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The analogy met lip between an individual engaged in a moral enter prise and a nation rising up in defence of its liberties, certainly seems mach overstrained. The trial of tie individual confessor or reformer is his solitude of heart, and the repression of his affections. It is nut praise that he weds, hut co: 1111 l unity of feeling and thought. In the national case this need is sup plied by the very situation. The milli ms of t iti aens cheer one another, and strengthen ono an other's mind as to the purpose, and one another's heart as to the issue of the conflict. When we read the reproaches of hurt correspondents about our coldness, we are as much pundesi as wo should be at learning that Horn, heading his baud of patriots in the Tyrol passes, had been depressed because the prix garland for heroic sentiment. had not been awarded to him at some Italian or t:emian festival in honour of virtue. The move ment snouts to us so beneath the occasion that we do not know what to make of it. We can wait till the occinion arises for showing bow England can sympathise; with a people who Lave a purpose to abolish slavery. Meantime, we are receiving more and mare evidence that sensible men in the Northern States see the matter very much as we do. On our side, we freely admit that the tone of some of our speakers and writers is very irritating, sod that they say things quite as unreasonable as anything that has issued from New England. It is unjust to attribute all foolish utterances to the Abolitionists. It is as absurd as it is cruel to assume that anti-slavery action would deluge the country in blood. The truth is precisely the other way ; the Abulitioitists have thus far put an end to negro insurrections, and precluded a servile war: and the way to do the came kind of good now is to pursue the LIIIDU course, up to the accom plishment of emancipation. Again, it is being very h.eity and ineonsule rate to complain of the Pas • 14111 WIT and the Government for not immediately proclanniiii! liberty to the blacks. If the Execu tive is ever so much resolved on that issue, it cannot inaku proclamation of the fact till it hss matured its plan of procedure, and ascertained what should bu done with the utmost number of negroes who may conic in. Again, it must he irritating to the Americans to bear their war de nounced as " savage and senseless," when, as a correspondent of ours well showed on Saturday, the necessity is substantial, distinct, and inevit able. It is irritating to be lectured about brawl ing at home, and admonished to surrender their quarrel, when the one side is all made up of right and consequent necessity, and the other of wrong and reeklessnees. There is a good deal to be irri tated by in what superficial English preachers and prophets say, if the Americans think it worth being vexed at. The wonder is that they find any leisure to care about it. The longer the struggle goes on the more ardent becomes the desire that something could he done to obtain more truthfulness all round, if even to mitigate only the most outrageous of the lying. It is hard to see how matters can ever come right while there is no getting the truth told, nor the most audacioua fabrications stopped. It is suffi ciently mischievous that closet philanthropists should present pictures of affairs drawn from their own imaginations ; but the downrieht lies cause a sort of despair. It is bad cuough that a popular orator should assume, without a word of doubt, that England would secretly sustain, establish, and aggranduie the Slave States, out of spite to re publican institutions ; but it is far worse that the Neer Y , .rk Tribuste should announce that Mr. ADAIIII has written to his Government that Eng land will soon recognise the Confederacy, as a matter of military and political necessity. Those who know Mr. ADAM* refused to believe this assertion, positive as it was ; but others at once cowhide,' that Mr. ADAYM must be unfit for his function. To have so misunderstood the English Government and people, he must have some fatal fault of credulity, prejudice, or ignorance. When there lad been time enough for the thing to work, the contradiction appeared. It is non• announced on authority at Washington that Mr. ADAMS has written nothing of the sort to his Government, but has, on the contrary, re ported the anxiety of the European Governments to preserve the most unquestionable neutrality. Again, it is announced in a most respectable French periodical, in the form of a despatch from the seat of war in Virginia, that the Confederate officer charged with burying the dead after the beide of Bull's Run had interred 7,300 Kaleral soldiers, sod had not come to the end ! The nensense is a fair specimen of the stuff that is written about the antagonist forces everywhere ; and Beery lie rats further off the prospee; of • final mut. rstan,ling. If the truth could be told all round (111 Vac ordinary sense of stating facts) for one st,:gle day, the right ending would be if THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1881. !clear to on eyes. In its absence all is delu-iion I and wrangling. As for us, sitting at a distance, and Living long known that this conflict had become in ovitabk., our views are essentially unchanged. We believe, as we always did, that the South cannot hold out. We have always known, and we perceive more and more, that no appeal has ever been made to the general population of the Southern Stakes and that Confederate rule is the rule of a faction, despotic and temporary. Wo have always seen that the only chance for the South was in the abolition of slavery ; and there are few who question Oda now, even among those who do not fully understand how desperate her actual condition is. We have known all along that a people who shirked their duty of self-government as the Northern citizens have done since the en ' ereachments of the South became menacing, could not be expected to turn out model patriots when the hour of trial came upon them. Wo have