The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-05 00:00:00

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THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 4.

The Canadian screw steamer Jura, Capt. Aiton,
Which left Quebec on the 24th ult., and called off
Cape Race on the 27th, has arrived.
A telegraphic summary of her news has already
been published.

The Screw steamers Kangaroo and Hibernian,
both from Liverpool, the former from New York
and the latter for Quebec, passed Cape Race on the
25th ultimo.
The New York. World of the 22d ultimo, in its
" situation of Affairs" says— _

The army, commanded by Gen. M'Clellan, is now
in the vicinity of Richmond. The pickets of the
enemy were driven across Bottom-bridge on Tues-
day by the troops advancing in that direction. The
rebels attempted to regain the post by the use of
their artillery, but did not succeed. Our batteries
opened fire, shelling the woods each side of the
bridge. The advance under Gen. Stoneman arrived
at the bridge on Tuesday, within eight miles of
Richmond, but found no enemy in force this side of
the Chickahominy, which at that point becomes a
small creek. The country in that locality is fa-
vourable for military operations. Gen. Stoneman
found six pieces of artillery posted upon the oppo-
site bank, but as his purpose was not to bring on
an engagement, he retired one mile from the bridge
and encamped during the day. While driving in
the rebel outposts he had one man killed and three
wounded. The entire army moved early yesterday
morning with the view of making a lengthy march.
What roads they took is not stated, but the head-
quarters of Gen. M'Clellan last night were to be
within a short distance from Richmond, in front of
which city the main body of the rebel army is be-
lieved to be encamped.
Advices from New Orleans, received in Washing-
ton yesterday, state that the vessels of the fleet have
been judiciously distributed—a number under Com-
mander Lee going up the Mississippi as far as
Vicksburgh, for purposes not stated. The docu-
ments received at the Navy Department show that
Capt. Farragut carried out his instructions to the
letter, and that ho was most efficiently sustained by
all under his command.
When our forces took possession of Pensacola the
mayor promised, on behalf of the citizens, that they
would conduct themselves peacefully. The rebels
had evacuated the place on learning that our
steamers, the day before, were going to Mobile
Bay, and that the squadron and mortar boats would
soon follow.

Commodore Porter left Ship Island on the 7th
inst. with the steamers belonging to the mortar
fleet, for the purpose of fixing a place for the mor-
tar vessels to lie and plant buoys for the ships to
run by when they should arrive. Great excitement
appeared to exist within the forts at the progress
of the fleet. There was cause to believe that the
troops stationed at Fort Gaines were leaving to
reinforce Fort Morgan. The Clifton got ashore
under the guns of the latter fort, and fire was
opened upon her without effect. She was soon
placed beyond the reach of danger. The weather
being bad and the coals much reduced the vessels
had left for Ship Island.
Intelligence has been received from the Galena
andWachussett, forming part of Commodore Golds-
borough's expedition up the James River, to the
effect that the former vessel was fired at on Tues-
day by the enemy's cavalry. No damage was done,
and the rebels were dispersed by a single shell from
the steamer. On Monday afternoon a boat went
ashore horn the Wachussett with a flag of truce
containing 6 officers and 12 men. The party were
fired upon by some 20 or 30 men, and simulta-
neously the latter were attacked and taken priso-
ners. Two of our men were killed and three
wounded.

The transport steamer Haze, from Newhern,
North Carolina, on the 17th inst., arrived at this
port yesterday. A Union meeting was held at
Shephardsville, Carteret county, on the 10th inst.,
at which resolutions were adopted, declaring it to
be the duty of all Union-loving men to meet and
speak their Union sentiments, and also to take mea-
sures to maintain and defend the constitution of the
United States, and inviting the Hon. Edward Stan-
ley to pay a visit to Shephardsville, &o. The
Union men of Bay river have organised a military
company for the protection of the laws, liberty, and
property of Union men in the neighbourhood, and
for the preservation of iaw and order. All loyal
residents of Craven county are invited to join. The
IVewbern Progress states that the State Convention
at Raleigh would adjourn yesterday, and that at
least two-thirds of its members are Union men.

We extract the following later telegrams from
the Quebec and Montreal steamer
CAIRO, MAY 22.—The steamer De Soto from the
flotilla has arrived, bat brings no additional news.
The opinion still prevails that Fort Wright is eva-
cuated. Deserters from the Confederate camp at
Corinth, a week ago, report that Beauregard had
130,000 men, 30,000 of them being held as a reserve
under Breckenridge. The Confederates are suffering
greatly from sickness, an average of abont 600 daily
beingsent from the camp over the Memphis and Char-
leston Railroad. All the houses along the road were
used as hospitals. Beauregard is continually among
his men, making speeches to them, urging and
making every effort to encourage them. His
troops are subsisting on half rations; salt beef of
miserable quality is issued once a week. Rifle pits
around Corinth command all the approaches to the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and are 13 miles long.
The Confederates are making extraordinary efforts
to obtain heavy guns, of which they acknowledge
to have had a poor supply.
A special despatch to the Chicago Tribune of the
same date says :
The captain of the steamers plying between
Cairo and the flotilla report that there were over
1,000 refugees between New Madrid, 'and that the
banks of the river are fairly crowded with them,
begging
to be taken aboard and carried North.
The deserters who came aboard the Beaton on
Tuesday report that Commodore Farragut's fleet
left Vicksburg on the 17th, their destination being
Memphis,

The Baltimore American of the 23d in its special
correspondence says:—

The headquarters of General M'Clellan's army
was in proximity to Bottom Bridge, over which a
portion of the army has already passed, the second
division having crossed the Chickahominy at New-
miles
bridge, about seven further tip, and within
eight ini:e3 of Richmond. It was rumoured that a
proposition for an armistice for 10 days had been
made by the Confederates, but of course it
-- could
not been entertained. The advance of our army
was understood to be within five miles of the city,
to which point the enemy has fallen back, with but
a slight effort to check our onward movement.

