The Sun. — London, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

ANRICA. (Prom a Correspondent of the Times.) PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12. The recent remarks of the Times deprecating any cessation of peaceful relations between England and the United States have been received with marked attention throughout America. That our people are hostile to England, thatthey avail themselves of every opportunity, of every public meeting—no matter for what purpose it may be called—to heap abuse upon England, and to apparently stir up dis sension between the two countries, no one will deny; but the hostility goes no further than mere talk ; it is only the froth of the orator, not the heartfelt de sire prompted iby real or fancied wrongs. It is the fashion withus to abuse England, as it is the fashion with England to ridicule America, and has been for years ; and though our newspapers are filled with invective, and everything that turns up, whether it be a border raid, a rebellion, or an epidemic, is re garded by them as a just cause for immediate war, no one who truly understands the American people anticipates for an instant that war will ever begin. The ties between England and the United States are far too strong to be broken by an ordinary ex .. citement, and with us the talk of war has con- tinned too long the universal custom for any one to believe it serious. If the war tide gets too high, prudent counsellors at once appear, and it ebbs again. Ever since the war of 1812 this course has continued, and for two generations our people have lashed themselves into periodical excitement against England, but the enmity was only on the surface. Beneath was always found a settled idea, that while it was fine to abuse England it was net at all necessary to go to war with her. The true Ameri can feeling was shown when the Prince of Wales _ . _ visited us. No popular American chieftain was ever received more tenderly or more kindly treated than he. The entire American nation was at his feet, and were he to come again the sell-same story would be told of us. To-day a company of English capitalists are travelling through the United States, attended with the most jealous care by the people, having every want supplied and every wish antici pated, and yet, in the midst of all, the abuse of Eng land continues. A stranger visiting us might well think all this invective meant something; he might believe the Fenians, parading about with tawdry banners, howling against England in uncouth Celtic, were not the most harmless set of people in the world, and could well be excused for his mistake, for when he really found us out he would discover as the brave Tatnall did in the China seas, " that blood was thicker than water," and that while America some times said hard things of her mother she never came to blows. The great assurance that there can be no war is the feeling of the Government of the United States. The President and all his Cabinet consider that the breaking of peaceful relations would be very foolish, and they are prepared to make any honourable sacri fice to maintain them. They have an econimical fit, too; a war would cost money, and nothing could now induce them to spend it. The people are crying out for retrenchment, and so earnestly has the Pre sident laboured to save money that he has at length, by dismissing subordinates and disbanding armies, reduced the expenditure of the Government within the revenue. The machine has run down, and so pleased are all at the prospect of relief from its bur dens that no excitement against England, however great, can for many a long year wind it up to the tension necessary for a war. The army has been re duced until now barely 200,000 soldiers are on the rolls, and of these between 5,000 and 8,000 are dis banded weekly. No ordinary excitement can again s svell the ranks, and the Federal army at present under arms is too busily engaged in keeping the Indians quiet and guarding various rebellious spots still exist ing in the South, to be spared for Canadian forays or transport across the ocean. No Englishman need fear an American war, and the louder we blow the trumpet of abuse the greater assurance he may have that there is nothing but wind in it. The standing army of the Unitid States on Sept. 1 consisted of 18,000 regulars, 100,000 white volun teers, and 90,000 negroes. Of these 150,000 were in the field, 20,000 in hospital, and the others either absent on leave or preparing for muster out of the service. Large redactions are still to be made in the army, for the President intends at a very early day to substitute for the troops now garrisoning the Southern States the old-time militia force under the control of the State Governments. By Jan. 1 the only United States' troops needed will be those in the Indian country on the Rio Grand; and the garrisons of the forts along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. The Southern States will be free from mili tary control, excepting by their own State Militia. The President, on the Ist September, wrote to Go vernor Sharkey, of Mississippi It is believed there can be organised in each county a force of citizen militia to preserve order and enforce the civil authority of the State and of the United States, which would enable the Federal Government to reduce the army and withdraw to a great extent its forces from the State, thereby reducing the enormous expenses of the Govern ment." The President began with Mississippi because it was the first State the Reconstruction Convention of which had met and re-established the State Govern ment, and he will follow the same course in every other State as fast as the Conventions meet and restore the laws. Governor Sharkey has begun the formation of his militia, and the Federal military authorities, who had first prohibited it, have been ordered to keep their hands off. The withdrawal of Federal troops has begun, and they are assem bling at Jackson, preparatory to going North. So much pleased are the people with the prospective re storation of the civil power that the Jackson (Mis sippi) Daily News has nominated Andrew Johnson for the next presidency. The Radicals curse him more bitterly than ever, and on all sides threaten an impeachment ; but the Democrats gradually draw more closely to him, and before very long he will receive their heartiest support. That the President is bent on a very Conservative course there is not the slightest doubt, and addi tional evidences are dailygiven that he meditates an universal amnesty. His views on the question of confiscation have undergone a complete change, and by recent orders all confiscations of Southern pro perty are stopped, and although a legal course of confiscation is pointed out, it is with so many checks and obstacles that very few estates can be seized. Ile has ordered the military all through the South to allow the people the most enlarged liberty com patible with the preservation of order and the secu rity of emancipation. Trade restrictions are an nulled ; the mere swearing to support the Constitu tion of the U n i ted States makes a man a citizen ; men whom the Southern people indicate are made their civil officers ; and. to the States Conventions is left the exclusive right of designating who shall be voters. The South is being restored to its original independence andprosperity as rapidly as the poverty of the people and the awful desolations of war will allow. The only thing marring the the happy proect is the fear in some quarters of a war b etwee n whites and blacks, and , t o p reven t this, the garri sons in the interior of Geo r g ia and A labama have been strengthened, and arms taken away from both blacks and whites. It is thought the vigil ance of the military can keep off an intestine war, but there certainly is much bad blood con tinually visible. Mr. Seward, who has for some time past been labouring in the cause of Maximilian, has at length convinced the President and all the Cabinet but Mr. Harlan, Secretary of the Interior, that Maximilian is really the ruler of Mexico ; that the Juarists are broken up ; and that the wisest course for the - United States to pursue is to treat Maximilian as the Emperor and ultimately recognise his govern ment. Several Cabinet Councils have been held in which Harlan so strenuously supported Juarez and urged the President to send him aid, that the Pre sident at the