The Sun. — London, England, 1860-10-01 00:00:00

VIE BRITISH EXPEDITION IN CRINA• (From the Special correspondent of the Times.) TAH-LIEN-HAVAN BAY, JULY 25. At length the word is spoken, the signal is given. To-morrow morning the English expedition quits this place, and the French leave Che-fow to rendez vous at the Peiho. Since I last wrote the plan of attack has been changed. In April last recon naissances were made by the English and French, which resulted in an arrangement that the French force should land south of the Peiho, at a place called Chi-kali, while the English proceeded to Peh tang, 12 miles north of that river, and there dis embarked. The Taku forts would thus be taken in reverse on either side. However on the 16th instant Colonel Schmitz, the chef d'etat major of the French army, returned from a more extended reconnaissance, and reported that it was im possible to effect a landing at any place to the south. The water is so shallow and the mud so deep, that though the men might possibly be landed, the shore is quite impracticable for horses and artil lery. Sir Hope Grant and Admiral Hope left next morning for Chelow, and a council of war was held at General Montauban's head-quarters on the 18th, when it was determined that the whole force, French and English, should land at Peh-tang, and that the attack from the south should be abandoned. General I Montauban named the 26th as the day when he should be ready to start, and accordingly we sail to-morrow morning. On Friday, the 13th, the French General and Ad miral Charner paid a visit to the English camp. Slr Hope Grant had made arrangements:for an inspec tion of the artillery and cavalry, and at 11 a.m. Lord Elgin eccompanied the English and French Commanders-in -Chief and the French Admiral to Odi n Bay. Th e troops were drawn up on the beach ; Ki n g's Dragoon Guards, Probyn's Horse, Fane's Horse, and half a battery of Armstrong guns. It was a lovely summer's day, as the bright morning n un glistened on the spears of the wiry Sikhs and the heavy sabres of the stalwart King's Dragoon Guards. The bright scarlet coats of the dragoons were in happy contrast with the blue-black tunics and turbans of Probyn's Irregulars, while the red turbans and ljght blue dress of Fane's Horse, relieved the more sober hues of the artillery uniforms. A salute of 19 guns welcomed Lord Elgin, and two of 13 guns each greeted the French Admiral and General. Lord Elgin, General Montauban, Sir Hope Grant, and their brilliant Staffs, were mounted on some 30 magnificent Arabs, and can tered along the front of the cavalry drawn up in line two deep. They then ascended a hillock, and the cavalry and Artillery defiled before them. The King's Dragoon Guards turned out clean and soldierlike as if they were stationed at Aldershott instead of being encamped in Manchuria. Probyn's and Pane's Horse were models of light cavalry soldiers, wiry and active, hand and seat equally easy. The Royal Artillery looked as usual, —ready to go anywhere and do anything. There were upwards of 1,000 sabres, and I unhesitatingly say, that in no part of the world could 1,000 horses be found in finer condition or mere suited to their work. It is more than probable that no one of them had ever been inside a stable, yet they looked as blooming and fresh as the flower of the Pytchley or the front rank of the Quorn will turn out soon after this letter reaches England. Why do not the military authorities utilise these Sikh Irregulars elsewhere than in India ? They have no prejudices of caste or race ; they will eat and drink whatever you give them, are hardy and robust, accustomed to a climate much like our own, and, when properly looked after, not inordinately given to loot. Their conduct here has been exemplary, and they are the very men for outpost and picket duty. France has her Spahis, and Russia her Cossacks. The Sikhs are superior to either, and India will afford many a Probyn and Fane to lead them. After the cavalry had defiled we had tilting at the tent-peg. A peg is hammered firm into the earth, about three inches only being visible; at this the horseman, armed with a long spear, rides full tilt, his object being to pierce the peg en passant and bear it off on the point of his lance. This exercise requires a firm hand, a good eye, a steady seat, and a strong wrist. A " muff" will stick his spear into the ground and will then either bring its point between his horse's legs or its top against his own head, his wrist being violently sprained into the bargain. Your accom plished tilter raises the spear as he pierces the peg and waving it round his head rides on triumphant. Probyn led and Fane followed, but both missed the peg, their horses being out of practice. Then came a Sikh, with body extended and spear all but sweeping the ground. His shouts and yells urged his horse to the very top of his speed. As he passed the peg he struck it right in the centre, and bore it off amid great cheering. Both officers and men soon got into practice, carrying off the trophy five times in succession. A stick was then stuck loosely in the ground, with a small piece of cucumber at the top. Probyn, at full gallop, sliced off the top; Fan. made an equally good cut, and a third officer com pleted the work—the stick never having been moved. Their sabres are like razors, they have never been acquainted with a steel scabbard, and in the hands of such swordsmen are most deadly weapons. It was then announced that a few shots would be fired from the Armstrong guns, and a rush was made to the beach. General Montauban and the officers of his Staff inspected the guns most minutely ; their principle and mode of working being explained by Captain Brabazon, Royal Artillery. Practice com menced at 900 yards, the object being a small tree on the side of the hill. A percussion shell was fired, which burst with terrific force on striking the ground, about six feet in advance of the tree. Had a column of infantry been near the spot its effect would have been frightful, for the pieces were scat tered far and wide in every direction. The next shell struck the ground and exploded seven or eight feet above the tree. Other shots were fired with good effect, and th e l as t t wo wer e at long range. In the first of them the gun was too much elevated, the shell fle w hurtling right over the hill, and was lost to sight and hearing. The last hit the hill precisely at the spot to which it was directed. I shall ab stain from offering any opinion whatever en the gun until it has been tested in action ; but I have a word to say about th e e mined those which images. I minutely exa wereout to-day. They are and made of the best teak, most substantially put together, having be en ordered with standing the wear a n d tear expressly for of China, where the roads are few and bad and the sun frightfully hot. Both in quality and workmanship t hey are excel lent, though I fear their great weight will knock up the horses in a long campaign. Whil e ship ping the guns in the Thames a hook w as i nserte d into the hand iron of a limber box, full of ammo. nition, by which it was hauled up, and the iron was torn out of the wood. These hand irons, fixed e : either side the limber box for the gunners to hold on by, are not intended to bear a weight, there being strong iron bolts let into the box itself by which it should be lifted. T saw the particular hand iron and limber box in question ; nothing could be sounder than the wood or better than the workman ship. The guns were, however, sent out from Woolwich without a proper supply of field gear, such as headstalls, picketing. ropes, &c., which were purchased at Hong-kong at a very considerable expense. The sewing of the h arness b a d a l so be come rotted by damp during the varied and tedious voyage from Woolwich to