The Sun. — London, England, 1862-08-26 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN iIMERICA. "Thus far" writes General George B. M'Clellan —page 8 of his Military Commission to Europe— " the allied generals displayed none of the qualities of great commanders—their measures were hay-way measures, slow and blundering—they failed to keep constantly in view the object of the expelition, and to press rapidly and unceasingly toy - sards it." This criticism refers to the period when on the 27th of September the allied genereis had got to Sebastopol, having landed their ariiy on an open beach on the 14th of September., fought and defeated the enemy at the Alma, sevat their sick and wounded away, buried th e i r dead, and taken up a position never afterwards abandoned till their object was achieved. Although (he says, page 5) fully aware that it i s much easier to criticise operations after the result is known than to direct them at the time, I shall not hesitate to invite attention to what appear the evi dent mistakes on either side. This not for the pur pose of finding fault or of insinuating comparisons" (though the very next sentence contains a compa rison between the petty operation of landing near Vera Cruz and the disembarkation of the allies in the Crimea), " but with the hope that it may ~'"erve to draw the attention of our officers to the same points, and perhaps assist in preventing similar errors on our own part hereafter." It is almost cruel to the young officer tom,, proceed with these quo tations, and we shall oily add one more :—" If a de ficiency of men aria means is assigned as a reason for the early operations of the allies, it is but another proof that in undertaking this affair they ne glected, one of the clearest rules of war,--that is, to undertake no important operation without full end reliable information as to the obstacles to be overcome and the means of resistance in the hands of the enemy." "We cannot afford," he says, "a Mos cow campaign.." How little when he wrote these lines . _ in January, 1857, did the American officer imagine that he should be at the head of an enormous army levied for the purpose of invading a State once in torporated in the country he served, and of destroy ing the city in which his enemies, once his own countrymen, were assembled to defend their homes and their liberties. The deduCtions ho draws from hits observations in the Crimea are applied to the effect of a foreign invasion of the United States, and he remarks that, though a small army could be crushed by the superior numbers of the people, a force of one hundred thousand disciplined men would be quite invincible, because the mul titude brought to bear against them work their own destruction, for " if without discipline and in struction they cannot be handled, and are in their own way." There is a sort of analogy between Sebastopol and Richmond. Neither Williamsburg nor White Oaks was quite equal in results to the Alma, it is true, but the covering force was obliged to retire. The enemy blocked up the wate en trance to their city ; the Federals command the sea as the allies did, and they have not been able to force the water batteries. The Confederates are said to be as strong as the Russians were. Their Gortschakoff is in the field outside. The Federals, too, have been attacked o n their right b e f ore t h e place. Are they quite as Proud of their I n k erman ? Does General M'Clellan stand the test of his stric tures on those who were in a position somewhat like his own ? We make the Americans a present of the comparison. The latest news we have from his army is that it is moving somewhere or other, having made a fiasco in the advance to Malvern-hill. M'Clellan has now been more than a month in his place of refuge at Harri son's Landing. At last he prepared for a great battle." On Tuesday, August 5, he moved out and took possession of Malvern-hill, and sent back for the greater part of his army, but the messengers took the wrong road and the troops did not come up till it was too late. " The enemy were not asleep," but came out in force. Gen. M'Clellan went back to his camps again, and the Confederates took pos session of Malvern-hill, and are, we suppose, there now. All that comes from the Federal army is the same intelligence of great sickness, aggravated by intense heat, and certified by boat loads of sick sol diers, and promises of something going to happen. We must wait with patience for the march of events, which move more rapidly than the reaeral arms, as it is nearly always the case that the initiative is taken by the Confederates. Leaving M'Clellan's grand army to itself, let us see what can be gathered from the accounts of the recent action to the north-west of Richmond. On the same day that M'Clellan made his abortive march to Malvern, the Federals, under Pope, showed a disposition to move down towards Richmond from the north-west, and pushed to Madison Court-house, which is about 14 miles from Gordonsville and 10 from the Rapidan river, where they found the coun - try full of the enemy, who must have crossed the Rapidan, and advanced towards the Federal line, extending from Washington near Blue Ridge, and covering the Manassas Gap Railroad and the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, down to Fredericksburg by Warrenton. Skirmishes took place on the 7th and Bth, the result of which was that the Federals fell back to Culpepper, in safety before the rebels, who were advancing in every direction," on Monday night, August 11. It is not to be understood why this movement was not met by the Federal generals, for the retreat of the cavalry on the right of their line took place on the very morning that Jackson attacked Banks, and it was very fortunate the whole force was not cut off. On Friday morning, the Bth, Gen. Ewell, under the orders of General 6' Stone - 'wall" Jackson, crossed the Rapidan and advanced rapidly towards the centre of the Federal lines, which he probably expected to cut through with ease, as Jackson had made a feint with a force to wards Madison and Springville, on the right, with a view to induce the Federals to weaken their cen tre by reinforcing the right of their position. The . ss ed es 4 1 accounts state that the enemy consisted of 35 ' 000 and came by way of Orange Court house, 'which is 16 miles distant on the railway to Fairfax and Culpepper Court. house. Banks had, they say, 7,50 0 men, and, if so, General Pope must have been deceived by Stonewall's movements, or is • very unfit for his Post, or has not got 60,000 men, as was asserted. It is supposed that Jackson came from the country north - west of Richmond, and used the Virginia Central Railroad in m ass i ng his troops, and had he quite succ eede d he might have destroyed Sigel's corps and Pop e ' s scatter ed divisions in detail, turned on Burnside , a nd made a march for Wash ington, which would ha ve been nearl y at his me rc y. "Whether that was his obje ct or not, he has unques tionably given Pope a heavy blow, which will stag _ ger him and his arrangements , and postpone "com bined movements" for some time to come. It w as another stroke on a coil of the boa constrictor. But a whether Stonewall suffered so severely as alleged, and was unwilling to await a further concentration of the enemy, or had done all he desired, it appears certain that he did not press the retreating Federals, but fell back the day after their concentration across Robertson's Creek, near Madison, and thence across the Rapidan. It would appear from one rather circumstantial account that Banks had under him the divisions of General Augur and General Williams, or 16 battalions, with two regiments of regulars, arid, we presume, a battery to each brigade, or 24 guns—cne a battery of regulars. They were advancing in the after noon towards the Rapidan, in pursuance of Pope's orders, and had crossed Cedar Creek, a small tributary, when the enemy suddenly ap peered on the wooded slopes of Cedar Mountain above and before them This was the force they were to check. An artillery duel took place, but at 5 30 p.m. the fighting - became very severe, and the Federals gave ground, losing one gun and retreat ieg with some rapidity till they were brought up after dusk by the advancing columns of the corps of both General M‘Dowell and General Sigel, under Pope in person. Here they halted, and were rest• in:; from their flight, when the Confederate guns suddenly opened upo n th em by the light of the fires at w hi c h I hey sat, and a regula r stampede" and " eke& d dat once to o k p l ace, which was only 'Provosts gua r d stopped by the , a pretty strong force apparently, a nd which arrested " the fright mod soldiers who crowded the reads. and the " re giments wl ich took to their heel s to get out of range"—Pen nester sermo. While the army was retreating in this way a dash of Confederate cavalry was directed upon them, and nearly carried off L • General Pope, General M'Dowell, and all their staff. They only saved themselves by flight through the fire of their enemy and of their own en, who opened with musketry from the woods on t he horse men, and forced them to fall back. So i e accounts say this event took place next night. 