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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAT.—Morning, 2h. Om—Afternoon, 2h. 18m. To-xoltuow.-Morning, 2h. 35m.—Afternoon, 12h. 51m. A • r -6 ' ~, ....,~ ~.,; :~ Vitro i cf'':,'. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 24, 1862. The great domestic topic is Cotton. The thou sands of pounds flowing in to the Relief Funds ' 1 from all sources at home , and from even the remotest colonies, which thus still indicate their warm family attachment, are proofs of this. The meetings of the Cotton Supply Association, and the efforts made in India, all show how English men, everywhere, are eager to contribute their money, or their skill to meeting the pressure of the Cotton famine. But, if we are not mistaken, Mr. HARBEN, with his new product, which we shall take the liberty to call SEA COTTON, Will prove by far the most munificent contributor of all. His name having become public we felt it our duty, as journalists, in re ference to what strikes us as a discovery of such promising importance, to examine, if permitted, for ourselves ; and we are bound to acknowledge the frank courtesy with which our wishes were met. Mr. HARBEN appears, i n fact, not only to have nothing to cot ceal, but to wish the utmost publicity for his discovery, for the express reason that it may be examined by thousands, instead of a few, that thus every difficulty may become known and met ; and that at the earliest possible period the discovery may be applied to commercial purposes. No one of course would prophecy in a case like this. We must wait the results of actual trial on a large scale. But we must confess that while our apprehensions and hopes balanced each other be fore, our hopes are now completely triumphant. We had thought previously of many difficulties and objections, but all we could think of are gone, and gone completely. We cannot, of course, insure that others may not arise. Some of the sea grass—Zostera Marina—is now before us:, We have examined it many ways, our readers on the coast may follow our example, and if they do, they will find it next to impossible to believe that such a product will not be promptly utilized. The plant will be easily recognised where i t grow s, ae when washed up by the water it has nothing common in appearance with other sea weeds, being s imply very long blad es o f gra ss about a quarter of an inch wide. If take n w hil e d am p, and the greenish cuticle carefully broken without pulling so strongly as to break the whole leaf, and if then the broken parts be gently drawn asunder, a beautiful warp of dei icate, white, strong, filaments will appear, which ma be drawn out to a consider. able length without breaking. If one end be let go, their natural elasticity twists them into one fine thread. One fact is very remarkable. Examining a piece by a powerful microscope, it appeared that the vi s ibl e outer skin was but a flattened tube, ity. which the filaMents lay somewhat loosely. IVe called to mention this to the discoverer, but found we had been long antici pated by him. He in oved in a minute the truth of the microscopic ap,pearance, by taking a piece of fresh weed, breall'aig it in two places half an inch apart, and drascitig out the filaments, when the half inch of gret ni left in the middle, would slide up and down on the filaments with the utmost ease, like a tube on a number of strings inclosed within it. It would thus seem that these beautiful filaments ) nay be as long as the blade of the grass itself, vhieh extends frequently to many feet. We find that thei 13 is no difference of opinion— indeed, there can be, none—respecting the beauty, fineness, and streng tit of this singular fibre. The wonder seems to be rasther how it could escape ob- of Mx .. Serge t SgEE as an inopportune candidate for their suffrages—had no Liberal electors been driven, by the confusion resulting from Mr. Sergeant SHEE'S appearance there as a candidate for those suffrages of theirs, into not voting for any one of the three rivalcandidates — h ad 1 no Liberal electors under cover of this very con fusion been induced to desert Mr. GRENFELL (as many did) and actually to swell the ranks of Mr. HOPE'S supporters—the chances of the latter gen tlemen we may now be certain would, as we can very well perceive, have been absolutely in significant. It is certainly to be regretted that a man of Mr. Sergeant SHEE'S standing at the Bar—no mere Mr. CHAFFINBRASS, but the very antithesis or an tipodes of your Old Bailey practitioner—should have consented, no matter at whose instance, to go down to Stoke-upon-Trent, or to assume a position in regard to any body of electors in any part of the kingdom, like that which he has so recently as sumed in regard to that constituency, It cannot possibly redound to his credit. It cannot in any way advance his interests or his reputation either political or professional. On the contrary, it must henceforth be " ticked" against Mr. Sergeant SHEE'S name as a decidedly bad mark in the event of his going, sooner or later, anywhere else in the character of a Liberal candidate for a seat in the Commons House of Parliament. It bears from first to last so paltry a construction, the whole scheme of these proceedings. Not a vestige of a real bona fide chance for himself was Sergeant SHEE'S, from the commencement of this glaringly invidious contest. Down there, at Stoke-upon- Trent, from the very outset he himself, in effect, was just de trop' He could possibly do no good whatever for himself—had about as much chance of climbing to the top of the spire of Salisbury Cathedral, as of finding himself at the top of the poll at the termination of this contest down at Stoke-upon-Trent. His persistence in going to the 1 poll could only be a threat of detriment to the inte • rests of the other (the veritable) Liberal candidate. Sergeant SHEE must have known as clearly as any F one down there yesterday, inthat agitated borough, that his going to the poll, if it tended to influence the election in any way, tended certainly to afford a ghost of a better chance to Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, as the Conservative candidate. The result has shown happily that in this scramble, the Liberal interests in the town have not suffered. But that they have not is unquestionably not the fault of Mr. Sergeant SHEE. And what served to lend weight—not by any means unnaturally—to the insinuations thrown out against him as a man fighting pirate-like the Tory battle, under the false banner of Liberalism, was the fact that in doing so he was for once suspi ciously not in the same boat with his co-religionists down at Stoke-upon-Trent. While the Catholic elec tors of that borough are understood to have, for the most part, given in their votes to swell the number of the 918 supporters of Mr. BERESFORD HOPE—Mr. Sergeant SEME was, with every profession of loyalty to the cause of Liberalism, endeavouring to dimi nish the number of the supporters of Mr. GREN TELL " the" Liberal candidate. Cunningly con trived though this device was