The Express. — London, England, 1862-10-15 00:00:00

MERCANTILE INSURANCES NORWICH UNION FIRE OFFICE. Established INN. Business of the Moe is 170.000,000 Duty paid In 1061 Duty free 4074 10.0E1,762 The BONUS SYSTEM of the aloe is peculiarly advautageona for MERCANTILE INS THESE-FIFTHS of the PROFITS of the COMPANY being poodically distributed me a BONUS among parties Insuring, who have thus received moms mounting in Use aggregate to 1410.000. The NORWICH UNION Is the LARGEST OFFICE gluing • BONUS to its insurers, and in order of magnitude Is the TILLED OFFICE hi the UNITED EINGDOIL You RATES sod PROSPECTUSES apply at the Society's offices, 6, Crtecent, New Bridge-atreet, LC., sod Surrey -street, Norwich. 222REOZNT-STREET, LONDON. , MAPPIN BROTHERS (by special appointment to Me imperial Stalest! Napoleon SILVkItStIITILS, Meat*. sorer Platen, Dresslncome Manufacturers, and Cutlers, Queen's Cutler! Works, Shetfield, hare the honour to announce Wit they have 00MILKNCID BUSINMS et the WEST-END of LONDON, by et 2. 3 , Peu ß i tt l iff i r a TENJlT, with a large collection of their manufactures, and they hope to receive, as they will endeavour to ment, an extension of the favours hitherto awarded them at their City Intehilabruank, 67 and 68. VINO WI LLIAIUSTELET. GEO. MOTH AND 00. 1 6 PURE EXTRACT of CALVES' FEET, For Invalids sad Callow Use. Bold la IC la, 25., sad la. packets, byalls_ bowl* Rams, Ec. MANUFACTOMY, 1111. LITTLE 1 2 01 , Isgelocs„. W. LICOOND-HAND PIANOPORTKS. CRAMER, BULL. sad WOOD have a Imp aseartatent ad-haad Plaacdcetek by the 11104 eetemia•d mashie; al greedy reduced petoes.-101. itatteatatvela. MANSION -HOUSE COMMITTEE for the RELIEF of the COTTON OPERATIVES.—The Lord and Committee beg to ammonite that, by the kindness of a C Governor,. of itridewell. a portion of that building has been placed at their disposal for the reception of clothing for the nes of the suffering population in the distressed district' ; they therefore incite contributions of clothing of all kinds, and olf blankets. and request that they may be sent to the above-men tinned place, viz., Irride.ell, Bridge-street, Blecktrian, kLC., for the Committee. Eft, erpregos. uovala GARDEN. Tull! Ell:XlNG—(lai time) —LIMMINE. Miss Bars Dobson. Mtn Thirl. all, and Ml.. Swan Pyne : Messrs. Santley H. Patty,lrall and George Perren.—Conductor, Mr. ATlr r a Mellon.—Connuenae at I. SAnIAIM_ Ten Eirmilwo, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Mho Y. Romer. ...OUR AMERICAN OMEN. Meseta Boehm% Reeketonii . Mrs. ritzwillimn —DUCE HUNTING. Mrs. Wllkhic—And THE GALICIAN FETE. Gime del Carroll° sad Fanny Wright. riuxceomm. THIB Evmnsoa, TIER RENDIZVOUL —LINO HENRY THE EIOUTIL Masan. Chutes Kan, Jordan. Raymond, J. F. Cathcart, Rvertit, Garden, and Meadows : Mrs. Charles Kean and Masa Magmas—And BORROWING A RUSBAND. 71us Evronne, MAZNZPI.--eCSNES IN THE CIRCLE. Wiles. Masotti, Hibop, and Young Devereux.—And a comic BALLET in which Iliac Annie Cuabnle will appear.—Commence at 7.—Last Week but Two of the Season. BRITANIFIA. T is EVZIMK4 CAST ON OF THE WORLD. S. Lane.—Singhsbj eam blearm ltandall, Plimpton, and Mtn Coveney.-14. anal Mak C. Stephan. EVA'S HOME. Was k lira St. Cara.—And TILE HARVIST STORM. HUM /WIN AT LONDON BILIDGX. Iwo sa.7.T.lisi - rt;icii: -- en. sore. To-sozsow—mcerdm tian. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15. THE Poaching Act of last session is working as everybody who knows the rural life of England and how justice is administered by the rural magistracy" was sure it would. The Act itself tempted justices just where they rather needed a check. It was an invitation to give more effect to that suspicion to which in game cases magistrates were before too prone. It was constructed, we do not say in disregard of, but in contempt loudly proclaimed of that jealousy of personal liberty which has been one of the best safeguards of our national character. Seeing that it is the same class which asked for the law which is now administering it, we need not be surprised that the evils inheren in the law are not mitigated in its administration. At the petty sessions held at Halesworth last week, two men, named NESLING and Starr, were charged under the new Act—the first with having in his possession, on a certain highway, a net used for the purpose of taking game, being suspected of coming from the unlawful pursuit of game on land belonging to the Earl of STRAD BROKE tho second, with being there present aid ing and abetting him. We do not profess to understand what is meant by aiding and abetting a man in being on a highway or in having a net in his pocket ; but let that pass. There appears to have been no person learned in the law present, and the proceedings, es will be seen, were full of irregularities. The prosecutor in this case was a county policeman, named Madan. This man says : "On the night of Thursday, the " 2nd of October, I was at four cross ways " near Bnlcamp, a little before 11 o'clock." What was he doing there t He does not say, but his witness tells us. Lord STRLDIMOKE 9 B game keeper, a man named Easy, says :—" On the " night in question I waslwith Eudorr." In fact, the two men were for the time equally Lord STEAD 'moss's gamekeepers. From this statement onwards tho policeman appears in all the evidence as a partisan bound to make out a case for Lord STILLDBUOILE. The neutrality and impartiality to which we are accustomed in our London Police, men taught to look upon themselves as having a strictly public character, and as being agents only of the law, are altogether wanting here. Eudorr says :—" I heard a gate go to at about a hundred " and fifty yards' distance, the gate of a field in the " occupation of the Earl of STRADBROKE, and about " five minutes afterwards I saw the two men " coming along the road." This was literally all the policeman had to say for his assumption that Use men had been on the land named in the charge against them. The persons who