The Express. — London, England, 1863-09-05 00:00:00

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Troueers e alnenal by Wm) la all the New Pattern, BATT= THAN vie •xnnelso. TO 001.115romurts. Avertlerkenta bitomded for " The Immo =smut be II the edam HI, Beam ea lAN day et pablicalica. PELEHISEB. Tun Erunua, HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. Walter Montgomery. —To conclude with the favourite farm of THE BOUGH DIA MOND.—Corr mince at 7. I - Laotian &sabot stratrost. b 7 Two a:rr.xx~. Two Symms, THE ANGEL PEACE AND PARDON. Il lustrated by Protegror Pemeasdaptatiou or Mr. Dlndura GREAT GROW am:cr.—Death* by Mr. Prrker.—Abd [HE DIIEC TIVE: or. ADVENTUNAB Or A TICKET OF LEAVY MOH NATZI AT LONDON MINIM TIM DAT Marais& Oh. 4his... 4l.llleresm 7h. 13m. Tastosatrw— lifintaA Vk 4 Aastooss. Sh. 17.1 k. LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. THRILL is no doubt whatever about the ability of the State to do much that has never yet been tried to preclude and to check the vice and disease which, by their effect on the strength of our army, have lately excited so much alarm. There is un questionably a strong call for zeal and diligence before we commit ourselves to a scheme of special quarantine infinitely more mischievous than any quarantine system that ever was tried. It would be abundantly absurd in any nation to betake itself now to the old quarantine, in the face of .11 exposures of its constant failure, and before having recourse to sanitary measures of proved efficacy ; yet this, and worse than this, is what we should be doing if we now committed ourselves to a system of medical police before exhausting all experiments which might save us from succumbing to the force of a corruption which no manly and pure heart regards as necessary. There is no phase of this difficulty in which there is not something that the State can do, and that has hitherto been left undone. Under the aspect of physical or moral treatment, with pre vention, amelioration, or cure for the aim, unob jectionable methods remain to be adopted. Let us take prevention first—prevention both of the vice and the disease. The one thing that seems never to have oc curred to the rulers of the soldier's destiny is to apply themselves to preclude. tempta tion ; whereas on this depends every hope of surmounting the whole difficulty. In a kindred case the action of the State was di rected, not spinet passion but temptation. Lord CAMPBELL'S Act against licentious literature is a full recognition of the principle of beginning at the beginning, and forbidding wanton provocation of the passions. So far is the State at present from doing even thus much on behalf of the soldier's self-respect, that it opens the door wide to every evil passion thatroams through society, seeking whom it may devour. Oar young soldiers have not enough to do ; and what they have to do is irksome. The very last tortures of ennui are experienced in depot, in camp, in barrack ; and while there is, generally speaking, no provision made for the rational and profitable eccupation and pleasant recreation of the soldiers, the whole world of licence is thrown open to men wearied with idleness, desperate with dulness, and craving the relief and luxury of jollity. " The idle men are always the " worst," we are informed on authority; and there is no doubt that the soldiers who were ar tisans before they entered the army, and who are so fortunate as to be allowed (as some are in India) to occupy their leisure is pursiOng their art for their own profit, are steadier, healthier, and hap pier than the poor fellows who can find nothing to do so attractive as repairing to low drinking houses, and going the round of unlawful pleasures there. This is a sort of doom to the common run of young soldiers where there are no privileges of school, reading-room, active games in the day and innocent ones in the evenings, harmless refresh ment rooms, and a brisk sociality in the midst of comfort, to be had without transgression, and with an actual promotion of respectability. This is not the only way in which the State may apply itself to deal with temptation rather than passion. It must protect the soldier's health before he has fallen into the abyss, instead of only doing what can be done afterward'. A state of health and vigour such as belongs to pure air, wholesome food, quiet sleep, and due exercise of body and mind, is always and everywhere favour able to respectability ; and a languid, restless, and suffering state of body is in itself a temptation to vice when the way is open. As for the other direction taken by precaution—that which deals with passion—the plainest and most pressing duty is to suppress the brothels altogether, and punish with all practicable severity the proprietors and abettors of that intolerable nuisance. If these houses were treated as Thieves' Homes are, society would have a better conscience than it has, and our soldier", as well as the re.t of the manhood of the country, would have • better chance in life. And there is no evidenoe--really none whatever— that any new evils would arise, or that any would remain so fatal as what would be got rid oL So much may be regarded as the morel treat went of the case. In the physical, there is quite as much to be done which is as yet unattempted. That much of the disease which, wording to high medical testimony, is the result of dirt (as small-pox and other epidemics are where contagion is out of the question) ought, of mune, to be precluded by good sanitary manage ment. How far • thorough and universal