The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-01 00:00:00

Archbishop M inning on the Temporal Power The following pastoral letter was read yesterday in the churches and chapels of the Archiepiscopal diocese of Westminster : Henry Edward, by the grace of God and the favour , of the Apostolic See, Archbishop of Westminster, to the clergy, secular and regular, and the faithfulof the said diocese, health and benediction in the Lord. Reverend and dear Brethren, and dear Children in Jesus Christ,—The Cardinal Archbishop and the Episcopate of Ireland having invited us to unite with them in a public and solemn intercession in behalf of our Holy Father the Sovereign Pontiff at this mo ment of danger, we have with the greatest readiness and joy assented. Two reasons make us prompt to do so. First, that we may ask your filial and fer vent prayers for our beloved and august Pontiff ; and next, that we may give to the bishops and faith ful of Ireland a public testimony of our love and veneration for a people who have suffered beyond all example for the faith and for the Vicar of Jesus Christ. We gladly seize this opportunity to draw more and more close the bond which binds us toge ther. The Catholic Church of Ireland and of Eng land is not united, but one. It has one faith, one heart, one will, with all the affections and sympathies of joy or sorrow in the mystical body of Christ. Neither can we forget that our flock in England is by birth and by blood, to so great an extent, the off spring and gift of Ireland. We derive from them the catholic fervour and fidelity of their race, and we desire to manifest our intimate union of heart and will by the closest co-operation in all that is for their welfare and for the service of our common faith. We should have - been glad, if it had been possible, that the pastors and faithful of England and Ireland should have united in this act of intercession for the Holy Father on the same day, viz., the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary. But as the invitation did not reach us in time to make the needful preparations we have fixed on another feast of our blessed mother, that is Rosary Sunday. There is a special fitness in that day. It is a festival on which the Church cele brates, year by year, the power of intercession in behalf of the Sovereign Pontiff and of Christendom. On Rosary Sunday we commemorate the two great and decisive victories of Christendom over the Ma- , hommetan power, the one by sea and the other by land, whereby the civilisation and Christianity of 1 Europe were delivered from the destruction which has overwhelmed the Christians of Asia and of Africa. These great victories were won in the hour when the confraternities of the holy rosary were making public intercession throughout the catholic unity to obtain the intervention of the power of God. To that same power, and with the same prayer, and with the same assured confidence, we turn once more. It is fitting, then, that we should explain, in a few words, the inten tion with which you are now asked. to pray. And first, that the church is free from all temporal sub jection in the discharge of its Divine office is the axiom of the faith. But this freedom is contained in and vindicated by the freedom of its head. The Vicar of Jesus Christ is independent of all earthly power, both in his person and in his office ; and this independence is a security of the purity of doctrine and of discipline throughout the Catholic unity. While the world was Pagan the Pontiffs vindicated their independence by martyrdom. When the world became Christian it was secured to them by the pos session and sovereignty of Rome. It was necessary that theyshould possess a sphere in which they might exercise their apostolic office in perfect freedom. The possession of Rome and of its sovereignty was the providential means to this end. Two sovereign ties cannot co-exist in the same place, and the pro- , vidence of God so ordered the event. The departure of the emperors to Constantinople left the pontiffs sole and supreme, and this arrangement of Divine Providence has continued through all ages and trials to this day. In a word, then; to the spiritual free- i dom of the church the personal independence of its i head is necessary ; to the peaceful exercise of this personal independence a sphere and a throne are ne cessary.. For he who is independent is sovereign ; and sovereignty excludes all superiors. But such is the order which the will of God has ordained for the Vicar of Christ in Rome and its provinces ; and this is what men call his temporal power—a providential order to secure in peace his personal freedom and supreme direction over the whole church on earth. Next, you will remember that 18 years ago the So vereign Pontiff was driven by the revolution from his throne and city. Catholic and Christian France was at the same moment likewise in the confusion of poli tical change ; and yet its own sufferings and disorders could not niake it unmindful of the Holy Father. It was France in the moment of its freest expression, when the popular will was in theascendant, when it spoke and acted, not as a monarchy or as an empire, but as a republic, that sent its armies to Rome. If the people of France ever apoke for themselves, they spoke then ; and yet it was not France as an isolated European Power, but France as the first of Catholic Powers, and as the mandatory and 'representative of them all, that undertook in behalf of Catholic Eu rope the restoration of the centre of its unity and the source of its spiritual order. To France has been Conceded in these 18years the high dignity and grace of protecting the Vicar of Jesus Christ from the anti-social, anti-Christian power of modern revolu tion. A noble task which other Catholic Powers would rejoice to fulfil ; but by a traditional privilege and a kind of Catholic primogeniture, it is the inhe ritance and glory of France to execute the will of the Catholic world in the protection of Rome. To those who believe that the Christian Church is the source and the sustaining principle of Christian Europe this Catholic mission of France will at once appear in its true light, namely, not as a French interest, or a diplomatic scheme, or a political enterprise, or an intrusive in tervention in another state, but a duty of a higher order, in behalf of the whole Catholic unity and of the Christianity of the world. Every Catholic na tion has a right in Rome, for Rome is Catholic, not Italian. The mission of France is a witness against the revolutionary and schismatical nationalism which has been for centuries striving to undo the work of Christianity. The Church of Christ fused and sus tained all nations in a higher unity ; and in that unity, all Christian nations have a universal citizen ship and equal rights. And yet some men have lost so utterly the consciousness, and even the first out lines of Cristian unity, that they believe, and would have us believe, the ultimate and sole support of the Pontifical throne to be what they are pleased to call foreign bayonets. But what Christian power can be foreign in the centre of Christendom? Those bayonets could not remain in Rome if it were not the will of the great Catholic people of. France that their armies should protect the Vicar of Jesus Christ. But France, with all its military power, would not be able to execute this office if the uni versal sense of the Catholic people of the world were not consenting to its act. And whence comes this universal consent of the Christian instincts and sentiments of Catholic nations—that is of Christen dom—but from the light of faith and the Spirit of God, who rules the heart of men ? In the last ana lysis, then, it is the Divine Providence which has already intervened in these last turbulent 18 years to protect the city of Rome. WhilP we have been looking out for intervention, God has intervened long ago, and holds Ills hand upo n R ome at this hour. The arms arc the arms of France, but the will is the will of Christendom, and the power is the power of God. Two years ago a con vention was made between the sovereigns of France and Italy, without the knowledge of the Sovereign Pontiff, who of all men ought first to have been possessed of that knowledge, to the effect that after two years the armies of France should