The Sun. — London, England, 1866-11-14 00:00:00

The Marriage of the Cezarewitcb. (From the Correspondent of the Times.) ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 9. Morning had scarcely dawned when the guns of Petropavlovsk, the fort on the northern bank of the river, opposite the Winter Palace, announced with iron tongues that the day of the Imperial marriage had arrived. Soon after a hurricane of clangour burst forth from the bells of the capital. Every church having five domes at the least, and a corre sponding number of bells, the air seemed to vibrate far and near with heavy harmonious sounds. To this accompaniment I went to the Winter Palace. There was great bustle and animation in the streets, yet the hundreds of carriages and cabs hurrying along with Russian speed failed to crowd the im mense squares and thoroughfares of that Imperial neighbourhood. Polite footmen opened the door, aud, many as were the guests and spectators that alighted every moment, with officious readiness at teLded to the wants and inquiries of all. Through endless halls I was conducted to the one where I was to wait for the present. The State rooms through which I passed are nearly all covered with -white stucco, and decorated with bronze ornaments of chaste and simple style. In many the Corinthian column and rectangular window prevail ; others ex hibit the less classic features of the Renaissance, and abound in twisted pillars laden with gilded foliage and curious arabesques ; but the general character of the whole is grandeur rather than pomp, and though no attempt is made to aspire to anything exquisitely artistic, the eye everywhere meets fine and symmetrical combinations of form, size, and colour. There were two throne-halls, the larger of which differed but little in general aspect from other rooms of the same size and height. The smaller, draped with red velvet, and with the throne placed in a niche in front of the glorious picture of Peter the Great, is, perhaps, the most tasteful apart ment of all I have seen. But even this seeks to im press rather by a proud plainness of style than by gorgeousness or glitter. The grand unaffected sim plicity with which the whole city is built is delibe rately repeated in the adornment of the Imperial Palace. in a long narrow passage, which deserves to be specially mentioned, many hundreds of portraits are panelled on the walls. They represent the Generals that had fought against Napoleon 1., and, with the Emperor Alexander, his victorious enemy, occupying a whole side of the gallery for himself, are an interesting illustration of a great and decisive time. Another hall, devoted to the memory of the various Field-Marshals who distinguished them selves in the same war, contains the portraits of some Russian Generals, with the " Iron Duke" and old Blucher closely associated to them. There were also pictures of battles, showing within their enor mous frames whole fields of contest. As they were looking down upon the gay and brilliant crowd now fast assembling in this as in every other of the neighbouring rooms, one could not avoid stealing a glance at the struggles that had been required to maintain the empire intact, and to secure for it that position in the world whose lustre is reflected on this present joyful day. Were I an Arabic writer, and allowed to ransack the whole kingdom of nature for metaphors, I should be tempted to assure my wondering audi ence that there is many a wood in the world which has not got so many leaves as were embroidered on the uniforms of the civil and military officers present this morning in the Winter Palace. In the more sober vocation which has brought me into this throng of Generals and Ministers, not to speak of the hun dred other grades and ranks attending Court on such a day as this, I must be contented with the less poetical remark that the lace covering their breasts and backs perfectly dazzled the eye, its golden lustre being heightened by the dark green and dark blue prevailing in the Russian uniforms. The room positively sparkled with the shine of tunics, caf tans, and dresscoats of every cut and form. The variety of official vestments was astonishing. Officers in English military coats alternated with others wearing Polish, Cossack, and Circassian dress. Ihe sons of the Don, in scarlet blouses, ap peared in friendly proximity to the descendants of the gallant men who, in the hills of the Caucasus, have so long withstood the whole might and main of the Czar. Some of these foreign mountaineers were clad in Carmoisn velvet, trimmed with sable fur and set off by red and golden facings. On the breasts as well as the backs of their blouses they had rows of folds sewed on to hold cartridges, the rest of their armament being equally distributed over both sides of their body. Two pistols behind and another in front seemed to be a favourite mode of equipment for men whose military ideas antedate the discovery of the needle-gun, and who are de sirous of making up by the number of barrels what they lack in rapidity of firing. In that corner a bevy of Generals, with refulgent epaulettes, were conversing on the event of the day; here Ministers, without any epaulettes at all, but with an intricate arrangement of boughs, leaves, and fruit on their dresses, were courteously doing the honours of the place to foreign guests. Councillors of State, Judges, and members of the Senate, the Synod, the Academy of Science, and many other scientific and admini strative Boards, might by the initiated have been recognised by the pattern of the embroidery and the number and disposition of the significant lines on their velvet collars. The more deeply versed in the science of uniform, this modern successor of heralds' lore, would have distinguished one is puzzled to think how many hundred degrees in the official hierarchy ; to me it was a heaving ocean of radiance, unintelligible in its composition, and beautifully be wildering to the eye, but affording many points of attraction for a reflective mind. This superb as semblage consisted of the men that govern Russia. As the crowd began to thicken the first ladies made their appearance. Nearly all of them were with trains exhibiting every hue clad in white si lks, and shade ; strips of coloured velvet trimming the bodies, and in many cases the skirts also, constituted the peculiar element of the " Russian dress." Another feature of the national costume prescribed for the occasion was the kakoshnik or diadem worn by all the ladies, excepting the bride. It is a semi circular band covered v ith velvet and studded with pearls and jewelry so graceful and becoming that it reflects no little credit on the taste of the peasant girls, the original devisers of this ornament. The ladies had magnificent robes, but the grand display of jewelry was reserved for the ball in the evening. Leaving the Field-Marshals hall, before the arrival of the Imperial procession, I threaded my way to the Chapel Royal. The whole suite of State apartments were similarly occupied as the one in which I had so long tarried. In some there were only ladies, in others gentlemen, all, as a matter of course, in the uniform of their various ranks and callings. Merchants, even, if they are Russian sub jects and invited to Court, are obliged to put on blue coats with standing collars, and gird clanking swords on their pacific bodies. Detachments