The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

BESS() N'S WATCHES. " Perfection of niecilat dim."—Morning Post. Gold Silver Send 2 stamps for Benson's Illastrs ted Pamphlec„ descr!p tive of every construction of watch now made, with their prices. Watches sent to all parts of :the kingdom free by post, or to India and the Colonies for ss. extra. 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. E.C. Established 1749. T HEA TR E-ROYAII,, HAYMARKET. LeMee, Mr. 3,. B. Hnekstone. THIS EVENING the pen nrms.noes will oontmenae with THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. Charles Mathews, Buokstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Hrs. Wilkins. After which, PAUL PRY. Mr. and Mrs.:C. Mathews. Commifnoe at 7. ROYAL PR INC E S S'S THEATRE.- Lessee. M r. A. Harris. THIS EVENING, will be, performed MACBETH. Mr. James Anderson and Miss El sworthy. After which, THE FIRST NIGHT. Mr. A. Harris and Miss Maria Harris. Comm ence at 7. ADELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL. Sole Proprietor and Ms mager, Mr. Benj. Webster. Last nights of the popular Adelphi Drama of Janet Pride. THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby; Miss Woolgar and Miss Laidlaw. To conclude with THE ENCHANTED ISLE ; or Raising the Wind under the most approved Principles. Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith, C. Selby, Powell, Romer, Misses Woolgar, K. Kelly, and. Emily Thorne. - - Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 till 5. No charge for booking. Private boxes, .£2 2s. ; Family boxes, Orchestra Stalls, ss. •, Balcony', 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Ss. ; Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, ls. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d. Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith. ~~ ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.- Proprietor and Maxi iger, Mr. WM. BATTY. Continued Success of "Mazeppa." A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on SATURDAY next, Sepf 1, commencing at Two o'clock. This Evening, Lord Byroefs splendid Hippo-drama of MAZEPI'A AND THE WILD HORSE, with, entirely new and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments, introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World. To be followed by Scene[ in the Arena by the Star Riders of the day, including the greatest Equestrienne in the world, Madlle. de Berg, whose wonderful Leap through the body of a Mail Coach (a feat never before attempted by any other female) has been nightly received with enthusiasm. Doors open at half-past 6, performance commence at 7. Box-office open daily from 11 till 4. Stage Manager—Mr. W. WENT. Director of the Arena—M. Felix Rcvolti. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS.- EVERY EVENING, A Grand Selection from MARTHA, And Selections from DINORAII, TROVATORE, MACBETH, And numerous other Entertainments. Balcony, is Hall. 6d. Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come dian and Mimic), and C. Marshall. The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised expressly for this Establishment). for the performance of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with Negro delineations, anecdotes, &c., in addition to the usual entertainments. The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 28, 1860, THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADS. 66—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 66—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.90. WlND—Westerly; light, with fine weather. ONE o'cLocx.—Wind shifted to S.W., with sudden rain and heavy. Two o'CLocK.—Weather fine again, with sunshine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, —h. —m.—Afternoon, 12h. 12m To-moßnow.-Morning, 12h. 40m.—Afternoon, lh. 5m ,„ , ,, a ., .1 t oo 4 ',l r ; 'e Se $ 0:1 • ,c , , , ,,1; ~,a ff- . -,‘ w , _,, , i ---, , ,* -1 -„IN.,Iti!", .. . 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On the present occasion, while his visible and tentative movements kept the enemy expecting him north of Reggio, across the narrowest part of the Straits, he appears to have sent his ships round the island ; and while the Neapolitans were straining their eyes across the Straits, and paddling up and down them with their ships, what does GARIBALDI do but slip across with the main body of his forces, and disembark at Melito, south of Reggio by a dozen miles, while they were all looking for him as many miles north ! To combine the small bands who had already crossed, and whom he was using as a Will-o'-the-Wisp, to decoy the Neapolitans in the wrong direction, was the work of but a few hours. The result was that first the town, then the citadel, then one small place after another, and at length two entire brigades, with all their horses, arms, ammunition, and material of war, with the fort of Pizzo, have fallen into his hands. An excellent beginning this. And now he has to march to Naples along a road specially adapted both to his genius and to his receiving the effective co-operation of the ever ready Calabrians. It lies not far from the sea, at the foot of hills, mountains, and forests, with no fortified place we believe, certainly not one of any importance, in his way. The Neapolitan navy, if more capable or willing than it has proved itself, can do him little harm, since his guns now command both shores of the Straits. He has only a small, and, we suppose, not very hostile, certainly not dangerous, garrison in the citadel of Messina to watch. Indeed, we have seen it stated that he is master of heights which command the citadel. But GARIBALDI seems not to be in too much haste. He is utterly averse to shedding Italian blood. With a humanity and Ns isdom which all must admire, he would far rather gain over the Neapolitan soldiers and officers to the Italian cause than conquer them in battle. Thoroughly satisfied of the nobility mad goodness of his cause, he relies as much on an appeal to its merits, as on the sword with which he maintains it. The surrender of the two brigades is, we therefore trust, the prelude to the surrendering of all the rest. Out of such a force as 70,000 men, the ras cals, we may sure, canflot be a largo proportion ; and all the better part of the Neapolitan army must be not only Italians in their sympathies, but admirers of the great General, of whose European fame every Italian soldier is proud, and under whom he would prefer to serve. The letter which he addressed to his officers and soldiers before leaving the Faro is an uncle signed portrait of the man as an Italian and a commander. Besides bravery, he impresses on the officers, as one of the first requisites, the "liability which attracts and secures the affec tion of the soldiers. He marks the superiority of tho rough discipline obtainel by kindness, to that establish e d by harshness. He shows how effective th e former is, as compared with the latter, in the hour of privation, of difficulty, and of danger. , ie desires that an officer should be a man whom his soldiers could not, fro.a. p e rsonal attachme n t, d esert under any circum stances; an d he would h ave his officers not a haughty aristocratic clique messi ng apart, as a kind of petty divinities , but " liv ing with th e i r men , and taking part with them as they would with their own families." GARIBALDI might , we fan c y, lectu:re with advantage at our own H orse Guards. In the same spirit, so entirely the reverse of the Austrian, he reminds the soldiers of the Claim s of the poor hardworking peasantry, and of the ''`k value of their co-operation, which he found so, invaluable after his landing in Sicily, in :con cealing all his movements from the enemy. And then the last paragraph, how