The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-30 00:00:00

E SUN, LION U ON, SAT UEDA Y E V ENIN G, MARCH 30, 1867.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARKE T S.—This day.

COVENT GARDEN.

Our market is but moderately supplied with fruit and
vegetables. On the whole, the trade ruled steady, as
follows :

FRUIT—Pine apples, 6s to 8s; grapes, 15s Od to 20s Od
per lb ; apples, 4s Od to 8s Od per bushel ; oranges, 2s 6d
to 7s ; lemons, 5s to lOs per 100; melons, 3s to 4s each ;
strawberries, 2s 6d to 5s per oz. ; pears, 3s to 6s per doz.
VEGETABLES—Cabbages, 2s to 3s Od; cauliflowers, 2s to
5s per dozen heads ; celery, is Od to 2s Od per dozen heads ;
horsradish, 4s to 6s Od per bundle ; carrots, 6d to 8d:;
turnips, 5d to 8d ; per bunch ; cucumbers, 2s tO 4s each ;
small salad, 2d to 3d; mushrooms, 2s Od to 2s Gd per
punnet; onions, 4s to 5s Oil per bushel; beet, is 01 to 2s
per doz. heads; potatoes, 90s to 170 s per ton.

POULTRY:

Turkeys, 5s Od to Os Od ; turkey poults, 5s to Os; geese,
Os Od to Os Od ; ducks, 2s 3d to Os Od ; ducklings, 35 Gd
to Gs 6d; tam© rabbits, is 3d to 2s Od ; wild do, is Od
to is 24 ; pigeons, 8d to 10d each ; fowls, Os to Os Od ;
Surrey fowls, lOs to 12s ; do. chickens, 7s to Os Od ; barn-
door fowls, 5s Od to 83 Od per couple. English eggs, 7s
Od to 9s ; French do., Os Gd to 8s Od per 100. Ostend fresh
butter, 05 lid Co 15 Od ; English do., 15 ld to is 4d per lb.

NEWPORT.
Per 81b. by the carcase.

Beof 3s Od to 4s 4(1 Veal
Mutton 3s 6d to 4s 8d Pork

WIIITEUHAPEL.
Per 81b. by the carcase.

Beef 3s Od to 4s 6d Veal
Mutton ... 3s 4d to 4s 8d I Pork

BREAD.

The prices of wheaten broad in the metropolis are from
9d to Sid. ; of household ditto, 7d. to Bd. per 41bs loaf.

HIDES AND SKINS.

Market hides, 56 to 641bs, 2id to 3d ; 64 to 72Ibs, 3d
to Od ; 72 to 801bs, 3d to 34d ; 80 to 881bs., 34d to 4d ; 88
to 961b5., 4d to 40. liorsehides, 9s to lOs Od ; calf skins
(light), 2s to 4s; full, 7s Od; polled sheep, lOs Od to 12s;
half-breds, 9s 6d to lOs Od ; downs, 7s 6d to 8s 6d ; lamb,
Os Od to Os Od; shearlings, is 6d to Os Od.

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.

EXTENSIVE DEFALCATIONS OF COLLECTORS.

Yesterday an exciting scene took place in the
Marylebone Vestry in consequence of the discovery
that two of the collectors of the poor-rate had em-
bezzled large sums of money collected by them on
account of the poor-rate. The finance committee
reported that upon examining the accounts of the
B division collector, Mr. Marriner, they discovered
a deficiency of £678 4s. ld. ; that upon examining
the accounts of another collector, Mr. Tripp, they
discovered a deficiency of £1,266 4s. 11d. They
therefore recommended that the situations of Mr.
Marriner and Mr. Trip be declared vacant; that
they be prosecuted for embezzlement, and that their
sureties be called upon to make good the amount
deficient. They further recommended that, as the
defalcations took place through Mr. Watts, the
check clerk, neglecting to check the receipts, his
situation be declared vacant. In conclusion, the
committee stated that they had exmnined the ac-
counts of the other six collectors, and found thew
perfectly correct and paid up.
Mr. BROWN, in moving the adoption of the recom-
mendation of the committee, expressed the great
pain he felt in doing so, but said he was bound in
duty to do it, and leave it to the vestry to decide
whether they would admit any extenuating cir-
cumstances.