clean/i -nem might save society from the ravage of various contagious diseases, and this among them, will never be known till the experiment is tried ; but it would be better to resort to this experiment on behalf of the army than to that of giving a police recognition and legal protection to vice. Another very important point is to provide the highest pro fessional skill for the whole treatment of the diseased and the endangered. It is said, openly and on high authority, that our army medi cal officers are unsuccessful in the treatment of this order of disease, and that there is a needle s loss of time and strength accordingly. The remedy for this is a better instruction and more effectual study in the Army Medical SohooL The Dvaxeroa-GriczeAL ought to see to this as an improvement immediately and urgently needed. The soldiers that taken the beet care of in their ;{ ~' own proper hospitals, their tempters and victims may be consigned to the care already provided for them by legal and private charity. To tax the people of England for ite establishment of new hospitals for this class in connexion with every military and naval station, would be not only un necessary in itself, but it would inevitably bring after it the establishment of simi lar hospitals in the service of the rest of society. Farewell, then, to the dis tinctive honour and privilege of our country and people—the adoption of the family as the basis of society, and the reverence and love for the sacredness of the home as the security for all that, as a nation, we have and hope for. Those who are now " sounding public opinion " on behalf of the perilous experiment they advo cate will say, that the objects we have held up are exactly those which they are proposing and pursu ing. If so, it rests with them to prove that their fresh methods are necessary to the attainment of those objects. Some of the highest authori ties, medical and military, are of opinion that the new treatment would aggravate every evil, physical and moral ; while its undeniable that there are means, safe, pure, simple, and manifest, which are much more likely to succeed, and which have never been tried. The present waste of manhood, in the army and out of it, cannot be tole rated—something must be done ; but common sense requires that we should undo the evil we have done, and reverse the management by which vice and disease have been fostered, before we resort to any policy from which the moral sense of our people recoils. Now that this controversy has been ventured upon, any carelessness or levity on the part of the country, and especially of Parliament, would be a crime. When the next session opens, our legis lators and their constituents must be prepared to deal decisively with any attempt, open or dis guised, to involve na in an experiment which might cost us precisely that for which we most value our lot as the people of England. THE QUEEN AND THE WARWICKSHIRE MAGISrRATES. It will be in the recollection of mart of our readers (says the Biriniswfiess Poe!) that, a county meeting of the Warwickshire magiskatm, presided over by Lord Leigh, MN held at Warwick a few weeks ago, to express to her Majesty their disapprobation of such exhibitions as that at Aston-park, which resulted in the death of the Female Blondie, and to promise to use their influence to prevent such exhibitions in Warwickshire for the future. The fal lowing reply has been received from her Majesty : [Corr.) " Abrgel.die Mains, Balloter, August 29. "My dear Lord Leigh,—l have received from Coburg the commands of the Queen to express the gratifiestioo with which bar Majesty has heard that the magistrates of the county of Warwick have unanimously resolved to exer cise whatever longterm they pewits to prevent the repe tition of such dangerous and degrading exhibitions aa that which lately ended fatally to the poor woman exhibiting. —Bieerelv yours, " The Lord Leigh." "C. B. PHIPPS. THE PRIWCE AirD PRINCIPE Or WALES. —On Mondry the Prone west to the Glen of Gino& deer stalking, and was van fortunate in securing three fine step, with this wonderful coincidence, that respectively the three carried eight, tea, sad twelve points. At five in the anemone the Prince returned home, cheerfully chatting with Mr. Great. Although from half-past 12 it had rained in perfect dreams, his royal highness declined the use of his bores, preferring to walk aloes with his men, and one of the trophies at his day's non In the evening the three antlered kings of the forest were exhibited to the Priscees sad snits by terch.light, and Peter Robertson having " tweed his pipes, and pr'd them skirl,' the torch hems* tripped it lightly ea the peen in real Blain' style, to the great delight of the whole royal party. The Roo. Mrs. Cook left the castle in the foregone, lira. Brace (who is to supply her place) reaching in the evening. On Tuesday morning, the Prime and party went to the moors far a few hours, and in the thereon, aloe( with Kr. Phipps and the other stembers and attendants, went deer-stalking. Tuesday wee the Prinosees birthday, but the remake passed off very quietly.