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THE sErN, "'GO! 9ON, 1/IND AN vE sTINg. SEPTE\IBEN 22, 1862.

ping, however, had been removed to a place of
safety, and every arrangement had been made to
give the rebel ram a quietus when she arproached
the fortress.
" The preparations for the defence o Cincinnati
were being continued ; 25,000 fresh tr( ops arrived
there on the sth and 6th. The reports as to the
location of the Confederates were quite conflicting.
It was stated that they were at Falmouth, within
15 miles of Covington, on the 7th, and now it was
also said that only a scouting party of them had
appeared at Crittenden, twenty-five miles from
Covington. Another rumour says that they had
marched from Falmouth on Maysville, and that the
latter town had surrendered. Whatever may be
the truth of these rumours, it is certain that all fear
and anxiety are abating in Cincinnati. Business
was again resumed and everywhere looked cheerful.
Reports from Hagerstown of the evening of the Bth
state that the enemy were in force near that place."
The correspondent of the New York Herald,
under date Westminster, Md., Sept. 8, says :

The latest intelligence fom Frederick is to the
effect that the enemy, believed to be about 50,000
strong, was in the vicinity of Frederick, and
marching towards the Pennsylvania border. Scouts
who penetrated the rebel lines in that vicinity on
Sunday state that the rebels were encamped for a
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considerable distance about the city, and the direc-
tion the moving portion of the forces was taking
was towards Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It is
represented that a large force of cavalry—some
6,000, it was thought, had proceeded to Chambers-
burg- When the rebel invaders entered Frederick
the vanguard was led by Colonel Bradly Tyler
Johnson, with a force of 6,000 men. He was im-
mediately followed by ' Stonewall' Jackson, at
the head of 26,000 and an additional force followed
in his rear. On the approach of the enemy many
of the influential citizens and prominent Union men
left the city. The rebels commenced the invasion
of the state by the assumption of supreme authority
over it. Ex-governor Enoch Louis Lowe was ap-
pointed rebel military goverfior of Maryland, and
Bradley Tyler Johnson provost-marshal of Frederick
City. It is said that Stonewall Jackson made his
headquarters at the residence of General Cooper, in
Frederick City. On Sunday the rebel pickets were
stationed on the turnpike at Newmarket, about eight
miles east of Frederick City. A sufficient number
of Union troops has been sent to contend success
fully with the enemy. If they have crossed in the
force that has been represented a fight must soon
take place. The battle ground will probably be
somewhere between Monrovia and Frederick."

The Baltimore correspondent of the same journal
writes, on Sept. 9 :
" Military matters in Maryland remain in about
the same state as yesterday. The rebel army still
holds undisturbed possession of the capital of the
state, and, thus far, no steps have been taken for
their dislodgment. Citizens of Frederick City are
permitted to pass freely and unquestioned in and out
of that city. Two gentlemen residents of that place
left there yesterday, and from them I derive the
following particulars :

" General Hill and General Jackson are both at
Frederick. The movement of rebel troops from the
Potomac to that city has continued without inter-
ruption since Saturday, and is still in progress. It
is supposed that there are now fully 150,000 rebel
troops in Maryland. Comparatively few, however,
are at Frederick ; but bodies of troops are continu-
ally arriving and departing. The utmost degree of
quiet and order prevails at Frederick. Gen. Jackson
and Gen. Hill have both publicly declared that the
rebel army has come into Maryland as friends and
not as enemies; that all persons pursuing their ordi-
nary avocations shall not be in any way molested
or disturbed, and that all supplies of any kind
whatever taken for the use of the army will be
paid for. These declarations have been scrupu-
lously observed. The rebel soldiers are well
supplied with gold and silver and United States
Treasury notes, with which they pay for what they
buy.
"The bodies of rebel troops which leave Frede-
rick take different routes, as if striking towards
different points, and give out that they are actually
marching on different destinations. But it is sup-
posed that these columns will all concentrate at a
given point and march towards one object.

" The excitement in Baltimore has increased in
intensity, and there is every indication that we are
on the eve of a popular outbreak. It is a singular
fact that the character of this excitement is different
from that which has ever prevailed here before. It
is now the Unionists who manifest alarm and un-
easiness. The Secessionists are confident and
calm. The Unionists complain bitterly that the
Government has provided ample means for the de-
struction of the city, but none for its defence. The
appearance in the basin (in the heart of the city) of
five of the vessels of Commodore Porter's mortar
fleet has greatly increased this feeling. The Balti-
more American gives expression to this feeling by
saying that the rebels in strong force are marching
on Baltimore, and asking ' What are our chances
of rescue ? While Baltimore has abundant mate-
rials provided for its swift destruction, it has but
little for its defence.' "

The Richmond Dispatch of the sth September
gives the following account of the late battles near
the Rappahannock :
" Passengers by the Central Railroad, now almost
our only source of information from our armies at
Manassas, brought down with them yesterday even-
ing no well-authenticated intelligence from the great
battle of last Saturday. At the time of their leaving
Gordonsville it had been telegraphed thither from
Rapidan station, that participants in the battle had
arrived at the latter place, bringing intelligence of
the death of Sigel, the mortal wounding of Generals
Pope and M'Dowell, and the capture by our army
of 7,000 or 9,000 prisoners. This is all we could
gain of a later date than on the 28th.
" But among the passengers were several gentle-
'hien whp participated in the fight of Thursday.
From them we have the first intelligible, though
neither full or satisfactory, account of the locality
of the great three days' battle and the positions oc-
cupied respectively by the opposing forces. The
battle was fought on the plains of Manassas, our
forces occupying the identical position occupied by
the enemy at the beginning of the ever-memorable
battle of the 21st July, 1861, and the enemy oceu-
pying the position held by us on that occasion. We
will lay before the reader the account we have re-
ceived of the movements,-and the battle that ensued
on the day subsequent to our occupancy.

