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THI3 DAY. —Morning, 4h. 10m.—Afternoon, 4h. 26m. To-moratow.-Morning, 4h. 4113:L.—Afternoon, 4h. 5Sm. 4 AZ 1 ' 14) 1 1.1 .0 ,14 4 7, 4 .1 5 4 • - tm *eir•tirii 0 bIE " THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER U, 1862 THE SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 12, 1862. What a windfall Italy, America, and panics have been to the Tories and Lord PALMERSTON! Italy, indeed, only in part, for their unlucky pro clivity to the wrong side has told entirely for PAL MERSTON—but then, it was for PALMERSTON and Toryism,—since it diverted attention from Parlia mentary Reform ; hence, though Tories did not gain the sweets of office, Toryism gained a reprieve from their great terror—the extension of political rights and liberties. The Panics, too, were admi rably worked, both by themselves and Lord PAL MERSTON, in staving off the hatefol question—who next shall enjoy the franchise ? It would peep out, now and then, but " our National Defences," was continually shouted so loudly, that, at the hustings, and in Parliament, the people wero taught to re gard raising seventy millions a year without grum bling, as a far more patriotic object than creating, protesting, and equalising votes. But America has served the Whig and Tory orators in every way. It has supplied them at once with a stone with which to pelt democracy, and a topic to make the country forget the rights of the dreaded DEMOS. We have just now the too well known Mr.BERES FORD HOPE, contending with two or three other candidates for the honour of representing Stoke upon-Trent. America enables him to talk by the hour, and yet to pack Reform and all that sort of thing into a conveniently small compass. A local or electioneering squabble over the position occupied by one of the professedly rival candidates, Sergeant SHEE, who, if Mr. HOPE succeeds, will, by dividing the liberal electors, be the cause of his success, serves for a little guerilla work ; but on this subject, the publish e d corresp - :ndence notwithsta n ding, we shall pronounce no judgment. We can only say that the liberals of Stoke.on-Trent would obtain much more credit with their party througho ut country, if they would h o ld a united .the m eeting, pledge themselves to abide by its decision, take a fair ballot, and then unanimously support the can didate whom their own ballot selected. We have seen this done more than once when division was , threatened, and the Tory in consequence has had to I withdraw, or to take his place on the poll where every Tory ought to be by this time of day. Mr. HOPE is an old Tory new vamped. Thus on Church -rates it hardly answers now, when every one recognises the vast amount of religious instruc tion supplied by Nonconformists at their own cost, to advocate saddling them with the cost of support ing the wealthy Church, of which the wealthy Mr. HOPE is a member—so he adapts his Church-rate policy to the exigency of the hour. He wants a compromise, though, like all the compromisers, he has pointed out none which others would accept. He would exempt Dissenters somehow; he would compel Churchmen to pay somehow; but how for purposes of exemption, and distraint on recusants, he would define Dissenter and Church man, he has given us no hint, and we suspect could present us with no plan which his own party, as well as that of Sir JOHN TRELAWNY, would not tear to pieces in five minutes. Parliamentary Reform must, it seems, for de cency's sake, be mentioned. On two points, Mr. HOPE ventured to be somewhat explicit. He w as in favour of "fancy franchises," and we suppose thanked Mr. BRIGHT for teaching him that word. We do not know that any one objects to them. Mr. DISRAELI, of course, does not, Lord RUSSELL, from whom roost of them were borrowed, does not, even Mr. BRIGHT does not, why should he, why should an y Reformer ?—anything that will fairly give a vote is so far an extension of the franchise. Bur when the fancy electors are for much the greater part selected from the gentleman's servant class, a li ttle suspicion arises that fancy has taken wing chiefly towards the poiitics of Belgravia. Englishmen desire some thin 0. moresolid—something lesskindred with the political soups and fricasees of French and Austrian paper constitutions, and more kindred with the substantial roast b2ef of their old England. We turn to the . naan's house icstiactively—to his castle—and desire to base on his acknowledged resi dence his claim to be considered a trustworthy citizen, clethed with the full riglts of a citizen. Above all, do we spurn the never-to-be-forgiven fancy of Mr. HOPE'S political chief, that of dis franchising some half million of freeholders in the counties, just because they happen to be the most liberal of that last class of voters. Mr. HOPE has, like Earl RUSSELL, a special spite against the ballot. We infer this naturally when, as in his case, no arguments are adduced but those which have been refuted again and again, and which indeed are refuted by the constant practice of the circles in which Mr. HOPE moves, when political power is not in question, and it is wished to obtain an honest expression of opinion, without detriment to the social comfort of any one. If the ballot, for instance, be un-English, we are sure Mr. BERES FORD is very un•English in his club, and perhaps in other societies, and that his friends in the army are very un-English, with all their courage, when they act together in Courts Martial. Mr. HOPE is not wanting in ability, and if he had any arguments against the ballot, save that hatred, which he dared not express, of the independence it would confer on the voter, he would not have descended to retail the trashy arguments of those whom he has else where designated as fourth rate men. But it is on the American War that Mr. A. J. B. BERESFORD HOPE is in his own opinion greatest, and, we should say, altogether un-English ; so much so, that, should the foolish Liberal split not be healed, he will be returned, even by Tories, not be cause of, but in spite of his views. Mr. HOPE told his audience that he is no convert to Southern views; he was always a Southerner in his Americou politics. Other Englishmen may have been made Southerners in their leanings by Bull's Run, or by the Trent affair, or by the Tariff—not so Mr. HOPE. "He was a Southerner in sympathy before Bull's Run." He did indeed avow his horror of slavery, and he had remonstrated with his Southern friends on that point, with what profit we may hope hereafter to see. Bat the South was his first love, and he is faithful to it. Few Englishmen, we trust, can say as much. Is Mr. B. HOPE, of all persons, ignorant of the special point in Mr. LINCOLN'S and the North's programme, which caused the South to secede ? Does he not know that it was the ques tion—whether slavery should