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ITOrFT,S, -.--- H A PLI IT'F. Ti 0 T E L. AND S PREAD EAGLE TAVERN, 84, GRACECITURCH-STREET,::, LONDON. onflort, combined with moderate charges. will be found at this Establishment. PRIVATE APARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sitting Room, 3s. per Day. Bed Rooms, ls. 6d. and 2s. per Night. A Night Porter in attendance. NO INCREASE OF CHARGES. INDIA AND THE COLONIES. pASSENGERS Embarking or Disembarking will find superior accommodation and moder ate charges at CHAPLIN'S CLARENDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND, Adjoining . the Terrace Pier. , A Lawn in front, extending to the River. THE LONDON, 1 91 , F _ LEET-STREET, near Temple-bar. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER for THIS DAY, the 31st inst., will consist of POTAGES. A l'Ang,laise—A la Julienne. POISSON. Matelotte d'Anguilles— Filets de Brille frits. ENTREES. Dindons a la Bechamel—Bari de Mouton a l'lndlenne. Bceuf braise a la Portugaise—Selles de Mouton roties. ENTREMETS. Poudings de Cabinet —Beignets de Pommes. Fromage et Salade. To-MORROW, November 1, "THE LONDON DINNER" Rill consist of POTAGES. A la Reine—Madeleine. POISSON& Cabilland sauce aux iluitres—liferlans frits. Salmi ENTREEs. de Grouse a la Perttord—Blanquette de Veau supreme. Bceuf boutlit a l'Anglaise—Hanches de Mouton rates. ENTREIHETS. Pommes au Rix—Gelee an Vin. Froma&T ft Salad% , iextetteive andsearAnlly seleeteg'ltock. of 'FRENCH RH ISE, MOSELLE, and other.bWlNES imrorted presgly for THE LONDON DINNER, • Tuft's Soup and all Fish in rifiispn daily. The attention of Clergymen, Officers, and Professional entlernen t a especially drawn to the -advantages offered, by these elegant Saloons, which fulfil all, the requirements Of a West -end Club of the most aristocratic and exclusive cha racter. • L'on tronve dana la Salle de Lecture non senlement les eilleurs Journauk Anglais, mats aussi Journaux Allemande, Francais et Beiges. SAWYER, Proprietor. AMUSEMENTS. CANTERB A URY HALL, FINE ARTS GALLERY. GRAND SELECTION and CANTATA NIGHTLY— VERDI'S " TROVATORE," and MACFARREN'S " MAY DAY." PRINCIPAL ARTISTES. Miss RITSqELL, Miss TOWNLEY. Messrs. Tivoli, Green, Raynor, and Russoll Grover. Conductor, Mr. JONTEIMANS. - And the following unprecedented east of Comic Favourites, viz.:— E. Marshall, A. B. RoWngswortb, and W. T. Critch lie:d ; the renowned Trio, Du'ey, Eugene, and ITnsworth, the original of the celebrated Stump Speech, " OR ANY OTHER idAN:" T H E 0 X F ORD, 6„OXFORD STREET. "Don Sebastien " (Donizetti's finest work); other Operatic Select'ons, Choruses, Glees, Four-part Songs, &c., by Miss Russell, Miss 'Townley; Messrs. Morley, Greene, Huish, and Albert. Conductor, Mr. F,Jonetpans. Solos by Drew Dean, the youthful Flutist; Mr. Maclagan's Entertainment ; and the Comic performances of Miss Caro line Parkes, Messrs. Sam Collins, W. Randall, Eugen e, and Vnsworth (the great original of "Or any oth e r man. ") " • • - Admission, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, Is. ; Private Boxes. 10s. 6d. ROYAL ALTIAMBRA PALACE AND AMPHITTIEATrtt.' OLMAR, from the Cirque Imperatriee. every evening. LES FRERES CONRADE, from the Cirque Napo leon. LES PETITS MONSTRES, the Olympic Wonders. HERR Ll E BHOLTZ, the Champion Wizard. GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT : 60 Per formers. EVERY EVRNING. Open at Seven ; Commence at Half-past. IVS. WOODIN'S CABINET of CURIO • SITIES—NewIy Polished and Re-lined—POLY ( MAPUTO BALL, King William-street, Charing-trots Every Evening, at eight (e*cept Saturday), faith 'new characters, music, songs; and dances. The scenic illustrations and effects, entirely new, painted by and under the direction of Mr. am ('allcott. Morning Performance, Saturday, Nov. 1, at 3. Stalls, ; arsa,^2s.; Amphitheatre, is. Pox-office open from eleven to five. Mr. Woodin as Mr. Sothern, of the Haymarket, in his celebrated character of "Lord Dundreary," Morning and Evening. A RGYLL ROOMS. Great Windmill-street, Haymarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.— Open every Evening for Promenade and Dancing., with the celebrated Band of 60 performers. Conductor an d Principal Cornet-a-Piston, M. BouLeounT.—The new Imperial Valse Cotillion, and L. Moaca's Peep o'DayValse will be played nightly. A new Conversation Salon has been added to the above rstablishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments.— Admission Is.—Manager, M. Grenet OYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, Lessees. THIS EVENING, Balfe's Sole popular Opera, THE PURI TAN'S DAUGHTER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan ry R ne ; Messrs. Santley D .Patev, A. t. J. ouse, C. Lyall, E. uss W. ek, and ei W. Harrison. S Albyn, Conductor—Mr. A. Mellon. Doors open at halt-past 7—Commence at 8. THEATRE-TIONAI FAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J R. Finekstone.. THIS EVENING, at 7, A DAUGHTER TO MARRY. !kir.TreD, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Clark, and Miss E. Romer. After which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (268th time) OUR AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck .tone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothern. Followed by a new Far^e, entitled DUCK HUM ING: Mr. Compton, Mr. Howe, Mr. W, Farren, Mrs. Wilkins, and Miss C. Hill. To conclude with JA CK'S RETURN FROM CANTON. THEATRE -R OYA L. DRURY.LANE. Dion Boneicault, Lessee. THIS FVRNING, THE COLLEEN BAWN. Dion Ttoneicault. Searle, G. Vandenhoff, Leeson, Mellon; Madame Celeste, Stevens, Latimer. After which, TBE RELIEF OF LUCRNOW. Dion Boucicault, Atkins, Edwin, Ryder; Madame Celeste and Mrs. Dion Boncioault. A BOON TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS.- Dr. SMITH has just published a FREE EDITION of 20,000 copies of his valuable work, THE PRIVATE MEDI CAL FRIEND (116 pages), on the Self-cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, &c., resulting from the secret sins of youth. Copies may be had free by sending a stamped directed envelope to the Author's residence, 8, Burton-crescent, London, W.C. Consultation by Letter without Fee. Dr. SMITH will, for the BENEFIT of persons suffering from NERVOUS DEBILITY, &c., on receiving a description of their case (enclosing a stamped directed envelope for re ply), send his written opinion, with advice and directions for the most successful treatment and cure.—Address, Dr. Smith, 8, Burton-crescent, London, W.C. Commence at 7. NEW TRFATRF-RO YAL. ADELPITT. Sole Proprietor and Msnafrer, Mr. R. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE GREEN BUSHES. Messrs. G. honey, Paul Bedford, Billingf on, Sefton, Stephenson, Lewis, Eburne, Romer; Miss Avonia Jones, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Eillington, and Mrs. Stoker. To conclude with THE SHILLING DAY AT THE GREAT EXHIBITION, Messrs. G. Honey. P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Sefton, C. J. Smith, Romer ; Miss K. Bland and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at/. 0 YAL Less P ee ß an l d N 3ra C n F age S r, S m ' S THEATRE. r Liming. At' Engagement of Miss Amv Sedmicic. THIS EVENING, WHE .IE THERR's A WILL THERE'S A WAY. Mr. George Vining. Mr. Belmore, air. R. Cathcart, Miss M. Oliver, and Miss M. Jones. Vinin To oonclude VE CHASE. Messrs. Geo Fitzjames, wi th Shore THE , Ca LO thcart, Cockrell ; Mrs. Henry . Marston, Miss Constance Aylmer, and Miss Amy Sedgwick. • ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager —Mr. Edmund Falconer. 30Ist Night of the , ontinuons run of "Peep o'Day." TnIS 14, v EYING. the new Comedietta. IT MUST BE 'TWAS IN THE PAPERS. Walter Lqcy, J. Robins ; Mrs. Weston, Miss Weston, and Miss L. Thompson. m,Aftter which, PEEP O'DAY ; or , S avourneen Deelish. a i ". Walter Lacy, Addison, Char les Selb y , Geo. Melville, REdmund Falconer ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Won. d umng e th fo e ll ß o a w l e le d t by the Last View of KILLARNEY, Intro- ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITITEATRE ' .-- Sole Proprietor and Manager,W. 13A Mr. rry THIS EVENTING :Last week.rtary, with New Scenery, Dr will be performed MAZEPPA ' or, The "sea, and Wild Horse of T a To be followed b y a brilliant routine of novel and daring Decorations. Scenes in w ill a in which Madame Hislop and Young Deyereux win appear. To conclude with a COMIC BALLET, in which Miss Annie Cushnie and Harry Croueste will appear. Commence at 7.—Stage Manager. Mr. W. Searle. THE CAUSES o f Authors of eminence have I:amAscriaTnblnjeld D dec E lin C el . tiTe O z t e hn clu e, d a e n d Roman empire to the effeminacy or the de resistance ; and this effeminacy theyr;rs' thich f, habits acquired in early life, by which, in ce C.env to vicious influential journalist has endeavoured to ac c ou o r cline of population in the Asiatic provincea of T The peculiar source of physical and moral dege e Zr acv . luded to has at all times been specially d eprecated '' by ehif" tophers and philanthropists. It besets inexperienced y - u ti; :laying the foundation of future misery, poisoning the nu ° ti cup with bitter malignity; destroying health, curtailingplifal and making it, during its brief career. a scene of angui h B from the consciousness of humiliating infirmity. Vie evil is but too rife in our age and country ; and exi le _ nence can often discern the sad results in the early deaths, , the hereditary and perpetuated ailment., and the matri -111, onia) discords and vandals, described , in convential par lance, as " unaccountable " and "mysterious." In cases of threatened injury to or suspension of faculties whose sound- I le s , and vigour form gull a prominentconstituent in human ,4 1 1 P0Iness;, sufferers may have their fears remov ed, t he mis - Z 'ef, however severe and inveterate, eradicated , and their W annest hopes of restoration to life's prerogatives fully r ealis ed A ;11. 'RP, M.D., has been engaged for 2 0 years in the treatment of i l ltese disorders, and his treatise on " Self-Pre t "on " describes how all the attributes of Manhood are (r suspended, and how they can be restored and main i,42ecla. 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The 4 50 p.m. Express from Paddington will take passen gers for the 'Vest Midland Line, instead of the 6.30p.m. Train, which will be discontinued over the West Midland Line. The 5.15 p.m. Train from Paddington will be discontinued etween Swindon and Cheltenham. A Slip Carriage for Slough and Windsor will be detached from the 8.10 p.m. Train from Paddington. The 8.20 p.m. Train from Paddington to Windsor will be discontinued. The 9.30 p.m. Train from Paddington will start at 9.0 p.m. The 5.15 p.m. Train from Twyford to Henley, in connection with the 4.0 p.m. Train from Paddington, will be discon tinued. _ and we commend it to their notice, with the as surance that, if they do not rise from its perusal " wiser and better," they will at least have spent some very pleasant hours over its pages. resources. The Confederate Government has al ready exhausted its resources of men and means, while the North has just begun to draw upon its own. It is true our expenditures of money have been and now are very great, but money was never more plentiful among us than now, and our Go vetnment stocks are above par in the market. There is to be no other solution to the question at issue between the North and the rebels than the utter crushing out of the insurrection. It is not only a question of freedom and slavery, but of civil government and social order also ; and we are re solved—Heaven helping us—to establish the fact, not doubted in Europe, that free governments are capable of self-defence ;And that ours in particular is worth all the sacrifices we are making to preserve it. A week or two ago I received a very kind and thoroughly friendly tletter from Mr. Sinclair, all about our national troubles, and asking me to write him, and explain certain points, that he might be able to answer those who are carping at the free States and sympathising with the slave-driving rebels. I wish I had time to write him—as I have not; but I would hardly take the trouble to' ex plain,' as all my trouble would be in vain. The persons he speaks of, and all their class, take counsel of their hearts and not of their heads. They are devoured by a low and pitiful hate of us, because we are making gigantic strides in the road leading -Wit-national greatn!?ss and power"-' - -Fey desire-- that we may be crippled by a successful rebellion, and our brilliant prospects nipped by an un timely frost. They are so short-sighted as not to see that it is England's interest, that being,free, as she is, we may be powerful and her friend, for the days. are coming when she will need such a friend, as we were heartily and thoroughly prepared to be. In the event of a successful rebellion we shall be 42,000,000 and more in 1892, and 84,000,000 and more in 1922. So the crippling would be brief, and our nation, the free North, would be very great and powerful at the commencement of the next century.' CRIME IN FRANCE. The Cduit of Assizes of the Var, sitting at Dra-,` guignan, has just been engaged two days in trying ' a man named Peyrier, aged 27, foi the murder of M. Michel, a farmer, residing at Garde-Freint. The wife of the murdered man was also charged as an accomplice before the fact. It