The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-13 00:00:00

NORIII AMERICAN INDIANS.

The American papers give accounts of the Indians
charged with having taken part in the outrages in
Minesota. " The business," says the correspondent
of the SE. Paul Press, writing from Camp Sibley,
" has been despatched with celerity, as many as 40
cases having been tried per day in some instances.
The prisoners were brought in chained together by
the feet in pairs, in some cases eight at a time, and
the charges which were preferred by Gen. Sibley
read to them through the interpreter, and then, after
being exhorted to tell the truth and not equivocate,
each was asked the extent of his participation in the
outrages, and, if necessary, witnesses were called
against him. Then if there was any doubt as
to his guilt, or as to his being a willing parti-
cipant in the outrages, he was allowed to call
witnesses in his favour. Perhaps this may seem
to those who were not on the ground an unjus-

tifiably summary mode of proceeding ; but it was
as lengthy an examination as necessity would per-
mit, and whatever necessity requires it justifies.
Besides, no individual injustice is probably done, as
ninety-nine hundredths of these devils are guilty."
The correspondent of a New York paper, after
stating that the victims in the massacre are esti-
mated at 600, reports that 303 of the Indians tried
by court-martial have been condemned to be hung.
He says, " When the condemn:fad are talked to on
the subject they say, Kill me, kill me ; 1 would
kill you if I had you.' An Indian despises to beg
for his life, but abhors hanging, for he feels that to
be hung is to be treated like a dog. He would
much prefer death by the slow lingering torture,
such as none but an Indian can devise and exe-
cute, to a death on the gallows. The President
has requested General Pope to suspend the exe-
cution of the Indians for the present, and it is•mnch
feared that, looking at affairs from so distant a
stand-point, he may commute their sentence. The
demand of the people of the State is, that the
condemned bo executed, and, if their sentence
should be commuted, there is danger that the people
will take the. matter into their own hands, and
inflict summary justice. An officer just arrived
from Sibley's camp says that the citizens of the
interior are organising, and propose to kill the
Indians before they are set at liberty, in case Go-
vernment shall interfere. As the soldiers are
mostly citizens of the State, they would be likely
to offer but a feeble resistance to such a course."

BAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY RECEIPTS.

The traffic receipts of railways in the United Kingdom
amounted, for the week ending Dec. 6, on 10,505 miles, to
£515,030, and for the corresponding week of last year, on
10,186 miles, to £497,274, showing anhincrease of 319 miles,
and of £17,756 in the receipts. The gross receipts on the
following 14 railways amounted in the aggregate, on 7,227
miles, to £401,009, and for the corresponding week of 1861,
on 7,006 miles, to £389,985, showing an increase of 221
miles, and of £11,024 in the receipts. The increase on the
Caledonian amounted to £447, on the Great Eastern to £B4,
on the Great Northern to £2,729, on the London and North
Western to £3,309, on the London, Brighton, and South
Coast to £2,099, on the London and South Western to
£2,054, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Liacolnshire to
£217, on the North British to £469, on the North Eastern
to £l7l, and on the South Eastern to £911; total, £12,490.
But from this must be deducted £74, the decrease on the
Great Southern end Western, £C9B otrthe Great Western,
£446 on the Lancashire and Yorkshire, and £248 on the
Midland; together £1,466, leaving the increase, as above,
£11,024. The goods and mineral traffic on these lines
amounted to £238,171, and for the corresponding week of
1861 to £229,804, showing an increase of £8,367. The re -
ccipts for passengers, parcels, &c., amounted to £162,838,
against £160,181, showing an increase of £2,657. The traffic
receipts on 64 other lines amounted, on 3,279 miles, to
£114,021, and for the corresponding week of last year, on
3,180 miles, to £107,289, showing an increase of 99 miles,
and of £6,732 in the receipts. The total receipts of the
past week show an increase of £6O as compared with those
of the preceding week, ending Nov. 29.

Railways.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
1861. 1862. 1861.
£ £
2,126 1,957
582 565
1,765 1,550
5,281 5,532
15,682 15,235

1862.

