The Sun. — London, England, 1862-10-04 00:00:00

QUEEN'S TORTERE OF CARIB-MARTYR X.I-Yes—No PAY, As Oat-cast Peter Prince-1. -consort of Civio coin, on 6 Ed. 6, Jan. 17 & 31, 1842, fir T. Gresham P• das the Medal's' King's bailiff agent in Lou mercatordia of the Holyrood HI. ICf.Nave's - acre (to Church : : Rooisceen) Keeps—so Garr's Gwydir. set Ackerley 1820, the fir C. _Hamilton Bt., as child of B. 4th' s sister, Eliza Send, Grey Bry ' dges, 1555, on re- Chamberlayne, kin-trust as in Imp. Car. F., sign to GRESHAM as Emp. Pedro 1. 1825, to ACKEILLEY. The Roraish-harpies are acting without my pscal-leave, 0.6 Will-oath deputy by 31 G m.c 32, 47. '9l act (1820-25, by Castlereagh' a Calvin-protuerant to PESCH'S se double office Archbishop of Lyons & Cardinal-chaplain of Cana da'—as Labrador '49 act successor to 14 Clement's Jesuit outing, to 93's NAP. temporal holy see,)'ng—in Quebec's Virginian 1764-5-76 Admiralty High Court of delegates thro' Yellowstanip, King's-post master Benj. Franklin's Crown veto grants, on J. Adams '99yr. V.P idea to North, on Prince-Consort to Ladle (s Pocahontas &) Mary march, as Commere-pope of Rome-like consecrated by Don:tithe per matrona tenerum corpus Christi,' in title precedent, by Ackerley's Dead probate-Crt.-surrogatcy °ver Montagu Dalhousie's Cemmunety Affranchie to red Scarf-chamber deputies, of J. L's 'Great Britain (33 G. 111., c 44, §1), the _Vara annos Superior', of Vespasian's r/cotlancl mora-via (not Ravites---Clement slaves to Rome's church by The six James' acts)-n BristoPsfuper alt°mare' offspring sea aloft, as letter .type up-set s—m. reflect-Glasco-°ver fiat earth —so "Christian thieves on 1787 Jus. civil law stole. lib, , tit. T., §4, l'exposition 'Hay U.S. '76" for l'exhibition'r s, have no Utrecht Flag-nto 3ty slave-plot, in America — now stopped, by my 1825-Brazil set as (2nd branch of Vere in Mordaunt Monox Dacres Atkyns, Crew-Edg cumbe-Montasue Ackorley), elected as the Imp. King' s *c h am ber-lain ' Chapplen, in 21 11. 8 c 13, on PI Ed. 6 oath of Stat. 1, G. 1, C 3—in Yorkii Osnaburgh-treasurer as W. pat. 7 11. ut—Qui vent la fin, tient Le meridian, csrr the ever-fix't EARTH over Mother-Earth' still fixed. AIR -BALLOON ASCENTS.—With CUL-DE SAC' Drop-PARACHUTE-Poia'rs, on 1783 Idea. atimas—On wing-spread, birds create their own quill vacuum :so Cruelty to animals Act —gives cause, for ma gisterial stoppage of these ascents, without s ho wn wit, vss.— by four exterasai Cul-de-sack windbags. atta che d from crown net, whose mouish-rings, (inward weighteel to Net'ng are .20 within the balloon, at the vertical, till gas fflux over-3-mile Zone-eloctric), Self-convert themselves hori ssontafiy, by elastic Zone -tie, into parachute fall point's, " In ponderibus iibrata SA case of collapse retreat --as seen above Wolverhampton's Union mill of Dudley Somerie, Swinford-Fachange— Pon r at a' he bargmete 206 its point of Fenian-cast, on 17 Jul y, at a- tribut e to Egypt-in-SAID _Rots y !. touchssd te B e l grad e AralaSuez 30. .Pieo meliot .A.ccident & unr n radifchah-6th Aug., 1828, on coDaranell; :it for my 6-LecP Crt---Emp'erota Camera -- -Ys 7 in Lay-scite law, cra,,nter Cartwright, of Of ington-tie-1776, for ;hileAFgrneees)sa.' mhood-Legislature of Indian America, &c., on l'nar g . 12 4 B=46=--s -26=== 320.6 in. Yard. Mr. Coxwell's omission to take up, car-affixed, the pure exynic wax taper flame (ob tained in Pi cc adill y) , used in its vehicle ' the lamp of life' ; for nasal \race-shield-bone inhalation --by all Aeronauts, against 151 b sqrinch atmos pher.to Cough pressure on the lung!, accounts for Blue-lip'd- Glaish'er es suffering a 5-sqr. in, the' descent-saved by hydro gen Voitnic-gas circumvent, reminding him of Shenstone's occult Tnichan straw-calf' —couplet (on Nun Qu'endrida of Tip'ton), for bringing down the maye6th milkuser f " For in Clent, as martyr d, under a thorn 198 u's Liethf King Ken'elm with head off-shorn. f as the defunct ancestors of Emp. Conrad offspring,ghter A ga tha, Malcolm in & wife Margaret's 9 " now in Spanish Escurial of Philip 11. (whose Saxon kin daddy, 1 t l O Edward Cam. v., w m'ass Gaunt- cons table of England), as Hainault-Philipa—S aye Lucen lake Pompeii yr. a 79, set by the baemete 2in.=--s. lb. to vacu a concur TITUS fall for no nble-reason Gby Geometric progres sion to Treble and Quadruple, Ifabelment, against future Papal Martyr-Coronatur s ' of uerpera women -popes, in Windsor -tie (Bowl -waft Z°'erhead Ofteot Cole)-region of wehrliSrulfra Hampton of EDGAR'S sister—Jahn Ellseat till Phseton'd ballccn collapse, descent (belly-paunch-like) to Lang-ham/et of Oakhamsfl.—on Irish-Union deputy Pal merston's Italian-olaisher vise, by xWrottesley's riQr6thy Dudley-Wardship of Bassett-wilton-Grey * Stamford. The vifiquieksilvery drop Vacu°etherize 'l6 in. aloft' for Ccelucid 'isatlon' Net-' r expansion—absence of Nitro-moist fog within Estuative-power,— influx of systemui city, by drowning-Dead-like effects on —So the pit o heart o'er its key-midriff navl, a-pat pulse of a Tucl.sed-up sounded the Thumb-inch tio-dirge music; of the spheres,' ivhilst Wiry hair and ruffled paper gave a voltaw battery s.N4onochord on entering Do" Paradise ' where the first pair f ast' at 15in. deg., of Blood crystarng— on the 16 inch fall for ;5,840 ft. rise 3 miles of 5,280 ft. each, to I,oooft. per let. —touChes the 10-Chain of Port Gaspe-basin marine league by canikon shot 3-mile off-shore limit of 1794 3ty' for river Ligne tire- 11-e S 1 on Ind. Peter Basket , for f caddastral-surveyor Lo GIN ' s fisrY level - o f 1818 Act, § 9 , on ' 42-3 act— showing Fitzvoy's false (3) manual .31-barometer, & multiple sector A scale : s : line on a Soc: Jesu 1826-30 ambiguity- Zollverein " Terms evanesc'nt in Auras"L-rEaGuE 3m. This go bye ‘eivilis inotu fratres' eduoation Comigh 1826 - [on snatch'ngwitnes Ackerley's Emp. Pedro 1. deed resign] 31, pope-Joan game, on Holy Alliance out'ng, by Sir C. Stuart, Adm. Hamond & Hill Sandys, for Ackerley's Chap laincy, edict, 29th Aug., 1825 IPs 26 Jan.—shows La belle re aeriform-within, in cases of Low fire-darap expel by breath Vacu°rarity—for purification of blood (against the pope's .Police 1829 meter-touch P discolour of hand) 'a; 3 mile Wing life-absence aloft sets a perijove to Coorg'32 on Miltonic Pendul'umbrella bottomless pit' Cotton-dValls, against Virgil's nefcensus' fr 6 Planet's perihelion-ellipsse, in 'Monfaucon' p 259, Vine's Temple on Lady-day, " Sufficient unto the aie ^is the Oval thereof." spiral line (to Mundane oval of H. B's will-lease at Ken nington-Butts to 1791 Sphinx-ETe. So Tudor sham csilchell of £' anker star's white-Alba-Pait 'Huff's of Scotia minor) on the ExAter Ursa stellar G?°Jegog ••• : : ration at' Jwithus night poach N bill, 6 Ang u s ,to a J-qaua-nomenanat' Ndav, in Rotherham's -will 1490, O.S. transfiguration... , Kt.-rider erant rss. mtteudo. for Conception. Fest't realist drama-lady. day-gran'ver). 'lt rideth round the heavens as on a horse.' In Hop ton's English Kalendar Concordance, 1612, and on Julies epitaph Tempi= Flavim Gentis a Domitian° CONDITITTX.6O Islartialis' Epigrams, 1. iv. Sent. 1. i. 5. 