last meeting rebuked him for his en deavours to embroil the country in a foreign war. The President is not yet prepared to recognise Maxi milian, but the recognition will come some day, and at present the policy of the country is fixed not to give Juarez the slightest encouragement. These are very lively times in Missouri, and all other questions are absorbed in the paramount one raised by the refusal of the clergymen and others to take r th e test oat h i mposed by the new Constitution. Ms oath is not only required of clergymen, but of lawyers, grand jurors, and a variety of other civil officers. The Governor has done nothing yet against the non-juring clergymen, and to more than one person has acknowledged himself powerless to en force the law. In the case of lawyers and grand jurors, however, the Courts have a direct power, and in several cases gentlemen have been turned out of court who were conscientiously opposed to taking the oath. Some smart individuals who were in this predicament have caught the authorities in a well arranged snare. The oath required to be taken makes the citizen of Missouri swear that at no time since the beginning of the war has he given aid or com fort to the enemies of the State, or even wished them success. This of course was aimed at the Southern sympathisers, but was a little too sweeping in its provisions, for in the early days of the war the Missouri State Government was itself tinctured with secession, and the enemies who opposed and finally overthrew it were the very Radicals who now wish to force this oath down the throats of the people. So, early last week, in St. Louis, when the judges of the courts called upon the lawyers and grand jurors to file the evidence of their having taken the oath, a certain John How, who was called as a grand juror, met the judge of the criminal court with the following protest : "In view of Article 111. of tho new constitution which is referred to in the oath I am required to take as a grand juror, I wish to state that in the winter of 1860 and spring Of 1861 I was in constant consultation with other citizens of St. Louis seeking and preparing to overturn the then State Government of Missouri ; that, as one of a committee of safety appointed by President Lincoln, I urged on General Lyon the use of all his power and arms to depose said State Government. In short, I was loyal to the United States and disloyal to the State Government. I would, therefore, respectfully ask of the honourable court to be excused from serving as a grand juror.—l am, very respect fully, your obedient servant, "JOHN HOW. " St. Louis, Sept. 4. "Hon. Judge Primm, Criminal Court." The judge could do nothing but excuse Mr. How from serving as a grand juror, and the new phase of opposition to the oath thus developed has consi derably complicated matters. As the oath now cuts both ways—against Radicals as well as against every one else—the prospect of its soon becoming a dead letter is very bright. The President has lately been importuned by the Radicals to compel the Southern branches of the various Churches to reunite with the Northern ones, and to force the Episcopal bishops in the South to read the prayers for the health and long life of the chief magistrate. He has positively re fused to interfere in either case, and has strictly en joined all subordinates not to even appear to influ ence the subject. He told the Radicals the Constitution gave him no power in the premises, and he did not see fit to take it. To a prominent Episcopal layman in New York the President has written a letter, stating that, while he would in no case interfere in the matter, he " expressed the hope that the right hand of fellowship would be given to the Southern dioceses, in order that at least one of our great religious denominations might preserve its national organisation." The President thinks the example of confraternity among the Episcopal dioceses will have a powerful influence upon Con gress when the Southern members apply for admis sion during the coming winter. The Methodists, North and South, are still hammering away at each other, and all hope of reunion for them is out of the question. Their hatred of each other seems inten sified by the restoration of peace. General Steedman, who commands the Federal military in Georgia, has reported to Washington that a conflict between the whites and blacks is imminent, and so incensed are the planters at the partiality for the negro shown by the Government that he fears a new insurrection. To counteract this he has ordered all the citizens of Georgia to deliver up to the military authorities before Septem ber 30 such arms as they possess, and that after the expiration of that time the provost-marshals shall seize all they can find. Whether General Steedman's information be true cannot, of course, bedetermined, but it is very strange that Georgia should be the only State requiring rigorous measures to suppress an in cipient rebellion. It is quite probable that Steedman's Radical notions have somewhat warped his judg ment. General King, one of his subordinates com manding at Augusta, is so much in love with a paper currency that he has annulled all contracts made in his district on a gold basis. The people, it seems, cannot Cell Choir g oody ally safety in receiving. From Virginia it is reported that the first negro mail carrier ever employed by the United States has been awarded the contract for a route near Leesburg on the Upper Potomac. Destitution still exists in many parts of Virginia, and it is said that a grand daughter of Chief Justice Marshall and a descen dant of Thomas Jeffersen are among those who daily beg their bread of the Federal Commissaries. On the 4th of September the elections for delegates to the Reconstruction Convention were held through out South Carolina. The Southern Rights ticket was universally successful, no other being voted in many places. The more sincere a candidate had been in his services to the Confederacy the more votes he received. In Alabama the restrictions upon ship ments of cotton to the seaboard have been removed, and the trade is now free. Large receipts are in consequence reported at Mobile, and prices are less firm. At New Orleans, however, the receipts are said to be decreasing rapidly, and prices are advanc ing. General Canby, at New Orleans, who seems to be pursuing a confiscation policy on his own ac count, has forbidden the corporation of the city to interfere with the sale or lease of the wharves, as he claims them as captured property of the Government. All the white soldiers now on garrison duty in Ken tucky are to be disbanded and sent home. This is in accordance with the President's policy of gradually withdrawing the troops from the Southern States. At the end of September the only troops in Kentucky will be 5,000 negroes, and the next State election will be comparatively free from military interference. A strong effort is being made by the New York Chamber of Commerce to procure the passage of a law by the approaching Congress for the payment of customs in legal tenders. It is thought, should such a law be passed, there would be a speedy re turn to specie payments. The Chamber of Com merce wishes to procure the endorsement of its views by all the Boards of Trade throughout the country, but thus far in other countries it has only developed antagonistic views. Gold and corn speculators are afraid of a return to a specie basis. Nothing new is developed in financial circles. Dur ing last week $2,500,000 in 5-20ths were sold to foreign houses, and the orders this week promise to be quite as heavy. On the 2d of October the first pitched battle on the question of negro suffrage will he fought in Connecticut. On that day the people vote for or against a constitutional amendment decreeing negro suffrage throughout the State. There are no side issues to warp the judgment, and the election will be a fair test of the vexed question. The Repub licans have taken sides for the amendment, the De mocrats against it. The Radicals do not seem to be very sanguine of the early success of their dar ling idea, for the New York Tribune argues that, a lthough there will be present defeat, there w ill be ultimate v i c t ory, an d urges the fr i ends of the negro to have p at i ence. the de mocracy wholnarNe edwissYatoirskfieeditywiathpotrhteiopnlao: Dfoermm:Cirdatic Con venti a ol op h te a y ( i l ie by calle t candidates