The Sun. — London, England, 1860-08-30 00:00:00

• rilE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1860. 213 E PRINCE'S VISIT To CANADA. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) HER MAJESTY'S SHIP FLYING-FISH, OFF QUEBEC, AUG. 18. The real visit to America may be said to date from this day, for, with all their hearty loyalty and all their intensity of welcome and devotion, the provinces through which the Prince has just passed are but the outworks of the mighty colonial empire he has yet to traverse. The real progress, there fore, may be said to begin to-day, and, if the future may be judged by the past, the reception accorded to her Majesty's eldest son, not alone in Canada but in the United States, is likely to be such as has never yet been offered spontaneously to the greatest monarch of modern times. At Prince Edward Island, poor and small in proportion gait is in com parison to the other provinks, far more was done than could ever have been'expeoted. Before the • ball, which took place there on the night of the 10th, his Royal Highness reviewed the Volunteers, and in all relating toequipment and discipline their appearance would have done credit to any 'colony in her Majesty's dominions. After this military dis play every o ne made up their minds for the fete of he evening, which, if all I hear is true, must have been anxiously looked forward to since Christmas last. The ball at Charlottetown was, in its way, therefore, a very gay affair.. Of course it was very crowded, and not many could get in, or, being in, get out; but people like being crowded at a ball, especially when dancing is not their forte, and thus even the most critical at Charlottetown could not detect whether the bewildered individuals pushing here and there were really involved in the mazes of a quadrille or only trying to gain the door. The Prince was there, too, laughing and dancing as much as any, and the Governor, Mr. Dundas, second only to the Prince in popularity, was equally gay, and equally complicated in the crowd. So the whole thing was voted a decided suc cess, everybody enjoyed themselves, and " the festivities were prolonged to an advanced hour." Saturday, the 11th, was a quiet day—that is, the Prince only received visitors and embarked in state on board the Hero, which, with the Ariadne, Cossack, and Flying-Fish, and the French 42-gun frigate Pomone, were all dressed in colours and had yards manned. This made a good spectacle of the departure, and the crowds of people lining the shores finished the effect, and made the whole cere mony one of considerable state and eclat, in spite of the rain, which had been dropping all the morning, and which the thunder of the guns brought down at last with drenching vehemence. At 2 p.m. the signal was made to weigh anchor, and in half an hour afterwards the squadron was steaming quickly down the river, with light winds, thick, rainy weather, a little moss sea, and a decided prospect of each and all getting worse as the night drew on. The course was across some dangerous shoals between Prince Edward Island and the mainland, where the channel for large ships is narrow and intricate, and where, on that night at least, there was but little prospect of getting sight of any bearings by which the Squadron could judge of its whereabouts. For tunately the rain kept down the wind, as ) indeed, it seemed capeble of keeping down anything ; for except on occasions of great public festivals and out door rejoicings in England I never before saw any thing like its density. It was a wretched night, and by 10 o'clock the vessels were slowly creeping in, sounding their way with the lead lines, as they ad vanced, and hoisting groups of lights at the main yard whenever any was fortunate enough to find some water deeper than the rest. Thus moving, stopping, sounding and signalling, the vessels crept slowly on past the Escumenar light and Mirimichi Bay till daylight broke, when the open sea was gained at last. Sunday was at first as bad as Saturday in point of weather till the evening, when the breeze' fell and the rain ceased as the ships steamed in towards Gaspe Point. To see the bold magnificence of the coast to the best advantage, all the squadron stood into the narrow channel be tween Bonaventure Island and Cape Gaspe, where the huge cliffs of steep red sandstone, lit up by the setting sun, seemed like mountains of fire, in which the dark shadows caused by rents and chasms stood out with a black distinctness that was almost ter rible. Just beyond Cape Gaspe is an insulated mass of fiery sandstone, known by the name of the Perce Rock. It is caverned into a heap of rents and holes, some of which penetrate its entire mass, and allow a faint daylight to peer through it, showing like spots of dirty chalk upon its straight blood-coloured sides. The Hero ran close to this to enable his Royal High ness to see its rough magnificence at the best, and passing across Mud Bay stood straight for Gaspe harbour. It was night again, however, before this was gained, and as the last rays of the sun were overpowered by darkness the Auroraßorsalis seemed suddenly to spring into light and life in the sky, and kept playing across every part of the heavens, as if the active principle of the light which had just de parted was rejoicing over its release from work. Sometimes it would entirely vanish with a sudden blink, as if the illumination was blown out, and then come faintly streaking down the sky in thin, lambent, pencilled veins, which spread out in sudden shoots, now brightening, now fading, till the whole lit up in one vivid blaze, and died out to reappear again in another direction. The squadron reached Gaspe Bay soon after dark and anchored for the night alongside the Victoria and the Lady Head steamers, which had come down with the Governor of Canada and the chief members of the Colonial Government to meet his Royal Highness. Early in the morn• ing of the 13th, after a visit had been duly paid to the Hero by the chief Government officials, the squadron was signaled to 'get under way and fol low the Hero into the inner harbour of Gaspe. The whole coast line of the North American provinces abounds with natural and almost landlocked har bours, many of which are superior in size and security and depth of water to the most vaunted harbours of Great Britain. Milford Haven, Queenstown, Bantry Bay, or Plymouth are below any standard of comparison with these magnificent refuges ; and Gaspe, though far from one of the best, is still immeasurably better than the best of ours. A long chain of richly-wooded undulating hills encloses it on three sides, and its broad capa cious mouth, some five miles wide, has a natural breakwater across half its extent in the shape of a sandbank, which, stretching out in a sharp curve, stops the angry water from passing into the inner harbour. The Hero, followed by the Ariadne, Flying-Fish, Victoria, and Lady Head, steamed up this basin till the little town df Gaspe ' with its stiff-loOking white-washed houses, its cleared fields, and regular sharp outlines of small trees, for all the world like the villages children build with a box of Dutch toys, came close in view. There was still the inner harbour of all to enter, and to this the Hero was, of course, to lead. On a high, command ing spit of land a heavy battery commenced firing a Royal salute as the vessel approached, and the echoes went reverberating among the hills in a deep, sustained roar, as if the very mountains were shouting to each other in tones of thunder. All this time the Hero, with the Royal standard flying, seemed unaccountably still. The last gun was fired, and the uproar which it called into 'Ewing waxed fainter and fainter, till it ceased gently in a hoarse murmur, the shadow of its for mer self, and still the Hero continued quiet and motionless as a rock. At last a cloud of little sig nitls were hoisted with the Ariadne's pennants, and went down again before a landeman could well Count their number. But, quick as they'went up and down, they had been read by the squadron, and it was " Hands up—stream cables !" for the Jicro was ashore. In trying to c:,ter the inner harbour sh e ha ,- ; taken the ground on a low spit of .shoal, at.d there she remained hard and fast. In a few minutes the Ariadne went ahead, an