The Sun. — London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, sh. 50m.—Afternoon, 6h. 10m To-moßnow.-Morning, 6h. 32m.—Afternoon, 7h. Om, LIVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, by TIIOS. HOOD, Esq., in FUN, every week. /Sow Ready, handsomely bound In Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4 3 . 6d, ; post free, 55., the SECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. T. Hood, Esq. E. L. Blanchard, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Bridgeman, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. H. J. Byron, Esq. I &c., &e., &c. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. B LOND IN TO-MORROW a t FOUR o'Clock.—ln addition to his numerous marvellous exploits on the Tight Rope, Blondin will this day introduce his astounding Chair Feat, balancing - himself in sitting, standing, and recliuingpostures, the chair resting on the rope by one leg only. CRYSTAL PALACE.-ARRANGEMENTS TO-MORROW (Tuesday). Open at NINE. Orchestral Band at Great Organ Performance at Blondin at Orchestral Band at 5.15 Admission to all, One Shilling; Children, Sixpence. v." For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. This Evening, Wallace's opera of LURLINE. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Evening, THE YANKEE LEGACY. After which, THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. To conclude with THE ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni-Zong- Zoug. Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, THE WIFE'S PORTRAIT. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS Y'CALIA. And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. To be followed by ONE TOUCH OF NATURE. And THE SHILLING DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening , THE LOST L VIII ETTER. After which, at a j uNG HENRY . With THE TWO quarter to t 3, POLTS. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This E ve ning, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLA Et- NEy. Conclude with THE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST , Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Evening, MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Concluding. with a Comic Ballet. Commence at 7. MR. and MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS " AT HOME," at Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, This Evening. Commence at 8. W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. Commence at 8. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.— Steckel, the great TrapeZ performer—Grand Operatic Selec tion as usual Unsworth, e Eugene, and Duley, the great comic trio, Sze. Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, EVERY ED E ING.—Grand Operatic Selections, with full band and chorus.—The comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes— Steckel on the Flying Trapeze—The Ethiopian oddities of Ramsey'Newcomb, dre. Commence at 7. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. _ .. -le ~.; ,e . .- ' ---- . - 7, -, .. I.t ' q '-'.' . "- 1 '-- ''- ,;-..L., d __ „',N: • •, . 0 , PI, I C -•- •- • ' -AZ I': " . "-`''''' •• • ;(jie' I ', lIIE'T'. IT lop' ' 7 , 11; I • S i 1,12, x,-.1.,7,5:- '''''.' '-', THE SU.N, LONDON, MOND k EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1862 THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 1862. Our predictions have been realised. The Confe derates have made the prodigious efforts we expected of them, to rout the Federals before their armies should all unite, and the new levies reinforce them. As the result of those efforts Washington has, in military matters, changed places with Rich mond. The late besiegers of the latter, being now massed behind the trans-Potomac defences of Wash ington, and the inhabitants of the Federal capital being now in quite as much fear as those of the Confederate capital were recently, We can hardly think that the Confederates will make a serious move against Washington itself. Possibly, if they did, it might become their turn to retreat. They were themselves strongest at their capital. M'CLE LAN pushed them back from Yorktown and Wil liamsburg without difficulty•--he could not push them out of Richmond. The Confederates in like manner have pushed back the bOLlstful POPE, and some better Generals too, till the►y' halt, in turn, in their Torres Vedras, before Washington. And we may be pretty sure such able commanders as the South have, will not risk being driven back again to Richmond. If Washington be attacked it will not be in vain. They will first make sure of success. It would indeed be a splendid triumph for them to proclaim the Confederacy from the steps of the Capitol,but it might be bought too dear. Besides, if anything could madden the North into rising en masse it would be the capture of its Capital. Pro bably, the political chief will be more chary of its attempt than even the Commander-in -Chief. Humi liation enough that the PRESIDENT should again hear in the White House the roar of the Confederate cannon. We now know, with tolerable precision, the re sult of the battle of Friday, the 29th of August, described as a great victory in General PoTE despatch of the 30th, which was brought by the last rnai!. An eye-witness writes that the enemy had at first been driven back two;miles ; it proved, however, that they only fell back on reinforcements, and when these were reached they regained one mile. POPE S victory of the Friday was the gain of a mile of ground. But Saturday proved that it was a losing gain. IVPDowELL, SIGEL, POPE, all fought with desperation ; but all would not avail. They were driven back by greater ener r u, wielded by greater skill, and saving nothing but their honour, fell back to places whose names were familiar to us last Tear—Cen treville and Fairfax, between Bull's Run and Wash ington. Thus has Bull's Run becom e a third time celebrated. A Federal rout about fifteen months ago gained it a world - W ide re p utation. A repul se f rom it of the Confederates on the 29th seemed to restore again the balance—it was but for a night. P OPE had, as usual, prepared us to hear of his purs u it of the enemy, and complete triumph on the 30th, but again the Federals had to flee from Bull's Run to Washington, this time, however, in the manner of soldiers. Th e very t eams t ers , who last year were said to be the cause of the panic, this time seem to have learned to be cool under fire. When an ene my's bombshell burst in their line of waggone, de stroying one of them, we read of their coolly re moving the fragments out of the road, and pro ceeding as usual. Thus again the " defence of Washing ton" was the business of the d a y on the 4th of September. All forces in the neighbourhood were concentrating to the capital, from Winchester on the west side in the Valley of the Shenandoah, and from Acquia Creek on the south-east, 'where vr.,....