The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-23 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY AT A SOLICITOR'S.—Wm. Joseph Tillson,
office-boy, in the employ of Mr. Edmund Brown Oldr aye,
solicitor, 38, Bolsover-street, was charged before Mr. Beadon
with stealing some decanters and other articles the property
of his master.

It appears that the boy had been some time in Mr. Old-
rave's employ, and had been treated with great kindness.
On the day previous, while passing through Carburton -
street, Mr. Oldrave saw some decanters, which he recog-
nised as his property, at the door of a shop kept by a Mrs.
Stephenson, and on asking who she purchased them of she
said of a boy. Mr. Oldrave then looked in a cheffonier in
which the decanters, a teapot, and other articles, altogether
of the value of £l5, had been locked, and though he found
the cheffonier still locked, the whole of the contents were
gone. The boy, on being spoken to by Mr. Oldrave, said
he had sold two of the decanters for 9d.
The boy said there was sombody else in the house be-
sides him; there was a woman who used to get tipsy, and
sent him to Mr. Chapman's, the pawnbroker, with a silver
teapot and some other things, but they would not take them
in because he was so young. _ _ _

Mr. Oldrave said a female and her husband had lived in
his house, and the female was addicted to drink, but she had
left full two months.

Mrs. Stephenson said she bought the decanters, glasses,
and other articles for 4s, 2d.

Oldrave said they were worth 30s, He did not wish
the boy punished.

Mr.Beadon said he felt that the boy had been led into it
by a bad and miserable woman. He should require that
the boy's father enter into his recognisances in £2O for two
years that the boy should abstain from anything of the
kind, and be of good conduct.

Mr, Oldrave said he had heard that some of his property
was at the receiving-shops, The receivers were far worse
than the thieves,

Mr, Beadon said that was a very trite remark, but the
difficulty was in catching the receivers.
The boy was then given up to his father,

IBIS DAY'S SIiIPPING.

LONDON, Oct. 23.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather.
SHEERNESS, Oct. 22.—Wind S.—Arrived—Royal Alice,
from Moulmein.

DUBLIN, Oct. 21.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Catherine,
from St. John's, N.B.

PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 22.—Wind S.E.—Arrived.—Am-
phion, from Belize; her Majesty's ship Mohawk, from
Malta.

LIMERICK, Oct. 21.—Wind S.E.—Arrived —Primrose,
from Quebec.

FALMOUTH, Oct. 22.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Martha,
from Rio Janeiro.
PLYMOUTH, Oct. 22.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Elise
Susanne, from Rangoon for Rotterdam, with crew sick;
Alipedede, from Rio Janeiro; her Majesty's ship Grey-
hound, from Malta.
LOUGH FOYLE, Oct. 23.—Arrived—Bohemian, screw
steamer, from Quebec.
PILL, Oct. 22.—Wind S.—Sailed—H. D. Brookman, for
New York.

_
(EY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
The Borussa steamer, which sails hence to-day for New
York, takes out £17,500 in silver, and £15,960 in gold from
London, and 37,500 francs from Havre.
Arrived—Elizabeth, from Llanelly ; Florida, from New-
port; Leda, steamer, from Dublin, and left for London.
Sailed—Unite, for Rotterdam.
(BY SUBMARINE AND M!GNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 23—Fidelity, from Le Viviers ; Augusti ts,
from Cembritsharun ; John and Mary Ann, from Cae a;
Eliza,
fromfro m GuTavantanamo ; Norma, from Taganrog; Em ily
Wylde
Sailed, Oct. 23.—Cid, steamer, far Bilboa ; Black Eagle,
for Halifax ; Sir E. Banks, steamer, for Calais.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning
Several arrivals. Boats boarding since daylight.

-- -
The Seinaph&re of Marseilles says :—" Prir
Leopold of England, accompanied by Colonel Bowal ;er,
arrived at Marseilles on Saturday, on his way to Canr Les,
where his Royal Highness is going to stay some time for
the Deucftt of his health."