d, skimming I round the bay with a speed which no ocean-going frigat has ever yet surpassed, turned in her own l eng th anti hae:,.ed in, stern foremost, to assist the flag-s Lip, inat ez,:uvre Was beautifully executed, though cure in rain, for where the Hero gets aground the/ 9 is not much water for the Ariadne. She, too, tone: led the shoal with her stern, but of course went on'againy and got out her b oats at once The Commodor e th en six _ all hawser to tow. nailed the Flying-fish to close, and in a mi nute or so afterwards that pretty little sloop was brought under the stern. of the Hero with such skill and ease see li that, though the vessels actually touched, the dis tance was calculated with such minute care and nicety that, as sailors say, the two ships would scarcely have broken au egg between them. In. a very few words Commodore Seymour gave his in structions, and in a very few minutes Commander Hope carried them out, taking the Hero's stream cable through the stern port, and dropping it with a bower anchor in the very spot where it was ne cessary to haul on. Simply as this may be said in words, it was, on the whole, a difficult thing: to do properly; but the Flying-fish did it, an& did it well, too. Hauling upon this, and steaming full power astern till the water was in a foam, the Hero made a desperate effort to clear herself, but all in vain. Nothing moved her, and there seemed at one time a strong probability that she would have to run her guns aft, if not to lower them into the Flying-fish entirely, before she floated. During this interval of time a number of gaily-dressed boats had come out from Gaspe town, and, quite unaware of the untoward circumstances of the case, collected in a crowd under the Hero's bows, their crews cheering and waving handker chiefs as if his Royal Highness had purposely gone ashore to receive their ovations at his ease. At his ease, indeed, the Prince certainly seemed to be, sky larking about the quarter deck of the Hero with the younger officers with as much good humour and sang froid as if he visited Gaspe every day in the year, and was rather in the habit than otherwise of getting ashore in a line-of-battle ship. At last, after an hour or more had been spent in useless attempts to move the Hero off, the Ariadne passed two haw sers out astern, and taking the flagship in tow, pulled her out of her difficulties bodily and set her afloat once more in deep water. The set of the tide while waiting for high water to enter the inner harbour had taken her ashore in the only shoal place in the harbaur. That it was .not due to the want of careful pilotage may be judged from the fact that Captain Oreibar was in charge of her, and this officer, with the late Captain (now Admiral) Bayfield, has been ir the last 30 years engaged in making the Admialty survey of the whole coast line of the provinces, from Nova Scotia to Labrador. As may, however, easily be guessed, no more at tempts were made to enter the inner/harbour, and as soon as the Hero had recovered herself, recalled her boats, and in a manner resettled her plumage, the signal was hoisted, "prepare to weigh." In 10 minutes afterwards the squadron was steaming down the bay as fast as they could run, for a huge Atlantic fog bank, dense as a shoal, came pouripg , in, and safe as the harbour is at all times, it was not thought quite advisable to keep large ships tacking about in it in fog which was quite of the colour and almost of the consistency of butter. All therefore made haste to get out at once, the Hero leading round Cape Gaspe—a tremendous headland of limestone rock, gray and solemn looking, with its massive brow furrowed into deep chasms, like wrinkles, by the action of the elements upon it for ages past. The Flying-fish was afforded rather a close opportunity of studying this awful rock, for in the fog the Ariadne suddenly made her appearance close astern, and compelling the Flying-fish to turn almost into the rock to avoid a still more dangerous collision. Outside the har bour the fog was, if possible, even more dense than before, and in half an hour the ships were any where but together, and all most cautiously feeling their way up the Gulf of St. Lawrence, guided partly by the guns which were fired at intervals by the flag-ship. That night the squadron made very little progress, for with the fog was its most dis agreeable accompaniment—a heavy deep fog swell ; so that, on the whole, the weather was decidedly un pleasant. On the 14th it cleared a little, and the ships went ahead fast—so fast, indeed, that the Flying-fish was soon making a long stern chase of it, and though her heavy guns were brought aft, and all other nautical devices adopted to increase her speed, she continued dropping astern till she would have been left behind altogether had not the Commodore signalled the Ariadne to take her in tow. To a frigate of such speed and power as the Ariadne it makes very little difference whether she has a line-of-battle ship in tow or only a sloop like the Flying-fish. Oa the voyage out, when the Hero fell short of coal, the Ariadne not only took her in tow for a couple of days, but towed her at the rate of nearly 10 knots an hour. With the Flying-fish, however, she was less suc cessful. Scarcely had she got her well under way before the bearings of some parts of her engines heated to such an extent that the white metal ran out, and the Ariadne came to a dead standstill in a minute. There was nothing for it therefore but to leave her to beat up under sail till she could repair the accident, while the Flying-fish pressed on full power to rejoin the Hero—an effort which took her the whole night to accomplish, and which she never would have accomplished at all if the flag-ship had not slackened speed as she neared the mouth of that most awful-looking of all rivers, the Sagueniy, up which it was intended the squadron should steam. The Saguenay is only some 120 miles dis tant from Quebec ; but, as the river is of its kind the most extraordinary in the whole world, it was arranged that the Prince should spend at least two days in fishing and • boating between the tremen dous cliffs which hem it in on every aide. While the Hero was preparing to enter the river the Ariadne rejoined the squadron. She bad repaired the damage to her engines by 9 o'clock on the pre vious night, and had steamed up a distance of 122 knots in 11 hours. All the vessels were preparing to enter the mouth of the river when the Hero got ashore again on a very little shoal, but one on which she managed to get ashore, and pretty firmly too. The water round the entrance to the Saguenay is deep enough for any line-01-ba.ttle ship that ever floated, except in one small spot called the Four-fathom Patch, the only spot in the whole bay where she could take the ground, and on this the pilot contrived to run her rather hard. The buoys which indicated the presenee of this danger had shifted considerably— so considerably, in fact, that it is said the pilot should have seen at once by their bearings that they were not where they ought to have been. He was thought at the time he was engaged to be one of the,best pilots for the St. Lawrence, but it would seem that he had never taken a large ship across the stream from liiviere de Loup to the Saguenay. This fact, coupled with the nervousness arising from having such a ship in charge, may account for his getting her ashore; b4O, whatever the cause, it is pretty clear that he managed to ground her on a rather rocky bottom, and one on which the Hero could hardly have got off without some damage. The amount of injury she may have sustained, how ever, is a mere on dit. It is not likely to be much, and the only fact which admitted of no doubt what ever was that the Hero was again ashore. As the tide was falling fast there seemed to be very little probability of her being got off for some hours. The Ariadne was preparing tripull her off again, or pull her in half, and the Hero was beginning to get her guns aft, when suddenly, to the astonishment of all, she moved a little, then bumped a little, then moved a little more as the sweep of the tide pushed her, and at last, as she went full power astern with her screw, she worked clear off the shoal, and was once more quietly afloat. This made an end at once of the