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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY! ill VE MN% M ARCH 6, 1862.

successes on the policy of the Government. We
confess our fears predominate. Mr. LINCOLN is not
an anti-slavery man—rather the reverse. His policy
is to keep negroes as much as he can • out of the
Free States. He has no kind of objection to a
fugitive slave law, as it tends to keep the
blacks in the South, and he would rather not
have them in the North. Like the Kansas men,
he would vote them out of the States if he could.
As he cannot do this, his next best thing is to keep
them in the slave States. Politically and econo-
mically he well knows the slave system to be a
souree of disturbance to the Union, and a dear mode
of cultivating the soil. But we believe him to be
thoroughly sincere in his professions of friendliness
to slavery in the South, and in his willingness to
give every guarantee on the subject a Southern can
desire. He is hostile, indeed, to the introduction
of slavery into the territories, and to giving permis-
sion to bring slaves into the Free States, but this is
quite compatible with his desire to leave slavery
and the internal slave trade where it is in the
South. We apprehend that nothing on earth would
iuduce him to proclaim emancipation for the negro
were it placed entirely in his power to do so.
These are our impressions from the numerous in-
cidents in this contest which bear on the subject;
but they are not ours only. One of the most intel-
legent of the American correspondents, a man of
intelligence and calmness, the very reverse of
'' Manhattan," gives it as his deliberate opinion
that the anti-slavery cause never was at a lower
ebb in the North, than it now is. • That there is
quite a reaction—" To all appearance," he says,
" the North is becoming more pro:slavery in its
notions thans than ever it was before, and would
grant about all that the South would ask, provided
that peace should be restored and the Union be re-
constructed. There is as much anti slavery feeling
now, perhaps, as ever there was, but the sup-
porters of true freedom are not united, while the
friends of slavery form a compact mass, and seem
about to get control of most of the free States.
This is what I mean when I say that the North is
retrogading on the subject of slavery ; for the
governing power of a community, even though it
represents but a minority, must be held to speak
the sentiments of that community rather than the
majority, who waste their strength on internal
squabbles, or retire disheartened from the conflict.
The anti-slavery men of the Republican party
declare that Mr. LINCOLN and Mr. SEWARD are
as much devoted to slavery, and as ready to uphold
the rule of slaveholders, as ever were Presidents
PIERCE and BUCHANAN."
We confess that this seems to ns a highly pro-
bable account of the actual state of things. We
observe, indeed, that some correspondents who
have left England to write home again, colour their
representations of Northern feeling by their own
anti-slavery sentiments ; but we think the native
American view to be much nearer the truth. Eager-
ness to restore the Union will offer almost any
terms to the South. Magnanimity will be the

watchword, and it will mean, of course, a magnani•

mous sacrifice of a noble opportunity to abolish the
great disgrace of the Republic. The South, we
imagine, has little need to fear that Mr. LINCOLN
will exact any other terms than loyalty to the
Union and keeping their slaves at home.

Ultramontanism is doing its best to disgust all
the intelligence and liberalism of Europe. In
this country it is certainly giving far more of posi-
tion to Mr. WHALLEY, successor to Mr. SPOONER,
than ever he could procure for himself. The priestly
election at Longford will do more to render ultra-
Popery detestable to Englishmen, and to arouse
their deep-seated aversion to what they, rightly or
wrongly, have for centuries regarded as a disloyal
superstition, than any bitter lectures by Protes-
tants against Popery. Orange lodges and Pro-
testant institutes, and such proceedings as the attack
on Mr. TURNBULL, are distasteful to all liberal-
minded men. They awaken sympathy for the objects
of bigoted assaults. But when those with whom we
would sympathise show that the very spitit which
equipped the Spanish Armada still animates their
bosoms, they must not be surprised if Englishmen
recoil at the sight.

If there be any part of the policy of the present
Cabinet which has commanded the hearty appro-
bation of this country, it is that which related to
Italy. The Marquis of NORMANBY seemed to be
alone in his displeasure in the Upper House, and
Sir G. BOWYER in the Lower House, in uttering sen-
timents hostile to Italian unity and independence.
And, if there be a name honoured by Englishmen, it
is, above all others, that of GARIBALDI. Yet, what do
we see now at Longford—the name of GARIBALDI
received with groans, and one of the most re-
spectable of Irish members ejected because he
has taken a subordinate office under the
Government which gave its moral aid to the
liberation of Italy.

