The Express. — London, England, 1862-10-06 00:00:00

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M CRAM, DRA sad WOOD bars s Ism aseerlareet Emend-bud Plimotertre by the most esemesed sake% at greatly reduced yrloes.-101. ItegettuSreet. ght erpregili. TO OORRISSPONDIENTS. ,deeettsweents intended 1 - J 7 ' The 17preei " Lowden Wombs papery moat be at the office, 10, Bouverteetrest, by Two on the clay of pobUcatloe. UOVENI . GARDEN. Tem Wnonira. SAT ANELLA. Minna Sara Dobson. INK wait and Man Fyne:➢ Messrs. W. H. Webs, Nomse, A. St. Albyn, H. Conk C. LyaD, W. H. Pales. and Parts.— Conductor, Mr. Alfred Mellon.—Coninasse at S. TRU Nyman, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Mir E. Romer. AMERICAN OGUELN. Menem Bothers. Butekslone ; Mra Yltzwißime.—DUCK HUNTING. Mrs. Wllklne.—And THE GALICIAN UTZ. Bow del Carroll° sad Fanny Wright. ?INC. TRH Immo, THE RENDEZVOUS. KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Mews Charles Leek Jordan. Raymond. J. F. Cathcart. Everett. Garden. sad Meadows : Ifra Charles Lena and Inane Chapman—Aad BORROWING A HUSBAND. BRITANNIA.. TIM WINING, THE 9allifltlOWlL Mr. Paynolds and Mn. R. Yaraold. - Elwin by limn. last/all. PlubPton. Liaae• H. Coveney. and A. Downing. - Mr. C. Barton.—And THE BEGGAR'S PETITION. Mr. C. J. Bard.—Cotamaboe at IC Teas ETE2mt4, IEAZEPPA.=4.iteTr which SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. Mlle. Ilaeoeti, Madlle. Whop, and Young Damen". —To oonel•de with • conic BALLET in which IWe Annie Oahule will appear.—Coonsience at 7. _HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGI. no DATLkiceilsg.6,:ioai.7.7.eit;riaTni:ltt. am To.mobiow—llarblog. lb. 26m.. ..Afterboca. lb. 46m. LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6. THE day was sure to arrive when the general inability to believe in a supply of cotton from other sources than the American Cotton States must give way before the facts. That day seems to be near at hand. At the end of last week the cargoes from India began to arrive. Upwards of 10,000 bales from Bombay came in during three days, and the quantity from that one port actually at sea and at Liverpool was found to be about 397,000 bales ; so that Mr. I - mums, whose pro mises were held to be rash when he spoke of 400,000 bales, appears to be fully justified in the hopefulness of his tone. The next disclosure was, that we have a prospect of a supply, in 1863, of 1,630,000 out of the 4,000,000 which is the largest quantity desired at the ordinary rate of prices. This amount will be just double the quantity used per week for the last three months ; and thus it would seem that the worst must be past. At the recent high prices, the weekly average taken by the trade has been 15,278, and the promised supply, independent of any change in American affairs, will yield 31,346 bales per week. The sources of this supply are India, the Brazils, Egypt, Turkey, Greece, Italy, chance cargoes from America, and " other " sources." These " other sources" are credited with only 25,000. Considering that the West Indies are included under this head, it is reason able to hope that the supply may turn out to have been underrated even for the coming season. The reports from Jamaica are in the highest degree encouraging, both as to the flourishing condition of the growing crop and the rapid increase of the area devoted to cotton. In Guiana and Demerara the proprietors are setting heartily to work to procure the requisite labour, which may probably be sup plied from the United States. Agricultural ma chinery of the highest order has been sent out to Porto Rico, which is expected to supply a large quantity, not less than the produce of 2,000 acres, next year, and the quality of the West Indian cotton is declared to be scarcely short of the highest rates of American. Already we see that, as time passes on, we find ourselves under the process of being weaned from our obstinate reliance on the Slave States ; and from month to month we shall learn to give up the irrational hope of any settlement in America which can restore the old state of affairs. The news of the week has done more than the news of any preceding week to discourage the expectation of any speedy settle ment of the American strife ; and the effect of this late persuasion should be to stimulate enterprise in the procuring of cotton ; and especially in coun tries where we can ascertain and control the con ditions of production, as in the West Indies. India must be our main source of supply ; but, while feeling our way there with all possible energy, we should do our utmost in the case of Jamaica, and the other West India colonies, where all the re quisites are known to be present, whenever we apply ourselves to use them. While prices are so high, and the stocks of cotton goods are dwindling, the linen trade is ex panding as might be expected. The business done was never before so large, and the prospects of the manufacture were never before so bright. There is increasing evidence of the prodigious overtrading of former seasons in the great stocks of cotton goods yet unexhausted in foreign and colonial markets—stocks not only unexhauated, but still so large as scarcely to have felt the rise of price. Yet the mere lowering of the home stocks has caused such a demand for linens that one house in Belfast has sent away as many p;eces in the course of September as it ordinarily sells in six months. In view of the great expansion which must take place as the stocks of cotton goods