The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-15 00:00:00

TE P_RIA CE

The :following appointments were made at the Admiralty
this e rening
atenant Wm. A. Gambier, to the Edinburgh, for
gunnery duties.
Mal ter—J. May (additional) to the Swallow.
Mas ters' Assistant—Vincent H. Lys, to the Rifleman.
Assi.sl ant Engineers—Hugh Thomson and Frederick
Smiley (acting second class) to the Asia.

POZICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
IVIDCELESALE RODIIERY.—James Taylor, a young man in
the em ploy of Mr. Joseph Stokes, of 13, Fitzroy-square, tin
plate a r,orker, Was charged before Mr. Knox with robbing
his employer of a large quantity of copper and tin articles
of every. description, enough to stock a small shop.
Froni the evidence of Thomas Bungay, 161 D, it appeared
that or& the previous night he stopped the prisoner in Praed-
street, Paddington, with a large basket of copper in his
posses sien, He asked the prisoner where he got it from,
and hes said it was his master's. He then took the prisoner
into custody, and on going to 20, Ernest-street, with the
prosecutor and the prisoner's mother, he found a large
quantity of articles of tin, the property of Mr. Joseph
Stokes, the prosecutor.
The .articles consisted of foot baths, teapots, &c.
Mr. Tioseph Stokes, tin plate worker, of 13, Fitzroy-street,
identified the articles produced as his property, and said the
prisoner was a workman in his employ.
Bungay asked for a remand, which Mr. Knox granted.
There is little doubt the prisoner had been carrying on a
system . of daily'peculation.

