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Om—Afternoon, 2h. 18m. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1862. In this great war of successes, crisis, and reverses —of invasions and counter-invasions, no situation of the belligerents has yet equalled the present one — it may, indeed, be no longer present, since the few days between each departure of news to Europe are quite sufficient to have brought about a tremendous decision either way. Th© Confederates are in Mary land, and according to the most probable accounts, there in considerable force also, they are also in a position from which they can easily isolate Wash ington from Pennsylvania New York and the North, while M'CLELLAN is gene forth from Washing ton, leaving BANKS to take care of the city, and determined to offer battle to the renowned " Stone wall" JACKSON. It would seem as if the issue of the contest were staked on the present moves. If M'CLELLAN were beaten, the North must surely think it useless to persevere; if JACKSON were beaten the Confederates must be ruined for this campaign at least. On the north side of the Potomac, which he has crossed chiefly by ferry boats, JACKSON, if beaten at Frederick City, could hardly retarn in safety. If M'CLELLAN were beaten, he could but fall back again on Washington, while JACKSON and the Confederates would be free to disport them selves over all Maryland north of Washington, to seize the railroad from Washington to Baltimore, and to leave the PRESIDENT only the useless city and the lower Potomac down to the Bay of Chesapeake. The ruin or success of either cause seems almost to hang on the result of M'CLELLAN'S move into the field to try conclusions with JACKSON. It is of immense importance to the South to make Maryland the seat of war, instead of Northern Virginia. The latter district, we learn from Con federate sources, has been so stripped by the war that the few remaining inhabitants are almost threatened with starvation. It can ill support, therefore, the large army which must be kept in front of the Federal army. Maryland is yet unscathed by war. Her granaries are said to be well filled with the abundant harvest with which America has been favoured, and somehow the Con federates have managed to come into Maryland i with money enough to pay for all they take. The Marylanders are also, for the more part, Southern in their preferences. They still own a large num ber of slaves, and the temper of slaveholding is still I the ruling one. By residing amongst them, and governing by conciliation, instead of severity like Messrs. LINCOLN and STANTON, they would entirely add that State to the South ; and the straight line which separates Pennsylvania from it, and which terminates at the head of the bay of Chesapeake, would include that most magnificent estuary of so many rivers in the Southern territory. By all accounts, therefore, to get possession of Mary land is a grand object for the South. It would feed her northern arm y, render Washi ng t on worse than useless to the North, since it would di v i de its armies and its strength; and in the futu re i t would give to the South, though with the disad. vantage of losing a river boundary—the Potomac —the vast advantage of commanding the Bay of Chesapeake. Such a prize is worth a venture, and the Gmfederates have been bold enough to make it. We await the result with no little solicitude. Pro phesy we dare not, though the skill of the Southern Generals, their bringi4g up fresh forces towards the Potomac, and the relative spirit of the two armies, after so many victories on one side, and defeats on the other, we confess augur well for those pets of fortune—the bold. But how plainly now is apparent the mischievous result of the LINCOLN spare-slavery policy ? Here is Maryland at the mercy probably of the South, because, having it in his hands, he left it a slave State, even to executing in its favour the infamous fugitive slave law. M aryland has somewhat under 100,000 slaves. Suppose Mr. LINCOLN and Con gress, as a necessity or war, bad liberated all these sl aves, with compentmt ion to their masters, what eould the Confederate now have done in Maryland ? Suppose he had said to the able-bodied negroes, " Now you, above all, must fight, or do camp work with the army which is fighting to secure your liberty," where else would he have found regiments or servants so determined never to give in and never to be taken alive ? Where, too, would be found more reliable scouts, or better pledges to present to all the negroes in America that the success of the North meant freedom for the slave. Suppose he had in the same manner dealt with Kentucky and Missouri as fast as they came under Federal power, can it be doubted that the freed slaves there might have rapidly become the most efficient allies, the best of Federal soldiers ? At the same time all the more southern States would have been paralysed. We should not have heard of vast armies officered by planters and their sons, collecting, and taking the field against the North, they would have had quite enough to do in watching the negroes on their plantations, whom the Federal Government had declared free, and who would have had the pledge of Federal sin cerity in the black regiments which were ap proaching to liberate them. We shall, of course, be told that public opinion in the North was not advanced enough to enable Mr. LINCOLN to take such a course. Of course it was not. We do not care to blame him personally, although, had JEF FERSON DAVIS and he changed positions, we have not the least doubt that that able man would have seen the necessity of the case, would have whirled round public opinion to it, and have kept all the South in the Union by means of those very blacks, to retain whom in their present state for ever, and to carry whom wherever they listed, was the cause of the secession. A DAVIS would not have dawdled away time in coaxing Kentucky to no purpose, or wasted much of his military strength in coercing Maryland and Missouri ; he would at once have made them free soil, have thus added them irrevocably to the North, and then bid the planting States do as they pleased. He would have dealt in the same way with Virginia, and have given that large State other employment than fight ing with the North. Mr. LINCOLN, however, has not capacity to lead ; he was chosen because he was an obscure man, not like his rival, for unquestionable ability. The re publicans of the North are ever afraid of their ablest men, and prefer some nobody as their nominal ruler, while they enact the " sovereign people." To them, therefore, the whole blame of their present position is due. Let them suffer for it, we cannot pity them. For half a century and more they have been nursing the most inhuman and unchristian sentiments towards the unfortunate negro, and Mr. LINCOLN himself, the other day, broadly