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"F ' N , '' EVERY WEEK. ONE PENNY. CRYSTAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW (THURSDAY•) ONE SHILLING. Open from Nine in the Morning till late In the Evening. CRYS T A L P A (THU RSD L A C E.—TO-MORRO AY). Orchestral Band at 12'30 Great Organ Performance at 2.30 Display of Fountains at Orchestral Band at 5.0 CRYSTAL PALACE.—The GREAT FOUN TAINS TO-MORROW, at FOUR, will comprise the following : The Six Fountains on the Upper Terrace. The Two Prince of Wales' Fountains. The Large Central Bask et Fountain. The Two Graceful Water Temples. The Forty-eight Taeza Fountains. The Six Boiling Fountains. The Grand Cascades a nd Waterfalls. The Eight Dancin gFOUTltaltlS. And the whole of the varied and beautifully designed Foun tains and Cascades of the GREAT LOWER BASINS, which alone cover a surface of five acres, numbering Twelve Thou sand Jets, discharging One Million Nine Hundred Thousand Gallons of Water, including Les GRANDES EAUX, which attain the altitude of 234 feet. *** For full particulars of amusements see first page. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN, Will Open on Monday, Auzust 25, with Benedict's opera of THE LILY OF RILLARRNEY. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. 'This Evening, A KISS IN THE DARK. After which, the first part of the Arab Entertainment at half-past 7. To be followed by THE COLLEEN BAWN. To conclude with THE ARABS OF THE DESERT. A Troupe of the Beni- Zoug-Zoug,. Commence at 7. THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET. This Evening, FISH OUT OF WATER. After w hich, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. With CELOS VCALIA. And THE CHRISTENING. Commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI. This Evening, THAT BLESSED BABY. With MEDEA. Followed by THE PRETTY HORSEBREAKER. And THE SHILLING DA Co Y. mmence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evening, THE RENDEZVO T US. After which, at a quarter to 8, KING HENRY VIII. With THE WO POLTS. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. This Evening, PEEP O'DAY. Followed by KILLA TTLED R NEY. Conclude with THE COLLEEN BAWI SE AT LAST. Commence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. This Evening MAZEPPA. Brilliant Scenes in the Circle. Concluding with a Comic Ballet. Commence at 7. NH, and MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS "AT ROME," at Iler Majesty's Concert Room, Haymarket, This Evening. Commence at 8. s. ViTOODIN'S CABINET OF CURIOSITIES, Polygraphic Hall, King g William-nce at street B , Charing-cross. omme. MR. and MRS. GERM AN REED, with MR. JOHN PARRY, Every Evening (except Saturday), at the Royal Gallery of Illustration, 14, Regent-street, at 8. ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Hay- Lrket. Open every evening for Promenade and Dancing. CAYTERBURY HALL.—EVERY EVENING.— Re-apparance of the miraculous Steckel, the g-rea. Trapeze performe.r — G ra nd Selections from" Don Sebastien ' and "Il Trovatore,— Eugene, Unsworth, and,Duley, the great comic trio, &c. Commence at 7. —___— THE OXFORD, 6, OacroiT-sTT!•EET, EVERY EVE N ING.—Verdi's ,i 11 . COTWO, _w o rn filll band and performance 91. 31._ Caroline . Parkes— chorus.—The comic Steckel on the Flying Trapeze—The Ethiopian oddities of Rumsey, Newcomb, ""Commence at 7. NOTICE. Ail 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, 9h. 33m.—Afternoon, 10h. 12m, To-stonnow.-Morning, 10h. 56m.—Afternoon, 11h. 33m ..„..irk ft_ ..,„. ~ ~,,,,,,___.„..,,, ~ _ . .._. .... 4 ;*>,' i , • N . W . •J:•ii,i.7.4,,'Vti.",,, ~ .---fx....`•- •.:',5-t:;,^4_,__' 1-V211". 17--;;•,0 ' {E,.. - - - - TEE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1862, Thousands in London have, during the last few years, known perfectly well by sight a young and handsome man, of gentlemanly appearance, known as WILLIAM BOUTELL, of Aspen House, in the county of Surrey, Esq., and, until recently, M.P. Lambeth. Now a prisoner in for the borough of one of her MAJESTY'S pots, having been yester day formally committed for trial upon a charge of felony—a self-acknowleged Thief, Forger, and Perjurer. It is a dark and startling narrative in every way, the story which has only become public property within the last two days, Monday, the 18th, and Tuesday, the 19th of August, 1862, down at Guild ford—the story of WILLIAM RourELL's high crimes and m isdemeanours. It will always retain a most conspicuous place among the gloomy record of causes celebres. ROUPELL'S name has already been coupled—and not by any means extrava gantly—with the names of SADLEIR and FA.UNT LEROY. Not extravagantly—for neither SADLEIR, the arch swindler, nor yet FAUNTLEROY, forger though he was, ever a pp roached in cool and deliberate atrocity the evil doing s p er p etrated by this ga y young man of fashion. For such WILLIAM RoupE LL affected to be, while occupying a seat in the House of Commons during several sessions as one of the members of the Radical constituency of Lambeth. Complicated and 11111110T0115 though the crimes now ccnfessed to 13 3 , - vir ROUPELL have been, w hich they arose may the way in readily be told. His father was one of that not very exceptional class known in this "untlY as self-made men. RICHARD PALMER ROUPELL was th e name o f thi s father. He died at the age of seventy-four on the 12th of September, 1856. He had am assed, before f his death, a very considerable fortune —a fortune half a 11 million Ster ,. n g. not far short in valu e of He had dealt to an enormous e xtent in lead, acti an y alchemist on had—more successfully th an record—contrived to turn his lead into gold. At the period of his demise his personalty a l one was sworn under £2 00 , 000 : but he had re sidences and lands in abundance, besides all his goods and chattels, plate, wines, horses, carriages, &c., houses all about Lon don, whole streets belonging to him, and estates in several counties. Besides leaving all this property behind him at his death, RICHARD PALMER ROUPELL left five children. All five children by the same mother—the four elder illegitimate, how ever—the youngest only legitimate. For the deceased itictiAßD ROUPELL had cohabited with the woman afterwards known as his wife, and still surviving as his widow, during many years be fore their marriage. When this one legitimate child, a son, called, after his father, RICHARD, vas born, the father was already fifty-eight years Of age. When that father died in 1856 RICHARD, now heir at law to the ROUPELL Property, was yet a boy at school. His elder brother WILLIAM—(one o f the four illegitimate children, by the same mother) —Was then a young man g of