China. However, the leather was sound, and all the saddlers in Hong kong were set in requisition to resew the stitch ing, which they have done effectually. We have fortunately succeeded in gaining the con fidence of the country p eople here, so that supplies can be ottained in any quantity and at reasonable prices. One day last week a commissariat officer secured 154 bullocks and cows, and twice as many sheep. A force of 1,500 men and one o r two ships 11 therefore be left to guard Tah.lien lwan, where the stores will be kept and hospital marquees erected f or th e the unhealthy s ick. Here the y will remain until being past mouths of September and October they can be sent to Hong Kong, and thence to th e C ape. . A n n hospital ship will also re main en permzendeettwothoeutbay to receive the more serious cases, will accompany the expedition to ftle Gulf. Thoughe the country people I rudders, one at the stem, another at the stern. Each boat is 75 tons burden, carries one rifled 30- pounder, and draws five feet water. The boiler weighs six tons and a half. For eight days past the French blue jackets have been busy landing these boats, and yet two are lying disjointed as 1 they came out of the ship. The officers who com , while the third has sev en pieces joined together mand them have done all that energy and skill could devise, and the men have worked with a will. But it is one thing to make experiments in a dock yard with everything at hand, another to work in a deserted bay on the coast of China. At Toulon the boats are put together in 36 hours. Not one of them will be completed here under a fortnight, if are quiet and well-disposed, there is no ',lack of dis guised Government agents and disrobed Braves in the adjacent villages. A party of us lately accom panied Mr. Wade, the Chinese Secretary to the Mission, in an excursion to a neighbouring hamlet. We were as usual surrounded by all the men, and barked at by all the dogs, the fair sex peering through their lattices at the bearde 1 barbarians. Mr. Wade remarked that one or two of the men with whom he talked spoke a perfectly different dialect from that of Shantung which prevails here, and he was satisfied they were Government spies. " How is trade ?" he asked one of them. " Oh, trade is alto gether suspended since your majest,i,eysnuarrnhvaendd.'s' " What are you ?" " A fisherm an.„ are not browned, your face is not taenuntt. Wyehnaat is the use of lying ? I know what y in the pay of the Government." en A je n y d ed so i l i i i e s unques tionably was, for the v illa g ers discom fiture as he threw up his hands and vainly pro tested against Mr. Wade's inferences. He will pro baby to-morrow. f o rward a despatch to Pekin, at I the rate of 60011 a-day, announcing the departure of the barbarian expedition. A sad accident occurred on the 11th inst., which resulted in the death of Lieut. Gordon, Madras En -1 gineers. The day was wild and squally, the wind from the north-west, and coming down in sudden and violent gusts over Sampson Peak. Lieut. Lums den, Deputy-Assistant-Quarter-Master-General to the Second Division, encamped at Hard Bay, having business to transact at Victoria Bay, crossed over in a boat belonging to the steam transport Imperatrice. The boat was commanded by Mr. Graham, third officer of the ship, with two seamen to manage the sails, and Mr. Lumsden was accompanied by Lieut. Gordon. They were returning in the afternoon, when, about 5 p.m., a sudden squall struck the boat, when about half-way across, and three or four miles from the shore. She turned bottom upwards, with her stern completely under water, and her bows just above. The whole party clung to the boat, and made signals of distress by holding a coat at the end of an oar. They hoped to attract the attention of those on board the signal' gunboat, stationed at no great distance from them. After an hour spent in anxious watching, Mr. Lumsden volunteered to swim for the shore, and Mr, Graham for the gun boat, as night was fast coming on, and they all felt they could not hold on until morning. They both returned after a few minutes, Mr. Graham unable to make way against the strong tide, Mr. Lumsden despairing of !reaching the shore. Half an hour afterwards Mr. Graham pushed off on an oar with one of the sailors, and Mr. Lumsden again swam for the land, leaving Mr. Gordon and the remaining sailor hanging to the boat. This man was picked up by a ship's boat about 8, and states that soon after Mr. Lumsden's departure Mr. Gordon struck out for the land. He was a bad swimmer, and returned immediately, caught him by the trousers, and after holding on two or three minutes threw up his arms, and sank ! Mr. Graham and the sailor were picked up by the same boat. Mr. Lumsden, after remaining in the water six hours, sometimes floating sometimes swimming, reached the shore shortly before midnight, com pletely exhausted. Every search has been made for Mr. Gordon's body, unfortunately without success, though boats are still daily employed for the pur pose. At 1 o'clock on the 13th, John Dallinger, the marine who shot at Lieut. Hudson and the se cond master of the Leven, paid the penalty of his crimes. Punctually at that hour a boat from every vessel in the fleet assembled about the flagship, the Leven being moored just astern. A large open space was kept, and at a signal from the admiral the boats approached the Leven in two equal divi sions. A rope was extended on either side, to which the boats were strung after all the bowmen had gone on board. The rigging of every ship was then manned by all hands to witness the execution. Punctually :at half-past one the prisoner was brought out, stripped of his uniform. He was deadly pale, bat his step was firm, and he walked without support. A rope was passed round his neck, the signal given, and in two seconds the bowmen had run him up to the foreyardarm. There a loop was loosed and the body fell with a tremendous jerk, at least six feet, A couple of struggles and all was 9ver. There is no doubt he was astonished at his sentence, for as neither of his intended victims had died he expected to escape with seven years' transportation. He fully deserved his fate, for his crime was attended with most aggravating circumstances. He joined the Leven about five months ago from the Marine Battalion with a bad character, the corner of his certificate being cut off. Lieut. Hudson, in the hope of enabling him to re-establish his character, took him as his own servant. On the Bth inst. Lieut. Hudson missed some brandy and wine from his cabin, charged Dalliger with the theft, and told him he should be punished. Next morning, as he lay en the safa after breakfast, Dalliger stole round and shot him in the back of his neck, after which he shot the second master. Before being executed he made a statement confessing his crime, for which he was heartily sorry, regarding his death as only too little punishment, and " begging pardon of those two whom he had so nearly destroyed in his anger." Lieut. Hudson is going on satisfactorily, and leaves by this mail en route for England; and the second master is nearly cured. He had a narrow escape. The ball cut off the tip of his ear, and passed into his shoulder, whence it was extracted without great difficulty. I paid a visit to Che-fow last week, and remained four days: On the morning of the 16th Lord Elgia started in the Feroze, and anchored under the stern of the Duchayla, about 4in the afternoon. Che-fow stands on tile north side of the promontory of Shan tung, about 60 miles from its point. The harbour is formed by a long neck of land running parallel to the main, to which it is unitedby a low slip of sand, some three miles long. The entrance lies between this point and a group of islands which shelter themismile en rharbour quarter a to