to which Mr. Ser geant SHEE condescended to lend his name and his tongue, it has nevertheless proved an egregious failure. The Liberal gentleman who was yester day morning the gibe and laughing-stock of the supporters of both Mr. BERESFORD HOPE and Mr. Sergeant SHEE, had, before the closing in of yes terday evening, turned out to be the successful can didate after all! The one chosen by a clear and de cisive majority of 139 out of the 2,039 electors who took part in the contest of yesterday, the one elio ,;en deliberately by that clear majority to be M.P. for the borough of Stoke-upon-Trent. M.1•••=1,......m.M1111••••••••••••••••••--- _ nervation so long. We noticed in a Manchester ' contemporary another claimant for the honour of the discovery ; but having made it our business to see his patent, it is for a very different and unim portant thing, the extraction of fibre from common seaweeds—(seaweeds proper, Alga, not Zostera)— and by processes so common and rough as this beautifully delicate fibre would never bear It is quite evident that the patentee knew nothing whatever of the marvellous filaments of the Zostera Marina. If he had, indeed, he would have been chargeable almost with cruelty in sup pressing such knowledge while Lancashire was starving, for his patent dates seven years ago. When examined by a good microscope, in com parison at the same time with cotton wool, it was impossible to notice any difference in the thickness and smoothness of the filaments, which were quite different in this respect from the fibres of flax hemp and that class of substances. We can hardly doubt, indeed, that it will prove a unique pro- duction. A doubt has been suggested whether the plan can be obtained in quantities sufficient for commer. cial purposes. From all the information yet before us, we 4 rather imagine that it is abundant in shal low marine water all over the world. On some parts of our coast we know of its existence in great abundance. It is carted away for manure by the farmers, and is thrown up after storms in immense quantities. It is brought from the Mediterra nean in bales for the cabinet maker; and perhaps may grow better in some currents and temperatures of the ocean than in others. We should think it, however, almost certain that wherever salt water can cover the soil, there the Zestera Marina either grows, or may be made to grow. We can easily imagine, indeed, that if there should be any diffi culty in finding enough, our estuaries will be planted with it ; there will be a regular cultivation of it, and thousands of salt marshes in England will become as valuable as the sea islands of America themselves. It would be interesting,meanwhile, if persons on the coast would communicate to the press such know ledge as they may have of the growth of this plant in their own localities. It has been a subject of such extremely little interest hitherto, that no one would notice it. There are, we are inclined to think, vast fields of it, without our going so far as the Mediterranean; perhaps some of our readers can confirm our conjectures. The whole business is, however, through the noble generosity of Mr. HARBEN, in the way for the fullest and earliest investigation. Instead of a patentee and his assistants trying unsuccessful and imperfect plans of manipulation of the rough ma terial for months, all the modes, mechanical and chemical, which can occur to hundreds and thou sands, will be in operation at once. Strange in deed will it be if, with so many minds brought to bear on so intensely interesting and practical a matter, we do not quickly hear of a "eureka" from some of them. The grand discovery has been made. There is the fibre or filament, whichever we please to call it. There can be no mistake on that point. And when we have before our eyes a beautiful tissue of fibres, which every child playing on the beach could learn in five minutes to develope to almost any length, it would be a stigma, indeed, on our ingenuity if qualified a d u its do not 0p,.-.T dily place it in the hands of the manufacturer. ,........---.. - ----__ It was very cleverly arranged no doubt, but the dodge has been entirely unsuccessfu:,' down at Stoke upon-Trent. Mr. GRENFELL , the Lib's:lral candi date, has been returned thereby a ma j orit y it; every way decisive. Whatever Mr. Sergeant SIIEII nat:? say to the contrary, it still looks, as it has looked all along, exceedingly like a perfectly understood thing between himself and the Conservative candi date, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE. Who, in the name of fortune, ever supposed for one instant that Sergeant SUEZ had the smallest atom of chance of being re turned by the Stoke-upon-Trent constituency. That he would get the show of hands at the hust ings upon the nomination day—as he did—was an event no doubt very probable. But it might almost be taken as a rule, that the show of hands, in these mixed constituencies, might be regarded at once (certainly in the majority of instances it might)---not as a prophecy of success to the candidate favoured with that show of hands, but—tout au contraire. Here is a case exactly in point. The competitor who, instead of making a rush first past the winning-post, turns out eventually to be just nowhere—obtains the show of hands (according to the dispassionate view of the returning officer) unmistakeably, over whelmingly. He is, in fact, the non-electors' candi date. His rival competitors —"the" Liberal candidate, Mr. GRENFELL, and the Conservative candidate, Mr. Ever-so.many-letters-of-the-alpha bet HOPE—are compelled to demand a poll. And the polling takes place, on the subsequent day, ac cordingly. With what result P Why, with a re sult so preposterous of its kind, that the doubt hitherto entertained as to the integrity of these recent proceedings down at Stoke-upon-Trent be comes more than ever strengthened and confirmed. The Liberal candidate who was to be hastled out of his otherwise certain promise of success by the appearance of an invidiously superfluous Liberal candidate (No. 2) in the person of Mr. Sergeant SrIEE, obtains from the electors not s imply a clear majority but a majority so clear, so large, so decisive by its magnitude that his oppo nents are at once placed in a positively ludicrous The marriage of the Princess MARIA PIA (shall we still say of Savoy?) with the King of PORTUGAL occurs rather opportunely, in some respects, at the present juncture — immediately after the close of GARIBALDI'S last fatal enterprise on the Calabrian hill-top of As promonte. In anticipation of this alliance, Turin is just now becoming a general rendezvous. In con sequence of the negotiation of these nuptials, several Courts, recently more or less estranged from each other, have been brought into direct communi cation. The Princess has even written to her Godfather, Pope Pius IX., informing his Holiness of her approaching union with the Portu guese Sovereign, and received in return the POPE'S blessing, his holograph, and a magnificent wedding gift. It is not to written correspondence, how ever, that the communications