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/ vJ e- L -re 62.- ,L,,,_ HOTELS, CHAPLIN'S HOTEL. An) SPREAD EAGLE TAVERN, 84, GRACECTIURCH-STREET,: T,ONDON. Comfort, combined via, moderete charges, will be found at PRIVATE AP th l ia Establishment. ARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sit / Hug R oom, Re. per Day. Bed 14 yorna, Is. Bd. and 2s. per Night. A. Night Porter in attendance. No INCREASE OF CFLARCES. INDIA AND THE COLONIES. pASSIM,GERS Enibrirking or Disembarking enarges a n find superior accommodation and moderate APLIN' S CLA Y AENDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND, Ad 4 j oining; the Terrace Pier. A Lawn in front, extending . to the River. `BE T.O.NDON, 191, FLEET-STRFET, near Temple-bar. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER for TIM the 31st Inst., will consist of EoTAGEs. A l'Anglai se— A la Julienne. POISSON A . Matelotte d'Anguilles---,Pilets de Brille frits. ENTREES. ‘ Dindons a la Bechamel--Kari de Mouton a l'lndienne. Bred braW a la Portag,aise—Seller de Mouton roties. ENTIMMETS. Poudings Cabinet—Beignets de Pommes. Frontage et Salade. Rill TO-MORil OW, November 1, "THE LONDON DINNER" consißt, of POT.AGES. A la Reine—Madeleine. POIRRON S . Cabilland aauce aux Ef ultres—Merlans frits. E Salmi de Grou se a la P er i N TREEs. ord—Bla nque t te de Veau supreme. Bccuf bourn' a l'Anglaise—Hanches de Mouton rotics. ENTREAITITS. Pommes au RizGelee an Vin. Fromage et Salade. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH RI/NISIT, MOSELLE, and other WISES imrorted ex frckisly for THE LONDON DINNER. 'tittle Soup and all Fish in season daily. The attention of Cleroymen. c , fncers, and Professional G entlemen especially drawn t. o th e a d vantazes offered by " eg 'ef"-ant Saloons, which all the requirem en t s o f a Wt-eend acter. Club of the most aristocratic and exclusive ch a - L'on trorve dans An la '. 7 ‘alle de Lecture non seulement lea Fr ancais et Beiges. eill curs Journaux .gials,mais aussi Journ aux A llemands, SAWYER, Proprietor. AMUSEMENTS. CANTERBURY HALL, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. GRAND SELECTION and CANTATA NIGHTLY— VERDI'S " TROVATORE," and MACFARREN'S " HAY DAY: PRINCIPAL ARTISTES. Miss RUS'ELL, Miss TOWNLEY. Messrs. Tivoli, -Green, Raynor, and Russell Grover. Conductov, Mr. JONGHMANS. And the following unprecedented cast of Comic Favourites, viz.:— E. Marshall, A . D. HoWngsworth. and W. T. Critch fle:d the renowned Trio, Du'ey, Eugene, and Unsworth, the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " OR ANY OTHER MAN." T H E 0. X F OR 11, 6, OXFORD STREET. "Don Sebastien (Donizetti's finest work); other Operatic Select ons, Choruses, Glees, Four-part Songs, &c., by Miss Russell v iss lownley ; Meisrs. Morley, Greene, Hulot', and Albert. Conductor, Mr. F, Jonghtnans. Solos by Drew Dean, the youthful Flutist; Mr.Maclag•an's Vntertainment ; and the Comic performances of Miss Caro line Parkes, Messrs. Sam Collins, W. Randall, Fuzene, and trnsworth (the great original of "Or any other man.") Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, Ss. ; Private Boxes, 10e. ed. ROYAL ALHAMBRA: PALACE AND AMPHITHEATRE. OLMAR, from the Cirque Imperatriee, every evening. LES FRERES CONRADE, from the Cirque Napo leon, LES PETITS MONSTRES, the Olympic Wonders. HERR LIEIIHOLTZ, the Champion Wizard. GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT : 60 Per formers, EV EN. Open at Seve Eß n ; C ommence at ING Half-past, s. WOODIN'S CABINET of CURIO • SITIES—NewIy Polished and Re-lined—POLY t• RAPHIC PALL, Ring William-street, Ch ar i ng -cross ' `EVery Evening, at eight (except Saturday), with new characters, music, songs, and dances. The scenic illustrations and effects, entirely new, painted by and under the direction of Mr. William Calleott. Morning Perforreanee, • Saturday, Nov. 1, at 3. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 25.; amphitheatre, Is. 130x -office open from eleven to five. Mr. Woodin AP Mr. Sothern, tha Haymarket, fa his 'clanged character of "Lord llurdreary," Moining and Trvening. A . RGYLL ROOMS.— Grent Windmill -oreet, -L-3 Haymarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.— Open every Evening for Promenade and Dancing, with the - elcbrated Rand of 50 performers. Conductor and Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. BOULCOIIRT.—The new Imperial Qua. Valse Cotillion, and L. Mosca's Peep o'DayValse will e played nightly. A new Conversation Salon has been added to the above T'striblishrnent for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments.— Admission ls. — Manager, M. Grenet. BOYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under The Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Hson, ole Lessees. THIS EVENING a rri Balfe's S popular Opera, THE PURI TAX'S DAUGHTER : Miss LOnisa Pyne, Miss Susan F yne: Messrs. Santley, W. H. Weiss, Patev, A. St. Albyn, J. Rous e , C . Lyall, E Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. Dcors open at hall-past 7—Commence at F. THFATRF.RONAI ITANMARKFT. Lesse r. JB. Ruelrstone. THIS EVENING, e at M 7, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Yr. Farren, Mr. Rovers, Mr. Clark, and Miss E. Romer. Alter which. at a quarter to 8, will be performed (288th time) 1)IIR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck atone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Far^e, entitied DUCK "HUNTING : Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Mr. W. Farren, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss C. Bill. To conclude with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. THEA T R F-11 OYA L. DRURY•LANE, Dion rouricault, Lessee. THIS EVENING, THE COLLEEN HAWN. Dion Eoucicault, Searle. G. Vandenhoff, Leeson, Mellon ; Madame Celeste, Stevens, Latimer. After which, THE RELIEF OF LIICKNOW. Dion lioucicault, Atkins, Edwin, Ryder; Madame Celeste and Mrs. Dion tioucicault. THE SILENT FRIEND;, ON MARRIAGE, 190 pages, illustrated with fOO engravings, price is., post free 14 stamps, sealed 20, containing prescription of Pre ventive Lotion. Make this invaluable work your Guide and Adviser, for self-cure in &l cases of secrecy, resulting from the errors or excesses rf youth, or from infection, loss of natura power and vigour. Address Messrs. 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ABOON TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.- Dr. SMITH has just published a FREE EDITION of 20,000 copies of his valuable work, THE PRIVATE MEDI CAL FRIEND (116 pages), on the Self-cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, &c., resulting from the secret sins of youth. copies may be had free by sending a stamped directed envelope to the Author's residence, 8, Burton-crescent, London, W.C. Consultation by Letter without Fee. Dr. SMITH will, for the BENEFIT of persons suffering from NERVOUS DEBILITY, &c., on receiving a description of their case (enclosing . a stamped directed envelope for re ply), send his written opinion, with advice and directions for the most successful treatment and cure.