The Express. — London, England, 1864-10-18 00:00:00

. . . . . . ; n I . 4 1... ..,./.. ~r . ..!.."/..(;e „ ...e--z--- .. / -fr. NEWSPAPER c- , cu---o-=--..---X---- , --z- „ 9— , -----, 1 * _l .- / \ •a..i.. s. t ;1 1 :Sti . : ' l . ‘ 4 ' i i; .4 'i .: (.. ..1. , . ....__ ,•Va .. i it . . , _ l l .1 -: L ~,, 4; , , ... C.i• . 44111 ,'' :, ' i •: 1t T . ..... ____ ___ ~ _. „,... .. , _........ ..: ssatii,x. 4.4"..-- --•----t------r--' o"Ti.+ 6. 0. 446, —lt._ NIIIII [Stamped, ld. Additional Ns. 5,677.] LONDON, TUESDAY BVICNING, OCTOBER 18, 1864. TMAFthtAfiIiaINTELLIGENAL AItERIUA, [TWorENCE DRAMA. LA C K WALL LINE of PACHIFFS. —For 13 I.lx)raxm, POET PHILLIP, DireeL—Yessm Green's r.LLEALET, 1,100 tons, Captain H. T. GIHSON, will • . 0 , Lot India Docks on the 6th November. all M Ply. a:h. and MT, an experieneed IPUTIlOll.—Apply to jr. on inn. , • CornhilL h.C.—Prissensers by thisline can proceed ; , i.huyton to Plymouth at reduced tares by applying to aud Co. for tickets. iIORT REGENT, Captain LE GEYT, for jr E , ELAIDS.—Tha attention of shippers of fine and mason • respectfully drawn to this new Clipper. She will be c , .1,1 on the 77th 'nitwit, at a tight draught of water, to ), a rapid passage.—DEVlTT mod NOME, U,BilliteretreeL STEAM FROM LIVERPOOL OR QIIIINSTOWN TO NEW YORE. 'pH& LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, sad PLITLADELPHIA STE.BIIOi. OOMPAN Y Intend dee n .y.y. log their tull-powered Clyde-NM Iron Screw Stessellaps 6 0 04 the United Staley mails. FROM LIVIRPOOL for NSW YORK. CITY OF MANCHESTER, Wednesday, October IA CITY OF BALTIMORE, Wednesday, October IS CITY OF LIMERICK, Saturday, October P.D. And every Wednesday and every attenuate lieturday. Cabin wags by the mall steamers Balling every Wednesday, yy, IL and El gains's, acccrding te the secommoisOon. Cabin by the Saturday's steamers, 13 pines Forward pseudo p guineas , Including all provisions cooked. Paasensers for Mu* sas United Stake, and British Columblu booked throne. ye very advantageous terom—For hither particulars apply to STLLIAII INMAN St Wateroirset, Liverpool; or to LIVES Mel JEMMY. K. Ring Wlthamotheet. aft. BREMXIC—Neutral vessel under Russian flan.— Meet south to Hanover, Brunswick, and Central Ger , many.—oneat the tine ant class threw thearnartADLEN, HOW E, te SCHWALM will be despatched from Hors *Jdowq ever, /bleeder iffainifts 'weather perwittleab at 10 are., eYtlaa at Blackwell Pier ter pethensen at It noon.—tares to red ; return tickets, 1.3 and El 10e.—Apply at Clara: rolversel Begent-clrcus, W. orb P=.LIPPII, 011.1,1r118, tHILLIPPS. lied Co., 11. hood-laps, 10. ROTTERDAM and the RHINE. —TWICE • WEEK.—The paddle-steamer HATATIER, Capt. W. every &today, from Hermitage Tier, at 10 ow., calling it Blackwell for paaeengen sill am. Pam itt to o gl 10s., and 17a ed. , return, git t 2 fa., sad gl Oa Id. The mow steamer 1. YENCORD from off tha Tower inlay Monday monalag early. Farm, Al and Al lOo—For through Wee refer to the printed monthly time hills. Apply to MAPLINS Universal Mot W.. or to PRILLMS, GLYN!. PHILLIPPS. and CO.. H. good-lane, H.C. ATLANTIC and GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. Oakes, S. Old Itroad-atreet, Louisa. N.C. LiSCE Of SECOND MORTHAGI /30NDII. (OHIO DIVISION). Payable la Louden. 4.000,090du11a!a. Due 11 Coupos due lot January an cf.. Reared by a registered Mortgage on the Imome and all °expo. rate Rights, Privileges, Lands, Prosaism Plant and Property of the Ohio Diviaion of the Railway. The Imola are redeemable at par In New York, or In Laden at ti. 61. per dollar, and are banderable without stamp or ea ilmsnient : interest coupons us attedied to the bonds, payable rani annually, at the Consolidated Beak la London, at the tied iste of sa to the dollar. The bonds MR be issued at 61, at ioiab rate bonds of 1,000 dollar will met glto is.. carryiag CV:P , r.A tit/. January 1, 1911. Tic coupons represent £l4 per amass on each bond of 1,100 &tiara vi per cent. interest on mice of brae. The immense development of the Western States of Amelia, vithout any Increase in the meant of transit to the eastern porn, has given the Atlantic and Great Western Railway, as air dly as the different sections have been opened. an unex ampled so ...ceau. The whole line Is now fully ready for Mishima and thoroughly ballasted, but the demand for rolling stock ham bees so far In emiess of anticipation that adequate proviaion roc It Lai not been made, and 200 miles of the main line have re gained shut up until now. Great efforts ban bees made to supply locomotives, carriages, and trucks. The Company hr boils extensive works for their construction, and are now turn fir out one locomotive complete every tour days, and ter := mn ,every day. In this way the demand MA in r time. be supplied. A. the entire through traffic to sad from New York will pam OM the Ede Railway, it Is but reasonable that that Company, srloeh will so largely benefit, shoed teruish a portion of the audios stock, and to meet this a treaty has been made with the Die director for the expenditure of floe million dollars In the soeutzuction of amines and can. The entire amount Is now mid contract for repid dehvery, and. as ratite& will be used lusively for the through trzsc over the Atlantic end Great Western Railroad, the latter company on its part agreeing to supply a similar quantity for the mum purpose. followlog the financial policy ad at the outset. of issu- X,: securities to the public only titerr much of the Um was f abed es would secure the necessary income for providing the attend. the Company feel justified, now that the building of Sur crest railway is completed, in making this additional issue d bonds. - 1;17tIi the lasi tau years no railroad of any magnitude has ben built on the American ennUnent, except the Atlantic and Great Western, to whirls period the population and all produce, agricultural sad mineral, have largely increased; besets re• mita the preepernes state of 11101 i of the naves* whose nett receipts have enabled large dividends to be paid to the akek holden after peoviding interest on hulebtedness thee— The Cleveland. Columbus, and tfindanali Hallway divided last year l5 pee emit Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton lO little Miami MilzipigCentral lO Lake Shore, Cleveland, Paingeille. mad bus tabula and it mato' to doubted that the Atlaglie mg Great Wedeln, M:rg almost a monopoly of the petroleum lease, sad pass eirDthe extensive coal fields of Ohio, obtkh axe of anent than even the large fields et Penasylvanla, milr.t e w r results at Icist equal and most probably exceeding some of those above named. wt , fliesystem of this railway, when ID (*make. will Consist of—. The wale line - Salamanca to Dayton Branch to Cleveland l7 .. /mann Branch and Buffalo Butane= .... WO Total Of Ws 322 teller have barn sureasatully 'myeloid daring the srunnur. . for the lad three