Evening Star And Dial (Newspaper) - February 5, 1862, London, Middlesex No. 1,845. FEBRUARY 5, 1862. ONE ROYAL ENGLISH CO the Management of Miss Louisa and Mr. w. - THIS THE It A To with the Pantomime of ff Giants and Mr. A. Commence rft THEATRE Mr. THIS OUR AMERICAN Buck XL c. Miss M. To conclude with the Pantomime of LITTLE MISS AND LITTLE BOY BLUE Harlequin and Old Daddy ROYAL PRINCESS'S THIS THE IRISH Mr. W. J. After THE YANKEE Mr. and Mrs. J. To conclude with AND HIS Harlequin and the Genius Good Miss M. Master J. Mr. Messrs. J. Lauri and Paulo Miss 0. ROYAL LYCEUM Sole Lessee and Mr. THIS PEEP Messrs. W. Mrs. D. P. Miss 0. To conclude with LITTLE RISING HOOD The Fairies of the the and the Messrs. 0. Selby Misses C. Nott and Lydia ROYAL OLYMPIC Messrs. F. Robson and S. THIS 8LOWTOF8 Messrs. H. H. Miss Mrs. W. S. Followed by THE KING OF THE Messrs. F. Murray Miss And THE LOTTERY Mr. ROYAL ST. Mr. Georgi THIS a new SELF Messrs. G. Vining and W. H. After PERSEUS AND The Maid ami the To conclude with NUMBER ONE ROUND THE ROYAL STRAND Lessee and Mr. sen. THIS at OLD PHIL'S Messrs. J. Mesdames After PUSS IN A NEW PAIR OF Messrs. Mesdames Ada 8wanborough. C. To conclude with JOHN ROYAL SURREY Messrs. and THIS EVENING HEY DIDDLE AND THE TWELVE DANCING Miss Esther Mr. H. To conclude with THE WHITE Mr. Miss piTT OF LONDON Messrs. Johnson and Nelson THE and the Fair Mr. Mrs. Mr. the Russian Merry by To conclude with HARD By the Commence at NATIONAL Mr. Joun Poo Miss THIS THE PEDLAR Miss supported by the To conclude with THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE O. Green Mimes Johnson and Little NEW BRITANNIA THIS THE FIERY After THE KING OF THE Mrs. a A. J. C. Mrs. W. by Les To conclude with THE CLOCK ON THE Commence at ending February 8tl and Newcomb's Mini clock daily Band and Graft and all the Howard Glover's with dresses and Characters and Herr Formes other and Season Tickets available till 30tb a Often young age 17, wishes for a situation as UNDER NURSE in a family Has been accustomed to Unexceptionable - S. 10, Established 1849, on the own Forms by post for four stamps and stamped directed Management - Address to T. 8HORTT, private 16, N. 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DESTRUCTION OF ANOTHER AUSTRALIAN ( LIP PER B Y t 1,1 i ii Tl h 1 A was oil iu anticipation af tho Australian total destruction hy tire of thr clipper Kin press of the Philip * i 11 was from to London with a large cargo of oil including many choice specimens of Australian skill ami ingenuity for the All was but the crew and and of were THE A was received yesterday at the m directing that the sentence of death 1 or William Malony at the of the Central for the murder of his wi fe should lie commuted to that of penal servitude for As iong time has elapsed since the the public m ly have forgotten the circumstances under which the conviction of the prisoner took and which were of a somewhat extraordinary The prisoner was an Irish ho lived with his wife in and they were in the habit nf getting drunk and and on the day before the murder they had been to a and both of them drunk very freely ics is usual upon such occasions among the lower order of Irish The prisoner went to his and very soon without alarm or appearing to the deceased woman was found mortally wounded in the and she died without giving any explanation of the circumstances which the injury was The statement made by the prisoner was that he had with his wife on account of her having got on the previous and that in a tit of exclaimed that she would have no more and indicted the injury upon herself with a knife that was upon the table at which they had The most singular part of the case that after the hist examination had taken place before the a a man named Saunders came who stated being on the for he happened quite accidentally to go down Legge court at the time the affair ami that he looked into the and actually saw him stab the deceased in the He was rigorously bv the prisoner's and also questioned considerable length by Mr. -I who tried but his appeared to be very and the jury evidently believed the evidence he had as they convicted the him to upon the ground that they believed the deceased had excited and provoked him before he Committed the act. The ever his has continued to assert the most positive manner that he is innocent of the and when the announcement was made tc him of the of the tie again declared that wife yd herself and he 1�>-m. m. DIRECT NEWS FROM OF THE CONFEDERATE THE FANNY About five o'clock on Monday evening a large was observed being towed up the Mersey by the having the Confederate flag flying at her She was taken into the and there brought to an It appears upon inquiry that the vessel is named the Fanny is and commanded by Captain Walker that she left Charleston on the 1st of and ran the blockade at She is laden with 600 bales of Sea Island cotton and 300 barrels of consigned to Messrs. and of We learn