The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-05 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CAUTION TO THE MEDICAL PROFESSION.—ROBIERY
AT A PHYSICIAN'S.—Mary Smith, address refused, was
charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a silver inkstand,
of the value of £l6, from thi; study of Dr. Arthur Leered,
of 12, Old Burlington-street.

Mr. James Jewis, jun., defended the prisoner.
James Jeans, footman to Dr. Leared, said that on the
previous afternoon, about 20 minutes past three, the pri-
soner came to the house, and inquired for Dr. Leered. He
told the prisoner the doctor was not at home, but as she
wanted to see hint very particularly, he showed her into
the study. While laying the cloth for dinner in the dining
room, the prisoner came out of the study and
asked him for a newspaper. He gave her ene, and after
she had again sat down for about two minutes she
came out and asked if Dr. Leared had come in. He told
her that he had not, and she then said that she would wait
no longer, and at the same moment an ink bottle fell from
under her shawl or cloak. Upon this she exclaimed, "Oh,
I've dropped a b)ttle," and walked back into the study,
and while duing so he (witness) heard the rattle of
the ink bottle against the inkstand, which she had no
doubt got under her cloak. As soon as she got into the
study ho closed the deer upon her and sent for the police,
and charged her with stealing the inkstand.

Dr. Leered said the inkstand was of the value of £l6.
In answer to Mr. Lewis, the first witness stated that the
prisoner did not say that she would go and put the ink
bottle back, having caught it up with her dress.
Mr. Knox asked the footman whether the inkstand was
in the usual place when he entered the room after securing
the prisoner, and received an answer in the affirmative.
Fenn, 75 C, said that prisoner told him she met a
woman in the street who told her to go to the doctor's, and
say that he was wanted at No. 12, Grosvenor-place, but
that she did not know the woman.

Barns, the gaoler, said the prisoner was the constant
associate of thieves, and had been several times at the
court, but he was not aware then whether she had been
convicted,

Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner for a week.

ALLEGED STREET OUTRAGE —Archibald Thompson, a
young man, was charged with violently assaulting Mr. J.
Hills, hay salesman, of Old Wharf, Abingdon-street, while
in Oxford-street, the precious evening.
Mr. Beard prosecuted.
_ _

Mr. Hills was walking along Oxford-street, the previous
night, when the prisoner went up to him and asked him the
way to a barber's. Mr. Hills made some answer, and the
prisoner then said, " I'll show you the --- Garotte system,"
and put his area round Mr. Hills' neck. Mr. Hills, being
a peaceful man, pushed the prisoner away, but he again at-
tacked Mr. Hills, who then secured him, and a constable,
Topp, 38 D, coming up, prisoner was given into custody.
In answer to Mr. Knox both Mr. Hills and the constable
said the prisoner hqd been drinking.

Prisoner said that he had been out all day drinking, and
that he was insulted by complainant.
Mr. Knox said he considered the prisoner's act more that
of a drunken foolish man than anything else. He had been
drinking, and had got hold of a man far too powerful for
him.

Mr. Beard said that the prisoner lived at 252, Oxford-
street, and yet asked a stranger for a barber's. To say the
least the prisoner's conduct was calculated to create alarm
at the present time.

Mr. Knox said he should not send the prisoner for trial,
but he should order him to pay the highest fine, namely,
£5.

....r.,.........,.•

THAMES.

GAROTTING A BURGLAR,--EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—
William Granger, a strong and determined-looking man,
aged 22 years, described as a labourer, and having no occu-
pation, was brought before Mr. Selfo charged with bur-
glariously breaking and entering the Dock House Tavern,
in the East India-road, Bromley, sad stealing therein 15
shillings, 15 sixpences, Cs 31d in coppers, a bag, 2 table-
cloths, and a napkin, the property of Mr. John Pritchard,
an old and much respected licensed victualler, whose right
hand was much swollen and contused.
Mr. Selfe, looking at the police-sheet, told the prosecu-
tor after he was sworn that he could not compliment him
on his penmanship. He could not make out the prosecu-
tor's name or the name of his house.

The prosecutor, John Pritchard, Dock House tap—Look
here, sir, at my hand. I cannot write to-day after garott-
ing that fellow.

Mr. Selfe—Well, I am glad to hear that a burglar has
been garotted.

Mr. Pritchard—Last night I fastened up my house in the
usual manner at a quarter before twelve o'clock, and went
to bed. At half-past one o'clock this morning I was awoke
by a noise, and listened, I thought it was the cat or dog,
but when I listened again I heard the money being
taken out of the till, and was satisified that
no cat or dog could do that. I then hastened
into the bar and discovered the prisoner delibe-
rately emptying the till. I sprung upon him and seised
him by the neck and regularly garotted him. He was quite
insensible, and I handed him over to the police. My son,
who is a volunteer, came down stairs with his musket and
bayonet, and if there had been a half dozen of them we
should have been a match for them.
one
of Pthrett
Mr. Selfe---What did you lose ?
M r
schhealrvde—s
forOn —Only
change,22s.66dB. .
9in d
. silverwo r
worth
ofwhichcop
coppers
rs left
from
oomn
the till, two table cloths and a napkin. All the money and
property and money was taken from him. •
Mr. Selfe --How did he enter your house.
rrttchsta—lie; put UttUlS. sue catch of back window
raised the bolt, and opened it. He knees well the ways of
my house, for he was in my service twelve months.
The Prisoner, on being asked if he would give his ad-
dress, replied that he lived in Kilburn.
Mr. Selfe—What brought you to thisend of London?
The Prisoner—l have lodgings at 47, Robinhood-lane,
Poplar.