scarcely three-and twenty. Young in years, but old in criminality. Clever, comely, accomplished, WILLIAM, among all the children, a ppears to ha ve b een especially the old .man's favourite. JOHN, the eldest eon and the first born of the bastard family, had some time previously turned out to be so much of a scape grace that he was summarily sent not only away from from home, but out of the country, as a sort of hopeless ne'er-do-well. WILLIAM, the second son, though the third of the ille gitimate offspring, coming between two daughters, also both of them illegitimate—was kept more at i home, more within view of the worthy old father, who freighted this favourite son's fortunes with high hopes, counting confidently upon WILLIAM ROUPELL achieving greatness ! As he has done, indeed—though of a very deplorable character. Half a dozen years have not elapsed since the death of Old ROUPELL, in the September of 1856, and already—nay, the work was " done" about a year or two since—WILLIAM ROUPELL, having fraudulently obtained possession of the whole property, has run through it, has got rid of all the estates, valued at from £300,000 to £400,000 altogether ! And having squandered these ill-gotten goods— that never by right be longed to him—he comes back from abroad where he has been living for a while, ruined, but in safety —he voluntarily comes back from abroad to acknow ledge himself guilty of robbery by wholesale, of forgery again and again repeated, of perjury as black and heinous as could be, of perjury the most wilful and the most deliberate ! On Monday he stood for the first time in the witness-box in open court at Guildford, and there frankly and quite explicitly, before Baron MARTIN and a jury of his fellow-countrymen, and in the midst of the breathless silence of hundreds who had gone down there to listen to him, formally and upon his oath, made a deliberate confession of his guilt. Confessed himself guilty of the crimes of theft, of forgery, and of perjury, so monstrous many of them in the mere manner of their perpetra tion as to be almost beyond belief. The t he crime of all, as we may venture to call it --the proved in the winter of 1856-1857 by this natural son (we should rather say by this unnatural son) shortly after the death of RICIII.ED ROUPELL the EIder—WILLIAM ROVPELL, late M.P. for Lambeth, now acknowledges to have been forged by his own hand. It bequeathed the whole of the larg e p ro p er ty of the decease d to his widow—thereby placing the whole property at the mercy of WILLIAM ROUPELL. A veritable will there was, leaving the bulk of the property to the only legitimate child, RICHARD, then a mere school-boy. This veritable will having had a last codicil added to it, a codicil confirming, in every way, the intentions expressed in the body of the will—a codicil dated only within a fort night previously to the old man's decease. The last day of August, 1856, being the date of the codicil, and the death of old Mr. RourELL occurring, as we have already mentioned, on the 12th of the fol lowing September. That bona fide Will, found by WILLIAM ROIJPELL in an escritoire of his deceased father, but a few hours after the old man had breathed his last having been first secreted has been since destroyed. WILLIAM ROUPELL acknowledging that it was in the presence of the dead body of his father that he determined—with a view to conceal all his previous forgeries and embezzlements, and to get the rest of the property inte his possession—to forge a new Will to the effect already mentioned. The Will, eventually " proved"—dated 2d Sept., 1856 (the codicil to the true Will being dated, remember, only two days previously !)—the Will now " proved," however, to be a Forgery. When that climax of his secret crimes had been perpetrated—and perpe trated so skilfully as to defy detection--WILLIAM RouPELL was, as we have seen, but barely three and-twenty ! So skilled in his wicked craft had he become thus prematurely by the daring forgeries and embezzlements he had already been guilty of (throughout with complete success I) during his unsuspecting and confiding father's lifetime. The consummate coolness, tact, and deliberation with which the young man set about the forgery of this remarkable Will, but for the atrocity of the deed would almost wring from us an unwilling admiration. In order to obtain a likely signature to attest the Will—he bethinks him of an old servant of his father's, an old fellow then nearly 90 years of age, named MUGGERIDGE. To MUGGERIDGE he takes a £5 note as coming from Mrs. ROUFELL, the widowed mother, as a little souvenir of the old man's dead master, to enable MUGGERIDGE to buy some mourning clothes. Pretending thus to bring the money from. Mrs. ROUPELL, the Forger obtains a receipt for it from MUGGERIDGE. This being, in fact, all he wanted. When obtained, how ever—the old man's signature turns out to be rather a puzzler ! Its difficulty in imitation is nevertheless conquered at last. The cunningly meditated crime is completed- " I wrote my father's signature," says WILLIAM ROUPELL with exem plary candour—" I wrote my father's signature with his own pen—a short quill pen, and also that of MUGGERIDGE. My own I wrote with my gold pen, and as lightly as I could, to make the contrast as strong as possible with the others." The forged Will being proved, WILLIAM Boum'. becomes master of the whole Pro perty. It is a property altogether in its value a quarter of a million sterling. He himself is but twenty-three years , of age when he comes into possession of it. Yet four years are enough, as events proved, to see it all melt away in his grasp. He has already before his father's death mortgaged and fooled and swindled away seventy thousand pounds. After his father's death WM. Rournfs progress along the downward course is accelerated. Apparently he is rising first of all, rather than sinking. He lives in great splendour. He enters Parliament as M.P. for Lambeth. He is no Silent Member, either, when he gets there, but takes an apparently suitable place among the metropolitan representatives. Four years have scarcely rolled by after his father's death, however, when the bubble bursts. The wealthy member for Lambeth is reported to have become seriously involved. He resigns his seat. He goes abroad; is under a cloud—that people think, for awhile, may prove only a temporary embarrassment. b ut months slip by, and at length, in the course of trial that comes on at Guildford on Monday, and is clos ed on the following day (yesterday ) — no t by a verdi ct, but by Plaintiff, and , and tle a purchaser D t o e nv f e i n te hs d t a ao n tone t f: I coming to understanding — the whole