The Sun. — London, England, 1862-09-03 00:00:00

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All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAL —Morning, £O3. 24m.—Afternoon, 9h. 7m To-ifoßßow.-Morning, 9h. 56m. —Afternoon, 10h. 40m • • 44 , 4 '" " l "'"' .4. 'P )it - • • 4 ,v ,„. • • -,, • , - -4r _ THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1862. A Confederate congress is now become a settled institution. Though hardly more than a year and a half old, its acts are as regular and attract quite as much attention as those of the North. The Southern PRESIDENT'S Messages have also had the great advantage of being perfectly lucid and intel ligible; those who have to present readers with the pith of the message, and to comment on its meaning, are thankful enough to have the sen tences of JEFFERSON DAVIS rather than those of Mr. LINCOLN to deal with. The Confederate Congress met this time, as usual, at Rich mond—itself a great fact, after all that has been -done to capture it, and received the message of the PRESIDENT. It is principally a business document, but the tone of it is quietly confident. In his last message, it will be remembered, he had to acknow ledge the reverses that had befallen the Confede racy in the Border States, and to point ost the ad vantage of greater concentration of their forces, and contracting their line of defence. lie has now to meet them with the brighter story of their unques tioned success in baffling and defeating the North. DAVIS'S Messages have been so free, generally, from anything like Yankee brag, losses have been so frankly acknowledged, and threatening intima tions have been so soon fulfilled, that we naturally place some reliance on his more hopeful statements, When, therefore, he states that the military events have assured the friends of constitutional liberty of their final triumph in the pending struggle against despotic usurpation, we feel disposed to believe that he does not say so without good ground for it. Before, he considered that his strength lay in telling the unwelcome truth, and in stimulating his people by the knowledge of real dangers. We may assume that he would not now hazard inducing a false security if a reasonable hope did not exist. De nunciation of the war policy of the North must, we suppose, occupy some sentences in a Southern Mes sage ; the Northern one will, we may be sure, fully repay all eloquence of that kind ; and " constitu tional liberty" means of course, in Southern lan guage, government with the free consent of the governed ; just as in the north rebellion means breaking away of " Sovereign States" from the Federal compact without the consent of other Sovereign States " the inference from both statements being, that federation of sovereign ties wont do. It is a device for weakening the collective power of a people, as Loris NAPO LEON well knew when, unasked, he planned a con federacy for Italy. Mr. DAVIS seems to have great hope, whil e asking for power to extend the conscription, that he shall not be obliged to do it. The immense levies of the Federals may render it neo„„ eary that they should extend the age of exemption from thirty five to forty-five. This would seem t° th at . the South has pretty well exhausted supplied by the younger age, while the N orth, : present, can order a large conscription without extending the age. Mr. DAVIS, however, seem s quite confident that, at the worst, he shall be able to meet fully the attacks of the North. What fills him evidently with the greatest dis may, is the poor approaches made by the North towards making the use they ought to do of the negroes. With the denunciation of POPE'S and BUTLER'S atrocious proclamations we shall all sym pathise; but his alarm at black enlistments shows at once the really weak point of the South and the supreme folly of the North. Not only does he de nounce the arming of slaves, but "a bill has been in troduced providing that a Federal army, composed incongruously of white and black men, shall not he entitled to the privileges of war. All negroes belonging to such an army 'who may be captured wail be sold, and their commanders hung or shot !" We beg to inform Mr. DAVIS that he could not take a better course to arouse against him all the best n this side the w a t er t h e feeling in Europe' O u niversal feeling is that of all persons the negro es are 3tiat those who hare a moral right to fight. T tl L iV ,, ers t a sympa th y wo uld go with the black man ~-; . -agu " ng with the white oppressor. We cannot LIVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, by 111.0 S. HOOD, Esq., in FIIN, every week. Ready on the 13th September, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d. ; post free, 55., the SECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN, with numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor oas Articles by the following distinguished writers : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber, Esq. l 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. &c., &a, &c. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. blame Mr. DATIS for keeping his negroes at home if he can, neither can We wonder that he shrinks from an army of free blacks. But if he treats them otherwise than as prisoners of war he may win the praises of his slaveholders, but he will win also the execrations of the civilised world, Mr. LINCOLN, however, may learn if he will what he loses by his spare-slavery policy, from the rival PRESIDENT'S Message. He will there see that even the mild and indirect measure of em ancipation termed the " C on fi scat i on Act, " is more d rea d e d than the Northern arms. The last 600,000 men whom the PRESIDENT is striving for, might all have been left at home if he had begun with the prin ciple of justice to four millions of his coloured fel low-citizens. Never did a country better deserve de feat than one composed of Free States which re- At Paris and at Turin there has been since then plentiful evidence of preparation. Rumours, some of them of a very startling nature, a few of them of a ♦erysinister character, have been rife in each capital, since the crushing out of the rebellion in Calabria. The Italian Ministers are described as so far be wildered by the prompt success won for them by Colonel PALLAVICINO, at the head of his Bersag lieri, that they have invited to a consultation with them in Turin, among other leading statesmen of Italy, Signori FARINI, MINGHETTI. and MASSIMO D'AZEGLIO. Strange to say, just at this cri tical juncture—Baron RICISOLI (of ail men !) going to Paris (of all places !) In the latter capital the EMPEROR presided yester day at a Cabinet Council—a council which had been postponed from the day preceding. With what results the French Ministers met their Sove reign in Council cannot at this moment even be conjectured. It remains still, even to the Parisians most intimately en rapport with the heads of admi nistration an inscrutable mystery. Reports were consequently still flying about as to the probabili ties of the WALEWSKI and RANDON section of the present Cabinet (the section favourable, that is, to the continued occupation of Rome) gaining the pre ponderance, and thereby ousting, as would in that event be simply inevitable, at such a juncture as the present, the section opposed to the maintenance of the French occupation, the section represented by MM. DE PERSIGNY and DE