17, A /3=-- CD SeMitgaelMail ' SUS JOYIS NTITRIX.' [lndia • • * N.] P•Ai k y ns- Montague C. AOKERLEY, Exec, a• • 1-2 w. No, 54, Chamberlayne Gie-sworn [, 4 • PETER BASOV.ET, Income-Mx chief (1842 unpaid§ of co • • China uu . B wall circuit horizon of , -London, Oct. 4, s. 1862) its Montezuma -inch Admiralty red flag, not in a a iss, Brant's power to give up Lair. 1793-China, to lercy], g so GREY-CaUSE of Captn's xe-yr support, the Nn's, t ministers use his brains, & mogul mock him to death Bti as Padrona su l'onde,' for Baar's Dewandency, ney, o an ts; Hen. 7 and 8, ch 31, will trustee h -set Prece Wotton-primate of Canterbury's Rood-nave Arbiter, for holding to 1820's Carib-protectorship oath on its £9O• yr retaining fee for duty costs, £1,600 for Indians of America, which Treasury refuse to pay or reply to their G-Geneva un relieved 1824 act (33 G. m, c 7, Slaves free), on acting Lieut. order—under Polar map-inch Act, 9 1818.20—as King's Chaplin (to Ackerley's R.N. 11% voice, on aa-iuration. act 1791 7),—not for Romish Vr.Gwydir corpo?rates of Baltimore maryland & Brazil, on C alvin Luther church pay—So their colonial idea Crown veto for SIPP acts, if Tacit home shown at 6 months for Law—unknown till Peter's arrival in 1851, as Indian Reserve' Landlord avowed by Earl Grey's No vember letter that justice should be done,'—by his election as `tit' Constable of England (not as Tierre)t to report theft of Tower stores `R . BYhatn' i ssu ed to P. Basket in '42 for Ashburton Ind. survey of the New Found-land of Virginia, by the Earl of Derby' and Blackwood, sectry.-holding the Ind, Yellow Gold-edged 1764-5 3ty Nepal-grants, of Frede. signed) —Benj. Franklin, Rich rickton, N. Brunswisk — ( mond -delegate—on • 1788 in.sparable by 1794's Deputy Jefferson's U. S. c. 1, § 3-1819-26 C. A. resume Flag-nso trust—not for Hudson Bay Co.'s Penn s -brigands, of the china Portet `Four martin-skin Timber'—P• 164 offering. Whence `the subscribed public Entity-£ fund for' the Prince Consort Memorial of 1851 recognition, as above— the definite THE of this adje ct i ve v erbiage on Zoll. Kin g of Prussia & Douro-baton sign at Windsor Castle, wi th r th Albert of and Wife of Church- comvx, on Sir IV. Logan Canada—shows Sir C. Eastlake MY 1842 VICTORIA -mould lay coin Consortment 'CONDITUIe has no infer to bill-acts of —" Irate erat Dea Victoria," —in Ethnikas '37 sham , Victoria' proclaiming without Kelly's City 120,011 to P.C. for (double Swynfordwn Kirk-head, by a Stone statue in Gresham IE Exchange), the Standard bearer Ackerley's oath Jan. 31, 1837-lsSo no figure date on illegal Florin. t As Trinidad's Ceylon 10 deg. Is to as- faigon'd Manilla —So is Bengal's<> broad + arrowsrsto Cuba's Belltower, by 1761-5 Quadruple 3ty-sign grants of America, till Spanish logwood cut-ing convention of 1782, for Brant's deputy- Percy assumption on Peter's grandfather, John Nwlwarr removal to Spanish Esqu' steal for their mant/erelic to Cum berland-fort, :Nova Scotia, its Indian chief over Nf 'ndland Constable's horse, removed to a Hali-cone'ian stable by George TTT tacit Rex admission for Clarence Beltse To Id— Jefferies, & Bailiffs of Tame-(worth, Stour-Trent Anker a. river DEE fish' ry on Poor-law 0. S. audits, March 25, nate in aid 5-43-Eliz.), in Wye part of Guy's Hospital by 21 July, 1521-211 CARL. V. &H.B, of Southark bar' for Clapham's Conjugate reciprocity 31y, to Yellow Tiber' Zoll verein trusteeship, yr 42—on the 4 great nations of Gaul's Lien 'pont del' Arcubatistar'y Jetsam . Stat. -4 Geo. 4 C. 74—for all River Indian Bailie oath Crts, whether Asia's Europe, or the free Mississippi and St. Lawrence. rental ‘ ,„ . :" 5 e will ask the UNION for Loan to Indian and Self ? I in receipt of my father's life - hold name es tate—its being withheld by Attorney Cole's ratehold voting ”" tnY brother Chamberlayne by 1-2 Will. rv., No. 54, (not A c k e , C. Hen 'ley), whence the double forge of "Charles and in Master of Roll's foist-decree, 15th March, , s e q " Ch apters g the 'Enourton ON the Water Act, by Cole's C _n agent of Saugh-&-washall, to the Dean and 0, on.. . y __f_Chester's Crt. of slairfax delegates, Nov., 1807- man—s r v it ick Ejcommunication of name—as palatin-Clare 2d wife, Lady ar a , Oddington—, Sir Tho. Chamberlayne's Butler jud ge sh ip, Carey Berkeley, of Chester's Lacy oganW I P, 1622, on ' 1067' to my — , 'Slane' Life Safety-1 rods . to whale boats upset—medal' d, 1827-37. " °`) Rat e o y'd— owl in desert lone Hugh N.B.—March 18 .d am P-0 God, thy one." At Gemalme 15 Ghent 3ty, with U.S. except France. tits; OhainsOt? landPa June 17, 1815, Wellington signed of 7th, May 12 1814 as blanche, Jesuit restoration (Motu 6th in Consalvi's St. Marie add Mart vrs,' negl6 2i.9 M. Jul 'l6)—on Blucher's 42,000 aid, for 18th June—_ , 31 Thiess ken's the Belgi-7 batons, -Waterloo 'Game' Bill of 62—on my Quebec Indian siderial martyren ' Mastigeus' consecration trust as by Donaitian's Deus ac Domi nus'—ch ewing Peter's' no apostolic- Peter succession, save moue P Tower certify'42. Au seiti de la Boussol e , des Ilea S'6leve a rico—mon temple d e la pals , " Portunees § (Horace) Sir John Phillimore , (on my 1821-2 lt confirmation ti as Lieut.-deputy of Colonial-Sa ra - 'sa T an d Geo. 4's Edin. Gorges-submission), ;G 4ed a ulf Chaainc Temple pl le c hurch, dedicated to r-tt sqr. Meridian as prior to 1582. (See Sun April 19, 28, May 16, & July 19.) A farmer named Louis Bousquin died , ---7----- ---=-------` The township of liingsey (Arthabaska), L. C ., ecently i n at th e ad vanced age of 106 years. —Canadian Paper. MUNIFICENT GIFT.--Willilin Tite, Esq , M I , served the office of Master of the Spectaclemakers' C o piny, during the past year, with general approbation for paint', him urbanity and ability, and signalised his retirement from the office (in which he is succeeded by George Dollond, Esq.) by giving £l, OOO t o the charitable funds, to establish four pensions to the widows of liverymen of the company. This is the third instance of the hon. member's kindness is connection with the City of London, as he had already founded. two scholarships at the C it y School, and two stu deoven Ips at St. Thomas's Hospital, b y the presentation of lar ge r , oinpa.y, m snms than the endowment in connexion with the of 3,,i„ years . L of city which rr he has been a member for upwards LIVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, by THOS. 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'* ;,..t 4 , ‘, ..- - 1 . 4i , ,* ' , 2- . , " •••43.: L . ti t •It 0 POII I . --- 7 - ' . 1.- - __....; 07: 0T1 / 4 , - •• ~,,, 4tt THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 4, 1862. We all remember how thunderstruck was Man chester with the defection of Mr. WILSON from Manchester free-trade doctrines. When he got to India as her Finance Minister there was one thing which must be done. He must make ends meet. He urged the Government to cut down every pos sible expense, but after all he could not frame an estimate which did not leave him with a large de ficit. There was nothing for it, therefore, but to make every export and import, that would do it, yield revenue. Even Manchester could not be exempted ; not less than ten per cent. was ruth lessly clapped on to her piece goods as an import duty, by the great free-trade man of figures. But the worst was that the late editor of the .Economist seemed to have forgotten his principles. India had herself a cotton spinning and weaving interest. There was not only the vast native weaving in dustry in numberless cottages and villages, with bamboo looms making piece goods of hand-spun cotton, but manufactories like those of Manches ter herself were beginning to rise, and here, therefore, was the unparalleled case of a free-trader imposing a duty on the foreign article while the domestic one escaped the tax. It was a clear 10 per cent. of protection. Mr. LAING has been able somewhat to better the case. He reduced the duty to five per cent. Still Manchester