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MEETING AT THE MANSION HOUSE.
Yesterday, a public meeting, convened by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, was held in the Egyptian-hall, at
the Mansion-house, for the purpose of adopting measures
for the erection of a testimonial to his late Royal Highness
the Prince Consort.
The hall was crowded, and among those present were :
The Lord Mayor, who presided; Lord Stratford de Red-
cliffe, the Earl of Coventry, the Bishop of London, the
Marquis of Breadalbane, Baron Rothschild, M.P. ; Mr.
Western Wood, M.P.; Lord Elcho, M.P.; Mr. Seymour
Fitzgerald, M.P.; the lion. G. Denman, M.P.; Mr. Tite,
M.P.; Mr. Grogson, M.P. ; the lion. Stuart Wortley, Mr.
Crawford, M.P. ; Dean Milman, of St. Paul's ; Alderman
Salomons, M.P.; Alderman Wilson, Alderman Sir John
Musgro%e, Bart.; Alderman Sir F. G. Moon, Bart.; Al-
derman Rose, Alderman J. C. Lawrence, Alderman Gabriel,
Alderman Phillips, the Sheriffs Cockerell and Twentyman,
the Common Sergeant, Mr. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Mr.
George Godwin, Mr. Le Neve Foster, and Professor
Donaldson.
The proceedings having been opened with prayer by the
Rev. Michael Gibbs, the Lord Mayor's chaplain,
The LORD MAYOR said—My lords and gentlemen, I have
convened this meeting to consider the propriety of erecting
a lasting memorial to his late Royal Highness the Prince
Consort, and of recording, for the information of future ages,
the deep grief of all classes at the irreparable loss which the
Queen and the nation have been called upon to suffer. The
death of the illustrious Prince, whose enlightened and
active mind was continually employed in labouring for the
improvement of all our social institutions, and ameliorat-
ing the condition of the working classes, is a calamity of
which at present we can hardly form an adequate estimate.
(Hear, hear.) I summoned this meeting in the conscious-
ness that my request would be responded to as it has been
thinday. There would have been a great number of highly
distinguished personages here if there had been more time.
(Hear, hear.) I have many letters from noblemen and
others excusing themselves on the score of distance and
engagements and obligations which could not be deferred,
We have, however, quite a sufficient number in this hall,
and we have all classes here represented in a manner
which will satisfy the public mind that this is a proper
movement. (Cheers.) I will not occupy the time of the
meeting by reading any letters, but there is one so impor-
tant that I think I should fail in my duty if I did not make
some reference to it. The letter is signed Le Neve Foster,
the secretary of ,the Society of Arts, and the pith of it is
that that society will subscribe one thousand guineas
towards the erection of any monument to the memory of
the late Prince Consort the design of which may be ap-
proved of by her Majesty. (Hear, hear.) I may add that
if, in addition, it should be thought fit to extend the
memorial beyond erecting a national monument—if it
should be found desirable to do anything further in order
to carry out those great objects which it is well known his
late Royal Highness always had at heart—then the So-
ciety of Arts will again give its assistance to the work.
(Hear.) I will not detain you longer, as there are many
eloquent and distinguished persons present to address you,
and I will conclude by calling upon the Right Rev, the
Lord Bishop of London to move the first resolution. (Loud
applause.)
The Bishop of LONDON, who was greeted with loud
cheers, said—My Lord Mayor, I have been requested tc
move the following resolution :—" That this meeting,
deeply deploring the irreparable loss the country has sus-
tained by the lamented death of his late Royal Highness
the Prince Consort, whose powerful and Well-regulated
mind and great abilities have for more than 20 years been
unceasingly devoted to improving the condition of the
humbler classes, and to the development and extension of
science and art, and to the judicious education and training
of the royal family, is of opinion that a lasting memorial
should be erected commemorative of his many virtues, and
expressive of the gratitude of the people."
The resolution was then put to the meotitig by the Lord
Mayor and carried by acclamation.
Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE then came forward to
move the next resolution, and was received with loud ap-
plause. He said—lt was, my Lord Mayor, with ready sub-
mission to the kind request which you addressed to me, that
under a deep feeling of the importance of this meeting I
came up from the country to be present at it. (Applause.)
I could not come with the hope of adding anything to what
has been said by far abler persons than myself, nor can I
I hope to embody in any satisfactory manner the sentiments
which the whole nation has expressed on the los, which we
have sustained in the death of the late Prince Consort, but
I do feel that at a meeting of this kind it is the duty of every
person not to neglect the opportunity of expressing their
desire to re-echo the national feeling by supporting any
testimonial which it may be proposed to adopt. I beg to
submit the following resolution :—" That the memorial re-
commended should be of a monumental and national cha-
racter; and that its design and mode of execution be ap-
proved by her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen."
Mr. WESTERN WOOD, M P., seconded the resolution.
lhe resolution having been carried unanimously,
Baron ROTHSCHILD, M P., moved the next resolution,
" That committees throughout the United Kingdom be
formed to raise subscriptions to the proposed memor al, and
that her Majesty's subjects be invited to subscribe," which
was carried unanimously.
Mr. HARVEY LEWIS, Al P.—l have great pleasure in
moving the resolution which has been placed in my hands
for the purpose of carrying into effect those which have
gone before, namely :—" That a committee be formed,
consisting of the following noblemen and gentlemen, to
carry into effect the foregoing resolutions, with power to
add to their number, and that the Right Hon. the Lard
Mayor be president of the same, and treasurer of the fund :
Lord Stratford de Redeliffe, the Bishop of London,
Baron Rothschild, M P, Mr. R. W. Crawfurd, M P, Mr.
Western Wood, MP, Mr. T. Hankey, MP, Mr.
Thomas Baring, MP, Mr. Abel Smith, M P, the Hon.
George Denman, QC, M lion, A. Kinnaird, MP,
Mr. S. G. Smith, MP, Mr. G. Cubitt, 111 P,
Mr. S. Gregson, M.P., Mr. Joseph Sornes, M.P,, Mr. W.
Murray, M.P., Alderman Salomons, M.P., Mr. G. Moffatt,
M.P., Sir Morton Peto, M.P., the Dean of St. Paul's, Sir
T. Phillipps, Bart., Sir Moses Montafiore, the Recorder, the
Common Sergeant, Mr. Sheriff Cockerell, Mr. Sheriff IV.
H. Twentyman, Alderman Moon, Alderman Rose, Alder-
man Phillips, Alderman Gabriel, the Rev. M. Gibbs (chap-
lain to the Lord Mayor), Mr. Henry Cole, C. 8., Mr. John
Dillon, Mr. J. Frith, Mr. Le Neve Foster, Mr. Harry
Chester, Mr. W. H. Bodkin, Mr. S. Morley, Mr. H. Ghinn,
Mr. R. N. Foster, Mr. George Godson, Mr. R. N. Phillips,
Mr. W. Tite, Mr. C. Hill, Mr. T. Sopwith, Mr. H. Roberts,
Mr. P. Graham, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Foster White, Mr.
W. Spottiswoode, and Mr. J. Alger."
The proceedings then terminated.

