The Express. — London, England, 1864-11-10 00:00:00

JOHN BILOODEN. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, 16. MILNRIMAATILUT. COVIINT.OARDIN. JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD CHAINS. JOHN BROODEN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. JOHN BROGDEN'SGOLDALBERT CHAIN. JOHN BROGDEN'SGOLD BROOCH CHAINS. It' R l . vo i r ll d. l ta L me ß i S ie L . S TR ( kt i llEßs 0 ca R . I O 2 , I be N h A . 7 . ? R 'S) 7s, HR. hiIi. , TREF.E. lIANOVIIIC-NQUARE, where . corm...talon Is fairly dietaneed hy tides." ALFIthl) WEI:B 5M.K 4 . EbTABLISHIED 1341. ___ TROUSERS. —The NEW GOODS are NOW READY. and gentlemen who do not mind payinz. a fair price for a¢^ I paw of trousers can depend on patterns and materials that cannot be excelled, at lIA)IILTnt and KIMPTIECA. . 146: DTEGRETTI and LAMBRA'S One *minim and Two Gained FIELD GUMMI and 'fiILISCOPEN are war ranted ae unrivalled for pow,r and brillianay. 111. and 4Ya. in r ee re se. %4* Untton-garden, ; Condit 1!t. W. ; IW. Iliwadtreet and Cryclal Pnlaae. REMEMBER! we wait Supper for you after the Covent Garden Opera. at EV•NS nil not. he erpreOts. TO COIMESPONDIff Advertisements Intended for " The &press" London Evening Paper, must be at the Offlee, la, gionverle-street. by Two clock on the day of publisation. I/ATM/RECT. Tem EVIRIM. THE WIND. —TH STE 4Ni GER. Mears Howe, Parma, Chlppend.le. Comptna, and 'Lagers Mesdames Beat/icy and leeley.—ON 711 k •LT. Mr. BiLkatame.—And OUR MART ANNL Mr. Clark. PRINCLSS'S. TEI EVIININO. BORN LUCK. Mr. 11. Murray. And THE sTKIETS OF LONDON. ►lessrs. Vining, J. W. Day, D. Fisher. D. Murray, J. Nelson. 11. Forrester, ankil. Mellon ; Mrs 11. Marston., Mines Barnett and Glenne. LYCEr Ten ERVIN& N RS EY Cllll.7ir EID. —A nd Tllll I NO'S 51essrs. Pechter, Ryder, Widdleomb, Charles, Clifford, Collett. limes L. Leclereq. 11. Bearade, E 'Aetna, and B. Layout/. ttRITANNIA, into ITZWINO, THE 11./THER's DYING CHILD. ►lle. S. Lane. Singing by NU. Albert Steele and Sldlle.thmti.—Autt CAPTAIN JtIIIN LUCK —Commence at oi. MGR WATER AT LONDON-MUDGE. TVS DAT Mo;ning. Igh. 46n.... Afternoon, Ilh Morning. Ilk. 410 m.. iftenagm, oh. Om LONDON, THURSDAY, 11'01'1131HBR 10. lr needs a strong confidence in the final for tunes of the cotton trade to withstand the gloomy impression produced upon the mind by Mr. MAcixaes Report, presented to the Man chester Central Executive Committee on Monday last. our I I , thdAd nil re rd y thousand persons are now entirely out of work ; one hundred and twenty-five thousand more are gaining a scanty and precarious livelihood on short time. This is a worse state of things than prevailed in Lanca shire in the middle of last winter. On the Ist of January of the present year the number of operatives iu partial employment was about the same as it now is ; but then, the totally unem ployed were fewer by 11,000. On the other hand, only 147,000 persons are now in receipt of aid from guardians and relief committees, as against 196,000 in January. This diminution is pro bably due to several causes : the in creased stringency of the rules under which relief is administered ; a diminution in the popu lation from emigration and similar causes ; and a partial diversion of industry to other employ ments. But this is not the worst feature of the Report. In Lancashire, at least, it has been long foreseen that the time must come when the long paralysis of manufacturing energy would produce deplorable consequences upon the class of employers as well as upon that of the employed. In some other parts of the country a vague impression exists that millowner and millionaire are synonymous terms ; that men who had made enormous profits in good times could afford to lie on their oars during bad ones ; and that closing a mill meant no more than a temporary cessation of money making, which to a well-fed capitalist was no great hardship after all. The letters from the North, which we published some time ago, will have intro duced our readers to a very different view of the subject. We have only to remember that the average number of hands employed in the cotton mills of the United Kingdom was, before this crisis, no more than 151, to discern at once that a large part of the business must be in the hands of small tradesmen. Many of them manage their affairs on principles which render such a stagnation of trade as the present eqiivalent to total ruin. They are working on borrowed capital, and have to meet large outgoings for rent and interest ; they cannot pay for their cotton or their yarn without advances from the Manchester agent, to meet which their finished production must be quickly thrown upon the market. In many cases the profits of good years are spent, not in establishing their existing business upon a sounder basis, but in erecting new buildings, buying new machinery, to be worked in the same speculative fashion. A number of these men suc cumbed to their ill fortune at the outset ; their factories still stand idle, waiting for fresh adventurers and brighter times. But others have struggled ou till now, working or waiting as they could ; trusting to some unexpected turn of trade, and endeavouring to counteract adverse cir cumstances by desperate personal energy. But this last crisis has proved too much for them. There seems to be in Lancashire a strange etiquette as to the publication of manufacturers' misfor tunes ; the catastrophe is to be heard of on the Exchange, or within the circle of creditors, but seldom reaches the newspaper—still more seldom the Why a sp.irlier's failure should be exempted from the publicity which attends a pier chant's stoppage it is difficult to see ; but so the fact nevertheless is, But now Mr. Mir LURE has raised the veil, and informs us that during the month of t ietober no fewer than 68 spinners and manufacturers have been compelled to sus pend payment. Even " in this number " many are not included who by private " arrangements have been enabled to prevent " their dirticulties being publicly known." If to these, again, we add the numerous cases in wlii,:h men who, three years ago, were working large con cerns with the very smallest margin of capital, will be compelled under the new conditions of trade to contract their operations and so to give a greatly lessened ;uw nut of employment, the severity or the Mow , hien cotton manufacturers have re ceived will becorue apparent. The final loss or temporary ineorivenience to the community at large will lie but small. Ai ewer as ever iquorilov awl weaving again become a safe and profitable bilaMess t-.