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THE MIN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBEh 193 1982,

to my eye or judgment only, though I have seen
enough to know something about it, but I heard a
general commanding a corps d'armee say he did not
know, and could not ascertain, the relative position

of other corps. Another general, a regular officer
of engineers, and famous for topographical clearness
and skill, said to me that one glance at the hillside
was enough to show that there was no general at
the head of the army encamped there.
" It was no better with the supplies of food. The
troops were half fed, or fed irregularly. Regimen-
tal waggons were unloaded, and ordered to Alex-

andria for food and forage. Then the order was

countermanded, and they were reloaded and ordered
to the rear. Brigades without supplies were sent
out on the flanks and in front, and left there with-

out waggons to shift for themselves—l suppose to
subsist on the country ; and from the country they
might have gathered scanty grass and, if in the
woods, leaves for their horses—for the men, nothing.
But if a general on the eve of a battle cannot sup-
ply his troops with powder, it is useless to expect
they shall be fed. I need not multiply instances.
There was mismanagement everywhere, because at
headquarters there was incompetence, confusion, no

settled plans, no head.
" The army was not so much disheartened as en-
raged—willing to fight, but not willing to be sacri-
ficed—denouncing, with a unanimity that had no
exception, the incapacity which had caused their
defeat. No one believed that the combined force
of the rebels was in front ; and as for the bat-
tle of Saturday, the men, the officers, the gene-
rals who fought it, confess with shame and anger
that they were beaten by half their number. The
army was not defeated, its commander was out-
generaled. He neither knew where his enemy
was, nor would suffer himself to be informed. He
Was warned that the enemy was massing on his
left—every soldier knew it, but he disbelieved and
denied it—sent batteries and troops to the right, to
the centre, to the rear—everywhere but where they
were wanted—then, in a moment, found himself
aurrcunded, enveloped, crushed, and defeated.

" M'Dowell was censured not less severely than
Pope. With the latter his advice was said to
have undue controlling influence. ' The only order
Pope gave was the order to retreat.' M'Dowell
fought the battle. Pope leaned only on his advice
—yielded him command throughout. It was a
blunder from the beginning. 'lt is useless,' said
an officer, to fight under M'Dowell—l shall do
my duty as an officer, but we shall lose every battle
he commands.' I do not know whether I have
heard treachery or imbecility most frequently im-
puted to M'Dowell. Perhaps oftenest he is given
the benefit of the alternative. I did not hear one
suggestion in his favour—no excuse nor palliation.
" No order of battle was communicated to gene-
rals of any rank. Genefals of corps were not told
who supported them, who was on their right or
left, what movements concerned their own com-
mands or position, or on what plan the battle was
fought. I asked a question about the plan. Sir,
there was no plan. We knew nothing but what
we discovered for ourselves. Ido not know to this
hour who was on my right.' I asked, Is it not
usual to inform generals of corps or divisions on such
points ?" ' Usual ! The general who neglects to
do it is an imbecile.

" A commanding hill in our possession was
threatened by a hostile movement in force. Gen.
Pope was informed, and was asked to send another
battery to hold it. If you do not in 15 minutes
the enemy will be in possession of the hill.' He
refused to send it. In ten minutes rebel artillery
was playing from that hill on our troops.
" Generals who fought with the most heroic
courage and the most soldierly ability, whose praises
are in every one's mouth, speak of the battles in
which they have just won honest fame with chagrin
and remorse. Their own efforts became futile from
the incompetence of their commanding general.
" Said one to me, must ask to be relieved un-
less General Pope is removed. I cannot see my
men murdered.' _ _

