The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-14 00:00:00

EVENING, MAY 14, 1858.

POLICE INTRT.T.TGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ATTEMPTING TO OBTAIN MONEY BY FALSE PRETENCES
TEOM LOUD VIVIA.N.—John Davis, a respectable-looking
young man, was charged before Mr. Bingham with
attempting to obtain money by false pretences under the
following circumstances:— _

Charles Cressigny Lord Vivian said—l at present
reside at Russell's Hotel, Albemarle-street,• and while at
breakfast that morning a letter was broughtlo me by my
F ervan t, and the prisoner being introduced said ho was
either a tenant or neighbour of mine at Piaegvfyn, in
Anglesea, and that his father's name was Davis, and
that he lived at Bron. I asked him what parish, and he
gave me a name that I knew was not to be found in the
island, He said he had been in Loudon for three months
seeking employ as a chemist and druggist, and that as his
father had not eent him any money he had come for some
assistance. I told him I thought be was an impostor, and
that I should send for a Mendicity Society's officer. He
then made for the door, but I followed and seiz.d him in
the passage and sent my servant for a constable. He
then fell on his knees and begged me not to proceed fur-
ther, but knowing that
.;there were several impostors
about I felt it my duty to give him into custody.
The prisoner said his family formerly lived in Anglesey,
but his lordship did not understand him. He told his lord-
ship he was hard up, which was the case.
Lord Vivian—When I told him there was no such
place in Anglesea, he said then it was in Montgomery-
shire or Merionethshire.

Prisoner—l was afraid of being taken into custody
and was confused ; but I hope you will deal leniently
with me. It is all true what I stated.
Mr. Bingham—Then I shall remand you for a week.
Prisoner—l would rather you settle it at once.
Mr. Bingham—As there is very little doubt of your
guilt, I shall send you to prison for three months with
hard labour.

THAMES.
DREADFUL CASE OF STABBING.—Mary Ann Singer, a
dissipated looking woman was brought before Mr.
Yardley charged with cutting and wounding Susan
Middleton, of No. 2, Hungerford-street, Commercial-
road East.

Police constable Walker, No 56 IC, stated that last
night he received information that a woman had been
murdered in Hungerford-street and be went to the
house, No. 2, and found the lAndlady of the house lying
on the fl )or weltering in her blood, which was flowing
copiously from several wounds. He conveyed her
to the hospital and the medical officers there
had much trouble in staunching the wounds.
Tne woman was cut under the tongue, across the
nose, and there was a deep gash on one of his
arms. He was informed that the prisoner bad
inflicted the wounds, and took her into custody. She
was intoxicated, and said she would go to Newgate for
Mrs. Middleton, and hoped she had done for her.

John Nathan, a little boy, dwelling at No. 5, Hun-
gerford-streek saw the prisoner and Mrs. Middleton
quarrelling last night. They called each other names.
The prisoner obtained a knife and attacked Mrs. Mid-
dleton and cut her in a shocking manner, and swore at
her.

Mr. Yardley—ls the woman who is wounded able
to appear ?
Walker—No, sir, the wounds are considertd to be
dangerous. She was in a very low state.
Mr. Yardley rernanded the Drignn,r for a week.

MARKET A W B.—(Ttua Day.;

CORN EXeli &N GE.

Fresh up to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, the ar-
rivalsvery moderate,.consequently
d. There was, however, no
werellimited.
i t e
disposition shown on the part of the millers to operate
beyond actual wants ; hence the deman-1 ruled very in-
active, at Mond,y's currency.
the
aho of English
ofsamowheatesw a 8
The imports of foreign wheat are 5,610 quarters, and
the supply on offer was extensive. All descriptions met a
dull inquiry, but no quotable change took place in prices.
Scarcely any English barley was on show, and the sup-
ply of foreign was only moderato. 'rho trade, however,
was in a sluggish state, at Monday's pikes.
Fine malt supported former terms, but inferior parcels
were very dell.
We were heavily supplied with foreign oats, which
moved off slowly, at the late decline.
Beans, peas, and flour met a slow trade, on former
terms.

ARRIVALS TIUS WEEK,
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
2,560 I 70 2,170

English
Irish

Oats. I Flour.
50 r 1250
1,800 --
28,550 I_B3o Sbi

Foreign

5,610 i 1,610

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of meat here to-day are seasonably large,
and the trade generally rules inactive, at eur quotations.

