The Sun. — London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The screw sloop Rosario, 11, 673 tons, 150-horse power (unarmoured), Commander L. H. Versturme, was put out of commission and the crew paid off in the Chatham steam basin on Saturday morning, under the superintendence of Capt. W. R. Hall, superintendent of the dockyard, and the officials connected with the Chatham and Sheerness Steam Reserve. On the crew being paid off, William Flashivan, ship's cook, was awarded a silver medal and £lO by the Admiralty for long service and good conduct. During the time the Rosa rio was in commission—upwards of four years—she was at tached to the North American squadron, and was employed chiefly in the West Indies. A consider able number of the officers as well as the crew who left England in her have been invalided or trans ferred to other vessels, Commander J. S. Graham, who originally commissioned the Rosario, relinquish ing the command within a short time after she left. The crew were paid off in a very expeditious and orderly manner, the majority at once proceeding on the usual leave of absence granted by the Admiralty. The Rosario goes into the third division of the Steam Reserve, where she will await orders as to her final disposal. Before she can again be placed in commission she will require some extensive repairs to both hull and machinery. The Bristol, 31, screw frigate, Captain L. E. H. Somerset, left Spithead for Plymouth, for repairs to her machinery, which, if found not to require much detention of the ship, will give the crew an oppor tunity of having leave granted them. She was towed from Spithead clear of the Isle of Wight by the Lucifer, Government steamtug. The Boscawen, training ship for boys, Comman der Cockcroft, left Spithead on Saturday in tow of the Gladiator, Capt. D'O. D'A. Aplin, for Portland, where she is in future to be stationed, instead of Southampton water. The Surly, gunboat, has been carrying out some experiments with torpedoes in Harwich harbour. The Earnest, gunboat, has been attached as ten der to the Pembroke, 60, in the room of the Magnet gunboat, which is under repair. The Africaine, 44, one of the old class of sailing frigates, for some years past attached to the Sailing Reserve in Chatham harbour, is ordered to be handed over to the Trinity-house Corporation, for use in the lighthouse service at one of the outports. The screw frigate Leander, 39, 400-herse power, from the Pacific, is ordered to be paid off into the Steam Reserve in the Medway on the morning of the 17th inst. The work of stripping this vessel and returning her stores and War Department material into the dockyard was completed by her officers and crew on Saturday afternoon. The Leander has been in commission three years and a half. The Lords of the Admiralty have appointed Mr. Edward Swales, surgeon, to be the certified inspec tor of the Government hospital established at Sheer ness for the reception of patients under the Con tagious Diseases Prevention Act. An order has been received at Chatham garrison, from the Horse Guards, directing detachments from the Ist Division of the Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery, to be held in readiness to embark for Hongkong and Japan, in the troop-ship Golden Fleece, from Portsmouth. Yesterday Major-Gen. Walpole, K.C.8., was en gaged in the inspection of the various depots com prising the 3d battalion of Infantry, under the com mand of Col. the Hon. J. J. Bourke, in continuation of his half-yearly inspection of the troops quartered in the Chatham district. In the early part of the day Sir R. Walpole had the officers and men drawn up in front of their quarters at St. Mary's barracks, where they were inspected according to their regimental depots, and their clothing, kits, arms, accoutrements, &c., examined. The quarters, bar rack rooms, and barrack establishments were also visited, and the usual inspection made of the books, returns, and other official documents and records connected with each of the depots. In the afternoon the depots comprising the battalion, consisting of the Ist and 2d battalions of the 10th Regiment, 2d bat talion of the 14th Regiment, Ist and 2d battalions of the 22d Regiment, 34th Regiment, and 45th Re- gintent, were marched to Chatham Lines, where, under the direction of Major-Gen. Walpole, the corps were put through an extended course of ma noeuvres, with the view of testing their efficiency in battalion and other movements. Yesterday a detachment of the 24th Regiment ar rived at Liverpool from Belfast en route for Sheffield. Sir John Pakiugton and Vice-Admiral Sir Alex. Milne were engaged the greater part of yesterday at Portsmouth in inspecting the iron plated ships in the steam basin of the dockyard, the troophhips Himalaya and Urgent, the works for the contem plated extension of the dockyard, the hospital ac commodation available in the port, &c. Sir John and the gallant Admiral left Portsmouth for Lon don in the evening: Gen. Peel, who is now making an official tour in the paddle wheel steam yacht Black Eagle, Staff- Commander T. J. Whillier, is expected to call at Plymouth for the purpose of inspecting the fortifi cations there. The screw frigate Bristol, 31, 600 horse power (machinery disabled), Capt. L. E. H. Somerset, ar rived at Spithead yesterday morning from the West Coast of Africa station, where she has been doing duty as flagship to the flag officer in command, Commodore G. T. P. Hornby. The Bristol has come home for the repair of her machinery, which broke down utterly soon after her arrival out on the station from England, and is ordered to proceed to Devon port for that purpose, the present scarcity of dock accommodation at Portsmouth rendering it im possible to carry out her repairs at that port with the despatch requisite for sending her out again to her station. The Bristol sighted the Scilly Islands ten days prior to her arrival at Spithead, and since that time has been beating up against constant head winds. On Thursday, in the after part of the day, the Isle of Wight was made out to windward, and at 1 a.m. yesterday the frigate had fetched in and went about close under the Nab Light vessel. At the most critical moment the wind suddenly shifted a couple of points, and the tide at the same time taking the quarter of the frigate she fell foul of the light vessel and carried away the latter's foremast. The men on watch in the light vessel jumped overboard, but were picked up by the remainder of the crew of the vessel, who rushed out from below and lowered their boat ; all then pulled away to the Warrior Light Vessel. The Bristol anchored by the damaged lightship for the remainder of the night, and yesterday morning at daylight weighed her anchor and sailed into Spit head. The Fancy, gunboat, is ordered to do duty for the Nab Light Vessel during the time the latter is receiving repairs. ' w hich Leander, 39, 400-horse power, screw frigate, _boich recently arrived in the Medway from the "c 'tic, will be ready for paying off and being put out o f commission early in the ensuing week, the work of dismantling and stripping her being nearly completed. The crews of this frigate, as well as the Rosario, a l so on t the eve of being paid off, will place 500 seamen at the disposal of the k .t abo m d i y ra o lt f about y, after they have completed their usual leave of absence. Thq engineers, smiths, d e; alloyed overtime in the l l t a t hnoey others who have been al carriage department ofWoolwichh Arsenal, gun construction . of the first batch of the new iron and slides, urgently demanded by the Admi r r a l i a t 2e : mono of one anent of the fleet, yesterday reoeiveYa a o b r the arena week's relative pay, entitled " exertion stuns varying from 323. to t, and i n a few 'y' e " £5 each ; the total sum amounting, it is stater: about £1,200. A second batch of 70 carriage s and 50 slides, to be completed by the Ist of December, i s now on hand, the men working as formerly from 6 o'clock in the morning until 10 at night. A relief of men then take up the work, and continue through out the night, so that the machinery and hand labour are incessant. In the event of the work being com pleted according to the stipulations, a similar bonus has been conditionally promised by the War De partment. A larger number of the carriages and slides already completed, together with their cor responding guns, turned out of the gun factory and proved, were yesterday shipped for transport to the various home stations. The Lord Panmure, Mr. Spriddle, master in command, commenced shipping from the Arsenal-wharf a heavy cargo of carriages, slides, 6i-ton Woolwich guns, 68-pounders, 100- pounder Armstrongs, 40-pounders, and 20-pounders, and Palliser shot, &c., for Devonport. The Lord Raglan, Mr. Wilkins, master