appeared from the evidence that Peyrier, who is himself a married man with two children, had for some time past kept up an illicit connection with the female prisoner, and • that Michel-had onone occasion found them tege ther and fired at Peyrier, although without hitting him. From that time the latter meditated projects of vengeance, in which he was encouraged by the woman, On the morning of the 16th June last, the body:of Michel was found lying dead just inside a wood by the roadside, and not more than fifty paces from a cart drawn by two oxen, which he had been conducting. The body had been pierced by two balls which must have caused instant death, and the head had also been violently struck apparently with the butt-end of a gun. As the prisoner had been seen with a gun near. the place where the murder was committed, he was arrested on suspicion, and socnufter his'gun was found at a gunsmith's in the town, where he had left it for repairs. It was evi dent that both barrels had been recently discharged, and on the stock, which was broken, were stains of blood with human hair adhering to them. The pri soner at first protested his innocence, but finding the evidence too clear against him, he at last con fessed his guilt, and stated all the circumstances of the murder, adding that the female prisoner had instigated him to commit it. The truth of this last statement was supported by several of her letters, which were found in his possession, and she was aocordingly arrested. In court the male prisoner persisted in his confession, but the woman denied the adulterous intercourse between them, and pro tested that she had not encouraged him to commit the murder. The jury, however, considered the evi dence conclusive against both prisoners, but gave them the benefit of extenuating circumstances, and they were accordingly sentenced to hard labour for life. The Courrier du Gard gives the following account of a murder committed two days since at Pont-Saint-Esprit, in that department, on the person of a woollendraper, named Blanc. The neighbours, being much surprised to find his shop open at a very early hour, entered to ascer tain the cause, and on going into the room behind, found M. Blanc lying dead in a pool of blood. On his head were 12 wounds, apparently inflicted with a hatchet, any one of which would have been mortal. The crime appears to have been an act of vengeance, as the bureau in the room, containing a sum of 1,367 f., had not been opened, nor was there any appearance of the place having been ransacked. The police are making active researches to discover the murderer. The Court of Assizes of the Somme has this week tried a man named Dathy, aged 70, on a charge of murdering in the month of June last a travelling tinker named Chapelle, at Marquaix. It appeared from the evidence that a farmer named Capart, re siding at Marquaix, on going to one of his barns at some distance from the homestead, saw a man lying on the hay apparently asleep; but on approaching nearer, he found that the man was dead, and had been murdered by stabs with a knife. He at once gave information to the police, and an inquiry was instituted which led to the arrest of the prisoner, who had been seen to leave the barn not long before. On examining the prisoner's clothes several blood stains, partially washed out, were found, and wit nesses came forward who deposed that they had seen him in possession of several pieces of gold since the murder. When asked to account for the employ ment of his time during the last three days, the pri soner made several statements which were proved to be false, but at last confessed that, having no lodgings, he had gone to the barn to pass the night, and had just fallen asleep, when he was awakened by an attack from the deceased, whom he killed in self-defence. All the circumstances of the case showed the falsehood of this story, and the medical wit nesses proved that from the direction and depth of the wounds, which went right through the heart and lungs, the murdered man must have been lying down, and the murderer standing over him. The prisoner could offer no explanation as to how he obtained the money seen in his possession, and as two previous convictions for stabbing were put in against him, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, with extenuating circumstances. The Court sen tenced him to 20 years' hard labour. The Court of Assizes of the Seine was engaged yesterday with the trial of a young woman, aged 18, named Marie Pillant, charged with robbing her master, M. Courtier, a butcher, residing in the Fau bourg St. Martin. On the 16th July last Mine: Courtier went t o N eu ill y to spen d some d a ys, and on the 20th, aft er b us i ness h ours, h er h us band went taking t with a to see her, t e lli ng t h e servant th a t he shouldno return until late at ni g ht. The girl, advan tage of being l e ft a l one , p r ovided herself hand-saw, a knife, and other instruments, and, hole in the woo from a chest of drawers, and cut her band going into her master's room, a beneath, so as to enable her to in troduce from which the drawer , two and push back the lock o f ear-ring s , she took 2,500 fr., a pair of han dsome afterwards opened She 12 large gold chains, and a purse. which she took different cupboards, from forks, several dresses, silver spoons and as rna o / ..nen. Having packed quantity bundle shawls, and a bundle, sh® put on one articles in a up the various a and went down to the bonnets) of her mistress ' s b onnets, was going to Neuilly to carry porter, sayi ng b a er mistress, who had sent for them the things to lifted off the marblde a coach and drove to a furnished She then got into where she gave the name of Irma lodging-h°on the return of M. Courtier, some hours covered what had taken place and gave after, discovered UP TRAINS, The 12.20 p.m. Cheap Train from Bristol will be expedited, and will not call at stat ons between Slough and Paddington. The 7.40 a.m. Express from Cheltenham will start at 7.30 a.m. The 9.20 a.m. Train from Cheltenham to Swindon will be discontinued. The 12.55 p.m. Train from Birmingham will start at 1.15 p.m. The 11.50 a.m. Train from Oxford will start at 12.55 p.m. The 3.55 p.m. Train from Oxford to London will be dis continued. The 1.40 p.m. Train from Basingstoke will start at 130 p.m. The 12.40 p.m. Train from Henley will start at 1.30 p.m. The 6.5 pin. Train from Henley will start at 5.53 pin. The 6.0 p.m. Train from Windsor to Paddington will start at4 ti tg„ from Windsor will startnt SUNDAY TRANS. DOWN.—The 9.0 a.m. Train from Paddington will start at 9.15 a.m. *The 9.45 a.m. Train from Paddington to Windsor will start at 10.0 a.m. The 10.0 a.m. Train from Paddington to the North will start at 9.15 am. Ur.