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L'..-- , <:' . .-...,.:',;:',.",:., -!, '}. , . - ':4'7. ' t kt.:^ ~,../ i•11' , '• - , A - i E ? re - i ~~~\ THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOV. 1, 1862. The Persia brings us more information of pol tical than of military fighting; though, as is too often the case, military appointments, and therefore military measures and successes are influenced by political considerations. The right man for the right place ,is interpreted in America, with the qualification, if he be right poli tically. We do not affirm that such considerations are forgotten in England, rarely indeed however, we imagine, in the exigencies of actual service. A Radical NAPIER could be as safely sent to suppress a Chartist insurrection, and could serve as willingly under the Tory Lord ELLENBOROUGH in India, as the veriest old Tory General in the army. We have no doubt that such is also the spirit of trained, soldiers in America. M'CLELLAN, being a Demo crat, is unpopular with the dominant or republican party—being in a position to achie:fe for himself a high position, if successful, he is viewed with jealousy by the Secretary for War, as a probably dangerous rival in a contest for the Presidency, and therefore we find meetings of Republicans de manding the recalling of M'ULELAN, and Mr. STANTON threatening to withdraw from the Cabinet if M'CLELLAN be not removed. Worse, indeed, than this—the charge against Mr. STANTON has never been disproved that he intentionally withheld reinforcements from M'CLELLAN, and certainly hin dered M‘DOWELL from co-operating with him when the former was before Richmond. At the present moment the State elections are in progress, and the conflict is very warm and very important. The PRESIDENT was elected solely in consequence of a split in the great Democratic Tarty, which the Convention at Charleston for se lecting a candidate, rendered incurable. Will being in opposition re-unite the party ? If it does, they will run the Republicans very hard, and, perhaps, heat them. And if they beat them at these State elections, they will beat them also at the elections for Congress, at least this is the usual and natural result. The consequence would be, not ea; here, the resignation of the Ministry, much less of the PRE SIDENT—for the Administration of America is, to a great extent, independent of Congress, and its mem bers do not sit in it—the consequence would be that Congress would not pass the measures recom mended by Mr. LINCOLN. The recent emancipa tion Proclamation, as it is often called, though it little deserves that name, is necessarily a tondi tonal measure. Congress must give Mr. LINCOLN the requisite powers, though, if he wanted them 'without its sanction, ho would probably, regard ing it as a military measure , assume t h at . fell within his province, as Commander-in- Chief of the army. His proposals are, however, to to laid before Congress, and on its assent will doubtless d epend the : lr being carried out or not. The p resent political battle is, therefore, serious indeed. Te isto decide the question whether the North will abolish slave r y , so far as the Northern States can d o i t, where the States remain in rebel lion against the Union. The Democratic party fight for " the Union as it was " the Republican party take as th e i r motto, The Union at any mt. , ' The Democratic cry is „ ror what Mr. LINCOLN has 'been doing his beat hitherto to attain. He has re solutely, till this last m ove, set his face aga i nst all proposals to convert forcibly the Slave St a t es i nto Free States. He has shown great fear of the black population being left free on the hands of the American people, ample room a s th ere is to employ them profitably as free labourers ; and confessedly he was coerced by his party to issue th e m i serable proclamation which proposes to re war d loyal and penitent slaveholding States with the blessing and boon of continued slavery, and to punish disloyal States with the curse of emancipation. Yet even this milk and water proclamation WAS far t oo m uch for the Democratic or pro,slavery party; many also among the Republicans are either opposed to it or Z ia were doubtful of its policy , and probably if would fi ar y nd him completely ignored, Mr. LINC OL N self in a decided minority. It is hard l y likel y , however, that this will be the case, What we anti cipate is that the general feeling will be to support the responsible PRESIDENT. To this will be added exasperatio n w ith S out h ern successes, an d a deter mination to avenge them in the only way now open to the North, that of laying its hand on the guilty cause of Southern rebellion. For the present probably the North will have so much to do in attending to its elections that it will half forget military matters. If this result in leav ing the generals more unfettered, so much the better; but there will probably be danger of the cabinet also neglecting its war duties in attention to elections. Whether this at all accounts for WeLEL LAN'S complaining that he is unable to advance be cause his troops are " in want of shoes and other necessaries," we cannot tell. We only note the concurrence of the two things, and suggest that the concurrence is probably not fortuitous. Perhaps the South will not, however, permit this inactivity. pEE and STONEWALL JACKSON may think it good policy to be active militarily, while the North is busy politically. Or, they may take just the other view, and think it wiser not to do anything which should irritate the North into a unanimous support of the PRESIDENT'S policy. We shall not know yet for some weeks how this great political battle, on which Bo much of the conduct of the war hinges, will be decided. And with such an impulsive and versatile people, to hazard any opinion on the result would be absurd. How nearly parties are balanced may be seen in the statement that even in Pennsylvania, where the South has re cently taken such liberties with public property, although many counties have voted, the result is yet uncertain. Our readers will see that the hotly Protectionist member for West Norfolk has been to visit the Marshland deluge, and at an agricultural meeting near Lynn let forth a deluge of his oratory on the assembled farmers,:respecting America,North,South, slavery, abolition, but above all, Democracy. It is amusing to see the Protectionist telling his audience, incapable of contradicting him, that abolition of slavery in the West Indies deteriorated the condi tion of the slave ! Was there no one to set