The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15,

change since last writing. The decrease in the ex-
port is now estimated at about 11,000,0001 b., and
on that of 1856-57, 16,000,0001 b.

ASSIZ.

" His Excellency Mr. Reed has returned to
Shanghai from Japan, and. at the date of last ad-
vices his Excellency Baron Gros was hourly ex-
pected to arrive from the same place.
"It is reported that the Emperor of Japan died ,
soon after the American treaty was signed. The
cholera, it is said, had disappeared from Nagasaki,
' but was raging at other places.
"It is reported that the insurgents have lately
issued from Nankin and have taken several cities
from the Imperialists.
" The North China Herald gives the heads of the
different clauses in the Russian treaty. One clause
stipulates for the appointment of a commission to
settle the boundaries of the two countries. This
opportunity may be availed of by Russia to obtain
considerable advantages, but otherwise her treaty
only secures her the same privileges as other na-
tions. It removes, however, the restrictions that
existed against the Russians carrying on trade at
the ports.
" The troop-ship Lord Raglan arrived here on
the 25th inst. with the Ist Royals on board, under
the command of Colonel Haythorne.
" Her Majesty's Nth Regiment will leave shortly
for the Cape.
" We have no late news from Cochin China. The
steamer Scotland left for :that place a couple of
• days after the arrival of the mail.

" Captain Eagan, lately in command of her Ma-
jesty's steamer Tribune, leaves China by this steamer
to join her Majesty's ship Chesapeake, having been
appointed Commodore on the East India station.
Capt. Edgell has been for a long time senior naval
officer at Canton, where his duties have been ardu-
ous, and he has performed them so as to gain
general confidence."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Calcutta Englishman, Nov. 9.)

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's mail steamer
Simla, with London dates of the 25th September, arrived
here on the 30th ult. On the sth inst., we received our
letters and files via Bombay, from London, of the 2d Oct.

The produce market has shown some activity since the
resumption of business on the 24th ult. but in consequence
of the current high prices and spare stocks of most articles
of export, this activity has been confined to a few articles
alone, such as jute and saltpetre, which have further in-
creased in value. Indigo has also attracted attention.
In raw silk some business has been done in the fine sizes.
Corahs have continued quiet. In sugar only a small busi-
ness in progress for the home market. Linseed in good
demand for America. Safflower has attracted more atten-
tion at enhanced rates. Cutch inactive and declining.
The Import Market.—The piece goods market has con-
tinued inactive, former prices being well maintained with a
good demand, and in some instances higher prices have
been paid. On the whole the market has assumed a firm
and healthy tone, which we expect to see continued. Mule
twist, however, has not changed for the better, and the
demand continues languid at the previous decline. In
metals there is hardly anything doing.
The Money Market.—We have no alteration to notice
under this head. Money continues abundant and easily
procurable at lower rates from private individuals and
bankers than those charged by the Bank of Bengal, the
rates whereof are for discount on private bills for three
months 6 per cent. Government acceptances for 30 days
6 per cent. per aßnum. Mint certificates 5 per cent, per
annum. Interest on deposit of Company's papers and goods
6 per cent. The margin on Company's papers being 25 per
cent. on 4s. and 12 per cent. on ss. The following are the
returns of the Bank of Bengal for the week ending the 3d
Nov., 1858:

LIABILITIES. R. A. P.
Proprietors' capital
Reserve fund 4,49,480 6 5
Current accounts
Cash credits undrawn 4,16,329 7 0
Other claims
Bank-notes 1,79,32,315 0 0
Post bills 4,16,610 11 0

Total Company's rupees 4,17,00,392 6 1
ASSETS. R. A. P.
Government securities -
Dues from Government
Cash
Loans on deposit of securities 1,19,63,300 0 0
Discount loans on ditto
Accounts of credit on ditto 8,20,600 0 0
Government bills discounted 31,059 9 11
Mercantile bills ditto
Dead stock 1,94,887 11 0