1 ope himself was directing the R hole movement, hich was in tended to end in the passage of the Rapidan, after the repulse of the enemy, and he slept at Culpepper Court-house the night before the battle. The pretence of superior force on the part of the Confederates is met by the statement from Federal sources that on Friday night M'Dowell's corps was four miles south of Banks's corps at Culpepper ; Sigel's corps was eight miles distant. But "it was never supposed that the enemy had more than a few regiments." Jackson, instead of waiting to be attacked at Gordonsville, came in with a rush on Culpepper and seized Cedar, or Slaughter's Moun tain, completely commanding the route to the river. The total force of the Cmifederates is estimated by the Federals at 27 battalions, of which the names are giver, but in the paper in which it is stated that only 7,000 men were engaged the names of 21 Federal regiments are mentioned in which severe losses occurred. The result is declared to be " a glorious victory for the Union arms." The value of this assumption may be estimated by the fact that Stonewall Jackson sent an officer to the Fede- rals to inform them "he would give them till two o'clock on Monday to bury their dead, but that they must not take arms, tools, or ammunition from the ground, as he claimed the field and its contents." This fact is distinctly stated in the correspondence of a New York journal. The Federal wounded lay for two days on the field till permission was given to cart them The action, it must be remem _ bered, was fought on Saturday, the 9th. On that night Popo bruught up all his troops, but lie did u ut attempt to attack his enemy the next day; on the evening of Sunday he was very nearly taken pri soner by a charge of their cavalry through the guns, and on Monday Jackson retired at his leisure, carrying off his prisoners, wounded, and thousands of arms, having buried his dead and given permis sion to the enemy to do the same. There is no cor rect estimate of the loss, but Culpepper is " a vast hospital," and some Federal regiments have only "50 left out of 500." The Federals say theirs was 3,000. The following is a list of the Federal regi ments of which mention is made in the reports in the various papers 109th P e nnsylvania, 110th Pennsylvania, 102dNew Pennsylvania , ork, 12th United States, Bth United States, 3d Indiana, 2d Massachusetts, 3d Wisconsin, 27th Indiana, 28th Pennsylvania, Bth New York, 12th Massachusetts, 13th Massachusetts, 46th Pennsyl vania, sth Ohio, 7th Ohio, 29th Ohio, 66th Ohio, 10th Maine, sth Connecticut, 28th New York. The names of the officers which occur in the papers would make a long list of killed and Wounded, but of the higher ranks there are killed, Colonel Stone ; taken prisoner, General Price. Federals.—Wounded—General Augur, General Geary, Colonel Ceale, Colonel Donelly (mortally), Colonel Steinwehr, Colonel Chapman (mortally), and Colonel Creighton. Among the Confederates the following are said to be killed :—Generals Weinder and Trimble. Wounded.—General Jackson (slightly), and General Saxton. It is characteristic of General Pope that having received this most severe check he should telegraph on the night of Tuesday, the 12th of August, to General Halleck, " The enemy has retreated under cover of the night. His rear guard are now crossing the Rapidan, towards Orange Court-house. Our cavalry and artillery are in pursuit." It is wonder ful he did not add they had " taken 10,000 pri soners." So far, General Pope's campaign has opened inauspiciously, and 114 diversion in favour of M'Clellan has received 'a signal discomfiture. All over the Western States the war is sporadic, and assuming on both sides an aspect of greater atrocity ; the savage Indian tribes have been arrayed on both sides and Choctows and Cherokees and guerilla bands are stepping in on the bloody stage, which is , broader than all Europe. Guerillas, "wiped out" in one place, rise up and take a fern in another. A sick Federal General is murdered in his ambulance, the Federals lay waste the district, hang , the people in the neighbourhood, and burn the houses. Tennessee is swarming now with bands of patriots on both sides, and the poor people are plundered as they were in the days of the old war. A Confederate General is assassinated by a Tennessee Unionist. Missouri seems handed over to marauders on both sides. The report of the cap ture of Baton Rouge is renewed, and there is no confirmation of the destruction of the Arkansas. It is impossible to make anything out of the ac counts of these fights, except that Morgan or Quan trell, or Porter's bands are killing people or taking or leaving places, or are being killed by other Ameri cans-50 here, and 150 there, all over vast tracts of country, that railway trains are fired into, bridges cut or burnt; mails stopped; that blood is flowing like water, and that Union feeling is not to be found in the South under the keenest search of the bayonet. Sickness is nearly universal. Gene ral Butler is uneasy about his position in New Orleans, his spies prove untrustworthy, commerce does not revive, nor can it at all cheer him to hear of the " rams" preparing at Mobile. The insecurity of the garrison at Hilton Head is admitted, and Pulaski is looking out with all its eyes for the new rams fitted up at Savannah. These statements are contained in the American papers by Americans of Americans. Because they are sifted and repro duced here, the A' ew York World piously hopes they may " be even with our English cousins some day." And for what it would be hard to say, indeed, except that this holding of the mirror up to the Federal face causes disagreeable reflec tions. The recruiting which is going on actively is admitted to be caused by the desire to get the bounty, which would not be paid if the men waited till they were draughted, and the vanity and con ceit of the people is nursed to a degree bordering on insanity by their papers, which talk of " the march of a million of soldiers with their glistening bayo nets and well-trained cannon."— Times. The following letter has just been received by a lady in Glasgow. It is interesting as showing the feeling entertained by the citizens of the South to wards their former friends in the North. The writer is a young gentleman, a native of Charleston, who was educated at Edinburgh University, and re turned to America about 18 months ago. Ho had intended embracing the legal profession ; but the outbreak of hostilities changed all this, and, as will be seen, he is now a corporal of volunteer artillery in the service of the South : " Camp Whilden, Adam's Run, South Carolina, June 26, 1862. ‘ l, 3 : with which it i s p oss ibl e to write, an i that is a gold ‘,/ dear Mrs. B.