months the earnings having exceeded 1....av,C0 Fri/mating th• rocs's. on the =Wit Woe to 1. only aa treat In proportion and unquantionably the: will be sounders* lamer) there would scans Dols. A ;mss recent of Doluction SO per cent. working expenses Lenalnn net gain Interest on total bonded debt, laeladhag Doh Present Issue Lialot leaned lines . - Impugn Leaving eureka under ordinary ctreumstances„ would be applicable to rili.dend on stock, but for the =oust required to pay interest tr. , •ail 717,5 W dola being payable in London, at the fixed rue of H. per dollar, and the rate of exchange at present ruling "Ptini 3 " ll 7 high. a portion of above surplus would be ab serf ed is the premium for gold . It to than evident that the resources oi the road win be far more than equal to meet the charge for interest, even should the rate of exchange rule much higher than at present. The several dirldons of the Atlantis and Great Western Rail way hare been consolidated under the government of Jansen Lome Esq., whcee reputation as a hanker and railway adenine bat, is established in Europe as well so fn America. Mr. Robb, is President of the Atlantic and Great Western Railway. joins the direction of the Erie and other lines forming the through r • •e between New Ting and it Louis, so as to secure unity of Melon ll.e prke of tame has been tiled a• OIL The terms of Lune are as follows : Per teat. on application, belug .. 111 5 0 per bond of 1,000 dollars. 1 ' Per cent on allotment. being l2 10 0 „ Lt. r cent 19th November I! tv r rent. 19th December 11 per tent. 19th January duo lat January. 1145 10 0 S4'.imthers haee the optksi of paying the instalments in ad and will be allowed a discount of 0 per cer t. per aau um prepaiments. sit, r allotment, scripy certiecatet will be lamed to bearer." rertithates will l,e c•clamged for bonds to bearer' on ent ot the tligl In4shoei.t F- rma of aPPltcation may be obtained M the Consoll dated or at the uqt, ca 01 . 1.b41 company,. No. :1, Old Broad -street br.ker, 30. Thzoir o • etrgrt, London. E.C. Oct. 12. 1631. ATLANTIC Vitt ORRAT WPATRRN RAILWAY. 701.11 OP APPLICATIuS. 7 , - !. , rw anted to ?he dbces the Company, to.', Old Broad. ern.... London, LC., after payment of the preliminary deposit I, the Rankin. Yo. T.. the Atlantic and Great Western Railway Company. 11,1:4 paid to the Consolidated Bank Limited the earn ol . I hereby request that you will allot me $ Nortitalte Bonds of the Atlantic and Great Western RAU mot Di. Won , and I hereby agree to accept much Ihnola, or nunalwr that may he allwthd to me. I ao, 'one obedient servant, Algnatare Address in tall. Date ritilitTY THOUSAND POUNDS.—This 411,1 m( to he ADVANCED by • private Gentleman, In •• • f L 5,4 and up war,ls. to noblemen, gentlemen. heirs to en t • estates, officers on full pay, !cc., altb seciecy mid do. 6,1 tbvir note, of band, also on reversions. legacies, and ••• a., at 5 per cent —Apply, by letter only, to L. G., 17, " r. street. st. Janus . ., Ali. A YRMOUTH BLOATERS, in Season from . 11 rt 1 to end of Dec , 100. ba , 1,000. Lia.—Foroarded, upon t remittance, by FILLIJK. BARN BY, Great Yarmouth. 'l ' HE IN VIGORATIVE NERVLNE ESSENCE. fit Tbe mOrt scientifically prepared and most powerful untid ily, v , ohal ever introduced; restores to their normal condition t•, secretions, on the integrity of whleh perfect health de- It hi a Miscible for debility of all kinds. and from Its eon wool* other Ingredients, pepsine and phoepate of soda, r• trove highly beneficial to the nervous and dyspeptic. Per battle, or four quantities In one fJe 22e. Sate Si. vars. Isaumearten and Co., M. Word-street, W.C., as, Fenehurcloinrovt. F..C. London. 10ZEAU'S COPAHINK 'LEGE, successfully tned la the Path and London Hooptaath. =dee the i.e. ci )4- •n ner. 'Word. Lloyd, Poland, and three Cloth I" , lancet, Nor, e, 1 51 r1 , effects a care Is avenues et d s days atN , r c meat or chronic diem/seg.-4a. ed. Per bottle, t te. at C..107.F.Ar5, French chanlat.f), Balrearket. 5041 Ll Boaleyszt Magenta, ltdd. ROYAL LYOIIIJI4 THEATRE.--Under the eole management of Mr. PECHTER. —This Theatre will OPEN on SATURDAY next, October 42, commencing at balf-past with a New Drama, entitled THE KING'S BUTTERFLY. The new scenery painted by Mr. William Calloot&—Tentau, the Saga Butterfly Mr. Feebler. Meows. Ryder, IL Wwldicomb, P. Charles, W. Mclntyre, & Garden, Raymond, Moreland, Clifford. Collett; Misses Carlotta Leclerc% Si,Reared% E. Larson, sad li. Laren. The box-of See open daily, from II tills. Note. First Night of the New Drama, deers open at 7, comments at half-peat precisely. %IRE OXFORD.—Tbe Oxford and Canterbury 1 Han Company (Limited!. —MASANIELLO and MARTHA, by the whole of the Operatic tampany. LK rem moNDIN; JACKSON HAINES. the AZIOICSAI Skater Unmeant Karene, W. Randall, an., with an the available Went, THIS IVININO. STRAND MErEHME HALL-PROMENADE CONCERTS XVIILY EVENING. with full and salsa Bend of Forty Performers, including the following eminent Soloists : Herr atrebtager : Violoncello, W. 7. Reed; Elute, A. Went Ohoe, C. Engle Clarionetee, Q. Tula; Cornet. A. Boatman ; Euphonium. A. Jonno9A. COOTuctor—iii. F. la /7115BCRY. The following eminent artistes will Vocalisto—Millle. Rosa Wliks, of th=rratoire Royale do Mosame. Brussels, and of the priactml concerts of Belgium, Holland, Germany, Francs, &c. ; Ydlle. Tansy MothkW, psis soprano of the principal concerts of France, Germany, Frain.% Belgium, do. ;Ile. Carlotta Maw, of th e principal concerts of Francs, Belgium, Germany. he. Instrumentithatis—Vlolin, gig Giovanni Ado'mann, principal violinist at the Conairvaloire do Milan; Corsier4-Pistons. M. Dubose, professor at the Conservatoire 7tt i o i at Brussels: Piano forte, M. Tito Mattel, Mania to his the Ring of Italy. Admission. la. Private bazar, the. ; ta—Open at half-past I o'clock, comuneacie as I. GREI3HAM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, it Old Jewry. LC. P. ALLAN cusna, Actuary sad Secretary. THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON and GLOBE INBIINANCI COMPANY. &MUMMA IM6. . _ _ _ _ tams D 111•14114, Liverpool : 10 and lll,Poeltry ; 7, Corn ets. sa..t 503, Charles-arms. London. Erildimrared Menial 0 7 Parliament Invested Panda enamel A 3,000.000 Merlins. By an Act of the last Seeress of Parliament, the Globe Insur ance Company of London was amalgamated, as from the Nth September, 1801, with the Liverpool and London Company, sad by a Manse In the Act the name of the letter Company was subeequeatly changed to the LIVERPOOL and LORIN), and GLOBE iNsy*.vics COMPANY. —.. titie;sitlaOliieC;Mpeam M 4 2 . 0, 0. 00 0. of which 1700.0001, paid upend invieted : and In addition there are reserve funds, winA z iadfr e ild r sety of the We ftLCR — Thos Reserve, want to tlerc , ded 000. 