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According to him it is not a procla mation based on any principle, not one which re cognises negro rights and offers to redress negro wrongs. " All the good and wise men of all countries," he says,'" will recognise this measure as a just and wise military act, intended to deliver the country from a terrible civil war." . We do not quarrel with this so far as it goes. We have, from the beginning, told the Federals that they never could conquer except through justice to the negro. We have scouted the pro-slavery cant of certain journals in this country, which have en deavoured to confound emancipation with a bloody servile war. We have asserted, fearless cf con tradiction, that neither our own experience in Jamaica, nor the dictates of common sense, could teach us that to bless the enslaved with liberty was the way to make them murderers, but we have not like Messrs. SEWARD and LIN COLN represented Emancipation as a purely " military measure." We have shown that it was something far better; that it was a great duty, one which this country paid £20,000,000 rather than not perform ; but one worth more than ten times that sum to the United States in -what it would save of the cost of the war. We have always represented the bloody rebellion of the South against the decision of the election into which they entered, as releasing the PRESIDENT from the technical slavery clauses of the constitu tion. and as legally authorising him to abolish the evil which morality and Christianity had long ago denounced as treason against the human race. We now see Mr. LINCOLN and Mr. SEWARD'S view of the posture of affairs. On the 22d of Sep tember, five days after the bloody battle of Antic t" Cr eek, when the combined losses, according to IVP CIAL • LAN, amounted to very nearly forty-five thousand men, the President and his Secretary take a most hopeful view of the Northern cause, and re gard the procl amat ion as the weapon which is to complete their I l i utnpb. True, the North must do something more than issue proclamations. They can have no effect beyond the reach of Federal guns. Still the representation • le, that the Confederate aggressive movement is checked, while the Federal troops are reanimated ; the Southern "financial re sources decline rapidly," 1 good the financial posi tion of the North is eSouthern '`means 1 of raising troops are exhausted,,, while in the North " the call for fresh troop s I, bein g responded to." In t his p o sition Of promptly thing s the Pre sident plays his - last card. He places pla i nly before the people of America , that " if these states persist in imposing on the country, the choice betw een the dissolution of the Government and the ahnl• • - num of slavery, it is the Union and not slavery that must be ruiintained and saved." It: was thought by many, at first, that the pro: e;.n:ation was much more intended for foreign than The forwarding of this circular to If so, however, Mr. SEWARD we. like it. to have been aware that treating emancipa tion as merely a just " military measure" was not exactly the way to commend his cause to tha sym pathies of Europe. We should rejoice, indeed, to see American slavery blotted out as the result of the war, but to make military success the sole rea son gor the proposal, is to deprive it of all its merit here We may think it selfish wisdom, but we can not commend Itr. SEWARD except as " the LORD commended the unjust Steward." The Secretary ougb. expects ts to recognise the " moderation and the magnanimity" with which his Government has proceeded in so important a matter ; we must rather think it has proceeded with vacil lation and pusillanimity. It has now ad vanced a step, now retreated, according as it feared public opinion in the North and in the 1 Border States ; and now, if we understand Mr. LINCOLN himself aright, he hardly knows whether he will stick to his ninety days' conditional emanci pation or not. The Border States press denounce it, the Democrats in the Free States join them, the Re publicans praise it—and they are, it is believed, as yet, the dominant party. The elections impend in November, and it will then be seen how far the ballot-box will sustain the PB.ESIDENT'S policy. Looking at the intelligence up to the 22d, which arrived by the Arabia, it gives not the slightest in dication of any military change of importance. All is petty work indeed, compared with that in which both parties have lately been engaged. In Ken tucky the Federals retreat under MORGAN, and advance under Bum. Near New Orleans the Federals are repulsed in an:attack on Pontchatoula; on the Potomas, LEE and M'CLELLAN make mys . • terious movements—and heavy firing is heard at Leesburg —all of which is not equivalent to a single move of importance. Political action seems to be more vehement. The Republi can and Democratic parties are making very vigo rous efforts, which looks as if the latter were re covering from its defeats of the last few years. Perhaps M'CLELLAN's success, who belongs to their party, may have given them fresh hope. In regard to any prospects of peace they seem small, indeed, if we may trust writers and speeches on either side. The Republican candidate for New York, General WADSWORTH, declares that—" The Republican party intend to hold the country together at what ever cost of life-blood and suffering, and to devas tate the country if necessary, but not to survive its dismemberment." On the other side the Richmond Despatch. says that " the only way the war can end is by the exhaustion of the North or by the extermination of the South." Neither party, indeed, so far as we can see, shows the slightest inclination to yield anything, for the proposal of one man in the Confederate Congress to offer negotiation to the North seems to find no favour with his own friends. It seems to be the feeling of both North and South that the battle must be thoroughly fought out. While the American Republic is being effectually disintegrated—the Confederation established, not yet a century ago (to all appearance permanently) by WASHINGTON, FRANKLIN, and JEFFERSON, already breaking up into two, or it may be even tually into three,lndependent Democracies—several among the old powers of Europe are, on the con trary, at this very epoch in the History of the World, consolidating visibly, several of them even rapidly, into simpler and more important Nation alities. Among these Italy stands forth at