The advance by the Way of Newbridge enters
on the north-west side.
The tug, from the James river this morning,
brings down two very intelligent citizens from
Petersburg, who fled from the city yesterday to
avoid the press gang under the Conscription Act.
They represent the condition of affairs there and the
surrounding country as of a most deplorable cha-
racter. The sufferings of the people seem almost
beyond endurance, and the quantity of provisions was
so great that everything had been seized for the
army, and even the soldiers had been on half ra-
tions for a week past, with no prospect of even
this supply continuing for a great length of time.
The Confederate army, or at least a great portion
of it, they represent as demoralised and dispirited
to such an extent that it is only held together by
the most vigorous appliances.of military law. Still
the work of consovp. tiou was pro wing, and the
roavlitsso, • kir . era 4.lged with unarmed
men' old ki.l.-,--,`,!",-Vi-g%-dliven along under
strong armed guards. They represent that no
people in modern times have suffered more than the
people of Virginia are now suffering. Every house-
hold is in mourning, with the prospect of an ap-
proaching famine. They also state that General
Beauregard arrived at Richmond on Tuesday. Jeff.
Davis and the military ant
honties had declared
their intention to fight to the death before Rich-
mondfbut strong suspicions were entertained that
it was really their purpose to abandon the city
after a short defence at the works surrounding
Large numbers of women and children from Rich-

mond had arrived at Petersburg, who represented
the distress prevailing in the city as beyond de-
scription.
Threats were made by the soldiers from the Gulf
States that if they had to leave Ric mond they
would tay it in ashes before doing s and great
years were entertained that their threat would be
carried into effect. It would require the greatest
efforts on the part of the citizens to prevent such
a catastrophe.

The number of troops at Richmond and in the
vicinity was generally believed to be fully 200,000,
including the unarmed and poorly armed of the
recent levies, who were having pikes put into their
hands for active service.

The New York Times' special correspondent at
Washington telegraphs on the 22d :—" The War
Department has called for no definite number of
troops, but has reopened the recruiting stations
lately closed by order. Nine new regiments will
be raised for special service. Beyond this no for-
mal call has been made on States for volunteers.
The main object is to obtain a reserve to fill up
existing regiments. The radicals exaggerate this
matter."

In the United States Senate, on the 21st, a joint
so giving the thanks of Congress to Flag-
officer lti
ut and the officers and men under his
resolution
rrag
command was adopted. The military committee
were instructed to inquire into the expediency of
granting bounty lands to soldiers enlisted for three
months and one year, also for pensions for widows
of soldiers who die in the service. The Tax Bill
was then taken up and a few amendments made,
and the Senate went into executive session.
In the House of Representatives the Confiscation
Bill was under consideration until the adjourn-
ment.

Mr. John Drew, the celebrated Irish comedian,
died suddenly at Philadelphia on the 21st ultimo.
He had just completed a successful engagement of
100 nights, and was about starting for a second tour
to Europe. Mr. Drew was much respected in
Philadelphia.
The New York Times says it was understood that
the Great Eastern would be open to public inspec-
tion during the following week. Some fears were
expressed lest the vessel should fail to obtain a suffi-
ciently large passenger list to authorise a repetition
of its American trip. " That apprehension," says
the Times, "we understand, is groundless. Not
only has there been a lively demand for passage,
but so great is the current just now setting towards
Europe, and to so large an extent have the accom-
modations of other vessels been secured in advance,
that the Great Eastern's room is likely to be entirely
occupied."

The New York bar had decided that there was
no cause for revoking Mr. Edwin James's license as
a member.

A Washington telegram says—
While the 76th New York Regiment was passing
through Washington on the 22d a number of civil
officers, provided with judicial papers, seized two
negroes from the ranks, and soon placed them
beyond the reach of rescue. An effort was made
to arrest six or eight other fugitives, when the
soldiers pointed their muskets at the police,
warning them of the danger of persisting.
The negroes were departing under the protection of
their military friends. There was great excite-
ment fora short time. It would be investigated.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(Via Father Point.)

NEW YORK, MAY 24, Evening.
Money is abundant. Gold is quoted 3a per cent.
prem. Sterling Exchange, bankers, 114 ; com-
mercial, 113. Stocks dull, United States Sixes
registered 1881, 104.