abroad are cleared off, speculation in the linen trade has been active to an unprecedented degree. Happily, the reports of the flax crop are generally good ; and the quantity grown in Ireland is large. Its cultivation will no doubt be pressed in all countries favourable to its production. No conclusion has yet been arrived at about the substitutes for cotton which are at present occu pying the attention of the manufacturing world. It will take some little time to ascertain whether the fibre of the Zostera Marina is too fine, and whether it will pay for its separation from the leaf, and whether a sufficient quantity can be obtained without too great a cost in labour. We hear of its being exported from the Baltic, and in use in Denmark ; and if this is true, the point' of interest to us will soon be settled. The American farmers supply the most interest ing chapter of commerce, after the cotton-growers of all countries. Though the means of transport from the great western valley to the ports have been increased to the utmost under the pressure, large quantities of wheat and Indian corn are left THE EXPRESS, - behind for want of means of carriage. We haw of their being left in the field, gives to the stook, and even used u fuel ; and yet the exportation of wheat and flour to Europe is nearly three tapes as large as it ever was before last year. In the year ending September Ist, 1861, the amount sent to us was considered altogether exceptional, but the exports of this year have exceeded it by 2 per cent. Of Indian corn we have received just double the average of the preceding sixteeen years. We are likely to import specie again from America, as gold is again at a premium which ren ders it profitable to import it. Between corn, arms, and ammunition, of which our exportation is very large, and gold, our commerce with America is at present exceedingly brisk. The abstract of the quarterly revenue bas been found more encouraging than most people ventured to hope. The net decrease, on a comparison with the same quarter of last year, is 2491.—much less than might have been expected under the circum stances of the time. • Considering the hindrances to trade, not only with America, but with other countries, owing to the American strife ; consider ing the impoverished condition of our largest ope rative class, and the operation of some important remissions of taxation, the balance of the increase and decrease is so much leas unfavourable than we could have expected, that it is naturally regarded as in fact highly favourable. Not the leas is it obligatory on us to enforce on our Government an economy which our statesmen seem to have lost the power of understanding or imagining. We do not want cheese-paring in the administration of public offices ; we do not want to pay good service under its deserts ; but it is a shock to the common sense and the con science of the nation to see millions spent on material defences of the country when no war is within ken, when those most likely to quarrel with us are getting otherwise engaged, when there is certainly a stronger need of bread than of forts and guns, and when the spirit of the nation is so high that the mightiest armaments are as mere tools in comparison with the heart and hand that wield them. LATIET INTIILIGENOX AMERICA. PROCLAMATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN FOR THE EMANCIPA TION OF THE SLAVES. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO GERMANY. The Queen was expected to arrive at Coburg from Rbeinhardtabrunn on Saturday last. The circle of the royal family is sow somewhat dimi nished in number, as, besides the departure of Print. Alfred and the Crown Prince of PRIM* the Prince and Princess Louis of Hem took leave of her Majesty on Tuesday last, sad arrived is Darmstadt next day, having travelled by way of Gotha, Biessisch, and Frenkfort, in which latter place their royal lifetimes's paired the night. DRESDEN', Barr. 29. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales attended divine service in the Reformed Church at Dresden yesterday morning, and afterwards, accompanied by the King of Saxony, the Crown Prince, and Prince George, visited the Konigrtein Fortress, and then dined with the royal family at Pillnite. His royal highness remained for the night at the latter place, and to-day, with the King and Prince George, hunted in the park at Moriteburg. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio left the Italian legation on Friday for Broadlands. Hants, on s ?bit to Viscount and Visoonnteas Pa'pumice. The Duke of Newcastle arrived in London og Saturday from his seat, Clumber, Notts. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield arrived in town on Saturday from Newmarket, and to-day p to Ceding Lodge, Notts, in order to receive a select circle. Viscount and Viscountess Campden arrived in town on Friday from visiting the Earl and Countess of Gainabormigh, at Exton-park, RutLathlike. Visa unt and Viscountess Dillon left town on Saturday for Ditchley Court, Oxfordshire, for iibil autumn. Lieutenant-General Sir James Outran], G.C.8., has arrived in Paris from Eogland, on his way to Nice. . _ _ We are sorry to announce that Admiral Sir Jae. W. Deans Dundm, KOJI., has during the past week been dangerously iIL Oo Saturday morning the accounts received gave but alight hopes of recovery. . _ . - Lord and Lady Carbery have arrived at Clifford street from a costinental tear. Baron Charles de Rothach;ld has arrived at Tbaman Hotel, Berkeley -moue, from