" I met a general who had led his division in the
hottest of the fight with heroic courage and veteran
skill. He said, 4 I have lost 1,000 men ; I dare not
go into the hospital and look in the faces of those
wounded men who, I know, have shed their blood
bravely and in vain.' It was Carl Schurz.
" The successful movement of the rebels upon the
flank and rear of General Pope must be traced not
to his want of proper means of information, but to
his refusal to regard the intelligence that was sent
him. He was officially informed of it, but would
not believe it, would not even take reasonable pre-
cautions against its possibility. He actually with-
drew Sigel's corps from his exposed flank, while
the enemy were turning that point. Officers sta-
tioned in front on the Rappahannock line saw for
three days the constant clouds of dust which an-
nounced the moving columns to the enemy, but to
the eye of the general they gave no sign. He per-
sisted in regarding their success at Catlett's as a
mere cavalry dash, and was hardly convinced by
Manassas that the enemy had gained his rear in
force. From that hour his movements have been
followed by nothing but disaster.
"But it is needless, and I have no time to accu-
mulate evidence on such points. Half the strength
of an army is confidence in its commander. That
confidence is not given to General Pope. The opi-
nion of his troops is unanimously against him. I
saw numerous officers of all ranks in almost every
corps of the army. There is no dissent or disagree-
ment. They will not, cannot fight under Pope
with confidence. The Army of Virginia demands
a ' General.'
"I state these facts as I find them, expressing no
other opinion than what moulds itself out of the
facts. Heretofore I have praised General Pope—
some friends of mine thought too liberally. I do not
think so. It is still my opinion that down to the
time when he arrived on the Rappahannock his
campaign was pursued with ability, and was de-
servedly successful. But from the moment he set
his foot this side the river there have been only
delay, disasters, and retreat. That his army has
lost confidence in him lam bound to record. If I
state it strongly it is because the impression sud-
denly received was equally strong.
" On Monday there was no fight till toward even-
ing. General Howard, commanding the Ist bri-
gade of General Sedgwick's division, made an
armed reconnaissance on a road leading northward
from Centreville to Stuart's house, on the Little
River Turnpike. General Sedgwick supported the
movement with General Gorman's brigade. Near
the junction of the roads they came upon the
enemy's cavalry pickets, who fell back on the in-
fantry pickets. The latter refused to be driven in,
but opened a rapid, scattering' h:te on General
Howard and his escort, who wer e in the advance.
The enemy were finally compell4dto unmask a line
of battle, extending along the it rtpike and in the
woods nearly two miles, developing cavalry and
artillery, besides infantry. It became evident that
they were holding the position to the right in force,
et%moving by that road in heevy columns. In con-
sequence of General Howard's discoveries General
Kearney was sent to the support of General Reno,
who with his divisions held the extreme right of
our position.
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crest of the hill to look at some disposition of cover-
ing forces in front. The gathering storm grew dark
in the western sky, and purple shades fell early over
the gloomy battlefield that lay hid in the thickets
covering the plain. There were still the log huts
Which sheltered the rebels last winter; there Was
the road over which our routed forces passed—the
streams and hills and woods, all memorable for ever.
It has all been often described since Manassas was

yielded, but I looked on the scene for the first time,
and I knew that it was sure to be the last for many

days—not again till another army emerges from the
capital and advances on the Richmond road.
" When the storm broke the troops were fully
exposed to its fury—some of them already on the
march, others still less comfortable, waiting in the
rain and mud and darkness for the welcome relief
even of a toilsome march. Returning to headquar-

ters, the spot where they han been, we waited till
midnight, then mounted and set out for Fairfax.
The moment we struck into the road it was evident
that the whole movement was in confusion. Regi-
ments were separated from their brigades, divisions
lacking whole brigades, batteries straying from the
commands to which they were attached, cavalry cut-

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ting columns in two and making no end of mischief
in all directions. From Centreville to Fairfax is

seven miles. We accomplished it with difficulty in
four hours. No circumstances could have made such

a march—a retreat from a rebel army upon the capi:

tal—anything but gloomy. No circumstances could
have made it much more so. Sumner was in front,
Sigel had the centre of the column, Porter the rear.
The three masses crowded and mingled together, the
long line filling the road from front to rear, the troops
marching heavily and wearily away from an
enemy whom they knew they ought to have beaten.
Many of them were already overmarched, and
worn out. Arriving at Fairfax, the men
dropped painfully ont of ranks into wretched
camps, weary and tired. Only some of the
German regiments, which are wonderfully hardy,
and never wholly broken down, went by with elastic
step to the music of the same airs which on far
other ground, in night marches over the mountains,
I have heard again and again.

" Fairfax nest morning was the scene of appa-
rently hopeless confusion. Positions were held on
every side of it, and brigades were marching to all
points. Germantown was held by General Dana's
brigade. Hartstuff's was also in the rear. Their
troops were complaining for want of food, the
only hard usage which no soldier bears without
grumbling. Hooker held his ground to the right
and in rear of the town. Porter, Sumner, and
Sigel were sent out on the Vienna-road to Flint-
hill, and lay under arms in the fields till the middle
of the afternoon. Here, if any where to-day, was to
be the battle.

