The Sun. — London, England, 1862-11-03 00:00:00

LOVE'S TRIUMPH. --W. V. WALLACE'S NEW OPEE* (Libretto by Planche) will be published un TUESDAY, by Addison and Lucas, 213, 'Regent-street, London. .IVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, in FUN, every week. One Penny, Now Ready, handsomely in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d. posed ree, 65., the SECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanch ird, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Buniand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. &0., Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. „• For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, Wallace's new opera, LOVE'S TRIUMPH. Commence - at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. 'Ms Evening, at Seven, THE COLLEEN BAWN. And at half-past Nine THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSDT. With DUCK HUNTING. And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON . . Commence at 7. IsTEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THE GREEN BUSHES. Followed by THE SHILLING DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Eveninz, TIME TRIES ALL. After which, THE HUNCHBACK. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE . THE This Evening, IT MUST BE TRUE, 'TYirAS IN lude with PAPERS. Followed by PEEP O'DAY. To conc KILLAttNEY. ~~~- Commence at 7. W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF C ar in RgUIOSI-cros. TIES, P o ly gra phic Dail, King William at 8. eet, Ch Commence ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay. market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.— Grand Operatic Selection and Cantata -Unsworth, Eugene, and Duley, the great comic trio, &e. Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD -STREET, EVERY EVEN IN G.—Donizetti's "Don Sebastien," Yerdi's " 11Cor sato" and "Nabuco," and Les,le's "May Day," with full band and chorus.—Drew Dean, the great Flautist—the Nea politan Minstrels—the comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes —qtr. Maclagan's Entertainment —Unsworth, the original of " Or any other man," &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE AND AMPHI THEATRE.— Olmar every Evening. - Grand Musical En tertainment, 60 performers. Commence at half-past 7. 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, 11h. 45m.—Afternoon, h. m. To-MORROW.-Morning, 12h. 10m.—Afternoon, 12h. 33m. fm %); 4 Thr • A N'! • eo - ir ,-)4 1 - • N*4---, THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 3, 1862. It is curious to remark how "the powers that be" in Europe appear to have decided that, under all circumstances, Greece is to come off, as the phrase is, " second best "—supposing, that is, that a new Sovereign is to be provided for her out of one of the reigning dynasties. Among the candidates for the throne lately vacated by King OTHO being— I. The second son of Queen VICTORIA. 11. The second son of King LEOPOLD. 111. The second son of King VICTOR EMMANUEL. Several ether candidates there are no doubt still talked of, in one direction or another, as just pos sibly capable of selection by preference —as, for example, the Prince YPSILANTE, the Prince NAPOLEON, and the Duke DE LEUTCHENBERG, The first-mentioned representing the Greek na tionality itself. The second, French influence. The third, Russian. But those other three candidates —each of them advanced on the contrary as the representative, guarantee, or augury of Constitu tional Government—are the only aspirants for the Throne who are actually children of reign ing Sovereigns. Scarcely any one thinks seriously of the claim to attention coupled in this direction with the name of H.I.H. the Prince NA POLEON. It almost seems as if there were a tacit understanding that, if a Crown is to be found for him anywhere, it is certainly not the Crown of Greece. Looking at the doubtful and transitional state of things still visible in Italy—many may look for a bauble to be found, rather in that direction than elsewhere, for the son in-law of King VICTOR EMMANUEL. As to the Due de LEUCHTENBERG, who is there that can en tertain the notion of his success out of the pre cincts of the Court of the CZAR or out of the pur lieus of Bedlam ? As if the rest of the Great Powers of E'lr°Pe would consent thus meekly to hand over to the Autocrat the future destinies of a kingdom that, if but thus abandoned once to the recognition of the . dominant influence of the CZAR, would be likely to prove for him, or for his successor, but the merest roundabout stepping-stone to C3nstanti nople. Supreme in the Baltic—command in g through. Greece the Archipelago—the Russian Autocrat, with a Prince of Russian proclivities like the Due de LEUCHTENBERG on the throne of the Acropolis, might regard himself as already virtually in possession of the Gslden Horn. Threatened thus immediately from the East and from the West, Tux key would be prepared to succumb. The con tingency we are here alludimg to, indeed, is not for an instant to be thought of. Nor, in truth, is it likely to be thought of. The Diplomacy of Eng land and of France, nay, of Prussia and c f Austria, cannot be imagined for one moment to be in any way likely to be so easily or so egregiously hood winked. Among all th e " o ut- siders " it is the Prince IPSILANTE who is regarded in Greece at this moment with the greatest complacency. He is of the blood Hellenic. He is Greek in birth, in habits, in religion. Besides which Greece has already tried the advantage likely to accrue from an imported sovereign—and has not even found it to be questionable, Unquestionably bad is the judgment she has just pronounced upon it after thirty years of anxious and painful delibe- ration. It is amusing to note ho w :rang the French journals, the Monde takes in whose behalf ? Ye—in bePhalf even of the the cudgels _ :r Paris eon aiocht least) ex King OTHO ! Not (we must do t e mporary the justice to premise this not that the Monde does this with any reamful notion of the restoration of the fallen : Monarch, The argument advance d b y the Mon de in favour of f King Onto is put forward simply to the end, if possible, that his reputation (such as it is) may be in some measure vindicated. " It is said," observ( 8 the writer, " that King OTHO had entertained some idea of abdicating, but that the Greeks anticipated his intention ; but intairrectional proceedings are not the most poWe m ode of proceedings." The Monde hero e vidently encouraging itself to the belief that, after all, one of the se days, Revo lutions may yet be m a,de with rose-water! The journalist continues, ho I 'ever, with adm irable coat p ney_i. The KIN U- now gives up t h e game ; he did everything that he could to please the Greeks, and went solar as to dress himself in the national costume. Nothing succeeded. The Greek journals will now relate innumerable instances of his tyranny. But there is no longer any belief in people being tyrannised over by their kings; kings tyran nised over by their people would be more readily believed in." The words we have here italicised have, surely, their significance. OTHO, says the Monde, in order "to please the Greeks," actually " went so far as to dress himself in the national costume !" Implying—Could he, by possibility, have gone further ? The adoption of the Albanian costume (no