—Address, Dr. Smith, 8, Burton-crescent, London, W.C. Commence at 7. 1:10YAL PRINCV.SS'S THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr Lindu - Engagement of Miss Amv Sedzwick. 'THIS EVENING, WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S .A WAY. Mr. George Vining Mr. Belmore, R. Cathcart. Miss M. Oliver, and Miss M. Jones. To conclude with THE LOVE CHASE. Messrs. Geo. Shore, Cathcart, Cockrell ; Mrs. Henry vi n tner, Fitzjaln es, Miss Constance Aylmer, and Miss Amy Sedgwick. Marston, II OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE Sole Lessee and Manager — Mr. Edmund Falconer. • 301st Nie - ht of the 'ontinuous run of "Peen ills the new Comedietta. IT AITTST BE TRUE, 'TW A S IN THE PAPERS. Ws 'ter Ley, J. Robins ; Mrs. Weston, Miss Weston, and Miss L. Thompson. _ _ Aftter which, PEEP O'PAY ; or. Savourneen Deelish. Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, and Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. I'. Bowers, Miga Clara eat On. To be followed by the Last View of KILLARNEY, intro ducing the Ballet. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. :Last week. TITIS EV TartaENING will be performed` AZEPPA ; or, The Decorations. ITorse of ry, with New cenery, Dresses, and To be followed by a brilliant routine of novel and darin.cr scenes in the Circle, in which Madame Hislop and Young Deyereux will appear. _ To conclud e w i th a COMIC BALLET, in which 3lissAnnie CuFlancle= h ar ry Crouest e w ill appear. eee at 7.—Stage llanag - er. Mr. W. Searle. THECAUSES of PREMATURE DECAY Rome.n empire to the effetninaayve Authors of eminence h pforibed the decline of the lifflT hey trace chiefly to vichms resistance ; and this effemin e c ' nla ers, 1 precluded yvwtoch. in our own time, 11 habits acquired in early influential journalist has elide DeeS of Turkey. %oral degeneracy al cline of population in the As e a ou"d to account for thed a e- The peculiar source of physicaetParn7 4 ineprecated by philo luded to has at all times been spe is Perienced youth. sophers and philanthropists. It i?ese nuptial laying the foundation of future misery, o i e s x , cup with bitter malignity; destroying. bealth n , l en n ;4 thP and making it, durimy its brief career. a scene of an'guaiiisinhg:fril,fine' the consciousness ot humiliating infirmity. The evil is but too rife in our age and country • a n d rience can often discern the sad results in the e'arly-dele: the hereditary and perpetuated ailment,,, and the tn "- r 7' inonial "unaccountable and s andals, described, in convential a n t -- lance, as " " and "mysterious." os .4a o r - f threatened injury to or suspension of faculties whose sound_ nese and vigour form su li a prominent constituent in human happiness, sufferers may have their fears removed, the mis chief, how ever severe an d i nve t era t e , era di cated, and their wa rm e st hopes of restoration to life's prerogati ves fully lisd Dr. L ii'MERT, M.D., has been engaged for 20 years in the treatment of these disorders, and his treatise on " Self-Pr rvation " describes how all the attributes of Manhood are lost or suspended, and how they can be restored and main tained in health an d v i gour to an advanced period of life. 0: 1 c Is., post free in a sea l e d enve l ope 20 s t am p s, b y M ann, ', 3 4,,- Curnhill; or f rom the Author. who may be consulted ` 4 ' 41 9, from 11 till 2 and 6 till 8, at hie residence, ti 7, 13 ZDFQRD-SQUARE, ULAN , I TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre lared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. 4 eott, of Bromley, Rent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. 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IMPORTANT ALTERATIONS OF TRAINS FOR NOVEMBER. DOWN TRAINS. • The 7.10 a.m. Cheap Train from Paddington will start at 7.0 a.m. The 10.30 a.m. Train from Paddington will start at 10.15 a.m., and will call at all intermediate stations between Slough and Didcot. The 12.45p.m. Train from Paddington will start at 12.30 p.m. The 1.20 p.m. Train from Paddington to the West Midland Line will start at 1.5 p.m. The 2.0 p.m. Train front Paddington will be discontinued between Gloucester and Cardiff. The 3.30 p,m. Tr .in from Paddington to the North will call at Didcot, and not at Twyf,,rd, but a slip carriage f or Henley will be detached from the Train at Twyford. 'this Train will be discontinued over the West Midland Line. The 4 50 p.m. Express from Paddington will take passen gers for the West Midland Line, instead of the 0.30 p.m. I' rain, which will be discontinued over the. est Midland Line. The 5.15 p.m. Train from Paddington will be discontinued etween Swindon an Cheltenham. A Slip Carriage for Slough and Windsor will be detached from the 8.10 p.m. Train from Paddington. The 8.20 p.m. Train from Paddington to Windsor will be discontinued. The 0.30 p.m. Train from Paddington will start at 0.0 p.m. The 5.15 p.m. Train from Twyford to Henley, in connection with the 4.0 p.m. Train from Paddington, will be discon tinued. and we commend it to their notice, with the as surance that, if they do not rise from its perusal " wiser and better," they will at least have spent some very pleasant hours over its pages. resources. The Confederate Government has al ready exhausted its resources of men and means, en while the N or th h as j ust begun to draw upon i ts own. It is t rue our expenditures of money have been and now are very great, but money was never more other solution u t t h i o a n n t n o o t w h , e and questionou r Go vernment stocks ar e a b ove par in the market. Therere plentiful is l to be ful no am on issue between the North and the rebels than the utter crushing out of the insurrection. It is not only a question of freedom and slavery, but of civil government and social order also ; and we are re solved—Heaven helping us—to establish the fact, not doubted in Europe, that free governments are capable of self-defence ; and that ours in particular is worth all the sacrifices we are making to preserve it. A week or two ago I received a very kind and thoroughly friendiy letter from Mr. Sinclair, all about our national troubles, and asking me to write him, and explain certain points, that he might be able to answer those who are carping at the free States and sympathising with the slave-driving rebels. I wish I had time to write him—as I have not; but I would hardly take the trouble to' ex plain,' as all my trouble would be in vain. The persons he speaks of, and all their class, take counsel of their hearts and not of their heads. They are devoured by a low and pitiful hete of us, because we are making gigantic strides in the rosd leading