The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-25 00:00:00

U N, " [ -u EVE WEEK. ONE PENNY. CLa STAL PALACE.-ONE SHILLING. Open from NINE TILL DARK. ------ CRYSTAL PALACE. ARRANGEMENTS TOSIORROW (Tueisday). Open at Nine. Orchestral Band at . ........ 12.30 Great Organ Performance at .. 2.30 Display of Fountains at Orchestral Band at o.o Poultry Show open all day. Admission to a ll One itilling. Children Sixpence. ___------. A T the GREAT POULTRY SHOW, at the CRYSTAL PALACE, TO-31ORROW quesdity) and EDNESDAY, upwards of 8 00 pens of Poultry, Pigeons, and Rabbits, from all parts, will be on view. * 4 * For full particulars of amusements see lint page. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. This Evening . , A KISS IN THE DARK. After which, the lint part of the Arab Entertainment at half-past 7. To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. To conclude with THE ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni- Zoug-Zoug. Commence at 7. THEATRE -ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, FISH OUT OF WATER. Alter which, mit AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS rCALIA. And THE CURISTENJISG. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADE LP HI . pr This Evening . , THE PRETTY lIORSEBREAKER. Followed by ADRIENNE LE COUVREUR. And THE SHiLLINCi- DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening. THE RENDEZVOUS. Alter which, at a quarter to 8, SING HENRY VIII. With THE TWO VOLTS, Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLAR NEY. Conclude with THE COLLEEN BAWN SETTLED AT LAST. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Evening, MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Concluding with a Comic Bailet. Commence at 7. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER HALL.— " The Messiah " will be again performed on FRIDAY Evening next, at 8 o'clock. MR. and MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS " AT ROME," at Her Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, This Evening. Commence at S. W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. Commence at 8. GY LL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay. market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENIN G Steckel, the great Trapeze performer — Grand Selections fro m " Don Sebastien" and "II Trovatore." Unworn, Eugene, and Duley, the great comic trio, &c. Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD -STREET, EVERY EVENlNG.—Verdi's "Il Corsaro," with full band and chorus.—The comic, performance of Miss Caroline Parkes — Steckel on the Flying Trapeze—The Ethiopian oddities of Rumsey, Newcomb, &c. Commence at 7. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 1 12 , Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of Tile Sun newspaper, and the outstanding date due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY. —horning, 19h. 33 m. —Afternoon, 12h. 55m. To-MORROW. -Morning' lh. 18m.—Afternoon, lh. 37m. , . 4 c . ~, i 4 . ~, . k t--',?, s ~ . ,i • •.:.--...., .i. - '7, -,, -.)- s a , . • A\ ~. ‹, : ,, , , „ .;5. 1r , . . - 73- ; .-..y b , . •, , ' , i-4 .m tr .,,, g ,„,_. . =--- .., _..,‘ 1 - ,t. • o's na rr ' ' ~,,- cc.............,t. - 1,4t.t1 - 77 t 12 4 4§ lit - •-. is .'li'i,4_:-,-_,x,,i'Zt.- THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1862. The Royalist circle is contracting about GARI BALDI. CUGIA, as Commander-in-Chief, has been superseded in Sicily by CIALDINI, as Extraordinary Commissioner. The appointment was officially an nounced in the Turin Gazette of Saturday. And— Sicily all the while being in a State of Siege— CIALDINI will have there, under his command upon his arrival, an overwhelming force, consisting of three regiments of cavalry, eleven battalions of artillery, and—with these—no less than sixty bat talions of infantry ! Meanwhile GARIBALDI has fairly established himself for the time being in Catania. He might very easily have been prevented from entering that place had General RICOTTI been seriously so minded. As the event proved, however, the loyal commander of the forces of VICTOR EMMANUEL shrank from the responsibility of crossing swords with the ex- Dictator. GARlBALDl—confronted by the Ifoyal troops—found the way, nevertheless, clear before him directly he advanced. And so—without a shot fired, or a hostile bayonet fixed, without even a show of opposition,the Hero entered freely at his own good will and pleasure into Catania. There for the mo ment he has fixed his residence. There, if he has not as yet actually,he has at any rate virtually established a Provisional Government. He there exeroises at least supreme authority. He seizes upon the public treasury. He takes possession of the central office for telegraphic communication. He adventures even upon the questionably advantageous course of levying contributions on the inhabitants. Barri cades have been systematically raised at his orders in the principal streets of Catania. Communica tion with any one outside the city has been per emptorily forbidden. A considerable body of his volunteers is there with GARIBALDI in Catania— "tiled, but it would appear armed inadequately. While these incidents are occurring in the centre of the eastern coast of Sicily—now the headquar ters of (we Suppose we must call them)" the rebels" —the royal troops thereabouts, having allowed GARIBALDI to pass scatheless among them into Catania, have since then been not altogether inactive. General RICOTTI and General MELLA have, in fact (since then) it seems, made a junction at Mis terbian co. Adationaltroops, bearing theroyal colours, have been landed, moreover, about five miles to the north of Catania, namel y, at Aci-Reale. So that the cordon appears to be as nearly as possible rendered complete ! What with the Royal squadron of war vessels now eastern v i g il a ntly watching the coast of Sicily—more particularly betweel the Gulf Straits of Meagna—vihile, of Catani a an d th e spreading out to the right and the left as they advance, the forces of CUGIA still press onwards in the march begun at Palermo, and now (even by the main body) carried f orwar d f ar i n advance of Cal tanisetta. By the time that General CIALDINI ar rives in Sicily to supersede General CUGIA, --supposing that is, of course, that nothing more remarkable should, in the interrn, have taken place in that seat of (civil) war—the new General-in- Chief and Commissioner Extraordinary will find GARIBALDI to have been fairly entrapped ! The trop to catch a Hero—being Catania ! As affairs are actually situated there at the present moment in Sicily we can hardly imagine anyone adven turing to assert, however, confidently that GARIBALDI has yet been entrapped. He who has passed scatheless so very recently among the royal troops actually intercepting his march towards Catania advancing boldly amongst them as if he bore a " channel life" and entcring the city untouched! It would be hazar dous to assert of him that he cannot, yet awhile— quite as easily as he entered Catania in defiance of the KING'S Generale, quit it in defiance of the KING'S Admirals to cross over into Calabria. It is true, no doubt, that as things arc, even now, the Roy:tlForces already in Sicily have obtained some thing very like a mastery of the Island, Palermo and Messina are both reported as tranquil. That is, there is an aspect of loyal tranquility both in the eastern and in the westErn capital of the Sicilians. And at about the centre of the island, that is at Cal, tanisetta, order:is said to have been restored. GARI- BALDI being shut into Catania—the Royal squad ron hovering off the coasts—the Royal troops being well placed, so far as their numbers enable them to be, and expecting speedy reinforcements to the ex tent already partienlarieed. While