The Express. — London, England, 1864-08-29 00:00:00

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Fassengen toe cob's, the flatted States, sad Bridals Colamblm booked through ,v 7 advantageous terem—lat further rartkadars apply to WILLLAM IRMA! w , ateratreett, Ltempool or to RIVNA and MACEY. a. ax wunmaramt. atr. OVERLAND ROCITI.-00MIIDNIOATION by STEAM to INDIA, AUSTRALIA. em, via 1:011T. The PENINSULAR and ORIENTAL STRAY NAVIGATION °WANT BOOR PASSMIGEHS and receive Cargo sad Parcels Y their Condom omen for Gibraltar, Malta, Rapt, Aden, Ceylon, madras, Calcutta. the Snails, end China, by their sheamen waving Southampton en the 4th sad 110th of every month: tor Oftedur, Malta, Egypt, Aden, and Bombay, by those of the n th end 17th of each mouth: and for limuitias. Reunion, King porde tclad, Melbourne, end Sydney, by the steamers nav ies Sodhampton on the 20th of every inontk—For further pirticalms apply at the CompaarsOlgoes. LeadeshAlloireet, lA, London or Ortentel-plans, Southampton. DS ILLIPPS, GRAVES, PHILLIPPS, and co. despatch the undermentioned Ire Selma stennters : For ROTTERDAM, the RATAVIEB, every Sunday monde& bora Hermitage Tier. at 10 calling at Blackwell for pea moms et It ate. Ara. St fa, E LI 10e.. and IT OIL • sad the ITi.NOORD ec ery Thursday morning salty frame ea the Tower. rue Li. For SREIIE IV, neutral vessels, under Runde& flag, the ADLER, MOwt. or SCHWALSE. 'eery Thursday mooing (weather per mitting at 10 am.. from Horselydowq and from Blackwell at Loon. and from llorselydown every Saturday 1111 further entice. Fares, LL Al, and 10s. For GOTHENBURG, the LONDON. on or about September 3. freir. Ilorselydoe n. Fares, LS Ss. and Lt to To be followed ry the t U:iTAI WAttA. CoPENHAGEN and STOCKHOLM. the NEWSIEY, from Aluorcans Tier, in a few daya. Fares. LS Ss. and LA Is. Fur freight, passege, Re., apply at Cleptin's Universal Office. Ra/ent-etrev, W.. or to I.IMOI, OBAVES, PHILLI/PS, and Co.. 11. loodline. LH. OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the LI RANK of HINDURTAN. CHINA, aad JAPAN (limited) has RI.IIiiVED from 10. Cambia, to No. 1, BART-BUILDINGS, WTEIBUIY.—By order, - R. awripi TOKLIN, Secretary. 1, Baut•balldiap, Await la, ISO& THE OXFORD.—The OXFORD and CAN- A. TERIIVRY HALL COMPANY ttimItedI.—SZLECTIONE boa Lb FURZA DEL DENYING, La Traviata. Nahum and the Two Gentlemen of Verona, by the whole of the talented company . Director—Mr. F. JONGIIIIANS. Onmedy by Umercrth Eugene, W. Randall. W. Barton. and Mcille. Cavalho the colehrated comedienne and munie, EVERY EVENING. STEVENS and 80N8, 78, Bishopegate-street Witldn.—LlGHT 811111YIE1 WINE% Bottles Included. Claret. Its., 20n, 21a. Burgundy, 155., 20a., Ms., 30s. per doz. Chat++ 20s 30s. Samaras Hort and Moselle loa., lsa, dOn „ ChemAndlid 3oa, ids.: eia :: all other Wines and agolrits equally reueonable. JOHN BROODEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN II us, 11ILWIIMA4MIZIT, 00VIST4WIDEN. JOHN BROODEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, is RESSIETTA-STRZIT, 00YLVT-GAIDIN. SHOOTING, FISHING, and TRAVELLING sums, of the best materials. and made in the latest Mk, at HAMILTON and LIMPID:I'S, TAILORS, 105, STELND, opposite Itzsier Hall. 'TOURISTS and TRAVELLERS, Visitors to the Seaside, and others. expand to the scorching rays of the sun and heated pe'ticles of dust, will find PAWL A NW' CAGY DOB a most refreshing preparation for the complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation. allaying all heat and irritability, and Immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored elasticity and healthful state of the skin. Freckles. tan spots, pimples, Rushee, and discoloration are eradi cated by its application, and glee place to a healthy purity and delicacy of complexion. Trice 4s. dd. and de, ed per bottle. Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 10, Eattomgarden, and by chemists and perfumers. Ask for •• Rowlands' Yalydor," and beware of spurious and pernicious articles under the name dt • Rayne" The Fonrteenth T.dittee, wtth Coloured Plate, St. ed. DR RAMADGE on the CURABILITY of CONBIIMPTION. . -7: Pathological anatolitYi;i; 17 ;v;;;;Iorded mom etmattilre evidence In proof of the curability of • disease than It has In that of sonannsption. —Cussed. Also, by the same Author, Woe 10a. ASTHMA : its Varieties and Complications to which to annexed • snottinct ?iodise on the principal Disessesot the Bests. London : logien= and es. LORD PALXIMITON'S VISIT TO HIERZTORD.— liTiTroaD, BATOIDAT.—The inhabitants of this quiet city are all on the tui vire in expectatioa of the visit of Lord Palmerston to mangurate the statue to the /Me Sir G. C. Lewis, which event comas off on this day week. The az rangemeob, as settled by the town council, are as follows : His lordship will arrive here on Friday next, and will be the guest of the Rev. Archer Clive, at hb seat at Whitfield. It is expected that his lordship will attend the musical festival on that day, when the oratorio of the Messina will be given at the cathedral. On Saturday. at noon. the cor poration, militia staff and band, Odd Fellows, Foresters, ride corps and baud, and cilium will form a procession, and meeting the Premier on his arrival in the city, will conduct him to the shire-hall, where the corporation will present an address to his lordship, after which the unveil ing of the statue will take place. A. pablie dijeusier will HoLBORN VALLEY IMPILOVEMEItTIL—ThO City of London has obtained an act of parliament to form • Tablet or raised way across Holborn-valley, and new streets and improvements connected therewith. The cor poration will forthwith proceed with thegipatio oadertak which when it is completed will, with the Thames embank. moat, now in the coursed foreatios, preset. with the new Palace of Justin, which will probably be authorised in the neat session, a aerie of improvements adorning the metropolis Those who remember the