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

X IYR. CIVIL-LAW TORTURE, OF CARIB PETER—NO PAY, As Oat-cast:-.prince-consort I. race, of Civic-i-coin. Be not afraid — M en dLshn's-Elijchah'd—fiefty C2'l' Romish-b.arp'ys are acting without my fiscal-leave, altho their will-6th deputy by 31 G m.c 32, §7. '9l act (1820-25, by Castlereagh's Calvin-Protußrant to FESCH'S rr` double (Alice of Archchiefbishop of Lyons and Cardinal of Cana da—as Labrador '49 act successor to 14 Clement's Jesuit outing, to 93's NAP. temporal holy see,)'ng—in Quebec's Virginian 1764-5-76 Admiralty High Court of delegates thro' Yelloivstamp, King's-post master Benj. Franklin's Crown veto grants, on J. Adams '99yr. V.P idea to North, on Prince-Consort to Ladle ' s Pocahontas & .Mary March', in Crown Probate-surrogate Ackerley—over montagu Dalhousie's Commune'ty Affranchie to red Scarf - cha mber o f Deputies, as of ' Great B r itain,' 33 G. I li., c 44, §l, the free E'Britannos Superior' of Vespasian's Epotland Mo ravia (not lb. slaves to Church of Rome) by Bristol's Super alt°mare' offspring-sea above—' Poland's Liberum veto,' so Christ'ian thieves, on 1787 Jus. civil law code, lib. 1., tit. 1., §4, overlay U.S. '76, for Ex-ibi-shn Pexposition', have no Utrecht Rio 3ty slave-plot rights, in America. BALLOON ASCENT S without cc LE NOR MAND'S" 1783 PARACIIIIrE DROP, AID. MEMO.—The ' Cruelty to Animals Act' gives civic cause for magisterial stoppage of these R. c. Coal rs frafoolry with out the 10-negative wisdom shown for collapse retreat, at the over-3-mile Zone-electric 7-- - - -- -- - 22-positive efflux, to gas lb. as seen--above Wolverhampton's poor w ithin the balloon , ' Union mill' of the Dudley Somerio Swinford-Exchange— at which bargmete point of 26in. Foulatrdrop, a VA-tribute out-brace _Parachute ought to have been Egypt-a-sem, on 17 July, for Accident & Offences bill,—on Suez 300 my Ely- Padifehah - Gth Aug., 1828, Belgrade Dardanell p-ship. star". 12 4 8-=-16= - -- - -26== 32-o :: 36 in. Yard. Mr. Q Coxwell's omission to take up, car-affixed, the pure oxygenic was taper flame (obtained in Piccadilly), used in its vehicle ' the lamp of life,' for nasal vacu 9 -shield-bone inhalation —by all Aeronauts, against 151 b sqr -inch atmos pheric Cough pressure on the lungs, accounts for Blue-lip'd- Glaisher e) suffering a 5-sqr.in, tho' descent-saved by hydro gen Voltaic-gas circumvent, reminding him of Shenstone's occult Tulchan'straw-calf'—couplet (on Nun Qu'endrida of Tip'ton), for bringing down the Mayn ° dth milkuser : C's f " For in Clent, as martyr'd, " under a thorn 1 O Q I I Lieth, King Ken elm with head off-shorn.' J 1 as the defunct ancestors of Emp. Conrad G.-daughter Agatha, Malcolm ni & wife Margaret's 9 * offspring, now in Spanish Escurial of Philip ii. (whose daddy, II CAR. v., was Gaunt-constable of England), as Saxon kin of Edward herein ambush'd —‘ Salve Lucein, TITUS a at Pompeii yr. 79, set' on barometer 2in. ---11 b. vacceff I coincidence for Double-reason y> —4-8-16-32 by Geometric progres nion, to Treble and Quadruple reason'ng. The quicksilver drop 16 tn.—show aloft, with di-luced Net expansion of fialAwn' evidenced the absence of Nitro-moist fog within the motive power, and influx of the dry elec tricity, by the drowning-like effects on the system—the pit a-pat pulse of a Tucked-up M heart o'er its key-diaphragm, soun ded the Thumb - inch tic-dirge music of the spheres,' whilst Wiry hair and ruffled paper gave a voltaic battery Monochord on entering ' Paradise where the first pair meet' at 15in. deg., of Crystaliee'a shewn blood—on Airey's false latitude 31 barometer scale & Multiple : : sector a school, to hall of science' idea—to out Stephen's Parl'ment Mon tague House shift of the Port Gaspe-basin ' marine league' by cannon shot 3-mile off-shore limit of 1794 3ty' for river Ligne tiree of Indian Peter, with Surveyor LOGAN'S fishery (Lain-'-meter level, of 1818 Act, § 9, on '42-62. So Windsor-(Bowl -waft Z °' erh ead Olcot Cole), region of Nvelly-Wulfra Nampton of EDGAR'S sister—Jahn-Ell-seat to balloon Phaat on' d collapse, bull'srun (belly-paunch-like), on Lang-han>/et of Oakhani-ft,—on Union deputy-papal Pal merston's '9l Tulchan-loge vise, by xWrottesley's G?rOthy Dudley-Wardship of Bassett-wilton*Stamford. This go [bye 'civil education code Comign 1826.31, &a gas motu Game law], on Holy Alliance out'ng, tby Sir C. Stuart, Admiral Hamond, & Hill Sandys' decree, for Ac kerley, 29th Aug., 1825.26 Jan.—shows the 9 - La belle re aeriform-within, in cases of Low fire. damp on Vaccug rarefi cation of the breath, for purification of the blood against po lice 1829 Blue-carbon discolour of hands, ' at 31 mi l e Wing life-absence aloft—sets a '32 Coorg-TIBET sack-rent on f u ture Pendul'umbrella'd Miltonic bottonaies spit variation dipfPo9 opposed to Virgil's 9th discord on Comet's 4 pts.- " Facilis de/cendsus 'Xverni"— i. a .7B f n n l in wi or t ) h o eli n n spiral line (to Mundane-2-oval of H. B's will-sl?aasme(guKer nington-nutts to 1791 Sphinx-Erc. So , Tudo_ li R u ff B . ;:gy Sre i n a t a t i of S'anker star's white-Alba- pait the Exeter* Ursa stellar G'Qfegeg s ' us . uration night poach N bill fl August 15, to trans fi T g n t Nday, as the Rotherham-ivill, 1490, O.S. rider-ft.erant P.M. maeas Conception Fest 9 realist drama, 'He rideth round the heavens as upon a horse.'—Ha.Over's A 0=- a> 4, sl ja SOVIS NUTRIX." [lndia c-Atityns- Montague C. ACXERLEY , Exec, • • * NI 54 , Ch 1-2 ay. iv., Na amberlayne' 3ie-sworn. ct • • PETER BASQUET, Income-tax chief (1842 unpaid§ of • China Rug wall circuit horizon of—. London, Aug. 27. • 1862) its Montezuma-inch Admiralty red flag, not in Zzßrant's power to give up IMP. 1793-China, to lercy, sa & GREY-cause of Capt'n's zI-yr support, th 6 tQn's. a ministers use his brains, & mogul mock him to death iY3 . " as ' Padrone su l'onde,' for Bahar's Dewanney, for holding to 1820-25-37's Carib-protectorship oath on its £9O-yr retaining fee for his duty expenditure of £1,600 for Indian of America, which the Treasury refuse to pay or reply to their unrelieved Double-portion sentinel's acting order—under the Polar map-inch Act of 1818 §9, for a Soil title (to Ackerley's R.N. "A voice• on AB-juration act 1791 § 7) —for Romish catholio corpo?rates of Labrador, Baltimore maryland & Brazil, on Calvin Luther church pay—for their idea colonial Crown veto for MPP. acts, if Tacit home shown at 6 months for Law—unknown till Peter's arrival in. 1851, as *Pont,li Landlord recognised by Earl Grey's November letter that Indian justice should be done,'—by his election as Le Congru'ss 'fit' Constable of England t on report of the theft of Tower stores 'J. King' issued to him in '42 for Ashburtou Ind. survey of the New Found-land of Virginia, by the 'Earl of Derby' and Blackwood, sectry.-holding the Ind. Yellow Gold-edged 1764-5 3ty Nepal-grants, at Frede. • rickton, N. Brunswick. (Signed) Benj. Franklin, Rich mond .delegate—on 'l7BB inseparable (.1 jamazs' by 1794's Deputy Jefferson's U.S.c. 1, §3-1819-26 Resume—not for the now Hudson Bay Co.'s Guerilla brigands. Whence 'the doubtful subscribed public fund for' the Prince Consort Memorial of 1851 recognition, as above— THE definite article of this adjective sentence under the King of Prussia's signature at Windsor Castle, with Albert and Wife of Church-tack, on Sir Wm. Logan's survey of Canada—shows Sir C. Eastlake, I.IY 1842 VICTORIA-mould coin Consort-tie to Soil right, has no reference to 'bill acts Victoria.' proclaiming without Kelly's City nomen to P.C. for double Jesu-it-able Kirk-head Gresham-x, by Stone statue cause for Standard bearer Ackerley's oath Jan. 30, 1837.