great personal sacrifice by the way on King OTHo's part, seeing that it is about the pret tiest masquerading dress any empty-headed Prince could, with all the costumes of the world before him to choose from, have contrived with anything like good taste to select !) the adoption by Onto of the Albanian custtme being, in point of fact, the one only boon specified by the Monde as having, in a reign of thirty years' duration, been vouchsafed to his Greek subjects by that model Sovereign. Than which—could anything, in the shape of an argu ment, be more utterly preposterous P Again, the tyranny of nowadays, we are sententiously and most gravely informed is—that exercised, not by Kings over Peoples, but by Peoples over Kings ! Par exemple—by Russian Poland over the CZAR ! By the Hungarians over the KAISER ! By the Prussian People and the Prussian Chambers over King WIL LIAM! So tyrannised over by their Peoples, by the way, being the Sovereigns of those three constitu tion countries, Belgium, Italy, and England—the second eons of which Sovereigns are now talked of as possible successors, one or the other of them, to the throne of Onto ! Among these, the Greeks have bne temptation to select H. R. H. Prince ALFRED—namely, that presented to them by the exceeding probability that, immediately upon that selection, the Greek dominions would be enhanced by the absorption, within them, of the lonian Islands, over which England, under those altered circumstances, would rejoice no longer to have any reason for exercising her simply vexatious and irri tating Protectorate. Mr. COBDEN, in his confessedly able speech at Rochdale, pointed to the accession of Tories to power, next session, as the means of obtaining greater economy of the national expenditure. If the advanced Liberals really are of this mind, and if the more prudent Tories, who are well aware that Lord PALMERSTON does their work better than Mr. DISRAELI ean, should yet join the Tory leader and his more reckless band of office-seeking Tories, it is quite certain that the two Tory parties, combined with the real Liberals, could oust Lord PALMERSTON and the old Whigs. But let us look at the case as Mr. COBDEN puts it. In the first place we must do the Member for Rochdale justice. He has a strong case of enor mous waste of the national money. Notwithstand ing all that the United Service Tourna/has written, and all the comments of hostile speakers and the hostile press, we must candidly own that we can not get over the facts detailed in his " Three Panics." He has established unanswerably the fact that there was not the rapid and threatening increase of the French navy which Government authorities have led us to believe. He has shown that, in consequence of Sir JOHN PAKINOTON sink ing millions in wood when the French were work ing at iron, and only opening his eyes to this when the millions were wasted, we seemed inferior in iron ships for a while ; and therefore, with some show of reason, infers that a good deal of the per fectly groundless hubbub about French increase was raised to conceal from notice the wasteful folly of our PARINGTONS and the Admiralty. He has also shown by comparison of the increase between 1835 and 1859, both in seamen and dockyard wages, that we had advanced out of all proportion to France. These are his words:— " I will give you a comparison between the first and the last year of these two dates—the expenditure in wages in the English and French dockyards, and the number of sea men in the respective navies in 1835, when Sir R. PEEL and the Duke of WELLINGTON were in power, and in 1859 and the year preceding that, in which Lord PALMERSTON proposed his vast scheme of fortifications. In 1835 the English expenditure on dockyards amounted to £376,377, the French to £343,032; in 1859 the English expenditure was £1,582,112, and the French £772,931. Mark me, there was £1,265,735 more spent in 1859 by us than in 1835. And the increase in the French dockyards during the same period was only £421,899, so that the increase in the Eng lish dockyards of the expenditure for the construction of armaments, which is the real aggressive outlay, in 1859, had increased three times as much in England as it had in France as compared with 1835." The comparison of seamen gives the same results. " In 1835 the number of British seamen amounted to 26,041, and of French to 16,628 ; in 1859 the number of British seamen amounted to 72,400, and of French to 38,470. It follows that the English had increased their number by 46,359 in 1859 as compared with 1835, while France had only in creased hers by 21,842 in the same time, being less than one-half of th© increase in England." It is impossible to see how these broad facts can be met by those who would maintain that the French were outstripping us in the creation of a navy, though so persistently was that statement dinned into our ears by the Government that we can hardly awake to the fact that it could only have been a delusion. As to what the two countries were actually doing i n 1859,. what can any man of business reply to the following briefly and well-stated fact ? " I have shown yo u what France has s pent in her dockyards While we spent £1,582,000 i n constructing France spe n t on l y £77 2,000, or lessi 1 th t e ha y n e 8 5 ; and as we can build ships so much cheaper than France that we can send ships to France and pay a duty of twenty per cent. upon them, I would ask you how could France, with half the money, h a ve been preparing a fleet t o r i va l or to equal our own." Let us admit, then, that a man like Mr. COBDEN, all details of th e case , cblefore the public as h e who has thoroughly ransaclkye and brought them as clea r did the details of corn law mischiefs years ago—that such a man is entitled to feel strongly on his main topic. Yet still we may questi on whether he would mend the case by turning out Lord PALMERSTON and letting the Tories in. His argu ment is, that the Tories, now, use the Whigs as their tools to main tain that vast expenditure in which an aristocra cy naturally delights. That hence they compel the expenditure, while they have none of responsibility. Put them in office, make them responsible, and they would spend, Mr. COBDEN believes, £5,000,000 a year less, and if they did this, Mr. GLADSTONE has told us that we might dispense with the income tax very speedily. Now this seems very plausible, but after all. is it just ? Mr. COBDEN is beguiled by the DISRAELI sec tion of the Tories. But though Mr.WALPOLE made his peace with Mr. DISRAELI atWyecomb the other day—indeed, they were both ministering at the same high altar—there is a large party of high and dry Tories who will never be led by Mr. DISRAELI in a battle against " bloated armaments." Lord DERBY, and Sir BORN PAKINOTON, and Sir STAY FORD NORTRCOTE, the budding Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, certainly would not. The money spending section of the Tories are by far the majo rity; the money-saving few of them would be re duced to the position in which Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. M. GIBSON, and Mr. VILLIERS are now, and the money spending Tories, aided by th e money- TEE SUN, ILONDOI, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 3, 1862. spending Whigs, would, as now, carry all before them. Our conclusion, therefore, is, that no