The Sun. — London, England, 1862-10-23 00:00:00

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Ll to be paid on ap placation an d £1 10 s . on a ll o t men t. The holders of such first Shares t o h av e th e p r eference, pro rata , all further is sues. N o call to exceed £2 10s. per Shario, nor to b e made except at an interval of at least thrrie months fr im any previous Call. :If no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in lull. DIRECTORS. Thomas Bazley, Esq. M.P., Manchester Thomas Bradshaw, isq., Temple George Braginton, Esq., Torrington, Devon Thomas Briggs, Esq., Prestwich Park, Manchester Henry Browririgg, Esq., 3 ?, Lime-street, E.C. Thomas Clegg, Esq., Manchester Frederic Doulton, Esq,, M.P., Manor-house, Dulwich comm o n Ambrose Emerson, Esq. (Messrs. Newby, Carson, and Co., Gresham House, E.C.) Captain J. P. Napier Hewett, F.R.G.S., J.P., Cardiff Edward Hollins, Esq., Preston, Lancashire Gerard Ralston, Esq., Consul-General for Liberia, 21, Tokenhouse-yard, E.C. (With power to add.) BANKERS—The London and Westminster Bank, Loth• bury, E.C. Soumous--Messrs. Cotterill and Sons, 32, Throg raortori-street Bnoxl nii2—Messrs. IlugginFi and Rowsell, 1, Thread• Zit edle-street, E.C. GENERAL MANAGER—J. B. Langley, Esq. SECRETARY—F. W. Stone, Esq. Temporary Offices-41, Gresham-house, E.C. PROSPECTUS. The object of the Company is—To establish Trading Stations, Fsctories, and Depots on the Coast of Western Africa, and, by means of organised agencies, to bringdown and collect for shipment at such stations the valuable pro ducts of the interior ; to import goods, and introduce ma chinery for cleaning and pressing cotton, and for other purposes; and generally to enter into commercial relations with the native traders, by means of barter, traffic, or other zaanu-wise ; factudes an thereby to o p en up, in exchange for British and other r, a practically illi m i ta bl e market for cotton products—and to secure their transmission to the ports of the United Kingdom. • The capabilities of Africa to meet the commercial require ments of Europe are evidenced in the variety of its pr.duc- Cons, and the increasing extent of its trading operations ; and it has long been a matter of surprise, that the en couragement of Native industry should have been left to associations of a philanthropic character, or to a few Mer chants intent upon the enormous profit which exclusive dealings with the Natives incontestably afford. COTTON. The cultivP.2on of the Cotton Plant, and the employment of African 'tabour on its native soil, have already been suffi cienitly 4 eested. There is abundance of labour seeking empioynt-- ea a fertile soil well adapted for its growth, and a Perralation actively alive to what will benefit themselves. N 0 expensive er uncertain experiments are required to test 'the ability or the will of the Natives to supply this country with cheap and good cotton. The testimony of the officers of the Niger expedition concurs with, and confirms, the evidence of Dr. Livingstone, and other African travellers, that indigenous Cotton is growing in abundance throughout 'vast districts, covering many thousands of miles of territory, and only waits to be gathered. Some tribes of the Natives are lezgely engaged in manufacturing Cotton into chthing for their own use. It is calculated that more than 200,000 Pieces of these cloths are annually exported from Africa into the Brazils. In fact, only buyers on the spot are wanted to take from the Natives what they have to offer, Riving in exchange manufactured goods suitable to their r equirements. In a letter from Dr. Balfour Bakie, in command of the -Niger Expedition, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which Lord R usse ll cause d t o b e i nser t e d in the London Gazette of August 29th, 1862, he emphatically Urges his lordship "to call attention, in England, to the peculiar eligitility of this portion of Central Africa (Bide usse), as a Cotton field.' Again, speaking of Sudan, and the Yoru'oa country, he proceeds to say—" Here Cotton is already in abundance, and cultivated by a people able and Willing to work, and accustomed to its habits and rearing; nothing is required but increased demand, means of pur chase, cleaning and shipment. The rest would speedily Mr. I. Lyons M'Leod, Hon. Secretary to the African Aid society, in a Letter to the Times, March 28th, 1861, writes -----" It is a well-attested fact, that from Western Africa (shipping port Lagos), Cotton in abundance may be pur chased at 2d. per lb., and allowing for exorbitant overcharge for cleaning, freight, &c,, it may be sold from the same lo cality in Liverpool at 41d. per lb. This Cotton is equal in quality to New f c - frleans at 61d. per lb., proving beyond I doubt, th a t from IN estern Africa, which is nearer to our I shores than t h e Cotton districts of America, we may ob tain the same amount of Cotton for £20,000,000, for which we are paying the Slaveholders of the United States X 3 0,000,000. In Western Africa —the Yoruba Country, and alo ng t h e valley of the Niger"_ (the localities a b ove re ferred to by D r. Balfour Bakie) for " t wE he an N oh a a ti a v ta e r s a a n r d e ready to supply any amount of Cotton gow Manufacturers." These testimonies appear to demand the most serious attention and consideration at the present crisis. The supply of Cotton from the Southern States (which till a recent date formed 80 per cent. of our consumption), cannot be fully renewed tor several years ; part of the crop of 1861 has been burned, and the remainder may never reach us. In 1862, it is believed, that only about one-fourth of the usual crop has been sown, and it is not likely that a larger area can be placed under Cotton Culture in 1863; so that, if the Civil War were to be ended by any means to morrow, the full supply of American Cotton could not be resumed till September, 1864. Till that date, the price of middling and ordinary Orleans are not likely to fall below One Shilling per pound. There is abundant evidence to show that India cannot for many years supply the quantity or quality required. The Egyptian supply is the only one which might be supposed likely to compete with that imported from West Africa; but the Egyptian Cotton imported into England has never hitherto reached 200,000 bales in any one year, and if doubled (which it cannot be for two or three years),, it will liot suffice to make up the deficiency created by the reduced supplies of ordinary Americans. Besides, the average price cf Egyptian Cotton has been Bd. per pound for several years. African Cotton, equal to middling Orleans, can be delivered in Liverpool, at a cost to the Importer of Four pence Halpenny per pound. In the seed, in Africa, it may be procured in unlimited quantities at about one Halfpenny per pound; cleaned Cotton about Threepence. Payments being mad in barter, the profits on the Goods reduce the cost price of the Cotton considerably. It is not the intention of the " West Africa Company" to become Cultivators of Cotton ; the Company will simply be Purchasers of Cotton, which will be brought down to their Nations by the Native Traders, and thence Shipped to the ports of the United Kingdom. Several well-known Firms, having used African Cotton in their Manufactories, are able to report favourably of its quality for working. GENERAL TRADE. The Company will not, however, depend on Cotton alone for realising a good dividend on the capital employed. The interchange of commodities will be widened to the largest possible extent, so as to include every other product of .Africa, which will pay an enhanced value in this country. These products, which consist chiefly of Palm Oil, Shea Butter, Gold Dust, Ivory, Hides, Indigo, Copper, Ground Nuts, Pepper, Arrowroot, Gums, Dye Woods, Ostrich Feathers, Timber for Shipbuilding, and other articles of commerce, equally suitable to the requirements of our mar kets, will also be made the media of trade, so as to suit the industry and keen trading instincts of the various classes of Nativ e p ro d ucers . The fact that the production of Palm Oil, Shea Butter, and other valuable articles, is in excess of the local demand, can be shown by the latest and most in dubitable authorities. The Rev. Samuel Crowther, writing to the Church Missionary Society lately, states, " at the Delta of the Niger alone, millions' worth, in red Oil and and black Oil from the kernels of the Palm nut, rot away annually for want of inducement to collect them."