The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-05 00:00:00

THE SON, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER '5, 1861.

While raising its discount last time the Bank of
France has likewise reduced the rate of loans on securities.
Instead of giving 80 per cent. on Government securities, it
will give henceforth only 60, and on other securities 40 in-
stead of 60. Applying this scale on the loans which figured
in the last balance sheet, that is 30,000,000 of Government
securities and 57,000,000 of others, it will s educe the pay.
ments by 26,000,000 to 27,000,000.
THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.—The Emigration
Commissioners will despatch the Jesse runn for Queens-
land with emigrants on the 21st of the present mouth, being
the last ship they are likely to send out to any of the
Australian colonies for some time to come, having no further
funds in hand ; consequently a further reduction of the
extra clerks is anticipated at the end of the year.—Civil
Service Gazette.
GOLD IN THE RED RIVER SETTLEMENT.—The
report concerning the finding of gold on the Seskatchewan
River is confirmed by the arrival at St. Cloud, Minnesota,
of the express from the Selkirk 'settlement, Hudson's Bay
territory. A small party had arrived at Fort Garry with
1,200 dols. in gold dust, which they dug on the Saskatche-
wan about one thousand miles from the confluence with
Lake Winnepeg.—Canadian .News, Oct. 3.
GOLD IN NORTH WALES.--We learn that the
Clogan Mines, near Dolgelly, in Merionethshire, gave for
the fortnight ending last Friday nearly 131 lb. weight of
gold, or exactly as much as weighed down 630 sovereigns
at the Bank scale. This makes 1501 b. weight received since
Christmas last, and is far in excess of the probable yield
anticipated in the paper read on the subject at the meeting
of the British Association.
A correspondent of the Builder calls attention to
a piece of clerical Vandalism recently perpetrated at Kings-
ton-on-Thames. The vicar of the church of St. Andrew
has had the ancient rood-screen removed, "under the
wanton pretext that it obstructed the view of the chancel
and the lantern, which said lantern he has disfigured by
painting the mortar-lines black, which gives it a most
ridiculous appearance."
THE ARMY.—Tke right wing of the first battalion
of Grenadier Guards, commanded by Colonel Percy, arrived
at King's-cross station about 6 p.m, yesterday from Liver-
pool, en route from Ireland, and marched, headed by the
band, from the station to the Tower. The left wing was
left at Stafford by the right en route.
The liquidators of the Western Bank of London
announce, through Mr. F. Maynard, the accountant, that
they have succeeded in selling, on advantageous terms, two
of the three houses at Kensington belonging to the com-
pany, and which constitute nearly the whole of the remain-
ing assets. They will thus be enabled to make a further
distribution on the 14th inst. of £3, making a total pay-
ment of £4l on each £5O share.
DEATH OF MRS. CLARKE.—We regret to have
to announce the death of this venerable lady, the mother of
Mr. E. R. Clarke, so well-known in racing circles, and
which took place on the 21st ult., at Headingley, near
Leeds. Mrs. Clarke was in her eighty-third year, and was
much respected in the neighbourhood for her kindness of
heart. Mr. E. R. Clarke was telegraphed from Doncaster
on Friday night week, and arrived before his parent's
decease.—. Era.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT HASTINGS.—On Tuesday
last an inquest was held at Hastings on the body of a lady
named Mallet, the widow of the late Mr. John Mallet, of
Stoke Newington. She was walking with some friends on
the Carlisle-parade, where she was staying, when, stepping
back without precaution, she fell from the parade on to the
beach below, and suffered so severely from the shock,
though no bones were broken, that she died in four hours.
A suggestion to the jury to recommend that a fencing be
placed was not acceded to, on the ground that it would de-
stroy the beauty of the walk by the beach, and a verdict of
accidental death simply was returned.
THE HOLBORN MURDER.—Steps are being taken
with a view to procure the remission of the penalty of death
in the case of Wm. Cogan, now under sentence in New-
gate, for the murder of his wife in Newton-street, Holborn.
A petition to the Home Secretary has been signed by the
prisoner's aged father, and a considerable number of respect-
able householders. It represents that the evidence for the
prosecution was not conclusive, as Dr. Paine stated that
the wound of which the deceased died might have been
self-inflicted. The petitioners further urge that it was
clearly shown from the evidence that deceased had struck
him only a very short time previous, that they had both
been drinking, and that Cogan was in a state of almost un-
consciousness from the effects of what he had taken, that he
had been always an affectionate husband to the deceased,
and that his general character was that of a quiet, inoffen-
sive man. The petition will be presented by Mr. Lewis
this afternoon, and it will be accompanied by one from the
convict himself, in which he states that he is wholly igno-
rant of everything that took place on the night in question
except that he received the wound in his throat ; that the
deceased repeatedly threatened, and on two occasions actu-
ally attempted his life. The wound in the prisoner's throat
is not yet completely healed.
GROSS OUTRAGE ON A GlRL.—Seven young men
were on Thursday lodged in Glocester county prison on a
charge of a diabolical outrage upon a young girl in the turn-
pike-road between Cheltenham and Glocester on Tuesday
night. The names of the accused, all of whom belong to
Cheltenham, and some are known to the police, are—Wm.
Bowen, Henry Chandler, Joseph Parker, Thos. Wheeler,
Chas. Adcock, H. E. Cox, and W. Haines. They are all
youths between 15 and 20 years of age. It appeared that
they had heen together to attend the annual "mop" or sta-
tute fair at Glocester, where all the loose characters of the
district annually muster, and were returning to Chelten-
ham by the road with two others, when they met a young
woman named Dorcas Davis, who lives at the village of
Churchdown, midway between Chelteham and Gloucester.
The party on meeting the young woman set upon' her,
threw her down, and in spite of her screams and resistance
she was abused by two or three of the brutal party. In her
struggles to escape from her assailants the poor girl, who
was only 16, had her clothes torn to shreds, and her person
shockingly bruised. They were followed to Cheltenham,
and the police succeeded in capturing seven of the party,
the others being at present unknown.
DEATH ON THE HILL.—A young man, about 20
years of age, has lost his life on the Cairnwall Mount, be-
tween Spittal of Glenshee and Castleton-of-Braemar. On
Friday last he went from the Spittal to the Castleton with
the mail car, as the usual driver had been unwell that night,
and was unfit for the duties of the way. The deceased, it
appears, was not well acquainted with the wild dangers of
this perilous route, yet he went safely, and was returning
late on Friday night, or early on Saturday morning.
When on the north of that ominously named triangle on
the road known as the " Devil's Elbow," one of those wild
and sudden onsets of storms peculiar to these regions came
on with fearful violence, and, it is supposed, dimmed the
vision of the traveller, who, being but a stranger, got con-

