiness. But Wall-street has fed upon fat
contracts and illimitable paper, and is apoplectic
and sleepy. When it wakes up, as it must before
many days, it will see sights the like of which it
never saw before, and which were never seen in
America, or perhaps anywhere else. Meanwhile it
snores loudly. Foreign trade is all but annihilated.
Domestic trade flourishes only on war contracts and
Mr. Chase's greenbacks ; and such business as Wall-
street loves can be transacted by somnambulists al-
most as easily as by waking men. But all others
than the people of that Sleepy Hollow, and the con-
tractors who sniff the spoils of civil war with as
much gusto as the vulture the decaying carcass,
admit that the very existence of the Federal Go-
vernment is at this moment at stake, and that not
even a victory over the Confederates in Maryland,
Pennsylvania, or Kentucky can save it from ulti-
mate perdition. Mr. Lincoln, his Administration,
and his Generals are in the position of " Humpty
Dumpty," in the nursery ballad. They have had a
great fall ; and not " all the horses" and " all the
men" of the North can set them up again.
It is the old story of the torrent's smoothness
ere it dash over the rocks. There is no panic in
this city. Everything seems to be going on in its
usual manner. The newspapers say little or nothing
to disturb the public equanimity; and the telegra-
phic wires are as discreet and well-behaved as Mr.
Stanton can desire. But letters from Washington,
Baltimore, and Cincinnati, and wounded soldiers
returned from the battle-fields of Bull Run and
Centreville, divulge a state of affairs, both civil
and military, which makes people shudder. While
Mr. Stanton has been peddling in the arrest of
small traitors in New York and elsewhere, the
whole edifice of the Government has been crumbling
beneath the feet of the Government. 'the Presi-
dent's name that was once a tower of strength has
become a byword. The estimate formed of his
character by Mr. Wendell Phillips is accepted by
nine people out of ten, and it would almost appear
as if that fiery declaimer had only been the first to
say what was in everybody's mind, but which
everybody lacked the courage or the wit to utter
until one bolder than the rest set the example.
There seems to be a growing desire for Mr. Lincoln's
resignation or deposition, though how either is to be
accomplished, or who would be put in his place, no
one can tell or has thought it worth while to con-
sider. And not only is the President accused of
incapacity, but the President's wife is charged with
treason. It has long been a marvel to the Federal
Generals by what occult agencies their most im-
portant secrets were constantly transmitted to the
Confederate camp. The ladies of Washington, who
are nearly all Secessionists, were looked upon as the
guilty parties ; but the question remained who told
these ladies secrets that ought not to be known, un-
less it were Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Lincoln's Minis-
ters ? Mrs. Lincoln's brother has been fighting in
the Confederate army, and was lately slain. Was
Mrs. Lincoln the incautious or the treacherous
lady who had access to valuable information, and
let it ooze through her pen or her tongue ? The
charge against her has often been obscurely hinted.
It is now openly made, with the addition that
General Halleck was so thoroughly aware of her
indiscretion—for he gave it no harsher name—that
be stipulated, on assuming the office of Commander-
in-Chief, that she should leave Washington for her
home at Springfield, in Illinois, whither she ac-
cordingly proceeded three weeks ago. A placard,
headed "Mrs. Lincoln a traitress," was exhibited
yesterday at one of the newspaper-offices in Nassau-
street, but was pulled down by the police, by order
of the Provost-Marshal. It is a pity that a lady's
name should be dragged into the miserable
squabble that have broken out in the councils of the
North; but the condition of the public mind would
not be faithfully represented if an incident so signi-
ficant were not recorded.

If the President were himself equal to his posi-
tion, it would not signify to the public what Mrs.
Lincoln's sympathies were—and it is only his own
vacillation, or what it is the fashion in America to
call " dough-facedness" that gives them any ira,
portance.
Mr. Lincoln—who never had much head, how-
ever large his heart may be—sways to and fro at
every gust of popular opinion. One day he deter-
mines:to let the negro question alone. The next,
goaded by his Republican supporters and his Aboli-
tionist opponents, he yields to the pressure of Mr.
Wendell Phillips and such men as the Hon. Thadeus
Stevens, who exclaimed threetdays ago, at a public
meeting, "Abolition ! Yes ! Abolish everything
on the face of the earth but the Union. Free every
slave, slay every traitor, burn every rebel mansion,
if it be necessary to preserve the Union." Ashamed
of himself for listening to savages such as these, and
alarmed at the sight of the precipice to which such
guides would inevitably lead him, if he followed
them, the President reverts to the study of the con-
stitution which he swore to uphold, and gives the
Abolitionists the cold shoulder. And thus be oscil-
lates from day to day, displeasing all parties, conci-
liating none. General Halleck, in the exercise of
his authority, is said to have deprived General
M'Clellan of command after the battle of Centreville,
for manifest and wilful disobedience of orders. Bat
on there being imminent danger of a mutiny in the
capital, so indignant was the army of the Potomac
at the degradation of their favourite, the President
overrode Halleck's decision, and reinstated M'Clel-
lan rather than have a disturbance. " Anything
for a quiet life," seems to be his maxim, and the re-
sult is in his case what it is in every one's else who
is affected with a similar weakness—perpetual dis-
quiet and daily recurring misery. And in the midst
of all this the good man perpetrates a joke when-
ever he has the opportunity as quietly as if nothing
in the world was wrong. A suppliant for office of
more than ordinary pretensions called upon him
lately, and presuming on the activity he had shown
on Mr. Lincoln's behalf during
the election that
raised him to the chief maga
reason why the office he desired
racY, asserted
should be given, as a
en to
him, that he had made him President „ y-
u
me President, did you ?" said Mr. iinooloea,imdwatidhthee
a twinkle of his eye. `'l think I did:,
s
applicant. ,6 Then a precious mess yen,,,
got me
into, that's all," replied Mr. Lincoln, and closed
the discussion.
The Republicans being in as great a mess as their
President, with the country rapidly drifting under
their management into humiliations and miseries
far worse than the mere disruption of the Union,
which might of itself be the very best thing that
could happen to the North if the North were only
wise enough to see it, the reorganisation of the
great and once dominant Democratic party was to
have been anticipated. Many of its principal men
are languishing in Forts Lafayette, Warren, and
mllenry, unaffected by the gaol delivery under-
taken by the Judge-Advocate; but the party is
still unconquered, and gives vent to its opinions in
the press and on the platform, and notably through
such speeches as those of Mr. Vallandigham, Mr.
Mr. B. Wood, Mr. Wall, and Mr.
Fernando Wood,
Ingersoll, taking the broad ground of the restora-
tion of the 44 Union as it was," which not even Mr.
-Marshal of New York can
Stanton nor the Provost
torture into treason. It was the dissensions of this
party, and those alone, that enabled the .Republi-
cans to carry the election of Mr. Lincoln. United,
the Democrats might have governed the republic for
20 yearalonger,but as soon as they quarrelled among
themselves the cause was lost, and the disruption

