The Sun. — London, England, 1862-11-01 00:00:00

11 IVES of EMINENT STATESMEN, by THOS. HOOD, Esq., in FUN, every week. Nov Ready, handsomely bound in Magenta cloth, gilt, price 4s. 6d. ; post free, 58., the SECOND half-yearly VOLUME of FUN , with numerous Engravings by talented artists, and humor ous Articles by the following distinguished writ e r s : W. Bailey, Esq. W. S. Gilbert, Esq. W. Barber. Esq, T. Hood, Esq. E. 1,. Blanchard, Esq. T. S. Jerrold, Esq. G. W. Brici-genaan, Esq. W. J. Prowse, Esq. F. C. Burnand, Esq. Godfrey Turner, Esq. U. J. Byron, Esq. &a, dm, &c. Office, 80, Fleet-street, London. • *. For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN This Evening, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Commence at 8. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Ibis Evening, at Seven, THE COLLEEN BAWN. And at half-past Nine THE RELIEF OF LUCKNOW. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. After which, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With DUCK HUNTING, And JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening . , THE GREEN BUSHES. Followed by THE SHILLING DAY. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening, WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A WAY. After which, THE LOVE CHASE. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening. IT MUST BE TRUE, 'TWAS IN TIIE PAPERS. Followed by PEEP O'DAY. To conclude with KILLARNEY. _ Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Evening, MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Concluding with a Comic Ballet. Commence at 7. W. S. WOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic Hall, King William-street, Charing-cross. Commence at 8. ARGYLL ROOAIS, Great Windmill-street, Hay. market. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing,. CANTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.— Grand Operatic Selection and Cantata -Unsworth, Eugene, and Daley, the great comic trio, Sic. Commence at 7. THE OXFORD, 6, OXFORD -STREET, EVERY EVEN ING.—Donizetti's "Don Sebastien," and other grand Operatic Selections, with full band and chorus.—The comic performance of Miss Caroline Parkes—Mr. Maclagan's En tertainment Drew Dean, the youthful Flutist-1J nsworth, the original of "any other man," &c. Commence at 7. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE AND AMPHI• THEATRE.— Olmar every Evening. -Grand Musical En. tertainment, 60 performers. Commence at halt-past 7. NOTICE. All remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 9b. 27m.—Afternoon, 10h. 6m To-MORROW.-Morning, 10h. 44m.—Afternoon, Ilh. 18m 7)-- . lV''‘ % \ ? 1.4: , 1 MAI, ~ ,r ~ „..., ‘, . ~, • ----,...„.,....., ~, rarr-110 ~ K ‘4 , "'VT -4 c: , , ,, .t.: , • ""' ..."`" --:.'g r '":' , ' ~ ; 1 ' 1 4 ‘il , ,•1 110 . -: 43, `- .., THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 1862. The Persia brings us more information of poli• tical than of military fighting ; though, as . is too often the ease, military appointments, and therefore military measures and successes are influenced by political considerations. The right man for the right place is interpreted in America, with the qualification, if he be right poli tically. We do not affirm that such considerations are forgotten in England, rarely indeed however, we imagine, in the exigencies of actual service. A Radical NAPIER could be as safely sent to suppress a Chartist insurrection, and could serve as willingly under the Tory Lord ELLENBOROTIGII in India, as the veriest old Tory General in the army. We have no doubt that such is also the spirit of trained soldiers in America. M'CLELLAN, being a Demo crat, is unpopular with the dominant or republican party—being in a position to achieve for himself a high position, if successful, he is viewed with jealousy by the Secretary for War, as a probably dangerous rival in a contest for the Presidency, and therefore we find meetings of Republicans de manding the recalling of M'CLELAN, and Mr. STANTON threatening to withdraw from the Cabinet if IVPCLELLAN be not removed. Worse, indeed, than this—the charge against Mr. STANTON has never been disproved that he intentionally withheld reinforcements from M'CLELLAN, and certainly hin dered M'DowELL from co-operating with him when the former was before Richmond. At the present moment the State elections are in progress, and the conflict is very warm and very important. The PRESIDENT was elected solely in consequence of a split in the great Democratic party, which the Convention at Charleston for se lecting a candidate, rendered incurable. Will being in opposition re-unite the party ? If it does, they will run the Republicans very hard, and, perhaps, beat them. And if they beat them at these State elections, they will beat them also at the elections for Congress, at least this is the usual and natural result. The consequence would be, not as here, the resignation of the Ministry, much less of the PRE SIDENT—for the Administration of America is, to a great extent, independent of Congress, and its mem bers do not sit in it—the consequence would be that Congress would not pass the measures recom mended by Mr. LINCOLN. The recent emancipa tion Proclamation, as it is often called, though it little deserves that name, is necessarily a condi tional measure. Congress must give Mr. LINCOLN the requisite powers, though, if he wanted them without its sanction, he would probably, regard ing it as a military measure, assume that it fell within his ,province, as Commander-in- Chief of the army. His proposals are, however, to be laid before Congress, and on its assent will doubtless depend their being carried out or not. T he present political battle is, therefore, serious indeed. It is to decide the question whether the Nor th will abolish slavery, so far as the Northern State s undoa ga.t it, where the States remain in rebel lion th e Union. The Democratic party fight for ' 's the Union as it was," the Republican party tae as the i r motto, " The Union at any cost." The Democrati c , b een d o i ng his beet'e h i therto for what Mr. LINCOLN has to attain. He has re solutely, till this l ast *Lore set his face against all proposals to convert for c ibly the Slave States into Free States. He has sho wn great fear of the black population being left free o he hands of the American people, ample room as there is to empl oy them profitably as free labour ers; l er i s : :: th deonfessedly be was coerced by his party to Imitable p ro clamation which proposes to reward • loy a l penitent slaveholding States with the blessing and boon of continued slavery , and to punish Er and disloy a l States with the curse of emancipation. Yet even this milk and water proclamation was fat too much for the Democratic or pro -slavery party; many also among the Republicans are either opposed to it or doubtful of its policy, and probably if party were completely