The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-11 00:00:00

THE NORTH LONDON PARK and LAND COMPANY (Limited). Incorpora t e d under the Joint Stock Act, 19 and 20 Vic. , I cap. 47, whereby the liability of each shareholder is strictly limited to the pi amount of 00his shares. Catal, M 50,0, In 50,000 shares of 15 each. Deposit-10s, per share on a pplication, and 10s. per share on allotment. (In case of non-alltment the deposit will be returned w o ithout deduction.) DIB.ECTORS. The Eight Hon. Lord FERMOY, M.P. (Chairman), 5, Pembridge-equare, W. Mr. Alderman Allen, Waterloo-plane, S.W. Thomas Campbell, Esq. Director of the Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 5, Esq., Upper Hyde park-gardens' W. George Coat, Esq. (Messrs. Bradbury and Cook), 17, Basinghall-street, E.C. Peter Graham, E•q. (Messrs. Jackson and Graham), Ox ford - street, W. Makins, Esq-, 10, Ch e pstow-villas, Bayswater,W. William Lightl y Simpson, Esq., Chairman of the East Anglian Railway, 25, Gower-street, Bedford square, W.C. SOLICITOR —Henry Wellington Valiance, Esq., 12, Token house-yard, B.C. BANGERS—The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank (Limited), 75, Cornhill, E.C. AUDITORS —Messrs. Coleman, Turquand, Youngs, and Co., 16, Tokenhouse-yard, E.C. 13nox.Ens—Messrs. Huggins and C.E Rowsell, 1, Threadneedle street, . SECRETARY (pro tem.)—F. K. Parkinson, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES-12, Tokenhouse•yard, E.C. This Company is promoted by those who consider it ne cessary that the overcrowded and rapidly-increasing popu lation of London should have a well-timbered park within the easiest possible distance of the City at the smallest pos sible cost. There is an acknowledged want of a place for the health ful recreation of the people on the north side of London, the population of which is three times more numerous than that of the south. Arrangements have been made by which possession has been secured to the Company of a magnificent estate, com prising upwards of 458 acres of land splendidly timbered, well supplied with water, and commanding picturesqe views of the surrounding country. The property is within five miles of the metropolis, and close to Hornsey village. The Wood Green Station of the Great Northern Railway, by which the Park will be reached in about 10 or 12 minutes, is on the estate. The Metropolitan Railway, which is advertised to be opened on the Ist October next, will afford direct means of access to the Park from the very heart of London. On this estate, which re q uires very little to develope its natural beauties, it is proposed to inclose a park of about 200 acres, to form gardens and ornamental grounds, and erect such buildings as may be required. About 250 acres of land around the Park will therefore remain for first-class building purposes, and if it should prove only half as valuable as the surplus lands of from the e ':rystal Palace Compa n y at the present time, a profit thl'e s ource alone will be realised of upwards of £260,000, tberObY enabling the Directors to return to the share holdel 3 the whole of the paid-up capital in addition to the acquirement of 200 acres of park land free of cost. The lin.-tito of a Prospectus are insufficient to detail the ces of recreation for the public contemplated numerous sour by the Comp Nay, or the a dvanta g es to be afforded to all classes. The prominent features will include Out-door Sports and Old English Pastimes; and, our climate being so variable, a certain amount of amusement under shelter will insure visitors from disappointment. The means of combining instruction with amusement be carefully considered, and a well-selected Library and News Room will form part of the Establishment. A• provisional contract is made for the land at £183,000, incluoing the mansion and outbuildings, three entrance lodges, timber, and iron fencing, upon terms highly advan tageous to the shareholders, and extending the period of completion until June 1864. In the meantime the land may be held on a rental of £5 per acre per annum, inclus.ive of the oecupation of the mansion, which is conave_rntitbelle. im .mediately, if deemed expedient, into a first•clas h In estimating the probable profits to be derived by share holders in this Company, it Tay bebaenoybserved that the re p exceed £126,000 a ce i p to of the year. If the Crystalreceipts Ffraelmacethelark a mount to only one third of that sum, there will be available (after deducting the working expenses at the rate of £25 per cent.) a sum per cent. sufficient to yield a dividend. of upwards of £l2 e m f p ro a m ny ih w a i t en per annum the entire caaptittahlaotfwtihnisarCiso eage. which taring into account devotedro building purposes,reacr lion of the estate hatifo of b the ! more than 0 " - am p ou at ri r t o s o t s o . _ Lad 10 s and and Gentlemen may become Patrons he payment of £ 5O in one. IT/11, or by surrendering to by t the Company, Shares of the original cost of Z 25. Patrons f w ill possess the o owing privileges :—viz , Personal ,Admission together with two friends at all times when the Park is open to the public On two days in the week they will have the power of admitting two pei sons on each day by written order. They will also have an Ivory Ticket which will admit their immediate family and one friend dsily. A Patron may delegate to his wife all the above privileges in his absence. Life Governors.—Admission for Life will be issued upon a money payment of £3O, of by the surrender of Shares of the orig nal cost of £l5. Life Governors will have the pri vilege of admission at all times, and will be allowed per sonally to introduce one friend, and on two days in the 'week to give in addition one written order of admission. Annual Tickets, entel ng the holders be to a odbtamission, a and perso nally perso nally to introduce four frien ds ma y ined on surrender of One Share. Every Share which shall be surrendered to the Company will be immediately written off the Books and cancelled. Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be obtained from the bankers, the brokers, or from the seers tary, at the temporary offices of the Company. This fortzt must be delivered entire to the Bankers of the Company, wi2o will tear off and retain the Form of Appli cation for Shares. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the North London Park and Land Company, Limited. Gentlemen, —Having paid to your Bankers the sum of , I hereby request that you will allot me shares of £5 each in the North London Park and Land Company, Limited, and I hereby agree to accept such shares, or any smaller number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit and calls thereon, and to sign the atticles of associatio.n oate Company at such time and in such manner as you appoint. I am, gentlemen, Name in full Address in full Profession or Business (if any) Place of Business (if any) Date Received the day of , 1862, on account of the Directors of the North London Park and Land Company, Limited, from , the sum of , being the deposit made in accordance with the terms of the Pro spectus, on an application for an allotment of shares in the undertaking. For the Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, Limited. After allotment this part will be exchanged for share certificates. fiIIYSTAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW_ ‘...) ALL the GREAT FOUNTAINS.One Shilling. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The GREAT FOUN TAINS TO-MORROW, at FOUR, Will comprise the following. : The Six Fountains on the Upper Terrace. The Two Prince of Wales' Fountains. The Large Central Basket Fountain. The Two Graceful Water Temples. he Forty-eight Tazza Fountains. The -ix Boiling Fountains. The Grand Case rides and Waterfalls. The Eight Dancing Fountains. And the whole of the varied and beautifully designed Foun tains and Casc , des of the (TREAT LOWER BASINS, which alone cover a surface of five acres, numbering Twelve Thou sand Jets, discharging Twenty Thousand Gallons of Water per minute, in,Juding Les GRANDES EAUX, which attain the altitude of 234 feet. C ANTERBURY HALL. The renowned Performers, DEBONNAIRE and AU(IONARD (from Paris). Grand Selections from "DON SESASTIEN" and "IL TROVATORE," ' th leiPal Artistes— Miss Russell, Sin - nor Tivoli, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Russell Grover. r i r „. l . l ' groat turnomle Trio, Eugene, Duley, and Unsworth (the 9r . in r a.i orator, " Or Sny other mn."the fol -IP"r,4. °rale favourites—Marshall, as "Lord Dundreary :" g m . A. B, Hollingsworth, and Miss Georgina Visitors to Londo n are informed that the Picture Gallery Is open to the public on Sum:l,y evenings. T H E (5, o x - 1 , 0 9, X F 0 11 Ti, “THE DAUGIrr",r) STREET. Alice": .z. - tt ,--,--. a Cantata composed by 11. Lt `- , -v THE ISLES," s q., in honour , 3 7Th Esq., and written by A. Ti M i A gh T n T e ti s i s SON t i le e EVERY EVENING, of her Royal Princess. in addition to the usrt s erittrt ain operatic selections by )1i s Illieb;en ,!,,lat,, which include an_ Ai ' .ad Messrs. Morley. Greene, (l a bert, withame Enderssobn, Chorus ; the Comic pert OM ,an 0t1,,,,i,_ Full Band and and Mr. W. Randall, the Ethi9nian al,Saroline Parkes Newcomb, Little Bob, Eug,ene, and Uhsw o , tl M,e of Rumsey, any other man"), and the astounding- teats original "or Trapeze of DEBONNA.IIa. .n. the Flying Ilan, 6 d.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Box.. ----------e• Id. DRURY-LANE T H E A TRE-ROYAL, .-----_ Mr. D Boucicault. sole Lessee. 1 1 his Evening, A KISS IN TIIE DARK. After - whie , the first part of the Arab Entertainment at half-past 7. To 31r. Boucicault, be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mdme. Celeste, &c. To conclude with TrIE ARABS Or THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni-Zoug-Zoug. Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Buckstone. This Evening, FISH OF WATER. Mr. Compton. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN: .Messrs. Buckstone, Sotliern ; Mrs. C. Young, Miss Oliver, .Sac. With CE LOS Y'CALIA : rerea Nena, &c. And TH E CHRISTENING. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Benj amin Webster. This Evening, OUR CLERICS. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, &^. After which, I)IEDEA : Miss Avonia Jones. Followed by TAE PEETTI. tiORSI4:BREAKER : Mr. J. L. Took, Miss Woolgar, te. And IHE SHILLING DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Barris. This Evening, THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, at a quarter to e, KING BENRY VIII.: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, &c. With THE TWO POLTS. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. ole Lesse-.3 and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer. This EveninL, PEEP O'DAY : Messrs. Lacy, Falconer, Addison ; Mrs, Lowers, &c. Followed by KILLAHNEY. T} IL with TE dOLLEEN HAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Charles Selby and Lydia Tl.ompson. Comrneine at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, 31r. W Batty. T hi s Evening, 3IAZEPPA: M r . C . M or t imer. B r illiant thc Circle by the Unrivalled Troupe of British and Feenes in HMS. Conclui EqUCSt ri nz with a Comic Ballet. Fore i g n Cimam at 7, --- Handel's Orator io, "The Messiah," Will be____ time during the Exhibpiteiorn i'cril,El at Exeter Hall , the only National Choral Society, with a ban d and chorus of 700 performers. sea on, on Wef-nesday, the 20th inst., by the Natio `itt - UN" EVERY WEEK. ONE PENNY. NOTICE. All 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, 2h. 43m.—Afternoon, 3h. 3m. To-moßßow.-Morning, 3h. 25m.—Afternoon, 3h. 46m. If the Italian Minister is outspoken at Turin, so also is the Italian Hero at Corleone. We have now the last Speech he is reported to have delivered, and we have his latest Order of the Day. The Speech comes to us via Turin through the columns of the Discussione. For the Order of the Day we are indebted to the new Imperial organ at Paris, La France, edited by the Count de La GUER RONIERE. GARIBALDI'S spoken words are said to have been delivered immediately after his occupa tion of Rocca and of Palunba. And, if correctly re ported, they are certainly as significant and posi tive as any that even GARIBALDI has recently given utterance to. " The present state of affairs," the General is asserted to have declared, " cannot con tinue. I go against the Government, because it will not let me go to Rome. I go against France because she defends the Pope. I will have Rome at any price. Rome or death ! If I succeed so much the better ; if not, I will destroy the _ltaly which I made myself." As GARIBALDI is no brag gart, we are disposed to regard the closing syllables of this discourse to be a perversion of the truth, or at the least an exaggeration. GARIBALDI might with more truth than any man living assert that he himself " made Italy"—that is to say, such as she now is in her pa ss i ona t e yearn i ng f or i n d e p en den c e. But, true as it i s , it would be unlike GARIBALDI for him to say it. As to his threatened vengeance, it is —whatever else we may say of it—comprehensible. Never hardly has man had greater provocation from all those in whose cause he has fought and into whose hands he has played. Having particularised the Speech addressed by GARIBALDI to his followers, we may now refer more directly to the Order of the Day of which we learn the existence through La France. According to that journal of last evening, (the date of its second appearance) this Order of the Day is superscribed " Head quarters of the Army of Italian Independence." It announces to GARIBALDI'S troops their approaching departure for Naples, and avows that " great events" are near at hand. Meanwhile, if we tarn our glance in the opposite direction, it we look to the latest advices received from Turin, the sayings and doings of GARIBALDI are treated from first to last with something but very little short of ridicule. Listening to the com ments there officially put forth through the Ministe rial press, or in the Chambers through the mouths of the Ministers themselves, never perhaps was a popular leader represented as at once more power less, and at the same time more insensate. Is it rumoured that one of the Royal Regiments has raised a shout of Evviva Garibaldi ? The Minister indignantly pronounces the state ment to be a disgraceful fabrication. Are there whispered about, intimations to the effect that some of the KING'S soldiers, and with them one of the KING'S officers, have gone over to the patriot band of the Garibaldians ? The Government hesi tates not, upon the instant, to declare these intima tions to be utterly false, and without one particle of foundation. If we are to judge of what is occurring in Sicily from what is said about it, and written and printed about it, in Turin, the popular movement called for by GARBALDI is virtually at this moment at an end ! The General's followers have already for the most part, either basely deserted him or been summarily dispersed ! GARIBALDI himself—accord ing to the confident declaration of those whose wishes are doubtless father to the assertion thus flagrantly made—instead of leading ever so small a band of adherents