wisdom and humanity blend with zeal for his ." Finally, I say to all Italians with the cer tainty of being listened to, that being few the struggle will be long, and with great sacrifice of gold and blood; but being many we shall secure the liberty of Italy quickly and well, so that future generations shall remember us with affection." Why, the noble man seems to have a mission to unite all noble hearts, as well as to sweep tyrants from his nstive soil. So far as successful, his kind liness of nature will do as much as his courage and love of liberty, to regenerate his native country, and to make its feuds and heart-burnings things of the past. Wonderful man, truly—the General, the sol dier, and the peacemaker ; the enthusiast and the sage, all in one ! Take him altogether the greatest man of the day. And now that he has made good his ground thus far, and appears disposed to use, not to hazard his past successes, he does not want advisers. A great English journal kindly advises him to declare beforehand, that he intends to leave Italian liberty incomplete. He is to publish to all the world that he will not attack Austria in her stolen quadrangle. He is ostentatiously to proclaim, forsooth, that he surrenders one of the noblest of Italian provinces, hopelessly, to the worst of ty rannies. Of what use this could be except to damp the best zeal of the Italians we can hardly conceive. Supposing that he completely succeeds in uniting all Italy but Venetia in one free nation —a supposition LAMORICIERE and his Holiness must permit us to consider as quite allow able—how long would such a united Italy endure the groans of the Venetians under the cruelties which they are now suffering ? For Aus tria to govern there without atrocious brutality seems impossible; for a united and strong Italy to endure such treatment of their brethren in blood, language, and sympathies seems equally impossible. A united Italy might, it is computed, bring 300,000 linto the field—Austria could only oppose to them garrisons of discontented Hungarians and Croats, too glad perhaps to bargain with their assailants to aid them in securing liberty for their fatherlands. We have little fear, however, that GARIBALDI will listen to such advisers. It may not be worth his while to say much about Venetia yet. Great men are not fond of boast ing. He has a great deal to accomplish be fore he will be able to give a practical thought to Mantua and Verona—but it would he madness in him to shade in the slightest degree the tints of his tricolour. It must proclaim unmistakeably—ltaly for the Italian—a free Italy for the free Italians ! Let Austria interpret it as she she chooses ; let her avert her doom if she can ;—if she be wise she will try and get a ransom while she can for lands which she has no moral right to occupy. Au unholy alliance's gift, is her only title; if she can get from those who would benevolently prefer giving her a few millions for it, to shedding human blood, she had better take it, and be thankful—her creditors, if she used it in paying them, would be thankful too. cause—' This day Parliament is et length prorogued by:the Royal Commisioners. It being ordained by a happy dispensation that there shall be an end to all things—even this seemingly inter minable session of 1860 is brought at last slowly and wearily to its conclusion. Mr. Speaker is now, happily for himself, emancipated yet once again from the thraldom of his wig, his robes, and his shoe-buckles. The Sergeant at-Arms has shouldered for the last time in this year of grace that ponderous " bauble " of the mace contemned by CROMWELL. The Lord Chancellor may speedily find that true repose is procurable upon a harder cushion than the woolsack. Her MAJESTY'S Ministers, or at least a few of the more indefatigable amongst them, have already celebrated their escape awhile from the drudgeries of office in their old. accus tomed manner by consuming down at Greenwich that strange immemorial banquet, flavoured with squeezings of lemon over whitebait and Vauxhall slices of brown bread and butter, apparently from some mysterious reason (hitherto unexplained even by Notes and Queries) essential as the autumnal nutriment of England's administrators ! All the usual formalities, in fact, have again been scrupu lously complied with, and as we have said, and as we all rejoice to know, the Lords and Commons are prorogued. Looking back through this more than ordinarily protracted session of now very nearly seven months' duration--it is something to assert, and to assert with truth, that we can do so in more than one particular (even after all that has been "said," and all that has not been " done")—not without a cer tain degree of complacency. Granted that Parlia mentary Reform (that was to have been settled at least for the next thirty years) has, in defiance of every prediction to the contrary, again been given the go by ! Granted that the general expectation in this one vital particular has been thus egregiously disappointed by the very Ministry that had thrust its predecessors -out of and itself into office for the express purpose and with the avowed object of putting a salutary close to the long-agitated vexata questio of reform in our system of Parliamentary representation. Granted that little indeed has been done in the way of furthering the pro gress of law amendments—of advancing in any ap preciable manner the furtherance of that grand movement of which Lord BROUGHAM'S energetic genius may be described as the primum mobile, or mo tive-power, or direct source of impulsion. Not a stop are we more advanced than we were a twelvemonth since to the revision of our criminal code, to the readjustment of our laws relating to bankruptcy and insolvency, to the registration of our landed estates, to the codification of our whole complex, incoherent and heterogeneous scheme of jurispru dence. Nothing, literally nothing done in this way —although Loral BROUGHAM was there ever at hand ready with his herculean assistance; although Lord CAMPBELL of all men was Lord High Chan cellor, and Sir RICHARD BETHELL of all men was Attorney-General ; although in the Commons Mini sters were secure in this particular branch of re form of obtaining the cordial co-operation of that eminent band of lawyers confronting them from the Opposlon benches, men like FITZROY KELLY , HUGH CAMS, and JAMES WHITESIDE, as secure as they were of obtaining a no less cordial co-operation in the Lords from the venerable and illustrious group of Tory Lord Caa,ncallors, particularly from those recognised Nestors among our juriicousults, Lord LYNDIIURST and Lord Sr. LEONARDS. Granted, again, that this unfortunate session of 1860, which was notoriously to have witnessed the final extinction of the abhorred and iniquitous Income Tax, has only, in reference to that most cruel and unjust of all impo3ts, rendered itself in famous by witnessing its flagrant reimposition ! And this, moreover, by the very financier who had seven years previously predicted its abandonment in '6O, after an elaborately graduated diminution ! Granted that this same luckless session has passed by without relieving the community of that long ' detested ecclesiastical " fardel" of the Church-rates THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1860. —without adding anything appreciable to our sanitary improvements—without benefitting in, this way even the metropolis exclusively. Granted all this, and a great deal more of the like kind— shortcoming after shortcoming, disappointment added to disappointment. Yet cannot we for the life of us help regarding the session of 1860 with a very considerable degree of complacency and satisfaction. It has witnessed so many salutary changes in pub lic opinion—and