The Sun. — London, England, 1862-09-08 00:00:00

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Ail remittances are, henceforth, to be made to Mr. JOHN CHAPLIN, at The Sun office, 112, Strand, who has been appointed, by the Lord Chancellor, Receiver and Manager of The Sun newspaper, and the outstanding debts due in respect thereof. • - - - * eo. 02' t u THE SUN, LM4111.01. 14 1, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEM.BER 8, 1862. THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 1862. The most industriously circulated calumny of the Americans against the mother country will surely be heard no more. President LINCOLN has him self refuted it. It ran thus, that England was •' guilty of damnable hypocrisy,"—such was the language of an official man—in pretending to any concern for negro emancipation, since she looked coldly on the North. In every form this calumny has been repeated ; our inconsistency has been bitterly denounced again and again. It has been alleged that we must have a special spite against the North, because we declined, as a Government, to take her part more than that of the South; and because with all our professed antipathy to slave holders, we could not withhold our admiration for the skill and courage with which, under the greatest difficulties, the South had sustained its defence. Mr. LINCOLN has, however, set the matter for ever at rest. The North, he distinctly says, is fighting for the Union and for nothing else. His friend, • Mr. HORACE GREELY, publishes a long letter to him in his journal, I'ke Tribune, and claiming to write in the name of twenty millions of people argues, at length, for the necessity of an Emancipation policy. Mr. GREELY is not only a Personal friend of Mr. LINCOLN'S, but a very influential man in the Republican party which elected him. Mr. LINCOLN, therefore, who seems to have not a touch of the Royal indifference to What 'people write, nor anything like sa much 83 an English Premier, actually answers the letter —just as the other day he made a speech at a public meeting at. Washington. Mr. LINCOLN opens his whole political heart to his old friend, and the avowal is unmistakeable—in the last sentence he says that his personal wish is that " all men every where' 'could be free." Perhaps half the South itself would say as much. But his letter, in every conceivable form of iteration, says—The Union is the idol of my policy. If the partial abolition, or the entire abolition of slavery would save the Union, then partially or wholly- abolish it. If the reten tion of slavery would save it, then leen slavery. The Union is his Alpha and Omega, and slavery is to be dealt with without the slightest regard to negro, rights; it is to be weighed in the Union b al‘tnees, and judged of by the Union entirely. And yet there are English journals who affect to rebuke all who have long seen through the utter hollowness of Northern pretensions. Not, indeed, that it required any particular sharpness of vision to do so. We'cannot say that the North ever said or did anything at variance with the policy marked out by l'ar. LINCOLN. The Anti-slavery cloak was only thrown over the Union polic y When England was to be abused. Some things have, i n d eed, been done to mortify the democratic party, and to rid the North of some of its disgraceful homage t o l El Emery, but nothing whatever has proclaimed the slight est sympathy of the powers that be, in the North, wi t h negro emancipation—negro expatriation is rather their cry. For this the Congress votes money, for this the PRESIDENT makes speeches, and for this expeditions are organised to New Grenada, to carry the blacks to its coal mines—negroes and coals are the PRESIDENT'S negro policy. As to negroes and freedom, his treatment of FREMONT and HUNTER, and his approval of HALLECK, have been evidence enough of his views. The war, then, is what we are thrown back on as his means of restoring union between the dis severed portions of the Union. Though, how it is politically to reunite them, no one yet has attempted to show. Nothing but victory, conquest, and sub jugation seem to be thought of; the question how, if conquered, the forced union is to become a unity is not even men tioned. What shall be the issue of the war , i s a question which present appearances make it more difficult than ever to answer. The fu ll Particulars of the late fights which have arrived to. day tell both ways. If the Confederates were successful in attacking POPE and harassing his retreat, POPE en the other hand succeeded in j oinin g he great b o d y of the Federal forces. Again, though the Federals have united their forces on the north of the Rappahannock, their enemy is attacking them at so many points along their line, that they know not where he will attempt to cross the river and to cut their line. The Federals ought now to be strong encugh for the attack and advance, but they seem afraid to make it. They do not know where the terrible " Stonewall" JACKSON is, and they cannot hazard leaving him in their rear or flank, for aught they know. The Confederates have failed to take POPE in flank ; but by one of their clever raids, 12 miles in his rear, they have not failed to get possession of his whole staff equip ments—spare horses, papers, plans of the campaign, militarycorrespondence—and a considerable amount of Mr. CHASE'S " greenbacks !" It is even sup posed by the Federals that they will have to change the plan of their campaign, on account of the know ledge of their plans which General LEE has thus acquired. We cannot therefore venture to prophesy as things now stand. Virginia has become again the grand theatre of action. If the Confederates cannot succeed there now, they know that a month or two hence their work will be yet more difficult. Hence their present vigorous efforts on the offensive. Time is gain to the North under present circumstances; and both parties know it. So determined have the Cnnfederates been that probably Washington has just been in greater danger, if indeed it has yet escaped it, than ever since the war began. The position, therefore, at the moment of the last des patches was—the South eager to fight, the North desirous to avoid fighting, and to await reinforce ments—both separated only by a river: Any day we may hear of a fearful attack by the South on the North. A Consultation of Physicians at Spezzia on Thursday last looks ill. It increases our anxiety as to the health of General GARIBALDI instead of allaying it. And the decision arrived at, after ma ture deliberation, by