The Express. — London, England, 1863-10-20 00:00:00

Pews FIRS! CLASS and LONDON PRIZE and . WATHICHSTON BZOGDZIC, GOLDSMITHS and JZITILLERS. llenntecicey, la Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. W.C., Leaden. N.B. Th,s estakllaluaent Is Used at 6ln the evening, and on latantar at 1 o'clock. ALFRED IVEBB MILES, Everybody booms Mr. MILES, REMOVED from BoteUstreet. to 73. BROOK STREET. Hanover- Square, lu I*slo. The KW TROUSERS u orlginsted by hint) in all the New reit, rns for Winter. 4. better than ever." SPECIAL mato!: TO GENTLEMEN. A . W. mums begs most respectfully to announce that his stock to the various departments of his establishment is now replete for Overcoats, Vesting*. Bedford Cords, end scarlet waterproof cloth for hunting. The wool-dyed Black and 11105 FrorJ: Coats. bus. A choice of 10 pleas of indestructible woaded West of England Cloths. EZIABLISIIED 184 L Only addreaß 'gtt, erpreoo. TO ODIRESTINDENTS. ,dverthementt Intended for " Tho Expreee" London Inch* rarer, must be at the ofnee, 10, Bouverleatreet, by Two sock on the day of publication. COVIINT-GLIDEC. Tins ENTITNO, Mews. W. U. e* IL Corm A. Cook, sod W. Harlem . Misses Louisa and Dann Pyne. Conductor Mr. A. Melion.—Commence at a. If Alr WARKZT. Tuts evanta, run WOLF AND iHg LAIIII.—FINESSE! or, BPY D COUN"ITA-SPY. Mews. A. Wigan and Buck stalls: Mrs. Dower's. Um A. Wigan, sad Keg Angel—And CtIALLES XIL Morro Wigno sad Buckstone. LYeg7ll, OS SATURDAY, OCT. 31. BIL DISONIO, a toss Story. Maws. Fecuter, Brougham, hmer7, Ner Or, and Ogden Misses Terry, Livonia, au,t ii/swarthy, aa,l stra. Lea. astrrAinru. TIM EM MBO, THE DAYS OF LOUIS XV. Mrs. 8. Lane. —THE GEFAT (408 T EPTECT. Many Rey nulls and faits; Mesdames Cranford and Yarnold. —Mug*/ by ass Collins, Mr. Randall, Ida Maas. Motos.—And LILY OVONMIML. HIOA WATTR ♦T WIDOW MOOR TRES DAT —M.:voter. 7k. to AWfasess, Th. Wan. I\satorrOir —Moran& 811 IBtr Atterwrig Bh. &A. LONDO.V, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20. THE "Annual Report on the Health of the " Parish of St. Mazylebone for the year 1862," recently issued by Dr. Tuomesott, the unitary officer of the district, contains a number of facts and conclusions that are of general as well u of local interest. This indeed might naturally be expected from the very nature of the subject, the conditions affecting the health of any locality, if carefully observed and recorded, being of course a useful contribution to the further progress of sani tary science. And while public attention has for years past been largely concentrated on the condi tions of public health, it is nevertheless quite true that sanitary science, both in its principles and applications, is BB yet comparatively in its in fancy. The essential requisites of its farther progress are a larger and increasing body of care fully observed facts, combined with a more searching, patient, and experimental investigation of the special causes of local health or sickness they suggest; and in these directions every town in the kingdom may do something towards securing a better knowledge of the true condi tions on which the health of the country de pends. The metropolitan districts, however, afford in many respects the most valuable and convenient fields for observation and inquiry, not only from the vastness of the vital area, but because the crording togeiber of such masses of population renders searching sanitary inquiry and supervision peculiarly imperative. Much has of late years been done towards cultivating this ample field. We have periodically valuable reports as to the health of the City and the metropolis generally. But these Reports do not in tare least supersede the necessity of more minute local in quiries, and the detailed statement of their results. The fuller these inquiries are, the more useful will the Reports become ; and as sanitary knowledge and vigilance extend, the facts accumulated in them will naturally increase in number and value every year. Old errors respecting the conditions of public health are continually corrected, and more effectual plans for securing it introduced. The Marylebone Report gives various interesting illustrations of this progress. The jurisdiction of the Medical Officer of Health has recently been directed by law to the supervision of slaughter-houses, cow. yards, and bakehouses ; while more recently still attention has been peculiarly directed to the health of the classes employed in preparing the clothing of the people. These requirements, the Report adds, are " due in a measure to the increasing density of " population, and to the competition which accom " panies our mercantile interests." Besides the recent legislative enactments already noticed, two others—the Food Analysis and Gas Acts--have come under the charge of the local sanitary de partment ; and es the purity of the food, the drink, and the air consumed in a densely populated district is an essential condition of health, the Beal inquiries under these heads will of necessity, if properly carried out, yield very ample results. Dr. TuomrsoN complains that in many districts they have not as yet been carried into full effect. With regard to the health of Maijlebone during the past year, the Report states that while the general mortality of the parish is scarcely above the average, the nmmber of deaths from fever had considerably increased. During the last seven years the deaths from this cause have been 113, 78, 27, 69, 42, 34, and 99, the mortality during 1862 being thus nearly three times as great as in the preceding year. The returns , of sickness from eleven charitable institutions in the pariah show also that fever was more prevalent than usual during last year, 542 oases having applied for relief, against an average of 320 cases for the three preceding years. The striking fact about this increase is that of its be;ng wholly confined to " the form of fever produced by over " crowding (typhus), while the type of fever " originating, es is believed, from sewage (typhoid " fever) did not make its appearance, and, indeed, " for