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THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND AT A POLICE-COURT. On Monday his Grace the Duke of Sutherland appeared at the Wandsworth poiice-court to answer a summons charg- ing him with having assaulted Mr. William Metcalfe, a bar- rister, under the following circumstances The complainant, on being sworn stated that on the afternoon of Saturday week, the day on which the Volunteer review took place, he was riding on horse- back along the Putney-road, accompanied by his wife and child, and an elderly lady, who were in a basket phaton. At a short distance from the entrance for carriages at Wimbledon-common the road was very narrow, and in consequence of the numeroug carriages there was a diffiauItyin getting along. The phseton followed in the line of carriages which was formed to admit of the passing of return carriages on the other side of the road. The witness was riding on the grass on the off side with a lady, who was also on horseback, and his groom was behind riding and leading a horse for the use of Mrs. Metcalfe. As they were proceeding the Duke of Sutherland drove up with a four-horse drag rather rapidly, and whether he overlooked the pony phaeton or wished to pass it and take advantage of the weak part of the line he (wituess) did not know, but he ran against the basket carriage as he passed, and drove it off the road. The wing of the phaeton was doubled up, and the ladies were very much frightened. The witness, seeing the danger of his wife, rode up and forced his horse between the leaders of the drag and the carriage in front of them. Some one immediately came behind him and seized his horse's head violently and turned it round. The same person caught hold of the witness's leg and en- deavoured to throw him off his horse, but without being able to do so. The drag then moved on, and as it passed the defendant lashed the witness with his whip. Luckily for him and the witness the whip did not cut his face, but only his hat. He followed up to the course and asked the gentleman who endeavoured to throw him off his horse for his card, but he refused, and told him to find out. In cross-examination Mr. Metcalfe denied charging the leaders of the drag with his horse, and also that he touched their reins. As he forced his horse between the leaders they went partly round with him. The gentleman who came up behind asked him what he was about. He had no doubt his object was to put his horse away to prevent further mischief. Mr. Metcalfe said that before the case was called on he offered to withdraw the proceedings on an apology being made. His offer had not been accepted. The Duke of Sutherland said that Mr. Metcalfe was on the off side, and unable to judge of distance. He bad witnesses who would give a different version of the story. He always trembled when he saw ladies driving, and invariably pulled his horses away so as not to alarm them. He was not within a yard of the phseton at the time. ±, The magistrate then left the bench to examine the phaeton, and on his return the case proceeded. Mrs. Darcy Irving and Mn. Metcalf, who were in the pony pbeeton, and Mr. Metcalfe^ groom, were severally examined as witnesses. They corroborated the complainant's statement. The ladies stated that they were very much alarmed, and were nearly upset by the drag. For the defence the Duke of St. Arpino was called. He stated that he was sitting on the box with the Duke of Sutherland. There were two lines of carriages. They were in one line and the pony phaeton was in the other. They were going at a slow pace, when suddenly the complainant rode across and stopped their leadffei. The complainant took hold of the reins of one of ^iho horses, and the leaders turned round directly. jjJf they had turned a little more, there would have been great danger. A gentleman and the Duke's coachman got down and took hold of the com- plainant's horse, and desired him to release his hold. The Duke called to him not to touch the leaders. He at the same time touched him with his whip. They were not driving at the tate of seven or eight miles an hour. No part of the dr&g came in contact with the pony phieton. Lord Alfred Paget said he was sitting behind his (jrrace. There were two lines of carriages. The pony carriage was a little on the left, a yard and a half from them. TheL basket carriage was in one line, and they were in the other. Thít horses were going a little out of a walk. The carriages in their line were going at the same rate, and the other line very slowly. He saw the complainant suddenly ride across the leaders, and take hold of the reins, and turn them to the left. He was afraid the duke s carriage would be thrown on the pony phseton. Ti the duke had not had the wheelers firm in hand, the drag must have been turned over on the other side. When the carriage had been pulled up some one jumped down and caught hold of the leaders. A gentleman also stopped the complainant. He saw the complainant come towards the box of the coach, and the duke's whip went up, but whether it was to strike the wheeler or Mr. Metcalfe he could not etate. He did not the whip strike anything. He did not believe the coach touched the pony carriage. Joseph Rawlmgs, a servant of the defendant, gave similar evidence. 11 The Duke of Sutherland said if he had frightened the ladies he was very ma-y for it. Mr. Metcalfe was not satisfied with that statement. He wanted an apology from the Duke and the gentleman who accomnanwd him for the assault. He should indict the gentleman who had refused his name at the sessions. Mr. Ingham said he was of opinion that the coach did come in contact with the phaeton, and that the ladies could not be mistaken. If it was se, Mr. Met- calfe could not be found fault with. After this expression of opinion a conference took Pi place between the parties, but without success, and ultimately the summocs was adjourned for a week for Mr. Metcalfe to produce other witnesses.

