The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EV'ENING, NOVg3tßga 8, 1862.

will make him a useful, industrious citizen. We
will give him his family, his wife, his children—
give him the earnings of the sweat of his brow, and
as a man we will give him what the Lord ordained
hire to have. I shall watch everything closely re-
specting this experiment. It is something to be
permanent—more than for a day, more than for a
year. Upon you depends whether this mighty re•
suit shall be worked out, and the day of jubilee
come to God's ransomed people.

of our officers and men, which, however unpleasant I
to contemplate and believe, is nevertheless so true,',
and so directly the result of our military blunder- i
ing, that it is useless to shut our eyes against the
facts. . . . There is not an ardent soul in this
land that more earnestly desires to see the end of
this war than does the great majority of the officers
and men of this army. So strong has this feeling
become that hundreds and thousands have become
intensely disgusted with the service, and are anxi-
ous to leave it. Resignations of the very best field
and line officers are going on by the score, and are
only prevented from taking effect by the exercise of
the military prerogative of disapproval. The men
are discontented, and many of the brave rank and
file almost prefer the dishonour attached to deser-
tion to being dragged through another long period
of inaction. . . . These are plain words, but
they are undeniably true. There is one thing cer-
tain, the disruption of this nation is so near being
accomplished, that if the people of the North knew
the whole truth they would be struck dumb."
Both of these gentlemen call for instant action to
remedy this deplorable state of affairs which they
describe, but do not Gen. INlTlellan and Gen. Hal-
leek know, and do not their own statements con-
firm the fact, that the army is not in a position to
advance ? And is not one soldier of the South,
fighting without the hope of reward for the inde-
pendence of his native land, led by officers who have
both courage and genius, worth a dozen of Irish and
German mercenaries, fighting for a cause of which
they do not understand the merits, and which, it
they do understand, they very often disapprove.
Perhaps, however, the inaction of the army is more
nearly at au end than they suppose, and 111‘Clellan
or his successor may have to accept battle instead
of offering it.
Unpopular as General M'Clellan is with the Re-
publicans and abolitionists, General Buell, the next
most important Federal officer in command of an
army in the field, is equally, if not more so. He is
accused of having stated at the commencement of
his military career that he did not know who was
right or who was wrong in the struggle—the North
or the South, and to have acted throughout the war
on the lazy principle of poop-curantism. He is
declared to be always behind time, to have lost the
battle of Pittsburg Landing by his indifferentism,
and to have wilfully, if not treasonably, allowed
General Bragg to retire from Perrysville, and out
of Kentucky into Tennessee, without serious loss,
though his army in overwhelming force, stood idly
by, within a few miles, and might have captured
the Confederate army. Some weeks ago the Pre-
sident, moved by the urgent complaints of the
Abolitionists, superseded General Buell in his com-
mand ; but only to reinstate him by telegraphic
dispatch a few days afterwards. He also is a West
Pointer, and the inuendo is daily made that the
West Pointers on both sides love each other too
well to fight very desperately, and that some fine
morning before anyone suspects the manoeuvre they
will unite their armies, and make an end of the Re-
public. But, as they are all mediocrities, with one
or two exceptions on the Southern side, this solu-
tion of the national difficuties is not so likely as a
European intervention, the fear of which is daily
losing its terrors,
The opposition to the much dreaded-conscription
takes in some parts of the country the mild form
of postponement, the wealthy citizens hoping that
it may in many counties and cities, if not in whole
States, be avoided by doubled and redoubled offers
of bounty-money to Irishmen and Germans, and to
newly arrived emigrants. In Pennsylvania it has
taken a shape much more formidable ; no less than
5,000 of the colliers and miners of Schuylkill
county having turned out, armed with pikes,
pistols, and other weapons, to resist its operation,
declaring they will not returr to their work
until an assurance is given them from the Go-
vernor of the State that they shall be exempted.
And yet the " buncombe" orators and "extermina-
tors" in Ne iv England and elsewhere continue to
talk and write of the patriotic and united North ;
and to prophesy as confidently as ever that by the
Ist of January the rebellion will be crushed and
the Union restored! And the worst of it is the
persons who talk in this manner believe what they
say. They know so little of their own people, and
so much less of the South, and they so enormously
overestimate the strength of their " ism," the re-
sources at the command of the Government, and the
patriotic purpose of the North, that, taking their
hopes for facts, and their passion for sober reason,
they are always ready to fix an early date for the
conquest of the Southern people, and to imagine
that noting in the world can withstand their army,
which they know to be mercenary, and their gene-
rals, whom they assert to be incompetent.