Now we warn the priests who made last Sunday
the opportunity for an altar canvasing on behalf of
the hero of Spoleto, and who taught the people to
groan for the great Italian hero, that they could not
take a more effectual course to call for English
groans for Irish priests, and for their religion too,
in the light in which they exhibit it. Let them re-
member that while the sentiment of equality for all
creeds is becoming the political faith of Britain,
they are taking the very course to destroy that
faith, so far as they can do it. From the time of
the Tudors to this day there has been a growing
desire on the part of mere intelligent Englishmen,
to efface the general impression that religious
loyalty to the POPE was incompatible with political
loyalty to liberty and to the British constitution. We
have preached with no little success the doctrine
that Catholics were as good liberals as other English-
men. But the Catholics themselves have proved
themselves the worst enemies to this doctrine. They
have exalted the POPE'S temporal power above the
rights of human beings to self-government. They
have shown that their concern is not to
be the conscientious worshippers of his Holiness,
as CHRIST'S Viceroy on earth, but to see this
Vieeroy of CHRIST a secular prince, a despotic
prince, and a prince with his foot ou tho neck of
his unfortunate subjects.

Now,Englishmen must loathe this degrading incon-
sistency. Catholics here are free men. They take,
as at Longford, what political course they please,
exposed only to the penalty of publicity for their
folly. They revel in their freedom, abuse the Go-
vernment, and turn out the QUEEN'S servants for
becoming her servants. We do not grudge them
this liberty, but we do ask them to do " as they
would be done unto:" We know they do not
like the Bible, but we believe they acknow-
ledge the commandment referred to. What,
then, have they to say to the Romans,
who ask nothing but the very liberty which the
Popish Priests of Longford enjoy themselves, but
deny to the
Romans, while they are furious with
Lords PALMERsToN
and RUSSELL, for a neutrality
in which tkey have
tem-
poral pofolptEaliinanclueradead.
given their moral support to the
nelpaion, the slaves of the tern-
of liberty run mad in Ireland, are fanatical for
These' priestly exemplifiers
keeping the Papal yoke on the necks of their
brother Catholics in Italy.
Andall for what ?
F9r that silliest of whims—to see th
e successor of

the Fisherman and the professed Vicar of Him
who disclaimed all pretensions to territorial domi-
nion, a petty temporal despot !
Our English Catholics should take care. We do
not know what influence they have elsewhere; but
were Cardinal WISEMAN to show half the interest
in civil and religious liberty in Rome, in Spain, in
France, which he shows in pointing out to his
flock how much flesh, fish, lard, and eggs,
they may eat in Lent, he would be doing
far more to render English Roman Ca-
tholicism an object of respect. We believe
the Irish Papal magnates would not thank him for
his interference, yet he might do worse things than
let them know that they are doing their best to
League.
elltieieseqesuitme
apyosbseiblaes thgaretaMt ra.eo;Rt Ewmasria'st
create among English politicians an anti-Popery
ultimate
Spoleto.

The state of affairs in Poland has long been a
source of deep regret to all right-thinking and feelin g
men. The spectacle of an ancient people cherishing an
ardent love of national independence and of their
peculiar constitution writhing under the strong hand
of a foreign domination has unhappily not been
without parallel in modern Europe. The una-
nimity, high character, and fervent patriotism of
the Poles, their heroic struggles to preserve their
nationality, and the unprincipled manner in which
the rights of nations were disregarded by a few
unscrupulous potentates, has rendered them more
especially the objects of sympathy. Their cause
was felt to be the cause of oppressed peoples ; their
leaders the representatives of injured patriotism;
their fall the triumph of ruthless despotism and
grasping cupidity in high places, upheld by the
sword—

" And Freedom shrieked when Kosctrsxo fell."
Of late years, however, the warm sympathy
awakened by the position of this ancient kingdom,
though not forgotten, has been suffered to languish
in the presence of events of more immediate ex-
citement in Europe. That the condition of the
people was a standing reproach to the Govern-
ments which had tamely looked on at the sacrifice,
no one doubted; but the more recent misfortunes
of Italy and Hungary naturally engrossed atten-
tion. The accession of the Emperor ALEXANDER,
too, gave rise to hopes of amelioration in the rigour
of the Government, and great expectations might
naturally be formed from the Sovereign who pro-
jected such a bold design as the emancipation of
the serfs. It was not long before these hopes
were extinguished ; but it remained for the events
of last year to arouse once more the sympathies
and indignation of Europe in behalf of the op-
pressed Poles. Those incidents are doubtless fresh
in the memory of our readers, but they have
recently been again brought prominently under
notice by the publication of a series of letters, ad-
dressed to her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary by an
English gentleman who came in for a share of
Cossack politeness last autumn. The declaration
of Mr. GEORGE MITCHELL, forwarded to Earl
RUSSELL by the British Consul General at War-
saw, states that that gentleman on the fifteenth of
last October was walking quietly along the Rue
du Miel, in company with a Polish friend, when
they were suddenly surrounded by a detachment of
Cossacks, commanded by an officer, who assaulted
them with their lances. The Pole managed to
escape into his own house, which was adjoining,
but the Englishman was less fortunate. In
vain he appealed to two Russian officers—
they only encouraged the cowardly attack.
He was struck to the ground and severely
injured by the blows he received. They
had disobeyed no order, and done nothing, by word
or gesture, to provoke such an assault. The offence
appeared to have been that they had entered a street
in which there was a church. Mr. MITCHELL
justly asks whether he could have anticipated such
an order from the Christian Governor of a Chris-
tian city. "I might," he says, " b ave thought it
possible that such acts could occur in Syria, under
a Turkish Governor with Mussulman soldiers, but
not under a Government which had any pretensions
to be considered European or civilised." Unjustifia-
ble as was the attack on Mr. MITCHELL, however,
it was trifling in comparison with the wrongs com-
mitted on the unhappy Poles. Troops of Cossacks
rode furiously through the streets, striking all they
met ; even entering private houses and maltreating
the inmates. Those found inside the churches were
beaten till their blood stained the altars at which
they had taken refuge. Daring the night of the
lath, 2,000 persons were.arrested ; 400 having been
detained to be tried by court martial for the crime
of praying in the churches. The particulars given
by Mr. MITCHELL,* as eye-witness of the scene
described one sufficient to excite the
warmest indignation. He solemnly declares that
there was no tumult nor anything which could in
the least degree palliate the barbarities of the
Cossacks :

