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inconveniences mentioned were to be regretted,
it was not the disposition of the Goverr ment to
afford protection to any parties that might be
engaged in undertakings in violation cf her Ma-
jesty's proclamation ; and when ther was reason
to suppose th 1 t such adventures mi ht be carried
on, it was difficult to raise objections to the right of
examination. His lordship added that he had ex-
pected both the letter and his answer would have
been published before this by the parties concerned,
but they had not thought fit to do so. I replied
that they knew too much to be caught doing that,
but I should take pleasure in communicating this
fact to my Government. Any and all evidence
which I could obtain of a disposition on the part of
her Majesty's Ministers to discountenance the noto-
rious and flagrant abuses of neutrality, now every-
where committed by British subjects, would be of
great use to counteract the strong popular feeling
in America growing up on account of them. We
had every reason to believe that these war vessels
were intended to prey directly upon our commerce,
and most particularly to intercept the steamers
bearing treasure to New York from California.
Should one of those steamers be taken in conse-
quence of the omission to stop these outfits in Bri-
tish ports, the excitement that it would create in
America would be very great. Disposed, as I had
always been, to cultivate friendly relations between
the two countries, I could not bat look with much
uneasiness upon all events which might tend to
affect them unfavourably. His lordship said that
he could not at once say whether it was proper to
furnish copies of the correspondence alluded to or
not, but I was welcome to mention the facts, and
very probably he might send me the copies.
MR. ADAMS TO MR. SEWARD, SEPT. 26, 1862.

her Majesty's Government have done all they can
fairly do, that is to say, they have urged the Fede-
ral Government to enjoin upon their naval officers
greater caution in the exercise of their belligerent
rights.

Her Majesty's Government having represented to
the United States Government every case in which
they were justified in interfering, have only further
to observe that it is the duty of her Majesty's sub-
jects to conform to her Majesty's proclamation, and
to abstain from furnishing to either of the bellige-
rent parties any of the means of war which are
prohibited to be furnished by that proclamation.

AN UNFO.R7UNA7E MEMORI:

• • . I have not been quite satisfied with the
way in which my remonstrances respecting the out-
fit of the gunboat No. 290 had been left. In con-
sequence I seized the first opportunity in my power
to remind Lord Russell that no written answer had
been given to me. This has had the desired effect.
I have the honour to transmit copies of the two
notes which have passed between us. In former
days it was a favourite object of Great Britain to
obtain from the United States an admission of the
validity of claims for damage done by vessels
fitted out in their ports against her commerce.
This was finally conceded to her in the seventh
article of the treaty of 1794. The reasoning
which led to that agreement may not be without its
value at some future time, s'iould the escape of the
gunboat 290, and of her companion, the Oreto,
prove to be of any serious injury to our commerce .
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT REFUSES
TO STOP THE BUILDING AND OUTFIT-
TING OF REBEL PIRATES.
EARL RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS.
October 4, 1862.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 30th ult., inclosing a copy of
another deposition, taken before the eollector of the
port of Liverpool, with reference to the proceed-
ings of the gunboat 290, and further expressing a
belief that enterprises of a similar kind are in
course of progress in the ports of the United King-
dom ; and I have to state to you that, much as
her Majesty's Government desire to prevent such
occurrences, they are unable to go beyond the law,
municipal and international.
LORD RUSSELL TO MR. ADAMS.
Oct. 16, 1862.
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the 9th inst., inclosing a copy of an
intercepted letter which you had received from the
United States Government, being the further evi-
dence with regard to the gunboat No. 290, to
which you alluded in your previous communica-
tion to me of the 30th ult. ; and with reference to
your observations with regard to the infringement
of the enlistment law, I have to remark that it is
true the Foreign Enlistment Act, or any other act
for the same purpose, can be evaded by very subtle
contrivances ; but her Majesty's Government can-
not, on that account, go beyond the letter of the
existing law.

SERIOUS ACCIDEN7 AT ABERDEEN.

MB. SEWARD TO MR. ADAMS.

Oct. 20, 1862.