THOUVENEL. La France still of course puts a bold face upon the matter— fused, in its bitter aversion to the coloured people, to make freemen of slaves. The North, with the emancipated slaves, would have been certain vic tors. Rejecting them and its own duty, it will ignominiously fall. What good reason Mr. Davis has to rely on Southern military prowess, is evident, even from these last accounts. We were quite right in assum ing that, notwithstanding Northern representa tions of the battle of Cedar Mountain, it would turn out to be a real defeat. The news from Cape Race of the 26th fully confirms this. We now read that the Confederates followed close on Pope's rear in his retreat from Culpepper to the Rappahannock; that skirmishing and artillery engagements continued during the whole of the week; and that the Confe derates at length made a dash at Catle's Station, capturing one staff officer, and General Pope's per sonal luggage, maps, official despatches, and most valuable papers relating to the campaign ; while the reported capture of 2,000 Confederates is not yet confirmed. The boastful captor of the 10,000 prisoners at Corinth will begin to learn a little modesty, as he contemplates General LEE and Mr. DAVIS laughing over the perusal of his letters, despatches, and military plans. " Assumes the God, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres :" The other incidents of news brought by the City of Baltimore are not favourable to the Federals. The Confederates still seem to be operating with a view to turn HALLECR'S right flank in Virginia, and to keep Washington, looking out for a sudden visit. But there is a confusion in the telegrams relating to the movement, which somewhat perplexes us. Fort Donnelson, in Tennessee, reported to have been captured, by the last advices, is now said to have successfully resisted the Confederate attack. Baton Rouge, however, is still in danger from the rebels, and the Federals are even making prepara tions to burn the city, if they are beaten ! At New Orleans also, BUTLER is in such fear of the ihhabitants, that he has disarmed them, foreigners included, notwithstanding the protests of the French Consul. Everywhere the North seems to be hard pressed, and the only hope to be its new and vast conscription. the JUPITER TONANS for the time being (at any rate in its pretensions) of Parisian journalism. Sa Majeste himself the while, cuncta supercilto mo ventis, remaining all the while dumb, impassive, impenetrable! Time will come, however, and that very speedily, when the Oracles must speak—though it may not be at Delphos. According to the Opi nions the 25th—according to La France, the 15th—is fixed for the re-assembling of the Italian Chambers. Then RATTAZZI will have to make his explanations. Then will it be seen how far if at all the Prime Minister of Italy can contrive to wash his hands of the blood of GARIBALDI. As for the talked-of Trial of the Great Prisoner—it is the merest farce, the veriest make-believe. Let them dare to touch a hair of his head, and—we will not say that RATTAZZI and his colleagues will rue the day, for their fate is already sealed, but the—hopes of King VICTOR EMMANUEL and the prospects of a Constitutional Government under his sovereignty —will, as surely as Death is reserved for us all, be scattered far and wide to the winds of Heaven. While we are still waiting to obtain an inkling of NAPOLEON'S intentions in regard to Rome, we cannot but revert to a consideration of what are already visible in Italy as the results of GARIBALDI'S Downfall. The defeated Hero arrived, it appears, at Spezzia, at two o'clock on the afternoon of Mon day, the Ist instant, that is as recently as the day before yesterday—having been conveyed thither direct from Reggio on board the Italian steam frigate, the Duca di Genova. The news of his arrival was officially announced in the Gazetta di Torino upon the following morning, namely, yes terday. With GARIBALDI—whose wounds every one will rejoice to know, are not serious, as was at first stated (at any rate in regard to one of them) — with GARIBALDI, for a brief while in the citadel at Reggio, afterwardsfor a longer interval on board the Duca di Genova, and now, doubtless, for a yet longer time in his scene of captivity at Spezzia, was the Hero's gallant son, MENOTTI. His other son, RICIOTTI, recently domiciled at Turin, is stated to have hastened at once to Spezzia, immediately the account of his father's disaster had been followed by the intimation that that southernmost seaport of the Sardinian States had been se l ec t e d as the Great His Royal High ness t h e P r i nce of Wales visitedon Monda Mr. John L's Prisoner's destination. There th e d aunt l ess heart of th Egyp t)an Hall, Piccadeech Gallery of Sketch e s i n Oil, atilly. the defeated Patriot may find consolation even in The military tribunal of Brabant tried, on Satur the depth of his present affli c ti on i n the affectionate n da i y, • fo t r w i o ns p u ri b v o a r t d e .nt. soldiers na on dmetd striking thei r an . d B or fflurgi-. sympathy of those two sOns,RI CIOTTI and MINOTTI. Both prison ers were f ound guilty an g d condemned to death. Better—now that all is over in . regard to this wild, The tunnelling of Mount Cenis by the system of mad enterprise—b e tt er, perhaps, for his own compressed air is pr ogress i ng sat isfactorily on the Savoy thoughts now, this imprisonment at Spezzia, after d. O n tun th n e el lt a ai Italian side f t r h o e m machines ar e still 2 employed, a s i nd e th having, at any rat e ma d e th e attempt to extricate each day. On the Ita.ian side the distance 0 reached is 1,200 Italy from her dilemmas, by an adventure in which 'metres, and on the Savoy side 720 metres. he hazarded his life, as well as staked upon the The Toulonnais says that the Government steamer cast of a die, the priceless treasure to Italy of his tUretsilseoffletfht e T l o s u le l s on of tw ll o y d e a re ys since to assist a vessl in dtihse reputation—better in hi s own est i mation, doubt- Borysthenes, belonging to n . the The vessel prove d t ies Impe o riales, less, even all thi s (h um ili at i on, defeat, wounds, which, while trying a new screw, had grounded on a rock, imprisonm en t) , th an to be still eating his heart out , and, to avoid sinki ng , h a d b een run ashore off the peninsula in his rocky i s l an d h ome at Caprera ! The manner They um muchf convicts in the bagne of Toulon en. in which GARIBALDI has fallen by the hands of the has late so increased that there is now a difficulty treacherous Government of Signor RATTAZZI, hardly in fin h ding sufficient space to lod ge t h em. D uring the last have a w r r i i l v i e d d 0 , u r a b i s t i l n e g s s t hree remember o e t a m l n b e u rm theb e r t f o sm 3 , 1 0 9 u 0 s . and sufferin g , s t ruc k down b less than the flag rant fact of his falling, bleeding month readers o y the soldiers of sale which lately took place in the Champs-Elysees of the VICTOR EMMANUEL, must, sooner or later, we may magnificent jewelry and other effects of a dorm -monde ce be certain, bring down the avenging blade of l b eb f rity, Mlle.rt AnnaDeslions. nd Tha t t lady has just figured NEMESIS upon that now exultant Cabinet at Turin. placed in the hands of the auctioneer by a butche ° r P , P named The mere thought of the" fact' , and of the " manner" Josse, claiming payment of a sum of 406 f. for meat sup of GARIBALDI'S Downfall can hardly do otherwise p l i e d.Thed eien da sh n o t h h a a v d in ev g er p y ro w du ee c k ed p t a b id e o c v oo or k's to b t o b o a k t , which proved that than pierce with sorrow the heart of the Re Ga- functionary the amount due to the butcher, the court de lantuomo. If ever man was basely trapped and tided that the plaintiff was alone to blame in giving undue deceived, it was GARIBALDI in that mountain credit to the cook without authority, and nonsuited him pass, on Aspromonte. An Italian soldier, bearing a ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE.-14,813 claims have flag of truce is sent after the Great Condottiere and been received, and 13,106 volunteers enrolled in this re his band of red shirts. GARIBALDI, respecting the serve. Of these 45 . hold certificates of competency as tifiand 260 certicates of competency as mates ; 19 flag of tru c e sent out to him th us i n t h e name of his holl masters, cercates of servi fi ce as masters, and 46 certificates :of KING, pauses to parley w i t h i ts bearer. There is service as mates—total holding certificates, 380. And the a halt of the Garibaldians. A n d w hi le the flag of f orce em b races 2,015 petty officers in the merchant service. truce is thus made the instrument of deception to CRYSTAL sanTAdLfruPitAwiLAllCbEe.—herlrdhtehigdreat a d utumn show of e the Patriotic Chief, the Bersaglieri of PALLAVICINO entries are more than usually extenysive, req-mui°rirrngwnearhly 4,000 feet of tables ; they have been placed all round the brought up, and lo !—the unsuspecting are rapidly hro great transept and naves, and consequently are quite i d Garibaldians find themselves surrounded! The bearer pendent of bad weather. The fruit comprises kinds f rom ne- distinctly requested GARIBALDI, nearly all the principal growers. The flowers will be fa; of the flag of truce in the name o f his (the soldier's) commanding offi- 1 more varied than on simila r occas i ons. Among them will be found a large collecti • on, nearly 400 specimens of la cer, PALLAVICINO, to de lay the march of th e G ar i - diolus, which have been sent from P ar i s expressl baldians—a requ es t whit , g •,h was simply mad e, as the s h ow. The palace will open as usual at nine o'cl y fo r this Bersaglieri to circum- ock at the ordinary rate of ad m i ss i on . I t i s expected the judges will event proved, to enable the conclude their awards, and the flowers and fruit will be The defile of Tiviolo upon en view, by 12 o'clock. Vent the Garibaldians. r occupied by the Royal BOSTON.—The Harbiet Ralli, f rom M arseilles, th at height of A s p romon t e i s oceuP trow,° Through that defile the Gar ibaldians had w hic h afterwa : r w d a s s ta s k e e i n ed to by i%Te t w he y F or e k der h a as ls, baoten aged Nerwele by the Orleans and to pass, if th ey w i shed to esc ape from their Government. treacherous assailants. PALLAVICIN O calls upon The Can a d a papers say that an extensive far GARIBALDI t vela' h the trade will centre this fall in Montreal, in consequence of 0 surrender—a demand -- lc the troubles in the United States preventing fromtraders rebel chief ly with • naturall going to New York and Boston. The season's supply of y refused to coMP under the eireuntata without robes from the Hudson Bay Company, will, it is expected, nee k And therefore, be over 12,000. an instant's delay, PALLev i ' , order to attack ! It is the xiti , ebro gives the A fire occurred at Lagny (Oise) two nights since, ° B assailants ! GA RIBALDI troo p s who are th e by which two farm-hou ses , w i t h their outbuildings full of proved himself t o be daun Who has so often before corn , w ere to tally destroy e d. Th e l oss amounts to nearly ' tless 8 000 f and the whole of the insurance on the property in the • 7 , '' d face of deatn, was only 10,500 f. pro patria non timidus m0ri.,....i, sai d was been The Ech f o i A f g o ric a o le tion sa h says:--« be :T m h e e th m e o m re ore n c um vi eron d s shot down almost at the very first voltleo a bayonet wound immediately aft erw y a ' rli re s ceb riug the sourefetshe correctness of the opinion on the result of the Volunteers repel the assault for a while wi • th Ric arewe c o rop, put forth by us, namely, that the yield for 1862 utmost gallantry. Before many minutes h the w heat wotild not exceed t . hat th o e f a g greoaotderavpearratgeofyetahre. pastAt Paris, week elapsed nine of them are lying dead in the defi v e i, rai n has fallen w during g r has is general prevailed elsewhere. and as many as three hundred are more or , and t th c e ir s c a u m m e stance has not, however, t produced any tille less severely wound e d . GARIBALDI—not himself rasequences, for if on some palut h under e t a h r e rying influence o o f the seriouslyo f seriously maimed eith er i n foot or leg, yet effectu- t he sheaves has been delayed d v anced rapidly, the lands have ally crippled, neverthel ess, b y b u ll et and bayonet been rai p ia re , the d be t e o ts have receiv a s the first tillage which precedes --sees the utter futility, a n d , consequently, the in- the auturan sowing, and the rivers, being alimented by the to resume their pluvial u. human barbarity, of allowing the fighting to con, activity. Waters have have allowed t'htes m ills in the produce of . wheat after th m a i reat ine r pglity s T w s as harvested previous or tine, The Hero orders a surrender, He, and two subsataent to %riretaleagiona.,l THE QUEEIV'S VISIT TO GERMANY. BRUSSELS, SEPT. 2. The royal family of Belgium has left for Antwerp, to receive her Majesty Queen Victoria. Her Majesty is expected to arrive here this after noon, and will proceed direct to Luke'', without stopping at Brussels. The preparations which were commenced for her Majesty's reception at the Northern Railway Sta tion have been countermanded. It is expected that the Queen will set out for Germany to-morrow. Her Majesty Queen Victoria arrived at Antwerp at four p.m., after a rough passage, and reached Laokon at six o'clock. His Majesty was received with the usua honours. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold alighted at the Brussels station with the Count de Flandre and the English Minister, and were conveyed to the Royal Palace in Court car riages. thousand of his followers, are taken prisoners, 300 of them hors de combat. And this by no more than 1,800 of the Royal troops—the commander of the Bersaglieri having altogether within call, however, some 18,000 of the KING'S soldiers in the neigh bourhood of Aspromonte. Such were the circum stances under which the insurgent standard of GARIBALDI waslowered upon the banners of the .Re Galantuomo! NESDAY EVE NING, SEPTEVIBER 3, 1862 A letter from Toulon, in the Temps, describes a singular piece of negligence in connection with the Mexi can expedition. On the 26th a telegram was received in quirinovhether room could not be found on board son e of the ships about to sail for Mexico for 254 tons of heavy stores, which had doubtless been forgotten in some corner. The "heavy stores" in question were nothing less than the siege train, which had been completely overlooked in the orders for shipment. We were under the impression that the last Order issued by the Horse Guards, intended to provide young cavalry officers with chargers at a reasonable price, had given general satisfaction, and had removed the causes of those complaints which