to a national greatness and power. They desire that we may be crippled by a successful rebellion, and our brilliant prospects nipped by an untimely frost. They are so short-sighted as not to see that it is England's interest, that being free, as she is, we may be powerful and her friend, for the days are coming when she will need such a friend, as we were heartily and thoroughly prepared to be. In the event of a successful rebellion we shall be 42,000,000 and more in 1892, and 84,000,000 and more in 1922. So the crippling would be brief, and our nation, the free North, would be very great and powerful at the commencement of the next century." UP TRAINS. The 12.20 p.m. Cheap Train from Bristol will be expedited, and will not call at statons between Slough and Paddington. The 7.40 a.m. Express from Cheltenham will start at 7.30 a.m. The 9.20 a.m. Train from Cheltenham to Swindon will be discontinued. The 12.5, p.m. Train from Birmingham will start at I.li p.m. The 11.50 a.m. Train from Oxford will start at 12.55 p.m. The 3.55 p.m. Train from Oxford to London will be dis continued. The 1.40 p.m. Train from Basingstoke will start at 130 p.m. The 12.40 p.m. Train from llenley will start at 1.30 p.m. The 6.5 p m. Train from Henley will start at 5 5) p.m. The 6.0 .m. Train fro m Wi n d sor t o raddib g toit will start at 7.0 p m, The 6.45 p.m. Train from Windsor will start at 6.35 p.m. SUNDAY TRAINS. DowN.--The 9.0 a.m. Train from Paddington will start at 9.15 a.m. The 9.45 a.m. Train from Paddington to Windsor will start at 10.0 a.m. _ _ The 10.0 a.m. Train from Padding - ton to the North will start at 9.15 am. UP. The ►.15 p.m. Train from Bristol will start at 1.45 Am., and will be amalgamated at D,deot with the 2.0 p.m. Train from Birmingham, arriving at Paddington at 7.0 p.m. The 4. () pm. train from Dideot, arriving at Paddington at 6.10 p.m., will be discontinued. The 5.5 p.m. Train from Windsor to London will be dis continued. For alterations at Intermediate Stations, see Time Tables for November. LI7ERA7 (IRE. Lady Audley's Secret. By M. E. Braddon. 3 vols. Tinsley Brothers, Catherine-street, Strand. To say that a novel which within a few weeks of publication has reached a fourth edition must pos sess rare power of attraction, is almost superfluous, and we may add that in this case the success is not only emphatic but deserved, Faultless the work is not. The author sometimes let her pen run away with her. But its merits far outweigh its defects, and it possesses that essential quality in fiction of arresting at the first page the reader's attention and holding it fettered to the last. The care with which the author narrates her story can scarcely be sur passed. Once embarked in its stream the reader is carried along without effort, and he forgives the defects he may note on the way for the sake of the pleasure derived from the journey. The heroine is, of course, Lady Audley, although she serves rather as a lurid background, the prominent figure in the work being Robert Audley, a barrister, and nephew of her husband's, through whose exertions it is that her crimes are brought to light. Not that this is with him a labour of love, but one of duty. A friend of his, George Talboys, after calling at Audley Court, mysteriously disappears. Circumstances lead him to believe that Lady Audley is interested in his removal ; he diligently accumulates proofs of her criminality,and at length overwhelms her with un answerable tokens of her guilt. Thus the story is made up in no inconsiderable degree of circum stantial evidence. Raised Audley, in his search after truth, is sometimes baffled, occasionally dis couraged, but ultimately successful. Still his natural indolence might have led him to wash his hands of the affair, had not he been impelled on his path by the handsome sister of his List friend, where upon he thus soliloquises :—" What the devil am I doing to thin galore r" . lie asked. Butl am in it, and I can't get out of it ; so I'd better submit my self to the brown-eyed girl, and do what she tells me, patiently and faithfully. What a wonderful solution to life's enigma there is in petticoat govern ment ! Man might lie in the sunshine and eat lotuses, and fancy it always afternoon,' if his wife would let him 1 But she won't, bless her impulsive heart and active mind ! She knows better than that. Whoever heard of a woman taking life as it ought to be taken ? Instead of supporting it as an unavoidable nuisance, only redeemable by its bre vity, she goes through it as if it were a pageant or a procession. She dresses for it, and simpers, and grins, and gesticulates for it. She pushes her neighbours, and struggles for a good place in the dismal march; she elbows, and writhes, and tramples, and prances to the one end of making the most of the misery. She gets up early and sits up late, and is loud, and restless, and noisy, and unpi tying. She drags her husband on to the woolsack, or pushes him into Parliament. She drives him full butt at the dear, lazy machinery of Govern ment; and knocks and buffets him about the wheels, and cranks, and screws, and pulleys, until some body, for quiet's sake, makes him something that she wanted him to be made. That's why incom petent men sometimes sit in high places, and inter pose their poor muddled intellects between the things to be done and the people that can do them, making universal confusion in the helpless inno cence of well-placed incapacity. The square men in the round holes are pushed into them by their wives. The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They don't know what it is to be quiet. They are Semi ramides, and Cleopatras, and Joans of Arc, Queen Elizabeths, and Catherines the Second, and they riot in battle and murder, and clamour and desperation, If they can't agitate the universe and play at ball with hemispheres, they'll make mountains of war fare and vexation out of domestic molehills, and social storms in domestic tea-cups. Forbid them to hold forth upon the freedom of nations and the wrongs of mankind, and they'll quarrel w i t h Mrs. Jones about the shape of a mantle or the char ac t er of a small maid-servant. To call them the weaker }sex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the stronger sex, the noisier, the more persevering, the most self-assertive sex. They want freedom of opinion, variety of occupation, do they ? Let them have it. Let them be lawyers, doctors, preachers, teachers, s o ldi ers, l eg i s l ators — any thin g they like-- bur let them be quiet, if they can." After this our ,r‘eaders will not be surprised to hear that the position to which tahskrc"wn-eYed girl" takes Mr. Robert Audley, his concluded, for better or worse; that he behaves, the tale, and its'. under the melancholy circumstances, fortitude, and that forces him with a decent she forces him to assume the a very different