of various troops of the Guard were drawn up here and there, and every door watched by the cuiras siers of the body guard. Gigantic men, in scarlet uniforms, with buckskins, topboots, and steel hel mets, crowned with the two-headed eagle, stood like so many mute statues in the places assigned to their care. They are the Russian Horse Guards, and though an eye accustomed to the sight of the two silent horsemen holding watch and ward in White hall may be excused for preferring the familiar to the foreign, it must be admitted that the latter too are no bad specimens of strength and elegance com bined. The Chapel Royal, in whi c h th e ceremony be performed, already swarmed with the cream was to re the aristocratic company invited. It is eacream of of moderate dimensions, in the French style of the last century. White walls, copiously studded with bronze garlands, festoons, and diminutive angel s , impart to it a courtly rath er than a. reli g i ous air. To this part of the church, destined for the con gregation, and, like all orthodox places of worship, entirely devoid of stalls and seats, there is joined a dome containing the altar. It is of con siderable height, and separated by 1:a gilded ikonostos from another dome, the interior of which is only descried through the aperture of the Royal doors. A low arched colonnade, appearing imme diately behind the Royal doors and leading into the mystical depths of the lower dome, has a peculiarly solemn effect from the grandeur and width of the adjoining portion of tie church. In the first dome, which, according t ) the orthodox architecture, is the church proper, the clergy were already in attendance. At their head was pointed out to me the Archbishop Metropolite of Novgorod and St. Petersburg, than whom there is only one greater ecclesiastic, the Archbishop of Moscow, in the empire. With him were four other bishops, old men all wearing the silver tiaras, and ample mantles of their rank. Archpriests, with uncovered heads and long flowing hair, reaching to the shoulder, stood beside them in violet cloaks ; other priests were seen stationed in the background. In a niche on the right stood the Court singers—boys and men of all ages. Close to them, in the front part of the chapel, I saw Prince Menschikoff leaning against the rail. A friendly old gentleman, with bright eyes and relaxed features, he certainly did not look like one who but 12 years ago caused a sanguinary war. Sir Andrew Buchanan, in British diplomatic uni form, with the order of the Thistle round his neck, was talking with his fellow-Ambassadors of Prussia, Austria, Denmark, and France. Lord Hamilton, Mr. Clay, the American Envoy, and M. Valuyeff, the Minister of the Interior, passed by, with others. Mr. Fane and Mr. Mitchell, of the British Embassy, stood by the side of the Danish and Prussian officers who had come to add eclat to the festivities. A Greek General, in loose jacket and Oriental gaiters, was noticeable by contrast, and French Marquises, German Grafs, and Italian Contes vied with Rus sian Princes in the profusion of Orders and the ele gance of garb. Suddenly the hum is hushed. A master of cere monies, baton in hand, has entered to announce the approach of the marriage procession. While the same message is being given to the town by the guns outside the equerries and fouriers de la tour enter the chapel. The masters of ceremonies, the chamber lain, and the various charges of the Court follow in due succession. And now the Emperor and Empress come in sight, preceded by Count Schuvaloff, the Grand Marechal. His Majesty is in the uniform of a General, and leads his Royal spouse to the Metropo lite, standing in the centre of the Church to receive them. As the aged dignitary slowly and gently - waves his cross to and fro the Emperor stoops to kiss the sign of Salvation, and to cross himself on forehead and chest with holy water. The Empress repeats the sacred rite, and places herself beside her august husband. The Crown Prince Cezarewitch is the next to enter, to kiss, bow, and cross himself in accordance with the devout forms of the Church. After him walks in Princess Dagmar, or, as she has been latterly called, the Orthodox Grand Duchess Maria Feodorowna of All the Russias. She walks in beauty. The Metropolite, who looks as though he had stepped out of the frame of some ancient picture of the church, inclines himself to the bloom ing girl as she conforms to the requirements of the national creed. Her Imperial Highness steps back to the three principal members of her family, who have already entered the sacred edifice. The four stand together, and the eyes of all present centre upon them. In them is compassed the pre sent and future of this immense empire. The Czar, tall, majestic, with the habit of command and the disposition to kindness clearly legible on his manly features, is not only the first, but also the finest man in the room. his Queen, whom siekness has not robbed of the feminine grace which clothed her younger years, is readily recognisable from the well known portraits representing the beautiful Mary of Hesse. In a white dress, with a train of gold stuff, trimmed with ermine, and a sparkling diadem on her head, her Majesty looks worthy to be a Queen. The Grand Duke, successor to the throne, is rather stout for his age, with a good share of will and reso lution stamped upon his youthful face. Like a rose growing in the shadow of an oak, Princess Dagmar stood beside him. Her lovely features were ani mated by excitement, and in her eye shone confident the hope of future happiness. On her dark locks rested a crown of priceless diamonds, graceful and light as a wreath or chaplet of flowers. A superb brooch, if a jewel covering nearly the whole upper part of the bodice can be called so, glistened on her breast. Her robe was of white moire-antique, and her train, carried by four chamberlains, of crimson velvet, trimmed with ermine. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Crown Prince of Prussia, and the Prince of Den mark entered next. Then came the younger sons of the Emperor, Princes Vladimir, Alexis, Serge, and Paul, the Grand Duke Constantine and his consort with their children, and after them the other Princes and Princesses of the blood closed the Royal part of the procession. All went through the same ceremony of kissing the cross offered them by the Metropolite, and all in turn were kissed, so it seemed to me, by the Metropolite. He bowed lovingly down to the little children, as they went up to him one after the other, and when the last of them had made the obei sance before the cross, returned with his clergy to the altar. The Imperial family and their Royal guests then likewise proceeded to the centre of the church, the remaining members of the procession, as they came in, disposing themselves in the entrance-hall. There were but few ladies in the train. • And now the service began. The clergy having ranged themselves round the altar, prayers were in toned by them, and hymns and responses chanted by the singers. The serious and measured music of the Greek Liturgy is rich in beautiful ca3ences, and 'nay, perhaps, be best described as something between the rigid austerity of the Lutheran Choral and the lighter rhythms of the Romish Church. The solos are chiefly recitatives, broken by the constant repetition on the part of the choir of the responses, " God, be gracious to as," a n d " G o d , we cry to thee. " In the more Independent parts of the choral singing soft voices of children arc effectively blended with sonorous basses. hislide family, At a certain part of the service the Cezarewitch and Emperor to a raised stepped forward from the circle of the Im perialand havingdais,joinedbeen i c n onducted ct prayersed bby f theth the Aletropooilliete(.3f w L h a o t n e: l , two younger Princes of the pair l a o ir od t ; l o approached marriageand held. arbecognised as Prince Alexis, crown o s ve p ia e t l o b e e in o fsl chueliahreatdos theof theort orthodox r ti i a tu ra a s l. , a l n i d ey se reemsen t shape and w size re o t r h the oemp such the e sing o u ffi l singular acteirneg nn cere mony ti t material, i c a o l n , t interwoveninu e d for aboutwit h 2 o silk. 