—50 no Figure date on illegal Florin. t As Trinidad's Ceylon 10 deg. is to As-[aigon'd Manilla —So is Bengal's <> broad .1. arrow=to Cuba's Belltower, by 1764-5 Quadruple Sty-sign grants of America, till Spanish cutting logwood convention of 1782, for Brant's deputy- Percy assumption on Peter's grandfather, John Nwlwarr removal to Spanish Esqu'Real for their snantlerelicto Cum berland Fort, Nova Scotia, Indian Chief over the Con stable's horse, removed to their Hali-concian stable by George m tacit Rex admission for Clarence Belzse lAfric. To M— Jefferies, & Bailiffs of Tame-(worth, Stour-Trent Anker ,J, river DEE fishery on Poor-law 0. S. audits, March 25, Rate in aid on 43-Eliz.) in Wye part of Guy's Hospital by 21 July, 1521-2 11 CARL. V. & H. 8, of Southark ' bar' for Clapham's Conjugate reciprocity 3ty, to Yellow Tiber' Zoll verein trustee*ship, yr 42—on the 4 great nations of Gaul's Lion 'pont del' Arcubatistar'y—Jetsam-statu'e of 4-Geo. 4 Ch. 74—on Barometer oz-libralis lb. Air-Q-pressure. Ye I will ask the UNION for Loan to Indian and Self? Was I in receipt of my father's life-hold name estate—its rental being withheld by Attorney Cole's freehold voting on my brother Chamberlayne by 1-2 Will. IV., No. 54, (not Ackerley), whence the double forge of " Charles and C. Henry," in Master of Roll's foist-decree, 15th March, '62, touching the ‘L'Bourton ON the Water Act, by Cole'r as canal Ells-mere agent of Saugh-&-washall, of Dean and Chapter of Chester's Crt. of a airfax delegates, Nov., 1807- 9, on-Yoßx—Excommunication of name—as palatin-man. "'Like nawksey'-ow?, in desert lone Hugh Loop'd am I, Lo I now, as one." N.B.—March Ghent 3ty 1815, with U.S. except rrance. At Genappe bridge 10.58 p.m., June 17, 1815, Wellington signed the O'hain carte blanche for Jesuit restoration motu of Pii 7th, May 12, 1814 (as Pub. by Gonsalvi's Regl6 219, 6th July 'l6)—on Blucher's 42,000 aid, for 18th June— M. Thiers knows the Waterloo 'Game' Bill of '3l and '62 fact-villany—on 30 deg. for Is-Suez aiderial trust. (See Sun April 19, 28, May 16, & July 19.) CRYSTAL PALACE.—Open from NINE TILL DARK.-ONE SHILLING. C RY STAL PALACE.-UNUSUAL ATTRAC BLONDTW TO-MORROW.—POULTRY SHOW and POULTRY Positivel y Closin,, SHOW.-ONE MORE DAY, TO-MORROW. B LONDIN'S PERFORMANCE on the HIGH RorE OVR /"C' E UNT AINS will include all his most Extraordinary Feats. e v see first page. *** For full,particularsOiTZ usen nts ROYAL ENGLISH OPER4, _o This Evening, DINORAH. ENT-GARDEN, Commence at 8. THEATRE -ROYAL, DRl:lky.i, This Evening, A KISS IN THE co:lud with the first part of the Arab Entertainine24 . at h after wh'eh, lie followed by THE COLLEEN BA IN Z 4 past 7 which 'till; ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni- Zoug-zong . Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening FISH OUT OF WATER. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS CA.LIA. And THE CHRISTENING. . _ Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE••ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening-, THE PRETTY HORSEBREAICER4 Followed by ADRIENNE LE COUVREUR. Mid Tab ki LULLING DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening,, THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, at a Quarter to 8, KING HENRY VIII. With THE TWO POLTS. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Eveninv„ PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR NEY. Conclude with THE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Evening-, DIAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Concluding with a Comic Bailet. Commence at 7. S k CRE D HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.— " The Messiah" will be amain performed on FRIDAY Evening next, at 8 o'clock. MR. and MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS " AT ' at Her M a j es t y ' s Concert Room, Haymarket, This Xvening • Commence at 8. • S. WooDIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic Hall, Kinz William-street, Charing-cross. Commence at 8. - - ARGYLL market. Open every It°°34 St ---- Great Windmill-street, Hay evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL —EVERY EVE.— Steckel, the great Trapeze performe r —Grand Selections from " Don Sebastien " and " Trovato and Daley, the great cornic trio, Stere. " Unswortb, Eugene, —. Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, e, OX FORD -STREET. EVERY EVENlNG.—Verdi's " 1 - 1 Corsaro," with lull band and chorns.--The comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes — Steckel on the Flying Trapeze—The Ethiopian oddities of Rummy, Newcomb, dx. Commence at 7. " F U I'l' " AVitrisTlY Y WEEK. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 312. 4m.—Afternoon, 3h. 21m To-xonnow.-Morning, 3h. 39m.—Afternoon, 3h. 56m THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1882, From Melito GARIBALDI has already advanced his insurrectionary movement to Mileto. Nearly the whole of Calabria Ultra is already in the power of the Hero's red-shirted Volunteers. It is there, in the toe of the Italian Boot, that it pinches ! About eight important towns in that one province alone are even now in the hands of the Garibaldians— Melito and Mileto as aforesaid, and with these also Bora, Oppida, Nicotera, Palmi, Gerace, and Carig n ano. The Royalist authorities,after putting so bold a face upon the matter, find that the revolutionary rising of which the signal was but so very recently given in Sicily by GARIBALDI, is not so really con temptible after all, is decidedly not so easily Fut an end to, as was predicted. Far and wide throughout the peninsula the population are astir in sympathy more or less openly avowed with the outlawed Hero. In Southern Italy, especially, the flame, kindled first of all in Sicily—having overleaped the sea-channel of Messina, borne onwards by the wind that blew GABIBALDI himself from Catania to Melito--is spreading northwards from town to town, until it becomes already evident that General DELLA M A BMORA will find his work cut out for him in terrible earnest ! Strange work for him truly, and for many of his associates, both civil and mili tary—this work of a reactionary movement as like as possible to a Counter Revolution. It is, of course, within the general recollection how the RATTAIII organs at Turin have all along been asserting that the cause of the Govern- ment has everywhere triumphed in spite of the utmost efforts of the Garibaldians—but more par ticularly in Sicily. Than the successes achieved in the King's name throughout Sicily, the world was veraciously informed, nothing could by possibility be in any way more entirely satisfactory. Mes sina and Palermo were loyal to the core, and in proof of this were described by the Turin jour nalists as in the most exemplary state of tranquillity. Not only this but Caltanisetta itself, so long the head-quarters of the Arch- Traitor, was no sooner evacuated by him and his followers; the latter were no sooner replaced by the royal troops than that 'same rendezvous of rebel lion, Caltanisetta, proved to have been peopled all the while by the foes of General GARIBALDI and the friends of King VICTOR EMMANUEL ! In this way the ministerial accounts of the situation of affairs in Sicily coming to us via Turin, have been coloured too deeply with the tinge of the couleur de rose. The probable result being that the tint will turn out to be rather that of the couleur