THE PRICE OF GOLD.

The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2 per mille prem.,
and the short exchange on London is 25.220 per £1 sterling,
on comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. 10id. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about the same price in London and in Paris.

By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 426 per mark,
and the short exchange on London is 13.51 per £1 sterling.
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about
1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1081 to 109 per cent., which, when compared
with the Mint par between the two countries, shows that the
exchange is against England. But, after making allowance
for loss of interest and charges of transport, the present
rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold to the
United States.

FOREIGN HAIL PACKET _UST.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Jan. 18.
via Marseilles Feb. 13.
Brazil and Capo Verds, by British packet . Feb. 3.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Feb. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Jan. 18.
Falkland Islands via Marseilles ...Jan. 27.
3.:
Gibraltar, via Southampton
Jan. 18.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Jan. 18.
via Marseilles Jan. 27
India (Bombay), via Southampton Jan. 25.
via Marseilles Jan. 19.
Lisbon
Jan. 21.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Jan. 18.
via Marseilles Jan. 19.
Newfoundland Feb. 22
Oporto and Vigo Jqn. 21.
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. .. Jan. 16.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Jan. 15.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife Feb. 10.
Bahamas, via New York Jan. 16.
Mexico
.... Jan. 28.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru,
I Jan. 28.
California, and British Columbia..

PROPOSED STEAMBOAT COMMUNICATION FOR
THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—The Brighton and South
Coast Company propose to provide steamboats, yards, and
machinery to connect their system of rail with the various
ports and places on the southern coast of England and those
of France and the Channel Islands, under the supervision
of the Board of Trade.

THE NEW FRENCH CENSUS.—The Moniteur of
yesterday publishes a report of the Minister of the Interior
on the recent census, from which it appears that, whereas
in 1856 the 86 departments had a population of 36,039,364,
the 89 departments, which the empire now comprises, num-
bered 37,382,225 inhabitants, on the Ist of January, 1862.
This gives a gross increase of 1,342,861, or 3.72 per cent.
for the quinquennial period ending with the last day of
1861. The net increase, after deducting the 669,059 in-
habitants of the newly-annexed territories, is 673,802, or
1.86 per cent. The increase between 1846 and 1851 was
382,684, or 1.08 per cent., and that between 1851 and 1856
was not quite so much. In the latter period 32 departments
showed an increase of population, and 54 a decrease; for
the period of five years just terminated these numbers are
respectively 57 and 29. Tho highest rates of increase have
been in the following departments :—Seine, 13 per cent.;
Nord, 7 ; Bouches du Rhone, 7 ; Rhone, Seine et Pise, and
Corsica, each 5 per cent. There has been a decrease at the
rate of 3 per cent, in Creuse and in Correze, and of 1 and 2
per cent. respectively in nine other non-manufacturing
departments.