further that her crew consisted the one and two and it is deemed somewhat extraordinary that a vessel of her tonnage should have ventured to cross the especially at this season of the with so limited a number of hands it being considered that she ought not to have had fewer than a dozen all The captain has his wife on and one cabin pas Some time after the vessel was the Rover went to and brought on shore a mail and the captain also and made arrangements to dock his vessel by the morning It is also stated that there are two or three other vessels on their passage hither from laden with which had also run the It would appear that the running of the blockade is a comparatively easy and that the Fanny Lewis ran out during the darkness of the passed the sunken and met with no impediment The Fanny Lewis brings only one the Charleston Daily of December 23. news in this paper of not but in running our eye over the pages we find the intelligence stated with care and We subjoin a few We do not recollect having seen the following before From Ball Opened on the Potomac Attack of Confederates us Fifteen Thousand of the to be Renewed Dec. 21. An engagement between a portion of our army of the Potomac and the Yankees took place yesterday At 4 a.m. General with liiO the Davis First Kentucky Tenth Eleventh and South being a portion of General left Centreville for the purpose of attempting to capture a Yankee foraging party said to be at sixteen miles from As they neared the place they discovered the enemy in force over 15,(10(1 General determined to give them battle with his force of only 3,000 and immediately commenced an The tight lasted a gi eater portion of the when the Confederates Our loss was about thirty and about an equal number Among the killed are Colonel of the First Kentucky and the major of the The Eleventh Virginia from had seven and twelve A third held officer was and another had au arm shot off. Four of the J Davis Artillery were killed at their guns and several General Stuart sent to headquarters for and last night the of General Longstreet's consisting of fourteen went down to give the Yankees Nothing has been heard of their oj to-day of the ski km 1sh os 1'iif 1'oToM.yc of Colonel of general Stuart in Possession of On Friday a foraging party was sent out by consisting of about escorted by the 11th Virginia Gth South Carolina 10th 1st Flying and a detachment from Ransom's and the whole force numbering about When the Confederates were near they found the Yankees During the skirmish the 1st Kentucky Regiment tired into the Gth South mistaking them for the and killed five South After a general engagement both sides withdrew in order from Colonel Thomas in personally found himself nearly by the calv ah y. ile eluded and secreted himself until when he escaped and joined his The only injury he received was a slight wound on the Tile were evidently ui the approach of the and prepared accordingly to meet ' thf taking a strong Notwithstanding their loss fully equals been sent to who holds tiie Further results are ' si This body adjourned on Saturday at twelve o'clock having passed and ratified forty-six Among the measures passed tor the relief of Charleston arc an act for tin an act to authorise the City Council of issue small receivable in payment of taxes and dues to the oi Si are fully authorised by a gentleman of New Orleans the who was lately a prisoner on board the steamer South lying in the to state that Captain the States naval officer iu command of that declared unequivocally to him that if the war now carried on against the South re a wai upon he would immediately resign his and that even i on board his ship would follow his example Captain Alden had previously told the passengers that were entirely mistaken as to the object of the war that it is only for the preservation of the 1 for the preservation of the Constitution and the that it i- no war upon he addi il the remarkable declaration we have is said that is the mother and 1 it must be so. for this unrighteous blockade has put many of us to thinking and to using the mians within cur reach to make For who would have ever thought of or taken the trouble to pare and slice the sweet potato glows so on our Southern for that delightful of which we are so whin the best Java wa- selling at to twenty i cuts per And la so thoroughly convinced am I that it is one of the best substitutes lor collee ever yet that not than one in ten can tell it from the best when rightly 1 hope our people will not throw their money away by paying from cents to one dollar a pound fur when they can get just as by taking sweet potatoes and slicing up line and toasting just as we do and it in the same THE SUMTER AND HER DO IN as. OF LIBERATED Three American Captain of the Arcade Captain of the aud Captain of the Eben have arrived in Liverpool by the Spanish steamer from where they landed after their had been captured and burnt at sea by the It is their intention