de sang thus verifying, by a sort of anti-climax, the hue imparted by Ministers and their partisans to these official sketches of " the situation." It looks so very much like a complete restoration of tranquillity among the Sicilians—the policy now adopted towards them and their compatriots in the neighbouring parts of the peninsula by the RATTAZZI Government ! All Sicily, and since then the whole Neapolitan Provinces as well—being placed in a State of Siege ! Not only has General CIALDINI been entrusted with the powers of a Dictator, in his capacity as the KING'S Extraordinary Commissioner in Sicily —but the like has been done in regard to the Nea politan Provinces, by the appointment of General DELLA MARMORA there also as his MAJESTY'S Commissioner Extraordinary. Catania, it is true, has no sooner been quitted by General GARIBALDI, in his daring advance across the Straits of Messina into Calabria, than Catania also like Caltanisetta, has been seized by the soldiers of VICTOR EMMANUEL. As many as eight hundred Garibaldians being taken prisoners upon the en trance of the Royal troops. As we don't hear of any bloodshed at Catania upon the occasion of its capture by the army of the SOVEREIGN, we may suppose the barricades recently thrown up in its streets to have been raised there simply as a blind ! Possibly a blind simply to cover the advance—not the flight, but the advance—of GARIBALDI himself into Calabria. However, this may have been, and although Catania seems to have been entered by the Royal troops without any difficulty whatever— GARIBALDI having in the meantime got fairly off to Melito—we can understand how merely partial is the success of its seizure deemed to be by the captors, upon noting what was really the first act that celebrated their entrance into Catania. The Minister PERSANI, who arrived there with the soldiery, immediately ordering the arrest of the com manders of thetwo frigates then lying off theport of Catania! Indignant, of course, at having, through their remissness, if not through their complicity, seized upon the cage only after the bird had flown ! Catania was in the hands of the royal troops, but GARIBALDI was away ! like a royal eagle upon its new eyrie at Miletu, in that fresh outburst of the political hurricane, of which MAZZINI is, as usual, but the Stormy Petrel, flitting across the darken ing scene (the veriest bird of ill omen), merely to disappear into safety while the tempest is at its height. GARIBALDI'S flight from Catania to Cala bria i s no doubt designed by him rather to emulate a flight like that of the imperial eagle of NAPOLEON THE GREAT in 1815, when—swooping across the Mediterranean from Elba to the Gulf of San Juan —it flew onwards from steeple to steeple until it alighted upon the Towers of Notre Dame ! The tßhAel.l3inow aspires to reach being of Castle of S an A nge l o. Wh at pro bability he has of reaching i t We all know. Upon his return from Elba NAPOLEON the FIRST had but to frighten away by the mere terrora:feffhi6ste" race, of com ing," the timorous court retinuee headed by a faineant BOURBON, li ke King LOUIS XVIII! Whereas upon the declaration by GARIBALDI that he is advancing through Calabria to the cry of " Rome or Death," the present occu. _ pants of the Eternal City evidence a determination to do anything rather than take their departure from it for the purpose of re -embarking for France at Civita Vecchia. That this could alone be the effect produced by the untimely enterprise entered upon by GARIBALDI in spite of every remonstrance —everybody but GARIBALDI recognised from the first moment. So poignantly has the Emperor of the FRENCH been (piqued by GARIBALDI'S insen sate movement) into a dogged determination, coute qui coute, to retain possession of Rome, that it now appears that the recent official note in the Xoniteur, - -- . ,•., . , erp : ,.. ~ i ke . , -„, , s ~ 474, I . _ '''•v : Vie s Vt . ( , , s ' ,_ -:°, , ..., . A k, , : . ," 47 .....,.. , -- ) 1 . ,- ' r O:ri-t. . ai g -4 :0 1 h '''' , • \I, • , , ......, . THE SUN, LO WWII announcing that to be NAPOLEON'S determination, was transmitted, not as usual through th© office of the Minister of the Interior, but directly from the Camp at Chalons, from the hands the EMPEROR himself ! Marshal M'MAHON and Marshal RAND ON being detained there at the Camp longer than had been originally intended,in order that they,mighteon- suit with his MAJESTY as to the military measures most advisable under the circumstances. Nay, more, than that, two directeurs from the Ministry of War being summoned hastily from Paris to assist with the EMPEROR and his two Marshals in the labours of this little improvised Council of War in the Camp at Chalons. The Mediterranean Fleet of France, awaiting just now at Toulon any sudden orders that may be transmitted thither by the Im perial Government ! And active preparations being made the while for the conveyance of any number of additional troops that may be required in Central Italy across to Civita Vecchia. During the time all which is occurring within the French frontiers—Austria is said to be meditat ing the calling out of 40,000 additional soldiers ! Her army, at present garrisoning the Quadrilateral and Venetia, numbering even new from 100,000 to 200,000 men ! As to the anti-Garibaldian proceedings of the Italian Government—those have already been in timated to have become at last both resolute and comprehensive. The KING'S two Commigsioners Extraordinary for the "Two Sicilies"—ClALDlNl for Sicily itself, and DELLA MARIMBA for the Neapolitan terri tory have met at Naples, and have there concerted their plans. The island of Sicily itself, besides being in a state of siege, is formally announced to ,be Blockaded ! The London 'gazette of last even ing (as our own columns yesterday intimated in our Third Edition) formally announcing the receipt by Earl RUSSELL on the 23d instant of the official notification of the Blockade. A cir cumstance of itself sufficient to account for the noble lord's hasty return to Richmond from his holiday excursion in Ireland. And now Naples itself, and the whole of the Neapolitan Provinces, are proclaimed to be in a State of Siege, as well as the whole of Sicily. How the Civil War will go, exclusively as a Civil War—that is, before the French soldiers can have anything whatever to do with it—even that it is bewildering to conjecture. An anti-Garibaldian course, it is true, is now being pursued by the Italian Government with appa rently the utmost determination. But—the Gari baldian movement is, apparently, at the same time gaining strength and confidence also ! Later news than we gave yesterday from Aderno, in Sicily, shows that, besides' the seventeen officers who had then given in their resignations, others had rapidly followed their example : so that, altogether, in that one isolated locality as many as forty •six of the KING'S officers had thrown up their commissions, rather than fight against their beloved and idolized Hero—the Patriot-Chief GARIBALDI ! How far the rest of the Royal army can be relied upon by the Government remains, of course, to be seen. One Hope yet remains, even at this most critical juncture, one last hope that the threatened struggle of Italian against Italian may be prevented. And that One Hope is in GARIBALDI'S patriotic magnanimity. His patriotism every one knows to be honest. His magnanimity has become long rinse a proverb even amongst his foes. Let him recognise, even at this eleventh hour, that Italy may in any way