The Sun. — London, England, 1862-09-20 00:00:00

TIIE CIVIL WAR iN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) BALTIMORE, SEPT. 5. Acturn est de Bepubhca. The Republic, one and indivisible, is at its last gasp. These words, which elicited such indignant and angry vituperation when ventured on by impartial foreigners many months ago , will, seemingly, be more calmly read when th e y return to this distracted country, sick with civil broils, a few weeks hence. The truth is still very far from being known in New York and Phil adelphia, and possibly may never be known in all its features. The wail of a nation in its agony will probably not ascend to Heaven till many weeks have passed, and hope has long fled. But few im partial persons can doubt that the last few days have seen the crisis of the American Republic. It must be premised that the full and trustworthy history of the scenes which took place during the whole of last week, and up to Tuesday of this week, can never be told upon earth. Bat when Stonewall Jackson and Lee have time to take the pen, which, un like Northern generals, they have never throughout this struggle considered mightier than the sword, but have, as far as possible, abjured the use of, we shall learn succinctly and intelligibly the plan of the recent campaign and its method of execution. As it is, we are tossed about, without rudder or com pass, on a sea of rumours, and much that is now be lieved in the North may require subsequent modi fication. The following is something like an outline of the incidents which are supposed to have oc curred. Gen. INl‘Clellan's army broke up in a pitiable con dition from Harrison Landing. Little is said in the North about their sufferings there, but modern warfare has witnessed nothing worse. The South seems to have been satisfied that, after M'Clellan, through the alleged incompetency of Magruder, had escaped by the skin of his teeth, it was not ne cessary to watch and harass his broken and shattered arm y further. All eyes were turned northwards, an d On to Washington !" was universally the cry. It was intended that the decisive battle before Washington should be fought long before it was possible for M'Clellan to join Popo. Dut duriug the first 15 days of August a most unusual spell of heat fell upon Virginia ; the glass for many days was above 100 deg. of Fahrenheit in the shade, and Jackson's bold operations were delayed. The scene of his recent movements is through one of the thirstiest and least-watered regions of Virginia, and it is impossible that his men should not have suf fered grievously from lack of water, judging from the account of the few prisoners taken and brought to Washington. It is not necessary to say more in this rapid sketch than that Pope, driven to the northern bank of the Rappahannock by Lee, was there kept by the latter, and amused by many manceuvres, which afforded him matter for several of his characteristic despatches, in which he announced that his enemy was falling back to Gordonsville. Nothing was further at that moment from Pope's intentions than to fall back one step further towards Washington. Was he not committed to abandoning lines of communication, and recognising no retreat except that of his broken end discomfited foe P Lee continued to fool him to the top of his bent, in order to gain time for Jackson to cross the Rappahannock, and turn Pope's right. At this perilous moment Jackson was disconcerted by a tremendous thunderstorm and heavy fall of rain— the breaking up of the torrid heat before mentioned —and found the Rappahannock impassable. He boldly made towards its head waters, got across there, struck into the mountains, and passing out through Thoroughfare-gap, followed the line of the Manassas-gap Railroad, and gained Pope's rear without being observed. The first notice of an enemy behind him vouchsafed to Pope was the raid of Stuart's cavalry upon Catlett's-station, on which occasion Pope's private baggage, official papers, and those of his staff fell into Stuart's hands. It is related that among the spoils General Pope's commission was secured, but Stuart hastened to re turn it, apprehending that it might be revoked and another general substituted in Pope's place. The first raid on Catlett's-station was thought a most im pudent and daring proceeding, but did not alarm General Pope. It was only when the subsequent descent upon 1/mamas-gap Junction was made, and property estimated at the value of 5,000,000 dols. captured and destroyed, that Pope became seriously alarmed, and discovered upon investiga tion that Jackson with a large force was in the rear, that his own communication with Washington was cut, several bridges burnt, and his army in immi nent danger. Seeing that instant retreat was his °Lily hope, ru e — seal eeele in three columns, two of them retiring towards Centreville, tux the third, under Gen. M'Dowell, having been despatched to gain Thoroughfare-gap and intercept Jackson's re treat, Jackson, having secured at Manassas station such an amount of supplies as to suffice for his men for several days, and having then burnt a large amount of rolling stock on the Orange and Alex andria Railroad, sent a hasty messenger to Long street to hurry up through Thoroughfare-gap, and turned himself fiercely upon General M'Dowell. Then was fought, on Friday, August 29, what is called the Battle of Groveton, concerning which Pope's despatch has long been before the public, claiming the victory and promising to cap ture Jackson the next day. A telegraphic message from General M'Dowell to Mr. Chase was simul taneously published, requesting Mr. Chase to make known to Mrs. M'Dowell that her husband bad safely passed through another battle of Bull Run, and had gained a decided victory. It appears now that the actual despatch sent by General M'Dowell was that he had passed through another battle of Bull Run with a worse result than before. Instead of the victory claimed by Pope, instead of Thoroughfare-gap being closed by M'Dowell, Jack son had more than held his own ; and upon Satur day, August 30, he again advanced, reinforced that morning by Longstreet and Ewell; and, supported by Lee advancing from the Rappahannock, drove the Federals with great loss back towards Centreville. From this moment, in spite of the constant asser tions in the Northern papers that there had been no fighting on Saturday, the Confederates pressed con stantly upon the Federals and drove them first off the battle-field of Friday, then back to Centreville, then through Centreville to Fairfax Court-house, near to which, at a little place called Chantilly, fell one of the most gallant officers of the Federal army —General Kearney. The Englishmen who passed last - winter at Washington, and especially those who witnessed General M'Dowell's review near Alexandria, will well remember his alert soldier like form, his empty sleeve telling of the Mexican war, his grey charger, the partner with him of Mexican battle-fields, A better and more dashing officer served not in the Federal army, or one more adapted to conduct su c h raids as those which have ma d e lituart famous. Throughout this lamentable wa r there hes never been, an the Federal side, any to search out men disposition Peculiarly adapted for special services, and to detail theeefor the discharge of congenial duti es, Had an y sad , disposition Kearney would not existed, General have fallen without leaving a reputat ion behind him commen surate with his worth and ability as a soldier. From the time of his death and that of General Stevens on Tuesday, the 2d of September, the re.l treat of the Federals has been rapid and continuous, On Wednesday, September 3, the whole army wa s safe, cowering behind the fortifications so long occupied last winter, which gird the southern bank of the Potomac opposite Washington. - Within those fortifications it is absurd to