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THE SOUTH AFRICAN IRRIGATION and INVE'STMENT COMPANY (Limited). To bo incorporated under the_Comparies Act, lB62,which specially 'limits the liability of - tech Shareholder t o th e ~Emlount of hi s Sh ares. - - ~ • Capit a l £1,000,000, in 20,000 Shares of £5O each. (Power -to increase.) - First issue 10,000 shares. Deposit on application £1 per Share, and a further pay- Ment of £1 pe r Sh are on allotment. alls not to exceed £2 'Per Share, and three months' interval between each Call. ..It not Intended to call up more than £lO per Share. -,-, - - ....1 DIRECTORS. ,"John •oarry, E s •-•. , q Meichant (Barry and Nephews), Lon ' , don. and Cape Twirl' Director of the London and South k ' African Bank. James Black, Esq , (Black and Co.), Merchant, London, Grahara's Town, and Port Elizabeth. _ Alexander Croll, Esq.(Alexander Croll and Co.),Merchant, London. and Port Elizabeth. Alfred Jarvis, Esq., London (late Chairman of the Cora .,rnercial Bank, Port Elizabeth). " I •etil, Sherman, Esq , Merchant (Levieks and Sherman), London and Cape Town, . , JosephMosenthal, 'Esq.; Merchant (Mosenthal and Co.), . 1 , -.1 . 4 a1d0n, Pert Eli za b e th , an d C ape Town. John Paterson,Esq. (Patersor.,Kemp, and Co.), Merchant, London, an d Cape of Good of l-Eope,Director of the Stan. ';`,' k r(l, ,lßtink•of-B r iti s h South Africa. f`iu- BteWart, Esq pool and P or t Eliz., abethMerchant (Stewart and Co.), Liver . -. G. Van der Byl, Esq., merchant (Van derßyl and Co.), London, Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth. The - Am • BANKERS. ance Bank of London and Liverpool, Lothbury, '• ' • London, and The Albany, Liverpool. • • , SOLICITORS. . Messrs. nix and Argles, Mincing-lane, London. zi„_ - BROKERS. "`"• J. and J. Whitehead, 8, Moorgate-street, London. TEMPORARY OFFICES. No. 27, Moorgate-street, London. • yr, PROSPECTUS. it - .ue South African Irrigation and Investment Company , , established with a view to aid in the furtherance of those ~..Lrul)lio tmdertakings in, the South African Colonies, inelud - rg the Cape of Good Hope, British Kaffraria, and Ntal 'I which their resources may be more fully developed ;the . t e salt being in the opinion of the Directors, certain to prove ,tlost satisfactory to those wh.o embark their capital. obiTechtsoCompany's operations will embrace three main Ild. :That of d and Irrigation Company. ;R.' .: 4. That of Works tong, .. , Public (more especially a Light ,' Pavin an Water Company) ; and ",,A• That of a Trust, Loan, and Investment Company. • It has seemed wise to the Directors to combine these ob- Jitii)eaclisblien andompany, since, while all are entirely corn , can be very properly undertaken under one aer4unaget„,,,t, the heavy expenses of offices, directions, and r,ants for separate companies will thereby be avoided. -whilileem"•"th African Irrigation and Investment Company, time C' eet in c ,g the wants most keenly felt at the present to its Y the South African Colonies, cannot fail to realise A: Shareholders ample returns upon the capital. most p a r oLnlainsdina:d Irrigation Company it will ent er upon a field of operations. I.orge.tracts of fertile ;)11 along the rivers and in the great karoos or plains of b e : e mntrY, are to be purchased at very low prices, which, ~7 .rrigation works, in dams, tanks, or water leadings from V'vera, may be converted, by no great outlay, into proper `lea Many times their original value. The Government proper '2lreturns for 1860 of the value of landed estates in these onles show that where Tic by private enter irrigation 'e have b een constructed on farms, the enhancement of fValue has be en f rom fi ve to tenfold; and as such results a aye been achi eve d b y private enterprise, yet more satis ctory results may be looked for where labour is more or ganised and•scientific skill i s b rought to bear. t The Comp an y w ill no t on l y purchase lands with a view ° re -sale after the construction of irrigation works, but Will take con' racts for the construction of like works upon Itovernment and private lands. It is known to be in con !areplation in next session of the Colonial Pariament to in- N:troduce a bill to facilitate the construction of a l series of Go ernment tanks, and to secure on the capital employed in et at ast nob kworks 6 on Government la n d a G overnment guarantee per cent o . per s annum. 48 a Public W k Company for the towns of South Af rica the prospect is equally inviting. There is scarcely 1 4 tfiviz of magnitude which is not now prepared to offer ).14 liberal and remunerative terms to this Company, to port to it a constituted Water and Gas Company; , and -,-,,Qtt Elizabeth (now the commercial capital of all t.-..outh -c•aatern Africa), caused a Bill to be introduced into last pr op er of the Colonial Parliament, charging the whole 175 ° A 1) ,," A tY of the town for £BO,OOO, to guarantee at least Tr," Per annum on outlay for almostwork for water sup. N e 4-01 rectors feel that the present is • l lilY for the establishment of a Company for Public to (irks, and they confidently anticipate that they will be able e4oplete arrangements with the authorities at Port clizabeth to become its Lighting, Paving, and Water " I PanY, so as to ensure a most favourable commence betnent of business, and facilitate future operations. It may Mentioned that in towns where, by authority of local hitnicipalities, water-works have been constructed, th e y - • proved sources of very large profits on the capital ilivested, and the only Gas Company in operation in South Africa pays annual dividends varying from 15 to 20 Per cent. As a Trust Company a very considerable and profitable business can be &lie. It will be in position to offer very ample security to constituents, and the following statement of selling prices of Shares in existing Trust Companies will s how what may be done under this head : Name of Company. Paid up. Sellingprice toard of Executor Association for Administering p_Estate s • ... neral Estat e , &c Elizabeth Guardian and cruet • ... X s. d. X s. 110 0 0 350 0 0 187 10 0 I 375 0 0 200 0 0 252 0 0 1 10 0 3 10 0 As a 13,t1 r Loan and Investment Company it cannot fail to show ext: t ia t c i t ° l 7 results. Money may be invested to almost any rito n first or preference mortgages, of the amplest seen • rates a. landed property in the South African Colonies,. at bi g .. °ailing from 6 to 12 per cent. per annum, thus yield as profit over the cost of money in England ; and b e b e wlll be the object of the Directors to raise money on applied of the Company or otherwise, to be specially Of ea,, (l to loans on such first mortgages, it becomes matter pang LeVetilation that the profits to be made by the Corn itiiiiertt'"titvileie department of its business will be highly re toerice'geraents are in progress for the immediate corn- Peri m "'oat of th e b usiness of the Company .in all its d a e - - tetv,„,. el l,te, and th e D irectors will g i ve t h eir especial r k ager B 4 .: ° the s e l ect i on of efficient an d we ll- qua lifid ma tho ow i -e rs Will be taken in the Articles of Association for 'Lies 072rporation with this Company of existing Compa Ae ti:.!ke object in South Africa. 'Rae $ l B C°Lapany is established at the urgent request of Pally colnists, who are prepared to invest in the Com l . fo r c o ° , a considerable extent, 2,000 shares will be reserved Buctitaent hi South Africa. preliminlnarY Provi a i en has been made by the Directors for the ayi4p„ a n y expenses as w ill secure th e C om p an y against id Ran whatever in the nature of promotion mpg' th e she Articles of Association will contain a clause giving ' 3l the Erectors' the power to fix, year by year, the amount Th 'rectors' remuneration 1 ,0 4 ' 0 :111 11 , e f Il e _ office of the Comp . any will be in London, but 1, es and local comittees, uner chief ntrol of the soot on ; 1 ; - '?ard ) will bees blished tithe towns of a. titligtiotahtfo Shares to be made in the following form, p ottxt Brokers or to the Secretary of the Company. the OP APPLICATION FOR SHARES.e Directors of the South African Irrigation and In. ° Qatle v estment Company (Limited). loin' paid to your Bankers the sum of il le at abop',.. b ,. ei n nl g a deposit of £1 per Share on . Shares in pany, I hereby request that you will allot . me 1 3 ' th e "Fr, and I agree (according to the form prescribed ee B rticles of Association), to accept such shares, or any of Allittaber You may allot me and to execute the Articles Isayleociation when required ; s and I request that my na 4 al lo e tt e i,aced on the Register of Shareholders for the Shares a. Name in full Residence Profession of Business Date TE° EID ON: What 1,413/tiv to it? See Patent, March 1, 1802, No. 560. S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MlNE ikhttgB -v-411 and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a 1 4 41 ,,, e, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and c°B t. 4‘;(/1.