The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-04 00:00:00

THAMES.

MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON A WlFE.—Joseph Payne, a gun
maker, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with vio-
lently assaulting his wife, Harriet, who appeared in court
in a very weakly condition. There were bruises on her
face, and a large bump on her head.
The prisoner is a brutal, drunken, and dissipated scoun-
drel, and his wife said she had been beaten by the fellow
hundreds of times. She has supported herself and chil-
dren by her own industry seven years, and for the last
two years has entirely maintained her husband. He has
been out of work for two years, and brought nome nothing
towards the support of his home. He has, however, managed
to get drunk two or three times every week ; last evening
he was mad drunk. His wife gave him some tea which
she prepared for herself and family. He demanded that
fresh tea should be made for him. A quarrel ensued, and
he called his wife most frightful names and struck his
daughter. The complainant went towards them to pro-
tect her daughter. The prisoner struck her and knocked
her down, and then beat her with a heavy stick over the
head and shoulders. She was reduced to a pitiable con-
dition. The prisoner was taken into custody by Andrews,
police-constable, 62 H, and he made a violent resistance.
Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for three months, and to find good
bail to keep the peace for three months longer.

WANDSWORTH.
THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH.
—Fanny Knight, a respectable looking young woman, who
had been living With her father in Penton-road, Nine
Elms-lane, was brought before Mr. Ingham on final exa-
mination, on a charge of concealing the birth of her child.
The evidence (which has already appeared in The Sun)
having been read,

Mr. Ingham said he should commit the prisoner for trial
for the misdemeanour, as there was no proof of the exist-
ence of a living child.

The prisoner reserved her defence, and on the applica-
tion of Mr. Ricketts, the magistrate said he would take
bail for her appearance, in two sureties of £5O each.

Prince Torlonia's colossal undertaking of the
drainage of the Lake of Fucino has recently been
entirely centred in his own hands by the dissolution of the
company founded in Naples in 1853, in consequence of the
prince having been sole proprietor of the 21,500 shares
issued. Twelve years ago the capitalists doubted of the
success of the operation, alleging the failure of the Em-
peror Claudius, who spent millions on it in vain; but the
prince persevered, although, instead of the eight years
originally calculated, the works have been going on twelve
years, and the capital has required to be doubled. On
the 9th of August, 1862, the Torlonia emissory was opened
for the first time, and in fifteen months it drained 2,000
hectares of land. On the 28th August of the present year
the emissory was opened again, and will continue in
operation for about two years, during which period 5,000
or 6,000 hectares of land will be drained. All that will
then remain to be effected will be a canal in the basin of
the lake, which will drain 8,000 hectares more of most
fertile land.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A SUNDERLAND
THEATRE.—Mr. Chas. Dudley has closed his season
as lessee and manager of the Theatre Royal,. Sunderland.
On Friday it was announced that Mr. Dudley would take
his benefit, and the play selected for the occasion was
"The Lady of Lyons." After two acts of the piece had
been gone through, there followed a" scene" behind the
scenes between the manager and his company, and as a
consequence there was a long and unusual delay in the
rising of the curtain. The "gods" manifested some impa-
tience, but at length when it became whispered that the
actors had struck for their salaries the audience became
quite uproarious. A shower of halfpence, apples, potatoes,
and nuts were thrown on the stage, and adventurous
youths climbed up after the copper, and after pocket-
ing it expressed their thanks in a series of saltatory
capers beforAjlie cur aM. All this was accompanied by a
running chorus of yells, hisses, and laughter. Ultimately,
Mr. Dudley appeared before the curtain, and attempted to
apologise and expostulate, but his voice was drowned by
the shouts and hisses of the audience, who continued the
shower of halfpence and fruit. He attempted to make merry
under the circumstances, by picking up and pocketing the
money, but after having a huge lump of bread aimed at his
head, he deemed it prudent to beat a retreat behind the
scenes. The gods then struck up the famous Amarican war
chorus. "John Brown," which was roared out from every
part of the theatre, with the refrain " We'll hang Peggy
Potts on a sour apple tree, Glory Hallelujah !" Mr. Morton
Price and Miss Lucette appeared, and were well received,
the audience listening patiently to their songs and duets,
and also to a few remarks made by Mr. Price. Mr. Dudley
afterwards emerged from behind the scenes to announce
that Miss Lucette would appear in " Perfection," but he
was hissed, as before ; and the first scene of the piece was
opened amid a deafening noise, which continued until the
actor and actress walked off, and the curtain was once more
dropped. After this the money-taker vanished, and the
gods descended in a body, bowled over the check-takers,
and took complete possession of the pit, pitching the or-
chestra chairs on to the stage, and creating a scene of the
greatest confusion and uproar, which Continued till the
theatre was closed.—Newcastle Chronicle.

