The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-20 00:00:00

" F u t=i " EVERY WEEK. ONE PENNY. CRYSTAL PALACE.—TO-MORROW (THURSDAY.) ONE SHILLING. Open from Nine in the Morning till late in the Evening. Cl RYS T A L P ALA CE.—TO-MORROW (THURSDAY). Orchestral Band at 1 2 .30 Great Organ Performance at 2.30 Di s play of Fountains at Orchestral Band at . , .... 5.0 CRYSTAL PALACE.—The GREAT N FOU TAINS TO-MORROW, at FOUR , W ill comprise the following : The Six Fountains on the Upper Terrace. The Two Prince of Wales' Fountains. The Large Central Basket FOulltalti. The Two Graceful Water Temples. The Forty-eight Tazza Fountai ns. The his Boiling Fountains. The Grand Cascades and Waterfalls. The Eight Dancing Fountains. And the whole of the varied and beautifully designed Foun tains and Cascades of the GREAT LOWER BASINS, which alone cover a surface of five acres, numberi Twelve Thou sand Jets, discharging One Million Nine Hundred Thousand Gallons of Water, including Les GRANDES EAUX, which attain the altitude of 234 feet. *** For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN, Will LILY Monday, August 25, with Benedict's opera of THE LOF HILLARRNEY. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Zhis Evening, A KISS IN THE DARK. After which, the first part of the Arab Entertainment at half-past 7. To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. To conclude with THE ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni- Zoug-Zoug, Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, FISH OUT OF WATER. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS Y'CALIA. And THE ING. CHRISTE N Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THAT BLESSED BABY. With MEDEA. Followed by THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. And THE SHILLING . DACo Y mmence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening., THE RENDEZVOUS. After which , at a quarter to 8, - KING HENRY VIII. With THE TWO POLTS. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR TTLED NEY. Conclude with THE CO LLEEN BA WN SE AT LAST. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Evening, MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Concluding with a Comic Ballet. Commence at 7. MR. and MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS " AT HOME," at Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, This .Evening. Commence at 8. A. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic 'Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. Commence at 8. MR. and MRS. GERMAN REED, with MR. JOHN PARRY, Every Evening (except Saturday), at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, at 8. ___ ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Ray market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. _ _. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENIN.-- Re-appearance of the miraculous Steckel, the great Trapeze performer —Grand Selections from" Don Sebastien " and "Il Trovatore." - Eugene, Unsworth, and DuleY• the great cowl trio, &c. Commence at 7. , EV THE OXFORD, 6, nicrOßD-STREET w ith full band ERY and Corsaro , EVEN ING.—Verdi s ce o f miss Caroline Parkes— Ste orm a e l ; e —The Ethiopian oddities of sho pert ckel on the Flying Tr aP Rumsey, Newcomb , ."Commence at 7. NOTICE. Ail remittanc►°s are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts (Its in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —Morning, 9h. 33m.—AftErnoon, 10h. 12m, '.l'o-moßnow.-Morning, 10a. 56r.f..—A:ernoct. 11h. 33m, 4.. ,_. , _w- , A_ ~..1 , ... . .4 . .." \ gi ' '' h',` - ~.-7.-',,c'' ' - 4.. . ,:' • ::: '... - , 1 . - :'-'-',' C -- "``'`—‘*;., . ; ,'.(c", 1,, ~, , , i 7;,.!?.-!'• kt r , P ,0.,.4i,,, , `•._s_ , _ , , , t ' - ...-,, ~,, ' - st.., • D/:(1V, ~ THE SUN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1862, Thousands in London have, u `uring the last few years, known perfectly well by sigLA a young and handsome man, of gentlemanly appearOnool known as WILLIAM ROUPELL, of Aspen Honoe, in the county of Surrey, Esq., and, until recently, M.P. for the borough of Lambeth. Now a prisoner in one of her MAJESTY'S gaols, having been yester. day formally committed for trial upon a charge of felony—a self-acknowleged Thief, Forger, and Perjurer. It is a dark and startling narrative in every way, the story which has only become public property within the last two days, Monday, the 18th, and Tuesday, the 19th of August, 1862, down at Guild ford—the story of WILLIAM ROUPELL'S high crimes and misdemeanours. It will always retain a most conspicuous place among the gloomy record of causes celebres. ROUPELL'S name has already been coupled—and not by any means extrava gantly—With the names of SADLEIR and FAUNT- I'F' IIO Y. Not extravagantly—for neither SADLEIR, the arch swindler, nor yet FAUNTLEROY, forger though h e was , ever approached in cool and deliberate atrocity the evil doings perpetrated by t ais gay young man of fashion. For such WILLIAM ROUPELL affected to be, while occupying a seat in the House of Commons during several sessions as one of the Member s of the Radical constituency of Lambeth. Complicated and numerous though the crimes now confessed to by WILLIAM RotiPELL have been, the .--;;;y in which they arose may readily be told. His father was one of that not very exceptional class known in this country an self-made men. RICHARD PALMER ROUPELL was the - --- name o f this I father. He died a t the age of seventy four on the 12th of September, 1856. He bad amassed, b efore hi 3 death, a very considerable fortune—, tortune not far short in value of half a million st erling. He had dealt to an enormous e xtent in lead, and a l c hemist on had—more successfully than an y record—contrived to turn his lead into gold. At th sWorne period of his demise his personalty alone wa under £200, 000 : but he had reside nces and lands i n abundance, besides all his goods and chattels, plate, wines, horses, carriages, &c., houses all about Lon don, whole streets belonging to him, and estates in several counties. Besides leaving all this property behind him at his death, RICHARD PALMER ROUPELL left five children. All five children by the same mother—the four elder illegitimate, how ever—the youngest only legitimate. For the deceased RICHARD ROUPELL bad cohabited with the woman afterwards known as his wife, and stilt surviving as his widow, during many years be fore their morriagc. When this one legitimate child, a 80 n, called, after his father, RICHARD, w as born, thc... father was already fifty-eight years 01 a g t '• When that father died in 1856 RICHARD, now heir ne hi.w to the ROUPELL Property, was