reduc tion of war expenditure in time of peace can be hoped for, unless the country bestirs itself. The majority both of Whig and Tory members are in terested in a huge outlay of money by the nation. It creates so many posts and so much patronage, that it will never be voluntarily curtailed by an aristocratic House. We admit that Lord PALMER STON has been a great offender. We have ourselves not spared the " PALMERSTON follies," as they will soon be called, at Spithead, Portsdown, and else where. We have shown how they were wanted only as a pretext for a large future army to man them ; we believe them to have been, the forts, the loan to build them, and all connected with them—an unmitigated job—but we blame the the House of Commons and the people, as much as Lord PALMERSTON. The cure for the extravagant expenditure, and the perfectly needless income-tax lies not in turning out spendthrift Whigs, and installing spendthrift Tories, but in the people letting their rulers know that they must and shall make shift with a smaller income; and a good shift too it would be. Mr. DISRAELI perhaps may be put forward to catch Mr. COBDEN and the Manchester men by lectures on economy—there is, doubtless, no political dirt he would not wade through to get to the other side of the House, but his own party when he has got them there by duping the Radicals, would compel him to do, what the Whigs have done by the Willis's Rooms compact— and they would justify breaking all pledges by the flagrant Whig example. Two remarkable items of news reach us by the last American mail. A threatening complaint from the New York Chamber of Commerce, and an account of a fact in the New York Iribune of which we in England have a right to do some thing more than complain. The burden of the complaint of the. Chamber is that a vessel fitted out by the Confederates in England has burnt and destroyed American merchant ships. The feet we refer to is that a British vessel, the Blanche, laden with cotton, has been run ashore and burnt on the Island of Cuba, with aggravated insults to the Spanish authorities, who had hoisted their flag on board as a sign of protection,—by an American gunboat. It seems as if the outrage committed by the gunboat had been intended to show that while Confederates could burn and de stroy within the laws of war, Federals could even grossly violate those laws. And that while Eng land carefully kept within the limits of neutrality, the Federal ships of war as carefully violated the neutrality. The Chamber complains, falsely, of course, that we "permit" ships to go forth for the detestable work of plundering and destroying American ships; but the American Government itself sends forth ships which plunder and destroy British ships, ashore, on Spanish ground, and with the double pro tection of the Spanish and British flags. The Cham ber complains of the burning and destroying on the High Seas as an offence against humanity; which, like so many practices of war it may well be thought; but we have yet to learn that it is less an offence against humanity for a gunboat to drive a merchant vessel ashore on a neutral coast, then to drive over board the friendly neutral authorities who had kindly taken charge of the wrecked vessel, and lastly to burn the unfortunate vessel itself. The commander of the American gunboat Montgomery has certainly furnished a curious practical comment on the eloquence of the oratorical Chamber of Com merce when it says that henceforth the light of a burning ship at sea will become to the American sailor a signal that lures to destruction, and will not be, as in times past, the beacon to guide the generous and intrepid mariner to the rescue of the unfortunate." It will now be asked, in return, what would have become of the Englisb sailor who went to the rescue of the Montgomery. Respecting the claim against us, it is simply absurd. During the Russian war the American Government in explicit terms refused to prevent its citizens aiding and abetting at their own risk. We have never practically thus encouraged our traders, but we have warned them in the strongest lan guage. The fact of course is, that our shipbuilders and manufacturers of warlike implements, " ask no questions for conscience sake"—if the money is forthcoming they sell to any customer, leaving the customer to get away his purchases in his own way. Belgium manufacturers, and perhaps those of other countries, have done the same. We are sorry for the New York merchants; we do not like burning ships at sea ; the laws of political economy tell us that we are all losers by the destruction of any kind of property through the consequently enhanced price, that is if we are purchasers ; and we are espe cially sorry that the Federal gunboat should punish us by burning an English cargo of cotton when that article is so valuable and costly—but we cannot blame the Confederates and their Alabama. While the Federals will not allow the prizes to be brought into an American port, while they expect all neutral ports to prevent their sale there, and while it is the law of nations that we ought to damage our enemy's commerce at sea as much as possible, we do not see what the Confe derates can do to damage the property of the New York merchants but burn it. Sad waste, no doubt; and the Confederates would gladly enough forego the waste and turn ship and cargo into money, but this the Federals will not permit. They complain that the ships are destroyed without being brought into a prize court. If it would mend the matter, the Confederates would be but too thank ful to take them to a prize court at Charleston or at Mobile; but no—war is at best, as Sir HARRY SMITH termed it, " the devil's work," and as the Federals seem willing to work zealously for that distinguished personage, they must not wonder that the Confederates are equally zealous in his service. What the proud Spanish people will say to their QUEEN'S Representative having his faca slapped on board the British ship he had taken under his care, by a Yankee subordinate, we may well ima gine. A Spanish frigate set forth immediately in search of the offender, who had, however, by that time got himself well out of harm's way ; but the Spanish Government will doubtless remonstrate effectually with the impudent Yankees for the shameless violation of their neutral waters, for de stroying a ship under the protection of their flag, as well as that of a neutral and friendly nation, and for the personal insult to a national authority. Mr. LINCOLN will have to apologise not only in words, but in that metal so precious in the North that he premium of thirty or forty per cent. - it.tulougsettPaY a The Gazette du Midi states that the announce ment of the ex-Queen of Naples having arrived at Mar seilles was a mistake. It was her sister, the Countess de Trani, who embarked with her husband for Civita Vecchia. The last letters from Rome say that the Queen is " ex pected" there ; but it may still be true, as reported the other day, that Mgr. Grasselini only extracted a promise from her to go back to her husband "in the spring," and that may possibly mean the Ist of April. _TRE e s SEATONIAN PRIZE.—CAMBRIDGE , N ov. 11. s:sacredztjteoent , h i an as P b r e i e z n e , t for h is day the adjudged gEnglish h poem e Rev. J. j a . M. il eale.U.A., of Trinity College. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, Nov. 1. Her Majesty, with their Royal Highnesses Princess Louis and Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday. Lady A. Bruce and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge were in at tendance. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred has returned to Osborne from Her Majesty's ship St. George. Viscount Palmerston arrived yesterday from Broadlands, and had an audience of her Majesty. The Queen held a Council to-day, at 1 o'clock, at which were present Earl Granville, Viscount Palmerston, and Lord Stanley of Alderley. Mr. Helps, the Clerk of the Council, attended. NOVEMBER 2. The Queen yesterday received her Majesty's near con nexion, the Grand Duke of Bade; who arrived from Lon don on a visit to her Majesty. His Royal Highness was attended by Lieutenant• General the Hon. C. Grey, the Baron de Loggenbach, and Baron de Gemmingen. . His Royal Highness Prince Alfred went to Sonthampon, and accompanied the Grand Duke to Osborne in the Royal yacht Fairy. Earl Granville had an audience of the Queen yesterday. Viscount Palmerston left Osborne for Broadlands. This morning Divine service was performed by the Rev. G. Prothero before her Majesty, their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princes Louir, Prince Leopold, and the Grand Duke. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting and the household were also present. _ His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, has left Osborne, and embarked on board the St. George, which sails immediately for Lisbon. The Hon. Victoria Stuart Wortley has succeeded the Hon. Beatrice Byng as Maid of Honour, and Lord Charles Fitz Roy has succeeded Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. Grey as Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty. Her Majesty the Queen, with thejunior members of the Royal family, will remain in comparative seclusion at Osborne until Friday, the 14th inst., on which day it is the Queen's intention to proceed to 'Windsor Castle, where active preparations are being made for her recep tion. The Court will remain at Windsor Castle for a fort night, when the Queen will return to Osborne ; but it is not yet decided that her Majesty will spend her Christmas at Windsor.—Court Journal. Their Imperial Highnesses Prince Napoleon and Princess Clotilde, attended by the Countess de Clermont Tonnerre, Colonel Ferri-Pisani, Baron de Pussin Amory-, Monsieur Habaine, and suite, left the Clarendon Hotel on Saturday last for Southampton, en route for Paris. Their imperial highnesses embarked on board the Imperial screw yacht Jet ome Napoleon, yesterday, for Havre. The Duke Cariglano and the Count and Countess Pisani have left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury left town on Saturday evening, and proceeded by Great Western Railway to Hungerford, for his lordship's seat, Tottenham Park, Wilts. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and family have arrived in town, from Burghley House, near Stamford. Earl Granville, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and Mr. Helps lett London at nine o'clock on Saturday morn ing by a special train on the London and South-Western Railway, for the purpose of attending the Queen's privy council at Osborne. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield arrived in town on Saturday, from Grafton Lodge, Newmarket. The Earl of Wilton has arrived in town from Newmarket, and shortly leaves for Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, for the hunting season. The Earl of Annesley is labouring under serious illness at his residence in Norfolk-street. His lordship was somewhat better last evening. The Earl and Countess of Aylesford, Lord Guernsey, and the Hon. Colonel Finch have arrived at Claridge's Hotel, from Packington Hall. Viscount Palmerston left his seat, Broadlands, Hants, on Friday, for Osborne, Isle of Wight. His lord ship returned to Broadlands yesterday. Viscount and Lady Mary Sandon have arrived in Grosvenor-square from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire. Lord and Lady Chelmsford are expected in town in a few days from the continent. The Count and Countess Stockan and the Count and Countess Seilern have left Claridge's Hotel for Paris. Mr. and Lady Mary Craven have arrived at the Earl of Hardwicke's residence in Portman-square from Newmarket for a few days. The Lady Charlotte Wolfe and Lady Katherine Hely Hutchinson have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Forenaghts, Ireland. The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole has returned to town from Hughenden Manor, Bucks, where he has been on a visit to the Right Hon. B. Disraeli. The Hon. Mark and Lady Gertrude Rolle have arrived at Claridge's Rotel from Scotland. Mr. and Lady Edith Abney Hastings have left Claridge's Hotel for Aahby de la Zouche. The Right Hon. W. F. Cower, M.P., and Mrs. Cowper leave town to-day, on a visit to the Countess Cowper, at Wrest Park. The Hon. Lady Inglis has arrived in Eaton square, accompanied by the Hon. Miss Thesiger and Major the Hon. Charles Thesiger. The Hon. Mrs. Bruce has arrived at Farrance's Hotel from Scotland. A marriage is arranged to take place between the Viscount Hereford and the Hon. Mary Morgan, youngest daughter of Lord and Lady Tredegar, The marriage of Mdlle. Barbara Marchisio with General Cialdini is announced in the Paris journals. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, brother of the late and uncle of the present, Earl of Dunmore, and late envoy to Persia, with Miss Edith Fitzpatri c k, d aug h ter o f t h e Right Hen. John Wilson Fitzpatrick, took place on Satur day, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The Bishop of London officiated at the nuptial rite. After the ceremony the wedding party repaired to the residence of the Right Hon. J. W. Fitzpatrick, in Portman-square, where a hand some dejeuner was served to a distinguished circle of about 60 friends, including the Duke of Hamilton, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Shelburne, Lord and Lady Ash burton. Later in the day the hon. gentleman and bride departed fin. the Grange, Lord and Lady Ashburton's seat, in Hampshire, for the honeymoon. We are enabled to announce that there is no foundation for the rumour of the serious illness of the Duke of Newcastle, which appeared in the columns of a contem porary on Saturday morning. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE MARQUIS OF BREADAL BA.NE.—The Marquis of Breadalbane left London about a month back for the Continent, after a partial recovery from a severe attack of illness. Only a few days ago accounts were received which justified the impression that his lord ship had derived benefit from his journey on the Continent. It is with regret that we learn the marquis's malady has assumed a serious aspect. A telegram was received yester day morning from Lucerne, from Lady Elizabeth Pringle and Miss Pringle, who are with the marquis, by which we learn that the most serious symptoms have set in, and but slight hopes are now held out of his recovery. The Duke of Buckingham left yesterday (Sunday) for the purpose of joining his uncle. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The five perform ances which took place last week have been so successful, and so crowded have been the houses, night after night, that Mr. Mapleson announces four additional representa tions, "positively the last," for Monday, Tuesday, Wed nesday, and Saturday in the current week, the operas selected being "Il Trovatore," " the inevitable" " Don Giovanni," "I Puritani," and "Lucia de Lammermoor." ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA.—Mr. Wallace's new opera, entitled " Love's Triumph" (libretto by Mr. Planche), is announced for this evening, with Miss Louisa Pyne, Madame Laura Baxter, Messrs. Harrison, Perren, Corfi, and Weiss in the principal parts. THE FENS. —ln connection with the recent disaster on the Marshland Smeeth and Fen drain, it may be stated that the commissioners have agreed to have a dam made across the breach, and a new sluice built. Mr. Page, civil engineer, who has been consulted by the commission ers, promises that the dam shall be completed in a fortnight, and that the new sluice shall also be finished in 10 weeks from this time, and if these predictions are realised the Smeeth and Fen will be restored to its former position. As regards the Middle Level drainage, it may be added that the nine syphons erected have worked satisfactorily. When they were put in operation last week for two days the water was reduced at March-bridge, a distance of 16 miles from the laboriously-constructed dam, from 7ft 9in to 4ft 7in. When the other seven syphons proposed to be erected are completed, of course the discharging power organised will be proportionately increased, and all doubt as to the effi ciency of the arrangements which Mr. Hawkshaw and his assistants have ably devised and carried out may now be considered at an end. Under the powers of an important Act of Parliament passed last session, a new board of com missioners is to be formed this week for the purpose of se curing the drainage of the Middle Level ; and one of the first acts of the new board will be to borrow on mortgage the sum of £52,000. This amount represents the injury thus far sustained by the commission from the disasters against which it has had to struggle. IRISH CONVICT SERVICE.—Iu consequence of the increased p nu m b er o f pr i soners at present in lklountjoy Male opsp oforni ns a h, o o t aemn i Prison, edt o nih w rdt eei i ore n Left g ocos trir i ex n dodsfa a todeghfdoraintetthaivotet the eae additional warders asr e s urdo t dr yenoer warders s h hos e nhat c ovo l teuothhsl sanctioned ngbs recommendation roePnloehefedi that he i t p dha s te t i orp ap pointment u: those placed on the redundant list on the abolition of their office as warders on Philipstown Convict Prison staff.— Civil Service Gazette. Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre vents the Chinese passing of inferior leaves as in the usual kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, aitCays good alike, Sold in packets by 2,280 Agents. THE ASSEMBLAGES IN HYDE• PARlC.—There was again a very large assemblage of people in Hyde-park yes terday, fully equalling in number that of the previous Sunday, and a strong body of police were again on duty. There was, however, not the slightest attempt at disturb ance. All fear of future disturbances have now passed away. ALARMING FIRES.—This (Monday) morning a fire, which at one time threatened serious consequences, broke out on the premises belonging to Mr. Halliswell, a tobacconist, situated at No. 6, Hungerford-arcade, Strand. The disaster was caused by making a fire on the hearth, which set the flooring on fire. Fortunately the engines of the London brigade quickly attended from Chandos-street station, and the flames were confined to that part of the building in which they began. The occupier of the pre mises was insured. A fire also took place during the night on the premises of Mr. S. Gold, a tailor, No. 23, White Horse-street, Stepney. The flames commenced from some unknown cause in a cupboard on the lower floor, and be fore discovered had obtained possession of the whole of the stairs. The Royal Society's escapes and the engines of the parish, with three of the London brigade and the powerful land steam engine, by Shand and Mason, from Wellclose square, were remarkably early in arriving, when the fire men went to work, but they were unable to get the fire ex tinguished until it had entered every portion of the build ing and done a great amount of mischief. Fortunately the sufferer was insured in the Leeds and Yorkshire Fire office. THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CHILD DESERTION AT BRISTOL.—This singular case has been ami cably settled. The friends of the young lady who said the child was given to her by a strange woman in one of the Great W estern Railway carriages, and who, on the other hand, was alleged to have herself been the mother of the child, have settled the matter by removing the infant from the hospital. There will consequently be no magisterial inquiry, and everybody who is familiar with the remarkable circumstances in which the interesting little stranger was introduced to the public is left to form his or her own opinion as to its parentage.— Western Daily Press. THE VACANT SCOTCH JUDGESHIP.—The state ment to the effect that the Lord Advocate is about to go to the bench is entirely without foundation. The probability is, that the vacant gown will be taken by the Solicitor- General.—Scotsman. An assertion of the Gazette de France that the Greek legation in Paris has been confirmed by the Provi sional Government, with the title of the " National Lega tion." is said by the Temps to be premature, The Manchester Guardian states, on what it con siders to be most respectable authority,, that a wonderful discovery has recently been made in electricity as applicable to the purposes of the electric telegraph :—" Incredible as it may seem, it is said that experiments have established the fact that intelligible signals can be exchanged between distant stations without the intervention of any artificial conductor whatsoever, and with equal success whether the intervening space be wholly or partially land or water." Mr. Lancaster has at present a gun undergoing at Woolwich an " endurance" trial. It has already stood more than 2,000 charges of powder, each of-dub., and, from all we can hear, is as far off from being burst as it was on the first day. Cui bono, may we ask, to pursue the experi ments to a further extent ? The gun is now admitted to be a good and strong piece of artillery; and, as the cost of testing it up to its present condition has already stood the country in about £l,OOO, it appears to us that any more expenditure of cash upon it would be useless, and therefore scarcely justifiable. If it be positively determined to de stroy the gun, we would suggest that it should be removed from the slings which it now occupies, and where the effects of recoil cannot be ascertained, to a carriage of the precise character on which it would be m.unted supposing that it were required tor service, and where it would receive all the jarring incidental to a working piece, and that it should be loaded with gradually increasing charges until all con nected with the trials declare themselves satisfied, or the gun itself put hors de combat. This plan would soon settle the matter, and would have the great merit of being more economical than the one now in question.—Army and Navy Gazette. ATTEMPTED CHILD MURDER.