even, for that matter, in the policy of her MAJESTY'S Government. Enough, in regard to what we have called the salutary ehanges of public opinion—enough in respect to these if we particularize a few among the more prominent of these incidentally. Has it not witnessed, then, this session of 1860, the reiterated demonstration of the absolute powerlessness of the most noisy, and (as it was feared by many pre viously) the most mischievous of all perverse and crotchety demagogues ? Has it not proclaimed with the clearness and simplicity of a syllogism the now indisputable and recognized truth that the Model Financier is about the most rash and dangerous experimentalist that has ever presided over the responsible office of the Exche quer ? Finally—has not this expiring session of 1860, so generously aided in the development of public opinion, and so benignly and appreciably influenced the modification of the policy of the Government, that our rulers are at length jea lously awake to the insidious designs of our Im perial Ally across the Channel, and that the secu rity henceforth of the National Defence is at last paramount among the darling objects cherished alike in the heart's core of the people themselves and of their patriotic Administrators ? The achievements of 1860, in effect, being incontestibly —first of all The Revisal of our Foreign Policy— and secondly, the development of the Volunteer Movement, simultaneously with the resolve to in crease, and so far as may be practicable, to com plete our insular fortifications. II A T E ADELPHE TIZEAT.RE. The pretty little burlesque of " The Enchanted Isle," ono of the earliest and most successful productions of the Brothers Brough was revived at this theatre last night. It has been placed upon the stage with much brilliancy and elegance of decoration, and was received by the audience with hearty and well-deserved applause. The domestic drama of " Janet Pride" still continues to draw crowded houses, but it will only be played for a few nights longer—Mr. Dion Bourcicault and Miss Agnes Robertson being •announced to appear in a new play on Monday, the 10th proximo. Mr. J. L. Toole, who is about to set out upon a provin cial tour, advertises his first benefit at this theatre on Wednesday next, when the performances will consist of " The Willow Copse," " The Enchanted Isle," and the farce not inappropriately styled " screaming" of " That Blessed Baby." ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Madame Celeste, the talented dame direetr lee of this ele gant resort of the fashionable world, has at length com pleted her company for the ensuing season. Among the artistes engaged are some of the most distinguished of the present day. Miss Julia Bennett, whose reputation has been long established ; Mrs. Howard, of whom report speaks V ery favourably ; and a Miss Gogenheim, from America, the latter of whom, a young lady, possessing, it is said, extraordinary talent and great beauty, has beer' winning "golden opinions" in California and Australia; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Lydia Thompson; Mr. George Vining, from the Olympic ; Mr. Neville, Mr. Watkins (also from America), and a host of others, together with the company of last season, forming a tout ensemble the most complete, from which Madame certainly has a right to augur a very brilliant success. The season•will commence with a new drama by Tom Taylor. Their Royal Highnesses the Count de Paris and the Duke da Chatres returned at the close of the past week from a continental tour, and have joined the Countess de Neuilly (ox-Queen of the French) and the Duko do Ne mours and family, at Tunbridge Wells. The Prince and Princess Victor Bariatinsky and Mons. Boutenieff have arrived at Thomas's Hotel from the Isle of Wight. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond's party at Gordon Castle include their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Earl and Coun tess of March, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, the Earl of Coventry, Sir Joshua Jebb, Cul. Tyrwhitt, and Mr. Cox. The sport has been excellent at thQ duke's favourite moor, Blackwater, where 240 brace of grouse foil to six guns on the first day's shooting. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll, with the Mar quis of Lorn and their youthful family, left Campden-hill on Wednesday last for Inverary Castle, N.B. Tho noble duke is to leave Argyllshire on Saturday in order to attend the Privy Council at Balmoral. The Duke of Montrose has arrived at Buchanan House, N. 8., from visiting the Earl and Countess of Powis, at Powis Castle. Lord William Graham, M.P., has joined the noble duke from Stoke Edith Park, Lady Emily Foley's seat, in Herefordshire. Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury has returned to town from a tour of visits in Cornwall and Devon- shire. The Countess Creptowitch and Mademoiselle de Titoff have arrived at Thomas's Hotel from the Isle of Wight. GOLD IN BRITISH COLUMBIA,—The number of persons engaged in searching for gold in this country is about 2,400—viz., between Forts Hope and Yale, 600 ; be tween Yale and Fountain, 800 ; and about Alexandria and Quesnel River, 1,000. The export is estimated at about £14,000 a month, or £168,000 a-year, exclusive of that in the hands of the miners. The gold searching is principally carriel on by "sluicing," which is effected by means of ditches, constructed with great skill, and sometimes of great length, one of them being five miles long, through a very difficult country. The last advices from India furnish a list of 11 new or extended companies for the erection of cotton and weaving mills siace the establishment of the protective system. The factories previously at work were four. These had a capital of £265,000, the number of spindles being 82,566, and of looms 240. The new companies will have is the aggregate a subscribed capital of £878,750, and will employ 249,276 spindles and 3,785 looms. Sir Charles Wood was not altogether wrong when he asserted that pro tection was regarded favourably in India, and that it was attracting British funds. The marvel simply is that he should have made the statement with an air of proud satisfaction. Doubtless all the intelligent merchants are against it, but among an ignorant popula tion restrictions and bounties are ever looked upon with favour. Even in Australia the democracy are exhi biting this tendency in a very strong degree, and in Eng land the proceedings of our own trade unions indicate the road we should travel if the power of lgislation were pre ponderantly in their hands. The fact of America being always held up as an example by platform orators naturally stimulates the feeling, and as these orators have now aban doned their doctrine that free trade is founded upon prin ciples which should be maintained under all circumstances, it will not be matter for surprise if efforts at retrogression should become general. On the other hand, owing to the spirit of antagonism, there is just the possibility that rival nations who have refused to listen to the call fur deference to our impeccable example may, now that we have pro claimed among five-sixths of the people under British sway that protection is the true system for revenue, be disposed to go in the opposite direction, and to triumph grandly over our backslidings. SIR JAMES great meeting in honour of Sir James Outran], who left by this mail, had been held at Calcutta. In reply to a highly-complimentary address Sir James said :—" I can assure you in all truth, that I am quite unconscious of having done anything to deserve the distinguished honour which the Calcutta community have combined to pay me. lam not sensible of having done more than my duty in the