against his ignorance the knowledge of the Governor of Jamaica, who in a recent despatch tells us that as regards the improvement of the negro, emancipa tion has been a complete success, beyond all that its most ardent advocates could have expected ? The same genius imforms that we abolished protec tion on sugar, and equalised the duties that we might get the advantage of slave grown sugar. Does he not know that we found it impossible to exclude slave grown sugar ? that if we would not take it direct, it came to us indirectly, and that its origin could not be proved. It was the abolition of the protection which galled Mr. BENTINCK and the glorious fifty,—those immortalised as the cannon balls which could be neither forged, nor melted, nor even used to mend roads. The South, Mr. BEN- TINCK says, are fighting for liberty. Indeed ! Then it must be the liberty to flog, work, buy, sell, and breed for sale, four millions of their fellow creatures at their absolute will and pleasure. The North, it is too true, has not yet been fighting against slavery, but it is equally true that the South is fighting for:the power to treat negroes like cattle, and for nothing else. Had there been no slavery the " sectional" election could never have taken place. Had there been no slavery the oligarchy who were beaten at the ballot-box would not have existed. Mr. BENTINCK ought to know well that oligarchy, not democracy, is responsible for this war. The slaveholders are the Tories of America. The mean whites are their serfs, while the blacks are their slaves_ We strongly suspect that Mr. BENTINCK, Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, and all their Tory friends, are quite aware of this ; and what they really desire is to recognise the Toryism of America, black as its cause is, as the victors over democratic freedom. Murder upon murder! The sailor's wife at Glas. gow, JESSIE M'LACHLAN (found guilty and sen tenrzed to death for the brutal murder of her friend), has only just been respitecl—when the London sweep, SAMUEL GARDNER (found guilty and sen tenced to death for the brutal murder of his wife), is strongly recommended to mercy. There is surely something maudlin and morbid in this strange and startling sympathy for criminals of the most atro cious character, now perpetually tending to inter rupt the course of justice. In each of these instances the inquiry has been most calm, searching, and deliberate. In each instance the guilt has been brought home quite plainly to the accused—so plainly that the jury have had no alternative but distinctly to deliver in a verdict of Guilty, the judge thereupon pronouncing sentence of death, and doing so with the most emphatic expression of his coinci dence with the opinions of the jurymen, and with the most positive declaration of his own absolute eonvic tion that the sentence of death was deserved. Yet, in spite of Trial, of Verdict, of Doom—in defiance of fact and reason—an unwholesome sympathy has been evinced of late for the wretched creature, in each instance convicted and condemned. We hesitate in no way to write thus frankly in re gard to the guilt brought home to JESSIE 4 NPLAO,IILAN and SAMUEL GARDNER, because we I take it for granted now, under the peculiar circumstances attendant upon each case, that neither JESSIE AI.‘LAcHLAN nor SAMUEL 1 GARDNER will die th e d ea th b y the hands l of the common hangman. Astounding though the double respite of the former undoubt edly appears to us—in the face of the evidence brought forward against her, of the verdict pro nuanced w inh oni by the jury, and o f th e sentence deli vered s uch unwonted ter ms b y the judge be forethe miserable w oman was tried—in comprehensible c om sweep ennspisn ibl E ethough the re commendation of the to mercy, accomp any i ng the very verdict guilt, cannot also ea declaratory us but p r e G can be little d ou b t now that and JESSIE APLACII a or to SAMUEL _t GAh LAN will escape e rite D of E R N both s from having to pay th e law. Both of th ese extreme penalty of t he convicted murderers have protested in the most positive and explicit mann er —they still, to thi s moment, protest in the most positive and explicit another of the crimes for wine manner—their innocence. Each o ti f twot t h h e ey hav a e ce b u e s e e n s themselves respectively found guilty an d sentenced! the crime of SAMUEL GARDNER endeavours to fix the his own ßß LE. the murder of his unfortunate wife upon adulterous paramour, ELIZABETH li u While JESSIE M‘LAcHLAN distinctly charges an old man eighty-seven years of age, Mr. JO HN FLEMING, the father of her former master, with the cruel and inhuman murder of her intirnatc! friend, JESSIE MTHERSON. The latter acculi cation, it will be remembered, was made in a Tery elaborate and also in a very unusual manner im mediately before the close of this cause celebre at Glasgow. Directly after JESSIE 3PLAcHLAN had been found guilty by the jury, directly before the judge pronounced sentence of death upon her in ofcfoornsetreen;isoneerre that aloud, b verdict,haty permission the o counsel the Court, a long and carefully p re pa r ed paper w r i tten by the prisoner-- her duri n a paper written by g the progress of the trial, that is, of course, upon the occasion of her nightly return to her cell ; a paper in which, aided by the facts brought to J ESSIE AleLAcethaia t o ld light during the t r i a l, 1 an entirely new story of the whole transaction. Th e argument of the defence throughout the trial had been, that she, the accused, knew nothing whatever about the crime which had b ee n ' "On reviewing the whole case, it certainly does appear that it would be very hard measure indeed to believe old Mr. Fleming to be guilty on the strength of the prisoner's statement. It is full of the most glaring improbabilities. In the first place, she said nothing about Fleming's guilt till after her own Conviction ; but, on the contrary, denied all knowledge whatever of the murder, and accounted for her possession of the plate by the incredible story about Fleming's bringing it to her to be pawned. In the next place, it is clear that, according to her own account, she was either a principal in the second degree, or at least an accessory after the fact; for she not only tried to conceal the crime, but tried to turn it to her own advantage by ap propriating the money for which the plate was pawned, and having her friend's dress dyed for her own wear. Thus, taken at the best, the story is the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice, given under the most suspicious circumstances