the Italian Doctors, while it is partially reassuring, is only partially reassuring. After probing the principal wound, they arrive at the conclusion that there is no bullet lodged there requiring extraction. The fear had been that the ball had penetrated and lay there, deepseated, in the flesh—endangering life if left there. Bruising and tearing through the upper portion of the thigh, it was supposed that this fatal rifle-ball had glanced upwards (having been fired from below by one of the Bersaglieri) and had pierced the groin. Happily the physicians think otherwise. They have exa mined both wounds carefully, and have come to the decision here intimated in regard to the upper wound, that there is no bullet at all to be extracted. So far—the tidings are good as to the result of Thursday's consultation. But, unhappily, that is by no means all the news brought to us in regard to the state of the wounded hero now stretched upon his couch of suffering in the fortress of Va'rignano. The lower wound—the wound in the foot, appears to be as severe in its way as it was last week believed to be. The upper part of the ankle is torn and shattered—the flesh torn, the very hone shattered. The fracture is that of the right malleolus of the tibia—that is a splintering of the protuberent ex tremity of one of the principal bones of the leg. It is a fracture, consequently, of one of the principal bones of the leg at its point ofjunction with one of the most complex and delicate joints in our anatomy— where the bones of the ankle cluster above the arch, or almost we might call it the osseous dome of the foot, for the arching of it is in all directions. Know ing thus the position and extent of this wound in the foot of the Italian ACHILLES, we cannot much mar vel when we hear that GARIBALDI cannot stand, can not even stir without bodily anguish—that fever has set in —that, lying there prostrate, the lion-hearted patient maintains an almost unbroken silence— evidently suffering bitterly both in mind and body. There is no danger, says the physicians, after con sulting together on Thursday—there is no "danger," but it will take a long time to effect a cure ! Re membering the fatal consequences before now of bringing together a group of Italian Doctors—it is with some little anguish that we receive these tidings about GARIBALDI ! We recall to mind how CAVOUR slipped through their hands at Turin. We remem ber how—nearer home than Turin and Spezzia— illustrious patients have passed away somehow, needlessly, avoidably, from the very multiplicity of their medical advisers, coupled with an apparently paralysing sense the while among these medi cal advisers of the value of the life entrusted to their care and skill. Enough, when sorrowful mention has here been made of the late Sir ROBERT PEEL, and more recently of his Royal Highness the late PRINCE CONSORT. It will be a direful day, however, under existing circumstances, for GARI BALDI'S captors, if anything serious should befal the Hero, struck down by dastardly rifle shots upon the height of Aspromonte. It would be a simplification of course in one way of the Government Difficulty just now in Turin —were there no GARIBALDI to be tried ! But it , 1 would be a very serious and perilous sim plification, we may be quite certain of that. Better for Italy, for the Italian King; 'and 'for 'the Italian Parliament, if GARI BALDI were to pass ' from the public scene there into Exile than if he were to disappear I into his Grave. As the Ministerial difficulty stands even now in reference to GARIBALDI, it would seem that RATTAZZI and his col leagues are fairly p uzz l e d what to do with the State prisoner. After all this l a t e t a lk a b ou t bring ing the General before a Hi g h Court of Just i ce a charge Treason, e of High uponit has now been de cided that there shall be, no Civil trial whatever of I GARIBALD I or of his Garibaldians. O ne an d a ll of them—to the n umber oe Boma three, thousand— are to be bro u g ht, it is asserted, before mili tary tribunals : even GARIBALDI himself ! Bat —not surely npoa a charge of Hi g h T reason ! Scarcely could GARIBALDI and his f o ll owers be arraigned as Traitors before any Military . T r ib una l ! A proceeding like that wo uld if you will be l eas Majeste—and a violation too, n ot of the maj es t y o f the Crown, but of that of which the Crown itself is but the symbol, viz., of the majesty of the law. Th e civilis e d nations of Europe Could not stand by 'and see it d one. The Tr i al of G ARIB ALDI at all would, in any c at once, a ase, be nothing less than, mon strous farce, a monstrous crime on the part of the Italian Glove - l at all, it Government. Bat, if attemptet , ought, at least, to be eide and done perfectly en r-,7 7 not by a violation of all the natural rights of man in civilised communities. In any way that it may possibly be regarded, it was the veriest yuet-apens that affair at Aspromonte. GARIBALDI found him self there, when all was Over, struck down — mutilated, bleeding, and incapabl e - • of rising to his feet in a mountain pass that proved to be a cul de sac where ho and his followers were trapped and captured, like so many run -away galley-slaves, by the remozs'eless Bersaglieri of Colonel PALLAVICINO. How the shootin g an d bayonetting went, in that deadly conflict, w e may n ow recognise rather more clearly than could possibly be done before now. Scattered about, when the last shot was fired and the last bayonet stab inflicted, there were'. found hors de combat at Aspromonte—among the Royalists, in killed and wounded, some 212—among the Garibaldians, not less than 600 ! GARIBALDI being amongst those 600, and the fight having lasted some four hours altogether, and the Bersa glierie who were actually engaged having thousands of comrades ready to be brought up to their aid if such had proved to be in any way necessary, from the direction of Reggio, where CIALDINI had his head• quarters—we cannot seriously wonder that the Redshirts saw that their opportunity was wholly gone by—de livering themselves up to the number, in all, it is said, of 2,200 prisoners ! Quelled though the move ment is for the time being, and quelled thus effec tually, the game of civil war is not yet wholly played out. Anarchical results are still upon the cards as possibilities. Everything depends now upon what may happen to GARIBALDI. Sheffield heard one side from its most distin guished representative a short time ago, on Thurs day it heard the other from its honest and hard working representative, Mr. HADFIELD. The