-y will promptly attract new energy and fresh capital. More than any other result of mechanical ,k , l!, e.ilico is a necr , sary of life: man caonot do a itboot a shirt, nor even the !liiidao without the strip of cloth round his loins, am: the folds filch guard his head from the tropical sun. 1;4 whenever Lan caalaire again sets her face towards pros parity, her path cannot but be strewn with ruint, If the workman looks back to the years of dishiest as a period of insufficient food, at scanty clothing,' and bitter dependence, the master may well re collect the long-deferred hope that made the heart sick ; the unavailing struggle against an almost undeserved misfortune ; the final disappointment of a life's hard work. As far as the operatives are concerned, it may fairly be hoped that with nearly 400,000 bales of cotton in Liverpool, and as much more upon the sea, their average of employment during the winter will be far higher than it is now. Experience has shown that whatever the difficulties and fluctua tions of the market for yarn and cloth, all the cotton that comes finds its way before long to the factories. Under these circumstances the relief given by the various committees should, we think, be looked upon as a temporary expedient in aid of the working class, and not in any sense as a permanent resource. Relief boards should ►e ready to resume or to suspend their operations at brief notice, according to the state of work in their districts; helping to tide the workpeople over a stoppage of the factories, but sternly refusing aid whenever work is to be had. The establishment of a second—and in some cases of a rival—Board of Guardians in every district would be an unmixed evil to all classes of the population. The transition from living on charity to living on wages is not yet accomplished, and is beset with many difficulties; it is the business of the relief boards to help the people under their charge to make it with as little suffering as may be, yet to give them clearly to understand that the time has come when it must be made. Lancashire relief committees have won for themselves an honourable reputation during this term of their life. Let them show that the manner of their death becomes them no less. WE venture to ask whether the time has not come to put an end to the venerable nuisance which every November robs the metropolitan public of its principal thoroughfares, and concentrates an idle rabble in the very heart of the capital ? There was nothing in the civic procession of yesterday,with its draggling detail of faded finery, tin armour, and transpontine knights, to compensate for the ob struction of the route from the Bank to West minster-hall in the busiest part of the day. And there never will be. Within the last fifteen years we have seen various attempts to inspire • meaning into this obsolete performance. Succeed. ing Lord Mayors have had their " ideas "as to its revival, and have tried to redeem it from ridicule. We have had the allegorical show, the representative show, the spectacular and pic torial show, and all having failed we have got back again to the melancholy exhibition of old and bat tered theatrical properties which we saw ye►terday. Alderman HALE was too wise to try his hand on it. There was, in fact, no new course open to him, unless along with the horses and knights he had borrowed the MENKEN. The show has imposture written in its every lineament, from the resigned and rueful aspect of the Lunn MAYOR, and the ashamed look of the officials down to the " get up " of the man in brass from Astley'a, who leers from his csaque as he is chaffed by the boys in the gutter. When impos ture is thus self-eonfessed, it is time to have done with it. The Lord Mayor's Show has long been tolerated for the sake of the young and of strangers, but it has now ceased to interest even children and country cousins. What future Mayor will be the first to distinguish himself as a man of sense by sending the 9th of November coach to the lumber-room at South Kensington, and driving to Westminster as a man of business and a gentleman ! Zbt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 9. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess of Wales and Priam* Helena, drove out this morning in a carriage and four, attended by the Equerry in Waiting. The Princes' Louise went out driving. The Prince., Beatrice, attended by Mdlle. Nomlle, took a carriage drive. This morning, it being the anniversary of the birthday of the Prince of Wales, the band of the Sod Regiment of Life Guards performed the following selection of mum in the quadrangle: Choral-- ti 'thou to whom all creatures bow"..Copposed by the Ovrrture—.. Flauto Majico" Writ- - I would that my love' The Priu.e of %% ilea' quick March l'n hee Con or .Mhz.art . Wentletssolau . Com p..te.l I,y the DuZ - heas The Prince of Wales went out shooting, attended by Teesdale, Lord Methuen, Colonel the lion. A. Hardinge, and Lieutenant-Colonel liingscote. The following, in addition to ber Majesty's and the Prince and Princess of Wales's household, had the honour of being invited to the Castle in the evening : Lieutenant- General the lion. C. and Mrs. Grey, and the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, Major-Geneml and Lady Mary Hood and Mime Hood, Major• General and Lady Emily Seymour rod Miss Seymour, the Hon. Lady Biddulph,, the Demo of Windsor and the Hon. Mr.. Welleeley, Colonel mad Mrs. H. Ponaonby, the Rev. C. T , Mr. Buff, and Mr. Sahl. au] be Grey mad Ripon arrived at the Castle yesterday, and bad the honour of dining with her Majesty and Royal Family. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial•ofEce front the 1..0v rnors of the Bahamas and Labuan. THE VIsIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINcErSs OF WALES TO LIVERPOOL.