The resumption of gold remittances to the United
States is a singular but wholly unimportant fact.
The certainty is just as strong as ever that if thb
war continues not merely shall we witness a drain
of specie fronh that country, but a suspension of cash
payments. The Government expenditure is at the
rate of a hundred millions sterling per annum, to say
nothing of the augmented outlay of each individual
State, or of the cost sustained by the Confederates
while 700,000 at least of the ablebodied population
of the country are withdrawn from manufactures
and agriculture, and have become consumers instead
of producers. With an expenditure of only about
£15,000,000 per annum, and with all their people
engaged to the utmost in industrial pursuits, the
United States were not usually found year by year
to accumulate any exceptional stock of the precious
metals, and the idea that under their changed cir-
cumstances, and with 40 millions sterling, or nearly
one-half of their usual exports cut off by the cotton
blockade, they may now, for the first time, begin to
fill their coffers and to draw away the supplies of
other regions, would appear the most extraordinary
assumption that could be entertained. If the United
States can show that the way to attract the precious
metals is by quadrupling their expenditure, with-
holding 50 per cent. of their ordinary exportable
produce, and calling an eighth part of their adult
population from the ploagh and the loom to the
barrack, we shall soon have every country in the
world plunging into war in order to enjoy the ex-
citement, profusion, and idleness that are thus to
prove the most rapid causes of national wealth.
Yet the American journals have some dreams of the
kind, for they are predicting continuous arrivals of
gold from this country, and, while they have an
acute sense of the horrors we are to sustain during
the winter from the want of cotton, they can see
nothing but a plethora of resources at home, which
should induce all people to subscribe as fast as pos-
sible to each two-monthly issue of an additional ten
millions of Federal stock. The amount of sovereigns
now being sent from Liverpool by each steamer
will, of course, be cited as a confirmation of the new
theory, and will stimulate all the classes who are
revelling in the national funds to entertain antici-
pations even still more wild, of the continuance of
this splendid example of inexhaustible means,
which, in fact, increase in proportion as they are
drawn upon. Meanwhile, however, the less ardent
European world will prefer to watch the experiment
to the end. The French demand for grain and flour
will soon diminish, and in the course of a few weeks
the exportation of those articles will also be reduced
by the closing of the canals. Even if the whole
crop could be sent forward it would not be easy to
see how a total worth forty or fifty millions could
suffice not only to meet an expenditure of two or
three times that amount, but create a balance against
Europe that must be remitted in gold, and yet be-
yond breadstuffs there is little else we can look for.
The inference, therefore, must be that the present
financial felicitations at New York are like those of
a spendthrift who, having been momentarily put in
funds by a sudden realisation of his best assets,
wholly loses sight of the fact that these receipts
have not borne any relation to the actual yearly
course either of his income or liabilities.

THIS DAY'S MARAETS.

Fresh up to this day's market the arrivals of English
wheat were somewhat on the increase. Generally speak-
ing, the trade ruled inactive, yet no change took place in
the value either of red or white qualities, compared with
Mo y; that day's improvement being fairly supported.
; ,
..'irters cf foreign wheat were firm, and the quotations
wailk7ell maintained. The show of samples was only mo •
derate. •
,Floatinfcaltgoes of grain sold somewhat freely, at ex-
treme rato•.;.
The trade for barley ruled firm, and the quotations were
well supported.
New malt sold slowly, at late rates, but old qualities
were very dull.
Oats were in steady request, at fully previous currencies.
Beans and peas were firm, and quite as dear as on Mon-

day.
In flour a very moderate business was transacted, never-
theless prices ruled firm.

_
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
Eng1i5h........ 1,140 830 ) 1,250 ; 450 sacks
Irish
7,860 , 3,250 ; 11,730 40 sks.
brls.

IVIIITECHAPEL.

Only moderate supplies of meat have been on sale here,
and the trade rules firm, at the annexed rates.
Beef from 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; veal,
:-q3 8d to 4s 8d; and pork, 4s Od to 5s 2d per 81bs.

BOROUGH HOP.
Good and fine hops are in fair request, at full prices; but
all other kinds are a dull sale, on former terms.