Cotton firmer, at an advance of lc. per lb. The
sales of the past two days amount to 2,000 bales.
Breadstuffs—Winter red wheat, 1 dol. 15c. ; Chi-
cago, 1 dol. ; Extra State flour, 4 dots. 55c. ; mixed
Western corn, 50c. Lard, 8-3-c. Tallow, 94c.
Coffee quiet. Spirits of turpentine steady. Freights
to Liverpool—Flour, 3s. ; wheat, 18.

her out of Tennessee and sent her on to New Jersey
—I thank them kindly for doing so—and saw his
wife ploughing, endeavouring to raise corn for her
suffering and starving children. That is the spirit
of secession, gentlemen. And yet you have a set
of God forsaken, unprincipled men at the North
who are apologising for them and sympathising
with them. (Applause.) When they took Haum
out and placed him oa the scaffold they had a
drunken chaplain. They were kind enough to
notify him an hour before the hanging that he
was to hang. Baum at once made an application
for a Methodist preacher, a Union man, to come
and pray for him. They denied him the privilege,
and said that God didn't hear any prayers on
behalf of any -- Union shrieker, and he had
literally to do without the benefit of the clergy.
But they had near the gallows an unprincipled,
drunken chaplain of their own army, who got up
and undertook to apologise for Hawn. He said
" This poor, unfortunate man, who is about to pay
the debt of nature, regrets tho course he took. He
said he was misled by the Union paper." Haum
rose up, and with a clear, stentorian voice, said—
" Fellow-citizens,—There is not a word of truth in
that statement. I have authorised nobody to make
such a statement. What I have said and done I
have done and said with my eyes open, and if it
were to be done over, I would do it again. I am
ready to hang, and you can execute your purposes."
He died like a man ; he died like a Union man ;
like an East Tennesseean ought to die. As God is
my fudge, I would sooner be Haum in the grave
to-day, than any one of the scoundrels concerned
in his murder. (Great applause.) Time rolled on ;
one event after another occurred; and finally a man
of excellent character, one of Andy Johnson's con-
stituents from Greene county, by the name of Hess-
ing Self, was condemned to be hung by this drum-
head court martial, and they were kind enough to
let him know that he was to hang a few hours
before the hour appointed. His daughter, who
had come down to administer to his comfort and
consolation—a most estimable girl, about 21 years
of age—Elizabeth Self, a tall, spare made girl,
modest, handsomely attired, begged leave to
enter the gaol to see her father. They permitted
her, contrary to their usual custom and their savage
barbarity, to go in. They had him in a small iron
cage, a terrible affair; they opened a little door
and the gaoler admitted her. A parcel of us went
to witness the scene. As she entered the cage where
her father was—who was to die at four o'clock
that afternoon—she clasped him around the neck,
and he embraced her also, throwing his arms across
her shoulders. They sobbed and cried, they shed
their tears and made their moans, I stood by, and I
never beheld such a sight since God Almighty made
me, and hope I may never see the like again. When
they had parted, wringing each other by the hand,
as sho came out of the cage, stammering and trying
to utter something intelligible, she lisped my name.
She knew my face, and I could understand as much
as that she desired me to write a despatch to Jeff.
Davis and sign her name, begging him to pardon
her father. I worded it about thus :

" Hon. Jefferson Davis (I did not believe the first
word I wrote was the truth, but I put it there for
the sake of form)—My father, Hessing Self, is sen-
tenced to be hanged at 4 o'clock to-day. I am living
at home, and my mother is dead. My father is my
earthly all ; upon him my hopes are centred ; and,
friend, I pray yon to pardon him.—Respectfully,
" ELIZABETH SELF.

Jeff. Davis, who had a better heart than the rest
of them, perhaps, immediately responded—for he
could not withstand the appeals of a woman—to
General Carroll, and told him not to hang that man
Self, but to keep him in gaol and let him atone for
his crimes a certain time. Self has served his time
out and has gone home, and that girl is saved the
mortification of being left alone without a father.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the spirit of seces-
sion all over the South ; it is the spirit tha t actu-
ates them everywhere ; it is the spirit of murder, it
is the spirit of the infernal regions, and in God's
name can you any longer excuse or apologise for
such murderous and bloodthirsty demons as live down
in the Southern Confederacy. (Loud cries of No, no.)
Hanging is going on all over East Tennessee. They
shoot them down in the field, they whip them; and,
as strange as it may seem to you, in the counties of
Campbell and Anderson they actually lacerate with
switches the bodies of females, wives and daughters
of Union men—clever respectable women. They
show no quarters to male or female ; they rob their
houses and they throw them into prison. Our gaols
are all full now, and we have complained and
fought hard that our Government has not come to
our relief, for a more loyal, a more devoted people
to the stars and stripes never lived on the face of
God's earth than the Union people of Tennessee.
(Loud cheers.) With tears in their eyes they
begged me, upen leaving East Tennessee, for God
Almighty's sake to see the President, to see the
army officers, so as to have relief sent to them and
bring them out of gaol. I hope, gentlemen, you
will use your influence with the army and navy,
and all concerned, to relieve these people. They are
the most abused, down-trodden, persecuted, and
proscribed people that ever lived on the face of the
earth. I am happy to announce to you that the
rebellion will soon be played out. Thank God for
his mercies, it will soon have been played out.
(Cheers.)

THE INDIAN TARIFF AND THE LANCA-

SHIRE DISTRESS.

Yesterday morning a deputation from the opera-
tives of Preston, appointed at a public meeting held
there on the 28th ult., had an interview with Sir
Charles Wood, Secretary of State for India, at the
India Board. The deputation, which consisted of
Mr. Thomas Bankea, secretary to the Spinners' In-
stitution, Mr. Meagher, and Mr. J. Baxter Langley,
was accompanied by Sir Thomas Hesketh, M.P.,
and Mr. C. P. Groenfell, M.P., the members for
Preston, and also by Mr. James Pilkington, M.P.,
member for Blackburn, who represented the opera-
tives of that district, and who bore a memorial from
them upon the same subject as that delivered by Sir
T. Hesketh from the operatives of Preston.
Sir T. Hesketh explained the object of the depu-
tation, whieh was to induce the Government to re-
consider the last statement of finance as expounded
in the budget of Mr. Laing, and to induce the Go-
vernment to repeal the taxes upon British goods
and yarns imported into British India.