is all at ease. She forms, therefore, an association, one not quite so formidable as the Old League, to abolish the Indian Cotton Laws. They are clearly, to the extent to which they go, as opposed to Free-trade principles as the Corn-laws themselves. Mr. LAING confesses that Bombay is a manufacturing rival not to be despised. Hardly anything but the price of coals is against her. At Bombay, notwithstanding the rise in wages, the current wage for the month does not exceed a week's wages in Manchester. Bombay saves also the double freight of sending the raw material to Liverpool, and bringing the manu factured goods thence. India feels the disadvan tage of having few trained hands, compared with an old seat of the manufacture, like Manchester, b u t that is a disadvantag e l essene d b y th e erec ti on f every new mill. Thug, th e L ancas hi re mann fuare threatened with th e creat i on o f r i va l factories, tr w h i ch, like those of M assac h use tt s , w ill h a ve been in g reat part created b y a hostile duty , o eeer 5 sufficient itsel f to g ive a fair profit. Even Mr. LAIN G, l ut GL however, could give Manches ter gentlemen small consolation. H e h a d , as a s t a t esma n, not only Manchester, but a ll I n di a to A think of , and India,just now, could not dispense with the duty. The loss of half a million from the cotton duties might have to be followed by the loss of the duties on other imports, s i nce the manufacturers of hardware and other goods cou ld hardly be per suaded to regard cotton as havi ng a better claim to ex emption than their own manu f a ctures. Thus ' ' the whole customs revenue of two m illio ns might be at stake. Now, direct taxa tion, the only pos sible substitute, is—and how justly !---so obnoxious to the natives, that the Government cannot venture to take any step which will lessen its power to ful fil its promise, and to drop the present low income tax, at the end of three years. The Indians are quite right. They prefer a customs duty, hardly felt, to an inquisitive, oppressive tax, which mulcts the most unequal incomes with equal, or rather with inverse, severity. It is, too, in practice, the most extravagant of taxes. But for its existence, we should never have been saddled with as extra ten millions a year on that purely unproductive outlay, the army and navy. We should have been spared official panics, and got more out of twenty millions than we now do for fifty. The income tax is the grand temptation of a " national-greatness" minister — of a minister who thinks more of Shoe buryness, Spithead forts, and iron sides, than of the prosperity of the mi • ddle classes. We hope India will teach both Mr. G T A,,, --ee -ToNE and Lord PAL MERSTON a lesson, for which every clerk on a hundred a-year and upward s will warmly thank them. Manchester reminded Mr. LAINQ of the cost of THE iSEIN, LONDON SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 21862. the Indian army. It is now 70,000 men. Would not 60,000 do ?_a million a year might be thus saved. Not just yet, says Mr. LAING. For some time to come the generation which has seen the mutiny ought to see that an insurrection is perfectly hopeless. There are still unquiet spirits who ought to be exposed to no temptation. He thought Eng land ought, in fairness, to bear more of the charge of the Home Depot of the Indian Army, but then they should be met by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer with the POPE'S non possurnus. The only thing he could think of was an English endorse ment of the Indian guarantee on the railway capital, by which they might enable India to obtain capital at 4 per cent., which now costs it 5 percent. The risk he considered nothing, and the capital was all English. He did not press this scheme ; neither did he seem very sure that cotton could be regarded as an exceptional case, but he knew of no other. We fear there is little hope for the Lancashire gentlemen. They will be handicapped with a five per cent. probably yet fur so me time in the race with Bombay. We have little doubt that they will, nevertheless, win. What is wanted, is for them to become such purchasers of the raw material in India itself as shall put them and the Indian factories on a fairer level. The two freights, and even the lower wages of less efficient hands, they will easily meet by their energy and skill. The fuller details of battles generally clear up but slowly the schemes of the generals. We get some conception of individual charges, repulses, and struggles, but seldom any precise notion of the arrangements. ARNOLD tells us that he never understood a battle, ancient or modern, from de scription merely; and a far better authority, the Iron Duke himself, confesses the almost impossi bility of giving an intelligible account of all the movements in a great battle to another. What between the reader's ignorance of the locality, and the many things ordered on the field itself which formed no part of the original conception, even the General in chief command would find it difficult to make a stranger comprehend the course of the fight. The greater part of the more serious American battles, and not least those just fought, illustrate these remarks but too well. Some of our contem poraries have written as if they thought they fully comprehended these battles ; but if so, we fail to comprehend their descriptions; and, when we turn to the American documents whence they drew their information, we do not believe that the writers of these documents themselves were masters of the battle as a whole. The main results are what we must be content with ; while it is still interesting to peruse the accounts of some of the separate feats of arms. We can see plainly enough that the Con federates were so vigorously handled on the Sunday by the Federals, that they thought it better to choose fresh fighting ground nearer the Potomac, whence, if not successful, they could more easily recross the river. They had done this by the Wed nesday. Meantime M'CLELLAN had followed them and got into the best position he could, as the pur suer. On the Wednesday, the 17th, the decisive conflict, as it proved to be, therefore came off. The Confederates made the bravest and most resolute efforts to drive back the Federals, bat they were met with equal, at least, and successful bravery. At one point in the struggle, the balance vibrated much more evenly than the Confederates were pro bably aware of, since M'CLELLAN himself sent word to BURNSIDE that the day depended on his holding his position, and that all was lost if he could not. While BURNSIDE, on the other hand, did not be lieve he could hold it without support, The retreat of the Confederates at four p.m., it would seem, alone saved BURNSIDE from being overpowered. So nearly were things balanced that M'CLELLAN at the close of the day, like the Confederates at Bull's Run, did not know whether he had gained a victory. A victory, however, it unquestionably was, and a great one. The defeated side had to ask permis sion to bury their dead ; and, what was of far more consequence, had to commence their retreat at once into Virginia. It is unfair to depreciate the achieve ments of M'CLELLAN the very first time in which he fairly took the field against such able generals, and against soldiers not only as brave as his own, but flushed with recent triumphs. We are sorry to notice in the corres pondence of Dr. RUSSELL'S successor such a total want of that independence, fairness, and generous appreciation of high qualities on both sides, which characterised