The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-16 00:00:00

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yourself with it ; and if yeovuereyan
g otpl:rercuarretiemleeaoti
drink, and clothin,and
necessity or luxury by means of paper, in which
every one has confidence,ilut ppwoshea,” t's go.Toocl
h no f
and silver ?" ~
" that after a time no one has? eonfiflon
,re in paper
cents and dollars, issued in illimitable quantities,
and that Federal paper only represents 5 or 10 per
cent. of its nominal value ? What will happen
then ?" "Oh ! things will all come right," replies
Jonathan. "We have such immense resources that
nothing can injure us. We are not going always
to carry on our government and social system upon
European principles. Those who hold notes when I
the depreciation comes will, of course, have to suffer
the loss. But what of that ? We can all of us
afford to lose a little and make no wry faces. We
are a great people, and it isn't easy to ruin us. And
if we are ruined we can wipe off old scores and
begin afresh. We have great recuperative energies.
And, besides, if we don't owe anything to Europe,
what right has Europe to criticise or complain? Let
crazy old Europe mind its own business, and prop
up, if it likes, its rotten old thrones and aristocra-
cies. We are the nation of the future, and can
wage war and pay for it on principles of our own."
And so the discussion drops, and John Bull
thanks Heaven that he owed his allegiance to
another country.
This day, also, the Revised Tariff has come into
operation ; but, as the old officials of the Custom-
house will have considerably less, rather than more,
work to perform under its enactments, there has
been no necessity to make any changes in or addi-
tion to the working staff of that establishment.
Yesterday, however, the officials had a heavy time
of it, in consequence of the arrival within the last
two days of several vessels from British ports laden
with goods to come in under the old rate of duties.
One merchant paid a duty of 3,000 dols. yesterday
upon a Consignment of borax from Liverpool, which
would have been liable to a duty of 10,000 dols. had
the vessel been detained until to-day. Several other
as lucky escapes were made in the dry goods trade;
but all this is at an end, and British and French dry '
goods will for the future be luxuries for the rich,
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political reasons for a month,
operation to-day, but which has
beenablas,so
etroe
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than the expected flutter in the
gentle adjournedbosoms
of
thefor
great mass of people who, not being en
earn their livelihood in trade, industryc,oomrPtehteptrtoo-
fessions, look to the Government to supply them
with places, Upwards of 50,000 applications have
been made for office under the new law, and every
day brings a fresh batch of documents from people
of this class to the overtasked Department of the
Treasury. No less than 30,000 letters, with their
accompanying testimonials, arc declared to have I
been duly read, filed, and registered at the Treasury,
where the impression prevails among the unhappy
clerks that the job is not half completed. The weed-
ing out of this too prolific garden will be the next
task to be performed ; for, though there be 50,000
or 60,000 applicants, there are but 4,000 places to
be bestowed among them. It is a pity, seeing that
the Government is so deplorably in want of soldiers,
and that the volunteering does not prosper, that
Mr. Lincoln did not stipulate with the candidates
for this branch of the public service that the non-
successful should be draughted into the army.
Fifty thousand additional men with M'Clellan at
this moment might be of incalculable aid to that
General and to the Government. Mr. Lincoln
has power enough—for it seems that he can do
anything he likes, except free the slaves of the
South,—and he might even yet, before the dis-
posal of a single place among the hungry crowd,
make it a sine qua non of candidateship, that every
one who offered himself should be made either a
tax-collector or a soldier, and that those who
could not use the pen and the inkhorn for the taxa-
tion of the people should be provided with sword or
rifle for the salvation of the State. Perhaps, how-
ever, the promulgation of such a rule would imme-
diately reduce the number of applicants by one-half
or three-fourths ; but even in that case it would
save the official mind both labour and trouble, and
for that reason, if for no other, might be worth con-
sideration.

P.S. A report has just reached me, from a source
on which I am inclined to place reliance, that
Stonewall Jackson has defeated Gen. Siegel, with
considerable loss, and succeeded in turning the right
flank of General Pope's army in the Shenandoah.
My informant adds that Jackson is now on the road
between Fredericksburg and Washington. Should
this report be true it will be scrupulously kept out
of the papers of to-morrow, in order that it may not
reach Europe by the Inman steamer that sails at
noon for Liverpool. Ido not vouch for the authen-
ticity of the report, but I know that it has been
received in an influential quarter, and that it is be-
lieved to be true.

THE ALLEGED MURDER NEAR FI7Z-
BOY-SQUARE.-ADJOURNED INQUEST.

Last evening Dr. Lank7ster, the Central Middle-
sex coroner, resumed an inquisition at the Marquis
Cornwallis, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, touch-
ing the death of Elizabeth Carly, aged 48.
The particulars of the death of the unfortunate
woman, published in our issue of Wednesday last,
went to show that it was occasioned by the brutal
violence of Charles Francis Cotier (with whom she
cohabited), furniture-dealer, 42, Warren-street.
Long before the jury had re-assembled the court-
room became inconveniently crowded, a large num-
ber of persons collectee. outside, and much interest
was manifested in the proceedings.
Mr. Sleigh again attended on behalf of friends of
the deceased ; and a representative of Mr. E. Lewis
attended for Cotier, now under remand at the House
of Detention on a charge of murdering deceased.
Susan Spinks, a lodger at 42, Warren-street,
was first called on this occasion, and deposed, in
addition to her former evidence, that between the
hours of five and six, on the evening preceding'de-
ceased's death, which took place early on Saturday
morning, she saw deceased and Cotier in the passage
of the house. A great struggle took place. He
hit her, they both fell together, the deceased
under. She then saw Cotier catch hold of de-
ceased's hair, twine his hand round it, and strike
her several times. Deceased screamed " Murder."
When she fell her head came in contact with the
stairs. The struggle began because she wanted
to go out of the house, and he would not let her.
Deceased called to Cotier to fight him several times.
her bonnet and
Ultimately deceased got out, and went away.
William Henry Cotier said he was the son of
y violent
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sent A b 0 n t
out to look for his mother. They had been hira
quar-
relling in the afternoon about her wanting to g,z
out, and while deceased was getting
shawl to go out, his father tried to
to
break
keasthede became getting
by striking her, but by pulling prevent her, not
her bonnet and
eshnaedwl.windowv eir '
, and threat-
strike him. Whilst tryin t n With a stick, and to
she struck his father i
41 gtho get out of the passage
strike her again. She ant oute face, but he did not
away in a cab, His -- of the house, and went 1
her, and he father then sent him out after
vas out
12 o'clock in vain. searching for her till half-past
his father there. 'When he came home he found
hisfoundo
them in the sitti He went upstairs and
was lying
asleep
en the floorng-room.
His
motherquilt over her.
He judged with a sheet and '
she was tipsy. He and hisfather went
away to his bed to ether, when his father said she
came drunk.
I)witness asked if they
homesp eechless
had been fighting ; and he replied " No." Between
five and six in the morning his father got up, and
Went into the sitting-room to tIT deceased, and re-
turned directly after, and told him to et up as soon
as possible, because there was something g the matter
with his mother. He directly got up, and found her
on the floor insensible. _ T
Thep
lifted her from the
floor to a couch, and in doing so she breathed once.
Witness then ran for a medical man.
Martha Spinks gave evidence corroborative
of that given by Susan Spinks.
Iv. H. Cotier, on being recalled, said,in answer
to questions from Mr. Sleigh, that he
never saw his
father strike his mother but once or twice at any
time. She was in the habit of crving out "murder,"
without provocation, When drunk.
After some other evidence had been adduced,
The Coroner proposed an adjournment to Monday
next, which was 1 agreed unanimous Y to. 1