The memorial alleged that the tariff in British
manufactures imported into India was irreconcile-
able with the principles of free trade, and not only
injurious bat cruel to the English operatives at
home. It urged that it was unjust that the Govern-
ment should spend upon public works and education
in India sums which were at present a great burden
upon the distressed operatives at home.
Mr. MEAGHER stated that the tariff, as at present
imposed, amounted to a tax upon each loom working
for the Indian market in Preston equal to £7 108 per
year, and as there were 27,149 looms in Preston,
four-fifths of which produced goods for the Indian
market, that would amount to £162,000 a year.
Several members of the deputation having spoken,
Sir C. WOOD, in reply, referred in the first in-
stance to the general questions of taxation and re-
venue in India, and said the Government felt the
deepest sympathy for the operatives in Lancashire,
while he assured the deputation that the whole
British Parliament regarded with admiration the
patience with which they endured the distress
through which they were passing. At the same
time he felt it his duty to explain that the distress
could not be attributed to the pressure of the Indian
tariff, hat it ought rather to be placed to the account
of circumstances in America over which the English
Government could have no possible control. He
regretted to say that there was no prospect of any
amelioration of those circumstances, nor any hopo
of a cotton supply from America for some consider-
able time to come. Sir Charles went on to say,
tPhti
position
it wasjnnecessary
Considerableto explain the very peculiar
which
pressure
chants of this country in favour of public works in
upon him by beenGobvreorungmhet
India, which would open up
the rivers and roads
the manufacturers and co tnt ott nos tmboeoeadrr:
and enable the growers to supply
h a large quantity of raw material.
tobf tshcaotu cnotur
yn twryi
t,
He expressed himself somewhat surprised that any
complaint should be raised upon that score. With J

regard to the £lOO,OOOO voted for the culture of
opium, it was necessary to state that a large pro- 1
portion of the revenue of India was now derived
from that source, and that the Government could
not be expected to sacrifice £7,000,000 per annum
at the present time. Indeed, he did not what would
bacomo of the financial resources of India if it were
not for the opium trade. The English taxpayer
was not oppressed by the profit obtained from the
opium trade, for the Chinese really paid the amount
which was carried to the credit of the Indian ex-
chequer from the cultivation of opium. He thought
it remarkable that while all this complaint arose
from the manufacturing districts against the pres-
sure of the Indian tariff an increase in the imports
of British manufactures had actually taken place
during the last few months. This did not show that
the tariff was a hardship upon the English pro-
ducer. He could not admit that the taxes in these
leases were paid by the producers—they were in-
variably paid by the consumers ; nor could ho admit
that the tax upon British goods and yarns was
paid at the cost of the operatives or the masters in
Preston. It was true that an increase of price
limited the market, but this was the entire amount
of the hardship as against the producer. The Eng-
lish Government imposed a tax of N per cent.upon
Indian sugar,and 100 per cent. upon Indian pepper,
and it would be as reasonable for the Indian pro-
ducers of those articles to demand the repeal of
those duties as it was for the English producers of
cotton goods to ask for the abolition of the Indian
tariff. It was necessary to have a large military
force in India. The present Covernment had done
much to reduce the expenditure on that force, but
he believed they had now arrived at the full limit
of reduction. The native population were very im-
patient of anything like direct taxation, and direct
taxation was almost impracticable among all classes
of the people of India. In one of the largest of the
Indian cities, in which resided some of the most in-
fluential merchants, it was found when the various
occupiers of one street were called upon to make
returns of their profits in trade, that their whole
revenue was stated at a less than £lOO per annum.
It was therefore impossible to get at what was called
the trading revenue of the natives ; and direct
taxation, however desirable it might seem to
some, was impossible in India. There were plau-
sible arguments agaidst the tax on salt, which in
theory was an extreme hardship, but in practice
the tax was found to be a very good mode of pro-
curing revenue, as was shown by the fact that in
proportion as that tax had been increased the con-
sumption of the article had been increased also.
This circumstance, he said, was in a great measure
to be accounted for by the general rise that had
taken place in the wages in India, which also ex-
plained the increase of the opium grant. There
was, however, one point of extreme importance in
considering the reduction asked for, and that was
that upon the examination of the estimates of Mr.
Laing, it turned out that a mistake of £1,000,000
had been made, and that, instead of a supposed
surplus, there would in reality be a deficit. Sir
Charles concluded by expressing regret that at
present he could hold out no hope of any further
reduction of these duties, or any early abolition of
that which at present remained a portion of the
tariff.

After a few words of explanation froni Mr.
LANGLEY and Mr. BANKS the deputation withdrew.

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

Yesterday was a day of agreeable disappointments
at the Exhibition. The counter attractions of the
great sporting festival were expected to thin the
crowd at South Kensington, and hundreds of
families seized upon what they thought would
prove a quiet day for going over the great indus-
trial collection. When fifty thousand people come to
the same determination in fifty thousand different
places the result may be easily anticipated, and
her Majesty's Commissioners had yesterday to wel-
come ono of the greatest crowds that has yet
poured into the building. We reject the half-
estimated numbers off' the opening day as fabulous
and unreliable, but the figures of yesterday, not-
withstanding a few defects in the turnstiles, are
solid and unmistakeable. As it is matter of public
interest to know how these numbers were distri-
buted over the day, we give the official returns up
to 6 o'clock.