be withdrawn from their Christian mission, and should abdicate the traditional office which Charlemagne bequeathed to his successors. It was agreed that the Vicar 01 our Lord should be . left weak, isolated, defenceless, in the midst of the revolution. That convention expired on the 15th of this month, but its execution is not to be completed until next December. This interval of time therefore is full of expectation. There is not a Christian power in the world to stay its execution, or to come between the contracting parties lb this abandonment of the Vicar of Jesus Christ. The principle of human non-intervention has its full development. Treaties, contracts, en gagements, rights of justice, all international laws and obligations have been long ago broken up and buried. The powers of Christian Europe looked on in silence. The principle of modern nationalism, after rending asunder the fair political order of the Christian world, has reached at length to the order of the Christian church. It has for three centuries assailed its unity. It now assails its authority. It rent nations from its body ; it now aims at its head. Christendom must be silent because its centre is in Italy. But its circumference traverses all nations ; and all are equally near to their common centre. Italian nationalism is more sacred to the statesmen of to-day than the unity and authority of Christen dom, or the purity and freedom of the church. The inspirations of the revolution have poisoned their counsels and paralysed their action. The sacred diplomacy of Christendom is effaced from the laws of nations. Christian unity must give way before national isolation ; and the decomposition of Chris tain Europe is to be accomplished. The work of the revolution, that is of society without Christ and without God, is to be supreme. "The kingdom of this world" was the kingdom " of our Lord and His Christ." (Apoc., xi., 15.) But the civil powers of the world are now desecrating themselves one by one ; and the temporal power of the Vicar of Jesus Christ is, therefore, intolerable to them. It reminds them whence they are fallen, and it must be de stroyed. And there is no human power to stay the hand uplifted to destroy it. It remains then for us, dear children in Jesus Christ, to turn to the only power which never forsakes His vicar upon earth ; the only Sovereign whose intervention never fails to come when the time is full. He suffers the moment to linger that our faith may be tried. God works slowly, but He works surely. Eighteen hundred years of Divine protection, and perpetual restora tion of justice, assures us that the end is not yet. God is a jealous God. He will not work till men have refused to serve Him, lest it should seem to be their hand not His which has restored the rights of His church and the order of the world. There is nothing new in the conflict and peril of the Holy Father. It is the inheritance of the Pontiffs to bear in chief, and almost alone, the whole brunt of this battle between God and the world. As the highest tree draws the lightning to itself, so the spirit of antichrist smites first and last the Vicar of Christ. When Mahometanism almost surrounded Christen dom, and seemed to hold it in its grasp, the faithful prayed to our divine Lord through the prayers of His immaculate mother, and the hosts and the fleets of the infidel were scattered to return no more. The revolution now descends from the north, as Maho metamiam then came up from the south, and seems to have the Holy See in its grasp. But God's strength is made perfect in weakness. Prayer will do again what prayer has done before. The rosary i is stronger than weapons of wa r , an d p rocess i ons of little children than legions of men. It was on a Rosary Sunday that processions went about the streets of Milan when the plague smote it. S. Charles foretold that before Christmas the plague should be stayed; and it was so. Pray then, dear children in Jesus Christ, that before December runs out the hand of God may deliver our beloved father and Pontiff out of the hands of his enemies. Reverend and dear brethren offer, each one of you, next Sun day, or as soon as may be, the holy sacrifice at least once for this intention. Let the faithful offer their communions and their prayers, their penances, their mortifications, and all they suffer or do, to obtain the same great grace. There is already a turn in the hearts of men. They are beginning to see that the Vicar of the Son of God, and the head of the church of all nations, can be subject to no national power ; that he who is the head of all can be the subject of none. Men who believe in Christianity begin to see that the very unity of Christian na-. tions demands that they should be all equal before their common head, and be superior to them all. As teacher, judge, and guide, all must be less than he ; and he greater than all. They begin , to see that the freedom and purity of their own religion requires the full and free exercise of his spiritual office, and that this demands his per sonal independence of all temporal powers ; and that this personal independence can be peacefully secured only by' the possession of a sphere within which he may dwell alone, into which no other so vereign or superior may intrude. What is this but the narrow patrimony of S. Peter, given by Divine Providence before as yet a royal house which reigns in Europe existed ? No empire, kingdom, or state, of all which are now so mighty and so lordly, had come into being when the Vicars of Christ reigned in Rome. Their patriarchal sovereignty was the source and exemplar of all Christian kingdoms. What God has called into existence He will pre serve. Century after century the powers of the world have passed by and gone their way ; and men, from age to age, have been exulting over the 'ap proaching downfall of the Pontiff-King --and yet he has reigned on in the midst of prophecies. The line of Pontiff-Kings is not yet broken. It has endured changeless and immovable. But where is the Europe upon which S. Leo 111., S. Greg. VIII., or even Pius VI. and Pius VII. gazed ? Pass over the mutations of centuries. In the last 70 years alone more than 40 reigning families have been driven out by their people ; at least thirty thrones have been overturned. The example of insubor dination which princes set to their people fostered and emboldened the revolution. The storm has beaten hard upon the Pontiffs, but it has swept the earthly thrones away. So will it be. again. It is hard to kick against the goad, harder still to smite themselves against the rock. " Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be brusied ; and upon whomsoever it shall fall it will dash him to pieces." (Luke xx. 18.) We are assisting at a great judg ment of justice. Right and weakness against might and wrong stand fa ce t o face. The pleadings have been heard, and silence is made for the award. The war andof r o i i g ty ht o b f y n N o v in hi e ch is tohoemVplice JsaecsuresdCbheryiostodhotlhdsattbhye which any crowned head on earth holds the capital of his kingdom. The pontiffs have there main tained themselves through the whole duration of Christianity. For three hundred years they held Rome as martyrs, for five hundred years as the chief and only authority re siding within its walls, for a thousand years as its sole and supreme rulers. It possession and pre scription can consecrate the right of sovereigdty the Popes hold Rome and its provinces by a title which surpasses all, and is the example of all the kingdoms of the world. If such a possession and prescription be not sacred, let those who invade, or slight it, look to their own titles and rights. The violation of the right of the Sovereign Pontiff is a dangerous prece dent. The Hebrews called the law of tithes " the fence of property." The rights of the Sovereign Pontiff are the fence of the laws of international and political justice, which if violated will sooner or later be avenged by the recoil of revolution. But more than this, the rights of the Vicar of Christ are not only human and political, they are under the protection of a higher and diviner law. Rome and its provinces are offerings sacred to God and His church. The usurpation of them is not robbery i that is of th oo e n c f a e u re se n oneoawodbeforea judgment hg alone, but sacrihleogr e. than b h con gress. The Sovereign Pon tiff is invited to abdica te , or at least to cede his divine right of sovereignty, that he may receive it back by human concession, and on sufferance ; that is, to be n o more master but tenant at will. lie has answered , "We can not ;" the cause is heard, and sentence must be given. But we shall not perhaps see the event. If Rome were occupied to-morrow by armed bands, and the Vicar of our Lord were in exile, this would not be the award but the wrong upon which judgment is prayed. It may tarry for awhile, but it will surely come. Whether by the scourge of revolution, or by the wasting of intestine strife, or by the con vulsion of European war, or by more direct and visible interventio n of God we know not ; but that the spoliation will be followed by restitution we surely know. The same flood has already swept, again and again, over the Holy See. It has been submerged even for years, but has always arisen again, even more powerful than ever. The king doms and empires which now surround it will be a page in history when the sway of the Pontiffs shall yet be young. For this we may be derided as dreamers; but so were cotemporaries of Clement vii S. Gregory VII., S. 