The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1833.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

THE SCUTTLING OP THE SHIP SEv•—Thomas Ber--
wick, owner of the ship Severn, was charged with con-
spiring with lloldsworth and Dean (who have been re-
manded) to defraud the London and Caledonian Marine
Insurance Company of a sum of £1,500.
Mr. Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, prosecuted, and Mr.
Buchanan defended the prisoner.
Mr. Lewis said that he appeared on behalf of the Salvage
Company, who was charged with the two men in custody
with an attempt to defraud Lloyd's of a large sum of
money. The latter were remanded till Friday next, and
after giving some evidence to connect this prisoner with
them, he asked that he also should be remanded till the
same day.

Sergeant Webb said that he had charge of this case, and
had apprehended the other prisoners who were implicated
in this transaction. £lOO reward had been offered for the
arrest of Berwick, and from information he received he went
to a house in the neighbourhood of Victoria-park, where he
found hire. He was accompanied by Sergeant Hamilton
He gave the name of Duprd (a party with whom the pri-
soner was acquainted) and was admitted, the prisoner not
at first discovering that he was another person. Hamilton
and Bull were admitted to the house, and ho told him his
name was not Dupre but Webb, and that ho was a detec-
tive officer. He then introduced him to his brother
officers.

Mr. Lewis—For which no doubt he felt very much
obliged. (Laughter.)

Witness—He told him of the charge, and he denied
knowing anything about the ship called the Severn, which
sailed from Newport about the month of May last. He
(prisoner) said, in reference to the charge of attempting to
defraud Lloyd's, "It is all wrong. I don't know anything
about the ship." Witness said, " You are the owner of the
Severn." He replied, "You make a mistake. I never saw
her; I. never was on board her ; I know nothing about
her." Witness said that he would have to go with him,
and that he had plenty of assistance to compel him to do
so. The prisoner at first refused, but at last consented to
go with the officers. He asked him if tho captain was
in custody, and witness said he knew more about
him than he did. They then took him to the station, and
on searching him found £23 and a gold watch and chain.
He had had the investigation of this case, and if the pri-
soner were remanded till Friday he was in a position to
state that important evidence Would be produced on that
day. Inspector Hamilton was in possession of information
that was of great importance.

Mr. Buchanan said that if the time to which the prisoner
was to be remanded was not short he would ask that he
should be admitted to bail.

The prisoner was then remanded till Friday.
On the application of Mr. Buchanan, the prisoner's
money, and watch and chain, were delivered up to him.

THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.

BANQUET AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.

Last evening the Lord Mayor (Alderman Phillips) desir-
ing to celebrate in a way worthy the City of London the
successful completion of the Atlantic Telegraph connecting
the Old World and the New, entertained all the various
persons conspicuously identified with the enterprise, with
the exception of a few who were unavoidably absent from
indisposition, at dinner at the Mansion-honse, which was
served in the Egyptian-hall, with great splendour. The
company was about 150 in number, and included many
persons not connected with the achievement.
The Lord Mayor was unfortunately absent from indis-
position, and Mr. Alderman Copeland, the senior alder-
man, presided in his stead. The invited guests as they
arrived were received by the chairman and the Lady
Mayoress, ,in the state drawing-room, and thence con-
ducted to the seats assigned them in the hall, which was
brilliantly illuminated for the occasion. The tables were
profusely 'decorated with rare flowers, and the ancient
Flat° of the Corporation, and the entertainment was alto-
gether one of great magnificence. The Lady Mayoress
occupied a seat immediately on the left of the chair, and
Mrs. Barnet, her daughter, on the right.

On the removal of the cloth grace was sung by the
choir, and the chairman and the Lady Mayoress drank to
the company in a loving cup.

The toast of " The Queen" was drunk with every mark
of respect, as was also that of " The Prince and Princess
of Wales, with the rest of the Royal family."
The usual patriotic toasts were then duly honoured—
Captain Galton, R.E.; replying for the Army ; Capt. Corn-
merell, R.N., for the Navy ; and Colonel Loyd-Lindsay,
M.P., for the Volunteers. Tho last-named gentleman re-
ferred to the enthusiastic reception given to the English
Volunteers by the Belgian people from the King down-
wards on their recent visit to that country, and he anti-
cipated the welcome which the Belgian Volunteers would
receive on their arrival in Englaad next year.
The CHAIRMAN next gave the toast of "The House of
Commons," coupling with it the name of Viscount Cram-
borne, the Secretary of State for India, whom he compli-
rmenfed for the kcal and energy he had shown since his
accession .to office, and especially in dealing.with the In-
dian famine.

