The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-13 00:00:00

TEE PR. (NCR► VISIT TO THE UNITED STA TES. (From t special Correspondent of the Times.) C HICAGO, ILLINOIS, SEPT. 23. When th e P rince quitted Chicago on the 22d for his shootirig-b ox in the prairies I had a little time afforded me. to look about this wonderful and bizarre city, which for marvellously sudden growth and immense - prospes:ity probably stands unequalled even in the history of Western enterprise and pro gress. San . Fresacisco and St. Paul's in the extreme west are the a only two cities which afford any parallel to the rises of Chicago. In 1831 and 1832 Chicago was only ay. Indian trading post; in 1841 and 1842 it was is. small wooden prairie town of 5,000 inha bitants. It is now an immense city with rows of stately streets, noble public buildings, fine squares and avenues, the centre of an immense trade with a rich and thriving population of 150,000 people, to which the tide of emigration alone adds many thousands every year. In fact, when one looks on its great lines of streets and warehouses, its huge depots for grain and produce of all kinds, its banks, hotels, churches, hospitals, and public buildings, it is all but impossible to believe that this has been the growth of 30 years—that hale and, compara tively speaking, young men, the owners of immense fortunes, who were among the first to settle on the present site of the city, can recollect when it was only prairie land on which the Indians hunted buffalo and deer. Yet there is something in the very aspect of the town which bears out the asser tion of its modern growth. The city in fact is still building on every side. You can go down none of the principal streets without finding one or more gigantic blocks of warehouses, some of iron, some of massive stone, some even of white marble, being built upon the sites of little wooden shanties from the trade carried on in which was realised the for tune that now pays for the ere c ti on o f these pala tial warehouses. If any one can imagine how Manchester would look with its blocks of factories built of white stone or red brick and highly deco rated, w ith between each two or three blocks a little pile of wooden huts like travelling caravans taken off their wheels, hotels erected to resemble palaces scattered all among the rows of buildings, with very wide streets and wooden side walks,with rough stumps of pine trees set along the roads in all directions to carry telegraphic wires—if they can imagine these things, with all the aids of glowing colours and active, commercial, bustling city life, Picturing too the whole city on the banks of an inland sea, like Lake Michigan, with bridges, canals, and wharfs, and crowds of shipping, they can then form a fair idea of what Chicago is, and all this in little more than 20 years! It is the most gro tesque and whimsical city that I have ever seen ; it is saich an extraordinary melange of the Broadway of New York and little shanties, of Parisian build begs mixed up in some way with backwoods life. If the best shops of Regent-street with the best houses said terraces of Bayswater were profusely inter mixed with wooden shanties, and occupied by some 150,000 busy people, and a whole army of brick layers put all round such a city to try to build it in with suburbs of stately stores and streets, larger than any yet attempted, it would be like Chicago. Now to detail :—lt is like something that one has seen everywhere, yet, as a city, it is like nothing else but itself under the sun. You pass through streets of houses bigger and handsomer than the front of the Great Western Hotel, and next door to them is a group of little mushroom wooden tene ments, the dwellings of the first settlers, which one might jump over, and which are regarded as among the antiquities of Chicago, though scarcely, even fser slight wooden buildings, old even now. Whether as is too frequently the case in these precocious western cities, Chicago is overbuilding itself or not I cannot, of course, say; but I can certainly see that building is going on at a rate that, if it con tinues for the next 10 years, must make the city larger than New York. This over speculation in land and houses was one of the main sources of in jury to Detroit. It is said it cannot have the same result here, which I am quite inclined to believe when I think of the State of which Chicago has become the commercial capital. The State of Illi nois is a tract of prairie land of almost precisely the same size as England and Wales, and which for fertilitylof soil is not to be equalled by any other State in the Union, save, perhaps, Wisconsin or the territory of Minnesota. The two latter, however, are as yet but poorly settled, though their natural advantages are said to be equal to those enjoyed by the settlers here. The State of Illinois grows cot ton, tobacco, maize, and wheat of the finest kinds. The whole State, in fact, is prairie —level meadow land covered with rich long prairie grass with a deep, fin e, soft black loamy soil, which lies over the gravel in depths of from five to six or ten feet. All that the settler here has to do is to confine his cattle till thoy eat down the long grass, then plough at once, and sow his corn year after year, without manuring, or often even resting the land in any way. The fable of Jack and the Bean-stack is al most realised here in the gigantic crops of Indian corn, where tine plant, it is said, in eight weeks at tains a height of nearly 10 feet, and where the car of corn is as, massive and heavy as a rolling-pin. I have been shown some here of only a few weeks' growth which were more like young bamboos than plants O. maize. For farming and for dairy and cattle rearing purposes the prairie land is said to be the best in the world, and there are farms not far from Chicago which have their 5,000 and 6,000 herd ofcattle on them. I hope to see one of these before I quit Illinois. While driving round the streets of Chicago the /Prince saw a wooden house being moved. To move a house may sound rather alarming in England ; here nothing is more common. Any one who has built a wooden house too near a stream or tco far from it, or as he clears his land and wants his farm• house more in the centre of his crops, simply hoists the whole establishment by levers into huge wooden rollers, formed of trunks of trees, and then traudles it slowly in whatever direction he may wish. When the ball-room was being built at Hamilton, the wooden house of a Dutch settler was found much i n the way, and it was proposed to him to have it moved back some 20 feet, to be moved forwrsrd again when the fete was over. As one not acquainted with the peculiar mode of m cning houses adopted in Upper Canada and this COuntry,l. must own I was not a little astonished to hear that such a wild proposition was ever thought of by tilt: committee as possible. The Dutchman, however, unless heavily compensated, refused to move his dwellings single inch, and the committee threatened to remove it by force. But to this ex trenie measure of violently collaring a dwelling house an d m aking it move on, the authorities fortu nately did not proceed, but compromised matters by ban the end of the ball•room, over his roof. The Dutchman, whose only aim in the matter was to extort an exorbitant amount of compensation from the city, Was enrag ed at thi s manoeuvre, and as hi s c hi mneys led ri ght up unde r the orchestra, he threat ene d to light his fires and smoke the whole ball-room out. A s it was not only quite easy to carry out this amiable intention, but very likely that the Dutchman would try it, the engines were kept in waiting the whole night of the ball, with the hose so placed as to send a flood of water down the chimneys on the first toke n o f combust ion below appearing therefrom. Fortunately for himself, Mynheer did not att empt to carry his threats as far as this, so the ball passed off without any necessity arising of calling in the engines to their aid. Certainly, from what I have seen now of the process of house-moving as practised here, it was scarcely worth the Dutchman's while to make so great a fuss about so small a matter. Of course, however, like every obstructive, he contended that he was only turbulent and annoying on principle. SY The rates in Chicago are unusually light—only 23 per cent. on real property. Houso•rent, how ever, is inordinately dear, and