The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-26 00:00:00

I - LIE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. General Pope, General:la , and all their staff. .e. They only Save ,1 themsc flight through the "'Thus far" writes General George B. M'Clellan fire of their enemy ar it own tr en, who —page Bof his Military Commission to Europe-- opened with musketry ... voods on the horse " the allied generals displayed none of the qualities men, and forced them to fall back. So.) e accounts of great commanders—their measures were half-way sa y this event took place next night. i ope himself measures, slow and blundering —they failed to keep was directing the whole movement, • hich was in constantly in view the object of the expedition, and tended to end in the passage of the Rapidan, after to. press rapidly and unceasingly towards it." This the repulse of the enemy, and he slept at Culpepper fariticism refers to the period when on the 27th of Court-house the night before the battle. September the allied generals had got to Sebastopol, The pretence of superior force on the part of the 'having landed their army on an open beach on the Confederates is met by the statement from Federal 14th of September, fought and defeated the enemy sources that on Friday night McDowell's corps was at the Alma, sent their sick and wounded away, four miles south of Banks's corps at Culpepper ; buried their dead, and taken up - a position never Sigel's corps was eight miles distant. But "it was afterwards abandoned till their object was achieved. never supposed that the enemy had more than a ". Although (he says, page 6) fully aware that it is few regiments." Jackson, instead of waiting to be much easier to critic iee operations after the result is attacked at Gordonsville, came in with a rush on known than to direct them at the time, I shall not Culpepper and seized Cedar, or Slaughter's Moun hesitate to invit; a attention to what appear the evi- tain, completely commanding the route to the river. dent mistakes, 'on either side. This not for the par- The total force of the Confederates is estimated by pose of fintl,:tng fault or of insinuating comparisons" the Federals at 27 battalions, of which the names (though the very next sentence contains a comps- are given, but in the paper in which it is stated rison 1- Jcitween the petty operation of landing near that only 7,000 men were engaged the names of Yerre 'Cruz and the disembarkation of the allies in )21 Federal regiments are mentioned in which tin e Crimea), " but with the hope that it may serve t severe losses occurred. The result is declared to be ,i) draw the attention of our officers to the same " a glorious victory for the Union arms." The value - points, and perhaps assist in preventing simil ar of this assumption may be estimated by the fact errors on our own part hereafter." It is almost that Stonewall Jackson sent an officer to the Fede cruel to the young officer to proceed with these quo- rals to inform them "he would give them till two tations, and we sb all only add one more :—" If a de - o'clock on Monday to bury their dead, but that they ficiency of men and means is assigned as a reason must not take arms, tools, or ammunition from the for the early operations of the allies, it is but another ground, as he claimed the field and its contents." proof that in undertaking this affair they ff ' a ne- This fact is distinctly stated in the correspondence glected one of the clearest rules of war,—that is, of a New York journal. The Federal wounded lay to undertake no important 'operation without full for two days on the field till permission was given and reliable information as to the obstacles to be to cart them away. The action, it must be remem overcome and the means of resistance in the hands of bered, was fought on Saturday, the 9th. On that the enemy." "We cannot afford," he says, "a Mos- night Pope brought up all his troops, but he did not C OW eamPaign." How little when he wrote these lines attempt to attack his enemy the next day ; on the 'in January, 1857, did the American officer imagine evening of Sunday he was very nearly taken pri that he shonld bo at the head of an enormous army soner by a charge of their cavalry through the guns, levied for ttie purpose of invading a State once in- and on Monday Jackson retired at his leisure, eorporateee in the country he served, and of destroy- carrying off his prisoners, wounded, and thousands ing the city in which his enemies, once his own of arms, having buried his dead and given permis counteymen, were assembled to defend their homes sion to the enemy to do the same. There rest estimate ofis no cor and their liberties. Th e d e d uc ti ons h e d raws from the loss, but Culpepper is "a vast hia observations in the Crimea are applied to the hospital," and some Federal regiments have only effect of a foreign invasion, of the United States, "50 left out of 500." The Federals say theirs was and he remarks that, though a small army could be 3,000. The following is a list of the Federal regi crushed by the superior numbers of the people, a ments of which mention is made in the reports in force of one hundred thousand disciplined men the various papers : would be quite invincible, because the mul- 109th Pennsylvania, 110th Pennsylvania, 102 d titude broug h t to bear against them work their New York, 12th United States, Bth United States, own destrnation, for "if without discipline and in- 3d Indiana, 2d Massachusetts, 3d Wisconsin, 27th structior. they cannot be handled, and are in their Indiana, 28th Pennsylvania, Bth New York, 12th own veray." There is a sort of analogy between Massachusetts, 13th Massachusetts, 46th Pennsyl- Sebastopol and Richmond. Neither Williamsburg vania, sth Ohio, ith Ohio, 29th Ohio, 66th Ohio, nor: White Oaks was quite equal in results to the 10th Maine, sth Connecticut, 28th New York. Alma, it is true, but the covering force was obliged The names of the officers which occur in the to retire. The enemy blocked up the wate r en - papers would make a long list of killed and trance to their city ; the Federals command the sea wounded, but of the higher ranks there are killed, as the allies did, and they have not been able to Colonel Stone ; taken prisoner, General Price. force the water batteries. The Confederates are Federals.—Wounded—General Augur, General said to be as strong as the Russians were. Their Geary, Colonel Ceale, Colonel Donelly (mortally), Gortschakoff is in the field outside. The Federals, Colonel Steinwehr, Colonel Chapman (mortally), too, have been attacked on their right before the and Colonel Creighton. 'place. Are they quite as proud of their Inkerman? Among the Confederates the following are said to Does General M'Clellan stand the test of his stric- be killed :—Generals Weinder and Trimble. tures on those who were in a position somewhat Wounded.—General Jackson (slightly), and like his own ? W e make the Americans a present General Saxton. of the comparison. The latest news we have It is characteristic of General Pope that having from his eermy is that it is moving somewhere received this most severe check he should telegraph or oth'ee, having made a fiasco in the advance on the night of Tuesday, the 12th of August, to to nalvern-hill. M'Clellan has now been more General Halleek, " The enemy has retreated under ttren a month in his place of refuge at Harri- cover of the night. His rear guard are now crossing 'ion's Landing. At last he prepared for a great the Rapidan, towards Orange Court - house. Our - battle." On Tuesday, August 5, he moved out and cavalry and artillery are in peeeuit." It is wonder took possession of Malvern-hill, and sent back for ful he did not add they ' aken 10,0u0 pri the greater part of his army, but the messengers sorters." So far, Gene- oaign has opened took the wrong road and the troops did not come up inauspiciously, a• . . in favour of till it was too late. " The enemy were not asleep," M'Clellan has scomfiture. All but came out in force. Gen. McClellan went back over the We Nar is sporadic, and to his camps again, and the Confederates took pos- assuming on Aof greater atrocity ; session of Malvern-hill, and are, we suppose, there the savage - been arrayed on both now. All that comes from the Federal army is the sides and lerokees and guerilla same intelligence of great sickness, aggravated by bands are t ae bloody stage, which is intense heat, and certified by boat loads of sick sol- broader tha, diers, and promises of something going to happen. Guerillas, in one place, rise up and We must wait with patience for the march of events, take a turn in k L . & Federal General is which move more rapidly than the Federal arms, as murdered in h. ;e, the Federals lay waste it is nearly always the ease that the initiative Is the district, hrtn - • -•.1- in the noishbourt,nr.l, taken by the Confederates. and burn the hoe ice is swarming now Leaving M'Clellan's grand army to itself, let us with bands of pat sides, and the poor see what can be gathered from the accounts of the people are plunder lre in the days of the recent action to the north-west of Richmond. On the old war. A Confer. 