of the Union, so often prophesied, so-long foreseen,
and so vehemently deprecated, became the only
possible policy of the South. In all the Northern
States this party is actively endeavouring to carry
the State elections for the next Congress; and in
the State Convention for New York, n, w in session
at Albany, the " Tammany" and " Mozart Hall"
sections of the party, so called from their places of
meeting in this city, have made up their differences
and agreed to support a Mr. Seymour for Governor
of the State, and other gentlemen of the same ()Pi-
nions for the other State offices that are periodically
in the gift of the people. There is little doubt that
their nominations will be successful, and that the
example of New York will act as a
lant upon the democracy of other Sta • . so,
powerfulteslf s stimu-
lant
party will present a strong front not only the
Congress,
States's Legislature, but in the New to
the sore embarrassment of Mr. Lincoln's Govern-
mmoeunrt,
was
tahsreceived
and
th
abtyshthouelcdolnaystenstoioln with an ong. Mr.
en-
thusiasm Se-
ymour
said to be utterly unprecedented. The ap-
plause on his appearance was renewed so often that
it seemed as if the immense ussemblage had come
to shout rather than to hear. When silence was at
last obtained he delivered a speech every sentence
of which was a new incentive to prolonged plau-
dits. He denounced the system of terrorism which
the Government had endeavoured to establish—de-
clared that the leaders ofthe Republican party were
dangerous and unwise men; that their policy had
tended to unite the South, and to distract and di-
vide the North ; that they were utterly unfit to be
entrusted with the control of public affairs—that
they were insubordinate to the chiefs of their own
electing, and in every sense incompetent and mis-
chievous. The policy of the Democracy was clear
and plain ; it was to support the Constitution and
the law : and if the President adhered to the Consti-
tion and the law, or, in other words, if he would
avoid any tampering with the slavery question in
the South, he would receive their undivided and
earnest support to suppress the rebellion and con-
quer an honourable and lasting peace. Although
the reorganisation of this party must necessarily
exercise a powerful influence on the fortunes of the
North, it is doubtful, whatever its leaders may say,
whether they themselves believe in the possibility of
a restored Union, or that they think any peace
would be considered honourable or lasting by the
South that did not concede national independence,
with Virginia, Maryland,Kentucky, and Tennessee,
and Missouri as integral portions of the Southern
Confederacy. This is, not the object of the Demo-
cratic organisation, though individuals of the party
who are not in a position to speak out openly are
perhaps of opinion that the North may be unable to
make a better bargain. " The Union as it was and
the Constitution as it is," is a safe cry in the mean-
time, and, if the South were of the mind to tinker
the old Union, the capture of Washington, the de-
position of Mr. Lincoln, and the instalment of Mr.
Jefferson Davis as President of the restored Union
would not be a very bitter pill for many Democrats
to swallow. If such a result were to issue from the
fiery crucible of the war, and Mr. Davis were to
ride in triumph down Broadway, it is likely that he
would be received with a fervour of joy and a Royal
magnificence such as this country has never exhi-
bited. But the Southern leaders are too wise and
far-sighted to indulge in any such projects, however
able they might be by force of arms to realise them.
They know too well that the Union is a thing of the
past—as dead as the Heptarchy or the Kingdom of
Powhattan ; that if they were temporarily reunited
to the North the question of slavery would once
again he the incentive to new struggles and aggres-
sions—that the Abolitionist party, though defeated,
would not be disheartened, and would recommence
the fight with such zealous bitterness that it would
be necessary for the South to put a cordon sanztaire
around the slave regions to prevent the influx of
Abolition preachers, teachers, and lecturers; that
all the bloody work of the last two years would have
to be done over again, and that dis-Union would be
the result in that case, as it is now.
So great is the " scare" of the Government that
the conscription itself—that essential measure
which was to save the country—has temporarily
dropped out of public view and is no more talked ,
of. The lists are made oat, but no day is fixed for
acting upon them; and such recruits as have been
obtained by the recent high bounties appear to be
far more troublesome than useful to the State. The
Irish, who fell back so eagerly on their British
nationality when the draught was first proposed,
and who swore so lustily that they would not fight
upon compulsion, have been ready enough to take
arms under the persuasions of Archbishop Hughes,
General Corcoran, and that great recruiting officer
the " Dollar." General Corcoran's recruits, who
are not yet in a condition to be sent to the seat of
war, are encamped in large numbers in Staten
Island, to be drilled by officers who stand wofully
in need of a course of drill and discipline themselves,
and form as motley though far more numerous a
multitude than those with whom Falstaff refused
to march through Coventry. The need of the
Government is such that recruiting agents, who
receive two dollars a head from the State, besides a
commission on the bounty money, are not at all par-
ticular as to the height, or even as to the age of the
applicants. Judged by appearances, some of the
recruits are scarcely 17, while others, though pos-
sibly not above the limit of 45, look ten years older.
Beardless boys and grey-headed veterans, prema-
turely aged by hard work or hard drinking, mingle
in the ranks. The elder men, who have probably
gone through a long period of probationary suffer-
ing, are careful of their bounty money, but the
youths run riot in the wildest excesses. In Staten
Island the night is made hideous with their
drunken yells, and the hysterical shrieks of their
female companions, on whom they waste their few
remaining days of liberty and safety, as well as the
health that can alone make them good raw mate-
rial for the bloody business to which they have
sold themselves. At Camp Scrogg, within the
limits of New York city—as it is to be—but now
a semi-rural district on the road to Haerlem,
there has been a mutiny among the Vorburgh Chas-
seurs, which has lost that regiment to the Govern-
ment. It was nominally 1,500 strong, and was
first organised about eight months ago, though it
has as yet seen no service. Bounty money was not
is now; but the number being incomplete
so plentiful when the original recruits came forward
as
effortsit
were continually made to fill up the ranks.
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long and th
der not being due until the close of hostilities,when
it will be given to the recruit himself, if alive, or to
his family or heirs, if he have died in the
service,
the men have long been clamorous for their pay of
13 dols. a month. This money—although consider-
ing Mr. Chase's facilitie • • s for printing "green backs"
and postage currency there ought not to have been
he matter--has not an insuperable difficulty in t
been forthcoming; men who joined
the regiment
1, 'avirig received only one
six or eight months ago ..
month's pay in that time. Perhaps Mr. Stanton
was too busy in suspending the habeas corpus and
iarresting suspected traitors to at tend to this branch
iof his business, or perhaps some other and more un-
accountable form of mismanagement
the supplies. On Monday last, whenhas kept back
the regiment
received orders to strike tents and march south-
wards to the war, a hum of discontent arose, and the
men refused to march without thepayment of ar-
rears. The order was postponed until Tuesday
morning, 'when being renewed a mutiny broke out,
that has resulted in ' the complete disorganisation of
the regiment. 1%, less than 1 500 men have received
bounty money to enter this '
last it was found that the corps ; but on Tuesday
numbers had been re-
duced by desertion to about 400 rank and file. This
remnant, many of whom it
appears are married
men, anxious for the support of
their families dur-
ing their absence, gave vent to their
disgust by an
indiscriminate attack upon and auk
of the regimen-
tal head quarters, which was only Prevented from
culminating into a battle by the adoption
of the most
vigorous measures on the part of their officers, and
the aid of another regiment, which stood guard over
the parade ground with rifles loaded. The mutiny
appears to have lasted the greater part of three days,
and, considering the circumstances, it is much to the
credit of the mingled forbearance and determination
of the officers in command that bloodshed was not
the result. The regiment has been removed to the