Strand in the old.. time, the Exeter Change, and the antiquated house in its neighbourhood, as well as Hungertord-ruarket, behold with 00111111 re the improvements effected in both localities, sad look forward to the works now going on, and others about to be commenced in the metropolis, with eatisfactios. In the statute called " The Coal and Wine Duties Voa. bounce Act" of last yaw, it was stated that it would really madam to the ociowsoience of the public, and to the accom modation of metropolitan traffic, it altoratioss were made is and adjacent to Holborn-hill mad Skinaer-etheet, by the raising of Holborn-valley, and that it was expedient to me boas the coal and wine duties from the Sth July, 1872. for a farther period of tea years, for the murices of providing mean to defray the intended alterations. It seems that • duty of twelvepence is raised in the manner described ; and fourpence, part of the same, is to be applied for the objects mentioned, The City are empowered to raise money on the duty of toupees to make the improvements by new streets sod raising Holborn-valley. The plans have been deposited, and can be inspected on the payment of one skillet A viaduct is to be raised, for the purpose of a high level street or road, commencing on Holborn hill. near Ely-plus and terminating in Skinner-street, sear the Old Bailey. A new street from Hatton-pule to Par ringdon-rnad is to be made, and aiso • new street from Si, Sepulchre's church, near to Snow-hill. Shoe-lane is to be widened, to form a junction into she broad-way of the via duct, and other alterations are to be made for accomplishing the purpose intended. The works are expected to be completed in five years, sod the compulsory powers under the act in the purchase of land and house are limited to that period. The corporation have power to provide improved dwelling or lodging-houses for mechanics, labourers, and other peers of the working and poorer classes The rights of the London Chatham , and Dover Railway, as well as the Metropolit an Railway, are pre served. The City may borrow money to complete the worts, bat not at one time more than 600,000 f., which money is to be applied to the contemplated improvements. Steps have been already taken to carry out the act, and the tin , being :imited u to the purchase of property, the work orobably he proceeded with with all convenient speed. There is one object, however, connected with the undertaking which it is hoped will not be overlooked, and that is the erection of lodging and other houses fur the working or pourer" classes, ea they are denominated. Whilst im- Innvenients are being made, convenient dwellings for hi wren an d mechanics should be raised. It is good to resiove the wretched hovels in which many :name to lir.. as the want of proper places drive some of them from th eir homer. A man's home is • " relic of Paradise," how ever bumble that home may be, and whilst the comfort and comeniesces of the rich us considered, those of the poorer rise s should not ho eschewed by the City of Loodoe.— 4 Y.l L PALACE SHARE Ctrs..—The second and last excursion for the season of the members of these dubs took place yesterday, the palace directors having dis tributed steers] thotmand free tickets to the members of the clubs and their friends. The palace and gram& were "Pvi s ted at 2 o'clock, mad about 8,000 perm" were poweet during the afternoon, the mom &morons behaviour pre vailing amuogat the visitors that hoe characterised all these Sunday excursions to the palace. The venom, floe art mama and picture galleries were oyes to the visitors, made selection of Neared music wa• played cm the great organ is the iimidel orchestra. la the coons of the afternoon IT. Perett delivered a lecture opoo Egypt is ihn.r.riti" e 4 ort, and Mr. L. B ax t er ma d e as appropriate on botsay of the palace. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGIOCR (aura's rsr.esasms.) THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. VIENNA, Amer 27, EVMMIO. No sitting of the Conferer co took place to-day, and the next is appointed for Monday. The Danish plenipotentiaries are M. de Queade and Colonel Kaufman; with Baron Guldencron and Captain Bille as secretaries. The Danish financial interests will be represented by State Councillor Fenger, assisted by other finan ciers. BKRLEK, Auauer 27. The semi-official Norddevtiche AUges;teine Zeitung, in reference to a delegation of the Danish Minister of Finance, made in Thursday's sitting of the Folkething, says :—" Only on the supposition of the loyalty and absence of reservation on the part of the Danish cabinet in signing the peace prelimi naries were the German powers prepared to accede to the conditions of the treaty." COPENHACIL`C, Accrrer 27, &I Par. In to-clay's sitting of the Rigsraad the President of the Council solemnly declared that at the pesos negotiations the government would endeavour to protect the interests of the Sleewigeri both as to their national and political rights. The declaration was received with general applause by the whole assembly. PRUSSIA AND BAVARIA. MUNICH, Apauer 28. Herr von Bismarck, who has arrived here, was engaged in discussing important negotiations with the Minister of State, Baron von Schlinck, both yesterday and to-day. He left this evening, and was aooompanied to the railway station by Adjutant- General Baron von Tann. FETING OF THE KINGS OF PRUSSIA AND BAVARIA. MUNICH, Accra: 27. The official Baierische Zeiturig of to-day, in an article upon the intended interview between the Kings of Prussia and Bavaria, says : " We hail this meeting with joy, since it proves not only the existence of an amicable and kindred feeling, but also affords a hope that the hearts of the two monarchs will be drawn together by a mutual desire to further the interests of Germany. Many a dark cloud which still overshadows our horizon may vanish before this royal meeting. In such interviews of German