benefit by an act of Self-Sacrifice on his part, and—how ever extreme that act may need to be—GAItI BALDI the Dauntless has greatness of soul enough at once to make that Sacrifice, and to make it with out an instant's hesitation and without a sigh. The subject of compensation for railway injuries is one which interests a large number of persons as shareholders, a great number as actual sufferers, and the whole public as possible sufferers. It has naturally figured in the reports of various com panies during the last week or two, and, as might be expected, with hostile comments on the part of directors, on both the law as it stands, and on its administration, by juries especially. The audiences have always been those whose dividends suffer by the compensations awarded, and must therefore be expected to sympathise with the language of their boards. The law has been voted harsh in principle and juries vindictive in their verdicts. _ _ But as judges wholly impartial between our shareholding and our simply travel ling readers, let us state our view of the case. We have at times been disposed to think the law rather hard on the companies, but further reflection has compelled us to question whether in the long run they are losers by it. On one point all are agreed—that if a company, like any private individual, causes loss or damage to another by culpable carelessness, not to say wilful neglect, it ought to be responsible for that loss or damage. All Englishmen will also agree that they should like that damage to be assessed by a jury of their countrymen. They know that juries may err, and may give even preposterous damages in cases of all kinds, but they also know that if they go far astray, a new trial can always be obtained, and neither the companies nor the public would listen for a moment to any other final appeal on a ques tion of damages than the verdict of a jury. We may pass by, therefore, the law of compensation to the surviving sufferers and the vindictiveness of juries as irrelevant. No one objects to the principle of the law—no one justifies vindictiveness. But, it is contended, damage to life and person ought to be compensated on some fixed scale. One man's life is as valuable as another. Why should the company pay more for a killed bishop than for a killed pauper ? —at least, why should not the compensation be in proportion to the fares paid ? If a hundred pounds is enough for the life of a man who pays a penny a mile for travelling, why should not two hundred pounds be enough for the man who has paid twopence a mile ? Why should a company be allowed to get off for, we will suppose, gross negligence, by which a score of artisans are killed, with a total which would fall far short of what they must pay for one man who earned a thousand a year ? and we will suppose, too, in the latter case, that the culpability or the negligence was barely proved. Is this English and equal justice ? Does it not bear hard on the company in the latter case, and does it not look like invidi ous distinctions between classes ? At first sight it may seem unfair. Bat let us see—are we prepared to controvert the principle of the injurer indemnifying the injured in pro portion to tha injury sustained? If not, and we presume,that Englishmen would agree on this point, for the denial of this principle would strike at the root of all compensation public and private—what test of injury, capable of being measured by a pecu niary standard, can be found, but that of the proved pecuniary loss. The artizan's surviving family are injured to the extent of his earnings for the term o f years he might be expected to live ; the Bishop's family to the extent of his episcopal revenue, and so of the professional man, and of all persons - whose incomes come under the fear ful sbedule D. We cannot imagine any other tes t which a cou r t can make use off. As we have said, the test m a y b e perverse l y applied, So it may in innumerable other eases, but against its soundness in principle, and that is all we argue for, we are at a lon to imagine an objec- tion. But does the law, in the ;long run, for that is the point, work injuriously to the companies, as a meeting smarting under the diminution of its divi dends in a particular case is apt to imagine. Do not the companies find their compensation in the Lncreased caution of their servants, the conse- quently increased security of their line, and in the larger traffic brought by security. Shareholders, boards, and even the salaried managers, will ac knowledge, that fear of the pecuniary pen alties of an accident are a very effective stimulus to caution. There would on the part of subordinates be a much greater liability to neglect, and to running risks, did they not know that their 1 masters suffered severely by them. The publicity too of the pecuniary suffering is something. The cost of the smash of "rolling stock," &c., would be comparatively unknown. The fear of being mulcted in thousands of pounds before the eyes of both the shareholders and the public, is, it must be acknowledged, a very potent motive to caution. We all know how habit overcomes the sense of danger; and railway servants, like workmen on scaffolds, and sailors, and miners easily become too familiar with risk for their own safety, as well as the safety of others. It may seem singular, but we believe facts bear out the observation, that hun dreds of men employed in dangerous occupations will often think more of risking the loss of their situation, if they live, than of their life itself. What might get them turned out of place, with loss of character, is more operative on the imagination than the hazard of life; and every railway servant, of every grade, knows that if he were thought to be the cause of a costly accident, his subsequent chances of employment would be small. But how do these heavy compensations affect the profits of railways ? We do not, of course, ask about the last dividends, but the general and per manent profits. If what we have said respecting the far greater caution and circumspection due to them be correct—and we think even shareholders will assent to it—then there will be a considerable direct saving in their tendency to keep the line in safe working order, and the prevention of more fre quent heavy damage to the company's stock and plant. Then, again, there is a very large amount of traffic due entirely to the security, as well as the ease and convenience, of railway travel ing. As things are, there can be no question that for chances of safety, no other means of locomotion can be compared with the railway. The old coach accidents were, proportionately to the number of passengers, far more numerous, besides their at tracting so much less attention than a railway " crash." But, let this element of attraction vanish, and fearful, indeed, would be the effect on traffic. The immense host of passengers who take a trip to see friends, or for pleasure, would dwindle to a much smaller number, travel ling by rail would tend to limit itself to cases of business or necessity ; at least all the nervous and timid would stay at home, or go inside some horse drawn vehicle, and for shorter distances. Perhaps many would hardly be disposed to accept the actuary's view of the case, yet it is a true one. If sacrifice of life and njury to the person were common on railways—at common say as fires, or as death prior to our three score and ten—insurance to protect against such accidents would become the rule rather than as now i the exception. Even