yet a boy at school. His elder brother WILLIAM—(one of the four illctitimate children, by the same mother) _was then a young man of scarcely three-and twenty. Young in sears, b ut old i n cr i th i na li ty . plish e d, W ILLIAM, among all Clever, comely, accom the children, a ppears to have been especially the old man's favourite. /MDT, the eldest son and the first born of the bastard family, had some time previously turned out to be so much 0- f a scape grace that he was summarily sent not ;only away from home, but out of the country, as a sort of hopeless ne'er-do-well. WILLIAM, the second son, though the third of the ille gitimate offspring, coming between two daughters, also both of them illegitimate —was kept more at home, more within view of the worthy old father, who freighted this favourite son's fortunes with high hopes, counting confidently upon WILLIAM ROUPELL achieving greatness ! As he has done, indeed—though of a very deplorable character. Half a dozen years have not elapsed since the death of Old ROUPELL, in the September of 1856, and already —nay, the work was " done" about a year or two since—WILLIAN RourELL, having fraudulently obtained possession of the whole property, has run through it, has got rid of all the estates, valued at from £300,000 to £400,000 altogether ! And having squandered these ill-gotten goods—that never by right be longed to him—he comes back from abroad where he has been living for a while, ruined, but in safety —he voluntarily comes back from abroad to acknow ledge himself guilty of robbery by wholesale, of forgery again and again repeated, of perjury as black and heinous as could be, of perjury the most wilful and the most deliberate ! On Monday he stood for the first time in the witness-box in open court at Guildford, and there frankly and quite explicitly, before Baron MARTIN and a jury of his fellow-countrymen, and in the midst of the breathless silence of hundreds who had gone down there to listen to him, formally and upon his oath, made a deliberate confession of his guilt. Confessed himself guilty of the crimes of theft, of forgery, and of perjury, so monstrous many of them in the mere manner of their perpetra tion as to be almost beyond belief. The crowning crime of all, as we may venture to call it—the Will proved in the winter of 1856-1857 by this natural son (we should rather say by this unnatural son) shortly after the death of RICHARD ROUPELL the EIder—WILLIAM ROIIPELL, late M.P. for Lambeth, now acknowledges to have been forged by his own hand. It bequeathed the whole of the large property of the deceased to his widow—thereby placing the whole property at the mercy of WILLIAM ROUPELL. A veritable will there was, leaving the bulk of the property to the only legitimate child, RICHARD, then a mere school-boy. This veritable will having had a last codicil added to it, a codicil confirming, in every way, the intentions expressed in the body of the will—a codicil dated only within a fort night previously to the old man's decease. The last day of August, 1856, being the date of the codicil, and the death of old Mr. ROUPELL occurring, as we have already mentioned, on the 12th of the fol lowing September. That bona fide Will, found by WILLIAM ROUPELL in an escritoire of his deceased father, but a few hours after the old man had breathed his last having been first secreted has been since destroyed. WILLIAM ROUPELL acknowledging that it was in the presence of the dead body of his father that he determined—with a view to conceal all his previous forgeries and embezzlements, and to get the rest of the property into his possession—to forge a new Will to the effect already mentioned. The Will, eventually " proved"—dated 2d Sept., 1856 (the codicil to the true Will being dated, remember, only two days previously !)—the Will now " proved," however, to be a Forgery. When that climax of his secret crimes had been perpetrated—and perpe trated so skilfully as to defy detection—WlLLlAM ROUPELL was, as we have seen, but barely three and-twenty ! So skilled in his wicked craft had he become thus prematurely by the daring forgeries and embezzlements he had already been guilty of (throughout with complete success !) during his unsuspecting and confiding father's lifetime. The consummate coolness, tact, and deliberation with which the young man set about the forgery of this remarkable Will, but for the atrocity of the deed would almost wring from us an unwilling admiration. In order to obtain a likely signature to attest the Will—he bethinks him of an old servant of his father's, an old fellow then nearly 90 years of age, named MUGGERIDGE. To MUGGERIDGE he takes a £5 note as coming from Mrs. ROUPELL, the widowed mother, as a little souvenir of the old man's dead master, to enable MUGGERIDGE to buy some mourning clothes. Pretending thus to bring the money from Mrs. ROUPELL, the Forger obtains a receipt for it from MUGGERIDGE. This being, in fact, all he wanted. When obtained, how ever—the old man's signature turns out to be rather a puzzler ! Its difficulty in imitation is nevertheless conquered at last. The cunningly meditated crime is completed. " I wrote my father's signature," says WILLIAM ROUPELL with exem plary candour—" I wrote my father's signature with his own pen—a short quill pen, and also that of MUGGERIDGE. My own I wrote with my gold pen, and as lightly as I could, to make the contrast as strong as possible with the others." The forged Will being proved, WILLIAM ROUPELL becomes master of the whole Pro perty. It is a property altogether in its value a quarter of a million sterling. He himself is but twenty-three years of age when he comes into possession of it. Yet four years are enough, as events proved, to see it all melt away in his grasp. He has already before his father's death mortgaged and fooled and swindled away seventy thousand pounds. After his father's death WM. ROWELL'S progress along the downward course is accelerated. Apparently he is rising first of all, rather than sinking. He lives in great splendour. He enters Parliament as M.P. for Lambeth. He is no Silent Member, either, when he gets there, but takes an apparently suitable place among the metropolitan representatives. Four years have scarcely rolled by after his father's I death, however, when the bubble bursts. The wealthy member for Lambeth is reported to have become seriously involved. He resigns his seat. He goes abroad; is under a cloud—that people think, for \ awhlle,m e y prove only a temporary embarrassment. Bat months slip by, and at length, in the course of a trial that comes on at Guildford on Monday , and is close d ~,, th e following