The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-24 00:00:00

Liverpocl Cotton Market. _This Day.

Market quiet. Sales probably 6,000 bales.
Prices in favour of buyers.

MARKETS,---This Day.

COVENT GARDEN.

Considering the time of year the supply of fruit and
vegetables on sale here is tolerably good. In most kinds
of produce a fair amount of business is passing at our quo-
tations.

FRUIT—Pine apples, 8s to 10s; hot house grapes, —s to
—s ; foreign do, is Od to 3s Od ; filberts, is Gd to 2s Od per lb ;
apples, 2s Gd to 4s Od per half sieve; oranges, 4s Od to 8s ;
lemons; 3s 6d to 7s per 100.
VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, 2s Od to 3s Od; white do.,
10d to 1 s 3d ; Savoys, Gd to 1s 2d ; horseradish, is to 2s
Od per doz. heads; greens, 3s Od to 4s Od; turnips, is 6d to
2s Od ; carrots, 4s Gd to 5s Gd per doz bunches ; brocoli, Gd
to 8d ; rhubarb, 6d to is Od per bundle ; Brussels spouts,
1s 6d to 2s Od per half sieve ; sea,kale, 1s Od to 2s 6d ; mush-
rooms, Od to is 6d; new potatoes, is to is 3d per punnet.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING—THis DAY.

CHESTER. CUP.
12 to 1 agst Saladin (taken)
16 to 1 agst Gong (taken)
20 to 1 agst Harry Brailsford (taken)
20 to 1 agst Dalby (taken and offered)
20 to 1 agst Surney (taken)
20 to 1 agst Baragah (offered)
22 to 1 agat Sandal (taken)
TWO TILOU&AND.
to 4 agat Lord Lyon (taken freely)
Bto 1 agst Janitor (taken)
100 to 8 agst Student (offered)

DERBY.
6to 1 agst Lord Lyon (taken)
Gto 1 agst rustic (offered)
33 to 1 agst Student (ofiered)
40 to 1 agst Strathconan (taken and offered)

THE AMERICAN PRESS.

The New York Herald is severe on Congress. It
holds the national representatives responsible for
the impending " ruin" of the country. Thus :
"At the commencement of the present session of
Congress our future was full of promise. Every
one looked forward to an immediate revival of that
commercial activity in virtue of which we had
grown so great in the years before the war. We
had come through the tremendous contest with a
strength that astonished the world, and we seemed
determined to show to the world that we were fresh
enough to fight it oven again if it had been neces-
sary, and that the many requirements of the con-
test, and the burdens it had put upon us, could not
dampen the energy and ardour of our career. We
were also in a fair way to give the lie to those bad
prophets who had said the States will never be one
again. Reconstruction had already made the
happiest progress. Our Executive had treated the
conquered foe with a moderation that all statesmen
of past times had commended for such an occa-
sion, though none had ever put it in practice. We
saw already the good effects of that magnanimous
policy ; for the Southern people, under its
influence, had accepted the result of the struggle
in a spirit as generous as our own, and were
doing their all to become good citizens once more.
Our merchants saw, with the ready perception of
acute traders, that this great section of the country
was coming into relation with our markets once
more, and an immense spring business was counted
upon. Labour started well in the South, and
the North, counting ou the cotton crops, gave a new
activity to its pills and its ships. We were going
into the business of peace with all that enthusiasm
with which, four years previously, we had gone into
the business of war. Where arc all these fair pro-
spects
now ? Crushed under the ruthless heel of the
Radical majority in Congress. As Peace rose from
her four years of prostration, the Radicals forced
her down again, spurned and trampled upon her,
and yelled with frantic fury for the war to be kept
up; for the continuation of a cowardly war against
a people who had laid down their arms ; for a war
of legislation against a people who stood at our
mercy. As its first consequence this murderous
course destroyed the confidence that capital every-
where
felt hi the early restoration of the country to
its natural condition. It demoralised Southern
society more completely than the war had done. It
deprived the Southern farmer of the very incentive
to toil, and it paralysed all that activity in our busi-
ness that in any way had relation to the South. An
immense business that counted on the revival of the
nation everywhere will be without its customers by
the direct consequence of the acts of Congress.
Merchants will fail, factories will stop, hands will
be idle, and wages will go down—all as the conse-
quence of the crazy nigger-worshipping acts of
Congress. Mr. Lincoln feared that when the war
was over the South might refuse to send represen-