this moment, of course, conspicuously. There, the guid ing principle—literally the " rallying" cry—is avowedly Unification. Now a kingdom, now a principality, now a province, disappears altogether from the Map of Europe. They are heard of no more in their separate capacities. In that respect their annals are altogether of the past. It has been thus with Naples, with Tuscany, with Lombardy, with all the minor principalities. They are lost sight of, as powers apart from each other. they run together like separate beads of quick silver, brought suddenly into contact, and thence forth become massed together in One. They become 1 parts of a whole no longer to be divided and sub divided. It is not so much that Piedmont and Lombardy and Tuscany, and Modena, and Parma, and the Two Sicilies, are bound together around that sceptre of Savoy—or rather, because of certain un toward recollections associated with the name of Savoy, about the sceptre of Sardinia, (a peaceful symbol no longer but a keen-edged and formidable battle axe)—for all the world like the rods of em pire about the Lictor's hatchet constituting the powerful Fasces of ancient Rome ! It is not so much, we say, that events have developed of late after this fashion, as that Piedmont, Lombardy, Tuscany, Naples, and the rest, have become lost, and merged, and fused together, in the furnace of the War of pidependence, until they are no longer known apart but together as the Kingdom of Italy ! What has been occurring thus rapidly, and con spicuously, and altogether undeniably, in regard to the unification of the Italian Kingdoms and Princi palities, is simultaneously taking place, more slowly but not less surely, elsewhere among certain other groups of the Powers of Christendom Few, even among the more captious and incredulous, will be disposed, we believe, seriously to deny this. It is a matter of notoriety that it is as we are stating, that it has for a long while past been as we are stating—thus—in reference to the consolidation here of a Teutonic, there of an Iberian, yonder of a Scandinavian Empire. France and England are, all this while, watching with silent but eager interest the growth of these great movements, Russia is doing the like afar off. Austria is painfully conscious meantime that she herself is likely to prove one of the principal Victims rather than one of even the the m inor Victors in thi s readjustment of nationali ties. Already the KAISER has, within rather dis tressful, certainly within very vivid, remembrance, how abruptly, in the southern part of his dominions the fairest province of his empire was lopped off in the instance of Lom bardy. H e knows for certain that his grasp upon , Venetia is no longer one of security—but rather one of absolute desperation. There, south of the Carpathians, north of the Adriatic—. " The good old rule the simple plan," is again revived in all its barbarous force, viz,, as even our Arcadian WORDSWORTH sings—. " That he shall take who hath the power, And he shall keep who can I" Austria, still maintaining her costly and enor mons garrisons in the Quadrilateral —Italy only watches keenly and vigilantly for the first oppor tunity to rush in and tear from the clutch of the German, both the Quadrilateral and Venetia. France, all the while, as we havesaid, is observant of these occurrences—as England is—as Russia is, for that matter, from a distance ! But France , "wisely in her generation," or foolishly, as it may prove in the end (who shall say P)—looks on, as the wheel turns, as the ball rolls, not altogether disin terestedly. The Italian Unification, so far as it has yet succeeded, has already yielded her Savoy and Nice It completion, she yet hopes in her secret heart, may leave her in possession of the magnifi cent island of Sardinia, the second of the larger i t sl ands in the Mediterran ean . " M a t er i a l guaran ees" these—Savoy and Nice, w e venture to repeat, being a l ready actually secured as such, substantially, within he r possession— " material guarantees" that in the new Balance of Power in process of adjustment, France (as effectually as NAPOLEON 111. can ensure such a result by his policy), shall retain all her old preponderance in the councils of continental Europe. I Cherishing the same aspiration, she looks that is France), he looks (that is I N TAPOIAON), for a solid advantage to be won to Gallic power in the event — or rather we may say pretty confidently (for the event is, sooner or later, inevitable) at th e date THE SUN, LONDO of the realisation by the Teutonic people of the long-pondered day-dream of German Unification, There France looke—and even England will be disposed to say not quite unreasonably—for the ac quisition of the Rhenish Provinces. The game is afoot, however, not alone in Italy and in Germany— wherePrussia occupies the advanced position assumed so very successfully in Italy by Piedmont—but far to the north and far to the south, among the Iberians and among the Scandinavians. Unification there, also, in each of those directions, is the "rallying" cry, the one potent watchword. And before the shaken Balance of Power in Europe can be again and securely adjusted —we may rest assured that it is in each instance a watchword that will be answered decisively enough, and in accordance with the spirit of the age that is witnessing the revival and rehabi tation of the Great Italian and the Great Germanic Nationalities, The Northern ambition is, as is well known, the blending together, in one powerful Scandinavian Empire, of Sweden and Norway and Denmark, under one name and under one Govern ment. The Southern ambition is the blending into a single Power of the twin Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal, the substitution of the two sovereignties there (that of the Bourbon and that of the Braganza) of one sovereignty alone, placing the sceptre thenceforth in the hand of a constitu tional monarch whose rule should extend over the whole Iberian peninsula. Towards the realisation of all these day-dreams, events are at this moment steadily and surely tending. The cause of Unification prospers visibly in Italy, and appreciably in Germany : but it prospers morally also both among the Iberians and among the Scandinavians. In each of these latter in stances the cause referred to will doubtless be materially aided in its prosperous deve lopment, by two rather significant and im portant marriage alliances. The alliance already accomplished between