‘CLEL LAN was with part of his late arm y of Rich mond, all are brought to the capital, and the other positions eva. cuated. The large Federal fleet of gunboats com mand, indeed, the Potomac, and probably W ash _ ington itself will owe much to them. The re mains of the Northern armies ought still largely to outnumber the Confederates, and, though dis couraged by the want of competent field com manders, they must, we may suppose, be able easily to hold the enemy in check behind fortifi cations. Those fortifications are indeed but earth works, but what resistance earthworks can make, is well known to our Crimean soldiers. The Pre sident seems to think that some change of men is indispensable. General HALLECK is said to have superseded Mr. STANTON as Secretary for war, and General M'CLELLAN to be entrusted with the defence of Washington. The latter is indeed charged with not having sent reinforce ments demanded of him from Acquia Creek, and hence to have caused the loss of the great battle of Bull's Run on the 30th ; the President, how ever, can hardly believe this, or ho would not have intrusted his own safety to a traitor. Thus Washington is once more become a camp, with M'CLELLAN in command. But how far are things from having reverted to their old position ! The two armies are both in a very different condition. The old Bull's Run panic was rather a subject for a joke than otherwise. Everyone knew that it had little, if any, military significance. Not so the Bull's Run battles of the 29th and 30th of August. They were equal, stand up fights, between two mighty armies, both sea soned to battle, and steady enough under fire. Both armies fought with equal determination. Not a regiment would yield on either side to anything but proof that they could no longer resist ; and then they would retreat, not run. It was general ship, and generalship alone, which gave the victory to the South. Bat how much is involved in the fact. The Southern soldier knows it, and will fight with undoubted confidence, because confident in his leader. The Northern soldier, equally brave, will lose half the benefit of his courage, by doubting whether it will not be wasted. Events, too, will have proved that he does not fight with an enemy who is insufficiently equipped with the means of destruction. Where they got them from may well be matter of wonder; but that the Southern generals have not only superior skill, and equally courageous soldiers, but sufficient arms of all kinds is made but too painfully evident to the North. How is such a struggle to end, unless mediation be accepted ! Nor does the Federal cause look more hopeful elsewhere. In Kentucky the Unionists, Govern ment included, are " skedaddling," as Yankee slang now terms a prudent and timely care for per sonal safety with bag and baggage. The Great Border State seems in a fair way to be occupied by the Confederate arms. The Legislature, with all its archives, has migrated from Lexington, first to Frankfort, then to Louisville, which is only sepa rated by the river Ohio from the State of that name. Cincinnati, the great city of Ohio, situated on the river, is quite in trepidation, and militia are called out, and large bodies of Confederates, their numbers probably magnified by the fears of the reporters, are moving truly in the State. From the Mississippi the reports are equally discouraging. Baton Rouge is at last really evacuated by the Fe deralg, not having been first barbarously destroyed, as was at first reported. New Orleans is also in danger. General BUTLER is taking measures to defend the city, but a large army of Confederates certainly threaten it. We shall soon learn whether the North is yet awakened to the impossibility of subjugating its energetic enemy, or whether all these reverses will rouse it to fresh and extraordi nary exertions. Pride will probably long defer the settlement which must come at last. 1 According to the old proverbial notion about " the third" being " the charm " the Imperial Journalist's letter in La France (the third and last of the series) has certainly proved to be the most im portant to which that publicist has (in La France) affixed his signature. M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE blurts the whole truth out at last in regard to the hitherto veiled and dumb Italian policy at the French Emperor. It is true that, before closing his re marks, the Viscount distinctly declares that, upon the Question under notice, he does not pretend to be the mouthpiece of the French Government. Of course. That is a thing, by this time, perfectly well understood. We will not call M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE then the mouthpiece of the French Government. We will not designate him even the semi-official spokesman of her Majesty l'lmperatrice. We will not talk about back stairs influence, or about boudoir knowledge. We will regard these three letters in La France, but particularly this third letter in La France, as constituting another of those well known " feelers" thrown out by the Imperial Govern ment of France at periods of mom than usual doubt, or in times of grief or emergency. If the direction indicated by them " takes" with the public as one happily thought. of—to be be accepted and followed out ! If the reverse—to be repudiated ! Formerly this exceedingly clever but, by this time, perfectly transparent dodge [there is really no other word for it !] was managed through little primrose -coloured and lilac-coloured brochures, sold by thousands, " prix 1 franc," across the counter of M. DENTU, the Palais Royale bookseller. Now, it is managed, by way of novelty, through the columns of La Franca under the auspices of its redacteur en chef, M. le Viscomte DE LA GUERRONNIERE, the very Prince of the Imperial Pamphleteers. It is because he occu pies this position before the European pub lic, and because his recent manifesto is at once recognisable as another of those wonderful feelers," thrown o u t f rom the darkness and the r f g u the e Imperialntput forth Cabinet wwithin i i n n t t h h e e 1.; a u e i l t e r f i e e : that the L a France is e n ti t l ed, at any rate, to some silenceo days by cons ideration. It is im portant, in the fir s t i ns t ance , to notice, in r egard to this argum ent o f la France, that the acknow led g ment is at l ength made, that, for a solution of the Italian Diffic u l ty i t is idle Italy absolutely impossible, to dream of returning to ' it is the erara tion is still clung to. - scheme indicated by the Treaty of Vil lafranca! A. Admitting that, however, the notion Federation of a Federa tion ed edtio ERRONNIERE--if it is must be—says M. DE LA to be anything at all beyond a geographical expres sion. A Federation of Three States —namely, two considerable States, Northern Italy and Southern Italy, with Central Italy between them as a bond of union, or connecting link. Th e bases, in fact, upon which the whole matter may be settled by an European simply, Congress, are, according to M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE, as follows : "'The division of Italy into three States, united by a Federal bond. "The guarantee by Europ e of the Pontifical territory, formed of Rome And the patrimony of St. Peter. benefit of es 66 The reservation for the be e Holyt a h n e d Father of the sovereignty of th Um bria, with the payment of a tribut e b y the Sove reign who should retain the administration of those districts. "Military, diplomatic, legal, customs, and financial union between all the Italian States." All very plain sailing, this, a pparently. O n l y __ th ere are two ra th er i mportant cons iderations to be taken into account before this suggestion can in any Wa y be carried out—namely, how the no tion would be regarded first of all by Italy, and afterwards by Europe! The value of the discovery, if such it should prove, of a substitute for cotton will soon be fully tested. The noble•minded discoverer has taken the course w hi c h, but for the advice of friends, he would have taken before, and offers it without guarantee of pecuniary compensation to