The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING', OCTOBER 24, 1861.

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Lady Herbert is expected in town on Monday
from Deal Castle, Kent, on her way to Wilton House,
Salisbury.

Lady Robert Cecil was safely delivered of a son
yesterday morning at her residence in Fitzroy. square. Her
ladyship and infant are progressing favourably.

The Lady Lurgan gave birth to a daughter on.
the 19th inst., in Dublin.

Lord and Lady Aveland have been entertaining
a succession of visitors at Normanton Park during the past
month. The gentlemen of the party have had capital sport
in his lordship's well-stocked preserves.

ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—The number of per-
sons to be admitted in the following term is 162, of which
128 are candidates for the first time, and the rest are read-
missions, &c. There are about 10,000 attorneys on the roll.
THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S FIRST LEVEE.—AC-
cording to custom from time immemorial the Lord Chan-
cellor is expected to receive the judges and other legal func-
tionaries on. the 2d of Nov., the first day of Michaelmas
term. As it will be the first Michaelmas term since his
lordship's elevation a large attendance is expected.
The Great Eastern still lies off Milford. Her
coals have been advertised for sale, 5,000 tons, but no one
has yet telkdered for them. She is again becoming an object
of much mention to visitors.

The financial letters from Paris state that there
has been no apparent mitigation of the financial crisis. On
the contrary, bills on London were in increased demand,
and it appeared as if a renewal of gold remittances to this side
would be unavoidable, unless some new measures to avert
it can be speedily devised.

THE LATE JOHN FIELDEN, M.P.—The committee
of the Fielden Memorial Fund havo determined to com-
memorate the services of the late Mr. John Fielden, M.P.
for Oldham, in improving the condition of factory children,
by the erection of a bronze statue in a public part of Tod-
morden. The statue will be 7ft. bin. high, and will cost
£l,OOO, independent of the pedestal and expenses of erection.
The sculptor to whom the work has been entrusted is Mr. J.
H. Foley, R.A. Many of the leading manufacturers of the
neighbourhood have subscribed to the fund
THE FORTHCOMING MICHAELMAS TERM.—This
daThursday) the long vacation oinio in the cm-en-inn /aw
courts, and the several offices will resume their wonted
activity in preparation for Michaelmas term, commencing
on Saturday week, the 2d November, when the law and
equity courts will be reopened. The arrears in the three
common law courts number 109—of which 73 are in the
Court of Queen's Bench, 13 in the Court of Common Pleas,
in addition to which will be the registration appeals from
the late courts of revision of voters, and 23 rules in the
Court of Exchequer. In the Queen's Bench there are 26
rules for new trial; 36 in the special paper, and 11 enlarged
rules. In the Common Pleas, seven new trials and six de-
murrers; whilst in the Court of Exchequer there are 14
errors and appeals, two matters in the peremptory paper,
including the case of " Hatch v. Lewis and another." There
are besides five demurrers in the special paper, and only
two rules for new trials in the ensuing term.
THE BALLOT SOCIETY.—The first of the resumed
weekly meetings of the executive committee was held at
the office, 5, Guildhall-chambers, on Tuesday—the Rev.
W. H. Bonner in the chair. Mr. M. E. Marsden, Mr.
Elt, Mr. Whitehurst, Mr. Le Maitre, Mr. Everett (Luton),
&c., were present. Subscriptions from the Right Hon. T.
M. Gibson, £lO ; Rev. B. Armitage, £2 ; Rev. W. Grif-
fith, 10s. ; Rev. H. Richard, 10s. ; Rev. Mark Wilks, 108.;
Mr. M. E. Marsden, £2, and other smaller amounts, were
announced. It was resolved to issue an address to the
electors of Plymouth in reference to the ballot and the corn-
ing election for that borough. A letter was read from the
secretary of the Birkenhead Ballot Society, soliciting a
deputation to attend a meeting in that borough, which it
was unanimously resolved to send accordingly. Applications
from Lincoln and other places were also received. It was
also resolved to convene a conference of the various reform
associations throughout the country, to bo held at the
Whittington Club, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 3 p.m., to
adopt measures for providing ballot candidates to contest
elections, as vacancies in the representation from time to
time occurred.

In the collection of criminal records now on
view at Messrs. Southgate and Barrett's, is to be seen a
receipt for £lOO, blood money, given by the notorious
Jonathan Wild, and a petition from him to the Lords of
the Treasury, requesting payment of additional remunera-
tion for services rendered by him as thief-taker. Besides
this precious scrap of criminal lore, reports of several thou-
sand trials, scarce pamphlets and broadsides, and a host of
rare and curious engravings, are also included in this sin-
gular miscellany.

THE RECENT PRIZE FlGHT.—William Evans
(young Broome) who contended with a herculean opponent
named Thomas King, in a prize fight on Monday last, has'
been removed to town in an alarming state from internal
injuries received during the contest. He has also sustained
a fracture of the os magnum, or principal bone of the right
hand, which, it is said, will incapacitate him from again
appearing in the prise-ring.

