The Express. — London, England, 1863-09-24 00:00:00

!. ~~ EVEItYLODY KNOWS Mr. MILES. Altana Webb Mlles REMOVED FROM BONIISTRKET to Z. BROOK-9/TM Ha n neersynare, In WI The IR . /rowans (orWnated by him) In MI the New Pattern; • BE'l I KR TII AN EVM.- Zhe Crpreos. To CoRELI2.IfONDIUVTI. a , tV., ...Incubi %tended tor "The f.apreaa' Loudon Flutes Taper mut to Va. MEd, BouVacitt.atalek b Two o'clock on &ha day of publication. II A Yitkit \ kl': Tina I'VE' , FACTS. Mr. Compton-- CH A E I'll T EDIT. Messrs. A. Wigan and Butlistorte ; Mates .tn,a.. L Keeler.—TllE BENGAL TIGER. Mrs. A. Wiaan.—uoneludiag with TKE OALICIAN FIT& YKINCICIW Ti'lS EN - RN:No, TILE CAISVI I ' EV0.79. Claude Melo:Ate, Mr. Walter 11.egi.raery; kleausennt, M. E. F. Edgar; Dame, rit,jante , Iltas Kate Saville. And Nor A BAD J l'llta..--Corr mace at 7. 11JUTANNIA. THE Coun. BALMORAL, ;ACV. Tile Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louie of Henn, drove to Invereauld yesterday. Prisons Helene awl Princess Louise, attended by Lady Churchill sad BefOOMI Scbenek, reds a• hauberk. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined at Balmoral, at' Leaded by Lieutenant Colonel Koppel and the Hon. Mrs. Bruce. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Covernoni of Gibraltar and Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Settlements ou the West Coast of Africa. The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde are expected in town early next week, from a tour at visits is the north. The Doke of Boot:lynch has arrived at his reel defies in Balpave•goare, from Soothed. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and family hive left Switzerland for Turin. Tilts Ervcisa. TUE 17,1071 OF TRY ORPHANS.—THE GREAT 4IIIoAT IiFINCT. Madame, Cranford and Yamo Ologiog To . Meosro Farker and Randall, and Madame Neon. And AUROR U.OYD. NiOR WATRI AT LONDON NRfDP• D17L110 . 001170Z11112010.7. Aft0;;;m: Int 5(00. T•.0oat.0111 —Yarling. 0 Ova... .A.glarsoos. Oh. 24m LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. The Earl of Chesterfield, with his guests, the Duke of Cambridge, Prins Edward of Saxe Waimea., Lord Stanhope, and the Earl of Derby, commenced their annual sport on Tu•aday last, starting from Mrs. Tomlin's farm, no alt ttcliffa, on the Morken Hills. In the course of the day the party brought down 74i braes of partridges, one quail, aid 134 bares. The day's excursion closed at 5.40, and the noble earl and his mum returned to Codling Lodge. The sport will continue about eight days. The ,a'ne guests assembled at Codling Lodge Ist year. NARRATIVIS of popular superstition and cruelty, like that elicited on the examination of Enn► SMITH and S►MUEL ST►MMERS before the Essex Magistrates at Castle Hedingham lutTuesday, may well check any undue pride to which we may be tempted on • survey of the indisputable signs of national progress. We have lately been rejoicing in the numbers and strength of our population ; we compare ourselves with one after another of the nations of the world to our own manifest ad vantage ; we project enterprises for the enlightenment of distant lands, sending our mis sionaries to the ends of the earth. But scarcely a week passes in which the records of our courts do not reveal the existence of the most fearful igno rance and moral desolation among our own people. For the last seven years a Frenchman, about 80 years of age, has lived in the village of Sibile Hedingham, in Essex. Who he was, whence he came, why he took up his abode there, were questions which, if put, were not answered. The old man was dumb ; it was popularly believed that his tongue had been cut out; and he communicated with his neighbours some times in writing, but oftener by those expressive gestures of which all his countrymen make considerable use. He lived alone in a wretched hut. The mystery which surrounded the old man was of a nature to impress the igno rant, and it would seem that he was ready to cultivate it, and turn it to profitable account. It is said that be received money for telling fortunes, certainly after his death the police found in his hut the proof that he had been consulted by many per sons who believed that he could raise the veil of the future, and who were anxious for information as to the course of their social existence. This pre tension to preternatural power was in the end to cost him his life. About eleven o'clock on the night of the 3rd of August last the old man was in the tap-room of the Swan Inn, at Sibile He dingham, where between forty and fifty people were drinking, when EMMA Semi, • woman of 36 years of age, the wife of • beershop keeper at Ridge well, six miles distant, told the company that she had been very ill for nine or ten months, and that old DUMMY, as he was called, was • witch, and had bewitched her. She believed that he could remove the spell he had laid on her, and told him that if he would go with her to Ridgewell she would give him three sovereigns and use him well. The old man refused to go, and left the room. Mrs. Set= followed him into the street and urged her request. A crowd gathered round, and the woman, finding she could not prevail, expressed her determination to be revenged on him. " You " old devil," ahe said, " you have served me out, " and I will serve you out," and immediately pro ceeded to drag him to a brook hard by and throw him in. As the old man scrambled out on the other side, she crossed • bridge, met him, and pushed him in again. He contrived to scramble out a second time, and went and sat on a heap al stones, the crowd all the while passively looking on. Mrs. SMITH again asked him to go home with her, and on his refusal got a stick and struck him about the bead and shoulders, and !subsequently kicked him in the side. Fifty persons saw all this, but only one apparently put in • word for the old man. The next thing Mrs. SMITH did was to get the aid of a man named Srutmess, • small builder at Reding ham, to help her remove the old man down towards a water-mill. Between them they dragged and pushed him the distance, the crowd attending him all the way to the water, where • female voice was heard crying out, "Swim him in the " millhead," and immediately afterwards he was thrown into deep water by Sutra and Seannees. It appears that the actors in the scene were either afraid of going too far, or they obeyed the superior influence of a kind woman, named BRUIT, upon whom the duty devolved of representing the hu manity of Sibile Hedingham on this occasion, for STAMMERS got into the stream and got the old man out, and laid him on the grass, completely exhausted and almost choked