* From an official doctunent received through the Board of Trade, It appears that in 1866 upwards of 220,000 tons of these kernels, from which Oil of the value of £3,789,000 might have mm t been extracted, were actually thrown away on the sum of Theu Upwards thus lost represents in actual value a L'awtexppowrtedrdsfroofmaßlatteillisiri n th a t Sterling yea m r o ; r en e d ha :r l h all en it is considered that the tallow was paid for in c as h, an d th at th e bulk of the t ra d e with to the manufa c t ures of Ma c a h maY be carried on by barter ter, the Potteries, and Sheffiel d, it Glasgow, Birmingham, benefits which will ac crue to this country impossible to overa t e t h e country by d eve l op i ng the resources of Western Af r i ca . As there is no currency in the country trade is c Inducted by means of barter, so that a market for English produc tions will be opened at every point from which the Com pany draws its supplies of raw materials. A profit both ways will thus be obtained by the Company, viz., upon the goods sold in Africa, and, vice versa, upon the Cotton, Palm Oil, &c., imported and sold in the English markets. The West Africa Company will commence operations under peculiarly favourable circumstances, owing to the oas • of fact that their agencies on the West C Africa are already organised ; and competent acclimatised persons, native merchants and others, at Abeokuta, Elmina, Lagos, Cape Palmas, and in the Niger river, are ready to act in behalf of the Company the moment it commences business. The agencies of the Company being thus already satisfied, and a considerable number of shares having been subscribed for, the operation of the Company will commence forthwith. From the foregoing statements, taken together with the fact that this Company will possess unusual facilities for successful mercantile operations, owing to its large capital and connections, it is confidently expected that its transac tions will produce very handsome dividends. Persons hav ing a knowledge of the African trade will readily under stand that to name what would be a probable rate of inte th s e szethe cfapital worked would, to the uninitiated, bear assured tra t raggeration. The Directors, however, feel a Company will eventually assume such di mensions as to invest it wi • th a most important character ; and that the developmen t more than a nything of th e resources of Africa will do ge se to h as t en the extinction o f t h e Foreign Slave Trade , th an to c an event not more d esira b le to phi lanthropyoramerce. * See African Aid Society's newt for 1862, page 10, ani generally in confirmatlonof the statements herein, the Annual Reports of the Cotton Supply Association; " The Cotton Plant Countries sdapted to its Culture," pages Esq ~R N Niger Expedition), 5.15, Bre. • D. J. May, and the Reports of Mr. Consul Bur t o n ; Mr. Dvis, Sur the Niger Expedition ; ratified as they are by Mr. g C e on n su th l Campbell ; the Rev. Mr. Townsend. of Abeoknta ; D. R. Ross, Esq.; and by Captain J. P. N Hewett, in his recent work " European Settlements oa r the West Coast of Africa." Shares will be allotted in the order of application. Applications for Shares may be made in the accompany. lug form to the Brokers, Messrs. Huggins and Rows e n, Threadneedle-street, London, E.C., or to the Secr e t ary, a t the Temporary Offices of the Company, 41, Gresham.. house, E.C. FORM OF APPLICATION OF SHARES. To the Directors of " The West Africa Company, Limited." Gentlemen,—Having paid to the Bankers of th e abo ve Company, I request you to allot me Shares in t he Company ; and I agree to accept the same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay £1 10s. per Share on the allotment being made. Nam& Address Occupation Bate , • THEATRE -ROYAL, DRURY.LANE Dion Boneleault. Lessee. WETS uvp,mwrir. THE COLLEEN BAWN. Dion Boncieanit, Searle. G. Vandenhoff, Leeson, Mellon; Madame Celeste, Stevens, Latimer. After 'which, THE RELIEF OF LIJCRNOW. Dion Roneicault, Atkins, Edwin, Ryder ; Madame Celeste and Mrs. Dion Boucicault. Commence at 7. that e de tainly vn as ver that ration larac en the Ipany lgineS )üblic. TNCE v, the c 1 the ivern, Iching 'ife of it was hat he body, cation orged might 'as no ceased d eye. st the might post- idence d, and carrel. I con tment it sales -ere all dily at ;re nn- ; to 395 to 325 I to 265 to 265 stone. 30 st. 38s to d, and our 6d sold at IA oat- 2286 d 258 Od 208 Od 22s Od 19s 6d 60s Od , 30s o€l 36s Od 308 Od wheat, stone ; Ls at. ; Ir. for t. 24. )V. 10. t. 23. t. 29. t. 29. ,have o n the *haat Worse •e-1 14 ,stitate o teach than' ren ar e a born anisfor► Thei r en I 1 mom' r live► 9, fall . Lg. Or work hale faraill en ell , r tea. Laviog e, sod .week A into h little wive s ' to lI I° so re 1 Pe urcl i, Elio. No 21.939. HOTELS, &c. CHA P L I N'S HOT E L. AND SPREAD EAGLE TAVERN, 81, GRACECHURCII-STREET, LONDON. orof oil, combined with moderate charges, will be found at this Establishment. PRIVATE. APA 11 Tll ENT S FOR FAMILIES. Sitting, Room, fis. per Day. Bed Rooms, ls. (Id. and 2s. per Night. A Night Porter in attendance. No INCREASE OF CHARGES. INDIA AND THE COLONIES. PASSENGERS Embarking nr Disembarking will Lind superior accommodation and moderate barges at CIIAPLIN'S CLARENDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND, Adjoining the Terrace Pier. A Lawn in front, extending to the River. TIE LONDON. 191, FLEET-STREET, near Temple-bar. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER for THIS )AY, the 23d inst., will consist of POTAGES. Purée de Gibier—A la Pi intaniere. POTSSON. And uille etuvee—Soles frites. ENTREES. Kari de Mouton—Eminc4 de Veau avec du Jambon. Bceuf braise—Mouton roti. ENTREMETS. Pouding de Cabinet—Tartelettes aux Confiteurs. Fromage et Salade. TO-MORROW, the 24th inst., "THE LONDON DINNER" NIII consist of POTA.OrM. A PAnglals—A "It lienne. POIRSO?4. Turbot sauce d'Hrmard— Soles frites. E•TREES. Compote de Pigeon—Filets de Pore sauce Robert. Mouton bouilli—Bceuf roti. ENTREMETS. Pouding d'Albert—Tourte de Pomme. Fr, mage et Sal de. An extensive and carefully selected stdck of FRENCH RIIENISH, MOSELLE, and other WINES imrorted ex pressly for THE LONDON DINNER. Turtie Soup and all Fish in season daily. The attention of flertrymen, Officers, and Professional entlemen Is especially drawn to the advantafres offered by hese elezant Saloons, which fulfil all the requirements of a West-end Club of the most aristocratic and exclusive cha acter. L'on tronve dans la Salle de Lecture non seulement les meilleurs Journaux Anglais, mail aussi Journaux Allemands, Francais et Beiges. _ SAWYER, Proprietor. AMUSEMENTS. CANTERBURY HALL, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. GRAND SELECTION and CANTATA NIGHTLY— VERDI'S " TROVATORE," and MACPARREN'S " BIAY DAY." PRINCIPAL ARTISTES. Miss RUSSELL, Miss TOWNLEY. Messrs. Tivoli, Green, Raynor, and Russell Grover. Conductor, Mr. JONGHMANS. And the following unprecedented cast of Comic Favourites, viz. : E. Marshall, A. B. Boll , ngsworth, and W. T. Critrh fie!d ; the renowned Trio, Du7ey, Eugene, and