st.taamn th his abilities entitle him. His character most elaborately-worked out in g p e i s d kaedi Lady Audley. A o u f talent, d le y . and good is indicated with great skill. Of selfish, sensuous, r completely to enable her to m a int a i n her false position ; Miss devoid of affection, sbe hesitates at no crime Braddon r o h p a e s r l d y o a n d e m w i i t s t e e l d y , in not arou s i ng for her criminal morbid sympathy. Extenuatin g circumstances the " secret " to w i t ; but we are not called up on to worship a creature depraved in soul fascinating mann ers or a charming because she has face. The work before us, then, is, so far, perfectl The incidents may, some of them, y be healthy in tone. termed melo dramatic, and we mu s t not be too re gards probability, but there i s no revelling in horror exacting as for horror's sake, no dwelling on repulsivefeatures to show the extent of the writer's skill • in dissection, and excite wonder, mixed with disgust, in the m • of the reader. The tendenc y of the author is mind the contrary, to dwell on whatever is bright and beautiful, and her picturesque power of description vivifies the narrative, and fills it with form and colour. The plot we abstain from giving, as we think few of our readers with a taste for fiction would thank us for diminishing the pleasure they will ta u i n u nraveling its intricacies for then ue i v es ; COMMERCE OF NETV YORK. The last commercial advice: from New York mention that the highest rate for gold touched during the week was 39 premium. This movement seems to have been caused almost entirely by the demand on the part of the bankers for exportation, the profound ignorance of the people at large, to which most of the journals daily minister by assur ances that on the first news of victory the price will recede nearly to par, having, even up to the present time, been sufficient to prevent any manifestation of actual panic. Subjoined is an extract of a private letter describing the general tone of feeling on the questions of currency and national debt : " The issue of paper money continues as fast as printing presses can supply the demand, and this is not fast enough for the wants of the Government, as the pay of the army is from four to eight months in arrear, and the excuse alleged is want of paper currency for small amounts, which takes time in the preparation, registration, &e. This morning it re quires 133 dots, of legal tender currency to purchase 100 dols. in gold ; still no general fear exists of an explosioh. In talking the 43.41er day with a person who had made over 100,000 dols. out of the war, I remarked, Well, I suppose you are disposed to lie upon your oars now, and not take hold of any more contracts ?" I beg your pardon,' replied he, ' I am on the track of one now. There is plenty of money in the war yet. 1 only wish it would last half a dozen years Up to very recently the expansion has been mainly felt in stocks, railway bonds, &c., the speculations in ‘s hich have been enormous, and current articles of necessity, as tea, sugar, coffee, breadstuffs, and provisions, have advancedparipassu with the depreciation of the currency ;,,but at pre sent almost every article is moving upward—in paper prices —and, although the confidence in the legal tender notes is professedly unbounded, every body is anxious to turn them into something that has not the property of melting away like ice on a summer's Lay. When the quantity of paper money in circulation becomes double what it now is— and that it soon will be—there will be a fine chance for paying off those heavy mortgages on real estate in this city which are held by European capitalists, and such activity in business as has never before been witnessed. At this moment a thousand mil lions of dollars would not suffice to pay our national debts, without taking into account the innumerable claims for pensions that will have to be met after the war; nevertheless, many people are of opinion that the national debt ought to be brought up to 2,000,000,000 dols. at least, as a salutary check to the bravest race in the world,' and to confer per manent stability upon the Government, and eclipse Great Britain in that as in all other respects. The argument is that if we succeed in subjugating the South, which, so long as we retain the mastery of the seas, is only a question of time —say a few years at most—we can pay the chief part of the interest on the debt by a tax of 5 or 6 cents, per lb. on cot ton—a contrlbution to our efforts on behalf of universal freedom,' which the world would be glad to pay. If, on the other hand, we should fail in our holy mission, and afford materials f o r unrigh teous rejoicing to European despots and ar istocrats, our public debt need not give us any unhappiness, as it would be absurd to imagine that a section of the United States should be held responsible for debts contracted on behalf of the entire Union. In short, we know that small failures are not respect able, and, therefore, we should outlive our tempo rary embarrassments." tTril - 1 IRA! GENIAL IVEAL DOW. Brigadier-General Neal Dow, in a letter to the secretary of the Alliance, Mr. T. H. Barker, writes as follows :—" Head -quarters, Fort St. Philip, Sept. 28 :—I shall receive inforrns,tion of the pro ceedings of your great convention with deep inte rest. The occasion cannot fail to be a great success, and much I grieve that I could not be with you. My duties confine me closely to my post, and I see no prospect of being at liberty to leave it for some months to come. The war drags its slow length along, and m us t cont i nue to do so unt il our govern ment adopts a policy. At present it seems to be entirely afloat, drifti ng with every w i n d a nd cur rent. The reb e l s are terribly in earnes t, a nd ex haust their strength and resources in mighty effort, while our Government has yet to mak e up its mind full to anything. It has yet to adopt some plan, some system, some policy. That will come in time; and perhaps it is better that the war should linger in thi s way, and go on w ith various fortune, that th e N orthern m i n d may be firmly made up on th e su bj ect of slavery. F o r myself I believe this d rea df u l war is a controvers y that God has with this nation on account of its great sin— slavery ; and he will not permit us to have peace until we repent of that sin and forsake it. Our people are beginnin g to see the mat ter in th at light, and publi c op i n i on has ma d e great progress in the ri g h t di rect i on during the l as t year, as th e acts of our congress prove. As to the institution of slavery—it is virtually overthrown already, indeed it is literally so, everywhere within our military lines. The slaves think themselves free, and will not work for their masters until they choose to do so, and unless they are paid. Many masters now pay their