to Naples or elsewhere, on the road to the Eternal City, to the cr y of "Rome or Death," is devoting his last remaining energies to his own solitary de parture, almost, we might call it, Flight—to Eng land ! Supposing this rather precipitate statement to prove in the end correct—supposing that GARI BALDI, on finding himself to have been (what almost ever ) body who is now looking on at these events as a dispassionate spectator is beginning firmly and confidently to believe him to have been) shamefully deceived by " the powers that be," should deter mine to withdraw for a while, not again to Caprera, but for once to England—certain are we that the Hero of Italy would receive an ovation fix beyond, in its enthusiasm, even that spontaneous outburst of welcome accorded to KOSSUTH but a few years back, on his arrival upon these shores from Hungary. It does certainly appear to the calm lookers-on here in England that the Ministerial party at Turin are commenting upon the rapid realisation of their wishes rather too confi dently. They may disdainfully talk of GARI BALDI'S present enterprise as a mad project from beginning to end. Yet cannot we for the life of us help recalling to mind that something of the same thing was said of his earlier undertaking. Mad his schemes may appear to be, yet GARIBALDI has con trive Ito show pretty plainly before now that there is a method in his madness. Besides, it is scarcely to be expected that a man like GARIBALDI, with a il' , erfenal popularity so immense as that which " %um does most undoubtedly possess, would fling up B o very readily be disposed to as desperate a cause to which he has already saeriged so much, to which he has dedicated his whole fortu n es , ,o and his whole being,without any rese rvation whatsoever- Rejoiced Zi and his colleagues if at heart, very likely, would be It Al this new and more than ever audacious enterprise of the Italian Hero were to burst, as they keep telling us, m ail after mail, that it has already burst like a bubble. But—that if! M ail after mail still l eaves GARIBALDI in th e island bocage ofSicily, in the:neighbourhood of Corleone—a localit ydescrib e d by those who know it to be almost, as one may say impregnable. There, according to our last ad v i ees from the South, the General is still, surrounded by his armed followers—numbering, according to th e lowest computation, some 800 (the very number of the band that landed with him at Alarsala), and, according to other accounts, somewhere about 3,000. There, at arty rate, be 115 known to be, with his trusty followers; and, what ever the RATTAZZI organs may have the effrontery to assert to the contrary, we dou't think it in the least likely that GARIBALDI will take such very speedy flight to England, or that the Garibaldians 1 will be so very readily dispersed. Rash, the 1. .^.•.. 4 1 6* • . - .. 0,1.40 I. /0, 4 . ~. - , - 10: .1 fO • '* -,, ..... ~ '' ' ' ' Y rjfig?"‘` IP % 11 1) /1: v , z , , V 3l .. , "it THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1862. THE SUN, LONDON, MO - #DAY EVENING, AUGUST 11, 1862. Hero's new - enterprise appears to all of us mere lookers on, undoubtedly—and rash even to the last degree of rashness. But, if GARIBALDI lacks every thing in the way of disinterestedness—his Honesty, his Guilelessness, his Heroism, are beyond the limits of exaggeration. Since writing the above this afternoon, another Telegram has just been flashed to us from the Con tinent. It announces the simultaneous outburst of a new rallying-cry among the populace in the North of Italy, and in the South of Italy, at Genoa and in Sicily. "Down with RaTAzzi !" It is significant. Should the cry extend or get echoed North, South, East, West, in the Rcman peninsula the Minister will have to thank himself for the diffi culty into which he has blundered. A difficulty it now threatens to be to Signor RATAZZI none the less formidable of its kind, for inasmuch: as this new cry of, "Down with RATAZZI !" is coupled in one quarter with another cry of, " Viva VICTOR EM MANUEL and GARIBALDI !" Once, again, fairly identify the interests of the KING and the Hero, and down will go the French Italian Minister ! We do not like needlessly to find fault with our courts of justice; but more things have been done lately than usual, which should hardly be passed over in silence. We have already adverted to FLOOD'S case, con victed by a Sussex jury of murder without recom mendation to mercy, although the judge hinted that such a recommendation would be attended to : it was also beyond dispute that the man bore an excellent character, and had been driven to half intoxicate himself, and, in that condition, to murder, by a series of regimental brutalities, and by the fear and threat of their renewal from'the person whom he shot. The man cannot be hanged, and if the feeling of the country is to be respected, we may hope that as a lesson to the real authors of the murder, his brutal comrades—he will be punished only for man slaughter. It is singular that Sussex also furnished the jury who acquitted another deliberate mur derer, because, though he killed a man, it was not the man whom he intended to kill. Another case is what, so far as we can judge from the reported ev:dence, is a most unwarrantable one of admitting to bail. Rape is a crime which every woman, every father, brother, and husband, feel to be hardly second to murder. It was, till very lately, dealt with in the same way. In aggravated cases, it richly deserves hang ing. Yet Mr. WOOLRYCH, however, admits to bail, and on easy terms too, a Mr. JIM', whom the evidence, as we now have it, both of the police and of the respectable young servant girl, prove to have been guilty of a most violent and suc cessful assault on the girl's honour. If screams, fainting, hysterics, and insensibility were not pre sumptive evidence that JIIPP had been guilty of a crime which merits the severest penalties society can inflict, we know not what would be evidence. If the poor girl had been the daughter of a mem ber of Parliament, or of a Bishop, Mr.WOOLRYCH'S conduct would have been questioned in the House of Lords and the House of Commons ; and the Home Secretary would have been as indignant and active, as when Mr. PILKINOTON, M.P., was garrotted—but a virtuous servant girl is no object of interest, we presume, to elected, or even to Episcopal Legisla tors. The Bishop of OXFORD, who took care of girls of sixteen, might have bethought him of in quiring whether a girl of eighteen was to be thus outraged with impunity, if hisfather and uncle were willing to pay £lOO a piece, and the criminal him self £2OO, if he left as much behind him. We shall see whether the police will be able to produce him on the day of trial, for it seems incredible that he should produce himself. Another was a case in which, we believe, most readers of the trial think there was a serious failure of justice; nor can we but think the Judge himself as much in error as the jury, and probably the chief cause of their error. General SHIRLEY, he of Bashi-Bazouk reputation in the Crimean war, is the hero on the wrong side of this case—a highly re spectable and well brought-up young woman, se duced by him under a promise of marriage, as she asserts, is the victim. In cases of breach of promise of marriage, by a perversity intended surely to favour the stronger sex, the parties to the alleged promise cannot be examined—though the parties to suits of infinitely less consequence may be. Hence, a crafty old man of fifty may easily dupe a little suspecting orphan of twenty-three, such as Miss THOMAS was, if he choses so to d o . Th a t M a j or - General HOmAs SHIRLEY did so dupe Miss THOMAS must, we should think, be the impression received by all those who read the evidence, and it was not of a nature, like much evidence, to appear different to a court and to a reader. Miss THOMAS had but very slender means, in deed, but had from seventeen years filled a respec able situation as a governess. She sought another, through Miss MOON, the head of an agency office for governesses, at whose instance she first endeavoured to improve her French at Paris, but afterwards Miss MOON suggested and drew up for her an advertisement, which ran thus—" As Lady Housekeeper.