were not unfrequently poured in upon us before its issue, We are now asked to bring for ward a grievance of a different character. Formerly the complaint was that commanding officers were too particular; that they would not pass a charger unless it fulfilled some most fastidiously conceived conditions, without the slightest consideration for the pocket of the young officers. A cor respondent, on the other hand, now writes to us that the newly joined cornet is compelled to receive two chargers, for which he rays £5O a-piece. The horse-dealer who keeps the regiment in re-mounts is supposed to provide (when called upon to do so) young officers with animals not only superior to those intended for the ranks, but also to the class of horse for which that price would generally be asked. "Instead of this," says our correspondent, "any ugly, ill shaped, fiddle-headed brutes are supposed to be good enough for officers, and if passed as sound by the veterinary surgeon, are admitted into the regiment by the commanding officer, who has no option. After the cornet has paid his £lOO, the dealer sends him another bill for travelling ex pestses,which may run to almost any sum he chooses to ask." Our correspondent adds some particulars respecting the pair of screws foisted on himself, which entitle him to sympathy, and make us regret that a rule which, in the main, we con sider to be well conceived and wholesome in its operation, should be thus abused in particular instances.-4rmy and Navy Gazette, The American commercial advices this week are not of much importance. The premium on gold continued its upward course, but not rapidly, as the new batch of notes intended for issue were not yet ready, and there had cense • quently been no fresh inflation of the currency. The mer chants were looking for a new and very distinct movement as soon as the printers would be ready with this supply. Since the necessity had been avowed for 600,000 additional soldiers it was seen that the financial question had assumed new proportions, but the idea of any possible difficulty is still entirely dormant. The first estimate of the cost of each Federal soldier placed in the field was £2OO, and the calculation is said to have been confirmed by experience. It is therefore remarked that if the proposed 600,000 are now raised, even though the cost may be partly reduced from the fact of the necefr sary ma chinery being provided, the sum of 256 millions sterling appropriated by Congress for the expenditure of the fiscal year ending the 30th of June next will not be sufficient. But, so far from this conclusion causing any misgiving, it seems rather to be regarded with pride, and even the IVew York Journal of Commerce, the only paper that makes any pretence to an occasional recognition of the ele ments of economical science, takes the opportunity to assure the people that the country can maintain the contemplated rate of outlay "for several years," without exhaustion. There is " ample wealth," it is said, "to go on with the war, and more readily available than that of any other country in the world; but the journal does not pause to reconcile this statement with the fact that America up to the present time could scarcely ever build a city or a railway without applying to Europe for the means, Foreign credit, it is admitted, must now be given up as gone, but home credit will do everything. One point, however, is insisted upon to the effect that for home credit to be successfully developed it will be absolutely essential that the "leeches fattening on the public Treasury" should be rigidly dealt with. It is conceded by these writers that at all times of great public expenditure there must be some attendant corruption, but they assert that in the Government of the United States the "selfishness, fraud, and peculation" is such that " every citizen"—that is to say, every man to whom these peculators owe their position, and by whom they are up held, should "aid in detecting and exposing it." SAWNEY'S CAUTION.—Making the overland jour ney from the West -end to the City the other day, in one of the new big 'buses imported from Manchester, I asked the conductor whether he sold many Exhibition tickets to the country visitors, and he replied that it was very hard work to induce them to believe that the tickets sold in the omni buses would really admit them to the building. He added, however, that he "generally contrived to manage it some how, except when the folks was Scotch." " How is that ?" said I. " Well, you see, sir," responded the conductor, them Scotch chaps is so cunning,' you can't make 'em believe nohow you ain't a trying to rob 'em I Says Ito one of 'm this werry mornin'—This here ticket will admit you without no bother at the doors, and it's the same to you whether you pays a shilling here as there. ' Hoot, toot, man,' says he, ' how do I ken that ? Lunnon's a very wicked place ; and, though I'am obleeged for your ceevility, I'd rayther keep my ain Biller in my ain poke." The fellow told this story with a good deal of Cockney humour, and, as you may suppose, elicited a roar of laughter from the passengers.—Belfast News Letter's Cor respondent. ROMANTIC CASE OF DESERTION AND SUICIDE.— Yesterday forenoon the body of a young married woman, named Mrs. Austin, lodging at 4, Hall-place, Hall Park, Paddington, who was found dead from poison, was removed, in pursuance of a coroner's order, to the parish dead-house to await an inquest. The previous night the door of her house had been forced open by a constable whose suspicion had been excited by her threats to destroy herself. He found her lying in bed quite dead, and she had apparently been so several hours. He also found a phial containing laudanum, a portion of a packet of sugar of lead, and an empty half-pint tumbler, which appeared to have contained beer mixed with these poisons, on the dressing -table. After the removal of the body a quantity of poetry was dis covered on the mantelpiece. It was dedicated to a man supposed to be her husband, bewailing her deserted and isolated condition, and begging he would forgive and at once receive her back to his arms, all expressed in the most romantic language, but no allusion was made to her inten tion to take away her own life. A PERSIAN BEAUTY AT SHIRAT,—As I said be fore, the street was narrow. What was to be done ? Turn I could not, even had I wished to do so, for my servant was following close upon me ; and had I turned back to get out of the way of a woman, he , A ould probably have instantly poured forth upon her a volume of startling arri horrible abuse. For this a Persian invariably doesif a woman happens to get into his way, and often be will strike at her with his whip. It then occurred to me it was just within the bounds of possibility that, if I pushed my horse close in against the wall to allow her as much room as possible to pass, her cu riosity to see the Feringee would cause her to lift her veil as she went by. My curiosity was at that point that I would have charged the very wall itself, had I been sure that the _ _ unveiled face of this majestic form would have greeted me on the other side, In the full consciousness of her youth and beauty—f or th e latter I h a d qu i te ma d e up my mind she possessed—the former could not but exist with that proud airy step—she advanced towards me, keeping the very centre of the narrow road. I felt that I positively grew pale with