"On Monday General A. P. Hill moved down
from Salem along the Manassas Gap Railroad, and
on Tuesday took possession of Manassas Junction,
capturing several hundred prisoners and eight or
ten guns. General Ewell followed General Hill,
and General Taliafero, commanding General Jack-
son's old division, followed General Ewell. General
Taliafero reached Manassas on Wednesday evening,
just as the troops of Ewell and Hill were evacuating
that position and falling back towards Ball's Run,
in the direction of Centreville. General Taliafero
occupied Manassas, and made a show of throwing
OUT heavy pickets towards the enemy, who was at
Briston station, on the Orange and Alexandria
Railroad, five miles distant, in a south-westerly di-
rection, but directly after nightfall calling in his
pickets. He then fell back towards Centreville,
and took a position near Grovestown, where he re-
mained all night. His position was to the right of
Generals Ewell and Hill. At dawn the next day
occasional reports of cannon and musketry began
to be
heard towards the left, which was kept up at
intervals
until evening.
been Still no enemy had yet
on the
Portion of the field occupied by General
Taliafero's
division; but about 5 p.m. they were
suddenly borne down upon by several heavy co-
lumns of the enemy, numbering, it was esti-
The fight was opened on
mated, 20,000 men,
both sides with artillery, at first at long range,
but gradually the enemy drew up his batteries
to our lines. By six O'clock the distance be-
tween
the combatants had been reduced to
musket range, and the fight along the whole line
of Taliafero's, Ewell's, and Hill's divisions, became
general. The enemy fought with great obstinacy,
being inspired, it is thought, by the sop',osition
that they had caught General Jackson in small
force, and had an opportunity of crushing him, but
as often as they charged our lines they weredriven
boa with thinned ranks without being able to

move us from our position. Finally night closed
over the scene, and the enemy retired from the con-
flict. The battle was, however, kept up until nine
o'clock by the artilleryists on both sides. Our men
rested on their position that night, and on Friday
morning moved forward a mile in the direction of
the enemy. Our loss in this battle is estimated at
between 800 and 1,000 killed and wounded. The
enemy's is known to have been nearly double' that
number. We note the few casualties that have
come to our knowledge. General Taliafero‘ was
struck three times in the beginning of the action—
in the foot, neck, and arm. The first two were
very slight, but the last a painful though not dan-
gerous wound. The general continued in command
until the close of the action. General Ewell , was
shot through the knee with a Minie ball. The
bones were so shattered as, in the opinion of his
surgeons, to render amputation necessary.
" As our informants proceeded towards Aldie on
Friday morning they heard tremendous cannonad-
ing in the direction of the battle-field the day
before. Of the result of this fight and of the one
on the succeeding day we know only through
General Lee's two despatches to the President."
The following are the despatches of General Lee
referred to above :

" Head- quarters, Manassas Junction, nine p.m.,
August 29 (via Rapidan, August 30), 1862.

" So far this army has steadily advanced and re-
pulsed the frequent attacks of the enemy. The
line of the Rappahannock and Warrenton has
been relieved. Many prisoners are captured,
and I regret quantities of stores had to be de-
stroyed for want of transportation. Anderson not
yet up, and I hear nothing of those behind. We
have Ewell, Jumble, and Taliafero wounded—the
latter slightly, the others not mortally.

" To President Davis." " R. E. LEE.
" Head-quarters Army, Northern Virginia,
Grovestown (via Rapidan), August 30,
one a.m.

" This army achieved to-day on the plains of
Manassas a signal victory over the combined forces
of Generals M'Clellan and Pope: On the 28th
and 29th each wing, under Generals Longstreet
and Jackson, repulsed with valour attacks made
on them separately. We mourn the loss of our
dead in every conflict, yet our gratitude to Al.
mighty God for his mercies rises higher each day.
To Him and to the valour of our troops a nation's
gratitude is due. " R. E. LEE.
To President Davis."

The Richmond Dispatch of Sept. 4th calls on the
Confederate Congress to take the most vigorous
measures for executing the conscription act, so as
to call in the field immediately all able-bodied men
between 13 and 45 years of age, to enable them to
at once push their line of battle into the heart of
the enemy's country.

The 18th of September had been appointed by
President Davis as a day of fasting and prayer, to
render praise to God for the triumphs at Richmond
and Manassas.

