The Express. — London, England, 1861-10-21 00:00:00

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Wisats—And DUN It ON MO ill I DES. —Commence at from the prejudicial influence exercised by the scarcity of food, and by the consequent financial crisis in France, the principal cause of depression now is the civil war in America. So long as this continues, paralysing trade and cutting off the supply of cotton, it is difficult to see how a revival of prosperity can occur in the internal business of the kingdom. It seems more reasonable to apprehend that the industrial machine will con tinue to work at reduced speed, that the commer cial circulation will slaken, and the rate of profit range below the average. Certain branches of business always receive an exceptional stimulus from events of an untoward character. In Limo of war the trades engaged in the fabrication of the appliances of slaughter are, of course, prosperous. There is, accordingly, a louder clang going on now in seine of our Midland districts, in order that our American cousins may be adequately equipped with the means of destroying each other. The 11110/111 is the case in America, where large fortunes are being realized by a host of army and other government contractors. Again, some of the Yorkshire woollen districts have been made ite busy of late by large orders for clothing for the Federal volunteers. But, allowing for these very partial benefits, it is clear enough that trade in this country is becoming more and more overshadowed by the conflict in America. The wholesome warning is thus once more impressed upon us that, instead of wrapping ourselves up in insular selfishness and indifference, we had better cultivate a warm and friendly inte rest in the progress and welfare of neighbouring nations, if only upon the narrow ground that any check to their prosperity will most assuredly im pair our own. It is well for the great cause of human progress that this identity of interest s'iould exist, and that its recognition should be enforced even by the_ painful events now in progress. The proofs of the disorganization of the cotton trade are daily becoming stronger. Legiti mate business is falling off, and speculation is growing rampant, as regards not only the raw material but also the manufactured or partially manufactured article. There has been another week of active speculation and excitement at Liverpool. The transactions in cotton have reached the enormous quantity of about 130,000 bales, the value of which must be a great deal more than a million sterling, at the lowest compu tation. The stock is now estimated at 631,650 bales, against 753,410 at the corresponding period of last year. The difference is only 121,760 bales, but the new American crop, which was then about to come forward, is now shut up. The scantiness of the quan tity now held may be estimated by consider ing it in relation to that taken for actual consump tion this year, which is 1,944,900 bales. The immediate question is, if we require two millions of bales in ten months, how shall we get on with • present stock of 631,650 bales in first hands, and with the prospect of supplies from other producing countries only, and not from America? The average rise in cotton this week is id. per lb. Speculation has been further assisted by the re ports of the damage to the cotton crop in Egypt. Tke Manchester markets are likewise disor ganized. The principal speculative movement is in yarns. The question of the effect of this upon consumption abroad, as well as upon the operations of manufacturers at home, is becoming • very erious one. The last letters from India report many sales at losing prices, and are said to be full of forebodings that should the Manchester market rise to the rates which it has even now attained, the native weavers may outstrip us in textile fabrics, favoured as they are by protective duties, and by a promising yield of cotton at their own doors. Meanwhile, the reports from Man chester allude to the case of one firm of spinners and manufacturers who hold cotton upon which, if they sold it now, they could realise 20,0001., whilst another firm, ono of the largest in the dis trict, are reported to have made half a million profit in the same way. " Some of these reporta," observes the market letter published on Saturday, " are rather wild, but there is no doubt that the " temptations to speculate in cotton are much " greater just now than any offered by a legitimate "trade in spinning and manufacturing." We fear it is so, indeed ; and the farther speculation is pushed now that it has quitted all ordinary bounds, the greater will be the danger of a convulsion when the turn comes. bt Court. BALMORAL, Ocr. lit The Queen, accompanied by the Prim:ewe Alice and Louise, and Pence Loris of Been, rode up yesterday to the Forest, and returned by the Balkoli Buie Woods. The Prince Consort went out deer stalking. Primes' Hohenlohe and Prince Leopold, Wendel; by Lady Augusta Brace, went out driving. There was no addition to the royal dinner party. Prince Louis of Hesse, attended by Baron Weeterweller, left the Castle this morning, at 8 o'clock, on his return to Germany. Oct 19. The Queen, soecanpanied by the Prloosens, Mtge and Hama, and attended by the Itarchionew of IRT, aftlfre yesterday to Mt as Guithasach, and then rods on peaks by Loch Ifni& to above the Falls of the Obitasalt, and refereed house the mama way. Primer Hohenlohe, Primer Boats*" and Prince Leo pold, accompanied her Majesty as far asAil no Guillemot& The Prince Consort wait out deer stalking. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial once from the Governor of Bermuda. Despatches were seat on Saturday evening to the Governors of the North ♦merican Provinces, Gibraltar, Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kam, Labueui, and Australia. THE RETURN OT THE COURT FROM BALMORAL.— II been arranged that the court will leave Balmoral on the morning of Tuesday, the 22ad inst., far the south. The royal train will start from Aborne at 1L45 a.m., and 10.1 leach Aberdeen at 12113. It will there make a stay of live minntas, and will renal Perth at 4.13, leaving at 4.18, and arriving at Bt. Margarist's station, Edinburgh, at 6.30 p.m. Thew* party will leave Edinburgh on the following even ing tat 8.90 for Whaleer.—Aterafeen Berea His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived la Cambridge at half-past Ave as Saturday evening, from Huntisers. His Highness reached Hooting. don by the Greet Northern, and travelled thence by the Eastern Counties to Cambridge. At Huntingdon one of the royal aaniages was in attendance to Noway the Prince from the Great Northern to the Eastern Counties Blinks, the stations being at opposite ends of the town. Hie Royal Highness, attended by the Hon. General Bruce, Captain Grey, and the useal retinue, ea his arrival in Cam bridge drove from the italics direct to hfadingleylull. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Naomi Nary bare returned to Cambridge Cottage, Kew, hem visiting Lady Marisa Alford, at Amb ridge Perk, Herts. Her royal highs= bee taken a rendes:le at Brighton for the autumn mouths Hi; Excellency the Italian Minister has arrived is town from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Palmangoa at Broadlas& LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRIISSIA.-THE AMNESTY. Countersigned by the Ministers. The Marquis and lilarehionetei of Clanrioarde left Stratton-street ea Saturday for their east, Pertaassa 0.813 e, county Galway. BELGIUM. The Earl and Countess of llszilsricke pus through Loudon to-day, front flydoey Lad" Herta, to Wimpol• Hell, Cambridgeshire. The Earl Granville loft Bruton-Street on Friday evening to pose • few weeks in Berlin, during the festi vities consequent on the coronation of the King and Queoa of itamia. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 21, 1861. The Prussian lefoititeur publishes • decree of amnesty on the occasion of the coronation. Amongst other provisions of this decree we remark the following :—" In execution of the ulterior pardons, promised in our decree of the 12th of January last, we will :—Article 1. To remit the unfulfilled terms of imprisonment and fine, also any unpaid expenses of persons condemned for offenoes against the law of the press, and the 'decree upon the right of reunion and association. Article 7. Our desire also is that individuals guilty of grave crimes, who by their conduct, or by other circumstances in their favour, have merited indul genco,or may be restored to liberty without danger, share in the present act of amnesty. We have, consequently, given special orders, upon the report of our Minister of Justice, for setting at liberty the condemned of this class. "Konigsberg, Oct. 18, 1861. PRUSSIA. DANTZIC, Ocr. 20. The King and Queen of Prussia arrived here a t six o'clock this evening, and were received by the civil and military authorities. The city is illuminated. Great enthusiasm is displayed towards the King by the inhabitants. A grand banquet will be given this evening in the Artushof. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 21. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, with the Peninsular mails, arrived off the Needles at 12.25 p.m. to-day. " 6 Witusit." The Belgian journals give detailed accounts of the meeting between the Kings of Holland and of the Belgians at Liege. At 7 p.m. the King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Duke of Brabant, proceeded to a tent erected fur the occasion at the Guillemins station. All the high officials, civil as well as military, were assem bled there. At a quarter-past 7 the cannon an nounced the arrival of King William. King Leopold advanced, with the Duke of Brabant, towards King William, and the two monarchs shook hands. The assembled multitude loudly cheered. The cortege was formed in the usual manner, and the two monarchs proceeded to the palace, driving along the Boulevards. In the evening the city of Li4ge was brilliantly illuminated. During a serenade given in front of the palace the two Kings appeared together at one of the windows of the palace, when they were again received with enthu siastic cheers. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Valetta, with the above mail, arrived at Marseilles at 7 a.m. this day. Tho malls were to leave for London at 10 a.w. siurAmmtA. Tuts Ermws. ritium QUARL AND 11113 MONKEY. —Tn. nem* Macknery. %Dlr. Celeme 4tephan. —CA MA EEKR. THE ta Nl' AND THY: SID PW M AN. Mr. G. II Mn. W. entittunt —Cnclutun: at halt put 6. uton WATILS ATWSDOS BRIMS. Tr 017 2 Monilog, 316 Ic•ilauww —lloralsg. I. Na.... Anarooce, sum. LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 21. TO OUR READERS. SPORTMO INTELIJGEiCE. A !ate edition of the Express is published every evening during the racing season, containing the results of the day's races. THAT the condition of the internal trade of the country is not very satisfactory is shown by various indications which do not seem to have yet attracted the amount of attention which might have been expected. Ono of these is the increase iu the number of small bankruptcies announced from day to day. We do not now refer to the failures of large firms, which have been of late, perhaps, rather fewer than usual, but to those of tradesmen, shopkeepers, and °them, in the lower walks of business, whose position reflects pretty accurately the general state of trade. The lists of bankrupts in the Ga.:ate show a disposition to lengthen. Last Friday's publics tion comprised the unusual total of fifty names in England ahem ; and though the coming into ope ration of the new bankruptcy regulations may perhaps have had something to do with the length of the list upon this occasion, a new bankruptcy enactment evidently does not cause the insolvency of any trader. Another unfa vourable sign is the increased number of small bills which, on arriving at maturity, are returned unpaid. As is well known, it is the custom in many branches of trade to date the bills on the Ist of the mouth following the one in which a purchase is made. In the majority of instances the bills mature in either two or three iuonths. For example, let us suppose that a country shop keeper conies to London this month to replenish his stock, buys a few hundred pounds worth of goods, and gives the seller his bill at three months, dated the lit of November. On the 4th of Fe bruary, when (allowing for the customary days of grace) ho ought to be prepared with the cash, he cannot gLt it together, trade hav;ng been bad, and the good+ remaining on his hands. Meanwhile, his bill, together with hundreds of others, has probably been passed by the wholesale house into the handed some bank or monied establishment, perhaps tho Bank of England, which has discounted tbe whole of them, covered with the endorsement of the wholesale firm. The country dealer is for the time at the end of his tether, and is obliged to beg indul;ence at the hands of his provider. Ile probably gives the wholesale dealer such portion of the amount as he can get together ; ho buys • few more goods ; the old bill is cancelled, and a new one drawn, and our country friend has • little more breathing time. No doubt there are firms who act upon the strict rule of not dealing twice with a customer who fails to meet his engage ments at maturity ; but we believe that the num ber of these is relatively small, and that the sys tem above described prevails extensively. It will be obvious that a retail dealer who falls into embarrassment in this way is at the mercy of the wholesale house, which, if unscrupu lous, may make him pay heavily in many points, as, for example, by putting upon him old goods. On a larger scale, this would be peseisely similar to the plan which petty shopkeepers work upon in pour neighbourhoods, getting their customers into their books to the amount of a few pounds, and then binding them by this liability, which they can never shake off, to consume indifferent articles at exorbitant prices. Let us not be supposed to insinuate that the general trade of the country is conducted upon an unscrupulous system like this ; we are merely pointing out how the system is omit &Meetly abused. Bearing in mind the many mil lions sterling of bills connected with the internal trade which fall due on the 4th of each month, there can be no better criterion of the con dition of business and of the ratio of profit than is afforded by the way in which they are met ; and for some months past tho number not met at maturity has been gradually increasing. On the 4th instant this feature again appeared to an extent which excited the attention of close observers. It would be strange, perhaps, were the fact otherwise. The trade of the country has not yet recovered from the effects of the bad harvest of 1860. There was less money to be spent at home, because more had to be spent abroad. Shopkeepers saw embarrassment thicken inggraduallyaroundthem. Theirgoodsdidnotgo off. In the textile branches the singularly unpropitious character of the seasons last year would of itself account for much of the difficulty experienced. As there was scarcely any summer last year, summer goods remained on the shelves. It may be imagined, perhaps, that the difficulties of 1860 must have passed away with the year, and that the harvest now gathered in, though scanty in quantity, will serve further to smooth them away. But this is to take • narrow view. The effects of • bad season do not vanish swiftly, unless, indeed, • bad season be immediately followed by • remarkably bountiful one, which is not the case now. Trade has still • great deal to contend against. The approaching dearth of cotton, and the prostration of our trade with America, are severe trials, and effectually preclude briskness of general business. It is no unimportant feature when the rate of profit, of wages, and even of em ployment, declines heavily in the most thickly popu lated manufacturing districts of the kingdom. Retail traders being, as • body, solvent, have