d h e a recent C S t o a i t v ention, to be h e ld i n N ew ie ork on September 18. Fernando Wood is at the bottom of the movement, but the rank and file do not give it much support. They will ultimately unite in voting for the regular ticket, or at most will take away but a small num ber of votes. It is announced that Edwin Booth, the tra gedian, brother of J. Wilkes Booth, has been per suaded to abandon his retirement, and again appear on the stage. He will appear at the Hinter Garden Theatre in New York about the Ist of October, and preparations are being made to give him a magni ficent reception. The Navy Department has recently ordered a gun boat to sail by way of the St. Lawrence to Detroit and the Lakes. This action of the Government is important, as it confirms the termination of the long existing treaty stipulations between Great Britain and the United States, restricting the naval force on the Lakes. The Federal military have driven the hostile In- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, IRE dians right and left from the overland mail and telegraph routes to California. The wires are again working and stages running. The Indians are in heavy force, however, at various points on the wes tern border, and fully 50,000 Federal troops are required to watch them. Over 400 miles of the Russian-American telegraph have been completed on the Pacific coast of Rus sian America. The work is progressing rapidly, and bids fair to be completed before a cable can be laid across the Atlantic. There are many tele graphic enterprises on the tapis in America. Be sides a proposed line connecting South America, Cuba, and Porto Rico with Florida, and another between Cuba and Vera Cruz, an American com pany has procured from Maximilian the exclusive right to construct various lines in Mexico. They are to have 15 years' monopoly of the business, pro vided they construct 125 miles in eight months. There is very little news reported from Mexico. The French troops on the Rio Grande are to be with drawn, and their places supplied by native Mexicans. Baron de Bruan, a Mexican officer, who recently wrote an insulting letter to the Federal General Brown, whereby the peaceful relations of the two countries were endangered, has been dismissed. As another peace-offering to the North, it is announced that Maximilian will not receive any Confederate officers in his service. The delegation of English financiers who are visiting America are at present in the oil region of Pennsylvania. On Saturday, September 9, they were entertained at a grand banquet at Meadville, Pennsylvania, by the directors of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad. Sir S. Morton Peto spoke on behalf of the delegation in reply to the speeches of welcome, and after partaking of an elegant re past the company broke up--the guests well pleased with the hospitality extended them by the people of America. They will spend the greater part of the present week in closely examing the oil region. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE. The report of the directors adverted to the defeat of the bill brought before Parliament last session for enabling the Midland Company to subscribe £lOO,OOO towards the capital of the East Glouces tershire Company. The rejection of this bill had placed the directors in a position of considerable difficulty, preventing the signing of the contract for the construction of the line. Subsequent commu nication took place with the Midland Company, which resulted in a resolution of the Midland Board authorising an agreement by which they were to work the East Gloucestershire Railway when com pleted, upon terms which would secure payment of 5 percent. per annum upon £300,000 of A or preferred stock, and £200,000 of debentures, and the applica tion of the additional earnings (aft. payment of the working expenses) to the payment of dividend on the deferred capital. The Great 'Western Railway Company, however, disputed the right of the Mid land Company even to enter into an agreement for that purpose, and the question had accordingly been referred to the arbitration of Capt. Galton, the re feree appointed by the Board of Trade. In this state of things an arrangement had been made with the contractors to continue the works upon terms which the directors, under the circumstances, con sidered desirable for the interests of the company. The call payable in May last had been well responded to, and a large part of the Parliamentary expenses in obtaining the act, as well as the purchase money for land taken, had been paid. The report of Mr. Liddell, the engineer, stated that the works of the line commenced in the spring had been limited to that part which required the greatest length of time for its completion—viz., the Sandywell tunnel and excavations—and in which considerable progress had been made. partly due to a reduction of fares, litit the directors believed that the reduction would ultimately have a beneficial effect. Under the clauses inserted in " The Highland Railway Act" of last session the Great North of Scotland Company were now en titled to equal gross through faro and rates between Inverness and other stations on the Highland Rail way and stations in the south via Aberdeen and via Dunkeld, thus affording a choice of routes to the public on equal terms. Under the same clauses a large reduction would take place on the goods rates between Aberdeen and stations on the Inverness lines, in the benefit arising from which the public, as well as the company, would largely participate. The Act authorising a junction of the Strathspey and Highland lines at Abernethy passed last ses sion, and the contracts for the works were adver tised. The junction was two miles in length, and would be ready for traffic next spring. The direc tors had, in compliance with the recommendation of the Committee of Investigation, disposed of the £12,000 stock held by the company in the Mon trose and Bervie Railway to that company at par, payable in debenture bonds of that company, in equal instalments, three, five, and eight years hence, with interest at the rate of 3 per ceit. per annum. The capital account showed that £1,847,610 had been expended, including £704,958 in subscriptions to and disbursements for 12 other railway companies, leaving a balance of £30,964 against the company. Crown, but we do not scruple to express the hope that, in the event of its arising, it may be answered in the affirmative. HERALD.-It is not very often that the patient and protracted investigation of a criminal charge OAS in a thannet so tinsatisfactoky as Madanie Valentin's recent trial for perjury. Three times within as many months have the relations of this unhappy woman with her former protector, M. Donfion, formed the subject of judicial inquiry before the tribunals of this country. The Court of Exchequer spent five days in establishing her title to property of which it was said she had obtained unlawful possession, and at the August session of the Central Criminal Court a man named Lafour- carde was convicted of having given false testimony, adverse to Madame Valentin, for a pecuniary con- sideration. On that occasion the jury emphatically affirmed their belief in her truthfulness ; the judge expressed his strong reprobation of the manner in which the proceedings against her had been con ducted, and the sentence passed upon the prisoner was one of considerable severity. After these two decisions in her favour, it might have been supposed that her troubles were over. But her adversaries were not to be so easily beaten. They .charged her with having herself committed perjury, and to answer this accusation the defendant was on Thurs- day last arraigned. The prosecution had, rather indecorously, originally included in the indictment a charge of perjury at the trial of " Bouillon v. Valentin" in the Court of Exchequer, but this was not proceeded with, as a new trial having been moved for, the case is still pending. The inquiry last week was, therefore, confined to certain state ments Madame Valentin had made on oath when examined as a witness at the trial of Lafourcarde. The charge against that person related to certain allegations made by him in an affidavit relative to Madame Valentin's expressed intention of leaving this country for America, which were sworn to by him in order to procure her arrest and incarceration in Whitecross-street prison until her