now we commend the wisdoni of thoSe who resort to the insurance company established to meet such cases, and have known many instances in which its aid has been found very welcome. But the rate of insurance would rise in proportion to the risk of accident ; while the servants of the company would have less stimulus to extreme and unrelaxing caution. Both together would work for the diminution of railway travelling. While, if safety, or compensation, were not virtually guaranteed, fares proportionately low would be demanded, and must be conceded. Hence the The Actuary would tell us, no one can insure us so cheaply as the railway itself. It is in the companies' power, alone, to reduce the number and mischief of accidents to a minimum ; on them, therefore, he would throw it, to include the pre miam for the insurance in every fare. It is for them, he would say, to reckon on the probability of so many accidents on an average of ten or twenty years, and to charge accordingly. Of course all we can say will not reconcile share holders to a diminished dividend owing to heavy compensation, for what they think unavoidable accidents. Still the considerations we have suggested may lead them to doubt whether, if they are permanent holders of Railway Stock, they would gain much by any alteration of the law which the general public would tolerate. Perhaps also it would be well for such of us as have the mis fortune to be shareholders suffering in our dividends to ask what even we should think if we were share holders suffering also it person, or suffering the loss of a peculiarly important member of our family through an accident en our own Line. Perhaps, then, like the general public, we should lean strongly to full compensation. VARIETIES. (Fran Fun.) President Abe had a fierce baby, Who was always a cryin' for slaughter, But when drafting began he to Canada ran, So hs runs when he didn't oughter. AN ABSTRACT DEED.—Having your tooth drawn. THE BEST CURE FOR VANITY.—Be photographed. When is a -young man of the greatest use at a supper party F—When he's a spoon. To 'DEE AFFLUENT AND BENEYOLENT.—Subscribe to the Cotton Districts' Relief Fund. WE DON'T SEE WHY IT SHOULDN'T.—May growing very corpulent against one's will be looked upon as a fat-ality ? ASK DR. LANKESTER, THE CORONER.—May a sailor be designated a fellow de sect ? Has an X-policeman any right or authority to act as a constable ? If the North American President were to take a trip to London, what would be the most appropriate place for him to put: up at ? Lincoln's-inn, of course. To CORRESPONDENTS.—" Flesh nor Fowl."—You are right; a curious link between fish and birds may be found connecting Cochin-China with Cochin-eel. THE RIGHT MAN IN THE EIGHT PLACE.—President Lincoln's Finance Minister has been authorised to change his name for one more suitable to the manner in which he conducts his department. Instead of Mr. Chase, he is to be called Mr. Chaos. What classical author would a man recommend his scolding Rife to study ?—TACITUS. THE LATEST AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.—(SuppIied direct from the Manufactory at Washington.)—General M'Clellan has been removed, and the command sub divided. General Hobbs (who distinguished himself in the Bramah war) is to attack the key of the rebel position. Colonel Hoe is to see after the reinforcements, a duty for which his long connexion with press-men eminently fits him. Tramways on the Train principle are being laid down in front of our lines to impede the advance of the enemy's cavalry. An inventor has just laid before the President the outlines of a discovery which will be invalu able in the present scarcity of specie. It is a plan for making sawdust into silver coin and gold pieces out of plugs of 'baccy. LORD DUNDREARFS LAST. " I that' I Tham I athk thothe fellaha in America, when they come in from a thtampede, ' How'th your poor feet 1' ' . The Queen of the Ex and the Maja have arrived from Matamoras (Mexico) with about 250,000 Mexi can dollars on freight. The present quotation for this coin is nominally ss. ltd. per ounce, but the market has a decidedly flat appearance. LATJA" E WS. NEAPOLITAN PROVINCES IN A STATE OF SIEGE. TURIN, AUG. 25 (Evening). The Neapolita'n Provinces have been proclaimed in a state of sieges General Della Marmora has been appointed Extraordinary Commissioner. NAPLES, AUG. 26. General Lamarmora has issued a proclamation, directed, as he says, against those subversive men who, under the pretence of hastening the accom plishment of Italian unity, have provoked civil war in Sicily. The proclamation continues thus:—" General Garibaldi, their chief, has thrown himself on this continent, threatening to introduce anarchy. It is the duty of the Government to crush the rebellion. A state of siege has therefore been proclaimed. The commanders of divisions will unite military and civil powers. All assemblages are to be dis persed by force. The exportation and retention of arms is prohibited. All arms must be given up within three days. The liberty of the press is re stricted." Tranquillity prevails at Naples. About 1,000 Garibaldians hays disembarked a Melito. Generals Oialdini and Pinelli have arrived a' Messina. General Revel has gone to Reggio. TOULON, Atra. 27. The squadron of evolution, under the command of Admiral Rigault de Genauilly, has left Ajaccio. Its destination is not yet known, PARIS, AUG. 26. La France of this evening declares that grea excitement exists in Calabria. The towns of Bova, Oppido, Nicotora, Mileto, Palmi, Gerace, and Carignano have pronounced in favour of Garibaldi, and others are expected to follow their example. A large number of ships which had brought Gad baldian Volunteers from various parts of Italy were anchored off Gioja. The•division of General Brignone had received orders to proceed to Calabria immediately. The Presse of this evening asserts that Austria and Spain have addressed a note to the French Go vernment on the Roman question. The same paper says that Austria has determined to call out 40,000 more soldiers. The Councils General have been opened. The Duke de Morny, in his opening speech, abstained from all mention of politics. TURIN, AUG. 26. Garibaldi is still at Mileto. He left Catania with two postal steamers. Yesterday the Royal authorities re-entered Ca tania, and captured 800 volunteers. The Minister Persani also arrived , in the town, and immediately ordered the arrest of the com mander of the two frigates which were stationed off the port, on account of his doubtful conduct on the occasion of the departure of Garibaldi. NAPLES, ATJG. 26. General Cialdini has left for Sicily, after having concerted measures with General Della Marmora. WARSAW, AUG. 26. The sentence pronounced on Rzonka and Ryl: for attempting the life of the Marquis \Vielopol' ski has been confirmed by the Grand Duke Con. stantine. The execution took place at nine o'clock this morning. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 27 The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ellora, Capt. Kellock, with the heavy portion of the above mail has arrived here. She brings 27 passengers, £541 in specie, and 2,076 packages of cargo, including 839 bales of raw silk—value £75,000. On the 20th inst. the Ellora spoke the British barque Caducess, steering south-east, and on the 23d the Pera, bound east. GIBRALTAR, Aug. 22.—Exchange on London, 90 days, 50; on Marseilles, 5.28 ; on Genoa, 5.28 ; on Cadiz and Malaga, eight days, par; on Madrid, 1 prem. Freights unaltered. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 26.—The market has again re lapsed into heaviness, and prices have receded. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f. 65c. Rail way Shares also dull. The market closed as fol lows :- 4t per Cent 5....... 97 75 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents ...... 68 60 Do. end month.... 68 60 New 3 per Cents .. Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier..., 842 50 Do. end month.... 845 Bank Shares 3190 Credit F oncier Piedmontesc Fives 69 50 Italian Loan 69 40 Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes 5O 50 Home Debt RLILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lOlB 75 .. 1020 Northern New ditto = • • • --- Lyons and Mediterranean 1102 50 .. 1102 50 Geneva.. 342 50 .. Southern Western Eastern .. , . Sardinian Austrian .. 480 .. 480 Low bard 711 E BADEN AMNESTY. In reply to the decree issued by the Grand Duke of Baden, in reference to political exiles, the fol lowing declaration has appeared in German jour- nals : " DECLARATION. "The Carlsruhe Gazette publishes a decree of amnesty, according to which Government have felt themselves moved to ordain, that to all civil and military persons who have been condemned for political, and not, at the same time, for great com mon crimes, the sentence of punishment passed upon them should in mercy be remitted.' "We are no criminals. Crimes have been com mitted by those who beat down the rising freedom and union of the people. Royal mercy we have never asked for, during a thirteen 3 ears' exile. The principles for which we once fought, and which have supported us in banishment, are as lively in us to day as ever. If we now revisit the soil of our fatherland, it is simply in the conviction that a bar rier has fallen, which arbitrary power had hitherte unjustly raised against us. " London, August." "KARL BLIND. THE ROYDON HALL MURDER AND NIGHT POACH ING CASE.—EAST MALLING, Tuesday Morning.—John Catt, another of the alleged participators in the night poaching affray at Roydon Hall, the seat of Major Cook, near this place, has been taken into custody by Mr. Super intendent Hulse, of the Kent County Constabulary, who has been in pursuit of the ruffians since the night of the outrage, the 23d Jan. last, when, as will probably be re membered, John Gray, one of the gamekeepers, was mur dared wilfully and most deliberately, according to the evi dence that has already been given. r ive of the parties concerned in the affray are now in Maidstone Gaol, under an order of committal by the magistrates on the 13th inst.— one of the lot having turned Queen's evidence, and the cor roboratory proof given by the other gamekeepers, leaving no doubt At all as to the guilt of all those in custody. Catt will be brought before the magistrates at East Mailing to-day (Wednesday), and it is probable the other sus pected man (Allchin) will, by that time, be in custody, as a pretty ewe clue has been obtained of hie whereabouts. ~r ~-- -✓_ INDIA AND CHIDA, (From Me Calcutta Englishman of July 22.) Up -country produce has begun to arrive from the opening of the rivers, and it is to be hoped that we have the "commencement of the end" of the terri ble stagnation in trade from which our merchants have for so long suffered. Exchange has been very dull, 2.0 5-16 ths for bank bills, and corresponding rates for credit and document bills. The news from Bombay received this morning has caused a great amount of excitement in our piece -goods market, and a fair advance of 4a. for a 71b. shirting is the result, but little trade is doing at the moment. Buyers still hesitate, hoping some fortunate chance may bring down the present rates, and the mer chants here are unwilling to sell unless at good pro fits, and rightly too, as, unless we are greatly mis taken, they have the game in their own hands, and inasmuch as but a small amount of production and export from England is going forward there can be nothing to force holders on the market. Government Securities.—There has been rather more activity in the stock market this week ; the 4 per Cents. have been largely dealt in for account of Bombay. _ . Money Market.—There is no change in this market. Money is abundant, and obtainable on Government securities at from 41 per cent. to 5 per cent. The Bank rate is, however, unaltered. Exchange.—This has been another dull mail for business in exchange, the sales on London of bills of all classes have not probably exceeded £60,000. The rates for the Bank bills have been 2 01 to 2-0 5-16; credits, at from 2.0-1 to 2-0 7-16; docu mentary, at from 2-01 to 2-0 9-16. Freights.—Business within the last fortnight for the United Kingdom has continued dull ; we have therefore to report no change in freights. CHINA. HONG KONG, JULY 12. During the past fortnight no political event worth recording has occurred. The allied troops remain within their lines at Shanghai, and their sanitary condition is much more satisfactory. Two strong outposts are held at Fa-wha and Sik-a-way, respec tively distant about 12 miles ; but the rebels have retired from the neighbourhood, and are reported to have fallen back on Nanking, where they are said to be hard pressed by the Imperialists. There is a great want of reliable information, however, regarding their real position in that respect ; and the usual heavy rains of this season of the year, now set in, may have something to do with their appa rent inactivity. The young Emperor at Pekin has been doing honour to the memory of Admiral Protet, and has ordered furs and silks to be sent to his family in token of the Imperial gratitude. The latest intelligence from Tien-tsin is to the 21st ult. The Shan-si rebels were reported to have gone to the south-west; but trade had not revived as a consequence of their absence. The investigation of the great opium frauds still continues, and Standford, master of the receiving ship Tropic, has been committed for trial. Appli cation has been made to the Macao authorities to deliver up Rustomjee, the principal actor in the swindle; but, during the absence of Governor Giumaraens, at present on a diplomatic mission to Pekin, they are unwilling to incur the responsi bility. Meanwhile, however, they make sure of him by placing him in one of the forts. Much anxiety to kno w the decision of her Majesty's Government as to future relations with this country continues to be felt, more especially as in three or four months the weather will again allow of military operations if determined on. WRECKS ON THE BRIHSH COAS7S IN 1861. The Board of Trade returns of the wrecks and casualties which occurred on and near the coasts of the United Kingdom in 1861 has just been pub lished. From this report it appears that the num ber of casualties is greater than that reported in any of the preceding nine years, and 261 in excess of the annual average of the last six years. The numbers (exclusive of collisions) were, in 1857, 866 ; in 1858, 869 ; in 1859, 1,067 ; in 1860, 1,081 ; and in 1861, 1,171 ; and the increase is ascribed to a groat extent to the gales of January, February, and November, in which alone there were 465 casualties, exclusive of collisions. The number of collisions, again, though slightly in excess of 1860, is under the number of 1859, the three years 1859, 1860, 1861, having the respective numbers, 349, 298, and 323; and on the whole the increase in the number of collisions is not proportionately so great as the increase of other casualties_ In the number of lives