n w d a a r h d i n s a l f the wide, width.idee, as t. It is about a a nThe running harbour E . itself s .E . six miles long. The average depth of water in six fathoms, the bottom mud and shingle, and the anchorage good. The province of Shantung con tains 30,000,000 inhabitants and 65,000 square m iles. It is famous as the birthplace of Confucius and of his disciple, Mencius. The tomb of the former, who died B. C. 497, at Kiuh-fan, no great distance hence, is a gigantic monument surrounded by a forest of oaks, beneath whose shade the body of the great Chinese philosopher reposes. Che-fow is the only good; port in this district, and was in tended to be opened to trade by the treaty of Tien tsin. Tangchau, however, is the port named in the treaty, as its harbour was known, having been visited by Lord Macartney in 1793 and by Captain Elliott in 1840. It is, however, inferior to Che-fow in every respect, and can only be entered at high tide, while at Che-fow there is at all times abun dance of water for large ships. This will be set right in the new treaty. We count 39 French ships in wo po o r t t hr , e s s ome of them transports of t he lar g est size. t The Dryade, the Entreprenants, and cne or frigates, and ,were originally intended for lar g e then cut and lengthened. They brought 900 and 1,000 soldiers each, and lost very few men on the voyage. The Rhone, Loire, Rhin, &c., are steamers of another class, built expressly for the service, and not excelled by any transports afloat. The Rhone carried 950 men, with provisions for six months. She is upwards of seven feet high between decks,and admirably fitted in every particu lar. But the transport service is not popular with the officers of the French navy, who naturally de sire to take a part in the more active service of their profession.int hebay, They are are but the only French vessels despatch gun boats vessels that can cross the bar of the Peiho. On shore the scene is busy and bustling. Large shears have been set up close to the water, and the crews of the different men-of-war are busily engaged in landing and putting t oge th er th e three iron gun boats which came out in th e W eser . Fifteen . of gunboats have been sent from Fran ce i n differentese 1 ships, but three only have arrived. The Chinese question will, therefore, be settled one way or other before the missing boats reach their destination. These gunboats are made of iron, and sent out in 15 pieces. The bow and stern pieces form two compartments, the remainder of the vessel a third. They are 78 feet long, and 18 feet beam, with two ever they could lay hands on. As soma as the sol diers were embarked, Sir Hope Grant requested the "notables" of the nearest village to assess the damage which had been done to their property by the six regiments which had just left the ground. They made a careful survey, and presented a claim for 180 dollars, about £4O of our money. This mo dest demand bears uncuestionable testimony to the good conduct of the men and to the honesty of the country people. In fact, looting up here has been all but unknown. The bay presents a magnificent sight, with nearly 200 vessels moored between the two flagships. They start early to-morrow morn ing, and every ship will be towed out to sea. The Admiral has issued most precise instructions, and directed that all vessels are to pass north of the Miatan islands, and on ao pretence whatever take the passages between them. A vessel will be an chored off Shalutien Island, carrying a red ensign at the main, and a white ensign at the fore with lights at night, and no vessel is to pass between her and the island. The Cruiser is stationed at the point of rendezvous, about 20 miles from the Peiho, and the English fleet will be anchored to the north of her, leaving the south side clear for the French. The vessels are to move at single anchor in seven lines, a mile and a half in width, and they will probably reach their destination by the 28th inst. In a few days we may hope to see the landing effected, and I trust that my next letter will an nounce the destruction of the Taku forts and the occupation of Tien-tsin. then. It was not without considerable cost that Great Britain discovered ordinary iron vessels to be un suited for war, and I do not believe these gunboats will prove an exception to the rule. A single shot might sink them, and as the fifteen pieces are only fastened together with screws and rivets, they would be in great danger of breaking their backs either in a sea or in taking the ground. On the 17th two batteries of Artillery were paraded. Lord Elgin accompanied General Mont auban and:Staff. Twelve rifled guns, with waggons and equipage complete, were on the ground, horsed by four Japanese ponies to a gun. This was the tenth day these ponies had been at work, and the way they did their work reflected great credit on the officers who had trained them. There was no firing. The guns were canons rayes, brass four-pounders bored up to eight, and had made the Italian cam paign. Most of the officers had shared the triumphs of that eventful summer, and wore the medal. The carriages are oak and wonderfully light, as four small ponies drag the gun without extraordinary exertion. After parade we visited the market. Here were several hundreds of Chinamen with a plentiful supply of sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, eggs, vegetables, and fruit brought in from the neigh bouring villages. Perfect order prevailed and the almighty dollar was readily taken. From the rela tions existing between the natives and the French, it is clear that the Chinese have been as well treated at Che-fow as at Tah-lien-hwan. In every direction is abundant evidence of the wealth and comfort of the inhabitants of this dis trict. General Montauban's head-quarters are in a large building just finished, intended for a sort of hotel de rille, with offices and dwelling roomsit tached. It is built round two hollow squares, about 30 or 40 yards in extent. The town-hall itself is about 50 feet long and 20 wide. The roof is sup ported on large substantial beams, each fitted into the other, not a nail having been used in its con struction. The floor is of excellent asphalte, and the windows of oiled paper do not exclude the light. The rooms surrounding this room are airy and lofty, and the whole is built of good bricks and the best blue mortar. The roof is of tiles made in the neatest moulds, and the whole place is in every respect most creditable both to architect and builder. The French have made a garden in the inner court yard, which contains large magnolias, besides a banana and a fair palm tree. In the afternoon we rode through the town and suburbs into the adja cent country. Outside the town are villas with large gardens, in which we saw vines and pome granates, a clear proof that the winter here cannot ba very severe. The soil is richer than in our Manchurian camp, and the cultivation equally good. Not an inch of ground that is not enriched in a way to satisfy Mr. Mechi. 