Park Barracks in New York, but not a single com-
pany is entire, and the probability is that what re-
mains of it will be disbanded and the men draughted
into other corps. It is no 'wonder, if such gross
neglect, mismanagement, and cruelty as this story
displays, are not peculiar to this one regiment, that
the Southern troops are more than a match for the
Northern ones when the two come into collision.
One Southern man, fighting for the independence
of his country, must be worth fully half a dozen
such mercenary Irishmen as these, even if they be
paid their money and well treated, which does not
appear to have been the case with the Vorburgh
Chasseurs.

Another regiment or brigade, organised under the
auspices of Gen. Spinola, and composed mainly of
Irish and Americans, is in the same deplorable
state, the troubles arising from no arrears of pay,
but from the mutual jealousies of the men who en-
listed when bounties were low, and those who were
cunning and mercenary enough to wait until they
were high. The last comers have spent their money
in the vilest intemperance, and while the process
of disbursement lasted varied their amusements by
quarrelling with their poorer comrade. Daily
fights have been the consequence, and both par-
ties have thrown off all control of discipline.
Yesterday their behaviour was so bad that it was
found necessary to call out the 7th Regiment
of the New York National Guards to preserve
order. This morning this force, in addition to
a body of police, was stationed around the bar-
racks in East New York, where the mutineers are
stationed, and to each man were delivered a day's
rations and 20 rounds of ball cartridge. The
brigade is reduced to about one-third of its original
numbers—the low bounty men having disappeared
entirely, and many of the high bounty men having
imitated their example. No further fears are en-
tertained of their violence, as the men knew that
they are overmatched; but it is scarcely probable
that the Spinola Brigade will take any part in the
war, or that anything better can be done with its
remnant than to incorporate it with other regi-
ments; and thus it happens that the system of high
bounties is almost as great a failure as the conscrip-
tion, and that the Government is more than ever
perplexed how to replenish its armies.
The National War Committee of this city, a knot
of gentlemen mainly of Abolitionist principles,under
the Presidency of Mr. Opdyke, the Mayor, who
formed the notable project of organising a force of
50,000 men, to be placed under the command of
Gen. Fremont or Gen. Mitchell, " with or without
the sanction of the Government;' has been rudely
awakened to a sense of the impropriety—or the
treason—of its conduct. The first intimation it re-
ceived of its excess of zeal was the withdrawal of
several gentlemenlwho had hitherto supported what
was believed to be the only object of the committee
—" the vigorous prosecution of the war by legal
and constitutional means ;" and the next, a letter
from Auguste Belmont and Co., the bankers and
agents of Messrs. Rothschilds, who had subscribed
1,000 dols. for that purpose, but not for the purpose
of organising an Abolitionist army under General
Fremont, or anybody else. On Messrs. Belmont
and Co.'s remonstrance the committee returned them
the money, which they have subsequently divided
into two equal parts for the encouragement of re-
cruiting into the Irish Brigade, and into the Ex-
celsior Brigade, also Irish, of Gen. Corcoran. At a
meeting of the committee held at the Mayor's cham-
ber on Wednesday, a correspondence was read be-
tween the Mayor and Mr. Stanton, in which the
latter very temperately rebuked his officious friends
for their interference. He informed the committee
that Gen. Mitchell had been appointed to the com-
mand of the Southern Department ; that the duty
of raising volunteers in New York had been assigned
to the Governor of that State, who was faithfully
performing it; and that the Department could not
consent that any major-general should organise a
separate corps. The committee forthwith resolved
to take no more action in the matter, and
as it was fast becoming a nuisance, and en-
deavouring, as it would appear, to make itself a
power above the Government, or at the least to
usurp the functions of a Jacobin Club, a Vigilance
Committee, or a Committee of Public Safety, there
is considerable satisfaction felt that Mr. Stanton
was so easily able to bring it to reason. It appears,
however, that Major-General Fremont was but too
willing to lend himself to the project. He wrote
to the committee that it would give him "much
pleasure" to accept the appointment which they
proposed if it had the sanction of the Government.
But he did not explain which Government he meant
—the Federal Government or that of the State of
New York. As the committee expressly stated that
if the Federal Government refused the men and the
General, the local Government of New York State
should be applied to to accept both, it is to be in-
ferred from the General's reply that he was willing
to act for either master, even if by serving the local
Government he should have been instrumental in
raising the ugly question of State rights as opposed
to Federal assumptions—the question which pro-
duced the war, and which has as many warm sup-
porters in the North as it ever had in the South.
The publication of the correspondence has brought
the " War Committee" to an inglorious collapse,
and reduced the previously slender chances of
General Fremont's appointment to a new command
to the vanishing point, where they cease to be
visible.

