The Sun.
London, England, 1861-02-19 00:00:00

THE COMING STOB.II. MURD.IIIt L N Mx,
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(From the Derbyshire Courier.)
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enuryndLaaycyTaorsnminagil thfaery.
As the peo Plo of Ryde were coming from their
Ten days ago we all began to think that the :Yin. churches and
ter had done its worst. It was supposed that tht:
per in the
in
-t odurl aood, and well known in the
heard that am. a b
was cus 0y on the charge of having mur-
weather could not go on getting worse and worse
his wife. The rumour
for ever. So everybody imagined, that Spring was to,7n,'
about to appear. As we are to have an early.p unfortunately proved
Easter, why not an early Spring ? But nothing of true. ~acy occu a farm at Westridge, known
the rading-road. He is the son of a
the kind. England has caught a shocking bad cold, as Old-hou,,e-fa
defen
ri n, situate about a mile and a half
and cannot get rid of it. Will any one pretend to
say that he has a Rose bush or a Rhododendron labouring man in tt 'e neighbourhood, but becoming
alive in his garden ? Can any man in the county possessed of some in ?Luis by his marriage he was
from Ryde on
show us a sound turnip? But worse things have enabled to take thi .S farm, which he t had oc-
happened than the destruction of flowers and fod- cupied now for 10 or . years. Lacy is a giant in
der. Last week was one, not only of snow and both size and strength, •
,and it is much feared that
hail, but of storm and tempest. All along the north- the evidence wl tich wil l be given at the inquest
east coast the gales of Friday and Saturday, Feb- will show that h e had bt.'en habitually ill-treating
ruary Bth and 9th, have strewn the ehore with his wife. The farmhouse is situated in a lonelyspot,
wrecks. The loss of the lifeboat at Whitby, with there not being a habitation within 1n alf a mile of
12 out of 13 of the gallant crew which manned it, it, and the only inmates were Lacy and his wife,
and the melancholy fate of Captain Boyd of the and a woman Darned Susan Wilder, a niece of the
Ajax, with 14 of his brave fellows, at Kingston latter. In Nov. last .a summons was i ssued against
harbour, in the very act of attempting to rescue the Lacy for an assault upon this womat 1, but it was
crew of a vessel which had gone ashore near the arranged without magisterial interfei 'ence. Laey
Pier, have excited the mournful sympathy of every was of very intemperate) habits, and hat I been drink-
household throughout the kingdom. ing freely at Newport o n Saturday, wk tich place he
Admiral Fitzroy assures us that much of this had visited, accompanied by Susan Wilder, the
disastrous destruction of life and property might niece. He returned to the farm ho um about 10
have been prevented by the exercise of common o'clock in the evening. The horrible event, full
prudence and intelligent observation. The coming particulars respi'cting which will not be known till
storm was foreseen, and notice of its approach was the inquest, must have occurred short] ly afterward&
sent by the Board of Trade, by way of caution, to All that is at present known may be s' fated in a few
many of the great sea-ports three days before it words. The murdered woman has 7been confined
occurred. In spite, however, of all warnings, many to her bed for some time past, and on 'Sunday morn-
vessels appear to have put to sea with the most ing her meaical at tendant, Mr. 011ard, of Ryde,
reckless indifference to consequences, and thus was called upo:a by the farm carter, and requested
many cargoes and many hardy mariners have been • to visit his patient a t once, as she had accidentally
sacrificed, not to the fury of the gale, but to the fallen downstairs. NI 'hen Mr. 011ard arrived at the
thoughtless fool-hardiness of the shipowners and farm he found Lacy le n a violent state of excitement
captains. There is an important lesson to be and evidently under the influence of drink. He
gained by the nation from the recent gale. It is refused to allow that antlenvin to sets his wife, and
impossible not to perceive that the political baro- the answers given to inc.tuiriel by the niece were so
meter indicates rough weather. In the first place, unsatisfactory that Mr. 011ard considered it his
the extraordinary season of 1860 has not been duty at once to communica to with the police. Ser-
without its serious effects on the supply of the geant King and another police-constable, with Mr.
nation's food. The wheat crop of last year is Pinager, also a surgeon of Hyde, accompanied Mr.
turning out quite as bad as was expected, if not 011ard on his return. As soon as Lacy saw the
worse. The long continuance of severe weather police of-Seers he made a desperate attack upon the
has caused au increased demand for food for cattle, constable, but the police sergeant at once closed
while it has most extensively diminished the supply. with him, and after a short struggle he was secured
The turnip crops, and indeed all roots, have suffered by the handcuffs. On proceeding upstairs a most
very severely from the frosts. Every appearance horrible spectacle presented itself. On the bed lay
