The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-16 00:00:00

NOTTINGHAM.

The committee reassembled this morning, and further
evidence was taken. It is impossible to foresee when the
inquiry will come to a close.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

COMMENCEMENT OF TERM.

Tho commenoomeut of Easter Term, and consequently
the resumption of business in the supreme courts of law,
at Westminster, was celebrated this morning by the
Judges. Her Majesty's counsel and the leading members
of the legal profession breakfasted with the Lord Chan-
cellor. At the splendid repast the judges proceeded in
procession to their respective Courts, in Westminster-hall,
where a large number of persons had assembled to witness
their arrival.

The business in tho Court did not commence owing to
this circumstance until two o'clock, and then it was con-
fined to motions and other matters totally devoid of in-
terest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A WIPE INCITING A MAN TO ASSAULT HER HUSBAND.—
James King, of No. 7, Porter-street, Soho, described as
an engineer, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with as-
saulting Mr. John Jennings, a dairyman, of No. 5, Porter-
street, Soho.

W. E. Dillon Lewis, of Great Marlborough-stroet, ap-
peared for the complainant, and said that a few days ago
the complainant, who lived unhappily with his wife in
consequence of her dissipated habits, was charged at this
court with assaulting his wife, that Mr. Knox, who heard
the case, seeing that it was a trumped-up charge, dis-
charged the complainant. On Saturday night the defen-
dant went to the complainant's shop and demanded
a shawl belonging to his sister-in-law, which he
alleged had been lent to his wife. Ile was told by
the complainant that he would not get it, and ho left,
saying g aor
but returned in about an hour accompanied by the com-
plainant's struck the
complainant wife, d
little doubt that he
had'some sharp instrument in his hand at the time, as the
complainant's face and hand were cut, the complainant's
thean face, without
there
wife standing by all the time inciting the defendant to
assault her husband by crying out, "Give it him, give it
him well."

The complainant gave evidence which fully bore out
Mr. Lewis's statement, and he further said that his hand
was cut in protecting his face. He believed the prisoner
had assaulted him at the instigation of his wife.
The defendant said he merely wont to the house to ask
for his sister-in-law's shawl, which had been lent to the
complainant's wife to enable her to attend the court last
week.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a violent assault, and he should
fine the defendant 40s. or a month.
Mr. Lewis said be had to apply for a summons against
the wife of the complainant for assaulting him.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said he thought As she had incited the
defendant, to
and nttograasnsateud nitohee.r husband she ought to be sum-