we allude to are re stricted. Turin, we repeat, is becoming just now a general rendezvous. The Princess CLOTILDE and her husband, the Prince NAPOLEON, as a matter of course, go there to take part as the near relatives in the pageantry of these royal cere monials. Thither returns the ex-Premier of Italy, the Baron RICASOLI, just fresh from his holiday excursions into France and into England, but pare titularly just emerged from that Ministerial Cabinet at Paris in which he has had a lengthened inter view with M. DE THOUVENEL. Thither also hastens M. BENEDETTI, charged by the Emperor NAPOLEON to convey to the Court of King VICTOR EMMANUEL, and to the boudoir of the Princess PIA, his Imperial MAJESTY'S felicita tions. There are assembling the diplomatists of all the various countries accredited to that I Court, certain, each of th em, exce p t in case of any I inopportune illness that may set aside their good in tentions, to be there assembled in person around the Sovereign of the chief part of the Roman Penin sula. If nothing else comes immediately from this timely gathering of Princes and Diplomatists at Turin, at least there will surely come an Am nesty—the first result of the granting of which would be, of course, to fling open the prison doors now closed upon GARIBALDI. position. "H O PE told a flattering tale!" says the song. And of this old fashioned, plaintive, lachrymose little love ditty there comes floating to us just now a very doleful echo indeed from theToryreCfoomrmimnitg tee-room down at t hat liberal, fr e e-trade, borough of Stoke -upon Trent. HOPE there, has of late been telling an excessively flattering tale in very deed, and in very truth, when promising, through this cleverly thought-of dodge —(in the playing out of which Sergeant SURE h a s enacted the part of poor old BERTRAND to the Tory ROBERT MACAIRE)—SO very brilliant a triumph to the Conservative candidate! Those uncompromising numbers jotted down at the close of the poll yester day at four of the clock, on the 23d of September, down at Stoke-upon-Trent, serve in regard to the I very Moral Tale we are here particularising " to paint the Moral and adorn the Tale !" For Mr. GRENFELL, "the" Liberal candidate -4,089! Nearly an odd hundred over and above a good round thousand! For Mr. BERESFORD HOPE; the Conservative MACAIRE-918! For Sergeant SLTEE, the pro-Tory BERTRAND, though all 3', and so far as honour t he while ostensibly went, the quasi Liberal or soi-disant Reforming Candidate -32 ! Eighteen less altogether than a mere half hundred! So that, while Mr. GRENFELL (now chosen, in spite of how much derision ! M.P. fcr Stoke-upon-Trent) is recognised as 171 ahead of Mr. HOPE himself, and as many as 1,057 (tell it not at Sergeant's Inn !) ahead of Mr. SUER—this successful Liberal candidate, now, we repeat, chosen, beyond any doubt, M.P. for Stoke -upon-Trent, h as absolutely a clear majority of as many as 139 votes over and above the numbers accorded to his two antagonists put together ! Had no Liberal electors whatever been lured away from the Liberal cause by the inopportune appearance among them THE sigN, LONDON) WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEVIBEh 24, 1862 STOKE-UPON-TRENT EL HECTION. "- C L OSE OF THE POLL.—Grenfell, 1 , 059 ; ope, 91S. A German weekly journal has been started at Sydney, New South Wales. It is entitled Der Hezaths bole (The Home News.) THE NEXT RUN THAT IS WANTED.—A Papal Bull's Run, with Pope at the head of it.—. Punch. POLITICAL PRECAUTION. —Lord Derby has just become a Colonel of Volunteers. Lord Palmerston sent his respectful compliments to the Leader of Opposition, and hoped that he intended to stick to the motto, Defence, not Defiance."—Punch. L ATE A singular accident happened at Breslau last week during a violent storm, which passed over that city. When the rain began, a number of persons who were bathing in the Oder, in one of the wooden constructions generally arranged on the continent fcr the purpose, took refuge in the dressing-boxes, where they had left their clothes, but the moment after an unusually powerful gust of wind sepa rated the construction in two and loosened its anchorage. A scene of indescribable alarm and confusion ensued, as part of the woodwork began to float down the river ; fortu nately there was plenty of help at hand, and all were got safely to land ; some, however, losing part of their clothes. A GENERAL ACCUSED OF SWINDLING.—The New Hanover Gazette announces the arrest of General de Hedemann, ex-marshal of the royal household at Blanken see, near Hamburg, on a charge of swindling and embezzle ment. The sum which he is said to have appropriated is 100,000 thalers (375,000 francs), the property of the King. What adds to the gravity of the case is, that the general had been placed under arrest. on parole not to attempt to escape, and yet broke his parole, leaving a letter behind him in which he declarei he would rather appear before the Supreme Judge than before a human tribunal. The prisoner is by law amenable to the military tribunals, but as the latter have the power of referring the case to the civil I ones, it is probable that i t will be tri e d b e fore a court of I assize. E W 3.20 P.M. Two men, father and son, have just been arrested in Paris for the following ingenious but by no means novel system of robbery. The son, elegantly dressed, goes to a first-class restaurant, and orders a breakfast, taking care to select dishes which will require additional spoons and forks, and then having, unobserved, fastened with some glutinous substance one or two of the articles of plate underneath the table, pays his score, and leaves. If by chance the articles are missed and the thief accused, he immediately professes great indignation and demands to be searched; of course nothing is found on him. A few minutes after the father arrives and places himself at the table just occupied by his son, and, ordering some trifling refreshment, pockets the articles attached beneath the table by his confederate. Suspicion of these individuals having been at length excited they were watched, and the father was two days ago de tected while completing an operation commenced by his son in a restaurant. The latter has since been arrested, and both are now secured at the Prefecture of Police. We should have scarcely thought the scheme worth being acted on, as most restaurants now use only Ruolz goods for the table. The Journal de Belfort states that the supply of cotton in that manufacturing town, although not entirely exhausted, is so greatly diminished that the manufacturers have been compelled to reduce the number of days of em ployment in order not to deprive their operatives altogether of work. M. Legrand, the most eminent manufacturer at Thann, has determined that his operatives shall not work more than six hours a day, but that they shall be paid as if they had worked 12 hours a day. The town of Leyden has just been thrown into a state of commotion by a very singular cause, M. Hendriks, the head commissary of police, three days since issued a regulation that foot passengers in the streets should always keep the right hand side, as is the practice in London. He also sent police officers to enforce the regulation in some of the more crowded streets. The passengers, however, proved rebellious, and one gentleman lodged a complaint with the burgomaster against the police officers for assaulting him. The burgomaster, who had not been apprised of the new regulation, at once ordered the police agents to retire. But this did not satisfy the people, who, assembling in crowds, went to the commissary's house, smashed his windows, and assaulted his person. It was even found necessary to call out the military to clear the streets. On the next day the town resumed its usually quiet appearance. It seems that M. Hendriks, who recently visited London, had there seen he advantage of all passengers, going in the same direc ion, keeping the same side, and had consequently resolved to introduce it among his fellow-citizens in Holland. BERLIN, SEPT. 23. Chevalier Nigra is expected to arrive here. THE HARVEST IN SOUTH WALES.