The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-08 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES. (From the Tines Correspondent.) NEW YORK, July 26. Chief Justice Chase is resolved to insist upon negro suffrage as essential to the peace and welfare of the country. The other leaders of this party are silent, although they are working hard to bring to gether a strong combination against the Govern ment. Mr. Chase cannot wait for the result of these efforts. He has delivered several addresses in various parts of the country advocating his views, the last of these speeches being made at a Univer sity meeting in Hanover, where he told his audi ence that " no reorganization of the country will be complete and permanent until every man in it, of whatever colour, is allowed to vote." He further said that the negroes were sufficiently intelligent to use a vote properly, and he rather paradoxically illustrated this by affirming that, though a negro might not be ableto give a reason for voting in any specified way, he knew enough to walk up to the ballot-box and put his ticket in." This is substantially the opinion of those who oppose negro suffrage. They believe that the negro would exercise the privilege of voting ignorantly and improperly. The morality and religious character of the negro Mr. Chase eulogised very warmly; "they have," he s aid, giving another strange example in proof of his statement, " a great many black preachers among them who are now contending for the sanctity of marriage." These social repentances and reforms entitle the freedmen to have as much voice in re organisation as any other inhabitants of the South. Speaking of universal suffrage Mr. Chase slid " We must take this right up to the Throne of God, and lay it upon His sacred altar, for it is a matter of eternal justice." These are the views of the Chief Justice, but it is quite certain that they are not the views of Mr. Johnson or his Cabinet. Seeing that in his official capacity Mr. Chase will be called upon shortly to decide more than one important question hinging upon the future of the negro, it can scarcely be deemed a discreet course to go about the country committing himself to certain theories ;which he may hereafter discover to be fallacious and un tenable. Whether. the negro shall be admitted into the franchise or not will be the great battle ground of parties during the ensuing session, and the dogmas of one particular section might be just as ably and far more appropriately vindicated by a less important officer than the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Chase, however, attaches too much importance to the subject to adopt a sober and cautious policy respecting it. It is true that the President has distinctly said that in his opinion the negro is not ready for the suffrage, but the Chief Justice feels it his duty to contradict the President, and to argue against him at public meetings. To the foreigner (as all Europeans here are called) there is an incongruity in all this ; it does not seem to add dignity or power to the Government to be rebuked by the highest Court in the Republic ; and it might be thought that the Chief Justice can hardly improve his own position by making the "stump" a court of appeal above his own. But when one of the State Secretaries tells a crowd that he wishes God would direct the American people to drive the French out of Mexico, the extra judicial vagaries of Mr. Chase are comparatively excusable, although they cannot tend to assist the Government through its present difficulties. Mr. Johnson, however, has apparently made up his mind ; and Mr. Johnson is, above all things, a strong and determined man. The entreaties of Mr. Greeley, the remonstrances of Mr. Chase, and the threats of the Radical party will not prevail upon him unless he has other and better evidence of the inaccuracy of his present conclusions. The tendency of the public mind, he has justly said, is towards limiting rather than extending the franchise. In these words is involved an issue quite as important as the admission of the negro to the suffrage, and that issue will probably arise before the next Session of Congress is over. Already thoughtful men in the States lament the fact that the votes of the educated are swamped by those of persons who are barely able to read and write. They complain bitterly of the circumstance that emigrants are so soon placed on a level with the native-born citizen, however unfitted they may be, by their past lives, their habits, and their actual powers, to exercise the privilege of honest and pa triotic men. It is especially felt to be a serious evil that hordes of Irish, who land here utterly ignorant and forlorn, with no principles which can possibly render them good citizens, should, be able to neutra lise the votes of the class which has a vital stake in the conduct of public affairs. In Massachusetts the suffrage has been so far limited as to exclude all persons from it who are unable to read and write. Whether a similar measure would be acceptable to other States is extremely doubtful, but the fact is distinctly before every observer of public opinion that there is a general wish to place some restric tions upon the exercise of the suffrage. It is com mon to hear men of wealth and education declare that they never vote, because their votes would be of no use. "We are," they say, " virtually unre presented." _ In this city of New York the Irish control the elections, and the result is shown in a local adminis tration so corrupt that the whole country cries " shame" upon it. When it is remembered that the Judges are elected by universal suffrage, the magnitude of the evil rust become apparent even to those who have never been in the United States. In an age when corruption is unknown, and public men arc beyond the reach of sinister influences, the Judges might fulfil their duties impartially, and regardless of popular favour, but no one pretends that we have entered upon this age yet. The Judges, therefore, are not aboVe suspicion of study ing their own future prospects rather than the even dispensation of justice. Such cases are more com mon in New York City than in the State, or than in any other State, simply because of the presence here of a large mass who vote for the man who can play most skilfully upon their passions and preju dices. However much attached the American may be to his " institutions," there is scarcely a man among them of the better class uho does not de plore the existence of this system of electing the Judges by universal suffrage. Lawyers can give numberless instances of its mischievous effects, and the best men consider it all but fatal to the pur poses for which courts of law are established. There is another phase in which this Irish ques tion presents itself to the American people. When re ference is made to the manifest injustice of certain English criticisms upon this country, it is remarked by Americans, " Englishmen forget that we are providing a home for all the outcasts and exiles of the Old World, and that in two generations we ob literate the traces of their misery or crimes, and produce respectable citizens." And it must be ac knowledged that the raw material with which they have to work is of the worst pOssible kind. The influx of Irish would ruin any other land but one which was almost boundless in its extent and inex haustible in its wealth. In the second generation they are found to be good colonists, f or i n this country the influence of t he priesthoodsoon on Irish declines, and it seems possible to im p ress even upon faculties that it is better to live by fair hard work than by laziness and craft. But the original emi grant too often brings with him all the vices and leaves behind him . all the virtues of his race. He becomes an insolent servant in a hotel, or, imitating the congenial manners of the native " rowdy," he prowls about the wharves and public building - 8, try ing to pick up pence by begging or some more facile means. The riots in New York two years ago were entirely organised and carried out by the. Irish. They are constantly