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Partial ascent of sixteen persons each time from Two o'Clock, Half-a-Crown each. The " Times," in a leading article, thus refers to this extraordinary exploit :—" The aerial voyage just performed by Mr. Coxwell and Mr. Glaisher deserves to rank with the greatest feats of our experimentalisers, discoverers, and travellers." CRYSTAL PALACE.-ARRANGEMENTS TO-MORROW (Wednesday). Open at NINE. Orchestral Band at Great Organ Performance at Balloon Ascent at 4. 0 Orchestral rand at 5. 0 Admission to all, One Shilling; Children, Sixpence. o * For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, Balle's popular Opera of THE ROSE OF CASTILL Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL , DRURY-LANE. I his Evenin T HE YANKEE LEGACY. Af ter wh i c h . g, THE RELIEF OF LULICNOW. To conclude with THE ARABS OE THE at DES Commence 7 ERT. A Troupe of the Beni-Zoug- Zoug. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This E;ening, THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. 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'.. -'..,: ' .1 ,.;-..' \• I ,V...... ep • 44 , .!; _ _ ~LEL Tore 22noff_!..A t s , THE SUN. NLk; LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 16, 1862. Not a syllable of detailed information as to the Health of GARIBALDI. We must wait patiently, it is to be presumed, until we hear what Professor PARTRIDGE will have to say upon that subjfct. As for the laconic, not to say curt and ungracious, telegrams that have come to us, " few and far be tween," though anything but " like angel's visits," from Turin—telling us, now that the patient's fever was " sligbt," now that his sufferings from the wound in the ankle had ceased at last, again that suppuration had commenced and that copiously, and altogether that the General's condition was to be regarded as in no way dangerous, we all accept in formation about GARIBALDI coming to us from that quarter with unbelief, not unmixed with indignation. General Buto's letter is not to be so easily far gotten. To all the Turin Telegrams about GARI BALDI'S health the painful revelations contained in that letter perpetually recurred to our remembrance as most apposite running commentaries. Had we not all of us in vivid recollection the formal official annou,ncement contained in a recent copy of the Gazzetta di Torino, to the effect that an apartment had been prepared by the authorities in the fortress of Varignano for the reception of the Wounded Hero immediately after his arrival in the Gulf of Spezzia on board the Duca di Genova? A " preparation'' that turned out to mean —according to the evidence of an eyewitness as reliable as General Bixto—no bed, not a single chair, not a scrap of linen, not one , solitary bandage ! That was the " preparation,' forsooth, trumpetted to Europe through the Turin Gazett e ! That was the care taken by the Italian Government of the illustrious sufferer whose great and magnanimous sword had struck off the chains of the southern Population ; and who had been repaid by the country he had so heroically served, and by the KING whom he had so faith fully championed—by defeat, by wounds, by imprisonment ! Whatever after that might be said upon the authority of the Government at Turin in respect to the condition of General GARIBALDI, we must naturally enough, we must inevitably and by necessity discredit. England has deemed the treatment of GARIBALDI from first to last by thi s despoti c C a bi ne t so disgraceful — first of all b y i ts duplicity ; secondly, by its brutality ; thirdly, by its utter indifference towards the sufferings and igno minies inflicted upon him by the successive influ ence of that duplicity and brutality of the ungrate ful Italian Government—England has regarded these incidents with so much horror and with such en honest and burning indignation that (in distrust of the Italian Doctor and the RATTAZZI Cabinet) she his sent out a medical adviser of her own choosing, and of her own rearing, to watch tenderly over the Wounded prisoner, and to preserve, if that ma y yet be practice ble, the imperilled life of the Hero GARIBALDI. The incident of this journey (to Spezzia) of Professor PARTRIDGE will be especially remembered, we may be quite certain of that, in the annals of the epoch now being evolved. It will be recorded there as not the least memorable occurrence of an age in which Fought and Conquered, and afterwards (in the mysterious fluctuations of Fortune) Fought and Fell a man of men like GARIBALDI. The incident will be related and remembered as one honourable alike —equally and conspicuously—to England and to GARIBALDI. While sympathy has Urns been practically mani fested towards the wound ed Hero by his British admirers—the Italians have • not altogether remained silent and impassive under the affecting knowledge of his most bitter misfortunes. The King of ITALY, it is true, can coolly refrain from writing one word, from uttering one syllable expressive of regret for all that has recently occurred in the de ceiving and maltreating and imprisoning of his MAJESTY'sGreatest Subject byhis MAJESTY'S mean est and most treacherous advisers. Signor RAT TAZZI, the Head of that responsible cluster of advisers, and, therefore, in this matter the most guilty among them all, can remain still, on his part, perfectly dumb as to General GARIBALDI'S present position, and as to the circumstances that have led him into it. General CIALDINI, the chivalrous and knightly commander of the forces of King VICTOR EaSaIANUEL, can sully whatever re putation h e may have possessed before for honour and magnanimity—by demanding that a far greater man than ever he can hope to become, shall be brought to public trial as a Traitor to the very Crown that illustrious man may be said to have welded by the blows of his patriot sword, and to have placed upon the brow of his Sovereign with a hand that never accepted in reward even one bauble symbolical of that Sovereign's or of his People's Gratitude. While the KING, the Premier, and the Soldier are bearing themselves thus heartlessly towards the Defeated, Wounded, and Imprisoned GARIBALDI, some at least of the people of Italy are giving utterance, it may be feebly, but at any rate quite honestly and frankly, to their mingled senti ments of gratitude for GARIBALDI, and of indigna tion against the Government. From Naples— the scene of one of the Hero's greatest exploits, the completion, namely, of his wonderful liberation of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies—from Naples fittingly has come forth, but just now, one of the most eloquently articulated evidences of this blended gratitude and indignation. An address, signed by numerous members of the Bar and Deputies, by men and women of the Upper and Middle classes of Neapolitan society, indiscriminately, has reecently been despatched to General GARIBALDI, in his prison-home at Varignano. It is dated significantly enough, on the 7th of September. And, breathing forth at once the feeling that prompted it, it says, without a particle of circumlocution, " General,—To day two years are completed since Naples saw the tyranny of the Bourbons destroyed; since you, the soul