The Sun. — London, England, 1865-10-30 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. VALL . TTA, Oct. 23.—Her Majesty's iron screw storesbip SS apply, 2, Staff Commander C. Bowden, left port on the 18th inst. for Gibraltar and Eng land. The Assurance, 4, screw gunvessel, Com mander H. B. Woollcombe, arrived on the follow ing day Ism a Nisida (Bay of Naples). The Cossack, 20, screw corvette, Capt. R. D. White, arrived on the 20th. inst., 16 days from Beyrout ; all well on board. The Cockatrice, 2, gunboat, went round from the Marsamuscetti Harbour to the Great Har bour on the 21st inst., having completed her term of 20 days' quarantine established on arrivals from Constantinople. A Russian frigate came in from Cronstadt and Gibraltar, bound for the Piraeus of Athena. Mr. G. B. Brown, R.N., Lieut. J. Hand ley, R.N., and Mr. Knox, 4th Regiment, left on the 19th in the Brenda for London. Her Majesty's double-turretted screw corvettes Wivern, Capt. Burgoyne, V.C., and Scorpion, • Capt. Commerell, V.C., have both arrived at Spit head from Portland on the conclusion of their ex perimental Channel cruising. Both vessels having left Spithead, their orders were to make Portland roads their anchorage ground each night, and, ac cording to directions, to steam or sail out to the southward of Portland Bill, and try their powers. In accordance with these orders, the Wivern and Scorpion have been tested fully in all weathers pos sible in the Channel, under steam alone, under can vas alone, and under steam and canvas conjointly, the waist bulwarks of each ship being both lowered and raised on each trial. Under steam alone both vessels were taken into the terrible " race" of Port land during the prevalence of a very stiff gale, and were laid for some time broadside on to the seas and the tideway. Under canvas alone, and also under steam and canvas combined, the Scor pion rolled in the same proportionally less degree than the Wivern, and under all circum stances, whether under steam or sail separately or both combined, the Scorpion maintained a . speed of three-quarters of a knot per hour in excess • of the Wivern's rate of going. On or off the wind, under sail, the result was the same. On one occa- , sion, with the wind in the Channel at south, and a heavy rolling sea setting in on the English land, a cask was thrown overboard from the Scorpion and steamed round at fullspeed, withouteasing her helm or slowing her engines, and snap-shot practice was made at the cask from the 12-ton smoothbore 150- pounders in the vessel's turrets. The results were ' highly satisfactory, every shot fired being within a few feet of the cask's centre, and certain to have 1 struck an ordinary ship's cutter floating in the same position, notwithstanding the motion given to the ship by the troubled broken waters. The guns were • held in perfect control by the winch purchases, and the results were altogether beyond the warmest ex pectations of the advocates of the turret principle of mounting heavy ordnance for sea service, even with their knowledge of the extraordinary results ob tained from the trials of the Royal Sovereign. Both vessels, as a matter of course, took seas in liberally over their low decks amidships, but their lofty bows (made by their raised topgallant forecastle) kept both dry when their heads could be kept to the seas. No water at any time, however, entered their turrets. The tripod masts of the Wivern have stood most admirably throughout the trials. Indeed, there is not a sign of a crack or starting of the paint on the exterior of the tubes at any of the joints, and no severer test could possibly be applied than this. The Wivern was undoubtedly the more uncomfortable vessel and shipped by far the greater seas of the two, but it must beremembered thatherturrets are loaded with 180 tons of iron ballast for her guns, ammuni tion, and carriages (not yet ready for her), while the Scorpion carries herguns, carriages, and ammu nition, each in proper distribution. This latter cir cumstance will sufficiently account for the difference experienced in the roll of the vessels between 14 and 24 deg. The difference in the speed of the vessels, cannot be so easily accounted for. The Scorpion under all circumstances, of steam or sail together or sepa rate, has always exhibited the same superiority in this respect over the Wivern. They have always, as now, been tried under the same conditions of draught of water forward and aft, and the same supposed displacement, and the pitch and diameter of their screws (of this, however, we have no posi tive certainty) are supposed to be the same. Both vessels were built from one set of drawings, their engines were made from one set of patterns, and both were built alongside each other in Birkenhead Docks. If the difference in speed had existed only under sail, then the failure of the Wivern in that respect might have been attributed to the resistance which might possibly be supposed to be offered by the tripod masts ; but as the same difference exists under steam as under sail, the tripod masts are clearly not to blame, and the fault can only be laid to a positive difference in the form of each vessel's bottom, notwithstanding they were built from one set of drawings. This result cannot be at all sur prising if we consider that both vessels were built in a great hurry, and certainly not for her Majesty's Navy, or to meet after-trials at the hands of the Admiralty officials and professional critics. The rig of both vessels was arranged since their purchase from Messrs. Laird by the Admiralty. The Wivern's rig, with her tripods and royal yards, owing to some unnecessary complication aloft, which can be easily remedied, has been found during the recent trials to be inferior in handiness to that of the Scorpion, which has a double topsail yard and upper Cun ningham topsail. The vessels, for their tonnage, may be considered to have worked admirably under steam or sail, and to have proved themselves to be good vessels. They have most certainly not been tried in summer weather, but have been tested in every possible way during the past fortnight in all weathers, from the strongest Channel gale to the wind at a force of 7 (and the wind has never been lower during the trials), off the storm beaten Head of Portland and in the broken waters of its tideway or " race." Each vessel has been found to steer well so long as the screw was kept revolving, but with the screw at rest and under sail alone they steered "anywhere." This is naturally and reasonably enough attributed to the fact of the screws being fixed and three-bladed, two of the blades being thus always at right angles to the vessel's course. With atwo-bladed Griffiths' screw the blades could be set vertically when the vessel if under sail, and thus no depreciating effect could be produced by them upon the vessel's steering or upon her speed. The Scorpion has carried away the crossshead guide of her shafting, and will require the necessary re pairs. Both :vessels are, however, ordered into Portsmouth harbour, and will require some three week's time there to make good their alterationsand fittings for service. Both are at present exceedingly ill-ventilated, damp 'tween decks, and altogether uncomfortable to both officers and men. They were sufficiently well arranged, perhaps, byMessrs. Laird for a special purpose, but now that they belong to her Majesty's Navy some thousands of pounds must be expended upon them to make them both the ves sels they would necessarily have been had they been built and fitted for the Royal Navy. The drawings and plans for the new ironclad frigate Hercules, intended to be built at Chatham Dockyard, have been received at that establishment from the department of the Controller-General of the Navy, and are in the hands of the draughtsmen and designers of the yard, who are preparing the necessary plans for the immediate commencement of the frigate. In the meantime, large stores of plate, angle, and other kindsof iron required for the construction of the Hercules are being accumulated at Chatham Dockyard, the supplies being obtained chiefly from the establishment of Messrs. Cheney and Co., of the Old Park, Ironworks, Salop, the firm from which the greater portion of the iron re quired to be used in the construction of the fri , ate will be drawn. The broadside armour-plates which will encase the sides of the Hercules will be of the extraordinary thickness of 9 inches, or exactly double the thickness of those of the Warrior an d the Achilles, and Sin. thicker than the battery plates of the Bellerophon, the last of the ironclads con structed at Chatham. None of the armour-plates for the Hercules have yet been received at the dockyard, but it is understood they will be supplied by the firm of Messrs. Brown and Co., of the Atlas Works, Sheffield, who have succeeded in rolling the thickest plates yet produced, several hun dred tons of armour-plates 13in. in thickness having recently been manufactured by that firm for the Russian Government, to be used in covering the sea face of the works at Cronstadt. Although the Ad miralty have decided on coating our future ironclads with armour-plates 9in. in thickness, other Conti nental Powers are having constructel in this country ironclad vessels equally formidable. Within the last few weeks the Turkish Government have sent over an order for the construction of a powerful ironclad frigate, designed equally for offensive or defensive purposes. This vessel, the designs for which have, it is understood, been prepared, at the request of the Sultan, and with the permission of the Admi ralty, by Mr. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, is intended to be plated, not only along her broadside battery, but from stem to stern, with plates Bin. in thickness. Some idea of her size and tonnage may be formed when it is stated that she is intended to carry an armament of 33 of the largest guns, while her machinery, which will be of a mini mum of 1,500 horse power (nominal), will propel her through the water at a mean speed of 15 knots per hour. The Turkish Government is in treaty with the Thames Iron Shipbuilding Company for the construction of the vessel, which will embody all the structural improvements introduced in the Mino taur, Bellerophon, and others of our ironclad ships, rendering her, in fact, the most powerful ironclad vessel in the world. Some weeks will necessarily elapse before the keel of the Hercules can be laid down at Chatham, as the dock in which the frigate is intended to be built is now occupied by the armour cased wooden frigate Lord Warden, which is being plated. From the progress made in the work, how ever, a very short time only will elapse before that vessel is fit to be undocked, a considerable portion of her armour-plates, as well as her engines and ma chinery, haying been fitted. rHE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, lEEE. Railway and other Companies. NORTH LONDON (CITY BRANCH). On Saturday morning the official inspection of this company's City Branch Railway, from Broad street-buildings to Kingsland, took place in the pre sence of a number of gentlemen connected with the undertaking. Capt. Rich inspected the works on behalf of the Board of Trade. Six North London locomotives, each of which weighed about 40 tons, making together about 240 tons, were provided for the purpose of testing the strength of the bridges, while a small special train was placed at the disposal of the officials during the inspection, which occupied some time, the line being about 21 miles long. Be sides the city terminus there are two other stations— one at Old-street-road, opposite Shoreditch Church, and the other atDalston. The City Branch line forms a double junction at a point west of the Kingsland sta tion with the main line of the N orth London Railway. According to present arrangements, provided the sanction of the Board of Trade be obtained, it is in tended to formally open the new line and celebrate the event at a banquet in the city station, Liver pool-street, to-morrow (Tuesday). Singular Action for Trespass. ---~- A singular action for trespass and consequential injury was brought before a jury in the Manchester County Court on Friday. The plaintiff was Thomas Read, a butcher and farmer in West Gorton. Near to his house he had a farm, which he left in care of his father-in-law, and on this farm there stood a slaughter-house. It was the practice of the plaintiff to allow several butchers to use his slaughter-house, and he received in return certain parts of the beasts slaughtered. The defendants were two cattle dealers named James Saxton and Abraham Shaw. It was stated, on behalf of the plaintiff, that on the 25th March, Shaw's brother left a cow at the slaughter-house. On the 27th, between six and seven o'clock in the morning, he and one of Saxton's ser vants came to the slaughter-house and killed the cow. A short time afterwards the carcase of another cow was brought to the slaughter-house, and left there. A young man in charge of the place ob jected to this, on the ground that the carcase was diseased, but the men persisted in leaving it. Mr. Taylor, the meat inspector, visited the place, and subsequently the plaintiff was fined £2O for having the meat in his possession. It was alleged that after the issue of the summons Saxton promised to pay whatever penalty might be levied. Mr. Cot tingham having stated these facts, the judge (Mr. Ovens) said that the action could be main tained. If the meat was left on the plaintiff's premises by trespass, the damage to him was simply the trouble of removing it. If he was convicted of having the meat with the intention of selling it, the person leaving it was not liable in an action for the recovery of the penalty which had been paid, because the conviction was not the natural consequences of the leaving. He asked whether the parties would consent to nominal damages. Mr. R. B. B. Cobbett, for the defen dants, said the plaintiff was convicted of having bad meat on his premises with intent, and if such existed there could have been no trespass. The Judge asked Mr. Cottingham if he held that the conviction was right. Mr. Cotting ham—The only evidence on which it could have been made was that the meat was on the plaintiff's premises. The Judge said the conviction was not for simply having the meat in his place, but for its being in his custody, and did not that, he asked, mean with his knowledge. If knowledge and con sent were necessary to a proper conviction, and these were wanting, the plaintiff was wrongly con victed. If he was rightly convicted, it was to be implied that he had the meat knowingly in his custody. Mr. Cottingham said the only evidence against the plaintiff would be that the meat was found on his premises. The Judge said the conten tion against the plaintiff was, that he had been convicted of custody with knowledge, and in the face of this conviction he was not an innocent party, and could not bring this action. Mr. Cottingham said the evidence to satisfy the magistrates would be that the meat was found on the plaintiff's premises. The Judge said that would not satisfy them, and it ought not to do so. The question was not one of evidence at all, but whether, on the construction of the statute, having in possession meant knowingly and with assent. He thought that was the construction d the statute, and that the magistrates would hive no right to convict unless evidence of knowledge and assent were given. He must assume that the conviction was a proper one. Mr. Cottingham said that, granting the magistrates had satisfactory evidence, it would be a question for the court what that evi dence was. The Judge said that if the plaintiff was convicted of simply having the meat on his premises, and he could show that the defendants, knowing that it was bad, depositedit there without his assent, there would be a case. Mr. Cotting ham : That is the case which I hafe proved. The Judge : No, the conviction was not for merely having the meat on the premises. Mr. Cottingham said the evidence laid before the magistrates might be supposed to be that of the mere finding, and would draw the inference that the plaintiff had a guilty knowledge. The Judge asked whether the natural result of the defendant's leaving the diseased carcase was that the plaintiff would assent thereto, and thus become convicted. Mr. Cottingham : No, the natural result is the con viction, because the defendants by their wrongful act furnish evidence again him. The Judge said he thought there was no cise to go to the jury, and he nonsuited the plaintiff. DISPERSION OF THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STAXS. (From the New York .Any and Nary Journal.) The extraordinary spectacle of our great army of citizen soldiers, thirteen hundred thousand strong, quietly separat ing into the myriad paths of peaceful life—fairly evapo rating under the r eappearing tun of peace—has often been the subject of deserved coriment on both sides of the Atlantic. It was the story of Cineinnatus repeated in a multiplying mirror of a faces. And the fact will not lose interest by the lapse of time, as that elder hi s t or y has never yet been diminishet in glory. One great move ment of world-wide interest, however, may seem to check our admiration of the speed/ and orderly dissolution of the Union armies. It is alleged that the Fenian move ment is partly owing to the surplus belligerency of, the American soldiers, Federal or Confederate. And the opinion is hazarded not only n America and in England but even in France: in whicl latter country, however, it may be only a reflex from ac'oss the Channel. For example, the Paris Fats is disposed to consider Fenianism as one of those attempts at free soldiering which was likely to follow as an tamest fatal consequence the sudden disbanding of the Federal armies ; and the same paper avers that it is " onlya question of finding out in what part of the world the storm will burst. If not in Mexico, it will be in Ireland." The idea has the merit of being philosophical ; but we tannot regard it as accurate. In the first place, the "major" of the logic is untrue. Tho Debate declares that, " whetver powerful armies aro hastily disbanded after havini boon hastily formed, they rarely fail to leave behind then certain elements in disso lution, which foment and de?osit in the atmosphere the germs of fresh storms. It is, then, only a question