—A young lady is desirous of obtaining an engagement es housekeeper to a widower or single gentleman. She is accom plished, and of ladylike deportment. Address CON STAN CE, care of the Lady Principal of the Musi cal Agency Office, 40, Oxford-street." It seems hardly credible that not only the veteran seducer, but the judge, and we suppose the jury, should see nothing in this advertisement, but a public offer of the advertiser to accept a dishonourable position ; and that though the principal of the institution drew it up herself. Miss MOON had inserted many such advertisements, and it is certain that no re spectable paper would insert what this advertise ment was said to be—an advertisement of prostitu tion. The reason for the preference on the part of Miss THOMAS approved by the principal of the in stitution was, obviously, that it is frequently far more trying to a respectable young woman to serve under one of her own sex than under a gentleman. General SHIRLEY refused to produce the letters he had received, which ought to have been a pre sumption against him. But even his own letters, cautiously as they were worded, to our judgment, showed that he had made her promises of marriage, on which a young orphan girl, not suspecting a soldier, entirely relied. She was wholly unaware that he was sepa rated from his wife, and so must even some re spectable neighbours have been, for they at one place received Miss THOMAS as Mrs. SHIRLEY ; it is remarkable that in one letter after he had effected . his pu r p ose , w h en he wanted her to come to his house in the c ou nt r y, and act as his housekeeper, he e a o a ctually added t o t h e reque st that she would resume name, fo r a time tt lea her ow , An ake h expression is which e d n ot haveus i ede s x t e l ept to make language decently Square with promises he had made her. There was also the evidence of a young lady, who had heard a conversation which it was planned she should hear, and in which the gen eral distinctly Spoke of his promises to bliss TiloMAb• There was nothing Whatever to impeach this evidence. Has the g eneral 11 ct made promises, he knew better at fifty than to confess it, and that in the very act of refusing to keep them. We admit that the chief failure is that caused by the law which refuses the best evidence, but balancing the denial of the Bashi•Bazonk general separated from his wife, against the assertion of an orphan of twenty-three, corroborated by previ ous virtuous character, by Miss MooN's acts, by her letters, and by the conversation, we could not hesi tate a moment in giving our verdict for the victim. Another naval lesson from America, and again from the Confederates. All of us who take an in terest in public matters—and few are the English men uninterested in their navy—will a second time strain our eyes to the uttermost to see if anything fresh can be learned on the subject of ironsides and steam rams. This time we must look across half the American continent to the Mississippi itself— there for a long time the Federal Fleet of gunboats has been in vain bombarding the city of Vicksburg, and in vain, also, endeavouring by means of a canal across the neck of the Peninsula on which it stands, to cut it off from being a River Port for ever. The river had fallen too much to scour through the canal and change the channel. The consequence is that Vicksburg is still a virgin fortress, and its bat teries, with those of Baton Rouge, one or two hun dred miles below it, command an important section of the Mississippi, quite enough to place the Federal fleets in a rather awkward position. But it is at Vicksburg itself that the feats of the Merrimac have been renewed, and that it has again been shown how far superior the South, considering its smaller mechanical resources, has proved itself to the North. Our readers noticed, probably, the brief account which appeared in Me Sun on Saturday, of the exploits of the Arkansas, to-day we extract, from a Chicago paper, much fuller details of the same exploit. The river Yazoo runs into the Mississippi at Vicks burg, and it was up this river that the second Merrimac was fitted out. She appears to have been covered like the Merrimac with a double coating of the best railway iron, her deck low, with portholes only just big enough for the muzzles of the guns, nothing on deck but the " Smoke Stack," anglice, funnel, and not an aperture by which a boarding party could enter, a fact verified by her foes. Her armament was powerful, but it was her invulnerability which made her so dreadful an antagonist. The Federal iron-plated gun boats pitted against her, are only imperfectly pro tected—their plates do not exceed 24 inches in thickness, and they are applied only to those parts which are supposed most to need protection. It was known that the Arkansas was building, though scoffers at such an idea of southern skill and energy were not wanting. However, three steamers were sent up the Yazoo to reconnoitre. They were just too late. They found the Arkansas ready to steam at them at once, while they could not get back to the main fleet lying off Vicksburg, in time to prepare them for a visit from the new Impregnable. The Queen of the West went ahead of the other two, but they had not gone above five miles when the Queen was observed coming back " with every pound of steam on," and proclaim ing—" the Arkansas is coming." And coming she was. The Carondelet was the first to encounter her, aided by the Tyler, the third boat. She hid her broadside towards the approaching ship, but the balls were seen to strike and fall harmlessly into the water. Another broadside was given at fifty yards, but with the same result. The Arkansas then ran into the Carondelet's starboard quarter, crushing it, and keeping up a fire of broadsides with pointed shot, which raked her from stem to stern, while the shot of the Carondelet rolled off the Arkansas " like indiarubber balls." Boarding was now tried, but the iron hatches were down and fastened inside. The boarders returned but only to their now sinking vessel ; her stem was riddled, the officers' quarters shot away, and at last a steam pipe was cut away by a shot, when many of the men jumped overboard out of the way of the scalding steam. The Arkansas having finished the Carondolet, attended next to the Tyler, which, with her thin sides, had no chance of resisting the enemy's shot ; she fled at once, firing her stern guns into the pursuing Arkansas, and receiving the fire of the bow guns of the latter, till her boats being shot away, and her hull badly injured, they both, pursuer and pursued, came in sight of the whole fleet. The Arkansas must run the gauntlet of this, before she could anchor under the guns of Vicksburg, and she was in no way reluctant to undertake that feat. As it happened, not a vessel in the fleet had steam up, or was in a condition to move. They so lay, also, that a great part of the ships could not use their guns without injuring friends more than the enemy. The ram