The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-15 00:00:00

NEWPORT.

Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s Od ; veal,
3s Sd to 4s Sd ; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per 8113 s,

WHITECHAPEL.
Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; mutton, 2s 8d to 4s Od ; veal,
3s 8d to 4s 8d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per Sibs.

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from
81d to 9d, of household do., 61d to 8d per 41b loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 3d to 31d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to
31d ; 721 b to 801 b, 341 to 3PI ; 801 b to 881 b, nd to 4d ;
881 b to 961 b, 4d to 41d ; 961 b to 1041 b, 41d to 4P. Horse
hides, 9s to lOs Od ; calf skins, light 2s Od to 3s Od ; do. full,
6s Od to Os Od ; polled sheep, 9s 6d to Ils Od ; half-breds,
Os Od to Os Od ; Downs, 6s Od to 7s 6d; lambs, Os Od to
Os Od; shearlings, is 2d to Os Od.
HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 15s ; clover, £3
lOs to £5 10s ; and straw, £1 Se to £1 16s Ocl per load.
Both hay and straw were in slow request at our quotations.
CumBERLAND.--Metv-low hay, £2 Os to £4 158; clove!
do., £3 10e to £5 10e; and straw, £lBs to £1 16s per load.
Trade dull.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £2 Os to £4 Ms; clover,
£3 lOs to £6 10s ; and straw. El 8s to ]6s per load.
A moderate demand.

EXTRAORDINARY AND EXCITING
SCENE IN AN AMERICAN CH URCH.

A scene occurred in St. Paul's Church, Alexan-

dria, Virginia, on Sunday morning, Feb. 9, 1862,
which has perhaps never had a parallel among
ci7ilised nations, certainly not in the history of
this country. The officiating clergyman, Rev. K. J.
Stewart, had just got through the Morning Prayer
of the Episcopal Church as far as the Litany, the
prayer for the President being omitted, but without
anything in its place, and was proceeding with the
Litany, when an interruption occurred of the cha-
racter which the law designates as " brawling"—
that is, the intervention of noise and tumult by cer-
tain persons, who had come to church with the in-
tention of interrupting the service should it not pro-

