The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-27 00:00:00

U N, " EVERY WEEK. ON} PENNY. NOTICE. Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 4m.—Afternoon, 3h. 21m. To -MORROW.-Morning, 3h. 39m.—Afternoon, 3h. 55m. • I a, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNE3D EVENEN:3, AUGUST' 27, 1862. XITR. CIVIL-LAY: TOItTURP., OF CARTE PETER—No PAY, As Out-cast,!.princo-consort i. race, of Civic-L-coin. Be not afraid—Menduhn.'s-Eli;chah'd—hefty 17 . 1' gcmish.-harp'ys are acting without my fi*sca/-leave ' altho their will-6th deputy 137 31 G m.c 32, §7. '9l act (1820-25, by Castlereagh's Calvin-prolunrant to FESCH'S rP double office of Archchiej bis'aop el Lyons and Cardinal of Cana da—.s 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' YeUotostamp, King's-post master Benj. Franklin's Crown veto grants, on J. Adams '99yr. V.P idea to North, on rrinec-Consor Ito Lathe Pocahontas & iilary March', in Crown Probate-surrogate Aekerley—over Montagu Dalhousie's Communely Afranchie to red Scarf-chamber of Deputies, as of ' Great Britain,' 33 G. c 44, §l, the tree L'Britannos Superior' of Vespasian's Ejcotland Mo ravia (not lb. slaves to Church ot Rome) by Bristol's Super alt'mare' offspring• sea above—' Poland's Liberum veto,' so Christ'iau thieves, on 1787 Jus. civil law code. lib. i., lit. §4, overlay U.S. '76, for Ex-ibi-shn Pexposition', have no Utrecht Rio 3ty slave-plot rights, in America. BALLOON ASCENTS without " LE NOR MAND'S" 1783 PARACHUrE DROP, AID. MEMO.—The Cruelty to Animals Act' gives civic cause for magisterial stoppage of these c. Coal'rs frafool rywith out the 10-negative wisdom shown for collapse retreat, at the over-3-mile Zone-electric 7 , e-e - . 22-positive ifflux, to gas lb. within the balloon, as seen—above Wolverhampton's poor ' Union mill' of the Dudley Somerie Swinford-Exchange— at which bar'mete point of 26in. Foulawdrop, a VA-tribute out..braee _Parachute ought• to have been Egypt•a-sAID, on 17 July, for Accident & Offflaces bill,—on Suez 30c. my Ely- Padijehah- 6 th Aug., 1828, Belgrade Dardanell p-ship. :sae. 124 s=l6= -26----== 320 :: 36 in. Yard. Mr. o Coxwell's omission to take up, car-affixed, the pure oxygenic wax taper flame (obtained in Piccadilly), used in its vehicle • the lamp of life,' for nasal vacu°-shield-bone inhalation —by all Aeronauts, against 151 b sqr-inch atmos pheric Cough pressure on the lungs, accounts for Blueelip'd- Glaisher m suffering a 5-sqr.in, tho' descent-saved by hydro gen Voltaic-gas circumvent, reminding him of Shenstone's occult Tulchan straw-calt'—couplet (on Nun Qu'endrida of TiP'ton), for bringing down the maye6th milkuser 6 , 8 f "For in Clent, as ÷ martyr'd, under a thorn 98 1 - I Lieth, King Ken'elm with head off-shorn.' 2 as the defunct ancestors of Emp. Conrad Ir.'s G.-daughter Agatha, Malcolm m & wife Margar 2 ' offspring, now in 'Spanish Escurial of Philip 11. (whose daddy, CAR. v., was Gaunt.• constable of England), as Saxon kin of Edward herein ambush'd Salve Lucr°in TITUS Aat Pompeii yr. 79, set' on barometer 2in. = s lb. vaccu'ff I coincidence for Double-reason q —4-8-16-32 by Geometric progres sion, to Treble and Quadruple reason'ng. The quicksilver drop 16 tn.—show aloft, with di-luced Net expansion of 'palAwn' evidenced the absence of Nitro-moist fog within the motive power, and influx of the dry elec tricity, by the drowning-like effects on the system—the Pit a-oat pulse of a Tucked-up heart o'er its key-diaphragm, sounded the Thumb-inch tic-dirge ' music of the spheres,' whilst Wiry hair and ruffled paper gave a voltaic battery Menochord on entering "Paradise' where the first pair meet' at 15in. dog., of Crystalice'a shewn blood—on Airey's false latitude 31 barometer scale & Multiple : : sector A school, to ' hall of science' idea—to out Stephen's Parl'ment Mon tague House shift of the Port Gaspe-basin marine league' by cannon shot 3-mile off-shore limit of 1794 3ty' for river Ligne tiree of Indian Peter, with Surveyor LoGAN's fishery chain-'-meter level, of 1818 Act, § 9, on '42-•62. So Windsor-(Bowl -waft ''erhead Picot Cole), region of welar-Wulfra Hampton of EDGAR'S sister—pzhn-Ell-seat to ballccrt Pha3+ on' d collapse, bull'srun (belly-paunch-like), on Lang-hamlet of Oakham-n,--on Union deputy-papal Pal merston's '9l Tulchan-loge vise, by xWrottesley's CyQrothy Dudley-Wardship of Bassett-wilton *Stamford. This go [bye 'civil education code Comign 1826.31, bra gas motu Game law], on Holy Alliance out'ng, by Sir C. Stuart, Admiral Hamond, & Hill Sandys' decree, for Ac kerley, 29th Aug., 1825.26 Jan.—shows the 9" La belle re aeriform- within, in cases of Low fire- &nip on Vaccu' rarifi cation of the breath, for purification of the blood against po lies 1829 Blue-carbon discolour of hands, at 31 mile Wing life-absence aloft—sets a '32 Coorg - T IBET sack-rent on future Pendul'umbrella'd Miltonic b o t tom /esspit dipfalls, opposed to Virgil's 9th discord on Comet's 4 pts.-variation " Facilis defcendsus spiral line (to Mundane-':,3-oval of H. B's will-lease at Ken nington-Butts to 1791 Sphinx-Du. So Tudor sham c3iicheg of £' maker star's white-Alba- /3ait 'Rod's of Scotia minor) on : the Exeter Ursa stellar Galisgog • : gyration fwi t h m night poach N bill 6 August 15, to Jr.sus-nomena/ise Nday, as the Rotherham-wilt, 1490, O.S. transfiguration ,, coo it._ rid er- rant P.M. Macula. C o nception r est realist drama, 'He rideth round the heavens as upon a horse.'—ilan'ver's su s JoVIS NUTRIX." A CD [lndia . . * N. ] S.AtkriS- Montague C. x ACKERLEY, Exec, it,. • • 1-2 • / v., N.. 54, Chamberlayne' Gie-sworn. cq • PETER BASQUE; Income-tax chief (1842 unpaid§ of • China nub' wall circuit horizon of-- , London, Aug. 27. 1862) iis Montezuma-inch Admiralty red fl ag , not i n Brants power to give up IMP. 1793-China, to lercy, & GREv-cause of Capt'n's xf-yr support, th 6 tQn's. '4" B ill ministers use his brains, & mogul mock him to death , as Padrone su l'onde,' for Bahar's Dewanney, for holding to 1820-25-37's Carib-protectorship oath on its £9O-yr retaining fee for his duty expenditure of £1,600 for Indian of America, which the Treasury refuse to pay or reply to their unrelieved Double-portion sentinel's acting order—under the Polar map-inch Act of 1818 § 9, fora Soil title (to Ackerley's R.N. T voice, on AB-juration act 1791 § 7) —for Romish catholic corpo?rates of Labrador, Baltimore maryland & Brazil, on Calvin Luther church pay—for their idea colonial Crown veto for MPP acts, if Tacit home shown at 6 months for Law—unknown till Peter's arrival in 1851, as Pont,tl Landlord recognised by Earl Grey's November letter 'that Indian justice should be done,'—by his election as Le Congru'ss 'fit' Constable of England -$- on report of the theft of Tower stores 'J. King' issued to him 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, at Frede • rickton, N. Brunswick. (Signed) Benj. Franklin, Rich mond -delegate—on 'l7BB _lnseparable d 9amats' by 1794's Deputy Jefferson's U.S.c. 1, §3-1819-26 Resume—not for the now Hudson Bay Co.'s Guerilla brigands. Whence the doubtful subscribed public fund for' the Prince Consort Memorial of 1851 recognition, as above— THE definite article of this adjective sentence under the King of Prussia's signature at Windsor Castle, with Albert and Wife of Church-tack, on Sir Wm. Logan's survey of Canada—shows Sir C. Eastlake, MY 1842 VICTORIA- mould coin Consort-tie to Soil right, has no reference to 'bill acts Victoria:' proclaiming . without Kelly's City nomen to P.C. for double Jcsu-it-able Kirk-head Gresham-x, by Stone statue cause for Standard bearer Ackerley's oath Jan. 30, 1837.