day (yesterday)—not by a verdict, but breast - 16,04:013,terling• by Plainti ff and Defendant com ing to an und erstanding — the whole frightful truth comes out. WILLIAM ROUPELL makes—we say a cl ean foul and black that h e Las of it, the truth is so to tell ! The plaintiff in the case is his wronged you_ can hardly ' °ger brother RICHARD estate, ' as such, heir-at tea l R a w 0 U . P E I L h L e , purchaser of the defendantlegitimate is t s h o e e , viara:t: one of the ROUPELL estates, the iat o , b , What has been done in one instance with sold to this deceived purchaser for 1 ' one done also with deluded purchaser may be all the rest of them. Meanwhile the s e lf-" n. urer ilately NIT: victed forger, thief, and P er . ] for Lambeth is himself taken into custody m ed for from the witness - box, and is formally com le t trial upcn a charge of felony. Thirty-on years have as yet barely passed over his hea d : and already it is as plain as can be, that the rest of his existence will for certain be passed by him in the grey dress of a convict ! Undergoing the worst punishment of all inflicted upon criminals,save the extreme penalty of death, namely, the terrible sentence of penal ser vitude for life. A few years ago and WILLIAM ROUPELL, late M.P. for Lambeth, would as cer- ~r.r.0 ,--~=z ~~- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1862 tainly have swung from the gallows as ever Dr. DODD or FAUNTLEROY. Extraordinary trials are not confined to old Europe. We have just read of one in America, in which the license of counsel, and that too against the mighty powers of Washington, was assumed to an extent perhaps unknown before under such a despotism as that which now reigns in Federalism. It should be remembered that Mr. LINCOLN is able, at pleasure, to send any one to Fort Lafay ette, no reason being assigned, no habeas, corpus being available_ The counsel, therefore, in this case, attacked the Government in terms rarely heard, at his peril ; though probably he knew that the bolder his speech the less the danger. Boston, the city of Wm. CANNING, is, as our readers may be aware, not only the literary city — the Athens—of America, it is intensely abolitionist, and repays with equal bitterness the bitter Southern hatred of the North. Some merchants in it, how ever, of the name of GORDON, father and son, do not appear to s'aare to the full the sentiments of the educated many of Boston. At me of the re joicings for some Federal success they failed to hoist the Federal flag, or to join in the rejoic- ings. "W orse still, one of the firm had boldly ventured an opinion, that " Mr. LINCOLN and his Administration were imbeciles, and that the rule of J E FFER io s:N wh D ic A h v : s if w th a preferable to e s abilityofthe i n n w e t e r b e e the ott ll ground g o a f e a t t h i e o o prefer thro e u n g c h e . , qualities were the test, r t po h e ur s e ot p i b r e Ea s e h t u " ryvoepAwould r P s i f moral w d ohno bt h l a e e ss ea t r h o e p edt r b iz e e ha m m u e st of be i, H aw on ar e d et ed A t i3 o E, t , h , e w m hi a .l n e language JE was, FF.DArS is only the " Clever fellow." The however, held to be treasonable, and forthwith the GORDONS were arrested on a charge of treason against the Federal Government. The GORDONS, however, had the means of self defence. The right of free speech was in question. Professional aid was obtained, and it was, it appears, of a character before which the State law officers quailed when the case came on. Mr. R. H. DANA, the district attorney, appeared, and on the ground that no overt acts were proved, and that expressions of hostility to the Government merely, or only receiving intelligence from the South did not come up to the statutable definitions of treason, he declined to prosecute, and entered a nolle pro sequi. But the counsel for the GORDONS,—Iike Mr. OSBORNE the other day, on the fortification busi ness—was not to be cheated out of delivering a first rate speech of first rate Yankee eloquence. He asserted his right, notwithstanding the withdrawal of the Government from the prosecution, to vindi cate the character of his clients, and he proved his right by using it. Mr. SENNOTT, for that was the name of the American ERSKINE, very well knew that his clients needed no vindication—he had come prepared to mount the top of the ladder by an oration on freedom of speech, the sovereignty of the people, and the servitude of the Government. He declared he valued free speech more than his life—a very safe declaration just then— , he abused the "Yankee sneaks," who informed and prosecuted—he denounced leading men as worse than the cruel LEDBETTER and the conspira tor FLOYD. Mr. SUMNER himself and Governor ANDREWS are castigated for advising " their friends to put their feet on the necks of those who differ from them; they are a few small conspirators in agreement with the principal Thugs of Washing ton." He openly declared that he had a right to talk what treason he pleased. " Democratic prin ciples gave him that right—the word of GOD him self gave it to him !" As to the Secretary SEWARD, he and Mr. SUMNER were the Fox and the Gander in the illustrations of the celebrated German story of .Reinecke lucks. But SENNOTT was by no means content with perso nal abuse worthy of an Old Bailey barrister, he went into the philosophy of the case. What if his client had found fault with the Government, with its " swag gering imbecility," while managing a war of life and death, he was, as a Sovereign, but finding fault with his servants, which he had surely a perfect right to do." Shall my Government—that is to say, my servant, my creature—waste my money, and even let it be stolet, and stop my paper, and in terrupt my business. and violate my constitution, and starve and kill my soldiers out of pure neglect, and gain only disaster and defeat for me by all this folly ? And shall I say nothing ? If I am to put up with this, and more, and say nothing, or else be shut up by order of W. H. SEWARD, I want to know, seriously and calmly, what shall I fight JEFF. Davis for ? What shall I fight JEFF DAVIS for ? What worse can he do to me than SEWARD or STANTON have done already ? What, indeed—when their want of sense and want of energy have made him everything that he is ! Lost money may be regained, lost armies may be replaced out of our swarms of men, but who shall give us back the time we have fooled away' before the dirt heaps of Manassas ?" In this style did the worthy counsel for the GoRDoNs do his best to follow up, in regard to freedom of speech, the defence of unlicensed printing by our MILTON ; and it must at least be