of find ing out in what part of theworld the storm will burst." This conclusion, of course, oeing dependent on facts of human action, must res; upon historic examples by support. There aro Tot a few apparently cor roborative instances to be cited. Of these the most important, and, probably, that which, from being one of propinquity, and, so to speak, of experience, most influenced the opinion of the Debate—is the French Revo lution, which was so largely brought on by the return to Europe of those gallant Frenchmen who, headed by La fayette, had thrown their swords into the trembling scale of American independence. Nevertheless, the generalisa tion is too hasty. Even the example just cited was one in which a successful revolution ripened another which was already growing. It needs no Carlyle to toll us that France could not have avoided an uprising of its people. Our own revolution did not produce, but only precipitated the other. On the other band, regard the contrary ex amples. In the second chapter of his History of England, Lord Macaulay thus describes the disbanding of Cromwell's army of citizen soldiers :—" Fifty thousand men, accus tomed to the profession of arms, were at once thrown on the world ; and experience seemed to warrant the belief that this change would produce much misery and crime. But no such result followed. " In a few months there re mained not a trace indicating that the most formidable army in the world had just been absorbed into the mass of the community." And why did 'this unexpected sobriety and peace at the discharge of the army occur ? From the very composition of that army, which, according to the same writer, consisted 'of mon who, " sober, moral, dili gent, and accustomed to reflect, had been induced to take up arms, not by the pressure of want, not by the love of novelty and license, not by the arts of recruiting officers, not by religious and political zeal, mingled with the desire of distinction and promotion." Now, if human nature re mains the same, what lesson comes from this historic fact narrated by Macaulay? Could any one be cited in which the character of the army in general and the motives that stimulated them more closely resemble those of our an costors of two hundred years ago ? with so close a pa rallel, we need hardly go farther for example out of history. In a former special article, published many months since, we discussed, with greater detail, the same historic in stances. A century later an army and navy, just twice as large as Cromwell's was, discharged in England, and the same fear was expressed, and again it proved groundless. 'The Commercial Advertiser of New York some time since hap pily cited Adam Smith's commentary on this latter event, as a guide to our own future. That political economist said the discharged men "wore absorbed in the great mass of the people, and employed in a groat variety of occupa tions. No sensible disorders arose from so great a change in the situation of more than a hundred thousand men, ac customed to the use of arms, and many of them to ra p ine and plunder. The nunber of vagr ants was scarce any where sensibly increased by it, and oven the wages of labourers were not reduced by it in any occupation. As a matter of fact also the whole temper of the dis banding army has ban peaceful. None of the riots oc curred which might have been expected. Mexico lay a tempting prize for adventurers, a rich field for glory and for spoils. Our army marched ono hundred thousand strong to the very brink of the Rubicon, there pause d,.and the major part of it was faced about and marched qquietly homeward. No, wo need have little fear that the military spirit which was aroused in this country by the war is hostile either to republicanism or to tranquillity. The motive which called the volunteer army together, and the character of those who constituted that army, will suffi ciently account for its quiet dispersion. " There's a difference in time, you know, between this country and Europe," said a gentleman in New York to a newly arrived Irishman. "For instance, your friends at Cork are in bed and fast asleep by this time, while we here are enjoying ourselves in the early evening." " That's always the way," exclaimed Pat, "Ireland 'liver got jus tice yit." Fashions for &November. (From Le Follet.) It is now time to begin to speak definitely of winter fa shions, and coming first under our notice are the materials most in vogue ; poult de soie embroidered certainly is one. They are no longer the same patterns as last winter, but are now embroidered in black and white, imitating lace, forming a sort of waved band crossing over stars, wreaths or bouquets of flowers of all kinds. The pattern may be seen on blue, light brown, or violet, also upon black ; but then all the embroidery is white. These dresses need no trimming. Although many ladies have adopted the fashion of plain skirts, it must not be supposed that trimmed skirts are not well worn. Indeed we have only to call attention to the variety of very elegant passementerie, to convince them this is by no means the case. The novelty of the moment consists in placing, above the men, a wide band of passe menterie, forming also a pattern up each breadth. We have seen this in black and gold, upon a violet satin, and black and silver übon blue moire. We must still record that gold and silver are greatly in favour. Other passementerie trimmings are made in a series of rings or palm leaves interlaced, and put on in distinct ornaments upon each breadth. As to the plain skirts, they are generally scalloped round the bottom, and edged with thin cord, in which is twisted a thread of gold or silver. Linsey and knickerbocker are worn as early morning dress, and these heavy materials are made with a vest and waistcoat, or chemise russe of embroidered cachomire—the tight high body is not ad missible ; at least, only with basques, and opened in front over a waistcoat, perhaps of embroidered percale or plaited muslin. We have already mentioned double skirts as fashionable, but we must repeat the information, as every day brings fresh proof of its truth ; and when the sleeves and under skirt are different to the upper skirt and low body, it pro -duces a very stylish effect. What can be prettier than a dress of white silk, with an upper skirt and small bodice of blue, green, or cerise ? By many ladies the Princesse or Gabrielle make are preferred, as the dress, being cut in one piece, is considered to give a more graceful flow to the train, which is worn as long or longer than ever. We have been asked whether there is anything fresh in the make of sleeves. It seems there is no change what ever ; still the sleeve a coude—or small coat-sleeve.:-and certainly for the cold weather they are very suitable. However, the small fancy vestes of different shapes are likely to be much in favour. There will then be plenty of opportunity for making use of the very elegant lingerie which is now seen. We must not omit to mention that Cluny lace is much used for trimmings. The fashion of wearing a band out side tight-fitting casaques continues to be adopted ; but they should never be worn with any but those of cloth, cachemire, or plush. Several ceintures suitable for this are made of Russian leather, with jet, pearl, or steel clous and buckles. We give our list of dresses : A dress of blue taffetas, with silver threads and large white spots. Round the bottom of the skirt is placed a band of black taffetas, edged on each side with a narrow blue and silver cord. The band is carried up the back of the dress in two rows to the ceinture, which is made of the same material as the dress. On the shoulders and the bottom of the sleeves are ornaments of passementerie and taffetas. A bright green moire robe. The skirt plain ; the body made with basques, cut in tabs, trimmed round with awhite silk fringe with a heading of point de Venise galon. The front of the body is fastened by pearl buttons set in gold. A grey foulard dress, with double skirt, the under one having round it three wide insertions of guipure, put on in festoons, or rather waved. Small corslet of the same ma terial as the dress, trimmed round with narrower insertion. A bow is placed at the point behind, which hang ends, also trimmed to match. With this a white muslin, or muslin and lace, under-body is worn. A robe of green poult de soie, the trimming composed of a narrow green and black ball fringe, with a heading of beaded passementerie. Five rows of this aro placed in festoons, crossing one another round the bottom of the skirt, and a row up each seam. The body, which is a veste do chasse open, with revers in front, and with a long basque behind, is trimmed to match, and over it is worn a ceinture with a large buckle. A robe of cerise taffetas, the skirt cut on the bias, and without any plait at the waist, with a trimming of white silk Chantilly. A wreath of eglantine roses round the skirt a short distance up. The corsage of this dress is made low, with a wreath to match round the top, lessening in width at the shoulders and in the front. Ceinture fastened at the side, with an eglantine rose, with foliage hanging down over the left side of the skirt. An evening toilette of