Lord CRANBORNA who was welcomed with cheers, ex-
pressed his deep regret at the absence of the Chief Magis-
trate of the city, whose eloquence on these occasions they
were all accustomed to admire, and who had filled with
such singular felicity and skill the important office ho held,
(Cheers.) The House of Commons, he said, take it to pieces
as people might, had this great characteristic—that it was
the true reflex of the opinions and feelings of the country,
and especially in the honour it was always ready to pay
and the assistance it invariably afforded to great scientific
undertakings like that which they were met that night to
celebrate. (Cheers.) The House of Commons had an intense
appreciation of facts of all kinds, and it had never been
wanting in giving assistance to great scientific enterprises.
He had no right officially to speak of the Atlantic tele-
graph, but he had of another telegraph which connected
India with England, and on behalf of those who were re-
sponsible for the government of this country, he thanked
most earnestly those great minds to whom they owed that
great boon to the human race. (Cheers.) It was not merely
in the immediate results which such a discovery gave to
the government of a country. It had been a reproach to us
in this day that we were not so willing as we were of old
to recognise the works of mind, and that we had come to
bo too material in our ideas. The truth was that our ances-
tors worshipped objects of the mind as applied to matters of
taste and sensibility; but we admired the splendid efforts of
the greatest intellects when applied to minister in the
highest degree to the uses of man. All they who were oc-
cupied in political life would say that it was a real pa-
sure, after the conflicts in which they were accustomed to
be engaged, to tender their grateful homage to those who
had been concerned in this great achievement. They all
felt a deep interest in the contests that decided the fate of
nations or the genuineness of political principles, but there
was on all these conflicts the stamp of decay. T hey kne w
that the political principles for which they contended were
liable to a similar decadence, and that what was held in
honour in this century might be the subject of derision in
the next; but the great addition to human power which
Wheatstone and kindred spirits had conferred on the human
I mind might be the heritage of the human race as long as
our species should exist. (Cheers.)
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " Prosperity to the At-
lantic Cable," trusting that it might be the means o
cementing the more the ties which had long bound the
Old World and the New.

The Right Hon. Joint STUART WORTLEY, whose name
as chairman of the Atlantic Telegraph Company had been
associated with the toast, said it was a subject for regret
that they could not tender their personal thanks to the
Lord Mayor for that banquet, representing, as he did, the
community of that great city, and in a certain sense the
commercial community of the country. This had been a
remarkable enterprise, but the history of the company over
which he (Mr. Wortley) had the honour to preside was
equally so. It began with a remarkable event. Some of
the leading meffhants and bankers subscribed to a list of
350 shares of £l,OOO each—not as a speculation, nor in the
hope of remuneration, but from higher motives. In 1857
£500,000 more was subscribed, and in 1859 £500,000 more,
making £1,350,000 altogether ; and that having boon spent,
the company was at one time so penniless that the directors
put their hands into their pockets, and, subscribing £250
apiece, paid the clerks and kept the offices. But the deepest
debt of gratitude was due to those who were the real
heroes of the enterprise—the engineers, the olectricians,and
the men of the merchant and naval services. (Cheers.) Mr.
Wortley referred in passing to an interview he once had
with the late Prince Consort in relation to the undertak-
ing, in the course of which, he said, his Royal Highness
expressed an opinion that it might be more likely to be
successful if it were practicable to lay the cable in an
elastic glass tube, and took down a volume of an ancient
classic author (Potronius Arbiter), from which he read a
passage to.show that in those days the elasticity of glass
was known. One great motive had from first to last ani-
mated all who were engaged in the enterprise —namely,
that by bringing England and America into telegraphic
communication the two communities would become more
brotherly, or, if he might say so, more cousinly than they
had hitherto been. They were deeply indebted to the zeal
and skill of Mr. Cyrus Field. He rejoiced, therefore, that
her Majesty had been advised by the Government to mark
and distinguish the men who had conducted the enter-
prise to a successful termination—a circumstance which
would be regarded as a fresh proof of the lively interest
the Queen took in all great nationalundertakings. (Hear,
hear.)
Mr. C. E. STEWART, whose name had also been con-
nected with the toast as chairman of the Anglo-American
Telegraph Company, made a few observations in acknow-
ledgment; and Mr. PENDER, speaking for the Telegraph
Construction and. Maintenance Company, took occasion to
connect it especially with the enterprise, in having chextered
the Great Eastern steamship and raised the greater portion
of the capital by which the scheme was eventually carried
out. He added, amid the cheers of the company, that
America, in connection with the enterprise, ought to be
proud of such a man as Cyrus Field, and for his lifelong
devotion to the cause.