-The 1.15 p.m. Train from Bristol will start at 1.45 p.m., and will be amalgamated at Didcot with the 2.0 p.m. Train from Birmingham, arriving at Paddington at 7.0 p.m. The 4. .0 p.m. Train from Didcot, arriving at Paddington at 6.10 p.m., will be disconti,nued. The 5.5 p.m. Train from Windsor to London will be dis- Continued. For alterations at Intermediate Sta,tions, see Time Tables for November. LITE.RAT U.RE. Lady Audley's Secret. By M. E. Braddon. 3 vols. Tinsley Brothers, Catherine-street, Strand. To say that a novel which within a few weeks of publication has reached a fourth edition must pos sess rare power of attraction, is almost superfluous, and we may add that in this case the success is not only emphatic but deserved. Faultless the work is not. The author sometimes let her pen run away with her. But its merits far outweigh its defects, and it possesses that essential quality in fiction of arresting at the first page the reader's attention and holding it fettered to the last. The care with which the author narrates her story can scarcely be sur passed. Once embarked in its stream the reader is carried along without effort, and he forgives the defects he may note on the way for the sake of the pleasure derived from the journey. The heroine is, of course, Lady Audley, although she serves rather as a lurid background, the prominent figure in the work being Robert Audley, a barrister, and nephew of her husband's, through whose exertions it is that her crimes are brought to light. Not that this is with him a labour of love, but one of duty. A friend of his, George Talboys, after calling at Audley Court, mysteriously disappears. Circumstances lead him to believe that Lady Audley is interested in his removal ; he diligently accumulates proofs . of her criminality, and at length overwhelms her witil un answerable tokens of her guilt. Thus the story is made up in no inconsiderable degree of circum stantial evidence. Robert Audley, in his search' after truth, is sometimes baffled, occasionally dis couraged, but ultimately successful. Still his natural indolence might have led him to wash his hands of the affair, had not he been impelled on his path by the handsome sister of his lost friend, where upon he thus soliloquise":—‘' What the devil am I doing in this galore ?" he asked. " But lam in it, and I can't get out of it ; so I'd better submit my self to the brown-eyed girl, and do what she tells me, patiently and faithfully. What a wonderful solution to life's enigma there is in petticoat govern ment ! Man might lie in the sunshine and eat lotuses, and fancy it ' always afternoon,' if his wife would let him ! But she won't, bless her impulsive heart and active mind ! She knows better than that. Whoever heard of a woman taking life as it ought to be taken ? Instead of supporting it as an unavoidable nuisance, only redeemable by its bre vity, she goes through it as if it were a pageant or a procession. She dresses for it, and simpers, and grins, and gesticulates for it. She pushes her neighbours, and struggles for a good place in the dismal march ; she elbows, and writhes, and tramples, and prances to the one end of making the most of the misery. She gets up early and sits up late, and is loud, and restless, and noisy, and unpi tying. She drags her husband on to the woolsack, or pushes him into Parliament. She drives him full butt at the dear, lazy machinery of Govern ment; and knocks and buffets him about the wheels, and cranks, and screws, and pulleys, until some body, for quiet's sake, makes him something that she wanted him to be made. That's why incom petent men sometimes sit in high places, and inter pose their poor muddled intellects between the things to be done and the people that can do them, making universal confusion in the helpless inno cence of well-placed incapacity. The square men in the round holes are pushed into them by their wives. The Eastern potentate who declared that women were at the bottom of all mischief, should have gone a little further and seen why it is so. It is because women are never lazy. They don't know what it is to be quiet. They are Semi ramides, and Cleopatras, and Joans of Arc, Queen Elizabeths, and Catherines the Second, and they riot in battle and murder, and clamour and desperation. If they can't agitate the universe and play at ball with hemispheres, they'll make mountains of war fare and vexation out of domestic molehills, and social storms in domestic tea-cups. Forbid them to hold forth upon the freedom of nations and the wrongs of mankind, and they'll quarrel with Mrs. Jones about the shape of a mantle or the character of a small maid-servant. To call them the weaker Isex is to utter a hideous mockery. They are the teachers, soldiers, let them be stronger sex, the noisier, the more persevering, the most. self-assertive sex. They want freedom of opinion, variety of occupation, do they ? Let them will have it. Let them be lawyers, doctors, preachers, task concluded, p le i g et i , sl i a f to t r h s e — y legislators—anything like— butinAgfttehreythisour forot b b o e t surprised tor e.r w .or e t ; o t hhaeta her that behaves, t h e position to -eyed girl" takes _ ri ve s Robert Audley, his readersunbdre°rwtnhe m an e d la t n h choly circumstances, with a decent character is the tale, and its ' , which at she forces him to assume the fortitude, and good nature a very different sta mp t a ngled elaborately-worked out in his abilities entitle him. His the is n m. io e s ds enable skein " Braddon her e f talent, r to maintain mindicated with great skill. Of selfish, sensuous, l i e s t e L ly ad d y ev A n u id dl o ey f . affection, Beautiful, she hesitates at no cri me in not arousing for her crim inal raddoinn morbid ddone sympathy. wisely ;ciarcuudmstancese a re properly admitted, Extenuating false x te nu a position ting depraved ed in soulenob ecause she has f t acalledo The h upon p work n o r t k o the wor s " h s i e p c "secret tcrea t u r e i t d ; e e. fascinating manners or a charming before us, then, is, so far, perfectly healthy in tone. The incidents may, some of them, be termed melo dramatic, and we must not be too ex act i ng as re gards probability, but there is no revellin g in horror for horror's sake, no dwe l ling on repulsive features rr to and show exe the t e ext wonder,en t of m writer'sitxheedw thdisgust, i n th e mind skill i n di ssection, of the reader. The tendency of the author is, on the contrary, to dwell on whatever is bright and beautiful, and her picturesque power of description vivifies the narrative , and fills it with f orm an d colour. The plot we abstain from