some years has been of rare occurrence." This fact points to one of the most aeriona dangers connected with the growth of large towns, and the rapid increase of urban populations—the diffi culty of obtaining suitable dwellings for the work. ing and poorer classesof these arowdedoosnatunities. On this head Dr. Twomrsow says :—" Oar new " buildings are diminishing, and our population is " increasing. It must therefore become denser, " and as this overcrowding proceeds • limit must " be reached at which fever is the powerful check; " but it is an awful one, since the poison thus " produced in the human system by vitiated air and " exrretions is capable of extending its baneful " infinence to others, and in a most fatal manner. " The poor, unable to help themselves, thus become " unwilling destroyers of their own lives, and of " those in better circumstances." It is no doubt perfectly true, that the necessity of something being dono to meet this serious evil is every day blooming more urgent ; but whether, as Dr. THOMPAON suggests, legislation MU best supply the needed remedy, is another question. There can be little doubt, as he mays, that there is " • growing " disinclination among owners of property to " accommodate working people with families, from " the liability to injury to which their property is " thus subjected." But there have recently been some marked exceptions to this tale in the metro polis, owners of property having erected large blocks of improved dwellings for the working duns ; while in other large towns—such as Bir mingham, for instance—the principle of 00-opera tion has been successfully called in to supply this urgent want of our growing urban life. The Report notices another form of disease which is gradually acquiring • more conspicuous position in the mortality tables of the district—the disease inherited by infants from their parents, the sins of the fathers being in these cases visited upon the children. The number of known and recorded deaths from this cause last year are eighteen ; but the Registrar intimates that num bers more returned under the heads of atrophy and debility are due to the same cause, while how many in addition pass at once to the gravedigger under the designation of still-born it is impossible to say. In this connexion Dr. THOMPSON strongly urges that still-born offspring should be registered in this country as they are on the Continent. If such a measure would help in any way to impress on the thoughtless and improvident • higher sense of the value of infant life, and the responsibi"ty of duly caring for it, there can be no doubt it would be of essential service. It appears from the Report that infant mortality throughout the whole district is excessive. In one district, that of Christ Church, considerably more than half the total number of deaths are of chil dren under five years of age. Dr. Tnomrsox at tribute* this excessive mortality in pert at least to tho "low estimate generally of the value of life, " particularly in the case of children," exhibited by the lower classes of town populations, and the culpable neglect of their offspring wb'ch this feeling induces. The prevalence and growth of infanticide may probably be, in part, traced to the same cause. Whatever contributes in any way to prevent the spread of so unnatural and de praved a feeling must be considered as a true social gain, and any official provision that empha sises more strongly the value of infant life would do something in this direction. With regard to the general health of the pariah, it is noticeable that the moat urban districts are not by any means the least healthy, the death-rate being lower in the Cavendish-square district than in any other. Next to the Cavendish-square dis trict comes that of St. John ; while one of the least healthy is the district of Christ Chord., which is furthermost removed from the great centres of city life. The sanitary difference in these cases is due, however, not so much to situation as to density of population. The Cavendish-square district, though embedded in metropolitan life, is sparsely populated compared with the more dis tant district of Christ Church. The conditions of city life are not, therefore, in themsel►es un favourable to health, but overcrowding is unhealthy, whether in town or country. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1863. ar Court. BALMORAL. Ocr. 17. The Queen, accompanied by PriDoollll Helena, went out yesterday morning. In the afternoon the Queen, accompanied by the Crown Rhine and Pf.uccsn of Prima, and Prince Arthur, attended by Lady Churchill, went up nberarder sad Maned by Invercauld. Princess Louisa and Prince Arthur, attended by lady A. Brace and Major Elphinstone, dined at Abarguldie with the Crown Prince and Princess of Proada. Despatches were seat yesterday hem the Colonial-aloe to the Govereors el Gibraltar, Malta, Kaaritins, Coyle's, Hoeg Koog, Won, aad the Mists'Bea colonies. Ws Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock, on Wednesday, the 28th instant. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and Prince William of Have attended Divine Berries In the High Church, Edinburgh, on Sunday afternoon. The services were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Arsot, and a number of the mug strata and monition of council were present. His Royal Highness Princerrederiekof Denmark urived in Oxford from Sandringham, yesterday afternoon, and, accompanied by Captain Lund and the Rev. H. W. Fisher, proceeded in the private carriage of the Dean of Christ Church to Yr. Pike's residence, No. 2, St. Al. datesetrest, which had been previously sowed sad fitted lip for his royal highness. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge IA Gloneenter Hones yesterday morning, on a visit to the Prime and Princes. of Wales at Suadringhara. MI royal ltiskere will nears to town on Friday neat Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Prioress Mary at.ired at the Cottage, Key, yestertlay, from Germany. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff out family will return to Preemie House to-day from Brighton, where they have been stay* for some weeks past. The Baroness Brunuow will return to Obedient House today from Brighton, where Ms exoalleney the Russian Ambassador and the baroness have bees staying for sane weeks past. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, M.P., arrived in ton yesterday from Dublin, to meet L fy rately Pest, who arrived in London the latter sod et the week from the Ooetiaent. The t `ht hon. bonnet sad her ladyship will ken town to-day foe Dublin. Mr. Layard has been spending several weeks in Naples to obtaia s thorough kuowledge of the present coo &lea of the soothers provinces, the muss of brigandage, and the caner of It. protracted eadanace. The nomination for West Worcestershire will take place as Needy, the 26th init. We read In the City article of the Tietea :—" The committee of the Meek-Exchange ere enpged in lona. gating some circumstances in cosnexion with mount spent. Igloos in the foreign market. It is said that bensections to se enormous moat, np to the date of the lest tattling day, ROTS carried on by three brokers is the Stock Ex change for a boy of 19, a clerk in • mercantile house, although there is a strict and well-known law of that catablahmeot that so such business shall be truseacted for clerks unless with the knowledge and menet of their employers. The partners of the house is which the young man was earned ere understood to have laid the case before the committee, and to have demanded the ax polsMn of the offending brokers, one of whom, it is 'Armed, is himeelf a member of the oreamittee.' The address suggested by the Marquis of Clan 'lairds, coodemaiag the 000doet of Lord Leitrim, has base adopted sod forwarded to the Earl of Maisie, by a large amber of peers, magistrates, sad Isadoesin of the county Galway. _ _ Mr. Charles Mathews took his farewell benefit ea Saturday sight at the Viurietes. One of the rams was Us An,laia Timide. At the close of the Amirlois Timide several of the old favourites of the Partake public made their entry cm the stage, sad were most a:Really received. Nothing could weed the eathitsisien at the eight el Booth:, who appeared i• the costume of ea* of his old parts. Boa& himself seemed much affected by his reception. Mr. Mathews must be greatly delighted with his Imams before a paricioo tn.:lleum sad the aneouseement that be meant to return next year was received with a burst of applause. The house was crowded to the very top, though the p r i ses were doubled. Society in Rome bas just suffered a severe blow by the arrest by the Papal police of one of the jammer der& of the altra-Popolisa oilcloth II Note Offredusx4 with a portfolio full of introductiour, had bees received into the hest rakes. lie was charming—hie masons fmmiaatiog—his style attractive. Such was the verdict of • society which is exclusive to a degree atheirwa be olvithed oitir. Ream moiety, however, was disturbed. The Princess X. missed ea creament ; the Dogma' Y. could met tad her great grandmother's souffbox. L. lost • locket; Y. mimed • manuscript ; N. grow nervous shoat her as,. veins ; 0. could not led an opal ; mid thee the hothead— N. or M., so the as.. may he—ealled is P., the polies, sad they bread oat that It Coate Of/reds:A was a tret-mte swindler, and he is sow is prima. better treated the. the Bernath who seat aa Wilms to their king. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. WAR WITH JAPAN. GOVERNMENT DESPATCH. A JAPANESE TOWN DESTROYED BY THE BRITISH FLEET. We have this morning received the following from the Foreign-office : "The following telegram, dated Cairo, Oct. 19, 3.40 p.m., has been received from her Majesty's Agent and Consul-Genersl in Egypt: "'JAPAN NEWS BY MOOLTAN. " ' SATURDAY, AUGUST 15. " hope of negotiations being at an end, fleet took up position opposite Bagosima, prepared for action ; two shore batteries opened fire on fleet, which returned it. By dusk toe.' in flam:s in se veral places. Three fone silenced. Our loss 11 killed, 39 wounded. Captains Gosling,"Euryalus," and Wilmot% killed by some shot. " '9 p.m.—Whole tow.' in flames. "'SUNDAY, Atrouer IE, 9 P.M. "'Fleet stood out engaging the whole of the batteries. City one mass of ru;ns--palace, facto ries, arsenal, dc. Three steamers of Satsuma de stroyed completely. Shire batteries reput I we" served.•" ITALIAN BRIGANDAGE. A Turin letter in the Temps contains the follow ing intelligence, which is important, if true : The insertion in the Moniker of the article on brigandage in the Neapolitan provinces has led to explanations be tween the French and Italian governmenta, from which good effects are expected here. The French government (we mat do it that much justice) came to understand at last that the presence of Francis 11. at Rome wee one of the obstacles to the peAcation of the country ; and it did, some time ago, all upon the Pope's cabinet to send the ex iling away. The demand was not complied with, because the court of Rome, which is immobility personified, never yields except to fear or force. But after the pub lication in the French officio jon'nai, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs felt himself in • position to make stronger observations than he had thereto fore done, and to represent that there was some in justice in reproacb'n the country with its inability to maintain order, when all the time the man most interested in fomenting troubles was protected by the French flag in the very position of all others where he could be most mis chievons. This line of argument told, and we are now well assured th►t the French government is insisting very seriously upon the expulsion of Francis 11. ; and, seeing that France is in reality mistress of Rome, it is thought that either by threats or entreaty she will now get rid of him. With the ex-Ring would disappes• the brad rem citing office for the brigand bands; and there can be no doubt that when de prived of the aids in men and money which Francis U. is continually furnishing, brigandage must diminish. PRUSSIA. The refusal to pay taxes is becoming more common in Prussia. M. de Bermuth, a wealthy in'ne owner in Westphalia, has lately allowed his goods to be seized by the tax-gatherer, and they are to be sold by auction. It is also said that 3f. We'd khansen, member of the Chamber of Deputies, and several other leaders of the liberal parry, have likewise refused to pay their taxes. (IPICITIVN lILLEOLLXII.) FRANCE. PARIS, oc7. 