conceivable. Besides this, the story bears every mark of having been concocted during and after the trial. It accounts for every fact which was given in evidence, small and great, on none of which had her previous declaration thrown any light whatever. If her story had been true, and if, accord ing to the case now set up for her, she was not in want of money at the time, is it conceivable that she would have run the risk of concealing the murder of her intimate friend, and have gone to great danger to do so, for the sake of LT ? That a very wicked person might commit a mur der for very trifling booty is what daily experience teaches us; but it is hardly conceivable that the unwilling witness of a most brutal murder, committed on her most intimate friend, should coolly undertake the risk and guilt of con - cealment for such a consideration. The conduct attributed to old Mr. Fleming is as extraordinary as that which the prisoner asserts of herself. If he did commit the murder in the way described, and if he meant to throw the blame on robbers, he would in all probability have taken the first opportunity of discovering the body and sending for the police. He could have done so without producing any suspicion. His not doing so for three whole days is just what might be expected from the sluggishness and torpor of extreme old age, but is utterly inexplicable if he were really guilty. Ho must have known that when his son came home on the Monday, the body would be found, and that, in the absence of explanation, suspicion would fall on him—a suspicion which would be greatly removed if he made the discovery and gave the alarm at once." Nevertheless, under the influence of some strange, incomprehensible, morbid sympathy with the wretched woman convicted of this most atrocious murder—thousands have been led to attach a value to these lying accusations. Thousands have peti tioned in consequence (and successfully) for a re prieve of the condemned, with a view to a reinves tigation! And by reason of this marked sym pathy and excitement among the sympathisers to the end that JESSIE APLACHLAN'S life may be saved—this heinous criminal is tenderly guarded from the gallows accordingly. The jury yesterday, who, in pronouncing a verdict of guilty against SAMUEL GARDNER (for the murder of his wife), took Occas ion (why, no one can in the least imagine) strongly to recommend the wife-murderer to m done erc y th the a l i v k e e either was of these wretched b oll y t hi o. m f t t h h e a t s ameh S ni c o o t r c bid sympathises syin athy r with JESSIE D gu r i . lty Sill th E a T n llVß S T I\FLACI ILAN have done by her. in ore manifestly criminals. But then, it must be confessed, Dr. SMETHURST still walks freely among hie fellow -men—what, through formally found guilty of a most execrable murder, and justly condemned to death in conse quence. CELESTINE SOMMERS a • gain—the wretch who brutally murdered the poor girl in the coal cellar—was she not also spared from p ay i ng the penalty of her most heinous guilt— by reason of some mysterious int er p os i tion in her behalf? And the "gentleman" who, a f ew years ago murdered his wife u p on the s eashore at Ireland's Eye—was n ot he allowed the boon of e s caping from the hangman's hand by having his sentence commuted. It is an e xcusable system of weakness all this—in carrying out the criminal law, or rather in merely affecting to carry it cut. And while these opportunities of escap e for criminals are being perpetually held out t o murderer after murderer, without a shadow of valid reason or justification —one wonders less that violent passions have their fling, undeterred from the perpetration of crime, through a terror of wilEtt eonalnittea. During the night between Friday the 4th of July and Saturday the sth of July, ought to be a firm and even-handed, and consistent, and inexorable award of punishmenti the unfortunate victim, JESSIE MTHERSON, a poor serving-woman, thirty-five years of age, was murdered with the most brutal violence, having been chopped to death with blows from a cleaver, on the kitchen floor of No. 17, Sandyford• place, Glas gow. JESSIE M`LACHLAN, immediately know ledge of the murder bas been ascertained, is proved to have pawned certain plate, known The great game question is still discussed with vigour in Norfolk. Mr. HOWE, one of the county members, it will be remembered, was almost hooted down at the North Walsham agricultural meeting for avowing that he suprorted the Night Poaching Act in the late session. Mr. C. S. READ was as vehemently cheered for telling the landlords present some home truths on their treatment of the tenant farmers, of whom Mr. READ is one, and especially on this matter of game. Mr. HOWE, apparently taken quite aback at finding a tenant farmer not afraid to speik out, though pressed to reply, de ferred doing so till " a more convenient season." The convenient season, for a wonder, actually came. At another agricultural meeting, held not far off, Mr. HoWE, who had, of course, been study ing his speech all this time, delivered his defence — it was, however, but a lame story. He had to con fess that Norfolk did not need the bill, and thus apologised for any apparent insult to Norfolk farmers. But his chief object was to defend game laws; and the chief defence was that game brought the squires down into the coantry, and kept them to have been stolen from the house in which her unhappy friend had been butchered. Clothes belonging to the deceased are found in the possession of the accused JESSIE 111‘ LACHLAN. Her own clothes, the raiment which she had worn on the day of the murder, were found bloodstained and torn up into shreds in the field some distance from Glasgow several days afterwards. JESSIE M`LACHLAN, however, declares, in spite of these facts, that she has no knowledge whatever of what has occur red ; that upon the night of the murder she never went near the house in which it was perpetrated, sleeping in her own bed, in her own room, far away from 17, Sandyford-place. She persists in these statements until the jury have declared her guilty, and then, before the Judge can pronounce sentence upon her, then, but not before then, she delivers in a formal cut-and-dried state there ; and what a loss would the country suffer if they were to become absentees, The worthy member seemed to forget how much was assumed in his argument-Ist, The value of resident proprietors; 2d, their being drawn to their estates by game only —a rather poor compliment to their sense and patriotism; 3d, the impossibility of preserving game except by artificial, cruel, and unnatural laws. Country squires, are not, how ever, much famed far beyond the immediate objects. Mr. C. S. READ, however, was also fully pre pared for a reply. After reading the landlords an honest and practical lesson on their taking the highways out of the ratepayers' hands by their new Highway Act, and thus placing in the hands of the magistrates the power to tax the unrepre sented parishes, he returned to his old charge on the game laws. He denounced, amidst loud cheers, hares as ruinous to the farmer, and ment of a totally different kind—giving the lie to all her former declarations—declaring that she does know all about the atrocity of which she has been accused—giving the most minute account of how it had been perpetrated by the old man (tetat. 