Mr. Selfe—l shall commit you for trial next Friday,
when you shall be brought up again. You are now re-
manded.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—TaiI DIY.

Amsterdam
Ditto .. 3 Months. 11 0E
Rotterdam — 11

11 14i
11 161
11 16f

Antwerp ..
Brussels — 25 42
Hamburgh — 13 6
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 1
Vienna -12 2
Trieste

25 47
25 47i
13 6t
25 20
25 421
26 45
119
12 30

12 30

Petersburgh

Berlin -

Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn

49i
49k
25 65
25 52'
25 521
119
1191
621
a2a

491
49i
25 60

Milan
Genoa

25 57i
25 57}

Naples
Palermo .. 119 i
Messina
119 k
Lisbon '-52t
Oporto —52 i
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z..... £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
sSilverou tin Bar s ( D
St a noduabrldo) ........... ........ 0 6 lt
South American on 8
............. .. . . 0 0 0

THE
informed, 'urn, .
We e areALES
theOFbeTsHt authority
IF
it:C, the marriage
of the Prince of Wales is to take place in Mich, not April,
l A RilIA G o
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as has been stated. It will, therefore, be U Lent. We
understand that the Queen regrets very mil, and is de-
sirous that her people should be aware tbt she regrets,
that it should be so ; but we hear that thercare reasons of
state which make it most undesirable tli it should bo
longer delayed. The Queen will take care,however, that
it is not during the more soleriva Part of ikat season."—
Guardian, i

erms.

MR. GLADSIONE AND PIi9FES'SOI2
IVEIPMAN ON AMERICA.

The following correspondence has been handed
to us for publication :
" 11, Carlton House Terrace, Dec. I, 1862.
"My dear Sir,—l am sure you will receive indulgently
a comment I have to make on a statement in your recent
letter on American affairs, touching a matter not of opinion
but of fact.
" I have never to my knowledge expressed any sympathy
with the Southern cause, in any speech at Newcastle or
elsewhere, nor have I passed any eulogium on President
Davis. In dealings, whether with South or North, I have
I thought it out of my province to touch in any way the com-
plicated question of praise or blame.
" Perhaps I should end here; but I cannot avoid add-
ing, that I think myself a much better friend to the
Northern Americans, if it is not presumptuous to use the
phrase, than those who have encouraged and are encou-
raging them to persevere in their hopeless and destructive
enterprise. Among these lof course assign to you the
prominent place, merited alike by your distinguished powers
and your undoubted sincerity.—Believe me, my dear sir,
faithfully yours, W. E, GLADSTONE.
" To Professor Newman."

(Reply.
"Illy dear Sir,—l am honoured,) and was at first embar-
rassed, by your kind communication ; embarrassed by some
uncertainty whether to answer it from a private or from a
public point of view. If the matter belonged to a crisis
already past, my obvious and simple way would be thank-
fully to acknowledge your unexpected and kind mention of
me—to regret if I had misunderstood you—and express my
satisfaction that you do not like to be thought to sympathise
with the detestable cause of the South.
"But, in the first place, I need to send your disavowal
to the Star, that your contradiction may appear in the
columns which inserted what you regard as my erroneous
statement. In the next, I painfully remember that the
crisis, which for America (I trust) is fast passing, is for
England one at its commencement. Most glad should Ibe
if political questidfis could be wholly impersonal. But oven
if I had your near friendship, instead of a slight acquaint-
ance (which through your, affability has justified me in
occasional communication, on s.ivery few matters), still the
vast importance of the futfire relations between England
and England's greater progenY would forbid me to indulge
in the pleasure' of a yielding reply. It is a terrible
fact, that that conduct of English statesmen for which
you have been represented as claiming high moral credit
is at this moment goading both North and South
into hatred against us. I see no chance of allaying the
malignant elements which the upper classes of England
have stirred up withoat much plain speaking, with little
care whom we offend. The seeds of an unnatural and
dreadful war have been sown. The plague is not yet
stayed. Pirate ships are yet about to issue from Liverpool.
The Government which was so active about Hale's rockets,
and would not allow arms to be sent to noble Hungary,
shows no signs of activity when succour in the most odious
form and most damaging to the fair fame of England is to
be sent to that slave power
with which the late tyranny of Naples was respectable and
endurable. You first earned honour with me by your de-
nunciations of that tyranny when no other public man
spoke. Much should I have rejoiced to see in you a strong
heart of righteousness, able to stem the tide of contemp.
tible national jealousy.
" I read your Newcastle speech with great pain—I will
not say with surprise ; for in a previous speech the papers
had represented you as reiterating, after six months,
Earl Russell's monstrously untrue epigram, that the
North is fighting for dominion, the South for independence.
This I supposed to be meant as an encouragement to the
South, and a gratuitous display of sympathy with it. Your
Newcastle speech was, I believe, universally understood as
intended to feel the way towards the recognition of the
South by England. The words in it which most impressed
me were, first, the declaration (which you were repre-
sented to have made) that you expected the liberation
of the slaves by their own 'tasters sooner than from
the North. This was said after the emancipation of
the slaves in Columbia ; after the Territories had
been legislatively secured 'to freedom; after Con-
gress had offered pecuniary aid to emancipation,
after the President had implored rebels to accept in due
time the terms offered ; finally, after he had announced the
day upon which the offer was to be withdrawn, and uncom-
pensated liberation enforced. The Southern papers bitterly
complain of the vast number of slaves freed by the'Northern
armies. To none of these things do you allude (unless the
papers astonishingly belied you), but you are made to say,
Jefferson Davis and the other leaders of the Soul h have
made an army;. they are soon, I understand, to have a
navy; but, gentlemen I they have made what is more than
either—they have made a nation I'