owned that he defended freedom of speech by speech as free as could ever be desired. But, alas, in this case, the battle is to the strong, or at least to the rich. We read in the same com munication from America, of a poor painter at New York, who could not afford to employ counsel, but who, inspired, it is also believed, by a little whisky, had freely expressed his opinion at New York that Stonewall JACKSON was the best soldier and general in the war; Mr. LINCOLN a humbug, and that JEFFERSON DAVIS would make a better President. He also was arrested. He was charged with treason, but no Mr. SENN OTT could be paid to defend him. The magistrate was perplexed. Not knowing what to do with him, he telegraphed to Mr. SEWARD, and short work truly the Secre tary of War made of it. He took on himself the functions of both judge and jury, and sentenced him, first, to take the oath of allegiance, and then to choose between Fort Lafayette, as a state pri • soner, and the army! The poor painter chcse the army, doubtless intending, at the first opportunity, to be numbered with the " missing," and, give the Confederates the benefit of his professional or his military attainments. The writer who communi cates these facts justly asks whether such is justice in New York. Quite certain is it that had any artisan in Old Monarchical England been dealt with in this style, his fellow-citizens would not have allowed him to want counsel, who would have made our proudest Prime Miuister tremble. If Mr. S EWARD'S regime be Republican Liberty, We should like some better description of slavery to despots. "I've are all proud of him"—the verdict of a political opponent,o on the m erits of Lord PALMER STON, is the n Which a ll hi s co untrymen have a ccepted ever sinc e,Ve do not wonder, therefore, t h a t the Cinque Po rte Warderere .n " proud of him." They o ne historic h ad great Duke, they the person of - e have L iu quar relled with his individual acts by' perhaps, m c E e E rt s a T i o n N ty . got w another "'es, 'we could Lordhave each lay our finger on something which has pro yoked us—and yet each of these very mis deeds as we think them, were English in their misdoing. All the scrapes he has got us into, as some would deem them, in Syria, in China, in America, all were English throughout, and we had to come to him to get us out of the Russian war in English style. There is not a public man living who is so altogether an Englishman. And Lord PALMERSTON has the good luck to be the Englishman, without acting a part, although beyond question he is an Irishman. He is in fact in some points an Irishman, too'; not least of all in his being liable to capsize when the popular breeze is too propitious and strong, but also in the geniality which he never fails to maintain, through good and bad fortune, almost equally. We suppose we must say that Lord PALMERSTON is a Union man, for how few have united in them selves so well the better qualities of the English man and the Irishman. Whether our brethren north of the Tweed will lay claim to any share of his personality, we do not know. If they can, • like England and Ireland they, too, will be "proud of him." So the town of Dover yesterday showed its pride. The mysterious portrait which was to be presented by the corporation, which knew no thing about it before it was ready for presenta tion—a corporation which was to give what it had never purchased, but somehow to give its own, because it was, in copyhold fashion, surrendered to it for his Lordship's benefit— this mysterious picture was brought forward now mysteriously draped to the last, in crimson cloth All the processional honours which Dover and the Cinque Ports could muster were collected, and a public address, aimed to impress on his lordship that he had in the long list of wardens, at least, two predecessors worthy of his fellowship—a rather meagre number certainly for so old an institution. We are sorry to add that never was the insignifi cance of an officer better illustrated than in the memorial and the Premier's reply. There was nothing in the former —there was as little in the latter_ It seemed as if the whole affair was a kind of warning that the antiquated Wardenship of the Cinque Ports, which his lord ship took, in truth, because it went begging, had better terminate with the distinguished man who now holds it. It is not likely to be buried with greater honour. And we should suggest to all concerned—that the plate on the frame of the pic ture should record of Lord P- ALMERSTON, that he was "last Warden of the Cinque Ports." We should add that Lord PALMERSTON'S Wardenship, like that of the Duke of WELLINGTON, will be commemorated at Dover not only by a picture but also by a bridge. The " Palmerston Bridge" and the " Wellington Bridge" will be in close associa tion at Dover. How often the Duke and the 'Vis count have each in their respective departments bridged the public difficulties of the day, we need not recount. The House of . Commons will think the emblem appropriate enough, to a man who bridges the distance, not very great, between Whig Liberals and Liberal Conservatives, and makes them, practically, one body. We regret to hear that Mr. John Lewis Ricardo, M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent, is seriously ill, and that his condition excites the greatest apprehension amongst his friends. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—Lord Palmerston has consented to attend and take a leading part in the open ing ceremonial of the Hartley Institution, the foundation stone of which building was laid by his lordship on the Bth of January, 1861. The inauguration will take place at the latter end of the ensuing month of September, and the arrangements making by the mayor of the borough (Mr. Frederick Perkins) will insure a literary and scientific gathering worthy of the occasion and of the noble Premier who, for the second time in the course of two years, honours the town with his presence in connection with educational progress, Dr. Francis T. Bond, late Professor of Chymistry and Dean of the Faculty in Queen's College, Birmingham, has been elected by the Town Council to the once of Principal Librarian and Curator, and the working machinery of the institution will soon be put in operation. THE LONDON SCOTTISH VOLUNTEERS.—The prizes of Nos. 2 and 4 companies of the London Scottish Volunteers, fired for on the 16th, were as follows :—No. 2, seven shots at 200 and 400 and five at 600 yards.