-ATION. Purest materials only, at half the usual Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, -.ARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-HILL, LONDON; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUKE-STREET, LIVERPOOL. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, CLAss 17. „,..‘„,ntrod from country patients, Gabriel 's Treatise gratia. Consultations free. THE SILENT FRIEND ON MARRIAGE, 11, 0 t 190 panes, illustrated with 100 engravings, price ls., i l r oe 11 stamps, sealed 20, containing prescription of Pre '‘(ll,ve Lotion. Make this invaluable work your Guide and lor seli-cure in all cases of secrecy, resulting from t, lk tUr is a ro r B or excesses f youth, or from infection, loss of liyolvr and vigour, all female irregularities and bar ltei-at Address Messrs. PERRY & Co., Surgeons, 19, Ber rect, Of d t t London,W. Consultations daily, 2 or -s ree , and from 5 till 8. Sunday, 11 till 1 o'clock. -------____ E EDITION of A II , O ON To NERVOUS SUFFERERS.— " —r. SMITH has just published a F 1 41) . p ti of his valuable work, the Self-cure o l'efi t iny eND (116 pages), on de &C. '44 l'ies •THE PRIVATE RE MEDI f Nervous 1 4 11 14 4 ;,,, uss of 3femory, Dimness o t f h Sig ( h 2o t p , t t ;', by 4 , "re . in the secret sins of you . iLeflasaisiatlyl be , had -qle44"T.n°,* a stamped directed envelope to the Author's ' ', ' ni non -crescent, London, W.C. 4 14 , Nm,., Co nsultation by Letter without Fee. ffering of 4111401 ill, for the BENEFIT of . perso ssu description Ny l l heir c „ I °US DEBILITY, &c., on receiving . a lo 1 1W etib,e ( eclosing. a stamped directed env e for re -11 D t4 atst "la Written opinion with advice and directions for ' 4104,4'leee3sful treatment on, cure.—Address, Dr. Smith, creseent, London, W.C. r t lI P i, e A , ECAY 1 ANCAUSES of PREMATURE D . t'llll4lll' °N °f e . 11 e as-ribed the decline of the i r m Ata be ul t ))lr e ( . 0 th murne? av - yof manners, whh h precluded 4 1 ac-•and thiso effeminacy the trace chiefly to vicious " l i tl e "t iA ll!red 11l efi e rl;l7;i n,a l) y y r wh..,11, in our own time, e a i.tOt 00Aarnalist has en'deavoured to accon , n a t ri lo e r y. th de s leti,, pegUlartion in the Asiatic provinces of 1 i degeneracy al ach`,er: hZmiaat source of physical and ill t t ,Y l) l O,, ti ' l ltid pliiVi times been specially i :erie youth, deprecated i by philo 41,titil Nin ,t p.thropists. It hc e s ry is poisoning l ed nuptial th, trtkk i *! e , 4 a Llpri , of future mis in v o:health, curtaiiing lit , TP (l4 sel l ' t, dUri i nVi itY ; infirmity. 1 1,.. 4 1 evipitsness of _, it bi:ie e f s c t a r r o Cer, ' "a scene of anguish, from t he e t e ea. bUt t "Pnlyiating and country ; and expo tlio zip i . e -n oft en ~ 1k) rife in our a and the matt?: th l 'hil Il i tto,„ "._uleern the sad greestsirthe early deaths, Ve, 4,l",seer",lB"auul Perpetuatedailment. 1 ri, in convential pao liilitlTl.iedillihinfteeu Otintabi ll e ,l a a :;' d d Z yi e ysterious." In cases t thi'l)1 11 !Ig o r ): to or t'tuent in human IQ eer§ ur form. su h minent cons i _. e mis t a pro Ltei,' hei4,,, ll fferer a ' suspension oi faculties whose sound !' ir dieated, and t e evere and inveterate, era "teireet -ver , may have their fears removed, tn t ke t i A'._ 0 rest , rAtion to lite s %e rr 'll elit all 'alT AT sin the A for 20 year , -) 4 443" f • , prerogatives fully %04% ,P 1 th 4 ID, has been englge-- ttli op deBe..., dis,rders, and Ms f Manhood are Agricl I t ni r , Delm eiz iees bow all the attributes o ed and map eel ' he it, , and how they can be rector period of life. dull (2 e a ,11 ndvigouradvanced Mann, eriArst fr e e in to an treatise on `• Self,' re_ , fro ill 4,,, a sewed envelope 20 stamps 13 3' 111 till "°4l the • Autlior„ .. 81 ~?, and 6 till 8, at his residence, ' 4441404D-§qtr•Mai L9llOll. who may_ be'.consultec% _ OYAL PRINCESS'S TTIEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr Lindus. THIS EVENING, the Farce of A.S.S. : Mr. Fitzjames and Mr. Henderson. After which, at Half-past 7, the new Drama by John Oxen ford, Esq., entitled THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE. Mr. Geo. Vining ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, and Mrs. B. White. To oonclude with THE HONEYMODN. Mr. H. Vezin, Mr. R. Roxby ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss M. Oliver, and Miss M. Jones. OYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, A Sole Lessee and Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. 327th Night of the continuous run of "Peep o'Day." TA IS VENING. the new Comedietta, IT MUST BE TRUE. 'TWA S IN THE PAPERS. Walter lAcy, J. Robins ; Mrs. Weston, Miss Weston, and Miss L. Thompson. Followed by PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen Deelish. ►t essrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Charles Selby, Geo. Melville, ind Edmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston. To conclude with the Last View of KILLARNEY, intro. dining the Ballet. 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Post free by the Author, 12 stamps ; sealed ends, 20, 11ANHOOD: The CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Direc tions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour; being a Medial Essay on the Treatment of Nervous and Generative Debility, Impotency, and those peculiar disqualifications to marriage which oriffinate in youthful errors and excess : the cure of Infectious Diseasos without Mercury. and their Pre vention by the A uthor's Prescription of his Infallible Lotion, the result of 25 years' successful practice. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, London. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. old. The profes sional reputation of the author, combined with his extensive CuRTIS ON STANHOOD. -This is truly a v aluable work, and should be i n the hands of young and this populaal experience as medical referee in the treatment of nervous de bility, .tc, rru treatise has obt Sunday Times, March 23, 1856. nlydaccoablyu-nwrtsiftoterntmheediimeamlense circulationa.wnhatich, "Dr. Curtis has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source o those diseases which produ-e decline in youth, or more frequently prema • ture old age."---Daily Telegraph, March 27, 1656 . The Author of this Medical Treatise may be DAILY COD. suited as usual, either by letter or personally, at his residence as above. The efficacy and harmless nature of the remedies employed by Dr. Curtis, having been demonstrated by the most complete success during a practice of 25 years, nervous sufferers of every class have a perfect guarantee that the utmost skill and experience will he made available in the treatment of their cases. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting cases, to which s added the Author's receipt of the above Infallible Preventive Lotion. Published and sold by J. Allen, 20, Warwick -lane, Pater noster-row ; Mann, 30, Coruhill, London ; and all Booksellers 111 TQWII 4114 G9UAtrY• , 72. HOTELS, dac. CHAPLIN'S h 0 TEL AND SPREAD EAGLE TAVERN, 84, GRACECITURCH-STREET,; LONDON. omfort, combined with moderate charges, will be found at this Establishment PRIVATE APARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sitting Room, 3s. per Day. Bed Rooms, is. 6d. and 2s. per Night. A Night Porter in attendance. No INCREASE OF CHARGES. . INDIA AND THE COLONIES. pASSENGERS Embarking or Disembarking /- win find superior accommodation and moderate I,arges • at CHAPLIN'S CLARENDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND, Adjoining the Terrace Pier. A Lawn in front, extending to the River. AMUSEMENTS. CANTERBURY HALL. GRAND SELECTIONS from VERDI'S " SIMON BOCCANEGRA," MACFARREN'S CANTATA " MAY DAY," LOCKE'S MUSIC of " MArBETH." and Mr. BENNETT GILBERT'S NEW OPERETTA, "A NIGHT IN FAIRY LAND." Conducted by Mr. JONGIIMANS. Full Band and Chorus. PRINCIPAL ARTISTES. Miss RUSSELL, Miss TOWNLEY. Sig. Tivoli, Mr. Green, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Russell Grover. The Comic by UNSWORTH (the. Original Stump Orator, " OR ANY OTHER MAN"), in conjunction with Eugene, Du7ey, and Little Bob, forming the greatest Comic Quartet in London. Also, the following Comic Favourites : —Miss Georgina Smithson, Messrs. E. Marshall. Hollingsworth. and Arthur Lloyd, and the surprising Performance of " THE ETOILE FAMILY." TII 6, E OXF OR D STREET, F 9 R D, Re-appearance of Unsworth (the original of "Or any other man.")—The Colleen Bawn, by Miss Caroline Parkes.— Eugene, the great Burlesque Prima Donna.—Arena and Angelica, the Neapolitan Minstrels.—W. Randall and A. B. Hollingsworth, Mr. T. Maclagan's Entertainment.—Drew Dean's Solos on the Flute.— , , omic Pas Seul, by Henri—ln addition to varied high-class musical attractions, consisting of Selections from Verdi's "Nabuco" and "11 Corsaro," Donizetti's " Don Sebastien, " Auber's "La Circassienne," and Choruses, Glees, Duets, &c., &c., by , Miss Russell, Mies Townley ; Messrs. Bernardi, Greene, Huish, and Albert, with Full Band and Chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonglimans. Admission, Od.; Balcony and Stalls, ls. ; Private Boxes. 10s. fid. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE AND AMPHITHEATRE. OLMAR EVERY EVENING. Les Freres Conrade on the Low Rope (without balancing pole). —Les Petites Monstres.—The Olympic Wonders—Pas Seul by Lord Dromedary. -Mrs. Bryan, Wieland, Woodman, &c. —Grand Musical Entertainment of Sixty Performers. First appearance of the celebrated Talliotts on Monday next, Bth December. A RGYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street, Haymarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.— )pen every Evening for Promenade and Dancing, with the elebrated Rand of 50 performers. Conductor and Principal ornet-a-Piston, ISouLcomyr.—The new Imperial Qua- Vaise Cotillion, and L. Mosca's Peep o'Day Valse will be played nightly. A new Conversation Salon has been added to the above retablishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments.— Admission ls.—Manager, M. Grenet. It OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE BOHEMIAN GIRL: Miss Anna Hiles (her 2nd appearance), Mrs. Aynsley Caoke, Miss Susan Pyne : Messrs. W. H. Weiss, H. Corri, St. Albyn, E. Dussek, and W. Harrison. Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at half-past 7—Commence at 8. TRF'ATRE-RO YA I . HAY MARKET. Lessee Dir. J R. Rnekstone. THIS EVENING, at 7, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. Messrs. Farren, Rogers, Clark, and Miss E. Romer. After which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (204th time UR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck. tone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Fare, entitted DUCK HUNTING: Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Mr. W, Farren, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss C. Hill. To conclude with JACK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. - FAV THRATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPIII.—.- Role Pronriptor and lkinniwer, Mr. B. Webster. ' THIS EVEICING, THE GREEN BUS FfiEq. Mesat. - J. L. Toolr, P. Bedford, Rilling Jon, Sefton, Stephenson, Ebttrne, Romer, flltehenson, Aldridge; Miss Avonia Jones, 'Miss Woolgar Mrs. iiiiiington, Mrs. H. Lewis, and Mrs. Stoker. To cone,nde with A TICKET OF LEAVE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stephenson, and Mrs. Billington. Commence at 7. . . _ • • e.•l • • • ) • r V`, r ' 0""1 0 • e • t . 45 . , - Vat 'o* •••• _ . . . \\l "• # l ,‘ ' , , 4W i . . ' y t); , • d obzi .tions • air ' 4 "L , 4l -0,0 • ' ' • - ♦ ROiT ••V mond . ft,nd t' ..... • ` l2 existe. SIT which took the first prize in class 2 also obtained the Pre sident's.prize for the best animal, shown by an exhibitor who was also the breeder. Thii was Mr. George Pitt, Chadnor-court, Dilwyn near Leominster. In class 3 (cows) to the animal which gaineil the first prize was also awarded the £2O, as the beat Hereford in the yard. Class 7, for short-horn cows, was a very fine class, not an inferior ani mal in i 1; the winner of the first prize was also awarded the £2O extra as the best short-horn exhibited, and the gold medal. For this distinc*n there was a formidable compe titor in Mr. SwinnertOn i Kshort-horn ox, which obtained the first prize in class and which gained a prize in Bingley-hall last year, d was also the second best ani 'nal exhibited on that OCCASIon. Class 8, short-horn heifers —No less than 16 animal were shown,;Mr. Robert Ten nant, of Scarcroft,..near Leeds, taking the first prize. The Devon classes were rather better filled than usual. To the winner of the first prize for animals exceeding three years and three months old was also awarded the extra £ 2O; the exhibitor was. Mr. W. Smith, of Southernhay, near Exeter. In the class for Devon steers not exceeding three years and three months old the second prize was awarded to an animal exhibited by. Major-Gen. the Hon. A. N. Hood, his late Royal Highness the Prince Consort being the breeder. In the class for De'ven-cows the first prize was withheld. In class 15, for pure breeds (except Scotch and Welsh) and cross breeds, the prize and gold medal, as the best animal in the yard, was awarded to Mr. James Stewart, of New Market, Aberdeen, Inn keepers'. Cup, ..•• The Scotchub . to whom Was also awarded the priz e ' o f th e I nn - Sit as ,, lrer e 4t Ali'epresented. The first pfize in class 18 ( or steers) was awarde/ b to Mr. James Stewart, of New Market, Aberdeen. To this animal was also awarded the extra £2O as the best Scotch breed shown, but there was a very formidable competition for this ; a hei fer Shown by Major Wollaston, of Shenton Hall, Nunea ton, which obtained the prize in class 19. The Welsh breeds were poorly represented as to numbers, and in the extra classes there was no entry. , The competition in all the classes was very great, as was evidenced by the number of times the judges had the 'animals out; also by the lateness of the hour—past seven o'clock—befor e the labours of the judges of cattle had concluded. The commendations were numerous. the clergy, especially those of the Rotnish faith. It is absurd to talk of such a word as earnestness being applicable to the coloured race, but to the fulleet extent of their powers detestation of the Yankee is expressed by the negroes. I trust, hereafter, to have full opportunities of collecting details of negro fidelity under trying circumstances during this war; for the present it will be enough to state that not one of those prophecies which we have all believed and been deluded by in England with regard to the weak spot of slavery festering at the heart of the South has found one tittle of realisation. Women and children without one adult white male have constantly lived in the voiceless solitudes of the South surrounded by negroes ; in no instance known to me has anything but the greatest loyalty and affection been evinced. Again and again the slaves have fled from the Yankee army into the swamp to escape from com pulsory freedom, and there is abundant evidence that if a being so morally weak and nerveless as the African could be made to fight for anything, he would fight for slavery much rather than for liberty. President Davis's slaves all escaped into the swamp when his plantation was devastated by the Federals rather than Accept the manumission which was' eagerly proffered, not because the Federala love the slaves, but because they hate Jefferson Davis. It seems to me that half an hour in Richmond would satisfy the