various public situations which I have had the honour to hold. To few, perhaps, have tho opportunities been accorded which I have had the good fortune to enjoy, and if I have been able to improve those opportunities, and to obtain some measure of success, I owe it, under providence, to a great extent, to the assistance and co-operation of the many able and gallant comrades with whom I have had the happiness of being associated in the discharge of my public duties, and it is very gratifying to me to think that the honours bestowed upon me will be reflected upon them. With regard to the testimonial which the =Alai; did me the honour to vote me. understanding it to be the wish of the subscribers that I should indicate the nature of the testimonial which I should prefer, I will only say, that my earnest desire is that only a small portion of the funds that may be contributed should be expended on any object of a prersonal character, su , h, for instance, as a bust, and that the greater part of the money should be devoted to eitablishing an institution at any place that the comrnitt-e appointed at the meeting may think proper to select, whereby the army, in which my lot in life has been cast, may benefit. I must ask ysu, sir, and the friends whom you represent, to accept my warmest thanks for the kindly expressions of regret con tained in the address, and in the accompanying resolutions at the failure of health which has compelled me, at this time, when so many deeply-interesting and important questions relating to the future government of India are under consideration, to quit my post, as also for the good wishes expressed in the address for Lady Oulram, myself, and my family. These I beg to assure you I most cor dially reciprocate. I now bid to all an affectionate farewell. At my time of life, and in the present state of my health, I cannot venture to hope that I shall be permitted to return to India. But, though having the country, in all pro bability for over, I must continuo to take the deepest interest in India and in all that concerns the country and its inhabitants, and I am sure I need not say if, at any time, my services are required here or elsewhere by our gracious Sovereign, and my health admits of my again undertaking active employment, I shall gladly and heartily obey any call that may be made upon me," ; T. N • E consumption, I evinced by the neglect of Ame r i c an breadstuffs for The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : ROME (VIA MARSEILLES), AUG. 25. The Papal Government has sent reinforcements to the garrison of Benevento. These reinforce ments crossed the Neapolitan territory without arms according to existing treaties. They were insulted, driven out of Benevento, and were finally obliged to return. The Goyernor of Benevento has taken increased military measures of precaution at the fortress. General Lamoriciere has sent a military column to watch the Tuscan frontier. ROME, AUG. 26. The Pope is said to have expressed to the Duke of Gramont his readiness to agree to the proposal of an Italian confederation. ROME, AUG. 24. A detachment of the Gendarmes which had been sent to Benevento was repulsed by the population. A political manifestation took place at Civita Vecchia on the occasion of the obsequies of Ali brandi, Chief of the Revolutionary Committee. Several arrests were made. Monseigneur Merode has refused to permit the departure of the volun teers under Cathelineau, and the latter has left Rome. NAPLES, (VIA MARSEILLES) AUG. 25. The insurrection at Potenza has not been op posed, and the Dictatorship of Garibaldi has been proclaimed there. Several Neapolitan journals have published an appeal to the population to rise in insurrection. The Minister of War and General Bosco have left Naples for the theatre of war with six battalions as reinforcements, having learned, through the telegraph, that the defence of Reggio was luke warmly conducted by the Generals in command, 50 Sardinian Bersaglieri having disembarked at Naples from Sardinian war steamers, a desperate combat ensued between them and the Royal Guard. The Bersaglieri finally re-embarked. MESSINA, AUG. 24. The two Neapolitan brigades, Melendez and Briganti, have surrendered at discretion. We are masters of their arms, artillery, horses, and materiel of war, and of the fort of Pizzo. VIENNA, AUG. 27. General Benedek has arrived here. The object of his journey is to request the Emperor to relieve him of his functions in Hungary, where his posi tion has become unbearable on account of the con tinually increasing agitation in the country. General Benedek is said to consider the wishes of his countrymen as legitimate, and to refuse to carry out any coercive measures against the national tendencies of the Hungarians. VIENNA, AUG. 27. Although the Ministers declared, in the last sitting of the committee of 21 members of the Council of the Empire, that the Government have no objection to the Hungarian programme being discussed and submitted to the vote of the com mittee, it is nevertheless certain that the German party is preparing a counter-programme, to be also submitted for discussion by the Council of the Em pire assembled in full sitting. M. von Teschen will present the report in the name of the minority of the committee, while Count Clam Martinez is the reporter of the majority. It is expected that the full sittings of the Council of the Empire will not be resumed before the Ist of September. As the struggle between the majority and the minority of the committee will decide the future destinies of the empire, the reporters have de manded a full week for drawing up reports of such great importance. THE SOUTH PACIFIC. Dates from Valparaiso are to the 18th July Callao, the 28th. From Chile there is no news o: interest. In Tacna business waB exceedingly dull. Owing to the interdiction between Peru and Bolivia still being in force nothing has yet beep done by either party. From Callao the principal news is the celebration of the independence and an attempt to shoot the President. On the 26th July, while Castelle was on his way to his house, a man on horseback deli berately rode up and fired at him. The man then threw the pistol away and made off. The ball went through Castella's arm, and he was so ill that on the 28th he could not open Congress. At New Granada, St. Vieco had marched from Rio Hache on Santa Marta, and surprised the forces under Consuegra, who was taken prisoner. Vieco was about to attack Comandante G. Vega, who, with a force of 150 men, was at Camarones. On the news of Vieco's success reaching Carthagena, Nietro arrested more than 30 of the Conserva tive party. Private letters state that Vieco had retreated from the Cienega, and that he had only 400 men. General Vega, with 800 men, one steamer, and two gunboats, was about to attack them ; and if defeated, Vieco intended to retreat to the Isthmus. AMERICA. LONDONDERRY, AUG. 28. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer Cana dian, Captain Graham, from Quebec, on the 18th inst., has arrived here and landed all the mails. The Persia, from Liverpool, had arrived out. On entering the Seguenay .River the Hero grounded on the bar, but got off with little damage. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and party had made two excursions up the Saguenay in Canadian steamers, and were much pleased with the grandeur of the scenery. . Admiral Milne and a portion of the West India squadron arrived at Quebec on the 17th inst. The squadron of the Prince arrived there on the after noon of the 18th inst., and was received with a salute from the men-of-war, the citadel, and the town. The shipping were dressed with flags and their yards manned. The fortifications and the roofs of the houses were covered with spectators. The scene was very animated. The city was crowded with visitors from all parts of the British possessions and the United States. Great enthusiasm prevailed. Extensive prepara tions were being made at Montreal for the enter tainment of the Prince. MONTREAL, Aug. 18.