20. M. Delangle has been appo;ltc I Snit vice-presi dent of the Senate. MM. Ronland, Forcade, and Chair d'Estange have taken the oaths of fidelity to the Emperor. His Majesty has thanked them for having consented to resign the functions of senator, in order to a.- cept more active political positions. The Emperor will hold a grand review of the Imperial Guard in the Bois do Boulogne on Wed nesday. MARSEILLES, Ocr. 20. The Bishop of Nimes has published a mandate, ordering prayers to be offered in favour of Poland for three consecutive Sundays. CADIZ, Ocre.l9. The French mail steamer running between Vera Cruz and fit. Nazaire was four days late on her passage to Cuba. The state of affairs in Mezico continued favourable to the French. DENMARK. COPENBAGF-V, Ocr. 19. _ . _ Prince Oscar of Sweden bas returned to Malmo, having been present at the festivities at Gliicks burg, on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the birth of the King of Denmark. His highness was accompanied by Count Hamilton. The King, who arrived here on the 16th to pre side over a council of m;nistera, has returned to Ghteksburg. THZ INDIA, CHINA AND AUSTRALIAN _BOIITHAMPTON, Oct. 20. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 90 passengers and 2,000 packages of cargo, including raw silk, to the value of 170,0001. sterling. The Spanish journals state that the government had decided on sending 6,000 to 8,000 troops and 1,500,003 dole. to Havannah, to provide against future contingencies in San Domingo. At Gibraltar exchanges and freights were un altered. " WARNINGB " ♦r A DISCOITWT. —The law on the press of the Grand Duehy of Baden contained the system of warnings. Although it has ceased for some time to be applied, the Minister of she Interior has addressed a circular to the authorities Interested, enjoining on them not to give say warnings, as a new law on the press would be pre vented at the next session. A new comet was discovered on the 14th at llarseilles by M. Tempel. He describes it as telescopic, rt e position being right ascension 9 deg. 52 min. 44 sec., and declination 34 deg. 7 min. In the course of an hour it in mend a little both in right ascension and declination, so that it seems to be moving in a north-westerly direction. About the same time a comet was perceived at Amiens, but does eat seem to be the same, since it is described as baring • tail of an apparent length of two metres, while 11. Tempers talescople, with a mere rudiment of a tail. A Constantinople letter of the 9th nays :—" The Salts& in an a shooting expedition. This seems to be his favourite pastime after the fatigues of goveenment. Sir Henry Balmer is cruising in the Archipelago, inquiring into the circumstances of the late conflict at Scio. The French ambassador is entertaining a party of pees Nimrod/ at a grande chaise in the Black Sis—so that, you see, all the great of the earth hers momentarily dasseted the capital." The famous military academy at West Point, in the Ilona States, was setabliehed in 1802. The nurehue of the land and the education of the Psaltery cadets bare oast the macs about seven malice dollen. In 1779 it was the stroegast (swilled place in Ameba. In 1782, when the United SWAG had obtained its Independent* through the amistance of Preset, Week Pohl was the some of great animal fativithes In besmear dam birth of the Dauphin of Frames, and Washiegton danced in public cm the occasion. West Paint to alto intimately associated wit► the death of the &IVA Major Andre and the treason of the American Gees& Arnold. It is announoed that the second daughter of Count de Ileatddembert is about to take the coil in the Convent of the Sacred Heart, at the end of the present month. The Bishop of Orleans will °Moist* on the asnake. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY OUR OWN CORRZOPONDINT.) PARIS, MoRDAY Evzsina. The one real feature of the new ministerial ap pointments is that, contrary to rumours which had met with some credit, the institution of Minister of State as principal talking minister" is pre served. That institution, which, it will be re membered, has never yet been tried, was considered as a concession to the principle of ministerial re sponsibility—not indeed in name, but in reality. It was said—and with much show of reason— that when the Emperor sent his prime minister to defend government measures in the Corps Legis latif he constituted a closer relation between him self and the representatives of the people, than when those more advocates—" ministers without portfolio "—said what was set down for them. It is something that the Em peror does not make the death of M. Bil lanlt an excuse for withdrawing a concession once made. M. Rouher succeeds to the Ministry of State with precisely the same attributions as M. Billault had. The new prime minister has not, as I have lately had occasion to observe, the reputa tion of an accomplished debater. He has, I be lieve, generally read his moat important speeches. Nevertheless, it is now whispered that in the secret debates of the Council of State he has given evi dence of oratorical talent for which he had never before received credit. That the Minister of Commerce and friend of Mr. Cobden, who carried through the commercial treaty, is • thoroughly re spectable man and a most able administrator, nobody contests. Since the Emperor thinks him the best man to cope with the formidable opposition which will appear in the Chamber on November 5 no objection can be made on the part of the public. Many would no doubt think it better, as I should for one, if every minister were to have access to the hone to defend his