1580,000, and were greater than those of any other company by upwards of £OOO,OOO. The ,atom In the duly return will be understood from the Mitowing statement: The Sus, ostablladed la 1710, colleted duty in 1800.. 1115,000 The rtmeels , 1781 „ „ 13%000 The Liverpool so d Loa 1101 „ IMMO wdm am( Globe Whilst no other y colleted as much as LINE INSUILANC. —TM premiums received la 1111 were /109,600 sad Ohs masithes paid 'mounted to £.11.,100. The fund accumulated to meet them Ilabilltko is 11,460,000. The lability of proprietors is ualintitaL SWINTON HOULT, Secretary to the Company. JOHN Arum% Resident Secretary. September, 1110 HOWARD and SONS' DINING TABUS, made by Ira Doer. with wood and Intel trams& r atgm i so screw.— arobouses, 116 aaa 27, Idarsomotrowt, —lllsolrabod estalogsos on applicatioa. fIAUTION.—The MOUNT ST. BERNARD NI.J mum —TARIM and BOGUS having received infor mation that a sparimis and Wirier hefletion of thetr registered ht. Bernard cloth La being Mimed for sale, respectfully caution the public 'Law the same, and to state that their. Is the only boom in London were the puulne and original cloth as be men or pureliesed.—The °BEAT SHAWL and CLOAY JULPORIVII, 171, 173, 17.5, and IN, Itegentetrest, W. I_IY•M and CO.'S CLOTHING ESTABLISRIfiNT, OS and IR, Oxford-Week The attention of fienliamen is terticakwiy Invited to the tot lowing arrangements into which Ryan& and Co.k littabilahment Is laid out for public accommodation Ne. L Clothier for Immediate Wear. No. it Wert Order Department. No. I. Juvenile and Teethe Department. No t. Rat and Rcelery Department. ra• mast expartented catkin and work bands are were& in Or Tailoring lirsacbaa, and the best end meat fashionable fabrics end Wm are guaranteed. RYAS( and CO, el and fff, Oxford-etreet, leaden L. Xi, and gaMI, Omuta,* Birmingham ROWS*, Ise& and West e, Dewabary. OVERCOATI3.—HAMILTON and KIMPTON, Tadao and Ovareast nukes, holt* ma forty loopeatloo of the NEW GOODS tar the caning arias, of which specimen soroundo on kept as Md. No. 106, STIAND, OPPOSITE ILIZTI3-11ALL FAMILY MSDICINK —The most healthy families are visited at times with some sibilants, and at such times no medicine can be resorted to with more perfect confidence than PARR'S WE PILLS. This esteemed medicine produces immediate relief, without the atom* pain or Meow. smienes.—liny be bad of any &mkt DRSCOTT'S BILIOUS sad LIVER PILLS, ; newer filling remedy. gingered without say miermarial moodiest. from the redw of De. Sem*, will be ford isvelashie to ell who salter from Ww.. and liver complaints, indigestion. wind, nem; giddineet, dizziness of the eyes, etc. Toe habitual 3omilmasis, se a Welly aperient medicine, and am • purifier of the blood, they ere lady emellent mild in their operation sad grateful to the eteasen, they crests appetite. mowed digestion. and eilsaiihen the whole narrow systent.—gold by W. lam bert. tl King Willlamot., arlagarem sad by newt dreggiete. la le. lid. end Si. ed. Se we to sok foe Dr. gessge etliona end Ter Min The genuine ere Ina square grebe package with Whim lambert" eagrevell as the stomp. PIiNY OF TEI MILL Bong with eomplete meme. try Madame Lawaralliberriaitos, at Drury-lane 'Matra Illustrated, i. , Luau* for piano, 34.—Loadou : Zobeet Cocks sad Co., New Bartlagtoaetreet, W.: all matte- Wien. IEW NOVEL BY THZ AUTHOR OW '• LADY Au Dugra BECK T. to T HE DOCTORS WIFE la road, to 3 rola at every library. N. ft —The whole of the first edition was °daunted by subserlp ttoa oa the day of publication. A second is now on sole, and a third is In active preparation to avoid delays. John Mamba end Co., publishers, 122, neetatroet. PEE COMPANIES ACT, 1862. The Books sod Forma required seder the above Let. alas all other blade of lame* Books, will every biallearry regulate for Public Compaalaa, the Cesatime-low, &a., elled ea the beet term. Priellee ed every deeariptlea. &envie& Ma eteld A& sad nal 1 Irbtelerzeel LC., er 1 lashder4; idss, LL linnstros o, BsorazzAncs.—We (Western Deily Press, have been requested by the Rural Den to insert the following letter, addressed to hies by the Bishop : —" West Mall, Cliftoo, Oct. 13, 1864.—My dear Rend Dean,-1 buten to acknowledge an important memorial, signed by yourself and many of the clergy and laity of Bristol and the neighbourhood, informing me that • stranger to our diocese, the key. J. L Lyne, has publicly notified that he hope, to preach met Sunday in some churches in or sear Bristol. Some of the deputetioe that presented the memorial to me last eight informed me that Mr. Lyne is in deacon's orders, and the memorial itself men tions that he has been inhibited in the diocese of Norwich. As those facts appear to be publicly knows, 1 really cannot believe—espedally after the tenor of my charge on unauthorised or unapproved assistance—that any one of my clergy would behave so disrespectfully to me as to bays offered his pulpit to Mr. I.yne without previous application to myself. Still, after your memorial, I feel It my duty at *see to Wens • general prohibition, a copy of which I endow. I shall be obliged to you to give it a wide circulation, and shall hope that every clergyman in my diocese who may see it, or be in. formed of it, will consider it as addressed to himself. Though I felt it my clear duty yesterday, in my capacity of chairman of our Congress, to permit Mr. Lyne, sea mambos of the (kerma and tickeabolder, to addrees• meeting at which cottroversial topios are excluded by the ruled, 1 feel it equally my clear duty, as bishop of the diocese, most dis tinctly to prohibit the admission of Mr. Lyn*, as being a deacon both unapproved bare and inhibited elsewhere, into any of the pulpits of my diocese. Very sincerely yours, C. .1. Otonc. and Buieroc. The Rev. Canoe Allen." The National Coors" Society will commence rehearsals for the season to-morrow, at Exeter•hall, under the direction of Mr. C. W. Martin. The members of the choir comaet of the most experienced amateur singers in London ao.l suburbs, embracing members of the clerical. legal, sod medical professions, merchant., members of the civil service, clerks, schoolmasters, schoolmistresses, and others, who, with the band, number nearly 700 per formers. Each member pays a small annual subscription, which entitles them to the free use of music and tickets for the public concerts at a reduced rate. The most emi nent l i ng . rs ars always engaged, and the band combines all the noteable members of the profession, including a small number of competent amateurs on stringed instru ment'. During the forthcoming season in addition to the usual oratorio performances it is propoeM to give some min collinear coocerte with full bmd and choeus, each concert to include symphonies, dm., by the peat masters. ln the prospectus we are informed that We society will not merely confirm its sphere of action to performances in Exeter-ball, but, inas.nuch as a euelcient number of members of the society reside in each postal district to form choirs avenging 100 