affairs are yet in this intermediate gate there in Sicily—midway, as it were, between the coming of CIALDINI and the going of ClMlA:—the heroic leader of this most fatal and mistaken enterprise has, by a new act of indiscretion, demon strated more clearly than ever its rashness and fata lity ! Issuing from Catania a proclamation calling upon the Hungarians to arise and assert their own independence—GAßlßALDl has already been an swered as strongly as can be in the negative by one of the Chiefs of the Hungarians. General KLArsa has put forth a counter-proclamation. Addressing himself to the Italian Hero, KLAnca has said, "Your voice, General GARIBALDI, would have found an echo if you had uttered the war-cry at the head of volunteers, united to the Royal troops, in order to march against the Hapsburg dynasty." The Hun garian General contenting him with adding quite simply—without a word of comment—" Such is not now the voice of Italy." GARIBALDI can hardly in reason resent such a response—the odds are, from first to last, so enormously against him. Insomuch is (this to the recognition: of us one and all) clearly and unmistakeably the situation of affairs nowadays, in respect, on the one hand to the ambition of GARIBALDI, and on the other hand to his cabability of realising it—that the utmost that could well new be hoped for by his most confiding admirers would be that he would yet betimes withdraw before it is too late from so unequal a contest. The enterprise upon which he has adventured, in the prosecution of which he is still persisting, has appeared from first to last to all the truest friends of Italy, nothing less than— in the fullest meaning of the word—insensate. One of the smallest of the minor poets in our literature has, in his poem on " The Spleen," writ. ten one famous line in which he says (of " The Spleen")- -- Fung but a stone the giant dies." It is doubly applicable, and with lamentable signifi cance, to the actual situation of things just now with regard to Italy and GARIBALDI. Supposing affairs are allowed, that is, to take their course—and the unequal forces now confronting each other to come into lamentable collision. Let GARIBALDI fall by a bullet from the Royal troops—and, adieu to all further idea of a kingly and constitutional govern ment for Italy under VICTOR EMMANUEL. Let GARIBALDI evade the vigilance of the Royal forces now surrounding him by sea and land in Catania, let the Hero cross the Straits of Messina into Cala-, bria, let him advance towards Rome, and then upon the Roman frontiers fall by a bullet from the rifle of a Frenchman—and the popular phrenzy of the Italians will be aroused in deadliest earnest from the gulf of Squillace to the northern borders of the Valteline, from Ancona to Piom bino. The flame lighted would spread like wild fire the conflict would widen. It would no longer be an Italian war—it would be an Euro pean war with Italy for the chief battle-ground. In either case there would be anarchy. The work of Italian emancipation would have to be com menced de 9702)0. All is, at this moment, for Italy, liable to be staked upon the hazard of a die—the throw being yet at the option of GARIBALDI. Well, for his own chivalrous reputation, and for the kingly fortunes of VICTOR EMMANUEL, will it be if GARIBALDI, yet at the eleventh hour, holds his hands, and instead of crossing, madly, from Catania into Calabria, magnanimously withdraws from an Italian war now threatening to be fratricidal. All resolves itself really and truly to this—Will GARIBALDI consent (unintentionally, no doubt, but quite un mistakably) to play—as he threatens to do—into the hands of the French EMPEROR ? The Free States of the Union can hardly be said to exist any longer. If representation still remains when Congress sits, absolutism is triumphant now. Probably were the Houses sitting the result would be the same. The administration would not be called to account for taking the law into its own hands and acting as Dictator. Certain it is that not in Russia, nor even in France, is the central power more irresponsible than in America. We ought, however, to look beyond that power, we ought to ask, what makes it a power ? and we believe that in America, as in the most despotic European Govern ments, it is the passive consent, or the active encour agement of, the many which does all. Louis N Aro- LEON and Mr. SEWARD equally conform themselves to what they know will please the many. What they do may look like their own act—it is, in truth, the act of the party which placed them in office. Louis NAPOLEON feels first the pulse of the army, the peasantry, and generally of the great party of the Bonapartists ; Mr. SEWARD and the PRESIDENT, whom he is said to influence, decree nothing which the Republican party in the North will not counter sign. Fairly considered, the despotism of the North is the despotism of the triumphant party. They call for vigorous measures—Mr. SEWARD and the Cabinet are left to devise them. And it matters little, be it a violation of the inflexible laws of political economy, or of the legal liberties of individuals, they are ready to hurrah, if it be but vigorous. Hence we receive to-day accounts of such vigorous I proceedings as were Lord PALMERSTON to attempt them, even under parallel circumstances, wculd drive him quickly from office without any coalition between Manchester, the POPE'S Brigade, and Mr. DISRAELI. The letters tell us of a perfect hurly burly of all the section of society of age to be drawn for the war. All the men between eighteen and forty-five, seem to think of nothing but the fron tiers or the deck of a steamer. It would seem that I\l r. SEWARD became aware of the commencing "°this just in time to stop it midway. Numbers, we learn from Can a dian papers, had already got across Lake Ontario, and were safe at Toronto, but the unlucky Passengers who had by hundreds paid for their passage by the Etna and Saxonia, which were then read y to sail, w th e l r d e , suddenly pulled up order from . Mr. SEWARD. Not one by telegraphic A of them was to be allowed to ~ . they were firm ; sail behaved o w voe l fd t wi tho ut withut a becom ingp pass port. - por to. official c T i able gravity,police, but the mob below and the mob above the military age, theiarndthey were highly delighted with this of Government. It did not hurt th em, cchittheenvt vigour chaffed and ridiculed to their hea a r n t d ; temper who lost their passage -money, with it. The natives of the Green Isle were irritated exceedingly that their nationality and British allegiance should be doubted now. They were free British citizens who had come to an en lightened and free Republic, to find themselves as hampered as they would have been in Austria or Russia ; this was something more than they had bargained for. However, there was no help for it. Out of a thousand persons who during the day obtained certificates that they were British subjects, mostly Irish, two hundred had paid their passage by the steamers which left them behind ! As the order arrived subsequently to their payment, we trust Mr. SEWARD will, at least, indemnify theta for the loss in such money as a British steamer would accept. Mr. CASE's green backs, however, would be better than nothing. The military movements, none of them of very serious importance, seem to have been all in favour of the Confederates. The dreaded Arkansas, how ever, through an accident to her machinery, was obliged to run on shore, where, being surrounded by Federal gunboats, the crew were forced to evacuate, and blow her up. It would appear, how ever, that she had aided in the capture, by the Con federates, of Baton Rouge, which place, so long ago reported to have been in the hands again of the Confederates, now is really so. This gives the Con federates