claim to M. Donflon's property could be disposed of. The ques tion at Lafourcarde's trial was whether these state ments were true, in his knowledge or belief ; and as Madame Valentin positively denied that she had ever formed or expressed the intention of going to America, his convictioritbee,ame inevitable. At this trial, however, she made, in addition, certain statements as to the days in last September on which she was in London, and as to a conversation she had with Lafourcarde during her imprison ment. The whole of these statements were denied on the part of the prosecution, and for perjury in respect to them Madame Valentin now stands con victed. Of the three charges we have mentioned probably the second only can be said to come within the legal definition of the offence of which the de fendant was accused. The date of her arrival in London, and the fact of her not having had a con versation with Lafourcarde at a particular time and place, were matters on which accuracy or inaccuracy were scarcely " material" in the legal sense, so as to make any deviation from the truth with respect to them the subject of an indictment. That a witness incorrectly answered questions bearing on these points might be good ground for receiving her testi mony with caution, but not for sending her to a criminal prison. The second assignment, however, was .. more important, and with respect to it the credi bility of the witnesses against her became an all-im portant question. Those on whose testimony the prosecution were compelled to rely were certainly not of an order to command respect or to compel credence from any resonable men. Apart from the formal evidence given by shorthand writers, the case rested upon the oaths of Lafourcarde and his daugh ters. Of these the first was brought from the pri son to which he was only last month sent to undergo a term of 18 months' imprisonment for the very offence he sought to impute to Madame Valentin. And the justice of his conviction was proved by his own admissions. He had said to more than one witness that he had sworn to a lie, and that he was to get 12,000 francs for giving evidence on behalf of M. Bouillon. Further, he had owned, on cross examination by Mr. Bovill, that his religion induced him to believe that there was no crime in such false hoods, and that his charge for speaking the truth was £l,OOO down. Though he had profited greatly by the bounty of the woman against whom he spoke, he had soon after her arrest taken part in the breaking open and rifling of the bag in which the shares and coupons given her by Donflon were deposited. Nor did the evidence of his daughters go for very much. They simply repeated their father's story. Their antece dents were not the most reputable, and to them, as to their father, Madame Valentin had acted with considerable generosity. M. Richard, an inde pendent witness, was also called, but he had only heard the defendant say that she would not remain in London, and his evidence went to some extent to contradict the case for the prosecution, as she said nothing to him about going to America or any other foreign country. The case, therefore, rests upon the linalippnri-.1 .na u.oorroborattXl testimony of Lafourcarde, a confessed and convicted perjurer, and his three daughters, over whom both their father's past training and present position must have exerted an influence sufficiently great to lessen the value of their evidence. The jury, however, must have thought differently. They evidently thought they could safely act upon the allegations of persons lying under these grave imputations, and, accordingly, they returned a verdict which in flicts an irreparable injury upon the defendant, and affords at least a temporary triumph to her adver saries. To say that this result was unexpected would be but faintly to express the sentiments with which the verdict was received by every one who heard or read the proceedings at the trial. As was stated by the prisoner in her address to the Cour t, when called up for judgment, the verdict surprised everybody, including the presiding judge and the counsel on both sides. And the Recorder, while passing sentence, carefully avoided a single word that could be construed into an approval of the verdict. On the contrary, he laid stress on the fact that it was for the jury and not for him to determine the fact of the prisoner's guilt orin nocence, and that all he had to do was to act upon the conclusion at which they had arrived. We have no wish to make the verdict in this case the text for adverse comment upon the manner in which jurors generally discharge their important duties. Nor have we any intention to comment severely upon the particular jury by whom Madame Valentin was tried. Observers of these things may think they discover the indications of a com promise, and may conclude that a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy, given at a few minutes before seven, and after forty minutes' de liberation, looks very much as if a fear of being locked up for the night had overborne the deliberate judgment of some at least among the twelve wise men who for the time garrisoned the palladium of English liberty. Still we greatly regret that such a case should have had such an ending. We are ac customed to pride ourselves upon the fairness of our tribunals, and in the main our pride is fully justified by the manner in which justice is there administered. But no one who reads the proceedings at the trial, and the verdict in which it resulted, can help being reminded of the Welshman who found the prisoner not guilty, but hoped he would not do it again, and of their north country compeers, who recommended to mercy because they were not sure the prisoner was the man. It is unfortunate when any jury gives a decision whose absurdity would be comic, if its consequences were not almost tragic. But such a decision is especially to be lamented when the per son who suffers by it is a foreigner, of whose inno cence there is an unusually strong presumption, and whose previous misfortunes have established a strong claim upon our sympathy and commiseration. It may be that the sentence upon Madame Valentin can hardly remain unreversed, but we greatly regret that the verdict which preceded that sentence should ever have been pronounced. THE " SATURDAY REVIEW " ON Two AMERICAN COMEDIANS.—Within the last few weeks we have been favoured with visits from two American actors of what is called " character." Both of them have earned a high reputation in those cities of the United States which can alone confer theatrical honours on the other side of the Atlantic. At home, we under stand; they distinguished themselves in what is com monly termed legitimate business ; that is to say, they acted in the old stock comedies, without relying on pieces written for the sole purpose of suiting their own peculiarities. Here, however, they have repre sented certain exceptional types of humanity sup posed to be among the offshoots of American soil. Mr. John E. Owens, who has lately left us, repre sented an exceedingly stolid and uncultivated far mer, the inhabitant of some Eastern State. Mr. Jefferson, who has very recently made his appear ance among us, portrays the Dutch settler of the early period of New York civilisation, as exhibited by Washington Irving in his story of " Rip van Winkle." The theatre for both has been the Adeiphi. Distinct as these two actors are from each other in look, manner, and style, as well as in the description of character selected for representa tion, they both apparently proceed on the common principle of taking in hand, perhaps inventing, a marked idiosyncrasy, and working out its details to the highest possible degree of finish. For this rea son they may be classed with Mr. Sothern, since with him also minuteness of detail is the grand con sideration. Broad sketches do not, as it seems, be long to the notions of histrionic art entertained by these three proficients. As the old Dutch painter is said to have boasted of the number of touches which he bestowed on the elaboration of one shirt collar, so may these new actors, trained on the other Endo of the Atlantic, glory in the quantity of minute action which they employ in order to realise their conception of a character which they have thought worthy of study. How the old conventional...fop of two cen - tiiiieS 4 entitling was sublimated into the unique Lord Dundreary, by