The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

worship ; and it was on my return that my husband
threatened me. He also threatened me and used very foul
language the previous night in the room where the child
was lying dead. _ .

Prisoner—l'm ,-orry for it.
Mr. Beadon—What a brute you must be to act like thi,3
while yr- ur child is lying dead and your wife in distress.
You are a disgrace to humanity. You merely say you are
sorry. A man who could do such a thing at such a time
must be a brute, and is likely to do what he says.
Complainant—lie won't support his children.
Mr. Beadon ordered the defendant to find one surety in
£lO for three months.

AMERICAN CONFEDERATE STATES.

Subjoined is a communication describing the
motives (which the planters in the American Con-
federate States wish to be understood as the cause of
their withholding their cotton from exportation :
" London, Oct. 2S.

" Sir,—The erroneous belief is too generally entertained
in this country that we American cotton planters have com-
bined to hold back cur present corps for the purpose of
starving the cotton manufacturers of England and France,
and forcing these countries, by the pressure of a cotton
famine, to side with the Confederate States.

" I, as a planter, assure you, for myself (and, as far as
an extensive acquaintance among other planters enables me
to judge), that no such Machiavellian motive actuates us.
" With your permission I will state succinctly our true
reasons for retaining our crops on our plantations :
" 1. In consequence of the blockade Ive!have not suffi-
cient gunny bagging to cover more than a small portion of
our crops. It being a ye/ y bulky article is the more readily
excluded by the blockade. We are thus compelled to store
our cotton in the seed, and in this state it will best be pre-
served uninjured for years should our enemies prevent its
earlier shipment.

"2. While the cotton is retained on the plAntations we
are at no expense for storage or fire insurance at extrava-
gant war rates.' In the event of the country being devas-
tated by the Northern forces, they cannot visit each plan-
tation or carry off unpacked cotton.

" 3. There exists adequate storage accommodation but
for a very small portion of the crops at all the ports toge-
ther, and the existence of a large quantity at any port or
ports would be a positive temptation to the enemy to at-
tempt its capture and confiscation, invnlving not only a
heavy loss to us, but bringing devastation on the cities and
ruin to our friends residing there. The seizure of the
10,000 bales (old crop) now lying at New Orleans, is one of
the reported objects of the Northern expedition, which was
fitting out for that destination.
" 4. The cotton factors, many of whom have heavy
claims on the planters, have requested their debtors to re-
tain their produce on their plantations during the war, as
they are unwilling to risk it in their keeping at the shipping
ports.—l am, sir, your obedient servant,
"AN AMERICAN COTTON PLANTER."

THIS DAY'S SIIIPPING.

LONDON, Oct. 29.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly ; moderate breeze, and fine, clear, seasonable
weather.

PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—tier Ma-
jesty's ship Warrior, for a cruise. . .

PLYMOUTH, Oct. 28,—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Anverson,
:rom Havannah.

PILL, Oct. 27.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Lyngell, for New
York.

GLOUCESTER, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—English-
man, for New York. _ _

CARDIFF, Oct. 27.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Vulcan, for
Jamaica.

MILFORD, Oct. 28.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Mary Cobb,
from Philadelphia, for Pembroke Dock.
NEWPORT, Oct. 28.—Wind E.—Arrived—Prius Adal-
bert, from Gloucester for St. Thomas's. Sailed—iiindoo,
for Monte Video.

. DUNDEE, Oct. 28..—Wind W.—Arrived—Jane Savoyer,
from Riga; Alabama, from Archangel; Polynia, from
Davis' Straits.

SHIELDS, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Johns, from
Quebec.

OFF HURST CASTLE, Oct. 29.—Arrived—Shonnon,
steamer, from the West Indies.
HULL, Oct. 28.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Severn, from
Davis' Straits.

(BY ELECTRIC TELMORAPII.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—Alliance, steamer, from Havre; Three Brothers,
from Rye ; Guerilla, from Guernsey ; Heroine, from Riga;
Water Witch, and Sea, from Sunderland ; Clio, from Soder-
ham ; Sophia, and Northam, from Hull.
Sailed—Charlotte, for Guernsey; George, for Llanelly ;
Southampton, steamer, for Jersey; Dream, for Cardiff;
Marquis of Bute, for Sunderland.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 29—Norwegia, from Frederiekstadt ; Bee,
from Archangel; Vigilant, from Christiana; Jane, from
Calais.
Sailed—Durban, for Port Natal ; Margaret, for Dominica ;
Perekop, for Port Phillip.

. ,
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed--Tola, from London, for Rouen; Euphrates;
Rernw steamer, from Patra,, for London.