giving, as we think few of our rea ders with a taste for fiction would thank us for diminishing the pleasure they will take in unravelling its intricacies for themselves COMMERCE OF NEW YO.RK. The last commercial advicee. from New York mention that the highest rate for gold touched during the week was 39 premium. This movement seems to have been caused almost entirely by the demand on the part of the bankers for exportation, the profound ignorance of the people at large, to which most of the journals daily minister by assur ances that on the first news of victory the price will recede nearly to par, having, even up to the present time, been sufficient to prevent any manifestation of actual panic. Subjoined is an extract of a private letter describing the general .tone of feeling on the questions of currency and national debt : " The issue of paper money continues as fast as printing presses can supply the demand, and this is not fast enough for the wants of the Government, as the pay of the army is from four to eight months in arrear, and th e excuse alleiich takes time in the ad is want of paper currency for small amounts, w h preparation, r eg i s t ra ti on, &e. Th i s morn i ng it re quires 133 dol e . o f legal tendlircurrency to purchase 100 dole . in gold ; s till no g 4 Wal fear exists of an explosioh. In talking the dqy yfith,a prim_ rho-had ntatiti ova 106;000 deli: out er the' Over, I remarked, Well, I suPpose you are disposed to lie upon your oars now, and not take hold of any more contracts?' I beg your pardon,' replied he, 6 I am on the track of one now. There is plenty of money in the war-yet. I only wish it would last half a dozen years !' Up to very recently the .expansion has been mainly felt in stocks, railway bonds, &c., the speculations in which have been enormous, and current articles of necessity, as tea, sugar, coffee, breadstuffs, and provisions, have advancedparipassu with the depreciation of the currency; but at pre sent almost every article is moving upward—in paper prices —and, although the confidence in the legal tender notes is professedly unbounded, every body is anxious to turn them into something that has not the property of melting away like ice on a summer's nay. When the quantity of paper money in circulation becomes double what it now is— and that it soon will be—there will he a fine chance for paying off those heavy mortgages on real estate in this city which are held by European capitalists, and such activity in business as has never before been witnessed. At this moment a thousand mil lions of dollars would not suffice to pay our national debts, without taking into account the innumerable claims for pensions that, will have to be met after the war; nevertheless, many people are of opinion that the national debt ought to be brought _up to 2,000,000,000 dolts, at least, as a salutary check to the bravest race in the world,' and to confer per manent stability upon the Government, and eclipse Great Britain in that as, in all other respects. The argument is that if we succeed in subjugating the South, which, so long US we retain the mastery of the seas, is only a question of time —say a few years at most—we can pay the:thief part of the interest on the debt by a tax of 5 'or 6 cents. per lb. on cot ton—a contribution to Or efforts on behalf of universal freedom,' which the world would be glad to pay. If, on the other 'hand, we should fail in our holy mission, and afford materials for unrigh teous rejoicing to European despots and aristocrats, our public debt need not give us any unhappiness, as it would be absurd to imagine that a section of the United States should be held responsible for debts contracted on behalf of the entire Union. In short, we know that small failures are not respect able, and, therefore, we should outlive our tempo rary embarrassments." LETTER ' , ROM GENERAL NEAL DO TV. Brigadier-General Neal Dow, in a letter to the secretary of the Alliance, Mr. T. H. Barker, writes as follows :—" Head -quarters, Fort at. Philip, Sept. 28,:—1 shall receive eon information of the pro ceedingsr e s t. The o e t youree asoccasion n great no prospect of being e at eleeeel failven con vention n b with ea greatd e c ci you. e es t s e ,- s it y o t uitsl to my me not ytoetr post,bteh .s and I see months and much tdmhuustcitehoe I ccoo g nin r fi i e e n. v e e l,m, t h h e a n t ot l liberty to leave it for some drags its slow length along, and must continue to do so until our govern ment adopts a policy A t present it seems to be entirely afloat, drifti ng w ith every wind and cur rent. The rebels are terribly terribly in earnest, and come in time; and perhap s ex haust their strength and resources in mighty effort, while our Government has yet to make up its mind full to an yth ing . it has yet to adopt some plan, some syste m, p oli cy . That will some should linger in this way, and go on with various fortune, that the Northern mind may be firmly made up on the subjec twith t iest h puh e war For myself I of slavery. believe this dreadful war is a controversy that God has with this nation on account of its great sin— slavery ; and he will not permit us to have peace until we repent of that sin and forsake it. Our people are beginning to see the matt er in that light, and public opinion has made great progress in the right direct io n during the last year, as the acts of our congress prove. As to the institution of — lt slavery • . is virtu a lly overthrown already, indeed it is literally so , eve rywhere w ithin our military lines. The slaves think themselves free, and will masters not work for their until they choose to do a so, and unl ess the y e paid . Many masters now pay their slaves, some 10 dols., some 12 dole. a month ; and some stipulate to give them one-third of their entire crop for their labour in saving it. The slaves leave their masters as they please, and go away without fear ; nor have th ey the least fear for the old despotism. I have now about 600 of them at these forts, constantly emp lo y e d in Government service, and they have no fear at any time to go back to the plantation to get their things. They have no fear of their masters, nor of ethe laws of Louisiana. They rightly judge that these latter are no longer of any account. Some time ago I went into a large village, and hearing that a loyal man was confined in the gaol, I went to it, and made the keeper exhibit his list of prisoners. Among them were many slaves, who were committed for ' safe keeping,' and three whites on a charge of murder. I demanded to see the slaves, and was taken into a large airy room occupied by the alleged murderers. In the floor of this apartment was a trap-door, which