anxie/ y as the veiled face came level with my horse's head. Was I fated to see only that provoking bit of white gauze that so effectually concealed the face be- neath ? or was I to be dazzled with the beauty it so jealously guarded? For a few seconds I was in anxious doubt, and then the rosy-tipped fingers held back for one instant the white gauze veil that fell before the face, And the beauty that shone upon me during that one short instant was one I have never forgotten —never can forget. It was not the soft beauty that floats down upon you from the eyes of the For narina—no, far from it; nor was it the beauty of a Magda len, beaming with love and affection. Yet, by some strange freak of memory, when I recalled afterwards the beautiful myiesniotna,ryl glimpse p o s d e dl w y a e s n i o t7t h ha r t em l i f n ul d d ed a of bo I th. n of each particular feature utterly impossible ; but will Sucha emo write as far as I am able that which remains as a fair memory of the past. The hair parted low on the forehead, but the hood of the veil, coming well forward, allowed only a little of it to be seen. That, I could not but observe, was black and glossy as a raven's wing, and the glitter of gold showed that a few coins were " wreathed in the dark midnight of her hair." The eyebrows were not arched, but appeared— either by nature or art, I had:not time to distinguish —to be carried right across in one continuous dark line. Singular as this seems, it by no means marred the strange beauty of the face. The eyes were large and softly brown, as a deer's; for that one instant they flashed forth a look, which was perhaps more of wonderment than alarm, at the black coated infidel, over whom, at that very moment, the skirts of her veil were Sweeping. The complexion was exquisitely fair. No wanton ray of old Sol had ever touched that pale, bloodless cheek, which seemed as if it could never have known a blush. One thought of the lines, 1 " In all her veins, No conscious drop, to form a blush, remains." Beyond a small blue spot tatooed on the centre of her chin, I can give no further description of a face that haunts me like a dream whenever I think upon it.— Blackwood's Maga zine for September. THE THEATRES IN HOLY WEEK.--A number of churchmen, headed by the Hon. Colin Lindsay, have me morialised the Lord Chamberlain on the opening of the metropolitan theatres in Passion Week, as the time is ap proaching when the ordinary annual licences are issued. Mr. Lindsay reminds the Lord Chamberlain that in the spring a deputation waited upon him in connexion with this subject, when hi s lordship declared that it would be impossibl e to accede to the memorial then presented in consequence of the licenses having been already granted. The memorialists now urge th a t there is a strong feeling of respect in the minds of church men the holy week, and that it would be a serious blow to r for eig iou as well a violence to a feeling of reverence for a time-honoured and pions custom if the theatres were again allowed to be opened durin that week. The memorialists, therefore, submit to the Lord Chamberlain that in the re issue of the usual licences to the managers of metropolitan is— theatres ho sh ou ld insert the ancient clause prohibiting the theatres under hi s l ordship's jurisdiction—that is, within the metrop o l fr og bein g opened in the holy week, LATEST NEWS. TURIN, SEPT. 3. The Italia of to-day says : An extraordinary Council of Ministers was held yesterday, at which the President of the Senate, and MM. Paleocapa, Alfieri, d'Azeglio, Tecchio, and Farini were also present. "The Council deliberated on the present state of Italian affairs. " The health of Garibaldi is satisfactory." TURIN, SEPT. 2. Garibaldi arrived yesterday evening at Spezzia. His wounds are not serious. The Opznione of to-day says :—" Rumours are current that the Italian Chambers will reassemble on the 15th inst. It is asserted that the Ministry will ask the Chamber of Deputies for authority to bring to trial those of its members who were implicated in the late events in Sicily and Ca labria." The Opinione further states that the news of deserters and others taken with arms in their hands having been shot is untrue. The Monarchia Nazionale of to-day asserts that several chests filled with poignards have been seized at Milan. The Official Gazette of this evening says :—" At 2 p.m. yesterday Garibaldi arrived at Spezzia, in the Duca di Genova, accompanied by his son and several volunteers. This morning he was still on board. Tranquillity has been restored in the cities where a certain party wished to maintain agita- tion." 'lhe Gazette di Turino states that the Ministry has invited Signori Farini, Minghetti, Massimo d'Azeglio, and some other political personages, to Turin in order to consult with them. ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 2. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of to-day denies the truth of the execution by the Montenegrins of ten Turkish prisoners. The same journal also announces that it has opened a subscription on behalf of the Monte negrins. VIENNA, SEPT. 2. An Imperial decree appoints M. Burger Minister of Marine, and transfers to his department all the maritime affairs which have hitherto been under the direction of the Minister of the Interior. The directorship of the Post-office and of the telegraphs is transferred to the Minister of Commerce. FRANCE. La Presse announces that M. de Lavaiette, the French Ambassador at Rome, is expected at Paris. BOURSE, Sept. 2.—The market has been rather firmer, but without any improvement in quotations. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69fr. 10c. The Railway Share Market quiet, but firm. The market closed as follows :- 4t per Cent 5....... 97 75 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents .. 68 80 Do. end month.... 69 05 New 3 per Cents .. Do, end month.... Credit Mobilier..., 862 50 Do. end month.... 863 75 Bank Shares 3195 Credit .F oneier 1215 Piedmontest Fives 71 30 Italian Loan 7l 50 Roman .... — Austrian .. 77 Spanish Threes 5O 50 Home Debt .. 4B 25 ILA IL WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1035 1037 50 Northern New ditto - -- Lyons and Mediterranean 1013 75 .. 1117 50 Geneva 347 50 350 Southern 827 50 827 50 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard _ _ 480 - .. 476 25 608 75 .. 