The Express. — London, England, 1863-10-21 00:00:00

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A choke ef BO pieces of indestructible wooded West of England Clotho. ESTABLISHED DAL Only address. ghe eraireoo. TO 00111211PONDINTIL itthelleoleris blended toe " The Express' ithoitio thumbs swot be it the Oath 10. bethorthetheth by TOD o'clock co the thy et pthboatbrth COTENT.DARDEN. TEI ETEIII3O, THE DESERT PLOWEit. Weems. W. H. Weise, H. Corti, A. Cook, and W. Hudson: Misses Louisa and blues Pyne.• -Conductor Mr. A. Mellon—Commence at 8. HAYMARKET. THIS 4 , rEmio, THE RIVALS. Messrs. Chippendale, Buck stone, Howe. Rogers, Ferree, Clark, and Braid : Meadows Snowden, Angel, and IlltzwilDant—THE BENGAL TIGER. Mr. and Mrs. A. Wigan.—And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. LATEST INTELLIGENCE.. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOR Si, 1863• LYCEUM. On airCIDAT, OR. 3Ciii7Dlllo/110, a Love Story. Pleura Pechter. brougham, Pinery, Needle, and Garden mom Terry, Laraine, and Illewarthy, and Mrs. Lee, siyr•trirLL_ TES Immo, THE DAYS OF LOIIIB XV. lin. S. Luc -THE GREAT GHOST EFFECT. Heim Reynolds sod Cooke Mesdames Creaked and Yareold. —filmdesr by Sam Mini. Mr. Randall, and Km. Meem—And JULY IYOUNNOR. HIM WALTIM AT LONDON MDSE. Tim DAT —Marnfas. tat .Alterseera. Pa. T 0410.0011... Mambo. 1113. dia.— After^ lab. Ude. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21. Ir is stated, and recent disclosures give proba bility to the report, that many of the workmez. in the Gun-factory at Woolwich have been die charged, and that the manufacture of Armstrong guns has been suspended, if not brought to a close. We cannot but hope that the report may prove correct. By the inventor himself, as well as by all his friends, the Armstrong gun is at least ad mitted to be far from a perfect weapon, yet it has so occupied the field as practically to block out im provement. No one can tell what its comparative merits might be it it were fairly pitted against the Whitworth or the Blakeley, the Parrott or the Palliser, yet we have till now not merely exclu sively manufactured it, but have given no fair chance to the weapon of any other maker. Five years ago the Whitworth and the Armstrong were tried against each other and because the latter was superior in accuracy, it was at once, and as if finally, adopted as the service gun. But accuracy, even if that early experiment should prove conclu sive, is only one, and not the chief, element to be considered. Range, penetration, dura bility, easiness in working, simplicity of con struction, are all at least as important as mere accuracy. In these respects, as well as in accu racy, several of the rival guns have proved their title to an equal consideration with those of the favoured inventor, yet for five years they have not obtained a hearing. The result is, that while every other nation has a good service rifled gun, we find that we have none. We have here no concern with the criminations and recriminations of rival patentees. Government, under the Patent Act, has power to take for the Qucaw's service whatever supplies of any patented articles it may require, at a fair valuation ; and even if it had not that power, we may well ask why, if Warr wows and BLA.M.ST sell to foreign powers, ours should not also be their customer. For obviously the only true method of ascertaining which is the best gun for service is to try them all on service. When a gun has by preliminari experiments proved its fair title to a further trial, Government ought to order a supply sufficient to afford that trial, and ought to distribute them among our Royal Artillery and our ships, so as to make the trial a fair and full one. It is now pursuing that course with the Whitworth rifle, which is about to be served out to certain selected reg;-nents. And it is because we hope that the suspension of the manufacture of the Armstrong gun indicates that it is about to adopt the mine plan in reference to our ordnance, that we welcome the probability of that step. Nothing else will either ascertain the best piece, or will afford such certainty of reward to inventors as will bring the best talent in the country into the competition. We have already more than once urged the im portance of at once obtaining spccimens of the guns which in America are producing such astonish ing results. There is nothing bat actual experi ment in identical circumstances that can inform ns how far these results indicate a real advance in gunner/. We must try these guns not only against the same Warrior target which has become our standard test of the attack on the iron -clads, but against brickwork and granite, earthwork and sand, before we can tell whether the transatlantic manufacture is preferable to our own for the pur poses of war. For we must remember that Charleston is exceptional in its circumstances. It is a naval and a land siege combined. The naval force have the benefit of the support of shore bat teries, the army has the benefit of naval transport. So gnus can be used on shore which could not be carried far inland, and the fleet can repair damages under cover of perhaps heavier metal than they themselves can carry. These peculiarities may per haps prevent nsfrom accepting the guns approved on this particular service as being the best for gsnerel service. But at least we ought to have placed beyond a doubt what it is that they can do when circumstances admit of their being used. The need for this is the more pressing, because the two classes of American guns typify in an ex treme degree the two opposing systems of artil lery fire. Forty years ago General Pamirs:is inaugurated a new system of gunnery. He ex pressed it in brief as great size with low velocity. Applied to shell firing, he anticipated that it would make the feeblest vessel or