The Express. — London, England, 1863-08-01 00:00:00

piiOTOGRAPHIg CLASSIQ TIE reANattsz, idgewareresd. Hyde-park, London. lamor VA1198111( late Met Operator to C. &Ivy. TIN CASTES D i VISITS. IN. 64. 'DIME and LUBIN'S HUNGARY WATER, PROPHYLACTICK, ItitIfOSHING, IN ~ IGORATING. . I am not surprised to learn," sap Humboldt, " that orators, clergymen, lecturers. authors, and poet, give it the preference, for It refreshee the memory:' lemphatically the scent for warm weather, for Me and delovmire climate. A c.o. of Sill bottles, 10e. 6d.. %Male samples. to—t, New Bood.street, W, (PRIZE MEDAL AWARDED.? ALLVPS PATENT PORTMANTEAUS and TRAPRLLI BAGS .tth hynera LAMS WARDROBE Tava Ka, unsaat , 44i n TaGa. anti elver ntlialla im,p A ricli Boxya, WRITING and PRIMING CAR and 600 other &Mean for bone or cortisone& travelling. Illastreied eat/loon pod tree. Also Mania Barrack Parolee,* Catalogue of Portable Bed sasy Claus, Wasbheadataada, Canteens, de., •)eot free. j . W . ALLEN. 31aantoatnrer ad Patentee, A . West Strand. Loathe. M.C. OPERA and FIELD GLASSES.—NEGRETTI and RAMBLA warrant tbeir discoed as unrivalled for loillbecy, power, and delinition to ten n.ilea range, Pia and 42‘., la caw empletra-1, Hato., vu. : 6& Cornlild 1211. ltegoatdiewet : and Crystal Palace, Sydenham. t'VKRYBODY KNOWS Mr. MILES. .1:4 ANNA Webb Wes RIMOVILD FROM BrININXTRXIST M ye, DROOLSTRENT Nomeireradmere, in 1860. 1 / 8 . Treason iereloci Ly kW) I. all the New Patents, THAN ICV ght •xoreoo. PRINCE4RIt. . . _ "MI HMINISO, CrIUSINTOSI.—And ROMEO AND .113LIZT. Mims. Walter Montgomery, neorge Vlulnq , nelmore, and H. liardea ; kdlle walla Colas an.l Hrs. H. Marston. LYC ILU N. TKO, smut.. A SUDDLS ATT ‘CK. Mmes. nor* and orlddloonab : Yue Dennote and Mn. Les.—And TIM DUKTCB Marro. Werra reenter. Shore, Jordan, Ilroaa, and Ilaymond ; Limn C. Lnelereq, K. Terry, sad Klawor. ARITA NNIA. Tuts Evans% THE MISER'S_ DAUGHTER —THE GREAT GHOST SCENE trona THE WISHING GLEN, with Professor s aditi gallon of figreints Spectral Illoalon.—THE lir4rol LIFIL—And TUE CIIWIE Or DISOBF.DIENCIL 111611 WATER AT LONDON BILIDGR. rim DAT MornLAA 31 Tra . . Aftwrskruk. 31 25m. Icusoakow-•ll.orniog. 3h. 44r0... .A.ftwucon. 42. 7s. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST L Sirce the success of the Whitworth guns against iron plates in the trials made list autumn, the country has been anxiously awaiting the pro gress of the great competitive examination which is to decide whether our future armaments are to be on the principle of these guns or on that of Sir W. ARWITRONO. It is n►tural, therefore, that the public should be disappointed that the Report of the Ordnance Committee, just published, contains no information on this question, and that it should be not less surprised at the announcement made a few days since in the House of Com- ' mons, that four months more at least mast elapse before the rivals are ready for further ex periment. We confess that the tardiness of the two competitors scarcely seems to us sufficient to absolve the authorities from blame for delay. Our interest is in very slight degree involved in the question whether the one or the other shall be able, by extreme care in the construction of his piece, to send his shot a little further, or to attain a slight advantage in the ele ment of " mean lateral deviation." Both are, beyond question, accurate enough for all the purposes attainable in actual war. But what we really want to know is, which will be most serviceable in all the rough work of war. We want to know which is most enduring with least weight, which is must rapidly served, which is least sub ject to derangement either by its own fire or by hostile fire, which is most easily repaired. All these are questions of paramount importance, but they do nut need for their solution that we should wait till each engineer has turned out a gun finished with all the skill and expense that can be lavished upon it. They rather require that the ordinary guns of each maker should be taken, furnished for field service to a couple of batteries of the Royal Artillery, and placed for naval service on board the Excellent, or some other of our vessels devoted to the purpose of practice, and in such circumstances exposed on equal terms to all the severest and continued test, of actual service. With regard to the Armstrong guns, we are able from our own stores to supply all that are wanted for such testa. They are indeed already issued to the service, and none others are needed or should be admitted on Sir Wimasx's part. As for the Whitworth guns, we know not whether they are to be bad in our markets, though it has been re ported that many of them have been exported to America. But in any case the proper course is that Government should give Mr. WHITWORTH an order in commercial course fur a supply of his guns sufficient for trial ; if either he cannot or will not furnish them, judgment must be held to have gone against him by default, and we must continue to nee the Armstrong' until a service gun of better construction shall be offered to us on terms per. mating of its equal triaL Meantime, however, our authorities may be fairly asked to devote themselves to some other experiments of importance even greater. We have to determine not merely what is to be our future gun, but what is to be our future projectile, and what our future defence from the enemy's projec tiles. Strange to say, these are matters which remain as undetermined—so far, at least, an any public experiments have i n di c ated—as they were a year ago, or five years ago. Yet the question, as we have more than once endeavoured to show, lies not very deep below the surface. The whole revolution in naval architecture, which has resulted in the building of none but armour-clad "hips, arises from the one fact that common cast-iron spherical shells have been found to be of fatal effect when fired against wooden ships. But these missiles, it is also established beyond dispute, are absolutely harmless when fired against even half. inch plates of iron. If, therefore, we were to cover our three-deckers with armour, not of four and si: inches in thickness, but merely of three-quarters of an inch in thickness, we should at once restore to ourselves the naval position which we held from the time of Brant to that of NilaoX. Our ships would be penetrable by shot, as they were under those commanders, and as they have been in evilpy naval battle yet fought. But they would be impenetrable by common shell, the new bugbear of our modern sailors. Before, however, this suggestion can safely be acted upon, two questions must be settli d by experiment, and our complaint is that these experiments are yet wanting, or at least are un divulged. The first is to ascertain whether cast iron shells, if made conical instead of spherical, would penetrate, and assuming that they would penetrate in a greater degree than the old spheri cal shells, then to ascertain what thickness of iron "rill be requisite to keep them out. And the next e x p,oriment is to ascertain what effect will be pro duced ,1 . 