princes distrust and ill-feeling must disappear, however deeply those evils may be rooted in the minds of the people." FRANCE. TOULON, Ammar 28. The steam frigate Cacique is being prepared for the reception of Prince Murat and his family. They will embark for an excursion on the Mediterranean on the 30th inst. PARIS, Atioutrr 27. It is asserted that his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will visit Stockholm, and subse quently, perhaps, St. Petersburg and Paris. The Crown Prince Humbert of Italy has ar• rived at the Palai Royal. To-morrow he will be at St. Cloud, whence be will visit the camp at Cha teas. The Prises will muds st - therietter plate eleven days, and afterwards return with the Empe ror to Paris. PARIS, Auotysrr 28. General Mollard and Prince Poniatowaki have been appointed by the Emperor as attaches to the Crown Prince Humbert of Italy. Captain Villot has been appointed for the same service by Prince Napoleon. The Princess Matilda is to dine at St. Cloud this evening. It is asserted that Prince Murat and his family intend visiting Palestine. It is stated that a grand dinner will take place to-morrow at the camp of Chalons upon the occa sion of the arrival of the Emperor and Prince Humbert. The rumour is current that the court will not go this year to Biarritz, but will proceed on the 20th of September to Compiegne, where it will remain until the 15th of November. FOLX, AUGUITT Ti, Evarrso. The trial of Jaques Latour and Audony, for the murder of M. de Bugad de Lasalle and his three ser vants, at the Castle of Baillard,waa concluded to-day. Latour was condemned to death, and Andony to hard labour fur life. ITALY. TURIN, AuctoB2 28. Baron Dnrion was received by the King to-day and presented letters from the Emperor of Mexico, announcing his Majesty's accession to the throne. The Baron will leave for Switzerland to-morrow on a similar mission. YES. MA, Auourr 28. Advioes received here from China state that the Anglo-Chinese army has captured two towns from the insurgents, and was besieging Nankin, which was said to be on the point of capitulating. From Routhon, in Northern India, it is stated that preparations were being made for commencing hostilities with the English. SPAIN. MADRID, Auorwr 77, Eviortm. The Contemporaueo sod the Divturiou publish articles demanding the dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, Amin 27. A decree promulgating the rural law bas been published. Compulsory labour is abolished. The peasants can become landed proprietors by the pay ment of an indemnity tithe Landowners. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILIL The following telegram him been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : SUEZ, Aaiun 28. The Sultan, from Mauritius, reached Bum at 7 p.m. on the 26th inst., and the Golconda, from Bombay, at 3 a.m. to-day. A m =wow liatia. —The Homeward American Mad steamer, dee this week are the City of London. Hiber nian, and the Perrin. The City of London, with dates frost New York on the 20th, and the Hibernian, with mirreepood ins dates from Quebec, may be expected—the former off Cape Clear or Qamaetown, sod the latter off Greencastle, in the roomed to-morrow (Tuesday). The Canard steamer Persia. from New York on the 24th, may be expected off Caps Clear or Queenstown, on Friday piebt or early on Saturday morass east. Os actorthiy the Cuomo Royal Mail steamer &oda smiled from the Money for New York. with mails for the United States ; also a large essio, sad chest 50 peamegen. The Isms steamer City of Man chester will leave the Mersey os Wednesday seat, also for New York with the United States sails. Letters, do., will be received at the Liverpool General Fost•offic• nista 10 o'clock forenoon, sad rid Cork, till &30 p.m. CITY or LONDON HOSPITAL roe Montano Of rex Omer, Virronuo-rtim. —The number of palmists relieved at this issiitutien sluing last wish wee 797, el while 197 trees sew sewn. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1864. AMERICA. (utrria's rasawcs.) QUEENSTOWN, Amon 28. The Royal Mail steamship Africa, from Boston on the 17th and Halifax on the 19th inst., arrived here at 3.45 p.m. She brings 100 passengers and 31,270 dole. in specie ; landed 13 sacks of mails and 15 passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool immediately, all well. The Africa experienced severe easterly weather. NEW YORK, Ammer 15 Rviartso. The Confederate cruiser Tallahassee has burnt the ship Adriatic, from London, and is continuing her depredations. General Grant is said to be withdrawing a large portion of his troops from Petersburg. NEW YORK. Ammar 16, Emma. General Grant moved a second corps up the James River on Saturday, routing a large Con federate force at Dutch Gap, and capturing 500 prisoners and 7 guns. The Federal troops are bolding Dutch Gap. General Burnside ban been relieved of his corn mend, and is superseded by General Wilcox. General Butler is cutting a canal across the pe ninsula on the James River to enable the Federal gunboat. to overcome the obstructions in the river. General Early continues to retreat rapidly up the Shenandoah Valley, pursued by Sheridan. General Lee is reported to be preparing for a Northern invasion in force. Admiral Farragut's report confirms the pre vious Mobile accounts. Fort Gaines was surren dered unconditionally. The garrison, consisting of SO officers and 800 men, were provisioned for twelve months. The garrison of Fort Powell escaped, leaving the armament of 18 guns in condition for immediate General Grainger intends to invest Fort Morgan, leaving a garrison in Forts Gaines and Powell. Sherman is more closely investigating Atlanta, being within one mile of the the Macon railroad. 