—50 no Figure date on illegal Florin. t As Trinidad's Ceylon 10 deg. is to As-faicon'd Manilla —So is Bengal's c> broad 4 , arrow=---to Cuba's Belltower, by 1761-5 Quadruple oty-sign grants of America, till Spanish rutting logwood convention of 1782, for B r ant' s d e p u ty- Percy assumption on Peter's grandfather, John Nwlwarr removal to Spanish Esqu'lteal for their manaerelic to Cum berland Fort, Nova Scotia, Indian Chief over the Con stable's horse, removed to their Hali-gone'ian stable by George m tacit Rex admission for Clarence l3elzse Afric. To M— Jefferies, & Bailiffs of Tame-(worth, Stour-Trent Anker 4. river DEE fish'ry on Poor.law 0. S. audits, March 25, Rate in aid on 43-Eliz.) in Wye part of Guy's Hospital by 21 July, 1521-2 CARL. V. &H.B, of Southark bar' for Clapham's Conjugate reciprocity Sty, to Yellow Tiber' Zoll verein trusteeship, yr 42—on the 4 great nations of Gaul's Lion 'pont del' Arcubalistaey—Jetsam-statu'e of 4-Gee. 4 Ch. 74—on Barometer oz-libralis lb. Air-'-pressure. Ye ! will ask the UNION for Loan to Indian and Self ? Was I in receipt of my father's life-hold name estate—its rental being withheld by Attorney Cole's freehold voting on my brother Chamberlayne by 1-2 Will. Iv., No. 54, (not Ackerley), whence the double forge of " Charles and C. Henry," in Master of Roll's foist-decree, 15th March, 'B2, touching the ‘L'nourtan ON the Water Act, by Cole'r as canal Ells-mere agent of Saugh-&-washall, of Dean and Chapter of Chester's Crt. of jairfax delegates, Nov., 1807- 9, on-Your—Excommunication of name—as palatin-man. " Like nawksey'-owl, in desert lone Hugh Loop'd am I, Lo I now, as one." T. N.B.—March Ghent 3ty 1815, with U.S. except France. At Genappe bridge 10.L8 p.m., June 17, 1815, Wellington signed the O'hain carte blanche for Jesuit restoration atotu Pii 7th, May 12., 1814 (as Pub. by Gonsalvi's Reg 219, 6th Jul n Blucher's 42,000 aid, forBth 'June_ Thie y rs k 6) nows the Waterloo 'Game' Bill of '3l and '62 act- villany—on 30 deg. for Is-Suez siderial trust. (See un Aprill9, 23; May ]6, & July 19.) CRYSTAL PAT,ACE.—Open from NINE TILL DARK.-ONE SHILLING. CRYSTAL TION T O-MORROW.—POULTRY ATTRA C BLONDIN, SIIO W and _ 0111,TRY snoW—oNE MORE DAY,— A_ Positively Closing To-MORROW. BLONDIN'S PERP O RmANCE on thA HIGH ROPE ovEtz FT:TNT AINs will include all his most Extraordinary Feats. e T e first age. p *** For full particular s of amuaexn ents ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA , COI,TE N GARDEN. This Evening, DINORAII. Commence at 8. .r) u RY-LAlTta,srt riFh, THEATRE-ROYAL' This Evening,, A KISS IN THE DARK. the first part of the Arab Entertainment at !mit be followed by Till: COLLEEN N. 0 COUCIUde. ° TILE AIZABS THEF DESERT. A Troupe of the Ith Zoug-Zoug,. Commence at 7. ni- THEATRE-ROYAL. HAYMARKET. This Evenilr-, FISII OUT OF WATER. Alter Which, OUR AILERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS Y'CA LIA. And THE CHRISTENING. ComMence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL This Evening, THE PRETPY NORSEBREAKER. Followed by ADRIENNE LE CO UVREUR. And THE SUILLING DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening., THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, at a quarter to KING FiENRY VIII. With TILE TWO POLTS. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evenino - , PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR NEY. Conclude with 'THE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S P_OYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Eveninz, ZEPPA. Brilliant ;'cones in the Circle, Concluding with a Comic Ballet. Commence at 7. ''CRET) HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER 'TALL.— ":rhe 31ussi,h " will be again pejorrnLcl on FRIDAY l_vening next, at 8 o'clock. MP, anti MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS " AT Evenat Her Majest-'s Concert Room, Haymarket, This Evening. •, Commence at 8. _ _ W. S. WOODIN'S p012.-graphic CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Kin:-r William -street, Charil;g-cross. Commence at 8. ARGYLL 11°0:q8, Great Windmill -street, Hay market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY LL.—EVERY EVENING.— Steckel, the (Teat Trape p 9.for mer-fl rand S e l ect i ons f rom . z , e Sebastienrrova stoxre." -Unsiv orth, Eugene, and Duley, th e great comic trio, . Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OxFoRD-sTREzr, EVERY w ith full band an d "I%NlNG.—Vurdi's << I 1 Cor3aro," chorus.—The comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes Steckel on the Plying Trapeze—The Ethiopian odditi es of altimsey, Newcomb, &c. .... Commence at 7. tc 4 ,7'\ 4 i 54=1?4,-- A ';?;'•'3 sr - ~, , e. ~..,„ .a.-*;,,,.". ..,---H;' _•-._-f - a :' , -*3 ~ . - , 1 ,_7`l-,1 , - 7 ,1,,,,,,,,,itc--) ' 0... :t 4 :::''' , 4 - ---.4 ~,--,,-; ;.•:. z. ..; . i i , ';'• :.•itt ---. - -- 7 7._ - : .. ; .- : - A , wir „ .__:%,„,_,„ ; , ; , ...1 4 ,..„... j • , 14 ‘ .,„ • -•- 4 ........ ~,, v . .„...„..... T.-.---.-.....t.J. --Qt.L...:•,•_, _ ,-- ... ,- .:t 1 7; , :,..'4%•-.:- ; , . - N -0 , - ........., • rf E S UN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1862. From Melito GARIBALDI has already advanced his insurrectionary movement to Mileto. Nearly the whole of Calabria Ultra is already in the power of the Hero's red-shirted Volunteers. It is there, in the toe of the Italian Boot, that it pinches ! About eight important towns in that one province alone are even now in the hands of the Garibaldians— Melito and Mileto as aforesaid, and with these also Bora, Oppida, Nicotera, Palmi, Gerace, and Carig nano. The Royalist authorities,after putting so bold a face upon the matier, find that the revolutionary rising of which the signal was but so very recently given in Sicily by GARIBALDI, is not so really con temptible after all, is decidedly not so easil y Fut an end to, as was predicted. Far and wide throughout the peninsula the population are astir in sympathy more or less openly avowed with the outlawed Hero. In Southern Italy, especially, the flame, kindled first of all in Sicily—having overleaped the sea-channel of Messina, borne onwards by the wind that blew GARIBALDI himself from Catania to Melito—is spreading northwards from town to town, until it becomes already evident that General DELLA MARAIORA will find his work cut out for him i n terrible earnest! Strange work for him truly, an d for many of his associates, both civil and mili tary—this work of a reactionary movement as like as possible to a Counter Revolution. It ia, of course, within the general recollection how the RATTAZZI organs at Turin have all along been asserting that the cause of the Govern ment has everywhere triumphed in spite of the utmost efforts of the Garibaldians—but more par ticularly in Sicily. Than the successes achieved in the King's name throughout Sicily, the world was veraciously informed, nothing could by possibility be in any way more entirely satisfactory. Mes sina and Palermo were loyal to the core, and in proof of this were described by the Turin jour nalists as in the most exemplary state of tranquillity. Not only this but Caltanisetta itself, so long the head-quarters of the Arch- Traitor, was no sooner evacuated by him and his followers; the latter were no sooner replaced by the royal troops than that same rendezvous of rebel lion, Caltanisetta, proved to