The Express. — London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

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We saw last week that there is great eagerness in other Lancashire towns to dis claim the remarks of the Mayor of MANCHESTER in disparagement of the discretion and usefulness of the LORD MAYOR'S London Committee for the management of the Relief Fund; and we have no doubt we shall presently hear of equally strong remonstrances against the treatment inflicted on the plan for Female Emigration to the colonies by certain citizens of Manchester at the Board of Guardians last Thursday. While reading some of the speeches it is scarcely possible to believe that they could have been uttered in earnest by men charged with the care of the poor of their town. Not only Mime RYE but everybody who feels any interest in social affairs thought at once of Emigra tion as a resource for the younger operatives of Lancashire as soon as the distress became urgent. Some of our colonies are in urgent need of domestic service of all kinds, and of an equalisation of the numbers of men and -women. In Lancashire and Cheshire, meantime, the gravest anxiety under the distress has been felt on account of the young women who are cast adrift from work and wages under circumstances of strong peril to their re spectability. What could be clearer than that it would be a great blessing if any practic able number of respectable and hardworking young women could be removed from the scene where there is nothing for them to do and enjoy, and placed in the midst of well-paid work, with a prospect of a happy home. Miss RYE and her friends were not in a hurry, however. They have learned by study and experience the serious nature of their work ; and they did not fly to Lancashire, and offer rash invitations to hungry people to fly to a paradise beyond sea. Miss RYE has herself informed us that she had doubts about the fitness of the factory women to meet the needs of the co lonies ; and she waited and watched, and studied the case in silence. At length, the evidence she wanted appeared through the channel of Mrs. POTTER'S scheme for placing young women in domestic service, for training, as well as for tem porary subsistence. The characters given of these young women generally are so good, in regard to the spirit and temper with which they go about their new work, and their capacity of being trained to it is so favourable, that Miss Rye's doubts were removed. In answer to urgent petitions from the distressed districts that she would go, and organise • scheme of Emi gration, she at length replied publicly that she was coming to consult with them what could be done. Through the Manchester Board of Guar dians we now learn that she has been there ; and the Chairman, Mr. RICKARDS, declares that he finds her a practical woman, furnished with the good sense and knowledge requisite for the conduct of such measures as she proposes. Some of the Guardians, however, think that she may be sus ceptible of improvement ; and they kindly pro pose to increase her wisdom, to change her aims, to alter her methods, to make a new thing alto gether of the enterprise to which she has devoted herself, after years of such study as they have not yet entered upon. These gentlemen imagine that respectable young women will not know what to do with themselves in the colonies ; they fancy that the life is so rough and rude that it should be reserved as a sort of punishment for unsteady girls ; they avow themselves disposed to keep the good girls at home, and propose that Mils RYE shall give up her Emigration scheme for one of transportation, for the relief of the mother country. One sentimental speaker especially re commends a young thief as a specimen of the sub jects Miss RYE should take in hand for reformatory purposes. It seems never to have entered the heads of these speakers that there are respectable girls enough to do both the going and staying. The number who could by any possibility go would be scarcely missed from the working. class of Lan cashire—great as would be their importance in British Columbia or in Queensland or in Natal. It is • very great object to save from suffering and degradation each one of the hundreds who might be sent ; it is a very great object that the existing homes in the colonies should be made comfortable and civilised ; it is a very great object that as many hundreds of hard-working settlers (farmers, artisans, tradesmen, and labourers) should have the possibility of marriage and a home brought within their reach ; and these bene fits warrant all the devotion which we see given to the object. But the utmost success of the plan would not strip Lancashire of its steady young women, nor bring the number down to any thing like that which the manufacture can,. at best, demand for years to come. Miss RYE may safely promise that she will leave under the care of the Guardians as many respctable young women as they will at all know how to sustain in their respectability ; and on her part it must needs be pointed out, as the gentle men cannot see it without, that they have been guilty of outrageous impertinence in their com ments on the proposal before them. Their