—Deader Advertiser. We understand that Prince Frederick of Den mark is entered at Christ Church, and will become resident in Orford at the commencement of the ensuing term. The Rev. Mr. Kitohin, of Christ Church, junior proctor, ban been appointed tutor to the young Prince ; and the mi. dime of Mr. Alderman Randall, at Grendpont, has been mega for the seconmondatios of himself and suite. Sir Houston and Lady Stewart have been enter taiaiag the following empower at the Admiralty Baum Devooport The Duke of Sormaset, the Lord Chancellor, Lord °drilla, How. Admiral and Mn. Keith Stewart, Sir Hiroo and Lady Maxwell, Mrs. Joan, of Pant.laa, and the Mimeo Joan, Mr. and Mao Garth, Capt. Stewart, C. 8., and Mn. Stewart, he. The marriage of Lord Londeeborough with Lady Edith Somerset is fixed to take place on Monday, t►e 14th isst. Colonel the Hon. Peregrine Cuat and Frances Counter of Albemarle returned to town oa Thursday from a tour oe this Continent Bar ladyship and Coloeel Oast ►ill shortly leave town for Belton Houle, Lincolnshire, the seat of Earl Brownlo►. LATEST INTEILIGIiNCE. THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have received Bombay journals dated August 9. The reputed Nana was still a prisoner at Ajuiere, but was about to be removed to Agra. The Bombay Gazette says :—" The evidences of the iden tity of the Ajmere prisoner with the Nana Sahib of Bhitoor are becoming small by degrees. Few now seem to believe that we have that notorious rebel in our grasp. By latest accounts, however, from Rajpootana, orders bad been issued for his removal to Cawnpore under the charge of Captain CamelL He is to be escorted by detachments of the Inniskilling Dragoons and of lift L's 28th Re giment. A rather large force will be sent with him, and they will proceed via Agra. It seems strange that means are not taken to prove his identity or otherwise with the Nana of Bhitoor before the great expense and difficulties of a long journey are entered upon. Especially is this the case when the photographs of the prisoner which were sent to Cawnpore were pronounced by Capt. Court, of the police, and by Dr. Check, the civil surgeon, both of whom were well acquainted with the Nana, as not at all resembling him." The King of Bokhara has taken Kokes', and written to the officers commanding the Russian troops in Agba Musjid, Burkarak, and Hurst Sooltan, to vacate those forts as they belonged to Kokan. The Russians have vacated the fort of Agha Muajid for the present. Hindoo inhabitants of Bengal have memorialised the Governor-General and Legislative Council of India on the subject of polygamy as sanctioned by the custom of the country, praying for legislative interference for its suppression. The Hon. Rajah Deo Narain Singh intends to introduce a bill on polygamy into the Governor- General's council when it next meets. The famous Baize Bai, grandmother of the pre sent Maharajah of Gwalior, is dead. Her immense wealth will fall to the maharajah. The attempt to increase the growth of cotton in the Mysore territory by the free distribution of seed, and the offer of prizes for its cultivation, has proved a failure, there being no competitors for the rewards. The laudable endeavours of the government have therefore ended in disappoint ment. The excessive and continuous rain has ruined the prospects of the cotton crops in the Agra districts. The grain crop, which in some places has been sown three times over, is all but destroyed. The rain has been very propitious in Berar, and three-fourths of the Kburreef crop this season consist of cotton. The grain crops in the district will not suffice even for local consump tion. Cholera was raging at latest dates in Lucknow, Allahabad, Benares, and other places in the North- Weet. Captain John Jardine, the commander of the ship Adelaide, which arrived from Liverpool on the 4th instant, drowned himself on the Ist July by jumping overboard while in a state of insanity, near the Cape of Good Hope. Obituary.—Lieutenant Digby Fairfield, com manding 3rd Battery, 25th Brigade R.A., at ' Calcutta ; Captain C. J. Griffith, Staff Corps, at Kotagherry ; and Assistant Surgeon Allandy, at Hydrabed, Scinde. (asuna's =mums.) RIISSLL THE UKRAINE PEASANTRY. ST. PETERSBURG, Barr. 5. As imperial decree, dated the 12th of August, orders that, from the 13th inst., the peasanta of the Ukraine shall become proprietors of their laud, and shall pay a certain amount ea purchase money to the state. THE RUSSIAN REFORMS. PAWS. Sur. 5. The Courtier du Dinuniche says :—" Baron de Budberg will not return to Paris before Sunday or Monday." The same journal explains in what respect Art. 8 of the federal reform project, regulating the declar ation of war, has modified the former situation, and that it will bring about negotiations between Prus sia and Frames. AMERICA. . (aarrra's BOMBARDMENT OF CHARLESTON. TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF FORT SUMTER. QUEENSTOWN, Szrr. 4. No positive indication of the Russian reforms spcken of by the journals has yet transpired. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Bin. 4. The Royal Mail steamer China, from New York on the 26th ult., arrived here at 7 p.m. She brings 60 passengers and 219,241 dols. in specie. She landed the mails, consisting of 102 sacks, and pro ceeded at 7.20 p.m. All well. An aide-decamp of the Emperor of Austria has arrived here with the protocol of the deliberations of the Congress, signed by the Princes, and an in vitation to the King of Prussia to favour it with his approvaL (Pee the Chios.) The Archbishop of York has accepted office as one of the eies•presidasts of the National Shakspeare Com mittee. The Rev. Arthur P. Stanley, Begins Professor of Eocksdastical History, Word, has *sod the committee. "The church," says the di/icemen., "appears to be gather big strop* round the poet's acme—a fact w►ich we rejoice to me, as a balance and adjustmeat at the many secular interests which Sad a centre is that same. Besides the Archbishop of York and Oman Stanley, now added, the list already includes