have been peopled all the while by the foes of General GARIBALDI and the friends of King VICTOR EMMANUEL ! In this way the ministerial accounts of the situation ot affairs in Sicily coming to us via Turin, have been coloured too deeply with the tinge of the couleur de rose. The probable result being that the tint will turn out to be rather that of the couleur de sang— thus verifying, by a sort of anti-climax, the hue imparted by Ministers and their partisans to these official sketches of "the situation." It looks so very much like a complete restoration of tranquillity among the Sicilians—the policy now adopted towards them and their compatriots in the neighbouring parts of the peninsula by the RATTAZZI Government ! All Sicily, and since then the whole Neapolitan Provinces as well—being placed in a State of Siege! Not only has General CIALDINI been entrusted with the powers of a Dictator, in his capacity as the KING'S Extraordinary Commissioner in Sicily —but the like has been one in regard to the Nea politan Provinces, by the appointment of General DELLA MARMORA there also as his MAJESTY'S Commissioner Extraordinary. Catania, it is true, has no sooner been quitted by General GARIBALDI, in his caring advance across the Straits of Messina into Calabria, than Catania also like Caltanisetta, has been seized by the soldiers ot VICTOR EMMANUEL. As many as eight hundred Garibaldians being taken prisoners upon the en trance of the Royal troops. As we don't hear of any bloodshed at Catania upon the occasion of its capture by the army of the SOVEREIGN, we may suppose the barricades recently thrown up in its streets to have been raised there simply as a blind ! Possibly a blind simply to cover the advance—not the flight, but the advance—of GARIBALDI himself into Calabria. However, this may have been, and although Catania seems to have been entered by the Royal troops without any difficulty whatever— GARIBALDI having in the meantime got fairly off to Melito—we can understand how merely partial is the success of its seizure deemed to be by the captors, upon noting what was really the first act that celebrated their entrance into Catania. The Minister PERSANI, who arrived there with the soldiery, immediately ordering the arrest of the com manders of the two frigates then lying off the port of Catania! Indignant, of course, at having, through their remissness, if not through their complicity, seized upon the cage only after the bird had flown ! Catania was in the hands of the royal troops, but GARIBALDI was away ! like a royal eagle upon its new eyrie at Arnett), in that fresh outburst of the political hurricane, of which MAZZINI is, as usual, but the Stormy Petrel, flitting across the darken ing scene (the veriest bird of ill omen), merely to d isappear into safety while the tempest is at its hei g h t , GARIBALDI'S flight from Catania to Cala , bria i s no doubt designed by him rather to emulate a flight like that of the imperial eagle of NAPOLEON THE GREAT i n 18l -, when—swooping across the Mediterranean from Elba to the Gulf of San Juan —it fl e w onwards from we Tosteeple t o o t steeple Notre Dame e t a li g hted upon the Towers GARIBALDI no w beingapaire A s n t g o el r o e . ac l h lrh',t pr o o- f course that of the Castle ofs s San pro bability hea i bi r l e it t yurnfrom hasm of E reaching Ella , s A wa all k now. U pon 0 LEON the F IRST had but to frighten away by th e mere ter ror of his IL cona , ing," the timorous court retinue of an offeie race, headed by a fatneant B OURBON, l ike Ki ng Toils XVIII! Whereas upon the declaration by GARIBALDI that he is advancing through Calabria to the cry of " Rome or Death," the present occu pants of the Eternal City evidence a determination to do any thing rather than take their departure from it for the purpose of re-embarking for France at Civita Vecchia. That this could alone be the effect produced by the untimely enterprise entered - upon by GARIBALDI in spite of every remonstrance —everybody but GARIBALDI recognised from the first moment. So poignantly has the Emperor of the FRENCH been (piqued by GARIBALDI'S insen sate movement) into a dogged determination, coute qui coute, to retain possession of Rome, that it now lappears that the recent official note in the Atoniteur, announcing that to be NAPOLEON'S determination, was transmitted, not as usual through the office of the Minister of the Interior, but directly from the Camp at Chalons, from the hands the EMPEROR himself ! Marshal M'MAHON and Marshal RANDON being detained there at the Camp longer than had been originally intended,in order that theynaight con sult with his MAJESTY as to the military measures most advisable under the circumstances. Nay, more, than that, two directeurs from the Ministry of War being summoned hastily from Paris to assist with the EMPEROR and his two Marshals in the labours of this little improvised Council of War in the Camp at Chalons. The Mediterranean Fleet of France, awaiting just now at Toulon any sudden orders that may be transmitted thither by the Im perial Government ! And active preparations being made the while for the conveyance of any number of additional troops that may be required in Central Italy across to Civita Vecchia. During the time all which is occurring within the French frontiers—Austria is said to be meditat ing the calling out of 40,000 additional soldiers ! Her army, at present garrisoning the Quadrilateral and Venetia, numbering even now from 100,000 to 200,000 men ! As to the anti-Garibaldian proceedings of the Italian Government—those have already been in timated to have become at last both resolute and comprehensive. The KING'S two Commissioners Extraordinary for the Two Sicilies"—CinDim for Sicily itself, an d DELLA MARMORA fo r th e N ea p o lit an terri tory have met at Naples, and have there concerted their plans. The island of Sicily itself, besides being in a state of siege, is formally announced to be Blockaded ! The London Gazette of last even ing (as our own columns yesterday intimated in our Third Edition) formally announcing the receipt by Earl RUSSELL on the 23d instant of the official notification of the Blockade. A cir cumstance of itself sufficient to account for the noble lord's hasty return to Richmond from his holiday excursion in Ireland. And now Naples itself, and the whole of the Neapolitan Provinces, are proclaimed to be in a State of Siege, as well as the whole of Sicily. How the Civil War will go, exclusively as a Civil War—that is, before the French soldiers can have anything whatever to do with it—even that it is bewildering to conjecture. An anti-Garibaldian course, it is true, is now being pursued by the Italian Government with appa rently the utmost determination. But—the Gari baldian movenient is, apparently, at the same time gaining strength and confidence also ! Later news than we gave yesterday from Aderno, in Sicily, shows that, besides the seventeen officers who had then given in their resignations, others had rapidly followed their example : so that, altogether, in that one isolated locality as many as forty -six of the KING'S officers had thrown up their commissions, rather than fight against their beloved and idolized Hero—the Patriot-Chief GARIBALDI ! How far the rest of the Royal army can be relied upon by the Government remains, of course, to be seen. One Hope yet remains, even at this most critical juncture, one last hope that the threatened struggle of Italian against Italian may be