own arta ; but the Afoniteur shows that the Emperor is not yet prepared for any such organic change. His Majesty, however, feels the necessity of giving M. Rouher coadjutors, and accordingly the num ber of vice-presidents of the Council of State is augmented from one to three, and there is an honorary vice-president (M. Vuitry) ; besides, all these vice-presidents will be, in point of fact, ministers without portfolio, under another name. But inasmuch as they have not a seat in the ministerial council they will not have the same weight as M. Rouher. M. Chair d'Est Ange, one of the new vice-presidents, is an eloquent man ; but it remains to be seen whether his eloquence, which was rather of an Old Bailey character, will succeed in the house. I mentioned some time ago the ex-officio prose cution, for a libel on the prefect, of M. Lavertujon, the editor of the Gironde. The government has got a conviction, but at the same time a disappoint ment. The despicable object was to disqualify the defendant from standing again for Bordeaux, in the probable case of M. Curd being unseated on a scrutiny. This object would have been achieved if a sentence to a month's imprisonment could have been obtained ; but the Bordeaux tribunal, not choosing to do the dirty work turned down for them, only awarded fifteen days, and so M. Lavertujon remains in possession of his civil and political rights. It was incorrectly stated some few days since that all the Mexican officers now prisoners of war in France were shortly to be sent home, and some people hastily drew the inference that the French army was about to be recalled. But as all known symptoms render the latter news highly impro bable, the assertion about the Mexican officers was all the more puzzling for being frequently repeated. It now appears that the only foundation for the paragraph in question is that a French field officer has been sent round to the towns where the Mexi can prisoners are interne on parole to canvass them to pronounce for the Archduke Maximilian, pro mising at the same time that those who would vote for him should be furnished with a passport to go home as perfectly free men. I do not know what may have been the success of this step on the whole, but the Jounwl de Loire-et-Cher affirms that at Blois out of a hundred officers stationed there, only twelve listened to the voice of the charmer. Mdme. Bassinet, wife of the commander-in-chief of the French army in Mexico, has just died at Croissy-sor-Seine. The members of the Mexican deputation are now assembled in Paris, and wait for the honour of an interview with the Emperor. The death of M. Bil fault having prevented his Majesty from receiving them, such of the deputation u were to have em barked on the 15th by the packet leaving St. Nazaire, have postponed their departure to Nov. 1, when they will proceed to Mexico by the English steamer. In the meantime they have confined themselves to sending by the French packet an official report of their visit to Miramar. WZATHICR IMPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TUISDAL OCTOBiIt tO. 8 /.71. .11. 1.• I D. W. S. Z. Q. I. IL S. -•--- — Nan - ..... - 33.66 43; 3 W. 24 b 0.10 AWN= ..... 20.1.8 17, 3 S.W. 10 b - Leith 10.0.48 , 3 W. 10 64 - WWI& 30.01 441 2 N.W. 26 bUS Scarborough 19.99151 I N.N.W. 16 r 0.77 Greencastle..- 0116711. W.S.W. Si • 0.07 Galway 30.0 84 8, 2 W.S.W. 24 b 0.16 Valenti/ trAta• 28.6. 60 1 S.W. 10 e 0.14 mm e r 30.0551 1 W.N.W. 16 0 0.10 Holyhead WAG 66' 1 W. 10 e 0.701 Pembroke Permanco . 10.09 61 1 Z. 24 o - I beat - • L'Orleat 1111 67 3 W. 16 o - Rochefort - Plamouttt 130.16 67. 1 W.B.W. 16 r - Weymouth 'lo.oB IW 1 W. 12 0 0.03: Portarnotth .410.00 66 11 LW. 8 10 0 0.08 Loudon 30.0467, 2 W.B. W. 710 o 1 - Dovor 1 3109 00 1 W. - 10 0 - 1 Yarmouth ... -10.01 67 2 S.W. 6 69 • - $ 11•118614•61 130.02 67. 0 $1.11.W. 8 20 • -1 I ?mums IWIDWESDAT. OX THE TUtIRDAT. N.M. to N.N. mode- Noitiat-kair. Northerly , moderate, . ratelsome showers. tine. W. to N. and N. N.E., Wu? coAns. N.& to N.V. and S.W., moderate, One or moderate, tine or showery. showery. As nest above. BooYnCoAtrig. As neat above. N. W. to N.& and back, liourndtany. N.N. W. to E.N.8., mo moderate to Light, dente, One. ire - Alt-rost=Calthnees to Lineotn. West= Donegal to Corn well South =Channel and Biscay Coasts. South-litetBtrott at Dover to Lino°amides and Heligoland. The Weymouth and Isle of Pjrtland Railway is rapidly progrealsg. Two Mika of the metals hays been laid, sod the bridge serer the ma is nearly completed. We have to announce the decease of one of the reams of the literary world, is the perms of Yr. John Powyer Nichols, are of the three registrars of the Larry Feud Society. He was the ooly nos of Kr. John Nichols, the historian of Leicestershire, and author of the "Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century," with whom he was formerly associated IQ conducting, during many years. that prototype of our monthly periodical literature, the Gentle -1.1416 Magazine. Mr. Nichols had bees for mere than 60 years one of the peiniers of the votes sad proosediage of the Hove of Commons. Ile was Dearly the eldest member of the Stationers' Company. of which he served r master la 1850. He died ea the morning of Monday, the 196 is the 85th year of his re. Puitsuo OGLE TELEORAM—Yesterday her Ma jesty's ship Tweed, laden with the last oorignmest of the telegraphic cable about to be laid down over a length of 1,200 runes, from the mouth et the Perim Ostf dry the sea car 6) Ifekro, left the worts of Messrs. Hooky and Co. the ertraotore and manufacturers, at North Wool- AMERICA. (aturca's =ram) (Per the Anglia.) KEW YORK, Om. 5. Latest unofficial despatches received at Washington from the army of Rosecrans disclose no new fea tures in the situation at Chattanooga. Both armies were busy fortifying, the pickets being within a stone's throw of each other. Two hundred ambulance waggons, sent within rebel lines under a flag of trnoe, had returned, bringing in 500 Federal wounded. While in the hands of the rebels they state that they were