—The flour market is firm but dull. Superfine is quoted 5 dols. 40c. to 5 dols. 50c. In wheat no transactions. Chicago Spring is held for 1 dol. 15e. Peas have declined. Ashes are lower, pots being quoted at 5 dols. 700., and pearls 5 dols. 65c. Freights have advanced and Bs, 6d. is paid for grain to Liverpool. FRANCE. BOURSE, Aug. 27.—The market opened firm at the quotations of Saturday, and an upward tendency was for some little time apparent, but it was after wards checked, and a decline produced by sales for realisation. For the Account, Threes are now at 68f 10c ; blobilier, 687 f 50c ; Orleans, 1,375 f; Mediterranean, 887 f 50c; Austrian, 483 f 75c; Lombard, 473 f The. The following are the last quotations :- 4/ per per Cents 98 Credit Fonder 905 Do end month.... 97 90 ; Belgian 41 97 7 5 3 par Cents ..... 68 10 Piedmontese Fives 7B 75 Do. end month.... 63 15 Roman Bank Shares Austrian .. 7B 50 Credit Mobilier 685 Spanish Threes.... 48 Do. Account ... RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1375 1375 Northern 953 75 .. 955 —• New ditto — , . --- -- Lyons and Mediterranean 887 50 .. 887 50 Geneva 362 50 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 391 25 Austrian Lombard ........ THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY. The Royal Mail Company's steamer La Plata, Captain Weller, with the above mails, arrived this day at 5.30 p.m. She brings 105 passengers, specie value 686,114 dls , and the following cargo :-1,013 serons cochineal, 71 serons indigo, 185 cases cigars, 180 bales tobacco, 31 casks coffee, 200 bales bark, and 227 packages sundries. The news from the West India islands is not of any very great importance. At St. Thomas an earthquake occurred on the 31st July. The damage was inconsiderable, two or three houses only were destroyed. The weather at Barbadoes continued very un favourable for the planters. The market was well supplied with breadstuffs. Imports were mode rate. Mess pork scarce and in demand. Butter and lard was in fair supply. Produce shipped to date amounted to—Sugar, 39,399 hogsheads, 3,280 tierces, 8,558 barrels ; molasses, 15,555 puncheons, 541 hogsheads, 1,123 barrels; rum, 392 puncheons, 463 hogsheads ; 112 bales cotton, and 94 gourds aloes. Exchange on. London.—Rank Bills, at 30 days', dots. 490 ; GO days', dols. 487! ; 90 days', dols. 485 ; private bills at 90 days', dols. 480; Bank Bills in New York, 10 days', ; 1 - per cent. premium; 30 days', at par. At Demerara, since the last mail, the reports have generally been light. - , Supplies of bread stuff.i were ample. At Trinidad the revenue for the quarter exhibited a deficiency of £2,592, which was said to be caused by immigration. The weather was exceedingly favourable for th e pl an t ers . Shi pmen t s o f produce to date amount e d t o —S ugar , 3 tierces 2,873 b r l s . ; mo l asses , 7,092 puns. 105 tierces ; rum, 1,027 p uns . Th e exc h a nge at the 9 ,559 hhds. 5 , 110 Colonial Bank ruled, selling at 90 days' sight, dols. 485 per £100; ditto, 00 days', dols. 487 - per £lOO ; ditto, 30 days, dols. 490 per £lOO ; purchas ing, 90 days' sight, dols. 480 per £lOO. At Jamaica there was not any improvement in business. There was not that increase in demand for consumption usually expected prior to the Ist of August, and the transactions of the fortnight, though they had been marked by some speculative feeling, are reported very dull. The care which our .natives have given to the growth of provisions was FORTIFICATIONS OF CtIBRBOU_RG. A writer in a contemporary says :—Visitors to Cherbourg appear to labour under a misappre hension as to what is to be seen there, and, dis appointed at not finding an armada ready for a descent upon England, they turn round and rate the good folks at home for ever having had a moment's uneasiness about so inoffensive a spot. It is those tourists, and not the British public, who really are at fault as to the character of Cherbourg. They are evidently as astonished to find that a French Sebastopol can look pleasant, and have sweet music discoursed on its ramparts, as that French soldiers should be jolly dogs over their claret and filberts. Yet, for all that, I say John Bull is perfectly right in keeping a sharp and suspicious eye upon a vast fortification and arsenal especially created for his destruction in the next French war. Cherbourg, we all know, is not, like Portsmouth and Plymouth, a natural harbour of God's own making, whence ships have been sailing for peace or war from all time— where, from centuries of practice, the people are naturally sailors and the builders of ships ; and availing itself of those qualifications, the Go vernment has there established Royal dockyards, and surrounded them with works for purely de fensive purposes. The visitor to Cherbourg should remember that it is the creation of the ambition and warlike genius of man, exerted, not for a beneficent purpose, but purely out of hostility to Great Britain. It is a vast forti fication and armed roadstead, with a purely naval and military arsenal enclosed within its girdle. Behind that armed breakwater a single ship or a great fleet will iie equally secure from hostile attack, and sheltered from all storms. The docks, the basins, the slips, the extensive workshops, factories, and steam mills are there all ready, not to construct ships, but to repair, make good de fects, equip, and send to sea in perfect trim any force that should ever be suddenly concentrated in Cherbourg. The great barracks, the well stored magazines would then come into play, and the per fection of Cherbourg for its esFecial purpose would then probably strike the most incredulous English man, and we might have cause to regret not having a secure roadstead of a similar character as nearly as possible in front of it. Napoleon 111., to whose genius we owe rifled cannon and iron-shod ships, knew well, when carrying out the designs of his great uncle, that for Cherbourg to be of any use as a point d'appui for an assault upon Eng land or the freedom of the Channel, it must contain within itself the means of thoroughly re-equipping any steam fleet. He knew that our system of having the steam factory at one end of the Channel, the roadstead in the centre, and the arsenal at the other extreme,—Keyham, Portland, and Woolwich, to wit,—would never do on his side of the water. Cherbourg, therefore, com bines the characteristics of all three, with the addi tional advantage of being secure from any assailant, whereas our ports are not likely to be so for the next three years. An invasion of this country by France I, with most naval men, laugh at; but what she can now do with the armed roadstead of Cher bourg is clear enough. She would, in the event of a war, render the English Channel very unsafe for our commerce. She would, I fear, cripple the traffic of the port of London, and constantly harass the whole of the south coast of England by partial forays and expeditions. Ido not believe it any longer possible to closely blockade through summer and winter such a port as Cherbourg, if there are fast steamers and enterprising sailors within it ; and as an instance the feats of the Vladimir, Rus sian corvette, may be quoted, when Sebastopol was blockaded by an entire allied fleet. Lastly, with out tiring you with nautical and strategical reasons as to the serious importance of Cherbourg, I am sure all naval officers will agree with me in saying that in the next war 10 sail of the French line behind the Digue, ready to put to sea, will cause more anxiety from the Lizard to Yarmouth roads than four times their number would have done in Brest harbour. These are the considerations which have justly awakened the anxiety upon this side of the Channel of those who look a little deeper than the surface of what is apparent at Cherbourg, and are neither carried away by good music nor the charming sociability of French military or naval officers. The next China mail is expected to bring intel ligence of the operations of the allied forces on the Peiho, and the telegram in anticipation may be expected about the 10th or 12th of September. It is almost certain, however, that the military authorities, on the occu nce of an im • portant events, will desp a t c h a fast clipper earner to Cal cutta, whence news may be telegraphed to Bombay in time for the approaching homeward mail. In the latter case the telegram will be due in London about the 2d or 3d, or more than a week earlier than the regular China mail, PUBLIC PETITIONS COMMITTEE.