1,500 Confederates have crossed the Ohio River at Saline Bend, and captured eight river steamers. The Confederates are threatening Henderson, Kentucky. The Confederate cruiser Tallabassee is continuing her depredations off Long Island. She has, up to the present, destroyed 23 vessels, including the ship Adriatic, from London. The New York Herald recommends the sending of commissioners to Richmond to arrange an armis tice for six months, and to call a convention of all States to consult upon the best means of obtain big peace. The City of Baltimore, Hann, and North Ame rican have arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Ammer 15, Emma. Gold 2561. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 1301. Illinois Shares, 130. Erie, 113. Six per Cent. U.S. 5.20 Bonds, 1091. Cotton : Middling Up land, 175 c. Petroleum steady ; crude 53 c. ; refined 85c. KEW YORK, Aroma 16, EVINING. Money easy. Gold 255 g. Exchange on London : Bankers' bills, 276. New York Centrals, 131. Illinois Shares, 131 g. Erie, U 3. Six per Cent. U.S. 5.20 bonds, 1000. NEW YORK, AUGUST 18, Evvrem. Hood is reported to have been heavily reinforced by Wheeler's cavalry, and to have demanded the surrender of Dalton, Georgia. The Federal., having also received reinforcements, refused, and drove Wheeler off. The Federal forces were moving from Pensacola to flank Mobile. Admiral Farragut is shelling Fort Morgan from two vessels stationed off Dug River Bay. Great agitation prevails in the press, and among the people, and the desire for peace is increasing. The Tallahassee has burned the ship James Lit tlefield, and over W vessels off Main, Nova Scotia, and Cape Sable. The Aida ha■ arrived out COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Gold, 2571. Exchange on London, Bankers' bills, 280. Stocks steady. New York Centrals, 130} ; Illinois Shares, 132} ; Erie, 112} ; Six per Cent. United States 5.20 Bonds, 109 i. Cotton : Middling Upland, 176 to 177. Bread stuff, advancing. Provisions dull. Coffee good inquiry. Sugar very firm. Molasses steady. Petroleum, crude, 53c. ; refined, 85}c. (Vii Cape Clear.) NEW YORK, AUGUST la. ECCIENCI. Two corps of General Grant's army have crossed to the north bank of the James River and obtained a position within six miles of Richmond. The Confederate works in front of that place are consi dered very strong. General Sherman (?) has retreated to Winchester. General Early has received reinforcements, and is now advancing northward. The Confederate cruiser Tallahassee has arrived at Halifax. Shehas destroyed an enormous num_ ber of vessels, Money easy. Gold, 257 f. Exchange on London, bankers' bills, 280. endeavour to reach a point where the valley is nar rower before offering battle. Advice. from General Bherman's army state that important changes were being made in the Federal lines; the troops were being manoeuvred with the aim of more closely investing the city. The Macon road, however, bad been abandoned. An official report of General Logan estimates the total Federal losses in the battle on the 22nd tilt. at 3,521 men and 10 cannon, while the Oonfederate dead alone are asserted to have exceeded 3,000, and their total loss to have been at least 10000. An official despatch from General Hood states that on the 6th inst. the Federals made two as saults on 8. D. Lee's corps, being " handsomely repulsed" on each occasion. Hood is said to have bees very heavily reinforced by the Georgia State militia. .1 0e dispateh, dated Mobile, 7th, announces that Col Williams bad evacuated and blown up Fort Powell, and that the gunboat Morgan, the only one °Me Confederate fleet at Mobile not captured or destroyed, had succeeded in running up to the city. • It was supposed that Farragut would at once Move against the inner fortifications of the harbour. • Mew Orleans despatch states that Federal forces had o f n landed at Dauphin Leland on the 6th; the M recameeh woe &okayed by a torpedo, did not y the guns of Fort Kagan. Itryramenpected that if Farragut should fail to re:lo6 the remaining forts, or should be unable to .... get It ironclad. over the inner bar a regular siege wou be commenced, using Dauphin Island as a (literal Banks issued as order at New Orleans on 2nd inst. , enlisting into Federal service all a all led aegroes is *Lai department between the 18 and 45, the same to be into the field at on the existing coloired regiment. the 30th of July General Canby issued an o , enroWng all citizens in the militia, expelling the 4% , ilia of all those in Confederate service ; all, ho r, who Wire liable to do military duty being ke within the Federal lines. All foreigners claiming to be neutrals were ordered to be enhtted asr!icemen. was announced that the Confederates in strong fora were within seven miles of New Orleans, hav ing' entrenched themselves outside of Algiers with a view of making that place • bass foe ollbasive operations. i . '. . An important expelition left Memphis recently under General A. J. Smith. Its destination Was unknown. Florida adricte Mate that the Ire , lonia, under Geheral Birney, had destroyed the bridge over the Bt. Mary's River, six miles above Baldwin, which place they held. General J. K. Jackson has taken coawmand of the Confederate forces in the state. We read in the New York Herald of the 15th : fl rebel pirate steamer Tallahassee, Captain Wood, of the rebel navy, was plying about New York harbour for several ►oare yesterday. She captured and destroyed six v them one of our pilot boats, the James F w►eee crew, together with • portion of those of thew beige, a herciae. and • schooner, landed at Fire Island ie it yawl, having been picked up by the yacht Lily. The rest were put on board the schooner Carroll. The Tal labgies is an iron steamer, and was built in Louden. She esilti rersaily from Wilmingtoe, wit► a crew of 120 ma and three goes. When last seen yesterday eves* she was steering south-east, taking the pilot boat Funk se • Mader. Not having any swift war vessels ready for such an ewer geney off Beady Hook (thanks to the vigilance of Mr. Weller), the pirate has no doubt made good her escape to do further damage along the coast. She cams within 60 miles of Sandy Hoek on Thursday. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. By the arrival of the above mails we have re ceived &deices from Calcutta to July 22 ; Madras, July 28 ; Colombo, August 1 ; Singapore, July 21; Hong Kong, July 12, &c. Advices from Calcutta to the 22nd of July men tion that a change had taken place in the weather, the intense heat having given way, and that the rain was coming down very favourably for the crept, except those of the indigo planters in Lower Bengal. For them it was considered too late and too plentiful. "Our latest intelligence received from Bhootan," says the Madras A Memnon, "is to the effect that the Astern authorities have suspended all com munications with Bhootan, and have stopped all payments of Dooar revenue. Ambaree and Fella cottah have been annexed to the British do minions, the police posts on the frontier have been strengthened, the civil and military authorities have been instructed to be on the alert, and two companies of native infantry are to be stationed io Cooch Behar. The Bhootan government have, moreover, been informed that if, during the rains, they do not release the Bengalee captives, and re store the plundered property, the British govern ment will take hard measures as soon as the rains are over. Report says that a military officer now in the Puojaub is likely to have the command of the expedition." CHINA. The latest accounts of the rebellion say that the Puts, was shortly to proceed to Nanking. The Taepings have now only Woocbow and Nanking, and the former city is not expected to hold out long. The last captures have been Chang-thing in Chekiang, and Kwangehee in Nganwbei, the former taken by the Putae Le, and the latter evacuated. Colonel Gordon has been to Nanking, where be was welcomed by Tsang fiwo-fan. and has given his beet advice as to the conduct of the siege. From Ningpo the chief news refers to the launch of two gunboats built under French supervision, being the fi rst instalment of a small fleet destined to supply the place of that taken away by Captain Osborne. News from Peking is to the effect that the Por tuguese plenipotentiary has failed in getting the treaty between Portugal and China ratified. One clause in the treaty amounted to the cession of Macao to Portugal, and was therefore quite opposed to the joint undertanding of the resident foreign ministers with regard to the acquisition of territory in China by Western powers. From the three northern ports (Tientsin, New cbwang and Chefoo), we have nothing to report further than that no sickness prevails. From Japan the news is rather scanty. It is thought, however, that the strong force now at the English Admiral's disposal will shortly be turned to account. The territories of the Priooe of Chiusin (Nagato) are spoken of as their destination, and a rumour is current that the prince has retired inland. By the arrival of the American mail we have New York papers to the 13th inst. : Advice' from the army of the Potomac to the 12th report "all quiet." A terrible explosion occurred on the 9th inst. on an ammunition boat at City Point. The casual ties numbered nearly 200 in killed and wounded, and a large amount of property was destroyed. Confederate accounts state their total losses in the engagement of the 30th ult. to have been only 950. They claim to have achieved on that occasion one of the most decided victories of the campaign. They also state that 1,200 of the negro troops captured are supposed to be kidnapped or runaway slaves, and their owners are publicly called upon to Dirtomarric Raeoars. The seventh annual reclaim them. series of "Reports of her Majesty's Secretaries of Embauy Richmond papers state that General Grant has sea Legation on the Manufactures, Commerce, ke., of the recently contracted his lines, and that a correspond- Countries in which they reside," has just been booed. Is iug extension of the Confederate lines had been the present volume the most intensifier and instructive made. The inhabitants of Petersburg were rapidly document is Mr. Robert Lytton's very able and careful leaviug the city in consequence of the danger they Report on the system of election of representatives foe the were exposed to from the Federal artillery. The Danish Rimmed, which deserves, and will no doubt receive, Confederates have established a battery of 40. the studious attention of all earnest and practical political pounder Parrot guns near the fort recently de- reformers is this country. atroyed b the Federal mine. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam General Early's forces evacuated Winchester on ship Banda, Captain Haselwood, with the heavy portion of the morning of the 11th. Their waaou train was I the above mails, arrived at Southampton on Saturday. She over three miles in length. The Federal cavalry, brings 35 paseengera, three package. specie, value sot under General Averill, was vigorously pushing the stated ; Indian curiosities and Delhi jewellery, value 3,350 retreating enemy and some heavy skirmishing had roper ; sad 152 packages sundries. occurred 011 the Front Royal road. At last ao- MELANCHOLT ACCIDINT AT BOQITHAN. -- On counts Early had his headquarter' at Newtown ; Thursday afternoon Mr. Braes, readies at Leckie Hoene, he was rapidly retreating up the valley, and main- was returslieg hem' front th. MOO , with Mr. Campbell t a b le d a ver y s trong ad rane e an d re a r guar d. G enera l Barichan, when hi bone reared, and threw Was over Sheridan was endeavouring to bring upthe pursuing I .7 t r' s 8 1 0,. °4° hi ll a was " f° " bi l : ll.l ' ki t nt columns, so as to fora! , Surly to make • stand at I nieday, ad his heir is understood to be the second sea d Bireabarg. The Confederates would t it was thought, tie late Fart al llagia.