—At Hereford, be tween 3 and 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon, a tramp, who gives the name of Caroline Eddy, and represents herself as belonging to Bath, made a very determined attempt to take the life of her youngest child, a boy about 15 months old. She had three other children with her, the eldest a youth of about 15, and having sent these away she turned out of Widemarsh-street, a main thoroughfare, into Blackfriars street, which consists of very few houses. There she at tempted to strangle the child by means of a strong piece of string tied twice round its neck. A lady residing in the neighbourhood observed the woman doing something to the, child, and heard a stifled moan. Having called the attention of a carpenter who was at work to the circum stance, he instantly went into the street to the woman. It was found that the child was black in the face, and that its tongue was protruding from the mouth. The head of the child was thrown back, and then it was perceived that there was a cord round the neck, drawn so tightly as to be almost concealed by the folds of the flesh. The cord was severed immediately, but this could not be accomplished without the knife that was used being almost buried in the flesh. The child revived, and was afterwards, with the other children, removed to the workhouse. The woman was taken into custody. She stated that her husband is an in mate of a lunatic asylum at Bath, and that, having nothing to give the child, she had resolved to destroy it. The ap pearance of the woman, who is of middle age, noes not de • note very great distress, and she seems perfectly sane. She was taken before Mr. T. T. Davies, a city magistrate, on Saturday evening, and remanded until Monday (this day). A PORT OF REFUGE AND SHELTER OFF THE CAFE. —Extract of a letter from Captain Dunn, of the barque Elizabeth, of Stockton, dated Port Elizabeth, July 15, 1862, to Prince, Shepherd, and Co. :—" I put into Mossell Bay as a port of refuge, having lost sails, store boats, water casks, &c., and was astonished at the facility afforded in shelter from the westerly gales, and in obtaining good pro visions, firewood, and particularly good fresh water (very important in a long voyage with salt provisions). Ships can use their own boats in lancing. There is now a good jetty, and another building, on which water will be laid on in pipes. A new lighthouse on the bluff, to be directly erected, will be a day and night mark. With winds from S by E, round westerly, to ENE, Mossell Bay is all the mariner can desire ; and were its facility better known, no master would contend with the heavy westerly gales that prevail so long during the winter. There is a communica tion with Cape Town thrice a week, which adds greatly to its other advantages. I hope to hear that the improvement you are making will be the saving of many ships now lost through the bad weather found in rounding the Cape. Had I known that Mossell Bay was the place it is I should have saved my sails and much time in buffeting these strong seas." FEARFUL Loss OF LIFE OFF THE LAND'S END,— In the Western Morning News of Wednesday was published the affecting statement made by Captain Goldsmith, of the steam-ship William Corry, of his having shortly before reaching Falmouth heard the cries of drowning people whom the darkness of the night prevented his seeing and saving, although he stopped his vessel for three hours, put out blue lights, and made every possible effort. Captain Goldsmith failed to learn the cause of the cries. They turn out to have arisen from the crew of the St. Louis, of 400 tons, of Marseilles. On Wednesday M. Paul Augustin Fabre, nephew of the master and chief officer of the St. Louis, ap peared in distress before Mr. William Luscombe, of Ply mouth, Vice-Consul for France. M. Fabre states that the St. Louis was owned in shares by himself, his relations at Marseilles, and the master, M. Augustin Fabre, and that they possess altogether a fleet of 12 merchant vessels. Their ship took in 380 tons of grain at a small roadstead near Beyrout, where there are only four or five houses, and left for England, chartered, probably , to call at Cork, Fal mouth, or Plymouth for orders. On Saturday, Oct. 18th, they received from a large cutter a Channel pilot, who im mediately took charge. Very heavy weather was then experienced, and continued throughout the following week, when she commenced leaking. On Saturday morning, the 2ath inst., during a terrific hurricane`from the south-west, all three of her masts went by the board. The pilot was injured by the fall, the pumps were disabled, and the ship became unmanageable. No assistance came near during the day, but at nightfall a steam 'ship approached, and the crew cried for help. Their appeal was heard on board the stranger, which stopped immediately and exhibited lights on both sides. Unhappily, the fearful weather which prevailed prevented those on board the steamer from ascertaining the exact position of the wreck, The difficulty of observation was much increased by the loss of the masts of the St. Louis. The master of the steam ship, with much humanity, steered three times round the wreck, and, after expending several hours, ultimately resumed his original course. This occurred in long, 840 W., or mid way between the Land End and Cape Clear. The wretched master and crew, 28 in all, were now left in a hopeless condition 150 miles from the shore. The leak age, not being kept down by the pumps, had in the mean time swollen the grain. The same night the ship opened brdily fore and aft, and went down, and most of those on board took to the spars and rigging. The mate and the son. of the master, Louis Fabre, only three years of age, clung to the foremast. After this period the mate can give no exact account of time. He had much dif ficulty in retaining the child, who received one fearful cut on his forehead and face, while his preserver was chafed and bruised all over. In this condition they were knocked about the remainder of Saturday night, all Sunday, and all Sunda` night, up to four o'clock on Monday morning, when the spar touched the Cornish shore, and they escaped. The mato does not speak English, but a kind-hearted fisherman seeing their distress, supplied them with clothing. After walking one day over a high hill they came to a railway station, where a gentleman paid the mate's fare to Ply- I, mouth. The boy was left behind. Among the crew were four Greek sailors ; all the rest were Frenchmen. The nams of the second officer is Renard Louis ; Augustin Rossi was carpenter, Louis cabin boy, and seven of the sailors were called Morel Au4uste, Fore, Francois Geo. Gas, Philippe, Robert, an d C haroi. The pilot was , called Vickelson or Nicolson, a full-sized man, 40 years old, with chestnut hair, which covered his face. He was taken out of a larg e cutter with a crew o f few men, [LATEST NEWS. CHINA. SHANGHAI, SEPT. 19 (via .TuBAL.) The Taepings have again returned from the vicinity of this city, and the surrounding country is now quiet. The Mahomedans, who revolted at Shensi, have succeeded in capturing the city and 25 towns in the vicinity, killing all the Mandarins, and destroying every vestige of the Imperial authority. Nothing is known respecting the movements of the army which had been sent to quell the