"No gun was fired till three o'clock. The rebels

then, observing trains moving out on the road from
Fairfax, which they knew must accompany columns
in that direction, opened rather suddenly with two
sections of artillery. Their shot flew wide and got
no reply. Before the cannonade began Porter was
well on his way through Vienna, and the columns of
Sigel were filing along the edge of the woods by
the road. Sumner marched last, and of his corps
General Sedgwick's division brought up the rear.
" Sumner's excellent corps had already marched
72 miles since Friday, had been on the road four
nights in succession, and had earned the right to
be thoroughly tired. They moved none the less
with promptness and precision. General Sumner,
a veteran soldier, whom every one trusts, sat on
horseback with his Staff, on a hill that commanded
the ground, watching the movement of his troops,
enjoying the spectacle of their regular and orderly
march as only a true soldier can. They moved in
three columns, all the waggons and artillery in the
road, with intervening infantry brigad 's, and in-
fantry marching also by brigades in column of
fours on either flank. Away towards Fairfax
a house was burning brilliantly ; clouds of black
smoke and flame together. The rebels re-
opened with cannon as the brigades of Sedgwick's
division started, but still were out of range. A
road through the woods to the left, which offered
a chance to bring up guns to Flint-hill, where the
road and fields for some distance in front are com-
manded, was blocked up by felling trees across it,
and the division moved on. There was a single
regiment of cavalry on the rear, which came, no
doubt, with the best intentions, but wholly failed
to be of service.

" The enemy seized on the hill as soon as it was

abandoned, and, having put 10 guns in position,
began shelling the triple column which had ad-
vamed, perhaps, half a mile on the road and through
the fields. The cavalry regiment—it was the 6th
New York—had contrived to get itself on the right,
where it could be of no possible use, instead of on
the left, towards the enemy, or in the rear, between
them and the rearguard of infantry. The blunder
was a fortunate one. At the first shot which came
screaming overhead—which must have struck a mile
beyond them—the cavalry regiment started and ran
away at speed nearly to the head of the column.
The display of cowardice was more than usually
disgraceful. It is popularly believed in the army
that cavalry always runs, which is not quite true;
but here was a whole regiment which was ordered
to cover a retreat, which had in the first place put
the rest of the troops between itself and all danger
on the flank, and then fled precipitately from the
first cannon shot. Jt is quite time to tell the whole
truth about such troops.
" Colonel Sully, with the Ist Minnesota, was
ordered by General Sedgwick to hold the hill next
beyond the one from which the rebel shots were
coming, and to halt for a quarter of an hour. Gen.
Howard, was soon after ordered to take command
of four regiments, and cover the retreat. It was
handsomely done. With the 19th Massachusetts,
the Ist Minnesota, the 106th and 72d Pennsylvania,
and a section of Tompkins' battery, he halted at
every eminence commanding the road, and waited
the rebel attack till the rear of the column was
well on its way beyond.
" The rebels pursued not more than a mile and
a half. About 150 cavalry showed themselves
near the battery just at dusk. They were instantly
dispersed by a volley from the Ist Minnesota and
a couple of shells from Captain Tompkins.
" While marching away from the cannonade the
troops moved briskly—once or twice rapidly, but
were kept in their ranks without difficulty. Gene-
ral Sumner and General Sedgwick kept in the rear
so long as the firing lasted, and the constant per-
sonal supervision of the latter kept his column in
the most admirable order. An alarm sprung up
suddenly about ten o'clock, beginning with the ac-
cidental discharge of a musket, which was hurriedly
thought to come from a rebel picket, and was
answered by a volley from the 15th Massaehusetts.
Four men were killed and five wounded by the dis-
charge, which was at close quarters—all of the 19th
Massachusetts. The 15th, before their mistake was
discovered, came rapidly across the road, and swept
it clear in a moment. Firing so sudden and close
at hand produced a momentary panic in the column,
but it was checked by the officers before it had time
to spread. Assistant-Surgeon Hill, of the 19th
Massachusetts, was severely wounded in the leg,
which will have to be amputated. Captain Russell,
of the same regiment, had his horse shot under
him, and was slightly wounded in the forehead.
" The direction of the march was from Flint-hill
to Vienna, thence by the old Court-house to Per -
kins, and through Lewinsville to Langley, a mile
beyond which the three corps went into camp.
Chain-bridge crosses the Potomac a mile and a half
further on. Except what has been related, there
was no attack or disturbance, and the retreat was
in perfect order. A break in the road occasionally
halted the column, but there was no confusion, no
intermingling of troops, and very little straggling
—some of Sigel's Germans, who acquired a nearly
inveterate habit under Bienker, being the excep-
tions. Here and there were parties in the woods
by the side of the road, who had, in the most com-
posed manner, lighted fires and cooked supper
while their regiments were miles away, and still
marching on. As fast as the rearguard came up
they were ordered forward.
Leaving Flint-hill, between four and five o'clock
the three corps arrived at this cramp about 1 o'clock
it the morning. The brigades moved into posi-
tiau as regularly as if by
daylight, and went to
s:eep in the most compact order in fields on both
sides of the road. The camp was so near the river
that the retreat might be considered acccomplished,
though the troops may not remain in their present
position. All the army has arrived under the forts.
The capital is surrounded and guarded by the de-
feated, retreating armies, which long since left it
confident of swift success—of possessing the rebel
capital as the surest defence of their own.
"A Baltimore paper of this morning arrives