ignored, Mr. liNCOL N would find him self in a decided minority. It is h a rdly likely however, that this will be the case. vrh a t We anti cipate is that the general feeling will be to suppo rt the responsible PRESIDENT. To this will be a dded exasperation with S out h ern successes, an d a deter mination to avenge t item in the only way now open to the North, that of laying its hand on the guilty cause of Southern rebellion. For the present probably the North will have so much to do in attending to its elections that it will half forget military matters. If this result in leav ing the' generals more unfettered, so much the better; but there will probably be danger of the cabinet also neglecting its war duties in attention to elections. Whether this at all accounts for M'CLEL LAN's complaining that he is unable to advance be cause his troops are in want of shoes and other necessaries," we cannot tell. We only note the concurrence of the two things, and suggest that the concurrence is probably not fortuitous. Perhaps the South will not, however, permit this inactivity. LEE and STONEWALL JACKSON may think it good policy to be active militarily, while the North is busy politically. Or, they may take just the other view, and think it wiser not to do anything which should irritate the North into a unanimous support of the PRESIDENT'S policy. We shall not know yet for some weeks how this great political battle, on which so much of the conduct of the war hinges, will bo decided. And with such an impulsive and versatile people, to hazard any opinion on the result would be absurd. How nearly parties are balanced may be seen in the statement that even in Pennsylvania, where the South has re cently taken such liberties with public property, although many counties have voted, the result is yet uncertain. Our readers will see that the hotly Protectionist member for West Norfolk has been to visit the Marshland deluge, and at an agricultural meeting near Lynn let forth a deluge of his oratory on the assembled farmers,:respecting America,North,South, slavery, abolition, but above all, Democracy. It is amusing to see the Protectionist telling his audience, incapable of contradicting him, that abolition of slavery in the West Indies deteriorated the condi tion of the slave ! Was there no one to set against his ignorance the knowledge of the Governor of Jamaica, who in a recent despatch tells us that as regards the improvement of the negro, emancipa tion has been a complete success, beyond all that its most ardent advocates could have expected ? The same genius imforms that we abolished protec tion on sugar, and equalised the duties that we might get the advantage of slave grown sugar. Does he not know that we found it impossible to exclude slave grown sugar ? that if we would not take it direct, it came to us indirectly, and that its origin could not be proved. It was the abolition of the protection which galled Mr. BENTINCK and the glorious fifty,—those immortalised as the cannon balls which could be neither forged, nor melted, nor even used to mend roads. The Synth, Mr. BEN TINCK says, are fighting for liberty. Indeed ! Then it must be the liberty to flog, work, buy, sell, and breed for sale, four millions of their fellow creatures at their absolnte will and pleasure. The North, it is too true, has not yet been fighting against slavery, but it is equally true that the South is fighting for'the power to treat negroes like cattle, and for nothing else. Had there been no slavery the " sectional" election could never have taken place. Had there been no slavery the oligarchy who were beaten at the ballot-box would not have existed. Mr. BENTINCK ought to know well that oligarchy, not democracy, is responsible for this war. The slaveholders are the Tories of America. The mean whites are their serfs, while the blacks are their slaves_ We strongly suspect that Mr. BENTINCK, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, and all their Tory friends, are quite aware of this ; and what they really desire is to recognise the Toryism of America, black as its cause is, as the victors over democratic freedom. Murder upon murder The sailor's wife at Glas gow, JESSIE M'LACIILAN (found guilty and sen tenced to death for the brutal murder of her friend), has only just been respited—when the London sweep, SAMUEL GARDNER (found guilty and sen. tenced to death for the brutal murder of his wife), is strongly recommended to mercy. There is surely something maudlin and morbid in this strange and startling sympathy for criminals of the most atro cious character, now perpetually tending to inter rupt the course of justice. In each of these instances the inquiry has been most calm, searching, and deliberate. In each instance the guilt has been brought home quite plainly to the accused—so plainly that the jury have had no alternative but distinctly to deliver in a verdict of Guilty, the judge thereupon pronouncing sentence of death, and doing so with the most emphatic expression of his coinci dence with the opinions of the jurymen, and with the most positive declaration of his own absolute convic tion that the sentence of death was deserved. Yet, in spite of Trial, of Verdict, of Doom—in defiance of fact and reason—an unwholesome sympathy has been evinced of late for the wretched creature, in each instance convicted and condemned. We hesitate in no way to write thus frankly in re gard to the guilt brought home to JESSIE APLACHLAN and SAMUEL GARDNER, because we take it for granted now, under the peculiar circumstances attendant upon each case, that neither JESSIE NPLACIILAN nor SAMUEL GARDNER will die the death by the hands of the common hangman. Astounding though the double respite of the former undoubt edly appears to us—in the face of the evidence brought forward against her, of the verdict pro nounced by the jury, and of the sentence deli vered in such unwonted terms by the judge be fore whom the miserable woman was tried—in comprehensible though the recommendation of the sweep GARDNER to mercy, accompanyin g the very verdict declaratory of his guilt, cannot also but appear to us—there can be little doubt now that both SAMUEL GARDNER and JESSIE M`LACII LAN will escape from having to pay th e extreme penalty of the law. Both of these convicted murderers have protested in the most positive and explicit manner—they still, to this moment, protest in the most positive and explicit manner—their innocence. Each of the two accuses another of the crimes for which they have been themselves respectively found guilty and sentenced! SAMUEL GARDNER endeavours to fix the crime of the murder of his unfortunate wife upon his own adulterous paramour, ELIZABETII HUMBLER. While JESSIE APLACHLAN distinctly charges an old man eighty-seven years of age, Mr. JOHN FLEMING, the father of her former master, with the cruel and inhuman murder of her intimate friend, JESSIE ikITHERSON. The latter acct.