his impartial predecessor. An honourable partisan of the slaveholders and their generals would not desire to elevate his clients by depreciating their antagonists. The Confederate invasion of Maryland has proved to be both a poli tical and a military failure. They found the Mary landers, if not actively hostile, yet anything but friendly. They did not want their soil to be in vaded in the name of Secessia, or of liberation; and, for the first time, M'CLELLAN ha& the advantage enjoyed by the Confederates in Virginia, of the best information. The military failure was also complete. The capture of a large number of troops at Harper's Ferry was far outbalaved by the much heavier loss of killed, wounded, prisoners, and stores ; and by the recapture of the ' strong positions of Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights. This time the Confederates were in vaders, and this time, therefore, as we are disposed to think, the Confederates were fairly beaten. What the the two parties will now do, we have, as yet, no iniimation. M'CLELLAN, it is said, threatened to advance again into Virginia, along the Shenandoah Valley, from Harper's Ferry. If he does, his probable reason will be to deprive his enemies of the supplies of provisions they would find there. Probably, however, both sides are too much exhausted, now, to attempt much more at present. The Confederates are, by all accounts, both of friend and foe, in such a half-starved, ragged, shoeless condition, that the Union soldiers wondered how men, in such a condition, could fight at all, much less as they did. The normal condition of the " mean whites," however, who form the rank and file of the Confederate army, is pretty much this. They are used to sach hardships as the better fed and better clothed North would never endure; and it is not imp ro b a b le that the struggle will become increasingly o ne o f well-fed and comfortably-pro vided for troops with the desperation of rags and hunger. As grave as judges were the Phil oso ph er s yes terday, down at Cambridge, whil e di scuss i ng , i n Section D of the British Association—the section devoted to the themes of the Fauna and Flora of thb habitable globe, Botany and Zoology —the differ ences discernible between the Man and the Monkey. A discussion, of course, this was, especially suggested by that highest specimen of the ape species, the grotesque and formidable Goriila. In this grave debate, among philosophers a s di s. tinguished as Professors OWEN, HUXLEY, and ROL LEBTON, a sense of the ludicrous, to say nothing of the indecorous, never once appears to have passed across the imagination of these men of science. It was seemingly, to them, as sober and rational an in quiry, in its way, as any upon which the various sec tions of the Scientific Association now carrying on their labours industriously and intelligently from day to day could by possibility adventure. Months and months ago Mr. SPURGEON took this very subject up, it may be remembered, in a much more suitable spirit—in an entertaining lecture upon the Gorilla, delivered to an immense audience in his Metropoli tan Tabernacle. Humourist as he is essentially in temperament, Mr. SPURGEON could not find it in his heart to treat the preposterous question that had then very recently been raised in consequence of the publication of M. Du CHAILLU'S African Adventures, quite seriously—as these learned professors nevertheless did yesterday down at Cambridge in Section D. Mr. SPURGEON found it absolutely impossible not to recognise upon the instant the intensely ludicrous aspect of a query that might really with out exaggeration be expressed in the form of an inquiry addressed to the Human Biped by the Gorilla, somewhat to the effect of the old familiar remonstrance of the negro, "Am I not a Man [at any rate the Gorilla's advocates would delicately insinuate—Sonzething very like a Man—something all but Human] and a Brother ?" Elevated upon his raised platform, for it is less of a pulpit than a platform in his vast Metropolitan Tabernacle— having there beside him upon that platform a gigantic stuffed specimen of the Gorilla species, Mr. SPURGEON from his own intense and hearty sense of the whimsical, could not, we repeat, but recog nise above all things in regard to the inquiry selected by him for discussion upon that occasion its flagrant ridiculousness. Apostrophising the stuffed body of the Gorilla beside him during the course of this popular lecture of his, Mr. SPURGEON spoke quite conclusively, we cannot but think, upon the matter then seriously in debate among some people—As to there being any similarity, resemblance, or analogy between the Human Family and the race of the Gorillas! He spoke thus conclusively because his words, oddly addressed to the inanimate form of the Gorilla beside him, were, in the midst of their very oddity, the thoughtful utterances of the Satirist— of the Humourist —of the MAN! Bearing in mind, indeed—what we here ;scarcely dare even to hint at with a veiled and reverend sense of awe as connected with a notion so wild in its utter ex travagance—bearing in mind how in the History of Mankind the Human Form has been sanctified with a sanctity beyond all articulate expression—it does absolutely appear to us hardly less than a profanation to take an outrageous phantasy of this kind into so lemn and deliberate discussion. If it is to be discussed at all—let it be discussed in the reasonable, because the only appropriate spirit in which Mr. SPURGEON discussed it ! Bringing the ridiculous notion, at once, down from the cloud-land of the scientific dreamer—down, down, irresistibly, to the very dust ! Effectually setting aside the nonsensical theory broached by some among these dreamers, by the very simple and suitable logical device wisely hit upon by Mr. SPURGEON, as alone applicable to the subject, the logical device, namely, of the reductto ad absurdum. Better this, surely, than all the learned prattle of yesterday—indulged in so very gravely in Section D, down at Cambridge, by Professor OWEN—about posterior lobes of the cere brum overlapping, about lateral ventricles, about the hippocampus minor, about what Professor OWEN, for:want of a better phrase, calls archen cephala, and so forth. As well might we chatter with Miss WILHELMINA AMELIA SKEGGS, in the " Vicar of WAKEFIELD," about SHAKSPEAP.E and the musical glasses and what not—as hope to raise into dignity a theme so ludicrous and even despicable by means, of no mattel how unmeasured a quantity of 'this kind of learned, or (we shrink not from presuming to designate it, though Pro fessor OWEN himself is the Philosopher who conde scended to employ it yesterday) this kind of psnedo learned small talk ! No—laughter-moving though the remark may have appeared to be in the estimation of some who listened to it yesterday, when very simply and earnestly expressed by the Rev. W. N. MOLESWORTH, there is a moral and psychical gulf between Man and the higher order of Apes—a gulf that is in itself altogether impassable. We would go beyond this even, and say—that merely to suggest the crossing of which (in the remembrance of the awful considerations we have already alluded to) does appear to as, we re peat hardly less than a deliberate profanation ! The humane sentiment expressed in immortal words by TERENCE— • " Homo sum et nemo alienum mihi puto 1" is strictly in its significance the sentiment of a philanthropist! Not all the babbling of the deli berate maintainers of the Darwinian Theory of Development, and of their predecessors