been able to bear up against the difficulties of the time, but the fact that the adverse indications to which we have invited att en ti on are on ly now acquiring prominence tends to show that the pressure caused by a bad harvest does not show all its effects until after a considerable interval. The losses of the acrieultiiral interest of last year are still impairing the elasticity of the home trade. Apart EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ova owl( PARIS, SUNDAY Enatuto. I should be reluctant to advance the opinion that the recent batch of warnings and corm/mink/lax, however much to be regretted, afford any evidence of a systematic reaction from the relatively liberal policy which dates from November 24 of last year. I am rather disposed to think that, by a series of unfortunate coincidences, several occasions have arisen simultaneously for the exercise upon prin ciples well defined in M. do Persigny's mind of that exceptional jurisdiction which be frankly owned, when ho inaugurated the new era, the government did not mean to part with. If all the warnings were as well justified as the one given to the Journal de Rennes, there would be no doubt about the matter. I quote from the decree of the Prefect of the Ille et-Vilaine, countersigned by the Minister of the Interior, the incriminated article of that journal, for the purpose of founding upon it some pertinent observations. The Journal de Rennes published the following news, which I assume, ou the strength of the prefect's assertion, to have been false : A court-martial has lately been called upon to take co` nizance of a most serious breach of discipline, or, to speak more accurately, of military honour. Two officers of the 71st Regiment,commandiog what is called at Rome the pat of the Holy Father, on account of its being a guard more especially intended to protect the Vatican, made the guard- , hours the scene of the most scandalous orgies. The un happy men were but too cruelly punished for their miscon• duct. Some common prostitutes, introduced by the cap tain, took advantage of the deep sleep in which both officers and soldiers had fallen after a night of debauchery to steal the regimental colours, which they made off with, as well as with the golden fringe and the eagle at the top of the standard. The officers have been sentenced to military de gradation and several yeah' imprisonment, which consti. Lutes an " infamous" punishment. The men will be sent to join disciplinary battalions in Africa. This shameful affair has been much talked of. Now, if, as the prefect says,the above paragraph, so gravely reflecting upon the honour of a specified regiment, was "purely imaginary, and odiously invented with the express object of insulting the French army," every honest man, irrespective of his opinions upon the system of warnings, must join in reprobating the author of so foul a libel. But why in this case are the grounds of the warn ing fully set forth, while in the others it is impos sible to collect what they are I lam afraid the answer must be, that in the single instance the government felt assured that public opinion would go with it, whereas in the remaining ones it was afraid that the articles censured might possibly meet with a considerable amount of sympathy and approbation. We don't know in Paris what was the language used by the Courrier des Alpes and the Franca Onstrale of Blois, and consequently are unable to form any judgment as to the pro priety of the repressive measures adopted in their regard. All the information vouchsafed is that certain articles commencing with such and such two or three words, and finishing with such others, are, in the opinion of the government, libellous, in the one case as reflecting upon a foreign friendly, sove reign, and in the other as tending to excite agitation. These provincial journals are rarely to be found in Paris, and as after the warning no paper dares to reproduce their articles, even for the purposes of criticism, the public is left quite in the dark as to the propriety of the government proceeding. With respect to the most serious of all the warnings, that given to the Revue des Deux Monde; the official document itself is equally barren of information. The Temps observes that, as the offence charged against the Revue des Mondes is that of "spreading alarm in the country, and exciting to hatred and contempt of the government," which is a tangible misdemeanour cognizable by the tribunals, accord ing to the law of February 17, 1862, the govern ment ought, consistently with its own avowed principles, to have instituted a prosecution, and so have given a court of law the opportunity of trying the question. Warnings, it argues with much show of reason, are meant to strengthen the hands of government in cases which the law does not meet, but not to supersede the law on its own ground. The following piquante correspondence appears at the head of the Constitutionnet: Phil, Oct. 19, 1861. htonsieur,—Charged with the %tirade of the Consti tutionnel, I offer you to join wee few the political and literary direction of this journia—Aceept, Re., Vicoutre Awcam.9, Managing Director of the Conatituttonsel. To 31. Louis Verne, Deputy of the Corps Leeslatif. Paris, Oct. 19, 1861. Mousieur,—l accept the proposal contained in your letter of this day. For the second time since 1848, I shall find myself charged with the political and literary direction of the Con4tieutiovnet. Devotion, but absolute independence— such will be my line of conduct.