The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-24 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENO.E.—This Day.

brought before him, he should know how to deal with
him.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

The prisoner begged of the magistrate to impose a fine,
and not send her to a prison, but Mr. Tyrwhitt refused to
alter his decision.

(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Justices

Blackburn, Mellor, &kid Lush.)

THE QUEEN V. WINSOR, THE WHOLESALE MURDERESS.

•
The Attorney-General resumed his arguments
this morning, at the conclusion of which
The Lord Chief Justice said that the question in
this case had been so recently decided in a case that
came before the court, and had been so fully dis-
cussed during the last two days, that he did not
consider any benefit would result from the court de-
laying their judgment. He was fortified in that opi-
nion by the fact that all the judjes were unanimous
in their decision. He had no hesitation in giving
his decision that the judge had a discretion to
discharge a jury on what he considered sufficient
ground. It was not a maxim of English juris-
prudence that an abortive trial prevented a
new trial, and after carefully considering all
the arguments the Court was of opinion that they
had no other course than to pronounce in favour of
the Crown.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
(Via Roches Point.)
The following appeared in a late edition of The Sun of
last evening :

NEW YORK, Jan. 13 (Morning).
The New York Herald states that President
Johnson has positively determined to reconstruct
his Cabinet, retaining two of its present members.
It is rumoured that Mr. Stanton will supersede Mr.
Adams in London.
Mr. Sumner has stated in the Senate that Mr.
Seward will be absent for three weeks.
Twenty-two regiments have been mustered out
in Texas.
The diplornatio correspondence laid before Con-
gress includes an intercepted letter from Captain
Maury to Mr. Benjamin Wood, which says :
" The South is connected with the Gwynn enter-
prise. Napoleon will give him all the aid he de-
sires. He will go out as director-general in charge
of a very peculiar kind of colonisation." In July
Mr. Seward enclosed the intercepted correspon-
dence to Mr. Bigelow, and requested him to
present it to M. Drouyn de Lhyus, and
to inform him that any favour shown by
Maximilian or the French Government to
the Gwynn or any other Confederate colonisation
agents would tend to increase in America the popu-
lar impatience at French intervention, because it
will be regarded as imparting dangers to, or at least
as a menace against, the United States.
If these statements are to be believed, Mr. Seward
assumes, with the President's sanction, that the
Emperor Napoleon has deserted his neutrality.
On the 14th of December last Mr. Seward writes
to Mr. Bigelow—" Your•despatch of November
24th seems to discourage, on our part, expectations

The other judges 'concurred with his lordship,
and the conviction of the prisoner is accordingly
affirmed.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Registrar Roche.)
IN RE SIR J. BENSON, KNT.
This bankrupt was an architect of 8, Cecil-street,
Strand, and to-day he came up for the proof of
debts. No accounts are yet filed, as Sir J. Benson
was adjudicated a bankrupt upon the petition of a
creditor, Mr. M. T. O'Keeffe.
Debts were proved and a day named for the next
hearing.

SECONDARIES' COURT.

(Before Mr. Secondary Potter and a Common Jury.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE-BAYLIS V.
HASSELL.

This was a suit sent down by the Court of
Common Pleas to have the damages fixed, the
defendant having suffered judgment to go by de-
fault. The plaintiff, aged 35, had been manager
to some first-class hotels in the west of England,
and had given up her place, and the defendant was
shown to be in a good position of life. After
hearing the evidence, the jury awarded £340
damages.

of an early withdrawal of the French from Mexico.
'it must be remembered, however, that the opinions
on that subject which you received from M. Drouyn
de Lhuys, were expressed not only without the
Emperor's positive sanction, but also in the absence
of any knowledge on the part of the French
Government of the definite conclusion of the Fre-

The Alleged Piracy on Board the Ship
Scotland.

sident on the subject discussed. It is desirable to
leave no part of those opinions open to misappre-
hension. It is signally desirable that we shall be
authorised to infer that such expositions of Impe-
rial views as are given to us in the name of the
French Government are made with the Emperor's

approval."