think for a moment that they will be attacked by such a general as Lee. Immense reinforcements have constantly been pouring for days past from the North into Washington, and there must be at least 150,00() me n defending the forte which protect it. The de signs of the Confederates are already patent, and 4e6 ea to be to make a dash between Lessburgh and irarper's Ferry into Maryland, where a Confede probably be a snow b all growing and r ate force will gat h er ing step by step as it adva nces northward. Meanwhile Gen. Pope, under whos e gu i dance the Federal fortune s, which have lon g ceased to he brilliant, kid fallen to their lowest ebb— w i thout clothes, without papers, with nothing but his re covered commission, beaten, baffled,, disgraced, has taken np his position close to the quarters occupied Is 4 wintu , by Gienersi w o d ovr ch on Upton'it and has given over the supreme command once more to General It is underst( od that the President and General Halleck waited in person upon General M'Clellan, and requested him once again to accept the post from which he had been deposed. He accepted upon condit:(ns that he should for the future be free from control. In the midst of unparalleled gloom and depression, a cer tain degree of satisfaction has resulted from the restitution of M'Clellan. That he is far from bril liant, that his constitutional prudence has led him to miss more than one chance of taking Richmond, nobody will deny. But, on the whole, no superior to M'Clellan has as yet shown himself on the Fede ral side. There existed for a long time between him and his men a reciprocity of affection which has never been evinced towards any other Federal General, and which is not, even now, wholly extin guished. That he is a fitting leader to oppose Lee and Jackson no man, even on the F e d era l s id e, would assert ; but he is less likely to involve his men in danger than any othe r comman d er. To fi g ht for some time on the defensive seems his ine vitable lot. It cannot be said that the President's interference with military matters has had happy results. The appointment of Gen. Pope was entirely the Presi dent's act. They were old Western friends. There is a certain quickness and smartness about General Pope which commend him superficially. But the public, weary and distrustful of swagger, saw with suspicion his first vaunting pronuncianzientos, and bitterly has he been compelled to eat his words. He has raised up by his proclamation calling upon his men to subsist themselves on Virginian property a fierce vindictiveness in the Southern heart, which is only paralleled by the feeling towards General But ler- In these recent battles the officers belonging to Pope's force who were taken prisoners have all been sent to Richmond, and refused their parole, and ominous threats that they will be proceeded against as land pirates, in accordance with Presi dent Davis's threat of retaliation, are loudly heard. It is not necessary to add that Mr. Stanton, whose chief pleasure it seems to have been from the begin ning to thwart and oppose and depreciate General M'Clellan, warmly approved of his subordination to General Pope, and encouraged the latter to reflect upon M'Clellan by his public orders as much as he hoped that Pope would be able to do by conduct in the field. It is generally believed that as a necessary conse quence of General MeClellan's restoration Mr. Stanton will be superseded in the War Department by General Halleck. It is impossible to mention any change which would be more welcome to the American public, not so much from affection to General Halleck as from detestation of Mr. Stan ton. Another matter in which the President is much animadverted upon is in reference to the withdrawal of General M'Dowell from Fredericksburg at the time when General M'Clellan was advancing on Richmond. M'Dowell, with 43,000 men in the highest state of efficiency, was burning to descend from the North as M'Clellan advanced along the peninsula. " Stonewall" Jackson appeared at this moment in the Shenandoah Valley, driving Banks before him. The President, alarmed for Washing ton, withdrew M'Dowell and his force from Fre dericksburg and transferred them westward. In the midst of the many recriminations and explanations advanced in exculpation of the failure of M'Clellan's expedition against Richmond, the opinion of the wisest seems to point with warmest censure at the removal of M'Dowell from Fredericksburg. It has been mentioned that General Pope's de spatch, falsely calling the Battle of Groveton, on Friday, August 29, a victory, was warmly hailed in Washington, and preparations were at once made to show solicitude for the wounded. A train of 200 ambulances was sent forth, containing many Goverment employes and private citizens, who long will remember their experiences on that eventful trip. Shortly after they had started the disastrous news of Saturday's battle reached Washington, but the ambulances were beyond recall. They travelled all Saturday night, and arrived on Sunday near the field of battle. They found it in the hands of the Confederates. A few ambulances went boldly for ward, and fell at once into the hands of the Southern pickets. Such of the wounded as were able to drag themselves towards the ambulances were accommo dated on them, and the Government employes and civilians repaired to the nearest station with a view to returning by rail. Here they were perempto rily refused admission and all the accommodation reserved for wounded soldiers. Weary, footsore, half-starved, out for two nights without sleep, these 2 , 00 a Sta rn ea vi*cmov datiggea attillbei Veb back op foot to Washington, heartily enraged at their treatment by the Government. It was of a piece with its action in all other matters. Hundreds of surgeons have been telegraphed for from Northern cities. They repaired to Washington, where no accommo dation, no orders, no patients awaited them. Many of them returned in high irritation to their homes. One of the most heartrending thoughts, in con nection with all these recent battles, is that, com paratively, a very small number of wounded has hitherto been brought into Washington. That the number of wounded in these battles is enormous seems generally believed. Humanity shudders and recoils at the thought of thousands of frail, suffering, anguished bodies, many of them famished when they received their wound, lying for 48 or 72 hours without food or water or kindly care—many a poor wearied soul escaping from its racked and fevered casket from sheer want of human tenderness and sympathy. But, though there are thousands cf sufferers left behind, Washington has this week seen a ;sight which might well draw tears from a stone, but which seems scarcely to have ruffled the serene indifference of the stolid American nature. On Monday a long train of maimed and bleeding and mangled wretches, most of them wounded the Friday before, approached over the Long-bridge. No one was there to look after them, and there for hours lay this mass of tortured and writhing humanity, while pools of blood trickled from the carriages and left a ghastly trail behind. Many a poor fellow not deprived of the use of his legs, untended in the churlish and bewildered city, wandered to the railroad station, with heart fondly turning to some far-off home, possibly among the hills of what was once happy and peaceful New England. He who could witness that sight and not from his heart abhor the grasp ing vaulting nature of those politicians who, rather than accept what has long been inevitable, would month after month subject poor human nature to such unutterable anguish, must have been cold in deed. But no sign of emotion did Washington deign to give or betray. The same idle poco-curante crowd at Willard's Hotel, the same knot of sharks and contractors fattening on a nation' s woes, t h e same frail and miserable