frightful truth comes elit. WILLIAM ROUPELL makes—we can hardly say a clean breast of it, the truth is so foul and black that he has in the case is his wrong e d Iv. _ to tell ! The plaintiff younger brother RICHARD a" wronged such, heir-at law.stetathteues: sterlint , . ROUPELL, the legitimate the v. nrb . The one of the defendant Lt sold to this deceived purc i h n a b s o e e r ned f e oi r nn l es olesoeoo What has been done deluded purchaser Wig'with al l M ean while the self the rest of them. -eon_ erjurer, lately /4 a , victed forger, thief, and p for Lambeth is himself taken into custod y from the witness-box, and is formally committed for trial upcn a charge of felo n y . Thirty-one years have as yet barely passed over his head : and already it is as plain as can be, that the rest of his existence will for certain be passed by him in the grey dress of a convict ! Undergoing all inflicted upon criminals, the worst punishm ent of save the extreme penalty of death, namely, the terrible sentence of penal ser vitude for life. A few years ago and WILLIAM ROUPELL, late M.P. for Lambeth, would as cer- ;•1114. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1862. tainly have swung from the gallows as ever Dr. DODD or FAUNTLEROY. Extraordinary trials are not confined to old Europe. We have just read of one in America, in which the license of counsel, and that too against the mighty powers of Washington, was assumed to an extent perhaps unknown before under such a despotism as that which now reigns in Federalism. It should be remembered that Mr. LINCOLN is able, at pleasure, to send any one to Fort Lafay ette, no reason being assigned, no habeas corpus being available. The counsel, therefore, in this case, attacked the Government in terms rarely heard, at his peril ; though probably he knew that the bolder his speech the less the danger. Boston, the city of WM. CHANNING, is, as our readers may be aware, not only the literary city — the Athens—of America, it is intensely abolitionist, and repays with equal bitterness the bitter Southern hatred of the North. Some merchants in it, how ever, of the name of GORDON, father and son, do not appear to there to the full the sentiments of the educated many of Boston. At one of the re joicings for some Federal success they failed to hoist the Federal flag, or to join in the rejoic ings. Worse still, one of the firm had boldly ventured an opinion, that " Mr. LINCOLN and his Administration were imbeciles, and that the rule of JEFFERSON DAVIS was preferable to theirs." An o p inion which, if the abilit y of the resp ect i ve r ulers were the ground of the preference, proba bly would not be called in ques ti on through out Europe. If moral qualities were the test, doubtless the prize must be awarded to the man who has earned the name of " Honest ABE," while JEFF. DAVIS is only the " Clever fellow." The language was, however, held to be treasonable, and forthwith the GORDONS were arrested on a charge of treason against the Federal Government. The GORDONS, however, had the means of self defence. The right of free speech was in question. Professional aid was obtained, and it was, it appears, of a character before which the State law officers quailed when the case came on. Mr. R. H. DANA, the district attorney, appeared, and on the ground that no overt acts were proved, and that expressions of hostility to the Government merely, or only receiving intelligence from the South did not come up to the statutable definitions of treason, he declined to prosecute, and entered a nolle pro- se gut. But the counsel for the GORDONS, —like Mr. OSBORNE the other day, on the fortification busi ness—was not to be cheated out of delivering a first rate speech of first rate Yankee eloquence. He asserted his right, notwithstanding the withdrawal of the Government from the prosecution, to vindi cate the character of his clients, and he proved his right by using it. Mr. SENNOTT, for that was the name of the American ERSKINE, very well knew that his clients needed no vindication—he had come prepared to mount the top of the ladder by an oration on freedom of speech, the sovereignty of the people, and the servitude of the Government. He declared he valued free speech more than his life—a very safe declaration just then— he abused the "Yankee sneaks," who informed and prosecuted—he denounced leading men as worse than the cruel LEDBETTER and the conspira tor FLOYD. Mr. SUMNER himself and Governor ANDREWS are castigated for advising " their friends to put their feet on the necks of those who differ from them ; they are a few small conspirators in agreement with the principal Thugs of Washing ton." He openly declared that he had a right to talk what treason he pleased. " Democratic prin ciples gave him that right—the word of GOD him self gave it to him !" As to the Secretary SEWARD, he and Mr. SUMNER were the Fox and the Gander in the illustrations of the celebrated German story of Beinecke .Fuchs. But SENNOTT washy no means content with perso nal abuse worthy of an Old Bailey barrister, he went into the philosophy of the case. What if his client had found fault with the Government, with its " swag gering imbecility," while managing a war of life and death, he was, as a Sovereign, but finding fault with his servants, which he had surely a perfect right to do." Shall my Government—that is to say, my servant, my creature—waste my money, and even let it be stolen, and stop my paper, and in terrupt my business. and violate my constitution, and starve and kill my soldiers out of pure neglect, and gain only disaster and defeat for me by all this folly ? And shall I say nothing ? If I am to put up with this, and more, and say nothing, or else be shut up by order of W. H. SEWARD, I want to know, seriously and calmly, what shall I fight JEFF. DAVIS for? What shall I fight JEFF DAVIS for ? What worse can he do to me than SEWARD or STANTON have done already ? What, indeed—when their want of sense and want of energy have made him everything that he is ! Lost money may be regained, lost armies may be replaced out of our swarms of men, but who shall give us back the time we have fooled away' before the dirt heaps of Manassas ?" In this style did the worthy counsel for the GORDONS do his best to follow up, in regard to freedom of speech, the defence of unlicensed printing by our MILTON ; and it must at least be owned that ho defended freedom of speech by speech as free as could ever be desired. But, alas, in this case, the battle is to the strong, or at least to the rich. We read in the same com munication from America, of a poor painter at New York, who could not afford to employ counsel, but