The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-27 00:00:00

TILE SUN, LONDON, TH.URSDAY EVENINI, INOVEMBEIC.27, 1862.

death—she was guilty of the heinous supple-
mentary crime of endeavouring to fix her
own deed of blood upon an innocent man, and that
too an old man close upon ninety ! The extrava-
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inquiry, instituted by order of Sir GEORGE GREY,
an inquiry conducted within closed doors at Sir
ARCHIBALD ALISON'S chambers at Glasgow, as
Sheriff of Lanarkshire, conducted there by
Mr. YOUNG, the Scotch Solicitor-General—
the proceedings of this secret supplementary
investigation never yet have been made public in
any way. And yet leading, as we all know, to the
extraordinary result of the commutation of JESSIE
ITLAUCIILAN'S sentence from one of death to one
of penal servitude for life ! No wonder can it be to
any one that under the circumstances, old Mr.
FLEMING, the one accused by the convicted and
condemned murderess, should have earnestly de-
manded a public inquiry in regard to himself so as
effectually to clear himself from the possibility of
any further suspicion. With what result his appeal to
the Home Office has been made, our readers will have
perceived on perusing the answer vouchsafed to that
appeal by Sir G. GREY'S Secretary, an official letter
which we gave to the public in our impression of
last evening. Repelled peremptorily by the Home
Secretary—old Mr. FLEMING has now but one
alternative--namely, to appeal to Parliament.

We do not purpose to discuss just now the whole
question of fortification, but merely to notice a plau-
sible fallacy of the moment. Our readers well
know that we think the money spent on them, if
needed for defensive purposes, might have been
used far more effectively. And, when we look at
the vast suma being now sunk on Portsdown Hill,
and glance away north, to our population sinking
in feebleness, fever, and famine, through the want
of adequate relief, we confess ourselves to be amongst
those who do " sigh" at the sight of the Portsdown
works. At this time they seem like monuments to
the memory of the starved. Future generations
will say, we think, " Better have fed Lancashire
than have built miles of defences, at the best of dis-
puted value, and which by that time will, we cannot
doubt, bear the name of—" PALMERSTON Follies."
Bat letting all this pass, an influential contem-
porary, yesterday, abetted the PALMERSTON ex-
penditure, and expenditure always seems pleasant
to it, by an appeal to the part which fortifications
have played in modern wars. We do not dispute
the part they have played, but one overlooked fact
vitiates the inference in nearly every case, The
fortifications referred to were nearly all of them of
the class for which, with General BURGOYNE, we
have always contended, in contrast with the class
on which Lord PALMERSTON is now expending our
eleven millions. He is building fixed forts at an
enormous cost —to prove the value of which our
contemporary adduces the resistance made by ex-
temporized works !

The Crimean war is appealed to. Surely it was
the extemporized not the fixed fortifications, which
held the allies so long at bay. The improvised
earthworks of Todleben caused all the serious diffi-
culty, and after these were carried, the similar
works to the Russian left of the city. The walls of
Delhi were no doubt the ready defence of mutineers
who perhaps might not have had ability to do what
we certainly could have done, in throwing up earth-
works—but at Lucknow nearly everything was
created, as wanted, by our own men, and the ene-
my's works presented no difficulty to Lord CLYDE.
We are pointed to the Quadrilateral. It really
teaches nothing; for while no one wishes to deny
the difficulty of capturing strong defences occupied
by an army, Louis NAPOLEON turned back from
them, only for the same selfish reasons which
led him to desert us in the Crimea, when we
had become strong enough to compel Russia to
) better terms than were convenient to himself. He
saw all Italy tending to unity. He wanted to keep
her weak and subservient; to govern her through
statesmen of the RATTAZZI school, so he found a pre-
text in the displeasure of Prussia, and his army left
the Mincio and his fleet the Adriatic.
As the latest examples of all, we are referred to
the Americans. Washington, Vicksburg, Fort
Darling, Yorktown, are all rendered tributary to
proving the value of the Portsdown brick and mortar.
Why, the whole of these fortifications were non-
existent when the war broke out ! They prove our
case. The interest of Lord PALMERSTON'S eleven
millions sterling, if saved, would have left the
nation so much wealthier, and so much better pre-
pared to throw up earthworks wherever they might
be most available against the enemy. The North
had not sunk millions in interest of money, when
called on to fortify its political capital. The obsti-
nacy
of Lord PALMERSTON, and the unpardonable
wuakness of the House of Commons, have now made
it almost too late ; but the course of the American
war has certainly strengthen2d our preference for
the plan of the able and experienced general who
urged that we should create our fortified works
when we wanted them. That, we believe, will
never be. The knowledge that we have an army
of navvies, as well as of soldiers, that we, sooner
than any country in the world, could cause defences
to spring from the ground, is quite sufficient to keep
an enemy chary of attempting to place his guns on
our hills. Our navvies ready to make an extem-
pore fort, when and where wanted, are worth far
more than all the PALMERSTON forts—or follies.
They are as valuable, in their way, as our volunteers
and regulars.