'Leo 111. ; and so were the companions of the apostles, and so were the dis- THE SON, LONI ciples of our Divine Master. For near twenty years Pius IX. has stood inflexible in the midst of menace and of temptation. Every kind of compromise and concession has been proposed to induce him to betray his twofold trust. The sovereignty both spiritual and temporal committed to him is the embodiment and the guarantee of the Christian social order, and of the consecration of the civil powers of the world. To separate them would be to desecrate the govern ment of nations. Therefore the whole weight of the assault is made upon him. If only he would abdi cate his contact with the temporal government of society, the last bond between Christianity and society would be dissolved. For this cause all visions of imaginary good are set before him. All who aim at excluding the action and supremacy of the Christian faith and of the Christian Church from the sphere of government labour to overthrow the temporal power of the Pope. But God does not return upon His steps, nor will He suffer His Church to be turned backward in its mission to the world. lts destinies are as yet only in part accom plished. The Vicars of Jesus Christ will not with draw from contact with the nations of the world, nor from the direction of their corporate life. They have only begun their toil in guiding the Christian order of Europe, as the centre of a vaster common wealth of nations which shall hereafter touch upon the sunrise and the sunset. But this moment is once more a time of danger and of conflict; and your prayers are needed to sustain the hands of our guide and head, which are always lifted up in intercession for the Church and for the world. We therefore appoint as follows :-1. On Rosary Sun day let the chief mass, if possible, be offered in behalf of the Holy Father and for his intentions; and let each priest, on that or the first free day, offer the holy sacrifice once, and the faithful offer their communion with the same intention. 2. Let the Blessed Sacrament be exposed after the chief mass, and the Miserere and Litany of the Saints be recited. 3. In the afternoon or evening let the Rosary be,recited by the whole congregation, and be followed by procession and benediction. 4. Let the faithful be instructed by the priests at the chief mass as to the intentions of this solemn act of intercession. Finally, we commend you to the prayers of the immaculate Mother of God, through whose ever-prevailing intercession we hope to obtain from the sacred heart of her Divine Sou the accom plishment of this our fervent desire and trust. And may the God of Hope keep you always in his holy fear and in the multitude of peace. Given at Westminster on the Feast of S. Matthew in the year 1866 ; and ordered to be read in all churches and chapels of the diocese on Sunday the 30th of September. HENRY EDWARD, Archbishop of Westminster. JOHN CANNON MORRIS, Secretary. Th 3 Bishop of Southwark on the Pope's Temporal Power. A pastoral letter by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark (Dr. Grant) was read yesterday morning in the various Catholic churches in his dio cese. The bishop pointed out the great dangers and difficulties by which the Holy Father was surrounded, and invited the " faithful" to pray earnestly for his safety on Sunday next, the festival of the Holy Rosary. "No petitions (he said) will be so wel come as those which are accompanied on that day by a sincere and contrite confession, and by a de vout and affectionate communion. The clergy will show their filial loyalty to his Holiness by offering the holy sacrifice for his welfare, and to the end that he may be freed from all danger, and may regain all, that has been wrested from him. . . . On the day mentioned the clergy will be pleased to pray at mass for the protection of his Holiness. Immediately after,:mass the psalm Miserere' and the Litany of the Saints' are to be chanted or read. 'lhe blessed Sacrament may be exposed during the chant of the psalm and litanies, and benediction given afterwards in the usual form. Let the people be instructed in the duty of praying for the Pope, who bears the solicitude of all the Churches, and has the charge of feeding the sheep and lambs of the vast fold of Christ, and of confirming the breth ren, add is continually occupied in providing for the salvation of immortal souls. Beg them to hear mass and offer their communions for him as often as they are able during this time of anxiety.'' In referring to the present critical position of Pius IX. the right reverend prelate said—" The faithful children of the Church are full of anxiety when they think of the position of his Holiness, who is their spiritual father on earth. They hear, day by day, of the differentplans and calculations that are formed respecting him and the small span of territory on which he dwells. But they do not find in those plans any that promise help or support, or even con solation to him. If his children are troubled by these thoughts, their surprise is even beyond their trouble. Events have passed so rapidly in our times that their history seems already to belong to some remote and ancient period. They who were beginning life 20 years ago hear with wonder that at that date lived a Pontiff whose first act when he had been, after a short conclave, given to the Church, was to open the prisons, and give freedom to those who had been once, and were to be again, the enemies of his throne. When his subjects believed that the institutions of other countries would offer new rules and principles of government to his States, he yielded with fatherly confidence in their loyalty and in their justice and obedience. When he was surrounded by thousands, and was hailed everywhere with acclamations, his heart was amongst the poor, who had enjoyed the chief part of his episcopal revenues; amongst child ren, whom he wished to train in virtue and inno cence ; amongst the lowly sufferers, who in Ireland and in other lands were wasted by famine, ruined by fires or inundations, or shaken by earthquakes. Great indeed must be the wonder of those who hear the story of his reign, and are told that after he had desired eagerly the happiness of his peo ple, had toiled for their prosperity, and had shown sympathy and tenderness towards all who were afflicted, he was obliged to become an exile, and to leave the palaces that had been a home to every one but himself. Such will be their sur prise that gratitude has been forgotten, and that even pity towards the vanquished_has lost its power, that they will scarcely be able to believe how the extremes of glory and disregard should be con trastedin the same reign, and that he whom all once sought to honour is to be deprived of the little that now remains to him. But he still retains the affec tion of the devoted children of whom he is the shepherd, and they are encouraged by his confi dence in God, and by his hereditary trust in the powerful intercession of Mary the Immaculate Mother of God. . . . There have been strange and sudden changes since we saw him give