chance of the squadron going up the Sague nay, so the Prince and his suit disembarked and went on board the Governor's steamer, which had followed them from Gaspe, and this the first day's tour was made up the wildest river in the world. The day was about as wretched and unfavourable as could possibly have happened for any other trip. The wind was high and rushing in fierce. sharp squalls which drove the rain like small shot in your face. Gloomy black clouds rested on the mountains and seemed to double their height, pouring over the ragged cliffs in a stream of mist, till, lifting sud denly with the gusts of wind, they allowed short glimpses into what may almost be called the terrors of the Saguenay scenery. It is on such a day above all others, that the savage wildness and gloom of this extraordinary liver is seen to the greatest ad vantage. Sunlight and cicar skies are out of place over its black waters; anything which recals the life and smile of nature is not in unison with its huge naked cliffs, raw, cold, and silent as tombs. An Italian spring could effect no change in its deadly rugged aspect, nor does winter add an iota to its 'mournful desolation. It is a river which oneahould only to know what dreadful aspects nature can assume in her wild moods. Once seen, however, few will care to visit it again, for it is with a sense of relief that you emerge from its sullen gloom, and look back - upon it as a kind of vault—Nature's sar cophagus, where life or sound has never entered. Compared to it the Dead Sea is a blooming garden, and the wildest ravines look cosey and smiling. It is wild without the least variety, and grand appa rently in spite of itself, while so utter is the solitude, so dreary and monotonous the frown of its great black walls of rock, that the tourist is sure to get impatient with its sullen reserve till he feels a posi tive antipathy to its very name. Some six miles above it is the little town, or, as in England we should call it, village of Tadousiac. It is more than 300 years since Jacques Cartier, the discoverer of Canada, the adventurer who, through his misinter pretation of the Indian word " welcome," gave the present name to the country, landed here. It was almost his first real resting-place, and the first men tion which we have of the Saguenay is one which now well befits its savage aspect, for Cartier sent a boat and crew to explore its rocky chasm, which were never more heard of. From that clay to this the river has had a name which. allowing for the difference of times and 'creeds, only the Styx can equal. At the mouth of the Saguenay the water varies in depth from 10 to 16 fathoms, but once between the walls of the river and the depth from end to end is never less than 100 fathoms, generally 150. On either side, at a distance of about a mile apart, the cliffs rise up thin, black, and straight, varying in perpendicular height from 1,200 to 1,600 feet, and this is the character of the river Saguenay from its mouth to its source. On the right bank the cliffs are poorly mantled here and there with stunted pines, but on the left there is scarcely a sign of life or verdure, and the granite rocks stick up white and bleached in the gloomy air like the bones of an old world. At two places, St. Maguerite and be tween Capes Trinity and Eternity, where smaller tributaries pour their contributions into the deep, black stream, a breach occurs in the wall of rocks, as if some giant hand had torn them forcibly back, and left them strewn and baffled of their power in uncouth lumps over the valleys beyond. But these are the only openings, the only means of escape, if they may be so called, from the silent gloom of this dead river. The Saguenay seems to want painting—wants blowing up, or draining— anything, in short, to alter its morose, eternal, quiet awe. Talk of Lethe or the Styx, they must have been purling brooks compared with this savage river, and a picnic on the banks of either would be preferable to one on the Saguenay ! On the occa sion of the Prince's first visit, on the 15th, the mist and rain hid half its gloom, but enough was seen, and they returned to the Hero at about 5 o'clock wet and dull. There was rather a State dinner on board the flagship that evening, and the Prince, having to be up early the next morning, retired at 12. Before turning in he made a bet with one of the officers of the ship that he would be up before four o'clock next morning—a bet, too, which he won, though tired with the fatigue of the previous day. He overslept himself so far that he had barely time to make his appearance on the quarterdeck of the Hero in a hurried and very imperfect toilette before eight bells (four o'clock) was sounded. Before six a.m. he was again on board the Governor's steamer and away up the Saguenay to fish. Before he left, Captain Hope, of the Flying-fish, had received orders to get up steam and take all the officers of the squadron on an excursion up the river. Of course, everybody wished to go, and, as the day was bright and glorious, everybody that could come came. The Flying-fish has the honour of being the first man-of-war that ever passed up the Saguenay, and if they send the whole navy of Eng land I am sure a merrier party will never enter its waters than steamed up on that occasion . Even the Saguenay could not depress their spirits, and if that is not a proof of the zest with which all entered into the day's enjoymtl it would be hard to say what is. From St. M.V•guerite the smart little sloop steamed on to where the wild scenery of the river culminates at a little inlet on the right bank between Capes Trinity and Eternity. Than these two dreadful headlands nothing can be imagined more grand or more impressive. For one brief moment the rugged character of the river is partly softened, and, looking back into the deep valley between the-capes, the land has an aspect of life and wild luxuriance which, though not rich, at least seems no comparison with the previous awful barrenness. Cape Trinity on the side towards the landward opening is pretty thickly cloOed with fir and birch mingled together in a colour contrast which is beautiful enough, especially when the rocks show out among them, with their little cas- cades and waterfalls like strips of silver shining in the sun. But Cape Eternity, which well becomes its name, is the very reverse of all this, and seems to frown in gloomy indignation on its brother cape for the weakness it betrays in allowing any thing like life or verdure to shield its wild, un couth deformity. Cape Eternity certainly shows no sign of relaxing in this respect from its deep savage grandeur. It is one tremendous cliff of granite, more than 1,500 feet high, and inclining forward some 200 feet, brow-beating all beneath it, and making as if at any moment it would fall and over , whelm the deep black stream which flows down so cold and motionless below. High up on its rough gray brows a few stunted pines show like bristles their scathed white arms,giving an awful weird aspect to the mass, blanched here and there by the tempests of ages, stained and discoloured by little waterfalls, in blotchy and decaying spots, but all speaking mutely of a long-gone time when the Saguenay was oid, silent, and gloomy, before England was known, or the name of Christianity understood. Unlike Niagara and all other of God's great works in nature, you do not wish for silence or solitude here. Com panionship become doubly necessary in an awful solitude like this, and, though you involuntarily talk in subdued tones, still talk you must, if only to relieve your mind of the feeling of loneliness and desolation which seems to weigh on all who ven ture up the Saguenay. The Flying•fish passed under this cape slowly, with her yards almost touching the rock, though with more the& a thousand feet of water under her, • and oven the middies and youngsters from the squadron were awed by the scene into a temporary quietness. The solemn and almost forbidding silence at last became too much. The party had not come out to be overawed, chilled, and subdued by rocks, however tremendous, so it was carried nem. con, that, dead and stoney as they were, they must have echoes, and the time was come to wake them. In a minute after, and Captain Hope having good-naturedly given his consent, one of