the Bishops of Loudest, Worcester, and St Hasid's, together with the Deaa of Chichester. sad the Rem Wiliam Hareems, Alexander Dyes, J. O. Bellew, sad J. Brewer." NEW YORK, Auourr 24, Rviarnia. The advance of General Roseanne' army ap peared before Chattanooga on the 21st instant and opened fire upon the city, where General Joe Johnston is commanding, having superseded General Bragg, who had gone to Atlanta. The Confederates opened fire from nineteen guns, which did little damage and were disabled by the Federal fire. The Federals disabled two steamers moored at the wharf, but were unsuccessful in their attempt to destroy the pontoon bridge opposite the city. The Confederate works upon the river are very strong, the parapets being fifteen feet wide. There are several water batteries on a level with the river. Two Confederate divisions are at Chattanooga, and there is a large Confederate force in the neigh bourhood. SAXONY. General Wilder crossed the Tennessee river on the 22nd inst., and destroyed a small railway bridge, which, it is said, severs the communica tion between the right and the left of the Confe derate army. Immense numbers of deserters are reported to be in the mountains, awaiting the Federal advance. The military force now concentrated in New York is estimated to number 30,000 men, infantry and cavalry. The artillery occupy Madison, Tomp kins, and other public squares. The drafting continues in this city. There is more excitement, but no disturbance. During the bombardment of Charleston, on the 18th, a shot from Fort Wagner broke a piece of the interior lining of the iron-clad Cattakill, and struck the heads of Commander Rogers and Paymaster Woodbury, killing them instantly. Charleston harbour and Stow; river are full of torpedoes. Quantrell has entirely destroyed Lawrence, Kansas. The attack was made at midnight, Fifty prominent citizens, including the mayor, were killed, it is said, in their houses, surrounded by their families. Over one hundred citizens were wounded, and 25 negro recruits shot. Senator Lane has escaped. Lawrence is princi pally inhabited by New England emigrants, between whom and their Missouri neighbours there were strong antagonistic feelings. It is supposed that the Lawrence massacre will lead to sanguinary border warfare. DRESDEN, Sin. 4. It is asserted that Lee, largely reinforced, was preparing to invade Maryland. The conscription of all men between 16 and 60 was rigidly enforoed in Richmond. Beauregard officially states that all negroes cap tured are held in military custody, subject to orders of the Governor of South Carolina, to be dealt with according to the State law. The will of Major-General Sir Joshua Jobb, K. 0.8., of The 120 s, Fidheas, has been proved I. Leedom. The pommel property war mom ander 304004 flit Joshua entered the Royal &Oaten in 1812, berme colonel in 1888, major-wand 1880, had eer►ed in dairies in 1812-14 and rowed os fall pay. Sir &alma held the came of surveyor iseral of prisons, inspector-general of military prisons, end chairman of the directors of ciesviot prisons. Sir Joshua, who was la his erreatieth year, died in June last. His will bean date 1884, sad there are two oodicibs, dated 1868, sad 1880. To his wife, Lady Amelia (who is the daughter of the mond Earl of Chitimated, be leaves a liberal annuity and a portion of the furniture, wine, ibe. To his soo, Joshua Gladtryn Jobb, Esq., he has devised hie real estate, and, after leaving a peonalary legacy to web of his three dasmhters, &rests the residue of the personal estate to be divided bates.. then sad hie elm. The health of Rear-Admiral Washington is in so awatisfeetoey a Mate, that he bas been enamelled to modem his reeipiatios of the poet of hydrotropism to the navy. NEW YORK, Amon 25, Evora. The bombardment of Forts Sumter, Wagner, and Gregg by the land and naval batteries, commenced on the 17th inst., and was kept up continuously till the 23rd. The Southern journals of the latter date say :—" Fort Sumter is now a ruin, the north-west wall has fallen in, the guns are all dismounted, the east wall is cracked and breached, and the enemy's shot sweep through the fort. Colonel Whett, commanding at Fort Sumter, is ordered to hold his outposta even as a forlorn hope, until he is released, or Fort Sumter captured." General Gilmore demanded the surrender of Morris Island and Fort Sumter on the 22nd, threatening to shell Charleston in four hours if they were not surrendered. General Beauregard replied, charging General Gilmore with inhumanity and violation of the laws of war, and affirming that, if the offence were re peated, he would employ stringent measures of re taliation. Upon the morning of the 23rd General Gilmore gave notioethat he would open fire upon Charleston on the following day, and that itrthe meantime non combatants could leave the city. Twenty-three Federal vessels, including the iron sides and monitors, are inside the bar of Charles ton, and there are 13 more outside. The Southern journals assert that General Rosecrans shelled Chattanooga on the 21st, with out giving notice of his intention to do so. The Bichmond Whig thinks there are but two means of preventing a long continuance of the war ; these are either foreign intervention, or sue easeful resistance by the Northern conservatives to the Abolition faction in Washington. The Whig says :—"We want French aid. We are able to pay for it. Let us do it. We shall then have peace, or power to wreak vengeance on our foe." The King of Saxory has returned to this capital, accompanied by King Ferdinand of Portugal. The latter is about to visit the Duke of Coburg, at the Castle of Roeenau, where Queen Victoria is at present residing. CHINA. SHANGHAI, JULY 22. Political affairs in China are generally quiet. Cholera is raging at Shanghai. A civil war has commenced in Japan. The relations with foreigners are stated to be Pacific. The desertions of substitutes for dratted men having become so frequent in the Federal army, it is officially announced that in all such cases the extreme penalty of martial law will be administered. The report that General Grant bad opened the Mississippi trade to all loyal citizens was untrue. The New York Herald says there are now 90,000 troops in New York, and that as the rebel!ion is nearly crushed, these troops should be sent to take possession of Vera Cruz. The Florida has captured and bonded the ship Francis B. Cutting. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE NEW YORK. AUGUST 25, Evicztatu. The Malta Times taps :—"lt appears to be pretty (snake that the govereenhip el Melte, which, is the marry douse of things, would expire in April seat, bee Iwo offered to the present Lord High Commisioaer of the lonian blends; bat it being desirable to keep Major- Gowen! Storks at him post aeW the blends be formally owls over to Green, Sir Jobs Gaspard Le Merchant lass hese requested to Male the roles of government in Malta until that event shall take pleat How Meg we may have to wait for its oonsammatioo it Is impossible to my at pre sent; but from certain iadicatioes we should think that a man► Mew time is likely to elegem before the aseeseary for mention are oompletel, sad the Islands are formal/7 con ceded, than Is supposed by the gourd public." The Newcastle Chremiele observes of the meetings of the British A 110066311 :-" We have mimed the repro. seetatives die great Loess d Northumberland, of Dur ham, of Itaveasworth, of Grey. of Loodosderry, end Tan kerville, la those proesedinp of the seecsistioa, where, 25 years age. they abed Metre end bosearably strove to lead iaterset. At the propost massitag edema bee been left to the ease and madam d Madams sad ismodaidurws, mad to the mood at Wm mobile Money easy. Gold 221 premium. Fachauge on Loudon 136. Stocks tending downwards. New York Central, 136 k ; lilinois, 134 ; Erie, 1191. Cotton heavy ; middling upland, 6540. Flour heavy, and 10c. lower. Wheat dull, and 2c. lower. Corn very firm. Provisions dull. Coffee steady. Sugar very firm. Molasses good enquiry. _ NEW YORK, Aunufrr 26, Mosinao. Fort Sumter is in ruins. The city of Charleston wss shelled on the 24th inst. General Rosecrans has shelled Chattanooga. The Southern press call for French aid. New York is quiet. Southern Charleston despatches of the 25th inst. say :—" At 12 o'clock last night the enemy opened firenponthecity, firing 15 eight-inch Parrott shells. Non.combatanta are leaving the city in continuous streams ; 600 shot were fired at Fort Sumter, on the 22nd, 419 taking effect." The Richmond E.cantiner says :—" If the Federals captured the whole of Morris Island, they might close Charleston as a port of entry. But it would not enable them to take the city, as General Beauregard can maintain himself against any force sent or likely to be sent against him." A Federal expedition has proceeded to Granada, Mississippi, forcing the Confederates to destroy a large amount of railroad stock. General Lee's army, estimated at 60,000 men, is around Culpepper Court-house ; General Long- THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1863. street holds AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Jon. SI. The new tariff bill has passed the Assembly. The natives of Waiters have declared war, and 5,000 of them have taken the field. General Cameron law withdrawn his troops for the defence of Auckland. The Union publishes a letter addressed by M. Louie Vesillot to the new Minister of the Interior, solicit ing an authorisation to found a new political sod daily journal in Paris. The writer states that after the suppres sion of the Univers be had made several applications to the same effect, but that although other writers of various opinions had obtained the favour, be had always been refused, thin in a measure placing him out of the pale of the law. This application does not appear to hare been more successful with the new minister than with his pre. decently, CR M. Boudet is said to ha►e signified his refusal through one of the clerks of the °Mee of the department of the prem. The Berlin Faculty of Medicine ban commenced an onslaught as the drinking of Bavarian beer, which they declare to be the cause of innumerable mans of variety. Bin. r i sa beer, which was sot known in Prussia, twenty years ago, is now largely oonsumed in that country. The naval force of France consists of 94 armour clad screw vessels, carrying 1,142 guns ;187 screw vessels, not armour-clod, carrying 5,662 gum ; 86 paddlewheel steamer'', carrying 534 guns ; and 111 sailing weasels, carrying 2,380 guns ; that is, 478 ships, saying 9,718 gnu. The naval force of Russia consists of the Bahia Beek numbering 9 ships of the line, 14 frigates, 6 ennettes, 28 steamers, sad 5 traritpcets ; of the Bleak Bea fiest, numbering 42 war stamen ; of the Amoor gent, anaihering 6 (Jarrett's. 7 schoenen, and 11 transports ; of the Caspian Est, number ing 2 steamers and 10 transports; of the White Sea fleet, numbering 5 meaner& ; and of the Laks Aral Beet, number- Mg 2 Alm= ; et 147 Alp II Miro and General Stuart is guarding the fords el the Rappahannock. The North Carolina troops have passed resolu tions denouncing the peace party