87!), Mr. JOHN FLEMING, recounting his motives even for doing it, and the manner in which, and the threats by which the hoary mur- derer had compelled her to become parti ceps criminzs, as an accomplice after the fact pledged to its concea Iment. Nobody can have for gotten the emphatic declaration with which the Judge swept aside the whole of this specious but too-ingenious statement of the m urderess . . " I never knew an instance," said he, "in which the state. ments made by prisoners after their conviction were anything else than, in their substance, falsehoods." A writer in the current number of the Cornhtle after a most careful analysis of all the various particu lars brought forward in evidence during the four days' trialof JESSIE NPLACHLAN, on the 18th, 19th, 20th, and 22d of last September, thus sums up the case against the accused according to that same evidence : rabbits as nothing but vermin. Pheasants were a costly luxury, but partridges were more beneficial than irjurious to the farmer, and excellent sport. But as to the new law, it was an attempt to make the police gamekeepers at the public expense. Mr. READ was willing to have a good trespass law—he did not object to game being made property—but he insisted that as the game on a farm or an estate would let at a certain sum per annum, it " The murder was probably committed by a worn en with a foot like hers, on Saturday morning, towards four o'clock, for the sake of stealing the plate and dresses. She was out of her own home all that night. She was next day in possession of the plate and dresses. Her clothes were stained with blood, and she took steps to conceal them. She gave a false account of the way in which her time was spent, a barely credible account of the way in which she got the plate, an improbable ac count of the way in which she got the clothes, and some thing which amounted to no accoont at all of her reasons for disposing as she did of her own clothes. The elaborate evidence given at the trial all condenses itself into this short statement, and no one can be surprised that after a quarter of an hour's consideration she should have been unanimously convicted by the jury of murder and theft." On the other hand the writer in the Cornhal observes, in regard to the infamous charges now directed against Mr. JOHN FLEMTNG by the woman still under sentence of death (but twice respited), that— ought to be assessed to the rates to that amount if it employed the police to protect it. He was also for charging the expense of game prosecutions on the preservers of game. Evidently we shall have a little warm discussion on the matter next session. THE StTN, LONDOII , SATISItDAY EVE XING, NOVrAIBER 1, 1862. It is satisfactory to know that at any rate there will be no interdict of any manifestation of loyalty that may be thought of as advisable among the people, upon the occasion of the now fast approach ing birthday of his Royal Highness the Prince , of WALES. An inquiry having been recently addressed to the Lord Chamberlain as to whether the custo mary dinner among his H.R.II.'s Tradesmen might be proceeded with according to annual custom, that Court functionary, it appears, has replied at once, " that although the event will not be cele berated with any Court ceremonial or festivities during the present time of mourning, there will be no objection to any mark of respect or attachment which individuals or societies may desire to show in commemoration of the coming of his Royal Highness." Next year no doubt will tend to com pensate, in a great measure, for the one now draw ing to its close—a year of gloom in many respects and for many reasons. Politically and socially alike, a year deserving of but very slight record or remembrance. The death of the lamented Prince Consort, the gloom overshadowing the Court in consequence of that demise, the mise ries resulting (among our own people) from the American war, miseries especially felt in the north of England, and particularly in Lancashire—these and other circumstances, have tended to darken the year of grace 1862—a year only partially rendered satisfactory by reason of its being the year of the Great International Exhibition. 1863, however, will come to us all, let us hope, compensatively. And already auspiciously conspicuous among the items even now marked down upon the programme for thenation,ariag eto be giving us prospect of the solemnised early in the spring m r is that one between 11,11. H the Prince of WALES and the Princess ALEXANDRA of DENMARK. With those nuptials in view, the nation will have less reason to regret the gloom still overshadowing the date when the heir to the Crown will attain his ma jority, on the ninth of the month of November which has this day commenced. CONCERT OF NATIONAL MELODIES, A grand concert of national melodies—English, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh —was given on Thursday evening at the St. James's Hall, 400 members of the Vocal Association, and other principal metro politan choral societies, taking part in the perfor mances, accompanied by a band of 20 harps, played by the most eminent performers in London. Among the vocalists were Madame Rudersdorff, Miss Palmer Lisle, Madame Laura Baxter, and Mr. Thomas Lawler. About the most brilliant suc cess of the evening was, without doubt, the glori ous war lyric, " Scots wha hae." One after an other, however, the various national melodies excited the audience to a display of enthusiasm. The Queen of the night was, of course, Madame Rudersdorff. ILLNESS OP ME DUKE OP NEWCASTLE.—NOT• =witAm, Friday.