the largest 68-pounders was cast oose and trained aft to face the cliff. From under its overhanging mass the Flying-fish was moved with care lest any loose crag should be sufficiently disturbed by the concussion to come down bodily upun her decks. A safe distance thus gained, the gun was fired. None who were in the Flying Fish that day will ever forget its sound. For the space of a quarter of a minute after the discharge there was a dead silence, and then, as if the report and concussion were hurled back down upon the decks, the echoes came in crash on crash. It seemed as if the rocks and crags had all sprung into life under the tremendous din and as if each was firing 68- pounders full upon us, in sharp crushing volleys, till at last they grew hoarser' in their anger, and retreated, bellowing slowly, carrying the tale of invaded solitude from hill to hill, till all the dis tant mountains seemed to roar and groan at the in- trusion. It was the first 'time these hideous cliffs had ever been made to speak, and when they did break silence they did it to some purpose. A few miles further on the Plying Fish passed under Statue Point, where, some 1,000 feet above the water 2 huge rough Gothic arch gives entrance :o a cave in which, as yet, the foot of man has ncvcr rod. Berore the entrance to this black aperture a. gigantic rock, like the statue of some Titan, once stood. A few years ago, duri►►g the winter, it gave way, and the monstrous figure came crashing down through the ice of the Saguenay, and left bare to view the entrance to the cavern it had guarded perhaps for ages. Beyond this, afrain, is the Ta.bleau Rock, a sheet of dark-coloured granite, some 600 feet high by 300 wide, as straight and almost as smooth as a mirror. After passing this the interest in the scenery de clined, so the Flying Fish turnell 'round and madi; the best of her way down the river at full speed. Passing St. Marguerite the Prince was still busy with his frilling, and a Royal salute was fired, the echoes of which, I believe, are still wandering in search of rest to this very hour. His Royal Highness returned to the Hero at about nine O'clock. His sport, owing to the fineness of the day, had not been very great, as a few small trout were all the whole party had to boast of. Somebody hooked a large salmon, and gave it to the Prince to land, but his attempt was not successful, and the only fish which would have been a trophy broke awiy. Fishing, however, was not the only sport enjoyed. A number of Indians waited at St. Marguerite with their canoes, and in these the Prince, the Duke of Newcastle, and others of the boldest of his suite embarked and ventured up the rapids which pour down from that tributary into the main stream, Sitting in a canoe is a trifle more difficult than Pitting in a Turkish calque, which I hold to be the whist 4iagomfortable means of convey anoc ever resorted to. Xoloody but an Indian ever liked a canoe, or felt at ease it. l.ts hark is so thin that the very ripple of the water may be felt. through \it as through a blanket, while in ap pearance the tiferveftecnce of a bottle of Allsopp would be more than enongh ,to overact it. hi reality, however, they are safe efiX4ii ae i n nips one keeps quite still. In one of thee() the Prince who, to do him mere justice, knows as little 6f fear as any man that ever lived) ascended the rapids of St. Marguerite. They were not, of course, equal to the rapids of the St. Lawrence, but up even these his Royal Highness, I think, would venture had he only one of his Oxford crews on whom he could de pend to back him. In eammon parlance, as he is spoken of on board the Hero, he crams " game to the backbone," and it would be impossible to name any gentleman who is so liked on board his ship as the Prince of Wales. His popularity is not at all the effect of rank, for anyone that knows a line-of battle ship's ward and gun-room knows how much mere rank, however high, goes for there. He is liked for his kindness and perfect joviality, and for nothing more, except his " dash" and love of fun. As he came alongside the Hero the ship burnt blue lights, and in an instant, as if in rivalry of their pale bright fires, the Aurora Borealis sprang up into the sky, playing such fantastic tricks of light and colour as shamed all terrestial illumina tions into nothing.. The squadron anchored for the night off the mouth of the Saguenay, and at 0 a.m. on the 17th got under way for Quebec. There was rather a fresh breeze and strong tide down the St. Law rence, so that quick progress was not possible, and about 7 o'clock the vessels anchored 20 miles below Quebec, the first, the oldest, and the strongest of all the cities of Canada, The Prince will land in state to-day between one and two. More Than this it is impossible to write, for the mail is coming down the river, and this letter must go on board at once. The preparations and decorations of Quebec will, it is said, be on a grand scale—but it is at Montreal, the real capital of Canada, that they will culminate. Each town seems more wild than the last about the Prince, and in what extravagant de monstrations of loyalty it may not end in it is hard to say. The departure of his Royal Highness from New York is fixed for the 6th • October, and this date will, of course, be adhered to. From New York the squadron goes at once to Bertnuda, when after a stay of four days his Royal Highness will return to England, so as to arrive early in No vember. LOSS OF t VESSEL 4N.7) DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF HER CREW. A good deal of excitement was caused in North Shields on Monday by the arrival of Mr. W. Arm strong, late chief mate of the barque Kitty, of Newcastle; belonging to Mr. Brooks, of Wallsend, it having been supposed, for many months past, that the vessel and the whole of the crew had been lost. The following is the report of Mr, Armstrong; —The ship left London on the ;ssth 1une,1859, with a general cargo belonging to the Hudson's Bay Company, and hound for York factory ? in Hudson's Bay. All went well until the 12th 'August ? when they entered Hudson's Straits. At o p.m. they passed Cape g.esolgtion, with strong breqes from tie south-east, arta very buy weather. At 11 p:m. go t jag Ng) ice, from which they were never extri cated until they lost the 04. Pr! the I4st August a little clear water was observed to windward, upon which they got the ship Tinder way with set canvas . In endeavouring s o stay the ship she missed stays, and coming aetprn struck a heavy piece of ice, which broke the rudder 4n4 three SIOUPPRO, awl started the rudder post. The ship, in eiiSequenee, became very leaky; they therefore tried to secure the lowg part ofthe rudder with chains. On the 3a Sepiember, at 10 a.m, there were strong breezes from N.W,, with rain. The ice drifting in all directions, the ship being then past .1p a P ie ee of ipe , witi4 0, , f4 4z ehorg, a heavy piece pt ipe 41.94 her on the stern post, and broke the rudder short of, The ship then became §9 tr t o nump3 were resorted to, and kept constantly going until the crew were com pelled to abandon her, On Sept, 4, they 40 light wO O 4 frpm yitb tine w'cather. In the morning, on going into the held, the Water was heard riphing in the ship aft, They broke the cargo out of the 4,ftpr hog q and cut away several parts of the ceiling in endeavouring to, discover the leak, lit 4i1 2 1- not syeeet 3 4 in q 0 1,4a sA, 011 the sth, at two a.m., the ship broke adrift from the ice; they ;Pt thP main trysail ; still Ifeeping the pumps constantly going. At a.m., while haul ing the chain cable on deck to put the ship down by the head, with a view to get fit the leak aft, the ship going with her head in for the land, and all fore and aft canvas set, struck a piece of ice for ward and knocked her forefoot off. Elhe in eon, sequence made a very great deal more water, so much so that the pumps would not suck. The water gaining fast they endeavoured to stop the leak forward, but it was too far below the water mark. They then made preparations to abandon the ship, getting the boats ready with provisions, &c. At noon there were three feet water in the hold, all hands still keeping the pump constantly going, At six p,m, the water increased to 6 feet, At 10 30 the boats, with provisions, were put over the