lost there is a large increase as compared with last year, caused by the gales of January, February, and November, which increased the number of casualties. In 1860 there were 536, while in 1861 there were 884, but this number is less than the numbers in 1854 and 1859. The comparatively small number of lives lost in 1860 and 1861 is owing chiefly to the absence of the loss of any large pas senger ship on the coast. From a table appended, showing the force of the wind, it appears that nearly one-half of these casualties happened with the wind at and under force 8, or "fresh gale," or under cir cumstances in which a ship, if seaworthy and pro perly manned and sound, ought to be able to keep the sea. Appended to the report are various other tables comparing past years with the present, and classi fying the casualties in various ways. The most important of these shows the geographical distri bution of the wrecks. According to this, the three most fatal districts are from the Fern Islands to Flamborough Head, from Flamborough Head to North Foreland, and Skerries and Lamlay to Fair Head and Mull of Cantire. In the former distract, in 1861, there were 40 ships wrecked, with a ton• nage of 5,129 tons, and 244 men ; and the loss was, totally wrecked, 3 , 1 ; partially, 9; and the number of lives lost, 147. In the second district the figures are— ships, 24 ; tonnage, 3,998 ; men, 189 ; total wrecks, 18; partial, 6 ; lives lost, 111. And in the third— ships, 28 ; tonnage, 5,832 ; men, 216 ; total wrecks, 22; partial, 6; lives lost, 144. This, in the two first districts, is greatly above the average of the last twelve years, which, for the one district, is 55 10-12, and the other 89 ; but this is probably accounted for by the increase of the number of casualties to ships of the collier class, through the prevalence of N. and E. to S.E. winds. In the third district the average of the twelve years, 133 1-12, is but slightly exceeded. The number of lifeboats under the management of the National Lifeboat Institution has increased from 124 in 1856 to 179 in 1861, and as compared with 1860 the increase is six. The number of life• boats under other management was 59 as compared with 63 in 1860. Out of the whole number, 106 are subsidized by the Board of Trade direct, with out the intervention of the institution ; and of those remaining, 14 are maintained by the institution, and 54 by local bodies. During last year the Board of Trade and Admiralty have supplied the crews of some of the Coast Guard stations with Capt. Ward's lifebelts and lifelines, the use of which will diminish the risk they run in putting to sea. To the mortar and rocket apparatus and lifeboats, as means for saving life, great credit is given ; and from a tabu lar statement of the lives saved by assistance from the coast during the last seven years, it appears that the numbers have increased from 1,098 in 1855 to 1,516 in 1861. The sum paid to the Lifeboat Institution in 1861 is £2,877 3s. 2d. The payments by the Board of Trade direct for rewards and gra tuities and for servic( s at wrecks amount to £1,292 ls. 6d. The expenses of maintaining the mortar and `rocket apparatus is £2,246 6s. 4d., being a total payment of £6,415 lls. for saving and endea vouring to save life during the year 1861. The public, who never fail to take a loyal ar d affectionate interest in all that conc erns the happiness of the Royal family, and especially of t he heir apparent, will be rejoiced to hear that the marriage of the Prince of Wales with the Princess of Denmark will be celebrated early in the ensuing spring. General Knollys, who so long com manded the camp at Aldershott, has been appointed Con troller of the Household of his Royal Highness, and Marl borough-house is bang prepared as quickly as possible :or his reception. The " Messiah " will be performed at Eseter-hail to-night at half -past 7, with ;band rand chorus of 7,0 per formers, under the directioh of 111 r, Q, W, Martin. ASCENTS. The following are Mr. Glaisher's observations on his recent Scientific Balloon Ascents, from the Crystal Palace and Mill-hill, Hendon, on the 20th and 21st August : On Wednesday, Augast 20, Mr. Cox ell's large balloon left the Crystal Palace at 6h. 26ra., with nine gentlemen in the car, and three in the ring above the car, my instrument being fixed outside the car, beyond the influence of its occupants, the temperature of the air at the time being 66 deg., the wet bulb thermometer reaching 51 deg. lower. At 6h. 35m. we were half a mile high, the temperature was 56 deg. ; at 37m. we were three-quarters of a mile high, and still ever the Palace. At 6h. 43m., at the height of nearly one mile, we passed through a thin c.oud, the earth being just visible; the temperature at this time was 50 deg., the wet bulb reading 48 deg. We continued at this elevation and temperature some little time. and then fell 200 or 300 feet ; at 6h. 55m. the Palace was seen, and was barely visible through mist at 6h. 57m.: we kept at this eleva tion till 7h. 2m., when Kennington-oval was in sight ; at 7h. 9m. St. Mark's Church, Kennington, was immedi ately underneath. We were now about one mile in height, with a temperature of 48 deg.; the hum of London was heard. We then descended gradually. At 7h. 12m. lights were being lighted over London, the hum of London greatly increasing in depth. At 7h. 22m. the half of Kennington oval was lighted. At 7h. 16m. shouting was heard of people below who saw the balloon. At this time we were within 1.500 feet of the earth, and continued between 1,500 and 2,500 feet till 7h. 40m., the temperature varying but little from 59 deg., the wet bulb reading about 3 deg. less. The appearance of London lighted up at this time was fine, and associated as its appearance was with the deep sound, or rather roar, of the traffic of the metropolis, constituted a truly remarkable scene. For a long time Kennington-oval and Millbank Penitentiary were in sight, and it seemed as though we could not get away from them. At 7h. 40m. Mr. Coxwell determined to ascend above the clouds. We were then about 2,400 feet high and the temperature was 53 deg. At 7h. 42m. we were 3,500 feet high, the temperature being 51 deg. At 47m. we were a mile high, and the temperature was 45 deg. It was very dark looking downwards, but there was a clear sky above, and a beautiful gleam of light ap peared. We still ascended till the clouds were below us, tinged and coloured with a rich red ; the temperature had now fallen to 43 deg., and we were enveloped in a fog again. At 7h. 52m. the striking of a clock and tolling of a bell were audible. It was quite dark below. At Bh. sm. we were above the clouds, and it became light again. The hum of London gradually died away. By this time the temperature had increased to 55 deg., the barometer reading about 23in. After this we descended, and it became too dark to read any instruments. London again was seen, very different indeed in its appearance to when we could pick out every square, street, bridge, &c., by its lights. Now as seen through the mist it had the appearance of a large conflagration of enor mous extent, and the sky was lit up for miles round. This spectacle was certainly very grand, and it was with reluct ance we again ascended. After a time the lowing of cattle was heard, and we seemed to have left London, therefore Mr. Coxwell determined to pass through the clouds and examine the country beneath. Vie passed from the com parative light above to the darkness beneath, momentarily