be extended into the yet free territories, and the Constitution worked in the interest, not of slavery, but of Freedom ! Mr. A. J. B. HOPE must know that this is not only the never denied fact, but the avowed charge of the South against the North, and that the tariff was a mere afterthought. It was not felt to be oppressive, while the North would encourage slavery ; while it would pass fugitive slave laws ; tolerate,decisions from the Bench that the coloured man had no rights which the white man was bound to respect—and even refuse passports to coloured gentlemen and ladies because they were not citizens. As long as the North would sell itself uncondi tionally to doing the bidding of the Southern demon, the South would remain in the Union. As soon as the North refused longer compli2ity in the vilest abuses of slave power the South seceded. We do not deny, we have severely enough cen sured, the Northern conduct since the war began, on the negro question. But we confess we do blush to find an Englishman not ashamed to de• Clare himself a lover of the South. Bad as the North may be, that cannot justify us in attachment to a Republic which avowedly, for the first time in the world's history, and the year of our redemp tion, 1862, lays down slavery for its corner• stone —proclaims it a Divine institution—denies civil right, social rights, matrimonial rights, parental rights to its negroes. Which refuses their evi dence in its courts of law; which deals with them as mere animals, chattels, and pro perty; which refuses them education, keeps hem in compulsory ignorance, and which n its hellish madness of tyranny refuses any law which can ameliorate their relations to their pro- prietors, or tend to elevate their condition and cha racter. Mr. LINCOLN and the North have faults enough to answer for—we admit them, we have exposed them. But the audacity which in an English borough can stand on a platform and pro claim its sympathy with such a pandemonium of men who are more even traitors to humanity than to the North, is a disgrace to our country. If we cannot love the Yankees, much less can we love the South. We detest the North for dealing so gently with the accursed system ; how much more must we detest the South, which revels in the curse, and glories in its shame. All the Liberals of Stoke-on-Trent ought to unite, if only to prevent the disgrace to England of electing as a Member of Parliament a gentleman who loves the most politically depraved community of Chriatel dom, and who avows that he always loved it. The only thing to be regretted is, that the North should have done so many things as to enable Tories to make a diversion in favour of a community of slave holders by dwelling on the errors of their anta gonists. Our hope is, that the North will so far conquer, as to shut up slavery and its abomina tions within the fewest States possible. Sympathy for GARIBALDI! are the watchwords now calling together in various parts of the coun try large assemblies of earnest Englishmen. There Was an immense meeting only the other day at N e wcastle —a meeting convened simply for the pur pose of expressing that sympathy for GARIBALDI. There has been sinee th en another enormous gather ing of a like kind, and f or t h e self same o bj ect, at Gateshead. And in the midst of these spontaneous evidence s of adm iratio n for the Fall en H ero —as about the m ost practical token of th e s i ncer i ty o f the sympathy e xpressed toward s hi m, there is an intimation tha t has Just now got ab road to the effect that an rnglish medical att en d ant has been sent out to the aid of the illustrious sufferer, now prostrated upon a bed tha t it is be g in ning to be feared may unhappily prove to be his deathb e d, unless the calamity dreaded may, with GOD'S help, be averted by some such t i me ly assistance. English doctor having already b ee n sent out to Whether this report be co rrect or not, as to an Spezzia, by cer t a in of GARIBALDI 'S more earnest and energeti c s y m p a thisers in this c ountry—now is a magnificent o pportunity for any o ne of our leading men in the medical profession ! Suppose some world-famous surgical operator, like Professor SYME or Profe ssor FERGUSSON, were to ma ke a holiday of it at their l e i sure t i me o f t h e ye ar, whe n nearly all the gay world of their `Vest-end patients might be safely described as afoot among the baths of Germany, or the chalets of Switzerland, and taking steam across the Mediterranean, were to pay a visit to the wounded Captive, now lying mutilated and lamentably neglected in the prison fortress of Varignano In a merely professional point of view it would not be time thrown away. To say nothing of the admiration that could not fail to be ex c ited by so n oble an effort t o alle viate the sufferings, and to diminish, Bo far as might be practicable, the p er il threatening the life of a great man reduced I by a most memorable reverse of fortune to very terrible straits. Thera is a very natural and a very general distrust —in this country—of the Italian doe. tors, both Surgeons and Physicians. Their favourite system of treatment is of the old fashioned San Orado kind. They have a fatal predilection for attaining skill by (practice) in the art of phlebotomy. Blood-letting is their passion, as it would seem to have been that of the Bersaglieri at Aspromonte. They approach the couch of a sufferer twiddling the familiar lancet between thumb and finger—burn ing to open a vein if they can only contrive to ex tort permission, Anything like inflammation is an excuse for this exhuasting process. No matter how reduced orprostrated the patient:maybe other wise—they point to the evidence of local inflam mation, they descant upon the necessity of allay ing anything like feverish symptoms, and at the first available opportunity there is the incision, and the all-precious current of life is fast ebbing away. It is not an exaggeration to talk thus of the system in vogue among the majority of Italian medical practitioners. A memorable case in point and one of no remote occurrence, was that of the late Prime Minister of Italy, Count CAVOUR. It is a fact quite notorious that ho died as it were under the lancet. Full blooded though he was, his veins were drained and drained by the Italian SAN GRADOS clustered about his couch in fatal consultation. One Italian doctor is alarming enough, but a group of them, consulting together as to the best means to be pursued in re gard to the treatment of any one whose life is held peculiarly dear—is an incident of a most ominous and alarming character. The prescription arising from their consultation might be safely described, and without much exaggeration, as their patient's death-warrant. Now, during the last few days, there have been all kinds of ugly rumours flying about as to the exact condition of General GARIBALDI