AMERICAN ITEMS. From the letters of special correspondents and other sources we glean the items of American news:- SHOWING BOTH SIDES OF THE PICTURE. The recruiting for the new force of 300,000 men proceeds but slowly, notwithstanding the ready-money inducements of 40dois. in hand, which is offered to every candidate. One reason alleged for the apparent unpopularity of the service is laid at the door of Secretary Stanton, who has persisted in establishing the over-crowded military hospitals in the midst or great cities, instead of removing them to the rural districts; and in placing the recruiting officers sometimes under the same roof; s ometimes next door, and sometimes right opposite to them, so that the aspirants for the pay and glory of war are able to see both sides of the war-medal at one glance,—on one side dollars and the chance of promotion; on the other, mangled and amputated limbs, personal de- formities, debilitating and fatal fevers, sorrow, suffering, and death. However this may be, it is certain that the President's call has not met with a hearty response; but, whether it be the exhaustion of the Irish and German or the American "rowdy" material, from which the first army has been mainly drawn, the growing disinclination of the youth- ful population to fight for the subjugation of their former felloe-citizens, or the extreme and almost tropical heat of the weather (it is to-day 90 deg. in the shade), that renders even the strongest and hardiest young men averse to brave a stili greater degree of heat in the pestilential marshes of Virginia, it is impossible to say. WHolcAN TELL THEIR LOSSES? The It-its of the Federal losses have not yet been made out, but the opinion ofofiicers accustomed to judge of such matter, and who were present with the army, and shared its terrible experience, is that General M'Clellan's loss will exceed 25,000 men. The Confederates will doubtless en- deavour to conceal the extent of their suffering, but, ac- cordiag to all living testimony, and also the silent evidence of the uattle field, it was at least equal to that of their oppo- nents. They refuse to reoeive flags of truce conveying in- quiries relative to the fate of Federal officers supposed to be killed, wounded, or prisoners in their hands, and manifest in other ways a determination to keep their own secrets. It appears that General" Stonewall" Jackson was their great leauer on the occasion, and that he is still alive and well, though reported killed, and that General Magruder was not taktu prisoner, as first asserted. General Beauregard was we^c aotlve Darfc *a .the battles of the 7 PROTECTION RULES THE DAY Cong Iress, which was very dilatory on the Tax Bill, has been exceedingly zealous in the matter of the tariff. It spent iti,wardj of twelve months in devising, discussing, an 1 posing the one measure, to provide revenues for the pa, t of the interest on the new national debt and the cuuenÍi expenses of the war, but it has taken only two weeks to pass its Ktii- J rariff. The measure as it now stands levies eevere, and ia many cases prohibitory, duties on the importation 'i ish goods, nominally for the sake of rewmne, but ire' y for the exclusive advantage of Pennsyl- vania iland. The task of Congress has been eai > i i' nac members were all present in the South. I'll-' tun iiO luces very few disciples of the great science of po!jthal ecomony. It swarms with people who under- stand i .? weaitn of individuals, but can boast of no states- man uivJerttands the wealth of nations. Thus, pro- tt-oi i to iiative industry had it all its own way, and British tra-i- is reduced to a shadow. Had it not been for the war thin would not have happened. New England and Ivntisjifnuij. conlequ I with patriotism; and their manufacturers decllu. whatever amount of taxa- tion the Government may ise, either now or hereafter, they will cheerfully contribute. "The war is righteous and shall be carried outto the bitter end." Protection will double all their profits, and add cent. per cent, to their in- comes at the expense of the American people, and they may well afford to pay a 3 or even a 5 per cent. income-tax to the Government which has put such a big thing in their way. Bat if the American people do not some day discover the fraud and false pretence, and return to sounder principles of commerce, they are not at heart the trading people tbey desire to be thought, and deserve to be shorn, like silly sheep, for the sole benefit of the shepherds who subject them to the process. GBTEVANOE AND ANNOYANCE HAND IN HAND. Mr. Thurlow Weed, the great "wire-puller" of Albany, confidential agent of the Republican party-toe King of the Lobby—the deftest and most successful "log-roller' that America has ever produced, has just given an account of his recent mission to London, in a letter to the Committee on National Affairs" of the Board of j Aldermen of New York. He admits that the Federal cause has little or no sympathy in England, and expresses his belief that there are reasons hut too well fo ied for apprehending future em- broilment with that country. He dots not state very clearly what those reasons