THE ALLEGED FATAL PUGILISTIC EN-
COUNTER ON CLERKENWELL GREEN.

_,... _
Yesterday an inquest was held before Dr. Lan-
kester, the coroner, at the Royal Free Hospital,
Gray's-inn-lane, on the body of William Smith,
aged 24, a carpenter.
Job Smith, residing at 47, Liverpool•street,
King's-cross, identified the body as that of his son.
Police-sergeant 14 G said, on Saturday night or
early on Sunday morning his attention was called
to the deceased lying on his back immediately in
front of the Sessions House, on the broad pavement,
on Clerkenwell-green. He conveyed the body to
the hospital.
John D. Hill, the house-surgeon of the hospital,
stated that he saw the deceased on Sunday morn-
ing. He was then insensible, and died the follow-
ing day. He performed a post mortem examination,
and found externally a bruise behind the left ear.
There was an effusion of blood over the right hemis-
phere, but no effusion whatever over the left hemis-
phere, where the bruise was. The cause of death
was an effusion of blood on the brain.
By the Coroner—Witness considered the effusion
might have occurred as the result of the blow, which
appeared to have been asevere one. It was a surgi-
cal fact for a blow on the left side to produce an ef-
fusion as described on the right.
Henry Chantry, 61, Turnmill-street, a glasscut-
ter, deposed that he was in the company of deceased
on Saturday night at the Red Lion and Punch-
bowl
Tavern, John-street, Clerkenwell. They left
the house together at a quarter to twelve. Wit-
ness bade him good night on Clerkenwell-green,
and then stopped to witness a quarrel which had
ran from him.
arisen between deceased and a man named White-
head. He saw Whitehead run after Smitb, and
Hawks, a man who was with witness, ran up to
anuth, and directly he sawsmith fall, and Hawks
Whitehead and Smith first had their
coats off to fight, but Whitehead's brother took him
away, and then it was that Hawks ran towards de-
ceased. Ild went up to deceased and found that he
was unable toget , •
came up and conveyed
U. The oliceman at that time
know Smith. Did note skenee '67
By the Jury_a . deceased away insensible.
deceased at all, nor did Hawks, but did notk
gratuitous act on thee part of Hawks
By the Father and Brotheeroor.;
he think he did. Hawks
presenwcea
George Whitehead strike
Deceased spent about ls. 6d. for
thought
ga carman.ht i
ta
istcoat, coat, and
stout,t o strike
badt deceased. anis eodr.e
iin
hi
but a
medical officer of the hos-
pital,los. in money of his son had been missing,
Mr. Job Smith said the cap,
, another
ot ot h
ehimr m haded i
cap,mbeen produced, and
the coat was returned that day.
r,
nots eiw belongingoo d
corroborated Mr. Hill's
..and ex-
pressed his opinionthat deceased
was drunk when
brought there.
Daniel Clark, a driver of Mr. Gurrier, Belvedere-
road,
Punch-bowl Concert-hall on the night deceased at the Red Lion a
road, Lambeth, saw . i
n
n question
so drunk as to be scarcely able to take care of him-
self. He heard a fall on the pavement, and ob-
serving deceased there and Hawks running away,
•
he and Chantry went to see what was the matter.
The police then came up.
The Coroner at this stage of the proceedings sug-
gested an adjournment to enable him to attend to
other engagements, which was at once acquiesced
in by the jury, and the adjournment then took
6 place to Monday next.

CRINOLINE AND ITS VICTIMS.

Yesterday Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the
White Hart Hotel, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-
square, on the body of Elizabeth Anne Lindsay,
widow, and landlady of that establishment, who
had died on Tuesday last from the effects of burns,
caused by her muslin dress catching fire from her
candle while she was undressing. It appeared that
the servants, alarmed by the smell of fire all over
the house, and following the trace of it, had dis-
covered Mrs. Lindsay lying on the floor of her bed-
room in flames, vainly trying to roll the carpet
round her. The fire was put out, and a surgeon
sent for, but he did not find a spot in her body the
size of a shilling that was not burnt, and Mrs. Lind-
say died of mortification in a few hours. The
learned coroner, in summing up the case, stated that
he held two inquests a month on women burnt to
death in consequence of the use of crinoline. This
was amongst a population of a million, which would
be equal, it might be supposed, to an average of six
deaths from that cause per month in London. Such
a ratio throughout the whole of England rendered
the sacrifice of life from crinoline very alarming, and
he hoped it would make some impression on society.
But the sacrifice did not end there. That objection.
able and dangerous style of dress was carried into
the factories. It was only the other day that the
wife of an engineer was drawn up into the machi-
nery and frightfully mutilated. Many work-girls
had also been destroyed or injured in factories.
In Austria some distinguished ladies appeared
to be determined not to receive any one that
wore crinoline. Some influential persons in this
country should now set their faces against it; still,
if women would not abandon their present style of
dress, it might be as well for him to state that
crinoline could be made anti-combustible. He had
been written to on the subject by philanthropic
ladies. One in Brighton had sent him word the
other day that for ls. in the pound dresses could
be secured from inflammability. Then there was
another preservative necessary, the invariable use
of wire fire-guards. He thought it important for
juries to take the subject into their serious con-
sideration, though the pernicious results of the pre-
vailing fashion might not always be so clearly
shown as in this case. Steel crinoline he looked
upon as the most dangerous of all, because it was
least compressible. Verdict, " Accidental death
from fire."