with mud. Here ho might have lain and died, but for the kindness of two women, Mn. HARRISON and the Mrs. Balmy before mentioned, who raised him up and led him to his hut, shivering and wet. The poor man was exceedingly grateful to those who had befriended him, and kissed their hands. Thee next] day he died of the ill-usage. The woman Seim, on her examination before the Magistrates, exhibited all the superstition which had led to this cruelty. She said she would tell the truth. The man had been to her house ten months before ; she offended him, and he told her she should be ill in ten days. She was ill, and, although she had since applied everywhere, no doctor had ever been able to set her right ; no medicine had done hergood. She had met the old man on the night of August 3, at the Swan, and begged and prayed him to go home with her, but he would not. She would not deny that she touched him, but it was STAMMSRS who threw him into the water. Everybody present joined in the assault that night except Mrs. Barry, and she was afraid. The presiding Magistrate, in committing Semi and Sr►mezas to take their trial, made some severe but just remarks on the apathy and moral complicity of the spectators of this series of outrages. It was, he said, a fearful as well as a disgraceful fact that at the present day an old and mutilated man should meet such • fate, and that out of all the crowd no one should have interfered to save him. It is indeed a fearful fact that within forty miles of the centre of our English civilization superstition begets cruelty and cruelty shelters itself under superstition. With all our railways, and Science Congresses, and patent Ghosts, we have still to educate and Christianize our people. Lord and Lady Lyndhnrai are expected to return to town the week after next from Tunbridge Wells. The noble and learned lord, notwithstanding his great age, is in ere Aleut he'll.. DELTII OP Ma. POITS, M.P. loit BARRNTAPLZ. T is gentlormn, who ono Monied for Barnstaple in the eon wrrative iotoreat, died on Monday !ant in the 5611 year of h sage. RIM THIIII4DAT EVEN ING, SEPTEMBER 24; 18-133. ExpRE9B FROM PAM . (nom On OWN CORRESPONDINT.) PABIS, WIDNIIISDAY EVE:11111G. The following tentative paragraph appears its the. France; if we are justified In supposing' that it - lime any authority at all, it may be a most important warning : The last replies of Prince Gortchakoff have produced the same impression at London uat Paris. The three courts continue to have the moat complete understanding. and it is not impossible that events may bring France and England into an intimate accord, the object of which would be to face the eventualities of the present situation. What is the meaning of this distinction between an existing " complete understanding" of three powers and a contemplated "intimate accord" of two 1 I hope we are not going to repeat the mistake of ten years ago, so forcibly exposed by Mr. King lake, when we were seduced into an " alliance within an alliance," and thus made to undertake a war with one ally which we had never contem plated except with three. The Nation seems to fear that some rash project is in the wind when it says, We have no precise information, enabling us to predict either the recognition of the Poles as belligerents, or en event more menacing still for the peace of Europe, and we most heartily hope that FROM, may not give way to im pulses which may lead to great calamities. Our sympathy for Poland is most legitimate; but the duty of self-preser vation is more legitimate still. The government should re member that among the friends of Poland it has personal enemies, and it should beware of listening to their prompt ing. Its responsibility is humane., and the call to deliver the Poles is less urgent than the duty of not compromising the safety of Frame, and the future of the dynasty. Jn au article headed "There aro no more treaties of 18111," the France makes use of the following enigmatical language : Yea, the treaties of 1815 are torn up by Russia herself. This is a grave fact, which opens up for Europe a new situation, and one which the Emperor's prudence shrunk from, but which the shortsighted obstinacy of St. Patera ' burg has now realised. We are convinced that Frame will not abuse this opportunity. She is, no doubt, now freer in her movement', but she will bo, we hope, no leas moderate and calm than before, and no less resolved to sacrifice to the interests of civilisation and the peace of the world every thing not essential to her just influence. _ It is said that most of the bishops in France, fol lowing the example of Rume, have ordered public prayers for Poland. The Emperor has just granted a considerable boon to the army. The marching money of officers and men is to be materially increased. Majors will receive Cdr. a day instead of 4fr., and sub lieutenants and lieutenants 3fr. instead of 2fr. 50c. Non-commissioned officers and soldiers, who hitherto bad a kilometric allowance, are now to have a fixed sum of from lfr. 25c. to 2fr. a day, according to their rank, and a kilometric allowance besides. These changes will greatly add to the comfort of troops ou a march. A Paris correspondent of the Emma of Antwerp says that several subscribers to German newspapers have made up their minds to raise the question of the legality of those confiscations of foreign journals in which the French government so frequently in dulges, by bringing an action against the post-office for non-fulfilment of its contract with the public. The ease is expected to come on for trial imme diately after the present long vacation. A man named Vidocq, grandson of the cele brated thief and thief-taker of that name, has just been condemned by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Lisle to six months' imprisonment for stealing shirts from a Mdme. Lecourt, a washer woman, with whom he lived as servant. Although he is upwards of thirty years of age, this attempt to emulate the early achievements of his ancestor is believed to be a first offence. The Bourse has not recovered from the effects of yesterday's panic, but the fall made no further pro gress, and just at the close of business Rente was a little firmer. WEATHER REPORT..: 1-(TELII3 DAY THIIIIDAY, 21, 8 B.IL B. ILI D. W. 1. H. 11. LZ. 8. Num - ..... - 19.41148 L N.H. I o 0.17 S Abram ... - 19.8861 N.L 4 r 0.27 3 Lath 19.1130 R.N.& 10 r 0.12 2 Edda 6n= 211.3e47 88 W. U 0- 1 .18 61 INA 10 c 0.83 1 Heavy . 30.64!60 N. 11 b 0.60 1 Veleatla 14.3766 N.N.L SO 0.81 8 Hosesintevm -31 11. W. 80 - I Liverpool AO 45 S&L. IS 0.11 1 Holyhead 1248' LILL ' 18 0.40 1 Pembroke 10.21 48! L N.lB 20 0.14 1 Pond nos . . 