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THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1854.

ing against the prisoner (Perry) which was so
painfully perceptible on each of his three trials—
for lie was virtually on his trial on the second as
well as the other investigations. No disinterested
or unprejudiced person could fail to observe the
manifest bias, which showed that the result of
the inquiry was a "foregone conclusion," that the
prisoner had been virtually condemned before
even he was heard in his own defence, or
a word of evidence. given against him. In place
of being considered " innocent until his guilt
was established," he was treated as if no rational
doubt could exist, but that every charge preferred
against him had been proved on the most conclu-
sive testimony. We might multiply instances of
this, but shall merely refer to the sneer of the
President of the third Court, who on being told
that time would be required to prepare the de-
fence, as some of the witnesses had sailed for
Turkey and other parts, drily remarked, " I
thought as much !" An observation, which, in
place of being unanimously and very severely re-
primanded, only produced a burst of laughter
from the members of the Court. A great parade,
too, was made of a desire to show every indul-
gence to the prisoner ; and, above all, to give
himfull time to meet the extraordinary and unusual
charges brought against him. This was exempli-
fied by the refusal to release him on his " parole"
from the arrest under which he had been for 31
days kept in close confinement in a small bed-
room, only 12 feet by 10, a very unnecessary
and cruel piece of tyranny, and also by the re-
fusing to adjourn for a longer period than until
the Monday.
It is now unnecessaryto speak of the first Court-
Martial, or the causes by which it was occasioned.
We have already expressed our opinion on the sub-
ject, decidedly and unequivocally, and thereis a re-
markable concurrence—we might say, an unpara-
lelled unanimity—among public journalists of all
classes and varieties of politics. It was, that
Lieutenant PERRY had most completely and
triumphantly vindicated his character, and that he
was an object of sympathy and compassion rather
than punishment. In place, however, of being im-
mediately relieved from the heart-breaking suspense,
in place of being ordered to return to his duty with
an untarnished reputation, lie is still kept in igno-
rance of the decision of the Court, a prisoner in
the close small room 12 feet by 10, worse than a
convicted felon would be condemned to. But this
is not all. He is again virtually placed on his trial.
The questions of the Prosecutor, Colonel GARRETT,
being directed rather towards inculpating his own
witness than the party nominally accused. He
is stopped from explaining matters to the Court
necessary to the elucidation of the truth, and
when he puts these matters in writing for the con-
sideration of the President, fresh charges are
founded thereon, and he is a third time placed on
his trial, still kept in the close small room 12 feet
by 10.

The specious pretext of this course being
adopted, fur the purpose of giving the priscner
an opportunity of substantiating his statements,
is too ridiculous for sober discussion. If that
were the object, why was not the Court-Martial
ordered on Lieut.-Colonel GARRET; and Lieu-
tenant PERRY placed in the witness box. That
would have been the proper course if the inten-
tion were to elicit the real facts, to let full and
complete justice be done, and to prevent "might"
from triumphing over "right," a matter of too
frequent occurrence in this world, but peculiarly
so in all matters investigated before military
tribunals.

COURT CIRCULAR.

OSBORNE, AUG 2.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom-
panied be Prince Alfred, and attended by the Countess
of Desart and Lord Alfred Paget.

The Duchess of Kent is expected to arrive to-morrow
ona.-:aLLto her Majesty.
terview with thcv tzlu•
cial residence in Downing-street.
A numerous deputation of the metropolitan grocers,
attended by Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr'. Williams, ALP.,
Mr. Apsley Pellatt, ALP., and Mr. Montt, M.P., had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The
deputation was introduced by Sir James Duke, M.P.,
and the grievances of the grocers, in regard to the late
prosecutions for the sale of coffee and chicory, were
stated to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by Mr.
Moffatt, M.P.
Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yester-
day from the Governors of the Falkland Islands.

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GUMHEIWIAL INTELLIGENUE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 10,000 hales, including 3,000 Ameri-
can, and 500 Surat taken for export and on specu-
lation. The market was steady and well supplied,
without alteration in prices. The sales comprised
7,000 American, 500 Pernam and Maranham, at
6d. to 74d., 150 Bahia at 62d., 700 Egyptian at
51,i. to 81€1., 1,500 Surat at 3d. to 4gd., and 50
Sea Island at ls. Oid. to ls. 5d., per lb. Rail-
way Shares were dull.