Frankfort-on-the- Heine. The Royal Commissioners are about issuing an official reply to the extraordinary statements contained in the letter of the Hon. F. Cadogan which was published in the Tunes a few days since. It is stated that Cardinal Wiseman passed by Hyde-park in his carriage yesterday, during the riot. About twenty-five years ago the present Bishop of Cork went to lecture at Praise against "The Errors of Popery." There was a disturbance, and foremost among the Roman catholic who gave annoyance was a young man named Moriarty, belonging to • clan of that name. This same gentleman has just been appointed rector of Tralee. He became a convert to protestantism, and has, as a clergy man, laboured for many years propagating its doctrines in the county of Keny. _ _ . It is said that the Emperor Napoleon has just purchased the Chateaux de la Malmaisoo, the residence of the Emprem Josephine after her divorce, from Queen Christina. He already possesses considerable estates in the environs, La Joewhire, Saint-Cucufa, and the greater part of the woods of La Malmaison. The King of Prussia yet remains on a visit with hie daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden. At his desire Tartuffe was represented a few nights ago in the theatre of Baden. The rdle of the arch-hypocrite was sustained by M. Bressant, the most diatingid member of the Comddie Francais. The Bing and Queen of Prussia was so pleased on this occasion with the acting of Bressant as to express a desire that he should be presented to them, along with Madame Arnold Pleads and Mdlle. ,Darmain, who repre sented Elmira and Dorine. M. Thiere, it is said, ban just entered into an agreement with a publieher for a history of France from 1815 to 1848. Au address to Garibaldi is in process of signature throughout Ireland. The Italian Opera at Paris opened last week with NOIII6OI, which Madera' Peso has mide her own at Paris, cow that the gifted Grid retires from as. Madame Volpin was the Adalgies ; Nandi° was the tenor; and Capponi took the part of the High Priest. The direction has done nothing to improve the worri.out scenery and dresses. The number of vessels brought into Queenstown by the southerly winds is increasing, and now constitutes ' one of the largest fleets that has ever occupied that cape. eious harbour—numbering, as they do, at least 3CZ) sail. The vast majority of these are pain laden, from ports in the Mediterranean and Black eats and New York. Already the market has manifested the effect of so large ea influx of grain, and there appears every probability of • further reduction M prices. TER LATR MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JNO. E. W. Isous.—The mortal remains of the pliant defender of the residency at Locknow were deposited in • grave in the quiet cemetery at Homberg on Tuesday last in comparative unosteotation. The gallant officer's sorrowing widow and • few friends, including Lord and lady Chelmsford, the Hon. Mw Thesiger, Colonel the Hon. W. Theeiger, and his younger brother, attended at the funeral rites. Much sympathy was evinced by the English residents for the t widow It is said that the Queen had at an early moment on learning the general had died written ernost feeling letter of condolence and sympathy to Lady Inglis. Cou.non or Pazcarroas.—At a meeting of the council of this corporation. held on Saturday, the 4th inst., the following were elected members of the college W. Goss, St. James's-terrace, Exeter; Mr. D. Grant, Blythswoodequare,Glaegow; Dr.C.Hessel,Tachtrookstreet, Puglia* ; Mir M. Bird. Cottage Hones, Alston ; Mr. R. Monett, Bath Hones, Twickershani ; Mr. R. C. D. Nugent, Baling; Rey. E. R. Sanderson, M.A., Grammar-school, Atherstose. FRATERNISATION Or LIVERPOOL AND MANCHISTER. —lt has been publicly announced in Liverpool that Mr. Robert Hatchiaoc, the mayor, has resolved to invite the mayor and town council of Manchester to meet himself and the Liverpool town council at a grand banquet on the 22nd el this month. This happy idea to promote a feeling of friendship between the two greet rival teats of commerce In the north has met with much favour in LivsepoeL ARRIVAL OF THE AtTI3'FRALASIA.N. The Royal Mail steamship Australasian, Cap tain Cook, which sailed from New York on the 24th and called off Cape Race on the 27th September, arrived in the Mersey about 11 o'clock yesterday morning. The following highly-important proclamation in reference to slavery has been issued by President Lincoln : " By THE PRESIDENT OP TEE UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. "PROCLAMATION. "WASHINGTON. Sin 72. "I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relations between the United States and the people thereof, in which states that relation is, or may be, suspended or disturbed ; that it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress, to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all the slave states, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States, and which states may then have volun tarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, the immetl;.ate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits ; and that the efforts to colonise persons of Afri can descent, with their consent, upon the continent or elsewher3, with the previously obtained consent of the governments existing there, will be cont;nued ; that on the Ist day of January, in the year of our Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state, or any designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be