The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-23 00:00:00

THE SOU7IIERN CONFEDERACY. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald writes:—" No persons unacquainted in secession circles in Maryland and the district can have a true idea of the extent to which contraband travel and communication are now carried on between the secret sympathisers of the South within our lines and the rebels in Richmond. The lower counties of Maryland, bordering on the river, embrace the strongest secession districts in the State, and the community of inhabitants are secretly engaged in eluding the gunboat patrol on the Potomac, and keeping open regular routes of trade, travel, and communication with the region of the Rappahan nock, where the Virginia rebels take charge of the operations and extend the route to Richmond. • This is the principal route now ; regular mails are re ceived over it by parties in Baltimore, Maryland, and the district, and travellers pass with apparent impunity. If private accounts from Richmond, via underground, are to bo believed, somebody has been terribly fooled in regard to the demoralised and ineffi cient condition of the rebel army around Richmond. These accounts represent it to be well drilled, severely disciplined, well clothed, and now well fed since the commissary and supply departments have been organised on a scale in proportion to the sud den increase of numbers which the situation there demands. The men are drilled daily in the cool hours, and it is understood that on no account will these regular exercises be dispensed with. Promo tions are made strictly according to merit. Position or wealth are of no avail to procure a commission, and cases are plenty where the officers are poor men from the common grade of society, while the pri vates under them number some of the wealthiest men in the land." The Baltimore correspondent of the same paper declares that " the rebels have now 700,000 men in the field, and their war department has made provision for keeping up that number by sending to each regiment new recruits (conscripts) as they are wanted. This obviates much delay ; a few new recruits in each regiment, surrounded on all sides by disciplined soldiers, very soon become as proficient as they. Of course there is an abundant supply both of cannon and muskets, as well as swords and equipments for the cavalry and artillery. The rebels had to start with, when the rebellion broke out, the 580,000 muskets which John B. Floyd had sent to them from the national armories, besides the 110,000 muskets which were seized by the insur gents in the Southern arsenals. They have since received, by means of 32 vessels that ran the block ade, between the Ist May, 1861, and the Ist July, 1862, 270,000 more. They have had also, during the last 12 months, factories for the manufacture of muskets at Charleston, Savannah ; Augusta and Columbus, in Georgia; Branchville, in South Caro lina ; Mobile and Tuscaloosa, in Alabama; Jackson, in Mississippi ; Fayetteville, in North Carolina; Lynchburg and Richmond. The struggle is for independence. I have myself, during the progress of the war, and particularly since last March, con versed with dozens of the rebel officers, prisoners, all men of education and intelligence, and I have always remarked that they speak of Southern in dependence as the cause for which they took up arms and for which they are struggling. I have yet to find the worst one who went into the war on account of slavery. They say they like the institution of slavery because it is suited to their climate and productions, and because their inte rests, in the light of political economy, require slave labour. they say, 'we would sacri flee that, as we are sacrificing our lives and our fortunes, if it is necessary, in order to achieve our independence." A CONFEDERATE ACCOUNT OF THE LATE BATTLES BEFORE RICHMOND. We (Charleston Daily Courier) have been fa voured with the following letter, descriptive of the late battles near Richmond, from the pen of a gal lant young captain, not yet of age, in Kershaw's brigade : " Camp on James River, Thursday Morning, July 3, 1862. " Dear Father,—l take the advantage of this, my first opportunity, of penning a few lines to let you know that I am quite well, and, with the ex ception of a few bruises, am, by the mercy of God, still on my feet, and ready for another round. But I will endeavour, in my limited time and space, to give you a few details of our experience since I wrote to you on last Thursday. On the next day our regiment was sent down to make a demonstra tion in front of the enemy's batteries, to attract their attention from Jackson's forces, who were moving in their rear. After waiting until the afternoon, the regiment was drawn up in a line of battle, and my company and Harrison's thrown out as skirmishers. We advanced in front of our pickets, and encountered those of the enemy in a very thick wood, where they waited our coming, and opened on us with a heavy fire of rifles, which killed Albert Miles, and wounded two of Harrison's men. I received a shot through the breast of my jacket, but none of my men were hurt. We drove the picket to the reserve, and the reserve to the regiments in rear, when the enemy opened on us a terrible fire of grape and shell, which wounded se veral men in the regiments in our rear. Having discovered the enemy's position, and accomplished our object, we fell back, and were much compli mented on our little action. This having been the first time our men had been under musketry or fired a gun, I was much pleased with the gallant manner in which they stood their ground. Night closing in soon after, we returned to camp, where we spent the next day in resting. On Sunday morning about two o'clock we were roused with orders to cook rations and prepare to m arch, as the enemy were falling back from their position in our front. About five o'clock the regiment was formed, and the brigade moved on towards the Chickahominy. About 8 o'clock we passed through the enemy's fortifications, and came upon the rear of their column. As soon as we came i n sight our brigade was formed into line of battle, skirmishers throw n out, and immediately after their artillery opened up on us. We advanced slowly through some terrible swamp s in which we often sunk waist deep in mud and water. About sun down we ca me upon their p os i t i on, just beyond a skirt of thick reaching woods, upon which they opened on us with ;a very heavy fi re of grapeshot and shell, which cut down the b as i.„, a and trees on every side of us. For a while we l ay down in the bushes, when a volley cutting down many of our men, and taking off both l e g s of Sergea a nt lr Hill (a particular friend of Ben's and mine), n volley poured into us by a line of infantry just in 0 ,, front, proving too hot, we rose and charged about a quarter of a mile, driving back the enemy's line about 300 yards, and coming within about 40 yards of a brigade of infantry, which was formed just in front of our regiment ; here we halted under a ter rible fire, and begun to return volley for volley, our men coolly loading and firing, and making every shot tell. During the fight the right and left wings became separated, and I took command of the left wing. Just then the fire was most deadly, and our men were fulling on every side, but not one quailed. As I passed down the line encouraging the men, a grapeshot struck me on the left thigh, and brought me to my knees, but, concealing the pain, I moved down to the rear of my company, and took my po sition where I could watch them. Just then Ben Taylor, who was capping his gun alongside of his brother, turned his head to the rear rank, and said, Give it to them, boys,' and put his gun to his shoulder to fire when a ball struck him in the head, and he fell upon his face dead. He never spoke