are, but hints that ignorance and Misconception of the real state of feeling in America are the piiucipal. Mr. Weed may be right in this respect, hut if he had added that the misconception and ignorance are mutual he would have come nearer to the truth. The American, as a rule, knows little or nothing of any country except his own, and rates the power and influence of England too exclusively by her size on the map. He thinks her Institutions are effete, that her civilisation is rotten, that she is in her national dotage and senility, and that a backhanded blow from "our young Republic" would "wipe the old crittur out of exist- ence." In short, the ignorance of the mass of the people as regards-Europe generally, and England particularly, is only equalled by their arrogance; and Mr. Weed will render his country good service if he proceed to enlighten it forthwith by the results of his own experience.

EXTRAORDINARY LEGITIMACY CASE. The Court of Probate and Divorce has been occupied wiih a suit instituted by John Augustus Shiel Bouverie, to establish his legitimacy under the Legitimacy Declar^ion Act, as the son of Francis Kennel Bouverie and Elizabeth his wife The suit was opposed by General Bouverie, one of the late Francis K. Bourerie's brothers, and his three s'sters. It seemed from the statement of Sir H. Cairns, who appeared on the part of the petitioner, that the father of the claimant was the third son of Mr. Edward Bouverie, of Delapre, in the county of Northampton, a branch of the Bouverie family, of which the present Earl of Radnor was the head. He was born in Nov., 1797, and after leaving the Oxford University he entered the army as an ensign in the 62nd Foot, and in 1826 he was drafted off with his regiment t« Ireland, and was quartered in Castle Dawson, Londonderry, which was at that time a place of consequence, the linen trade flourishing there considerably about that time. Amongst the families of consideration and re- spectability. there was a widow of a Dr. Shiel and her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Sbiel. The deceased Dr. Shiel had amassed a good fortune, and he left his wife and child in easy circumstances, the young lady having a fortune of 4,0001. Mr. Bouverie, who at this time had obtained his lieutenancy, was introduced to Mrs. Shiel's family. An intimacy sprung up between Lieutenant Bouverie and Miss Shiel, which ripened into love, and resulted in their marriage, which took place by licence on the 20th of November, 1826, at the Church of Magherafelt, by the Rev. Mr. Vesey, the rector. Amongst the persons present at the mar- riage was Mr. James Bouverie, one of Lieutenant Bou- verie's brothers, and who was an officer in the 17th Foot. After the marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Bouverie lived with Mrs. Shiel, at Castle Dawson, for some time, and Lieu- tenant Bouverie and his wife afterwards went to Ennis- killen with his regiment, and remained there for twelve months. The regiment then left Cavan, where he re- mained for twelve months longer, and then Mr Bou- verie obtained his captaincy. He then 'sold out, and -y. he went back with his wife to Castle Dawson, and there they lived upon the most happy terms. A correspon- dence was kept up between Captain Bouverie and his mother, -and his sisters; and amongst the various letters that passed between them was one from Mrs. Bouverie? the mother of Captain Bouverie, to her son. It was dated November, 1835. She wrote in the kindest terms to her son, commencing, My dear Frank" and then proceeded to say that the 19th and 20th of November ought to be dear days to his wife, as the first-mentioned day was the Captain's birth-day, and the latter the day upon which he was married to his wife. This being so it was rather a surprising matter that the respondents in the case should set up a plea that the parties were not married. In 1832 Mrs. Bouverie gave birth to a still-born child, a girl. The mother continued ill for some time, and Captain Bouverie manifested the greatest anxiety for the welfare and happiness of his child, the present petitioner, of whom he was very fond. Captain Bouverie was buried in the family vault of the late Dr. Shiel, the father of Mrs. Bouverie. Now, all this being so, the jury would naturally in- quire why this case came before them ? It seemed that Mrs. Bouverie, who was exceedingly handsome, was much admired, and, in a moment of weakness, she eloped in the year' 1835 with a Mr. Bell, who lived in the neighbourhood, and went with him to Liverpool. Captain Bouverie was much grieved at this, but, not wishing to make any stir in the matter, went to a rela- tive of his wife's, who was a magistrate, and obtained a warrant for his wife's apprehension. The warrant was duly executed, and Mrs. Bouverie was brought back to Ireland, but in the quietest possible manner, Captain Bouverie sending his carriage to bring his wife home to his house. After that Captain Bouverie and his wife lived together on the most affectionate terms until the time of his death. He (Sir H. Cairns) would prove all these facts, and if he did, he would establish three things which