The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-12 00:00:00

TUE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 12, 186 S,

1,53.R10US CHARGE OF SHOOTING.

The Brentford magistrates have been occupied in inves-
tigating a singular case, in which Mr. Philip Lngard, a
retired surgeon, residing at Hounslow, was charged with
firing a gun at Miss Ellen Gassner, a young lady living
next door to him, with intent to do her grievous bodily
harm. It appeared that in the afternoon, whilst she
and another young lady were playing together
in the garden adjoining the defendant's, several
etones were hurled over the wall, from the direction of
Mr. Lugard's house, one of which struck the complainant.
The females retired indoors. Half an hour afterwards,
however, Miss Gassner and Miss Coles again went into
the garden for a walk, when they observed Mr. Lugard
peeping through the Venetian blinds of one of his upper
windows ; he then drew up the blinds, threw open the
lower half of the window, pointed a gun at the young
ladies, and fired. Immediately after the gun was fired
Miss Gassner felt that she was wounded on the right
temple, and fainted. Mr. Lugard, in cross-examining the
witnesses, tried to shew that he had been systematically
annoyed by the young ladies and their companions,
who had called him a "nasty, wicked old man," and other
irritating appellations ; but they all denied having ever
vexed or called him harsh names, or having thrown stones
into his garden. Mr. Lugard, however, asserted that he
had been for a long time subjected to annoyances,
and he could stand it no longer. He therefore frightened
the young ladies. The mother of the young lady
who was shot told the bench that Mr. Lugard
had, on the contrary, annoyed and frightened her
daughter and her playmates for some time past, and she
now appealed to the magistrates for protection. Dr.
Cooper, one of the justices, examined Miss Gassner's
wound, and said it was a merciful and remarkable thing
that her eye had not been shot out. The prisoner was
Committed for trial.

S7A7E OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, Oct. 9.—The market for ship-
ping yarns has been very quiet to-day, with
scarcely any business offering, and even at lower
prices buyers do not seem disposed to operate more
freely. It closes quietly, with a downward ten-
dency in prices. In home trade yarns also prices
are lower than on Tuesday, without any increased
disposition to business. Practically, the advance
asked at the:end of last week and the beginning of
this is lost, and prices are reduced nearly to the
level of seven or eight days ago. The Cloth-market
has followed the same course. Since Tuesday prices
have given way, and business has fallen off. The
lower tone of the cotton-market has been freely re-
sponded to by manufacturers, and buyers appear
at the present to have entirely lost heart. On the
other hand, manufacturers, as a rule, seem to be
tolerably well engaged with orders, and stocks of
all, except the lighter makes of cloth, are reduced
to a comparatively small compass, so that there is
no pressure to sell. To-day the inquiry for cloth
has been exceedingly languid, and none but the
lowest prices have been offered. The business of
the day has been small. The fall of prices since
Tuesday has been about id. per lb. on yarn and 3d.
per piece on cloth.
LEICESTER, 9th.—The change in the weather has
had the effect of causing a little more cheerful tone
to prevail in this market than for some weeks past,
and in all branches of hosiery and worsted spinning
more orders have come to hand. There 'has been
much more doing in wools during the last six or
eight days, and the better classes, such as bright
haired wools, have made id. per lb. more money,
while in the inferior sorts higher prices than have
been made for the past few weeks have also been
reached. But little is coming in from the
growers, who hold firm and ask higher rates than
the trade can afford. Worsted spinners are fairly
engaged, and there is an improved demand for all
descriptions of lambs' wool goods, repetition orders
from London and Manchester having been received.
The Australian demand continues good. In striped
hosiery there is considerable activity as far as re-
gards low goods, and an improvement is noticeable
in the cotton manufacturing district of Hinckley,
consequent on the upward tendency in the price of
the raw material. There is a falling off in the elastic
web trade, orders being of a limited nature and
only to meet urgent requirements. The boot and
shoe trade, however, continues good. The chief
demand is for boots for winter use, in the manufac-
ture of which all hands are actively engaged. Ma-
terials present no noticeable alteration in price at
present.

THE MISSION FROM CHINA.