A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press writes
from Nashville, under date of the 21st Aug.:—

" John Morgan had his head-quarters at Harts-
ville, a few miles from Gallatin, and has issued
a paper, called the Vidette, wherein the editor
says he shall publish occasionally. Morgan's
force had reached the number of 4,000, and it
is believed that the intrepid guerilla intends
to flank General Morgan at Cumberland Gap
and ' bag' his men, as a large rebel force has
left Chattanooga to co-operate with somebody
somewhere. One thing we are assured of—
the Cumberland Gap wires are in possession of
the rebels. The rebels also have possession of the
town of Clarksville, on the Cumberland River, and
the large bridge over the Red River near there has
been destroyed. The Columbia cars, as well as
those on the Chattanooga Railroad, run nearly every
day."

A Cincinnati telegram of the 7th states that
important news was expected from Nashville.
General Buell had ordered the evacuation of that
city.

General Beauregard and his staff had arrived at
Mobile. The general's health was perfectly re-
stored_

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, SEPT. 9.

The course of the money market is steady, and the
Stock Exchange firm under present suspense in military
affairs. There appears to be some increase of confidence in
the movements of the national army since M'Clellan and
Burnside are reported to have taken the field in Maryland.
The very large business at increased rates over the New
York roads also adds to the strength of the share market.
Central and Erie are both higher to-day and in good de-
mand, and the Western roads sympathise to some extent
in the advance. Contrary to the usual course of late, the
street dealings between the sessions of the board to-day
were rather better than at the board. There were fewer
adverse rumours from the seat of war, besides which some
of the stocks actively dealt in are not over abundant in cash
delivery. At the afternoon board the market left off firm,
though not in all instances, at the extreme prices of the
day. The Government stocks hold on remarkably steady
under the threats of rebel invasion of the Free States,
and the price of gold went down and per cent., clos-
ing at 118, while exchange on London was done at 130 t,
per cent.

Cotton—Holders are now very firm, and refuse to sell
under 57c. to 58e., and in some instances ask 60 for mid-
dlings per lb. The demand is fair and the market quite
unsettled. The day's sales and up 2,500 bales within the
quoted range of 57c. to 58c. for middling per lb.
Dry Goods—The most remarkable features in the mar-
ket this week are the rapid rise in prices of domestic cotton
goods, equal to from 6to 12 per cent., and the refusal of
the leading commission jobbing houses to sell except for
cash. The demand is active, especially for prints, ranging
from 15c. to 17c. Heavy sheetings and shirtings command
25c., and drills at 30c. cash per yard. The market closes to-
day quite buoyantly, the tendency of prices being still up-
ward in view of the rapid rise in the raw material.

Flour and Meal—State and western flour is less plenty
to-day, and is in good request for shipment and home use,
especially the former, at somewhat firmer prices.
Grain—Wheat has been plenty and depressed to-day,
prices having again declined in view of the extreme firm-
ness in freights, which tend to impede export operations.
Provisions—Pork is in less demand at drooping rates.
Sugars have been active and buoyant.

Tobacco—The market for Kentucky Is excited, and
prices are again higher in view of the unfavourable pros-
pect in the west. Sales, 1,490 hhds., at 221 e. Other kinds

are quiet.

Freights have been less active owing to the high views of
shipowners.

ANOTHER SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO AN
EXCURSION TRAIN ON THE MIDLAND
COUNTIES RAILWAY.

CHESTERFIELD, SUNDAY.

Last night (Saturday) an excursion train started
from Shipley, near Leeds, at 9.30 p.m., with 18
carriages, filled with passengers for London.
All went on well until they had nearly reached
Chesterfield, when the passengers' train, driven by
m. Wood, ran into a coal train with such force as
to smash the engine and tender, forcing them off
the line on to an embankment, and scattering the
fragments in every direction. A scene of consterna-
tion and alarm amongst the passengers was the con-
sequence, which words cannot describe. Many were
maimed and bruised, 10 or 12 so seriously that it
was deemed necessary to remove them to inns at
Chesterfield, where a number of surgeons were sent
for; those gentlemen doing everything in their
power to relieve the sufferers. A number of other
passengers, only slightly hurt, refused to proceed on
their journey. To those also the railway officials or-
dered every attention. After a delay of three hours
the line was partially cleared, and another engine
attached to the train, so that they proceeded on
their journey. Oa the assembling of the passengers
it was happily found none of them were killed; the
drivers, stokers, and guards of the two trains escap-
ing also with but slight bruises.
Information was quickly conveyed to Derby,
Leeds, and other towns, and a number were sent on
to clear off the broken pieces and scattered debris,
and to prevent the trains due coming into collision
with the standing carriages.

By daylight on Sunday morning both the up and
down line were sufficiently cleared for general traffic.
The cause of the accident is attributed to the night
of beingthe exceedinglyexcursion
ou r eio ho tre i dark
o o t andh gev
io foggy,
h and the driver
e n
informed that
a coal train was preceding him. Fortunately Wood
had greatly reduced the speed of his engine in con-
sequence of the darkness and his near approach to
Chesterfield station, or the accident might have
been much more disastrous.

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE.— Sept. 20.