long, as our readers are aware, warned those Northern citizens that their retribution must come whenever their hollow subservience should be no longer practicable, and this is precisely what is happening now. At the same time we have steadily hoped that the element of courage, patriotism, and self•sacriticing righteousness which has been the salt of time community thus far would preserve it at last ; and this is still our trust. There may be more shallowness, moor, passion, and far less moral independence than we expected, but the brave, the upright, the disinterested are there ; and, moreover, they are daily bringing round the society in which they live to their point of view. If they have but time to establish the supremacy which strength and virtue naturally exercise over feebleness and selfishness, they may restore the Republic yet, in a way which all the I despots of Europe should not dare to gainsay. etc Court. BALMORAL. Strrnima lb. The Queen and Prince Gros art, by Princess Helena and Prince Arthur, went out driving yesterday afternoon. Prince Louis of Hesse west out deer stalkin;. M. and lira Farquharson had the honour of being in ritcd to dinner. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colooial•ofHce from the 4:overnors of the North Anteri,%.o Provinces, ti e Bahamas, New Ztadsud, Labuan, Ceylon. Hong Kong, and from the Australian Colonies. Despatches were sent to the tioveruom of the West ludic Islands, and to the coveroor of Britugh 'olumbia. The Earl and Coutito:A (.f elle , tertiel.l Lave had &largo party staying at itrttby Park, Ikrloyshire, during the past week. The Duke of Beaufort haN left Coped! Hall, Leicester hire, for Doecaster. The Duchess remaius with tie Earl awl Vow:item Howo, at tiopeall. .-- Viicount Canterbury left town yesterday for Doweeater for the race week. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Constar Bernsturtf left the Prl l / 5 140 Legation last evening far Paris, in which capital they purpose a very short stay. Ms Excellency will mut tee King of Prussia at Cohlentx ea the 2Uth instant, alter which his Excellency goes to Bathe. The Princess Piousbino and suite have left Cla ridge's Hotel fur Parir, II in Excellency Lothrop Motley and family have returned to Nutria's Hotel from Studley Royal, Ripon. The Duke and Duchess Maglioni and a numerous mite have arrived at Ckrhlge's Hotel from Rome. The Cuunt Dimitri de lklosselrode Lax arrived at Saarigy's Hotel from lit. Petersburg. Onthuroday evening, following the pr eoentation of the freedom of tho city of Perth to Mir .1. Hope Guist, O.C. h., the valeta general was entert,iiied at dinner in the County-roans by the gentlemen of the oounty and city. Ths Earl of Mangold presided, and the company included the Duke of Athol!, the Earl of Airlie, Viscount Strath alias, Visconti Stormont, Lord Kinnaird, Lord Dupplin, Lord Charles Kerr, Lord they of Kinfauss, air K. Menzies, Sir G. Ramsay, General Lindray, M.P., Mr. Stanhope, M.P., the Lord Provost of Perth, Mr. E. T. Gorden, Sheriff of PerthAire ; Mr. Groot, of Kilgruton, and Mr. Frank Grunt, brothers of the guest, Lc. The anxiety in Matichelter on the subject ti the future supply of cotton is oa the increase. As Mr. Laing, the finance minister of India, is clout to rams to India, the representatives of the Mao- cheater Chamber of Commerce, and of the Cotton Supply Association, put themselves in communication with that gontleinau, who at once agreed to give them an interview at Manchester, on his way from Southold to London. The interview will take place at the Manchester Town Hall on Thursday forenoon. The fitting of Jones'i target at Portmouth for resewed trial, with the Armstrong gun has been completed, ita face now occupying a vertical position, and its hod beiog placed at an angle from the deck of the Griper supported by stout timber props, which are in torn strengthened by • *umber of meanies iron knees to enable it to withstand in its new position the hammering to which it will be sub jected from the Armstrong loti.pounder The tri►l, it is expect,d, will take place in the proseoce of the lion-plate Committee. Mr. G. Pollock, of 27, Grosvenor-street, states, in a letter to the Tiara, some deplorable particulars relative to a patient who was admittral into the Fitrw.lliam Ward in • leorge's Hospital, on the 4th—viz., the Rev. !William , Cann, the perpetual curate of East Keunett, in the parish of Selisbuiy. The rev. geutleniau is 71 year. of age. He has lost the sight of one eye, and shortl► must undergo an operation on the other. His stipend amounts alto;;ether to rem. per annum. Ile ims a wife and two children surviving out of nine. ilie small Meanie can " barely furnish forth" their daily wants; and as a surgical opera. tam wee requisite for the relief of • painful malady he sought admission into the hospital. Previous to his quitting home he applied to his spiritual superiors fur • elerlym•n to undertake the duties of the chapel while the sick man woe absent seeking surgical relid. To his humble and modest request no an. ewer was given ; but the condition of his sufferings rendered it imperative that relief should be at owe afforded, and so he proceeded to town. llosinquently his chapel was closed last Sunday. "He underwent an operation." adds Mr Pollock, " but as 1 write these lines this poor old gentle. man is nu his journey house again, summoned hastily by ►uthority to return to duty,. all asaistanots was denied him, and as lie feared his centieued absence might deprive bias even of his little remaining income. He returns directs with a wound still raw :tail suppurating, perhaps to be irritated by a ►ong railway journey, the effects of which at his time of life and in this warm weather, added to his mental distress, may carry hint before many dlays to • home where • higher authority will amorally deal somewhat more leniently with him than he lute been dealt with on earth." Mr. Thomas C. Butler, in a letter to the C'arloto Sentinel, describes an extraordinary phenomenon which he witneesed is l'essemara. About 