The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-11 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

The market rather quiet. Sales probably 7,000
bales.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A GENTLEMAN CHARGED WITH THREE VIOLENT As-
SAULTS.-Mr. Robert Williams, of Studley House, Lark-
hall-lane, Clapham, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with
assaulting Elizabeth White, a young woman, and police-
constables Weeks, 339 A, and Hallcut, 179 C.
After hearing evidence,
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the prisoner was a violent and dan-
gerous man, but would be taught better than to behave in
such a violent manner in this country, whatever he might
do in any other. Tho evidence was completely against
him. Tho prisoner would be committed for a month for
the assault on the young woman, and be fined 20s. or 14
days for each assault on the police.

PRINCE ALF'RED.—His Royal Highness Prince
Alfred arrived at Madeira on the 13th ult. on board the
Racoon, which remained for eight days, and then left for
Gibraltar.

PRINCE CHRISTIAN OF HOLSTEIN.—His Serene
Highness Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein will, it
is expected, close his visit to her Majesty and the royal
family to-day or to-morrow, and leave Windsor Castle for
the Continent. The prince and suite visited the quarters
of the 2d Battalion Grenadier Guards at the Infantry Bar-
racks, Sheet-street, Windsor, on Friday.
His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the
Countess Bernstorff leave the Prussian Embassy on
Carlton-house-terrace to-day, on a visit to Lord and Lady
Henniker at their seat, Thornharn Hall, Suffolk.
At the Leicester assizes on Saturday, a woman
named Adkins was put upon her trial for murdering her
son, a child four years old. She was destitute, and drowned
the boy in a well. Tho jury rejected a plea of insanity,
and found the prisoner guilty. She was sentenced to death.

THE JAMAICA COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. he
commission of inquiry into the affairs of Jamaica has now
been appointed, and will consist, it is said, of Sir Henry
Storks, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Malta ; Sir
Edmund Head, and Mr. Lushington, of the Chancery bar,
a son of Dr. Lushington, judge of the Admiralty Court.
LADY CLERKS.—It would seem that the employ-
ment of women as clerks in the Government departments
at Washington has proved a failure. In the Department
of the Interior, the dismissal of all the female clerks is being
effected as rapidly as possible, and it is understood that the
Treasury Department, which employs the largest number
of any, is about to adopt the same course. The services of
women, instead of being more economical than those of
men, are found to be more expensive. Individually
their wages may be less, but, in the aggregate, they ac-
complish less labor than an equal number of men. It
is alleged in Washington that the mania for extravagant
dress is one of the principal drawbacks to the efficiency of
the women at their duties in the departments. A lady
writer in the Washington Chronicle comments severely upon
this, remarking:—The employment of women in the
Government departments is an experiment. It has not,
thus far, been so complete a success as its friends could
wish, and may possibly yet be pronounced a failure. The
fault is chiefly all on our side of the house. Women per-
severe in carrying the drawing-room to the office. Unless
this mistake can be corrected, the experiment must fail.
A fixed rule of good breeding excludes the shop from the
parlor. A man who lugs his business, habitually, into his
social hours is always a bore ; and what should we think
of one who went to his counting or consulting-room in the
ball-dress of the previous evening ?It would certainly
be better for humanity that all of this class of Government
employs should starve at home than that they should cor-
rupt public morals, and lower the national standard of
womanly delicacy by recognising their right to fill the
honorable positions many of them occupy. I know that
some, perhaps a majority, of these dress thus from misap-
Prehending the situation. They fail to see the distinction
between business and social life, and so drag the drawing-
room with them, with its coquetries, on to and into the
office.

A frightful attack of neuralgia in the face and
mouth cured by a few doses of MontsoN's PILLS, the vege-
table universal medicine of the British College of Health,
Euston-road, London, after other means had failed. Sold
by the hy6cian agents and all =divine venders.