thenceforward and for ever free; and the executive government of the U nited States, including the military and naval autho rity thereof, will recognise and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom ; that the exe cutive will on the Ist day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the states and parts of states, if any, in which the people thereof respec tively shall then be in rebellion against the United States ; and the fact that any state, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith repre sented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a ma jority of the qualified voters of such state shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such state and the people thereof have not been in rebellion against the United States. " That attention is hereby called to an act of Congress, entitled An Act to make an additional Article of War,' approved March 13, 1862, and which act is in the word and figure following : "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represents• fives of the United States of America in Congress usem bled, that hereafter the following shall be promulgated sa an additional article of war for the government of the army of the United States, and shall be obeyed and observed as such " Article.—All OffiColl or persons in the military or naval mince of the United States are prohibited from em ploying any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labour who may have moved from any persons to whom such ser vice or labour is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by • court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service.' "Section 2.—And be it further enacted that this act shall take effect from and after its passage. "Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate pro perty of rebels, and for other purposes,' approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : "Section B.—And be it further enacted that all slaves of persons who shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of the United States, or who shall in any way give aid or comfort thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the lines of the army, and all slaves captured from such persons, or deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of the United States, and all slaves of such persons found on (or being within) any place occupied by rebel forces, and afterwards occupied by the forces of the United States, shall be deemed captures of war, and shall be for ever free of their servitude, and not again held as slaves. _ . "Section 10.—And be it further enacted that no slave escaping into any state, territory, or the district of Columbia, from any of the states, shall be delivered up, or in any way impeded or hindered of his liberty, except for crime or some offence against the laws, unless the per. son claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labour or service of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful owner, and has not been in arms against the United States in the present rebellion, nor in any wa► given aid and oomfort thereto ; and no person engaged in the military or naval service of the United States shall, under any pretence whatever, assume to decide on the validity of the claim of any person to the service or labour of any other person, or surrender up any person to the claimant, on pain of being dismissed from the service. "And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all per sons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce within their respective sphere of service the act and sections above recited. "And the executive will in due time seeotamend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion shall, upon the restoration of the constitutional relation between the United States and their respective states and people (if the relation shall have been suspended or disturbed), be compen sated for all losses by acts of the United States, in cluding the loss of slaves. "In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. " AMIABLY LINCOLN. "Done at the City of Washington, this 22nd day of September, in the year of our Lord 1862, and of the Independence of the United States the 87th. " By the Presi dent, " WILLIAM H. BZWARD, Secretary of State." The Federal government Lad already commenced the carrying out of the emancipation policy, u the following correspondence shows : To the Hon. E. M. Stone:in, Secretary of Wiz, Washington. Cairo Sept. 18. General Grant is sending here a large lot of negro women and children, and directs me to ask you what to do with them. Partiea in Chicago and other cities wish them for servants. Will I be allowed to turn them over to respon sible committees to be so employed I If so, cen I transport them at government expect*? J. Y. Turn.; B r i ga di er -General, Commanding District of Cairo. To Brigadier-General Tuttle, Commanding. Washington, Sept. 18, 6 p.m. _ . . Yon are authorised to turn over to responsible committee. mss Tomes ead obildren, who will take them in sharp MONDAY kVENING, OCrOBEi sad provide that with employsteat Ind support is Vis Northers Make, sad psi easy tarsi& tainopotistios at govsemost exposes. - EDWIN K. STANTON, 8 00Witarf of war. Speaking of the President's proclamation the New York Times says : The wisdom of the step taken (we refer at present to that clause in the document which declares free the slave s of rebel states after the Lt of January) is unquestionably a aressity