4 o'clock on the 11th an awfully black cloud ►ppeared from the south-wed. and au boor later a sudden gust of wind came " with ► noise like =pressed thunder," when the water in a small river was raised several feet is the air, iesviu• the bed almost dry ; calves which were grazing near it were carried off several \ tusked yard., till stopped by the road wall. Some hay• Mocks were caught up and caned away in the same manner; the Meeks in as ostfield were all either laid prostrate or tarried MI to a great diadem.. The hurri.ane swept on sod phrased into an inlet of the sea, which instantly rose \seabeds of feet, dashing itself with great violence on the opposite shore. This eztraordieary tormido came from south to north. The harmer Courier nays :—" The inhabitants of the island of lona were gratified during the week by a viit from the sable proprietor, the Duke of ArgyU. This is likely to form au important em iii the future of lone, as his grace hes kindly agreed to supply a want ur gently felt alike by tourists sad residents, in the emetioe of an hotel. We understand that early nest season a hip sad commodious edifice will be commerical." ITALY. WWII OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROME, Sart 6. Various rumours were current here at the beginning of this week as to the purport of a myste rious official pamphlet, annouuael by the Paris telegraph as forthcoming to roved the Emperor's latest phase of illumination on the Roman question. Although we have to wait somewhat longer for the official publication of another of those Sybilline leaves of destiny, the rumours which obtained credit in Rome are worth remark. The first account of it was, that since the practical 'con clusion of "Le Pape et le Congres," which is, perhaps, the basis of the present in terim state of things since the bugiuning of 1860, had been to keep St. Peter 'a Patrimony reserved for the Pope, it would now be proposed to secure him a more limited dominion. You know that the territories affectedly styled by this title are nearly co-extensive with the provinces actually withheld from the kingdom of Italy by the French military occupation, from Terraciva on the south to beyond Viterbo un the north, with the whole sca-coast between the ancieut Tuscan and Neapolitan state boundaries, and with the whole Campagna, the lower valley of the Tiber, and the Sabine inland range. Instead of this still consi derable principality which the Pope reigns over, and does not govern, by the favour of a modern French Charlemagne, it has been thought likely that his arbitrary protector would now offer to his accept ance the home presidency of Rome and the Comarca, which includes under ono admi nistration the rural districts for twelve or twenty miles all round this city, with Frascati and the other little towns on the Alban Mount, and with a portion also of the hill country, e tstwartig ' in which Tivoli is c o mprised. I k now nut whether any promise to secure this compact little property to the Holy Father, iu case of his renouncing all insane attempts to reconquer by Austrian or other weapons the large Italian States he has lost, has really been lately made. But though its rejection, if made at any time, would be only consistent with the high claims of an uncom promising theocracy, which will have all or none, the serious entertainment of such a scheme is ins- I possible with any regard to the rights and interests of the Italian nation. It seems to us rather strange that the French, whose nationality and popular self-consciousness are so intensely centred in Paris, should find it so difficult to allow that the Italians may want to create fur themselves such a meeting-point of their local at tachments in Rome. Not, indeed, that either the administrative or social conditions of Italy will ever permit this uncommercial and austere metropolis to become, in relation to the yew king dom, that which Paris and London are to France and England ; but Rome, as being the traditional scat of the oldest, most popularly famous Italian race who, twenty-live centuries ago laid the foun dations of empire upon this venerable soil, should be the Moscow of Italy, the shrine of patriotic homage, the august abode of political sovereignty. It is therefore, perfectly futile to say one word to theltalians about their giving up Rome and the cemarca to a clerical corporation for the pomp and pride of the fisherman apostle's successor, who may be content with Saint Peter's and the Vatican, a church, a palace, and a garden, created for th e hi g h priest of the catholic world. The second anticipatory version of the rumoured French official pamphlet that reached us Romans, iu our anxious eagerness to hoar the oracles of fate, was much more plausible yet since we are accustomed to see these paper projects of Imperial suggestion launched into the air, sometimes by way of diversion or experiment, with a certainty that they will never be realised, it wax not very confi dently accepted as a programme of immediate exe cution. The notion was, that Napoleon meant to announce to the Pope,. and the Italians, hie will and pleasure to be to invite the whole population of the remaining Papal States to decide by universal suffrage between Flue IX. and Victor Emmanuel ; but that to prevent any perturbation or anticipa tion of this plebiscite the French troops were to stay here in the meanwhile ' • if, indeed, they should not find it quite enough to do to persuade his scandalised Beatitude from running away. Yet why should the Pope run away from popular suffrage, by which in the earliest and brightest ages of the Roman See, when all the Popes were saints, their election was always to be confirmed 1 Nay, it is to the votes of the people of Rome, when abandoned by the exarchs of the remote Byzantine empire, that the Popo was indebted originally for his in vestment with temporal rule. We cau scarcely think, however, that any such proposal has been made, or will be made, even by the tremendous practical irony of the master of many legions, to au