—There is but one pen in camp 1, ,s one, A an- I d o not like to borrow what I know would which I t hin k will not be willingl y ; so I prefer writing with pen cil, preciseaint answer e c r a t m o your ltt be distinct enough. I re ceivedli.a gate and one Ptw last letter having er . sometime in January or February, but not easy, must not expect a nice Place to wr it e letters—at i t came a letter from ,_ fromiti Along nileewsYsioithu Camp is not a very in the first place, to carry abort least I have found it s: v , iet , i , l it 1, you the convenience for writing with you; and, secondly, it is not easy to get a place to sit down quietl y to write a letter with ink. Here I am writing on a board supported on my knee ; on my left a party or four playing at seven's-up for 25c. a game, making as much noise with their jabbering as if they were four wom en . I am a soldier in earnest now, subject to courts-m ar _ tial, and liable at any moment to have a six-foot chain and a 24-pound ball attached to my left leg, or any other little pleasant exercise which military tyrants may choose to impose. But what care we for the despotism of military authority, allowed as it is for the time, for the purpose of achieving i n the end real liberty and independence from the hideous and disgusting despotism of a vulgar mobo cracy. If the people in Great Britain, deceived by the falsehoods of the Northern press, think we are near the point of subjugation, and that the North are already triumphant; and laetly, that cotton will flow into their seaports and feed their mills as for merly, they will, I can assure you, before long find I themselves vastly mistaken. If we were to succumb THE SUN, LONDON, WES!) Y VE'N'II (1-, AUGUST 26, 1861 now we could surely never have been in earnest. What has the North done to terrify us so ? Have we not 400,000 men in arms ? Are they going to lay down their arms because the North tells them they are subdued. Let them come and disarm us. they could not recover. He also admitted that if the contractors were to be rated they must be rated as occupiers. He contended that their case was analogous to the case of theatres and saloons. There the parties were not occupiers, but merely held a licence to sell refreshments. At the conclusion of the arguments the counsel and those interested in the case withdrew. Mr. Brown then moved that the assessment be affirmed. He said that if counsel had questioned the accuracy of the assessment the board might have gone into the matter, but they had raised grave questions of law, which were to upset other assess ments. It was the practice to assess property so soon as there was beneficial occupation. They as sessed gas companies and others in the same way, and they possessed only a beneficial occupation. Mr. Peck seconded the resolution. They are good at talking. " The other day they were going to walk over James Island before breakfast, and take that meal in Charleston, but shey unexpectedly got so much to digest before they had advanced half a mile that they were obliged to return where they came from, and to defer their visit for another occasion. We gave them grape from an eight inch Columbiad, and a shower of rifle balls, and so much cold steel, that they left us in disgust. They will probably like to try the same game again. Let them come. Our company has been in but ene fight, in which I had the honour to fire the first and tho last shot. The affair was with a gunboat which Mr. Barnes was of opinion that they were not the parties to be assessed. He thought they should ad journ the matter and take counsel's opinion. Mr. Green, the clerk, said counsel's opinion had been taken, and they were acting under his advice. The resolution was then put and carried by a ma jority, two hands being held up to the contrary. Mr. 13auting said there were other contractors in the Exhibition. He wished to know whether they would be assessed. He said there was an umbrella and stick contractor, and the contractor for the cloak-rooms, and he should like to hear of their be ing assessed. was coming down one of our creeks. r We took up a nice position with four pieces on the banks of the creek, where the boats were obliged to pass at the short distance of 75 or 100 yards. She came abreast of us just after dark. They were heaving the lead and swinging right merrily when I gave the order, " Fire." You may imagine the bustle that arose on board. They soon began to let fly shell and grape at us, but we were so close these missiles only whistled over our heads harmlessly. None of our men were hurt ; what damage was done to the enemy darkness prevented us discovering. The light artillery is a fine service in many respects, but there is too little activity about it. But indeed there is too little activity displayed in the war gene. o t t these Yankees a re , un l ess you were h ere t o see and hear the truth. They " I brag. sla the T he prisonerser day d lwhom us—' we kon lives on lies and rally. you can have no id ea w h a t a mean , l ow people You have taken but we have take n Richmond:James Island h When asked how they had learnt that, they said it had been read out on druss parade to them. What a miserable sub terfuge to elevate the courage of the men. No doubt you have read Butler's order concerning the women of New Orleans—that every woman that, by word or gesture, insults any of his soldiers shall be consi dered a common woman. This is a fact. The scoundrel ought to be hanged, were it not too good a death for him. We should certainly be fools to submit to such people, to say the least of it. When I think of the days of Bruce and Wallace, and com pare the situation of the people of Scotland with ours, it seems absurd to suppose that if the Yankees had twice their force they could ever subdue us. One thing is certain, that if they were either to subdue us or to overrun the country, they would certainly ruin the agricultural interests of the South ; and cotton, which seems so necessary an article even to Abolitionists, would never more be forthcoming. Bale after bale is given to the flames as the enemy approaches ; for they are cotton thieves, and take all they can lay hands on. They have taken away a great many negroes, but do not seem to find them such useful citizens as they expected. Indeed, some of them have expressed a wish that we would take them back. " I have become rather fond of a military life, and have made several efforts to get a commission in the regular army, but as yet without success. You need not be surprised if I should take to it altogether after the war is at an end. For if the war lasts many years it will put me back so much in all pro fessional pursuits, except the military, that I think I shall have to resort to it any how, if only for a living. I wish you could walk into our camp just now and take a look of us. But I am so dreadfully shabby in my appearance that I should be ashamed to be seen by you. We have not such substantial uniforms as your volunteers have, and at present most of us have only what we have worn all winter. It is amazingly hot here just now, and not too healthy. Quite a number of us have had chills and fever, though I have as yet escaped all sickness. The country about here is very unhealthy ; in some places, especially in August and September, it is almost certain death to the white man to spend a night in its baleful atmosphere. The site of our camp has been chosen for its healthiness, compared with other places which are inferior in that respect, but still it is by no means what I should call a desirable locality. But this is the fortune of war—more die from pestilence than by the sword of the enemy. None of our men have, however, died, or been even sick. I am fourth corporal in the company now, and may, if I stay long enough, become a ser geant, one of these days, but a commissioned officer I doubt if ever. The system of elections is still carried on in officering our volunteer companies and regiments, and a vile system it is, for the result is, officers who are quite in- competent, in many instances, for the position, especially among the country troops, who are very ignorant and incapable of judging what is best for themselves and the country. But a system of exa mination, in conjunction with the other, is now about to be introduced, which will be of great benefit to us, I think. Mr. Green said the matter was under considera tion. The counsel and the appellants were then called in and acquainted with the decision. MUBD.T.R OF A POLICEMAN AT ASHTON BY TRADE UNION BRICKMAKE.RS. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. At the South Lancashire assizes to-day this case came on for trial before Mr. Justice Mellor. Con siderable interest was manifested in the proceedings, and the court was crowded throughout the day. Only four of the men concerned were indicted, Barlow having turned approver, and the others not being in custody. The prisoners were Michael Burke, 35, John Ward, 36, Frederick Hepwell, 25, and John Clay Johnson, 39. Mr. Bliss, Q.C., attorney-general for the county, together with Mr. Kaye and Mr. Grimshaw, pro secuted ; and Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.O , Mr. Torr, Mr. Ernest Jones, and Mr. Roberts defended the prisoners. Mr. Bliss, Q.C., in opening the case, said that the prisoners, Michael Burke, John Ward, and Frederick Hepwell, stood indicted for wilful mur der ; and Johnson was indicted as an accessory after the fact, for receiving and harbouring Burke and Ward, and for concealing them, knowing them to have committed the murder. In addition to the prisoners at the bar there were also four other persons implicated in the murder, but they were not in custody. Another person named Barlow, also implicated, would be called as a witness. The prisoners and the other persons charged were all brickmakers living at or near Ashton-under-Lyne. The name of the deceased was Wm. Jump, a police man, who at the time of his murder was on duty and in uniform. The murder was committed on the " JUNE 30. "Adam's Run Village is a hamlet so called from Adam's Run or rivulet flowing near it. The troops here guard the Charleston and Savannah Railway. It is situated about 22 miles to the south of Charles ton. Glorious news from Richmond yesterday. M'Clellan's army threatened with complete destruc tion ; en tirly cut off from their gunboats; a large portion routed and taken prisoners; attacked in flank by Stonewall Jackson." RATING THE REFRESHMENT DEPART• _RENT OF IHE _EXHIBITION. Yesterday morning the board of trustees for the parish of Kensington held a meeting at the Vestry Hall, Mr. Churchwarden Greenway in the chair, at which the contractors of the refreshment depart ment of the International Exhibition attended for the purpose of appealing against being assessed to the parochial rates. Mr. Tindal Atkinson appeared for Mr. Morrish, and Mr. Sleigh for Mr. Veillard. It appears that the board of trustees and the ves try of Kensington have recently called upon the contractors for the payment of the rates. F. E. Morrish and W. Sanders being assessed for the Western or English department, upon a rental or rateable value of £14,217 ; and C. Veillard and Martin Gulpet, for the Eastern or French refresh ment department, at £14,653. It is, therefore, a very important question to the contractors, as in the case of Mr. Morrish, he is called upon to pay rates amounting in the whole to £9lB 3s. 7d. ; and Mr. Veillard the sum of £946 6s. 9d. Mr. Tindal Atkinson, in addressing the board, said the first objection to the rate was on the ground of there being no interpolation in it. Although under the 9th section of George IV. the board had power to amend a rate by inserting names that had been omitted, they had no power to insert property that was not in the rate-book at the time of the rate being made. He referred to the 6th and 7th of William IV., cap. 96, which provided for one uni form mode of rating for the relief of the poor, and in which it was made essential that the description of property should form part of the rate when made. He next called attention to a very important point in the case—as to whether Mr. Morrish was an occupier so as to make him rateable, and he read portions of the agreement between his client and the commissioners to show that Mr. Morrish was entirely under the con trol of the commissioners. He (Mr. Atkinson) was of opinion that the commissioners were rateable, because they held the keys of the outer doors, they took money at the doors, and had full possession of the place. He argued that Mr. Mor rish was not an occupant, as he had not uncon trolled p ower over the place. I n or d er t o ma k e a man rateabl e h e must h ave suc h con t ro l over th e p la ce as to mak e hi m v i r t ua ll y t h e owner o f it. I n the agreem en t hi s client was described as a contrac tor, and h e Was nothin g more than a He had only the ri g ht of selling refreshments a certain part of th e d contractor. uring day, for which he contracted to pay five - eights of a p enny for every person the board to deal ad mitted.mr Mr. Sleigh concludedighsaid b y Mr.Veillard. asking eillard objected to be rated on the same out justice to h is client. grounds. He submitt e d t h at inas much as the rate w as ma de in April and hi s c li en t no t taking Posse ssion un t i l the Ist of May MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Aug, 25. The August Adjourned General Sessions corn menced this morning at the Court House on Clerkenwell-green. THE GREAT ROBBERY AT MESSRS. BURTON'S IN OXFORD-STREET. Edmund Godwin, 23 years of age, and described as a tailor, was indicted for feloniously breaking and entering the shop of Win. Samuel Burton, and stealing therein seven silver teapots and other articles of the value of £450. Mr. Tindal Atkinson prosecuted ; Mr. Ribton was counsel for the prisoner. The trial of this case occupied a considerable time, but the facts were shortly these. The prisoner lodged in an attic at 9, Newman-street, adjoining Messrs. Burton's premises, for some time in June. During the night of the 11th of that month an entry was effected into Messrs. Burton's warehouse through a trap in the roof, and a large quantity of silver stolen, value nearly £5OO. A complete set of burglars' implements were found on the premises by Sergeant Lambert, 12 D, jemmies, crowbars, a rope-ladder, a bull's-eye, picklocks, a wedge made of beech, matches, &c. On the Ist instant the pri soner was apprehended by Cook, 198 S, at the corner of Clipstone-street. The constable said to him, " Your name is Godwin." The prisoner replied that it was not, " you make a mistake." The witness said, " Yes, your name is Godwin, and I shall take you for a robbery at Messrs. Burton's in Oxford-street, in June last, and stealing a large quantity of silver." The prisoner said again that there was a mistake ; his name was not Godwin. Cook then said, " Then I'll call you Whitenob," a name he was known by ; " You know me, and I know you." The prisoner said " All right, Mr. Cook, you have put many an innocent man in prison, and I suppose you are going to do the same with me." He denied ever having lived in Newman-street, gave a false address, No. 15,Liverpool-street, Isling ton, there being no such number, the highest num ber being 11 ; but he was traced to Dorrington street, Clerkenwell, where he had been lodging, and where the police found the box in which the stolen silver had been carried off from Newman-street. In it were marks which, examined under a powerful magnifying glass, showed that they had been pro duced by silver. The prisoner took the lodging in the name of Richards, and on the night of the rob , - bery had some one with him whom he let in. Mr. Ribton contended that the evidence did not make out anything beyond suspicion, and that in the absence of absolute proof of guilt the prisoner ought to be acquitted. The learned Judge summed up with great care and minuteness. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and his for ' mer convictions were proved against him. The learned Judge said there was an imperative duty to perform, and the sentence of the Court upon the prisoner was that he be kept in penal servitude for the period of ten years le morning of Saturday, 28th June last, at a fold or yard called Smallshaw fold, in or near Ashton-- under-Lyne. He was killed by two shots which entered his breast about an inch and a half apart, passed through his body in a parallel direction, and lodged somewhere near the spine. The charge against the parties implicated in this murder was that on the night of Friday, Jane 27, they assem bled together, and armed themselves with blud geons and pistols, with intent to destroy the bricks in a neighbouring yard, and to use these weapons against any person who should interfere with them committing this crime or making their escape after wards; and that, in pursuance of this intention and design they committed the murder charged against them. On the night of Friday, the 27th June, Burke, Ward, Hepwell, and the five other men as sembled at a place called the Ashton barracks, not far from Clifford's brick-yard. They met there in different parties of two, three, and four, but previ ously they had all, or some of them, been at a cer tain house where they charged the pistols with shot. Having met at the barracks the whole eight men went to Clifford's brick-yard, and there de stroyed 16,000 or 17,000 bricks. Having destroyed the bricks they returned to the Ashton barracks, and from thence they took a way across the fields and roads until they came to the field adjoining the fold yard where the murder was committed. In crossing the field which adjoined the yard, the pri soners were met by two policemen, one Sergeant Harrop (who would be brought before the jury), and the other the deceased, Wm. Jump. When they saw the policemen the men walked in single file, and endeavoured to disguise and conceal their faces by putting up their collars, and averted their heads from the officers as they approached. Harrop saw that they had something concealed under their clothes, and suffered flix of them to pass, but stepped before one of the last men and saidtat My man, what is the meaning of all this ? 'ItM . you here in this manner at this time of the morning." The man whom he stopped said nothing, but endeavoured to pass on. Harrop then said," You have no occa sion to fear anything from me if you are here about nothing wrong." The man then pushed Harrop violently away, and on being held in check he cried out sharply, " Now men, now men. Now !" And the other seven men turned round and commenced a most violent attack, during which they used bludgeons and pistols, and Harrop was shot over the eye. After the struggle had been going on for some time a person named Williamson, who lived in a house adjoining the yard where Jump was murdered, saw Jump come through a stile at the corner of the house, and go to another stile on the opposite side of the yard. Jump was stag gering as though wearied or exhausted, and when he got to the stile he stood there leaning upon th( stump. Williamson then saw another man come after Jump through the stile, and when he was about a yard or two yards from the officer William son saw a flash, and heard a report of firearms, as of a pistol, apparently coming from this man to wards Jump. He saw and heard a second flash and shot, which he thought came from the same man. Harrop, who was standing near the yard, heard Jump cry out, " Oh, dear ! oh, dear !" and going back immediately in the direction of the cry, he entered the fold yard, and found Jump doubled up by the stile. Harrop asked Jump if he couldspeak, but Jump could make no answer ; and with the as sistance of another man, William Smith, he car ried Jump into Williamson's house, where he died in a very few minutes. The learned counsel pointed out that one of the most important points of evi dence against Burke was the finding of a piece of paper near the murdered man, which had formed a portion of the wadding of the pistol, and this piece of paper bore the name of Burke, and was identi fied as a portion of a bill furnished to Burke by a beer-house-keeper. It would be proved also that Burke was at the house which formed the rendez vous of the prisoners, and that he assisted at the loading of the pistols ; that he was also present during the affray, and that he afterwards used ex pressions which implicated him in the attack. Burke had also made a confession, which was somewhat at variance with the other evi dence, and which represented that Jump was killed by one shot only, whereas it would bo proved that two shots were fired, and fired close together. With regard to Ward, the evidence would show that he was present during the firing of the shots ; that he took an active part in the affray, and that afterwards he used expres sions to the effect !hat both he and Berke " fired into" Jump. It was also important with regard to Ward that two men were seen after the affray run ning over the railway bridge, that one of these men answered to the description of Ward, and that the footprints discovered in that direction were identi cal with those of Ward. Though the evidence was not so strong against Hepwell, still it would be shown that he also was engaged with the other men throughout the affray. In conclusion, the Attorney General said that if the prisoners went out with a common design that these weapons should be used in the way:they actually were used, all parties to that design were responsible for such using of wea pons, being either present at the time of the actual affray or accessories before the fact. All those who were present after the weapons were used, and were there aiding and abetting, were equally guilty with the persons who fired the shot; and whether the prisoners were the persons who so fired, or whefher the shots were fired by some of the men not in cus tody, if the jury thought that the prisoners were there at the time, they must hold them responsible for the results. The examination of the witnesses then commenced. Thomas Barlow, brickmaker, brought up in cus tody, was called for the prosecution—He said he was a member of the union, and that a short time before the murder Hepwell went to his house and said there were some bricks to spoil, and asked him to join in the act. lie and Hepwell went to Ward's where he saw Henshall and Gregory, two of the men im plicated but not in custody. They then went towards the Ashton Barracks, where they were joined by Burke and Ward. By this time the number of the men assembled amounted to e ight, and included Toole and Ryan, who made up the four who were not apprehended. They proceeded towards Clifford's brick-field, and destroyed five Eats of bricks, and when this was done they went SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Payne.) John W. Shqckleton a cabman, was indicted for assaulting Robert Randall, police-constable 388 V, in the execution of his duty. Mr. Pater prosecuted ; Mn Metcalfe appeared for the prisoner. The case for the prosecution was that, on the morning of the 3d inst., the prisoner was driving a cab in the King's-road, Chelsea, whet: a gentleman hailed him, and he told him to -, and made several cuts at him with his whip. The gentleman called the constable to stop him, but he drove off at a rapid rate, and the constable got a Hansom and went after him. On being overtaken the prisoner, or some other person for whom he was mistaken, struck him with the butt end of his whip so violently that he fell backwards, and the driver got away. The defence was that the prosecutor was mis taken as to the person who committed the assault, and Mr. Metcalfe addressed the jury upon that point, and the defendant was acquitted. William Hutchinson, 52, labourer, was indicted for unlawfully attempting to kill and murder him self, by cutting and wounding his arm with a razor. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and said he knew nothing of the matter. Mr. J. H. Bailes, surgeon, of 5, Oasulston-street, Somers Town, stated that on the 12th inst. be was called to No. 10, Drummond-streat, where he found the prisoner weltering in a pool of blood. There was a razor on the table with which he had opened his arm, and was bleeding to death, and would have no doubt been dead in a few minutes had not the flow of blood been stayed by ligatures. As it was he had lost thirty ounces of blood, and it appeared that he was labouring under peculiar del us i ons , and he said that a man with wings had got i n through the window and inflicted the wound. The Jury found him guilty, and The learned Judge sentenced him to two years' imprisonment, observing that that was the best course that could be taken with him. Edward Tidswell, 25, clerk, was i n di c t e d f or s t ea ling the sum of 1200 and upwards, the moneys of Messrs. Shoolbred, of Tottenham-court -road, his masters. He pleaded guilty ; and the Court, con sidering it avery aggravat e d case, sen t ence d th e prisoner to six years' penal ser v it u d e . William Clifford, 26, cabi ne t ma k er , a p r i sone r who had been twice sentenced to f our years' penal servitude, summarily convicted, and was known as the companion and associate of garotters, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing clothing in the house of A. 'Watson, 19, Duke-street. The prisoner's former career having been proved by . officers Holmes and Franklin, the learned Judge said it was his duty to pass an exemplary sentence for the protection of the public. The prisoner was found concealed under a bed, having packed up a variety of articles for removal, and twice for a simi lar offence had he been sentenced to four years' penal servitude. The prisoner begged for another chance. He said he was known to be a convict, and could not get work, but if he were lightly dealt with this time it would be a long while before ho came before the Court again. The learned Judge said he should take care of that. The best thing to do was to send him away altogether out of the country, and the sentence upon him, with that view, was 10 years' penal ser vitude. He w as liable toit for, life. The prisoner said he was perfectly satisfied. George Scott was convicted of stealing a port manteau and a case from the terminus of the Great away in the direction of Ardenshaw, the scene of Northern Railway, at King's-cross. These were the murder; The witness then described t he colli- two veryimpudent robberies, committed openly on sion with the police, as detailed by Mr. Blies, Di- the platform. On the . arrival of trains from the h, the prisoner claied as his own and carried r ectly after the assault on the police commenced, he nort ran away, but about ten days afterwards wag appre- off passengel servitude. rs' luggage. m He was sentenced to three hended. When ho was in the Ashton lock - up he years' pena occupied the next cell to Ward, who began to speak about the affair and said, " My shoes have done me for this." Burke and Ward had both told him that they had fired at the police. In prison Ward said to him, " They are keeping Burke at Ashton, and he will split on all the others." A cap found on the field was identified by this witness as belonging to Ward. Several bludgeons, most fearful weapons, were produced, and the particular weapons used by the prisoners identified. Under cross-examination, the prisoner said that he had been induced to make a statement to Lud ham, a police officer, on the understanding that the person who could give a clue to the perpetrators of the crime would be rewarded, and, if not implicated in the actual crime, would receive a pardon. George Harrop, police sergeant, was next ex amined, and bore out the statement of the learned counsel. He distinctly identified Burke and Ward as taking part in the affray. The man with whom Harrop was struggling disengaged himself, but left his bludgeon in Harrop's hand. Harrop threw it after him as he was escaping, and hit him on the forehead. At this time shots were fired about 90 yards off, and almost immediately afterwards Harrop heard a moan, which upon going to the yard, he found proceeded from Ju m p . Jump's body was found to be much bruised by blows from bludgeons. ~ ,Harrop underwent a severe cross examination with regard to the shots which he heard being fired in succession, and as to their pro ceeding apparently from a revolver. His evidence, however, was not shaken. He produced the bullets which had been found in Jump's body. Samuel D. Lee, M.D., who had bees called to attend to the deceased, described the nature of the wounds which Jump had received, and attributed death to the shot, one of the bullets having entered under the second rib and perforated the left lung, causing an immense loss of blood. The two bullets which were extracted from Jump's body were very rough, and one had a shank upon it. Dr. Lee, who examined Ward in the New Bailey, Salford, proved that he had a wound on his forehead, which might have been caused by a bludgeon. Samuel Williamson was next examined, and de scribed the firing of the pistol in the direction of the stile where Jump was standing, and also the finding of the wadding-paper, which dropped from Jump's coat when he was being carried mortally wounded into the house. Another witness, named Smith, who lived near, and heard the shots, said that he went out and found the deceased crouching on his hands and knees. Jump exclaimed, " Oh dear !" and endeavoured to get up, but fell three times. Jump died almost im mediately after he was taken into Williamson's house. Eli Ogden and his wife, who lived in Smallshaw fole, gave corroborative evidence as to the firing of the shots and the wounding of Jump. The Court then rose, and the hearing of the case was adjourned till the following day. CLEVER APPREHENSION OF FASHIO,2ITABLE SWINDLERS .AND RECOVERY OF 111 E PRO PERTY. On Monday morning a fashionably-dressed man, about 35 years of age, of good appearance, who gave his name as James Frale, and a fine looking young woman, who said her name was Mary Ann Greenslade, were brought u p in custody before the Bath magistrates, charged with having conspired together in obtaining go ods to a considerable value from various tradesmen in that city, with intent to defraud them of the same. The case excited great interest, and the court was crowded with a respect able audience. As the police authorities only went in for a remand, it is necessary to the understand ing of the case to give some particulars which did not transpire in the evidence. It appears that en Monday last the prisoners took furnished lodgings at No. 19, in the Royal-circus, one of the first localities in the city, representing themselves as man and wife, who had come from Scotland with the view of spending six months in Bath. They brought but the slightest quantity of luggage, having merely a carpet bag, which they accounted for by saying their luggage had been directed so as to follow them, and would reach Bath in a day or two. They daily promenaded the most fashionable parts of the city, arm in arm, and not only succeeded in beguiling the lodging-house keeper, but in obtaining goods of considerable value from several of the leading tradesmen. On Friday they favoured the shop of Mr. Alderman Jolly, ex mayor of Bath, in Milsom-street, with a call, and a silk dress, silk shawl, and skirt, value about £2O, were sent to the Circus. Mr. R. King, silk mercer, of the same street, was favoured with orders to about the, same amount. Messrs. Turner, also of Milsom-street, were ordered to make a suit of super fine clothes for Mr. Frale, and other tradesmen met with similar commands. On Friday after noon Mr. Frale also walked into the shop of Mr. Routley, Watchmaker, of Broad-street, and inquired the price of a diamond backed watch in the 'window. He was told 15 guineas, and he then inspected some others, concluding by requesting two ladies' watches, and a gentle man's gold repeater, to be sent to 19, Circus, the same evening for approval. Mr. Routley, who understood from him that he intended making one of the watches a present to his lady, took the watches, together with three gold chains himself, and saw the female prisoner, who said the captain was gone out to dinner, but she thought he had shown very good taste in the selection of the watch for himself. She was not so certain, however, as to the watch intended for her. She passed some trivial remarks upon the