hon. member intimated on the previous occasion that he would take another time to state his views on the great question of the day—probably he felt little disposed, sensible man as he is, to try his powers of interesting an audience who had listened to the Premier and Mr. ROEBUCK. But he also doubtless preferred not to get up any discussion on that occasion. Mr. HADFIELD sympathises far more with the North than Mr. ROEBUCK does. He does not seem, like Mr. ROEBUCK, to have lost his earlier admiration of the Americans. He deplores the calamity which has fallen upon the Union ists, who have already spent £245,000,000 on the war, and called forth 1,300,000 soldiers out of a population of less than 20,000,000. He mourns over the change which has befallen them since our Prince of WALES visited the country, and American acclamations and only asks on our pert, "patience, forbearance, and even forgiveness," in the time of their bitter calamity. A request which the assembled cutlers received with cheers. He warmly commends Lord RUSSELL'S policy and despatches, and taking the reverse view to Mr. ROEBUCK, asks what is to be come of the slave-trade if there be a separation, and how is the boundary line to be drawn. There may be difficulty in answering Mr. HADFIELD'S questions, but there are certainly greater difficulties in answering the opposite one— what is to become of the country if no boundary line can be found, and if it is to be governed again as one country. As to the Slave trade, we should think, there would be no difficulty in this country's refusing to recognise the Confede aate flag, except under a treaty for the suppression of the slave tade, similar to that now in force in the North, and it would not be difficult to obtain such such a treaty, as a permanent one, not revocable, except by consent of both parties ; we should say too, of procuring an agreement for ever, that the slave-trade should, by both flags,be treated as piracy. The " breeding States"—infamous as their trade is, and Virginia herself among them, would all be ready to assent to such a treaty. As to the boun dary line, they must be as content as the nations on the smaller continent of Europe with lines of demarcation fixed by treaty merely—with such a line as now separates a great part of British Ame rica from the States. That is the business of the inhabitants. The consent of the governed is, the Americans themselves say, the basis of Government —it could be no very difficult task to ascertain to which Confederation the people of any State or dis trict wished to unite themselves. Sir JOHN RAMSDEN, like most of us, now seems to have made up his mind that restoration of the Union is hopeless; and, therefore, to desire rather that the Northerns themselves may soon see the advantage of an early termination of the war : " He trusted that the day might soon come—for a happy one it certainly would be for them—when the mists of passion would have faded away from their eyes, when they would see how little there was for them to cherish in that ill-assorted Union for which they had already sacrified so much—sacri not money alone, not blood alone, but the most pre cious guarantees of their freedom. He trusted the day would not be far distant when the Americans would see the truth which had been obvious to us for so long, that there is a great field open for both of the contending parties if they would only consent to put an end to this fratricidal strife, and contend only in the generous rivalry of peace. There remained for us but one conclusion, and it was this, that while we had bsen no parties to the strife—by no act of ours had it been set agoing, by no wish of ours had it been prolonged— and if it should happily come to an end he believed the Americans themselves would acknowledge that the people of England had set before them the great rule of justice in their conduct as regarded both parties in this civil war : that they had de termined to follow a perfect neutrality, and to be as friendly as possible to both sides in the contest." In one thing all the speakers agreed at Sheffield as they do elsewhere in commending the patience and heroism of our unfortunate sufferers in Lanca shire. We observe that at a meeting yesterday of some delegates from America, who came over to a meet ing of the Sunday School Union, the message they were sent home with was just the one which most Englishmen would have given them. The Ameri can delegates were allowed to retrace all the anti-slavery doings of Mr. LINCOLN, and to re peat, again and again, that this was a war really for the abolition of slavery; but when they had done were plainly told the views which Englishmen take of the subject. A Mr. PRATT reminded them that Mr. LINCOLN wanted the black men to leave the country, that he had always averred that ho would sacrifice the question of slavery to preserve the Union ; but he would, if he could, preserve them both. That was not the principle to come to England for sympathy with. Let them boldly state that at all risks they will abolish slavery, and this country would then assist them and pray for their success. But the chairman, Mr. W. W. Wat son, solicitor, told them the truth of the case, in closing the meeting, in a few words, he said, "their American friends were mistaken when they thought the Christian people of this country were not sym pathising with th e N or th. Th e fact was, their feelings we re so strong on the subject that they felt the North doubted their sincerity was for n the gfar ab en ol o i u ti g on of even h,an sl cl ave ry. They could bear no flinching on a question so near their hearts, and where any hesitation appeared their affections were withheld. He hoped this f ee li n g would be conveyed to their American friends across the Atlantic." ARRIVAL OF THE PRINCF or WALES AND PPCE ALFRE D AT 13111ISSELs. --BRE SSELS, Sept. 7.—Their R IN oy Highnesse s the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred arrived - here at three p.m. to-day, and were met by the Duke of Brabant, the Count of Flanders, and the B ritish Minister. Milit ar y honours were paid to their Royal Eighnesses, whose reception was a brilliant affair. A largo number of persons were present. The Princes were conveyed to the Palace at Bruxelles in slate carriages. The Prince of Wales will be received by the King of Belgium at Lacken. A CENTENARIAN.