—Zdiderph Courant. [Stamped, hi. AdditiamaL] OUT OF THE SEASON. VICTORIA-PARK ON SUNDAY. Troveliens by the Eastern Counties—we beg par don, the Great Eastern Railway, know that its London station is situate in a straggling motley thoroughfare, wherein cheap hotels, second-rate coffee-bowie', advertising outfitting warehouses, and ticketting linendrapery establishments, jostle with the minor exhibitions, the low-priced places of entertainment, and the taring gin-hops where with the neighbourhood is plentifully studded. Here and there an old over-hanging heavy gabled mansion, with a remote date carved upon its corner atone, or antiquity written on its wooden orna menu, professes to have been built by a for gotteni citizen, and frowns rigidly in the sunlight, as if shocked at the vain and flaunting dwellings at its side. But modern innovation has left its nark upon the street, and from the ridieulons wooden Indian making a face at the railway station from the façade of the coffee shop bearing his name, to the string of advertising heads which are planted round the enterprising batter's oppo aide St. Leonard's Church, no opportunity seams lost of impressing strangers with the rough-and ready, cheap-and-Bet-nasty, but =fastidious tastes of the people of the district At the corners of the narrow streets and the entrances to the foetid courts ; banging idly about gin-shop doors, and springing apparently from the earth directly a cab-horse falls, or men or women fight, or a pick pocket or shoplifter is being walked along by the police, stand the ragged people for whose benefit sincere hard-working missionaries and district visitors are appointed, churches endowed, and schools established. They flock round the omni bus resting-place, and chaffer and squabble with each other, when not insulting or begging frees passers by. The gin -shop at the oorner °Elko street skirting Short:ditch Station to its south is especially favoured by thews gentry, six of whom entered into a cheffing match with an omnibus driver yesterday, which the latter had provoked by the pointed sarcasm "Ter wouldn't none o' er take wot didn't belong to yen , if yen had a chance I dare say." It is painful to relabs that the obtrusive attentions of a policeman dispersed this phalanx at the very moment of victory, and the aggressive driver was spared an immeziniousdefest only through departing to Hackney, Wawa hflueady-witted sharp-tongued young opponents fiffieeto rally their forces and follow up the advantage they had gained. Once past the church of St. Leonard's, with its resident undertaker, whose house windows peer into the churchyard, and the explorer finds himself in the Hackney-road, with evidences of the steady march of bricks and mortar surrounding him on every aide. Peering through the shop-windows running down to the pavement from the houses on either side of the way, he will not =frequently see a short flight of iron-railed steps, a scraper, and a front door with orthodox brass handle and black knocker, instead of a parlour at the back of the shop. It is not so long since this was the entrance to a per fectly private house, and flowers were tended and gravel rolled, where cigars and tobacco, apples and plums, or biscuits and cheesecakes, are bein4 ' vended now. The classes formerly dwelling . ' such neighbourhoods as these have taken wing, ' era season-ticket holders' on suburbia rail ways, or daily riders by some far stretch ' ing 'bus • and the sylvan sounding cot tages and villas, the crescents, the terraces, and ' the places, are handed over bodily to the photo ' graphic artist, the grocer, the cheesemonger, the pawnbroker, or the butcher. No lack of sm artly dressed people on the pavements ; great evidence of the unpopularity of Matthaei= doctrines in the road ; a complete show of beauty and manli ness—the former in startlingly vivid cape, the latter in shirt sleeves and somnolent, or with a clay pipe and bibulous—at the open windows above the shops ; and a copious selection of vehicular and equine curiosities now waiting out side the Durham Arms or the Rising Sun, or speeding at good trotting match pace down the road. Leaving an exhibition on the left, which proffers the exciting spectacle of a coffin a thousand years ' old to people in sesych of amusement ; and follow ing the stream of gigs, light waggons, and tax-carts, you crate a bridge, and are at one of the entrances to the Victoria-park. Flower sellers, ginger beer vendors, the eternal "fusses at a halfpenny a box," blind beggarsY from Bethoal-green, with abject • manners and repulsive daughters, peripatetic stick dealers, and street newsmen, are all hovering about the immediate approaches to the park, but passing through the gateway you escape these, and inspect the poles of a gymnasium now idle, but bearing strong evidence of pretty frequent week day use. To the left are seats and walks, grainy banks and flowers in bloom, while to the right the parterres for brilliance of colour, taste in arrangement, and healthy beauty, might compete with many a nobleman's show-place and carry off the prize. Through the inner iron gates, and up the walk whereon lovers are strolling, children playing, and family groups pointing out the exquisite tints of the flower garden beyond, and you gain the park proper, see the temple-like dome of the magnificent ' water fountain erected by Miss Burdett Coutta, re mark the multitude of happy groups on the grass, and aresurprised at the thicket-like plots of trees already of goodly size and ample foliage. Without drawing invidious comparisons between the Victoria and our West-end parks, there can be no doubt that in many particulars the former pompanos advantages the latter do not share. It is more exclusively pleasure-promoting in its character and aims. Unlike the drinking fountains in the churchyard of St. Clement Danes, where wayfarers are not supposed to be thirsty on Sunday—Miu Burdett Coutta's gift is in full play as well as in constant demand. It is pleasant to see the good-tempered green-coated park