161' 6. ss au 1 Brest L'Orkint . . ... - 10.37 II 3W. 12 0.04 II Itochefort 81.67 60 S.W. 211 0.14 7 Plymouth ... - WU 181 W. 14 0.18 1 Weymouth all id. 2.8 K. 16 O. I W & Portsmouth U W. 14 013 11 London I .. S.S.W. SO a - Dover 111.40 - ft W. U 1.01 6 Yarmouth ... -WU 51 1 LBW. SO - 3 Holigoland - 8 FUNERAL OP PROFESSOR COCIERELL. (THIS DIY.) This .lay the remains of the lath Professor Cock erel!, R.A., Ac., were deposited in their final resting-place in the eiy,,t of St. Paul':. The funeral started at 11 o'clock from the late professoi's reeileoce, 13, Chester-tense% Regent's park. It consisted of an open carriage drawn by six horses, four mourning coaches each drawn by four horses, the family carriages, he. The funeral procession passed along the Marylebone and Easton reeds se far as St. Pancras Church, there turning off through the 'qua res into Hol born, and thence along Neergate-street, and round St. Paul's-churchyard, as Ludgate-hill wu impeseable. At twelve o'clock the cortege arrived at the great west door of the cathedral, when it was met by the Very Rev. Dr. H. Milman, the Dean; the Vea. W. H. Hale, M.A., Archdeacon of London ; the Rev. Canon Melvin, the Rev. Canon Dale, the Rev. Canoe Clumpneys, the Rev. W. C. F. Webber, M.A., sub-dean ; the minor canons, Mr. Bock land, Mr. Prue* end the vicars choral of the cathedral, the pall bearers being (on the left) Professor Donaldson, President of the Royal Institute of British Archi tects ; Mr. Owes Jones, Vice•Preeident, Mr. F. C. Penrose, and Mr. 0. C. Nelson, as representing the A rehi tectural Institute, of which the dammed was formerly President ; (on the right), repneenting'the Royal Academy, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Herta, Mr. C. Landow, and Mr. Sidney Smirks. Each of the pall•bsenn carried an iinntortelle. Mr. J. Clarke, the honorary monetary of the Architecture' Museum, attended on behalf of that institution, Mr. B. Hope being in Staffordshire, and Mr. Gilbert Scott, the President, being abroad. The chief mourners were the four saw of the demised, Mr, PODIIOII (his son-in-law), Mr. B. Rennie, Mr. J. Beanie, Mr. Rennie, Sir Hugh Palliser, Bart., Major Goodeeough, Mr. J. Goodchiki, Mr. Popp Cockrell, the Bev. Henry Cooke rell (vicar of North Weald Bassett), and Captain Cockeroll• There was, in defiance of the had weather, a large attend ance of the professional and private friends of the decreed. As soon as the cortige wee formed in the church it pro. oseded up the nave, the choristers chanting, nod the organ, at which Mr. Goss presided, pealing its edema music. As soon es the eollin was conveyed to and deposited in the choir a full choral service was performed, the dean reading the sorra,, and the chorister, under the direction of Mr. Ferris, chanting Croft's and Purcell's Brae. • As soon as the service in the choir was over the coffin was brought out and placed on treatise under the grad dome, where the anthem, " I heard a voice from heaven," was chanted, the Mr/torte/la being placed on the coffin, from which the pall was partially removed. The proms don ma then reformed, and the coffin borne to the crypt, when it was placed in a grave by the side of that in which repose the remains of his relative end friend, Sir J. Bennie. Mn.em Howard and Gratin supplied the coffin and funeral appointments. The carriage on which the coffin was borne was an open one, and the some r me used at the funeral of Douglas Jerrold. The *Ala was simple but eatrantiaL There wore but few of the general public pro ✓ate& the ceremonial. The late Professor Cookerell WY Royal Academician, Emeritus Professor of Architecture in the Royal Academy, Architect tithe Bank of Bogland and St. P►ul's, Forage Aeaciate of the Academy of the Institute of France, Member by Merit of the Academy of St. Luke at Rome, Member of the Academies of Munich, Berlin, and Berne, sod D.C. L. of the University of Oxford. The principal architectural works which gained him this profusion of honest. ware the Philosophical Itetitutioe of Bristol, the Collep of Lempeter, the Speech-room 'Metre* at Harrow, the Taylor sod Baodolpb•buildiop at Oxford, ' and the new Mile Library at Cambridge, the Son Fire-oMee, the Hanover Distaiot Chapel in Regent-street, and the late additions to the Bank of England. Mr. Oockerell continued his lectures at the Royal Academy until very lately ; be was as active member of the Archaeological Institute, to whose " Transactions" he was a contributor ; and be was the author of "The Iconography of Wells Cathedral," "The Architectural Life of William of Wykeltam," sod " The Sculpture of Libyan OathedraL" AS application wu made by the Council of the Royal In stitute of Architect+ to the Dean and Chapter for permis sion to inter hit remains in the cathedra. To this applies,- ties the Dean sad Chapter usseeted, and in consequence of this the Me professor received the high honour of a Anal resting place In the Cathedral ci The Southampton papers record the death of Lieutenant Heat, R.N., for many years the commodore of the Royal Wed Win lull Company's beet . a A sea wall is to be built, at cost of 6,0001., to protect the new forts at Cliff-ood sal Warden Point, in the 3 lent. The Peninsular and Oriental Company purpose rennin lerge-dsed etrazawe between Marteilles sad Alex endria, in order to compete with the Preach Oriental Ma Company. Awns so Bisousr ro Emu. Rusezu.—The lisikloonr tenantry have now arreased that the Baseall banquet on Saturday next shall be ea a mad Neale i. the Idelawowrie Mho Hall. It it exploded that the (boat de Ilahault. praprietat at the Medawar estate, will pm. side ; end Earl the Earl of Aka* and other nobleman will likely be among the inesta.—Dendee Advertiser. THE BISHOP or CARLISLE AND THE ARCH' BISHONLIC OF YOIL—Ai the recent tend Show at Wigton Mr. George Moon, of White maid, in Mutila tion of the self-denial of the Bishop of Osrliele, that his lordship had twice refused the Archbishopric of York, by which he might almost have tripled his emolument. Hie MUM for refusing that high panics was that he had a great number of projects in operatics in this diocese, and he wished to be left here to carry them oat. Ele peiddve was Mr. Moore in his assertion, that we are not shirtless:pried to observe that the A rc hd e acon of Cerliale hes addressed the following letter to a coutemporary :—" I have aatlsority toe stating, with reference to some stateroseir atria Mr. G. Moore is reported in your per of the 12th insisat to have made at the dinner of the Wigil/12 Agricultural Soda, that that gentleman appean to have been misinformed. The Archbishopric of York was never offered to the Mike, of Carlisle, nor did his lordship use say sack expreaden as thst attributed to him.