would insure to the petitioner that legiti- macy which would entitle him to the verdict of the jury; first, that he was the child of a female married in lawful wedlock; next, that the husband and wife cohabited together at the time when the said child was likely to be begotten; and lastly, that the child was admitted and recognised by the husband of the mother of the child to be his offspring. After the death of her husband Mrs. Bouverie fell into distressed circumstances; all communication between her and the Bouverie family ceased; and in the course of time she got married to a person of the name of Mann, who was beneath her in society, and by whom she had several children. Notwithstanding her distressed circumstances she contrived to send her son, the present petitioner, to a good school in Carrickfergus, where he received a sound education. In the mean- time Mann died. Mrs. Mann again married a person named Hammersley, with whom she was now living. Her son, the petitioner, not wishing to be a burden to her, obtained employment in the Irish constabulary, but afterwards enlisted in the 4th Dragoon Guards, in which regiment he rose to be a corporal, and became orderly to Sir H. South. While holding this position he married a young lady named Grey, the daughter of a gentleman in the north of Ireland, and he then pur. chased his discharge. Having about this time learned that the relationship which ne held in the Bouverie family would give him a title to the estates left by his grandfather, he called upon the solicitors of the family on the subject. They, however, not only declined to give him any information on the subject, but they threatened that, in the event of his Betting up a claim to the family estates, they would call in question his legitimacy. He therefore instituted the present pro- ceedings to establish his rights. Several witnesses were called in support of the learned gentleman's statement. The TSrst portion of them proved the marriage of the petitioner's father to his mother at the time stated by the learned counsel, and of the affectionate terms on which Captain Bouverio and his wife lived, and also as to his anxiety for the recovery of the health of his wife after the birth of the still-born child. Another class of witnesses proved the birth of the petitioner, and they also testified to the strong affection of Captain Bouverie for the child. On one occasion he said he would rather die than that the child should die and that he would one day be the possessor of the estates of the Bouverie family at Dela- pre. It was also proved that, on his death-bed, Captain Bouverie had the child brought to him by its nurse; that he kissed it, and exhibited other marks of his affection for it. It was also proved that Captain Bouverie, after his wife's return to her home, treated her with the same affection that he had previously dis- played towards her; and that up to the time of his death they lived on the best and kindest terms. The cross-examination of the witnesses, by Sir F. Kelly, was directed with the view of showing that the petitioner was born just nine months after Mrs. Bouverie eloped with Mr. Bell, but nothing certain was proved in this respect. It further appeared that Mann, who became the second husband of Mrs. Bou- verie, was the person selected by Mr. Bouverie to bring his wife back to Castle Dawson from Liverpool. The last piece of evidence put in was the examination of Mrs. Shiel, the mother of Mrs. Bouverie, which was taken before the commissioners in Ireland. She is now in the 85th year of her age. She deposed to the affectionate terms on which her daughter and her husband lived both before and after the elopement, and that he never said to her that be looked upon the petitioner to be the child of Mr. Bell, with whom her daughter had eloped. R?— -LI1-" Qaae. Sir F. Kelly said that General Bouverie, for whom ne appeartkr, had no other object in resisting the claim than that of maintaining the honour of his name and race, and the cause of truth and justice. He was the representative of the second line of an ancient and noble family, the first of which was represented by the present Earl of Radnor. He inherited a fine landed estate from his ancestors, but, being only tenant for life, he had not a particle of interest in resisting or in admitting this claim. Whatever might be the result of the inquiry, he could have nothing more than a tenancy for life in the property; but he knew that the petitioner, if he succeeded, would in all human probability become entitled to the estate, and that, in the event of the failure of the elder line, he would succeed to the dignity of Viscount Folkestone. Although a kindly correspondence was kept uptbetween the fami- lies at Delapre and at Castle Dawson during Captain Bouverie's life, there was no personal intercoms* between them, and to this hour General Bouverie never heard, except from vague and almost unintelligible rumour, that his brother had left a child. About two years ago the application was made which led to these proceedings, and General Bouverie made inquiries, and had learnt among other things that sad