commander, shipped a similar cargo for Devonport, sundry stores for Cork and Dublin, and shot, &c., for Chester, whence she is ordered to embark chests of small arms for conversion to the breech-loading system, to be re turned to Woolwich. The Lord Vivian, Mr. Dy mond, master commander, hauled alongside the wharf in Woolwich Arsenal, and also commenced receiving a number of Gb-ton guns, slides, carriages, Palliser shot, and general stores for Devonport. Her Majesty's gun vessel Sylvia was yesterday commissioned at Woolwich by Commander Edward Brooker, recently commanding the surveying ves _ • sel Porcupine, tender to the flagship Fisgard. A nu►nber of officers have been also appointed, and the crew and Marines apportioned. lier destina tion is stated to be the inland seas and coasts of Japan. The works connected with the enlargement of the third dock at Chatham by the formation of a coffer dam, extending about 20ft. into the harbour, to ad mit of the construction in the dock of the ironclad turret-ship Monarch, 6, 5,100 tons, 1,100 -horse power, having been completed, after beng in hand for several months, an official inspection of the docks has been made by Major A. Clarke, Director of Admiralty engineering. Yesterday the paddlewheel steamer Adder, Mr. W. Blakey, master-commander, left Chatham, hav ing on board one of the large locomotive engines used in the extension works at St. Mary's Island, Chatham, for conveyance to Deptford dockyard. The screw sloop Rosario, 11, 150-horse power, Commander L. Versturme, from the West Indies and North American station, has been completely (lismantled, and most of her internal bulkheads and fitments removed, in the great basin, previously to being put out of commission and placed in the third division of the steam reserve in the Medway. Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge having completed his inspection of the troops and defensive works at Portsmouth, em barked at 9 a.m. yesterday on board the paddle yacht Black Eagle, Staff-Commander Whinier, and left for Portland, calling in at the Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley, and the forts and bar racks at Victoria and Hurst Castle Point. The boys' training ship Boscawen, Commander M'Leod B. Cockraft, was towed out of Portsmouth harbour to Spithead yesterday morning, on the con clusion of her repairs and refit. This morning she is ordered to Portsmouth in tow of the paddle sloop Gladiator, Capt. D'Aplin. The crew of the iron armour-plated turret ship Prince Albert, 4, Capt. A.Wilinshurst, were paid at Devonport on Wednesday, and she was put out of commission. Hereafter she will be attached to the gunnery ship Cambridge in Hamoaze, for the pur pose of turret practice for her crew. The screw steam gunboat Dapper (tender to the Britannia), from Portsmouth, arrived on Wednesday at Devonport, where she received some necessary repairs, and then returned to her station. The armour-plated screw steamship Zealous, 20, Capt. R. Dawkins, having made a satisfactory trial of her machinery on Wednesday, had her compasses adjusted on Thursday, and, after a preliminary cruise in the Channel, will be prepared to take her departure for her station in the Pacific. The paddlewheel steam-frigate Magicienne, 16, having been thoroughly repaired in Devonport dock yard, was removed, on Tuesday, to Keyham steam yard, where she is now receiving her machinery, in order to be advanced to the first division of the Steam Reserve in Hamoaze. _ The Endymion, 21, 500-horse power, Capt. C. Wake, fitted for her first commission, awaits orders from the Admiralty as to her departure from Sheer ness. The officers appointed to her have taken up their commissions and joined, and she has received her A.B.'s and ordinary seamen from the receiving ships at the respective ports. Her Royal Marines, from the Chatham division, have also joined, and the frigate is nearly ready in her equipment. ller Majesty's ship Inconstant having been sold out of the service to a merchant's firm at Liverpool in 1862, and havingbeen engaged during that inter val in conveying coals to Aden and other Eastern depots, has been purchased by Messrs. Castles and Beech, the Admiralty contractors for breaking up their ships, and for the preservation of the copper. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty : W. F. Maxwell, master and pilot, to the Sylvia ; J. S. Snell, master and pilot, to the Star ; F. J. Palmer, second master, to the Sylvia ; Dr. A. L. Archer, surg., to the Clio ; Dr. A. Ro bertson, assist.-surg., to the Vixen ; T. N. W. Cola ban, assist.-surg., to the Egmont ; Philip D. Ouless, master's assist., to the Sylvia ; and H. M. Barkly, midshipman, to the Endymion. MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN NEWS. NEW YonK, Sept. 25.—A Toronto special of yesterday says orders have been given to the whole force of the city to muster at given points on the first alarm of fir; to be accoutred with forty rounds of ball cartridges. An attempt to burn or capture the city is feared. Large quantities of military stores, including ambulances, are arriving here. The re gular troops and volunteers are continually moving hither and thither. A yacht was seized to-day, and her crew of three men arrested on suspicion of being Fenians. A small quantity of ammunition was found on hoard. An Ottawa (C.W.) despatch says Cabinet meetings of the Canadian Govern ment are being held daily in Quebec, the subject discussed being the military condition of the pro vince, the confederation, and failure of the bank of Upper Canada. Much insecurity is felt in finan cial circles. The Fenians are said to be assembling for an invasion at Highgate. Large quantities of military stores are being received at Toronto and Montreal, and sent to the western portion of the province. From IV/ ight's Circular we extract the following on the cotton crop :—" During the past week we have had a good deal of excitement in our cotton market, based upon the unfavourable accounts from the South as to the prospects of the incoming crop; prices have advanced daily, and closed firmly at the quotations annexed, showing 2,1 c. per lb. higher than on the 18th Sept. The new crop comes slowly forward ; free receipts cannot be looked for until December. Planters are busy picking, but inde pendently of this reason the feeling is very general in the South that Liverpool must advance conside rably upon the reports of bad prospects for this crop, and there is a strong disposition shown every where to hold for this anticipated advance. These views will be confirmed by the higher prices here and in Liverpool during the past few days. There are already more buyers than sellers in nearly all the Southern markets. Crop.—The reports about the crop are still unfavourable by mail dates as well as by telegraph. From Georgia the later accounts are more gloomy than any yet received. Estimates are put forth at various points, but nothing can be even guessed at until we know the date of killing frost and the state of the weather up to that period and for some weeks beyond. The weather in New Orleans continued hot and showery up to the 20th September, the latest mail date. The rains, which at the North and West have been heavy and continuous for some weeks, ceased on the 20th September, and have been succeeded by cool, dry weather. On the 21st September a special excursion train opened the extension line of the New London and Northern Railroad. The New London Northern road, as extended at present to Grout's Corner, is 101 miles in length, and by the completion of the new track, the head waters of Long Island Sound are placed in direct communication with the waters of the Ri ver St. Lawrence. The total cost of the entire road is $ 1 , 2 00,000, or $12,000 per mile, the recent extension coating the sum of $300,000. The Times has devoted four columns and a-half to a review of the " Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States," by W. J. Tenney. New York. 18GG.