prevented. And that One Hope is in GARIBALDI'S patriotic magnanimity. His patriotism every one knows to be honest. His magnanimity has become long since a proverb even amongst his foes. Let him recognise, even at this eleventh hour, that Italy may in any way benefit by an act of Self-Sacrifice on his part, and—how ever extreme that act may need to be—GARI BALDI the Dauntless has greatness of soul enough at once to make that Sacrifice, and to make it with. out an instant's hesitation and without a sigh. The subject of compensation for railway injuries is one which interests a large number of persons as shareholders, a great number as actual sufferers, and the whole public as possible sufferers. It has naturally figured in the reports of various com panies during the last week or two, and, as might be expected, with hostile comments on the part of directors, on both the law as it stands, and on its administration, by juries especially. The audiences have always been those whose dividends suffer by the compensations awarded, and must therefore be expected to sympathise with the language of their boards. The law has been voted harsh in principle and juries vindictive in their verdicts. But as judges wholly impartial between our shareholding and . our simply travel ling readers, let us state our view of the case. We have at times been disposed to think the law rather hard on the companies, but further reflection has compelled us to question whether in the long run they are losers by it. On one point all are agreed—that if a company, like any private individual, causes loss or damage to another by culpable carelessness, not to say wilful neglect, it ought to•be responsible for that loss or damage. All Englishmen will also agree that they should like that damage to be assessed by a jury of their countrymen. They know that juries may err, and may give even preposterous damages in cases of all kinds, but they also know that if they go far astray, a new trial can always be obtained, and neither the companies nor the public would listen for a moment to any other final appeal on a ques tion of damages than the verdict of a jury. We may pass by, therefore, the law of compensation to the surviving sufferers and the vindictiveness of juries as irrelevant. No one objects to the principle of the law—no one justifies vindictiveness. But, it is contended, damage to life and person ought to be compensated on some fixed scale. One man's life is as valuable as another. Why should the company pay more for a killed bishop than for a killed pauper ?—at least, why should not the compensation be in proportion to the fares paid ? If a hundred pounds is enough for the life of a man who pays a penny a mile for travelling, why should not two hundred pounds be enough for the man who has paid twopence a mile? Why should a company be allowed to get off for, we will suppose, gross negligence, by which a score of artisans are killed, with a total which would fall far short of what they must pay for one man who earned a thousand a year ? and we will suppose, too, in the latter case, that the Culpability or the negligence was barely proved. Is this English and equal justice ? Does it not bear hard on the company in the latter case, and does it not look like invidi ous distinctions between classes? At first sight it may seem unfair. But let us see—are we prepared to controvert the principle of the injurer indemnifying the injured in pro portion to tha injury sustained? If not, and we presume,that Englishmen would agree on this point, for the denial of this principle would strike at the root of all compensation public and private—what test of injury, capable of being measured by a pecu niary standard, can be found, but that of the proved pecuniary loss. The artizan's surviving family are injured to the extent of his earnings for the term of years he might be expected to live; the Bishop's family to the ex t en t o f hi s ep i scopa l revenue, and so of the professional man, and of all persons whose incomes come under the fear ful sheclule D. We cannot imagine any other test which a court can make use off. As we have said, the test may be perversely applied, so it may in innumerabl e o th er cases, bat against its soundness in principle, and that is all we ergue for, we are at a Joss to imagine an objec- tion. But does the law, in the :long run, for that is the point, work injuriously to the companies, as a meeting smarting under the diminution of its divi dends in a particular case is apt to imagine. Do not the companies find their compensation in the increased caution of their servants, the conse quently increased security of their line, and in the larger traffic brought by security. Shareholders, boards, and even the salaried managers, will acknowledge, that fear of the pecuniary penalties of an accident are a very effective stimulus to caution. There would on the part of subordinates be a much greater liability to neglect, and to running risks, did they not know that their masters suffered severely by them. The publicity too of the pecuniary suffering is something. The cost of the smash of "rolling stock," &c., would be comparatively unknown. The fear of being mulcted in thousands of pounds before the eyes of both the shareholders and the public, is, it must be acknowledged, a very potent motive to caution. We all know how habit overcomes the sense of danger; and railway servants, like workmen on scaffolds, and sailors, and miners easily become too familiar with risk for their own safety, as well as the safety of others. It may seem singular, but we believe facts bear out the observation, that hun dreds of men employed in dangerous occupations will often think more of risking the loss of their situation, if they live, than of their life itself. What might get them turned out of place, with loss of character, is more operative on the imagination than the hazard of life; and every railway servant, of every grade, knows that if he were thought to be the cause of a costly accident, his subsequent chances of employment would be small. But how do these heavy compensations affect the profits cf railways ? We do not, of course, ask about the last dividends, but the general and per manent profits. If what we have said respecting the far greater caution and circumspection due to them be correct—and we think even shareholders will assent to it—then there will be a considerable direct saving in their tendency to keep the line in safe working order, and the prevention of more fre quent heavy damage to the company's stock and plant. Then, again, there is a very large amount of traffic duo entirely to the security, as well as the ease and convenience, of railway travel ing. As things are, there can be no question that for chances of safety, no other means of locomotion can be compared with the railway. The old coach accidents were, proportionately to the number of passengers, far more numerous, besides their at tracting so much less attention than a railway " crash." But, let this element of attraction vanish, and fearful, indeed, would be the effect on traffic. The immense host of passengers who take a trip to see friends, or for pleasure, would dwindle to a much smaller number, travel ling by rail would tend to limit itself to cases of business or necessity; at least all the nervous and timid wotal stay at home, or go inside some horse drawn vehicle, and for shorter distances. Perhaps many would hardly be disposed to accept the actuary's