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.

(Per Bohemian.)

NEW YORK, Nov. 14, Evening.

The unfavourable rumours which were current at
the departure of the Arabia have not been con-
firmed.

Large numbers of persons have gone to Trenton
to pay their respects to General M'Clellsn. At a
serenade given in his honour he made a speech, in
which he said, that while the army was fighting the
citizens should see that the war was prosecuted for
the preservation of the Union, the Constitution, and
the nationality and rights of the citizens.
Two of General M'Clellan's staff officers have
been arrested and sent to Washington. The charges
against them are unknown.
The advance of General Burnside's army has oc-
cupied Fayetteville, four mien from Rappahannock
Station.

Gen. Stonewall Jackson is reported to be moving
along the turnpike road towards Cumberland,
Maryland.

The Confederates, under Generals Floyd and
Bragg, are concentrating at Gordonsville.
A large Confederate force is still reported to be at
Murfreesboro', near Nashville.
The reports of ironclad vessels being built in
England for the Confederates has aroused appre-
hensions for the safety of New York harbour.
Measures are being taken for its security.
The steamer which recently entered Charleston is
reported not to have been iron plated, but shots
fired from a Federal cruiser did not hit her.

It is again reported from Washington that the
French Minister has demanded redress for General
Butler's treatment of Frenchmen at New Orleans.

Spain has also made demands against the Federal
Government. It is supposed that the demands in
both cases will be complied with.

It is announced from South America that General
Mosquera had captured Antioquia, and gained
other successes.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Evening).
Money easier. Gold 32 premium.
Exchange—Bankers' bills, 146,1.
Stocks improving. New York Central, 1022 ;
Illinois, 76 ; Erie, 611.
Cotton very firm. Middling Upland, 641.
Breadstuff heavy. Provisions quiet. Ceffee ad-
vancing. Sugar very firm. Molasses steady.

HURRICANE AT MARSEILLES.
MARSEILLES, Nov, 27.

A hurricane prevailed here last night, which
caused some damage to the docks, during the low
tide, but more serious mischief was caused in the
roadstei d, where several ships parted from their
anchors, and six of them were driven against the
quay. Two of these ships, the Panchisa and the
Escolastica, were Spanish vessels, laden with sugar
frcm Havannah. The other vessels wrecked were
a Marseilles merchantman, the Notre Dame de St.
Garde, bound for Gibraltar; two Italian vessels,
the San Antonio Abbatti, and the Giovanni, the
former bound for Civita Vecchia, and the latter for
Barcelona ; and an Austrian vessel, the Allegrezza,
bound for Trieste, with a cargo of sugar. Seven
houses were partly thrown down by the violence of
the hurricane, and several persons killed.
The mail steamers, which ought to have left yes-
terday, were unable, in consequence of the weather,
to leave the port until this morning.

TURIN, Nov. 26, Pvening.

The whole of to-day's sitting of the Chamber of
Deputies was occupied by a speech from Signor
Rattazzi upon the interior policy of the Adminis-
tration.