ungrateful, resentful, unreaso n able p ro te g e, th e spoilt child of catholicity, which calls him Holy Father. I now, therefore, dismiss the considera tion of these reports, which were talked of here a few days ago. The arrest of two priests in Rome during this week, for some unknown offence against the govern ment of church and state, has e.:cited a little curiosity to know its immediate cause. One of them is Father Papi, of the Order of Friars of San Lorenzo, in Lucius. ; the other is a Piedmontese canon belonging to the church of Monte Saute. They have been consigned to the . prisons of thu Holy Office of the Inquisition , an d I can tell you no more about them. Cardinal Santucci, who died two or three weeks ago, was a sensible, rational kind of prelate ; and Couut Cavour made choice of him, I believe, about the mouth of April last, as the member of the Sacred College to ahem, with the best chance of a decent reception, the royal Italian government might communicate its ample proposal* for securing, throughout the kingdom, the perfect independence of the church. You know how, at the same time that the ministry of Victor Emmanuel proclaimed the neoessit) of Rome being taken for the national capital, they also proclaimed the principle of a "Free Church in a Free State." This was no empty phrase, but precise and defiuite measures were devised by them to repeal any parts of the civil legislation by which bishops and clergy are amenable, in performing their religious functions, to state control or interference. The priesthood all over Italy was to be exempt, as much as in the United Staten of America, from political patronage or political restraints. This was, and is, a portion of the price which the Italian kingdom holds forth to compensate the Head of the Church for depriving him of his secular lord ship. Cavour's letter to Santucci, giving an out line of these proposals, was shown to the Pope, who referred it to Autonelli, and they instructed San tucci to answer it, in such a way as to keep open the correspondence. I am assured that, whatever Autonelli may have said to one or another point of the designs sketched out in Cavour's letter, he led Santucci, on the whole, to believe that the Papal Court would not reject this principle of acconinio dation, providing for the spiritual interests in charge of the Holy See. With this persuasion the worthy prelate indited an answer to Count Cavour, expressed iu conciliatory terms, and evincing a dis position to arrange, for the religious welfare of Italian catholics, the controversies between the bishops with their l'ope, on the one hand, and the law of the land on the other. When finished, Sau- tucci's composition was submitted to Antonelli, who promised that it should be conveyed to Turiu through a certain unrecognised mediator, by whom, in verbal conversation with Cavour, the views of the Papal Court on this subject might be safely expressed. But the letter never was sent to Cavour ; it remained in the hands of Antouelli, and he made use of some passages in it, twisted, perhaps, by a malicious criticism from their true intent, to bias the feeble and jealous nature of Pio Nono against his innocent brother in the Sacred College. Poor Santucci, who had hoped to be the means of reconciling all parties, took this disap pointment very much to heart; the treachery he learned perhaps after months of wondering delay. No sooner has he expired than the whole of bin private papers are confiscated by order of the go vernment, so that Cavour's letter or letters remained locked up with the reply that wrist() have met them, in the custody of that dark chancellor who has the mural custody of the Pope himself. But Cavour r has left those behind him at Turin who will take ' care that the documentary proof of these wiPsd overtures, by which the goveniment of New Italy showed more regard for the pace and true dignity of the church than the Papal Court showed in rejecting them, shall be forthcoming in due place and time. EXTRAORDINARY ROMANCE IN REAL LIM WO find the following extraordinary story in some of our morning contemporarieA. We give it with ell the reserve which the strangenma of tho statement, .e t ms to justify. . - --, - RUGBY, MONDAY Emerge. This afternoon, at 2 o'clock, His:hard Gunnies. Hill, nephew of the celebrated banker and stout brewer, of I hiblin, was brought leioro C. M. Culdexet, Esq., suit J. Atty, leq., two of the Warwickshire ivagistrats, in their offices in this town, charged on a earran. with having "unlawfully and wilfully made and caused to be made to one William Herbert, then being registrar of Wale, of and for the die , trict of Rugby, tor the purpose of being inserted on the register of births iu the said district, certain false state ments concerning a male infant, born of the body of one Amy Georgina Hill, by the staid Rivhanl Guinuess Hill, her husband, in the district of Rugby aforesaid, on the :eh day of January, iu the year of our Lord, 1861." Mr. George Francis Cooke, solicitor, of 30, King-street, Cheeped°, London, appeared fur the prosecution ; and the prisoner wasundefooded. The particulars as laid before the magistrates present one of the most reinatkablo cases which ever occurred in this or any other country. Some plies ago the mother of this child, then u young lady, the granddaughter of Sir Francis Burdett, was, it is believed, adopted by Miss Burdett Coutte, who took the greatest interest in her welfare. Everything that wealth could procure was placed at her disposal. After her marriage with the prisoner she lived happily, for several years, and they passed a considerable portion of their time in travelling. A life interest on the lady's fortune, which was very considerable, with the exception of a small portion which was placed at her disposal, was settled on the prisoner at the marriage, and subsequently she made a will devising the whole of her property, including, it is understood, a valu a bl e es . tate, absolutely to him, in the event of no issue surviving her decease. In the bi'giuoing of 