I need hardly inform you that all the churches and syna-
gogues are closed in Warsaw ; nor are they likely to be
opened, as the Russian Viceroy will not give sufficient gua-
rantees in the official journal, that the churches shall not be
math again the scenes of such sanguinary outrages as were
perpetrated in them on the night of the 15th of October.
On that occasion, when the Russian troops forced an en-
trance into the churches, they found in the front rank the
women on their knees, and behind them the men. The
women were flogged and beaten, and the men struck down
and trampled on. The latter were taken wounded and

bleeding to the citadel, and during the whole way they

were unmercifully beaten. At the citadel they were divided
into parties of 60, and placed in dungeons. Count LAM-
BERT announced his intention,that 10 taken by lo tfrom each
division of prisoners should be shot, without any form of
trial.

General FANSELAWE, an Englishman, who has been 60
years in the Russian service, and is a Senator of Poland,
happened to walk ont on the 15th of October, without being
in uniform. He was surrounded by Circassians, who gave
him a most severe whipping. An eminent Polish phy-
sician had a small gold-headed cane taken from him by a
Cossack, at which time the Russian General KROULOYF
happened to pass. The physician appealed to the General,
who had been one of his patients, to order his cane to be
restored to him. But General KROULOFF ordered the Cos-
sack to lay his whip about the doctor's head, which he did
in the most cruel manner. I was walking in the Place de
Saxe on Sunday, the 20th of October, where I saw a Rus-
sian officer in uniform, with a young lady in deep mourn-
ing leaning on his arm. He was surrounded by a party of
Cossacks, who desired him to tear off the white border at
at the bottom of the lady's black dress. Black and white
together are forbidden colours in Warsaw. The officer told
them that he was Colonel HOLDE, and that the lady was

daughter, and in mourning for her mother. The Cossacks
insisted on his removing the white border from her dress,
and he had to tear it off on the public place. His late wife
was a Princess of Hesse of Darmstadt, and cousin of the
Empress of RUSSIA.

Such tyranny as this is sufficient to rouse a tamer
people than the Poles, and truly, as Mr. MITCHELL
observes, entail shame and disgrace upon the com-
munity of Christian nations. When will the Rus-
sians learn the madness of their proceedings P When
will the EMPEROR see that to maltreat the Poles
after the fashion of IvAN the TERRIBLE is to for-
feit his claim to rank among enlightened and civi-
lised sovereigns, and to turn his people back to that
state of barbarism from which his other acts show

an earnest wish to emerge. We should rejoice to
see the reign of a young and able sovereign sig-
nalised by an amelioration of the state of Poland.
Let him learn the lesson which is being taught in
succession to all despotic Governments. Let him

* Letters addressed to Bart Russell respecting the late
gvputs at Warsaw and in Poland. By Ciegrge Mitchell,

heed the warning, and give before the coveted boon
is wrested from him by the strength of an uproused
and indignant people, supported by the moral force
of the civilised world.