(' sation, it will be remembered, was made in a very elaborate and also in a very unusual manner im mediately before the close of this cause celebre at Glasgow. Directly after JESSIE ll'Lammax had been found guilty by the jury, directly before the judge pronounced sentence of death upon her in consequence of that verdict, the e counsel nof for the pr i soner read aloud, by permission the Court, a long and carefully prepared paper written by the prisoner—a paper written by he r during theprogress of the trial, that is, of course, upon the occasion of her nightly return to her cell ; a paper i n which, ai ded by th e f ac t s b roug h t to light during the trial, JEssiE APLACHLAN told an entirely new story of the whole transaction. The argument of the defence b een, throughout the trial had that sh e , the accused, knew nothing whatever about the crim e which had been THE SUN, LONOOSATTJDAY EVENBC,I, NOVENIBEa 1 , 1862. committed. During the night between Friday the 4th of July and Saturday the sth of July, the unfortunate victim, JESSIE MTHERSON, a poor serving-woman, thirty-five years of age, was murdered with the most brutal violence, having been chopped to death with blows from a cleaver, on the kitchen floor of No. 17, Sandyford- place, Gl‘s gow. JESSIE M`LACHLAN, immediately know ledge of the murder bas been ascertained, is proved to have pawned certain plate, known to have been stolen from the house in which her unhappy f r i en d had been butchered. Clothes belo ng i ng to the deceased are found in the possession of the accused JESSIE INl‘ LACHLAN. Her own clothes, the raiment which she had worn on the day of the murder, were found bloodstained and torn up into shreds in the field some distance from Glasgow several days afterwards. JESSIE MiLACIILAN, however, declares, in spite of these facts, that she has no knowledge whatever of what has occur red ; that upon the night of the murder she never went near the house in which it was perpetrated, sleeping in her own bed, in her own room, far away from 17, Sandyford-place. She persists in these statements until the jury have declared her guilty, and then, before the Judge can pronounce sentence upon her, then, but not before then, she delivers in a formal cut-and-dried state ment of a totally different kind—giving the lie to all her former declarations—declaring that she does know all about the atrocity of which she has been accused—giving the most minute account of how it had been perpetrated by the old man (seat. 87!), Mr. JOHN FLEMING, recounting his motives even for doing it, and the manner in which, and the threats by which the hoary mur derer had compelled her to become parti ceps crimints, as an accomplice after the fact pledged to its concea Iment. Nobody can have for gotten the emphatic declaration with which the Judge swept aside the whole of this specious but too-ingenious statement of the murderess. " I never knew an instance," said he, "in which the state. merits made by prisoners after their conviction were anything else than, in their substance, falsehoods/ A writer in the current number of the Cornhill after a most careful analysis of all the various particu lars brought forward in evidence during the four days' trial of JESSIE M'LACHLAN, on the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 22d of last September, thus sums up the case against the accused according to that same evidence : "The murder was probably committed by a wont an with a foot like hers, on Saturday morning, towards four o'clock, for the sake of stealing the plate and dresses. She was out of her own home all that night. She was next day in possession of the plate and dresses. Her clothes were stained with blood, and she took steps to conceal them. She gave a false account of the way in which her time was spent, a barely credible account of the way in which she got the plate, an improbable ac count of the way in which she got the clothes, and some thing which amounted to nt accoont at all of her reasons for disposing as she did of her own clothes. The elaborate evidence given at the trial all condenses itself into this short statement, and no one can be surprised that after a quarter of an hour's consideration she should have been unanimously convicted by the jury of murder and theft." On the other hand the writer in the Conahtll observes, in regard to the infamous charges now directed against Mr. JOHN FLEMING by the woman still under sentence of death (but twice respited), that— " On reviewing the whole case, it certainly does appear that it would be very hard measure indeed to believe old Mr. Fleming to be guilty on the strength of the prisoner's statement. It is full of the most glaring improbabilities. In the first place, she said nothing about Fleming's guilt till after her own conviction ; but, on the contrary, denied all knowledge whatever of the murder, and accounted for her possession of the plate by the incredible story about Fleming's bringing it to her to be pawned. In the next Pico.., it is cicAr that, ncoorfiinv, to her own account, she was either a principal in the second degree, or at least an accessory after the fact; for she not only tried to conceal the crime, but tried to turn it to her own advantage by ap propriating the money for which the plate was pawned, and having her friend's dress dyed for her own wear. Thus, taken at the best, the story is the incorroborated evidence of an accomplice, given under the most suspicious circumstances conceivable. Besides this, the story bears every mark of having been concocted during and after the trial. It accounts for every fact which was given in evidence, small and great, on none of which had her previous declaration thrown any light whatever. If her story had been true, and if, accord ing to the case now set up for her, she was not in want of money at the time, is it conceivable that she would have run the risk of concealing the murder of her intimate friend, and have gone to great danger to do so, for the sake of L; ? That a very wicked person might commit a mur der for very trifling booty is what daily experience teaches us ; but it is hardly conceivable that the unwilling witness of a most brutal murder, committed on her most intimate friend, should coolly undertake the risk and guilt of con - cealment for such a consideration. The conduct attributed to old Mr. Fleming is as extraordinary as that which the prisoner asserts of herself. If ho did commit the murder in the way described, and if he meant to throw the blame on robbers, he would in all probability have taken the first opportunity of discovering the body and sending for the police. He could have done so without producing any suspicion. His not doing so for three whole days is just what might be expected from the sluggishness and torpor of extreme old age, but is utterly inexplicable if he were really guilty. He must have known that when his