ELEVEN O'CLOCK RETURN.
Season tickets .. 331
By payment • . .• .. 7,991

8,325
ONE O'CLOCK RETURN.
Season tickets .. 1,341
By payment • . 27,204
28,545
THREE O'CLOCK RETURN.
Season tickets
.. 2,512
By payment .. 38,703
-41,215
FIVE O'CLOCK RETURN.
Season tickets ..
.. 4,244
By payment .. .. 44,985
-49,229
By this it will be seen that 20,000 people entered
in two hours.

These numbers—increased by a later return—are
the greatest we have yet had to record in connec-
tion with the Exhibition, and they seem to have
astonished no one more than the managers of the
two refreshment departments. It says much for
the resources of these gentlemen that they were
able to cope on the whole so satisfactorily with an
influx that was evidently unexpected on a fine
Derby day, and to make as much as they did of
the cramped and crowded space. No waiter can
do his work well unless he has plenty of room, and
half the complaints—many of them unfounded
—which have been made about attendance in the
English and French dining rooms would never
have been heard of if those rooms had been twice
their present width. The visitors appeared gene-
rally to belong to a very respectable class, and the
fact that they were new to the place was proved to
some extent by the large sale of catalogues.
Dr. Chipp performed a selection of music at 4
o'clock on Messrs. Forster and Andrews' organ,
which drew a large crowd to the neighbourhood of
the north-eastern annex. This performance will
be repeated on Saturday. Wo cannot honestly say
that we admire the decorations of this organ, fault-
less as they may seem to persons of medimval taste.
The pipes look very much like rows of Roman
candles in a firework-maker's window.

The visitors, as usual on the shilling days, were
pretty equally dispersed about the building—the
machinery annex being filled to overflowing. The
large proportion of children of all ages present on
these shilling days is a noticeable and gratifying
feature. Judging from the jammed appearance of
the building at 3 o'clock yesterday, and the diffi-
culty of moving along many of the chief avenues,
when at least 40,000 persons were present, crinoline
has asserted its power, and it will be no easy matter
to pack away the large numbers who will doubtless
present themselves on such days as Whit-Monday.
The crinoline of the middle and lower classes is not
quite so expansive and dome-like as the dresses of
the aristocracy, but it is sufficiently broad and un-
yielding to impede tho circulation of masses.
The hardware courts, froth some cause, arc still
comparatively deserted, much to the loss of the
visitors. The display hero is valuable and interest-
ing, the passages are wide, and the courts lie near
the eastern entrances.

Amongst the distinguished visitors yesterday
were the two young royal princes—Arthur and
Leopold—who, under the guidance of the Duke of
Buckingham and Captain Fowke, spent several
instructive hours in the Exhibition. Lord Elcho,
the Duke of Cleveland, the Duchess de Nemours,
the ex• Queen of France, and Lord and Lady Shaftes-
bury and family, were also visitors during the day.
The numbers admitted on Tuesday show an in-
crease over the numbers on the corresponding day
in 1851 of about three thousand. The door pay-
ments on the second shilling day in 1862 were about
four thousand more than in 1851. The third shil-
ling day in 1851--corresponding with yesterday—
showed admission by season tickets estimated at
5,000,
and by payment 37,384—total 42,384. This,
it will be seen, is under the total of yesterday. The
Derby Day in 1851 (May 21) was a five shilling day
at the old Exhibition, and the receipts amounted to
£3,512. The season ticket admissions were 14,500,
and the payments 14,049.
The total number of visitors yesterday was as
follows :—Season tickets, 4,899;. by payment,
45,686; total, 50,585.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

EPSOM RACES, WEDNESDAY.

The Manor Plate of 50 soya, fsr 3-yr-olds and upwards ;

weight fur age, with certain allowances. One ;mile. 8

subs.
Mr. Giles's Spencer, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b
Lord Portsmouth's Entremet, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b.... (Drew) 2
Baron Niviero's Baliverne, 3 yrs, 7st lib (H. Grimshaw) 3
Mr. Ball's Coroner, aged, 9st (J. Osborne) 4
Mr. T. Parr's Weasel, 6 yrs, 9st . . (C. Marlow) 5
Betting-5 to 4on Entremet, 3to 1 agst Baliverne, and
4 to 1 agst Spencer.

Coroner made the running, followed by Spencer and
Baliverne, Weasel and the favourite lying onto to the foot
of the hill, where Spencer took np the running, waited
upon by Baliverne, the pair raoing together to the stand,
where the Frenchman was beaten, and his place was taken
by Entremet, but who was unable to reach the leader, who
won easily by two:lengths ; a bad third. Lord Portsmouth
claimed the winner.