in that State. Quantrell's guerillas have been disbanded. The Federale are still pursuing them. Mayor Opdyke, of New York, has vetoed the municipal appropriation for drafted men. The Common Council of New York has resolved to pass an appropriation over the Mayor's veto. The firemen and the city militia have sent s com mittee to the Mayor requesting an appropriation for their exemption. The blockading squadron has destroyed the British steamer Hebe off New Inlet. Vessels arriving here report a violent hurricane along the American coast line from the 18th to the 22nd instant The Federal brig Bainbridge has foundered ; one miui only wee saved. NEW YORK, AuGuerr 26, Woos. The centre of General Bragg's army in Tenessee is at Chattanooga, and the left wing at Bolton. General Buckner has 1,000 men at Cleveland. Bragga' army numbers 30,000 men. An explosion has occurred on board a steamer at Vicksburg, killing 160 men. Gold 23 per cent, premium. NEW YORK, AUGUST 26. The Toronto Leader of to-day announces that a treasonable plot has been discovered to betray Canada into the hands of President Lincoln's ad ministration. The British consul at New York is stated to have communicated the facts to his go vernment. It is ascertained from authentic sources that British official circles here have no knowledge of the report contained in the Toronto Leader. It is doubtless a canard. (By Telegraph to Cape Ram) NEW YORK, AUGUST 28, Roam:to. News from Charleston to 24th August, evening, states that Fort Sumter had been entirely de stroyed, but had not surrendered. The Federal fleet was preparing to move up the harbour. Great dissatisfaction prevails at the slowness of the operations of the fleet. Forts Moulton, Gregs, and Johnston, as well as the batteries on the Suliven and James's Wands kept up a steady fire upon the Federals on Morris's Island, doing, however, little damage. During the night of the 21st inst. General Gil more threw five shells, charged with Greek fire, into Charleston. General Beauregard protested against the short time allowed for the removal of women and children. The British, French, and Spanish Consuls demanded more time for the removal of their subjects. General Gilmore replied by again demanding the surrender of the forts and public property. General Beanregard then demanded a trace of 40 hours, which was refused by General Gilmore, who recommenced shelling the city upon the night of the 22nd. The Richmond Examiner says :—" The shelling of the city and the destruction of 80 houses is of minor importance if the fortifications and the har bour can be held. Two blockade runners entered Charleston on the 23rd. The negotiations.for an exchange of prisoners are - - The refusal of the Confederates to regard negroea as prisoners of war causes some difficulty. It is reported that the Confederates will now re gard Colonel Streghths as a prisoner of war. The Federals will place Morgan on the same footing. The Confederates have banded General Maldor over to the civil authorities ; the Federal', in con sequence, will place a Confederate brigadier-general in close confinement. An excited meeting of drafted Germans has been held in New York, at which the conscription was denounced as a cruel and inhuman measure, and organisations were urged against its consequences. A committee has been appointed to confer with General Seymour and test the legality of the act. The Confederate steamer Everglave has been sunk near Tybee Island. A privateer crew in uniform was present on board. Several of them were captured. Twelve steamers entered Wilmington in five days. One of them was of 1,500 tons, and pierced for six guns• VERY LATEST. NEW YORK, AUGUST 28, NOON. A Federal gunboat, arrived at Fortress Monroe from off Wilmington, reports that the steamer Florida had arrived at the latter place with intelli gence that the Federal' occupied Forts Sumter and Wagner on the 24th inst. Galignani announces a curious novelty in the provinzial theatres of France—opera played without music; that is, converted into comedies, with spoken dialogue, of necessity retouched. The works in the interior of the new hotel in which the Paris Jockey Club is to be installed are rapidly advancing towards completion. The new building is situated at the corner of the Boulevard des Cepucioes and the Roe Scribe, opposite the western side of the Grand Hotel. Two carriage 'erotica in the Rue Scribe give acne' to the house, end ere so arranged a to afford free ingress and agrees to carriages. The first floor is composed of 11 large rooms. The large conversation/nom is elliptical, sad is the only one ornannoted with gilding. The dining room is decorated in stew and red Pyrenean marble with Ink pillar ; style Lords XIV. MUSKETRY INSTRUCTION OF VOLUNTET.R.S.— Claims for the musketry isstruction of volunteer, under the provisions of article 171 of the Volunteer Regulations, will be formed at the schools of musketry at Hytbe and Fleetwood, respectively, esi the 19th inst. Officers command ing volunteer corps in Scotland, or in Northumberland, Criorberland,Watuicreland, Durham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, and the Isle of Man, who wish to send one or more members to the class at Fleetwood, are requested to transmit their applications to the War-office not later than the 15th inst. Officers commanding volunteer corps in the remaining por tions of Great Britain may apply for permission toned one or more member of their corps to the class at Hythe not later than the 15th nat. The commanding officer's appal. cation should in each cese be socompenied by a certificate in the form given in Appendix V. of the Volunteer Regulation in regard to the volunteer's proficiency in the manual and platoon exerting, and hie willingness to impart indruetio to the members of his corps on his return.