indicates that the price of all kinds of food for the body of the unfortunate woman, I,,er features
some months to come at least will be high. presenting the strongest evidence of her having been
But something else is high besides food. Taxes brutally murdered. Her head was ono mass of
are exorbitantly high. Never in time of peace had bruises, and there were wounds on various' parts of
the country such a burden of taxation to bear. And the body, which was reduced by disease or want of
we can at present see no prospect of adequate relief. nourishment to that of a mere skeleton. The bed-
The state of the Continent absolutely requires that dress in which she had. been murdered had been
England should be prepared to stand on the defen- taken off, and was not -to be found. The corpse
sive. It would be the extreme of shortsighted had been carefully washed and laid out, and it is
folly not to keep both army and navy in a thoroughly evident that some idea. existed of passing off the
efficient condition. No great fault can reasonably story of her having fallcn downstairs. Sergeant
be found with our foreign policy, as it has been King, finding Lacy likely to offer great resistance,
managed by Lord Palmerston of late. It may not returned to Ryde for a carriage and assistance.
always have been very dignified, but we have been The police officers were compelled to strap his legs,
endeavouring honestly to carry out the principle of and it was with great difficulty he was brought to
non •intervention, and we are reaping the good effeci:.
s the station. It was not till the following morning
of our conduct in the respect and amicable feeling I that he became conscious of his awful situation.
with which we are for the most part regarded by
the nations of Europe.
But there is a gale getting up on the other side
of the Atlantic. The accounts which arrive from
the United States give no ground for the supposi-
tion that even a temporary reconciliation can be
patched up between the North and the South. The
President is evidently unequal to the emergency.
The Senate and the Representatives talk and form
committees, and report and hesitate, and blunder
and temporise. The democratic form of government
which Washington and Jefferson elaborated did very
well for a few small States just starting into life, but
it is proving itself quite unequal to the efficient go-
vernment of a large Empire, with varied and compli-
cated interests. It breaks down in the hour of trial.
And what will the free and enlightened slave-drivers
of the South do for themselves ? Proud, ignorant,
self-confident, and poor, basing their system of go-
vernment on a barbaric institution, at which com-
mon sense and the innate sense of justice in man
revolts, what future can be anticipated for the South
but one of anarchy, ruin, and servile war ? And
how soon must this state of things begin to tell on
Manchester and Lancashire ? We believe that
ultimately this country will obtain better and
cheaper cotton from Africa, India, and Australia,
than has ever been got from America. But the
falling off in the cotton supply is a breaker ahead.
, We may weather this storm, but a storm there cer-
tainly is to be encountered. And much must be
done for India before we can hope to render the
enormous outlay of capital which is required there
fully remunerative. All our splendid colonies re-
quire much assistance from the mother country be-
fore they can repay us. To give them up would be
about as wise as it would be for a landowner to
suffer his land to go out of cultivation to save the
expense of seed and labour. And how grievously
have we mismanaged our colonies. Look at Aus-
tralia, where we have encouraged democratic in-
stitutions in servile imitation of the United States'
Republic, as if we were ashamed of the English
Constitution under which, be its faults what they
may, England has become the foremost country of
the world. Every year our Australian colonies are
drifting into extravagant, inefficient, and unma-
nageable democracy—for which result we have only
ourselves to blame. We have taught them no
better.
Well, then, with dear food, high taxes, a threaten-
ing state of commerce and trade, and enormous
drains on our resources from various quarters, who
cannot foresee a coming storm ? And to aggravate
all these unpleasant indications we have a financial
and monetary system the very perfection of insane
absurdity. Can anyone believe that we can go on
with a rate of interest at 7 per cent., and a con-
tracted circulation ? And Gold is still leaving the
country. Even this last week the exportations
have been large.
Is the country in a position to bear the effects of
another Panic ? And with a panic will inevitably
come discontent and civil disunion, the invariable
attendants of commercial depression and distress.
It is a good strong ship in which England rides
the ocean. We have strong hands, and cool heads,
and brave hearts on board. We do not despair
" though the weather should be worse." But it is
folly to shut our eyes to the appearances around
us on every side. And these appearances, we
repeat, indicate so plainly that he who runs may
read, A Coming Storm.

