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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. DAY. --Morning, 4h. 48m. — Afternoon , Sh. 2m. THIS TO-HORROW.-Mon_ We have now the official interpretation of the President's recent proclamation. Mr. SEWARD himself has furnished us with it. lie has made it the subject of a circular addressed to all the diplo matic and consular representatives of the United States in Europe—that is, to all the courts and nations of Europe. Our readers perused it on Saturday, and they have seen, therefore, that our recent comments on the proclamation are declared to be just and fair by the American Chief Secre tary himself. According to him it is not a procla mation based on any principle, not one which re cognises negro rights and offers to redress negro wrongs. " All the good and wise men of all countries," he says, " will recognise this measure as a just and wise military act, intended to deliver the country from a terrible civil war." We do not quarrel with this so far as it goes. We have, from the beginning, told the Federals that they never could conquer except through justice to the negro. We have scouted the pro-slavery cant of certain journals in this country, which have en deavoured to confound emancipation with a bloody servile war. We have asserted, fearless cf con tradiction, that neither our own experience in Jamaica, nor the dictates of common sense, could teach us that to bless the enslaved with liberty was the way to make them murderers, but we have not like Messrs. SEWARD and LIN COLN represented Emancipation as a purely " military measure." We have shown that it was something far better ; that it was a great duty, one which this country paid £20,000,000 rather than not perform ; but one worth more than ten times that sum to the United States in what it would save of the cost of the war. We have always represented the bloody rebellion of the South against the decision of the election into which they entered, as releasing the PRESIDENT from the technical slavery clauses of the constitu tion, and as legally authorising him to abolish the evil which morality and Christianity had long ago denounced as treason against the human race. We now see Mr. LINCOLN and Mr. SEWARD'S view of the posture of affairs. On the 22d of Sep tember, five days after the bloody battle of Antie tam Creek, when the combined losses, according to , M'CLELLAN, amounted to very nearly forty-five thousand men, the President and his Secretary take a most hopeful view of the Northern cause, and re gard the proclamation as the weapon which is to complete their triumph. True, the North must do something more than issue proclamations. They can have i loeffeet beyond the reach of Federal guns. Still v 4e representation is, that the Confederate aggressive movement is checked, while the Federal troops a re re sources reanimated ; the Southern "financial declinere isp idly," while " the financial posi tion of the North good ;" the Southern " means I of raising tr oop are exhausted," while in the North " the call for fresh responded to." th: troops is being promptly Position of things the Pre sident ploys his last card, lie places plainly before the people of America, th a t ‘ if these states persist in imposing on the country, the choice b e tween the dissolution of the Government a slavery, it is the Union and not the abolition of i be maintained and saved." sl avery that must It was thought by many, at first, that th e pro. ear l clan.ation was much mor e in t en ded for for • than for home use. The forwarding of this circular to Europe looks like it. If so, however, Mr. s Ewmtb ought to have been aware that treating emancipa tion as merely a just "military measure" was not exactly the way to commend his cau,se to tha sym pathies of Europe. We should rejoiee, indeed, to see American slavery blotted out as the result of the war, but to make military success the sole rea son for the proposal, is to deprive it of all its merit here; we may think it selfish wisdom, but we can not commend Mr.. SEWARD except as " the LORD commended the u vjust Steward." The Secretary expects us to recognise the " moderation and the magnaninzity" with which his Government has proceeded in so important a matter ; we must rather think it has proceeded with vacil lation and pusillanimity. It has now ad vanced a step, now retreated, according as it feared public opinion in the North and in the Border States ; and now, if we understand Mr. LINCOLN himself aright, he hardly knows whether he will stick to his ninety days' conditional emanci pation or not. The Border States press denounce it, the Democrats in the Free States join them, the Re publicans praise it—and they are, it is believed, as yet, the dominant party. The elections impend in November, and it will then be seen how far the ballot-box will sustain the PRESIDENT'S policy. Looking at the intelligence up to the 22d, which arrived by the Arabia, it gives not the slightest in dication of any military change of importance. All is petty work indeed, compared with that in which both parties have lately been engaged. In Ken tucky the Federals retreat under MORGAN, and advance under BUELL. Near New Orleans the Federals are repulsed in an attack on Pontchatoula; on the Potomac, LEE and INPCLELLAN make mys- terious movements—and heavy firing is heard at Leesburg—all of which is not equivalent to a single move of importance. Political action seems to be more vehement. The Republi can and Democratic parties are making vry vigo rous efforts, which looks as if the latter were re covering from its defeats of the last few years. Perhaps M'CLELLAN'S success, who belongs to their party, may have given them fresh hope. In regard to any prospects of peace they seem small, indeed if we may trust writers and speeches on either side The Republican candidate for New York, Genera NtrA l / 4 :32wQxv °mu, deularco 1140. t— cc Thv 110puL11.3., _arty intend to hold the country together at what ever cost of life-blood and suffering, and to devas tate the country if necessary, but not to survive its dismemberment." On the other side the Richmond Despatch says that " the only way the war can end is by the exhaustion of the North or by the extermination of the South." Neither party, indeed, so far as we can see, shows the slightest inclination to yield anything, for the proposal of one man in the Confederate Congress to offer negotiation to the North seems to find no favour with his own friends. It seems to be the feeling of both North and South that the battle must be thoroughly fought out. While the