asserted the fact. It now comes down upon them with deserved retribution. Their desire to prevent the extension of slavery is not a noble sen timent kindred with anything that glows in every English bosom, from the labourer to the peer, it is a mere political calculating Yankee selfishness, that finds slaves inconvenient, that forbids them to enter new States, when Yankees migrate from their bar ren Eastern States to the rich soils of Illinois and Kansas ; and morally and philanthropically viewed, therefore, the Republican programme of " no exten sion of slavery is no credit to the North." It is politic sei.4shness, not patriotism or benevolence. We all instincticelY feel this, and hence our utter indiffer ence to the mem; of the heartless but ambitious Northerns. With the It.": uth and slavery we can never sympathise, but as little pan we sympathise with the North and negro depor,`tt i°ll . It is said that the North is being / c . hipped into emancipation—which we take to be nO par ticular praise of the subject of this milita.7 teaching. That they will bear a good deal before their obstinacy is broken down is tolerably apparent. For if the seven days' thrashing before Richmond, and the four days beating before Manassas and Washington, nut to mention the Federal "skedaddling" in Kentucky, will not turn them, we can hardly tell what will. All they can say is, that it might have been worse. We learn, in deed, from Richmond that much worse was designed for them ; it was intended to cut POPB and the rest of them off from Washington. Luckily for them they escaped this worst disgrace and calamity, but, as we also know, it was by mere accident. And the result for the North is, that it is once more re prieved, to give it one more chance of repentance. We have little expectation, however, of the repen tance, and without it, very little hope, indeed, of the ultimate success of the mighty North. It would be useless to recapitulate here the full particulars of that frightful murder in Glasgow, of which JEssiE -WLAUCHLAN has just been found Guilty by a Scottish jury, and for which she has just been condemned to Death by Lord DEAS. With the details of this great crime the public at large throughout the country are already perfectly fami liar. Of the peculiar atrocity of the act they have obtained a very profound impression. Than the trial, through the medium of which the facts of the case were deliberately brought to light, one by one —sifted (comparatively speaking) loosely first of all through examination, and far more finely and minutely immediately afterwards through cross examination—to be re-sorted later on and placed in the most favourable light for the prisoner by the leading counsel for the defence, and to be after that examined, each fact in turn, under the microscopic lens of the Judge's summing up : than this trial, which has led at last to a Verdict of Guilty and to a Sentence of Death nothing could by any possibility have been con ducted in a manner more cautious, more deliberate, or more completely and absolutely dispassionate. Truth was glaringly great, however, in this present instance, and more and more clearly as the trial ad. vanced, it prevailed ! The guilt of the wretched woman now under sentence of death at Glasgow became upon every succeeding day of the Trial, more obvious and undeniabl: than upon its predecessor. Almost from the commencement the impression which had for some time previously prevailed as to the entire innocence of old Mr. FLEMING was ren dered perfectly visible and transparent. The bloody footmarks on the back kitchen floor exactly tallying in size and shape with the footmarks of the prisoner—the scattered, bloolbedabbled, e d il partially-destroyed clothes, known to have be longed to and been worn by the pris oner —the abstracted at ey plate, known to have been pawned (im mediately after the perpetration of the murder) by ' no other than the prisoner—the stolen Llothing of the deceased made away with, packed up in a box and sent off for a while, as a blind, by railway, under the direction of no one else than the prisoner—these and a variety of other fragments of circumstantial evidence fitting (with frightful accuracy) in toge ther, making at last a clear and consistent, th ou gh first of all a shattered and scattered, " proof posi guiltt l posi tive" dead against the p risoner ! T here is, p..?rhaps, not a rational being who has watched the the evidence, who entertains one particle in n f doubt brutally as and barba rously to of JEssIE APLAIT C HLAN, murdering with her own bands, and quite unassisted, the unfortunate victim, JESSIE MAc_ PHERsoN. The previous good character of the mur deress certainly tends to render the commission of the crime more enigmatical, almost inexplicable. But it turns out, this heinous crime of her's, to have been „, ~. ~...,. .”. ~ . d", .-*(_._ ... \ ‘ a' , v • - ' .-. ..*-4-.4-. „ - , -" . _, , (...____....-- _...e, i1.,.i-r.:. , ~ ,,, •t(), 'Po r' THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1862. so deliberately planned, and the plan itself to have been so cunningly carried out, thht the recollection of the feet that the perpetrator had all her life pre vioushibeon known as a good sort of an honest, steady, even apparently religious woman, merely serves to enhance the atrocity of the deed of blood now brought home to her with the most damning distinctness. Yet beyond all these considerations enhancing our horror at the guilt of this miserable criminal, beyond the falsification, by that one act, of all her previous lifetime, beyond even, it might almost be said, the infamy of the deed of blood itself, was that appalling incident which marked the last day of this deplorable trial—an incident sufficient of itself to blacken the memory of it in delibly and conspicuously upon the bloody roll of the Causes Celebres. And that incident ? It occurred immedi ately after the Foreman of the Jury had returned (after no more than twenty minutes' consideration) the very emphatic and uncompromis ing verdict—" The jury are unanimously of opinion that the Prisoner is Guilty of both Charges of Murder and Theft, as libelled." During the deli • very of that verdict the Prisoner, JESSIE APLAUCHLAN—then pronounced Guilty of Theft and Murder under circumstances of especial atrocity —though paler, if possible, than previously, re mained tearless and apparently perfectly self-pos sessed. Thereupon, while the Clerk of Court was writing out the formal sentence—Mr. CLA/tK (holding in his hand a t olerably large manuscript) addresses himself to the pre siding Judge, Lord DEAS, requesting permis sion, in the name of the miserable woman at the bar, that a written statement of her's as to the crime might be there and then read in open court before sentence should be pronounced. Per mission is graciously given to have this document read, and it is at once