—Mr. Robert Davy, a retired merchmerchant,t, of Countess W e i r , near Exeter , died a da y or two was a ago, within a few weeks of a h undred years of age. He st erling Liberal in days when that term was much more of a reproach to a man than it is at p resent, and in his busine ss and in every relation of life he W as sin g ularl y energetic, very beneveleAt, and useful. RAILWAY INIELLIGENCE. SCOTTISH NORTH •EASTERN. The directors recommend a dividend be declared at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, and made payable with the other dividends on the 25th inst,, leaving a balance of £1396 SHROPSHIRE UNION. At - the half-yearly meeting of this company which was held at Shrewsbury on Saturday, a dividend was declared at the rate of Xi 17s. 6d. per cent. per annum. PRESTEIGN AND KINGSTON. A public meeting was held at Presteign on Saturday, Sir G. C. Lewis in the chair, to promote the formation of a line of railway from that town to join the Leominster and King ston Railway, when resolutions in favour of the project were passed. LATEST NEWS. PARIS, SEPT 8. The Paris papers of today publish the following telegram : " RAGUSA, SEPT. 7. " The Montenegrins refuse to accept the condi tions offered them by the Turks, and, taking ad vantage of the present armistice, have instructed their representative at Constantinople to demand more favourable terms. " The Montenegrins are transporting all their valuable effects to Cattaro." MADRID, SEPT. 7. The Government will take very severe measures against the fomenters of disorder, who throw bombs in the public streets. The Correspondencia Autografa asserts that the Pope would receive the hospitality of Spain, should he request it. NAPLES, SEPT. 6. On account of the state of siege now in force here, the anniversary of Garibaldi's entry into Naples will not be celebrated this year. The Mu nicipality are considering of distributing among different charities the 2,000 ducats destined for the organisation of this fete. The trial of Mr. Bishop before the Court of As size commenced yesterday and will terminate to-day. MILAN, SEPT. 7. The press of Lombardy is unanimously in favour of an amnesty being granted to Garibaldi and his followers. The Alleanza of to-day proposes that, in order to preserve the respect due to the laws, the Italian municipalities should send an address to the King, solicitiDg Garibaldi's pardon, " which would then be an act emanating from the national will." TURIN, SEPT. 6, Evening. The Official Gazette of to-day gives a denial to certain assertions contained in a report from some Garibaldian officers on the engagement at Aspro mante, published by the Diritto. The Gazzetta di Torino publishes a letter from the President of the Chamber of Deputies in reply to some members, wherein he states that he be lieves it is not in his power to address an official question to the Ministry respecting the late arrest of some members of the Chamber of Deputies. The bulletin on the health of Garibaldi, pub lished to-day, announces that a consultation of phy sicians had been held since Thursday last, and that it has been ascertained there is no ball in the wound. It will take a long time to effect a cure, but there is no danger. The physicians who were summoned to the consultation have left Spezzia. PARIS, SEPT. 7, EVENING. Garibaldi suffers, but is going on better. Me notti is going on well. Basso, Canzio, and Ric ciotto Garibaldi are with him. I learn from Sicily li that Garibaldi was wounded whilst endeavouring to prevent a conflict at Aspromonte. He gave orders not to fire. Pallavicini attacked without waiting. PARIS, SEPT. 7, EVENING. The following telegram has been received here : " BELGRADE, SEPT. 7, EVENING. "At Ongitza the Turks have commenced firing upon the Servian inhabitants. " The latter have not yet replied, but are ready to engage in conflict. " The conflagration still continues." PARIS, SEPT. 6. La Franee of this evening states that Juarez has refused to ratify the treaty negotiated with General Prim, and says : " The Mexican Government has recommenced taking vexatious measures against Spain, and it is his conduct which has decided the Spanish Go vernment to assume a more conciliatory policy towards France for the purpose of constituting in Mexico a real and durable Government." The Pays of this evening contains a kimilar state ment, and adds that Spain is asserted to have offered to send a contingent to Mexico, but that this offer was not accepted by France, SEPT. 7. The Moniteur of this morning announces that the journal La Gironde has received a second warning for an article upon the defeat Garibaldi, " support ing anarchic passions, and insulting both to the Imperial Government and a Government which is the friend of France." CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. G. The conferences on Servian affairs have termi nated satisfactorily for the Porte. The Prince of Montenegro has asked for peace. The Porte has sent conditions on which it will accord it to Omar Pasha. PARIS, SEPT. 7. The Paris papers of this evening publish the fol lowing telegram : "BELGRADE, Sept. 7.—The conferences at Con stantinople on Servian affairs have terminated. The decision arrived at, however, does not fulfil the ex pectations of Servia, and the Prince has resolved not to accept it. At Oujitza, the day before yes terday, the Turks attacked the Servian authorities, who with difficulty avoided a conflict. This even fl -. ing the Servian quarter wa s entirel y set in flames by the Turks. The fire still continues, The Pre fect's palace is also burning." GREAT EASTERN. The Wisbeach branch of the East Anglian division of this railway, which was closed by the recent Middle Level flood, has been re-opened for traffic, after undergoing the necessary repairs. GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA. The London directors have issued a copy of the accounts as they have just been received from Canada for the half year ending the 30th of June last. The total revenue amounts to £382,993, and the total expenses to £319,556, being at the rate of 831 per cent. of the receipts, leaving a balance of £63,437. The profit upon the half-year, added to that of the previous six months, makes the profit for the year ending the 30th of June last £169,144. Mr. Watkin, at the request of the board, and at considerable inconve nience to himself, sailed for Canada on the 26d ult., and on his return to England, which will be, it is hoped, in the course of October, a further report upon the negotiations as to the postal arbitration, and upon the measures taken in obedience to the resolutions of the proprietors at the meet ing held on the Bth ult. for the reorganisation of the board and management, will be issued. By the reports received from Mr. Brydges, the new managing director, great hopes are held out of important reductions in the present rate of working expenses, which ho states are quite exceptional and capable of being greatly reduced. The capital ac count shows that £11,982,868 had been expended, and £12,245,671 received, leaving a balance of £262,803. THE MINISTRY.