MANSION-HOUSE. THE ..STOLEN BANK-
NOTES.—John Fenne, otherwise Hugh Murray,
calling himself "a professional gambler," charged
with being in the possession, with a guilty know-
ledge, of two stolen £lO notes of the Bank of Eng-
land, was placed at the bar in the custody of
Serjeant Packman, a detective officer, before the
Lord Mayor, for further examination.
Mr, Poland acted as counsel for the prosecution,
and the prisoner was again defended by Mr. Sleigh.
On the 15th of August Mrs. Blackburn, a widow
lady residing in Pounderson-place, Bethnal-green-
road, was robbed of three £lO notes of the Bank of
England, and about £lB or £l9 in gold, while
transacting business at the bank of Messrs. Smith,
Payne, and Co. About three weeks afterwards the
prisoner was detected passing one of the stolen notes
at the shop of Mr. Haas, a moneychanger in Fen-
church-street, among £75 in Bank of England
notes, which he had taken there to be exchanged
for an equivalent sum in France, Belgian, and Ger-
na,n money. On that charge, failing to give a sa-
tisfactory account of the possession of the note, the
prisoner was originally arrested, and when first
brought before the Court, much stress was laid on
his behalf on the circumstance that only one of the
notes in the £75 was proved to have been stolen,
from which it might be fairly inferred he had come
innocently by it. But it was afterwards proved that
on the very day on which he attempted to pass one
of the stolen £lO notes at the shop of Mr. Haas, he
exchanged another of them, along with three £5O
Bank of England notes, for so much French and
Prussian money, at the shop of Mr. Vaughan, a
money changer, in the Strand. Moreover, he wrote
on one of the notes tendered to Mr. Haas, " Mons.
Fenne, 14, Peacock-terrace, Victoria-park," as his
name and address, giving afterwards, when taken
into custody, the surname of Fenne, and a totally
different address, while to Mr. Vaughan he had
stated he resided at 10, Peacock-terrace, Camber-
well. On subsequent inquiry it was found there
was no such place as Peacock-terrace,Victoria-park.
He sought to account for the possession of the first
£lO by saying he was a professional gambler, and
had won it, though he could not say from whom, at
a- gaming table at Baden-Baden, from which place
he had just come. Mrs. Blackburn deposed that she
had seen the prisoner somewhere before, but could
not say where, nor would she swear she had seen
him at the bank of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co.,
though to the best of her belief she had. On this
evidence the priecner had been twice remanded, and
Mr. Sleigh, his counsel, stated on the second occa-
sion that he should be able to show that the prisoner
was at Baden-Baden at the time Mrs. Blackburn
was alleged to have been robbed.
On Saturday Mr. Donald King, a clerk to
Messrs. Twining, of the Strand, bankers, was called
for the prosecution, and deposed that in August
last the prisoner, giving the name of John
Watson, called at the bank, and produced a
bill for £lOO, payable at three days' sight.
He was told that the bill required acceptance be-
fore it could be paid, and that he should put it into
the acceptance-box for that purpose, which he did.
The bill was accepted on the 16th of August, by
which circumstance witness knew the prisoner had
called at the bank on the previous day. It became
due on the 22d, and witness paid him the £lOO on
that day, the prisoner writing on the back of it
" John Watson," the person in whose favour it was
drawn.
Mr. Poland, reminding the court that the robbery
of Mrs. Blackburn took place on the 15th of August,
said the evidence of the witness King went clearly
to show that the prisoner was in London on that
day, and not at Baden-Baden, as had been stated
on the other side. Besides, the prisoner, who now
himself John Fenne, had at Messrs. Twin-
ing's bank given the name of John Watson.
Mr. King, in cross-examination by Mr. Sleigh,
said the bill for £lOO was dated on the 13th of Aug.
and was drawn on Messrs. Twining by a banker
at Baden-Baden.
Priscilla Payne, a girl about 16, said she was re-
cently a servant to the prisoner, who was then called
Mons. Murray, at 15, King's-road, Camberwell.
She entered his service on the 9th of June last, and
left at the end of July. He occupied the whole
house, and, on a brass plate on the front door was
engraved, " Mons. Murray, professor of medical
gymnastics." (A laugh.) When witness left his
service the prisoner had gone away, but Mrs.
Murray remained in the house. Witness added,
in cross-examination, that the prisoner went away
about a fortnight before she left, taking with him a
quantity of luggage, as he was going abroad.
Mr. Dickins, an estate agent in the Old Kent-
road, proved that on the 2Sth of April last he let
the house, 15, King's-road, Camberwell, to the pri-
soner, who gave the name of Hugh Murray. The
prisoner's wife gave up possession of the house on
the Ist of September, after a previous notice to quit
by the prisoner in the same name of Hugh Murray.
The prisoner paid his rent punctually, and behaved
towards witness in a straightforward manner.
Mr. Urger, of Cold-harbour-lane, Brixton, deposed
that he let a house in Russell-terrace, Old Kent-
road, on the 29th of August last to the prisoner,
who gave the name the name of John Fenne, and
paid the rent until Christmas in advance.
Mr. Sleigh submitted that the case against the
prisoner had not been strengthened by the fresh
evidence given that day, inasmuch as it only went
to show that of late he had been residing at differ-
ent places, a circumstance perfectly consistent with
his innocence of the offence imputed to him, and
which, indeed, tended rather to confirm his state-
ment that he was at Baden-Baden about the time
when he was charged with stealing the notes in
question. That he was at Baden -Baden in August
might be inferred from the fact of his tendering for
payment at the Messrs. Twining's bank a bill for
£lOO, drawn by a banker there, and bearing date
on the 13th of that month. As to his writing the
name of Watson on the bill, he might have had
Watson's authority to do so, in which case the act
would be pei fectly legal. There might be family
reasons consistent with honour and honesty for his
having assumed different names ; besides, guilty
knowledge was not to be inferred from his being in
the mere possession of the stolen notes, seeing that
he might have come innocently by them. Calling
himself a professional gambler would, of . ourse, ex-
cite a prejudice against him ; but he would hardly
have so denominated himself if he had been the re-
cipient of stolen notes. Was not, indeed, that a vo-
cation in which stolen notes were likely to have
been paid over to him at play? Besides, ho (Mr.
Sleigh) apprehended the chief magistrate of the
City of London, in the discharge of his duty, would
not commit a man for trial unless there was a rea-
sonable and probable prospect of his being convicted
by a jury.
The Lord Mayor said the prisoner was clearly in
possession of the stolen notes. No reasonable man
would take a £lO note without making a memoran-
dum on it or recollecting from whom he received it.
If the prisoner had come innocently by the notes in
question, why did he not say, as an honest man
would say, where he got them ? It was well known
that people who played at gaming-tables at Baden
did not pay in English notes, and that a man could
stake nothing there but coin, and which coin he
must place on the table. The prisoner had failed
to account satisfactorily for the possession of the
notes, and he must be considered to have had them
with a guilty knowledge. He (the Lord Mayor)
demurred to the allegation by the prisoner's counsel
that the original evidence had not been strergthened.
Though he now called himself Fenne it was proved
that he had gone by the name of Murray, and had
signed the name of Watson at the bank of Messrs.
Twining. Then there was a good deal of confusion
as to his residence. To Mr. Haas he gave an ad-
dress at Peacock-terrace, Victoria-park, there being
in fact no such terrace there, and afterwards at the
shop of Mr. Vaughan said he resided at a terrace of
the same name in Camberwell, but giving a house
there of a different number. All those circumstances
strengthened the impression in his mind as to the
prisoner's guilt, and he felt it his duty to commit
him for trial. It might be that a jury might not
convict, but it was not for him to balance proba-
bilities of that kind, and he should be recreant to a
sense of duty- if, on evidence so strong, he were to
refrain to send the prisoner before another tribunal.
The prisoner was accordingly committed to New-
gate for trial.