Chairman communicated the proposal, of which he thought favourably; viz., that the Guardians should use the power which they possess to a certain extent of contributing to the expenses of the Emigration of some of the persons actually on the rates. The members of the Board had to form and express an opinion on this proposal, and they had of course full liberty to explain the grounds of their opinion. Four of the members went further than this, and what they said amounts to • recommendation to Miss RvE to relieve them of bad and doubtful subjects by transportation to the colonies, where the chances of housekeepers and bachelors and society at large would depend on the reformation of the immigrants, under the hard circumstances and soft sentiments of their new life, and of the philanthropic Guardians who sent them there. The reply on Miss RYE'S part, if any were needed, would be very short. She wants the very best sort of working women for such an object as founding society in a new region. She must have women of unquestionable integrity and industry, of sound health and cheerful temper, and ability to learn, wherewith to supply the needs of colo nial homes, from that of the bishop in the city, to the farmhouse in the wilds. She must have women to whom none of us would be afraid or ashamed to entrust the keeping of the honest and genial repute of the English maiden and matron. These Manchester gentlemen may think that it is no concern of theirs whether our countrymen, so far away, get good wives, or have only a crowd of unsteady and unpromising women to choose from ; but we doubt whether that sort of conside ration entered their heads at all. Every citizen,' however, who has the honour of his country, and the welfare of future communities at heart will understand and appreciate Miss RvE's purposes, and the qualifications she brings to bear on them. The Chairman of the Manchester Board is evi dently one of these, and his testimony to Miss RYE'S title to help and instruct the Guardians in their arduous work of relief reads as an uncon scious and inevitable rebuke of the gentlemen who were exposing themselves so pitiably. The scene speaks for itself, and it would not be necessary to advert to it but for two reasons. It is a warning to us to guard against any notion getting abroad that we are thinking of shipping off our frail and foolish young women to the colonies; and it suggests some very serious thoughts on behalf of a distressed operative population which is more or less at the mercy of Guardians so ill informed, and so comfortably unconscious of their own folly. THE PRINCE OF WALES AND PRINCE ALFRED AT BRUSSELS. BRUSSELS, Stet 8. To-day a grand ch , janer was given at the palace of Brussels, at which the Prince of Wales and a number of distinguished personages were present. The Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark, with the Princess Alexandra, arrived here this afternoon, and were received with military honours at the railway station. _ _ _ A reception afterwards took place at the palace. This afternoon the Prince of \Vales, the Count of Flanders, the Duchess of Brabant, and the Royal Family of Denmark visited the city and the Zoolo gical Gardens. Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Marie of Ramis (Princese of Lenclitemberg), attended by the Countess de Vaeykoff, Prince Ga'Main, Mr. Museard (secre tary), and suite, have left town for Dover, en route to Berlin. His Excellency M. Draneht Bey has arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Pads. The Princes and Princess of Viano have left Ttoinas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris. The Count and Countess Miniscalchi have re turned to Claridge's Hotel from Warwick. The Countess of Durham was safely delivered of a daughter on Friday last, at Lambton Castle. Her lady ship and infant are progressing favourably. Lord Loudesborough has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Grimace, Yorkshire. Lord de Lisle and Dudley, and Mr., Dirs., and Mir Henene have left the St. George. Hotel. Lord Thomas and Lady Sophia Cecil have arrived in town from Burghley Hall, Stamford. Sir James and Lady Matheson are receiving a amnion of skitors at Stornoway Castle, Isle of Lewis. The Crown Princess of Prussia will proceed to Reinhardsbruno on the 15th inst., with bar children, and will remain there during the stay of Queen Victoria. The Bourne Gazette of Berlin states that Prince Alfred has sent word from Dantsic that he will not be able to pay his intended visit to the Prince Royal of Prussia, or be present at Potsdam at the christening of the young prince. It is stated in a letter from Edenkoben that King Louis of Bavaria intends to proceed in the strioteet inCoflll iio by way of Strasburg, Basle, and Geneva to Marseilles, on his way to Rome, where his Majesty will stay for two months. The King of Hanover h a s arrived at Osnabruck with his family, and intends to remain there for some time. On the 3rd instant the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt inspected a body of troops at Worms. The Prince and Princess Louis of Besse arrived in the town early in the morning from Auerbach, and whilst his royal highness joined