battery • match for the colossal tbres-decker. He proved its truth at Brest with an 80-pounder firing shells horizontally, and he asked triumphantly, what would be the result if a 100, 150, or 200 pounder were used f He avowed his expectation to be that it would an nihilate the British predominance at sea ; and we now perceive that it has in effect abolished the wooden navy. This system has been pushed by the ingenuity and resources of Transatlantic mechanics to a far higher development The Rodman or Dahlgren gun, with which their monitors are armed, is of 15 inches calibre ; it is of east-iron, and cast hollow, and weighs about 18 tons ; it throws a spherical solid shot of 401 U., a shell of 3371b5., using a charge of 401bs. of powder b But immense as this charge is, the weight of the pro jectile is so great that its velocity is low. And it is accordingly against wooden vessels that it would at sea be chiefly effectual. Admiral Danmiums, indeed, has stated that this is the service for which it is especially designed, though, as the Atlanta experience showed, it is still highly effective though the vessel is plated with layer of iron. And, in fact, it re mains to be proved whether, though from the want of velocity the shot might not penetrate, any vaned can be constructed of strength to resist the crushing impact, at short . ranges, of a mass of iron la quarter of a ton in weight, driven by a charge of 401 th. of powder. Apart, however, from this question, it has proved of great service against shore batteries. The monitors have never breached the batteries, but time after time they have silenced them. This has of late been their office, and, ac cording to the official reports, they have thoroughly performed it. Nor, indeed, can we doubt that a suoothsion of 3001 b. shells would most effectually fulfil this duty against the strongest fort yet built. While an open embrasure is to be found, the fort stands much in the same position as a wooden ship, for these missiles finding their way in, in either case slaughter every man between the decki or within the casemate'. So there is good reason why Government, which has made the safety of our ports and arsenals to depend on the defence which forts can supply, should see well what powers, not of breaching, but of silencing, the Dahlgren gun can exhibit in this country. On a totally different principle are our 68- pounder smooth bores, the Whitworth", and the American Parrott guns constructed. Their object is penetration, not crushing. They, therefore, are of comparatively small diameter. But the Whit worths and Panetta obtain weight by using elon gated shot, and velocity by using high charges in comparison to the weight of the shot. The Parrott guns are, we believe, as well as the Dahlgren', of cast-iron and cast hollow, but they are rifled ; the largest sizes as yet made. are only 8 and 10 inches calibre, but they throw an elongated shot of about 2 feet in length, the head of which is flat like the Whitworth shot, and is chilled to give is hardness for penetration. The shot for these calibre's are respectively 2001bs. and 3 001ba. weight, the charge is 251bs. to 40Ibs. of powder, and the shells have a bursting charge of 171b5., or nearly double that of our 13-inch mortar shells. These are the guns with which Fort Sumter was ruins d, and with which Fort Moultrie and Charleston are being threatened. And if we recollect that the former was battered from a range of three times the dis tance which had formerly been considered breaching range, and that the latter has been shelled from bc.ween four and five miles off, we may judge how well these results deserve investigation. Only against the sand works of Fort Wagner were the Parrott guns found ineffectual, so that the regular stages of a siege by sap and parallel bad to be re sorted to. The superiority of loose sand has also been proved by us at Woolwich, and it forms I another Oement of doubt in considering the ques- L.:on of our proposed granite forts. But if the Parrott guns (of which, it must be remembered,still larger sizes, reaching at present to 500-pounders, are in oonatreetion) are of such service in breach ing brickwork, there is every reason to suppose that they will prove equally efficient against iron plates. In this question all depends on the charge of powder they will bear, for velocity is the re quisite for penetration, and if they have borne 401 th. charge the velocity must be very consider. able. Such are the facts which we must learn, for we are in jeopardy even/ hoar till they are icertained. trbt Court. BALMORAL, OCT. 18. Mr. Theed's statue of the Prinoe Consort, which hu been placed in the principal corridor at Balmoral, was uncovered yesterday morning. The Queen, the Crown Prime and Princess of Prussia, Prince and Primus Louis of Hasse, Princess Helena, Princess Luise, Primus Beatrice, Prince Arthur, and Prince Leopold, assembled in the corridor at hall-peat ten o'clock. The baba and gsotlemen of the household in wailing were by her Majesty's persissiou preeent, se well u the 'ornate and gilliee who had been particularly attached to the Trines Ooosort's service. At her Majesty's connoted the covering was removed from the statue by Mr. Toad, and the Queen was pleased to expires her entire approval and admiration of it. The statue, which Is in marble, retirements the Prince Consort h the Higllead dress, eAlt a rifle in the left bled, the right resting Co the heed of a favourite dog. Uinta the pedestal is the followiog inscription selected by her Majesty :—" Albert, Prince Consort. 