—Mr. Laurence. the newly elected mayor of Liverpool, announced yesterday to the council that be had received a note from the Earl of Derby t, the effect that the Prince and Princess of Wales would visit Liverpool text week, probably on Thursday or Friday, but that the Prince was desirous that the visit should be a private one, and that no addresses should be presented. The arrangements therefore have been left in the heads of the mayor. The Prince and Princess of Wales will leave Windsor Castle on Tuesday next for Knowsley, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Derby. Their royal bighnesaes will be the guest* of the noble earl and countess till the following Saturday. PRINCE LEOPt.I.D. —On Tuesday afternoon his Royal Highness Prince Leopold commenced the first of a series of rowing lessons on the lake in Frogiuore grounds. Mr. George Talbot, the Prince of Wales's waterman, was in attendance, and gare the young prince his first instruc tion in aquatic exercises. It is understood that his royal highness will cintinue his rowing lemons should the weather and his health permit. The Earl Russell and Lady Georgians Russell left Alderley-park yesterday for Edinburgh, whence they proceed to-day to Aberdeen. The Countess Russell was to arrive at Petnbroke•lodge, R chmond-park, from Alderley park, last evening. Lord Palmersto❑ has promised to open the new Corn Exchange at Romsey, is Hants, on the 15th proximo. The Doene-s of Somerset :old La.ly wendolut.e St. Maur, with L Edward Sc. Mane, tare returned to the Admiralty from Paris. The Earl Cowper has arrived at Wrest Park, Berle, from •isiting the Marquis eel Marchionesa of Aber. corn at Beaudeelrt, S:stfordsLire. The Conote,. of Cork gace birth to a son on Tueaday at the family ri.idenca in firafton.etreet. The countess and intat.t ale progrcado g eatisfactorily. Lord and Lady Duiferin have arrived within the last few day • a• Liid i e, Highgate, from a tour of •isita in Scotland. THE. HIGH lt'RN" TRAINING INATITUTION.—TiIe committee of the Church of Eogland Metropolitan Training Institution itoCo t ea lilting clittlielettneeS, it will oot be expedient to open the cAlege after Christmas. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1864. LLTBST INTELLIGENCE. (azunia's nuosaits.) FRANCE AND ITALY. PARIS, Nov. 10. The Coustitutionnel of this morning considers the despatch of General Lamarmora as a fresh proof of the accord between the French and Italian go vernments. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 10, 9 A.m. To-day the debate on the treaty of peace will commence with closed doors in the Landsthing, and will probably be concluded to-morrow in a public sitting. The government will thus ba enabled to forward the ratification on Saturday next. ITALY. TURLN, Nov. 10. Yesterday his Majesty paid a visit to the Czare witz, who at once returned the same. Further intelligence has been received here from Florence, announcing that deplorable damage has been caused by the inundations in the country round that city. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 9, 9.57 A.m. . - Intelligence has just been received of the opening of the telegraph line from Irkutzk to Kiachta, whereby the posting distance to Pekin is reduced by 700 versts, or four days. NEW ZEALAND. MELBOURNE, SETT. 24. Advices from New Zealand continue satisfactory. No hostile movements by the rebel natives Lave taken place. Many of them are surrendering their arms. THE SAXONIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 10. The steamer Bavaria, which left here at 6 p.m. last evening, met the overdue steamer Saxonia out side the Needles, and towed her into the Solent about 2 this morning. She then dropped anchor, and transhipped to the Bavaria 64 passengers, the German mails, and 800 dols. 111 specie, for Ham burg. The Bavaria proceeded to Hamburg at 5 a.m. The Saxonia has just arrived in the docks for re pairs. She had 38 passengers for Southampton and Havre and 10,000 dols. for London. She left New York on the 15th ult., at noon, and passed Cape Race, all right, at G a.m., on the 19th. On the 21st she broke her stern box and laid to for five days till the 26th, in a heavy gale from the south-east, subsequently experiencing south and easterly wind.. She made the passage since the 27th ult. at the rate of three to four miles an hour, sometimes under steam and at other times beating under canvas. Her stern pipe compartment is filled with water, but with the exception of a few bags of coffee being wetted, the cargo has sustained no damage. A portion of it will be landed and the steamer docked to be overhauled. The telegram received here from the Hurst Castle telegraph station, announcing the arrival of the Teutonia, was a mistake. She has not yet been sighted. The following telegram has been received at Mrl Renter's office from the Peninsular and Orieuta. Steam Navigation Company. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, Nov. 9. The Malta, from Bombay on the 29th October, reach Suez at 2.45 to-day. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE DAMASCUS. LIVERPOOL, WEDIRADAT EVICNI The Canadian screw steamer Damascus, Captain Watts, which sailed from Quebec on the 29th ult., ha.s arrived. The New York C•uwrv•rcial Adurtiser's special Washington despatch of the 26th says: It is stated here, on what is understood as gocl &nth°. city, that there is no immediate prospect of a resumption of hostilities in the Shenandoah Valley, unless the Coo• federates should reorganise their at present demoralised forces and make another desperate attempt to regain pos session of the key to the valley. Important movement, are in progress in the middle department, which it would be highly improper to mention at this time. With Grant's army the situation Is daily assuming importance. Porter has all his arrangements nearly completed for the attack upon the fortifications at the mouth of the Cape Fear Riser, and it is stated by persons who have recently arrived from James River, that he will proceed to the place of rendezvous in a few days. The correspondent of the Ni tv Yod: IL rald with Sheridan on the 25th says Our men Cr. enjoying a respite after the late battle. Our position is nearly the seine as before, with the exception of having made a lodgement on the left summit of tha Mum taz Mountains. The following is the official report of the cap tures made by the Federals on the 19th ult. : 1,200 prisoners of the rauk and file, 64 commissioned officers, 4.s pieces of artillery, 4 caissons, 3 b►ttery waggons, 39S hones and mule. with harness complete, t.i ambulances, 50 army waggons, 15,CJ0 rounds of artillery ammunition, 1,580 small arm., sod several waggon loads, including all the medical stores of the enemy, and a large gipintity of small arm ammunition, and a large number of battle flags. The losses are officially reported as follows : Army of Wedeln Virginia—Killed, t 0; wounded, 350 ; prisoners, 400 ; total. 