a modest little tene ment which might be got in the suburbs of Lon don for £25 p er annum h ere f etc h es £2OO. For officials with fix; i incomes this is, of cours^, a Trost serious drawback. I attended another torchlight procession and political demonstration of the "Wide Awakes," in favour of " Honest old Alic," the Re publican, and, as he will almost certainly prove, the s uc c es sful c andidate at the approaching Presidential election. The procession mustered in great num- 1 - -1 -.7 THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1860. bers, and with their torches assembled in front of the .Tremont-house, from the balcony of which they were addressed by many speakers until nearly 10 o'clock. The speeches were long and temperate, and sometimes almost funny. But, whether tempe rate or intemperate, funny or dull, the " Wide Awakes" gave no sign of animation. They listened, or appeared to listen, with great attention, but there was no cheering, no laughter, no funny running commentary of embarrassing remarks, such as one hears on similar occasions from an English crowd. All was orderly in the extreme, but to outward seem ing at least dull and apathetic. Certainly a better conducted, or a more perfectly quiet popular assem blage I never saw in my life. But that the meeting had a sensible and practical purpose in view, but that they were in earnest about it, in - spite of all their quietness, and but that there were no frantic de nunciations of everybody but themselves, one might almost have thought they were attending a meeting in Exeter-hall. The Prince saw none of those de monstrations. On the night of his arrival he re mained at his hotel, and during the day was accom panied round the town by the mayor of Chicago and Mr. Wilkins, the English Consul. Every where the behaviour of the people was courteous and even delicate. They were anxious to see the Prince, but in no instance were crowding or intrusive. MORGAN FARM, IN THE PRAIRIES, NEAR DWIGHT, SEPT. 25. The Royal party are here, and have been since the 22d, enjoying to the very uttermost their daily sport of shooting over the prairies. His Royal Highness came down on Saturday evening, and be fore he had been here 15 minutes was out with his gun among the corn stubble that surrounds his house, and which forms a little belt of culture—an oasis in this boundless extent of undulating rich wild prairie land. But dusk was closing in fast as the Prince went out into the stubble, and shooting was not to be expected that night —at least so one of the enormous white owls of the prairie seemed to think, for he flew too near his Royal Highness, who, all dusk as it was, made a splendid long shot and brought the sage bird down at once. This, however, was the only sport attempted on Satur day, and on Sunday, of course, nothing was done, and, after attending Divine Service in the little Presbyterian Church, the party remained all quiet and alone in their little country farmhouse, in the middle of Grand Prairie. Not quite alone, however, for towards the end of the day two Irish men, mounted on rough, bare-backed mules, came riding across the prairie towards the house, and met the Prince walking on the grass outside. The fore most instantly introduced himself by saying, " Sir, I was a subject of your mother, sure, long ago, and I hear you're the Prince of Wales. How do you do, sir ?" With which brief announcement he got off his mule and shook his Royal Highness by the hand very heartily. Having acquitted himself of this neat little speech with the utmost eagerness he bethought him self of his companion, whose general appearance and costume were a trifle more dilapidated than his own. This sunburnt individual, who remained on his mule, shifting uneasily to and fro, as if the presence of the heir of Britain rather embarrassed him than otherwise, he at once introduced in a general way by saying " This is my friend, Sir, and, as there's no church near where we're fixed, I hope you'll ex cuse his dress." The Prince smiled, and said he would, and there certainly was very little to ex cuse, inasmuch as a ragged shirt and trousers con stituted the chief portion of the dress in question. The conversation then came to a sudden pause, while the first and only spokesman seemed to be endeavouring with all his might to recollect some previously-arranged topic of interest to communi cate. At last he hit it, and broke out with, " We've ridden more than a long 20 mile across the prairie to see you, Sir," and then there was another pause, while he seemed to wonder whether any more civilities were necessary or not. Apparently he came to the conclusion that on the whole a suffi cient homage had been rendered, for without a word he mounted his mule again, and with a " Good bye, Sir," both rode off. When about a quarter of a mile away the speaker turned, and, riding a short way back, called out hoarsely that if any of the party wanted mules they had beautiful ones to sell, where he was " fixed," some 20 miles east of Dwight, and haying relieved his mind of this information away both visitors rode, keeping their mules across the prairie straight as a crow would fly till they were lost to view in the im mense expense. Dwight is a prairie village, just five years old. Five years ago and the spot where th• little wooden town now stands was a huge wilderness of prairie land with not a trace of human habitation on it for miles and miles. Mr. Morgan and Mr. Dwight, who knew the inexhaustible fertility of the land, determined to form a settlement there, so a small station-house was soon built on the line of the Chicago and St. Louis Railway, and the first wooden huts erected about four or four•and-a half years ago. Now several thousand acres of the prairie have been brought under cultivation ; a pretty little church has been built, with avert' large school-house. The town musters one hotel (still in a rather uncultivated and prairie condition), with about 100 other houses and 600 inhabitants. Each year however, its population nearly doubles, so that in 1870 Dwight will figure largely on the maps and guidebooks as a young though rising prairie town, with good hotels, a large corn .market, and a busy thriving population of some 15,000 or 18,009 people. Its glories, however, are still in the future, and the visit of his Royal Highness and party has taxed the slender accommodation of the little village to the utmost. Mr. Spencer's house has been given up to the Prince, the Duke of Newcastle, General Bruce and Dr. Acland, who are all it wilt accommodate, even with crowding. Hard by in a neat, though very small white wooden house, Colonel Grey and Major Tindale are " fixed." Lord Lyons, with Captain Retallack and Mr. John Spencer, stop at Mr. Mot- Tan's firm, and Lord Hinchingbrooke and the Hon. Mr. Elliott sleep in a railway car on a siding off the line, with Mr. Price, the manager of the rail way. Mr. Spencer, Mr. Wilson (the superintendent of the telegraph), and others are, I presume, not supposed to sleep at all, for the place of their re pose, if any, is shrouded in the deepest mystery. With a party so scattered, and all living in the rough, one would almost fancy that Dwight would fail to make an agreeable impression on the Royal party. Yet I am certain that long as their progress has been, and varied as have been its attractions everywhere, there is no visit which will be so kindly and so pleasantly remembered by his Royal High ness and party as that which they made to Dwight and its prairies. Everything here is novel and attractive. The sport on the prairies is new, and the game abundant; the boundless expense of grass covered land is alone a sight worth travelling to see, and, above all, the Royal party are secure from prying and intrusion, and can enjoy themselves as best suits their humour, free from observation of any kind. The people of the village who know their wish for privacy are so care ful not to intrude upon it that they scarcely even re gard any of the Royal party when they see them, and Mr. Spencer and Mr. Morgan, with such tact, such kind, attentive, and delicate hospitality as I have never seen elsewhere, are solicitous night and morn ing for wh,atever can conduce to the comfort and convenience of the august visitor to their little town. or course, the American Jenkinsis are not here, and the Prince is no longer dogged by men with large notebooks in their hands, nor annoyed