Mr. Seitherni has now been known to every playgoer for the last two years ; and Brother Sam, who at present reigns in Dundreary's place—for he is expected back in London after, Christmas—is another illustration of the successful akplitation of the same method of proceeding. In addressing himself to the London public, Mr. Sothern was remarkably forttinate in the character which had made his fortune in the United States, and which perhaps owed part of its American popularity to a desire of the Yankees to laugh at a Britisher who was a lord into the bar gain. While the details of Dundreary were entirely fresh, the basis from which they sprang was per fectly familiar to the Haymarket audience, which could therefore understand the moral and intel lectual status which he was intended to represent. From the days of Charles 11. we have had our Fop pingtons and Flutters, who stood apart from the D ori mants and the Mirabels, libertines of a more robust sort, as cultivators of effeminate dialect and extreme indolence of manner. These fops were sometimes supposed to ape the fashions of France and Italy, as even at the present day fops on the German stage are very fond of the verbs in " iren," but they were not half so foreign as they looked. The military swell, who is allied to the old fop by an outward semblance of effeminacy and indolence, but differs from him in the retention of his soldierlike courage, would seem to be of a later growth. He was made perhaps more prominent than he had been before, about 40 years since, when the Hussars of the 10th regiment rendered themselves unpopular by certain strange affectations, and were satirised not only by the caricaturists of the day, but by the Rev. George Croly in his comedy, " Pride shall have a Fall." Since that time he has not been allowed wholly to disappear, and he still lives in Mr. Leech's drawings of fashionableguardsmen. Dundreary grasped within himself the peculiarities of many varieties of the genus fop, and each of these could be perfectly ap preciated by every London playgoer, though the compound result was entirely novel. Mr. John E. Owens, on the other hand, was less fortunate. No character could have been more elaborately wrought than that of the ungainly boor whom he presented to the Adelphi audience, and who, we are told by competent judges, more strongly resembled a rustic inhabitant of New Jersey than any other mem ber of the human family. The actor was compara tively young; but, by a strange manipulation of his head and face, by a low shambling gait, by the adop tion of a voice seemingly affected both by years and drink, he produced a perfect picture of dirty disre putable senility, in which not a relic of youth could be traced. The state of mental fog in a low-bred perversely cunning old man, who perpetually mixes up one subject with another, and occasionally asto nishes by an outburst of shrewdness, could nut have been more completely embodied. His " Just so"— a deperate attempt to conceal utter ignorance of the purport of a proposition by the use of an affirmative form of reply—was a marvellous indication of an intellectual blank ; and he had a certain manner of seating himself in a chair with great difficulty, care fully adjusting the tails of a very shabby coat, and concluding the difficult performance with a little shriek of triumph, which, often repeated in the course of one evening, never failed to awaken a roar. But, with all his acknowledged merits, Mr. John E. Owens was so far unfortunately placed that he had selected a character which had nothing in common with English associations, and the aspect of which was rather repulsive than attractive. The dialect and manner of Solon Shingle, as the farmer was called, had little in common with those which are popularly attributed to Yankees ; and though we could perceive that his details were consistent with each other, it was difficult to surmise to what sort of actuality they referred. Dundreary him self was a creation of the fancy, and those matter-of-fact critics who complained that they had not seen his, prototype in society ignored the peculiar talent of Mr. Sothern. But every one knew the sort of entity to which he pointed, whereas the very elements of which Solon Shingle is composed are strange to Englishmen. Moreover, although " Our American Cousin" was a notoriously bad piece, it was not so utterly effete and contemptible as the wretched compound of farce and domestic drama which introduced Solon Shingle to the British public. The Dundreary scenes at any rate answered the purpose of developing the principal personage, and the principal personage was an agreeable object to behold. But dirty, sleepy Solon Shingle, always chewing and spitting, and always losing the thread of the discourse, had been just as fully exhibited at the end of the first scene about his talents as a most finished actor of exceptional idiosyncrasy, but he also leaves a regret that he was not presented under more favourable circumstances. We are told that Mr. Jefferson, whose debut at the Adelphi is the chief theatrical event of the day, holds in America about the same rank as his predecessor. But, how ever that may be, it is certain that Mr. Jefferson's rhsnces of obtaining an English popularity are in finitely greater than those of M... .Tnhn The character of Rip van Winkle, though his twenty years' sleep distinguishes him from the rest of his fellow-mortals, is one that everybody can understand. Moreover, Mr. Jefferson's version of the part is not only intelligible but picturesque, often as inebriety has been depictd on the stage, he exhibits the vice under a new form. Rip is as confirmed a drunkard as the worst man against whom the editor of the British Workman could direct his pictures or his letter-press —the modern Helot, at which little dissenting Spar tans might be taught to point. He neglects his wife and child, he wastes his substance, and he tries to pick up a miserable existence by shooting on the Catskill Mountains, where he never contrives to hit anything unless it be some valuable beast belong ing to his wife. His debauchery-, too, is of the most abject sort. If he would only be content to sit at the head of a party of boon companions, his foible might be pardoned ; but he is quite as much ad dicted to solitary as to convivial drunkenness. He loves to figure in a roystering clique, but he likes also to carry a bottle in his pocket, and while, with his arms round his wife's neck, he is swearing that he will not take another drop, he is drinking over her shoulder. Yet, with his immense failings, he has one quality that compensates for them all—in domitable good-nature, and it is in giving its full value to this quality that Mr. Jefferson chiefly dis plays his genius. There is an ease in the move ments of Rip denoting a frank, jovial nature ; his countenance, with many shades of expression, is good-humoured through them all ; he is never cross in his cup,,and he is never stupid. The severity with which his wife punishes:him for his delinquen cies—a stout broomstick being the ordinary instru ment of castigation— causes him to animadvert upon her in no measured terms when he finds himself in the midst of a party of sympathetic souls ; but there is a strong domestic affection deep in his heart, and if he somewhat lacks devotion to his (in every respect) better half he is doatingly fond of his little daughter, who instinctively appre ciates the kindliness hidden from the view of his wife by his vicious exterior. The dramatic object of the 20 years' sleep, caused by imbibing the magic potion proffered by the ghost of Hendrick Hudson, is to show Rip's character under a new aspect. He is a completely old man—much older, in fact, than he could possibly become through a lapse of 20 years ; but this incongruity must be pardoned, on the ground that it is necessary to produce a suffi ciently strong contrast between the first and second parts of the story. Rip is no longer a picturesque vagabond, with strong thews and iron constitution; but his figure, still picturesque, is one that might have belonged to Symeon Stylites. His desolate condition on entering among persons to whom he is an utter stranger, and who regard him as a tramp, while he feels certain that he is in his native village, gives rise to a great deal of quiet pathos, which reaches its climax when the aged wanderer is at last recognised by his daughter. We