'this minutes, Princes being repeatedly obliged to change their hands from weariness. Suddenly the music became softer, quicker, and more melodious. Its eloquent notes predicted the speedy consummation of the hallowed act. To this tune bride and bridegroom were led thrice round the altar by the Metropolite. Then they were prognsouinneetdhitsoeboeunintrayneannlyd twakifees. While the young Pr in c e and Princess Alexander place Ane x a c t h t a h n e g e b e o t r f o r t a . n were still receiving the congratulations of their illustrious relatives a hoaryarchoe healthpriest,lviathndsten torian voice, intoned a prayer for wel fare of the Czar, his wife, and his children. His appeal to the Deity was preferred in urgent accents, the other clergy chiming in, and with many t h i e n fi h e e c a ti d o n of s their a nd genuflections asking blessings on beloved Sovereign. A rolling Te D eum terminated the service. It was a glorious composltio family, y, n a , m a il nd jubilantly sung. At its close the Imperial having received the felicitations of the clergy, left the chapel with their Royal guests. The only differ ence to the order in which they entered was that the bridegroom and bride walked side by side. They all acknowledged the respectful salutations of the spec tators. The procession re-formed, and accompanied the Imperial personages to their private apartments. As I left the palace the first snow had fallen. Russia had assumed her national garb to welcome her future Queen. [ AD VERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills are peculiarly a d apte d f or that large class of mankind which can neither afford the time to be ill, nor the money to pay the doctor for a cure. Armed with these trim medicaments, and guided by the directions for using them, the ailing can infallibly stave off the threatening illness. The afflicted can with certainty remove his diseased condition. Exter nal or internal maladies, acute or chronic disorders, slight or dangerous ailments yield to the specific virtues one or both of these matchless preparations will gently exer cise. Tho Ointment is as innocent and benign as it is cool ing and healing; the Pills are as harmless and comforting as they are purifying and corrective, aperitive and strengthening. THE SUN, LONLON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1866 the 16th of that month he was created a K.O B. He became ten days later a Lord of the Admiralty; and on resigning that appointment was constituted May 12, 1841, Naval Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, whither he sailed with his flag in the Cornwallis, 72. As a reward for his services in China, where he superintended all the operations from the taking of Amoy in August, 1841, to the pacification of Nanking in 1842, he was nomi nated a G.C.B. Dec. 2, 1842, and raised on his re turn to England in 1844 to the dignity of Baronet. Since Feb. 27, 1845, Sir Win. Parker (he had be come a Vice-Admiral Nov. 23, 1841) has been in chief command on the Mediterranean station with his flag in the llibernia, 104. He was awarded the Good Service pension of £3OO per annum April 26, 1844 ; and appointed Dec. 19, 1846, First and Principal Aide-de-Camp to the Queen." By the death of Sir Win. Parker, Vice-Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley, the present Naval Commander in-Chief at Portsmouth, becomes a full Admiral from Vice, Rear-Admiral the Hon. Joseph Denman becomes a Vice-Admiral, and Capt. Astley Cooper Key, C. 8., the Director-General of Naval Ord nance, takes promotion to Rear -Admiral's rank, and Capt. Sir R. J. Le Mesurier M'Clure, K.C.8., becomes senior Capt. on the list. The following appointments were made on Mon day at the Admiralty :—Sub-Lieut. Count F. C. Metaxa, to the Reindeer ; J. St. J. Wagstaffe, pay master, to the Urgent; S. S. L. Needham, assist.- paymaster, additional, to the Bristol; C. Warren, clerk, to the Bristol; G. Johnston, assist.-clerk, additional, to the Bristol. The following appointments were also made yes terday at the Admiralty :—Capt. J. Edye, to the Satellite, vice Capt. Purvis ; Sub-Lieut. E. Festing, to the Hector; C. Serjeant, chief engineer to the Fisgard, for charge of the engines of the Crocodile ; E. Newman, chief engineer, to the Urgent ; N. Far rant, chief engineer, to the Sparrowhawk, with seniority of April 21, 1866; A. Nettleton, paymaster, to the Mutine, with seniority of March 5,1866 ; W. Morgan, paymaster, to the Victory ; and G. Smith, naval cadet, to the Victoria. Major-General Dix's Address to the 7th New York National Guard. On the 31st January last the 7th Regiment Na tional Guard, State of New York, gave a grand reception to its members who had served in the army and navy of the United States during the great Rebellion. The proceedings were opened by an address from General Dix, who was in.troduced to the assembled guests by Colonel Clarke. Al though several months have elapsed since the occa sion, the address is now of more than usual interest, as both the officer who delivered it and the men to whom it was addressed are likely soon to be among us. Major-General John A. Dix has been appointed United States Minister to Paris, and it is probable that he will be installed in office, and will welcome to Paris his old companions in arms, the 7th, on their approaching visit to that city. The peculiarity of the circumstances under which he was addressing the Regiment was, that though there was a crowd of officers who had won distinction in the battle fields of the United States during the late war, it was not under the banners of the 7th that they had been brought into contact with the enemy, but in the ranks of the 7th they had received their military training. It was not that the regiment as a unit of the United States military organisation had won renown in the field, but that it was the school from whence had been taken the assembled officers, many of whom had gained high distinction in the contest. " Giving you all the praise," said the General, " which is most eminently your due for your promptitude, your patriotic spirit, aßcl your alacrity on all occasions in accepting and courting military service, yet the crowning distinction of your regi ment is in the large number of officers which you have furnished for other prganisations. I hold in my hand a roll of 557 of your members, who received commissions in the army, the navy, or the volunteer service. Nine-tenths of the number were serving with the regiment when the war broke out. Three rose to the rank of major-general, nineteen