attacking the houses of the Germans settle down into a steady and decent life as soon as they aroive, and the Irishman has never heard of that system, and cannot bring himself to understand it. He knows that he is the equal of all men, and his notion of equality is that he is better than his neighbour, and ought to be kept at his neighbour's expense. One of them said in a police court the other day, when he was charged with striking a man in the street with a slug shot, " I haven't got into the ways of the country yet." They never do get into its ways. They hear at home that they can live in America without much work, and when they find out the error they fall back into old habits with a resignation that would be almost Chris tian if its results were uot so vicious. They arrive in such I numbers as to defy control. A report issued by the Commissioners of Emigration for 1864 states that 184,700 emigrants landed at New York last year. Of these 89,706 came from Ireland, and 57,572 from Germany. The German emigrants generally bring means with them ; the Irish land with nothing but rags and dense ignorance to call their own, with no plan of life before them, with no definite expecta tions even, and no object in view, except to be made a Fenian as soon as possible. The result is that the streets are infested with Irish ruffians, and Ameri cans justly complain that upon them falls the dis credit of crimes committed by people from their own shores. There are as many Irish to be seen any day in Broadway as in Dublin. They herd together here according to their unvarying instincts, the dirtiest and most depraved part of the town being invari ably the Irish quarter. Into some of these parts the police are actually afraid to follow them. The New York papers often make a half pathetic appeal to them to go West, where fortune is ready to smile upon their industry, but they prefer to stay where fortune of a different kind may be obtained without industry, and of the total number who came here last year 60,000 declared their intention of remain ing in New York. As to the " Fenian" craze, it is taken up every now and then by the press as part of the favourite diversion of " stirring up John Bull." When other topics are dull it is always found to be good to fall back on England. Round abuse of Eng land and Englishmen never fails to bring down the cheers of the mob here. The other day one of the papers came out on the arrival of the mailwiththe announce ment in large letters, " Suspension of specie pay ments in England—the poor old country on its last legs." Nevertheless, by the subsequent mail it did not appear that the " poor old country" had quite gone. These ravings are utterly disregarded by the intelligent classes, but they have a certain effect upon the ignorant—similar in kind, though not, it is to be hoped, in degree, to that which was pro duced on the minds of the Southern people by the constant assertions by their leaders that the Yan kees were cowards, and would never fight. Nowhere in the country were the people so ignorant as in the South ; they thoroughly believed that the North could not and would not fight them. Similarly, the ill-educated classes in the North are taught day after day that all Europe is a morsel designed by destiny for the Americans to swallow whenever they are disposed to open their mouths. Fenianism is a part of this course of education, and it is the most popular part of the course. A vision of per fect bliss dawns upon the Irish mind as it pictures the sacking of London by a Fenian army, the exe cution of the Royal family, a general distribution of property, and the elevation of Mr. John Mitchell to the English throne. That is the programme of the Fenians, and it suits some of the papers to puff it off, and encourage the madmen in their folly. But enlightened Americans are not satisfied that men whose only scheme of life is to enrich themselves by plundering others should have an overwhelming voice in controlling the affairs of their State. , Yet the Irish are so powerful in New York that the best of the papers would not dare to advocate the alteration of the suffrage as applied to them. Any politician who did so would inevitably suffer at their hands. It is this subject which fills the mind of the reflecting classes with much deeper anxiety than the admission or exclusion of the negro has ever occasioned. The principle of universal suffrage is at the very basis of the Constitution, and he will be a bold and unfortunate man who first pro poses to limit it in any way. Nevertheless, those who follow the course of events most intelligently, and have the welfare of their country most deeply at heart, are filled with misgivings when they see that power is being rapidly absorbed by a race which only knows what patriotism is by obscure tra dition. A committee of the House of Representatives, ap pointed to report on the conduct of the war," has been making an investigation into the circumstances of an attack by the Third Regiment of Colorado Volunteers upon a party of the Cheyenne tribe of Indians. The official statement of this committee discloses an extraordinary series of outrages. In the course of last summer a message was received from the Indians by Major lynkoop, then c3inmanding the post of Fort Lyon, making known their wish to deliver over a number of white captives whom they had purchased of other Indians. The captives were received, but the Cheyennes, who have always been a friendly tribe, were taken prisoners by the United States forces. After a while they were sent to a place on Sand Creek, and told.to remain there until they received instructions from Major Anthony, who had succeeded Major Nynkoop. They thought they were to be treated as friends, and the Commissioners state that " everything seemed to have been done to remove from the mind of these Indians any fear of approaching danger." A few nights afterwards Col. Chivington and Major Anthony marched out with upwards of 800 men, and surrounded the In dian camp, which consisted of about GOO persons, of whom more than half were women and children. The head chief ran forward with a small white flag, but a general massacre was immediately commenced. The Commissioners say : " Men, women, and children were indiscriminately slaughtered. From the sucking baba to the old warrior, all who were overtaken were deliberately murdered. Not content with killing women and children, who were in capable of offering any resistance, the soldiers indulged in acts of barbarity of the most revolting character, such, it is to be hoped, as never before disgraced the acts of men claiming to be civilised. No attempt was made by the officers to restrain the savage cruelty of the men under their command, but they stood by and witnessed these acts without one word of reproof, if they did not incite their commission. For more than two hours the work of murder and barbarity was continued, until more than one hundred dead bodies, three-fourths of them of women and children, lay on the plain as evidences of the fiendish malignity and cruelty of the officers who had sedulously and carefully plotted the massacre and of the soldiers who had so faithfully acted out the spirit of their officers." This extraordinary act seems to be' absolutely without palliation. The Indians had not only been friendly 'themselves, but had done all that lay in their power to restrain the lawlessness it nd violence of other tribes. The language of the Commissioners towards Colonel Chivington is most severe. They accuse him of having " deliberately planned and executed a foul and dastardly massacre, which would have disgraced the veriest savage among those who were the victims of his cruelty." They recommend the immediate removal of all the officers who took a part in the butchery, and who " dis graced the. Government by whom they are em ployed." The rapid disappearance of the Indian from this continent would be a heavy reproach to the nation if it could be traced to such a policy as that which Colonel Chivington and Major Anthony thought proper to pursue. Reports from various parts relative to the pro spects