the dynasties of Italy and Portugal ! And that other alliance, arranged to take place not later than next year, between the reigning houses of England and of Denmark ! While the interests of the Solidarity of Nations may be recognised-as prospering, thus, effectually, who will not hope and pray, what lover of humanity, what champion of liberty will not trust devoutly and earnestly from his heart, that Poland may at length discover the dawn of her ancient indepen dence, in the awakening energies of a Sclavonio Nationality, of a Sclavonic Unification ? Like the " Fathers " at Birkenhead, after the mischief is done, out comes Cardinal WISEMAN and cries to the POPE'S bludgeon men, " There, there, my lambs of the Vicar of CHRIST'S flock, be quiet now; show how gentle, meek, and forgiving you are." After three Sundays of shillelagh work are over, after English workmen have been prevented from freely and peacefully honouring a foreign hero, for honouring whom we must all honour them —after the holy bludgeons have done their business, and we are all forbidden to open our mouths be cause it grieves the POPE'S Irish roughs—then, and not till then, the Arch Pharisee sends to all the papers a proclamation to show how good he and his are. Had the same thing been done prior to the first Sunday's papal bludgeon work in order to pre vent it —or, if we must suppose that such work was not anticipated, had the WISEMAN proclamation appiared the next Sunday—we should have gladly acknowledged its pacific and Christian character. The time of its appearance converts it into a mockery. The Cardinal and his " roughs" have got all they want ; they have induced the authorities — how wisely we will not again discuss—to surrender the liberty of the working men of London to their violence, and now they hold forth at length on the virtues of meekness, gentleness, and forgiveness." Admirable are some of the lessons which the Cardinal now reads to his beloved flock, for they are founded on the example of our LORD himself. His examp!e, however, occupies but a small space compared with that of the "Dear Pontiff" himself, " the Vicar of CHRIST on earth," and therefore so much nearer them. Whose—the Vicar's—cause is " the cause of justice, of truth, of virtue, of religion, of GOD himself." Hence, and if the premises are are sound, the conclusion must be so—" bludgeons, and blows, and tumult are not the means by which such a cause is to be enforced, or even defended." It would " afflict our sovereign Pontiff's tender heart to hear of his cherished Irish children sup porting his sacred cause by such violence." Italians will be apt to think that the Pontiff, whose heart exulted in the bloody butcheries at Perugia, and who protects brigands to murder, burn, and destroy in the South, and whose meekness boils over in anathemas, against all Catholics who think the " Vicar" ought to imitate his professed chief in regard to temporal kingdoms, is not exactly a model on earth of his Heavenly Master's unworld liness and meekness. Italians also will differ from the Cardinal respect ing the " cause "of the Pontiff. They think it the cause of " injustice, of falsehood, of vice, of Satan himself," and very naturally, the latter being the personage who offered CHRIST all the Kingdoms of this world, kingdoms which, from that time till he stood before PILATE, he persisted in reject ing. Indeed Cardinal WISEMAN ought to know that the Italians, who must know much more than he does about the matter, consider the POPE to be such a temporal tyrant, and his cause—that of tem poral rule we mean—to be so utterly bad, that nothing but French bayonets compel them to en dure it. The English nation, in fact, does but take the part of Italian Catholics against Irish Catholics —of the Catholics who feel the Papal scourge, against those who only look on and laugh at it—of emancipation for the Romans, against those who, ' as Cardinal WISEMAN himself owns, have gained political emancipation for themselves, but now re fuse it to their fellow Catholics at Rome. Happily the skies were police sufficient yesterday, otherwise there appears to have been some who took the Car dinal's proclamation in the same sense as we have known a set of rogues to do when pointed to another rogue, with the emphatic exclamation—" Now, don't pump on him." The landlords are beginning to learn that their Night Poaching through the H ouse at theß e i l n l , d of forceda session, so d e o c e e s n n t l o y t quite commend itself to the minds of their tenant farmers. They have heard of it in several ways and places already, but the crack game county, Norfolk, and in the very centre of a district of game preservers, has just given them a pretty little lesson. It was at t h e North Walsh am 1 am Agricul a s tural Association where this unheard of outbreak o f t e nant-farmer indepe ndence took place. CHARLES franklyihdadtha tthere er saide ought at this : —" Admiral B w u o x: E 0 :0 , t E rs sEq had , meeting to be some discussion on agricultural sub jects. He thought so too, and that they ought a l so to discuss freely any question in which as farmers they were interested. Why should not they, for instance, take up the question of leases, and even the question of the preservation of game. He was sure that as a small landlord and as a game Preserver, nothing would give him greater pleasure than speak his to hear any tenant of his get up and feelings and opinions plainly, for he thought there was generally too much reticence upon such matters, and that it would be better for all parties if those MONDAY EVENTING, OCTOBER 13, 1862. who held one set of opinions were to speak out with manly frankness, while the others listened with due candour and respect." The first symptom of the liberty which Mr. BUX TON proffered was shown when Mr_ HOWES, one of the county members, rose to speak. He had the im pudence to advert to the subject of game, to con demn the opposition to the Night Poaching Bill, and enumerate among his merits that he had voted for it—an announcement which called for general and loud hissing, intermingled with a few timid landlord cheers. He tried to back out by saying that Norfolk did not want it—which was a signal for renewed hissing, it being evident that he was getting ashamed of himself. He then endeavoured to assure them that it should not increase the county rates, which of course the farmers could not believe, well knowing that the landlords would in no long time