910. 19th Corps—Killed, 400 ; wounded, 1,200 ; prisoner( 100 ; total, 1,700. Gth COM. K Aro , wounded, 1,000; miuing, ; total, 1,:1:t0. Col. Kitzl.ing's Division—Killed, 'At ; wounded, ; miss. log, ; total, 2 - 2.1. Grand total, 4,90.1. A letter from President Lincoln had been read to the army thanking Sheridan and his brave army for the mouth's operations iu the Valley, and especially for the action of the 19th. The If , Wiuchester despatch of the 27th sap; : It is slated that the rebels are in considerable force in the Shenandoah Valley, and are being reorganised. It has been known for some time that the repels have had a large force of cavalry in the Luray Valley, ►nd to ascertain its precise strength 1,300 of our cavalry, under Major Gibson, were sent out ou the 24th. They came upon the rebels, who, though immensely superior in numbers, fled before our troopers, after firing one volley. Our nice pursued a considerable distance, capturing a hattle flag. end several prisoners, until the rebels reached their fortifications. Not having the necessary force to make an 'lima, and after gaining the desired information, Major Gibson returned to camp. On Wednesday cannonading was heard in the direction of Front Royal. 1f hether a fight win going on has not been lacer tained. The N. n• 1 . ..rk ra7.l of the 27th says : It is reported from Nashville that General Sherman was quite retently (though the date is not given) at Clayleavilie, Alabama. a little north of the Cowes neer, pressing Maxi, who is retreating southward towards Gadsden, bey °oil the Coosa. It is said that Hood will be compelled either to move northward to the Tennessee river, or to keep on southwyril to Jacksonville, Alabama, moat likely the latter, as La dare cot Mind and give Sherman tattle. Ilia army is represented to be suffering for fool and shoes. repair* to tde road from Chattanooga to Atlanta ar e ex pooted to I,e ' , no plated to-day. The entire railroad dansag- rffected in We northern movement was the tearing up of tit...tr. liVia miles ol track. He did not take or destroy any rail road rolling stock, and only two waggon load, of provision. ; sad his captures of our men only amounted to I). T. effect this Hood loot about 1,700 men in f,tlrt..nd a!dr mlshea, and 2,000 or 3,000 more by desertion, and is now flying as fast as possible before the pursuit of tLat very army which, ere this, he warn to have annihilated, The Richmond papers publish the proceedings of a convention held at Augusta, Georgia, on the 17th October, between the Governors of the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ala bama, and Mississippi, for consultation upon . 'the state of the Southern Confederacy. The goveruors, after a free interchange of opinion, resolved in substance that there is no cause for them to be discouraged, but that it is imperative to increase their armies immediately, to recommend that the legislatures repeal all laws prohibiting the sending of troops outside of their respective state limits, to urge the Confederate authorities to conscript (very man engaged in the various de partments whose place cau be supplied by disabled officers, soldier'', or negroes ; to recommend legis lative enactments for the arrest of deserters ; to make it imperative that the negroes be removed from the frontiers exposed to Federal armies ; that the course of the United States government, in appropriating slaves to the purposes of war, de mands a change of policy on their part, and they therefore recommend the Confederate authorities, under proper regulations, to appropriate such part of the negroes to the public service as may be re quired ; that the Confederate Congress remove all restrictions on the commerce of individual states. The convention closed with some remarks about the maintenance of the rights of the sovereign states and the achievement of their independence. The Tribune's correspondent with Butler, under date of the 24th, says, in connexion with the action of the Confederate governors, plainly indicating their intention to call their slaves to aid them in their desperate strait : It may not be inopportune to state this important fact, namely, that their arrcr confronting us before Richmond and Petersburg is now known to be reduced to not exceeding 35,000 men all told. The Richmond Loinirer, alluding to the turning point in the battle of the 19th, says : One of the most brilliant victories of the war had been gained by our troops ; but in an evil hour, when a portion of our men were plundering the property they had cap tured, a small body of Yankee cavalry appeared on our left sank. The plunderers took flight, and thus their whole army was thrown into • panic and fled in a disorganised condition. Still it argues this defeat as only • temporary disaster, and no solid result is attained by it for Sheridan. disgraceful though it was for us. Letters from New Orleans state that advicee re ceived from Richmond in that city report that the Confederate government property was being secretly removed to Lynchburg. The Confederates are conscripting negroes outside of the Federal lines in Louisiana. It is stated that the negroes are to be put into the Confederate army. The extensive Confederate government's waggon shops in Lynchburg were destroyed by fire on the night of the 22nd ult. Secretary Stanton was very sick of fever at Washington. Several depositions had been taken agaiust the Vermont raiders at St. John, Canada East. The prisoners had all been identified. The trial would probably take place at Montreal. A New York telegram says :—" Advices received here indicate that the Canadian authorities will promptly respond to all fair demands of the Federal government in reference to the Confederate robbers who committed the outrages at St. Albans." W.N S s E L. E. E. N.N.E. F. EN.E. E N.E N.L E. mil E. 01 E N ]. cb on; NW. bm W,. PItoBABLL FRIDAY. OH NORTIMUI Plitt - 111 , AT. NN. W W s W., Cogent. 