American Republic is being effectually disintegrated—the Confederation established, not yet a century ago (to all appearance permanently) by WASHINGTON, FRANKLIN, and JEFFERSON, already breaking up into two, or it may be even tually into three, Independent Democracies—several among the old powers of Europe are, en the con trary, at this very epoch in the History of the World, consolidating visibly, several of them even rapidly, into simpler and more important Nation alities. Among these Italy stands forth at this moment, of course, conspicuously. There, the guid ing principle—literally the " rallying" cry—is avowedly Unification. Now a kingdom, now a principality, now a province, disappears altogether from the Map of Europe. They are heard of no more in their separate capacities. In that respect their annals are altogether of the past. It has been thus with Naples, with Tuscany, with Lombardy, with all the minor principalities. They are lost sight of, as powers apart from each other. They run together like separate beads of quick silver, brought suddenly into contact, and thence forth become massed together in One. They become ' parts of a whole no longer to be divided and sub divided. It is not so much that Piedmont and Lombardy and Tuscany, and Modena, and Parma, and the Two Sicilies, are bound together around that sceptre of Savoy—or rather, because of certain un- toward recollections associated with the name o: Savoy, about the sceptre of Sardinia, (a peaceful symbol no longer but a keen-edged and formidable battle axe) —for all the world like the rods of em pire about the Lictor's hatchet constituting the powerful Fasces of ancient Rome ! It is not so much, we say, that events have developed of late after this fashion, as that Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Naples, and the rest, have become lust, and merged, and fused together, in the furnace of the War of Independence, until they are no longer known apart but together as the Kingdom of Italy ! What has been occurring thus rapidly, and con spicuously, and altogether undeniably, in regard to the unification of the Italian Kingdoms and Princi palities, is simultaneously taking place, more slowly but not less surely, elsewhere among certain other groups of the Powers of Christendom. Few, even among the more captious and incredulous, will be disposed, we believe, seriously to deny this. It is a matter of notoriety that it is as we are stating, that it has for a long while past been as we are stating—thus—in reference to the consolidation here of a Teutonic, there of an Iberian, yonder of a Scandinavian Empire. France and England are, all this while, watching with silent but eager interest the growth of these great movements. Russia is doing the like afar off. Austria is painfully conscious meantime that she herself is likely to prove one of the principal Victims rather than one of even the the minor Victors in this readjustment of nationali ties. Already the KAISER has, within rather dis tressful, certainly within very vivid, remembrance, how abruptly, in the southern part of his dominions the fairest province of his empire was lopped off in the instance of Lom bardy. He knows for certain that his grasp upon Venetia is no longer one o f secu rity—but rather n absolute desperation. Th ere, sout h o f t h e o eof Carpathians, north of the Adriatic— The good old rule the simple plan," is again revived in all its barbarous force, viz., as even our Arcadian WORDSWORTH sings_. " That he shall take who hath the power, And ho shall keep who can !" Austria, still maintaining her costly and enor mous garrisons in the Quadrilateral—ltaly only watches keenly and vigilantly for the first oppor tunity to rush in and tear from the clutch of the German, both the Quadrilateral and Venetia. France, all the while, as we have said, is observant of these occurrences—as England i s ..—as Russia is, for that matter, from a distance ! But France, "wisely in her generation," or foolishly, as it may prove in the end (who shall say ?)—looks on, as the wheel turns, as the ball rolls, not altogether disin terestedly. The Italian Unification, so far as it has yet succeeded, has already yielded her Savoy and Nice ! Itg completion, she yet hopes in her secret heart, may leave her in possession of the magnifi cent island of Sardinia, the second of the larger islands in the Mediterranean. " Material guaran tees" these —Savoy and Nice, we venture to repeat, being already actually secured as such, substantially, \ within her possession—" material guaran tees" that in the new Balc.nce of Power in process of adjustment, Frau— s, (as effectually OS NAPOLEON 111. can ensure such a result by his policy), shall retain all her old ! preponder tne • Cherishing the same rett (that is of continental Eur o p e. aspiration, she looks that is France), he :o l :k t s he ( advantage to be won to Galli c power inevitable) ow eii c APOLEON), for a solid or rather we may say p a t t he th e e ven d t a — te 7 confidently (for the event is, sooner or later, ..,...... _- ~,....9.;,7+ ,_,,,, se .. , A , o •a•. . mA z • , ,T 47 10. t\'•••, \ • . S . "k • v L. ' ' `.. i• ' 7 7 0' t : 4- 1 ; "' " i i 4-. 7 ,. ... ',V" . DIE l' k - THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 13, 1862. THE SUN, LONDON . MONDAY EvE XING, OCTOBER 13, 1862. of the realisation by the Teutonic people of the long-pondered day-dream of German Unification. There France looks—and even England will be disposed to say not quite unreasonably—for the ac quisition of the Rhenish Provinces. The game is afoot, however, not alone in Italy and in Germany—. where Prussia occupies the advanced position assumed so very successfully in Italy by Piedmont—but far to the north and far to the south, among the Iberians and among the Scandinavians. Unification there, also, in each of those directions, is the "rallying" cry, the one potent watchword. And before the shaken Balance of Power in Europe can be again and securely adjusted —we may rest assured that it is in each instance a watchword that will be answered decisively enough, and in accordance with the spirit of the age that is witnessing the revival and rehabi tation of the Great Italian and the Great Germanic Nationalities. The Northern ambition is, as is well known, the blending together, in one powerful Scandinavian Empire, of Sweden and Norway and Denmark, under one name and under one Govern ment. The Southern ambition is the blending into a single Power of the twin Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal, the substitution of the two sovereignties there (that of the