indisputable. It his been declared by Presi dent Lincoln that r soon as this step became necerary he should adopt it. Its adoption now is not a confession that the military means of suppressing the great rebellion have proved a failure, bat simply that there is a point at which any other legitimate appliances that can be called in shall also be availed of. Slavery is an element of strength to the mauls ; if left untouched it will assuredly prove au element of weakness—it may be of total destruction—to them and their cause—when we flake such toe of it and ite victims as lies in our power. The New York Herald urges a reconstruction of the cabinet, in order to secure perfect harmony in the carrying out of the policy enunciated by the proclamation. The Tribune says, "It is the beginning of the end of the rebellion—the beginning of the new life of the nation. God bless Abraham Lincoln ! " The Tribune also says : But while we rejoice and hope for the best, we still tremble. There are among us men whose foolishness will not depart from them though it be brayed in a mortar— other men who will not cease from wicked ways while in the flesh. But the emancipation which the President has proclaimed is the emancipation of more than four millions of black slaves ; it is the freedom of well nigh twenty millions from a thraldom they have been taught to reverence. Rave they learned aright the him= of the last two years? Do they now know that they also have been in bondage, and will they accept this great boon of freedom which a wise ruler offers them We hope so • we devoutly pray that wisdom may enter into the heart s of all the people. Let the President know that every • where throughout the land he is hailed as wisest and best, and that by this great deed of enfranchisement to an oppressed people—a deed the doing whereof was never before vouchsafed to any mortal ruler—he re-creates a nation. WAR NEWS. The New York Herald of the 24th ult. furnishes us with the following manse of the situation of affairs on the morning of that day : Telegraphic news from General M'Clallan's army yester day state' that all was quiet at the Shepherditown Ford, the forces on either side cautiously watching each other. The rebels were keeping their men oat of view, but it was thought that they were in hopes of entrapping some of oar troops in an ambush if they ventured over the river at that point. We hold Sliarpebarg and Williamsport, without the possibility of being assailed at either point, while it is said that the rebels are not posted in much force opposite the former place. The rebels, it is reported, admit a terrible loss of officers in the battle of Autietam—Cienerabi Branch, of North Carolina, and Colquitt, of Georgia, being killed, and Generals Longetreet, Anderson, and Wright were wounded. They acknowledge to a loss of 93,000 men in this battle, and 30,C30 slum they invaded Maryland. . . . . The full amount of our lass in the late battle has not been ascertained. That of General Sumner's army corps, how ever, numbers 5,280. The Pennsylvania militia, having gallantly done their dcty on the border, have been sent home, their services being no longer needed at that point. Information from Harrisburg yesterday reports that our troops were crossing the Potomac into Virginia, at Williams. port, at which plane General M'Clellan had his head-quarters. It was said that General %only was in the advance on Sunday night, and that General Couch followed on Monday, preceding General Franklin's division, which was to follow immediately. Oar oorrespondence from Hagerstown, however, locates Gene ral Bally at that place on Sunday, where be had just arrived from Baltimore. There is probably some mistake in the statement that be had led the advance on that night across the river. Despatches from Harrisburg hat evening say that the entire force of the rebels hes not yet abandoned Maryland, but that they are in considerable numbers around Williamsport, and that heavy skirmishing is going on in that vithaity on both sides of the river. A cavalry reconnoissance wa■ sent out from Washington by General Banks as far as Asby's Gap, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, yesterday, and dispersed a regiment of rebels who were hanging about there—capturing several of them. They were sent out to capture a heavy train of provisions, said to be on its way south, but they failed to meet it. The latest news from Cincinnati reports that Genera Bragg is advancing on Louisville with an army of 30,000 men, which may possibly be reinforced by the junction of Kirby Smith's forces. Bragg had got as far as Bardstown. We have several gunboats lying in the river off Louisville which will give him a warn reception, and our forces are so well intrenched that the city it considered perfectly de (eatable. General Buell is said to be close in the rear of General Bragg. No battle is expected at Louisville for a day or two. THE CONFEDERATE PROPOSALS OF PEACE. Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, had offered the fol lowing resolution in the Confederate Howie of Representatives : Resolved,—By the Congress of the Confederate States of America : That the signal snorer with which Divine Provi• deuce lies so continuously blessed oar arms for several months part would fully justify the Confederate govern• meat in desuatchiog a commissioner or commissioners to the government at Washington city, empowered to propose the terms of a jest and honourable peace. (uvrzz's INDIA, CHINA, JAPAN, AND AUSTRALIA. (From Telegraph to India Company's Statics, Jabal.) CALCUTTA, SEPT. 17. Shirtings quiet. Indigo unchanged. Copper, nothing doing. Exchange on London, 2s. Oil Government securities, Four per Cents, 95i ; ditto Five per Cents., 1041. BOMBAY, Birrr. 