—The average number of petitions presented during the five years ending 1859 was 8,6761 the average number of signatures, 1,074,000. The number of petitions in the session 1860 was 24,261. The total number of signatures has not yet been summed up, but is computed at upwards of 3,000,000. The committee have made this session 54 reports. The number of petitions presented during the present session is very much larger than in any year since the first appointment of the select committee in 1832, with the single exception of the year 1843. THE NEW GAME DUTIES.— By the Ist of Septem ber the new game licenses are expected to be taken out. The old licenses, which cost V, are repealed. They expired on the sth of April, and the now licenses will only cost £3 for the year; and in the now licenses conies (rabbits) are in cluded, except in Great Britain, by the proprietors or ser vants in a warren or enclosed ground. The new duties are to be granted by the Excise uner the Commissioners of the Inland Revenue. For a license taken out after the sth of April and 1 afore the' Ist of November, to expire on the Ath of April in the following year, the duty is £3 ; to expire on the 31st of October in the same year, £2 ; and £2 if such license be taken out o n or a ft er th e Ist of November, to expire on the sth of April following. For a gamekeeper assessed as a servant the duty is £2. For every license to deal in game in England, Scotland, or Ireland the duty under the new act is £2. All persons doing any act requir ing a license to kill game are, on demand, to produce the same, or give their names and addresses. A license to kill game, except by servants, is to be available in any part of the United Kingdom. The exceptions and exemptions al lowed by former acts are continued by the new law. A GREENOCK CAPTAIN'S EXPE RIENCES WITH GARIBALDI. Our towiisinan, Capt. Edward Scott, who com manded the steamer City of Aberdeen, lately pur chased by Garibaldi, has just returned to town, and has kindly favoured m with an account of the doings of that vessel while acting as a chartered transport in the service of the liberator of Sicily. The City of Aberdeen sailed from Liverpool in June last for Genoa, where she was at once engaged by Garibaldi's committee for the transport of troops from that port to Palermo. As the open embarka tion of soldiers for Garibaldi was not countenanced by the Sardinian Government they had to be taken on board at night, and after dusk of the day on which his vessel was chartered, Captain Scott be gan to embark a large band of ♦olunteers. They came on board in boats in the best spirits, shouting " Viva Garibaldi !" and singing national and war like songs, while from the vast crowd congregated on the shore pealed a loud farewell. The embar kation was completed safely before morning, al though during a heavy gale of wind; and when all assembled on deck it was found that the volunteers numbered about 1,400. They were a motley group, clad in all varieties of the costume of Northern Italy, and comprising every class of society, from the noble to the peasant. Along with them were embarked the wife and family of Orsini, one of Garibaldi's ministers, and his brother, whose pale features and attenuated frame spoke in language stronger than words of the ten years' imprisonment in a Neapolitan dungeon, from which he had re. cently been liberated. The City of Aberdeen sailed nest morning for Palermo, but Capt. Scott had hardly got to sea when he found that he had a most refractory set to deal with. The volunteers took possession of the vessel, so that the seamen were linable to work her, and Capt. Scott, finding that the officers had no authority or control whatever, threatened to return to Genoa if order was not restored. This having no effect, the helm was starboarded, and the steamer turned towards her port of departure. The result was magical. The idea of being unable to join Gari baldi had such an effect upon the volunteers that they implored Capt. Scott to continue his voyage to Palermo, promising implicit obedience to his orders. The captain consented, and up till their arrival at Sicily the promise was not broken by a volunteer on board. After two days' sailing the steamer arrived at Palermo, where the troops were safely disembarked at midnight. Next morning Captain Scott dined at the palace with Garibaldi, who gave him a hearty welcome, saying that he commanded the first English vessel which had entered his service, and that he was happy in at last receiving assist ance from England. Two days afterwards Cap tain Scott received an intimation that Garibaldi intended to visit his vessel next morning at five o'clock. The hands were turned up at four a.m., and preparations made for the reception of the general, who at the appointed hour appeared upon the Mole with a brilliant staff, and put off to the ship, where he was greeted with three hearty cheers, courteously acknowledged. He was accompanied by an American officer, who acted as interpreter, as Garibaldi speaks English indiffe rently. The general, after welcoming Capt. Scott to Sicily, and walking the deck for some time, sent the officer to Capt. Scott to ask when he would be ready for sea. "In two hours," was the reply. On this being communicated to Garibaldi he went into the cabin and wrote several despatches, which were sent on shore, and in an hour and a half his troops were descried marching down the Mole, with bands playing, and in readiness to embark. Shortly afterwards a steamer with volunteers entered the port, and her cargo was also transferred to the deck of the City of Aberdeen, which got under weigh immediately. The excitement of the vast crowd collected to witness the departure of the expedition was indescribable. The destination of the steamer was unknown to her commander, but shortly after leaving he was sent for by Garibaldi, who pointed out on the chart the port of Patti, 15 miles from Melazzo (the ob ject of the expedition), and stated that he wished Captain Scott to land them about 10 p.m., so that the steamer might be able to return to Palermo for more troops during the night, and thus avoid the Neapolitan cruisers. They arrived at Patti about the time indicated and disembarked. Garibaldi expressed his great satisfaction with the rapidity with which Captain Scott had got ready for sea on such short notice, and presented him with one of the red shirts, which have become matter of his tory, as forming the chief feature of the Garibaldian uniform. The instructions of the general to Capt. Scott were to return to Palmero and embark 1,500 addi tional troops, to bring them close to Melazzo, but to keep clear of the guns of the castle. On arriving close