—Lord Palmerston arrived at his residence, Cambridge-house, Piccadilly, on Friday evening, from Northampton. Earl Russell is the minister in attend ance on the Queen in Germany. Sir George Grey returned on Saturday to London from attending the funeral of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ryder. Lord Granville is staying in the metropolis. The Duke of Newcastle has left for his country seat, Clumber-park, Notts. Mr. Milner Gibson, who arrived in town several days ago on matters connected with his department, the Board of Trade, has again quitted London, and is cruising in his yacht. The Duke of So merset and the other members of the cabinet remain out of town.-- Observer . Sir Alexander Cockburn has left Hertford-street on a tour in Germany. M. Faivre Pisani, one of the officers who accom panied Prince Napoleon in his voyage to America, is bring ing out, in the form of letters, the narrative of the adven tures of the Prince. The well-known astronomer Carlini has just died at Brescia. The Emperor of Austria has confirmed a sentence of 16 years' imprisonment in irons against a Garibaldian emissary named Viola, who had been arrested at Pesth, and tried by court martial, Lieutenant Somerset Saunderson, 11th Hussars, i s appointed extra aide-de-camp to General Sir George Brown, commanding the forces in Ireland,—Army and iVavy Gazette. Two good service pensions are vacant by the ap pointment of Major-Generals J. Napper Jackson and Sir John Michel to regimental colonelcies.--Army and Navy Gazette. Rear-Admiral R. S. Robinson, the Controller of the Navy, left London on Thursday on six weeks' leave of absence.--Army and Navy Gazette. Captain the Hon. R. Monck, Coldstream Guards, is acting as Brigade-Major to the Brigade of Guards, during She absence in Canada of Captain Gordon, Scots Fusilier Guards. STRIKE OF THE WIGAN COLLIERS.—On Friday afternoon, a meeting of the colliers of Wigan and district were held in the Boy's Well Fields, Wigan, to decide upon a course of action with regard to the proposed reduction of 10 per cent. in their wages. There was a very large at tendance, probably 4,000 persons being present. The chair was taken by James Greenwood, and speeches were delivered by John M'Donald, Joseph Emerson, Thomas Greenall, Adam Chadwick, and William Pickard. The last-named speaker moved a resolution to the effect—=' That the colliers of Wigan and district assembled together under circum stances most painful to themselves, felt they ought firmly to oppose the third reduction of 10 per cent. then pro posed, and they, as a body, pledged themselves not to sub mit to such an uncalled-for and unjust reduction, but, as their notices expired, would leave work and stand to a man till the reducfion was withdrawn." The. speaker said he hoped the masters would withdraw their notice, and allow them to work on the old terms, when they saw how determined the men were. The present rate cf wages was very low. He did not believe, if an average was taken of the sum received by the colliers in the district, that it would be found to amount to more than 2s. 6d. per man per day ; and when the necessary deduc tions were made from this it would be found scarce sufficient to live upon. A score of seconders at once appeared, and the resolution .was passed unanimously, amidst loud ap plause. The vast concourse then quietly dispersed, the Hiudley and Pemberton colliers leaving the ground as they had arrived—in procession, accompanied each by a band. The notices have expired at seven collieries in the district, and 2,000 men struck work on Friday morning. Notices, to expire on the 17th, have been issued to the men employed at several other pits. THE MARRIAGE LAWS.—The injustice of the pre sent marriage laws was proved in a remarkable manner in a case heard before the County Court judge at Boston, on Thursday. A man named Mark Gibbs, tea hawker, some few weeks since filed a petition of bankruptcy, and the officers of the Bankruptcy Court took possession of his gaods, and were proceeding to sell them for the benefit of his creditors, but the man's wife claimed them as her own property, alleging that though she was married to the bankrupt she was not legally his wife, being the widow of his deceased brother, to whom the goods had originally be longed, and that they were therefore his property by right of inheritance. At the public investigation in the court on Thursday, this wife of the brothel's attended, and proved that she was the widow of George Gibbs, brother of the bankrupt, and that though she had since married Mark Gibbs, and lived with him as his wife and born him chil dren, she was in the eye of the law only his mistress. She said the goods seized were formerly the property of her first husband, and that she had not since his death sold or dis posed of them to Mark Gibbs, although they had continued to use them since the marriage. The judge said that a more remarkable case had never come under his notice, There was no doubt that the claimant, though twice mar • tied, was in the eye of the law a widow, and that her second marriage being illegal in no way invalidated her right to her first husband's goods. The second husband, in fact, acquired no rights by his marriage, and he might leave his wife and children any time, and they had not the slightest claim upon him. This was the law, and he was bound to administer the law as he found it. The woman having sworn that the goods were left to her by her former husband, and there being no evidence to the contrary, it was his duty to declare the goods were her property, and the creditors of her present husband (who legally was not restored o h r u e s b t a o n thed), claimh w a o d m n a o n. e woman. — Leeds M er c ury. on them. ereu The goods must be d FRENCH AND ENGLISH FISHERMEN.