186 L Hi life sprang from a deep trier sympathy with Godh will ; sad therefore with all that is Ira, and beautiful and right." The Queen, meompaided by Prisms Helena sad Pi - some Lads*, and attended by lady Churehill, drove yesterday to Alt-seGeitbasaell, sad retested in ass evening. BALMORAL. Ocr. 19. - The Queen. &complain' by Printer Eddy end at tended by Lady A. Braes and Lord O. Pitney, atteeded Divine service in the with email of Crania, yesterday afternoon. The Rev. A. Anderson officiated. Despatches were remised yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governors of the Caps of Geed Hops, Natal, aad 84 Helena. VISIT OP TB' PMNCZBS OP WALES TO ZING'S LYNN KING'S LYNN, TUMIDLY Evrirmo. The ancient town of King's Lynn wai this after noon honoured by • visa at royalty, gaits naexpeetedly and it Doing the chief works& day, sad the tows beteg hill of *pantry confine, no "tete Air we. ceased. The Princess of Wake, the Princess Chrhtlaa, and the Magee Depot, attended by the Hoe. Mrs. Grey and the Countsen Reventlow, drove into Lyon, by the east gates, at about 4 o'clock, the Pi :noses of Waco driving • pair of pays. Thanks to photography, her royal highliaas was recopied, and received repeated marks of reaped on all bands, gra clonally acknowledgiag the some by repeated graceful bows. The weather wee very Ilse, sad the town presided • very busy appearance. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, attended by Woad Cliftoa, is exppaied to leave Sandriam ham, Norfolk, after rek% their Royal Highamess the Priem sad Princess of Wear, on Tbanday mak Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of CAM bridge sad the Primes Mary, attended by Coked Home Parma sad Lady Geraldine Somerset, have arrived from Park, io which capital they made a few days' stay ma their way horn. from Rompscheim, Dear Frani-rod. _ . _ Prince Clortcludioff had; arrived at Alexandra Hotel (late WsNee's), from St. Patamberg. .. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the COIIIO4IB Berestorlf sod family arrived at Prom& House, Witco Howse-lentos, so Monday, from Brightest. His Excellency the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the oewlymppoiated Ambassador to the Court of SR James from name, is expected to arrive at Albeit-gate Home early mixt south. Bares Gros will lean Loodoa on Of about the 15th of next mouth for Paris. ..... ..- His Excellency the AustrinAmbserador and the Countess Appeal will rotors to Chandoe House the Wax end of sent week, from a tour on the Oostimat. The Duchess of Hamilton areived yesterday morning at the Hotel Windsor, Rue de Rivoli , Perth sad was visited by the Emperor in tin eosins of the afternooo. The fishery oommimioners are making short work of the weirs on the river Buis. They continued their sit. tinge on Bauder and on )toddy, during which the pre. reedier were asinened end the court crowded. Benteues of demolition wee prosouseed gpoo weir after weir, to the number of half a more in the two days. In vain evidence was produced to prove that they had been used for fifty or sixty yam. No on, Gould avail again, the fact that they abstracted the navigating. When condensed es this ground the defeated parties bad not oven the coesoktke of appealing ; for the force of the art of parliusest doss sot tare upon tin fact thin the weirs are ototrostices to the navigation, but that they are so " is the minim of the 00111111issioners." All that was placed beyond doubt by their judgment in each can, there was as end of the quistios. COMMERCIAL INTELLIOKITCE. Money easy ; the large export of gold has caused an advance of 2 per oent. in its price, being now quoted 481 per cent. premium. Exchange on London—Bankers' bills, 164. Stocks dull ; New York Centrals, 1341 ; Illinois, 126} ; Erie, nog ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 107*. Cotton steady ; middling upland, 90c. Flour and corn advancing ; wheat, large speculative sales. Pro visions very firm. •Coffee quiet, Sugar and mo lasses advancing. Petroleum very dull ; crude, 330. ; refined, Mc. NEW YORK, Ocr. 12. EVENING. (By Telegraph to Cape Ram) The Confederates are moving in Virginia, and a strong Confederate force is concentrating in the vicinity of Madison Court-house. A Federal cavalry brigade encountered Stuart's cavalry while reconnoitring the Confederate posi tion, near Robertson's River. An engagement ensued ; the Federals being repulsed, returned to Culpepper. General Hill's corps has passed from the left to the right of Meade's front, at Blue Ridge Moun tain, apparently to get on Meade's right, and cut the railroad communication, or else as a ruse to cover an attack upon his front. The communication between Nashville and Chat tanooga is uninterruptc d. A combined land and naval attack upon Charles ton was to take place on the 11th. 0011KERGIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Oar. 12, Evinnso. (By telegraph Weep. Ewe.) . . . . Money easy. The anxiety concerning the mili tary situation in Virginia, Tennessee, has caused an advance in gold, which is now quotod 511 per cent. premium. Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 1641 to 165. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 135 ; Illinois, 126} ; Erie, 1091 ; Six per Cent. United State Bonds, mi. Cotton steady : mid dling upland, 90c. ACCIDENT TO THZ AFRICA. ST JORN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND, Ocr. 13. _ - - (By telegraph to Caps Rare.) The outward-going Royal Mail steamship Africa struck in a dense fog near Cape Race, on Monday night (the 12th). She was ashore half an hour, but got off, making much water, and bore up for St. John's, where she arrived to-day. The ship has been beached, and must discharge. The injury is supposed to be extensive, and the cargo is damaged. WRECK OF 4 FOREIGN VE SSEL ON THE IRISH COT. TRAWORE, COUNTY WATERFORD, OCT. 19. Information was repaired here this morning that a foreign vessel wee onshore about three mile' to the west ward of this place. It wee blowing hard at the time and raining heavily. The lifeboat belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution stationed hare was imme diately manned and launched, and proceeded to the rescue of the shipwrecked crew. In the meantime nine of the poor foreigners had been rescued by means of ropes from the shore, bat the remainiog man was unable to climb the rope thrown to him, baring injured his arm. At this time the lifeboat fortunately arrived alongside the vessel sod teemed the poor fellow, who would otherwise ine7it ably have perished. A fishing boat had attempted to lave the crew, but, owing to the heavy sea that was running at the time, she bad failed to render any assistance. The life boat was reported to have behaved very well on the occa sion. The vessel proved to be the Greek brig Marietta, from Lisbon to Cardiff, is ballast. She has since become a total wreck. Thirumuns EVENT AT La u:IL—For several days past • painful rumour, which was generally believed, h as w on Diffrac t in Large and neighbourhood, to the effect that the Rev. David Bootee Done, minister of the Erse Church there had been c.rryiog on an illicit bitereourse with • young lady who lived as . companies to two elderly ladies, and that she had removed from Lens some time since, when the convergences of the Mistime could not be any longer concealed. Since this rumour got afloat ' the rev. gentleman remained at home, and was not seen oat of doors. On Moaday manias, about 2 ' o'clock, Recording to our infeematioa. Mrs. Douie heard • noise to her husteade bad-room, and being afraid of something wrong, she got out of bed, in Hine to see him hurrying from the house is his eight-drem. She rushed oat, but lost eight of him la the darkness, arid thee procured meatuses from two labouring owe who live in the vicinity. They nearalted along the shore, amid dis covered at the wry head, sear Gego Born, apposite the rev. gentleremes reddest*. a pair of slippers. which were at once ideotilloi se belcieging to Mr. Doaie, it was immedi ately Bombed that the unfortunate clergyman had rushed into the sea and drowsed himself, and no time was lost in getting assistance ; but although several boats were engaged with grweels seuebieg for the body, it had set been rem ained yesterday at neon. flat which seders ;the event the more deplorable is that the unfortunate man bad long passed the heyday of life, and has left behind him a family of tea child:ea.—Glasgow Herald. DESCENT OF THE GIANT BALLOON. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. A friend of M. Nader has received the following despatch c--" We descended near Nienburg, in Hanover, at noon on Monday. Our balloon was dragged for several hours, the anchors having been broken. St. Felix, my wife, and I are rather seri ously hurt ; the others are better. We owe our lives to the courage of Jules Godard. More de tailed news to-morrow." BREMEN, Oct. 21. Hadar's balloon descended near Eyetrup, in Hanover. There were nine persons in it, of whom three were seriously and two slightly injured. Our Paris correspondent, writing last evening before the above telegrams had reached Paris, says: "It is a curious fact that, whereas a fortnight ago the earliest, the best, and the fullest account of Nadar's balloon ascent was given by the Moonrise, the official journal, neither yesterday nor to-day, I aye a word about the ascent of Sunday, although the Emperor himself was present at it, and in spected the car with the greatest interest, and talked for a long while with K Nader. The ex planation of this is that the Emperor's visit was incog. He did not wish it to appear in the Moniteur that ha took part in a fête od the day after the funeral of K Billault and the day before the funeral of Marshal d'Ornano. His Ma jesty's presence in the Champs de Mars was only known to the people who happened to see his car riage pass along. M. Nadal-, of course, proposed that the Emperor's carriage should drive up through the reserved arena to the foot of the balloon ; but as this would have made the imperial visit con spicuous, the Emperor preferred to leave his vehicle with others in the ruck, and to walk to the balloon, 'in the environs of which he remained on his legs for two hours, quite unobserved by the occupants of 'reserved seats.' Three marshals of France — Mignon, Regnault de Saint Jean d'Angely, and Randon—were with the Emperor,u were also Gene ral Fleury and K Boitelle, the Prefect of Police. There are some little discrepancies in the lists of the companions of Nader. I rather think that the adventurous baud consisted of the following nine persons only and Madame Nader ; K Saint Felix, a ridactetir of the Nation ; Baron Thirion, K de Fonvielle, M. Ferdinand de Montgolfier, a _ . • ' descendant of one of the celebrated aeronauts of that name ; M. Delessen, and the brothers Godard. The utmost curiosity is felt to know what has become of the Giant balloon. At 8 o'clock on Sun day night it passed over Beauvais, and so near to the ground that M. Nader was able to say to the people through a speaking trumpet, All well; we are continuing our voyage.' From the northerly direc tion in which itwas going, and the absence of news all this morning, it was thought quite likely that the bal loon might have gone woes the Channel and descended in England. This evening, however, the rumour has run that the balloon has been heard of in Belgium, and I find In the Freese the following letter dated from Erquelines ;—' Nadar's Giant balloon passed over the Erquelines station at mid night (Belgian time), and so near to the ground that the travellers were heard through a speaking trumpet They inquired in what department they were, and the railway pointernan on duty replied, "At Erquelines, Belgium." One of the custom house officer called out to them to come down to have their baggage inspected—a demand which no doubt caused great laughter 5n the balloon. The wind seemed to be driving them north-north-east in the direction of Bartell.' The above seems to be the latest authentic news. The Prase mentions a report that the balloon has been seen in the neigh bourhood of Frankfort, but this does not coincide with the direction of the wind so far as known. The lesser balloon which went up at the same time with the Giant is said to have descended at Saint Quentin. "I cannot find that anything whatever has been . - heard of M. Simonnet, who went up in a third balloon from the Hippodrome at the moment of what may now be called the atate ascent from the Champ de Kara" (111711:01 =LEG& PRIISSLL THE ELECTIONS.