—The reviewer says : The book is a bulky but careful and complete digest of the events of the war in America. Though hardly worthy the name of a history —for it wants clearness and breadth of view, and an intelligent estimate of military events, aqd it shows no traces rHE SUN, LONDON, MONOAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1866. of descriptive power—it is a really useful compila tion of facts ; and though its author's opinions and sympathies are violently on the side of the North, his statements are for the most part fair, and we see no reason to doubt his statistics. As a book of re ference on the American war it is of some value to the English reader." This admission on the part of the Times to one whose sympathies are violently on the side of the North may be taken as a strong proof of the value of the work iu question. General Dix will soon take Mr. Bigelow's place as Minister from the United States in Paris. Mr. Bigelow has resided there for five years, first as Consul, afterwards as Minister. The Debats speaks of him in the following words :--" Charged to represent his country at the moment when it was still torn by civil war, subsequently mixed up in the difficult negotiations occasioned by our occu pation of Mexico, M. Bigelow has passed through difficult circumstances, and never did a diplomatic post less resemble a sinecure ; but he was better suited than most people for this difficult situation, because he combined with love of his own country an exact knowledge of ours, and sincere sympathy with France. Nevertheless, after so prolonged a stay in Europe, M. Bigelow felt a very natural desire to revisit his own country, transformed by such considerable events, and in July last he begged the President to give him a successor before the autumn should be over. That successor is now named. Genera Dix played an honourable part n the civil war, and we hope, in the interest both of France and of the United States, that he will worthily replace the excellent and really dis tinguished man who now leaves us." _ _ The Royal Mail steamship Lagos, which arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday night, brings the satis factory intelligence that the coloured teachers in charge of the missionary station at Bonny, established about twelve months ago by the Rev. Dr. Crowther, Bishop of the Niger, have been eminently successful; their main efforts have been directed to the rising generation, many of whom can already read the scriptures fluently, besides attaining other accom plishments tending towards civilisation. The steamer Thomas Bazley, belonging to the West African Trading Company, has returned to Brass River from an expedition up the Niger, and reports that the success in trade of the persons in charge of the several factories established there last year has been beyond expectation. By telegraph we learn that the three ships had arrived at Nicolajewsk (Amour) from Hamburg, with material for the construction of the Russo- American telegraph. All the material was in good condition. The following despatch was received at St. Petersburgh last Tuesday, dated Ochotsk, Sept. 27 :—" The construction of the Russo-American telegraph line is rapidly progressing. The line is being carried to Nicolajewsk simultaneously from the Russian and American sides. The erection of the telegraph poles is partly completed." official servant of the Hapsburghs, and still the accredited agent of the Rothschilds ? " Of the anti-American tone of our higher Democrati circles, and their reflex influence on the aristocratic classes of Europe, a curious proof was given by an English noble man, now the Under-Secretary of War, who, while in New York at a fashionable entertainment, deemed it no dis- courtesy to his host or the guests to wear a symbol of the Confederate flag that was at the time borne by tho pirates of the Atlantic. That behaviour on the part of one, the motto of whose order noblesse oblige, would have imperatively for bidden such an exhibition of his sympathies on any company whom ho supposed loyal to their country, may assist us to understand how much we are indebtod to lead- ing Democrats of New York, not simply for the tone of the British aristocracy and the British press, but for the ill-omened judgment of our enemies, which induced them to smile upon the inauguration of that cowardly system of piracy, whose exploits were applauded and approved when our dissolution was held to be inevitable, the merchants and statesmen of England now remember as precedents with dismay." To understand fully the position of the country, it is necessary to state the original design of the Rebel leaders. "The plan of operations I first learned from a source which I knew to be reliable about the Ist January, 1861 when South Carolina alone had as yet passed an Act of Seces - sion ; and I may properly add, in reference to an item of such curious historic interest, that its correctness was at tested a little more than a year ago by the late Lieutenant- General whose memory Europe and America unite to honour. It was at a dinner at Mr. Alfred Pell's that I related to General Scott what I had heard, precisely as I shall state it now, and that veteran soldier lis tened attentively to the recital, nodded assent to each separate item, and significantly remarked at its close: 'lt is a true bill.' I need hardly say that the opportunities of General Scott for learning accurately the designs of the rebels were unusually good, partly from the confidence with which he was treated by his old Southern friends, when they hoped to secure his adhesion to their cause, and again from his position as Commander in-Chief during the early stages of the war." The original rebel plan, whose correctness is thus attested, was as Kings and Princes by the score, gorgeous in crimson and gold, blue and silver, and many other colours. Statesmen and soldiers, philosophers and poets, savans from all na tions, and last, but not of least importance, the artisan and the labourer. In this temple will be collected the repre sentative wealth of every nation and every clime. The Rajahs of India will send specimens of their oriental splen dour, rich shawls and scarfs ; Japan and China their intri cate carvings in ivory and marvellously wrought images ; Russia will send the rare furs of the sable and the ermine ; Denmark will have her Thorwalsden to compete in sculpture. Ajl the rarest and the richest in every branch of labour will find its way to this universal show shop. What shall America, what shall the people of the other continent do ? How may they be represented with honour to themselves ? If she has shown her strength in arms, if she has astonished the world by the evidence of her self sustaining power, by her marvellous development and inherent wealth of resource in time of necessity and peril, what an opportunity is before her now to show the world that despite of the fact that millions ware in arms during that long four years of trial, although mine, blast, furnace, and factory were devoted to the manufacture of arms, ammunition, clothing, and the endless necessities of armies, she has never for one moment ceased to advance in art or the improvement of inventions and the mechanics. What can Massachusetts do? Surely the groat factories at Lowell can turn out samples of home-made goods that America need not be ashamed of. Massachusetts can send her representative men here. America is:proud of all those who maintain her honour and add to her dignity. Who would not like to see as commissioner to represent the state the loved and revered Longfellow ? Who would not welcome the presence of that noble poet amid the pro cession that marches beneath the arches of the Peace Palace ? Agassiz, the laborious philosopher, who has re fused the invitation of Emperors to leave his adopted land, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, these are men who should represent Massachusetts. What can New York do ? Can any one forget the pride which filled the hearts of every American as he heard the encomiums lavished on the Greek Slave in 1851. If lam not mistaken there is in the gallery of the Hon. Hamilton Fish, in New York, Palmer's "White Captive." That statue is a miracle of beauty ; it is a work that alone would im mortalise the artist, but Palmer and Powers can send many more that would challenge comparison with European artists. In painting there is Coles's " Voyage of Life," which I am sure the Reverend Mr. Abbott would lend. There is also his "Dream of Oneida ;" then there is Church's "Niagara," his " Heart of the Andes," and his " Icebergs ;" next Beersteidt's "Rocky Mountains," and some of Hart's lively scenes of the Hudson. In photography there is Brady, Gurney, and Frederics, whose galleries are nol, surpassed or even equalled in Europe. The deli cate shades and the sharpness of outline of the various portraits I have never seen excelled, even in Brussels. There is Brady's gallery of the battle scenes of the late war ; then the imperial-sized photographs of all the pro minent actors in that drama are well worth a study. 