since his wounded body was laid down—by no very tender hands we take it—in that melancholy fortress of Varignano. It is quite certain that he is suffering grievously. It is a fact, by this time undeniable, that one of the two wounds received by him from Italian rifle shots at Aspromonte, is a wound of an exceedingly painful, and, indeed, of a very severe character. The bruising and abra sion of the left thigh may be regarded, happily, we believe with confidence, as not of very much account. It is the wound upon the right ankle that is so serious of its kind, and so poignant a source of suf fering. There it is not merely the flesh that is torn, but the bone that is shattered. Hence the feverish symptoms. Hence the difficulty of stirring with out anguish. And this upon a " borrowed" bed—a bed borrowed from a humane citizen of the neigh bouring seaport of Spezzia ! The authorities hav ing actually provided for their wounded State Pri soner—and that Prisoner no less a Benefactor of the KING and of the State than General GARIBALDI ! the Government of Italy having provided for their wounded State Prisoner, and that Prisoner GARI BALDI, neither bed, nor linen, nor leeches, nor ban dages, nor any of those little appurtenances of a sick room, that one might have thought the mere :dictates of humanity would have com pelled them eagerly to accumulate round him for his physical relief and assuagement. All this would be absolutely incredible but that we obtain the afflicting particulars from an authority that cannot be disputed. General Balo, a man of European reputation—General Bixio, no infatuated follower of GARIBALDI, for Bixio openly protested against this last fatal enterprise of GARIBALDI— General Bixio, and no other than General BIM, is the one whose indignant voice has but just now at Genoa denounced this infamous treatment of General GARIBALDI by the RATTAZZI Government ! And he does so—writing of these matters, not from hearsay, but from his own personal observation. He had but just returned from visiting the Wounded Hero at Varignano, when he wrote that astound ing letter, dated " Genoa, September s,"—to the publication of which letter we briefly alluded yes terday immediately before going to press. Kuowing the facts:now in regard to the actual situation of things just now about the person of General GARIBALDI— one cannot but feel that if the avoidable shooting and stabbing which took place at the end of last month at Aspromonte were incidents altogether infamous — doubly infamous in this disgraceful treatment of the Hero (there defeated, wounded, and captured) ever since his removal from the Duca di Genova to the fortress of Variguano. Sympathy for GARIBALDI—is, indeed, required. And from none can it come more generously or more gracefully than from Englishmen. And about the noblest, the fittest, the most generous and practical evidence that could possibly be given of the heart felt earnestness of this sympathy, would, without doubt, be the hastening out, as quickly as possible, to that conch of suffering there, near Spezzia, of some skilled English Doctor, who might—with Heaven's help—rescue GARIBALDI from the dan gerous hands of those Italian physicians, who de prived Italy of her first Statesman, as they now run the hazard of depriving her of that beloved Hero who is her greatest Soldier. The French EMPEROR is certainly taking it coolly. There is a talk of a Ministerial crisis at Paris—and his MAJESTY at once goes off to Biarritz ! There is a consciousness that all Europe awaits his concession at length to the exigencies of the times, by consenting to a solution, without any further delay, of the Great Continental Difficulty. His MAJESTY is reported to meditate drawing. the whole diplomatic world after him from the capital to his place of autumnal repose at the sea side ! The ambassadors accredited to the Court of the Tuileries,it was reported very recently,would as almost immediately at Biarritz to discuss with the EMPEROR the possibility of carrying out any satisfactory scheme of solution that might be sug gested. It appeared so incredible from the first that the EMPEROR would carry his coolness upon the affair referred to, so far, that we cannot wonder upon hearing that the idea of such a diplomatic gathering at Biarritz has (if ever entertained at all) been abandoned,at any rate for the time being. It is certain, however, that the Marquis de LAVAL LETTE, having been recently recalled from Rome, is expected at Biarritz on the 16th or 17th, and that the Duc de GRAMMONT will be there at the samei time. Meanwhile, has Lord RUSSELL no s t _u h g e g i e n a t t e i r oi et t s o o o f E ffe u r r a o t pe th p is juncture to the French Government--no suggestion whatever to offer to that Government, in the name of England and in STATUE of was resolved that a s s u t r a m tu l ; : i f Artritmeeting PRINCEon I,Vedne r sday evening it Prince, ,seOvNenSOfeßeTt high,Foß BIRMINGIUM. in Sicilian marble, Ethe and accompanied by such architectural .by an appropriate canopy, site might suggest, should d arc b lutectural accessories as the Exchange-buildings and the Tracted between the New New-street, and that the commission Grammar School, in to Mr. Foley. lesion should be entrusted FIRE IN A PILLAR LETTER. Box . ~....n night, about half-past six o'clock, a number ,n n Wednesday attracted to the vicinity of a pillar letter -box persons were street, Scotswood-road, Newcastle, whence b:x in Hinde issuing. On the box being opened it was ni fo o u ke d was seen cDntents, of whatever value they may have 1):, that its reduced to ashes. Inquiries were made, and it w e a T d 7ere vered that the perpetrator of this mischievous act wa s boyalsen" seven years of age, named John Murphy, the sea of an Irishman residing in Back 131andford-street. It is supposed he had dropped some lighted matches into the slit,—,N ew . cast? Ohmic*. LATEST NEWS. THE BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, AUG. 12, Morning. The Moniteur of to-day contains the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results, as compared with the August account : Cash in hand DECREASE. Bills discounted, not yet due 13 millions. 43 1-7 millions. Advances , . .. .. Bank-notes • . .. Treasury balance .. .. Current accounts .. .. 13 1.9 millions. 21 1-5 millions. 10 millions. 