sl aves , some 10 dols., so me 12 dols. a month ; and some stip u l ate to give t hem one-third of their entire crop for th e i r l a b our in sav i ng it. Th e s l aves leave their masters as they please, and go away without fear ; nor have they the least fear for the old despotism. I have now about 600 of them at these forts, constantly employed in Government service, and they have no fear at any time to go back to the plantation to get their things. They have no fear of their masters, nor of the laws of Louisiana. They rightly judge that these latter are no longer of any account. Some time 'ago I went into a large village, and hearing that a loyal man was confined in the gaol, I went to it, and made the keeper exhibit his list of prisoners. Among them were many slaves, who were committed for ' safe keeping,' and three whites on a charge of murder. I demanded to see the slaves, and was taken into a large airy room occupied by the alleged murderers. In the floor of this apartment was a trap- door, which the keeper raised, bidding the slaves come up, which they did. The effluvium coming up from the den below was so offensive that my officers could not en duie it. After a little I looked down into the hole, and found it a wretched place, with only twc small heavily-grated windows for light and air. They were in confinement under the laws of Louisiana, but I bade them go, and they went. This was trampling those laws under foot, and the slaves all understand since that time that they are no longer in bondage by the law, for the slave laws are null. Many plan tations are abandoned by their owners, and I am taking possession of them. Yesterday I sent an officer to a great establishment, the crops of which, now upon the ground, are 1,000 hogsheads of sugar, besides great quantities of other produce, worth a.' all over 100,000 dols. All the whites are gone, leav ing 100 negroes behind, and my officer is to superin tend this week I great ha t l lh takee est a p t o e s s a e n s d s s o e n e u o e re e t t w h o e c o t' t o h p e s r planta tions in the same way and for the same purpose. In Louisiana, before ,the war, negroes sold for more money than in any other state, because the sugars planters were making immense profits, and were continually extending the cultivation of the cane. At present slaves are without value here, and there is no market for them whatever. The entire busi. ness of the State is destroyed, and vast numbers of men of princely for tunes be fore the war are beggars y seized stopped,ar and their last now.year's by the rebel, d appropriated Government, they are l e f t w ith ou t a r t e r a d d e e s t is o e y n e t d i roerl CRIME IN FRANCE. The Court of Assizes of the Var, sitting at Dra guignan, has just been engaged two days in trying a man named Peyrier, aged 27, for the murder of M. Michel, a farmer, residing at Garde-Freint. The wife of the murdered man was also charged as an accomplice before the fact. It appeared from the evidence that Peyrier, who is himself a married man with two children, had for some time past kept up an illicit connection with the female prisoner, and that Michel had on one occasion found them toge ther and fired at Peyrier, although without hitting him. From that time the latter meditated projects of vengeance, in which he was encouraged by the woman. On the morning of the 16th June last, the body:of Michel was found lying dead just inside a wood by the roadside, and not more than fifty paces from a cart drawn by two oxen, which he had been conducting. The body had been pierced by two balls which must have caused instant death, and the head had also been violently struck apparently with the butt-end of a gun. As the prisoner had been seen with a gun near the place where the murde r was committed, he was arrested on suspicion, and soon, after his gun was found at a gunsmith's in the town, where he had left it for repairs. It was evi dent that both barrels had been recently discharged, and on the stock, which was broken, were stains of blood with human hair adhering to them. The pri soner at first protested his innocence, but finding the evidence too clear against him, he at last con fessed his guilt, and stated all the circumstances of the murder, adding that the female prisoner had instigated him to commit it. The truth of this last statement was supported by several of her letters, which were found in his possession, and she was aocordingly arrested. In court the male prisoner persisted in his confession, but the woman denied the adulterous intercourse between them, and pro tested that she had not encouraged him to commit the murder. The jury, however, considered the evi dence conclusive against both prisoners, but gave them the benefit of extenuating circumstances, and they were accordingly sentenced to hard labour for life. The Courrier du Gard gives the following account of a murder committed two days since at Pont-Saint-Esprit, in that department, on the person of a woollendraper, named Blanc. The neighbours, being much surprised to find his shop open at a very early hour, entered to ascer tain the cause, and on going into the room behind, found M. Blanc lying dead in a pool of blood. On his head were 12 wounds, apparently inflicted with a hatchet, any one of which would have been mortal. The crime appears to have been an act of vengeance, as the bureau in the room, containing a sum of 1,367 f., had not been opened, nor was there any appearance of the place having been ransacked. The police are making active researches to discover the murderer. The Court of Assizes of the Somme has this week tried a man named Dathy, aged 70, on a charge of murdering in the month of June last a travelling tinker named Chapelle, at Marquaix. It appeared from the evidence that a farmer named Capart, re siding at Marquaix, on going to one of his barns at some distance from the homestead, saw a man lying on the hay apparently asleep; but on approaching nearer, he found that the man was dead, and had been murdered by stabs with a knife. He at once gave information to the police, and an inquiry was instituted which led to the arrest of the prisoner, of M. Courtier,i same hours who had been seen to leave the barn not long before. On examining the prisoner's clothes several blood stains, partially washed out, were found, and wit nesses came forward who deposed that they had seen him in possession of several pieces of gold since the murder. When asked to account for the employ.. ment of his time during the last three days, the pri soner made several statements which were proved to be false, but at last confessed that, having no lodgings, he had gone to the barn to pass the night, and had just fallen asleep, when he was awakened by an attack from the deceased, whom he killed in self-defence. All the circumstances of the case showed the falsehood of