with news that General Pope has advanced two
miles beyond Centreville, and is resuming the of-
fensive. This information is telegraphic—that is,
furnished or authorised by the Government. The
camp on the Potomac, which is occupied by the
rearguard --2 f the whole retreating army, is the best
possible place to read that news. It may be expe-
dient to deprive the public of truthful intelligence;
it cannot be necessary to the existence of the Go-
vernment with false.
" The movements and plans of the rebels are still
a secret. An attempt to cross into Maryland by
the Leesburg fords is still considered possible. It
is plain enough that their army passed away from
our front while Pope lay at Centreville. It has
not been heard from since."

POLICE IN? ELLIGENCE.— Sept. 18.

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MANSION-HOUSE.—A NEW MODE OF RAIS-
ING THE WIND.—A respectably-dressed young
man, who gave his name George Pearson, and de-
scribed himself as a clerk, residing at 6, Burnett's-
buildings, Crown-street, Soho, was brought before
Mr. Alderman Rose (who sat for the Lord Mayor)
in custody of detective officer Foulger, charged with
uttering at the London and County Bank two
forged £lO Bank of England notes, he well know-
ing them to have been forged.
Mr. Hall, clerk at the London and County Bank,
Lombard-street, said—On Tuesday last, between
two and three o'clock, the prisoner went to the
bank and produced two £lO Bank of England notes
in payment for an advice for the sum of £2O, to be
remitted to Windsor, to the credit of Mr. George
Robinson, as from Robert Williams, to be sent to
the branch estabhshment of the London and County
Bank, at Windsor. The prisoner filled up the credit
ticket which he gave him, and left the notes in pay-
ment of the advice. One of the clerks who took
the notes out of the box in which they were placed
discovered that the two in question were forgeries,
and they were immediately sent over to the Bank
of England, and were returned marked " Forged."
He (witness) was then sent down to the bank at
Windsor, accompanied by detective officers Foulger
and Smith, to see who applied for the money, and
on Wednesday morning, at about half-past 11, he
saw the prisoner go into the bank and ask for £2O
for George Pearson from Robert Williams. The
clerk to whom he applied gave him a form of appli-
cation to fill up, which he did, and he was told that
the money had not been advised. The prisoner
said it ought to have been, as it was paid before
three o'clock on the previous day. The prisoner
then left, and he followed him for about four
miles. The prisoner seemed very uneasy, and
kept turning round, as if to see who was behind,
and at last he turned round and went back, upon
which the officers who had also followed, stopped
him.
On being cross-examined by the prisoner, the
witness said he pinned the notes to the credit note,
and although there were uther notes in the same
box they were kept separate.
Smith and Foulger, who took the prisoner into
custody, were examined, and corroborated the
latter part of the witness's statement, with re, and
to the occurrence at Windsor. When he was taken
into custody he was asked if he was the party who
paid £2O into the London snd County Bank on the
nrevious day. He said Yes ;" and when asked
if the two notes which were produced were the
same notes he paid in, he looked at them and said
they were. He afterwards said he saw the wit-
ness Hall following him, and he knew him, and
knew that it was all up with him.