the keeper raised, bidding the slaves come up, which they did. The effluvium coming up from the den below was so offensive that my officers could not en dure it. After a little I looked down into the hole, and found it a wretched place, with onl y two small heavily-grated windows for light and air • . They were in confinement under the laws of Louisiana, but I bade them go, and they went. This was trampling those laws under foot, and the slaves all since that time that they are no longer in bondage by the law, for the slave laws are null. Many plan tations are abandoned by their owners, and I am taking possession of them_ Yesterday I sent an officer to a great establishment, the crops of which, now upon the ground, are 1,000 hogsheads of sugar, besides great quantities of other produce ' worth in all over 1 00 , 000 d ols. All the whites are gone ' leav ing 100 negroes behind, and my officer is ' to superin tend the estate and secure the crops ; and this week I shall take possession of two other great planta tions in the same way and for the same purpose. In L ou i s i a na, before ,the war , negroes sold for more money than in any other state, because the sugar planters were making immense profits, and were continually extending the cultivation of the cane. At present slaves are without value here, and there is no market for them w hate ver. The entire busi ness of the State is destroyed, and vast numbers of men of princely fortunes before the war are beggars now. Their trade is entirely stopped, and their last year's crops are destroyed or seized and appropriated by the rebel Government , I they are left without :NTS. /~~L-~ L..+.- L-~r,~i ,t?-e 4 PRICE ~,.4d. STAMPED ....sd. information to the police. The prisoner the day following went to Havre with a young man, and stopped there for several days, she paying all the expenses, and on her return formed an acquaintance with another young man, and led such au expensive life, that the master of the house, suspecting some thing wrong, gave information to the commissary of police, and she was arrested. On searching her room, many of the articles belonging to M. Courtier were found, but none of the money. On being in terrogated she, after some hesitation, confessed the robbery, but denied that she had taken more than 800 fr. The falsity of this statement was, however, proved by the f ac t th a t h er j ourney t o H avre alone had cost her more than 500 fr. The jury having found her guilty, but with extenuating circum stames, she was condemned to four years' imprison ment. TRADE OP JEDDAH. Among the places from which reports of British consuls have been received at th e Foreign-office, and published this year, is Jeddah, which is b u ilt on the edge of the Red Sea, in a sterile district, where occasionally several years pass without rain. There are few inhabited districts so completely de pendent on other countries for their existence. It is difficult to obtain correct trade accounts from the Losatoms_offie4r4,-.40S -frolnAkk-hatred th 9 natives towards Christians, and their desire to ex clude them altogether from what they consider the Holy Land; but the consul, confining himself to the trade as deduced by himself from the manifests of, the square-rigged vessels, nearly all British, re ports that in 1861 they brought goods of the value of £672,657 ; among them English cotton goods of the value of 868,000 dols., and Indian cotton goods of the value of 320;000 dols. The imports from Great Britain and her dependencies are greater than from all other nations put together. Of the , articles imported four-fifths are sent inland, and dispersed over the peninsula. Barley, which is im ported from Egypt, is cheaper here than there; the Government import it for the troops, who sell it. There is no fixed tariff for goods ; they are valued at such sum as the official thinks fit to demand and the merchant,to pay, but the amount is rarely settled without a dispute. The coffee-growing country is in the Yemen, 300 miles to the south, but very little genuine Yemen coffee is procurable in Europe. The industry of Jeddah consists of dyeing English cotton manufactures, fishing, diving for black coral, and fashioning it into beads and mouth piece for cigars. There are no banks in the coun try; those who save money usually conceal it in some secret place, and sometimes die without hav ing disclosed the spot. Jeddah has a population of about 18,000, of whom 1,000 are British Indian subjects; and during the four months of the pil ,\grimage the number is increased to 40,000, at times to 60,000, of whom at least 12,000 are British subjects. At Mecca and Medina there are always about 2,000 British subjects, most of them pilgrims who have spent all their money and cannot return to India. It would save much money were they obliged, like the French and Dutch Mussulman subjects, to prove that they have sufficient money to enable them to perform the pilgrimage and re turn. There is no employment for them at Jeddah ; the private buildings are executed by slaves of the master masons, and there are no public works, or even repairs, for everything is allowed to go to ruin. The importation of fresh slaves into Jeddah is now forbidden, but almost as many arrive as formerly, and they are sold publicly every morning. They are landed at night along the shore, and enter Jeddah in the morning through gates guarded by soldiers, who could recognise and stop them with ease. The climate of Jeddah is trying to Euro peans on account of its great heat ; the temperature rose to 132 deg. in 1859, and many camels died. In August, 1860, it was from 100 deg. to 110 deg. day and night for a fartnight. But though the morta lity is great, it is due not so much to climate as to neglect of sanitary measures. There are no roads, further than as the constant track of camels has made them, but the advanced Mussulmans talk of a railway to Mecca. The great opposition would be from the Bedouin camel men, but the prejudices of the Arabs could be overcome were the Sheikhs given to understand that a yearly payment would make it to their interest to prevent the line being damaged. The gates of Jeddah are shut for half an hour on Fridays during midday prayer, from a tradition that the Christians might take advantage of the men being in the mosques to seize the town —a custom rather flattering to the prowess of the 12 Christians at Jeddah. The sea on this coast is gradually receding, owing to the formation of coral reefs. There is a corn depot at Jeddah, not 200 years old, with a gate flanked by two towers, which evidently defended the quay, but it is now 300 yards from the sea. REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUAR7 ERLY RETURN. The quarterly return issued by authority of the Registrar-General comprises the births and deaths registered by 2,199 registrars in all the districts of England during the summer quarter that ended on September 30, 1862 ; and the marriages in 12,585 churches or chapels, about 4,672 registered places of worship unconnected with the Established Church, and 637 superintendent registrars' offices, in the quarter that ended on June 30, 1862. The total number of marriages in the spring quarter of 1860 was nearly 44,000 ; in that of 1861 it was about 42,000 ; and in the same quar ter of the present year it fell to 40,771. The ann ual marriage-rate in the spring quarter of this ye ar, _ viz., pers ona marr i e d t o a hundred the popula tion, was 1.610. This proportion is lower t han any result obtained in the same season during an ex tended series of years, for in the ten yea rslBs2-61 ; it fell to it s l owes t po i n t, w hich was 1. 