this story, and the medical wit nesses proved that from the direction and depth of the wounds, which went right through the heart and lungs, the murdered man must have been lying down, and the murderer standing over him. The prisoner could offer no explanation as to how he obtained the money seen in his possession, and as two previous convictions for stabbing were put in against him, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, with extenuating circumstances. The Court sen tenced him to 20 years' hard labour. The Court of Assizes of the Seine was engaged yesterday with the trial of a young woman, aged 18, named Marie Pillant, charged with robbing her master, M. Courtier, a butcher, residing in the Fau bourg St. Martin. On the 16th July last Mme. Courtier went to Neuilly to spend some days, and on the 20th, after business hours, her husband went d not to see her, telling the servant that he return until late at night. The girl, takingwith a tage of being left alone, provided herself hand-saw, a knife, and other instruments, thme marble going into her master's room, lifted h le in the wood from a chest of drawers, and cut a w hich from the drawer, s two and push back the lock of ear- ring she took 2,500 fr., a pair of handsome She she Afterwards opened beneath, so as to enable her to w --e too k 12 large gold chains, and a purse. . s h e different cupboards, from Wool-. forko, s everal dresses, silver spoons and as in-nien• Having packed should ualdvan. shawls, and a quantity 0 r • a ticles ' ll a up the various and went of her mistress's bonne ts, coing to Neuilly to carry she wa s - porter, saying mistress, who had sent for them the things to . place and her n to a coach and drove to a furnished She then go s t: where she gave the name of Irma n bundle, r s o o h d de u o cwpc put n h t e ot r onbat onehe te n ter uboio :disootio lodging gave vtheererdetwurnhat bad taken PRICE.—.._..4d. STAMPED ....sd. information to the police. The prisoner the day following went to Havre with a young man, and stopped there for several days, she paying all the expenses, and on her return formed an acquaintance with another young man, and led such an expensive life, that the master of the house, suspecting some thing wrong, gave information to the commissary of police, and she was arrested. On searching her room, many of the articles belonging to M. Courtier were found, but none of the money. On being in terrogated she, after some hesitation, confessed the robbery, but denied that she bad taken more than 800 fr. The falsity of this statement was, however, proved by the fact that her journey to Havre alona had cost her more than 500 fr. The jury having found her guilty, b u t with extenuating circum tmes, she was condemned to four years' imprison ment. TRADE OF JEDDAH. Among the places from which reports of British consuls have been received at the Foreign-office, and published this year, is Jeddah, which is built on the edge of the Red Sea, in a sterile district, where occasionally several years pass without rain. There are few inhabited districts so completely de pendent on other countries for their existence. It is difficult to obtain zorreetAradamceunts from the customs officers, partly from the hatred' Cif Abe , natives towards Christians, and their desire to ex clude them altogether from what they consider the Holy Land; but the consul, confining himself to the trade as deduced by himself from the manifests of the square-rigged vessels, nearly all British, re ports that in 1861 they brought goods of the value of £672,657 ; among them English cotton goods of the value of 868,000 dols., and Indian cotton goods of the value of 320,000 dols. The imports from Great Britain and her dependencies are greater than from all other nations put together. Of the articles imported four-fifths are sent inland, and dispersed over the peninsula. Barley, which is im ported from Egypt, is cheaper here than there; the Government import it for the troops, who sell it. There is no fixed tariff for goods; they are valued at such sum as the official thinks fit to demand and the merchant to pay, but the amount is rarely settled without a dispute. The coffee-growing country is in the Yemen, 300 miles to the south, but very little genuine Yemen coffee is procurable in Europe. The industry of Jeddah consists of dyeing English cotton manufactures, fishing, diving for black coral, and fashioning it into beads and mouth piece for cigars. There are no banks in the coun try; those who save money usually conceal it in some secret place, and sometimes die without hav ing disclosed the spot. Jeddah has a population of about 18,000, of whom 1,000 are British Indian subjects; and during the four months of the pil grimage the number is increased to 40,000, at times to 60,000, of whom at least 12,000 are British subjects. At Mecca and Medina there are always about 2,000 British subjects, most of them pilgrims who have spent all their money and cannot return to India. It would save much money were they obliged, like the French and Dutch Mussulman subjects, to prove that they have sufficient money to enable them to perform the pilgrimage and re turn. There is no employment for them at Jeddah; the private buildings are executed by slaves of the master masons, and there are no public works, or even repairs, for everything is allowed to go to ruin. The importation of fresh slaves into Jeddah is now forbidden, but almost as many arrive as formerly, and they are sold publicly every morning. They are landed at night along the shore, and enter Jeddah in the morning through gates guarded by soldiers, who could recognise and stop them with ease. The climate of Jeddah is trying to Euro peans on account of its great heat; the temperature rose to 132 deg. in 1859, and many camels died. In August, 1860, it was from 100 deg. to 110 deg. day and night for a fortnight. But though the morta lity is great, it is due not so much to climate as to neglect of sanitary measures. There are no roads, further than as the constant track of camels has made them, but the advanced Mussulmans talk of a railway to Mecca. The great opposition would be from the Bedouin camel men, but the prejudices of the Arabs could be overcome were the Sheikhs given to understand that a yearly payment would make it to their interest to prevent the line being damaged. The gates of Jeddah are shut for half an hour on Fridays during midday prayer, from a tradition that the Christians might take advantage of the men being in the mosques to seize the town —a custom rather flattering to the prowess of the 12 Christians at Jeddah. The sea on this coast is gradually receding, owing to the formation of coral reefs. There is a corn depot at Jeddah, not 200 years old, with a gate flanked by two towers, whieh evidently defended the quay, but it is now 300 yards from the