occurrence of October, 1835, just nine months before the child's birth, which had been described by his learned friend in terms that could not be mistaken. He did not throw the slightest shade of imputation on the petitioner, but, after making these inquiries, the general thought it his bounden duty to himself and to posterity to put the petitioner upon proof of Ma case. His learned friend had piroduced evidence of that of which the general and his family were wholly ignorant—namely, Captain Bouverie's constant and re- peated recognition, in many forms, of this child as his own son. After that evidence, whatever might be the conjecture in his own mind, the general had not felt himself called upon to attempt to set at naught what appeared to have been the earnest wish of his brother, who, after all that had passed, had thought fit to recog- nize and cherish the child as his own. Still less inclined was the general to put his brother's widow into the wit- ness-box, and from her extract the whole of the melan- choly history. He trusted that the verdict which they must give under these circumstances would be in strict accordance with the truth. He alone from whom no secrets were hid could tell whether it would be or not. That it might be was the earnest wiah of the general and of his counsel. .1 Dr. Phillimore, on the part of the general's sister, also gave up all further opposition to the petitioner's claim. The jury then found that the petitioner was the law- ful son and heir-at-law of the late Francis K. Bouverie, and of his wife Elizabeth, thus establishing his legiti- macy and his title to the Delapre estates in remainder on his (General Bouverie's) death, should he die without issue. He has, at present, no children.

tt" !("M"m!!m EPITOME OF NEWS BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A servant girl (Susan Aster), in the service of M. Otto Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind's husBand), at Argyll.lodge, Clap- ham, has. been committed for trial for the wilful murder ot her illegitimate infant. The Cornwall (Australia) Chronicle, of the 10th May, mention* the disappearance from that place of Mr. James Peters, a merchant, supposed to be very wealthy. A French genealogist has found out that the Empress Eugenie Is the true heiress of the throne of Mexico through her ancestors, the Spanish Counts de Guzman, who were descendants of Montezuma. It is said that a brochure from the pen of the Count de Paris will be published in London within three weeks of the present date. It concerns the political aspect of affairs, and, probably, will treat on the aspect of American matters. One of the finest four-in-hands now in London is driven by Captain Henry Womb well, younger sen of the late Sir George WombwelL Captain Womb well has lately returned from India, where It is said he has acquired great wealth. The following toast was recently drunk with ap' IW plause and satisfaction in New York "1' 1>A>.a a.#'11I.1A,A novA* HI AW iUA/ IIUC XVU0O VA uv»VA The Thistle of Scotland never grow, Ma) the Harp of Ireland never play, Till the Stars and Stripes have won the day." The attention of the public has been recalled to the circumstances attending the extensive frauds of Durbin, a clerk in the London Commercial Bank, which led to the closing of the establishment, by a suit before the Master of the Rolls for the possession of certain policies of assurance the convict had effected in the Victoria Life Office. The claimants were Mr. Baylis, solicitor, to whom the policies had been handed by Durbin the Crown, as entitled to them by Durdin's conviction and the bank. His honour having reviewed the law as to policies, and the circumstances of the case, adjudged the policies and certain real estate to belong to the bank. The Penang Argus records a visit of Lady Franklin to the island. Immediattly on her arrival she proceeded to* see the governor, and t j visit the localities of interest in the neighbourhood. The juries on coroners' inquests in England and Wales found 1,324 verdiets of suicide last year—one in every 329 deaths. 961 ol thesa unhappy persons were men, and 363 were women. _n_ Tho Montrose Standard states that the Rev. Mr. Niveh, of the U.P. Church, has disappeared from Forfar, leaving his wife in ignorance of his whereabouts. He had previously sent In his resignation, Intimating that pecuniary difficulties had occasioned that step. The French Government, to foster racing, has offered a prize of lOO.OOOf., open to all nations but as it now turns out that the date will be between our Derby and Ascot, our crack horses are shut out virtually. Rather a noted man, Berger, the French billiard player, has turned up amongst the lions of London that the Exhibition has enticed to the metropolis this year. He has already been pitted against an excellent English player, giving 200 out of 300, and winning before his opponent had scored 25. It is not permitted to hiss in France—politically, of course not-but not even at the theatre. A young work- man ventured at Bordeaux to express his disapprobation of the prima donna's bravura, whereon she fainted, and be was incarcerated