voices, it is proposed to hold district choral meetiegs fee the purpose of giving cheep concerts for this working classes. and thereby promoting a taste for good musk, and providing for this class of the community a rational and imsecest amusement, as well as aiding, by public perform. seem the funds of dispensaries. schools, sad other local eharittew Ladies and gentlemen wishing to join the choir Amid make immediate application at the ahem. Wanes =sawn.) ITALY. TURIN, Ocr. 17. The electoral colleges have re-elected the minis ters La Marmon., Lanza, Petitti, and Sella. I'be electors of Castel-Maggiore have returned the Marquis Petah as member to parliament. AUSTRIA. YUMA, Ocr. 17. Both bowies of the Reichsrath will be convoked on the 16th November next. In the next sitting of the conference the general wording of the treaty of peace will be discussed. BAVARIA. MUNICH, Ocr. 17. It is asserted that should Herr von der Pfordten persist in declining the mission to form a new ministry, Herr Wydenbrugh, Councillor of State, will be entrusted with the formative of a cabinet. SWITZERLAND. GENEVA, Om It_ Yesterday M. Friedrich, the independent candi date, was elected a member of the National Council by 5,800 votes, the number of persons voting being 11,000. A conflict took place in the evening between the adverse political parties. ALGIERS. ALGIERS, Ocr. 14. General .Tolivet has defeated Si Lats.' Several tribes have made their submission. THE PARIS BOURSE. URA OcT. 17, 3.30r.m. The Boone hie been heavy. Reatee oloseet at 65.20, or the same as on Saturday. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Ocr. IL K de Bills, a member of the Rigsdig, has de manded of the Ministry that they should obtain the sanction of the Iligsdag to a prosecution for high treason being instituted against the Dagbled, on account of an article lately published by that paper relative to the succession to the throne. THE SPANISH PROGRESSIST MEETING. MADRID, Oct 17. The Neficias of to-day says : "A meeting of 300 Progreaaista has been held under the presidency of Senor Olozaga, at which a Central Committee was appointed, including among its members General Espartero, Senores Oloraga and Medea, and General Prim." INDIA AND CHINA. (By teligaph Isom Sues.) CALCUTTA, Swe. 27. Shirting' and mule twist dull. Indigo and cop per unchanged. Exchange on London, 2a. Government securities : Four per Ceuta., ; Five per Ceuta., 1031 (doubtful) ; Five-and-a- Half per Cents., 108 k. Freights firm. Diaoount unchanged. _ CANTON, Barr. 10. Grey shirtings and water twist higher. Tea Hat. Total export to date, 152,750,0001b5. Exchange on London, 48.10111. SHANGHAI, SEPT. 5. Grey shirtinp unchanged. Tea : Congou de clining. Silk quiet : settlements in fortnight 2,800 bales ; export to date, 9,460 bales. Exchange on London, 6a. Sid. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colo nial-offioe from the Governors of New Zealand, South Aus tralis, West Australia, Victoria, the Mauritius, the Bahamas, mats, Gibraltar, and Canada. DOWNINO-BIREET, OCTOBER 14.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Considine Hesderickess Kortrislit, Esq., to be Livatemant-Garsruor of the bland of Tobago.— Gazette. - Lsrrsas TOR REUNION, Marra AND ST. MART'S (YADAGASCAR), Br F/124CR PACKET. —Tits French mail packets leaving Yareeilles on the 9th, and Sues on the 17th of every month, for Port Louis. Mauritius. will take mails for Remake, Mayotte, and St. Mary% (Madagascar). Al! letters, Sc., intended to be sent is these mils must be addressed "By Flax& Mail Packet from Mareeilles." Let ters so sent will be liable to a combined British and French rate of Bd. when not exeeediag a quarter of an entice in weight, la 4d. when exceeding a quarter sod glider half as ounce, and so on, adding Bd. for every additional quarter of an mince. This postage may either be prepaid or not, at the option of the sender. 1;poa each newspaper not ex media( 4 minor in weight, a mt. of 3d.; and upon other printed papers the following rates must be limped :—Not exceed's(' 4 one., 6d. • above 4 em. and not exceeding ilb., la. ; above ;lb. and not exceeding 11b.. 2s. ; each additional ke., L. —By command of the Postineater-Genaral.— madam Poet-office, Oct. J. 7. THE NATIONAL STEAK NAVIGATION COMPANY'S STEARIN ONTARlO.—letelligeoce wee received in Liverpool yesterday to the effect that the new steamer Ontario, which was only launched a few weeks ago from the shipbuildingiard of Messrs. Samuelson and Co., at New cestle-on-Tyne, had gone ashore on the Cross sands, neer Yarmouth, on Sunday night, and was, when the intelligence left Yarmouth, in a rather critical position. The Ontario is a very large iron screw steamer, of 2,802 tons register, and 3,320 tons burden. When she went on shore she was on her first outward trip to Alexandria, and was noder the command of Captain Brooking, and it was intended on her snivel home from Alexandria to place her on the company's line of steamers running between Liverpool and New York. There were five steam top and twenty-five steam colliers alongside rendering assistance, and it was expected that the vessel would be got off without much d THAMES ANOLINO.—The reports assistant river-keepers of the Thames Angling Preservation Society, for the week ending October 12, do not embrace any :sr cicalae features of interest as regards angling. At Staines, Fletcher says, "The only fishing we can get isgudgeon and a few perch, but there are plenty of fish to be nen." Harris, in his report from Lakham ' observes, " A tenths. man on Friday last took 18 perch, and another polemic angling for the weak took in thallium, 68 perch and Eyck, but I never saw the river in a worse state in my life." Both hem keepers describe the water as being very Irir and bright from the scarcity of rain, end this is the case in every part of the river. At Halliford there have been some very fine perch taken in excellent condition. A punt was sunk on the 6th io Walton Deep, at the request of some of the subscribers to the society. Cordery states, "The 6 bermes are taking a few perch and godson at Hampts.a." At Monkey, Smith says, " A few jack have bees takes during the week—the easterly wind has prevented us from trying any other fishing." In his report from Kingston, lohnson remarks, " I have found the dace fishing at Tr, Weirton bad. I have been gudgeon fishing at Kingston two half days and One whole ooe, the takes being 7,9, and 12 dozen, with a few parch each time. The water is lower nd finer than I ever saw it at this time of the rill." EITiOASC says of Teddiegton, " There has been very little fishing this week, but some good roach have been taken." At It‘ch mood, Howard states there has been no good sport awing to the strong easterly vied' and the low and clear it. of the water. The proprietor of a chemical works at Brent ford was brought before the Brentford bench on Saturday last, charged by the Board of Thames Conservancy, for turning some refuse of a pi:dioceses nature in the river, and was fitted 51.