The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-05 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

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ARRIVAL OF THE MORAVIAN.
(Via Greencastle.)
NEW YORK, May 25 (Evening.)

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
(Before Mr. Justico Byles and a Common Jury.)
MYERS Y. HARRIS-BREACH OP PROMISE OP MARRIAGE

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This was an action brought by Plopbe Myers to recover
damages for breach of promise of marriage, to which the
defendant pleaded that their engagement was rescinded by
mutual consent.

Judge Thomas, of the Circuit Court of Vir-
ginia, Alexandria, has decided in variance with the
Civil Rights Bill that no Congressional legislation
can impair the right of the State to enforce the
existing laws excluding negro testimony from the
Courts.

The defendant was a publican, ftad the plaintiff a young
woman in humble life. The evidence was very uninterest-
ing. The jury gave a verdict. Damages, £6O.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde.)
MALLINSON v. MAMMON.
His lordship, in delivering judgment in the case, said
that the question had reference to the custody of the chil-
dren, and stood ever for a decision of the Court of Queen's
Bench in the case of the Queen v. Horne. Previously,
the court considered that its jurisdiction over children did
not go beyond the 14th year, but, after the result of the
cue in question, he considered the jurisdiction extended
until their 16th year.

It is reported that Mrs. Davis has gone to Wash-
ington to endeavour to procure the release of her
husband on parole. _
Last evening Stephens addressed a mass meeting
of Fenians at Brooklyn, declaring that unless Ire-
land was liberated the Irish race in a few years
would be absorbed in this country and disappear
from the earth. He urged the reconciliation of the
opposing circles preparatory to action, and declared
that he could get 100,000 rifles safely into Ireland.
• Mr. Davis has been granted the freedom of For-
tress Monroe on parole. He has also been permitted
to have frequent private interviews with Messrs.
O'Connor and Shea, and it is rumoured that his
trial will be postponed until August.
The Governor of North Carolina, in a message to
the State Convention, declares that the Civil Go-
vernment of that State is in complete operation.
He strongly endorses the policy of Mr. Johnson.

England's Position in Relation to the War

Crisis.

(From the Anylo-American Times.)
Great is the excitement now prevailing in all
circles---official, commercial, and private—in regard
to the struggle on the Continent. This threatened
contest, if not already commenced, is now, to all
appearance, beyond the reach of diplomatic inter-
vention. Prussia, or rather the KING and his PRE-
MIER, wish war ; and war it will be, unless Prussia
herself, fairly seeing the position in which an as-
sumption of hostilities at the present time would
inevitably place her, breaks up into parties and fac-
tions, and outvotes the bloodthirsty policy of her
Sovereign. No Power in all Europe is at this
moment ready to commence war with her neigh-
bours. England is, just now, labouring un-
der an almost unparalleled commercial panic ;
money is not to be had for any sort of security ; the
banks are either breaking, or holding fast their
funds in anticipation of another rush ; commercial
men look askance at each other, not knowing who
is worth a five-pound note ; the credit of all trades
is frightfully bad, and the large accounts falling
due cannot readily be met. Little need England
say about war ; her own affairs need careful
nursing, and her neighbours must look after their
own concerns. France, too, is deeply engaged in
matters connected wich the advancement of her
social and commercial position in the world.
Her withdrawal from Mexico demands all her spare
thoughts ; and she plainly intimates that she means
to assist in this impending contest with advice only.
This is by far the wisz,st plan. The Prussians are
quite capable of bringing themselves to grief with-
out any assistance from the French or anybody else.
No statesman, whatever be his abilities, can long
pursue the line taken by Count von BISMARCK
without, earlier or later, involving his KING and his
country in a ruinous war. The grasping, cruel, selfish,
and tyrannicalpolicy followed by Prussia and her am-
bitious ruler is a most dangerous one. The Schleswig-
Holstein affair is not yet paid for, and in the event
of a war the feeling of all honest politicians will be
against Prussia, in remembrance of her presump-
tuous behaviour towards the small country of Den-
mark in that matter.

The Ohio Democratic Convention has passed re-
solutions endorsing the policy of the President and
denouncing the conduct of the Senate. Mr. Val-
landigham made a speech declaring that Congress
was secretly conspiring to depose President John-
son.

Sir Frederick Bruce has conveyed to Mr. Seward
the thanks of the British Government for the effi-
cient means adopted by the Government of the
United States to suppress Fenian demonstrations.
Intelligence received here from New Brunswick
announces that the Confederation candidates have
been elected in all the parishes of Northumberland.
Great excitement prevailed, and riots were appre-
hended. •

The America and Saxonia have arrived out.

The City of New York takes out nearly
$4,000,000 in specie. The total shipment to-day
for Europe is $6,000,000.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money tight. Gold, 138 k. Exchange on London

1521 ; on Paris, 3.66. Stocks slightly firmer. New
York Centrals, 95i ; Illinois, 1151; Erie, 61k.
5.20 Bonds, 101 i. Cotton quiet. M. Upland, 41.
Flour and wheat quiet, and prices drooping. Corn
and provisions quiet. Coffee and molasses held
firmly. Sugar slightly firmer. Petroleum dull—
crude, 27i ; refined 43. Receiptsof cotton at New
York during five days, 6,000 ; two days' sale,
7,000 ; stock, 14,000 bales. •
NEW ORLEANS, May 25.—Cotton firm and active;
low middling, 36 to 37. Week's receipts, 5,000 ;
week's exports, 1,500 ; three days' sales, 7,000.
MOBILE, May 25.—Week's sales of cotton, 4,000;
week's receipts, 3,000 ; week's exports, 2,000.