have a staff of police gamekeepers, for whom the county must pay. Mr. HOWES, we fancy, will not venture to address the farm tenants of his constituency again on ,the subject of Game and Night Poaching Bills. For some time after this all went on as quietly as if Mr. BUXTON had not proclaimed the liberty of tongue. At length it came to the turn of a highly respectable farmer, who had been one of the judges, and was toasted with them to return thanks. Mr. C. S. READ, for that was his name, after remarks on the cattle and horses, alluding to Mr. BUXTON'S invitation, added a few words on another subject. " Tenant farmers have been re quested to speak out their minds to-day. Weil, I am a tenant farmer, and as no other tenant farmer has said anything on the things which are taking place around us, I will venture to do so. It is customary for tenant farmers to be patted on their backs and be told that they are a very enterprising and enthusiastic body of people, that they are a very independent and a very improving set of fel lows. The great and noble of the land tell us this, and I suppose we are in the habit of believing them, but I would remind you that in private life we always value a friend, not for the compliments he pays us, but for the good he does us ; and yet here are these great nobles and agricultural M.P.'s go ing to Parliament and saying in effect to us, ' You are such an intelligent set of men that you are no longer capable of managing your roads, and there fore we will do it for you. You are so independent, and have shown your independence so long, in feed ing your landlord's game, that now we have made up our minds that you shall also pay for its pre servation." On which the Norfolk News, from which we quote, remarks :—" The boldness of the speaker in giving utterance to such sentiments in the presence of such company seemed to take the whole party by surprise, and while some were silent, the larger proportion gave expression to their gratification with the most vehement ap plause, which was repeated again and again amid shouts of 'Go on !" Go on !" Let's have some more of that.' Mr. READ, however, simply added, I have nothing more to say except this, God pre serve us from our so-called friends !' which was, of course, the signal for renewed and enthusiastic cheering." Poor Mr. HOWES, utterly dumbfounded, rose again, but only to find that he could say nothing. He proposed a toast, poor man, but was obliged to defer his answer to the observations of the last speaker till another time. " Why not new ?" re sounded through the room. Alas ! there was a reason he did not like to utter—the mind of the legislator had become a perfect blank. THE CABINET COUNCIL.—There will be a Cabinet Council in Downing-street on Thursday, the 23d inst. This is rather earlier than usual, and a long nothe has been given for the convenience of those Ministers who are at a distance. Conjectures are rife about the subjects to be dis ' cussed. The Observer says that the American difficulty is the most likely to engage the public attention, and to be assigned as the pregnant source of Ministerial anxiety. Shortly after the 10th of November the Queen will arrive at Windsor Castle, where her Majesty will re main until the expiration of the twelve months from the death of the Prince Consort, and will probably spend the Christmas at the Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester have arrived at Drummond Castle, Perthshire, on a visit to Lord and Lady - Willoughby de Eresby, from Dunrobin Castle. _ . The Marquis and Marchioness of Waterford have left town for Curraghmore. The late Archbishop of Ar magh has bequeathed his residence in Charles•street to the marquis. The Marquis of Hastings has arrived at Long's Hotel. The Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford left town on Thursday last for Madeira, where her ladyship purposes to pass the winter. Major-General W. F. Hamilton, K.C.8., late of the Grenadier Guards, has been appointed Vice-President of the Council of Military Education, in tho place of Lieu tenant-General Knollys, Comptroller of his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales's household. General Hamilton served with his regiment through the Crimean war, and was present at the battles of the Alma and Inkerman, where he was severely wounded. TERRIFIC CONFLAGRATION AT TROWBRIDGE.— Intelligence reached Bristol on Saturday afternoon of a terrible conflagration having occurred at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, by which a vest amount of property has been destroyed, and, which is worse, as many as a thousand per sons will be thrown out of employment. The fire broke out at about 3 o'clock, upon the premises of Messrs. Goldsmith and Haywood's cloth manufactory, which is better known in the town as Salter's factory. It was discovered by a workman at a factory situated at a short distance from it, and must have gained some head before he observed it, as before an alarm could be properly given the large building was wrapped in a mass of flames. As soon as the fact of the fire became known in the town the inhabitants hastened to render assistance, and the engines from the various facto ries were rapidly taken to the spot. The fire raged with such fierceness that it was soon found that the hopes of saving the factory were very slight, and the efforts of those en gaged were then directed to saving the surrounding pro. perty. These exeztions unhappily proved unsuccessful, and a great number of houses, principally cottages located in the immediate neighbourhood of the factory, were likewise de troyed. As may be supposed the greatest consternation was caused by the sad catastrophe throughout the town, and the dwellers in the neighbouring houses, and many, too, residing at greater distances, set to work removing their furniture in the fear of an extension of the mischief. The origin of the fire is a mystery, and it is difficult at this early period to estimate with any certainty the money loss. It must be many thousands. The suffering that will re. sult to the operatives of the place at a period falling so closely oz the severities of winter can hardly be over estimated. SUICIDE AND DARING ATTEMPT AT RESCUE.