view of the case, yet it is a true one. If sacrifice of life and injury to the person were common on railways—as common say as fires, or as death prior to our three score and ten—insurance to protect against such accidents would become the rule rather than as now the exception. Even now we commend the wisdom of those who resort to the insurance company established to meet such cases, and have known many instances in which its aid has been found very welcome. But the rate of insurance would rise in proportion to the risk of accident ; while the servants of the company would have less stimulus to extreme and unrelaxing caution. Both together would work for the diminution of railway travelling. While, if safety, or compensation, were not virtually guaranteed, fares proportionately low would be demanded, and must be conceded. Hence the The Actuary would tell us, no one can insure us so cheaply as the railway itself. It is in the companies' power, alone, to reduce the number and mischief of accidents to a minimum ; on them, therefore, he would throw it, to include the pre mium for the insurance in every fare. It is for them, he would say, to reckon on the probability of so many accidents on an average of ten or twenty years, and to charge accordingly. Of course all we can say will not reconcile share holders to a diminished dividend owing to heavy compensation, for what they think unavoidable accidents. Still the considerations we have suggested may lead them to doubt whether, if they are permanent holders of Railway Stock, they would gain much by any alteration of the law which the general public would tolerate. Perhaps also it would be well for such of us as have the mis fortune to be shareholders suffering in our dividends to ask what even we should think if we were share holders suffering also in person, or suffering the loss of a peculiarly important member of our family through an accident on our own Line, Perhaps, then, like the general public, we should lean strongly to full compensation. LATEsr NEW q. NEAPOLITAN PROVINCES IN A STATE OF SIEGE. TURIN, AUG. 25 (Evening). The Neapolitan Provinces have been proclaimed in a state of siege. General Della Marmora has been appointed Extraordinary Commissioner. NA Pi ES, AUG. 26. General Lamarrnora has issued a proclamation, directed, as he says, against those subversive men who, under the pretence of hastening the accom plishment of Italian unity, have provoked civil war in Sicily. The proclamation continues thus:—" General Garibaldi, their chief, has thrown himself on this continent, threatening to introduce anarchy. It is the duty of the Government to crush the rebellion. A state of siege has therefore been proclaimed. The commanders of divisions will unite military and civil powers. All assemblages are to be dis persed by force. The exportation and retention of arms is prohibited. All arms must be given up within three days. The liberty of the press is re stricted." Tranquillity prevails at Naples. About 1,000 Garibaldians have disembarked at Melito. Generals Cialdini and Pinelli have arrived at Messina. General Revel has gone to Reggio. TOULON, AUG. 27. The squadron of evolution, under the command of Admiral Rigault de Genauilly, has left Ajaccio. Its destination is not yet known. PARIS, AUG. 26. La France of this evening declares that great excitement exists in Calabria. The towns of Bova, Oppido, Nicotora, Mileto, Palmi, Gerace, and Carignano have pronounced in favour of Garibaldi, and others are expected to follow their example. A large number of ships which had brought Gari baldian Volunteers from Various parts of Italy were anchored off Gioja. The division of General Brignone had received orders to proceed to Calabria immediately. The Tresse of this evening asserts that Austria and Spain have addressed a note to the French Go vernment on the Roman question. The same paper says that Austria has determined to call out 40,000 more soldiers. The Councils General have been opened. The Duke de Morny, in his opening speech, abstained from all mention of politics. TURIN, AUG. 26. Garibaldi is still at Mileto. He left Catania with two postal steamers. Yesterday the Royal authorities re-entered Ca tania, and captured 800 volunteers. The Minister Persani also arrived in the town, and immediately ordered the arrest of the com mander of the two frigates which were stationed off the port, on account of his doubtful conduct on the occasion of the departure of Garibaldi. NAPLES, AUG. 26. General Cialdini has left for Sicily, after having concerted measures with General Della Marmara. WARSAW, AUG. 26. The sentence pronounced on Rzonka and Ryll for attempting the life of the Marquis Wielopol ski has been confirmed by the Grand Duke Con- stantine. The execution took place at nine o'clock this morning. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Auc. 27. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ellora, Capt. KeHoek, with the heavy portion of the above mail has arrived here. She brings 27 passengers, £541 in specie, and 2,076 packages of cargo, including 839 bales of raw silk—value £75,000. On the 20th inst. the Ellora spoke the British barque Caduccas, steering southeast, and on the 23d the Pera, bound east. GIBRALTAR, Aug. 22 .—Exchange on London, 90 days, 50; on Marseilles, 5.28 ; on Genoa, 5.28 ; on Cadiz and Malaga, eight days, par; on Madrid, 1 prem. Freights unaltered. I VARIETIES. (From Fun.) President Abe had a fierce baby, Who was always a cryin' for slaughter, But when drafting began he to Canada ran, So hs runs when he didn't oughter. AN AnsmAcT DEED.—Having your tooth drawn. THE BEST CURE FOR VANITY.—Be photographed. When is a young man of the greatest use at a supper party P—When he's a spoon. To TKE AFFLUENT AND BENEVOLENT.—Subscribe to the Cotton Districts' Relief Fund. WE DON'T SEE WHY IT SHOULDN'T.—May growing very corpulent against one's will be looked upon as a fat-ality ? ASK DR, LANKESTER, THE CORONER.—May a sailor be designated a fellow de sect ? Has an X -policeman any right or authority to act as a constable ? If the North American President were to take a trip to London, what would be the most appropriate place for him to puL up at ? Lincoln's-inn, of course. To CORRESPONDENTS,—" Flesh nor Fowl."—You are right ; a curious link between fish and birds may be found connecting Cochin-China with Cochin-eel. THE RIGHT MAN IN THE E IGHT PLACE.—President Lincoln's Finance Minister has been authorised to change his name for one more suitable to the manner in which he conducts his department. Instead of Mr. Chase, he is to be called Mr. Chaos. What classical author would a man recommend his scolding wife to study ?—TAcrrus. THE LATEST AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.—(SuppIied direct from the Manufactory at Washington.)—General M'Clellan has been removed, and the command sub divided. General Hobbs (who distinguished himself in the 13ramah war) is to attack the key of the rebel position. Colonel Hoe is to see after the reinforcements, a duty for which his long connexion with press-racn eminently fits him. Tramways on the Train principle are being laid dawn in front of our lines to impede the advance of the enemy's cavalry. An inventor has just laid before the President the outlines of a discovery which will be invalu able in the present scarcity of specie. It is a plan for making sawdust into silver coin and gold pieces out of plugs of 'baccy. LORD DUND.REARY'S LAST. " I thay I Tham I athk thothe fellahs in America, when they come in from a thtampecle, Howith your poor feet ?' ' The Queen of the Ez and the Mail. have arrived from Matamoras (Mexico) with about 250,000 Mt-,xi can dollars on freight. The present quotation for this coin is nominally ss. ltd. per ounce, but the market has a decidedly flat appearance. ~. FRA2 , I - CE. BOURSE, Aug: 26.