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The prisoner was remanded.
Thomas Edward Pendry, a genteelly-dressed
man, was brought up on a charge of feloniously ut-
tering a forged bill of exchange for £34 35., pur-
porting to be accepted by Messrs. Owen and Mer-
ton, palm candle manufacturers, at Millwall, with
intent to defraud the Unity Bank of London.
Evidence having been given, the prisoner, who
had nothing to say, was committed for trial.

CLERKENWELL.—THE LATE ATTEMPTED
MURDER OF A CONSTABLE.—John Henry Green,
alias Bell, who has been several times remanded on
charges of burglary and attempting to murder a
constable at Hornsey, and Esther Coleman, aged
14, residing at the Swan public-house, Keate-
street, Spitalficids, who was charged with having
in her possession an ivory ornament stolen from the
dwelling-house of Charles Newton, Esq., Herrin-
gay House, on the 3d of September, were again
placed at the bar before Mr. Barker for re-exami-
nation.
Mr. Beard, solicitor, attended for the female pri-
soner.
The facts of the case having been fully reported,
inspector Bywater, N division, said he had no
further evidence to offer against the female prisoner.
The man had been convicted of burglary at Alder-
shott, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment
with hard labour. The prisoner had belonged to
the sth Regiment of Lancers, and had borne a very
bad character.
Mr. Beard said his client, who was only 13 of
age, did not deny receiving the ornament from the
prisoner, and said she had no idea that it had been
stolen, but understood that he had purchased it at
the Exhibition.
Mr. Barker discharged the female prisoner, and
fu.ly committed the man to the Central Criminal
Court on three charges, viz., two of burglary and
one of attempted murder.

LAMBETH.—ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--Elizabeth
Wood, a respectably-attired, middle-aged female,
was placed in the dock, charged with having at-
tempted suicide.
It appeared from the evidence of a police-con-
stable, P 141, that he was on duty the preceding
afternoon in the vicinity of that portion of the Grand
Surrey Canal which runs threw Camberwell, when
two little boys gave him information that they had
just seen a female throw herself into the canal.
The officer hastenej to the spot, and saw the pri-
soner endeavouring to extricate herself, and with
difficulty he brought her on to the bank. She was
in a very exhausted state, but by the administra-
tion of brandy and other restoratives she was restored
to a state of consciousness, and on her threatening
to repeat the attempt, she was conveyed to the sta-
tion-house.
Tlin husband of the accused, a man of decent ap-
pearance and demeanour, here presented himself in
the witness-box, and with much feeling undertook
to take charge of his wife, and have a care that she
would not be guilty of the repetition of such an act.
The prisoner, in reply to Mr. Elliott, said she was
extremely sorry for what had happened to her, and
declared emphatically that it should not occur again.
6he denied that she had ever contemplated self-
destruction, and asseverated that she was getting
wild flowers and herbs on the banks of the canal,
when by accident sne slipped into the water, and
becoming entang.ed in the weed and mud, she was
unable to extricate herself. She reiterated
.her deep
that she had been found in such a situation,
and expressed her gratitude to the police for the
assistance and care which bad been afforded to her.
Mr. Elliott, after reading a document which had
been banded up to him by the husband, cautioned
the prisoner as to her future conduct, and permitted
her to be taken away by her natural protector, who
evinced the liveliest affection for her.