5.%% to N. and liack, $4.111v tow or fresh to motierAte. rain in y.! Eto N W,. fresh, Rbtcp , WNW. to N.N E. and fu place, some rain. back, strong to Mt, .1..1 ate. N.E. to SE. fresh. SOUTHER". NF. to . S E. and to s. W. in places, strong to nitwit rate. N. to W., fresh to mo- ILVIMRX. NN. W to W., ty,, tit.r.ite, general ly Mat. In...fume tre:.l. • • Sorttiern=Scotlaiii. Western= Intland. Wstlw, awl .1- ~tithern=2rish c:, ompl •n 4 It*r 0,00 ern =noistwszd England North ROYAL GBOGRAPH I. AL S. ..! ET y.—O n Moml a y, the 14th inst., at half•post p.m. 1 8, I:. 1. MureLiPon, president, in the choir). the I,..t.ent nail .111 be— t. Too preeident's address. 2. Ito the loe.ent state of nor kone4erlee Irith regard to the eourve of the Nile. By E. F. Burton. 3. *Journey to the snowy f+ k• of Kihme-olowe. By (tholato R.:chard fLorutno. 4. Letters from U. du Chsillu and the Beton von der Docket,. MOVEMENTS OP BLOCKADE RUNNERS. The following are the latest movements of the blockade•renning nest : Arrived at HavantalL—The SL Francis, with 1.050 bales of cotton, and the Jane, with 500 bales. The Denbigh was daily expected. All from Galveston. Sailed.—The Lizzie and Susannah and Kato. _ Repairing at Nissan.—The steamers Ella, Blenheim, Lucy, Beatrice, Syron, Scotia, Will.o'-the-Wisp, Mary, May, and Virginia. Sailed.—The Falcon. At CEarleetou.—The steamei a Coquette, Stag, sod Diana. The Conetam•e hu been totally loot. Arrived at Bermuda from Wilmington.—The Wild Rover and OwL _ Captured —The steamers Hope, Flora, Bat, and Let Her Rip. ♦t Wilmington.—The steamers Badger, Banshee, Atlanta, and Edith. On shore.—The steamers Lynx, Night Hawk, and Condor. At Halifax.—The steamers Helen, Colonel Lamb (since Bailed), Ptarmigan. and Dominican. The Racer and City of St. Petersburg have returned twice. At Mobile.--The steamers Virgin, Red Ganstlet, Mar), and Heroine, all of which are expected to arrive at H►nan n►h shortly. THE LORD LIEUTE.VANT OF IRELAND. Yesterday the Dublin corporation and university addressee were presented to the Lord-Lieutenant at the Castle. In reply to an allusion by the corporation as to the state of Ireland, his Excellency said : " Although I have, in parliament and elsewhere, paid sonic attention to the venous questions of public interest to which you have referred, I am sure you would not expect that on my first an ival amongst you, I should at once pro nounce opinions upon subjects which have been, or still are, matters of controversy, and concerning which I shall have the means here of obtaining more complete and accurate information. 'fbe welfare of Ireland depends not upon the ►id of the government, but upon the enterprise and energy of Irishmen, and upon the existence of that mutual 0006• donee, to the growth of which I rejoice to receive your testimony. I will only add that it is my moot earnest de sire to see this country as prosperous as the rest of the United Kingdom, and if 1 eau in the slightest degree promote this cud while I have the honour to bold the office of Lord-Lieutenant, I shall feel that I have done good ser vice not to Ireland slope, but to the whole empire." A portion of his Excellency's reply to the University address is as follows .—" I rejoice to bear from you that the prospects of this country are brightening, and whilst I look to the industry and union of Irishmen a■ the main• spring of Irish prosperity, I trust that I may fulfil, in some measure, the anticipations wh:cli you express of my administration." WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) NOVZIIBB2 10. 8 *AL is. T. •s• 30.03 J• a. W. 1 kberclemi 3010'3.. W. 2 Leith "LW 14 40, W. 1 A rdroman 30.13 411 ES. E. Grrviesetle . W s W. ; 0 Galway Valeoiti• 30.00 43 Y. 0 .'une 30. M; 43 N. E. 12 ; 3 Humana: ma . 30.03 46 N. 4 1,1,41 3 10 01 —.30.17 41 S. E. 1 2 Holyhead Pembroke .30.14 39 0. 1 Peusaace Bred 010ut . . wbeinrt Plymouth Weymouth 3O 00 34 V. E. 4 3 POrtaMOULtl 0 109.14: EN 0. 3 3 Loudon 3.111 32 N 0 4 4 90 11 .14 Ca . F. 4 5 Yarmouth ..... rout 30.1. 40 41 W. I :1 Mile& .. . liellimland .µllO 42 W. 1 THE MURDER AT PLAISTOW. LATEST PARTICULARS.-(THIS DAY.) This morning a careful examination of the body of the murdered man—now removed to the Bell and Anchor Tavern, at Plaistew—was made by the surpass to whom the duty of carefully inspecting the body and reporting upon its condition has been committed, and the result has been the discovery of a gun shot wound in the bead, which dis pels many of the elaborate theories to which general currency hu been given. The two men, the murdered man and the alleged mur derer, went out together armed for the destruction of any small birds they might meet with, and there seems to be little doubt that on arriving in the unfrequented fields where the body was found, the murderer, whoever he was, allowed hi■ victim to go on first, and then seizing the first aveilable opportunity shot his victim through the head. It would seem from the examination made that it was a clumsy shot and that it took na immediate effect, inasmuch as there were traces not to be mistaken of a terrible struggle between the murderer an,l the deceased. Around the Bell and Anchor hundreds of persons Lave collected this morning in antic.pition of the laciest., but notating was definitely known in the neighbourhood about it until past 12 o'clock, when the coroner's officer arrived, fixing the inquiry for 6 o'clock this evening. It is understood to be the intention of the coroner to go through the whole of the circumstances connected with the murder to-night and then to adjourn, for the purpose of allowing the jury to memorialise Sir George Grey to have the primmer, now in charge of the police, before them prior to the delivery of their verdict. As this request was ac ceded to in the case of Huller, who appeared before the jury at Hackney, it is thought probable that the Home Secretary will not object to the rme course being pursued on this occasion. THE CONVICT MULLER. Franz