—A Kerr small bore rifle won by Mr. Starke, 49 marks ; an opera glass by Mr. Maclagan, 44 ; a gold pencil case by Sergeant Bowers, 41; Mr. Greig made the large score of 42 marks in competing for the Elcho Company's challenge Cup, won by - No. 4 company. In No. 4 company, five shots at 200, 400, and 500 yards, a small bore rifle and an Armoury Com pany's rifle, Mr. J. Anderson and Mr. F. Puckle, tied at 32 marks. A silver medal presented by Corporal Berri, five shots at 300 and 500 yards, won by Mr. J. Anderson. NEW PARK FOR LONDON.—A scheme has been set on foot for the establishment of a new park close to Hornsey, a pretty suburb of London, lying on the Great Northern Railway. The prospectus of the new company, the "North London Park and Land Company," says : "Arrangements have been made bywhich possession has been secured to the company of a magnificent estate, comprising upwards of 458 acres of land splendidly timbered, well sup plied with water, and commanding picturesque views of the surrounding country. The property is within five miles of the metropolis, and close to Hornsey village. The Wood Green station of the Great Northern Railway, by which the park will be reached in about 10 or 12 minutes, is on the estate. The Metropolitan Railway, which is advertised to be opened on the Ist Oct. next, will afford direct means of access to the park from the very heart of London. On this estate, which requires very little to develop its natural beau ties, it is proposed to enclose a park of about 200 acres, to form gardens and ornamental grounds, and erect such build ings as may be required." THE PREPARATION OF FLAI.—A new process is r ecommended for conducting this operation, which com bines the advantages of being extremely simple, remark ably expeditious, and perfectly effective. The mode pro posed consists in heating the raw material for a sufficient length of time, seldom exceeding three hours, by steam raised to an adequate temperature--about 300 degs. answer ing the purpose—and the infusion of cold water at the re gulated momsnt. Wlaen dried, the fibre can be easily dis engaged by rotting, while the article produced proves sound in quality on account of the absence of steeping, and bright in colour owing to partial bleaching. —Dublin Evening - - DEATH OF A CELEBRATED ENGRAVER.—The death is announced of a Mr. Erin Corr. As an engraver he had obtained the highest European reputation. He was a native of Brussels, member of the principal scientific and artistic societies of that city, director of the School of En gravings at Antwerp, and professor of the burin art in the Academy. His principal works are the "Saviour," from Leonardo da Vinci ; "Christ upon the Cross," from Van dyke ; the " Queen of Holland," from Scheffer ; and "King Leopold," from Waffers. He spent the last ten years in Paris, occupied with an engraving from the "De scent from the Cross." Throughout the Continent his works hold the highest place amongst amateurs of en- gravings. THE MATTERHORN STILL UNSCALED.—The Atheneettm has the following about the recent attempts to scale the Matterhorn :—The Alpine climbers who went forth, early in June, to add the last triumph of skill and daring to be won in the Swiss mountains, have again been defeated. The peak defies all attempts. Mr. Whimper, one of the Alpine Club, reached a higher point than had hitherto been i eached ; but an accidental fall, which may be truly described as one of the most miraculous escapes from instant death on record, caused him to abandon for the pre sent, and perhaps for ever, all further assaults on the virgin summit. In ascending the mass of ice and snow, Mr. Whimper, who was alone, was compelled in one place to cut a series of steps in the ice. Knowing there was no further difficulty of that kind to be feared, he left his hatchet be hind him, and on his returning from his based attempt to mount he found, to his horror, that his steps were gone. The sun had melted them away, As his hatchet could not be recovered, he leant over the precipice and began to prod at the ice with his alphenstock. Some snow gave way, and he rolled over the ledge, brazing his face and body on the rocks and ridges, crash, crash down the sides of a chasm SOO feet deep, By a happy chance, he was cast on a rough beet of rock on the crest of a precipice scarcely equalled in the Alps, and there remained for an instant stunned and bleeding, though not seriously hurt. He is slowly recover ing from the shock and from his wounds. A few days later Professor Tyndal reappeared in the scene of his last year's a dventures . Mr. Whimper's t o ol s an d experience we re placed at his disposal, and the conqueror of the Riffel set off full of confidence and courage, But his courage and his endurance were taxed in vain. Again and again he risked his life. Higher than any one has ever yet been up the peak he crept and clamb- -higher than Mr. Whimper ; but the steepness of the highest peak repulsed him, and the un d aun t e d but unsuccessful mountaineer left the Matter horn' =scaled. LATEST NEWS. NNW CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. FIGHTING IN VIRGINIA VALLEY. NEW YORK, AUG. 8 (Evening). (Per Etna via Roche's Point.) The Federal General Hooker's division has fallen back from Malvern Hill to their encampments, leaving a strong guard at Haxhalls. The Confederates were under the impression that the Federal army was advancing towards Rich mond. They therefore moved down from Richmond by three roads, concentrating their forces near Mal vern. The Confederates appeared in considerable force above City Point, and drove the Federals a short distance. General Burnside's forces are reported to have landed at Acquia Creek. The engagement reported near Memphis was an unimportant affair. A collision has occurred at Point Pleasant, Mis souri, between the citizens and State troops, the citizens having united together to resist enrolment. The Confederate general (Morgan) is reported to be advancing into Kentucky. A secret society has been discovered in Indiana, numbering 15,000 persons, for preventing Federal enlistments, resisting taxation, and aiding the Con federates generally. The Secretary of War has issued an order that no citizen liable to be drafted into the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country. The Federal officials at the ports, seaboard and frontiers, will arrest such persons, who will be taken to the nearest military post and placed on military duty for the term of draft. Writ of habeas corpus, in respect to such persons, is suspended. All persons discouraging volunteer enlistments will be arrested. NEW YORK, AUG. 9. (Per Etna, via Roche's Point.) General Burnside's whole command is said to be at Fredericksburg. He will operate with Pope, but whether their destination is Richmond or