SOUTHWARK.—VICTIMISING THE LADIES.—
EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF SWINDLING.—James Car-
ter, alias Harding, alias Marshall, alias Clements,
was brought before Mr. Burcham for final examina-
tion, charged with obtaining watches, jewellery,
and money from various ladies, under pretence of
eng agin a them as housekeepers at " his otel, in the
Isle of Wight," such never having had any exist-
ence.
Mr. Burcham said that he had on the last occasion
made up his mind to commit the prisoner trial for
his swindling transactions, but it was necessary,
before he could do so, to prove that the prisoner
had no hotel in the Isle of Wight. He had there-
fore requested the police to communicate with that
place on that point. It was likewise necessary that
all the witnesses be in attendance, that their depo-
sitions might be taken in the proper manner.
Holmes, the detective officer, informed his wor-
ship that there were at least twenty ladies in court
to prefer charges against the prisoner; and he had
in his hand a roll of letters which he had lately re-
ceived from others, exposing the villany of the pri-
soner. From some of them he had obtained sums of
money, varying from 4s. to £4 or £5, besidesjewel-
lery, &c. He had in some instances, under the pro-
mise of mat riage, treated the females in a disgraceful
manner, so chat they felt ashamed to come forward
and prosecute. A constable from the Isle of Wight
W4S in attendance to
prove•that the prisoner had
no hotel in that island.
Thomas Lawlor, an officer of the Hampshire con-
stabulary, said he was stationed at Carisbrook, but
did duty in all parts of the Isle of Wight. He
knew all the hotels and the keepers thereof, but he
knew nothing of the prisoner.
Mr. Burcham asked him if there was an hotel
in the Isle of Wight kept by any person of the
name of Carter or Harding-
Witess replied in the negative. There was no
hotel at Wooton, but there was a small inn, Which
has been kept for rn any. y ears by Mr. Vanner.
The prisoner asked him whether he was sure that
none of the hotel keepers had privately let their
hotels P
that it would he ir po)sible for
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him to tell that, but be had made inquiries, and he
believed that such was not the case.
Mr. Burcham then directed the evidence of three

of the ladies to be taken, so as to commit him for
trial.

Miss Caroline Fowkes, in addition to her former
evidence, said that, in July last, she advertised in
the Times for the situation of housekeeper to a
family, or elderly lady or gentleman. On the 14th
the prisoner called on her, in the Old Kent-road,
and said he kept an hotel at Wooton in the Isle. of
Wight, and she would just suit him as his confiden-
tial housekeeper, and a sum was agreed upon as
wages. A fortnight after that he called upon her
again, and told her that they made up eighty beds
in his hotel and kept ten servants, and he was sure
she would suit him. He said he had come in a
hurry and forgotten his purse, and begged her to
lend him a little cash. She let him have V. 16s. 6d.
and as he was leaving, ber watch (the glass of
which was broken) was tying on the table. He took
it up and said he would have it repaired for her.
He put it in his pocket and left the house, and she
never saw anything more of him until about a fort-
night ago. She put another advertisement in the
Tones, and, curiously enough, it was answered by
" James Harding." Suspecting it was " James
Carter," the man who carried away her watch and
between £4 and £5, she replied to him in a feigned
hand, making an appointment to meet him. Sho
also communicated her suspicions to the police, and
an officer attended; and, sure enough, it was the
prisoner, whom she gave into custody. She would
never have advanced him the money, or allowed
him to take away the watch, had she not believed
that he was an hotel-keeper, at Wooton, Isle of
Wight.
Robert Brickler, 167 L, said he took the prisoner
into custody, and on the way to the station-house
he said, if- the lady would go with him, he would
get her her watch and money.
George Holmes, a detective officer, 252 M, said
that on Tuesday week he went to the prisoner's
lodgings, a miserable room, up a court in Drury-
lane, and saw a poor-looking woman, who said her
name was Ciements, and she was his wife. She
handed him a bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates,
among which was the duplicate of Miss Fowkes's
watch. _ _

The next lady who stepped forward was Mrs.
Ann Paget, a widow. She said that in October,
1861, she advertised in the Times for a house-
keeper's situation. The prisoner came to her house
a few days afterwards, and said he had just taken
a new hotel in the Isle of Wight, and had pur-
chased all the furniture, and he had no doubt she
would suit him as manager. He called several
times afterwards, and on the last occasion he asked
her to lend him some money to clear some wine at
the docks to send to the hotel. She thought it
was all right, and lent iiim £4, which he put in his
pocket, and she saw nothing more of him until in
custody in that court.
Miss Mary Harrison, of 8, Bute-street, Brompton,
said she advertised for a similar situation in Novem-
ber last, and received an answer signed James Ed-
ward Marshall, and an appointment to meet him in
the Palace-gardens. She saw the prisoner there,
and he said he was James Edward Marshall, and
he intended to engage her as he had an hotel in the
Isle of Wight, and he wanted her to manage it. She
told him that she was acquainted with all the duties
required of her, when he said that if such was the
case he might be induced to marry her. They
chatted for a long time. At last he said that he had
some wine to clear in the docks, and asked her to
lend him a few pounds, as he had run short after
purchasing so many articles, and the wine must be
sent down immediately. Believing it was all right
she handed him £4, and he left her, promising to
send for her in a week, but she never set eyes on
him until a week ago, when, having seen the report
in the newspapers, slit, attended to identify him.
Several other ladies were anxious to come forward
to give their evidence against the prisoner, when
Mr. Burcham observed that it would be unneces-
sary to overburden the depositions with their testi-
mony. If they thought proper they could attend at
the Old Bailey next week, and indict him. His
worship then asked the prisoner whether he had
any answer to make to the charges.
He looked round the court hastily, and replied
that as his legal adviser was not present, he should
reserve his defence.
Mr. Burcham then told him he was committed to
take his trial at the next Central Criminal Court
Sessions, which will be held on Monday next.