read accordingly. This state ment (a very long one) giving an entirely new story of the whole circumstances connected with this atrocious murder, a narrative of circumstances wholly different from those put forward as a simple relation of the facts in all her pre vious declarations. The drift of this New Confession going directly to throw the whole guilt of the crime upon o'd Mr. FLEMING, a hale and vigorous old man, but very little short indeed of ninety years of age, and a man whose innocence has been, as already intimated, clearly, and fully, and irrefragably established. Upon this point what says Lord DEAS immediately before pro nouncing Sentence of Death upon the murderess ? Addressing himself to the wretched creature, his lordship observes—" Your statement does not con vey to my mind the slightest impression. It con veys to my mind the impression of a tissue of as wicked falsehoods as any to which I ever listened ; and in place of tending to rest any suspicion against the man whom you wished to implicate, I think if anything were awanting to satisfy the public mind of that man's innocence, it would be that most incredible statement which you have now made." Shortly after comes the awful Sentence of Death, during the delivery of which the murderess sheds, we are told, an abundance of half-strangled tears—gasping out now and then, " Well, my lord" —only to stop, however, as if unable to complete the sentence. Before her infamous statement is read, she cries out, " I am as inno cent as my child, which is only three years old !" The little child with which she had slept the night after this appalling murder 1 As she is being removed from the Court she exclaims, in a voice barely audible (echoing one word of the sen tence just pronounced)— "Mercy ! aye, He'll hae mercy, for I'm innocent." One reparation the t i:‘iserable wretch may yet make. For her own sours sake lot us hope she will do—what is superflu ous for the clearing of the reputation of the aged man whom she has accused—exonerating, that is to say, old Mr. FLEMING from any share whatever in her own brutal murder of poor JESSIE MAC- COURT CIRCULAR. REINHARDSBRUNN, SEPT. 18. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at half past four o'clock yesterday. His Royal Highness was at tended by Colonel the Hon. Sir Charles Phipps, Lieuten ant-General Knollys, and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, A.D,C. Earl Russell had an audience of the Queen, and took leave upon his return to England. Ho will be succeeded by Earl Granville, as Minister in attendance upon her Majesty. Earl Granville left London yesterday afternoon ()r Gotha. _ - - - The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin has bQen pleased to confer the civil medal of merit in gold upon Mr. Siegerich Kreeft, his royal highness's consul-general in Great Britain. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset have left town for Maiden Bradley, Wilts. His grace will return to town in a few days to transact business at the Ad miralty. The Duke of Beaufort arrived at Gopsall, the Earl Howe's seat in Leicestershire, from Doncaster, on Saturday last. The noble Duke and Duchess leave Gop sall to-day for Badminton, Gloucestershire, where they will receive a succession of visitors. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland, who has been visiting Lord and Lady Blantyre at Erskine House, has left for Roseneath, the seat of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland will en tertain a large circle of friends at Apthorpe, Northampton shire, during the present week. The Earl and Countess Delawarr have arrived at Oakley Park, Bedfordshire, from Buckhurst Park, Sussex, on a visit to Mr. and Lady Elizabeth Russell. The Earl of Chesterfield has arrived in town, and will leave to-day for his seat in Derbyshire. THE LATE FIRE AT THE LIVERPOOL WORKHOUSE. —The suggestion which we threw out in our last impres sion that the fire originated among the soiled clothes be longing to the children, and which was all but proved to be correct at the adjourned inquest on Wednesday, has since received additional corroboration. On clearing away the rubbish from the floor of the schoolroom, it was disco vered that the portion on which the clothes had be en de posited, and that immediately adjoining it, were the only parts of the floor which had been burnt in any considerable degree:--Lit•erpool Albion. The Moniteur des Soies, a new commercial organ, publishes a statistical table of the price of silk in the Lyons market since 1843. As the prices of all kinds of silk, wherever produced, have followed nearly the same move ments upwards and downwards, the Lyons market may be safely taken as a standard for all. It appears from this table that organzine sila in 1843 was worth 82f per kilo gramme at Lyons; 103 f in 1844, and 108 f in 1845. Owing to political events in 1846-47 it fell to 57f, but rose again to 95f in 1849, and to 100 f in 1850. In 1851 it fell to 86f, but, owing to a bad crop, rose to 108 f in 1853. The war in the East brought it down to 86f in 1855, but in 1856 it ad vanced to 139 f, and to 140 f in the following year. In January, 1858, it declined to 101 f, but after the treaty of Villafranca it again reached 130 f, and 132 f in 1860. The American war bad an unfavourable effect, and the price fell till, at the beginning of the present year, it was 105 f, but has since recovered a little, and is now 115 f. It is very remarkable that all these fluctuations very nearly coincide with those of the Three per Cents., which shows that the demand for silk is greatly dependent on the political secu rity and commercial prosperity of the country; so much so, indeed, that the fluctuation of the Paris Bourse may be regarded as a tolerably accurate indication of the rise and fall in the price of silk. THE TEA TRADE.—The deliveries in London estimated for the week were 880,0101 b,, which is a decrease of 54,1001 b. compared with the previous statement. GLASGOW, - SEPT. 20.—Cotton.—The cotton market has been very dull this week, with little doing at a decline of id. per lb. Goods and yarns.—The market has been very quiet during the week without change in prices. Iron--A large business has been transacted in the pig iron market this week, prices touching 575. 6d. for warrants, prompt sellers; buyers, 575. 41d. ; No. 1 Gartsherrio, 58s. 6d. THE COLLEEN BAWN.—It may be interesting to the public to know that the name of the dramatized " Colleen Bawn" was Ellen Hanly. She was murdered, by drowning, near Foynes, either on the 14th or 15th July, 1819. The chief conspirator of the brutal deed, highly connected in this county and city, was executed at Gallows Green on the 16th Marh, 1820, and Sullivan (dramati cally represented as " Danny Mann," the summer of last year). The body of the " Colleen" drifted into Money Point, and was interred in Burrane churchyard, where Robert W, C. Reeves, Esq., upon whose property the bnrial ground is situated, has erected a tombstone upon which is inscribed the simple epitaph,—" The Colleen Bawn.''