GUILDHALL.— ALLEGED WHOLESALE SWIND-
LING TO THE EXTENT OF NEARLY £7,000.--Leopold
Shocke, a foreigner, who was remanded from last
week on the charge of feloniously uttering a forged
receipt for the delivery of goods to the value of
£2OO and upwards, with intent to defraud the Tees
Woollen Company, of Barnard's Castle, Durham,
was again placed at the bar before Alderman Rose,
and further charged with conspiring, with Henry
Cohn, alias Cowen, a bankrupt, who has, it is be-
lieved, fled the country, to cheat and defraud the
said company.
Mr. Lewis, jun., conducted the prosecution.
Mr. R. B. Lumley (firm of Lumley and Lumley)
watched the proceedings for the Tees Wollen Com-
pany.

Mr. Morgan (firm of Humphreys and Morgan)
appeared on behalf of Mr. Venables.
Mr. Beard attended for the creditors of Cowen.
Mr. Wavell, from Stubbs's Trade Protection
Office, and Mr. Peacock, from the Merchants' and
Traders' Association, were also present for sub-
scribers.
Mr. Buchanan defended the prisoner.
The court was densely crowded throughout the
investigation.
Mr. Martin, the chief clerk, having read over the
evidence taken on the last occasion,
Mr. Morgan said: in consequence of the obserya-