for twenty-four hours, and fined at the end a sufficiency of silver and the expenses The Lord Primate of Ireland died very suddenly, but in the most tranquil manner, on Saturday at Donagn- adee. The venerable primate was in his 89th year. During a recent fire at Constantinople, in which 352 houses, 318 shops, two baths, three schools, two flour mills, one oil mill, three mosques, one firemen's barrack, and one charcoal store were destroyed, the Sultan exposed himself very freely. A correspondent at the camp at Wimbledon sent to a London paper the following verbatim et literatim copy of the address on a letter sent through the post-office to a "youne man from the country" engaged in the shooting of the Rifle Association at that place:—" To be left at any office at Wimbleton for the entry of names for the Shooting match, for Mr. from Crewkerne, Somerset, or any other Volunteer from the above place to forward to him." The son of the Prince of Capua, and consequently cousin of the ex-King Francis II. of Naples, has taken ser- vice in the Italian army. A new fibre plant called silk weed, or asclepias, which it is thought might be a substitute for the cotton plant, has been introduced into Canada from the Rocky Mountains. S. G. 0. in a letter to the Times, suggests that a few known ladies and gentlemen might be permitted to stand at the doors of the Exhibition for two days in the week, and receive subscriptions for the suffering "mitt hands.' The young heir of Prince Napoleon hail received the names Napoleon Victor Jerome Frederick. At Philadelphia, lately, an American having used improper language towards Great Britain, in the presence of an officer of the Grenadier Guards, it was resented by the latter. A challenge was the result. Twelve bouts were iought with foils, both parties being skilled in their use, the one from military experience, and the other from practice at a club in that city. Several scratches were given and received, but before any serious result had ensued, an agree- ment was proposed and accepted. An amicable breakfast was the result. There is a good story about a sporting Peer, whose corn merchant refused to furnish further supplies for his horses. Being told that the oohfeetioner was more aoeom- modating, he said, "Well, then, give them biscuits." The Grand Duke Constantine has performed an act which eannot fail to win him the approbation ef a number of Poles. He has remitted the sentenee on 19 women, who were banished for making hostile demonstrations, and has allowed them to return to Warsaw. The Observer "thinks" that Parliament will brftk. up in the first week in August. A large trout factory, is in operation in Connecticut where trout are hatched by artificial means. The number now In the pond is between 10,000 and 50,000, and rapidly increasing, When the stock reaches the number of half a million they estimate a yield of .sO,c:oo lbs. per annum. As they will bring in market from 25c. to 50c. per lb., this amount would afford a very pleasant net income. Capital punishment has considerably diminished in Prussia within the last few years. During the period 1865-7, out of 158 condemnations, there were 78 executions, and during that of 1853-80, out of 101 condemnations, only 11 executions. The Pattie contradicts the report that ten soldiers of the French escort to the convoy that left Orizaba on the 8th of Jane had been burnt alive by the 3Lexicsns, Into whose hands they fell as prisoners. A Federal surgeon, named Biddle, took & slave to be his servant in New Orleans. The owner of the alave re-took his slave from Biddle. Thereupon the owner was condemned to two years in the parish prison, it hating betn decided that the Federal army must have anything it requires for use. Mr. Miller, of Wales, Mass., who was ridden on a rail" several weeks ago by some of the citizens who were exasperated at his tree expression of secession sympathies, has recovered 575 dols. damages from one of the parties who indulged in this innocent amusement. The woman Wilson who was tried and acquitted on the charge of attempting to poison a married woman with whom she was on visiting terms, and who has since been apprehended on the charge ef poisoning and plundering another acquaintance of hers from Westmoreland, has been f xamined on still another charge of poisoning a widow lady in whose house she lodged some years ago. The prisoner was remanded. A letter from St. Petersburg, in the Nord, states that the value of the buildings and property destroyed in the late fires in that city is estimated at 66 millions of francs. The London Gazette publishes dispatches from Brigadier Staveley and Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope giving the official accounts of the capture of the fortresses &.a, -C; -r- .a. -1.00. 