his first blessing in 1846, and since we saw him return to his cathedral in 1850. We must not be disheartened if the clouds are now dark and deep. The star of the sea can penetrate this darkness. Mary can urge her Divine Son to rise up and bid the winds and the waves mustto b b e e c c a l o m n fi . d e t O nhot u eu r aranfl igdd grief ciu t et y nfe yda t n h i dn e rwepfeor entreatingarm y e ueersv. must d egr e ia n yit t noe . bmeust the seeke comfort solace o f i n light and direction for the Vicar of her Son by addressing supplications and earnest entreaties to her who never asks in vain." The Pacific and New Zealand mail packets after leaving New Zealand for Panama only go near the Pit cairn and Galapagas Islands in the Pacific. A coal depot for the packets is to be established on ono of the latter islands. Another of the Galapagos is a convict settlement belonging to the Republic of Ecuador. This Pacific mail line having been established, a man can now travel round the world in about 100 days, touching twice at Europe, once at Africa, twice at Asia, four times at Australasia, and four times at America. Thirty years ago a:mail packet took forty days to reach America from England; now a person can travel by sea nearly ten times that dis tance in a little more than twice the time. - - [ADVERTISEMENT.] 7 -Holloway's Pills and Ointment.— Deranged Stomach, Bick Headache.—Our comfort, happi ness, and security depend on the knowledge that most diseases originate from apparently a trifling beginning, and that the large proportion of them spring from inatten tion to the state of the stomach. Professor Holloway has turned his knowledge to useful account by disc over i ng medicines which cure, without exception, the attendants on disordered digestion. They ward off, likewise, the torturing sick headache. The Ointment should be well rubbod, twice daily, over the stomach, liver, and bowels; to them it penetrates, and, aided by the pills, immediately Work* such, a reytattiN as otablialies perfect digestive. ON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1866, MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS. It is said there is little doubt that the fire in the League House was the act of an incendiary. It originated in a large closet in the laundry on the third floor, used for keeping buckets, brooms, and other household articles. In the rubbish in this closet a piece of gas-pipe was found, which had been sawed off at both ends, in rough and unworkman like manner, but until the wreck is somewhat cleared away it is impossible to decide certainly whether this is the proper clue to the fire. There are some indications of the fire having been started simul taneously in more than one place. Fire-Marshal Blackburn is investigating the matter, and it is hoped that the mystery will be cleared up. The fire was discovered at half-past 12 o'clock, and when the population had assembled the roof was blazing out in sheets of brilliant flame. Far above the burning mass stood the flagstaff tearing the old flag flapping and beating as the currents of hot air rolled past. The people gave them up for lost when four firemen suddenly appeared on the roof at the foot of the flagstaff ; the halliards were lowered, the stars and stripes swept gracefully downward and were thrown to the ground. The engines deluged the place with water and the fire was extinguished. The total cost of the Union League building was about $200,000. The total insurance is $120,000, of which $60,000 is on the building, and $60,000 on the furniture, paintings, &c. The latter amount is divided equally between the following companies : State of Pennsylvania, North America, Delaware Mutual, Metropolitan, N. Y., and Pennsylvania. The loss is roughly estimated at $40,000, of which $25,000 is upon the building, and $15,000 upon the furniture, &c. The Philadelphia Inquirer informs us that Major- General John A. Hartrnaft, now Auditor-General of the State of Pennsylvania, a volunteer officer, who did himself and his State much credit during the war, has received the compliment of a commis sion as Colonel in the regular army. When we recollect that there are many officers who during the war held the position of major-generals and brigadiers of volunteers who have been remitted back to their old positions as captains and lieutenants in the regular service, we can understand that this tribute to General Hartrnaft is particularly flatter ing. Our feelings upon the subject are divided, for while we know that the army will get a good colonel, we also know that the State will lose a good Auditor. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times states that there are rumours to-day in eonuection with the case of Jefferson Davis, and published principally by the New York Herald, that the Pre sident has announced his intention of releasing Mr. Davis conditionally on bail or parole, if the judges of the United States' Court at Richmond, Chase and Underwood, delay his trial after October. The Pre sident says he has done all he can to bring on the trial, and that the responsibility for the delay rests with these judges, and if in October they still de cline to try him, no good purpose can be served by keeping him longer in custody. The Court at Rich mond meets on the Bth of October, at which, if the programme of last summer is agreed to, Mr. Davis will be arraigned. If released, the distinguished prisoner will give bail or his parole to deliver him self up when wanted. Mr. Davis declines to give any promise to leave the United States as the price of his release. The Fenian Congress at Troy is emulating the National Congress in the last hours of its session. It sat for twenty-four hours before it adjourned sine (lie except an intermission of two hours. Mr. Roberts was unanimously re-elected President. General Sweeney has been deposed as Secretary at War. General O'Neill declines the post, and it is rumoured that it will be offered either to General Sheridan or General Logan. The thanks of the brotherhood were given to General Banks and Con gress. Radical changes were made in the govern ment and the organisation, greater power being made over to the Senate. O'Neill has been ap pointed Inspector-General of the Fenian Army, and Colonel Michael Bailey, of Buffalo, chief military organiser. It is thought that if the financial re turns continue to increase that another movement will be made on Canadian soil. The President replied to an invitation from Mayor Monroe, the Mayor of New Orleans, who has lately earned an unenviable notoriety, to visit that city, as follows :—" Bon. John T. Monroe, Mayor.—Your kind invitation of the Bth inst. has been .received, and, in reply, I am compelled to say that important arrangements will prohibit me from complying therewith. Please accept my thanks for your courtesy. ANDREW JOHNSON." It is singular that the name of Cyrus W. Field should be omitted in the category of those to whom we owe, the Atlantic Telegraph. There is an old saying, " Out of sight, out of mind." We should prefer, however, that it were true, in this instance, than that the benefits of services by Americans to this country should be passed by in England with out recognition. The feeling is common among Americans that excellence, scientific attainments, great proficiency in any department on the part of American citizens, is apt to be ignored here. There has been a wonderful American pianist at Alfred Mellon's concerts, who has been habitually ignored by the London press. Narrow-mindedness and the rivalry of the profession might induce medical men to endeavour to exclude their American brethren from practising in their own preserves ; but we would be slow to believe that such a feeling extends throughout the community. A party of five young men, while on an exploring expedition recently along the Colorado River, dis covered an immense pyramid on a barren plain. It was composed of layers of stone from eighteen inches to nearly three feet in thickness, and from five to eight feet in length. It had a level top of more than fifty feet square, though it was evident that it had been completed, and that some great convulsion of nature had displaced its entire top, as it was evi dently lying on one of its sides, a huge and broken mass, nearly covered by the sand. Its present length