Total Company's rupees.... 4,17,00,392 6 1
Company's Paver.—With the change in Government
there is but little improvement in Company's paper. It is
gazetted that receipts for payment to the open loan will be
granted in the name of bar Majesty's Secretary of State in
Council for India. No intimation is given of the closing of
this loan, but a rumour is current that the taking of 4 per
cent, paper as subscription to a moiety will be stopped, and
the easy position of the money-market will fully warrant
this step. It is understood that arrangements are com-
pleted for making the interest on the Indian loans payable
in London as well as India by sight draughts on the various
Indian treasuries. We quote a per cent. paper at Come
pany's rupees 5 8 to 6 discount, and 4 per cent. at Coml.
pany's rupees 12 8 to 13 ditto.
Joint-stock shares maintain their value generally, but
the favoured scrips continue to be India Generals and
Assam Companys. Holydays have so interfered with busi-
ness that transactions have been very few. Owing to the
loss of the Carolina steamer, belonging to the Steam Tug
Association, shares in the company have considerably fluc-
tuated in value, and are now much below par. In bank
shares there are no transactions to report.
Exchange for the mail opened at 2s. (v. for first-class-six
months' sight credits, but 2s. Old. is the closing rate at
which a large business has been done. Documents have
been sold at 2s. ld.
Freights—Very little has been done since our last re-
port, and rates are, if anything, still lower. The arrivals of
shipping have been large, and are expected to be so all this
month. Country freights are also miserably low.

HONG KONG, OCT. 29.
The import market here has been quiet during the fort-
uiglt.
Cotton—Only 500 bales Bombay sold. Medium to good
quoted 13 dols. 50c. to 14 dols. 80c. ; fine, 15 dols. 20c.
Cotton Yarn--Inquiry continues for the low numbers.
Quotations are Nos. 16-24, 35 dols. to 36 dols. 25c. ; Nos.
28-32, 36 dols. 50c. to 37 dols. 50c. ; Nos. 3842, 38 dols.
to

39 'doh. •
Shirtings--Transactions have been small. Grays quoted
dols. 05c. to 3 dols. 20c. ; whites, 2 dols. 40c. to 3 dols. 50c.
Woollens are inquired for, and stocks are very light.
Rice there is no inquiry for.
Bullion, Syce silver, 7 to 7.1, per cent. premium ; gold
leaf, 23 dols. 25c.'per tael.
Exchange on England, 4s. 811; on India, 221 r. to 222 r.
Tonnage is still excessive.
Canton—Some little business has been done in imports,
and it is hoped that it will go on increasing. We have
already mentioned the opening of the mirket for new con-
gous. Before next mail leaves we shall probably be able
to advise the departure of some ships.
Amoy dates are to the 18th inst. The advices report
mail transactions in imports and exports.
Foochow advices to the 20th inst. report only a moderate
business had been done in tea during the fortnight. De-
mand was chiefly confined to common congous for the co-
lonies, the quotations for which were 14 a taels short. The
sales comprise 14,300 chests congou at 9 tads to 53 taels ;
Oolongs, 19,130 chests, at 16 7 taels to 20 taels. Quota-
tions are :—Congou, dusty leaf to good common, 10 taele
to 14 taels, short ; fiavoury and souchong kind, 14 5 taels
to 11 taels, short ; Kaisow kinds, 20 taels to 23 5 taels,
short ; souchong, new seasons, 20 tads to 25 taels,
short; oolong, common to good ,16 5 taels to 22 short. The
Sir I9aic Newton was the only departure for London.
Shanghai advices are to the 22d inst. The import market
vas quite stagnant, and quotations were merely nominal.
For black tea the market had notopened. Musters of about
30 chops had been shown. The report on the teas is that
they are inferior to last season's. In greens about 60,000
packages had been taken at about previous Dates.
Silk—Transactions for the fortnight reported at 6,500
bales. Prices had advanced 10 tads. Of good and fine
Tsatlees there were few in the market, and those qualities
are said to be scarce in the country.
The export for the season shows a decrease on that of
last year to the same time of 13,000 bales.
Exchange on England, 6s. 611 six months' sight; of
India, 306 r. to 307 r.
Freights to London, £3 for tea and £4 10s. for silk.
Manilla dates are to the 22d inst. Current clayed sugar
quoted 6a dols ; Pampanya, 61 dols hemp, 51.
Exchange on England, 4s. lid. six months' sight bills.
Mexican dollars 15 per cent. premium.
Our latest dates are—from England, Sept. 9 ; Calcutta,
Sept. 23 ;Bombay, Sept. 30 ; Singapore, Oct. 17 ; Manilla,
Oct. 22 ' • Sydney, Sept, 10 ; Melbourne, Sept. 15 ; Shang-
hai, Oct. 22.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
HONG KONG, OCT. 29.
SHIPS OF WAR.