'U.n'" h the resolution comeinsurgerts should not come within 30 miles of Shanghae. At each place great gallantry was shown; for though the Taeoings are braves only in the Chinese sense, yet their stockades were strong and the attacking force was small. The only melancholy incident in the affalrwas the death of the French Admiral Protet, who was shot through the heart AS he was leading on his men to the attack of the last captured fort. A shocking accident has occurred on the River Thames. The yacht Hawk was caught by a squall off Erith, and sank with four of her crew. In the shops at Boston placards are exhibited with the announcement, No English merchandise sold here." The Balloon Committee of the British Association save had two successful ascents from Wolverhampton. Near Keith, the other day, a cow charged a traiiiJ*- and was instantaneously killed, • J It is rumoured that the Empress of the French will visit Scotland in August. The export of English books to America has fallen off greatly during the current war, but the extra import duty of 25 per cent., which Congress has just imposed, is likely to extinguish the book trade with England altogether. "Mike, and is it yerself that can be afther telling me how they manufacture ice crame r "That I caD. Don't they bake them in cowld ovens, to be sure." A London innkeeper, probably from Newcastle advertises his house for visitors to the Exhibition, and concludes, "Native interpreters to the Continental and Tynemouth languages!" A pheasant with four legs was hatched under a hen at EnvUle Hall in May last. The little bird was perfectly healthy, but being unable to move as quickly as the rest was trodden upon and killed by Its mother, when eight days old. It has been stuffed, *nd is now iu the possession of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. The expression of the stable prophets when they wish to recommend a horse as worthy of backing is. I*ut tha shirt on that horse, air. N, A soldier in the 40th New York regiment was saved from death by his wife's picture in his breast pooket. A rifle ball was repelled by the Iron plate, and, though the senoas- sion doubled the soldier up, he was not injured. The crocodile, nine feet long, in the museum of Natural History, Paris, died the other day, and In opening it roets were found in Its stomach that must have been swallowed when he was a denisan of the Nile, twenty years before. He probably died of despepsla Two boys had a narrow escape from suffocation at Dakinfleld on Saturday. They were digging pieees of wet out of a heap of colliery refuse, when a mass of rubbish gave way and hurled both ot them. Fortunately he!fi was at hand, and the little fellows were dug out, but they were both unconscious for some time after their rescue.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Letters from Washington of the 4th of July state that detached from the corps of Hsllecfe, Burnside, and H ■ General Marcy, chief of M'Clellan s staff, had am Xhg1 public feeling at the capital is very depressed. NEW YORK, July 14, Evening. An uneasy feeling generally prevails concerning military A meeting 5 the members of CoDgress for been held at Washington to consider President Lincoln s Post says that the majority oppose 'he scheme, and will decline to accept the h r„h A lan e bodv of Confederates have captured Murfreesburgh, Sear Nashville, and took one Federal regiment prisoners. It '3 supposed that they will attack Nashville. Mobile dispatches say that the Confederates, un P rn, have captured Baton Rouge, near New Orleans, and token 1 500 Federal prisoners. „ Considerable excitement exists at Louisville, Kentucky. The Confederates are reported to ho in force near Frank- fort. VISIT OF THE PRESIDENT TO THE ARMY. NEW YORK, July 11. The Xeu> York Tribune says that the President r^urned to Washington last evening, alter visiting General M Clellan s army. A letter from Fort Monroe says that he went to see for himself and learn what changes, if any, were needed. J.he tr°Oiia were well rested and all going on satisfactorily. An ther correspondent says that on the arrival of the "resident at Harrison's Landing, General M'Clellan, with Several other generals, visited him on board, after which ffce President and the general held a private conference ior jW-ati-hour. They then proceeded to visit the line oi en- • Ti The President was welcomed with great enthusiasm. He not satisfied with riding in front of the army> but ^ounted and ascended the ramparts in view of the enemy 8 P'cketB. The President briefly addressed the soldiers. lIe said he had come to see for himself, and that he should |° back satisfied. It was said that they had been whipped U-t it was not so, and never would b8. He knew the ^ound him would prove equal to the task before them, &nu OUld never give up without going into Richmond. declared his confideaca in the army and Its com- „ party continued their route along the lines and at f'-ie o'clock in the evening returned to General M Clellan s a, On the morning of the 9th, after a conference had been at head quarters, the President started upon his return. The reinforcements, under General Burnside, had passed Hiv6r The New York Evening Post publishes a special dispatch JCli Washington stating that the forthcoming address o f^e Republican members of Congress to the people will be m aiiVour of most energetic action in prosecution of the war, Jft|i of using all means in our power against the rebellion and °reign intervention especially.