fleet, which lay at the mouth of Yazoo, forthwith scattered in all directions. On the Arkansas passed, send ing her shot right and left, while the most powerful boats were hindered by the cause just mentioned from returning her fire. At last the Oneida hits her from her eleven-inch gun—the ball drops harmless. Two others fire, but without effect. The Arkansas steams on, doing all the damage she can to gunboats and transport ships, and apparently receiving none herself. The Cln cinnati, the last gunboat in her route to the Vicks burg battery, is anxiously looked to by the fleet ; but she has not steam enough to head the stream ; the Arkansas attacks her, and it was thought that the balls from her rifled parrot guns, at shurt range , did enter th e seem i ng l y i nvu l nera ble ship —th e other guns produced no effect at all. The Cin cinnati soon got into water too shallow for the Arkansas to follow her, so as it were giving her the parting kick of a broadside, the latter steamed off to her destination at Vicksburg. We do not perhaps learn much that is strictly new from this second splendid naval feat. It was in great part, like the former in Hampton Roads, a surprise, but like that it illustrated what an invulnerable could do amongst vulnerables. It is doubted whether the Arkansas received any serious injury at all, but there was no Monitor to en counter her, every boat she fought with being but imperfectly defended. One point was proved, the possibility of guns being worked under closed hatches, a n d w ith portholes not much larger than their mouths, yet not suffocating the crew with the smoke and gases generated by the gunpowder. It seems that ships may close them selves up, and become like floating armadillos, and yet retain all their powers of offence, and steer where they like with perfect ease. The visit of the Queen to Gt:rmany is rendered necessary, to a certain extent, as administratrix to the estate of the late Prince Consort, and it is generally under stood that her Majesty will have a considerable amount of business to transact in that capacity. Arrangements will have to be made with respect to Prince Alfred, the Pie' sumptive heir to the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg, and the in heritor of his father's proper:) , in the Duchy. other matter, , , will, it i s expecte d , f u ll y occupy the time fixed for the Queen t o rema i n on t h e C ont i nen t. —Court Journal. Thi s , with CRYSTAL PALACE,—At 130 time during t h e year are the grounds of the Palace so beautiful as at present produced by dowers group e d t o g e the r by thousands, delig ht the eye on all sides. The great fount a ins are also now se en Vi e wed from any Point , masses of colour of every sh ade to the best advantage, the brilliancy of the flowers giving additional charms to the display. The whole series will be played to-morrow (Tuesday) at four o'clock. THE TIMES AND THE ZOLLVEREIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SEN. SlR,—i am a German. I have lived in England for many years, and, partly from my English family con nexions, h"ve in many ways followed the customs of this country. One of these I found to be skimming over the Times newspaper at breakfast, and the retailing of its pro found wisdom and comprehensive information among those whom one meets during the day, often adhering to the very phraseology of that paper, though mostly preserving as one's own the dicta and verbs of England's tremendous thinking-machine. I confess it was not always easy to comply with this custom; and I might have found the dif ficulties in ray way insuperable, had it not been for the praiseworthy example set me by most of the very well-to do and intensely respectable people I had the good fortune to fall in with. At present my mind, lam happy to say, is as Times-bound as theirs. By degrees I have learmd to swear by the Thunderer ; lam now as well convinced as any other man of the authenticity of everything which that admirable genius " Our Own Correspondent" reports —I am never shocked at hearing that a would-be (but ab solutely impossible) refutation of one of its statements has been denied space in its columns. The leading articles are my especial delight ; and I thin k myself so well trained that, tr usting to my oracle's superior wisdom, it - would cost me very little to proclaim to-day as most absurd and wicked the men and the measures which three years or three months ago I glorified and venerated as heroic and virtuous. I have of late two or three times changed my view of Garibaldi—l have altered seven or eight times my estimate of the Ruler of France ; the King of Prussia is to me by turns a repre sentative of liberalism and the champion of right Divine; and, after having declared three weeks ago that Southern rebellion was at an end * and Beauregard a coward, the way in which I can now be heard extolling that com mander, and walking into the Yankees— a people wh m I highly esteem and deeply abhor is entirely satis factory to myself. But it is not enough to admire, we must imitate good example. In short, the laurels of " the leading journal of Europe" let mo sleep no longer. I, too, will duly burn my midnight oil, and my lucubrations shall be no less wonder ful than those of the Times. I dare hope to approach that masterly speculation and grand flight of imagination with which that paper has just treated the history and conßec tion of the Zollverein, of Germany, of Prussia, of the Austrian empire. I have set up correspondent for an influential German paper, and I shall likewise furnish its editors with leading articles on English politics, commerce, and society, Per haps I do not quite understand these things, but that does not matter, as my illustrious example so fully proves. I certainly flatter myself that my articles will, in this moment of international connexions, be of the greatest value in drawing closer the bonds of brotherly esteem, based on a semb'ance of a mutual study of the nation's circum stances, history, aspirations, and prospects. I shall also not fail, incidentally and of set purpose, to give plentiful advice as to the best mode in which things in general had better be managed, and my suggestions proceeding from an accurate knowledge, which, I con fidently trust, will be placed on a par with that of the Times, cannot but be well received is England itself, as well as by English residents in Germany, though it will sometimes be my painful duty to pour the oil of sarcasm over the heads of your benighted countrymen, and to pitifully and patronisingly allude to the very unsatisfactory state in which your country found herself before the repeal of the corn laws, in the days of Old Sarum, and when Caesar par leyed with the painted Britons. Such gentle reminders and graceful allusions will, no doubt, be found to be in as good taste as the appeal the Times makes to its older readers, to recollect the former " poverty-stricken " position of Ger many; and such passages, especially when brought for ward during Exhibition times, must, there as here, be thought the very salt of our articles. _ _ I believe, Sir—for I have read your paper likewise for some years that you are inclined, however much the clash of noisome discussions may tend in the conti ary direction, to uphold the views which in our younger days we proclaimed to the tune of Beranger's (that old sinner's—l mean that inspired poet's) " Sainte Alliance des Peuples." 