At Hong Kong—The British shiiCalcutta, the frigate
Amethyst, the steamers Adventure, Assistance, Coromandel,
Inflexible,EMagicienne Niger, and Tribune; the gunboats
Cormorant, Fierce, desper, and Volcano; the French
steamers Audacieuse, Catinat, and Marseau ; the Russian
gunboats Djugnitte and Palastom ; and the Dutch steamer
Balli.
At Macao—The Portuguese brig Mondego and the lorchs
Amaaona ; the American frigate Germantown.
At Canton River—The British frigate Cambrian, the
brigs Bittern and Camilla, the steamer Hornet, the gunboats
Algerine, Bustard, Clown, Drake, Forester, Haughty,
Janus, Kestrel, Leven, Plover, Starling, Staunch, Wood-
cock, and Watchful; the French frigate Capricieuse and
the steamer Lily, and the Russian steamer Manjow.
At Swatow—The British steamer Fury.
At Amoy—The British brig Acorn.
At Foochow—The British steamer Sampson.
At Ningpo--The British gunboats Nimrod and Opossum.
At Shanghai—The British frigate Actxon, and the
steamers Cruiser, Furious, Highflyer, and Retribution; the
gunboats Dove, Lee, and Banterer ; the American steamer
Minneosta, the Russian frigate Askolde, and the steamer

Vaivado.
At the Gulf of Pecheli—The Russian steamer America.
At the East Coast—The British gunboat Slaney.
ARRIVALS FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
At Hong Kong—Oct. 13th, tho Birchgrove, from Lon-
don; 14th, the Solent, from London; 22d, the Mauri-
tius, from Swansea, the Marion Wlntyre, from London,
and the Bommelerwaard, from Cardiff 23d, the Primero de
Espano, from Liverpool; 24th, Lord Raglan, from Liver-
pool via Gibraltar, the Oscar Vidal, from Cardiff,' and the
Jacoba, from Newport; 28th, the Veretis, from Sunder-
land.

DEPARTURES TO GREAT BRITAIN.
From Macao—Oct. 18th, the Spartan, to London ; 22d,
the Aden, to Liverpool.
From Foochow—Oct. 19th, the Sir Isaac Newton, to
London.
From Shanghai—Oct. 22d, the Jubilee, to Loudon.

858.

ENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LIVERPOOL, Dec. 14.
(Before Mr. Justice Hill.)
MURDER AT WINDLE. NEAR ST. HELEN'S.
Hugh M'Cabe, aged 22, and Michael Murphy,
aged 21, were indicted for the wilful murder of
Robert Vose, at Windle, on the sth instant. The
charge against M'Cabe was only upon a coroner's
inquisition.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Simon
and Mr. Temple ; and the defence by Mr. Wheeler
and Mr. J. B. Aspinall.
Mr. Simon, who opened the case, said that at the
outset he thought it only right to state that it was
quite possible that the evidence would be of such a
character as to release the jury from the responsi-
bility of considering the charge as a capital crime.
They would, however, have to discriminate between
the prisoners as to their individual responsibility
and guilt. It might be that both prisoners were in-
volved, but it was still possible that only one of
them was. The prisoners were both labouring men,
residing at St. Helen's, and on the night of Oct. 5,
the deceased, his cousin, and some other meu were
in a public-house called the Peel Arms, when the
prisoners, who had previously been drinking at the
Star beer-house came in. A quarrel ensued respect-
ing a quart of, ale, and an angry altercation took
place. At 12 o'clock the landlord ordered them out
of the house. Deceased, and his cousin Richd. Vose,
left the house first, and the others came out after-
wards. M'Cabe and deceased began to fight, and
others taking part in it the melee became general.
According to the evidence of one witness, deceased
struck the first blow, but another witness said that
M'Cabe first struck Vose. During the fight Murphy
ran- aeross the street to the place where they were
fighting to assist 'M'Cabe, and waslnocked down
by Richard Vose. According to the latter witness's
evidence deceased ran down Water-street for the
purpose of going home,and was followed bp M'Cabe,
but according 'to another witness, after deceased
and M'Cabe had been struggling on the ground the
police arrived, and they both got up and ran away.
About ten minutes afterwards a man was found
lying on some waste ground near the road. The
man who discovered him thought he was drunk,
and there being a rattling in his throat he only
thought he was going to vomit. He turned the man
over, but did not observe any blood upon him. It
was very dark at the time. The body was found
about half-past 5 lying in the same place quite stiff
and cold, and on examining it two wounds were
discovered—one on the left arm, and another on the
left breast, penetrating into the chest. This wound
was the cause of death. Mr. Simon then detailed
the circumstances of the arrest of the prisoners,
particularly dwelling upon the fact that when
M'Cabe was arrested, although not charged with
any offence, the first words he uttered were, " Is
the man dead ?" The learned counsel contended
that this question was only consistent with the
prisoner's knowledge that he had inflicted a dan-
getous wound upon the deceased.
The examination was conducted by Mr. Temple.
A number of witnesses having been called on the
above facts,
Mr. Aspirrall addressed the jury on behalf of
M'Cabe, dwelling upon what he considered the
insufficiency and discrepancies of the evidence. In
the melee it was quite possible that the stab might
have been inflicted by some other person, and with
regard to M'Cabe's remark, " Is the man dead ?" it
was accounted for by the fact that when the crowd
followed the prisoner he had overheard their con-
versation and remarks.
His lordship having summed up,
The jury retired, and in about half an hour re-
turned a verdict of acquittal in the case of Murphy,
sad a verdict of manslaughter in the case of
M'Cabe.
Sentence-deferred.
EXTENSIVE FORGERIES BY A NEWSPAPER PROPRIE-
TOR AT WIGAN.
John Pollard, 34, proprietor of the Wigan _Exa-
miner and London Colliery Guardian, was arraigned
on a charge of forging receipts and transfers of cer-
tain shares in a building society, of which he was
chief secretary, in Wigan. There were five dis-
tinct bills found by the grand jury against the pri-
soner, all for felony. Though he had upon arraign-
ment pleaded not guilty, the prisoner upon being
called on for trial withdrew that plea and pleaded
guilty.
Sentence deferred.
The trial of Henry Reid for the murder of his
wife (by strangulation) at. Manchester, bad just
opened when our parcel was despatched.
(Before Mr. Baron Bramwell.)
Carl Stadtmuller, 24, and Auguste Wilhelm, 29,
were indicted for the wilful murder of Margaret
Bilborough, at Manchester, in September last.
Mr. Sowler, Q.C., and Mr. Fearnley prosecuted ;
and Mr. Torr appeared for Wilhelm, and Mr.
Deighton appeared for thd other prisoner.
Mr. Sowler said- that his learned friend and
himself had given the facts of the case their best
consideration, and they had come to the conclusion,
under his lordship's sanction, to take a verdict of
acquittal in the case of Stadtmuller, and make use
of him as a witness for the prosecution.
His lordship thought that this was an unusual
mode of proceeding, and that if a prisoner turned
approver he ought to do so before being given in
charge to the jury.
Mr. Sowler, however, having handed up to the
bench a legal authority upon the point,
His lordship acquiesced in the proposed course,
and a verdict of acquittal was therefore taken in
Stadtmuller's case.
Mr. Torr, who said he had not received any inti-
mation upon the subject, but, on the contrary, had
been assured by the counsel for the prosecution
that they had no fresh evidence to tender, applied
for an adjournment of the trial to the next assizes,
in order that he might be informed as to the nature
of the revelations which would -be made by Stadt-
muller.
His lordship, though he admitted the inconve-
nience and embarrassment of Mr. Torr's position,
said he could not adjourn the trial unless Mr. Torr
could cite some case as a precedent.
Mr. Torr could not cite a case exactly analogous,
but he did mention one, in which on the ground of
fair play alone his lordship had, at Stafford, taken
the unusual course of trying two prisoners indicted
for the same offence separately.
His lordship still thought that he could not
adjourn the present case.
Mr. Torr, having consulted with Wilhelm, an-
nounced that the prisoner preferred being tried at