to return to America in the According to the account of these gentlemen the Sumter is a very indifferent screw about 5CK> her armament consisting of four short 32-pounders and oue pivot She is well supplied with small arms and salt and general Her crew are represented as about ninety in mostly and so discontented that eleven of them deserted on arriving at The marines on board are described as entirely The Sumter brought forty-three prisoners into being the crews and officers of the three captured Several of the prisoners were detained on board the privateer as pait of her The accounts given by the three captains are very and Hoxie's embraces all the facts of His the Eben a craft of 222 was owned in New Bedford On the 2tith November she sailed thence for the South Pacific on a She was in way well On the 8th when in lat. 'M N. long. 50 about 10 the weather being thick at the a the American came iu ami immediately lired a shot the bows of the In a few minutes the steamer ran astern of the hoisted the Confederate and Captain ordered Captain to come ou board the steamer with his at the same time saying that the steamer was the Confederate war vessel On going on board the Capt. Hoxie was shown into the where Semmes was The after looking over the papers of the Kben yes It's all She is a lawful prize to the Confederate and 1 shall burn the He then We are short of water and you have I must have some of He then ordered Captain Hoxie to go accompanied by an armed crew of the and bring the of which they took about 1,000 Tooli of of and u tf all the charts which were on board the and the captain's sextant and On again being taken on board the Captain Hoxie was told by Captain Semmes that he must restrict himself to one bed and one trunk for his clothing that his mates and crew must restrict themselves to one bag each for These conditions were complied with as speedily as and the crew of. the Sumter appropriated all the tools which were on board the Eben The vessel was then set on and about sun when the Sumter bore the barque was blazing from stem to Captain Semmes then asked Captain Hoxie if he had any It will be as well to be for if I have reason to doubt what you say I'll have you Captain Hoxie then said he had which Captain Semmes ordered him to give to the remarking that he would take care of Next morning Captain Semmes complained that too many clothes had been brought on board by the men from the Eben and ordered nearly all they had except the things they had actually onj to be taken from According to Captain the Sumter was in a very dirty and he was confined in a very small noisome in companionship with the petty With this and the loss of his private both he and the other captains say they had nothing to complain of. Captain Semmes retained one of the boats belonging to the Eben Captain of the schooner states that his vessel belonged to Portland and sailed thence for Guadaloupe on the 10th with a cargo of molasses on On the afternoon of the 26th, when in lat. 20� 35' and long. 57� 12' the steamer with the American flag came up with her and sent an armed crew on They took Captain Smith on board the along with his and together with all portable Captain Semmes looked over the ship's said that she was a lawful prize to the Confederate and that he should bum Captain Smith's luggage was restricted to the same size as Captain one bed and Captain Smith was then requested to give up all his but as he had only 5 in his pocket he was told to retain it. Captain of the ship of 652 belonging to sailed from New York for Falmouth on the 21st of for On the 3rd about nine in lat. 29 12 57 20 W. observed a steamer showing a French She came rapidly upon the Captain Minott suspected at the time that she was the and he was not for the Sumter she certainly proved to On the Vigilant being Captain Minott was ordered to heave when two armed crews were sent on board the Vigilant from the The ship's papers were taken possession together with Captain taken on and after the usual formalities Captain Semmes declared her n lawful and said he would burn The captain and crew were then taken on board of the taking with them nothing but their Captain Semmes appropriating the &c. The Vigilant was then set on and the most of whom were set to work on board the After this Captain Semmes said to all and you would do the same to me if you could to which Captain Minott Yes and I would do so now if you would give me the Captain money was not taken from and he was released at At on the 4th of Captain Semmes told all the captains and their crews that they would be put on and that the American consul would take care of Captain Hoxie's were confiscated as of At Cadiz several of Captain Hoxie's crew were supplied with clothes by the American The of the Eben who was ill when that vessel was died on board the REFORM OF THE INDIAN TOWN'S MEETING AT day forenoon a large and earnest meeting was held in the Manchester Town called by the in