tatives to Congress—might practically dissolve
the Union by refusing to take part in the Go-
vernment ; and he judged it so important for
Southern members to be in Congress that he
was willing to adopt some measures to force
their attendance. How diffeient was that idea of

our Government from the Radical idea that will
not admit the members when sent ! All the Radical
fighting with the President is to keep out of Con-
gress men that Mr. Lincoln thought we ought to
force into Congress, and for this object they are
willing to ruin the country, to keep it in a state of
anarchy, to render it impossible for labour to flourish
and trade to find its natural channels. They are
destroying business, and breaking down the finances
of the nation to secure the success of their party
schemes, and they must be held responsible for it
before the country.
The New York Tribune defends the action of

Congress and opposes the President. Our New
York contemporary says that a great majority of
the members of Congress were elected during the
war for the Union—elected as unqualified, uncom-
promising foes of the rebellion. Others were chosen
as Democrats, but their case is not now in point.
These war Unionists find, when they assemble in
Congress, that the rebellion has collapsed, and that
quite a number of the conspicuous military and
L civil magnates are now claimants of scats in this
very body—are proffered as pillars of that very
national edifice which they so recently shed rivers
of blood to subvert and destroy. Is it surprising—
is it not perfectly natural—that those who have been
fighting for the Union—many of them still smart-
ing from wounds inflicted by rebel bullets and
mourning their brothers and their sons slain by
rebel shells and bayonets—should pause and in-
quire before admitting these red-handed foes of yes-
terday to the inner sanctuary of the national life ?
It is not yet six years eince men sat in Congress,
plotting day by day, in conjunction with Cabinet
Ministers, Foreign Ambassadors, and Governors of
States, the disruption and downfall of the Ameri-
can Union ; some of these, with their humbler co-
conspirators, now demand admission as a right to
seats in either House. Is it not reasonable that
Congress should pause and inquire in what spirit,
with what feelings and purpose they come ?

HISTORY OF ItAMSAY AND LAKE OF JAMAICA.—
Mr. Gordon D. Ramsay, the provost marshal, against
whom charges of murder are pending in Jamaica, was em-
ployed as clerk in a merchant's office iu Birmingham in
in the year 1849. Pecuniary embarrassment compelled
him to leave the town, and he enlisted iu the 17th Lancers,
with which regiment he served in the Crimea. He was in
the Balailava charge, and was wounded in the leg. He
went with his regiment to India and served in the Indian
mutiny. He afterwards got his discharge, and returned to
Birmingham, whore he remained for a short time, and then
went to Jamaica., where his relations resided. He there
got into the police force. In Birmingham he was remark-
able for a superabundance of animal spirits, but those who
knew him say that there was nothing cruel in his disposi-
tion. Lake, the newspaper reporter, was in the same
office with Ramsay in Birmingham. He is the son of a
Jamaica merchant—hence his leaving England for that
country. He was for some time at the Wesleyan College
in Sheffield. He has some coloured blood in his veins.