38 B-9 millions. BERLIN, SEPT. 11. In the Chamber of Deputies to-day the discussion of the military budget was entered upon. The Minister von der Heydt presented a written declaration, in which he recapitulated the progress of events in reference to the reorganisation of the army up to the present time. He stated : " It has never been the intention of the Govern ment to propose only a provisional military budget. The supplies hitherto voted by the Chamber have justified the Government in believing that it would be able to fulfil its duty towards the country by the maintenance of the existing military budget. " The Government has only abstained from bringing its proposition before the Chamber on ac count of the shortness of the present session. Future resolutions respecting the military constitution will not be prejudiced by the supplies voted for 1862. The Government has no objection to offer to the grant of an extraordinary credit, for which the cur rent income affords ample means. For the surplus expenses of 1862 the Government require the sub sequent consent of the Chamber, but hopes to obtain it on account of the unavoidable nature of the ex penses. The deferred presentation of the Budget would not justify resolutions of the Chamber which would create disorder in the administration of the finances, and compromise the Government with re spect to foreign countries. The proposal of the Committee would render it impossible to bring about any military budget. " The Government emphatically recognises the right of the Chamber to approve the expenditure ; but, conscious of being unable to adopt a different course, has displayed its endeavour to facilitate the solution of the question. The responsibility for the consequences will, therefore, remain with the representatives." TURIN, SEPT. 11. The reports in circulation of a new loan are btated to be devoid of foundation. The rumour that an amnesty will be proclaimed is considered more probable. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The following telegram has been received : SEPT. 11. The Euxine, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 11 a.m. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 11 30 a.m 711 E GLOUCES7E.R MUSICAL FESTIVAL. GLOUCESTER, TRURSD.A.Y. There was a fair attendance this morning at the cathedral. The aisle and choir seats (3s. 6d.) were in demand, and the reserved seats in the nave and west end of the gallery were also well patronised 'for what is generally considered the " off" day, or one which there is ordinarily two or more works performed. The performance began with Men delssohn's cantata, the " Lobgesang," composed for the Guttenburg Festival at Leipsic in June, 1840, the solo parts being performed by Mdlle. Parepa, Mr. Montem Smith, and Miss Eleonora Wilkinson. Mdlle. Parepa shone pre-eminently ; she attacked the high notes in the " Praise thou the Lord, 0 my spirit," with accuracy as well as power, and her share of the lovely duet, " T waited for the Lord," was superbly contributed. The chorus singing claims as earnest an eulogium as that which the band is entitled to. Each section of voices was earnest in the cause. At one o'clock the selection from "Judas Maccabeus" was begun. For the " Messiah" to-morrow—the concluding day —every place is taken. The third and last concert to-night at the Shire Hall has the attractive item in the programme of Benedict's " Undine." GENERAL BUTLER AND THE FRENCH CONSUL. The notorious and much execrated General Butler, at New Orleans, seems determined to keep his name before the world by rendering himself odious to all around him. After having had his acts towards some of the foreign Consuls, in the city where be commands, reversed by the Washing ton Government, he has now managed to get up a fresh difficulty with the French Consul, Count Mejan. It became known, it appears, to Butler that considerable sums of money had been deposited for security at the Consulate by French subjects, including one sum of 750,000 dols., left there by a French merchant at New Orleans. He spoke to Count MEj art about it, expressing his doubts that it was really French property, and his strong suspicion that it might be that of the rebels. The Consul could only reply that it had been placed in his hands by a French subject, who represented it to be his property, and to be allottE d to pay for tobacco which was to be sent to France. Butler, who it U ppears had the merchant in question in waiting, had him shown in and confronted him with Count Mejan. The merchant persisted that the money was his, and Butler had no means of prov ing the contrary; but although he did not think it advisable to seize the 750,000 dols., he placed two sentries over the Consulate to see that the specie was not carried away. Remonstrance then came from Count Mejan, who declared he could not tole rate this, and should pull down his flag if the sen tries were not withdrawn. In the course of the discussion that ensued it appears that the Consul was so imprudent as to say, that if the soldiers were removed, he would pledge himself not to' give up, without the consent of Butler, any of the money that had been deposited in his hands. Thereupon the sentries were taken away. But in the mean time it had got abroad that Butler was busying himself about the funds at the French Consu late, and several of the depositors getting alarmed went to Count Mejan to demand back their own. He, having given his word to Butler, felt obliged to refuse, and the fix became complete. The matter was referred to the French Minister at Washington, and, according to the last letters re ceived in Paris, Count Mejan was ordered to the Northern capital to give explanations. It is pre sumable that the person appointed to fill his place during his absence will not be considered bound by Count Mejan's rash promise, and that those who still desire it will receive the payments with which it is evident Butler had no right to interfere. MARKETS---TIIIS DAY. MARK LANE. Fresh up to our market, this morning, a moderate supply of New English wheat was received. For all qualities the trade was in a sluggish state, and prices had a drooping tendency. There was a large supply of foreign wheat on the stands, end the trade was in a sluggish state, at barely late rates. Floating cargoes of grafn changed hands heavily, and prices ruled in favour of buyers. Barley, however, moved off steadily, at full currencies. The supply on offer was small. The malt trade was dull, and for inferior produce prices were decidedly drooping. The supply of oats was mostly confined to foreign quali ties, which met a slow sale, on rather easier terms. Beans and peas were in limited supply, and steady re quest, at full prices. Flour moved off heavily, and the currencies had a down ward tendency. ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. 1 1,010 sackF English...— 2,150 9o' 1,630 Irish. - Foreign 36,9 90 2 , 030 I 2 0,680 2,310 sacks 41,010 bls. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of meat on sale is only moderate, and the trade, generally speaking, rules steady, at previous quota tions. _ _ Per Sib. by the carcase. saga sdod Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middlingmutton 4 0 4 2 'Middling do. .. 32 3 6 Prime do. .. 44 4 6 Frime large do. 3 8 3 10 Veal Do. small do. .. 4 0 4 2 Small pork 4 8 5 6 Large pork .... 