—Accept, &c., L Vceow, Deputy of the Corps Legislatif. 1 To M. le Vicount d'Anchald, Director-Genowl of the Constitutiontiel. So M. Grandguillot is scat to the right about, and the public, including your correspondent who signs himself "A Late Visitor to Geneva," is, I suppose, expected to believe that the above laconic correspondence is all the negotiation that has taken place on the subject. The Gazette de France has received, and publishes is Its impression of to-day, an official communique, which gives a denial to its assertions concern* a pretended warm discussion between Count Persigny and M. Thouvenel on the Italian question, and says :—" No such discussion took place, and no difference of opinion exists between the two Ministers." The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, with his Duchess, who are staying at Ryds, in the bile of Wight, have visited Cowes daily foe the purpose of bathing. The D(bats of to-day contains an amusing nodes, by M. Jules Jugs, of the production at the Ambign °unique of the Colleen Bann. The great French critic &maiden that the whole secret of the success of the play is the celebrated " header" scene, and heoffers some niacin. teristie comments upon a popular taste which is ea wily istieted. The impossibility of reproducing in French the Irish scent is alluded to by M. Janio. W. may aid that according to the version of the plot which he gives, there is i material difference between the Colleen Balm of the Ambign Callillllo and that of the Adelphi. THE STATE OF WARSAW. A letter from Warsaw, of the 15th, in theDilats of to-day, says : The state of siege was proclaimed yesterday, and the authorities have threatened with the severest penalties al! those who take part in the Nte. Eveii tradesman who closes his shop is to be fined 400 fr., and his license'• to be taken away from him. Nevertheless, since the morr'ng era the shops as well as the Bourn, have been closed, and the churches are filled with immense crowds. The troops have surrounded the churches, and only allow women and el '. dren to leave. At the hour when I write, 4 o'clock, p.m., everyone is detained in this way, patrols perambv'ste the city, and detachments of Cossacks gallop through the streets. NINE O'CLOCK, P.ll.—lle number of persons trampled upon and wounded by the soldiers is considerable. Hun dred' have been masted, and led through the city under escort. In the Cathedral and in the Church of the Bar nardings more than :3,000 persona of all claws and egos have hien kept shut upsince the morning. The soldier, have lit fires before these churchea, and are bivouacking there, and meanwhile allow no one to leave. Bishop Deckert and the Abbe Biatobrzezki, the new administrator of the diocese, went , in the afternoon to General Gerstensweig to demand the rehabs, of the persons shut up in the the-chess, °hoer e ar' that this imprisonment was a profanation of the holy place. The prisoners who were shut up in the church of the Holy Cross succeeded in escaping by a back door. The soldiers, on discovering this, forced the 6.vat door, and finding the church empty, arrested for- priests whom they suspected of having favoured the fight of the people, and conducted them to the castle. BERLIN, Orr 19. Private letters received here from Warsaw, dated the 16th inst., state that the General Consistory of the Archbishopric of Warsaw has addressed a cir cular letter to the vicars of the parish churches, in forming them that in consequence of the profana tion of the Cathedral and the Church of St. Bernard, in Warsaw, the ecclesiastical seal would be affixed to the doors of both buildings on the 17th inst., and that no religious service would be held in them until an expiation had been made. The circular letter then orders that, as other churches are also liable to be similarly profaned, all churches are to remain closed from the 17th inst., until guarantees are given that the temples will be secured against further profanation. The same private letters also announce that the Council of State met at Warsaw on the 16th inst., and resolved on account of existing circumstances to suspend its sittings. CRACOW, OCT. 19. Nowa from Warsaw announces that several of the churches in that city had been forcibly entered by the military, and the male portion of the congre gations conveyed by them to the citadel. Half the persons thus arrested had been since set at liberty. It was asserted, however, that 2,000 prisoners yet remaining would be drafted into dif ferent regiments for military service. _ The clergy had closed the churches on account of their profanation by the military. FRANCK. PARIS, Oe?. 21. The Moniker of this morning pnblisbee a letter from its correspondent at Konigsberg, stating that Marshal M'Mahon has received a kind welcome from all, and that the King of Prussia has publicly expressed the satisfaction which he derived from his visit to Compiegne. The letter then con tinues :—"The excellent impressions of the King are cordially shared by the Government and coun try, and will certainly exercise a happy influence on the relations of France and Prussia. The King and Queen of Pravda held a long conversa tion with Marshal