pink tulle, spotted with white and gold chenille. The bottom of the skirt is bouillonne, headed by a wreath of autumn leaves, veined with silver. The body is bouillons in front, and a wreath like that on the skirt, but of smaller dimensions, forms three points. The sleeves are short, and have branches of foliage hanging from the shoulders. A white muslin dress, suitable for a young lady, having the front of the skirt made en tablier, with rows of straw coloured ribbon and Valenciennes lace. The bottom is trimmed round with a plissé of muslin, upon which is placed a straw-coloured ribbon ; then a wide bouillonne, with a heading of Valenciennes, and the fabler , is .trimmed all round with the same edging. A low gathered body, with a band round the top, upon which are placed three rows of very narrow ribbon, edged on each side with Valenciennes. Short sleeves, formed of a single bouillonn6, with a band similar to that finishing off the top of the body. Ceintute fastened in front' by a rosette. A robe de chambre hla Muscovite. It is cut on the bias in one single piece. The material employed is cashmere, blue, violet, a mixture of gold and black, Ste., and is trimmed round with black and white terry velvet, imitat ing Astrakan. These bands of velvet form revers, collets, and are placed round the arm-hole, also down each side of the front of the skirt, which is open and cut in festoons. Buttons of stars of pearl and cable passementerie form the fastenings of this comfortable and distingude robe de chambre. It is lined through with taffetas of a shade suiting the cashmere. The chapeau Empire has triumphed over the chapeau fanchon ; and, although by no means so graceful as the latter, may be said to reign at the present moment. The principal trimmings are feathers and lace, but gold is still worn ; thus a very pretty and simple bonnet was made of tulle bouillonne, trimmed with a scarf of the same, spotted with gold, fastened at the side in two small bows in the centre of which was placed a small bird. The long ends of the scarf left floating. The inside of this bonnet was trimmed with black velvet aad gold. Another at the same house was blue crape, trimmed with patter of blue velvet forming stars, and covered with white blonde. On the crown was a small bird of golden hue. And a third of black velvet, spotted withgold, and trimmed with gold butterflies. Another very elegant bonnet was of green tulle, with an Empire curtain, trimmed with medallions of guipure. At the side a rosette of white feathers, surrounded with a quilling of velvet edged with guipure : a bandeau of green velvet and bouquet of jasmine. • A black velvet bonnet had a small curtain embroidered in a gold grecque. At the side coquilles of black lace, and a bouquet of peacock's feathers. The inside trimmed with a bandeau of velvet embroidered like the curtain, and small bouquet to match that on the outside. A black satin bonnet was almost entirely covered with a scarf of tulle bouillons, worked with chenille, fastened to the bonnet by small brooches of cameos and chains of jet, with a bouquet of velvet nasturtiums at the side. The same trimming is reproduced inside the bonnet. DEVON VALLEY. THE GALE. The gale was very strong upon the coast of Northumberland and Durham last night. It blew from the north-east, and there was a high sea. The night was pitchy dark, with blinding showers of sleet. The Ann and Mary, laden collier brig, has gone ashore at Whitburn ; and last night the Prussian bark Iduna, having broken a tow-rope attached to a tug, was stranded at Marsden, on the Durham coast. Both of the crews were saved. We have intelligence to-night that the brig Assiduous, of South Shields, has been sunk at Nieu Dieppe. Five of the crew have been landed; the rest are supposed to have been lost. Several Tyne and other north country ships have been lost on the voyage to Hol land during the past week ; in fact, the loss of col lier vessels bas been rather more than in the gales of the previous weeks. The North Shields Insurance clubs sustained considerable loss this week by the wreck of a fine ship, the Bedford, at Helsingfors. She was bound from Cronstadt for the Amoor river, and was insured in the North Shields clubs to the ex tent of £B,OOO. The weather has been fine in the north to-day. Wind N.W., with a bright frosty sky. PORTLAND, DORSET, Friday. As was anticipated on Wednesday last, the abate ment of the bad weather previously existing was but of short duration. During Wednesday night the wind retrograded from N.W. to S., the sky becom ing gradually overcast, and at midnight the wind began to increase, with fog and rain aecompanying until 10 a.m. on Thursday, when the rain ceased. The wind during the day again veered to W., and heavy squalls, with lightning and a considerable amount of rain, continued throughout the night, and indeed have continued all to-day. The Cygnus steamer, belonging to the Weymouth and Channel Islands Steanipacket Company, left Weymouth harbour at 6 a.m. to-day for Jersey, but after pro ceeding about 30 miles on her passage was obliged to return to Weymouth on account of the heavy weather she experienced. During a heavy squall about 10 a.m. the Cygnus was struck by two seas simultaneously fore and aft, which did some damage to her bulwarks, boats, and skylight, as also to the after-cabin furniture, the water pouring into the cabin in such quantities as to float a pair of boots (left on the cabin floor) belonging to one of the pas sengers on board. The captain, too, had a narrow escape from being washed overboard, and it is said the sea has not been so heavy in the Channel for a long period as it has been to-day. The Cygnus reached Weymouth harbour at 11 30 a.m., and will proceed on her voyage again to-night, if the weather moderates. Up to the present time (8 p.m.) however, there does not seem any probability of it. The barometer has again fallen rapidly, and has been lower to-day than on any day since the Ist of Feb. last, when it read at the sea level 28.90 inches, To-day it has read as low as 29.05 inches, its third minimum point this year. It is a remarkable fact that although the temperature has not attained a higher maximum than 61 deg., and the minimum is 40 deg., all the squalls which have been experienced in this locality for the last four days have been very electrical, more especially the squall in which the Cygnus was caught this morning, as stated above, when wind, lightning, and heavy thunder accompa nied it. PORTSMOUTH, Sunday Eventig. A rapid rise of the barometer on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. was followed by as rapid a fall towards sunset, and a heavy gale from the north ward, with continuous rain, through the night and this morning until past noon, when the wind veered in by S.S. W. to W.N.W. in the afternoon, when the gale moderated and the weather cleared. A number of ships ran into St. Helen's and the Mother bank for shelter, with which, during the height of the gale this morning, communication was only made by Lloyd's agents' cutter, no other vessel being afloat and under sail, owing to the violence of the weather. A schooner is reported to have struck on Betnbridge-ledge, and two small craft to have gone ashore somewhere off Hayling, but no particulars have been received. The barometer at 3 p.m. marked 29.20, and now, 6.m., has risen to 29.30, with up ward tendency. SCOLUID. On Wednesday a violent gale from the north ward visited the east coast of Scotland, being espe cially felt in the Moray Firth, and about Dunbar and Berwick ; and a number of disasters to ship ping have in consequence to be deplored. A sloop belonging to Glasgow was stranded in Cullen-bay, and, in spite of earnest attempts at rescue, her crew were drowned by the upsetting of their boat almost within reach of the distressed spectators. At Macduff a wheat-laden brig, bound for Leith, was totally lost, the crew, however, escaping to the shore ; at Dunbar a sloop came on the rocks near the harbour, and is expected to be a total wreck ; and from Fraserburgh and Eyemouth we have re ports of danger and damage to the fishing fleets in the storm.—Scotsman. While General Grant was returning from In dianopolis at an early hour, on the 27th ult., the switch at the end of the curve at Guildford had been turned, inten tionally, and the car in which the General was seated was thrown from the track and dragged some distance. No one, however, was injured. On th e same day a train on the Ohio and Mississippi nitilroad, carryi ng G enera l Sh erman, was thrown from the track east of Lawrenceburg. No one was injured. AoveirrisFmENT.] -Avoid medicines; they always aggra vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Meant _ Restoring Ucvalenta Arabica Food, which yields three times the nourishment of the best meat, saves fluty times its cost in other remedies, and invariably restores perfect digestion. strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, re freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 6 0 ,000 Cures:—Cure No. 55,z16, og . the Marchiotwss de Brehan, of sewn years' liver complain`, wasiin.; away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous pa'pitatiou all over, bad diges tion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.