sea. REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUAR7ERLY .REIU.RN. The quarterly retura issued by authority of the Registrar-General comprises the births and deaths registered by 2,199 registrars in all the districts of England during the summer quarter that ended on September 30, 1862 ; and the marriages in 12,585 churches or chapels, about 4,672 registered places of worship unconnected with the Established Church, and 637 superintendent registrars' offices, in the quarter that ended on June 30, 1862. The total number of marriages in the spring quarter of 1860 was nearly 44,000 ; in that of 1861 it was about 42,000 ; and in the same quar ter of the present year it fell to 40,771. The annual marriage -rate in the spring quarter of this year, viz., persons married to a hundred in the /ovum tion, was 1-610. This proportion is lower than any result obtained in the same season during an tended series of years, for in the ten years 1852-61 it fell to its l owes t point, which was 1.6 38 i n 1856 ; and the average of the whole series is 1.709. The decrease in the marriages of all E n gland was 5.2 per cent. ; a n d it ma y b e inferred th at a large por tionfamilies of that class of th e population by wh ich are established did no t consider th at their circum stances justified the formation of fresh alliances. Lancashire in its season of calam ity h a s borne wit nessde w to the operation of a law offfect pru in nce mosthi which of has not been without it s ° kingdom. the other parts of t he a nd of these there ap is divided into 26 distri_ots e P st D er by alone a Conti.pears to have been in . w 0 f e es in three June quarters nuous increase of In a _ el : t h a t district wore 375, (1860-62); the nuirbe 434, 460. The return s of Ashton , Bl a ckb urn, and leerdfrom the list as signal instances Preston are se: ate b e ing depressed whe n h ard of the marriag t i mes have fa ll en . e total number o on the industry of a people Th f births in the quarter that ended 30th Septem ber wa s 172,237. It showed an increase of 4 ~, above w e the mean of two pr ev i ous summer q uarters - '42i ( 1860-61). The birth-rate was 3.356 per cent. of the population, agaitst an average of 3.285 in ten c orresponding qu ar t ers (1852-61). The excess of births over deaths in the last quarter was 80,012. The natural increase of the population was, therefore, at the rate of 870 daily. The number of emigrants to all parts who left p orts in the United Kingdom where ther e are emigration officers, in the three months that ended 30th September, was 33,240; and in this number the English emigrants may be stated approximately as 12,866. The emi gration to the Australian colonies has increased; the English, Irish, Scotch, and others who went thither last quarter were 12,071; in either of the two previous summers they were little more than 7,000. British North America also drew a larger company. The number who sought the United States was 14,170, the number in the same quarter of 1860 having been 21,104 and in that of the following 1 year 6,348. Of the 12,866 English who emigrated about 5,265 went to the United States, and 6,536 to the Australian colonies. The average price of Con- E SPA P E ~•, \ - Jo - 4 .. A sole itti 93 2-8 ; it hag been above 93 in' the tionk(' 4 z. quarters that have elapsed since Sep ' 1 " '7*a-Y./ : ,:74 7 4:';'', year. Wheat (the average price 565. 1 f.. ter) was dearer than in the san_Ae period when the price was 525. ld. 'The average, the l highest and lowest prices of beef LA Leadenrall an - Newgate was 5-Id. per lb. ; and Of mutton, 60. Best potatoes were 115 s. per ton; they were dearer than they had been at the same time last yrear. The returns of the Poor-law Commissioners L;re heavy for the summer quarter. The total number of deaths in the three months that ended 30th September was 92,225. In the same quarter of 1860 it did not much exceed 86,000; in that of 1861 it was about 101,000. The cold summer of this year was less healthy than. the still colder summer of 1860 ; but it was healthier than the warmer summer of last year. The annual rate of mortality in the quarter was 1,797 per cent. of the populat:on against an average derived frovi ten summers (1852 61) of 2.020 per cent. In these ten summers there is but a single example of so low a death-rate, viz., that furnished by 1860, which was 1.718. Even in summer, which is She healthiest season of the year, the mortality of ail England is seldom so low as 1.9 per cent. A few of the regis trars witnessing a reduction of the mortality' with the distress that prevailed in their district? at the same time have been tempted to speculate on the facts, and as those officers in the course of their duties are in frequent communication with the labouring classes their opinions may be quoted. The registrar of Wigan states that more freedom to breathe the fresh air, inability to in dulge in spirituous liquors, and better nursing of children, are believed to have improved the public health. The registrar of Little Bolton holds that the decrease of deaths is mainly due to a greater amount of domestic superintendence. The registrar of Hulne th 4 the even temperature of the weathek - Ided finereased attention paid to young children have caused the decrease. The Registrar of Knott Lanes (Ashton) attributes the result to absence of epidemics, mildness of the weather, out door exercise, maternal care ; also to parish relief and charitable contributions, by means of which food has been obtained not sufficient for healthput enough to mitigate distress, and prevent hitherto an increase of mortality. The Registrar of Preston sub-district also refers to the good effect of fresh air, nursing, and mildness of the weather. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. A special general court of the governors was held on Tuesday last, at the London-bridge Railways Terminus Hotel, to read the minutes of the meetings of the grand committee, held since the last general court, and to take such measures as may be deemed desirable with a view to the acquisition of a site for, and the construction of, the new hospital. There were present Sir John Musgrove, president, and about forty other governors—a very small attendance, not more than one-fifth of the body of gover nors, considering the importance of the subject. The ab sence of many of the governors may, no doubt, be accounted. for by the circumstance of their having mistaken the London-bridge Hotel for the London-bridge Railways Ter minus Hotel, and finding, upon inquiry, that no meeting was to be held there, supposed that they had mistaken tho day. The PRESIDENT having stated the object of the meeting, the report of the deputation of four of the governors ap pointed to examine the hospitals of France, Belgium, and Holland, was read and received with great satisfaction. Mr. Tim; M.P., then rose to propose