most rabid Unionist of his own infatuation ; but if that half-hour was passed in the society of President Davis, and any faith in the restoration of the Union nominally survived, the only inference would be that the Union was either knave or fool, In a former letter from the North I expressed the opinion that Mr. Davis was the ablest living American ; that impression is more than con firmed by intercourse with him. The President is one of those calm, firm, undemonstrative men, in clining to reticence, but if interested easily led on to animated conversation, who belong to a type which, strange to say, seems to abound in the South, and is at variance with the imputed impulsiveness of these children of the sun. In many interviews with Northern men of rank it has never been my fortune to encounter one whose mind was not made in the same mould with that of his fellows, who had not travelled along the same macadamised road of learning along which, though pursuing it to diffe rent lengths, the 20,000,000 of the North undeviat ingly advance. An interview with President Davis reveals to you an American with striking originality, whose mind has made its own road as it journeyed, who has thoughtfully profited by its own experi ences,aud got beyond the set phrases and the primers which circumscribe vigour and reach of thought. Each word is slow, weighty, and luminous, the coun tenance and voice agreeable and convincing, the mouth one of the firmest that ever were set in mor tal head. The President looks spare and worn, but speaks cheerfully of his health. There is nothing to justify the repeated allegations of Northern papers that he is physically at his last gasp. A month in the Confederacy has taught me what a tremendous power, beyond the unanimous resis tance of the inhabitants, the North is contending against in the vast dimensions of the area it is striving to subdue. I have hitherto but grazed the edges of the great State of Virginia, but in order to do this day after day has been spent in the saddle, hundreds of miles have been ridden, and a notion of the difficulty of advancing an army has been gained from the experience of a single horseman seeking food and shelter for his horse and himself. From Gen. Lee's advanced posts four days (three in the saddle and one on the railroad) are required for the journey to Richmond, though the distance is less than 200,4niles. But _the rocky road of the Blue Ridge Make 30 miles on horseback a good day's journey. As for food and forage, it is almost as difficult to procure as in Central Africa. It is into this country, rendered additionally ineccessible by the destruction of the railroad from Harper's Ferry to Winchester, and of more than 30 miles of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, that the clamour of the North will probably compel Gen. M'Clellan, keeping open vastly extended lines of communica tion, to advance upon an enemy which will fall back as he approaches, and fight him exactly in the posi tion which best suits the views of Gen. Lee. If an advance had been made by General M'Clellan any time during the last month, there is excellent reason to think that it would have immediately been countered by a corresponding advance of General Lee into Maryland. But now that the Potomac is daily rising, and the fords are, generally speaking, impassable for artillery, fresh tactics are required, and General M'Clel lan's advance will bo responded to, not by a corre sponding advance into Maryland, but by a retreat into the heart of Virginia. The confidence gene rally entertained here that if General M'Clellan should advance it will be to his ruin is based upon the fact that no such army as that now commanded by General Lee has ever been in the field to oppose him since the birth of the Confederacy. Whenever the history of this war is fully written, the world will be aghast at the disparity of forces with which battle after battle has been won by Southern gene rals, and especially by General Jackson. Perhaps no greater instance of daring is recorded in civi lised warfare than that exhibited when, at the end of last August, General Jackson threw himself at the head of 18,000 men behind General Pope's vast host, and gained decided successes, to be converted, when General Longstreet joined General Jackson, into headlong routs. The same confident self-re liance was displayed when General Lee, at the head of not more than 35,000 men, preferred to fight the battle of Sharpsburg rather than retreat without a battle, as he might have done. The best commen tary upon the Maryland campaign is found in the two facts that Harper's Ferry, with 12,000 men and an untold number of guns and abundant muni tions of war, fell almost without costing a life into the hands of its assailants, and that seven weeks have this day elapsed since the battle of Sharps burg without any serious attempt being made by General M'Clellan to provoke another battle. Perhaps there is no spot in the Valley of Virginia which tells its tale of the desolations of war more forcibly than the junction of the two forks of the Shenandoah river, in the immediate neighbourhood of Front Royal. The beautiful and abounding river, of which one branch runs along either side of the bluff mountain of Massanutten, until the two come together at its north-eastern base, rushes rapidly over the limestone rocks of its channel and was once traversed by three bridges, whereof one carried the Manassas Gap Railroad over the trunk stream, and the other two spanned the two forks before their junction, and carried the mountain road from Front Royal to Winchester. The forlorn and mutilated piers in the centre of the stream are now the sole relics of what once must have been noble bridges. Everywhere along this mountain road the ravages of war are more clearly perceptible than between Staunton and Winchester. Every farmer has his story of horses and kine stolen by the Yankees, and cornfields and forage devoured by both armies. But such is the wealth of nature here that after tw o b r i e f years o f peace t h e w h o le face o f the valley w ou ld sm il e as o f yore , an d little visible evidence of the shock of men would remain to tell ,h the tale. I n a s h or t ti me th e two forks of the .1 e•• nandoah will scarcely be fordable, and the com munication between the forces at Gordonsville and the forces at Winchester mast be sustained by roads higher up the valley. Reports represent General M'Clellan as threatening to advance at Berlin and Lovettsville, on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge. It will be obviously dangerous, even though the Potomac may be ever so d General Jackson and General eJe.Pt for him to have E. B. Stuart on the western slope of the Blue Ridge ; but in any cas e he will find it " a far cry" from Lovettsville to Richmond. Any advance from this quarter would be laughed at in this city were it not simultaneously sustained by a threatened advance from Suffolk and Petersburg. It would appear that the campaign in gicutuekv 'ED ....sd. The sheep pens were well filled. Of Shropshires and long wools the display was probably the finest ever seen at this exhibition. South Downs were not quite so good as usual. The pigs will bear comparison with any previous exhi bition here, and it has always been first rate in that depart ment. The Berkshire breed maintained its ascendancy. Of poultry there is a magnificent display, every species of domestic fowl being represented. There is also a good col lection of pigeons. 