The Minister stated his object to be the concilia-
tion of the forces of the nation for the pursuance of
great national ends, adding, however, that this did
not imply that the Government should abdicate its
authority.
" When Garibaldi," he said, " wished to elevate
himself above the law, it became necessary to op-
pose him."

Signor Rattazzi thought that the Administration
had rendered great service to the country, by
proving to Europe that the Italian Government
could triumph over revolution.

The Minister also defended the fusion of the
Southern army and the dissolution of the Eman-
cipation Society, and replied to the accusations of
the Opposition.

Cheers followed the conclusion of his speech.
To-morrow the Minister for Foreign Affairs
will speak upon the foreign policy of the Italian
Government.

PUNCH AND ?HE GAROTTERS.

As admirable a cartoon as we have seen for a
long while in Punch, adorns the current number of
our London Charivari. The Right Hon. Baronet
the Home Secretary is represented in the affectionate
embrace of one of the garotters. A deadlier grapple
in its way has perhaps never been represented by
an artist's pencil, Poor Sir George Grey looks for
all the world as if he couldn't help it ! His dis-
torted features, peering over the brawny arms
tucked under his chin by the ruffian who has just
adroitly contrived, in burglar's cant, "to put the mug
on him !" The point of the caricature, however, lies
in the exclamation of the garotter's pal, who—on
witnessing the performance and recognizing the
Home Secretary as the intended victim, cries out in
dismay—" Let go, Bill, can't yer —it's our kind
non - interfering Friend, Sir George Grey !! !"
The whole comic cut being headed—(to point the
moral and adorn the tale)—" The Garotter's Friend."
If the satire goes not home to the conscience of the
right hon. baronet, he is certainly made of sterner
stuff than we give him credit for ! Even Lord
Dundreary might acknowledge—looking at the
picture through his eyeglass—that it is one of those
things any fellow might understand. If (to use
the familiar phrase of Lord Bacon) the truth in this
matter of garotting has not, by John Tenniel's
drawing this week in Punch, been brought home to
Sir George Grey's " business and bosom," it must
at least, we take it, have been brought directly
home to the right hon. baronet's judgment end
windpipe!

The new Montgolfier balloon invented by M.
Godard, the aeronaut, has a capacity of 4,300 metres. The
car is provided with an apparatus which enables the aero-
naut to ascend without either gas or ballast, and to descend
or go higher up at pleasure. This apparatus consists of a
kind of stove formed by three cylinders separated from each
other by insulating substances, whereby all danger of fire
is averted. The flame is completely under the control of
the aerial traveller, and is prevented from rising too high
by a cap of wire gauze. M. Godard asserts that he can in-
flate his balloon in 30 minutes, and load it with from 600
to 800 kilogrammes over and above the weight of his person
and his accessories, and moreover that his balloon may be
pierced with a bombshell without endangering the aero-
naut, who can himself cast projectiles of any kind with im-
punity. Should this new invention succeed this balloon
may be of considerable service in time of war.

The talk of Paris (politics apart, bien en-
tendu) is the success of Mdlle. Patti at the Italian Opera.
She appeared last night in Lucia, and her success was even
more decisive than on her debut in Sonnambula. There is,
in fact, a perfect Patti furore, and the theatre, which up to
her appearance presented a beggarly account of empty
boxes, is now densely crowded every night. Mario came
out at the French Opera a couple of nights ago as Raoul,
in the Huguenots. His warmest admirers admit that his
voice is not what it used to be, but there was nothing in his
performance to justify the brutal reception of so finished an
artiste. Mario was so distressed at his own failure and at
the ungenerous treatment of the public, that he immedi-
ately threw up his engagement. He was bound for three
months at the rate of £4OO a month. At the Italiens Mdlle.
Patti receives £6O a night.