Per Sibs by the carcase.
s. d. a. d.
Beef, inferior 210 3 2
Do., middling 3 4 3 6
Do. prime large 3 8 3 10
Do., do. small 3 10 4 0
Pork, large ,3 0 3 6
Lamb, 5s

a. rt. s. d
Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 2
Do., middling 3 4 3 8
Do., prime ~,3 10 4 4
Veal. ...„3 8 4 8
Pork, small 3 S 4 2
cl to 6s 6d.

BOItOITGH HOP.

The show of samples is still-only moderate ; nevertheless
we have no improvement to notice in the demand. Good
and useful hops, of last years' growth, command full prices,
07
.o,s
stooeltlo2s6;oa; Weald of
but,all other kinds
E 6 6a at;riceNeveietwtrypscoulcusksllee.x Pockets,
Year-
lings,eNnet w(2l olM.s, itsdolassnotdos

COLONIAL.
Tg&.--At the public sales yesterday the trade evinced
little inclination to buy, and of 1,316 packages offered only
4,100 were sold, at a decline of about 1d to lid per lb. on
late rates.
SUGA.U.—No material alteration has taken place in prices,
but there has been rather more business transacted in the
fine grocery descriptions. The Refined Market is very
quiet, owing to the high rates demanded by holders of
refined goods.
COFFEE.—There has been less activity in the market,
and at public sale a large quantity was withdrawn. Plan-
tation Ceylon broeght about previous quotations.
RICE.— The market has been steady and a fair business
has been reported in Bengal qualities at full rates.
Rum. —There have been some enquiries for the better
qualities of Demerara, and prices have slightly improved.
SALTPETRE.—A brisk business has been done, and at
public sales an advance of 6d. to Is. per ewt.wa.s established.
Tard,ow. —The market is rather firmer. P.Y.C. on the
spot, 535. 535. 3d. June delivery, 525. 9d., and last three
months 50s. per cwt.

LLOYD'S bulrr aIN. tar. 4, WS Day.)

LONDON, May 14.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.;
light brieze and cloudy.
FALROUTH, May 13.—Arrivad —Sydpolen, from Havan-
nab.

NEWHAVEN, May 13. —Wind S. W.—Arrived—Jorge
Walraave, from Liverpool, for Port-au-Prigee.
fromW *
COES, May 13.—Wind. W.--Arrived—Yankee Ranger,
amadaya, and sailed for Bremen.
SOUTHAMPTON, May 13.—Wind N.W.—Arri.ved
Tagus, (e), from Gibraltar, left May 5 ; Cadiz, 6 ;
Lisbon,
9 ; Oporto and Vigo, 10 ; on freight 26,3081 in specie.
NEWPORT, May 12. —Wind B,—Arrived—W. Wright,
from Bristol for Caldera ; Heatherbell, from Dublin, fur
Grenada.

CORK, May 12.—Arrived—Lagitta, from Barbadoes.
BRISTOL, May 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived—Morning
Star, from Melbouine.
TORBAY, May 13 —Wind W. by N. —Sailed—Lotus,
from Cardiff, for Porto Rico.
DARTMOUTH, May 13. —Wind S.S.W.—Arrived—Cae-
tilian Maid, from Pernambuco.
QUEENSTOWN, May 13—Wind S.W—Arrived—Gray-
hound, fram Callao.
CIIANNEL, May 13.—Arrived—Now Empire, from Era-
vannab.

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(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
GSerOtUrTulld?DPTuOnNio,
at Fridaya,anaMcn
Morning.
Arrived—Danube,Falmouth,
from Newport ; Lady Eglinton (8.), Dublin ; Eling, Leith ;
Tagus (s.), Gibraltar ; Atalanta (9.), Jersey.
Sailed—Ernest, for Lyme; Argyll (d.), and L'Etoile,
Carentan ; Le Coq, Cherbourg ; Lady
Eglinton (9.), Lou-
don ; Caledonia, Sundorlaud.
LIVERPOOL, Friday
Morning.
ArriArrived,m May -- 13 -- . o"ti and Henry, from Huelva;
Columbus,
13 C" ultra, screw steamer, for Oporto;
May •
Sailed,
Wood, screw steamer, Cronstadt ; Palmas, St.
Nicholos
Thomas • Isabella, St. Petersburg; Bonna Union, for
,
Bordeaux.
Sailed,May 11—Philosopber for Calcutta; N. Carra-
New York; Liberty; Bombay ; Ayrshire Lass, Arch-
bee,
angel.
Off - -Pernana.
Dublin.