➢lr. CARR seconded the adoption of the report,
and pointed out that if the checking had been pro-
perly performed by the clerk (Mr. Watts) the de-
falcations could not have occurred. The committee
felt bound to recommend the prosecution of the
defaulters, for if they let them go, as they had done
others, they would not only be compounding felony,
but would be encouraging crime.
A lengthened and exciting debate then took place,
several members of the board being anxious to allow
Mr. Watts, the clerk, to resign, instead of dismissing
him. It was urged that he had served the vestry
35 years, and that if he were dismissed he would be
ruined. Several divisions took place with a view of
bringing about the object mentioned, but without
effect, the majority of the vestry being most deter-
mined in their resolution to punish with the greatest
severity not only the defaulters but the officer
whose negligence they maintained had contributed
to the fraud. The proceedings at times assumed a
stormy and exciting aspect, and efforts were made
to adjourn the subject for a week, but the report of
the committee was eventuallyadopted, and a special
vestry appointed to confirm the proceedings.

BRITISH MONEY ORDER OFFICE IN THE PARIS
EXHIBITION.—A British Money Order Office will
bo opened on the Ist April, in that portion of the Paris
Exhibition which has been allotted to England and her
colonies, and will be maintained there until the closing of
the Exhibition The office will be situated in the Colon-
nade which surrounds the exterior of the Exhibition build-
ing,land will be found between the Exchange Office of Mr.
John Arthur and the office of the British Commis-
sioners. Money orders on the office in the Paris
Exhibition may be obtained on and from the Ist
of April at any money order office in the United
Kingdom; and on and from the same day money
orders on any money order office in the United Kingdom
may be obtained in the Money Order Office at the Exhibi
tiou. The Money Order Office in the Exhibition will be
open for the issue and payment of orders from 11 a.m. to
4 p.m. daily, Sundays excepted. The commission payable
by the public for money drawn in the United Kingdom on
the office of the Paris Exhibition, or vice versa, will bo the
same as that payable for orders drawn in and payable in
the United Kingdom. Money orders drawn in the United
Kingdom on the office in the Exhibition will be paid in
sterling, or in French money at the rate of 25 francs the
pound.—By command of the POSTMASTER-GENERAL.
General Post-office, March 27, 1867.