again. Poor Jim, I felt so sorry for him ; he laid down his gun, turned Ben over, and gazed upon him in mute sorrow. Stepping up to him, I put my hand upon his shoulder, and said, Jim, I have no consolation to offer you except that Ben has fallen at his post; there he es, yonder is the enemy, avenge He picked up his. gun, and turning his pale, quivering face to me, he said, Captain, I can fight them now, and he did fi ght them right gal lantly. About the same time Dolphua Johnson was shot in the thigh, the ba ll . rangi ng Upwards and Bill German, shot lodging in his groin. through the lower part of the ankl e, Ser g eant W est through the arm just above the wrist, a nd Corporal 8.. Rear don through the arm above the elbow. Not a in= of them uttered a groan, but coolly crawled to the rear. When Johnson was shot I took his rifle and cartridges and used them until we retir,s l .. During the fight Colonel Bluna was shot throus h the arm, and I was left Lieutenant-Colonel, an i Sentall was shot through the ear. While loadin ; a Minie ball took off the top of the second knife, le of my first finger, and a second struck me in the breast, the first brought the blood pretty freely, but the second striking just upon a Yankee Bible, razor, and bullet moulds, which I had picked up and stuck in my pocket, paralyzed my whole side for some time, and keeled me over, and was much the more painful. Soon after we were ordered to retire, as our friends in the rear were firing into us, and bad killed several of our men. This we did, falling back in beautiful order, and being highly complimented by General Kershaw. We fell back to the skirt of the woods from which we had advanced, and the firing having ceased we threw our pickets upon the battle ground, and started to bring in our wounded. By this time night had closed in, and a heavy rain was falling. Worn out, the men lay down in the water and slept until morning, except when awakened by the cries of some poor wounded fellow, who was suffering, waiting, watching, and praying for the appearance of daylight and relief. Thus the night passed and the morning dawned, and the sun came out ; but the enemy, under cover of night, had left, leaving a line of ghastly dead and wounded Yankees, to mark the spot where the conflict had raged hotteat. In the engagement, out of 300 men, we lost 100 killed and wounded. The 3d Regiment lost 150 out of 300, and the 2d and Bth lost heavily. The enemy fought desperately but unavailingly, and left the ground strewn with men from the sth and 6th Vermont and some regiments of regulars, with which forces our regiments had to contend. We were employed during the early portion of the day in burying our dead and caring for the wounded, and about ten o'clock, being relieved by Stonewall Jackson, we marched to the support o f Long street, who was trying to cut the Federals off from the river. We pushed on all day, and after a weary march of 20 miles, by a very circuitous route, over a rocky road, where my shoes were actually torn off my feet (I performing the latter part of the march barefooted), we reached the ground (where our forces had fought terribly for several hours, and from which they bad finally driven the enemy) about 3 o'clock a.m., footsore, weary, and exhausted. Moving in front of Longatreet's lines, our division formed in line of battle, just as the gray dawn broke in the east, and discovered to us piles of dead and wounded, who were thickly strewn over the field and woods as far as the eye could reach. Here was where our men and the enemy had met in the shock of battle, and where they had fallen thickest, and there we lay down to rest and wait until we could see sufficiently well to make another attack. What the reflections of men were, who, worn out, dispirited, and around whom lay all the scenes of carnage which characterise a battle field under these circumstances, you may imagine, but I cannot describe. About sunset we advanced upon what we supposed the enemy's posi tion, but not a gun opened upon us. Scores of dead men, whose glazed and open eyes stared glassily at the sun, and whose blood stained the grass, showed where they had been. Dismounted guns, shattered caissons, dead horses, and mangled limbs and trunks showed where they had fought, and a line of bag gage, knapsacks, coats, guns, &c., showed the direc tion in which they had fled, and in that direction we pursued, marching often through swamps that seemed almost too thick for a bird to penetrate, and again across fields and down lanes where we were almost stifled with dust, and forced to yield to the power of the sun. At length about 5 o'clock p.m., the enemy were reported occupying a very strong posi tion just in our front, where they had fortified. Our artillery was ordered out to open on the enemy, and a brigade of Georgians and Alabamians to support it. No sooner had our guns opened than they were dis mounted, the caissons torn to atoms, and the horses and men piled and mangled together. Other batte ries were ordered out with the same success, and the few men and horses who were left came dashing back, panic stricken, and sought refuge in flight. Then we saw what was coming. Oar brigade was ordered to the front, to support the one already sent out, and, forming in line, we marched to the skirt of woods, which separated us from the opan ground, where the enemy had formed to receive us. His position could not have been better selected. Upon a hill, about half a mile in our front, were planted 30 siege guns and 20 light batteries, manned by United States' regulars, while in front the ground descended gradually to our position, midway be tween which and their batteries was a line of 30,000 of their best troops, who were selected to cover their gunboats, two miles distant. upon this line and their batteries we advanced. For the first half mile of the mile and a half we marched the shells burst around us incessantly. After that, just as we got into the woods, the gunboats opened upon us with their broadsides of rifled guns, the shells from which came hurtling through the woods, crushing and bursting, and tearing down numbers of the largest trees in their course. Then came the grape and canister from the batteries in our front, and soon the musketry opened, actually sweeping down whole lines of men in our front and from our own ranks, and making our path one over dead and dying men. We passed over four lines of men, who, sent out before us, were unable to stand the fire, and lay close to the ground, from which no threats or per suasion could move them. Our men trampled them into the mud like logs, and moved on in an un wavering line, perfectly regardless of the numbers who were falling around them. It was just here that Arthur Parker, who had been quite sick, said, Boys, I am almost done ; but I'll go as close to them as I can.' Scarcely had he spoken when a ball passed through his bowels. He did not speak, only pressed his hand to his side and turned round, when a second ball passed through his head, and he fell dead. Keedle was shot through below the knee, at the same time, and Lieut. Burcknight through the head, while Ebby Butler and Sergeant Miles were both killed instantaneously by grape-shot passing through their breasts, and Warren Brooks was struck in the leg by a ball. But we pushed on until we found the line we were to support within 600 yards of the battery, and there we halted under cover of a hedgerow, and lay down to rest. The line in front of us, unable to stand up in front of the fire, had laid down, while the troops in our rear poured several volleys into us, wounding and killing many men. Finding the place untenable between friend and foe, General Kershaw proposed to the General in our front to charge the battery, and let us sup port him. This he refused to do. Kershaw then offered to charge it with our brigade, if