THE GUILDHALL LIBRARY.—We have on more
than one occasion drawn attention to the pressing need
there exists of enlarging and otherwise improving the
Guildhall Library, so that it might be made fairly available
for those who are desirous of searching into its valuable
contents. We are glad to perceive that there is at last a
prospect of this much-desired end being attained. The
Court of Common Council has ordered that the rooms
over the porch and the upper part of the Comptroller's
office shall be appropriated to the use of the library, at
a cost not exceeding £3,000, and it is hoped that the
works will be commenced early in the ensuing year. By
the proposed plan an entrance to the library in front of the
Guildhall will be obtained. A stone staircase will lead, first
to the museum, and then up another flight to the library,
which will occupy the whole length of the front of the
building. The library will be well lighted from the top, and
well warmed. The visitors to the library, and also the
readers (who are of much greater importance), have largely
increased of late ; and the library may be pronounced in a
flourishing condition, and would be more so but for its
" cabined, cribbed, confined" state. The monster album
from the International Exhibition has been receive], and
will be fitted up in a few days. Some ancient documents of
great civic interest haverecently been added to the museum.
We shall be glad to learn that a commencement of the pro
posed alterations has been made. Once inaugurated, they
will doubtless, under the directions of the chairman (Mr.
D. Smith), and the members of the committee, be vigor-
ously carried out.---City Press.
GAROTTE ROBBERY BY A SOLDIER.—On Monday
night, as a labouring man. ackmod ZVatooa ma.a prouot.ding
home by the Ramsdale-road, in the outskirts of Scar-
borough, he was joined by a private of the 10th Hussars, a
detachment of which is at present stationed at Scar-
borough. They entered into friendly conversation, and
walked some distance along the road, when suddenly the
soldier seized his companion by the throat, and, after using
him roughly, succeeded in taking from him a silver
watch. It fortunately happened that police sergeant
Lowden was in the neighbourhood, he having for some
time entertained an idea that the locality was one
most favourable to suoh a crime as the one now re-
corded. He heard the man's cries for help, and hastening
to the spot, he saw the soldier at some distance leaping the
hedge of a field, and at once disappear. Having obtained
of Watson a brief description of the offender, the officer suc-
ceeded in a very short time in obtaining such information
as made the capture of the thief an early certainty. Pro-
ceeding to a low house frequented by the soldier, the police-
officer had the good fortune to overhear his man in toner
sation with a prostitute, and apparently making with her
some arrangements for the disposal of the stolen watch.
He at once apprehended him and the watch was found upon
him. The prisoner proved to be Private Charles Sturges,
of the 10th Hussars. He has been committed by the magic•
trates for trial at the ensuing assizes at York.—,Manchester
Examiner.

Two BROTHERS DROWNED AT HARROWGATE.—
On Monday afternoon Joseph Manby, aged 17, and Benja-
min Manby, aged 14, sons of Mr. Manby, farmer and cab
proprietor, Bakerlane, narroVegate, 'went to a pond formed
by an exhausted stone quarry, within 40 yards of their
father's house. The water had been frozen over, and several
little boys had already ventured a few feet from the
edge. The young Manbys, after being a few minutes on
the ice, struck into the centre of the pond, when the ice
gave way. They shouted to their sister, who was watch-
ing them from the bank, and she rushed forward to save
them, but in a few steps she found herself nearly up to
the neck in water, and had some difficulty in escaping
with her own life. Her screams, added to those of the
children present attracted her parents and the neighbours
to the spot, and efforts were made to rescue the drowning
youths by means of poles, pitchforks, &c. At length a
raft was rapidly made and launched. By its aid the bodies
were raised to the surface of the water locked in each
other's arms, but before they could be landed the death
grasp was relaxed, and one of the bodies fell into the water
again. It was, however, found in a few minutes and
brought to land and conveyed to the father's house.
Nearly three-quarters of an hour had elapsed before the
bodies were recovered. Life was of course extinct, and
two fine athletic youths, who less than an hour before had
left their father's house full of life and spirits, lay in that
house cold and lifeless.—Leeds Mercury,
POWERS OF ENDURANCE.—Capt. C. F. Hall has
just been narrating before the American Geographical So-
ciety his recent Arctic experience while in search of traces
of the Franklin expedition, and took the opportunity of
introducing to the society the Esquimaux man whom he
brought away with him—a hardy hunter, who has been
known to stand for three days and nights motionless on the
ice beside a seal hole. Captain Hall described the ability of
the Esquimaux to go without food as striking him as quite
astounding. He has known them do so for weeks. He
heard of an instance in which a party of these intrepid seal-
hunters were floated off from the mainland on a pack of ice,
and could not return for 30 days, during which time they
had not a morsel of food; yet they survived, although even
their faithful and wonderful dogs succumbed to the pangs
of hunger.