An evening paper quotes a private letter from
Peking in support of the assertion that Mr. BUR-
LINGAME'S " roving mission" may be overvalued as
showing the disposition of the Chinese to extend a
hand of fellowship to the West.
"A stupid mistake was made when the Queen received
Old Pin, who is a nobody to begin with, while his suite
were simply charity boys, the scouring of the streets, fel-
lows who rank "with but after" my servants. Even the
present Burlingame mission, though more respectably con-
stituted, is unworthy of the countries to which it goes. It
is quits a hole-and-corner thing, made up as a sop to
Cerborus. Not a hundred people in Peking (I am exact
in the figure) know of its existence. The general impres-
sion hero is that we foreigners pay a large yearly tribute
to the Emperor to be allowed to live in the Delectable
City. None but the officials are exempt from this delusion,
and they sedulously keep it up amongst the masses."
This is the old and readily recognized cry by men
who have lived in India and China. Those who
attach so much importance to the rank of the
Chinese are the persons who treat it with least
respect on personally coming into contact with that
rank in China. When an Indian, a Cingalese, a
Chinaman, or a Japanese get out of their own coun-
try, the know-them-well-men exclaim, " They are
mere nobodies at home !" If the Chinese and
other nations treated the English in the same
way, refusing to receive any but those of high stand-
ing, China would be swept of Englishmen from Pek-
ing to Canton. We recollect the exclamation of an
Affghan Chief, who made this very remark as
regards India. He said—" These Feringhees, who
lord it over us here, are nobodies in their own
country," and the Chinese would but be repaying
the English in their own coin if they did send
in their Embassy people who had no elevated posi-
tion at home. Though Englishmen of rank will not
go to the " Delectable City," the diplomatic busi-
ness of the country must be carried on, and
as it can be done, at least as well, by men who
are not nobles, and is thus done, the Chinese
would be unreasonable to raise such an objection.
As rank in China is not hereditary—is not separated
into castes—and is almost wholly official, it is the
office that makes the man. Both the Chinese En-
voys associated with Mr. BURLINGAME held high
official rank in China, civil and military ; and that
few people in Peking know of the existence of the
mission may be due to the harried way in which it was
got up, advantage being taken of Mr. BURLIN-
GAME'S departure to carry out a notion which pro-
bably had been for some time working in the
Chinese mind. The writer can assert that the general
alleged impression in Peking, that foreigners pay
a large yearly tribute to the EMPEROR to be allowed
to live in the " Delectable City" was not the idea
held there when he was in that capital. One
would suppose that these very citizens of Pe-
king had not a short time ago seen the Sum-
mer Palace extending for miles along the base
of the hills in flames—nor Tien-tsin at the
head waters of the navigation of the Peiho, and to
the Capital, the most important town in the Empire
held by a foreign garrison, who turned people out
of their houses to make room for their horses—
broke down the city walls for a short cut to their
parade ground, and ran lanes through blocks of
buildings to furnish the soldiers with better com-
munication. The Chinese Government is as little
likely to forget these facts as are the people of
Peking, that the father of the present EMPEROR,
who is himself a mere child, died almost in exile—
a fugitive from his capital from these very barba-
rians. Yet this man states that the general im-
pression at Peking is wholly at variance with
these facts. He panders to two English prejudices
—the one hitting at the rank of the Chinese portion
of the mission, which he can do with impunity, as

his countrymen know nothing about Chinese
rank, while he is aware that the blow will tell
mind the impression that
severely ; and the other by bringing up old
notions of the Chinese about barbarians, which
creates in the English
the mission is a deception, intended to throw
dust in the eyes of the Western Powers. It
certainly will be no fault of these newspapers if this
" roving mission be overvalued ;" and judging
merely from their tone—for we know nothing of
the manner in which the mission has been received
by the British Government—we are surprised that
the Ambassadors prolong their stay in London, con-
sidering they must have business almost as important
to transact with Russia and other countries, and
that the main object of the mission has been ac-
complished in America.
The only arguments put forth in a tangible
shape against the work the Chinese desire to
accomplish were given by a writer in the Times,
and we showed their value in a late issue
of this paper. Objection such as the notions
prevalent among the coolies in Peking, and
the button of the Chinese portion of the Mission,
are childish, and betray a prejudice so poor, sup-
ported by reasons so puerile, as when widely cir-
culated will make Joliet BULL change places with
JOHN CIIINAMAN as the Celestial Idiot, and there-
fore, however much inclined to act on these no-
tions, we would recommend the English Press not
to give them publicity.—Anglo-American Times.