opened the gate might have been going in, or if coming out, might have gone the contrary way and met these two men on the road. But the policeman says—" No, I should have heard anybody, one " hundred yards on the other side of the gate," and in reliance upon that sole indication he acted. He says explicitly that he had no other to guide him—" I took the net from them upon my belief " that they came from that field of Lord STEAD " BROKE'S in consequence of hearing the gate " opened." The inference was accepted by the bench, and we now see of what kind are those "good reasons" upon which Parliament permits country magistrates to take away the liberties of their follow subjects. The possession of the net by NULINO was not disputed. The policeman deposed : " I said to him, " I shall search you, and see what you have got. " On feeling in his pocket, I found a net, and said, What do you do with the net t' He said, " That belongs to me ; it is one I made myself.' " I said, 'I shall take it away.' He said, You are "welcome to do that, only when you have done " with it, let me have it back again.'" In general there was very little disagreement between the pri soner and the witness about the slender facts alleged to have been observed, although the inferences which the prosecutors violently drew from them were strenuously denied. On one point, however, their statements were in direct opposition. The policeman said that when he took the net Nzsuiso said it was a mackerel net. NYSLING denies that he made any such excuse. There appears no reason for doubting that it was such a net as would be used for taking game. Nesuiro said in court : " I made it to sell ; I make all sorts of nets. I " can make a hare net or a mackerel net, or any " other sort." The possession of this terrible engine, apart from the imputation etnemin l i from the unlawful pursuit of gioneorouki n t i t sufficed to convict its owpisr. I.3lgrieve atop is what evidence this latter fact wairustimed by the policeman. One of the magistrates, the Rev. H. Owint, who appears to have exerted himself to keep ths poundings within the bounds of fairness, in quired in what state the net wee, and the answer both of the policeman and the gamekeeper was, that it was quite dry. On the other hand, it was affirmed that the field from which the defendants were sup posed to have come was dry. Some feathers were also spoken of as having been found in the net by the policeman and gamekeeper. NISLING declared that there were none in it when it was taken from him, and that the prosecutor must have put them there. The policeman admits that he did not see them when he took the net, but then, he says, it was dark. The gamekeeper would not un dertake to say that they were fresh feathers. If the feathers were not fresh they could not in the least help to make out the case of the prosecutor, who had to show that the owner of the net had just oome from the unlawful pursuit 'of game in Lord STRADBROKE'S field. If the witnesses had sworn that the feathers were fresh, a great difficulty would have arisen, for the prosecutors would have had to show what had be come of the game, since they pretended to have had the men within their observation ever since they left (as was alleged) the field. These feathers, then, supposing them to have been in the net when it was seized, prove nothing. Even that experienced person the gamekeeper, when asked by Mr. Owaw, "Do you believe the net to have " been used that night?" answered, " I cannot " say." There is thus, then, no evidence that the men had been in the field, beyond the judg ment of a policeman respecting the bang of a gate at a hundred and fifty yards' distance, and no evi dence at all that the net had been used. The magistrates appear to have felt that the ceas would not stand on the evidence, for the Chairman asked the policeman, " Do you know anything of " the habits of these men, whether they are likely "to have been poaching 1" The policeman's re ply was as singular as the question. Of Nsin.nur, on whom the net had been found, he said, " I " believe him to be a notorious poacher ; he has " always been named to me as such." Here is rumour supplying the place of evidence. A police man was found to prove two convictions for poaching against STAFF, and thus the " likelihood" of the charge on which they were brought up was established. The magistrates withdrew for about ten minutes, and on their retura the Chairman said :—" Your case " has bad the greatest attention from the magic " trates." This is true, for two of them, the Chairman himself, the Rev. W. C. Ewan, and Mr. H. A. S. Berms, had eagerly conducted the prosecution, violating every round rule of evideno' to ~ get the men convicted. "And we have had every " wish to give you the full benefit of any doubt " exulting in our minds." There is not the least evidence of the wish ; and as for doubt, none was suffered to exist. " But we cannot allow " ourselves to have any doubt in this case. You " are found a long way from your own hornns "-- four or five miles--" with inliu ful " manta upon you, and the ovideucn " amply sufficient to satisfy the Court of your " having been on land for the purpose of poach " ing." When no evidence at all is deemed to be " amply sufficient," every kind of injustice may be perpetrated by the machinery of the law. . . Mr. EDGELL concluded his harangue by sell: tencing blzeurro and STAFF to pay each a fine of 51., or in default to be imprisoned for two months in Ipswich gaol with hard labour. Of these two men we know nothing beyond what appears in the evidence. They may have no claim to public sympathy on the ground of their character and way of life. But in this case they have not had the benefit of that impartial justice which is the right of every Englishman. There is more than the liberty of two poor men con cerned here. The character of the current admi nistration of the law is depraved by decisions like these. The