4 0 4 6 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 8 3 10 FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 11.—The market has been ra ther brisk, and prices have an upward tendency, Threes, for the Account, being now at 69f. 75c. Railway Shares less animated, but scarcely any variation in price. The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents. 96 20 Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 65 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit 950 Do.end month 948 75 RAIL' Bank Shares 3160 Credit Is oncier 1230 Piedmontesc Fives 7 I 15 Italian Loan . 71 05 Roman — Austrian Spanieh Threes 5l Home Debt .. 4B 50 'AYB. C 31.1 onari u Cash. Account. 1055 1055 . Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 116 50 .. 1165 - Geneva .. Southern 842 50 .. 843 75 Western Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian 562 50 .. 562 50 557 50 .. 557 50 368 75 .. 368 75 Lou bard 478 75 .. 478 75 607 50 -„, 607 50 PORTUGAL. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY NIGHT. The screw steamship Tartar, Capt. W. Tulley, from Lisbon on the 7th inst., and Vigo on the Bth, arrived at 11 p.m., bringing 13 first and 10 second class passengers, a ship mail, 130 bags of coffee, 25 bags of cocoa, 95 casks of palm oil, 170 chests of lemons, 1,692 boxes of grapes, 100 boxes of apples, 75 boxes of plums, 200 frailes of figs, 150 bags of almonds, 400 cases of indiarubber, and 115 packages of general merchandise. We take the following from the King of Por tugal's speech on the opening of the Cortes on the 6th inst. : " Worthy Peers of the Kingdom, and Gentlemen Deputies of the Nation, " It is always with real pleasure that I see you assembled around the Constitutional Throne, draw ing closer the bonds of affection and mutual confi dence between the Crown and the nation." After announcing his proximate marriage with the Princess Marie-Pia of Savoy, daughter of the King of Italy, His Majesty concludes as follows : "My Government will lay before you the con tract of marriage recently signed at Turin, and your vote will, I hope, be in accordance with the sentiments which for centuries has elevated the generous character of the nation, and will express sympathy for an alliance which dates from the foundation of the Portuguese Monarchy." The last advices from Lisbon state that the Cortes bad passed unanimously votes approving the King's marriage contract with the Princess Maria of Savoy; also appointing deputations of both Houses to con gratulate his Majesty. The Cortes had likewise passed a law raising the Portuguese Legation at Turin to that of a Resident Minister of the 2d Class. After the votes the Cortes closed, to meet again on the 2d of November. The quotations of stocks and exchanges were without alteration since last packet. The only foreign ship of war at Lisbon ,was the American corvette St. Louis. The corn market at Lisbon was extremely dull, owing to heavy arrivals of maize and wheat. The Tartar experienced strong northerly winds on the coast of Portugal and in the Bay of Biscay, and in the Channel light northerly winds and fine weather. At 10 a.m. on the 9th inst., Ushant N.E. by E. 285 miles, the Tartar passed the steam ship Murillo, of Glasgow, bound to the north-east, labouring very heavily, with her foretopmast car ried away close to the lower masthead, having, to all appearances, rolled it away ; the sea was running too high to admit of speaking her, ESCAPE OF FOUR CONVICTS FROM PORTLAND PRISON.—On Tuesday last, as a number of convicts were being conveyed by waggon from the railway station at Weymouth to the convict establishment, on arriving at Wyke Nap the vehicle was stopped to apply the drag to the wheels, when four of the convicts, who were chained together, jumped out, and their fetters, being broken by the shocks, effected their escape. A pursuit, in which the vil• lagers joined, was at once made, and one of the desperadoes was soon found in a garden at Wyke. Two others, who had not been able to rid themselves of their handcuffs, were caught in the Chickerell•road, near Weymouth; and the fourth was seen by a woman to creep into some bushes, which afforded him but a short concealment. All were thus eventually re-captured, but the inhabitants of Weymouth feel in no way reconciled to the lax system which appears to prevail with regard to the convicts at Portland, and which has lately been characterised by so many startling and horrifying incidents. BOROUGH HOP. Our market is fairly supplied with new hops, for which the trade is in a sluggish state at from £6 to £8 Bs, per cwt. In yearling and old qualities very little is doing, yet prices are supported. Picking is now general, and the result in most districts is satisfactory. COLONIAL. TEA.—At public sale Assam qualities realised full rates. Other descriptions sold steadily at about previous quota tions. SUGAR.--The demand continues active for good and fine descriptions of West India, and prices are well supported. Foreign qualities remain without material alteration as regards prices. In the refined market a fair business has been done, at about previous values. COFFEE.-Business has been moderately active, and both Native and Plantation Ceylon has sold readily at fully pre vious quotations. ItrcE.—There has been a moderate demand for the better descriptions of East India, but no material change can be reported in prices. SALTPETRE.—The operations have been to an average extent, and prices have slightly advanced, particularly for good and fine qualities. TALLow.—The market has continued dull, and but few dealings have been recorded. P. Y.C. on the spot is quoted 48s, last three months 48s 9d, and spring delivery 49s Gd per e wt. ALARMING FIRES.—Last night a fire, unfortu nately of a destructive character, took place in the premises belonging to Mr. Bacon, a builder, carrying on business at Chelsea Villas, Fulham Road. The fire commenced in a brick and timber building nearly fifty feet long, used as the carpenter's and joiner's workshops, and owing to the in flammable nature of the stock in trade, the flames spread with more than usual rapidity, and in the course of a few minutes the entire building presented a great sheet of flame, and the fire was attacking the roof of the pre mises of Mr. J. Lamb, a mason. The engines of the parish, the military, and volunteer brigade, and three of the Lon don Brigade, and a good supply of water having been obtained, the firemen went to work; but they were unable to get the fire out until the work shops of Mr. Bacon were destroyed and the contents con sumed, and two-thirds of the roof of the adjoining premises were destroyed. The origin of the fire is unknown. Un fortunately neither sufferer was insured. Another fire happened in the grounds of Mr. W. Prentice, a cow-keeper, situate at the side of the road, in the Winchester-road, St, John's Wood. The flames originated in a rick of hay and rapidly extended to another one equally as large. The engines from the barracks, that of the volunteer brigade, and the London brigade, attended with all possible expedi tion, but several hours elapsed before the fire could be ex tinguished, but the men were e nabled to save a great quantity of th e f arm produce. Th e owner was unins ure d . SUFFOLK COUNTY RIFLE ASSOCIATION.