6 , Time was, 'tis said, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man; But things are changed indeed, for now 'tis found That every man maintains his rood of uound." This is literally true here. There are no fences ; few wide roads. A footpath leads from the villages to the harbour, so that no space is lost. We see small ditches for irrigation, and the crops are most abundant. We,ascend a height and look over a plain some 30 miles in extent, with the sea on one side, and a fine range of hills on the other. Beyond these hills is plain after plain, the inhabitants of which desire nothing better than to barter their produce for English manufactures. The junks we took for our commissariat were full of Manchester goods, brought up from the South, and an enormous trade with North of China awaits the re-establish ment of pacific relations. Descending through large orchards of apple, pear, and plum trees we ride along a lane with high green banks on either side. The apples are " hanging fine on the trees," wild flowers scent the air, the cuckoo is heard in distance, bees, butterflies, and dragon flies are hum ming and circling round our heads, and transport us back to the lanes and orchards of Devonshire or Gloucestershire. But the sun is hot, and we are not sorry to return on board ship and get back to this cooler climate. It seems quite clear that the Chinese will resist to the utmost at the Peiho. The French took four prisoners during their late reconnoissance. These were fishermen from the Peiho— one from Pehtang. They state that large camps are formed on either side the river, and that the numerous cavalry has been turned loose on the adjacent crops. They fired on French when reconnoitring last week, and no doubt Sang-ho•lin-sin will do his best. He and Hang-fuh, Governor-General of Chih-li, lately moved the Emperor to superannuate the act:.ng Tsung-ping, or general commanding that division of the Chinese army of Chih-li, distinguished as the Tung-yung. "That high officer the Tsung-ping (say they), as the leader in chief of all the battalions in a division, responsible as he is for the discipline and drill thereof, is the incumbent of an important and fully occupied office, requiring more strength and vigour than ever when the defence of the coast is a pressing consideration. Li-Chih-ho, the present in cumbent, has seen a great deal of service, has been wounded 13 times, but is past 70 years of age, and has of late been seriously indisposed. The present is a critical moment. The defence of the coast makes it no ordinav routine duty. It doubles the importance of the Tsung-ping's position, which it is inexpedient should be longer filled by an ailing body clinging fondly twits place of abode, and loth to be . turned out." They, therefore, recommend that the old man should be allowed to retire with full rank, and that the vacancy should be filled by Hai-Shan, who is "very vigilant, equal to fatigue, and of consider able experience." The good health of the troops continues. Less than four and a half per cent. are on the sick list, including therein all the men who have cut their feet with oyster shells while bathing. There are not more than one per cent. of serious cases. One regiment, the 99th, is 598 strong, and has but two men absent from duty. The hospital ships are models of comfort, and even luxury. No want of " medical comforts' here. Whatever the patient requires is at hand, from champagne and sherry to sago and arrowroot. The consequence is that mdhieetainlotnhf Siroier a s st reHutr though aoi p elu e ega hi as Gat r r ti t a chh n te ety at Peiho,hhwaoemsr e e i m tnaT b kh a ea r ens k h e g d l, of orr from edmiwe con -194 shipped on the 23d, and I went over to the bay to witness the sight. The transports were anchored in the bay, and paddle-ox boats, rafts, and horse bfrooamt s the wee r ;.l a o all e i e n r e n q e ui . s i T ti w o n o . of T h h best e re paddle-box devi ccamee boats were boarded over and carried 32 horses at a time. a T n h d e r e e o w u n a t s e n r - o o r c d r o e r w s di n . The g n , a o r r c a o n n g f e u m s ieount, snohad or a db d e e e r o s carefully made, were properly carried out, and re flected the greatest credit on Colonel Mackenzie, Colonel Walker, and the Quartermaster-General's Staff, as well as on Lord John Hay and the naval officers. 2,000 cavalry and artillery horses and nearly 3,000 ponies and baggage horses were em barked without a single accident. As each trans port was filled, a saucy little gunboat walked up to her—a pigmy beside a giant—hooked her on and carried her whither she listed. There is nothing afloat like these English gunboats. They turn , within their own length, poke their noses into every creek along the coast, and are the school in which some of the best men in our navy have been trained. Sherard Osborn, Commerell, Bythesea, Corbet, Dew, and many like them received their training in a forty or an eighty, and the whole fleet of pigmies may be brought round the Cape without one single mishap. T ld he infantry embarked on the 2 4 th, and in the a h f a t d er b n e o oe o vn n e,n l asn w d a t lk h e e d over the ground occupie d for a month by the Fi rs t Di v i s i on . The trenches and fie marked ch i t n h a e m s e p n o t were where huntingeach a regiment for bottles, old b oo t s , b ones , fi rewoo d, a nd wrautt IRE NAVY. A letter from Valletta, dated Sept. 24, says:— "Her Majesty's ship St. Jean d'Acre returned into port on the afternoon of the 22d inst., from a cruise off the island, and her Majesty's corvette Argus ar rived on the following day from Messina, Catania, and Syracuse, bringing 37 officers and men (inva lids, &c.) from the squadron. At the last date the citadel of Messina was still in the hands of the ACCOMMODATION BILLS. The Royal Radnor Rifles, Major L. H. Peel com manding, are under orders to assemble at Prestigne on Tuesday, the 30th October next, for 27 days' training. THE FA CTS OF MESSRS. S7REAT- FEILD AND CO.'S STOPPAGE. Royal troops. The Argus also brought down a seaman of her Majesty's corvette Scylla, who has been condemned to death by court-martial at Naples for knocking down a Marine officer. On Saturday arrived the Turkish steamer Meuludia, from Tri- poli (Barbary). By her we learn of the death of the Austrian Consul, Mr. A. G. Francovich. An Austrian steam corvette, the Lucia, Lieut. Eberan de Eberhorest, arrived here on the 23d inst. from Gaeta, which place she left on the 20th inst., bound for Trieste, all the Austrian vessels of war in the Mediterranean, including those on the coast of Syria, having been recalled to that port, owing to the state of affairs in Italy. The Dutch transport barque Heldin left Malta on the 22d inst., with stores and provisions for the Dutch squadron in the Levant. She proceeds first to Alexandria, and thence to Beyrout. The Russian steam frigate Gromoboi left on the 23d inst. also for the coast of Syria, and two ,other Russian vessels of war are expected shortly for the same destination. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Messi na with the overland portion of the outward Bombay mail, arrived 4.45 p.m. on the 22d inst. from Mar seilles, and left the same day at 11 for Alexandria. She brought as passengers for Malta Lieut.-Col. B ul wer and Capt. Arkwright. The Euxine and Ceylon, also of the same ccmpany, having on board the China and Calcutta mails, have just arrived from Alexandria. The former leaves at 10 o'clock to-night for Marseilles, the latter a few hours afterwards for Southampton." The Ariel, 9, screw corvette, Commander Alex ander, fitting for foreign service at Portsmouth, has been again placed in dock, and opened up on her port side amidships for examination, it haying been suspected, from a circumstance that occurred in repairing one of her midship ports, that some of her timbers must be in a defectivestate. The pluck ing has been stripped off from her port gangway to her fore rigging to below her water line, and eight of her timbers are found to have been de stroyed from the effects of dry rot. Workmen are employed in removing them, and new timbers are being prepared for her. She is expected to be out of dock again and complete in her repairs in about eight days' time. The Excellent (late Queen Charlotte) fitting in the steam basin at Portsmouth, as the gunnery ship at the port, is nearly complete in her fittings, and has been berthed at the north wall of the steam basin in readiness to receive the armament and store from the old Excellent, which will be placed alongside the dock for that purpose. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam sloop Spiteful, recently commissioned by Commander Wilson, sailed on Saturday from Woolwich for Greenhithe, to be adjusted for sea. Commander Hawker, doing duty in the absence of Commodore Drummond, superintendent of the yard, proceeded down the river on board the Spiteful to witness the tri.l of her machinery, and as soon as the ship was under way, he mustered and inspected the crew, and giv ing them the advantage of existing regulations in reference to an advance of wages, but which have merged from the present date, Oct. 1, into the new system, he directed two months' pay to be given to the crew, and issued similar instructions for the pay ment of the Landrail gun vessel, about to sail from Greenhithe. Several of the crew of the screw sloop Mars, 80, Capt. J. Strange, at Plymouth, are still absent with out leave. She is ordered to prepare for sea, and has embarked men for passage to the Mediterranean. The gunboat Hind, tender to the Russell, 60, at Falmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday to collect coastguard volunteers for conveyance to Fal mouth to attend drill. His Netherland Majesty's paddle steamer Cycloop, Capt. Toewater, having been supplied with 200 tons of coal and with water, sailed from Falmouth on Friday for Gibraltar and Malta, en route to join the Dutch squadron in the upper part of the Mediter ranean. The Enterprise, 4, ore of the exploring ships of the Arctic expedition, now laid up in ordinary at Chatham, has been selected by the Admiralty to proceed to the coast of Scotland, where she is to be used as a coal depot for the lighthouse at Oban. As soon as she has undergone the necessary fitments and alterations at Chatham, she will be towed to her destination. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Thomas W. Oliver, to the Cornwallis; Adolphus Andrews, acting third class assist..engineer, to the Caradoc ; George W. Hancock, acting third class assist.-engineer, to the Blenheim, for service in the Violet ; John B. Palmer, George S. Brodie, Thomas H. Smith, R. H. M. Maxwell and George Alexander Broad, masters' assistants, additional to the Marlborough ; Miles S. S. Bree, master's assistant, to the Aboukir ; Her bert G. T. Packer, master's-assistant, to the Diadem; Nathaniel Child, master's-assistant, to the Cen turion ; Edgar C. Baker, master's-assistant addi tional, to the Victory for the Rolla; George G. M‘E wen, master's-assistant, to the Tartar ; John A. Jones, master's-assistant additional, to the Britannia for the Sealark ; H. J. Nash, clerk, to the Illustrious; and G. R. Johnson, assist.-clerk, supernumerary, to the Victory. various buildings and organising the medical staff because it would be plainly detrimental to this end expectation of being able to pay. And, whenever of officers for the new establishment. were th e public attention to be divert ed from the • this cou ld be made clear to the satisfaction of a The Rev. T. Molesworth, one of the chaplains at generallybroad questions at is sue i n t o matters suggested by jury, then the p art i es wou ld be deemed Chatham arrison has received orders to proceed to personal ietof pique or private animosity. The pro- to have received p un i s h ment enoug h i n the anx i ety g s abani Nl'. granting assistance . upon special and . pain attend ant on such an i nvest i gat i on China, and the Rev. C. A. A. Craven to Aldershot. P se r cuties to a customer in difficulties is un- Advertiser. The Rev. H. E. Maskew at Aldershot is appointed doubted, provided there be a reasonable prospt et chaplain at Chatham. . of those difficulties proving merely temporary. This In consequence of the numerous complaints axis- was the nature of the statem en t l a id before Messrs. ing from the pestiferous miasma produced by the Overend and Co. Many months before, Messrs. 1 slaughtering and deposit of diseased carcases in the Streatfeild submitted an application of a similar character to the Bank of England, who acceded to Plumstead marsh adjoining the Royal Arsenal at it. When Messrs. Streatfeild stopped, the Bank 'Woolwich, a deputation from the local Board of of England, like Messrs. Overend and Co., were limn have waited on Sir B. Hawes, Under Sec- found to be, to a certain extent covered by special retary of State for War, being introduced by Mr. W. AugPrstein, one of the members for Greenwich. England has not been impugned, and we have The deputation was most courteously received, Sir upon a former occa sion s hown that it was not open B. Hawes informing them that the subject was one of great consideration, and promising them that the nuisance should be remedied without delay. securities. Yet the management of the Bank of to blame in the matter. TEE PRISONERS OF THE IRISH BRIGADE. The Morning News of this day prints the first in telligence which up to the present has reached Ire land from any of the Irish prisoners taken by the Piedmontese at Perugia or Spoleto. The commu- nication is from a young man named Brophy, a native of Dublin, who, says the News, " Had been charged to distribute among the men checks on the National Bank, obtained for them from the bank of Plowden, Cholmeley, and Co., by a kind friend in Rome. This money was part of their bounty, which the faithful Celts—the same in heart all over the world, in America, India, Australia, or Italy—were about to remit to the parent, the sister,or mother athome in Ireland. Sergeant Brophy was intrusted with this duty, and undertook to .make out and return to Dublin a list Two or three of our contemporaries have lately been puzzling their heads over the difficult question of " Accommodation Bills," and have striven hard with very ltttle effect, to arrive at some definite conclusion. In sober truth, the question is not an easy one; and none of the writers of the articles to which we are alluding, seemed able to find an answer to the preliminary inquiry, " What is an accommodation-bill ?" And for this reason we feel (From the Money Market Review.) inclined to join in the discussion, and to endeavour The statements made upon the occasion of the to advance, if possible, the investigation a step or examination of Mr. Thomas Laurence, of the firm , t wo . of Streatfeild, Laurence, and Mortimore, in the Strictly speaking, every bill is an accommodation- Court of Bankruptcy, on the 18th inst., have re- bill. More especially is this the case with what called public attention to the events which occurred are termed " commercial bills." For these arise immediately prior to the stoppage of that great from the purchase and sales of goods, which the house. It stands recorded in Mr. Laurence's evi- buyer prefers to pay for three months hence, deuce that a few days previously he solicited assis- rather than now. The goods are handed over, tance from a great Lombard-street house with but the money is not ready, and the seller says, which he had for many years carried on extensive olf it will be any accommodation to you I will transactions, and that he then obtained an advance draw upon you at three months from the present of £20,000 upon special security. This transaction day." This boon is accepted, and the practice be has formed the occasion of a series of attacks upon comes so universal, that now buyers generally the moneyed firm referred to, who have been expect "to be drawn upon," and quite lose sight accused of secretly supporting an unsound system of the fact, that this three months' bill is concocted of trading, after they had obtained a full know- merely for their accommodation. ledge of its unsoundness. They have been charged So unquestionable is this, that we could point —not generally, but in quarters where an expres- out many great houses, within a quarter of a mile sion of good opinion carries weight—with an un- of St. Paul's, the