608 75 TURKEY. A correspondent of the Salut Public, of Lyons, in a letter from Scutari (Albania) of the 20th ult., gives a very interesting and graphic summary of the last battles between the Turks and Montene grins, in consequence of which the former have entered Cettigne, and Princes Mirko and Nicolas have been forced to take flight. He says:— " The Montenegrin war is at length terminated. After a number of severely-contested actions the Montenegrins have been gradually compelled to fall back. At the present moment the Turks are masters of the important village of Rieka, which is at only three hours' distance from Cettigne. On Sunday last Prince Nicolas. who in the preceding month of April had refused the friendly arbitra ment of France, wrote to our Consul here a letter of despair, in which he acknowledges that he is re duced to the last extremity, and places the destiny of his country in the hands of the French Govern ment. It was certainly hardly worth while to cause himself to be exterminated, in order to arrive at that conclusion. It would be impossible to form an idea of the fearful obstinacy with which the last battles have been fought. On the side of the Montenegrins resistance has been carried to the point of perfect insanity. I myself have seen a woman, assisted by her two children, the eldest of which was not more than thirteen, hold at bay for more than half an hour a group of Turkish irregulars. Crouching behind some rocks she kept up a perpetual fire with two pistols and a musket, which her children loaded and passed to her. A fragment of a shell having crushed her shoulder, she fell, but still had the courage to fire off her two pistols. Ten or twelve Bachi-Bazouks, with their sabres in hand, rushed upon the group, and in a minute three lifeless and mutilated bodies were all that remain e d. I n d ee d, during this strug g l e, which I think will be the last he re for a long time, Montenegro has made a supreme effort , men, youn g and old, children, and women arose , each took up 7 his arms, and went forth to die. There are defiles w here the vultures must have had a rare feast. It has been a war of extermination; the Turks have not left standing either a tree, a house, or a blade of grass; everything has been burnt. One of the most horrible features of the struggle I myself witnessed—women and children burnt alive in the houses. The Montenegrins have not been behind hand 'with the Turks in this respect. What rage and what carnage! Excuse the unconnected style of my letter, but I am writing with the impression of what I have just seen. I have blood on my shoes, and I imagine I still breathe the odour of hundreds of corpses heaped up behind the rocks, and lost in the ravines, livid, hideous, aiready,green with corruption, and some half devoured by the wolves and birds of prey." ANOTHER CHILD LEFT AT A RAILWAY STATION. —Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the White Horse Tavern, White Horse-street, Stepney, by Mr. H. R a ffl es Walt hew, touching the death of a male child that was found in the ladies' waiting-room of the Stepney Station on last Saturday morning. Henry Bellethe, guard on the London and Blackwell Railway,•said that on the morning in ques tion, shortly after the eight o'clock train for Fenchurch street had left, he saw a little lilac cotton bag lying on the floor, and, upon unfastening it, he f ound the deceased wrapped up in a lady's handkerchief, the body having marks of blood upon it, which bad seemingly been attempted to be washed off. Witness had noticed two ladies of very respect able appearance in the room before the train left. He had not seen the bag before they left, but found it im mediatel y after. Witness did not know them. There were several I persons in th e room t h at morning, Police-constable Mercier, 415 K, said he received the body from the last witness, and, upon examining it, found that the bag in which it was had I evidently been made for the purpose and in a great hurry. The bo'ly was fo rce d into the bag. D r . H aw k ins said that he made a Post-mortem examination, and found that the deceased had died from loss o f blood consequent on the navelstring being cut an d n ot being tied. The Coroner jury returned on th e suspicious na t u re of th e case , an d the returned the following verdict, " That the deceased was found dead in the ladies' waiting-room of the Stepney Sta tion of th e London anti Blackwall Rail wa y; that it died in consequence of the navelstring being cut ; and there was no evidence to show that it was done with the intention of dtetroying life." • 711 E PENINSULAR MAIL. LISBON, AUGUST 29. The preparations for the _Royal marriage are rapidly progressing. A large pavilion is erected on the Black Horse-square, and triumphal arches are being erected throughout the city. The Marquis Loule and Viscount Carreira are appointed to bring the future Queen from Italy. They will leave Lisbon for Genoa, on the 10th of September, accompanied by a smal; squadron. The marriage will take place during the first week of October; previously tnere will be a special session of the Cortes to arrange the necessary for malities. From the provinces there is a general complaint of the failure of the grain crops, and a large impor tation of foreign cereals will be required. At preaent there is no prospect of any change of Ministry. The wine crop will be very scanty this year. All kinds of business is very dull in Lisbon, and money is scarce. The prices of Manchester goods have risen, and great difficulty is experienced in effecting sales. The troop-ship Mege3ra called at Lisbon for coals, and again left for Canada. The Federal war frigate St. Louis is still lying in the harbour. The weather is much cooler. EXHIBITION FINANCE. These figures are only materials by which some thing like a reliable financial statement may be raised, and, allowing for errors unavoidable in all estimates, we think that the following account will show guarantors how matters stand at present at South Kensington :—Estimated account of all re. ceipis at the international Exhibition from May 1 to August 23, inclusive : cash receipts at doors, £210,196; season tickets. £79,000; refreshment premiums, £5,500 ; refreshment head mol.ey, £16,092 ; advertisements, £15,000 ; catalogues, £16,140; waiting-rooms and umbrellas, £3,471 ; photographic premiums, £2,350; total, £347,749 The receipts in 1851, by the same date, even without such fruitful sources of profit as the refresh ment contracts, had reached £387,936. From the 23d of Aug. to Saturday, the 18th of October, the day on which the Commissioners will most probably cicse the building, gives 48 more exhibition days, and allowing the receipts to be £3,000 a day (a fair average) for each of these days, this will give the Commissioners another £144,000, making with the £348,000 which we estimate to be in hand, £492,000. Messrs. Kelk and Lucas, under their contract, are empowered to draw all money received between £400,000 and £500,000 as rent for the building, giving up the picture galleries if they receive £lOO,OOO from this source. In this case, £92,000 will go into their pockets, leaving the Commissioners £400,000 to pay the following account :—First fixed payment of rent to Messrs. Kelk and Lucas, for the use of the building, £200,000; building extras, £70,000; general ex penses, £175,000; total, £445,000. This will leave an estimated deficiency of £45,000 to be made up by the guarantors, or by keeping the building open a supplementary month. What course will be adopted we shall probably know in a few days ; in the meantime, supposing the esti mate of expenses to be correct—and it comes from staunch friends of the Exhibition—we believe our statement shows in round numbers both sides of the Exhibition balance-sheet.— City Press. VARIETIES. (From Fun.) LINES BY A LOAFER. ON READING MR. TREMENHEERB'S REPORT. What is London bread made of ? What is London bread made of ? Beetles, cobwebs, and dust, And things of disgust, That's what London bread's made of I TWO DESPATCHES OF GENERAL I'CLELLAN. No. I.—For Publication, All the rebels have fled, Stonewall Jackson is dead, And General Besuregard's banished; In fact, without bouncing, They've had such a trouncing, Secession has totally vanished. No. ll.