—M. Mlioano. —War-offioe, Sept. 4, 1863. Tug CHANNEL FLEET AT GREENOCK.—The weather on Wednesday continued favourable for visitors in specting the warships, and the number that went out was larger than on Wednesday. Still, however, the steamer were far too abundant, and the same bustle and confusion prevailed, notwitatuding an order issued " that no steamers should nano at a berth longer than halter-hour." Amongst other dodges to entice passengers, one Liver pool tug-owner engaged a few strolling players, and made them strike up till one steamer was filled, when he removed them to another. Shortly after tea a.m. the fine Belfast mail steamer Wolfe left Greeaock pier with a select company of ladies and gentlemen, and proceeded out to the ship, of wars, whore tbvy took on board Admiral Dawes and the principal officers of the fieet, who were in vited to a pleasure cruise round the Kyles of Bute to Ix& Ranee, by the Mears. Buns, of Glasgow. In the evening a grand ball came off in the new Town Hall, Greenock, at which about 150 office', including those of the 41st Regi ment, were present, in iddition to a large mein of ladies and gentlemen belonging to the tows sad neighbourhood.— Sods/rum. THE PILCHARD PISMIRE.—The Cornish fisher , men have every preen of a good seen. Some of the bode on Wetlands, sight caught as many as 12 hogsheads. The Monnt'eßay been ern Monday took alone 300 boyhood& I Several seises have bees shot in different parts of the nut, and large captures mode. The fish, generally speaking, are fin. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (fox ova OWN COI PARIS. Faroky Evimma. Letters from Vera Cruz of August 1 bring news of the loss of the French steam frigate Montezuma, which left on July 11 to support an expedition of " counter-guerillas " against Minatitian, and foun dered in the night of the 14th and 16th, on a sand bank two miles north of Guazacualcos. The crew is saved, but the ship is in a hopeless state. Th e Minatitian expedition is said to have succeeded but a considerable portion of the native "counter guerillas," after having obtained from the French authorities at Vera Cruz arms, clothing, and a bounty for enlistment, decamped and joined Juarez' forces. A gross misrepresentation of the French government press is exposed by these letters. It has always been said that the empire, with Arch duke Maximilian for sovereign, was voted unani- I mouldy by the "Notables," less two voices only. The fact is that out of a chamber of 250 there were 110 abstentions. There seems to be no doubt that the Imperial Court of Lyons, in suppressing the Courtier de It Etienne the other day, has been guilty of a crass error in law. It decree is based upon an article in the constitution of 1852, which enacts that any newspaper convicted for the second time shall be ipso facto suppressed. That article was repealed by a Senatus Consultum of 1861, which was vaunted at the time as a liberal measure. It is really mar vellous that the Lyons judges should have over looked such an important statute. The Court of Caseation must necessarily reverse the judgment. A great many eloquent articles have been written in England about the condemnation by the French government of the electoral address of the seven bishops, and it has been taken for granted that the aggressiveness of the clergy had received a serious check. It is probably not generally known that the appel contme d'abus is a totally innocuous proceeding. It is a dry censure, unacoompanied by any penal sanction. The bishops who are de clared by the highest judicial authority to have " abused " their spiritual jurisdiction are in no way molested or threatened either in their tem poral or spiritual capacity. The decree does not prevent them offending in like manner to morrow, and throws no difficulty in the way of other prelates who may be disposed to imitate their insolence. In times when church and state pulled well together, i.e., when the church frankly accepted the subordinate position assigned to it by the Gallic institutions of the revolution, the aped comma d'abus may have produced a certain moral effect. But now, when nitramontaniam is rearing its head, these inoperative censures merely give the clergy the stimulus of cheap and easy martyrdom. A catholic print, Le Amnia/ des Villes et Campagnu, condemns the censure of the Council of State, and the delinquent bishops care no more about it than did the hackney coachman mentioned by Beaumar chais, who, when summoned before the parliament of Paris for having insulted a councillor, was told by the president, "The tribunal censures you and declares you infamous." " Will that prevent me driving my coach N ovas the man's reply. And when he found it did not, he cared as little about the sen tence as the bishops do now. There is no political news to account for the fall at the Bourse, which, moreover, is not very serious. Holum RACES AT CONSTANTINOPLE.