—Up to yesterday afternoon the shooting had resulted as follows : First Contest : Prize of £3O, appropriated to the corps the representatives of which made the highest aggregate score at 200 and 500 yards, se ve s n ec r o o n u d nd p s tiz e e ac o h f , £ w 2 o o n , by the 14th Suffolk (Beccles) corps• won by 6th Suffolk (Stowmarket) corps. Medals were awarded to Lieut J. Read, Corporal J. Mills, Private John Read, Ser geant S. Matthews, J. Matthews, and S. Baker, represent ing the successful corps, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company was held yesterday in the company's office, West George-street, Glasgow,. Mr. Peter Blackburn, M.P., chairman of the company, p res idi ng . The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the approval of the report, said it was very unsatisfactory to have to come to a meeting of shareholders with a reduction of dividend, but the directors suffered the same way as the rest of the shareholders in receiving a :snaall share of dividend. They had not been able to produce the same amount of money as formerly, but he was not aware of anything that had been done to create this reduction. He did not think it was the management of the railway at all ; it was the time of the public not allowing them to travel so much this half-year. The meeting was aware that there had been some alteration in the rates of the fares, but there were some reduc tions of fares in regard to passenger traffic, which he understood was the general desire of the share holders. That had been done, and as far as they could ascertain by comparing the receipts, there was something of a loss upon that ; but it was impossible for anybody to regard it as a loss, because it was impossible that the same number of passengers would have travel ed if the rates had been the same as they were last half-year. The chief reduction had been in the number of second-class passengers. They had gone partly with the first and partly with the third class. They are now trying the running of more second class carriages, to see if they had any effect in the traffic. But in fact, till the travel ling public began to travel more upon the line, they could not hope for more receipts. There was also a diminution upon goods, but the principal diminu tion was in the mineral traffic. As the report ob served, there were exceptional periods when traffic went down ovor cal tins o. All the neighbouring lines were in the same position an themselves, and some of the London lines had decreased on account of the Exhibition. As they would observe, the re port then went on to speak of the working expenses which were rather less than during the correspond ing period of last year. The plant and works bad been kept in fully better order this half-year, so that he really thought they might congratulate themselves on the saving in this matter. With re gard to the capital account there was nothing to add to what was stated in the report. They were all aware that the Dumbarton line had been the property of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company from Ist Aug. last ; and as it was expected that one of the shareholders was going to raise certain ques tions in regard to their connection with that line, he thought it better to defer any particular remarks at this point. As far as the amalgamation of the two companies had gone, and as far as they were con cerned in that question, he thought the more they looked into the subject it would be found that the amalgamation would turn out to the benefit of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company. Although the receipts were perhaps not so large as they could wish, yet, in the end, he had not the slightest doubt that it would turn out to the advantage of the Edin burgh and Glasgow Company to have an interest down the Clyde. The last bill mentioned in the report was the Stirling and Dunfermline, which passed the House of Commons, but was thrown out by the Lords. He confessed that Jae thought the Edinburgh and Glasgow Company were rather ill used in this matter—'(hear, hear)--as it was appa rent that any traffic going from the West of Edin burgh must pass up the Edinburgh and Glasgow line. Considering, also, that they could make a line to Queensferry at much less expense than any other company, and that they could bring the traffic into the centre of Edinburgh without any expense whatever, there surely could be no doubt that the Edinburgh and Glasgow was the company that ought to make the line. They understood that their bill was thrown out last year because they did not provide a communication through Dunfermline : while next year the Lords threw out the bill because they went to Dunfermline. It was verydifficult toplease people holding such views; but he thought they were the proper company to make the line to Queensterry. He hoped that they wonla yet succeed in their object- In the mean time he had nothing to add, except that he would be happy to give any explanation that any of the shareholders might require. He concluded by moving that the report of the directors, together with the balance-sheet and statement of accounts, be received and adopted. Mr. H. DUNLOP seconded the motion. After some discussion the motion was agreed to. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the declaration of a dividend of 3 per cent. on the ordinary stock for the half-year ending 31sf July last, and 5 per cent. on the preference stock. The motion was adopted. The proceedings then terminated with a vote of thanks to Mr. Blackburn for presiding, which was moved by Mr. I.leikleham. ANO2IIER SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON. (From the Liverpool Mercury.) If the diastrous conflict which is now raging in America should unfortunately continue much longer, there is a probability that it may have the effect of producing a revolution in the manufactur ing industry 'of this country. Great efforts have for some past been made to relieve us of our depen dence on the Southern States of America by open ing up and extending other fields for the cultivation of the cotton plant; but as these efforts seem only likely to furnish us slowly with a sufficient supply of the precious raw material, men are now begin ning to turn their atten tion to the discovery of other fibres which may be used as a substitute for cotton. A few days ago great curiosity and interest were excited by the announcement that a gentleman