who, inspired, it is also believed, by a little whisky, had freely expressed his opinion at New York that Stonewall JACKSON was the best soldier and general in the war ; Mr. LINCOLN a humbug, and that JEFFERSON DAVIS would make a better President. He also was arrested. He was charged with treason, but no Mr. SENT OTT could be paid to defend him. The magistrate was perplexed. Not knowing what to do with him, he telegraphed to Mr. SEWARD, and short work truly the Secre tary of War made of it. He took on himself the functions of both judge and jury, and sentenced him, first, to take the oath of allegiance, and then to choose between Fort Lafayette, as a state pri soner, and the army ! The poor painter chcse the army, doubtless intending, at the first opportunity, to be numbered with the " missing," and_ give the Confederates the benefit of his professional or his military attainments. The writer who communi cates these facts justly asks whether such is justice in New York. Quite certain is it that had any artisan in Old Monarchical England been dealt with in this style, his fellow-citizens would not have allowed him to want counsel, who would have made our proudest Prime Minister tremble. If Mr. SEWARD'S regime be Republican Liberty, we should like some better description of slavery to despots. political ToNis w r a t r s d are "We are all proud of him"—the verdict of a virearatherablli,np otlpeonent, on the merits of Lord PALMER which all his countrymen have accepted eve, since, that the Cinq ue p We do not wonder, therefore, h a d one historic " proud of him." They g ot t r in the great Duke, they have to a certainty Lord PA t e h rh e a p ps e , rs c o u n ar o - f LMERSTON. relied with his individual acts turns, we could each lay our finger on something which has pro voked ns—and yet each of these very mis deeds as we think them, were English in their misdoing. All the scrapes he has got us into, as some would deem them, in Syria, in China, in America, all were English throughout, and we had to come to him to get us English style. There is out nEont g o al f i s t ph h um e b al manßussian living ar in who is so altogether an n. An w aLord PALMERSTON has the good luck to be the Englishman, without acting a part, although beyond question he is an Irishman. He is in fact in some points an Irishman, too'; not least of all in his being liable to capsize when the popular breeze is too propitious and strong, but also in the geniality which ho never fails to maintain, through good and bad fortune, almost equally. We suppose we must say that Lord PALMERSTON is a Union man, for how few have united in them selves so well the better qualities of the English man and the Irishman. Whether our brethren ' north of the Tweed will lay claim to any share of his personality, we do not know. If they can, like England and Ireland they, too, will be " proud of him." So the town of Dover yesterday showed its pride. The mysterious portrait which was to be presented by the corporation, which knew no thing about it before it was ready for presenta tion—a corporation which was to give what it had never purchased, but somehow to give its own, because it was, in copyhold fashion, surrendered to it for his Lordship's benefit— this mysterious picture was brought forward now mysteriously draped to the last, in crimson cloth All the processional honours which Dover and the Cinque Ports could muster were collected, and a public address, aimed to impress on his lordship that he had in the long list of wardens, at least, two predecessors worthy of his fellowship—a rather meagre number certainly for so old an institution. We are sorry to add that never was the insignifi cance of an officer better illustrated than in the memorial and the Premier's reply. There was nothing in the former —there was as little in the latter. It seemed as if the whole affair was a kind of warning that the antiquated Wardenship of the Cinque Ports, which his lord ship took, in truth, because it went begging, had better terminate with the distinguished man who now holds it. It is not likely to be buried with greater honour. And we should suggest to all concerned—that the plate on the frame of the pic ture should record of Lord PALMERSTON, that he was " last Warden of the Cinque Ports." We should add that Lord PALMERSTON'S Wardenship, like that of the Duke of WELLINGTON, will be commemorated at Dover not only by a picture but also by a bridge. The " Palmerston Bridge" and the " Wellington Bridge" will be in close associa- tion at Dover. How often the Duke and the -Vis count have each in their respective departments bridged the public difficulties of the day, we need not recount. The House of Commons will think the emblem appropriate enough, to a man who bridges the distance, not very great, between Whig Liberals and Liberal Conservatives, and makes them, practically, one body. We regret to hear that Mr. John Lewis Ricardo, M.P. for Stoke-upon-Trent, is seriously ill, and that his condition excites the greatest apprehension amongst his friends. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—Lord Palmerston has consented to attend and take a leading part in the open ing ceremonial of the Hartley Institution, the foundation stone of which building was laid by his lordship on the Bth of January, 1861. The inauguration will take place at the latter end of the ensuing month of September, and the arrangements making by the mayor of the borough (Mr. Frederick Perkins) will insure a literary and scientific gathering worthy of the occasion and of the noble Premier who, for the second time in the course of two years, honours the town with his presence in connection with educational progress. Dr. Francis T. Bond, late Professor of Chymistry and Dean of the Faculty in Queen's College, Birmingham, has been elected by the Town Council to the once of Principal Librarian and Curator, and the working machinery of the institution will soon be put in operation. THE LONDON SCOTTISH VOLUNTEERS.—The prizes of Nos. 2 and 4 companies of the London Scottish Volunteers, fired for on the 16th, were as follows :—No. 2, seven shots at 200 and 400 and five at 500 yards.—A Kerr small bore rifle won by Mr. Starke, 49 marks ; an opera glass by Mr. Maclagan, 44 ; a gold pencil case by Sergeant Bowers, 41; Mr. Greig made the large score of 42 marks in competing for the Elcho Company's challenge Cup, won by No. 4 company. In No. 4 company, five shots at 200, 400, and 500 yards, a small bore rifle and an Armoury Com pany's rifle, Mr. J. Anderson and Mr. F. Puckle, tied at 32 marks. A silver medal presented by Corporal Berri, five shots at 300 and 500 yards, won by Mr. J. Anderson. NEW PARK FOR LONDON.