kindly treated. A despatch to the Richmond Examiner, dated Atlanta, Sept. 30, states that affairs at Chatta nooga remain unchanged. General Rosecrans' sup• plies are said to be brought to him by waggon trains from Stevenson, and his forces remained within the works around Chattanooga, the Confederate lines extending to the river above and below them. The Federal defences are thought to be too strong to watrant a direct assault upon them. Various ru mours are afloat of heavy reinforcements having gone forward to Rosecrans, both from the army of General Meade and from the west ; but nothing definite is known to the public concerning such movements. A despatch to the Chicago Journal states that over 25,000 troops had passed through Indianapolis up to Sept. 29, on their way to Chat tanooga. The Richmond Examiner has a despatch from Charleston, dated October 2, saying that heavy firing had been going on during the previous night. Federal movements on Morris Island are thought to indicate permanent rather than immediate operations. Two monitors were doing picket duty near Morris Island. The New York Herald publishes Southern intel ligence, received from private sources, which it believes to be quite reliable, giving the following as the disposition and strength of the Confederate forces :—" Bragg's army is supposed to comprise 100,0C3 men. General Joe Johnston had 30,000 disciplined troops as a reserve at Kingston, fifteen miles from the battlefield of Chickamauga, also five thousand cavalry under Pillow, and fifteen thousand Georgia militia. These troops did not fire a shot during the late battle, and were only to be brought up in case Burnaide reinforced Rosman' during the fight. Lee's army is estimated at ninety thousand men, the old regiments having been filled up to the maximum by the conscription, fif teen thousand cavalry, and 320 pieces of at ;Mary. Lee has also a reserve at Richmond of twelve thousand men under General Elzy. There are eight thousand infantry near Abingdon, Vs., holding the line of the Virginian and Tennessee Railroad, under General Jones, also 1,600 cavalry under Imboden ; 6,000 infantry, cavalry, and artilleif at Charlottesville, under General Garland ; 7,000 troops guarding the rail road between Petersburg and Weldon ; 4,000 at Savannah ; 6,000 at Mobile ; 18,000 at Charles ton; 2,600 at Pollard, Alabama, guarding the ap proach from Pensacola ; and 2,600 in Mississippi, under Harding and Loring. In the Trans-Mis sissippi Department there are about 66,000 men, comprising the commands of Generals Price, Kirby Smith, Dick Taylor, Magruder, Cobell, Holmes, and Mouton." Commander Bell, of the West Golf squadron, announces that a vary malignant type of fever had broken out among the United States vessels at New Orleans; some cases were decided yellow fever, and others resembled the Congou fever of the African coast. The disease was not making very rapid progress, and it was hoped that the approach ing cool weather would entirely abate it. _ . . . . . The steamer Leviathan was captured by a board ing party of rebels from Mobile, off South West Pass but was subsequently recaptured by the United States gunboat De Sota. The steamboat Robert Campbell, from St. Louis for Vicksburg, was set on fire by an incendiary, and entirely destroyed. Twenty lives are sup posed to have been lost. The steamers Chancellor, Forest Queen, and Calatroula were burnt at the levee at St. Louis, also by incendiaries. These fires were supposed to be the result of a deeply-laid plot to destroy all steamers in the western waters that could be of service to the government. Several persons were recently arrested and placed in irons in St. Louis, charged with being connected with this conspiracy. The matter is undergoing a rigid investigation. A fight was reported to be progressing on Oct. 3, at M`Minniville, Tennessee, about 70 miles south east of Nashville. The result was unknown, tele graphic communication having been interrupted. Rebel cavalry are reported to be creasing the Ten nessee river at Washington. Advices from Little Rock, up to the 25th tot., represent that over 2,000 Arkansas Unionists bad joined the Federal army at different points. The Missouri radicals, fearing they may fail to carry out their measures with Mr. Lincoln, are about to establish a paper in Washington, advo cating Mr. Chase for the Presidency. The Russian Admiral has accepted an invitation to visit Boston, with his fleet. The time is not yet decided on. ruzgro OF Ms. G. W. Horn, M.P. FOR WIND SOIL —For some time past the health of Ilr. G. W. Hope, who is oes of the conservative members representing the borough of New Windsor in the Home of Oommons, has been in a very delicate oonditioe, Indeed, so much la that at one time it was feared he would have to relinquish his par- liamentary duties. A short tires sires he retired to Scotland for the benefit of his native air. So alarming has the Mare of his health become that we understood his sons have been summoned from Eton by a telemephic massage, and we re gret to say a rumour of the decease of the much respected member for Windsor was current in the town yesterday, though no intelligence had been received by the mayor or public officers confirming the report. RESIGNATION OF A CHURCH OF ENGLAND MINIS TZL—The Rev. Peter Jones, incumbent of Hindley. near Wigan, has resigned his living, end on Sunday he in formed his congregation from the pulpit of kin remises for taking this step. He said be could no longer declare his unfeigned assent and cement to all and everything contained in and prescribed by the cburcles Book of Common Prayer, as he had done on the admission into his benefice. It might be said to him, no doubt, that be ought well to have considered this before he esteemed the ministry ; and to this be could only reply that the judg ments of young men when they entered the ministry were scarcely matured, and they were prose to mace thaw becoming modesty—to rely more on the judgments of others than ou their own. Their scruples were hushed by the thought that so many