Unsworth, the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " OR ANY OTHER MAN." T H E X F OR I), 6, OXFORD STREET. " Don Sebastien " (Donizetti's finest work) ; other Operatic Select'ons, Choruses, Four-part Sonffs, Glees, Duets, &c., by Miss Russell. ATiss Townley ; Messrs. Morley, Greene, Huish, and Albert ; with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonzhmans. Solos by Drew Dean, the youthful Flutist; Mr. Maclagan's Entertainment ; and the Comic performances of Miss Caro line Parkea, Mr. W. INndall, Little Bob, Eugene, and Uns worth (the great originai of "or any other man.") - - - Admission. ed.; Valoony and Stalls, ls.; Private Boxes. Ins. nct. vvr S. WOOT)TN'S CABINET o f CURT° - , / • STTIES—NewIy Polished anti Re-Iined—POLY IT A PITIC HALL, King William-street, (liming-cross Every Evening, at eight (except Saturday), with new characters, music, songs, and dances. The scenic "llustrations and effects, entirely new, painted by and under he direction of Mr. William Callcott. Morning Perforrrance. aturday, Oct. 18. at i. Stalls, As. ; area, 25.; amphitheatre, P. Box-office open from eleven to five. Mr. Woodin as Mr. Sothern, of thn Haymarket, in his rtehrated character of "Lord Durdreary," Diconing and vening. ANR. .„a MRS. GF,WVIAN TIFET), with Mr. JOHN' PARRY. TO-NIGHT, in their New. aria highly successful ENTERTAINMENT, entitled " The Family Le a'end" (214th repre , entation), written by Tom Taylor, Esq., foPowed by Mr. John Parry's Muslim' Narrative of "A Colleen Rawn" ( 2 2 , th time), and every Evrnine(except 'atnr day\ at R ; Thursday and Saturday afternoons, at 3, at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14. Rezent-street. Unreserved septa, ls., 2s. ; stalls, 3a. ; stall chairs, is., secured (without tees in advance, at the Gallery ; and at Messrs. Cramer and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. A ROYLI, ROOMS. Greet Winamill-sfreet, Haymarket.—GßANT? CA SIN() FRANCA TS E. Open every Evering.for Promenade and Paneln,g, with the elehrated Rand of 50 performers. Conductor and Principal rornet-a-Piston. M. BOULCOURT.—The new Imperial Qua irille, Valse Cotillion, and L. Moses's Peep o'DayValse will played nightly. A new Conversation Salon has been added to the above Establishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments. — Admission 15.—Manager, M. Grenet. I) OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GA RDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. Sole Lessees. TIM EVENING, Meyerbeer's romantic opera of DINORATI : Mdlle. Parepa. Miss Thiriwall, and Madame Laura Baxter; Messrs. Santley, H. Core, A. St. Albyn, and W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. Dcors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8. THEAT RF-RON 1 . TIAN MARKF,T, T,Popee Yr. J P. Ftlielrtlymp. THIS EvENTICG. at 7, A DAUGHTER Tn MARRY. Mr. Farren, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Clark. and Miss E. Romer. After which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (261st time) lilt AMERICAN COITSTN. Asa Trenehard , Mr. Ruck tone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Fnlinwed by a new Fare, entitled DUCK MINTING : Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss C. Hill. To conclude with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. lip THVATRE-R0 VAL, ADRLPHI.- ole Pronriator and Mnronyar, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE GREEN BUSHIN. Messr.. G. Honey, Paul Bedford, Bhll ng on, Sefton, Stephenson, Lewis, Eburne, Romer ; •Mies Avonia Jones, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. Stoker. To Conclude with THE SHIT.LTNCI DAY AT, THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Messrs. G. Honey. P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Sefton, C. J. Smith, R omer ; Mi ss K . Bl and and Mrs. IL Lewis. Commence at 7. OPAL PTlTN'ersg,s THEATRE. and Manager. mr Lindu- T TITS TIVFNTNII, PET T('ATE GROUND. Mr. George Vining, Mr. R. Roxby. and Miss M. Oliver. Alter which, et rielit o'clock. Sheri& n Knowles' Play of LOVE. Messrs. U. Mar.ton, A. Vezin, Shore, R. Cathcart, C. S yton ; Mrs. Buckingham White and Misses Murray and Constance Aylmer. To conclude with PERFECTION, lifemara. lritzJames, Boxbv, lielmore ; and Misses M. Oliver and Murray. 1017 AI THRATRIT. Sole Lessee and Manager—Mr. Edmund. Falconer. 204th Night of the rontinuons rim of "Peep d'Day." TITS tc VENING.PEFT O'PAY ; or. Savourncen Deelfsh. Nisrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, nd Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers. Miss Clara eaton. To be followed by the Last View of KILLARNEY, intro diving the Ballet. Corelodieg with the new Comedlett ), IT M UST BE TRUE. 'TWA S IN THE PAPERS. Walter Lacy, J. Robins;lllrs. Weston, bliss Weston, and Miss L. Thompson. A STLFY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- -Es- Sole Froprletor and lwanager, Mr. W. BATTY. Last week but one. THIS EVENING will be performed MAZEPPA ; or, The Wild Horse of Tartary, with New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. Te be followed by a brillisnt routine of novel and daring ''cenes in, the Circle, in which Madame Hislop and Young Devereux 'will appear. To conclude with a COMIC PA LLET, in which Miss Annie Cu.hnie and Harry Croueste will appear. Commence at 7.—Stage Manager. Mr. W. Searle. T" VIGOUR OF YOU T H RESTORED IN to most • manhood the This wonderful agent will restore self-pollutio n, shattered c onstitution, whether arising from r e a a l se ca l u s steosu.r we time m; and, re d, quir if u e s d ed climate , or natu- LIF E ': °UR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S excesses, nocturnal emissions, the e ff ects of printed in- ESSENCE OF structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible' This lifestoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry. it s s effects are pe rmanent . It is acknowledged by the medical press to be t he greatest discovery ever made. to ace ctt or re din th g e to in t o h s e t &mess in every ease is as cert a i n as that water quenches inveterate thirst Dr. Rioord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with fall In structioqs for use, at lis., or fo ur . slid will be sent to any part or the world, carefully packed , on receipt of remiftance o post-office order payable to Pratt! and Co n Patent Medioinewarelionse, 229, Strand London. quantities in one for Us.. THE SITN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENI -61, OCTOBER 23, 1862. WANTED, by a Country Bank, a PARTNER who can introduce from Ten to Fifteen Thousand Pounds. Address, by letter only, A. 8., care of Messrs. Job and Co., 75, Cannon-street West, London. GREAT WE STERN RAILWAY.- The LAST EXCURSION of the SEASON to WEY MOUTH, DORCHESTER., YEOVIL. &c.—On SATUR DAY, 25th October, an EXCURSION TRAIN will leave Paddington at 3.10 p.m., and Reading at 4.50 p.m., for WEY3I; ,UTH, Dorchester, Bridport, and Maiden Newton (12s. and Fa.); Yeovil, Castle Cary, and Bruton (11s. and 75.); Frome, Westbury, Trowbridge,, Melksham, and Chippenham (10s. and 65.); returning at 7.30 a.m. on Monday, the 27th, or Thursday, the 30th October. ROIAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Ineorporstal by Royal Charter). PATnoruss—fier Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT —Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, 8.G., F.R.S. CIIMRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P. ' F.R.S., V.P. DEP UTY.CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has incurred expenses amount ng to £27,260 on various Lifeboat Establishments on the Coasts of Eng and, Scotland, and Ireland. During the same period .the Lifeboats of the Institution have een instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the follow ing Vessels : Barque Vermont, of Halifax. U.S. .. Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby • • • • Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis Steam Dredge, at Newhaven .. •• Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. Schooner Rose, of Lynn •• •• •• Brig Prodroma, of -tockton •• Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough •• •• Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg ..• Brigantine Hans, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields .. Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham •• • • Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. • • Schooner Prospeci, 01 I.lcrw;ck .• •• Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Rnper, of Ulverstone Brig Pallas, of Shields ..• .• • • Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .• •• Schooner Catherine, of Newry -. • • Barque Niagara, of Shields .. • • A Barge of Teignmouth •• •• •• Brig George and James, of London • • Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• •• 4 Coble Honour, of Cullercoats • • • Schooner Eliza, of North Shields .. •• Barque Oberon, of Liverpool .. • • • Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth .• .. • Smack Wonder, of Teignmouth Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole .. Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge .• • • Brig Ann, of Blyth Spanish Barque Primera de Torreviega (saved ves sel and one of the crew) .. Sloop Hope, of Dublin Schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth .. Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel and crew) _ .. • • , • • • • .. 4 Brig Anne, of Plymouth (saved vessel and crew) 8 Schooner Betsy, of Peterhead (saved vessel and crew) •• .• •• •• •• •• •• 6 Smack Merrion Lass, of Aberystwyth (saved Yes and crew) .. .• .• 3 Schooner Fly, of Whitby (saved vessel an : l . crev . w) . Sloop Thomas and Jane, of St. Ives Fishing-boats of Whitburn Brig Arethusa, of Blyth •• •• •• • Schooner Dewl Wyn, of Portmadoe • • Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris Schooner William, of Morecambe .. Smack Gipsy, of Newry • • • • Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven Schooner William, of Liverpool .. Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields .. Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood , Barque Guyana, of Glasgow • Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. Brig San Spirid one, of Galaxide Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vienna French Brig La Jeune Marie Therese Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater • • Ship Danube, of Belfast Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven . • • • Brig St. Michel, of Marans .. • • • • • . Schooner Epimachus, of Amsterdam .. Barque Druid, of' Sunderland •• • • Schooner Bellona, of Red Bay.. •• •• •• Brig Pioneer, of Carnarvon . • •• •• . Schooner Princess Alice, of Ipswich Brig Minerva, of Workington Schooner Elizabeth and Hannah, of Newburgh .. 6 Brig Sisters; of hitby .. • • • • Brigantine Matilda, of Stockholm • • • • .. 4 Brig Jane, of North Shields • . • • .. 1( Brig Trial, of Poole .. • • • • • • Schooner Liberty, of Dublin .. • • • • • • Schooner Sylphiden, of Nakskov (saved vessel and crew) .. • • • • • • Barque Frederick, of Dublin .. Barge Peace, of London Lugger Saucy Lass, of Lowestoft .. Smack Adventure, of Harwich.. .. Pilot cutter Whim, of Lowestoft .. Barque Undaunted. of Aberdeen . Wrecked boat on Blackwater Bank, on the Irish Schooner Skylark, of Folkestone .. Brig Lively, of Clay, Norfolk .. Schooner Rook, of Liv , rpool Barque Robert Watson, of Sunderland .. Schooner Auchincruive, of Grangemouth .. Schooner Friends, of Lynn .. Schooner Eliza Anne, of Dublin .. STlmriLkColl:illiren' o n t nw f Owens, Sunderlandof ardig a n Barque Cedarine, of Bermuda SMaCK Er, daham, of Liverpool Sloop William, of Liverpool Sloop Elizabeth, of Teignmouth Portuguese Barque Ouz V. .. Ship %nnie 143, Hooper. of Baltimore, U. 5... Barque Henry Everest, of Rochester .. 16 .. 2 - 5 .. 3 .. 9 .. 6 .. 5 - 3 .. 2 ~ 8 .. 6 .. 4 .. 8 .. 4 .. 19 .. 2 .. 8 .. 6 .. 5 .. 4 .. 7 .. .. ..134 Total For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has voted £2,15g as rewards to the crews of its Lifeboats. 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Jackson's corps and a column of the enemy, took place in the immediate vi c i n it y of Boteler ' s Mill, by which designa tion the battle will probably be recorded. It was another Ball's Bluff affair, as we learn from various sources. The Lynchburg Republican of yesterday has some inte resting details of the battle. It says that on Saturday morning Gen. Jackson, who still held the north bank of the Potomac, near Shepherdatown, became aware that a heavy column, commanded by Burnside, had arrived on the opposite bank, and was preparing to attack him. General Jackson concealed his troops as well as possible, so as to show but a small force, leading the enemy to believe their capture would be an easy matter. A battery of four pieces was placed on a hill, in close proximity to the river, but the artillerists were ordered to fire only one round, and then to abandon their guns. The ruse had the desire l effect. Four brigades of the enemy rushed across the river and towards the guns, when Jackson precipitated his whole force upon them, as with the power of an avalanche. The enemy were literally mowed down, and their entire body nearly anni hilate& Our informant states that the slaughter was the most terrific ever known in so short a space of time. Many of the poor wretches endeavoured to regain the south bank of the river, but were slain in the attempt, and we are as sured that so great was the number of the dead that the stream was almost dammed up by their bodies. About one thousand five hundred prisoners were taken, and of the whole force, estimated at ten thousand, not more, it is thought, than two thousand escaped. Our own losses are represented to be very inconsiderable, but the extent was not precisely known. It was supposed, however, that two hundred and fifty, killed, wounded, and missing, is a large estimate. Thus has the invincible Stonewall and his brave band added another imperishable leaf to the already lustrous chaplet which encircles their brows. LITERA7 URE. Les Miserables. By Victor Hugo. Authorised English Translation, by Lascelles Wraxall. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. Curiosity, long excited in England, respecting Victor Hugo's master-work will now be gratified. Thanks to the enterprise of Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, it now appears in an English dress, and the translation, executed by Mr. Wraxall, with the valuable assistance of M. Esquiros, does credit both to his industry and his skill. The work, as our readers are doubtless aware, differs in important respects from an ordinary novel. It is not a mere tale of passion and event, but is the expression of the author's matured opinions respecting the im portant social problems of the age, which, from the position he holds as one of the foremost thinkers of his time, are entitled to careful attention. As the title would indicate, the chief characters in the work are by no means among the higher classes, the prin cipal among them being a released convict, named Jean Valjean. He, a peasant by birth, having lost ' his parents while young, had been brought up by an elder sister, whom, with her family of seven children, he, in turn, supported when she lost her husband. But one hard winter having no work, and the family no bread, Jean broke a baker's win dow, stole a loaf, was taken, and sentenced to five years in the galleys. Having made various unsuc cessful attempts to escape, his term of punishment had been gradually lengthened till, at the time of his liberation, in 1815, he had served nineteen years. e Let