ship, the water having risen over the whale beams, and the ship lying on her broadside. On the the 7th the crew landed on Saddle Back Island, and and prepared their lioats for sailing up to the Yorlt Factory. On Saturday, the 10th, at four p.m, ' they left Saddle Back Island with two boats--,Alexau der•Ellis, master, with 10 men, in the long boat, and Mr. Armstrong, with four ()then, in the skiff. During the forepart of the night it became very thick, with the wind increasing to a strong breeze. Mr. Armstrong bailed the longboat at midnight, advising them not to sail too far off the land, the long-boat having alight with the compass.. About an hour afterw4MS: during a snow-squall, they lost sight of the long boat, and never saw her akerward. On Sunday, the 11th, the sea re.;; , ' po high that they were obliged to µuship the mast, which, with the sail and oars were pat overboard to drogue the boat. On the 15th, at noon, the weather being more mo derate, they steered in for the land on the north side of Hudson's Straits, 4;14 on the 13th landed about 17 miles sAlitl Af Oaddle Back, on the north side of Hudson's Straits, Mr. Armstrong then made up his mind to steer for the coast of Labrador. They were picked up by the Esquimaux, at Amitok, on Nov. 5, and on the 9th arrived at the settlement of the Moravian missionaries in a weak and wretched condition, and more or less severely frostbitten. ' They remained at different stations until May 15. All the provisions they bad when they parted with the long boat consisted of 701 b. of bread and 5 pieces of pork. This lasted 59 days, and for the remaining 8 days they had nothing to live on except sea-weed. They had a quadrant and epitome, but could make little use of them. On May 15th, Mr. Armstrong arrived at the Hudson's Bay settlement at Kibokok, where he stayed till the Ist of July. He then went to another station on the North-west River, where he remained till the 10th. Thence he went to Cartwight, in Sandwich Bay, where he found the schooner Lottery, which conveyed him to New foundland, from which place he arrived in Shields , yesterday morning, much to the surprise of his wife and family, who did not expect to hear of him more. The only person in the long boat, whose name he knows, is Alex. Ellis, the master, who belongs to Shields. In the skiff with him were Benjamin Groom, a Dane; Martin Monson, a Norwegian,wh'o were left at Okok badly frost-bitten ; the other two, viz., George Stewart, of Greenock, Scotland ; and Jacob Markham, of Hamburg, got employment as fishermen, and stayed behind. Mr. Armstrong de sires us warmly and heartily to thank the Moravian missionaries for the exceedingly kind and hospi table treatment which he and his companions in misfortune received at their hands during their, long stay in that inhospitable region. He also re quests us to state that neither Abraham nor Okok are marked on the charts, and thinks it very desir able that this should be done immediately for the benefit of any one who 'may be placed in a similar position.—Northern Daily Express. Till? NETT/ . SHERIFFS OF LONDON AND _MIDDLESEX. We extract from the City Press the following biographical notices of Mr. Alderman Abbiss and Mr. Lusk, 'recently elected to serve the office of Sheriff for 1860-1. MR. ALDERMAN ABBISS Is a " self-made" man, and has attained to his pre sent position by enterprising industry and an un varying course of probity and conciliation in all his transactions of private trade and public duty. He was born on the 3d of June, 1812, near Walls worth, where his parents occupied a farm for many years. He commenced business in Gracechurch street in 1834, and by steady application has at tained his present position of pecuniary competence, and the esteem of his fellow-citizens. After the frauds of Paul and Manini were discovered (in the investigation of which Mr. Abbiss took a very ac tive part), he was chosen chairman of the Board of Guardians of the City of London Union ; and on the resignation of Sir Chapman Marshall, Mr. Abbiss expressed his willingness to place his ser vices at the disposal of his fellow-citizens, and the unanimous vote of the electors at the ensuing Wardmote conferred on him the high dignity of Alderman of the Ward of Bridge. Mr. Abbiss has taken an active interest in the subject of education and mental improvement. Not long since he purchased a building for the benefit of the working classes at Powder's -end. This vil lage was without gas, and he bestirred himself, in conjunction with other gentlemen, in establishing gas works, and had the pleasure of seeing gas burning in Ponder's-end for the first time on the 11th of November last. This is working on the local principle through and through. He has also been a subscriber and active member of the Board of the Asylum for Idiots, at Earlswood, almost from its commencement, and at the last election, on the 26th of April, had the pleasure to see a proposition of his own—viz., " To receive cases for life, instead of five years," carried into effect. Those who know Mr. Abbiss will not need to be assured of his ur banity, intelligence, and stern uprightness at heart, but the general public may like to know that these qualities meet in the chosen Sheriff of 1861. MR. ANDREW Lusx. Is also, to use the hackneyed but useful phrase, a " self-made" Man, and of the right mental and moral substance for the office which awaits him. Mr. Lusk comes from " 'ond the Tweed," a farmer's son, with just enough of the Caledonian blood to give firmness to a character which is thoroughly Eng lish in its geniality and freedom. Ho has, perhaps, had to fight harder for his way than the majority of successful citizens, and has been thereby the more completely taught the great lesson of self reliance. The loss of his father at an early age, his friendless condition, and the want of opportunities, were the chief circumstances that opposed him ; but he found friends and made opportunities,. and the sequel was success of no common kind. Mr. Lusk, however, is no mere money -taker. Acting on the proverb that the hand of the diligent maketh rich, he also acted on that other proverb, " Seek wisdom," and by indefatigable exertion he stored his mind with knowledge, and thus became what he is, an enlightened as well as a prosperous citizen. Cum:mere° early became his sibyl, and called him away from the homestead in his native village, and he began life in a little northern town as "an active lad" behind the counter. There must be genius, though the world does not always call it such, in the rim: who begins behind the counter, and honestly works his way into the costume of a sheriff of the thief city in the world. ion don, was, of course, the pole star of the young man. With dreams of London were also mixed up dreams of fine in literature. He saw himself in pript•.r.-the first ambition of a hopeful scribe—and is a reporter and contributor to newspaper, found constant and profitable occupation for his mind and pen. He would, long ago, have been up to his neck jn literary enterprises had not a good spirit whispered that trade was his proper :vocation, and forthwith be gave his mind to trade, and made (Timis as fortune gave him opportUnities, and in, due time found himself where he now is, at 62, Fenchufeh-Street—a shipowner and provision mer -chant, representative of Aldgate Ward in Common Council, the helo of a' hundred fights against diffi culty and circumstance, and every time a conqueror. Mr. Lusk entered the Corporation in 1856. In politics he is a' Whig, and "something more," a staunch free-trader, and a friend of literature and education. lie is possessed of much decision of character, and has all the acuteness and cool judg ment that belong montially to successful men of business, POLICE INTELLIGENCR.--A ug . 29. MANSION-lIOUSE.