—Notwithstand ing the fine weather which has been for some time experi enced, numerous csops are yet uncut, and it may safely be said that a fortnight or three weeks must transpire before harvest operations are completed. There are several fields of oats and barley in a very backward condition, and re quire a good deal of sun to make them fit for the sickle. However, a considerable breadth of land has already been cleared, and we are happy to say that, upon the whole, the crops have exceeded general expectation. Wheat, if at all, is not far below an average, although, perhaps, the quality is Boniewv , .* inferinv, hut fauns... ure inclined t. bateve that it will improve by keeping. The yield of barley is tolerably good, and the same remark is applicable to oats, but the quality of the latter is in most cases indifferent,and it is feared the crop will not this year prove remunerative. Beans have done fairly, and turnips in many instances are excellent. It must be stated, however, that many fields have been twice and even thrice sown. At one time much was said about the potato disease, but we are happy to re port that, take South Wales throughout, the crop is an excellent ono; the quantity is large, and the quality good. The disease has manifested itself in some part- more than others, but, speaking generally, there is no cause for mur muring. Fruit is scarce. CAPTURE OF A SHARK.—A eorrospondent writes to a contemporory from Luccombe Chine, Isle of Wight, on Sept. 21—While sitting upon a rock last Friday about 2 o'clock p.m., I observed a large fish floundering in the sea, a short distance for the shore. On bringing my tele scope to bear upon it I descried a huge fin above water,and while still wondering what it could be I saw it turn on its side, evidently to seize some prey, and this convinced me it was a shark, and a very large one too. Hastily summon ing some fishermen, we embarked in a boat, armed with a hook on on iron chain, baited with beef. This on approach.. ing the monster we dragged behind us. He immediately seized it in his rapacious jaws, and then—well for us was it that we were powerful men, for his efforts to escape were fearful—he tried with his teeth to cut the chain ;he almost turned his stomach inside out to disgorge the hook, but in vain. The struggle lasted half an hour, when, quite spent, he suffered his head to be drawn above water, and confining his tail with a noose we drew him to shore, and despatched him with great difficulty by beating him on the head. He measured 18 feet 4 inches, and from his enor mous mouth, containing six rows of hard fiat sharp-pointed teeth (of which I counted 120), and the total absence of spiracles, its skin rough, hard, and prickly, I judged it to be the Cartharias vulgaris, or white shark, which is, according to Cuvier, sometimes found on the British coast. I wished to have preserved the skeleton, but found the next day, to my regret, that not having been pro perly secured, the huge mass had been washed out to I sea. PLAIN SPEAKING.—The Constitutional Union Convention assembled on the Bth at Troy, and the Hon. B. Davies Noxon, of Syracuse, was appointed to the chair. In the course of his introductory address he said—" We have had enough of the war ; blood enough has been spilt; the country has suffered enough, and we have an abundance of expenses. Let us stop the war without any further ex penses than are absolutely necessary. We shall not get rid of it, unless we can have a change in our members of Con gress ; we shall have no peace until that change is effected. There is no hope of rescuing the Union, except by such means ; that seems the most plausible. We regret and abhor a national policy which is dictated by vindictive re venge. We demand from the President that he shall obey his oath of office, and protect the constitution and liberties of the American people. The painful truth is manifest that the President and our Generals in the field are embarrassed and threatened by the leaders of a party whose object is not the restoration of this Union, but the abolition of slavery—. the unmitigated curse of abolition." The vote for Governor resulted in favour of Horatio Seymour; for Lieutenant- Governor in favour of W. C. Hasbrouch.—New York Tribune. - • - THE GOLDEN EAGLE.—Under the above attrac- I tive title a Mr. Phillips, of Snow-hill, a working artist in copper, as we understand, exhibits at 191, Piccadilly, a very extraordinary and beautiful specimen of art workmanship. It is a model of the magnificent golden eagle which is still sometimes seen by tourists in the Highlands of Scotland and in the mountainous districts of Ireland, life size, and almost alive in its truth to nature, the fierceness of its atti tude, and its beauty and care of workmanship. But the most singular feature about this unique work of art is the mode in which it has been executed, Mr, Phillips having first roughly modelled his bird in copper, proceeded patiently to make its plumage, feather by feather, and each feather a counterpart of a feather in the living bird. These feathers are all beautifully worked in copper, and are then placed on the body of the bird in such a way as to make the imitation the closest similitude to life that has ever yet been produced by art. To crown all, Mr. Phillips has in vefited a new process, which he calls cold electrotyping, and by means of which he gives to the bird the exact ma wolf g loss g l os s and varied hues of life. The bird is altogether derful result of patience, industry, and taste. It is exceed ingly well worth a visit, and it is to be hoped will also find a purchaser liberal enough to reward Mr, Phillips h.l six years' labour which we understand he has devoted to his work. DEATH FROM BOILING TEA. —Yesterday Dr. Lankester, the coroner, held an inquest at Middlesex Hos pital on the body of a child, aged three years, named Henry Evans. The mother, Angelina Evans, stated that she re • 1 sided at 10, Tudor-place, Tottenham -court-road. On Friday , last at 7 p.m, she poured s ome boiling