THAMES.— INGENIOUS SMUGGLING. - John
Isaac Crisp, Steward Martin, Wilhelm Stolck,
Moy, Henry Giles, and Thomas Laslett, sea-
men belonging to the General Steam Navigation
Company's ship Leo, were brought before Mr. Selfe,
charged on a Custom-house information with smug-
gling 100 lb. of foreign manufactured tobacco.
Mr. R. Beverley, jun., from the Customs solici-
tor's office, prosecuted on behalf of the Crown.
Mr. J. W. Gardner, an examining officer of Cus-
toms, stated that on the arrival of the Leo from
Rotterdam at St. Katherine's Dock wharf, on Wed-
nesday evening, he rummaged the vessel, and found
1001 b , or 971bs. net, of foreign manufactured to-
bacco between the outer and inner lining of the
ship in the forecastle. The tobacco was compressed
and in papers. It was behind two bed berths, one
on the starboard and the other on the port side of
the forecastle. All the prisoners slept in the fore -
castle. He seized the tobacco, and put the men
under arrest.

In answer to questions put by Mr. Selfe, the wit-
ness said that the Leo was an iron vessel, and there
was an inner casing of wood. The tobacco was in-
geniously stowed away. It took him an hour to
remove the tobacco from the hiding place,
Mr. Selfe—How could the prisoners or any other
persons conceal the tobacco in the place where you
found it ?

Mr. Gardner—My opinion is that the inner
lining of the vessel had been removed, and then put
up again.
The prisoners, in defence, denied all knowledge
of the tobacco, and laid all the blame on two ship-
mates who had absconded. The missing seamen
were the parties who brought the tobacco on board
and concealed it. _ _

Capt. Samuel Hart, the master of the Leo, was
of opinion the tobacco could not have been secreted
without the knowledge of the prisoners, who always
slept in the forecastle, and were not absent from
their berths while the ship was taking in cargo at
Rotterdam. The prisoners would not be employed
again by the General Steam Navigation Company
on any pretence whatever.
Mr. Selfe said he had no option in the matter.
He was bound to inflict the penalty sued for by the
Crown. If the prisoners could show they were in-
nocent, they must memorialise the Commissioners
of Customs. He agreed with Captain Hart that so
much tobacco could not have been stowed away
in the forecastle without the prisoners being aware
of it_ He then inflicted a fine of £lOO on each
prisoner, and in default six months' imprisonment.
CHARGE AGAINST AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN FOR
DETAINING PROPERTY.—Captain Andrew M'Cas-
lin, the master of the American ship Parliament,
lying in the Victoria Dock, appeared before Mr.
Selfe to answer a summons, taken out by William
Lee, which charged the defendant with unlawfully
detaining a chest and wearing apparel not exceed-
ing in value £l5.

The complainant said he joined the Parliament
in Boston, United States, as steward on a voyage
to London. The voyage from London was not de-
termined upon when he left Boston, but he did not
intend to leave the ship unless she went to India or
China. The voyage was made from Boston to Lon-
don in 25 days, but as he had received a month's
advance in Boston he determined to remain by the
ship a few days longer, until it was determined
what voyage she was to make. On Thursday last
a man applied' to the captain for the steward's
situation, and obtained it, and he was ordered to
join the ship on Saturday. On Friday night he
left the ship, and on the following morning he
asked the defendant for a written pass to enable
him to remove hia chest and things out of the dock.
The defendant said, " I'll see you -- first ! You
played me a trick last night by going away." He
retorted by saying the defendant had acted badly
by shipping another steward over his head, and
giving him no warning. Some more words oc-
curred, and the defendant told him to go to —......,
or go to a much! worse place, he did not care which.
The value of his clothes, chest, and effects, was
about £lO.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said the
complainant shipped for twelve months, and had
no right to leave the ship, When he returned to
Boston he should be asked to give an account of the
complainant.