—A scheme has been set on foot for the establishment of a new park close to Hornsey, a pretty suburb of London, lying on the Great Northern Railway. The prospectus of the new company, the "North London Park and Land Company," says : "Arrangements have been made bywhich possession has been secured to the company of a magnificent estate, comprising upwards of 458 acres of land splendidly timbered, well sup plied with water, and commanding picturesque views of the surrounding country. The property is within five miles of the metropolis, and close to Hornsey village. The Wood Green station of the Great Northern Railway, by which the park will be reached in about 10 or 12 minutes, is on the estate. The Metrop Titan Railway, which is advertised to be opened on the Ist Oct. next, will afford direct means of access to the park from the very heart of London. On this estate, which requires very little to develop its natural beau ties, it is proposed to enclose a park of about 200 acres, to form gardens and ornamental grounds, and erect such build ings as may be required." THE PREPARATION OF FLAX.—A new process is recommended for conducting this operation, which com bines the advantages of being extremely simple, remark ably expeditious, and perfectly effective. The mode pro posed consists in heating the raw material for a sufficient length of time, seldom exceeding three hours, by steam raised to an adequate temperature—about 300 degs. answer ing the purpose—and the infusion of cold water at the re gulated moment. When dried, the fibre can be easily dis engaged by retting, while the article produced proves sound in quality on account of the absence of steeping, and bright in colour owing to partial bleaching.—Lublin Evening DEATH OF A CELEBRATED ENGRAVER.—The death is announced of a Mr. Erin Corr. As an engraver he had obtained the highest European reputation. He was a native of Brussels, member of the principal scientific and artistic societies of that city, director of the School of En gravings at Antwerp, and professor of the burin art in the Academy. His principal works are the "Saviour," from Leonardo da Vinci ; "Christ upoa the Cross," from Van dyke ; the " Queen of Holland," from Scheffer ; and " King Leopold," from Waffers. He spent the last ten years in Paris, occupied with an engraving from the "De scent from the Cross." Throughout the Continent his works hold the highest place amongst amateurs of en gravings. THE MATTERHORN STILL UNSCALED.—The Atheneum has the following about the recent attempts to scale the Matterhorn :—The Alpine climbers who went forth, early in June, to add the last triumph of skill and daring to be won in the Swiss mountains, have again been defeated. The peak defies all attempts. Mr. Whimper, one of the Alpine Club, reached a higher point than had hitherto been f eached ; but an accidental fall, which may be truly described as one of the most miraculous escapes from instant death on record, caused him to abandon for the pre sent, and perhaps for ever, all further assaults on the virgin summit. In ascending the mass, of ice and snow, Mr. Whimper, who was alone, was compelled in one place to cut a series of steps in the ice. Knowing there was no further difficulty of that kind to be feared, he left his hatchet be hind him, and OR his returning from his baffled attempt to mount he found, to his horror, that his steps were gone. The sun had melted them away. As his hatchet could not be recovered, ho leant over the precipice and began to prod at the ice with his alphenstock. Some snow gave way, and he rolled over the ledge, brazing his face and body on the rocks and ridges, crash, crash down the sides of a chasm SOO feet deep. By a happy chance, he was cast on a rough bed of rock on the crest of a precipice scarcely equalled in the Alps, and there remained for an instant stunned and bleeding, though not seriously hurt. He is slowly recover ing from the shock and from his wounds. A few days later Professor Tyndal reappeared in the scene of his last year's adventures. Mr. Whimper's tools and experience were placed at his disposal, and the conqueror of the Riffel set off full of confidence and courage. But his courage and his endurance were taxed in vain. Again and again he risked his life. Higher than any one has ever yet been up the peak he crept and clamb—higher than Mr. Whimper ; but the steepness of the highest peak repulsed him, an d the un d aun ted but unsucc ess ful mountaineer left the Matter horn unsealed. LATEST NEWS. r °~---' CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. FIGHTING IN VIRGINIA VALLEY. NEW YORK, AUG. 8 (Evening). (Per Etna via Roche's Point.) The Federal General Hooker's division has fallen back from Malvern Hill to their encampments, leaving a strong guard at Haxhalls. The Confederates were under the impression that the Federal army was advancing towards Rich mond. They therefore moved down from Richmond by three roads, concentrating their forces near Mal vern. The Confederates appeared in considerable force above City Point, and drove the Federals a short distance. General Burnside's forces are reported to have landed at Accuia Creek. The engagement reported near Memphis was an unimportant affair. A collision has occurred at Point Pleasant, Mis souri, between the citizens and State troops, the citizens having united together to resist enrolment. The Confederate general (Morgan) is reported to be advancing into Kentucky. A secret society has been discovered in Indiana, numbering 15,000 persons, for preventing Federal enlistments, resisting taxation, and aiding the Con federates generally. The Secretary, of War has issued an order that no citizen liable to be drafted into the militia shall be allowed to go to a foreign country. The Federal officials at the ports, seaboard and frontiers, will arrest such persons, who will be taken to the nearest military post and placed on military duty for the term of draft. Writ of habeas corpus, in respect to such persons, is suspended. All persons discouraging volunteer enlistments will be arrested. NEW YORK,• AUG. 9. (Per Etna, via Roche's Point.) General Burnside's whole command is said to be at Fredericksburg. He will operate with Pope, but whether their destination is Richmond or an- other point is not known. The heat has become so intense within the last few days that military operations are materially retarded. The Federal fleet below Savannah is momentarily expecting an attack from a powerful Confederate ram completed at Savannah. The land forces at Hilton Head aro also expecting an attack from the Confederates, who are in force at Bluffton. The whole