Upon the silk trade, Mr. H. W. Eaton reports
as follows :

" I have again the pleasure of reporting a further in•
crease in the deliveries of silk.
" In Ciiinas a considerable business has been done
during the month, in the early part chiefly for export,
but latterly our home manufacturers have come forward
much more freely.

"The present large consumption of this silk, to the
comparative exclusion of other sorts, has become a most
important feature, and goes far to allay any fears that
may have arisen from the unprecedentedly large shipments
from China, as it will be found on examination, that while
the total stock to-day shows an increase as compared
with the Ist of August, 1853, of 80 per cent., the de-
livery of last month is 93 per cent. over July, 1853, and
further, that the deliveries from Ist January to Ist
August, 1854, are fully 45 per cent. in excess of those
during the came period last year.
"The accounts just received from China, report the
approaching crop as likely to be abundant, and of good
quality, but that the high exchange would render the
cost at first higher than desirable.
" Our market has been rather more quiet the last few
days, but prices remain without alteration.
"In Bengals more business has been doing, but the
low qualities are still neglected.
"In Brutias and Persians there is no change ; the
stock of the former consists of 23 ballots, and of 'the
latter about 1,450 ballots.

"In Italian silk the sales have been very limited ;
some of the new crop has arrived, and a few sales made
at 255. first class raw, and 223. 6d. to 233. for seconds.

The decision come to• by 4he committee at
Lloyd's to close the establishment at two o'clock
every Saturday afternoon, affords much satisfac-
tion, and it is expected that other places of busi-
ness will also shut up earlier on that day. With
respect to the Subscription Reading-rooms, how-
ever, it seems to be the opinion that as parties
frequent them as much for the enjoyment of their
leisure hours as for commercial purposes, they
must remain open nominally until five o'clock atleast,
and this would merely necessite the attendance of
one or other of the employes by turns.
The ship Medway from Port Philip, whence she
sailed April 21, has arrived off Portsmouth with a
full cargo and 42,304 ounces of gold, having been
absent from England only eight months and one
week.

The Bank of England has this day reduced its
minimum rate of discount from 51- to 5 per cent.
The disinclination to enter into foreign loans, the
better prospects for the grain crops, and a general
curtailment of business operations, renders it pro-
bable that the Bank would find less employ-
ment for its capital, money on best paper
having been obtainable in Lombard-street at
5 and 5 per cent., during the last week or
10 days. The reduction has not come too soon,
for commerce needed stimulating rather than re-
pressing. Some expected, nevertheless, that the
measure would be delayed until we had approached
nearer to harvest time. It is said that the heavy
rains which fell here last night, are by no means
general elsewhere.
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The English Stock Market has partly recovered
yesterday's decline, in consequence of the reduc-
tion of the rate of discount at the Bank of Eng-
land, but the weather rather keeps the quotations
in check, and the supply of money stock furnished
by the sales of the Chancery broker yesterday
also has an effect, although the foreign news
continues good. Consols have been 92 to 92i
for transfer, and 921 to 1 for account. They
are now 921, rather sellers. The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 92-i to 93k,
and the 3 per Cents. 92k to t. Bank Stock has
been heavy at 209 k. Exchequer Bills have risen
to Is. and 4s. prem.
In Foreign Securities - hey
do not bring fuller rates. ,ts.
have been 38 to 381, av -•
4., 3 me ft,n par to 100/. Dutch 2-i
pet '.,ears. tf. v. The Spanish news still
reads well.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 6i- ; Mexi-
can, 241 to 241 ; Peruvian, 66 to 68 ; Ditto 3 per
Cents., 50 to 52 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 39 to
41 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 97 to 99 ; Ditto 41 per
Cents., 82 to 84 ; Spanish New Deferred, 181 to
19 j Ditto 3 per Cents., 37i to 38i ; Ditto Certi-
ficates, 4i to 5 ; Ditto Passive, 4 to 4i.
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as under :-
1854. 1853.
Great Western
North-Western
Soutti-WestErn
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern....... 21,449 20,681
Caledonian, and Edin. and Glasgow 11,804 10,933.
Great Northern 22,367 16,383
The Railway Market is rather dull, and the ten-
dency in prices is downwards. The lives princi-
pally dealt in aro Caledonian, Great Northern,
Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire,
South Eastern, and York and Berwick. Foreign
Shares are very inac*Ave and nominal.
Mining Shares are neglected, and Bank Shares
and Laud Companies, are firm.