HOW THE GOUT CAME.—" That pain which you
feel in the joint of your great toe," quoth Monsieur Gout,
"has, you flatter yourself, become rather less since 8 o'clock
when you took your last dose of colchicum. Quite a mis-
take, my dear sir I The member is, if anything, more
swollen and inflamed than before. Observe now—l shall
take the liberty of inserting this little awl, just by the way
of probe. Aha I it makes you wince I A very good sign
that, however, since it proves that there is no ground for
apprehending immediate mortification. Now, do you know
why it is that your toe is so singularly sensitive? I'll tell
you. You remember, three years ago, ordering a batch of
Burgundy Previous to that time you had been in very
good health, for you had plenty of occupation and little
leisure for gluttony or wine-bibbing ; your means were
united, and during the holidays you took a sufficiency of
pedestrian exercise. Really, in those days I never expected
to have the pleasure of making your acquaintance. I con-
sidered you just the kind of fellow likely to become an or-
nament of the Alpine Club. But your estimable uncle, old
Jones, the stockbroker—bless you, I knew him very well
indeed I many a time I have chatted to him when he was
roaring like an aggravated bullock—your old uncle Jones, I
say, died and left you his money—you are not going to
sleep, are you ? Well, I call that rather unhandsome treat-
ment, considering that I have taken the pains to come here
and bear you company. A slight touch of the pincers may,
however—aho all's right again; you are as lively as a
snapping turtle I Whereabouts was I ? Oh, I remember.
Old Jones left you his money, and you determined to take
your ease. No one can blame you for that. What's the
use of fagging to make more when you are in possession of
a cool -C4,000 a year, and may indulge in a shooting-box
and hunters ? But you could never make up a respect-
, able bag on the moors, and on horseback you were any-
thing but a Ducrow. You preferred living in town,
took chambers in the Albany, gave nice little recherche
dinners, and laid in that stock of burgundy to which
I have already alluded. It was of a fine vintage,
strong and heady, and made the blood circulate in the veins
like lightning. To it I attribute the honour of our first
introduction, though port and claret, not to mention sundry
kinds of delicious entremets, did undoubtedly contribute to
lessen the distance between us. Then you took to late hours,
hot rooms, and ecarte, almost justly included in the catalogue
of fashionable pleasures ; and our acquaintance, at first only
slight, has now ripened into permanent friendship. But I
really must not allow my feelings to divert me from the
scientific purpose for which I have visited you to-night.
Don't be afraid I I shall lay aside awl and pincers, and vary
the experiment by injecting a few drops of molten lead be-
tween the flesh and the bone. Ha 1 what an enviable yell I
Your lungs, I assure you, are in a perfectly healthy state,
and may last you for the next 20 years if you don't force
me to get into your stomach. By the way, what a silly pro-
verb that is against pushing things to an extremity. It is
with the extremities that I always make a point of dealing
in the first instance, and I take it that very few people
would wish me to depart from the practice. What is it that
you say ? You wish that I would go to the devil. Pardon
me for hinting in reply that you are both rude and unrea-
sonable. I am hero, as you well know, in consequence of
your indiscretions."—Blacktcood's Magazine.
THE CASE OF COURTOISIER.—The assassination
of Lord William Russell by his French valet, Courvoisier,
made much noise in its day ; and in a work just ppblished,
ramphilius, we find the following novel and painful state-
ment :—" Courvoisier had so artfully effected the murder
and robbery, that his counsel declared him, before his God,
innocent, and acquittal would have been the result; but
Madame Piolaine, at the eleventh hour, stepped forward,
and pointed out the man who had left a parcel containing
the plate of the murdered nobleman. At her look Cour-
voisier trembled. That look cost him his life. How much
did it cost the poor woman? That look rendered her home •
less, shook the reason out of her husband—who ended his
days in a madhouse—and left her penniless, a widow and a
mother, in, to her, a cold world. The hotel of Piolaine
was supported by foreigners; and, because the inhuman
murderer happened to be a foreigner, they shunned his
house, and his interested neighbours alleged that Piolaine
had brought one of their countrymen to the gallows—that
he had sold his countrymen for a promised reward. Poi-
laine denied having given up the parcel with a mercenary
view; he maintained that the foul deed was so monstrous
that, had Courvoisier been his own brother, he would have
felt himself bound to bring him to justtce. This would
not do; his house was marked, and the finger of scorn was
pointed at him. For a period he struggled on, thinking
that time would bring about a change—but no. Ho be-
came a bankrupt, fled to Boulogne, and soon after ended
his days in a madhouse. His industrious wife, who was an
Englishwoman, returned to London with her orphan boy,
opened a shop which did not answer, and at last left for
America, in the hope of earning a livelihood there."
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL,GREY'S-INN-ROAr.—The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the week
eudin ()et, 26 was 3,092, of which 861 were ilevr caw.