the grand duke, the princess paid a visit to the cathe dral, the magnificent proportions and gorgeous architecture of which greatly excited the admiration of the distinguished visitor. On leaving the cathedral she inspected some taste. fully Isil out gardens adjoining, and again visited the cathe dral and a portion of the interesting old town. The princes& was then driven to the Rhine, where a boat was in waiting gaily dressed out with fiags, and manned by the persons employed at the grand ducal bridge. Her royal highness enjoyed a abort trip on the river, and then, about half-past two, rejoined her husband and returned to Auerbach. Some distinguished members of the imperial family of Austria, under the incognito of the Count Schuss kirchen and suite, yesterday visited Woolwich Arsenal by special notification from Sir Edward Lugard, Under-Secre tary of State for the Department of War. His Royal Highness Prince Adalbert of Prussia visited Deptford Dockyard on Sunday, and inspected the iron-cued ships Favourite and Enterprise. Prince Napoleon and the Princess Clothilde left the Palsis-Royal on Sunday for Menden. The number of passengers arriving at Boulogne from Folkestone and London in August last was 14,986. There were 13,253 departing; making a total of 28,110 passengers from and to England in the mouth. In the month of August, 1831, which had until now been that of the largest passenger traffic on record, 11,571 passengers arrived, and 11,151 departed ; making a total of 12,722. The past month shows, consequently, an increase of 5,517 pawn. gets on the number which until now had marked the most active period in the international intercourse. The sth and 6th volumes of Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs, the seizure of which by the Berlin police has been already announced, have also been seised at Leipsic at the publisher's (Brockbaoa) and other booksellers. The range of buildings erected at Sheerness for the wives and families of the married non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery, at a cost to the go vernment of 11,0001., is now completed, and only awaits the official Inspection to be taken formal possession of by the government. ThSl INTLLLIUENCt. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1862. THE AFFAIR OF ASPROMONTE. STATEMENT OF GENERAL GARIBALDI. The following letter from General Garibaldi himself, relating to the unhappy conflict at Aspro monte, will be read with tho greatest interest : " OD board the Duke of Genoa, Sept. 1. "They thirsted for blood, and I wished to spare it. Not the poor soldier who obeyed, but the men of the clique who cannot forgive the revolution for being the revolution—it is that which disturbs their conservative digestion—and for having contri buted to the re-establishment of our It a li an family. " Yes, they thirsted for blood ; I perceived it with sorrow, and I endeavoured in consequence to the utmost to prevent that of our assailants from being shed. " I ran to the front of our line crying out to them not to fire, and from the centre to the left, where my voice and those of my aides-de-camp could be heard, not a trigger was pulled. It was not thus on the attacking side. Having arrived at a distance of 200 metres, they began a tremendous fire, and the party of bersaglieri who were in front of me directing their shots against me struck me with two balls, one in the left thigh, not serious, the other in the ankle of the right foot, making a serious wound. " As all this happened at the opening of the con flict, and I was carried to the skirt of the wood after being wounded, I could see nothing more, a thick crowd having formed around me while my wound was being dressed. I feel certain, however, that up to the end of the line which was at my litter, and to that of my aides-de-camp, not a single musket was fired. As there was no firing on our side, it was easy for the troops to approach and mingle with ours, and when I was told that they wished to disarm us, I replied that the men might disarm themselves. The inten tions of my companions were, however, so little hostile that I only by this disarmed in the crowd some officers and regular soldiers. "It was not so on our right. The picciotti, attacked by the regular troops, replied by a fire upon the whole line, and although the trumpets sounded to cease firing, there was at that spot a smart fusillade, which lasted not more than a quarter of an hour. " My wounds led to some confusion in our line. Our soldiers, not seeing me, began to retreat into the wood, so that little by little the crowd round me broke up, and the most faithful alone remained. At this moment I learned that my staff and Colonel Pallaviciui, who com manded the regular troops, were negotiating upon the following considerations ; first, that I should be free with my staff to withdraw where I pleased. (I replied, On board an English vessel." Second, that having arrived at the sea shore, the rest of my companions should be set at liberty. Colonel Pallavicini conducted himself as a valorous and intelligent chief in all his military movements, and he has not been wanting in respect or courtesy towards me and my people. He showed his grief in having