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THE WAR.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES,
Prom the ()Acme List. I

ftwon...“ ,on.
sank Stock
2094 104
per Cunt. Reduced Annuities
.. 924 4
3 per Cent Consols Annuities 921 2 1
31 por Cent. Annuities . 93 21 3i 3 i
(Jong Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 44
India Bonds, £lOOO ......,...... ......
.ousols for Account 17th August
,xchequer hills, 21d.
I:1000 ............................. .... 41 p
£5OO 4 1
,:iii-oi.ll
42 5 p
Exchequer Bonds, 1853 .
984
PRICE OE FOR e.:IGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
're.ziiian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Small
1004
Ditto New, 1852, 4.4 per Cent...,, 93i *1 .
:inenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent —
.. ,
-.1t13
Ditto for the Account r,5-.01. ii 110
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent
4..,Aican 3 per Cent. - '''.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 3Bi I 8 x d
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. ......
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4l 3
Dividends on the above payable in Loudon.
Dutch Exchange, 24 mi. Cent. 12 Guil 6Ol i d
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ........
THREE O'CLOCK.
• Consols
rto !Ditto August Account 921 4
. ...

BuRrAL CLUES.—The select committee on Mr. Sothe-
ron's Friendly Societies Bill took evidence on the subject
of child murder, allezed to be induced by the temptation
of funeral money. They examined four judges, two go-
vernors of prisons, two coroners, a chief of police, a chap-
lain of a prison, a registrar of births and deaths, and a
solicitor who had been engaged in a prosecution for child
murder ; and the committee came to the conclusion that
the instances of child murder where the motive has been
to obtain money from a burial society are very few (they
had evidence of only four convictions in the last 13
years), and that it is not necessary to legislate specifi-
cally with a view to the prevention of that crime. The
judges, however, pressed upon the committee that it was
not allowed by law to any person, rich or poor, to insure
the life of another unless he has a pecuniary interest in
the continuance of such life,. and that an insurance for
burial money is at variance with this rule, and, if per-
mitted,ou
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ject of
consider that the law requiring the payment to be made
to the undertaker is disliked, and is altogether illusory
and inoperative ; in many cases no such person is em-
ployed. They propose, as a better course, to limit the
amount to be received, whether front one or more so-
cieties, to 61. on the death of a child under five, and 101.
on the death of a child between five and ten, a medical
certificate of the cause of death to be in all cases pro-
duced.

THE CHOLERA IN ANIERICA.—The cholera has been
very fatal in Canada. but is said to be now declining.
It has spread into nearly all parts of the United States.
The following is the account from Chicago on the 12th
ultimo :—" The cholera nas been raging in this city with
the greatest violence for the past two or three weeks,
and the people have been dying off like sheep. From
the 3d to the 9th of this month the deaths by cholera ,
have averaged over 100 per day, and the carts conveying 1
the dead to their last resting-place have been traversing I
purpose have
C°PENHA GEN, July 28.—1 t is supposed that a
the streets day and night for the last two weeks, some of , new request for the co-operation of Sweden-Norway
them conveying three or four bodies." ;
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chkeh special c ifiotlr ARCHERY AT EICHMOND.—The ancient silver arrow,
which was first shut f„ at Scorton, in 1073, and has had an audience of King Oscar. The conditions
since that time been annually competed for, was shot for offered are not known, but they may be easily
at Richmond, on Wednesday last, on the Cricket.ground,
first gold, won the arrow, and the captaincy for the t• '
by 15 archers. Mr. Stewart, of York, by obtaining the commissariestat
. Aland Isles by the allies, and the eventual restora-
guessed—money subsidies, the garrisoning of the
ion of Finland.
ensuing year, Mr. Hargrove, ( f York, by the first red,
more and more
won the silver bugle and lieutenancy for the next year.
b
The captaincy of numbers were soon awarded to Mr. R. the galling yoke imposed upon him yhis Russian
Bell, Leeds. The subscription cup, the prize for the The King of Denmark feels daily •
best gold, was won by Mr. Fan-er, York. The horn Ministry, aud has lately renewed his offer to resign
his Crown. The Ministers were silent.
spoon to Mr. Fox, of Leeds, fur the best white.—.D.up. A letter from Hamburg of the 30th ult., in thi
hamAdvert4er. . Irtdependance of Brussels, says ;- -“ Four hundred ,