an other point is not known. The heat has become so intense within the last few days that military operations are materially retarded. The Federal fleet below Savannah is momentarily expecting an attack from a powerful Confederate ram completed at Savannah. The land forces at Hilton Head are also expecting an attack from the Confederates, who are in force at Bluffton. The whole Federal army is moving forward in the Virginia Valley, Fighting is rumoured to have taken place at Gordons-ville. The Federal General M'Cook has been shot by guerillas in Alabama, whilst travelling in an am bulance. The affair created great excitement at Nashville. Some Federal soldiers went to the neighbourhood of the occurrence, burnt some houses, and hung several men. It is rumoured that prominent Secessionists in Nashville have been shot by exasperated Unionists. The captain of the Federal vessel Adriondack (?) denies that he chased the British steamer Herald within British jurisdiction. President Davis has issued a proclamation, stating that he should not have signed the cartel for the exchange of prisoners if he had known of General Pope's orders, which change war into in - discriminate robbery and murder. He therefore orders, that if Pope or any non-commissioned offi cer of his command be captured, they shall not be treated as prisoners of war, but be held in close confinement. In the event of the murder of any unarmed citizen of the Southern Confederacy, under any pretence, an equal number of commis sioned officers of Popes command will be imme diately hung. The above regulation extends only to Pope's command, and as privates act in accord ance with superior orders, they will be treated as prisoners of war. A Confederate invasion of Kentucky is expected. The drafting excitement continues. Many per sons have been arrested while endeavouring to leave the country. Sir Allen Napier M'Nab died on the Bth inst. a Toronto. The crew and passengers of the Golden Gate numbered 330, out of which 100 were saved. The fire occurred 15 miles off Manzanilla. The steamer was at once headed for shore, which was three and a half miles distant, but the fire made such rapid progress that in half an hour the upper deck fell. The steamer struck the beach soon after, and the people jumped overboard to swim ashore. The vessel burnt to the water's edge, and soon disap- peared. The Jura was intercepted off Cape Race. NEW YORK, AUG. 9 (Afternoon). Great excitement has prevailed on board the European steamers sailing to-day. The police ar rested many persons liable to drafting. Many were disguised as sailors. Several fights occurred. The Government telegraphed that all persons who had purchased tickets previous to the late order could proceed on their voyage. It is again reported that on account of sickness in Richmond the Confederate army has been re moved from the city to the south side of the James River. Pestilence was reported to be raging among the inhabitants of Richmond, and hundreds were dying daily. The Etna was detained for a Queen's Messenger from Washington. The Nova Scotian was intercepted off Cape Race on the 9th inst. SEVERE FIGHTING IN THE VIRGINIA VALLEY. NEW YORK, AUG. 11 (Evening.) (Per Etna, by Telegraph to Cape Race and from Queenstown.) Severe fighting has taken place in the Virginia Valley. General Jackson having crossed the Rapi dan, General Pope sent forward two army corps under General Banks to check him. At daylight they were discovered by General Jackson, who immediately advanced, and the numerous Confe derate batteries being unmasked, a very severe con test ensued about a mile and a half from Cedar Mountain. The contest lasted from three o'clock till dark, when the Federals retired to a position beyond the Confederate guns, but to what distance is not stated. The Federal infantry was badly cut up, and the Federals lost two guns. The Confederate force was estimated at 20,000 men, and that of the Federals at 7,000. Large reinforcements have been sent to the Federals, and more fighting is anticipated. The Confederate ram Arkansas has been blown up on the Mississippi. Yellow fever is raging at Key West. A vessel has arrived at Boston from Key West with 30 cases of yellow fever on board_ Porter's guerillas have been routed in Missouri. The chief superintendent of the New York police has been appointed provost-marshal, and the New York police is constituted a provost guard, to carry out the order of the Secretary of War relative to drafting. There is very little probability of any specie being saved from the Golden Gate. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, AuG. 8 (Evening.) (Per Etna, via Roche's Point.) Money easy ; gold declining, th e presen t quota- tion being 12t, to 13 premium. Exchange inactive : on London bankers' bills, 125 to 1 25} Stocks ad vancing. New York Centrals , 9511 ; Illinois, 59-1 ; Erie, 354. Cotton steady. Middling Upland, 471. Flour and wheat declining. Corn steady. p r „i_ visions, good inquiry. Coffee steady. Sugar fail ing. Molasses inactive. NEW YORK, AUG. 9 (AFTERNOON). Money easy ; gold, 124 premium, declining. Exchange, 1251, declining. Stocks dull. New York Centrais, 92 ; Illinois, 59 ; Erie, 351. Cotton very firm. Middling Upland, 48. Flour heavy, and 10c. lower. Wheat dull, at a decline of 2c. Corn, lc. lower, declining. Provisions quiet. Coffee very firm. Sugar and molasses falling in price. PARIS, AUG. 20. The Paris papers of to-day publish the following ,elegram, dated " ROME, AVG. 19. "Yesterday the Marquis de Lavalette had an audience of the Pope, to whom he gave the assu rance, in the name of the Emperor, that France would never permit any invasion of the actual Papal territory, but would guarantee its integrity at any price." ALEXANDRIA, AUG. 19. The Valetta, with the above mails, left this day at noon for Marseilles. The Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the mails, sailed yesterday at 10 a.m. She may be expected at Southampton about the 31st inst. The Simla brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 16th. The Bengal and Ottawa, with the London mails of 20th-26th of July, left Aden on the 10th inst. (correct date) for Calcutta and the Mauritius respectively. . FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 19.—The English funds arriving with an advance of I, has given firmness to the market. Threes are well maintained at 69fr. Railway Shares quiet, without any material change. The market closed as follows :- 4t per Cents. .. 98 40 Bank Shares 3175 Do end month.... Credit Foncier 1235 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 95 Italian Loan 7l 20 New 3 per Cents .. Roman Do. end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 855 Spanish Threes 5O 50 Do. end month.... 