'Next comes invention. What nation so rich as America in the invention of labour-saving machinery. Tho works at Springfield are the admiration of every visitor, whether foreign or native. So perfect are they that fac-similes have been imported, and are now used in the Government Armoury Factories of England. Then there are sewing machines, Hoe's Printing Press, M'Cormick's Reaper, and, in fact, a catalogue of wonders that alike evince the genius of a people. EVery State has its peculiar representative of inherent wealth, its manufactories, and its commercial products. What says the greatTacific States? California ; •whose Wealth_ et 4olli: 'surpasses all the fabulous tales of Marc? Polo,:nktist send her quzirtz; ribbed with auriferons Veins. „Colorado, Neyada, and -Idaha must let the world knotV how rich tlaeYtire ln min eralS:= T heir silver mines must be represented, those. mines vehicle.' will prove so remune rative that the capitalists of Europe will wonder at their products. Let the Governors of all the States send such specimens that the mineralogists here may be astonished ; and well they may be, when they see quartz producing £2OO and £250 to the ton. The Government of tho United States should also see that the country is properly represented. First of all, the various inventions appertaining to war, are far in advance in America to tha i of any other country. The Admiralty of England are having models made of the last iron-clads for the Exhibition. Surely the formidable vessels which of late have been built for the United States navy would be worthy of modelling. Send over armour plates, too. Surely Pittsburgh would be willing to exhibit their plates beside those of Shefliild. Let us have Rod man, and Parrett, and Weir, and Dahlgreen guns ; let us have all the various class of shot and shell ; let us have the Spencer rifle—in fact, every breech-loading weapon that has been invented. Let the ship-builders send over models of their clippers and steamers, manufacturers of machinery, models of every improvement and perfect class. Let America hold her own. It is computed that two hun dred thousand people will cross the Atlantic ,next spring to be present in Paris:during the Exhibition. Every one of those visitors would at once desire to know how his coun try compared with others. All that is necessary to com mand the admiration of European visitors is for America to be active, liberal, and earnest, and to enter with her whole heart into the coining strife. A prize from the Ex hibition will bo future capital in trade, and will be a badge as priceless as the Victoria Cross or the Legion of Honour. Gresham House, London. T. RAWLINGS, F.R.G.S. follows: " After the secession of South Carolina, the other cotton States were to follow as rapidly as the machinery of seces sion by means of conventions could bo put into operation. That matter was decided and in train ; the more Northern and border States, which were still doubtful, were to be coaxed, or dragooned into the movement, as might be ne cessary, and especially Maryland. As soon as Maryland should secede, she was to pass an act rescinding the act of cession to the United States of that part of the district of Columbia which had formerly belonged to Maryland. The moment that act was passed Washington was to be seized under colour of law as belonging to the State of Maryland. The new Confederacy was to be improvised, the Constitution and laws of the United States were to be readopted as they stood, with a single ex ception, making slavery universal. The new Con federacy was to be proclaimed the United States de facto. The allegiance of the army and navy was to be claimed, and would, they believed, be yielded. Recognition by the foreign Ministers at Washington was to be de manded, and as they felt assured would be conceded, an invitation was to be extended to the Northern and Wes teru States, excepting New England, and perhaps Western N e w York,. to resume their places in the new Confederacy on -precisely the : same terms as in the old ; those invita tions, they thouglit,•would be gradnally accepted, and the new Government wi o move an.", When history ColieS.th deal with thiS'stibiet, freelrom the prejudices whir,hnow so generally blind our judgment, it will be . acknnwledged that few countries, with annals etubracinp;]a 'thousand' years, had ever to face so great a peril. The action taken by the Union League Club will then give to that body a prominent place among the bene factors of mankind. " This was the bold outline of a plan that depended for its execution on the concurrence of the Northern Democracy, and which but for the efforts of the members of the Union League Club might have been par tially successful. It was through their vigilance that Con gress and the North were with difficulty aroused to the dangers that threatened the capital, and it was owing to information conveyed to the Government by one of the most faithful and untiring of your body that the Maryland Legislature the moment it met, without waiting for a State Convention, intended to prepare an Act of Secession, and commit Maryland to the fortunes of the Rebellion, that the orders were promptly given to General M‘Clellan to arrest its members in advance of their assembly. This timely move, of the occasion for which the country has I believe never been publicly advised, checked the auda cious plan by which Washington was to have been seized under colour of law with all its muniments and archives, and a now Government de f ado proclaimed and recognised by the Foreign Ministers in a manner well calculated to demoralise and dismay the country." It was this club that nerved the Cabinet of Mr. Lincoln, that supplied the money and the credit, which enabled him to maintain the national honour. To it is due that magni ficent gathering in Union Place which accepted the chal lenge of war given at Sumter. This was the body which first unfurled the standard, and roused the nation to a sense of its condition a-id of its duties. From its energy first proceeded that spirit that spread like wild-fire through all the land. The open display of traitorous designs were overawed in New York. Treason was driven from the public marts, the churches, and drawing-rooms, and the rebels of New York were astonished to find the stars and stripes waiving from a hundred steeples, and allegiance to the Constitution solemnly enjoined as a Christian duty. But the Club did not confine its work to a mere moral influence. It had poured out its money like water—it had roused up the enthusiasm of the country—and then it proceeded to raise volunteers by thousands. While the soldiers and sailors of the nation fought their desperate foe at the front, this devoted band of loyal men guarded their rear from the more insidious enemy they had left behind. Throughout the war their energies never flagged ; and this foremost body of patriots had the happiness of carry ing out the great principles for which they contended to a result so triumphant that their name will never cease to be associated in the Union with the great contest they in augurated, and for whose success they had so devotedly con tended. Such, in a few words, is the history of this asso ciation. But John Jay does not confine his address to an outline of its career. T his is touched on more as incidents of the broad and national policyhe expounds. The pamph let is replete with striking statements of errors of policy and the means by which they were rectified, their effects in Europe, the action of European powers, and the posi tion Americans have attained in Europe, which ho will consider in a future number. Mr. Jay has supplied in his address ILater!als sufficient fur vuluutc6—statunients which we have no doubt will give rise to fierce controversy, and bring on himself all the thunders of a party he has so 'orcibly and fearlessly denounced. America at the Paris Exposition. _ --. A writer in a contemporary says ;...... Six, —Von Bismarck having finished his game of ten pins, and having made some excellent ten strikes, besides knocking some skittles out of shape and out of sight, has now, we believe, retired to some watering-place, in order to invigorate his health ; while Prussia, flushed with vic tory, and intoxicated with her marvellous advancement among the nations of the earth, wears a placid smile of contentment that is really touching. She now declares to all the small kingdoms she has conquered by the sword and absorbed by the stroke of the pen that her aim is peace, the advancement of science and art, and the solidarity of the people. Austria, having shaken off the Quadri lateral, which rested as .an incubus on her vitality, and having rid herself of the presence of the uninvited and unwelcome visitors who so familiarly explored her tobacco factories and her vineyards, now announces that her whole aim and purpose is to benefit those who are subject to her anti to recuperate her exhausted military and monetary system. Italy, ever bathed in the soft sunshine of classic memory, ever interesting in her history of marble and soul-subduing in her Eden-like fascination, is free from the Alps to the Adriatic. Venice comes back and brings the iron crown of Lombardy to adorn the brow of Italy's king. A thousand years of suffering, of tyranny, of misfortune, and long-wearing