have indicated what Mr. Jefferson has to do rather than described how he does it ; but if we state that every possible detail of character that could be produced under the circumstances supposed is represented with the most perfect ease—an art that thoroughly conceals art being aided by a happy union of natural qualities— we shall have implied that Mr. Jefferson has already taken a high position among modern theatrical ar tists. The present age is not ideal in its tastes, but, in addition to sensation and spectacle, it is able to appreciate studies of individual character, and the more minute the finish the more will such studies be liked. It is in the elaboration of odd figures, snatched from out-of-the-way nooks of life, or so fashioned by the actor as to be completely consistent with themselves, that the greatest histrionic successes of late years have been achieved ; and much credit is to be given to the best American audiences for training a series of actors whose qualities do not appeal to the vulgar sense, but can only be fully appreciated by something like a discriminating judgment. There is no doubt that Mr. Jefferson will for, some time to come remain the leading object in the eyes of the playgoing world i al lt ` , l for the meanwhile we may praise Mr. Boucicau or the e clever manner in which he has peculiarities of so original an actor. ADVERTISEMEMI-11 o lloway's Ointmentand Pi 115.... 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Few could have ex pected that one who denounced rebellion so sternly would display such moderation and humanity in the hour of triumph, or that so eager a partisan would prove capable of rising so far aboveparty influences. Perhaps Mr. Johnson himself, like his predecessor, Mr. Lincoln, hardly foresaw the mellowing effect of responsibility upon his earlier views, and would freely admit that, in his short experience of office, he has both learnt and forgotten much. This power of rapid self-adaptation is an eminently American virtue, and it has infinitely facilitated the work of pacification in the South. The Southerners do not pretend to have altered their private convictions, but they look facts in the face, and ; finding the question of slavery settled once for all by force of arms, they make the best of it and cheerfully rejoin the Union. The same good sense and readiness to let bygones be bygones have been shown by the Northern people, and still more remarkably by the Government. What concerns us, however, more nearly is the pre sent attitude of the United States towards foreign Powers, and here again it isbut just to acknowledge that our fears have not been realised. Even Mr. Cobden firmly believed that a declaration of war against the Mexican Empire would follow immediately upon the subjugation of tie South, but nothing of the kind has yet taken place, or appears to be con templated. Our own relations with the Washington Government have never been more friendly since France and England, in justice to the United States as well as to themselves, recognised the Confederates as belligerents. Mr. Seward, indeed, took exception to the terms in which Lord Russell announced the withdrawal of that recognition, but he coupled his remonstrances with assurances of his desire not only to preserve amity, but:to establish " a lasting and in timate friendship between the two nations." 'fhe sincerity of this desire is fully appreciated in this country, and the remembrance of any misunder standings that may have arisen in the course of the war is becoming fainter anc fainter every day on this side of the Atlantic. Itis, therefore, peculiarly vexatious to hear that one soiree of irritation, which ought long since to have been closed, is still kept open by the proceedings of Shenandoah, which continues to rove the seas under a Confederate flag. We have already called ;he attention of our readers to the depredations of this cruiser—the only relic of a flotilla which once numbered five steamers and four sailing vessels. In spite of positive infor mation that the Confederacy was crushed, that President Davis was a prisoner, and that all the Southern Generals had laid down their arms, Capt. Waddell chose to wait for an official notification of it from a Government which no longer existed, and to pursue, in the meantime, Es buccaneering voyage. Having planned a kind of ()able among the whalers of the Northern Pacific, h 3 was engaged, by the last accounts, in burning one after another, and it was believed that he would succeed in destroying the whole fleet. Such ravages had never been com mitted by the Alabama herself during the height of the war, and they, of course, infuriated the mer cantile community at S.. fr.ncisco, to which port many of these ships belonged. The ne%%. 11,Lb athee reached the United States, and our Washington correspondent comments on its effect in keeping alive the old grinlve against Great Britain. It is natural that it should do so, and, however little we may deserve them, we must bear patiently with reproaches for which there is too good au excuse. rhe mischief done in wanton malice by the Shenan doah is enough to justify any degree of resentment, and as there is no one else to be held responsible, except Capt. Waddell, who cannot be got at, no wonder that the brunt of it falls upon us. So far as we are blamed for the original launching of the Shenandoah in British waters, we can only reply, as we have so often replied before, that we had no means of preventing the construction of a hulk which should afterwards be converted into a ship of war beyond our own territory. On another point, however, there seems to be a misapprehension which it is desirable to remove. The special ground of com plaint against us, as reported by our correspondent, is that we have deviated from the course adopted by other Powers, and given Confederate cruisers the benefit of 24 hours' shelter in British ports, " so that" (to quote the words of an American officer), " even if our vessels followed the Shenandoah into any of your ports, in any part of the world, we should not be allowed to take her." Thus stated, the construction put on Lord Russell's Despatch by the American public is erroneous in more than one respect. It is not the fact that her Majesty's Government stood alone in the application of the twenty-four hours' rule,for precisely the same ground was taken by the French Government. Nor is it the fact that Captain Waddell would be able to claim benefit under any circumstances whatsoever. No thing can be simpler than the principles on which we have granted or refused shelter to these cruisers. On the 31st of January, 1862, Lord Russell com municated to the Colonial-office certain directions for the guidance of Colonial Governors. The first part of these directions related exclusively to the Bahamas, and prohibited the admission of any ves sel of war, Federal or Confederate, to any harbour in those islands, " except by special leave of the Lieutenant-Governor, or in case of stress of weather." Any such vessels of war, or any vessels of war which . might be already lying there, were to be required to depart with all possible despatch, but no ship of war belonging to one belligerent was to be permitted to sail within twenty-four hours after the departure of any ship belonging to the other belligerent. The rule laid down for the United Kingdom and the colonies differed from this in one particular. Ships of war belonging to either belligerent were not directly prohibited from entering or remaining in our ports, but only from making them a place of re sort for purposes of war or warlike equipment. They were, therefore, to be sheltered there so long as might be absolutely necessary for provisioning or repairing, but the same twenty-four hours rule was to be applied. When the recognition of the Confede rate States as belligerents was cancelled on the 2d of June last, all the ports in our Empire were closed against vessels of war under a Confederate flag, and all such vessels were cautioned to depart forth with, but the twenty-four hours' rule was to be maintained in their favour "then and for the last time." A reference to the Circular of the French Minister of Marine, published in the Moniteur of June 13, will show that precisely the same reserva tion was made by the Imperial Government : " You will cause to be observed, for the last time in their behalf, the rule laid down in my Cir cular