MORISON'S PILLS OF THE BRITISH COLLEGE OF
HEALTH, EUSTON-ROAD, LONDON.—AII persons should
know that the above medicine can be sent by post on receipt
of 30 postage stamps for two boxes, Nos, 1 and 2,13 id, size.
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The Magistrate—l consider it to be my duty to commit
the five prisoners—J. O'Donovan Rossa, C. Manns O'Keefe,
Thomas Clarke Luby, John O'Leary, and James O'Connor
—for trial on a charge of high treason. It is my duty to
ask them if they wish to say anything in reference to the
charge. They are not obliged to say anything unless they
desire to do so.

The prisoner O'Leary asked to be permitted to make a
statement.

Mr. Sidney, Q.C.—lt is right to say that any statement
he now makes is not made with my concurrence.
The Prisoner—Certainly. When we first appeared be-
fore this court Mr. Parry said the Government was not
prvetreamg against-us-from any rear or mu AV- canea-renimis,'
but, as well as I could understand him, because oertain
weak-minded persons, I suppose including my Lords
Bandon and Fermoy, were afraid. Now, Ido not care to
enter into any detail as to the manner in which the Go-
vernment has treated us since our arrest ; but I must say
that a Government which has been so very spiteful must
be somewhat afraid.
The Magistrate observed that what Mr. O'Leary said did
not relate to the charge against him. The apprehensions
of the Government had no reference to the charge made
against him. He was there represented by counsel, and
he would take it down that either he had nothing to say,
or that ho denied the charge.
The prisoner O'Leary—l make no such statement at all.
The Magistrate—That being so, I commit you for trial.
The prisoner Luby observed that Mr. Barry had made a
charge in the early part of his statement that they had pro-
jects of assassination ; but he could say for himself that
nothing was further from his mind. He thought he under-
stood him to say that there were speeches made at the
meetings of the Fenians exciting to assassination ; but he
could only call to his mind having seen one speech having
that tendency, and in one of the numbers of the Irish People
they would find an article disavowing the expressions of
the speaker. With regard to anything else I have nothing
to say. A time may come when it may be necessary for
me to make some observations.

The prisoner O'Donovan said he supposed there was no
use applying to be admitted to bail. As regarded the Irish
People office, which had been seized, he understood that
guards had been sent to the office, who received all letters
and transmitted them to the Government.
Mr. Barry—l believe letters are intercepted.
The prisoner O'Donovan—They are received and sent to
the Government. This I say is more despotic than the
Russians in Poland, or the Austrians in Italy.
The Magistrate said they were charged with being guilty
of the high crime of treason, and the newspaper publica-
tion and everything connected with a conspiracy, every
weapon yielded by those persons was seized by the Go-
vernment. They were charged wiih conspiring to upset
and overthrow the Government of the country, and it was
not likely the Government would allow them to continuo
to avail themselves of the weapons .by which they sought
to overthrow it. He was really surprised that O'Donovan
complained of being deprived of those weapons ; the com-
plainant ho thought was quite unreasonable.
The prisoner Luby—l must say you said any Govern-
ment in Europe would behave precisely the same.
The Magistrate—I did not. I said any Government at
either side of the Atlantic.
The prisoner Luby said that during the present century,
not since 1803, had any government adopted so harsh a
principle as the seizure of the Irish People. In the case of
Mitchell his paper was not seized until after his condem-
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law was proclaimed.

The Magistrate—You are now committed on the infor-
mations made before nx.

The prisoner O'Donovan—Mr. Barry brings matters
forward that he has got since we were arrested, and he
says "under these circumstances it was impossible for
the Government to forbear," that is, that it was impos-
sible for the Government to forbear making the late
seizure after getting evidence which they did not get till
after they had made that very seizure. I do not expect
justice here. This is a prison. We have been removed
from one prison to another. I would ask you to go back
and imagine a correspondent writing from Poland
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The prisoner—lt is.
He then read the following letter :

" Warsaw, Sept. 30.