1 trust therefore that you will help me in my cosmopoli tan and international undertaking. I trust even the Times —whenever I shall have proved to be successful—may sometimes assist me, seeing that from a good understand ing between nations many tangible results may flow, in facilities for railway undertakings, manifold engineering and mining works abroad, and in similar modes appreciable by the aforesaid respectable public. But to you, who ap pear to me so much less grand or awful, I address myself confidently in the first instance, hoping that you will occa sionally give me the advantage of your advice, and that you will sometimes translate an extract or two from my multi • farious and anonymous, but not the less weighty articles. My first leader, then, will speak of the contemplated union of Ireland with the dominions of her Majesty. I shall here briefly dwell on the immense advantages which will accrue to many Irish orange women and flower girls by a market being offered them under the kindly fos tering protection of the Mansion-house and the City police —to a host of navvies who will find on these hospit able shores, work and whisky —to the liberality and the enjoyment which may be expected from listening to or reading the amenities of the Secre tary whom the Imperial Government will appoint for that interesting country when the union it has so long hoped for, will, by the help of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, be happily brought about. I mean then to go on to say that very credible information has reached me to the effect that even Scotland wishes to enter into more friendly relations with the Southrons, and that the name of the United King dom will comprise three countries hitherto abs trdly divided by an insidious, vexatious, and imbecile system of p a ssports and tolls. It will bo necessary to mention that some people fear too many Scots will come southwards, and never go back again, but I shall point out that this evil will be counterbalanc e d by the magnificent spectacle of two nations agreeing voluntarily to do away with the mischievous raids and barbarous feuds which have only lately led to the establishment of, or strengthening of, many border towers, entrusted to so many valiant Arm strongs and Bells, and the chief command over which has been given to the warlike Earl of Carlisle. These, the very towers or forts which figure so largely in the fortification estimates of Lord Palmerston, becoming now superfluous, a considerable sum may happily, and to the great relief of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and of her Majesty's lieges, be struck off the annual expenditure. Having made this statement, I shall use it for an argument towards a general European disarmament, and then, taking to Pan's pipe, indulge in plea san t reveries and speculations as to the rapidity wish which the Cornish language may be expected to spread over the newly-formed United King dom. Can you for a moment doubt, sir, that such au article, evincing in the best manner of my great model, both good sense and feeling, scrupulously exact and replete with use ful information, can fail to produce an impression fully as ftvourable on the continent, as did the recent Tunes leader on Austria, Prussia, and the Zollverein ? Perhaps I shall in the same article, but I will in the one immediately following, strive to enlighten, and, by the force of example, raise my countrymen in ibe point of manners, by detailing to them the last improvements which our immortal contemporary, Beau Brummel, has recently invented in the matter of dress and living ; and it may probably encourage them in their present constitutional struggles, if we tell them there is great hope the demands of the English barons will all be granted and be handed down to posterity in a document to which the name of the Great Charter is likely to be given. Only help me occasionally by your advice, and you and I, sir, will yet bring to light a series of articles, whi.ch, along with those of the Times, shall be conducive, it not to a good, at any rate, to an amusing and jolly international feeling, convertible, indeed, in serious moments, into its very opposite, and thus mutually, in our leading ar ti c l es, we may help, by a believing publiP,, to lead your country and mine by the nose,—l am ; Sir, yours respectfully, G. 0. * Vide Times Correspondent from. New York after the evacuation of Corinth. CRYSTAL PALACE.—HALF-CROWN DAY, SATUR DAY. -Admissions on payment, 3,071; ditto, by season tickets, 1,529; total, 4,600. Total visitors for week ending Saturday, 103,128. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. —The St. Louis Republican publishes the following outrage committed by the Federal troops :—ln Monroe county, Missouri, near the Salt River Railroad bridge, on Sunday last, as Mr. James M. Lesley and his family were returning home from church, together with a party of young ladies and gentlemen who were visiting them at their country home, they found their dwelling and grounds occupied by Federal troops who had been stationed at the bridge. Suspecting no harm, though finding the grounds guarded, they advanced towards their residence, when Mr. Lasley was ordered to get down and go to Palmyra. He replied that they must permit him to enter tine house and get a thicker coat, as he would be absent all night. This they positively denied, telling him the coat he had on would do for him. They then placed him and Jas. Price ( a young son of a widow lady) and young Ridgeway, a n only son of aged parents, in front of the Federal lines. The young ladies and Mrs. Lasley, with her two children, yet remained on the ground, Having separated these three gentlemen from the ladies whom they had escorted from c hurch, the officer is command addressed some very insult ing words to them. The dreadful truth that they were to be shot at once flashed across Mrs. Lasley's mind, and she darted to join her husband and share his fate, but was caught and held by one of the young ladies present, just as Mr, Lasley and young Price fell, having been shot des d. Young Ridgeway rushed into the woods which were near, but delayed his death only a few seconds, for he was pur sued and instantly killed. It is proper further to say that Mr. Laaley had taken the oath of allegiance, and was under a heavy bond ; that young Ridgeway was also under oath and bond, and that Price was only 15 years of age. Ise ore t his crime was committed it is alleged that the soldiery had aken possession of Mr. Lesley's house—had helped them selves to everything they wanted—had partaken of se good dinner which the cook was ordered to prepare for them, and had destroyed many household articles. LATEST NEWS• NAPLES, AUG. 10. Rumours are current that a great many persons have been arrested during the night for complicity in the secret enrolments. TURIN, AuG. 10. The Campana of to-day maintains that the only means by which a solution of the present difficulties can be brought about is the dismissal of Ratazzi. GENOA, AUG. 10. A popular demonstration took place here to-day. The crowd, which was very numerous, afterwards dispersed in an orderly manner. PALERMO, AUG, 10. Garibaldi is at Caltanisetta, but his followers have not entered the town. The deputies MM. Mordini, Fabrizi, and others have arrived here. They are preparing a demonstration against the Government. Bulletins are being circulated, bearing the words, " Down with Ratazzi !" " Long Live Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi !" PARIS, AUG. 9. La France of this evening contains the following news : " At the third Conference held at Constantinople it was decided in principle that the Turks should continue to occupy the citadel of Belgrade. " A Garibaldian manifestation has taken place in La Scala theatre at Milan, at which shouts