The toast-of "Science as applied to Telegraphy," was
next given from the chair, to
,which Professor Sir William
Thomson. briefly replied, remarking, on the part of the
scientific men employed in connection with the Atlantic
Telegraph, that next to that most intense of all instincts,
passions, and feelings in the scientific character—the love
of nature— the strongest rewardfor investigation was found
when the results of that investigation conferred some sub-
stantial benefit upon a large mass of mankind.
Sir S. Canning replied to the toast of "The Engineers,'
and Mr. Willoughby Smith, C.E., to that of " The Elec-
tricians." Sir Tames Anderson, commander of the Great
Eastern, responding to the toast of his health, took occasion
to say of Captain Moriarty, by the way, that he had no
equal in either the Royal or mercantile navy.
Viscount ORANBOILIE proposed the next toast. All those,
he said, who had enjoyed the hospitality of the Lord Mayor
of London during the past year, all who desired to see a
great and ancient office well and honourably maintained,
and all who desired to see the city often adorned by a chief
magistrate of his mark would join with him in thanking
the Lord Mayor for his exertions during his tenure of office,
and in wishing him health and happiness. (Cheers.) For
himself, he had not only to thank the Lord Mayor in his
public capacity for his general maintenance of the duties of
his high office, but he had had an opportunity of witness-
ing the zeal he had shown in directing into a right channel
the abundant charities of this great metropolis. On the
receipt of the recent and somewhat conflicting telegrams
from India in relation to the famine it was difficult to decide
upon the right course to adopt, but he could bear testimony
that, so far as the Lord Mayor had been concerned, he had
acted with tact, zeal, and discretion. He gave "Health
and long life to the Lord Mayor."
The toast was drunk with acclamation, and Mr. Henry
Phillips acknowledged the compliment on behalf of his
father.

Mr. JOIIN ABEL SMITH, M.P., then in graceful terms
proposed " the Health of the Lady Mayoress," which was
received, if possible, with still greater enthusiasm.
The musical arrangements were under the direction of
Mr. Edwin Ball, assisted by Mr. Fielding, Mr. Montom
Smith, and Mr. Theodore Distin.

The company separated about 11 o'clock.

MATHER V. THE DUCHESS OF NORFOLK.---Yester-
day, at the Cintmbers of Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, the
case of " Mather v. The Duchess of Norfolk," was heard on
an application, by two summonses, for further time to an-
swer the bill, which was for an injunction to restrain the
building of a house in Arundel-street, Strand, the ground
of which had been taken from the Duchess of Norfolk. It
was stated that it was probable that the matter would be
arranged. The works had not been completed. Mr.
Church, the chief clerk, asked whether it was the first ap-
plication, and was told there had been several similar
motions. Tho chief clerk granted 14 days' further time to
answer, and it was stated that there Wald, in all proba-
bility, be a settlement of the

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

WORCESTER RACES-TUESDAY,

Match 50: 7st each; two miles on the flat.—Mr. Softon's
br m Roaring Meg agst Mr. Tharme's br in Rosa.
Mr. Tharme's Rosa (Cameron) 1

Mr. Sefton's Roaring Meg

A Plate of 80 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each ;
winners of 50 sovs after Oct. 24 (at 7 p.m.) 71b extra ;
the Old Course (one mile and a quarter); 9 subs.
Mr. T. Wadlow's Sandal, Bst (Morris) 1
Mr. W. Carlisle's Allow Me, 7st 61b (Maidment) 2
Vampire, Succesc,, and Monitress also ran. Betting-
-5 to 4 agst Sandal, 3 to 1 agst Vampire, 5 to 1 agst others
Won by a head ; bad third. Vampire came in first, but
was objected to for cannoning against Sandal. Sandal
gets the stakes.
The Two Yea'r Old Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30
added, for two year olds ; colts 9st, fillies and geldings
Bst 101 b ; the whiner to be sold for 100 sovs ; if entered
for 70 sovs allowed 71b, 60 141 b, 50 21.1 b, 30 281 b ; half a
mile.
Mr. C hapl i a's Goodfellow (Kenyon) 1
Mr. Y. King's Amour Propre (Phillips) 2
Novelty, Texana f, Laura, Lute, Colenso, and Ada-
mauthea also ran. Betting-2 to lon Goodfellow, 7to 1
bar one. Won a length.

A Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added; two year
olds 7st 31b, thre Bst 101 b, four 9st 41b, five, six, and
aged 9st 91b ; ti‘ to winner to be sold for 150 sovs ; if en-
tered for 100 sov 1 allowed 51b, 80 81b, 50 121 b, 30 201 b ;
snares and geldings allowed 31b; five furlongs, on the
straight.
Mr. T. Goddard's Chicken Hazard (Murray) 1
Captain Machell's King Charles (Kenyon) 2
Tribune, Bonne Fortune, and Prescription also ran.
Betting —Even agst King Charles, 3 to 1 agst Pre-
scription, 4 to 1 agst Chicken Hazard and B nne Fortune.
The Nursery Plate of 50 sovs, added to a Handicap of 5
sovs each ; winners after Oct. 24 (at 7 p.m.) 71b or of
any stake worth 200 sovs 101 b extra ; the second to save
his stake. T.Y.C. (a straight half mile). 27 subs.
Mr. A. C. Douglas's Miss Frances, 7st 41b (Covey) 1
Sir C. Rushout's Moonbeam, Bst 101 b (Clements) 2
Mr. W. S. Halford's Recompense, 6st 111 b (Cameron) 3
Jeannie Deans, La Maudite, Challenge, Lady Craven,
Belle of Cadiz, Polden Hill, Lord Bagot, Rebecca, Mou-
choir, Esmeralda, Merry Monarch, and The Rock also ran.
Betting-5 to 2 agst The Rock, 7to 1 Jeannie Deans,
10 to 1 agst Moonbeam, 14 to I agst the winner. Won by
a neck; same between second and third.

The Hurdle Race Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 40 added ;
winners of 50 soya clear after Oct. 24 (at seven p.m.)
71b extra; two miles, over six hurdles ; 24 subs.
Mr. Dixon's Shakspere, 9st 41b (Wheeler) 1
Mr. J. W. H. Powell's Heurlys, 9st 121 b (Page) 2
Mr. F. Dark's Steamboat, 9st 121 b

Brahma, Wild Thyme, Love Letter, Discretion, Lydia,
Cacula, Renfreid, and Fortunatus also ran. Betting-2 to
1 agst Shakspere, 9 to 2 agst Steamboat, 7 to 1 agst others.
The Worcester Autumn Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft,
with 100 added ; winners of 100 sovs after Oct. 18 (at
10 a.m.) 71b, 200 101 b extra ; the second to save his
stake. One mile and three furlongs on the New Course.
18 subs.
Capt. Maehell's Brimstone, Est (Kenyon) 1
Mr. R. B. Jeffery's Wild Poppy, Est 131 b ...(Thompson) 2
Mr. G. Wells's Mischief, Est (Pepler) 3
Moulsey, Moose, Arkansas, Dick Turpin, and John
Halifax also ran. Betting-2 to 1 agst Brimstone, 4to 1
agst Wild Poppy, 5 to 1 agst Moose. Won by half a length,
two lengths between second and third.

LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING.
FRIDAY, November 9.
Acceptances for the LIVERPOOL AUTUMN CuP of 200 sovs,
added to a Sweepstakes of 25 sous each. One mile
and a half.

Age st lb
Moulsey ... 5 8 12
Lozenge ... 4 8 7
Cambuscan 5 8 4
Sundeelab... ... 5 8 3
Friday 4 8 1
Salpinetes... 8 0
Arkansas ... 4 7 10
Treasure Trove 3 7 10

Ago st lb
Sandal ... 5 7 4
Lady Vane ... 3 7 3
The Squire ... 3 7 2
L. Guardsman ... 3 7 2
Dubiety ... ... 4 7 2
4 6 12
Mushroom ... 4 6 12
Jollity ... 3 6 12
Othello ... ... 3 612
Helen ... ... 5 610
Miss Harriette ... 3 610
Sportsman ... 3 6 8
Chepstow ... 3 6 7
Beeswing ... 3 6 7
Proserpine... ... 3 6 5

Brick ... 6 7 10
Mail Train ~. 5 7 10
Caithness ... „. 3 7 8
East Lynn 4 7 8
Red Earl ... ~. 4 7 8
Actlsea 3 7 6
Zenobia ... 4 7 6
The Special ... 37 4
The highest weight accepting being Bst, it has been
raised to Bst 121 b, and the others in proportion.
Weights for the Grand Hurdle Handicap of 5 sovs each,
with 50 added. Two miles, over six flights of hurdles.
Age st lb Age st lb
Mario ... 5 11 7 Wild Thyme 5 10 0
The Plover ... 6 11 4 Snrney ... 4 10 0
Accident ... 6 11. 3 Roger Bontemps 49 10
Astrolabe ... 6 11 3 Love Letter ... 4 9 9
Real Jam ... ... a 10 8 Clansman ... ... 4 9 9
Queen of Trumps... 5 10 6 Diomed• ... 4 9 7
Dean Swift 5 10 5 Shakspere 5 9 6
Dermott An.sthore... 5 10 5 Skiff 5 9 6
Brahma ... 4 10 2 Troubodour ... 4 9 4

The New Orleans Biot—Mayor Munroe in

Self-Defence.