—We regret to announce that yesterday his Grace the Duke of Newcastle was seized with an alarm ing attack of bronchitis. His Grace arrived at Nottingham in the morning in order to be present at the distribution of prizes this day in connection with the middle •class exami nations, and as usual he stayed at the George the Fourth Hotel. Dining the day the anniversaries of the General Hospital and the Midland Institution for the Blind were held, and the Duke's absence was particularly noticed, It appeared that his Grace, on his arrival at Nottingham, was attacked with bronchitis, and was obliged to keep his bed during the day. Medical attendance was obtained, and towards evening yesterday it was feared that his Grace's illness was of a somewhat serious character. Dr. Robert son left the Duke about nine o'clock last night, and he ex pressed his opinion, as the result of his visit, that it was desirable to telegraph to his Grace's relatives respecting his condition. PAISLEY SHAWLS IN THE GREAT EXHIBITION. — A report has been some time in circulation that Messrs. Farmer and Rogers, proprietors of the celebrated shawl shop in Regent-street, have become the purchasers of numerous cases of prize medal shawls in the Exhibition. This is partially true, inasmuch as a notice has to-day been affixed to the case cf Messrs. Kerr, Scott, and Kilner, the great shawl-makers of Paisley, announcing that this firm was now selling the contents at manufacturers' prices ; and, to judge from the extraordinary rush of anxious buyers very few of the handsome shawls will remain unsold. The following extract from the Jury Award Book, which ac companied a medal to these manufacturers, cannot fail to be interesting to all persons who are anxious to possus some article of worth and utility as a souvenir of the Great Inter national Exhibition of 1862. To the goods of no other manufacturer, British or foreign, have such flattering re marks been applied :—"For a remarkably fine collection of woven shawls in all textures, stamped with the character of cheapness or superiority, and the highest degree of skill in manufacture." THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JAMES DUKE, BART., I‘j•P•s-On Thursday, in consequence of the marriage of Sir James Duke, B ar t ., M.P. which took place at St. Mary's Church, Isl ington the elm ' rchwardens of St. Sepulchre and St. Bride's, hi recognitio n of the hon. gentleman's services as alderman of the ward, and as one of the members of the ~H ouse of Co mmons for the City, cause d the bells of St. Sepulchre and St . B ride's to ring out merry peals. Sir James, who was n ever b efore married, is in his 71st year, Aayuig been born i 1792, SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. A pilot, landed here this morning, reports that the ship Stratheden, Captain George H. Pile, from Sydney, passed up Channel yesterday for London. She was 10 miles off the Bill of Portland at 2 p.m. yesterday, under all sail, with a light, easterly wind. The Stratheden left Sydney July 24, rounded Cape Horn September 3, and crossed the line October 4. She has 24 passengers, £30,000 in golddust, 1,406 bales wool, 12,000 hides, 400 tons tallow, and sundries. In lat. 49.20 N., long. 6.5 W., passed a ship showing pendant No. 8,139, bound West. Saw ice on three different occasions in lat. 55 S. ATEST NEWS. ATHENS, OCT. 31. The Provisional Government is everywhere re cognised throughout Greece. The citizens and University students have orga nised a guard for the capital. The private property of the King and Queen has been delivered to their Majesties. PARIS, OCT. 31. La France of this evening says:— " We have reason to believe that the Chevalier de Nigra has expressed to M. Drouyn de Lhuys the regret felt by the Cabinet of Turin at the circular of Gen. Durando having been addressed to France. " The explanation was perfectly well received by he French Government. " It is asserted that France will reply to the cir cular by a note, to be delivered by M. de Sartiges at Turin, stating the ideas and intentions of the Government of the Emperor." BERLIN, OCT. 31. The Official Slaalsanzieger of to-day announces the appointment of Count von Bernstorff as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Prussia at the Court of St. James. CASSEL, OCT. 31. In yesterday evening's private sitting of the Chamber of Deputies the following members were chosen to form the Permanent Committee : Herren Nebelthau, Friedrich Oetker Henzele, Zuishlag, and Hartwig. A committee of eleven members was also selected to prepare the Address in answer to the Speech from the Throne. THE BRAZILS. (PER THE MAGDALENA.) BUENOS AYRES, SEPT. 28. The Presidential elections have resulted in the re turn of General Mitre and D. Marcos Pas for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency; the former una nimously, and the latter by a large majority. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw steamer Pera, Capt. Jamieson, has arrived, bring ing these mails, 56 passengers, 1,045 bales silk, 1,500 bags wheat, 100 boxes oranges, eight boxes valuables, 42 cases silk handkerchiefs, 50 barrels dates, and 117 packages sundries. The Pera left Alexandria on the 19th ult.; Malta, 22d ; Gibraltar, 26th. On the 24th, at 8 p.m., passed her Majesty's ship Edgar, bound to Malta ; 30th, at 7 a.m., the steam shin London, steering S.W.; and at 11 a.m., on the 30th, passed the steamship Urban, steering S.W. Her Majesty's ships Foxhound, Wanderer, and Alacrity were at Malta; and the Black Prince, Warrior, Liffey, and Procris at Gibraltar. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ripon, hence on the 20th, arrived at Gibraltar on . the 26th, at 4 p.m., and left for Malta the same evening. Exchange on London, /50! ; Paris, sf. 28c.; Marseilles, sf. 30c.; Genoa, M. 30c. AUSTRALIA. FRAN CE. BOURSE, October 31.—The struggle between the Bears and Bulls to-day has been severe. At the commencement of business an improvement was ob tained, and Threes went up to 70f. 90c., but sales soon afterwards commenced, and they speedily again declined, and are now at 70f. 70c. There has been little doing in Railway shares, but the variations have not been material. The market closed as follows : 4/ per Cents. 9B Do. end month 3 per Cents Do. end month 7O 90 New 3 per Cents Do, end month — Credit Mobilier 12 0 1 25 Do. end month 1200, - D.A IL' Bank Shares 3250 -- Credit Foncier 1237 60 Piedmontese Fives 72 25 Italian Loan 72 80 Roman Austrian Spanish Threes — Home Debt 'AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO5O .. 1048 75 Northern .. New ditto .. • .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1182 50 .. 1180 Geneva.. .. Southern 866 25 .. 867 50 Western Eastern .• • e ..... 