us," says the author, " make room for a short parenthesis. This is the second time that, during his essays on the penal question, and condemnation by the law, the author of this book has come across a loaf as the starting point of the disaster of a des tiny. Claude Gueux stole a loaf, and so did Jean Valjean, and English statistics prove that in Lon don four robberies out of five have hunger as their immediate cause. Jean Valjean entered the Bagne sobbing and shuddering: he left it stoically. He entered it in dispair : he came out of it gloomy. What had taken place in This Soul ? " On his release he proceeds to a town in which resided an excellent Bishop called Mon seigneur Welcome, to whom, repulsed-from the inns and famishing with hunger, Valjean appeals for succour. The good Bishop receives him as a brother, regales him with the best, brings out his silver plate in his honour, and gives him a bed. But nineteen years in the Bagne have borne their fruit, and the convict, in the night, gets up and goes off with his benefactor's silver plate. He is taken, however, by the police, and brought back, but the Bishop exonerates him by saying that the things were given him, reproves him for leaving behind a pair of silver candlesticks, and exhorts him to employ the money produced by their sale in becoming an honest man. Valjean, astonished, departs, but meeting with a little Savoyard boy he deprives him of a two-franc piece, and, although he immediately repents this crime, sows the seed of many future troubles. We are now introduced by the author to an episode of Paris life, the actors being four students of the Latin quarter with their attendant grisettes. These, with the exception of the youngest, Fantine, call for no especial comment, but she is one of the prominent characters in the Earlier part of the story, as her daughter, Cosette, is in the latter. Deserted by her lover, and having a child dependent on her for support, she leaves Paris, having placed Cosette on the road with an inn keeper's wife named Thenardier, and proceeds to a town in which Valjean, who has assumed the name of Father Madeleine, has set up a manufactory of imitation jet, by which he has not only enormously increased the prosperity of the neighbourhood, but has accumulated a fortune of 600,000 f., notwith standing his expenditure of large sums in charitable undertakings. In this manufactory Fantine gets employment, but misfortune pursues her; the virtue of the establishment is indignant that a woman should be employed who was known to have an illegitimate child ; she is dismissed, and after part ing with her hair and her front teeth to raise money to supply the extortionate demands of the Thenar diers, who had charge of her child, she is forced to resort to the lowest depths of female degradation. A brutal jest practised on her by " a householder and elector," and for which she retaliates, causes her arrest by Javert, an Inspector of Police, but Father Madeleine, who is now Mayor, instead of consigning her to prison, sends her, notwithstanding Javert's opposition,to his infirmary, where she dies. This Javert, one of the represen tative characters in the book, is thus delineated : " This man was made up of two very simple and relatively excellent feelings, but which he almost rendered bad by exaggerating them —respect for authority and hatred of rebellion ; and in hie eyes, robbery, murder, and every crime were only forms of rebellion. He enveloped in a species of blind faith everybody in the service of the State, from the Prime Minister down to the gamekeeper. He covered with contempt, aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold of evil. He was absolute, and admitted of no excep tions ; on one side he said,—' a functionary cannot be mistaken, a magistrate can do no wrong ;' on the other he said,—' they are irremediably lost : no good can come of them.' He fully shared the opinion of those extreme minds that attribute to the human law some power of making or verifying demons, and that place a stye at the bottom of society. He was stoical, stern, and austere; a sad dreamer, and humble yet haughty, like all fanatics. His glance was a gimlet, for it was cold and pierc ing. His whole life was composed watching and overlooking.s thing straight line into what is the most htoisr He had i n usefulness, introduced t two uo tortuous words, the in the world ; he was conscious of and was a S PY had religious respect for his d uties, to the wre tch as well as another is a prie st. have arrested who came into his clutch es! he w oul Woe d and denounced his father if escaping fronlP r ban. And he would have done it with that pr ison, his mother had she brokenhe sor t of inner satisfaction atiWoni,th a ll this he spent a self-denial, chastity. which virtue produc.soes. life of privati on , He was the implac a ble deity, the police compre- h en d e d as the SP ° eons comprehended Sparta, a pitiless t ehtn „, a marble-hearted s p y, a Brutus cont ainedli- in . a Vidocq ." An inno cent pe asant no w b eing arrested in m i sta k e forV d aljean and about to be condemne n , th fin di n g n o other way of saving him,nobly comes PRICK .... -....44. STAMPED ....scl. forward, states that he is the real criminal, and although he is at first refused credence he so clearly proves the fact that he is put in the place of the accused, and is sentenced to the galleys for life. Previously, hOwever, he had withdrawn his money from the bankers and had buried it in the forest of Montfermeil. M. Victor Hugo now makes a digres sion and describes the battle of Waterloo, giving his own account of the reason why the French lost that memorable day. " Was it possible," he says, " for Napoleon to win the battle ? We answer in the negative. Whv ? On account of Wel lington, oo account of Bincner? No; on account of GOD. Bonaparte, victor at Waterloo, did not harmonize with, the law of the 19th century. Another series of facts was preparing, in which Napoleon had no longer a place; the ill will of events had been display - Ted long previously. It was time for this vast man to fall; his excessive weight in human destiny disturbed the balance. The individual alone was of more account than the universal group; such plethora of human vitality concentrated in a single head —the world mounting to one man's brain— would be mortal to civilisation if they endured. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible su preme equity to reflect, and it is probable that the principles and elements on which the regular gra vitations of the moral order as of the material order depend, complained. Streaming blood, overcrowded graveyards, mothers in tears, are formidable pleaders. When the earth is suffering from an ex cessive burden, there 'are mysterious groans from the shadow which the abyss hears. Napoleon had been denounced in infinitude, and his fall was de cide?. Waterloo is not a battle but a transforma tion of the universe." That his Engliih readers will agree with him in the opinions he expresses with regard to this battle is scarcely probable, nevertheless all must admire the graphic vigour with which he sketches the main features of the conflict. To return, however, to the fortunes of the convict Valjean, now in the Bagne at Toulon. Having saved the life of one of the crew of the Orion, who had lost his balance when on the main topsail, and, clinging to a rope, was in a position of extreme peril, Valjean let himself fall into the water, as if accidentally, and was supposed to be drowned, but in reality he seized the opportunity of escaping. His first proceeding was to rescue Cosette from the Thenardiers, who persistently illtreated her; and he then took her to Paris, where, in disguise, and under an assumed name, he employed his time and money in doing good. But be is tracked