good and harped men holding their opinions had made those eubseriptioss, mid rather than subject themselves to the Imputation of or over oo nscientiousnees young men were indt= ru t i o art eig what in after years caused them immerses The particular parte of the Book of Common Prayer which offended the aoomeienoes of some, and which seemed to require revisior, were the Athanasim Creed, the Baptismal Service, the Vim tation Service, the Burial Service, sod the Ordinatioe Ser vice. The reverend gentleman then refereed to the labours of the promoter of the movement of the revises of the liturgy, and showed what alterations or mansions it was proposed to make ii the services he bad jest mentioned. The Baptismal Service, be said, bed ceased Nm the greatest difficulty, and in this such a asodillostiesi wee sought es would relieve the minister from the seesseity of seeding respecting every beptieed child tams it was is sad by bap tism regenerated by the Holy Spirit. He niestrosed that ' the Archbishop ad Canterbury and the late asil= bishops of London were advocates for souse ef these and he intimated his intention, though retiring bola minis tonal duties, of remaining a member d the aurae of Rag land, sad doing all in his power for the minim of the Prayer Book. The rev. panellise is highly respected by his parishioners, with whom be has laboured for ten or eleven years, and this (Tuesday) messing a well-filled puree is to be presented to kin. THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. (THIS DAY.) The forty-fourth quarterly meeting took place this day, at the offices, 33, Norfdk•etreet, Strand. Mr. Clatrammrr, the secretary, having reed the advertise. meet convening the meeting, Viscount Itaisztti.ii, the chairman, reed the following report of the exesutive cow. mittee . . . _ "The executive emninittee have the s►tidaetion of sub. matting, In Chic, their forty-fourth repot: to the members. the annexed gratifying rottirm for the part quarter, end the aggregate items for the financial year ending the .iptl i o f September, 1883: Meares Shares 1 Quarters ending I In com- Total leceipts progress. pleted. Shares. - - - -•-.--.-...-.. A , ad. Dee. 24,1802 136 67 303 16,46815 2 March9e, 1381 lOB 24 232 16,613 13 11 June 24, 11432 !Sept. so, we l7B 67 245 23,496 V 4 --- Totals for the year 110 - 180 Totals to Sept. 10, 1881 14,760 3,916 18,686 2439213 2 °and i ..i, W.11' 14432 i 0 Kith"- 7 - 5,537 1 - 4 ---- ,174 - 1 - 9,311 7-0-1,1461:7 The Menus in the receipts of the year 1862-3 over theca. respondiagyyeaasrr of 1861.2 is 11,9301. 31. The total eatsof lead to MICIELI, 1863, is 339,370 1 . Si. sd. ; being an in. mass over the returns to Michaelmas, 1862, of 15,6811. 15s. 7d. The total withdrawals since the formation of the society (Sept. 1852), to Michaelmas, 1863, are 205,8.434 ss. The returns of the register of the order of rights are at follow :—Completed, 5,061 ; drawn, 3,191 ; seniority, 1,681 ; toted, 9,933 ; deduct rights exercised on estates, duns, 7,501; unexercieed rights, 2,432. The last share number on the register by seniority is No. 13,853 and the kat share issued up to the 30th of September, 1463 , wee No. 19,711. The balanceuheet for 1862.3 and the annual report of the committee will be submitted at the usual yearly meeting next December. The cendidetes for the two auditors to be elected by the shareholders this day. under Rule 30, ere the Rev. William George Goodchild, Mr. Junes Goad, and Yr. Harding. The committee have the Omani to state that they have reelected William Ast• bury, Rsq., sad Newnham Winstanley, Esq., es their two auditors, and when the members hay Dominated their two auditors, the society's accounts for the put year will be audited in doe comae. The Henikkk Road estate, West Worcestershire, was allotted at Worcester, on the 27th of August, after a public meeting, at which Sir E. Lobsters, Bart., presided, and at which Viscount Ranelagh, the Hon. and Rev. W. Till hot, and the How. Robert Boy -ke, attended as a deputation from the board, to explain the general workiag of the society, and the mode of went of estates. The meeting was highly satisfac tory, and the sale of land has been equally ; and as the Renwick Road estate is within an easy walk of Worcester sad of a first-clue station, hay gravelly soil, Mends high, with fine views of the Malvern Hills, the property bbiiddas fair to be speedily built upon. The Ipswich estate was offered for isle on the Bth of July, after a public meeting at which Viscount Ranalagh was the chairman, supported by J. C. Cobbold, EeR., M.P., the Hon. ad Rev. W. Talbot, and Captain Jervia, mem. berm of the board. After some plots had been selected, wish was expressed by inhabitants of the town that the formation of a crescent, leaving an open space in front for ornamental gardens, shonld be abandooei, smiths whole of the land thrown into allotment. A new plan hes bees issued to meet the local views. The estate ad. keine the liamiford Hall villas, and is close to the @tattoo, and is essentially building land. Os ing to the over live of railway which will soon pass through the Kentish-town estate, it has been requisite to issue a new plan of allotment for this increasing neighbour. hood. The station Sal be within a few_ estate, yards of the pro =, The second portion of the Woodhouse teed, which will be offered for sale has been included in a new plan, affording facilities for the erection of either small or large houses, which are much required in this healthy district. The executive committee will allot the Avenue estate, Bevois Mount, Southampton, after a public meeting iu that toe a, on Wednesday, October 21. The laud has been divided into 44 building plots, ranging in pi iee from 444 per plot up to 4184 The eleventh anniversary was completed on the 7th of September but ; and the executive committee moot enter on the twelfth year of the Comm native Land S iety without a word of congratuittion to the shareholders on its prosperous progress, with a renewal of the assurance on the part of the board that no eaertioos shall