Muller, now under sentence of death in Newgrate, continues to maintain the same reserve with re. sped to the murder of which he was found guilty that he bas always shown since his conviction. The same sedate, cool, and collected manner, too, which seems ha bitual to the convict, has never forsaken him since the conclusion of his trial. Up to last night he had shown no inclination to confess, nor is it likely he will confess, even if be were inclined, pending the memorial to the Home Se cretary. Yesterday, or on Tuesday, at his own request, he saw his countryman HatTa, with whom he worked in Lon don and lodgri fora short time at the house of the Blythe. He has asked to see other persons whom be has named, but for the present the governor has declined to assume the responsibility of admitting them until he can consult with the visiting justices on the matter. Yesterday, again, the Rev. Mr. Walbenm, the minister of the German chapel in St. James's, spent some time with the convict in his cell, and the Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordinary, sees him from day to day. The prisoner also continues to attend the morning service daily in the prison chapeL Late last night information was received by the Ger man Legal Protection Society that, Sir George Grey not being in town, a deputation to present a memorial on behalf of Franc Muller, now under sentence of death for the murder of Mr. Briggs, could not be received. The society were, however, requested to forward the memorial they had drawn up on behalf of their countryman to the Home office, from whence it would be sent on to Sir George Grey. Some information, which the society consider of great im portance, was received yesterday, and this has been ap pended to the memorial. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LITTLISH. see columns of your journal the few comments which some days ego I consi dered it my deity to address to an organ of the press exer cising so marked as inenenoe in the metropolis. Your having published them convinces me that I was not mis taken in the view I then expressed, that the public were beginning to feel the necessity of reinvestigating the case of ]tulles. I have learnt sines that, among a greet number of letters and communications which are being constantly addressed to the committee, there are, besides expressions of concur rencelfrom many influential persons, some highly important new facts bearing upon the night of the murder, corrobo rating entirely some of the prisoner's statements as to the whereeboute during those momentous few hoar,. As usual, the press, by giving the fullest publicity to the very circumstantial account of all Muller's movement.. such as he gave it himself to the committee on and after his re turn from America, has elicited • variety of communications and statement. of facts, which place the case in a new and different light. The most important is, perhaps, that Muller's presence at Camberwell•gate, whilst waiting for the omnibus at a quarter to ten p.m., on the night of the mur der, can he clearly established by a person whose attention was celled to some circumstances relating to it, and which he h►ppened to read in the papers. They were as follows : Muller had gone into • public-hours where this person was taking a glass of ale, and recollect. distinctly some one with • red slipper drinking • glass of bear standing so close by him that he recollects taking care not to hurt his sore foot ; he also examined some words with him, and noticed his foreign accent, and that he was fair. The in formant is an Englishman, who had come to town on business that day, and is quite certain as to the date, and either has or will make an affidavit to this effect. I had an opportunity of talking with several lawyers on the trial, both French and English. They all agree se to the talent and ability displayed by both prosecution and defence. but they say it looked more like "a tournois brilliant entre deui orateurs crli•bres" than a trial in the interest of justice. The prosecution seemed more intent on fixing the guilt on the prisoner than to discover the really guilty, the truth, and nothing but the truth, whilst the counsel for the defence evidently attached more importance to a display of this really great oratorical rowers than to the interest of bis client. Could the ends of justice be fully attained by such a trial ! Will you spin take the trouble of thoroughly analysing the evidence! You will then. I think, be logically compelled to admit that the only really important point on which the life of the prisoner hangs, the ownership of the two hats, has not been established at all with any degree of moral certainty. What really does result from the trial is cothing beyond the possessioo of stolen property, some inclination to telling stories and talking big, and some false statements resulting from a cer tain boastfulness, false pride, or fear, and his visiting a house where everything was wrong, clock and all included. Beyond this nothing has absolutely been proved. But is a man to be hung on such evidence! On that account the memorial to the Queen praying for a respite seems to be fully justified, and I hope you will ad vocate the object of the memorialistaio the columns of your influential journaL —I am, k.c., T. H. BEKNDES. N 37. J. TO THE EDITOft OF THE ENPRE'44. beg to enclose you copy of a letter I have just received from M. Louis Blanc, in answer to a letter written to him by the society.— I am, Le., J. H. EPSTEIN, Hon. Secretary to the German Legal Protection Society, London. ssyd's Hotel, Finsbury-square, Nov. 9. Londoe, To the Members of the Legal Protection Society :—Gen tlerneu,—l'on owe me no thanks. !laving to give an ac count of Muller's trial,lit was my duty unreservedly to state what ray impressioo wss. I cannot say that lam convinced of the prisoner's innocence; but this much I will say, that important points appeared to me doubtful. Now, holding as I do that, in any case whatever, capital punish ment ought to be abolished, because a kind of punishment which is irretrievable implies a judge who is infallible, I earnestly wish that your efforts to obtain a reprieve may prove successful.