7 wrought-iron shells, when we have come to adopt J. :Itch a thickneas of iron armour as will render cast-iron thells useless in any shape or 11, is ob4 . Aus that these twoclsssesnf experiments are 10,0,e all in ?Ala to the construction o f th at iron-p lated n „, c ,„ $.-hich we are hereafter to rely. Wehave ascerta - • ed that we shall fail in the effort to keep out shot. The Warrior target has been i6■Mmow... Difaape. THE EXPRESS. SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1, 1863. broken and pierced by both Whitworth and Armstrong guns, of such size as are not too large to be placed un board either cupola or broachfide ships. Shot, therefore, we minuet exclude, and our efforts must be limited to the making it least injurious. But being thus recalled to the position of Hams, and obliged to content ourselves with keeping out the most dangerous species of projec tile, it is of pee-eminent importance to us to ascer tain with how little thickness of iron we can effect this limited purpose. For we want • class of small vessels, and while we continue to use great weights of iron we cannot have any but large vessels, or small vessels like Mr. Rasta's, only par tially defended. Now, if half the thickness of armour would suffice to keep out cast iron shells, conical as well as spherical, there is some reason to believe that we might then be able I to consider th►t as sufficient, and so obtain vessels of half the sise, draught of water, and cost of the Warrior, yet for many purposes—and especially for those of defence—far more efficient. For the next set of experiments we have indicated would probably show that wrought-iron shells, to which, but to which alone, such vessels would be per are not of a nature nearly so formidable aa cast-iron shells. The brittle material of the latter dies, on the explosion, into a multitude of frag ments, which spread destruction in a wide circle around. But a wrought-iron shell will probably be found to break up at most into two or three pieces, which will do comparativtly little damage, even if it does not often, like an overcharged fowling piece, simply rip up in a wide crack without breaking into fragments at all. Thus we were informed by the Times on the 6th Deoember last, that after the target against which the Whit; worth shot and steel shell had been fired came to be taken to pieces, it was found that the backing was little more injured by the explosion of the shell than by the simple impact of the shot. Here, then, surely is field enough for the exercise of all the energy of the Admiralty and Ordnance Department., even while ARMSTRONG and WHITWORTH delay their tourney. Experiments which may possibly re• suit in showing that two inches, or even less, of iron plate; are, for practical purposes, as useful as two or three times as much, and experiments which shall ascertain whether the flat-headed steel shell, due to the ingenuity of Mr. Viumworrii, is as formidable a missile in effect as it is in sound, are not necessarily very complex, nor need be very protracted ; and they are imperatively demanded to prevent Government and the public• from pro ceeding on false data, and spending enormous sums in useless and hurtful constructions, in the pur suit of that naval security and supremacy which the country, as well as its rulers, has most warmly at heart. CU eon. OSBORNE, Jura . 31. The Queen, the Princess of Wales, and Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by Colowl the Hoe. A. Harding,. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at official residence of the First Lord of the ' • in Downing-street. The miuisters present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yesterday for Hawarden Castle, Cheater. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Judgment wog given by Lord )(lapdog's, in an appeal from the Ilauritirw, "Laishman v. Cochrane." Judgment was ghee by Lord Chelmsford in an appeal from the Admiralty Court, " The Falkland and Navigator." The Lords present were Lord Bingo:town, Lord Chelmsford, end Lord Wensleydale. VISIT or Patvc■ ALYRED TO THE ISLE OF Hax.—On Thanday Prince Alfred landed at Douglas about half-past 1 p.m. from her Majesty's ship Racoon, which anchored in the bay early in the morning. It WIVI reported about 9 a.m. that the Prince intended coming on shore, bet it wan considered • hoax. How ever, about the hour named the High Bailiff, &shows Wiling, Faq., drove down to the pier in an open carriage, drawn by four horses, obtained at Kelly's livery stables. The landing of the Prince was made known by the firing of a single gun from Fort Anse. Presently the carriage was sees advancing up the quay, contain ing the Prince, the High Sheriff of Douglas (the Governor of the island being in England), the captain of the Racoon, and another gentleman. They pro ceeded to Castle M ma, sod *ltems:di drove to Peel to view the ruins of the old castle. They returned to Douglas about six o'clock in the evening, and went on board the Ramos, which left far Spithead at nine o'clock. His royal highnew was received with great enthusiasm, and during the day the R4OOOO and the Prioce's cabin were inspected by large numbers of poisons. —Liverpool Mercury. PRINCE ARTHUR'S VISIT TO WRLIS.—We (Car ew/Oen Herald) Iran' that his Royal Highness Prima Arthur will leave Beddgelert to-day (Saturday). sod will paw the Beady at the Royal Victoria Hotel, Llaaberie. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re turned to Gloucester House last evening from • visit to the Duke sad Dash= of Rtehmood at Goodwood House, &team The Duke and Ducheta of Grafton have arrived at Bdee•Badee from Me. We are able to announce that the health of the duchess is improved. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, who have hese the gus,ts of their Berens Highnesses Priam and PrinemarFolward of Sale Weimar at Molecombe Lodge daring the moos at Goodwood, left yesterday. The Duchess of Sutherland, accompanied by the Marquis of Stafford and her youthful family, left Stafford House, St. Janseia, yesterd•y, for Trentham, Staffordshire, ow their way to Scotland. The Earl of Derby arrived in town last evening, from speeding the week on a visit to Prince sad Princess Edward of Pare-Weisser, at Molsootabe Lodge, Goodwood. The Earl and lady Constance Grosvenor intend to leave tows early in the ensuing week for a Continental tour. The Earl of &fiend returned to town yesterday evening from viaitiog the Doke and Ditcher of Richmond at Goodtroo I Hove , during the race reek. Viscount and Viseou;tess Palmerston entertained at dieeer, last swain, his Excellency the Italian Minister, Maria Marchkmess Aileabw7, the Earl of Sefton, the Earl sad Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, Comet Straeleuki, the Right Hoe. Wm. and Mrs. Cowper, Hoe. Evelyn Ashley, Hoo. lairs Alice and Edith Jointly's, Mr. Calcraft, he., at Cambridge House, Piccadilly. Lady Palmerston had a select party after diens,. Among the Mors were his Excellency the Turkish Ambeesador sad Madame Mumma', his Excellency Baron Gras, the Duchess of Somerset, the E ASC. Nsur, M. de aebetireiri I Prince Teem, Sir Roderick Mnrchison, Viscount Duple, Mr. Hayward, Mr. Percy Doyle, Hoe. E. L. Stanley, do. The noble vieermat sod viscountess sad the Hon. Mims Joslyn leave Cembridp Home today, for Bracket Hall, Zeta Led and Lady Llanover have left town foe LI/mover, gout► Wales. Lord Blantyre and the Hon. ,hoses Stuart hare returned to town front o ottat visit to Bohemia. Lord Stanley, M.P., left town on Thursday for %Dowdily Park, mar Presoott, for the *Mame. The Count de Colbert, in the service of the Sm• parer of the Freed, sod the Couotem de Colbert, have arrived at the Bromwich Hotel, Jermya-erreet. from Park. The Count de Montecupo and suite hare left the Cie:sedan Hotel for Brawls. - c ont .! Francois Coudenhore has left the Clazen doe Rotel for tie goltlimat We (Army and 1 ' " 1 y Gazette) regret to learn that the acooooto of Lord Clyde's be am of a moot diaooarog. log kind. LATMT INTELLMENCE. ittRISIA. 1 The Owes& de Rigs states that 15tbehions and military stores are being sent to Finland in great quantities. At Tavasthaus 150,003 sacks of flour have been received, and 70,0:10 sacks at Relsingfors. The quantity forwarded is described as sufficient for the support of au army of 150,000 men for a year. The works of the fortifications of Sweaborg and Helsingfors are progressing rapidly. has imply imitated, he is entitled to credit for a great deal of originality. Ido not believe that any specimen of a collimation decree by Mouravieff, or any other Russian satrap, ra►n match IL Budiu's performance in point of oily hypocrisy and a brazen use of words iu a non-natural sense. M. Budin, who bears the title of "Receiver-General and Spe cial Commissioner of the Treasury," begins by re minding the general of his proclamation, when Fe first landed in Mexico, setting forth the " favour able intentions of the Emperor towards the country." He then avers that the number of Mexicans who have rallied to the "loyal flag which beano thought of conquest" is, "comparatively speaking," great, "if we consider that forty years of revolution in this country have extinguished every moral senti ment and perverted every notion of right and wrong." Here we get a very pregnant admission that the number of Mexicans who look with favour upon the invasion although " comparatively " great is " positively " small. And accordingly Mr. Receiver-General Budin has bethought him how he may beat stimulate those adhesions which by reason of the moral perversion of the country do not come iu so fast as in all reason they ought to do. In the first instance, he thinks it necessary to prove, by logic, that the Mexicans do not know their own interests, and are moreover culpably neg ligent of those interests when they refuse to com mit themselves blindly to the mercy of the invad ing generaL This proposition he makes out to his own satisfaction and that of Marshal Forey in the following summary fashion :—" Is Mexico justified in considering as unreliable the words which you, general, addressed to her in the name of a power whose ampirations are all for liberty, and whose efforts and sacrifices have no other object than to carry the light of civilisation to oppressed peoples I Evidently not."—Q. E. D. Can any body doubt the demonstration ? Thereupon M. Budin says that these blind Mexicans, who won't see the light, must be "attacked in their material interests, and made to feel that the time of indul , gence is past." The "sequestration" (Mourn , vieff, like Budin, always uses the word sequestra , tion as a synonym for confiscation) of all the property, real and personal, of such Mexican as oppose the intervention appears therefore to M. , Budin a "necessary measure." Az Marshal Forey, not being a lawyer, might possibly not understand , the meaning of the word sequestration, M. Budin is at the pains to explain it to him. " You know, general, what is the meaning of seques tration—it consists in the transfer to the ad ministration, represented here by the prefect, of all property belonging to citizens in the category above mentioned. The conditions of the sequestration may vary according to circum stances." The report is followed by a decree of General Furey adopting its conclusions and declaring sequestrated all property throughout the republic of Mexico of such citizens as may boar arms against the French intervention, " whether they belong to the regular army, guerilla bands, or any 1 other bodies in a state of hostility against France." The documect contains the usual clauses to be found in all general Russian decrees of confiscation, empowering penitent individuals to petition the general commanding•in•chief for a merciful consi deration of their case. As to personal pro perty, the wording of the decree differs slightly from that of the report by the insertion of the saving clause that the sequestration, as far as re gards personalty, will only apply "so far as such description of property may be capable of seizure." This moderation will no doubt be highly appre ciated. A committee of four functionaries is ap pointed to draw up lists of persons whose property is liable to be sequestrated, and from their decision there does not seem to be any appeal, except, as before mentioned, by way of petition to Marshal Foray. The Archbishop of Mexico, who, according