The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-29 00:00:00

line shoulders, and the humblest servant who pro-
voked their wrath was in no danger of being burned
alive. No : the prototype of Mr. Roebuck's South-
ern gentleman can be found in Europe nowhere
save in Russia, and now hardly even there, for the
breed of Ivan Tourgueneffs, we are glad to say, is

nearly extinct.
Now, let us see who are Mr. Roebuck's black-
guards. They are the scoundrels who have founded
in a single county more common schools than are
maintained in the whole State of Virginia. They are
the villains who have built more churches in a single

city than stand in many a Southern State. They
are the dolts who have public libraries in little
towns, which outnumber all the books to be found
in many a Southern capital. They are the rascals
who fill up the great granaries of the West, and
who build and man the immense commercial fleets
of the East. They are the highly improper persons
who pay their debts, aLd who, by rational and un-
restricted industry, have so increased the aggregate
of the public wealth, while equalising its distribu-
tion, that, here and there, throughout this blighted
country, considerable towns may be pointed out with-
out a pa uper—a condition of things which, we sup-
pose, Mr. Roebuck's English prejudices will per-
sude him is in the highest degree alarming. We waive
the perfectly natural retort that if we have hore the
" scum" of Europe, including Great Britain, it was
Europe, including Great Britain, that by bad legis-
laton has engendered that " scum :" to which we
might add the suggestion, that if so much of this
scum has floated westward, there must be not a
little of it left at the fountain head. We have been,
indeed, enabled to afford an asylum to the victims
of political systems as bad as they are antiquated;
but for this reason shall we be told by Mr. Roe-
buck, whose taxes, if he pays any, we have thereby
lightened, that we arenot gentlemen ? He is a gen-
tleman, we suppose.
To an imputation like Mr. Roebuck's, if person-
ally addressed, most men of self-respect would scorn
to reply. But when this coarse fellow, this under-
bred person—we use precise terms, for we wish to
be precisely understood—when such a moral vul-
garian, in the face of all England, undertakes to
slander a great people in the hour of their anxiety
and embarrassment, ho proves, if he 'Noyes any-
thing, altogether too much, for he demonstrates to
a nicety that he is not himself a gentleman ! His
friends may plead his ignorance—but gentlemen are
usually well informed ; his interests—but gentle-
men never suffer their interests to betray them into
falsehood ; his desperate political fortunes—but
gentlemen are not usually adventurers. We have
shown that of the constitution of American society
he knows nothing, or he wilfully falsifies ; what
shall be said of the constitution of that Bri-
tish society which could send such a disreputable
person to the House of Commons ?

POLICE IN7ELLIGENCE.—Sept. 27.