they would support him after he took it. This they also re fused, and, as the Georgians and Louisianians on our right were moving up, we could not fire with °tit injuring them, and we could do no good where we were, We were directed to fall back to our Origin a l . Pointion and re-form line of battle. I held our po s i t i on with the left wing until the right was beyond range, and then directed the left to retire, I keeping B orne . which cut paths through distance in the rear and falling back I\l ° sooner had our men retired when the Confederate soldiery, here slowly. No portion of likep a s t me panic tdoagsehtihnegr sheep, present .ficken, and huddled lug elegant marks for shoved me on one g and digging, into a canister the grape and cannon balls w th ri e thi s n swamp. One man in tte em m a mud d d h a u n i d ie w d a t t h e e r m ef , aide la ; s e t u e d to i ,just t t out at th o u f t danger, iueten my face with ss shot tore his head off, and spatteredhis blood much and brains. As you may su pp ose, I was no t vexed at his impoliteness. On our way out we passed over the ground which w e travelled in goi ng in, and found men lying dead i n ever y direction. Upon reaching the rear we were marched into a skirt of woods to rest for the night, the fight hav ing now closed, and the enemy ceased fir ing. When morning dawned they were gone again , having reached James River, and being safely under cover of their gunboats. Early in the morning I rode over the battle ground, our brigade having been marched up to occupy it, and the sight which was there presented beggars description. Entering the field at the point where our artillery had been posted I came upon numbers of dead and dying horses, who, with the drivers and gunners, lay in a pile together, their several dismantled guns, their cais sons, fired and blown up by the enemy's balls, all - THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY AUGUST 23, 1862 presenting an aspect of desolation and ruin. Then came the point at which our infantry lines advanced through the open fields and engaged that of the enemy. For a mile the ground was thickly strewn with the mangled and dying, showing with what desperate energy our men had advanced, and with what energy they were repulsed. Men, mangled in every conceivable manner, to the number of 10,000, were strewn out before me. The painful details of our own wounded I will spare you ; but will pass to the enemy's side of the field, where one half of the number lay ; there were men with their arms, legs, and hands shot off, bodies torn up, fea tures distorted and blackened. All this I could see with indifference, but I could not but pity the wounded; there one poor devil, with his back broken, was trying to pull himself along by his hands, dragging his legs after him, to get out of the corn rows, which the last night's rain had filled with water ; here another, with both legs shot off, was trying to steady the mangled trunk against a gun stuck in the ground ; there a fair-haired Yankee boy, of 16, was lying with both legs broken, half of his body submerged in water, with his teeth clinched, his finger nails buried in the flesh, and his whole body quivering with agony and benumbed with cold. In this case my pity got the better of my resentment, and I dismounted , pulled him out of the water, and wrapped him in a blanket—for which he seemed very grateful. One of the most touching things I saw were a couple of brothers (boys) both wounded, who had crawled together, and one of them in the act of arranging a heading for the other, with a blanket, had fallen, and they had died with their arms around one another and their thesecheeks i t l o s g , e a t s h. mine e d at your s he art t h w e i m l sicken and I will cease." GARIBALDI IN SICILY. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times,) TURIN, AUG. 20. It was announced yesterday morning that Gari baldi was marching upon Catania, and was only a few miles from that city. A strong detachment of Royal troops under Mella had sallied from the threatened place, and hastened to meet the insur gents. The Royalists had already reached Aderno, a town placed at the spot where two roads branch out, one in the direction of Taormina and Messina, the other towards Catania, at the distance only of 14 miles from the latter place. Garibaldi was said to be at Leonforte, about 20 miles west of Aderno, on the road coming from Castro Giovanni. General Ricotti, as we all know, was close upon the track of the guerilla chief, encompassing him all round with his widely-drawn military cordon, pressing upon him so as to blockade him,yet carefully avoid ing any hostile encounter with him. Garibaldi was thus shut in between Ricotti and Mella, and it was difficult to conceive how he could extricate himself without resorting to violence ; yet the in telligence came to Turin late in the afternoon of yesterday that he had reached Catania, and the news has received repeated confirmation to-day. It was added, indeed, that a collision had occurred between the Volunteers and the Royal forces under Mella, and we were further informed that the com bat was still raging at the time the despatch was forwarded ; but we had been assured that the object of the movements of the King's troops was to pre vent Garibaldi's, entrance into Catania, and it is, nevertheless, very evident that the volunteer leader has accomplished his purpose, though we cannot as yet ascertain whether he had to cut his way through his opponents, or whether he out-gene ralled them. The latter hypothesis is all the more plausible, as we know that Garibaldi's son, Menotti, at the head of 500 men, advanced from Leonforte upon San Fillippo d'Argiro, whence he not unlikely continued his march upon Troina and Cesaro, as if bent upon going round the skirts of Etna to Taormina, a mancevre which may have per plexed Mella at Aderno, and thrown him off the scent, so as to leave the way open to Garibaldi to reach his real destination at Catania. Be this as it may, there is little doubt now that Garibaldi has reached the eastern coast of Sicily, and the whole land of Calabria, the Gulf of Tarento, and the Adriatic shores are open. before him. The Royal cruisers are plying backwards and forwards to prevent his landing, it is true ; but, if sailors do not display more zeal and quickness than soldiers have done, it is not very likely that their obstruc tion will be of much avail against the most dashing and enterprising of modern adventurers. Indeed, from the very outset I expressed my sure conviction that Garibaldi could move from one end of Sicily to the other ; that he could quit the island, and effect a landing on any point of the terra firma whenever he had a mind. My previous letters have been written to little purpose if they have not conveyed my impression that Garibaldi has all this time been sole master of the situation—the only real ruler and sovereign in Sicily. Garibaldi arrived at Palermo, if not as a Lieu tenant of the King, at least as his intimate friend, well conversant with his secret thoughts and wishes, the guest of his Royal sons, the object of the utmost demonstrations of honour and regard on the part of all the Government authorities. Since then the King's proclamation has almost outlawed him. The public functionaries who did him homage have been disavowed and recalled; large Royal forces have been sent in pursuit of him ; the Sicilians have been earnestly called upon to fall off from him. No doubt, public opinion has been greatly staggered, and the Garibaldi party, which embraced the whole popula tion of the island, has dwindled down to rather mo derate proportions. Those who still side with him, however, are noisy, active, and daring, and those, on the contrary, who have forsaken him are wofully puzzled ; they can hardly believe.their own senses, and still