0•1 • i 555 . • 555 Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain .... Saragossa.. 621 25 .. 625 Ditto to Barcelona , 662 50 .. 355 POLAND. (PROM OUR o'?fN CORRESPONDENT.) WARSAW, OCT. 21. The more light is thrown upon the order issued that the recruiting should almost exclusively be limited to the town inhabitants, the more con vincing proofs exist of that measure being taken w ithout the knowledge of the Counc il of State. This again shows that the members of that body have no powers whatever to exercise, tut are so many nominees, appointed for the purpose of en‘ dorsing any law or regulation that it may please the Government to enact. Still some ni the mem bers, stung as it were with the insignificance t,f their position, boldly raised their voices at the last sitting of the Council of State by demanding some rule whereby the Executive would be prevented from acting as they did in the matter of recruiting. General Lewinski and Archbishop Telinski both asked for explanation why their motions to the effect, as above stated, had not been inserted in the minutes of the last Council ; and the Marquis Wielopolski stated that the Grand Duke Constan tine had not yet decided upon the question at issue —a mere subterfuge on the part of the Marquis, since everything that passed at the meeting should, in the regular course of business, have been noted in the proceedings thereof. It is, therefore, clear that the cruel edict of selecting people only from towns to supply the first levy for the Russian army had never been brought under the considera tion of the Council of State, and is only the work of the Marquis Wielopolski and company, who are bent on persecuting the intelligent part of the po pulation as the most obnoxious to carrying out the Government's satanical schemes. . The anniversary of the death of Kosicuski, which occurred on the 15th inst., was kept as a day of national mourning, Funeral services were per formed in all the churches, and the police this time did not interfere, seeing it was useless, after so many attempts and failures, to try and stifle the national feeling. The deep mourning still con tinues throughout Poland in spite of the G patriotic sentiment, and to ass ert that the public mourning denotes the dissatisfaction felt by them at t'le con cessions made by the Emperor to the peasants, whereas it is notorious that whateyer mitig4tiou lase With regard to a complaint inserted to-day of the Bank of England, West-end branch, having refused to give change for a note, and of a condition having been exacted at the Bank of England itself that a person desiring change should write his name and address on the note, satisfactory explanations can be given. If the West-end branch were to hold itself liable to give gold for all the notes issued from the parent establishment, a stock of that metal of equal amount would have to be kept at both places. Moreover, the public would lose the advantage now derived from 'the facilities afforded for stopping stolen or lost notes, which involve a system of regis tration and examination such as could not, without great cost,inconvenienco,and delay,be put in practice at more than the head institution. As tothe demand that a person presenting a note should write his name and address upon it, the Bank of England have never asserted any legal right on the point. Looking at the great protection which it affords against fraud (and there are few persons in extensive business who have not in the course of their experience had illustrations of the advantage of it), they make the request in the interests of the public at the cost of some trouble to themselves. Of course, if any one should stubbornly refuselto comply, the Bank have no choice but to pay their note, but they would naturally regard any such person with suspicion, and there can be little doubt that if they were to interpose some slight delay or to cause some watchfulness to be exercised, in such a case neither magistrates nor juries would be disposed to look . with a favourable eye on any complaint by those who should needlessly subject themselves to such annoyance. With respect to the inconvenience which has been inflicted by railway companies and other establishments on the general public since the notification of the theft of Bank-note paper two or three months back there can be little doubt it has been carried to a vexatious extent, and has been used as a pretext by idle clerks and others to avoid trouble. In establishments where large sums are daily received in profitable transactions with the public it is a duty to employ persons of sufficient intelligence to know when to exercise especial vigi lance. Throughout the whole affair, although it was desirable for the sake of justice that all persons taking Bank notes should use every convenient pre caution, the fright and inconvenience which the public have sustained have been almost ludicrous compared with the actual danger, since the whole amount of these notes brought in up to the present time is believed to have scarcely exceeded £3oo(half of which were circulated in America before the notices of the robbery had been promulgated), while the amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank in consequence of the prevalent distrust is estimated at not much short of half a million.— Times. ACCIDENT TO AN EXCURSION TRAIN.—The last o f th e b t ;:jes of day excursions to London, for the Interna tional Exhibition, 47 the West Midland Railway, on Wed nesday last, met with a mw hap which caused considerable delay and some anxiety among tii,? passengers. The train left Worcester at 6 o'clock in the morning, and had reached Charlbury, in Oxfordshire, when the engine became dis abled, and it was discovered that one of the wheeisi was loose, and likely to part company with the body of the en gine. Accordingly the train was brought to a stand,. and, after some delay, occasioned in the fetching of a fresh en gine, the passengers proceeded on their journey, but did not reach Paddington until 1 o'clock instead of the adver tised hour, 10 a.m. Delay was also occasioned in the re • turn trip, which occupied six hours instead of four. in C ONFEDERA TE VESSELS.