mass of the people in this country are governed easily because they are penetrated by the conviction, which daily experience nourishes, that the law is administered for the common good, and that even-handed justice is meted out to all. But this Haleswoith judgment has nothing of an ele vated and impartial character about it. It is a flagrant specimen of administration, in the spirit and interests of a class, of an Act which is itself a most paltry measure of class-legislation. fbe eoun. 00BUB.G, OCT. The Queen and the Royal Family continue their daily walks and drives, favoured by uninterrupted fine weather. _ _ Her Majesty and the Royal Family have paid frequent visits to the neighbouring Cutle of Ragusa, the birth place and favourite residence of the Prince Consort. The Dachau of Coburg daily visits the Queen from the Castle of Wemberg, a short &stenos from Coburg, and drives out with her Majesty. _ _ . . On every occasion her Majesty receives the most respect. ful marks of sympathy from people of all ranks in the town and neighbourhood, who entertain the stroogest affec tion for the memory of the Prince Consort, who wan most dearly beloved by the whole population. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Elands. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary left Cambridge Cottage, Kew, yesterday, for Brighton. The Marquis of Londonderry is suffering from severe indisposition. The Earl and Countess of Cawdor, who arrived in town a few days since from a tour of visits, left town on Monday for their seat in Wales. The Earl and Countess of Craven have been entertaining a succession of visitors at Ashdown* Park, Barks, during the nest week. Among the company were the Earl of Sefton, Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton, Mr. and Lady Evelyn Bruce, Colonel Bathurst, Mr. Cecil Boothby, Mr. George Johnston., &c. The Earl of Sefton has arrived in town from visiting the Earl and Countess of Craven at Ashdown Perk, Berks. Viscountess Dalrymple was safely delivered of a SOD, on Saturday, at Ler residence in Dover-street. Her ladyship and the infant are progressing favourably. Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton have left Aandowne Park, Barks, for Newmarket. . . Lord Rivers has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkelay-square, from Rushmore Lodge, war Salisbury. Lord and Lady Colchester have returned to town hoar visiting the Marquis and ifarehionme of Salisbury at Hatfield House. The noble lord and her ladyship will leave town to-morrow for Brighton. The Earl of Derby and the Earl of Clarendon paid a visit to Liverpool yesterday, and were received by the Mayor, who conducted them to the chief place' of local interest. Lord Clarendon, who is not No familiar am Lord Derby with Liverpool affairs, being greatly inte rested. Their lordships made an excursion on the river, and inspected the shipbuilding yards of fir. John Laird, M.P. Amongas other places visited and closely inspected was the site of the proposed government dockyard and naval arsenal, at Trimmers pool, Cheshire, which has been sug gested by Mr. bird, M.P. LATH3T OTTELLIGISINCE: THE CALCUTTA MAIL. The Madras advices extend to Sept. 14 ; those from Calcutta to Sept. 8. In the absence of topics of an engross;ng political or military nature, Sir Charles Wood's despatch on the subject of the sale of waste lands and the redemption of the land tax, and the financial con troversy between that minister and Mr. Laing, jointly continue to occupy the chief share of public attention—articles relative to either subject ap pearing almost daily in the Indian papers, the majority being adverse to the Secretary of State on most points at issue. In the commercial report of the Calcutta man we read: We are very glad to hear, from almost every part of the Punjab, that the prospects of an abundant harvest are such as to warrant an assurance that both khureef and subesh crops will be larger than they have been since 1857. The breadth of land sown in all directions is said also to exceed that of any pruMus year. Many of what are in that province called rukhs (reserved lands) have been broken up by those to whom they belong, the government being, however, the great holders, and there is a great desire manifested in an directions to purchase those which are not private property for cultiva tion. It is said that cotton, unfortunately not so good and clean as it ought to be, is being exported in considerable quantities to Kurrac.hee, and our correspondent estimates the probable amount for this year at 70,00) =undo, or 2,500 tons. This is pretty well, seeing that cotton has hitherto been imported into the Punjab from the East. In the former years the cultivators are said to have realised 500,0001. extra by sale of wheat ; now they are likely to reap another most unexpected profit from cotton, as the price has risen from seven, eight, and nine t,rpees per maund to from sixteen to nineteen rupees ; the cl - ference on the whole crop will be profit over and above that of ordinary years. No wonder we ,hear that the Punjab agriculturist is rapidly becoming independent of his banker, and taking the management of his own money into his own hands. TILE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1862. CHINA. The Overland China Mail (August 27) thinks there is no doubt, from the attitude taken by her Majesty's government, that our position with the Taeping rebels is slowly assuming the proportions of a war. " That is the feeling here is China, where it is also felt that of such a war the termina tion must necessarily be far off. The interference may possibly be confined to clearing the Yang-tare and holding the treaty ports, but the likelihood is that in this work collisions may take place that will lead to continued retaliations, and then to actual war." The news for the fortnight is comparatively scanty and unimportant. The rebels are again on the move, and General Ward