17. Mule twist and piece goods higher. Government securities, Five per Cents., 112 j. Freights ad vancing. CANTON, Auousr 27. The rebels are again moving and obstructing the conveyance of silk. Colonel Ward has captured three cities. A fierce engagement was fought on the 2nd inst., resulting in the capture of Quyaon (1), thus clearing a large portion of the canal. A treaty has been concluded between the im perial government and the Belgian Consul. Intelligence from Japan states that affairs were somewhat quieter, but an outbreak against the party favourable to foreigners was considered im minent. The government at Yeddo was doing its utmost to maintain order. The guard of the British and French Logations had been increased. The representative of the Daimios at the impe rial court had committed suicide. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The Canton market for ahirtinp is unchanged. Tea active. Total exports, 27,750,0001 b. Exchange on London, 4.134. SHANGHAI. Mauer 19. Grey shirtings unchanged. Silk continues active. Settlements during the past fortnight, 9,000 bales. Total export to date, 21,000 balm. Exchange on London id. lower. Freight, 42.10 a. to 62. MELBOURNE, AVMS 26. Frightful inundations have oecurred all over the country, doing an immense amount of damage. Mr. Limburg, the explorer, has returned, after having successfully crossed the Australian conti nent. He has made a favourable report. Trade at Melbourne dull. 6, 1862. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Renter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company ALEXANDRIA. OCT. 4. The Euxine, with the above mails, left for Mar seilles this evening. The Delta leaves at noon to-morrow for South ampton, where she may be expected about the 18th instant. The China brought the Bombay mail and a large cargo to Suez, arriving there on the M. The Benares left Suez for Bombay on the 27th ult. The Ceylon, from Southampton on the 20th ult., and the Valetta, from Marseilles on the 28th, have arrived at Alexandria. POLAND. THE GRAND DUKE CONSTANTINE'S ADDRESS. The following speech was made by the Grand Duke Constantine at the opening of the session of the general assembly of the Council of State on October 1. The speech was delivered in the Polish language: Gentlemen,—ln addressing you for the first time in this assembly, I wish above all things to emure you that the painful circumstances which prevented me from taking part in the proceeding, of your lad session have not chilled my good intentions towards the country. Fall of faith in the protection of Providence, I reckon on the loyal sentimentsand attachment of good citizens, of which the Council of State has already given proof. In fulfilling the duties which the will of my august brother, our gracious sovereign, has do. volved upon me, I shall never eras to look forward to the welfare of the kingdom of Poland. The government of which I am the head will never deviate from the legal path and will never permit any departure from it with impunity. I shall consider myself happy in being able to exercise liberally the noblest of the prerogatives with which I am invested—the prerogative of mercy ; but in its exercise I cannot allow myself to lose sight of public justice, the interests and the security of the community. Out of 499 persons who have been condemned since the stets of siege, 134 have undergoes their punishment, 289 have been pardoned, 7 have fled, and 69 are still undergoing their sentence. The institutions which were granted last year are everywhere about to come into operation. The district councils in the greater part of the country have concluded their first session. The delegations which have issued from them will commence their important labours regarding the taxation, and will, no doubt, justify the confidence which the legislature has re posed in them. The municipal councils are performing their duties with advantage. The petitions of seven teen towns, recently presented, for the establishment of similar councils in them, are a new proof that the utility of this institution is fully appreciated by the country. Simultaneously with your deliberations the opening of a superior school and of a polytechnic school has taken place, as well as those other educational establishment. which you considered to be required by the wants of the country, when you last year voted the law on public education, the elaboration of which forms one of the great merits of my colleague, the chief of the civil power. Since your last deliberations, his Majesty, in his paternal solicitude, has deigned to give new guanidine to the administrative autonomy of the country by decreeing the independence of several branches of service, such as those of the post-office and public high ways. The reforms effected last year will require some change in oar financial system. The abolition of the oonyee, which obliges the proprietors of the land to employ hired labour, has exhibited the inconvenience of the tax to which the tillers of the soil and other agricultural servants are exposed. The koszerne tax, inasmuch as it is exclusively religious, is not in harmony with the spirit of recent legislation as regards the equality of the civil right' of the Jews, in