chains, and ended by re questing Mr. Routley to leave the goods and call in the morning, when he would receive the money for those approved and take the others away. Mr. Routley's property was of the value of £6O. After be had left he did not feel easy in his mind, but his suspicions were allayed by the assurance of a friend whom he consulted, and who had been assured in turn by the woman who keeps the lodgings, that he would be safe if it were for £l,OOO. Next morning by half-past six o'clock, however, Mr. .Routley was roused from his bed, and informed that his quondam customer was non est, and that he and his "lady," taking with them the gold watches and chains, had disappeared from their lodgings, with out paying any rent, on the previous evening. Great became the consternation of the several de frauded tradesmen ; but prompt steps were taken for the detection of the swindlers. The police dis covered that a lady on the previous night had ac costed a workman in the Circus, and drawing a carpet bag from under a mantel, had desired him to convey it for her to the Twerton station, about two • miles from Bath, on the Bristol line. On their way, however, they came up with a gentleman (Mr. Frale) lounging against some rails, and the lady and gentleman each saying, " Oh, is that you," fraternised, and the bag was handed to the gentleman by the porter, who was dismissed by the lady with the promise that she should see him again, and would then reward him for his trouble. The man left, but not quite liking his treatment, watched the par ties to the 1 werton station. He was thus enabled to give the clue to the police, and on Saturday In spector Dalsworthyand Detective Barnett proceeded to,"Bristol, and, with the aid of a detective from the Bristol force, traced the male prisoner, whom they found in the act of pawning one of the watches at the shop of Mr. Chiloott, of St. Auguotinoo-parado. At the station-house he took another watch and chain from his waistcoat pocket, saying, " That is another of them " The female prisoner (who at first said she was Frale's wife) was subsequently apprehended, and from her the whole of the re mainder of the property was obtained. The prisoners were remanded for a week. APPREHENSION OF AN ABSCONDED BANKRUPT. It will be remembered that the examination of .Thomas Henderson, wholesale woollen cloth and tweed warehouseman in Glasgow, whose estates were sequestered in November, 1861, took place partially in the month of December following, and that he absconded about the end of that month or beginning of January, 1862. Henderson had been twice under examination, but. ultimately deemed it prudent to withdraw beyond the reach of his credi tors, and a day or two after his disappearance a quantity of goods belonging to the bankrupt, con sisting of household furniture, clothes, pictures, and jewellery, which had been concealed, or were alleged to have been concealed, in a house at 119, St. James's-road, was discovered by the police, amounting in value to between £2OO and £3OO Several witnesses were examined, and, among others, Mrs. Henderson ; and on the 9th of January a warrant was issued by Sheriff Murray for C - ..e apprehension of the bankrupt, who had taken refuge in the Sanctuary. When the officer went through to Edinburgh to carry the warrant into force he found that Hender son had taken alarm and fled from the Sanctuary. A few days after the warrant was issued, Superin tendent M'Call, after a harassing and energetic search, succeeded in discovering the silver plate chest of the bankrupt and its contents in a house in St. Vincent-street, and a day or two later a dis covery was made in Helensburgh of another quan tity of household furniture, bedding, carpets, &c. Meanwhile a vigorous search was made for the bankrupt himself, with a view to his apprehension, which, however, was unsuccessful. Rumours were afloat that he had gone to Australis, to France, and to America, but the result has belied them all. Not withstanding these,,.,the police have been more or less active in their endeavours to trace the where abouts of the bankrupt, and about the end of last . week they obtained a clue which led to his appre hension. Following up this clue Peter Brown, de tective officer, was despatched on Saturday to Edin burgh to search for Henderson, and in the course of the same afternoon he saw a man in India-street . who seemed to answer the description of the bank , rupt. Brown had never seen Henderson before, and was so far at a disadvantage. He had, however, in his possesizon a photograph of him, but it had been taken when Henderson wore neither whiskers, beard, nor moustache, whereas the individual whom i the detective met wore the whole three. Resolving at once to . put his man to the test Brown came be hind him, mud in a bold, off-hand manner, ejaeu- lated—" Hallo, Mr. Henderson, what are you doing here ?" The individual addressed, who had two young girls with him, turned round abruptly, and said to Brown that he was mis taken. Brown rejoined, "I know you, Mr. Hen derson." The latter reiterated, " You are mis taken." Brown pulled out the photograph of the bankrupt, which he had in his pocket, and present ing it to Henderson, said " Isn't that you." When the individual saw the photograph he admitted that he was the veritable Mr. Henderson who had ab sconded from his creditors in January last. He was instantly taken into the safe keeping of the officer and conveyed to his lodgings in India-street, where the young girls who, we understand, were his daughters, were left. He was then conveyed to Glas gow the same eveuing.—Glasgow Herald. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BANK OF ENG LAND.—The prosperity of the country was evidenced in the reign of William and Mary by the establishment of the Bank of England, which despite a great deal of opposition from the Court and the monied men, obtained a charter on 27th July, 1694. The establishment of the Bank of England gave life and energy to business, and made trade easy. Great eagerness was exhibited to embark in commercial enterprise, and this even extended itself to Scotland, where, in 1795, the Bank of Scotland was established, which soon rose to very high credit. The projector of both banks was Mr. Wm. Paterson. The capital of the Scotch Bank was £1,200,000 Scotch, or £lOO,OO O sterling.—Cappr' s Port and Trade of London. [ADVERTISEMENT.]— Holloway's Pills. Satisfactory Results.—ln all painful affections of the stomach and dis ordered actions of the liver and bowels a single trial of these pills will demonstrate that they possess regulating and renovating powers in a high degree. They speedily restore the appetite, lessen the unpleasant disteusions of the abdomen, and so prevent inflammati n of the bowels and other serious abdominal ailments. 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The inhabitants of Spalding, Lincolnohire, were thrown into a state of great excitement on Sunday last, by the fact transpiring that an attempt at mur der, which it is greatly to be feared will be produc tive of fatal results. had been committed under the following singular circumstances :—lt appears that on Saturday night last about 12 o'clock a man named Percival, formerly ostler at one of the inns in the town, was returning to his home, and :vhen crossing the sheep market he met a man named ea dbeater, a labourer, from the adjacent villa g e of Pinchbeck, with whom he had not the least previous acqz.taint ance, suddenly, and without any provocation, Ik•ed" beater rushed upon him and cut his throat with a large knife, inflicting a serious injury. Percival was accompanied by another man, but the deed was accomplished so quickly that he was unable to pre-. vent it ; and whilst in the act of raising his wounded companion, the assassin rushed upon him and in flicted a similar wound. Whilst the scuffle was still pending a third man, Hayes, came up and att em p ted to collar Leadbeater. when the latter stabbed him in the arm, causing him to release his hold. T he fellow then ran away along the Bourn-road., but was pursued by two policeman, who came up at the time, and about a dozen other persons, who, after a chase of nearly half a mile, succeeded in capturing him near the Pied Bull public-house, on the Bourn-road. The wounded men, Percival and his companion, were in the meantime conveyed to Dr. Morris's surgery, where their wounds were promptly attended to ; but they were found to be of so serious a nature that the doctor deemed it advisable to have them lodged at a neighbouring public-house, lest their removal home should prove fatal. Latest accounts state that they are in a very precarious state. Hayes, on having his wounds dressed, was able at once to leave for his own home. At present no ' possible motive can be ascribed for the fearful ' deed, and it is generally supposed that the prisoner ' , was suffering from temporary insanity. COUN2R.I .111.A1411-1-4.1b. IP' -- COLCHESTER —Ara. 23. The supply of wheat to-day at market was small. Farmers demanded high prices for the few lots of dry wheat, which millers were in many cases obliged to pay. Spriag corn dull, for want of supplies. Wheat, white. 