fused, and lost his way in the thickening storm of drifting
snow. At all events he was found on Saturday lying at

the foot of a precipitous bank at the side of the road, quite
dead, and apparently the car had gone too close on the
edge of this dangerous spot, and down had gone the
whole. The youth belongs to Blairgowrie.—DuAdee
Courier.

PEARL FINDING.—In the towns where the
Armadors and speculators have fixed their headquarters
during the season, there is only one subject of conversation ;
no one taking the slightest interest in, anything but pearls.
At every dinner-table they are handed round, admired,
criticised, and compared with well-remembered beauties of
former years. The " water" is tested in a mysterious way,
by gently rolling a few together in the palm of the hand.
Every shade of difference it is possible to find between one

pearl' and another has its distinguishing appellation—the
Spanish language being well fitted to describe in a graphic
manner those minute peculiarities which it requires the eye
of an "expert" observer to discover. Occasionally a pearl
appears which cannot be classed under any recognized
title, and excitement amongst connoisseurs is immense. A
very large and beautiful one was found in the Bay of
Mulage, in August, 1859, believed to be unique. The
Indian who opened the oyster containing it made an at-
tempt to cone.al the brilliant prize, but was betrayed by
tie own evident confusion and excitement. It consisted of

six pearls clustered together in a very curious and beauti-
ful manner. Two large "jargonels" of purest water

were joined to each other at right angles, the neck being
encircled by a collar of four smallerpearls. It was purchased
by the agent of a European dealer, who declared that the
Empress of the French should have the first offer of it.

• IIAI,JA WA A.O
Pearls of remarkable form are not, however, in general so
valuable as those which can be more easily matched, as the
great object of every collector is to form a complete "set."
—St. James's Magazine.
THE MONTENEGRINS.—But the chief outlet for
their ferocity, or rather, perhaps, the secret cause of their

Lawlessness at 'home, is to be fouvld in their eontinual

struggle with the Turks. Liable to an inroad at anymo-
ment, it is necessary that all the men should be skilled in
arms. Out of a population of about 120,000, it is estimated

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that between 20,000 and 30,000 armed men might be
collected in the course of a few hours, and that this

number could be increased by the addition of old men and
boys. In cases of emergency, even the cripples are borne

on the backs of women and lodged behind bits of rock,
whence t hey can load and discharge their gins. None of
these, however, can be considered regular troops. At the
moment of extreme peril they waive their jealousies and obey

their officer, but at other times they have no law but their
own will. Being inured to privations, they perform with ease

and alac:ity very long and forced marches. They do not

scruple to use their long riflesas leaping,-poles, and so are able

to cross wide ditches and scramble up steep rocks, which

would greatly impede more discipline 3 soldiers. On foot they
can pantie the enemy with as much rapidity as a
body of cavalry. When he is marching towards them, they
conceal themselves in ravines, and send out small parties,
who advance a little and then feign a retreat, until he is
enticed into the ambush. Here they surround him and fight,
chiefly with their broad. swords, much more like the heroes

of Homer's time than modern Christians, each man relying
solely on his own strength, and following pretty much his
own way. Their favourite time of attack is the night, that
suiting best for surprises. When they meet a foe in pitched
battle, they rush furiously into the squares, and, if they do
not succeed in destroying the ranks, they at any rate greatly
discompose them by their rapid mancauvres,—Once a IVeek.