to shed Italian blood ; but he bad received peremptory orders and had to obey them. My arrangements had been purely defen sive, and I bad hoped to avoid a conflict, seeing the very strong position that I occupied and entertaining the hope that the regular troops had received orders less sanguinary. If I had not been wounded at the outset, and if my people had not received the order under all circumstances to avoid any collision whatsoever with the regular troops, the contest be tween men of the same race would have been terrible. However, far better as it is. Whatever may be the result of my wounds, whatever fate the government prepares for me, 1 have the conscious ness of having done my duty ; and the sacrifice of my life is a very little thing if it has contributed to save that of a great number of my fellow country men. " In the hazardous enterprise in which I and my companions had thrown ourselves, with beads bent, I hoped nothing good from the government of Rattazzi. But why should I not have hoped for lass rigour on the part of the King, having altered in nothing the old programme, and having decided not to alter it at any price l What afflicts me most is this fatal distrust, which contributes not a little to the incompletion of national unity. However it may be, I once again present to Italy a serene front, assured of having done my duty. Once more, my unimportant life and the more precious ones of so many generous young men have been offered as a holocaust to the holiest of causes—pure from all vile personal interests. " G. GARIBALDI." We have also received a long and detailed report of the affair at Aspromoute, signed by fourteen officers composing the staff of Garibaldi. In this statement the general's forces is stated to have been 1,500 men. The rations which had been dis tributed were very scanty, and the volunteers had suffered much iu the previous night from heavy rains. They had express and formal orders never to attack or defend themselves, but to march ra pidly—nothing more. Ou the approach of the troops, Garibaldi sent officers along the line to im press this again upon his men : - - - Garibaldi was in the centre of the bill slope occupied by his column. He sent his officers all along the front with r epeated, impress, positive orders not to fire. We were being surrounded on all sides ; the bersaglieri were within shot ; they had levelled their pieces ; all our column was perfectly still. Not one shout, not one shot. The General alone stood up, with his wide gray plaid cloak lined with red, thrown on his mauive shoulders, following the movements of the royalists with his spy glass, and from time to time turning to repeat the order " Do not fire." The officers took up the cry, and " Do not fire" went the round of the whole line. But the troops had, on the contrary, precise orders to attack. The berms - heri opened fire and moved forward. No intimation or sum mons preceded the fire, no park nientairc was sent. The firing deepened ; the bulleta hissed on all sides round oar heads. Unfortunately some of our raw recruits, unaccustomed to such terrible sport, answered by a few random shots ; the others did not stir. Every one kept his own ground, some standing, some seated. AU the trumpets gave the signal to stop fire ; all the officers verbally issued the same order. The troops, on the contrary, set up the signal " Forward," and advanced with well-sustained fire. The general, always at his post, standing, in the midst of the densest shower of belle, spin cried, " Do not fire !" He was uttering those words when two bullets struck him ; one, a spent.hall, on the thigh of the left leg ; another, with full force, on the ankle of the left foot. Garibaldi, at the moment of being wounded, not only stood up, upright, but he assumed a majestic attitude ; be took off his bat, and waving it with his left band, he repeatedly cried, " Long live Italy ! Do not fire !" Some of the officers, the nearest to him, removed him and laid him under a tree. There, with his habitual calmness, he continued to give his orders. The most precise were the following :—" Letthem come near. Do not fire !" On *Hour front the fire had ceased. Presently Me. notti was brought to the spot. He also bad been hit by a spent ball in the calf of his left leg. He was in peat pain, unable to stand. Father and son IMO laid under the same tree ; a group of officers and soldiers gathered round the poen!. He had lighted • cigar, and was smoking. He said to all, " Do not tight !" The officers, questioned by their soldiers, also invariably answered, " Do not fight." The trumpets, too, never ceased from their signal, "Stop fire I" not for our men, but for the troop which. fired as they advanced, even when they had come up and were mixed with our volunteers. From the first shot to this moment hardly a quarter of a; boar elapsed. Here a strange sight promoted Resit Maeda, relatives, brothers, companions in recent battle' which they fought for their fatherland, meet and recognise each other. Some are clad is the red shirt, others in the regular uniform • and here were shaking of hands, embraces, mutual reproac h and upbraidings, espe cially on the part of the redshirta, who