The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1866.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BT A TRADES-
MAN.—Mr. John Banger, shell fishmonger, No. 372, Oxford-
street, was charged before Mr Knox with being drunk and
attempting to commit suicida.
Sergeant Stephens, 11 C, said—About four this morning
I was in Oxford-street and heard a noise in front of the
house, No. 372, Oxford-street, and on looking up at the
second floor I saw the defendant hanging out of the win-
dow, having on only his shirt. Knowing the defendant,
I said, "Mr. Banger is that you ?" I then knocked at the
door and was let in by Mrs. Banger. I went to the second
floor as quick as I could and found the defendant out of
the window holding the window sill with one hand. I took
hold of his arm, and with the assistance of another con-
stable got him inside the room, and then found that he was
drunk. I asked him why lie had done it, and he replied,
" My family has made me do this, and I'll do it again."
Mr. Eliza Banger, the wife of the defendant, stepped
forward, and said, in answer to Mr. Knox—My husband
has no other cause for acting as he has done but drink. He
is a habitual drunkard.

Mr. Knox —For all your sakes 1 will have him detained
a few days so that he may be kept from drink and spoken
to by the chaplain, and it may be a warning to him.
The defendant, who remained silent, was then taken to
the van.

AMERICA.

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ARRIVAL OF THE CUBA.
NEW YORK, March 7, Morning.
The following are the heads of the news brought
by the Cuba .
The Reconstruction Committee in the House of
Representatives have reported a resolution to admit
Tennessee into the Union on certain conditions.
A resolution has been introduced in' the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs for the United States
Government to guarantee a Mexican Republican
loan of $50,000,000.
The Fenian agitation continues active through-
out the country, and subscriptiOns are pouring
nlfro m all parts.
Money easy. Gold, 1231. Exchange on Lon-
don, 145 ; on Paris, 3f. 90c. Stocks firm, but
active. New York Centrals, 901 ; Illinois, 114 ;
Erie, 86i ; Five-Twenty Bonds, 1031. Cotton
quiet ; middling Upland, 44. Flour steady.
Wheat dull. Corn declining. Provisions dull.
Coffee steady. Sugar quiet. Molasses dull. Pe-
troleum—crude, 27 ; refined, 44.
The week's exports of cotton from New York has
amounted to 17,000 bales.
NEW ORLEANS, March 3.—Cotton, 46.