and leader of a gigantic enterprise, first to unfold the banner of a united Italy, entered our city alone, and were received here with the enthusiasm of an entire peo ple. We should be wanting in the holiest of human sentiments, that of gratitude, if, silent on occasion of your misfortune, this day should pass away un marked. Illustrious prisoner ! to.day, then, Naples sends you an affectionate salutation. The vicissi tudes of human fortune, whatever they may be, cannot take from you the glory of having made us Italians, or from us the memory of the heart." Signed though these touching words have been by merely a few hundred Italians at Naples, they will find an echo in the hearts, we may be certain, of very many thou sands of Italians throughout the whole length of the peninsula. That echo, those innumerable echoes would not long remain inaudible, were not the reins of Government gathered up as tightly as they are at Turin, while the Soldier- Representatives of that Government, iu the pro vinces of the new Kingdom, look as obediently to RATTAZZI for orders, as do General CIALDINI and General DE LA MAMORA—and while RATTAZZI himself looks just as obediently for orders, in his turn, to his Majesty the French EMPEROR! But for these repressing influences the KING must have been constrained, long since, to grant an Amnesty, instead of allowing his Ministers still to babble about a Trial of GARIBALDI and his —accomplices ! But, for Patriotic (!) Gene rals like CIALDINI, and independent (!) statesmen like RATTAZZI and his colleagues, and magnanimous (!) allies like the Emperor of the FRENCH—GARIBALDI would never have been con signed (tortured with wounds) to prison. Or, sup• posing him to have been brought there in that plight, in some mysterious manner, by other agen cies, he would not at least have been left there suf fering and neglected, as though he had been the last instead of being the first and most illustrious among the Subjects and Friends of him whom that Friend and Subject was the first to dub (with how much or with how little truth ?) the Be Cralantuomo. It is natural at the present stage of the great struggle to inquire into the causes of Southern success. Success we may justly term it, since even should the South be ultimately vanquished, or even subjugated, its achievements up to this time would be none the less wonderful. Richmond has proved a Torres Vedras to the North. It has rolled back the war of invasion through another peninsula, and sent it to the gates of the enemy's capital, And this main feat of Southern arms has been accompanied by a corresponding onward move ment of the Confederate forces along the whole line of attack and defence. Not only on the Potomac, but on the Ohio, the Missouri, and down the Mis sissippi to New Orleans itself, the Confederates are I barsting the famous " Anaconda coil." This, after lalmost a year and a half of war, and as the re trieval of severe losses at first, must be for the time present regarded as a great success. What are the causes of it ? To us they appear to be such as to l ea ve small hope of it s b e i ng reversed b y the Fe derals. - we of course speak subject to the prover bial chances of war, and especially of a war in which the char ces have been so different to what all parties expected. Whatever the even t, how ever, in some thing s the So uth has shown that it possesses advantages which ha ve made it fully a match for the North. I Foremost amongst these is the difference between the Presidents. It is hardly invidious to say that a glance at their photographs, as we see them published in this country, would make it difficult to believe that the honest, rounded, features of the obl ong face, lighted by a quiet undiscerning eye, and surmount ing a gawkey framework, represented a match for the cool determination and intelligence looking 1 forth from the aquiline features and k2en eye of the Southern statesman. The former is the impersona tion of bl undering well meaning honesty, the lat ter that of sharpness, acuteness, and capacity fo r directing action good or bad. Th e same impression the two faces convey, precisely, as their rival mes sages. Before we could know what either would prove to be from facts, our readers may remember, how much struck we were with the altogether higher order of intelligence manifest in tha writinr , of the Southern President. A " muddle" of incon clusive, ungrammatical, well meaning backwoods eloquence, with occasionally good a lliterations or antitheses more suited to a schoolboy theme, than to a Ruler's speech, is the character of A,t r. , "AN COLN'S performances. While those of Mr. D Avis almost came up to the English stan dard in lucidity, avoidance of bombast, and simple statement of fact. It was hard to extract the mean ing from Mr. LINCOLN' S messag es. His rival's were understood as fast as read. One thing th e most h as ty reader remar k e d , t h e Southern President saw his way so clearly that he did not hesitate to state mistakes and losses as distinctly as successes, and all his intimations of what the South intended to do, proved to be fact, not bluster. This THE SUN, LONDON, difference between the two leaders must be felt as long as the struggle lasts. Our Radical friends must not set us down for Aristocrats if we mention another cause. The Southern armies have been composed substantially of gentlemen leading their clients. The " Southern Chivalry" is by no means altogether a joke. The leading men there feel themselves to be the de scendants of the Cavalier party in England, and though rural, and almost solitary, life may have modified externals, they retain that proud belief in superior blood and birth, which would make them endure anything rather than humble to the mechanics of the North. "We are gentlemen— our opponents but the 'cutest of a race of workies," is the sentiment of these men. And strange to say even the miserable mean whites of the South are proud of their gentlemen, and willing to serve under them with almost equal contempt of the North. Now, there is but one thing which the North could match against the Southern gentlemen. CARLYLE has fully illustrated to us how his hero, CROMWELL, met the same thing in England. That mighty military genius, seeing the Royalist suc cesses, pointed out at once that the Cavaliers were csmmanded by gentlemen, and led an army of their dependents—to meet them, he demanded an army of God-fearing men, whose zeal for what they firmly believed to be the cause of heaven, would m Itch the zeal of Cavaliers for the cause of honour. In fact, CROMWELL pitted religious en thusiasm against gentlemanly honour. We all know the result. The RUPERT charge had to yield to the charge of the Ironsides. But wherewith has the North met the charge of the Southern chivalry, fighting, too, for the political indepen dence of the men they despised ? By the mere bubbles of the Union—of vast Empire—of manifest destiny—of model Republicanism—by no one senti ment that fires the soul of men. The North might have had a cry as soul-stirring as that of CROM- WELL'S. It might have proclaimed the wrath of Heaven with the infernal curse of slavery, and now that it had risen in rebellion, have declared the fact