were raised of ' Rome or death! ' " It is asserted that the Confederate Envoys at Paris and London have demanded the recognition of the Southern Confederacy, and that England has refused to accede, while France has not yet given any reply," AUGUST 10. The Moniteur of to-day announces that the Em peror arrived at St. Cloud at 6 30 p.m. yesterday, and that his Majesty will hold a grand review on the 14th inst. M. Dufaure has been appointed Batonnier of the Advocates of Paris. La _France of this evening contains the follow- ing:— "The Pope is said to have addressed a circular to the Catholics in the East recommenditig them not to assist the Turks in attacking the Montene grins, because Catholics ought never to fight against Christians." TURIN, AUG. 9. The Opinione of to-day says :—" The encounter between the Garibaldian volunteers and the royal troops appears to have taken place at St. Etienne, on the road to Girgenti. The royal troops num hered 100 and the Garibaldians 1,200. After a few shots had been fired the volunteers retired, leaving 70 muskets. General Garibaldi commands the column which is marching towards Messina." The ltlonarclzia Nazionale of today says :—" The encounter was accidental. The Garibaldians left arms and two killed on the field. The majority of the volunteers were very young." AUG. 10. The Discussione of to-day contains the follow ing :—" Garibaldi has occupied Rocca and Palunba. He has made a speech which some persons assert was to the following effect : " The present state of affairs cannot continue. I go against the Government because it will not let me go to Rome. Igo against France because be cause she defends the Pope. I will have Roma lit any price. Rome or death ! It I succeed, so much the better; if not, I will destroy the Italy which I made myself." The same paper says :—" The departure of vo lunteers from Palermo has almost entirely ceased. Rumours are current that their conduct ha 3 been such as to render them obnoxious to the population. Some of the Volunteers who had left Palermo have returned thither. They had taken their departure under the belief that an understanding existed between the King and Garibaldi, but on being un deceived they returned to their homes." No further news has been received from Sicily. Signor Ratazzi declared to-day in Parliament that the statement published by the Agence Continentale in the French papers, that the 45th Regiment on landing at Palermo, shouted " Garibaldi for ever !' and was in consequence immediately ordered to Ancona, was absolutely false. TURIN, AUG. 10. The Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting of yes terday evening, voted the bill granting the conces sion of the Neapolitan Railways to M. Bastogi. The Bill on the sale of the State domains, and some other Bills, were also agreed to. The Marqui s Pepoli urged the discussion of the Bill for granting credits on landed property. Signor Rataazi having, in conformity with the proposition of several deputies, expressed a wish that the Session might be prolonged, the Chamber agreed to reassemble on Tuesday next. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 9.—The market has been less firm, and Stock having been rather offered, prices have receded. Torees, for the Account, are now at 68fr. 85c. Railway Share Market also heavy. The market closed as follows : It per Cents. 9B 05 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 85 New 3 per Cents Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 846 25 Do. end month 846 25 Bank Shares 3175 Credit 1 oncier 1240 Piedmontest Fives 71 Italian Loan 7l 25 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt .. 4B R&M' rAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lOlB 75 .. 1017 50 Northern New. ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1108 75 .. 1105 GPneva 370 .. Southern 835 —. .. 833 75 Western Eastern .... ,.. 537 50 .. Sardinian 363 75 .. 363 75 Austrian Lowbard 6ll 25 .. 610 ITALY. The following order of the day has been issued by Col. Medici, late lieutenant and intimate friend of Garibaldi, to the National Guard of Palermo, ot which he is at present the Commander : "`ltaly and Victor Emmanuel Such is Gari baldi's programme, as well as that of the King ot Italy's Government. Between those who profess the same purpose, the only difference that can exist is that of the means to be employed ; it is a family question, which I trust may soon be settled. The National Guard, whose duty it is to be above every party, must rally round its chiefs and behave with firmness, so that family misunderstandings may not degenerate in a fratricidal war. Relying on the patriotism of the National Guard, I feel confident that I shall be enabled to fulfil my mission, uphold order and liberty, and thus restore that calm and confidence which is indispensable to the social life of this city, which has deserved so well of Italy. " MEDICI." THE LAKE DISTRICT. — De spite the anticipations of sanguine hotel and lodging-house keepers, that as the season advanced visitors would flock in, Lakeland shows at the present time a paucity of visitors such as has not been the case for many years , —Kendal .3fercurY. -4.,~4= _ WEST COAST OF AFRICA. LIVERPOOL, Ago. 10. The screw steamship Athenian, Captain Lowry, has arrived with the mails from the West Coast of Africa. She brought 55 passengers, 2,500, oz, of gold, and £1,200 in specie. Her dates are Benin and Nun, June 24th; Fernando Po, 29th; Came roans, 30th ; Old Calabar, July 2d ; Brass River, 4th; New Calabar and Bonny, 7th; Lagos, 11th; Accra 13th ; Cape Coast Castle, 14th; Cape Palate , 16th ; Sierra Leone, 21st'; Bathurst, 25th; Tene rife, 31st; and Madeira, August 2d. Trade was still languid in the rivers. Sickness in the rivers was abating fast ; very few cases of fever took place during the steamer's stay, The following deaths were reported :-- Mr. William Hearn, of Old Calabar ; Messrs. Snape and Bryden and Mrs. Henry, of Benin ; Mr. Brune, of Fernando Po (drowned); and Mr.. William Ellis, chief officer of the screw steamer Retriever. At Benin the natives were most troublesome. During Dr. Henry's absence from his factory they broke into his stores and house, stole his goods, and threatened to illuse and then kill Mrs. Henry. Fortunately a plucky Krooman stood at the door of her room with a pistol in his hand, and swore he would shoot the first man who attempted to cross the threshold. By this means the Kroomaa covered Mrs. Henry's retreat, who by this time had escaped out of the back entrance, and ran for miles into the bush, wading up to her waist in mud and water. Towards night she journeyed down to Messrs. Horsfall's factory. The extreme fright caused such a shock to her nervous system that she took fever, accompanied with congestion of the brain, and died four days after. The natives would not even allow Dr. Henry to bury her in the ground appropriated for the graves of white men. It was expected that a gunboat would be despatched up the river to make inquiries into the cause of this serious affair. As the Cameroons trade had stopped since the Ist of May, and there is no prospect of its being opened for some time, the price demanded by the natives being most exorbitant. The late differences with the natives of Old Calabar having been for the present arranged, the ships and hulks had returned to their old anchorage up the river. Trade had been resumed, but still remains much depressed. What with the past two months of inaction in the trade, and the r a ins having set in, a short supply of oil may be looked for tl'is season. On the 10th of July Accra was visited with a very severe