1. The:North Shore,..' rilragedy at Sydne.l.

A reKLAND, Jan. 8.
It would almost appear that there is a rivalry between
Sydney and Auckland in crime as well as in trade. It is
certainly remarkable that two atrocious unu•:lens should have
been committed in these two towns at the same time. The
Kinders, husband and wife, who figure so largely in the
Sydney tragedy, are well known in this town, where they
resided for some time before their removal to Sydney.
Henry Kinder, the murdered man, was a younger brother
of the Hey. John Kinder, a graduate of the University of
Cambridge, and head master of the Auckland Grammar
School, who married the daughter of Archdeacon Brown,
of Tauu•anga. The younger kinder livid the appointment
of teller in the Auckland branch of the Union Bank of
Australia, and, though known to be a man of intemperate
habits, discharged his duties iu such a way as to secure the
confidence of his employers. During his residence at
Auckland he formed the acquaintance of a Miss Wood, the
daughter of a land agent or land shark, who enjoyed the
reputation of being wealthy, and made her a proposal of
marriage. It is said that the girl, who was then only 20
years of age (this happened six years ago), was extremely
averse to the match, and opposed it in every way till her
father compelled her to accept Kinder's offer. The latter,
after his marriage, became more addicted to intemperance
than ever, and it was understood that their union was an
unhappy one, but no public scandal occurred during their
residence in Auckland. They afterwards removed to
Canterbury, where they formed the acquaintance of a
settler of the name of Jackson, one of the subordinate
actors in this immoral drama. An improper intimacy
sprung up between this man and Mrs. Kinder, which was
carried an when they had made the wretched husband in-
sensible with drink. Jackson waslshameless enough to
confess this in open court. After temporarily residing iu
Canterbury, Dunedin, Invercargil, and other places in the
south of New Zealand, the Kinders removed to Sydney,
and occupied a house at the North Shore. The husband
was removed from the Union Bank, and found employ-
ment as teller in the City Bank, whose appointment he
continued to hold till his death. A skilful dramatist collects
all the principal characters to form a grand tableau before
the curtain falls—the niceties of art have been equally
preserved in this case. Hood, the land shark, after pur-
suing his call in different parts of New Zealand with in-
different success, found himself reduced to poverty,
and removed to Bathurst, near Sydney, in the
hope of improving his fortunes. Jackson, Mrs.
Kinder's paramour, who seems to have been equally
unfortunate in his affairs, followed her to Sydney,
took up his abode in her house with the coniv-
ance of her wretched husband, who seems to have had no
sense of his own infamous position. A new actor now ap-
pears on the scene in the shape of the most unlikely per-
sonage of romance, a Hebrew dentist. Bertrand, the Jew,
is a married man, but at the sight of Mrs. Kinder he forgets
his marriage vows, and resolves to make her his own. Ire
mesmerises his wife, or, at least, exercises some occult in-
fluence over her till she becomes his accomplice, and aids
him in carrying out his plans. He sends Mrs. Kinder his
diamond ring, and is accepted as her lover; Jackson is dis-
carded and bribed by the Jew to remove to Melbourne.
Bertrand tells him significantly, on leaving, that he may
soon expect to bear of Kinder's death, and Jackson seems
to have fully understood what this expression implied. No
wonder that such a man should declare in open court that
the mind of man is very base—he, assuredly, was the basest
of the base. I wish to skim lightly over the surface of this
mars of moral ordure ; I envy not the man who would wish
to probe it to its lowest depths. Bertrand, the Jew, re-
solved to murder Kinder, to divorce his own wife, and to
marry Mrs. Kinder ; he certainly displayed the subtlety,
the energy, and the heartlessness of a demon in carrying
out his plans. One day it was repoi ted in Sydney that
Kinder had shot himself through the head with a pistol ;
no one acquainted with the habits of the man was surprised
to hear that he had taken his own life. Mrs. Kinder, Ber-
trand, and his wife gave evidence at the inquest, and a
verdict of temporary insanity was returned. The report
of Kinder's death reached Jackson at Melbourne, and he
resolved to profit by it. In a letter which he addressed to
Bertrand he reminded him of his parting words, and swore
that he would denounce him as the murderer if he did not