the examination of a properly constituted committee. In this course he is assuredly right and safe, as well as generous. Generous he must be thought, since he fully believes that his invention is certain to answer. Safe we are sure he is, for should it prove at all what he expects, and set speedily the unemployed operatives of Lancashire to -work, the whole nation would demand of its representatives that they should deal with such a nationa benefactor in no niggardly style. The money saving alone to the country would demand a munificent reward; but what reward could be too great for the man who should save a body of the noblest operatives in Europe from the demoralisation consequent on idleness and want. It is impossible not to be sceptical as to the possi bility of finding in these temperate climes any shbstitute for the beautifully soft and delicate tree wool of the tropics. Failures have been so nume rous hitherto, as in the apparently easier case of finding a substitute for rags in the manufacture of paper, that success now will not be hoped for till it is achieved. Some unforseen practical difficulty has always been detected which has frustrated the hopes of the sanguine discoverer. In this case otherwise, all looks eminently hopeful. An eminent retired cotton manufacturer, Mr. WRIGLEY, has seen the material, and has testified to its " length, colour, and fine ness" being perfectly satisfactory—it has since been submitted to " three of the best judges in Manchester," and they have tested and approved the remaining quality—strength. Our readers will ask what more can be wanted ? We know of nothing—of nothing we mean to hinder its being made up into a textile fabric. Whether it will take the dyes of different kind so well as cotton, is of course untested yet; but in any case it will take some dyes, and if cheap, and strong, and fine fabrics, can be produced from it, they will be sure enough to come largely into nse. Woe to Southern slavary, if only our discoverer has not deceived himself. He fully believes he shall be able to establish—" That my substitute will answer all the purposes of cotton. That a present and sufficient supply can be procured, and the operatives at once set to work. That the future supply of the material may be obtained by cultivation in the United Kingdom, without dis placing from other purposes one acre of land, and thus be the means of developing a new staple in dustry of the country." The thirty-second annual meeting of the British Association is to attraet the world of science this year to Cambridge. The Presidential chair will be resigned upon the inaugural day by the eminent and veteran Engineer, who so ably filled it upon the last occasion, namely, WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, LL.D. and F.R.S. It will be assumed by the rev. gentleman selected as his successor, namely, ROBERT WILLIS, M.A., and F.R.S. The Reverend Professor WILLis be'ng the Jacksonian Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the University ; and known already far beyond the precincts of that ancient seat of learning as the possessor of a very distinguished reputation. Already the arrangements are tolerably well advanced, are in fact for the most part by this time fairly completed. The seven Sections have been awarded to as many well-selected Presidents. Pro fessor STOKES has that section which is naturally enough marked. Adown at Cambridge, that is the Section of Physical Science and of the " Mathe matics." Section B, set apart for Chemistry, is to be presided over by Mr. MILLER, the Cambridge Professor of Mineralogy. Section Cby Mr. JUKES, the Director of the Geological Survey in the sister island. Section D, combining under one head Botany and Geology, will have for its president Mr. HUXLEY, well known for his attain ments and his courtesy as the Geological Society's Secretary. Section E, linking together the sciences of Geography and Ethnology, is the only section out of the seven, in reference to which we are still left in doubt as to its new President. Not so however is it in regard to the other two, each of which has been awarded to a man eminent. in some respects pre-eminent, in his profession. Section F, the section of Economic Science and Statistics, Having Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK for its President. And Section 9, the section of Mechanical Science, retaining the late President of the British Associa tion, Mr. W. FAIRBAIRN, as its President. Besides which there will be proposed on the Ist proximo, in General Committee, a sub-section of Physiology —a sub-section which it is suggested, for reasons then to be given, shall sit in aid of the regular sec tions already enumerated. And, if this idea (as is, of course, nothing but probable) be approved of, it is intended that the said sub-section of physiology shall sit under Dr. PAGET'S Presidency. The Association will inaugurate its reassembly in 1862, upon the day but just now particularised — namely, upon the Ist of October. The inaugural gathering together of the General Committee en trusted with the routine work of electing and ap pointing the various sectional officers, will take place, in the middle of that day, in the Town-hall —a structure which will be set apart for the use of the Association, during the period of its stay in Cambridge, by the borough corporation. In the evening of that day Mr. FAIRBAIRN will formally resign the chair, and Professor SVILus, on assum ing it, deliver his inaugural address as President. Occurring as this thirty-second annual meeting of the Association does after a by no means ex hausting Parliamentary session, and (as is usual) during the holiday time of the year, when almost every one is more or less at leisure, and (as is not usual) in one of the great seats of learning, re nowned, as such, in both hemispheres—the forth coming assembly of men of science down at Cam bridge, has before it many reasonable prospects of provin g more than ordinarily successful, and cer tainly more than ordinarily attractive. Very he artily we trust that these auguries may be ful filled. Princess es , all th e During her Majesty's absence from Windsor Castle splendidapartments occupied by the Princes and on ll Lon g the south side, fronting the Walk, hed, an d h av i ng new ce ili ngs , after the are bein g e style arrangednab is by th e late Prince Consort and the late Mr. Thomas. The p a i nt - Mr. Cooper, aolf Hwiignio i ns a no g it: : :: n t d choes ,rp t gildinghave tlikouer laf l . been Cambridge intrusted will t o hn tour in Germany. Duchess it of Meckl,enwbuherosghStrelitz and the Hereditary shortly leave towe laig 'Their Royal tei:KtheewDoaochdae the Grand Duke and a G r r a all a n d Duke Adolphus igniMbS Prince been staying several y s: a o : n f e t e h arebrid g e, will leave to arrive in this s tan i e y of Alderley and the Charles r r r l eturn to Strelitz. our of about a fortnightriyn country of Prussia from L Berlin, and an9sdin:liwobtilirsii shortly Il d iy o f m n oe e a ; 1 c,paoeeit visit, ac t a lt ie g od , Lord and Lady t the family residence Hon. Misses Stanley, arrived a rover street on Friday from Carlsbad. Lady s tan a l ey and daughters left the following day for Alderley Park, Cheshire, Viscount and Viseoui:fess Palmerston will leav ° . town • e afternoon for Broadl an ds, ~. titl ~.41 l or dship's seat neat ROTE,eY,." 