—Mr. Wm. Story, who was stated in the police-sheet to be a merchant, carry ing on his business at No. 36, Crutched-friars, ap• peered before the Lord Mayor, upon hail, to an swer a charge of assaulting William Shaw, one of the City police eonatables. solicitor appeared for the defend The complainant, who has t ie haracter of a very evict, wall-conducterl offizim, stated that on c Tuesday afternsou he '‘;itst on duty in Thread nee4street, [6°1 , 4 tire o'clock, and was standing elese to t l .OO kerla-stone, when he received a vio -40 blow from a man's hand on the small of the hack, and tclr4iz: round immediately, he saw the def;,naant in the act of drawing his hand away. to told him that he had acted very foolishly in assanitihg him, and that he deserved to be locked np. The defendant said, " What for P" and he told him for striking him on the back, and the defendant, in reply, said " You are a liar." Witness told him he could not submit to be assaulted and told that be was a liar, and the defendant must ac egnapany him to the police-station. On their way there the defendant wished him to take a glass of ale with him and say no more about the matter but he declined to do so. The defendant was the worse for-liquor at the time. In answer to questions put by the defendant's solicitor, the constable said he should not have pressed the charge if the defendant had expressed the slightest regret for his conduct. The defendant's solicitor, in answer to the com plaint, said he was not instructed to dispute the constable's statement that an assault had been cam. mitted, but he was informed that it was quite un intentional. The defendant, who was in eompP . , ny with two or three other gentlemen, had tur-, e a out of Bartholomew-lane, and he ace4lentPL y - came in contact with the co ns t a bl e , b u t uad no intention to assault him. The lord Mayor, to the defendant—What are you P Defenclaht—l am a merchant, and I think the pub licit . ? that will be given to this affair will be 61,1).1"ce sufficient punishment. The Lord Mayor—You should have thought of that before you acted in such a manner. It is most disgraceful for a person holding the position of a merchant of the city of London to be drunk in the streets in the middle of the day, and I shall fine you ss. far being drunk, and ss. for assaulting the officer. Defendant—My Lord, I would much rather put the money into the poor-box, if you would allow me than be fined ss. f or being drunk. The Lord Mayor —I dare say you would, but you should have thought of the odium that was attached to it before you conducted yourself as you did. I shall not alter my decision. The defendant then paid the money, and as lie left the court addressed the Lord Mayor, and said, " The next ti me I meet you, my Lord, I hope it will be in better company."—(A laugh.) MARYLEBON R—CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. —Mr. Thomas Revell, 6, Mornington plate, Hampstead-road, engraver and printseller, and Mr. James Strickland, wholesale picture-frame maker, 251, Gee-street, St. Luke's, appeared on remand before Mr. Seeker, to a summons, charged with unlawfully conspiring to defraud the Great Western Railway Company of money by declaring goods to be conveyed by the company to be of a different description than they were, whereby the goods were conveyed at a less rate than they other wise would have been, and by which the company were defrauded. The particulars of the case have already been given, and on this occasion Mr. Child, from the firm of Wire and Child, attended for Mr. Strick land, in addition to the counsel who were present on the former examination, and Inspector Acason was present to watch the proceeding on the part of the company. The case was adjourned to give the magistrate time to consider his judgment, which he promised to give yesterday. Mr. Seeker now in delivering the same entered fully into the examination of the evidence adduced and referred to the letter written by the defendant Revell in answer to the one sent to him by the company, in which be admitted that he took the course he did as he could not obtain compensation from the company in case of damage done to his property carried by railway. The worthy magis trate took a review of the various clauses of the company's act of incorporation, and concluded by that in his opinion there was a combina ' tion on the part of the defendants to act as they did, and that their conduct came within the meaning of the terms of a conspiracy. After some further proceedings, Mr. Seeker said that he was bound to send the case for investigation before another tribunal, and that he would remand the defendants till Monday next, to have the depositions read over. Bail was applied for, when Mr. Seeker consented to receive the recognisances of each of the defendants in £lOO, and one surety for each in £lOO. Mr. Alfred Jones, wholesale tobacconist, 132, Holborn, was charged on a summons, taken out by Inspector Acason, with having unlawfully sent, or caused to be sent by the Great Western Railway Company a box containing goods of a dangerous quality —to .wit, matches, called Vulcan Lights— without distinctly marking or stating the nature of such goods on the outside of the box, and without giving notice to the bookkeeper or other servant of the said company, with whom the box was left. Mr. Robinson, from the firm of Messrs. Maple, Pearce, and Co. ' who attended on th e p ar t o f t h e company, as he did in the former case, stated that for the offence for which he was charged he was liable to a penalty of £lO. It was the duty of per sons who sent goods by rail to let the company know if in any package there was any combustible matter. In the present instance the defendant had sent some Vulcan Lights without giving notice to the company that he had done so. Had the box been packed up among other goods the .Igihts might have ignited, when a serious destruction might have taken place. By the 168th section of the act of the company combustible matter, such as aquafortis and oil of vitriol, must not be sent by rail without notice being given to the hook-keeper. He (Mr. Robinson) was directed to say that if the defendant pleaded guilty he was not to press for an extreme penalty. The defendant said that the lights were placed in the box without his knowledge, and that his ser vant put them into the box by mistake. The defendant was fined 205., which penalty was paid. ROBBERY OF BANK -NOTES, S.:c.----Xlildred Lock and John Deverell, the former housemaid and the latter butler to R. H. Parkinson, Esq., 14, Cleve land-street, Hyde-park, were brought up for re-exa mination, charged with being concerned in stealing £3O in bank-notes, and other property belonging to their master, The particulars of the former inquiry have al ready appeared. Some additional evidence was gone into, implicating the prisoners, when they were both committed for trial, the prisoner Lock upon two charges and Deverell upon one. THE GAS EXPLOSION IN TIM CALEDONIAN-ROAD. —COMMITTAL OF THE MAN BROWN ON THREE CHARGES.--George Brown was brought up on re mand charged with having stolen gas pipes from the houses of several licensed victuallers, and it will be remembered that on former inquiries it was shown that on Thursday evening, the 17th inst., the prisoner went to the house of Mr. Overend, landlord of the British Queen, Ferdinand -street, Hampstead-road, and after he left many gas fittings were missed. He (prisoner) was followed, and the property was found in his possession. He was re rartnded, and in the next examination Mr. Wilby, landlord of the Crown Tavern, Winchester-street, Caledonian-road, Islington, identified the prisoner as being the man who on the 3d inst. entered his house, from which a number of gas pipes were stolen. The gas was turned on at the usual hour and an explosion which took place resulted in serious injury to him (Mr. Wilby), his wife, and 19 other persons, many of whom were taken to hospitals, and some are considered to be in a dangerous state. It was further shown that Mr. Ashby, of the Old Eagle, College-street, Camden-town, had been robbed in a similar way by the prisoner. The case excited a great deal of interest among the members, of the trade from the commencement of the proceedings, and yesterdaytheeo urtfowrams a r s . much crowded as bef ore by licensed victualler s . • Mr. T. Beard, s o li c itor, now attended Wilby and other parties. The first charge, that of Mr. Overend, havi ng been clearly made out, Mrs.. Wilby now stated that she recollected the prisoner e ming to the house on the 3d inst., in the afternoon. The prisoner went into the tap-room, and wet.; there about seven or eight minutes. When he came out she observed that he appeared es if he had something bulky under his coat, and she men tioned the circumstance to