M'Mahon. The King spoke of his visit to Compiegne in terms which inspired the ambassador of France with respectful gratitude." ITALY. MESSINA, Ocr. 20. Several shipwrecks, with the loss of ships and crews, have taken place on the eastern coast of Sicily as far as Cape Palmate. Two vessels belonging to the Franoo-Servian Company have been lost near Sisipolia and Burgos. TITILIN, Our. 20. The Opiniome of to-day states that the King of Prussia, received General Ddla Rocca with great cordiality. RON& Ocr. 19. Cardinal Mancini strongly disapproves of the letter which he has received from Mgr. Liverani, requesting him to lead the Pop: to look favourably on the unity of Italy, and considers it insulting to the dignity of the Popo and his government. Cardinal Mancini had no previous connexion with Mgr. Liverani. The letter in question was published before it reached Cardinal Mancini HUNGARY. PESTI!, Oct. 90. A oiroular bas been addressed by the Chancellor of Hungary to the Ober,geepanns, requesting to know whether it would be possible to reckon on the pupped of the functionaries of the Comitats in levying the recruits. AMERICA. The British and North American Royal Mail steamship Persia, Judkimi, commander, arrived in the Mersey yesterday morning, with advice& from New York to the 9th instant. She brought 180 passengers, among whom is Lord AdolphusV. Tem- Pest The Persia experienced very heavy weather be tween New York and Cape Race, having run only 199 miles on the 13th instant. She spoke the fol lowing vessels :—On the 9th, the American ship, Adam Lodge, the Prussian ship, Der Sud, bound into New York ; the American ships Brilliant and Tiger ; and a steamer, supposed to be the Bavaria, bound west ; on the 10th, the steamship Asia, bound west ; and on the 11th, the English ship Mary Stoddart, bound west. The screw-steamships City of Washington, Edinburgh, and Norwegian, hence, had arrived out. The Royal Mail steamship Niagara, hence, had arrived at Boston. Her Majesty's gunboat Steady, Commander Grant, had arrived at New York from Charleston bar, for the purpose, it is said, of recruiting. The great fight which has been so anxiously ex pected to come off still remains undecided. The latest event has been a grand display at Washington of cavalry and artillery, under the command of General M'Clellan. The position was on the broad plain east of the Capitol. President and Mrs. Lincoln, and a large number of the govern ment officials, were present. The review was con sidered to be the largest of the kind ever witnessed in America, and gave great satisfaction to its promoters. But it did not pass off without an accident, for while the Pennsylvania artillery were passing the President's• house, on their return, a shrapnel shell in a limber box ex ploding, forced out the sides of the box, and wounded four soldiers, one mortally. The force consisted of five batteries from Pennsyl vania and three regular-112 guns in all, under command of General Barry, Chief of Artillery. The cavalry consisted of ten companies of the sth, eight of the 6th, two of the 4th, and one of the 2nd Regular Cavalry ; Ist, 2nd, and 3rd (Kentucky) Pennsylvania, with four companies of the 4th, Ist New Jersey, 2nd and 3rd (Lincoln) New York, and four companies of the 4th, six companies of the let Indiana, and three companies unattached, all under the immediate command of General Palmer. Despatches had been received at Washington from General Rusencrans, containing an assurance that he will be able to fully sustain himself against the combined forces of the rebel Generals Lee and Floyd. A number of Federal prisoners, who bad arrived at Fortress Monroe from Richmond, reported that there were about 5,000 troops in that place. Apprehensions of an attack on the seaboard are said to cause the greatest anxiety, and Governor Brown, of Georgia, in anticipation of a descent on Savannah or Brunswick, had recalled tive regi ments from the Potomac army. Powerful batteries had been erected along the James River, in antici pation of au advance of the national army in that direction. Beauregard, at last accounts, was at Manassas, and Jefferson Davis had returned to Richmond in feeble health. Advices from Missouri report that General Fre mont had left Jefferson City for Sedalia, accom panied by General M'Kinatry, with the determina tion of following Price, whatever direction he might have taken, until be overtook him, even should it be in Arkanaas. It was his declared purpose, after leaving Sedalia, to march from twenty-five to forty miles a day, according to the condition of the roads, in order that he might the more rapidly come up with the main body of the rehels,and force them to an engagement. M'Culloch's forces were said to be on the south bank of the Osage River, awaiting the movement of General Fremont, in order that he might cut off his communication with St. Louis and that city. But this report is not generally believed. General Wool had arrived at Fortress Monroe. The threat eued attack upon Newport's News had not taken place. The Federal force at Hatteras was being in creased, five hundred additional troupe having been despatched from Fortress Monroe. Gen. Mansfield had been appointed to the command. A dispatch from Cairo reported that the Federal gunboats Tyler and Lexington had encountered in the Mis sissippi the Confederate