A REFORM BILL SUPPORTED BY ALL PARTIES.—
Reform, Financial reform, is a policy unanimously
supported in our house, and it is a policy whim has always
been attended with the most satisfactory results—results
which, inasmuch as they add to the stability of our estab-
lismonts, are similar to those anticipated by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer for the bill now under the consideration
of Parliament. Our Reform Bill contains but one clause.
We lower our rates, whenever the state of the markets
beca se will permit a reduction, and we can confidently relyuon
theth
loyalty of our vastly augmented constituency,e
members of our house aro obliged to occupy themselves
with measures calculated to insure universal approval.—
E. MosEs and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke Tailors,
ll
Drapers, Bootmakers, and General Out-
fitters,
and Aldgate, New Oxford-street, Totten-
ttsili hosiers,uurie s
ham-court-road. Country Branch—Bradford, Yorkshire.
THE REFORM BILL, says the Law Times of to-
day,:is to be contested in all its stages. On the second read-
ing Earl Grosvenor, a Liberal, will move au amendment,
to the effect that it is not expedient to entertain a mea-
sure of electoral reform that does not deal with the entire
subject. This amendment will be supported by the whole
Conservative party, and it is expected, by a considerable
body of the Liberals. It is thought to be very doubtful
whether the Government will be able to secure a majority.
Should it fail, the Ministry will resign, Lord Derby will
be " sent for," and a mixed Ministry of the Conservative
Liberals and Liberal Conservatives will be attempted.
With what success remains to be seen. On this point opi-
nions aro divided; but office is a marvellous solvent of
small differences, and in principle, as in policy, these par-
ties are as ono. Personal claims can only be the grounds
for dissension. At all events the Whigs proper are far
more nearly allied to the Conservatives than to the Radi-
cals.

1111 1) EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocic.

DEATH OF 'I CIE RY-Q,UELIT OF Tii

FRENCH.

We have just received the following intelligence
from Claremont :

This morning (Saturday) Queen Marie Amelie
expired almost suddenly and without suffering.
Yesterday evening (Friday) the members of the
Royal Family and her Majesty's attendants per•
ceived manifest symytoms of weakness.

Her Majesty passed a somewhat restless night,
but became drowsy in the morning, and soon re-
sit lied her soul to God, surrounded by her children
and grandchildren who reside at Claremont, and
by those living in the neighbourhood, who had been
summoned the moment her Majesty's state ap-
peared critical.

The Great University Billiard Match.

(THIS AFTERNOON.)
CAMBRIDGE V. OXFORD.

If Fortune denied to Cambridge aquatic honours
this morning, the success that has attendedher cham-
pions at the great billiard match this afternoon must
be great consolation, because it has not been by a
narrow and at all a doubtful victory, but a com-
plete and perfect triumph from nearly beginning to
end. The names of champions selected to contend
for honours were Mr. Whickham and Mr. Cromp-
ton, Cambridge University ; and Mr. William
Rogers and Mr. Watts Russell, for Oxford.
The great contest took place in one of the large
rooms in St. James's Hall, around the four sides
of which raised seats were erected, all of which
fully occupied, and in the centre space a new
splendid billiard table was placed. At three
o'clock the four players, who for a few
minutes previous had been taking a few
stray shots across the table, took up their
position, and the play commenced. The game was
500 up. At the start, Oxford, owing to good and
careful playing of valiant knights, took the lead,
and it seemed as if they were going to
win, as the saying is, " anyhow," but
when 92 had been reached, fickle fortune
turned her favours upon Cambridge, for at that
point her champion's score stood 139. Mr. Whick-
ham made fine play when 174 had been reached,
and then his companion, Mr. Crompton, still fur-
ther strehgthenel the score by some very good
strokes. When the marker called out the Cambridge
score as 212, Oxford stood at 193, and at this point
it may be said Mr. Watts Russell's and Mr.
Rodger's good fortune deserted them. Mr.
Whickham here went in and having apparently
got his hand in pulled up the score to 253. Mr.
Russell followed him, and made his score 221, but
again the Cambridge men N‘do'ednn2itaBd3ael.ie3Tat:hl, 6epagoiaimid.no-wts-wl,ieteihio
boonthahnadd
wplhaeyne dc theirain Cambridge
scoreidg e shtao
Oxford score stood at 237. Mr. Russell and his
partner seemed here rather to despair of success, bu tr
they went manfully to work, and pulled the score up
to 289, but at this point of the game the Cambridge
score was 369. The marker shortly after called
out the position of the game,
viz., 40 agst 292.
At 424, Whickham made a fine cannon up the
cushion, which elicited loud cheering, and the game
went on till 500 was called for Cambridge, the
Oxford score was but 330.