—Cure No. 1.771. Lord Stuart de Decies. Lord Lip ulenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. "Fitly years' indescribable aqony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipatio.i, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Jolly."—Cu' e No. 16,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley. Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gathering, low spirits, and nervous fancies. —Cure No. 54,616. The 11ev. Jas, T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpi dity ot the liver, which had resistel all medical treatment." In tins.l lb., 2s. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 516., lls. ; 1216., 228. ; 241 b. 108.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Phillips, tea dealers, S, King William-street; Ukewi e t l r at 61, G rdeeehurch-street ; 4, Chespside; 49, Bishopsgate fie Within ; 63, 130 , an d 293, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Oxford-street ; 333, Strand ; 5 Upper Baker - street ; 103 , T o tt en h am - cour t- roa d ; 96, Brothers, 6s, Hi g h Harvey, Notting-hill ; Close -street ; and Stubbs Queen's-terrace, St. John's •wcod, Lond on ; and all respectable grocers and che mists.—Beware ot spurious imitations. A special meeting was held at Rumbling-Bridge on Wednesday, for the purpose of confirming the agreement with the North British Company—Mr. H. Young in the chair. The CHAIRMAN moved that the meeting confirm the agreement by which the North British Company undertook to subscribe £60,000 to complete the line, on which they were to have a preferable dividend of 4 per cent. until the traffic on the entire line yielded a certain amount per mile, when both companies were to have an equal dividend. The motion was unanimously carried, and a vote of thanks was tendered to Mr. Adam, M.P., for his services in the negotiations with the North British SHIELDS, Saturday Night. I Company. SAFFRON WALDEN. Capt. Tyler, R.E., the Government engineer, has officially examined this line, which forms an exten sion of the Great Eastern system from Audley End to Saffron Walden. Two powerful engines of the Great Eastern were brought from Cambridge, and traversed the line from the Audley End station. At the close of the inspection Capt. Tyler expressed to the directors his general approval of the works. WIVENHOE AND BIIIGHTLINGSEA. The opening of this line will be delayed by an ex tensive slip which has taken place near a viaduct over Alresford Creek. .CAST INDIAN. The traffic receipts on this company's line-1,12G miles open—for the week ending the 10th Septem ber amounted to £8,903 for passengers, and to £17,008 for merchandise—total, £25,911 against £19,717 on 1,105 miles in the corresponding week of last year, showing an increase of £6,194, which was entirely derived from goods traffic. The traffic receipts for the week ending the 17th of September amounted, for passengers, to, £9,440, and for merchandise to £lB,9o6—total, £28,346, and for the corresponding week of 1864 to £18,546, showing an increase of £9,800, of which £9,195 was derived from the conveyance of merchandise. GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONS UMERS. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday at the London Tavern ; Mr. Alder man Dakin in the chair. Mr. Massey, the secretary, read the report, which stated that, after paying all manufacturing and other charges, there remained a balance of £20,673, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. for the half-year, with a further 6 per cent. for arrears of dividends on old shares. Afier Christmas next it was the intention of the directors to reduce the price of gas from 4s. Gd. to 4s. per 1,000 cubic feet, believing that the increased consumption would enable them to main tain the dividend of 10 per cent. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he thought every shareholder must feel satisfied with its contents. The company was in the most satisfactory condition, and there had been an increase in the receipts during the past half-year of upwards of £5,000 over the preceding six months. The directors had announced their intention to re duce the price of gas on the Ist of January next, and their efforts would be directed to making a still _ft\rther reduction. Some dissatisfaction, had existed in the City on the gas question, which had resulted in the Corporation having decided to go to Parlia ment for power to manufacture gas. He did not for one moment expect that any committee of the House of Commons would sanction any such scheme, which would involve an expenditure of £1,500,000, and the pulling-up of the pavement in the streets to lay down new pipes. If, however, Parliament did sanction any such scheme, he had no fear that they would take care that those rights guaranteed by legislative enactment would not be extinguished without adequate compensation being given. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Alderman GABRIEL seconded the resolution, which was agreed to. The dividend was then declared, and a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors closed the proceedings. OPENING OF THE LVDLTSTRIAL RESOURCES OF TIIE SOUTII. (From the New York. Herald, Oct. 9.) Every day we hear of something new in the way of re opening the trade with the South, and the development of her industrial resources. At one time a new steamship line is established, at another a railroad is rebuilt : again we hear that financial institutions, largo commercial houses, places of amusement, colleges, schools, large and handsome newspapers, aro being commenced or revived. This is all outside the agricultural development of the country, which may be said to be at present in the infancy of its new and changed existence. But the most important of the recent reopenings in the South is the revival of a line of railroad from Northern Virginia through East Tennessee to Montgomery and Mobile, Alabama. This, with the branch roads, and the connections which will soon be made with direct Northern routes, will eventually restore perfect intercourse between the North and South, and link both sections again in bonds of common interest and common destiny. Now can all sections of the country cheerfully unite in assisting to plant the South in an industrial position in the Union which she has not hither to enjoyed. Her former opulence was more the result of a monopoly she possessed in the growth of a single staple than in all her other industrial employments combined She can be aided in restoring that interest successfully, with her changed .labour system, by the introduction of white labor and white or black labor-saving machines. Her railroads and canals must be re-established, her tele graph lines rebuilt, her mineral resources developed, her cotton fields ploughed, harrowed and planted, and her population spurred to emulate the example of their Northern brethren in engaging in worthy industrial pur suits. This can be done with a little trouble, if Northern agitators would cease gabbling about abstractions, and permit the work of restoration in the South to go on with out their mischievous interference. Most of the railroad lines in the South were built by Northern capital, and many Southern tradesmen have been deeply indebted to Northern houses for goods bought prior to the war. This shows the pecuniary interest the North has had in the South. In view of these facts, a pleasing feature has been disclosed since the war ended. Not a few Northern creditors expressed doubts of the honesty of their Southern customers, and declared their apprehensions that they would never liquidatetheir claims against them. But, contrary to their expectations, they find their Southern customers coming North after the war, paying off their old debts in gold and silver, making new purchases, and leaving extensive orders for further sup plies. Ono Southern merchant brought to New York a short time ago a hugo bar of silver, the product of molting his silver plate, and sold it hero to pay off Northern debts contracted before the war. This act speaks well for the intentions of the Southern merchants to liquidate Northern claims, no matter what their ability may be. But their ability is not so meagre as some may conceive. In nearly every part of the South we hear of large quantities of cotton, tobacco, and other products coming to light which had been stored in the interior for lack of transportation or from a desire of concealment. At the same time pots and bags of gold and silver coin, and bars of bullion, are being exhumed and brought forward to help to swell the specie basis of the country. At the breaking cut of the war private parties in the South were probably as rich in precious metals as many reputed more wealthy in the ii a - til d i o t itti tl ei lat this Southern wealth has not d be N e o b e r n t t s i e -L x d h; i o t us i s t t eZ, use () u ni ld ad i e ns o p f ir it e in th p e ay la in tt g er off w o it l h d a noble impulse to help to rest ore th e S out h to h er f ormer if not a higher position in the Union than she ever before : , old. To do this, the best way to begin is to help her to volope her industrial resources. [ADTERTisEmENT.l—Holloway's Pills.