wat9r into her tea \l • pot to make her tea, and as she mometaril deceased child took up the teapot and swallowed some of the boiling tea. She immediately had him conveyed to the hospital, where he expired. Verdict—" Accidental death.". STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 23, Eveni ng . A large Garibaldian meeting was held to-day in he Exchange. An address was enthusiastically voted, express ing sympathy with Garibaldi, and urging the speedy evacuation of Rome by the French. PARIS, SEPT. 23, Evening. The papers of this evening state that the Chevalier Nigta will leave for Turin tomorrow. The Presse of this evening publishes intelligence from Mexico to the 24th of August, stating that 2,000 French troops had disembarked at Vera Cruz, and were immediately despatched to Orizaba. The Bourse closed flat. Rentes were finally quoted 691.10 c., or 20e. lower than yesterday, A report was circulated to-day upon good autho rity in the Chamber of Deputies that the Minis terial crisis was approaching its termination. It is almost certain that Count von Bismark- Schonhausen will be appointed President of the Cabinet and Minister for Foreign Affairs; while it is believed that Herr Bodelschwing will replace Herr von der Heydt as Minister of Finance. The other members of the Ministry will remain in office. It is said that Count Bernstorff will proceed as Ambassador to Paris. TURIN, SEPT. 23. The Royal Princes, the Marquis de Pepoli, and Signor Depretis have left for Genoa to meet Prince Napoleon and Princess Clotilde. The Mayor of Turin has published a proclama tion expressing the joy of the citizens at the visit of the King's daughter and the illustrious Prince, who is the fervent friend of Italy. The Turin papers of this evening publish a letter from Garibaldi, replying to some friends at Naples, in which he says : _ " I am surrounded by kind attention, which I believe will facilitate my cure." EVENING , The National Committee in Rome is taking the lead in preparing a wedding present for the Princess Pia. No fresh intelligence respecting the health o: Garibaldi has been received from Variguano: ST. PETERSBURG, SEPT. 23. The Emperor received a deputation from the peasantry of Novgorod yesterday. His Majesty, in addressing them, gave a denial to the rumour that fresh concessions were to be made to the poasants, and called upon them t 4 come to a speedy arrangement with their landlords. RAGUSA, SEPT. 23. Vukalovich has signed here, in the name of the Herzegovina, the record of submissian. Kurschid Pasha, who was present, has amnestied Vukalovich, and conferred upon him the rank of Bimb ►schi. NEW ADELPHI THEA7RE. Mr. Benjamin Webster takes his benefit here to-morrov , evening, and the programme which he has put forward is a most attractive one, a highly acceptable feature in it being his own appearance as Baron Ravensburg in " The Woman Hater"—a character which he originally created with marked success. The ever fresh and popular drama, " The Green Bushes," will also be revived, Miss Avonia Jones playing Miami for the first time. This is an admir able bi►l of fare, though we feel satisfied that even one of infinitely less solid excellence would have sufficed to secure a cordial response to this appeal of an artist of sterling genius, who, as manager, as author, and as actor, has dur ing a long and brilliant career rendered much precious ser vice to the British drama. The Italiau frigate Eurydice, bound for Sweden, has grounded on the shoals of the Cattegat, but hopes are entertained that she can be got afloat again. The presents offered by the English Government to the King of Madagascar, Radama 11., consist of ten cases, and contain among other objects the portrait of Queen Victoria, a Bible magnificently bound, a parasol, a scarlet mantle, a sword, a gun, musical instruments, a silver cup, a pair of silver goblets, and several uniforms. The value of these articles is about 40,000 f. The Government of the Emperor of the French has also made magnificent presents to King Rada ma, a part of which, consisting of arms, military uniforms, and court dresses, were sent in the month of December last under the care of Baron Brossard de Corbigny. In addition , M. Lambert, on his retarn to Tananariva in June last, was the bearer of two crowns, destined for the King and Queen. The royal flag of Mada gascar is white with a red border; in the centre is a spread eagle standing on a globe, with a crown above its head. The Acclimatisation Society, of Tasmania„;have 8 4 ceeeded in introducing lobe= into the colony. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 23.—There has again been a con siderable amount of business transacted to-day, at prices still higher than yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now firm at 69fr. 30c. Share Market brisk, and prices firm. The market was rather heavy towards the close, owing to realization. The following are the last quotations: — It per Cents .. 96 70 Bank Shares 3207 60 Do end month.... Credit } oncier 1245 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 10 Italian Loan 7l 35 New 3 per Cants Roman Do, end month.... Austrian .. — Credit Mobilier.... 1002 50 Spanish Threes 5l 50 Do. end m0nth....1003 75 Rome Debt - B. ILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1062 50 .. 1062 50 Northern .... 1025 .. 1026 25 New ditto — • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1176 25 .. 1170 Geneva .. Southern B6l 25 .. 856 25 Western Eastern ... e Sardinian Austrian Loirbard MARKETS-THIS DAY. A.RK LANE. Very little wheat was received up to this morning's mar ket. The trade, however, was in a very sluggish state, at fully Monday's decline in the quotations. Really fine samples changed hands somewhat more freely than on that day. There was a good show of foreign wheat on the stands. In all descriptions sales progressed slowly, yet no further change took place in the currencies. Floating cargoes of grain met a dull sale, at late rates. Good and fine malting barley was firm in price, other wise the barley trade was dull, on rather easier terms. Malt was in slow request, at about previous rates. With oats the market was very moderately supplied, and the trade ruled flint, at full quotations. Beans and peas, the supply of which was small, changed hands at extreme currencies. In all kinds of flour a limited business was transacted, at the late decline in prices. Barrels, however, changed hands more freely. ARRIVALS THIS VEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. Enixlish 40 lO t 640 i — 9 BO Irish — 1 Foreign 9,790 2,080 i 10,350 Backe ble. BOROUGH HOP. Good and fine new hops move off steadily, at full prices, and useful old qualities command extreme rates. Inferior parcels, however, are much neglected. WHITECHAPEL. Moderate supplies of meat are on offer, and the trade, except for prime qualities, rules inactive, as follows : Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 6d to 48 8d ; and pork, 3s 8d to 4s 8d per 81bs by the carcase. CRINOLINE AND MACHINERY..