--SUCCESS OF THE LIBERALf3. BERLIN, Ocr. 21. The result of the prallminary elections is as follows:—In Ber' l / 4 the old liberal majority has been Picreased. In the proi:ooes, as far as is known, the elections are said to be also in favour of the former liberal majorft _ _ The result of the 61o:dioxin in the lowland dis tricts is not yet known. FRANCE. PARIS. OCT. 21. M. Baroche has been nom►nated • senator. MEXICO. ST. NAZAIRE, OCT. 2L. Adria* received here from Vera Cruz to the 18th September state that the Archbishop of Mexico had arrived, and had met with a magnifi cent reception. The national fete of the 16th was of a brilliant character. The blockade of all hostile Mexican ports has been effective since the Bth of the month. • WZATHZR REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WIDNIIIDAT, 0070811 21, $ A.X. & ! it w. Nein ...W.W. W.S. Alsmrd•SW 611 1 4" W lank ls' shirr - to. teiET ** IS 1946 1 N ...„ KU 44, hmobesto » 16 66. ammo . Sr* 110.16 110444a6. „ 14112 prooelb 70.1 7 '661 IS 66 76.17 771 Weiss n Dorf n 1•1 W. 11116•1 •w. MAW. N. M. R. x.: L ILL Z. L •L LA W. as L N.M. L as LW. S. irm. 1.0..11 M Id _ _ TIVIEDAT. 7111 DAT. W. to X. oso to X, FAII - 11144XL N.Tr.to N.L.awderato modoralo. doa.l , to NO* Aim boa N. to I sod XX, rno- Wan COUTL N. to I and SA C., &rate to light, light to troth. dowdy, Ora An seat above. llowreCouril As next &bowl, fine. N.N.W. to ILN.I. sad Ounan-Yaws. II AI to B.K. moderate le ILK, mous ate. to Irwin, cloudy, One. Woo. Nortlaltotwenalltaws to W sma l t rest:Doonal to Corn wall. boat .Cionool ssd dad ks. atis-isat.-Strait of Dover to nooladdro Oar/rot. PALAOI. ••• OA= Bnrizawo DAT. TOILSDAT. OCT. 20.—Adotkdoot oa moist, 2,631 ; ditto by MOOS liokata, 900: tsial. 3,611. AMERICA. (asurmes rizionm.) CONFEDERATE OPERATIONS. THE LAST RIJSE :7 -ANXIETY AT NEW YORK. (Par Ow Bolton Ism.) NEW YORK, Oor. 9, EVIN The Confederates are advancing on Fort Scott and Kansas City. It is reported that the Kansas militia will be called out. General Blunt will go to Texas unless his forces are weakened by the Confederate movements in other quarters. Governor Brown, of Georgia, who is a secession upholder, is reported to be re-elected. The Richmond Enquirer expresses the gratification of the Confederates at having the French for their I neighbours in Mexico, and says :—" The South would willingly make an alliance with France to protect French and Southern interests in America." The Richewnd Examiner denounces all peace ! propositions. The Evening Post urges the government to de ' mend from England an explanation of the conduct of the Cape Town authorities respecting the Alabama. If an explanation is not rendered government would at once proceed to press its wrongs. The Russian admiral has accepted an invitation to visit Boston with the squadron. Foreign con suls and French and British officers are to be in vited to the municipal banquet to the Russians. The steamer Jos4 has been seized at New York upon suspicion cf being a blockade runner. NEW YORK. OCT. 10. General Johnston is reported to be at Banton, Missouri, with 15,000 men, to intercept Roaecrame reinforcements. • Advice. from Charleston to the 6th state that General Gilmore's preparations are nearly com pleted. ' The Confederates are opemt 4 ig ag►inst Forts Smith and Scott, in Kansas. General Blunt's staff have been captured in Kansas. Uncertain reports have been received of a defeat of the Fadersls above Port Hudson, with a loom of 1,600 prisoners. General Franklin has advanced fifty miles be yond Brashear City without meeting resistance. General Banks has ordered the conscription in Louisiana. Negroes on the plantations will be de tailed for service. NEW YORK, OCT. 10, Emma. - - The Federal government has received advioes from Chattanooga, with all encouragement for the Union cause. The Confederate cavalry had been overtaken below Shelbyville and completely routed with a loss of 100 killed. The Federals were in pursuit. Admiral Milne has visited the Secrete" , of the Navy at Washington. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (THOM 0011 OW2I PAB.III, TOZBEILT Evmum The Moniftur indirectly admits the correctness of a point of constitutional law raised by some of the journals, i.e. that a seat in the Council of State is incompatible with the position of senator. The Emperor, therefore, in receiving the oaths of M. Roulaud, president, and MM. Chita d'Estanga and de Foroade La Roquette, vice-presidents of the Council of State, thanked them for having consented to resign their functions of senators to resume a more active political position. There is something in this evidently not contemplated when the constitution was framed. In the first place, the use in the Moniteur of the word "functions" as applied to the duties of a senator will, I am per suaded, give offence. There is nothing that a Frenchman high in the public service dislikes so much as to be called a "functionary." The qua lity of a senator was certainly considered originally to be as indelible as that of a peer. There is no instance of resignation, except th►t of M. Drain de Lhuys (who has now accepted a re-appointment), and when he in a buff made the precedent it was a surprise to find