obedience to a memorial signed by and others interested in the cotton to memorialise the Government and to petition Parliament for the early removal of the protective duties of 10 per on cotton and 5 per on cotton now levied under the Indian and which duties the consider diametrically opposed to the principles of free and injurious to every interest in this The Mayor occupied the Letters of apology were read from Mr. Mr. Lord and other approving of the objects of the The Hon. A. moved the adoption of the in the spirit of which he cordially and he complimented Mr. Cobden for his energy in carrying the French treaty into When theBe protective duties were once he believed that the people of India would not engage in the manufacture of cotton as they were now preparing to Tropical countries were better employed in raising the raw material of manufactures lhan in the production of manufactured The it was should be presented to Lord Sir Charles by a deputation to emanate from the The adoption of the memorial was seconded by Mr. W. J. who said that the 10 per duty was in reality 2:") per taking into account the charges on the shipment and transmission from port to port of the an amount of restriction on the British manufacturer which was altogether The Indian military force was acknowledged to be in excess of the necessities of India and if this were there could be no difficulty in getting rid at once of one-half of the 10 per cent. Mr. supported the and recounted the efforts which the Manchester Chamber of and other bodies had made to get of these most objectionable The feeling against throughout Lancashire was They knew that these duties were and the of this was seen in the fact that the machinists of Lancashire were busy making machinery for the filling of Indian cotton mills which was entirely the result of the artificial stimulus given by this protective Protective duties ought not to exist within any portion of the British do He complimented the labouring classes of Lancashire on their forbearance and good conduct during their present season of He trusted the guardians of the poor would put a liberal construction on the Poor and that they would strive to their to prevent the breaking up of the little households of the factory He also trusted that the guardians would avoid humiliating the honest poor by putting them to work in the stone Mr. G. said that this question affected Sheffield as much as The same duty was levied on Sheffield and Sheffield was capable of receiving iron from India thoroughly good for its if the export and import duties now levied on the iron manufactured article were He was on the platform on this occasion with gentlemen whom in the House of Commons he seldom went into the same lobby order to get rid of a great Apart from ordinary politics the people of Lancashire stood shoulder to shoulder on this and they would do so until they had carried their Mr. and Mr. J. of the Manchester Foreign Affairs having addressed the the memorial was unanimously Mr. P. Arrowsmith moved the adoption of a petition to Parliament in the same tenour as the which was seconded by Mr. J. A. in an able speech by J. and Mr. Alderman The petition having been the Hon. braham moved the appointment of a committee to carry out the foregoing which was seconded by Mr. and The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the No article ot domestic consumption is required to be more uniform and reliable than but as proved by the Sanitary it is much tampered with by the order to protect the and also to maintain great Horniman and Co. have for many years tea perfectly and devoted their exclusive attention to this single but important article hence arises the high character of their securing for them a demand unexampled for Being supplied only in they are guaranteed to the consumer always of the same high and Sold by agents at 80, Cornhill 11, 75, St. 2, Shoreditch 227, 333 and 336, 46, Old 10, 98, Agents in every | BRIGHT AT and Tuesday The anniversary of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce was celebrated this evening at the Plough and Harrow Mr. one of the of the took the There were also present the Right Hon. C. B. Mr. John a number of deputies from chambers of commerce in and other and many of the leading merchants and manufacturers of the Mr. Bright responded to the toast of the Borough given from the He regretted that there was not in nearly every town a chamber of sitting as a Committee of watching the progress of all questions affecting the industry of the and he thought the different chambers might be associated on a broad and liberal basis with the best because what affected one trading community affected If chambers of commerce declined to discuss any important question because it might be inconvenient a or affect parties in the House of they should not pretend to take commerce under their guardianship at The Corn and the Tariff were essentially political yet they