The play was not marked by any very extraor-
dinary ability, the game in fact being an ordinary
good game,and nothing more.
'Fhe game lasted two hours and a half.

Th 3 Charge of Forging the Countess of
Bellew's Will.

Mrs. Anne Casse, a lady of property, residing ab
Winterton House, St. John's-wood, again appeared
to answer the charge of forging the will of the kW
Catherine Countess Bellew, and further, to uttering
the same with intent to defraud.

Mr. Piffard appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Lewis for the defence.

Henry De Leros, North-Western-terrace, Coal.
road, Camden-town, interpreter—ln 1859 I was in
Mr. Casse's service, and saw Simmonds frequently
write, about 1862. I took receipts from her.
(Looking at the will). I believe that handwriting
is in the writing of Simmonds.

In cross-examination nothing was elicited except
that Simmonds signed the tradesmen's receipts for
sums like ss. 6d.

By the magistrate—She usually signed "E.
Simmonds." (Looking at letters), the witness
would not swear to the writing.

George Regden Mummery—l reside at Henley-
on-Thames, a currier. I knew Esther Simmonds
from 1827 until about 1848. She resided in Henley.
Mrs. Simmonds kept the books at her husband's, a
pastrycooks. I very frequently saw her write, and
have had her receipts to bills. She generally wrote
with a quill-pen ;" E. Simmonds" was her signa-
ture. (Looking at the will) I see no reason to doubt
but that is the genuine handwriting of Esther
• Simmonds.

In cross-examination he swore to two signatures
to letters, one signed " Hester Simmonds," both
written by Simmonds. Never saw her Write since
1848, but believed, as an honest man, that it was
her writing. I saw a signature
before I saw the will siogfnHataurie at of
l'‘,‘ ; Mr. J. eSnimnimngeon.ds"
a clergyman and relation of ebury, Somersetshire,
disinterested party.l
Mr. John Hancock,
alindon't believe the signature
the Countess—l am a
fre-
quently quarrelled,frFiernadnsc Frances
after-
wards. the Countess's.
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Caroline I
will she would write.
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anybody
will._i (Mistakes else.
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explained.)
Mr. mismakes in the
11, r. Lewis ojected that the evidence was not ad-
missible.
Mr. Arnold told Mr. Lewis he had made the evi-
dence admissible by calling evidence respecting the
children of Henry Bellew, and robbery of notes.
Cross-examined by Mr. Lewis—She usually
signed C. Bellew in ordinary documents, rarely
Caroline. I wont swear whether it is her hand-
writing or not. I believe it is on the whole (look-
at
think
finer
pen t
hers ; it may be Caroline's Written with a
a letter. The witness first said he thought it
was, and then he thought it was not, the c
i i
was
not like hers, and at last he tnought it was.)
(Looking at another signature). Some
than usual. (Looking at another signature.) I
did not think that was hers. (All the counter-
signatures.) Looking at a letter lie had seen before
and said was not her handwriting—he persisted m
it; the letter vas •
written by the Countess to Miss
King. Never heard Miss Bellew say the aunt's
will was a forgery. I first remembered Caroline
when she was 11 and I was 7. In the year 1860
she showed They did'nt then
me her handwriting.
quarrel in the streets. From 1860 to 1865 I never
saw the Countess or them together. I never had
letters from her since 1860. I constantly saw her
write. (Looking at a letter.) I don't believe it is
her writing. (Again.) I don't believe it is ; the
writing is that of the Countess.
Miss Emily Shoe was called by Mr. Lewis to prove
that what this witness swore, for and against those
signatures shown him, was a mistake ; and some of
the letters he swore to as being the Countess's were
actually written by Miss Shee herself, and contra-
dicted him in several points.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

VICTOR HUGO'S "Travailleurs de la Aler " has
already reached a fourth edition. We are disgusted to see
that the author of the " Miserables pour Pdre" announces
a "parodic eu yore comiques" of the " Travailleurs do la.
Dior:' Cannot a great genius be spared the ignominy 0
this buffoonery by travestie ?