. . . Our agents are reporting to us new and
larger military and naval preparations in British
ports, and if they are to be allowed to go on to their
conclusion, and to operate, as has been done in
the case of the 290, will not the result be
that, while Great Britain avows neutrality, her
subjects are practically allies of the internal enemies
of the United States ? The President will not con-

sent to believe that her Britannic Majesty's Govern-
ment would willingly allow a condition of affairs to
occur which would seem to leave to the United
States almost no hope of remaining at peace with
Great Britain without sacrifices for which no peace
could ever compensate.

ALLEGED NEGLECT A 2 7HE W.HI7E-
CHAPAL UNION.

Last evening Mr. H. Riffles Walthew, the de-
puty-corner for East Middlesex, opened an inquiry
at the Catherine Wheal Tavern, St. Peter's-road,
Mile-end, Stepney, respecting the death of Joseph
Beaver Smith,age 67 years,formerly a master baker,
but recently an inmate of the Whitechapel Union.
Mary Ann smith, of No.lo, Willow-place, Globe-
road,
Mile-end, deposed that the deceased was her
father-in-law. He had been compelled to seek
pecuniary difficulties.
the deceased out, as he
of the manner in which
(deceased)
dhe ec shelteresat ne ind w) thea s
had
about ui union
complained
tothrough
take
he had been neglected in the union. On Monday, the
loth inst., witness proceeded to the fever ward of
the Union Workhouse, in Charles-street, White-
chapel, to take the deceased out, and when she got
there she found deceased lying in a dirty room with
other paupers, with the windows wide open, the
ceilings black, and the walls covered with eubwebs.
The deceased appeared to be dying, and witness
said to him, " Old man, what have you had to take?"
He replied, " Mary Ann, I have bad nothing." Wit-
ness remained in the ward about an hour, but de-
ceased had nothing while she was there. Witness
asked the nurse what the deceased had for food,
when elle Eedd, " Arrowroot ; sometimes half a pint,
and more if they can take it." Witness asked for a
blanket to wrap round the deceased, and the nurse
lent her one, Deceased was then placed in a cab
and conveyed to the nearest public-house, where
witness gave him a little brandy and water. De-
ceased was seen by Dr. Snell when he reached home,
and she understood that deceased was suffering from
fever. Di. Buell examined the deceased, find di-
rected her to give bim a little more weak brandy
and water, which seemed to rally him, but deceased
gradually became weaker, and died on the following
day.
Mr. Charles H. Mayer, the master of the White-
chapel Union, said that the fever ward was formed
from a portion of the old Whitechapel Workhouse,
and was considered by the Poor-law Board to he fit
for the purpose for which it was used. The deceased
had been taken away from the workhouse against
the wish of the medical officer (Dr. Champneys),
and the fallowing entry was made in the infirmary
book by that gentleman :—" I do not consider that
the patient Smith is in a fit state to leave the work-
house, as he is suffering from fever, but his friends
insist upon removing him."

Jane 'Grundy, thenurseof No. 24 fever ward, ad-
mitted the windows were open, but it had been or-
dered by the medical officer. She denied that the
room was dirty as described. Deceased never made
any complaint to witness, but on the contrary he
always expressed himself satisfied. There were
several persons to prove that the deceased could
have anything he required. She denied a statement
of the first witness that she had said nothing was
given between the meals.
The Deputy-Coroner said that he should adjourn
the inquiry for the attendance of Dr. Champneys,
and to give time to Dr. Snell to make a post-mortem
examination of the body.

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''.7.'"TflE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 'I 862.

ASSIZE IN7ELLIGENCE.

At tho Brighton County Court, last Friday, an
action was brought by Mr. Clifton, hairdresser,
Preston-street, against the Rev. Erskine Holland,
to recover £lO.