-1 am, sr, year obedient servant, W. R. Paluis." T Csureteriand Pacoima. - - ETON Coucaos —Yesterday the election vacation, which has exteeded ewer a period of exactly eight wombs, having commenced on Friday, the 31st of July, terminated with the reeare of the lower boys. The fifth form snivel to-day (Thareday), sod the sixth fors to-morrow (Melly), whoo the who of the radars will have amenabled. The holidays this year have bided longer than venal, owing to the extra time Vela on account of the marries of the Prince of Walls. No change@ he se takes Tahoe mama the masters sad officials of the mikes dull( the team Yes. terdey the arrivals of the scholars by the Great Western and Landes sad South-Western Railways were «allusions, and the usual quiet High-liras, of Eton assumed • busy aspect with the emetaid of dye sad other vehicles moralise the boys and theta frtands hug the railway sta. liaise° the college. The Honourable Artillery Corepany of London, under the command of Major Robinson. will have a mod field day at the Alexandre Park on Wednesday next. n. regin sit trill be represented by home artillery, • field battery, light cavalry and infantry. After the miser the 104iment is to biroulc, and cook their dinner on the ground. rISAATESINT G li * C AMERICA. THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON. New York papa . * which have come to hand• this I , morning contain additional intelligence respecting the Federal advances before Charleston. Fort Wile nor is described as a moat formidable work ; indeed, the fact of its being intact after one of the most terrific bombardments in the records of history affords irrefragable evidence of this ; every step to its approach was contested by the Confederates until compelled to evacuate it by the superior force and artillery of General Gillmore. The Federal sappers having gained the counterscarp of the fort on the 6th instant, Gen. Gillmore ordered a general assault to be made on the morning of the 7tli t which was rendered unne cessary by the withdrawal of the garrison on the night of the 6th, leaving behind them nineteen guns awl seventy-five men, which were taken by the Federal troops. Colonel Keitt, of South Carolina, commanded the garrison, consisting of 1,400. The ironaidee and five monitors commenced firing on batteries Beauregard and Bee, at 5 a.m., and continued until 2 p.m. on the Bth inst. One of the shells is said to have entered the magazine of Fort Moultrie, exploded, and shattered the south western parapet. The occupation of Chattanooga and the retreat of the Confederate forces is fully confirmed by telegram to Washington ; the peaceful surrender of Cumberland Gap is announced, General Fraser (Confederate) having surrendered it to the advanoed foroe of General Burnside, under the command of General Shackleford, on the afternoon of the 9th inst. Official intelligence of the capture of Fort Smith, Arkansas, has been received at Leavenworth. The Confederates are stated to have retreated before the command of General Blunt, subee (lneptly to have been attacked by General David son, near Little Rock, and forced across the Creek, burning the bridge behind them. The following is General Gillmore's despatch re lative to Fort Wagner : OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM ORNTRAL GILLMORE. Depertmest of the South. Heed-quarters on the Field, Sept. 7. Major-General H. W.llsHeck, Ceoenl-io•Chie[. coneral,—l have the honour to report that Fort Wagner and Battery Gregg are ours. Last night our sappers crowned the counterscarp of the crest of Fort Wagner on its sea front, masking all its guns, and an order was issued to carry the place by runault at 9 o'clock this morning, that being the hour of low tide. About 10 o'clock last night, the enemy commenced evacuating the island, and all but seventy-five of them made their escape from Cummings Point in small boats. Captured despatches show that Fort Wagner was commanded by Colonel Keitt, of South Carolina, and garrisoned by 1,400 effective men, and Bat. tery Gregg by between 100 and 200. Fort Wagner is a work of the most formidable kind. Its bomb-proof shelter, capable of holding 1,800 men, remains intact, after the most terrible bombardment to which any work was ever subjected. We have captured 19 pieces of artillery, and a large supply of excellent ammunition. The city and harbour of Charleston are now completely covered by my guas. I have the honour to be, general, very respectfully, your obedient servant, N. A. Gru.noas. Brigadier-General Commanding. General Burnside, upon completing the recovery of East Tennessee by the capture of the rebel force defending Cumberland Gap, tendered his resig nation to the War Department by telegraph. It is supposed that he has contemplated this course for some time in consequence of the constant political perplexities that beset him in the administration of his department, through the repudiation of certain of his measures by the government ; but "did not take it until he could leave the service without discredit to himself, after expelling the last armed rebel from his department." The official despatch from General Bosecrana, re lative to Chattanooga, is as follows : Camp neer Trenton, Sept. 9, 8.30 pm. I]fejor.Gensnl H. W. Hansa. Genenasizi.Chief. Chattanooga is ours without a struggle, and Fat Teens. es is free. Our move on the enemy's flank and rear pro gram. while the tail of his retreating column will not maps unmolested. Our troops from this side entered Chat tanooga about noon. Those north of the river there are mooing. W. IL Rosacirn, Major-Geoffsl. (REOTXIeS TELEGIIIN&) THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND. BRESLAU, Barr. 24. The BreaLauer Zeitung of to-day says :—" Colonel Leboucbine, who took • prominent part in the destruction of Count Zarnoyski's palace, was stabbed yesterday in Warsaw." AMERICAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Sm. 23. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Saxonia, Captain Trautman, sailed hence to-day for New York, with the United States mails and 602 passengers from Hamburg,liavre, and this port, of whom 35 are first and 84 second class, and 483 steerage. Theffaxonia takes ont about 900 tons of cargo, of which 250 tone tea and 150 ton, general mer chandise were shipped from this port, and 17,000 francs worth of jewellery, &c., from Havre. The company's steamer Germania, Captain Elbert, with New York dates of the 19th, is expected off Cowes on the 30th inst. Admiral Bonet-Villaumez has returned to Paris from Loudon, where he bad been sent our a minion connected with the ormetroetioa of iroe.eaeed meek. A letter from Naples says :—" The weather con tinue ally too fine. We had, as I reported, about three weeks ago a storm and two or ►hree hours of rain, and this has ham the only interval of rain since last April. Every thing I. therefore parched, burnt up, and the leaven are fain from the trees, giving all the appearance of a mum. tore winter, spite of hot suns and blue skies. There was • difllmalty the other evening in procuring water to extinguish • fire, and by orders of the municipalities in the country many are compelled to open their private wells for the re lief of the public. Never has there been such a summer. The murrain continua, and creates such alarm that bulletins of the Met and dead cattle are reported." . . . . It is stated that the two Blakely guns which are known to be at Charleston were taken into that port en the 23rd of August by the Gibraltar steamer. They weigh 20 toosrach. The diameter of the breech is eft. lie., end at the morale 21t. lin, and they will throw a 7001 b. shot. They ars constructed on Oaptaio Blakely's principle, which has beta found highly powerful In other goes need by the Coafederates. DEATH OF JACOB GRIMIL—Tbin celebrated Ger sseo writer, who, in conjunction with his late brother Wil liam, has been so long well known, not only in Germany, but throughout all Europe, died on Sunday eveaing last at Berlin, after a short dimes. lie was born oo January 4, 1785, and bad therefore reached his wiriventy-moth year. Although he sought comparative retirement after the death of his brother, he was indefati• phi* up to his lest moment in carrying out the objects to which be bad devoted his long and useful and with patriotic self-devotion his last hours were spent, lot in earning new fame by the continuation of those works which ware so peculiarly his own, bat in the preparation of his great German dictionary, ow Muss ix CANADA.—There is a great rush to the gold mimes in the county of Beams, about 35 miles (rem Quibble'. There am about a thousand penman at the diggiap, which are mid to be exceedingly rich. The gold distriet extend. overadietanee of fifty miles, part of it run niog through the suburbs of Quebec. Some fine ouggets, weighing nearly an ounce of pure gold, have been found, sad it is stated that lamps much larger in size have been unshod out— Canadian paper, hOIAILI FRIDAY. OS TR I SATURDAY. N. E. to N. W., strong Noun-Prix. N. to 8, trash to mode. t? trait. relay to rate, sows squalls. . _ EVI., to N.N.W., Wm coons. N.W. to S.W. and B.L, strong to fresh, Ma fresh, squally, some In places. rain. N.D. to;8.IL awl S.W., ems Co Lees. 8.8. K to W.S.W. sad to fresh, Roans, show. N.W., moderate to tn. fresh, some showers. W. to N. ma to L, SOOTS-UM \.t- to S. E. and toS. W., strong to fresh. fresh to moderate, showery. with showers. North-DuCalthnoss to Norfolk. West=Donegal to Cern. wall. South=Chansiel and Bay DOollta loath.lisat-,Btralt of Dover to Norfolk. M. Berryer is passing the vacation at his estate at Aniervale. M. Mere bas returned to Paris for the winter. THE Dolce D'AIIMALZ. —Yesterday the Duke d'eantele prodded over a dinner held in connexion with the Vale of Evesham Horticultural Society. His royal highness, in the course of the evening, spoke at some length upon the subject of agricul tare. Proposing " The Reath of the Queen," he said :—" Mil God give her for many years health and strength to accomplish those royal duties which no prince has ever fulfilled better. May she live long to enjoy the devotion of her subjects, the respectful affection of those who have had the honour to approach her, and the approbation of the whole world. M y she find in the virtue and happ i ness of her family and the prosperity of there realms some consolation for the irreparable loss—that dreadful blow which has almost broken her warm and generous heart." The Aoarznosn —We understand that the proosediop instituted some time since in the Court of Chancery, by our worthy mayor, J. L. Bulleid, Esq., on behalf of the Rev. Lewis Price, of Glastonbury, against the defendant, Mr. Primes, of the Agapemone, for the recovery of a considerable amount of money, have been brought to a very successful termination. It appears that the case wee originally placed in the hands of another solicitor in the neighbourhood, who failed to accomplish anything satisfactory to his client, and obliged the Rev. Lewis Price to dispense with his services and altos the ease in the hands of Mr. Bulleid, his present solicitor. i • Whereupon the necessary steps were at once taken and • bill of complaint was filed against the defsedant, which compelled him to abandon his defence, come to i•TIIII, and restore the whole of the property, with the exception of • certain amount of interest which had accrued upon it since the plaintiff had left the Agapemone, a claim which be re lioquished in consideration of compensating advantages arising from an immediate compliance with his demand. A satisfactory settlement of the property has since been executed by the Court of Chancery, in pursuance of and'. cation to that e ff ect made in the plaintiff's bilL It is cre dibly reported that these and other proesedisne of the plaintiff nave told with disastrous effect upon Priories system of religiose Woolly and imposture, and thee it the most anions check It bas receiveL—Marrierwe Jawed. THE GALS EASTIRN.—It ill currently reported that We ship is to be said by anotion.—riases. Corrtsai lELPLOGION ♦r ASSAD/CAL —A dreadful exploliou of ere damp took place to tie Awns piton Mon day evening. Oos man was killed mite "Of, 1114 *Mew or fourteen ethos lamely injured. 