4 at Hants. A select noble Premier ' sparty will assenk.. the country seat at the close of the week, The Countess (Dowager) of Yersey passed through town on Saturday to Brighton from Osterley Park, near Brentford. Viscount and Viscountess Campden have been receiving a succession of visitors at Campden House, Gloucestershire. Prince Doria Pamphili and his youthful family have been among the guests of the noble viscount and viscountess. Lord and Lady Herries and the Hon. Misses Maxwell have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Everinghara Park, Yorkshire. Prince Wasa, the Earl of Winchilsea, and Sir Robert Peel have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris. General de Sonnaz, Env3y Extraordinary from Italy to the Court of Russia, has left the same hotel for Turin. THE LATE EARL OF HARRINGTON —The mortal remains of the Earl of Harrington were deposited in the ancestral vault in Elvaston Church, almost adjoining the aisle, near Derby, on Saturday. The funeral was very solemnly conducted. It has not been publicly stated that the death of the Earl was rather sudden. GEORGE STEPHENSON, THE ENGINEER. —The Newcastle monument to George Stephenson, the great en gineer, was completed last week, and will :be shortly in augurated by Lord Ravensworth. It has been erected in Neville-street, closely adjoining the Central Railway Sta tion, and consists of a massive stone pedestal bearing a colossal statue of George Stephenson by Lough, together with certain emblematical figures, viz., that of a blacksmith naked to the waist, sitting and leaning against an anvil, while his right hand grasps a hammer; a pitman, carrying a "Geordie" lamp ; a platelayer, holding a model of Mr. Stephenson's old fish-bellied rail ; and an engine-driver leaning against a locomotive. The monument promises to be very effective, and a great ornament to the town. The monument to the late Mr. Robert Stephenson will be placed nearer to the railway station. LORD PALMERSTON.—During the stay of Lord Palmerston in Nottingham, last week, a number of ladies presented his lordship with a smoking cap from a bazaar that was being held at the Exchange Hall to liquidate the debt on one of the local churches. The cap was made of scarlet and blue silk velvet, richly embroidered with gold lace. It was forwarded to the George Hotel, where his lordship was staying, accompanied with a complimentary note. The noble Premier has sent the following reply : " 94, Piccadilly, September, 1862. —Lord Palmerston pre sents his compliments to the ladies conducting the Not tingham bazaar, and while returning them his thanks for the beautiful cap which they were so good as to send him, encloses a draft for his contribution to their bazaar," The enclosed was a cheque for V, The following are the principal conditions of the contract of marriage between the King of Portugal and the Princess Maria-Pia :—" Ist. The sum allowed by the King of Portugal to his consort is to be 60 contos of reis (350,000 f.) per annum ; 2d. The guarantee for the payment is his Majesty's civil list ; 3d. If the Princess of Italy be comes a widow she shall be allowed a handsomely-fur nished palace in addition to the allowance, but if she goes to a foreign country to live, she shall receive the allowance only ; and, 4th, If the King becomes a widower without children, all the personal property of the Princess shall revert to her own family." REPRESENTATION OF STOKE-UPON-TRENT. Mr. Hope has retired. In his address to the electors he says :—" I withdraw from this contest. I make this an nouncement with deep regret after the unexampled kind ness I have received from you, but upon a careful examina tion of the register I have come to the conclusion that the defeat of the Liberal cause is certain if I now press my ad mitted claims to the poll." " A great sensation is being produced at Copen hagen (says a journal of that city) by a singer of the name of Nyerup, formerly a fisherman himself, in the character of Masaniello. A musician having accidentally discovered that the young man possessed a wonderful voice, prevailed on him to study singing. Nyerup studied for two years. He has now appeared, and is described as a perfect pheno menon." If the above paragraph be true, we know a theatre where he should be received with open arms—not a hundred miles from the Rue Pelletier, The Cologne Gazette states that the corvette Danzig, of the Prussian navy, has just been put up f9r sale by auction, and the highest bidding was only 25,000 thalers (93,750 fr.), although the vessel cost the Prussian govern ment 200,000 thalers (750,000 fr.) WORCESTER HOP MARKET, Sept. 13.—The weather of the past week has been favourable for the growth of the hop, and where planters are fortunate enough to have escaped the general blight there will be a good sample gathered. Picking, however, has not yet com menced, although our great hop fair takes place on Friday next, when we have in a good season thousands of pockets brought to Worcester. We do not expect a single pocket of new Worcester hops, however, next week. There is little doing in the market, the trade being limited to a slow sale of old hops at about the currencies last quoted. ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. MONDAY MORNING.—About half-past three o'clock a fire of a very alarming character took place ,in the premises belonging to Messrs. Kellard and Sons, known as the City Saw Mills, situate in Wentworth •street, Whitechapel. The premises in question were of considerable extent, and com prised sundry erections; the one in which the misfortune commenced was the boiler-house, a building about 40 feet long. From that part of the premises the flames seized upon the veneer-house, which contained a valuable stock of cut veneers. In less than five minutes both buildings presented two great sheets of flame. Information of the disaster was sent off to the Royal Society's fire-escape stations, and also to the parish and London Brigade stations. In the course of a few minutes the escapes and engines arrived, including two steam fire-engines by Shand and Mason. The mains of the East London Company having been drawn, the firemen, under the command of Captain Shaw, went to work, and with the aid of 28 hired auxiliaries they managed to prevent the fire from reaching other buildings belonging to the firm, but the boiler house and the veneer house were both burned out and the roofs destroyed. The origin of the fire is enveloped in obscurity. The loss is considerable, but the sufferers were fortunately insure' in the Royal Fire-office. Mr. Langham and Mr. H. White of that office were early in attendance to ascertain if possible the cause of the fire, but they could learn nothing of a satisfactory character.—Another fire broke out between 8 and 9 o'clock in the tar works at Rotherhithe. The bri gade again quickly attended, and the fire was extinguished before any considerable damage was done. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The British Asso ciation for the Advancement of Science will hold its 32d annual meeting at Cambridge on Wednesday, Oct. 1. The president of the year is the Rev. Professor Willis, and the vice-presidents are the Very Rev. the Dean of Ely, Profes sor Whewell, Professor Sedgwick, the Astronomer Royal (Mr. G. B. Airy), Professor Stokes, and Professor Adams. The general secretaries are Professor Phillips and Mr. Hopkins; and the local secretaries are Professor Robing ton, Professor Liveing, and Mrs. Ferrers. The first meeting of the general committee will be held early in the afternoon of the day of meeting; and in the evening the first general gathering of the members will be held in the Town-hall, when Mr. Fairbairn will resign the chair to Professor Willis, upon whom devolves the task of delivering the customary inaugural address. The sectional meetings will commence in rooms at the Town-hall on Thursday, the 2d of October, and will be continued de die in them until Tuesday, the 7th of October (Sunday, of course, excepted). The mathema tical and physical science section will be presided over by Professor Stokes ; the chemical science section by Professor Miller ; the geological section by Mr. J. B. Jukes, director of the geological survey of Ireland ; the zoological and bo • tanical section by Mr. T. Huxley; the economical science and statistical section by Mr. E. Chadwick; and the me chanical science section by Mr. Fairbairn. The geogra phical and ethnological section seems to be at present with out an appointed chairman. On the Thursday evening of the week over which the congress will extend, a soiree will take place at the Town-hall ; Friday evening will be devoted to a discourse by Professor Willis, and Monday evening to a discourse by Dr. Odling. A second soiree on Tuesday evening will conclude the doings of the week, which will be a memorable one in the annais of Cambridge. DEATH OF MADAME AURIOL.—" It is a melan choly fact," says the _Entr'acte, " that those persons whose profession it is to amuse the public often have to support an unusually large share of the trials of life. Auriol, the popular clown of the Cirque de l'lmperatrice, has recently been plunged into the deepest affliction. After losing his son, a fine young man, who was to have succeeded him as clown, he has now lost his only remaining child, a daugh ter, Mme. Auriol, married to a cousin of the same name, and who died a few days since in childbed. The funeral took place in the chapel of the Avenue de St. Cloud, and presented a heartrending spectacle. At the cemetery the bereaved husband could not stand without support, and the unhappy father, on taking the last look at his daughe ter's coffin, fell back insensible in the arms of his friends. Poor Auriol, who is now 65, will hardly recover this ter rible shock, and yet perhaps he may be obliged still to amu se the public with his jests and antics." THE POOR IN ST. PANCRAS.—At the weekly meeting of the directors of the poor of St. Pancras, a commu nication was read from the Poor-law Board on the subject of a recent inquest held by Dr. Lankester on the body of a poor woman who, it was alleged, had been cruelly thrust out of her lodgings, and had died of want. The letter was as follows:—"Poor-l aw Board, Whitehall, Sept. 4.—Sir,—l am directed by the Poor-law Board to enclose, for the informa tion of the directors of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras, a copy of a paragraph relative to the inquest recently held in the case of Matilda Martin, late of 23, Tottenham-place, Tottenham Court •road. The board direct me to request that they may be furnished with any observations which the directors may wish to offer on the statement contained in the paragraph referred try. The board also direct me to re quest that the dir ec t ors w ill b e goo d enough to obtai n an d forward to the board the explanation of Mr. Saddler, reliev ing officer, of the allegations affecting his conduct in the case.—l am, air, your obedient servant, C. Gum, Secre tary." After some discussion, it was determin e d t o appo i n t a committee to investigate the case; and a reply was written to the P9or-law Board, stating that the directors had the matter Under their ponsideration, and that so soon as t h e y ould be form. r d e q, `^4 completed it, their report eh LA T s r NEW S• PARIS, SEPT. 14 (Evening), Nothing definite seems to have been decided with regard to the elections to the Corps Legislatif. The question appears to have been raised in a Cabinet Council, and now awaits the decision of the Emr. peror. The Presse of this evening says— It is asserted that the entire number of the effective force which has arrived in Mexico will approach 6,000 men. BERLIN, SEPT. 14. The semi-official Neue Preussische (Stern) Zeitung of to-day discusses Friday's debate in the Chamber of Deputies upon the military budget. The article, commenting upon the speeches of Herren von Patow and Von Vincke, bases thereon a hope, strengthened by several incidents of the debate, that the voice of moderation and reflection has not been raised in vain in the house. The Stern Zeitung adds that, possibly even at a late period of the debate, the opinions of the Chamber, especially in reference to the military budget of 1862, may be so changed as to keep in view not only the arguments in favour of the ancient organi sation of the army, but also the facts of recent date, by which those arguments have been enfeebled. THORN, SEPT. 14. During a domiciliary visit instituted at Warsaw yesterday upon the premises of the Academy of Painters, the artists fired upon the military, but without result. Several revolvers and daggers were discovered. FRANCE, La Patrie announces the proximate departure of Prince Napoleon, with Princess Clotilde, for Turin, to be present at the ceremonial of the marriage of Princess Pia. La Presse has the following—. Count de Stakelberg, Ambassador Extraordinary from Russia to Italy, has arrived at Turin. M. de Chasseloup-Laubat, Minister of Marine and of the Colonies, has arrived at Biarritz. This visit is said to be in connection with the Mexican question. BOURSE, Sept. 13.—The heaviness which hung over the market yesterday has partially disappeared to-day. Threes, for the Account, have been done at 69f. 60c., and are now at 69f. 50c. Railway Shares are dull. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents .. 96 30 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents ...... 69 40 Do. end month.... 69 60 New 3 per Cents Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier.... 937 .50 Do. end month.... 941 25 Bank Shares 3160 Credit Foncier 1215 Piedmontesc Fives Italian Loan — Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes — Rome Debt • MAYS. RAIL' Orleans Cash. Account. 1055 .. 1055 _ _ Northern .... New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1157 50 .. 1161 25 Geneva.. — Southern B3B 75 .. 840 Western Eastern Sardinian 365 365 Austrian Lou , bud 606 25 .. 606 50 THE BOMBAY MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 13. The Valetta and Massilia, with the above mails, left this day for Marseilles and Southampton re- spectively. The Massilia may be expected at Southampton on the 26th inst. The Beneres brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 11th. The Salsette delivered the London mail of the 4th August in Bombay on the 25th. THE TVES7 INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 14. The Seine, with the West India and Pacific mails, arrived last evening. Dates by this arrival are—from Honduras, Ang. 15; Grey Town, 18; Colon, 23; Jamaica, 24; Jacmel, 26; Porto Rico, 26 ; Demerara, 23 ; Tobago, 22 ; Trinidad, 23 ; Barbadoes, 26; Gil nada, 24 ; St. Vincent, 26 ; St. Lucia, 26 ; Martinique, 27 ; Guadaloupe, 27 ; Dominique, 27; Antigua, 27; St. Kitts, 28; and St. Thomas, 30. At Valparaiso the Council of State had approved of a project allowing 4,000 dols. a year to a learned member of the bar, to whom the Government will commit the framing of a code of civil procedure. The necessity of a floating dock in Valparaiso was much felt by the shipping