two strong positions on the Mississippi above New Orleans, and we are not surprised, therefore, to find General BUTLER in danger there. The ram Arkansas is said, in the attack on Baton Rouge to have " destroyed two Federal gunboats, and driven off the Federal fleet," which was fol lowed by the capture of the place, and of the forces there. In Missouri the Confederates had had guerilla successes, and also in Tennessee and Ken. tucky ; indeed, in the South-West, and in the Bor der States everything looks as if the Federals would have great difficulty in holding what they already possess. But it is in what is now called the battle of Cedar Mountain, in Virginia, that the Federals have met with their check. We read the o f course, with the usual allowance for account, mos t mortifying Northern representations—and, as according to these it was not a Federal victory, few will doubt that it was really a defeat. The Northern corre spondents, of course, depict miracles of valour on the part of their own regiments, nor do we at all doubt them on this point. The grievous calamity has been that again and again, when' the men have shown unquestionable courage, the officers have shown unquestionable incompetency. In the long run, however, it must tell on the courage of an army, if they find that their severest losses are but thrown away courage. Soldiers will think it fool hardihood, not courage, to expose their lives for no result. It is acknowledged that, as usual, the skill was on the Confederate side. We are told, indeed, that the rebels sent a flag of truce to ask leave to bury their dead, and that they retired eventually from the field. But, as their original intention was to attack and defeat only the advanced regi ments under BANKES, in which they succeeded, it is not to be doubted that the general impression was correct. It is not improbable that we shall hear of very strenuous- Confederate exertions, if they be but in a position to make them. The secessionists must know that the Federals are making the desperate efforts at enlistment, to which we have just adverted. Their object, therefore, will be to attack botb M'CLELLAN and POPE before they receive reinforce ments. The hot weather may interfere with the operations, but the Southerners must be better able to bear the heats of their own climate than the Northern men. We may, therefore, be sure that the Southern Generals, if able to do so, will antici pate the new enlistments of the North. Probably the attempt will be made to drive M'CLELLAN out of the Peninsula, although some think he has taken measures to walk out quietly, if they will but let him. There will probably be hot work soon. With many of our contemporaries we joined in condemning the admission of Mr. Jur'', the young man charged with rape on a most respectable ser vant girl, to bail. Had the assault been made on the daughter of a Duke or a Bishop, we may be pretty sure no attempt to bail the culprit would have been listened to for a moment, and we have yet to learn that the honour of a servant girl, of the best and perfectly modest character, is not as dear to her and her friends, and as much entitled to pro tection as that of a girl of the highest classes. We can hardly believe that Mr. Justice BLACKBURN does not think so, yet he has gone out of his way to condemn the intermeddling of the press with the administration of justice. We must tell his Lord ship that the press will not be deterred from inter meddling when it sees, what it deems injustice per petrat ed, through carelessness, or inadvertence, —for we do not believe worse of our judges and paid magistrates. We take it no one will deny that the culprit in this case had an easy chance of escape when he ought to have had none. The bail was heavier than was at first reported, but certainly not sufficient alone to detain the offender in the country. Had we been his bail, and related to him, we, apart from considerations of public justice, should have been but too happy to save a nephew from even five years' penal servitude by paying £400; and there was nothing to prevent the nephew from having by this time enlisted in the American war had he chosen to do so. Yet we read that Mr. Justice BLACKBURN, in summing up, "animadverted very severely upon the articles which had appeared in the newspapers, and trusted the jury would, as the learned counsel had desired, dismiss from their minds any impression those articles bad made upon them." "Persons writing such articles were exceed ingly wrong. It was cruel, and a gross injustice to those persons charged with a crime to which such articles referred." We are at a loss, notwithstanding his Lordship's lecture, to comprehend either the injustice or the cruelty to young Mr. JurP. The press, in no in stance that we remember, endeavoured to prove him guilty ; but the evidence was of a kind so un usually strong in such cases, the crime charged one barely second to murder, that there did not appear in the eyes of common sense the slightest reason for accepting bail. Fearful as the crime was, had the evidence been such as barely to war rant committal, the common sense of the public would have thought it cruel and unjust to shut up a man in prison when the character of the chief witness made his guilt a very doubtful question. In this case the evidence was so clear that even Mr. BALLANTINE did not venture to dis pute it. "He (the learned counsel) did not deny the truth of the facts, or in any degree impute perjury to the prosecutrix ; nor did he for one mo ment attempt to deny the gross immorality of the prisoner's conduct, but at the same time contended that the very feeble resistance which the prisoner had met with might have led him to suppose that the prosecutrix was in a degee sufficiently a con senting party to relieve him from the impression that he was entirely forcing her to his will." A defence not worth a straw, with the proved fact before the jury of the poor girl having twice fainted under the two rapidly following and villanous assaults. The whole case, we beg to inform Mr. Justice BgLreA:KBURN, tends to produce in the pu blic mind . _ that most fatal of all impressiens, for the bench of justice, — o f ono law for " a young man of expecta r t e i s o p n e s c; ; lbility, good friends, and good and another for modest, re spectable daughters of persons whose expectatiora are from their hard industry. We wou d not for a moment suspect either the committing m agistrate or the judge of allowing any such feel jog in their minds, yet the question will recur, would bail have been accepted had the victim been one of the class which have not to work for their living. The - Judge, we trust, will, on reconsidera tion, see that it would be cruelty and injustice to • ""~ THE SUN, LONDON, 2IOND AV AUGUsr 25, __1862. modest, respectable, 'young, and innocent girls, if the press did not insist on the law being worked as stringently for their protection as for that of their betters. Indeed, from the habits of society, they , need more protection., On Friday next her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the junior branches of the Royal family, will take her departure from Balmoral for Windsor, where the royal party will Lathe on Saturday, the 30th inst. Her Majesty and the royal family and suite will proceed across the country from Balmoral to Aboyne, a distance of 20 miles, in the royal carriages, and th e nce by the usual line of railway to Windsor. On the Monday morning after her Majesty's arrival at Windsor proceed to Gravesend, where she will em bark for Germany. Her Majesty will remain in Germany the Queen will for six weeks, and then return to Windsor for the winter season.