to uncontradicted accounts, has been appointed by Marshal Forey one of a triumvirate to govern the country, is at this moment in Paris, and paid a visit to the Empress this morning at St. Cloud. While writing I find that this archbishop is really one of the triumvirs, and that he is replaced provisionally by Mgr. Ormaches, bishop of Tulancingo. The other two triumvirs are the notorious Almonte, of Jecker band celebrity, and a Mexican general named Sales. The archbishop, whose name is Labastide, proposes, after having conferred with the Empress, to pay a hurried visit to the Pope, and then to go out to Mexico. The catchpenny character of the pamphlet to which I made a passing allusion yesterday is now pretty generally acknowledged. The only evening paper which thinks it worth even a contemptuous notice is the Nation, which is at the trouble to pick out some gross faults of style, as showing that the production cannot emanate from the high quarter pretended. The fact is that the pamphlet dodge is worn out. There have been but insignificant fluctuations at the Bourse in connexion with transactions for the settlement. But a small amount of business was done, and there is nothing like a panic feeling. Rents ultimately rose 25c. for cash, and fell 10c. for account, closing at 013 fr. 90c. and 66fr. 85c. Mobilier felllBfr. Railways were somewhat lower. Tug Titus CnAsAcrsa or rim Nair Toss Ittoris.—The Sark of yesterday publishes the following testimony es to t h e true character of the New York riots. It says :—•' General Cluseret writes to us from New York to were us against the exaggerated account. that will be trans. nutted to us. was present at the riot with two °Moen, be says ; followed it in order to study it wolL The act. log and paid crowd did not consist of more than three hoe- dyed persons.' Around this nucleus of rioters thousands of ragged wretches from the Five Points district had gathered, bat the real working men, the labouring clam's, did not take part in the movement, which was directed, es everything proves, by the slavery party. The hatred against the blacks was carried so far that the crews' of four schooners from Nassau (Bahama) wars threatened because they were people of colony though Eng lish subj-cta. The consul, Mr. Archibald, in the absence of a British ship. requested the protection of the French d..g. Ose of the schooners with all the four crews on board loft tba quay and anchored under the guys of the Guerrieri', a frigate commanded by Admiral Reynaud. On the evening of the 14th July, the crews being still threatened and not feeling safe, slept on board the French ship. Nothing could better demonstrate the ohmmeter of the manifestation orga nised at New York." A letter from the city of Mexico of the 15th of June (says Grofigsaiti) states that the municipality of that arty had invited °seers' Forey and the superior ofllaire of i the French army to a magni6oeot banquet of 150 co►ers is • the National P■lace, in which the General Oommaoder.in. Chief had taken up his residence. The French officer., ; anxious to evince their gratitude to the Mexicans for the excellent reception they met with, opened a subscription to i t .et tu e wite of the city a grand ball, which wig to Wit place on the 27th , Jane. Prince Napoleon has berm absent from Paris (says GaZignani) for some days, having got* to his estate of Pranging in Switzerland. From that pleas his imperial high er* intends visiting Moot Cools. The prim* is expected to bs absent a fortnight. The Priocees Clothilds remains et the Chateau of limiest. The A rrnonia of Turin says :—"For the last fortnight 11.aulai has bees at Lugano. He is frequently sees walking in the streets notwithstanding the notes of the Italian government to the Swims Fedesal Conseil. He looks ill, and is said to suffer a good deal." THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AT GUILDFORD. The foundation stone of the Surrey County Hos pital, in memory _of his Royal Highness the late Prince Consort, was laid yesterday, on the north-west dope of the hill celled the Ho,t's Hick, at Guildford, by Mr. Lewis Loyd, the high sheriff of the county. There were present the mayor rod munims e auttiorities of the robes town in their of state, and • concourse of the clergy and the principal inhabitants the county. This hospital is intended to supply a want which has long ex isted in the county of Surrey. there being no similar in stitution in that comity except St. Thomas's and Guy's, which, however, were lotended by their founders chiefly for metropolitan use. The proposed building, which is to afford accommodation, at present, for 58 patients, is esti mated to cod. including furnishing, 14,0001 , towards which 8,0004 had been coutrihuted up to the 10th July. The site, which is very valutble, and comprise, two acres, has hose presented by the Right Hno. the Earl of Oadow. It is situated in one of the most elwible and central parte of the county, being within 100 yards of the South Fasters Railway and London and South-Western Railway stations, at Guild ford, and is intended to combine all the latent improvements in hospital architecture,_ including various suggestions offere Iby Miss Florence Nightingale. The ceremony was openci by a devotional stink*, read by the Rev. T. G. Hatchard, the rural dean, after which the High Sheriff laid the stone with the usual tormalities, amidst much checerieg. After other prayers the Vim. Archdesooo of Surrey delivered au address, in the course of which he referred to the benevolent acts of Christ as an example for modern Christiana, and argued that the healing of the sick was one of hie special objects when ou earth. The rev, gentleman appealed to the generosity of the people of Surrey. and asked how it was that, with s population of 830,030, no such institution as the one a had as yet been inau gurated. He congratulated the meeting that the stigma that Surrey, as a county, had no haunts' would now he wiped away. and hoped that the affluent of the. 