But the deep distrust of the merchants and men
of business, and of people who neither talk nor
write, is shown in Wall-street. Gold, the delicate
and unerring barometer of the hopes and fears of
commerce, tells a tale of alarm, if not of despon-
dency. The silly expedient of the Board of Brokers
in striking the prices of gold from the official lists,
in compliance with a suggestion of Mr. Chase, sent
down the price of the commodity five per cent. at
one y, but only to allow it to
mount
same day, after a series of
violent bouup
fluctuations,nd on
againW edn e
the s
to d
anearly its former position.
o
To day it stood at the close of business at 321 per
cent. premium ; and it is more than probable that,
high as the range had been, gold is not yet within
10 or 15 per cent. of the extreme price which it is
destined to attain, under the combined operation
of Mr. Lincoln's proclamation and Mr. Chase's
finance, to say nothing of the quarrels of the gene-
rals, the demoralisation of the army, and the general
bewilderment of the public.

If anything ought to inspire hope amid the dark
counsels of the nation at this time, it is the
unmistakeable evidence afforded by the local elec-
tions that the extreme war party is in disfavour, and
that a strong conservative reaction has set in
against abolitionism, federalism, centralism, in-
vasion of State rights, and the arbitrary and alto-
gether unconstitutional action of the President and
his Cabinet. Even Connecticut has elected the
Democratic Ticket, and there is a strong probability
that Massachusetts itself—the focus of all the ill-
will excited against the Union in the minds of the
Southern people, will do likewise, and consign
Governor Andrew and the fanatics who support
him to harmlessness and private life. In New York
the prospects of the success of Mr. Horatio Seymour
and his ticket grow brighter every day, and the
malice and misrepresentation of the opposing pirty
increase in a corresponding ratio. Next to Mr.
Vallandigham, defeated in ohio, the two most pro-
minent candidates for election to Congress in the
Democratic interest are Mr. Fernando Wood and
his brother, Mr. Benjamin Wood, of this city, both
of whose supporters declare that there is not the
shadow of a chance of their failure. These and the
elections for Governor will take place on the 4th of
November, and already excite an amount of interest
and discussion in every part of the country suffi-
cient to prove the immense importance everywhere
attached to them. If successful here, the Demo-
cratic party cannot fail to be strong in the next
Congress—strong enough to show the President
that his policy on the slavery question and his
attempt to excite a servile war have not been in
unison with the sentiment of the people, and that
it has alarmed the country even more than the non-
success of his armies and the incompetency of his
generals.

A NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR COTToN.—The Go-
vernor-General of Canada has communicated to tho Bo-
tanical Society specimens and seeds of a new fibre plant
from the Rocky Mountains. This plant, commonly
known as the Silk "Weed, has been determined to be an
Aselepias, and is now under experiment in the Botanic
Garden at Kingston, C. W. Dr. Hart, the discoverer of
the plant, in a communication addressed to Lord Monck,
planted cotton in Yanzoo,
explaining the mode of cultivation of the plant, says,—"lts
fibre or stable is longer and firmer than cotton, and of a
gbiss no silk or satin can match. During ten years I have
in
was sought by the Liverpool and Manchester speculator,.
and brought the highest prices ; and on that practical ex-
perience I ground my convictions with regard to the Silk
Weed."_.., Mississippi Valley. My brand
The Kingston Whi in recommending its culti-
vationplant, Silk Weed, or Ascle ias may, from its hardiness,
Canada, observes • g'"Who knows but this fibre
glossiness. and fibrous texture yet take the place of cotton,
which could not grow in Canada, lying so far north as it
does. But this plant, borne from the heights of the Rocky
MountalLs, may find a more congenial nee in the less
rigorous climate of Canada.-4clucational limes.

LAW INTEL LIGENCE.—Nov. 7.