son came home on th• Monday, the body would be found, and that, in the absence of explanation, suspicion would fall on him—a suspicion which would be greatly removed if he made the discovery and gave the alarm at once." Nevertheless, under the influence of some strange, incomprehensible, morbid sympathy with the wretched woman convicted of this most atrocious murder—thousands have been led to attach a value to these lying accusations. Thousands have peti tioned in consequence (and successfully) for a re- prieve of the condemned, with a view to a reinves- tigation! And by reason of this marked sym- pathy and excitement among the sympathisers to the end that JESSIE NPLACHLAN'S life may be saved--this heinous criminal is tenderly guarded from the gallows accordingly. The jury yesterday, who, in pronouncing a verdict of guilty against SAMUEL GARDNER (f.)r the murder of his wife), took occasion (why, no one can in the least imagine) strongly to recommend the wife-murderer to mercy, have, out of the same morbid sympathy, done the like by him that the Scotch sympathisers with JESSIE M'LACIILAN have done by her. Dr. SMETHURsT was not more manifestly gu ilty than either of these wretched criminals. But then, it must be confessed, Dr. SMETHURST still walks freely among his fellow-men—what, through formally found guilty of a most execrable murder, and justly condemned to death in conse quence. CELESTINE SUMMERS again —the wretch who brutally murdered the poor girl in the coal- cellar—was she not also spared from paying the penalty of her most heinous guilt— by reason of some mysterious interposition in her behalf? And the "gentleman" who, a few years ago murdered his wife upon the seashore at Ireland's Eye—was not he allowed the boon of escaping from the hangman's hand by having his sentence commuted. It is an excusable system of weakness all this—in carrying out the criminal law, or rather in merely affecting to carry it cut. And while these opportunities of escape for criminals are being perpetually held out to murderer after murderer, without a shadow of valid reason or justification —one wonders less that violent passions have their fling, undeterred from the perpetration of crime, through a terror of what ought to be a firm and eTen• handed, and consistent, and inexorable award of punishment. The great game question is still discussed with vigour in Norfolk. Mr. HOWE, one of the county members, it will be remembered, was almost hooted down at the North Walshßm agricultural meeting for avowing that he suprorted the Night Poaching Act in the late session. Mr. C. S. READ was as vehemently cheered for telling the landlords present some home truths on their treatment of the tenant farmers, of whom Mr. READ is one, and especially on this matter of game. Mr. HowE, apparently taken quite aback at finding a tenant farmer not afraid to spetik out, though pressed to reply, de ferred doing so till " a more convenient season." The convenient season, for a wonder, actually came. At another agricultural meeting, held not far off, Mr. HOWE, who had, of course, been study ing his speech all this time, delivered his defence— it was, however, but a lame story. He had to con fess that Norfolk did not need the bill, and thus apologised for any apparent insult to Norfolk farmers. But his chief object was to defend game laws ; and the chief defence was that game brought the squires down into the country, and kept them there ; and what a loss would the country suffer if they were to become absentees. The worthy member seemed to forget how much was assumed in his argument-Ist, The value of resident proprietors; 2d, their being drawn to their estates by game only —a rather poor compliment to their sense and patriotism ; 3d, the impossibility of preserving game except by artificial, cruel, and unnatural laws. Country squires, are not, how ever, much famed far beyond the immediate objects. Mr. C. S. READ, however, was also fully pre pared for a reply. After reading the landlords an honest and practical lesson on their taking the highways out of the ratepayers' hands by their new Highway Act, and thus placing in the hands of the magistrates the power to tix the unrepre sented parishes, he returned to his old charge on the game laws. He demunced, amidst loud cheers, hares as ruinous to farmer, and rabbits as nothing but vermin. Peasants were a costly luxury, but partridges were more beneficial than irjurious to the farmer, and excellent sport. But as to the new law, it was an attempt to make the police gamekeepers at the pubic expense. Mr. READ was willing to have a good trespass law—he did not object to game being made property—but he insisted that as the game on a farm or an estate would let at a certain sum per annum, it ought to he assessed to the rates ;o that amount, if it employed the police to protectit. He was also for charging the expense of game prosecutions on the preservers of game. Evidently we shall have a little warm discussion on the matter next session. It is satisfactory to know that st any rate there will be no interdict of any manifestation of loyalty that may be thought of as advisable among the people, upon the occasion of the now fast approach ing birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince of WALES. An inquiry having been recently addressed to the Lord Chamberlain as to whether the custo mary dinner among his H.R.H.'s Tradesmen might be proceeded with according to annual custom, that Court functionary, it appears, has replied at once, " that although the event will not be cele berated with any Court ceremonial or festivities during the present time of mourning, there will be no objection to any mark of respect or attachment which individnals or societies may desire to show in commemoration of the coming of his Royal Highness." Next year no doubt will tend to com pensate, in a great measure, for the one now draw ing to its close—a year of gloom in many respects and for many reasons. Politically and socially alike, a year deserving of but very slight record or remembrance. The death of the lamented Prince Consort, the gloom overshadowing the Court in consequence of that demise, the mise ries resulting (among our own people) from the American war, miseries especially felt in the north of in Lancashire —th ese and Eng otherandcircumstances, particularlyhav have tended to d ar k en th e year of grace 1862—a year only partially rendered satisfactory by reason of its being the year of the Great International Exhibition. 