community, and two projects were in contemplation, one by a pri vate individual, and the other by a joint-stock company, at the head of which were some of the leading merchants. The low prices of copper in Europe had severely affected mining interests in general in Chile, and some of the large miners had materially reduced their operations. Great preparations were making in Arica for Independence Day of Peru, more so than usually on account of fear of French invasion. Money was very scarce. The news from Ecuador states that the expedi tion headed by the President of Garcia, Moreno, which marched into New Granada against Arbo -I:da, has been completely defeated, losing 1,300 prisoners and an immense amount of war equip ments. Among the captured were the President Moreno and the Secretary of War. The news also states that Moreno had entered into a treaty with Arboleda to furnish him 1,000 men, clothing, arms, and ammunition of war, and to aid him against Mosquera on condition of his being set at liberty, and that an expedition was fitting out in Peru in aid of Arboleda to attack Tumaco. Business in Guatemala continued dull, and failures were on the increase. The cochineal crop amounted to 7,000 serons for the past year, of which 5,499 were already exported. The next crop was expected to fall far short of this amount, and in consequence the article would command a much higher price. A treaty of peace, amity, and commerce had been established between Honduras and Salvador. Provisions of all kinds had become so scarce in Honduras that the Government had been com pelled to remove all taxation off the slaughtering of cattle. Great suffering had also been experienced at th e Chortale mines and elsewhere in Nicaragua through scarcity of provisions. Panama continued in the same unsettled state as reported by the last mail,.but since th en nothing of importance had transpired. THE LATE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.— Yesterday thousands of people flocked to . the cathedral for the purpose of taking part in the solemn service consequent on the death of the late archbishop, who, however, was not very extensively known in the metropolitan city, his favourite residence being Addington, where he died. From Margate and Ramsgate special trains ran, and frem all the stations in the neighbourhood, the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway brought vast masses of people to the city. The arrangements of the company for the accommodation of the public were admitted to be excellent. The cathedral presented a most solemn appearance in consequence of its being hung in mourning. The very Rev, the Dean (Dr. Alford) who is the most popular ecclesiastical dignitary ever connected with the cathedral, and most deservedly so, preached an able sermon founded upon the 73d Psalm, verse 23, and those followidg :. _,,t N e vertheless, I am con tinually with th ee , th ou h as t holden me by thy right hand. Thou shalt gu id e me w ith toy cou nsel, and aft erwar d s re ceive me to g l or y." Th e sermon wa s a sublime piece o f eloquence—earnest, unaffected , and dee p l y i mpressive. The dean advert e d t o th e loss the diocese and th e Ch urc h had suffered in the death of th e late p r imate, and asked the prayers of all, that it m i g ht he put i n t o the minds of our rulers to appoint a fit suc cessor i n so high and import an t a n office. The city h as been crowded a ll d ay; i ndeed so malaY ptrivagers Were acaroly ever 40014 tQ b e prengt, :;5:7.i REAL CRUELTY AND MOCK PUNISH- MENT.. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR.,—A few more decisions like the ono pro nounced last week by Mr. Tyrwhitt in the case of cruelty to a poor animal, and the indignant voice of the public, will cause the word " fine" to be scratched from the statute book, and the sooner the better, for magistrates will then no longer have the power to show more leniency to a rich ruffian than to a poor one. It is not in the power of language to mark with sufficient severity the brute who so horribly tor tured an animal superior to himself; and as for the magistrate, I believe I shall but be etpressing the sentiments of the public at large when I say, that he ought be ashamed of himseif.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, Sept. 15. GEORGE ELLIS. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. - ~-- The SUCCCSS achieved by Mrs. Hough, the American actress, in her impersonation of Mrs. Mehitable, in a farce of the "Yankee Legacy," ,is now quite consolidated, and every evening her per formance elicits the most rapturous applause. Her version of the female Yankee is by far the best that has yet been seen in London. It is devoid of all vulgarity, but all the acuteness of the genus is ex emplified in a most amusing manner. Mrs. Hough, in addition to her abilities as an actress, is an ex cellent vocalist ; and that she pleases her audi ence is testified by the rapturous applause that invariably follows her singing " Josiah's Court ship." This evening Boucicault s great Scottish drama, "The Relief of Lucknow," with Mrs. Dion Boucicault as Jesse Brown, is to be played fir the first time in England. GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. The 139th festival of the three choirs of Worces ter, Hereford, and Gloucester was brought to a con clusion on Saturday morning. At first there were misgivings as to the result, but happily these were removed by the enormous attendance at the con cert, on Thursday, and last oratorio, yesterday. At the latter there were 2,517 persons present, against 2,800 in 1859, and yet the place appeared much more crowded than it had ever been before. Cri • noline seems to have been injurious to the festival, for in consequence of the necessity of extending the area of each person's sitting in the high-priced places fewer could be accommodated. This perhaps may' have been one reason why the stewards raised the prices for admission to the cathedral. The daily receipts, as nearly as they can now be analysed, were:— Tuesday £l67 16 6 Wednesday- Thursday Friday £949 15 10 Some additions to this amount are still expected. Next year'e festival will be held at Worcester, and already a goodly list of stewards has been secured, while £l,OOO has been raised to enlarge the Shire hall at Hereford for the purpose of placing in it an orchestra for the festival concerts. A NEW EXHIBITION PALACE IN I RANCE. The success which has hitherto attended Univer sal Exhibitions has induced a few capitalists to enter upon a colossal speculation in the shape of a Permanent Universal Exhibition Palace, which is now actually in progress of construction at Auteuil. This edifice, which forms a rectangle 500 metres long by 110 in breadth, has its principal front on the new boulevard which goes from the Place de la Fontaine to the Porte de St. Cloud. As yet, the walls do not rise more than a metre or so above the ground; but the design will consist of six pavilions connected by vast galleries, those in front receiving light from 36 large arched windows each. The central pavilion of the principal front will have an elegant arched entrance, 20 metres in height by 17 in breadth, richly sculptured and adorned with groups of figures, the central one of which. will be five metres in height: The second facade, opening on the military route parallel to the boule vard, will consist, like the other, of two corner and one central pavilion, with an entrance, the archi• volt of which will