teed according to their wishes. These persons corn- over the letter for delivery. The postman of the
menced the disturbance as soon as they found the walk was then sent for, and on attending he was
prayer for the President omitted. One of them, interrogated why he had not delivered the letter to
Capt. Farnsworth, of the Bth Illinois Cavalry, who
the firm. He denied ever having the letter, and on
sat near the chancel, dressed in uniform, with some
uced be stated that it was not
five or six of his soldiers near him, undertook to the receipt being prod
officiate in prayer (if prayer it can be called) by his signature, and that it was a
i forgery. The offi-
reading the prayer for the President of the United cials of the Post-office at once instituted the fullest
States. How far he went does not appear in the inquiry, with a view of ascertaining who had got
confusion; but soon quitting his position as the possession of the letter, but we believe that nothing
offerer of prayer, he advanced to the altar where
satisfactory was elicited, except that the letter had
Mr. Stewart was kneeling, still continuing the
Litany, and ordered his arrest. Mr. Stewart was been fraudulently obtained by means of a deep-
dragged from hls knees by the soldiers. The ground laid scheme, either by some one connected with the
of the arrest of Capt. Farnsworth distinctly avowed Post-office, or by some person who had a perfect
to be the omission of the prayer for the President knowledge of the registered letter issue department
of the United States. With this avowal he said," 1
arrest you by the authority of the United States, as and of the way the business was transacted. It is
a rebel and a traitor." " And I," responded Mr. stated that on Messrs. Leaf finding that the letter
Stewart, who by that time had advanced to the was missing, they at once gave the usual notice to
chancel rails, to Captain F., " summon you to an- the bankers to stop the cheques and notes. Unfor-
swer at the judgment seat of the King of kings and tunately, however, the warning was too late. The
Lord of lords for interfering by force of arms with chequeshad been paid, and the notes had been ex-
His ambassador while in the act of presenting the
changed for gold at the Bank of England. So the
petitions of His people at His altar." The solemnity
m
of this appeal apparently caused the parties to fall matter at present stands. Another registered letter,
back and pause, but soon the soldiers were ordered to containing, it is said, £2,000, is reported to have
seize Mr. Stewart, which two of them did with great disappeared under similar circumstances. It is not
violence, forcing the prayer-book from him, one of long since a registered letter from Lincoln to one of
them drawing a revolver. Another revolver was
presented to an old and venerated citizen within the the bankers in Lombard-street was abstracted, and
chancel, when the officer ordered the soldier not to these frequent losses have occasioned some nneasi-
fire. Very soon a considerable number of armed sol- ness in the City, inasmuch as the Post-office do not
diers appeared in the church. Mr. Stewart, refus- hold themselves responsible for the contents of re-
ing to yield voluntarily, was dragged by force
from the altar, and through the aisle, out of the
gistered letters. The Post-office, it is understood
disavow all responsibility ; and in that case, sup-
church. He was in the surplice, which he wore
through the streets and at Captain Farnsworth's posing the facts to be as reporied, the system of
quarters, where he was taken. registration must be regarded only as a delusion.
Capt. Farnsworth said that he went to church It is by no means improbable, however, that if the
intending to arrest Mr. Stewart if he should offer question of responsibility should come before a court
any prayer for the Confederate States. Near him of law payment having been
in the same pew sat Mr. Morton, the detective agent the fact of a special
made to the Post-office
havethe
fullye of specialox e
r
of the United States Government, who there gave
.
orders to Captain Farnsworth to make the arrest, care, which care could_
which was executed as above described. Mr. Mor- cised, will cause a verdict to be rendered against
ton has declared that he was acting under authority them, even although they may plead thas they have
from Washington. The scene in the church was
always given notice of non-liability.
such as may be imagined under such circumstances.
Gentlemen were indignant and excited, and ladies
giving utterance to their feelings of grief and indig-
nation, but of course no serious effort was made to

wuippixa.—The bill to amend the law as to the
whipping of juveniles and other offenders,brought in by
Mr. Hadfield and others, provides that where the punish-
ment of whipping is awarded for any offence by order of
one or more justice or justices made
i
n
their power of summary conviction, orexercise of his or
order, sentence, or conviction in Scotland
awarding suchpunishment,
by the
Court of Justiciary, or by any sheriff or magistrate, the
shall specify the number of strokes to be inflicted and the
caseinstrument
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ruswe
whose
number of strokes oisne age does
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does not exceed 14 years, the
the m
blaietod shall not exceed 12.