pay him £2O. The Hebrew was more than a match for
him ; instead of yielding to his demand, he denounced
him for having written a threatening letter, prose-
cuted him, and had him sentenced to 12 months' imprison-
ment. Murderers have often an irresistible impulse to con-
fess their crime. Bertrand yielded to this impulse, and told
his sister that it was he who fired the pistol at Kinder's
head, and gave him poison to put an end to his sufferings.
The Duke of Buckingham, who spent the night with the
Countess of Shrewsbury after killing her husband in a
duel, was thought a monster of vice. What name shall
wo bestow on Bertrand, the Jew, who compelled his
own wifo to share the same bed with himself and the
widow of his victim ? The story would be incredible if
the evidence were not overwhelming, that these three un-
natural beings descended to this the lowest depth of
human infamy. After a time Bertrand's sister found it
impossible to conceal the guilty secret which had been
confided to her, and denounced her brother as Kinder's
murderer. Tho three accomplices in the crime were at
once apprehended, and, at the investigation which ensued,
circumstances transpired which leave no moral doubt as
to their guilt, though there is reason to believe that Bor-
trand's wife acted from :compulsion. Jackson, released
from prison, repeated the words which Bertrand had used
in reference to Kinder's expected death on his leaving
Sydney. Bertrand's apprentice swore that his master fre-
quently avowed to him his intention to murder Kinder,
and induced him to purchase a tomahawk and pistols, and
to accompany him to his house at night for that purpose.
Bertrand's sister gave the minutest details of his confes-
sion. Among Bertrand's papers was found a diary, in-
tended for Mrs. Kinder's perusal, and written after her
removal from Sydney, to Bathurst, where she joined her
family after her husband's death. No love-sick hero of
romance has ever written or spoken anything half so
extravagant or absurd, and the style betrays the
greatest intimacy with the sensational novels of the day.
It contains nothing which will servo directly to incriminate
him, though it contains many expressions which might be
applied to the crime of which he is supposed to be guilty.
His confession to his sister was of the most extraordinary
character. He was driven to madness by the thought that
the woman he loved was at the disposal of another man,
and resolved to destroy him. His wife and his mistress
wero to be witnesses of and accomplices in his crime.
Everything was arranged beforehand—the day, the hour,
and the place. While Kinder was standing in a room in
his own house, with the two women in front of him, Ber-
trand discharged the pistol at his head, seated him on a
chair, and placed in his hand the pistol he had just fired,
and letters written by Jackson to his wife, containing evi-
dence of their guilt. It was only when his arrangements
were completed that the two women turned round and saw
Kinder holding the pistol and the letters in his hands. The
wound was not mortal, though it affected his intellect and
his power of speech. Often and again the poor wretch
affirmed to the doctor who visited him that ho did not
shoot himself, though his mind was too much impaired to
allow him to give any account of the affair. Bertrand,
dreading discovery, resolved to anticipate it by administer-
ing poison to his victim. The cup was mixed by Mrs.
Bertrand, and handed to Kinder by his own wife. All
were thus equally implicated in the crime, and had an
equal interest in concealing it. Bertrand's next object was
to obtain a divorce from his wife. He placed temptation
in her way, and tried to induce her by threats to yield to
it ; but ho writes in his diary—" It is my misfortune to
have a wife who is virtuous." Ho had pledged his
word of honour to his wife that he would never cut her
off by poison; and this fact proves that the poor woman
had reason to apprehend such a fate. Much sympathy
is felt for her, as she was merely a blind instru-
ment in the hands of her husband, and no more responsible
for her acts than if she had been an automaton. At least
such was the general impression, and her release from pri-
son has given general satisfaction. While there can be no
doubt of Bertrand's guilt, it is doubtful whether the evi-
dence will be sufficiently strong to convict him. The affair
has created quite a sensation in Auckland, where the Kin-
ders were well known, and the trial of Bertrand will rank
among the causes celebres of criminal jurisprudence in the
Australian colonies.