--Limerick Chronicle. DE&TEE OP S MITER JOHNNIE'S SON.—Many of our (A yr Express) readers will regret to observe in our obituary this morning the familiar name of the venerable Mr. John Lauchlan, Deacon of the Incorporated Trade of Shoe makers in Ayr, who died on Wednesday in his 86th year. He was the son of Burns' " Souter Johnnie," famed by the marvellous poem of Tam o' Shanter. When a mere lad he enlisted in the first Ayrshire Militia, along with many others belonging to the county, and served in the regiment, a faithful soldier, for a long period of years, and was dis charged at the peace, when he assumed his original trade of a shoemaker, which he carried on success fully, and saved sufficiently to enable him to enjoy, in a moderate degree, the good things of this life till the day of his death. He was, from his youth, a wiry, healthy man, full of energy and activity, which in a measure con tinued with him to the last—for he passed away without pain or suffering, and breathed his last like a child going to sleep. The Deacon was a famed Freemason, and died the oldest member of the Ayr St. Paul's Lodge Like others of his day, he was a jolly boon companion when occasion required, although far from being a habitual drinker. It is related of him that he was one of three who consumer;, at one sitting, no fewer than eight choppins of rum—as mi1,1: 1 _ 1 as would floor as many dozens of Forbes Mackenzie's pale disciples of the present day—yet this large quantity must have done no injury to his constitution, for hence his great age and pain less death. In his official capacity he was much and justly respected by his fellow .craftsmen, over whom he reigned by prescriptive right with a mild sway, having dispensed the business of the Incorporation with an ardent desire for its welfare, and enlivened the meetings with many a joke and story. As one of the most genial and amiable of all our local worthies he died, as he had lived, in the cordial esteem of the entire community, among which he has left not a single enemy. EXTRAORDINARY DESCENT OF A BULL INTO Tut, MAIN DRAINWM—Last evening, between eight and nine o'clock, the neighbourhood of Leather-lane and Back hill was thrown into a state of excitement and alarm by the sudden appearance of a bull at large, and whose exercita tions were of a most amusing, but at the same time of a most formidable nature. After leaving the drove, which was on its way to Smithfield, the infuriated Taurus rushed right and left up the steep declivity of Back-hill, and after baiting at sundry shops on the byway, plunged headfore most into ono of the huge main-drainage shafts at the top of the hill, falling a depth of 42 feet down into the excava tions below, Here he lay bellowing and snorting for full three-quarters of an hour, without apparently having broken any bones, seeing that it was ascertained by the workmen by the aid of lights, that having recovered from his exhaustion the brave beast was again upon his legs. The question then presented itself how to extricate him, and it was determined on, as the only means of delivering Bully from his savory limbo, that he should be killed upon the spot, and then slung up by means of the ropes and buckets used by the men at work tJ bring up the excavated material. Subsequently, and after consulting the owner of the animal, it was determined to try the experiment of extricating the bull alive, and a strong force of Reid's stal wart brewers in the neighbourhood volunteered their assist ance for th© purpose. Bringing their tackle from the brewery, the other sewage men descended with it into the shaft, and having secured it round the neck, legs, and hind quarters of the bull, succeeded in about half an hour or so afterwards, by means of the windlass, a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, in bringing the bovine burden, of some 100 stone weight, safely and amid the cheers of the assembled crowd to the surface, when the animal, marvel lous to say, was found only to have sustained a fracture of one of the fora legs, and was able to wilk a distance of 100 yards down hill to a neighbouring yard in Saffron-hill, where he was housed for the night. The value of the ani mal was estimated at between £3O and £4O, and will make as good butcher's meat as ever. The News, insurance journal, furnishes the sub joined statistics with regard to the winding-up of insurance offices during the last 15 years. Some of the vacancies thus created have been met this year by the creation of large new establishments :—" In 1841, tour insurance com panies ceased to exist ; in 1848, seven ; in 1850, three ; in 1851, none; in 1852, two; in 1853, eight; in 1854, six; in in 1855, ten ; in 1856, sixteen ; in 18.57, thirty-four ; in 1858, twenty-five; in 1859, fifteen; in 1860, six; in 1861, ten ; while during the year 1862, so far as it has gone, eleven have disappeared, or are disappearing." DARING BURGLARY AND ROBBERY OF SILK NEAR NorriNottAm.—On Saturday morning a man named Wm. Spencer was taken before Lord Belper and the county bench of magistrates at Nottingham, charged with being con cerned in a serious robbery of silk. The prisoner up to a short time ago was in the employ of Mr. Fletcher, lace manufacturer, Hyson-green, near Nottingham, and a few days after his discharge Mr. Fletcher's warehouse was broken into, and silk to the value of £6O stolen. The pri souci' having been twice previously cony! ted suspicion fell upon him, and he was apprehended. Os house was searched, and some labels belonging to the prosecutor's silk were found ; hut none of the stolen property teas yet Leen discovered. Thebeacil remanded the prioner until Wed nesday. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA. MISS SARA DOBSON. What are we to say of the young lady, whose first appearance in " Lurline," we had the pleasure of recording the other day, and whose claims were further tested at our national opera last evening in the far more arduous effort of the dream-haunted Amina. We confess to no little difficulty. If the trepidation which marked her debut, and hung like a veil over all her merits, has been sufficiently removed to enable us at least to see and speak of her musical pretensions —how in respect to her dramatic ? Is her ex treme youth, including her obvious unacquaint ance with the stage—which explains her want of adequate emotion, as well as ease and self possession—to be viewed also as a veil that conceals her dramatic power, and which as it is thrown aside is destined to reveal quali ties as commendable as those which denote her vocally. Who shall say ? INe confess we attach but little importance to the recommendation of some of cur contemporaries that she should have re