Belfast and N, Counties 136
Belfast and Comity Down.... 49
Bl'th and Tyne 22
Bristol and Exeter l2l
Caledonian
Cockermouth &Workington
Cork and Bandon 2O
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l
Cork and Youghal • • 324
53t

Cornwall ✓

Deeside l-
7
Dub. & Wicklow and We'd d 4Bl
Dublin tnldleplfarustgtriaction 63
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 330
Great North of Scotland 5B
Gt. Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 57
qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 329
Great Western 902
Inverness & Aberdeen J unc 731
Irish North-Western 145
Irish South-Eastern 2s*
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 2
Llanelly 46
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall
h 4244571
Lond.
nßri&g.Shotountb&-Wse. setoeranst..::
London, Chatham, & Dover 721
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend „ 42*
Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh „ 236
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9l
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630
Midland Gt.Westn. of hind 1921
Monkland 7ll
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee ....... 410/
N-Eastern and New. & Car... 8911
North London .............. 9
North Staffordshire ......... 248
Oswestry and Newton...,, 42
Rhymney .................... 194
St. Helen's Canal & Railway . : 52
Scottish Central • 60
Scottish North-Eastern 132
Shropshire Union 291
Somerset and Dorset 391
South Devon 751
South-Eastern 306
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 5l
Ulster 5l
_ _

48i
31
160}
30

45}
329
9641
73j
130
39251
24
2
4
1062

Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 251
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W. Hartlepool II arbr. &Rail 39
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun B5

359 397
346 186
249 182
1,064 1,02 i
294 295
1,453 1,500
1,544 1,745
2,155 2,220
1,107 1,058
7,244 7037

2,711 2,086
8,105 7,550
26,206 26,122
27,7C0 ,24,971
1,746 1,742

06 318
7,552 7,626
61,317 52,025
1,085 858
1,910 1,672
199 831
31,(87 32.133
230 164

An important event in connexion with the com-
pletion of the Royal Sovereign shield ship took
place at Portsmouth yesterday—the bending to the
required shape of the first of the armour plates for
that vessel. The plate was brought to the necessary
form in two heats. The bottom of each furnace
which bas been built for heating the plates is move-
able, and Consists of a strong iron frame mounted on
four -wheels ; the top of the framework, which is
covered with layers of fire brick, thus forming the
bottom of the annealing furnace. On these layers
.of fire brick the plate for heating was laid by the
aid of ponderous cliphooka, from a beam suspended
from a travelling tubular crane. The plate in posi-
tion, the carriage or bottom of the furnace was
drawn into the necessary heating position, The
plate having been brought to a sufficient heat, was
withdrawn fv,ma the furnace on its carriage, and
was then seized by the eliphooks, and conveyed by
the trrvelling crane over two rows of iron bars, each
about 4ft. apart, fixed upright on an iron bed, the
rows of bars exceeding in length the length of the
plate. The upper ends of these upright bars are
secured by two transverse bars of great strength,
and are fastened by nuts and bolts. Between
these upright bars are thrust other massive bars,
which have been forged to the exact curve wanted
to be given to the inner surface of the armour
plate. These. 'moulded bars rest on the iron bed
below, their ends being held securely by the lower
ends of the upright bars on each side. The heated
ars).'our plate was next lowered by the crane and
cliphooks upon the moulded bars, and between
the rows of upright bars. Other massive bars,
moulded to the same form as those underneath,were
then laid on the top of the plate with their ends
projecting through the upright bars. Heavy iron
wedges were driven over each end of the upper
moulded bars by slung iron bars of some hundred
weight each, and the gigantic armour plate gradu-
ally yielded to the strain thus brought to bear on it.
Some dozens of the deck plates for the Royal Sove-
reign have also been heated in the same furnace and
flattened afterwards on an iron bed with iron and
wooden mauls, in readiness to lay on the upper deck
beams prior to the laying of the wooden planking.
This deck plating is one inch in thickness, and each
plate is from 16ft. to 1 ift. in length and 31t. in
width. The shop in which the plate was bent yes-
terday has just been erected for the purpose of pre-
paring and bending armour plates, and contains two
furnaces, one hydraulic press for bending the plates
cold,one planing machine for smoothing the edges of
the plates, two radial drilling machines for drilling
the bolt holes, and one 40 horse engine for driving
the machinery, &c. Although the workshop is not
yet quite complete in its fitment, nor all the ma-
chinery in correct working order, yet all is suffici-
ently advanced to keep any required number of men
at work, and we hope, therefore, that every exer-
tion may be used to get the ship afloat as speedily
as possible in order that we may make ourselves
fully acquainted with the merits and demerits of
the cupola, or shield principle. Upon the results
then to be obtained must depend in a great measure
the future construction of our iron war ships.
Rear-Admiral Sir John Kingcome paid a visit on
Thursday to the seilior officers of the Gefion and the
other Prussian corvette now in Plymouth Sound.
On leaving he was complimented with the usual
salute, which was acknowledged by his ship, the
screw steamship Sutlej, 51, Capt Connolly, which
sailr d in the evening for her station in the Pacific.
The paddlewheel steam tender Medusa, Master
Commander T. Laane, left Plymouth on Thursday
for Sheerness, with men just paid off from the screw
steam corvette Pelorus, Commodore Seymour, C.B.
The screw steamsloop Shearwater, 11, was placed
on Thursday in the basin in the Devonport Dock-
yard, for the purpose of having her bottom cleaned
and valves examined, preparatory to her being put
in Commission.
The screw steam frigate Emerald, 36, Captain A.
Cumming, was expected at Plymouth yesterday
evening or this morning.
The screw steam sloop Royalist, 11, at Devonport,
is ordered to be prepared and placed in the first di-
vision of the steam reserve, in succession to the screw
steamsloop Shearwater, ordered to be commissioned.
The seamen and marines of the steam reserve in
Ilarnoaze, Devonport, have, through Capt. A. Key,
their commanding officer, just subscribed the sum
of £B3 for the distressed Lancashire workmen,
making a total of £llO from the officers and men of
that department.