wonder what egregious farce is being played before their eyes. The Government have invaded the island with scores of thousand troops. These march and coun• termarch around the handful of youths whom they call " rebels," yet they keep at a respectful dis tance, they shun all collision, and are inconsolable whenever any casual encounter takes place. In the meanwhile Garibaldi publishes edicts in the name of " Italy and Victor Emmanuel," and " by virtue of the full powers conferred upon him by the nation." In Palermo General Cugia puts up with the most arrogant and outrageous behaviour of the Mazzinian party. At Messina and Catania the Mazzinian committees are invested with almost dic tatorial sway, while the official authorities have to bear it and hold their peace ! The King's Government at Turin and the Prefect at Palermo tell us, indeed, that all this takes place in obedience to a long prepared and deeply laid plan ; that their aim is to avoid civil war and fratricidal bloodshed; that their wish is to allow_ Garibaldi and the revolution to wear themselves out ; that, when once the leader of adventurers is either starved out, or by any other means driven off, things will again take their own course, and order will be restored in the island. That, indeed, may or may not be ; but, in the meantime, to allow a parcel of rebels to run riot in that beautiful island kingdom for nearly a month, to encourage a whole population to set the Royal authority at naught, and to suffer self-styled patriot bands to ransack the people like so many lawless marauders—more than that, to permit Garibaldi to open the prisons, and let not only political offenders, but also minor male factors, loose upon society, as it is said ho did at Caltanisetta and elsewhere—all this cannot easily be accounted sound or provident policy. The island will be ruined wholly and irreparably, and the mad freak of Garibaldi will cost the State no less than 50,000,000 E; and be it so, but itis now t he same game to be played out in Calabria, in the Basilicata, all over the Neapolitan provinces ? Is Garibaldi tobe allowed to lay waste what hasbitherto escaped the rapacity and wantonness of the Bourbon brigand s ? Truly, the landing of Garibaldi in Cala bria is an event not to be contemplated without shuddering ; the elements o f misc h ie f have a l rea d y preceded him o n th e mainland. Indeed, they have l o ng been at wo r k th ere ; they have allowed those provinces no rest ever sin ce th ey were rescued from But w tth h e e Ceziyde grace to con ver t those Bourbon thraldom. Is Garibaldi' s arr i va l to b e happy districts into a desolat e ere such ueh wilderness calamities to bef a ll th e I tal i ans , alone, Were the Garibaldian movement to have no other consequences than internal commotions, the world might shrug its shoulders and take little heed of it. Revolutions are not made of rosewater. The Italians are paying for their fiddle. Its s'organisent, as the English did in 1688 and the French in 1793. But can Garibaldi's expedition be without results for Italy's neighbours ? Will Europe be allowed to look on and keep aloof from the fray ? Behold ! Garibaldi has made his way into Catania. From Palermo to that city he has made a short triumphal march ; the island of Sicily has been as passively subjected to his sway as if he had been its crowned monarch. He casts now his glance across the Strait. Ho is singling out the stop between Naples and Reggio, between Taranto and Bari, where to direct the prow of his fishingboat. Wherever he may steer, whatever ground he may choose, the same welcome awaits him that greeted his presence at Palermo, at Marsala, at Caltanisetta. From Reggio to the Garigliano, or from Taranto to the Tronto, his progress will again be a triumphal march. From those southern provinces, no less than from the north, from priest-ridden Rome and from heavy-chained Venice, volunteers will flock to his standards. Wherever he moves enthusiastic expectation will be on tiptoe to receive him ; wherever he abides the authority of the Government will come to an end ; whenever he leaves, disorder and anarchy will remain behind him. The King's troops, who vainly dogged and dodged him through out Sicily, may perhaps take the sea in pursuit, and large forces may he sent to arrest his course from Naples and from Turin itself. La Marmara may have greater energy than Cugia, and his lieute nant may be less dawdling and forbearing. Still, the chances are all in favour of Garibaldi giving the Royal forces the slip in Naples, as he appears to have done in Sicily, and there are the additional risks that the population may learn to have more confidence in his undertaking as it thrives., that they may second him with greater ner gy as he perseveres, and that some of the troops wearied with toogong and too vain a pursuit of him, may end by joining him. At the head of no matter what host, Garibaldi would thus reach the Roman frontier. He would, if a chance were given him, cut up De Merode's Zouaves, and might court or shun an encounter with the French, as his heart prompted him. Is this really the goal of Garibaldi's enterprise ? Will he be allowed to go so far, and are the Italian Ministers at this moment any longer able to with stand him ? Or is the duty of repulsing, or thwart ing him to devolve on the French ? This is the whole gist of the matter. Is Victor Emmanuel to retain the Government of the South of Italy, or is Naples to become a French province ? This is matter of consequence to Europe no less than to Italy. Truly, the Government here put a very bright countenance on a losing game. M. Ratazzi grins with a very good grace and pooh-pools the whole matter. He is " cock-sure" of his affair. He allows Garibaldi full swing, because he knows quite well that it is always in his- power to stop him. Hitherto the movement has nothing alarming or distressing about it. If you hear him, it is all " much ado about nothing." I happen to know, however, that some of his colleagues in the Cabinet by no means share this foolhardy security. The War Minister, Petitti, a disciple of La Marmora, is for resolute measures and speedy work. " Garibaldi is a rebel ; should be proclaimed to be such; should be dealt with as such. The troops who are to be de pended on at present may wear out their patience by a too long shilly-shallying." On the other hand, De Pretis, the late Garibaldian pro-dictator, and more than three-quarters a republican, advises con ciliatory, above all things temporising dispositions, and Conforti, an honest, soft-hearted man, backs him in his mild suggestions. Ratazzi agrees now with the one, now with the other fraction of his Ministry; and in the meanwhile time is lost, and the Government comes to no decision. No wonder, under such circumstances, if many honest people think the whole business a comedy, though, no doubt, a dirty, dishonest, dangerous comedy. In their opinion there is certainly ade facto collusion between the Government and Garibaldi, however unconsciously the latter may play into the former's hands. The great drift of Ratazzi, who has come to a secret under standing with the Emperor Napoleon, men think, is to alloW the Garibaldians to press on through Sicily and Naples as far as the gates of Rome, even while apparently straining every nerve to stay them, so that, when the French are beset there by a whole armed and unarmed Italian multitude, the Emperor may seem compelled to yield before an irresistible national demonstration, and withdraw from the Pope a support which has been too long abused. Others, on the other hand, suppose that the understanding between Ratazzi and Napoleon may point to very different results. They see the Italian Prime Minister giving full scope to the Garibaidian expedition, as if he were interested in bringing the two Southern kingdoms into utter disorganisation