638 in 638 n 1856 and the avera ge o f th e w h o le series is 1.709. The decrease in the marriages of all England was 5.2 per cent. ; and it may b e inferred t h a t a large por tion of that class of the population by w hich families are established did not consider that their circum stances.f f re sh alliances. justified the formation.o Lancashire in its season of has borne wit nessf prudence which to the operation of a lavf effect in calamity most of has not been without it: ngdoin. Lancashire the other parts of t-he ts, I and of these there ap is divided into 26 dist o rle _ W eat Derby alone a conti• pears to have been naririages in three June quarters nuous increase of I :l3ers in that district were 375, (1860-62); the returnsnumbers of Ashton, Blackburn, a n d 434, 460. The d f rom the list as signal instances Preston are selecte being depressed when hard of the mar riag e-rate on the industryof times have fallen on a people. The births in the total number of quarter that ended September was 172 ,237. It showed an 30thincrease 427 above the mean of t of 4 t t wo previous summer quar ters (186-). Th e birth -061 rate was 3.356 per cent. of the population, against an average of 3.285 in t e n corresponding quarters (1852-61). The excess of births over deaths in the last quarter was 80,012. The natural increase of the o It . p pu a ion was, therefore, at the rate of 870 daily. The number of emigrants to all parts who left ports in the United Kingdom where there " • are emigration officers, in the three months that ended 30th September, was 33,240; and in this number the English emigrants may be stated approximately as 12,866. The emi gration to the Australian colonies has increased; the English, Irish, Scotch, and others who went thither last quarter were 12,071; in either ofthe two previous summers they were little more than 7,000. British North America also drew a larger company. The number who sought the United States was 14,170, the number in the same quarter of 1860 having been 21,104 and in that of the following year 6,348. Of the 12,866 English who emigrated about 5,255 went to the United States, and 6,536 to the Australian colonies. The average price of Cozz- - -,;"' ~-y~.~- cols Was 93 2-8; it- Lrlf "been above vd in the quarters that have elapsed since September of last year. Wheat (the average price 565. 10d. per quar ter) was dearer than in the same period of last year, when the price was 525. ld. The. average of thu highest and lowest prices of beef at Leadenhall and Newgate was 51,d. per lb. ; and of mutton, 61-d. Best potatoes were 115 s. per ton ; they were dearer than they had been at the same time last year. The returns of the Poor-law Commissioners are heavy for the summer quarter. The total number of deaths in the three months that ended 30th September was 92,225. In the same quarter of 1860 it did not much exceed 86,000 ; in that of 1861 it was about 181,000. The cold summer of this year was less healthy than the still colder summer of 1860; but it was healthier than the warmer,summer of last Sear. Tii77annual rate of mortality in the quarter was 1,797 per cent. of the population against an average derived from ten summers ( 185 2 - 61) of 2.020 per cent. In these ten summers thero is but a single example of so low a death-rate, viz., that furnished by 1860, which was 1.718. Even in summer, which is the healthiest season of the year, the mortality of all England is seldom so low as 1.9 per cent. A few of the regis trars witnessing a reduction of the mortality with the distress that prevailed in their districts at the same time have been tempted to speculate on the facts, and as those officers in the course of their duties are in frequent communication with the labouring classes their opinions may be quoted. The registrar of Wigan states that more freedom to breathe the fresh air, inability to in dulge in spirituous liquors, and better nursing of children, are believed to have improved the public health. The registrar of Little Bolton holds that the decrease of deaths is mainly due to a greater amount of domestic superintendence. The registrar Of Hulne thinks that the' even temperature of the cwhei4ldth re er n - h a a ta ve 'linc"lt causert fl he a d t rcre t a i :e n . of Knott Lines ;(Ashton) attributes the result to absence of epiderttice, mildness of the weather, out pia i h d:t o Registraryo um „ out door exercise, maternal care ; also to parish relief and charitable contributions, by means of which food has been obtained not sufficient for health, but enough to mitigate distress, and prevent hitherto an increase of mortality. The Registrar of Preston sub-district also refers to the good effect of fresh air, nursing, and mildness of the weather. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. A special general court of the governors • was held on Tuesday last, at the London-bridge Railways Terminus Hotel, to read the minutes of the meetings of the grand committee, held since the last general court, and to take such measures as may be deemed desirable with a view to the acquisition of a site for, and the construction of, the new hospital. There were present Sir John Musgrove, president, and about forty other governors--a very small attendance, not more than one-fifth of the body of ' gover nors, considering the importance of the subject. The ab sence of many of the governors may, no doubt, be accounted for by the circumstance of their having mistaken the London-bridge Hotel for the London-bridge Railways Ter minus Rotel, and finding, upon inquiry, that no meeting was to be held there, supposed that they had mistaken the day. The PRESIDENT having stated the object of the meeting, the report of the deputatioil b oi four of the governors ap pointed to examine the ,hospitals of France, Belgium, and Holland, was read and received with great satisfaction. Mr. TITE, M.P., then rose to propose a motion relative to the choice and purchase of a site for the new hospital, the substance of which was to leave the whole question to the grand committee, subject to the provisions of the Act of Parliament. He expressed hinnielf very strongly in favour of acquiring from 30 to 36 acres of land in some salubrious situation, not more than seven or eight miles south of Lon don ; and expressed his conviction that a site in all respects desirable might be obtained at or near to Wandsworth at a comparatively small cost. He was desirous, however, that the grand committee should be left to the exercise of its own judgment on the question, with the suggestion only that it was most desirable, now that there was an opportu nity of doing so, to combine the requirement and provisions of an hospital and a sanatorium. Mr, J. O. JOHNSON, treasurer of Bethlehem Hospital, seconded the motion. Mr. Deputy ELLIOTT moved an amendment to the effect, that it was desirable to erect the new hospital within as short a distance as was practicable from the old one, and recommending that no action for the acquisition of a new site should be taken until the eligibility of that of the tem porary hospital hsd been further tested. The hon. mile-. man urged a number of very cogent reasons in favour of the amendment he thus submitted to the court, insisting chiefly upon the claims which the citizens of London and the inhabitants of Southwark had upon the consideration of the governors, the hospital having been chartered and endowed with especial reference to their wants, which would be altogether set at nought if the hospital were removed to any such distant spot as that which seemed to be desired by the mover and seconder of the re solution. Mr. ADAMS seconded the amendment, and urged that the site of the temporary hospital seemed in all respects most admirably fitted to be the site of the now one. It possessed all the requisites of locality, salubrity, facility of access, and extent of space for such an institution, and he believed that they would be doing great wrong and injustice if they removed it to any other site. After speaking of the interest with which he had visited and watched the rapid and satis factory progress to completion of the present building, he briefly adverted to the several circumstances which had already been urged in favour of the locality in which it stood, especially its being in the midst of a dense growing population, greatly in want of such an institution, but which would be cruelly deprived of the great benefits it had conferred upon that part of the metropolis for more than 300 years, if it were removed some six, seven, or eight miles into the country. What, too, he asked, would become of the medical school, for which the hospital had become famous, if it were removed to some distant rural spot The museums, libraries, and medical institutions were to be found only in the metropolis, and students were in the habit, as was well known, of going from one institution to another in pursuit of their objects. To convert this great metropolitan hospital into a mere county hospital, would be, in a great measure, fatal to these objects, and would deprive it of one of its great had, Ag a h ill e claims to public consideration and respecte. r s e a f i e d rr , i t n h g e to the site of the temporary hospital, h testimony of the resident medical officer (Mr. Whitfield) that it was a great success. (Hear, hear.) He had himself been there as lately as Saturday last, and had found the number of out-door patients to be larger even than was in attendance at the old hospital. Would that have been the case-was it possible that it should have been so—had the hospital been carried some miles away from the residence of these poor people ? As to the eligibility of the spot, in a sanitary point of view, it seemed to be all that could be de sired. The sisters of the wards stated that they had ob served a marked favourable difference in the progress of the patients. What more could be looked for if they were to remove it some 7or 8 miles further away. In conclusion he expressed it to be his conscientious conviction that they would be guilty of nothing less than a great fraud, if they removed the hospital beyond an easy distance for the thou sands who now, and for so many years had been, enabled to avail themselves of its great benefits. Mr. R. A. GRAY, chairman of the City Gas Company, supported the amendment, and spoke strongly i n f avour of the site of the temporary hospital, as en sur i ng the purposes supported.. the intended in the endowment of the original one. Mr. B. Fulmars having briefly opposed the amendment. amend ment, A D f r t . e L r shortly f o e rr w re remarks from Alderman an Coloel.WlLsoN, who expressed himself, though favour of the original motion, ad doubtedn in be properly said they were guilty of a fraud, w overy h d th ecidedly, ein removinger it could the hospital to such a spot as that indicated by the mover and seconder of the resolution, a division was taken on the amendment, which was negatived by a majority of 21 to IG. Alderman Pinuars then moved another amendment, to the eff ec t th at all action towards acquiring a new site should be for the present suspended. and reurged various reasons against contemplating the abandonment of the site they were now occupying, unless it should turn out to be destitute of some material requirement of such an institu tion as that placed in their charge. Time must be taken to ascertain that fact, if it existed, and it was therefore de sirable that the court should recommend to the grand cora mittee that they take no further action for the present. Mr. ADAMS having seconded the amendment, The Treasurer, Mr. R. BAGALLAY stated that no site for the new hospital had been chosen or even discussed by the grand committee, but expressed it as his own opinion that from thirty to forty acres of land should be obtained for the purpose as near to London as they could be had. The amendment was then put and negatived by a some what larger majority than the former amendment had been, several of the governors ha% ing left the room. Finally, the original motion was put and carried, as was also another, directing the architect of the hospital to prepare plans, to be submitted to a future court, and to the medical officers ; and, after votes of thanks to the deputation and the President, the court adjourned. —The Truelove, Captain. ehrieekknwoownathfeor; THE WHALE FisriEßY. 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