1859, Mrs. Hill, thee residing in St. fitephen's-greeu, Dublin, and expectin g daily to be confliesl, and being desirous that her aocouthement should take place in Carideo, left Inland with that view. While on her journey, accompanied by her husband. she was taken unwell, sod was unable to proceed beyond Rugby. There she was taken from the carnage and conveyed to 1 the nearest place where accommodation could be afford e d, a small beer-house called the Globe, about half a mile from the station, and where she was delivered two hours after of the child involved in the present inquiry. A few days afterwards the prisoner, it is alleged, adopted a course to destroy the identity of the child, with the presumed object of possessing himself of the property devised by the will. As shown on oath, the prisoner went to the registrar, • Mr. Herbert, since deceased, and registered his child as "Robert Hill, son of Robert Hill and Mary Hill, maiden name Seymour." The true description being, as far as the parents were concerned, "Richard Guinuess Hill, Amy Georgina Hill, maiden name Bunlett." A week after the birth of the child, the prisoner in duced his wife to consent to put the child out to nurse, and came to London for the purpose of making the neces sary arrangements. The day following his arrival in town, he informed his wife that be had made arrange ments that would be satisfactory to her, and requested her to forward the child to London by a train which be indi cated. This train was not due in London until nearly mid night. The mother entrusted her child, then only 10 days old, to Catherine Parsons, 14 years of age, the daughter of her nurse, and they lest by the train. The child was wrapped in a shawl, prised, for particular reasons, by the mother, and, as will hereafter be seen, it forms au important ingredient in the case, as well as • box containing baby linen, which was also sent with the child. Catherine Parsons states that on arriving at the Eustouaquaze station she was met by the prisoner. He took her is a cab to some part of the metropolis, with which, of course as a country girl, she was unacquainted, and having de posited the box, returned with her and the child to the vicinity of the Elistou-station, where they were met by two women, one of whom she describes as • black woman, and both of them as being drunk. By Mr. Hill's direction she handed the child to one of these women, who asked if it was alive and clean, to which Parsons r'il'ed, that she hoped it would be taken as much care of, and kept as clean as it had been at eugby. Parsons had received strict injunctions from Mrs. Hill to bring back the shawl in which the child was enveloped, but when she endeavoured to do so, the woman replied that if she took the child she would take the shawl and all with it, and ac c ordingly retained possessed of that article. Mr. Hill then took the girl to the Queen's dining-rooms in Gnat Portland. street, Oxford-street, kept by Mr. Manning, where she re mained, the prisoner also occupying a room in the same house. On the following day the prisoner and the girl re turned I o Rugby, where she intimated to her mistress that the child had been placed in improper hands. The pri soner, however, combatted this assumption by insuring his wife that the girl was entirely mistaken. From time to time Mrs. Hill expressed the greatest anxiety regarding the welfare of her child, but her husband always asseverated that it was in proper hands, and was progressing most satisfactorily. This state of things continued for about two years, and at length Mrs. Hill insisted upon seeing her child. He refused to comply with her request, • serious alteration took place, and he ultimately subjected her to grow ill-usage. Upon this a se paration took place, but • short time subsequently he made overtures to his wife to live with him again. She indignantly repelled his offers for a time, but at length promised to consider them favourably, provided he satin lied her as to what had Lemma of her infant. He in formed her is return that it was dead • and the then demanded the register of its death, and pressed him upon this point. Being thus placed in a difficulty, he altered his story, stating that the aurae in whose care be had placed the child-bad left England for Australis, lie providing the pea sage money. Mrs. Hill, who had been acting all through with the advice and cognisance of her mother, still doubted the truth of his statements, and placed the matter in the , hands of Mr. Cooke. solicitor, who at once applied to Mr. Inspector Hamilton, of the City of London Detee. i tire Force, for assistance n elucidating the mystery which aurreunded the case. Mr. Hamilton judiciously selected Mr. Brett, to whose ability, perseverance, and foresight the present aspect of the case is to be attributed. Having, after much lehour, obtained certain information, Brett and Mr. Cooke issued the following bill, which was panto' in great numbers in St. Giles's and every other low ncighlsiurhood in London, a copy at the same time being emit to every workhouse in the metropolis : "Tu blusters of Workhouses, Police-officers, Cabdrivers, and others.