A coloured member of the Harvard law school
recently attempted to enter the "assembly," when the de-
mocrats of that august body sought to bar him out by re-
pealing the clause of the constitution, providing that any
member of the law school is eligible. They did not suc-
ceed, and Mr. Ruffin goes into the " assembly."
Professor C. U. Shepard, of Amherst, with a
party of his scientific disciples, and six other students,
visited the Chester Massachusetts emery mine on Sept.,
19. Professor Shepard claims, with Dr. Jackson of Boston.
tho discovery that the mine, first opened as an iron mine
contained emery. Ho has found many choice specimens
there, among them several sapphires.

'CTS OF THE CAMPAIGN.

MISCE

his father a slave.

is not stated.

NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
FOSSILS FROM THE CRETACEOUS FORMATIONS.—
L. Lesquereux has an article in Silliman's Journal for July,
describing some 53 fossil plants from Nebraska, mostly
collected by Dr. llayden, of the Geological Survey. These
make a total of seventy-three species from the American
cretaceous formation. The great number of 'new species
thus established is due to the fact that cretaceous fossils

have heretofore been scarce. The writer says that "the
more we know of the floras of the geological ages of Ame-
rica, the more we recognize in them peculiar types which
in their grouping constitute what may be called an Ame-
rican fic,-ies, which by successive transitions has passed
to our present flora, and assigned to it its general charac-

ter." These cretaceous fossil plants have a closer relation
to the present flora of America than to any stages of the

Tertiary in Europe.
Ex-President Roberts of Liberia arrived in Bos-
ton, Sept. 21, having landed at Baltimore on the 17th. lie

will stop in America until December to look after the in-
terests of the Liberia College, of whic'a he is now presi-

dent, an I will visit several of the New England colleges
to obtain information in relation to their management.

Mr. lloborts, who is of unmixed African blood, was born
at Petersburg, Virginia, and when a boy followed the
occupation of dray man. Ho went to Liberia a; the age of

eighteen years, at which time he did not know his letters.
lie was never a slave, his mother being a free woman and

Robert Lincoln, son of the late President, was
married in Washington, Sept. 24, to Miss Mary Harlan,
daughter of Senator Harlan, of lowa. The wedding was
a private one. Mrs Abraham Lincoln was present.

The Envoy of the United States at Columbia
had a formal interview with President Johnson on the 23d

Sert. The President, in replying to the address, urged

on the attention of the Minister's Government the advi

sability of the ship canal through the Isthmus of Darien
and the willingness of Americans to help in such a work.

General R. E. Lee and family have arrived at
Lexington. The General's health was much improved by
his visit to the mountains. We regret to state that his
wife and daughter are still in delicate health. Captain

Maury, who is a professor in the college over which Gen.
Lee presides, is said so to have devoted himself to politics
during the time he held a scientific appointment at Wash-
ington,that his successor in the office found that the branch
of a tree had grown across the lino of sight of his tele-
scope. It is to be hoped now, in the quiet of the college,
and with the example of the great General before him,
that a man like Maury, who ought never to have allowed
anything to.interrupt his scientific researches,. will prose-

cute them as earnestly as of yore.
It is said that the Wards and the Paris crew of
St. John's will row, Oct. 21, for sl'soo a side; but where