and ruin. Could it not be, these unfriendly politicians ask, that the drift is to let it appear before the world as if Italy had no strength to secure good government to those Southern pro vinces, thus lending the French Emperor a good title to step in in their stead, breaking asunder that Italian unity to which he has always been ini mical, and perpetuating his occupation of Rome by extending his sway over Naples ? That, you know, is supposed to have been the Emperor's purpose for a long time. A Turin correspondent communicates the follow ing speech, making the subjoined statements as to the position of the " Liberator" : "The scales are gradually falling from our eyes, and though we have still only a dim perception of the truth, many important facts which have lately come to light may give us some idea of the critical nature of our situation. Garibaldi's brief stay at Caltanisetta may be more appropriately termed an occupation. He was sufficiently master of the place to take possession of the barracks belonging to the garrison, which had been ordered to Girgenti. The doors of the prison were open to all its inmates who had been confined on political charges, as well as to all persons accused of small offences. His mandates bore the formula of Italy and Victor Emmanuel,' and were executed in virtue of the full powers con ferred on him by the nation.'" The speech we have alluded to above was deli vered at Castrogiovanni, and is printed in the Pre• eursore of Palermo : People of the territory of Etna !—Nations have their sublime moments ; the present is one of these. Be of one heart and you will bo strong, oh, people of Etna! I know you, and know what you can do for freedom's cause. That is why you see me among you. But I ask of you to forget private rancours, municipal rivalries, and worn-out preju dices. I ask you to be truly Italian. "I am grateful to you for all that you have done, not for me, but for the principle which I proclaim; but I desire to see your generous demonstrations transmuted into deeds, which have an eloquence far greater than that of words. " Let my brave followers be your mirror. Look upon them and you will see many of tender years among these heroes that hasten to the rescue of the noblest part of Italy, still groaning beneath the weight of a degrading bondage. "Take example by them you also who, like them, are elect children of Italy. Unite your armed right hands to theirs, and I promise you it shall not be long before we, bearing aloft the flag of Italy and Victor Emmanuel, enter the sacred gates of Rome in despite of the stranger that mounts guard before them. Ycs, I promise you we shall have Rome." The following letter from Sicily has been ad dressed to the Turin correspondent of the Press, dated Pietrapezzia, Aug. 12 : " I write in great emotion. Yesterday I had the honour of lodging General Garibaldi in my house. Invited by the Unitary Emancipation Society, he came among us. Impossible to describe the general enthusiasm. The clergy, the National Guard, the municipal junta, the entire people, conducted him to where, after a solemn Te De-am, a the ndaneaadthderedsrsalby Father Pantaleo, Gen. Garibaldi announced to the assembly his programme of Rome or Death.' All the population is in movement. The Syndic and his two sons were enrolled. At this moment a deputation is occupied in collecting money to equip the new volunteers. Garibaldi is highly satisfied. The Deputy Nieotera, Col. Oddo, Major Basso, and Father Pantaleo are with Garibaldi. (Signed) " GICENZO DI BLASI. An account of a popular demonstration which took place in Naples on the 15th is given in a letter from that city, dated the succeeding day : "As it was well known that a demonstration was intended, the Communal Council, the Syndic of Naples, and the Prefect each issued a proclamation in the morning, calling upon the people to tike no part therein, but to have confidence in the King and Parliament. These proclamations were torn down as fast as they were posted, and written papers, headed 'Protest of the People,' stuck up everywhere, announcing that the demonstration would take place, and that if any disorder occurred it would be the fault of the authorities. Before 10 o'clock 8,000 or 10,000 persons assembled in the Strada di Toledo, and paraded the streets shouting Victor Emmanuel for ever!" Garibaldi for ever and ' Rome or death!' The National Guard and troops had been under arms from an early hour, and occupied the principal stra tegic points. Near the Royal Palace two companies of Grenadiers barred the passage of the crowd, which then proceeded towards the Large della Caritti, and soon afterwards met a company of the National Guard, preceded by its band, which at the demand of the mob played Garibaldi's hymn three times over, notwithstanding the prohibition of Gen. Toputi. The crowd had dispersed before noon. The only incident to be lamented was a bayonet thrust, not dangerous, given by a National Guard to a fel low who called. himself a Bourbonist: The troops remained on duty till late in the night, but no fur ther disturbance took place. A Te Deum was sung at the church of Santa-Maria Capella in honour of the Emperor's fete. Prince Colonni, the Syndic of Naples, was present." THE EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF WHOLESALE POISONING. FINAL EXAMINATION AND COMMITTAL OF THE ACCUSED. Yesterday, Constance Wilson, alias Catherine Taylor, was again brought up and placed at the bar of the Lambeth Police•court before the Hon, G. C. Norton for further and final examination on the charges of causing tl.e deaths by poison of Mrs. Mary Soames and Mrs. Ann Atkinson. The court as on former occasions was crowded to excess, and the proceedings lasted to half-past 7 o'clock. Mr. Chipperfield appeared as before for the prosecution, and Mr. Neale for the prisoner. The prisoner remained seated in the dock in the most perfectly unconcerned manner during the lengthened proceedings. Mr. Chipperfield said that he first proposed to complete the evidence in the case of Mrs. Soames, and this he should do by calling one or two more witnesses to speak to the facts already in evidence. He should also call a gentleman named Baker, who was trustee under the will of the late Capt. Mawer, of Boston, who would not only prove the amount of the prisoner's income, but who would also speak to her handwriting. He should also call a gentle man named Sleath, who had been educated for the legal profession, but who was now the editor of a Lincolnshire paper, who was an expert in hand writing, and would prove that the several letters which had been produced in evidence in the case were in the handwriting of the prisoner at the bar. Mr. John IL Baker was then called, and deposed that he was a builder, and the sole surviving exe cutor and trustee under the will of the late Mr. Peter Mawer, the probate of which he produced. Under that will the prisoner had a life interest in eight dwelling-houses in Boston, producing £4B per annum, and also was entitled to the interest on the sum of £l5O which had been produced by the sale of a share in a ship, and which sum had been put out at interest at 41 per cent. On the 7th of November, 1855, he had paid the prisoner the sum of £8 125., which after deducting the succession duties and the repairs of the houses,was the balance due to her. In the year 1856 the payments he made to her amounted altogether to £2l 16s. 6d., and he was not aware that she had any other in come. He was well acquainted with the prisoner's handwriting, having received, he should say, up wards of 100 letters from her, and though he did not remember that he had ever seen her write he had always acted on and recognised her correspondence. The letter already produced, and which reached the house of the late Mrs. Soames on the Monday following her death, and which purported to come