to the rank of brigadier general, twenty-nine to the rank of colonel, and forty-six to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Many whose names are on this roll of honour arc sleeping in soldiers' graves. Others are moving about with mutilated limbs and with frames scarred by honour able wounds, the silent but expressive memorials of faithful and heroic service. For years be fore the war you devoted yourselves with an assiduity and a zeal worthy of all commendation to martial exercises, and I believe I may safely say that there was scarcely a man in your ranks who was not capable of leading other men—of commanding a platoon, a company, a battalion, or a regiment. And the gra tifying result is, that under nearly every battle-flag which the State of New York unfurled fon had an honoured representative. The historian Justin, in his account of the preparations of Alexander the Great for his Asiatic expedition, says that some of the corps he organised were so well disciplined that one would have considered them not so much sol diers as the chosen leaders of soldiers : ' Non tam milites quam magistros militia] electos putares. You have fairly earned the same praise, and are justly entitled to the honourable appellation of militia magistri—the leaders of soldiers ! Ido not know so striking an illustration of the truth of a maxim which is usually considered of modern origin, but which is as old as the Augustan era, when it was proclaimed by the most graceful of the poets of imperial Rome, in that pure Latinity for which he was so distinguished— In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea belle ;' which may be literally interpreted, In peace, if you are wise, you will prepare for war.' To have fur nished the most remarkable proof of the profound wisdom of this ancient maxim is a distinction to be remembered with gratitude by your fellow-citi zens, and to be cherished with a manly pride by yourselves." The people of England will be astonished at the fact stated by General Dix. But when they under stand the constitution of the 7th they will see how natural the circumstance waA. It is probable that there is no other Regiment, either in the United States or in any other country, whose members, from the colonel to the drummer-boy, hold a higher social position than the 7th New York. The privates of the 7th arc the gentlemen who, in England, Aus tria, Russia, and Prussia would be selected for com missions, and when their services were required for actual war, the Government availed itself of the opportunity of officering other organisations from the material in this, ready to its hand. It would have been a waste to use up men of such quality as private soldiers, while the war languished, and failed for want of leaders. When the contest opened the Northern Government could command men, but it could not manufacture at once officers fit to lead them, and to have sent the 7th into action as a regiment would have been a foolish waste of its resources. Although the 7th was used mainly as a training school to supply the army with offi cers, whenever the emergency arose the regiment as a body was brought up to the ,scene of danger. Thus, as the General said—" At the outbreak of the rebellion, when the Sixth Massac h use tts Regi ment was attacked at Baltimore, a nd the deepest concern was felt for the safety of the capital, you were among the first to hurry to the scene of action. A gentleman high in position at Washington gave me, two or three years ago, an account of the con dition of things there at the time of 3 'our arrival. Open communication with the North ha‘d been en tirely suspended ; railroad travel and ti to transpor tation of the mails through the State of M:lryland had been broken up by force ; and no intelligence could be obtained from the loyal portions of the Union except through secret messengers and couriel rs, whose journeys were always performed with difficulty, and sometimes not without absolute dange •r. At this juncture, when all was uncertainty and doubt, when each revolving hour came freighted with some new burden of anxiety or peril, a column_ of anned men, with bayonets glittering in the sunlight, was seen entering the Pennsylvania Avenue, near the Capitol ; and the feeling of relief and secttrity was unspeakable when the welcome intelligence spread throughout the city, as if by some magnetic infl Luence, that the Seventh New York had cope to voppose STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER, Nov. 13.—The market opened to day with an unusually dull and depressed feeling, and an article quoted from the United States Econo mist of October 27, pointing out the desirableness of the recently-inaugurated short-time movement here in presence of a supply of cotton which is barely enough to sustain cotton goods at the present high prices, has created a strong impression. The writer points out that after an exhaustive war in the States, the depression of trade in England from the severe panic, the great depression in Germany from a san guinary war, the presence of famine in India, and the threatened civil convulsion in Turkey, it appears to be an unwarrantable assumption to suppose that consumers can be found to take the former supply of cotton goods (if our out-turn does not exceed that) at an advance of 150 per cent in price. These or similar consideration have, at all events, dealt a heavy blow at prices to-day. Shipping yarns are very quiet, and for all descriptions of them, to make sales, lower prices have had to be taken. There have been some very large offers, involving consider able quantities for shipping, but at prices to low for acceptance. Still in almost every case where offers have been taken it has been at a reduced price, even on the decline of last week. Home-trade yarns have also been very flat, and prices are still tending in favour of buyers. In the cloth-market this may be registered as one of the worst days we have had this year. Notwithstanding the extensive adoption of short time to restrict production, both in spinning and weaving, sellers have been obliged to consent to considerable reductions in price. The feeling almost amounts to panic, and people compelled to sell have accepted very low rates. There is a very uneasy and anxious feeling in the market, and there seems to be a want of confidence both among sellers and buyers. Buyers who had large offers in the market at a de cline on the then current rates have now withdrawn, and are again disposed cautiously to wait and see the turn of events. Messrs. John Slagg and Co. report of to-day's cloth-market : " During the whole of the past week prices have been slowly giving way, and buyers appear determined to keep out of the market. There is consequently a strong pressure to realise on the part of manufacturers, but very unremu nerative offers are made, and on the whole the market closes in a more gloomy state than we have experienced for a considerable time. LEEDS, 13th.—The attendance of buyers in the cloth halls this morning has been about the same as last week, but they purchased carefully, and the ag gregate amount of business done was not a full ave rage. Tweeds continue to hold their place as the most saleable fabrics, and of these a good bulk changed hands, or were ordered for early delivery. There is no change in either the price or the demand for either ordinary plain or heavy goods, in both of which only a small amount of business was done. The flax trade is rather quiet, but the mills are run ning full time. Clothing wools are steady in price, unless it be for some of the coarser kinds, which are a shade lower. ROCHDALE, 12th.