STRIKE OF THE EDINBURGH SCAVENGERS.—
About the beginning of harvest the scavengers of Edin-
burgh petitioned the Town Council for an increase of pay,
which was at that time 14s. a week. This request was
complied with by an increase of Is. being added to the
weekly wages of each. Since the conclusion of the harvest
however, the authorities have contemplated reducing the
wages again to 145., and have been advertising for men at
that salary. The scavengers determined to resist this
reduction, resolved to strike on Monday night, when work
was entirely suspended. The streets in the early part of
Tuesday presented a very unusual and not very pleasant
appearance, being unswept, and in many places strewn
with ashes, &c. In the afternoon, however, the scavengers
got notice that if they resumed, the 15s, a week would be
retained. The men accordingly consented tp this arrange-
ment, and commenced work immediately after.
THE LORD AND THE POLICE:KAN.—A rather
amusing incident occurred on Monday week at the Music
Hall, Newcastle, on the presentation of the address to Earl
Russell. After the hall was filled to overflowing, a young
man, of a modest and retiring appearance, presented him-
self at the door for admission. The vigilant janitor in at-
tendance stopped his progress to the platform, a small
space on which had been reserved for distinguished visi-
tors, when the stranger remarked that he was Lord Amber-
ley, son of Earl Russell, and that he wished to join his
noble father. The " wide-awake" policeman looked at the
modest youth with an air of astonishment, and sternly
asked, "Who he was making a fool of ?" and appeared
seriously inclined to "walk him off." However, some good
Samaritan interfered in Lord Amberley's behalf, and the
rigid guardian of the peace eventually allowed his lordship
to pass.
CHlNA.—Letters from China to the Moniteur de
Arnze'e confirm the news of the successes gained over the
rebels by the Imperial troops. The insurgents have been
driven back into the Western Provinces adjoining Thibet.
The population of those provinces, exasperated by the acts
of cruelty committed" by the rebels, have taken part with
the Imperialists, and have assisted in causing the siege of
Sching aing, the chief awn of the province of Se Tchouan,
to be raised. General Men-Kuan, the chief of the rebel
army, has been killed. Two French missionaries, of the
mission of Sechowan, succeeded in getting into Thibet, and
hope to be able to reach Dahsa, the capital of the country.
They speak the language of Thibet fluently, which will
enable them to furnish valuable information on the geo-
graphy and religion of that curious country. At the date
of the 7th of August Tien-tsin was perfectly tranquil ; com-
merce was developing itself in that city, and the Tartars,
who possess magnificent flocks of sheep, appear desirous of
making it the principal sntrspot for their wool.

The commercial letters from Calcutta report very
favourably on the prospects of the revenue and the general
condition of the country. The rains and floods in Bengal
had been beyond any experience since 1838, when similar
events followed the famine of 1836 and 1837; but it was
thought their beneficial effects upon the crops of the next
season will more than compensate for any present damage.
The Government receipts from the stamp and income taxes
had thus far exceeded the estimates, and the rally which
had occurred in the price of opium tended to confirm the
expectation that the amount calculated by Mr. Laing from
that source will yet be fully realised. The Government
cash balances were well maintained, and were slightly over
the total at the corresponding date of last year, and nearly
£3,000,000 in excess of those at the same period of 1859.
Government securities were again coming into favour, and
a rise of about 2 per cent. had occurred within a month.
The import markets also presented an appearance of im-
provement, which was expected to increase. The American
trade,' however, had become so reduced that there were only
two ships loading for Boston and New York, and these prin-
cipally with saltpetre.

The stock of bullion in the American banks and
the Treasury of the Federal Government on the Ist inst.,
although not quite so large as a few weeks previously,
amounted to £10,700,000, which shows an increase of
£4,750,000 since the commencement of the year, and is
more than double the amount held at the corresponding
period of 1860. These results are quoted by all the jour-
nals throughout the Union to support the delusion that the
war can be indefinitely prolonged without a disturbance of
national credit, and to tempt all classes of investors to sub-
scribe to the Government bonds which are being offered by
paid agents in every part of the country. As there is no
publication that would now dare to risk the consequences
of questioning such statements, and nothing is easier than
to mislead the multitude on financial points, the effect for
the moment is complete, and the remarkable fact is wit-
nessed that the most commercial people in the world is
being plunged Into an expenditure unparalleled for its
recklessness, without any person among them being found
to venture to call their attention for a moment to even the
most elementary principles of econotnisal science. Pro-
bably the most fatal consequence of this state of public in-
fatuation will be developed in the panic that may be ex-
pected when enlightenment shall be suddenly brought
about. It is not unlikely that the moment a drain of specie
commences the financial community of America will have
its Bull's Run. No people are more likely to be acted upon
by epidemic fears, and if the passion for hoarding should
seize them, it would be carried to an extent no less remark-
able than that of the blind confidence in which they are at
present grovelling,.