REMARKABLE STATEMENT OF STERLING KING, A PRI-
SONER CONFINED IN THE LOUISVILLE (KY.) GAOL.
A man named Sterling King, an inmate of the
gaol in Louisville, Kentucky, has confessed that he
was the person who attempted the life of Secretary
Seward. No faith whatever can be placed in the
truth of the statements, but as a matter of interest
we condense the following further particulars from
the Louisville papers of the 22d of March
We chance to be personally cognisant of the
antecedents of this pretended conspirator. He claims
to be a native of Virginia, and states that he was a
cousin of Horatio King, formerly Assistant Post-
master- General.
"In 18G3 he figured as a lawyer in Cincinnati,
and also obtained permits for the shipment of goods
to Memphis. While thus engaged he was arrested
by the military authorities, charged with uttering
disloyal sentiments, tried by court-martial, and
sentenced to six months' labour on the fortifications
back of Covington, with a ball and chain attached
to his leg. For some reason the sentence was not
carried into effect.
" Some time afterward he appeared in Abingdon,
Virginia, where he was sporting the uniform of a
Confederate colonel. General John H. Morgan
arrested him as a spy ; he was tried by a court-
martial and sentenced to be hung. But in this case,
as in so many others, good luck attended him, and
he managed to escape to the Federal lines.
" We know nothing of King's operations sub-
sequent to his escape from Virginia, until he was
lodged in our city gaol on the charge of stealing
horses and buggies."
The Democrat says :
" King states that he was the man who killed
President Lincoln. He says that he entered the
theatre as any other person, purchasing a ticket and
paying for it. At the appointed time he entered the
private box in Ford's Theatre, Washington, where
Mr. Lincoln was, and he shot him with a single-
barrelled pistol, which he let fall at the time he
leaped from the box. He gives as his object for
using a single-barrelled pistol that he was compelled
to leave it behind him, and if it had been a revolver
those in the box might have used it against him.
He further says that after he shot the President
and leaped from the box he passed 'by several per-
sons, but one of whom he knew—Miss Laura
Keene—and she did not know him. According to
his statement, J. Wilkes Booth, whom it is said was
the murderer of Lincoln, was in the rear of the
theatre awaiting with horses.
" From the vicinity of Ford's Theatre he
states that he went to the residence of Secre-
tary Seward, and, after forcing an entrance,
he made an attack upon the Secretary himself,
cutting him in the throat with a bowie-knife. He
says that after young Seward was knocked down,
the old man begged not to be murdered, and that
he struck. the blow to silence him. His only re-
gret seems to be that he did not kill the Secretary.
He says that the statement published in the papers
that there were two persons in the affair is false,
as he is the man who shot the President and made
the attack upon Secretary Seward. He says that
there was another person in the affair who has not
yet been apprehended, who was to have killed
Stanton, but he failed to fulfil his pledge.
"In regard to Booth, he says that Booth had
nothing to do with the killing, with the exception
of assisting him to make his eseac from the city of
Washington. He gives in his written statement,
which is now in the hands of the military, the
route he pursued after leaving Washington. He
says that the man killed in the barn, and
who is said to have been Booth, is a pri-
soner who escaped from the Ohio prison. He
claims tto have, in company with Booth, went from
Washington to Canada, and from thence to the
island of Cuba. He states that his object in re-
turning to the United States was for the purpose
of releasing Jeff. Davis, the President of the Con-
federate States.
" In regard to Mrs. Surratt, who was executed
as one of the conspirators, he says that she
knew nothing of the conspiracy. The parties who
planned the affair, three of whom have never been
heard of, met regularly at the house of Mrs. Suratt,
...so that
he was stopping at the house of Mrs. Suratt some
ten or twelve days previous to the execution of the
plot.
" There are two prisoners now in gaol, Llewellyn
and Grimes, who say that they know something of
the affair, and it may be that the tale has been con-
cocted for the purpose of getting the three released
from the charges now against them, and have them
turned over to the military authorities.
" The above statement was made to Generals Jeff.
C. Davis and Watkins, at the gaol, on Tuesday,
after having been related to two or three of the pri7
soners and policeman Bligh. Finding that his
statement was likely to get him into very serious
difficulty, King determined to put an end to his
miserable existence. He asked the privilege of hav-
ing a small penknife, which was granted him. With
this he opened the veins of the left arm, and would
have bled to death had it not been that the attempt
was discovered by his cell-mate, and an alarm given.
We yesterday paid a visit to King in his cell, and
found him too low to speak. The alarm in regard
to his attempt to commit suicide was given about
four o'clock in the morning, after he had bled for
several hours."

GEORGE PEABODY.—The following sketch of the
successful commercial career of Mr. Peabody is
given by the Weekly Press, Philadelphia :—" Mr. G.
Peabody, the well-known millionaire, who has been
in business in London since 1837, as a merchant
and money-broker, and previously had in Philadel-
phia and New York branches of his Baltimore
house, is as liberal as wealthy. In 1848 he largely
contributed to restore the credit of Maryland. At
his own proper cost he supplied the arranging and
garnishing of the American department of the Crys-
tal Palace Exhibition of 1851. He contributed libe-
rally, in 1852, to the expense of the American expedi-
tion fitted out under Dr. Kane, to explore the Arctic
regions, in search of Sir John Franklin. At Danvers,
New England, where he was born in 1795, he
founded an institute, now bearing his name, de-
voting $70,000 to that purpose, and also gave
over $500,000 to found an institute in Baltimore
for the promotion of science, literature, and the fine
arts. On retiring from active business, a few years
ago, he presented the city of London with the muni-
ficent gift of $750,000 for the benefit of the poor of
that modern Babylon, which has been expended in
the erection of comfortable and convenient lodging-
houses for the working classes and he has lately
supplemented this with the additional gift of
$500,000, making his donation $1,250,000 in all.
There are men in London, scores of them, who
could have done as much as this—but none of them
has done it. The humane liberality of the American
merchant stands by itself—its own record,• as it
were.