Bourbon and that of the Braganza) of one sovereignty alone, placing the sceptre thenceforth in the hand of a constitu tional monarch whose rule should extend over the whole Iberian peninsula. Towards the realisation of all these day-dreams, events are at this moment steadily and surely tending. The cause of Unification prospers visibly in Italy, and appreciably in Germany : but it prospers morally also both among the Iberians and among the Scandinavians. In each of these latter in stances the cause referred to will doubtless be materially aided in its prosperous deve lopment, by two rather significant and im portant marriage alliances. The alliance already accomplished between the dynasties of Italy and Portugal ! And that other alliance, arranged to take place not later than next year, between the reigning houses of England and of Denmark ! While the interests of the Solidarity of Nations may be recognised-as prospering, thus, effectually, who will not hope and pray, what lover of humanity, what champion of liberty will not trust devoutly and earnestly from his heart, that Poland may at length discover the dawn of her ancient indepen dence, in the awakening energies of a Sclavonic Nationality, of a Sclavonic Unification ? Like the " Fathers " at Birkenhead, after the mischief is done, out comes Cardinal WISEMAN and cries to the POPE'S bludgeon men, " There, there, my lambs of the Vicar of CHRIST'S flock, be quiet now; show how gentle, meek, and forgiving you are." After three Sundays of shillelagh work are over, after English workmen have been prevented from freely and peacefully honouring a foreign hero, for honouring whom we must all honour them —after the holy bludgeons have gone their business, and we are all forbidden to open our mouths be cause it grieves the POPE'S Irish roughs—then, and not till then, the Arch Pharisee sends to all the papers a proclamation to show how good he and his are. Had the same thing been done prior to the first Sunday's papal bludgeon work in order to pre vent it —or, if we must suppose that such work was not anticipated, had the WISEMAN proclamation appeared the next Sunday—we should have gladly acknowledged its pacific and Christian character. The time of its appearance converts it into a mockery. The Cardinal and his " roughs" have got all they want ; they have induced the authorities — how wisely we will net again discuss—to surrender the liberty of the working men of London to their violence, and now they hold forth at length on the virtues of meekness, gentleness, and forgiveness." Admirable are some of the lessons which the Cardinal now reads to his beloved flock, for they are founded on the example of our LORD himself. His examp'.e, however, occupies but a small space compared with that of the "Dear Pontiff" himself, " the Vicar of CHRIST on earth," and therefore so much nearer them. Whose—the Vicar's—cause is " the cause of justice, of truth, of virtue, of religion, of GOD himself." Hence, and if the premises are are sound, the conclusion must be so—" bludgeons, and blows, and tumult are not the means by which such a cause is to be enforced, or even defended." It would " afflict our sovereign Pontiff's tender heart to hear of his cherished Irish children sup porting his sacred cause by such violence." Italians will be apt to think that the Pontiff, whose heart exulted in the bloody butcheries at Perugia, and who protects brigands to murder, burn, and destroy in the South, and whose meekness boils over in anathemas, against all Catholics who think the " Vicar" ought to imitate his professed chief in regard to temporal kingdoms, is not exactly a model on earth of his Heavenly Master's unworld liness and meekness. Italians also will differ from the Cardinal respect ing the " cause "of the Pontiff. They think it the cause of " injustice, of falsehood, of vice, of Satan himself," and very naturally, the latter being the personage who offered CHRIST all the Kingdoms of this world, kingdoms which, from that time till he stood before PILATE, he persisted in reject ing. Indeed Cardinal WISEMAN ought to know that the Italians, who must know much more than he does about the matter, consider the POPE to be sueh a temporal tyrant, and his cause—that of tem poral rule we mean—to be so utterly bad, that nothing but French bayonets compel them to en dure it. The English nation, in fact, does but take the part of Italian Catholics against Irish Catholics —of the Catholics who feel the Papal scourge, against those who only look on and laugh at it—of emancipation for the Romans, against those who, as Cardinal WISEMAN himself owns, have gained political emancipation for themselves, but now re fuse it to their fellow Catholics at Rome. Happily the skies were poliee sufficient yesterday, otherwise there appears io have been some who took the Car dinal's proclamation in the same sense as we have known a set of rogues to do when pointed to another rogue, with the emphatic exclamation—" Now, don't pump on him." thTeihre N l i a a n h d t o P r d o s a h a i n r bße ill n f i o n r g c e d t o ao learn e t n h t a l y t through the House at the end of a session, does not quite commend itself to the minds of their tenant farmers. They have heard of it in several ways and places already, but the crack game county, Norfolk, and in the very centre of a district of game preservers, has just given lesson. It was at the North Waisham Agricul tural Association where this unheard of outbreak of tenant-farmer independence took place. CHARLES BUXTON, Esq., M.P., had frankly said :—" Admiral WODEIIOUSE had said that there ought at this meeting to be some discussion on agricultural sub jects. He thought so too, and that they ought also to discuss freely any question in which as farmers they were interested. Why should not they, for instance, take up the question of leases, a n d even the question of the preservation of game. H e was sure that as a small landlord and as a game preserver, nothing would give him greater pleasure than to hear any tenant of his get up and speak his feelings and opinions plainly, for he thought there was generally too much reticence upon such matters, and that it would be better for all parties if those who held one set of opinions were to speak out with manly frankness, while the others listened with due candour and respect." The first symptom of the liberty which Mr. BUX TON proffered was shown when Mr. HOWES, one of the county members, rose to speak. He had the im pudence to advert to the subject of game, to con demn the opposition to the Night Poaching Bill, and enumerate among his