The Derby Stakes of 50 sovs each, b ft, for 3-yr-olds ;
colts, Bst 10,b ; fillie4, Bst 51b ; the owner of the second
horse to receive 100 sovs out of the stakes. Mile and a

half. 233 subs.,
Mr. Snowing's Caractacus (Parsons) 1
Mr. S. Hawke's The Marquis ... .
Mr. Merry's Bucks one (11. Grimshaw) 3
Mr. Jackson's Neptunus (Bullock) 4
Lord Glasgow's Stockwell colt (T. Aldcroft) 0
Lord Glasgow's Clarissa colt
Lord Glasgow's Brown Bess colt .. (irithington) 0
Mr. Merry's The Knave (Lynch) 0
Mr. Savile's Harlequin
Sir J. Hawley's Argonaut (Wells) 0
Sir J. Hawley's St. Alexis (S. Rogers) 0
Mr. Angell's Lord Burleigh (Challoner) 0
Lord Chesterfield's Typee colt
Mr. Coleman's Surrey (Reeves) 0
Mr. Robertson's Maharajah (Brewty) 0
Lord Stamford's Ensign (A. Edwards) 0
Baron Rothschild's Ndrroy
Mr. Bevill's Alvediston (Mr. W. Bevill) 0
Duke of Beaufort's Genise
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. (Sit
Mr. Parr's Star of the West (Marlow) 0
Mr. Parr's Tolurno (Clement) 0
Lord Annesley's Ace of Clubs
Mr. W. Goater's Spite (J. Goater) 0
Mr. Henry's Malek
Mr, Sutton's Nottingham (A. Day) 0
Mr. Ward's Ellangowan
Mr. Bowes's Welcome (Custance) 0
Lord St. Vincent's Schehallion (Hibberd) 0
Lord Coventry's Exchequer (J. Adams) 0
General Blood's Mitchell Grove (T. Clay) 0
Lord Fitzwilliarn's Vanguard
Mr. Osborne's Zetland (J. Osborne) 0
Mr. Gratwicke's Ashford (H. Bell) Oz
Mr. Thomas's Brighton .. (D Hughes) 0;
Betting-3 to 1 agst Tho Marquis, 7to 2 agst Buck-1
stone, Bto 1 agst Neptunus, 11 to 1 agst Argonaut, 12 to,
1 agst Zetland, 20 to 1 each agst St. Alexis and the Stock-
well colt, 30 to 1 agst Ensign, 33 to 1 agst The Ace of
Clubs, 40 to 1 agst Harlequin, 60 to 1 each agst Malek,
Spite, and Nottingham ; 1,000 to 15 each agst Caractacus,
the Clarissa colt, and Mr. Parr's two; 1,000 to 10 each
agst Welcome, Norroy, the Brown Bess colt, and Lord
Burleigh ; and 1,000 to 5 agst Alvediston.
Punctually at the time set down Mr. Manning got
through the preliminary weighing, and shortly after the
names of the 34 riders were exhibited on the telegraph, and
the horses were seen leaving the paddock to take their can-
ters, which having performed they joined the starter at the
post, but in consequence of the fractiousness of several of
the animals seme time was lost before the flag was lowered.
At last Mr. M'George got them together, and immediately
lowered his flag. Argonaut, next the rails, was the first
off, and made the running, followed by The Marquis, Not-
tingham, Spite, and Norroy, the next lot being headed by
the Stockwell colt, Neptunus, Vanguard, Buckstone, and
Caractacus, the rear division being brought up by Ellan-
gowan, Ensign, and Maharajah, who were left at the post,
Ensign having his head turned when the flag was lowered.
On their fairly entering the old course the favourite went
to the front, and came on with a clear lead, waited upon by
Argonaut, Neptunus, Nottingham, Spite, Buckstone, Ca-
ractacus, Zetland, the Stockwell colt, and St. Alexis, who
ran in a cluster at his heels, the roar division at this early
period of the race beginning to present a lengthened ap-
pearance. Descending the hill the Marquis slightly in-
creased his lead, and as he rounded the turn into the
straight he appeared a clear length in advance of Argonaut,
Nottingham going on third, with Caractacus, Buckstone,
and Neptunus lying in close attendance. Crossing the road
Argonaut was in difficulties, and shortly after gave way,
beaten. Caractacus at the same time, in company with
Nottingham, Buckstone, and Mr. Jackson's colt, joined the
Marquis, the quartet running nearly in a line to the dis-
tance, where Nottingham and Neptunus were disposed of,
leaving the race with the three, Caractacus.having a slight
advantage of the Marquis, Buckstone being two lengths
in their rear. At the stand Ashman made his effort to get
up, but failed, and was beaten, after a fine race, by a
neck, a length and a half separating the second and
third. Neptunus was fourth, The Knave fifth,
and Zetland sixth, Lord Burleigh, the Clarissa colt,
Malek, Nottingham, and Brighton being the next lot,
close together. The others, who were widely spread, were
pulling up as they passed tho stand, the last lot being
Tolurno, Gemse, Ellangowan, Exchequer, Ace of Clubs,
the Typee colt, and Maharajah. Spite, who broke down
badly coming down the hill when lying in a good place,
was led in some time after, J. Goater being compelled to
dismount to prevent his falling. Run in 2 min. 451 sec.
The Bentinck Plate, of 50 soya (handicap), for all ages.
Winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile.

Lord Uxbridge's Keane, 3 yrs, 6st 21b.. (J. Grirnshaw) 1
Mr. Craven's Woman in Red, 5 yrs, Gst 101 b (J. Daley) 2
Mr. \S ilson's Cairncastle, 2 yrs, ost 71b (Thomas) 3
The following also ran :—Neophyte, Viscount Brignall,
Lava, Rockley, Mermaid,
_Cauda, British Grenadier,
Dunoon, and Nourmahal colt.

Betting—a to 1 agst Rockley, 4to 1 each agst Lava and
Cahncastlei and 8 to 1 agst Keane.