be saved to seer-a its continuous proepetity." DESTRUCTION OP PROPERTY BY FIRE. (MIS DAY.) About three o'clock a.m. a fire broke out it] the premines of Means. Everlceland Knight, nomad victuallers and proprietors of the Imrimongen' Arms Tavern and Coo. cert-rcom, No. 9, Bohon's-teirace, Millwall. The thrall commenced in the mooed room, and rapidly extended to the spirit rooms adjoining. Mr. Roberta arrived with kir " Royal Trite Blue engines, and times of the brigade from the City end east-sod stations attended. The tire could not be extingaished until the back concert room, at least thirty or forty feet long, and nearly am broad, wee burned out, as welt as the spirit rooms. The melee both buildings are also burnt off, and the back windows of dwelling and stairs, and the rest of the house is also severely dammed. The loss, which is heavy, will fall upon the Imperial lire. Mies. A very destructive fire took pleas shortly before 1 o'clock, is the premises of Mr. J. Fondike, a tobacco manufacturer. No. 71, High -sweet, Shoreditab. The damage done will amount to some thousand pounds sterling, for the whole of the back workshop may be said to be destroyed, the roof wee bemired off, the stores at the back of the work• shops were also burned out, and the upper part of the building is severely damaged. The loss will fall upon the Phceaix, Royal Exchange, the Royal. and the Men:setae fire-offices. The premises of Mr. H. Beale, liceased vin teener, and proprietor of the Bull and Pump tavern, No. 72, are also damaged by smoke, water, icc. An explosion also took piece in the premises of Mesas. Vanderplank and Peerless, cloth worker', carrying es baaiems at No. 19, Lower Whitecrom-street, Cripolegata The disaster was caused by an escape of some chemical Pris. paraders which blew up the ceiling and flooring in the ground floor warehouse. The inmates fortunately mewled in prevesting the fire from extending. THE COLLIERY DISASTER. - PORT TALBOT, MONDAY. " Shifts " of men have been incessantly at work ninon Saturday morning, and up to 10 o'clock this morning have been either brought up dead, or have died sines they have been brought up and there are 10 or 12 yet who hare not been found. Mr. Thomas Evans, the government inspector of mines for the district, arrived on Saturday afternoon, and he immediately descended to the workings, and rendered every maistanos in his power. Yr. H. Hor sey Vivian, 1.P., and Mr. Pandervis Vivian, two of the proprietors, have also visited the wens of the catastrophe. It has sranspirod that several of the men were is the habit of carrying pipes down with them to the pit. em. Q .i trY.r... g A m 'a u T . fig A ir f. itg e viai E wa DlN the rtrit i4. oll ... .-70 . Th rl ea t o t . ti v rilaz burgh, accompanied by Prince William of Herne, Major Cowell, sod Captain Von Zeigler. As his royal highness's visit had been previonaly announced, them me of course a large sad fashiooable " boom prince-huntiog being just now as popular an amusement as play-going. The royal party ocrtP pied a neatly decorated private box, which has been ape. mall, fitted up for the accommodation of the Prince, at the end of the dress circle, neat the right hand side of the stage. On entering his royal highness was very , warmly welcomed. Loud cheers burst forth on every Nide from the spectators, while the orchestra struck up the National Anthem. At the conclusion of the air cheering was rts rowed by the audience, whose cordial reception the Prises acknowledged by coming forward to the front of the box and bowing affably. The evening's performances were thee proceeded with, and passed off very successfully--s resell : chielly doe to the admirable acting of L sly Dm and Xc. and Mrs. Wyndham. The pieces played were The Daughter of the Regiment, The /Mat Line, and Pel f ," Ones. In the first Lady Don took the chara . 7ter of Josephine, the heroine of the drum, sod I ,o * formed it so ably, that at the close a handsome wreath was flung to her (torn the royal bet, .a v re l a r trentheriastic applause of the audience. BT IrlY compliment to Prince Alfred. Lady lion gave the well. known naval mug, " The Death of Nelson," illustrated be a tehleas errant, between the two last pieces. The Mil party remained till the conclusion of the peeformateeh when Prince Alfred was again greeted with cheers, which he courteously acknowledged as before. —Ndiehumh o,,ereat• Hoe ROYAL HIOHNESS THE DUKE VAC M ' AND HIP TWICKENHAM I , i EIGHBOVIS. —His Hovel HO' nese the Duke D'Autnale honoured the Twickenham Komar Club by presiding at their annual dinner on .tiatunlsy last Hie royal highness bas held the office of president ofthe club ever sinus its formation. The dinner was held at the hotel on the celebrated Eel Pie Island. Hoe royal hieli• Dail was accompanied by the Prince dr Cored:, R ed .0 attended by his secretary, M. Laugel. Their ro yal seems remained until ball-past 10 o'clock. The little Mutts which ememyed them from the Waal Out off amid a o f of fireworks and the hearty and prolonged cheers of the members of the club, who are very justly proud of Wig far their president this amiable and distinguished Once, The Right HOll. Oeueral Peel. a neighbour and roeml. , the club, was prevented dining with them by ussvoidd le absence le Switzerland. B O NGLAZT IN NEW OX EORD-NTREZT. —A WI daring burglary was committed no Wednesday eight. oar the premised of Yeses. Law, tazdailere, of flew Ox It would appear that the thieves entered the premiers at the back and got Into the first floor and thence into the .1. They cut away the leek sad carried off an irou L ife ela , upwards of 200 f. in gold and silver, besides rim c hests of tea and some warrants on which the duty was paid. A number of young men were in the upper pert t a the home at the time, and heard no noise. There is a lane et the h e of the moraine, sad the burglars moat have had a cart .s h ad horse and several persons to motet them in the rob bery reward of 30f. hu been offered by Messrs. Law for inf tioi which will lead to the apprehension of the burglars. orms. r-