'is assassinated by same day that M'Clellan made his abortive march a Tennessee Unionis• eems handed over to Malvern, the Federals, under Pope, showed a to marauders on bo' ) report of the cap disposition to move down towards Richmond from ture of Baton Re 1, and there is no the north-west, and pushed to Madison Court-house, confirmation of i of the Arkansas. which is about 14 miles from Gordonsville and 10 It is impossible ng out of the ac from the Rapidan river, where they found the coun- counts of these .nat Morgan or Quan try full of the enemy, who must have crossed the trell, or Porter a killing people or taking Rapidan, and advanced towards the Federal line, or leaving place ,eing killed by other Ameri extending from Washington near Blue Ridge, and cans-50 here there, all over vast tracts of covering the Manassas Gap Railroad and the Orange country, that rat.. trains are fired into, bridges and Alexandria Railroad, down to Fredericksburg cut or burnt; mails stopped; that blood is flowing by Warrenton. Skirmishes took place on the 7th like water, and that Union feeling is not to be and, Bth, the result of which was that the Federals found in the South under the keenest search of fell back to Culpepper, in safety before the rebels, the bayonet. Sickness is nearly universal. Gene evho were advancing in every direction," on Monday ral Butler is uneasy about his position in New night, August 11. It is not to be understood why Orleans, his spies prove untrustworthy, commerce this movement was not met by the Federal generals, does not revive, nor can it at all cheer him to hear for the retreat of the cavalry on the right of their of the " rams" preparing at Mobile. The insecurity line took place on the very morning that Jackson of the garrison at Hilton Head is admitted, and attacked Banks, and it was very fortunate the whole Pulaski is looking out with all its eyes for the new force was not cut off. On Friday morning, the Bth, rams fitted up at Savannah. These statements are Gen. Ewell, under the orders of General " Stone- contained in the American papers by Americans of wall" Jackson, crossed the Rapidan and advanced Americans. Because they are sifted and repro rapidly towards the centre of the Federal lines, duced here, the New York World piously hopes -which he probably expected to cut through with they may "be even with our English cousins some case, as Jackson had made a feint with a force to- . day " And for what it would be hard to say, wards Madison and Springville, on the right, with indeed, except that this holding of the mirror up a view to induce the Federals to weaken their cen- to the Federal face causes disagreeable reflec tre by reinforcing the right of their position. The tions. The recruiting which is going on actively Federal accounts state that the enemy consisted of is admitted to be caused by the desire to get the 35,00 0 men, and came by way of Orange Court- bounty, which would not be paid if the men waited ho use, which is 16 miles distant on the railway to till they were draughted, and the vanity and con- Fairfax and Culpepper Court house. Banks had, ceit of the people is nursed to a degree bordering on they say, 7,000 men, and, if so, General Pope must insanity by their papers, which talk of " the march hare been deceived by Stonewall's movements, or is of a million of soldiers with their glistening bayo very unfit for his post, or has not got 60,000 men, nets and well-trained cannon."—Times. as was asserted. It is supposed that Jackson came from the country north-west of Richmond, and used the Virginia Central Railroad in massing his troops, and had he quite succeeded he might have destroyed Sigel's corps and Pope' s scattered divisions in detail, turned on Burnside, and made a march for Wash ington, which would have been nearly at his mercy. Whether that was his object or not, he has unques a heavy blow, which tionably given Pope hwill t lc s ag .-er him and his arrangements, and postpone "com binedg movements " for some time to com e . It was another stroke on a coil of whether Stonewall suffered so severely as a ll eged, and was unwilling to await a further concentration it appea rs of the enemy, or h a d done all he desired, certain that he did not press the retreating Federals, hut fell back the day after their concentration across Robertson's Creek, near Ma d i son, and thence across the Rapidan. It would a ppear ' from one rather circumstantial account that Banks had under him the divisions of General Augur and General Williams, or 16 battalions, with two regiments of regulars, and, we presume, a battery to each brigade, or 24 gulls—one a battery of regulars. They were advancing in the after noon towards the Rapidan, in pursuance of Pope's orders, and had crossed Cedar Creek, a small tributary, when the enemy suddenly ap peared on the wooded slopes of Cedar Mountain above and before them This was the force they were to check. An artillery duel took place, but at 5 30 p.m. the fighting became very severe, and the Federals gave ground, losing one gun and retreat ing with some rapidity till they were brought up after dusk by the advancing columns of the corps of both General INl`Dowell and General Sigel, under Pope in person. Here they halted, and were rest ing from their flight, when the Confederate guns suddenly opened upon them by the light of the fires at which they sat, and a regular " stampede" and is e kedadd le" at once took place, which was only stoppe d by the Provost's guard, a pretty strong force apparently, an d which arrested " the fright mod soldiers who crowded the roads" and the " re giments wf- jell took to their heels to get out of nester sernio . Whil e range"—non t h e army was retreating in this way a dash of Confederat e cavalry was directed upon them, and nearly carried off The following letter has just been received by a lady in Glasgow. It is interesting as showing the feeling entertained by the citizens of the South to wards their former friends in the North. The writer is a young gentleman, a native of Charleston, who was educated at Edinburgh University, and re turned to America about 18 months ago. He had intended embracing the legal profession ; but the outbreak of hostilities changed all this, and, as will be seen, he is now a corporal of volunteer artillery in the service of the South : " Camp Whilden, Adam's Run, South Carolina, June 26, 1862. " My dear Mrs. B.