L. H. Grinnell, late Acting-Lieutenant United
States navy, has been appointed overseer of the Japanese

navy under the Southern Government.
The Japanese Cnamissioners sent to the United
States to purchase vessels of war, and who recently re-
turned to Japan in the ram Stonewall Jackson, have fled to
San Francisco, it being unsafe for them to remain in Yo-
kohama during the I resent political disturbances. The
authorities of the Southern faction have threatened to de-
capitate them if captured.
Passed Midshipman John M. Hawley of Spring-
field, with eleven of his comrades of the late graduated
class at the Annapolis Naval Academy, have been ordered
to join the South Atlantic squadron under Admiral Davis,
whose station is at Rio Janeiro, and sailed for their desti-
nation in the steamer Mississippi on the 23d Sep'. The
remainder of the class have been ordered to different
naval stations, and six of them are to repart to Admiral
Farragut. The class numbers some eighty members.
Major Bowen, of Washington, instituted a libel
suit in the.Suprome Court against a Conservative evening
newspaper which has printed him twice as the "wickedest
man in Washington," and otherwise slandered him. Re
claims $25,000 damages.
Miss Louisa Lander's life-size marble statue of
Virginia Dare was to be sold at auction in Boston. Miss

Lander is a sister of General Lander. The statue was

finished by her in 1860 at Rome, and shipped fro n Leg-
horn, hut the vessel was wrecked on the coast of Spain,

near Palos, tho town whence Columbus sailed to discover
the New World. It was subsequently abandoned by the
underwriters, but, being recovered, was purchased by the
sculptress herself. The original cost of the statue was
$6,000.

Mr. James Finlay, acting for Messrs. Allsopp
and Son; of Burton-upon-Trent, has issued a circular,
addressed to the shareholders of the Liverpool Royal
Bank, in which he makes grave charges against
the hats directors, and gives notice that at the meet-
ing to be held on the 19th instant he shall move a
resolution to the effect that " proceedings be taken in the
name of the bank-against the directors, to make them re-
sponsible for the breaches of trust," and "for such other
acts of misconduct as may appear from the reports."
The Siamese twins have arrived iu Paris with
the object of severing their long conuectioa. The opera-
tion will be performed by Nelaton.
On the departure of Mr. K. G. Abbott, Consul-
General of Persia, to take up the appointment of Consul-
General at Odessa, Mr. J. Perkins, Chairman of the Nes-
torian Mission at Oormiah, Persia, forwarded to him the
thanks of the mission for the efficient protection extended
to them as American citizens ani Christian missionaries,

and for the sympathy he had shown fur the oppressed
people among whom tkey laboured. Mr. Perkins accorn-
Imnied the resolution of the mission with a private letter
from himself, in which ho says : "As your oldest and
most obliged American friend in Persia I cannot forbear
also to tender to you personally my most unfeigned thanks
for tho kind and efficient protection and the untiring aid
in various ways which we, as American missionaries,
without the succour of any political representative from
our own country, in this remote Mahomedan empire, have
so long received from you as her Britannic Majesty's
representative in Northern Persia—some of us for a score
of years, and myself much longer ; favours which impose
oa us obligations of gratitude which we have alike no
power to requite nor language to indicate."
Dr. Goold, of Dublin, who has lately arrived
from Cumberland Inlet, saw Captain Hall at Repulse Bay
in August, 1867. He had been successful in discovering
some further traces of the expedition of Sir John Frank-
lin. He had learned that Captain Crozier and another—
thought to be a steward—had died so late as 1861, in
Southampton Island, the head of Hudson Bay, to which
they had made their way in the hope of meeting some
whaler. He bad obtained Captain Crozier's watch. He
had also learned that he would in all probability secure
further knowledge of the fate of the expedition—perhaps
I find some records—in King William's Land. The people
there are are unfriendly to strangers, and Captain Hall
had made arrangements with friendly Esquimau' to
accompany him on an expedition—forcible, if neces-
sary —into the territory of those tribes, a fact indi-
cating that he had great hopes of obtaining some valuable
trace. Captain Hall had with him, when thus seen, some
five European attendants. It will be remembered that he
left New London in 1864, intending to voyage to the Arctic
regions, and leaving the ship in search of the Esquimaux
country, from the shores of Hudson's Bay towards the
Polar circle, for traces of Sir John Franklin's company.
The New York World doubted the trath of these state-
ments, which raised the ire of Dr. Goold, who wrote to the
Herald that the editor of the World was a Copperhead, and
something worse.
TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.—The Washington
Star says:—Now that Mr. Evarts has returned to his duty
it is expected that preparations will be made for the trial
of Jeff. Davis, which is fixed for November. It is thought
he will be tried this time or the case will be dismissed.
Mr. Colfax had au informal reception, Thursday
night, Sept. 24, of the Now York Union League. Ho was
to leave for the West on the 26th. When Congress met
he was heartily congratulated by the Representatives on
the certainty of his election to the Vice-Presidency, and,
we presume also, on his approaching marriage.
Jolty KNOX.—ller Majesty's Board of Works
has just completed the re-causewaying of the Parliament-
square, Edinburgh, and on Wednesday a stone, brazed
"I. K., 1572," within an orle, was set to mark the burial
place of the renowned "Scots worthy" John Knox, over
whose grave the Regent Morton pronounced the eulogium,
" There lies one who never feared the face of man."—
Scotsman.
Mr. John Clark of Northampton, Massachusetts,
has purchased the Josiah Parsons estate on Bridge-street,
and intends it for the Clark instruction for the deaf and
dumb. The amount of land is nine acres, the price paid
$lO,OOO, and ho intends to present the property to the in-
stitution in addition to tho $50,000 already given. The
present number of pupils in Gothic-street is 33, which will
soon be increased to 36. Miss Rogers returned to her
charge, and reopened the school.
The general committee of the Everett statue
fund have appropriated $lO,OOO of their surplus money to
the erection of a marble statue to Governor Andrew.
Thomas Ball has been selected as the artist, and will re-
turn to Italy early in October. The statue will be fiuished
in about two years, and, in accordance with a resolve of the
last Legislature of Eastern Massachusetts, will occupy a
niche in the north-west corner of the Doric ball of the
State-Louse.