(By ANDSIIMBaIIyiII:::Ag s BoßalrTllaSnitlizTtf;LoEmwaertaAA.tpihggeor.:
fins.
Arrived, ; . GEIVHSEND, Fa lay Mornirgt
'—Uudaunted, from Havre; Place, St.
Arrived,
Odessa.
Malo ; Countess of Lonsdalo, Belgium ; Seine, Boulogno.
Wsaiiln'edd,S.MS.aWy
.•14t.-1---d:firdrB:ll:B'Russell, for Dunkirk ;
Westley, Stettin ; Rhine, Boulogne.
. DNAL, Friday Morning.
Anchored.—Anna Gusting, from Loudon, for Singapore;
Millicent, London, St. John 8.
GeAorrgrierDedo,nmthawyalir

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LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAT.—A. Wham-
cliffs meeting of shareholders of this company was held
yesterday, at the Waterloo station, for the purpose of
c
the London and South-
western snake new works, and to
ulaeiidsllciegdeer a
nrin Railway
leaveaY
bill t
oa
il
arrangementsw feo
with other companies, and for autbo-
rsor auptahnoyri tsoin g
them of the Salisbury and Yeovil Rai l -
way, ad for regulating;
capital and borrowing
powers, and for other ti
rp
nug nseeisr ;
a bill for authorising
the abandonment of part of the authorised line of the
Exeter and Exmouth Railway, and the making instead
send
of the part so abandoned of an extension of the main
line of the railway, and for reducing and regulating
the capital and borrowing powers of the Exeter and
Ex
Havantuth to Elillea, to acquire
Railway Company to
extend
additional lands to use a portion of the London and
South-Western, and London, Brighton, and South
aiurenabling
say theCu
Railways, and for other purposes ; a bill to extend the
railil ay Putpany, and for other purposes ;
a big!
fo Exmouth
theirßailway
from o r sn i o
time for the completion of the Salisbury and Yeovil Rail-
way, and to authorise the sale or lease thereof to the
London and South Western Railway Company ; a bill
to conf r further powers upon the Staines, Wokingham,
and Woking Railway Compaoy, for the, construction of
their Woking junction Foe, and for utligr purposes con-
nected with ttleir undertaking ; a bill I,r extending the
time for the completion of the works authorised by the
" Stokes Bay Railway and Pier Ac,, 1855," and for
other purposes. The assent of the meeting was given
to the bills, seriatim, without any cihoussion of public
interest.

LITERATURE.

