The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.

The Royal mail steamer Magdalena, Capt, Wool-
ward, has arrived, with mails from Buenos Ayres of
Sept. 28 ; Montevideo, 30; Rio, Oct. 9 ; Bahia, 13 ;
Pernambuco, 15 ; St. Vincent, 22 ; and Lisbon, 30.
She bas £60,242 in specie, 416 bales of tobacco, 25
barrels of tapioca,2s bags of coffee, and 151 packages
of sundries.

Her Majesty's ship Stromboli and Dotterel at
Montevideo ; and Forte, Satellite, Madagascar and
Ardent at Rio.

The screw steamer Golden Fleece, from India and
the Cape for London, put in at St. Vincent to coal
on the 20th ult., and Ras to leave for England on
the 25th. She had 78 passengers on board, all well.
The Magdalena spoke the outward mail steamer
Oneida, all well, on the 21st ult., lat. 13 14 S.,
long. 26 12 W.

At Buenos Ayres, on Sept. 28th, ounces opened
at 410 and closed at 409, having gone down to 4082
during the day.
At Rio Janeiro a depression existed in the coffee
market, buyers being very reluctant to enter into
larger operations, owing to the disproportion of
actual high prices, increased still further by the
rising tendency of the exchange.

Hides—None arrived. A sale of 1,468 reduce
stock to about 3,000.

Sugar—From Campos, 727 cases 13,000 packages,
out of which 150 cases 7,000 packages have been
sold for exportation; very little has arrived from
the north, and sold 100 cases 3,572 bags, at 3 dols
200 c to 4 dols 600 c, all for home use.

In exchange about 150,000 was negociated for
this packet.

Exchange on London, 261- 261 2614 Paris, 357,
360 ; Hamburg, 675, 680.

Freights on England 255. to 305.; Channel, 355.
to 375. 6d. and 5 per cent. ; Antwerp, 30s. to 355.;
Mediterranean, 30s. to 40s. ; United States, 30s.
At Bahia, brown sugar continued in demand, and
prices were firm and looking up.
Freight, Channel 375. 6d. ; Hamburg, 425.
Exchange on London, 27, for 30 to 90 days ;
Paris, 353.

The weather continued very favourable at Per-
nambuco for the new crop of sugar coming to mar-
ket, and the receipts had materially increased
during the last few days.

Echange on London, 90 days' sight, 27 to 27k ;
Paris 350 to 360.

Freights, England, 455. and 5 per cent.

111A.RYLEBONE REPRESENTATIVE

COUNCIL AND MR. ZRAIN.

On Saturday, at the weekly meeting of the Re-
presentative Council of St. Marylebone, Mr. Peter
Matthews in the chair,
Mr. HERRING directed the attention of the board
to a framed picture which hung on the walls, repre-
senting the Marble Arch and Mr. George Francis
Train's carriage and tramway some time since
existing between the western end of Oxford-street
and Bayswater. He wished to know to whom that
picture belonged, because if it belonged to that
mountebank, George Francis Train, who had been
vituperating the country since he got out of it, the
property ought to be removed from that building,
and be deposited in the dust and rubbish to which
its owner was also entitled to a permanent place.
(Hear, and laughter.)

Mr. HODGES looked upon it as a foolish thing and
beneath the dignity of that board to take such a
step as that proposed.

Mr. OVERTON hoped that a public board like that
would not descend to such little petty meanness as
to put this picture out of the place. He thought it
better to move an amendment, ", That the picture of
Mr. Train be put into the strong room, there to re-
main until applied for by its owner." (Laughter.)
This would give an estimable opinion of the charac-
ter of Mr. Train. (Laughter.)
Mr. ABRAHAMS deprecated the waste of their
time, as a public board, in such frivolous rubbish.
(Hear.) He looked upon the proceedings as one
calculated to bring them into contempt, and he,
therefore, moved the next order of the day. (Hear,
hear.)

Mr. HODGES seconded the motion for the next
order of the day, and it was carried by a large
majority.

HAMPSTEAD HEATH.

Mr. H. CANE TUCKER brought forward a motion
of which he had given notice :—" That a deputation
be appointed to wait on Lord Palmerston, to urge
upon the Government to take immediate steps for
the purchase of Hampstead-heath, or its exchange
for Crown lands,' for the perpetual use and benefit
of the public, and with power to confer with Sir
Thomas Maryon Wilson thereon."

This motion was supported by the rev. rector,
and carried unanimously.

THE CONVICT COOPER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The quality of mercy, what is it ? Is it (for sake
of example) our duty to send our fellow-creatures to an
ignominious death in cases of murder, irrespectively of ex-
tenuating circumstances, or comparative justification
through being goaded on to desperation by ingratitude and
unfaithfulness; if this be our duty (to society) then Robert
Cooper ought to be hung ; if it be our duty to encourage
false testimony (as is the evidence of Sarah Barnham), then
Robert Cooper ought to be hung; and if it be our duty to
encourage the wiles and cunning of a tantalising and profli-
gate woman, then Robert Cooper ought to be hung, but
not otherwise. Surely, if ever a poor wretch was goaded
on to a desperate act, this was he. The fact of Cooper's
having committed bigamy has nothing whatever to do with
the case. His first marriage, we are told, occurred 13 years
ago, and there is no evidence to show whether he left his
wife or she him ; therefore the question ought
to be dismissed from our minds altogether now, as
we find Cooper married to Anne Jane Barnham,
contributing towards her support, and loving her even to
folly and injustice to himself. Can it be said that his is not
a case for mercy, particularly as we find the abandoned
creature (whom he murdered) not only prostituting herself
before his eyes, and tantalising him as well, but refusing
him all sympathy, love, or consideration. Are not these
extenuating circumstances, and ought Robert Cooper in the
face of them to be hung ? Was it not rather the duty
of the Barnhams to have screened the poor wretch's
fault of having married twice. They at least
had no cause to complain so long as the first wife
did not come forward, at all events as the facts were not
found out until after Anne Jane Barnham had had two
children by Cooper. She ought to have screened his fault
from the world, even if she resented his conduct privately;
but the simple fact is, she made this a pretext to justify
her in becoming an abandoned prostitute, and her mother
has not only encouraged her in her vice, but has come
forward and vindictively asserted that Cooper did
not contribute anything towards her daughter's sup-
port, which is false—palpably false. How, then, should
we hope for mercy if this be not a case for mercy, particu-
larly as so tame a defence was made in the prisoner's
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November 1.

ALARMING ACCIDENT.--On Saturday last an
alarming accident occurred on the South Yorkshire Rail-
way to the market train leaving Keadhy, in Lincolnshire,
for Doncaster market at 8.25 a.m. The train had proceeded
to a point between Barmby Dun and Kirk Sandell; about
five miles from Doncaster, when great oscillation of the
carriages was felt, and almost immediately the engine and
tender ran off the line into the canal which runs on one
side, the river Don being on the other. The first passenger
carriage, in which several persons were seated, was dragged
off the rails, but, fortunately, the tender was a sufficient
barrier to prevent it running into the canal. The second
carriage was precipitated down the embankment towards
the river Don, but the water only flooded it to the depth
of three feet. The passengers were extricated from their
perilous and unpleasant position, and it was found that no
one had been seriously hurt, though many of them were_
much shaken. The engine-driver and stoker both escaped,
the former with some severe cuts about the face and
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