has distinguished himself by capturing four places which they had occupied in strength, viz. :—Kinsang, Leohu, Tsing-poo t and Yu Yaou. The cholera is still raging in Pekin ; Mr. Bruce has gone into cool country quarters ; everything political goes on smoothly ; the regent continues to issue edicts applauding the conduct of Ward and ' of the allies. At Canton some events of a significant character have taken place. The fwanyu magistrate has been removed from office at the instance of her Majesty's consul, in consequence of flagrant mis conduct and disregard of treaty stipulations. This is said to be the first time that a mandarin has been removed at the desire of fc rciou authorities. JAPAN. From Japan, the following intelligence comes to hand by the Japan Herald: Our het information from Zak° informs us that the Diamio who has lately represented the Shiagooog at the imperial court u Shaskidei, having fallen into disivace, has ended his days by the honowable means of suicide. He has fallen a victim, it is believed, rather to the duplicity and untruthfulness of the Gorogio than to his owe misdeeds. By the advice of some of the Kokoshioo, the office of Gotatio or Regent has been revived. This was at Brit done by a joint commission to two officers —Hats Daira Higho no Kami and Mate Daira Etneren no Kami. The latter was appointed in 1859 the custodian of Yokohama and foreigners, bat he fell into disgrace through the power of the late Gotairo, from which he has only lately emerged. Since hislast appointment, however, he has again fallen into disgrace, and the regency remains in the hands of Matz Hairs Higho no Kami. But the title has been changed from Gotairo to Sodang ait6 ; the officers who hold it now being of higher birth than those who have held the position of regent in times past. These, then(says the China Mai/),are the changes which were making the stir at Yedo that so need lessly alarmed our people some time ago. AUSTRALIA. VICTORIA. The latest advice. from Melbourne extend to August 25.. Rain and floods bad characterised the month and the winter just ended throughout Vic toria. The storms had extended into South Aus tralia, and been intensified in Western Australia, where the floods had exceeded in violence any similar visitation for the last thirty years, destroy ing roads, bridges, crosaing-places, houses, farm buildings, farms, a:c. The chief secretary had appointed the gentlemen who are to form the new Education Board, to work out the Common Schools Bill. The various re ligious bodies in the community, without excep tion, had agreed to give the bill a fair trial, and the preliminary steps had been taken to carry out the provisions of the bill. We find the following among the parawaphs of news in our Melbourne cotemporaries : During the recces we despatched a special reporter to t h e gold-fields, to examine and report upon their state, as well as the condition of the miners, and the position and pros pects of mining generally. Eleven of his letters have since appeared in the Amos, and, so fat as they have gone, they are entirely reassuring, showing that, even on our oldest gold-fields, mining is only at its commencement. The alluvial fields are still unexhausteci, and auriferous quartz-reefs without number lie untouched in every dis trict, for want of capital and labour. Attention hay also been drawn to our mines of antimony, silver, and iron, of which little or nothing was popularly known previously The effect of these letters has already been to assist in restoring confidence in the minarets of the colony, and to stimulate enterprise in new mining directions. The efforts of the Acclimatisation Society, we are happy to report, are producing gratifying results. Lanka aid thrushes are reported as having been beard and seen in districts far apart from each other, and embracing almost the whole oolouy. The society Arad is io a highly Batistes ' tory condition, and is spreading its ramifications over the colony and the east. Landsborougb, the explorer, has arrived in Melbourne, after having crossed the continent from Carpentaria, in nearly a straight line, with a small party, including two ►boriginals, natives of Queensland. His journal has not I yet been published, as he desires to verify some of Waal isolations ; but the cira yore description which he gave at a meeting of the Royal Society confirms the impressions I formed from his letters dated from Warrego, announcing I hu return from the settled district& He describes the r country north of Cooper's Creek in glowing terns, and . gives it as his opinion that pastoral settlement will proceed , so rapidly on the newly.diacovered lands that, before , twelve months pass over, it will be possible to pass from l Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria without camping out in the bosh for a single night. The country througgh • out is well watered and paned ; more rain falls to the north than to the south. of Cooper's Creek the climate is healthy and comparatively and ; and the grass and herbs are remarkable for their fattening properties. On the Flair River, lroobark aid quartz ranges were crossed, kid the oouviry bad every appearance of being auriferous. It is highly pro bible that virgin gold-fields exist there. Instructions have since been forwarded to Howitt to commence his returnfrom Cooper's Oreek,with the remains', of our first heroes, Burke and Willa, for the public foment which will be accorded to them. The surviving member of the party, King, whom health Is still delicate, received at the hands of his Excel lency, on this night week, the watch and appendages for warded to him by the Royal Geographical Society, for his good conduct throughout the trying scenes in connexion with the expedition. The quantity of gold brought down by escort during the present year up to date has been 976,007 ounces against 1,204,312 ounces for the corresponding period of last year. The shipments of gold during the