by hearing afterwards of the scandalous stuff which they trans port, per telegraph, to New York. In short, the Royal party are for once really private, and really enjoying themselves, which is saying as much as need be said of them from here. It is easy fur any of your readers to imagine a prairie —it is next to impossible to describe one. Leave Dwight behind you, and walk out to the east till all sight and sound of the little village is lost in the distance, and then look round you. There is a huge, undulating ocean of long rich grass and flowers, which the warm, soft wind keeps in a gentle ripple. There is not a sound but the shrill chirping at millions of crickets, not a shrub or bush to break the dead level of the distant horizon —nothing to vary the widespread sea of verdure but its own masses of bright wildflowers, over which gorgeous butterflies keep always skimming on noiseless wings. This is the prairie. About a mile or so a-head is a slight, but very perceptible rise in the ground, and you push on for this to get a good look about you. There is, of course, no track, and your way lies through the prairie grass now little more than breast high, but in the spring almost over your head ; you stride through clumps of resin and compass weeds, through patches of blue, yellow, and purple towers, through thyme and long rich grass with tall, tufted, reedy plants in the midst, which attract your notice at once. It is the rattlesnake weed, always most plentiful where this deadly reptile abounds, and the root of which, with immense doses of corn whisky, is said, under certain favourable contingencies, to have averted fatal results from the bites of very small reptiles of this class. Where the snake weed is plentiful, beware and look out well for the snakes too. You can't walk far through the praire on a hot morning without hearing the dry sharp hissing rattle of one of these deadly ser pents, as with his tail so quickly vibrating that you can scarcely distinguish its end, and with the lean, hungry-looking head erect, it moves sluggishly away in search of a place where it may repose and bask undisturbed. Such dangerous occupants of the grass are common in the prairies, and may with prairie wolves and sometimes deer be seen within a stone's throw of the houses of Dwight itself. But all this while you are plodding through the grass, turning aside for one minute to look at the little prairie crabs which burrow down their holes some 15 feet to the level of the water below the gravel, and into which they drop at once on the slightest sound of alarm, or else you watch the coveys of prairie hens as they rise with a whirr right and left, and go skimming along like grouse a little ahead of you. At last you gain the summit of the gentle rise, and can look around you for miles on miles in all direc tions, yet you are almost disappointed to find that you have gained nothing by your walk—that the same tremendous extent of meadow land, clothed with a rank luxuriance of grass and flowers, stretches away on every side till deep green fades into brown in the distance, and a line of blackish blue on the ocean, far, far out, marks where the horizon meets the sky. Yet the land is not nil level. It has a series of gentle undulations—of low long sloping ridges, as if an inland sea, when slowly moving with a quiet, regular swell, had on the in stant been changed to rich and fertile land. The prairie on which I write this is known as the Grand Prairie, from the extraordinary fertility of its land —for its length is only 60 miles by 30. But in a south-easterly direction from this spot one may journey for nearly 300 miles and never once quit their long, shallow ridges—never see anything but the eternal expanse of deep green grass, perfumed with the gum droppings of the resin weed. The southern prairies are broken hero and there by water-courses, by clumps of cotton-wood and groves of locust trees. Occasionally, though at rare in tervals, a little line of locust trees, looking like rocks in the great ocean of grass —oceans in the vast prairie lands of Illinois—and mark where pools of water may be found. These varieties, however, are but few, and after a journey in the green wil derness a tree almost startles you, as something out of place in the huge soft green meadow-sea, where the long coarse silky-looking grass bears nothing stronger than a resin weed among it, and where a breath of wind ripples its whole surface into breakers of verdure, which even in the calmest days gives such an aspect of life and animation to these silent and deserted lands. One might write for days and days on prairie land and prairie life, and yet give no idea of either to those who have not seen them. It is the wild, the overflowing abundance of animal and vegetable life which fills these great reservoirs of nature, the knowledge that the thousands of square miles of soil over which we travel is the richest and most luxuriant in the world, and yet, in spite of this, the utter desolation and absence of the trace of any human being which surprises you, one time with gratitude that there is such land to spare, and the next moment with regret that its great riches should be so neglected and forlorn. Travel on for miles and miles, for days and nights, pass from Illi nois, across the broad turbid waters of the Missis sippi, into the slave State of Missouri—journey for hundreds and hundreds of leagues, as you may do here, yet not quit for a day these monstrous grassy wastes, these perpetual land calms, in which a silence as great as that upon the sea seems always to remain unbroken. The inexperienced person, however, must be careful how he ventures on these luxuriant steppes alone. Let him but loose sight of his faint landmarks, and make one or two incau • tious turns, and he will instantly find himself en gaged in a game of blindman's buff on a most un pleasant scale, and must catch what way he can back again. In vain you search for the track you have made through the long grass. A breath of wind is sufficient to conceal it from your inexperi enced eyes, though a week afterwards an Indian runner could follow it up with as much ease as if it were a paved road. You push forward in what you think a straight course, but it is ten to one that you only make huge circles round the place from which you started, and it is then that the eternal solemn silence of these great plains becomes not only impressive but almost alarming, when every fresh effort to strike a track only increases your weariness, and you feel yourself a helpless prisoner in these huge bright smiling solitudes. Fortunately, none go on the prairie for the first time without being shown in case of such mishaps the groups of compass weed which abound all over the plains, and, the broad flat leaves of which point due north and south with an accuracy as unvarying as that of the magnetic needle itself. And thus, with the aid of these useful little weeds and the sun's course, you may make tracks across the broadest prairie with the most unerring cer tainty. The great danger to which travellers on the largest prairies are exposed is fire. Scorched during one or two months of summer by an almost tropical heat, the grass shrivels up into a coarse brown looking hay, and while in this state is constantly lit accidentally by the carelessness of travellers or hunters, or by flashes from the terrific lightning storms which are always sweeping over these plains. With a brisk night wind in the height of summer a prairie fire spreads over the whole plains with awful rapidity, and, unless well mounted, woe betide the unluckly travellers, who roused by the smoky heat from their slumbers, see the great horizon of orange•coloured flame in the distance, like a vast semicircle of fire bearing down rapidly towards them. On the small prairies instant flight is the only chance of safety. On the great and wilder prairies flight is useless, and the only expedient that offers any hope of safety is riding madly with the wind some 10 miles ahead of the fire and lighting the prairie before you at two or three points. As the wind bears the flame rapidly ahead the itravellers, after a short interval are enabled to follow along the scorched track comparatively out of reach of the flames coming up behind, which of course stops on the margin of the burnt ground for want of fuel. On.the Grand Prairie, stretching out from Dwight, the Royal party