merits that he had voted for it—an announcement which called for general and loud hissing, intermingled with a few timid landlord cheers. He tried to back out by saying that Norfolk did not want it—which was a signal for renewed hissing, it being evident that he was getting ashamed of himself. He then endeavoured to assure them that it should not increase the county rates, which of course the farmers could not believe, well knowing that the landlords would in no long time have a staff of police gamekeepers, for whom the county must pay. Mr. HOWES, we fancy, will not venture to address the farm tenants of his constituency again on the subject of Game and Night Poaching Bills. For some time after this all went on as quietly as if Mr. BUXTON had not proclaimed the liberty of tongue. At length it came to the turn of a highly respectable farmer, who had been one of the judges, and was toasted with them to return thanks. Mr. C. S. READ, for that was his name, after remarks on the cattle and horses, alluding to Mr. BUXTON'S invitation, added a few words on another subject. " Tenant farmers have been re quested to speak out their minds to-day. Weil, 1 am a tenant farmer, and as no other tenant farmer has said anything on the things which are taking place around us, I will venture to do so. It is customary for tenant farmers to be patted on their backs and be told that they are a very enterprising and enthusiastic body of people, that they are a very independent and a very improving set of fel lows. The great and noble of the land tell us this, and I suppose we are in the habit of believing them, but I would remind you that in private life we always value a friend, not for the compliments he pays us, but for the good he does us ; and yet here are these great nobles and agricultural M.P.'s go ing to Parliament and saying in effect to us, You are such an intelligent set of men that you are no longer capable of managing your roads, and there fore we will do it for you. You are so independent, and have shown your independence so long, in feed ing your landlord's game, that now we have made up our minds that you shall also pay for its pre servation.' " On which the Norfolk News, from which we quote, remarks :—" The boldness of the speaker in giving utterance to such sentiments in the presence of such company seemed to take the whole party by surprise, and while some were silent, the larger proportion gave expression to their gratification with the most vehement ap plause, which was repeated again and again amid shouts of Go on !" Go on !" Let's have some more of that.' Mr. READ, however, simply added, I have nothing more to say except this, God pre serve us from our so-called friends !' which was, of course, the signal for renewed and enthusiastic cheering." Poor Mr. HOWES, utterly dumbfounded, rose again, but only to find that he could say nothing. He proposed a toast, poor man, but was obliged to defer his answer to the observations of the last speaker till another time. " Why not now ?" re sounded through the room. Alas ! there was a reason he did not like to utter—the mind of the legislator had become a perfect blank. THE CABINET COUNCIL.—There will be a Cabinet. Council in Downing-street on Thursday, the 23d inst. This is rather earlier than usual, and a long notice has been given for the convenience of those Ministers who are at a distance. Conjectures are rife about the subjects to be dis cussed. The Observer says that the American difficulty is the most likely to engage the public attention, and to be assigned as the pregnant source of Ministerial anxiety. Shortly after the 10th of November the Queen will arrive at Windsor Castle, where her Majesty will re main until the expiration of the twelve months from the death of the 1' rine() Consort, and will probably spend the Christmas at the Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have arrived at Drummond Castle, Perthshire, on a visit to Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby, from Dunrobin Castle. The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford have loft town for Curraghmore. The late Archbishop of Ar magh has bequeathed his residence in Charles. street to the marquis. _ The Marquis of Hastings has arrived at Long's The Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford left town on Thursday last for Madeira, where her ladyship purposes to pass the winter. Major-General W. F. Hamilton, K.C.8., late of the Grenadier Guards, has bean appointed Vice-President of the Council of Military Education, in the place of Lieu tenant-General Knollys, Comptroller of his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales's household. General Hamilton served with his regiment through the Crimean war, and was presen', - , at the battles of the Alma and Inkerman, where he was severely wounded. TERRIFIC CONFLAGRATION AT TROWBRIDGE.— Intelligence reached Bristol on Saturday afternoon of a terrible cunflagration having occurred at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, by which a vast amount of property has been destroyed, and, which is worse, as many as a thousand per sons will be thrown out of employment. The fire broke out at about 3 o'clock, upon the premises of Messrs. Goldsmith and Haywood's cloth manufactory, which is better known in the town as Salter's factory. It was discovered by a workman at a factory situated at a short distance from it, and must have gained some head before he observed it, as before an alarm could be properly given the large building was wrapped in a mass of flames. As soon as the fact of the fire became known in the town the inhabitants hastened to render assistance, and the engines from the various facto• ries were rapidly taken to the spot. The fire raged with such fierceness that it was soon found that the hopes of saving the factory were very slight, and the efforts of those en gaged were then directed to saving the surrounding pro perty. These exeetions unhappily proved unsuccessful, and a great number of houses, principally cottages located in the immediate neighbourhood of the factory, were likewise de troyed. As may be supposed the greatest consternation was caused by the sad catastrophe throughout the town, and the dwellers in the neighbouring houses, and many, too, residing at greater distances, set to work removing their furniture in the fear of an extension of the mischief. The origin of the fire is a mystery, and it is difficult at this early period to estimate with any certair.ty the money loss. It must be many thousands, The suffering that will re suit to the operatives of the place at a period falling so closely o- - 1 the severities of winter can hardly be over - estimated. SUICIDE AND DARING ATTEMPT AT RESCUE. — Yesterday morning a young woman, named Brooks, who resided in Harrow-court, near Doctor's-commons, was out with a young man with whom she kept company. They went down the gangway to St. Paul's-wharf, where some altercation took place, and the female, after ejaculating something, plunged head foremost into the river. Her companion, seeing her clothes buoyed her up in the water, in the most intrepid manner jumped into the river in hopes of saving her, but without effect, and all trace of the body was quickly lost. The man had an exceedingly narrow escape, and at first it was doubtful whether he would recover. ndur a de t --- • -- • SUICIDE BY POISON.