of the sth of February, 1864, and by the terms of which an interval of at least twenty-four hours must be observed between the departure of any vessel of war of one of the belligerents and the subsequent departure of any vessel of war of the other belligerent." The justice of this provision is self-evident, but it has no bearing on the case of the Shenandoah, which was not lying in any of our ports when Lord Russell's letter was received. It is true that in the next paragraph permission was granted to Confederate captains to enter our ports and disarm their vessels, at their own risk, within one month after the receipt of that letter by the Colonial authorities, but it was expressly added that the twenty-four hours' rule would there be in applicable. The worst, therefore, that could hap pen is that Captain Waddell should have presented himself at Vancouver's Island within a month after the Governor had received Lord Russell's Despatch, obtained leave to disarm the Shenandoah, and thereby saved himself from the doom of a pirate. It is highly improbable that he would have bethought himself of doing so while he was in hot pursuit of the whaling fleet. Even if he had, the Shenandoah's career would be at an end, for she must instantly part with her armament,. whereas if he bad not, the day of grace would be over, and no British port would be open to him. Whether by his conduct he has not forfeited all claim to avail • himself of any such privilege is a further question, , which may be left to the legal advisers of the IVATFORD AND RICKMANSWORTIL The report of the directors states that the receipts during the six months ending June 30 last, as com pared with the receipts for the corresponding period of last year, showed that the traffic was still increas ing under disadvantageous circumstances. In their report to the last meeting the directors hoped that such improvements of the Rickmansworth station could be made, with the assistance of the London and North Western Company, as would render that nflorpinf. +ba .x ante of that pla.oo. The directors regretted that they had been unable to carry out those improvements. The chief impediment had been the continued delay in the commencement of the works of the Uxbridge and Rickmansworth Railway, joining the Watford Railway at Rickmans worth; and the second, that the directors did not receive from the North Western Company the friendly co-operation in their efforts to improve the prospects of the line that they had hoped to obtain from that company, who were shareholders to a large amount in the undertaking, who worked the line, and were doubtless profiting considerably by the additional traffic brought by it on to their own system. The difficulties which had hitherto pre , vented the Uxbridge Company from preceding with their works seemed likely to be speedily removed. Some of the liabilities of the company had been discharged since the last meeting was held, but the directors regretted that their efforts in this respect were much retarded. They were not without hope, however, that before the next half-yearly meeting was held such arrangements would be made as would insure not only the speedy construction of the Ux bridge and Rickmansworth line, but as would entirely relieve the Watford and Rickmansworth Company from the pecuniary difficulties from which it was now only slowly emerging. The capital ac count, to the 30th of June, showed that £80,592 had been expended, leaving a balance of £1,837. The estimate of liabilities amounted to £50,091, and the estimated assets to £47,857, leaving a balance of £2,233. The revenue account showed that the gross traffic from the Ist of October, 1862, to the 30th of June, 1865, amounted to £4,866, of which 50 per cent. was payable to the company. LUDDENDEN VALLEY. The first ordinary meeting of this company was held at Halifax on Saturday ; Mr. W. Ambler in the chair. The directors appointed by the company's Act were re-elected for the ensuing year. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company were joint promoters of the Luddenden Valley line, and Mr. E. Harper and Mr. J. Wigney, auditors for that company, were elected auditors of this com pany. The ordinary meeting of this company were appointed to be held on the first Friday in February and the first Friday in August. The company's engineer (Mr. Meek) was authorised to prepare the land plans and specifications for the works, so that no time might be lost in the construction of the line, which was estimated to cost £22,000." GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND. The report of the directors states that the total receipts on revenue account for the half-year ending 31st July last amounted to £52,484, and the expen diture to £33,110, including £11,078 for interest on loans, leaving a balance of £19,374. Out of which was deducted £10,846 for dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum on the new shares, and £7,277 for dividend on the preference stock, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, leaving £1,250 ; to this was added £l2B from the previous half-year, and £382 from interest suspense account, making £1,760. From this was deducted for dividend on the second 41 per cent. new shares (B) at the rate of 11 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £127 to the credit of the latter shares in the next half-year. The directors regretted that they were unable to an nounce a higher rate of dividend on the B shares, but the increase of 1 per cent. over that of last year stocks in the currepnetr was so far satisfactory. An increase of revenue at the rate of £ lOO goods traffic in the h ? i e f e - k ye w ar o . uld n enable the com pany to pay a full dividend on all the preference Highland line, whil The receipts from half-year half, were £1,007 in excess of the corresponding end year, and were equal to the ton nagethose of the half-year mg July, 1863, previous had increased from 121 ,000 to 140,000 tons. to the opening of the The average rate per ton received in the past half year was 3s. 4id., as compared with 3s. 11fd. for and with 1s • 50 • per tan half - f year the 1 860. Th e re ceipts for passenger traffi c had decreased £ 562 , henhdailnfg-y July , e,ar e 1 1 ri 1 B i 6 n 3 ; July, Agricultural Prospects. The week opened with a hot day; wind S.E., clear sun, With little wind. Monday was a nother hot day ; wind N.E. to N.W. Thermometer up to 74 o:l l grees ; barometer, 30.20 inches. Tuesday was a thick, f ogg : morning, the day proving sunny and hot ,- . Barometer ver. high, up to 30.45 inches. Our advices from the West Riding of Yorkshire say :—" We have had another week of I.?riel dry weather, and the markets are but little influenced b. 7 except as it affects turnips and potatoes, the former Pf which are fast going away, and the latter not well spokes of. I hear complaints of the yield of wheat and barley, and expect they will weigh up light. Our farmers are now want ing rain to enable them to prepare for wheat-sowing. From Suffolk on that day it was remarked : " The weather continues wonderfully fine, and our farmers are busily en gaged on their land." From Norfolk it was observed : " Wo have had another week of uninterruptedly fine wea ther, with light winds from the south-east." From North umberland our advices state : "The weather since my last report has contintzsd fine and hot, wind varying from N.W. to S.E., to-day it is S.W." On Wednesday the morning was dewy with a fine hot day, barometer falling. From the west coast of Scotland it was aaid, " The weather continues unusually fine." From the east coast, "We have a. con tinuance of brilliant weather ;" while from Lincolnshire it was written, "During the past week we ha v e experienced delightful weather, which no doubt has been s: great boon to the farmers." After a long spell of dry and su'ornhing weather, which was most acceptable for the northern har vest, doing much good to the condition of all corn north 0 the Humber, a sudden change took place early on Thurs day morning, when heavy rain fell for several hours, with the wind from the north, and the temperature lower. This moisture was most acceptable to the farmers, giving them an opportunity of proceeding with ploughing on all the heavy soils which had previously become too hardened to allow of the work being well done. In other respects; the showers would be useful and improve the turnips and assist the