—It was r =oared Liverpool on Wednesday that a mysterious steamer had just sailed from the Mersey " on a trial trip." It was re. ported, and believed by many, that the vessel is a sister ship to the notorious "`290," alias the Alabama. Although zealous inquiry has been made, we cannot trace the rumour to any reliable source. —Liverpool Mercury. [The vessel alluded to is the Columbia, of the Galway line. She has been rebuilt by Messrs. Laird, and made a successful trial trip on Wednesday. The statements recently circulated respecting the building of ra ms, Sze., on the Mersey f or t h e the vessels Clyde Confederate Government are false. Since the desatch the Alabama, or " 290," no further contracts ha p ve been oof knownundertaken. speed, The and d Confederaterawing littleag en water,tsaresuch purchasingas i vesse l s lona, Clydesdale, Giraffe, &e.] THE that h NEWFOUNDLAND e ilnd oo w as destroyedliOG.ll, will b e remem bered by fire on F r id ay , th e 24th ult,, off Formby, near Liverpool, and th a t fi ve o f the w cre w perished. On board th ere dog, but it was generally believed as a large N ew f oun dl an d eved by those rescu e d from the wreck that the dog was l however, for on ost, Such i s no t th e case , Satu r d ay fishermen rambling about the he was found by some Although the poor animal shore at Hoylake, Cheshire. the terrific gale of Friday , must have borne the full force of tigopgliffearfully,y y, and swam an immense distance sea, ho HMO PQAQ tLio WorP9o companied by the principal organs in the building. Beyond this simple performance—which, however, may be made exceedingly effective if care is taken —no ceremonial whatever will mark the last day of the Exhibition of 1862. We are glad to see that Mr. Story, the American artist, has now given his consent to photographs being taken of his two noble figures " the Cleo patra" and " the Sybil." Without these the photo graphic record of the sculpture of the Exhibition would have been sadly incomplete. One may judge of the popularity of these photographs of statues from the fact that the copies of the " Reading Girl" have had, and still have, such an enormous sale that the profits realised on this picture alone would m.ore than repay the £2,000 paid to the Commissioners by the Stereoscopic Company for the right of pho tographing. Yet the orders for copies of " the Cleopatra" and •` the Sybil" are.) larger than this again. The subscription to Mr. Day's work on ;the industrial and artistic masterpieces of the Exhibi tion is completed, and Mr. Day hasi now announced his intention of receiving ten more subscriptions for extra copies, the gross amount for which ten (L 187) he will at once hand over to the Mansion , house Fund in aid of the distress in the cotton dis tricts. These ten subscriptions will be received any time to-day in the process court of the building. All those railway travellers who have in vain endeavoured to master the mysteries of " Bradshaw," o to acquire a familarity with the railw ay language, will thank Mr. Leigh, of Golden-terrace, DE,'lston, for an genious " Indicator," which he exhibits in Class 5 iu t he western annex. Mr. Leigh's indicator being hung up ha a railway carriage is so contrived as to disclose the name of each station a few moments before the latter is reached, and thus to enable the passengers to aocertain the rate at which they are approaching, what every railway passer tger desires—namely, the end of his journey, Mr. Leigh, having been overlooked by the jurors, has good-humoure.dly given a medal to himself, of which the spectator will me the joke when he has inspected and mtisfied himself as to the usefulness of the invention. been effected in the condition of the pee.sintry must be ascribed to the late Agricultural Society, whose reforms the government has now copied and intro duced. In the midst of all these persecutions and vexa- tions of the Government and of the extreme pro ceedings of the red party, the absence of such a dis tinguished man as Count Andre Zamoyski is felt most deeply. Whether he exercised his powerful influence in moderating the excitement of the young and inexperienced, he to a certain extent kept a watchful eye on the arbitrary conduct of the Mar quis Wielopolski. Such a loss, temporary as it may be, cannot sufficiently be deplored by the whole country. No answer has as yet been vouchsafed by the Emperor to the address of the nobility of Podolia, but the Governor• General of the province loses no opportunity in revenging himself upon them by arrests of many persons who composed the last assembly which met at Kamieniac. Marshal Rons ker, who had been detained as prisoner in Kami eniac, is set at liberty ; his detention was an illegal act on the part of the Governor, according to the established regulations, which only invests the Em peror with such an authority. Here in Warsaw the state of siege assumes larger proportions. The cannon are planted on all public places, and the bayonets of the soldiers are bristling in every street. AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 31. The Royal mail steamship Persia, from New York ou the 22d inst., arrived here at 3.30 p.m. She brings 104 passengers and 1,009,240 dole. in specie. She landed 62 sacks of mails and three passengers, and nroceeded at 3.50 for Liverpool. All well. The Persia made the passage from New York under nine days. NEW YORK, Oa. 21, EVENING. PER PERSIA. The Federal General Negley (?) reports that the Confederates, who had assembled at Lavergne, 15 miles east of Nashville, with the intention of assault ing tho city, were attacked by the Federals on the 6th and routed, leaving 170 prisoners. The Confederate General Price is gathering troops at Holly Springs, Mississippi. on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The Confederate Congress has passed a resolu tion that President Davis would be sustained in resorting to such measures of retaliation as in his judgment may be demanded by Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, and the other barbarities of the enemy. _ _ A Confederate ram has been launched at Charles ton. The Confederate Congress has adjourned to the 13th November. The Federal Union party has nominated John A. Diz for Governor of New York. NEW YORK, OCT. 22, MORNING. The result of the election in Pennsylvania is un- certain. The Stockbrokers' Committee has reported that Government desired that gold speculation should not be fostered on the Stock Exchange. It is sup posed that gold will be struck off the Stock list. Federal officers ,have been appointed to report to the State Department any cases of aliens actually drafted into military service and who claim exemp- tion. Gen. M'Clellan's pickets have been extended two miles. An advance was considered probable. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. 