tions which fell from the magistrate at the previous
hearing, Mr. Venables
had submitted the goods in
question to the inspection of others conversant with
such matters, and there were several of the first
traders of the city of London present to testify that
he had given a full and fair value for them.
Alderman Rose said, all he could say was, that
the Court and the public would be only too pleased
to find that the conduct of Mr. Venables had been
perfectly straightforward in these transactions.
Mr. Morgan said the newspaper report was a
most unfavourable one to Mr. Venables.
Mr. Lewis said that the newspaper report was
merely a report of Mr. Venables' own evidence.
Since the last hearing inquiries had been made,
and something learned with regard to Cowen's an-
tecedents, which he would place before the Court.
It appeared that Cohen's real name was Cohn, and
that he was originally an optician's assistant, after
which he started in navies Inn as a watchmaker,
and his course of business there was getting the
greatest quantity of goods into his possession, and
selling them as fast as he could, and then breaking
up. He opened an account with Messrs. Spielman
and Co., the bankers, and at the period of his ob-
taining the goads in question owed that firm money,
so that at the time he referred to them, and they
gave such a character of him as induced Mr.
Venables and others to buy goods of him, they must
have known that he was not a person of any great
commercial respectability. He was glad Mr.
Venables was so ably represented ; no doubt he felt
the necessity of it, as it was desirable that he should
explain why he should have purchased woollen
goods of an optical instrument maker, through the
agency of a tailor who had failed in his own call-
ing. To say the least of it, it was suspicious that
a man like the prisoner should be selling £l,OOO
worth of such goods, and—
Mr. Morgan here interfered, and protested
against these attacks upon Mr. Venables. It was
slander in open court. It was infamous.
Alderman Rose said he could. not allow such
statements to be made to the prejudice of Mr.
Venables, and if he could reconcile the payments he
had made to Cowen with the receipts in his books
for those accounts, that was the only question to
be cleared up.
Mr. Lewis said he purposed asking for a further
remand, and he would, therefore, proceed with the
evidence.
Mr, Robert Venables recalled.
Mr. Lewis—On the last examination witness
stated that, in reference to his first transaction with
Cowen and the prisoner he asked them if it was all
right, and explained that to mean if they had been
stolen ; he now asked witness what induced him to
ask that. question.
Mr. Venables said—l meant all right in every
sense of the word. A thing could not be all right
if it had been stolen, or if there was anything wrong
about it. He had been to Cowen's office. He called
himself, on the invoices, an importer of optical in-
struments and foreign goods.
Alderman Rose said all that was wanted at pre-
sent from Mr. Venables was, to show by his cheque-
book and cash-book that the prices of the goods,
less 35 per cent. discount, corresponded with the
actual amounts paid to Cowen. As far as he could
see, the receipts did not agree with the alleged
payments,
Mr. Morgan produced all Mr. Venables' cheques
that were paid to Cowen, and among the number,
one for £lOO. He said the assumption was that
Mr. Venables had entered in his receipt-book £125
as paid, when he had only paid £25 ; the fact being
that the £lOO was paid by cheque, and the £25 in
gold, both amounts being paid at the same time.
Alderman Rose said it certainly was his impres-
sion that only £25 had been paid for the goods, as
he was at a loss to understand why £125 should be
entered in the receipt-book, and only £25 endorsed
on the receipt stamp placed against the entry.
Mr. Lewis asked witness if he considered it a
good receipt for £125.
Mr. Venables said if it were not, he did not know
what was,
Alderman Rose said he knew Mr. Venables
would explain everything as far as he could. He
merely wanted him to show that it was a bona fide
payment of .£lOO, and not of £25 only.
Mr. Venables said he had shown the receipt-book
to several highly-respectable merchants, who per-
fectly understood it. The cheque for £lOO, dated
the Ist of August, is the same I paid with the £25
in cash to Mr. Cowen, for which the stamp in the
receipt-book is the receipt.
Alderman Rose said the explanation must go for
what is worth.
Mr. Venables said it was comprehensible to every
one he had shown it to. The next payment was on
the 4th of August, and the amount paid was in two
cheques for £llO 10s. and £5 17s. 6d.
Mr. Morgan said there was a receipt in the book !
for the larger sum, but none for the smaller.
Alderman Rose said all that was required from.
Mr. Venables was to show that the actual pay-
ments agreed with the invoice prices of the goods,
less 35 per cent. discount.
Mr. Venables did not know why one cheque was
entered and not the other. He supposed it was an
error. He paid the prisoner a commission of 21 per
cent. on the invoice prices, less 35 per cent. He
knew it was a very unusual thing to do so, and at
first objected ; but the prisoner said that was all he
should get for his trouble, and he therefore paid
him out of the petty cash, but there was no entry
in his books of that amount (V) being paid to the
prisoner in his name. The prisoner's name did not
appear in his books at all. It was not usual in the
trade to pay a commission on the purchase of goods,
but he sometimes did it. He did not charge the
commission to Cowen, but told him of it. He also
paid the prisoner 2l per cent. commission upon the
transactions of the 14th and 23d of August, but took
no receipts, and did not enter them to the prisoner's
name in his books.
Alderman Rose asked if these transactions were
all negotiated by the prisoner.
Mr. Venables said yes, with the prisoner and
Cowen.

Mr. Martin said it seemed extraordinary that
Mr. Venables should pay a commission to the pri-
soner when Cowen came with and sold the goods.
Mr. Venables said he was only twice at Coven's
office and on neither occasion did he see any other
woollen tweed goods than those he bought.
Cross-examined--In all his transactions the pri-
soner acted as Cowen's servant or agent.
Mr. Morgan asked witness if he applied to
Messrs Spielmann and Co. for Cowen's character.
Alderman Rose said he knew a great deki of
Messrs. Spielmann, and he thought the question
had better not be put.
Mr. Morgan said it was important to Mr. Ven-
able, to show that before entering on those trans-
actions he applied to Messrs. Spielmann and received
a reply from them to the effect that Cowen had an
account with them, that they believed him to be re-
spectable, and that Mr. Venables was quite safe in
buying goods of him.
Mr. Venables said that was the fact.