" TIIE DEATII of LUCRETIUS" is said to be the
title of the Poet-Laureate's new poem.

SIR EDWIN LANDSEER has actually completed the
second model of the lions for the base of the Nelson column!
THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE IMPERIAL "VIE DE
JULES CESAR" wilt not be published, it is said, till the Em-
peror Napoleon 111. has satisfied himself whether a third
Alesia, in Savoy has any title to dispute the claim of
authenticity with those put forth for Franche-Comt6 and
Burgundy.

THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE is reported to have
been found at last. Hermetic art and alchemy are no longer
fabulous things of the past. MM. Dr. Henri Fabre and
Franz have placad before the Academy their discovery of
the means of transmuting silver, copper, and quicksilver
into gold. Our readers, who wish to grow rapidly rich are
referred to a paper in the Revue Seientifique portion of our
Paris contemporary, (.'lllustration, of the 3d of February,
for the details of this great discovery.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Last evening, between
seven and eight o'clock, a most destructive fire broke out
at Mr. Stephen Cox's livery stables, Clifton-road, 3faida-hill,
adjoining the Spread Eagle. We are sorry to say that Mr.
Cox lost nine horses, two of them being very valuable, be-
sides other property. The sufferer, we understand, is not
insured.

EXPECTED FENIAN DISTUEBANCES AT LEEDS.—
We learn by electric telegraph that in consequence
of rumours of an expected Fenian outbreak at Leeds the
police force has been augmented by the addition of 40
county officers and 50 resident pensioners. A large num-
ber of members of local volunteer corps and 600 tradesmen
have been sworn in as special constables. The mayor an-
nounced to them that pike-making and secret drilling were
going on in the town, and that there was a regular coin
munication between Dublin and the Fenians there.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, March IG.

The grand jury of the county Roscommon, The
O'Conor Don, foreman, have declared their approval
of the measures of the Government against the
Fenian conspiracy, and passed the following resolu-
tion with reference to the constabulary :—" The
high sheriff and the grand jury of the county Ros-
common, assembled in spring assizes, 1866, unite in
bearing testimony to the universal loyalty of the
constabulary in this county during these times of
temptation; and wish also to testify to their good
conduct, skill, activity, intelligence, and zeal in the
faithful discharge of their duties."

Ten were arrested yeSterday by Inspector Arm-
strong and a large party of police, on suspicion of
Fenianism. Two, Warren and Nugent, a supposed
deserter, were found in a lodging-house, 19, High-
street ; and Pix, at 142, Francis-street ; and two
more at 149, in the same street. They gave
the following account of themselves Hayden,
is an ex-policeman from Waterford ; J. Leedom a
gunsmith from London ; J. Heron from Listowel,
J..M'Enery, tailor, from Nenagh ; R. Lacy,
Kerry ;
from Castle Dermott ; J. Gannon, from Roscom-
mon ; J. Joyce, a native of Dublin, who served
in the American army ; and O'Brien, a pikemaker.
They had all come to Dublin within a few months,
some within a few weeks, and, though out of em-
ployment, they were living comfortably. It is sup-
posed they were waiting for the "rising." A young
gentleman was brought up yesterday charged with
having a double-barrelled pistol in his possession
without licence, but as the police did not think he
had any evil intentions he was admitted to bail.
Hugo and O'Curry, arrested on the Ist of March
for being in possession of ammunition and military
instruction books in Nelson-street, were yesterday
allowed by Mr. Stronge to stand out on bail, but
their companion, Hunt, arrested at the same time
and place, was committed under the Lord-Lieuten-
ant's warrant and sent to Mountjoy Prison. Nine-
teen prisoners under sentence in the Antrim county
gaol have been removed to Downpatrick Gaol, to
make way for the prisoners sent from Dublin.
Yesterday another batch of 25 Fenian prisoners
was sent from Mountjoy Prison to Belfast by the
8 o'clock a.m. train. They were taken to the ter-
minus in prison vans strongly guarded by mounted
police. In the course of the day a number of pri-
soners of the same class arrived by train from Ennis-
killen, and were lodged in Kilmainham Gaol.
Two more Fenian prisoners have been lodged in
Clonmel Gaol from Carrick-on-Suir. The Clonniel
Chronicle states that in that town and neighbour-
hood 26 persons have been arrested, one of them a
travelling agent of the brotherhood. He always
took a first-class ticket and lived at first-class hotels,
faring sumptuously every day.

FRIDAY E VENING.

The Gazette of this evening contains an order in
Council under the recent Act 29 Vict. cap. 4, for-
bidding the importation into Ireland from Great
Britain of any swine, gnats, turnips, mangold wurzcl,
dung, hay, straw, fodder, or litter likely to carry
infection.