—The market has again re lapsed into heaviness, and prices have receded. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f. 65c. Rail way Shares also dull. The market closed as fol lows : 4 jor e r nd Ce n n i t o s nth.... —97 75 3 per Cents ...... 68 60 Do. end month.... 68 60 New 3 per Cents Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier.... 842 50 Do. end month.... 845 Bank Shares 3190 Credit Id oneier Piedmontes( Fives 69 50 Italian Loan 69 40 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 50 50 Home Debt .. 4B - - AYES. Cash. Amount. Orleans lOlB 75 .. 1020 -- 9 Northern New. ditto • . Lyonsand Mediterranean 1102 50 .. 1102 50 Geneva.. Southern B2B 75 825 Western Eastern .. • • Sardinian Austrian Lorobard RAIL HIE BADEN AMNEST'. In reply to the decree issued by the Grand Duke of Baden, in reference to political exiles, the fol lowing declaration has appeared in German jour nals : " DECLARATION. " The Carlsruhe Gazette publishes a decree of amnesty, according to which Government have ' felt themselves moved to ordain, that th all civil and military persons who have been condemned for political, and not, at the same time, for great com mon crimes, the sentence of punishment passed upon them should in mercy be remitted.' "We are no criminals. Crimes have been com mitted by those who beat down the rising freedom and union of the people. Royal mercy we have never asked for, during a thirteen 3 ears' exile. The principles for which we once fought, and which have supported us in banishment, are as lively in us to day as ever. If we now revisit the soil of our fatherland, it is simply in the conviction that a bar rier has fallen, which arbitrary power had hitherto unjustly raised against us. London, August." "KARL BLIND. THE ROYDON HALL MURDER AND NIGHT POACH ING CASE.—EAST * MAILING, Tuesday Morning.—John Catt, another of the alleged participators in the night poaching affi ay at Ro3den Hall, the seat of Major Cook, near this place, has been taken into custody by Mr. Super intendent Hulse, of the Kent County Constabulary, who has been in pursuit of the ruffians since the night of the outrage, the 23d Jan, last, when, as will probably be re membetcd, John Gray, one of the gamekeepers, was mur dered wilfully and most deliberately, according to the evi• deuce that has already been given. i ive of the parties concerned in the affray are now in Maidstone Gaol, under an order of committal by the magistrates on the 13th inst.-- one of the lot having turned Queen's evidence, and the cor roboratory proof given by the other gamekeepers, leaving no doubt at all as to the guilt of all those in custody. Catt will be brought before the magistrates at East Mailing to-day (Wednesday), and it is probable the other sus pected man (Allchin) will, by that time, be in custody, as a pretty sure clue has been obtained of his whereabouts. INDIA AND CHIDA, (From the Calcutta _Englishman ()Vali, 22.) Up -country produce has begun to arrive from the opening of the rivers, and it is to be hoped that we have the "commencement of the end" of the terri ble stagnation in trade from which our merchants have for so lor,tr, suffered. Exchange has been very dull, 2.0 5-l6ths for b bills, and corresponding :aces for credit and document bills. The news from Bombay received this morning has caused a great amount of excitement in our piece -goods market, and a fair advance of 4a. for a 71b. shirting is the result, but little trade is doing at the moment. Buyers still hesitate, hoping some fortunate chance may bring down the present rates, and the mer chants here are unwilling sell unless at good pro fits, and rightly too, as, unless we are greatly mis taken, they have the game in their own hands, and inasmuch as but a small amount of production and export from England is going forward there can be nothing to force holders op the market. Government Securities.—There has been rather more activity in the stock market this week ; the 4 per Cents, have been largely dealt in for account of Bombay. Money Market.—There is no change in this market. Money is abundant, and obtainable on Government securities at from 4,-1 per cent. to 5 per cent. The Bank rate is, however, unaltered. Exchange.—This has been another dull mail for business in exchange, the sales on London of bills of all classes have not probably exceeded £60,000. The rates for the Bank bills have been 2 0-1-, to 2-0 5-16; credits, at from 2.07, to 2-0 7-16; docu mentary, at from 2-0-1 to 2-0 9-16. Freights.—Business within the last fortnight for the United Kingdom has continued dull ; we have therefore to report no change in freights. CHINA. HONG KONG, JULY 12. During the past fortnight no political event worth recording has occurred. The allied troops remain within their lines at Shanghai, and their sanitary condition is much more satisfactory. Two strong outposts are held at Fa-wha and Sik-a-way, respec tively distant about 12 miles ; but the rebels have retired from the neighbourhood, and are reported to have fallen back on Nanking, where they are said to be hard pressed by the Imperialists. Thefe is a great want of reliable information, however, regarding their real position in that respect ; and the usual heavy rains of this season of the year, now set in, may have something to do with their appa rent inactivity. The young Emperor at Pekin has been doing honour to the memory of A dmiral Protet, and has ordered furs and silks to be sent to his family in token of the Imperial gratitude. The latest intelligence from Tien-tsin is to the 21st ult, The Shan-si rebels were reported to have gone to the south-west; but trade had not revived as a consequence of their absence. The investigation of the great opium frauds still continues, and Standford, master of the receiving ship Tropic, has been committed for trial. Appli, cation has been made to the Macao authorities to deliver up Rustomjee, the principal actor in the swindle; but, during the absence of Governor Giumaraens, at present on a diplomatic mission to Pekin, they are unwilling to incur the responsi bility. Meanwhile, however, they make sure of him by placing him in one of the forts. Much anxiety to kno ve the decision of her Majesty's Government as to future relations with this country continues to be felt, more especially as in three or four mouths the weather will again allow of military operations if determined on. WRECKS ON THE BRI7ISH COAS7S IN 1861. The Board of Trade returns of the wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom in 1861 has just been pub lished. From this report it appears that the num ber of casualties is greater than that reported in any of the preceding nine years, and 261 in excess of the annual average of the last six years. The numbers (exclusive of collisions) were, in 1857, 866 ; in 1858, 869 ; in 1859, 1,067 ; in 1860, 1,081 ; and in 1861, 1,171 ; and the increase is ascribed to a great extent to the gales of January, February, and November, in which alone there were 465 casualties, exclusive of collisions. The number of collisions, again, though slightly in excess of 1860, is under the number of 