—West Surrey Times. MANCITESTILR, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY (INCLUDING THE SOUTH YORKSHIII RAILWAY AND RIVER DUN COSPANT.)—Tbs total expenses of this company's railways, including rents, toll, duty, km, from July 1 to Oct. 9, 1864, amounted to 108:2801., as against 111,2621. for the corresponding period of 1863. The pro portion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from July 1 to Oet. 9, amounted to 11.2751., as against 10,2951. foe the oorreepoedieg period of 1863; and the exposes to 5,3931. es sweat 4,5621. Sorra KENSINGTON Mrseux.—During the week ending Oct. 15,1864, the visitors have been as fellows:—Oa Monday, Tuesday, and Satorday, free days, open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. 11,880 ; es Wednesday, Thursday, end Friday, rdsate : days (admission to the public open from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m.. 1.E.12 ; trial, 13,512. From the opening el the Ilneenm, 4,884878. LETTER FROM PROMSOR GOLDWER WEL - um. Daily News, of this zoominp publishes the follow ing letter how Profess* Goldwin Smith] : TO IHZ IDITOB OP TEM DAILY NEWS. Sut,—l see our Southern journals are leading their readers to believe that the struggle for the restoration of the Union is about to be abandoned from the exhaustion of the North. The month which I have just passed in the Northern and West ern States has led me to an opposite conclusion. There is exhaustion, of course, as there is towards the dose of every long battle-day. At Ltltzen, towards evening, both armies were at the last gasp, yet the Swedes were able to make the supreme effort which gave them victory. The govern ment has got more men than Grant called for by volunteering, and in the districts where volunteer ing was slack the draft is going on without re sistance. The Chicago Convention, it is true, was not only pacific but secessionist. But hVelellan, the nominee of that convention, kicks over its platform, and declares repeatedly and emphatically in his letter of acceptance that the Union must be restored at all hazards. The only question on which be is prepared to give way to the South is that of slavery. The mass of the party who support him are Wax Democrats ; and they are for war, not in name only but in deed. They have fought as hard as the Repub licans, though shey do not, like the Republicans, make the abolition of slavery present or prospective as well as the restoration of the Union a condition of peace. The democratic party is out, and not being ac customed to be out, it wants very much to be in. That I believe is, as much as anything else, the key to the present attempt to oust the Repub lican government. if the Conservatives had ousted the Palmerston government the other day there would have been no material change in our policy towards Denmark. According to the best judgments, however, which I can gather, M'Clellan, as matters now stand, has no chance of election. At least, all the enemies of America in Europe, who are exulting in the pros pect of his triumph, bad better adjourn their exultation till their victory is won. I see they were a little premature in letting off their fireworks in honour of the victory of Hood before Atlanta. That the war is national, not carried on by the government alone, nobody who has been in the country a day can doubt. Every sign of popular participation is around you : soldiers' rests and soldiers' homes, supported by voluntary contribu tions and attended by volunteer nurses ; immense subscriptions to the Sanitary Commission and every benevole*t object oonrected with the war. It is rescarkablirthat, though the subscriptions are so large, the names of the subscribers are not pub lished. Anxiety is expressed, of course, on all hands as to the financial prospects of the country. But the present burden of taxation, including a heavy income-tax, is, so far as I can see, cheerfully borne, even by those who must feel it most. I have not beard a single sentiment of atrocity, or even of hatred, uttered against the South. But I have heard on all sides the expression of • resolute determination to make the South submit to the law. And this determination I believe rules the people. Let the South submit to the law, and there is no thought but of amnesty and restoration. Nor does it seem to me irrational to expect that, when the ambitious leaders of the revolt are out of the way, the dependents whom they have dragged into the held will soon settle down again into quiet members of the Union. I am confirmed in the belief that this war, as compared with previous civil wars, is being carried on with great humanity on the part of the North. I visited the other day a large cantonment of Con federate prisoners at Chicago. These men seemed to me to be as well treated and as cheerful as prisoners could be ; and this, be it observed, at • time when the North is ringing with the accounts of the cruelties undergone by Northern prisoners at the hands of the Confederates. The same visit convinced me that the Confederate cos scriptions must have pretty well exhausted the Southern population, for I saw among the prisoners' the merest boys. The growth of popular sentiment on the subject of negro slavery is manifest. By the law of Illinois Degrees are still excluded from the State ; but this law has become • dead letter. I saw negroes at church with the whites, and I observed that they stayed for the communion. Illinois farmers tell me that the negro makes • good day-labourer. Soldiers—not political generals, but company officers and privates—tell me that he makes au excellent soldier. The planter can no longer talk of the inherent inferionty of a race which proves itself a match for his own race in the field. I have seen no signs of diminished prosperity, except in the empty docks of New fork, which tell the tale of the Alabama. On the contrary, trade seems marvellously active, and buildings are rising on all sides. The commercial prosperity may be partly artificial, arising out of the expenditure caused by the war. But the agricultural prosperity must be real. Illinois has sent, according to the government returns, 170,000 men—a fifth part of its labouring population—to the war. Yet the harvest is greater than in any former year. Ls gross value is supposed to be four hundred millions of dollars, no inconsiderable part of the national debt. The invention of machines, which the dear ness of labour has stimulated, has made up for the logs of labourers. The State Fair the other day was attended by 20,000 people. The show of implements was extraordinary, and the highest prices were given for stook. I had, from the lips of a Secessionist, a descrip tion of the enthusiasm with which these husband men of Illinois had rushed to arms when the first gun was tired against a Federal fortress by the South. I passed a village which bad sent forth a hundred of them to conquer at Fort Donuelaon. Twenty-four fell, and their bodies were carefully brought back to their village and buried in their home. These men, of course, were "mercenaries " and "Irish." I have been in the States only a month, and per haps I am not an unbiassed observer, but my strong conviction is, that beneath the frothy surface of party politic (never very august in auy country) and the shoddy luxury of New York lies • great nation, meeting the extremity of peril with courage, self-devotion, passionate attachment to its country, and unshaken confidence in its own power. lam no judge of military matters, but at present it seems as though the insults and slanders which have been passed on the Americans from the aristocratic and reactionary press of Europe were about to be answered by victory.