853 75 Home Debt the utmost fun arose through opposite pursuers and pursued from different rings cannoning against each other, upsetting and kissing —it did not seem to matter which—the wrong parties. There were several foreigners present whose mouths seemed to water to enter upon the sport, they appearing to like the institution exceedingly. The fan went on fast and furious, but we must distinctly say, deco rously, and there will be found few more appropriate scenes to laugh away care's wrinkles than at such fetes as yesterday. The crowd of vans outside the Palace was enor mous, but the fine evening favoured the return, which as far as we heard went off well. Good night was said we believe in every British patois. The numbers yesterday were the greatest ever entering the Crystal Palace in one day. The ad missions on payment were 80,583; by season tickets, 3,138 ; total visitors, 83,721. In 1861 59,047 were present on the Foresters' Day; in 1860 67,928 en tered the building for the same occasion. This year's excess is 15,793 bQyond the highest number ever present on cue occasion. THE SCIINTIFIC BALOOk ASCENT. MR. GLAISHER'OBSERVATIONS. A most easy descent was experienced. NotwiTh - standing the immense size of the balloon, which it had been said would be too huge to be manageable, and notwithstanding further that four bags of bal last were brought down in the car, the machine came so slowly to the earth that it had almost to be pulled down. The instruments had all been care fully packed up jnst before the ground was reached, and not one of them therefore was damaged by the descent, or during the time that they were kept in the air. The precise spot of the descent was a mea dow on a farm at Solihull, about seven miles from Birmingham, not far from the Masons' Arms Hos telry, the landlord of which (Mr. Whitehead) at once set out his cart, and had the balloon conveyed to Birmingham to be placed on the railway for conveyance to London preparatory to its ascent from the Crystal Palace to-day (Wednesday). In other respects also Mr. Glaisher and Mr. Cexwell rEceived attention at the hands of Mr. Whithead, which they are desirous of acknowledging. Ex • cepting by the previous ascent from Wolverhamp ton, the one of Monday is unsurpassed in the his tory of ballooning, for the height attained. There is no record of 41 miles having been attained by other persons than Mr. Glaisher and Mr. Coxwell, his aeronaut, and, as a consequence, they only have succeeded in attaining a height of five miles, which they did when they ascended from Wolverhampton a few weeks ago. The miles here spoken of are statute miles, the 4t, miles representing a height of 23,760 feet. At that altitude we may repeat that the temperature was 24 degrees, the barometer read 13 inches, and the dew point was minus 10. Hera at six minutes past 3 o'clock the hands became of eu blue hue, and a qualmish sensation came over the brain and stomach resembling the approach of sea sickness. Upon Mr. Glaisher these sensations proved severe, and were accompanied by an intense headache. The pain in the head and the sickness increased later in the day, and they seemed to reach their most distressing point about 10 at night; and, although a night's rest did wonders for him, he had by no means recovered from his indispositiom yesterday, when at about 11 o'clock he left Wol verhampton to return to London. Mr. Coxwell being somewhat more acclimatized to the tempe rature and atmosphere of high elevations, and s , moreover, not accustomed to suffer by sea sickness; the inconvenience and annoyance in his case were confined to similar sensations,but very much minor in degree. Mr. Glaisher suffered similarly, but not so intensely on the first as on this the second high ascent. How, under such circumstances, he could have taken the immense number of observa tions in the upper strata of the atmosphere as his note book contains is most remarkable, and can. only be explained by his great admiration of the science in which he is so proficient, and his en thusiasm in the discharge of the duties which, on. behalf of his fellow members of the Balloon, Committee of the Royal Society, he has so gener ously undertaken. Nearly every minute of the three and a half hours during which he was in the air on Monday,—namely, from 1 2 to 4 25 p.m., are accounted for by entries in his book, those entries embracing readings from most of his instruments and copious observations upon the surrounding scenery. As on the first occasion, so also now, the popular belief that so great a height cannot be attained without a singing noise in the ears, a distending of the muscles of the face, and a bleeding at the nose being all painfully perceptible was exploded by experience. No such inconveniences were per ceptible on either occasion. The faculty of hearing was acute as at the first ascent, but by sipping a little pure brandy before reaching the highest alti tude the throbbing of the heart, which was so ob servable at that time, was now warded off. Never theless the pulse of both Mr. Glaisher and of Mr. Coxwell rose to a great height, that of the former rising to 108, and of the latter from about 78, on. leaving the earth, to nearly 100. Before making the " dip " on Monday, only one such descent hav ing been made on Monday, and when ascending through a temperature of 50 deg., the voyagers re marked that it was "cold ;" at 37 deg. it was " very cold," and warm wrappers were put on ; but when, during the making of the " dip," they were again in 50 deg. temperature, they experi enced a return of so much warmth that the wrappers were thrown off. At less than a mile higher the temperature, which on the earth being left was 68, now registered 69 deg. At this height a bell was heard as distinctly as if the voyagers. had been on the earth, and the bell tolling in the next street. Here they were doubtless over Bir mingham. At three miles high a clap of thunder was heard very audibly. The former observations relating to the dryness of the atmosphere in the higher regions were confirmed on Monday, but at the lower elevations the evidences registered tend to favour previously conceived opinions. On the first ascent no ice was noticed upon the wet and dry bulbes of the thermometer, but on this occasion both bulbes were covered with a compact cake of ice. No ozone was detected on the former occasion, but on Monday there was on Mr. Moffatt's paper as much, we think, as nine points ; the dew point on starting was 51, or 17 decrease upon the air at starting. At about