The Life and Correspondence of Charles Lord
Metcalfe. By J. W. Kaye, author of " The Life
of Sir John Malcolm," &o. 2 vols. New edition.
Smith and Elder.
This is a new and revised edition of a work
which appeared some time since, whose favourable
reception by the public, paid due honour to the
memory of an eminent man, and to the discretion
and fidelity with which his able biographer had
performed his arduous task. The career of one so
well fitted to govern, so prominent in the history
of his time, one no less distinguished by the moral
greatness of the man than by the lofty position of
the statesman, is a subject well deserving the at-
tention of his countrymen. The life of Charles
Metcalfe sets a noble example to the youthful can-
didate for distinction. It shows him that rank,
and power, and fame may be-attained by worthy
means ; that the same man who possesses the favour
of the Crown may deserve the confidence of the
people ; that he who wins the approval of the great
need not forfeit that of the good. Iu his long
official career, living "for nearly half a century
perpetually in the harness of public business," his
uprightness and nobility of nature were as remark-
able as his great talents and inflexible resolution.
" The goodness of his heart and the honesty of his
nature were proof against all trials. From the be-
ginning to the end of his career he was free from
malignity as he was from guile. He could neither
hate an enemy, nor deceive him." The chief por-
tion of his life was, as most readers are aware,
spent in India ; and it adds to the interest of this
valuable work to be able to gather from its pages a
faithful picture of the state of feeling there fifty
years ago, and to learn the opinions of Lord Met-
calfe on the position of our Indian Empire. Iu
alluding to the alterations and compressions made '
in this work, the writer informs us in the preface
that he has judged it expedient to expand one por-
tion of it :—" I confess that I was one of
those who believed that Metcalfe's repeated allu-
sions to the insecurity of our Indian empire, and to
the probabilities of some sudden and disastrous
outbreak, were not in accordance with the general
sagacity and the sound good sense of the man. His
friends, I know, used to smile at this as his weak
point, and in the origival edition of this work I
did not speak of it with much respect. People,
however, think differently now ; and, at all
events, it is curious and interesting at the present
time to observe Melcalfe's plognostications of
the coming storm, and not nuinstructive to mark in
what mauner he was wont to suggest that we should
prepare ourselves to meet it." He has accordingly
given several passages from Metcalfe's Corres-
poudence, referring to this subject, which were not
in the earlier edition. The latter portion of Lord
Metcalfe's life was divided between the govern-
ments of Jamaica and of Canada. These two
difficult positions he occupied with all the honour
and distinction that his friends could hope for.
Nothing but a strong sense of duty, and of the
claims of the public service upon him, would have
drawn hint from the repose where he was seeking
to recruit his failing heiltb, to the thronging diffi-
culties and arduous labour that awaited him as the
head of the Canadian government. As time went
on, and as his presence still seemed indispensable,
the tertibie disease that was so soon to close his
career advanced with equal certainty. Deseite the
constant sufferings he endured, and tee painful
remedies trio i in vain, he devoted himself to buei-
floss with all his characteristic fortitude. At
when he held the acceptance of his resignation, he
summoned his council and told them that even
then he would ruaintaiu his post at the head cif the
eovernment, if they really believed it necessary for
the preservation attic tranquility of the Stat s, so
1 ng is life was left him. With much emotion they
bale him depart, and he returned to his native
laud to receive his hard-won honours, but never to
.ake his seat in that Louse which had been the day-
dream of his aspiring youth. The numersus testi-
monies of affection and gratitude, the tributes that
came to him from distant lands must have bet 11
more gratifying to him than the honours with which
his services were rewarded. But ho was not long
permitted to enjoy them, and a few months after
he returned to Eoglaud, the ruler of " the three
greatest dependencies of the British Crown" was
quietly interred in the parish church of Winildisld.
The epitaph, by Lord Macaulay, expresses in a
few biief itences the honour due to a good and
gentle heart, a great and noble spirit, the kind
friend, the upright man, the wise and conscientious
ruler of many varying races. The following
passage is quoted from the remarks on his de-
parture from India after thirty-eight years' absence
from his native country :
"As I write sixteen years have passed away since
Metcalfe embarked on board the ship St. George. But
his memory is as fresh in the affections of the people of
India as though he had but yesterday departed from
among them. He left behind him a great and a cherished
name. It is a common thing, when it is asked what
Metcalfe did for India, to answer that he liberated the
Indian pres'. Toe next queeeon ought always to he,
bow he attained the position which enabled him to libe-
rate the Indian press. I am not likely to underrate the
advantages of a free press. But it is not in this, or in
any one individual measure, that we are to look for the
materials of his fame as an Indian statesman. It was
not what he did at any one time, but what he was con-
tinually doing, that entitled him to the gratitude of man.
kind. Separate riots of statesmanship are lost in the
oneness and completeness of his character as a statesman.
He rose by the force and consistency of his person ri cha-
racter to the highest post which he could occupy in the
Government of India. He had set his face steadfastly,
from his very boyhood, towards the acquisition of vice-
regal power and dignity ; and he attained it, not by any
acts of spasmodic energy, bat by a life of sustained era.-
nestnese, unintermitting labors, and undeviating integ-
rity. In every situation in which he bad been paced he
had acquitted himself well, because he had always ad-
dressed himself to the work before him with a high
sense of the responsibility of his vocation, and a
brave resolution to do what ho conceived to be right
with all the power with which God had gifted him,
whatever might be the opinions of others, and whatever
the sacrifice of self. That his abilities were of a high
order is not to be questioned ; but it was not the quick-
ness of hie parts so much as the courage and the honesty
which ever employed them in the right direction, that
lay at the root of his success."
"The straightforwardness which so distinguished his
moral, was a conspieuous feature also in his intellectual,
character. His despatches and minutes were ever re-
markable for their directness of purpose. It was his
wont to make up his mind thoroughly on any given sub-
jeot, and to state his views clearly and distinctly, with-
out any gloss of conditions and reservations. He was
of too fearless and manly a nature to be continually
thinking of leaving for himself some loop-hole of retreat.
He did not know what it was to trim. And he never
left his meaning to be guessed at. Among all the nutn-
berless letters, despatches, and minutes e bier Metcalfe
wrote during his connection with the Government of
India, I do not remember to have chanced upon au ob-
scure sentence. If language was given us for the con-
cealment of our thoughts, no man ever made a worse
use of it than Charles Theophilus Metcalfe.
" There wa; a simplicity—a massiveness, in his pub-
lic writings and in his political conduct very character-
istic of the man. He did not trouble himself with se-
condary consideratione, or encumber great questions
with petty details. Lord W. Bentieck earl of
never cavilled upon a trifle, and aceer yieleesato me ee
A point of imp...kauee.' In this single sentence is seen
the secret of his success—the very germ of his great re-
putation. Sorue men mistake trifles for points of impor-
tance, and waste their time in the strenuous idleness of
canvassing theta. Metcalfe never made a mistake of this
kind. He had a remarkable faculty of divesting great
questions of all needless encumbrances, and sleeking
himself thoroughly understood. Some of his Indian
State papers are models of this massive !simplicity.
When, in 1525, the complication cf affairs at Beurtpore
oaused great doubt and uncertainty regarding the course
to be pursued by the British Government, Metcalfe in a
few pithy sentences placed the whole question so clearly
before the Governor-General and his councillors, that
all doubt and hesitation vanished before a brief state-
ment of the case, so plain and unsophisticated that the
reader is almost tempted to exclaim that a child might
have written it. But it was this very childlike directness
that was so cogent an instrument in his hands. It was
a pebble from the brook—the brook cf truth—that
broe4ht down the gigantic Philistine."
" He never indulged in any inflated talk about the
wrongs of the people ; but ho set himself steadily at
work to redress them. He was a philanthropist in no-
thing so little as in words. He abstained from anything
like grandiloquent professions; but the practice of his
life was in accordance with the purest principles of bene-
volence. As a member of the Government, he was
generally on the side of the people ; as an individual, he
gave liberal encouragement to evsry institution that was
calculated to promote their interests. He was opeosed
to too much interference with the ancient usages of tae
people, but it was a discriminating opposition. He was
eager, for example, to maintain inviolate the village
emnrimaities, wh'lch he believe" to be such impertent
auxlariee to the security and prosperity of the agricul-
tural papulation ; but lie was willing to incur some risk
in the cause of humanity, for the suppre:e of the
abominable rite of su tee.
" It would be a mistake to endeavour to enhance
the merit of Charles Metcalfe's success by saying
that circumstances were hosaile to him, and that he rose
to eminence in spite of obstacles which would have kept
down other men. Tne truth iv, that circuinetanees were
in his favour. I have had nothing to record f
,those
early hardships which, a few years before Mereta,e n etfeesdui-
trance into public life, tried, as
in
a furnace,
en h
e. It is
ranee of men struggling fur fame ai
interesting to read or to hear f
ati
Munroo lacking, the
mosne to provide hirnseif sviAi a pillow or blanket—of
a, Malcolm starving in secret, because he would not bor-
row money to buy himself a dinner—cf a Tucker.. disput-
ing with the"rats for the possession of a miserable cellar.
Metcalfe had no such trials at the outset cf his career.