official lov ingly dusting its statuary, sweeping its approaches, and helping such little ones as are scarcely able to reach the stream to the coveted draught of water ; and no less pleasant to hear the admiring and appre ciative comments of the strollers who dot the grass, and upon whom none of the beauties of the stately erection and its surroundings are lost, from the clock at its summit to the graceful figures in its alcaves, and the gaily stocked stone flower urea about its base. " Meavina's patent invigo rator " is written at the end of one of the swing boats, now lying idle on the gram, and boys walk round it curiously, as if on the chance of its sud denly starting into life and their so obtaining an eleemosynary ride. These, as well as the green iron swings, ranged side by side at the end of thin. long, iron pendants, as if some giant chemist had bung up his instruments to rum and dry—are in constant request on week days. The purveyors of the favourite entertain ment on Sunday afternoons are stationed in the centre of the crowd yonder, and the harmonium's strains now floating softly upon the air, proceed' from a blind player, who, with his wife, is seated in a little cart, in which his instrument and a seat for two people are fixed. The pony is a phenomenon. Evidently a tory in politics, and having as little care for music as Sir Walter Scott himself, he expresses his contempt for the people crowding round him, and the strains forced upon his ears, by a series of wonderfully expressive and significant pranks. The movements of hie closely cropped dun mane, which has all the silki ness and is quite as wavy as a clothesbrush, are in themselves a study. With this mane be scrubs the faces of children who come too near his head, ex presses stubbly defiance, and endorses the silent notes of exclamation made by his quick moving and constantly changing ears. A pony full of charac ter, too, and one who, when he has uttered his " Lord, what fools these mortals be !" disdains argument and only looks pityingly at the poor old specimen of humanity who presumes to hold [TWOPENCE his head. Bind man plays with considerable feel ing, and the crowd around are perfeetly decorous, sympathising, and respectful. The two young couples seated hand in hand on the grass wonder whether " he was born so," and how he " came to have a blind wife as well ;" but this is sotto race, and there is nothing to interrupt the music save the gambols of infants too little to be kept quiet. • and cooing, making one of nisei in or on a our-wheel street-cab, smoking big cigars of auspicious flavour, and drinking ginger-beer of sur surpassing frothiness, would appear to be the favourite Sunday amusements of the district. The shopboy, the adult counter-j tamper, the smaller tribe of tradespeople, do not greatly vary in their charac teristics, and may be seen in St. James's or Hyde park any Sunday. Hers, at Victoria, however, they have the place to themselves, and neither in the carriage-dries nor in the various walks, nor in any portion of the gardens, is there a ves tige of the "upper ten." The perfect free-. dam of the roads strikes a stranger as being very singular. At a little dietaries there is nothing to distinguish these well-kept, clearly-defined tracks from the grass through which they run, and the result is that small tax-carts with pater and materfamiliaajand their extensive assort ment of olivebranches, comfortably seated, and cabs having three gentlemen at full length upon their roof, two more on the box, and four inside, all of whom are smoking and on terms of familiar friend ship with the driver, seem to be careering along the turf, following no rule but their own sweet will. A moment's inspection shows you that they are really keeping to the road, and you next wonder whether the cab-horse is the property of its driver, or whether both cab and steed, have een jobbed for the day by the nine rather flushed and dishevelled gentlemen who are in flicting upon them their naked weight, to the trial of wind and the grave jeopardy of springs. Their demeanour is unexceptionably quiet, as is that of everybody . we saw during our stay in the park. The people's hand, which has phi) ed sacred music here on Sunday afternoons during the summer, rested from its self-imposed labours a week or two back, aad the blind man has the field to himself. There are authorised refreshment huts, where tea. at sixpence a bead, hot water at twopence, and cakes and et Menu at specified prices, may be , always obtained ; there is a charmingly situated ornamental sheet of water embowered with trees, where bathing is encouraged in catkin !wilts, and round which garden seats are ranged - there area couple of snug stone alcoves, like h ermits; caves at one end, and diverse provision for athlet ic. sport; all over the park ; and after visiting these, watching ita thousands of bright, happy, and beam ing faces, and accepting them as even more welcome ornaments than its beautiful flowers ; after noting everywhere preparations for amusements, apprecia tion of the goods provided, jollity and contentment, you come away convinced--old Froissart notwith standing—that at Victoria-park and the Old Ford English people have no notion of taking their pleasure sadly. ALARMING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. ACORLNOTON, S&TUID4T. • - - An alarming accident took place at the railway be lest night, which might, if it had sot occurred at so late an boor, have been attended with a terrible sacrifice of hie, Between nice and ten o'clock last night an ercurrion tram, waisting of shoat thirty empty carriages, which had been standing for some lime DMZ the Accringtoe Railway Make. were taw up the incline on the Manchester branch of lina .by to seems, ow being in frost and the other at the rear. Wham the Wee had bow ran up the =bask. meet a short thermos, the rear engine left the carriages Washed to the ea I. freak