The Lord-Lieutenant has proclaimed the Baronies
of Narragh and Rheban East and West, Kilkea and
Moone, in the county of Kildare.
Mr. H. A. Herbert was elected to-day for Kerry
without opposition.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Railways.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
1E63. 1865. 1866 1865

£ L
Belfast and N. Counties 9)} 99} 1,859 1.E97
Belfast and Comity Down.... 44} 4t } 645 677
Blyth and Tyne . 36 56 2,151 2,195
Brecon and Merthyr
Bristol and Exeter l2l} 121} 5,881 5.583
Caledonian, Scottish Central 4ls} 408 25,561 23.553
Cambrian 139 121 2,119 2,086
Cocliermouth K & Penrlth
Cockermouth and Workiu
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 413 355
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6i t,} 142 123
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 6si 65} 1,660 1.499
Deeside l7 17 2 9 299
Do Extension
Dublin & Belfast J unction.... 63 63 1,3,1 1.250
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,573 1.478
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 91i 2,615 2,979
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c
.... 50 51 3, . 764 2 991
_._ _._ ........ ......_.

GlasgoW & South-Western 249 149 10:803 9,954
Gt. Eastern,Nrik..&E.Union 7211 6681 30.502 31 802
Great Northern 404 404 33,705 33,64 4
Great North of Scotland 6B 53 1,304 1.035
Do Branches 42 4t 982 1,091
Gt. Nortim. & Westn. (Irei.) B3 711 6 5 455
91.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3875 8874 7,844 6 898
Great Western 1292 1270 61,015 61.154
Hull & Hornsea
Highland
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,703 1,633
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 42,780 37,260
Limerick and Ennis.. 241 241 121 163
Limerick and Foynes 261 264 61 144
Llanelly 461 464 595 3,1
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931 2671 16,251 15.164
London, Chatham, & Dover; f 1345 127 ) 7,811 6,743
all Metropolitan Extension 112 114 j 1,992 1,675
Do. Kent toast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
&lan.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
blanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 95 94 1,361 1,277
blaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 4l 31 3,711 2, 4t2
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6774 66:34 48,539 447e9
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2614 2601 4778 4..676
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,850 2,707
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12071 11601 64,474 59,066
North London ll 9 4,532 3,277
North Staffordshire 258 258 7,901 7.626
Pembroke and Tenby ll4 114 90 51
Rhymney l9l 191 1,055 1,075
Scottish North-Eastern . . 138 138 5,455 6124
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1,147 816
South Devon 9B 794 3,601 3,519
South-Eastern 315 308 19,071 17,652
Taff Vale 6l 61 5,912 6,19 (
Ulster 1054 1051 2,601 2,519
Vale of Clwyd
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 415 158
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,646 1,254
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 064 600
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 828 30,296 29,154
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction 264 264 331 329
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 14591 10,098 5,116
Detroit and Milwaukie 3,982 4,495
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 1,689 5,101
Eastern of France 15',1 1483 67,551 60028
Eastern Bengal
East Indian , 1129 11051 - -
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 22,955 24,145
Great Central of Belgium 285 261 6,857 6,007
Great Indian Peninsula 6241 585 41,931 20,586
Great Luxembourg IR 134 6,596 4,533
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 345 14,,,72 6.383
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 778 713 17,064 14,843
Northern of Canada ... , 94 94 1,410 1,319
Northern of France ... ... 724 724 69027 51,419
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 2006 1971 136,184 124,138
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 75,1..9 08,302
Recife and San Francisco, &c 775 774 1,371 1256
Sclnde. ..
Do. Punjab, &c 253 45 1,818 243
South Austrian, &c .. .. 1798 1646 51,543 49,093
Southern of France 863 823 2 .132 26,780
Victoria
Welland 25 25 87 175
West & N-Wn. of France

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton., Mar. 22.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet April 6
Ditto, by French packet Mar. 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 24.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Mar. 22.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16.
Falkland Islands
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Mar. 21.

Ditto, via Mareeilles .......... » ....Mar. 16
India (Bombay), via Southampton.. Mar. 16.