mained longer in the country and thereby acquired a proper mastery of stage expression before she appeared. In the first place there are no schools of operatic training in the country. There is as little provision in our provinces to make a singer as an actor, In the next place there can be no question that if a singer be only endowed with the requisite vocal and dramatic gifts, as well as adequate musical culture, he or she will grow as much under the inspiration of a London audience in two seasons, as in the country, they would in five. London favour has a warmth that is tropical, and does its ripening in a night. We can have no better proof on this point than the career of Mr, Santley, who on his first ap pearance at Covent Garden was certainly as desti tute of dramatic expression as any singer of our time, and who has so rapidly developed into one of its most striking exemplifications. That it is the destiny of Miss Sara Dobson to rival his notable expansion is, of course, impossible for us to say; but we see nothing, at the same time, in the utmost of her deficiencies which for bids us to indulge the hope of it. Whilst we must admit, therefore, that this young lady is wholly unequal at present to a dramatic interpretation of such a character as the Sonnam bula, and more especially in the presence of its realisation on other boards, we can readily admit the claims of much of her vocal qualification, which, if not extraordin iry, are at least sufficiently praise worthy and pleasing to account for the marked satisfaction which she communicated to the audience. Miss Dobson is possessed of a pure soprano voice, very delicate and melodious in quality, which she exerts with a taste and firm ness that testify to the very careful and judicious training she has received—but her voice at the same time has neither the power nor flexibility which would enable her to hold a first position at this theatre. She has neither the vigour nor the brilliancy which prima donnas now require to satisfy the tastes that have been formed on modern standards. She has a tenderness and delicacy which must always please, and when further de veloped—in combination with her youth and en gaging appearance—can scarcely fail to delight, but which at the same time can as little hope either to impress or to electrify. Her execution of the music of Amina may be inferred from these re marks. Its characteristic was great tenderness, which in the music of the sleeping scenes deepened to a point of genuine pathos that rendered her impression very favourable in the finale of each act—however wanting the usual aids of the pathetic fervour which we have so long been accustomed to in the one, or the burst of vigorous brilliancy which mostly concludes the other. Miss Dobson was warmly called for at the close of the first act (the second of the English version), and Just as heartily at the end. The Elvino of the evening was Mr, George Perren, who, unfortunately for Miss Dob son, being a novice like herself, was unable to sus tain her in her arduous endeavour. His charas teristies also, like her's, are tenderness rather than power, and an excellent musical style; whilst his dramatic quality, in like Manner, time, has yet got to decide. His singing had great earnestness and tastefulness throughout ; his delivery of the " Tutto e Sciolto" almost win ning an encore. Strangely enough, however, he omitted with Amine the duet of the "Son geloso," one of the loveliest pieces in the opera, and which is so adapted to their respective sty!es, it could not have failed in a due impression. One of the best features of the night was the Rhodolfo of Mr. Santley, whose superb voice and finished style lifted a character that is little thought of into absolute importance. His delivery of the "Vi ravviso" was a gratification rarely afforded to the bearers of this opera. Miss Thirlwall, we must also notice, as a very superior Lisa, her rendering of her two airs be ing equally distinguished by facility and sweetness Mr. Rouse also was a valuable accession as Alessio, his humour and vivacity, tending greatly to relieve many of the slower portions of the story. To the band and chorus, under Mr. Mellon, only our old praises can apply—nothing could possibly exceed their vigour, lightness, and exactness. The house was very full. MR. KENNEDY'S SCOTTISH ENTER- TAINMENT. A worthy successor of the late Mr. Wilson, the celebrated Scottish vocalist, has at last appeared in the person of Mr. Kennedy. Last night this gentleman made his first appearance in London, at the Queen's Concert Room, Hanover-square, and met with the most enthusiastic success. The programme of his entertainment was most judiciously selected, and well calculated, not only to gratify that part of the audience, " native and to the manner born," but also to delight the ears of the Southerners wits the music of Scotland in all its pleasing varieties. Mr. Kennedy was particularly successful in the well-known dialogue song " Come under my plaidie," and also " Tak yer auld cloak aboot ye ;" but his crowning triumph was " Scots wha hae," which was given in a most telling and exciting manner. The result was a rapturous encore ; in deed, the audience seemed very much inclined to encore everything, but a little consideration, we suppose, for Mr. Kennedy induced them to have mercy on their new entertainer. Mr. Kennedy repeats his entertainment on Mon day next, when he doubtless will meet with another hearty reception. ARRIVAL OF PRINCE ALFRED. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY MORNING. Her Majesty's ship St. George, with Prince Alfred on board, accompanied by the Chanticleer, has arrived at Spithead from Kiel. MISS LOUISA PYNE.—This distinguished vocalist bas been seriously indisposed, having been attacked with gestric fever, but her numerous friends and the general public will be gratified to learn, that she is now approach ing convalescence, and will soon be enabled to resume her professional duties both as manageress and artiste at the Royal English Opera. GROCERS IN THE CIVIC CHAIR. --The grocers were at one period the foremost men of the City of London. During the 367 years that elaps e d f rom 1231 to 1.598, no lees than seventy. three times was the civic chair occupied by members of the Grocers' Company. Since 1757, when ldarsh Dickenson was Lord Mayor, no other has ever at tained that very enviable dignity. Again, in 1379, when a compulsory roll of the trading guilds and fraternities of London was made, the first on the list is the Grocers'. This, too, be it remembered, at a time when the most fre- quent cause of riot and bloodshed in the streets and market places was a jealous pride that stirred up all the principal guilds to contend for the most honourable place at the great public feasts and spectacles, which then, as now, but with far greater consistency of time and circumstances, characterised the barbarous splendour of a Lord Mayor's show.