a summons to extirpate the enemy of GOD and man from their continent. Alas, with an opportunity such as no chief or cause ought to have overlooked, the North, through its own base sentiments regard- ing the negro, was not susceptible of an appeal to make the war a war of righteousness to the wronged, and of national greatness at the same time. We can hardly believe that an army of mere Unionists will conquer an army of gentlemen and their de pendents, fighting for political independence of a people they despise. It has been remarked that the war has not called forth a single eminent man yet in the North, while in the South three at least—DAVlS, LEE, and JACKSON—have made themselves historical names. The Indian mutiny elicited no genius on the side of the sepoys, while it has immortalised several names of the conquerors. It is not improbable that the North, vast as its numbers are, will fail from the same cause as the mutiny did. Genius and ability wielding smaller resources will al ways van quish mere numbers. The Northern soldiers are sighing to be led by a LEE or a JACKSON ; the Southern soldiers boasting that they are led by them. At what immense odds must two such armies fight. The Southern soldier rushes on confident that his wound or even his death is not thrown away ; the Northern soldier questions whether he is not exposing himself in vain. The diverse de grees of confidence in their leaders are almost enough to explain the different results in so many struggles. Another remarkable view of the Southern case has been pointed out by a Southern paper—that their very isolation from the world created by the blockade, and their being left to their own re sources by the nations of Europe, on whose aid they so confidently calculated at first, has been almost their salvation. At first no one doubted that the immense creative power of the North, and the absence of anything like manufacturing and mechatical skill in the South, must soon place the latter, if blockaded, at the mercy of the former. Even if the South could find men, how could it feed, clothe, and arm them ? To the astonishment of Europe this has been done for nearly a year and a half, and for vast armies too. The men the North provided them. Its anti•negro policy furnished the South with black labour, leaving every adult white free to fight. Its blockade rendered numbers of white men idle and available for the war. But where were the arms to come from ? It could be no great number which could run the blockade. The answer is in the homely old proverb which tells us that " necessity is the mother of invention." Under that stimulus the South has shown what it can do. The war will do for it, indeed, what nothing else would do. When it is over the North will find, to a great extent, its occupation gone. The South has been compelled to become its own manufacturer. It will very proba bly remain so, and perhaps may be so unwise as to imitate the North, in preferring bad and clear do mestic productions, to the cheap and better ones of Europe. When we look at the facts to which we have ad verted, when we consider the absence of Union feeling in the South, the presence of Secession sen timents in the North, and the impossibility of sub jugating and re-amalgamating a whole nation of men who have shown such unlooked for resources, Skill and courage, it seems not too much to conclude that the grand question of one or two nations is already decided. The north may yet shed blood and win battles ; that it can reunite the South with itself seems now impossible. One of the worthiest and most esteemed among the citizens of London has but just now passed away from amongst us, in the person of Mr. CHARLES PEARSON, the City Solicitor. Although Mr. PEARSON had all but completed the allotted age of man—being in his 09th year when he breathed his last on Sunday morning, at his resi dence in Wandsworth—he was in the midst of so many good and useful labours (still incomplete when he died) that we can hardly help regarding his de parture as premature. Yet had he done his part well, a n d long, and energetically from first to last, us at once a public servant and a public benefactor. Mr. CHARLES PEARSON' was, in one sense, cite of that not by any means numerous class, known as the class of men who are in advance of their own times. Yet was he also one of that still smaller number, who being thus in advance of their times, so far as the early recog improvement is con cneirtinoend_o_tb. y the necessity f or no means degenerate into idle and crotchetty diy•dreamers; on the contrary, realising their cherished sche mes of chan g es f or the better, by the practical skill with which the y wor k out their at wimaginations. tfirst,h perhaps,the MetropolitanaPPlren Underground t 1 Y ldest Of Railway is a sufficient attestatien in the instance of Mr. CHARLES PEARSON, the late Solicitor for the City. For of that extraordinary, and, as it was first of a 1, by m any, deemed extravagant scheme, Mr. PEARSON was the original promoter. He, unfo r tunately, has not lived t o witness its actual completion; but , at any rat e , observing it s towards rapid approximation he had the satisfaction of it. His discharge of other onerous and responsible TUESI)AY -E VE NI N"( 1-, duties besides those devolving upon him in his_most conspicuous capacity as the City Solicitor—his able conduct, for instance, for some period as Governor of Whitecrass-street Prison, and again as High Sheriff of Southwark, at once served to illustrate the ability, integrity, and general excellence of the man, and his cordial appreciation by largo num bers of his fellow-citizens. While, during the latter years of his active and useful life, Mr. CHARLES PEARSON has worked admirably well in the inte rests of the great metropolitan Corporation, who had, with rare sagacity, chosen him as their Soli citor—still more admirably has he worked, quite spontaneously, and voluntarily, and without one sordid thought of remuneration, in the interests of the labouring classes in the capital, in behalf of 'he artizan population of this busy world of London ! His enlightened E fforts to ensure the salubrity of the homes of that population by clustering them at reasonable distances in the country, upon one or two of the leading lines of railway—beyond even the remotest of the straggling and crowded suburbs of this vast metropolis—that one good work alone would entitle CHARLES PEARSON'S name to our remembrance as that of a distinguished and practical philanthropist. 