of the cotton crop are generally discou raging. It is computed that 500,000 bales will represent the total crop, and that the entire quantity of "merchantable cotton on hand" is about 1,200,000 bales. It is impossible, however, for any one to estimate with precision the quantity which is held in the trans-Missiisippi country. An opinion has been given by Attorney-General Speed, in compliance with the demand of the Treasury, upon the right of loyal merchants or foreigners to cotton which was seized by the United States' Go vernment during the war. This decision will be of great arises importance to many E ng li s h t ra d ers . It from what is known as the Savannah cotton case, the fact s b e i ng there :—Last ecernber Gen. Sherman confiscated, on behalf of the Treasury Department, 38,000 bales of cotton in the city of was sold i n N ew York at Havan n ail . The prope r t y public auction, and subsequently claims were posted for the proceeds by parties representing themselves to be loyal merchants or subjects of neutral Powers. The Attorney-General de e co i a d fp e to s i , ipr i ie n ndi t o l ; ' n e t t fi tpi r ci> s an t t place, that point c t o l t i t e oi s i a w ys as :_ la: l fu a ll m y the second neither the President, nor any other executive offi cer can restore, or authorise such a commission as you (the Secretary of the Treasury) suggest to make restitution of the proceeds of their captured property to these loyal claimants." The following passages are too important to be abridged : " When the insurrection has been suppressed the owners are authorised to invoke the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims. The proceeds of the property aro thus,in the pos session of the United States, subje c t to th e adjudication of the Court, and when it shall have passed upon the claim aats' rights and decreed iu their favour Congress has so lemnly declared that they shall receive restitution of their property. In the presence of such legislation, covering as it does the entire subject-matter, providing for the safe custody of the property in question pending hostilities, and for the final judicial determination of the rights of the parties in interest, I cannot see that the Executive has power to make a different disposition of the property from that provided by Congress, or authorise any one to deter mine the questions which Congress has intrusted to the decision of another forum. lam therefore of opinion, in reply to your inquiry, that jurisdiction cannot be conferred upon a commission appointed dither by the President or the Secretary of the Treasury to examine the claims in question and to make restoration of the proceeds of so much of this cotton as may belong to the loyal claimants." Ford's Theatre, Washington, in which President Lincoln was shot, has lately been the subject of some cheap and vehement patriotism. A portion of the press is unreserved in its indignation because the Government forbade the re-opening of the theatre one night recently, when a play especially adapted to excite disorder and tumult was announced for production. When Mr. Lincoln died it seemed that the whole country wanted to buy the theatre, and turn it into some sort of memorial of the " Martyr President." But, provided there be not some great principle or cause at stake, popular sentiment is very shortlived in America, and the desire to da something from motives of respect and gratitude to Mr. Lincoln soon burnt itself out. So Mr. Ford was unable to get any one to buy his theatre ; even the Young Men's Christian Association, which had been very eager to sanctify the unhallowed spot by meet ing together in it, could not make up their minds to pay for the privilege. The Cabinet appears to thinjc that it is undesirable to let the theatre become pub lic property, and they have, consequently, agreed to pay rent for it until next session, when Congress may be willing to pay for its purchase. It is a little more than doubtful, however, whether 'the money will be voted, for the prevalent feeling towards Mr. Lincoln, though kindly, is by no means enthusiastic, and it is very common to hear expressions of regret that the Queen wrote a private letter to Mrs. Lin coln. Men who are familiar with public affairs, and who remember them, speak with the highest admi ration of the late President ; but the mass of the pe9ple have fickle memories, and with them the merits of Mr. Lincoln are eclipsed by the more showy performances of Grant and Sheridan, the two popular idols at this moment. The Abyssinian Prisoners. ♦-' A letter from Mr. Stern, one of the missionaries who are captive with Consul Cameron in Abyssinia, has reached our hands. Some extracts of this letter may prove entertaining reading, even to Lord Russell and Mr. Layard. At this season of the year probably both gentlemen unbend from the high official in difference they have shown to the sufferings of our countrymen ; besides, both are gentlemen of a lite rary turn, and the letter has at least the sort of interest to be found in books of travel and adven ture. If there are passages in it which refute the " explanations" of her Majesty's Afinisters, that need not trouble them now, when they are already knee-deep in misstatements and contradictions. They have said, for instance, that the sufferings of the missionaries and the Consul are the conse quence of personal indiscretion, and that to assign them to the anger of King Theodoros against the British Government is absurd. Yet in the first page of Mr. Stern's letter we read—" I believe that, next to the members of her Britannic Majesty's Government, King Theodoros considers me the greatest miscreant that ever breathed the free air of heaven." The writer (whose letter is dated April, 1865) thus proceeds : " You are aware that in the beginning of April, 1863, I reached Abyssinia. Our mission, though restricted in its operations was then most prosperous. In June, Captain Cameron, H.B.M. Consul, arrived a second time at our sta tion in Genda. The King, who had been at some distance, also quite accidentally came to our neigh bourhood. During his stay in our vicinity, I heard several times that he was annoyed that Capt. Cameron had not lirought an answer to his letter to the British Government, and also for having gone round the frontier and formed, as was falsely expressed, pre judicial intimacies with his enemies the Turks. Against us and our mission I also heard unfavour able reports ; and as I knew the priests were op posed to us and our work, I communicated my fears to my fellow labourers. " Not expecting violence or forcible detention, even under the most adverse circumstances, I visited the Faloshas of various districts. About the 20th September I came back to Genda ; and on the even ing of my return, a royal order summoned the Bri tish consul, all the missionary agents and myself, to Gondar, to hear the reading of the letter which a Monsieur Bardel had brought from the Emperor of the French. All obeyed the behest, and on the morning of the 2d October, I think (the dates may not be quite correct), the despatch was publicly read, and the fictitious interview between Monsieur Bardel and Napoleon 111. narrated before the small European colony. The King was exceedingly dissatisfied with the letter and the reception of his messenger ; and I know that M. Lejean, the French Consul, might still keep us company had not Aboona Salama (the Abyssinian patriarch) arrested the King's violence and gained him permis sion to leave. M. Lejean and M. Lagard, a French physician, were peremptorily requested to quit Abyssinia, and the rest returned again to their re spective homes. " The crisis, which for some time had been loom ing in the distance, was now drawing nearer and nearer. All felt that there was something impend ing, but even the most timid dreaded nothing be yond the seizure of property and an expulsion from the country. My own work being finished,, I pur chased the requisite number of animals and started for the coast. On my way I had to repass Gondar, where the King was still with his army. The Metro politan, with wonted kindness, invited