THE BUILDERS' STRIKE IN LIVERPOOL.—This
strike, which has extended over many weeks, is now
only partially settled, owing to the demands of the Brick-
layers' Union. The joiners and plasterers resumed work
upon the withrawal of the hour system, but not so the
bricklayers, who refuse to resume work unless the masters
give them a guarantee that they will make no change in
the present order of the payment of the wages for tux
months to come,

We have a sufficiently high idea of the genius
and wisdom of Mr. Spurgeon to prevent us from
demurring to any of his proceedings without some
cause. We were the first paper in Scotland who
amh ofhi
Spurgeons popularitys
, b eytohne
dr ea isl
onoo
took up his defence when his friends were few and
far between. Of his genius we never had a doubt,
author of his time.
pplished by his preaching mwpnaroislaocnk,
tohfopirro.oesft
popular preacher, and proof.
Thecom-
and a m
worksounto
isf gi
no
co
adl naulc
most popular theological
able.
There is scarcely a nook or crany of old Scotland,
not to mention England and America, where his
sermons have not penetrated and cheered the sad
hour of many a desponding heart. But Mr. Spur-
geon is a man of like passions as his fellows, and to
expect perfection would be a grand mistake. Some
time ago his best friends were grieved to observe
that the preaching of the glorious Gospel, which
had gained him all his fame, was beginning to he
marred with the preaching of ecclesiastical croteheta
—that the man, above all others, who had succeeded
in preaching Christ the crucified, was devoting
more than enough of his discourses and writing to
his particular views of baptism, and scattering hot
tt underbolts on all who dared to allies from him.
It began to be thought that on this question he
would destroy his popularity, and turn his Taber-
nacle into a sectarian assembly, where none but
water disciples could meet. Report says that on
that theme he has cooled considerably, and has now
turned lecturer on secular and curious subjects. The
London press have come down on him for turning
the Tabernacle into a place of amusement. Few
among our readers will blame him because he does
not believe in the episcopal consecration that
renders places, as well as persons, sacred; but as
few will be able to shake themselves free of the
idea that a place of worship has a certain sacred-
ness about it, and that the grotesque and comical
ought not to be there. It is easy to get quit of
episcopal notions of sacred places ; but it is not
easy to get quit of Scripture ideas of the sacred-
ness of such places. Jehovah promised long ago,
and that promise runs still, that in all places
where his name is recorded, he will come to his
people and bless them. Now, with the sacredness of
Christian worship, the grotesque and comical do
not agree, The Christian who finds the Taber-
nacle none other than the house of God and the
gate of heaven, will not relish in it the drolleries
of Gorilla lectures, or the comicalities of " Taming.
the Shrew." On the contrary, he will sav instinc-
tively, " Take these things hence"—" Make not my
Father's house a house of merchandise"—a house
of mirth and laughter. The Tabernacle is dese-
crated by such proceedings, and the devout will
be grieved to see it so used. Mr. Spurgeon, we
know, is not to be measured by the lines that mea-
sure others in matters of genius and lofty thought;
but in matters of propriety others are as good
judges as he is, and they are quite satisfied that ho
is in a fair way to turn that magnificent building
into a place of amusement, and a place which per-
sons of right feeling will be inclined to avoid on
the Sabbath. Mr. Spurgeon knows where his
great strength lies—lies iu preaching the Gospel,
and to that he should adhere in his Metropolitan
Tabernacle. Had he lectured on some literary
topic merely, or had he confined himself to any
philanthropic or benevolent effort, all might have
been right; but the preacher at once descends from
the sublimities of the Gospel to the comicalities of
Shakespeare and to the grotesqueness of a comical
lecturer. The London papers say that never has
there been such laughing in a house of prayer as
there was during the delivery of the famous Gorilla
and Shrew lectures. We enjoy a laugh as well as
Our neighbours in proper times and places, but we
Should not choose to go to laugh in Mr. Spur-
geon's Metropolitan Tabernacle, and we trust that
he will now think that there has been quite
enough of that in that place. It is not likely that
anything the Press can say will determine his
mode of action, but the Press has a duty to dis-
charge in the matter, and that duty would not be
done if the probable consequences of such a move
were not pointed out. Mr. Spurgeon would do well
to remember that the most popular ministers in
London who preceded him maintained their posi-
tion and fame just es long as they adhered to the
preaching of the Gospel; but when they began to
adopt new and untried courses they speedily de-
stroyed their usefulness and lost their popularity.
He is a wise man who knows his forte and adheres
to it. He is not a wise man who, in the hey-day of
his popularity, goes in quest of the new and the
strange. Least of all is he a wise man who comas
down from the sublimities of the grand scheme of
redemption to supersede the comedian. No doubt
the Scotch people have very peculiar notions, but in
religious matters they are generally as correct as
their more favoured brethren across the Tweed.
Mr. Spurgeon will scarcely say that the Scotch are
his enemies, but even if they were, fas eat doceri ab

poste.
We may add that pastors ought to teach the do-
mestic virtues from the Bible and not from Shake-
spare. The Apostle's way of taming Shrews is
fully as well worthy of study as Shakespeare's.
There is now-a-days a lack of teaching in the mat-
ter of family relationship and domestic and public
duties, compared with the teaching of the Apostles.
Many will probably take_the hint from Mr. Spur-
geon's lecture, and do that as a part of clerical duty
which he has Chosen to do in a comical and singular
way for a clergyman.