HOME CIIICUIT--HERTFORD, Dec. 23.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
The learned Judge, in his charge to the grand
jury, said he supposed he must not congratulate
them upon the state of crime in the county, for it
was such as to render it supposed to be necessary to
hold a winter assize, which was a rather unusual
thing for this county. The cases, however, were not
of an aggravated character, and he did not believe
they would find any difficulty in dealing with them.
John Smith, alias Caldecott, 19, pleaded guilty to
a charge of feloniously setting fire to a stack of
clover hay, the property of James H. Summers, at
Bishop Stortford.
Baron Bramwell told the prisoner, who exhibited
the greatest possible unconcern and indifference,
that he did not appear to be aware that he had
pleaded guilty to a very wrong and wicked act, and
he asked him whether he had any explanation to
give of his conduct.
The prisoner replied he knew he had done wrong.
The learned Judge ob-erved that he saw it was
stated in the depositions that when the prisoner was
apprehended he gave as a reason for committing the
act that he wanted to be sent away. He could 'as-
sure him, however, that if he expected he was going
to be sent to another country, or where gold might
be obtained for stooping to pick it up, he was very
much mistaken. He should have probably sentenced
him to a short period of penal servitude, but per-
sons who were supposed to understand the subject
thought that this was a bad thing to do, and he
should therefore order him to be kept in penal ser-
vitude for six years.
Charles Moore, 28, pleaded guilty to a similar
offence, and he was also sentenced to six years'
penal servitude.
Walter Wilson, alias Walter Theniton, 30, a gen-
tlemanly-looking young man, was indicted for felo-
niously forging and uttering a bill of exchange for
£37 .10s., with intent to defraud.
Mr. Clarke conducted the prosecution.
The circumstances of this case were somewhat re-
markable. It appeared that early in the day on the
Ist August the prisoner went to the London and
County Branch Bank, at Ware, and asked the clerk
to discount a bill for £37 108., and he was told to
call again. He did so, about 1 o'clock, and he then
saw Mr. Peake, the manager, and presented the bill
to him. It was at two months' date, and purported
to be drawn by Mr. Cupess, a tradesman in the
town, upon Messrs. E. and C. Norton, and these
names appeared upon it as acceptors, There was no
such firm as E. and C. Norton, carrying on busi-
ness at Ware, but a Mr. Ebenezer Norton, a rope-
maker, iived in the town, and there was no doubt
that it was intended to represent that this gentle-
man and his brother were the acceptors of the bill.
The manager declined to discount it, and the pri-
soner inquired of him whether he knew anybody in
the town who would be likely to do so, and he said
he did not, and the prisoner left. In an hour after-
wards be again made his appearance at the bank
and produced the bill, and showed the m Imager that
it bore an additional name upon it as an endorser
—that of Mr. Cass, a malster, residing at Ware.
The manager still declined to cash the bill, and the
prisoner went away, and Mr. Peake, having suspi-
cion that something was wrong, went out to make
inquiries, and as he was returning he met the pri-
soner, and in consequence of what he had heard, he
asked him to let him look at the bill. The prisoner
at once handed it to him, and he then informed him
that the signatures to the bill were forgeries, and
that he must accompany him to the police-station.
He then said that if there was anything wrong
about the bill he had nothing to do with it, and he
had received it trona a person who was' waiting at
the railway station, whom he described as a short
man with bushy whiskers. The inspector of police
went to the railway station to see if such a person
had been there during the day, but he could not dis-
cover any trace of a person answering the descrip-
tion given by the prisoner.
In answer to the charge the prisoner read a long
and ingenious statement to the jury, in which he
asserted that he had been made a dupe by a person
whom he had casually become acquainted with a
short time before, and whom he had met acciden-
tally in the town of Ware on the day the occurrence
took place. He urged also that his conduct in
readily giving up the bill, when he was asked for
it by the manager of the bank, was that of an inno-
cent man ; and he declared that if the police had
gone at once to the railway station they would have
found the party from whom he had received the
bill. In conclusion, he said that he must inform the
jury that he had given a false name in order that
he might not bring disgrace upon those who were
connected with him, and that otherwise he should
have been in a position to show them that he was in
a respectable position of life, and that there had been
no stain upon his character until this transaction.
The learned Judge having summed up the jury
found the prisoner guilty.
Mr. Hatchard, governor of the gaol, informed the
Court that he had reason to believe that the prisoner
was very respectably connected, and that no com-
plaint had ever been made against him before.
Baron Bramwell said it was impossible for any
one to give credit to the statement of the prisoner,
but the bungling manner in which he had endea-
voured to commit the offence satisfied him that he
was not a practised forger, and that this was pro-
bably the first act of the kind that he had commit-
ted. The sentence, therefore, would be a light one,
and he should only order him to be kept to hard
labour for one year.