(:rattly as I admire the way in w hi r justice is administered in England, I do not think that in the trial alluded to the inquiries have been so searching, so complete, so exhaustive as to render a reprieve undesir able. Were lan Englishman, I would insist as such on • thorough sifting of all the facts which after the condemna tion of Muller your committee have brought to light. As a foreigner sincerely attached to the country which once sheltered him, I cannot help regretting that the English public at 'Argo should not seem more keenly alive to the necessity of dispelling all clouds that might hang on this horrible event. Further, I take a question of this kind to concern more than any one individual, more than any one class, more than any one nation ; for whenever • man is exposed to perish without his guilt having been proved beyond nil possibility of doubt, the life and honour of every innocent man are thereby to a certain extent erdangered.- 1 am, gentlemen, obediently yours, Loris BLANC. ANNIVER•4.IRV OF THE BIItTHDAY OP THE PRINcE or Wm.'s. —Let evening his Royal Highness's tradesmen dined together at St. J ones'aball to celebrate the event, • haurierime prevent of Henior venison having been sent by the espies, command of his Royal Highness for the occasion. Mr. Burtou, of nafordstreet, occupied the chair. In the evening the royal tradesmen, as well as many otkers, IRE A lO'FIBIsHOP OF AND THE LAYMAN.- The dedication of the "Layman's" book ("The Mosaic )riain of the Pentateuch Considered") to the Archbishop of York, shish bag caused no much WrfeOplndellCO and us. pleatantness, i. , we hear, at Irtwth sit holm u. The with drawal It not the act of the archinahop, but of the "Lap man" - JolfN Leer - H.—Mr. Le c 6 leziVev, beside; A father and a widow, two cbildrto of trader ,ears, a too and lluizbttr. V. lament their loam ; the former, we hear, in herit& a fair .hare of hi■ fah. xenius. We believe that +..nlc record a f.,•t already well known to his friends 'leo we state that bit family are in possession of almost every imvitart .ketelt wad drawing of lot pencil, and that thew- a10e.., if offered for sale at some future time, may be expected to mine a very large Gam.—Guardian. STANDARD BANK OF BRITISH SoHTE AFRICA (LIMITED.)—(THIS DAY,) Au extraordinary meeting of shareholder, held, at noon, at the London Tavern, Mr. JOH N : , . in the chair, for the presentation of • report xod and the declaration of a dividend. The following report anciTs;lllce-sheet were prei,..•• " The directors have much pleasure in submittai : • shareholders the accounts of the company for the ending the :10th June lest. showing a net profit (411,, meat of all charges, commissions, and interest, d t of rebate ou all bills discounted, but not due. provision for bad and doubtful debts) of 2tior••••'. 17+ , • from 11 to 12 per cent., which, with 12.1. . forward from the previous account, and ••,1•14 premium on shares issued, make a t•••...: .• 26,2.10/. 6% Id. The directors recommend •.. above sum of 26,280/. 6.. 1.1. should i.r of as follows, viz. :—To reserve fund, 8,11,i . ; 1.., •. ... uary expeuses, 1681. le. 11d.; louspra , e (to be dispo.ed of u the proprietors may direct t• , rata the directors and auditors. and to pay the . • for the shareholders.) To dividend to propri,t the rate of 81. per cent. per annum on tnc pod upon their respective shares, 14,1a1t . ;•. to balance carried forward to prom , new account. 2,1471. .'-tt; 2-4 a. swim the directors' last report to the ohnreho gi.ive opened a branch of the Standard Bahk at M. act he've successfully completed the negutiatio64, f poratiug the Beaufort West Bank, which becsnie • • of the Standard Bank from the Ist April last. ht tors have further to report that about throsefourti,., •i shares which were allotted, under the spend f; hitless of the proprietors of the 27th if and the 16th of May last, have been toe. o The ordinary general meetings of the company clause 46 of the articles of association, Bunted t., each year, but the directors believe they will best 1.. the wishes of the shareholders by proposing fat th, a: tion such alteration of this clause as will enable ti.. hold an ordinary general meeting once in each L.,:•.. s; For the accomplishment of this object, special re..; will be submitted to the proprietors at this meetitg commended for their adoption. '• Balance-sheet, 30th Jane, 1864. -Dr. : To eapite! up, 411,020/. ; to oote circulation and post bills, i.. • - 9s. 9d. to deposit and current accounts, 7,-1... 19s. 7d. ; to bills payable and other liabilities, 84. Id.; to reserve fund, 11,890 i.; to profit ail balance 31st December, 1863, 76'. 12s. .1. ; profit for half year ending 10th June, 1v.4, I7s. 7d. ; to rebate on bills discouot.l yet due, 10,148!. se. lid. ; profit as per profit count, :41,293/.15e. 7d. ; to premium on shares, together, 36,426/. Hs. 7d. • total, 1,478,9111.: , , , cash with bankers end at ' branches, 210,641/. I'6. 4 , .. bills discounted, remittances from branches, Sc., 1,::• • 7s. 2d. ; by bank premises, furniture, fittings, •• IGa. ; by preliminary expenses. 1,888/. Is. I Id.. gamation account, 38,815/. 411. Id. ; total, 1.47 , ,01: " Profit and Loss for the half-year ending 1864.-Dr.: l'o charges, including rent, tate.. a: all other expenses at bead-office and brioche., I •.. 51 ' • to balance, carried down, 30,293/. 1"... 71. 41,315!. 1.. Cr.: By balance, 31st December, i-• -7 . 12s. 6d.; by gross profits for half-year audio; .44a4 1864, after deducting interest on deposit and counts, and on calls paid in advance, anal maain..41.r.,.. for bad and doubtful debts, 41,258/. Ss. ; he:. 41,315/. Is, " Appropriation.-Dr.: To rebate on bills 41i4- ::.:e! and not yet dug:00,1481. ss. &I. ; to amount writ7,-. preliminary expenses, 186/. ls. I ;to amount sit- t, reserve fund, 8,110/. ; to amount carried to mope,- a count, 1,2001. ; to dividends, viz. : -14 s. Bd. per 10,000 shares, 7,333/. tie. Bd. ; _ells. per share ou ....•4 shares (issued to colonial shareholders) ; 4•.4. ;e: share on 475 shares (Defied to colonial *hazel:. ;de:, 2371. 10s. ; together, 14,134!. 16.. (bra; the rate of 81. per cent. per annum upon the ill paid upon such shares respectively, to be paid free of income tax) ; to balance carried to profit and los-. tee account, 2,647/. 