22 (Morning). Money easy. Gold 34f prem. Exchange quiet. Bankers' Bills 146 to 148. Illinois Shares 63i. Breadstuffs rising. BANK NOTES. THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. It would seem as if people were now really sorry to part with their old friend the Exhibition. In the zenith of its fame it failed to draw the numbers which yesterday flocked to promenade in its foggy nave and admire the articles shown in the now dim twilight of its side courts. Yet one day more and the Exhibition will, as an exhibition, be closed for ever. It is useless for those who have not yet seen the contents of this really great display to flatter themselves with a notion that the 14 days of sale will afford them an opportunity. As an exhibition it closes to-day. The entrance to the picture gal leries and Western annexe will be fastened up to night, and the work of removing their contents commenced on Monday, on which day every exhi bitor will be at liberty to 'remove goods in cases which can be carried out from the building without the aid of carts or machinery. How many are anxiously waiting for that day may be guessed by the fact that on Thursday morning it was found necessary to issue a stringent order turning all packing-cases out of the building which had been smuggled in to be in readiness on Monday with the least possible delay. In spite of this, however, aby no means small proportion of the foreign goods is already packed, and there is no concealing the fact that from the English side a considerable number of the most costly and most perishable articles have been quietly gat out this week. Messrs. Minton remove their collection on Monday, and if the Wor cester Works, and those of Copeland, and Rose, and Daniell do not at once follow the example, it is because all the best of their magnificent works are sold, and the purchasers will themselves come for them during the days of sale. Mr. Emanuel also takes out all his collection of plate and jewels on Monday, and many smaller exhibitors in this class will do the same. To-day, therefore, is emphati cally the last of the Exhibition. The days to come during the next two weeks will merely be of inte rest to those who, not having seen how an Exhibi tion is formed, may be curious to watch the process by which it is dismantled again. Yesterday the visitors were me re numerous than they have ever been on any previo us Friday. The total up to four o'clock was 32,811, of which 10,249 were by season tickets, and 25,562 were by pay ment at the doors. This brings up the total of visitors to 6,081,192, or just 51,000 more than the total numbers of 1851. Yesterday there was a very numerous attendance of what are termed distin guished visitors. Their Imperial Highnesses the Prince and Princess Napoleon were among the earliest arrivals, and remained until nearly dusk. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, the Duke of Suther land, with the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance Grosvenor, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury, &c., were also among the visitors. The only approach to formality in the closing which will be observed to-day is that at half-past our o'clock " God Save the Queen" will be sung by ;he members of the Sacred Harmonic Society, ac- ME7ROFOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS- The weekly meeting of the board was held yes terday, Mr. J. Thwaites in the chair. A report was brought up from the Streets Com mittee recommending that 14 days previously to the consideration by the board of any applica tion for a license under the Petroleum A.et, notice of such application be affixed by the officers of the board to the premises in respect to which the license shall be applied for, and a copy thereof also forwarded to the vestry or district board within. whose jurisdiction the premises shall be situate. Mr. Deputy HARRISON moved an addition to the motion, requiring the applicants for such licenses to be responsible for the notices when placed. ! The addition having been acceded to, was put by the chairman and agreed to. THE THAMES EMBANKMENT. Mr. FREEMAN moved " That it be referred to a committee, consisting of the whole board, to take into consideration and report to th e board upon any matters which the board may delegate, arising out of the Thames Embankment Act of 1862. In sup port of his motion, he said he believed the best mode of proceeding would be to have a comm.ittee to con sider the details before any plans should be br ought before them, and after the experience of last Tues day he was of opinion that they ought at first to talk over the subject with their engineer, 8L . as to enable them to give an intelligent vote wh \eu the board would have to determine the questio) a. As rst r e h co a m c m om eh m tii i h t t g ee t , h h a e t mentioned th o a f t th o e n n th ec e e e s n si g ty in o ee f an i nstance the embankment should be faced with granite, it was thought that it would be very expensive ; but, on a consultation with the engineer, they well) sa tisfied that granite would be cheaper and moria en during than if the embankment were made to be faced with iron. As to what powers should be de legated to the committee, whether they should be limited or unlimited like the streets Committee, t h a t was a question entirely for the board. If the committee were appointed they would come to the boardfromtime to timethat and ask for fresh powers as the necessity for the m m i g h t ar i se , b u t it was absolutelynecessary hat details,h ey w h should ow o havewould bring angcoutn; mittee to consid er th e their report, giving in it the reason why they made 'certain recommendations, so that the board might have the fillies: information before adopting them. Mr. BENNETT seconded the motion, and after considerable discussion the motion was altered, and it was agreed that it be referred to the committee appointed on the Bth August to take into considera tion the report of the engineer, and to take any flu— ther steps which might be neceosary for carrying out the Thames Embankment Act. Some routine matters were then disposed of, And the board adjourned. THE REV. F. D. MAIIRICE.—A contemporary now states that the Rev, Mr. Maurice will not give effect to the intention mentioned yesterday, but that he will re main the minister of St. Peter's, Vere-street. Although it app ?fired at one time that a personal sacrifice might enable Mr. Maurice better to serve t he church, and, in particular, would leave him free to protest against opinions which he holds to be erroneous and pernicious, and which are con trary to his public teaching, but which some persons per sist in tracing to his influence, it was never his desire to WARCI9IAitq piAititrYs