Cooke, who had much to answer for, his worship
would never have been troubled with the case. The
fact was, that the prisoner, who had slept with the
deceased on the night before, had called at the
house for a pair of stockings, and finding Cooke there
at tea caused the annoyance which led to the fatal
result. The act, however, had been unpremedi-
tated, and it never would have occurred but for the
presence of the constable, and under all the circum-
stances he hoped his worship would commit for the
manslaughter only.
When asked by the magistrate if he had anything
to say,
Prisoner replied that there was a great deal more
passed than what Cooke, the constable, had men-
tioned ; and if he spoke like a man and stated the
truth, the case would bear a different appearance.
The prisoner was fully committed for the wilful
murder.

7HE EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF

FORGERY.

Luther Yeats, a middle-aged man, residing at
No. 1, Langporiaplace, Camberwell, and lately
carrying on the business of an accountant at No.
14, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury, was placed at the
bar of the Mansion-house, yesterday, in the custody
of detective officer Spittal, before the Lord Mayor,
to undergo a further examination upon a charge of
forging and uttering certain deeds purporting to
have been signed by Admiral Sir John West,
G.C.8., with intent to defraud Lieutenant-Colonel
John Temple West, of Ryde, Isle of Wight.
Mr. Lewis again attended for the prosecution,
and Mr. 1% H. Longley appeared for the prisoner.
From Mr. Lewis's opening statement on the
previous examination it appeared that the prisoner
had at some time or other been in a solicitor's
office, and in addition to his having gained a know-
ledge of the mode of making out deeds of convey-
ance, &c., he appeared by some means or other to
have obtained a knowledge of the existence of some
property known as the St. George's Estate, and
that it belonged to Admiral Sir John West, and
that he availed himself of that knowledge, and
forged at different times within the last few
years a number of deeds of conveyances, purport-
ing to be signed by Admiral Sir John West, con-
veying to him certain houses in West-square,
Lambeth, which comprised the St. George's estate,
upon consideration of eertain sums of money,
and that having forged the deeds, he mortgaged
them and obtained advances upon them from
different solicitors. By this means he appears to
have obtained advances to a very large amount, and
was negotiating with a solicitor for an advance apon
another deed, but that gentleman happened to hear
of the death of Admiral Sir John West, and upon
examining the deed, he noticed it was dated subse-
quent to the death of the admiral, aad he accord-
ingly instituted an inquiry, and the deed was dis-
covered to be a forgery. It will be remembered
that upon the last examination a deed upon which
the prisoner had obtained money from a gentleman
named Parker, a solicitor, carrying on business at
Bedford-row, was proved to be a forgery.
Although upon the last examination Mr. Lewis
stated that the amount which had then been ascer-
tained to have been obtained by the prisoner was
upwards of £6,000, it has been subsequently ascer-
tained that the amount is much larger.
Yesterday Mr. Lewis called John Morgan Deere,
solicitor, Lincoln's-inn-fields, who said he acted as
solicitor for the prisoner in the year 1860. On the
7th of August in that year he saw the prisoner exe-
cute the mortgage deed then produced by Mr.
Parker, and attested his signature. The deed pur-
porting to be signed by Admiral West purported to
be attested by James Bennet, land agent, Portvale,
Hertford. He handed the mortgage to Mr. Parker.
He did not remember seeing the original lease. He
received a cony of the lease from Mr. Yeats to fur-
nish to Mr. Parker in Bedford-row.
The Lord Mayor asked Mr. Lewis how many of
the cases he intended to go into.
Mr. Lewis said he proposed to prove eight out of
about eighteen.
His lordship said he should have thought two or
three separate cases already proved would further
the ends of justice, and be as well as going into so
many.
Mr. Lewis said so far as the prosecution went
two or three cases would be sufficient, but the
friends and family of the late Admiral Sir John
West were anxious that it should be understood
that all the deeds of conveyance executed by the
prisoner were forgeries, and it was necessary to
prove as many cases as possible to prevent litigation,
otherwise in the course of 20 years or so the holders
of the mortgages might probably come upon the
family for payment.
His lordship said, under those circumstances, he
had nothing more to say.
Mr. Ebenezer Morley, a solicitor, at King's Bench
Walk, Temple, was then sworn, and said in the year
1859 ho was acting as solicitor for a Mr. Hopley„
and Messrs. Brandon, of Essex-street, Strand, ap-
plied to him on behalf of the prisoner respecting a
mortgage, and on Oct. 14, 1859, a deed of mortgage
was executed in his presence. Tne mortgage was
four houses, Nos. 45 to 48, West-square, Lambeth,
both inclusive. He produced the deed of mortgage
and the lease, which he received from Ai essrs. Bran-
don in the presence of the prisoner. There was at
that time annexed to the lease the receipt produced
purporting to be a receipt from James Bennet for
the last two quarters' ground rent. The signatures
of the prisoner and Sir John West were attested by
James .Bennet, Hertford. Upon the mortgage of
that lease he advanced to the prisoner the sum of
£7OO on behalf of Mr. Hopley, and the prisoner had
since been punctual in paying the interest due
upon that mortgage. In January, 1861, he was
acting as solicitor to Miss M'Bride, and the pri-
soner applied to him to advance the sum of £l,OOO
upon a mortgage of a lease purporting to have been
executed by Sir John West of four houses, 25 to 28,
West-square, inclusive. The lease was dated 12th
Dec., 1860. He consented to advance him the sum
of £BOO, on behalf of Miss M'Bride, on Jan. 17, and
in 1861 he (prisoner) executed a mortgage, which he
produced, and handed over to the firm the deed of
mortgage, and the lease which he also produced.
The prisoner had paid the interest on the mortgage
from time to time since that period.
Mr. George M. Arnold, solicitor, practising at
Gravesend, said he knew the prisoner. He had three
transactions with the prisoner. He produced an
assignment of a lease of Nos. 18 and 19, West-
square, Lambeth, dated Aug. 29, 1859, granted by
Sir John West, to Luther Yeats, the prisoner. He
made an advance upon the assignment of that lease
of £375 on the part of his client, Mr. Cheeper. He
likewise produced a mortgage dated 20th March,
1860, made between the prisoner and Mr. Alfred
Talhnrst, who was a client of his, of a lease which
he produced. It was a mortgage dated Feb. 25,
1860, purporting to be made between Sir J. West
and Luther Yeats, of houses 20 and 23,West-square,
inclusie. The prisoner applied to him for the ad-
vance of £750 upon that property, and on the 25th
March ,he made him the advance, and then received
the deed of mortgage and lease. He also produced a
deed of mortgage dated Sept. 30, 1861, between
himself and the prisoner. It related to a lease dated
Sept. 30, 1861, of houses 45 to 48, West-square,
and purporting to be executed by Sir John West to
the prisoner.
Mr. Lewis remarked that the prisoner had forged
the leases for those four houses, and had obtained
money upon each of them.
His lordship said, that if he understood the case
rightly, the prisoner had been in the habit of con-
cocting fictitious deeds of conveyance upon the pro-
perty in question over and over again, and then
mortgaging them.
Mr. Lewis said that was just the case.
The witness then continued his evidence, and
said he advanced the prisoner £750 upon that lease.
He likewise 'produced a lease or mortgage, dated
Sept. 30, 1861, between himself and the prisoner on
a lease dated Sept. 10, 1861, and purporting to be
signed by Sir John West, in favour of the prisoner,
of houses Nos. 44 to 48, West-square. The prisoner
personally applied to him for an advance of £BOO
upon that lease, and he made him the advance, and
received the deed of mortgage and lease which he
produced from him. In two instances the signature
of Sir John West was alleged to have been attested
by James Bennett, house agent, of Portvale, Herta
ford ; and in the third instance by James Bennett,
jun., of the same place.
Mr. James Lay, solicitor, of 44, Poultry, was then
called, and said he had known the prisoner about 12
years. Ho produced a lease dated April 10, 1862,
made in favour of the prisoner, and purporting to
be executed by Sir John West, in respect of four
houses, situate Nos. 25 t
elusive. He advanced the
28, "
oWest-square, both in-
of May, 1862, on behalf of prisoner•
£l5O on the 10th
prisoner deposited the deedone.of his. chents,and the
He believed there with him as security.
were negotiations with another
solicitor for a mortgage upon the same deed for a
much larger amount. He likewise produced a policy
of insurance on the property.
Mr. Lewisot necessary.
said the latter was n
There was no carelessness attributed to the solici-
tors, who had had transactions with the prisoner.
Mr. Lay said he wished to snake a complaint to
his lordship with regard to some observations which
fell from Mr. Lewis upon the last examination, and
be was at all justified in
which he did not think
all the papers that that
making. It appeared in
gentleman had stated that Mr. Lay was not present,
and that he was afraid he was keeping out of the
way on purpose, and would not produce the deed.
He wished to state, however, that he was away
on business at
the time the subpoena was served
at his office--which was not until about an
hour before the case was called on, and he
being away his son was subpoonaed instead, but