711 E 711EATRES. DRURY-LANE. Last night Mr. Boucicault produced another of his sen sation dramas, which met with a success that promises to be of a most lasting character. The name of the drama it self, " The Relief of Lucknow," is quite sufficient to attract immensely; but, in addition to that most attractive and memorable title, a number of the most thrilling incidents are ingeniously connected, and presented to the audience in a manner that none but a stage director of the greatest eminence could accomplish. It must have been a difficult task to entwine a sort of love story into such a memorable event as the relief of Lucknow, but Mr. Boucicault has succeeded even in that. The drama is divided into four acts, each of which closes with a tableau, which would have been sufficient to secure the success of any drama of the same description. The piece opens with a splendid view of a Highland home in India, and here we are introduced to a Mrs. Campbell, whom we find is attached to Captain Randal M‘Gregor, of the 78th Regiment. The lover arrives and communicates the disturbed state of the surround ing country to her, and her friends, amongst whom are the Rev. Mr. O'Grady, George M‘Gregor, an ensign of the 33d, and Jessie Brown, the attached attend ant on Mrs. Campbell's children. In a very short time after this communication an attack is made by the Rajah Gholam Bahadoor, and one of Mrs. Camp. bell's children is carried off. Thus an opportunity is given for the introduction of a number of characters, and the rescue of the child forms the chief incident in the plot. To accomplish this Jessie Brown and her faithful lovers, Cassidy, an Irish corporal, and Sweeney, an English drummer, go through a number of hair breadth escapes, the most intensely exciting of which is the perilous flight of Jessie on horseback, with the child in her arms, up a mountain pass, and through a dreadful tor rent. In addition to this we have a magnificent represen tation of the encampment of the rebellious rajah--a gor geous native festival, in which the celebrated Arabs take the parts of sepoys—and, finally, a most vivid and bril liant representation of the relief of Lucknow. The acting of Mrs. Boucicault as Jessie Brown was most impressive, and the manner in which she sang the various snatches of Scottish song was peculiarly beautiful and Madame Celeste as Mrs. Campbell was the perfection of melo .drama. Mr. Swinbourne made his first appearance in London as Randal M'Gregor, and was received with the greatest cor diality ; that he will become a metropolitan favourite is certain. Mr. Boucicault, as Cassidy, the warm-hearted Irish corporal, acted with all that humour which so con spicuously marked his assumption of Myles, in the " Col leen Bawn," and which has rendered him the first of Irish comedians. Mr. Mellon has a good part, which he de velops to the very utmost—it is that of an old soldier, who having left the army from conscientious scruples, returns to his old profession, in order to aid the weak and helpless. Mr. Chai les Vsndenhoff, another first appearance, as Geordie M'Gregor, gave promise of being an excellent actor; and Mr. Atkins as Sweeney the drummer, acted with a quaintness and humour that pleased the audience amaz ingly. Mr. Ryder and Mrs. Jordan represented the prin cipal Hindoos with great care and vigour. It is impossible to speak too highly of the " Relief of Lucknow" as a military spectacle. From first to last the incidents were most vociferously applauded, and the crown. ing one, " the charge of the 78th Highlanders," elicited such tremendous applause that it made the walls of Old Drury fairly ring again. At the termination of the piece Mr. and Mrs. Boucicault received a perfect ovation. The house was crowded almost to suffocation. ADELPHI. The highly-interesting little drama, " One Touch of Nature," was revived here last evening —Mr. Benjamin Webster, of course, sustaining his original part of Mr. Penn Holder. Excepting Triplet, in " Masks and Faces," we know of no character that affords Mr. Webster such scope for the exhibition of his powers as an actor as the old promptor in this interesting little trifle. The audience was perfectly enchanted with the truthfulness of his acting, and gave vent to their admiration by the loudest applause. Miss Simms and Mr. Billington sustained their parts with their usual excellence. Miss Avonia Jones, we understand, re-appears very shortly in Buckstone's celebrated drama, " The Green Bushes." STRAND. Last night a new comic drama in two acts, called, " My Son's a Daughter," was produced here. The story turns upon the midnight adventures of a certain rollicking king's trumpeter, who made love in the dark to a young village maiden and an old village maid, to the great disgust of the guardian of the former, who wishes to marry his dependent. After giving rise to considerable village scandal by the avowal of his night's adventures, he marries the young woman, but not before discovering that she is the child of an old comrade whom he had sworn to seek and protect under the belief that the orphan was a boy. The principal parts were sustained by Miss Josephs, Mrs. Poynter, Mr. Parselle, and Mr. Turner, with much success. The an nouncement of the piece for repetition every evening was received with the loudest applause. SURREY. Sir Lytton Buiwer's play, "Richelieu," was chosen last evening by Mr. Creswick as the first of a series of fare w,ll performances at the Surrey. The play of " Richelieu" is well adapted for the display of those sterling qualities which mark this favourite performer's histrionic assump tions, and in Mr. Creswick's delineation of the Cardinal he rose in such power that, at the close of the third act, an unanimous round of applause was followed by a call before the drop-scene, a similar compliment being paid at the Gloss of the drama. At the termination of Mr. Creswick's con nection with the Surrey, he will make, we understand, his reappearance in the more fitting and congenial atmosphere of a West-end theatre. " The betrothal of the Prince of Wales with the Princess Alexandra of Denmark," says a Brussels letter in the Journal de Liege," took place on the 9th at the Palace of Laeken, in presence of the King of the Bel gians. After the ceremony a grand dinner was given, at which, in addition to the royal visitors and their suites, the Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, with several members of the English and Danish diplomatic bodies, were present." We understand that the Prince of Wales's mar riage to the Princess Alexandra of Denmark has been pri vately settled at Brussels, that it is one based entirely upon mutual affection and the personal merits of the young Princess, and that it is in no way connected with political considerations. The late Prince Consort, whose sole ob ject was the welfare and happiness of his children, had been long convinced that this was a most desirable mar riage. The knowledge of this is itself a source of deep gratification to the Queen, and will be most satisfactory to the country. The Independance mentions amongst the on dits in Paris that M. de Lavalette is to replace M. de Fiahault, as French. Ambassador in London. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH PEKIN,— The telegraphic communication now in course of construc tion by Mr. Reuter, through Russia, Siberia, and Mongolia to connect Pekin with St. Petersburg and London is ex pected to be completed in six months,—London and China Telegraph. THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.