1859, the three years 1859, 1860, 1861, having the respective numbers, 349, 298, and 323; and on the whole the increase in the number of collisions is not proportionately so great as the increase of other casualties. In the number of lives lost there is a large increase as compared with last year, caused by the gales of January, February, and November, which increased the number of casualties. In 1860 there were 536, while in 1861 there were 884, but this number is less than the numbers in 1854 and 1859. The comparatively small number of lives lost in 1860 and 1861 is owing chiefly to the absence of the loss of any large psi senger ship on the coast. From a table appended, showing the force of the wind, it appears thr.t nearly one-half of these casualties happened with the wind at and under force 8, or " fresh gale," or under cir cumstances in which a ship, if seaworthy and pro perly manned and sound, ought to be able to keep the sea. Appended to the report are various other tables comparing past years with the present, and classi fying the casualties in various ways. The most important of these shows the geographical distri bution of the wrecks. According to this, the three most fatal districts are from the Fern Islands to Flamborough Head, from Flamborough Head to North Foreland, and Skerries and Lamlay to Fair Head and Mull of Cantire. In the former distract, in 1861, there were 40 chips wrecked, with a ton• nage of 5,129 tons, and 244 men ; and the loss was, totally wrecked, 31 ; partially, 9; and the number of lives lost, 147. In the second district the figures are— ships, 24 ; tonnage, 3,998 ; men, 189 ; total wrecks, 18; partial, 6; lives lost, 111. And in the third— ships, 28; tonnage, 5,832; men, 216; total wrecks, 22; partial, 6; lives lost, 144. This, in the two first districts, is greatly above the average of the last twelve years, which, for the one district, is 55 10-12, and the other 89 ; but this is probably accounted for by the increase of the number of casualties to ships of the collier class, through the prevalence of N. end E. to S.E, winds. In the third district the average of the twelve years, 133 1-12, is but slightly exceeded. The number of lifeboats under the management of the National Lifeboat Institution has increased from 124 in 1856 to 179 in 1861, and as compared with 1860 the increase is six. The number of life • boats under other management was 59 as compared with 63 in 1860. Out of the whole number, 106 are subsidized by the Board of Trade direct, with out the intervention of the institution ; and of those remaining, 14 are maintained by the institution, and 54 by local bodies. During last year the Board of Trade and Admiralty have supplied the crews of some of the Ccast Guard stations with Capt. Ward's lifebelts and lifelines, the use of which will diminish the risk they run in putting to sea. To the mortar and rocket apparatus and lifeboats, as means for saving life, great credit is given ; and from a tabu lar statement of the lives saved by assistance from the coast during the last seven years, it appears that the numbers have increased from 1,098 in 1855 to 1,516 in 1861. The sum paid to the Lifeboat Institution in 1861 is £2,877 3s. 2d. The payments by the Board of Trade direct for rewards and gra tuities and for scrvicr s at wrecks amount to £1,292 Is. 6d. The expenses of maintaining the m ortar and rocket apparatus is £2,246 64. 4d., being a total payment of £0,415 1 ls. for saving and endea vouring to save life during the year 1861. The public, who never tail to take a loyal ar d affectionate interest in all that concerns the happiness of the Royal family, and especially of the heir apparent, will be rejoiced to hear that the marriage of the Prince of Wales with the Princess of Denmark will be celebrated early in the ensuing spring. General Knollys, who so long com manded the camp at Aldershott, has been appointed Con troller of the Household of his Royal Highness, and Marl borough-house is bring preparel as quickly as possible ;or his reception. The " 'Messiah " will be performed at Exeter-hall to-night at half-past 7, with ,band ;;and chorus of 7;.;0 per formers, under the direction of Mr, G, W, Martin, SCIENLIFIC BALLOON ASCEN7I.. s The following are Mr. Glaisher's observations on his recent Scientific Balloon Ascents, from the Crystal Palace and Mill-hill, Hendon, on the 20th and 21st August :- On Wednesday, August 20, Mr. Coxwell's large halloo . n, left the Crystal Palace at 6h. 26m., with nine gentlemen in the car, and three in the ring above the car, toy instrument being fined outside the car, beyond the influence of its occupants, the temperature of the air at the time being 66 deg., the wet bulb thermometer, reaching 52 deg. lower. At 6h. 35m. we were half a mile high, the temperature was 56 deg. ; at 37m. we were three-quarters of a mile high, and still ever the Palace. At 6h. 43m., at the height of nearly one mile, we passed through a thin c.oud, the earth being just visible ; the temperature at this time was 50 deg., the wet bulb reading 48 deg. We continued at this elevation and temperature some little time, and then fell 200 or 300 feet ; at 6h. 55m. the Palace was seen, and was barely visible through mist at 6h. 57m.: we kept at this eleva tion till 7h. 2m., when Kennington-oval was in sight ;at 7h. 9m. St. Mark's Church, Kennington', was immedi ately underneath. We were now about one mile in height, with a temperature of 48 deg. ; the hum of London was heard. We then descended gradually. At 7h. 12m. lights were being lighted over London, the hum of London greatly increasing in depth. At 7h. 22m. the half of Kennington oval was lighted. At 7h. 16m. shouting was heard of people below who saw the balloon. At this time we were within 1.500 feet of the earth, and continued between 1,500 and 2,500 feet till 711. 40m., the temperature varying but little from 59 deg., the wet bulb reading about 3 deg. less. The appearance of London lighted up at this time was fine, and associated as its appearance was with the deep sound, or rather roar, of the traffic of the metropolis, constituted a truly remarkable scene. For a long time Kennington-oval and Millbank Penitentiary were in sight, and it seemed as though we could not get away from them. At 7h. 40m. Mr. Coxwell determined to ascend above the clouds. We were then about 2,400 feet high and the temperature was 53 deg. At 7h. 42m. we were 3,500 feet high, the temperature being 51 deg. At 7h. 47m. we were a mile high, and the temperature was 45 deg. It was very dark looking downwards, but there was a clear sky above, and a beautiful gleam of light ap peared. We still ascended till the clouds were below us, tinged and coloured with a rich red ; the temperature had now fallen to 43 deg., and we were enveloped in a fog again. At 7h. 52m. the str.king of a clock and tolling of a bell were audible. It was quite dark below. At 811. sm. we were above the clouds, and it became light again. The hum of London gradually died away. By this time the temperature had increased to 55 deg., the barometer reading about 23in. After this we descended, and it became too dark to read any instruments. London again was seen, very different indeed in its appearance to when we could pick out every square, street, bridge, &c., by its lights. Now as seen through the mist it had the appearance of a large conflagration of enor mous extent, and the sky was lit up for miles round. This spectacle was certainly very grand, and it