started at six in the morning of the 24th to shoot prairie hens. These birds are rather larger than the English grouse, but in all other respects precisely resemble them, and the sport is pursued with setters, in the same manner. His Royal Highness, with the Duke of Newcastle, Captain Retallack (who arranged the whole expedi tion), and Mr. Spencer, went in one party to the east ; General Bruce, Colonel Grey, Major Teesdale, and Mr. Wilkins, went west; Lord Hinchingbrooke and the Hon. Mr. Elliott took another direction. Dr. Acland went out 'with a gun in his hand, but a pencil in his thoughts, and after one or two shots amused himself in making a series of sketches of the prairies. Considering the lateness of the season and the wildness of the birds, all the parties had excellent sport, and returned soon after dusk, when the united bag amounted to 50 brace of prairie hens, exclusive of other game, such as plover and quail. As night fell a dreadful thunderstorm raged over the prairies, and the wind, after moaning and roaring about the plain like a storm at sea, would suddenly cease, and a portentous silent darkness reign over the whole scene—a silence so intense that the vivid flashes of lightning, noiseless as they were, seemed almost to break as the great livid streaks darted down and went flickering over the plains in all directions. While watching the dread ful solemnity of such a storm in such a wild, I could not help noticing three dull red copper-coloured banks of clouds at different parts of the horizon, and asked my kindhost Mr. Morgan to explain what they meant or were. The explanation was given in five words, for the instant his quick eye caught the distant tinge he exclaimed, " The prairie is on fire." And so it proved to be; whether it had caught from some smouldering gun wadding, or as was thought far more probable, had been ignited by the incessant flashes of lightning during the evening, it was hard to say. Only one thing admitted of no doubt what ever, and that was that the grass had caught in three distinct places. At first it seemed probable that a short, quick flood of rain which fell after the storm, and which for two or three minutes was heavy enough almost to extinguish anything, would check its progress, as for a time in fact it did. But the fire had obtained too firm a hold, and as the rain ceased the wind rose, and the smouldering red patches in the verge of the horizon grew brighter and brighter, spreading along with an angry rapidity that brought each separate conflagration closer and closer every minute. The wind was away from the village of Dwight and its rich belt of corn fields, and turning the flames west ward, over the mass of prairie; and as these fires. especially at this season of the year, do the land much good, the progress of the conflagration was watched with perfect indifference. Soon the sky, from reflecting a narrow strip of red, lit up with an angry glare as the mass of fire spread beneath it— the little patches of flame began to crest the undu lation, and ragged columns of dense fiery smoke streamed away in lurid masses as if it would carry the flame and heat up into the clouds themselves. An hour more and three fires had apparently joined, or, at least, were so close together that they formed one huge belt of fame that covered the earth and lit up the sky for miles and miles. The fire was at least eight or nine miles distant from Dwight, and from there it looked comparatively a small space in the immense horizon of land around, and only by the bright orange flame in the distance, and the mass of fiery sky above, could one judge adequately of the real area occupied by the burning plains. Not so, however, as after a long ride you approached them from the windward side. For a mile and more before you reach the edge of the fire you are in its bright orange light, which makes everything as visible as if it were noon day, and the sun was shining fiercely through a blood-coloured haze. You can hear the sharp barking howl of the prairie wolves as they rush away for the darkness, and see the prairie hens fluttering and fluttering from place to place, and often turning in their wild terror full into the smoke, when they fall and perish instantly. At last you gain a little rise and look beyond into such a scene as nothing but a prairie fire can show. It spreads out a sea of red smouldering ashes, going for miles in all directions, while the deep white ridge of flames ahead mount the slopes with awful rapidity, and flap their heavy tongues up into the air NI ith a hoarse roaring noise that fills you with astonishment and almost terror. Hour after hour you will stand, fascinated with the terrible beauties of the scene, as the mass of red sultry ruins grows and grows each minute, till your eyes are pained and heated with its angry glare and you almost dread the grand, fierce sheet of fire, which has swept all trace of vegetation from the surface of the prairie. On Monday night, when near 12 o'clock, the wind changed a little and turned the flames nearly back upon the ground they had already devastated, and this at once checked their progress. On the next clay, however, they sprang up afresh and raged faster and faster than before, and the whole extent of prairie east of Dwight was hidden under such a dense cloud of yellow smoke as I never saw before. This day the Prince went to a place called Stuart's Grove, a shrubbery on the border of the prairie some 20 miles from Dwight and a celebrated cover for quail. Here the Royal party remained shooting all day, and the Prince confirmed the reputation he had gained on the prairie of being the best shot of the whole party. For his age his Royal Highness is said to be one of the best sporting shots in Eng land, and certainly the skill with which he knocked over the quail astonished the prairie sportsmen who were with him. There were 95 brace of game bagged this day, 28 of which, with some rabbits and plover and a brace of prairie hens, fell to the Prince'. sun. ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, SEPT. 26. His Royal Highness and suite have just arrived here from Dwight. They will remain here this night and to-morrow, starting for Cincinnati on the morn ing of the 28th. I have not now time to chronicle any of the events of this day's trip ; indeed, it is even doubtful whether this letter will reach New York in time for the mail of the 29th. I must there fore postpone my account of this day's doings, and, what I think will be of equal interest to your readers, some account of the agricultural value and resources of prairie land, till the next mail. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. FRIDAY. Selling Handicap of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, the winner to be sold for 100 sovs, &e. R. A. One mile 17 yards. 9 subs. Captain Little's Romsey, 4 yrs, 7st (T. French) 1 Mr. H. S. Hunt's Miss Digby, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b (Challoner) 2 Mr. Copperthwaite's Zingari, 3 yrs, 7st 71b (G. Fordham) 3 Hegira, Annan, and Golden Rule also ran. Betting-5 to 2 agst Miss Digby, 4to 1 each agst Zin gari and Hegira, 5 to Lagst Golden Rule, 6 to 1 agst Rem sey. Hegira made play, followed by Miss Digby and Romsey, the three running in this order until entering the cords, where Romney came out and ran home an easy win ner by four lengths ; three-quarters of a length between second and third. Handicap Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, for 2 and 3-yr-olds. T.Y.C. Five furlongs 140 yards. 15 subs. Lord W. Powlett's Sir Hugh, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Bray) 1 Captain Beresford's Oliver, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (G. Fordham) 2 Mr. W. Etwall's Lady Clare, 2 yrs, 6st 51b (Mills) 3 The following also ran :—Professor, The Don, Sparta, Parmesan, Caliban, Sweet Hawthorn, Ratlagoom,Weather witch, Rosary filly. Betting-3 to 1 agst Oliver, 6to 1 (at first 4to 1) agsl Sir Hugh, 6 to 1 each agst Caliban and Ratlagoom, 10 to each agst Lady Clare and Sweet Hawthorn, 100 to 7 agst The Don. Caliban jumped off with the lead, closely waited upon by Sir Hugh, Oliver and Weatherwitch the next two. Nearing home Caliban fell back, and Sir Hugh took up the running, winning, after a good race, by half a length ; a length between the second and third ; Caliban as fourth, Parmesan and Sweet Hawthorn next, the two last being Professor and The Don. Match, 200 h ft. T.Y.C. Five furlongs 140 yards. Lord Coventry's Postage, Bst 41b (L. Snowden) 1 Count Batthyany's Pergus, Bst 71b (Wells) 2 Betting-2 to lon Pergus. Pergus was in front until within a few strides of the chair, where Snowden calling upon Postage, the latter won by two lengths. The Prendergast Stakes of 50 soya each, h ft, for 2-yr-o ds; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 51b ; extra weights for winners. T.Y.C. Five furlongs 140 yards. 