1863, howe;7er, will come to us all, let us hope, compensatively. And already auspiciously conspicuous among the items even now marked down upon the programme for the the nation, te is he th s a e t le omneised ear l y i n the springe giving us prosp ec t o f between H.R.H the Prince of WALES and the Princess ALEXANDRA of DENMARK. With those nuptials in view, the nation will have less reason to regret the gloom still overshadowing the date will attain his ma jworhniety, n month of November the en heir the n t i o et t h he a C t r h ow e which has this day commenced. CONCER2' OF NATIONAL MELODIES. A grand concert of national melodies—English, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh —.was given on Thursday evening at the St. James's Hall, 400 members of the Vocal Association, and other principal metro politan choral societies, taking part in the perfor mances, accompanied by a band of 20 harps, played by the most eminent performers in London. Among the vocalists were Madame Rudersdorff, Miss Palmer Lisle, Madame Laura Baxter, and Mr. Thomas Lawler. About the most brilliant suc cess of the evening was, without doubt, the glori ous war lyric, " Scots wha hae." One after an other, however, the various national melodies excited the audience to a display of enthusiasm. The Queen of the night was, of course, Madame Rudersdorff. ILLNESS OF ME DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.-NOT TINGILtK, Friday.—We regret to announce that yesterday his Grace the Duke of Newcastle was seized with an alarm ing attack of bronchitis. His Grace arrived at Nottingham in the morning in order to be present at the distribution of prizes this day in connection with the middle .class exami nations, and as usual he stayed at the George the Fourth Hotel. During the day the anniversaries of the General Hospital and the Midland Institution for the Blind were held, and the Duke's absence was particularly noticed. It appeared that his Grace, on his arrival at Nottingham, was attacked with bronchitis, and was obliged to keep his bed during the day. Medical attendance was obtained, and towards evening yesterday it was feared that his Grace's illness was of a somewhat serious character. Dr. Robert son left the Duke about nine o'clock last night, and he ex pressed his opinion, as the result of his visit, that it was desirable to telegraph to his Grace's relatives respecting his condition. PAISLEY SHAWLS IN THE GREAT EXHIBITION.— A report has been some time in circulation that Messrs. Farmer and Rogers, proprietors of the celebrated shawl shop in Regent-street, have become the purchasers of numerous cases of prize medal shawls in the Exhibition. This is partially true, inasmuch as a notice has to-day been affixed to the case cf Messrs. Kerr, Scott, and Kilner, the great shawl-makers of Paisley, announcing that this firm was now selling the contents at manufacturers' prices ; and, to judge from the extraordinary rush of anxious buyers very few of the handsome shawls will remain unsold. The following extract from the Jury Award Book, which ac companied a medal to these manufacturers, cannot fail to be interesting to all persons who are anxious to possess some article of worth and utility as a souvenir of the Great Inter national Exhibition of 1862. To the goods of no other manufacturer, British or foreign, have such Pattering re marks been applied :—"For a remarkably fine collection of woven shawls in all textures, stamped with the character of cheapness or superiority, and the highest degree of skill in manufacture." THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JAMES DUKE, BART., M.P.—On Thursday, in consequence of the marriage of Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., which took place at St. Mary's Church, Islington, the churchwardens of St. Sepulchre and St. Bride's, in recognition of the hon. gentleman's services as alderman of the ward, and as one of the members of the House of Commons for the City, caused the bells of St. Sepulchre and St. B r id e ' s to ring out merry peals. Sir James, who wa s never b efore married, is in hie 71st year, having been born in 1792, LATEST NEWS. ATHENS, OCT. 31. The Provisional Government is everywhere re cognised throughout Greece. The citizens and University students have orga nised a guard for the capital. The private property of the King and Queen has been delivered to their Majesties. PARIS, OCT. 31 La France of this evening says " We have reason to believe that the Chevalier de Nigra has expressed to M. Drouyn de Lhuys the regret felt by the Cabinet of Turin at the circular of Gen. Durando having been addressed to France. " The explanation was perfectly well received by the French Government. "It is asserted that France will reply to the cir cular by a note, to be delivered by M. de Sartiges at Turin, stating the ideas and intentions of the Government of the Emperor." BERLIN, OCT. 31. The Official Staalsanzieger of to-day announces the appointment of Count von Bernstorff as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Prussia at the Court of St. James. CASSEL, oar. 31. In yesterday evening's private sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the following members were chosen to form the Permanent Committee : Herren Nebelthau, Friedrich Oetker Henzele, Zuishlag, and Hartwig. A committee of eleven members was also selected to prepare the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. THE BRAZILS. (PER THE MAGDALENA.) BUENOS AYRES, SEPT. 28. The Presidential elections have resulted in the re turn of General Mitre and D. Marcos Pas for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency ; the former una nimously, and the latter by a large majority. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer Pera, Capt. Jamieson, has arrived, bring ing these mails, 56 passengers, 1,045 bales silk, 1,500 bags wheat, 100 boxes oranges, eight boxes valuables, 42 cases silk handkerchiefs, 50 barrels dates, and 117 packages sundries. The Pera left Alexandria on the 19th ult.; Malta, 22d ; Gibraltar, 26th. On the 24th, at 8 p.m., passed her Majesty's ship Edgar, bound to Malta ; 30th, at 7 a.m., the steam ship London, steering S.W.; and at 11 a.m., on the 30th, passed the steamship Urban, steering S.W. Her Majesty's ships Foxhound, Wanderer, and Alacrity were at Malta ; and the Black Prince, Warrior, Liffey, and Procris at Gibraltar. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, hence on the 20th, arrived at Gibraltar on the 26th, at 4 p.m., and left for Malta the same evening. Exchange on London, 50:4 ; Paris, sf. 28c.; Marseilles, sf. 30c.; Genoa, sf. 30c. AUSTRALIA. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. A pilot, landed here this morning, reports that the ship Stratheden, Captain George H. Pile, from Sydney, passed up Channel yesterday for London. She was 10 miles off the Bill of Portland at 2 p.m. yesterday, under all sail, with a light, easterly wind. The Stratheden left Sydney July 24, rounded Cape Horn September 3, and crossed the line October 4. She has 24 passengers, £30,000 in golddust, 1,406 bales wool, 12,000 hides, 400 tons tallow, and sundries. In lat. 49.20 N., long. 6.5 W., passed a ship showing pendant No. 8,139, bound West. Saw ice on three different occasions in lat. 55 S. FRANCE. BOURSE, October 31.