THE DEAD OF THE AMERICAN WAR.—SIOWIy
and sadly the records of the late war are being
completed. Since the overthrow of the Rebel-
lion, the statistics of the army have been made
up by patient investigation, so that as near as pos-
sible the cost of the dreadful conflict may be ascer-
tained. We have now a partial revelation of the
loss of life, in the summing up of the medical and
hospital records, by which it appears that no less
than 253,000 Union soldiers died on the battle-field
and in hospitals. There are not included in this ac-
count the number of officers and soldiers who died
at home, either from wounds
-or the effects of dis-
ease contracted in the service. The latter may be
safely estimated at 47,000 more, so that the entire
mortality by the Rebellion in the armies of the
North, by the casualties of the war, may be put at
300,000. The remains of these gallant men are
scattered all over the South ; thousands of them
sleep their last sleep on the field where they fell ;
many have been exhumed with care and reinterred
in cemeteries near their former homes. The debt
which the nation owes to these martyrs in the cause
of freedom can never be paid. The American
his peoe:
ple have a legacy in their example for theenc
ment of future generations that will brightenuirolatviltmh
time, and teach their descendants that pa
is the first duty, and that to his country every
one
owes his strength, his courage, anandlifeblood.blOod.

Dublin & keit ast J unction 63" 63" 1,278 1.17 J
Oublit, and Drogheda 75 75 1,5J8 1.457
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 911 2,673 2.790
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 5 / 3,63 I 2 705
Glasgow & South-Western
it. Eastern,Nrik ,&E.l.lnion
Great Northern . 4Ol 401 36,293 35.241
Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,4:13 1.7 Pi
Do' Branches 42 43 1,060 3,1 7
GL Nordin. & Westn. (Irel.) B2l 711 977 42!
'3 t.Sauthn. & Westnr n(11 d. ) f 1 38;1 8, 89 78 4
38-
Great Western •
11u1 1292 1270 69,392 63,782
1 & Ilornsea
Irish 93
Lancashire 4:r*****lle ***
• • •
Highland . . 13 13 228
432
Limerick and Enni5.,,,,,, 224611
North-Western 145 145 1,824 1.7.5
242641 2,74 J 2,
Limerick and Foynes . ...... 261 261
403 403 40.070 37,143
461 451 666 816
139 :43
136 1 0
Llanelly
Llynvi Valley
London & North-iV
20i 201 460 50.
London & South-Western • ••• 1274 1273/ ' 112,477 101.312
Loud. Brighton, &B. Coast 2931 5001 4901 25 533 19.790
London, Chatham, & Dover; p3l 2671 25,673 12,244
all Metropolitan. Extension 1124 12.4 I
Do. Kent t oast
10,820 11. 04
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend ~, 4.4 27 1,5e0 080
242 i 1,( 57 954
llan.,Sheilield,&Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J um& A ltri ucham , el ,6 21,270 17,251
28 91 1,861 /.45
28 1 155 L3OB
Metropolitan
naryport and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 7l, ~, , 3,930 2,58
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 94
14 3.093 3.116
Midland Gt. W can. of I rind.
North British, Edin., Perth
11
and Dundee ...... .
--•4 2.,68n 3.233
N-Eastern and Stock. & Dar!. 12071 11624 71.3 ,8 61,732
11 9 .4 6 8 3., 0,
North London
North Staffordshire 258 258 3,123 7.311
Pembroke and Tenby
Ithymney l9l 191 1,138 1,149
Scottish North-Eastern .....
66 i 74 9,i
Somerset and Dorset
66
98 791 4., 241 4,1885
South Devon
South-Eastern 315 30 26,161 19,445
Taff Vale 6l 68 1 6,192 6.3•3
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd..
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 145 625
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,2.4 1,270
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt lO 10 793 675
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828 ;30,5'9 33,751
Bahia and Saa Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction 261 261 317 34S
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 306 8,675 5,1' 5
Detroit and Milwatikie lB9 189 5,599 4.822
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1( 81 6,118 5,7u3
Eastern of France 1695 1151 72,414 63,E43
Eastern Bengal
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 25,441 03,159
Great Central of Belgium 285 2z.,5 7,294 6,083
Great Indian Peninsula 6961 5851 - -
Great Luxembourg 134 134 6,092 4.791
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 315 17,741 11,443
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 778 713 16, 05 17,493
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 724 724 59,512 56,76
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 2OOB 197 144,101 131,016
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 77,270 67,109
Recife and San Francisco. &c. 771 771 2,1/24 1679
Sande lO5 105 1,857 1,591
Do. Punjab, &c 253 45 1,191 233
South Austrian, &c .. . 1798 1645 55,504 45,212
Southern of France 863 823 21,868 28,032
Victoria
Welland. 25 25 230 118
West & N-Wn. of France

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton April 19
Ditto, via Marseilles April 13
Brazil and cape Verde, by British packet May 4.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 23
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. ,April 19.