—Child Misaiug. " 33/. reward will be paid to any person se persons who may give such inforinetiou as shall lead to the discovery of a male infant, brought iu the evening of or about the lith January, 1859, in the care of • servant girl, fifteen years of age, to the Ewen station of the London and North Wed ern Railway, and opposite the station in Drummend-street was given into the custody of two women by a ' ~ e utleman aged about 30, 5 feet 6 inch es hi g h, thi n soul fair who went in afour-wheel cab from the neighbourhood of the Haymaket with the women—one of the women, stout in person, about forty years old, the other very dark, thin, aid tall—both dirtily dressed in cotton growls. The Infant was then but ten slays old, and was enveloped in • large double plaid shawl, dark green end blue, and rather failed. The infant was • fine healthy boy, and would now be about two years and a half obi. The stout woman gave the name of Ferebrother, and the a tares& of Lichtiold-street, or TitchtiehLstrret, Soho, and had meetings with the gentlenum above-nanicd in Windmill street, Haymarket, early in January, likl9. " Whoever will give such information as will lead to the discovery of the child may receive the above reward. " Application to be made, and information given, to In spector Hamilton, City Police-detective-offioe, 2'6, Old Jewry, E.C. ; or to George Francis Cooke, solicitor, 30, Kingatreet, Chesiside, E.C. " June 8, 1861. ' .... . .. . . . _ _ The effect of the above was all that could be desired. A woman named Mackay, living in St. Odes, saw the offer of the reward, and lied an interview with the solicitor and the officer. She stated that about eighteen month% .pre vionalv, when lodging in a house iu the Stvet. DWI , . a woman who occupied a room on the same door, and who had uo children of her own, one or two nights consecu tively had a child in her room, which Mackay knew by hearing it cry. She spoke to the woman about it, making her to whom the child belonged. lier fellow-lodger re plied that she received it from a woman, who had ob tained it from another woman named Andrews, who had informed her that she had received it from a gentleman at a railway station. Mackay added that the tonal., in quell tion had left the house a few days afterwards, and she then knew nothing about her. Slight as this clue appeared, Brett worked upon it, and by dint of extraordinary per severance he ultimately discovered by its aid that the child his informant had heard cry was the one being eagerly sought after. This, however, was not accomplished with out great dolour and some danger. The belief at. first was that the child had been "dropped" upon some doorstep, and had perished, or that it had been rescued from death only to become the inmate of a workhouse. Brett's pri mary inquiries were directed to that point, but he soon found it to be fallacious. He theniditected hie attention to the iiiscovery of the woman indicated by 3lackay. He tra velled from court to court throughout St. Giles'', and at length went to a filthy alley called Lincolu'a.court, in Drarrune. To one of the houses in this place, he din oovered the woman Andrews, and he also traced the child icto her possession. After searching various rooms, Brett proceeded to a small apartment on those. end floor. In one corner lay a man Doody naked apparently in a dying state, and squatting all over the floor were several women ni a mast ragged and miserable condition. The whole place was in a dreadful state, the stench from the filth being al most ov erp owering. On this floor in this horrible den Brett discovered the heir to 14,000 i. a year, almost in a state of nudity, and covered with vermin awl filth. No shoes were on his feet, and only one dirty rag enveloped the entire body. The toes were terribly scored with the impressions of wounds, no doubt inflicted by walking on stones, while the bead and body generally showed unmistakeable marks of negligence and ill usage. The house from buttons to top LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE GERMAN FLEET. The Committee formed in the Duchy of Gotha, to collect subscriptions towards the creation of a German fleet, having applied for the sanction of the Sovereign, has, according to the Nati:mut! of Berlin, rut:civet' the following reply from Duke Krntsit : "The zeal of the Gorman nation ought, indeed, to inspire us with great confidence, to enable us to rely on the success of any new efforts on behalf of a flout, after the ' •nse humiliation the Head of the Confisleratiou itself inflicted on our patriotism b) the fate of our first German Marine. But the liapp) idea of preserving our patriotic offerings from a doubtful destiny, and, on the contrary, securing them a glorious future, by placing theni under the guardianship of the Crown of Prussia, gives mu hopes of the success of our good work." The Committee proptsses that all the money raised iu the Duchy oof Gotha shall, if possible, be ex pended in budding one ship of war, to be tudled the Thuringia. HOLLAND. The King of Holland opened the tieuion .4 the Chambers yesterday, the 16th, at the Hague. His Blajesty's speech contains but few• references to general politica, but announces the presentation of a large number of measures effecting change', and improvements, social and material. The King specially congratulates the Chambers on the fa vourable state of the finances. While the other nations of Europe have been compelled to contract Loans, Holland has been able to continue the re duction of her public debt. SPAIN. The Madrid Corp•Apoirlqucia of the 12th 40.04 that Baron Tees., Minister of King Victor Emmanuel, bad returned from a visit to San Ildefonso, the object of which was to confer with some of the ministers on the subject of the Neapolitan consular archives, which, as is known, have by order of King Francis been given up to Spanish agents instead of to the consul of Italy. The Correq..mitinria states that the Spanish cabinet persists in the resolution it had previously come to on the matter—namely, to retain the papers ; but it declares that there is reason to hope that this resolution will not alter the friendly relations between the courts of Turin and Madrid. TURKEY. A despatch from Constantinople announces the death of M. Sokolski, the Bulgarian Bishop, whose recent conduct produced such deplorable results. He died in the convent near Kberson, to which he had retired, on leaving the Turkish capital. The government of the Sultan has addressed a circular to its ministers at the different European courts, justifying its proceedings against the Mon tenegrins. It states that it has exhausted every moans of concession and moderation, in endeavour ing to prevent the grievances caused among its sub jects by this little Principality. The Porte is bound to protect those subjects against violence, and the continual disorders arising from the attacks and excursions of the Montenegrins. It is now under the