" On the night of the 15th inst. the Russian authorities
marched a company of police and a division of their spies
to Parliament-street, and halted at the office of the Polish
People newspaper. The officers in command demanded
admission, and, the doors not being opened, they gave or-
ders to have them broken. A search was made through
the house, and none of the officials being found, all the locks
were broken, and books, papers, printing materials, and all
matters portable were taken to the Russian garrison. While
the police were inside the house a company of the spies
were posted outside, who arrested and conveyed to prison
every suspicious porous who was attracted to the spot by
curiosity or interest. Before next day nearly all connected
with the establishment, from the porter to the proprietor,
had been arrested, many who had never entered the place
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had been also lodged in prison. It was fortunate for the
inhabitants that no individual had resisted arrest, as the
commander of the city had all the military under arms, with
rifles loaded and capped, in case of any resistance. A guard
of police was left in charge of the office. They receive all
letters and communications coming there, and transmit them
to the Russian Governor. It is thought that the authorities

The reports from Cork show that the authorities
are in no wise relaxing their activity. Yesterday
a tall, able young fellow, named M'Namara, who
had been arrested at Youghal as a Fenian con-
spirator, was lodged in Cork gaol. He is the scn
of a publican, and made himself notorious by his
violent revolutionary language. llis father is said
to have informed against him. Two more arrests
were made on Sunday in Cork. The first was of a
man named Edward Walsh, a commercial traveller
in the employ of a soda water manufacturer. This
-luau is charged yet:tally with attempting to seduce
soldiers from their duty at Kinsale, and to swear
them of the conspiring brotherhood. The second
person arrested was Timothy Connolly. The pug-
nacious Timothy is charged with being affiliated to
a section of the conspiracy established in Waterford.
The excited condition of the public feeling in Cork
is shown by the following from the Examiner:—
On Sunday considerable excitement and speculation was
caused in Queenstown by the sudden departure of the
Liverpool, H.M. frigate, upon some mysterious mission, the
purport of which was not revealed. Before departing the
Liverpool took on board a considerable reinforcement of
marines and sailors from the guardship, and she was boarded
by some of the police authorities, with a large number of
men—it is said about 40—of the reserve force. Various
rumours were circulated as to the meaning of their mission.
One of the rumours was that the London steamer, the Ibis
which arrived yesterday morning, had passed, near Roche's
Point, a large armed cruiser, flying the Fenian flag. We
have made inquiries of Capt. Holland, commander of the
Ibis, and are informed by that gentleman that during his
passage from London he saw no vessel flying the Fenian
flag, or a green flag of any kind.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

The supply of English wheat on sale to-day was very
moderate. 'The trade was firm, and Monday's currency
was well supported. The condition of the produce was
very middling.

Foreign wheat was in moderate supply. Most qualities
were in slow request, at late rates.

Floating cargoes of grain moved off steadily, at full
currencies.

Barley was in short supply. The trade was firm, at
quite late prices.
The malt trade was steady at previous quotations.
There was a good supply of oats on offer. Most descrip-
tions were in slow request, yet very little change took
place in prices.
Beans moved off slowly, at late rates.
Peas changed hands at full currencies.
The flour trade was steady, on former terms.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English and Scotch lOlO 480 360 190 520
Irish
Foreign 2,3970 6,110 17,720 390 sks.
5400 bls.
COMPARATIVE QUANTITIES AND PRICES OF GRAIN.

For the week ending Sept. For the corresponding week
80, 1865. last year.
Qrs. Aver. Qrs. Aver.
Wheat 73,888-40 s 10d, Wheat 82,813-40s 11d
Barley 19,910-29 s lld Barley 19,862-310 Od
Oats

BOROUGH HOP.
The supply of hops on sale is large. A tolerably ex-
tensive business is doing, at full prices.

WHITECHAPEL.

The supply of meat on sale is moderate. The trade is
firm, as follows :
Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 4s Od to 5s 10d ;
veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d; and pork, 38 10d to 5s Gd per 81bs by
the carcase.