—The Grocer. EXPORT OF COAL FROM GREAT ORIMSBY.—Return of coal exported from the port of Great Grimsby during the month of August, 1862:—T0 France, 3,314 tons; Prussia, 2,487 ; Russia, 1,319; Hansoatic towns, 483 ; Canada, 600; West India Islands 351 ; Norway, 1,153; Spain, 1( 5: , Mecklenburg, 245. Italy, 217, total foreign, 10,254; t o t a l coastwise, 898; grand total, 11,152. :.lorresponclingi alout u of 1861 : —T o t a l for?igla) 1 1 , 45 4; total coastwise ; wa i grand ta4, 12,10 LAT Es r NEWs must be boldly met, and the present is one of them. It is impossible that M. Conforti can continue to form pact of a cabinet from which he is separated by such a divergence of opinion. riIERSON. Another Mechanics' Institute has been opened. This time it is at Stockport. The meeting in cele bration of the inaugural ceremony being presided over, and therefore, as a matter of course, very ably addressed by Lord STANLEY. In regard to Me• chanics' Institutes generally, we can never use the name of them without a somewhat disagree able sense of its being somewhat of ail egregious misnomer. Mechanics' Institutes eley were origi , nally designed to be. But Mechanics' Institutes they never yet have been, to our knowledge ; and are never likely to be, so far as we can imagine. However, setting aside all further consideration of the appropriateness or inappropriateness of the mere name, it would be uugrateful not to recognise the extraordinary benefit conferred upon the community by these kind of institutions, since the date of their original esta blishment. A benefit so obvious and so undeniable, that we are always rejoiced at, the tidings of any new edifice of this description having been opened —more particularly when it happens to be, as in the instance immediately before us, in the midst of a numerous and industrious population. In reference to the alleged failures here and there of Mechanics' Institutions, Lord STANLEY yesterday mentioned, among other reasons for this, the fact that frequently in those instances, " There was at first too much generalisation as to what men ought to wish to learn, and in the midst of the discussion what men did wish to learn was ne glected." Again, the noble lord " considered the attempts to popularise science was a mistake. The attempt was made in a form which gave little trouble to the hearer but served no purpose as a mental discipline. Real students are rare is every class of society. Such you may encourage, but yon cannot create them, and science, in the proper sense of the term, can never be popularized." After descanting, at some length, in eloquent terms, upon the advantage accruing from the establishment of institutions of this kind when properly organised—Lord STANLEY, it is no wonder to note, under the circumstance, availed himself of the opportunity to refer to the allicting distress now prevalent throughout the districts hitherto known as constituting the chief seat of our vast cotton manufactory. He avo wed, however, to the promoters of this institution at Stockport, that "he thought they did quite right to celebrate the opening of their building, even in the midst of the existing suffer ing ;" adding, " he was glad to hear that the direc tors had determined to throw open the classes of the institution, free of charge, to all persons now out of work, who have previously been members of the institution." Far more suitable in every wa y, indeed, have been these sober, unostentatious and intellectual proceedings, which have just taken place at Stockport, in the midst of all the bitter anxieties naturally felt in the north in regard to the spread of the disastrous influences resulting from the Cotton Famine--than that gaudy masquerading saturnalia which recently set all the church bells of Preston ringing, almost to the tune of the Dance of Death. the THEoPELL FORGERIES. The prisoner de clined to plead, awl the Recorder therefore ordered pins of sot guilty to be entered. The trial is fixed for Thursday, and it is stated that the prosecution will be conducted by Attorney-General in person. GARIBALDI. The Wanderer of Vienna publishes the following correspondence between Garibaldi and the United States Minister at Vienna:— "To GENERAL GARIEA.LDI. " Vienna, Sept. 1, 1862. " General,—As you have for the moment failed in ac complishing the great patriotic work which you have un dertaken in the interest of your beloved country, I take the liberty of asking you if it suits you to offer us your valiant arm in the struggle which we are maintaining for the liberty and unity of our great Republic. " The combat we are waging does not interest us alone ; it concerns the whole civilized world. " The delight and enthusiasm with which you would be received in our country, where you have spent a portion of your life, would be immense, and your mission, which would be to lead our brave soldiers to fight for the same principles to which you have nobly devoted your whole life, would be fully conformable to your intentions. " I should be happy, General to have a reply from you. " I have the honour to be, &c., " THEODOR CANISIUS, Consul of the U.S. of America." "To M. THEODOR CANISIUS, CONSUL OF the UNITED STATES AT VIENNA, " Varignano, Sept. 14, 1862. " Sir,—l am a prisoner and dangerously wounded ;it is, consequently, impossible for me to dispose of myself. How ever, as soon as I am restored to liberty, and my wounds healed, I shall take the first favourable opportunity to satisfy my desire to serve the gnat American Republic, of which I am a citizen, and which is now fighting for universal liberty. " I have the honour to remain, &c., " GARIBALDI." FRANCE. The France "learns that there is going to be created at Naples a daily paper sustaining the same policy as the _France. This journal will be pat ronised by several of the most eminent men in Italy, and who are profoundly devoted to the indepen dence of their country." It will be curious to see who these eminent and devoted Italians are who share the views of the France and of its coming col league at Naples. We will hope that the Neapolitan journal, more frank than its Parisian couLterpart, wilt proclaim its candidate for the throne of the kingdom of Southern Italy. If we are to judge from the increase in the num ber of bankruptcies officially declared, French com merce is in a very sickly condition. The official re turns state that the number of bankruptcies in Paris between the 30th of June, 1860, and the 30th of June, 1861, amounted to 1,296, and from the 30th of June, 1861, to the 30th of June, 1862, to 1,730, being an increase of 434 in twelve months. Accounts from the cotton manufacturing districts state that business has not been so dull since the revolution of 1848. There has been a considerable rise in the price of wool since the shearing season. Algerian