LADIES. AND THE STUDY OF MEDICINE.—The 1
mhos Journal Le Temps notices the case of Miss Garrett
st°:
IcArreeently refused permission t 3 study medicine at
yonntave.n.olB,. and after applauding the example set by this 1
glishwoman, and declaring that example and the eller
merit, proee'ecitte has displayed worthy of every encourage- i
comparatively mod" We cannot understand the prejudice,
to the great detrtroern as it is, which closes against w,,men
contrary to the
obvious
of their personal independence, and
liberal professions:l:Ts interests of society, any of the
be
?toes not appear to us that the ele-
ment of sex should
deration in the study ogarded as of more material consi- 1
or letters, in neither rofPractice of science than of arts 1
entered. The sphere of wonolv,hich studies has it ever I
!Should be prescribed only
by the limitations of her °NZ
ties—faculties unmia-
takable and brilliant, and whichaellih feeble are too often
so only on account of insufficient de ea
Garrett a letter, in 1
Daubie has just addressed to Miss rent' A Mdlle. •
unthieverorsears of trans-
which she says :—" Permit me to be
lit the
witting to you some portion of that
which is felt for the bold initiative you have taker
struggle you have singly ; pathy
noble and persevering
the vindication of a common right. The otstacles opposed
to you are entirely arbitrary, and we may hope that your
case is not even yet finally determined. * . During
half a century a portion of Europe has excluded Women
from the legal exercise of ' the
medical profession, In
France, to the honour of my country be
it said, the
social initiative has failed rather than liberty to exercise it,
for I was last year admitted to examination for the degree
of bacheller by the Faculty of Letters in Lyons, withott
any exceptional application. Even in Russia women
take university honours; can we believe that the
free
o.
in-
stitutions of free England 'are less liberal than those I
absolute Governments ? But whatever may be the pre-
sent issue, your cause is favoured by public opinion, the
supreme judge in all such cases; the great good wrought
by the female physicians of. America lea Yes no room for
tergiversation on the Subject. * .* . Europe observes
you, France applauds you ;• and .I rejoice to he able to con-
vey to yott a feeble echo of the general sympathies of my
country,"