— Court Journal. Her Majesty Queen Marie Amelie, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princess de Joinville, the Duke de Nemours and suite, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel, on Saturday moraing, from Tunbridge Wells. His Imperial Highness the Archduke Charles Louis of Austria, their Royal Highnesses the Count de Paris, the Prince de Joinville, the Dukes d'Anmale, de Montpensier, de Chartres and a numerous party, breakfasted with her Majesty, who left early in the afternoon for Claremont. The Queen of Prussia, who has been visiting her daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden, at Carlsruhe, since her highness's accouchenent, has returned to Baden. Her Majesty will remain fo7 some time, and during her stay Baden will also be howured by a visit from the King .v Prussia. THE MINISTRY.—Lord Palmerston remains at his official residence, Walmer Castle, Kent, but is expected to return to town this thy. The Duke of Somerset returned to London in the middle of the week from his tour to the royal dockyards and arsenals. Earl Granville returned in the early part of the week from Paris, and remains in the metropolis. The Right Hon. T. M. Gibson is cruising in his yacht off the coast of France. The Duke of Newcastle is the Minister in attendance on the Queen at Balmoral ; and Sir George Grey, whom the duke succeeded, proceeded to his country seat in Northumberland. The Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Argyll, and Mr. Gladstone continue ab sent from London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—A crowded audience on Saturday evening experienced much disappointment in consequence of the sudden illness of Signor Giuglini. This necessitated two changes in the performance. First, the substitution of Mr. Walter Bolton in the part of Lionel, in " Marta ;" that gentleman, though not singing the whole of the music allotted to the tenor part, achieving an encore in the favourite " M' appari tutt' amur," and considerable applause. The descriptive Ode, " L'ltalia," was, however, unavoidably impracticable, and Tietj ens, as a compensation, in the kindest manner, obligingly sang a scene from " Lucia di Lammermoor" with Signori Rossi and Gassier, the latter as Enrico, the former as Raimondo. The director further promised the divertissement, " Le Revell de Flore," but this, too, was curtailed of its fair proportions by the absence of the leading danseuses. Amid this complication of managerial distress, the energy and kindness of Tietjens, who repeated her "Last Rose of Summer" the second time in English, and the exertions of Vialetti, who sang twice his beer song to the gratification of the crowded audience, went far, as far as substitution could go, in restoring the good humour of the audience. TAXING THE LAW INTO ONE'S OWN HANDS.— A short time ago a robbery took place in the compound of a certain lieutenant, but no trace of the thief could be found. On the morning of the 28th of June the lieutenant, with out consulting any of the civil authorities, determined to be his own " detective." It appears he suspected his own ser vants, and therefore commenced operations by lashing the khansamah to a tree, and after having, with his own hands, inflicted more than 100 strokes with branches cut from date trees, on the man's bare back, he took his seat on a chair under a tree, and deliberately ordered other servants and chuprasses to flog the unfortunate man until he con fessed to the theft. These men proceeded with the w,rk of torture for nearly two hours, but the khansamah still de clared his innocence. A neighbour, hearing the cries of the suffering man, proceeded towards the lieutenant's com pound, and finding the man undergoing a most cruel and shameful punishment, he told a jamadar of a Punjab in fantry regiment who was looking on, that as the punish ment was being inflicted in the military cantonment, infor mation should be given to the senior officer, as the man's life was in danger ; but finding that no one would give no tice, he returned to his house and wrote a hasty note to the Deputy-Commissioner, mentioning the circumstances. The Deputy •Commissioner immediately proceeded to the spot and found the man still tied to the trunk of a tree, with a chuprassee flogging him. He demanded from the lieutenant an explanation, and then proceeded to the senior military officer and to the Commissioner. After a short time a captain with some Europeans were sent, and the lieutenant placed in arrest, and a court of inquiry was to be held on the 30th. The hhansamah is now an inmate of the Charitable Dispensary, his back and chest are in a sad state, and he has been spitting blood. It was expected that the man would not recover, but through the skill art d energy of our civil surgeon there is now some hope of his life, though he is by no means out of danger. The natives declared that the lieutenant ordered the khansamah to be flogged to death ; and such must have been his intention, as the man was flogged from 7 to a quarter past 9 a.m., and must have received at least 20 strokes per minute.--Lahore Chronicle. THE HARTEST.—The wheat throughout the dis trict of Bedfordshire is now nearly all cut, and if the present fine weather continues a few days longer it will be harvested in excellent condition, It maybe remarked that the wheat crop, particularly on the cold clay lands, appeared strong and good, but few think the yield will be up to the average, being more or less affected by blight or red gum. The barley crop is generally good, though by no means heavy; the late heavy rains have somewhat discoloured that which was cut in the swathe. Oats and beans also pro mise well, :particularly the latter, which are well podded ; some are affected with the fly and blight, but this is not the case to any serious extent. A good deal of land in this small county is now under steam cultivation, the crops here are abundant,and augur well of the new system of farming. Farmers are looking forward to better prices than they have had lately. After a summer of unprecedented wet weather and cold temperature, the harvest in Cumberland will be deficient in quantity and quality, as well as late. A. few days of beautiful summer-like weather have gladdened the farmers this week and given them better hopes of securing their crops well, but the general impression is that the mis chief done by the bad weather cannot now be remedied. There are numerous complaints, especially in the west of the county, that the wheat has suffered much from mildew, and it is feared that under the most favourable circumstances the crop will be a very inferior one. Oats give more promise on 1 ght dry lands, but those on wet soils have suffered very much, and will in some cases be almost worthless. Barley shows the same variation according to the lightness or heaviness of the land on which it has been sown, and perhaps, upon the whole, may approach something like an average crop. Turnips have not been so extensively sown this year on account of the difficulty of getting in the seed, and the crops will be very inferior. Of potatoes ac counts vary considerably, but it is feared it will be a bad crop. The weather during the past week has been much finer than for months past in the Midland district, and harvest prospects have considerably improved. The cutting of wheat is now general in Nottinghamshire and Leicester shire, and as the season advances it becomes more apparent that the yield will hardly be up to an average. The rain of last week has proved very beneficial, as the grain has filled steadily, and both the yield and quality will be decidedly better than was at one time expected, In many districts of North Notts there will be a full average crop, but on indifferent soils less favourable. B trley gene rally promises well. Oats have suffered to some extent by the wireworm, but a good yield is expected. Beans pretty fair. Turnips, mangold, and pastures are in a healthy condition. SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE SCOTTISH NORTH EASTERN R AILWAY.