her husband. No other ( person that she saw entered the tap room. In about three hours after he left an explosion took place. After the explosion she discovered that the gas fit tings had been taken away. Mr. Wilby corroborated the evidence of Mrs. Wilby. Ile further stated that by the explosion he was knocked down, and that all the hair on his: head was burnt ar. Ile was also unable to see for four days. Eleven persons who were in the house were taken to the hospitals, and some of them were unable to see for some days. Hia wife was also se riously injured. Mr: Iviiilby—lt will e os t Mr. Seyk er—What was the v! M glue of the pipe s ? tem, but I thi n k the "P;ri ine about £1 t o repl ace than is. 6d. kr the:,3.soner would not g e t roore Rowland, 37 ' I S, proved takin theisoner into pr , custody o" g another charge of a similar nature, when. - . he st P :Led that it was hi s first offence of that cha 7.acter, as he had no t b een i n L ondon since May last. Farrell, 425 A, stated that on the 25th of July he saw the prisoner in Baldwin's-gardens. The prisoner, on being asked by Mr. Seeker what he had to say, replied that he was not guilty. Ile made the same defence in reference to the charge of the robbery at the Old Eagle, the house before referred to. The prisoner was committed for trial on three charges. THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS. ?r. Edward Wilson reports prograss as to the distribution of animals over the surface of the earth : " When, several months since, I addressed you upon this topic we were endeavouring to raise a . :subscription for the purchase of a small flock of llamas and alpacas just brought here from South America, with the view of presenting them to th 9 colony of Victoria. With some little trouble we succeeded in doing this, getting together from vari ous friends of the colonies about £l,OOO, and land ing 22 of these animals safely in Melbourne. They have since done very well. They have been there now more than a year, so as to test the effect of each season. When I last heard of them not one had died since they landed, and their number had in eeased from 22 to 30. The wind had meanwhile been completely taken out of our sails as to the honour of the first introduction of this valuable ani mal, by'the landing in Sydney of the large herd of about 270, collected and brought over direct from Peru with such wonderful perseverance by Mr. Ledger. But as a secondary experiment, in a diffe rent neighbourhood, and different management, our own little venture is not without its interest. "The next thing we undertook was the salmon, some notice of our experiments with which has already appeared in your columns. Here, again, we raised about £6OO, and sent off in a clipper ship about 30,000 ova, properly impregnated, and with a stream of iced water trickling over them, by which we had every reason to hope the hatching would be retarded till they reached the temperate latitudes. A nursery had been carefully prepared for the young fry upon one of the southern rivers of Tas mania, the nearest approach in latitude and general characteristics to their parent streams, and if esta blished there they can in due course be draughted off to all other suitable rivers. " By the last mail, however, we learnt that our experiment had not been successful, The vessel had a bad passage, the ice ran short at 26 deg. south lat., and, directly after, the ova died. Very great inte rest had mes mime been excited in the colonies, and there is no doubt that during the ensuing season the attempt will be repeated." After relating a failure in inspecting the Mauri tius " gouramier," a fresh-water fish, and success in bringing into the Yarra Yarra the Murray River coil, Mr. Wilson continues:— " The camel, so invaluable for our exploring parties, has been sent for to India, and 24 of these' animals, consisting of eight each of the three breeds that money could buy, marched through the streets of Melbourne in the beginning of June. With that number we may consider the camel permanently established among us. The fallow deer and one or two of the more common kinds from India, have long since been successfully introduced, and are now to be found in considerable numbers on the estates of our more opulent settlers. Six fine red deer, presented to Mr. Chirnside by her Majesty, were sent out in the beginning of the year. I understand from Mr. Youl that the peacock tow breeds Wild in the bush upon the estates of some of the colonists of Tasmania. " A well known settler, Mr. James Austin, has lately succeeded in landing .between 60 and 70 1. ar tridges, which may be considered to give every chance of permanent establishment to this bird. He has also landed about 20 wild rabbits and a few hares. I have sent 094 some hundreds of skylarks, and the first shipments have arrived. I have also forwarded considerable numbers of the thrush, the blackbird; the gold finch, the linnet, and the starling, and intend follutw•ing up with the nightingale, robin, &c. " While this has been going on from this side, the colonists have not been idle. Aviaries, fish ponds, &c., have been prepared upon a large stale in our botanical gardens; adding to the interest of those beautiful grounds, so as to attract visitors to the extent, I see by a recent return, of double the number annually that visit Hampton Court, and nearly as many as visit Kew. The Legislature of Victoria has voted the sum of £5OO to assist us in our efforts; and a public meeting had been held in the Exchange at Melbourne, to urge upon the Go. vernment to grant the further some of £2,000. " Now, sir, I would venture to ask what results might not be looked for if every colony in her Ma jesty's dominions were to enter into these oxperi merits with somewhat similar zeal, and if England herself were to do her share in the great work ?" Mr. Wilson advocates the interchange amongst all our colonies ()fall varieties of animals :—" I am glad to see that an association under very high auspices has been projected to do something in this direction ; but even here there originally seemed a limitation utterly unworthy of the conception. The society originally proposed to introduce new things into Great Britain. But I am happy to say that the committee cord.ally adopted a proposition that I ventured to make to give the association a more truly national character, to extend - the sphere of its operations over the whole area of the British ditninions " i---Hoilowny'.,r ills —Spasms, Plata lencY, Constipation.—So many persons suffer from these dkcases that a description of them is unrecessary ; but the reeommcndation to take Holleway's pills for the cure of dkvirciered digestion will be repaid with gratitude by all vilo g ive them a single trial. No medicine will so safely and s - deedily res`ore a deranged stomach or torpid iiVer to order. No other preparation will so (-4113ctually and healthily conduct digestion, so that spasms, flatulency, and other torments of dyspepsia cannot, by any possi bility, arise; or, if present, will be soon cured. The power of these pills in removing acidity of the stomacll, sulk.headaohc, biliousness, diarrhma, 4ysp 4 tery, and de- bility, is wonderful. They ant as tonics, alteratives, aml• general regulators of the frame. COUN TR I' 111 ABE RTES. • SHEFFIELD—Aum 28. At to-day's market much exciterwent prevailed, but, owing to the favourable appearance of the weather in the early part of the day, prices did not advance so much as had been anticipated. Wheat and flour were at slightly advanced rates. Other articles firm, but not quotably higher. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels 24s Od to 25s Od White ff ff New red ff ff ... _ .._ 2s B B Bo od oddtoto to : 27 os s ociol Od New white ~ If Beans 19s M to 218 6 a ~ ~ Peas per qr 48s Od to 528 Od„, Grinding barley, per qr 33s Od to 36s Od Malting ditto, „ ...... 34s Od to 378 0 „,a Oats 268 Od to 33s Od It 141billere prices for flour —as M, 2s 7d, and 2s 9d Per HULL.—Aua. 23. At our market to-day there was .a fair attendance, with a moderate supply of English wheat, and prices 2s to 3s up• Foreign met a slow sale, and a similar advance was op' tained. Spring corn in good demand, and prices i n favour of sellers. Wheat.... Old white per qr. 63s Od to 678 2, 1 Old red 1, New white .. „ New red .... - 6ls Od to 6:7,s 01 Dantzic, Konb , Ac. old white 538 Od to 66s ~.,0 4 Dutch, Belgian, and French -53s Od to 548 I'S Baltic and Hamburg, red . St. Petersburg and Riga, Old 4ss Od to 49s Od Barley.... English malting 3Bs Od to 43s u" Grinding 3ls Od to 370 oa w Saal an d Oderbruck Holstein and Danish .. 