the sup porters of the much older Lamarckian Theory, can surely induce any one out of St. Luke's seriously to believe in his heart that the Gorilla is to be in cluded—and with the Gorilla of course the chim panzee, and the long-armed ape, and the little marmoset, and the huge baboon, and the ourang outang, and every fantastic member of the race of the Monkey—under the all-comprehensive nemo in the beautiful and eminently Christian ejaculation of the pagan TERENCE. Lancashire is not only, it appears, threatened with a cotton famine, but with a coal glut. With the impoverishment caused by the lack of the raw material of cotton among the manufacturing opera- tives of the County Palatine, we are all long since familiar. The impossibility of obtaining our usual supplies ; or, indeed, for some time past, any sup plies at all of that raw material from the Southern or cotton-growing States of North America, has been throughout this year of grace a matter of pain ful notoriety. The stoppage of the customary im portation of the raw material has necessitated, of course, the stoppage also, later on, of the customary exportations of the manufactured articles. Im plying between whiles, quite obviously, the inter ruption of the labours of manufacture. Mills thrown out of work by scores upon scores—operatives thrown out of employment by thousands upon thousands : such have been the inevitable conse quences intermediately of this dwindled importation and exportation. And now, added to all this but too well-known source of grief and anxiety as the winter closes in upon us—comes the melancholy recognition of yet another evil of a kindred character, and in some measure, also, of a kindred origin —the dreadful prospect of what we have designated a coal glut. As illustrative of what we mean by this phrase of a coal glut, it will be sufficient to allude to one indisputable fact, just now brought to light, in re gard to the actual state of things sown at Wigan, in Lancashire. There, at Wigan, at once a great cotton town and coal depot—there is one colliery proprietor alone, for example, who has not less than 70,00 tons of coal banked, that he knows not what to do with,from the closing of certain consider able markets for it ! Divers other colliery proprietors, having thousands upon thousands of tons of coals " banked" in like manner (uselessly left, as the phrase is, upon their hands) in similar propor tions. So direfully are the evils of the American war spreading wider and wider , ring within ring, f r om the first dropping of that strong fact int o t h e deep waters of our c ommerce, of our trade and manufactures. These tidings from the coal district s , as well as from th e c otton districts in the North, threaten for us but a sombre and alarming winter. Thought must be taken now be times for the possible throwing out of work of very many thouss.nii colliers side by side with crowds of starving operatives. THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Next to the Great International and the Armstrong cannons the Metropolitan Underground Railway is the " great gun" of the day. Would it not be an auspicious event to open it with charity There are thousands now in London who would willingly pay a small fee to pass through the tunnel, or a portion of it, which, being certain to raise a good sum, could be given appropriately to the suf fering inhabitants of the county of Geo. Stephenson. If the directors would make this concession to a noble undertaking it would be felt as a generous and gea cious act by the public in general, as well as by— yours, &c., W. SMITH. New Adelphi Theatre, Oct. 2. SEIZURE OF ENGLISH ENGINEERS BY BRIGANDS. A letter just received from Turin says :—We have new shocking instances of assassination at Turin and of atrocious murders at Brescia, and elsewhere. Decidedly a strong Government must be found, able to wrench the dagger from Italian hands. Three of the English engineers of Messrs Waring Brothers, Brassey, and Co., constructors of the Southern Railway (Eboli branch) were seized by the brigands last Friday, in the neighbourhood of Laviano, and carried off to the mountains, where they will have to be heavily ransomed ; the ill starred engineers have been subjected to great ill treatment. LITERARY GOSSIP. Mr. H. K. Browne (Phiz) is about to publish twelve Hunting Bits, in oblong folio, coloured. The Duties of Man, a book by Joseph Mazzini, is an• flounced. Mr. Charles Reade, it is said, will follow Mr. Wilkie Collins as storyteller in All the Year Round. We hear rumours of the likelihood of the Temple Bar Magazine changing both its ownership and editorship. Mr. G. J. Whyte Melville, the novelist, has come into a fortune of £120400. Miss Kavanagh some time ago published two volumes on _French Women of Letters, and has now nearly ready two companion volumes on English Women of Letters. Mr. T. A. Trollope will have ready this month a volume descriptive of a Lenten Journey in Umbria and the Marches of Ancona. We hear that a volume on Scottish history, based on 1,300 unpublished letters of John Knox, is in preparation by Mr. David Laing. Mr. Thomas Macknight's Life of Bolingbroke, Secretary of State in the reign of Queen Anne, is promised next month. The Royal Irish Academy has received a gift of £1,500 to be spent in the purchase of the late Professor O'Curry's papers. Dr. Littledale has in preparation Offices from the Service Books of the Holy Eastern Church, with translations, notes and glossary. A book by the late Professor George Wilson, of Edin burgh, is printing, composed of letters on religious subjects, entitled Council of an Invalid. A History of Federal Government, by Mr. E. A. Free man, commencing with the federations of Greece, and clos ing with those of America, is in preparation. The Rev. Henry A. Stern's Wanderings among the Falashas in Abyssinia will be published next week, in a handsome volume, illustrated with a map, and engravings of Abyssinian scenes and persons. Dean Trench delivered what is reported to have been a most interesting lecture on Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, the Champion of Protestantism in Germany in the Seventeenth, Century, at Llandudno, last week. MR. H. VEZIN, THE AMERICAN 7RA GE.DIAiv. On Monday this gentleman, late of the Princess's, Sad lers' Wells, and Lyceum Theatres, commenced a starring engagement at the Theatre Royal, Southampton, and met with very great success. The part chosen for his first appearance was "Macbeth," of which the provincial papers speak in the most flattering and laudatory terms: On Tuesday the play was " The Lady of Lyons," with Mr. Vezin as Claude ; on Wednesday he was compelled, owing to the success of its first representation, to repeat "Mac beth," and Thursday he appeared as " Othello." The favour with which his embodiment of the Moor was received seems even to have eclipsed his first Shakeperian perform ance, as during the whole of the play he elicited the most enthusiastic applause. The correspondent of the leading theatrical journal, the Erse, is also amongst those who mete out unstinted and unmeasured praise to Mr. Vezin. The engagement of this London favourite appears to have been a decided hit for the enterprising manager and lessee of the theatre, Mr. W. E. Mills ; and that success, it is to be re gretted, must be brief, as Mr. Vezin returns to the metro polis next week, to lead the business at the Princess's Theatre under the new management, which commences on the 20th instant. PRINCESS'S THEATRE.