outbreak. CANTON, SEPT. 26. A serious conspiracy to burn this city and kill the Mandarins has been discovered. The con spirators are in league with the Taepings. Numbers of them have been arrested. The city authorities are in a great state of alarm. Rustonjee, one of the parties concerned in the late opium frauds, has surrendered himself to the authorities at Hong Kong. AUSTRALIA. ADELAIDE, SEPT. 20. Mr. Mackinlay, the explorer, has returned to Queensland. PORTUGAL. LISBON, OCT. 30. Late accounts from the Island of Fayal state that there had been a succession of earthquakes, extending over a space of 19 days. Many people had in consequence, emigrated to the other islands in the Azorian Archipelago. Business was sus pended. Prayers were daily offered up in the churches. Prince Humbert has been well received at Oporto. The Minister of Finance has made some import ant changes in the Lisbon Custom-house. The Director Santos Monteiro and several high officials have been suspended. The reason alleged is, that the revenue has suffered through maladministra tion, to which the Government is determined to put a stop. Exchange on London, 30 days, 531 ; 60 days, 53a ; 90 days, 53i ; Paris, 528; Hamburg, 481 ; Amsterdam, 42.50; Genoa, 526; Rentes, 461 to 47 ; Deferred, 45,1 ; Bank of Lisbon shares, 550 to 552 milreis ; Commercial Bank of Oporto, 256 to 258 ; Mercantile Bank, 265 to 268. THE INDIA MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 2. ' The outward Calcutta mail cannot leave Suez till the 6th inst. The Marseilles mail arrives here on the 6th inst., having experienced bad weather. TURIN, Nov. 1. The Monarchia Nazionale of to-day confirms the rumour of the despatch by the French Government of a note in reply to Gen. Darando's circular, and continues---A , The note is said to indicate no change in the policy of France towards Italy, but to open the way for fresh negotiations on the Roman ques • tion." It is asserted that the Minister of Marine has ap pointed a committee of inquiry on the state of the Italian navy. A letter has been published, addressed by a por tion of the Italian clergy to the Pope, praying his Holiness to renounce the temporal power. The letter bears 8,949 signatures, and is accompanied by a statement signed by Father Passaglia on the number and standing of the priests signing the letter. TURIN, Nov. 2. Garibaldi continues to improve in health. A royal decree has been published approving of the statutes of the railway company of Southern Italy under the direction of Signor Bastogi. PARIS, Nov. 1. This being All Saints'-day, no business was done on the Bourse. The monthly settlement has in consequence been deferred until Monday next. TOULON, Nov. 1. The French squadron has not yet received orders to depart for Greece, but the officers belonging to it, who were absent on leave, have been recalled. PARIS, Nov. 2. A letter from the Chevalier di Nigra has been published to-day, contradicting the recent assertion of La France, that the Italian Government had disavowed the note of Gen. Durando. M. de Bismark Schonhausen was received by the Emperor yesterday, and has left Paris for Berlin to .d ay. BERLIN, Nov. 1. According to advices received here from Warsaw numerous arrests have been made among the work ing class. The arrival of the Emperor at Warsaw was ex pected. It was said that no conscription would take place next year in Poland. Count Bernstorff has been appointed Prussian Ambassador at the Court of St. James's, and not, as was stated, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. GREECE. Letters from Athens have come to hand, bringing accounts of the late events. A letter dated the evening of the 24th ult. says, " Last night the news received from the provinces led to a move ment in the capital. The people and the garrison having assembled in the principal square, pro ciaimed the fall of the dynasty. The King had arrived in the course of the day, ignorant of what was brewing. The diplomatic corps begged him not to disembark, and to leave. He replied that he would think over it. To-day the provisional government ordered their Majesties to quit the frigate, adding that, in case of a refusal the government could not be responsible for their safety. The King and Queen then embarked upon the English vessel Scylla, which took them to Venice. Bulgaria presides over the government, which takes for its title The Government of th( Hellenic Kingdom.' The National Assembly will meet in a month. All the foreign ministers remain at their posts. No collision has occurred. The people are armed but tranquil. The president of the provisional government has issued a proclamation, in which it is said that Greece has overturned a go vernment which trampled upon the national dignity and the respect for the laws. The new government will preserve the constitutional monarchicalform It professes unalterable gratitude to the three pro tecting powers, and will maintain friendly relations with other states. A national assembly will be con voked without delay. It is summoned to elect a new prince, to the exclusion of the Bavarian dynasty." On Thursday the ex-King and Queen Were ex pected at Munich. The Sultan of Turkey has decided upon order ing four iron-cased iron screw steamships of the Valiant class to be built in this country, excepting that they will be fifteen feet longer, and will mount two more guns. The Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company have received an order for one ship, and the other three are to be constructed by soma equally experienced builders, THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING. The Royal mail steamer Magdalena, Capt, Wool ward, has arrived, with mails from Buenos Ayres of Sept. 28 ; Montevideo, 30; Rio, Oct. 9 ; Bahia, 13 ; Pernambuco, 15 ; St. Vincent, 22 ; and Lisbon, 30. She bas £60,242 in specie, 416 bales of tobacco, 25 barrels of tapioca,2s bags of coffee, and 151 packages of sundries. Her Majesty's ship Stromboli and Dotterel at Montevideo ; and Forte, Satellite, Madagascar and Ardent at Rio. The screw steamer Golden Fleece, from India and the Cape for London, put in at St. Vincent to coal on the 20th ult., and Ras to leave for England on the 25th. She had 78 passengers on board, all well. The Magdalena spoke the outward mail steamer Oneida, all well, on the 21st ult., lat. 13 14 S., long. 26 12 W. At Buenos Ayres, on Sept. 28th, ounces opened at 410 and closed at 409, having gone down to 4082 during the day. At Rio Janeiro a depression existed in the coffee market, buyers being very reluctant to enter into larger operations, owing to the disproportion of actual high prices, increased still further by the rising tendency of the exchange. Hides—None arrived. A sale of 1,468 reduce stock to about 3,000. Sugar—From Campos, 727 cases 13,000 packages, out of which 150 cases 7,000 packages have been sold for exportation; very little has arrived from the north, and sold 100 cases 3,572 bags, at 3 dols 200 c to 4 dols 600 c, all for home use. In exchange about 150,000 was negociated for this packet. Exchange on London, 261- 261 2614 Paris, 357, 360 ; Hamburg, 675, 680. Freights on England 255. to 305.; Channel, 355. to 375. 6d. and 5 per cent. ; Antwerp, 30s. to 355.; Mediterranean, 30s. to 40s. ; United States, 30s. At Bahia, brown sugar continued in demand, and prices were firm and looking up. Freight, Channel 375. 