be adorned with mouldings exe cuted in a kind of enameL These two entrances will be connected by a transverse gallery, bisecting the two former ones, and a central longitudinal one ; at the centre or point of intersection a vast dome will command the whole. A group of majestic cedars, which happened to grow in the midst of that portion of the park that has been cleared to make room for the edifice, has been pre served, and will form a prominent ornament of the central space under the dome. The middle gallery will be 40 metres wide, and the two others 24. Each window will be 12 metres in height and 61 broad. The company intend to let out the places to exhibitors at so much per metre, which, they conceive, will ensure an ample return for their out lay. The architect is M. Liandier. An exhibition of fruits is to take place at Vienna early in October, to which English growers have been invited to contribute. The Royal Horticultural Society have accepted the challenge, and will send over not only a magnificent display of English grapes and wall fruit, but a deputation of eminent cultivators. M. Fechter, who was for some time in Paris, intending, it was said, to give a series of representations in English, has, we hear, returned to London, where he will open the Lyceum Theatre earlier than was at once an nounced. Shakspeare's "Romeo and Juliet" will, it is understood, be the first play M. Fechter brings forward. The Hartley Institute is to be opened on the 15th proximo. Lord Palmerston will inaugurate the open ing. His lordship will be met on Southampton-common, and will enter the town in a grand procession. The cele bration of the opening will last two days, and will consist of the opening ceremonies, a banquet, concert, and ball, Last week Richard Weaver, the revivalist, gaN e a tea party to the widows of Macclesfield, to the number of 800. Several clergymen and ministers were present at this remarkable gathering, and interesting addresses were de livered. John Murphy, the boy who set fire to the con tents of a pillar letter-box, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by dropping a lighted match into the box, was on Friday mulcted in a penalty of £5 and the cost of the letter-bag ; or, in default of payment, to be imprisoned for 14 days. Two bottles have just been blown at the glass works of Lodelinsart, in Belgium, each containing 250 litres, and weighing 25 kilogrammes. These are the largest bottles of the kind ever made. The biggest previously blown in France held only 130 litres. GAOL BIRDS AND THEIR TRICKS.—Now we change the scene. In the cell, at the door of which we now stand, is incarcerated a return felon—one who has spent the greater part of his life in prison. On a former occasion he assumed madness, in order that he might be sent to a lunatic asylum, where he would lead an idle life. He has been playing the same trick here, but was detected. The day previous he turned sulky, would not speak, and broke the small windows of his cell; whereupon the Governor ordered him to be dressed in a strait-jacket of his own invention. The door is open, and the wretched hang-dog looking fellow stands before us, having more the appearance of an Egyptian mummy than anything else. Stripped of his boots and all outer clothing, he is swaddled in canvas from the shoul ders down to the knees, and buckled round with three leathern straps. H e is now perfectly t ame d for the time b e i n g—unable to hurt himself or anyb o d y else. He prom i ses the Governor that he will behave himself and do his work, upon which be ordered the 4, j a cket "to be removed. But this is not the only case by hundreds where prisoners have assumed illness or madness, in order to avoid work, and in some cases they have done so successfully. When Mr. Weatherhead entered upon the office of governor here, now three and a half years since, there were nine r ersons in the infirmaries who were said to have fits. From certain indications, Mr Weatherhead was led to believe that in the majority of cases these fits were assumed. With the consent of, the surgeon, therefore, be ple, them into nine separate cells. The best remedy for the se fits, the doctor said, was water. Accordingly, the Governor had placed at the door of each of these cells three or four buckets of water. The warders were in structed to watch these prisoners closely, and whenever the fits came on, to supply them plenteously with the cooling stream. This appears to have had . a wondrous effect. In less than three weeks eight of them were sufficiently recovered from their fits to be enabled to work on the wheel. The ninth proved to be a real case, and he was taken care of. It is now a bye-word among the old gaol-birds that " it's no use to have fits at Holloway."—City The Mechanics' Magazine states that Mr. Cyrus Field is once more on his way to this country, and that he brings with him an additional proposal from the United States Government for uniting the two comb:lents by tele graph, GARIBALDI AND MONTE VIDEO: Lately discussing the probabilities of Garibaldi's disposal, the leading journal remarked that, as be was almost as much at home in Monte Video as in Italy, he should return thither, and pass the decline of his life iu a sphere to whose welfare he had con secrated so much of his prime. Should circum stances render desirable the adoption of this sug gestion, the victor of the Volturno would find in the . fair region of the Riv er Pl a t e sp l en di d ev i dence o f the effects of the freedom he there helped to win ; and the material advancement of Monte Video since the expulsion of the sanguinary and obscurantist Rosas, the Bomba of the Pampas, may be accepted as a sure augury of the progress that awaits Sicily and Naples when relieved for a like period from the incubi that blinded the national vision and stifled the popular will. A large number of Garibaldi's countrymen are settled in the now flourishing, but then desolated, Monte Videan territory, where their industry, temperance, and frugality convert to the best account the numerous advantages of the place, whose principal trade, next to that with England, is carried on with Italy, and is rapidly increasing. Filled with instances of daring and self-sacrifice as has been the whole career of the hero, there is no portion of it so much so, though none so little known, as that spent in defending Monte Video, against overwhelming odds, during the time Sir W. Gore Ouseley was British. Minister there, who has repeatedly borne verbal testimony to what he was a familiar eye-witness of, namely, not only Garibaldi's cheerful endurance himself under all manner of privations, but his power of imbuing others with the same feeling;— shaming the apathetic, rebuking the lukewarm, and leading the zealous with a prescient discretion only equalled by the ardour that enveloped it, and in spiring all with a conviction of the invincibility of his fortunes. It was within the long-beleaguered lines of famished Monte Video he first exhibited the extraordinary tactical adroitness afterwards deve loped against more skilled, as well as more boastful, but certainly not more dashing, assailants at Rome, viz., handling half-civilian and semi-disciplined levies in presence of regular troops, who had all the materiel of war, and were in command of the open country and its supplies, as well as direct water communication with their base of operations. More ' over, they wielded the most formidable of weapons, the false pretence that they