—The naval e i e a nro ta ur king English a r a ge t hvFeerierni mea suresncghfishing Tuggers fishing grounds. The d es truction d one to the nets of our authoritiesto put u apnone withinnt h d e t north-easttht e h eenl encroachments c i a t oc s ahs o mt f north country fishermen by the encroachments made by the French fishermen with their large luggers upon the English ground has been serious. On Friday two French luggers were brought into the Tyne.by the gunboat Lively Lieut. Kerby ; and on Saturday the masters of these craft, Lejeune Henry, of Le.Nord, No, 460, and Ridel Victor, of the Victorine Louise, No. 106, were brought before the North Shields magistrates, charged with fishing within the limits on Friday morning last. Henry, who had offended previously, was fined £lO and costs, Victor £5 and costs. SINGULAR PHENOMENON.--A somewhat unusual incident occurred on Wednesday in the neighbourhood of Croy Station, on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. A number of workmen were engaged boring for minerals, and when they reached the coal seam a stream of gas issued from the bore, which, on being lighted, burned to a height of nearly nine feet. The supply of gas was so abundant that it continued burning throughout the day.—Edinburgh Couraht. SPECULATION IN WOOL—Messrs. John L. Bowes Brothers, of Liverpool, in. their wool circular for the River Plate mail of the 9th inst., state, in reference to the pre sent speculation in wools, that the market has recently be come mere active, and some branches are excited by specu lation. Prices are id. to lid. per lb. higher than a month ago, and have an upward tendency, particularly for com mon and medium ki'Ads, which have advanced more per lb. than the finer cla sses—the two former, w h en qu ite clean, costing at present currency on ly o ne-third to two - thirds of the value of Am er i can cotton, while the cos t o f th e majo rity of fine wool s i n a clean state equals or excee d s th a t o f this descripti on o f cotton. Stocks of most woo l s are b e l ow an average, it seems as if th e partial substitution of woo l f or co t ton, so and consumpti on i s i n creasing, so that; at length long deferred, was in progress. We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that Major-General Sir John Michel and two officers of the Ordnance Corps are about to leave for Copenhagen, and will act as the military representatives of England at the fer tb,- coming manoeuvres of the Danisi4 auaYi INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA. CALCUTTA, AUG. 16. Shirtings lower. Twist dull. Indigo unchanged. topper firm. Exchange.—First-class credit, 20 , -: ; Government Securities, Four per Cents., 931 ; Five per Cents., 105, Freight advancing. CANTON, JULY 26. Shirtings, no transactions. Tea held for high prices. Total export to date 17,375,0001 b. Exchange on London, 4s. 7d. SHANGHAI, JULY 18. Shirtings firm. Tea and silk active. Settlements of silk during the fortnight, 6,000 bales. Export, 9,750. Exchange on London, Gs. 41d. Freights higher. MELBOURNE, J ULY 25. The shipments of gold since the departure of the last mail amount to 144,750 ounces. Trade is active. Exchange unaltered. Trade at Adelaide and Sydney dull. Exchange at both places unaltered. THE CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. A LEXANDRIA, SEPT• 5• The Euxine and Pera, with the above mails, sailed this mor n i ng f or Marseilles an d Southamp ton respectively. The Pera may be exp ec t e d a t Southampton about the 18th inst. The Colombo brought the mails to Suez, arriving thorn on the 4th. CHINA AND AUSTRALIA. (BY TELEGRAPII FROM SUEZ.*) SHANGHAI, JULY 18. The city is quiet• News has been received here from Jeddo of another attempt having been made to assassinate the British Minister at that place. Two marines were killed. The assassin had committed suicide. The attempt is supp-)sed to have been instigated by the leading Damios. Japan was unsettled, and little business doing. CANTON, JULY 26. The American ship Phantom has been lost, with treasure on board, on the Pratas shoals. The cap tain was drowned. MELBOURNE, JULY 25. Three thousand. pounds (? £30,000), the proceeds of a subscription in behalf of the Lancashire opera tives, have been remitted to England by this mail. New Zealand is still unsettled. The Maoris will not accept terms of peace. N.B. The above messages left Suez at 725 p.m. on the 4th inst., and arrived in London at 9 45 p.m. on the 6th inst. FRANCE AND MEXICO. La Patrie, in announcing the departure of the last vessels that convey a corps d'armee of nearly 30,000 men to Mexico, concludes as follows : " On entering Mexico our soldiers will find what France always expected to find—friends. Our flag, in protecting the reorganisation of an inde pendent and local power, will only be com pleting the work decided upon by the parties who signed the Treaty of: London. As regards the issue of this expedition, it may be easily fore seen. Our soldiers, returning their swords to their scabbards, will leave to French diplomacy the care of carrying out the task generously undertaken. And French diplomacy will call European diplomacy to her, and it is with the coun cils of the great Powers that civilisation, expected for more than half a century, will make its first steps on Mexican soil. "It is then that, free from the passions and rivalries which obscured it, the Mexican question will appear as France put it. It will be seen what interests were engaged in this enterprise, so badly understood at the onset, and England and Spain will not have to regret having let France commence without them, without their flag, what France will ask them loyally to com plete with her in common;' FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 6.—The market opened with firmness at yesterday's closing prices, which the rise in English Consols seemed to justify. A number of sales for the end of the month, however, caused a slight reaction, and Threes, for the Account receded to 69f. 35c. No change in the Railway Share Market. The market closed as follows 4t. per Cents .. 98 25 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 45 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier Do. end month 936 25 Bank Shares Credit F °lacier 1260 Piedmontesc Fives, 71 10 Italian Loan 7l 15 Roman — Austrian .. Spanish Threes.... Rome Debt RAIL' - AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO6O .. 1057 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1156 25 .. 1180 Gen Ava .. Southern 842 50 .. 840 Western Eastern ... , ..... ..., Sardinian - Austrian Lowbard 606 25 .. 