There were some vague reports in the Stock
Exchange yesterday of a new loan for Canada being in con-
templation, but they are believed to be totally without
foundation. The state of the provincial Treasury gives no
ground for them. _ _

_
Reports continue to circulate of the probability
of a new Russian loan, but they have not assumed any de-
finite shape. According to some opinions, it is to be for a
nominal amount of £10,000,000 or £11,000,000 sterling.
The recent remittances of gold from St. Petersburg have
been in connection with the payment of the dividend on the
4 per Cent. circular notes or bonds issued by the State
Bank,

The advices from Buenos Ayres to-day state that
the present packet brings £30,000 on account of the next
dividend. Political affairs continued with a very favourable
appearance. The greater part of the " Garde National"
employed in the late victorious campaign had returned to
Buenos Ayres and had been sent to their homes, but
Rosario and Sante Fe would continue to be militai ily occu-
pied by Buenos Ayrean troops until the organisation of the
new national Government. General Urquiza remains for
the present at the head of the province of Entre Rios, hav-
ing submitted to all the just claims made by General Mitre
regarding national property and other points. Many per-
sons, however, doubted if he would find it practicable long
to maintain that position.
HANDSOME PRESENTATION TO A SHIP CAPTAIN.
—Yesterday the Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance
Company, through their Secretary, presented a handsome
telescope and £lOO to Capt. Williams, of the Imogene, as a
mark of their approval of his conduct in rescuing, in July
last, the distressed crew of the brigantine Recompense, to-
gether with the widow of the captain of the brigantine, who
had been washed overboard and drowned. Captain Wil •
Hams having fallen in with the Recompense, in a very dis-
tressed condition, sent his mate on board and relieved the
crew, who eventually took the brigantine into Queenstown.
The Recompense, which had a valuable cargo on board,
was insured by the Thames and Mersey Company. Captain
Williams is well' known for his humanity and bravely, and
had previously been presented for a similar act with 4 gold
chronometer by the President of the United States.

A prospectus' has been issued of an undertaking
which has been'contemplated for some time past, to be
called the London Sufferance Wharf Company. The pro-
posed capital is £300,000 in shares of £lO each, and the ob-
ject is to erect' a sufferance wharf and bonded warehouses on
the north bank of the Thames on a site of about 26 acres,
having a river frontage of 1,000 feet near the Victoria
Docks, and in direct communication with the North-
Western, Great Northern, Midland, Eastern Counties, and
Blackwell Railways, The warehouses will be detached so
as to promote the classification of goods, and obviate the
danger of fire, and to secure in consequence an important
reduction in the rates of insurance. The board of directors
is respectably constituted.
WEST INDIA LOANS.—The annual account laid
before Parliament shows that of the sums advanced, under

the act of 1843, for granting relief to some of the West
India Islands, Antigua has repaid £70,000, leaving £30,000
still due; Montserratt has repaid £8,049 of £23,000, and
Nevis £7,160 of £12,000. Under the act of 1848, for grant-
ing relief to the island of Tobago, and aiding British
Guiana and Trinidad in raising money for the promotion
of immigration, Tobago received £20,000, and has repaid
all but £7,831; Trinidad has repaid £26,000 of £64,073 ;
British Guiana has received £70,000, and repaid no part of
the principal. _ _ _

The suspension has been announced of Alderman
Sir Henry Muggeridge, representing the firm of Sir Henry
and Edward Muggeridge, cornfactors. No expectation of
the event had been entertained until within the past two or
three weeks, strong st&tements of solvency having been
made up to a late period, and the most conflicting opinions
are now expressed regarding the prospects of the unsecured
creditors. The total claims covered and uncovered are esti-
mated at abort £150,000 or £200,000. The accounts, it is
feared, are in a very confused state, and the general im-
pression seems to be that the result will prove unfavourable.
Sir Henry was an unsuccessful candidate last November
for the Mayoralty, for which dignity he was the next in
rotation. He was also one of the founders and a director
of the Bank of London, but he has resigned his seat at that
establishment.
THE STOCK OF COTTON.—The movement of cot.
ton at Liverpool since the commencement of the present
year discloses very remarkable results, as will be readily
seen on an examination of the annexed figures showing
the weekly fluctuations of the stock :-
1862. 1861.
Bales. Bales.
Stcck, Jan. 1
" " 10
~
~17
• 24
31 .. ..
„ Feb. 7
„ „ 14 ..
If If 21
28
I

The stock held at the close of last month amounted there-
fore to only about 53 per cent, of the quantity on hand at
the corresponding period of 1861. The quantity of Ameri-
can was reduced to 170,880 bales as compared with 693,540
bales last year; and while 387,000 bales were last year at
this date on their way to Liverpool, this year there are only
a few chance waifs and strays en route, To the end of Feb-
ruary only 125,321 bales have come to hand this year from
all sources, against 648,399 bales in January and February,
1861. Facts such as these demonstrate the severity and
gravity of the present crisis.