wool, which was offered some time since at 130 f. the bag, and refused at that price, was sold within the two last days at 146 f. Home-grown wool, which was offered not a long time back at 18 sous the pound, was sold on Saturday at 21 sous. A letter from Aubenas of the 14th instant states that both buyers and sellers observed great caution at the last silk market, in consequence of the great uncertainty which prevails with respect to the future prospects of trade. The price of every description of silk was nevertheless well maintained. Any silk of good quality brought from 60f. to 64f. the kilogramme, and some very fine as high as 66f.. Some inferior samples were sold at from 50f. to 56f. the kilo gramme. There were from 1,200 to 1,500 kilo grammes of silk sold at the one market. - The Patris seems devoting itself to the propaga tion of absurdities. I lately remarked on its insinu ation that Mr. Partridge had gone to Spezzia charged with a secret mission from Lord Palmerston to Garibaldi. Since then the following announce ment has been prominently published in its columns : ,‘ The English surgeon is said to have publicly announced that he had placed in the General's hands £5,000 sterling, not as the produce of a sub acriptinn, but from Lord Palmerston himbeif, as a testimony of the sympathy of the English people with his enterprise against Rome. What next ? The paragraph is signed " Gul laud." When next that gentleman, whoever he may be, affixes his valuable autograph to a similar announcement, he had much better, if he himself believes it to be true, abbreviate his name by the omission of the last three letters. " Several Eng lish," the well-informed M. Gullaud continues,— " Had arrived at Spezia. They seem to obey a watchword (mot d'ordre). The English Consul re sides in that town, our correspondent adds, enjoys all manner of privileges. He has a boat at his orders carrying a pennant (like a ship of war), which enables him to come and go in the Gulf, and before his Jack Union (sic) all barriers fall." The intelligent Spezzia correspondent of thePa trie leaves us in some doubt whether, in this last line, he means the Union Jack or a yacht called the Union. We need not, however, care about details, in presence of the gratifying announcement that Great Britain, worthily represented by the author of " Harry Lorroquer," is playing so important a part in the sunny Gulf of Spezzia. Would it not be prudent for the French Government to send Alex andre Dumas as its representative to that place, in order to counterbalance Mr. Lever's influence, and to report on the suspicious presence in Garibaldi's vicinity of all those English obedient to a Watch word ? M. Dumas, there can be no doubt would, to use a gallicism, carry high the flag of France, and if, at the same time, the Patrie could prevail upon him to replace, their present Spezzia corre spondent, it might have hopes that its letters thence, whatever might be said of their correctness as to facts, would, at least array their fables in a plau sible garb. BOURSE, Sept. 22.—The demand for Rente has been brisk, and prices have again risen. Threes, for the Account, opened above the closing quotation of Saturday, and are now at 69fr. 35c. Railway Shares have also been very animated, and prices have advanced. The market closed as follows: Bank Shares 3210 Credit Foncier 1245 Piedmontesc Fives 71 20 Italian Loan 7l 60 Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes 4B 75 Home Debt It per Cents. 96 70 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 :30 New 3 per Cents Do, end month — Credit Mobilier.... 1010 Do. end month 1010 BAIL' "AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO5B 75 .. 1062 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1177 50 .. 1177 60 Geneva 368 75 .. 371 25 Southern 855 .. 855 Western ........ 560 560 Eastern . ......... .. 550 550 Sardinian 372 50 .. Austrian Lombard 6lO 603 75 ITALY. A Turin letter of the 20th says : "Nothing has yet been decided as to the Court betore which the trial of Garibaldi shall take place; but the Milan Court of Cessation will this day ie ceive instructions from the Ministry of Justice to make the choice. The delay in this matter has been caused by a divergence of opinions between M. Conforti, Minister of Justice, and his colleagues. Niore than a fortnight elapsed before they could come to an understanding. As soon as this point was settled anothe=r difference arose between M. Conforti and the other ministers on the very im portant question of purifying the list of public functionaries. While all the ministers acknowledge the imperious necessity of making many changes in all the b ranc h es of the administration, an d some members of the Cabinet have already entered upon this ungrateful task, M. Conforti alone refuses to displace any of the officials in his department. The late events, however, which have led to the pro clamation of the state of siege in the South, have clearly proved that the constitutional Government cannot have the least reliance on certain judges, and more especially several of the public prosecutors. Such a disagreement on a question on vital impor tance cannot exist long. However averse M. Ra which would lead toy tand may to do anything ministerial crisis, there are certain necesi i t i es which MONTENEGRO. VIENNA, SEPT. 20. There aro so many extraordinary reports in cir culation relative to the state of affairs in Monte negro that I must repeat my former statement, that Prince Nicholas, unconditionally, accepted the ulti matum of Omar Pasha. In his letter, which was a very humble one, the Prince twice declared that he accepted all the conditions, but he expressed a fear that Articles 5 and 6 would sooner or later lead to very unpleasant complications. On Monday last there was a kind of mutiny in the Servian barracks at Bel grade. The soldiers complained that they were tired of doing nothing, and declared they would return to their homes if they were not at once led against the Turks. The end of the matter was that about 200 of the most riotous of the men were sent away from Belgrade. The Turks residing at Uschitza have retired into the fort which commands that place. A friend, who is now at Semlin, informs me that the animosity of the Servians to Mr. Long worth " and to everything English" is exceedingly great. A few days ago two Turkish steamers put 1,000 regulars on shore at Antivari, where the ar rival of 9,000 Bashi-Bazouks is expected. Omar Pasha has left Scutari for Constantinople, and it is believed that he will receive instruction to treat Servia as he has treated Montenegro. The English Minister at Athens has presented a note to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in which it is said that her Majesty's Government has posi tive proof that the Greek Government plays into the hands of the revolutionists in European Turkey. GENFBAL