to Melazzo Captain Scott saw Garibaldi's Rag floating on the fort, but suspecting that all was not right he kept out of range and landed the troops about three miles from Garibaldi's camp. He then found that in hoisting Garibaldi's flag the Neapo litans had tried a ruse to draw him within shot of the fort. At this time the Garibaldian steamer Veloce (now Torkory) had become disabled through an accident to her machinery, and was lying in Melazzo Har bour, and the City of Aberdeen was ordered round to take her out and tow her to Palermo for repair. When close to the fort it opened fire upon the steamer, which, being unarmed, was accordingly obliged to desist from the attempt and keep out of range. Shortly afterwards a boat was seen to leave the shore, and, on coming alongside, Garibaldi ran up the steamer's ladder and said in his broken English, " Ah, Captain Scott, they were not firing at your vessel, but at your shirt, alluding to his present which Captain Scott was wearing, and which caused the Neapoli tans to suppose that it was Garibaldi who was on board. He then ordered the steamer to return to Palermo for more mon. Ou her arrival all the English crew left, and Captain Scott was obliged to ship Sicilians, with whom he left for Faro, towing a ship laden with soldiers, horses, and ammunition. When reconnoitring the Point of Faro for a place to land, two Neapolitan war steamers hove in sight. Here was a dilemma! The City of Aberdeen had not a single gun, and before the muskets of the troops on board could take effect she might be blown out of the water. A desperate expedient, and one only justifiable in the circumstances, was adopted. She steamed at full speed towards the nearest cruiser, when, to the astonishment and r3lief of all on b oar d, both Nea politans turned tail in the direction of Messina, and the City of Aberdeen ran close to the land and began to disembark her living cargo. While she was doing this a large Neapolitan frigate steamed up the Strait and lay to within range of the steamer, but never opened fire, and when the disembarkation was completed the City of Aberdeen, in getting under weigh, was drifted by the tide towards the Neapolitan. The latter beat to quarters, and Capt. Scott thought she was about to open fire, but instead of sending the old City to the bottom, as she could easily have done, she steamed out to sea. Captain Scott followed until the frigate was close upon Messina, when he suddenly altered his course for Palermo, where he arrived without mishap. When ashore at Faro he found Garibaldi seated under the bow of a fishing-boat to ward off the heat, and had an interview which resulted in the pur chase of the steamer and the termination of his ser vice under the gallant General, who, during the term of the charter repeatedly and warmly ex pressed his thorough satisfaction with the manner in which Cal.tain Scott had performed the danger ous and highly responsible duties with which he was entrusted.— Greenock Advertiser. LIFEBOAT SERVICE ON THE EAST COAST.—The annual meeting of the Lowestoft and Pakefield branch of the National Lifeboat Institution was held a few days ago at Lowestoft. The Lowestoft and Pakefield lifeboats were got out on the occasion for the inspection of the subscribers and the public, and afterwards made trips to sea. The boats left the harbour at 11 a.m., and sailed south as far as Pake field light, and then back again to the port, which they made about 1 p.m. The two boats were found to be in effi cient working order. On their return Manby's apparatus for effecting a communication with stranded ships was ex hibited on the south pier. THE WHALE FISHINGS.—Ships from the Cum berland Straits and Greenland whale fishings are beginning to arrive at the northern Scottish ports with the produce of their season's labour. The first vessel from Cumberland Straits, the Arctic, Captain Reid, reached Aberdeen on Friday morning bumper full—her cargo consisting of 110 tuns of oil and nearly 7 tons of whalebone. She also brings very favourable tidings of the other ships she saw previous to leaving the ice. The two vessels Lady Franklin and Sophia, under the well-known voyager, have again expe rienced their usual luck ; and may be expected home soon with valuable cargoes. Several Peterhead ships had se cured from 30 to 90 tuns of oil each ' • the Emma and Isabel, of Hull, about 50 tuns ; se vera l Americin vessels seen had 102 fish among them. The enterprise will this season be very remunerative to the owners of the suc cessful ships. Oil is bringing about £35 per tun, and bone from £4lO to £420 per ton ; so that the Arctic's cargo, for instance, must be worth some £7,000. She sailed only in May last, and, as her 13 weeks' ex penses will probably not exceed £1,200, the profits from her short voyage are large. Th e a rr i v als from Greenland are likewise of a very sati§factory nature. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE PIC DE NETHOU, PYRENEES.—A melancholy accident has just taken place at Bagneres de Luchon (Haute -Garonne). A party of 14 visitors to that place started in the morning, accompanied by five guides, to ascend to the Fie de Nethou, the highe s t summit of the Pyrenees, 3,404 metres above the level of sea. M. Adam, a jeweller of Paris , went with them a ror tion of the way on a spirited horse, and on his return to Luchon was thrown, and his foot hanging in the stirrup, he was dragged along the road for a considerable distance He was found lying in an alms of age,ostlife and hadlessstateanndotcobneveneyelodntgo Luchon, where he shortly afterwards expi re d. Th e de ceased was only 37 Y‘ar married, _ T.HE NAVY. The Princess Royal, 91, screw, and the Immor talite, 51, screw, both in the steam basin at Ports mouth, are getting aloft their lower and topsail yards. The Immortalite is expected to test her speed at the measured mile about Tuesday next. The Emerald, 51, screw, Capt. A. Cumming, left Spithead at 9 a.m. yesterday, by the western pas sage, for Alderney, with reliefs of Royal Artillery. The Hornet, 17, screw, Commander Elphinstone, was swung for,, the adjustment of her compasses yesterday in Portsmouth harbour, prior to going cut to Spithead. The nelv gunboat Speedy, from Workington, in tow of the merchant tug Rescue, has arrived at Plymouth, and has been delivered to the authorities of the Devonport Dockyard. The Doe, paddle, Master Commander Pullen, has discharged her cargo of boilers and machinery at Portsmouth Dockyard, and will be hauled out of the steam basin this morning. The novices now on board the Britannia cadet training ship at Portsmouth are to be removed from that ship to some other vessel, and the Britannia will be henceforth kept for the exclusive training of the cadets, whose number on board will be in creased. An order of this kind has been urgently required for some time, as the two systems were constantly clashing, and can never be both success fully carried out in the same ship. Three more iron plates have been received in Portsmouth Dockyard for the purpose of further shot experiments. Two of them are similar in size and. appearance to those lately experimented upon be longing to the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, with the exception that these plates are not fitted with tongue and groove. The third is a 4k-inch plate, 3 feet 4 inches in breadth, and 6 feet 8 inches in length. The outer face of the plate has an extra quantity of metal upon it, turned down on the ridge and furrow principle, standing out from the main body of the plate in a series of short angles running longitudinally, and having much of the appearance of an adaptation of the principle of• Jones', angulated system. The thickness of the main body of the plate is, as already stated, inches, but from the apex of the ridge or angle it measures 7 inches; base of the angles, 11 inches. The screw steam troopship Himalaya, Capt. John Seccombe, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday evening for the Mediterranean. She will embark for Gibraltar some troops who arrived the same evening from Ireland in merchant steamer. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. J. Stevenson, to the Espoir ; and G. Brewer, acting third-class assist.-engineer, to the Lucifer. THE ARMY. The Lady Clarendon troopship arrived at Spit head yesterday morning from Plymouth Sound, where she had disembarked the head-quarters of the 53d Regiment, from Calcutta. The authorities at the Horse Guards have decided on discontinuing the ugly and cumbersome shako now worn in the army, and substituting in place of it a headdress of a much lighter and somewhat more ornamental character, not unlike the large-peaked. forage caps worn by several of the Volunteer Rifle Corps, though the crown will be somewhat higher. The materials will be felt and leather, but the weight of this cap will be much less than that of the present unwieldy shako. Considerable progress has been made in the ex tensive range of buildings now in course of erection at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, for messrooms and other apartments forthe officers of the Royal and Indian Engineers, a large sum having been taken in the Estimates for the proposed works. The buildings include a commodious and lofty messroom, at the end of which is a gallery capable of accom modating the entire band of the Royal Engineers, together with retiring rooms, coffee and smoking rooms, and other rooms on the same floor, the mess room being so arranged that it can be converted:to a handsome ballroom. The whole of the buildings will be completed and handed over to Major-Gene ral Williams, commanding Royal Engineers, in the course of a few weeks. A vacancy has occurred in the office of Captain of Invalids of the Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea, by the death, on Saturday last, at an advanced age, of Capt. John Ford, late of the 79th Highlanders. The deceased officer served during the Peninsular campaign from 1809 to 1814, and was present at the siege of Flushing, the defence of Cadiz, and the battles of Fuentes de Onor, Nivelle, Nive, and Tou louse, besides other actions of less importance. He also served as an assistant-engineer during four of the campaigns, and had received the war medal with four clasps for his services. SHOCKING MURDER OP 4 CHILD AT GLASGO W On Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock (says-the North British Daily Mail of yesterday), one of the most distressing child-murders which has ever fallen to our lot to record was committed at the river Clyde, opposte Messrs. Tod and Higginbotham's works. The circumstances, so far as we have learned, are as follow :—Mr. and Mrs. Shields, two respectable persons living in Com merc i a l- roa d , h a d a fine little interesting boy, two y ears o f age, name d John. The child was in the habit of being allowed, on dry days, to walk out on the pavement to await the arrival of his father at meal hours, and on Saturday afternoon he went out as usual; but, in stead of meeting his parent, he was picked up by a lad of about 20 years of age, named John M'Fadyen, and taken away up the bank of the river. The father soon came home, but, of course, without the boy, and the fears of both parents were then'aroused for his safety. A long search resulted in nothing satisfactory ; bat at length the mother, in going up the Clyde, met the lad M'Fadyen carrying what she immedi a t e ly recogn i se d to b e the clothes o f h er missing child. With maternal eagerness she ques tioned the young man as to where her boy was, when he, with a lack-lustre eye, and in tones indi cative of the greatest unconcern, told her that the boy was drowned, and that he had got his clothes and was going to sell them. Just at this moment several parties' came up sand accused M'Fadyen with drowning young Shields, when he replied, " God strike me dead if I did." However, as he had been observed in the very act, he was of course taken into custody. It would appear that M'Fadyen had led the unsuspecting i nnocent up the river side till opposite Higginbotham's works, and there he began to strip him of his clothes, for the purpose of appropriating: and selling them, It is thought that his original intention did not extend beyond this, but according to M'Fadyen's own sub sequent confession, the child began to weep and cry for its " Ma" while being undressed, and it was then that the horrible idea was first suggested to him, that by destroying the child he should prevent de tection. Acting on the insane thought, the boy was no sooner naked than, notwithstanding his piteous cries and infantile struggles, the murderous youth lifted him in his arms and pitched him into the water. Fearful lest his object should not be accom plished, the young fiend got a stick about 3 feet long, and as his little victim was struggling close to the shore, M'Fadyen held him down with the wood till life was extinct. The murderer then lifted the child's clothes and turned his face towards the city. It may excite surprise that all this could be perpetrated at three o'clock on a Saturday after moon at such a place, yet it is nevertheless true that only four persons saw the horrid action, but they were at too great a distance to render timely aid. One of these was on th e same s id e o f th e river as that on which the murder took place; the other three were on the north side. They, however, pursued th e young murderer, and a pp re h en d e d him, as already related, when be was being questioned by the p oor mother, whose state of m i n d on hearing the above particulars it is not easy to con c eive. Mr. George Geddes, of the Humane Society House, imme diately commenced a search for the body of the drowned boy; but, though he dragged the river near the spot till darkness set in, the child was not recovered. He resumed its yesterday morning about six o'clock, and shortly before seven suc ceeded in bring the body to the surface. On exa mination a large cut was found on one of the cheeks, evidently caused by the piece of wood with which the young monster held the boy below water. The body, was given up to the distressed parents. The first question that will naturally arise on reading the above statement will be—ls the lad M'Fadyen s ane ? It is very doubtful if he is. On being taken to the Eastern police-office his mother was sent for, and from her statement of his previ ous conduct the question of the youth's sanity will be a matter for inquiry. She stated her son's age to be 20 years, though from appearance he might be taken to be only 14 or 15. He has been four years in the Reformatory School, yet he cannot read. On being questioned at the police-office, so far from denying his gu ilt o f th e h orr id crime with which he was accused, he calmly stated that he drowned the boy, and that he intended selling the clothes. He is quite unimpassioned, and nothing can excite him. He coolly remarked " I know I shall be hanged," and since his apprehension on Saturday aft ern oon h , .) has, when not eating, almos t constantly been sleeping. If the mother's state ment can be verified, there is no doubt but the youth is insane. 72116 imisrag Dur and Cc Tea, ha tations caused. fair i Refine chiefly good r , supeic spies a more A si by the At 1 Messrs terrain inspeci 126,42 A. f the Cc prices nutted Thei Stock for ad' On amoun Railw 1 The tion f have ji the tot Worst( The as reg flax, y Al 01 4 T 1 have stea. Prov East wall Yorl cord Gra We Ind haN Btu] 3 pc 3 pc No An]