women profaning with repulsive levity streets and buildings which the Angel of Death had marked for his ow n — well may the bewildered stranger ask himself with s i c k en i ng horror, Is this a Christian nation which conceives the best tenants for its churches to be the maimed and agonised and dying, and can look at such sights undaunted and unmoved ? Can it bear the thought that thousands of its sons should lie for days starv ing and with wounds festering on the field of battle, find no relief till mortification, more merciful than Christian man, prelude@ a final and painless repose. STONEWALL JACKSON. ' 4° l l one topic only did Washington show any excite ment, Strong and eager was the anxiety shown to obt a i n, a photography of the hero of the moment, Stonewall Jackson. A few appeared in one of the shop s , andwere instantly snapped up. Thousands, and tens of thousands, could be sold in the cities of the North... . The interest excited by this strange man is as curious Nt'Clell an ' s a t W est Point, as it is unprece dented. A classmate of unfavourably he has exhib ited for the last a h ypochondriac and and there considered slow and h eavy, known in Washington as malade intaginaire, ten months qualities which were little Supposed to reside in his rugged and unsoldierlike frame, but which will hand his name down for Man y a gene ration in the c om p an y o f those great captain s whom men will not willi ng ly l e t die. More apt f or the execution than conception of great movements, leaning upon Gen. Lee as the directing brain, and furnishing the promptest hand, the most dauntless k morti the most ascetic and rigorous self-denisl, the hisgreatest contributions rapidity towardsnd of Generalovementas Lee's strategy, his recent operations in turning Gen. a Pope's right, and passing with a force believed not to exceed 30,000 men to the rear of such an army, massed close to its base of operations, and in the act of receiving daily large reinforcements, com mand universal wonder and admiration. It is said that, like Hannibal, he is accustomed to live among his men without distinction of dress, without greater delicacy of fare, and that it is almost impos sible on this account for a stranger to recognise or distinguish him among them. Every despatch from his hand has, as its exordium, "By the blessing of God." Continual are the prayer meetings which he holds among his men, invoking a blessing on his arms before the battle and returning thanks for pre servation and, as it has rarely failed to happen, for victory after it is over. In fact, they who have seen and heard him uplift his voice in prayer, and then have witnessed his vigour and prompt energy in the strife, say that once again Cromwell is walk ing the earth and leading his trusting and enrap tured hosts to assured victory. It is not necessary to add that Jackson's men idolise and trust their leader enthusiastically, and have the most implicit faith in his conduct, otherwise the bold and daring steps which he has frequently taken, and from which he has never failed to come off triumphantly, would have been utter impossibilities. Nothing is more conspicuous throughout these memorable months of strife than the superiority, in all qualities essential to the formation of armies, of the Southern section. Their officers are not boon companions picked out of some bar-room and promoted to the distinction of wearing shoulder straps by reason of skill and dexterity in conduct ing municipal elections, or, in the language of this country, wire-pulling. The Southern officers are, and have always been, gentlemen, qnd their fol lowers have been accustomed all thir lives to re gard them as belonging to a superior class ; and, therefore, discipline and subordination are natural and easy. lam very far from saying that in the Federal Army there are not also many gentlemen who are officers; but it is impossible not to per ceive that there are also many who are not fit for command. Whatever may be Gen. M'Clellan's military qualities, no one can be for one moment in his company without perceiving that he is em phatically a high-bred, modest, unassuming, and courteous gentleman; and the same may be said of hundreds of others whose names will suggest them selves at once to Englishmen familiar with this country. But there is a lower deep, in which are to be found officers of volunteers whose democratic antecedents have always placed them on an equality with their men, and who are now called upon to in troduce another system of government among re luctant recalcitrant followers. Discipline and regi mental organisation are necessarily aristocratic. In this more than any other point the North has broken down. It was thought that the long organisation and drill enforced last winter by General M'Clellan would wean his men to habits of discipline. So it might have been if success had accompanied their advance on Richmond. But the world seldom saw such demoralisation as accompanied their retreat from the James River to Alexandria. It has been mentioned in a previous letter what was their condi tion in Alexandria at the close of last week. There are persons who assert that the delay of Franklin and Sumner, in reinforcing Pope, led to the defeats of Friday and Saturday. It seems to me that 40,000 or 50,000 men, more or less, made little difference to the North during these recent battles, The South fought all along from a superior moral eleva tion. No Southern man but welcomed death or mu tilation as infinitely preferable to defeat or retreat. There is no such earnestness about the North. Pos sibly it may spring up when Northern territory is the scene of such atrocities and devastations as have desolated Virginia for 16 months, and turned many a Southern town into a wilderness. The North goes lightly and indifferently on its way, and wonders that Southerners will not (in American phrase) wheel into him, and join the North in a war of bitterest venom against unoffending England. In such a war cruel hate and fiery passion, long suppressed, would blaze to the skies, but they would principally characterise the Northern States, and notably New England. The South declines partnership in such a war, but whispers into the ear of its closing squadrons, " Remember Butler and New Orleans !" " Turchin and Athens !'' " Winchester and Baton Rouge !" These last two towns are said to have been, one partly and the other entirely, levelled with the ground. Can it be wondered that having endured the iron des - pntieln of the North for 17 months, having seen the lovely Shenandoah Valley, the Paradise of America, treated as Louis XIV. treated the Pala tinate having witnessed such scenes as Baltimore every day exhibits, passions of more than earthly violence should possess the Southern soul and lash her sons into irresistible fury? Mr. Cassius M. Clay has abandoned diplomacy, and is "stumping " Kentucky, in the hope of patch ing up some momentary armistice with the South, and committing the two infuriated and inflamed sections to mortal strife with England. His lan guage is such as is common at this moment to his fraternity. "France, not forgetting our old alliance with her, is still our friend. England strives to make you think France hostile, but it is base calumny. England alone is our bitter foe. Let us turn upon her, and all Europe will join us." Mr. Clay forgets that since the time when France secured American independence circumstances have changed. It is more likely that France at this moment dreads united America than that she dreads England. England is emphatically conservative and unaggressive. America, so lately "rejoicing like a giant to run its course," is enough to fill all other existing nations with uneasiness and suspicion. Meanwhile Mr. Clay's eloquence seems thrown away. Little more than a small area around Louisville in all the vast State of Kentucky remains faithful