—Considerable pro gress has already been made with this great and important work. It is only a fortnight since operations were coni inenced opposite Montagu•house, Whitehall, and already from that place to Waterloo-bridgo large numbers of piles have been fixed. Yesterday several lighters were placed opposite Somerset-house, and the work of pile driving com menced in that part of the river. ME MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS FOR THE EAST OF LONDON —Yesterday the contractors commenced opera tions in Old-street-road, St. Luke's, in connection with the greai, I t Eddle Level Sewe r th ro u g h Shoreditch , which will conic out at Old-strut. In the Hi g h- ft connection is bei ng ma de simultan eous l y wit', tjae main line of sewer from Bethnal-green, so as to continuo the sy st em throu g h Hi g h -street O ld - street. vta Wilderness-row and Clerken well to Blooms bury, where it will unite with the western main draina g e at Oxford -street. The works at the Bast London end pre.?.ent so me formidable engineering difficulties. SEPTEMBER 16, 1862. LATES r NEWS. PARIS, SEPT. 16. The Paris papers of to-day publish the following telegram : " ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 15. "News received here from Syria states that the Hauran is still in insurrection. " The population had attacked the Turkish camp at Magrah, and intercepted the convoys. "An insurrection has also broken out at Castra- van and Gazir. " Daoud Pasha had been repulsed by the insur gents and, it is asserted, wounded. The Emirs Medjid and Kaisers were likewise wounded. " The above intelligence was telegraphed to Beyrout. THE BOMBAY AND MEDITERRANEAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. H. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Mcoltan, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived in the river. She brings 47 passengers, including Major-General Sir R. Walpole and Sir James Cochrane, £2,501 in specie, pearls valued at 56,000 rupees, and upwards of 4,000 packages of cargo, including raw silk valued at £130,000 ster ling. The Ripon left Gibraltar for the East on the Bth inst. On the 7th the Mooltan spoke the British bark Grenfell, on the 11th the brig British Bride, and on the 15th the bark Haddington. The Mooltan left Gibralter on the 10th inst. Exchange unaltered. CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 13. The term fixed for the withdrawal of the caimes expired to-day. The paper money of the State, amounting to 99,880,072 piastres, has been entirely withdrawn from circulation. BELGRADE, SEPT. 15. Two hundred National Guards have left the bar ricades in the town, fatigued by the incessant duty of watching them. Two battalions of militia were about to follow their example, but remained on a promise being made that they should be diabanded within 10 days. The insurgents of the Herzegovina have surren dered. Lu!ca Vucalovich, their chief, has been summoned to Scutari under promise of an amnesty. PARIS, SEPT. 15. The Constitutionnel of this evening publishes an article en the Roman question signed by M. Li- mayrac, which says : "For 30 years the Imperial Government has de fended the independence of the Papacy, but it is not reasonable to conclude from this that it intends to maintain the Papal Government for ever. " If France considers it her duty to secure the independence of the Papacy, she also considers it her duty to respEct the liberty of peoples. "The Court of Rome and the journals which are devoted to it affirm that the Roman Government is loved by its subjects. It is therefore only necessary to protect it against any external attacks. " The Papal power being secured within by the wishes of the inhabitants, and protected from with out by a formal declaration of France, which word is as good as her sword, there is no longer any reason for the occupation of Rome by French troops." TURIN, SEPT. 15. The Official Gazette of to-day says : " Some journals have reproached the Govern ment for not having yet declared its intentions respecting the disposal of those who took part in the late acts of rebellion. Considering that the law has to be executed and justice to be left to freely take its course, the Government was not obliged to make any declaration on this subject. " The facts in question having taken place in several provinces, it is necessary to determine what Court of Assize is competent to try the prisoners. " The Government has also had regard to consi derations of public safety." Count Stackelberg, Russian Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Turin, has arrived here, accompanied by his suite. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 15.—The market is not very ani mated to-day, and prices have undergone but little variation. The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cents. 96 25 Bank Shares 3165 Do. end month.... Credit Fonder —1212 50 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 55 Italian Loan . 70 75 New 3 per Cents .. Roman — Do, end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilie- 915 Spanish Threes -- Do. end month.... 943 75 Home Debt RA ILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1055 .. 1050 Northern New, ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1170 .. 1168 75 Geneva 372 50 .. 371 25 Southern 837 40 .. 836 25 Western - .. 561 25 Eastern .... Sardinian .. 365 .. Austrian Lombard An inquest was held to-day on the body of William Gamble, who committed suicide. He was, previ ous to the melancholy occurrence, groom to Colonel Vyse. Th© jury found that deceased committed suicide while in a state of temporary insanity. _ _ A MAN SHOT BY A VOLUNTEER.--A young lad named C. Ridley, 19 years of age, a boilermaker in Messrs. Stephenson's factory, and a Volunteer Rifleman, is in the custody of the Newcastle-on-Tyne police, charged with shooting J mes Rendall, a cabinetmaker. A prize given by Mr. Hcadlam, M.P., has to be shot for this week, at th© rid I range, Byker-hill, and Ridley had been out at the range Ipractising on Saturday evening. Upon returning to the town he had gone to Rendall's residence, in Gibson-street. Ibeing upon friendly terms with him. Soon after entering he said to Rendall, " Jem, I'll shoot you," and he put a cap on the nipple of his rifle. Rendall replied "Mind what you are doing ; that rifle is not made to be played with." At the very moment, however, the rifle was discharged by Ridley, a bullet entering Rendall's right side, passing through the abdomen, and shattering one of his arms fear fully above the wrist to the elbow. He was able to walk to the infirmary. He is extremely ill, and in a very dange rous state. His arm will have to be amputated. Ridley is horrified at the effects of his folly, for there is no doubt he thought his rifle was unloaded. He states th a t h e f i red all the charge at Byker, and left his rifle lying in the gr ass until he examined the target. And he can only account for the accident by the circumstance that some one must have loaded his rifle, taking it for his own, and, having found out his mistake, laid it down again, MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A LEICESTER MAGIS TBATE.