that the thing could be done. When the constitution says that councillors of state cannot be senators or deputies, it clearly never meant that senators were to resign or to suspend (for that is what it practically comes to) their life dignities, in order to become councillors of state. However, M. de Girardin—who, for the sake of argument, which he loves, goes into these consti tutional matters deeper than anyone else—says, most truly, that the leading though unwritten article of the constitution is that "the Emperor can do as he likes." It is beyond dispute that the article of the constitution which it is now thought fit to respect by making the new coun cillor of state resign was set at nought when MM. Baroche and Rouher, both senaton, were named successively ministers presiding over the Council of State. _ _ The grand review to be given to the King of the Greeks takes place to-morrow at Longchamps. The Illoniteur, in announcing the review, does not mention the young King's name, but it is neverthe less understood that the display is in his honour. The grand stand of the racecourse is to be thrown open to the public on this occasion. The King of the Greeks dines to-day with M. Drouyn de Lhuys at a state dinner rather hastily got up, but at which the English and Russian ambassadors, several other members of the Corps Diplomatique, and most of the ministers will be present. _ . When the young King was at the Opera the other evening, Count Baciocchi offered to take him be hind the scenes, and was surprised to receive the cool answer, "No, I thank you ; I see quite well enough from my box." The feuilletonists, asto nished at this resistance of what in Paris peeves foe great temptation, talk about the virtue of Tele machus, and call Count de Bponneck Mentor. The Bourse, which yesterday hailed the end of the ministerial crisis by a rise of from 20c. to 30c., has exactly lost the ground gained to-day. The Daily News is seized. Mr. Mechi writes " I can confirm Mr. Lees's and Mr. Cakes sedement as to the effect of this propitious season on oar grain produce, both in quantity sad quality. Poor and high farming have both felt its effects, which I have reuse to believe are general over the whole kingdom, but especially on the stiff clays. I have thrashed three fields of wheat, the first two producing 58 bushels, and the last 52 bushels per acre ; the weight— red wheat, 661 b., and white wheat 641 b. per imperial bushel; and I hear geaerdly of abundant crops" Tau Naw PEERAOR.—We understand that the title now thought of by Sir Wm. Somerville is not Colville, bat Delvin—a choice which is scarcely more free from diffi culty than the former. The difficulty in this cese would be of Irish not Scotch origin, inasmuch al the barony of Delvin has been used as the courtesy title of the Marquisate of Westmeath, and is, we believe, actually in abeyance among the representatives of the fourth Earl of Westmeath. That nobleman having been outlawed in 1691. the abeyance of the Barony of Delvin lies between the families of French, of French Park, fierodugham, and Costello, dreocadarre of his eldest daughter, Lady Mary ; and the Talhota. of hide. descendants descendants of her sister, Lady Catherine Buret. Dublin Brewing Mail. THE IRISH REPRESENTATIVE PE/MAUL—The election of arepreesotative peer in the room of the late Lord Downes lassi terminated in the return of Lord Inchiquin. DEATH OF MR. G. W. HOPE, M.P.—lntelligence of the death of Mr. G. W. Hope, one of the conservative members for the borough of New Windsor. was received by Mr. Voider', his parliameotary agent, no Monday evening, by letter from Mr. Hope Scott, of Lasses, Divan, where the late member bad been staying for the benefit of his health. The melancholy eject happened at seven o'clock on Sunday morning last. Mr. Hayter, liberal, has already anaonorm his iotention of coming forward at the next general election, and there is no doubt that that gentleman will offer himself for the preeeet vacancy, although the o ca s ervative party will probably not let him walk over the grained. DEATH OF MR. LANGSTON, M.P. FOR THE CITY OF OLFORD.—YenWidaT morning intelligence of the death of Mr. J. H. Langston, M.P., reached Oxford, but though it gave rise to deep regret that the city had lost its old and cormstent represootative, yet it excited on surprise, inas much as Mr. Langston had been seriously ill for some time past, and within the last week or two his death had been hourly anticipated. Mr. Lupton resided at/Sander House, near Chipping Norton, and was distinguished as an enter prising agriculturist, and more especially as • breeder of short•horn stock. As a politician Mr. Lupton was strongly attached to whip principles. By his death a vacancy is made in the representation of the city of Oxford. The candidates 'poker' of at the present time sre Mr. Fletcher, of the Reform Club, and Mr. Serjeant Gametes on the radic:al interest. Mr. Cartwright oe the liberal interest, and Mr. A. Peel on the more moderate liberal side. It is fully anticipated that • candidate on the conservative interest will be forthcoming. RZDERALS AND CONFEDERATES.—The Federal paddlewheel steam frigate Vanderbilt, 12, Captain Baldwin. arrived in Sinsoa's Bay August 90. sad left September 11. The last of the Confederate steamships of war, Alabama, Georgia, and Timeshares, left only 16 hours before her arrival. The Vanderbilt refitted in port, took in 900 toes of coal, sad was supposed to have gone somewhere between Aeolian and St. Helena. Danes the isterval the Alabama took a short run up the west oast, nod returned to ilimoa's Bay September 16, having bees in sight of land four days , and was repairing her condensing apparatus and wham when the Saxon left. Captain Semmes will not, it in said, from motives of policy, seek an engagement with the Van derbilt, but if blockded l,v her in Simoa's Bay will elude his antagonist, as he did the Sao Jacinto at Martinique. The Georgia is supposed to have gone to some distance, and the Tuscaloosa to Angra Pequina, where she landed her cargo of wool, and thee cruised off the Cape. Captain Semmes has his prize the Sea Bride ;he has not takes soy mole ships. THE ZAMBEZI.