mongols much. From Suffolk our advices state : "The condition of the samples has not much improved with this fine weather." From Warwickshire it was remarked : "After 26 days of uninterruptedly fine weather in this dis trict, we had a heavy fall of rain last night, which is most acceptable. Harvest is now secured, and the quality and condition of the nbw crop vary more than has been known for years. The spread of the potato disease has become serious, and turnips have suffered considerably from blight during the late dry weather. It is certain that the year's crop cannot be used freely, excepting the few picked sam ples, and there must necessarily be a large demand for American and Black Sea wheats, to give the millers the strength the new crop will require. There is now a diffe rence of fully 10s. per quarter for common new and old red wheat, which far exceeds the rental of many far mers." Friday was a fine autumnal and agreeable day, the great heat having for the present passed away, ther mometer being down to 60 and 62 degrees, wind N.E., ba rometer 30.20 and rising. Similar weather was experienced in the East Riding of Yorkshire, our advices thence stating —" The weather up to yesterday continued hot and dry, and very favourable for concluding harvest operations. The wheat crop in this locality varies considerably, and the yield, as far as yet ascertained, below an average. Barley is similar to wheat as to quality, with the yield about an average one." Saturday was a fine healthy day, and this complete change in the temperature will set the maltsters to work in good earnest, as hitherto they have generally been afraid to begin, though the purchases they made of barley appear to have been only to be ready when the change came, and the finer sorts they must now have. These will be but a small por tion of the whole ; as two-thirds, most probably, of the English crop will consist of weathered samples, only fit for the distillers and feeding purposes. The Scotch growth will be of a heavy weight, condition dry, but colour high from the rains experienced before being cut. These, how ever, will have a run. The handsomest qualities are those from the Saale districts, white and heavy; but such have been run up to an extortionate price by the anxiety of the ale brewers from Burton-on-Trent to secure so much when the weather was so unfavourable in England for the crop. The rates have calmed down a little, and future prices will depend on the competition from the Trent. The con sumption of malt since the 30th of June has been immense, but up to that date the make had been less in England than last year. It is generally understood that the largo _ _ _ maltsters have been well cleared out, and that the stocks of the great brewers have been much reduced by the largo consumption of beer throughout the summer months and up to the present time. The maltsters have there fore a clear course to commence this season with, and much must depend on the quality the new barleys will make, as to whether the brewers buy freely. The farmers will now have to turn their attention to the securing of the•primest samples of seed wheat they can find. In ths south of England there will be a poor choice, north of the Humber a better, and north of the Tweed the finest of all. We have seen a good sample of "red straw" white from the Lothians weighing 6411b5. per bushel, and red " Spalding" 63' 2 -lbs., of a bold and handsome berry, and such as can be recommended as an excellent change for the south. The best grown in England is the "Nursery," being handsome and heavy, and those who have a desire to sow thin samples can secure plenty from the Fens at very moderate prices.-- .3fark-lane Express. COUNTRY MARKETS NORTItA 21 I' N —SEPT. za. Wheat was about the usual supply. The trade ruled tolerably active at rather better prices for superior samples, inferior sorts cheaper. Barley in liberal supply, and prices same as last week. A steady demand for oats, prices un changed. Beans not much in request, at downward rates. New white wheat, 36s to 425; new red, 32s to 38s; old white, 44s to 47s ; old red, 40s to 46s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s ' • new, 22s to 25s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 44s to 48s ; sew, 38s to 43s per 38 stone. Peas, 34s to 37s per 36 stone. COLCHESTER-Sm. 23. A good supply of wheat, and more disposition to buy on the part of the millers. A larger supply of barley. BeauS and peas unchanged. Wheat, white 40s 54s Beans, Mazagran......33s 38g I red 368 48s _ Middle and 5ma11...358 408 Barley ........ ....... 28s 408 Peas, white 38s 424 Oats ........20s 25s grey ...36s 409 M-SEPT. 22. resented no material variation this exchange yesterday old to 50s. Peas, Partridge 378 39 0 White ...30s MO Bailing 38 8 428 Dun.... ..... 3ls 350 ditto, new -8 Beans, Tick, 378 new -8 0 Harrow licks 35s — 0 new -8 -s Mangan. 348 378 CHELMSFO The Essex markets have p] during the past week. At white wheat was quoted 44s Wheat, old white....44a 5' s new 0 .42 s 48s old red 40s 438 new. 368 408 Barley.. 2ss 32s Utevalier 26a 338 Grind,ng 'Os 88 Malt 6lB 67s Chevalier 64s 681 Oats ... 2os 26s GRANTHAM—SEPT. 23. Not so much wheat as usual to-day and business wai firm at is per qr. over the rates of last week. Barley not much sought after except choice sorts for malting; ordi nary sorts easier to purchase. Oats steady at late rates. - - - - - Old white wheat, 48s to 525; old red, 44s to 48s; new white, 42s to 49s ; new red, .38s to 438 per 36 stone. Bar ley for malting, —s to —s per qr. ; grinding,l2Bs to 30s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 25s to 27s ; new, 20s to 24s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 398 to 475; new, 36s to 38s per 38 stone• Peas, 35s to 39s per 36 stone. ABERDEEN--Sur. 22. The harvest may now be considered almost concluded. There was a full show of new grain to-day, and quality generally fine. White wheat 33s Od to 36s Od Red wheat 32s Od to 34s Od Potato oats 20s Od to 21s 6d' Common oats 20s 6d to 21s 6d 62/h 11 bushel. 401 h ii! bushel. liere 23s Od to 24s Od' Barley 23s Od to 24s Od Oatmeal 168 6d to 17s 6d Flour, fine 33s Od to 34s Od 58Ib 11l bushel. V boll of 140th• 11 sack of 2801 b. KIRKCALDY—SEPT. 23. Fair supplies of all kinds of grain. Wheat sold slowlf at 6d lower. Barley and oats sold freely at about last week's prices. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 418 Od I 24s Od 2ls Od second 42s Cd 25s 6d 23s Od Third 44s Od 26s dd ;.4s Od Births. ---- CANROBERT.—On the 21st inst., at the Chateau do Rillieu, Lyons, Madame le Marechale Canrobert, of a daughter. DALE.—On the 24th inst., at Lee, Sent, the wife of James Murray Dale, Esq., of a son. HOMAN.—On the 25th inst., at friern-Watch, Whetstone, Mrs. E. Homan, of a son. PRICE.—On the 24th inst., at Blackheath, the wife of C W. Price, Esq., of a son. Marriages SHtw al of_On the 23d inst., at St. Tho mas 's EPi5 c Edinburgh, James Shaw, E sq ., I ns pector General M.'s Madra s A rmy, t o M a tilda Agnes , d a ughter of the late Charles Scott, E sq ., Bombs,' S h c u o r T h, . Hospitaig, Medical Service. STEEDMAN—RLDERTON.—On the 23d inst., at St. Gile s9° Ch u rch, Camberwell, Henry W. St ee dman, son of . 11 -• Steedman, Esq., of Upper Park-road, Hampstead, to Edith, daughter of Charles M. Elderton, Esq., of coln's-inn, barrister-at-law, and Brunswick-K .113: Camberwell. Deaths. r a ARNOLD.—inst.,On the 22d at Brighton, Samuel Pi c, b B Arnold, Esq., a ge d 78. A 10 BROWN. —On the 21st inst., at Heathfield, Streatham, --- Brown, Esq., M.R.C.S., L.S.A., aged 35. BLARELEY.—On the 21st inst., at Canterbury, Mr. Thew Blakeley, aged 39. re, Cox.—On the 22d inst., at 4, Coleshill-street, Eaton - K u Mr. George Cox, aged 83.- ra" DAVIES.—On the 25th inst., at his residence, 3, LecniV. place, Kensington, John E. Davies, Esq., DeP u Lieut. of the county. „ FARNCOMB.—On the 23d inst., at his residence, 1 14 n' for ar Forest-hill, Surrey, Thomas Farncomb, Esq., J. . t: Surrey, and formerly Alderman of the Ward of P'"ibe Shaw, London, of which city he was Lord Mayor in year 1849-50, aged 87. London : Printed and Published by WiL LIAM ANDOV, of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at Tim SUN office, 1 0 • 0t Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. in the cousw„- Middlesex.—Tueethy, September 26, 1865. ul ti on tf No Dii dir pai ta] vvo CO wc or bo ga Da gr sei ca' tit 10,