—DEATH. — On Monday afterncon an inquest was held at the Grand Turk, Ludgate-hill, Birmingham, on the body of Emma Smith, aged 28, the wife of Fines Smith. The Evidence showed that on the night of Friday last deceased was at work at the papier-machie manufactory of Mr. Evans, in Dartmouth street, and was engaged with a girl in rolling panels. Whilst she was standing before the machine, and placing a panel between the rollers, her dress, which was expanded with crinoline, was caught between them, and she was dragged into the machine. Her husband, who was working near, came to her assistance, and threw the machine out of gear, thus stopping it. The poor woman when extricated was found to have her clothes literally torn off, and to have both her legs broken, in addition to other injuries. She was at once taken to the General Hospital, where she re ceived every possible care, and where she died at half-past one o'clock the next morning. It was stated at the inquest that the other parts of the machinery were boxed off, but that there nad never been thought to be any danger at this part, and that the poor woman would have been perfectly safe had she not indulged in the vanity of wearing crino line. The jury at once returned a verdict of " Accidental death." ALARMING FlRE.—Yesterday forenoon, about 10 o'clock, a mounted police-officer arrived at the Southwark Bridge .road station with intelligence that a fire had broken out in the recently launched ship Reigate, lying in Lang ley's dockyard, Deptford-green. Mr. Rend rson at once ordered engines to be despatched to the spot, but whilst the horses were being put to a telegraph despatch was received to the effect that another ship had become ignited in the same yard. That caused Captain Shaw to send off engines from various London stations, including one of the land steamers by Shand and Mason. The large floating engine from her Majesty's dockyard, one belonging to the firm, and others from Penn's factory, and another f rom the General Steam Navigation works, had previously arrived, but it was some time before the exact seat of the fire could be ascertained. The s hip was therefo r e b a tt ene d d ow n, and the float and two other engines were set to work, and the Are was eventually extinguished, the damage done baing only the destruction of some shayings and wood in the t after had. CRYSTAL PALACE. LANCASHIRE AND QUEENSLAND. The Bury Times publishes a letter from a work ing man who left Lancashire for Queensland some years ago, and who is of opinion that the land of his adoption affords valuable opportunities for the relief of Lancashire distress. The following are extracts from the letter, dated Ipswich,, Queensland, July 14 : The sun is still shining on us, and our home is still the abode of peace, happiness, and contentment. We are in the enjoyment of plenty, and our cornucopia to all appearances is as full as ever. Of the solid and substantial comforts of this life we have all we need, and to spare. . . . lam still working—bard as ever—earning my bread by the sweat of my brow, and though the drops sometimes fall thick and fast, yet I feel no sorrow, for my spirit—aye, and body too—are sustaiaed with the fact that I am able to earn enough for the wants of a numerous family —that I can help to soothe and soften the old age of my widowed mother at home, and besides all this, to make a step or two higher up in the hill of prosperity. There is one thing that affects my mind very much, and that is the cry of distress at home. The cry seems by every mail that reaches us to be growing deeper, louder, and more extended. It is heart-rending to hear it, but I am sure it must be terrible—maddening to see it. And all this for want of cotton. Well, I have the pleasure to inform you again that the experiments of cotton growing in Queensland have proved a success. The gentleman who has a plantation of 12 acres close by my door tells me that it will pay cent. per cent. On all sides there is a growing disposition to enter into cotton-growing. One gentleman is about to bring under cotton culture 500 acres. He is im porting African labour, or escaped slaves from Canada. Our great cry is—We want labour ; we have millions of acres of rich productive land that can be turned to growing cotton, sugar, &a., but we want human hands to do it. What, then, ought to be done ? A bill has passed our Parlia ment legalising the importation of coolies from India for this object—growing cotton, &e., but the people are sending a petition home to the Queen to disallow the bill, and at the same time suggest ing the advisability of sending white labour from the distressed counties of Great Britain and Ireland. This week 200 bales of Queensland cotton, grown by white labour, have left our shores for England. It could be made 2,ooo—ay, two millions, as far as the c •pabilities of land and climate are concerned. It is a farce to say that white labour cannot stand the climate ; it does stand it, and accomplishes work far more laborious than cotton growing. I do not deny that it is hot, and for two or zhree months in summer extremely so; but the clear, bouyan I'4 elastic atmosphere, the healthiness of climate, make us bear up under it all with comparative ease. Our heat is better to bear than your cold. You know, and all that know me know as well, that I am not a strong man, that I have been a pale-faced, delicate creature from my childhood ; but I can assure you in point of health this climate to me is infinitely better than yours, and I am work ing almost every day in the year in the sun. These are eight months of the year that are delightful. Let therefore no one be deterred from coming to these shores through fear of the climate, which I believe to be one of the best in the world. The temperate, the industrious, and sober, may come in thousands; there is room and labour for all. When I stand on some of the hills, and look on the ex panse of country that lies before me—unreclaimed, uncultivated and wild, covered only by trees, and then think of my friends in Lancashire —starving, walking about idle, not from choice, but from ne cessity—a feeling of sadness comes over sue which I cannot describe. Ever since I came oat here I have been convinced of the capabilities of the colony to support in comfort and prosperity millions upon millions of inhabitants. I suggested, five or six years ago, the idea of the Lancashire operatives forming an emigration union. If that had been done, how many hearts that are crushed and almost broken now by poverty and suffering would have been sharing our comforts, and rejoicing in our ' prosperity and our success ! And now let me ask sou to send me the names and ages of any of my friends who would like to come, and I will try to raise the means to get them out. Starving opera tives of Lancashire, this is the land for you. Here labour and good wages are to be had ; here boys can earn as much as most men at home; here are no poor or poorhouses; the greater part of the people are freeholders, living on their own houses or on their own farms', surrounded with the comforts and necessaries of lite in abundance; and, so far as my experience