—Strictly Private and .ionfldential. Darn them rebels I I guess We have got in a mess, For advance you must read retrogression; My plans are all addled, The troops have skedaddled, Once again we are licked by Secession. EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—Mr. Driffield, a coroner, Wag fined at Liverpool assizes for writing his depositions so badly, that they were downright illegible. In short, he put his foot into it through his bad hand, but we hear he is progressing favourably. - - THOUGHT OF IN A DREAM.—A FACT.--Is there any connexion between a sweetbread and a sugar-loaf ? What state of the late United States is the most de serving of pity ?—The present state of affairs. THE FLOWER OF THE ARMY.—Major Convolvulus. PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY (BY MR. W. ROUPELL).— " Where there's a will there's a way of making away with it. THE WORST ON " THE FIRST." —Said Jones to Brown, as the covey got up out of shot for the sixth time, "Why are those partridges not like ihe American press ?" " Give it up I" said Brown. And Jones grinned horribly, and said "Because the birds won't lie, and the Yankee papers will." PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS..--." Another Alarming Accident to an Acrobat." QUESTION TO MANCHESTER.--" How are your poor hands ?" Asked in sympathy for their sorrow and admi ration for their fortitude. BUB OLARS' ADVERTISEMENT.—Goods carefully re moved. THE MAN IN PossEssiorr OF ROME.—ltaly : " When may I be allowed, Mr. Oracle, to come into my own draw ing•room 1?" Oracle :—" Oh I I shall stay as long as I like now your favourite has insulted me?" A QUESTION FOR SELF-('.LAMINATION.—Why am I, when I prudently put by money, like myself when I foolishly squander it F—Because in either case I am-ass. A SENSIBLE MAN.—A German, in talking, a few days ago, about us, said, "Tis a FuNder-2tis a real FuNder I" A QUESTION FOR THE H ORSE G UARDS.— . Ought a soldier to wear a percussion cap ? THE CRIMINAL ROBERTS.—The man Roberts, who was tried at the late G locester assizes for the murder of one of his children and attempted murder of another, and who was then acquitted by the jury on the ground of insanity, turns out to be perfectly sane. The Secretary of State called upon the visiting justices to send him a certificate of the prisoner's insanity, in order to his removal to some lunatic asylum. He was consequently examined by the gaol surgeon, Dr. Bleeck, and subsequently by that gentle man in conjunction with Dr. Lyon, and we hear that neither of those gentlemen has been able to discover the slightest symptoms of lunacy in the wretched man. The consequence is that, instead of a certificate being forwarded confirming the view of the jury, the magistrates have been compelled to send off one asserting, almost in direct terms, that Roberts is in full possession of his senses. The chief evidence at the trial for the prisoner's unsoundness of mind was that of his father and mother, who declared that he was consi • dered half silly by his family and neighbours. It *vas known at Gl oces t er that the verdict of the jury did not commend itself to the judgment of the learned judge who presided on the trial!—Bristol Post. PUBLIC GARDENS OF LONDON.--Perhaps about one half of our readers are more or less habitual breathers of coal s moke, and, properly, anxious to see every plot of available ground in the midst of houses decently preserved, and made verdurous for the pub!ic good. There are two primary questions raised, irrespective of the two minor ones which may be started. The first is, whether trees and shrubs are desirable as objects of utility in towns, ir respective altogether of what may be called the "senti mental" part of the subject; as, for instance the induce ment which public gardens offer to the inhabitants of towns to take healthy recreation in the open air, in pre ferchce to other pleasures injurious to health, and morally objectionable. The other question is, whether trees, and what trees, will thrive in cities, where the soil is so excessively drained, that it is scarcely capable of affording nutriment to species that require a deep, moist, soil, and where the atmosphere is usually so loaded with soot, that the stomates of the leaves get choked, and the matter becomes a pursuit of vegetation under difficulties. In Paris, public gardens are acquiring importance, not as accidents, but as integral parts of the plan of improvement which the Emperor has long been engaged in. The gar dens of the great squares are admirably planted, and care fully kept; the trees and shrubs are mostly well chosen; the flowers are selected for their gaiety rather than rarity; and the people are freely admitted, an arrangement which contrasts strikingly with the padlocked palisades and grim walls that inclose the gardens of towns in this country,_ City erfst, BLANK DAY WITH THE BLACK COCKS. "1 h , cve heat d that on the Scottish moors the midges are a nuisance, but I'll back the flies at Coolmer to be found by far a greater one. My head was all day long enveloped in a cloud of them, and you can't think how I suffared from the buzzing biting big and little children of Beelzebub. I wished that Nature had provided them with better occupa tion than spending a whole morning in plaguing and tor menting us; but flies are not the only idle creatures in the world, that delight to spend their time in plaguing other people. " But, after all, the Blackcocks were themselves the greatest torment to us. We were under strict injunctions not to shoot the hens, and you may fancy what our feelings were at seeing five hens in five minutes rising each to a dead point, and flying off unaimed at by our deadly double-barrels. I hope that all who shoot at Coolmer are as virtuous as we were, and with as noble resolution keep their hands from henslaughter. The cocks too were as tantalising as we found the hens; for they kept on get ting up just ten yards out of shot, and not even a wire cartridge could 'perwail on them to stop' with us. In a part of the ground called Pigmoor (which owes its name to Roger Bacon calling for more pig' when he was at a pic nic there), I spied a fine old cock upon the low bough of a fir-tree; and, like the admirer of the hapless _Lucy Neal, I thought if I were by his side how happy 1 should 'eel. But when he saw me trying to stalk him, he waggled his old head in the most provoking manner, as much as to say You are a young man, but you don't get oveir me." So after wading for eight hours in a Turkioh bath of heat, our day's blackcock-shooting ended in our not bagging one of them ; and when I toll you as a sportsman that besides black game, we saw partridges and pheasants which we also might not shoot, and plover, snipe, and wild duck which kept safely out of sh )t, you may conceive that our position made us somewhat think of Tantalus, and fancy that his torments could have scarcely equalled ours. "There is nothing vastly funny in this narrative, it is true. But at least it serves to show what Englishmen will cheerfully submit to in their ardour for le sport : and a blank day's blackcock-shooting is a far more healthy pas• time both for muscles and for mind than a morning spent with dominoes in the manner of our neighb'urs, or with the scarcely more laborious exercise of billiards. With which beautiful reflection, " I remain, my dear Poteh, yours most sincerely, " RAMROD." " P.S.