waiting, has at last culminated in an Italy that will be an entirety. The Pope is preparing to depart. The banners, vestments, and all the grand paraphernalia that have so long glittered and daz zled near the throne of the Caosars, will ere long s ymbolise only the religion of Christ, while the King shall sit on her Capatoline Hillai wielding temporal power over that land of poetry and art. Russia is engaged in advancing her internal interests, in improvements of every kind, and at this moment in pre parations for the nuptials of the heir to the throne and a lovely princess. Triumphant arches, splendid banquets, regal processions, and wondrous illuminations will be the panorama presented for the next two or three months in that mighty empire. Turkey i s suppressing revolt in Candia, and ere the lapse of a month peace, however cruel its conditions, will be an accomplished fact. England will go on in her usual peaceful way. The stroke of the hammer, the pulsation of the engine, and the roar of trade will echo from land's end to land's end. France said through her Emperor, "l'Enzpire c'est paix," and the visitor to Paris, if he will but visit the Champ do Mars, will realise the truth of these words. Nut only is a building raising its douses and roof toward the sky, and spreading its great wings over immense space, but a city is appearing as if by magic, and astonishing by its propor tions all who look upon it. Europe is at peace, and all the nations aro invited iu 1867 to Manifest their love of peace by joining in this Ex hibition, which is to inaugurate a now era of "Peace on earth and good-will towards men." Such an assemblage as will meet in Paris to inaugurate this gigantic temple, erected in honour of the useful and the beautiful, will find no parallel in history. La belle Paris, beautiful and won drously brilliant as she always is, will outdo herself, and right royal will be the welcome she will extend to the re presentatives of all the tribes of the earth. There will be Emperors in imperial purple and Empresses in matchless garments, and decked with priceless jewelled diadems, ARRIVAL OF PASSENGERS, BY THE CHINA, AT LIVERPOOL, 'OCT. 6.—Mr. H. Hart; Mr. J. Hart, Mr. A. gtraws, Mr. W. Keiffer, Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson and infant, Miss Law, Mr. T. Thompson, Mr. W. J. Wescott, Mr. Hayman, Mr B. Gunner, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Leigh, Mr. W. H. Whitin, Mr. A. F. Whitin, Misses Richardson (two), Miss F. J. M'Leod, Miss Laura Chapin, Mr. A. Henderson, Mr. R. H. Stevenson, Mr. T. C. Pitt, Mrs. Witson, Miss Proett, Mr. Charles Dix, Mr. J. A. Mitchell, Mr. M. Rigo, Mr. G. Tatham, Dr. J. Layas and wife, Mr. J. A. Echeverria, Mr. J. Warren and wife, - Miss M. L. Warren, Miss Spooner and servant, Mr. W. W. Kendall, Mr. G. Berkeley, Miss Oldershaw, Mr. W. T. Savage and wife, Mrs. Cady, Mr. E. T. Musick, Mr. Suligman, Mr. L. L. Baker, Mrs Pierce, two children, and servant ; Mr. and Mrs. D. Anglis, Mr. J. H. Hollister, Mr. E. Bellamy, Mr. J. L. Chapin, Mr. G. Haywood, Mr. Roskell, Mr. Coster, Mr. Schleghimleh, Mr. Floyd, Mr. Forester, Mr. Jackson, Mr. J. R. de Wolf, wife, and son ; Miss de Wolf, Rev. P. M‘Clean, Mr. Anderson and wife, Rev. D. Greatoreux, Miss Ridley, Mr. A. F. Osborne, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mrs. Miller and daughter, Mr. M. de Faris, Mr. Raper, Mr. James Pitts, Captain Noble, Miss Bell, and one consular passenger. BY TIIE EDINBURGH, AT LIVERPOOL, OCT. 1.-Mr. J. Pock, Miss Dunn, Mr. J. H. Pickard, Mr. J. 11. Coaters, Mr. J. B. Morris, Miss M. M'Cluskey, Mr. W. H. Wioner, and Mr. J. Ileuson. The Union League Club of New York. - ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT-JUNE 23, 1866. , The Honourable John Jay from Paris has penned this noble address to the Great Union League Club, on resign- ing the post of President, to which he had been elected a few months before. Mr. Jay, on finding that ho would be absent from New York for a more lengthened period than he expected, considered it right to resign a post whose duties he was thus unable to fulfil. The gentlemen of the club will have cause for deep regret that a name will be removed from the head of their institution, identified in the contest between freedom and slavery that for 30 years has convulsed the States—a name, too, associated with America's proudest annals, and inscribed on the greatest document to which it has ever been the good fortune of man to affix his signature. We need not tell our American readers that the author of this address is the grandson of the great American patriot. It has been the happy lot of some of these founders of families to transmit to their children not only the inheritance of a glorious name, but the same principles on which they built up their structure of renown, and the same abilities by which they accom plished the work. The pamphlet before us is a broad exposition of the policy of the Union League Club. It summarises in a few paragraphs the history of the institution. The necessities out of which it grew—the character, influence, and duties of the club, are told by a clear brain and a practised pen. In deed, to the Union League Club is due, under the blessing of Providence, the first great and decided stand taken against the Southern Rebellion. At the moment when the plans of the rebel leaders were ripe for open declaration, the North, which had slept on in a dream of confidence and peace, awoke to the fact that the country had been be trayed in the highest places and by those to whom it had confided the greatest trusts. "At length came the traitor's hour, and the blow was struck, and the Democratic Admi nistration, whose members, sworn to protect the country, held their seats and drew their pay from the Treasury of the people they were betraying, played so effectively into the hands of the rebels that on the 4th March, 1861, the work of national disintegration was far advanced ; and of the perfect Union entrusted to Mr. Buchanan by a too con fident nation he relinquished to his successor what his partisans believed and hoped would prove but the dis jointed fragments of our great republic. The Treasury empty, forts, arsenals, navy-yards surrendered, arms and ammunition stolen and dispersed, our little navy scattered and disabled, our army officers in part demoralised, and treachery lurking in every department of the Government. The world has no record of so widespread and desperate a wreck of public integrity and private honour. Insurrec tions and rebellions abound in sacred and profane history, but the treachery of our last Democratic Administration to wards the American people stands among them unapproach able in infamy. The darkest picture of the brutalising in fluences of slavery, even that drawn by Jefferson himself, have been exceeded in blackness by the conduct of those who call themselves his disciples. - Their wanton outrages on the rights and feelings of the blacks had taught them to trample with a like indifference on the rights and feel ings of their white countrymen. Denying first the claims of humanity and justice, they gradually reached the point occupied by the traitors in the Cabinet and the Senate, who discarded alike honour and shame, who retained their seats to complete their treason, and laughed to scorn their oaths to protect the American Constitution." Such was the position of the country ; but the difficul ties before the astounded people did not end here. The opportunity was the one of all others long looked and hoped for by the aristocratic classes of Europe. The col lapse of the great source whence emanated the doctrines which were confounding Toryism in the Old World was hailed with open joyby the oligarchies of Europe, and every aid the great and ruling parties could command was brought to bear in defence of this most traitorous and un justifiable uprising against the rights of man. It was a moment of desperate peril—perhaps the greatest to which the cause of freedom had ever been subjected. " The aristocratic Governments and ruling classes of Europe, and the moneyed Kings on whom they rely, had long looked with a dislike, latterly intensified by fear, upon the growing prosperity of our country, and, rightly attributing that prosperity to our national uuity they had long desired and, indeed, predicted, that our nationality would be destroyed by dissensions among ow selves. During the Rebellion it seemed as if, for the execution of their designs against the honour and integrity of the country, they had found convenient and skilful tools among the Northern Democracy to assist the rebels in their work by hampering the national power and depreciating the national credit. We have sometimes wondered at the strange belief prevalent in Europe in our demoralisation as a people, their undisguised contempt for the citizens of the North, their exaggerated ideas of the power of the South, and their confidence in our early dissolution ; but why should they not have deemed their day of triumph near when they saw prominent Democrats at Now York giving aid and comfort to the rebels at Richmond; when they learned that these same gentlemen, intreigiog against their own Government, had besought from Lord Lyon foreign intervention; when they saw the once national Democratic party betraying the country in time of war, and beheld their national committee, that formerly swore by Jefferson and Jackson, led by an eminent foreign banker, late the SPIRIT OF THE PDBLIO JOURNALS, " THE LANCET" ON SCIENTIFIC TOYS.