BOARD OF TRADE, Oct. s.—The Right Hon. the
Lords of the Committee of Privy Council fur Trade have
receiv,d from the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
a copy of a despatch from Ler Majesty's Miuist,r at
Washington, enclosing a copy of an Act of Congress, ex-
tending to the territory of Alaska the laws of the United
States relating to customs, commerce, and navigation.—
London Gazette, Oct. 6.
A $5,000 United States' revenue stamp was re-
quired on recording in the Surrogate's-office the will of the
late Mr. Edwin Ste vens of New York. This seems a mo-
derato stamp duty, as the property of the deceased is now
estimated at $50,000,000, rather more than half of its real
estate. lie has bequeathed $650,000 for building and en-

dowing an institution of learning in Hoboken, and he has
also directed that the "Stevens Battery" be completed at
a cost not exceeding $1,000,000, aud then presented to
the State of New Jersey.
Intelligence received at Gotha, Oct. 4, of the
progress of the Swedish Expedition to the North Pole
says that the highest latitude at which observations were
taken was 80 52, which it reached on the 30th of August,
and it is believed the expedition has been as far as lat. 8110.
Soundings were taken north of Sp'tzbergen Sea, showing
the depth to be over 2,100 fathoms, or nearly 15,000 feet.
The Washington Evening Star says it has every
reason to believe that the cause of the protracted session
of the Cabinet, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, was a discussion of
the questien whether there was a session of Congress on
the 21st. If so, all the appointments made during the
recess had terminated, and the offices are now vanant•
The President held that he Lad not been notified of any
session, and therefore did not recognize any.
A great change is about to be introduced in
German schools, viz., the abolition of all afternoon classes.
A terrible conflagration is raging in the forests
of Oregon and California. The fire is estimated to have
already spread over an area of two hundred square miles
on both sides of the Columbia river, Oregon. It is feared
that the towns of St. Helens and Ostoria will be destroyed'
A tract of five miles of woods near San Rafael, Maria
County, California, is on fire, the smoke from which com-
pletely enveloped the harbour and city of San Francisco.
A contract has been entered into with the city
of Paris to buy up all the old paving-stones for the pur-
pose of shipping them across the Atlantic, where they are
to be used to pave the principal thoroughfares of Buenos
Ayres and Montevideo.
It is computed that there are at present seven-
teen lines of steamers making 1,322 voyages per annual
between England and America.
Rooms have been appropriated in the Cooper
Institute for the use of the Artists' Fund Society, free of
expense. The only condition made is, that the social
shall establish and maintain a perennial free exhibition of
paintings and works of sculpture by American artists, and
this will be a material aid to the development and culture
of art, as well as a benefit to artists.
The propeller Congress, of Detroit, after fully
testing the invention, has adopted and just commenced
running with petroleum for fuel. The cost is half the
cost of wood, while the oil to do the work of 40 cords of
wood can be carried in the space of four cords, leaving the
space occupied by 3d cords for freight.
A Cuban vessel, at Boston, Thursday, Sept. 241
had on board several rough sticks of wood, which on in-
vestigation turned out to bo nicely contrived boxes, con-
taining in all 2,000 cigars.
By late news the steamship Japan had arrive('
at Yokohama from San Francisco, making the passage ll'
22 days. Minister J. Ross Brown and party were 00
board, all well. They loft for Shanghai, August 28. The