THE COAL TRADE.—The coal supply to the metro-

polis, both by rail and water, still continues depressed, and
for the two months ending Feb. 28 the tonnage entered by

railway was 240,081 tons Bcwt, against 285,509 tons for the
corresponding period, showing a decrease of 45,427 tons
12cwt. Sea-borne coal shows a diminution of 1,786 tons,
as also do the canals. The following quantities were brought
up by the respective railways named (luring the month of
February, viz. :—London and North Western, 49,542 tons
3cwt ; Great Northern, 33,972 tons 17ert ; Eastern Coun-
ties, 12,582 tons 19cwt ; Great Western, 6,964 tons; Mid-
land, 5,912 tons ; London, Tilbury, and Southend, 54 tons;
total, 109,027 tons 19cwt ; corresponding nonth last year,
148,608 tons 16cwt ; decrease on the montli, 39,580 tons
17cwt. The sea-borne coal has been entered as follows :
From Newcastle, 119,728 tons; from Sunderland, 98,897

tons; from Hartlepool, 74,046 tons; from Wales, 10,993
tons ; from Yorkshire, 3,176 tons ; from Seaham, 12,966
tons ; from other sources, 13,864 tons
_; total, 336,664 tons.
The quantity entered from Hartlepool, as contrasted with
last February's tonnage, shows an increase of 100 per cent.,
but for this the sea-borne tonnage would have declined con-
siderably more.

LIBERATION OF MR. WILLIAM BEWICEE, of
THREEPWOOD.—The public will learn with the greatest
satisfaction that Mr. William Bewicke, of Threepwood,
who has been for upwards of a year suffering from the
effects of a vile, cruel, and too successful conspiracy, was
liberated from prison on Tuesday. Mr. Bewicke had been
taken back to Newcastle Gaol at the close of his evidence
against his wicked accusers; and at a few minutes after
one o'clock on Tuesday afternoon the governor of the gaol
received from the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment an order for his immediate release. It is hardly
necessary to state that the order was at once acted upon,
and Mr. Bewicke left the prison in a cab. He proceeded
immediately by train from the Central Station to Threep-
wood Hall, where be was received with great manifesta-
tions of gladness, there being a large concourse of people,
with bands of music and banners, to welcome him as he
left the train.—Newcastle Journal.
THE NORTH RIDING ELECTION.—Capt.
ley, of Hovingham, has issued an address to the electors of
the North Riding, in which he says :—As a Conservative
I am resolved to stand by our constitutional land marks,
even though Ministerial Conservatives, dragged on by
ultra-Liberal support, were ready to remove them. As a
Reformer, I am prepared to strike at real abuses, though
protected by so-called Liberals. I am prepared to vote
according to my conscience, for whatever tends to the good
of my country, without reference to personal ambition or
party schemes. When I call myself an independent
Liberal Conservative, I mean the thorough English mean-
ing of those three words. lam more a Conservative than
a Reformer, because now a days, thank Heaven, an Eng-
lishman has far more to be proud of and uphold than to
complain of. My independence will be founded upon
yours. If, as I believe, my Opinions are in accord with
those of the greatest part of the constituency, I shall well
acquit myself of my duty to you by following my own con-
science. Thus, it was your late lamented member earned
your love and confidence; and that I may attain by the
same course to the same end is the highest ambition of my
life.

QUEEN ANNE'B BOUNTY.—The annual account of
the governors for the year 1860 has been laid before Puha.
ment. The receipts of the year from first-fruits and tenths
amounted to £13,504, and the income from capital was
£83.908, making together £97,412. Gifts in favour of parti •
cular benefices, and benefactions for the augmentation of
livings (exclusive of the value of houses, lands, and stipends
granted to the governors), amounted in the year to
£19,784, besides endowment trust moneys, £14,920, toge•
ther with £7,946 Bank Annuities, and £7,750 railway stock
transferred to the governors. On the other side of the ac-
countNve fiinndsatBtreo
)706 described as paid to the clergy, £6,490
absorbed
and office expenses, and £1,209 paid for
solicitors' charges,„,,,sides that £4lO costs and charges were
1
allowed as incurred by incumbents upon sales during the
year of bounty lands belonging to benefices, and producing
£37,061. The sum of £48,118 was received in the year
from mortgages paid off, and £57,550 was lent on mort-
gage in the course of the year to build, 8;c„ glebe-houses,
£19,878 paid for the erection of residence houses, and
£23,382 invested in the purchase of houses, lands, ground
rents, and tithe rent-charge. Stock of the value of £37,861
was sold for general purposes, and stock co,ting £60,763
was purchased Tor general purposes. The auditor de-scribes
the account as examined aUd found correct," whatever
that may n0e41,1. Mere is no statement :of the assets, ap-
propriated and unappropriated, of this great corporation.

THE GLASGOW STEAMSHIP.—The Inman steam-
ship Glasgow sailed yesterday from Liverpool for New
York. Besides a ship mail she took out about 20 cabin pas-
sengers and a fair amount of cargo, consisting of manufac-
tured goods.