—It is ev dent that the sports of children no longer satisfy the child. The modern five-year-old young person is so far ahead of a child who completed his -first lustrum any time in the last century that he turns with contempt from the simple toys of a generation to whom science was unknown. This change May be traced to various causes, and possibly one of the most influential is attributable to that charming little work on the science of sport which is now known to have been written by the late Dr. Paris when he was President of the College of Physicians. Science in earnest has, since he wrote, made a pro fitable business by supplying philosophy in sport. Auy scientific recluse wishing to ascertain the pro gress of society in the direction to which his own studies tend may possibly gain information from the lectures of the Royal Institution, but is just as likely to obtain what he wants by making a tour of the toy-shops. If the word " science" means that which is known, and if the term " knowledge" indicates that which is demonstrated and understood, then a child who comprehends the true story of any half-dozen of the new scientific toys would be a serious anta gonist to tackle in a discussion. It is probable, how ever, that the rising generation is content with the charming results, and inclined to fight shy of all expectations. This is lucky for pastors and masters, who might be rather bothered by close questioning, unless possessing the ingenuity of that paterfamilias who shirked the responsibility of explaining the meaning of hydrated sulphocyanide of mercury by gravely informing the inquisitive urchin that Pha raoh's serpents belonged to the venomous kind of snakes, sad therefore should be avoided. This play thing has had its day in this country, although the number sent to China and Japan is said to be enor mous. There is_ some reason to fear that boys and girls, as they grow up, may still retain the belief that toymakers invent all these new scientific play things. Content with the result, they aceord a sort of half belief to the imaginative statements which accompany the toy ; so that it is probable that there are many thousand young folks to whom it is a matter of faith that some relation exists between Pharaoh and the serpents produced by setting fire to a bit of mercurial salt, which was first diseoirered a thousand years after Pharaoh was forgotten. There are numerous mo dern toys which in reality only present in an attrac tive form results attained by abstruse scientific in vestigation—" non sine Dis animosus infans." That delicious moment of expectant observation which accompanies the moistening of one of those bits of mysterious white paper sold as magic photographs is a practical source of daily enjoyment to many children. But the beautiful picture which then comes to view conveys to them no information about the history of its appearance ; for this child's delight, this play-room toy is in reality a very complex chemical process, where the printed image is first removed by bichloride of mercury, and then revived by hyposulphite of oda. Another eminently popu lar toy just now—the " rainbow bubble" —is a passing result that was obtained in the course of certain abstruse experiments on the refraction of fluid media. It is of exquisite beauty, but its re sources as an amusement are not half developed. Thus, it is easy to blow one bubble within another by simply thrusting a fine glass tube charged with the fluid through the very material of the bubble itself, and then blowing an inside sphere. So, also, the finger, similarly moistened, may be introduced, and the bubble left to hang on a digit like one of the fruits in Aladdin's garden. Again, the in-door fireworks that are such a screaming delight to the rising generation represent years of study. The paper which, crumpled, lighted, and thrown into the air, blazes like a meteor, is but a mitigated pyroxyline ; one of the many results of the discovery of gun-cotton by Schonbein. More curious still are the little matches which throw . out beautiful star-spangles, and are known as Japanese fireworks. These are due to a composition which involves the most delicate processes of the pyrotechnic art, and has been known for nearly two centuries as " spur fire." Its perfection depended upon the extent of the trituration of the simple materials, for if the nitre was too minutely powdered the effect ceased. The Japanese have afforded the clue to the Mystery, as these matches show that it was necessary for the nitre to be, melted into a ball before the spur-like sparkles appeared. Another equally curious, but also somewhat dangerous amusement, consists of little globules appropriately named " crocodiles' tears" and " larmes de diable," which blaze when thrown into water. These of course consist of po tassium in soluble casing. It would be easy to cite a whole series of illustrations all proving the remark able ingenuity with which practical minds turn to account the researches of science, even for the con struction of toys. Rightly directed, the new stimu lus thus afforded to thought, to investigation, and to that curiosity in action which is one of the roads to knowledge, may prove of far more educational value than the dull, meaningless, and frequently abortive experiments which used to be considered vastly instructive, and particularly suited to rear the tender thought. In this work Dr. Paris was the pioneer. - _ _ - THE "EXAMINER" ON TIIE SIMLA COURT-MARTIAL. —The telegraph has brought the decision of the Simla court-martial. As yet unknown to the Bom bay forces when the last mail left, their inevitable expression of surprise and indignation has not reached us. We can easily conceive it. Sir William Mans field's young aide-de-camp has been acquitted of the grave charge of embezzlement, and of making profit out of the wine and mutton committed to his charge. But for certain hasty expressions, and especially for having refused to deliver up his sword when asked to do so, long after his'arrest, Lieut. Jervis has been dismissed the service. It was quite evident, from the passionate tone in which the Com mander-in-Chief gave his evidence, that he was prepared to avenge himself on all who thwarted him ; that the officers of the court-martial, if they gave an acquittal, could expect no promotion from William Mansfield. Some of the members of the court he even promoted during the trial, to make sure of them. And yet in ordering the aide-de-camp to be dismissed the service for one or two hasty slight acts of insubordination, they passed that sentence subject to the revision and consideration of the Commander-in-Chief. Seeking to acquit, they left Sir William Mansfield the credit of doing this. But the Commander-in-Chief in India knew no such feeling as generosity. Like Shylock, he would have his pound of flesh, and he has taken it in the shape of Lieut. Jervis's commission. There is but one opinion on the subject throughout the army and the press of India. And we should think there could be no difference of opinion at home. There is first of all the odious system of employing officers as menial servants, making use of them as stewards, butchers, and butlers, and subjecting them in the performance of these duties to the lady of the house. In an official document Sir W. Mansfield informed his aides-de-camp that they must obey Lady Mans field and take her orders in certain household ar- rangements. These things have to be stated in or der to be appreciated. The cost of the staff forms a considerable item of English military expense. It forms one of the reasons why the English army is so much more costly than any other. When this ex pense goes to provide the mutton or clothe the car riage horse of an Indian Commander-in-Chief surely it ought to be looked to. After the system comes the consideration of Sir William Mansfield's personal conduct. On this subject we shall have opportunities to reason, for the circumstances of the court-martial cannot fail to come before Parliament. ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES. A few days since a number of gentlemen met in the room of a building which now stands where once stood the East India House. A few years have wrought a great change in this locality. A " cir ciimlocation office" on the grandest scale then showed a massive portico abutting on Leadenhall ,street. No new-fangled doctrines found favour _with the oligarchy that there ruled supreme. Itself an innovation alike on commerce and government, it had been sanctioned by time, and had grown into . the. most Tory of communities. A range of hand some - offices now look down from that site on Leadenhall-street, and through their centre passes a broad flagged way penetrating to the end of the block, lined by edifices containing storeys of offices. This passage has been named after the old house— " The East India Avenue." Any person who now saunters along these buildings must be struck with the contrast between the business now and formerly transacted on this spot. His eye is caught by the names of numerous companies which figure each day in the Stock Exchange list of prices. There are many, we grieve to add, that figure in another list—the list of failed and insolent con cerns. With scarcely an exception these com panies represent to their proprietors an enormous loss—a loss in the aggregate so gigantic that its consideration almost takes one's breath away. As the lounger passes down the avenue he will see on the left hand side an entrance, about mid-way, on which handsome plates announce a nest of Assam Tea Companies, and in an apartment where one of these transacted its business the meeting we have noticed had assembled. Those who have the mis fortune to hold shares in companies are familiar with the business transacted and the mode of pro cedure. By a long table sat five or six gentlemen, and before them some eighty victims,, looking on with that stolid countenance which the Englishman can so well assume even in the midst of ruin. Here and there were exceptions—the knit brow and flash ing eye showing the indignation that boiled within. In the centre of the group at the table sat the chair man, a gentleman of high character betrayed into a false position, and trying to make the best of a very bad business. Nor was be the only mem ber of that Board more to be pitied than blamed, for there were others whom a high sense of honour alone retained at a post which had been ruinous to themselves, dangerous to their reputation, and the end of which was involved in anything but an agreeable obscurity. There are certain noble traits in the character of the English which make them a fine class to deal with when in a position of difficulty, such as that overwhelming the members of this Board. An honest sense of right • and fair play, a just appreciatiq of upright and straight forward endeavours, and a patient hearing, are the general characteristics of such assemblies. But at the Board sat one to whom this meetinglelt any thing but amiable, and this was the vendor of the estates the assembled gentlemen had the misfortune to call their property. The homely old proverb of "B anything uying a pig in a poke" was being illustrated in but a satisfactory manner. The estates which constituted the property were situated in Upper Assam, and had formed the ground-work less than two years ago of a delightful thing in prospectuses. The Arcadia there depicted was a mine of wealth. The soil was the original home of the tea plant. China had but_ borrowed from this locality the shrub which had given to that country one of the greatest and most profitable exports the world had ever seen. India was the true region for this product, and Assam was its indigenous province. A few hundreds of thousands only were required to produce a result which would revolutimaise the trade in tea. Here were estates already in profitable cultivation offered by a philanthropic proprietor to the English public, by which these brilliant results were to flow into the pockets of the enterprising individuals who knew how to avail themselves of opportunities in a con tinued stream of gold. Cases were quoted which showed that the most sanguine expectations had in other instances been already more than realised ; and here at this meeting were assembled the unfor tunates who had swallowed the bait. It is a strange fact that to a ruinous result should tend an enterprise which in reality pos sessed more than. an average capability of success. Assam is the finest tea-growing district in the world. There a fertile and unap propriated country is open, and fair means of water carriage. All that was required was an honest and truthful statement, a valuation of the estates, an estimate which accurately told the cost of supplying labour, the probabilities and the contingencies of failures in the crop, and losses by the deaths of im ported coolies. The vendors had but one object in view, and that was to extract from the purchasers the largest possible sum. When men are asked to pay down £150,000, they usually take steps to as certain what the money is given for. But a body of shareholders may be easily hoodwinked when payment is made in debentures spread over a long series of years and covered by a guarantee of a cer tified dividend. The provisions are all based on the object to secure, on easy terms, a number sufficient to absorb the shares. The calcula tions are made without any provision for a rainy day, and when the time of trial conies, the dismayed subscribers to this " Limited" Liability, find all the burden thrown on them, and then in fear and trembling they begin to inquire narrowly into the nature of their purchase, too late discovering what they ought to have discovered at first, that most of their hopes and expectations were as delusive as the mirage in the desert to a thirsty traveller. Bat the singular part of our story is that no one benefits—not even the vendor. Extremes meet—the extreme of grasping, as well as others—which ends in toppling over those who had stretched too far to bring in a great haul, as well as the victims from whom the prize is to be secured. As the vendors fall under their greedy snatch, so the shareholders sink under their heavy burden. All collapse, and none gain ; while a legitimate and fair distribution of the weight would probably enable all to tide over the difficulty, and permit a company that ought to be great and prosperous to proceed on a career which might soon lead to success. For the benefit of the vendor, we will tell a story which happened under our notice. There were two steamers proceeding from the West Indies to England. Both were fine boats in the early days of ocean navigation, but the one had struck a rock, and was proceeding home under,the convoy of the other in a leaky and damaged state. Several of the passengers preferred to remain in the par tially disabled vessel, anticipating no danger, and not seeing the damage. A hard gale sprang up when the ships wee in mid-ocean. The water gained the mastery; the fires of the injured steamer were extinguished, and when morning dawned her yr. , g••••••••. consort perceived her, a speck on the horizon, astern, and in a sinking state. The one re-. turned to aid the other, and the passengers and crew had to be transferred in a heavy sea-way. A young man not liking the prospect of losing all his goods and chattels transferred to his person his most valuable kit, and slung about him the nick nacks he treasured. Thus encumbered he got into the boat surging wildly on the' angry sea below him, and reached the ship of refuge. But a greater ordeal than the descent had yet to be encoun tered. The waves hurled the huge lifeboat against the side of the great vessel, bursting the timbers and reducing it in a few moments to a shapeless raft. Ropes by dozens were thrown to the struggling people, one of which was seized by the young man who wished to secure all. " Hold on, hold on, for GoD's sake hold on !" cried those above as inch by inch through his agonised hands slipped the saving cord. Gradually he was drawn up, but the weight of his load was more than a match for his youthful strength, and with a heavy plunge he fell into the sea. A sailor, stripped to the waist, sprang over, with the end of this rope in his hand, in the vain effort to save him. The valuables he treasured in life now proved the cause of his death : he sank under the load, and disappeared for ever beneath the raging sea, carrying with him to his ocean grave the baubles which in the vain attempt to retain he had sacrificed life and all. The moral we would draw for the benefit of the vendor from this story is, Neither weight yourself nor anybody else with a burden you cannot bear, and do not in the present emergency forget that " half a loaf is better than no bread." COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was a fair supply of wheat at market to-day, which met with buyers, at about the rates of this dal se'nnight for all goo I dry descriptions. The supply of barley was liberal, and for the finest malting qualities ex treme rates were given; secondary and inferior qualities ruled about the same as of late. Little doing in other articles. ' ' ..._ ....,_. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 56s to 58s ; old red aitto weighing 631 b), 47s to 51s ; new red ditto weighing 601 b to 631 b), 51s to 52s ; best malting barley weighing 521 b to 531 b), 42s to 46s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to 521 b), 42s to 465; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 34s to 368 ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, Ks to 39s ; peas (maple), 3° to 38s per qr. Flour, 38s Od per sack. LEICESTER— SATURDAY. We had a fair quantity of wheat, and samples came to hand in rather better condition. Business was firm, and good qualities as dear as last week. The show of barley was tolerable, and prices were rather lower than last Wei' for all but the finest samples. For oats there was a tair demand, at rather more money than heretofore. .Beans met a steady demand at remunerative rates. New white wheat, 50s to 56s ' • new red, 46s to 54s ; old , white, 54s to 608 ; old red, 50s to 58s per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 40s to 45s per qr.; grinding, 32s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ; new, 24s to 30s per , stone. Beans, old, 53s to 55s ; new, 50s to 52s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 41s ; seconds, 88s to 42s per 20 stone. YORE—SATtruDAY. There was a moderate supply of wheat at our market to-day, samples being mostly of the new crop. Of •barleY there was a pretty fair show, and prices declined about 1 5 per qr. for inferior sorts; selected lots quite as dear. Oats came to hand sparingly, and sold readily, at a slight provement on former rates. There were few samples °` beans on offer, for which the demand was firm at prices to favour of the sellers. Now white wheat, 50s to 60s ; 'new red, 44s to 52s psi 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 38s to 42s per qr. ; grinding , 34s to 35s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28s per 24 stone , Beans, new, 50s to 52s per 38 stone. Malt, 70s to 7 25 ' Flour, 38s to 42s per sack of 2801bs. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. The supply of wheat was tolerably good. Most of the samples were of this year's growth, and the quali t l and condition of the grain varied. The finest qualities were held at full rates ; inferior a heavy sale. The demand for barley was by no means brisk. There was a fair do mand for oats, and the extreme rates of last week were. realised. Beans were in small supply, and sold at priect s against the buyer. Old white wheat, 58s to 64s ; old red, 55s to 60s • Jae ' s ' white, 50s to 58s ; new red, 48s to 54s per 36 stone. 'Oll O l, old, 32s to 355; new, 24s to 30s per 24 stone. Beans, 0 , 1 „ u .' 54s to 56s ; new, 50s to 52s per 38s stone. Fine flour, au' to 42s per sack. KISSING WITHOUT PERMISSION.--A young mar" ried woman preferred a charge of assault against an Irisll - named George Brown, at the Devonport Guildhall, 011 Thursday. It appeared that the defendant went to th e house of the complainant respecting some lodgings, and while the apartments were being shown him ho had sei o ' the landlady and kissed her. The magistrate sentenced Oil to 14 days' imprisonment for the offence. The building which is to receive the great obi' bition at Paris next spring is said to be something perfectly new and original. The main structure will only be the chief among hundreds of others , constituting the Town Hall of a rural city. Th e Champs de Mars will form the World's Fair—dig; nified with villas and pavilions, in lieu of booths an d stalls. At a cost of £6 per stem for transplantation, lofty, well-grown trees are brought and planted. When spring comes parterres will bloom and fon' tains refresh them, and the lake will be filled by the artificial river, for which a rocky bed is now in po i ' gress. The Imperial Pavilion is to be surmounted with eagles in such manner as to represent an inV e rial.crown. Near this a bishop, at his own expene e t ' is constructing a model to show at how cheap a C OB , a church may be built. There is to be a Protesta a " church for the use of visitors to the Exhibition. theatre and numerous places of refreshment are also talked of. An International Club is to be establi shed O _ A —designed as a place of meeting for exhibitors ' their friends, where appointments can be inad e c i business transacted, letters received, written, al l posted, newspapers read, and dinners supplied I I first-rate caterers. The great hall of the club be 177 feet long by 100 broad. The pr incir m dining-room- will be above stairs, where covers can be laid ; there will also be •nnot o rooms for parties of 50, 20, and even 1 : 0 with partitions removable at will, as la t f salons of the Freres Provencaux. A bale e "; will run round the first floor of the club-Wli whence, and from terraces on the roof, view s W iiic be obtained of the striking busy scene. Oi l ground-floor in front, and on each side of the leries, there will be 44 good-sized shops which Nv ciab be let. The two galleries and the broad veranda; in front will serve as a shelter and a lounging Pi 3 co in wet weather. All exhibitors will Ila lre a right to belong to the Club on paymeh t dc a 100 francs for the seven months it is inte ll , by to last. Non-exhibitors must be proposea ,df two exhibitors or by the diplomatic or consila.; agents of their respective countries. The 131 00 structure is being most solidly built, even to thickening of the glass of its windows. The auol terranean part—vast circular galleries covered so d massive stonework—has engulphed millions of francs. Some, if not all, are to be kept fa il water, to be ready, in case of need from - fire. ki[ADvirrlsEibiENT.j—Holloway's Ointment and P i re c he variable temperature of most climates is always Pa nant with colds, catarrhs, tumours, and abscesses , 311 , 0 1:0 scrofulous diseases and glandular affections usually bc",olf worse at each variation. Holloway's ointment dilig',„or rubbed upon the skin as near to the affected part i's f rior• sible will be found the most safe and efficient means ° „,e( 10 mediately subduing pain and finally eradicating tbe_sPioil of future mischief from the system. Whenever the r, v, illy is chronic, constitutional, or dangerous, Holloway ;or' should be taken to quicken and increase the curative P a r ye Scurvy, skin diseases, and similar disorders disaPP,eld° fore the cleansing and healing influence of 1: 101 `„ ° iy remedies, which, for their successful employment , e'" quire moderate time and fair attention. Births. 4 , 80 4 CHARTER'S —On the 12th inst., at 28, Bruton-Si troOn Lady Margaret Charteris, of a son. PETRE —On the 11th inst., at Springfield, Chohnsfor Hon. Mrs. Henry Potre, of a son. a, 11° STOIIRTON—On the 10th inst, at Athlone, 1 01313 Hon. Mrs. E. Stourton, of a daughter. ,„ 8; 1 , 11 ; TAYLOR -On On the 10th inst., at Whitmore Cott,',,ritty) ningdale, Barks, the wife of Lieut.-Colonel C. • of a daughter. 11th inst. t , at olirist o n bo av i ie l mywooD suds —On li th a e rr l i Newington, N H o ay rt w h o ß od ri , x E to sq n,. , D of anielW ter of D. Sims, Esq and Stock Exchange ' , London. 0 f 7 .Erc) taotsdE: , par l ,', c LETTS—AsHwouni—On tho 10th inst., at tfl V 1 ;0' church, Rochdale, Charles John, second son of '-' , • oo' E-q., Clare Lodge, Sydenham, to Saxab, eldest dle of T. Ashworth, Esq., J.P., Bello Green, Rocild 3 • Dudley Villas,melmdeas Cssel?all I'll°,l:vAi i : Deaths. , br iM e ! BUTLER—On the 10th inst., at The Knowle, giugl.lo°' S. Devon, Win. E. Butler, Esq., late of Lo'Coort7 aged 52. , Goof e CARY—On the 13th inst., at Plumstead, Nall ila.. Cary, 79. il oP 3r' CUTLER aged On the 13th inst., Mr. E. Cutler,- of 81 ila ~,, L. , street, Hanover-square, aged 84. G orr, - GREETIIAM—On the 10th inst., at Brighton, ~ er, 4. Greetham, Esq., formerly of P ortsmo uth, ag ° ' . .,-tba,'_;i LATITAm—Ou the 12th inst., at Bournetnouth,.C. - Esq., only sin of Win. Latham, Esq., so u,ater, ifoli' t Mowbray, aged 23. „‘ t tbe ~ 0 , PELLEW—On the 13th inst., at Groat Chart, -ts-e n ,' r ect°' George renew, D.D , Dean of Norwich an • Yb t Chart, aged 73. • lAT I° WINE - Y -0n the 10th inst., at Atherstone, Capt. ' late of Crewe, aged 67. London : Printed and Published by WIL WA% of of No. 112, Strand, Ranter, at Tim SUN 00.43°' OwitY Strand, in the Precinct of the Sav o y , in Vie - ddlesea.— Monday, October 16, lEVA KIN Al This eel( Dublin Priz It is Pur Born°. 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