was with reluct ance we again ascended. After a time the lowing of cattle was heard, and we seemed to have left London, therefore Mr. Coxwell determined to pass through the clouds and examine the country beneath. We passed from the com parative light above to the darkness beneath, momentarily increasing, and found ourselves some little distance front London. It is in the management of a descent under such circumstances that the skill of the aeronaut is taxed to the utmost. The darkness precluded the use of the grapnel on this occasion, and also the possibility of observing the nature, of the ground, until skirting the tops of trees. Mr. Coxwell proved himself perfectly competent, the balloon ascending or descending at his will, and shortly touched the ground, so gently that we were scarcely aware of the contact, in the centre of a field at Mill-hill. about one mile and a half front Hendon. It was resolved to anchor the ballon for the night, and I engaged it for the morning for the British Asso ciation observations. Mr. Coxwell assured me that he could attain an elevation of ful y three miles, a height as high as the barometer I had with me was adapted to work. On the morning of Angus; 21, by half-past 4, my instru ments were replaced outside the car, and we again left the earth. The morning was warm but dull, the sky overcast with cirro-stratus cloud. The temperature was nearly 61. dog., and the wet bulb read 59 deg. There were in the ear, besides Mr. Coxwell and myself, Capt. Percival, of the Connaught Rangers; Mr. Ingelow, and my son—Mr. Ingelow taking charge of the barometer, as he had done the evening before. We at first rose slowly. By 4h. 38m. we were 1,030 feet high, and the temperature was 8 deg. At this time Mr. C. xwell's pulse was 90, Mr. Ingelaw's EO, Capt. Percival's 90, and mine 80. At 4b. 41m. there was a break of clouds in the east, and a beautiful line of light was seen, with gold and silver tints ; here and there morning mist was sweeping over the land. At oh. 51m. the temperature 'was 50 deg., the wet bulb read 47 deg. ; scud was below us, and the night cloud was in a transition state, forming into cumuli at the same level as we were— viz., about 3,500 feet; black clouds were above, and mist was creeping along the ground. At 4h. 53m. we were above a mile high, the temperature was 43 deg., and the wet bulb only 1 degree lower; we were just entering clouds. At 4h. 57m. we were in clouds surrounded on every side by white mist, the temperature of the air and dew-point were alike. as both the dry and wet bulb read 394 deg. The light rapidly increased, and gradually we emerged from the dense cloud into a deep basin surrounded with immense mountains of cloud rising far above us, and shortly afterwards we were looking into deep ravines bounded with beautiful curved lines. The sky immediately overhead was blue dotted with cirrus and cirro-cumulus clouds. As we ascended, the tops of the mountain like cloads became silvery and golden. At sh. lm. we were on their level, and the sun appeared flood ing with golden light all the space we could see for many degrees both light and left, tinting with orange and silver all the remaining space around us. It was a glorious sight indeed. At this time we were about 8,000 feet high, and the temperature had increased from 38 deg in the clouds to 41 deg. We still ascended rather mom as the sun's rays fell upon the balloon, each instant Oltebliag up to us ra vines of wonderful extent, and presenting tbrour view a mighty sea of clouds. Here arose shining masses of silvery heaps, there large masses of cloud in mountain chains rising per pendicularly from the plain, dark on one side end silvery and bright on the other, with summits of dazzling white ness; some there were of a pyramidal form, and a large portion of a wavy form, in some places subsiding into hol lows, and in one place having every appearance of a huge lake. Nor was the scene wanting in light and shade; each large mass of cloud cast behind it its shadow, and this cir cumstance, added to the very many tints, formed a scene at once most beautiful and sublime. At sh. Sm. we were nearly two miles high, the tempera ture was 37 deg., and the wet bulb read 5 deg. lower, the air was, therefore, dry. At sh. 18m. we were above 2 miles in height, the temperature was 3l deg., and here it Nvis found that Mr. Coxwell's pulse was 90, Capt. Percival's 88, Mr. Ingleow's 100, and mine 88. The pulse of Capt. Perci val was so weak he could scarcely feel it. Mr. Coxwell, on the other hand, thought his somewhat stronger. By sh. 31m. we were about three miles high, the temperature was 23 deg., and it decreased to 19 deg. by sh. 34m., the wet bulb being from 5 deg. to 6 deg. lower, showing that the temperature of the dew •pcint was some degiees below zero. We then continued at a little above three miles for half an hour, during which time the temperature at the same height increased 5 or 6 deg., as the sun rose, and at this .time the number of pulsations in a minute were taken :—Mr. Cox well's, 94; Mr. Ingleow's, 112; mine, 9S; and Capt. Per cival's, 7S ; but the last-named gentleman could scarcely feel any pulsation at all. Shortly after 6 o'clock it was determined to descend ; we were then above three miles from the earth, the tempera ture, which had been as high as 27 deg., had fallen to 23 deg. At 6h. 13m., at the height of two and a quarter miles, we heard a train. At 6h. 20m. we were two miles high, and the temperature had increased to 39 deg. ; and at this time I noticed the loud ticking of a watch. Capt. Percival said he could not hear it; he was seated and I was standing, and some experiments were made, when it was found that when the ear was at the same level as the watch no sound was heard, but it was remarkably distinct on the ear being situated above it. At the height of two miles the barking of a dog was heard, the temperature at this time, Oh. 24m., was 43 deg. , the wet bulb reading no less than 10 deg. lower. The sha dow of the balloon with the encircling oval of prismatic colours was here very remarkable, and it increased in dimen sions and vividness of colour, till we entered a c loud at 6h 29m. ; the increase of temperature which had in been pro gress during the descent was immediately che cked, and on emerging from the cloud at Gh. 33m., the t em p erature was 41 deg., and the wet bulb 40 deg. The earth was now in i sight, without a ray of sun:light falling upon t ; the tem perature gradually increased to 56 deg. at 1,000 feet high, and 62 deg. on reaching the ground, as gently as on the preceding evening, a little after 7 o'clock, at t unton Lodge near Biggleswade, on the estate of Lord Brow n l ow, where we received every attention and assistance from hi s agen t, Mr. Paulger. A little after his my pulse was 77 Mr. Cox well'a 77, and Capt. Percival 's 83. JAMES GLAISHER. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, AUGUST 25. Tho Queen Grove out on Saturday with Prince Leopold/ an d a ttended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce. Prince Arthur, attended by liojcr Elphinstone, drove to Indigo, the residence of Dr. Robertson. The Princess Helena rode on horseback to Brick-hall , attended by Lieutenant-Gnetal the Hon. C. Grey and Madame HocCd6. The Princess Louis also rode, attended by the Marchio ness of Ely. On Sunday the Queen attended Divine service at the Castle with the Roy al lan-tily and household. 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