earns period have amounted to 1,334,971 ounces, including 223,011 ounces, the produce of the New Zealand mines. The shipments of Victorian gold then stand at 1,131,960 ounce!, which is a decrease on the amount shipped during the corresponding period of last year. SYDNEY. The Sydney Herald of August 23 commences a leading article in the following terms : The sum contributed for the ,relief of the distress in the manufacturing districts reached, yesterday, fifteen thousand pounds. Of this, five thousand pounds were for warded to London, to be appropriated by Mr. James If acsiOiur, Sir Daniel Hooper, and Mr. Hamilton, by last mail. Eight thousand five hundred will be conveyed by the Madras. Fifteen hundred pounds will remain in the treasurer's hands for future transmission. A'l this has been collected within a few weeks—from July 16th to August 20th. We did expect much from the people of New South Wales, but they have surpassed themselves. A contribution so large and so spontaneous expresses the depth of interest and sympathy felt in this community for the people of Great Britain, and the power with which a common sentiment, when set forth with vigour, will take hold cf the colony, especially where there are no religion or political prejudices to obstruct it. The Cotton Cultivation Encouragement Bill had been passed by the Assembly, and was before the Council. The debate on the second reading of the Bill to abolish Grants in Aid of Public Worship, after extending over four sittings, terminated on the 24th July, when the measure was' read a second time by a majority of twenty-nine to twenty eight. SOUTH AUSTRALIA. At Adelaide this year's immigration vote of 25,000/. has passed without opposition. A preliminary meeting had been held on the subject of Lancashire distress. Arrangements were being made with the Vic torian Rifle Association for an intercolonial match. — The bill for incorporating the church of England is strongly opposed by many members of that church, and by those of some other denomina tions. QUEENSLAND. BRISBANE, AvG. 23. A new Cotton and Sugar Agricultural Company has been formed by Victorian capitalists, and they have taken up a large tract of country on the Hotham river, in the Moreton Bay district, where they intend to commence operations. There are fresh news of further disasters to the settlers' cattle on account of the long-continued drought. The settlers are now very anxiously waiting for rain in order that the grass, now almost entirely disappeared, may again spring up. Busineiss is I stagnant. AMERICA. (ms's TMEGRAMIL) (Pt Etna, via Roches Point.) NEW YORK, Oct. 3, EVIIII2IO. The address of the loyal governors to President Lincoln has been published. They pledge their support to the President, de clare that the work of restoring the Union shall not fail, and urge raising a reserve force of 100,000 men for twelve months. They approve the Presi dent's emancipation proclamation, and think that the policy now inaugurated will give speedy triumph to the Federal arms. Heavy skirmishing has taken place between General Buell's advance guard and the Confede rates. Buell's army is drawn up in line of battle at Bardstown, 21 miles from Louisville. An en gagement is expected. A resolution has been introduced in the Confe derate Congress that President Lincoln's emanci pation proclamation 18 a gross violation of the usages of war, and should be held up to the execra tion of mankind, and counteracted by such severe retaliatory measures as in the judgment of Presi dent Davis may be calculated to secure its with drawal or arrest its execution. Several members favoured hoisting the black flag, and declaring every citizen in the Southern Confederacy a soldier authorised to kill every man found on Confederate soil in arms against the government. The resolutions were referred to the Judiciary Committee. NEW YORK, Ocr. 4, Moszintc. The Richmond Enquirer says that President Lincoln's proclamation will simply drive the negroes to their destruction. They are cheerful and happy now, but Lincoln plots their death, for their insurrection is their swift destruction. Re leased from authority the negro is a savage, and the same ignorance which drives him to destruc tion stimulates him to excess. The same journal says : "Our military opera tions are henceforward to assume a grave charac ter. Lincoln's new problem destroys all terms be tween us, and the next campaign will be a tremen dous one, both for the character and the magni tude of the hostilities." The New York World of to-day thinks that the proclamation will add to the horrors of the war, and make it twice as difficult to conquer the South, and events will prove the proclamation to be the gmatest mistake of the war. The Southern journals say that M'Clellan's army is on the south aide of the Potomac, and advancing by way of Harper's Ferry and Shepherdstovrn. An engagement is impending. The Confederate General Lee has made preparations to meet the enemy. The Richmond Whig has information that the entire Confederate loss at the battle of Manassas was 5,000, and in all engagements in Maryland from 5,000 to 7,000. General Beauregard has assumed the command of the Confederate army in South Carolina and Georgia. President Lincoln has passed amoral days in visiting Harper's Ferry and the Auo •Lon battle field, and reviewing the troops. General Butler has ordered all persons refusing to take the oath of allegiance to have their names re gistered as enemies of the United States. Those taking the oath will be recommended for pardon. The Federal General Morgan, who was with his forces lately at Cumberland Gap, has reached the Ohio river, opposite Portsmouth. After November the Ist next no foreign in voices will be received for entry at the New York Custom house unless certified to by consul's certi cate at the place of shipment abroad. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Oar. 3, Eva:fix°. Money abundant. Gold 221 premium. Ex. change : Bankers' bills, 135 to 136. The excite ment in the stock market continues. Speculative stocks rose 2 to 3 per cent. this afternoon. New York Central are quoted 105. Illinois, 84 ; Erie, 56. Cotton quiet. Middling Upland, 56e. to 56}c. Flour advancing Sc. higher. Wheat heavy and le. lower. Corn quiet. Provisions steady. Coffee advancing. Sugar quiet. Moliussesi good inquiry. LONDONDERRY, Oct. Th. The Canadian screw-steamer. Nova Scotian, from Quebec on the 4th inat., has arrived here. Her news has been anticipated. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. tisom °us owm PARLS, TOESDAT Evortm. I took leave to doubt yesterday the news of the Temps that there bad been a ministerial council, at which the Roman question was discussed. The Temps now admits that there was no council at all yesterday. Its mistaken announcement is attri buted to the fact that the Emperor gave separate private audiences to several ministers in succes sion, and among them to AL Thouvenel and M. de Lavalette, the titular minister to the court of Rome. The only known result of these audiences is one entirely confirmatory—if any confirmation were needed—of the prevalence of anti-Italian policy in the Emperor's councils. Everybody is agreed this evening that M. de Lavalette, upon whose despatch the main hopes of Italian unity have reposed for the last month, will not go back to Rome, and the only question is whether M. de la Tour d'Auvergne, a notorious ultramontanist, will not be appointed in his place. The "latest news" of the Presse gives the latter appointment as almost certain, and the France alludes to the news as being only "premature." One cf the reasons assigned for the panic at the Bourse (noticed below) is a rumour of a change of ministry in Paris. A curious announcement in junta-position with the rumours of a ministerial crisis is, that the only official reception which will take place at St. Cloud before the departure of the court, for Compiegne will be that of M. de Bismark Schcenhausen, the Prussian prime minister, who is coming to take leave of their majesties on presenting his letters of recall from the French embassy. The poor pig headed King of Prussia seems to have had just sense enough to take a lesson in universal suffrage from Napoleon 111., when he was a guest at Compiegne last year, and the France announces positively to-night that M. de Bismark is about to make a coup d'etat to sanction by universal suffrage the monstrous illegalities which he has been per petrating. A most serious panic has occurred at the Bourse, which was by no means distinctly accounted tor. The Prussian news was mentioned, but that can hardly be the true reason, because, so far as any known telegrams go, the situation at Berlin is not worse than it was yesterday. A ministerial crisis in Paris, and, above all, the retirement of M. Fould, would more than explain the alarm of the public, but this, although alluded to by the France and other evening papers, was but very vaguely spoken of during Bourse hours. The Rents fell lfr. 50. for cash, and I fr. for account, closing at 70fr. GOc. and ithr. 80e. LAI 4fdr., and the Italian Loan 95c. Railways, though, from having been lees dealt in of late than the Rentc, they were compa ratively little affeeted, infrared a good deal ; Orleans fell Bfr. 75c. ; Northern, 7fr. 50c. ; Southern, 10fr.; Western, 3fr. 75c. ; and Eastern and Lyons, 2fr. 50c. each. The Daily News is seized. Sir Henry Bulwer, English ambassador to the Sultan, has arrived at Vienna, and Baron de Prokesch is expected there. A letter from Varignano says :—"As for English correspondence it is overwhelming, and one of the aides de-camp visited me last night with such a budget of ' letters unanswered,' that if be has done his duty I am sure sleep has not visited his eyes during the past night. And then it is such a curious and varied correspondence. Female letters of four crossed pages, treating of every subject from treason to tea-parties ; effusions from clergymen who seem to mis take Garibaldi for Martin Luther redirirus ; ethical epistles from elderly females; platonic* from political prancers' —to quote from Albert Smith ; copies of verses of curious inanity ; and finally, one gentleman bad forwarded his pho tograph, and, I may be allowed to suggest it, should now add a lock of his hair. Theo the agent of Monsieur Dumas bad brought his account of the affair of Aspromonte to be corrected, General Garibaldi having warned that talented romancer' that he must cooties himself to a statement of facts. So you see that the ' unpaid' secretary of the I wounded general tolls an severely and during mach longer hours than those bard-worked officials who slave in Downing street every day Iran 11 to 3 (newspapers included)." M. Mathieu (de la Drdme) writes to the &Me to communicate a note which he has addressed to the Academy of Sciences, and according to which all the watercourses in the south-east of Erases, and in the whole south of Europe, will experience • very great augmentation from the 28th I inst. to the Sth of November. He predicts great iounds, tions in Italy, and still greater ones in countries to the east e t Italy. In France only a few departments will be visited bytbil rwill u The 17th degree of longitude is the region where i scourge The most severely felt. The overflow of rivers will take place, according to M. biathlon, throughout • zoos of more than 600 leagues, parallel to a line drawn from Gate or Marseilles to a point beyond the Black Sea, gracing the south of the Crimea. The neighbourhood of seas will, it is said, be chiefly affected, and advice is given to the population of the districts indicated to take such precau tions as may be in their power before the 28th hat. The season has been the hottest that has been known for some years in the West Indies. A hurricane was fully expected, but it had not been experienced up to the latest dates ; two or three cyclones bad been felt. At It is stated, with reference to the Indian tele. Eartadoes there bad been fever amongst the troops. graph question, that the authorities at the India-office have The Halifax (Nova Scotia) Express states that it is probable that the legislature of the three provinces will decided upon taking imme diate ste p for completing the land line of telegraph now in existence as far as Bagdad on be convened earlier than usual, to take up the interoolonial to the head of the Persian Gulf, and to lay • submarine railway question. cable thence to Citadel, on the coast of Beloochistan, from A TIGER-KILLER IN REQI:II73T.