A telegram was published on the 13th ult., in
San Francisco, at 11.30 a.m., which was sent from New
York at 1.30 p.m. on that day. Thus the message arrived
at the Pacific city from the Atlantic city, two hours ahead
of time. The longitude of San Francisco is about 50 deg.
west of New York.

COPYRIGHT IN WORKS OF ART.—The bill intro-
duced into the House of Commons by Mr. Massey, the At.
torney-General, and Solicitor-General, for amending the
law relating to copyright in works of the fine arts, and for
repressing the commission of fraud in the production and
sale of such works, has been printed. It provides that the
copyright is not to prevent the representation of the same
subjects in other works. Assignments, licenses, &c., are to
be in writing. Penalties are inflicted on infringement of
copyright, and on fraudulent productions and sales. The
importation of pirated works is prohibited.
ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.—The contest for Long-
ford county has resulted in the return of Major O'Reilly.
At the close of the poll, yesterday, the " hero of Spoleto"
showed a majority of 576 ; but, if half of what the Dublin
.Daily Express tells Us of the brutal conduct of the priest-
ridden rabble of Longford be true, a petition on the ground
of intimidation must prove successful. At the nomination
for Canierbury, yesterday, Major Lyon, the Liberal candi-
date, obtained the show of hands.

ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.—The fifteenth anniversary
of the foundation of this very valuable charity was cele-
brated at the London Tavern on Tuesday. The Lord
Mayor presided, and was supported by Mr. Sheriff Twenty-
man, Mr. Alderman Rose, and Mr. Alderman Abbiss. His
lordship pointed out the special claims of the institution
upon public sympathy, and described the advantages it had
conferred upon society by restorinz to the practical duties
of life many who had been supposed to be hopelessly imbe-
cile. The subscription list of the evening showed a return
of upwards of ximo,
THE MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BILL.—It
has been determined by the Mersey Docks and Harbour
Board to withdraw for the present the bill which they had
deposited before Parliament for the purpose of obtaining
powers to raise and expend L 1,000,000 for the extension of
gritting dock and other accommodation at the north and
south extremities of the port. This resolution has been
adopted in deference to the representations of the steamship
owners. It was not come to without a good deal of dis-
cussion, and a considerable amount of opposition from some
members of the Board, who contended that, as the graving
docks at the south end formed a portion of the scheme, it
could not be abandoned.

SERIOUS COLLISION AND WRECK IN THE RIVER.

—Yesterday afternoon a serious collision took place in the
River near Gray's, Essex, between her Majesty's screw
steam vessel Rapid and a collier vessel deeply laden with
coals. The Rapid was returning up the River from a
trial trip, accompanied by the Monkey, steam vessel, and
whilst passing between two collier vessels it was found that
she did not readily answer her helm. A strong wind and
under current prevailed, it being at the time high tide, and
the Rapid struck one of the vessels, carried away the bow-
sprit and masts, and in fact so completely smashed her
timbers that she filled with water and went down instantly.
Fortunately only one of her crew was on board at the
time of the collision, and this man saved his life by cling.
ing to the rigging, and was taken off by the Monkey
steamer. The Rapid sustained no *jury, but the collier
ship is a perfect wreck.

An addition of £167,000 is about to be proposed
to the capital of the Indus Steam Flotila Company, but it
will not be offered to the public. The object is to give effect
to an arrangement entered into with the Secretary of State
for India for the transfer to the Indus Steam Flotilla o
selected steamers and barges belonging to Government now
on the Indus, the prices of which the Secretary of State has
agreed to take in shares or stock of the Indus Steam Flotilla.
A reference has been made to India as to the transfer by the
Government to this company of workshops and other appli-
ances at Kotree and elsewhere.

THE GAME LAWS,—At the County Court at
Mansfield, held a few days ago, before Mr. R. Wildman,
the following remaikable case was determined :—Two
poachers named William -Place and George Sansom sued
Mr. Superintendent Wimant, of the county constabulary,
for £4 195., the value of two nets, 24 partridges,' and one
rabbit seized by the defendant and his officers. From the
evidence adduced it appeared that the plaintiffs, with a
man named Evans, were coming down the Southwell-road
on the 2d of September last, at about 4 o'clock in the morn-
ing, and when about a mile from Mansfield were met by
the defendant and six police officers, who took them into
custody and searched them on their arrival at the station.
On Evans were found seven birds, a rabbit, and a net
When these were taken from Evans he said to defendant
"Wimant, I shall expect you to make them good," upon
which Wimant replied, " Put it on me, for we have plenty
of money." Some time afterwards the defendant was asked

to restore the property, but he refused. Mr. Cursham ap-
peared for the defendants, and contended that his clients
were warranted in apprehending the plaintiffs, who were
convicted poachers. Mr. Wildman, in giving judgment,
said if the men were poachers and had each been convicted
50 times that would not justify the police in stopping and
taking their property from them. After condemning the
practice of poaching, he ordered the amount claimed to be
paid forthwith.

EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.—On Tuesday evening
Mr. Bedford, the coroner, held an inquest at the Pineapple
Tavern, Westbourne-street, Pimlico, on the body of Eliza-
beth M'K ew, aged 32, who lost her life in Wednesday week
by falling into a cistern at 19, Belgrave-square. Mrs,
Susan Kerts, the housekeeper, said that deceased was a
servant at the same address. On Wednesday last the de-
ceased went upstairs to clean a room. The witness called
her and could get no answer. She then went upstairs her-
self and saw the steps in the closet, where the cistern was,
and a duster lying on the top. She was frightened, and
called for assistance. Deceased was then discovered in
the cistern. She was taken out quite dead. She had
not been sent to clean the cistern, and had no occa-
sion to stand upon it for any purpose. A man named
Turner, a painter, employed on the premises on Wednes-
day, said that he found the deceased in the cistern and
drew her out. There was about five feet six inches of
water in it at the time. Her head was downwards. William
Brooker, 287 B, said, on Wednesday last he went with his
inspector to the place where the accident had happened.
He examined the cistern, and found that when the lid was
drawn forward an opening 12 or 14 inches wide was left,
through which any one might fall in, Mr. John Charles
Turner, surgeon, 30, Wilton-place, said he had made apost
mortem examination, and had no doubt that the deceased
died from drowning. The Coroner having summed up, the
jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death," with a re-
commendation that the covering of the cistern be at-
tended t.),'

A SILK MILL BURNT.—At an early hour on
Wednesday morning, the 19th ult., the Hurst Mill,situated

at Biddulph, in Staffordshire, between Leek and Congleton,
was totally destroyed by fire, together with its valuable
contents of silk and machinery. The mill was occupied by
Mr. W. Harthan, who was in London at the time, and who
six months previously effected an insurance in the Man-
chester Fire-office for £l,OOO on the silk and machinery.
The building, belonging to the Rev. Mr. Holt, vicar of Bad-
dulph, was not insured. In the course of three or four
days after the conflagration Mr. Harthan sent in his claim
for the full amount of his policy. During the investigation
of the claim, from certain grave rumours, and the unusual
mystery enveloping the origin of the fire, a night watchman,
named John Lockett, a workman in the said mill, was ap-
pointed to protect the premises. While going his rounds on
the following Saturday night, at about 12 o'clock,he noticed
in an old stable, situate only a few feet from the mill, a large
' flag placed over the spot where he had seen Edwin liar-
than, son of the proprietor of the works, digging the day be-
fore the fire, He accordingly removed the flag and bored
into the ground, which appeared to have been recently dis-
turbed. Having convinced himself there was something
concealed he kept his own counsel until Monday night,
and communicated the fact to the owner of the mill, who
lives only at a short distance. Superintendent Bohana, of
the Congleton police force, was forthwith sent for, and he,
along with Mr. Hill, the Congleton agent of the insurance
company, and a police-constable, named Bate, proceeded at
once to Biddulph, a distance of four miles. The son of the
proprietor, who was sitting at the time with his father, in the
house, was taken to the stable, and in his presence the
soil was removed from beneath the flags, when two bags
containing upwards of 100 lb. of China thrown silk were
withdrawn from a hole about a yard square. Young Har-
than, who is about 23 years of age, was then taken into
Custody on a charge of robbing the mill, and afterwards
setting fire to the building. Superintendent Woollaston,
of the Leek police, received the prisoner into custody on the
following day, and on Wednesday last be was brought up
before the Leek magistrates and formally remanded until
Monday. On Monday the prisoner was brought up for exa-
mination, when Mr. Badnall, of Leek, appeared to prose-
cute, and Mr. Cooper, of Congleton, for the defence. The
only witness examined was Lockett, who substantially
proved in evidence the particulars stated above, and on ap-
plication for a further remand until Monday next, the bench
complied.—. Leeds 111ereury.
THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THE RIGHT MAN.—
Supposing it were necessary to remove Dr. Jenner from
Trafalgar-square at all, we think some more appropriate
locality might have been selected to have carried his
bronzen remains to. If we had been consulted on the sub-
ject, we should have given it as our advice that for the dis
coverer of vaccination the best place in the world would
have been Cowes.—Punch.
THE TOWN CLERK OF MANCHESTER. The
long vexed question relative to the salary of this official
was settled yesterday by the rejection of the resolution,
stating that £1,500 was a sufficient remuneration. The
numbers were for the resolution, 19; against it, 39,
SUGAR AND MOLASSES.---A return shows that
for the year ending Sept. 30, Isql, there were used in the
brewing of beer 83,618 cwt. of sugar; and in the distilla- .
tion of spirits 5,906 cwt, of sugar and 227,€19 cwt 9(1A04
'lasses,

LATEST NEWS.