60s 66s Beans,lllazagan.,3Bs 40s Barley red 52s 60s middle & small.4os 44s 38s 40s Peas, white 42s 44s Oats . —s —s gray 38s 42s GLOUCESTER—ArG. 23. To-day there was a supply of new white wheat at market, which was of better quality than expected, and brought 57s to 60s per 396 lbs. Foreign wheat was in limited de mand. Barley and beans firm. Oats dull. '-AuG. 22. tort, and the trade brisk, at an .k's prices. Spring corn was b a dull trade. ' -- - Peas, Partridge 37s 41s White 39s 42s Boiling .. 41s 44s Dun 36s 400 Ditto new .. —s — s beans, Tick, old 3ss 39s new --s —5 Harrow Ticks 3ss 40s new —s —s Mazagan 34s 38s CHELMSFO The supply of wheat was si advance of is to 2s on last we( firm, and prices as of late, but Wheat, old white 45s 62s new —s —s old red 50s bBs new --il —8 Barley 30s 398 Chevalier 3os 42s Grinding 24s 32s Malt__ 61s 67s Chevalier . 64s 69s Oats 22s 29s KIRKCALDY GRAIN —At G. 23. .- A small show of wheat and oats to -day, and three par. cols of barley. A. slow trade, a t about former prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....sos Od 33s Od 1 28s Od Second ..52s 6d 34s 6d 29s Od Third....62s Od —s Od 31s Od COAL M. .ARKET. the close of the market. (rrioes of Coal per Ton at s. d. BOwer's West H artleyls 0 Craighead Steam 13 6 Carway and Duffryn. Malting 23 0 Do. Anthracite 21 0 Byass's Bebside West liTanfi°HlYwaretledlileYl4..o..e..r. ************ :15 1 5 3 (9;1 0 Davison's West Hart ley ..15 0 Grey's West Hartley.. 14 6 alker Primrose 12 6 Eden Main ...15 6 Wylara ..16 0 Cowpen Hartley 15 0 North Percy Hartley 12 6 Hastings Hartley l5 0 s. d. Ships at marker Walls End. South Kelloe.. l6 0 Kelloe .............. l6 3 Cassop . l6 0 Framwealgate l5 6 Hetton .. l7 0 South Hetton.... 17 0 Eden l5 6 Tunstall Trimdon Hartlepool ..16 3 Hartlepool 16 3 16 3 Caradoc . acorn Close .. 15 6 Hedley .. 15 0 Braddyll's Hetton 16 0 Stewart's 16.. 6 Trimdon Thornley... •11 6 Whitworth. l5 0 Heugh Hall . • l5 6 , 98 ; sold, 61 FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton....... Avg. 18. via Marseilles .ciraAil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Sept. 3. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Sept. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Seuthampton.Sept. 3. via Marseilles ...Aug. 28. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Aug. 29. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sept. 3. via Marseilles Aug. 28. India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles Aug. —. Lisbon .. .. Supt . 3. ' Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 29. via Marseilles Aug. —. Newfoundland .... Oporto and Vigo . Aug. —. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Aug. 28. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Aug. 27. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept 10. Bahamas, via New Yak .... Aug. 28. Mexico Aug. 28. }Aug. 28. All parts of West Indies, incluang Chili, Peru, California, and British Columbia... ..... • • • ) TAXES troll TRAVELLING.—The produce of the taxes upon railways rose from £280,314, in 1852, to hd34,063, in 1857, and to £372,178 last year. The produce of the tax upon stage carriages has also risen from£ll4, B o7l in 1857, to £125,557 last year. PHOTOGRAPHY ON MONT BLANC.—We find is the Moniteur an interesting description of an ascent of Mont Blanc, effected on the 11th inst., by M. Bisson, an eminent photographer, who had already performed the feat last year, but was desirous of completing his collection of views. His progress as far as the Grands-Mulets was not marked by any particu lar incident: he took various views from different points, and then proceeded to tee Passage des Echelles, where he and his party crossed the ravines, some 300 feet deep, crawling on horizontal ladders one by one on their hands and feet. Their further progress to the Dome du Goutte was, however, impeded by an unforeseen incident. A bridge of ice and snow, which had hitherto served as a passage to the Grand Plateau had broken down, and they found a yawning abyss, from 45 to 155 feet in width, be fore them. No other passage seemed possible, and M. Sisson was on the point of giving up the adventure, when he was hailed by three of his men who, unperceived, had. sought a convenient place, and, with their hatchets, hewed out a path, by which they had succeeded in gaining the icy crest of the Mont Maudit. They soon descended the rocks on the other side, and threw ropes to their comrades, by which the luggage was hauled up. M. Bisson and the rest of the party followed the new but dangerous path, which brought them two hours sooner to the Grand Plateau. There, new difficulties awaited them; they bad to hew 800 steps, and ascend the side of the corridor, which in some places had an inclination of 50 degrees. On reach ing the end of the corridor, they vi ere assailed by an icy cold wind. On arriving at the summit after some further labour, M. Bisson found to his regret that the silver of hie plates was crystallised, the temperature having suddenly fallen 10 degrees Centigrade, although it was exactly noon. At two p.m. he re-descended the summit, but visited it again on the 14th, and returned to Chamounix on the 15th without any further accident. BIRTHS. BENTHAM.—On the 24th inst., at King William• street, city, Mrs. Wm. Bentham, of a daughter. BORIVICK.—On the 25th inst., at Walthamstow, Mrs. A. Borwick, of a daughter. Mossor.—On the 24th inst., the wife of Mr. Charles Mos sop, solicitor, of 1, Ironmonger-lane, and Oakley Lodge, Chelsea, of a daughter. MoNcK.—On the 23d inst,, at 37, Fitzwilliam-place, Dub lin, the wife of the Hon. R. Monck, Coldstream fruards, of a son. MARRIAGES. at St.Jarnes's Church, Piccadilly, Pennisto, only son ofDunn, lato DurtN—V/Nun.—On the 21st inst., of Windsor, to Catherine, only child of Mr. C. Vine'', Westbourne-park Villas, Bayswater. W lLL lAlus—PEctio v En. — On the 23d inst , at All Souls' Ch ur ch, Langham-place, Henry: Williams, to Susan, second daughter of Edmund Peckover, Maddox street, Hanover-square. DEATHS. ALLAN.—Oh the 22d inst., at M e lf or t House, Argyllshire , 54. Esq., of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Alexander Allan, a ged BUCKLE —On the 22d inst. at Bath, Henrietta the eldes t daughter of the late Admiral Buckle, aged 63 ' . CARTWRIGHT.—On the 22d inst., at Horncastle, Georg° Cartwright, Esq., aged 49. JERvls.—On the 24th inst, at 14, Bedford street, Bedford square, Wm. Ramsay Jervis, Esq. MAWSON.—On the 23d inst., at St. John's-wood, S. g• Altpvson, Esq., aged 71. MONCK.—On the 23d inst., William Frederick, infant so n. of the Hon. R. Monck , oldstream Guards. WRIGHT.—On the 22d inst., at his residence, 6, Pont-at/ Belgrave-square, Mr. William Scarlett Wright, age LONDON; Printed and Published by JOHN CHAPLIN , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TuE SUN Office No. 11% Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the_Cotaity of Micialedex.—Wuesclay, August 26, 1562. 11 L . i