COURT OF DIVOR'Jt.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
GLENNIE V. GLENNIE AND BOWLES.
The following evidence was given this morning
on behalf of the respondents, who, in addition to
not guilty, had pleaded connivance and condona-
tion.
Miss Margaret Jane Macrae, e/amined by Mr.
Huddleston, Q.C., for the respondent—l am sister
of Mrs. Glennie. I knew Mr. Bowles before my
sister was married. I first became acquainted with
the intimacy that had existed between my sister
and her husband on the morning of the wedding.
That was the first time I ever saw Mr. Glen-
nie. My sister had been liting at Mrs. Dibbs'a
in Walton Villas, Brompton. I was living
with my mother at Fulham. My brother
lived at Bow. My sister left home tour or
five years ago. She came from Scotland and
lived in different places in Lntirlon. I saw very
little of her. I had seen Mr. Giennie's portrait and
heard his name mentioned tour or five years ago.
She had a gold watch and chain, but I am not
aware that Mr. Glennie knew who had given them
to her. A week after the marriage I saw Mr.
Bowles at Somerset-house I afterwards told Mr,
Glennie that it was nor proper 'o have him coming
to the house, for I thought it very imprudent
in
Mr. Giennie to have him coming there Considering
how intimate my sister had been with him before
her marriage. •I
received the letter produced from
Mr. Glennie. [lt was dated Oct. 14, 1863, and the
writer-said he regarrkd Mr. RoNies as a mu n
triend, for he had b..en very kind 1. Bella: It te.

feared to some false repolq;which hid been circu-
lated as he feared for the purpose of creating a cold-
ness between him end his wife, but he observed
that their trust in each other and in God was too
strong to be affected by such calumnies.] I re-
member my sister going one night to th • theatre.
She went home egain after that, I believe.
I remember her sleeping with me twice at Ful-
ham. One time was on the 4th of January, and
the other was two days before the final separation.
I remember that the former of these occasions was
the 4th of January, because I was in the house
alone, my mother and younger sister being at Bow.
My sister came at half past eleven at night, and
went away early in the morning—at nine or per-
haps before. When she came a lady and gentle-
man were with her, but I did not see who they
were. She slept with me, and went away before I
was up. I saw Mr. Glennie on the Wednesday or
Thursday following. He did not mention to me
anything about his wife sleeping out on the pre-
vious Saturday (the 4th). Mr. Glennie left my
sister at Penge on a Wednesday. I had been there
on the day previous, I believe they slept together
on that night, but I had gone home to Fulham.
By the Queen's Advocate (for the co-respondent)
—I made the acquaintance of Mr. Bowles a few
months before the marriage. I saw him with her
two or three times before the wedding.
Cross-examined by Mr. Karsloke, Q.C. (for the
petitioner)—l am eighteen years of age. My sister
formerly lived with an aunt in Scotland, but I was
with my mother in London. When she came to
London I believe she at first stayed at my mother's;
but I hardly recollect, for at that time I was a girl
at school. Then she left home, and I heard that
Mr. Glennie was keeping her away somewhere. I
had spoken to my sister about Mr. Bowles before I
received the leiter from Mr. Glennie which has been
read. When we went to the theatre it was with
Mr. Bowles. We had met him in Piccadilly. We
went to see the " Colleen Bawn." After the per-
formance was over I went home in a cab to Fulham.
My sister left before me. Mr. Bowles went out of
the theatre with her, and I saw no more of her that
night. Oa the 4th of January I had gone to bed
at ten, and I was called up at half-past eleven to let
my sister in.
Re-examined—lt was after the letter was written
that I spoke to Mr. Glennie about Mr. Bowles com-
ing to the house. Mr. Glennie never mentioned
my sister's going to the theatre to me. He never
said anything about her staying out, which I used
to think very strange.
Miss Eliza Hutchinson—l live at 58, Grove-
place, Brompton. I know Mrs. Glennie. I recol-
lect going with her one night to Fulha 1. on the
4th of January. A gentleman who was at that
time keeping company with me was with us. I
saw her going into the house ; and then the gen-
tleman and I walked home again. I left my apart-
ments on th,. 7th January. At that time I was
living in Oxtord-street.
Cross-examined—The genii, titan -:nd I have nos
apartments in the same hour We :ire still keep-
ing company. I had known Mrs. Glennie ..b-iii
two years. I have never been to to r mother's ex
cept on that one occasion. We had met to r
in Piccadilly at half-past nine. I don't hnow Mr.
Bowles ; hut I have seen him. He was pointed out
to me by a fellow lodger who had heard something
about him.

By the Judge—We got back from Fulham at a
little before 12. Mrs. Macrae lived a short distance
from the bridge.
Mr. George Godward—l have served my time to
an architect and surveyor. I recollect meeting Mrs.
Glennie, while I was walking with Miss Hutchin-
son, in Piccadilly. It was, I believe, on a Monday
or Tuesday night, a fortnight after Christmas, but
I cannot precisely say which. We went with her
to No. 11, Moorpark-terrace, Fulham. I have known
Mrs. Glennie about two years. When we got to
Fulham Mrs. Glennie went indoors, and the
last witness and I went away. I don't know who
opened the door, but I believe it was her sister.