he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of
the deed. He did 1114 consider that such observa-
tions ought to have belh'inade, and he had rendered
Mr. Gamlin every assistance in his power.
Mr. Lewis said that he was sorry Mr. Lay had
alluded to the matter, as it would compel him to say
what otherwise he would not have said. He con-
sidered he had very just grounds for the observa-
tions which he made on the last occasion, as Mr.
Gamlin had seen Mr. Lay on the previous day, and
Mr. Lay then said he did not think he should at-
tend at the examination of the prisoner at the
Mansion-house, and the lease which had been left
at Mr. Lay's office, instead of being left out to be
produced, had been put away, and, in addition to
that, he had lodged a detainer on the prisoner's ac-
count at his banker's on the previous day as soon as
he knew the prisoner was in custody ; and if his
lordship wished it, he would call Mr. Gamlin.
His lordship, however, said it had better rest as
it was.

Mr. Lay said Mr. Gamlin had told him that he
intended to go into several other cases, and he
thought his attendance would not be required.
Mr. Francis Hilbury said he was an articled
clerk, and resided at Bexley, in Kent. He produced
a mortgage, dated Sept. 16, 1859, made between the
prisoner and Francis Hilbury, his father, of a lease
dated July 27, 1859, in respect of houses 18 and 19,
West-square, purporting to have been executed by
Sir John West to the prisoner. He saw the pri-
soner execute that mortgage, and attested it. He
produced the lease to which the mortgage related.
The sum of £3OO was advanced upon that lease.
Mr. Gamlin was then sworn, and said he had
looked at the leases produced by the several wit-
nesses, and the signatures were not the writing of
Sir John West.
Augnstus Baley Bushnell, cashier of Gosling and
Co. bankers, Fleet-street, said they were the
bankers of Sir John West for many years. He had
the management of Sir John West's account amongst
others. He had looked at the deeds produced, and
was quite sure the signatures were not in the hand-
writing of Sir John West, nor did they bear any re-
semblance to it.

Thos. Knight, superintendent of police, borough
of Hertford, said he knew a place called Portvale.
He believed he knew every one who lived in Port-
vale, and from the year 1859 to 1861 there was no
such person as James Bennet, a house agent, living
there. There was a family named Bennet living
at Porthill, but he was a shoemaker.
A gentleman, whose name did not transpire,
said he wished to say a few words to his lordship if'
he could be allowed.
The Lord Mayor asked the gentleman if he would
be kind enough to say who he was.
He replied that he was another victim of the
prisoner, but he did know not whether Mr. Lewis
would like to go into his case.
Mr, Lewis, addressing the speaker, said he was
sorry to have to state that this was one of a great
many cases against the prisoner, into the circum-
stances of which he had forborne to enter.