"I certainly understand this as applause for a great and
noble work; whether the fact affirmed bo true is a sepa-
rate question. Prudence sometimes imperatively enjoins
silence on public men, when humble persons may usefully
be open-mouthed. Ido not claim that English statesmen
shall denounce all the guilt of all Governments. Bat when
a power, comparable only to Thugs, buccaneer, and canni-
bals, tries to thrust its hideous head among nations, and
claims the protection an privileges of international law—a
power which rose against the freest :rule on earth, fcr the
avowed motive of propagating the worst form of slavery ever
known—having no legitimate complaint, or, if it had, cer-
tainly trying no constitutional means of redress, but, plung-
ing at once into arms, and that when the arsenals had been
emptied, and the fortresses seized by the treason of office-
holders—l hold it to be an offence against law, order, and
public morality for a statesman whose words carry weight
to speak at all of such a power without declaring abhorrence
of it ; or, at least, to speak in such a tone that he can for a
moment be suspected of desiring its success.

" No one will believe that it is the policy of an English
Minisfry to encourage insurrection, :as such, They must
have some urgent reason for it. The party now fostered
by them (not, 1. thankfully add, at all to the extent which
the elite of London, would have desired, but still, as
no insurrectionists in the very best cause were ever
before fostered), this party of insurgents has no moral
claims, even if there were no North. All the world,
therefore, inevitably believed that England has been
actuated by an intense desire to see the destruction
of the Union, and that every other pretext is hypoc-
risy. We have to clear ourselves of the dreadfully
plausible imputation of having desired an opportunity of
war at the time of the outrage on the Trent. In the letter
with which you now honour me you say that you count
yourself a bettor friend to the North than I am, in that you
do not ' encourage it to a hopeless and destructive enter-
prise.' To pronounce it hopeless and destructive is to en-
courage and almost to justify the rebels. On no previous
occasion have English statesmen taken on themselves to
prejudge the ability of a friendly Government to put down
insurrection. lam in high hope that the righteous cause
will be blessed by a righteous God, since its upholders are
at length in earnest. —I have the honour to be, sincerely
yours, " FRANCIS W. NEWSMAN.
" Dec. 4, 1862.
" To the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, &c."

MARKETS-THIS DAY.

MARK-LANE.

The supply of home-grown wheat on sale here to. day
was small. Good and fine parcels moved off steadily at full
currencies ; otherwise, the trade ruled inactive on former

There was a good show of samples of foreign wheat on
the stands, and the demand for all descriptions was in a
sluggish state at about previous rates.
Floating cargoes of grain met a slow sale at late quota-
tions.

Good and fine barley ruled firm, and prices were well
supported. Inferior parcels, however, changed hands
slowly at unaltered rates.
About an average business was transacted in malt at late
rates.
With oats the market was tolerably well supplied, and
the trade ruled inactive on former terms.
Beans and peas wore in fair average request at full prices
Most kinds of flour changed hands to a moderate extent,
and the quotations ruled firm.

ARRIVALS THIS PEEL
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oath. Flour.
English 1,250 1,750 1 950
Irish.
-- 510
- Foreign—. —39,720 6,530 24,330 2,210 sacks
5,820 brls

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supply of each kind of meat is moderately good.
For good and prime qualities the trade continues firm, but
inferior descriptions are a dull inquiry at our quotations.
Per 81b. by the carcase.
sdsd stied
Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 2
Middling do. .. 32 3 6 Prime do .. 44 4 6
Prime large do. 3 8 3 10 Veal .. 3 8 4 6
Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Small pork .. 4 6 410
Large pork .... 3 8 4 4 Lamb
Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 8