'RUNNING THE BLOCKADE. The veto York Herald says :—" We have re ce files of the Bermuda Royal Gazette to the LAW, Her Britannic Majesty's ship Rinaldo, from this port, arrived at St. George's on the 28th of last month. According to our accounts the "ports of Bermuda were literally crowded with vessels engaged in running the blockade from the rebel porta, and the warehouses, wharves, public stores, and every other convenient place, were crammed with cotton, d c., brought in from the blockaded towns and ports of the South. The vessels engaged in this illicit trade invariably carry the rebel flag, and on arriving in British ports are received with loud acclamations by the people. The rebel steamer Eugenia, from Wilmington, North Cardin% arrived at St. George's on the 28th ult. Large cargoes await rebel vessels in different parte of the island." SOUTHERN DISCONTENT WITH JEPPERSON DArIS. (From the Charleston (S.C.) Mercury, Sept. 5.) cosernTernowAL ow )IIDINATIC BRANCIO& Although carefully covered over with the mantle of secreay by Congress, enough has been disclosed by stern realities to show the total incompetency of President Davis to govern the affairs of the Confederacy. He has lost the confidence of both the army and the people, and if an election to-morrow was to come off for the presi dency, we believe that he would not get the vote of a single State in the Confederacy. Yet if the pro- visional congress had done its duty—lf the present emi gre= would do its duty—President Davis oonld readily be driven into a course of efficiency. He is president of the Confederate States for six years. The constitution has not been proved to be inadequate to rectify his imbecilities. He can be controlled and directed, as the King of Great Britain is. That government is a constitutional monarchy, having co-ordinate branches. In Great Britain, no policy of the government, no cabinet advisers, can stand agaisat the expressed opinion of the Hones of Commons. Are the people less potent in the Confederate States, through their representatives in Congress, than the people of Great Britain in parliament? We do not believe it. Parliament has no power, like that of Congress, to par a law in spite of the king's veto ; yet no king, since 1688, has dared to veto a bill pulsed by parliament. No king has dared to defy public opinion in the appointment of the national counsellors and the commanders of armies, set ting up personal favouritism and partisanship ►bove effici ency. . . The legislative power which Congress possesses, as to measures and men, sun control the government sad force efficiency into the administration, whether in the appointment of cabinet officers, commanders of armies, and harem officers, or in the management of our diplomacy, our finances, our military operations, our naval prepara tions, and the efficiency of our bureaus of conscription, commissary stores, and quartermaster stores. But this ODD never be done by those who look upon P-osident Davis as "our Moses." Congress must assume its duties under the constitution, as an independent element of power. It must abandon the idea that it is only a secret body for registering the will of the President. It must be the people, standing forth in the light of day, clothed with the whole legislative power of the government, and with their agent, the President, instrumental for their deliverance. That oar cause will ultimately triumph we do not doubt, in spite of the incompetency of President Davie end his silly and most disastrous policy, by which theOmilederate States have bean deluged with blood and covered over with suffering and Injury. His inefficiency and Yankee efficieuey will both be overcome. But if President Davis is to be treated as "our Moses," we really do not We the use of Congress. If the people, through their representatives in Congress, are to exercise no power, bat at the bidding of the execu tive, Congress is a nonentity. It is worse ; it is a tool of the executive, by which the constitution is practically over thrown and a military dictatorship established in its stead, oharacterised by a base assumption of power on the part of the executive, and a bum' betrayal of trust on the part of Co•grses. THE OCCUPATION OP PORT WAGNER BY THE PEDERAI4. On the evening of the 6th instant General Gill iam', it is knowu, ordered that an assault on Fort Wagner should be merle the following morning. The special cor respondent of the New York Herald writes : •' Tho troops moved from their camps shortly after 10 o'clock, reaching their positions in the trenches an hour later. They had barely arrived when a deserter from the rebel lines came in, bringing the news that the island was being evacuated. We had depended upon our picket boats in Vincent's creek, under Major Sanford, to keep us advised of any movement of this kind on the part of the seamy ; but it appears that the state of the tide would not allow them to get through until some time after the with drawal of the rebel garrison had commenced. A. soon as the story of the deserter could be told, General Stevenson sent forward a smell scouting party to mon tam its truth. They speedily returned and corrobo rated the news, and our tomes immediately leaped into the fort. .:aptains Walker and Pratt, in charge of the sappers, planting their flag upon the parapet. A slow match connecting with the magazine was discovered and extinguished, and then commenced a race between our troops for Battery Gregg. Captain Brayton, of the Third Rhode Island artillery, waa the first man there. A few men of the Fiftyfourth Massachusetts were close behind him, and then cams two companies of the Third New Hampshire regiment, under Captain Randlett. They arrived in season to capture between forty and fifty stingier% mostly from South Carolina regiments, while Major Seaford, who, as soon as the tide served, had got his picket boats through the marsh, succeeded in overhauling a couple of boats containing a lieutenant and twenty-two men of the rebel iron-clad steamer Chi con, who had been mediae the garrison in their escape. In addition to the prisoners taken we captured nineteen inns, fourteen of which were in Fort Wagner and the re. =lining live in Battery Gregg. The armament of Wagner consisted of two ten-inch columbiada, one ten-inch mortar, five navy howitzers, mounted on seacoast carriages ; three carronadea, one rifled gun, and two field pieces. Gregg was armed with three ten-inch oolumbiads and two field guns. Nearly all the pieces had been spiked, but in such a manner that the spikes can be euily withdrawn from the vents. These guns are nearly worn out, and are now of little use except for short ranges. " The scene which presents Reef tolthe eye of a visitor at Fort Wagner this morning is one of utter wreck and rein. The broken parapets, the dismounted gnus, the sand piled up before the entrances of the bombproof, the bolts and fragments of exploded shell with which the terreplein is paved, and more than all, the heaps of rebel slain, some lying in the sun and others half buried in the loose and, show what a fearful ordeal the garrieon paned through. The stench arising from the decaying dead is sickening and overpowering. Many were buried at night, just below the surface of the terreplein, to be unearthed and torn to pieces by the missiles which on the following day continued to plough through the work. Here en arm sticks stiffly out of the ground, and there a shoeless foot is visible, while in another corner are three bodies, one