me to his residence, an offer which I gratefully accepted. I reached Gondar on Thursday, and on Saturday I in tended to pay my salaam to his Majesty. Unfor tunately, before I could secure a baldaraba, or in troducer, the King unexpectedly set out on an ex pedition against a rebel. I remained at Gondar till Tuesday, and then bade a final adieu to the Bishop and other friends, and quitted, as I thought for ever, the capital of Abyssinia. Captain Cameron, and also the Frenchman Bardel, accompanied me about two hours on my road, and then shook hands and parted. " My people as well as myself were in the happiest mood, a feeling which even our animals seemed to share, for they marched with ease along shelving paths and over dizzying precipices up to the plain of Woggera. Here to my surprise I saw the King's white tent glimmering in the sun's rays on one of the heights which dot the plateau. Duty as well as courtesy forbade me to advance without saluting his Majesty. This induced me to halt, and towards afternoon I proceeded, accompanied bytwo servants, one of whom spoke a little Arabic, to the royal camp ing ground. After waiting about two hours, his Ma jesty came into the open air. Myself and attendants immediately made a most humble obeisance. There was a frown on the King's countenance which augured nothing auspicious. Between the first question and the death of my two servants the hand of time could not have advanced ten minutes. The gloom of ap proaching night, the rattling of the sticks, and my own doubtful fate, mechanically prompted me to put my hand to my lips, or, as it was said, to put a finger into my mouth. This was construed into a crime, and in less time than these words take to pen, I was stripped, beaten, and -almost lifeless on the ;►round. Wounded, bruised, and bleeding, my exe cutioners dragged, or rather carried me, down the hill, where my swollen wrist was fastened by a hoop and chain to the arm of a soldier. My guar - than, moved with compassion, tried to staunch with rank grass the blood which profusely welled out of more than a score of gashes and scars ; but, finding the effort useless, he wrapped himself my battered form clinging in his shams, withalso sank several times into a and, oh ! how gladly would I have feverisht o him , fellstu stupor passed the wearisome hours of night in forgetfulness had not the shifting motion of blood in my mouth and throat denied me this indulgence. At daylight I was given in charge of several chiefs, whilst the King moved on to Gondar." His guards, however, and the villagers behaved THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1865. kindly to the unfortunate man. Orders had been sent that he should be fettered hand and foot ; but his ankles were too much inflamed to be ironed without great agony, and so the royal order was transgressed. His left hand was tied to his right foot, and in that state he and his servant were marched to Gondar. There his baggage was searched by Mr. Flad, M. Bardel, one Samuel (a very doubtful convert), and some officers of the royal household. Mr. Stern warned M. Bardel that there were some papers and diaries which might compromised him (Mr. Stern). " Dont be afraid," said the French man, " if anything is found, I'll say they are the journals of —," a gentleman then in England. Meanwhile— " The anticipated arrival of favourable letters from the British Government, as well as the energetic efforts of the Metropolitan and other friends, dis pelled every doubt of my speedy release. Capt. Cam eron, H.B.M. consul, also kindly offered to exert himself on my behalf, but I disclaimed all assis tance that was not strictly of a conciliatory and friendly character. About the beginning of Novem ber the King wrote to his European workmen at Gaffat that he had tortured me long enough, and that, if they approved of it, they should come to Gondar and reconcile us. My prospects now looked bright and hopeful, when unexpectedly his Majesty was informed that Ihad papers unfavourable to him. This was exactly four weeks after my beating and incarceration. Not dreaming of anything inauspi cious, and animated by the sweet hope of liberty, I passed the greater part of the day in conversation with my guards, when, unexpectedly, Samuel and a party of soldiers came rushing into my prison, seized every article in it, and carried them off to the King. My Egyptian servant, Joseph, who had been my fellow prisoner, though not in chains, was re quested to follow. Two hours of torturing suspense had elapsed, when bags, boxes, &c., were again brought back, minus every paper and book. They had been handed to M. Bardel, who acted as examiner, and now and then the King said Cocab (my name) is a belhademga (clever man) ; then again a toungonlenya (a cunning rascal). The glowing prospects of freedom and restoration to the bosom of my family from that hour sank before my mind's vision. In the evening I was given in charge of severer guards, and tied hands and feet. Twenty five soldiers and five chiefs were now appointed as my regular guard. No stranger was allowed to ap proach my tent. A servant of the chief jailer now and then baked me a few flat cakes, and brought me a leather bottle of water. Some of the guards, in whose good graces I bad wormed myself informed me that I had an enemy at Gondar, and snapping their fingers (a sign that all is over), ejaculated We are all dust and must die." After several days of suspense and suffering came a gleam of hope. Mr. Stern was now told that-- "The longed-for letter from the British Govern ment would arrive in two days, and that on Friday I was to be liberated. Seconds yielded to minutes, minutes to hour, and at last came Friday. I had already lost trust in messages, but early on that morning, to my agreeable surprise and gratitude, the feet chains were opened. Less guarded than usually, I sat in my tented prison, and prayerfully ruminated on my future destiny. About mid-day my fierce chief gaily marched into the tent, and commanded that I should accompany him to his Majesty. I im mediately obeyed the summons, but instead of a pri vate interview with the monarch, I found the whole army drawn up in a square, the utmost line which was occupied by a kind of throne on which sat the King, shaded by gigantic silken umbrellas. On the left side of his Majesty, I noticed Messrs. Bardel and Zander, and on the right a host of priests and scribes, whilst in the interior of the square, squatted on carpets, were ranged in opposite lines the King's European workmen, 11.8. M. Consul, and the missionaries. Scarcely one of the Europeans ventured to gaze at me, whilst myriads of black glittering eyes vainly tried to pierce my inmost soul. On looking round I saw Rosenthal in chains, standing about a hundred steps from me." They were to be judged according to a code which pronounces the penalty of death on all who by speech or writing offend the King. " Ten articles, I believe, were brought forward against me, and the most formidable of these were the assertion that a war between the King and a foreign Power would remove intolerance and in troduce religious liberty ; that since the death of Mr. Bell the King had no good counsellor ; that various provinces, and also Genda, had been plun dered ; and, lastly, that in passing a place where lay bleaching in the rays of the sun 700 or .800 skulls, I had stated in my diary that they had been murdered in cold blood. The only offensive state ment in my book, of which I had unfortunately one copy, was the pedigree of his Majesty, and the last heavy crime consisted in my having added a few harmless and complimentary notes from the Metropolitan. Rosenthal's sins (which were laid upon me, though I knew not a word of what he had written till that very moment) consisted in some remarks about the King's private life in a letter to a relative in London. Even Mrs. Flad was arraigned before this Imperial Court, and that, for sooth, because she wrote to me a year before, in a note which I carelessly threw among other papers, that the Abyssinian lion had degenerated into a tiger. She was immediately pardoned on account of her