—The weather, keeping open and mild, causes the heavy flannel trade to remain rather dull, and the buyers in the market to-day, as for some time past, purchased light and medium goods, including a large portion of fancy flannels and printers, more freely than they did the heavier and coarser qualities. Manufacturers keep tolerably well employed, and the stock of goods on hand are not in excess of what is usual at this period of the year. At the same time there is a feeling of quietness in the trade generally that is rather depressing. York shire goods sold to about the same extent as last week, and the same may be said as to wool. Prices of the latter, in common with those of flannels and Yorkshire goods, are nominally the same as last week, and in some instances a little concession in price has been made to-day for both goods and wool. Naval and Military Intelligence. Her Majesty's screw troopship Urgent, Capt. S. 11. Henderson, was yesterday placed in No.ll dock (the Minotaur dock) at Portsmouth, to have her hull below the water line coated with anti-fouling composition, &c. The docking of this ship afforded an excellent opportunity for further testing the ca pabilities of the centrifugal pump which has been erected at the head of the dock as its water supply and discharge power, by MQssrs. Easton and Amos, London. 'A notice of the trials to which this pump has been subjected by the officials of Portsmouth Book} and appeared in The Sun of Monday. The successful results of those trials were fully confirmed in pumping the water from No. 11 Dock, after the admission of the Urgent yesterday morning, the dis charge of the water from the dock being in fact so rapid that the pump was stopped on three occasions to give the shipwrights and labourers sufficient time to shore up the vessel securely in position on the blocks. It is somewhat surprising that so simple yet efficient a principle was not introduced into the dock system of Portsmouth dockyard--a yard that has always been notoriously deficient in dock ac commodation. Rear-Admiral A. C. Key, C. 8., the Director- General of Naval Ordnance, was engaged yesterday at Portsmouth dockyard on matters connected with the armament of the iron frigate Bellerophon. Capt. A. W. A. Hood, late of the Pylades, has entered upon his duties as Governor of the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth and Captain of her Majesty's gunnery ship Excellent. We have to record the death of the senior officer of the Royal Navy, Admiral of the Fleet Sir William Parker, G.C.8., first and principal naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, which took place on Monday. The following statements regarding the service of the deceased are taken from O'Byrne's " Naval Biography :"-" He entered the navy March 5, 1793, as captain's servant, on board the Orion, 74, Capt. John T. Duckworth, in which ship he served in the West Indies. On May 6 and June 24, 1798, he was successively nominated Act ing-Lieut., on the Jamaica station, of the Magici enne frigate, and Queen, 98, flagship of Sir Hyde Parker, by whom, from April 29, 1799, until the re ceipt of his first Admiralty commission, bearing date Sept. 5 in the same year, he was intrusted with the command of the Volage, 22, and of the Ama ranthe and Pelican sloops. Attaining the rank of Commander Oct. 10, 1799, Capt. Parker, after in termediately commanding theAbergavenny, 54, was appointed, Nov. 11 following, to the Stork, 18, in which vessel, employed in the West Indies, North Sea, and Channel, he made prize of La Legere, French packet, of 14 guns and 50 men, laden with a valuable cargo, and contributed, in company with La Constance, 24, Capt. Z. Mudge, to the capture of El Canfara, Spanish privateer of 22 guns and 110 men, and of her consort, a lugger mounting 10 guns. On the occasion of his promotion to post rank, Oct. 9, 1801, Capt. Parker was appointed to L'Oiseau, 3 lwn 6 i t ; th a h n Fa.o d tr as N hn ic o pe, , Nov ship . ahte I, t sholeBco commencement distinguishedmh eenjoinedcem himselft en h o e f Amazon, n late se v 38. vr aa rl ee r e nc h particularlyfrigate t b e y into os Toulon,s pir spirited that conduct he chasing f s ns a , °: ex cited the admi ra ti on and secured thefriendship Nelson, with who m , i n 1805, we find him pursuing the combined squ a d rons to the West Indies andback Previously to the l a tt er event Capt. Parker had had . the fortune, July 16, 1803, to effect the capture of Le Felix privateer of 16 guns and 96 men. He after wards, Sept. 12, 1805, took the Principe do la Paz Spanish privateer, mounti ng 24 9-pounders and 4 ' brass swivels, with a complement of 160 men ; and on March 13, 1806, he signalised himself by his meritorious and gallant behaviour through out a long running fight, which terminated in the surrender to the London, 98, and to the Amazon, whose loss extended to four men, killed and five wounded, of the Marengo, 80, bear ing the flag of Rear-Admiral Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. On March 23, 1811, he cap tured Le Cupidon, French privateer, of 14 guns and 82 men. Quitting the Amazon in Feb. 1812, he was next, Oct. 11, 1827, appointed to the Warspite, 76, from which ship, stationed in the Mediterranean, he was transferred, Dec. 29, 1828, to the Prince Re gent yacht. On May 1, 1831, Rear-Admiral Parker (who had attained flag rank July 22, 1830, and has been nominated a C. 8., June 4, 1815) was invested with the chief command of the Lisbon station, which he continued to hold-occasionally commanding an experimental squadron--until July 11, 1834. On to the gathering cohorts of treason the aegis of its discipline and its name." On Baltimore being threatened by Lee in his in vasion of Maryland, the 7th hurried up to the de fence of the city. When the terrible riots broke out in New York the 7th were pushed into the metropolis in the nick of time to overawe and quell a disturb ance which might have grown into a formidable in surrection. Thus the regiment was always held in readiness for any great emergency, at the same time that from its ranks were drafted the men destined to fill the decimated ranks of the officers, and to furnish commanders for constant levies of fresh troops raised in the Northern States. After paying a high tri bute of praise to the services performed by this regi ment, which the General was so well qualified to do, the corps having served under his personal com mand, he proceeded to remark on the lessons taught by the war. " First of these is the great truth that the course of military successes is always from north to south, from frosts and snow to flowers and sunshine. Our very instincts teach us that it must be so, and all history confirms it. It is not because the Southern nature is less spirited or less capable of high and heroic achievements, but because the Northern muscle, elaborated under a colder sky and through more invigorating influences of climate, acquires more compactness, tenacity, and strength, carrying with it (for the mental and physical conditions always assimilate) a greater moral power of endurance. Southern races are, for