Ditto, via Marseilles April 13
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... April 19
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. April 13.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 22
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 13.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 13.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil:e3
Newfoundland .•.. May 9.
Portugal ....May 4.
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon..
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet

Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton .

Ditto, via Curk
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. April 13,
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and
Honduras) ...April 13
_ _ •••

Cuba and Mexico
Bahamas, via New York. May 3.
Bermuda. via Halifax May 9.
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe May 13

'EATII OF Mit. HIGGS, TOASTMA STEIL—OUT
readers will regret to learn the death of this useful
and well-known functionary, so long attached to the staff
of the London Tavern. Mr. lliggs was always civil and
obliging, and withal modest in demeanour, and we are sure
all who remember him will hear of his death with regret.
He died on Saturday last, at his residence in Spa-road,
Bermondsey, we believe of an attack of bronchitis.— The
I London Mirror.

YOU DON'T MEAN IT !—The folio zing portentous
announcement actually appeared among the marriages
recorded in the Times of Saturday :—" On the 10th inst.,
at St. Stephen's Church, Dublin, by the Rev. Thos. Jervis
White, uncle to the bride, assisted by the Rev. Jas. Walsh,
Charles Frederick Oakes, Esq., youngest son of the late
M. Oakes, Esq., to Helen Elizabeth, youngest daughter of
the late Col. Humphrey Jervis White, of the late Bengal
Army, grandniece of the late Sir Henry Meredyth, Bart.,
cousin also of Sir Henry White Jervis, Bart., niece of John
Jervis White, Esq., of Clifton, and grandniece of Mrs. Dr.
Crampton, of Kildare-street."
JOHN STUART MILL ON THE WORKING CLASSES.—
A writer in the Morning Herald says:—ln the preface to
third edition (1852) of Mr. Mill's " Principles of Political
Economy" will be found these words: —" Tho only objec-
tion to which any great importance will be found to be
attached, in the present edition, is the unprepared state of
mankind in general, and of the labouring classes in particular ;
their extreme unfitness at present for any order of things which
would make any considerable demand on either their intellect or
their virtue." It will not dilute the severity of the quotation
if I point out to the thousands of the labouring classes who
read your paper, that whereas Mr. Lowe has, for his
criticism of certain constituencies, boon denounced as a
malignant reviler of the non-voting population, Mr. Mill,
on the other hand, has published, without compunction or
reservation, a most sweeping condemnation of working
men in globo. It strikes me that the deliberate writings of
a public man demonstrate his real opinions more truthfully
than any oral statements ho may see fit to make as one of
the most fervent apostles of Messrs. Bright and Gladstone's
Franchise Bill.

GREAT NO RTHERN HOSPITAL,CALEDONI AN-ROAD.—
The members of the Alexandra Dramatic Club have kindly
promised a first-class entertainment, under distinguished
patronage, at Myddelton Hall, on Saturday, 28th inst., for
the benefit of this charity. This is the only general hospital
in the extreme northern district of London. Funds aro
urgently needed to prevent refusal of applications for ad-
mission. During the last 10 years the hospital has gratui-
tously relieved upwards of 4,000,000 poor cases.
THE ROYAL CHARTER.—Scarcely a month passes
without divers going down to this vessel. During the
late spring tides 140 sovereigns were obtained from the
wreck, and it is reported that thousands of pounds more
may bo expected.

Among the petitions presented on Friday last in
favour of the Government Franchise Bill was one signed
by 1,300 inhabitants of the borough of Lancaster.
We regret to announce the death of Mr. Sturt ,
of Critchill, Dorsetshire, the father of Mr. Gerati_Stunt,.fo;
m.
M.P. for Dorsetshire, and Colonel Napier Stunt, F
Dorsetshire.
the Earl of Derby,
noon upwards of 40 peers, supporters
in Arlington
CONSERVATIVE MEETING. —0 n Saturday after"
met at the Marquis of Salisbury's residenceT Was
he
mooting
street, Piccadilly, by
Tahe noble earl addressed
appointed for three o'clock,in and invitation.
few minutes after
hour the Earl of Derby arrival;
length
.
The meeting broke
that
his political friends at some
to the Oaths Dui
stand, had reference
up at about a quarter past four o'clock, and, we under-
ASCOT RACES. As it is found that the Royal
Lodge, Windsor Park,
rk, cannot be got ready for the recep-
tion of the Prince
neighbourhood.—
near
ghb to
a is in treaty for the occupation of Fir
Lodgets week. This
a'
house Princess of Wales
course, and is one of the best in the
is
outd
Court Journal.l
LAST PERFORMANCE.—A travelling mena-
gerie, race_
geries ,belonging to a man named Hermann, has for
a long time been passing from place to place in Germany,
and latoly gave a representation at Tulin, in Austria.
There were a large number of people collected, and the
proprietor, taking a serpent and twisting it roundhis body,
entered the lion's den, into whose mouth he had been in
the habit of putting his head. On this occasion the beast
closed its formidable jaws and" crushed the man's head.
To prevent any future misfortune from the same animal,
ordero WOO iYOI3. to 01290 t it.