—We regret to record the death of Mr. J. F. Hol lings, of Leicester. Deceased married the sister of Mr. J. Biggs, late M.P. for the borough, and his wife died in May last. Since that time Mr. Hollings has been prostrate in mind and body; and although latterly he was thought to be rallying, he was found dead in his bedroom on Sunday morning, in a manner which gave every reason to believe that the unfortunate gentleman had committed suicide. Deceased had qualified himself for the bar, but never prac tised his professi,D. He was eminently a man of letters, and took part in the educational, social, and political md wasove w mes of the ti me. H e was a borough mag i s trate , mayor in IS 0. Hi s d ea th i s great l y regr etted by all a classes, n and it will occas i on a blank which wil l no t readily be filled up. The Phare de la _Loire reports that at a Protes tent wedding, which took place the other day at. Nantes, a Catholic priest came into the church with his hat on. When asked t o remove it he refuse d, s aying that h e cons id ere d himself in the street and not in the house of God. The sexton's wife took off his hat, whereupon he abus€d her grossly and was with difficulty put out of the church. Th , _ name of this faithful son of Rome ought to be made public. The f ema l e hippopotamus at the Garden of Plants, Paris, gave birth to a young one last week; but, it di©d ill a short ti me , like all_ those precediDgf CONDITION OF CANADA. (From the Toronto Globe of August 29,) The season, as a whole, has been a profitable one I for the farmer, so far as filling his barns are con cerned, and as to price he has had and will have during the fall he has no reason to complain. There is no sign of scarcity in Europe. We are thankful that the miseries of the manufacturers of England are not aggravated by the evils of a short crop. There is no surplus, however, from the past year, and every season shows the agriculture of Western Europe less able to find food for the commercial communities depending upon it. The American surplus will be needed, but there will be no scarcity to cause a high price, and there is no reason to sup pose that rates in America will be higher next spring than they are now. Fall trade seems to have rendered it impossible that the price of an article capable of transportation a long distance, like wheat, should ever rise to a very unusual height. As this fact comes to be understood there will be far less speculation in the grain trade than has hitherto existed, and less hoarding by farmers in hopes of receiving the traditional " two dole. a bushel.” The Canadian farmer will this year get a fair price for a full crop, and the earlier he sells the more he will realise. When the Canadian farmer is prosperous the whole province rejoices. Were it not for the American war we should be a long distance on the road to inflation, which occurs almost with the re gularity of nature at intervals of ten years. Five years have elapsed since the crisis of 1857, and of the disasters which were the result of the inflation which culminated in that year but few traces re main, at least upon the surface of our trade. The farmer is generally free from debt, money is plen tiful, the rate of interest lower than it has been for 10 years past, the stock of goods in the country is light, and the indebtedness not greater than can easily be met. In ordinary times large sums of money now lying in deposit in the banks would very speedily be put in motion in various enter prises, commercial, agricultural, and manufacturing. Credits would be liberal, and inflation would be the result. But the American war has aroused a strongly conservative spirit among merchants and capitalists. The Trent affair alarmed many. It was a startling thought to be brought home to the minds of men largeiy engaged in business, having their means spread out over the country and not to be recalled save by years of labour, that in a single day, by the rash act of a Yankee sea captain, they who thought themselves far above the world might be compelled once more to commence the battle for the means of existence. Sensible men, it is true, do not believe that there is any danger of war ; but the mere mention of such a danger has a ten • dency to alarm the conservative and cautious man of business. The effect is to create the utmost cir cumspection in business operations. No large en terprise requiring the investment of a heavy amount of capital is entered upon. The importations are not greater than can be easily sold. Credits are short, and merchants are desirous to do a safe rather than a large business. It may be said that it is not desirable in a country like Canada th t capital should lie idle, and fertile brains remain untilled. But, nevertheless, we are inclined to rejoice that at a time whan there would be great danger of our people embarking in enterprises of a hazardous and speculative character, there should be circumstances which compel them to be prudent in their operations. It may be taken for granted, we presume, that no enterprise which is absolutely needed to the ad vancement of the country will be neglected on ac count of apprehensions created by the American war. Steady, permanent, solid advancement, the clearing of the forests, the construction of roads, of vessels, of barns, dwellings, and warehouses, will go on, not forced by the stimulus of over abundant capital and diseased activity, but by the ordinary process of demand being met by supply. - With all the caution developed, there is abundant evidence before us of an increase of trade during the coming fall. A very large quantity of goods, chiefly tea and sugar, was imported in anticipation of the rise in the tariff; bit we are informed that those articles have all gone into consumption, and impor ters are now giving fresh orders. The stock of manufactured goods in the country is, as we have said, light, and large importations will be needed to supply the current wants of the population, which will be larger than usual on account of the good crop. No dread of war will induce men, for a very long time together, to keep their money in idleness, and we shall all see new enterprises put in operation before long of a more important character than have yet been initiated during the last few years. MARKETS-THIS DAY. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £1 16s to £5 Os; clover, do., £3 lOs to £6 Os ; and straw, £ 1 16 s to £2 Os per load : Trade very firm, especially for good and fine stuffs. CUMBERLAND.--Mea r tow hay, £1 16s to £5 Os ; clover, lOs to £6 Os ; and straw, £1 16s to #2 Os per load. A good demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £1 16s to a Os ; clover, do., £3 10s to £6 Os ; and straw, 16s to £2 Os per load, Trade somewhat active. COLONIAL. TEA.—The dealings have been to a fair extent, and late prices are generally well sustained for good and fine quali ties. A large quantity is announced for public sale during the next few days. SUGAR.—There has been a moderate enquiry for home consumption, and prices, in several instances, have slightly improved. Refined descriptions have also been ,n more demand, without, however, any change in quotations. COFFEE.--The enquiries for the better descriptions of Colonial have been more animated, and full rates have been maintained, Other qualities were without material change in value. RICE. —For good and superior qualities of East India there has been a moderate enquiry, and previous prices are generally current. SALTPETRE.—Business has been more animated, and foil rates are current for British refined. TALLow.