the most part, precipitate, impas sioned, fiery, vehement, sometimes breaking down all opposition by force of their resistless impetuosity. Northern races, on the other hand, are calm, deliberate, persistent, determined, and as immovable as a rock against which wind and storm are idly expending their fury. The remark may seem fanciful, and yet I believe it to be historically true, that great military successes, considered in reference to parallels of latitude, are subject to a law analogous to those which govern currents of running water. They do not rise above the level of their source, or if carried to a greater height by ome special force they subside to their former level as soon as that force is withdrawn. Accordingly we find that the great tides of conquest in all ages have flowed from north to south, or east to west, or nearly the same parallels of latitude. It required the extraordinary genius . of Julius Ccesar, the most finished commander, perhaps, that ever lived, to carry the victorious arms of Rome, when the great republic was in the fullness of its prosperity and power a few degrees of latitude north of the metro politan centre. And yet we all remember that it was more than a hundred years after his first inva sion of the little island/ of Great Britain before it was reduced to the condition of a Roman province. Even then only the lower part was subdued, and the Emperor Adrian was compelled to build a wall across it to protect the Roman soldiery from the in cursions of the Caledonians, the predecessors of the Scotchmen of our day. Now I venture to say, that if that island had been fifteen or twenty degrees further South it would not have resisted the'Roman power successfully through a single campaign. The operations of Hannibal in Italy may seem to conflict with my theory, but not if they are properly con sidered. It is true he marched up through Spain, crossed the Alps, descended into Italy, and obtained several signal victories over the Romans. But his operations did not contain one of the elements of permanent conquest. They were nothing but a pro tracted raid; and after a few years he was compelled to return to Carthage to defend that city against the very people whom he was invading. There was a remarkable instance eight or nine centuries later of the truth of the proposition I have stated. Some six hundred years after the Christian era—when man kind, as if in defiance of the celestial messages of the Great Teacher, had sunk into a moral torpor as dangerous to all the interests of civilisation as the living paganism which had preceded it—God raised up an avenger in Mahomet to destroy all that de served to perish, and to rouse to action all that was worthy of being preserved. The creed of the Prophet was full of error, but it contained one vital truth, and under its influence his followers were roused to a wild enthusiasm which nothing could resist. It was in the name of the one and the ever-living God that their, scimitars flashed to the light ! The great tide of Islamism poured down through Western Asia into Africa, across Egypt and the Desert of Barca, whelming the ancient Pentapolis, over the narrow strait which separates Africa from Europe, sweeping across the sunny plains of Andalusia and over the vine-clad hills of Grenada, until the great wave burst at the base of the mountains of Asturias. It did not rise in the West above the level of its sources in the East. And thus this great human deluge, impelled by the spirit of conquest and religidus frenzy, bear ing on its crest the trophies of Eastern science and art, was poured out over Western Europe, and planted there some of the richest 'germs of civilisa tion, to be purified and perfected in after" ages by the clearer light of Christianity. Wherever armies have gone to the north for the purpose of 'conquest they have been defeated. The Greeks and Romans were constantly repulsed by the rude nations north of them. The legions of Yarns were cut to pieces in the wilds of Germania by Arminius and his fol lowers. Nay, the great modern conqueror of Europe, when he undertook—if I may so express myself—a campaign against the Arctic circle, with one of the most numerous and best-disciplined armies the world ever saw embodied, was discomfited—not so much, it is true, by the arms as by the strategy of his enemies, and by the rigours of the climate. His immense host, like that of Xerxes, was broken to pieces, and he was compelled to retreat, leaving thousands of his followers sleeping in bloodless death upon the frozen plains of Muscovy. On the other hand, when great conquering armies have been sent to the south they have nearly always been victorious. The Romans overrun everything south of them, down to the shores of the great African desert—one of those seas of sand which are far more impracticable than any waste of waters. The Ro mans, in their turn, were overrun by the barbarous nations north of them. The Goths, the Normans, the multinomial races which were swarming century after century out of the great northern line, over whelmed all Europe down to the very shores of the Mediterranean ; and even Southern Italy saw these rude warriors, with frames compacted almost to the hardness of iron by hyperborean frosts, unbuckling their armour, and lying down in the summer radi ance on the heights of Sorrento, by the blue waters of Bai, and even in the classic grotto of Panstlipo. In like manner armed multitudes from Central and Western Europe poured down into Syria, under the unconquerable banner of the Cross, and wrested the Holy Sepulchre from the hands of its infidel pos sessors. The flaming scimitar of the fiery Saladin, as described in 'Walter Scott's " Crusaders," falling in fast but ineffectual blows on the massive battle axe of the cool Plantagent, is but a type of what the world has seen, and will con tinue to the end of time to see, in the conflicts of southern with northern races. I wish some of our Canadian friends were here to take comfort from these suggestions. When the rebel raiders, whom they were harbouring, crossed our frontier to plunder our villages, shoot down our unarmed people and give this city to the flames, through a schemeof incendiarism which for atrocity has no parallel in the annals of barbarism ; and when a certain Department commander, whose name I will not mention, with a fr ontier of nearly a thousand miles to guard, with only sixty military posts along its whole extent, and without two hun dred men in any one of them, gave orders to the commanders of these slender garrisons, in case the depredations were repeated, to pursue and capture the marauders, even if it were necessary to cross the astronomical line which constitutes the boundary between the two countries—the stout hearts of our northern neighbours need not to have been disturbed by any imaginary apprehension of invasion. No, gentlemen ; whenever the tide of emigration, the only instrument of conquest the United States em ploy when unprovoked, shall rise again in the East, it will move on across our own territory to Ne braska, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Cali fornia, Oregon, and the calmer shores of the Pacific. Or, if it should deviate from our own parallels of latitude, it will not be in the direction of Hudson's Bay and the coast of Labrador, where the bosom of our mother earth is hidden from the sight of her