earthquake. The shock 'stated two minutes, and the strongest houses rocked and fell down; in fact, all are more or less damaged. The Dutch and. Englis forts are almost in ruins, being no longer habitable, and the guns ammunition buried. People are afraid to enter inside of the houses which are left standing. The Europeans live under tents and small wooden houses. The natives were so frightened that they took to drinking and making fetish night and day. Several shocks have been felt daily, and even ships lying in the roadstead felt them. The earth openod in several places, and a large fissure was made in the rock close to the fort (English). Only three natives had been killed. There is no news of any importance from other parts of the coast. Health good. Natives quiet. PROPOSED _RECOGNITION 01 THE SOUTHERN COAFEDERACY. On Thursday evening a large public meeting was held in the Assembly-rocm of the Town-hall, Blackburn, to consi der the advantage of recognising the Southern States of America, with a view to bring about an early terminatiea of hostilities. The Mayor presided ;he was supported by s large number of manufacturers and tradesmen. The hall was densely crowded. The first resolution deplored the tin" natural war raging in America, the awful sacrifice of life, and the destruction of property caused by it, as well as the misery it inflicted in the manufacturing districts of England, and expressed the opinion of the meeting that a continuance of the unhappy strife would cause the rain of both parties to it, and that of the districts depending on the cotton trade The resolution was moved by Lieut.-cJol. Bowdon, seconded by Mr. J. Johnston, and adopted unanimously and with out discussion. Mr. R. R. Jackson moved the second reso lution. In doing so he advocated an intervention Ile could cite several parallel cases—Belgium, Turkey, and Greece. There was an intervention in favour of those States, which had resulted in their being declared independent. The last 12 months theyhad passed through would be considered vet?' severe, but they were at the height of prosperity in compari son to the 12 months that were forthcoming. War meant dear bread, dear cheese, dear bacon, but absence of cotton. meant enforced idleness and the want of money to b u y the commonest necessaries of life. It was impossible for the North to vanquish the South, and a writer in the Times said that the war must be reckoned not by months but bit years ; so that unless the difficulty was cleared up they would be entirely dependent upon the books of the parish, or they would have to rely upon relief committees. What he desired them to do was to pass the resolution be submitted to them, " that a petition to the Queen be adopted by this meeting and signed by the mayor, praying her Most Gracious Majesty to take immediate measure in coalescing with France and such other Powers as may be willing to give their co-operation to recognise the independence o f the Confederate States of America." The resolution was not re ceived with unqualified approval, there being a sti ong pression of opinion against it; and an amendment was moved by Mr. J. C. Fielden, disapproving the policy of in tervention. This amendment was supported by Mr. W. , Crossley, but finally withdrawn, and the following rider, moved by Mr. F. Johnston, agreed to :—" That this meet ing recognising the desirability of ref erring all internatilnel disputes to impartial arbitration for settlement, respect' Cully urges the Government of this country to imme diately co-operate with other European Powers in recom mending to the contending parties in 'America the above plan as the simplest and most satisfactory method of re storing and re-establishing peace, and in their neg o tiations_ strongly recommend th e a b o li t i on of slavery. " A vote o f thanks and three cheers having been given to the M a yor? the crowded meeting separate'a in good order. CRYSTAL PALACF,.—During the past six days the numbers of visitorP, have exceeded those of any previous week since the bpening of the Palace, and, as the foreign and provinc ,- al excursionists to London for the Exhibition , increase., it is only reasonable to anticipate that the visitor® to the Palace will increase also. The terrace-gardens 04 row: t ry are now in their fullest beauty, the flower bed being brilliant in the extreme. This day (Monday) Bios' din performs on the high rope over the fountains, and No ll introduce a series of new feats on a slack rope suspeudee . from the high rope. To-mo rrow th e great fountains Will be played, and on Wednesday Mr. Coxwell will make su ascent in his great balloon. The directors have determ/s° to make Saturdays one shilling days during the time of Lit Exhibition ; this will still further increase the weekly at tendances. Saturday, half-crown day, August 9.—Adru° . sions on paym en t, 3,071 ; ditt o b y season tickets, 1, 529 ' total visitors, 4,600; total visitors for the week ending Saturday, 103,128. REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—A strange accident 00° curred on Monday evening, about six o'clock, as the expte ° train from Glasgow to Carlisle on the Glasgow and Souk" Western line was proceedi ng b e t ween Th orn hill an d Closeburn. Mr. Jas. Russell, a y o ung man, a ge d 18, s on "h Mr. Russell, assistant to Mr, Balsillie, inspector of Pe °4 Kilmsrnock, was proceedi ng to Dumfrie s , w i t h a young°., brother, abut six years of age, to spend a few days with some friends. They were travelling in a fiat class carriage, and luckily encugh, as it h appene d,t carriage was next the engine. The trai n was pr oceed' ing at the rate of 30 miles an hour, and was sboti; a quarter of a mile on the north or Th orn hill s ide ci the Cample viaduct, when the little b o y l e f t his s ea t to look through the carriage window at s ome s h ee p which. attracted his attention. The carriage doors on the side the train of which the child was looking out of the winde sit are usually locked ; in this instance, no sooner did the Pr e° ; s ure of the little fellow's hands c ome upon the door Haan it flew open, and in an instant the child was precipitate d u „. °l2 of the carriage into the space called the "six feet." ", tween the two lines of rails. Al most frantic with terror ow alarm, the elder brother stretched himself as far out of the carriage as he could, and shouted to the engine-driver, who on hearing his cries s t opped the train but it was not PeB,, Bible to du this till th e spot where th e child had fallen ou t had been passed ab out h alf a mile. Mr. Russell at 011_,.c tO hastened back alo ng th e l i ne, fearing the worst, but so mucm. agitated was he by the shock that he was scarcely able proceed. M r . D eas; inspector of the line happened to be n• the train a t th e t i me, and it was agreed that the train e should be sen t b ack. This was done, and Mr. Deas a nd others followed on foot the direction taken by Mr. Russell, whom they overtook and passed. The train was about a quarter of a mile to the south of Catnple vie r a to and on nearing the viaduct, proceeding north, the su P C ;_ sop ti, F et, and satisfaction of those in search of the child may 1?f, ceived wh en th e y saw th e li t tl e f e ll ow co ming ratu to wards them along the " six feet," weeping bitterly and rr l a t _w i r e ing for his brother James, but apparently unhurt. ascertained, however, that in falling out of the ca sed l g° be received a cut in the head, which is not . suppo _ O. , t'e serious, and some slight abrasions on the . limbs. carnage is known as to how the door of the railway can to be open,—,Dumfries Courier. i•iim in