prevent the arrest. Mr. Stewart was taken away,
and the congregation dispersed.
It is proper to state that these proceedings were
without the knowledge of General Montgomery,
the military governor of the city, and were strongly
condemned by him when they came to his know-
ledge. He telegraphed to Washington for instruc-
tions from the Government, which, when received,
were of such a nature as to lead to Mr. Stewart s
release after a few hours' detention.—Boston Courier.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, the Earl of Derby,
the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Cubit, the Lord Mayor,
and Sir Charles Eastlake, the president of the
Royal Academy, who were recently nominated by
the Queen to advise her Majesty in the choice and
mode of execution of a design for the proposed
national memorial of the lamented Prince Consort,
held another conference on, the subject in the Coun-
cil Chamber of the Fine Arts Commission, at the
Palace of Westminster.
Mr. Marshall, the chairman of the Ross and Mull
Granite Company, attended before the committee,
and gave additional information respecting the
block of red granite, about 106 feet in length
and some 12 feet square on an average, which
had been discovered in an unleased quarry
there belonging to the Duke of Argyll, and to
which the attention of the committee had been pre-
viously directed as suitable for the intended memo-
rial. He produced a diagram of the stone and plans,
prepared by Captain Moorsom, the company's en-
gineer, showing its position and outline, and that is
about 500 yards distant from the sea. He ex-
plained that it had been uncovered to the extent of
about 106 feet, and that as both its ends are still
embedded, it may be found to be of even a greater
available length than that. Upon the whole, the
information he gave went to impress the committee
that this block of granite afforded greater
promise of grandeur and aptitude for the pur-
pose of a monolithic obelisk than at first they
had been led to imagine. For the present therefore
their attention is concentrated upon it, though they
have received communications upon the subject from
the owners and lessees of other granite quarries in
the kingdom, especially one from Lord Falmouth,
who has made a generous offer in the event of his
quarries of serpentine being found to contain a
single stone of sufficient dimensions. It is under-
stood that the Duke of Argyll has intimated to the
committee his desire to present them with the
stone to which reference has been made on his pro-
perty in the Island of Mull, if eventually it should
be thought to fulfil the condition on which
her Majesty decided in favour of an obelisk as
a fitting memorial of her illustrious Consort.
On the assumption of such a gift by his grace
the Granite Company, who lease some of the adja-
cent quarries to that in which it lies, have given in
two estimates—one of £25,000, as the probable cost
of quarrying the stone, shaping and polishing it on
the spot, and removing it to the water's edge; the
other of £15,000 for those operations, less the po-
lishing, which in that case would be done in Lon-
don. Mr. Marshall calculated that the interval
required for the operations covered by the first
estimate would extend from the present time to the
summer of 1863.

It remains to be stated that the Memer!al Fund
now being raised at the:Mansion-House amounted
last evening to £40,500. Among the donors yes-
terday were Lord Redesdale, £lOO, and the Grocers'
Company, £lOO.

LWANCIIESTER PATENT LAW _REFORM

. A o SOCIATION,

A general committee meeting of the Manchester
Patent Law Reform Association was held yesterday
afternoon in the B Committee-room of the Town
Hall. The chair was taken by Mr. William Fair-
bairn, LLD., F.R.S., and there were also present--
Messrs. Marshall, W. B. Johnson, John Bell, James
Potter, W. Routledge, E. Scott, P. Grant, Peter
Effertz, T. Cooke, C. Schiele, J. Revelle, T. Clay-
ton, and E. J. Hughes, hon. secretary. The.
meeting was especially called to consider the
report of a sub-committee to which the resolu-
tions proposed by a committee of the British Asso-
ciation for a reform of Patent Laws had been
referred. The sub-committee, after considering
what defects in the working of the present law re-
quire amendment, and after examining carefully
the resolutions of the British Association, had re-
solved to recommend certain alterations which they
were of opinion would not interfere with the rights
of inventors, and at the same time, by preventing a
number of useless patients being-granted, would be
an additional security to the public. These altera-
tions, as subsequently amended by the general
meeting, were as follows :