once.
Mr. Sovrler (having explained that up to the
very last moment the counsel for the prosecution
had refrained from receiving Stadtmuller as an
approver, but that they found they could not reach
the other prisoner except through his evidence),
proceeded to state the facts of the case. The de-
ceased, Margaret Bilborough, was a young woman
28 years of age, full grown, and exceedingly robust
in constitution and habit. In the course of last year
she resided with some relations named Bilcliffe,
who kept a tea-garden, at Hulme, near Manchester.
Afterwards,however, she went home to her friends
in Tadcaster, but in Feb. of this year the Bilcliffes
opened a beer-house called the General Havelock,
in Stretford New-road, Manchester, and she came
again to live with them and to assist them in their
business. She remained there from Feb. until early.
in Sept., when (for what purpose would be seen-
afterwards) she became in the habit of sending a
woman and a man to the shop of the prisoner Wil-
helm for medicines.
Mr. Torr here interposed an objection. The chief
evidence would show that death was caused by in-,
struments, and was Mr. Sowlor at liberty to show
that which would amount to other and separate
violence ?
Mr. Sowler explained that the use of instruments
was in some measure the cause of death, but not
altogether. There were medical preparations for
the use of the instruments, and it was relative
therefore, he contended, to show the use of such
preliminary medicines.
His lordship being of opinion that Mr. Torr's
objection was not strong enough to stop the case
at this Stage,
Mr. Sowler proceeded—For several weeeks before
deceased's death she had been in the habit of send-
ing to the prisoner Wilhelm for medicine of a par-
ticular description, which was conveyed to her by
two distinct messengers, and on five or six diffe-
rent occasions. She was, as he had before said, of a
robust habit, and the medicine which was adminis-
tered (ergot of rye) had not the effect of expelling
a child four months old. On Saturday afternoon,
the 26th Sept., the deceased went to Wilhelm's
shop, in Strangeway's, from about two o'clock until
half-past eleven. About six o'clock a girl named
Robertson heard screams five or six times issuing
from the prisoner's shop, and about half-past 11
Wilhelm's wife and the deceased were seen getting
into a cab and driving from the shop. The de-
ceased was evidently in great pain, and Mr. Bil-
cliffe would inform them that when she got home
she seemed to be exceedingly ill and disordered,
and went to bed almost immediately. On Monday,
the 27th, she was so ill that the prisoner Wilhelm
was sent for. Wilhelm went again to the home
that day, and after remaining down stairs until a
person who was dining there had left, he went up
and saw the deceased. He told Mr. Bilcliffe that
she was suffering from inflammation, and that he
would send her medicine. The medicine was sent,
and Wilhelm called again on the same evening,and
also next morning. On this last occasion Stadt-
muller was with him. They went upstairs, and
after consulting together, they ordered some
leeches to be sent for. A woman who was nursing
the deceased was ordered to leave the room, and