'Rudy would continue to keep it going now that it was so auspiciously established. The benediction was then pronounced by the reverend gentleman, and the company adjourned to the County and Borough Halls, where a oollatiou was provided, over which the High Sheriff presided. sod amongst about :0:3 of the Mk of the county present were—Mr. G. Cubitt, M.P., • Mr. W. Bovill, M.P., QC. ; W. Leven= Gower M.P. -, t h e Archdeacon of Oar rey ; Mr. LW. Lowe, arc hitect of the hospital ; and a large number of the clergy. The usual loyal and patriotic trade having been duly humored, the chairman proposed the toast of the evening, " Suorres to the Memorial Hospital," after which Messrs. Bovill, M.P. ; G. Cubitt, M.P. • L. Gower, M.P. ;J. M. Molyneux. J.P. ; the Archdeaco n of Surrey ; Captains Onelow and Utterton, and others, ad dressed the sesembly on behalf of the institution. At the close of the proceedings the treasurer announced that the donations received since the 10th July amounted to 1,2141., including 8031. as the proceeds of yea- Icicle!. Amongst the principal donors were his Majesty the King of the Belgians, 1001. ; the High Sheriff, 100 guineas; Sir R. Frederick, Bert., 1001.; Mr. G. Cubitt, M.P.. 101/1. ; Rev. E. F. fitin, 1001. ; Mr. R. J. Shepard, 50 guineas ; Mr. H. B. Clarke, 50 guineas • Mrs. Lewis Loyd, 50 guineas ; Mr. G. Curling (Croydon), 50 guineas; Mr. J. L Briscoe, M.P., 50/. ; MIL Hope (Dorking), 50/. The total amount received up to the present time reachai nearly 9,C:34 With pleasant weather and a goodly company, the Archaeological Institute is holding its yearly coograus in Kent, under the presidency of the Marquis Camden Rochester is the head quarters, but the society is own than usually excursive this year, having already visited Cobham, [(sole, Melling Abbey, and L.ybonrn Castle. The papers hive been many and good , and a very fine museum of local antiquities has been collected at Rochester. The Marquis of Norntauby, whoee sudden death is one of the events of the week, had, at one time (ob_ serves the A W 110111), a certain kind of reputation among uoveliste. " Clarinda," " Mathilda," " The Contrast," and " Yes and No," are the name of books which the public half read when they appeared, and have now wholly for gotten. They are not likely to be reprinted. Lord Nor marshy was one of the men who are clever boys and nothing more. There wax, in his early life, • premise of excellence both literary and political, but the promise hos never been fulfilled. He was • fair privy sell, a popular lord lieutenant, and a creditable colonial secretory. Hh mistakes began and his credit declined when he undertook to decide ques. tioas of toreigu policy. The first fall was in the affair of the Spanish marriages, and arose from his ignorance of French. "Lord Nornianby," said M. Gala* "is a good fellow, but he does Pot understand our laaguage." Eros COLLEGE, JOLT 31.—The vacation com mewed this day, when the whole school took their depar ture. In consequence of the marriage of the Prince and Prim cam of Wales an extra week will be given. The holidays of the lower boys terminate on Wednesday, September 23, on which day they return to the college. On Thursday, September 21, the fifth form will return, and the sixth form return on Friday, September 25, when the whole school will have assembled. The following have been elected to the foundation out of 72 candidates, Goldney; 2, Wilson (C. H.) ; 3, Ottaway ; 4, Armitstead ; 5, Hawkim ; 6, Tilley ; 7, Nadas ; Wodebouse ; 9, Tindal ; 10, Warner ; 11, Carter ; 12, Martyn ; 13, Perry ; 14, T hornton ; 15, Gould ; 16, Taylor; 17, Browne ; 18, Bell ; 19, Tabor 20, Keating ; 21, Bryans ; 22, Italcliffe. T. D. Tremlett and F. Whiting, Posen. This morning the Rev. Edward Baritone announced the following as having been elected for Kiog's College, Cam bridge : -Cole, Bodkin, Cunningham. Cole has ga ined— Verse Prize, Christmas, 1861 ; NOWOIIIIII Scholar, 1862 ; Declamation Prize, Christoms,lB62, and Easter, 1863; Davies' Task Prim, Easter, 1863; seat up for good seventeen timea. Bodkin gained—Assistant Master's First Mathematical Prize, 1862 ; Tomlin* Priest.lB63. TRX APPROACHING itssnwo OF THE BRITISH AASOClATlON.—locreased interest in the forthcoming meet ing of the British Asseiciatim in New begins to be ex hibited. Of the doings of the executive committee much has not been beard in public of late, but at a meeting of the local general committee, on Saturday, they gave good evidence that io the interim they have not been idle. A detailed report of proposed arrangements was submitted and approved of, and so far everything bide fair for a most brilliant gathering. The subscriptions promised up to the present time amount to 3,549/., but 4501. are still lacking for the satisfactory carrying out of the arrange . moots. The excursion committee have arranged that on Saturday, August 29, a geological excursion will be made to Canoobie, Riccarton, and Kielder, tinder the guidanes of the Northern Mining institute, and maps and sections of the oountry are being carefully prepared. A luncheon will he provided by the Duke of Northumber land, at Kielder Cud*. for a limited nunder. A botanical excundoe will take place the same day to Craig Lough, under the guidance of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club. A tent will be erected at Homesteads, where the metre of obtaining refreshment will be provided, to be ' paid for by the excuteionista. Another excursion will take place to Sunderland, W Tina the docks and other work., on which cwasion the mayor has hospitably offend to entertain a number of the members. On Thursday. the 3rd September, it is intended to visit Cleveland, to see the iron mines and ironworks, and the mayor and corporation of Middlesbro' will hospitably provide a luncheon for the members. The same day an excursion takes place to South Shields and Marsden Rocks, the Mayor of South Shield.• kindly offering to entertain a limited number. Under the guidance of Mr. Sopeith as excursion will be made on this day to Alleohesis, to visit the lead mines ; and Mr. Wentworth Beaumont, M.P., Las very hospitably offered to entertain the members to breakfast aod luncheon. Programmes, descriptive of the country to be visited on these occoaioos, are now being prepared for the use of the members of the associatiou.—Simitcriand Eferc/d. --- A VACANT COLONILCY. —The coloneley of the 29th Regiment is vacant, in consequence of the death of General Lord Downes. No step is likely to be taken for some days io filling it up. The lest two appointments were made mainly upon omsiderations of seniority on the list. If the same reaaon influenced the appointment to the 29th, Major-General Biers Napier would have the regiment, but it is not improbable that a sumo little way down the lot will be made is search of an officer with keg and conspicuously good service.— A roly end Nary Gazette. THE ONLY SURVIVING RELATIVE OF SIR SIDNLY filerrii.