to the Union. Cincinnati is threatened, and terror stalks through her streets. Maryland is in the most volcanic and combustible condition. Hundreds of armed men wait the ap proach of the "stars and bars," and will swell Jackson's army to a mighty host. It may be con trary to all the approved rules of warfare to cross the Potomac, leaving such an army as M'Clellan's in the rear, but Jackson's erratic movements have hitherto been little in conformity with scientific theory, nor has the North been hitherto able to punish his transgressions against military propriety. It will be seen that, contrary to General Lee's in tentions, the recent successes of the South have been gained against the concentrated armies of the North. There is every reason to think that, instead of being an element of strength and cohesion, M'Clellan's " veterans" will exercise a most per nicious and demoralizing influence. The world has never witnessed such scenes as characterized the retreat of his army and that of Pope, as the latter drew near to the fortifications round Washington. Twenty thousand men, without organization or discipline, broken fragments of one hundred diffe rent regiments, often shoeless, weary, famishing with hunger and thirst, flocked, like overdriven sheep, along the Centreville road, begging a crust of bread and a drink of water from every civilian they encountered. To these men, utterly demo ralized as they are, have been hastily added 60,000 or 70,000 green and raw troops from the stores and workshops of the North. Such is the force now of the pres s , commanded b y G eneral M'Clellan. The language of those who continue to hope against hope is, that his plan has been reculer pour 2nieux saucer, and that he will at once descend like an ava lanche upon Richmond. It is probable that if left alone and not recalled into Maryland, another ad vance would be attempted, as in the present temper of the public mind, inaction will be more fatal than even defeat. But if an advance upon Rich mond were possible, and even were it success ful, can it be pretended that the fall of Rich mond would end the war ? Baltimore is nearly treble the size of Richmond, and the almost uni versal language of the richest men of Baltimore is " The annihilation of our city shall never deter us from discarding a hated and gallin g y o k e ." This is the language held with the guns of Fort M'Henry levelled on the town, with six gunboats lying at the wharves, and instant destruction in evitable. The President, in the midst of his wearing and agonising anxiety, has not altogether abandoned that grim humour which has given him his fame as a raconteur. It is related that a New York de putation recently waited upon him, moved by much the same spirit that formerly prompted the four Liverpool merchants to approach the Emperor of the French, and inquired eagerly about the true condition of affairs. Among other questions, they asked how many men the Confederates had in the field. The President paused, and at length an swered, " Gentlemen, I estimate them at twelve hundred thousand." Aghast at such a figure, the merchants exclaimed, "Why, we have only six hundred thousand ourselves !" " True," answered the President, " and the rebels only claim to have 400,000 in the field, but then they have such gene rals as to make one man into three." Few men of those high in office at Washington look more worn than Mr. Seward. Last week he escaped for a few weeks of rest to his country place at Auburn, but the inexorable and pressing crisis re called him in four or five days to Washington. In the rooms which are by Englishmen associated with many pleasant recollections, as having last winter been occupied by Mr. Anthony Tiollope, labours Gen. Halleck, the reputed successor of Mr. Stanton in the War Department. Stern is the ven geance meted out by public opinion at this moment against two individuals—Mr. Stanton and General M'Dowell. "Whom shall we hang ?" is the in dignant outcry of the press. The answer is prompt and emphatic—" M'Dowell and Stanton." That they are more guilty than anybody else is little credible ; but when did any Anglo-Saxon commu nity suffer disaster without marking out some individual for exemplary vengeance? From the battlefield of last week have been conveyed to Boston the lifeless remains of Colonel Fletcher Webster, the last representative of a great name. He has died fighting for that Constitution which would probably have succumbed to Mr. Calhoun 30 years ago, if it had not been for the great efforts of Daniel Webster, his father. (4 They have fallen Each in the field of glory ; one in arms And one in council." His loss will be grievously felt throughout New England. What inference may be drawn from this narra tive ? None other than that the second battle of Bull Run is the death-blow of the Union. There was, after the first battle, abundant material for re.. action ; but what is there now ? Can the conscrip tion be enforced ? It not, the Union is irrecoverable. If we have a conscription, will it not do more for the South in all the border States than for the Un ion ? If the Washington Cabinet again collects vast masses of war material, what security is there that they will not fall, as they have so often fallen before, into the hands of the south ? Will Pennsyl vania, already nearly rebellious, and encouraged by the recent release of Mr. Charles Ingersoll, submit to draughting ? The attitude of the miners in Schuylkill county, who have resisted enrolment, is already menacing. Can the differences and jea lousies of the Federal generals, a thousand times inflamed by the incidents of the last few days, be reconciled and conciliated? It is asserted that, in the recent battles, Sigel, one of the heroes of the press, was loudly upbraided as a coward by Gen. Pope. In such a state of loose disorganisation, mu tual distrust and recrimination, demoralisation, and discontent among the veterans, rawness and inex perience among the new levies, Gen. M'Clellan will find a task, compared with which anything im posed on him before sinks into insignificance. The more the details of the battles from Wednesday, Aug. 27, to Tuesday, Sept. 2, meet the light the more hopeless is the future which they disclose. Nor let it be thought that the specific of the Aboli tionists—an instantaneous and universal proclama tion of emancipation—would operate as a cure. The evidence is irresistible that the sympathies of the slaves are almost uniformly on the side of the South ern masters. A man attacking a farmhouse might as wall go first into the farmyard and proffer arms to the pigs and oxen as strive to induce slaves brought up as dependants to show the individuality and self reliance requisite for a fighting man. In my last letter it was erroneously stated that Maryland's quota towards the first batch of 300,000 demanded by the President was 4,000 men. It should have been " Baltimore," instead of " Mary- land," from which there are demanded altogether more than 8,000. Again, there is a slight error with respect to General Philip Kosirriny'a 'loath. It ap pears that he advanced alone on Monday night to reconnoitre, and was picked off by a Southern sharp shooter. The body was brought to Washington and embalmed. General M'Clellan is said to have shed bitter tears when brought within view of these honoured remains. As I write, the condition of the city of Baltimore transcends description. It is known that the Con federates are on the soil of Maryland, and the crowded streets quiver with excitement Angry glances are exchanged between men as they pass, and scenes are foreshadowed such as that which Meyerbeer has immortalised in the Iluguenots after the singing of the Rataplan Chorus. In the present temper of men's minds, it is hard to say what a day may bring forth. But it is unmistakeably evident that fear of the annihilation of Baltimore will not for a moment