—The market has continue dull, and for for ward delivery a slight decline has taken place. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 48s. ; last three months, 48s, to 48s. 3d,, and spring delivery 495. per cwt. COAL 1 (Mace of Coal per Ton a' .ARKET. the close of the market. s. d. Wylam ..15 6 West Wylam l5 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting Do. Anthracite..2l 0 Holywell l5 9 alker Primrose 12 3 Eden Main 16 6 1 Davison's 'West Hart- I d. Bell's Primrose . l2 6 Lambert's West Hart ley l6 0 Walls End, K elloe .... .17 3 South Kelloe.. ........ 17 0 Hartlepool.. ........ 17 6 South Hartlepool... .. 16 6 Trimdon Hartlepool ..17 6 Hetton ....... Caswop ...... Byron l6 6 Eieugh Hall 16 6 Stewart's 17 6 Trimdon Thornley.. • • 15 6 ley.. _ ..16 3 Hastings Hartley l6 3 Canfield Moor 13 0 Canfield Moor Butes 13 0 Buddle's West Hartley 16 3 Cowpen Hartley ..16 3 tiyass's &Wide West Hartley ... .16 3 Ships at market 64; sold, 53. The present Australian advices mention that a movement was on foot to introduce the cultivation of to bacco, for which the climate and soil are considered by many persons to be eminently suitable. The Board of Agri culture in Victoria have offered a premium of £4O for the best sample. The average annual value of tobacco and cigars imported into the colony of Victoria during the last five years has been £212,000, and the hope is not only that this quantity may be obtained of colonial growth, but also a large surplus fer exportation, AN INTERESTING SWINDLER.—The Tribunal of Correctional Police yesterday tried a-young woman calling herself Lucie Brun d'Aubignos, though her real name is Louise Vigurie, on three several charges of theft, swind ling, and assuming false titles. It was stated that some weeks ago a gentleman walking in the Tuileries garden, saw the prisoner weeping as if in great distress. He inquired what was the matter, and she stated that she was the daughter of a noble family who had placed her in a con vent, where she had been ill-treated, and had consequently run away; that she had got to Paris that morning, but found herself in great destitution, and saw no other resource but suicide. Touched by her distress, he offered to find her an asylum, and placed her as a boarder in a family residing in the Rue Coq-Heron. He afterwards offered to marry her, and was acceptd, but she proposed that the marriage should not be celebrated until she had attained her majority. In the meantime, however, she borrowed money of the family where she lodged, and one day left without saying a word, and at the same time I,ooof. in bank notes disappeared from the desk of the master of the house. She was suspected of the theft, and soon afterwards arrested, when it was ascertained that she .vas the daughter of a forest• keeper, and had been working as a needlewoman at Toulon,until her bad conduct compelled her employer to discharge her. The Tribunal decided that the evidence was not sufficient to prove the charge of theft, but declared her guilty of assuming false titles as well as of sw i n dli n g, and sentenced her to four months' imprisonment. THE BATTLE NEAR WASHINGTON. A writer from New York says :—I have mentioned that 50 or 60 surgeons were telegraphed for, and ordered to re pair yesterday from Baltimore to Washington. It appears that they started very early yesterday morning, that they got to Washington, found there universal dismay and con fusion—no orders, no carriages, no accommodation, no pa tients. Out of the thousands upon thousands who were known to have been wounded in the battles of Thursday and Friday, the 28th and 29th of August, only 150 suf ferers had yesterday been conveyed to Washington. Sur geons from New York, Philadelphia, and Boston were arriving, enhancing the confusion by their numbers and want of organisation. The surgeons from Baltimore had no alternative but to returnyesterday evening to where they came from. The confusion at Alexandria, Aix miles from Washington, and the terminus of the railway leading to Manassas, is said to have last week baffled description. There, in utter demoralisation, were the debris of General M'Clellan's army. Many soldiers were drunk and cheering for Jeff. Davis, many in prison for open mutiny and re fusing to march. Tt was understood that Franklin's divi sion was ordered early up on Friday to reinforce Pope, and that they did not leave Alexandria during the whole of that day. The soldiers complain of their equipment,of their leaders, of their food, and want of bodily health. Are these the men to lead against masses of triumphant and enthusiastic troops, flushed with victory, and rapturous about their leaders. I n a ll t h ese recent b att l es, Southern horsemanship and Southern knowledge of Vir ginia have more than out balanced disparity of numbers. One fact alone is characteristic of the perplexity of the North. After the raid upon Catlett's Station, such was the dissatisfaction with General Pope, that General M'Clellan (whose long popularity with his men seems at last begin ning to break down) was advanced to the supreme command in Virginia. On Friday came the battle of Groveton, with respect to which your readers will know as much as has hitherto reached us, revealed to them by the despatch from General Pope. Acting immediately upon the impression and prestige of this victory, the Government again deposed M'Clellan from supreme command and reinstated Pope; but on Saturday morning the Southerners, reported by Pope on Friday evening to be retreating towards the moun tains, returned, heavily reinforced, to dispute the field, and. again to try conclusions with General Pope. Nothing fur ther from that General has hitherto reached us ; but it is known that, unsupported, for reasons mentioned above, by Franklin, he was driven headlong back to Centreville. From that moment, it is said that no communication from Pope has reached Washington up to a late hour last night. What must be the sufferings of thousands of miserable wretches scorched with the death-thirst, fevered, writhing in agony, and neglected for long weary hours, I leave to others to at empt to pourtray. It is a poor consolation to the North to know that General Pope pleads guilty to a loss of 8,000 men on Friday, and that he esti mates the Southern loss as being in the ratio of two to one. If all the Southerners who have been killed on paper by Northern Generals since this war began had really fallen, the South would already be the howling wilderness to which some frantic Abolitionists desire to reduce it. Nothing is more certain than that from the commencement of this war the Synth has waged war at about one-fifth of the ex pense in money and one .half the expense in men incurred. by the North. It seems probable that M'Clellan got off from the penin sula between the rivers York and James, with at most 60,000 men. A Federal General in this town claims that more than 100,000 men got safely to Alexandria—a very small proportion, in his estimation, of the imposing force which followed M'Clellan to Richmond. There is excellent reason to think that this statement, although corroborated, by an official report, is a gross exaggeration. It is not ne cessary to tell you that official reports have