goes, I know of no class of colonists who have been more successful than persons out of the cotton-mills of Lancashire. If they pay their own passage, they will get 18 acres of land given them when they arrive, and 12 more at the end of two years' residence in the colony. Those who are too poor to pay their own passage, let them apply to the Colonial Land and Emigration Office, West minster, for a free passage to these colonies. My own opinion is that the Government ought to be petitioned to send out all or such of the distressed operatives of Lancashire as are willing to come. Let them be sent out here to grow cotton ; let them come in thousands, and soon the manufacturing districts of England will be independent of Jona than and his niggers for ever. THE NEW GAME LAW. A magistrate, in a letter to a contemporary, says, "As you may be interested in knowing how completely your predic tions regarding the new Game Bill have been verified, I send you an account of the working of the new act in this neigh bourhood. On a Friday morning, at 5 o'clock, three known poachers are seen by private watchers returning home by a public road with three lurcher dogs, and heavily laden, The watchers have no right, under the recent Act, to meddle with them. Twelve hours later a brother of one of these poachers, himself also a known poacher, drives to the rail way station with a hamper, directed to a Lend. Al poulterer. A policeman, by chance there, searches the hamper, finds and seizes 10 hares and some partridges. Appearing on the following 'Wednesday before the magistrates, the defendant says he bred the hares, &c., in his yard—a simple impossi bility. As the police are unable to prove what lands his friends had been upon, the defendant is acquitted, and the game restored to him. Not being so sweet on Wednesday as it was on Friday the defendant sues the police in the County Court for damage; this case is pending. He entertains the gang to supper, where they drink the health of the magi strates and of those members of the House of Commons who refused to sanction that the poacher should prove an honest possession. He tells the police that the supper is paid for out of the fine he came prepared to pay, and that "they can carry on the trade as well as ever." I know of one check for £29, drawn by the same London poulterer, which this defendant has recently cashed, and which was shown to many labourers of the parish. Each member of the gang subscribes so much a week to a fund, from which all fines are immediately paid, without any inconvenience to himself, whenever a conviction is obtained. Does not this state of the law offer a sore temptation to the honest and industrious labourer to follow the same course ? He finds these men doing no work and having plenty of money, while he must work hard, be laughed at for doing so, and after all be much worse off than those who, but for the Legislature, would be called, not poachers, but thieves. VABIE7IES. (From Fun.) Tun PACIFIC Male,—John Blight. A QUESTION FOR FARADAY.—When the thermometer falls, how often, on an average, does it break? A CRACKED J.A.R,—John Arthur Roebuck is at Vienna, making himself agreeable to that most amiable potentate, the Emperor of Austria. So well does he suc ceed, that he is known among the courtiers as the" Honey J. A.R." A FRIEND AT A PINCH.—The Vice—at a charity dinner. PILING UP THE AGONY.—We read that, in com mencing the works for the Thames embankment, the first pile was driven opposite the mansion of the Duke of Buc leuch. What a piece of fiendish malignity on the part of he contractors, thus to pile up the agony on the unhappy duke I _ _ LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. —There is no foundation for the report that Ca'craft is now starting a paper under the title of the Daily 11oose. A RlDDLE.—(Dedicated to the School of Cookery.)— When is ajelly like a dolly ?—When there's eyes•in-glass in it. The Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs has pub lished a notice received from M, Rucker, Belgian Consul at Riga, to the effect that the port charges on vessels there have been recently reduced, especially on ships of large tonnage, Yesterday was a special fete day at the Crysta Palace on occasion of Mr. F. Strange's annual benefit. As usual on the day on which Mr. Strange asks the suffrages of the public, several extraordi nary attractions were added to those which in gene ral are presented to the visitors at the Palace. In the first place, weather of summer temperature and brilliancy had succeeded the somewhat wintry in ' fluences of Monday ; the grounds and gardens showed to the best ath antage, and as the flowers and trees have not yet begun to exhibit any of the symptoms attendant on the tall of the year, the primary step to a success was secured. In order to compensate for the comparative shortness of the deys an hour was stolen from the morning, the doors having been opened so early as eight o'clock, and almost at that hour persons began to assemble, and by eleven there was a decided crowd, which dispersed itself about the building and grounds, finding ample sources of amusement and enjoyment until twelve, when the orchestral band ,- )f the company played a selection of music, varied by the admirable solos of the cornet-a-piston by Mr. Levy. At one o'clock the band of the Hon , ourable Artillery Company was brought into play La the Handel Orchestra, and at a quarter-past that hour the Etoile Family, who appeared at Whitsun tide, went through their gymnastic exercises, while at half-past one certain gymnasts of another description, known as the Rocky Moun tain Wonders, exhibited " their marvellous feats." The special entertainments were then inter rupted, about a quarter before three, when the band of the London Irish Volunteers performed on the second terrace. At three Mr. Coxwell made an ascent in one of his balloons, the privilege of short flights into the air having been previously granted to such persons as felt inclined to trust themselves to an elevation of a few hundred feet. Then came M. Blondin, who made what is called his " Niagara ascent" over the fountains ; and at four o'clock there was a display of the whole of the great fountains and waterworks. At half-past four the band of the Artillery Company again per formed in the Handel orchestra, keeping in plea'sant humour a vast crowd which had assembled in the transept, the galleries, and every place from which it was possible to see M. Leotard go through his performance on the trapeze. More music by the company's band and on the great organ occupied the time till half-past six, when the entertainments of the day were brought to a close. As is generally the case on great fete days at the Crystal Palace, the vast assemblage of persons of all classes and degree, including a large per tentage of babies in arms, was, perhaps, the most interesting feature of the occasion. At half -past three considerably over 30,000 had entered the building, and as the trains beyond that hour were still full to overflowing, there could not, from first to last, have