— I am, GOLD WIN SMITH. Toronto, Oct. 3. P.B. Passing into Canada I find Lord Palmer ston withdrawing his grand army rather hastily from the frontier into places of security, rather to the dismay of the colonists in the Upper Province, who had begun to hold high language nailer the protection of his outatreteaed arm. His lordship is fleeing where no man poreneth. The heirs of the boundless West have no desire to attack Cana&, unless they are provoked by Alabamas. I may add that, so far as I can ascertain, Canada, in this the fourth year of her supplied peril, has no real military force of her own of any kind whatever. The volunteers, her only nominal force, cannot be got together for drill in the country, owing to the thinners of the population, and when drawn from the population of the towns they are allowed to be of little military value. These people, as I hear it said on all hands, "do not understand" the neces sity of a standing army. As a farming and money-making people they are peaceful in their tendencies and objects ; and if our government will let them alone they will be peaceful in their demeanour also, and continue to trade quietly with neighbours who only wish to trade quietly with them. G. 8. AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORTATION. The following Minute, submitted by the Vio- Soria& Cabinet to his Excellency Sir Charles Darling. reached London yesterday, and has beam forwarded to us (Timm) for publication : " The copy of Mr. Cardwell'. despatch, in reply to the resolutions of both Houses of Parliament against the con thulium of transportation to Western Australia, which roar Excellthey did me the honour to tranionit to me, has bass duly laid before my colleagues. •" It is to the government of this eolooy matter of the retread regret that all *Herta made by them, the parliament, sad the people of Vittoria, in common with the other cola aim, have failed to secure that mamma of justice the cola aloes had a right to impost; bat the decision of her Ilaisety's permanent is Mill more deeply to be deplored as at direst variance with the statement made by the Duke of Newcastle la 1853, and In eontravention of the porsey which ft was declared by his greoe to be the duty of her Majerty's government to adopt towards the Australian oolooies. "In the moo/tiding paragraph of a minute which I bad the honour to submit to your Excellency in September last, I felt it necessary to indicate the comae this government would be forced to pursue io the ovoid of the threat/sod coutinuanoe of tines's:elation beta carried out ; and it now becomes my duty to state to your Excellency the stops which your advners have fait it imperative upon them to lake in the discharge if their impossibility to the people of this taker. " Upon a careful consideration of Mr. Cardwell's de spatch, written in the face of all the earned repromotatioos add/eased to her Majesty's government, it ban been forced I upon the attention of myself end my colleagues that further remonstrance is in itself useless ; end that the time has arrived when it is incumbent upon o in the exercise of our powers of miff-government to initiate legislation in oon , notion with the colonise whose interests me alike affected I for oar common protection. `I have accordingly addramod a circular to the chief aseretary of each of the colonies interested, inviting the Co. operation of their respective governments in framing a immure to be submitted to the consideration of the several perliaineets prohibitive of all intemearso whatsoever with Western Australia, in order that her position as the only convict colony in Australia may be distinctly marked. " Safficiset time has sot yet elapsed for me to have re ceived any reply, but from the miasma foaling of clematis faction which prevails throughout the Ina colonies I can have no doubt that the proposition will meet with their appr val "Intimately connected with this proposition is the ques tion of the postal wake with Groat Britain. No measure for the isolation of Western Aasnalie could be efficient while the mail stamens continue to call at King George's Sound; and, although serious inconvenience most result from an y interruption to frequent and minim postal coin municaMon, eo satisfied is the goverment that Ilia people of Victoria, in the dried of the continuance of transport'. Moe, would deny themselves the privilege of the mail service rather than be emceed even to the possibility of the intro duce:too of soeviats, that I have to beg year Excellency will be pleased to notify formally to the imperial authorities that naless the terms of the existing arrangssomit with the Peninsular and Orisetal Company be altered, and the com m consent that their ;white shall not touch at an port us W estern Australia, tho government of Victoria will, at the expiration of six months from the Ist of November next, meet to metribute to the semi subsidy ; and further, that they withdraw their o ff er to join in establish ing a fortnightly service except upon similar conditions. " I cannot express to your Eimillmoy the tats your ad rims have felt in being obliged to take this counts • but to have hesitated would have been to neglect their 'highest duty. " In rev:meting that year Emelleocy will forward a Dopy of this memorandum to the Right Ron. the Socrotlry of State far the Coked's, I would mime to suggest that ft be aoximpaniad by your Exosilsulty's testimony to the reality of the («lisp o ofths people ol Victoria, as made known by memorials and hrough the public press and ales to the disooetoot which has manifested itself throughout the colony. at the Miriam of her Majosly's government. ' Jamas IlTumace. "Chief Secretary'soffice, Melbourne, August SC' THB COLLIERS' STRIA'S. The resolution proposed at the meeting of colliers at BilsWs, on Saturday, woo practically retried oat yes terday morning, when large numbers returned to their work. No meeting" of the men were held anywhere to the district. The collieries is the more immediate neighbour. hood of Wolverhampton an ermin getting into fall basilica Yesterday, she Wigs. eolliera, to the number of 2,000 to 3,000, met in Boy's Well Fields, to hear addresses from several leaden of the /liners' Provident Benefit Society, relative to an advises of wages. Mr. BAXINDALI pre sided. 