Woman in Red, followed by Kane and Viscount Brig-
nall, made running into the straight, where Dunoon joined
the first three, Rockley, Cauda, and Neophyte heading the
next lot. At the distance Keane passed Woman in Red,
and Cairncastle passed the others as they were pulling up
beaten. Keane won easily by three lengths, and Cairn-
castle was a bad third; Viscount Brignall was fourth,
Dunoon fifth, Lava sixth, and Neophyte seventh.
Tho Epsom Town Plate, of 50 sous (handicap), for all

ages. Winners extra. One mile.

Mr. Bignell's Wild Rose, 6 yrs, Bst 131 b.... (S. Rogers) 1
Mr. Savile's Vertumna, 3 yrs, 6st (Whitley) 2
General Shirley's Beneventum, 3 yrs, sst 10113
(J. Grimehaw) 3
Mr. Hodgman's Cronstadt, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Reeves) 4
Mr. Jacob's Acre, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Roper) 0
Betting-6 to 4 agst Wild Rose, sto 2 agst Beneventum,
and 3 to 1 agst Vertumna.

Wild Rose made all the running, and won in a canter by
three lengths, Vertumna li-eating Beneveutum by a head
for second plat; Cronstadt finishing a bad fourth, Acre
got badly oft, and was last throughout.
The Burgh Stakes of 5 sous each, with 30 sous added; 2-
yr-olds and upwards; weights for age, with optional sell-
ing weights; half a mile. 7 subs.
Mr. H. Parker's Winsome, 2 yrs, £4O, sst 71b (S. Adams) 1
Capt. Coates's Tiney, 2 yrs, £4O, Sat 71b.. (J. Grimshaw) 2
Mr. J. Sadler's Court-martial, 3 yrs, £4O, 7st 51b (carried
7st 81b) (.T. Adams) 3
Mr. Hodgman's Sagittarius, 3 yrs, £4O, 7st 81b (Reeves) 4
Mr. Ward's Energetic, 2 yrs, 7st (Prince) 5
Betting—Even on Winsome, 3 to 1 agst Tiney, and 4 to
1 agst Sagittarius.

The favourite made her own running, and won in a
canter by three lengths, Energetic being a bad third. The
winnor was sold to Mr. Angell for 270 guineas.

THE VICEROY OF EGYPT.

The papers give the following account of the din-
ner given to the Emperor and Empress by Said
Pasha in his apartments at the Tuileries :

" The Emperor, the Empress, the Viceroy, and his nephew,
Martapha Pasha, were seated round a table, or rather large
silver salver, richly chased and enamelled, on which covers
of massive gold wereplacedfor four persons. At some metres
distant a sable of 25 covers was laid out for the ladies and
officers of the household. The latter table was served in the
French style, but the dishes were prepared in the Egyptian
mode, arid among them were two lambs roasted whole. Tho
animals were purchased alive by the Viceroy's servants,
and killed and cooked by them d _Egyptienne. The two
tables wore placed in the room which contains the rich
and curious collection of historical armour, purchased some
time since by the Emperor, and intended by hies to orna-
ment the armoury in the ancient Chateau of Pierrofonds.
At the moment when the Emperor and Empress entered
the room they were presented with rich basins, and, in con-
formity with Egyptian custom, their Majesties allowed per-
fumed water to be poured on their hands. When the
guests took their seats at table, the Viceroy's servant
placed on the lap of each a napkin of extraordinary rich-
ness, the corners of them being embroidered with dia-
monds and fine pearls, to the extent of about six inches,
Only ono dish was served at a time, each person helping
himself, and then at a given signal, the dish disappeared,
and was replaced by another, and this continued in succes-
sion until the time for the dessert. The servants then
removed the silver salver from before the Viceroy and
their Majesties, and replaced it by one of gold, on which
were arranged four dessert covers, the plates, knives,
I and forks being of gold, enriched with diamonds, as were
also the dishes, filled with the most magnifi cent fruit.
After dinner the whole party retired to another room,where
coffee was served in the Oriental style, in very small porce-
lain cups, standing on a foot, and having much the form of
an egg cup, the whole of them enriched with diamonds.
Long chibouks, ornamented with precious stones, were
afterwards offered to the guests. The Prince Imperial,
who had been present at the dinner, but without partaking
of it, gravely accepted one of them, and, putting the end of
the tube in his mouth, assumed the position of the other
smokers, sitting like them cross-legged. The band of the
Viceroy, which had come from Toulon for the purpose,r
played a number of their national airs during the dinner,
and and it was remarked that many of them were grounded
the old marches of the French regiments
who entered
w
Egypt under the First Napoleon. The water
rlaced on
the table during the dinner had bean broughta from the

LA TV INTELLIGENCE.—June 4.

(Sittings in Banco, before the Lord Chief Baron
and Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
STUBS AND ANOTHER V. STUBS—CURIOUS CASE.
This was an action in detenue to recover a grant
or patent of arms, which came on for trial at Guild-
hall, when a verdict was taken for the plaintiffs
by consent, subject to the opinion of this Court.
The case stated that Joseph Stubs, of Warring-
ton Lancashire, having by his own industry
amassed a considerable fortune, and been placed in
the commission of the peace, was desirous to possess
the right to wear armorial bearings, and obtained
a grant for that purpose from the College of
Heralds, paying fees to the amount of £76 108.,
in addition to £3 3s. the charge for the Heralds'
painters. He had no lineal descendants, and the
grant extended the right to wear the arms to the
two sons of his deceased brother, Peter and John
Stubs, who were the present plaintiffs. On the 20th
July, 1860, Joseph Stubs made a will, in which he
left absolutely to his wife, the defendant in this
action, all his household goods, books, pictures,
plate, &c. ; and shortly afterwards died, Under this
bequest the widow claimed the grant of the College
of Heralds ; and it was agreed that if the Court
thought she was entitled to possession of the docu-
ment the verdict should be entered for the defen-
dant.