children during more than half their natural lives, but down into the sunny districts of. the palmetto, where the reproductive powers of nature are at work throughout the whole circle of the year, and where the magnolia and the orange tree load the atmosphere with perpetual fragrance. I know that the mental and muscular energy of the North will gradually give way, in obedience to the universal law, to the amenities and seductions of the climate ; but not until they shall have done their work by waking up those sporofic dis tricts to the new life and the intense activities of this earnest and enterprising age. Another lesson which this law has taught is, that human slavery, in some way or other, and at some stage or other of its existence, is always calamitous to those who maintain it. The justice of God is sure to manifest itself, in some form of retribution, against the injustice of man, even though it be through the slow operation of what we call natural causes. Wherever the subjugated elass,does all the work and the governing class does none, wherever the latter seeks to evade the universal sentence of earn ing our bread in the sweat of our faces, the former must acquire a physical superiority, which, iu the end, is sure to work out its own deliverance. We have not waited for this tardy process of centuries. Slavery with us has perished through the insensate attempt of the masters to extend and perpetuate it by destroying their own government. It has gone down amid the clash of arms and the shock of battle ; and the amendment to the Constitution just adopted has confirmed and executed what the behests of war had decreed. This great social revolution has been accompanied by an equally great marvel. Slavery has been abolished in Delaware and Kentucky by the votes of Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina ; and those who were most earnest in defending and seeking to extend it, have conquered their pre judices,' and are marching on, with the great army of emancipators throughout the world, to the majestic minstrelsy of universal freedom 1" The General might have used the tide of conquest in India as a still stronger illustration to show that the course of military successes is always from north to south in the northern hemisphere, from frosts and snow to flowers and sunshine. From time immemorial India has been the prey of northern conquerors, and the fact that for the first time in the long ages of its history the current has rolled back from the plains of Bengal to the mountains of Affghanistan gives an exception which fully proves the rule, for it was a northern race that organised and led this triumphant march of conquest in the opposite direction. It is a striking fact that at each advance northward by the British Vona Calcutta a more vigorous and determined foe was met. Never in the history of British India was the English power so terribly shaken as when it came into con tact with the men of the Punjaub. Two terrible campaigns and six pitched battles were fought with the Seikhs, with varying success, before the conquest of the Punjaub was achieved. The discomfitures of Ferozeshah and Chillianwalla h were substituted for the easy victory of Plassy, and it required all the stubborn determination of theAuglo-Saxon race, and an expenditure of blood which shocked the nation, to make good their footing against the Kalsa army, in the most northern province of the Mogul's ancient empire. We conclude our remarks with the closing words of this distinguished officer's address :—" With this readjustment of our social and political relations, and after this triumphant exertion of our power of self-preservation, new responsibilities devolve on us. We must enjoy with greater moderation the bless ings and privileges which Providence has vouch safed to us. We must exert our power, if possible, with increased forbearance, even for the assertion of our undeniable rights. We must practise toward all with whom we have relations, whether within or without the pale of our political system, the most strict and impartial justice. Since the days of the Revolution, when ourfathers were led through seven years of toil, and suffering, and peril, almost as manifestly by the hand of God as the children of Israel were-led through the wilderness, we never have been so significantly admonished of our de-, peudence on him, or have had so much cause to be grateful for our deliverance from surrounding evils. This sense of dependence, and this feeling of grati tude, must never be permitted to fade out of our. minds or hearts. The altars of our religion and our freedom must stand side by side, that their fires may ascend in one common flame to Heaven. Then shall we have reason to !rust that the blessing of God, which has been with us and our fathers under so many trials, will continue with us to the end in our new career of prosperity and power." Agricultural Prospects. The week opened with a fine day, at times sunny, and the night hazy. Monday was also a hazy, doubtful morning, but the day held up, and field work would go on steadily, wheat sowing being completed in the earliest districts on light soils ; but heavy lands were too stiff and hard to be worked with out more moisture, and on these much work is yet to be done. Wind, S.W.; thermometer, 56 deg.; with the barometer steady at 30in. Tuesday was a fine day, sunny at times, and very unlike November. A great deal of field work was accomplished iu the finest order possible. Wind, S.S.W. ; thermometer, 54 ; barometer, 30.05. In some parts of the north the weather has not been so fine. From Northumber land it was stated :—" The weather since our last has been mild, but damp ; wind W. to N.W., strong and showery." In the West Riding of Yorkshire the farmers are now tolerably busy, and the land works well, as they will soon cometo a finish with a continu ance of the present favourable time. Turnips and mangolds are plentiful, and there will be a good supply of provender for the winter months. The condition of the grain is improving, but quality generally is very inferior throughout Yorkshire. The discoloured barleys are, however, now working better than they did at first, and are selling at fair prices, considering this year's yield. Wednesday was a fair and fine day, being the fourth in succession, and the land worked still better. In Scotland a good deal of rain had fallen ; and our advices from the west coast stated : " The weather has been very wet." From Lancashire our infor mation runs thus : " Though we have had much changeable weather of late, it has scarcely impeded the farmers' field labour, and fair progress has been made in wheat planting, and the seed has gone into the ground in propitiously fine order. As we do not hear many complaints here about potatoes, we may safely infer that the crop for winter use has been mostly raised and housed ; indeed, those now coming to market are of unexceptionable quality." Thursday was a fine day, and at times sunny ; but the barometer was falling fast, and at 8 p.m. some heavy rain set in, that lasted for a few hours, and would prove very acceptable to heavy land farmers. The barometer had gone down to 29.75 in. From Norfolk our advices stated : "The weather continues fine, and enables farmers to proceed with thrashing and land work." From Suffolk it was remarked : "The weather continues fine and dry, and