—There is, we are told (nays the Army and Nave ' Gazette). now living in abject penury seaman aged 80 years, ' who is described u the sister and only surviving relative of • man whose name and whose deeds were ou everyone's lips in the early part of this century. The woman is • lady—she is in beggary. subediting on casual charity, soda* saved from dying in the pauper. ward of the workhouse. There are doubtless many poor ladies living in indigence. but the sister and sole surviving relative of " Sidney Smith, the hero of Acre" • British admiral, • Grand Cross of the Bath, has surely some special claims on the consideration of those who are able to spire her the last degradation from which the government and the country are apparently unable to rescue the few remaining hours of life. Goon ral and Lady Karr Fox, Captain Kitchen, R.N. 0001. mender Wright, R.N., vouch for the truth of the lady's condition and claims. The charitable and generous may send in subscription' to General Fox, at Couto?' ; all the navy agents will receive any aid from the public for the same purpose; and we shall he happy to take charge of any sums intended for the relief of the lady. MILITARY STORRS POR CANADA.—A Parliamen tary return shows that from Jens, 1862, down to March, 1863, arms, ammunition. and other military atoms, of the value of 363,2851., hare bees seat from Woolwich and the Tower to C a zda. *ides clothing for the English trona. The articles sent include•. 40.000 rifled muskets. 29,941 cartridges, and ammunition (for :mAll arms), 6.890,680. Meet of the articles are still in the twos, and have not yet been supplied either to the ,moss 1.1 or kcal forces; but claims to the extent of 31,4621. bane hoes made by the War Department upon the colonial golfers. meat of Casa& for the stores supplied to local forces in the period above-samed. We (Army and Nary Cazetk) learn from a reliable source that the Russian government have p•es ♦ Lime order to Messrs. Knipp, of Essen. io Prussia, for muatle•leadieg guns of the heaviest description. for the purpose of arming the fortress of Croustade, and th►t they have also ordered a muddiest& member of steel projectiles. PNEUMATIC DISPATCH COMPANY. (THIS DAY.) The third ordinary general meeting of this com pany wee had this clay at the office, Vietermartreet, West. miaster ; Oaptais Horan is the chair. The SICIMTABY read the report, which has already bas published TheCiallnian, in moving the adoption of the report, said that which era experiment had now become practice. Since Febro,47 loot the cotopeay had bee. carrying he, Majesty's mails to the entire satistactiou of the Pos. master. General. Thirty trains per day bare bee, despatched with perfect regularity, and mor e than 4,000 trains have since been sent without any delay at a coot of working averviriog U. 4s. srl. daily. The directors bed thought it Decessary, before meeting the share, holders, to ascertain what they really could do. A few days IWO° they made expetimeets and found that in one day they could carry 172 trains. averaging 14 tons each, and the total cost of the day's work was only 11. Its. 74d., or 24d. per train. or ltd. per too. They had, therefore, obtained an extraordinary power at an extraordinarily cheap rate. Until the main tub e warn 144 down, which would be 24 milea in length, the full result. of their operations weld pot. be calculated, except by ana l ogy with what had been does. The railway companies were Dow looking up to that com. pony, who bed obtained a great mechanical swam at comparatively small expenditure. The contract. for the main tube would be seeded on the 314 Dee., next, and he had uo doubt of the ultimate success of the onmpany. The report was received and adopted ; Yeasts. Claih, Lloyd, and Chaplin, the acting directon, were reslected; sod a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the pro. needing.. The Brazilinn and other little difficulties have induced the Lords of the Admiralty (says the Anny asa Novi, Gazette) to issue a very stringent circular, io which enlace are enjoined to appear always io uniform, even •hen going into private society in the neighbourhood of the met at which their ship may be 'behead. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JULY 29.—The Queen has beet pleased to approve of Doe Juan Antonio Arguch as c ore d at Gibralter far Ike Majesty the Queen of Spain.—(layette, THE WORE OF THE LAIR Bcl/stoic—ln the recent session, which commenced on the 5411 February, and ended the 284 c July, there were 125 public acts pared, against 114 in the preceding year. ECONOMY IN THE USE or THE RAMROD IN DRILLING.— It haviog beeo found th.t the frequent use adv. steel rammer caws the wear of rifled berrelaby its friction the lands, the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, with the view of obviating its unneeeesary use, is pleased to order that the several motions of the platoon exercise be goo* throngh by drilled eoldiers without drawing the ramrod. Simulated 1110t10114, and the occasional use of the rod at firing blank and practice ammuoitiou, will answer every purpose of maintaining the efficiency, in this new, of trained soldiers, and rise:rude will be taught in the Bred n.anoer, with the sewed class arena provided to all depots for their instruction.—thsited Service Goad lc Taz Suzz ezzui..—Tbe Suez Canal is approach ing the status of an accomplished fact. M. de L an e energy has proved too much for Lord Palmerston's opp: e i. tion. The military results of the nomination of the Isthmus are likely to prove mom important than ate cominereel consequences. as we may find out should there be any active revival of the difficulties of what is called the Fasten Question. The elaborate report of M. Lamps sad IL Vona contains toady interesting facts concerning the praa grees and condition of this vast work. —Army and Nary Oeseia GENERAL Iff FADE'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE— General Meade's form is gaunt and thin, impressing the idea of bodily tenacity rather than streorth, and a capacity to endure fatigue that we could not predict of a more robust and invincible figure. His high top boots and loose bloom are bespattereal with mod, and were it not for his shoulder straps sod intelligent face it would be difficult to distingnith that he was not a private in the ranks. Hie face is almost armed with beard, and his neck displays a leather stock that might have beets used in the days of his ancestors. He is otherwise collarless, and his face is colourless, being ghattl pale, with thought, study, and anxiety marked open every lineamen t. His mind speaks through his eye, and tells you at • glance that before you stands a man who is equal to any responsibility, and not afraid to meet it in any shape. His nose is of the antique bead, and is the most prominent feature of the face. He appears a restless and nervous man, quick to move, but not so quick that celerity would destroy steadmeen..