participated largely in the general demoralisation as regards truthful ness, which is one of the bitter fruits of this deplorable struggle. Considerable reinforcements were last week sent by the Federal Government to Harper's Ferry —at least ill regi ments and a battery. An additional pontoon bridge, to fa cilitate retreat, was there erected, by the side of the existing railroad bridge; the Maryland heights were heavily forti fied, Previous to the arrival of reinforcements, there were some 600 Federals at Winchester, and 3,000 at Harper's Ferry. Inasmuch as all the Federal forces have been with drawn from Western Virginia, it will be seen that President Lincoln holds now, of the "sacred soil," the small area round. Washingtonfrom Alexandria to Leesburg, and the ground at Winchester and Harper's Ferry, on which his troops stand. To show what has been the recent consternation in Wash ington it is understood that the chain bridge over the Po tomac, within six miles of the Capitol, was on Friday last rendered impassable for fear the Federal troops should be unable to hold it. These hasty notes, jotted confusedly down, will prepare your readers for one inevitable inference. It is that the South considers that all heavy fighting in Virginia is nearly at an end, and that the next struggle, probably a bitter and bloody one, will be on the soil, of Maryland. It may be of interest to mention that Beauregard is virtually laid on the shelf ; that he is an excellent engineer, and one of the most popular and conciliatory officers in the army is universally admitted, but the despotic and centralized authority of the ablest living American, President Jefferson Davis, exacts higher qualities than popularity in the men whom he trusts. There is one oth er i nc id ent so momentous and pregnant with possible consequences that it must not be omitted. On Saturday, the 23d of August, the first great mass meeting of the Democrats of Philadelphia which they have held for nearly two years took place. For many months past local or ward meetings have constantly been held, in which, un reported as they are by the press, the language of speakers in denunciation of the war has been bolder and bolder, and at last with a view to the public expression of the same opinion, it was resolved that the larger or mass meeting should no longer be delayed. To the assemblage of this meeting violent opposition was offered by the Republican party. Such were the threats and denunciations uttered against its promoters, that it was deemed advisable to modify the original resoluti4ms to infuse more loyalty into them, and to add one which was tantamount to an endorsement of the further prolongation of the war. But it soon became evident that the modification of the old resolutions, and the expression of approbation of the war was but a juggle with a view to preventing any prohibition of the meeting. The Democrats gained their point, and were permitted to come together. The meeting was one of the largest ever known in Phila delphia, the speeches unexpectedly bold and outspoken in these days of Forts Lafayette and Warren and of letters de cachet. For one of these speeches Mr. Charles Ingersoll, a man of the highest character and standing, was arrested. and carried before a justice of the peace, by whom he was admitted to bail. Intelligence of his release on bail having reached Washington, instant orders were despatched that he should be arrested again. This was done by the United States Marshal. A writ of habeas corpus was taken out by Mr. Ingersoll's friends, and he was brought before Judge Cadwallader, who ordered him to be detained for a couple of days, when he would dispose finally of his case ; and in the meantime the United States Marshal was by Judge Cadwallader notified that if Mr. Ingersoll was re moved from Philadelphia the Marshal should be held guilty of an aggravated contempt of court. To this the Marshal replied that if orders to that effect came from Washington he would carry Mr. Ingersoll thither in defi ance of the ceurt. At this moment intervened the death of Mr. Ingersoll's aged mother. He was released to attend her funeral, and thus the matter stands. If he is arrested and carried to Washington, the State of Pennsylvania is at once brought into collision with the Washington Govern ment, and the writ of habeas corpus practically suspended throughout the Northern States. If Mr. Ingersoll is re leased, or not again arrested, the tongues of many Demo crats will be unlocked, and their opposition to Government, long smouldering, will break out into an open flame. If he be detained, more arrests must necessarily fellow, and the t o e p r p a o n s i d t i e o x n a t s o p e G r a o t v e e d f . n m A e n n t 3 h w o i l w l n a e n v d i t i a n b ye either r o m co e n m t i n o g r e e n b c t y t it is probable that the arrest of Mr. Charles Ingersoll will inaugurate a new epoch in this war, and will lead to con sequences of which no one can venture to estimate the mag nitude, TRADE IN AMERICA. —The mercantile letters from New York contain scarcely any information, the public mind being in a state of complete confusion and dismay, although at the making up of the mail the worst, as regards the fate of the' army of the Potomac, had not become known. The premium on gold was then 161 per cent., or 2 per cent. lower than is now reported by telegram, and the prices of stocks were sustained by the great abundance of money created by the paper issues, and by the quan tity thrown out of employment by the stagnation of general commerce, the rate to be obtained for losses at call being only 3 per cent. Up to the last moment the New York journals, including even the most respectable, were endeavouring to delude their readers into the belief that the Confederates, although they had gained succe: ses, had suffered much more than the Federals, and were, consequently, on the point of exhaustion, while from the North tens of thousands of fresh and impatient volunteers were rushing to retrieve the disasters of their compatriots, Ihe news of the Confederates being almost at Washington must, therefore, have fallen on the New York Exchange with a force sufficient to account for the jump since reported in the price of gold to the highest point yet attained. Further news, two or three days later, may be received to-morrow afternoon by the Hibernian. from Quebec, and we shall also this week have the arrival of the Teutonic and City of Washington, both of which were to leave New York on the 6th, and will probably bring some considerable amounts of specie. TliE PRINCE OF WALES.-1 3 :ussels, S ep t . 1 .5. _ The Prince of Wales, the Belgian Royal Family, and the Prince and Princess of Denmark were present to-day at the review and great manoeuvres of all the trooi s in garrison at Brust,els. The crowd of spectators was extremely large. the wcather was magnific‘nt. A train arrived in Faris MO days ago by the Lyons railway, laden with splendid Arab horses, coming from Algeria. Those animals, about 100 in number, are destined for the regiment of Chasaeurs of the Guard, now in garrison at Meaux, eI N tki an 13E ref Fall Gib Ind 1 1411 111, Ali tr, w , to ol der th e k r. se ar Atir l te,k