is one hundred and four feet, and it must have been formerly full twenty feet higher. This pyramid differs in some respects from the Egyptian pyramids. It is, or was, more slender or pointed ; and while those of Egypt are composed of steps or layers, re ceding as they rise, this American pyramid was un doubtedly a more finished structure. The outer surface of the blocks was evidently cut to an angle that gave the structure, when new and complete, a smooth or regular surface from top to bottom. A recent writer stated that originally the Pyramids of Egypt were constructed as this is described, on a smooth inclined plane from top to bottom. Time had worn out the stones which filled up the steps, and left the great blocks in the form which we now see them. The Philadelphia Inquirer tells the following interesting story of the' War : —We have been informed of the facts in a case, another of the sad results of the Rebellion. During the first years of the war a young man named Lisetor, whose parents reside in this city, enlisted in an artillery company, leaving a wife and child in Stark county. During one of the heavy battles he was wounded in several places, taken prisoner, and conveyed to Libby Pri son. He was reported mortally wounded, and afterwards announced as dead. Since then, nearly three years ago, not a word had been heard of him, and his wife, after having buried her child, and losing all hope of ever again seeing her husband, whom she truly loved and unaffectedly mourned, married again. On Thursday evening, just as the parents of young Lisetor were about to engage in family worship, they were startled by a knock at the door, and upon opening it the mother was astonished to see her son, so long mourned as dead, and fainted in his arms. He told his story — how after lingering for months in Libby Prison, as soon as he was able to be removed he was taken farther Soutb, but finally managed to escape. His letters all miscarried, and he was unable to hear from home or friends. After weary months of wandering, and many adventures in Texas and other parts of the South, he finally secured money enough to take him home. On Wednesday evening last he arrived at the village in Stark county, where he had left his wife and child, but before arriving at the house where his wife was then living he was met by her sister, who informed him of the bad situation of ' affairs. The blow was as terrible one to hin3, but like the hero he was he left his wife undisturbed with her new husband, and came hither in search of his parents. We extract from the "resident's speech at Cin cinnati the following passage :—" Mars has been in the ascendant long enough ; let that bloody star be driven away by the bright sunshine of peace. If I have pardoned traitors, I have only obeyed the in junction of Scripture to forgive the repentant. Who of us would be living if for his first or second error he had been struck down ? I believe men may repent, and then they should beforgiven. Hang eight millions of people ! Who ever heard of such horrors ! Yet because I refused to do this I am called a traitor. If more blood is needed erect an altar, and upon it your humble speaker will pour out the last drop of his blood as a libation for his country's salvation." At Vermont the vote on the Union ticket for governor was 29,671 against 27,586, last increase 2,085. The Democratic vote was 9,642 against 8,866 last year, increase 776. In Maine the Republican majority has increased to 30,000 this year against 22,000 last year, sending to the 40th Congress five members. The result of these elections is felt strongly throughout the Union. The Fenian vote went to increase the Republican majority, but it could have had little influence in determining the result of the election. The Republicans have nomi nated Governor Fenton in New York as their can didate for re-election, and the Democrats in Con vention',have nominated John T. Hoffman, the pre sent mayor of New York city, for Governor. It is calculated that the Senate will - be composed of at least 37 Republicans to 15 Democrats. On the 2d October Colorado votes, and on the 9th Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Indiana, lowa, and Minnesota. Henry Ward Beecher closes his second letter with these words :—''Better days are coming. These throes of our days are labour-pains. God will bring forth, ere long, great blessings. In some moments which it pleases God to give me, I think I discern, arising beyond the present troubles, and over the other side of this abyss in which the nation wallows, that fair form of Liberty—God's dear child—whose whole beauty was never yet disclosed. I know her solemn face. That she is divine, I know by her girdle of purity, by her sceptre of justice, and by that atmosphere of love that, issuing from her, as light from a star, moves with her more royal than a king's apparel. In this, too, I know her divinity, that she shall bless both friends and enemies, and yield the fullest fruition of liberty to those would have slain her ; as once her Master gave his life for the salvation of those who slew him." Secretary AP Culloch, notwithstanding the efforts of interested parties to induce him to part with a portion of his gold reserve, has steadily declined to do so, being determined that the strength of the present financial condition of the Treasury shall be maintained and increased. The more gold held by the Government the greater the intrinsic value of its securities, and the nearer its return to a specie basis. While gold continues to flow from Europe, and the receipts from California are as large as at present, it is believed that all legitimate demands for it can be easily supplied, notwithstanding the increasing amount held by the Government, and the premium reduced as rapidly as is consistent with public interest. General Grant's address to Mr Baker, at Cincin nati, is characteristic of that great general. It is just such an address as the Duke of Wellington would have made under similar circumstances. The general was in the Theatre. A large crowd and the " Boys in Blue " paraded outside. The noise disturbed the performance, but the General they wished to honour - sat regardless of the tu mult. Mr. Allen, the manager, was requested to carry the information that there was a crowd of citizens outside who desired to see him. General Grant replied " I cannot, and will not see them. Please tell their commander to come to me." On Mr. Baker's approach he at once accosted him. " Sir, lam no politician. The President of the United States is - my Commander-in-Chief. I con sider this demonstration in opposition to the Pre sident of the United States, Andrew Johnson. If you have any regard for me you will take your men away. lam greatly annoyed at this demon stration. I came here to enjoy this theatrical per formance. I will be glad to see you all to-morrow when the President arrives." Outside they took the disappointment in good part, dispersing after giving " three cheers for General Grant, next Pre sident of the United States." Mr. Seward wound up his eloquent speech at Indianapolis as follows :—" Other nations have passed through precisely the same crisis. Rome, at the end of the Republic, met the crisis and bent under it. What might not have been the fortune of Rome if, instead of Julius Caesar, she had chosen Cato for Consul and Dictator. This is the privilege God has . vouchsafed to us. Instead of having Jeff. Davis or some other revolutionary leader to preside over us at the close of so fearful a struggle, he has allowed us to have Andrew Johnson, the Cato of our nation, at the head of our Government. Sus tain him by your free suffrage—that all of you can do. Let him be sustained, and then the world will begin to see how quietly our noble ship of State will glide through the surges of the revolutionary sea, and attach herself to the ancient wharves, where she may be expected to rest henceforth in safety and unchangeable tranquillity." Charles A. Dana has secured most of the $200,000 capital for his new Radical daily at New York, and will probably make it an afternoon p'por. The anniversary of the independence of Mexico was celebrated on the 15th at Miramar, the Emperor's estate in Austria, with a religious service, a salvo of guns, and a festival dinner. MlNNESOTA. — Minnesota will