—Dark and cheer less, indeed, is the present season, when the weekly deaths are far above the average. The cause is probably diff use d through the dense damp fogs which have been so prevalent of late. These pills purify the blood which has been con taminated by foul gases, and give tone to the nervous sys tem, whereby typhus, typhoid, gastric, and bilious fevers are warded off. Holloway's pills are also the best known promoters of digestion, the surest regulators of the liver, and the most valued and effective of all aperients. When the health is impaired with loss of appetite, vigour, and sleep, this medicine will bo found a certain restorative and will rarely fail to effect a complete cure. CONNECTICUT AND FREE SUFFRAGE. (From the New York Tribune, Oct. 4) Connecticut, in her election on the 2d, refused the rig h t of suffrage to the colored people within her limits. The oldest of her citizens who went to the polls may live to regret that act of short-sightedness and injustice. She has committed wrong from pure love of it, for nobody will pretend that the decision would, either one way,or the other, particularly affect the political character of the State, so far as votes are concerned. There were only, according to the last census, about 2,000 negroes in the State who would be entitled to the suffrage, and if they all voted with either party it would not change the result, presum ing parties to continue to hold the relative positions they have for a few years past. The Republicans could, if they had chosen, have given the right of suffrage to the blacks in spite of the whole Copperhead votes in the State. Not to do so was to add just so much moral strength to the Copperhead party, and to weaken their own. The act is simply one of gross injustice, which can only be accounted for by the fact that even four years of terrible war has not been enough to knead the dough out of the old pro-Slavery subserviency of Connecticut to their Southern slaveholding masters. They hated black men because slavery whipped them into it, and they haven't acquired manhood enough, even from the last four years' teaching, to have got over it. The old marks of the slave-driver's whip are as plain on the back of Connecticut to-day as thoy are on the backs of the half emancipated blacks of the South. The act makes the road before us to complete peace and the restoration of the Union more difficult. That hereto fore 2,000 men in a voting population of 75,000 were dis franchised in Connecticut, though a very base wrong and a signal outrage, was a matter of comparatively small practical importance. But that such an evil example should be followed and sustained by the moral influence of Connecticut in depriving 800,000 loyal men at the South of the right to vote is a fact the practical import ance of which cannot yet be calculated. Wrong is some times to be measured, not by the spirit that prompted it, but by the consequences that follow. Injustice to the black race has cost this nation dearly. It has dug the graves of its first-born and its bravest. If we have not yet learned to be wise, there are other lessons in store for us to make us wiser. Connecticut, like Alabama, turns her oyes backward to the old days of Slavery and Over seership, and in so doing assures Alabama that her struggle for lost doMinion is not without hope. It is a recreancy for which the price must be paid, if this act of Connecticut is not stamped with universal reprobation. The St. Louis Democrat says that a merchant left that city lately, commissioned by a half dozen firms to visit the markets of Great Britain, make purchases of bicarbo nate of soda, sal-soda, soda ash, caustic soda, Scotch pig iron and Liverpool salt, and charter a vessel to bring the same to New Orleans. Arrangements have been made for one of the steamers of the Atlantic and Mississippi Steam ship Line to receive the load of the vessel without its dis charge upon the wharf of New Orleans. it is estimated that the e )st of freight from Liverpool to St. Louis will not be greater than the cost from New York to St. Louis. The President and South Carolina. The following is a report of the interview of the dele gation from Squth Carolina with the President, in relation to certain prominent unpardoned rebels : "Judge Wardlaw, Alfred Huger, and Colonel Dawkins, of South Carolina, this afternoon had an interview by ap pointment with President Johnson. They were accom panied by W. H.Trescott, who is here on business as exe cutive agent of that State. The President, after the cus tomary preliminaries of reception, invited them to be seated, when at once the conversation commenced byJudge Wardlaw informing him that they were a delegation froni the State Convention of South Carolina, sent hither to pre sent certain memorials of that body. These memorials had been very carefully considered in the Convention, and he believed they told exactly the truth. The President inquired the object of the memorials. Judge Wardlaw informed him that one of them was in behalf of Jefferson Davis, Alexander H. Stephens, George A. Trenholm, and Governor Magrath. He said they had understood that by the late interference of the President Messrs. Stephens aLd Trenholm had already been released from close confine ment, and permitted to return to their homes. He would ask for Governor Magrath either a pardon, or that he might bo released on his parole. They could assure the President no harm could result from such an act of cle mency. _ _ "The President replied that all could not be pardoned at once. The business must be proceeded with gradually, and an effort made to execute the law. A discrimination was necessary as we went along. It was a too common expression, by way of argument in regard to clemency, that such a one had been pardoned, and that he was just as bad as another who had not been pardoned. " Judge Wardlaw replied that the delegation presented no such argument as that. " The President said sometimes the peculiar locality had much to do with pardons. Like many other things in hu man affairs, we cannot have a fixed rule. Much depends on discretion and circumstances. If we know ourselves, we want to do what is best and just, and to show a proper degree of humanity on the part of the Government. " Judge Wardlaw remarked that they had not come hither to express their own hopes and desires, but as dele gates from the South Carolina Convention, to present the memorials of that body in a formal manner. " The President. —We will, gentlemen, extend all the facilities and courtesies which the questions require. We would prefer to pardon 20 men than to refuse one. "Judge Wardlaw replied that they did not design to say anything with reference to Governor Magrath further than that they believed much good would result by the exercise of the executive clemency towards him. "Col. Dawkins said—lf we can get Governor Magrath paroled it would be a great relief to him at the present time. "Judge Wardlaw thanked the President for having re leased Messrs. Stephens and Trenholm. "The President.—We have that far, then, anticipated your memorial. " Ur. Huger said that Mr. Trenholm was one of their most useful men, and there was no doubt he would exert all his power with a view to entire harmony between the State and Government. "The President replied that he understood that was so, adding, if treason was committed there ought to be some test to determine the power of the Government to punish the crime. He was free to say that it was not a more con test between political parties or a question as to de facto Governments. Looking at the Government as we do, the laws violated and an attempt made at the life of the nation, there should be a vindication of the Government and the Constitution, even if the pardoning power were exercised thereafter. If treason has been committed it ought to be determined by the highest tribunal and the fact declared, even if clemency should come afterward. There was no malice or prejudice in carrying out that duty. "Judge Wardlaw remarked they were well aware of that. " The President, resuming, said there may be some un kind feeling on this subject, but it did not exist to any great extent,. - "Judge Wardlaw said, although not instructed by the Convention, ho was induced to ask whether Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who was now confined to Georgia, could not cross into South Carolina to see her friends. The President replied that he had received letters from Mrs. Davis, but they were not very commendable. The tone of one of them, however, was considerably improved, but the others wore not of the character becoming ono asking leniency. " Judge Wardlaw interposed by saying she was a woman of strong feeling. " The President—Yes, I suppose she is a woman of strong feeling and temper ; but there is no intention to prosecute her. There is as much magnanimity and inde pendence and nobleness of spirit in submitting as in trying to put the Government at defiance. True magnanimity takes things as they are, and when taken in the proper way I disconnect them from humiliation. Manifestations of temper and defiance do no good. "Mr. Huger remarked that they had a deep conscious ness of the truth of