in London has succeeded in finding a perfect substi tute, and he has since intimated his willingness to make known his discovery on certain pecuniary conditions. Whether his terms have yet been com plied with we do not know. We have now to announce the appearance of another discoverer of the same kind. The gentle man to whom we allude is a foreigner. For several years past he has been engaged in the task of find ing a material more suitable than cotton for mixing with wool, flax, silk, or alpaca; and we are in formed that his efforts have for some time been re warded with success. Having entered into commu nication with Mr. David Chadwick, of Manchester, that gentleman's practical experience at onco led him to perceive that the discovery might be of even greater importance than the discoverer him self imagined it to be. Mr. Chadwick therefore ad vised his foreign correspondent to visit this country at once, and the advice was complied with, The gentleman is now in Liverpool, and he has brought with him not only samples of his raw material, but specimens of the fibre spun into yarn, worked int o cloth, and mixed with linen, silk, wool, &c. All these samples were submitted to our inspection yes terday, and we may remark that the inventor has carried out his experiments to the extent of proving that the fibre will take all dye colours, including the new colours and the most delicate shades. He has, therefore, gone far beyond his metropolitan competitor. The new fibre, though it seems to be somewhat harsher than cotton, nevertheless com bines with silk so as to be almost indistinguishable from silk. In length of fibre and in strength it appears to surpass ordinary cotton. In fact, Mr. David Chadwick, who, as is well known, has for years devoted his attention to cotton and its substi tutes, assures us that he has never yet met with a material which realises all the desiderata so fully as this new fibre. Another important fact alleged in its favour is that it can be had in unlimited quantities, and at a reasonable price. The inventor at present refuses to discloze his secret, but we un derstand that the fibre is a European product. Samples of the new material Null be on view in the Exchange Newsroom to-morrow; and we be lieve that Mr. Chadwick and the inventor are pre pared to meet a few gentlemen interested in the cotton trade and to submit to them all information under fair and reasonable conditions. MR. SEWARD AT HOME. The following letter from Secretary Seward on the "Factions and the Rebellion" was published in the New York papers:— " Department of State, Washington, Aug. 19. " Dear Sir,—l have had the honour of receiving your letter of the 14th inst., together with the three papers to which it refers, two of them being appeals written by your self, and addressed by the Democratic State Central Com mittee to the Democrats and all other friends of the con stitution in Pennsylvania,' and the other being a call for a mass meeting of the citizens of Philadelphia, the objects of which meeting will be to express a firm purpose to stand by the maintenance of the national constitution with devo tion to the American Union,' and, further, 'to declare hos tility to the policy and measures of all who seek to prosti tute the country to the purposes of Abolitionism, and for mally to express the intention of the Democratic party to do as it has always hitherto done —namely, to support the Federal Government in the exercise of its constitutional power, and to defend it. at whatever peril, against the insidious and treasonable teachings of Abolitionists.' You tell me that some influential journals connected by political friends of mine censure one of these papers as treason able, and the others are convinced in the same spirit with the one which is so harshly judged. You desire me to read them and weigh them for myself. You further inti mate a hope that the perusal of the papers will have the Jffect of producing exertions on my part to induce the Presi dent to tavour a policy to put down the demon of Abolition ism. I have read the document thus submitted to me with a high respect for the authority by which they were issued, and with a full confidence in the sincerity of the devotion to the Union which, as their author, you have avowed. You will allow me to say that this nation is now engaged, notin a political canvas tetween opposing parties about questions of civil administration, but in a civil war, carried on by opposing armies on an issue of national life or death. If the resolution prevail, there will be no questions of ad ministration left to settle. If it fail, there will be time enough to settle all such questions. lam not to dic tate a course for others to pursue in this crisis. But I must say for myself that neither as a public officer, nor as a citizen, can I know with favour or disfavour parties among the supporters of the United States any more than I can make a distinction between factions which unite in aiding the rebellion. A nation, like an indivi dual, can do only one thing effectually at one time. It cannot wisely turn aside from the chase of the fearful demon of disunion to pursue an inferior demon, whether imaginary or real. I think that the wrangles which occurred among the Crusaders about their respective creeds, when they sat down to the siege of Jerusalem, were just as ra tional and just as wise as disputes about Abolition would now be in the army of the Potomac in front of Richmond. What is unwise in the camp at such a moment cannot be wise in the Cabinet or in the assemblies of the people. YI am occupied here either in mediating between differing parties and jealous sects or else in watching and counteract ' jog the intrigues of traitors in Europe. But I sometimes think that if, instead of being charged with these duties, I were at liberty, as you seem to be, to serve the country in my own way, I could make an appeal to Democrats and Re. publicans, Abolitionists and slaveholders, in behalf of our distracted country that would bring the whole people at once under arms, and send treason reeling back into the den of darkness whence it sprung. Ido not know how this • would be, but Ido know that if I were in your place should try. " I am very respectfully your obedient servant, " WILLIAM H. SEWARD. " To Mr. F. W. Hughes, Headquarters of the Democratic State Central Committee of 7 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia." EGYPI-lAN ANTIQUI7IES. On Tuesday evening, Mr. Clarkson, a member of the press of long standing, whose lectures The Sun has often recorded, gave a summary lecture on the above subject at the Holloway Literary Institute, He argued that the subject, if treated popularly, as it ought to be, comprises within itself the chief elements of that which is said to be the " great want of the age "—the union of the utile et duke' —the combination