--This morning a man living near Bennett's-hill took a large quantity of pois on, and was found in a state of great suffering. He was rem oved to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, but died on the road. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE ATBLACKFRIARS BR IDGE.— Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, a man nam ed George Drew, of 12, Bear-alley, Farringdon-street, whils t standin g on Blackfriars-bridge, noticed a respectably-dresse d female rush down the steps of the bridge and plunge i n n g t a o h water. Drew ran after her, and succeeded in rescuin g her, and with assistance brought her ashore, and thereb y i in st e t rn his e s n a e venedl ihv ilwayeeinr g life w . ithThhoerusnisfoterrtuantatroimfelmicaa,le, it appears, had to attempt the rash act through being, asandslighted by a man to whom she was engaged to sl b aes e married Ra g alleged, e c in Essex, MR. MitW. F. WINDHAM,—This in H d e iv h id as ual has been at Norwich since his liberation f rom t he tender mercies of 111 r.. Dayman. On Saturday evenin g he w as at the No rw , , i , c l h a r king (Thorpe ,, w ) i t h terminus in e l , a t n h d e s c O r e r eat E peculiar fashion, "Cheer, boys, chee r 1 " hankering after railway stations, omnibuses, &o.; and the other evening he was so obstreperous that it was found necessary to order him off the platform at Norwich. At this he declared roundly that it was exceedingly ungrateful treatment after all he had done for the Company In his capacity of amateur stoker, guard) Ico. LATEST NEWS. INDIA. (BY TELEGRAPH FROM SUEZ.) BOMBAY, SEPT. 27. A public meeting has been held in this city, under the presidency of the Governor, in aid of the Lan cashire Relief Fund. £15,000 was subscribed on he spot. An address of confidence in Mr. Laing has been adopted at a public meeting in Calcutta. Rain has fallen plentifully in the Deccan, and ,here is now no fear of a famine. According to news received here, Herat has been ,nvested on all sides by Dost Mohamed. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Shirtings and mule twist advancing. Cotton market dull. Mawa opium firm. Exchange on London, 2s. ON. Government securities.—Four per Cents., 941; Five per Cents., 1041; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1121, Freight, 5 7-6. (By Telegraph to Bombay.) CALCUTTA, SEPT. 25. Snirtings and mule twist advancing. Copper and rice quiet. Exchange on London, 2s. Old. Government Securities—Five per Cents., 1044. Freights higher. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 13. The royal mail steamer Atrato, with the above h.. ...rived here. She brings 54 passengers, 756,618 dols. in specie, and 1,214 packages of cargo. She left St. Thomas's on the 29th nit. Small-pox was raging at Curacoa and the adja cent places on the coast. The unfavourable condition of public finances in Chili had been made the subject of a message from the President to Congress. The election of San Romas as future President of Peru had been promulgated. The new Adminis tration would be installed on the 24th ult. The transactions connected with the loans from England t 3 Peru had met with universal discontent and reprobation, Congress had disapproved the negotiations, and ask the Executive to take mea sures for suspending all operations connected with the negotiation. Lima exchange, 41d. to 42d. Valparaiso exchange, 451 d. A severe tornado was experienced at Colon on the 16th ult., doing considerable damage. At Barbadoes the weather was hot, and yellow fever prevalent. Rain was wanted for the crops, which, however, looked well, and the prospects for next year were encouraging. Provisions continued dull. Exchange 90 days 4878 dole. _ At Demerara manufacturing operations were being carried on vigorously throughout the colony. Trade was stagnant, with no prospect of improve ment. Business continued dull at Jamaica. The picking of the coffee and pimento corps had been retarded by the rain. Sugar was reported to be exceedingly scarce. The coffee crop promised to be large. Sales 525. to 545. Pimento transactions at 12s. to 16s. Sugar sales of fair at 20s. ; dark, 17s. Rum, 22d. to 27d ; proof, 18d. in bond. Exchange.—Colonial and Jamaica Banks, 90 days, 1 per cent. BERLIN, OCT: 11. In the Upper House to day the vote upon the proposition of the Committee on the Budget was taken by calling over names. The proposition was rejected by 127 to 39. The Budget, as ameocied by the Chamber of De puties, was also rejected by 150 to 17, the Ministers voting with the majority. The second portion of Herr von Arnim-Boitzen burg's amendment, referring to the re-establish ment of the budget as submitted by the Govern ment, was carried by 114 to 44. The Ministers were not present during this vote, and eight mem bers abstained from voting. OCT. 12. The various parties of the Chamber of Deputies, except the Conservatives, held a meeting to-day in their usual place of assembly to consult upon the course rendered necessary by the resolution passed yesterday by the Upper House. Count Schwerin presided. Drs. Simson and Gneist proposed a resolution declaring the vote of the Upper House void, and stating their reasons for that conclusion. The party following the leadership of Baron von Vincke and the Centre were only desirous of taking steps in the event of the vote arrived at by the Upper House being officially notified to the Chamber, but the majority wished to adopt mea- sures in any case. Dr. Gneist considered that the Government was in duty bound to present a new Budget. The meeting separated without coming to a deci sion. The different parties will acquaint each other this evening with the resolutions at which they have arrived. The official notification of yesterday's vote of the Upper House was made to the President of the Chamber of Deputies after the conclusion of the meeting. The next sitting of the Chamber is appointed to take place to-morrow forenoon. PARIS, OCT. 11 (Evening). La France of this evening states that the French Chambers will meet in the middle of January. The same journal says that Garibaldi has an nounced to an English deputation that he has not relinquished any of his projects, and that he is pre paring a manifesto containing important and irre futable revelations. TURIN, OCT. 11, 'EVENING. , . The Minister of Finance has published the Budget for 1863, which contains the following items : F. C. Ordinary expenditure 763,343,296 24 Extraordinary ditto 173,044,729 15 Diminution on the whole ex penditure 38,950,073 49 Ordinary revenue 549,355,244 0 against 1862 Increase, 30,207,470 33 Extraordinary revenue 65,456,408 0 Deficit ........... 