from the " man" with whom it was alleged by the prisoner the deceased had formed a connexion, was here handed to the witness, who, after minutely examining it, said that to the best of his belief, though written in a feigned hand, it was in the handwriting of the prisoner. He formed that opinion both from the spelling of some words, from the for mation of some of the letters, and from a comparison with the correspondence ho had in his possession. Mr. Neale inquired of the witness if there was any money now due to the prisoner. The witness replied not now. Mr. Chipperfield—No ; the last payment of £l5 was made to you, Mr. Neale, and I have your re ceipt for it. (Laughter.) Mr. J. S. Sleath was next called, and deposed that he had lived in West-street•road, Boston, and was the editor of the Lincolnshire herald. He had known the prisaner for many years, and had him self been articled to the law. The prisoner had com municated with him as a sort of agent for her, and received numerous letters from her in 1855 and down to Jan., 1856. He had seen the prisoner write, and was well acquainted with the character of her hand writing. The letter now produced (the " man's" let ter) he had already examined, and he believed it to be in the prisoner's handwriting. He came to that conclusion from having compared it with letters in the possession of Mr. Chipperfield which had been proved in the case, and he found that in eight or ten particulars the letters bore a strong resemblance both in the shape of the letters and in the spelling. Mrs. Sarah Allen, who had been examined on a former day, was now recalled, and in addition to her previous testimony, deposed that she lived in Alfred-place, Bedford-square, next door to the de ceased, whom she had known for six or Seven yep►rs before her death, being very intimate with her. She last saw her alive on the Wednesday preceding her death, when the deceased was clean ing her door between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, and was then in her usual good health. The deceased was a very strong, healthy person, and witness had never heard of her being ill. On the Saturday evening after the death, she (witness) was taken upstairs by the prisoner to see the corpse which had a very shocking and dreadful appearance. The fingers were very much drawn up, the hands were partly clenched, and the features very much distorted, and in consequence the witness said to the prisoner that she thought deceased looked a very dreadful corpse. In reply to Mr. Chipperfield, the witness said she remembered the circumstance of the robbery alleged by the prisoner to have been committed in the room she had occupied in the house of deceased. She had spoken to the prisoner on the subject, when the latter stated she had been out, had been detained longer than she expected, and that when she came home a little after 12 at night, she found her room door open, her drawers broken into, and everything carried away, and she added that she had lost nearly £2OO in money and clothes. Serjeant White, 16 D, said that on the 29th July last he was present at the exhumation of the body of the late Mrs. Soames, whose coffin bore an in scription which he had copied, and now handed in. He received potions o[ the body of the deceased from Mr. Whidburn. They were contained in six jars, one bottle, and three parcels, the whole of which he delivered at Guy's Hospital to Mr. Pryor, the assistant to Dr. Taylor. Mrs. Riley was recalled, and stated that she had been regularly employed as char woman by d ecease d on the Friday of every week up to the time of her death, and that on one occasion the prisoner came to her to the kitchen, and said she was so bad with a pain in her face that she should be glad if witness would go to a doctor's shop for her. Witness con sented, and the prisoner gave her a phial about the length of her first finger, and a small piece of paper, on which was written what she was to get, together with sixpence to pay for it. Wit ness could not read, and therefore could not say what was on the paper. She took it with the bottle to the shop of a chemist in Tottenham court-road, where she handed in the paper, got six penny worth of the stuff in the phial, and came away. She looked at the phial, because it seemed such a little drop for sixpence. The liquid was rather thick, and its colour was a dark brown. A week or two before the death of Mrs. Soames, wit ness had a conversation with prisoner about that lady. The prisoner came to her in the back kitchen and said, " Mrs. Soames is going to change her situation, but I do not think it will take place, as she has found that the person had not turned out as she expected, or what she thought he was." Wit ness thought that the prisoner also said " that the person was a bus proprietor." In cross-examina tion the witness said she had not stated these matters when she was last examined, because she had not been asked about them. Last week she was prepared to make the same statement, but though in attendance she was not called. On the deposition of Mr. Whidburn being read over to that gentleman, he requested to make an alteration in that part of it which ascribed the death of the deceased to inflammation of the peri. toneurn and bowels, and to confine his opinion to death from inflammation of the bowels only. The remaining depositions having been read, Mr. Chipperfield closed the evidence as regarded the death of Mrs. Soames, and Mr. Neale, on behalf of the prisoner, said he should reserve the defence. :Mr. Chipper field next said he was prepared to complete the evidence in the case of Mrs. Atkinson. The depositions of the witnesses already taken were severally read over and signed by them. Mary Ann Bruden, who had lived as servant with the prisoner before and at the time of Mts. Atkinson'; decease, was reealled, and added to her former deposition that for some time before Mrs. Atkinson came she had from time to time been sent out by the prisoner to pledge various articles. She had been sent to the pawnbroker's two or three times a week, and she had pawned two silk dresses, one for L 2 10s.; r'ngs, a watch, gold chain, and other valuables. She had even been sent to pawn a petticoat for 9d., and on one occasion the prisoner had induced her to pawn a dress of her (witness's) own for her. This system of pawning continued up to Mrs. Atkinson's arrival ; but while Mrs. Atkin son was lying ill in the house the prisoner sent her to redeem the silk dress which had been pledged for £2 10s. And after Mrs. Atkinson's death she had been sent to redeem other goods, for which she had a dozen of duplicates, and she took a clothes basket to take them home. She could not remember the sum she had paid to redeem them. In reply to a question from the magistrate, The witness said that though Mr. Atkinson had directed her (the prisoner) to let her (witness) have all the deceased's clothes, with the exception of a black cloth cloak, which the prisoner was to keep herself, all she had received from the prisoner was the lady's stays. Mr. Sleath was then called, and repeated his former evidence as to the knowledge of the pri soner's handwriting, deposed that the letter received by Mr. Atkinson, after his wife's death, and pur porting to come from the last witness, praying for pecuniary assistance for her mistress, was in the prisoner's handwriting. _ The whole of the witnesses in the case were then bound ever,"and the prisoner was committed on both charges for trial at the September session at the Central Criminal Court. THE LONG-ACRE MYSTERY. It was briefly stated in our yesterday's impression that on Wednesday afternoon a man named Pye, a drayman in the employ of Messrs. Combe and Dela field, of Castle-street, Long-acre, while standing at one of the gateways of the tramway, observed a man and woman walking in a stealthy way from