Great Republic grounded in Yokohama Harbour, which
had detained her three days, as noticed last week.
The milk train on the Housatonic Railroad iirrs
to commence running from Pittsfield, October 1. A Year
ago this business was commenced as an experiment, when
44 cans of 40 quarts each was the whole quantity cent,i
which has increased to 340 daily. Ten cans are promise'
from Pittsfield, which doubtless will be increased tea-
fold. The net price to be paid for October is 4} cents
per quart, for November and December 5, Januarc
and February 6, and in March it declines to 5, and in APri
to 4, Which will make a yearly average of 41 cents. Wit',
butter at 50 cents per pound milk is worth 4 cents par,
quart, and as it takes four quarts of milk to a pound 01
cheese that sells at 14 cents, it follows that the farmer
who sends milk to New York makes more money than 116
could by cheese or butter making, besides saving an lin'
mouse amount of labour.
A conference of representatives from the different
Swiss cantons will be held in Borne next Monday, to con'
sider what means shall be taken to alleviate the distress
of the sufferers from the inundations in the cantons Gri-
sons, Valais, Tessin, and St. Gall.
DOTY'S DECK LIGHT AND SIGNAL LAMPS.--Th°
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's shil;
Bangalore, Captain N. Roskell, is being fitt ed with a pair °
these lamps, which, after a series of trials under the direction
of committees, consisting of commanders and chief offinerei°
the company's service, have been recommended to the dives
tors for adoption on board the company's steamers. P‘°-
pair of lamps are accompanied by a small portable air pul
(easily worked by a boy), and india-rubber hose to connect
the lamps with the pump, all of which are stationed on or neat
the bridge, one lamp on the port and theother on the star'
board side of the vessel, and theair-pump under the invoet:
diato control of the "officer of the watch," so that on sigb r
ing a vessel dangerously near ahead, or on the pert °
starboard bow without being able to make out her course'
the officer in charge could (by turning the air-puntP)
stantly present brilliant white lights directly ahead, 0,,
red and green corresponding with the "Board of Trade_,
regulation sidelights to vessels appearing on the part 0'
starboard bow, and illuminate ship, spars, rigging, ""t",,
in such a manner as would clearly indicate his course
the strange vessel. In the event of a casualty at se,, i°,,;
volving the necessity for lowering boats at night, too
officer in charge could immediately command a clear vie`.
of all the boats and their surroundings, greatly fo'elllyi
tate their being properly manned, quickly and 83f%,
lowered, and prevent much of the confusion always gcf
tending these occurrences at night, which (in the absence
good deck lights) invariably fills the passengers with 11,t's,
governable fear, and seriously affects the good order, dlie
cipline, and efficiency of the crew, and not unfrequenWs
causing the loss of life and boats. As each lamp prodneet
a light equal to 300 sperm candles at an expense of 4,1•11,
hour for fluid, they w.. 11 be used for embarking and tan
ing passengers, receiving and discharging freight, Nally°
ship, and for night signals, which latter will be WI:
ship,
by simply turning a cock in the "hose" corine'llt
ing the air-pump with the lamp. Short flashes of "do
(one second in duration), and long flashes (three sec°
in duration), may be produced, by means of which "D°t,fe
Universal Code for Night" signals an auxiliary toted
commercial code of signals), may be successfully emPl°s:o
to telegraph arrivals, communicate with "signal station 00
making distress and other signals, thus superseding the
of rockets, red and blue lights, &c.