SUICIDE OF A WELL-KNOWN TRAPEZE PER-
FORMER. —Frederick Carini, known to visitors of the Lon-
don Eldorado, Leicester-square, for his ability as a per-
former on the trapeze, has committed suicide under the
following distressing circumstances. It appears that on
the 24th inst., be parted from h s wife at the door of the
LondonEldorado, being at the time in his usual spirits, and
from that time nothing was seen of him. On Tuesday,
however, his body was discovered in the Thames, near
Whitehall, and at once taken to the dead-house at St.
Martin's Church. It is stated that some time ago the
deceased met with an accident while performing, and there
is reason to believe that it has affected his brain. The de-
ceased was a very handsome man, possessed great muscular
strength, and his age was about 33.

ORCHESTRAL PITCH,—The following paragraph,
which appears in a morning paper, doubtless means some-
thing, but to the uninitiated it is a curiosity:—_" The French
orchestral pitch, as settled by the commission whose discus.
sion excited so much 'attention here and elsewhere some
couple of years ago, appears to be in progress of adoption
throughout Germany." What is "French orchestral
pitch ?" Is it a new importation, or a production of the
Gallic soil which is to supersede armour in the construc-
tion of vessels of war ? Or have the French orchestras
been " pitch"-ing into another, and is the quarrel being
taken up all over Germany ? Or has the " pitch" or or-
chestral anything to do with the black art ? Is it a new
method of playing (4 pitch and toss ?" All the questions
may remain unanswered, and we simply say to the writer
of the paragraph, 1-""An,

7IIE DOCTOR IN DIFFICULTIES.

(From Fun.)
Doctor Samuel J. was a swell in his day,
But—it shows how earth's estimates vary—
No one now will acknowledge he knew etymology
And we sneer at his dictio-nary,

Oh! but that spelling of Johnson's
Really was very great nonsense,
R•a-i-n ; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain,
Is a very wrong spelling of Johnson's.

Doctor Johnson was then thought the greatest of men,
And he gave himself fine airs and graces ;
But this grand man of letters now meets with his betters,
And is mixed up with second-rate races.

Oh I but that wonderful doctor
Was a very poor spelling concocter ;
It-a-i-n ; rain for reindeer,--'tis plain,
'Twas not rightly derived by the doctor.

To be clapt on the back of a reindeer, good lack,
For some cute bubble-wager inciter,
To ride a sham race was a very strange case
For a lexicographical writer.
Oh I but in ignorance Johnson
This spelling agreed for the nonco on;
R-a-i-n ; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain,
Was a hasty mistake of old Johnson.
Johnson, thus made the serf of tha ring and the turf,
Quite enough every feeling to shock is I
It's too bad, I declare, when our Learning's big bear
Has to dance for amusement of jockeys.
Oh I but the idol of Bozzy
Wasn't meant for such work as this, was he ?
R-a•i-n ; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain,
Has o'erthrown the great idol of Bozzy.
That this famed son of Learning a blackleg's been turning,
Is a charge that is proved to the letter,
Wherewith spelling reindeer, of transactions most queer,
He an aider becomes—and a-•better.
Oh I how disgraceful for Sammy,
The great hand at " lexicogrammy;"
R-a-i-n; rain for reindeer,—'tis plain,
Has spell-bound the wonderful Sammy.