of useful with entertainiig knowledge. He would take these characteristic features in their order; and first, referring to the entertainment derivable from the subject, by noticing the curious relics assembled in the Egyptian department of the British Museum, viz., the roasted duck and the well-curled wig, dolls, toys, and games, draughtboard, painter's palette, and tailors' goose s gown patterns and printing stamp, rouges, eye paints, per fumes (including a Chinese scent bottle) and toilette boxes of the female aristocracy of "Hundred-gated Thebes"—he contended that the ancient Egyptians, far from being the sombre, unjoyous, gloomy people, wedded to bigoted diurnal superstitious forms, were shown by the monuments to have been a joyous, self-indulgent race, attached to creature comforts, and fond of every species of amusement. What a strange scene, for example, and what a bustling pleasurable social state, would be produced by a recuscita- Lion to the "mind's-eye" of Hundred-gated Thebes in its " ancient high and palmy state ;" where the Indian sedan stood beside the two. wheeled or four -wheeled chariot, without the footman-crowded gate of the festive villa; while beef, and pies, and beer, and healths in wine consti tuted the cheer within; wher e th e sport i ng patrician had not oroerhie favourite leash of hounds (his huntsman being the setter), but also his leopards and lions domesticated and ' trained to the chase, and his " fowling piece" being the boomerang, now used by the New Zealander; where cormorants were employed, as now in China, in catching fish; where the amatory ritornello resounded by night in the streets, and the " Harvest Home" chorus by day in the fields ; where the school boy's game of "Buck buck, rise up," and the school girl's game of "la grease" were played 4,000 years ago, as they are now; where the popu lace, ardent patrons of the prizefighter and the wrestler, applauded the negro minstrel, the tumbler, juggler, and rope-dancer, and participated in the fun of the soaped pole (or May-pole), amidst the lighted rotundas of their Cremornes or Vauxhalls; while the favourite vocalists and danseuses, the Taglionis and Grisis of the " City of Thrones," danced and sung to their guitars and harps, amidst the Almehs, or figure-dancers of the opera and ballet —and while the Perrot of those remote times delighted the applauding aristocracy with that gyrating pirouette which has been erroneously supposed to be a modern invention. But the prolific theme would lead beyond a lecture's pre' scribed limits; and therefore, the lecturer said, he would limit himself to a brief and concluding glance at the second division of the subject—its usefulness and importance. Mr. Clarkson said he had always maintained that Egyptian antiquarian research—if treated popularly as it ought to be —comprises facts, inquiries, and results from which the utilitarian philosopher and political economist may derive new and necessary information. It lays open the whole progress of early agriculture, art, trade, and manufacture' the progress from serfdom to:freedom—the origin of judicial and civil institutions, colonisation and taxation—of coles law imports and exports—of the first division of the land--• of the single direct tax, a land-tax, as in India, of 20 per cent.—a tax commended by competent authorities as the best for the purposes of Government. The subject, more' over, opens out new and momentous views of early historYS or rather creates a new volume of history, fills up vas t chasms in the invention and progress of art and science) and embraces perspicuous views of the foundation, devs" lopment, the progressive tendencies, and consequently the ultimate destinies of human political society. Take , for example, the revelations connected with the records of the eighteenth dynasty of Pharoalis. It is to thi s c h rono l ogical series of kings ~whose heraldic shields occupy the middle line of the sculptured stone of Abydost), corroborated by the testimony of Josephus, and by the chronological sculptures of Karnak, the Merano' 'Thins Medinet Abu, and Quorneh--comprisin g tbe t-ha" roah of the Exode, Moods, Alemnon,Danaus, and Sesostris, all whose trustworthy portraits we possess—it is to this 18th dynasty, so curious in its revelations, so important in its associations, so substantially proved, Mr. Clai kson said, that the concentrated interest as well as the importance of the entire subject attaches. Three times the Jews appear distinctly in the Egyptian monuments : once in the reign of Osirtesen the Second, of the 17th dynasty, 1700 B.C. as depicted in the tomb of Nevoptha, a general and fron tier governor under that Pharoah ; once in the reign of Amenophis, second king of the 18th dynasty, and the uls' questionable Pharoah of the Exotic, as depicted in the tomb of Roechere, superintendent of public works under him and his Queen Consort and successor, Amense,* on his sudden disappearance after the entire loss of his army of 250,00') men ; and once again in the reign of Sesank (Sesonchis), of the 19th dynasty, :000 11. F., the father-in-law of Solo mon, whose son. Rehoboam (entitl e d Ki ng o f J u d a h) is depicted on the walls of the sanctuary erected by that Phil" roah at Karnak, as one of his vanquished tributaries. Three great colonisations teok place during tho 18th dynasty - first, that , of the e Jews ; se con d , of the Argives; third, of the Athenians and the consequences of these events on the whole stream of human civilisation require no argument to demonstrate. It had been asserted by an eminent modern writer that the Pastoral Pelasgian, or Cyclopean, family of nations, which the 18th dynasty superseded, founded in all parts of the world wherever they left the relics of their peculiar architecture (pyramids; cromlechs, friliths, rock-hewn galleries, and irregular courses of Etone)--left also political institutions embracing the widest extent of human freedom ; that it was from theta that Sparta, Crete, and Carthage derived their common labours, tables, and education; Athens her free organic laws ; and that from Athens (where universal suffrage; ballot, and annual senates were in daily practical operation)' through Rome, her twelve tables, her excellent rounietpal institutions, and her balanced form of popular suffrage, a° British Constitution is derived. * No other queens appear in Manethoa chronology. THE CATASTROPHE AT THE LIVERPOOL WORg - HousE.—ANoTHER IricTlm.—lt was stated at a meeting of the Liverpool workhouse committee, held yesterclalt that there was still achild missing, an d th a t i ts b o d y m ust be covered by th e ruins of th e d ormitory. Yesterday wor k' men were em pl o yed in removing the most dangerous pa' tions of the ruined buildings, and a search will be conl: menced at once amongst the debris, The adjourne d inquest NI ill be held IDA Tuesday.