daunt her rebellious sons. The gunboats and fort menace the city with instant destruction, but trea son never was so bold and insolent. The crisis of the rebellion evidently is at hand. A FARMER COMMI7 TED FOR AY. TEMPTED MURDER IN SUFFOLK. At the Boxford Petty Sessions, on Tuesday, Isaac Humphrey, farmer, of Polstead, was charged with feloniously shooting at Isaac Reed, a small farmer, of the same parish, with intent to murder him. The prosecutor, Reed, was returning to his home about half-past 6 on the evening of the 6th of December last, and at a spot where the road is flanked by a wood called King Harry's Grove, he was shot at from behind, and a whole charge of shot was lodged in his back. The surgeon extracted no fewer than 138 shot from him. The moment he was shot Reed tuzned round, and saw a tall man scramble out of the ditch at the side of the road about 14 yards from him, and mak e o ff. R ee d managed to crawl to his house, which was fortunately but a short distance off, and on reaching the threshold of his door he fell down insensible. His wound, though not dangerous, confined him to his bed between two and three months. The evidence of the prisoner was of a circumstantial character. He was known to bear ill-will towards the prosecutor, and several witnesses deposed to threatening words which he had uttered. On the night of the outrage two women deposed to seeing him hanging about the public house where Reed was sitting ; another witness saw him going in the direction of King Harry's Grove,and two other men saw him standing close by the wood; and upon one of them saying "That's old Buck"— the name he goes by in the village—he jumped into the ditch, and then into the wood. Footsteps were also traced from the neighbourhood of the wood across a field towards prisoner's house, and a man named Holmes, who was then in his employ, said the prisoner went out at about a quarter past 5, a most unusual thing for him. Holmes further stated that some time after he heard the prisoner say, al luding to Reed, "I wish I had shot him dead, and then there would not have been all this trouble." For the defence, a girl, who was at the time do mestic servant to the prisoner, was called, and she stated that her master was at home from a quarter to 6 till 8 o'clock in the evening of the 6th of De cember. It appeared on cross-examination of this girl, that she had had an illegitimate child, which she endeavoured to affiliate on the prisoner, but the magistrate dismissed the case, and that since he had been charged with thi s o ff ence , h e h a d sent for her' and told her that "if she spoke the truth, neither The magistrates nor her child sho u ld wan t f or an ything." magistrates committed the prisoner to take his trial at the next assizes, b u t acce pt e d b a il, consisting of two sureties of £250 eac h. Th e ca se has excited a great deal of interest in the neighbourhood. The number of visitors to Ostend this season seems likely to exceed that of the exceptional year 1857. On the Ist October of that year the number attained was 15,000; in the present year at the present time 14,613 have beta iwicribcd. FA7 AL ACCIDENT AT THE NETV-STREET RAILWAY:BIATION AT BIRMINGHAM. On Thursday afternoon the adjourned inquest on the bodies of the four men, John Moran, Nicholas Hughes, James Earle, and John M . Kline, who were killed by the scaffold accident at the New street Railway-station on Thursday, the 11th inst., was resumed before Dr. Birt Davies. Since the opening. of the inquiry another of the sufferers, James Roberts, had died, and the jury were there fore re-sworn, so as to include his case in their in quiries. Mr. Marigold, of the firm of Beale and Marigold, solicitors, appeared to watch the proceedings on behalf of Messrs. Wood and Son, of Leeds, the con tractors; and Mr. Holland, the manager for those gentlemen, was also in attendance. Mr. Wyatt, station-superintendent at New-street for the Lon don and North Western Railway Company, also appeared on their behalf. John Green, having been sworn, stated—l am a labourer, and reside at No. 4, Deritend. On Thursday morning last, about ten minutes after nine o'clock, I was on a scaffolding near the south east corner of the New-street station. There were six of us upon the scaffolding, but they were not all together. We had come up the ladder eight or ten minutes before the accident happened. We fol lowed one after another up the ladder. There were four of Mr. Wood's men who had got upon the ladder, and then I followed, and John Moran, one of Mr. Holmes's men, followed me up the ladder. When I got to the top of the ladder the deceased man James Roberts, had got his paint can, and had begun to work. The other labourer, Nicholas Hughes, who is dead, was scraping the old paint from the iron beam that goes across the station. The other labo urer , J o h n M'Kli ne , was Just going to get up the single' plank to rub the ironwork just above me. The deceased James Earle was coming down the scaffold that fell by Nicholas Hughes, with a kettle of paint in his hand, from one bay to another, to commence painting by me on the scaffolding we were on. John Moran had just come up the ladder, and was three or four feet from the ladder upon the scaffolding when it fell. I was standing upon the middle rafter in the centre of the part that fell. I had a piece of cloth rubbing the zinc work about a foot above my head. All of a sudden I heard a crash, and then the end of a plank either that I stood upon or some other, prised up, and threw me up two or three inches. I then clung with my hands to an iron rod which the zinc work is riveted to. Seeing the position I was placed in, and gathering my recollections together, I drew my self up, and threw my legs round along rod that goes from one of the staves or uprights down to the top of the iron pillar. I then worked myself by my hands and legs on to the round rod, and went along that on to the bottom trestle which was left, and from there to the top of the pillar, and thence by a ladder to the ground. The only things I recollect to have seen immediately upon the c ras h were th e mater i a l s of the scaffold going down, and Nicholas Hughes clinging to the rope by which we wind the colour up from the ground to the scaffold for the painters' use. I also saw, while I hung suspended, that one of the scaffolding planks or other part of the scaffold struck NiCholas Hughes, and he losing hi s h o ld, f e ll t o th e ground. I saw him move several times after he fell and also those who were on the ground. Ido not remember to have seen the others going down, or anything else. After I got down, which probably took me four or five minutes, getting to the pillar, I saw the deceased men, Roberts and Earle, lying below vomiting blood very much. The deceased man Roberts also appeared hurt, and I saw semething of blood coming from his mouth, but they were covered with dust and paint. The de ceased men, Moran and Mgc line, were covered with dust and paint, and lying under the planks. They were all attended to and carried off in cabs and cars to the hospital. We were not all standing talking together at the time of the accident, and there was not a word spoken between us, as we were all scat tered. At the moment the plank broke the weight of all six was upon it, but there were three trusties supporting the part which fell. Mr. Bateman, surveyor, at this point of the evi dence produced a plan of the scaffolding, and stated that the trestles upon which the scaffold rested were lodged upon the permanent beam of the roof. Witness resumed (explaining from the plan)—l came from the ladder, and went to the centre of the bay. I had one foot upon the trestle and the other upon the plank, with my face towards Queen-street. Nicholas Hughes was standing upon the plank, about midway between the trestles that broke. James Roberts was about a plank off me when