heads of which are too proud to scrupulous disregard of the interests of the trading accept bills. If they purchase goods on which community in general, and of the other creditors they are entitled to three months' credit, they tell of Messrs. Streatfeild and Co. in particular. These the sellers, " You may come for the money this day charges have obtained a wide publicity, and have three months ; or, it you prefer it, you may take attracted a proportionate share of public discus- off three months' discount, and have the cheque sion. We have been at some pains to make our- now ; but we do not choose to accept bills." We selves acquainted with the facts of the case, and heard a principal of this class, thank God, not long with commercial opinion thereupon. In the judg- since, that "he had never put his name to a bill yet," ment of most impartial men of business Messrs. and expressed his hope that he never should. And Overend, Gurney, and Co. are exonerated from this, simply, because, in his eyes, all bills were ac the accusations which have been made in the commodation-bills. present instance. We have less hesitation Equally clear is it, that every bank-note is an in placing this opinion upon record, because accommodation-bill, and possesses one of the worst upon previous occasions we have not been features of the paper system. We all understand, slow to comment upon the want of caution which that the usual meaning attached to the term is, a is proved by the revelations in the leather trade to bill not resting on a commercial transaction, such have characterised the operations both of banks as the purchase and sale of goods ; but one concocted and of discount houses in the City of London. for the mere purpose of raising money. We all There has been far too keen a competition for know, too, that it is a vice of the bill system that commercial bills, and too lax a scrutiny of them; an accommodution - bill is not generally pa id off and and it is through ' the undue facilities of accom- annihilated, but is replaced by another which modation thereby presented that the insolvent made in its room. houses in the leather trade have contrived to And all this is true of a Bank of England note. prolong a system which, in the interest of the When the Bank issues a dozen notes for £lOO public, ought to have been stopped long ago. each, it does not give these notes for articles of Where there is any blame, however, it should at merchandise, but lends them to people who want least be apportioned fairly. It is absurd to lay capital. And when it has issued to the value of the evil of the system at the door of any one twenty millions of such notes, each of which bears house in particular. The amount of Messrs. the words "I promise to pay,"—it does not really Streatfeild's paper held by the great firm in Lom- mean to pay them off, and cancel them ; but simply bard-street, whose name has been so freely called to replace them by new notes made in their room. in question, was almost exactly the same as that If those who have left deposits in the Bank, and held by the London Joint-Stock bank ; and next those who hold its "promises to pay," were all to on the list of creditors come several other joint- go for their money, the Bank itself, though solvent, stock banks whose management has acquired a would have to stop payment. And this because it character for caution. Let us be just. These has issued an immense number of notes which " pro facts attest the difficulty of discriminating be- raise to pay," without at all meaning to pay those tween sound and unsound commercial paper. notes, but with a trust that will be able to send new The means of diminishing that difficulty may form ones afloat as fast as the old ones come in. And a proper subject of discussion hereafter. For the this is precisely the course which is followed by all moment, we would offer a narrative of the circum- fabricators of "accommodation bills." stances which immediately preceded Messrs. Streat- Here, then, are two different classes of paper feild and Co.'s stoppage. which may strictly be called "accommodation The announcement that the house could not bills," and yet neither of them receives any blame meet its engagements was made definitively on or condemnation from the public voice. For the Monday, the 2d July. On the evening of the pre- criminal and objectionable accommodation-paper we vious Wednesday (the 27th June) Mr. Thomas must look elsewhere. Laurence, as he correctly stated in his evidence, And, in our search after this, we come upon ano made his appearance after business hours at the ther sort of paper which has little moral blame private residence of one of the partners in the firm connected with it. We shall speak of facts which of Overend, .Gurney, and Co., called him away come under most men's observation; and facts which from the dining table, and addressed to him an are common in every part of every great city. A earnest appeal for assistance. We may be quite and Bare two friends, and B has a good balance at sure that Mr. Laurence did not go on this errand his banker's ; while A,: to purchase the lease of his with a view to declaring that he was insolvent, house, or for some other legitimate end, wants, or even inextricably embarrassed. Had this been just now, rather more money than he has got the case, he had better have saved himself the by him. He therefore says to B, " Can you trouble, and issued a circular to his creditors inti- lend me a few hundreds for half a year or mating a suspension of payment. He declared that so ?" The other assents and draws a cheque for his difficulties were merely temporary, and that all £3OO, and says to A, " For how long shall you he wanted, therefore, was temporary assistance, or want it ?" A replies, " Oh, for six months, or otherwise he must stop. Perhaps, if charitably in- perhaps a little more." B, perhaps, dislikes mere _dined, we may hope that he uttered merely what I 0 U's, and therefore takes a stamp and draws a he thought to be truth : this is not an extravagant bill for £307 10s. (the £3OO with interest), which idea, considering that Mr. Laurence declares A accepts. This bill is put awap, and not bent into solemnly in the Bankruptcy Court that he believed circulation. It is merely an acknowledgment that his firm to have been really in possession of a sur- A has borrowed £3OO, and that it is to be paid on plus of about £300,000, instead of showing a defi- a certain day. It has none of the objectionable c'ency of 15s. in the pound. If a banker, ap- features of what are commonly styled " accommo pealed to under such circumstances by an old cus - dation bills." Yet it is-unquestionably true that B tomer, were to exclaim, as Mr. D. W. Chapman has accommodated A with a loan of money, and did, as a result of a hurried ten minutes' converse- that this bill represents that transaction. tion, " Oh, you must not stop. Come to me to- The six months run out, and A finds it eonveni morrow, and we will see what can be done," the ent to ask for a little longer use of the money. He remark would be just what we might expect. mentions it to B, wbo makes no objection, but Accordingly, on the following morning Mr. recollects that a month before, in making a large Laurence attended in Lombard-street, gave an ex- purchase, he paid away this bill, having then only planation of what he considered to be his position, a few weeks to run, to a merchant in the City. He and pressed again for immediate assistance, as ur- tells A, therefore, hat the bill must be regularly gent liabilities had to be met without delay. It paid w hen presented, but he adds, "If it will be was under these circumstances that Messrs.Overend any convenience to you, I will draw a new bill two and Co. granted a loan of £20,000 upon the special days before