—'The Rev. James Steward, Commissioner from the Free Church of ficothad, aims home wronger from the Cape by the Saxon. He has =- pima the Zambesi thoroughly; first with Livingstone's expedition. and afterwards shale up beyond Tete la use direction, and knead the Murchison Falls in soother. He has also visited all the chief missionary stations in the Cep Colony. The lotelligeaco received at Cap* Town MO death of Dr. Mellor, of her Majesty's ship Pioneer, was dated so far beck as April. THE SOUTH WALES COAL TRADP.—There has not . bees each a demand for steam coal for many years pest as at the preeent time, and the steam onal colliery proprieton are tasked to the utmost extent of their powers to meet the requirements of shippers. The colliers, well knowing this fact, bare adopted • system which cannot fed to injure themselves in the eaL lasted of performing a fair day's labour, they turn oat less coal than mud, and thereby in convedenere their employees ti a very great extent. The ' reason for this conduct is supposed to be • determination no the part of the men to tones the mestere to give them • larger advance than what hes beet already promieed. In erithrmeace ot this state of things many of the °odometers decline to take more orders, owing to their inability to own plate the premed orders ea the books. As yet the @mood colliers of Monmouthshire have not takes any step is refer ence tO a rise is wagee, but, once the edemas is granted is the Aberdare Valley, there Is no doubt that they will to be placed in a similar position. The house reel suffering from the unfavourable weather and the Karetty of tonoage, and the shipments have been far below the average dories tiniest fortnight. LAW INTELLIGENCE. --- (THIS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. COMMilliioollf Ooalbara.) IN la 121.0103 GUIUIZT. . - - The baskrept. of Etotbet field-street, Langton out of business, came up by adjourantent for hie order of disch aegc Debts, 2,2771. ; property held by secured creditors, go . The edjouromrnt had bees ordered that the bankrupt ni g h t give up or acoount for an LO.U. which he had received from his brother. Thin being done, the order of diachae o wee granted. to this case, reported yestardsy, the amount of the hmk, rupt's defalcation was stated at 2801. It should have hop 281, only. IN HE W. ELL/OTT. The bankrupt was a boarding-house keeper of Pimlico, owing 2161. Mr. Aldridge skated that the bankrupt had been is p r i mly He had been bankrupt before, but it was J 2 years liner. Order granted. Tim bankrupt, a cutfir,Tl OlfoTd-street, arm adjourned duo dila not baring Cad any mounts. . _ ni as iiADowcaorr. This was soother case of a lodgioghouss-keeper, living 4 Noel/aid-square, Notting-hill Debts upwards of 1,0001. No 'rota The iar.krupt stated that the rent of the house hewn. pied in Norlaod•gaare was 601. a year. All the furniture wee settled on his wife by a post-naptiel settlement nude in 1856. Aldridge said he had taken advice u to the validity of the eettlemeut, which was made to secure the furniture then in the house, and any furniture that might afterwards be purchased by the trustees. The bankrupt had all the time been held out to the world as the owner of the furniture. __ _ The bankrupt said that the validity of the settlement had been ienotestid under a former insolvency. Adro - t7rned In this case elm th►re were so accounts, and ►n WORM meet sine die wee ordered, with protection for • mouth. The bankrupt was described as a commission agent, of Cumber. land-.trees, Pimlico. IN RE W. biIQUIJART.—ANOTHZR ADJOURNMENT lIINZ DIE. The bankrupt was described as a paper pulp maker, el Wilmot.street, Old Kent-road. He bad been edindiatted o prison, when be stated to the registrar that big debts were about 4001. No accounts bad been Bled. Buchanan now stated that the baokrupt's debut were upwards of 2,0001., but the snots would yield lOs. is the pound. Hu Honour said it was moot important that this har,krapt should have filed amounts, aa the amount of his debts had been inoorrectly stated. Adjourned .me die, with protection fora month. R 4 RI J. i. CLENNANS. The bankrupt, ; ITeei;Mirict7l;ll;, of Upper Thames street, coma to the wart owing 411. only to unsecured ere clitoris, and 1211. to creditors bolding security. In examination by Mr. Aldridge, be stated that he bad been in business seven mouths only, having been previomly a waiter at the Ouildhall Coffee-bonse. He had sand 90/. there, sod it was all gone. He bad paid his attorney for bringing him bere. His Honour said this was one of a common elms el rams, where traders paid money to en attorney in prefer. Inc. to paying their creditors. In the absence of °ppa dike the banks apt might take his order. - - ni II H. KEMP, JUN.—CURIOUS CAUSE OP FAILURE. The bankrupt woo described as a commission traveller, of Bermondsey. Debts, 4741.: seamed. Theleaum of fuller was dated as follows : "Looms in late trade of varnish. maker, sad heavy claim made npoo as. for mewengsn' fees and heal impasses as am of the sseigness of Frederick Sao demon. a bankrupt." The acemente show a sum of 1264 doe to fir. Stubbs, the sr in Yr. Oommissiouer Fos. blanque's court; sod 1141. dus to Needs. Gibbs sod Tucker, solaced's. There was no opposition to his order of diackarge. The Commissioner—Were you the acting assignee under this bankruptcy Harekropt—Yee. The Commiosioner—And as such were made liable for the oats?. Bankrupt—l wee. The Commimioner—You may take your order. us RE O. WIMP. The bankrupt was a builder, of Whitechapel. He had not filed any accounts, but it was stated on his behalf by Mr. Lucas that be was ao infirm, both in body and mind, being nearly imbecile, that it was quite impossible for bim to do so. An adjournment sine die wee ordered. with protection sad leave to the bankrupt to come up when prepared with has accounts. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) OCILDHALL. BURIII.AST TESOUGH DRUNKENNESS. John Butler wee charged before Alderman Allen win burglerionsly breaking end entering the premises of Mn Matthew Orr, a printer, of No. 9, St, Dunstan'ocourt Fleet-street. Walter Edwin Brown said—l em a carpenter, and tin house I live in overlooks a part of Mr. Orr's premiere. ix Saturday night last between 11 and 12 o'clock I en the prisoner loitering about and occasionally trying the door and the abutters apparently to ascertain if they were seeded I told him if he did natio away I would have him locked up. He then wort away, bat returned several times after wards, and eventually polled open the shutters, opened :So window, and took out • timepiece. Several other pence were wa tching the primmer, who then went away. lin down and spoke to a policeman, whom I accompanied esti we found the primmer, with the timepiece still in hie pee session, in Johosoe's-court, Fleststreet. William Bates, police-constable 356, said—When I took the prisoner into custody he appeared to have been drinker. Mr. Orr said—l left my premises about 9 o'clock d Saturday night, and the door and shutters were dearest that time. The timepiece produxd is my property, sad of the value of 21. It was safe whim I left on Satunlay nigh The FTISOSOT was in my employ until within the last fort eight, and such MY the high opinion I had of his intepitr end general good character, having known him foe many years, that I exerted myself to get him into more regular employment. The prisoner said—There was some money owing to me which I could not get from Mr. Orr, and I took the clock to pay =pelf, but I should not have domino if I had been whir. Mr. Orr said—l do not owe the prisoner • fartbior, sir. Alderman Allen—And if you did he had no right to take the clock. The prisoner was then remanded. MARLBOROUGH STREET. VIZ OUTCASTS IN THE PARKS Two females of most deplorable appearacce owed Florence D' EeterreautlMargaret (Vet, were charged before Mr. Knox, with sleeping in the open air in Hyde•park. The women are two of • number of poor unfortunate ma tures who sightly sleep in Hyde-park, assay of them Mid in a most loathsome conditiou. Newman, a constable of the A division, add that while on duty last night in Hyde.p.irk be saw the ter, woad lying under a tree asleep, and be then took them into cm Cody, having on many former occasions turned them out of a shed Woods( to the Royal H °mane Society. Mr. Knox asked whether the practice was as bad se ever. Sergeant William Savage, F A, said it was not quite to bad. He had known the women for fire or six month. del ▪ frequenting the park, and saw them last night int under • tree. On asking cue of the women why abe did net go to the union she became very insolent. Mr. Knox oommitted the women for smooth each. Many of the females sleeping in the shed above a lluded to, though " unfortunate'," are not shove 15 years of age. Irmo° A FALSE CREQTE AA* iletherito9ton, a tall, well.dressed man, of 2, Sew ford-dnas, Pw-green. Tottenham, was Maned , be" Mr. Knox, with litterbug a false cheque to Mr. Gods Barker, livery-debts keeper, of 4. Portleud.inewe, with tent to defraud him of the sum of 91. V.s. Mr. Barker said that on Monday last the prisoeer, in Tv meat of a sum of 9/. 174., which he owed him, bod ed him a cheque on Sir Samuel Scott's bank. Caveedish. r . q unre. to the sum of 281., stating that he would call for the bat ,sed es the next day. On presenting the cheque the clerk bod it to him back with an endorsement on it. Inspector Bowler, A divisiou, said the prism told bin he received the cheue in payment of a horse be bad ail!? a gentleman, the horse having stood in Mr. Barker's subs foe weeks. He said the 111111011 why he did not c.. 11 for the change was because he was 'timed at Clapham. Mr. Knox said it was a "Lange charge of fraud, as th u l ti ' s. sooner had not defrauded the prosecuthr of one peony. debt owing the prosecutor still remained, dui the p r ose-ow; bad time to go to the bank allowed Lim, thet he tie o pportunity of seeing whether the cheque was ge eume. The prisoner was allowed to go on e ntering iuto it reeognidoce, be promising that he would try an d find the gentlemen he received the cheque from. s- - - MART L EDON E. at•BiILNO • 111071 , 12 R. —A CORT.. Margaret Wood, aged 21, residing at N o. 12. Wafts. court, Marylebone, was brought o p on rem and. (her d with stabbing her mother•in-law, Eliza Wood, livior 2 ie the same oonrt. The mother, wbo had to be led into court. had ber hod eaveloped in hospital bandages and was very faint sod Irell! from loss ot blood. She seid—The prisoner is my ,I°. ter-M.lu/, and I hope yea will be merciful and deal mti , her here. Mr. Yardley—Stop, women. Yon are sworn to tell th. truth and the whole truth. Give your (widows. Proesentriz —I want you to deal with ber. Mr. Yardley-1 °moot. The cue must go for trisl. rte Mr. Tate, the wooed clerk). Take the deposition.. (Scarcely had the words been uttered when the pow° wed her mother gave vest to each a wild blab howl vls i rarely If emir heard is a police coot* and it t MOO 11141011 howlers had been turned out that bumps. maid be got on with.) Ow mother Uwe proceeded-0e yeetariley week 11 " daughter seat a young wont's, a (timed of lons. wb..." . drunk, up to me to any that ate waste.l her lol.anA lila tlies ia my room asleep with him io his NI 01 , A. 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