" Remote from towns he ran his goodly race,"
would have been an apt illustration for the
elder Frazer, for although at the time of his
introduction he was dwelling in the city, he lived a
most retired life, and his general habits
and manners were not at all in accordance
with the busy, bustling community among whom
he lived. The plots and counterplots that took
place been the Leslies and Frazers are graphically
described, and are by turns humourous and sorrow-
ful. At last the natures of all sides came out
strongly, revealing the craft and cunning of the
magnates in Piccadilly, and showing the truth and
honour of the denizens of London Wall. When
the old couple sat late at night communing over
events, Mrs. Frazer told him she had bid Simon
reject;the'brilliant overtures, as he could not respect
the wealthy lady whose friends urged him to perse-
vere in
seeking an alliance. For a moment the old
man, borne down by c res, was disappointed, but soon
his better feelings gained the day and rejoiced over
the victory of self-respect and justice. " The spirit
which brought peasant men to fight at Bothwell-
bridge, and suffer in the Grass-market of Edinburgh
for a principle which had been made clear to their
consciences, was in Ellen Frazer. She replied to
her husband's queries thus— I bid our son never
to marry a woman who could act so wickedly, not if
she had the wealth of all England, and never to
marry the woman he couldn't love." You said
right, Nelly—right, as I kent you would.' The
burden of kirk troubles, of home poverty, and
whitening hair was cast off for a moment, so, per-
chance, were the stiff doctrines and the dry theo-
logy, and Cameron Frazer was a man once more
in the strength and fervour of his youth as he
clasped the faithful partner of five-and-twenty years
in his arms and returned to that rustic tongue in
which the strong heart of the North still utters its
best and warmest sentiments. in another minute
the minister had come back to the soberness and
gravity of his latter days. You were right,
Nelly. Let Simon remain free from the sin
of perjury and an evil connection, though
all his pilgrimage and ours should be
passed in poverty ; may be it will teach us to lay
up treasures where neither moth nor rust corrupts,
nor thieves break through and steal." Were
fashionable parents of modern date to try to emulate
these primitive folks, in this spirit of fairness, very
different would be the fate of their children. Miss
Leslie is a likeness of a girl of a coarse nature, not
properly guided, and of headstrong passions never
curbed. She was a disgrace to all who had to do
with her, and it was a relief to everyone when she
retired toe lower sphere, which better suited her
ways and style. Susan, the servant of the Hopes,
is quite a character in her way, her devotion and
decision were great, and she was of inestimable
advantage to the distressed family she served by her
faithfulness and zeal. Annie Hope gains greatly
on the attention by the cheerful courage with which
she endured overwhelming troubles, and the spirit
she showed in emergencies. It is, perhaps, a pity
to have made her family affairs so very complicated,
and certainly the tale contains sufficient intricacy
without her marvels of lost and found fathers and
uncles. However, it is ingeniously put, and Annie
is a true heroine, well formed for the troubles of
reality, not fashioned to play with the sorrows of
romance. Ever the same, when she had to go out
alone in the weary night to find the strange lawyer
to assist her father who was then ill and helpless ;
or when she stood at twilight on the lonely moor
and conversed with the strange figure, disguised
enough to frighten away any young girl's senses,
Annie had a hard task indeed when she was on a
visit to Castleford at the time of the dread dis•
coveries. She found the place miserable, and all
around her under a cloud of mystery, but at last
the solution came, one evening when she saw the
face of the first Mrs. Herbert looking in at her bed-
room door. Three years had passed since she had
been buried after her body was found in the river.
What to think! she dared not analyse her lurking
dread of foul play. "That glimpse through the half
open door had explained Mr. Johnstone's allusions,
Leiton's dread of the long evenings and love of
visitors, the change of servants, Herbert Windham's
fits, Mrs. Leiton's accident in her own room, and
the confused talk thereon. The old-world stories,
concerning those who came from the grave, were
then true, for she had seen one of them, and seeing
is believing. The handsome pleasant country house
had a visitant from the vault under the old
church, a comer not to be shut out by bolt or bar."
No notice was taken openly of this mysterious
guest who like the skeleton at Egyptian festivals
flung a shade of gloom over every gaiety. At last