—isterican paper. THE CAPTURED DESPATCHES OF JETTIESON DAVI& —Fiteognicr, MD., July 8,1883.—0 n the let inst., amour pained by the dashing °apt. Dahlgren sod 20 mem, Captain Cline, of the 3rd Indiana cavalry. went to Grummet* and captured Lee's private orderly and his entiremoort, who had very important despatches from Jefferson DAVIS to GOOaral Lee, together with onions to Lee's various Generals, muster and pay rolls, and other army matter. The ocetimportentof these papers was a letter from Jeff. Davis to Gement Lie, and showed the weakness of the latter, and had a favourable effect upon the results which followed the battle of Getty*. burg. The following are some of the points °mita:led in the letter, which was dated Richmond, June 29. Davis feared his raid into Pennsylvania wee • great mistake. II was an error to suppose that the army of the Potomac had been so reduced by the discharge of the two years sad sine months men as to make victory as easy matter. The accessions to our army by new troop and militia were three times greater than our loom. TLese facto, when the ax. pedition wet planned, were naksowu. It wee utterly im possible to or4anise a miser,. army at Culpepper, as Ice had soggeotad, owing to the fact that D. H. Mrs command had bean largely r ed uced reinforcing other points, sad it was equally impossible to spare a single MA from Besuresiard's command. Horses were Deeded, Johnston could not succeed against Giant without them, and Davis had fears for the fate of Vicksburg. Davis was sorry he could not forward money to Lee. The quartermaater-general tells Lee that he cannot send him supplies stud ordnance without horses, and the campaign must be abaridoool unless animals are immediately seat to Virginia. Lee must also keep open • line of communication sod retreat. Other matters of interest are contained in the despatches. —New York Herald. THE WINE INDIAN MAIL SERVICE.—The new West India mail contract, which comes into operation out year, has jest been published. According to this contract the roam of post to St. Thomas, Demerara, Trinidad, and Jamaica will be 42 days ; and to Colon, Vera Cruz, Car. thagena, and Greytown, 57 days. The route to Colon is to he by way of St. Thomas, Jacmel, and Jamaica, and to Vera Cruz by way of St. Thomas, Porto Rico, and Haysaaah. no communication with Oarthagena and Greytown will be monthly. The mails are to be conveyed from England to St. TOOOSIS io 14 days 9 hours, to Colon in 19 days 6 boar. to Tampico in Zi days 10 boon, sad to Demerara in 18 days 18 bourn. The penalty for delays is 501. every 12 hours, sad the premium for less than mitred time is 251. every 12 hours. All old pickets required for the new contract must be ready fur survey on the 15th of D♦ camber next, and all new ones by lit Jainuary next, or • penalty of 101. per day will le indicted on the Royal Mail Company until the ship* are ready. The coaling station, for the packets are to be Southampton, St. Thomas, Jamaica, Havannali, Granada, sod POSTAI:IN ON LrITERN FOR CALITONS/A, °AMON, AND WANIIINOTON TEKSITOZT.— Letters for California, Oregon, and Washington Territory. forwarded by British or United States packet to the United Stone, will, in future, be liable to the WOO rates of podase as letters for all other parts of the (Jolted States, :—Not exceeding on., ILI above oz., soul DOS exceeding 1 OS., 2s ; above 1 0z ,606 not exceeding 2 ors., 45.; every additional more, 2a. ; and the postage may *ether he paid in advance, or the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the sender. —By command of the Postmaster-GooeraL ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. _ _ -- - - . - MAILS PUS Sr. LVCIA, ST. VINCENT, GRENADA, AND TRINIDAD, wr FIREICII PACKET. —ll.foo mAtioo has been received from the Director-Geueral of the French Post-otEos of the establishment of a branch packet between Martinique sad Trinidad, calling at St. Lucia. Si. Vincent. end Grenada, in connexion with the lies of French mail packets leaving St. Nat tire on the Itith of each mouth for Millis" sod touching at Martiuique ; sod arrangements have been made by which mails for them placm will le made up in Loudon and forwarded by the day mail to Francs on the 15th of each month, or when that day falls ou Sunday, by the night mail of the 14th. The rates of postage chargeable upon letters, °swappers. and other printed papers will be the game as by British plackets, viz. : —Letters not exceeding 4 oz., Is. ; above 4 no. and not exceeding 1 oz., 2.. - above I oz. and not evreding 14 oz.. 3e. ; above 1 4 oz. tad not exceeding 2 oat, 4s. ; each additional 4 oz., la News. papers : For each De ',paper not exceeding 4 oz., Id.; above 4on . and not excel:shag 4 lb., 2.1. Books, b.:.: For a pocket of printed papeis other thou newspapers not exceed. iag 4 oza, 3d. ; above 4 oz. and not exceediog 4 lb.. bd. ; above 4 lb. and not exceeding 1 lb., Is. ; above I lb. sod not exceeding 14 lb., is. taL ; above 1 1 lb. sued not exceeding 21be., 2s. ; every additio nal 4 lb., 61 The postage upoa letters may either be mid in advance or left to be peal os delivery, at the option of the sender. Mimi. however, it is Dot prepaid, the letters will be charged no delivery with one additional rate, !amides the usual hostage. The Putagr upon newspapers and book package must in all cams be pug in advance. Letters, newspapers, or printed papers in tended to be forwarded by this route to either of the °elm aim mentioned must be specially addressed 'By French packet."—Bv command of the Pintmaster-General, ROD. LAND limy Secretary. Tux Six Poiwre.—The Khuleradatch (Punch) of Berlin announces the Remise acoeptatiot of the six pinata ID the following terns : " It is whispered is circles gees- rally well informed that Prone Gurtchakoff hes accepted the six points on the following conditions:-1. The ge en2val amnesty shall be applicable to all those who have taken so wt. ! n the insurrection. 2. The armistice shall be earned into ea ,yoution. The Poles shall lay down their „roe; the Russians, ,mi the contrary, shall retais theirs, to make the humane aud ea !ightensd use of them with which everybody is acquainted. 