26 subs. Mr. Gratwicke's Preceptress, Bst 51b.... (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. Merry's Phemy colt, Bst 101 b (inc 31b ex.) (Custance) 2 Lord Exeter's Barb Pigeon, Bst 71b (Aldcroft) 3 Diophantus and Lady Evelyn colt also ran Betting-7 to 4 agst the Phemy colt, 2to 1 agst Diophan- tus, 4 to 1 agst Barb Pigeon, 7 to 1 agst Preceptress. Pre coptress was in front throughout, waited upon until enter ing the cords by Barb Pigeon, where the latter was beaten, and the Phemy colt took second place, Preceptress going on and winning by a neck ; three lengths between the second and third. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, and only 5 ft if de clared, to go to the second. T.Y.C. Five furlongs 140 yards. (12 subs, 6of whom pay 5 sovs ft.) Mr. Copperthwaite's Twilight, 4 yrs, 9st..(G. Fordham) 1 Mr. W. S. S. Crawfurd's Tight Fit, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (M . Bottom) 2 Mr. Gratwicke's Her Highness, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (J. Daley) 3 Vulture, Narcissus, and Oliver also ran. Betting-5 to 2 agst Vulture, 3to 1 agst Twilight, sto 1 agst Tight Fit, 6to 1 agst Narcissus. Oliver made run ning, followed by Her Highness for about a quarter of a mile, when Twilight went to the front with Tight-fit in pursuit, the colt failing to head Twilight, who won by a length and a half; Vulture finished a good fourth. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for two-yr-olds; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; the winner to be sold for 50 sovs if demanded, &c. ; if for 40 allowed 31b. First half of Ab, M. Three furlongs 215 yards. (7 subs.) Mr. T. Hughes's Ladylike (£4O), Bst 21b (Hughes) 1 Lord Chesterfield na Maybell filly (£4O), Bst 21b " (Fordham) 2 Mr. Copperthwaite's Bewitching Fanny (late Pretty Rosa (L4O), Bst 21b (L. Snowden) 3 The following also ran :—Ruby, Conundrum, Yafa filly, and lambic. Betting-2 to 1 agst Conundrum, 3to 1 agst the Yafa filly, 4to 1 agst Ruby, 6 to 1 agst Ladylike. Won by a head ; a length between the second and third. Sweepstakes of 10 sous each, for 2-year-olds ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. The winner to be sold for 150 soya if demanded, &c. Last half of Al). M. (3 furlongs 217 yards.) 7 subs. Mr. S. Smith's Miss Fanny, Bst 41b .. (Charlton) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Polyolbion, Bst 41b (Challoner) 2 Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Bayard, Bst 71b.... (G. Fordham) 3 The following also ran :—Southport and Wee Polly. Betting-2 to 1 agst Polyolbion, 3to 1 agst Miss Fanny, 4 to 1 agst Bayard, sto 1 agst Wee Polly. Won by a length; the same between the second and third ;* half a length be tween the third and fourth. Miss Fanny was claimed by Sir Joseph Hawley. Fifty Pounds; for 3-yr-olds, 7st 12; four, Bst 121 b; five and upwards, 9st 31b. The winner to be sold for 500 sous; if for 300 allowed 51b; if for 100, 101 b. A.F. (1 mile 2 furlongs 73 yards.) Mr. G. Bryan's Precursor, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Pedlar, 3 yrs (L 100), 7st 21b (H. Grinashaw) 2 Mr. Bentley's Rattlesnake, 3 yrs (£100), 7st 21b.. (D a ly) 3 The following also ran:—The Speaker, Narcissus, Restes, courier, and hegira. Betting-5 to 2 agst Precursor, 4to 1 agst The Speaker, sto 1 agst The Pedlar, 6 to 1 agst Rattlesnake, and 7to agst Restes. The lot ran well together until reaching the bushes, where the Pedlarshowed in advance, going on with the running until ascending the hill, where Precursor joined him, and won a fine race by half a length, three lengths be tween the second and third ; Hegira and The Speaker were next, Courier and Restes being the last two. Match, 200, h ft. A.F.—Lord Derby's Cape Flyaway, Bst 41b, received forfeit from Baron Rothschild's King of Diamonds, Bst 71b. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 4to 1 agst Dulcibella 14 to 1 agst Thunderbolt (take 15 to 1) 40 to 1 agst Gridiron (taken) 40 to 1 agst Cavriana (taken) 50 to 1 agst Ripon (taken) TIE DERBY. 25 to 1 agst Diophantus (taken) AYR RACES-THURSDAY. The Caledonian Handicap of 10 sous each, h ft. Two miles. Mr. Carter's The Alderman, 5 yrs, Bst lib .... (Bullock) 1 Mr. Whitehead's Greta, 3 yrs, 6st 71b Mr. J. Brown's Sweetbriar, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Speight) 3 Mr. T. Parr's Pan, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b Betting—Even on Sweetbriar, 7 to 4 apt Greta, 5 to 2 agst The Alderman, and 4 to 1 agst Pan. Won, after a slashing struggle, by a short neck. A Free Handicap of 5 sovs each, with 50 added. Once round and a distance. Mr. Dawson's Professor Dick, 3 yrs, Bst slb (Bullock) 1 Mr. Gray's Maggie, 4 yrs, Bst lllb Mr. Gray's Joey Jones, 2 yrs, 7st 51b (Sinclair) 3 Lamlauder and Tousle also ran. Betting-6 to 4 each agst Professor Dick and Lamlauder, and 3 to 1 each agst Maggie and Joey Jones. Won easily by a length and a half. The Caledonian Cup of 100 sovs ; three-yr-olds, 7st; four, Bst 21b; five, Bst 91b; six and aged, Bst 121 b. Three miles. Mr. W. Scott's Prologue, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Metcalfe) 1 Mr. Forster's Underhand, 6 yrs Oat lib . . (Bull oc k) 2 Lord Zotland's Volatile, 4 yrs, yrs, 31b (Marchant) 3 Mr. W. Sharpe's The Friar, 4 yrs, 7st 31b .... (Madden) 0 Betting-3 to lon Underhand, 3to 1 agst Volatile, and 4to 1 each agst Prologue and The Friar. Won by a short head. Pace a clipper " from end to end." A Plate (Selling) of 50 soya, for all ages ; two miles. Mr. Coxon's Certainty, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (25 sous) (Ward) 1 Mr. Dawson's Gaylad, 3 yrs, 7st llb (L 100) (Madden) 2 Mr. H. H. O'Hara's Hemeward Bound, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (£100) (Hibbard) 3 Spiteful Dick and Recompense also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Spiteful Dick, 2to 1 agst Certainty, and 3to 1 agst Homeward Bound. Won by a head. The Caledonian Hunt Welter Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 25 added, for all ages ; gentlemen riders; one mile. 3 subs. Mr. Tait's Moss Rose, 3 yrs, 9st 91b (Mr. Erskine) 1 Mr. Geo. Oliver's Gammon, 5 yrs, 12st llb (Mr. George) 2 No betting. Moss Rose made all the running, was at one time 50 yards ahead, suffered the other to come to him at the finish, and won by a head I A few yards further would have afforded another instance of a race being snatched out of the fire. FRIDAY. A Sweepstakes of 3 soya each, 1 ft, with 20 added. Ono mile. Mr. Harrison's Lady Ripon, 2 yrs, sst 41b .. (W. Buck) 1 Mr. H. 11. O'Hara's Homeward Bound, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Hibberd) 2 Mr. W. Sharpo's Nelia, 2 yrs, sst 71b (J. Doyle) 3 The following also ran :—Gay Lad, Malpas, Aurora, Bloomsbury, and Joey Jones. Betting-2 to 1 agat Aurora, 3to 1 each agst Lady Ripon, Gay Lad, Bloomsbury, and Nelia. Won by a length; Nelia a bad third. The Ayrshire Handicap of 5 sovs each, 3 ft, and two only if declared, with 50 added. One mile and a half. 18 subs. Mr. Gray's Maggie. 4 yrs, Gst 121 b Mr. Dawson's Professor Dick, 3 yrs, 6st 61b (W. Buck) 2 Mr. P. Brown's Sweetbriar, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Hibbard) 3 The following also ran :—Greta, Stockton, Montrose, Dewdrop, and Wellington. Betting—G to 4 agst Professor Dick, 3to 1 agat Stock ton, 4 to 1 each agst Sweetbriar and Greta, 10 to 1 agst Maggie. Professor Dick made the running to the dis tance, where Maggie took it up, and won by a length ; the same distance between second and third. A Plate of 50 sous given bz the Glasgow and South- Western Railway. One mile and a half. Heats. Mr. Dawson's Gay Lad, 3 yrs, 6st 91b (50 sovs) (W: Buck) 3 1 1 Mr. Cozon's Certainty, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (£3O) (Ward) 1 2dr Mr. Jackson's Spiteful Dick 'ao-ed Bst 12 (£5O) (Bullock) 2 dr _ _ First heat—Won by a length. Sec and heat- r ßetting, 6 to 4 on Gaylad, who won easily, and walked over for the third heat. The whiner was not sold. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 gs, granted to the Caledonian Hunt ; three-yr-olds 7st Gib, four 9st, five 9st 91b, six and aged lOst ; four miles. Mr. W. Scott's Prologue, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Metcalfe) 1 Mr. Forste r ' s b h Underhand, 6 yrs, lOst (Bullock) 2 Lord Zetland's b c Vanquisher, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Marchant) 3 Betting-6 to 4on Vanquisher, sto 4 agst Underhand, and 2 to 1 agst Prologue. Won by two lengths ; the same between second and third. ~.-~ - _III. THE NOTTINGHAM FORGERIES. Mr. Robert White was brought up before the mayor and borough magistrates yesterday, on re mand from Tuesday, charged with forging a bill of exchange on Mr. Joseph Green, draper, Dudley, for £22. The court was again crowded to excess, many o the leading tradesmen of the town being present. The prisoner was defended by Mr. A. Cann, soli. citor. Mr. Cowley prosecuted. Mr. Cowley said the prisoner was charged with uttering forged bills. He (Mr. Cowley) purposed to show that the bill in question was uttered by the prisoner, and then he would ask for a remand until a future day. The chief constable Heddiugton stated that he had received the bill of exchange from Mr. Carter, lace manufacturer, Nottingham, which was as fol lows : £22 „ „ Nottingham, June 1, 1860. Three months after date, pay to our order the sum of twenty-two pounds for value received. Mr. J. Green, WHITE BROTHERS. Draper, Dudley. 5:520 Mr. John Carter, lace manufacturer, said he had done business with the firm of White Brothers, and had received bills in payment of his account. Amongst others he received the bill produced through his porter, Charles Webb, who was autho rised to receive his accounts. Charles Webb said that on the 30th June he re ceived a number of bills from the prisoner, amongst which was the one produced. Joseph Green, draper, Dudley, stated that he had looked at the name of the acceptor of the bill, and the name was not in his handwriting. He had done business with the prisoner's firm, but had never accepted a bill for them. Mr. Cowley, for the prosecution, said that upon that evidence he proposed White's remand until next Friday. Mr. Cann, for the prisoner, said he should have liked an earlier day. The Mayor said it would be better for the prisoner to be remanded until Friday than for an earlier period, and be then remanded again. The prisoner was then removed to the House of Correction in a cab. Langham, the confederate to Tait, in still at large, [AnvnuTislAiEwt.l—The great injury inflicted on many invalids by drugs increases the interest the public take in Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, which cures without medicine. We quote a few out of many thousand cases of cures by the delicious Food. Cure No. 180.—" Twenty five years nervousness, constipation, indigestion, and de bility front Which I have suffered great misery, and which no medicine could remove of reliave, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Food in it Very short time. W. B. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London." Cure 4,208.—" Eight years dyspepsia, nervousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had consulted the advice of many, have been effectually cured by Du Barry's Health Restoring Food. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries. Rev. John W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk." Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, disappointment, and expanse may be avoided by using Du Barry's Food which, at a few pence Ter day, saves 50 times its cost in other remedies, removing effectually, without ?urging, constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious and liver complaints and all their consequences. Certificate No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew tire, MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorland, Dr. Campell. Let invalids avoid the feerful dangers of spu rious and injurious imitations offered under a variety of false pretences. Nevill's imitations aro prohibited by the high Court of Chancery under a penalty of £5,000 against Alfred Heoper Nevill and his agents ; and the pretences that Nevill has a patent for Arabica Food and that Du Barry's are connected with such patent are utterly fals No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du Barry "" Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, on theseal and wrapper. Shopkeepers who' attempt imposition in one article must expect to be distrusted in all others. Packed in tins 11b. 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. lls. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. canisters are sent carriage free en receipt of Post-ofice order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Re , gent-street London; Fortrilm Mason, and Ce.;Abbis 60, Gracechurch-street ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 150 , Ox ford-street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60 , Bishopegate. street ; Batty, 10 , Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips and Co, tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, and Co., King William-street. City ; at 127, High Holborn ; and all grocers; , BETTING AT MANCHES'FER-FKIDAY. The few subscribers who met to-day after the business of the day's events were over, turned their attention to the Cambridgeshire. There was not a great amount done. All the 6's to 1 that could be got wore taken about Dulcibells, and all that were disposed to lay 12 to 1 agst Thunderbolt were accommodated. Sutton was almost without friends ; 25 to 1 waa taken to a small amount and afterwards offered. Cclosing prices : CAMI.RIDGESIIIKE STAKES. sto 1 agst Dulcibella (offered, 6to 1 taken) 10 to 1 agst Thunderbolt (offered, 12 to 1 taken) 20 to 1 agst Optimist (offered) 25 to 1 agst Sutton (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Precise (offered) 25 to 1 agst Prelude (offered) 30 to 1 agst Sir William (taken) 33 to 1 agst Maggiore (taken) 40 to 1 agst Stampede (taken) 40 to 1 agst Contadina (taken) 50 to 1 agst Brassey (taken) 66 to 1 agst Summcrside (taken) FROM TILE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING. VICTORIA CROSS, Erratum in the London Gazette" of Tuesday, Juno 19, 1860.—1 n the notification of her Majesty's intention to con fer the Victoria Cross on three soldiers of her Majesty's army, for Ist Battalion, sth Regiment, Sergeant Robert Ewart, read, Ist Battalion, sth Regiment, Sergeant Robert Grant. . WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, OCT. 12. 73d Regiment of Foot—Major-General Benjamin. Orlando Jones to be Colonel, vice Major-General Sir Michael Creagh, deceased. 4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—James Colquhoun, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Marriott, pro- moted. Gth Dragoons—Captain Thomas Edward Gordon, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to bo Captain, vice Chapman, who exchanges. 9th Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon George Carleton Clery, from the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Fuller, who exchanges. 14th Light Dragoons—Captain Freerick Barclay Chap man, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Gordon, who exchanges. 17th Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon Samuel Fuller, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to to Assistant-Surgeon, vice Clery, who exchanges. 18th Light Dragoons—Captain George Harmer Poring, from the 21st Foot, to be Captain, vice Gifford, who ex changes. Royal Artillery—Ss cond Captain Henry Renny to be Captain, vice G. R. C. Young, placed on temporary half-pay; Lieutenant William George Martin to be Second Captain, vice Renny. Royal Engineers—Brevet-Colonel Sir William Thomas Denison, K.C.B. on the Seconded List, to be Colonel; Brevet-Colonel Edward William Durnford to bo Colonel, vice Stotherd, removed as a General Officer; Brevet- Major Thomas Bernard Collinson to be Lieutenant-Co lonel, vice Durnford ; Second Captain Edward Nicholas Heygate to be Captain, vice Collinson ; Lieutenant Ed ward Harding Steward to be Second Captain, vice Hey gate. Military Train—Lieutenant C. W. Farwell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wolrige, who retires ; Ensign George Edward Brace, from the 69th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Farwell ; Thomas Gerard Lockyer, Gent:, to be Ensign, without purchase; Quartermaster-Ser geant Frederick Luttrel to be Quartermaster, vice Weal', appointed to an Ensigncy in the 94th Foot. Ist Regiment of Foot—Luke Edmonstone Miller, Goat., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Fringe, superseded for being absent without leave. 