—The forth coming race meeting, under the immediate patronage at the Sultan. is likely to be one of the mod intending spectacles of the kind withstood in this capital for many years . = since it his Majesty's desire that no effort shall be to make the occasion a perfect sucoces. The first preli minary meeting to carry out the seoemery arrangements was held yesterday, and later in the day • careful survey of the proposed course, at the Sweet Waters of Europe, was made by the chairman of the committee, Safer Puha, Messrs. B. T. Back and A. Ivannoff, the boo. secretary. The ground appears to have been admirably chosen, • level valley of sufficient range, encircled by gently rising ground, affording ample accommodation for spec tators to command • perfect view of the running. At • comparatively trifling expense the course may be railed off and stands placed; but as the mediae is to be • special " imperial" one that will be • minor caddis tlol2. The edsdlos al the Sweet Waters is also well judged from the valley's pomading the great advantage 4 being easy of acmes from town both by Lod sod eater. Although no formal entries of horses have yet been made, there is no likelihood of a shortcoming in this respect. Per haps no capital in Europe can bout of so magnificeot • col lection of the beet Arab horses as are to be found hers, sod under the peculiar inducements of the ocessiou we have every reason to expect that the forthcoming run will be in every way attractive and exciting.—Levant Berald. August 26. THE CONFEDERATE STRAMERB.—WO are glad to find that our contemporaries who exulted some time ago In the triumphs of the Florida and Alabama, and took much comfort in the law of the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, are • little startled by the legitimate result of their dot-tripes, and begin to doubt the reasnoablenese of our expecting the Federal government to be content with our neutral trade of building steam-rams for the Coe federates. We have ever held that such a precedent we about one of the very worst that could be established for Great Britain—that it could be made an amid el incalculable mischief in case of war with the United States or with France. If it ever can be lawful for the subject. of • neutral nation to fit out, equip, sod man a vessel of war for • belligerent with which the 'dem meat of the neutral has no relation whatever, which it only recognises in exercising belligerent rigida—to arm it on their own coast, and thee to send it not to sea to pie? on the commerce of a country with the government of which their country is not only at peace, but bound by close treaty and engaged in diplomatic relations—boisting a flag on hoard, .which the ship has never bad an opportunity of acquiring by a moment's domicile in the waters of the power for which it is warring—if ever these be legal arta the supremacy of Great Britain at sea will never avail her again. If such be our law now, it ought to be changed not in Federal interests, but in our own. It is no sufficient answer to the natural objections made by the aggrieved belligerent, that the law of their own weedy aid their peat piactioe justify th e act. If Ireland was in • state of rebellion, and was so closely blockaded that not • ship could enter her ports, what would our government do in case the citizen ship-builders of New York sent out steam frigates with the harp and green flog flying, sod commenced burning British ships, seder the pretence that they were Inch mon-of-war, and argued that such proceedings were quite justified by law and precedent! Re fszicy the go vernment of the United States would bear eomethiog on the subject of • very decided character.—dewy and Nary Gwette. THE GREENWICH PENsIONERS.—At the meeting of the Greenwich Board of Guardians held last evening, Mr. IL Carter, cbairmen, a communication was received from the Admiralty, notifying oertaiu alterations in the con dition of the in-pensioners of Greenwich Hospital In future each married man is to receive an extra allowance of Is. per week to enable him the better to support him w ife and family, provided such in-pensioner be Dot in possession of any place or employment to the hospital yielding him • boxer sum weekly. The gtverron's council has authority to mulct any pensioner of such allowance, or an port of it. or of the weekly allowance already granted under the regulations of the let of March, 1861, upon eatisfactory peont of such pensioner having neglected to provide to the beat of his ability for his wife and family. la the ease of • married in- pen is being compelled by Mods to become aa inmate of the infirmary or helpless wards, the above allowaaeee an to be continued to him io fidl, subject as above to the authority of the governor's council Should such pen- Wooer be in receipt of wages attached to any plane or em ployment in the hospital, such wages are to be continued to be paid for one month ooly. on condition of his providing a substitute to perform his duty to the satisfaction of the governor, and 'object to the regulations of the gnversor's domicil. Upon the death of a pensioners wife, the expense to be defisyed by the hospital, in the same manner and under the some regulations as are now pursued with re spect to • deceased pensioner. The wives and children of , peeisioners are to have medical advice and medicines gratis j at the infirmary dispensary, upo the aproval of the pan ' cipal medical officers of the hospi n tal, voide p r such regulatioes as the civil, military, and medical officers may, in concert, deem necessary to prevent abuse and irregularities. The proceeds derived from the unclaimed effects of deceased and "ran" peeeiodni, as well as from mukts imposed !n , the governor's council, to form a fund which the commis sioners are empowered to employ, at the recommeodatioa of the military authorities, in making such addition to the wide and children of deceased is-pensioners as ,nay be suf ficient to enable them to return to their own homes or parities.