—On Friday morning a very alarming accident occurred near the Farnell station of the Scottish North Eastern Railway. The mail train which leaves Perth about midnight had arrived at Fame!! embankment, which is on a curve of the line, tbout half-past 1. This embankment is about 10 feet high. On entering on the curve, the engine met with some obstruction on the rail-- not yet explained—end, with a sudden leap, sprang first on the space between the rails, and then leapt on the up dine. The guard's van and a first-class carriage were thrown over the embankment, making a sommersault in the fall. Another carriage was overturned on the line, but remained there ; the engine also stood fast on the up-line, upon which all the eight or nine carriages in the train had also leaped. There were not many passengers with the train, and, for tunately, two gentlemen who were in the first •class carriage were but little injured, although one of them was for some time insensible from the shock. The severest injury was sustained by the guard, a young man named Thomson, be longing to Aberdeen. It appeaes that. he attempted to get out of the van just as it was falling over, and that he was thrown down the embankment, and hod both his thighs fractured—the right one in two places—and his right arm was broken above the elbow. In the van along with the guard was a railway policeman, who made no attempt to get out, and was uninjured, except being a little shaken. A surgeon was procured from the village of Friockheinn who set Thomson's broken limbs, and he was conveyed to Aberdeen. The engine driver, who was unhurt, ran back to Guthrie station and telegraphed to the engineering shops at Arbroath, whence Mr. Yarrow, the locomotive superin tendent, was shortly on the ground with a staff of workmen, and had the line cleared in a few hours. MONUMENT TO RICHARD OASTLER.—There hes just been erected in Woodhouse Churchyard, Huddersfield, a very tasteful monument to the late Richard Oastler. The memorial is of Gothic design, and from a base of 3 feet 6 inches rises to a height of 14 feet. It is decorated with deep moulded panels, with richly carved spandrels,crockets , and finials. This memorial to the factory king has been raised almost entirety by the contributions of the working classes, collected by a committee of working men. — shire (ladle. THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRI:NdE OF WALES...." The Degblaclet of Copenhagen confirms the news of an ap _ proaching alliance between the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra, daughter of Prince Christian, heir presumptive to the Crown of Denmark. Prince Christian left Copenhagen some days since with the princess, his wife, and two of his daughters. After visiting his elder brother at Louisenlund, in Schleswig, he intends to go to Ostend. It is generally supposed that his Royal Highness will after wards proceed to Reinhardabrunn, in Coburg. Gotha, where Queen Victoria is to stay some (weeks. Prince Christian was born in 1818, and married in 1812 the Princess Louisa, daughter of the Landgrave William of Hesse, by whom he has a family of six children, three of them sons. The Princess Alexandra was born on the. Ist December, 1844, and is consequently not quite 18 years of age. She is tall and well-looking, and has received a most careful educa tion in her own family, which is generally esteemed as a -model of all the domestic virtues. The directors of the Eastern Union Railway Company, in their report to be submitted to the meeting on Friday next, recommend a dividend of £2lox. per cent, per annum on the A Stoek, and £1 10s. on the B Stock, leaving a balance of about £1,900. The directors of the Dist Coast Railway Coon pany, in their report to be submitted to the meeting to morrow, state that they have made an arrangement for the completion of a double line between Faversham and Herne Bay, Margate, and Ramsgate, by the Ist of Sept., 1863 ; that the bill for raising the capital for these object and also for power to construct tramways in Ramsgate harbour, has received the Royal assent ; and that the works through out the line are proceeding satisfactorily , ORTHOGRAPIIY.—Mr. Middleton, in the course of a lecture at Edinburgh, gave some e7amples of spelling in the highest class of some schools in which he tested it, which would be very amusing were it not for the sacred ness of the subject-matter so strangely mutilated:—" Thy will be done on earth as teas in heaven,' = it is ; ' in tutim tation,' into temptation; andpast your gun,' =in pas tures green; 'nor sitteth in his corner chair,' = the scsr ner's chair ; 'but placeth his daylight,' = delight ; nor let my hoop be lost,' = hope ; ' for though art with me on the road, and staf thy confert = thou, and, thy, roil, staff, me, still ; God is a spirit finit, internal, changabl,' &c., = infinite, eternal, unchangeable," &c. THE BITE OF A RATTLE-SNAKE.—Mr. Geo. W. Kendall writes the following from Texas to a newspapor in New Orleans :—" Beforo I forget, I must tell you that the medicine chest has just arrived, and the very moment I opened it I found a pressing ase for one of the articles it contained. I was counting over the flasks, when one of my men came running in, and exll imed that he had just been, bitten by a rattle-snake. He held his left wrist, while two streams of blood flowed from one of his fingers, where the fangs of the serpent had pierced him. As the man had no tobacco, I told him to fill his mouth with salt, and with all his might suck the wound. I then held a cloth steeped'in hartshorn on the wound to counteract the working of the poison. I next put 30 drops of hartshorn into a glassful of whisky, and poured the whole contents down his throat Five minutes afterwards I repeated the close, and again in other five minutes. I had now administered a whole quart(?) of whisky, with 90 drops of hartshorn, and held it sufficient. The man was an Irishman, an old soldier, and took the thing very coolly. It was a great satisfaction to him when he heard that another man had killed the serpent. For three-quarters of an hour he sat quiet, and spoke about the bite with cold-blooded indifference, while I continued to re new the application of hartshorn to the wound in the finger. He said it was too bad that he should die of the bite of a poisonous snake, while I was astonished he could remain unaffected after such a dose of whisky. After about an hour he began to laugh, then to whistle, then to sing, and finally attempted to dance. It was now all right. I knew that the whisky had gained the upper hand of the poison, and for the first time intoxicated him. Five minutes after he was as drunk as Bacchus, beat on the ground with his feet, slept for half a day, and in the morning was well and at his work. So much for the first case which I have cured with the contents of the medicine chest I The hartshorn, with the whisky, completed the cure." THE REV. J. LIVESEY.—The more the case of the Rev. J. Livesey, incumbent of St. Philip's, Sheffield, is understood, does it appear to be in his favour. From the commencement of the-attack up ln him, when these unwar rantable charges were brought against him, it could scarcely be believed that they would be sustained after due inquiry. A letter has been received from the Archbishop of York, in reply to the resolutions passed at the meeting of seatholders of St. Philip's. His grace speaks very favourably of the conduct of Mr. Livesey, expressing an opinion that hi has committed an error of judgment only, and not acted from any improper motive.—Yokshire Gazette. THE ROYAL SOVEREIGN CUPOLA SHIP.