it happened, coming into the bay from fetching the colour, standing one scaffold plank off me, close to Nicholas Hughes. There was a plank resting upon the scaffold on the rod I clung to, and John M'Kline was upon that plank. James Earle was near to Nicholas Hughes, and Moran was upon the plank, about three or four planks from me. These were all the men upon the part of the scaffold that fell. There was not any great weight upon the scaffold at the time, and there was not above two men, namely, James Earle and Nicholas Hughes, who were close together at the time the accident took placc. There was no great exertion being made by any one of the men upon the planks at the time. I can give no idea of the cause of the fall of the scaffold, unless it might be that there was a crack or a damage in one of the trestles. There is no other cause that suggests itself to me as contributing to the accident, but it must have been one or both of the trestles that gave way and caused the men to fall, because the whole sweeps of planks rested upon the two trestles. The cross planks were not fastened at either end, and supposing a man to come along with a load, one might slip, but that would be all. The planks are not fastened to the trestles. It would be more secure to have them fastened to the trestles by ropes, or if they had a pin through them. I can assign no other cause of the accident than the planks cracking. The part of the scaffold that fell first I am certain was that of the north-east part of the bay where INFKline was. I judge that because all the planks were thrown in a cluster, the thickest part being on the ground underneath where he and I stood. The plank on to which M'Kline was getting from the ladder is there now. By the Coroner—We had only got into the bay that morning; there were five of us in it before breakfast, The usual number in a bay would be two, and a bay ought to bear ten or a dozen. The space of the bay is 24,:feet by 12 or 14 feet. The space oc cupied by two men should be from trestle to trestle. I have worked in similar bays before, with six men in them, at another part of the station. By a juryman—The planks would have been on a slope. By another juryman —I have never known any man fall through by reason of the planks slipping. I did not, and don't now, consider the scaffold safe, because the trestles, by an inch and a half or two inches in thickness, vary between their two ends. The rods underneath the trestles, instead of being three-eighths, should be, I think, inch rods. The trestles should also be from three to three and a half inches thick, instead of what they are called. They vary half an inch from end to end. I should not like to venture up with the same trestles and the same iron stay again. On Saturday morning week four men were going to work at six in the morn ing, when a trestle broke. The day before it oc curred, Mr. Sharp, who brings the painters their colours, had remarked that the trestles were not safe, and a rope was wound round them. By a juryman —I have known the iron nuts to break, but have never known an iron rod or stay to do so under ordinary pressure. When the accident occurred at New-street, the nuts flew. On the morning of the occurrence, the sole cause of the accident was from the nuts breaking. The opinion of the body of the men was that the scaffolding was unsafe. Kearns, one of the deceased, caught hold of one of the men, on Satut day week, and tried to prevent him going up. I have never spoken to Mr. Holmes, contractor for the scaffolding, or the mas ter painter, as to the insecurity of the scaffold. I heard that John Kearns, a painter, had spoken to Mr. Holmes on the subject, I believe, on Monday week last. There has been talk among th e men about the planks not being close enough. Kearns told Mr. Holmes it was very bad, and Mr. Holmes replied, in my presence, that " he could not afford to put any better stuff up for the money; for it would bring him to the big house." Witness heard this reply himself. My opinion of the unsafety applies only to the lower portion of the scaffolding exhibited on the plan. There are smaller scaffold ings above, which I consider sate. The scaffolding was on a new plan to any I ever saw • the material is good to I.ook at, but I thought it more fit for file wood than scaffolding. The wood was long-grained and knotty, and short-grain been more safe, ed wood would have By Mr. Marigold--There was a Heath present w h en Holmes said " it man named would bring him to the big house (workhouse)." By the Coroner —There had been no talk of a strike if th e smoking were not allowed. Mr. five minutes Chri s t opher Hill said—About l as t I w as past nine o u t h e morning of Thursday o n, about which th e standing on the floor of th e station, ut 10 or 15 b yards off th e bottom of the l a dder men ascend e d th e sca ff o ldi ng• i was looking at th e men, and h ear d a cras h ; an d then I saw the sea do„. It appeared to foldin g and the men fallinf made an alarm, see i ng all come d own at once . the scaffold ing an d the rn en on the gro un d . I did not see h ow i t was d o n e• was on th e sca ff o l d i ng looking a f ter t h e men(painters a n d l a b ourers) at 8.45 that morning. 1. did not noti ce anyt hi ng par cannot say h ow many men were ticular then, and struck me as u nsa f e. I do not now cunkisl i cr a u' Par' tip. Nothing . of thv m u ciing une n f e , ad! cannot account for the accident. No complaints I were made to me personally by the painters. One of the men showed me a board not safe a day or two before the accident. The Coroner here said he thought it impossible to finish the investigation that night, and therefore wou'd put it to the jury whether they should not adjourn, to enable Mr. Holmes, the contractor, to have a professional adviser present, and to enable him to call witnesses, if he could, to rebut the evi dence already given. The jury entirely coincided with the coroner's suggestion, and the inquiry was adjourned until Tuesday next, at half-past four o'clock.—Bir2ning ham Gazette. POLICE IMELLIGENCE.—Sept. 19, - MANSION-TIOUSE..—CHARGE OF FORGERY. —Charles Edmund Pendry, a well-dressed man, described as a commission agent, residing in Bing ham-street, Camden Town, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Rose, charged with forging and uttering a bill of exchange with intent to de fraud the Union Bank of London in Princes-street. The examination was conducted by Mr. Lyne, for Messrs. Johnston, Farquhar, and Co., solicitors to the Bank. Mr. Robert Attenborough, of Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, pawnbroker and money-lender, said the prisoner, whom he had previously known, called upon him and asked him to discount the bill of exchange produced, It was dated the 9th of June, 1862, and purported to be drawn by George Fisher upon and accepted by Owen Martens, and Co., of Millwall, palm-candle manufacturers, for £34 3s. payable at three months at the Union Bank of London. The bill was endorsed " George Fisher," and the prisoner also endorsed it with his own name in the presence of witness. He had been in the habit of discounting bills for Owen, Martens, and Co., through the prisoner, for about six months. The prisoner had called on witness in the early part of the day named, and asked him if he had any objection to discount a bill for the " governor. He rather objected, upon which the prisoner said he hoped he would, for the drawer of the bill, George Fisher, was a man who made their candle boxes. He gave Fisher's address to witness, who wrote it on the bill, 7, Palace-road, Lambeth. He discounted it, and a few days before it came due he paid it to his bankers, Sir Claude Scott and Co., Cavendish-square. Witness charged a discount of ls. in the pound for three months, or 20 per cent. The bill was paid at maturity. Edward Henry Davis, cashier of the Union Bank, deposed