—The present season at this theatre terminates on Saturday, the 18th inst. On the Monday following (20th inst.) a new and enterprising lessee will commence his campaign with the following com pany :—Report speaks well of the leading lady, Miss C. Aylmer, and in the present dearth of female talent now on the London stage, no one will feel more pleasure to chro nicle her success than ourselves. Mr. Robert Roxby, late of Drury-lane, is stage manager; Mr. C. Hall, late of the Adelphi, is musical director ; and Mr. Milano will be the ballet master. The general company include Messrs. H. Vezin, George Vining, R. Roxby, Fitzjames, Stephens (St. James's), Cockerell (St. James's), W. Chamberlin, C. Seyton (Sadler's Wells), R. Cathcart, Moreland, Col lett, Hastings, &c. &c. ; Miss C. Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, Mrs. B. White, Miss Murray, Mrs. H. Marston, Mrs. Simpson, Miss Louisa Graham (Surrey), Miss Marian Jones (Sadler's Wells), Miss Gilbert, &c.—Era. A marriage is arranged, and will shortly take place, between the Earl of Longford and the lion. Selina Rice Trevor, third daughter of Lord Dynevor. A marriage is also arranged between Mr. Villiers Lister, son of Lady Thersea Lewis, and stepson of the Right lion. Sir G. C. Lewis, and Miss Coryton, daughter of the Countess of Morley. Advices from Berlin announce that Count de Bernstorff will leave on the 10th inst. for London, to re sume his functions as ambassador at the Court of St. James's. REPRESENTATION OF GLASGOW.—We under that a vacancy is likely to occur immediately in the repre• sentation of Glasgow, and that Mr. Laing, lately returned from India, will, in all probability, be the new member. Colonel Cattabeni and his fellow prisoners, who were long in durance at Genoa, under s uspicion o f being connected with the great robbery at the Parodi Bank in that city, have at last been released, no proof existing of their participating in that offence. MM. Mason and Slidell have communicated to the French press that they have no official knowledge what ever of their recal to Richmond, which has been rumoured. ACCIDENT AT THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY WORKS, READING. — At an early hour on Thursday morn ing an accident occurred at the station of the Great Western Railway at Reading, and though it did considerable damage to property, it was very fortunately unattended with serious or fatal consequences. Just before the break of day an en gine was employed in shunting ten trucks heavily laden with coal to what is called the "transfer" siding, and the switchman unfortunately turned the wrong points, so that the trucks were put on to a line of rails leading to the works of the company many feet from the level of the ordinary railroad. The declivity of the rails and the great weight in the trunks caused this short train, which had been detached from the engine, to start off at a fearful pace, and as it pro ceeded it increased in velocity, completely demolishing the wooden buffers erected at the end of the rails. It continued its course along the yard, knocked down the office of the time-keeper, and also about 20 feet of a baick wall, the boun dary of the works, and did not stop until it reached the Ca versham-road, leaving only space sufficient for one vehicle to pass along. A number of men from the engineer's depart ment were collected as soon as possible, and the trucks re moved from the road into the company's premises. Some of the trucks were smashed, and altogether a considerable amount of mischief was dond'. llad the accident happened in the daytime there is every probability that some one would have been killed, as there are always persons in the office which was partially destroyed. With so many cross lines of rails as at the Reading station, it is a matter of wonder that the switchmen have not been more perplexed, and accidents of more frequent occurrence. LOSS OF THE STEAMER lONA.—This fine vessel was run down and sunk on Thursday night, between rix seven o'clock, near Gourock, by the screw steamer Chan ticleer, but happily no lives were lost. The lona, as re cently announced in our columns, was sold to the Confede rate Government about three weeks ago, and since then she has been totally overhauled and strengthened for her voyage across the Atla nt i c , Sh e h a d got f u lly laden with coal and ' general stores, and would have sailed on that day but for the stormy weather. On her return trial trip the Chanti cleer met the lona near to Gourock Bay, when, from some cause at present unexplained, a collision ensued, in conse quence of which the Chanticleer ran right into her, cutti ng her nearly in two. The lona sank immed iately afterwards. We are happy to say that no lives were lost, nor any one injured, the Chanticleer having speedily lowered her boats and taken the lona's crew on board, A large quantity of wreck has been strewed on the shore between Kilcreggan and Cove. The lola was insured,—North British .igid, LATEST NEWS. NAPLES, OCT. 2: The Court of Justice of Luccra, has condemned Monsignor Frascolla, the Bishop of Foggia, tl two years' imprisonment, and a fine of 4,500 f. PARIS, OCT. 3. The Paris journals of this evening announce that the Emperor of Russia has requested Count Zamoy ski to travel for some time, and assert that the Count will go to London. The Patrie of this evening publishes a letter from its correspondent at Spezzia, in which he maintains the truth of his previous assertion, that 125,000 francs had been sent to Garibaldi by Englishmen for the General's companions. The same correspondent says I have reason to believe that a conference has taken place between King Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi." The Patrie and La France state that a kind of understanding exists between Garibaldi and some English agents, with a view to the occupation of Sicily by England until the evacuation of Rome by the French takes place. TURIN, OCT. 3, The Official Gazette of to-day publishes a decree accepting the resignation of Signor Conforti as Minister of Justice. Signor Rattazzi is charged ad interim with the vacant portfolio. ATHENS, OCT. 1. A demonstration has taken place at Nauplia against M. Chryssavelghis, an officer devoted to the Government, Thirty arrests have taken place in consequence. The senator Delifanni has died. INDIA. (From Telegraph to India Company's Station, Jubal.) BOMBAY, SEPT. 12. More rain has fallen, and the fears of a famine in the Deccan have abated. Sir Bartle Frere has spoken favourably in Council of Lord Canning's land resolution, and against the late despatch from the Home Govern ment. The case of Capt. Smales has come on for trial. Mr. Mead, of the Bengal Ilurkaru, and Mr. Judge, Chairman of the Local Board of the Assam Company, have been drowned at Calcutta. The Bombay Steam Navigation Company has been wound up. Great disclosures of mismanage ment have been made. A public meeting, in aid of the Lancashire Relie Fund, is to be held next week. Rao Sahib was hanged at Cawnpore on the Bth instant. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Shirtings, nothing doing. Mule twist dull. Cotton firm. Copper and opium dull. Exchange on London, 2s. Ok-d. Government securities—Four per Cents., 941 Five per Cents., 105 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1121. Freight to Liverpool for cotton, 555. (By Telegram to Bombay.) CALCUTTA, SEPT. 12. Shirtings and mule twist quiet. The indigo crop amounts to 107,000 maunds. Exchange on London, first-class credits, 2s. Of i d. Government securities, Five per Cents., 105. Freights to London higher. FRANCE. Under the head of " Lateet Intelligence," La Presse publishes the following : " The steam corvette Prince Jerome has been in dock for two days at Toulon for repairs, but left this morning for Ajaccio with Prince Napoleon on board, who proceeds to Corsica and Egypt." The same paper says:— " Fresh attempts at disturbance have taken place at Palermo and in other towns of Sicily. Numerous arrests have taken place." The Independance of Brussels publishes the fol lowing letter : " Autun, 30th Sept. " I read in a letter dated from Paris, in your number of the 27th, that President Lincoln proposed the command of the armies of the North to General Changarnier, who refused it. Your correspondent has been led into error. I have never received any proposition from President Lincoln or from his agents. I request you to insert this letter in your next number, and accept beforehand my sincere thanks.—CHANGARNIER." BOURSE, October 3.—The market continues very animated, and prices show a further improvement. Threes are now firm at 71fr. 10c. The Railway Share Market is also buoyant, with a fair amount of business doing. A sudden and extraordinary movement took place a short time before the close, and Threes went rapidly up to 72fr. The market closed as follows : it per Cents .. 98 Do. end month.... 99 3 per Cents Do. end month 72 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1265 Do. end month 1270 Bank Shares 3200 Credit F oncier 1270 Piedmontese Fives 73 10 Italian Loan 74 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes — Rome Debt — RAIL' Cash. Account. 1080 .. 1095 -- 1040 .. 1040 Orleans Northern .... New ditto — • . Lyons and Mediterranean 1190 1197 50 Geneva.. Southern BB5 .. 885 Western Eastern .... 560 .. 560 Sardinian Austrian Lorrbard ___ •. North of Spain .... 560 • 557 5 0 Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona 330 .. 345 RUSSIA AND POLAND. La Patrie publishes the following from St. Petersburg :—" Count Andre Zamoyski has been received by the Emperor Alexander, and, after a long interview, his Majesty requested him to travel for a short time. Count Zamoyski will proceed to London ; he has permission to go there by land, but without passing through Warsaw." DR. PARTRIDGE'S VISIT TO GENERAL GARIBALDI. Mr. Partridge, now in Paris, has written the following letter to Galignani's Messenger : Hotel du Louvre, Oct. 1. I beg permission, through the medium of your journal, to contradict most emphatically certain absurd statements which have appeared in some of the French newspapers, to the effect that in my visit to General Garibaldi I was the bearer of political letters and messages, as well as of money. The object of my journey, to which I strictly adhered, was purely professional—namely, to ascertain for the satisfaction of his English friends the actual condition of the General's health and wound, and to afford, if occasion needed, any assistance or sug gestions which it was in my power to offer.-1 am, Scc., RICHARD PARTRIDGE. THE UNDERGROUND RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, in consequence of the advanced state of the works in the sec tion extending from Euston-square to the Farringdon street terminus, Mr. Jay, the contractor for that portion of the line, discharged upwards of 100 navvies, there being a sufficient number left to complete the works in about ten days, by which time Messrs. Smith and Knight, the con tractors for the remainder of the line,will have the rails laid down in their section. When the second line of rails has been laid down, the railway wit h the pl an t ( eng i ne an d carriages having been furnished by the Great Western Railway Couipany), will be inspected by the Government Inspector of Railways previous to inauguration. 'AYS. A VISIT TO AN AMERICAN HOSPITAL. WASHINGTON, U.S., SEPT. 19. People nay have read full accounts of this war, from the firing on Fort Sumter to the invasion of Maryland ; accounts of death on the long march, en the fetid morass, in the sickly camp, and on the red field of battle ; but it is neither the inspired pen nor the eloquent voice that can make them realize in full the horrors of this bloody struggle. It is to the hospitals teeming and choking with their many occu pants, that they must go, before they can say " War is hellish ; war is diabolical." There is a shed, dignified with the name of hospital, in Georgetown, the interior of which reminds you more of cattle pens in Copenhagen-fields than a sanitary building in a civilised country. Here, in one room, are upwards of 60 beds, so close to one another that the nurses can scarce move about without striking the couch of some poor sufferer to whom the slightest touch is agony, and even the vibra tion of the floor is pain, Badly lit, badly ventilated, the atmosphere humid, stagnant, and reeking with disease. Is this a place in which a man with only a slight wound can speedily recover, or in which one badly hurt though not fatally, will not die ? The doctors do their best ; the insuf ficient staff of nurses do their best ; but it is next to im possible to battle successfully against sickness in such an, overcrowded dismal den. This place is, I am bound to say, not a type of the hos pitals in Washington and Georgetown. The Douglas, the Judiciary, the Seminary, and several others I could name, are well conducted. The one I allude to is only lately opened, and perhaps the local authorities intend, in the course of their serene leisure, to improve upon its present arrangements. I visited it last Saturday evening, and they in whose minds the horrors of Scutari are still vivid can follow me with sympathetic interest as I pass along the double file of white faces and helpless forms. Here, on the first bed, with a coverlet over him which might have been clean 14 days ago, is a young man despe rately wounded. A piece of his skull the size of half-a crown lies on the battlefield of Manassas. There is a ball in his right thigh, and his left leg was amputated in the morning. Does he groan ? No ; the bravo heart saps the pain, and the utterance knows it not. " Have we whipped them out of Maryland yet ?" he asks with a feeble smile. Opposite to me I see a brokenhearted m3ther weeping silently over the yet warm corpse of her son. For days past he had been yearning to sea her, momentarily expected her, and she has but just arrived, and he died 10 minutes since. There, under the influence of an opiate, sleeps a youth on whose pallid countenance lurks no suspicion of a beard. On the next bed a boy, still in his teens, moves in an uneasy sleep. " The prairie I the wide prairie I" he utters. Poor fellow. Doubtless he dreams of his far Western home, his youthful sports, his parents, and the pleasant days of the long ago. I pass on. Groaning piteously, a short distance up, lies the skeleton of a once robust frame. He is dying by inches. Ten days, he tells me, he lay on the field, almost glued to the earth by his own blood. Ho got grains of food and daughts of fluid, but what they were and who gave them to him he does not know. Sight left him on the sixth day. " Take off my boot," he moans, "it burns me so." Delusion. There is no covering on his foot. But it is fiery red, and on the heel there is a round black spot, Half an hour later, when I passed his bed, the toil-worn body lay stiff and stark, and. the immortal soul, released, had fled to futurity : In the midst of so much misery, happy are they whose mercurial temperament enables them to make light of their present troubles and salute you with a joke instead of a groan. I