necessity of having recourse to arms, and Omar Pacha has received orders to commence the operations, and press them vigo rously. Finally, Turkey appeals to the justice of Europe, and expects its approval of the course adopted. (REUTER . * TELEGRAM:O AMERICA. NEW YORK, Harr. 7. (Per Hibernian via Quebec and Loodondery.) The Monticello and Harriet Lane have arrived at Fortrosi Monroe from Hatteras. They report that the Confederates bad aban doned a strongly fortified fort at Olerake Inlet, carrying away their guns. Multitude* of North Carolinians were coining iu to Fort Hatteras to take the oath of allegiance. Between two and three hundred had done an in a day, some offering to take service in the army. The white flag was everywhere visible. Since the engagement at Hatteras the North Carolina troop.' have been withdrawn from Vir ginia. Officers have arrived at Washington from George Heights, and report having heard heavy continuous firing on the morning of the nth inst. It appearisl to be partly in the vnanity of Mu nson ' s Hill, and above the Chain Bridge. The cause has nut been ascertained. The energy and activity of the army inspires the government with confidence as to the successful maintenance of the Union. Vigorous efforts are being made in Washington to obtain the release of Mayor Berrett. Message-1i have passed between Gener►l Grant and the Kentucky Legislature with respect to the Confederates from Tennessee having entered Ken tucky, and fortified strong positions at Hickman and Chalk Bluffs. Governor Harris, of Tennessee, telegraphed that the troops had landed without Lis knowledge, and that he had telegraphed to President Davis respect ing their immediate withdrawal. The Confederates have torn up the railway tracks between Hamilton and Selbina. Three schooners with a quantity of tobacco and other property, the latter belonging to Senator Daly, of Richmond, have been seized at Phila delphia under the Confiscation Act LATH3T BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT. NRW YORK, flarr. 7, Estrum. Reports of the death o f President Davis are still current and are probably well founded. Patine* (Kentucky) bas been oecupied by the Federal troops. A battle on the Potomac is considered imminent. The Confederates have advanced their outposts within three miles of Arlington. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, ihtem. Stocks steady. New York Central, TM, ; Illinois, 67i ; Erie, 24 Cotton dull. Provisions dull. The Glasgow arrived out on the sth lust. LONDONDERRY, Barr. 16. The Canadian screw-atenmer Hibernian, which arrived here thia evening, icuweil the Jura ou the voyage home. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Seer. la. Tho Ousterreieltioche Zeitung of to-day nays "The goveniment has decided upon not granting any new constitutional organization to Venetia. The privileges of the existing Central Congr e g a ti on will, however, be extended. ' The Prase of to-day I.llllOllllMb that the Emperor of Russia will extend his tour to the Caucasus. TURKEY. VIENNA. SEPT. 16, EVZNINO. According to news received from Scutari an in surrtamonary moveuieut threaten, to break out at that place. The Turks have made common cause with the Christian mountaineers, and demand the dismissal of Abdi MONTENEGRO. MAGMA, Barr. 16. Omar Paella proceeded yesterday to join the Turkish army at Gatakoe. A letter from Biarritz stake that at one of the Emperor's evening parties lately. a young higediau (twelve years of age) was heard, whom precocious talent is con sidered by her Meads to promise another Rachel. The Minister of State was so much struck with the ability which she displayed that he has admitted her to the Conservatoire at Paris with a pension of 100frea month. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nox out OVIJI comarorDiarr.) PARIS, MONDAY &W M. There are still conflicting statements about Gari baldi. The Opinion N«ficsafe,whieli but yesterday contradicted the news of his going to America, has now reeeived intelligence that he really has accepted the command offered to him by President Lincoln ; and the Natiwialilies of Turin gives the same Intel ligeuce tinder the head of " Latest News," adding that Bich) and several of his old officers wish to ac company his to New York. According to the ver se m of the Opisioa Nationale, Garibaldi lately of fered his services to Victor Emmanuel to extirpate brigandage in the Neapolitan proviimes, and the oiler not being accepted, he then engaged to fight against slavery in America, subject only to the King's approbation ; and the King having, con trary, perhaps, to Garibaldi's expectations, declared that he has no objection, the great chieftain will forthwith cress the Atlantic. Notwithstanding the perseverance with which the story is repeated, I cannot myself believe that Garibaldi, whose name shine is a toaer of strength in Italy at the present juncture, will leave his country to espouse a foreign quarrel with which lie has nothing to do. 'rh o undoes the following observations : Tao Capueins and the ltolemptorisis have been expelled from the department of the Nord, but they are, it is said, about to be replaced at Lisle by other RA. lemptorists, who will establish themselves in the Itue de Paris ; by bare footed Carmelite' in the Rue du Cirque; and by Ilarist brethren, who are to take up their quarters in a convent mar the Esplanade. Thus, as the Echo do Nord remarks, the interdictions pronounced will have for result to multiply establishments which, according to the expreasioas of 31. Lillault, are very etularrassing when they are tolerated, and frequently become intolerable when they are authorised. Is suds a course of proceeding probable? The Assize Court of the Ardeche on September 10 sentenced a Marist monk, named Cloutier (in reli gion Brother Isidore), to five years' imprisonment, for atrocious assaults upon schoolboys committed to his care. At the Assize Court of theCalvados on Saturday, an extraordinary triad, which has lasted all the week, was brought to a conclusion. The