Federal army is moving forward in the Virginia Valley, Fighting is rumoured to have taken place at Gordons-ville. The Federal General M'Cook has been shot by guerillas in Alabama, whilst travelling in an am bulance. The affair created great excitement at Nashville. Some Federal soldiers went to the neighbourhood of the occurrence, burnt some houses, and hung several men. It is rumoured that prominent Secessionists in Nashville have been shot by exasperated Unionists. The captain of the Federal vessel Adriondack (9) denies that he chased the British steamer Herald within British jurisdiction. President Davis has issued a proclamation, stating that he should not have signed the cartel for the exchange of prisoners if he had known of General Pope's orders, which change war into in - discriminate robbery and murder. He therefore orders, that if Pope or any non-commissioned cffi cer of his command be captured, they shall not be treated as prisoners of war, but be held in close confinement. In the event of the murder of any unarmed citizen of the southern Confederacy, under any pretence, an equal number of commis sioned officers of Pope's command will be imme diately hung. The above regulation extends only to Pope's command, and as privates act in accord ance with superior orders, they will be treated as prisoners of war. A Confederate invasion of Kentucky is expected. The drafting excitement continues. Many per sons have been arrested while endeavouring to leave the country. Sir Allen Napier M'Nab died on the Bth inst. at Toronto. The crew and passengers of the Golden Gate numbered 330, out of which 100 were saved. The fire occurred 15 miles off Manzanillo. The steamer was at once headed for shore, which was three and a half miles distant, but the fire made such rapid progress that in half an hour the upper deck fell. The steamer struck the beach soon after, and the people jumped overboard to swim ashore. The vessel burnt to the water's edge, and soon disap- peared. The Jura was intercepted off Cape Race. NEW YORK, Auo. 9 (Afternoon). Great excitement has prevailed on board the European steamers sailing to-day. The police ar rested many persons liable to drafting. Many were disguised as sailors. Several fights occurred. The Government telegraphed that all persons who had purchased tickets previous to the late order could proceed on their voyage. It is again reported that on account of sickness in Richmond the Confederate army has been re moved from the city to the south side of the James River. Pestilence was reported to be raging among the inhabitants of Richmond, and hundreds we re dying daily. The Etna was detained for a Queen's Messenger from Washington. The Nova Scotian was intercepted off Cape Race on the 9th inst. SEVERE FIGHTING IN THE VIRGINIA VALLEY. NEW YORK, AUG. 11 (Evening.) (Per Etna, by Telegraph to Cape Race and from Queenstown-) Severe fighting has taken place in the Virginia Valley. General Jackson having crossed the Rapi dan, General Pope sent forward two army corps under General Banks to check him. At daylight they were discovered by General Jackson, who immediately advanced, and the numerous Confe derate batteries being unmasked, a very severe con test ensued about a mile and a half from Cedar Mountain. The contest lasted from three o'clock till dark, when the F e d era l s retired to a position beyond the Confederate guns, but to what distance is not stated. The Federal infantry was badly cut up, and the Federals lost two guns. The Confederate force was estimated at 20,000 men, and that of the Federals at 7,000. Large reinforcements have been sent to the Federals, and more fighting is anticipated. The Uonf€derate ram Arkansas has been blown up on the Mississippi. Yellow fever is raging at Key West. A vessel has arrived at B oston from Key West with 30 cases of yellow fever on board. Porter's guerillas have been routed in Missouri. The chief superintendent of the New York police has been appointed provost-marshal, and the New York Poli ce is constituted a provost guard, to carry out the order of the Secretary of War relative to _ _ _ drafting. There is very little probability of any specie being saved from the Golden sate. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, AUG. 8 (Evening.) (Per Etna, via Roche's Point.) Money easy ; gold declining, the present quota tion being 12-1,- to 13 premium. Exchange inactive on London bankers' bills, 125 to 1251. Stocks ad vancing. New York Centrals, 95t ; Illi no i s, 59 ; ; Erie, 351. Cotton steady. Middling Upland, 471. Flour and wheat declining. Corn steady. p rov i_ visions, good inquiry. Coffee steady. Sugar fail ing. Molasses inactive. NEW YORK, AUG. 9 (AFTERNOON). Money easy; gold, 12i premium, declining. Exchange, 1251, declining. Stocks dull. New York Centrals, 92 ; Illinois, 59 ; Erie, Cotton very firm. Middling Upland, 48. Flour heavy, and 10c. lower. Wheat dull, at a decline of 2c. Corn, lc. lower, declining. Provisions quiet. Coffee very firm. Sugar and molasses falling in price. PARIS, Aug. 20. The Paris papers of to-day publish the following ,elegram, dated " ROME, AVG. 19. "Yesterday the Marquis de Lavalette had an audience of the Pope, to whom he gave the assu rance, in the name of the Emperor, that France would never permit any invasion of the actual Papal territory, but would guarantee its integrity at any price." ALEXANDRIA, AUG. 19. The Valetta, with the above mails, left this day at noon for Marseilles. The Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the mails, sailed yesterday at 10 a.m. She may be expected at Southampton about the 31st inst. The Simla brought the mails to Suez, arriving there on the 16th. The Bengal and Ottawa, with the London mails of 20th-26th of July, left Aden on the 10th inst. (correct date) for Calcutta and the Mauritius respectively. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 19.—The English funds arriving with an advance of 1, has given firmness to the market. Threes are well maintained at 69fr. Railway Shares quiet, without any material change. The market closed as follows :- 4t per Cents. 9B 40 Bank Shares 3175 Do. end month.... Credit Fonder 1235 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 95 Italian Loan 7l 20 New 3 per Cents Roman — Do. end month.... Austrian - Credit Mobilier.... 855 Spanish Threes 5O 50 Do. end month.... 