—We have been which point a Lod line is being constructed to Join the mum informed by some of our Saturday excursionists to Siren system of telegraphs at Kurrachee. GL Stewart, LB., goon that the tigers are spin in that neighbourhood in directs the work generally, and Sir Chilies Bright and Mr. considerable numbers. The natives in many cases report Latimer Clark are the engineers. having seen them, and theirand seree footprints beds of are by no mean China uncommon s the pepper the The present volunteer force of Canada consists planters. We had an interview with Mr. Carrel, of 10,615 infantry, 1,687 artillery, 1,615 cavalry, and our reputed tiger killer, who has once more taken up his 202 engineers. There are also corps drilled and only wait- abode at Sirangoon, and be aware, us that he el . awaits Mg the recognition of government to be armed. These will fall oc'u tha tu t Mr. u tr u°B l's hi s:do w u a tch r in the bunt not e fear, swell the volunteer force to 16,000 men. These are also in h owever, tusedbe ;either be considers the inducement offered Othada.lo,ooo militia. The whole military force of Canada by the governor insufficient, or sport of another nature has will consist shortly of 26,000 troops. i proved more renuesrative.—Strosts Tames, Sept. 6. LORD PALMERSTON'S INTENDED VISIT SOUTHAMPTON. (non on owl( 1170111101.) SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 14. Extensive preparations are being matte for the ceremony of the inauguration of the Hartley Institute, which is to come off here to-morrow. This institution, it may be necessary to state for the information of those who are not denizens of this town, is founded by the will of a Mr. Hartley, formerly a resident here, who bequeathed some 100,000/. or so for the support of an educational institution, his design being specially to promote the study of oriental languages and the higher branches of science. Great difficulty has been experienced in establishing the will, but that has at length been done ; a handsome hall has been built, and every preparation has been mule to carry the wishes of the founder into effect. Of course the opening of such an institution is a great thing for South ampton, and there is naturally a desire to give Mat to the proceedings. Lord Palmerston has been invited, and has engaged to be present, and a civic procession, comprising also Odd Fellows, the Foresters, the officers of several scientific societies, and of the mail ship companies connected with the town, areto meetLoniPalmerston at the second Common Os* about two miles from the town,and escort him to the Institute, which is situate in the High-street. There en address to his lordship will be presented by the corporation, and his lord ship, it is expected, will reply. The Bishop of Rochester and Sir Roderick Murchison will also take pert in the pro ceedings. In the evening a banquet will be given at the la. statute, at which Lord Palmerston will be present. LANCASHIRE RELIEF FUND. Mr. J. Maclure, hon. sec., Manchester, acknow ledges with thanks the following contributions : Yrs. Sarah Bayley, Wirobbakm•common, 1031. ; the Vice-Chancellor of Lancashire, 51. (third subscription) ; James Bischoff and Sons, 521. 10s. ; collection in Killingholme Church, 31. 13s. 4d. ; in Harborough Church, 31. 3s. 11d. • Richard Hardy, 501. • employes of Massa". Schrann, Ke ll , and Co., monthly enhe ' criptaews, lle. sd. ; Gregory, Boweliffe, and Boweliffe, per Major Coppock, 251. • N Z.., London, 51. ; Harvest Thanksgiving at Hunstanton, ' Norfolk, 14/. 12a. 51; first contribution from Whatley Frome, 31. • Bird and Hull, 10a.; fichloas Brothers, 25/. (first dona tion); Greeford Church, weekly collection, October 5, 71. 64. ; Harvest Thanksgiving from the parish of Little Ponton, Lincolnshire, 151. 4s. ; Henry Alger, Preston, ledbury, 10s. ; Miss Burdett CouMs, 1,1001., in payments extending over six months ; Mrs. Bevy.% 2301. • Henry Blacklock, 251.: Hai. ton Park Review, 1401.; collection at Westoo•upon•Trent, per Rev. 8. Plant, 81. la; A Collie and Co., monthly, 10/.; Nathaniel Clayton 1001.; employ/s of Great Northern Railway, Doricastee, 101. ; fifth donation, 11. ; Mime ; Bayley, 1001. oollection at St. Thomas' Church, South. borough, 231. 10s. 2d. ; employ!' of London and North Western Company, Crewe, week ending Oot. 4,151. 7a 6d.; ditto, at Wolverton, Oct. 4, 111. 9s. 4d.; ditto, at Loop sight fortnight ending Oct. 4, 61. Ili. 4d.; Mr. Batman, 7s. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Com. piny, 6001. ; first monthly payment, 1001. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WIDIIIINDAT, 00701111 15. • LK. N. IL IL P. s.O. 1. & 8. - - -- -....-.- Nazi 29.62 46 43 W. 3 3 7r 0 - - .50 1 8331141371 10.67 60 47 W. 4 4r 1 083 6 L• 26 - 2 Miry* . - 2 LBDIO4tAO 19.66 60 48 B.W. 6 16r 0. I YoltrivuE ..„ 29.61 47 46 8. 1 b - 1 GALWAr Trauma Qamurows . 27.66 10 48 BW. I c - t 1101.73368 • 9.06 IA 51 W. 2 12: 6.41 2 [smarms. Pizazon Mambo* lIMEOITIr - 1 'Mar 56.:2 CI 61 8.8. W. 6 0 - 4 A inbmra Pokretwowl 10.66 63 EP 7 'I.& 4 e - 3 Dora - 6 Lomas 10.46 65 00 8. 4 IMIt•OTE . . 29.0 63 60 B.W. 4 b - 2 10•11HUBAA411. 20.64 68 66 W.N.W. 1 0 - I 8111K1.113 11 suavuiD . - 6 1 , 200610.2. /111112711 i. many. .. /.111TIt5DAY. N.N.W. to &N.M., NO MA= N. to I _JAY. tredt, squally. .... .