— Yesterday morning a young woman, named Brooks, who resided in Harrow-court, near Doctor's-commons, was out with a young man with whom she kept company. They went down the gangway to St. Paul's-wharf, where some altercation took place, and the female, after ejaculating something, plunged head foremost into the river. Her companion, seeing her clothes buoyed her up in the water, in the most intrepid manner jumped into the river in hopes of saving her, but without effect, and all trace of the body was quickly lost. The man had an exceedingly narrow escape, and at first it was doubtful whether he would recover. SUICIDE BY POISON.—This morning a man living near Bennett's-hill took a large quantity of poison, and was found in a state of great suffering. He was removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, but died on the road. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT BLACKFRIARS BRI DGE.— Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, a man named George Drew, of 12, Bear-alley, Farringdon-street, whilst standing on Blackfriars-bridge, noticed a respectably-dressed female rush down the steps of the bridge and plunge iuto the water. Drew ran after her, and succeeded in rescuing her, and with assistance brought her ashore, and thereby saved her life. The unfortunate female, it appears, had been living with her sister at Pimlico, and was induced to attempt the rash act through being, as she alleged, slighted by a man to whom she was engaged to be married in Essex. Ma. W . F. WINDIIAM.—This individual has been at N orw i ch since his liberation from the tender mercies of M r. D ayman. On Saturday even i ng the Norwich (Thorpe) terminus of the Great Eastern Railway, "larking" with the cabmen, and screaming in his other evening h e ~,,e , so peculiar fashion, " Cheer, boys, cheer I" He has a great hankering ate/ railway stations, . mnibuses, 80. ; and the he was at necessary to order him off the platform at Norwich. At this he declared roundly that it was exceedingly ungrateful treatment after all he had done for the company in hi s capacity of amateur stoker, guard, ?cc. obstrperous that it was found LATEST NEWS. INDIA. (BY TELEGRAPH FROM SUEZ.) BOMBAY, SEPT. 27. A public meeting has been held in this city, under the presidency of the Governor, in aid of the Lan cashire Relief Fund. £15,000 was subscribed on the spot. An address of confidence in Mr. Laing has been adopted at a public meeting in Calcutta. Rain has fallen plentifully in the Deccan, and there is now no fear of a famine. According to news received here, Herat has been invested on all aides by Dost Mohamed. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Shirtings and mule twist advancing. Cotton market dull. Mawa opium firm. Exchange on London, 2s. Old. Government securities.—Four per Cents., 94-f i ; Five per Cents., 104 a ; Five-and-a-Half per Cents., 1121, Freight, 5 7-6. (By Telegraph to Bombay.) CALCUTTA, SEPT. 25. Snirtings and mule twist advancing. Copper and rice quiet. Exchange on London, 2s. o,td. Government Securities—Five per Cents., 1041. Freights higher. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 13. The royal mail steamer Atrato, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 54 passengers, 756,618 dols. in specie, and 1,214 packages of cargo. She left St. Thomas's on the 29th ult. Small-pox was raging at Caracoa and the adja cent places on the coast. The unfavourable condition of public finances in Chili had been made the subject of a message from the President to Congress. The election of San Romas as future President of Peru had been promulgated. The new Adminis tration would be installed on the 24th ult. The transactions connected with the loans from England t 3 Peru had met with universal discontent and reprobation, Congress had disapproved the negotiations, and ask the Executive to take mea sures for suspending all operations connected witb the negotiation. Lima exchange, 41d. to 42d. Valparaiso exchange, 45/d. A severe tornado was experienced at Colon on the 16th ult., doing considerable damage. At Barbadoes the weather was hot, and yellow fever prevalent. Rain was wanted for the crops, which, however, looked well, and the prospects for next year were encouraging. Provisions continued dull. Exchange 90 days 4872 dole. At Demerara manufacturing operations were being carried on vigorously throughout the colony. Trade was stagnant, with no prospect of improve ment. • Business continued dull at Jamaica. The picking of the coffee and pimento corps had been retarded by the rain. Sugar was reported to be exceedingly scarce. The coffee crop promised to be large. Sales 525. to 545. Pimento transactions at 12s. to 16s. Sugar sales of fair at 20s. ; dark, 17s. Rum, 22d. to 27t1 ; proof, 18d. in bond. Exchange.—Colonial and Jamaica Banks, 90 days, 1 per cent. BERLIN, OCT, 11. In the Upper House to day the vote upon the, proposition of the Committee on the Budget was taken by calling over names. The proposition was rejected by 127 to 39. The Budget, as amenaed by the Chamber of De puties, was also rejected by 150 to 17, the Ministers voting with the majority. The second portion of Herr von Arnim-Boitzen burg's amendment, referring to the re-establish ment of the budget as submitted by the Govern ment, was carried by 114 to 44. The Ministers were not present during this vote, and eight mem bers abstained from voting. OCT. 12. The various parties of the Chamber of Deputies, except the Conservatives, held a meeting to-day in their usual place of assembly to consult upon the course rendered necessary by the resolution passed yesterday by the Upper House. Count Schwerin presided. Drs. Simson and Gneist proposed a resolution declaring the vote of the Upper House void, and stating their reasons for that conclusion. The party following the leadership of Baron von Vincke and the Centre were only desirous of taking steps in the event of the vote arrived at by the Upper House being officially notified to the Chamber, but the majority wished to adopt mea- sures in any case. Dr. Gneist considered that the Government was in duty bound to present a new Budget. The meeting separated without coming to a deci sion. The different parties will acquaint each other this evening with the resolutions at which they have arrived. _ The official notification of yesterday's vote of the Upper House was made to the President of the Chamber of Deputies after the conclusion of the meeting. The next sitting of the Chamber is appointed to take place to-morrow forenoon. PARIS, OCT. 11 (Evening). La France of this evening states that the French Chambers will meet in the middle of January. The same journal says that Garibaldi has an nounced to an English deputation that he has not relinquished any of his projects, and that he is pre. paring a manifesto containing important and irre futable revelations. TURIN, OCT. 11, /EVENING. • . The Minister of Finance has published the Budget for 1863, which contains the following items : F. c. Ordinary expenditure ...... 