by the indefatigable Javert, with difficulty makes his escape, and takes refuge with Casette in the garden of a convent, where an old acquaintance of his, whose life he had once saved, was employed, and through whose influence he is taken as assistant gardener. Here he remains for several years, till Cosette approximates to womanhood, when, not wishing that she should remain there for life, he leaves, and they once more take a lodging and pur sue a career of charity. The author now indulges in another episode and introduces us to a Gamin de Paris and to a certain Marius, who afterwards weds Cosette. The former, Gavroche by name, is one of the most natural creatures in the book, and the genus to which he belongs is thus described "This little being is joyous ; he does not eat every day, and be goes to the theatre every night, if he thinks proper. He has no shirt on his body, no shoes on his feet, and no covering on his head ; he is like the flies, which have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen years of age, lives gregariously, lodges in the open air, wears an old pair of his father's trousers, which descend lower than his heels, an old hat belonging to some other father, which comes below his ears, and one yellow list brace. Re runs, watches, begs, kills time, colours pipes, swears like a fiend, haunts the wino shop, knows thieves, is intimate with prostitutes, talks slang, sings filthy songs, and has nothing bad in his heart, for he has in his soul a pearl—lnnocence; and pearls are not dissolved by Loud. So long as the man is a child, GOD desires that he should be innocent. If we were to ask the enormous city what is this crea ture ? It would reply, 'ltis my little one.' " The " manners and customs" of this eccentric character are described by M. Victor Hugo, con amore and so well that no one, we should think, would have cou- rage enough to touch it after him. We have, then, after various adventures, in which Marius and Val jean take part, a most vivid account of the attempted revolution in 1832, in which Marius is wounded, but is rescued by Valjean, who, at imminent risk, carries him through a sewer, and then surrenders himself to Javert, whose life he had saved when recognised as a spy by the defender of the Barri cade, and condemned to be shot. Javert, however, is for once unequal to this occasion; duty commands him to consign Valjean once more to the galleys ; admiration of his generosity impels him to leave him free. Torn by these conflicting emotions his mind gives way, and he cuts the knot by jumping into the Seine. Valjean is now relieved from perse. cution, and Cosette'is married to Marius, but his conscience impels him to tell the latter his history, and Marius, not approving his wife's intimacy with such a character, and unaware that he owed him his life, discourages his visits. Hurt at this, and worn out with anxiety and hardships, Val jean takes to his bed and dies, though not before Marius, disabused of his prejudices and suspicions, has, with Cosette, been to him and sought recon ciliation and forgiveness. Such is the meagre out line of the main thread of the plot of this very re markable novel, which is so rich in both thought and incident that it would require not one but a series of articles to du it justice. For the combina tion, of dram a ti c v igour, artistic construction , and earnestness of purpose, it stands almost alone among modern French fiction, and the publishers by producin g it i n its present form, have c onferred a boon on the reading public, of which, we should think, they wo u ld not be slow to avail th emse.ves. s i: A WORD ABOUT RINGS.--1. - n —Pliny tells us that rings were originally only put on the third finger, b u t later on finger alone middle the first and little fingers, so that the n the litt l e finger, was left free. Some wore rings only others kept that finger for the signet. re their rings on the of the Greeks, says that they mostly wo of course the left, as third finger. The hand intended wasthough the Arabs, as °Plutarch, speaking the right is not convenient for rings, s wear their si - the left is the less honourabl e hen Once a Week. nets on the little finger of the right band. — iv r ► LEMAN. — Your little d always THE FOREIGN OLD o anything-tretimvade ad they are to be found extant at all, old men abroad live, when rru se to be subject to the same i to a prodigious age. '''' ss eY t h e bodies of the old monks in I mummifying influenceersy yellow, very withered, their bones but they don't die. Take ray ca:strreammeamciurbear, wasthe for instance. I have known Senor, seem to oTrieleekyagroe th w e v y walk, friend Extremadura, That hidalgo knew my papa, and knowledgefive-and-thirty r r t y sin y e e e ars l . he has been dead that the Id when I was a child nurses used to frighten Ramon de ofE so o I have met him off and on ' with him. in almost every me 'tat in Europe. Only this summer, drinking tea with capital friends, there came a brisk though tremulous little double knock at the door. " Ecoutez,' , cried 'the lady of the house ; "that surely is Estremadura's knock." Estre madura I There was a cry of derisive amazement, Every body agreed that he had been dead ten years. Somebody had seen an account of his funeral in the newspapers. But the door opened, and Estremadura made his appearance. He was the same as ever. The same yellow face, black bead-like eyes, innumerable wrinkles, filed grin ; the same straw hat, grass-green coat, white trousers, and big stick— his unvarying costume ever since I bad known him. " How you do ?" was his salutation to me. " Ver well since I saw you lease?" I had not seen him for 15 years. He chatted and talked and drank tea. He was asked whence he had come ? From Rome. Whither he was going ? To Stock holm. He was charming ; yet we could not help feeling, all of us, as though we were sitting in the presence of a facetious phantom, of a jocular ghost. It was rather a relief when he skipped away, and was seen no more. I wonder whether he will ever turn up again. It is clear that Estre madura is ninety, if he be a day old ; yet I dare say he will read the account of my death, if anybody takes the trouble to advertise that fact in the newspapers, and say, " Aha I and so he die. Eh I I knew his good papa ver well. "7 Dickens's .411 the Year Round. I ' -.7 - ' , ..',:-.7.7n -- irc: 71 7,.. , •: , DEATH OF SIR DAVIV.I2IIIII 70:1)....;,,L..,1'a.4 —5. , ...,•, , i* , :t)---.. ,,, ;-,A,r.::1ii.:.'. 4 ' In modern times it is no, ___..---- i.:,;4, -..--. i. b•i...f7-47 ,t 4 1 ,4,, r , , possib 5. ti* . ,baps, n ; .9e,..1., 1 .• - ' ' f /,, ,, ,v name any one who has more p owerfutteintrititlt4: : 4.V ' to the improvement of medical science in a.ti t y ofiti s branches, or who has more assida ously exerted him self to acquire scientific and proh.ssional informa tion,ate that and ungrudgingly to dissemin know ledge, than the_ illustrious surgeon v,'hose decease took place at an early hour on Tuesday morning at hie residence Broome-park, Betchworth, Surrey. Certainly no member of the profession hati reached so high a position, or maintained that dia.tinetinn for so long a period as the late President ,of the Royal Sociefy,—fol Sir Benjamin Brodie w is the first surg eon upon whom thiollonour had been con ferred. The subject of this short and imperfect notice ?tag: the third son of the Rev. P. B. 13rodie, Rector of Wiaterslow. an infinfotial rucgistrate and deputy lieutenant of South - 41 7 i hs, and of Sarah, dun:litter Of Benjmin Collins. 