320575,773 0 30,359,581 81 agains t 1862 Diminution MEXICO. Respecting the reported death of Gen. Zaragoza, La Presse publishes the following "A private despatch from : Vera Cruz announces that the rumour was generally accredited iu that city that General Zaragoza had been put to death by his own soldiers. The r umour requires confirma tion." ........•••• ..... FRANCE. BOURSE, October 11.—There have been a few eales for liquidation, but no very material down- ward effect has been produced. Threes for the Account, are now at 71 quiet. The market close Lit per Cents .. 98 75 Do end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 7l 85 New 3 per Cants Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 1200 [io. end m0nth....1207i Cash. Account. Orleans 1057 50 .. 1055 Northern .... 1042 60 .. 1042 50 New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1185 -- 1187 50 Geneva Southern BB5 .. 886 25 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lnwhard North of Spain Saragossa . 622 60 .. 625 Ditto to Barcelona 345 .. 347 50 AMERICA. Per Arabia by telegraph to Halifax and via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, OCT. 2, Morning. The excitement on the Stock Exchange yester day increased without the influence of either mili tary or political news. The market was very active, and closed buoyant at an advance of 1/ to 2 per cent. Advices from New Orleans report that a large number of people have taken the oath of allegiance to avoid the penalties of the Confiscation Act, which General Butler is rigidly going to enforce. The operations of the civil law have been resumed in New Orleans. The sheriff had opened six dis trict courts. The country below New Orleans is much troubled by Confederate marauding parties, and a provost-marshal has been appointed for both sides of the river. Twenty guerillas have surrendered themselves. The gunboat Iroquois has been sent to the mouth of Rio Grand... The British prize steamers Circassian, Memphis, Bermuda, Stettin, and Columbia are being fitted out as Federal cruisers. Mr. Simon Draper, of New York, has been ap pointed provost-master-general of the United States, The steamer Victoria, from Sabine Pass, and the steamer Cuba, from Mobile, have arrived at Havana with combined cargoes of 1,300 bales of cotton. The Confederate Congress has passed a new Con scription Act, to include all able-bodied men be tween the ages of 35 and 45. Southern reports state that an engagement occurred between the Federal gun-boat Santiago de Cuba and the Confederate steamer 290, in which the former was riddled with shot, and forced to retreat. The report, however, is not entirely credited. The New York, Herald asserts that Mr. Eli Thayer is appointed military governor of Florida, to carry out the scheme of introducing into the Southern States a loyal labouring population. The Government will equip from 10,000 to 20,000 six months' volunteers, and station them in the States to be thus influenced. Each volunteer will receive a homestead of public lands, and free trans portation for his family to the principal port of the State where they are located. It is intended by this means to infuse into the Southern States an industrious and loyal popula tion, in order to protect the Union men. _ It is supposed that the manufacturing and pro dugive districts of England can be made to contri bute to this emigration. The Federal War Department has determined upon the exchange of State prisoners with the rebel Government. _ _ Heavy Federal reinforcements are being sent to Hilton Head and along the shores of the Broad River. It is supposed this is preparatory to an attack upon Charleston. The steamer Vanderbilt is being converted into a man-of-war to carry 12 guns of heavy calibre. She, it is believed, will be the fastest vessel in the Federal service. The Confederate Congress have authorised the issue of 5,000,000 dols, in copper coin, of denomi nations of 5, 10, and 25 cents. A letter from Louisiana is published in the Pro vidence Journal, stating that the Confederate Go vernment intends to emancipate and arm at least 400,000 negroes, and use them against the Federal Government, with the determination to rule or ruin. The New Fork Times thinks that General M'Clel lan's report represents a tearful picture of life wasted in South Mountain and Antietam battles, and thinks the price paid was worth the capture or annihilation of the rebel army, and asks what officer, or what difficulties of country, or what combination of circumstances is to be held respon sible for this worst of bargains. The Albany Argus states that General M'Clellan has issued full reports of the battles in which he has been engaged, but that they have been sup pressed by the War Department. The Federal Post-office Department has issued a notice that any letter mailed with the stamps at all soiled or defaced will be treated as unpaid. The New York press generally strongly condemns the course of the Government in thus repudiating its own stamps. The New York Times says they have now no intrinsic value. They arenot a legal tender, nobody will redeem them, and they will not pay the postage. The public might as well take wooden buttons or pebble stones, for they would have as much value. The Mayor of New York vetoed on Sunday the resolutions of the Board of Aldermen, declaring that emancipation would be dangerous to the national welfare. These resolutions were passed previous to President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. The mayor in his veto strongly approves of the proclamation, and thinks it must give the death. blow to the rebellion. He also disapproves the proposal of the aldermen to create a new com mittee formed for the committee on Union national affairs and a number of delegates from each of the political committees of the city. The mayor thinks that a committee thus constituted would assume a partizan character, acting in sympathy with the views of that party with which the majority of its members would be identified, and would soon be come a strongly political rather than a patriotic committee. The Governor-General of Canada and the Lieu tenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, accompanied by , a large suite, have arrived at Chicago for the pur pose of a hunting excursion in the western prairies. THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.