half-past 2 o'clock, when the height was three miles and the temperature was 28 deg., the dew point was 6. In five minutes after wards it was 3, and it subsequently varied from minus 5 to minus 10 at the highest altitude at 3 20. On descending to the earth it gradually increased to 50. The views obtained were indescribably grand, surrounded as the voyagers were by a boundless sea of blue sky interspersed with floating white massy clouds of varied shapes, sometimes with many domed summite resting upon a ponderous base, and resembling a whole Alpine region moving in space At other times their serried sides resembled those of floating icebergs, and as the sun's rays dartea as far out of upon them they looked only a little less brilliant. "Whether on leaving the earth or at an altitude of four miles, still the cirri (or " mare's-tail") clouds w hite cloud of the clwasasnfidresrtindgess.cribsedo reachwere alwaysat tthe e a b h o i v g ehthem,highest s A ndat theseemedlowest altitude. region,ThroughoutwaAs designatedn peculiarlyohae nrda it "The ascent e, _ nti edhtlawil la:s entire oAc venoenrd Monarch 3 r -- c hi hours that Mr. Glaisher magnificent followed right regal a the w balloon ereit s prionp proportions o i n t s s of the Clouds." And had left the lower immediately that the voyagersnto the domain which seemed to comehis Majesty foh a n e d x earc t cised sovereignty, he as their body guard. ton in short time. be made from Wolverharup+ BRINGING ' , EAT UP WITH A ROUND TURN.—A deputation from Plymouth recently waited upon Lord Pal merston to represent to him that navigators to and from that port required an increase of basin accommodation. Pant replied that he held many offices, but that he was not yet a steward of a steampacket. The deputation retired, and are at present engaged, with their coats off that they may think the harder, trying to find out what His Jaunti ness meant,—Punch. LINCOLN'S Two DIFFICULTIES.—No Money ! no Men I—. Punch. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO2O -- .. 1018 75 1011 25 .. 1011 25 lgesvditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1105 -- 1:05 -- Geneva 350 -- -- Southern Western - .. 557 50 Eastern - Sardinian 362 50 .. -- Aalstrikn - .. 482 50 Lombard 6OB 75 .. 607 50 FORESTERS' FETE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The annual monster gathering of the Foresters took place yesterday. The approaches to London bridge were crowded with vehicles filled with the Foresters and their friends intending to take part in the fete. Victoria Station, we understand, was less crowded, but at London-bridge people at one o'clock who feared a fearful crush had been waiting since nine or ten o'clock. In fact many persons gladly availed themselves of the old omnibus routes to the Palace, finding the rail so hopelessly thronged. Doubtless the fine weather fed the cram to the very top of its bent. Special trains for the fete had come up by nearly every line running into London. The first special item in the day's pro gramme was the procession of Foresters from the cricket ground, accompanied by the bands of the Duke of York's school boys, Irish Rifles, Reade and Mann's, and a saxhorn band, " with members in costume from all parts of England." The said members looked picturesque enough when asso ciated in large numbers, but when, as they often did, they came upon the spectators individually, they bore such a family likeness to the stage bri gand' type that laughter was irresistible. There is, however, nothing to be treated lightly in the objects of the Foresters' clubs, or in those working men who toil for their management. These societies have taught their managers lessons in government and consequently in politics and economics that will in some future day receive their due meed of acknowledgment. All day long the Palace and grounds continued to receive additions to its crowds. The only enter tainment the people seemingly feared to miss was "Blondin on the rope." Promptly at three o'cloca Blondin commenced his fearful march. The view from the Palace was at this time singularly striking and beautiful. Not a cloud floated in the sky, across which swept a pretty strong south wind. The exquisite prospect from the Palace of wood and field, hill and dale, was never seen in greater or clearer beauty up to the last ridge of hills, where Knockholt beaches bound the view. But not a word of admiration or exclamation of joy at the beauty of the scene fell on the ear. No! from the terrace, through the transparent walls of the Palace, every eye sought the human performer and followed his every movement. From below a myriad of upturned faces turned to Blondin, so numerous that they hid the large grounds of the Palace. Clothed in the gay hues of summer, the aspect of the spectators was very charming. But all grow still as Blondin waves his hand to the music to begin, and all watch him with 'bated breath as he goes through that fearful programme with which the reader is now familiar. Blondin never indulged in more sensa tion pranks than yesterday, and was never more successful. He never had promised to wheel a Forester over the rope in his barrow. If the green jerkin, gauntlets, which make up the costume of the Forester are his essentials, Blondin kept his word. Everybody present, we believe, felt glad to see him lift a dummy of the Guy Fawkes species into his barrow, made up as a Forester. He is master of stage bye-play, and showed his skill liberally on this occasion, to the gratification especi ally of his unsophisticated observers. Archery prizes were then shot for, the fountains shot forth their exquisite rainbowed spray' in the rich sunlight, and then the real gambols commenced. Some still followed the programme and listened to the Palace band or the grand organ ; but all the younger throng took to the grounds. A few there disported with Aunt Sally and the like. But the thousands went in for kiss-in-the-ring quite in the old " Greenige" Fair style. From the terraces to the great ponds there was a general sound of smacks, rivalling the drawing of corks in the entr'acte of a theatre. The Irish band was sta tioned here, and played frequently popular dance tunes; but at every rest off went the dancers as before, and the drawing of corks all round was again the rule of the music. Not less than a dozen such kissing ci rc l es were i n f u ll p l ay at on ce and all the eveni ng . Th e process was s i mp l e , and u our s. Cockney d amse l s h a d to i n i t i ate country cousins. the It used to b e th e T ur ki s h mo d e of a rll oin that, and a handkerchief. 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