607 50 ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. On Saturday night, a new piece in two acts, en titled " She would and He wouldn't," was produced at this theatre. The plot is as follows : A great prima donna makes a sensation at Genoa, and she is known as La Serena (Miss Herbert), but she really is a Countess, who, having her estates in a state of litigation in a court of law, takes to the operatic stage to support herself. Amongst the many admirers she possesses is one Count Rafael (Mr. G. Vining), a spendthrift nobleman of the Don Caesar de &zap class, who has laid a wager to run away with her within a certain time, but has not a ducat to carry out his intention, and- is moreover steeped in debt. At the opening of the present drama we are in troducrd to the villa of a very high lady of the old school. Starched and stiff with pride as well as brocade, she enhances her antiquity with a pair of green goggles. It requires no very great theatrical acumen to find out that this lady is La Serena in disguise, though we did not exactly catch why she takes all this trouble to secure a lover already devoted to her. But suffice it to say, she, by a series of intrigues with Zanetta, a gipsy (Miss St. Casse), who sets up for a sorceress, and has elixirs which can produce youth or age or slumbers at will, she gets the Count Rafael into her power, and he is threatened with arrest if he does not marry the apparently old Countess within an hour. After many qualms he, the wretched young man, consents to the sacrifice, and thus the first act goes down upon the marriage. The second act is occupied by the Countess ap pearing in her own youthful character, and the Count is charged with the murder of the Old Countess who has disappeared. The greatest state of perplexity is produced by this state of matters, and the Gipsy promises a solution if the youth ful lady will only consent to take the elixir that wilt restore her to age. This she agrees to do if the Count will take it too, which he, however, re jects with horror. His perplexity having been prolonged sufficiently an explanation takes place, and the Count wins his wager, for he is within the time married to LA Serena. It was well supported by the acting, Mr. F. Matthews making something out of nothing as a foolish Minister of Police ; and Mr. F. Charles, Mr. Belmore, and Mr. Cockrill taking parts in ,which they had no opportunity of displaying their re spective abilities. FIRE A 7 LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. Early this morning a fire took place at Liver pool, which resulted in the death of 17 persons, chiefly children. The workhouse and church at tached to it were partially destroyed. THE PRIMACY. —We believe that, although nothing is as yet officially settled with respect to the vacant see of Canterbury, there is no doubt that the Bishop of London, Dr. Tait, will be translated to the primacy.— Illornlng Post. THE GREAT EASTERN REPORTED ON FIRE.—The following, which appeared in late editions of the Liverpool papers of Saturday, excited considerable alarm in that town :—" By the arrival of the steamship Scotia, a rumour has reached this country of the burning of a large sailing vessel or steamer, near Montauk Point. The rumour has caused considerable anxiety to be m anifested, as nothing had been seen of the steamship Great Eastern, though the Persia, which left this port the same day (Saturday, August 16), arrived at New York on the day of the Scotia's sailing. This fact, however, only proves that the Persia made a good passage out, and beat the big ship. Th e report that has come to hand is too vague to place much reliance on. A. passenger by the Scotia reports that, just as ho was leaving New York, a rumour was there current that a large steamer, surrounded by schooners, was on fire off Montauk. Captain Jadkins states that the rumour was current at New York the day before Ihe left. The m ail master of the Scotia reports the vessel to be a large ship." COURAGE OF A Bolt OF THIRTEEN.—A somewhat extraordinary instance of courage in a young boy of 13 oc • curred the other day at Holyhead. A boy named Jones, while sculling a boat with another lad, fell into the water near the old harbour. One of two men passing by plunged in to his assistance, but his clothes becoming exceedingly heavy in the water, he was obliged to turn back. Seeing this, the young lad, whose name was John Williams, in stantly swam to the rescue. The drowning boy Jones grasped him so tightly as to deprive him of all power, and both consequently sank. Williams, however, extricated himself, and rose to the surface. Despite his narrow escape the brave boy made the greatest exertions to hold up his companion, who catching his rescuer a second time in his death grasp, again caused both to sink. Williams again rose, still preserving his hold, and by this time the man who had been passing came to their assistance and held them till a boat was brought. Both were apparently dead when brought to land, but happily young Williams soon recovered. The lad whom he had so bravely attempted to rescue died the t aro night. THE SCIBN2IFIC BALLOON ASCENT. MR. ULAISHER'S OBSERVATIONS. The exact time of the descent was 20 minutes past 3 o'clock, at a spot about 72 milee from Lud low, in Shropshire. The descent was accomplished without any accident to either the aeronauts or the instruments. When the voyagers reached the clouds they found a dense mass of moisture which was 2,000 feet in thickness. These clouds contained as much moisture as they could possibly hold. Hav ing shot through this they found above them a beautiful clear blue sky with the mass of clouds floating below. This was at about an elevation of a mile and three-quarters, after whi c h no c l ou d s were perceptible. At this height the air possessed such expanding powers that the balloon, which at the time of the ascent contained not much more than two-thirds of its fv:Al complement, was now quite filled, and conseqv.ently shot up very rapidly. When still higher Mr. Glaisher attempted to take photographs of the scene below which that gentleman describes as being very beautiful, but the great ve locity of the ascent rendered the taking of a photo graph impossible. At an elevation of three miles the first of six pigeons which were taken up in the balloon was thrown out. It could not fly and dropped as heavily as a stone. A second was then thrown out with the same result. A third attempted to fly but failed, and shared the fate of the previ ous two. At a height of four miles a fourth pigeon was thrown out. This one was more fortunate than its predecessors, and succeeded in effecting a lodgment on the top of the balloon, but it was not known what ultimately became of it. The two remaining pigeons were brought down when one was found to be dead and the other nearly so. This last when liberated flew in a short circle, and then alighted on