PARIS, July 21. (I The Patrie states that Admiral Jurien de la Graviere and 5*r>eral Forey will embark for Mexico at the beginning of 4"gust. v The Patrie of this evening asserts that France and Russia decided upon following a common course of conduct 11 the Servian question. pi he Presse states that the number of men forming the ,f reneh expeditionary corps to Mexico will be carried up to Hooo.

THE MARKETS, MARK LA.NIL MOSIDAY. There was a good attendance at Mark-lane this morning, but the demand was not ever brisk, and in general quotations very if any, chninp occurred, Buslish wheat sold at about previous rates, foreign wheat was In good simply, and with a moderate oountry demand moved eff a tittle un- evenly, bat leaving general quotations much as they stood before. The flour trade was quitt, but steady. Barley, of which there were some good arrivals of foreign, sold without appreciable change in price. Beans and peas met a steady sale at late rates. Oats quiet, a fair inquiry, and brought fall prices. In seeds the variations were unimportant. The naalt trade is not brisk, but prices an maintaineL WHBAS., Snez, Kent, and Suffolk, White, per qc. 94 to 94 BARLIY.. Malting 80 to M OAXB EssexaadSuffolk SO to$7 Run Mosigan .I m to 16 Tlok and Harrow hto 40 HD Canary 60 to m Carraway per owt. -26 to METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MOKDAY. The supply of live stock this morning was large as regards numbers, but the proportion of really good qualities was small. AA a consoquames, aU the best breeds found a ready sale, whilst inferior sorts went off heavily and irregular. For the beat Soots, Herefords, &e., 58 peutone was very gene- rally made, andthe stand, took cleared; but coarse and badly conditioned cattle were a dull sale. Sheep met a steady de- mand at about the rates of Wednesday laBt. The foreign supplies included 6,800 from Germany and Holland. The veal trade may be quotee steady at Thursday's rates. Lamb meets a quiet sale at the quotationsPrices: Beef, best quality, 4a Od to So inferior, Sa lod to 4s 2d. Mutton, best, 4s Id to 5s; other sorts, 4s te 4s 4d. Veal, 4s 2d to 5b 2d. Pork, 4s to 4s 104. Lamb, 58 6d to as 4d per stone of Sib, sinking offal. POTATOES. The supply of home-grows potatoes continues large; but the arrivals from continental ports have further decreased. Good and fine produce has sold freely, at extreme quotations; otherwise, the trade has ruled inactive, on former terms. Person. Essex ware 100s to 110s Jersey 90s to 120s Cornish 90J to 100s Foreign 86s to ltfs PROVISIONS There is a fair average business doing In Irish butter. In- ferior Cork is selling at 78s to 86s, and good Carlow 90s to 100s per c iv t. Foreigu qualities move off slowly—Friesland at 98s to 100s French, 74s to 9Ss and American, 76s to 86s per c wt. English butter Is offering on rather lower terms. Bacon moves otf freely, at 74s to 76s for sizeable Waterford, and 541 to 72s for over-sized. Hams command rather more money. Irish are worth 66s to 9Qs per ewt. Lard is quiet, at 68s to 73s for bladdered, and 60s to 6211 for kegs and firkins. Cheese is a dull inquiry, at late quotations. All other pro- visions are a dull inquiry.