1. That a Court of Commissioners or Examiners shall be
appointed, to consist of three members, eminent for their
r scientific acquirements, one to be conversant with mechani-
cal engineering, the second with chemistry, and the third
a barrister, or law officer, with a sufficient staff of assistants,
who shall devote the whole of their time to the Patent-
office, and be paid liberal salaries out of the funds arising
from the fees paid for letters patent. 2. That the said
Commissioners shall grant provisional protection for in-
ventions on application as heretofore. 3. That the Com"
missioners shall carefully examine each invention as pro-
visionally protected, as to the novelty thereof. 4. That
the Commissioners shall, within two months from the date
of the provisional protection, either authorise the grant
of the patent, or inform the applicant that they have
doubts about the novelty of the invention, stating their
reasons, and referring him to the authorities they de-
pend upon for proving the want of novelty, or, if ne-
cessary, to require further particulars than are contained in
the provisional specification; in such case, the applicant
shall furnish additional descriptions within one month after
receiving such notice, or such longer time as the Commis-
.sioners, in their discretion, may deem necessary. 5. That
the applicant shall have one month to file his specification,
after receiving the decision of the Commissioners. 6. That
any person interested in opposing the grant of any patent
shall give notice of his objections to the Commissioners pre-
vious to the expiration of two months from the date of pro-
visional protection. 7. That when the Commissioners report
against the novelty of any invention, the applicant shall have
the privilege of asking for a re-examination, at which he
shall produce either viva vote evidence before the Commis-
sioners, or give them additional particulars in writ-
ing. 8. That the applicant shall pay reasonable fees for
such re-examination, the fees to be regulated by the Com-
missioners. 9. That all cases of infringement shall be tried
in the first instance in any of the ordinary courts of law,
before a special jury of gentlemen conversant with the sub-
ject-matter e That
decision either
of party
such jury
u rhya
to
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the
Judges the
& that; if they confirm the judg-
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ment already given, their decision shall be final ; but if they
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differ, an appeal to the Privy Council shall be allowed, but
whose decision shall be final. 11. That if the patentee shalt
find that he has claimed something in his provisional specifi-
cation which is not new or useful, he shall be allowed to dis-
claim the same in his final specification. 12. That the £5O
tax now payable at the expiration of the third year, and
also the £lOO payable at the expiration of the seventh year,
be abolished, but £5O, payable at the expiration of the fifth
year, be substituted therefore.
After some discussion the resolutions were
agreed to.

A New York correspondent says :—" Standing
near me at the execution of Capt. Gordon to-day was Edwin
James, the celebrated criminal lawyer of England. He is
getting po.ted in our criminal matters. James said it was
one of the most delightful executions he had ever attended,
gentlemen were present. There were not
and what seemed to surprise him the most was the fact—
that none but
fhthareboneoxind-
intenance and wamithounthteedwtoor:lo9f,Oro67a.
osvtaetressOmpaerinrsoen;,present besides the soldiers of
RAMSGATE HARBOUR.—The revenue of the Royal
Harbour of Ramsgate for the year 1860-61, Chiefly
the passing
absorbed £12,925 of this im-
provement, revenue,
salaries and allowances reduced to £2,005 and various
which remained at the year's end to be , the net balance
added to the fund of
the Harbour Trust, then amounting
FOUNDERING OF
peruses, together with
ASuip
to £93,211.
AT SEA.—On Thurs-
day the T. B. Bertram ship, C
com-
mander, arrived at Kingston aptain W. Nichols,
harbour, from New York,
laden with grain. She sailed from New York on Feb. 12,
and experienced heavy Weather during her entire passage.
48, about 500 miles west of the
coast of Ireland, in lat.
long. 16, the wind blowing a
whole gale at the time, she
in distress ; but, Owing to spoke
the a large full-rigged ship
was tempestuoustotally character of
the weather, the captain
any assistance that day. With moat unable
est commendable
oenadffaohrdlo
humanity, however, he stood by the distressed ship off and
on till next day, when, the weather moderating, a boat was
lowered from the evidently sinking ship, reaching the Bar-
tram in safety with captain, mate, crew, and one lady, a
passenger; in all 20 persons. The vessel proved to be the
Sultan, from Africa to Liverpool, laden with guano, Captain
Steel, commander. The vessel was stated to have left in a
leaky state, the water, owing chiefly to the violence of the
sea, gaining upon her so much that she is believed to have
gone down in 20 hours after she was abandoned, although
an invention of Captain Steel's, a kind of windmill capable
of pumping out 20 tons of water in an hour, was kept con-
stantly going till the moment the crew left. The captain
saved his papers and valuables, the lady losing all her spare
clothing at the moment of leaving the Sultan. The Ber-
tram, in lat. 45 deg., ionic. 70, also fell in with 16 casks of
'thin a diamond. To C •
oil, marked ,411," wither again
Nichols,
awarded
much praise cannot be for of the Bertram, toohis
humanity.