gunboat Jeff. Davis, and chased her to within two miles of Columbus. The batteries on the Kentucky shore opened upon them, and au engagement took place, but without any re sult. Colonel Blair had been again placed under arrest by General Fremont, but peremptorily re leased by order of General Scott. Twenty thousand muskets are said to have been purchased by the Federal government from the Prussian government. Advice& from California, by pouy express, state that the military quota from that state is nearly complete. John Ross, chief of the Cherokee nation, has collected 8,000 Cherokees about him, and declared for the Union. Advices from /rezone report that the secession movement is on the increase. Fort Stanton, situated in the Sacramento Mountains, 148 miles north-west of Mesillon, is said to have been aban doned by the Federal troops. The Confederates had determined to station ten companies in the territory. The Governor of Kentucky had issued a procla mation, calling out 40,000 soldiers, residents, and citizens of Kentucky, and stating that he is also authorised to accept the services of fifteen hundred meu in addition. A vast audience had attended the Academy of Music at New York to hear Mr. T. F. Meagher's oration on behalf of the Irish Brigade. The Sanitary Committee at Washington have appealed to the "loyal women of America" for a supply of old sheets, quilts, knitted woollen socks, flannels, &c., for the soldiers and sailors, and delicacies for the sick. The Quartermaster-General of the United States had announced that the troops in the field needed blankets, but that the supply in the country was exhausted. Families were invited to give or sell their surplus stooks. The evacuation of Lexington by General Price was placed beyond all doubt. There was much speculation with regard to his motives. In the Admiralty Court at Portland, Me., Judge Ware had delivered an opinion condemning the British schooner William Arthur, on the ground that she intended running the blockade. I - - The privateer Sumpter is reported to have taken several prizes under the British flag, and to have used the stars and stripes as a decoy, re 'arming the union. The news from New Orleans confirms the intel ligence that Ship Island is occupied by the Federalists, and that, by a movement in the rear, New Orleans can be easily taken. Ins short time accommodation for 12,000 troops could be resew( on Ship Island. The returns received from Ohio showed a heavy union majority. Colonel Rankin, a member of the provincial parliament, had been arrested at Toronto for enlisting recruits for the American army. The offence urged against him in the complainant's affidavit is, that he has agreed to accept a military commission to enter into the service of the United States, and that he has in duced divers of the Queen's lieges to enlist in the same service. The colonel claims the right under the British law for himself and his associates "to enrol themselves in the cause of freedom— that of the North against the South ;" and, he says, " there will be no lack of Canadian gentle mon not only willing but eager to avail themselves of the opportunity now presented to them of achieving an honourable distinction." The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune of October 9 writes as follow.: The publicity given to the violation of the Savannah blockade by the British steamer Bermuda is said to have proceeded from Lord Lyons' dinner table. Information, strange to say, from the village of Thompson, Conn., given me reason to believe that a part of the freight of the bis, , vessel was 70 tons of gunpowder, 7,000 Enfield rifles, 10 rifled cannon, 60,000 pairs shoes, a large quantity of blankets and clothing, sod an extraordinary amount of quinine and morphine. Remonstrances against her sailing, and, in. • new, against her completing her cargo, were made by Charles Francis Adams, in London, but the Fa reign•office did not feel at liberty, or would not see its obligation, to arrest the unlawful voyage. The circumstances under which the Bennuda effected an entrance into Savannah will probably be made the subject of a court-martial. One thing is certain, the Bermuda will never go out again, except for condemnation and sale. A splendid dinner was given on the 6th to the Comte de Paris and Duo de Chartres, by the staff of General M'Clellan, all the members of which were present. We learn that petitions are being circulated in New Orleans, praying tho Governor to take instant and effective measures to arrest the shiparod of cotton from the plantations to the city. The stock now on hand in the city is reported to be 10,888 bales—" a small beginning, but dangerous as a beginning of &violation of public policy and duty." Mr. J. Wicks, chairman of the Military Committee of Memphis, says it is desirable that no more cotton nor tobacco be shipped there till further orders, and if planters do not stop shipping the military authorities will send the cotton back into the country at the owner's expense. NEW ORLEANS, Ocr. 4. Cotton sales of the week, 475 bales ; low mid dling to middling, Sic. to 81c. ; stock, 11,500 bales ; whiskey, 75c. to 80c. INTELLIGENCE. Money easy. Exchange steady at 107. Great excitement prevails in the stock market ; large speculative sales have been effected, and a general rise has taken place in all securities. New York Centrals are quoted 77 ; Erie, 30 (1) ; Illinois, 67. Cotton is quiet, with middliug Upland at 21ic. to 22c. Flour heavy, and 10c. lower. Wheat de pressed, and 2c. lower. Corn, prices declining ; lc. lower. Provisions quiet. Coffee steady. Sugar dull. Molasses steady. NEW ORLEANS, Oct 4. Cotton, middling is quoted 8f c. to 8f c. Stock, 11,000 bales. Sales of the week, 503 bales. THE OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOL'THAMPTON, SUNDAY, Ocr. 20. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ceylon, Captain Evans, mailed hence this morning, at 10 a.m., with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Egypt, Men, Ceylon, India (except Bombay), China, Mau ritius, Australia, New Zealand, do. The Ceylon takes 130 first and 30 second class passengers from this port; amongst whom are Captain Jenkins, for Sydney; Lieutenant Bur ney, Lieutenant Browne, Rev. T. Bailey, and Lieutenant. Colonel Guise, for Calcutta; the Rev. T. Sharp, Captain Spilsbury, and Dr. Mackintosh, for Madras ; Rev. Mr. Cochrane and Captain Harmer, for the Mauritius ; Captain Cunningham, for Alexandria; Colonel Bates and Captain Tyler, for Malta ; and Ensign Hand. Ensign Dawes, Cap. fain Bayliff, Captain Tewart, Lieutenant Hall, Sir J. and Lady Cochrane, and Sir Harry Verney, for Gibraltar, 106 passengers also pleased overland, rid Marseilles, to join this mail, including Sir Stuart Donaldson, Captain Wigram, Major limes, Major Wilkinson, Captain Durrant, Captain Thomson, Major Drury, Lieutenant• Colonel Fen. wick, and the Rev. J. Gell, Bishop of Madras. The Ceylon takes out on freight 296 boxes specie, value 78,6501. 1911.4 d., for the following ports, viz. :—Madres, bar silver, 10,0701. gold coin, 1,09111. ; gold thread, watches, de, 1,0321. I For Calcutta, bar silver, 23,5091. 9,. 4d. ; watches, chains, he., 1,7651. For Hong Kong, dollars, 5,717/. For Shang hai, dollam, 31,653/. ; watches, do., 1901. For King George's Sound, jewellery, watches, Ste., 535/. 13.. For Hobson's Bay, jewellery, watches, Av.., 9801. 15s. For Melbourne, sundries, 2051.; and for Sydney, watches, jewellery, do., 2,1011. The Ceylon also took a full cargo of general merchandise. The Earl of Dudley, after attending the Quarter Serious at Worcester in the early part of the past weeks came to town, and took hie departure to join the Earl of Clarendon'■ mission In Berlin. The Earl of Lonsdale returned to Carlton House terms in the early pert of last week from the Isle et Wight, where his lordship had been sojourning for the benefit of his health. We learn the noble earl has now quite recovered, and has kit town for Whitehaven Castle, Westmoreland. Viscount Diftn;ton left town on Saturday, for Ashdown Park, Berks. Viscountess Milton and Mr. G. Savile Foljambe have taken • mansion on Carlton House-terrace for • term of years, late the reankinoe of the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde. Mr. and Lady Mary Craven have returned to their residence in Hertford-street, from Newmarket It is said the photographic art iu Paris, including all claws of photographic workmen, employs no lass than 10,030 persons. The portrait card is the most profitable branch, in which an ever-augmenting trade is carnal on. The sporting world, too, of Pans bar now its photographic establishment in the Champs Elyse, it being the fashion amongst a certain class to have the portraits of their horses and dogs hung up in their apartment. A mistake in etiquette that has more than once been fallen into by persons ignorant of the usages of courts is related to have been made by one of the white-robed maidens selected to receive the King and Queen of Prude at the Brandenburg gate on Monday last. Two of these young ladies had to make short speeches of welcome to the King and Queen respectively, and two others presented copies of verses written for the OCCUIO3. The damsel who addressed the Queen is the daughter of one of the burgomasters. She is reported to have executed her task (rather trying to provincial nerves)with much grace, and the Queen, when she concluded, held out her hand. Instead of kissing it, the fair Konigsherger gave it a hearty shake. Her Majesty is said to have been much amused, and to have made the remark that the good people of K.inigiberg seemed to be on quite a familiar footing with royalty. The New York Herald of thii9th say; :—" The balloon department in the army service on the Potomac is becoming one of considerable importance. La Mountain. the boldest of our saroeitnta, has just furnished valuable information to the government and General teCiellan by his late daring light. On Friday last a balloon was no passing over Washington, and it was thought by many to have abated from the rebel camp un an aerial reconnais sance, but as it subsequently descended in Maryland, it proved to be the airship of La Mountain, which had ascended from the Union camp of the Potomac. It appears that when La Mountain rose to a certain distance he cot the rope which connected his balloon with the earth, regardless of danger, and soared up to an elevation of a mile and a half, and got directly over the rebel lines. Here he was enabled to make a perfect observation of their position and all their move• meets, the results of which he has communicated to hes& quarters, and which are said to be of the greatest an' portanoe." ,Lk 1