Ditto, via Ilarseillee .. - Mar. 25
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 16.
Ditto, via Marseilles Mar. 16.
Mauritius, via Southampton Mar. 16
Ditto, via Marseille 3
Newfoundland ... , April 11
Portugal April 6.
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. ........... 4?
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet Mar. 22.
Ditto, by United States packet. via Southamp
ton ...... ...
Ditto, via Cork ................. .. .
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Mar. 16.
West Indies and FACHIO (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and )Sexioo Mar. 16
Cuba and Mexico Feb 31.
Bahamas, via New York. April s.
Bermuda, ditto April 11
West Coat.t of Africa. Madeira, and Tcneriffe .... April 12

THAMES SUBWAY.—Last night, at eight o'clock, a
Crowded public meeting was held at the Literary
Institution, Deptford, to take measures for promoting the
formation of a subway for foot passengers and vehicles
under the Thames from Deptford-green to the Isle of Dogs.
The chair was occupied by Sir Charles Bright, M.P., for
Greenwich ; and it was stated that the plan (the bill for
which had passed the second reading of the House of Com-
mons) was to have two iron tubes 17 feet in diameter, each
tube to have a roadway for vehicles of 14 feet, and two
pathways of 3 feet 6 inches on either side of the roadway.
Resolutions were adopted in accordance with the objects
of the meeting, and a local committee was appointed to
promote the carrying out of the project.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

WARWICK RACES—This DAY.;
LEY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
WELTER. HANDICAp cup.

Jack's Alive
Gamecock .

Corsica.,

Five ran.
HANDICAP.

Wild Thyme
Lord of the Manor
Balornock

MILITARY HURDLE RACE.

Merrimac 1
Westbury
Four ran. Won by ten lengths.
CHALLENGE CUP.

Cortolvin t
Bolingbroko

Five ran. Won in a cantor.
A SWEEPSTAKES.

L Lincoln
Cloistor .. ... t
. 3
Sweet Spirit
___ .

Nine ran. Won ty a length.
HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE.

Beuazet
Sir Bobby
Merrimac . a

Fire ran. Won by eight lengths.

MANCHESTER BETTING-THIS DAY.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
sto '2 agst Mail Train (offered)
10 to 1 bar one (offered)
TWO THOUSAND.
3to 1 agst Lord Lyons (taken)
4to 1 agst Student (offered)
DERBY.
Bto 1 agst Lord Lyons (taken)
14 to 1 agst Student (offered)
40 to 1 agst Blue Riband (offered)

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—THIs.DAy.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
5 to 2 agst Mail Train (offered)
10 to 1 agst Scamander (taken and offered)
11 to 1 agst Pearl Diver (taken and offered)
13 to 1 agst Raglan (offered)
20 to 1 agst Kingsley (taken)
22 to 1 agst Ethelred (offered)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to 1 agst Salpinctes (offered)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
sto 2 agst Lord Lyon (wanted)
sto 1 agst Student (taken and offered)
CITY AND SUBURBAN.
18 to 1 agst Delight (taken freely)
DERBY.
15 to 1 agst Student (taken and offered)

Alarming Accident on the LoDdon, Chatham,
and Dover Railway.—This Day

This afternoon an accident of an alarming
and serious nature occurred on the London, Chat-
ham, and Dover Railway at the point known as
the Stewart's Lane Junction. A passenger train
had just arrived at the junction, when a goods' train
appeared coming at full speed, and, despite all en-
deavours to arrest its progress, it came into violent
collision with the passenger train, and caused the
greatest alarm to the whole of the passengers.
The railway servants at once set about render-
ing assistance to those injured by the collision,
when it was found that a lady, whose name it
was impossible to ascertain, had received severe
injury about the head, and her face was cut in
many places by the broken glass of the lamps
and windows of the carriage. Three or four other
travellers were also injured by the force of the col-
lision, and received much injury by being pitched
from their seats.

The railway authorities are very reluctant to give
any information relative to the accident. In fact,
all they will communicate is an admission of the
accident having taken place at the place stated.