—There is but one pen in camp With which it is possible to write, an 1 that is a gold one, and I do not like to borrow what I know would not be willingly lent ; so I prefer writing with pen cil, which I think will be distinct enough. I re ceived your last letter sometime in January or February, but not having it in camp with me you m ust not exp ect a precise answer to it came a letter from Kate and one from Jessie. Camp is not a very nice place to write letters—at SO, as it i s not easy, in the first l e ast I have found it place, to carry about with You the convenience for writing with you; and, se condly, it is not easy to get a place to sit down quietly to write a letter with ink. Here I am writing on a board supported on my knee; on my l eft a p art y of four pl ay i ng at seven's-up for 25c. a game, making as much noise with their jabbering as if they were four women. I am a soldier in earnest now, subject to courts-mar tial, and liable at any moment to have a six-foot chain and a 24-pound ball attached to my left leg, or any other little pleasant exercise which military tyrants may choose to impose. But what care we for the despotism of military authority, allowed as it is for the time, for the purpose of achieving. in fhe end 'real liberty and indeuenderkee from the hideous and disgusting despotism of a vulgar mobo cracy. If the people in Great Britain, deceived by the falsehoods of the Northern press, think we are near the point of subjv 1, and that the North are already triumphant lastly, that cotton will flow into their seaports 'eed their mills as for merly, they will, I can e you, before long find I themselves vastly mist' if we were to succumb 'THE SUN, LONDON, TUESD Yt' EVENENG, AUGUST t 26, 1862. now we could surely never have been in earnest. What has the North done to terrify us so ? Have we not 400,000 men in arms ? Are they going to lay down their arms because the North tells them they are subdued. Let them come and disarm us. They are good at talking. " The other day they were going to walk over James Island before breakfast, and take that meal in Charleston, but shey unexpectedly got so much to digest before they had advanced half a mile that they were obliged to return where they came from, and to defer their visit for another occasion. We gave them grape from an eight- inch Columbiad, and a shower of rifle balls, and so much cold steel, that they left us in disgust. They will probably like to try the same game again. Let them come. Our company has been in but ene fight, in which I had the honour to fire the first and tho last shot. The affair was with a gunboat which was coming down one of our creeks. We took up a nice position with four pieces on the banks of the creek, where the boats were obliged to pass at the short distance of 75 or 100 yards. She came abreast of us just after dark. They were heaving the lead and swinging right merrily when I gave the order, " Fire." You may imagine the bustle that arose on board. They soon began to let fly shell and grape at us, but we were so close these missiles only whistled over our heads harmlessly. None of our men were hurt; what damage was done to the enemy darkness prevented us discovering. The light artillery is a fine service in many respects, but there is too little activity about it. But indeed there is too little activity displayed in the war gene rally. You can have no idea what a mean, low people these Yankees are, unless you were here to see and hear the truth. They lives on lies and brag. The prisoners whom we took on James Island the other day told us—' You have taken us, but we have taken Richmond.' When asked how they had learnt that, they said it had been read out on dews parade to them. What a miserable sub terfug# to elevate the courage of the men. No doubt you have read Butler's order concerning the women of New Orleans—that every woman that, by word or gesture, insults any of his soldiers shall be consi dered a common woman. This is a fact. The scoundrel ought to be hanged, were it not too good a death for him. We should certainly be fools to submit to such people, to say the least of it. When I think of the days of Bruce and Wallace, and com pare the situation of the people of Scotland with ours, it seems absurd to suppose that if the Yankees had twice their force they could ever subdue us. One thing is certain, that if they were either to subdue us or to overrun the country, they would certainly ruin the agricultural interests of the South ; and cotton, which seems so necessary an article even to Abolitionists, would never more be forthcoming. Bale after bale is given to the flames as the enemy approaches; for they are cotton thieves, and take all they can lay hands on. They have taken away a great many negroes, but do not seem to find them such useful citizens as they expected. Indeed, some of them have expressed a wish that we would take them back. " I have become rather fond of a military life, and have made several efforts to get a commission in the regular army, but as yet without success. You need not be surprised if I should take to it altogether after the war is at an end. For if the war lasts many years it will put me back so much in all pro fessional pursuits, except the military, that I think I shall have to resort to it any how, if only for a living. I wish you could walk into our camp just now and take a look of us. But I am so dreadfully shabby in my appearance that I should be ashamed to be seen by you. We have not such substantial uniforms as your volunteers have, and at present most of us have only what we have worn all winter. It is amazingly hot here just now, and not too healthy. Quite a number of us have had chills and fever, though I have as yet escaped all sickness. The country about here is very unhealthy ; in some places, especially in August and September, it is almost certain death to the white man to spend a night in its baleful atmosphere. The site of our camp has been chosen for its healthiness, compared with other places which are inferior in that respect, but still it is by no means what I should call a desirable locality. But this is the fortune of war—more die trom v csinenee than D a y Llle bw ord of the enemy. None of our men have, however, died, or been even sick. I am fourth corporal in the company now, and may, if I stay long enough, become a ser geant, one of these days, but a commissioned officer I doubt if ever. The system of elections is still carried on in officering our volunteer companies and regiments, and a vile system it is, for the result is, officers who are quite in competent, in many instances, for the position, especially among the country troops, who are very ignorant and incapable of judging what is best for themselves and the country. But a system of exa mination, in conjunction with the other, is now about to be introduced, which will be of great benefit to us, I think. " JUNE 30. tion. "Adam's Run Village is a hamlet so called from Adam's Run or rivulet flowing near it. The troops here guard the Charleston and Savannah Railway. It is situated about 22 miles to the south of Charles ton. Glorious news from Richmond yesterday. M'Clellan's army threatened with complete destruc tion ; entirly cut off from their gunboats ; a large portion routed and taken prisoners; attacked in flank by Stonewall Jackson." they could not recover. He also admitted that if the contractors were to be rated they must be rated as occupiers. He contended that their case was analogous to the case of theatres and saloons. There the parties were not occupiers, but merely held a licence to sell refreshments. At the conclusion of the arguments the counsel and those interested in the case withdrew. Mr. Brown then moved that the assessment be affirmed. He said that if counsel had questioned the accuracy of the assessment the board might have gone into the matter, but they had raised grave questions of law, which were to upset other assess ments. It was the practice to assess property so soon as there was beneficial occupation. They as sessed gas companies and others in the same way, and they possessed only a beneficial occupation. Mr. Peck seconded the resolution. Mr. Barnes was of opinion that they were not the parties to be assessed. He thought they should ad journ the matter and take counsel's opinion. Mr. Green, the clerk, said counsel's opinion had been taken, and they were acting under his advice. The resolution was then put and carried by a ma jority, two hands being held up to the contrary. Mr. Banting said there were other contractors in the Exhibition. He wished to know whether they would be assessed. He said there was an umbrella and stick contractor, and the contractor for the cloak-rooms, and he should like to hear of their be ing assessed. Mr. Green said the matter was under considera- The counsel and the appellants were then called in and acquainted with the decision. MURDER OF A POLICEMAN AT ASHTON BY TRADE UNION BRICKMAKERS. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. At the South Lancashire assizes to-day this case came on for trial before Mr. Justice Mellor. Con- siderable interest was manifested in the proceedings, and the court was crowded throughout the day. Only four of the men concerned were indicted, Barlow having turned approver, and the others not being in custody. The prisoners were Michael Burke, 35, John Ward, 36, Frederick Hepwell, 25, and John Clay Johnson, 39. Mr. Bass, Q.C., attorney-general for the county, together with Mr. Kaye and Mr. Grimahaw, pro secuted ; and Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.O , Mr. Torr, Mr. Ernest Jones, and Mr. Roberts defended the prisoners. Mr. Bliss, Q.C., in opening the case, said that the prisoners, Michael Burke, John Ward, and Frederick Hepwell, stood indicted for wilful mur der ; and Johnson was indicted as an accessory after the tact, for receiving and harbouring Burke and Ward, and for concealing them, knowing them to have committed the murder. In addition to the prisoners at the bar there were also four other persons implicated in the murder, but they were not in custody. Another person named Barlow, also implicated, would be called as a witness. The prisoners and the other persons charged were all brickmakers living at or near Ashton-under-Lyne. The name of the deceased was Wm. Jump, a police man, who at tilt' time of his murder was on duty and in uniform. The murder was committed on the morning of Saturday, 28th June last, at a fold or yard called Smallshaw fold, in or near Ashton-- under-Lyne. He was killed by two shots which entered his breast about an inch and a half apart, passed through his body in a parallel direction, and lodged somewhere near the spine. The charge against the parties implicated in this murder was that on the night of Friday, June 27, they assem bled together, and armed themselves with blud geons and pistols, with intent to destroy the bricks in a neighbouring yard, and to use these weapons against any person who should interfere with them committing this crime or making their escape after wards ; and that, in pursuance of this intention and design they committed the murder charged against them. On the night of Friday, the 27th June, Burke, Ward, Hepwell, and the five other men as sembled at a place called the Ashton barracks, not far from Clifford's brick-yard. They met there in different parties of two, three, and four, but previ ously they had al], or some of them, been at a cer tain house where they charged the pistols with shot. Having met at the barracks the whole eight men went to Clifford's brick-yard, and there de stroyed 16,000 or 17,000 bricks. Having destroyed the bricks they returned to the Ashton barracks, and from thence they took a way across the fields and roads until they came to the field adjoining the fold yard where the murder was committed. In crossing the field which adjoined the yard, the pri soners were met by two policemen, one Sergeant (whu would be brought beforA the jury), and the other the deceased, Wm. Jump : When they saw the policemen the 'men walked in single file, and endeavoured to disguise and conceal their faces by putting up their collars, and averted their heads from the officers as they approached. Harrop saw that they had something concealed under their clothes, and suffered six of them to pass, but stepped before one of the last men and said—" My man, what is the meaning of all this ? I find you here in this manner at this time of the morning." The man whom he stopped said nothing,but endeavoured to pass on. Harrop then said," You have no occa sion to fear anything from me if you are here about nothing wrong." The man then pushed Harrop violently away, and on being held in check he cried out sharply, " Now men, now men. Now !" And the other seven men turned round and commenced a most violent attack, during which they used bludgeons and pistols, and Harrop was shot over the eye. After the struggle had been going on for some time a person named Williamson, who lived in a house adjoining the yard where Jump was murdered, saw Jump come through a stile at the corner of the house, and go to another stile on the opposite side of the yard. Jump was stag gering as though wearied or exhausted, and when ' he got to the stile he stood there leaning upon the stump. Williamson then saw another man come after Jump through the stile, and when he was about a yard or two yards from the officer William• son saw a flash, and heard a report of firearms, as of a pistol, apparently coming from this man to. wards Jump. He saw and heard a second flash and shot, which he thought came from the same man. Harrop, who was standing near the yard, heard Jump cry out, " Oh, dear ! oh, dear !" and going back immediately in the direction of the cry, he entered the fold yard, and found Jump doubled up by the stile. Harrop asked Jump if he couldspeak, but Jump could make no answer ; and with the as sistance of another man, William Smith, he car ried Jump into Williamson's house, where he died in a very few minutes. The learned counsel pointed out that one of the most important points of evi dence against Burke was the finding of a piece of paper near the murdered man, which had formed a portion of the wadding of the pistol, and this piece of paper bore the name of Burke, and was identi fied as a portion of a bill furnished to Burke by a beer-house-keeper. It would be proved also that Burke was at the house which formed the rendez vous of the prisoners, and that he assisted at the loading of the pistols ; that he was also present during the affray, and that he afterwards used ex pressions which implicated him in the attack. Burke had also made a confession, which was somewhat at variance with the other evi dence, and which represented that Jump was killed by one shot only, whereas it would be proved that two shots were fired, and fired close together. With regard to Ward, the evidence would show that he was present during the firing of the shots ; that he took an active part in the affray, and that afterwards he used expres sions to the effect Ghat both he and Burke " fired into" Jump. It was also important with regard to Ward that two men were seen after the affray run ning over the railway bridge, that one of these men answered to the description of Ward, and that the footprints discovered in that direction were identi cal with those of Ward. Though the evidence was not so strong against Hepwell, still it would be shown that he also was engaged with the other men throughout the affray. In conclusion, the Attorney General said that if the prisoners went out with a common design that these weapons should be used in the way,they actually were used, all parties to that design were responsible for such using of wea pons, being either present at the time of the actual affray or accessories before the fact. All those who were present after the weapons were used, and were there aiding and thetting, were equally guilty with the persons who fired the shot ; and whether the prisoners were the persons who so fired, or whefher the shots were fired by some of the men not in cus tody, it' the jury thought that the prisoners were there at the time, they must hold them responsible for the results. The examination of the witnesses then commenced. Thomas Barlow, brickmaker, brought up in cus tody, was called 'or the prosecution—He said he was a member of the anion, and that a short time before the murder Hepwell went to his house and said there were some bricks to spoil, and asked him to join