been less han 40,000 people assembled. At five o'clock the return to town was at its height, and at that hour the approaches to the railway, inclusive of the long avenue leading to the entrance staircase, were blocked up by a more or less patient crowd awaiting their turn for conveyance to town. A considerable number of persons judiciously left the grounds by one of the lower exits, and made their way to the Anerley station, which is off the Crystal Palace line a mile or two. There special arrangements were made for the transit of such passengers as chose that route, and they were comfortably conveyed homeward with far less of waiting and delay than those who remained to take the trains at the Crystal Palace terminus, many of whom were necessarily detained until a late hour, although every possible facility was afforded for their accommodation—no easy task under the circumstances. REFUSAL OF ECCLESIAST ICAL BURIAL "We have to record," says the Sleek, " two other in stances of refusal of ecclesiastical burial. Pierre Jarvageon, a contractor for earthwork, a young man of 28, lately died at Villiers-sur-Marne. Having been rapidly carried off by an attack of small-pox, he had no time to call in a priest to administer the last sacraments. His relatives and friends having been unable to persuade the cure to read the fune ral service, applied to the mayor of Villiers, M. Reyne, who consented to attend the funeral, A numerous cottege fol lowed the body to its last resting-place, and prudently ab stained from all manifestations injurious to the cause of religion, which such an act of causeless intolerance might naturally have provoked. If the doors of the church were closed against Pierre Jarvageon, can it be owing to the fact that he was a Pied montese by birth P—A murder was committed in the night of the 10th Sept., at Enghien-les-Bains. The victim was a young man of 22, a coachman, who, if he had committed any faults, has painfully expiated them. Wo have been_ informed, however, t hat M. Mercier, the cure of the parish, refused him the last services of the church. All the efforts made by the municipal authorities to induce the reverend gentleman to alter his decision having proved fruitless, the body was accompanied to the cemetery by the deputy mayor, the commissary of police, the seeretary of the mairie, and the friends of the deceased. As the unfortu nate man had no relatives in the town, he was interred at the expense of the commune. This funeral was rendered still more painful to all present by the fact that the pro. cession had to pass before the doors of the church which were closed against it." MR. GLADSTONE'S BANQUET AT NEWCASTLE ON" TYNE.—The arrangements are all but completed, and there is no doubt that the banquet will be a moat successful gathering. The New Town Hall will not, it is feared, be large en.lugh to accommodate all who will wish to dine with the illustrious statesman. Out of the 400 dinner tickets to be disposed of, all of them are gone except about 80. The ladies' seats are filling up fast also. The aquatic display on the day after the dinner promises to go off well. The river commisioners have fixed upon the Gateshead new quay as the place of embarkation, and invitations will be sent to all the pub'ic bodies on both sides of the Tyne to join in the display. Nothing will be wanted but a fine daY to give eclat to the affair.—Newcastle Chronicle. HUDDERSFIELD RIFLE CONTEST.—The shooting was resumed yesterday, for the medals and prizes in. Nos 3 and 4 companies. The following were the successful coo' petitors in Company No. 3:—Captain's silver medal, cor poral Johnson, who scored 36, hits and points added; Lieutenant's bronze medal, Sergeant Richardson, 44; fo r the Ensign's prize, Colour Sergeant Learoyd and Private Richardson, tied at 33. The tie has not yet been shot otl: In No. 4 Company, Private Webster took the Captaio • prize with a score of 34 ; Colour Sergeant Walker, the Lieutenant's prize, and the Ensign's prize was awarde d to Private Dimelow. For the latter, Ensign Freeman hit , '" self shot, and tied with Dimelow, to whom, however, the' prize was awarded. I CAUTION TO YOUNG LADY TRAVELLERS. —A very' singular case of child desertion has just taken place in oh' nection with one of the cheap excursions to the m etro' polis from this city, One of these excursions returned foto London on Saturday, and among the passengers in one of the carriages was a young lady, residing in Brim], and en affable middle-aged woman, with a child about six or eigh t months old in her arms. The young lady spoke t o "t he baby," as a matter of course, and the female, who appear e d to be baby's mother, kindly desired her to take the " lo t !: r es ti ng little thing" in her arms— a request wh i c h promptly acceded. to ; and shortly afterwards the tre'r stopped, and mamma got nut to have "some refreshale rlt; t leaving the child in c h arge o f t h e young lady. She did n n return, however, to the same compartment, but when t e r train train stopped a t S w i n d on s h e was seen stepping from ehnt;ecl carriage, when, seeing she was recognised, s h e intima t e she w ou ld be with her darling in a m i nute. The trs ,,, .. again started, and the young lady began to feel uhe e° ;, but she still thought that the child's mother was other part of the train. When the train arrived at Br's is the young lady came on to the platform with the baby e f t her arms, expecting to give it up to the rightful ovinoo but after all the passengers had left she found hersel f ot , . the platform with only the baby and the railway O r t te g ral and the truth then became apparent that the unh e " lo - g mother had made her a present of th e c hild. The Y O .O O woman did not know exactly what to do in the som e- w ith aw kward fix, but at length she t oo k th e c hild hall° 0 ,0 her, and there it still remains. The parish aut h o ritie4 u it, the police, it is said, refuse t o h ave an ythi ng to do W i ll t he and thus the little stranger is fc r the time enjoying a f luxuries of a comfort a bl e h ome . N o thing wharev e ' t irecl since been heard of the mother, who has no doubt recroor long since to the obscurity from which on this on i ti r esP errand she had temp orar ily emerged.— Western _Nag v ier INSIDE THE HAREM.—Nothing could be P,_ re . . oo o than seeing the slaves gliding noiselessly about T'sliget the spacious apartments; there were no two dress* io and their number seemed infinite. One was a go' i od . Garibaldi shirt, with full white trousers ; tw o or thrceverol gold watches and chains suspended to their girdles• des; little episodes occurred interesting to Euro pel le ga O nc e, Tooloom Pacha came in with a letter, which hen bi Des! th e Vice-queen, and read to or with her, leanhig'opWith on her shoulder. He is an intelli gen t -looking li ge IJ . l _ . bright eyes, but his features are rat h er coarse.i,ot te: mother's. He speaks English perfectly, and W ith slightest accent. Again a tall eunuch came 1/3 400 ° mes sage, or bearing patterns of brocades for her ivb inspection,— Once a Week, ~_~.