Mr. Brett, on the part of the plaintiffs, contended
that the patent belonged to the sons of the testator's
brother, in whose favour it was granted.
Mr. Baron Bramwell—lt does not appear that
they ever consented to wear the arms. Can the
Earl Marshal inflict arms on a man without his con-
sent ? (Laughter.) Ought we not to see whether
the article is a picture ?
Mr. Grove, who appeared for the defendant, said
it was contained in a very handsome box.
(The grant was subsequently handed up to their
lordships. It was a large sheet of vellum engrossed
and surrounded by a coloured border, containing
the Stubs arms.)
The Lord Chief Baron—The wife can bear the
arms during her widowhood.
Mr. Brett thought she could not.
The Lord Chief Baron—Yes ; and when she dies
the arms of her husband are put on her achieve-
ment.

Mr. Brett submitted that the wife had no legal
right to the arms of her husband.

The Lord Chief Baron—Unquestionably she has,
and she may say "I will keep the grant, in order
that I may justify my use of them."
Mr. Brett—Supposing the testator had a son,
would he not as his heir be entitled to the grant,
the right to bear the arms having descended upon
him ?

The Lord Chief Baron—The right to bear arms
belongs to all the children of a family equally, but
with certain heraldic distinctions. Instantly old
Stubs got the grant his lineal descendants were en-
titled to wear the arms.

Mr. Brett said there might be a disposition on
the part of his learned friend to treat the case with
ridicule, but he thought the elder Stubs was rather
entitled to credit for the course he had adopted.
Being desirous to found a family, instead of doing
what some people did, put arms on their plate and
carriages without having paid the necessary fees,
he went and got a grant from the College of Arms.
The Lord Chief Baron said it was a pity there
should be a family quarrel about nothing. This
grant was literally of no value whatever, having
been enrolled in the College of Arms, and that en-
rolment was as good for proving the title to the
armorial bearings as the patent itself.
Mr. Brett referred to some old authorities to
show that the horn being outside a castle gate,
showing the tenure by which the estate was held,
passed to the heir, and that no action for trespass
brought by an heir would lie against a person for
having disturbed and appropriated the armour or
banner which had been placed in the church in
honour of his ancestor. He, therefore, contended
that this grant, being an honour conferred upon
the testator, his lineal descendant was entitled to
its possession.
Mr. Grove, on the other side, said that the real
object of the Heralds' College was to keep records
of this description, and that the document claimed
by the plaintiffs was really nothing more than a
copy of the grant, which remained in the college.
The Lord Chief Baron, upon looking at the docu-
ment, said he was not quite certain that it was not
the original grant.

Mr. Grove said it was open to both the nephews
to get copies for themselves.

The Lard Chief Baron was of opinion that judg-
ment should be entered for the defendant. She had
a right to keep the grant to justify herself in using
the arms of her husband, and nobody could take it
from her. It was not a sort of instrument which
any one could specifically claim, like a patent for a
peerage, but it might be that the plaintiffs could
file a bill in Chancery to prevent the widow defac•
ing or getting rid of the document.
Mr. Baron Bramwell being of the same opinion,
Judgment was entered for the defendant.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before Sir C. Cresswell and justices Williams and
Willes.)
ROWLEY V. ROWLEY.
__ _

This was an appeal from the judgment of the
Judge Ordinary. The case has been frequently be-
fore the Court, and our readers will recollect that
the petitioner, Mrs. Rowley, instituted a suit for
a divorce from her husband, and the case was to
have been heard before a jury. However, when
the proceedings were about to commence, a propo-
sition was made for an arrangement, to which, by
the advice of her counsel, the petitioner consented,
and the suit was dropped. Subsequently, the peti
tioner applied to the Court to have the case heard,
alleging that she gave her consent to the arrange-
ment through ignorance of legal terms, and while
she was labouring under bodily disease. The Judge
Ordinary refused the motion, and she no ff appealed
to the full Court to reverse this decision.

Mrs. Rowley appeared in person and pleaded her
own case.

Dr. Phillimore, in compliance with the wish of
the Court, entered into an explanation of the cir-
cumstances connected with the discontinuance of
the suit. He said that he and the present Attorney-
General were counsel for Mrs. Rowley, and they
considered it was a case in which a compromise
might be properly effected between the litigants.
The Attorney-General had commenced his address
to the jury, when a paper was handed to him (Dr.
Phillimore) by Mrs. Rowley's solicitor, to the effect
that the lady was willing to enter into the compro-
mise, and as the case was urgent, counsel thought
it desirable to accede to the terms offered by the
other side.
Mr. Justice Wightman considerd that there was
no ground for the application, and if it was sane
tioned, there would be no security for any compro-
mise that might be effected between parties in future.
Mr. Justice Willes concurred in the opinion of
his learned brother, and cited some authorities in
support of his view as to the law relating to com-
promises, which he said fully applied to the present
case.
The appeal was accordingly dismissed.