- strong to fresh._ , N. W, to N.E., fresh to le s GLIM. N.N.W. Hoag to moderate. a gale. N.N.W. to g.N.g., g., w. t,, , rras.L. N.W. to N.E, strongs settled, squally. to a gale. S.W. to N. W. and N.E , 11.W.EgoLai0. N.N.g. to W. N.W., strong, to A .W . 1;110. • gals, rainy. LILL to W.S and &St. Esror uro. N.S. to N.W., strong, N.N.W., strong, to a squally. gale. N. to K. and S.E, R. Coal. N. to it. sad 1.W., strong, unsettle,L strong, 'bowers. DOWNING-STEIRT, OcrOws". 13. The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Charles Whyte, &quire, to be Police Magistrate for the colony of Hong Koag. —Oa:Me. LORD PALMERSTON AT WINCHESTER.—After attending the ceremony of opening the new Diocesan Tesin ing School at Winchester, of which we yesterday published an account, Lord Palme rston pTeeided in the evening et a grand banquet given by the civic authorities. Besides the chief authorities of the city and several members of pulls ' meat and other gentlemen connected with the district, three bishops, those of Winchester, Oxford, and Salisbury, graced the assembly with their presence. The speeches, as • matter of course, touched more or less on the important subjt of education. The Bishop of Winchester, in proposing the health of the noble chairman, made same humourous allusions to Lis lordship's juvenile days at Cambridge, when he was the chairman of the Union and Fusty Clubs. which afterwards merged is that of "The Speculative." His lordship entered into these reminiscences with much humour and animation, and then applied himself to discus the question of education for the lower classes Special politics were rigorously evaded, and the banquet pissed off with much geniality. BRITISH SUR:FAITS IN CHINA. —A series of de spatches from her Majesty's minister in China, bearing on an outrage committed upon a party of British subjects at Woo chum-too' on the 14th May, are published in last night's Gaza tie. The Hon. F. W. A. Bruce alludes to the seed- Cymbals of the Chinese during the examittatioo periods, and says :—" I therefore think that it would be well, during the examinations, to advise her Majesty'e sub. jests to avoid these crowds, for it is very dialectic to obtain redress for such outrages ; and the gratificariou of mere curiosity, and the assumption that there soy be a scheme to curtail ultimately the rights of foreigner', do not warrant us in disregarding a warming that, in Chins, is not print facie unreasonable. For the maintenance of pro , per relations depends on meeting the authorities in a spirit ' of compromise, when what they propose io view of the state of the country is reasonable, sad ill reeistiug them, Maly but temperately, when it is not." Earl Russell, in s ' Foreign-office despntqlof the 7th October, expresses his entire concurrence in Kr. Brace's views with regard to the discretion to be observed by British subjects who and themselves of the facilities provided by treaty foe Tin* the Chinese cities. MILITARY BALLOONING FROM WINVIIINTIE BARRACES,—A successful aerial journey was yesterday et. eomplished from Winchester to Harrow, travelling at de rate of a mile a minute. Colonel M'Dooald and six officer' of the Rifle Depth Battalion accompanied i Mr. Co l well his mammoth balloon. The soldiers obeying Mr. Ceneells ideals with military exactness, draw the helicon to the 'Andvari side of the square, and at five minutes past 4 let go the rope, when the balloon instantly roes in a onjessie manner to a height of two miles. By passing overdo Grange (Lord Ashbutton's) eight minutes later they Perceived that they were going at the rate of s rule a minute. The white and broken clouds were on On occasion between three and four miles from the earth. "Our direction was E.N.E. We left Aldershot: camp two miles to the S.E., Virginia Water a mile to the N.W., and with great pleasure recognised the friendly del• ter of Harrow-hill for • quiet descent. This. however. es paned by a mile, and landed in a grass field belooFogo Mr iuig . HUI Here, in the gentlest manner possN e, the ' iron anchored us in the centre of the fuddled, than to p Mr. Coxwell's judgment. without the Iliii.!blat concussioo. With the hearty goodwill of the villag ", es, la the obli~ssistance of Mr. Hill, we parked up Inr lied oar balloon to the railway station. It WWI 5.17....c10Ck when we Aseasaded, and tie distance we had travelled II OM hour and ten minutes moss led seventy miles. As es reached the ground Mr. Corwell was kind emeigh iocrelb to .lsor us the manner in which be performed tbe almost le feat of opening the valve with his teeth when seven ads half miles above the earth." WEST SURREY REGlSTRATlON.—Notwiths tanding the extraordinary exertions made this year by the cowers tives to better their position on the electoral roll for OW SUM, they have gained osly a slight numerical advautsflo The following is • summary of the re cent revision —Cee narrative claims allowed, I'9S; ditto objections sustined, 18 ; overseers' objections to liberals sustained, 10 0 .: Ot al i 313. Liberal claims allowed, 14! ; ditto objection sae 113; total, - 2M . idaia':ibtyjeeftoirocons..t.mooativseefrata. 22*.vesfheloere; sinus revision was greatly in favour of the libersl", UM there appears little doubt that the unimportant advstale cow gained by their op is may, by a little more acne* , in another year be easily reversed. U NIVERST rY COLLEGE—Yesterday the iielsim c i the Faculty of Arta and Laws was open) is 01 presume of • large number of student' and voils. te'! The various 'Tetsuo's, oo entering the theatre , of y college, were received with hearty d e monstratiore s e: good will on the part of the students. The 14, lecture was delivered by Professor de 31orgiu. o°r for nearly an hour sod a half, kept hie a udience iilleOrli amused. The subject was " Education ;" but instese , treating it in the " gond set phrase " of the stereotYfo° lecture, Professor de Morgan dealt with the n atter in , style peculiarly his own.