dlebie H. Covey,
The support awarded to Lord Lyon will reducethe
field for this event to a very small compass. In fact no
horse has seen such a short price ever since the race wen
instituted. That the race is such a "moral" I do not be-
lieve. If he should win the Derby would be all over but
"shouting." Janitor has been steadily supported within
the last two or three weeks ; and, if in anything like the
form he showed at Ascot, it would not surprise mo to see.
him beat Lord Lyon. Auguste, the hope of the Fren,Jh
division, is said to have been beaten in his trial. So •ffas
Gladiateur last year when he came out and won this race,
as well as the Derby and St., Leger. Knight of, the Cres-
cent will represent John Scott's stable, but I do not think
successfully. Freedom came with a rush last week into
the betting, both for this event and the Derby, but juclging
from his last year's form ho can have no chance. Student
has been having too many Turkish baths to be fora-Adam,.
However ho may just run into a place. Lord Glasgow's,
lot has met with some support, the best of which is the
Maid of Masham colt. If Sealskin is better than Ley_
bourne, who is in the same stable, he has an outside
chance after the tatter's easy defeat of Beelzebub and
Crown Prince at the last Newmarket meeting. In closing.
my remarks I must give a plumper in favour of LOB I)
LYON, and if he is defeated it will be by JANITCJR.
The Newmarket Two-Year-Old Plate will be wen by
Fitzroy or Knight of the Garter. The One TI-,ousand
Guineas I expect Isom or REPULSE to win.

A FRESII" MAN.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Dp,57.

VICTORIA. CLUB BETTING—Tins DAY,

TWO THOUSAND.
6to 4 on Lord Lyons (taken and offered)
sto 1 agst Janitor (taken freely)
100 to 9 agst Freedom (taken)
15 to 1 agst Student (offered)
33 to 1 agst Apsley (taken)
6t04 on Janitor-1, 2, 3—(taken)
sto 1 agst Student —l, 2, 3—(taken)

CHESTER. CUP.
sto 1 agst Redcap (taken)
6to 1 agst Delight (taken)
9to 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken)
20 to 1 agst Baragah (taken)
25 to 1 agst Harry Brailsford (offered)
25 to 1 agst Lion (offered)
DERBY.
9to 2 agst Lord Lyon (taken)
sto 1 agst Rustic (taken freely)
50 to 1 agst Knight of the Crescent (taken);
100 to 1 agst Apsley (taken)
900 to 400 agst Rustic and Lord Lyon coupled (taken)

TATTERSALL'S—SATURDAY.
TWO THOUSAND.
6 to 4on Lord Lyon (taken)
6to 1 agst Janitor (taken)
12 to 1 agst Freedom (taken)
15 to 1 agst Student (taken)
6to 4 agst Freedom-1, 2, 3 (taken)
DERBY.
16 to 1 agst Delight (taken)
iio to 1 agst Student (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
9 to 2 agst Redcap (taken)
6to 1 agst Delight (taken)
9to 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken)
9to 1 agst Dolby (taken)
20 to 1 agst Sandal (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lion (taken)
50 to 1 agst 1i0u157 (taken)
50 to 1 agst Buckfoot (taken)

MANCHESTER BETTING-SATURDAY.

TWO THOUSAND.
6to 4on Lord Lyon (taken)
9 to 1 agst Janitor (taken)
12 to 1 agst Freedom (taken)
12 to 1 Maid of Masham c (taken)
20 to 1 agst Augustl (taken)

CHESTER CCP.
sto 1 agst Redcap (taken)
6to 1 agst Delight (taken)
14 to 1 agst Treasure Trove (taken)
14 to 1 agst Dalby (taken)
25 to 1 agst Sandal (taken)
33 to 1 agst Lion (taken)
40 to 1 agst Honesty (taken)

- THE PARIS RACES.
PARIS, April 15 (Evening).
Tho Paris races were run to-day, with tho following rc-,
suit :