The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-12 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.

The market opens strong. American lcl above
Friday last. Sales probably 15,000 balen.

STATE OF TRADE.

BRADFORD, Oct. 11.--The report a the Liver-
pool cotton-market, representing large sales, has no
influence on this market. Staplers nevertheless,
have sold some fair quantities of wool at last week's
rates. Growers in the country are holding out for
high prices, which in the absence 'of any buoyant
feeling here, staplers cannot concede. Prices, though
firm, cannot be quoted as dearer than last Monday.
Spinners engaged in the export trade are not receiv-
ing fresh orders in yarns. Soroe spinners are get-
ting slacker. The home branch continues good, and
the demand for twofold and coloured yarns keeps
up well. Spinners in whose hands stocks are accu-
mulating are not indisposed to meet the buyer.
There is no improvement in the piece trade. Manu-
facturers receive some scanty orders, and are pretty
well employed on old contracts. There has been no
change in prices.

Mr. Isaac Butt, Q.C., according to the Irish
papers, has become a Roman Catholic. He is about to
publish a pamphlet, giving his reasons for the change. It
is said that this change is by no means a hasty one, as he
has been meditating it for years.
HIGH POSTAGE.—An American paper contains a
statement, received from a gentleman in London, that a
magazine posted in the United States, to be delivered to
him in London, is charged 64c. postage, when he could buy
the magazine in Paternoster-row for 14c. less than the mere
postage.

IMPERSONATING A DECEASED BROTHER, AND AT-
TEMPTED SUICIDE.—An indictment was to have been pre-
ferred at the Dover Quarter Sessions on Monday against a
man who gave the name of George Peter Mumford, for
obtaining moneys under false pretences. The case was sur-
rounded with circumstances of an extraordinary character
Some 28 years ago there lived in Dover a respectable family
named Mumford. One of the brothers, named George Peter,
a seaman, in 1838 went upon his last voyage from England
to St. Kitt's in Sir John Rae Reid's ship Julia. The Julia
being lost with all hands three days off St. Kitt's, and
nothing more being heard of George Mumford; who up to
that time had been in the habit of regularly communicating
with home, his family concluded that he was drowned, and
went through all the forms of mourning for the lost brother.
After the lapse of 28 years the family on 7th August last
were startled by Peter's resurrection—or rather by the ap-
pearance of the prisoner, who claimed fraternity as the
long-lost brother Peter George Mumford. Arriving from
Calais, the prisoner proceeded to a tavern kept by Mrs. Bart-
lett (whose maiden name was Mumford), and accosted her
with the words " You're my sister Sarah, and I am your
brother George." Though Mrs. Bartlett failed to recognise
in him any of the features of her supposed lost brother, he
was greeted within the dwelling, and a brother, Mr. Ben-
jamin Mumford, was called in. On his appearance the Ft-
swoenreer
producedat once a addressed re
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and
seemed
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dily identified by name by the prisoner that all
was
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to the bedsicieref
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Prisoner, a s
toat of a •he
"his mother," a bedridden old lady,
George,
yearsand by her Lir:
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whetherhi
his request'
et, relationship
was tak,eEt
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was lost with all hands,
lay kissed
alongside her, tel
herd her
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could have escaped when the ship
t f cke joint whe •u t o chief mate
finger was kn od ou o
my
throuot that I and anotheh r man left the
the prisoner said, "Lock here at my finger—that is how
and I had a row;
why ho
ship three days before she was
wrecked." On being asked
had not written home he replied that he had done
so repea-edly, and had sent £3O and other sums of motley
for "his mother," which she had never received. He added
hwhatekv o
whatever
that since he had been away ho had lived in California, in
Spain, and for the last fourteen years he had been keeping
an hotel in New York. On the strength •of his statement
that ho was in hourly expectation of a considerable sum of
Americanmone yfromcoCntstlual, m
Calais, wrsh.eßrearhtleethtaldetlhefttmLave it
in
a charge
rthhee
asked both in money and kind, and the family
their rejoicings by excursions togethor to ept up
different parts
of the country which were to revive recollections of times
and events more than twenty-eight years ago. What
astonished the family more than
all was the wonderful
memory of "brother George," for he recounted the mos
trivial circumstances occurring just prior to his going to
sea twenty-eight years ago, such as making a mark over
the doorway of their residence
at Charlton, a fight taking
place at Ewell, a walk
down Ratcliff-highway to the
Docks, and his bringing
era stepsm monkey kie n y
uponhome
the from
scene—one ab r oad
At length an elder broth
Mr. Henry Beer Mumford, Trinity pilot of London; he,
less credulous and with perhaps a better recollection of
"brother George" than the others, at once gave a clue to
the scoundrel's deception. Inquiry was immediately made
at the Bank as to the truth of what the fellow had since
stated, that his money having arrived from Calais had
been deposited .in the Bank ; and on this proving to be
Use, the man was given into custody of the police, and a
magisterial investigation served to expose so gross a piece
of fraud and deception as to justify the man's being sent
for trial by a jury. While under incarceration the fellow
endeavoured to starve himself to death, and this failing, ho
resorted to more determined means of self-destruction.
Being under medical treatment, medicine was supplied to
him in his cell. On a recent morning the warder, on visit-
ing the cell, found the prisoner insensible and weltering
in a pool of blood. The gaol surgeon was immediately
called in, and on examining the cell the medicine bottle
was found broken, and one of the pieces told by its appear-
ance that the prisoner had used it, to sever the artery in his
arm. There is not the slightest doubt that the prisoner
contemplated suicide, for at the top of his arm he had tied
tightly his neckerchief, thus causing the blood to flow
freely, from the open artery. As evidence of insanity super-
vened, the man was removed to a lunatic asylum, where
he is not likely even to recover so as to take his trial on
the charge upon whiCh he stands mualitted.