husband, who was so good a friend to the King—but myself and Rosenthal, notwithstanding all I urged against the malice and obvious perver sions in the translations, were unanimously declared guilty. Knowing full well, from sad experience, what the verdict implied, I appealed to Samuel, and entreated him to solicit the royal pardon, in our behalf. Ile at first did not deign to give a reply ; but, on reiterating the request, he angrilyre torted, ' To-morrow, to-morrow.' The King now waved his hand, and both• Mr. Rosenthal and my self were led off to one common tented prison. The same evening, Jaquebby, our fiendish jailer, tumbled half drunk into our tent, and, after eyeing me awhile like a basilisk, he exclaimed, 'lf I had a sword I would cut off that dog's head,' and then, making again a pause, he jumped un, dragged me along the ground by the chain, and, amidst a shower of the vilest epithets, began to hammer tight my fetters." By-and-by there came fresh rumours that the "impatiently expected letter from the British Go vernment had arrived," and this gave the prisoners fresh hope. But on the 4th of December they saw reason to banish hope. " About noon that day our fetters on the feet were removed, and, escorted by a detachment of soldiers, we were conducted before the King. His Majesty was at our arrival engaged in administering justice, and for two hours we had to stand close to criminals who were undergoing tile dreadful punish ment of the giraffe'—whipping with buffalo-hide thong. On being summoned nearer, his Majesty ironically said, in reference to an expression which had inadvertently dropped from my lips, ' Are you now afraid ?' We gave no reply, but quietly re signed ourselves to Him who is a help to His ser vants in every time of need. His Majesty then peremptorily inquired why we had insulted him. Fearlessly, though respectfully, I returned, ' Our object has not been to insult your Majesty, nor have we written a single word in the language of this country ; but if we have done wrong we humbly crave your royal pardon.' Samuel, who acted as interpreter, had not yet quite translated the above sentence, when the King commanded to take away our shamas and shirts. Miserable, wretched, with a mere rag around the waist, we were con ducted back to our prison. Our guards now consulted among themselves whether they should leave us in the open air orpermit us to occupy again the tent. The fear of our escape induced them to consign us again to our old place, where on the bare ground we spent a never-to-be-forgotten 12 hours. Cold and chilly with the night, gloomy and sad ap peared the dawn of day. Our chief jailer who had gone to the King, came back in about two hours, but instead of leading us to execution, as we had every reason to believe, he brought to each a tattered rag, and also ordered us to have some bread and water. Respite, and not release, did not lighten our to t e burden or mitigate o ur m ental and physical suffer ings. A young nat i ve lad i n t h e serv i ce o f M r. Fl a d , accompanieddoor of f y a our friendly ,tent s a o n l d d i ebry, signs occasionally gav e 11. c to e understand that we were ere long to be liberated. Our guards also put a stop to their petty tyrannies, and some became even civil and communicative. We now heard from all sides that our lives had been in imminent peril—nay, we were assurred that on the day the King had us stript, the knives to cut off our hands and feet were actually lying close to the spot where we stood, and that the fell deed was only pre vented by the energetic remonstrances and inter cessions of the head of the monks. Fifteen days more in trouble and exhausting anxiety rolled away. I do not recollect the date, but it was on a rainy and dull morning, that our tent door was lifted up, and to our surprise as well as joy there entered Flad, Samuel, several of the Bishop's and King's people. My body being almost bent double by the chains, Flad softly requested me not to rise, as is cus tomary at the receipt of a royal message, but simply told me that his Majesty wished me to give him the exact price of certain silks which had been presented to him by the Metro politan. The Bishop presented to the King on his own account articles of considerable value, as he hoped thereby to gain his favour and promote my restoration to freedom. " Having finished the valuation, which I could easily do, as most had been purchased by me in England, Samuel ordered me to get up, and then in a bland speech he informed me that it had been the King's design to kill me, but that God had not per mitted it,. and that now I had the means of regain ing the royal favour if I supplied Mr. Flad, who was going to Europe, with letters to procure machines and one or two gunpowder makers. On the return of Mr. Flad, his Majesty would also allow me to leave Abyssinia, and that, too, overloaded with pre sents, and a name famous in Africa and Europe. During the interval his Majesty would set me free and afford me occupation in taking for him photo graphic sketches. I felt inclined to object to all these proposals, but Flad, to whom the King himself had shown the spot where he intended to kill me, advised me to give an unqualified assent to every demand, as otherwise it might go badly with myself, and also Mr. Rosenthal. His Majesty sent the fol owing day to open our hand chains, but on Mr. Flad's representation that my legs were in a bad state, the order was reversed. Flad subsequently said that the King wanted that the same fetters should that very day be attached to the Consul and Makerer (the Consul's servant), and that he had to beg most earnestly to prevent the command from being carried into effect." Affairs now looked brighter. The prisoners were allowed more liberty ; a servant was appointed to wait on them ; and a message was sent to the Euro peans at Gaffat to come to Gondar " and reconcile us." But now-- " Captain Cameron, uninformed of all this, sent in a letter demanding leave to depart for his post at Massowah, in compliance with orders from the British Government. This once more proved fatal to my own and Rosenthal's prospects ; and on the 3d January, 1864, Captain Cameron, his Eu ropean servant, and all the missionaries, were put in fetters, and we, together with them, confined in one common prison within the royal enclosure." Here Mr. Stern's letter ends—with the beginning of his worst misfortunes, which we may have to describe on a future occasion. Launch of a Steam Yacht for the Viceroy of Egypt. Yesterday the paddle-wheel steam yacht Mahrouuse, which has been built by the Messrs. Samuda Brothers . for his Imperial Highness the Viceroy of Egypt, was launched from the building-yard of that firm, Millwall, Poplar, in the presence of a large number of ladies and gentlemen who had been invited to witness the spectacle, and of a vast concourse of other persons who thronged the yard and adjacent premises. The vessel committed to the waters under these auspi cious circumstances promises to mark a new and important era in the constantly progressive history of steam naviga tion. She is the largest of her class ever built, measuring 400 feet over all, with 42 feet beam, 29 feet depth, and 3,200 tons burden. Great as aro these dimensions, the order for the Mahrousse was given by the Viceroy personally to Mr. Sammie, on his visit to Egypt in October last, and her first plate was laid only on the 13th of January last. As regards her form, and all de tails affecting her sea-going qualities, the Messrs. Samuda were left entirely free, it being the object of the Vice roy to have the most perfect vessel that modern art could produce. If an opinion can be hazarded as to her furture performances from her figure and buoyancy and the great space which has been reserved for her engines, stores, and miscellaneous accommodation, it might be assumed that the desire of the Viceroy will be fully realised. Messrs. Samuda express their confident expectation that the Mahrousse will be able to make 18/ knots or 22 statute miles per hour, and 16/ knots on her ordinary sea voyage. Should this belief be sustained by the performance, the