Alderman Rose said Mr. Venables was entitled to
every latitude in his endeavours to vindicate his
character from any imputation in connection with
these matters ; but, as to the question as to how far
Messrs. Spielmann and Co. were responsible for
giving characters to swindlers, as they appeared to
have done in this and one or two other instances
within his own knowledge, was a matter they would
have to answer in some other way.
Mr. Morgan said there were a number of gentle-
men
rm present, members of the most eminent City
fis, to depose that a fair value had been given for
the goods.
Alderman Rose said it was quite unnecessary.
Mr. Venables was upon his oath, and his answer
would be sufficient. He therefore asked him if he
gave the full and fair value of these goods, as bought
in the ordinary honest course of trade.
Mr. Venables said he gave the full value for them
as a job lot of goods which he did not require—as
fair a value as any merchant of the city of London
would have given.
Mr. .Morgan wished to ask another question.
Alderman Rose said the witness had given his
answer, and it would be taken for what it was
worth.

Mr. Venables said he had since sold the goods at
27 per cent. discount on the invoice prices.

Mr. Walker, the manager of the Tees Woollen
Company, said he invoiced the goods at the market
value, but he had sold goods at a reduced rate for
cash in a month.

William Jordan, a carman, proved taking the
goods in =three trusses from Cowen's on the 14th of
August last to Mr. Venables, at 34, Aldgate, on
which occasion, he said, the prisoner accomPar :Led
him, and afterwards paid him for the job. Ttie
had never been unpacked after leaviusP the goods
Mr. Fielder said he Was
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railway.
a clerk . Ab weeks ago he Was en
gaged b
y Cwasovtvheenr,
ea na
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tahs
he could judge the prisoner
Cowen as his Clerk. While Cowen was absent the
prisoner received a telegram from Mr. Walker, of
the Tees 11 oollen Company, which he opened. It
was addressed to Cowen, and inquired the reason
why remittances had not been forwarded. The
prisoner directed witness to answer it, and he wrote
the letter, dated Sept. 1, 1862, and accounting for
the delay in remitting the money by stating that
Cowen was in Paris. Re wrote it to the prisoner's 1
dictation. About a week after that the prisoner
left and told witness that other goods might arrive,
and if so he was to ship them to Hamburg. Re
gave witness the key of the offices to give to the
housekeeper.
Mrs. Augusta Parton, of 25, levvry-street, Ald-
firm as Bell'inger and Co. (the
gate, said no suck
b"..en forged to the packers'
name alleged to have-
receipt for Ozo ,-;3odc) lived in her how, nor had

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anyone ever carried on the business of packers thile-
She knew nothing of Cowen.
Mr. Lewis here asked for an adjournment.
Mr. Buchanan contended there was no ease
against the prisoner, whose conduct from first to
last was that of Cowen's servant, and not that of
conspirator.
Mr. Martin said the prisoner was present at the
uttering of the forged receipt for the delivery of the
goods to the packers, knowing that he had pre-
viously disposed of them to Mr. Venables ; and
while acting as Cowen's servant, as it was alleged
he was, he had received a commission on the pur-
chases.

Alderman Rose said he also remembered that
when the prisoner was apprehended he had every-
thing packed up ready to leave the country, and
told Funnell, the detective cfficPr, that the goods
which had been sold to Mr. Venables had been
shipped. He therefore remanded the prisoner until
Wednesday next.
Mr. Beard said he was watching this case on the
part of the creditors of Cowen, for whose apprehen-
sion a warrant had been issued from the Court of
Bankruptcy, and an officer had been sent after him,
but unfortunately he had contrived toeffect his esoaPe,
with a large quantity of goods. The creditors had
ascertained teat Cowen had obtained about £6,000
worth of goods of different firms within the last two
months, during which period the prisoner was with
him, and taking an active part in the business, such
as it was.

Mr. Hyman Davis said he attended for Mr•
Thompson, Ironmonger-lane, the agent of the Teo
Woollen Company, in consequence of remarks made
by Mr. Lewis on the last occasion, to the effect that
Mr. Thompson had sold about £3,000 worth of the
company's goods to a number of customers all of
whom proved to be swindlers, and that the prisoner
and Cowen were members of the same gang. It was
not said in actual words that Mr. Thompson was a
swindler or connected with the gang, but the infer-
ence to be drawn from those remarks was highli
prejudicial to Mr. Thompson, who had been deceived
by the parties referred to, and was himself a loser
to the extent of about £3OO for goods ie bought of
the company. Mr. Thompson was present to give
any explanation required. He had references from
Cowen to Messrs. Spielman and Co.; Messrs Gild-
ing and Co., extensive jewellers; Messrs. Fletcher
and Co. ; and Messrs. Mather and Co., of Leaden-
hall-street. The whole of these references were
checked by a first-class firm in Cheapside, who had
received similar references from the same parties.
Mr. Lewis said Mr. Thompson's explanation did
not refute his statement that Mr. Thompson had
been instrumental in parting with £3,000 worth of
goods to a gang of swindlers.

Alderman Rose said Mr. Thompson's explanation
would carry its own weight with it, but he could
not permit any further discussion.

Tie prisoner was then remanded, in custody,
until Wednesday next.

COUN7Ia MARILL:Lb.

.