763,343 , 296 24 Extraordinary ditt0........ 1 73,044,729 15 Diminution on the whole ex- pepditure 38,950,073 49 Ordinary revenue.....,.... 549,355,244 0 against 1862 Increase 30,207,470 33 Extraordinary revenue 65,456,408 0 Deficit ........... 320,575,773 0 against 1862 Diminution • ... MEXICO. - Respecting the reported death of Gen, Zaragoza, La Presse publishes the following "A private despatch from Vera Cruz announces that the rumour was generally accredited in that city that General Zaragoza had been put to death by his own soldiers. The rumour requires confirma tion." ....n , •-••- ....... ‘ -' i4'RANCE. BOURSE, October 11.—There have been a few sales for liquidation, but no very ma t er i a l down ward effect has been produced. Threes for the .f. 85c. Railway Shares , d as follows : Bank Shares 3225 Credit Foneier 1275 Piedmontese Fives 73 65 Italian Loan 74 3u Roman Austrian Spanish Threes 521 Rome Debt Account, are now at 71 quiet. The market close( / per Cents .. 98 75 Do end month.... per Cents Do. end month 7l 85 New 3 per Cents Do. end month — Credit Mobilier 1200 Do. end month 12071 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1057 50 .. 1055 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1185 -- .. 1187 50 Geneva.. Southern BB5 .. 886 25 Western Eastern . ... Sardinian 3BO .. Austrian Lorrbard North of Spain Saragossa 622 50 .. 625 Ditto to Barcelona 345 .. 347 50 AMERICA. (Per Arabia by telegraph to Halifax and via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, OCT. 2, Morning_ The excitement on the Stock Exchange yester day increased without the influence of either mili tary or political news. The market was very active, and closed buoyant at an advance of 1 to 2 per cent. Advices from New Orleans report that a large number of people have taken the oath of allegianc3 to avoid the penalties of the Confiscation Act, which General Butler is rigidly going to enforce. The operations of the civil law have been resumed in New Orleans. The sheriff had opened six dis trict courts. The country below New Orleans is much troubled by Confederate marauding parties, and a provost-marshal has been appointed for both sides of th© river. Twenty guerillas have surrendered themselves. The Federal gunboat Iroquois has been sent to the mouth of Rio Grande. The British prize steamers Circassian, Memphis, Bermuda, Stettin, and Columbia are being fitted out as Federal cruisers. Mr. Simon Draper, of New York, has been ap pointed provost-master-general of the United States. The steamer Victoria, from Sabine Pass, and the steamer Cuba, from Mobile, have arrived at Havana with combined cargoes of 1,300 bales of cotton. The Confederate Congress has passed a new Con scription Act, to include all able-bodied men be tween the ages of 35 and 45. Southern reports state that an engagement occurred between the Federal gun-boat Santiago de Cuba and the Confederate steamer 290, in which the former was riddled with shot, and forced to retreat. The report, however, is not entirely credited. The New York Herald asserts that Mr. Eli Thayer is appointed military governor of Florida, to carry out the scheme of introducing into the Southern States a loyal labouring population. • The Government will equip from 10,000 to 20,000 six months' volunteers, and station them in the States to be thus influenced. Each volunteer will receive a homestead of public lands, and free trans portation for his family to the principal port of the State where they are located. It is intended by this means to infuse into the Southern States an industrious and loyal popula tion, in order to protect the Union men. It is supposed that the manufacturing and pro ductive districts of England can be made to contri bute to this emigration. The Federal War Department has determined upon the exchange of State prisoners with the rebel Government. Heavy Federal reinforcements are being sent to Hilton Head and along the shores of the Broad River. It is supposed this is preparatory to an attack upon Charleston. The steamer Vanderbilt is being converted into a man-of-war to carry 12 guns of heavy calibre. She, it is believed, will be the fastest vessel in the Federal service. The Confederate Congress have authorised the issue of 5,000,000 dols. in copper coin, of denomi nations of 5, 10, and 25 cents. A letter from Louisiana is published in the Pro valence Journal, stating that the Confederate Go. vernment intends to emancipate and arm at least 400,000 negroeS, and use them against the Federal Government, with the determination to rule or ruin. The New York Times thinks that General M'Clel lan's report represents a fearful picture of life wasted in South Mountain and Antietam battles, and thinks the price paid was worth the capture or annihilation of the rebel army, and asks what officer, or what difficulties of country, or what combination of circumstances is to be held respon sible for this worst of bargains. The Albany Argus states that General M'Clellan has issued full reports of the battles in which he has been engaged, but that they have been sup pressed by the War Department. The Federal Post-office Department has issued a notice that any letter mailed with the stamps at all soiled or defaced will be treated as unpaid. The New York press generally strongly condemns the course of the Government in thus repudiating its own stamps. The New York Tinzes says they have now no intrinsic value. They are not a legal tender, nobody will redeem them, and they will not pay the postage. The public might as well take wooden buttons or pebble stones, for they would have as much value. V. The Mayor of New York vetoed on Sunday the resolutions of the Board of - Aldermen, declaring that emancipation would be dangerous to the national welfare. These resolutions were passed previous to President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. The mayor in his veto strongly approves of the proclamation, and thinks it must give the death blow to the rebellion. He also disapproves the proposal of the aldermen to create a new com mittee formed for the committee on Union national affairs and a number of delegates from each of the political committees of the city. The mayor thinks that a committee thus constituted would assume a partizan character, acting in sympathy with the views of that party with which the majority of its members would be identified, and would soon be come a strongly political rather than a patriotic committee. The Governor-General of Canada and the Lieu tenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, accompanied by a large suite, have arrived at Chicago for the pur pose of a hunting excursion in the western prairies. THE METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.