GREENWICH.—THE LATE ATTEMPT AT
DOUBLE MURDER.—COMMITTAL OF THE AC-
CUSED.—Edward Cramphorn, labourer, of Rother-
hithe, was brought up for final examination before
Mr. Traill, charged with stabbing Bridget Mary
Hartnett and Alexander Hartnett, her brother.
The facts as deposed to at previous examinations
of the prisoner have already been given, the follow-
ing additional witnesses being now examined :
Mr. Fred. Fisher, surgeon, said—On the night
of the 26th August last, about half-past 11 o'clock,
I was sent for to the police-station, and there saw
the complainant, Bridget Mary Hartnett, lying on
the stones of the yard, and supported on the knees
of a man. She was apparently in a dying condi-
tion, arising from severe loss of blood. Upon exa-
mination I found she had received a punctured
in the centre of the 4th and sth ribs. Besides this
wound there was on the left arm an incised wound
some two inches in length, and about half
an inch in depth. Near this, on the same arm, was
a lacerated wound. On the outer side of the right
arm, and about three inches from the shoulder, was
another incised wound, some four inches in length,
and rather more than three inches in depth. At the
time of this examination the hemorrhage had
stopped, and she was suffering from severe exhaus-
tion and shock to the system. The wound on the
chest was of a dangerous character, and in the first
instance I thought the injuries were of a mortal
nature. She was not out of danger for ten days
afterwards, but she is now doing tolerably well.
In my opinion all the wounds were inflicted by a
sharp cutting instrument, and the knife, such as
that now shown to me by the officer, I am of opi-
nion, would inflict such wounds. The wound on the
chest was very near the region of the heart.
Mr. Joseph Henderson, surgeon, said—On the
night in question 1 was sent for to the police-sta-
tion, and there saw the injured man Alexander
Hartnett. He was lying on the stones in the yard
on his back, in a very exhausted condition, and
bleeding copiously from several wounds. On exami-
nation 1 found he had a wound on the chest on
the left side. It was a deep punctured wound, and
entered the chest, dividing the intercostal vessels
between the fourth and fifth ribs, and perforated
the substance of the lung. This wound was of a
most dangerous character. On the same side there
was a transverse wound, incised, across the base of
the thumb, and also on the right side there was a
deep punctured wound passing into the chest, be-
tween the tenth and eleventh ribs. That was a
dangerous wound, and was bleeding extensively.
There was likewise a punctured wound on the right
hip, extending to the bone. All these wounds
might have been occasioned with the knife now
produced.
Mr. Traill inquired the probable ultimate effect
of the injuries sustained.,
Mr. Fisher replied that, although the young
woman would recover, it would be some consider-
able time ; and Mr. Henderson gave it as his opi-
nion that the man would never again be capable of
performing the same laborious work as he had
hitherto performed.
Police-constable Coombers, 187 R, said—About
five minutes after eleven, on the night in question,
I heard persons talking very loudly at the bottom
of Church-street, Deptford, and on proceeding to the
spot I saw the prisoner and the female complainant
and her sister-in-law. The injured female said, "I
wish you would take this man (meaning the pri-
soner) away from me." The two females then went
away, and I left the prisoner standing
htheaerrde.thle
walked away a short distance, and then
same voices again, and on returning to the spot I
met the female Hartnett, who said, " Oh, he has
k stabbed me." I ran back, and saw the prisoner
with a knife in his hand. I knocked him down and
► closed with him, and, with assistance, took the clasp
knife now produced from him. It was shut, and
there were marks of blood upon it. I took him to
the station. He was very violent, and had been
drinking. On the following day, after his exami-
nation before the magistrate, it was my duty to take
him to Maidstone gaol, and while waiting at the
railway station for that purpose he said, " I wish I
had killed him, and then I should have been happy."
The prisoner, who displayed Vie same indifference
as on previous examinations, declined putting any
questions, and he was fully committed to Newgate
for trial.
Mr. Fisher, addressing the magistrate, said he had
been requested by the injured young woman to re-
turn her heartfelt thanks to his worship, and also to
Mr. Boustred, the chief clerk, for their great kind-
ness and the assistance rendered to her during the
whole time she had been confined to her bed at the
station, suffering from the wound inflicted upon her.
He (Mr. Fisher) had also to add that, but for his
worship having consented to give up his private
room to her use, her life must have been lost, as it
was impossible she could have been removed with
safety.
Mr. Patte, relieving officer for Deptford, said he
had inquired into the condition of the injured man,
who from boyhood had always borne a good charac-
ter, and found that he had a wife and six children,
and the board of guardians had allowed 4s. weekly
towards their support.
Mr. Traill said, so far as the very limited funds
enabled him to do so, he had rendered what assist-
ance he could in providing necessaries and comforts
for the young woman, her brother being under
treatment at Guy's Hospital. From inquiries made,
it appeared both parties were of respectable charac-
ter, the young woman, by her industry, supporting
herself, and also contributing to her parents' main-
tenance, the unfortunate man's wife and six child-
ren being plunged into distress and poverty by the
murderous intentions of the prisoner. During the
whole of his experience ho had never met a me more
deserving the sympathy of the charitable