853 75 Rome Debt the utmost fan arose through opposite pursuers and pursued from different rings cannoning against each other, upsetting and kissing —it did not seem to matter which—the wrong parties. There were several foreigners present whose mouths seemed to water to enter upon the sport, they appearing to like the institution exceedingly. The fun went on fast and furious, but we must distinctly say, deco rously, and there will be found few more appropriate scenes to laugh away care's wrinkles than at such fetes as yesterday. The crowd of vans outside the Palace was enor mous, but the fine evening favoured the return, which as far as we heard went off well. Good night was said we believe in every British patois. The numbers yesterday were the greatest ever entering the Crystal Palace in one day. The ad missions on payment were 80,583; by season tickets, 3,138 ; total visitors, 83,721. In 1861 59,047 were present on the Foresters' Day; in 1860 67,928 en tered the building for the same occasion. This year's excess is 15,793 beyond the highest number ever present on one 'occasion. RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO2O .. 1018 75 Northern New, ditto .ll Lyons and Mediterranean 1105 INS Geneva 350 Southern 836 25 .. 835 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Loirbard FORESTERS' FETE AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The annual monster gathering of the Foresters took place yesterday. The approaches to London bridge were crowded with vehicles filled with the Foresters and their friends intending to take part in the fete. Victoria Station, we understand, was less crowded, but at London-bridge people at one o'clock who feared a fearful crush had been waiting since nine or ten o'clock. In fact many persons gladly availed themselves of the old omnibus routes to the Palace, finding the rail so hopelessly thronged. Doubtless the fine weather fed the cram to the very top of its bent. Special trains for the fete had come up by nearly every line running into London. The first special item in the day's pro gramme was the procession of Foresters from the cricket ground, accompanied by the bands of the Duke of York's school boys, Irish Rifles, Reade and Mann's, and a saxhorn band, " with members in costume from all parts of England." The said members looked picturesque enough when asso ciated in large numbers, but when, as they often did, they came upon the spectators individually, they bore such a family likeness to the stage bri gand type that laughter was irresistible. There is, however, nothing to be treated lightly in the objects of the Foresters' clubs, or in those working men who toil for their management. These societies have taught their managers lessons in government and consequently in politics and economics that will in some future day receive their due meed of acknowledgment. All day long the Palace and grounds continued to receive additions to its crowds. The only enter tainment the people seemingly feared to miss was "Blondin on the rope." Promptly at three o'clocK Blondin commenced his fearful march. The view from the Palace was at this time singularly striking and beautiful. Not a cloud floated in the sky, across which swept a pretty strong south wind. The exquisite prospect from the Palace of wood and field, hill and dale, was never seen in greater or clearer beauty up to the last ridge of hills, where Knockholt beaches bound the view. But not a word of admiration or exclamation of joy at the beauty of the scene fell on the ear. No ! from the terrace, through the transparent walls of the Palace, every eye sought the human performer and followed his every movement. From below a myriad of upturned faces turned to Blondin, so numerous that they hid the large grounds of the Palace. Clothed in the gay hues of summer, the aspect of the spectators was very charming. But all grow still as Blondin waves his hand to the music to begin, and all watch him with 'bated breath as he goes through that fearful programme with which the reader is now familiar. Blondin never indulged in more sensa tion pranks than yesterday, and was never more successful. He never had promised to wheel a Forester over the rope in his barrow. If the green jerkin, gauntlets, &c., which make up the costume of the Forester are his essentials, Blondin kept his word. Everybody present, we believe, felt glad to see him lift a dummy of the Guy Fawkes species into his barrow, made up as a Forester. He is master of stage bye-play, and showed his skill liberally on this occasion, to the gratification especi ally of his unsophisticated observers. Archery prizes were then shot for, the fountains shot forth their exquisite rainbowed spray in the rich sunlight, and then the real gambols commenced. Some still followed the programme and listened to the Palace band or the grand organ; but all the younger throng took to the grounds. A few there disported with Aunt Sally and the like. But the thousands went in for kiss-in-the-ring quite in the old " Greenige" Fair style. From the terraces to the great ponds there was a general sound of smacks, rivalling the drawing of corks in the entr'acte of a theatre. The Irish band was sta tioned here, and played frequently popular dance tunes; but at every rest off went the dancers as before, and the drawing of corks all round was again the rule of the music. Not less than a dozen such kissing c i rc l es were i n f u ll p l ay at on ce_ and all the eve n i ng . Th e process was s i mp l e , an our Cockney d amse l s h a d to i n i t i ate coun try eih°uds, th s e It used to b e th e T ur ki s h mo d e of handkerchief. We h ave changed a morsel of paper, like a cigarette, the instrument. throwing r t a h w at, g and a This the swain presents to th© damsel standing ac cepts the paper, or round the ring. If she bolts, „ wisely rather dallies with it, she „ b r unning hard, she is cap tured,smac - . ed full mid-ring. she be pursued; if 819, d k in mid-ring. The more licence. She flings you e ta f r a n ce, and . if you Thela d b y ro i u o g h ht o. back , are a true knight y th o e u her to the last. Our observation the damsels used their right very freely. But was --the pursuein THE SCIENTIFIC BALOON ASCENT. MR. GLAISHER'S OBSERVATIONS. A most easy descent was experienced. Notwith standing the immense size of the balloon, which it had been said would be too huge to be manageable, and notwithstanding further that four bags of bal last were brought down in the car, the machine came so slowly to the earth that it had almost to be pulled down. The instruments had all been care futly packed up just before the ground was reached, and not one of them therefore was damaged by the descent, or during the time that they were kept itt the air. The precise spot of the descent was a mea dow on a farm at Solihull, about seven miles from Birmingham, not far from the Masons' Arms Hos telry, the landlord of which (Mr. Whitehead) at once set out his cart, and had the