711 E SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. (From the Times Correspondent.) RICHMOND, Nov. 5. It is very obvious that the next 30 days are to be momentously eventful in the history of this war. It is probable that the last and most desperate effort of the North, mad© simultaneously by an army somewhere in the neighbourhood of the position now occupied by Gen. M'Ciellan, by another ad vancing from Suffolk, by another under Gen. Rose crans in the West, by another advancing along the Mississippi River, and finally sustained by naval attacks upon Vicksburg, Charleston, and Mobile, and, perhaps, elsewhere, will fall like an avalanche upon the Southern States and strain every joint in their harness. They are fully alive to the danger, and confidently prepared to meet it. It is idle to expect that they will not meet with reverses ; but one thing alone may be incontrovertibly asserted, they will never be subdued and never brought back into the Union. It is of very little moment to assert that Richmond will never fall, although such is my confident belief; but no man with eyes and ears open can doubt that the fall of Richmond will bring Mr. Lincoln not one whit nearer to the restoration of his supremacy over the 800,000 square miles which are lost to him and his successors for ever. Gen. Lee is in Richmond, and has been here for the last three days, but returns to-day to his post. A portion of his army is falling bacVtowards donsville, iri the neighbAhoodtif w inch place Gen, Longstreet's corps d'ardiee :s already posted, hiving crossed over to the east of the Blue Ridge. General Jackson and a considerable force still protect Win chester and the valley behind it; but the whole army is sufficiently held in hand to be rapidly con centrated on Richmond if occasion demand. The danger is (as has long been expected)from the South. A very considerable force of Federals is assembling at Suffolk. They already number from 30,000 to 40,000, and are constantly being increased. Their obvious design is to seize Weldon, and thus inter cept Richmond from its chief link of connection with the South, and then to advance upon it from the South, while M'Clellan makes a simultaneous attack from the North. Gen. Lee's difficulties are obvious. If Richmond was off his shoulders he would soon give Gen. M'Clellan and his army enough to do on the Potomac, but with the im mense facilities of Water carriage commanded by the North, an enormous Federal force can at any moment be thrown into Suffolk, and before any thing like an equal force can be assembled to meet them the railroad can be cut at Weldon, Richmond isolated from Charleston, and an attempt made to turn the flank of Drewry's Bluff and attack from the southern side. Gen. Lee must keep his large and finely appointed army -1 mean finely appointed in comparison with its condition on many previous occasions —within reach of Richmond, and can ven ture upon no aggressive operations against Gen. M'Clellan's army (which under other circumstances would be greatly relished both by Gen. Lee and his inferiors), because of the prc I.ection which he is forced to extend to Richmond. N i rapidly te n a t s h s the o f true the The dange r may appear imm:. nent, but dimini s h es n troops oapffsatirhsrowis ncoinnstiodesruedf_. Suf folk are green recruits, and the experience of this war has reversed such precedents as Waterloo, and shown that en the Federal side raw recruits are worthless. There is good reason to think, if well officered, they would fight decently, but the raw officers have always set the most pernicious example to their troops. There have of course been indivi dual exceptions, but generally speaking the officers, as soon as they are brought under fire, have been the very first to throw down their arms and demo- ralise their inexperienced troops by setting an ex ample of flight. There is not much danger to Richmond from twice 40,000 of such troops, unless Gen. M'Clellan reinforces them with some more experienced officers and men, who will raise their tone. If he does this he will greatly weaken his own army and set Gen. Lee free to act entirely against the assailants of Richmond from the South, while Gen. Jackson will be fully a match for Gen. M'Clellan in the North. Again, in reference to the attacks upon Charleston and Mobile, it may confi dently be asserted that General Butler's reign at New Orleans will make the resistance at every y s he has hoped and i o n t s h t e e r seaboard adofinspirciintgy terror, as desperate, and that, in tended, he has inspired only such loathing and aversion as have not been known on earth since the days of the Duke of Alva. And these are the people among whom the Union—a union not only of interest but of affection—is to arise again ! And these are the people whom Mr. Cassius M. Clay and other Northern !spokesmen believe would co m bine join heart and sou l i n g:and, which has n and to tread th e ea w a i rw t n h ea sr t t h l yaegi rstr i ven r u e tn s oo s ff o o r ffe s ne nd a id n n dg neither difficult path of justice towards each, it shows how little the true state of the South is as yet k nown and appreciated by the North. It a is n and guarded interesting the to observe how muc h more reti cent Southern press, wh o ll y unre strained by censorship or supervision, i s th an th e muzzled and stifled journals of the North. G enera l Lee has been in this town for three days, and every body in the streets has known it; not a word to that effect has appeared in print. Possibly it might be useful to General M'Clellan to be aware of this fact, and the instinct of a people whose affections are in their cause is a truer guide to discerning where silence is desirable than the surveillance of Mr. Stanton and his myrmidons. In the annals of civi- in support of a war has wonder T a h n e d admir a ti on t o the lined warfare such harmony women are a never failingnev er been source stranger, And next to the women in earnestness are -- - 1 t - i - -' VS P. PER - , ervcd in the Lot that utarly Tittass. , copied into Northern papers from the Rich ! press are extracted from these two joutuaie, he appearance of dissension, which has no real lice, is thus pre2euted t.o Nirthern eyes. THE 31 E 7 7OPOLIIAN RAIL WAY. Nothing definite has yet . trunspited us to the opening of this line of railway. The repeated delays and postponements which have taken plc.co in the matter have led to some very unfavourable ceia - merits as to the condition of the line. Mr. Fowler, tho engineer, in his last report to the director s, slated most confidently that everything would be ready for the opening by the Ist of October lust. Tho bursting of the Fleet Sewer was assighed as a cause of delay, and when all the damage occasioned by this accident had been repaired, a further cause for postponement was found in the necessity for arranging or adapting the system of working the signals. Then it was found that the carriages which had been built for the railway were too wide, and that the doors could not in consequence be opened in the tunnel. They were, in fact, made some ten inches wider than the ordinary carriages of the Great Western Railway. This blunder has, we be lieve, been now rectified by reducing the width of the carriages. One reason for not opening the line was, however, put forward, which, unlike any o f those already mentioned, had really no foundation, viz., that the delay was occasioned by difficulties in terposed by the Great Western Railway, who had undertaken to work the'line. So far from this being the case, the Great Western Company have been prepared at any time, within the last three months, to undertake the working of the railway, and no blame whatever can be attributed to them in this respect. The Great Western Company are prepared to abide by, and to carry cut the working arrange ments in the fairest and most honourable manner. iimong the, rumours which have been current dur ing the last week, as to the cause of delay, are some of a very grave nature. It was stated that the works connected with the new Fleet sewer were not sufficiently strong, that a very large portion of the bank of the cutting near the Sessions _Rouse, Clerkenwel, had given way, and that ;the recon struction of a large part of the retaining wall in some other parts near the line of the sewer would be necessary. This last report, we are glad to learn, has been considerably exaggerated. There is a portion of the line between the station and the mouth of the Coppice-row tunnel, the retaining wall of which had not been built up in brickwork. It was a part at which th e b ranc h li ne to run under Smith field was to dive rge , an d h ere the bank was k ept up only by a short wall and some piling. A portion of the earth slipped, but it was only to a trifling extent, and scarcely sufficient to interfere