Mr. Selfe—Will you produce the ship's articles?
The defendant—l can'
the American Consul. can't do that ;
they are with
Mr. Selfe—The complainant says that you have
shipped another steward.
The Defendant—l have had a steward to work in
his place.. I expect him to stay by my ship for 12
months.
Mr. Selfe inquired if the intended voyage from
London was known when the ship left Boston.
The Defendant—No ; it was not.
Mr. Selfe—According to English law the articles
of agreement would have been void for uncertainty
if it was an English ship.
Defendant—lt is not so according to American
law.
Mr. Selfe was surprised to hear it. If the na-
ture of the voyage was not set forth in the agree-
ment, the captain could take the complainant to
the burning climate of Sierra Leone, the frozen
regions of the North, or an e sy voyage up the
Mediterranean.
Smith, an officer of the court, 415 K, said he
left word with the mate of the Parliament the ship's
article.] were to be produced.

The Defendani-1 want the men on
Mr. belfe—You cannot compel him to go 4-sii
board. You must deliver to him his chest and
clothes, or pay £9.
There is another alternative,
10 (lays' impris,,nment in the House of Correction if
you do not restore the clothes or pay the money.

HAMMERSMITH.
—VIOLENT ASSAULT UPON.
A RELIEVING OFFICER.—SINGULAR
Cornelius Doyle, a labourer, was brought before
Mr. Ingham on a warrant charged with committing
a violent assault upon Mr. Parkins Jones, the re-
lieving officer of the parish of Fulham.
The complainant, who appeared very ill from the
effects of the violence he had received, stated that on
Saturday nigh' between 7 and 8 o'clock he was pees"
ing along Parson's-green-lane when he was met on
the road by the prisoner's wife, and she solicited him
to enter her home, where her husband was, to pacify"
him, as he had been quarrelling with her. He
was well acquainted with both husband and wife,
as he had relieved them, but they were not at that
time on the parish. He went upstairs to their
room, and saw the prisoner cooking some meat
with which he seemed to be dissatisfied. He endea-
voured to restore peace among them, and after rea-
soning with him for a short time the wife came up
and called her husband an offensive name. Witness
would not let her come into the room, and told her
to go downstairs. The prisoner also told her to go
downstairs, and he then turned upon witness, and
said he should follow her. Suiting the action to the
word he immediately struck witness a severe blow
under the right ear and cut it, and then threw him
down the stairs. He was much hurt and stunned.
His forehead and face was bruised, his left wrist
sprained, and his legs and loins covered with bruises.
The prisoner was asked if he had any questions to
put to Mr. Jones, and he began by stating that he
had no business to come into his room. He then said
that whenever Mr. Jones came to Parson's-green he
encouraged drunkenness among the women.
In answer to questions, Mr. Jones said he did not
perceive that she was intoxicated, and did not be-
lieve the prisoner was under the influence of drink.

Wm. Hassiter, a labourer, living in the same
house, saw the prisoner throw Mr. Jones downstairs,
and he caught him at the bottom as well as he could.
He (witness) believed if he had not caught Mr.
Jones as he did, he must have broken his arm or his
neck. He picked Mr. Jones up, and his wife washed
the blood away from his ear.
The prisoner on being asked what he had to say,
said he would leave it all to his worship.
Mr. Martin, who appeared far the prosecution,
said it was a very serious matter to a man like Mr.
Jones, as he was not so young as he looked.
Mr. Jones said he was 67 years of age.
Mr. Ingham told the prisoner he had severely in-
jured Mr. Jones, who was nearly 70 years of age,
and sentenced him to two months' imprisonment
with haul labour.

On being removed the wife inquired if there wag
any fine, and upon being informed that there was
not, she turned away with much disappointment.

COUNTRY MARIiI4.I)S.

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MANCHESTER-SErT. 18.

This morning's market was tolerably well attended, And
the best sorts of English wheat not obtainable on lower
terms, but inferior sorts neglected and declined is to 2s per
qr. American in moderate demand, at late rates. Flour
experienced a slow sale, best quality 6d per sack and barrel
cheaper. Indian corn and Egyptian beans 6d per quarter
dearer. Oats and oatmeal held for quite as much money.