--The opening of this important line of railway will not now be delayed for more than a few days, end but for the small requirement of Col. Yolland, the Government inspector, it would have been opened for traffic this day. An alteration in the shape and size of the glass lamps of the signals has been consi dered necessary, and, with this exception, everything has been approved. The permanent way, the switches and points, the bridges and stations—all in fact that relates to the working of the line—h6ve been found satisfactory, and the contractors and officers of the company have been com plimented in the highest manner by the Government in spector for the admirable manner in which the works have been executed. The brickwork of the tunnel and the re taining wall has been highly praised, as also the construc tion of the bridges, and the station accommodation. The arrangements for working the line are completed, and the engines and carriages are all ready. Further trials have shown that the plan of consuming the smoke and steam by the locomotive engines has perfectly succeeded, and after a couple of engines had been running backwards and forwards during the whole day, no disagreeable effect arose from any of the products of combustion in the tunnel. It has been decided that the trains will start from Paddington and Far ringdon-street every 1 0 minu tes, from 8 in the morning till Bin the evening. FI o m 6to 8 o'cloc k in the m orning, and from 8 to 12 at night, the trains will run only every 20 minutes. Express trains will start every hour, running the whole distance from Paddington to Farringdon-street in 10 minutes. With these except i o ns all the trains will stop at the i n termediate sta tions, the time occu pied in the whole j o urney being 15 minutes. The lowest fare taken will be 2d., and this will be charged between a ny i n t erme di a t e station, and the lowest through fare will be 3d. There are three classes of carriages, first, second, and third ; all, how ever, equally well lighted by the gas carried with the train. The second -glass carriages are fitted with cushions, the third are light, spacious, and well ventilated, and the first i e o x : t e y e i d e i z cl l y a c t o t m in f g e , lab o l b la r t v i e d r, even luxurious in tahreeLogoem4r, SPORTING NOTES. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. The meeting commences to-day, but the events to be decided are of no great importance, unless the handicap over the Cesarewitch Course should throw some light over the great race of to-morrow. The following table will show, at a glance, the winners, starters, age, weight, and value of the stakes since its foundation as a race W INNERS OF THE CESAREWITCR. Year. Winner. Subs. Start. Age. St. lb. Soya. 18S9 Cruiskeen 1840 Clarion 1841 Iliona 1842 Arcanus 1843 Coranna 1844 Faugh-a-Ballagh 1845 The Baron 1846 Witt's End 45 31 3 6 2 1210 1847 Cawrouch (h b) 1848 The Cur 1849 L gerdemair 1850 Glauca 59 1851 Mrs Taft (h b) 73 1852 Weathergage 1853 Haco 77 1854 Muscovite 32 8 8 3 1455 31 3 5 7 1540 23 4 7 7 1340 26 6 6 0 1580 23 3 6 11 1385 31 3 5 12 1690 21 5 8 3 1245 1855 Mr. Sykes 1856 Vengeance .. 57 26 4 7 7 1340 1857 Prioresst. 1858 Rocket 75 35 3 6 4 1600 1859 Artless 93 35 3 5 2¢ 1870 1860 Duleibella 1861 Audrey 64 23 5 8 5 1315 * Inc. 101 b extra. t Inc. 31b extra. I Bred in America. She won after - a dead heat with El Hakim, 3 yrs, 6st 91b, and Queen Bess, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b. ¢ Carried sst 31b, and won after a dead heat with Gas pard, 3 yrs, bat 91b. It will thus be seen that during the 23 years six winners have come from the five-year-olds and upwards, seven from the fours, and ten from the three-year-old division. The following will as nearly as possible constitute the PROBABLE STARTERS AND JOCKEYS. HORSE. JOCKEY. Asteroid, 4 yrs, 9st 31b Wells. Audrey, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b .. Mr. W. Bevill. Knutsford, 4 yrs, Bst 31b Gardener. Umpire, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b .4kui °Rost, 4 po, 7ot 101 b Faultless, 5 yrs, 7st 9lb Chere Arnie, 5 yrs, 7st 71b Stradella, 4 yrs, 7st 71b H. Grimshaw. Corona, 5 yrs, 7st 51b .. -- Loiterer, 5 yrs, 7st 21b Bradley. Wingrave, 3 yrs, 7st llb .. J. Daley. Guiding Star, 4 yrs, 7st Coronet, 5 yrs, 7st Brown Stout, 4 yrs, 7st Moorhen, 5 yrs, Est 131 b Cannon. Henham Lass, 4 yrs, Est 131 b Drew. Amy, 4 yrs, Est 131 b B enc h. Anonyms, 3 yrs, Est 131 b ...... Whiteley or Hardcastle. Queen of Spain, 3 yrs, Est lllb Catch'em Alive, 3 yrs, Est 71b ----- Balham, 4 yrs, Est 61b Judd. Agag, 3 yrs, Oat 41b Haddington, 3 yrs, Est 111 b Doyle. Balder, 3 yrs, Est Bedouin, 3 yrs, Est Lady Evelyn colt, 3 y rs, sst 121 b Silkatone, 3 yrs, sst 131 b Hartington, 3 yrs, sst 101 b Grey. Drumstick, 3 yrs, sst 71b, or } Highflyer, 4 yrs, sst 71b Deacon. Alchymist, 3 yrs, sst 81b .... _ _ The present Cesarewitch will always be distinguished by the manner in which Silkstone leaped into the premiership soon after the acceptances were declared, and remained in that difficult position without interference for so long a time. And really beyond her, Umpire and Henham Lass, scarcely anything else has been backed with spirit, or be yond a trifling amount. Knutsford will beat all the top division, as he has shown us repeatedly he can stay every yard of the way, and has won several handicaps in g ood company. Umpire is a tremendous favourite from the manner in which he finished before Wallace, Optimist, Amy, and Bedouin, in a trial at Newmarket last week, and Mr. Ten Broeck regards the race as ever, with the exoep tion of having to beat Silkstone. This he may have a right to do, by what he has seen Umpire do, and his animals are good enough to tell him correctly. Aurelian's best perfor• mances have always been over a mile and a quarter. Fault less has been nicely put in, and as Mr. Bryan's horses are all in form, there is just a chance of this mare running very forward. Doefoot will, of course, be subservient to Silk stone, so