01- w-r iii bury, in w hie!. City a bl , ,t Ike; Ot ti t' ( 4, A't weal-known bunker and late Par , i-amcntaty e-- sentative, now resides. Sir .Benjamin was born on. t h e 9th of June, 1783, and consequently at the time of his decease was in his 80th year. After ecquir - ing a sound preliminary education under the pa-. ternal roof. to which he often said he was mainly indebted for the success he has since met with, he was placed under the care of Messrs. Wilson an d Thomas. These distinguished surgeons (the latter of whom became President of the Royal College of Surgeons) were at that time engaged in teaching anatomy at the Hunterian School in Great Wind -oG3ehoergbee,s-cmaimlle-sttrheeetpu(npoiwl c m a i m ll e -st t r h e e et pu (n p o i w l o a f p s ri i n r t E ing- H offi oni ce e .? at in S l t B . Hospital, where he was observed as a most industri ous, hard-working student, and, as a result of this ap plication, .was enabled to pass his examinations, and become a member 3f the College on the 18th October, 1805 ; immediately after which he began to assist Mr. Wilson as Demonstrator of Anatomy, and continued in this office until nop, when he was associated with his. former master as lecturer on this subject. In 1808, when only 25 years of a G g e e o , r g h e e , s was p t p a p l i and nte d h a a d s s l tt s p u r t ; n s n e i r p g a e l o n e h a t r o g e S o t. r Sir Everard Home's patients in ;Ahat institution, as well as for some years those of Mr. Gunning, then absent with the Duke of Wellington's army in Spain. In 1810 he was elected Croonian Lecturer to the Royal Society, the subject of his discourse being " The Influence of the Brain in the Genera tion of Animal Heat." He continued his inquiries, and laid before the society an elaborate paper on the subject, and was rewarded with the Fellowship, and in the following year received the Copley prize from the same learned society. It was not until 1822—an unusually long period to have acted as assistant—that Sir Benjamin was elected full surgeon, and six months later made his debut as lecturer on surgery, and continued to give a regular course to a large class until 1830, when his increasing practice compelled him to relinquish all but clinical lectures. As a lecturer he was plain and easy in his delivery—acute, and always to the point ; not a sentence could be spared, for every sentence had its value ; to lose it was to lose the thread of his discourse, to break the connected series of argument or detail of facts upon which his opi nions were legitimately based. In 1819 he was honoured with the appointment of Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Sur geons, and held this office until 1823. In 1832 ho was appointed Sergeant-Surgeon to 'William 1V.., by whom he was made a baronet, the patent bear ing date August 21, 1834, and on the accession of her Majesty she was pleased to retain him in the same office. From his own college he received all the hon ours that institution has it in its power to bestow on those members who have upheld the honour, dignity, and welfare of the profession, having been elected professor, a member of the council, of the court: of examiners, Hunterian orator, and, finally, in 1844, president. The Sun of the 9th of May last records the regrets of his colleagues at re ceiving his resignation of all collegiate appoint ments. He had previously retired from the posi tion of President of the Royal Society, owing to increasing bodily infirmities (his mental faculties remaining unimpaired), and for a few weeks preced ing his death had suff.red actually from some dis ease of the shoulder joint. Sir Benjamin Brodie had contributed largely to the advancement of medi cal and chirurgical knowledge, and was a member of most of the learned and scientific societies both at home and abroad. He leaves a widow and two sons, one of whom, who succeeds to the title, has greatly distinguished himself as an accomplished chemist. 711 E CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. The following extracts from the Southern papers relating to some of the recent battles will be found interesting : THE BATTLE OF ANTIETAM. (Special Correspondence of Richmond Enquirer.) Winchester, Sept. 22. The commands of Generals Jackson, Lawton, and A. P. Hill left Martinsburg on Saturday morning, 13th instant, upon their road to Harper's Ferry. General Walker ad vanced his division to the Loudon, and General M'Laws marched towards the Maryland Heights. These forces invested the place, and ultimately compelled its surrender. Meanwhile. Generals D. H. Hill and Longstreet engaged the advancing army of M'Clellan near Boonesborough, with a portion of their forces, on Sunday, the 14th instant. The engagement was severe, but the object of deterring the main force from the relief of Harper's Ferry was fully ac complished. In this engagement the loss on either side was heavy, and General Garland, of Lynchburg, was killed, gallantly commanding his brigade. On Sunday evening the Federal forces, commanded by General White and Col. Miles (who has since died of his wounds), driven back from Maryland heights, after a sharp engagement, by General M'Laws, finding themselves effectually surrounded, con sented to The formal surrender was made on Monday morning. Eleven thousand and upwards of pri soners, besides two or three thousand negroes (generally runaway slaves), sixty pieces of cannon, the field pieces of superior kind and quality, 20,000 stand of small arms, best quality, many sabres and pistols, large supplies of ammu nition, quartermaster and commissary stores of considerable value, horses, &c., were capturad. Our loss in this affair was trifling. After Sunday's battle Generals Longstreet and D. H. Hill fell back five miles from Boonesborough, en the Shep herdstown-road, to the high bluffs on this side of the Antie tam river, a short distance beyond Sharpsburg. The great army of *Mellen, Burnside, Porter, Heintzelman, Brc., followed, and General Jackson made haste to join our forces. On Tuesday evening he reached the battle field and at tacked the left wing of the army. In the plan of battle the left wing was commanded by General Jackson, the centre was held by General Daniel H. Hill, and the right wing was General Longstreet. The battle, begun the evening before, was resumed by General Jackson on the left wing s at about 3 o'clock on 'Wednesday morning, and about 6 o'clock became general along the en tire line. Our army formed the segment of a circle, and was pressed upon by a force greatly larger, supposed by those able to form a correct judgment fully three to one. At about 10 o' c l oc k G eneral Jackson was reinforced on the left wing by th e fi ne troops of Genera l 31‘Laws. At 2 o'clock th e enemy was severely w hipped on that win g and driven back f u lly a m il e. The fi g ht at the centre was terribly sev ere , b ut t h e troops of Genera l D. H. Hill reso lutely and to the end ma i n t a i ne d t h e i r ground. But it was of the ut mos t moment to the enemy to turn our right flank in order to cu t o ff our communicat i on w ith the Virginia shore by the ford near Sh epherdstown . The press ure upon t h e gallant corps o f G e neral Longstreet was almost irr es i s tibl e , an d anx i ety e 4 O t o the result grew intense, when General A. P. Hill brought the reserve up from Harper's Ferry to the relief of General Longstreet, at about 3 o'clock, to reinstate the doubtful fortune of the day, which, closing, left our troops in possession of all the ground they held at the opening of the battle, and so much of the enemy's as had been wrested from him by Jackson and M'Laws. ha T ve he o b ur att t l r e oo c p on s, ti e n xii ned aus un te i d ate byrrup t e d past for labours 13 ashours. Neve r they were,e e exhibited their courage and endurance to such advantage ; never has the enemy contested a field so obstinately. It is held by our troops to be the battle of the war. Our loss in killed was not great, though we are called upon to lament the fall of several gallant and distinguished officers. Gen. Starke, of