34s Od to 35$ Oa Grinding Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st 2OBB ss °° l l 4o tt00 t0 3432 1 5. Od 8 r 14 Friesland and Dutch oBl 4 ld to 08 1 , Swedish and Danish osl4a to OsI4 AA Beans ....English, old, per qr New pigeon 4 48 Od t o 458 I -, New tick. 43s Od to 448 '" 4 Egyptian Peas Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Spring 44 0 1 8 8 0 0 d d t t o o 4 5 2 0 si o'lOd Indian Corn Linseed, feeding 43 48 9 s Odd t to 4 48s 0d 00d t o 5 o 5 0 0 2 sss Od k 1 crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) Foreign 8 0 oto 810 " Rape cakes 5 5 oto 61 0 0g Bones 5 0 oth 5 7 6 LYNN-AUG. 28. A moderate show of wheat to-day,, which met u , sale at 3s to 4s over former rates for good fresh qualities' Spring corn is to 2s higher. Old white 62s to 69s I Old red ..59s to 61, New white 60s to 67s I Now r e d.... 58 s to t" EDINBURGH GRAIN—Auct. 29. - - Wheat on the top 3s 6d up.. average 3s 6d up• Barley on tho top 2s 6d up. average 2s 8d up• Oats on tho top 48 Od up.... Beans on the top is 6d up average is ld up. DUBLIN—Aura. 28. - - We had a quiet market to-day, with prices unal".vrec l i There were some samples of new o a t s , b are , and barley at market. The •weather has improved since Friday though' still unsettled. d, s. d. 0 . 0 Do., new . — 0 to Bare. l4 6 to lf, 0 Rapeseed Oatmeal l5 to „ 0 6 Bakers' flour, l7 0 to 2f, 6 Indian corn o. d. e. d. Wheat, white 33 0 to 36 0 Do., red 3l 0 to 33 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black l5 0 to 15_6 BRISTOL SUGAR—Auo. 29. Rather more disposition has been manifested to parch lll° f "West India sugar suitable f o r th e p an d ur i ng t h e last ,„ days, while at the same ti me merc h ants show great nr_irn' ness. The sales for this wee k, consequently, reach- oil about 400 hhds., Jamaica and. Demerara, at 39s to 40s per cwt. In rum nothing doing. THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. Sept. 1 , f4 Do. (N la Marseilles) Sept. / Bahamas and Havana ( v i a N ew Y or k) Aug. ,: Canada, &e. (via Londonderry) .. • . .. A ug . Lv Capo of Good Hope, &e. Sept. l• China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Sept. I:, Do. ( v i a Marseilles) Sept.• Gibraltar (via Southa m pt on ) Sept. India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Sept. Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 9 India (Bombay), ( v i a S ou th amp t on ) .. Sept. ,• Do. (via Mar se ill es ) Sept. 0 ; Lisbon,_ Brazils, Buenos Ayres, & a . ;. Sept. o Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via Southampton) .. Sept. 1 . Do. (via Marseilles) .. Sept. 3 . Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto .. Sept. 1 . United States, California, &c. Set. 5 , m 1 Western Coast of 'Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe Sep •Ji West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Sept. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The greatest happiness of a jol l 7, nalist is to introduce to his readers some new discovery c e culated to benefit that vast p or ti on o f our fellow-creatu r e l o which has the strongest clai ms u p on our s y m p a thi es . I b A , O with this feeling that we c a ll th e a tt en ti on i d invalids to bm i following extracts f rom D u B arry ' s interesting repur, t ,., o o cures without medicine by Du Barry's Rovalenta Food. Cure 180—Mr. W. R. Reeves, 181, Fleet -sty e ' n ' London, of twenty-five y ears nervousness, constipatio2 indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 54,618—Wandsbe 0 ; near Hamburgh, May 12, 1857,—1 hereby certify that,,. mother-in-law, Mrs. Holze, who has just completed 107th year, after having suffered for half a century s?„ more, from indigestion (dyspepsia), and consequent l a orders, has been perfectly cured by Du Barry's RevalsA A Arabica Food, and is now enabled to digest alnis' — p , any 'kind of food with great comfort.—W. o ° l % Avoid Pills and Medicines : they invariably aggravate perpetuate diseases ; th e i r annoyance), disap poixttinalj and expense may be avoided by using Du Barry's which, at a few pence per day, saves 50 times its coat other remedies, removing. effectually, without prerg'":o constipation, indigestion (dyspepsia) nervous, bilious — to liver complaints and all their consequences. CertiV re , No. 36,418. We find it the safest remedy. Andrew l ' Dr , MD., F.R.S., Dr Harvey, Dr. Wurzer, Dr. Shorlan Campell. Let invalids avoid the fearful dangers of sP o f rious and injurious imitations offered under a varietito false pretences. Nevill's imitations are prohibited 1 :1 ; , 19 $ high Court of Chancery und er a p ena lt y o f £5,000 aX9—e. Alfred Hooper Nevin ' and his agents • and the pretelni that Nevill has a patent f or Arabica Food and ths,t,, is e, Barry's are connected with suc h p a t en t, are utter l y No canister is genuine without the name Barry Du- 0 , 0 0 and Co., 77, Regent-street, in full, ontheseal and wrsPr o si Shopkeepers who attempt i m p os iti on i n one ar ti c l e li p, expect to be distrusted in all o th ers . P ac k e d i n tiles 2s. 9d.; 21b. 4s. 6d. ; 51b. lie. ; 121 b. 225. ; 241 b. 40s- Apt 121 b. and 241 b. canisters ar e sen t carriage free on Te c iie of Post-office order by Barry Du Barry and Co., 771,„ b y, gent-street, London; Fortnum Mason, and Co. Au 60, Gracechurch-str e et ; 4, Cheapside ; 63 and 1 60 9 a" 4 : 'ford-street; 330 and 451, Strand; 49 and 60, Bishop:4ft._ street ; Batty, 16, Finsbury Pavement ; Phillips an d tea-dealers; Petty, Wood, an d C o . ' Ki n g William-street City ; at 127, High Holb orn ; an d all grocers. BIRTHS. CHARTERIS.—On the 27th inst., at Titness-pirk, Sunnitir hill, Berkshire, Lady Margaret Charteris, of a daugl l ' . . ter. GRIFFITH.—On the 28th inst., at Peckham, the wife f John T. Griffith, Esq., M.D. , F.R.C.S,, of a son.. PETO.—On the 28th inst., at Somerleyton lla tli, Suffou'l Lady Peto, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. CUST—ALBEMARLE. — On the 29th ult., at Aihridg©, Jig; tenant-Colonel the Hon. Peregrine Cust, uncle of Earl Browelow, to Frances widow of Augustus Fre d • rick, late Earl of Albema r l e . KB B. th e 28 t h inst., ax Pitloehr; et N. 8., William Francis Kemp, o f th e I nner Tonn e ! barrister - at - law, to Julia L a n e Grace Sandford, ter of the late Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford, D. O " Oxon. DEATHS. ACTON. —O n th e 25 t h inst., agedt G cr h Sug° l/4 E dward Acton, Esq., 54. a run Is urg , 1 41. C AzErrovE,—On the 26th inst., at Great Malveray,L denly, Emma, wife of Philip Cazenove, Esq., of td" - ` 0 ' ham-common, aged 61. ENTWISLE —On the 27th inst., at Southport, Will i g; eldest son of William Entwisle, Esq., o f Rush° o t House, Manchester, and Comet in ILM.'s 2d Regi l3lB of Life Guards, aged 21. PRA.SER.—On the 27th i ns t., a t B eaufort Castle, WO, Fraser, of Strichen, reli c t o f Ca 'gain Fraser, o f Strioliemf and mother of the Right lion. r ord Lovat, aged 84- PAGET.—On the 26th at Hampton Court Pala ce ' Mrs. Catesby Paget. SHILLINGFORD.—On the 27th i rtst : , at Folkes t one , Cif wife of Commander Shilling,lord, R.N., aged 64. - - LONDON: Printed and Pubitished by MU RDO o h of No. 112, Strand, P r i n f mr , at Th e Sun Jaw, NO. Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, faiths ocun''' Middlesex, Thursday, august 30, lb(0.1 ..~-''` y LOYAL Capital (Li sa. Ltatility ) Porated m l ed ilenry Go] ¢eo7ge Dud plliue SA C Simpson, . Lettsot it h Power to klXtus—The ho 11. OFFICES detailed P Deposit of 2 To the Di th g t a n uni tlere o e t n z ,— t,4l::..__:wanhyen(LShrimeaci apt the and to E ?Ale qbfeligioll • • • b ate ki c h. ... ItOYA] XOTI 21' th e r e CE mair ',' ll lt, Aa ounty B ated by C neat. LONDI 'Pr( Vice 4itti aiaNnei r tr i lbe Londo :V years a€ 'be V o the ', s he sur f plus 1 reduction been ml tit 4' the presi ecting Ass , uotion of 1 1 1 n will be This Sock' AM has 1" , For the pa ,exceedinl And a grot of more 1 As h , surance ' 40 ,000 on tb The Societ ~_ ~~. B T HE