— The Hampshire 7elepaph of yesterday says :—" We under stand that the Lords of the Admiralty have at last virtually acknowledged their want of judgment in cutting down this ship to her orlop deck. By everybody, with the exception of their lordships, it was considered that the construction of the cupolas was inseparably connected with the construc tion of the ship itself, and that if there were any divided responsibility, and the two parts were built under separate supervision, the ship would inevitably be a failure. There seems to be no doubt of the fact, and an order has been issued to replace the timbers of the lower deck, and so to do that in undoing which so much time and labour were spent. We understand that the work will be cart ied out under the personal sup.iiteud.nce of Cavtain Cowper Coles." DESTRUCTIVE FlRES.—Yesterday morning a fire broke out in the long range of premises occupied conjointly by Mr. Pocwra, contractor, and Mr. Charles Tulley, cabi net maker, in King Henry-walk, Ball's-pond, Islington. One portion of the building was upwards of 100 ft. long and between 30ft. and 40ft. wide. There is little doubt that the fire commenced in the workshops, and extended to the contractor's stores and offices with such fury as to sur round the whole structure before there was time for an engine to arrive, or even information of the outbreak to reach the stations. Four or five parish engines were soon in attendance from Islington and other districts, as well as Captain Shaw, the superintendent, with several of the London Brigade engines, and a strong force of firemen under Mr. Bridges, the foreman of the A division of the London establishment. Fortunately, a good supply of water was obtained from the mains running through the district, and no time was lost insetting the engines to work. The firemen were, after some hours' hard labour, enabled to confine the flames to the block of buildings in which they originated; but they were not entirely extinguished until late in the afternoon. Mr. Tulley was not insured, and it is unknown whether the other sufferer was insured or not. When the premises were closed the night before, every fire was extinguished, and there was not the least smell of any smouldering of fire. In our last week's impression we gave a report of an interesting marriage at Brighton parish church of Miss Sarah Forbes Bonetta, the daughter of an African Chief, with a rich merchant, named James Davis. After spending a short time at Brighton the bride and bridegroom came to London and took up their quarters for six weeks at the house occupied by Mr. Moses, No. 60, Bruton-crescent. While the inmates were at home, about half-past 12 at noon, one fire occurred, and in the evening another. Owing to the timely arrival of the engines, and the prompt assistance afforded, the first fire was confined to one room, but the second one had obtained too firm a hold when discovered to be extinguished so coon. The firemen were unable to get the flames extinguished until the greater portion of the roof was burnt off, several of the upper rooms destroyed, and the lower ones severely damaged by water. It is feared splendid wedding presents of her Majesty are also greatly damaged by water, but, fortunately, the fire men succeeded in saving the lower floors, and also the ad joining houses from destruction. Mr. Moses , t he owner of the house, was insured in the Sun Fire-office, but Mr. Davis, whose residence was only to be temporary, was un insured. The origin of the fire is unknown, MURDER IN LIMERICK.--A telt gram from Clon mel, August 23, in Saunders News' Letter, says :—" A gentleman from Tipperary has just brought the intelli gence that a butcher, residing at Hospital, county Lime rick, was murdered to-day by a man filling a respectable position in the same town,and whose daughter the aeceased had attempted to kiss. The skull of the unfortunate but cher was, it would tip' ear, opened with a hatchet. Inte.li geuce as yet but very meagre." A private telegram troth Tipperary, distant about eight miles from the hospital, con firms the above. THE DISTRESS IN LANCASHIRE.—A county meet . ing, to take into consideration the best means of r a i s i ng a sum of money for the relief of the operatives in Lancashire, was held in the Shire-hall, at Warwick on Saturday, the High Sheriff, the Hon. C. L. Butler, presided; and amongst the speakers were Lord Leigh, the Lord Lieu tenant of the county, Sir R. C. N. Hamilton, Sec. The amount subscribed was £7bo. A letter from Darmstadt, dated Aug. 17, says : —The Prince and Princess Louis have been to Giessen, to be present at the Mid-Rhine Musical Festival, but returned to Darmstadt to day, and have since proceeded to the rural retreat at Bergstrasse. At Giessen Princes Louis and Alexander, with their consorts, were present at the concert, and afterwards witnessed the procession of the societies taking part in the festival." The first important German work on natural his tory, called the " Book of Nature," by Konrad von Megen berg, which was reprinted no less than seven times in the course of the 15th century, has been newly edited by Franz Pfeiffer, in Vienna, in the original Bavarian idiom of the author. The well-known editor of the Gazetta di Verona Perego, has been arrested, on the charge of having com mitted the murder of Signora Spelladio di Colloredo, whose mill he is designated as sole heir. The poor lady was found burned in her bed. The public voice loudly accused Perego, and the authorities were obliged to take charge of him. PENNY TAXATION.—In 1852 receipt stamps, at various rates produced £194,089. In 1853 the duty was reduced to ld., and this penny duty was also imposed on draughts or orders payable on demand, and in the financial year 1854 55 receipts and draught stamps produced £245,363. In the year 1857-68 the sum had risen to £302,624. The penny duty was then extended to cheques on bankers, and the produce of the whole for the year ending last March was 139,445. LATEST FRANCE AND. ITALY. PARIS, AUG. 25. The hfoniteur of this morning says : " Several newspapers have asked what will be the attitude of the French Government in view of the agitation which now prevails in Italy. The question is so clear, that any doubt seems impos sible. In view of insolent threats, and the possible consequences of a demogogie insurrection, the duty of the French Government and its military honour oblige it more than ever to defend the Holy Father. The world must be well aware that France does not abandon those to whom, when in danger, she ex tends her protection." " CONFORTI• TURIN, AUG, 23. The official Gazette of to-day publishes a decree appinting General Cialdini as Extraordinary Com missioner in Sicily, replacing General Cugia. A. Ministerial declaration also appears in the same journal to the effect that the blockade of the Sicilian coasts will be conducted according to the princip'es of maritime law, as laid down by the Cougress of Paris. A Ministerial decree dissolves the Emancipation Association of Genoa, and the associations affiliated The Turin journals of this evening publish the following intelligence:— " The columns of Rieotti and Mella have effected a junction at Misterbtanco, which, with Aci-Reale, has been occupied by Royal troops sent by sea. " Intelligence received by the Government states that Garibaldi has seized the public treasury and the telegraph-office at Catania, and imposes contri butions on the inhabitants. " He has forbidden the latter to communicate with any one outside the city, and has erected bar ricades. His Volunteers are ill-armed. The popu lation is favourable to the Government. "Palermo and Messina are tranquil. " Order is restored at Caltanisetta and other places evacuated by Garibaldi." It is affirmed in official