—The opening of this important line of railway will not now be delayed for more than a few days, and but for the small requirement of Col. Yolland, the Government inspector, it would have been opened for traffic this day. An alteration in the shape and size of the glass lamps of the signals has been consi dered necessary, and, with this exception, everything has been approved. The permanent way, the switches and poir ts, the bridges and stations—all in fact that relates to the working of the line—have been found satisfactory, and the contractors and officers of the company have been com plimented in the highest manner by the Government in spector for the admirable manner in which the works have been executed. The brickwork of the tunnel and the re taining wall has been highly praised, as also the construc tion of the bridges, and the station accommodation. The arrangements for working the line are completed, and the engines and carriages are all ready. Further trials have shown that the plan of consuming the smoke and steam by the locomotive engines has perfectly succeeded, and after a couple of engines had been running backwards and forwards during the whole day, no disagreeable effect arose from any of the products of combustion in the tunnel. It has been decided that the trains will start from Paddington and Far ringdon-street every 10 minutes, from 8 in the morning till Bin the evening. Fr om 6to 8 o'clock in the morning, and from 8 to 12 at night, the trains will run only every 20 minutes. Express trains will start every hour, running the whole distance from Paddington to Farringdon-street in 10 minutes. With these exceptions all the trams will st o p at the intermediate stations, the time occupied in the whole journey being 15 minutes. The lowest fare taken will be 2d., and this will be charged between any intermediate stela, n, and the lowest through fare will be 3d. There are three classes of carriages, first, second, and third ; all, how ever, equally well lighted by the gas car r i e d w ith th e tra i n. The second-class carriages 'are fitted with cushions, the third are light, spacious, and well ventilated, and the first are roomy, exceedingly comfortable, and even luxurious in their gentral style and fitting,---Observer. SPORTING NOTES. NEWMARKET SECON OCTOBER MEETING. The meeting commences to-day, but the events to be decided are of no great importance, unless the handicap over the Cesarewitch Course should throw some light over the great race of to-morrow. The following table will show, at a glance, the winners, starters, age, weight, and value of the stakes since its foundation as a race ! WINNERS OF THE CESAREWITCH. Year. Winner. Subs. Start. Age. St. lb. Soya. 18S9 Cruiskeen 1840 Clarion 1841 Iliona 1842 Arcanus 1843 Coranna 1844 Faugh-a-Ballagh 1845 The Baron 1846 IVitt's End 45 31 3 6 2 1210 1847 Cawrouch (h b) 68 30 4 7 0 1595 1848 The Cur 1849 L gerdemain 66 31 3 5 7 1540 1850 Glauca 59 23 4 7 7 1340 1851 Mrs Taft (h b) 73 26 6 6 0 1580 1852 Weathergage 1853 Haco 77 31 3 5 12 1690 1854 Muscovite 1855 Mr. Sykes .. 73 34 5 6 8t 1660 1856 Vengeance 1857 Prioressi: 1858 Rocket 75 35 3 6 4 1600 1859 Artless 93 35 3 5 2¢ 1870 1860 Dulcibella 1861 Audrey 64 23 5 8 5 1315 * Inc. 101 b extra, t Inc. 31b extra. - 4 f: Bred in America. She won after - a dead heat with El Hakim, 3 yrs, Est 91b, and Queen Bess, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b. § Carried sst 31b, and won after a dead heat with Gas pard, 3 yrs, Est 91b. It will thus be seen that during the 23 years six winners have come from the five-year-olds and upwards, seven from the fours, and ten from the three-year-old division. The following will as nearly as possible constitute the PROBABLE STARTERS AND JOCKEYS. HORSE. JOCKEY. Asteroid, 4 yrs, 9st 31b Wells. Audrey, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b Mr. W. Bevill. Knutsford, 4 yrs, Bst 31b Gardener. Umpire, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b Aurelian, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b Faultless, 5 yrs, 7st 91b Chere Arnie, 5 yrs, 7st 71b Stradella, 4 yrs, 7st 71b H. Grimshaw. Corona, 5 yrs, 7st 51b .. -- Loiterer, 5 yrs, 7st 21b Bradley. Wingrave, 3 yrs, 7st llb Guiding Star, 4 yrs, 7st Coronet, 5 yrs, 7st Brown Stout, 4 yrs, 7st Moorhen, 5 yrs, 6st 131 b Cannon. Henham Lass, 4 yrs, Est 131 b Drew. Amy, 4 yrs, Est 131 b Bench. Anonyms, 3 yrs, Est 131 b f Whiteley or 1 Hardcastle. Queen of Spain, 3 yrs, Est 1 llb Clement. Catch'em Alive, 3 yrs, Est 71b -- Balham, 4 yrs, Est 61b Agag, 3 yrs, Est 41b Haddington, 3 yrs, Est 1 llb Doyle. Balder, 3 yrs, 6st Bedouin, 3 yrs, Est - - Lady Evelyn colt, 33, rs, sst 121 b 'Silkstone, 3 yrs, sst 131 b J. Grimshaw. Hartington, 3 yrs, s s t 101 b.. Drumstick, 3 yrs, sst 71b, or I Highflyer, 4 yrs, sst 71b .. Deacon. 5 Alchymist, 3 yrs, sst Slb The present Cesarewitch will always be distinguished by the manner in which Silkstone leaped into the premiership soon after the acceptances were declared, and remained in that difficult position without interference for so long a time. And really beyond her, Umpire and Henham Lass, scarcely anything else has been backed with spirit, or be yond a trifling amount. Knutsfurd will beat all the top division, as he has shown us repeatedly he can stay every yard of the way, and has won several handicaps in good. company. Umpire is a tremendous favourite from the manner in which he finished before Wallace, Optimist, Amy, and Bedouin, in a trial at Newmarket last week, and Mr. Ten Broeck regards the race as over, with the ex3ep tion of having to beat Silkstone. This he may have a right to do, by what he has seen Umpire do, and his animals are good enough to tell him correctly. Aurelian's best perfor mances have always been over a mile and a quarter. Fault less has been nicely put in, and as Mr. Bryan's horses are all in form, there