in the act. He and Hepwell went to Ward's where he saw Henshal and Gregory, two of the men im plicated but tot in custody. They then went towards the Ashton Barracks, where they were joined by Butte and Ward. By this time the number of the men assembled amounted to eight, and included and Ryan, who made up the four who were not apprehended. They proceeded towards Clifford's brick-field, and destroyed five flats of bricks, and when this was done they went away in the direction of Ardenshaw, the scene of the murder. The witness then described the colli sion with the police, as detailed by Mr. Bliss. Di rectly after the assault on the police commenced, he ran away, but about ten days afterwards was appre hended. When he Was in the Ashton lock-up he occupied the next cell to Ward, who began to speak about the affair and said, " My shoes have done me for this." Burke and Ward hadboth told him that they had fired at the police. In prison Ward said to him, "They are keeping Burke at Ashton, and he will split on all the ethers." A cap found on the field was identified by this witness as belonging to Ward. Several bludgeons, most fearful weaponsj were produced, and the particular weapons used by the prisoners identified. Under cross-examination, the prisoner said that he had been induced to make a statement to Lnd ham, a police officer, on the understanding that the person who could give a clue to the perpetrators of the crime would be rewarded, and, if not implicated in the actual crime, would receive a pardon. George Harrop, police sergeant, was next eit amined, and bore out the statement of the learned counsel. He distinctly identified Burke and Ward as taking part in the affray. The man with whom Harrop was struggling disengaged himself, but left his bludgeon in Harrop's hand. Harrop threw it after him as he was escaping, and hit him on the forehead. At this time shots were fired about 90 yards off, and almost immediately afterwards Harrop heard a moan, which upon going to the yard, he found proceeded from Jump. Jump's body was found to be much bruised by blows from bludgeons. tHarrop underwent a severe cross examination with regard to the shots which he heard being fired in succession, and as to their pro ceeding apparently from a revolver. His evidence, however, was not shaken. He produced the bullets which had been found in Jump's body. Samuel D. Lee, M.D., who had been called to attend to the deceased, described the nature of the wounds which Jump had received, and attributed death to the shot, one of the bullets having entered under the second rib and perforated the left lung, causing an immense loss of blood, The two bullets which were extracted from Jump's body were very rough, and one had a shank upon it. Dr. Lee, who examined Ward in the New Bailey, Salford, proved that he had a wound on his forehead, which might have been caused by a bludgeon. Samuel Williamson was next examined, and de scribed the firing of the pistol in the direction of the stile where Jump was standing, and also the finding of the wadding-paper, which dropped from Jump's coat when he was being carried mortally wounded into the house. Another witness, named Smith, who lived near, and heard the shots, said that he went out and found the deceased crouehing on his hands and knees. Jump exclaimed, " Oh dear !" and endeavoured to get up, but fell three times. Jump died almost im mediately after he was taken into Williamson's house. Eli Ogden and his wife, who lived in Smallshaw fold, gave corroborative evidence as to the firing of the shots and the wounding of Jump. The Court then rose, and the hearing of the case was adjourned till the following day. RATING THE REFRESHMENT DEPART- 111ENT OF IHE EXHIBITION. Yesterday morning the board of trustees for the parish of Kensington held a meeting at the Vestry Hall, Mr. Churchwarden Green way in the chair, at which the contractors of the refreshment depart ment of the International Exhibition attended for the purpose of appealing against being assessed to the parochial rates. Mr. Tindal Atkinson appeared for Mr. Morrish, and Mr. Sleigh for Mr. Veillard. It appears that the board of trustees and the ves try of Kensington have recently called upon the contractors for the payment of the rates. F. E. Morrish and W. Sanders being assessed for the Western or English department, upon a rental or rateable value of £14,217 ; and C. Veillard and Martin Gulpet, for the Eastern or French refresh ment department, at £14,653. It is, therefore, a very important question to the contractors, as in the case of Mr. Morrish, he is called upon to pay rates amounting in the whole to £9lB 3s. 7d. ; and Mr. Veillard the sum of £946 6s. 9d. Mr. Tindal Atkinson, in addressing the board, said the first objection to the rate was on the ground of there being no interpolation in it. Although under the 9th section of George IV. the board had power to amend a rate by inserting names that had been omitted, they had no power to insert property that was not in the rate-book at the time of the rate being made. He referred to the 6th and 7th of William IV,, cap. 96, which provided for one uni form mode of rating for the relief of the poor, and in which it was made essential that the description of property should form part of the rate when made. He next called attention to a very important point in the case—as to whether Mr. Morrish was an occupier so as to make him rateable, and he read portions of the agreement between his client and the commissioners to show that Mr. Morrish was entirely under the con trol of the commissioners. He (Mr. Atkinson) was of opinion that the commissioners were rateable, because they held the keys of the outer doors, they took money at the doors, and had full possession of the place. He argued that Mr. Mor rish was not an occupant, as he had not uncon trolled power over the place. In order to make a man rateable he must have such control over the place as to make him virtually the owner of it. In the agreement his client was described as a contrac tor,annothingd he was more than a contractor. He had only the ri g ht o f selling refreshments during a certain p ar t o f the day, for which he contracted to pay five - eights of a penny for every person ad mitted. He concluded by asking the board to deal out justice to his client. Mr. Sleigh said Mr. Veillard objected to be rated on the same grounds. He submitted that inas much as the rate was made in April and his client not taking posiiession until th e l et of May MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aug, 25. The August Adjourned General Sessions com menced this morning at the Court House on Clerkenwell-green. THE GREAT ROBBERY AT MESSRS. BURTON'S IN OXFORD-STREET. Edmund Godwin, 23 years of age, and described as a tailor, was indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the shop of Wm. Samuel Burton, and stealing therein seven silver teapots and other articles of the value of £450. Mr. Tindal Atkinson prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton was counsel for the prisoner. The trial of this case occupied a considerable time, but the facts were shortly these. The prisoner lodged in an attic at 9, Newman-street, adjoining Messrs. Burton's premises, for some time in June. During the night of the 11th of that month an entry was effected into Messrs. Burton's warehouse through a trap in the roof, and a large quantity of silver stolen, value nearly £5OO. A complete set of burglars' implements were found on the premises by Sergeant Lambert, 12 D, jemmies, crowbars, a rope-ladder, a bull's-eye, picklocks, a wedge made of beech, matches, &c. On the Ist instant the pri soner was apprehended by Cook, 198 5, at the corner of Clipstone-street. The constable said to him, " Your name is Godwin." The prisoner replied that it was not, " you make a mistake." The witness said, " Yes, your name is Godwin, and I shall take you for a robbery at Messrs. Burton's in Oxford-street, in June last, and stealing a large quantity of silver." The prisoner said again that there was a mistake ; his name was not Godwin. Cook then said, " Then Pll call you Whitenob," a name he was known by ; " You know me, and I know you." The prisoner said" All right, Mr. Cook, you have put many an innocent man in prison, and I suppose you are going to do the same with me." He denied ever having lived in Newman-street, gave a false address, No. 15, Liverpool-street, Isling ton, there being no such number, the highest num ber being 11; but he was traced to Dorrington street, Clerkenwell, where he had been lodging, and where the police found the box in which the stolen silver had been carried off from Newman-street. In it were marks which, examined under a powerful magnifying glass, showed that they had been pro duced by silver. The prisoner took the lodging in the name of Richards, and on the night of the rob bery had some one with him whom he let in. Mr. Ribton contended that the evidence did not make out anything beyond suspicion, and that in the absence of absolute proof of guilt the prisoner ought to be acquitted. The learned Judge summed up with great care and minuteness. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and his for mer convictions were proved against him. The learned Judge said there was an imperative duty to perform, and the sentence of the Court upon the prisoner was that he be kept in penal servitude for the period of ten years. SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Payne.) John W. Shackleton, a cabman, was indicted for assaulting Robert Randall, police-constable 388 V, in the execution of his duty. Mr. Pater prosecuted; Mr. Metcalfe appeared fur the prisoner. The case for the prosecution was that, on the morning of the 3d inst., the prisoner was driving a cab in the King's-road, Chelsea, when a gentleman hailed him, and he told him to -, and made several cuts at him with his whip. The gentleman called the constable to stop him, but he drove off at a rapid rate, and the constable got a Hansom and went after him. On being overtaken the prisoner, or some other person for whom he was mistaken, struck him with the butt end of his whip so violently that he fell backwards, and the driver got away. The defence was that the prosecutor was mis taken as to the person who committed the assault, and Mr. Metcalfe addressed the jury upon that point, and the defendant was acquitted. William Hutchinson, 52, labourer, was indicted for unlawfully attempting to kill and murder him self, by cutting and wounding his arm with a razor. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and said he knew nothing of the matter_ Mr. J. H. Bailes, surgeon, of 5, Ossulston-street, Somers Town, stated that on the 12th inst. he was called to No. 10, Drummond-streat, where he found the prisoner weltering in a pool of blood. There was a razor on the table with which he had opened his arm, and was bleeding to death, and would have no doubt been dead in a few minutes had not the flow of blood been stayed by ligatures. As it was he had lost thirty ounces of blood, and it appeared that he was labouring under peculiar delusions, and he said that a man with wings had got in through the window and inflicted the wound. The Jury found him guilty, and The learned Judge sentenced him to two years' imprisonment, observing that that was the best course that could be taken with him. Edward Tidswell, 25, clerk, was indicted for stealing the sum of .E2OO and upwards, the moneys of Messrs. Shoolbred, of Tottenham-court -road, his masters. He pleaded guilty ; and the Court, con sidering it a very aggravated case, sentenced the prisoner to six years penal servitude. William Clifford, 26, cabinetmaker, a prisoner who had been twice sentenced to four years' penal servitude, summarily convicted, and was known as the companion and associate of garotters, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing clothing in the house of A. 'Watson, 19, Duke -street. The prisoner's former career having been proved by officers Holmes and Franklin, the learned Judge said it was his duty to pass an exemplary sentence for the protection of the public. The prisoner was found concealed under a bed, having packed up a variety of articles for removal, and twice for a simi lar offence had he been sentenced to four years' penal servitude. The prisoner begged for another chance. He said he was known to be a convict, and could not get work, but if he were lightly dealt with this time it would be a long while before he came before the Court again. _ _ The learned Judge said he should take care of that. The best thing to do was to send him away altogether out of the country, and the sentence upon him, with that view, was 10 years' penal ser vitude. He was liable to it for life. The prisoner said be was perfectly satisfied. George Scott was convicted of stealing a port manteau and a case from the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, at Kiz lass. These were two very impudent robberie mmitted openly on the platform. On the arriN Jf trains from the north, the prisoner claimed as Ais own and carried off passengers' luggage. He was sentenced to three years' penal servitude. CLEVER APPREBENSION OF FASILION_ABLE SWINDLERS AND RECOVERY OF 11LE _PRO PERTY. On Monday morning a fashionably-dressed man, about 35 years of age, of good appearance, who gave his name as James Frale, and a fine lc:laing young woman, who said her name was Mary Ann Greenslade, were brought up in custody before the Bath magistrates, charged with having conspired together in obtaining g oods to a considerable value from various tradesmen in that city, with intent to defraud them of the sam e. The case excited great interest, end the court was crowded with a respect able audience. As the po lice authorities only went in for a remand, it is necessary to the understand ing of the case to give some p articulars which did not transpire in the evidence. It appears that on Monday last the prisoners took furnished lodgings at No. 19, in the Royal-cireus, one of the first localities in the city, representing themselves as man and wife, who had come from Scotland with the view of spending six months in Bath. They brought but the slightest quantity of luggage, having merely a carpet bag, which they accounted for by saying their luggage had been directed so as to follow them, and would reach Bath in a day or two. They daily promenaded the most fashionable parts of the city, arm in arm, and not only succeeded in beguiling the lodging-house keeper, but in obtaining goods of considerable value from several of the leading tradesmen. On Friday they favoured the shop of Mr. Alderman Jolly, ex mayor of Bath, in Milsom-street, with a call, and a silk dress, silk shawl, and skirt, value about £2O, were sent to the Circus. Mr. R. King, silk mercer, of the same street, was favoured with orders to about the same amount. Messrs. Turner, also of Milsom-street, were ordered to make a suit of super fine clothes for Mr. Frale, and other tradesmen met with similar commands. On Friday after noon Mr. Frale also walked into the shop of Mr. Routley, watchmaker, of Broad-street, and inquired the price of a diamond backed watch in the window. He was told 15 guineas, and he then inspected some others, concluding by requesting two ladies' watches, and a gentle man's gold repeater, to be sent to 19, Circus, the same evening for approval. Mr. Routley, who understood from him that he intended making one of the watches a present to his lady, took the watches, together with three gold chains himself, and saw the female prisoner, who said the captain was gone out to dinner, but she thought he had shown very good taste in the selection of the watch for himself. She was not so certain, however, as to the watch intended for her. She passed some trivial remarks upon the chains, and ended by re questing Mr. Routley to leave the goods and call in the morning, when he would receive the money for those approved and take the others away. Mr. Routley's property was of the value of £6O. After he had left