that the bill produced came there from Messrs. Scott, the bankers, on the 12th September, and was presented for payment, and paid by wit ness. Messrs, Owen, Martens, and Co. have an account at the Union Bank, and the bank honoured their bills. A packing-case maker, in Poplar, named George Fisher, deposed that he was in the employ of 0 wen, Martens, and Co., but had never lived in Palace road, Lambeth, the address given by the prisoner to Mr. Attenborough. Witness was formerly in business for himself, and used to do work for 0 wen, Martens, and Co., who paid him by bills, which the prisoner used to fill up. He knew the prisoner as having been in their service as a clerk about a year ago. They were not indebted to witness in June last in £34 13. Witness did not sign the bill in question, nor did he authorise the prisoner to fill it up or endorse it. lie had not seen him for the last twelve months, Mr. Ed ward Owen, a partner in the firm of Owen, Martens, and Co., deposed that the prisoner was in the service of the firm, when it existed under a different name, and left about 14 months ago. The body of the bill in question was in the pri soner's handwriting, as well as the signature ; but the acceptance was not in the handwriting of wit ness, or of any other member of the firm. He did not authorise the prisoner to accept the bill. On receiving the usual caution from the bench, the prisoner said he had nothing to say. Alderman Rose committed him to Nowgate for LAMBETH.—MURDER. OF A WlFE.—Henry King, described on the police-sheet as being a car penter, was charged with cutting and wounding a female, named Sarah Ann Day, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. The woman was stated to be so seriously injured as to be wholly unable to attend to give evidence. Charles Cooke, 168 L, deposed that on the pre ceding afternoon he was visiting a friend at No. 75, Tower-street, Westminster-road, when the pri soner came in and stood on the threshold of the par lour in which the prosecutrix, Sarah Ann Day, was sitting. The prisoner at that time had a ham mer, a chisel, end a screw-driver in his right hand, but he subsequently passed the hammer into his left hand. He remained in conversation with the pro secutrix for two or three minutes, when he sud denly stepped forward and struck her very violently on the lower part of the abdomen with the chisel and screw-driver. The prosecutrix gave a fearful shriek, and the witness sprang upon the prisoner to prevent him repeating the blow. The prisoner struggled with him and freed himself, and witness not then knowing the woman had been stabbed, allowed him to leave the house, which he did in a very hurried manner. Directly he had gone the prosecutrix told witness that she had been stabbed, and in consequence he went in pursuit of the prisoner, and found him at a neighbouring beer-shop, when he charged her with stabbing the woman, and took him into custody. The prisoner denied that he had even struck the woman, much less stabbed her. George Pike, L 95, proved that his attention having been called to the occurrence, he proceeded to the house and found the wounded woman lying on the floor in a fainting fit. He raised her up, and on her coming to herself she told him she had been stabbed, and he then observed blood coming through her clothes towards the lower portion of the stomach. On searching the room he found under her clothes the chisel now produced (a most formidable wea pon), and he afterwards discovered the hammer and screw-driver on the counter in the front shop. He had compared the chisel with the cuts in the clothes the prosecutrix was wearing, and had found them to correspond. A certificate from Mr. Donahoo, the surgeon, who was at once sent for, was handed to the magistrate, stating that there were two wounds, one on the hip, and the other on the abdomen, and that both were of a very dangerous character. The prisoner, when called on, denied that he had either struck or stabbed the prosecutrix, who, he alleged, was his wife. The injuries, if any, were entirely the result of accident. Mr. Elliott remanded the prisoner for a week. Just as the court was about to rise, Cooke, the constable in charge of the case, announced to the magistrate that the poor woman was dead. in answer to questions put by Mr. Elliott, The officer stated that the deceased was about 30 years of age, had been married to the prisoner, who, however, prosecuted her for bigamy, and had sub sequently induced her to live with him, but in con sequence of his habitual ill-usage and brutality to • wards her she had left him. The prisoner had several times essayed to induce her to return to him, and had renewed his efforts in that respect, when, on her continuing her refusal, he made the attack upon her which has proved fatal. WANDSWORTH.—DARING PLATE ROBBERY. —PONY AND CART THIEVES AGAlN.—Three young men who gave the names of George Fenwick, a clerk, George Wood, .a labourer, an d J ames May, a hawker, were placed in the dock before Mr. Day man, charged with being concerned in stealing a quantity of valuable plate from the residence of the Rev. James Gillman, of No. 6, Wimbledon Park road. It appeared that about four o'clock on Monday afternoon last one of the female servants named Corbould placed several articles of silver upon a bed in the front dressing -room on the second floor for a short time before putting away the plate that was not wanted for use. As she came down stairs about ten minutes afterwards she heard the silver rattle on the bed, and she called out to know who was in the room, but she received no answer. She then tried to open the door, but found it fastened in the inside. Assistance was obtained, and it was found that the window of the room was open. An entrance to the room was effected by means of a ladder, and the door was opened. The servant then missed all the plate with the exception of a silver waiter, which appeared to have been left behind in a hurry. She also found the bedroom adjoining had been en tered, and drawers opened, in which two jewel boxes were placed. They were broken open, and an empty watchcase left on the table ; but it could not be ascertained at present whether any jewellery had been taken, as the young lady, the owner, was abroad. The door of the bedroom was also fastened in the inside. The servant at the time saw a pony and cart standing on the opposite side of the read. One man was sittin4 in the cart and another was feeding the Pony. A boy named Angel identified the three pri soners, and stated that he saw Wood come out of the Rev. Mr. Gillman's house with something red in his hand, and he got into the cart and they all drove away as fast as they could. Two police. con stables of the N division saw them drive up to Hoxton-square. Two of the prisoners got out of the cart and entered a coffee-house, and the other drove the pony and cart away. The suspicions of the police were aroused by seeing the two prisoners come out shortly afterwards with an alteration in their.dress. They were not then taken into custod y , but when they were they denied a ll knowledge ofw the robbery and the pony and cart, prionlo/4 xvizAndtol THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A FEMALE IN HAAT-COURT, HOLBORN-. Yesterday afternoon. the inquiry touching the death of Sarah Chan dler, who on Monday night was found in the pi3.:3sage of the house, 12, Hand court, was resumed and concluded before Dr. Lan kester, at the Queel I's Arms, Red Lion-passage, Holborn, when additional evidence was adduced. The additional evi, deuce went to show that a short time previous to i'eaching her home deceased was at Messrs. Meekinw and Co.'s, Holborn, where she called to ask the price of some blankets, and where she was seen t o count her money, which five consisted of two sovereigns, a half sovereign, half-crowns, and some halfpence. She went home, and after