a motion relative to the choice and purchase of a site for the new hospital, the substance of which was to leave the whole question to the grand committee, subject to the provisions of the Act of Parliament. He expressed himself very strongly in favour of acquiring from 30 to 35 acres of land in some salubrious situation, not more than seven or eight miles south of Lon don ; and expressed his conviction that a site in all respects desirable might he obtained at or near to Wandsworth at a comparatively small cost. He was desirous, however, that the grand committee should be left to the exercise of its own judgment on the question, with the suggestion only that it was most desirable, now that there was an opportu nity of doing so, to combine the requirement and provisions of an hospital and a sanatorium. Mr, J. 0. JoirNsoN, treasurer of Bethlehem Hospital, seconded the motion. Mr. Deputy ELLIOTT moved an amendment to the effect, that it was desirable to erect the new hospital within as short a distance as was practicable from the old one, and recommending that no action for the acquisition of a new site should be taken until the eligibility of that of the tem porary hospital had been further tested. The hon. gtntle man urged a number of very cogent reasons in favour of the amendment he thus submitted to the court, insisting chiefly upon the claims which the citizens, of London and the inhabitants of Southwark had upon the consideration of the governors, the hospital having been chartered and endowed with especial reference to their wants, which would be altogether set at nought if the hospital were removed to any such distant spot as that which seemed to be desired by the mover and seconder of the re solution. Mr. ADAMS seconded the amendment, and urged that the site of the temporary hospital seemed in all respects most admirably fitted to be the site of the new one. It possessed all the requisites of locality, salubrity, facility of access, and extent of space for such an institution, and he believed that they would be doing great wrong and injustice if they removed it to any other site. After speaking of the interest with which he had visited and watched the rapid and satis factory progress to completion of the present building, he briefly adverted to the several circumstances which had already been urged in favour of the locality in which it stood, especially its being in the midst of a dense growing population, greatly in want of such an institution, but which would be cruelly deprived of the great benefits it had conferred upon that part of the metropolis for more than 300 years, if it were removed some six, seven, or eight miles into the country. What, too, he asked, would become of the medical school, for which the hospital had become fameus, if it were removed to some distant rural spot ? The museums, libraries, and medical institutions were to be found only in the metropelis, and students we re in the habit, as was well known, of going from ono institution to another in pursuit of their objects. To convert this great metropolitan hospital into a m ere county hospital, would be, in a great measure, fatal to these objects, and would deprive it of one of its great claims to public consideration and respect. Again referrin g to the site of the temporary hospital, he had, he said, the testimony of the resident medical officer (Mr. Whitfield) that it was a great success. (Hear, hear.) Ile had himself been there as lately as Saturday last, and had found the number of out-door patients to be larger even than was in attendance at the old hospital. Would that have been the ease—was it possible that it should have been so—had the hospital been carried some miles away from the residence of these poor people ? As to the eligibility of the spot, in a sanitary point of view, it seemed to be all that could be de sired. The sisters of the wards stated that they had ob served a marked favourable difference in the progress of the patients. What more could be looked for if they were to remove it some 7or 8 miles further away. In conclusion ho expressed it to be his conscientious conviction that they would be guilty of nothing less than a great fraud, if they removed the hospital beyond an easy distance for the thou sands who now, and for se many years had been, enabled to avail themselves of its great benefits. Mr. R. A. GRAY, chairman of the City Gas Company, supported the amendment, and spoke strongly in favour of the site of the temporary hospital, as ensuring the purposes intended in the endowment of the original one. Mr. B. Plannrrs having briefly supported the amend ment, Dr. LEESON shortly opposed the amendment. ftrhomougAhldenrmot avneCryolodneeclidWednlys,ortin, wh A o ft e e x r p a res f s e e w d h re i m m ar se k lf s , favour of the original motion, and doubted whether it could be properly said th ey were the hospital guilty of a fraud, in removing to such a spot as that indicated by the mover and seconder of the resolution, a division was taken on the amendment, which was negatived by a majority of 21 to 16. Alderman PHILLIPS then moved another amendment, to the effect that all action towards acquiring a new site should be for the present suspended. and reurged various reasons against contemplating the abandonment of the site they were 4 now occupying, unless it should turn out to be destitute of some material requirement of such an institu tion as that placed in their charge. Time must be taken to ascertain that fact, if it existed, and it was therefore de sirable that the court should recommend to tho grand com mittee that they take no further action for the present. Mr. ADAMS having seconded the amendment, The Treasurer, Mr. R. BAGALLAY stated that no site for the new hospital had been chosen or even discussed by the grand committee, but expressed it as his own opinion that from thirty to forty acres of land should be obtained for the purpose as near to London as they could be had. The amendment was then put and negatived by a some what larger majority than the former amendment had been, several of the governors ha% ing left the room. Finally, 1 the original motion was put and carried, as was also another, directing the architect of the hospital to prepare plans, to be submitted to a future court, and to the medical officers ; and, after votes of thanks to the deputation and the President, the court adjourned. THE WHALE FISHERY. —The Truelove, Captain Wells, arrived at Hull from Davis' Straits, reports that on the 20th of July the Abram of Kirkcaldy, and the Alex. and henc e the result attained by the vessels ander, of Dundee, were lost during gales and thick weather. The past season has been one of the most severe known f or & l ie *. have been comparatively me many years, Captain Gray, has left Lerwick engaged in the ogre. The A goluo, the Straits. for Hull, from . '