he did not feel easy in his mind, bat his suspicions were allayed by the assurance of a friend whom he consulted, and who had been assured in turn by the woman who keeps the lodgings, that he would be safe if it were for £l,OOO. Next morning by half-past six o'clock, however, Mr. Routley was roused from his bed, and informed that his quondam customer was non est, and that he and his " lady," taking with them the gold watches and chains, had disappeared from their lodgings, with out paying any rent, on the previous evening. Great became the consternation of the several de frauded tradesmen ; but prompt steps were taken for the detection of the swindlers. The police dis covered that a lady on the previous night had ac costed a workman in the Circus, and drawing a carpet bag from under a mantel, had desired him to convey it for her to the Twerton station, about two miles from Bath, on the Bristol line. On their way, however, they came up with a gentleman (Mr. Frale) lounging against some rails, and the lady and gentleman each saying, " Oh, is that you," fraternised, and the bag was handed to the gentleman by the porter, who was dismissed by the lady with the promise that she should see him again, and would then reward him for his trouble. The man left, but not quite liking his ireatment, watched the par ties to the 1 werton station. He was thus enabled to give the clue to the police, and on Saturday In spector Dalsworthyand Detective Barnett proceeded to.,Bristol, and, with the aid of a detective from the Bristol force, traced the male prisoner, whom they found in the act of pawning one of the watches at the shop of Mr. Chilcott, of St. Augustines-parade. At the station-house he took another watch and chain from his waistcoat pocket, saying, " That is another of them " The female prisoner (who at first said she was Frale's wife) was subsequently apprehended, and from her the whole of the re mainder of the property was obtained. The prisoners were remanded for a week. APPREHENSION OF AN ABSCONDED J3ANKR UPT. It will be remembered that the examination of Thomas Henderson, wholesale woollen cloth and tweed warehouseman in Glasgow, whose estates were sequestered in November, 1861, took place partially in the month of December following, and that he absconded about the end of that month or beginning of January, 1862. Henderson had been twice under examination, but ultimately deemed it prudent to withdraw beyond the reach of his credi tors, and a day or two after his disappearance a quantity of goods belonging to the bankrupt, con sisting of household furniture, clothes, pictures, and jewellery, which had been concealed, or were alleged to have been concealed, in a house at 119, St. James's-road, was discovered by the police, amounting in value to between £2OO and £3OO Several witnesses were examined, and, among others, Mrs. Henderson ; and on the 9th of January a warrant was issued by Sheriff Murray for tie apprehension of the I bankrupt, who had taken refuge in the Sanctuary. When the officer went through to Edinburgh to carry the warrant into force he found that Hender son had taken alarm and fled from the Sanctuary. A few days after the warrant was issued, Superin tendent M'Call, after a harassing and energetic search, succeeded in discovering the silver plate chest of the bankrupt and its contents in a house in St. Vincent-street, and a day or two later a dis covery was made in Helensburgh of another quan tity of household furniture, bedding, carpets, &c. Meanwhile a vigorous search was made for the bankrupt himself, with a view to his apprehension, which, however, was unsuccessful. Rumours were afloat that he had gone to Australia, to France, and to America, but the result has belied them all. Not withstanding these; the police have been more or less active in their endeavours to trace the where - abouts of the bankrupt, and about the end of last week they obtained a clue which led to his appre hension. Following up this clue Peter Brown, de tective officer, was despatched on Saturday to Edin burgh to search for Henderson, and in the course of the same afternoon he saw a man in India-street who seemed to answer the description of the bank rupt. Brown had never seen Henderson before, and was so far at a disadvantage. He had, however, in his possession a photograph of him, but it had been taken when Henderson wore neither whiskers, beard, nor moustache, whereas the individual whom the detective met wore the whole three. Resolving at once to put his man to the test Brown came be hind him, and in a bold, off-hand manner, ejacu lated—'° Hallo, Mr. Henderson, what are you doing here ?" The individual addressed, who had two young girls with him, turned round abruptly, and said to Brown that he was mis taken. Brown rejoined, "I know you, Mr. Hen derson." The latter reiterated, " You are mis taken." Brown pulled out the photograph of the bankrupt, which he had in his pocket, and present ing it to Henderson, said " Isn't that you." When the individual saw the photograph he admitted that he was the veritable Mr. Henderson who had ab sconded from his creditors in January last. He was instantly taken into the safe keeping of the officer and conveyed to his lodgings in India-street, where the young girls who, we understand, were his daughters, were left. He was then conveyed to Glas gow the same eveuing.—Glasgow Herald. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BANK OF ENG LAND.—The prosperity of the country was evidenced in the reign of William and Mary by the establishment of the Bank of England, which despite a great deal of opposition from the Court and the monied men, obtained a charter on 27th July, 1694. The establishment of the Bank of England gave life and energy to business, and made trade eseY- Great eagerness was exhibited to embark in commercial enterprise, and this even extended itself to Scotland, where, in 1795, the Bank of Scotland was established, which soon rose to very high credit. The projector of both banks was Mr. Wm. Paterson. The capital of the Scotch Bank was £1,200,000 Scotch, or £lOO,OOO s terling.—CaPPer' and Trade of London. Pills. Satisfactory [ADVERTISEMENT.. -Holloway's -- s Port Results.—ln all painful affections of the stomach an d f dis ordered actions of the liver and bowels a singe tria o 9:tey e l e )esgulating these pills will demonstrate that a high degr ey speedily and renovating powers in ammati ;n of the bowels restore the appetite, lessen • the. unpleasant distensions of the abdomen, and so prevent and other serious abdominal ailments. 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The simplicity has evoked the gra titude of all class es in both hemispheres, )and efficacy of this treatment and commanded a "le for th ese pur if y i ng p ill s unprece d en ted in medical history, DREADFUL OU7 AS The inhabitants of Spalding, Line olnshire, were thrown into a state of great exeitemtlnt on Sunday last, by the fact transpiring that an at, tempt at mur der, which it is greatly to be feared woll be produc tive of fatal results. had been comroitted under the following singular circumstances appears that on Saturday night last about 12 o'clock a roan named Percival, formerly ostler at one of the inns in the town, was returning to his home, and wh en crossing the sheep market he met a man natued Loadbeater, a labourer, from the adjacent village of Pinchbeck, with whom he had not the least previous.acqaaint ance, suddenly, and without any provoct.illon, Lead beater rushed upon him and cut his throat with a large knife, inflicting a serious injury. Percival VAS accompanied by another man, but the deed was accomplished so quickly that he was unable to pre— , vent it ; and whilst in the act of raising his wounded companion, the assassin rushed upon him and .in flicted a similar wound. Whilst the scuffle was still pending a third man, Hayes, came up and attempt ed to collar Leadbeater. when the latter stabbed him in the arm, causing him to release his hold. The fellow then ran away along the Bourn-road, but was pursue& by two policeman, who came up at the time, and about a dozen other persons, who, after a chase of nearly half a mile, succeeded in capturing him ne ar the Pied Bull public-house, on the Bourn-road. The wounded men, Percival and his companion , wer e in the meantime conveyed to Dr. Morris's surg er y , w here their wounds were promptly attended to ; ' but they were found to be of so serious a nature that the doctor deemed it advisable to have them lodged at a neighbouring public-house, lest their removal home should prove fatal_ Latest accoun is s tate that they are in a very precarious state. Hayes, on having his wounds dressed, was able a t once to leave for his own home. At present no' possible motive can be ascribed for the fearful deed, and it is generally suppos . ed that the prisoner was suffering from temporary insanity. COUNTRY .31A.RALAAS. COLCHESTER—AUG. 23. The supply of wheat to-day at market was siriall. Farmers demanded high prices for the few lots of dry wheat, which millers were in many cases obliged to p ay. Spring corn dull, for want of supplies. Wheat, white .. 