- Cross-examined--I have not commenced business
very long,. I. was first asked to come here in June
last.

Jane Poly, of 23, Bedfordbury, charwoman and
flower -seller—l know Mrs. Dibbs. I was in the
habit of going there to sell flowers to Mrs. Glennie.
I have also worked there. I knew Mr. Glennie
and Mr. Bowles. One afternoon I saw Mrs. Glen-
nie in bed with Mr. Bowles at Mrs. Dibbs's. It
was just before she got married. She went by the
name of Bella Howard. Mr. Glennie came the same
afternoon. She was still in bed with Mr. Bowles
when he came. Mrs. Glennie had rung the bell,
and I had answered it. Mrs. Glennie asked me to
bring a little warm milk for Mr. Bowles, as he
was very unwell. (A laugh.) As I was leaving
the room to fetch the milk Mr. Glennie came in ;
and Mrs. Glennie jumped out of bed exclaiming,
"Ohmy !" (Laughter.) Mr. Glennie put his head
on the table, and said, " Bella, you've deceived me,
for you said Tom Bowles would not be here to-day."
I went downstairs and said to Mrs. Dibbs," There's
a dark gentleman come." Mrs. Dibbs replied,
" Oh, my, won't there be a bowl-out now." (Roars
of laughter.)
Cross-examined—l was asked to come here last
night.
Mr. Karslake—Do you see Mr. Bowles now ?
Witness—Yes, sir; it is that gentleman (point-
ing to one in quite different part of the court from
that in which Mr. Bowles was sitting).
Catherine Macrae, a little girl, the younger sister
of the respondent, spoke to the familiar terms on
which Mt. Bowles and Mr. Glennie lived. On one
occasion Walter asked Bella if she had been out ii
a brougham with Tom, and she said " Yes." At
another time when Walter asked Mr. Bowles if he
would come and dine with him on the next day, he
said " Yes, I'd better bring my luggage and stop
altogether." (Laughter.) Heard the respondent tell
the petitioner that she had not had any money from
M. Bowks, but 't-it, she should have some to-mor
row. Mr. Glennie turned sticky and went t bed.
Saw Bella one Friday nig t slip some money into
Wsiter's hand and say. .* l'hai's what I prorniseU
v nu." One night he said to he. " Y ,u'd better st mi
that 'title ch., (meaning witness) home. Mt. Bowies
is quite enou.th to keep you company."
Cross-examined—All this took place nt Pimlico.
Witness went there during the .;ttristmas holiday...
Mr. Danitl Parrott, of 25, Victoria-grove, lodg-
ing-house keeper—l know Mr. and Mrs Glennie.
They lodged at my house trom Oct. 7 to the 11th
of November last. I know Mr Bowles. He came
to visit them several times. He was once or t vice
there when Mr. Glennie was at home.
Mr. George Macrae, of Bow, nurseryman—I am
brother of Mrs. Glennie. I did not visit her till
after her husband had left her at Penge. In Octo-
ber I called at the house, and Mr. Glennie came out
to me. He said, "I am sorry I can't ask you in ;
but I have a gentleman here whom I don't wish
you to see. I will come out and have a walk with
you." Theu he turned round to his wife and said,
" Bella, Tom will take care of you." We went to
a public-house and had some sherry. He said he
knew he ought to ask my forgiveness, for he had
sinned both against God and against me. I told
him that as ho had married my sister I would let
bygones be bygone. I told him also that I had
called because I had learned from my sister that his
brother, the Rev. John Glennie, of Green-street,
had been down there and cross-questioning her
about her past life. I said, too, that I had heard
that they were still in the habit of meeting their
old associates. He replied that that was true, and
that it was not pleasant when walking out to be
accosted by their old associates in sin ; add-
ing, that as his fa; her was a minister to the
Marquis of "Westminster he was afraid that it
might come to his lordship's ears. I offered to
take them to live with me at B tw, but I wanted
to know who the man wits that he had left with
her. He said it was a gentleman who had kept
Bella with him before they were married. I a
ob-
served that if that was the ease, he was got g
not
very rum way to work. He replied be cries was
debar Bella of her old friends ; and B
"ow 'ho only one that she ever saw. ti: said that.
Bella was very fond of laint,aud that he would haVb