the introduction of which the government of his Majesty has received from you such active co-operation. The abolition of both those taxes is projected, and, in order to replace the deficit which will be occasioned thereby, it is proposed to increase the duty on the manufacture of spirits. Moral considerations and the true interest of the propnetors, as of the cultivators, equally require these alterations. Besides those projects, you will have to examine the budget of the receipts and ex penditure of the kingdom for the year 1863, as well es the reports of the officials for the year Put past. A bill on ;creed expropriation, on the payment of taxes sod treasury rents, on the establishment of a court of appeal in the Coun• cil of State for business relating to the taxes, and, kitty, a bill for the internal organisation of the Council of Biota, will be submitted to your deliberation. I now declare the 'anion to be open. NAPLES. NAPLES, Ocr. 2. The sad news has arrived that Canon Marasco, deputy for Sorrento and one of the moat worthy ecclesiastics in the whole country, has been mur dered by brigands in his country house. He at tempted to defend himself, and was at once stretched dead by a pistol shot. ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN THE DUTCH WEST INDIES. The law for the abolition of slavery in the Dutch Weet Indies passed the States-General of Holland by a majority of 45 to 7. The following are the regulations adopted respecting the slave abolition at Surinam : let. The abolition of slavery on the let July, 1863. 2nd. The owners to receive a compensation of 300 guilders (120 dollars) for each slave. 3rd. The supervision of the state not to continue for more than ten years at the outside. 4th. The government encourages immigration, and offers for that purpose, for a period of five years, premiums not to exceed a million of guilders (400,000 dollars). sth. Fixed labour to be obligatory on all the emancipated. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) MONDAY, ()crow 6, 8 1.11. X X 0. 0. 1.0. L X. X - - - - - - - - 1ima.,,,.... - -- 29.01 66 SI LW. 0 c - Mmize ... 93.90 68 61 8. 9 o - Ls= - Mamma - Imaaossei 29.90 NJ bi LW. 7 o - f 4121001 39.87 09 06 8. 4 o - 96L1116T .. Vmmirrii QUZIOISTOWIT 29.90 68 67 LW. m - H0615a39 19.26 68 Se 18.1 c - Immaroo - PIMSROILM - Mums - !Mom. - 'WIT 10.02 80 68 L m - .Veric nu. PORTSMOUTH - Doom - Loiroos 30.12 II 60 IL TARMOUTH - 4 SCARBOROUGH. 30.16 GI Si X o - I Swaim . - I HRIJOOLAMD 3046 68 49 KM b - 3 now= 141STIAT. WIDIFEIDAY. R. to W. sad N.W., 80on,inn. N.W.toB.W.,moderato fresh to arm i erste. to fresh, rainy. 8.6 to B.W. and N.W., lasuira W.N.W. to 8.&W., fresh, showery. fresh to strong. rainy. S. toW.S.W., mode. W. CitiTall., 8.8. W. to W.N. W., rate to fresh. fresh, showers. B.L to &W., fresh, s.w.zimmat. 8.8.W.t0W.N. W., fresh rumen. to strong, rainy. LB.E. to 8.8. W., fresh, LX 1111111.411 D. B.W. to N.W.. fresh, showery. unsettled. 8.E.. to S.W. and to Z. CoUL to N.N.W., fresh. fresh, showap. New YORK STATISTIM—The following statistics have been published by the New York Ttnteg • The let Right The ld Zeit mtht 1404440 la 1961. NIL Dols. Dols. Import of foreign goods 01.727.0 00 119,44,009 Import of foreign spode Import of CaliforaWasM Report of domestic wafter, llllllllll4OOO Re-ewrt of foreign Aserdis womnee Swart of specie 14.1111446 37, 06;781 Customs revenue Sarsaparilla grows wild in Uruguay, and impreg nates the streams and rivers with its virtu's. This, it is inhered, partly somata for t►e extraordinary healthiness and fecundity of Atop and cattle is the Bawds OriestaL EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Ps= ma owl PARIS, SUNDAY EVININ.:. The Moniteur contains the following note Several journals have lately referred to the decision 4 the committee for the examination of dramatic relating to a drama borrowed from the novel '• Idismbles," and to further orders, mid to have been already given in consequence. The committee has only to torn, its opinion upon the piece referred to ; and the only thing true in the assertions of the journals is that the piece bar interdicted on the proposition of the committee• The above paragraph is scarcely intelligence by itself. But construed with reference to surroun.li ag circumstances, it can only mean to say tbat the authorities have not already (des d present) pro- hibited all allusion to the " Misdrables" in the Christmas pieces at the end of the year. But it must be remembered that the censors will have the power to strike out whatever allusions they plea se ; and it is evident they have des d present their instructions to be unusually severe. The Opinion Nationok having been taunted by the France with inconsistency in raising objections to the unity of Germany (supposed to be suggested by a recent speech of M. Bismark Schoenhausen), while it every day advocates the unity of Italy, which, in the view of the France, must, by an in. evitable consequence, lead to the other unity, puts forward a very remarkable defence. It takes credit to itself for having been, for the space of four months, the only journal which claimed the annex ation of Savoy and Nice to France as an indispea. sable protection against a newly-created powerful neighbour, and it gives notice that if the " chaos of the Germanic Confederation " should give place to a united and formidable empire, it is prepared to demand a further " rectification " of the French frontier. A little journal, published at Turin by two deputies not