OF WIGHT.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

COLCHESTER—FEB. 16.
A moderate supply of wheat ; best samples readily rea-
lised the full prices of last week ; inferior parcels difficult
of sale. Fine malting barley commands full prices, and
other sorts dull. Beans arid peas as dear.
Wheat, white 60s to 68s I Beans, Mazagan..36s to 42s
red 44s to 60s Middle & small 44s to 50$
Barley 4os to 48s I
White peas 4Bs to 523
Oats ,, —s to —s Grey.. ...... ..423 to 48s

CHELMSFORD—Fen. 15..
A fair number of samples of wheat on offer, but the
condition was still bad. A few dry samples realised last
week's:prices ; fur those out of condition few buyers could
be found. Spring corn unaltered.
Wheat, white 39,.3 to 63s Yeas, Partridge ..43s to 440
red 48s to 60s I White 43s to 46s
Barley 29s to 42s Boiling 43s to 470
Chevalier ....32s to 4.58 Dun ..39s to 42s
Grinding 26s to 37s Beans, Tick ....369 to 443
Malt 618 to 678 Harrow Ticks 37s to 470
Chevalier 648 to 69s Mazagall 308 to 418
Oats 26s to 31s

NORTHAMPTON—FEB.
At this corn-market the wheat supply was an average
one, with a fair demand, prices ranging from 64s to 68s for
old, and 42s to 62s for new. In barley a steady business,
malting 38s to 435, grinding 29s to 32s per qr. Oats in
small supply, and prices as before—quoted at 22s:to 38s
per 24 stone. Beans, old, 51s to 56s ; peas, 40s to 60s.
Rye, 37s to 425; malt, 68s to 72s ; flour, 33s to 34s per
sack

KIRKALDY—F. 16.
We had only moderate supplies to-day of wheat, but
large of oats and barley. Last week's rates were taken
for wheat, and barley and oats sold slowly at 6d to la lees
money.

Wheat Barley
First.... 34s Od 31s Od
Second.. 56s Od 41s Od
Third .. GOs 6d 43s Od

Oats

205,<2,0d
28s Od
328 Od

THE MAILS.

THE CONVICT REVOLT AT CHATHAM.

CHATHAM, MONDAY.

Only about 200 of the convicts belonging to the
establishment at bt. Mary's have as yet been
allowed to leave that prison to resume their daily
labours in the dockyard and on the other public
works, the remaining 900 prisoners being rigidly
confined to their cells. Order and quietness have,
however, been completely restored within the
prison, and no attempt has been made by the
inmates to repeat the riotous proceedings of last
week. _

Now that order has been once more restored in
the prison the number of convicts sent out to their
daily labour will be gradually increased each day,
until the whole are permitted to resume their work
on full labour diet, and there is no doubt that the
lesson the convicts have been taught from past
events will not be without its effect upon them. By
direction of Sir Joshua Jebb a general order issued
by him has been read to the whole of the convicts
by Captain Powell. Each convict is informed of
the position in which he has placed himself by his
late mutinous conduct, the privileges hitherto en-
joyed by them being entirely forfeited and all their
gratuities confiscated. Sir Joshua Jebb also informs
them that no extra diet will be served out to them.
It is understood that some important changes are
likely to be effected in the interior of the prison,
by the removal of some of the officers whose con-
duct has rendered them obnoxious to the convicts,
and with this view several of the warders have
already received notice that they are to be dis-
charged. It now appears to be pretty well under-
stood that the governor and deputy-governor are
not armed with sufficient authority in the manage.
ment of the officers and prisoners, their efforts being
altogether cramped by the fact of sufficient powers
not being delegated to them to carry out the proper
system which should be observed in the prison. It
is hoped that recent events will show the higher
authorities the necessity for giving greater power
in the management of the prison to Captain Powell
of any other governor.
That the convicts have no ground for complaint,
either on the score of the insufficiency or inferiority
of their food, is evident, their diet being infinitely
superior to that afforded the inmates of our work-
houses. The following figures will show the
amount of food given weekly to each convict :-
189 ounces of bread ; 7 pints of tea ; 61 pints of
soup ; 7 pints of cocoa or gruel ; 7 lbs. of vege-
tables ; 42 ounces of cooked meat, free from bone
or fat, &c.

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