bei: l g found, as has been already -', described, she was take r t u p stai rs to her room. Whe n searched next morning by her husband on ly 2 d. and a watch were found i a her possession. t It further appeared front the evidence of a lodger named Elizabeth Perkins, that when the deceased was found in the passage her head was lying near a large stone, which was used to keep the street door open, and that it was possible her head might come in collision with this stone. After this evidence, Mr. Valpy, in answer to the coroner, said that it was not possible for the injury to have been inflicted by a fall. The Coroner having expressed a similar opinion, and having minutely summed up the evidence, The jury returned a verdict that the deceased died from effusion of blood on the brain, caused by the fracture of the base of the skull, but how or by what means she came by the fracture there was not sufficient evidence to show. FATAL SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT. Yesterday Dr. Lankester, the coroner for Central Middlesex, held an inquest at the Silver Cup, Cromer-street, Gray's.inn-road, touching the death of Wm. Osmond, aged 59, a builder, of 7, Chapel street, Pentonville. Mrs. E. A. Osmond, the wife of deceased, identified the body, and attributed the cause of her bereave ment to the neglect of duty by two of her workmen in the insecure ereotion of scaffold. Charles Angell, cabinetmaker, in deceased's em ploy, deposed that he and Mr. Osmond were at work at 11, James-street, Pentonville, on Tuesday last. Shortly after three p.m. he left deceased on the scaffold, to go into the house, and when he had got inside the door he suddenly heard the scaffold fall with a loud crash. He ran out, got deceased out from under the debris of the seaffold, and re moved him to the hospital in a much injured condi tion. He could only account for the falling of the scaffold by the centre putlog giving way from fall ing out of the wall. The two labourers charged with neglect had struck the top part of the scaffold by order of deceased that day. Workmen had used the scaffold with safety from last Monday week almost up to the time of the occurrence_ John Moynahan, 13, James-street, a labourer in Mr. Osmond's service, stated that he was putting up another scaffold at 14, James-street, on Tuesday, and being in want of a ledger deceased ordered him to take the brace away from the scaffold that fell. That brace was the main thing to keep the scaffold safe. He believed that removal caused the accident; but witness was compelled to remove it by deceased's express orders. He denied any culpability, and was supported in his denial by other evidence. It was further shown that that was the cause of the lamentable accident, and a verdict was recorded of accidental death. COUNTRY 211ARKL1S. V--------• LIVERPOOL-SETT. 19. Our market to-day was fairly attended, and trade was dull ; prices of wheat gave way 2d per lb. Colonial quiet, and 6d per barrel lower. Indian corn in limited demand at firmer prices. WAKEFIELD-SEPT. 19. The wheat trade was extremely slow, and new samples 2s to 3s and old is to 2s per qr lower. Now barley is to 2s cheaper. New oats also lower. STAMFORD-SEPT. 19. New wheat, 55s to 60s—old, 60s to 63s per 36 stone. Barley, 30s to 42s per qr. Oats, 22s to 2Ga per 24 stone. Beans, 42s to 44s per qr. EXETER—SEPT. 19. Very little alteration in late quotations. Wheat, white.. 7s 3d to 7s Gd I Barley. 4s Od to 4s 61 Ditto red. .6s Gd to 6s 9d Oats .........3s Od to 3s 6.1 Flour, fine, 398 to 40s ; seconds, 37s to 38s per sack. CATTLE. The supply of all descriptions of stock this morning wag limited. Fat beef, p Sc,, 10s0d to 10sGd Ewes, per lb .... 7d to 70 Pork carcases, 8s Od to 9s Gd Wethers, d 0....., 6idt o ad Lamb, p 1b....... 71-d to 8d Fat calves, d0,,.6d to --LI • Rough fat, 34d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR-SEPT. 19. Tho market has been very quiet this week, buyers show' ing some disinclination to meet importers' prices. The 5510 1 have been chiefly confined to a cargo of brown Trinidad to refit:ere. Refiners' produce has been also quiet, the demand being less brisk, but late rates are well s u pp or t e d. Rum-- Some rather large imports this week at about late prices. COAL .RIVET. (Prices of Coal per Ton a' the close of the market. s. d. Wylam 15 9 Carway and Duffryn Malting Do. Anthracite 21 6 Holywell ..15 9 Walker Primrose 12 6 Eden Main 16 6 Hastings Hartley l6 0 Tanfield Moor l3 0 Tantield Moor Butes 13 0 Bower's West Har tleyl6 0 Cowpen Hartley l6 0 Byass's Bebside West Hartley .16 0 West Hartley 16 0 Craighead Steam 14 6 Howland and Elsecar Steam l5 0 Ships at market S. d. Walla End. Kelloe .. l7 3 South Kelloe l7 0 Hartlepool 17 6 South H ar tlepool 16 6 Hetton •• lB 0 Cassop Heugh Hall 16 9 Framwellgate Stewart's ............17 A " 6 Haswell .............. 1S ry, Braddyll's Hett on 16 S.Durham 16 6 Byron l6 9 ,, Belmont „ ~., l6 .2 Russel's Hetton 16 „ 9 Whitworth l5 u )t, 57; sold, 36. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. AuKralia and Mauritius, via Southampton....... Sept. IS. via Marseilles .........Oct. 13. clrazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Oct. 4 , Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Oct. 2. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Sept. I „°' via Marseilles ...Sept. 21 ' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 1 „° via Marseilles Sept. 27• India (Bombay), via Southampton Sept. ---; via Marseilles Sept. 2 0 ' Lisbon Oct. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. ---' via Marseilles Sept. 23 ; Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo . Sept. ---; U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... S e pt. 20. by U.S. packet... ly Canadian packet. Sept. 19 • W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and elltneriffe Sept. --" Bahamas, via New York Sept. 23 ' Mexico ....Sept. 29. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, } Sept. 29. California, and British Columbia.. BIRTHS. ASKEW.—On the 18th inst., at Montague House, ITPPe t Sydenham, the wife of the Rev. J. Askew, of a 0 11 and heir. BADEN.—On the 19th inst., at St. Paul's-road, HighburYl Mrs. Edmund Baden, of a son. WISDEN.—On the 18th inst., at 12, Lilwood-place, Brie' ton, the wife of Capt. Wisden, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. llmi.NuLowEit—CnoTn-Ens.—On the 18th i ns t., a t al parish church, Brighton, Jethro Hornblower, Esq., ° N s a o r r a f h olk p - a s v q i u s a , r t e h , e H y y o d u en;aszt •k daughter of the l a t e Wilgay,, and Mark-l ane, L on d on , t° Crothers, Esq., of Mobile, Alabama. MORRISON_NORMANDY—On the 18th inst., at St. John . Y Church, Clapham - rise,W. T. The city, T t o o r r L a o c u e, ise li o e n n l n y in d g a t t o ig jn e ar r k, a° - Morrison, eld es t so n of Iv r i of P r ' Normandy, Odin Lodge, Clapham -park., F M e o n r c r h i s u o r n cli - E s t s re l et , " DEATHS. ALvEs.—On the 18th inst., at King-street, St. J a mes th Major-General John Alves, aged 75. -6 of ASHTON.—On the 18th inst., at Canonbury, Mary, wife pa Mr. George J osep h Ashto, of 11, Mark-lane, city, ag - 39. BAUMANN.—On the 15th inst. at St. Gallen, Switzer.'land, land, Juli us B aumann, aged 6'3. COOKE.—On the 15th inst., at his residence, Dorking' Surrey, Philip C oo k e , Esq., aged 73. DuNLor.—On the Bth inst., at Rotterdam, Major-Gen' W. Wallace Dunlop, Madras Army. GILLOTT.—On the 18th inst., at 3 6, Strand, Mr. Ge orge Gillett, aged 63. Willia m Phillips, Esq., aged 33. PHILLIPS.—On the 19 th inst., at Kingston-on-Thal:l3°6 Lortuux : Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLL'' of N 0 .11 2, S trand, Print er , at THE SUN Of f ice N o. 110 1 St r and, in the Precinct of the Savoy, i n the,SountY ini)tember.,29, OOP A rTHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, - SEPTEIVIBER 20, 1862.