postmaster of Courseulles, M. Leprevost, a retired captain of gendarmerie, a man upwards of sixty, and who has borne a good character all his life, was accused of stealing money from letters, and forgery. His daughter, who was originally included in the in dictment, committed suicide in prison by sticking pins and needles into her chest with wonderful resolution. The case was complicated by an accu sation of the public prosecutor against Captain Leprevust that ho had seduced his own daughter at the age of 13, and by a counter accusation by the prisoner's counsel, M. Lachaud, thst one of the principal witnesses, a post-utlice inspector, was the lever of Mdlle. Leprovost, and had brought a false accusation against the father. The verdict was nut delivered till 4 in the morning, and the crowded audience remained the whole time. Captain Le provost was acquitted on eight counts out of nine, but being found guilty of forgery, was sentenced to imprisonment fur life. A letter from Stuttgardt of Sept. 13 says th►t at a farewel; banquet of the Congress of Political Economy, the toast of "the Fraternity of Nations" was coupled with the name of M. Gamier Pages, who was present. The member of the provisional government of 1848 returned thanks in an ani mated speech, in the course of which he said that he had never witnessed in any country anything like the intellectual movement now going on in Germany, and that he should look with horror upon any aggression on the Rhine frontier by France. The Bourse was very firm. It is a curious fact that the late fall began with the news that the French would nut leave Rome, and that now reports more favourable to the Italian cause coincide with a rise. Rent*, rose 10c. for cash, and 20c. for account, closing at fififr. &. and 69fr. 20c. Mobilier rose 3fr. 75c. Railways were much firmer, some of the lines rising from 2ir. 50e. to sfr. Dauphine was in extraordinary demand, and rose 12fr. 50c. "The Prince Imperial," sign the Courier de Bayonne of the 13th, "took hie first bath in the sea yea tenlay morning. He was accompanied by the Empress. A hatter of Biarritz, whose daughter was born on the rime day as the Prince Imperial, recently received orders to attend at the Villa Eugeoie to supply a hat for the young prince. The Empress kindly iuquired about her little god- daughter, and desired to see her. The little girl was ac cordingly the next day taken to the villa, and was the promoted with • handsome bracelet, which will no doubt be carefully preserved as a souvenir of her august god mother." Accounts from Toulon state that the steel-cased stesm•fripte Gloire sailed thence on Wednesday last to make a sewed trial with the newly-invented cannon, called "the mysterious cannon," from the secrecy observed with vyspect to its construction. While in port the cannon re mains enveloped in a covering which is sealed with ea official seal not to be broken until the ship is at sea. Preparations are being made to establish a great cattle-market within the fortifications of Paris. The ground is situate beyond the bridge of Flanders and extends from the right of the road between the canal and tho fortifies . twos, at 300 yards from the railway which leads round Paris . A branch railway is to be constructed from that which will enable the ri,ttle dealers to bring their stock to market from *very quarter by rail. Large slaughterbiiusee are to be meted close to the market. The Salta Ptedic of Lyons says :—" The vintage has commenced on several pointa in the eovirous of this city. The wine promises to he of excellent quality, and the fermentation takes place rapidly. It is estimated that the rain has (Alen within the last few days will increase tho ()mini ity of wine by at lout one.fourth." Thu l'reettrant of Antwerp states that a few days ago M. Rs crier, Relgian Minister of the Interior, arrived in that city with some ladies and gentlemen, friends of his, aid a few hours after went to the cathedral to see the pictures by Ruben", but the rotor refused to admit him utiless he raid the fee in advance. This demand so offended the minister that be went away. "Is it not time," add* the journal above-namcd, "that the cathedral autho rities should crami to make a speculation of those chefs d'ruvre which are in fact the property of the city, and which they ought to be proud to show to everyone ?" A Dresthl journal elates that previously to the late musical festival at Weimar, the Grand Duke endea voured to restore Richard Wagner to favour at the Court of Sexuay. The Grum! Duke wished to confer on the maestro the Order of the falcon, but before doing so he caused inquiries to he made to be made at Dresden whether that distinction would be well received there. The duke re ceived an answer to the effect that, if Wagner received the decoratiou, twelve officers of the Saxon army would imme diately seed hack theirs. In consequence, no favour was conferred on the composer by the Grand Duke. A letter in the bonnie Zeitung gives an account of a visit the Empress of Austria bad just paid to the British ship of the line Queen at Corfu. She was accompanied by General Count Bier, Captain Barry (an Englishman who commands an Austrian frigate), and the ladies and gentle men of her suite. The Queen was surrounded by a throng of boats, full of Curfiotos, waiting to greet the Empress. The ship etas dre.sed out with Saga, yanls were manned, and the crew, who, the letter with 1101110 wonderment re marks, stood even on the tope of the masts, welcomed bee Majesty with three hearty British cheers. As she set foot on deck, the Austrian standard was run up and the band played the Austrian national hymn. She went all over the ship, examining everything with much ioterc■t, and dentit ion her grace and beauty were subjects of intense admiration to Jack. Since then she bits left the island for an excursion of a few days to &rite. She is described as going shoat very plainly dressed, in a white dress and a round hat, "bee magnificent hair cud her lovely face her sole adornments." V Po* wil bin I /11 con the