TIIE MURDERER FORWARD.—No steps will be
taken by the Home-office, it is understood, to pro-
cure the removal of Southey to London to take his trial
for the murder of his three children. He still remains in
the gaol at Sandwich, and will not be tried until the winter
assizes at Maidstone, previously to which he will be taken
to the county gaol. He continues to act in the same ex-
cited manner, and it is the opinion of some persons about
him that he is feigning insanity.—Kentish Gazette.
BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. —H OMOS opathic practitioners, and
the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being
the most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of
homoeopathy was first introduced into this country, there
were to be obtaiLecl no preparations of cocoa either attrac-
tive to the taste or acceptal,le to the stomach ; the nut was
either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu-
factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
homoeopathic chemist, was Induced in the year 1839 to turn
his attention to this subje.t, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to
produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined by
the pert. et trituration it rezeives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate Ftomach.
For general use Epps' cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delirious aroma
Dr. Hass,ill in his work, "Food and its Adulterations,"
says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive
principles; every ingredient necessary to the growth and
sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa
stands yery.much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc-
tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup,
filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined
ii-lb , and 11b. labelled packets, and sold at Is. 6d. per
lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists.

Betting-6 to 4 agst Indian Star, sto 2 agst Skirmish, 6
to 1 agst Master Shutt, and 100 to 8 agst any other. A
tedious delay at the post was occasioned by the anxiety of
Skirmish and Corinthian Tom to get away, but more par-
ticularly to the pertinacity with which Master Shutt stood
stock still, and eventually on their being started he was left
at the post. On faiily settling in their places Skirmish and
Indian Star rushed to the front, and carried on the running
side by side clear of the remainder, foremost of whom was
the Gemma di Vergy filly. On making the bend into the
straight Skirmish gave way beaten, and Indian Star, with
Mr. Naylor's colt in close attendance, drew away, the for-
mer winning easily by three lengths ; a similar distance
separating second and third. Skirmish was fourth,
Corinthian Tom fifth, Bunch last. The winner was bought
in for 105 guineas.
The Bedfordshire Stakes of 70 sovs, added to a handicap of
20 sovs each, 10 ft, 5 only if declared; winners extra.
About two miles. 23 subs, 17 of whom pay 5 ft.
Mr. Tompkins's Seven-and-a-half, 3 yrs, Est 111 b
(Hopkins) 1
Lord Westmorland's Orloff, 3 yrs, Est 71b (Kenyon) 2
Captain White's Rattler, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (French) 3
Mr. Jones's Lizard, 3 yrs, Bst (inc. 51b ex.) ...(Fordham) 4
Betting—Even agst Lizard, 100 to 30 agst Orloff, 5 to 1
each agst Seven-and-a-half and Rattler. After going a
short distance Orloff rushed to the front, followed by
Lizard, Seven-and-a-half, turd rt.ttler, in -,vhicti cater they
passed the stand the first time, but immediately afterwards
Seven-and-a-half was eased and allowed Rattler to take
third place. Approaching the three quarters of a mile
post Lizard hung out signals of distress, and soon gave way,
dropping rapidly to the rear ; whereupon Seven-and-a-half
went up to Orloff, whom he headed on getting fairly into
the straight, and cantered in an easy winner by a length
and a half. Rattler was a bad third; the favourite beaten
off.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUEsDAY.

Several hundred Maltese have left during the
week on return to Alexandria. About 100 left this
morning by the steamer Lybia.
H.M.S. Tyrian has left Malta with mails for the
fleet, and the Chanticleer (17) is daily expected here
with despatches from the Commander-in-Chief at
Leghorn.

LONDON GAZETTE—Last Evening.

ADMIRALTY, OCT. 2.

The undermentioned Officers have been this day pro-
moted to the rank of Engineer in her Majesty's Fleet :
Messrs. John Johnson, William Henry Nicholson, James
Meiklejohn, Alfred Long, James Rogers, Alfred Henry
Rogers, Henry Onions, Thomas Scarrott Grice, Walter
Horace Brimfield (Acting), William Nicholson, and Joseph
Minhinnick.
The "Gazette" contains a number of Promotions and
Alterations of Rank amongst the Officers of the Staff
Corps and of her Majesty's Indian Military Forces.

BANKRUPTS,
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial
importance in the Gazette :