3. The coofiamited estates shall not be restored, but their owners - shall mesh: _. m ines is Siberia as a :oompeointioe. 4. The NoMPail.m D u i d lis i ted h, ; to all m peno w th n e s„ a h nu ow y e s v o rr y , olu sta ue ll . ba f s. roit iabe ulle; Ofco ° n o ` . science iegusnateed to the Pelee—in the (humans. 6. The Poles, who like mystery so much. shall obtain their ancient constitution ; but it is to be executed la must, so that no one may know anything of it." TURKEY. Advice@ from Constantinople of the 23rd state that a Russian telegram having announced arma ments on the part of Russia, Fuad Nein had as sembled the council, which decided on raising the Turkish army from 85,000 men, its present amount, to 160,000. Two camps of observation are to be established in Bosnia and on the Danube. The Turki.h governmett, in consequence of the charges made against the Greek Patriarch, has decreed his dismissal. On Saturday last the Sultan attended the accus tomed annual meeting of the Grand Council to hear the report on the business of the put year, The review then read to his Majesty was most flattering to himself, and most hopefully coloured as regards the state and prospects of the country. The Turkish National Exhibition closed on the 16th ult. Its commercial result has been a heavy balance on the wrong side of the account. The total coat of the building and its subsequent ad ministration amounted to 2,000,000 p., against which the realised receipts were only 450,000 p., leaving a deficit of more than 14,0301. This sum, howaver, the Sultan has, it is said, promised to make good to the company out of the Imperial privy purse. GREECE. Accounts from Athens explain the false report of an insurrection at Nauplia. The battalion of Leo tracos refused to embark for the Peloponnesus. The Minister of War forced them to obey, but the towns of Argue and Tripolitza refused to receive those perturbators. The reaction in favour of order is general in the provinces. The troops who remain faithful to Coroueos are everywhere well received by the people. The Minister of Finance has declared that the deficit amounts to 1,350,000 fr. The National Assembly has adopted measures to cover a part of that amount. Ournies rxisaaAmo.) PRUSSIA AND RUSSIA. CRACOW, too. 1. A letter alleged to have been written by General Wender to Count Waldersee, command ing-general of the division of the army in Posen, has been published, recapitulating the articles of the military convention lately concluded between Prussia and Russia, and anticipating the possibility of the despatch of Prussian troops into the kingdom of Poland. The insurgent leaders Stefanski, Zawistewski, Nowikki, and Heine, were hung before the citadel of Warsaw on the 29th ult. MADAGASCAR REUNION, JILT 4. MM. Dupre and Lambert have arrived here. After the late events in Madagascar they had an interview with the governor in reference to the course which they ought now to pursue. It is as serted that they resolved to proceed to Tananavira to demand the ratification of the treaty. The sugar crop this season will only be a mode rate one, on account of the prevalence of the cane disease. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, AoGnerr 1. The Great Eastern, from New York on the 21st ult., passed the Old Head of Kinsale at nine p.m. yesterday, but was not communicated with. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's Mhoe from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Miuisilia, with the above mails, left Malta for Marseilles on the 30th July at 11 p.m. The Pere, with the heavy portion of the mails, was to leave Malta on the 31st at 2 am. She may be expected at Southampton on the 9th of August. The Jeddo, from Bombay, and the Sultan, from the Mauritius, reached Suez on the 25th July, at midnight. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Bengal, which left Calcutta on the 23rd June, put back there on the 29th with her screw broken. The Moult= was being prepared to leave Cal cutta with the Bengal's mails and passengers on the 23rd July. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Mail ova ows PARIS, FRIDAY Evtsnia. There is no question now about Marshal Furey having issued a decree of confiscation against all the property, real and personal, of Mexicans who bear arms against the "French intervention." For c the last ten days this news, originally brought by the Courrier des Etats Unis, has excited scarcely any attention in France for the single reason that it was considered too monstrous to be credited for a moment. Some of the independent journals hinted feebly that it might perhaps be just as well if the Muniteur were to contradict a report obvi ously inconsistent with the habits of civilised war fare and the honour of the French army ; but the regular hack writers—the very men whose hard fate it now is to defend the decree—overflowed with indignation at the bare suggestion of the pos sibility of there being any shadow of truth in the story, and accused the journals who quoted the Courrier des Etats Unis of being the cowardly spon sors of a libel of which they had not the courage to avow the paternity. And now it is all true. Fact is stranger than fiction. The confiscation decree is published at full length io the Opinion Nationale. It is dated Puebla, May 21, and is signed " Furey." The Muniteur, which this day publishes news from Mexico of three weeks' later date, is ashamed of the confiscation de,'ree, and has never said a word about it, but of it s authen ti c ity there can be no shadow of doubt. It is pubL , hed in one of the organs of that " free , press which Marshal Forey has established in m es i ce ,__ & f res press, as one of his own decrees • facetiously says, ,‘ upou the French model, subject to warnings, two of ehich entail suppression." i Thi s o f res e M ex i can newsp a p er is called the ! lionitor-Fronco-Mccicano, And the number referred to bears date May 29, 1863. The decree is preceded by, and based up'nn, a report from a certain M. Bodin, one of the otinerous French , functionaries who, as you will renomber, were exported to Mexico some time ago, with dolitle pay , and large extra allowances, for the purpose of • administering the country upon the true principles of Bonapartist civilisation. This report is a gem , in its way. Although the writer must have studied , Russian precedents in Poland, the style of which he 1