clad in a major's uniform, laid carefully raids for burial, but left in the hurry of departure for us to put away. " WITHIN TH BOMBP 00? " Existence must have been terrible while the bombard meet was going on. Even now the odour of the apartment is aimed intolerable. The garrison, which coosisted al about fourteen hundred men, was here huddled like sheep in • fold, without stuiahioe to illumine or air to breathe. The ceiling. formed of huge logs, Is so low es scarcely to afford deeding room. Dead bodies are met. tared here and there, contributing their effluvia to the horrid stench arising from human filth and nastiness. I could only remain for • moment in the place. Officers and soldiers who enter it flee hurriedly away as from • plague or pestilence. The only furniture of the mom was • table made of rough boards. One or two rough coffins were shwa, whether empty or not I did not endeavour to sacertain. A row of shelves on either side of the main entrance contained • number of shot and shell of various calibre. The door was strewn with ImPers, old run, pieces of greasy bacon and other filth which, in ordinary (snips, finds its way to the sinks. Until disinfectant. ac freely wed and the work thoroughly policed it will be imposobk for our men to remain there. Already General Terry has ordered them out of the fort, and forty barrels of chloride of lime are on their way up the beech to be employed in making the atmosphere of the place in some degree tolerable and whole. some. '' TUX Ran BUSTING 131017 ND. " Beyond Fort iragogr iii7g7ouoi ssang to hay* Ewe aged ag s place of hula fat many who foil is the dotsooo of the pima There area number of parse just in the rear of the booquottga Hee air sevseal lead horns sod umiak mass with 'axioms wawa and ottgooling to the spot myriad. on myriads of dim Mitt's further on are several holes dug in the sand for shelter to the troop', those stationed withcat the fort living very much Meth-) fiddlers and mad crake with which the ground is thronged. "THE TELIOBAPH IN OPIERATION. "At an early hour this morning the telegraphic machine which has been statiocal for a month peat in a bombproof in the mood parallel, was removed to Fort Wagoer, ►nd the line advanced to that point by Lieutenant Dana, of the Signal corps. The following message from Lieut.usut. Colonel Mann, of the 39th Illinois Volunteers, was the first traaamitted from the new station . . . '" United States Military l'elegraph Dapartntent of the South. Fort Wagner, Sept. 7, 8.20 a.m. " To General Gillmore, —The general officer of the trenches seeds his complimeou and congratulations to the Commanding General from the bombproof of fslleo Fort Wagner. His confidence in God and General Gillmor.. is unshaken. " ' Colonel MANN.' " THE RSPRAULSTATION OF TAMWOBTH. BEILEOH OF SIR ROBERT PEEL A meet i ng, con Minting chieflyof Mr. Cowper's supporters, wee hold at the Town-hall, Temworth, non evening, in pursuance of a notice inviting the electors to amenable to beer an Warms from Mr. Cowper. Sir ROBERT Pam . also addressed the meeting, and said that, although he would be very far from using undue m amma with any elector, he held that he had the same right as the humblest householder to express his opinions freely and openly, nod to record Lis vote i e favour of the candidate who, if returned, would sit on the same side of the house with Lim. He would not warm aoyone—such a thing had never been done on his property, and Dever would be dorms whilst he had it. —A voice—Have your agents done so'—Sir Robert Piel— Never, upon my honour.—The voice—l believe you d know of it —Another voice—"CannichaeL" (Ilpro ar .) The word "Carmichael" was several times shouted from various parts of the room. and Sir Robert Peel appeared to be much annoyed by it, either bemuse of the inter:lll,uni t or because the mention of the name was an allcci, u to some transaction of a disagreeable nature—The relit bon. baronet then went on to state, in proof of his assertion, that he had no desire to cows any elector, that one of his tenants, in a late election for the county, informed bim that he desired to vote in whatever W.,y he (Sir Robert) wished. He would not tell the tenant fee whom he intended to vote, but desired him (the tenant) to vote according to his owe conviction. He (Sir 11,41 t Peel) then went into the prillinz booth and voted f•ir ow. candidate, and the tenant, ut,' imowing for whom tic Robert had voted, recorded his wee in favour of the 0. her ; but Sir Robert said to him afterwards, "Never mind ; we are just as good friends as ever." (A person in the body of the hall declared that this was all grounion.)—lie deprecated the candidature of Mr. John Peel, of Middleton, anti said that Mr. Brambridee, in order not to divide the liberal interest, withdrew the moment Mr. Cowper came forward.—A voice—"We *ball turn you out next election"— (" Hear, hear," laughter, and applause.)—Sir Robert Peel : I hope you will not ; 1 won't go—(laughter.) He asked, did Mr. John Peel intended to support the government of Lord Palmenton ? Did he intend to oppose it? (No.) Then he was certainly coming forward to divide the liberal interest, Mr. Bracebridge having retired for the purpose of keeping it united. It was lamentable that two candidate s , professing the same policy, should come forward to divide the borough.—A voice—lid not you send Carmichael to tell your agent to tell the tenante—ohouta of "No, nor "Turn him out!" The person who asked the gentian then insisted on having it answered, and said be would come up to the platform to ask it. He made his war th .pe rr k g , the crowd whilst Sir Robert Peel cautioned ; but before be reached the platform the choir had been vacated, and he received no answer to his question. Whilst the person was struggling with the crowd, Sir Robert Peel proceeded to denounce certain handbills—. whioh he characterised as scandalous, scurrilous, and oho- minable—which were circulated through the borough. if Mr. John Peel, of Middleton, was privy to then. he was unworthy to represent the borough. (Hear, hear.) He also said that intimidation and misrepresentation were resorted to for the purpose of defeating the Hon. Mr. Coer ; but he believed that Mr. Cowper woald, notwith standing, be triumphant. The voters would be polled to the last man, that it might be known who stood to their colours and who deserted them ; and he (Sir Robert) felt sure of Mr. Cowper's manna,. The constituency had re turned him (Sir Robert Peed) for fifteen years, and he felt assured that they would not now return a man who would sit on the opposite side in the House of Commons. (Three cheers were here given for Mr. Cowper, and three times three for Sir Robert Peel. Whilst the meeting were in the humour for cheering • wag called for " one more cheer for the last time Sir Robert Peel represent• the borough ;" sod all present went on cheering till it mddenly dawned upon them that they were " sold." and then they stopped in the midst of • hurrah, looking rather foolish.) Sir Robert Peel rid he hoped that the contort would not be carried on in bitterness of spirit. Some people appeared to think them was a grat deal of in it ; but everyone was good humouesd, except one or two cross-grained, big heeded fellows. (Laughter.) The meeting then separated. HASICHMTER UNITY OF ODD FEI.LOWS..