Viceroy will be enabled to make the journey from Alexandria to Mar seilles in about three days, or little more than half the time at present occupied in the conveyance of the India mail over the same portion of its route. The high reputation of tho firm of Samuda Brothers justifies the expectation that this economy of time will be obtained, and in that event it will immediately become the duty of the Governments of Great Britain and France to make provision for the corresponding acceleration of the mail, an object of the highest importance to this country in particular. The internal arrangements of the vessel are on the most ample scale, and include, under a full poop, a suite of mag nificent state-rooms nine feet high, the largest saloon being 60 feet by 38. Below the deck the entire range of cabins is nearly equally lofty, and the whole length of the vessel aft of tho engines is appropriated to state apartments for the Viceroy and his special attendants, while an entire deck below the main cabins is devoted to the use of his suite and high officers of State. The ceremony of christening the vessel was performed by Mrs. Charles Oppenheim. The hour appointed for the launch was 1.45, it being then high water, and the neces sary arrangements had been completed with so much punc tuality, that within a minute or two of that time steps were taken for releasing the cradle in which-the vessel was supported on the ways. the bottle being broken against her graceful bows, and the small cord cut which held the " monkey-weights" suspended the fall of the latter removed the " dog-shores," and the ponderous mass immediately commenced its descent along the incline plane, and presently afterwards entered the water amid the hearty cheers of the assembled spectators. After being brought to, the Mahrousse was towed down the river to the Victoria Docks, under the largo lifting sheers of which she will receive her engines, which have been constructed for her by the eminent firm of James Penn and Sons, of Greenwich. They aro a pair of condensing engines of 800-horse power nominal, but capable of doing at least seven times the amount of work so represented. Every recognised improvement has been applied in their construc tion ; and having regard to the circumstances under which the vessel was to be turned out of hand, we may reason ably suppose that they will be worthy specimens of the perfection of machine-making in England. The Mahrousse is to be got ready for sea with all possible despatch, and every exertion will be made to complete her within two months from the present time, when her trial trip will be looked forward to with considerable interest. Shortly after the launch the event was celebrated by an . elegant dejeuner, supplied by Mr. Roberts of the Artichoke Tavern, Blackwall, in his most approved style. The chair was taken by Mr. Samuda, M.P. for Tavistock, and about 80 ladies and gentlemen were present. The toasts included " Success to the Mahrousse," with which Mr. Samuda coupled the name of Captain Fedrigo Bey, who appeared in the Turkish naval uniform, and holds the Viceroy's com mission for the Mahrousso. The toast was cordially drunk, and Capt. Fedrigo Boy appropriately acknowledged it. The beautiful steam-tender of Messm.Penn and Co. con voyed a large number of the party hick to London. This morning an iron-clad frigate, to be called the Inde pendencia, which has been built by tho same firm for the Peruvian Government, will be launched from the adjoining slips in the same yard. WITHOUT THE MAILS.--The Clarksville (Texas) Standard has the following :—" The mails being discontinued, we aro under the necessity of getting our news from report. From several sources we learn that President Johnson was killed on the 6th July at Washing ton by Gon. Grant in a personal altercation arising from Johnson's unwillingness to maintain in good faith the terms of the convention entered into by Grant with Lee, and by Sherman with Johnston. The report was at first scarcely listened to, but it has been corroborated by several persons who have passed through town within the week ; and one of our informants who has just arrived from Dardanelle, Arkansas, saw the account in the newspapers of three dif ferent localities, and mentions that all the papers were in mourning. .He also heard the occurrence discussed by Federal officers at Dardanelle. The killing occurred in a private room at the State Department, and without wit nesses; and all we hear is that Gen. Grant said he was compelled . to kill him. As President Johnson's habits aro known to have been very irregular, and he was a man of strong will and denunciatory mode of expression, those may have brought on a physical contest., and in a measure com pelled the result. The President of the Senate will bo his successor till the 4th of March. This is Mr. Collamer, of Vermont, a man of more than average mind- -far above the grade of Andrew Johnson's ; and, though an opponent to slavery, a fair and just-minded opponent, and we shall have hopes of liberal treatment of the South." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—Twenty-four hours are left us to specu late on the fate of the Atlantic Cable. To-morrow it is expected that the Great Eastern will be once more at Valentia, with her account of the disaster. That account may or may not be absolutely con clusive as to the cause of the failure. It is re markable that precisely as wars appear to be neces sary to teach us geography, so we are all learning more about electricity and magnetism by the sue eessive failures of this grand project. Few of our readers can pretend to have known much about magnetic storms breaking out suddenly and simul taneously over a large portion of the globe, or earth currents, or magnetic deflection so strong as to overpower for many hours the arranged signals of the wire. We are learning every day, and, for our part, we are ready to hail any accession to science even in an inconvenient form. We did suppose, in our ignorance, that the copper wire, once completely insulated in gutta percha, would be proof against all magnetic influences, except those which the operators chose to give it at the two extremities, and, unless it be a very stormy passage of the earth current from one extremity to the other, we cannot see what is to interfere with the regular passage of signals. But if this be so, and if every wire, how ever insulated, is liable to be flooded, so to speak, with earth currents and disabled for human pur poses, here is a fresh source of error and perplexity we had not reckoned upon. For example, on this supposition it is possibl e th a t th e presen t disaster may have been as follows :—The supposed earth current having thrown the cable quite out of order, the operators on board the Great Eastern may have perceived that disorder, but may yet have been quite at a loss how to account for it. The elec tricians and the whole scientific world of England have nothing to do but to make the best conjectures they can on the reported facts ; but the small staff on board the Great Eastern, working under great difficulties, have not only to make conjectures, but also to act. Becoming conscious of a failure in the Cable, we doubt very much whether they would ascribe it to earth currents and proceed with their work, hoping that all would be right in a few hours. They would take a safer course. They would immediately begin to draw in the cable to discovei the fault, if discoverable; but anyhow to heaye the cable on board. We are now told that if the sea were heavy, as it is assumed for certain reasons to have been just before the mishap, the cable would be likely to break under this process. It is, then, possible that the cable has perished from no fault of its own, but merely because a " magnetic storm" has laid it under suspicion, and the attempt to investigate the suspected fault has proved too much for the strength of the cable. After the numerous and solid successes of submarine telegraphy, and after the fact of this cable being successfully laid-for two-thirds of its length, we can not entertain a doubt of its final