The Lord Mayor said that if Mr. Lewis was
anxious to prevent litigation hereafter, or to restore
the purity of the title, as far as he was concerned
he should have no objection to have all the cases
against the prisoner investigated.
Mr. Lewis conferred with the gentleman, but as
he was not prepared with the evidence necessary
to complete his case it was not gone into, and Mr.
Lewis said that although he bad only gone into
those few cases against the prisoner, it was not be-
cause the other deeds executed by the prisoner
were not forgeries. They were all forgeries—and
although he stated on the last examination that the
prisoner had obtained about £6,000, since that
time several other cases had been discovered, and
he believed the whole amount which the prisoner
had obtained by means of forging deeds such as
had been produced that day was not less than
£lO,OOO. The family of Sir J. West were anxious
to make it known that the whole of the deeds fabri-
cated by the prisoner were forgeries, although they
deeply regretted the losses sustained by those with
whom the prisoner had mortgaged them.
His lordship suggested that Mr. Lewis should
consider with his client whether it would be pru-
dent to go into the other cases.
Mr. Lewis thanked his lordship, and said he
should ask his lordship to commit the prisoner for
trial upon the cases which he had already proved.
The prisoner was committed for trial accordingly.
Mr. Langley, who had refrained from asking the
witnesses any questions, asked his lordship if a gold
watch and chain which was found on the prisoner
at the time of his apprehension, might be given up
to his wife. An execution had been put into the
house, and everything had been swept away, and
his wife and a family of six children were left des-
titute.

His lordship said he could make no crder.

FASHIONS-FOR OCTOBER.

(From the Paris Elegant..)

Heaven be praised my dear and gentle readers, we need
no longer refer to the weather, unless to speak of that happy
change from foul to fair which has now continued for seve-
ral weeks. We enjoy these sunny days the more for hav-
ing so long been deprived of them. For, truly to speak, we
we have scarcely seen a fortnight's summer this year; our
pretty light dresses have been useless, and, what is still
worse, we have been quite puzzled to know what to wear.
The season is not slimmer, nor is it exactly winter, nor even
spring, which least of all it resembles. The nearest approach
it makes to anything seems to me to be autumn; and yet,
when we look at nature and nature's flowers, we cannot
make up our minds to put on the dry leaf dress, whilst the
verdure of the trees is still smiling above our heads.
What then shall we wear ? Shall it be muslin and
transparent tissues ? They are too cold.
Shall it be silk? It is too heavy. It does not feel too
warm, perhaps; but it feels heavy, which is a great objec-
tion.
Don't you think, ladies, the case is enough to embarrass
any one ? I am sure you must.
That which this year appears to be preferred to all others
is the white dress, and justly so. It had been discarded, I
cannot tell why. But it was resolved to resume this kind
of dress, and every effort was made to effect the object. But
how could it be done whilst the rain was pouring down
upon us ? Scarcely a single peep of sunshine came through
the wet clouds. For all that, our Parisian fashionables
persisted, and many were the white muslin robes which
appeared in the streets, even without toilets ; the most ele-
gant ladies went out in the morning on foot in these dresses.
But they were finally worsted and obliged to yield ; for how
could they stand such deluges of water ? But mixed cos-
tumes are not so easy to manage. To be thus armed and
prepared against all contingencies we ought to be rich, and
in possession of a well-stocked wardrobe. The custom is
to order one's dresses at the beginning of the season ; when
it is over, either these dresses are faded, or else they are
put by for the following year. It is not every lady who
can afford to have auxiliary toilets, adaptable to every
change of temperature. Yet, this summer, such dresses
were absolutely indispensable.
Since, then, the time is peculiar, and what I term
auxiliary toilets must be had, shall I give you a pretty,ser.
viceable, and cheap one as a model ? It is, perhaps, a little
strange end eccentric, but, in such a case, eccentricity is
allowable. It is a dressing-gown. You must, of course,
have a dressing-gown of some sort, especially if you live
much within doors. The following is a most ingenious
contrivance, and may servo for a double purpose :
Of course you kn©w what is Persian calico, unstarched—
, the real Persian calico, I mean, such as used to be worn by
our grandmothers ? Only theirs were the genuine oriental
calicoes, whilst ours are but imitations. They are sold
everywhere, from 7d. to 10d. a metre, our metre being 3
inches longer than the yard English. You see it is not
over. expensive. You purchase a piece sufficiently long to
make up a robe a ridcau, Louis XV. style, suited to the
occasion—that is to say, puckered in front instead of being
flat. But do you know what a robe a rielcau is? It is a
large blouse forming a long queue, with three hollow tucks
in the back, like the collars worn by priests ; these tucks
are formed upon a piece which is brought in front.
This piece is loose and open en cccur, and surrounded
with a ruche of narrow ribbon to match the special colors
of the dress. This ruche is carried on in front to
form round the sleeves, which are tight to the elbow
and wide at the bottom. This dress, you see, is extremely
pretty without being dear.
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to keep your dressing-gown in use till winter, when you re-
place it with flannel and cashmere. Bows or stitched claws
are employed to fasten the surtout in front.
Fashion, just now, is not to be looked for at Paris, but
rather at the baths and watering-places, at Baden-Baden
especially. What a choice of fine toilets, what a number of
pretty things are seen. It is like the Gardens of Arnaida—
like a terrestrial paradise !
The dresses which decorate the theatres are indescrib-
able ; so they are at the public promenades, and everywhere
ladiesy youougo.
meet,Th
The effect is magical—entrancing. Among 20
18, be sure, have got the little hat, what-
ever their age may be. Their shapes are infinite, and no
shape in particular can be said to have a preference. It is a
true republic this little lady's hat. The dresses are exceed-
ingly long, wide, and flowing; they certainly occupy more
room than the hoops of the last century. They are not much
trimmed for visiting, and when they are trimmed they aim
at the extraordinary employing fantastic ornaments,
lozenges, semiwreaths, claws, ruches, &c. The medley is
so inconsistent and confused that there is no definite mean-
ing to be traced. A few small flounces, one or two at
most, decorate the skirt.
Heaps of sailor vests to match the dresses, white and
striped burnous— these are the most general garments now
in wear. The hair is usually arranged ci la Regence,
that is, with large curls over the forehead. No doubt this
next winter we shall have the pochades of the restoration,
for we are rapidly tending that way.
At the recent concert of Sivori, at which Vivier and