THE GRAND DUKE OF BADEN.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
DRESDEN, June 4.

It needs not the wisdom of SOLON to see that
FREDERICK means aggression. He will get his foot
in wherever he can ; but if he carries out the game
now in hand, he will most probably " put his foot
" into it" to a rather unpleasant degree. The
Russians will not let Prussia hold too much of the
Continental power. ALEXANDER is a peace-loving,
mild Sovereign ; but he is not foolish enough to
allow the King of PRUSSIA to draw him into his
schemes ; and the Prussians cannot be rash enough
to engage in a war with Russia. Italy wants to
fight—let her ; she is too poor to fight long, and
she will soon get herself into a tolerable scrape in
this war, if she persists in it.
What, then, shall England do ? Clearly, she had
best let the affair alone. If there is a Congress,
let her send her Pienipotentiary ; but no soldiers.
The whole thing, if it goes through, cannot affect
England much. The war may be fought out ; it
will lead to just nothing. Prussia will rouse all the
European powers against herself, and become, if

The Grand Duke of Baden returned last night,
via Munich, to Carlsruhe. His Highness had pre-
viously had several interviews with the King of
Saxony and Baron von Beust.

TATTERSALLS'—Last Evening.

ST. LEGER.
2to 1 agst Lord Lyon (taken)
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
Bto 1 agst Caithness (taken)
Bto 1 agst Windham (taken)
Bto 1 agst Brown Bread (taken)
10 to 1 agst Dolan (taken)
10 to 1 agst Miner (taken)
10 to 1 agst Lady Vane (taken)
10 to 1 agst Harry Brailsford (taken)

MANCHESTER BETTING-YESTERDAY.
NORTHUMBERLAND PLATE.
100 to 12 agst Windham (taken)
9to 1 agst Caithness (taken)
10 to 1 agst Harry Brailsford (taken)
11 to 1 agst Miss Haworth (taken)
11 to 1 agst Brown Bread (taken/

BISMARCK lives long enough, the detestation of the
whole civilised world.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

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COLCHESTER-JUNE 2.

Windsor Summer 5
Newton•
Hampton 7
Kanturk 7
Newark
Hawick
Odiham
Bibury l3

There was a small supply of wheat at market to-day, but
trade steady, and quotations about the same as this day
week. Beans and peas continue scarce, and were fully as
dear.

Wheat, white 48s f6s Beans, Mazagan......39s 42g
rcd 42 60s Middle and 5ma11..42s 468
Barley .... 34s 43s Peas, white 38s 428
Oats

GRANTHAM-Jun 2.

Carlisle
Newmarket July
Pontefract
Abingdon
Mansfield* lO
Reading
Hundleby
Nottingham
Stamford l9

There was a limited supply of wheat at market to-day,
and prices remain as last week. Barley scarcely worth
quoting. Other grain scarce.
Old white wheat, 52s to 545; old red, 49s to 525; new
white, 49s to 52s ; new red, 44s to 47s per 36 stone. Bar-
ley for malting, 3Gs to 42s per qr. ; grinding, 308 to 33s per
30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; new, 25s to 30s per 24
stone. Beans, old, 48s to 51s; new, 44s to 46s per 38 stone.
Peas, 36s to 40s per 36 stone.

Jersey ___
1
Brighton 7
Brighton Club
,Lowes • lO
Egham 14
Wolverhampton l4
Stockton l5
Oxford l6
Hastings 2l

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CIIELAISFORD--juNE 1.
To-day's market was again well supplied with wheat,
and best samples brought last week's prices; inferior sam-
ples scarcely asked for, and the whole trade was very dull.
Spring corn firm.
Wheat, old white.... 445 52s Peas, Partridge 363 39s
new 4:18 51s White ..29s 24s
old red 3is 41s Bulling .. ...... 37s 41s
new. 35s 45s Dun—. ..... ...36s 40s
Barley . 2ss 33s dit o, new... —s —s
Chevalier 33a 4.? s Beans, Tick, old ......35s 40s
Grinding `)88 348 new.... 353 30s
Malt Ws Ws
__ _ Harrow ileks.334 42s

SEPT]
Warwick September 4
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Brecon l7
Canterbury lB
Richfnond

Chevalier 60s 62s
Oats .. ••• 2.18 26s

new....36s 40s
Maz Tan . 34s Zfis

NORTHAMPTON-JUNE 2.

Northampton CC
20
Bedford
Lothians' Racing Club 3
Bromley 4
- NOVE
•

The market thinly attended, and in the price of wheat
no material change. Barley not much sought after, but
prices firm. Oats scarce. Beans in good demand.
New white wheat, 498 to 528 ; new red, 44s to 49s ; old
white, 48s to 535; old red, 46s to 50s per 36 stone. Barley
for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 88s per 30
stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ; new, 28s to 32s per 24 stone.
Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. Peas,
36s to 40s per 36 stone.

Lincoln
Liverpool

ThE SON, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 18G6.