the direction of Langley-street, towards King street, on the left-hand side of Castle-street, under the brewery wall. The man, who was a little in advance of the woman, suddenly turned and made a motion with his hand, as if by way of signal to the latter, who thereupon immediately dropped a somewhat bulky bundle which she was carrying. Both then made off hurriedly, till they reached Earl- street, where, or at the corner of King-street, they were lost sight of. From Pye's description the woman was about 30 years old, of middle sta ture, and wore a light dress, with a dark shawl, while her companion was rather short, and dressed in dark clothes. While Pye was looking towards the bundle, which was wrapped up in a copy of the News of the World, dated August 10, a good many people collected, and before the bundle had been opened Police-constable 56 F came up and took possession of it, and conveyed it to the police station in Bow-street, and upon being there exa mined its contents were found to be such as to lead to a very decided suspicion that a murder had been committed within a very recent period. It con tained a cotton shirt, with linen wristbands and collar, a merino vest, or under shirt, a small white cotton pocket handkerchief, a flock pillow in a cotton tick, and a cotton pillow-case. The cotton shirt was of good quality, such as might be worn by a man moving in a respectable sphere of life, and had evidently been worn with studs and sleeve links. It appeared to have been worn about two days ; its collars had been lengthened by a small piece of tape, and was marked on the gusset "A. G. 1V.," the merino under shirt, which was also of good quality, being marked "I. T. W., 12-58." There were no holes or perforations in either to show that their wearer had been stabbed or shot in the body, but both were saturated with blood three parts round the neck, over both shoulders, and still more extensively behind, as if their wearer had had his throat cut while lying on his back, while both were ripped up in front and along the sleeves, as if for the purpose of being easily removed from a body stiff and rigid after death. Then again it appeared as if one part of the cot ton shirt had been partly washed in an abortive attempt to remove the blood, while a portion of the merino vest was wanting the crisp and dark ap pearance of the edges round the hole, leading to the inference that a similar abortive attempt had been made to destroy it either by fire or some powerful acid. There was also blood on the handkerchief, and a considerable quantity on the pillow-case, while the pillow itself, both tick and flock, had absorbed a very considerable quantity of blood. Perhaps a still more important fact is this—that Mr.Langstone, acting as divisional surgeon at Bow street during the absence of Dr. Painter, and who was immediately called in, found adhering to the pillow-case a small piece of flesh, which he considers to be human, and also a small piece of bone, or rather cartilage. The pillow, pillow-case, and merino shirt had a strong smell of opium, as if some of that drug had been spilt upon them, or as if some had flowed downwards from the mouth of the wearer of the shirt while lying on the pillow; but the stains of opium, if ever existing, must, of course, have been obliterated by the great quantity of blood sub sequently flowing upon them. Mr. Langstone, after two days' examination, is decidedly of opinion that these articles are so many evidences of a brutal murder, and Mr. Inspector Mackenzie, of Bow -street, is of the same opinion— an opinion in which most of the police autho rities concur, their theory being that some gentleman, probably from the country, had been enticed into one of the vile brothels lying at the back of Long-acre or Drury-lane ; that hs had there been drugged with opium, or, rather, that an attempt had been made to drug him, which was only partially successful, that he recovered consciousness while being robbed ; that a scuffle occurred, and that then, to put an end to his struggles, and escape detection from without, his assailants forcibly held him, and cut his throat completely across. It is assumed that the murderers did not destroy the articles by fire because flocks and merino are only burnt with great difficulty, and in burning give out a smell which is perceptible at a very considerable distance, and this in such a case might have led to unpleasant inquiries. To the ob jection that dropping such a bundle in a public thoroughfare in open day is but a clumsy mode of getting rid of it, the police reply that it is just such a step as might be expected from the more ignorant class of London thieves and prostitutes, who seldom reason, and whose cunning usually ter minates in their own betrayal. On the o th er h an d , there are some who view the whole affair as a stupid " sensation" hoax. POLICE IN TELLIGEN CE.—Ateg . 22. WORSHIP-STREET.—Alfred Gleave, a fine young man, aged 21, was brought before Mr. Leigh with having on his own confession, caused the death of Susan Dimmock by shooting her. The prisoner, who described himself as a chrono meter escapement maker, living at 3, Elizabeth place, Balls-pond-road, Islington, was undefended, and the first witness called stated— My name is Sarah Hawkins. I am a single woman, living at 8, Rosemary-street, Hoxton. I knew Susan Dimmock, the deceased, she was about 18, and lived, I believe, at Ilaggerstone. About 12 o'clock last night I met her on this side of the Dalston-gate, and was walking by her side when, as we passed the toll-house, and while she was speaking to me, I heard the report of fire-arms— I believe a pistol. It sounded as if coming from the toll-house or by the side of it. Swan Dimmock did not scream or speak, but fell instantly at my feet. I touched her arm and said " Get up," but she made no reply. I then tried to raise her by the shoulder; her bonnet came off, and then I saw blood on the side of her head. I crossed the road and spoke to a young man, exclaiming at the same time, " Good God, she is shot." Many persons assembled ; the young woman was carried into the Lord Truro public-house, and laid upon a table. She appeared quite dead ; a medical matt came and said that she was so. Mr. Leigh—Had you seen the prisoner on that night before this happened ? Witness—Yes, sir; at about nine o'clock. Mr. Leigh—Where was ho then? Witness—Standing outside a public-house near the gate. I was then alone. Mr. Leigh—Did you speak to him, or he to you ? Witness—No, sir. Mr. Leigh (to prisoner) —Do you wish to ask this witness any question ? Prisoner shook his head and replied, " No, sir." Thomas Phillips—l am a toll collector, and was on duty at Ralston -gate last night. About half past six o'clock in the evening, the prisoner brought to the other collector a time-piece he had had to repair. He remained a short period, and left with the other collector; he returned at 20 minutes to nine o'clock, stopped a few minutes, and again left at half-past eleven o'clock. I loaded a pistol belonging to me in the toll-horse, a 1 412 placed it on the desk. The charge was small shot—from this flask—(a common pistol unloaded, and a flask containing No. 4 shot were here produced, and identified by the witness, who continued) —Abou t three minutes after 12 o'clock I went to the gate to take toll of a gentleman who offered me half a sovereign to change. 