for the purpose of getting upon ' washer Wet hi stew tam titer the lest imutne had left the train, the coupling chain between the second and third carriage from the head engine broke, and twisty-eiglit of the carrieges ran back at a tremendous speed. The down engine shunted off the line soon after they broke loose, and the carriages, whoa they passed it, were running at a rapid rate. Two guards happened to be on the runaway carriages at the time, and they put or breaks for the purpose of checking their im petus; but in this respect their efforts were quite useless; and Midis( that their position was becoming more alarming every second, sad that a terrible smash must soon emu* somewhere, they jumped off the carriages, and luckily were not at all injured in dots( so. The carriages ran ahead down the line, near the Blackball airbag ; they were turned off the main line by a pointeman, but they had not gone far before a great crash took plate. On the line they were runnier there were two carriages @feeding. The down car riages came into collie= with them, bat they were not at first thrown off the rate, and all dashed forward at speed towards the station. The two carriages alluded to bounded forward whoa etre* bet the runaways speedily overtook them and ran them aa the rails, foilowieg the same course themselves immediately afterward+. Here the accident assumed a most alarming character : the carriages were mashie( into each other, rearing up and rolling over is all directions, and the fearfu l momenturn they had obtained caused them to spread general destruction. Wheels, huge pews of iron. footboards, glass, carriage sides, bolts, and chains literally strewed the ironed. The mesh was terrible sad the damage immune. Five of the carriame—a first, three second, and one third—were completely broken to =tHappily, so me was is the carriages. If they o occupied every soul would hare been cat up and killed on the spot. If also the pointaman bed sot turned the arrives apes the siding when they were coming down the embankment there would have bees • dreadful catastrophe at the eaten. A peassoger twill was waitieg there when the carriages broke lone, and it could not by any notability haws been got off the Hee wither could the peaseagers bats got ont of the carriage* in which they were seared in time to have escaped the collision which must have ensued. After the accident several of the rail way officials were soon on the spot, and they secured a num ber of men to clear the reed. A huge fire was made of the broken timber tithe carriages for the men to work by. It was sot until this morniag that tie &brie was got eat of the way. Today numbers of peeple have visited the scene of the accident out of curiosity. The affair has created much ItidielndlOi throughout the tows and neighbourhood, for it bag put runny is mind of the dreadful acet which happeced on the same branch of railway, and almost wider walla circumstances, at Belmehtme few yew ago. On that crecaeien the earriegesof cm meanies train broke twee from the engine, and ran dews an inches. the results of which are known to all. There can be so doubt that the check which the rear carriages would experience when left by Use engine was the sole caws el the Resident last night. The coupling between the carriages is broken at the end of the screw, but the has appears to be strong and sound. and nothing but • strain upon the metal which it never was is tended to bear could have snapped it. THANII9 ANOLINO. —The reports from the assistant river keepers of the Thames Angling Preservation Society for the week ending the 2.4 th inst. concur in represeetieg the fishing as much improved within the last few days, owing to the reosot rates. Fletcher describes the sport in the neighbourhood of Staines as " arcellset." He state; that one gentleman with • friend took 581 b. of barbel, roach, and daoe eat Staines-bridge ; another caught upwards of 401 h. ; and &anther party upwards of 5011). At ehertesy, Halliford, and &Asbury, then Me been tolerable sport. There have been plenty of perch and gudgeon taken at Hampton, ems few mall barbel at Manissy. when the bowever. has set been as good. At Kingston the bank fishers have doe. well sac aget the barbel and bream— s lad took ow of the former of 5411 a. Date fishing has coo. tinned good at Teddingten ; Erriegtoe reverts eleven dozen having been lakes in one boor. At Twickenham there has bees some good takes, and the roach are feed* better. Ono gentleman took 15 dozen dace (one weighing se.), sad Dina barbel, seat Petersham Island ; sad in the WIN place, ' • day or two afterwards. another angler took 13 dozes dace and air barbel. Fly diking barn been exceediegly good from Richmond to the Duke of Orleans' mildews, ea rimy!' five dozen fine dace having beim taken by one rod. The dace have never been finer than they are this season. About Bientford sad Kew the river is in so filthy • condition is to be very destructive to the fish. A gentleman thus writes—" From Kew Bridge to Brantford Ferry, on Saturday lam, shortly after high tide, I maw at beset • doses Ines with boathooks and heal; sets, aitchieg • great number of large barbel and small roach in • stupid state, rolling about as if (bock. sod altogether in a most unhealthy condition, which is attributable toad poisonous state of the water." All the praiaiworthy meruoso of the Thames Angling Preservation Society will be rendered abortive it the fish are the. to be poisoned by tons in the tideway ; but it is satisfactory to know that the quietism is undergoing serious emeldirstion is the proper quarter. A series of trial trips on the Pneumatic Passenger Railway, mistreated is the yeas& of the Crystal Palace, took place as Sattoday, esd were witnessed sod takes part in by the Hon. Cols, C.B. ; Capt. Fowke, B.E. ; Mr. Scott Bussall, C.F. ,• Mr. Ogilvy, and • somber of other /asthma esanwited with seisms, sod She working of rail way% '1