LEICESTER—SATunnmt.
Old white wheat, 60s to 635 ; new, 54s to 59s per 36
stone. Old red, 57s to 61s per 36 stone. Barley, malting,
new, 38s to 42s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 32s ; old oats,
26s to 30s; new oats, 23s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans)
new, 40s to -s ; old, 43s to —s per 33 stone.

NORTHAMPTON—SATURDAY.
New wheat, 50s to 58s; old, 52s to 595. Barley, 33s
to 38s per qr. New oats quoted at 24s to 28,, ; old, 28S
to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, 39s to 425; seconds, to
—s. New rye, 40s to 42s per qr.

NORWICH—SATURDAY.
From the large arrivals of foreign wheat and flour which
have lately entered the different grain markets of the king-
dom, business to •day was dull for wheat at 2s decline 011
the currencies of last week, The supply was good. Fair
supplies of barley offering, and prices remained about the
same.

White wheat 53s to 57A I Red wheat 46s to 55
Malting barley....4os to 41s Chevalier barley 37s to 380
New d 0...... to —s I Oats.. 25s to 300
Flour, 40s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller.

NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY.
White wheat, from 53s to 648; red wheat, 50s to 02s.
Barley—malting, 36s to 42s ; grinding, 29s to 325, oats
old, at 25s to 31s ld ; new, 24s to 28s. Beans sold at 410
to 45s per qr, Flour, 41s to 445.

YORK--SATURDAY.
Wheat, red 54s to 56s Oats.. ~
White do
.58s to 628 Beans 24s to 2SB
Barl
to 42s per sack.
Mey to 42, to 440
alt, 64s to 66s per qr. ; rye, 395 per qr. ; flour, 40s

CORK—SEPT. 19.
The following were the quotations this morning :—Red
wheat, 17s Od to 26s 63; white, 19s Od to 28s Od; barley 139
Od to 14s Od ; oats, 9s 6d to 14s Od.; new here, 15s Od to
—5 Od.

DUBLIN—SEPT. 19.
A large attendance of millers. The supply of new Irish
wheat was large, and some few samples in fine condition
sold at about 6d decline. Oats in moderate demand at late
prices. Business dull in foreign wheat. Good sweet flour
in demand at full prices.

s. d s.
Wheat, whie.. 30 0. d.
to 34 0
Do., red.... 27 0 to 32 0
Do., new 0 to 0
Barley ...... 14 0 to 16 0
Oats ....... 15 0 to 17 l
Do., black.... 14 6 to 16 6

dr; u
Beans.. ..... 24 0 to 27
Bere . ........ 15 3 to 16 0
Rapeseed .... 0 to 06
Oatmeal ...... 15 0 to 17
Bakers' flour .. 16 6 to 21 0
Indian corn .. 31 0 to 35 0

FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE.
AuKralia and Mauritius, via Southampton . .Sept, 18.
via Marseilles Oct. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet Oct. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 2.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Sept. is.
via Marseilles Sept. 27.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton, Sept. 18.
via Marseilles Sept. 27.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Sept.
via Marseilles Sept, 23"
Lisbon Oct. 4.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. —.
Newfoundland via Marseilles Sept. 23.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America Sept
, by Brit. packet.... Sept. 25.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Sept. I9°
Bahamas, via New York
W.C. of Africa, Madeira,
.andl'eneriffhei.l ... . . .
Sept
.......... Sept. 23.
Mexico
All parts of West Indies, including cCalifornia, and British C01umbia....... Sept.
.

THEATRICAL PERFORMERS IN FRENCH DEPART
one
ners
respecting
themct Staten gt o ht7veadhdimresasleldtaheciinrcfulorarar
ate_
tiht:e:Ptirs Prefects e cy
cTtashn calling i nenegi
collect
the theatres of the depart-
ments, and whatever suggePAions they can make for the
provement of their management in future. Meanwhile?,
until a new law can be passed for the better regulation of
the theatres, the Minister proposes to change the present
mode of deciding as to the merits of new performers, so ito
to leave the public in the full possession of its rights of ac-
cepting or refusing, and of protecting debutante from such
manifestations as have recently been attended with most
unpleasant results. The Minister proposes that
for the future debuts., in the provinces, shall 1)6
collective instead of individual; that each new companl
shall be on trial for a month, after which the principal
performers shall be accepted or rejected by a public ballot
of the frequenters of the theatre, and that the director shall
be allowed a month to supply the places of any who may
not be admitted as competent. His Excellency expresses a
wish that the Prefects should take what measures they may
deem efficient to prevent hissing, whistling, with other un-
seemly and often brutal means of expressing disapprobation
in theatres, especially in case of systematic opposition ori-
ginating in personal antipathies. The Minister trusts that
the introduction of the ballot in this matter will amply se-
cure the rights of the public, and protect the performero
from affronts and insults which mere incapacity can never
merit.

BIRTHS.
GooDWIN.—On the 19th inst., at Sunderland-place, VireSe'.
bourne-park, Mrs. H. W. Goodwin, of a son.
PARKER..—On the 19th inst., the wife of Mr. Jas. parker,
publisher, Oxford, of a son.
WILKES.—On the 19th inst., at Lofts' Hall, Essex, the
wife of the Rev, Robt. Wilkes, of a daughter.