quarters that the state ment of the Opinione that the Prefects of Catanzaro and Cosenza have resigned their posts, and that three columns of Volunteers, under the command of Costo, Bruggesi, and Nullo, have landed in Cala bria, is incorrect. Intelligence from Calabria is reassuring. General Della Marmora has taken energetic mea- surss at Messina. Garibaldi is still at Catania, and appears to intend establishing a Government in that city. The ma jority of the inhabitants are opposed to this mea sure, and many families are leaving the place. The Royal troops are concentrating in the vicinity. EVENING. The Diritlo of to. day publishes a proclamation of Garibaldi, urging the Hungarians to insurrection. The Italia contains the following reply to this proclamation from General Klapka " Your voice, General Garibaldi, would have found an echo if you had uttered the war cry at the head of Volunteers united to the Royal troops in order to march against the Hapsburg dynasty. Such is not now the voice of Italy. " The example of the Servians, Greeks, and Montenegrins tells us to await a more propitiohs moment to respond to such an appeal as that which you address to us. " Hiving been betrayed in our hopes does not reconcile us with oppression, but engages us to husband our forces for better times." AUGUST 24. Intelligence received here direct from. Catania confirms that the majority of the _population is favourable to the Government, particularly ths National Guard. The municipality correspond directly with the Royal authorities on board a war vessel lying off Catania. It nevertheless appears that Garibaldi is still de- termined to resist. EVENING. The Discussione of to-day says : ' " The news published by some Turin journals of the establishment of a provisional Government at Catania is false. " Communication between Catania and Messina has been re-established. FRAN CE. BOURSE, Aug. 23.—There has been but little business doing, but the prices of the previous day have been well maintained. Threes, for the Ac count, are now at 68fr. 75c. Railway Shares quiet, but pretty firm. The market closed as follows: — It per Cents. 97 90 Bank Shares 3195 Do mid month.... Credit 1. peeler 1210 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 6o Italian Loan 69 70 New 3 per Cents .. Roman — Do, end month.... Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 843 Spani:h Threes 5O 50 Do. end month.... 845 home Debt BAIL' 'AIM. Cash. Account. Orleans lOl7 50 .. 1017 50 Northern . ... New ditto - • Lyons and Mediterranean 1110 1:02 50 Cer..e , va Southern Western OOO ~••• 557 50 .. 556 25 Eastern ..., Sardinian 363 75 .. Austrian Lombard OO 6OO —• .. 601 26 ITALY AND GARIBALDI. The following is the full text of the report ad• dressed to H.M. the King of Italy by his Ministers, requesting him to place Sicily in a state of siege, a telegraphic summary of which has already tip- peared : " Sire,—General Garibaldi, forgetful of his duties as a citizen, as raised the standard of revolt in Sicily. Your name and that of Italy appear again upon that standard to mislead the simple, but only serve to veil the intentions of European demagogy, to the Service of which he seems now to have lent his sword and his fame. "The cry of ' Rome or d.ath l' and the insane insults against your glorious ally, hailed only with applause by the enemies of liberty and of the unity of I, aly, bec ,, me on his lips the cause which chitily delays the moment when according to the wish solemnly expressed by the National Parliament, the seat of the Italian Government shall be established in the Eternal City. " Obstinately deaf to the voice of duty, he has not been moved by the idea of creating civil war in his country; your voice, which he once respected, has now no effect upon him. More energetic action has now become necessary. " The representatives of the Government in Sicily not easily forgetting the services rendered by the General, out of respect for the feeling of the country towards him, and especially in consideration of the particular benevolence with which your Majesty has honoured him, have acted towards him with a tolerance which, under other circum stances, would have been blameable. "The means of ordinary repression which sufficed to prevent the attempts which, on a previous occasioa, at the foot of the Tyrolean Alps, threatened the safety and the peace of Italy, are, to-day, powerless in producing the same results. Now that all hopes of his contrition are over, and that rebellion has been openly declared, the Government would be wanting to the King's confidence and to that ma nifested to.it by the Parliament in its recent votes, if it did not propose to your Majesty to suppress your own feelings and to adopt all the means with which, in virtue of ihe laws and from the force of circumstances, the Royal au thority is provided, to suppress on every point this audacious revolt, and to re-establish the e mpire of the law tr. dden under foot and outraged throughout the whole island. " The question in point, Sire, is to shield the principles proclaimed in the the unity of the kingdom , and to leave open to Italy the the a gainst every enemy, to assure path to which her high destinies call her. " It would be culpable to hesitate to act in presence of such circumstances; it is the imperious duty of your Minis ters not to decline their mission, arid to provide fir eventu• allies. The i m minent danger and the character of the rids. fortunes which threaten the country render legitimate the measures w hich we submit for your approval. By raising a g taigiarclila opposition to your nag, by arming 9itiz9E6 against the faithful troops of your Majesty General Garibaldi NE ‘ 7 \ 7. S. I has placed himself beyond the pale of the law ; those who follow him have placed themselves in open hos ility with the State ; it is, therefore, necessary to treat the country which they occupy as a country occupied or menaced by an enemy. This is why, Sire, we propose to you t,) place the island of Sicily in a state of siege during the whole time that the rebellion shall last, and until order shall be com pletely restored. " Your Council of Ministers frankly assume the respon sibility of these exceptional measures, because they com prise the safest means of most promptly re-establishing the rule of law and liberty in the insurgent provinces, as also of putting an end to the terrible anxieties caused by the dan gers and fears of civil war. They will, moreover, contribute. Sire, to protect the representative monarchy which we have all sworn to uphold, and to obviate a most serious b stacle to the accomplishment of Italian unity, and to resolve all the elements of Italian glory and prosperity. (Signed) 6 ' URBAIN R&TTAZZI, aMATTRUCCI. 