—Grouse-shooting was clearly a classical amuse merit, for we find it said of Ca3sar that 'ad Mauros pro jeolus est,' which evidently means that he went sporting on the Moors." THE YANKEE CONSCRIPT ON CONSCRIPTION, (From Punch.) They sez, to die for fa - herland, a doin' of the dutiful, Is sweet an' comely; it du look cadaverus kinder beautiful; But ez to bein' sweet at all, I wun't say I've a doubt on it, For this here world of ourn ain't Eot no way that's pleasant out on it. Wen dyin' of a bullet wick the doctor can't extract, or A shattered leg, an' gangreen on a comminooted fracter, Preps you may feel sum cora fert in your torter, ef your trust is That your a sufferin.' marterdum amuse you fit for just is. But ef so be you went to war for glory, pay, or plunder', Wut then will ease the pangs of death ez you're a writhin. under? When you reflects what acts o' yourn your agernies is owin' to, I guess it wun't relieve 'em much to think whar you're a goin' to. The henner you must leave below with that there crushed and gory form, I 'gree with that old Fatsides in the playbook - , ain't no chloryform, R'un't stop the smart o' ne'er a wound, sword-cut, or stab o' bagganet : Honner ain't wuth a cent ixcept to them ez lives to brag on it. Neow, of I goes to fight the South, jest s'pose a Bather gashes me. A jagged fragment of a shell rips up or round shot smashes me, Then, when I'm forced to bite the duet in misery, and sprawl about, I reckon honner aint't the thing I'm like to think at all about. Not of I wus the Gin'ral's self, and know'd when I was gone you meant Above my mangled carkies for to stick a marble monument, Instead o' scrapin, where I fell, a foot or so o' mould on me, Or leavin' me for sun to bake, a' varmin to get hold on me. Don't think I'll volunteer for you to conker the ascendant oi7henithat's me,amu ncohrdtaigerhstansdwe youto f flourish orce a man independent nw jtn An' of you press That ain't the sort of sojer, quite, for being killed an' killin'. Press me, destroy my liberty, then you are the aggres‘sor I holds my deadliest enemy, my tyrant, my oppressor. Make me a military slave, a warfarin' white nigger on Mind that it ain't yourself I draws the bead, and pulls the trigger on. HEALTH OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. —From inquiries made yesterday it has been ascertained that serious fears are entertained with reference to the life of the Archbishop of Canterbury. His grace is lying at his palace, at Addington, near Croydon, completely prostrated; and it is said that, although he may from time to time rally, there is, humanly speaking, no chance of his ultimate recovery, or of his again being able to perform any episcopal function requiring personal energy. During the last few weeks the archbishop has been subjected to a succession of severe epileptic fits, indeed some of them have been so seri ous as to lead the medical men who are in attendance to believe that nothing but death could result from them. The archbishop, however, has been until his recent illness a man of great phystcal strength—a strength which now, at the age of 8 ?, is rapidly failing. His grace was translated from the Bishopric of Chester to the Archbishopric of Canterbury on the death of Dr. Howley, in 1848. FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCF.—An accident oc curred yesterday afternoon to Henry Caslon, a soap boiler in the employ of Haydon and Sons, Millwall, Poplar, who, while imprudently crossing a narrow plink which cot nmu nicated from one boiling pan to another, suddenly slipped, and was precipitated into the boiling fat. The pan he. fell into was not more than half full, but his lower extremities were so shockingly scalded that large pieces of flesh came off with the stockings and trousers. He was removed to the hospital in a deplorable condition. The Semaphore of Marseilles publishes the follow ing explanation of the manner in which Garibaldi obtained possession of the steamer General Abbatucci, which con veyed him to Melito :—" The General Abbatucci belongs to the Valery Company, whose offices are at Marseilles. This company has a contract for carrying the mails be tween Genoa, Naples, and Sicily, for the Italian Govern. went. It is to be remarked that all these ships carry the French flag. The agent of the company publishes and distributes a monthly notice of the arrival and departure of the boats at the several ports. According to the notice for the month of August the General Abbatucci was to ar rive at Catania on the 24th, whence it should have sailed on the same day for Messina; from Messina it was to have carried the mails to Naples, Leghorn, and Genoa. As these monthly notices are posted in each town, the expected ar rival of the General Abbatucci at Catania on. the 24th was I well known to Garibaldi. It was thus that on that morn ing Garibaldi and his volunteers took possession of the steamer, notwithstanding the protest of Captain Saettoni, and compelled him to land them at Melito. After the vo lunteers had landed the captain was permitted to sail for Messina, where he received the mails for Naples, Leghorn, and Genoa. When the steamer arrived at Naples, the captain aild crew were committed to prison and the ship was seized." THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIGN.—The number of visitors at the Exhibition yesterday was : By s eason tickets ................ 3,643 Ditto for ls. days ............... . . 803 Bypayment ..................... 47,742 Total ~,,,,,, 52►188 (From Punch ) " My dear Punch,—By 'he kindness of my friend Crack shot, who has Governmental influence, I have enjoyed a day's blackcock shooting down at Coolmer Forest, and for the benefit of Cockney sportsmen like myself, I purpose now to give you some account of my enjoyment. Coolmer, as of course you know, is near the old coach-road to Sherys mouth ; and, if any of the old coaches had been extant on that road, I think they would have carried us pretty well as quickly, and certainly more smoothly than the railway caraiage did which we were forced to travel by. Remembering the old saying about the early bird, and believing that the Blackcock family were birds that got up early, and might then best be met with, we passed the night at Nosehook, or a place of some such name, and started for our shooting in the cool of the morning, with the ther motneter at scarcely more than ninety in the shade. Our virtue in performing this feat of early rising proved to be its own reward, for nothing else rewarded it. With the exception of a donkey, whom a short. sighted sportsman might have shot at as a deer, the only game we found is the first hour and a half was a couple of wild ducks, which we might certainly have bagged if they had but been tame ones. But except Sir William Armstrong's, I know of no breechloader that will kill at half a mile, and this is usually the distance at which wildfowl think it safe to rise and fly aw ty from one. " I don't know how M'Gregor felt when he had his foot upon his native heath; but I must say for myself that walking on a moor is not by any means so easy as walking along Moorgate• street. Perhaps wading is a fitter name to give to it than walking, for one is more than half submer ged in a perfect sea of heather, and every here and there one flounders into scarcely fathomable deeps, where a sports man of small stature becomes totally immersed. Crackt•hot, who has legs of about the length of lamp -posts, of course progressed more favourably than I could hope to do, and I fear that there was more of sarcasm than sympathy in his repeated queries as to how were my poor feet.