protest and declare that "all they wanted wee Rome." The narrative proceeds, stating that here a lieu tenant of the staff (royal) appeared before Gari baldi, who bade him put off his sword, as a parte mentaire should be unarmed. Other bersaglieri officers were disarmed in the same manner, though the general soon afterwards ordered that their swords should be restored to them. Meanwhile the surgeons examined and dressed the general's wounds. He bade them apply cold water to them, and all the time he smoked with great calmness and firmness. He asked whether an amputation was necessary, in which case it should be done forthwith. The doctors assured him there was no occasion for such an operation. Garibaldi asked to see Pallaviciui, who twenty minutes later came to him uncovered, and with every demonstration of respect. It was afterwards settled between the officers of both staffs that the Garibaldian column should be disarmed and placed under the escort of the Royal troops. It was agreed that Garibaldi should be removed to Scylla, with as many of his officers as be wished to have with him, all of whom should retain their swords. The dead on both sides were very few : very few also the wounded. RATTAZZI AND THE FRENCH GOVERN MENT. The Itulipendance of yesterday evening says : We have received from oar Turin correspondent • very optimist letter which announces in, a very positive manner that M. Rattasxi is certainly on the eve of obtaining the solu tion of the Roman question, and that be has seat to Paris an energetic and pressing note, after which it will be no longer possible for the French government to pursue its policy of indecision. We strongly hope this statement will prove true, but we have good reasons for doubting it. M. Rattarsi is not accustomed to such energetic seta in his ex ternal policy, and we are but too well authorised by the ex perience of the past to receive save with the utmost caution the promisee which his friends hasten to make in his name. A Paris letter says : It is now stated positively, but the fact appeals prams tore, that Victor Emmanuel has intimated to Baron Rica soli to hold himself in readiness, as he may be called on to form a new cabinet. We read in the Opinion Nationale: A certain degree of agitation again prevails in Italy. The party of action is organising demonstrations, and mor e arrests have taken place in Lombardy. It it rumoured that the Italian cabinet has forwarded to Paris an exact report of the state of affairs, and requesting the Imperial govern ment to give it due consideration. PRUSSIA. Prussia has not abandoned its project of be coming a respectable maritime power. M. Harkort, reporter of the naval commission, proposes to the Diet a plan which would be carried out in three years. The total of the fleet, after a proposed outlay of 4,670,000 dialers, would consist of one steamer, two iron-clad corvettes, four large wooden corvettes, two corvettes cut down, one mortar bat tery, 16 gunboats of 60-horse power, three despatch boats, two transports, two sailing vessels, two wooden frigates, one brig, and two school ships—the whole manned by 4,600 men. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raox OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. La France publishes the second of M. de la Guerrounire's much preliminari'y puffed letters to its redacteur en chef. The first, of which you have already had a summary, was headed, "Of the Aban donment of Rome." This one is entitled "The Interest of France in the Italian Question." Be fore giving a short analysis of to-day's article, I think it not impertinent to ask what is the mean ing of the form in which it appears 1 Why does M. de la Guerrounibre, who created La France and reigns absolute in its bureaux, give his ideas to the public in the form of a letter to the man of straw whom he is pleased to dub "editor in chief," in stead of publishing a leading article in the ordinary way 1 In answer to these questions I think it permissible to hope that the most reac tionary, abominable, bigoted, and war threatening opinions now ventilated by M. de la Guerrouniere emanate from very uncertain inspiration, and that he is only " permitted for a while" to put them forward on the express condition that they are liable to be considered, when and if time shall serve, nothing inure than his own personal and worthless lucubrations. It is a sickening task for the journalists of Europe to be compelled to occupy themselves almost daily with M. de la Guerrou nibre ; but he cuts his own throat when he talks, as with wondrous fatuity he is continually doing, about his "independent convictions." Let him once convince the public that ho is independent, and nobody will read him or talk about him. The sale of his journal and the large revenue which it brings him in are entirely contingent upon the continued existence of the belief, warranted but too much by the recent Italian policy of France, that he is sometimes autborised to foreshadow what the Emperor means to do. In the present article, if it is to be considered authentic, M. de la Guerronniere very frankly throws overboard not only Italy but the papacy in the " interest of France." Instead of saying, as has