11:. WILLIAM RIGBY coasidered that an advance of wages was doe and was necessary, but he deprecated any resort to a strike if the mastics refused the demand. Restriction of labour was far better, for let them look what Wilms were doing in South Staffordshire, and remember how i man az families had been beggared in Yorkshire, though, tt God, they bad obtained their end. Mr. Ws.hits PIC/CARD gave an account of a visit he had paid to South Staffordshire. The Staffordshire nies had sent a request that the Wigan million would strike if their masters did sot desist asodisg coal into the diets:bed district, and the answer be had conveyed was that the Wigan district did not think it had any right to sa to the mater that they should not sell goal in Sta ff er anywhere else. The meeting resolved unealmously to can tinas the society's support to the Staffordshire miners, sad then a propositioo that an advance of wages should he asked from the local employers was carried seer. die. amidst applause. The members of the lodges represented in the meeting wen asked to send to adelepite meeting, to be held on the following /gouda repremetatives. prepared to my whatadvance was wan and how it was to be asked. Six men were exami before the polies magistrates at West Bromwich, yesterday, on charges arising out of the deplorable strike in South Staffordshire. Four of them were committed to prison for sir months, and two were discharged, directions being given to take oat 'immerse against these for common amaulta. Notice of &ppal wee also given is the first case, though there was little diffi culty in finding the requisite sureties and baiL Twenty four men were also charged with haring left their work without notice. It is said that thaw men turned out at a brief notice became the workmen in other pleas had sot such good wages as they (the prisoners) had. Carnes COLLECTIONS.—OR Sunday last, after two sermons for church expenses. by a well known incum bent et tt.e east-end of London, the following items were found in the plates :-7 cheques, 6 sovereigns, 15 half. sovereigns, 1 crows pima. 36 half-crowne. 179 Irel shillings, 302 roomiest, 63 tamps:miss, 176 tlueepeenien, 171 pennies, and 151 halfpennies. makix total of 1.099 pieces, of the aggregate rake of 561. 5.. 6 d. THE DROUGHT IN YORKSHIRE.— e remarkable Amoco of rain which during summer caused the Yorkshire pastures to be burnt up, and which be. now caused such a mucky of cattle food, I. yet motioning. The rainfall of the last six weeks has been very slight, and never Bahama to restore vegetation to the fields, and as the whole of the aced lands which should have carried sheep to the end of the month are utterly deed end bare, farmers bare been trying to Mks an early season for wheat eowr. T he weather is remarkably gee with frosty nights, and it hes been totted that wheat sowing cannot be got on with as the land is very hard and can only be turned up is un manageable clods. Nothiog therefore can be done till rain does fall, of which there is at present no prospect. Turnips, which are now being need, are complained of as being small, hard, asd stringy, yielding very moderate food for either Waste ar sheep. ODD FELLOWS IN THE UNITED STATES.-011 the let of July this year We powerful body numbered, is the free States maid in Maryland, Delaware, filimenri, Ken rocky. and Tennessee, no Una than 131,000 members ; in Canada West 668, and hi the Sandwich Islands Si. The &mesa expended daring the year ending July 1 was 407.000 dole. Of this 283,000 dole. sae for the relief of 16,370 brothers in distress or sickness, 59,000 dole, for the relief of 2,398 widowed families, 66,000 doh. for the dead, the deaths being 1.649 in number, and 3,177 Is. for educating orphans. Tie urinal receipts were 1,014,000 do/ a. These figures, we heifers, do not Melo& the Oread Encampments, which number some 20,000 members. — Boston Travelkr._ _ _ . reier te;ldiers seem to have lost their late amti pethy to the Federal ooloored soldiers la Great's arsay, sad line coned to fire upoo then. as they formerly did, whomever the wren nada their appanage That part of the kin when the ooloured troops are employed is now as (met as soy other, and it is noticed that whoa dosertore some is they an afterwards bequeath fond eating with the Perron having appareatly lost their late prejudice.— Aswrices paper. DRIJEY LANE The revival of Croatians at Diary-lane hat night un doubtedly owed much of its attraction to the fact that Miss Helen Faticit made her re-appearance, after a very long ab sence from the metropolitan stage, in the ohs:aster of Dacron. She has accepted no regular eugagement at a London theatre since the early part of 1858, when she cep peered at the Lyceum in a round of characters, while that house was under the fitful management of Mr. Charles Dino.. She performed Lady Macbeth, and many other Shaker pearian parts, during this period, supported by Mr. Dfflon, ' and her eugagement bad every appearance of being etiooseduL No living actress has a larger literary and artistic following, probably because few are so refined and so Intelligent. If her eating suffers from any fault, it is from over-refinement. Her art is not concealed. She never plays any character without a clear definite conception. Every tone, look, sad gesture is elaborated, almost painfully, and little is left to the promptings of impulse. We have plenty of talent, but no genius, properly not:ailed ; grace that sometimes slab into lack a &laical attitudes, and a large amount of tree womanly feeling, though no overwhelming pathos. Her passion is somewhat forced, bat her command of exprendon is situations requiring intense acting is perfect. Her 'write so far imbalance her faults that her appearance is always welcome ; and if she falls short of • Siddonian standard, she towers above most of her contemporaries. Tb redeems of construction which mars many of Skein% spesre's plays is glaringly apparent in Cpabeline. The ratio* shifts from Italy to England, and from England to Italy, in the twinkling of an eye. The two principal malecharecters—Posthumus and lachimo—would have been celled • Brummagem imitation a Othello and lago, if anybody else bad written them. !whim°, how ever, her this advantage over lago, that his motive, if mean sad coarse, is sufficiently apparent. He works for ten thousand ducats, and he gets them. Post-humus is much weaker than Othello, and more easily played upon. The most beautiful part of the drama—that dealing with the pastoral life of Holmium and the