71. 6d. ; total, 36.428/. lls. 7J.-1 r. Lr balance brought down, 30,293/. 15e. ; by pren..uu.... shares, 6,134/. 16a.; total , 36,428/. lls. 7d." The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re; said the bank continued to make satisfactory I t.gt,.. Although at home there had been something like a there bad been nothing of the kind in South Africa, &Li there were no losses to report. In the preceding hai4•Tee the grass amount of profits was 28,0001. ; in the ball• year, ending in June last it was 44.." In order to enable the shareholders to judo of the present position and prospects of the back, he ILI prepared a comparative statement which he wou:d place before the meeting. In the first three months of the half year ending in June the gross profits were 16,35 e:. : to the first three mouths of thecurrent half-year they were 22,48; showing an advance of about 6,000/. Additional capital had been paid up in the interval ; but, allowing for that. thee was still progress ; there was a profit of 12,0918. quoit 9,358/. in the corresponding three months of the last hit. year. He would add that the gross business of the lack ,a the half-year ending in Juoe was 1,418,9111., 4,4,..4 993,421/. in the previous half-year. He was sorry that the charges had increased almost at the same ra•r. -La be saw no prospect of their reduction, as the eierra of living in South Africa had greatly increased, ac I Wanes paid in mercantile establishments had augmented -.a proportion acid were not likely to be lowered. It ca. chisioo, he observed that the directors might have rt.: mondial the usual dividend of 10 per cent. per annum. on the whole they thought it would be‘ more prod.et ti divide only S per cent. In reply to a question, The CHAIRMAN observed that the dividend was oo:y IR interim one, and he hoped they would he enabled to dirge 6 per coot. in April next, which would bring up the tad for the year to 10 per cent. After • short discussion, the report was adopted, rid dividend at the rate of 8 per cent per annum declared. The CHAIRMAN announced that another meeting sion"l have to be held on the 28th instant for the confirmative .! the alteration in the articles of association, to enable the 14 rectors to convene a general meeting twice a year. SERIOUS DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY EY PIRE.-(THIS DAY.) This morning, at an early hour, a fire broke on the premises of Yews. Treated, Charles, 111.1 CO.. Church-street, near the parish church of Deptford, eel known as the Pateot Kamptulicon Works. Toe bulking was, at the lowest dmiputetion, 150 feet tans, the growl floor being fitte 1 up with moat expensive steam machinery, whilst tho upper floor was used as a temporary chap,' during the building of a district place of worship 1: the neighbourhood. In the last-named place was an oro and numerous seats. The liamptulicon works were tote'r destroyed and the chapel consumed, inclldnic the valua.'s organ. The firm was partially insuraL l'idortuoate.r. from 25 to fto hands will be temporarily thrown out of ex-- ploy meat. A fire also occurred in the private hotel, No. 19, I»ver street, Piccadilly. The dames were extinguished, but LI: until the first, second, and third floors were much darner 1. A fire, which lasted over three hours, broke out In ti.e large manufacturing premises belonging to Mr. &Linden, a cabinet-maker, Henesge-street, Spitallields. When di. covered the fire was ragtag is the ground door the factory, which contained a large stock of goods. Kr..e finished. The inmates of many of the surreueding Urge commenced removing their furniture into the ey street, and by so doing many of their things were sit,: stolen or broken. Tim factory of Mr. Saunders sod contents were totally destroyed. SHOCKING AND FAT tL OACURREN, E TO A Sol' An inquiry was held last night by Mr. Huinphreva. sex coroner, at the London tiospitail, touching the death • boy named John Welch. aged IJ years, who was tura bitten by a Newfoundland dog wider the billowing arecr stances:—On Saturday week the dece.tted and scotr-'' boy, turned George Mason, were in the yard • tradesman, named Cohen, in Royal Mintstrevt. and they began to play with a very !Artie that was chained up at the gate. Mason employed on the premises, knew the dog, and eta into the kennel and lay down. Deceased said that " would be room fur three," and put his head in to fo:. Mason, when the dog flew at him and bit bon funo...i about the head, injuring him in a shocking manner. Ile was carried to the hospital, where be died ou Tisetd. , It cl gangrene from the wounds. The mother of the de vivel said that bee' son had gone into the kennel with iniput•lF before, but that on the second occasion Minion net the d. on him ; bet the accused boy and his matter both dot d that he had imtated the dog against deceased. The ;..1 returned a verdict of " Death by misadventure." COMMITTAL ON A CHAKGE or iu,tK, r •:" ✓ETRATLD NINE YIAIN A , AA-10 Noyetuher, s named Richard Jowett, twelve years of age, . 02 William Jewett, farm servant to Mr. WI 3 Ackroyd. of Westbourne Lodge, ttley, died frete the effects of a stab or wound, which lie had re calved io the abdomen. Slaspicion was. at the time. attached to some of his juvenile comrades, most of alt like himself, worked at the mill of Messrs. Ackroid, can, and Co., worsted spinners, but no evidence could be adduced to bring bocce the crime to anyone ta'! 4 inquiry before the coroner at the time into the eauw death resulted in the jury returning an open verdict. 1t.. , disclosures, however, recently made led to the •ppret.• shoo of a young man, named John ,:lino, n...r SL twenty - nine years of age, and of lr.sh descent, et parents reside in Otley. (la Tin s.loy Glynn was brou.:!.; before Mr. Milian, Mr. Dawson. Mr. Piaster, 31 l'.. Mr. A. Fawkes for final rzsmiuntiou at titles. OD charge of murdar. Mr. Barret appeared for the pro , tiou ; and Mr. Fewctv on behalf of the pruner. ',' court was .I.l.sely crow 1,..1 .111•104 th.• witnesses hav tog been et , In. owl. the i.ri 4nber. a In , le-rf his defence, wan e•mnitt,-,1 tar trial ...$ Ii •e 'berg" oto , oler, at the 1 , ,t .s.. d '.—L . ,• - . • .. PR..1.0.4:1. REM •\.t'. 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