heretofore often been said officially and semi officially, that the Emperor wished for the unity of Italy and would fain persuade the Pope to agree to it, the France openly protests against " the exist ence of a great Italian kingdom, which would absorb all tho autonomies created by history and habit." "Autonomies," observe, are iu the plural number, and therefore M. de la Guerroaniere goes in not only for the temporal power of the Pope, but for the restoration of young Bombe and all the deposed dukes. His argument, at least, goes to that extent, but I dare say when it came to the push he would be able to prove that the "interest of France," which is his present theme, might be consulted by other means. He rebukes the French democrats who talk like Italians, and claims for Franco the "preponderance which it has tnjoyed by the alliance of the sceptre and the tiara since the time of Charlemagne." The unity of Italy would, he says, displace this pre ponderance, and give it to Victor Emmanuel. Forgetting all the nonsense which he has often talked about the " independence" of the Pope, he now assumes that he must necessarily he the puppet of somebody, and puts forward the claim of France to work the wires. He cites in support of his argument a speech of Napoleon L at Et Helena, in which the fallen Emperor avowed his design to "direct the religions world," and "for the benefit of the empire." Admitting that the vast majority of the French press is against his ideas, he takes upon himself gratuitously to say that public opinion is not represented by that press, and he relies upon the "high and powerful will" which presides over the destinies of France to take care that the influence which France claims to exercise over the Head of Catholicity dues not pass into other hands. As a further argument against the unity of Italy, he urges the tendency to unity now shown in Germany, and revives the idea that in case of that latter unity being accomplished, France must claim more territory for her own protection. If these notions of M. de la Guerronnike were really those of the Empire, they would tend to the formation of an English, German, and Italian alliance, to keep Bonapartism within bounds. But, as I observed in the outset, this humble servant of a double-faced master writes now under a special form for the express purpose of being the more readily disavowed whenever convenient. The precious admission made in his first letter that "very high authorities in the imperial councils" were in fa vour of the union of Italy shows that be is, on the present occasion, by no means sure of his ground. At the Bourse the Rente was extremely firm, closing at 69fr. 65c. for cash, and 69fr. 75c. for account, with a rise of 30c. in each case. Mobilier rose 15fr. The Italian Loan was an exception to the general tendency of the market, and fell 30c. Railways were all better ; Orleans rose 7fr. 50e.; Eastern, 10fr.; Lyons, 7fr. 50e.; Southern, 6fr.25c.; Eastern, 10fr.; and Western, 2fr. 50c. (aIPTITIefi TZLEGRAMS.) AMERICA. ANOTHER BATTLE AT BULL RUN. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.-8,000 FEDERALS KILLED AND WOUNDED.-SLAUGHTER AMONGST THE CONFEDERATES. LATEST NEWS. NEW YORK, Almon 30, Ev (Per Anglo-Saxon, by Telegraph to Father Point and from Londonderry.) The second battle of Bull Run was fought yesterday. The following is General Pope's official report : " Head-quartere, Field of Battle, " Grovedor;, near Gnsumille, Aug. 30. " To Major-General Halleck, General-in-Chief at Washington. " We fought a terrific battle here yesterday with the combined forces of the enemy, which lasted with continuous fury from daylight until after dark, by which time the enemy were driven from the field, which we now occupy. " Our troops are too much exhausted to push matters, but I shall do so in the course of the morn ing as soon as Fitz-John Porter's corps comes up from Manassas. "The enemy is still in our front, but badly used. "We have no less than 8,000 men killed and wounded ; and from the appearance of the field the enemy has lost two to our one. He stood strictly on the defensive, and every assault was made by ourselves. " Our troops have behaved splendidly. The battle was fought on the identical battle-field of Bull Run, which greatly increased the enthusiasm of our wen. "The news has just reached me from the front that the enemy is retreating towards the moun tains. lat once pushed forward a reconnoitring party to ascertain this. "We have made great captures, but I am not yet able to form an idea of their extent. (Signed) ",JoHN Porx, "Major-General Commanding." The news of the battle of Bull Run causes in tense excitement. No further detaila have been received. Affairs in Kentucky are in a critical condition. The position of the Federahr at Cumberland Gap is considered precarious. NEW YORK, Ammer 30, Moamo. (Per &mglo-Sazoo rid Quebec aad Loodooderry.) The government has continued officially silent during the week respecting the military movements in the Virginia Valley. Last night, however, some official despatches were published. Correspondents being excluded from the Federal camp, it is diffi cult to ascertain accurately what is occurring in