produce this year, it is estimated, 16,000,000 bushels of wheat, and that in 1860 she produced but 2,195,812 bushels. It is doubtless true, as is believed in Minnesota, that if the railroad to Lake Superior had been running, so as to raise the price of wheat in out-of-the-way neighbourhood; the quantity this year would have been very much increased. To the knowledge of the writer of this wheat grown three years ago is only this year brought to market, low water in the streams, and want of railroad facilities, preventing the farmers from bringing it forward. In far-off settlements much wheat is grown, which sells for 30 or 40 cents per bushel, the cost of marketing it being so groat. All this is changing rapidly. Minnesota is to be the greatest of all the wheat-growing States, for it is a sure crop, and a very heavy one, producing twice as much on the average as Illinois or Ohio, and its grain being of a better quality. — Baltimore Weekly Commercial. ' 6 MR. USHER AND THE PARIS EXHIBITION. —The Spring field Weekly Republican has the following :—" Great surprise is expressed among all classes, not even excepting politicians, at the appointment of Mr. James M. Usher as commissioner to the world's Exposition at Paris, and I must confess that it strikes me as ono not eminently ' fit to be made.' Our manufacturing and mechanical interests are of sufficient consequence, it woul d seem, to be well re presented ; and this can only be done by a man who has some practical familiarity with them, or is distinguished for commanding talents or extraordinary general attain ments. No one would think of sending a mere blacksmith to represent grave public interests in a congress of nations, but that would be scarcely more inappropriate than the selection of a more politician to represent our manufac turers, mechanics, and artisans ; ou r diverse industrial in terests at the forthcoming Exposition ha Paris. An apologist for the appointment suggests that as Mr. Usher has been a coastantand unfortunate applicant for officeever since Governor Bullock's inauguration, his excellency may have been influenced by a desire to secure his own peace and quiet, but that is a view to which I do not sub scribe. By tho way, a story is told in connection with ono of Mr. Usher's business operation; which will bear repeating. After the death of ' Father Whittemore,' Mr. Usher got control of the two Universalist papers in Boston —The Trumpet and the Christian Freeman—with the design of uniting them, and thus concentrating upon one the patro nage that had hitherto been divided between two esta blishments. The arrangement, however, failed to meet the views of the leading men in the denomination, and they proposed to buy him out. As the parties were unable to agree upon term; the matter was finally submitted to referees. Among the witnesses introduced at the hearing was Thomas Drew, at one time, as you know, connected with the Worcester Spy, who was introduced as an expert. When he was called upon to testify, the case was presented to him hypothetically, as for instance : What •ought a newspaper establishment, with a given number of sub scribers, a given amount of advertising patronage, and with a given amount due upon" its book; to be worth ? Of course, Mr. Drew know nothing of the particular in terests to be affected by his testimony, although he might possibly have guessed pretty nearly, from the fact that he had the principal dignitaries of the Universalist denomi nation around him. He answered that to meet the ques tion fairly he ought to know something of the character of the paper,—whether it was political or religious, and if political ! what party interests it Advocated, or if religious with what denomination it was identified. Passing over his testimony as to the political aspects of the case, and coming directly to the point, he said that if it was a Uni tarian paper ho should estimate its value at such a figure, if an orthodox at such a figure, and naming the other de nominations in turn, ho came finally to the Universalist, which he named last and estimated lowest. This, of course, could not fail to create quite a sensation in such a presence, and one of the referees, more nettled than the rest, interposed :—' You do not mean to say, Mr. Drew, that other things being equal, a Universalist paper would be worth less than an orthodox ?" Yes, sir, that is exactly what I mean to say.' Why, how do you make that out ?' ' Well, gentlemen, your theories are all very well, but I tell you when it comes to the case in hand, these orthodox have such a dread of hell-fire that they don't like to go into the other world with their newspaper bills unpaid.' Parties in an adjoining room became suddenly impressed with the idea that the roof of the building was coming off, but it stood the storm, and the consolidated paper changed hands.' " A locomotive lately ran the distance from Berlin to Hartford in fourteen minutes, or nearly a mile a minute, under steam produced by a peat fire. The Etna peat com pany now have three machines in operation at Berlin, capable of turning out 33 tons of dried peat per day. Dr. R. M. Morgan, of Pittsfield, has formed a company for the manufacture of peat for fuel, and will soon have necessary machinery and buildings for the successful prosecution of the business. The peat is upon his farm, about a mile from the village, and there is an inexhaustible supply of it. COURTESIES TO AMERICAN OFFICERS.—GRAND Hor ON THE BRITISH FLAG-SHIP.-11ALwAx, N.S., Sept. 8. -The flag-ship Rhod© Island, Commander Fairfax, with Rear-Admiral Palmer on board, sailed yesterday at six o'clock p.m. During the admiral's visit here he and his officers have been the recipients of marked courtesies from Sir Fenwick Williams, whose guests they were ; also from Vice-Admiral Sir James Hope, Major-General Doyle, and the officers of the garrison and fleet, and from leading citizens. Yesterday aftern lon they attended a hop on board the flag-ship Duncan, and wore received with all the honours. Admiral Palmer and tho officers of the Rhodo Island express themselves highly gratified with the courtesies shown them. They were honoured with a parting salute from the Citadel and the flag-ship Duncan. Mrs. Beecher Stowe's new cottage home at Hart-, ford is described as having nothing in location or appear ance to attract attention or indicate it as the home of genius. You cross the railroad and pass down a narrow lane to roach it. It is a two-story brick-house, in the cot tage style, which sits very low, with a factory and ice house adjoining. The posts of the old rail fence have not been removed. The trees are without uniformity or cul ture, and the lawn is crowded with a luxuriant crop of rank weeds, and the whole style of the thing is untidy and neglected. In the neighbourhood are elegant houses, splendid locations, trees and shrubbery, kept in exquisite taste, contrasting strongly in appgarance with the cottage house of one of the first prose - iv - titers of the age. The tobacco crops in the river towns above Hartford is a remarkably large one, though about a week later in ripening than usual. The farmers in Hartford county talk of the largest crop ever harvested, which will be worth a million dollars. _ _ The harbour of Galveston, Texas, is fast closing up with sand. Light draft vessels now ground in tho channel whore the water was formerly 20 feet deep. Carl Schurz on the State of America. The eloquent and temperate address of this powerful speaker at the National Hall, Philadelphia, Sept. 8, is so deeply interesting at the present moment that we regret our limited space prevents us from transcribing it in full in our columns. Major-General Carl Schurz was intro duced to the assembly by William H. Kern, Esq. He commonced.by noticing that— " No discerning man can survey tho present situation of affairs in this Republic without perceiving that, al though the war is over, the country is not yet at peace. There is a fierce contest going on between the executive and legislative branches of the National Government, in which the masses of the people are called upon to take sides. In the South we see symptoms of dangerous fer mentation sporadically breaking out in bloody deeds. In the North the war of opinions is carried on with passionate violence. A gathering of men, euphoniously