A WORD ABOUT SKITTLE-SHARPERS.--My ha-
pression is that those who fall victims to this class
of men are generally self-conceited persons who have an
exaggerated idea of their own acuteness—an over-confident
belief that they cannot be imposed upon. " Young men
from the country " are famous for this kind of foolish pre-
sumption, and they are, of course, the easiest prey. Yet,
within the circle of my own acquaintance, I knew a sensi-
ble young man, born and bred in London, who allowed
himself to be duped in this manner. He was standing
looking in at a shop window, when a stranger, of about his
own age, soft-spoken and plausible, joined him, entered
into a conversation, walked on with him, and finally asked
him if he had over played at skittles. The sensible young
man replied in the negative. How curious ! The stranger
had never played either. What fun it would be to sea
what sort of a game it was. To be brief, they went to a
skittle-ground, played for some little time with varying
success, the sensible young man ultimately losing the ton
or fifteen shillings ho had about him, and actually agree-
ing to go home to get some more money. While the ex-
citement of the game lasted he had no suspicion he was
being robbed. It was not until half-an-hour's walking in
the fresh air had somewhat cooled him that he recognised
the fact.—Once a Week.

AMERICAN FINANCE.—The internal revenue for
the fiscal years ending the 30th June, 1864 and
1865, was £23,430,000 and £42,225,000 respectively;
and, calculating according to the average of the offi-
cial returns for the first 33 weeks, the aggregate
this year will reach the vast sum of £65,000,000.
It is even believed in America that the 19 weeks of
the fiscal year still remaining will show a conside-
rable increase over the average of the preceding
weeks, and that the total internal revenue will
approach £67,000,000. The Customs revenue is
equally elastic. It is calculated, on the basis of
the official returns for about two-thirds of the year
that have already expired, at £36,000,000. U
these anticipatio h
anticipations
tbeeresult b
realised, hie aschtthoeurne
dg seemsin
now little doubt,;
since the revenue will exceed by £12,000,000 the
estimates which its Finance Minister made up after
five months of the year had passed. The expendi-
ture of the Government, including the charge for
the public debt, is not placed by any competent
authority at more than £60,000,000 in gold; and,
after reducing the internal revenue to a gold
value, we find that the receipts would exceed
£84,000,000, leaving a surplus of £24,000,000
for the reduction of debt or taxation. This is
an ample margin for substantial relief, and if poli-
tical convulsions can be avoided, there seems
scarcely a limit to the capacity of the country
for meeting the public needs. In the face
of deficient value in the exports, the commercial
returns present the prominent fact of constantly
increasing rates of duty. Thus, in 1864, goods
were thrown on the New York market to the
amount of £36,846,000, at an average duty of 36}
grpeeracteenr,t.b;eiwnghile, the amount was still
at an average duty of
46i per cent. Taking the peace months from July
1 to December 1, 1865, the sales of foreign goods
in New York were £26,925,000, on which were
£43,882,000,i1866f
levied the enormous Customs of £13,015,000, or
o be
stillnea on therly49p se, theerinceerneta.Theet
swollenrurns tid° seems t
for
th week end-
ing February 17, in the great commercial city,
showing an importation of 1 -
, 33,290 against
$3,772,661 for the same week
of the preceding
year; while the Customs • received for the month of
January at the same port alone amount to
£2,500,000. Now, when we consider that, in
specie value, the exports have not much exceeded
three-fourths of the imports—that there is a large
falling off in gold remittances—and that, notwith-
standing these facts, the exchanges are not adverse
to Y New
- - or--we have some elements for appre-
ciating the great amount of American Stocks which
must have been purchased in Europe. The result
seems to be that America is buying on credit in this
country and others some of the supplies rendered
absolutely necessary by
the consumption and ex-
haustion of four years of war, but that credit is
(riven, not to the merchant, but to the Government.
'
The business ought to be safe and profitable for
ex circumstances, the
us ; and, under e.
United States are not paying greater rates than
they can readily bear. The trade between America
and ourselves is profitable to both, and its increase
is an additional guarantee for peace and cordiality
in our mutual relations. It is therefore a subject
for congratulation instead of alarm.