with the line on the permanent way. There are other reports of an unsatisfactory nature as to the condition of some part of the brickwork in the tunnel, but we are un able to ascertain whether there is any foundation for this report. It is impossible to say with cer tainty when the line will be opened for traffic. No day for the official inspection has yet been named. The directors of the Great Western Company have done all in their power to complete the arrange ments, the station masters and guards and porters are appointed, and the answer now given to all in quiries on the subject is that the opening day will not be delayed beyond the middle of the month. CHARGE 01 MURDER IN THE VIC 2 MA. DOCK-ROAD. SMITHFIELD CLUB GA7TLE SHOW. On Saturday the Agrieultural Hall at Islington • presented a scene which indicates the close ap proach of the Great Metropolitan Cattle Show of 1862, and the arrangements, under the directior! of Mr. B. T. Brandreth Gibbs, the hoe. secretary, on behalf of the Smithfield Club, and Mr. Samuel Sidney, secretary for the company, were progress ing rapidly towards completion. The eastern facade, facing Islington. green, is now so far completed as to have the scaffolding removed from it, and the avenue, which is to connect it with the main building, but which _for the present year will be. of a temporary character, will be finished in a few days, and will be brilliantly illuminated, the eastern frontage having on it, in gas jets, the words ". Agricultural Hall—Cattle Show." There will be no such illumination at the grand entrance, but there is in course of erection a large number of gas lamps, so that the approaches may be thoroughly and properly lighted. The agricultural implements, direct from the Exhibition, are coming in rapidly, and being depo sited at the respective stands which have been as signed to them ; and there is a peculiar feature con- Opted with their arrangement which will be exceed ingly acceptable to the public. In the first place, all the stands for the exhibition of seeds, roots, and agricultural produce are being erected with their backs to the walls of the building, with an avenue between them and the implements, which will oc cupy the centre, leaving another avenue between them and the outside railings of the galleries, thus affording to visitors an uninterrupted view from the latter of the show-yard and the cattle and other specimens from which, it will be recollected, they were completely shut out at Baker-street. Messrs. Gibbs and Co., seedsrnen to the Royal Agricultural Society of England, have already commenced the erection of their stand for the exhibition of cereals, seeds, 8z2., and the space appears to be nearly double . . . _ ,hat supplied to them in Baker-street. It is situate immediately adjoining the eastern staircase in the southern gallery ; whilst Messrs. Skewing, of Liverpool; Lawson and Co., Thos. Gibbs and Co., Carter and Co., seedsmen to the Queen ; the well known Benj. Edgington, and others, are erecting stands of a more than ordinary neatness in various parts of the galleries. Messrs. Clayton, Shuttle worth, and Co., Burgess and Key, Wedlake and Co., and other makers of steam engines, thrashing and reaping machines, and the other larger and more weighty specimens of agricultural implements, are taking up their stations under the galleries, as, in accordance with a rule which had been laid down, no single machine is to be permitted in the galle ries above the weight of two tons, and all over that weight must go below. A very elegant clock is being pat up at the wes tern of the grand area, and the arrangements for lighting are now also completed. Upon this point it would appear that, with a desire to show off to advantage the really beautiful roof of the central avenue, the gaseliers, of which there are 14 large ones (seven on each side) bearing sprays consisting of 14 lights each, have only been lowered to within about 10 or 12 feet of the level of the flooring of the galleries, which raise them so high above the ground of the basement where the cattle will be placed, as to render the light, which they would give were they alone employed, scarcely sufficient ; but all de fect, if there were any upon this point, has been ob viated by attaching a second circlet to the tubes which run from the galleries at intervals, and by erecting on every alternate standard which holds the iron work of the cattle and sheep pens, a spray of six gas batswings, which, while it affords ample light, gives the whole building a very pleasing effect: The general arrangement leaves nothing to be de sired, and as a matter of accommodation to the visitors, the Agricultural Hall Company have se cured the services of a numerous and efficient staff of commissionaires; a post letter-box, lavatories, and accommodation of every description is afforded The waiting-rooms for ladies are fitted up in a most comfortable and convenient manner, whilst those for gentlemen are not less so; and the refreshment de partments have also engaged the study of those who have had the arrangements under their care for general convenience and comfort. Amongst other novelties, a place has been assigned at the Islington-green entrance for the exhibition by Messrs Anbeit and Linton of their piping• bull finch, which attracted so much notice at the Inter national Exhibition, and which they have under. aken shall amuse the visitors for the benefit of the Lancashire Operatives Fund. The last day for the _ _ _ reception of implements will be Wednesday first, and Friday night, at 12 o'clock, will be the last hour at which specimens of cattle or other live stock will be received. The stewards will make heir award on Saturday, and about eight o'clock on Saturday evening the building will_ be opened for a private view to the members of the club, the public press, &c. Monday, the Bth, the show will be opened to the public as a 6s. day, and on the four following days at the ordinary charge of ls., finally closing on Friday evening. BIRMINGHAM CATTLE AND POUL7RY 8110 W. BIRMING HAM, SATURDAY EVENING. This year's exhibition of cattle, sheep, and poultry, at Bingley-hall, will be opened on Monday to what is called the "private view." The show has gained so gradually upon that of Smithfield, that so far from being merely second to that time-honoured exhibition, this is at least on a par with it; and this year's show is in every respect pre ceded it. For instance, the number of entries for cattle is equal, and in some rather superior to any which have 131, which is, we believe, the largest, with one exception, in any year since the show was established. Since last year an important change has taken place in the arrangements at Bingley-hall ; spacious as the area of the building is, it has been found inadequate, and especially so since the determination of the council to admit agricul approprtely tural implements. Last year a small space was devoted to that purpose, but the applications for it being much larger than could paaaibly bo spared, the council determined to in- PwPhilleachti°calanSnfootr certainly • £5OO. in crease their space by the erection of a gallery at one end of the building. This has been done with good effect, and it is this year filled with a fine collection of roots of excellent g f rowth for the season, especially as regards the mangolds, owhich there are some very magnificent specimens. such Th a e sp e e alteration te b e t o set whichap arreferenceimplement l e been n madet department has lef t Hb as eoi t nw o ge p r r dm od eeen u a c dre e . a so v itn ery fine collection, the principal exhibitors LAI S a ae x we m ear, u s n . d Richmond he t ; M oia e i I s o Messrs, Shuttle worth, and Co., Bury St. Edmunds;Bedford c and ; S i M m e e s ' s Messrs. Clayton ,lpswich Sh utt Messrs.e- Lincoln; u Messrs. Garrett and Sons, of ornby and Sons, of Grantham ; had of been ee upon, e h a nd Messrs. 