Mr. Glaisher's hand. Even tually, however, it flew in the direction of Wolver hampton. At five miles high symptoms of blind ness were felt by Mr. Glaisher, whose last entry of thermometer was minus five, or .37 below the freezing point. He subsequently saw, but was un able to register the barometer at 10in., which would indicate a height of 51-, miles. This gentleman then gradually became unconscious, and the last thing remembered by him was the dim outline of Mr. Coxwell's figure in the balloon. Mr. Coxwell, however, remained quite conscious, and the balloon ascended with great rapidity for 10 minutes longer, and according to Mr. Coxwell's reading, afterwards calculated by Mr. Glaisher, the aneroid barometer indicated that they had attained a height of six miles. At this juncture great risk was encountered, for Mr. Coxwell began to feel faint, and on attempt ing to effect a discharge of gas by pulling the valve string, he found that his hands had become power less. The greatness of the danger at this height may be imagined when it is remembered that their . safety depended entirely upon the little remaining consciousness of Mr. Coxwell, for Mr. Glaisher still remained in a state of unconsciousness. Having at length effected a discharge of gas the balloon be gan to descend, when Mr. Glaisher gradually re covered and resumed the reading of the instru ments. The descent was now very rapid but suc cessful. During the voyage ozone was found in the atmosphere. Terrestrial sounds were heard by Mr. Glaisher at a height of a mile and a half, and by Mr. Coxwell at three miles. After penetrating, as described, the mass of clouds, which were two thou sand feet in thickness, the atmosphere became gradually dryer, and at a height of five miles none of the instruments indicated the slightest moisture. A self-registering thermometer which had. been taken up indicated that a temperature of minus 20 had been reached, which would be 62 degrees be low freezing point. In proof , of the coldness ex perienced, it may be stated that a bottle of water was with difficulty kept from fre ez i ng ),)3, continual shaking ; but, on Mr. Coxwell's losing the use of his hands, it immediately froze, and remained in that condition for more than an hour after reach ing terra firma. Mr. Glaisher had wisely provided himself with gloves, but Mr. Coxwell, who had not taken that precaution, suffered the penalty of having his hands turned quite black, in which coal dition they remained until the earth w as reached. The height attained during this ascent is quite unprecedented, and it has been attended with no ordinary danger. THE CONTEST A 7 S 7 OKE-UPDX-TBENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU', Mr. Beresford Hope presents his compliments to the Editor of the Sun, and requests the favour of the insertion of the accompanying correspondence with Mr. H. R. Grenfell in reference to the contest at Stoke-upon -Trent. Sept. 6, 1862. Railway Hotel, Stoke-upon-Trent, Sept. 6. Dear Sir,—My attention has been directed to the following passage in your speech delivered at Han ley, on Wednesday last, as reported in the Birming ham Daily Post of yesterday, and in substantially the same terms in the Staffordshire Sentinel of to day :—" The fact was, Sergeant Shee had no chance whatever in that election, and he (Mr. Grenfell) had received several communications from London which assured him he (Sergeant Shee) was down there holding a brief for Mr. Hope. He did not believe this then, but since Sergeant Shee's speech the previous night, he had no doubt that he was holding that brief." The Stqffordehire Advertiser quotes you as say ing, " capable of holding such a brief." The phrase may not involve, as the other report does, a direct hagainst myself, but l ea d s to the inference that cagr l e ara capable of giving such a brief to Sergeant Shee. Iu the one case you will have stated in public, without proof or investigation; that I had com mitted an act which, it it were true, would cover me with disgrace : in the other, you will have left the inference open that I was capable of committing it. If, therefore, you cannot state that both reports are incorrect, I have to request, on my assurance, that I did not, and that I am incapable of commit ting such an act, that you will state your convic tion that I did not give, and that I am incapable of giving, such a brief to an opposing candidate; and that you will express your regret at having used language calculated to injure the character of a gentleman, in reference to a rumour, which, if you had communicated with him, he would have perem torily denied. I, of course, reserve to myself the power of giving publicity to this correspond%nce, and I have the honour to remain, dear sir, yours very faithfully. A. J. B. BERESFORD HOPE. R. Grenfell, Esq. Railway Hotel, Stoke, Sept. 6. Dear Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day, Perhaps I have not the same experience in elec tions which you have had, but I am at a loss to con ceive how it could cover you with disgrace to effect a division in the liberal party-by every means in your power. And if Sergeant Shee be willing to be your in. strument in that course, I do not think it would be more disgraceful to resort to his assistance than to make use of any other means of corruption,--I re main, dear sir, yours faithfully, H. B. GRENFELL.I". A. J. Beresford Hope, Esq. Railway Hotel, Stoke-upon-Trent, Sept. 6. Dear Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge your reply to my note of this morning. It is not the answer which I expected ; nevertheless I do not desire to protract the correspondence. I cannot pretend to argue with a gentleman Who has had an experience in official life which I have never had the advantage of enjoying, as to the com parative "disgrace" of the various methods of " ef fecting a di v i s i on " i n the oppos i te camp , and of any other " m eans o f corruption. " For my own part I w illi ng ly resign t o you the undistu r b e d use of all the " means of co rrupt i on, " which y ou so can didly vindicate. A t t t e le , e r e i t s t k h noefe. f r a e l r l , in l amgin your estimati on as a suc cessful resolved to fight the bat tle with perfectly pure weapons, and to abst a i n f rom w th h eeln e I shall avail myself of that power of publicity which I reserved in my first note.—l h ave th e h on our to remain, dear sir, yours faithfully, whatever. avment l of any " means o f corrupt i on " at A. J. B. BERESPORD HOPE. a B: Grenfell, Esq. lIE th of ar of of of tai col Hu tra la./