6d. ; Hamburg, 425. Exchange on London, 27, for 30 to 90 days ; Paris, 353. The weather continued very favourable at Per nambuco for the new crop of sugar coming to mar ket, and the receipts had materially increased during the last few days. Echange on London, 90 days' sight, 27 to 27k ; Paris 350 to 360. Freights, England, 455. and 5 per cent. 111A.RYLEBONE REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL AND MR. ZRAIN. On Saturday, at the weekly meeting of the Re presentative Council of St. Marylebone, Mr. Peter Matthews in the chair, Mr. HERRING directed the attention of the board to a framed picture which hung on the walls, repre senting the Marble Arch and Mr. George Francis Train's carriage and tramway some time since existing between the western end of Oxford-street and Bayswater. He wished to know to whom that picture belonged, because if it belonged to that mountebank, George Francis Train, who had been vituperating the country since he got out of it, the property ought to be removed from that building, and be deposited in the dust and rubbish to which its owner was also entitled to a permanent place. (Hear, and laughter.) Mr. HODGES looked upon it as a foolish thing and beneath the dignity of that board to take such a step as that proposed. Mr. OVERTON hoped that a public board like that would not descend to such little petty meanness as to put this picture out of the place. He thought it better to move an amendment, ", That the picture of Mr. Train be put into the strong room, there to re main until applied for by its owner." (Laughter.) This would give an estimable opinion of the charac ter of Mr. Train. (Laughter.) Mr. ABRAHAMS deprecated the waste of their time, as a public board, in such frivolous rubbish. (Hear.) He looked upon the proceedings as one calculated to bring them into contempt, and he, therefore, moved the next order of the day. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HODGES seconded the motion for the next order of the day, and it was carried by a large majority. HAMPSTEAD HEATH. Mr. H. CANE TUCKER brought forward a motion of which he had given notice :—" That a deputation be appointed to wait on Lord Palmerston, to urge upon the Government to take immediate steps for the purchase of Hampstead-heath, or its exchange for Crown lands,' for the perpetual use and benefit of the public, and with power to confer with Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson thereon." This motion was supported by the rev. rector, and carried unanimously. THE CONVICT COOPER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The quality of mercy, what is it ? Is it (for sake of example) our duty to send our fellow-creatures to an ignominious death in cases of murder, irrespectively of ex tenuating circumstances, or comparative justification through being goaded on to desperation by ingratitude and unfaithfulness; if this be our duty (to society) then Robert Cooper ought to be hung ; if it be our duty to encourage false testimony (as is the evidence of Sarah Barnham), then Robert Cooper ought to be hung; and if it be our duty to encourage the wiles and cunning of a tantalising and profli gate woman, then Robert Cooper ought to be hung, but not otherwise. Surely, if ever a poor wretch was goaded on to a desperate act, this was he. The fact of Cooper's having committed bigamy has nothing whatever to do with the case. His first marriage, we are told, occurred 13 years ago, and there is no evidence to show whether he left his wife or she him ; therefore the question ought to be dismissed from our minds altogether now, as we find Cooper married to Anne Jane Barnham, contributing towards her support, and loving her even to folly and injustice to himself. Can it be said that his is not a case for mercy, particularly as we find the abandoned creature (whom he murdered) not only prostituting herself before his eyes, and tantalising him as well, but refusing him all sympathy, love, or consideration. Are not these extenuating circumstances, and ought Robert Cooper in the face of them to be hung ? Was it not rather the duty of the Barnhams to have screened the poor wretch's fault of having married twice. They at least had no cause to complain so long as the first wife did not come forward, at all events as the facts were not found out until after Anne Jane Barnham had had two children by Cooper. She ought to have screened his fault from the world, even if she resented his conduct privately; but the simple fact is, she made this a pretext to justify her in becoming an abandoned prostitute, and her mother has not only encouraged her in her vice, but has come forward and vindictively asserted that Cooper did not contribute anything towards her daughter's sup port, which is false—palpably false. How, then, sh o uld we hope for mercy if this be not a case for mercy , particu larly as so tame a defence was made in the prisoner's oba behalf . that of mercy anunfo alone rtu irrespectivelyhalf by hisco u o n f s t e h l. e A d r o e u n h o t not of these th e qu p e o s l t t i c o y n r s tegoabrm. e d co g ns c i a d p e i r t e al d punishment ? If they are not, then Robert Coo per ought earnestly entreated as sinning.t O inducesto be h himng. tTheto make writer tthis assuresis appeal then eh public All who hiroriatarteedofwthreis much opinion are sinned against com municate immediately to B. C. J., Post-office, Ruin,. gate, so that an early meeting may be 'called for the purpose of preventing the cruelty and national disgrace of hanging a man who, to some extent, merits our pity. The w riter of this letter judges the case enti re l y b y the reports as they appear in the public journal s , as h e knows nothing of any of the individuals concerned. November 1. ALARMING ACCIDENT. --On Saturday last an alarming accident occurred on the South Yorkshire Rail way to the market train leaving Keadhy, in Lincolnshire, for Doncaster market at 8.25 a.m. The train had proceeded to a point between Barmby Dun and Kirk Sandell; about five miles from Doncaster, when great oscillation of the carriages was felt, and almost immediately the engine and tender ran off the line into the canal which runs on one side, the river Don being on the other. The first passenger carriage, in which several persons were seated, was dragged off the rails, but, fortunately, the tender was a sufficient barrier to prevent it running into the canal. The second carriage was precipitated down the embankment towards the river Don, but the water only flooded it to the depth of three feet. The passengers were extricated from their perilous and unpleasant position, and it was found that no one had been seriously hurt, though many of them were_ much shaken. The engine -driver and stoker both escap ed, the former with some severe cuts about the face and head, and the latter having to swim ashore. The en g i ne beingwa s completelybosvue water. submerged in the e n a o n al lives etshe werefu n lo n s e t l i alone - garded as most remarkable , as th e line at the sce ne a c e a c n i d a n ea t d ni t n h s e p ri a v r e a r ll D el on w:th and between tbe lieedby by £1! da3 Th l and low tiler Incli the den, ° Pel] liq u the eon ) the as 2 4th wat Xl7 on t rath sore Boni Nor and do n liin tr or Ott, don of pros Pre iliac Ito Ban 3 pe 3•p e . Nem I M_P N~