habitually unfriendly to Rattairi, the Gazette' del Popolo, expresses considerab:e uneasiness at the prospect of that minister's R. 1.. to Paris, and advises him not to go "unless the Roman question shall have made greater progreis than the public is aware of." " If," it says, "the journey of the President of the Council should fail to produce any result the humiliation would be evident." This is just what struck me yester day. M. Rattarxi suffered enough in Italian estimation last year by the impression that he came to Paris to take instructions. Re will be lost altogether if that impression should be renewed. A Copenhagen letter says that Denmark bas resolved to submit the question of the Duchies to the arbitration of Franoe, England, and RUFSiI. Supposing the news to be true, it remains to be seen whether Prussia and Austria will consent to the reference. Hitherto they have always con tended that the question was a purely German one, with which no foreigner could be permitted to interfere. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary were amongst the company on Saturday, which was of a highly fashionable character. The number of visitors on Saturday was :—Season ticketa, 6,025 ; payments, 9,259—t0ta1, 15,284. The highest temperature on Saturday by Nagretd and Zambra's patent thermometers was :—ln the nave, 60.1 ; in the galleries, 61.2 ; in the western annex, 65.3. A very considerable fall in the tem. persture. The following is a return of the number of visitors to the Exhibition during last week as compared with the corresponding week of 1851: Samos Tickets : l'ityruireL Total. Moods? (b.) 2,627 65.915 65,*42 Tuesday (IL) Wedosaday (Is.) Thursday (la) 2,686 61.612 64,2% Friday (2s. 6d.) 5,218 26.833 32,051 Saturday (25.6 d.) 7,738 22,902 30,610 24,011 1862. 299,937 3C3,948 Monday (la.) 346 8— 33,947 37,713 Tuesday (Ls.) •• • • 4,093 37,491 41.581 Wednesday (le.) Thursday (Is.) 4,106 33,741 37,847 Friday (2e. 6d.) Saturday (2s. 6d.) 26,726 161,710 188,06 The above shows a greater falling off during last week than in any previous week of the Exbi• bition ; the difference in favour of 1851 being 135,512 ; if we add this to the deficiency of 60,8116 shown in our last Monday's statement, it give s difference of nearly 200,000 for the fortnight, cm slating entirely of visitors paying at the doors. The total numbers admitted to the building fun the Ist of May to the 4th of October inchnure IS weeks-135 exhibition days), compared with 1851, are as follows, viz : I. By season tickets up to LA work „ daetea ism r00k... 11110.760 14714 _ wag By payment up to last Welk 4,01111,01111 „ during last wank , _ Total By season tickets up to last week during WI week koL3I rum 04 011 ... 4,401.714 MAW 4.794 By payment up to loot week.. during kit week Total sx.o rU It will be observed from the foregoing table this the admissions by season tickets in 1862 exes 4 chow of 1851 by 129,209, while the uumbeis pg. ing at the doors in 1851 exceed those of 18V2 558,276. THZ GaAwff off CHAIM= Lela.—ln the church yard of Edmonton the inquiring traveller may, Ito considerable search, find the grave of Charles and II Lamb. The churchyard is large, sod has an la, ,w neglect and desolation, and one of the mad parts of it is the grave of the man whose smog gives the whole scree an interest. The gm^ • little way back from a side path, and is overgrows eat nestles and loog gram. Wails over it towers • hiding env ties of the fluted order of village architecture, ellniP* l w =e the fame of • Mega Gideon Hippos, d F O O a the tombstone, between the dates recording Ad Oberlin losab died December 27, 1831, aged 50, cad W 1 Mazy Anse Lamb died May 20, 1817, aged eight! lava an inserted twelve of the very worst verses nut tb ibigeauestritj and fric u ds ching ooold liDes have in struck which o w e- o, lo .r ib; sketched the character and the hietory of hU friend, b+ tells us that he meant the earlier panne of the one to be placed on Lamb's tombstone, bat that other song' meats bad been made. The visitor to Edomotoe 0 1 1 see what was the effusion that woe preferred w Woniv worth's. It begins by declaring that Lamb's meek sel harmless mirth "no more shall gladden oar domo hearth." It goes en to enure the deceased that be not all lost—and that his writiop shall "win ruin! Engin& bosom pleased to see that old sad happier revived in thee." Every thiog is in a eon of rude lel . mony—the nettles, the shrioe of Gideon Rippco , mho dospeL We p out to Me the grove of o ne of the PO charming and original English writer' of the aineteng asatary, and we find • book of weeds aid a supernui° 4 man of stone or Meow in honour of a bask clerk, and A O / of venue far which the schoolboy of Lard Mambo " Frays" would have be deservedly dogged. — SaWw WW BALI or CATTLZ AT Basest-GZOR --A g r‘ sale of short-horned cattle took place on the Ist Bushey-grove Farm, near Watford, the property 3 :4 Stewart Marjaribaaka, who is disoontioning the brocAM short-bores. About 1,500 gentlemen end farmers were P' met from all parts at the United Kingdom. Among tn. www• Fads B Peocer sad Cawdor , the Hoe. Cab per cam* Sir Lammas Palk, Mr. A. J. Roberts. Mc I. l Twt4 Linke, Mr. Kelk, and Captain Oliver, who bid for tin me Ws. Nearly every breeder of short-barsi wits Moe" winsected by kit spot. Fifty-sight coin so d haw: iodedieig young ea/ves, brovight mob as avenge ew 82R M. dd• t wenty•twe bulls an boll ca lves so a vr s ., price of UR—the greatest ma realind by any D e ' short-horns during this year.