Virginia. . . Fighting has certainly continued all the week, which will probably end in a general engagement. Two Federal regiments are known to have been captured at Centreville. A large Confederate force is at Leesburg, and it is reported that the Confederates intend crossing the Potomac into Maryland at Watkiusford. The public mind is much excited, and the wildest rumours are current. General M'Clellan has accepted the command of the army of Virginia. The following is the clearest account that can at present be gathered of what has occurred in Virginia : The Confederates attacked Rappahannock station on the 23rd, compelling the Federals to abandon the line of the Rappahannock. After burning the bridge across the river the Federals retreated to Warrenton Junction, a distance of ten miles. On the 2tith the Confederate force, variously esti mated at from 2,000 to 7,000 men, made a dash on Manassas Junction, in the rear of the Federal army. The Federals were driven out of Manassas and lost abattery of nine guns. The enemy destroyed all buildings and valuable property, cut the telegraph, and destroyed the railroad, thus cutting off the telegraphic and railroad communication between Pope and Washington. The Confederates afterwards proceeded to Bull Run-bridge, and drove the Federals from that point. Their cavalry then advanced to Fairfax. It is supposed that the Confederates reached Pope's rear by passing through Thoroughfare Gap. Pope's official despatch, dated Manassas Junction, 28th August, states that as soon as he discovered large forces of the enemy were pursuing his right wing towards Manassas, he immediately broke up the camp at Warrenton and Warrenton Junction, and commenced a rapid retrograde movement in three columns upon Manaaaas Junction. M‘Dowell and Siegel were marching upon Gains vile by the Warrenton and Alexandria turnpike. Heintzelmann was marching on Greenwich. General Pope's force comprised Porter's and Hooker's divisions. At this juncture General M'Dowell succeeded in interposing his corps between the forces of the enemy, who had passed down to Manassas through Gainsville, and their main body, which was moving down from White Plains through Thoroughfare Gap. Tile Confederate General Longstreet, who had passed through the Gap, being driven to the west side, Hooker's division, whilst marching towards Manassas, came upon him in the after noon of the 27th at Kettle Run, and, after a sharp action, routed him completely, killing and wound ing 300, and capturing their camp. On the 28th Pope pushed rapidly on to Manassas Junction, which he found had been evacuated by Jackson three hours previously to his arrivaL Jackson retreated vit. Centreville, and took the turnpike road towards Warrenton. He was met late in the afternoon of the 213th by M'Dowell and Siegel, six miles west of Centreville. A severe fight then ensued, which was terminated by darkness. The Confederates were driven back at all points. Thus m►tters rest at present. Heintz...Animl's corps will move from Centreviiie upon the enemy at daylight, and Genera' P , pe thinks they cannot escape without heavy 10,-. General Pope captured 1,000 prisoners, aii.l piece of artillery. Semi-official Washington despatches of the 29th inst. report that Generalh Burnside and Pope have successfully cut their way through the enemy toward% Manassas, and have formed a j , inction this side of Centreville with the army of Vir ginia under General M'Clellan. A severe engagement has occurred between Hooker's, Sumner's, and Sturge's divisions and the enemy, in which the latter was routed, and driven back from the vicinity of Manassas and Bull Run through the passes of Bull Run INl.ain tain. War meetings continue to be held. It is reported that the • Federal governiant is very short of arms. Many troops arrivil,gin Washington cannot be provided for in that re.p.et. The mayor of New York has requested that the stores be closed at 3 o'clock in the afternoon till the 15th of September, to give time for volunteer ing and drafting. Persons have been forbidden to advertise that they procure substitutes. Several individuals have been arrested for this cause. The Federal/1 have evacuated Baton Rouge, but the city will not be destroyed. . President Jefferson Davis has issued au order that Federal officers who have armed slaves against their masters, shall, if captured, be hung. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Almon 30, EvryiNc. The Hansa and Glasgow, sailing to-d.ty, take 484,000 dollars in specie. Money easy. Exchange steady at 124 Stocks inactive. Cotton very firm. Middling Upland, 48c. Breadstuffs improving. Coffee good inquiry. THE GREAT EASTERN STRIKING UPON A ROCK. We learn by the advicea brought to-day by the Anglo-Saxon, that the Great Eastern had anchored in Flushing Bay. She struck a rock at Monbank Point, storing a hole in her bottom. The accident is not considered to be serious, as the shock only penetrated the outer scale of the ship, the inner scale remaining intact. The leakages are not sufficient to impair her safety. Efforts will be made to repair her at New York, but if that be found impracticable she will return in her present con dition to England for repairs. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) TIMMY, BT.FII3IIBiII 9. 9 A.X. D. L IL D. 11'. O. L Z. 11. -- -- Nana ... ..... 97.102 51 49 6.8. W. c 1 &minas ... 29.96' 60 47 W. r :3 tans Itamne3 66620932 i ronsent (UMW, .. VaLillirlA Quinterrows 30.66 61 64 N. Or 0.07 2 HoL71101J) 60.07 65 52 W.O.W. 0 I 2 Inuaroot. 110111201.1..„ 30.10 61 60 W. o 1 010111A101 Pinloo2l 30.14 61 60 W. o 1 Jewry . 30.17 60 50 N.W. 2r 0.09 2 WITS WM P0R1160148 30.09 62 59 W.N.W. 6 It 2 Doris LONDON 30.12 61 60 W. VLalIuOTH 606i50a0098. 30.07 67 64 N.N.W. 2 b 1 I Mum. , 30.06 56 61 W.N.W. c 2 IMMO! UM PIOLDLL TFORIDAT : W. t:N.ardr; light SCOTLAND. E. to mo. to fresh, with some dente. rain. W. to N. and to N.E., laniAnn. N.R. to W., moderate light.tomoderate, fine to fresh, some rain. generally. W.S.W. to N.N.W. W. CCRnAL As next above. and N.N.E., mode rate, some rain. As next above. B.W.lhiaLten. Similar to above. W. to N. and to N.E., LE AR AND. N.K. to &E. and &W., light to fre.h. moderato to fresh. W.N.W. to N.E., Debt E. Coaar. Variable, moderate, `e• to moderate, line. aerate fins. Orders have been given to prepare the Palace of Compi4tie for the reception of the Emperor and the Empress of the French on their return from Biarritz. The bunting stud has just left Footainebleau for the above palace, where grand meets will take place during the stay of the court. The repairs at the Tuileries are being pushed forward with great activity, and it is hoped that they will be sufficiently advanced to enable the Emperor to tem the winter there. Should the Tuileries not be in readiness, the Imperial family will occupy the Elysie. The Courrier de Bayonne gives details of the arrival of the Emperor and Empress and the Prince Impe rial at Bayonne, on their way to Biarritz. Three elegant pavilions have been erected within the last few days on the see-side facing the chateau. These are, it is said, intaided for sea bathing, the centre one being intended for the Em press, and the others for her ladies of honour. The Brussels Independance says :—" We learn that Count Arrivabene, senator of the Italian kingdom, who has left in Belgium, in which be resided for several years, the best impressions, has been appointed by King Victor Emmanuel commander of the Order of &iota Maurine and Lazarus. This high distinction is but a proper recognition of the numerous services which Coast Arrimbene has ren dered to his country." The new Turkish Minister of Finance has made a discovery which, corning from Constantinople, is almost mitaculous—he has actually found a large quantity of gold I and silver coin in the Turkish exchequer. This blame trove, which is estimated at about 1,500,000(r., is supposed to have lain concealed for upwards of a century. A letter from Linden, of the btb, in the Augs burg Gazette, says :—" The cable intended to establish • direct telegraphic communication between Bavaria and Switzerland was yesterday submerged. The total length, as already stated, is 70,000 feet, and its weight D3O quintals. According to the soundings which have been made, the greatest depth of the Lake of Constance, when the cable will be placed, is 300 feet." The Northern Bee states that an English steamer has just left St. Petersburg for London with 54,0000 x of gold coin, and 7,T360z. of silver roubles, consigned by dif ferent mercantile houses of St. Petersburg. The Russian journals state that the cold was so intense in the district of Archangel about the end of July and beginning of August, that the crops of corn were de stroyed. An Bessarabia, on the contrary, the mama has been very favourable, and the vineyards there will orudace a larger crop than for many years put. A letter from Ville-en- Hesbey, in Belgium, mentions an invasion of that town of a tribe of rats of • species hitherto unknown there. They burrow like rautati and live in hobos which extend underground for several miles. Oakum is being used by the surgeons of the Federal army in Lend lint, and is said to answer extremely well - - - . The domestic Three per Cent, debt of Chili ia 2,342,225 dollars. The British debt in Chili is 12 million dollen, rives millions of which were contracted in wis to complete t►e Valparawo and Santiago Railroad. SPOILED &mgrs.—l/IL/ND REVEMUE-OrrteE, SOMERSET-HOUSE, SEPT. 6.—it having been represented to the Board al Inland Renegue that it would be wore ear visitant to the member of the legal profession, and to the public generally, that the allowance of spoiled stamps, at the chief Ake in Somenet-limum oa &tamer, snould take place at au earlier hour than at present, it u ordered by the board that, on and after Saturday, the 20th of tier Umber tastaat, the allowance of spoiled stamps at this MSc, on Saturdays shall commence at 10 o'clock a.m, sad terminate at 12 o'clock soon, and that due notice of the order be forthwith given to the public and to the legal I,N -fesatoo.—T. SEROIDIT, Searstery. The hours of allomwee an Tuesdays and Thursdays, at Somerset-boors, will cau tious, as at premat, from 12 o'clock until 2 p.m., until further actin. OHYSEAL PAL•OI.-43ALLOOM AND GEIST Forg- TADIE.—OItI SHELLING Dar.-110EDAT, SEPT. o.—Admix sines en perms% 10,497; ditto by imam tickets, 930 ; total, 11,427. I