A 7IGE.R STORY.

The following, from the pen of an Ensign in the
72d Regiment, appears in the Field :—" I had just
arrived at Khandalla, and I met there an old
schoolfellow, who was going out to shoot pigs,
and he asked me to come with him. He lent me
a single barrelled rifle, and we went out, about
a mile and a half from camp, to a place which was
notorious for pigs. It was a deep ravine, with a very
high mountain on one side, and a low one on the
other, andfilled up with dense jungle. My companion
placed himself about the middle of the ravine, and I
took up my position near to the end, where the ra-
vine narrowed. We had below about forty beaters
or coolies, who began at the open end, and beat up
towards me. They had passed Heyland without
anything being seen, but as they neared the spot
where I was stationed, I heard a rushing and break-
ing among the bushes, and naturally expected to
ace some pigs come out, so I cocked my rifle and
brought it up to my shoulder ready, when, to my
utter amazement, out bounded a tiger ; I then did
what I have since been told was a very foolish
thing. I fired at him with a single-barrelled rifle.
Luckily the shot struck him through both his
fore legs ; had I hit him anywhere else he
would have charged, and I should have had no
chance of escape ; as it was, however, he rushed
on as well as he could into the small part of the
jungle beyond me, and we got him to show
himself by
.making the beaters roll down large
stones at him ; but he always disappeared again
before we had time to fire. At last I watched the
exact spot where he went after one of these short
appearances, and, making a lucky shot, sent a ball
right through his stomach. Upon this he got up,
and with a frightful roar that made my flesh creep,
he rushed back to his old haunt, receiving two or
three balls in his body es he bounded through the
open space between the two jungles. It appeared,
however, he was in no hurry to give up the ghost, .
for he got back all right to his original W
the natives who were carryiag it had,
now found, upon calling for more ammunition, that
tehte
bulletd.h wee
fhad.or
fresh lNre
cheasds onfafwearn,athalrtoewrnnataiwyea
supplies, which we did, ester givingthe culprits a
well-deserved thrashing ; and we took advantage
of the opportunity of making a late breakfast;
ylmetvetoryr.
having done which,. we. again stated for the
scene of action—this time
l trackedtheAt
g l
each carrying
two rifles and a large hunting-knife. Screw-
ingju n upon
uoro t andck
we
entered
the
his thick of
pluck
,him byblood.
last a native pointed him out to Heyland, who fired
at and wounded him ; the tiger came after us with
a terrific roar, and considering discretion the better
part of valour we hastily mounted a tree ; this
operation was repeated three times, and at last we
found him lying on his side, apparently dead. We
went up withit. five yards of him to have a look at
him, Heyland firing both barrels at him, about 15
yards off, previously, to make certain of him; but I
suppose in his excitement he missed him, as the
tiger never moved. When we were about five
yards from him, I proposed to give him a shot and
make doubly sure; but Heyland said, No, no 1 you
will spoil the skin,' and laid hold of my rifle, which
I, like a fool, let go, thinking the brute must be dead;
but as we were taking another step forward be.raonse.
with an awful roar, and sprang alter me. HI%
_a.
ran down-hill, and got off all right; but Ira P
followed us
just got up to some coolies who
hill as hard as I could, and the tiger afdter
bar
tinning away
in our advance, and were nodw I
heard the
I had
as fast as they eould,k
expected to get out of the
scent was that ? I never
kenxile and turned round in
beast breathing at my bac
scrape alive, so drew y . What an awful mo-
his mind, leaped upon the
when the tigTr, enau
who was running alongside of me,
back of a nativ.e
most frightfully • but it was h.
desperation. to ma.ke_a,,miuogeless effort to save myself,
hinid
tmhe coolie got off 'with a is
dying effort, anmaul
that would have
killed
any European, but did not
kill him. I can assure. you that
.I shall in future be
a little more cautious about. going up to one again
before I am quite certain of his being dead:,
and mauled