were making war for a righteous idea ;—a despot using the soldiery and resources of a mock republic to destroy a real one, and all in the name of liberty, equality, and fra ternity, subsequently masquerading under the guise of law and order. If ever man fought for love of freedom in the abstract, pure and simple, it was Garibaldi at Monte Video. Not only did he get no end of knocks, and no " half-pence," but he received small courtesy and less thanks from the very men upon whose shoul ders his valour kept their heads ; for every one of those officials would have been put to death—the most shocking death, that of the Mashorca (a name less torture invented by Roses' brigands) —had the place been stormed by the ferocious Oribe, as it was repeatedly about being, but for Garibaldi. Keep ing aloof from all internecine broils and intrigues, he abided exclusively in the camp; multiplying himself, as it were, at every point of danger; under going incredible hardships, without a murmur ; content to hold the foe at bay with his handful, of faithful Italians, and those natives whom their example animated to like action. Though the call of his country compelled him to return to Europe ere he witnessed the consummation of the work he was engaged in, he had the satisfaction of knowing that he ensured it. He would now, were he to re turn, have the double satisfaction of beholding a land abounding in blessings undreamt of during the tyranny he struck at in its strength, and when wise men said it was madness to do so; as the still wiser in their generation said of a later stroke by the same hand, obedient to the impulses of the same heart, and directed by the same head ; seldom in error, save when it hearkens to the " dicers' oaths" of Cabinet schemers, and credits the prover bial perjury of princes.—Liverpool SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON. (From the Times' City Article.) With regard to the supposed discovery of a cheap and abundant substitute for cotton lately announced on behalf of a client by Messrs. Phillips and Sons, solicitors, the subjoined communication has been received direct from the discoverer, or, as he desig nates himself, " the inventor"—a term which im plies that the material, whatever it may be, is not available in a crude state, but requires to be put through some peculiar process. Thus far all who have entered into communication with him on the subject seem to have been impressed with the con viction that, whether the discovery be really of im mense value or entirely worthless, the good faith of the inventor and his total freedom from even a single sordid consideration are beyond question, and this feeling will be confirmed by the fact that he now offers to make it known to a properly consti tuted committee, without reserve or stipulation of any kind:— " COTTON FAMINE. " Thus far the problem of a suitable, sufficient, and pro fitable employment for the quarter of a million people want ing it in Lancashire and the surrounding districts has not been solved, or been near solution. It is a case of precious material —for what is more precious than human labour? —lying in a vast heap, useless, spoiling, and threatening to produce a pest instead of a crop. Who will tell us what to do with all these willing hinds ? In the face of such an exigency, who will say there is no opening left in this age or this country for great and heroic achievement ? We are not without hope that the case is within the reach of in genuity, stimulated by strong patriotism; but that hope is all we can ourselves contribute." —The Times Leader, Sep tember 12. S" Jir,—A correspondence has recently taken place in your Money Article, originated by Messrs. Phillips and Son, of Abchurch•lane, in reference to my discovery of a substitute for cotton. Every step already taken has been substan tiated; the length, colour, and fineness of the new material have been certified by Mr. Wrigley, of Southport, and yes terday the material was submitted to three of the best judges in Manchester, who tested and approved the other quality requisite—viz., strength. I send you, for your pri vate information, the names of these gentlemen. " A committee is now being formed in Manchester for the purpose of complying with my letter in the Money Article of Monday last, but the words of the Times leader recall to my mind my own first impressions of the course which I was bound to adopt, from which I was deterred by the advice of friends on whose judgment I am disposed to rely, and I reluctantly consented to require some guaran tee before disclosing the nature of my secret. "My motives in requiring this guarantee have been somewhat misunderstood. In order to remove this, and still further, because I feel in my conscience that the course I am adopting is that which those who have the truest and best interests of the nation at heart should pursue, I now publicly relieve my committee from any guarantee what ever, asking them to act merely as a committee of investi gation, and 1 throw myself entirely upon the sympathy and support of the nation to award to me whatever in their opinion my discovery may be worth, "I firmly believe that I shall be able to establish.— " 1. That my substitute will answer all the purposes of cotton. " 2. That a present and sufficient supply can be procured, and the operatives at once set to work, " 3. That the future supply of the material may be ob tained by cultivation in the United Kingdom, without dis placing from other purposes one acre of land, and thus be the means of developing a new staple industry of the Country, " If I fail, I shall at all events have the consciousness that in England's hour of need, and in the full belief that my discovery would relieve that need, I have discharged my duty, and I most sincerely trust that Be who, in His in finite wisdom, has permitted the present evil to fall upon the nation, may, in His boundless mercy, show now to the people that in their deepest distress He is at hand to suc cour them, and to do so frcm sources whence they least expected help. I am, sir, your obedient servant, THE INVENTOR. " 11, Abehureh-lane, Sept. 13." Again a large number of persons particularly in terested in the cotton question visited the counting house of Messrs Robinson and F leming to-day to see the patent-prepared jute. Among these were many cotton-spitners, several of whom mentioned that jute prepared in the old form has been for some time mixed with cotton to make the commoner form of cloths. All admitted that the jute now shown is far better adapied f or use, and that by being made with the fibre or staple shorter it can readily be mixed and spu n i n the cotton machinery. As regards mixing with wool, there seems to b e DO material. difference of opinion whatever of the on the adoptability One broker said it might be sold as a coarse form of wool, ao much does it resemble it in appearance. after of LI at B: been goods Notti wand strict at Bi there quote Thi out t /less 1 for m no ne deney New at 92 Exchi 20s. 1 Ai in the stanc( Stock to 9! ditto New prem. to 27 85 86 and t Th( been r half : gener Easte shire, donia Nora Midla field E Thi chane bardo berg to 10! dian joi remai Scotti :to 18; to 19 are st, have Bank :3 per ( :3 per ( New 3 Annul Ditt India Ditt Consol Bache Buena Equad Egypt 'Ditt nxic Portti Ditt Ditt Rug Ditt Ditt Ditt Spare Ditt Ditt Litt Slytnis. Turkic Ditt Venez 1)zi;!: butch Dirt Conso Ditt sht moC to t usui TI the At rathi Cott Ditt Ditt Ditt Litt i)itt