Mayor Munroe of New Orleans sent a message
to his city council, on Tuesday night, intended as a
defence against the serious charges made by Gen.
Sheridan and the military board that has reported
upon the late riot. The mayor asserts that the
riot was caused by the members of the defunct
convention of 1864 and those affiliated with them,
who incited the negroes by violent harangues and
promises of power and emolument. He asserts that
he was ready to suppress the riot, but Gen. Baird
was not, and that it was proved by eye-witnesses
that the trouble commenced by members of the
convention firing upon the police while in the
discharge of their duty ; and that at the Institute
building the first shots were fired from the win-
dows of the building by whites and blacks. He
repeats his previous charge that Gen. Baird un-
locked the prison cells and let loose upon the
city the white and black ringleaders of the riot, to
make political capital for the Radical enemies of the
reconstruction policy of the President. The report
of the military commission, sustained by abundant
evidence, disposes of Mayor Munroe's statements,
and places him in a most unenviable light. His
testimony as to Gen. Baird is contradicted not only
by the general himself, but by Lieut.-Gov. Voorhees,
Gen. Herron, and Chief of Police Adams. Gen.
Baird did not ref useto assist in suppressing the riot,
but sent for troops as soon as requested, and the
evidence leaves no doubt of the fact that Mayor
Munroe, and those with him in the conspiracy to
massacre the convention, purposely arranged to keep
the troops away until the slaughter was over, and sue-
ceeded in doing so. The commission say in their
report :—" Theboard are reluctantly compelled to dis-
credit the mayor, and to believe that he knew that
not a soldier had been asked for, and that when he
massed his armed police, and held them aloof from
the building, no barrier remained between the con-
vention and negroes and the infuriated citizens, with
whose threats the city was yet ringing, except his
paper proclamation. He states, moreover, that he
knew that the hatred of the mob toward the con-
vention and the negroes was shared by his police.
In this state of affairs, should the negroes assemble
in any number, a collision might be considered in-
evitable, and an attack by the mob upon the con-
vention as sure to follow. Then the police--massed,
armed, and ready—are let loose upon the scene to
quell the riot." The evidence goes to show that
organisations of ex-Confederate soldiers Ilvderencays,
cerned in the massacre, especially
brigade, and it was declared by some of
if all Hays' brigade had been present,eneLaped The
convention or their friends would have one cileoenasesoasf
assassins
commission are not only positive that
it
was preconcerted, but they wtahsedoile massacreNvwith
a cowardly ferocity unsurpassed
crime." They further
t. under the
iisn
iannalshlo to
existing civil government Orleans, and that
bring the known murderers jus ice
snu
bd
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less nn
say that eitd.
less they claim libdeirfft
although Northern mole].
difference of opinion is tolerated,"
ftasirpi -'etenNe coehtwn"oown
and his party continue in
yet if gl\wfahyicohr Aolunrcyo'
powerond cease to fear punishmentfor past offences,
" a period of insecurity for Northern life and pro-
perty will recommence." The commissioner have
stated this conviction very carefully, but it is doubt-
less true, and it is 'a matter of serious import. If
the assassins of the 30th of July go unpunished,
New Orleans will be given over to the rule of the
ruffians educated in rebellion, and there will be
liberty of opinion and speech neither for Northern
nor Southern Unionists. If the President has been
put in a false attitude by circumstances, or by mis-
taken action iu this matter, he can only retrieve
his reputation by decisive action against the New
Orleans rioters and the conspiring officials upon
the evidence presented him by the report of the
military commission.---Springfield TVeekly Repub-
lican.

No messages could be passed from Europe through
the Atlantic Cable yesterday,
of the line. in consequence of a block up

LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT. 13.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Fre-
derick Bernal, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul at Balti-
more, to be her Majesty's Consul at Havre-de-Grace.
The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint
Harry Thomas Alfred Rainals, Esq., now tier Majesty's
Consul in the Philippine Islands, to be her Majesty's Con-
sul at Baltimore.

OCT. 19.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to app,?int
George Thomas Ricketts, Esq., now her Majesty's Consul
at Sarawak, to be her Majesty's Consul in the Philippine
Islands.