2d Foot—Ensign Thomas Kelly to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Nicholetts, who retires. 7th Foot—Ensign Edward Wynne Griffith to be Lieuten ant, by purchase, vice Keyser, whose promotion, by pur chase, has been cancelled. 9th Foot—Captain Charles J. Cramer Roberts, from the 49th Foot, to be Captain, vice Grimston, who exchanges. 11th Foot—Ensign Edward Henry Hare to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Webb, who retires. 13th Foot—Lieutenant Aubrey Henzel has been superseded for being absent without leave. 21st Foot—Captain John Wynter James Gifford, from the 18th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, receiving the for mer difference between a lieutenancy of cavalry and a lieutenancy of infantry, vice Pering, who exchanges. 29th Foot—captain Richard Coote, from the 46th Foot, to he Captain, vice Gordon, whe exchanges. 32d Foot—The Hon. James Bruce Ogilvy to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cherry, promoted. 40th Foot—Ensign John Thomas Whelan to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Brooke, killed in action ; Ensign Frederick Dudgeon, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Whelan, Whose promotion of the 4th Sept., 1860, has been cancelled. 46th Foot—Captain 'John James Hood Gordon, from the 29th Foot, to be Captain, vice Coote, who exchanges ; Ensign Richard Fletcher Armytage Howorth to be Lieu. tenant, by purchase, vice Mullen, who retires. 49th Foot—Captain Rolland V. S. Grimston, from the 9th Foot, to be Captain, vice Roberts, who exchanges. 59th Foot—Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Edward Burmester to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel Henry Hope Graham, C. 8., appointed Inspecting-Field Officer of a Recruiting District; Captain and Brevet-Major Robert Wm. Romer to be Major, by purchase, vice Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel urmester ; Lieutenant Herbert Edward G. Crosse to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major Isomer; Ensign Charles Wollaston Hutton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Crosse. 60th Foot—Wm. Warren, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Worsley, promoted ; James Blakie Keith, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Meade, promoted. 75th Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Mackay to be Assistant-Surgeon; vice WOods, who resigns. 76th Foot—Staff-Surgeon Arthur Bell to be Surgeon, vice Surgeon Major Scott, who exchanges. 90th Foot—Ensign John Williamson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice C. B. Wynne, promoted; Ensign Wm. Stewart Hamilton, from the 12th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Williamson. Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant Hector S. Vandeleur to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice the Hon. J. F. Pennington, who retires ; Ensign Fitz Roy Wilson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vandeleur. Gold Coast Artillery Corps—Captain and Brevet-Major Thomas Cochrane to be. Major - , without purchase, vice Major and Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Bird, promoted to an Unattached Lieutenant-Colanelcy, without purchase; Lioutenant Francis John Bolton to be Captain, without purchase, vice Cochrane. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon-Major Robert. Thos. Scott, from the 76th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon-Major, vice Surgeon Bell, who exchanges. BREVET. Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Wm. Pasley, K.C.8., Royal Engineers, to be General, vice Thackoray, deceased. Major-General William Cuthbert Ward to be Lieut.- General, rice Sir C. W. Pasley. Colonel Richard John Stotherd to be Major-General, vice Ward. _ . Major-General Charles Dixon and Major-General Sher burne Williams, retired full pay Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Generals, in consequence of the promotion of Major-General Ward, who stood below them on the effec tive list of the corps at the dates of their retirement, and Colonel Thomas Here, retired full pay Royal Engineers, to be Major-General, in consequence of the promotion of Colonel Stotherd. BANKRUPTS. John Keen, merchant, Leadenhall-street, City, to sur render Oct. 23, at two, and Nov. 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Robert Stevens, innkeeper, Ipswich, Oct. 23, at twelve, and Nov. 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alfred Silvester, photographic artist, New Dorset-street, Clapham-road, Oct. 25, at one, and Nov. 29, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John Cooper, printer, Great Yarmouth, Oct. 25 and Nov. 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Benjamin Goodson, jun., farmer, - Lithe Coggeshall,Essex, Oct. 24, at two, and Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Solomon. Lindo, wine merchant, Westbourne-grove, Bayswater, Oat 24, at half-past twelve, and Nov. 26, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Charles William Bourne, corn factor, Dudley, Worces tershire, Oct. 25 and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Birming ham District Court. James Whittaker Evans, cotton spinner, Newcastle under-Lyme, Oct. 22 and Nov. 12, at eleven, at the Bir mingham District Court. Thomas Ragg, printer, Birmingham, Oct. 25 and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. John Siddons and William Clark, ironfounders, Great Bridge, Staffordshire, Oct. 25 and Nov. 15, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Matilda Archer, grocer, Filey, Yorkshire, Oct. 26 and Nov. 16, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Jabez Fowler, draper, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, Oct. 23 and Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Daniel Platten, draper, Dorchester, Oct. 26 and Nov. 28, at one, at the Exeter District Court. SCOTCH BANKRUPTS. John Thomson, merchant, Edinburgh. Henderson I,aw, merchant, Glasgow. John Gray Macfarlan, merchant, Glasgow. Thomas Callender and Sons, leather factors, Glasgow. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to 1 cap. 32, for the week ending of Oct., 1860 : lie Act 7th and Bth Victoria on Wednesday, the 10th day ISSUE DEP Notes issued . ..... £29,162,255 .ARTMENT. • Government Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities .. 3,459,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 14,687,255 Silver Bullion .... £29,162,2551 BANKING D Proprietors' Capi tal .............. £14.553,000 Rest . . ............ 3,083,017 Public Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac- V 9,162,255 , EPARTDIENT. Government Secu rities (including DeadWeii;l►tAn nuity) Other Securities 19,582,595 Notes Gold and Silver Coin 738,358 counts) 6,583,914 Other Deposits 12,813,771 Seven Day and other Bills 759,631 £37,793.363 £37,793,363 :ARMHA LL, Chief Cashier. Dated Oct. 11,1860. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from Returns made in the week ending the 9th day of Oct., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : Muscovado, the produce of the British pos sessions in America Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 23s Bid 26s 10d Average price of the foregoing COUNTRY. MARKETS. LIVERPOOL—OcT. 12, There was a poor attendance of both town and country buyers at this morning's market, with a very limited de main? for wheat and flour, which may be quoted at about late rai,qe for fine descriptions, but inferior sorts a decline.. Oats and ,qatmeal a retail business. Egyptian beans a l ' shade easier. Barley .and peas were in firm request, and brought fully late rateb.' In Indian corn there was a fair demand at ab ou t 3d Cr qr over last Friday. The market.; closed without animation:, WAKEFI.I,:IO--Our. 12. The show of whe a t was sm,lll dry is per qr lower. Oth er kn.:chand trade dull. Old and.. . declined 2s to 3s, and. we have only a moderate businc'ss Beans fully as dear. barley is taken at about is cheaper:, to report. Good dry Oats and shelling unchanged. Averages for the virt'ox Wheat 1666 qrs., at........ • 65s Old Peas • • 20 Beans Barley...—. • • 334 Oats Rye — —.---s Od. EXETER—Our. 12. A fair business was done in the corn markot to-day, at the following pric CS Wheat, white. ,8s ,9d to Bs'6d I Barley., 48 6d to 5 s Od Ditto red 7s 1k! to 8s Od Oats 3s 6d to 3s 9 I New white wheat, 7s 10 7s 6d ; red, 6s 9d to 7s. Flour, fine, 46s to 4%.5; seconds, 44s to 45s per sack. CATTLE. There was a fair atterldt,'nee of dealers at the market. Business dull. Fat beef,p score, lOs to 1 lsOd 1 Ewes, per lb .... 6d to 6id Perk carcases,do Ils Od to 12s i Wethers ; do•• •• .. 61d to 7 d , 40.... G to 0 i Sheep, per lb. 7d to —d 1 Fat calves Rough fat, 41d per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR—Ocr. 12. The improved demand noticed in our last cortittlined yesterday, when the market assumed a quiet avlb.earanee, and but few sales have in consequence been effect ; tho prices remai n 'the same. Good strong brown Jar.gaica, i B would realise 40s to 40s Gd per cwt. Demerara rtm:ts well freely at is 10d proof gallon. COAL MAR %Feces of Coal per Ton al s. d. :ET—OCT. 12. the close of the market.) Walls End. Davison's West Hart ley ...16. 9 Thuilel(l Moor Butes ..14 0 Tanfield Moor 14 0 Wylam l6 6 Lambert's West Hart- 8 Hett•On •. ...... 21 0 Auckh.nd Park.. „...18 3 Woodho,uss , C105e.....18 3 Hedley.. , ,19 3 Whitworth,. 16 6 North Hartlelvol 10 9 19 9 Heugh Stewart's' .......... • 2l 0 Fothergilr s Aberdare -21 0 Frainwellgate l9 Acorn Close ........ l9 Hunwick .... 16 • Lyon's Stone ........18 0 Carway and Duffryn Malting 22 6 t, 33 ; sold, 32. ley 16 6 Byass's Bebside West Hartley l6 9 Craghead Hartley..... 15 0 Holywell Hastings Hartley ..16 9 St. Cuthbert's Hartley 15 6 Walls End. Br:ddyll's lietton 20 3 Ships at marker TILE MAILS. MAILS DUE. • • Austra amptonlia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via •South - Oct. 19. ) ..• .. • • • • Do. (via Marseilles) Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds Nov. 6. Buenas Ayres, Monte Video, &a. .. Oct. —. Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. Canada, &c. (via Galway) .. Oct. .10. Cape of Good Hope, &c. Nov. 21 China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Oct. 19. Do. (via Marseilles) Oct. 13. Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. Overdue. India(Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Oct. 19. Do. (via Marseilles) Oct. 13. India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. Overdue. Do. (via Marseilles) Oct. 19. Lisbon Oct. 11. Cuba and Mexic9 . • • . .. Oct. 15. Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Overdue. 1)0. (via Marseilles) Oct. 13. Vigo, and Oporto .. .. Oct. 11. United States, California, &c. . • • • .. Oct. 17. Western Coast of Atrica Madeira, Teneriffe Overdue. West Indies and Pacific, C arthage na, Cuba, &o. Oct. 16. RAILWAY INIELMGENCE. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE / 1 EEL Miles !ned. 1,- 1 IWO. Railways. Belfast and N. Counties Belfast and Comity Down Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June Blyth and Tyne Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Ches.&Holyhead(withlklold) Cockermouth & Workington' Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock, & Passage Cornwall Deeside Dublin & Belfast Junction Dublin and Drogheda Dub. & Wicklow (in. Kingst ) Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee Mid Arbroath Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun East Anglian E. Counties,Nrik.,&E.l.Jnion i Ensat Kant E. L ancas hire(in. Blackburn) Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western Great Northern Great North of Scotland xt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) Great Western Hull and Holderness knverness k Aberdeen June Irish South-Eastern Killarney Junction Lancaster and Carlisle (in Kendal and Windermere) Lane. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) Limerick and Foynes Llanelly London & North-Western London and Blackwall London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, & S. Coast L'derry and Enniskillen Lond., Tilbury, & Southend Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham Mar port and Carlisle Midland Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind Monkland Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal Newcastle and Carlisle Newport,Aberg.,& Herefor North British (in. Dalkeith) North Devon North-Eastern North London North Staffordshire North-Western N. Yorkshire and Cleveland Oxford, Wore., & Wolver Peebles St. Helen's Canal & Railway Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern Shrewsbury & Birmingham Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union South Devon South-Eastern South Wales. S. Yorkshire and River Dun Stockton and Darlington Taff Vale Antwerp Lake Huron ... Ulster Ulverstone and Lancaster Vale of Neath Warrington and Stockport Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick West Cornwall & Furness Jun W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt ww W hh .Hartlepool aa yv ee nn Junctionna rr . FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Eastern Junction and Rotterdam Dutch Rhenish Belgian Eas Grand Trunk of Canada BuffaloA Ll A-t r ol t and Milwaukie Great Indian Peninsula Great Luxembourg Great Western of Canada Lombardo-Venetian Lyons and Geneva....,., Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant Maria Antonia ... Northern of France Norwegian Trunk.... Paris, Lyons, Szliediterrn Paris and Orleans Paris and Strasburg.' Royal Danish - Sambre and Meuse Southern of France West Flanders' W. and N. W. of France.. 125 21 29 31 1832 283 764 9 246 46. 10 102 181 30 29 72 306 1712 118 123 879 922 1,032 1859. 125 211 9' 8 20 401 122 171 31 On 499 291 22 1831 283 1734 9 28 6141 177 764 9 233 461 29 72 302 171 k 118 119 1,41 '565 3,048 1,240 7,452 16,092 _ 970 28,001 6,737 3,407 238 1,295 8,201 25,900 1,509 9,253 34,527 39,520 572 86,504 1,670 21,539 22,940 1,535 12,461 1,108 1,196 44,030 7,238 1,462 2,724 3,474 6,329 622 42,037 2,601 8,777 716 1,669 520 1,341 757 4,766 708 748 500 1,244 687 2,476 4.702 8, 087 15,0* 242 1,019 840 922 1,016 '314 1,187 1,776 2,063 1,808 'BlB 1,115 1,011 25,829 6,431 3,30 323 1,155 7,671 28,371 1,665 7,385 34,014 31,90 S 435 81,437 1,751 19,635; 20,361 1,371 48,653 1,605 10,795 1,100 1,128 39,253 7,305 1,607 2,313 3,301• 6,085 648 41,266 2,547 7,823 320 2,126 4,342 3,860 16,252 2,554 2,699 12,577 1,862 3,514 4,020 2,008 3,072 1,780 853 3,664 26,788 7,338 3,127 6,992 4,195 1,769 510 1,108 412 1,481 734 4,041 621 645 336 6,627 13,749 1,179 41,019 , 326 1,447 2,970 3,488 10,606 2,448 2,611 9,286 51,988 5,725 12,761 276 95,587 66,212 1,230 22,592 1,131 46,135 51,571 848 83,408 53,039 1,124 [9,917 -- io7i 45,804 BIRTHS. BELLEw.—On the 11th inst., at her residence in London, the wife of P. B. B e ll ew , E sq ., o f a s on and heir. BEVAN.—On the 9th inst., a t Trent-park, the wife of R. C. L. Bevan, Esq., of a s on. CARTWRIGHT.—On the 9th inst., at Kineton, the wif e o f Colonel Cartwright, of a son. MARRIAGES. MACKAY—WHITAKER.—On the 9th . inst., at St. panda,parish church, George Mackenzte. Mackay, sq of Shepton Mallett, Somerset, to Mar ian, second daughter of Edward Thomas Whitaker, Esq., of Tavistock-square, London. of 7, Green. PRIC DtTßHArc—On the 10th inst., at St. Philip's, s E tr a e r e F t s , - Vo r s t ;en F o e r t-e s r qu C a h re a,rl s e o s n P o ri f ee nr. E Priee, of Margate to Frances Agneq, youngest daughter of Wm. D ur h am, Esq., of Wilton Lodge , Add ison-road, Kensington. DIGATUS. CLuNN.—On the 11th inst., at Chinn's Hotel, Covent.. garden, suddenly, Mary Ann, the wife of Mr. Clunn, aged 66. Comnu.—On the 9th inst., at Leamington, Elizabeth, relict of the late Taylor Combe, of the British Museum, Esq., F.R.S. Huonv.s.—On the 9th inst., at 6, Guildford•road, Lam beth, Kezia, widow of the late Robert Hughes, Esq., of the Admiralty, aged .53. AULCOCK.—On the 6th inst., Mr. Alfred Muleock, late of Foster and Porter's, aged 47. FALEY.—On the 9th inst., at Harrogate, J. G. Paley, Esq. of Oatlands, and Langcliffe, Yorkshire, aged 87. SATCHELL. — On the Bth inst., suddenly, Mr. Richard Satchell, late brewer, of 6 ,Winsley-street, Oxford street, aged 56. LONNON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun 3ffice, No. 112, Strand, in tie Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Saturday, October 13, 1860, ~~_~ I' Reopipts. le ----- 1860. I-- - 1859. I I