is just a chance of this mare running very forward. Doefoot will, of course, be subservient to Silk stone, so I will pass on to Stradella, who has lately won three good races in a manner that makes me think, in the absence of the favourites, she would have an excellent cbance of winning now. But it is almost too much to expect from her to give near two stone to Silkstone. Millionaire, being in Mr. Bryan's string, may assist Fault less ; but I do not consider him to be good enough for any other purpose. Flirtation is represented to be wonderfully fit, and her trainer is confident of at least getting a place with her. Feu de Joie's weight seems at first sight to be too much for her; but when it is recollected how she beat the two Oaks mares, Hurricane and Imperatrice, in a can ter at Epsom, and also defeated Zetland for the York Cup, it could hardly have been less. On the heath no mare gets better ; and when the rottenness of the field, with few ex ceptions, is taken into consideration, she must be admitted to have a great chance, and her York exhibition at once negatived her inability to stay. Loiterer, from being beaten. in his trial, I cannot fancy, and I can see no reason for being fond of Wingrave. Upon Henham Lass many per sons put their faith, and Mr. Bevill makes no secret of his belief that if the mare runs to her form at home, she will win vet y easily. Of course Audrey has been the school mistress, but she is very uncertain, and I think, moreover, that Henham Lass wants heart to struggle home, so I will not stand upon her on this occabion. Anonyma would gallop for a week, but however essential staying powers are in the Cesarewitch, a trifle of speed is also needed with them, and in this I fear Lord Glasgow's filly is greatly deficient, The Queen of Spain may run to further the interests of Hartington, who will carry the stable money. Catch-'em-Alive has almost gone out of the market, as it is discovered to be impossible for him to beat Silkstone. Agag is by his trial the best of Mr. Naylor's lot, and if so he will be very formidable. At home he can do wonders, but in a crowd he will never try; still, if he runs kindly this time, he will „be sure to find his way into the first flight. My Mary and Haddington have been per forming respectably at Kelso, and the latter even with his 101 b. penalty is certain to take a prominent part in the race, Of Lord Coventry's four Balder alone seems to be trusted by his lordship, and as he lately did all they asked him most satisfactorily he has naturally come to a very short price, and I believe he will very nearly reward the patience of his noble owner, who has given his horse as well as his trainer every fair play, as Balder has not been in public since he ran for the Two Thousand. Corona has no chance in such company. Boabdil has broken down, and Balhato is useless. Attaman ran well enough at Bedford to bring him into notice here, when the difference of the weights is considered; but I have seen no move in his favour; and Bedouin ought to be behind Umpire, if the trial is correct. Watchman has been watched for, but I think he has had too much taken out of him to come again so soon. Silk stone, it will be recollected, was tried to win the Chester Cup almost to a certainty, but tailed in getting off, and never got through her horses until the race was nearly over, and then she was fifth to good horses. Her subsequent running was certainly not sufficient to warrant her being backed se for this event, save the way she ran with Tim Whiffler and Asteroid at Doncestor, for which race she was started for a public trial. Although beaten in that race, the way she stayed with the pair is quite sufficient to cause her to be the first favourite now, with so light a weight upon her. She has, moreover, I hear, wonderfully improved: and lost the temper she showed in the spring, and, with Grimshaw upon her, she ought to be near winning. Hartington was tried to be a racehorse in th e spring, but went ami ss ; he is now all right, and his owner is confident he will prove worthy of his real reputation, although be is not sure of beating the favourite. The others are not worth discuss ing; but Highflyer, if worth being kept in training, ought to get somewhere near the front rank. From the above, it will be seen, that I expect the judge will hoist the number of UMPIRE, with FORDIIAM in the saddle as the winner of the Cesare witch,nedearhl and that SiwiszoNE and BALDER will occupy t llO second and th,rd places. a y v r e un he t e h n rou in gh p , u a h s li a e l , re f a u cl r y . 27 of the • . winners viz ' nishing only five wi. • ~ Early Purl, Weatherbov i 'l G un ner, Gentilhomme, and Charlemagne, the four former of whom are each penalised 31b. Of the 16 " dark" horses, The Cl4e3arhtlseshansombeinenat the names of The Beau, Deerswood, and Hospodar have alone been heard in connection with the Derby betting an d as the latter ha s b een " knocked out " of the great Epsom race by the repeated offers of 1,000 to 10, after bell backed at 40 to 1, the presumption is that he has been tri and found wanting. The Beau gave up his engagement in the Champagne at Doncaster, 'which does not l imy much fo r i• his chanc e , b ut i t trusted by his veteran trainer, i ns tead °.. Early Pu r l, h e will doubtless carry off the richest Clear' well that h as ever been run for. Ot the horses which h ave been in public, after Early Purl, I prefer Charlemagne. The Royal Stakes must termi na t e i n a wa lk over fo r Argonaut or St. Alexis, yet as none of their opponents are in nam ed tr 'lning• The five remaining races have to be na'' for. are Seven of the 12 items in the list fo r W e dnesday_ 4l _ already closed. The Po s t Sweepstakes of 500.: sovs . ,,: a a ' n j H h ft, will p ro b a bly b r i ng ou t Bu c k e nh am , M ar bl e Hill the the colt by Voltigeur out of Typee, and I can not doubt success of the former. old In the Bedford Stakes of 50 sovs each, 11 two year o are engaged, carrying the weights as under : St l b st lb I 8 10 Blue Mantle Armagnac 9 2 I Boatman ............ 8 Sage lO 9 2 I Lady Evelyn colt .• • • 8 7 Oscar Stockbroker .... 8 10 I Fornarina .......... . Hiawatha ......... posses;d Should the two top weights meet, the race will 1 • 0 r as it will determine how much better nao great interest, ter Arrn a g C . :Eiden is than Blue Mantle and Saocharome • m et th being now i *u form, which ho was not when he ...„.. latter pair in July , A FRESH 14A474 _