HOUSES FOR TIIX LABOURING POOR.—Mr. Ayrton
having charged the Corporation of London with obstruc-
tions to this bill, a notice of motion has been given for a
"return of the number of houses or dwellings for the
labouring poor erected or adapted by the Corporation of
London in the last ten years ; the amount laid out in re-
spect of the same ; and the returns in the way of revenue
up to the date of making the return." It will be shown
by this return that, so far from obstructing measures of
the kind, the Corporation has already provided three
blocks of buildings of this nature without waiting for the
intervention of Parliament. It is well known that Mr.
Alderman Waterlow has for some years past laboured in
this direction on his own account, and also in connection
with a society commenced by him.
How STONEWALL" JACKSON GOT Ms FAMOUS
SURNAME.—The following is Mr. Cooke's account of
the charge from which the General derived it. At this
point the Federals had nearly succeeded in driving back
their foes, and taking possession of a plateau which would
have given them the command of the field :—" Such was
the condition of things when the glitter of bayonets
caught the eyes of Bee, beyond the Henry-House Hill,
and a courier brought word that reinforcements were
coming at last. Bee galloped in the direction of
the fresh troops ; they were the First Brigade, under
Jackson. As he pressed on rapidly the disordered troops
of Bee and Evans swept by towards therear, but the First
Brigade continued to advance. All at once Bee appeared,
approaching at full gallop, and he and Jackson were soon
face to face. The latter was cool and composed ; Bee,
covered with dust and sweat with his drawn sword in his
hand, his horse foaming. In the bitter despair of his heart
he could only groan out, General, they aro beating us
back !" The face of Jackson betrayed no correspond-
ing emotion. He had his ' war look' on, but that was
never a look of excitement. His eye glittered, and in the
curt tone habitual with him, he said, coolly, ' Sir, we will
give them the bayonet.' These words seemed to act upon
Bee like the sound of a clarion. He galloped back to his
men, and, pointing with his sword to Jackson, shouted,
' Look! there is Jackson standing like a stone wall! Let
us determine to die hero or conquer !' His command was
partially rallied; the detachment took their position
on the right, and Jackson's line swept steadily on
towards the plateau." This movement turned the tide, ob-
serves a critic in the Spectator. The Federals from that day
forth were possessed with an almost superstitious belief
in the invincibility of "Stonewall's" Brigade. The battle
of Bull Run was a disastrous rout of the North, and it is
said that as Jackson rode with Beauregard after the fight
and gazed on the retreating masses, he asked passionately,
"Give me ten thousand men, and I will be in Washington
to-night !" It was the fiery Maharbal at Canna) urging
irresolute Hannibal," Victor in Capitolio spulaberis!"
BUCOLIC WISDOM.—The other day in a western
county an excellent clergyman had all his farmers
to dinner, wishing to ascertain their views on the edu-
cation of agricultural labourers. Many of the farmers were
much above the average British farmers, men of some feel-
ing, and even education. The clergyman asked them,
" Well, now, ought the children of your labourers to go to
school ; and if so, what do you think they ought to learn?"
The farmers all thought the children ought to go to school;
they "saw no harm in that." "Should they learn read
ing ?" "Yes, reading, but not more than is necessary to
read their Bibles"—thus much in compliment to the clergy-
man, " not more," in order that the school might be cheap,
and not bear heavily on their pockets. "Well—and
writing ?" "Well, yes, enough writing to sign their
names"—not enough just to open any other field of
labour to them. " Well—and arithmetic ?" Empha-
tically "No" from all the famers ; "No use at all in arith-
metic." Arithmetic might throw an unpleasant light on
the rate of wages ; and, besides, it is a wonderful sharpener
of childish faculties.—Spectator.
FISH IN THE AMAZON.—Professor Agassiz, who
has lately been engaged in examining the fish of
the river Amazon, states that he has not found one fish in
common with those in any other fresh-water basin ; that
different parts of the Amazon have fishes peculiar to them-
selves; and as an instance of the teeming variety of the
Amazee, he adds, that a pool of only a few hundred
square yards showed 200 different kinds of fish, which is
as many as the entire Mississippi can boast. In the
Amazon itself 2,000 different kinds exist, a great propor-
tion of which are must excellent eating. Several are
extremely curious, one especially, which has the power of
walking or creeping on dry land, and of worming its way
up the trunks of trees.
Nine or ten lives have been lost by the recent
floods in the county of Wicklow. At a place called Askis
nagap, a held named Mullhall, with his wife and four
children, were found overwhelmed with snow in their
cabin, lying dead in their beds, as if they were asleep. In
another place a woman was carried away several hundred
yards by a torrent, while her infant was found floating in
its cot on a distant stream.
A FRENCH COURT NEWSMAN.--" WC learn,"
says the Figaro, " that our collaborator, Adrien
Marx, has been attached to the cabinet of the Duke do
Bassano, Grand Chamberlain, to fill the post of court
newsman, not permanently occupied. All persons who
have had the honour of being received at the English Court
or who assiduously read the English papers, have been
struck by the utility of the post in question, where a writer
is charged to communicate to the journals an authentic re-
lation of official fetes and ceremonies, as well as of journeys
accomplished by members of the reigning family. The
ideahas now been adopted of also confidingla:mission of the
kind to a journalist at Paris."
ETON COLLEGE.—The School closes on Friday,
the 12th of April, for the Easter vacation. The Lower
Boys will return to the College on Wednesday, the Bth of
May, the fifth and sixth forms arriving on the two suc-
ceeding days. The Newcastle Scholarship Examinatieu is
foiQa for ►Sattuday) th 4 Oth pf April.