had been discussed with advantage by chambers of commerce but such chambers had been and consequently because they had not sufficient or did not appreciate the duties they had and they sometimes subordinated the interests of commerce to the temporary interests of particular Three or four years ago chambera of commerce took it but did not proceed with the question of maritime urging that war should be confined to vessels armed for and that nobody should interfere with the property being innocently carried across the It was argued against this view that you should do as much harm as possible to your enemy but if this should be the rule at why not also upon where the property of private persons is respected If England is superior in power and mischief on the is she not also the most powerful in amount of property at sea We property worth a hundred millions sterling and in the event of a war with a country like the United States we should doubtless receive more damage to our commerce than we could inflict upon The growing expenditure of the Government was another with which chambers of commerce might The expenditure was three hundred millions sterling over the amount in the preceding twenty The question of cotton supply was another that might be dealt Mr. Bright alluded to his unsuccessful efforts to obtain a Royal commission to inquire into the cotton-growing capacities of especially of Bombay and and quoted from former speeches made by him to prove that he had foreseen the disrupture of the American States and the consequent dearth of slave-grown He recalled his plan for dividing India into separate each with a government of its and expressed his belief that if the committee he obtained had led to its legitimate we should have had plenty of cotton at the present world of nonsense had been talked about American affairs the blockade of the Southern ports had been declared and yet the effects of its ineffectiveness had been No blockade had ever been so effective over a similar extent of At this moment the population of the States now under the Washington Government was greater than that of all the States in 1850. All the maritime wealth and power now belong to the Nothing could be more ignorant or more foolish than to speak of the Northern Federation as of a few disconnected to be trampled insulted or injured at The people of Lancashire considered that England's interference in the American struggle meant and that such interference would be fatal to their best cotton be now a shilling a it could noc be got through war at less than five There were thousands of families not knowing where food was to come yet it would be the cheapest thing England ever did to subsidize those families until better times rather than encourage an unjust and violent attempt to break a legal ami declare against a people anxious to bo friendly with and engaged in the patriotic endeavour to maintain the integrity of their Government and sustain the permanence of their The interests of Lancashire depended at this moment absolutely upon the principle of friendly neutrality being maintained by this country and He was pleased to see the neutrality principle advocated by the Manchester Chamber of arid he was gratified with the way in which the distressed operatives bore their Many them had saved money during better and their ordinary employers possessed great wealth and with the will to render necessary In Mr. Bright that if chambers of commerce would regard questions more they would forget the Prime Minister and the hopes of a coming they would divest themselves of party and regard themselves mainly for the time as the guardians of they would exercise and assert their views with more and they would have greater weight with Government and They could represent opinions which official statesmen had not the means of and they should all their intelligence and and to bear on the procuring of such as would benefit the great body of. the The other toasts were The The Board of acknowledged by M. Verdier de Our responded to by Mr. The Associated Chambers of others of a similar The Emperor Napoleon and the telegraphic despatch from Frankfort affirms that an autograph letter has been addressed to the Emperor Napoleon by the Emperor Francis The letter is said to be intended to serve as the baas an understanding with Prance on the affairs of Austria requires from the French Government to refrain from any interference in the aggressive policy of and promises that she herself will not depart from her defensive f A way's Pills and health many persons arc compelled to restrict their diet almost as it they were suffering from dare not take this or that food for fear of its disagreeing with perplexing condition may be at once corrected by which the stomach and liver readily and comfortably to digest any ordinary and permits the dyspeptic with impunity to partake of those articles of diet to which the appetite prompts and should be the best