52 s 66s I Beans, Mazagan..3Bs 4k9s red s 60s I middle & small.4os 416 Barley Oats GLOTICE STER--AuGt. 23. To-day there was a supply of new white wheat d at m xket, which was of better quality tha n expected, an bht roug 57s to 60s per 396 lbs. Foreign wheat was in limited de mand. Barley and beans firm. Oats dull. CHELKSFO] The supply of wheat was 8] advance of is to 2s on last wei firm, and prices as of late, but Wheat, old white 4 , 5 s 62s new —s ,D-ATJG. 22. Lort, and the trade brisk, at an. .k's prices. Spring corn was, a dull trade. Yeas, Partridge.....37s 410 White „39s 42s Boiling .. 41s 44s Dun .......... 40s Ditto new - Beans, Tick, old 3sx 39a new —s --s Barrow Ticks 3ss 40s new —s •—s Mazagan 34s 3118 old red....50s bBs new —s —s Barley ..30s 39s Chevalier ..30s 42s Grinding 24s 32s Malt.. .. 6ls 67a Chevalier 64s 69s Oats 225 29s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—Auct. 23. A small show of wheat and oats today, and three par•. eels of barley. A slow trade, at about former prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....sos Od 33s Od I 28s Od Second ..52s 6d I 34s 6d 29s Od Third...62s Od —s Od 318 Od COAL M . LARKET. t the close of the market. (Prises of Coal per Ton at s. d. Bower's West H artleyls 0 Craighead Steam 13 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting 23 0 Do. Anthracite 21 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley .15 0 Holywell .15 9 Tanfield Moor ........ 13 0 Davison's West Hart ley ............... .15 0 Grey's West Hartley.. 14 6 Walker Primrose 12 6 Eden Main 15 6 Wylam ..16 0 Cowpen Hartley 15 0 North Percy Hartle yl2 6 Hastings Hartley ...,15 0 S. tie Ships at mark Walls End. South K elloe l6 0 K elloe Camp•••• l6 0 Framwellgate .. • . 15 6 Hetton .•17 0 South Hetton ...... ...17 0 Eden .. l5 6 Tunstall Trimdon Hartlepool ..16 3 Hartlepool.. l6 3 Caradoc.... Acorn Close .. Hedley ..... ... .15 0 Braddyll's Hetton 16 G Stewart's.... l6 6 Trimdon Thornley 14 6 Whitworth 15 0 Heugh Hall ... .16 6 , 98; sold, 62. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Aufe.ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton... .. —Aug. 18. via Marseilles /3razil and Cape Verds, by British packet......,.. Sept. 3. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... Sept. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via SouthamptonAlpt. 3. via Marseilles ...Aug. 28. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. i 9. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 3k. via Marseilles Aug. 28;. India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles Aug, Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 29. via Marseilles Aug. —. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Aug. 28. by U.S. packet by Canadian packet. Aug. 27. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. Sept 10 . Bahamas, via New York ' Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Aug. 28. California, and British Columbia. TAXES UPON TRAVELLING.—The produce of the taxes upon railways rose from £280,314, in 1852, to £334,063, in 1857, and to £372,178 last year. The produce of the tax upon stage carriages has also risen from£ll4,Bo7, in 1857, to X 125,557 last year. PHOTOGRAPHY ON MONT BLANC.—We find in the Dioniteur an interesting description of an ascent of Mont Blanc, effected on the 11th inst., by M. Bisson, an eminent photographer, who had already performed the feat last year, but was desirous of completing his collection of views. His progress as far as the Grands-Mulets was not marked by any particu lar incident : he took various views from different points, and then proceeded to tee Passage des Echelles, where he and his party crossed the ravines, some 300 feet deep, crawling on horizontal ladders one by one on their hands and feet. Their further progress to the Dome du Goutte was, however, impeded by an unforeseen incident. A bridge of ice and snow, which had hitherto served as a passage to the Grand Plateau had broken down, and they found a yawning abyss, from 45 to 155 feet in width, be fore them. No other passage seemed possible, and M. Bisson was on the point of giving up the adventure, when he was hailed by three of his men who, unperceived, had, sought a convenient place, and, with their hatchets, hewed out a path, by which they had succeeded in gaining the icy crest of the Mont Maudit. They soon descended the rocks on the other side, and threw ropes to their comrades, by which the luggage was hauled up. M. Bisson and the rest of the party followed the new but dangerous path, which brought them two hours sooner to the Grand Plateau. There, new difficulties awaited them; they had to hew 800 steps, and ascend the side of the corridor, which in some places had an inclination of 50 degrees. On reach ing the end of the corridor, they vi ere assailed by an icy cold wind. On arriving at the summit after some further labour, M. Bisson found to his regret that the silver of his plates was crystallised, the temperature having suddenly fallen 10 degrees Centigrade, although it was exactly noon. At two p.m. he re-descended the summit, but visited it again on the 14th, and returned to Chamounix on the 15th without any further accident. BIRTHS. BENTBAM.—On the 24th inst., at King William' street, city, Mrs. Wm. Bentham, of a daughter. BORWICK.—On the 25th inst., at Walthamatow, Mrs. A. Borwick, of a daughter. MOSSOP.—On the 24th inst., the wife of Mr. Charles Mos. sop, solicitor, of 1, Ironmonger-lane, and Oakley Lodge, Chelsea, of a daughter. MoNCK.—On the 23d inst, at 37, Fi tzwilliam-place, D ub . of li a n n, the wife of the Hon. It. Mon ck, Coldstream Guards, MARRIAGES. at St.James's Church, Piccadilly, Penniston, only Mr. p inst., at All Souls' Dunn, late DUNK—VINER, th e 2l s Et son fs tu Edmund d , of Windsor, to Catherine, only child of Mr. C, Viner, Villas,. Bayswater. VZR —On the 23d • R Maddox- Church, Langhara-place, William Henry Williams, to Susan, second daughter of street:Hanover-square. WWZitAturs—uPe-EP:ko DEATHS. ALLAN . —On the 22d inst., at Melfort House, Argyllshire/ Alexander Allan, Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aged 51. BucKLE —On the 22d inst., at Bath, Henrietta, the eldest daughter of the late Admiral Buckle, aged 63. CARTWRIOHT.—On the 22d inst., at Horncastle, George Cartwright, Esq., aged 49. JERVIS.—On the 24th inst, at 14, Bedford .street, Bedford square, Wtn. Ramsay Jervis, Esq. M A m W a v O s N o --7 Esq ,, 2 e 01 l aged g 3 d d n. i nBt , at St. John's-wood, S. M. MONCK.—On the 23d inst. William Frederick, infant son of the lion. R. Monck, inst., Guards. WRIGHT.—On the 22d inst., at his residence, 6, Pont-st., Belgrave-square, Mr. William Scarlett Wright, aged 75. LoNnoz; : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE STYN Office N 0.112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the_,County of Middlesex.--Tuesday, August 26, 1862. NEM 1110 elfift. i