11, o f Manchester m appl e b e ek ; 11 a I n r d . of Birmingham, and . several others. We believe that thanß oby , p m en th , iasnd the rentdepartment f 0 rwere allotments larger b th it e ed a amaotufnuttutoreneeaxrhlibitioese riys h l u e hi r t e as v. a e r e a l s t o e m r e e d t articles he f t a u r r aml implements:'ore be classed amongst " agricul the couPninue: eluded scill with more propriety be ex sells, and the space thus occupied be Th ainlY connected with agricultural pursuits. for articles more closely In another res pect arrange ments of previous years. With exlii doubt, it resolved to admit the the very best intentions,no soon after three o'clock this afternoon,representatives of the press that time in the midst of their duties the judges being at there were at times a greater number ; the result was that proximity to those gentlemen than of ptrsons in closer con venient or consistent with the verywas perhaps quite had to perform. Mr. Jeremiah Matthewsarduous duties they mem bers of the council did their best to keep and other from all embarrassment from the cause? the judges free referred to, and probably with success ; but we are by no means certain that the new arrangement is a satisfactory on©; a modifi cation of the rule for future ye ars may render-Y n e i e t B°. The show itself is a great suc cess ; no doubt there have been occasional instances in which a better animal has been shown in a Hereford class than is now to be seen ti hall ; but as a class entire, it is the opinion o f the gieY that there never was a finer display. The judges Hereford bul locks are splendid animals, and the short-horn heifers are as near perfection as possible. The prize in class lis a noble specimen of the Hereford breed ; its girth behind the shoul ders is 9 feet 4 inches; the exhibitor, who is also the breeder, is Mr. John Hatcher, of Marwood Grange, near Bristol. This animal also took Mr, Jo‘l's prize, The Hereford steer, 1 PRICE. STAN: is regarded with hearty disappointment upon both sides. The generals in command—Generals Bragg and Buell—are universally condemned by their re spective parties. General Buell has been deposed by the Federals, in favour of General Rosecrana. Loud murmurs arc heard in this city against Gen. Bragg. That an abler successor worili bc., very de• sirable cannot be denied, but where he can be found it is difficult to say. Perhaps the greatest satisfac tion would be felt if General Joe Johnston were ap pointed in General Bragg's place, but, although General Johnston is here, and appears to have won derfully recovered from his wounds, it is doubtful if his health is strong enough yet to enable him to take the field. The presence of so many of the leading generals in Richmond at this moment is significant. In reference to Kentucky it is idle to deny that there has been more disappointment here at her disloyalty to the South than at the apathy of Maryland. It is considered incredible that a State whose interests and senti ments all gravitate sout h wards should still cling to the Union, when the Union is hopeless at the" and discredited, and sh ou ld, i n a vain effort after neutrality, subject, her, fields to deva s t at i on hands Of both armies. The condition of Kentucky, if the war lasts next year, will be appalling. On the i other hand, if she had heartily thrown in her lot this autumn with the South it is doubtful whether any attempt to carry the war further would have been made by the North. But in Kentucky and Maryland material censiderations, wealth and com fort, have outweighed all other influences. In the first it will be seen whether a less shortsighted policy, though more hazardous at the outset, would not eventually have proved much safer; in the second it must be remembered that scarce enough encouragement was extended to the first effort of the Confederacy in Maryland'a behalf to justify any similar attempt in the future. It is hard to expect that a State which, like Virginia, has borne the heat and burden of the war, which has laid bare her bosom to the smiter and submitted to sacrifices hardly paralleled on earth, should look with patience upon the lukewarm zeal of other rich and powerful States, and accept their lip service as equal to her heart's blood. In the annals of the Old Dominion there will be no loftier page than that which tells how month after month the war which established the independence of the South was fought on her willing soil, how Lee and Jackson and Stuart and a hundred others were among her chosen sons, and how upon every battlefield rivers of the best blood of Virginia were freely shed rather than abandon the title to independence which finds its expression in her fierce motto of " Sze Senzper Tyrannis." But if, as is asserted, the efforts of Gen. Bragg in Kentucky have resulted only in the capture of a large amount of plunder, it is believed that his army, now falling back into Tennessee, will be able to give a good account of Nashville, and to rescue that unhappy city from the miseries of Federal do mination, of which it has drained the cup to the dregs, For a long time past it has been the policy of the Confederates to intercept all supplies from entering the city, and thus to starve out the Fede ral garrison, consisting, it is said, of 7,000 men. This policy has been met by foraging parties on the part of the Federals, thrown out on every side of Nashville, by which every living animal and every thing of value has been ruthlessly seized, and Southern exasperation has been bitterly kindled against the Yankees of Nashville, who, in addition to seizing all manner of supplies, are said to have possessed themselves of jewels, ornaments, and silk dresses to an enormous extent. All these incidents have grievously inflamed tto Confederates against them, and it seema, probable that, although baffled in Kentucky, General Bragg's army or a small por tion of it will make short work with the garrison at Nashville, and either compel them to a surrender, such as took place at Harper's Ferry, or to a pre cipitate flight. It is strange it should be fancied that the tenure of such cities as Nashville and New Or leans by tyrants like Butler should be calculated to awaken sentiments of affection in heat ts estranged. Upon a recent day, no less than 15,000 persons went to a place in New Orleans, appointed by General Butler, and solemnly swore that they were enemies to the United States, and registered their property for him to work his will upon. In one respect there need be little anxiety enter tained in Europe about the pompous proclamation in which President Lincoln announces that after the Ist of January next all slaves in the States then in rebellion shall be set free. From the very first dawn of this war that proclamation has been prac tically enforced. There remains no power to en force it in January, 1863, which was not invoked and employed in January, 1862. Wherever the United States' forces have been quartered during this war the eager desire of officers and men ap pears to have been to "run off" the slave popula tion. Again and again rations have been served out to large bodies of runaway negroes; for instance there were 2,000 runaways lately assembled and fed by the Federal Government at Harper's Ferry. This circumstance only renders more certain the original impression entertained with respect to this procla mation, that it was esteemed as of no importance on this continent, and was put forth only to catch English and French approbation. But in the South such is the exasperation against the Yankee, so low is the estimate of his acts and intentions that it is almost universally believed that the un fortunate African runaway will be secretly sold by the Federal Government in Cuba. In confirmation of this theory it is remarked that a crippled, or aged, or useless negro is never tempted into freedom by the Federal troops. But it must be confessed that the very lowest estimates of Yankee' morality are justified by the experiences of this war. As an amusing instance of the popular Southern creed as to the mingled canting hypocrisy and knavery of the Yankee, it is asserted that in the wallet of a Federal soldier recently killed in the fight at Poca taligo, near Charleston, was discovered the 70th Psalm, neatly written out in the soldier's own hand, and wrapped in a five-dollar Confederate note, which proved to be counterfeit. It is remarked, after the experience