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Although the charge of forgery against the pri-
soner Wm. Roupell has been thus far disposed of
by his pleading guilty, and his being sentenced to
penal servitude, there appears to be very little
doubt that there wii.l still be a large amount of liti-
gation before the matter is finally disposed of, and
as, in all probability, .Alr. Roupell will have to al. -
pear on many future oc casious as a 'witness, it is ex-
petted that ho will rema in in Newgate for a cons-i-,
,2erable time, in order that he may be produced by-
habL'ast upon any occasion. that his evidence may be
cars that since his conviction he has
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just the same manner as ordinary
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prisoners
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usual task of oalt,:un
will continue to be
so employed all the time he con-
tinues in the gaol Of
Newg ate.
t wool d appear that the fact of
the prisoner being sen,*ence,d to penal servitude for
In some respects,
life is rather an advantOge to him than otherwise.
1. in these matters appears
The rule that is acted upoi
to be that when prisoners arc sentenced to only
short periods of penal serviti tde they are sent either
to Portland or Millbank Penitentiary, or some other
of the Government prisons in Enoland, where the
discipline is very severe and the co.ufinement most
irksome ; but in the case of ,' priso.ler being sen-
tenced to penal servitude for life, he is, unless very
much advanced in life, invariably sen t to one of the
duct
colonies, where after the lapse of a mt. taicnn n period
be
,
ranging between 8 and 10 years, if his
good, a ticket of leave is generally granted him•
These tickets of leave are, however, always given
with the special conditton that the prisoner
Weisshll
not return to England, and if that conditie
broken he is liable to be trial for felony in being at
large before the expiration of his sentence, and he
would be sent back to finish it. The chances, there
fore, are that in the course of a few years Mr. Rou-
pell will be again a free man, and in his position it
is not likely that he will consider :the condition of
not returning to this country, where he has obtained
such an unenviable notoriety, a great privation.
Now that the prisoner stands forma.lly convicted
and under sentence for the forgery of the will, by
means of which he was enabled to make sway with
the great bulk of his father's property, thore is no
doubt that the proceedings that were instituted by
the heir-at-law in the trial at Guildford, to recover
possession of the Kingston estate, which was the
subject of the deed of gift, will be continued, and
that an endeavour will be made to regain posses-
sion of the whole of the property, or at all events
to induce some of the present holders to consent to
a compromise. It appears, however, that this is
not likely to be effected so easily ac was at first
imagined It would seem that some portions of the
property were sold by Roupell in compareively small
amounts, under £5,000, and the holdero of those
portions may, possibly, be ready to agree to some
terms of compromise, rather than incur the expense
of defending an action of ejectment, and pooibly
losing the whole of the property they had pur-
chased. In a good many instances, however, it ap-
pears that very large sums of money have been ad-
vanced by insurance companies and other large
corporations of the like kind upon portions of the
property, and it is said that they are determined
not to lose their money without a struggle, and
that they intend to take the opinion of a Jury upon
the question whether Mr. Roupell has spoken the
truth in charging himself with forgery, or whether,
after having squandered his inheritance, he has not
resorted to this extraordinary scheme with a view to
procure a restitution of the property to his family.
The will, and deed of gift that were the subjects
of the indictments against the prisoner at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, have been ordered by Mr.
Justice Byles to be retained in the custody of Mr.
Avery, in order that they may be forthcoming on
any future occasion if required..

GO UHT .Itl MARALi

NORIVICH—SATunDAY.

There was a full attendance of farmers to-day, but com-
paratively small supplies of wheat offering, and prices re-
mained at about the currencies of last week, The supply
of barley was good ; best samples at late rates, but other
sorts at 2s decline. Flour is per sack cheaper.
White wheat. 53s to 57s 1 Red wheat 46s to 55s
Malting barley....4os to 41s 1 Chevalier barley.
37s
to 3814
New d 0.......... —s to —s I Oats.. 25s to 305
Flour, 40s Od to —s Od per sack from the_miller.

ATIIRDAY.
is secured, and the yield will

YORK—SI
Nearly all the wheat crop i
be good.
Wheat, red. sos to 53s i Oats.... 24s to 26s
White do 64s to 58s 1 Beans 42s to 44s
Barley .3os to 37s 1 Peas . ..—s to —s
Malt, 64s to GGs per qr.; rye, 39s per gr.; flour, 40s
to 42s per sack.

LE I CE STER—SATURDAY.
Old white wheat, 60s to 638; new, 54s to 59s per 36
stone. Old red, 57s to 61s per 36 stone. Barley, malting,
new, 3bs to 42s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 325; old oats,
26s to 30s; new oats, 24s to 26s per 24 stone. Beans,
new, 40s to —s ; old, 43s to —s per 38 stone.

NORTHAMPTON—SATURDAY.
New whevt, 48s to 57s ; old, 52s to 595. Barley, 338
to 38s per qr. New oats quoted at 24s to 28s ; old, 288
to 34s per 24 stone. Beans, 39s to 428; seconds, —s to
—B. Peas, 36s to 42s per qr.

NO TTINGIIAM-SATURDAY.

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White wheat, from 50s to 645; red wheat, 48s to 61s.
Barley—malting, 3'6s to 42s ; grinding, 29s to 325. Oats
old, at 25s to 31s Od ; new, 245.t0 275. Beans sold at 41s
to 458 per qr. Flour., 41s to 445.

DUI3LIN-SEPT. 26.
A moderate attendance to. day. Of native wheat there
was a fair supply, a large proportion of which was out of
condition. Oats in large supply. Trade in general rather
dull.

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s. d. s. d. 1 s. d. s. d.
24 0 to 27 0
Wheat, white.. 30 0 to 34 0 i Beans.. .....
Do., red .. 27 0t032 0 1 Dere
0
Do., new .... oto 0 Rapeseed .••• —oto --
Barley
Oats ... .
Do., black l4 6to 16 6 Indian corn .. 31 0t035 0

CORK—SEPT. 26.
The following were the quotations this morning :—Red
wheat, 18s Od to 24s Od ; white, 18s Od to 28s Od; barley 130
Od to 14s Od ; oats, 9s Od to Hs 3d.; new bere, 16a Od to
—s Od.