the cld one becomes due, and give you security of certain title-deeds. We do not see that a cheque for it ; and then you will be able, without the transaction entails upon them any culpability taxing your own resources, to pay the first bill whatever. Similar arrangements are not unfre- when presented, and afterwards you may burn it, quently made between bankers and temporarily if you like." embarrassed customers, without the world know- Here, then, we have at last just what the com ing anything about them. To whom else is the 1 mercial world agree to call "an accommodation customer to have recourse in time of strait ? To 1 bill." It is a bill drawn merely to be discounted, suppose that Messrs. Overend and Co. could make I in order to raise funds to meet an acceptance which themselves masters, upon the instant, of a far- is falling due. Such are the bills which have re reaching chain of facts, which it has taken some of 1 cently come to light in the eases of "Streatfeild the most skilful accountants in the City many 1 and Co." and many others in the leather trade, weeks to unr av e l, wou ld be s imply ridiculous. I and which have conducted so many firms into the Without wishing to be the apologist of any firm, Bankruptcy Court. we say that any banker under similar circum- A n d yet, after all, in the case above described, stances might have acted without _reproach, pre- I may it not be asked, " Where is the guilt ?" May cisely as Messrs. Overend and Co. did upon the I not one friend lend another a few hundreds when occasion. ' the latter wants it, and the first has it to spare ? The £20,000 was handed over. The stoppage of May not the loan be acknowledged in a simple note one or two houses, which depended on Messrs. of hand, or acceptance, promising to pay it by a Streatfeild, was thereby obviated. There was time 1 certain day ? And when the borrower wishes to to breathe, and to inquire more deliberately into retain the money a few months longer, and the their position. Mr. Laurence persisted in declaring lender is willing that he should do so, where is the that accommodation to the extent of £OO,OOO for a objection to the making of a new bill and the tear few months was all that he required to enable ing up the old one, in order to extend the time him to recover himself. Upon the discovery, how- for the repayment ? It is clear that we cannot ob eyer, of the extent of Messrs. Streatfeild's open ject to these things, except we mean to object to all discount accounts in other quarters, Messrs. Over- borrowing and all lending. end and Co. felt that, if any further help was - Where, then, does the "accommodation bill" sys to be granted, it must be granted in conjunction tem begin ; and where does criminality first show with, and upon the recommendation of, the other itself ? In our view it begins, to a moderate ex large creditors. The next step was to convene a tent, when the party professing to lend has not private meeting of the representatives of the really got the money wherewith to assist his friend, joint-stock banks and discount establishments in- but means to raise it by discounting the bill at his terested, in order that the position of the firm might banker's or elsewhere. If B has got the money to be laid before them,and that it might be ascertained lend to A, who has any right to object to bis lend whether it was such that its suspension could legiti- ing it ? He may give it him if he pleases. Nor mately be averted. The meetings in question took can we attach the least blame to the mere act of place on the Friday and Saturday (the 29th and taking an acknowledgment of the debt on a stamped 30th of June), and comprised representatives of the piece of paper. firm of Overend and Co., the London Joint-Stock It is when neither A nor B have got the money, Bank, the City Bank, the National Bank, &c. It but when they agree to concoct a bill between them, is important to remark that even up to the Satur- to be discounted at a bank or at a bill broker's, for day night, pending the investigation which was the purpose of raising the money—it is then that going forward, and in which Mr. Turquand, the the "accommodation bill system" really begins. accountant, was called in to render assistance, all The amount of criminality, however, varies ex the principal bill-holders fully concurred in the ceedingly, and is seldom the same in any two advisability of Messrs. Streatfeld continuing their cases. Great bankers have been charged with payments. There appears, therefore, to be no issuing large a mounts of bills, at times, for special ground whatever for the insinuation that they were purposes ; but no one ever imputed much blame enabled by one house to make unfair preferences. to them, because no one doubted their ability to Meanwhilerumoursof the embarrassmentsof Messrs. pay the whole amount. And in like manner if two Streatfeild had oozed out, but so strangely high had merchants, each possessed of a large capital over their credit stood, even up to the last,moment, that and above his debts, choose to issue half a dozen the general impression was that their difficulties bills of £5OO each, for some commercial purpose, were merely temporary, and would be surmounted. there never will be any blame attached to them, By the comparatively few persons who were par- for the bills will be paid without difficulty or hesi tially aware of the ramifications (though not of the tation ; and no one will have any opportunity to rottenness) of the system of which Messrs. Street- call either of them to account. feild were the head, the result of the meeting was The essence of the real criminality, when any awaited with the most painful suspense. The exists, must be the issuing bills, " promising to meeting of the principal 15'ill-holders heard not a pay," when both draiver and acceptor are conscious tithe of the revelations which have since been that they could not really pay if called upon. And, brought to light ; but, upon Mr. Turquand's report, whenever this fact could be made clear, the trans they were obliged to come to the conclusion that, action would be, in reality, a raising money on however lamentable might be the effect of Messrs. false pretences, and_ it should b e pun i s h a bl e as a Streatfeild's stoppage upon the leather t rade and kind of fraud. So that, after all, the incurring upon commerce generally, it could not be averted. debts without a reasonable probability of being The affair was immediately delivered over to the able to pay them is the real crime, or immorality; professional accountants, Messrs. Coleman, Tur- and we feel strongly, that every man who can be quand, Youngs, and Co., and the circulars announc- reasonably charged with this offence ' oug ht to ba ing Messrs. Streatfeild's stoppage w ere sent out on placed upon his t r i a l, an d ought to h a ve the pri the Monday afternoon. vilege of a defence, and of a ppea l i n g to a jury. For This is a plain statement of fac ts, and we are not we believe that th ere h ave b een cases, eve n within aware that they can be controver ted in an y parti- the last few months, in which the hue and cry of cular. We allude to them thus in detail, because " accommodation-bills" has called down a heavy we retain a hope that the crash in the leather trade censure from the. Bankruptcy Commissioner; when will lead to changes in the practice of our great it might have been clearly shown, on a strict in banks and moneyedestablishmente in a sense favour-I vestigation, that no bill had been given or accept ed able to the interests of the com munit y at large,and ' whi h --cm the parties concerned had not a reasonable COUNTRY MABRETS. or inventory of the cheques of his own company. He appears to have distributed the cheques and made out the list, when suddenly the treacherous