—The struggle between the Bears and Bulls to-day has been severe. At the commencement of business an improvement was ob tained, and Threes went up to 70f. 90c., but sales soon afterwards commenced, and they speedily again declined, and are now at 70f. 70c. There has been little doing in Railway shares, but the variations have not been material. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents 9B Do. end month..... 3 per Cents - 70 95 Do. end month 7O 90 New 3 per Cents - Do, end month.... Credit Mobilier 1201 25 Do, end month 1200 - RA ILI Bank Shares 3250 -- Credit Poncier 1237 50 Piedmontese Fives 72 25 Italian Loan 72 80 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes..., Home Debt rA.YB. Cash. Account. Orleans lO5O .. 1048 75 Northern New. ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1182 50 .. 1180 G-Pwwa Southern 866 25 .. 867 50 Western Eastern .... - Sardinian Austrian Lowboy] North of Spain Saragossa 621 25 .. 625 Ditto to Barcelona 662 50 .. 355 -- POLAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS) WARSAW, OCT. 21. The more light is thrown upon the order issued that the recruiting should almost exclusively be limited to the town inhabitants, the more con vincing proofs exist of that measure being taken without the knowledge of the CL until of State. This again shows that the members of that body have no powers whatever to exercise, but are so many nominees, appointed for the purpose of en dorsing any law or regulation that it may please the Government to enact. Still some of the mem bers, stung as it were with the insignificance of their position, boldly raised their voices at the last sitting of the Council of State by demanding some rule whereby the Executive would be prevented from acting as they did in the matter of recruiting. General Lewinski and Archbishop Telinski both asked for explanation why their motions to the effect, as above stated, had not been inserted in tho minutes of the last Council ; and the Marquis Wielopolski stated that the Grand Duke Constan tine had not yet decided upon the question at issue —a mere subterfuge on the part of the Marquis, since everything that passed at the meeting should, in the regular course of business, have been noted in the proceedings thereof. It is, therefore, clear that the cruel edict of selecting people only from towns to supply the first levy for the Russian army had never been brought under the considera tion of the Council of State, and is only the work of the Marquis Wielopolski and company, who are bent on persecuting the intelligent part of the po pulmtion as the most obnoxious to carrying out the G o vernment's satanical schemes. The anniversary of the death of Kosicuski, which occurred on the 13th inst., was kept as a day of national mourning. Funeral services were per formed in all the churches, and the police this time did not interfere, seeing it was useless, after so many attempts and failures, to try and stifle the national feeling. The deep mourning still con tinues throughout Poland in spite of the Govern ment paper recently started under the title o Drejs, which endeavours to ridicule every sentiment, and to assert that the public mourning patriotic denotes the dissatisfaction felt by the the peasants, con cessions made by the Emperor to rn . a . t ver mitigation has whereas it is notorious that whataocr been effected in the condition of the peasantry must be ascribed to the late Agricultural Society, whose reforms the government has now copied and intro duced. In the midst of all these persecutions and vexa tions of the Government and of the extreme pro ceedings of the red party, the absence of such a dis tinguished man as Count Andre Zamoyski is felt most deeply. Whether he exercised his powerful influence in moderating the excitement of the young and inexperienced, he to a certain extent kept a watchful eye on the arbitrary conduct of the Mar quis Wielopolski. Such a loss, temporary as it may be, cannot sufficiently be deplored by the whole country, No answer has as yet been vouchsafed by the Emperor to the address of the nobility of Podolia, but the Governor• General of the province loses no opportunity in revenging himself upon them by arrests of many persons who composed the last assembly which met at Kamieniac. Marshal Rons ker, who had been detained as prisoner in Kami eniac, is set at liberty ; his detention was an illegal act on the part of the Governor, according to the established regulations, which only invests the Em peror with such an authority. Here in Wsrsaw the state of siege assumes larger proportions. The cannon are planted on all public places, and the bayonets of the soldiers are bristling in every street. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 31. The Royal mail steamship Persia, from New York on the 22d inst., arrived here at 3.30 p.m. She brings 104 passengers and 1,009,240 dole, in specie. She landed 62 sacks of mails and three passengers, and proceeded at 3,50 for Liverpool. All well. The Persia made the passage from New York under nine days. NEW YORK, OCT. 21, EVENING. PER PERSIA. The Federal General Negley (P) reports that the Confederates, who had assembled at Lavergne, 15 miles east of Nashville, with the intention of assault ing the city, were attacked by the Federals on the 6th and routed, leaving 170 prisoners. The Confederate General Price is gathering troops at Holly Springs, Mississippi. on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The Confederate Congress has passed a resolu tion that President Davis would be sustained in resorting to such measures of retaliation as in his judgment may be demanded by Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, and the other barbarities of the enemy. A Confederate ram has been launched at Charles ton. The Confederate Congress has adjourned to the 13th November. The Federal Union party has nominated Xolah A Dix for Governor of New York. NEW YORK, OCT. 22, MORNING. The result of the election in Pennsylvania is un certain. The Stockbrokers' Committee has reported that Government desired that gold speculation should not be fostered on the Stock Exchange. It is sup posed that gold will be struck off the Stock list. Federal officers have been appointed to report to the State Department any cases of aliens actually drafted into military service and who claim exemp tion, Gen. APClellan's pickets have been extended two miles. An advance was considered probable. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. 