all the President said. "The President, resuming, observed that the character of an individual may characterise a nation, which is no thing but an aggregate of individuals ; and when a proper spirit is manifested all can act harmoniously. The man who -roes to the stake is almost dignified by his bearing ; it lifts him above humiliation. In these cases, gentlemen, we will do the best we can. While there is sympathy, there is a public judgment which must be met. But I assure you, gentlemen, no disposition exists for persecu tion or thirst for blood. "Judge Wardlaw remarked that the tone of the news papers was more favourable, and different from what it was. He then asked if the President had seen a copy of the amended Constitution of South Carolina. Of course he had seen that we accept emancipation. He felt per fectly satisfied that the person and property of the negro would be protected, and spoke of the great difficulties of regulating labour and restraining vagrancy, &c. " The President thought many of the evils would dis appear if they inaugurated the right system. Pass laws protecting the colored man in his person and property, and he can collect his debts. Ho knew how it was in the South. The questicn when first presented of putting a colored man in the witness stand made them shrug their shoulders. But the colored man's testimony was to be taken for what it was worth by those who examine him and the jury who hear it. After all, there was not so much danger as was supposed. Those coming out of slavery cannot do without work. They cannot lie down in dissi pation ; they must work. They ought to understand that liberty means simply the right to work and enjoy the pro ducts of labour, and that the laws protect them. That being done, and when we come to the period to feel that men must work or starve, the country will be prepared to receive a system applicable to both white and black— prepared to receive a system necessary to the case. A. short time time back you could not enforce the vagrant law on the black, but could on the white man. But get the public mind right and you can treat both alike. Let us get the general principles, and the details and collaterals will follow. " A conversation of some length ensued between the President and Judge Wardlaw and Mr. Trescott as to the legislation of the State necessary in reference to the con dition of the freedmen and to the scope and consequence of the Circular No. 15, and General Order No. 145, from the Adjutant-General's Department, relative to abandoned lands in South Carolina and other Southern States. The examination of these subjects, it is understood, is to be continued at another interview. " The President said—We must be practical, and come up to surrounding circumstances. "Judge Wardlavi, Colonel Dawkins, and Mr. Huger all expressed to the President their conviction that the State had accepted in good faith the result of the issue which had been made ; that the people felt that the President had stood between them and a harsh use cf the powers of the Government ; that they felt entire confidence in his purposes and actions, and hoped in return to en title themselves to his confidence as to their feelings and actions. " The President replied he was glad to hear it ; that whenever such mutual confidence existed there would, he thought, be an open road to the restoration of good feeling and a prosperous condition ; and that if he knew himself— and he thought he did—he would recommend nothing but what would advance their interests. So far from pandering or looking to future elevation, he must be believed when he said hehad not an eye single to such preferment. If, ho continued, I could be instrumental in restoring the Govern ment to its former relations, and see the people once more united and happy, I should feel that I had more than filled the measure of my ambition. If I could feel that I had con tributed to this in any degree, my heart would be mo re th an gratified, and my ambition full. "Judge Wardlaw.—Every man in South Carolina would respond to that. "Mr. Huger.—l am sure there is on their part no Punic faith. They deserve your confidence, and lam sure they will earn it. " The President expressed himself gratified with what had been said by these gentlemen. "Mr. Dawkins remarked that all South Carolina reposed confidence in the President, and that the memorials pre sented by the chairman of the delegation represented the true sentiments of the people of that State, both in regard to those whom they wished pardoned and the feeling and position of South Carolina." The particulars of this interview are almost the only subject of discussion here. Some of the Radicals are " pitching into" the President for his tenderness to the rebels. The Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER comes out strong in the New York Independent, denouncing in plain language the leniency of President JouNsoN, and hinting that tho great Republican party, who conducted the war to a successful issue, is betrayed. But the people are more than satisfied—they are delighted—and there is little doubt that Mr. JOHNSON will be supported by the nation in his grand work of reconciliation and reconstruction. Speaker COLFAX and a party of tourists have been lately visiting the Western territories. One of the party says that the trees in Washington territory are so thick and so tall that the ground in the forest could not hold them cut and corded as wood. Nearly 100,000,000 feet of prepared lum ber, masts, and spars, are exported in a year. Trees six or seven feet in diameter and 200 feet to 250 feet high are stated to be very common, and perhaps rarely out of sight in the forest ; 8 feet in diameter and 300 feet high are not at all uncommon. The builder of the telegraph line has hitched his wire in one instance to a cedar which is 14 feet in diameter. COLFAX'S party saw one fallen tree 325 feet long, and another tree at 90 feet from its root measured 7 feet in diameter. Masts are readily procurable straight as an arrow and without a knot for 100 feet, 40 inches in diameter at 30 feet from the base. A correspondent of one of the Philadelphia paper s , writing from New York, gives these items regard ing the rebel refugee officers and privates now in the city. He writes " It is astonishing to see the facility with which some of our Southern countrymen, up to their eyes and ears in the recent rebellion, are betaking themselves to occupations to which they had previously been entire strangers. A Mis sissippian, who acted as an aid to General Pemberton at the siege of Vicksburg, has opened a broker's office in Han over-street, and is out in a card to-day soliciting, especially the patronage of the New Orleans, Mobile, and Texan friends. A little further down the same street, on the other side of the way, an ex-rebel captain, who served under Ewell, is filling a subordinate clerkship in a cotton broker's counting-room. One of General Lee's staff is ne gotiating for the lease of a drinking saloon and ten-pin alley on Broadway, near Amity-street. One of Magruder's adjutants has gone into the wholesale produce business at Washington Market. In Bond-street there are at least three large boarding-houses which are kept by the widows of rebel officers who fell in battle in the Carolinas. In Eighth Avenue, near Sixteenth-street, a pardoned ex-clerk in the rebel Treasury department is selling cigars ; and within a stone's throw of his shop is a rebel naval o ffi cer , who led the memorable assault on the Harriett Lane at Galveston. In the newspaper offices, likewise, may be found sundry persons who this time last year were. firing the Southern heart, to the best of their abilities, in the journals published off in the interior of Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana." Senator Doolittle, in a speech recently delivered at Milwaukie, made the following interesting statement : "Mr. Johnson the President of the United State s, in formed me as early as 1857, after the Fremont campaign which ocurred in 1856—he informed me that in the state of Tennessee there arose an insurrection. If you remem ber, several of the slaves were taken, tried, and executed — among others, the slaves of John Bell, then a senator from that State. Mr. Johnson was then governor there. There was then such an alarm in that State that a great many persons and companies called upon him for arms. He inquired for what purpose. They said to defend them selves against insurrection. Large quantities of arms were distributed ; but when he came to examine into the facts, he found the whites were organising in large num bers, with the purpose of exterminating the whole negro race in that portion of Tennessee. He was compelled to call out the militia, and use every exertion to prevent it. " In conversation with him not long since, he said to me that while he would desire that those States, in the for mation of their constitution, should do as they d id in Louisiana—strike out all constitutional restrictions IVo n colored' suffrage, and that the Legislature should be em powered to extend, from time to time, the rights of suff rage to certain superior classes of the colored people, such as those who have performed military (service, WW I had for a long time been heads of families, and supported them by their own industry, and who had demonstrated clearly their intellectual fitness to exercise the rightom of suffrage—while he would be glad to see that coming from the States themselves, as it was a right which the State alone should grant, he was decidedly of opinion that if be, as President, in the present condition of the people there; in the present condition of the old prejudices, almost hatrea existing between the two races, were to insist that suffrage should be granted to the mass of the colored peo ple in those States a condition precedent to their being recog nised as States in the Union, it would produce actual war between the blacks and the whites. Mr. Johnson, all his life, had lived there, and has been Governor of Tennese e ,: before the rebellion, and Military Governor during rebellion, and he knows what he says." A new club has just ;gone into operation in this dtYl including, among its members, Judge Hoffmann, August Belmont, Gulian C. Vernplanck, Augustus Schell, Ma r i e° O'Connor, John Van Buren, and other magnates of the Democratic party. They are now in treaty for the men sion formerly occupied by Dr. Moffatt, in Union-Kul next door to the Everett-house, and within a few fe et ° the hall occupied by the Loyal League. Club. Tho concer n is to be called the Manhattan Club. and The Washington branches both of the Christian Sanitary Commissions closed their business on Filch—ol so t at surplus stock of the Sanitary Commission will be at auction, that of the Christian Commission has bee n turned over to the Freedmen's Bureau. The Simil ar / Commission will continue its agency for soldiers' claims* COUNTRY MARKETS LEICESTER—SATURDAY. We had a rather limit e d su pply o f w h ea t to-day. where was a healthy inquiry, and fully 2s per qr. advance realised. Barley met a fair sale, an d p rice s is per qr. Rl° money. Oath the same ; beans in request and dearer. Old white wheat, 48s to 545:; old red, 48s to 52s ; ne white 38s to 48s ; new red, 40s to 45s per 36 stone. PI; ley, Malting, 30s to 33s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 30$ per e. stone. Oats, old, 28s to 30s ; new, 20s to 24s per 24 00 1 Beans, old, 48s to 50s ; new, 40s to 42s per 38 stone. NOT TINGHAM—SATURDAy. Our corn market was hardly so well supplied with villsg‘ t * Trade was firm, and prices advanced 2 s to 3 s per qr. ofer last week. Barley in brisk request for malting at boa!! rates ; secondary little alteration. Oats at fully fano' terms. Beans advanced is per qr. ; peas as before. el/ Old white wheat, 50s to 55s ; old red, 45s to 49 s ; 11 white, 44s to 50s ; new red, 39s to 43s per 36 stone. D il f: ley, new malting, 27s to 35s per qr ; old grinding, 26 3 0s . 28s ; new, —s to —s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 27s to new, 20s to 25s ; old foreign, 22s to 27s per stone. Bed' old, 48e to 52s ; new, 40s to 43s per 38 stone. Super fiotir, 37s to 39s ; fine, 35s to 36s per 20 stone. NORWICH—SATURDAY. There was only . a moderate attendance at this mark t to-day, and.but a small supply of wheat; but all good e-; lities advanced 2s per qr. ; other sorts dull. There Wel fair supply of barley offered, and the best malting descrir tions realised rather higher ; all secondary and grin di % descriptions met a limited sale. In oats, b ea ns, and P e " little passing. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 50s:to 54s ditto (weighing 631 b to 651 b), 50s to 628 ; best nialtils barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs t i i ° (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 30s ; distilling ditto (wei,i s mg 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, $ to 39s ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 31s to Od per sack. ' YORK—SATURDAY. es The attendance was pretty fair, but the supply of Wh 0 t was somewhat limited. Sales took place readily, and pri c : o were 2s and 3s per qr. higher than last week. There if 0 . a fail- supply of barley, and business brisk, sales place at fully is per qr. over late rates. More doin4 1 0 oats, and a shade higher. Little beans showing, and pri ce ruled Gd to is per qr. advance. New white wheat, 468 to 50s • new red, 42s to 46s P et 86 stone. Barley, for malting, 28s ' to 32s per qr ; 26s to 27s per 30 stone. O a t s , new , 22 s to 24s per '24 steno; Beans, 40s to 42s per 40 stone. Malt, 58s ; rye, 28s PB qr. Flour, 33s to 34s per sack of 2801 b. CORK—FRIDAY. .a The following were the quotations this morning wheat, 8s 9d to lOs • white, 10s Od to lOs 4d ; barley, 68 8 a; to 8s Od ; oats, 6s 6dto 7s 5d ; black oats, 6s Od to 6$ 8 bore, 6s Od to 6s 6d. DUBLIN.—FRIDAY. rab We have had an excited market to-day. Home g 2 6 d small supply ; wheat is dearer. Oats Gd and b a rley is . over last day's rates. Foreign wheat advanced 6d t f o d t d Indian corn Gd dearer. For flour is to 2s advance a. by holders, but not yet paid. Oatmeal 6d per cwt. do'-". Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. 51 • Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton NO . Ditto, via Marseilles N o v, 1 1 " Brazil and Cape Verde. by British paotet ...... ..• •N° / ' 5. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Asoension, and St. Helena.. • o°-v • 21. 2 China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton...o°' ' 2 7. oo t. Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands 00t• 27' Gibraltar, via Southampton 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... 0 ° " Ditto, via Marseilles India ( m via ba siar y), visaenie Sou s thampton. 070t.v..22571; Ditto, Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseile 3 Nov. 5 . Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon... United btates and British North America, byßri tish packet NoV• Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork ..... 3 Ditto, by Canadian p ac k e t, v l a L on d on d e rry. .Nov.' West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe ..... N 0 ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahaulas, Cuba, and Mexico NOV.Oct- Bahamas, via New York. Bermuda, ditto Nov 2h " Cuba and Mexico Oct. 30. General Grant on the 9th issued orders assign illg a various white and - colored regiments to seaboard frontier garrison duty, and directing that all voluloce cavalry east of the Mississippi be mustered out of 501.T . i ce $ forthwith, and all colored troops as soon as their seal could be dispensed with. oe? Secretary M'Culloch, in a speech at Fort ga t , f e Indiana, on the 11th, declared that gold and silver„ - ia the only true measures of values ; that he had no fel t— r' a prosperity which was the effect of a depreciated 4 ,, e be rency ; considered that the Federal 'finances ought are' restored to a specie basis as speedily as possible, an t or commended that Congress should, immediately IWO sembling, authorise the funding of the legal tenderer a • all The State elections in Pennsylvania, Oho , f tho lowa, on the 10th, resulted in the complete success °f ble Republican tickets. In the former State consitt v '; o l4 doubt was felt previous to the election as to the 7.,eer, and the Democrats were confident of success. La 1 0.4 the total vote of the State was nearly 700,0 00, :, ° "Th e which the Republicans had a majority of only 11,0 00. 0 4 renewed success of the Republicans in this Stett 4 of p os sibly have some influence upon the future Po ll "' President Johnson. London : Printed and Published by WM LlA.Aria-`' vpft ' 0 1 of No. 112, Strand, Painter, at Tu SUN Oino e r ' Q uot ) Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. ill th e - Mle,diesex.—Monday, October 30, 1885. der that a di of 4 sani Yea' the fun( and the. the 4s. ! N T o th Births. COOKE.—On the 26th inst., at Hatch End Cottage, I' '' . the wife of William Cooke, Esq., of a daughter. the OROOKES.—On the 28th inst., at 20, Mornington - r ne " wife of William Crookes, F.R.S., of a son. f MAITLAND.—On the 23d inst., at Aldershot, the Wa, - ° H. Maitland, E sq ., Bth Hussars, of a son. ri IramarrAßT.—On the 23d inst ., the wife of Capt. Pr" Vansittart, of a son. Marriages. BAGGE — GILES.—On the 26th inst., at St. Mary's, wl O.- don, W. H. Ernest, eldest son of W. Bagge, Eglli ter ° of Stradsett Hall, Norfolk, to Alice, second dauq, Alfred Giles, Esq., of The Oaks, Wimbledon - P ar h . 00 4 ENGELEACH—WALSIL—OR the 28th inst., at St. gL e iba o 4 l) ' East Teignmouth, D e v on , Francis William Bub - y. Esq., of Berlin, to Catherine, second daughter of Walsh, Esq., dßichmond-hill, Surrey. Deaths. v e al „fo rti- BROWELL.—On the 27th inst., at 14, John-street, row, Charlotte, widow of the late James Brovre" aged 91. a TO CHADwick.—On the 26th inst., suddenly, at 9 ';x. 4 Phillimore-place, Kensington, Richard ChadiVw aged 52. GRIFFITH.—On the 27th i ns t., at Kingsworthn near to chester, John Griffith, E s q : ,aged 65. ,rhos' HANDFORD.— On the 28th inst at 5, Strand/ Handford, aged 68. (Jo!: OGLE.—On the 27th inst., Philippa Wallis, wife of r .,, , i 13 * Ogle, Esq., of 17, St. George's-square, South De b e Solt' RIFPIN.—On the 25th inst., at 26, Park-road, St nE ington, Mr. John Rippin, aged 55. 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