onslaught of the Piedmontese invaders (which we thus perceive was utterly unexpected) burst upon Perugia." The following is the brief message, written on a crumpled bit of paper : " Near Livorno, en route to Genoa, Sept. 20. " Sir,—You will perceive by the enclosed that I have faithfully carried out the instructions of to me respecting the cheques intrusted to my charge at Perugia for our company, but unfortu nately I had not time to post it before the siege opened on us. I send here the schedule I made out ; do with it as is best now. 66 You will surely excuse this sort of a note, re membering, as you see, that now we are prisoners. I need say no more. " I have not room, if I dared, to tell you all. I wish you could know all about our capture. " Poor Allmall (Allman ?), whom you knew, fell dead by my side, shot through the heart. He never spoke. Instantly I myself was struck down. My gun was shattered out of my hand, and as I lay on the ground I was hit again by a ball in the left hip, my trousers torn to atoms, my wound but a trifle. But our company escaped wonderfully, considering it might have been destroyed. " We are here after three days' dreadful march: Our poor fellows are used awful. You would see the blood oozing out through our shoes and over at the ankles, from streaming down inside our clothes from our wounds—still made to go fearful marches. But our spirits are the same as ever. "We are going, they say, to Genoa. I have of course given every man his check, except five or six,_ which I keep awaiting instructions. I suppose no letters can reach us, but try. " Dear Sir, send word to my mother of my fate; she lives at No. —, —, Dublin. It is no use her writing, as I might not get it.—Your obedient ser vent, " T. W. BROPHY." Is L TEE ARMY. The 26th (Cameronians) have returned to Dublin from the camp at Curragh. Four companies of the 60th Rifles will proceed from the Curragh on Mon day (this day) for Richmond Barracks, Dublin. The 96th Regiment are under orders to change their quarters on the 2d and 3d October, from the Cur ragh Camp to Ship-street Barracks, Dublin. The 36th regiment will leave the Curragh Camp on the 3d and 4th October, for Richmond Barracks, Dublin. A number of skilful artisans and mechanics have been selected from the companies of Royal Engi neers at headquarters, Chatham, with orders to em bark at Southampton on Friday next, for the Cape of Good, Hope, to assist in the erection of the sana torium which the Government has decided on esta blishing at that station for the sick and wounded troops from India and China. The sanatorium is intended to be formed of huts, and will be erected near the locality of Winsberg, about 8 miles from Cape Town. Dr. J. R. Taylor, C. 8., who has been appointed chief medical officer, has been for some time at the Cape supe r intending the erection of the LEICESTER-Sm. 29. There was a small supply of wheat to-day, a tolerable attendance, and prices 3s higher. White wheat, 66s to 74s —red, 60s to 68s per 36 stone; a ready sale for fine barley, grinding, 36s to 38s ; malting, 40s to 44s per qr. ; oats, 25s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans—old, 52s to 54e, new 50s to 52s per 33 stone. Fine flour, 48s I Seconds, 44s I Thirds, per 20 stone. YORK- SEPT. 29. The supply of wheat was limited to-day, but the demand was fair, and currencies were 2s to 3s over the previous week. Of other descriptions of grain the show was scanty, with a moderate inquiry, at former rates. Wheat, red .60s to 64s I Oats.... 26s to 32s White do .64s to 70s i Beans 48s to 505 Barley .33s to 43s 1 Peas ....—s to —5 Malt, 68s to 70s :per qr. ; rye, 40s per qr. ; flour, 48s to 50s per sack. CAMBRIDGE-SEPT. 29. There was a limited supply of wheat, both old and new, and, with an active sale, white moved off at 58s to 665, red, 53s to 60s per 36 stone. There was a thin show of barley to-day ; malting, 36s to 42s ; grinding, 30s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats at 22s to 28s for new ; old oats, 22s to 28s. Beans in limited supply, and a steady sale—new, 40s to 49s ; old, 43s to 45s per 38 stone ; peas, 40s to —s per 36 stone. White cloverseed, 86s to 898; red, 46s to 50s.per qr. NORWICH-SETT. 29. To-day's market was fairly attended, and the wheat trade was brisk. Good dry samples at 4s to 5s advance. Prices for new barley were fully maintained. White wheat......64s to 68s I Red wheat 54s to 65a Malting barley....4os to 43s I Chevalier barley 33s to 35s Distilling do.. ....25s io 27s 1 Oats.. 30s to 32s Flour, 46s to 46s 6d per sack from the miller. DUBLIN-SEPT. 28. A better supply of new grain to-day, and quality and condition still indifferent. Wheat, barley, and bore moved off at luesd•iy's currencies. Indian corn advanced 6d to is per qr, with an improved demand. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 33 0 to 36 0 Do., red 3l 0 to 33 0 Do., new .... 30 0 to 0 I Barley Oats Do., black l4 0 to 15 0 s. d. s. tl. Do., new l5 0 to 16 6 Bere. 146 to 170 Rapeseed Oatmeal l5 0 to 17 6 Bakers' flour Indian corn THE MAILS. MAILS DUE. Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South ampton) .. .. • • • • • • • . Oct. 19. Do. (via Marseilles) Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds.. • . .. Oct. 5. 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Whatever may be the remote causes of fever, diarrhcea, dysentery, and similar ailments, it is well ascertained that these diseases: are rampant in summer and autumn, and as well known that they can be safely and successfully subdued by Holloway's purifying preparations. Holloway's ointment, well rubbed upon the entire abdomen, his pills taken internally, and his dietary rules strictly ob served, embrace the domestic and medical management of these diseases, which when neglected weaken, if they prove not fatal. These remedies remove the causes of complaints, and no sufferer, whether his disease be chronic or acute, should despair till trial has been given to these medicines— which always cure regardless of the disorders, nature, or cause. BIRTHS. - - COLEMAN.—On the 28th ult., at Cirencester, the wife of John Coleman, Esq., M.R.A.S., of the Royal Apicul ture! College, of a daughter. NEviLL.--On the 29th ult., at B o wlhead-green, near God aiming, the Lady Dorothy Nevin, prematurely, of a daughter, stillborn. STATn.tm.—On the 23d ult., the wife of the Rev. Francis F. Statham, incumbent of St. Peter's, Walworth, of a BOIL MARRIAGES. BACON—KEATE.—aa the 27th ult., at Margart, Fl orence, the fifth daughter of General and the Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Bacon, to Captain Edward Keate, lery. GOODE—Mumno.—On the 28th ult., at All Souls' Church, St. Marylebone, the Rev. Woolaston Goode, rector of St. Giles's, Colchester, to Amelia Agnese, the younger daughter of Sir Charles Munro, Bart., of Foulis Castle, Ross- shire. DEATHS. RSTALL.—OnII, Es the 27 q th ult., at Sydenham, J u li ane, w if e Bu of John Bursta. BROPHY .— On the 24 th ult., Florence Nighti nga l e , e ld es t d aug hter of Lieut. Brophy, of the Royal Body Guard, St. James's Palace. DARLEY.—On the 21st inst., at S p a unton, Henry Brewster Darley, Esq , of Aldby-park, and Spaunton Manor, in the North Riding, aged 51. HOLT.—On the 29th ult., at Enfi e ld, Middl esex , Willi am Henry Holt, Esq., M.D., aged 78. LANODALE.—On the 26th inst., at Garston House, Blotch ingly, Surrey, Marmaduke Robt. Langdale, Esq., of 38, Gowez -street, Bedford•square, aged 76. PRATT.—On the 26th inst., John Pratt, Esq., formerly of Mincing-lane, aged 82. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNC;, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun 3ffice, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the eon*, • Middliteez, Monday, October 1, 1860 4` THE SUN, LONDON,. MONDAYEVENING,':OCTOBER 1, 1860.