President Johnson has sent to the Senate the re-
ports of Mr. Stanton and the Attorney-General
upon Mr. Davis's trial. Mr. Stanton states that Mr.
Davis was captured and is still held by the military
power. He now awaits the demand of the proper
Government authorities for his trial upon the
charges of treason, inciting to the assassination of
President Lincoln, and murdering Federal soldiers.
The Government decided to try Mr. Davis first for
treason, but this is delayed in consequence of Mr.
Chase, the Chief Justice, refusing to hold a Court
under present circumstances in the judicial district
of Virginia. The Attorney-General supports the
postponement of the trial of Mr. Davis and other
rebels until civil authority is completely restored in
the districts where the offences were committed.
The Government has informed the house that
the Executive had no official data on the subject of
the alleged kidnapping of Madame Iturbide's child
by Maximilian.

In the Senate .the Military ;Committee has re-
ported a bill fixing the future strength of the Federal
army at seven regiments of artillery, ten of cavalry,
and sixty of infantry. One new regiment of artil-
lery and two of cavalry will consist of coloured
troops.

The aggregate strength of the army will be
60,000.

Mr. Howe has offered a resolution providing
provisional governments for the Southern States.
A bill proposing an additional cotton tax has
been introduced, and referred to the Committee
of Ways and Means. A Bill has also been in-
troduced to punish counterfeiting with death, and
has been referred_

The War Department has ordered 10,000 more
troops to be mustered out.
The Mobile Advertiser states that Gen. Thomas
has officially announced that all Federal troops
will be withdrawn from Alabama and Georgia,

and that arms and ammunition will be furnished
to the militia.

The Fenian Congress has adjourned sine die, and
has abolished the titles of President and Senator.
The government will be conducted by the Head
Centre and a Central Council of five. O'Mahoney
has been elected Head Centre for 1866. Roberts
and the Senators have been expelled from the bro-
therhood.

A letter has been published from Stephens, dated
the Irish Republic, Dec. 23, appointing O'Mahoney
American representative and financial agent of the
Irish Republic, and ignoring the existence of the
Senate.

The Inman steamship City of London, from New
York on the 13th inst., arrived at Queenstown at
10 a.m. to-day (23d instant), with the mails, 190
passengers, and $171,694 in specie. She landed
30 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at
10.35 a.m.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money abundant. Gold, 139 k. Exchange on
London, 150. ; on Paris, 374. Stocks depressed.
New York Centrals, 93. Illinois, 126.. Erie, 89f ;
5-20 Bonds, 104 f. Cotton, good inquiry ; mid.
Upland, 51c. Flour and. wheat declining. Corn,
limited demand. Provisions heavy. Coffee held
firmly. Sugar quiet. Molasses depressed. Pe-
troleum dull; crude, 36 ; refined, 55 to 57. 24,800
bales of cotton have been received at New York
since the Ist January, and 468,000 since the Ist of
September.

NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11.—Cotton declining
middling, 48c. Sales to-day 3,400 bales.

MEXICO.

Intelligence received here from Brownsville to
the 4th, via New Orleans, states that General
Crawford's recruiting office had been closed, and
that the Federal soldiers had been forbidden to
enlist. The Imperialists had captured 30 Repub-
licans on the Rio Grande, who would be
eitzel had protested to
nexrdeceru.ted
Guennderearl twrhe 'Emperor Maximilian's
Mejia against this proceeding. The latter replied
that he was obeying the orders of the Government.

Escobedo was preparing to attack Matamoras.

Orleans despatches state that Negrete had arrived
on the Ist inst at San Antonio, Texas, from El
Paso, but the Mexican Republican Consul at New
York denies the truth of this report.
(I alveston papers notice that large numbers of
Federal troops were passing through that city en
route for the Rio Grande.

The Scotia and Edinburgh had arrived out.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 171 11 181
Ditto 3 Months. 12 1f 12 21
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 50 25 55
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 10 '25 20
Ditto 3 Mouths. 25 471 25 521
Marsailles
Frankfort ou the Maine 1201 121
Vienna. — 10 821 10 871
Trieste ' 10 821 10 871
Petersbnrgh - 29 29i
Berlin -4-6 '2Bk 6 281
Madrid .... 40 461
Cadiz - 47 41
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 25 65 25 70
Naples — 25 65 25 70

NEW STATION FOR THE WESTBOURNE-PARK AND
MENSAL-GREEN DISTRICT.—On the first of next
' month a new station, now in the course of erection at the
junction of the! Metropolitan and Hammersmith branch
of the main line of the Great Western Railway, near West-
bourne-park and Kensal-green, will be opened for the ac-
commodation of the inhabitants of that district,c_who will
by this additional facility be put in direct communication
with the City, by means of the Great Western and Metro,
politan lines of railway.

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAAUARY 24, 1866.