Jackson's division, commanding, the splendid Louisiana brigade, and Gen. L. O'B. Branch, of North Carolina, are numbered with the dead. Many officers and men are wounded; not many very severely, however. Our loss in killed, wounded, and missing, does not exceed 6,000 to 8,000, and the enemy's is calculated to be five times as many. The day succeeding the battle our troops were under arms awaiting a renewal of the engagement, but the enemy found himself in no condition to try it again. The dead were buried, the wounded removed to Sheptierdstown, and with nightfall came the general order, under which the trains and troops were sent across the river, by the next morning's dawn, without loss or casualty. The splendid MAWS of this first pedis possessio in Maryland reflects the highest credit on officers and soldiers engaged; but all award the highest mead of respect and consideration to our great com mander, Gen. Lee, who was present throughoutthetse event ful days, to whose sagacity and profound military judg ment all—all is due. Our troops having crossed the river safely, the enemy soon appeared upon the thither bank, to commence a heavy cannonading, which was answered by our batteries, already put in position by General Pendleton, This artillery duel was continued throughout a consider able part of the day, but the enemy did not attempt to cross the river. On the next morning, however, the advance of the enemy was heralded by a furious cannonading, and sub sequently one or more brigades attempted to cross the river. A part were suffe red to ascend the p re cipitous bank on this aide, to receive a v er y warm rece p ti on from the troops of tocaa t J h a e c ksc utmostn con f us i on , attempted to recross the river, when , ta ki n g them in flank. Their col umn , t h rown i n t o the grape of our masked batteries told a fearful tale of death an d destruction among the affri g ht ed herd. Our loss in this repulse of the enemy was small, and that of 3 o t o he y e ar ne d m s y w w id a e s , very great. The tr oo p s were the flower of Burn s id e ' s divi sion, y Few could have esow p i h and filled e h dead Yankees h ave no doubt floated d 14 next will afford you fuller p a rticulars of this little flanking operation of w the t a nr i wi r e t er with them r eav d neyu to Washington. fullycit .of the its Poto mac , entir e p n Gen to-night. eralJacks on. Our whole army is probably in Mary land THE BATTLE OF BOTELER,S MILL. ( F rom the _Richmond Whig, Sept. 25.) The fight, Saturday lot) olz the Potomac, between Gen, LITTLE OLD GODFATHERS. It appears to me that the children of the present age, when they go to the play at all, take their parents and guardians instead of being taken ; and as for little old god fathers and their birthday presents, it is in the first place patent that the sponsor, as a philanthropist, is all but ex tinct, that when you meet your godfather he usually crosses to the oilier side of the street to avert the possibility of being compelled to ask you to dinner, and that the only notice your godmamma ever takes of you is to beg auto graphs and cartes de visite, or to solicit your " well known-extensive influence" in procuring a nice little In dian appointment, or something of that kind, for her son Ulric, aged 27 and a born fool. Presents I When you are grown up they want gifts from you; when you are small, and they must perforce give something, it is generally something cheap from the Lowther Arcade, or else a 2s. book bound in pink calico with Dutch metal binding, set ting forth how happy Frank and Willy and Herbert were at Concord House, or Euphuism Academy, with an Alex andre harmonium to perform upon, and a vivarium to o f o s e l m h a s o o e l , r un , a d n e r d the r . benevolent , a h u s p auspices s o t . f a pa n nir t .u ( ls w Ve h itsh o e:m e t v h e eo n us t te u ho ally goes into the Church, and becomes Bishop of Bungaree, Central Africa). Nothing is ever said about Dr. Muff, or Mr. Canechild, or Professor Screwboy, or Mr. Swindloparent, B.A. These books are generally written by schoolmasters tor the purpose of puffing (often in the most undisguised manner) middle-class schools. There were books about schools and schoolboys, too, in the little old godfather days, but they were lifelike and true. Dr. Pro sody was a kind of pedagogue, and patted Harry on his flaxen head when he gave his pocket-money to the blind fiddler, or behaved so nobly in not betraying his playfellows in that matter of the rifled orchard ; but what a tremen dous flogging he administered to the traitor Philip, who should have confessed his share in the apple robbery, but allowed Harry to be brought within an inch of the horse for his (Philip's) misdeeds I I say that godfathers and god mothers have degenerated into mere simulacra. They ac cept an awful responsibility with as much alacrity—and, as a rule, with as much sincerity—as the gentlemen who were wont to pervade Westminster Hall with straws in their shoes, and were ready to bail anybody, and to any ex tent, for half-a-crown. When we were young our sponsors made much of us, and left us fat legacies. I was blessed with one—a very little old gentleman who used to come from Finchley to Paddington once a month for the express purpose of teaching me my catechism. What has become of the conscientious people who used to renounce Satan and all his works, and the pomps and vanities of this wicked world for you?—Dickens's All the Year Round, ETCH FROM i come AS round, and the grapes sAaLnYd olives haveen October h been nga has thered in, ,there is a general stir in the hamlets on the mountains of the Abruzzi and the Neapolitan highlands. The fierce heat is now over, and the poisonous malaria of the plains is yielding to the fresh autumn breezes. It is time to bring the flocks to the valleys and low-lying pastures, where they may roam undisturbed until the month of May drives them back to the hills. The note of preparation is sounded among the shepherd families, and after a few days of preparation all is made ready for the journey. It cannot, however, be said that they leave their household gods behind them, for the simple reason that they carry their household along with them. First in the procession come the sheep, for whose benefit the entire march has been undertaken, guarded by dogs, whose names " Fide:e," " Pecorone," and such like sufficiently indicate their qualities and functions. Then the men, each after his own charge. The women and chil dren, laden with the utensils and little necessary domestic property, bring up the rear. We may be certain that they have classed under the latter head of necessary articles, huge necklaces, each bead of which is as large as a pigeon's egg, heavy pendants for the cars, and flaming red and green gowns, to make a brave show on Sundays and festivals. In this order they leave the streets of the village, and wind along the mountain roads, now hidden in a chesnut forest, now emerging from its shady depths,now resting near some rustic chapel, where the women arrange the wild e at flowers they have gathered on the way. At leng th th ey an arr d iv in a the appointed pastures ; the sheep are turned out, w short time the whole plain is dotted with the ir ite fleeces. some building The shepherds then put up the ir .h h near each other. in solitary places, oth ers BOCJnlyt hey move about in Thus settled for the swoon, search of new Pas t " r e s w hen the wants of the flock s iStep n ecessary. For a circuit of about re s nder such ro a road Rome, the vast expanse of mead ow i s in hx m iles abitol for six or eight months of the year by thi s nomadic) poP wat i on ,--Once a Week, t. 23. 1 __ Ei .bill, Beg./ rrac e9 illiao yw lert )v ilert Sty e -ielviB , ,dfo ages t city, J a gs aplir ffick, iddP 4014 Tobil 11 2 ,