success. Nay, more, we believe that every experiment will leave on record its well-defined lesson, and each renewal of the de sign will be more likely to succeed, and to prove a lasting success, than the last. Hitherto the failures have been clearly traced to purely mechanical causes, and we do not expect to hear to-morrow that either a whale, or a shark, or an iceberg, or any other agent beyond human control or prevision has done this mischief. The bottom of the Atlantic is the most lifeless and most unchangeable place in this terraqueous globe ; and the only foe we have to dread there is the sharp upturned edge of a rock, rising high from the surrounding level, and thereby pressed into the substance of the cable. Such a rock might occur on a particular route, but not oc cur half a mile on either side of it. On the calcu lation of chances, we might safely reckon on its non-occurrence the next time. On the whole, then, we must conclude success to be within the reach of art, and attainable with due care. But there comes the difficulty. A very elaborate fabric is to be ren dered proof against an incessant, insinuating, and instantly fatal antagonist for the immense length of 2,300 miles. Who ever knew a house slated without a few faulty slates? Who ever knew a carpet taken up and relaid without a " tack " or a pebble being left under it? The greatest human vigilance will nod. The fault discovered in this cable on the first day was owing to a bit of wire left in the tank, and no doubt dropped ip the operation of piecing. Such an operation ought not to have been performed in the tank. The Most careful workman leaves vestiges behind him. But the vigilance necessary to secure the success of this cable must continue from the first moment of the manufacture to the last of the paying out. The last is done by night and by day, pos sibly in a storm, with all the powers of mind and body exhausted. Many people are incapable of self-control, and unable even to know what they are saying, after a single day of great and protracted fatigue. What must be the case of all concerned in paying out the Atlantic cable, of ter a whole week of it, not to speak of much previous anxiety and hard work? It would be strange if, after all, the laud should beat the sea ; and the Russians and Americans should have completed the telegraphic wire from London to New York, via Siberia and Behring's Straits, before the success of the cable. There can be no question as to the possibility of the land line ; but England naturally inclines to the Atlantic route. Both are only a question of time and money. In the too probable event of the Great Eastern returning with a tale of disaster we ought immediately to set about improving our cable. It appears to be admitted that it is capable of improve ment. The roughness of its exterior, consisting of tarred hemp, is alleged as a reason why it could only be drawn in from a great depth very slowly indeed. It is said, too, that in the event of a sudden strain by a lurch of the ship, a rope incapable of passing quickly through the water would certainly break. One other suggestion we beg to make. It may, perhaps, have been anticipated by the great depths at which submarine cables have already been laid. If it has not, then we ask whether the Atlantic cable has been tried under the pressure of an Atlantic depth, produced by artificial means. A depth of 2,000 fathoms is equal to 360 atmospheres, and may possibly have effects on the cable not exactly and fully foreseen. The accounts always assume that the cable is improved by the pressure, and works better the lower it is laid. It is yet possible, how ever, that the pressure may aggravate any accidental defeat. The destruction of the first cable was a work of time ; though a fracture has been suggested, nothing was ever proved. A few hours, however, will add so much to the facts of the present failure that we hope, even if this cable be lost, we shall find ourselves to-morrow one step eicarer to final and complete success. POST. —The announcement that President Johnson had issued an order for the liberation on parole of the Confederate generals and other mili tary officers who have for upwards of three months been confined in Fort Warren and other prisons in the United States will be received with satisfaction. The suggestion, at first gravely advanced by the organs of public opinion in the North, and to all appearances endorsed by the Government, that every one who had taken a conspicuously active part in the rebellion, whether in the civil or the mi litary service of the Confederacy, should be selected for punishment has at length been abandoned. The President has found that it is virtually impossible to carry out in all their strictness the provisions of his celebrated amnesty proclamation, and sees himself compelled by the force of circumstances, if not by feelings of humanity, to introduce such modifica tions as may have the effect of rendering it more conformable to the spirit of the age in which we live. Although, however, the amnesty is now to be extended to the great mass of the military officers . in the Confederate army, however high their rank, it will be noticed with regret that the best and • greatest of them all has not yet been restored to liberty. Robert Lee is still a prisoner, and there are to be found those who declare that he should only leave his gaol to mount a scaffold. The accidental circumstance of having been unsuccessful is all that has deprived Lee of a position scarcely second to that of George Washington ; but even although obliged, when overpowered by numbers, to lay down his sword, the Confederate generalissimo will always hold one of the proudest places in American history. So far as we are in a position to judge, it would seem that the American Government, with all the desire to mete out the most severe punishment to the bulk of those whose gallantry and courage so long kept them at arm's length, are unable to discover a means of gratifying their vengeance. It would be a little too absurd to put a large number of generals, brigadiers, lieutenant colonels, and other field officers on their trial for treason because they had served the Confederate Government, and accordingly Mr. Johnson's ad visers have been compelled to counsel their dis charge. It is, however, a matter for observation that those provisions in the proclamation which pressed heaviest on civilians, and which can with out trouble be enforced, remain unrepealed. The leading citizens of Richmond in vain besought Mr. Johnson to withdraw that proviso from the procla mation which excluded from its operations all per sons possessed of a few thousand dollars. The Pre sident, however, remained inexorable. He evidently deems it expedient to retain in its position a screw which can be tightened at pleasure. There appears to be a growing impression that the American Government are preparing the public on both sides of the Atlantic for the execution of Mr. Davis. This may or may not be without foundation, but it is impossible to deny that several of the American journals have been for some time past apparently " leading" to such a consummation. A communi cation which appeared a few days since in the columns of a contemporary, and which by its tone and substance unmistakably pointed to such a re sult, and almost went the length of justifying it, has, as might have been expected, excited the indig nation of those whose sympathies were given to the Confederate cause. The correspondent of the Times, writing from the United States, is fairly entitled to represent what he believes to be the tone of the society in which he moves ; but it may well be doubted whether any journalist ever committed himself to more reckless assertions on matters seriously affecting the life and reputation of a man daily expecting to be put upon his trial on a capital charge than was done by the Times' cor respondent on the occasion to which we refer. Whether the Federal prisoners of war in the hands of the Confederates during the late war were treated with gross inhumanity ; whether they were butchered in cold blood, or mercilessly