styling itself The National Union Convention,' has already called upon the people of the South not to submit if the policy adopted by the Congress of the United States should prevail: Everywhere the air is heavy with threats and ap prehensions. • • • " When the civil war had come to a close the problem presented itself of what is commonly called reconstruc tion. The principal difficulty of that problem consisted then, and consists now, in this—the political system of this Republic rests, upon the right of the people to control their local concerns in their several States by the opera tions of self-government, subject to certain restrictions imposed by the National Constitution, and in the right to co-operate with ono altogether in the government of the whole. " This system was not to be changed in the work of re construction ; but it was evident also that if reconstruction was to accomplish only the mere setting in motion again of the machinery of Government as it had been previous to the war, and nothing else, it would have forthwith in vested the very people who had been in rebellion against the Government with the power in a great measure to con trol the very results which had been won, and against which they had struggled ; and this would have been a surrender of the consequences of our victory to the dis cretion of the defeated. " Here was a difficulty which struck the mind of every candid man at first sight. The immediate and uncondi tional restoration of the rebel States to the absolute con trol of their home affairs, and to power in the general Go vernment, was so obviously incompatible with the best in terests and sacred obligations of the Republic, so mani festly against all common sense, that when one of the greatest heroes of the war, led astray by a too generous error of judgment, admitted it as one of the stipulations of an armistice, the people, startled out of their equanimity by the mistake, raised a general outcry against him all over the loyal States. The hero I speak of undoubtedly soon saw his error, and the country remembers nothing but the gratitude it owes him. (Applause.) It was, therefore, agreed that as quickly as possible all the attributes of the Democratic system of Government should be restored ; but that the Rebel States should not have full participation in the Government of the Republic till by the imposition of irreversible stipulations it would bo impossible for them to subvert, or impair, any of the results of the war, or to violate any of the obligations the Republic had taken on itself. At first, the speaker main tains, the President was anxious that the Government of the States and of the nation should be confided only to the tried, over-faithful friends of the Republic. The people of the Rebel States were also ready for submission. They expected nothing better than that the North should dicate the terms of peace. This was the moment imme diately after the close of the Civil War—when all that was needed could have been accomplished with ease. President Johnson next took the work of Reconstruction into his own hands ; issued proclamations appointing pro visional governors for the Rebel States, and ordered them to call State Conventions. He declared that if there were but 5,000 men of tried loyalty in a Stat e , theirs must be the Government. "But political power in the States naturally belongs to those who have the right to vote and to be voted for. Andrew Johnson began by prescribing the qualifications of voters. The loyal blacks were at once excluded from the suffrage ; the right of voting was to be confined to the loyal whites. But who were the loyal whites? The President issued a proclamation , of amnesty, and decreed that all participants in the Rebellion should bo regarded as loyal men if they would take the oath of allegiance, fourteen specially enumerated classes ex cepted." The result was that the true Union element was every where helplessly overwhelmed by rebel majorities. It it true Andrew Johnson deemed it necessary to impose con ditions before their full restoration. He demanded that their State Conventions should declare the Secession ordi nances null and void, which, however, not all of them did. General Schurz next tells us what he saw in the South as the result of the President's policy : " President Johnson had honoured me with a confiden tial mission to investigate the condition of things in the late Rebel States, and I endeavoured to show myself worthy of that confidence by honestly reporting what I had seen and heard, and what I conbcientiously under stood to be true. Subsequently it appeared to me as if I had misunderstood the nature of my mission. But I dare to assert that every truthful man who knows what has occurred in the South will testify that if the official state ments I have made convoy erroneous impressions at all, they do so only by their studied mildness. My report has not had the good fortune of winning the applause or of exercising an influence upon the mind of him who sent me; but I console myself with the confident belief that in this country no individual, however powerful, can seal the eyes of the people by merely closing his own. (Tremen dous cheering.) " The people lately in rebellion, as soon as they saw their State Governments once more in their hands, saw also a chance to turn their power to account in a reaction ary movement against emancipation. They were deter mined not to permit the emancipated slave to become a true freeman, nor a systeni of true free labour to supplant that of slavery. They used their power in that direction as far as the General Government suffered them to go, and, Heaven knows, President Johnson, although anxious to keep up appearances, suffered them to go far enough." After powerful arguments in favour of giving every support to Congress, and hearty encomiums on the virtues and merits of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, the lecturer concludes in the following words: — "Americans, the lines are drawn, and the issues of the contest clearly made up. "You want the Union fully restored. We offer it to you —a Union based on universal liberty, impartial justice and equal rights, upon sacred pledges faithfully fulfilled, upon the faith of the nation nobly vindicated_; a Union lo w p.m.. without a slave and without a tyrant ; a Union of truly Democratic States; a Union capable of ripening to ful maturity all that is great and hopeful in the mind and heart of the American people ; a Union on every square foot of which free thought may shine out in free utterance; a Union between the most promising elements of progress, between the most loyal impulses in every section of this vast Republic ; in one word, a Union between the true men of the North and the true men of the South. "The reactionists, with their champion, Andrew John son, offer you a Union based upon deception unscrupulously practised, upon groat promises treacherously violated, upon the national faith scandalously broken ; a Union whose en trails are once more to be la'corated by the irrepressible struggle between slavery and liberty ; a Union in a part of which the rules of speech will be prescribed by the terrorism of the mob, and free thought silenced by the policeman's club and the knife of the assassin ; a Union tainted with the blood of its truest friends •and covered with the curses of its butchered children ; a Union between the fighting traitors of the South and the scheming traitors of the North ; a Union between the New York rioters of 1863 and the Memphis and New Orleans rioters of 1866. " You want magnanimity to a beaten foe. We offer it to you. We demand no blood, no persecution, no re venge. Wo only insist that when the Republic distr butes the charitable gift of pardon and grace, the safety and rights of her faithful children are entitled to the first consideration. We aro ready to grasp the hand of the - South. We only want first to ascertain whether the blood of our slaughtered friends is already dried on it. Peace and good-will to all mon is the fondest wish of our hearts, and we aro anxious to give and secure it even to the bit terest of our enemies, as soon as they show an honest wil lingness to grant it to all of our friends. "We have passed through gloomy days of late ; days of grievous disappointment, of deep