of eighteen months of warfare, that the smooth bore rifle is gene rally preferred by the Southern soldiers to the Enfield or Springfielst, Th e Confederates do not believe in long sh o t s , and seldom Ere until within two hundred yards of their e t ne e riynfi At this ed musket is to dis tance the constant tendencyof h throw its ball too high. islt asserted that in the battles around this town tr aces of the musket b alls fired by the Confederates indicate an avera g e height the ground, where as t h e of from 3ft. to 6 ft. above g ehis theire earliest e opponents'st boyhood heads. The has, almost without exception, be en accustomed to Federal bullets ra n g e at a height of from 6ft. t o 9ft. There is not a question that the vast majo r it y o f the Federal buellestos the use ut g h o ern highr from above of firearms and to lif e in the saddle, The va lue of these two accomplishment s cannot be over , estimated in such a war as this. At this moment rumours have reached us that Gen. M'Clellan give a w ay to Gen. Hooker. That such may be the c ase is ardently desired by Southern Gene ra l s . Gen. Hooker is known t t qualities which w ere also pos sesse d b y Gen. Pope. With such an army as th is to 0 oe brave and ras h, at of Gen. M'Clellan rash ness is almost certain to lead to crushing disaster. It is most creditable to the Confederacy to remark how, under all the pressure of their circumstances, public liberty has never been sacrified, the Habeas Co" pus -pus Act never suspended. As an in stance, I - may mention that there are two journals published daily in this town, which animadvert upon the President and his Cabinet, and upon the Governor of Virginia, in language which could scarcely be surpassed by the IVeto York Rerald. It has been held better to put up with the inewavA : 'llene° of their strictures, and with 0 -- ...J.e apparent manifestations of dissensi^ - • North than s* _...0. thus exhibited to the , .0 suppress ' 1 - or interfere with the free - - lerance . .um of the press. But one effect of this to A considerable degree of excitement has prevailed during the laSt few days in the vicinity of the Vic toria Docks, in consequence of a report of a brutal murder on the person of Arthur Merton, aged 21 years, a porter at the Tidal Basin Station of the North Woolwich line of the Great Eastern Railway, by a number of mariners alleged to be long to the screw collier steam-ship James Dixon, the property of Messrs. Cory and Sons, coal merch ants. It appeared that the deceased went into the Victoria Dock Hotel on Monday nightlast, and after leaving that pl ace h e was attacked bi' a numb pr of sailors in a drunken condition, who maltreated him and his companion, whom they kicked, and ifter leaving deceased in an insensible state, he was dis covered by the police, who removed him ; but de ceased never rallied, and died on the following morn ing at eleven o'clock. The Coroner for the district, Mr. C. C. Lewis, opened an inquiry at the Victoria Dock Hotel, Vic toria Dock road, Essex, upon the body of deceased, and after the identity was .proved on Wednesday the proceedings Were adjourned until Saturday, morning at eleven o'clock, when the following im portant evidence was adduced Edward Lowe stated that ho knew the deceased, and ho went to the Dock ni ht in House T avern on the g question with Thomas Dyson. They re mained ther e unt i l half-past eleven o'clock, they left. D yson and witness when ed they saw Mit c h e ll and other sailors walk , who on, wh® n struck him and Dyson. He then saw Mitchell run after Dyson, exclaimi ng, one, and I will d o f or " I h ave d one for another." Mitchell then approached w i tness and struck him. Wit ness saw the decea se d l y i ng on the ground and heard a man named Hewett say, "Go it George, give it, to the --...." At the police sta tion Mitchell offered witness money not to appear to press the charge. Thomas Dyson, railway porter, deposed that he and deceased left duty at five minutes to ten o'clock ' that night, and repaired to the Dock House Tavern, and, after remaining there until 20 minutes to 12, wayproceeded leftAlit o c n hel t l h s e t i r r uckwitness, home exclaiming, but just a t h f t e e y r th ey "I know y ou ." Wi tness replied, " If you do know me you need n o t s t r ik e me." Shortly afterward s h e saw deceased lying on the giound. The police were called, and deceased was taken home. Witness re mained with him all night, but he never recovered his senses or his speech, and expired next morning. James Wallis, a police-officer in the service of the Great Eastern Railway Company, said that on Mon day night, shortly before 11 o'clock, be was alarmed by a cry of " Police !" He proceeded to the spot from whence the s oun d i ssued, and found deceased upon the ground lying by the side of a lamp- post Mitchell was by th e d eceased, and witness distinctly saw him kick the deceased twice on the head as he lay upon the ground. Witness was only about 10 or 12 yards from hi m, and clearly saw Mitchell use his foot. When Mitchell was in the act of kicking de ceased, the man Hewett 'said, " Let the have it, George." When witness reached deceased he was quite insensible. Witness assisted in carrying de ceased home, and he was quite insensible until death. Mr. J. Morris, surgeon, stated that he was called to the deceased, and made a post mortem examina tion of the body, in conjunction with Dr. Mugliston. The immediate cause of death was effusion of blood on the surface of the brain, produced by fracture of the skull and rupture of the bloodvessels of tl-8 brain, which must have been produced by a violent fall or received blacwocidentally. He did not belie ve the injuries were After some remarks from the learned coroner he suggested another adjournment, as several important witnesses were absent on board the James Dixon, which would be in the docks again in a, week's time. The proceedings were accordingladjour ne d.B y The two men , Mit-, • %len and Hewett, were broug ht up at Ilford Petty Ses " sions, on Saturday, before a full bench of county magistrates, on the charge of causing the deceased's death ; but aft er the exami• nation ande for of several witnesses, the, p r i soners were• re fordmd a week, and were aga i n conveyed to I/- Gaol. THE LONDON COAL TRADE.--A scheme by which it is p roposed to substitute the present drops of the Great Northern Railway, with a much more advantageous plan for sacking, is now engaging the attention of the leading colliery owners of South Yorkshire, inasmuch as its adop tion would be a' tended with many advantages to them. By the authority of the directors of the South Yorkshire Rail. way a model of the plan has been exhibited at their offices, Ilaligate, Doncaster, and on Saturday last several of the directors and the officials inspected it, Mr. Plimsoll, a gentleman intimately connected with the coal trade, ex plained its working, and it seems that the fall of coals ft:ein the waggons is now so great as to cause a deterioratio n in value in sonic kinds of coal of at least 14 or 15 par cent., but the proposal now umde would reduce it to only three or four, and in the case of other descriptions still lower. It is intended that each quality shall occupy a particular line of railway, and the delivery will be direct from the trucks to the sacks down a screen separated in the middle, by which means the filling will take place in two sacks at once. As each truck is emptied it will, by means of an easily revolv ing turntable, run under a shed to a line setapart for empty waggons, and thus much of the inconvenience that mow ed t}_leir approobffwvy,oaattlaln°daaf arises would be obviated. The delivery could go on ft-xlmy waggons on each line, and when emptied be readily re moved.buateelblt t e ukhai s ant c ti hdnwsegmao waggons 0 0 0 nna demand, lse wouldv f u t bl h au e tnb c coe h ot i vab e il f emd ad pressobset The eolliely managers and propriet.rs have ex state as when loaded at the pits, the breakage which occurs at all the rausir, y de tained ntt delivered ai egdiensa to nLo dfo t whichnhs ed e consumer onsumer in the same depots in London being avoided. i fSt 112, 01 `~ ~'~. ,-,4