1 was detained about tw o minutes, and then heard the report of a pistol. I turned to see from whence it came, and perceived a young woman lying near the toll-house door on her aide, and close by the footpath. Piieoner was standing close by. Ile threw up his hands, el" claiming " Good God, what have I done! I did not think that the pistol was loaded." This he re peated several times. The first witness lifted the deceased up, and then I noticed blood gushing very fast from the side of the head. Mr. Leigh—Where did you next see the pistol produced ? Witness—ln the toll-house, a few feet from the spot on which I had placed it, but I don't know who put it there. Mr. Leigh—Did you notice if it had been re cently discharged? Witness—l did not. Mr. Leigh—Have you any knowledge of either , of the young women ? Witness—l have seen them pass the gate occa sionally. Dr. Julius Baetcke, of the German Hospital- 1 have made only an external examination of the de ceased. There was a large wound beneath the left lower jaw, as if made by shot ; the jaw was frac tured, and the large blood vessels were injured. There were not any shot marks on the face ; they had entered principally in a body, but were slightly scattered, and in all probability reached the brain. Carew, 559 N—While on duty near the toll house, between twelve and one o'clock in the morn ing, the prisoner came to me from a crowd of per sons, and said, pointing to a woman lying on the • ground, " I have shot this person, take me in charge." I conveyed him to the station-house, Mr. Leigh—Did he say that he was not aware the pistol was loaded ? Witness—No, sir, nor anything like it. Sarah Hawkins, recalled. Mr. Leigh—Do you know -whether the prisoner and Susan Dimmock had been acquainted with each other ? Witness—They had, sir, for some time. I don't know if they had kept company, or whether he was a single man. Inspector Bowler, N division—l can produce wit nesses to show that they had known each other for a long time. I took tliis charge at Hackney sta tion-house, from the constable. Prisoner appeared in much distress of mind, and wept. He said, " went into the toll-house, while Tom, the collector, was at the gate. I saw a pistol lying on the desk, picked it up, and it exploded while I was examin ing it. A young woman passing by was shot, I did not know the pistol was loaded." Phillips, the toll-gate keeper, re-examined—Pri soner was not present when I loaded the pistol. While I was at the gate he crossed the road toward the toll-house, but I did not see him enter there. A young man, who stated he was the prisoner's brother, here stepped forward. He was not sworn, but stated, " I was sitting in the toll-house when the prisoner came in. I heard the explosion, but did not see him take the pistol." Mr. Leigh—This, if taken as evidence, would not throw any light upon the matter. The pri soner will be committed to Newgate for trial, and if necessary you can be called there. The depositions were then completed, and the accused, who reserved his defence, was fully com mitted. COUNTRY 111 ARAL S. , v- LIVERPOOL—Auct. 22. At to-day's market there was a fair attendance of the trade, but only a moderate amount of business was done in wheat, at barely the prices of last Tuesday, Flour was unaltered. Indian corn quiet, and prices were unaltered. Weather fine. WAKEFIELD—Avu. 22. The wheat trade was firm, and prices the same as last week. Barley, beans, oats and shelling unaltered. STAMFORD-AuG. 22. White wheat, 58s to 60s— red, 54s to 58s per 36 stone Barley, 30s to 32s per qr. Oats, 24s to 26s per 24 stone.. Beans, 40s to 42s per qr, EXETER—Am 22. The following prices were quoted this morning : Wheat, white 7s 3d to 7s 6cl Barley. ...4s Od to 4s 6d I Ditto red .6s 9d to 7s 3d Oats 3s Od to 3s 6d Flour, fine, 41s to 42s ; seconds, 39s to 40s per sack. CATTLE. The supply of all descriptions of stock this morning was very limited. 1 Fat beef, p sc., 10s0d to 10s3d Ewes, per lb .... 7d t o 7id Pork carcases, Os 6d to lOs 6d Wethers, d 0,..... 6id to 61d Lamb, p 1b....... ild to 8d Fat calves, d 0... 6d to—J. Rough fat, 31d per lb. DUBLIN—Aua. 22 Our market was slow, and prices for foreign wheat ge nerally dearer. Indian corn was also a slow sale, and 6d cheaper than Tuesday. • s.d. s.d. Wheat, white 30 0 to 34 0 Do., red 27 0 to 32 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black l3 0 to 16 0 s. d. s. d. Beans.. Bere Rapeseed Oatmeal l5 0 to 17 6 Bakers' flour Indian corn BRISTOL SUGAR-AuG. 22. The market has been quiet during the week. The prin cipal sales of raw sugars have consisted of some parcels of Barbadoes, at steady rates, and a few hundred bags of foreign to grocers. Refined goods are firm : but an inactive business, Treacle steady. There is no alteration to notice in ruin. COAL M. ARK ET. t the close of the market (rrloes of Coal per Ton a' S. d. Craighead Steam 13 6 Carway and Dutlryn Malting Walls End. S. d. Do. — Anthracite..2l 0 Holywell ..15 9 Tanfield Moor 13 0 Davison's West Hart- ley — ..15 0 Buddle's West Hartley 15 0 Walker Primrose 12 3 Eden Main 15 6 Walls End. Whitworth l5 0 Heugh Hall 15 6 Ships at market, South Kelloe.. 16 0 Camp l6 0 Framwellgate 16 6 Hetton 0 .. l7 n South Hetton ...17 6 u Eden 15 Tunstall Tsimdon H ar tl e pool ..16 n Hartlepool.. l6 n o Caradoc .... ...16 .2 Haswell Acorn Close.. James .. 14 6 li elloe 84; sold, 43. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton....... Aug. 18 ' via Marseilles .. Sept. 12. &tail and Cape Vcrds, by British packet Sept. 3. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Sept. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Sept. 3. via Marseilles Aug. 28. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. 29. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 3 . via Marseilles Aug. 28. India (Bombay), via Southampton Aug. 29. via Marseilles Aug. 23 ' Lisbon Sept. 3. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 2 9 . via Marseilles Aug. 23. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Aug. 28. by U.S. packet by Canadian packet. Au g. 21 ' W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept 10. Bahamas, via New York , ~. ....Aug. 2 g : 2 / : Mexico. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Aug. 28 ' California, and British Columbia.. BIRTHS. LATHAM,—On the 20th inst., at Bradwall Hall, Mrs. Latham, of a son. PEASE.—On the 20th inst., at Stanhope Castle, Weardale, the lady of Henry Pease, Esq., MX., of a son. PULTENEY,—On the 21st inst., at Ashley , near M arke t Harborough, the wife of the Rev. Richard Pulteney, of a daughter. VP.nsoN.--On the 18th inst., at Hanbury Hall, Worces tershire, the Lady Georgina Vernon, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. v7a o r d n the D on 0 2 u g l s h t ins t. O'Brien,at F e l; d e y e s t t e s s b o u n li o 0 ' 3 v ß i t E s t — h e A H ' C o o n i R E T d . Lord _lnchiquin, to the Hon. Emily Holmes A'Court, Westbourne-terrace, Rear-Adrairal Jam J. Stopford , at St. James% s second too pFo R Fanny,D slaughter u yo g o h ui B r g te o Ns f ts d.aLorduogi h H tt he e r y e t 02 e fl s b s tt u hi r en y t ate Lieut.-Colone l Gubbins, C.R. WEBB—KENRICK.—On the 26th ult., at St. Thomas's Church, Lambeth, Edward W. H. Webb, Esq., Lieu - tenant Military Train, to Ellen, second daughter of BuHexntroyn. KKeennrrijecick: of granddaughter of the late 11 Castle, Huntingdonshire. DEATHS. _ _ ----- COWAN.—On the 19th inst , at Linbum, n e a r Edinburgbi Selina, wife of D r . Cowan,. aged 32. DRAPER.—On the 19th inst ,at Lower Tottenham, Mr. T. Draper, aged 49. Essex.—On the 22d inst,, at Cassiobury-park, the Countess of Essex. GRANTOn the 19th i t st , at Radnor Villa, Great g a : Grant,vern, Sibylla Christi n a, * third daughter of the late C hap Esq,, formerly M.P. for Inverness-shire. SIMES.—On the 20th inst., at the house of his son, Stro oa, park, J o h n Thomas Simes, Esq., of Montpelier• cresep n, o _! B righton, formerly woolbroker of the city of Lona 13, aged 83, THORESBY.—On the 18th inst., at Waldron Castle, Tor quay, Colonel Charles Thoresby, aged 70. LONDON: Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPI'li'7, of N 0.112, Strand, Printer, at T HE S UN Office 1 0.11:4 f Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in. the .. .C0 .14 Y Dliddleses.—Saturday, August 23, 1862. MP 1 13(i' Cel Trl