Madame Bath. t were present, the latter wore a tulle dress,
to bottom with small narrow puffings.
`told up her© and there by ribbons pro-
Thesetrim in trimmedpuffs
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tist. Over this jape was thrown a gos -
ceeding from the wt.
samer veil, turned up on either side with bunches of daisies.
lin dress lined with rose taffeta.
Ilead-dress to match. Madame Emile de Girardin, at the
same concert, wore a mus
17he effect was very line. The
She on a lace pelerine, or rather a kind of hood, which
we hat with mauve flowers,
Princess
completely'tarlatane dress with sleeves
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ppeared in a muslin robe
The Baroness de Morthorn
with embroidered flounces, a sort of black tunic over it,
with groseille flounces to hold it t 0, and with grapes inter.
twined with her hair.
A young lady, belon,ging to a ft tmily of condition, a fear
days ago went through the ceremony of assuming the Car-
melite habit. Nothing was to be: heard in the church but
sobs and wafflings. The ,state the poor mother was in
pierced the heart of every spectator,. She knew she was
never to see again the face of a beloved daughter, for such
seclusion is death by anticipation, li.and yet they are happy
creatures these, to whom God assigns His love for a voca-
tion. In His bosom they find a refuge against the storms
of life; for them it has no torments, no perplexities, no
grief; death itself is disarmed of its terrors and apprehen-
sions. There alone can peace be found het'e below, and
Providence does not allow us any perfect happiness be-
sides this.
But now let me describe the toilet of this young' postu-
lant, and I am greatly mistaken if it does not please you.
It was a white tarlatine dress, laid upon waves oft uuslin
and tulle—that is, upon at least three transparent lietti-
coats. The trimming of this dress consisted, first, of a very
thick niche of tarlatane, scalloped; above this three very
puffy bouillons ; and over these a similar ruche to the one
below. The corsage, partially cpen on. a stomacher, was
likewise adorned with a berthe with small puffs, surrounded'.
with a ruche. The sleeves, trimmed with long puffs, di-
vided by small ruches, were extremely graceful. This
same pattern may be composed of gossamer tulle (illusion)
for finder-sleeves, but they the ruches are made of taffeta,
which has a very pretty effect.
The youthful nun had a veil, a bouquet, and a wreath of
orange bi.ossoms, like a bride. This parure would be a
very delicate one for a bride who was not rich, or for a
young girl going to a ball.
I shall not torment you any longer with the sad picture of

this fair postulaat, but proceed to describe to you a few
more ball-room dresses; and if you dwell among the vota-
ries of dancing they' may possibly be of use to you.
One of these is a nille dress of pearl grey, with two large
puffs to match, divided by two small grey taffeta flounces,
scalloped a Pemporte-pi;:ce. The same flounces are re-
peated over and under the puffs, making six flounces in all.
On the puffs are strewn twig's of rose acacias without leaves,
The corsage a deuce pointes is arranged in the same manner.
The same style of dress may ,be made of tarlatano or white
tulle„ and, instead of flounces mud flowers you apply pinked
ruches. This is exquisite.
A robe of white tarlatane may be trimmed with seven
fluted flounces, all of them edged with black guipure. The
corsage and sleeves must have three rows of it ; the falls of
a long sash are edged in the same wsy, and so are the
flounces of a straight mantle, which must be worn when
this dress is worn as half toilet (demi-toilette).
The sailor vests, or sautes-en-barques, are still in high
favour; they are preferred to the Talmas. Bear in mind
that they are especially suitable to ladies of large frame.
They are expected to outlast the winter, and they already
talk of trimming them with lace and fur. There will be a
great deal of lace worn by-and-by. The Princess R-
ims had two burnous made, one of Chantilly and the other
of needlework. The cost of the latter was so enormous
that I dare not name the price. It is fastened with rose
ribbons, instead of tassels. The black has two white
bows.
Burnous of embroidered muslin, and still more plain
burnous, are much better adapted to minor fortunes; and
they are pretty and elegant.
Let me show you the king of round hats, after which wo
may put out the lights; it is a hat the shape and distinc-
tion of which at once challenge respect to the wearer.
This hat, then, is a Mademoiselle, with turned up edges at
the side; it is made of grey straw, with no ornament but a
single pintade plumet, of the same grey as the straw ; the
base of this plumet is of red water feathers, A ribbon of
the same shade is put round the crown, to fasten behind;
the falls do not come down very low.
With this headdress, and by way of completion, some
venturous ladies would put a net of the same colour as the
water feathers. A grey one might be added, but black is
always the best colour,
Bound or oval hats, and, in fine, hats without strings,
are now making great way among the fashionable. They
have been resolutely adopted in all watering places, even
for very mature young women. They have more than
doubled in number in Paris, but only among young women
less mature.
One of you has inquired of me, and asked my advice
about a riding habit. If it is for town wear you must be
particular, adhere to good taste, and shun the appearance of
a professional equestrian. Consequently a riding dress made
of English cloth, a mademoiselle hat, with or without
plumes, a small black lace veil, a high collar, a small cra-
vat, tight sleeves, and ruffles inside. Then, if you wish to
be smart, let your riding habit be green or blue.
If it be for country wear you may be more fanciful. In
which case a black alpaca or dark-coloured dress, a large
Louis XIII. basquine, with white sleeves; a grey felt hat,
with a plume falling over the back, may be attainable .
Even some nankeen and ticking dresses have been worn.
However, do not forget that no toilet requires more good
taste and simplicity than a lady's riding dress. We must
beware of all exaggeration, and avoid every approach to the
tumbler, the mountebank, and the acrobat. Caprice is so
fond of liberty when she indulges, that, when once it carries
us away, it is like a horse running away in a fit of terror,
which could not stop if it would.

MARQUISE DE BERNIS.

COUNTRY MAR/ix.A)S.

LIVERPOOL-SETT. 26.

Our market to-day was extremely quiet, and wheat only
in limited demand, at Tuesday's prices. The same may be
said of flour. The Indian corn trade was steady, making
former prices.