PALLAVICINPS REPORT ON THE CAPIURE OF GARIBALDI. The following is a letter from Dr. Ripari to the editor of the Diritto, in reference to some particu lars in the report of General Pallavicini:— Sir,--lt was not in puerile boasting that I ob served to you, in the letter I lately wrote to von, that I was at the side of General Garibaldi r few seconds after he received his wounds, but because I foresaw then that my testimony might have some weight; singularly so since the official and private reports of Major-General Pallavicini, Not accustomed to speak through the press, and having nothing to fear or to hope, I trust that ray words may obtain that belief which should never be denied to an honest old man, The left column of Major-General Pallavicini did not take the position with the bayonet, but was kept back by the treating fire of Generals Corrao and of Menotti. I saw this with my own eyes, be ing sent, owing to the lack of staff-officers, all gone out with orders (the first order was that all should remain at their posts, seated or standing, as they happened to be), to observe the movements of the regular troops, and report them. The General was wounded at the third discharge, and by balls which were whistling from our left to our right, and it was he who fixed on the place where he wished to be laid down, in front of the assailants, among the last trees at the edge of the forest. He was wounded without previous intima tion, while he was walking on foot along the centre of his men, calling out with his sonorous voice, "Do not fire ; " and all the trumpets of the left and centre repeated the same command. The fire, which lasted perhaps a quarter of an hour, having ceased, a lieutenant of the regular staff presented himself to the General, dr4claring he was sent to parley. He was followed by a company of riflemen, who took their position on the esplanade at thirty paces from the General. The General ordered that he should be disarmed, and on his pro testing that a man sent to parley is held sacred, the General replied forcibly--" For thirty vears I have made war, and I know its customs better than you; it is not thus men come to parley." A little while after, however, his sword was restored to him. The same happened afterwards to Major Giulitti, of the sth Rifles, who took his position with another com pany to the right between the General and our centre, stationed in the front. Now, how was it that they allowed themselves to be disarmed, surrounded as they were by their own forces P Because they would have been all destroyed by the balls from our men, who were covered by the close and thick trees of the forest ; because Garibaldi was determined to spare blood, and lamented, not his own (which was flowing while he shouted, "Viva Italia, viva Italia") but that which there was too much reason to expect might be shed. " Surrender without conditions was agreed on," says Major-General Pallavicini in his private report. It was thus—that, except the arms, each was al lowed to carry with him what was his. The ambu lance chests were opened, the instruments for amputation, linen, papers, all were carried away. To be honourable and truthful I must say that Major-General Pallavicini gave stringent orders that property was to be respected, and the officers used all their endeavours that these orders should be obeyed. Money was not to be found," continues Pailavi cini, "in spite of all the researches made. But in dividually they were provided. I heard afterwards that in the house where General Garibaldi had passed the night a remarkable distribution of money took place during the night to all those who accom panied him, to the number of about 150." Among the 150, more or less, I certainly was one. I did not know, nor do I know, of any distribution of money. The General, Menotti, Basso, 'Bedeschini are here without a farthing. I have still something short of 100 francs, the remains of 500 which I drew at Palermo from the banker Florio, by means of a letter of credit from the banker Bolmida Of Turin, and it is my own money. It is the same with Professor Albanese and Dr. Basili, who have some hundreds of francs remaining of those which they brought from their own houses. The paymaster- general had only 3,000 francs in his chest on the 28th of August. None of our number, who were always at the side of the wounded General, heard him pronounce, either at Soffit% or elsewhere, "Do you no longer know your general ?" And indeed for what oh,sect should he have said this ? Could it be to -awaken compassion ? But there was more than compassion, there was eloquence in the grave silence of the populations. Could any individv.al suppose that. the General had the idea of calling on the people to make an uproar? The observation that " no shout ing followed this question"• would really make one suppose they did believe that. Such a supposition does very little honour to the reason and common sense of those who allow it to be perceived that they could believe it. I testify that the words, "Do you no l o nger know your genera] ?" never came from the m outh of General Garibaldi.—l am, &c., DR. PIETRO RIPARI. DEMOLITION OF HOUSES IN THE STRAND.--,A large number of houses both east and west of what was for merly ilungerford-street, but which is now only a heap ° f ruins, are being taken down for the purposes of the ap proach to the new Charing-cross railway station. Som e of these houses have only recently been rebuilt at gre av expense. .... THE PRICE OF BREAD.--rAllOther reduction is the price of the 41b. loaf has almost generally taken P lace ' Remarkable as the Surrey side of the Thames is for cam' petition amongst the bakers a pretty unanimous feeling exists to sell most excellent bread as low as 6d. the 41b ' loaf. As usual, the "high price" branch of the trade ha le fixed their figure at 7d. THE EASTERN F ISHERIES.—The herring is now in active prosecution, and far deliveries have been made at Great Yarmouth, at which port vessels hav e 8 1 7 rived with catches ranging from one to eight lasts ea ° — The quality of the fish taken is considered, however, to be 4 scarcely so good. Prices have fluctuated from £8 to $ 2 l . per last, although some few samples have realised higher rates. At Lowestoft also a considerable quantity of her rings have been landed from the North Sea, but some °lit plaints are made with respect to their quality. n THE NEW ARCHDEACON OF WILTS.—O n lero day afternoon last the Venerable Henry Drury, c. fir M.A., vicar of Bromhill-cum-Foxham, and iiighwaY , f Caine, iu the county of Wilts, and chaplain of the liouse, Commons, read himself in at Salisbury Cathedral as are .o fishery deacon of the Arcaeaconry of Wilts. FOUSDERING OF A SHIP.—CADIZ, Sept• 18 ' o The Carlotta, from Liverpool for Havana, sunk at sea 4 .4 e Bth September: Crew saved IT the Storm Nymph' th fa( be Stl 301 rai gat Ind 3p 3p 1 , 4 Inc