I will pass on to Stradella, who has lately won three good races in a manner that makes me think, in the absence of the favourites, she would have 1 10 excellent chance of winning now. But it is alniost too much to expect from her to give near two stone to Silkstone. Millionaire, being in Mr. Bryan's string, may assist Fault less ; but I do not consider him to be good enough for any other purpose. Flirtation is represented to be wonderfully fit, and her trainer is confident of at least getting a place with her. Feu de Joie's weight seems at first sight to be ' too much for her ; but when it is recollected how she beat the two Oaks mares, Hurricane and Irnperatrice, in a can ter at Epsom, and also defeated Zetland for the York CUP, it could hardly have been less. On the heath no mare get' better; and when the rottenness of the field, with few ex ceptions, is taken into consideration, she must be admitted to have a great chance, and her York exhibition at once negatived her inability to stay. Loiterer, f‘rom being beaten in his trial, I cannot fancy, and I can see no reason for being fond of Wingrave. Upon Henham Lass many per sons put their faith, and Mr. Bevill makes no secret of his belief that if the mare tuns to her form at home, she Wil l win very easily. Of course Audrey has been the school' mistress, but she is very uncertain, and I think, moreover , that Henham Lass wants heart to struggle home, so I will not stand upon her on this occasion. Anonyma would gallop for a week, but however essential staying powers are in the Cesarewitch, a trifle of speed is also n eeded with them, and in this I fear Lord Glasgow's filly IS greatly deficient. The Queen of Spain may run t ° further the interests of Hartington, who will carry th e stable money. Catch-'em-Alive has almost gone out of the market, as it is discovered to be impossible for him to beat Silkstone. Agag is by his trial the best of Mr. Naylor'e lot, and if so he will be very formidable. At home he Cel l do wonders, but in a crowd he will never try; still, if 1 18 runs kindly this time, he will be sure to find his way DA ° the first flight. My Mary and Haddington have been per forming respectably at Kelso, and the latter even with hid 101 b. penalty is certain to take a prominent part in the We' Of Lord Coventry's four Balder alone seems to be trusted by his lordship, and as he lately did all they asked him most satisfactorily he has naturally come to a very sho rt price, and I believe he will very nearly reward the patience/ of his noble owner, who has given his horse as well as his trainer every fair play, as Balder has not been in public since he ran for the Two Thousand. Corona has no chanc e in such company. Boabdil has broken down, and Balhas i is useless. Attaman ran well enough at Bedford to hri r t him into notice here, when the difference of the weights considered; but I have seen no move in his favour; Bedouin ought to be behind Umpire, if the trial is correct' Watchman has been watched for, but I thi n k h e has h a d too much taken out of him to come agai n so soon . Si' stone, it will be recollected, was tried to win the Chester C u p almost to a certainty, but failed in getting off, and never g ot _ through her horses until the race was nearly over, and th e ! she was fifth to good horses. Her subsequent runni ° , n 6 was certainly not sufficient to warrant her being backed 7; for this event, save the way she ran with Tim Whiffler au Asteroid Asteroid at Doncestor, for which race she was started for e a public trial. Although beaten in that race, the way she stayed with the pair is quite sufficient to cause her to. the first favourite now, with so light a weight upon here She has, moreover, I hear, wonderfully improved, and l'_ 1( the temper she showed in the spring, and, with Grimsh! ou upon her, she ought to be near winning. Hal tin. , ' was tried to be a racehorse in the spring, but went amis s ': he is now all right, and his owner is confident he will bv g pr e ov o u t he is not sure worthy o f thefavourite. his rea real reputation, The othersalthough are not worth discns:ing ; but Highflyer, if worth being kept in training, oug ht to get somewhere near the front rank. From the above, it will be seen, that I expec t the judge will hoist the number of UMPIRE, r r e ' with FORDHAM Oi n the saddle as the winn er o f the —e the witch, and that SILRSTONE and BALDER will 0 00111 eadY The Clearwell has been nearly run through, as a lr ,tr, second and third 27 of the 43 horses nominated have been in Vie , I pU b ov, nishing only five winners, viz., Early Purl, 'Weather v or places. Gunner, Gentilhomnae, and Charlemagne, the four W oe, of whom are each penalised 31b. Of the 16 "dark" ll'i r la ve t h e n ames of The Beau, D eerswood, and Hospeoli u. ding , a lone been heard in con nect i on with the Der b y bet a t an d as the latter has been "knocked out" of the ha ' ini Epsom race by the repeated offers of 1 000 to 10, afte r — rt lea backed at 40 to 1, and found want' wealrllythPatuhrla, the presumptionis that he has b e e rn er l e it it; wanting. The Beau gave up his engag ~e l t fe e s h e e v w er il b i the Champagne at Doncaster, which does not say . n", ea d of his i: chance, but if trusted by hip veteran trainer, In'clear been in e d en ou r b un tles fo s r c . ar o ry i off the t h h o e rs t e i s ch v g i t te trve public, after Early Purl, I prefer Chsrlentag er for The royal Stakes walk 0/ in must terminate in a Argonaut or St. Alexis, as none of their oppone n ts wl tae t nining. The five remaining races have yet to be re O S oda , ' Seven of the 12 items in the list for Wedn ea c I, f already closed. The Post Sweepstakes of 500: son l , ll ai l h ft, will probably bring out Buck e nham, Marble ! 1 2, ) ;t th the colt by Voltigeur out of Typee, and I cannot ow" E' success ot the former. two Ye ar o ld In the Bedford Stakes of 50 soya each, 11 - et b are engaged, carrying the weights as under :---- 1 l 0 st lb I .. 10 ... 8 Blue Mantle .... 9 2 I Itomanoff ....... . ho Armagnac B 1 ..... 8 Sage 9 2 I Boatman ...... colt' ... 7 Oscar ... 8 Stockbroker e 0 Hiawatha or Should the two top weights meet, the race b et ter Lord great interest, as it will determine how mun?_ , A r raagA o Clifden is than Blue Mantle and Saccharometer.,_ w et 1, when " • being now in form, which he was not ...., 1 1 ALO latter pair ill July. A. FAA P f. 85c. Railway Shares 1:1 as follows : Bank Shares 3225 Credit F oncier 1275 Fiedmontese Fives 73 65 Italian Loan 74 30 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 524 Home Debt • 50 RAILWA.YB. --- ~-_~►