22 (Morning), Money easy. Gold 341 prem. Exchange quiet Bankers' Bills 146 to 148. Illinois Shares 63 Breadstuffs rising. BANK NOTES. With regard to a complaint inserted to-day of the Bank of England, West-end branch, having refused to give change for a note, and of a condition having been exacted at the Bank of England itself that a person desiring change should write his name and address on the note, satisfactory explanations can be given. If the West-end branch were to hold itself liable to give gold for all the notes issued from the parent establishment, a stock of that metal of equal amount would have to be kept at both places. Moreover, the public would lose the advantage now derived from the facilities afforded for stopping stolen or lost notes, which involve a system of regis tration and examination such as could not, without great cost,inconvenience,and delay,be put in practice at more than the head institution. As to the demand that a person presenting a note should write his name and address upon it, the Bank of England have never asserted any legal right on the point. Looking at the great protection which it affords against fraud (and there are few persons in extensive business who have not in the course of their experience had illustrations of the advantage of it), they make the request in the interests of the public at the cost of some trouble to themselv( s. Of course, if any one should stubbornly refuse:to comply, the Bank have no choice but to pay their note, but they would naturally regard any such person with suspicion, and there can be little doubt that if they were to interpose some slight delay or to cause some watchfulness to be exercised, in such a case neither magistrates nor juries would be disposed to look with a favourable eye on any complaint by those who should needlessly subject themselves to such annoyance. With respect to the inconvenience which has been inflicted by railway companies and other establishments on the general public since the notification of the theft of Bank-note paper two or three months back there can be little doubt it has been carried to a vexatious extent, and has been used as a pretext by idle clerks and others to avoid trouble. In establishments where large sums are daily received in profitable transactions with the public it is a duty to employ persons of sufficient intelligence to know when to exercise especial vigi lance. Throughout the whole affair, although it was desirable fur the sake of justice that all persons taking Bank notes should use every convenient pre caution, the fright and inconvenience which the public have sustained have been almost ludicrous compared with the actual danger, since the whole amount of these notes brought in up to the present time is believed to have scarcely exceeded .£3oo(half of which were circulated in America before the notices of the robbery had been promulgated), while the amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank in consequence of the prevalent distrust is estimated at not much short of half a million.— Tunes. ACCIDENT TO AN EXCURSION TRAIN.—The last of tho series of day excursions to London, for the Interna tional Exhibition, by the West Midland 11ailway, on Wed nesday last, met with a mishap which caused considerable delay and some anxiety among the passengers. The train left Worcester at 6 o'clock in the morning, and had reached Charlbury, in Oxfordshire, when the engine became dis abled, and it was discovered that one of the wheels was loose, and likely to part company with the body of the en gine. Accordingly the train was brought to a stand, and, after some delay, occasioned in the fetching of a fresh en gine, the passengers proceeded on their journey, but did not reach Paddington until 1 o'clock instead of the adver tised hour, 10 a.m. Delay was also occasioned in the re• turn trip, which occupied six hours instead of four. CONFEDERATE VESSELS.—It Was rumoured in Liverpool on Wednesday that a mysterious steamer had just sailed from the Mersey "on a trial trip." It was re • ported, and believed by many, that the vessel is a sister ship to the notorious " 290," ali as th e Alabarn zealous inquiry has been mad e , we ca nnot trace therumu vessel to any reliable source.—Liverpool ifercut y.. [The She has a. n alluded to is the Columbia, of the Galway Although been rebuilt by Messrs. Laird, made trialor trip on Wednesday. The stanotus a recently rseemntleycy for theitculatl circulated respecting the building of ram s, &C., S c i o n n c t e r a t chtes desp have atch e e o u f t C h o e n f A e e a r b a a t m e o o v r e 2 m 9 e o n ; t , are r,o f f a u l r s t e h . e r —lt will be remeni h e Confederate drawingn.f derat e little en water,t areagents s u u r e c h h purchasing n t vesselshgec ld e dby fire on Friday, undertaken. T of known speed, andvestis,eilistEhlallotna:r,oCFfilidnueidDoaLwleAa,NsGpdierais)tffroeo,Gy&e. bered th e 24th ult., off Formby, near Liverpool, and that five of the crew per ished. On board there wa s a l arge Newfoundland d og , but it was gene ra lly b e li eved by those rescued from the wreck that the dog was lost. Such i ivass - found t d b h y some however, for on Saturd a y morning hee fishermen rambling a b out t h e shore at i Although the poor a n i ma l must have borneYtiahkeef u e ll h i e o s r h e e i r o e f . the terrific gale of Friday, and _swam an i mmense distance through a fearfully h eavy tea, be seemed Acme the moors©, THE INTERNA7IONAL EXHIBITION. It would seem as if people were now really sorry to part with their old friend the Exhibition. In the zenith of its fame it failed to draw the numbers which yesterday flocked to promenade in its foggy nave and admire the articles shown in the now dim twilight of its side courts. Yet one day more and the Exhibition will, as au exhibition, be closed for ever. It is useless for those who have not yet seen the contents of this really great display to flatter themselves with a notion that the 14 days of sale will afford them an opportunity. As an exhibition it closes to-day. The entrance to the picture gal leries and Western annexe will be fastened up to night, and the work of removing their contents commenced on Monday, on which day every exhi bitor will be at liberty to remove goods in cases which can be carried out from the building without the aid of carts or machinery. How many are anxiously waiting for that day may be guessed by the fact that on Thursday morning it was found necessary to issue a stringent order turning all packing-cases out of the building which had been smuggled in to be in readiness on Monday with the least possible delay. In spite of this, however, aby no means small proportion of the foreign goods is already packed, and there is no concealing the fact that from the English side a considerable number of the most costly and most perishable articles have been quietly gat out this week. Messrs. Minton remove their collection on Monday, and if the Wor cester Works, and those of Copeland, and Rose, and Daniell do not at once follow the example, it is because all the best of their magnificent works are sold, and the purchasers will themselves come for them daring the days of sale. Mr. Emanuel also takes out all his collection of plate and jewels on Monday, and many smaller exhibitors in this class will do the same. To-day, therefore, is emphati cally the last of the Exhibition. The days to come during the next two weeks will merely be of inte rest to those who, not having seen how an Exhibi tion is formed, may be curious to watch the process by which it is dismantled again. Yesterday the visitors were more numerous than they have ever been on any previous Friday. The total up to four o'clock was 32,811, of which 10,249 were by season tickets, and 25,562 were by pay ment at the doors. This brings up the total of visitors to 6,081,192, or just 51,000 more than the total numbers of 1851. Yesterday there was a very numerous attendance of what are termed distin guished visitors. Their Imperial Highnesses the Prince and Princess Napoleon were among the earliest arrivals, and remained until nearly dusk. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, the Duke of Suther land, with the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance Grosvenor, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury, &c., were also among the visitors. The only approach to formality in the closing which will be observed to-day is that at half-past four o'clock " God Save the Queen" will be sung by the members of the Sacred Harmonic Society, ac companied by the principal organs in the building. Beyond this simple performance—which, however, may be made exceedingly effective if care is taken —no ceremonial whatever will mark the last day of the Exhibition of 1862. We are glad to see that Mr. Story, the American artist, has now given his consent to photographs being taken of his two noble figures " the Cleo patra" and " the Sybil." Without these the photo graphic record of the sculpture of the Exhibition would have been sadly incomplete. One may judge of the popularity of these photographs of statues from the fact that the copies of the " Reading Girl" have had, and still have, such an enormous sale that the profits realised on this picture alone would more than repay the £2,000 paid to the Commissioners by the Stereoscopic Company for the right of pho tographing. Yet the orders for copies of "the Cleopatra" and •' the Sybil" are larger than this again. The subscription to Mr. Day's work on the industrial and artistic masterpieces of the Exhibi tion is completed, and Mr. Day has now announced. his intention of receiving ten more subscriptions for extra copies, the gross amount for which ten (£187) he will at once hand over to the Mansion... house Fund in aid of the distress in the cotton dis tricts. These ten subscriptions will be received any time to-day in the process court of the building. All those railway travellers who have in vain. endeavoured to master the mysteries of " Bradshaw," o to acquire a faniilarity with the railway language. will thank Mr. Leigh, of Golden-terrace, Dalston, for an in genious" Indicator," which he exhibits in Class 5 in the western annex. Mr. Leigh's indicator being hung up in a railway carriage is so contrived as to disclose the name of each station a few moments before the latter is reached, and thus to enable the passengers to ascertain the rate at which they are approaching, what every railway passenger desires—namely, the end of his journey. Mr. Leigh, having been overlooked by the jurors, has good lumouredly given a medal to himself, •of which the spectator will see the joke when he has inspected and satisfied himself as to the usefulness of the invention. ME7ROPOLITAN BOARD OF TVORKS. The weekly meeting of the board was held yes erday, Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. A report was brought up from the Streets Com. mittee recommending that 14 days previously to the consideration by the board of any applica tion for a license under the Petroleum Act, notice of such application be affixed by the officers of the board to the premises in respect to which the license shall be applied for, and a copy thereof also forwarded to the vestry or district board within o u l that te, it de legated to the whose jurisdiction the premi ses s h all be situate. Mr. Deputy HARRISON move d an addition to the motion, requiring the appli cants for such licenses to be responsible for the n o ti ces when placed. The addition having b een acceded to, was put by the chairman and agr ee d to. THE THAMES E MBANKMENT. Mr. FREEMAN m ove d " That it be referred to a committee, consisti ng o f the whole board, to take into considerati on an d report to the board upon any matters which th e b oar d may delegate, arising out of the Thame s E m b ankment Act of 1862. In sup port of his moti on , h e said he believed the best mode of proceedin g wou ld b e to have a committee to con sider the d e t a il s b e f ore any plans should be brought before them, an d a f ter the experience of last Tues day he wa s o f op i n i on that they ought at first to talk over th e su bj ect w i th their engineer, 8° as to et the a enable them to g i ve an i nte lli gent votewr board would h ave to determine the qu estion. As committee, he an instanc e o f t h e necess i ty of suc h thementioned embankment shouldthe e n be e i n ef cheaper recommendingee d a p er a a h ni n with sh n d granite, i d o be e e onwasa t o h o o n u a g n h it t at t i h o a n t w it it w h o t u h ld e b e e ngineer, g v i e n r e , very expensive w e were but ent were m a d e to be sa tisfied that gran it e w ould be en duringfaced withthan i r if on . the A e s n' t to a rik l what n powers h limited or unlimited like the Streets Com m i ttee , that was a question entirel y fo r the board. If the co mmittee were app ointe d they would come to the board from time to time and ask for f res h powers committee, whether they sh ould be as the necessity for them might arise, but it was absolutely necessary that they should have a com mittee to consider the detail s, who would bring up their report, giving in it the reason why they made certain recommendations, s o that the board might have the fullest information . before adopting them. Mr. BENNETT seconded the motion, and after considerable discussion the moti •altered, and on. was appointed on the Bth August to take into considera tion the report of the engineer, and to take any fur ther steps whichmight carrying be necessary for out the Thames Embankment Act. Some rout i ne matters were then disposed of, and the board adjourned. THE REV. F. D. MAURICE.—A contemporary now states that the Rev. Mr. Maurice will not give effect to the intention mentioned yesterday, but that he will re main the minister of St. Petei's, Vero-street. Although it appared at one time that a personal sacrifice might enable Mr. Maurice better to serve the church, and, in particular, would leave him free to protest against opinions which he holds to be erroneous and pernicious, and which are con trary to his public teaching, but which some persons per sist in tracing to his influence, it was never his desire to abandon its ministry.