two stolen sous of the King—has this diaadvantsge, that it eau rarely be poetically illustrated on the stage. Three men come on, dressed, mote or less, like Rocky Mountain Wonders, and mouth the delicate text of the post, until little reaches the ear but grunts and growls. Sock a *one can generally be much better realisedi by reading the play in the box lobby. The indelicacy of the plot might be atoned for by this part of the drama, if the stage was less prosaic in its general rem. sentetions. Mir FendPa embodiment of Imagine wee lighted up, bare and them, with evrellset acting, tier reception of Ischia* was very fins, and full of variety and meaning. Her good breeding se a Princess struggled hard with her suspicions. She was a little tame and quiet in some soeues—too much so for so large a house—bat her pourtrayal of fear on Ant seeing the cue of Belaritu wee moat forcible and natural. The multitude hardly understood it at dist, bat applauded it therwards. as if it bad been a back-fall, or • burst of good natio'. Mr. Phelps made • sensible, but hardly a loveable Posthumus, and though he ban played the put often, it is not one in which be can ever shine. He wants character to deal with, not " walkingientleasen." Mien is generally played by light comedians, though it might be made mom of by • good low comedian, and last night it was given to Mr. Walter Lacy. The self-email of the character was admirably repeesented. Mr. Oreswick was too direct and murder as 'Achim°, and he should guard &phut a jerky delivery, which at times resembles that of the late Mr. Harley. Mr. Henry Marston was dignified a• Baena; and Mils Atkinson was not a bit like a Queen. Mies Helen Fault had a mast enthusiastic reorptioa, and Messrs. Phelps and Crawl* were called for emu during the evening. The play has been well put upon the stage, the managers using up old Drury-Mae materials. A new Irish fares, called The O'Fiesherty's was played hir fore Cinsbelihe, but very badly received by the audience. It wee tee long and misty, and delayed the production of the play until • vary late hour. To use en old word that be. longed to playgoing of the teat age, It was damped, aid • few mom such demomizelloes may immune a revival of dramatic criticism. The performances were not over until after midnight. LAUNCH OP THE ARAPILES. Yesterday, the Arapilee, Spanish iron-clad frigate, was henebed from the dockyard ed Misers. K. aid H. Green, at Blackwell. The history of this vessel is sin gularly fflustmtive of the revolution which has taken plies in naval ship.brillding. The Amelia was laid down for the Spanish government in the dockyard of Meson. Gems in 1881, at • time when the belief in wooden reseals as ships of war was still in existence, and when the eminent ship building find in question was unpeesnaded as the change which was about to take place in the eons ' position al fiats or in the requirements of naval architecture. At that time this ship was ooseeived on the model of hr Majesty's ship Ariadoe, herself an advance on previous ideas of the absolute moss. allies of naval warfare. The circunistanoris of the hoar, however, induced a panes in the operatic= of her me. strnotioa, and after dos deliberation it was determined that she should be converted into an iron-clad mend-war, and fitted on the best and most approved system which has yet bean made applic►ble to the keep* of the seas. Accord ingly she has been built of great strength, although whet may be celled her basis is of wood, and she is to be fitted with iron plates of the best quality, those of Beale's patent rolled iron, their thickness being four inches above the water-line, and four sod • half inches below it. The plating adopted is that oa the French plan, and in her oonotraetion the French system is partly followed, especially is the shape of her stern, which is in shaped as to give her all the properties of a stem aft.—Her dimensions are as follows :—Length between perpendiculars, 279 feet 4 inches; extreme breadth, 54 feet; depth in hold, 32 feet 8 inches ; and her bar hen is 3 517 tons. Her engines, sup. plied by Merin. Peon, Sr. of 800 horse-power. Originally intended to carry 51 guns, she is now pierced for 34 ; the difference being made up by weight of calibre. The Arapiles is the largest wszabip of her description ever launched from a private yard; and in • manner she may to taken as the pioneer vessel of a new system adopted in the yard of Messrs. Green. Hitherto these bundles have been devoted to the coestinctioa of wooden vessels in contradistinction to those iron machines which have been familiarly known at Blackwell r'• Ve neta ;" but, yielding to the spirit of the times, this great firm is about to undertake the building of vessels in which iron will play the most important, lii not the; sole, part, Alteratioos with this object have been made in their fac tories, and they are about to lay down iron vessels, and henceforth to make them the staple of their merchant fleet. They have at this moment on their stocks four iron. sled corvettes, ordered by the Chiller' government, of 300-hone power each, and. in foot, may be said practically to have gone into the building of iron ships. In • certain sense, therefore, the launch of the Amides yesterday mar lee taken to be the initiation of • new era in the hominess of one of our greatest ship-building establishments. Of the launch itself, it may be said that it was is every respect successful. A large company was assembled for the occasion, the majority of whom were Spanish ladies and gentlemen. The ceremony of christening the ship was performed by Madame Comyo, the wife of the Spanish Minister to our court, who was attended by IL Comm and the attaches of the legation. Shortly after half-past two, the dog-shores were struck away, and the last coed was severed by the dis tinguished lady, who stood sponsor for the ship, which glided gently into the river, and was brought up in admirable style, and lay broadside to, asking, as it were, the admiration of the spectators for a very admirable specimen of naval architecture. At the moment of pro jection a bead composed of shipwrights, in the employ of Messrs. Green, played the national anthem of Spain. which was followed, with a sent of Anglo-Sakai protest, by Rule Britannia," • circumstance which was probably not par. tieularly observed by the Spanish gentlemen, who orbited moth enthusiasm at the floating of a ship of wa &Mimed to cerry the colours of their country. In the after. noon a dijedieer was given by Messrs. Green at the Bruns wink Tavern, Bledtwall, L atter which a number of torte were gives, the spirit of which was anything bet warlike, sad occasioa was taken by the Minister for Spain to ex pose sentiments of ;toadiedl towards this eouotrv, and hope that the ship of war which had been jest launched weld sever come into collision with the navy al finglesel,