exposed without protection to the rays of a tropical sun ; whether the hampers of viands sent to them by their friends in the Northern States were placed so that they could be seen but not touched by the unfortunate prisoners, whilst the latter received such scanty rations that only the most robust suc ceeded in keeping body and soul together ; and whether these and similar atrocities were com mitted not only with the knowledge, but with the approval, of Mr. Davis and of General Lee, and must have been constantly witnessed by the former, are all questions which may admit of being answered in the affirmative or the negative. But as, up to the present time, no judicial investigation has been instituted the result of which has been to prove that such things took place, much less that they did so with the cognisance of Mr. Davis, it is trenching a little too far on the liberty of journalism to assert that the evidence upon which those charges of cruelty rest is overwhelming and unanswerable, and to throw out a hint that Mr. Davis's friends ought to con sider him fortunate if he died a natural death in Fortress Monroe. Our contemporary has, whether justly or not, acquired the reputation of invariably throwing its weight into the balance against those on whom fortune has laid a heavy hand, and it is not surprising that the present should be pointed to as an instance of an established practice. The let ter of a correspondent stands on a different footing from a leading article, but in a journal like the Times the difference of authority on which the two rest is to the bulk of readers unappreciable. Our contemporary would never have published a com munication from a correspondent in an assize town to the effect that the evidence to be adduced against a prisoner awaiting his trial was unanswerable, arid that the best thing that could happen him would be to die in gaol ; and one should have thought that much stronger reasons would have applied in refer ence to charges against the late chief magistrate of six millions of people—charges which most persons on this side of the Atlantic believed to be infamatls calumnies. Assuming the possibility of the allega tions being true, it is surely not asking too much to demand that they shall not be declared to be so un til they have been judicially proved. Many of the statements are grossly inaccurate, and notably that of the murder of Colonel Dahlgren in a Confede rate prison—that officer having fallen on the field of battle. The narratives of all the English travellers who visited the Southern States during the war are at complete variance with the accusations now made, and certainly we shall require something more than the bare assertion that the evidence is " overwhelm ing and unanswerable" to believe that Mr. Davis and General Lee have so completely belied the cha racter they acquired for themselves by their public acts. COUNTRY MARKETS - - •~ _----_~ COLCHESTER--Auch 4. With a small supply of wheat, trade firm at 2s per qr. advance. Wheat, white 42s 46s Beans, Mazagan......33s Vs red 33a 429 Middle and 5ma11...35s 403 Barley... *ls 34s Peas, white 3ss 383 Oats ..... 25s grey ...36s 389 NORTHAMPTON-AUG. 4. New white neNVred,39s to 42s ; old white, 39s to 445; old red, 38s to 41s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 31s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 31s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 268 ; new, 18s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 36s to 40s ; new, 5s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 338 to 38s per 36 stone. IRD—Auo. 3. If old wheat, and prices rose last week's rates. Business the samo as last week, with Peas, Partridge 36s 384 White —.303 348 B cling 388 428 I)un 31s 350 di t o, —a Beans, Tick, old 3ls 370 new. —s Harrow ricks 35s —8 new -8 -8 Maz 'gait 338 308 CHELMSFO There was a fair supply ( from is to 2s per qr. abovo small. .Spring corn about little business doing. Whedt, old white....4ls 47s new —s —a . old red 39a 41s new. -8 —8 Barley . 2ss 32s hey alter 26s 23s Grind ng •Os •Es Malt 6ls 67a Chevalier 04s 68► Oats ... 2os 26s GRANTHAM- - Avo. 4. Old white wheat, 41s to 465; old red, 37s to 42s ; new white, 43s to 47s ; new red, 39s to 43s per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, 29s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 24s to 26s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 278 ; new, 22s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 39s to 41s; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 36s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN—Auo. 4. There was a small attendance of farmers at market, and little business doing. Oats were a stiff sale ; but there is no alteration in price. White wheat 'Gs Od to 40s Od} 621 b 11 bushel. Bed wheat 34s Od to 36s Od Potato oats 20s Od to 20s 6d} 401 b lil bushel. Common oats 19s Od to 20s Od Bere 21s Od to 22s Od I 5 3 1 b lfl bushel. Barley 21s Od to 22s 6d} Oatmeal 15s 6d to 16s 6d %.1 boll of 140Ib. Flour, fine 31s 6d to 33s Od TO sack of 280Ib. KIRKCALDY—Ara. 4. Fair supply of wheat; small of barley and oats. Wheat is up. Other kinds brought last week'kprice. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 378 Od 29s 6d 24s Od econd 39s Od 29s 6 1 25s Od Third 46s Od s Od s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. s. d. . s. d• Hetton ... 20 0 Hetton Lyons lB 0 Braddyell's-Hetton.... 19 0 Kelloe W.Wylam l6 0 Hough Hall l9 0 Cassop Carway and Duffryn Hartlepool Malting 24 0 Walls End Byron ... 18 3 South Kelloe Eden Main Ships at:market, 49 ; sold, 42. Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British paoset Aug. 4• Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Sou,hampton Aug. Ditto, via Marseilles . Aug. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. —. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil:e+ Aug. 4. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.. United States and British North America, by Bri- . - tish packet .. - Aug. 1 0 . Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Aug. 11. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Aug. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, and Mexico ....... Aug. 14. SNOW ON THE GRAMPIAN HILLS IN AUGUST.--A party of excursionists visited the Hill of Morvon on Tue .- day, the Ist inst., and during their stay on the top—abou t half an hoar—snow fell heavily, the weather at the time being bitterly cold, with a strong northerly Glasgow Daily Herald. Births. FORTESCUR—On the Bth inst., at Castle Hill, the Countos4 Fortescue, of a daughter. SCOTT. — On the 4th inst., at 37, Belgrave-square, Ledi Walter Scott, of a daughter. FOSTER.—On the Ist July, at Muttra, E. 1., the wife °, f , Captain W. T. Fost er , 2d D r a goon G uar d s (Queer , Bays) of a son. CARPMAEL.—On tho sth inst., at Brixton-hill, the wife of William Carpmael, jun., of a son. Marriages. SCOTT—WORTLEY.—On the Ist inst , Westminst er Abbey, Lord lienryMontagu Douglas' Scott, second 0 0 to the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, to the 1 1 '1% Cecily Susan Stuart Wortley, youngest daughter of t' late Lord Wharncliffe. GOLDlE—Gunte.—On the sth inst., at St. James's Churebf Piccadilly, James Goldie, Esq., Captain 16th 'Lana, eldest son cf the late Col. Goldie, Military Auditor- o °l ral, Calcutta, to Magdalene Agnes, second daughter? ° Alexander Goldie, Esq., of Launceston, Tasmania. Deaths. FLETOURR.—On the 3d inst., at Worthing, Robt. Fletcher' Esq., aged 74. A,106 1 1 GODDARD.—On the 4th inst., George Augustus o°'" -- Esq., of Kensington, aged 73. Rod' TIORNRIDGE.—On the 6th inst., at 29, Gower-street, •••• ford-square, .ciwinnette Hornridge, Esq., solicitor. lc, LEWIS.—On the Ist inst., at his residence, Surbitoll F ar Robert - Lewis, Esq., aged 70. SKIPPER.—On the Ist inst., at Worthing, Henry &g r ' 62 Esq., of Dawson-place, Westbourne-grove, age d . London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM 6 ANDa 0, of No. 112, Strand, Plinter, at Titv. Sus Office. 11 2 1 ; 41 Strand, in the Precinct tofu • Sz.voy, in the CO v'''' Middlesex..—Tueriday, August 8, 1865.