stand at the foot of a bed in which reclines a Maine man, My coat almost touches the ropes that suspend the splinters in which rests his shattered leg. " Get away, or I'll kick you," he laughs. The invalid next him has a pot of honey brought him by scree visitor to which he is paying his respects. "I'd advise you to hide that bees'- juice, or I'm bound to get up in the night and steal it.' " What's out at Grover's' to-night; I want to gq." This from a man with a ball through his right lung, another in his hip, and in hourly expectation of having his leg ampu tated Here is a poor fellow who had a hemorrhage this morning, lying weak and exhausted. " Give him some strong beef tea at once" orders the doctor. But the cook has nq beef, and refers the nurse to the steward. The steward has none either, and it is two hours before the patient obtains the nutriment, which, if administered sooner, might have saved. his life. At the further end of the dimly lighted room a hero from Sumner's division lies a dying. Lower and lower ebbs the vital spark. Fainter and fainter comes the fast departing breath. Mutely, with fixed and earnest eyes, he appeals to Heaven, strives with painful effort to catch a stronger breath, with which he may articulate some word yearning to be borne, fails in the endeavour, and expires. And as I pass out into the cool refreshing air of a September night, and look down at the dead-house by the waterside, the moon, penetrating into obscui e corners, shows again his ghastly face. Oh, pomp and eircumstv:nce :of glorious war I This poor man had been sighing after glory. To earn it he left his home, his wife, his child, to battle against insidious disease and an implacable - Zoe ; and after 18 months of hard service in Virginian swamps a leaden bullet sends him to a reeking pest-house, and there he dies, unknown to his friends, his name, scarce noted in the physician's book, and, enclosed in four deal boards, he occupies a piece of freehold six feet by two. And this is war's reward I This is glory I --- THE SHERIFFS' DINNER.—Last evening the new Sheriffs for London and Middlesex, Mr. Alderman James Clarke Lawrence and Mr. Hugh Jones, gave their inaugu ration dinner at the Albion, Aldersgate-street. The com pany, amounting to about 150 gentlemen, sat down at the appointed hour to a sumptuous and elegant banquet, which was served up in capital style a /a Busse. Among those present, in addition to the hospitable hosts, were the Lord Mayor elect, Sir G. Pollock, Sir W. Dilke, Mr. Butler, M.P. ; Mr. Locke, M.P. ; Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P. ; Mr. Norris, M.P. ; Mr. Doulton, M.P. ; Mr. Cox, M.P. ; several members of the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council, and other gentlemen. At the conclusion of the dinner the capacious " loving cup," brimful with some precious fluid unknown to mortals beyond the favoured region of the city, was circulated along the tables ; and the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were given by the Sheriffs, with an appropriate allusion to the contemplated marriage of the Prince of Wales, and were enthusiastically responded to by the company. The Lord Mayor elect pro posed the healths of the new Sheriffs, who inacknowledging the cordial way in which the toast was received assured the company that on entering upon their year of duty it was their earnest desire thoroughly and efficiently to discharge the functions of the important office to which they had been elected by the suffrages of their fellow-citizens. Other toasts, most of which were of a civic character, followed, and the festivity of the evening, en m h i a s n s ee E d y b ie y s, so a m n e d good sgiLinewinsgThfroomm M adame pt L. Vining, iwniltnhtut flagging until a pro tracted hour, when the company at last separated, after enjoying together an extremely agreeable soiree. Mr. Harker was tho toastmaster, and efficiently discharged the duties of that office. THE LIBERAL PARTY IN WALES.—At the con ference of the Liberation Society held last week at Swan sea, a paper was read by Mr. Carvell Williams, containing some curious and startling facts with respect to the small support which the Liberal party and Liberal measures in the House of Commons receive from Wales. Thus, Mr. Miall's motion for the disendowment of the Established Church was supported by but two Welsh votes out of thirty-two, while ten Welsh M.P.'s voted against it. In the three leading divisions on the Oxford University Reform Bill, Mr. Heywood was supported by only eight, six, and seven Welsh votes ; ten Welsh M.P.'s voting in favour of the Church's monopoly. So also in the divisions on the Cambridge University Bill, three members, and in one division, only ono M.P. voted in support of dissenting rights. A more recent measure, the Qualification for Offices Bill of Mr. Hadfield, received the support of only three Welsh members; and but eight voted for Sir Morton Peto's Nonconformists' Burials Bill, which would have enabled Dissenting ministers to speak by the side of the open grave words of consolation to the bereaved members of their flocks : while twelve Welsh votes were recorded against it. In fact, out of seven questions occurring during the last few years, there were only two in re spect to which the Welsh vote, as a whole, was not thrown into the scale of ecclesiastical exclusiveness. Mr. Dillwyn, whose courageous and intelligent advocacy of the rights of Dissenters had made the whole Noneonfor mist body his debtors—had been more fortunate with his Endowed Schools and Charitable Trusts Bills, for he had backed by 12 votes against 10. Much of the laxity of the Welsh Liberal M.P.'s was attributed to the abstinence front out door agitation. Where external pressure had been ap plied the result was different. Thus the votes in favour of the Church-rate Bill had risen from lOto 17,because it was known. the Dissenters were determined in the matter. Still compa ring the Welsh Dissenting population with that of England and of Scotland, there ought to be 25 instcad of 17 Welsh votes for abolition, In every case but two, those who opposed the bill represented constituencies in which dis senters largely preponderated. The conference, which com prised nearly two hundred of the leading ministers and layman of Scuth Wales, and whose proceedings, extending over two days, appears to have been of the most earnest character, debated this and other matters, and measures were adopted to secure a complete organisation of Welsh Nonconformists for political and ecclesiastical purposes. STEAM VESSELS FOR PERU.—In addition to the Morena and Pastaza, paddle steam vessels, of 500 tons, and 150 horse power, recently built at the premises of Messrs. Samuda, Millwall, and forwarded to Peru, for the naviga tion of the river Amazon, two model iron steamers have just been completed by the firm named for the Peruvian republic; and as they are intended for the interior of the country, and will be required to steer in shallow creeks, each vessel is constructed to draw but 16 inches of water, being nearly similar to the steamer built for and now in the ser vice of Dr. Livingstone. The iron plates of which these vessels are constructed have been merely bolted together for the convenience of transit, and they will be rivetted on arriving at their destination. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf Pre' vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, a l wa ys good alike, Sold in packets by 2,280 Agents. 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