humiliation, of sorrowful anxiety. But when, the other night, I stood upon the balcony of the Union League House and saw the countless multitude surging below, a multitude greater to number than the hosts which marched with Sherman to the sea, or the army of the Potomac when it swept over•the ramparts of Richmond ; and that mul titude, as once our battalions were summoned to the battle-field by the paternal voice of Abraham Lincoln, now following the solemn call of the same voice issuing from the grave; and when I saw from that ocean of human faces radiating forth the electric light of intelli gence and love of liberty ; and when I thought that the volcanic bursts of enthusiasm there were but one throb of the patriotic emotions which are to-day again swelling the great heart of the loyal North, then my soul felt itself lifted out of the gloom of dark apprehensions, and I ceased to fear for the future of the Republic. " Then it became certain again, to my mind, that the great people of the Now World, who fought a four years' battle of conscience, have not forgotten -their exalted mis sion on earth, and that the very gates of hell cannot shake their mighty determination to wield, with a firm hand, the national power, until justice is done to all, and until, with safety to all, the Republic can beset afloat upon the broadest channel of self-government. " We have heard - already the triumphant morning gun of Vermont booming with increased volume ; far off San Francisco has merrily responded ; old Maine, in the North, stands ready to send us a cheering echo, and all over the land our hosts are mustering with the inspiring confidence that to march on is to conquer. " Our time has come. Forward into line, Republicans ! This is to be the final battle of the war. Let it be the greatest victory of right and justice. (Tremendous ap plause and three cheers for the speaker.") COUNTRY MARKETS. -. NORWICH— SATURDAY. The supply of wheat at market to-day was larger than of late, and the trade may be quoted at last Saturday's prices. Barley is weekly increasing in supply, and all bright and dry malting qualities maintained full prices ; stained and damp samples are becoming sluggish in sale. All harvest operations have been brought to -a close in Norfolk. White wheat (weighing 641 b), 54s to 56s ; old red aitto weighing 631 b), 47s to 52s ; new red ditto (weighing '6olb to 631 b), 51s to 525; best malting barley (weighing 521 b to 531 b), 42s to 45s ; runs ditto (weighing bulb to 521 b), 40s to 41s ' • distilling ditto (weighing bOlb t o 521 b ), 34 s to 36s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, &7s to 39s ; peas (maple), 368 to 38s per qr. Flour, 38s Od per sack. LEICESTER— S ATURDAY. Our market was fairly supplied with new wheat to-day, and there was a few samples of old. Business was good, and prices were is to 2s per qr. higher than last week. Barley was in more active demand, and buyers had to pay an advance of is per qr. on the rates of last week. For oats a steady consumptive demand took place, and prices were a shade higher. Beans in request at remunerative prices. New white wheat, 50s to 51s ; new red, 45s to 50s ; old, white, 51s to 56s ; old red, 48s to 52s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 32s to 43s per qr.; grinding, 31s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ; new, 24s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 51s to 53s ; new, 53s to 54s p©r 38 s t one . Fine flour, 42s ; seconds, 38 s t o 40s per 20 stone. YORK-SATURDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat at our market to-day, the quality of the new being irregular. There was a fair inquiry, and superior sorts were fully is per qr. dearer. There was a better show of barley, which met a fair sale, and prices were rather higher. in beans late rates wero exceeded is per qr. New white wheat, Ms to 608 ; new red, 48s to 54s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 40s to 44s per qr. ; grinding, 34s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s per 24 stone, Beans, new, 48s to 50s per 38 stone. Malt, 61s to 70s. Flour, 38s to 42s per sack of 2801bs. NOT TINGHAM-SATURDAY. At to-day's market the supply of wheat was middling, and there was a steady sale, at is to 2s per qr. advance. For fine qualities of barley the demand was active, at im proved rates ; secondary sorts about tho same. The de mand for oats was healthy, and high prices were obtained. Oats of first rate quality were very scarce ; and quite 3s dearer. Old white wheat, 60s to 635; old red, 55s to 59s ; new white, 55s to 60s ; new red, 50s to 55s per 36 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 365; new, 24s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 54s to 55s ; new, 48s to 51s per 38s stone. Fine flour, 40s to 42s per sack. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Wew Zealand, via Southamptol..— oct. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. i 4. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Oct. 4. Ditto, by French packet Oct. 2?.. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St.. Helena oot. 28. China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct 3. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. —. Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 3. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton OJt. 3 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct. 13 Ditto, via Marseilles . Oct. 7 Malta, Egypt, and . Aden, via Southampton Oct. 3. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 14. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon. . united States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton ...... Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Oct. 5 West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tencriffe ....Oct. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) Sept. 28. Cuba and Mexico Sept. 26. Bermuda, via Halifax. Oct. 24. Bahamas. via New York. Oot. 18. THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—.A match has been made, and £5 a side staked with us, between the giant Baldwin and a man to be named by Jem Mace, to fight for the belt and £2OO a side. They are to meet at our office on Thursday next, between 12 and 2, to draw up articles, when Mace must be prepared to name his man. Baldwin requests us to inform Joo Wormald that should Mace back out of this match, Joe shall have the next chance, accord ing to his challenge, for £2OO or £5OO a side. He also in forms Marsden that if to is dissatisfied with the result o their late encounter, he can be on to play out the rubber, and Ned will stake £3OO to £2OO, and fight him in the Lon don district.—Bell's Life. Births. FORBES—On the 25th ult., at Maisons Laißite, near Paris, the wife of Colonel Forbes, C. 8., of layman, Aberdeen _ shire, of a son. HARRISON—On the 28th ult., at Kynastone, Herefordshire, the wife of Col. B. Harrison (late 11th Hussars), of a son. LLovn—Ou the 28th ult., at Kensington, the wifo of H. Lloyd, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. NUGENT—On the 28th ult., at 15, Hill- s t ree t, th e L a d y Violet Greville-Nugent, of a daughter. Marriages. • FANE COWPER—On the 29th ult., at St. James's Church, Westminster, the Hon. Julian Fane to Lady Adino Cowper, second daughter of the Countess Cowper. PATON—HENRY—On the 26th inst., at St. Matthias Church, Richmond, Surrey, Mortimer, son of W. Paton, Esq., of Armagh, to Florence, daughter of Wm. Henry, .Com mander Royal Navy, of St. Helier's, Jersey. Deaths. BEDDOME--On the 27th ult., at Canonbury, S, Peddome, Esq., aged 76. FRENCH—On the 22d ult., at Marino, Passage West, T. G. French, Esq., Admiral of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, aged 86. GOSTLING—On the 28th ult., at Folkestono, W. F. Gostling, Esq., of 8, Gloucester -square, London. HOCKINGS—On the 27th ult., at Grafton Cottage, Stroud, Robert Hocking; Esq., Major R.M. THOMPSON— On the 28th ult., at Cloudesley-square, Mr. T. F. P. Thompson, aged 43.! WILSON—On the 28th ult., at 20, Tyndale-place, Islington, James Wilson, Esq., aged 91. London : Printed and Published by WiL LIAR ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Mater. at Tun SUN Woe, No. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savv, in the County 01 Middlere24l-11vnday, Oc.eber 1, 18 ft