the season of rejoicing drew near, and it was re-
served for theeve of the Christian Festival to witness
as dark and tragic a scene as ever reminded the sons
of mortality how sad is the lot they inherit from
their first parents fall. " Blessings on the world's
old holidays, those white spots marked on the circle
of the year by the primeval myths, and descending
with them from race to race, and from creed to
creed, serving in successive systems and called by
the names of many gods. So Herbert Lefton being
a country squire, and having acquired a repute for
himself and his hall, which kept off the country
families, took mightily to the good old times and
their customs, and Christmas was to be kept in
Castleford as it never had been in the memory of
the oldest inhabitant." On that fatal evening be-
fore Christmas all hands were busy cutting down
the holly, but Jessie the young second wife, who
with her child had gone to an old cupboard in a de-
serted passage to get out some quaint dresses for the
oguTeshtse
the
her London
dom.
Mummers, who wHreereetosahse mtoniseht
then expected.
Ghost or Spirit'that had lurked at noonday hidden
there, wandered at midnight, now met face to face
her prey, her successful rival, the beautiful young
girl whose face had eclipsed her sombre looks. She
sprung at her and the fearful struggle was too much
for Jessie. She rushed away to Annie who was
near and sunk at her feet. "At this moment the
procession marched up the avenue, laden with ever-
greens, and led by Herbert with a great brach of
holly, covered with bright red berries, in his hand.
Good luck to Castleford Hall. " Here we come
with the Christmas holly." Jessie never recovered
her reason, from that fatal hour, and her doom was
a merciful one, for she could only have suffered
greatly had she been restored to her senses. Mean-
while other dangers loomed in the future of the
wretched Herbert. Hardly had he left his wife
partly calmed, and consulted with the doctor as to
her state when a new trial came. The messen-
gers of fate are seldom heard in their coming
—it is truly said—and so it chanced that in the
misty night no one noticed four policemen walking
up the avenue, the hall door was open, and they
un-
perceived reached the object of their search, the
master of that proud domain ; also the
accused mur-
derer of his first wife the man about to
be
arraigned before his brother
magistrates,
charged with the deadliest crime which
sit human
being can be guilty of.
Herbert was spared
a scene before his servants. The doctor who had
known all before advised an instant departure; " So
without the knowledge of any but these three, out
of all his household, over the heaps of Christmas
holly which he had cut down in such glee ; out of
the hall door at which his London visitors were to
be received, and the long drilled mummers to make
their appearance ; Herbert Lefton was marched
that Christmas eve in the custody of four policemen
to a chaise waiting hard by his own park gate. It
conveyed him to the station-house in Colchester."
Few novels nowadays contain more dramatic scenes
or excite more vivid interest than the first part of
the third volume of this work. The attention is
kept alive till the end, but it is in these chapters
that the most striking talent is exhibited. The
skill with which all things combine, the dexterity
by which all persons conspire to show Herbert
guilty are most masterly, and reveal the author's
ability to be considered far superior to the ordinary
romance writers of the day. The point of the story is,
that Herbert is innocent, he was weak and nervous,
knowing that circumstances were against him, from
the sudden disappearance of his wife, the body found
dressed in her clothes having the face disfigured
beyond recognition, his previous love-making with
Jessie during his wife's lifetime, her discovery of it,

TIIE LONDON MASONS AND TIDE HOUR SYSTEM.—
A deputation from the masons' committee had an interview
yesterday morning with Mr. Wilson, the vxtensive master
builder, of Suffolk-street, Borough, who has some large
contracts in hand at Morice Town, Davenport, and at Dover.
The interview took place in consequence of a letter sent to
the masons' committee• from Mr. Wilson, expressing his
intention to withdraw the hour system and pay by the day.
the deputation, who were courteously received,. stated they
ei, hehh ee h
mat
hafdosorouNnvghishti withdrawn dt
willrot hawrweensnumamt:dnee.
were instructed to acknowledge the receipt of the letter as
and
requireiz accepted
above, and to ascertain whether Mr. Wilson intended giving
the terms of the
the Saturday half-holiday, as well as payment by the day
compromise, while
ir. altvtiteonsamweinti
hour Mr. Wilsonsystem
the
unconditionally,deputation
jobs immediately,'
country works about 300 masons. '
their employment at Mr. I.Vikon's