—At regular meeting of the members of the Loyal Harrovian /I=held last Tuesday evening, at the Crown and , Harrowam-tbe-Hill, the Rev. F. H. Joyce, vicar, and the curate, J. Jakm, were both admitted mem bers of the society. They were introduced by D. G. IL Stephen. and C. S. Datiaie ' the charge being impressively given by G. H. blitchall. The rev. vicar thanked them fcg their hearty welcome, and pledged himself to do all he could for the welfare of the society and the benefit of the working men of Harrow. The Rev. J. Jakes then acknowledged the privilege of meeting with the members, and coosidared it would he a bad job for the church when the clergy are nut found with the working dames. Several mailbag attended from the adjacent lodges and took pert in the pro. ceedings, which were of a met pleasing and rational character. Burs CLERK CHARGED WITH ENZIZZLEISENT.-.. Some three years ago a clerk in the Old Bank at Hereford (which has nen become defunct) absconded, sad it was said he robbed the Arm of something like 20,0001. People wondered why no steps were taken to bring him to justion and they were told that the offence had been so cleverly com mitted se to place the offender out of the reach of the law. Yesterday morning, however, the accused, Robert Wilton Fryer, was brought up before the Hereford city magietrates charged with having embezzled the several sums of 2001., 1801., 2001., and 1701. The prisoner was a denspid old man, and after taking some evidence the ease wan adjourned. Ax ECCENTRIC.—Last night an inquest was held before Mr. Lan ham, at the Vestry-room, St. Martin's in the Fields, on the body of Mr. George Beareire, aged 75 pars, a gentleman possessed of considerable property and formerly a barrister-at-law. The deceased, who had long lived a secluded and eccentric life, at No. 1, Adam-street, Adelphi, was found dead in his chair on Saturday rooming. having probably expired several days previously. His room was in a very remarkable state of dirt and °ordnance, and it was found that the deceased bad not slept in a bed for years. After a lengthened inquiry the jury returned a verdict to the effect that he had died from low fever accele rated by neglect. DEATH OP THE OLDEST INHABITANT.—The " oldest inhabitant" of Arbroath died last Sunday morning. She was the widow of Mr. Angus M'Sain, road 'contractor, who along with his wife came to Arbroath towards the end of last ornitary, from Inverness-shire, and constructed needy all the turnpike roads is Angus and Mearea. Mrs. M'Bein, who died in her hundredth veer, bad survived all her own childreo, but she leaves behind ber thirty grud children, and a very large number of great-grandchildren, scattered in all the quarters of the globe.— Scotanon. A Wires DEATH. —The wife of all old clahell dealer, in Oldhantroad, Manchester, has met with her death under somewhat singular circumstances. Her hus band, who had been drinking, had a quarrel with a woman living in the mime house, on Sunday week, and be took up two earthenware images and attempted to strike her with them. Hie wife, a young and goodlooking woman, stepped between them, and received a blow on the head, which terminated fatally yesterday morning. The husband has disappeared. DESPERATE. POACHING AFFRAV.—Between 11 mid 12 o'clock on Monday night last, as poliosconstable 51arples was on his rounds at Kilburn., he met Christopher Bolling ton, keeper to Mr. W. 1). Lowe, of Locke Park, who in formed him that there was a gang of poachers in the neigh bourhood. They were met by Joseph Power, keeper to Mr. H. F. Hunter, Kilburne Hall, and went into a fieK ton taking one side. stud Marples and Power the other. Vol lington was the but to come up to the gang of three paichers, who immediately attacked him with large bludgeons, knocking him down by blows on the head, arms, and body. He cried out, and Marples and Power ran up and saw Bolliagtoa on the ground, foaming at the mouth, and quite insensible. One of the poachers. observing the approach of the officer, ran away ; but one attacked the keeper, and the other set on the policeman. The keeper (Power) koocked his man down. and Marplea haviog lost Lis stick, was beaten by the otber poacher, who, however, kept retiring. Marples defended himself with his staff as well uhe cored, but he received several severe blows lK fore be closed with the poacher. A desperate struggle ensued, in the course of which they were alternately up and down, till at length, both becoming exhausted. they lay for ten minute*, the constable's staff being held by the poacher, and his trousers torn by the poacher's dog. By this time &Unstop had recovered his senses, sod bearing Mambo crying for assistance, ran to him. The poacher then said he would "give in." and he and Maples rose from the ground. The officer had scarcely, however, got on his feet before he was knocked down by the poacher, who was immediately secured by Hollington. 15 the meantime Power, though nearly exhausted, still kept the other poacher on the ground. Both men were niti mately secured, sad taken to Mr. Ogden, the parish-con.tl ble at Denby, who put his horse into a cart, and took the prisoners and the others to the Smalley lock-up, leaving Marples at his owe house, as he was quite exhausted and unable to go any further. When the poachers were die• covered they were "at full work ;" the seizures included 200 yards of netting, a number of rabbits, and a dog. (!a Tuesday y he prisoners (whose Isamu are James Plano c alias , a shoemaker, from the Ripley district, sa d Thomas owsou, of Huge) were taken before Mr. J. Rad• ford, and were remanded till Saturday. Ow Tends) room leg, the deputy chief constable, Mr. Moran, visited Marplow at his station, and found that he had 'offered severely, his would' being chie fl y on his bands and arms. The officer s trousers and cep were torn by the dog. The poachers were also severely bastes in the desperate struggle.