PARIS, MARCH 6.

The Moniteur of this morning says :
"The Council of State has commenced its delibe-
rations on the bill which was announced yester-
day to the Corps Legislatif in the letter to the
Emperor.

" According to this bill an annual rente, the
amount of which is not yet fixed, would be inscribed
in the great book of the State to reward, by pensions
or dotations, distinguished acts on the part of gene-
rals, officers, and soldiers, as well as to recompense
exceptional services rendered by them in times in
war. Imperial decrees would constitute these pen-
sions or dotations, and would fix the conditions of
their enjoyment er reversibility, should the latter
take place."

CADIZ, MARCH 5.

Advices have been received here from Vera Cruz
o Feb. 8, stating that the preparations for occupy-
ing Orozabo, Cordova, and Jalapa are progressing.
The Mexicans were disposed to offer resistance.

Senor Rubalcaba had returned to Havannah.

The candidacy of the Archduke Maximilian to the
throne of Mexico was ill received.

The Monzteur contains a letter from Vera Cruz,
dated Jan. 31 :
" The Mexican Commissioner had ascertained
that the Powers would not allow themselves to be
diverted from their purpose by offering to Mexico
the means to emerge from the anarchy which has
prevailed for the last 50 years. The Commanders
of the Allied forces had agreed not to modify in any
shape their former resolutions.

"As soon as the troops are ready they will com-
mence to advance.

"News from the city of Mexico demonstrates
the impossibility of the maintenance for any length
of time of the actual state of things.

" The wishes for the success of the intervention
and the desire to see the troops of the Allies arrive
are almost universal.

"The people hope for the establishment of a
power which, from its nature and form, would
respond to the ancient traditions and the nationality
of the Mexicans."

THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.
MARSEILLES, MARCH 5.

The Vectis, with the above mails, arrived here at
8 a.m. to-day. The mails were to leave for London
at 10 a.m.

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 6.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Indus, with the heavy portion of the above mails,
arrived off the Needles at 10.25 a.m. to-day.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

At the opening of the sitting of the Legislative
Body to-day the President read the following letter
received from the Emperor :
" Palace of the Tuileries, 4th.

" Mon Cher President-1 sincerely deplore the
misunderstanding which appears to prevail between
the Legislative Body and myself. The spirit of
our institutions and my well-known sentiments for
the Chamber ought to have preserved us from it.
In fact, conflicts are now almost impossible ; the
laws are discussed for themselves, and not as to the
maintenance or the overthrow of a Ministry. (Hear
hear, that is true.) When the Government has
clearly expressed its intention, the resolutions of
the Legislative Body are the more free, as in ordi-
nary cases disaccords cannot in any way dis-
turb the progress of affairs. (Approbation.)
According to this incontestable system, the
refusal of the Chamber to pass the dotation
bill would doubtless have been painful to me,
but it would not have had any influence on
my sentiments and on my conduct. I nevertheless
comprehend, according to your explanations, that
an incident, slight at first, should have become,
from the circumstances connected with it, serious
enough to place the majority in a sad alternative—
(movement)—which caused a great number of De-
puties, as you have told me, "to prefer a law com-
prising in its ensemble exceptional military serviees.
Adopting this idea, I have resolved to present a
new bill, which, submitting to the Chamber the
appreciation of a general principle, will allow to be
secured within just limits to all striking services,
from the Marshal to the soldier, recompenses
worthy of the grandeur of the country. (Marked
movement of adhesion.) The Legislative Body,
which has always given me such loyal co-operation,
which has aided me in founding the Empire, and
the institutions which must survive us, will, I am
willing to think, see with pleasure that I eagerly
adopt the means of re-establishing mutual confidence
and of effacing the traces of a disaccord always to
be regretted between powers, the issue of the same
origin, and conscientiously labouring for the same
object.

" Accept, mon cher President, the assurance of
my sincere friendship.

" NAPOLEON."

BOURSE, March s.—The market has been firm,
with a fair amount of business doing, at an im-
provement on the rates of the previous day. Threes
for the Account, are now at 70f. 20c. The Railway
Share market has been also well maintained, and
several of the lines even show a slight advance.
The following are the closing quotations :-
4f per per Cents ... 99 70; Credit Foncier 1430
Do. end month.... 100 Belgian 4}
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 90 Roman
Bank Shares 3050 Austrian
Credit Mobilier.... 752 50 Spanish Threes 5l
Do. Account —lHome Debt