Mr. Holland was in the habit of frequently going
into the stationery shop, of which Mrs. Clifton had
the superintendence, as a customer, and would go
there sometimes to get change, instead of going to
the bank.

According to the plaintiff's case, defendant came
into the shop in a hurried manner on Tuesday, the
25th of November last, and asked Mrs. Clifton if
she could give him change for £lO. Mrs. Clifton
was serving a customer at the time, and, knowing
she had not sufficient in her till, said she was afraid
she could not, but that she would go to her private
cash-box and see whether she could. She had got
a £lO note in her cash-box, which she had changed
a short time previously for a Miss Hutton. She
took this out, wrote her name upon it, and
sent her boy out to get it changed. The
boy brought back a £5 Bank of England
note and £5 in gold, and gave it to Mrs. Clifton
who handed it to the defendant, who had been wait-
ing in the shop, and Mrs. Clifton then went to at-
tend to a customer. Two days afterwards, on
Thursday, Mrs. Clifton, upon going to her cash-
box, missed £lO, and it then occurred to her that
Mr. Holland did not give her either a note or a
cheque for the £lO change. She went to Mr. Hol-
land on the subject, and he said he could not recol-
lect having been in the shop on the Tuesday; that
if he had received the £lO he did not know what
he had done with it. Mrs. Clifton had several in-
terviews with Mr. Holland, who distinctly said he
had not asked for change, or received any.
Mrs. Clifton, Emily Turner, shopwoman, and John
Taylor, errand boy to plaintiff, and Thomas Chap-
lain, a young man in the employ of Mr. Rotting,
butcher, Preston• street, who gave plaintiff's boy the
change for the £lO note, and plaintiff himself, were
examined in corroboration of the above facts.

Mr. Roupell having addressed the jury for the
defence, called the Rev. Mr. Erskine Holland, who
positively denied having asked for change for £lO.
He had neither note nor cheque in his possession for
some time before or after the day in question, but
had on that day borrowed a sovereign from his
daughter, who corrobon ted this part of defendant's
evidence.

The jury found a verdict for plaintiff for £lO,
adding that they wished to exonerate the defendant
from any dishonest intention.—Sussex Express.

A very serious accident took place in the flax-
spinning manufactory of Messrs. Prichard and Co.
Broadford, Aberdeen, on Monday morning, about
half-past ten. It occurred in the preparing and
spinning-room of the new patent mill—a building
of five stories, being filled with spinning frames on
the fourth and fifth stories, while the lower stories
were occupied as dry houses—the engine and
boiler being on the ground-floor. The hands had
just resumed work after breakfast, when a loud
crack was heard; and immediately the flooring of
part of the fourth storey was seen to be giving way,
falling with a terrible crash, and carrying the floor-
ing of the other two lower storeys with it. The fifth
storey seems to have given way about the same
time ; and the whole mass of machinery, flooring,
iron beams, stories, bricks, &c., fell too. There were
some 30 or 40 women, along with three or four
overseers, employed in that part of the building at
the time, but luckily most of them had just time to
make their escape to a part where the flooring was
still sound. Three of the workers, we regret to say,
were seriously injured, while, as we write, there are
still other three missing, supposed to be buried
among the debris, and an active search is being kept
up for them. The three missing are—Margaret
Johnston, aged about 60; Lydia Carpenter, between
30 and 40;. and Susan Welsh, about 20. Those
hurt are--Margaret Smith, 40, fracture of the skull
and arm broken; Christina Reit, a young girl, frac-
tured thigh and scapula, and other severe injuries;
Elspet Mowat, wound in head and slightly scalded
by the steam, which immediately filled the whole
building. It is remarkable, considering the num-
ber in the place and the extraordinary nature of the
accident, that so many contrived to escape unhurt.
It is impossible to say as yet what was the cause of
the accident. The building in which it occurred was
very strongly and substantially built, with iron
beams supporting the flooring, and it was not very
old. It is thought possible that the foundation may
have given way from the great weight of machinery
contained in the building, the ground having at
one time been of a somewhat marshy nature. In
answer to iliquiries made just before our parcel left,
we were informed that the three women buried in
the ruins had been dug out. A sufficient number
of doctors were in attendance immediately on the
known,becomingtote infirmary and attended
and those injured were
accident
immediately
conveyed
to.--Scotsman.