6 ' DURAND°. DEPRETIS. '‘ PETITTI. '‘ PERSANO. " QUINTINO SELLA." THE LATE ATTEMPT TO SCALE THE 111AT2 ERHO.RN. Mr. Whymper, father of the Alpine climber, kindly supplies us, in the absence of his son, wish a few further particulars respecting his accident on the Matterhorn. It appears that previous to the accident the mountaineer had m-de two "attempts, with guides, to ascend, and had fixed his tent at an elevation of nearly 12 000 feet. It was in ene of his trial excursions from this point to try and find some higher ledee on which to sleep, that the acci dent betel him. Up to this height the ground was pretty familiar to him, as he bad traversed it no itSB than eight times. We may now use his own gra phic words :—" I found a sleeping place, about 300 feet higher, and came quickly down. In passing the tent I left everything behind that I could, in cluding my axe. The Col was pissed in safety— but on turning a corner of the precipice, to my right, I found that two daye' sun had nearly destroyed some steps in the ice which I had cut the day before. The position was awkward—a long slope of ice, as smooth as glass, led away below me; a precipice literally perpendicular rose above; the route lay along the junction of the two on the top edge of the slope. Time forbad me returning for the axe, so I commenced with my left hand to dig the steps afresh with the point of my baton, hold ing to a cranny with my right. I had nearly finished, when, on stepping downwards, my foot slipped. Down I went life lightning; in a moment my baton was dashed from my hand, and my knap sack brought my head down first ; some rocks peeped out 20 feet down, and into these I fell. It was now, not slidin!, but flying absolutely head over heels. I fell 195 feet in five or six bounds— striking my head four times. The last bound must have been fully 60 feet; it took me right across the gully, into some jagged rocks. I clutched at them with all my might, and, atter sliding a little fur ther, happily stopped myself. Had I fallen 10 feet lower, I should have shot over a precipice of at least 800 feet." Mr. Whymper's wounds, as we said last week, though numerous, were superficial. The ap plication of snow partly stopped the bleeding. Mr. Whymper is of opinion that the Matterhorn is in accessible to mere arms and legs. Professor Tyndall took a ladder, but even with this aid it was found impossible to conquer the last precipices.— Atheneum. to it. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The total number of visitors for the week just ended, including payments and season and Ehilli g day tickets, is 277,900, of which 246 389 were by payment, and 31,511 by tickets. The serni:sions during - the corresponding week in 1851 were 236,539, of which, in round numbers, only 10,000 were by season tickets, shooing an excess for this Exhibition of 20,000 on the shilling payments, and more than 21,000 on the visitors with season rickets. Among the distinguished visitors to the building ~n Saturday were the ex-Queen of the French, with ne Duke de Nemours, the Count de Paris, and the Duke de Chartres. Di.m Miguel., the ex-King of Portugal, was also present, attended by a very numerous suite of Portuguese gentlemen. EXPERIMENT WITH A TRACTION ENGINE. Au experiment of some interest, as illustrating the power Of Dray'a trartion exteine for drawing ponderous loads, al most impracticable to horses, along our public thorough fares, took place on Friday night and Saturday morning. A large wrought-iron girder, of the hog-back construction, 74 feet long, 5 feet 8 inches high in the centre, and weighing 20 tons, had to be removed from the works of Mr. H. Grissell, Eagle-wharf-road, New N orth-road, to the hi anor road, Dulwich, where it is to form part of a bridge for the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. The journey had to be performed between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m , the hours to which the use of traction engines is re stricted by the police regulations within the metropolitan district. The first difficulty was how to get the huge, un wieldy mass out of the yard where it had been constructed. Placed upon rollers, it had to be raised by means of jacks to a height of six or seven feet from the ground. Two strong trucks were put underneath it, the one in front being a large four-wheel boiler truck, and the second, which bore the weight behind, a very heavy " trolly" with two wheels. These trucks together f ,rmed the carriage, the girde'• being kept in its position by stout chains passing over it and under the trucks. A wooden bolster was placed under the load on the larger truck, with a swivel between the fore and hind wheels, by the action of which facility was obtained for turning corners with comparative ease. Naphtha lamps, to light the workmen and give warning to all passers-by, were fixed along the whole line of the girder ; and, thus equipped. with the traction engine yoked in front, the mas• sive load went apon its journey, multftudes turning out of their houses and crowding the footways to witness the un usual apparition. Indeed, so great was the curiosity to see it, and so deafening the shouting of the excited urchins who came thronging round it, that it was occasionally almost impossible for the workmen to understand the direc tions given to them, and no little nerve and coolness were required to prevent confusion or accidents. At Pitfield street, Iloxton, an ugly corner presented itself, but good management and address overcame all obstacles. Then all went smoothly until the end of Noorgate•street was in sight. Here the crossing lamps at the beginning of Prin cess-street, by the Bank, suddenly take away one-halt the avail ;Lie width of the road. This impediment safely over• come, the moving mass went on to London-bridge, which was cr seed in capital style. At the foot of the bridge, by Tooley-street, there is a sort of double declivity, the effect of which was counteracted by keeping well to the right hand side in passing. St. Geoi ge's Church, Southwark, was reached about midnight, end the real difficulties of the route were then all surmounted. It was daylight when the final des'ination (Dulwich) was attained. A great many more of these girders are to be conveyed to the same place by the same means. The ext t riment on Friday ight was eminently successful. Loads quite as heavy have l cell taken through the streets of 1 ondon before ; but we under stand that this was almost the first combining such length (24 yards) with so great a weight (20 tons). It would have required 25 horses to draw it by the ordinary method, and the difficulty of getting such a number of animals to pull all together, to say nothing of the obstruction they would cause to the regular traffic, may be readily imagined. A letter from St. Petersburg of August 16 states that Prince Alfred has paid a short visit to Moscow. After visiting the Kremlin and other objects of interest, his royal highness returned to St. Petersburg. As his royal high ness travelled incognito there was no official reception. Prior to the Prince's excursion to the south, the Emperor Alexander accompanied him in . visits to the fortress of Cronstadt, the docks, and the naval hospital. When his Majesty passed the English squadron, he was saluted by all the vessels, and the Russian frigate Gromoboi returned the salute, all the Russian vessels at the same time hoisting the English flag. his Majesty went on board the English vessel , St. George. The Emperor and the Prince afterwards pro ceeded to the Menchikuff and Oranienbaun ports. The Russian sailors give fetes daily to the crews of the English vessels. TRADE OF LONDON, A.D. 604.—The earliest men tion of Lon 'on at a commercial city occurs in the works of Bede, who, in referring to events of the year A.D. 604, de scribes London, th oug h at that perio I the cap i ta l o f on e of t tlt h to e ni s so u nn t a ot l th l : e s t banks kingdomsoftthe eo of England,obl e navigable e " emporium for many na ti ons repa i r i ng to it by l au d an d sea." b r yi v i e t r s h T a b p a p tn y e s s i , tu ti a; indeed, to be suppo ed that at an earlier period there was any trade with the Thames. Althoughthe ,Jartinv ginians sent ships to Cornwall for tin and hides, and al' though there was a certain trade carried on with Britain by the Veneti, of which we have no particulars, the trade OP' pears to have been entirely passive on the part of the t inhabitants of our island. Indeed, trade on their part Ns's° impossible, for they had no ships. No early author men' tions any kind of vessel belonging to the Britons other than boats, of which the keel and principal timbers were. made of light wood, and the bottom and sides of a kin a basket-work of osiers, the whole being covered with hides* --Qapper'l Pvrt and Trade of Lyndon, I 1