Everything went prosperously with him from the first.
When he was a boy, he wrote in his Common-p!ace
Beek, among other paseagee' the suggestiveness of
which will be better appreciated by those who turn back
to them after they have followed Metcalfe's career to the
end and made close acquaintance with his character—
'He is the most clever who is best able to profit by
good fortune when it comes to Litre' It was his good
fortune to be the son of an East India Director, to be
patronized in early life by Lord Welloeloy ; and always
to have an influential friend at Court. By this good for-
tune he was well able to profit.' One Governer-Gene-
ral after another recognised his abilities, and ever in the
most critical conjuncture sought his aseb.tanco and ad-
vice. All, with one exception, continued to regard him,
long after their official connection had been severed, with
the strongest feeliegs of admiration and affection. To
the success of every administration under which be
served he largely contributed. It is not always that the
impression of men's minds is stamped most indelibly on
the circumstances of the times when they occupy the
highest stations. It often happens, on the other hand,
that their most enduring actions are those to which
another's name is given in the history of the world.
There are many names which more frequently occur to
the annalist of our Indian empire during the flr,t 33
years of the present century ; but there is no one man
who had really a larger share in shaping the events
which are the staple of his, or who did more in his gene-
neration to make our Anglo-Indian Empire what it is,
than Charles Theophilus Metcalfe."