balloon conveyed . to Birmingham to be placed on the railway for conveyance to London preparatory to its ascent from the Crystal Palace to-day (Wednesday). In other respects also Mr. Glaisher and Mr. Coxwell received attention at the hands of Mr. Whithead, which they are desirous of acknowledging. Ex cepting by the previous ascent from Wolverhamp ton, the one of Monday is unsurpassed in thr. ; his tory of ballooning, for the height attained. There is no record of 41 miles having been a 4 ,,tained by other persons than Mr. Glaisher and Nfr. Coxwell, his aeronaut, and, as a consequence, they only have succeeded in attaining a height of five miles, which they did when they ascended from Wolverhampton a few weeks ago. The miles here spoken of are statute miles, the 4-1,- miles representing a height of 23,760 feet. At that altitude we may repeat that the temperature was 24 degrees, the barometer read 13 inches, and the dew point was minus 10. Here at six minutes past 3 o'clock the hands became of a blue hue, and a qualmish sensation came over the brain and stomach resembling the approach of sea sickness. Upon Mr. Glaisher these sensations proved severe, and were accompanied by an intense headache. The pain in the head and the sickness increased later in the day, and they seemed to roach their most distressing point about 10 at night.; and, although a night's rest did wonders for him, he had by no means recovered from his indisposition yesterday, when at about 11 o'clock he left Wol verhampton to return to London. Mr. Coxwell being somewhat more acclimatized to the tempe rature and atmosphere of high elevations, and, moreover, not accustomed to suffer by sea sickness, the inconvenience and annoyance in his case were confined to similar sensations,bnt very much minor in degree. Mr. Glaisher suffered similarly, but not so intensely on the first as on this, the second high ascent. How, under such cirtumstances, he could have taken the immense number of observa tions in the upper strata of the atmosphere as his note book contains is most remarkable, and can only be explained by his great admiration of the science in which he is so proficient, and his en thusiasm in the discharge of the duties 'which, on behalf of his fellow members of the Balloon Committee of the Royal Society, he has so gener ously undertaken. Nearly every minute of the three and a half hours during which he was in the air on Monday,—namely, from 1 2 to 4 25 p.m., are acccunted for by entries in his book, those entries embracing readings from most of his instruments and copious observations upon the surrounding scenery. As on the first occasion, so also now, the popular belief that so great a height cannot be attained without a singing noise in the ears, a distending of the muscles of the face, and a bleeding at the nose being all painfully perceptible was exploded by experience. No such inconveniences were per ceptible on either occasion. The faculty of hearing was acute as at the first ascent, but by sipping a. little pure brandy before reaching the highest alti tude the throbbing of the heart, which was so ob servable at that time, was now warded off. Never theless the pulse of both Mr. Glaisher and of Mr. Coxwell rose to a great height, that of the former rising to 108, and of the latter from about 78, on leaving the earth, to nearly 100. Before making the " dip" on Monday, only one such descent hav ing been made on Monday, and when ascending through a temperature of 50 deg., the voyagers re marked that it was " cold ;" at 37 deg. it was " very cold," and warm wrappers were put on ; but when, during the making of the " dip," they were again in 50 deg. temperature, they experi enced a return of so much warmth that the wrappers were thrown off. At less than a mile higher the temperature, which on the earth being left was 68, now registered 69 deg. At this height a bell was heard as distinctly as if the voyagers had been on the earth, and the bell tolling in the next street. Here they were doubtless over Bir mingham. At three miles high a clap of thunder was heard very audibly. The former observations relating to the dryness of the atmosphere in the higher regions were confirmed on Monday, but at the lower elevations the evidences registered tend to favour previously conceived opinions. On the first ascent no ice was noticed upon the wet and dry bulbes of the thermometer, but on this occasion both bulbes were covered with a compact cake of ice. No ozone was detected on the former occasion, but on Monday there was on Mr. Moffatt's paper as much, we think, as nine points; the dew point on starting was 51, or 17 decrease upon the air at starting. At about half-past 2 o'clock, when the height was three miles and the temperature was 28 deg., the dew point was 6. In five minutes after wards it was 3, and it subsequently varied from minus 5 to minus 10 at the highest altitude at 3 20 . On descending to the earth it gradually increased to 50. The views obtained were indescribably grand, surrounded as the voyagers were by a boundless sea of blue sky interspersed with floating white massy clouds of varied shapes, sometimes with many domed summit() resting upon a ponderous base, and. resembling a whole Alpine region moving in space At other times their serried sides resembled those of floating icebergs, and as the sun's rays d ar t e d upon them they looked only a little less brilliant. class Whether on leaving the ea rth or at an altitude of four miles, still the cirr i (or " mare's-t ail") clouds were always above th em, and seemed as far out of r s Monday, reach at the highest as t at the l owest altitude. Throughout the white entire 3F of hours n fi l‘l t nay, a m agnificent described followed the balloon in all it s wanderings. cloud the So right regal were its proportions that Mr. Glaisher designated it " The Monarch f 0 the Clouds." And immediately that the voyagers had left the lower region, and hr,d ascended' was peculiarly th a t over into the domain which. whi cised sovereignty, he ch his Majesty exer as their body guard. seethed to comp forth and act Another ascent will be made from ton in sho r t ti me. Wolverhan3p- BRINGING 'EM jJp fro 11 WITH A ROUND TURN.—A, deputation Plymouth recently waited upon Lord Pal merston to represent to him that navigators to and from that port required an increase of basin accommodation.. P all replied that he held many offices, but that he was not yet a steward of a ateampacket. The deputation retired, and are at present engaged, with their coats off that they may think the harder, trying to find out what His Jauntt tlesg naeant,—Tunch. 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