increasing, and found ourselves some little distance from London. It is in the management of a descent under such circumstances that the skill of the aeronaut is taxed to the utmost. The darkness precluded the use of the grapnel on this occasion, and also the possibility of observing the nature of the ground, until skirting the tops of trees. Mr. Coxwell proved himself perfectly competent, the balloon ascending or descending at his will, and shortly touched the ground, so gently that we were scarcely aware of the contact, in the centre of is field at Mill-hill, about one mile and a half from Hendon. It was resolved to anchor the ballon for the night, and I engaged it for the morning for the British Asso ciation observations. Mr. Coxwell assured me that he could attain an elevation of fully three miles, a height as high as the barometer I had with me was adapted to work. On the morning of Aligns, 21, by half-past 4, my instru ments were replaced outside the car, and we again left the earth. The morning was warm but dull, the sky overcast with cirro-stratus cloud. The temperature was nearly 61 dog., and the wet bulb read 59 deg. There were in the ear, besides Mr. Coxwell and myself, Capt. Percival, of the Connaught Rangers; Mr. Ingelow, and my son - - . —Mr. Ingelow taking charge of the barometer, as he had done the evening before. We at first rose slowly. By 4h. 38m. we were 1,030 feet high, and the temperature. was 58 deg. At this time Mr. Cr xwell's pulse was 95, Mr. Ingelow's 80, Capt. Percival's 90, and mine 80. At 4b. 41m. there was a break of clouds in the east, and a beautiful line of light was seen, with gold and silver tints ; here and there morning mist was sweeping over the land. At 6h. 51m. the temperature was 50 deg., the wet bulb read 47 deg. ; scud was below us, and the night cloud was in a transition state, forming into cumuli at the same level as we were— , viz., about 3,500 feet ; black clouds were above, and mist was creeping along the ground, At 4h. 53m. we were above a mile high, the temperature was 43 deg., and the wet bulb only 1 degree lower ; we were just entering clouds. At 4h. 57m. we were in clouds surrounded on every side by white mist, the temperature of the air and dew-point were alike, as both the dry and wet bulb read 391 deg. The light rapidly increased, and gradually we emerged from the dense cloud into a deep basin surrounded with immense mountains of cloud rising far above us, and shortly afterwards we were looking into deep ravines bounded with beautiful curved lines. The sky immediately overhead was blue dotted with cirrus and cirro-cumulus clouds. As we ascended, the tops of the mountain like cloads became silvery and golden. A t sh. lm. we were on their level, and the sun appeared flood ing with golden light all the space we could see for many degrees both light and left, tinting with orange and silver all the remaining space around us. It was a glorious sight indeed. At this time we were about 8,000 feet high, and the temperature had increased from 38/ deg in the clouds to 41 deg. We still ascended rather more quickly as the sun's rays fell upon the balloon, each instant opening up to us ra vines of wonderful extent, and presenting to our view a mighty sea of clouds. Here arose shining masses of silvery heaps, there large masses of cloud in mountain chains rising per pendicularly from the plain, dark on one side t.nd silvery and bright on the other, with summits of dazzling white ness; some there were of a pyramidal form, and a large portion of a wavy form, in some places subsiding into hol lows, and in one place having every appearance of a huge lake. Nor was the scene wanting in light and shade; each large mass of cloud cast behind it its shadow, and this cir cumstance, added to the very many tints, formed a scene at once most beautiful and sublime. At sh. Bw. we were nearly two miles high, the tempera ture was 37 deg., and the wet bulb read 6 deg. lower, the air was, therefore, dry. At sh. 18m. we were above 2 miles in height, the temperature was 31 deg., and here it was found that Mr. Coxwell's pulse was 90, Capt. Percival's 88, Mr. Ingleow's 100, and mine 88. The pulse of Capt. Perci val was so weak he could scarcely feel it. Mr. Coxwell, on the other hand, thought his somewhat stronger. By sh. 31m. we were about three miles high, the temperature was 23 deg., and it decreased to 19 deg. by sh. 34m., the wet bulb being from 5 deg. to 6 deg. lower, showing that the temperature of the deve.point was some degrees below zero. We then continued at a little above three miles for half an hour, during which time the temperature at the same height increased 5 or 6 deg., as the sun rose, and at this time the number of pulsations in a minute were taken :—Mr. Cox well's, 94; Mr. Ingleow's, 112; mine, 98; and Capt. Per cival's, 78; but the last-named gentleman could scarcely feel any pulsation at all. Shortly after 6 o'clock it was determined to descend ; we were then above three miles from the earth, the tempera - ture, which had been as high as 27 deg., had fallen to 23 deg. At 6h. 13w., at the height of two and a quarter miles, we heard a train. At Gh. 20m. we were two miles high, and the temperature had increased to 39 deg. ; and at this time I noticed the loud ticking of a watch. Capt. Percival said he could not hear it ; he was seated and I was standing, and some experiments were made, when it was found that when the ear was at the same level as the watch no sound was heard, but it was remarkably distinct on the ear being situated above it. At the height of two miles the barking of a dog was heard, the temperature at this time, 6h. 24m., was 43 deg., the wet bulb reading no less than 10 deg. lower. The sha dow of the balloon with the encircling oval of prismatic colours was here very remarkable, and it increased in dimen sions and vividness of colour, till we entered a cloud. at u n-. 29m. ; the increase of temperature which had been latintl on pro gress during the descent was immediately h emerging from the cloud at 6h. 33w., the teemepeekresast,nrnwna w 41 deg., and the wet bulb 40 deg. The earth now in gently as on the it ; the tem sight, without a ray of sun-light falling .asautipl°,°ooo feet high, perature gradually increased to 56 de d g at I unton Lodge preceding evening, a little after 7 and 62 deg. on reaching the ground, ° Lord Brownlow, where near Biggleswade, on the estate of from his agent, we received every attention and assistance ' le after this my pulse was 77, Mr. Mr. Paulger. A lift 'val's 83. Cox well's 77, and Capt. Perm lock, JAMES GLSISHER. COURT CIRCULAR, BALMORAL, AT.IGUST 25. Th e Queen drove out on Saturday with Prince Leopold, and attended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce. Prince Arthur, attended by Majur Elphinstone, drove to Indigo, the residence of Dr. Robertson. The Princess Helena rode on horseback to Brick-hall, attended by Lieutenant -General the Hon. C. Grey and Madame Hocedtl. The Princess Louis also rode, attended by the 11Iarehio ness of Ely. On Sunday the Queen attended Divine service at the Castle with the Roy :1 family and household. The Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod, D.D., who is staying at the Castle on a visit, officiated. The Prince of Wales and Princess Helena afterwards went to the parish church of Crathie, when Dr. Macleod again performed the service. CRYSTALPALACE.—ONE SHILLINGDAT.- 1015 DAY, Aug, 26.—Admissions on payment, 11,560; ditto, V seam tickets, 884; Mal, 12,444. MMI d SCIEN7IFI -~