in some cases wheat-seeding is quite stopped for want of rain." Friday was again a fine bright day, the sun shining forth at times, and field-work would pro gress steadily. From the West Riding of Yorkshire it was stated : —" Weather on the whole is favour able for preparing and sowing the land, and making good use of the supply of grass, which is plentiful." From the East Riding our advices stated—" The weather continues favourable for autumn sowing, and good progress has been made so far under most favourable circumstances." Saturday a dense fog was experienced, which cleared off about noon. Wind varied from S.E. to the south. Thermometer 43 deg., barometer 30.10 inches. The temperature became milder in the evening, and at 10 p.m. rain was experienced, with every indication of a wet night. On the whole, a good deal of work has been finished this week, and wheat thrashing may have gone on; but farmers will not bring much forward if the least further decline in prices should take place, as they are generally impressed with an opinion that ultimately higher rates must result from the last beinga failing crop. With, however, from 50s. to s. per qr. to be obtained for the choicest heavy barley secured without rain, this corn must come out in preference to wheat, and it will be thrashed vigo rously whilst the malting season lasts.—Mark Lane Express. COUNTRY ' MARKETS. *ri 40.1.4 LYNN—TUESDAY. New wheat, 54s to 58s ; new red, 40s to 48s ; old white, 60s to 64s ; old red, Ms to 60s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 50s ; secondary, 30s to 86s. Oats, new, 22s to 26s per 21 stone. Beans, small, 42s to 445. Feast 36s to 40s per 28 stone. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. At this day's market thero was a better attendance of the town and country trade, and more disposition to 19 , 1* Wheat and flour, with a good consumptive demand, re.. covered the decline of Friday. Oats without change lu price, but oatmeal brought rather more money. Barley and peas remained at former rates, but beans were fully z.s_ per qr dearer—Egyptian bringing 425. A consider ab le business was done in Indian corn, at an advance of 4 s p er qr on the week—white, 39s to 40s; mixed, 335. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TtrEsDAY. 6 Old white wheat., 53s to 63s ; new red. 503 to 573 per o . stone. Barley, tine, 48s ; other kinds, 33s to 38s pa SO Oats, new, 22s to 23s ; old, 30s to 3-ls per qr. Beans, old' 50s to 555; new, 46s to 48s pe,r qr. LEEDS —T UESDAY. We have an average show of grain this week. Tbet. e . was a fair consumptive demand fur wheat, at rather 0 01 : last Tuesday's rates. Fine barley brings fully previoo values ; other sorts not so saleable. Oats and other artieleo as before. SHEFFIELD-TUESDAY. , Red wheat, per load of 3 hop. bushels 22s Od to 2,0 61 White do A Otl do 248 Od 2- 0 New red do do 2os Od -• 225,0.1 New white do do ...,23s Od 2 50 u l Beans do do 2os Od 26s 9,1 Peas, per qr. . lBs Od 19 8 ua A Grinding ba ley, per qr 35s Od 3 es th ; Maltinebarley, . o Os Od 480 Ou, Oats, do 2 - i Od 320 " 1 F10ur....1s 10d to 2s ad per 141 b. Foreign Mail Packet List. .MAILS DUE. &ustralla and New Zealand, via Southamptos Nov. 19* Ditto, via Marseilles Dec. 14 ' Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Dec. 4 . Ditto, by Nrenoh packet Nov; 21 Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. "a. China, _Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Nov 19. Ditto, via Marseille& Nov. 21 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton 4 Nov. 1 9 ' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton__ Nov. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Nov. 22 Ditto, via Marseilles Nov 22 ',Salta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov 19 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Nov; 22 ' Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseille i D. I* ' Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Curk Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Nov. 16 ° West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....Deo. 12 ' West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Honduras) No 4 13 Cuba snd Mexico Bermuda, via Halifax Nov. 21 Bahamas, via New York. De° 11 • CAPTAIN IVPKILLOP'S COFFERDAM.—YeSte r I I afternoon Capt. WKillop's cofferdam was again suc o n fully applied to H.M.S. Terrible, in the steam bas ill .„ l' d Portsmouth. Th e Kingston valve was taken out , """ Admiral Wellesley and Mr. Murdock, the inspector of ta iv f chinery, with Captain Fellows and Captain Morrell, ° the Duke of Wellington, went down under the sh i e s bottom with lanterns. The op era ti on was re p e ated. 511°1- occupied, 27 minutes. ' EXPERIMENT AT THE WAR-OFFICE.—The follow' ing letter appeared in a recent number of the Pall Mall Gazette :—" Sir,—Now that Mr. Sul° is dead, that Mr. Clode has spoken, and that t he administration, past and present, of the War-of:08 is again attracting its fair share of public attentOte I think the following little anecdote may be of he interest to your .readers. In the beginning t . 0 year 1858, while attached to her Majesty's Legat ° 46 at Washington, I sent home a report upon t e , " Morse" breech-loading " centre-fire" rifle, ther with drawings of the arm and its cartilag e c i I gave an account of the trials to which L 1 : 1 , seen it subjected : how it was loaded under water in the river Potomac with cartridges w hi t ut had previously been soaked in water for tweuti": e d hours, and how, in spite of water dripping 0111 00 every part, and weeds and sand grinding in der mechanism, it made fair shooting, and how O we favourable circumstances it cou ld b e fired tw w e y; ;s times a minute with ease a n d p rec i s ion. ' 1 " - ri f account was simply a true and f a ithf u l n arration what I witnessed in presence of Admiral DailLg r (of big gun celebrity), Captain Wise of the "of e Department, and many others ; and as it went h° ll o through the channel of the Foreign-office, it e r r , directly under the notice of the chiefs of the . " e , is , office, and so startled them that they i nco utieen); o burst the bonds of red tape, a n d, contrary t° most stringent rules, and to all precedent,' °ram-a at the expense of Govern m e n t a s p ec imen rifle 1 : li e one thousand rounds of amm un iti on for a cosilto , to examineand report upon. After the usual ber of months the oracle spoke. The rifle wa s " 01 , jetted. It did everything I said , it had done Ile would do, but it possessed properties, which, opinion of the committee, were fatal to its 111 tr 4 ductior into the British ar m y. At the presen t - 0 0 •even the authorities' acknowledge that the w g re desiderata in a milit ar y r ifl e are rap idity and a f, s racy of fire, which c an on l y b e com bined , breech-loading rifle and a cartridge whic h , r les its own primi ng an d h o ld s the pr o l e- t t b i s in a metallic cylinder, thereby insuring t h coincidence of the axis of the projectile /11 0 , that of the barrel, and it may increase the Leh fidence of your readers in the wisdomwitios habitually presides over the t ec h n ical departi ne os of the War Office to learn the nature of the gr l o / on which the committee condemned the *o r rifle, and to compare the advertisement of hr ee t bs loaders just put forth by the War Office with ,h, IT A s r objections of the committee in 1858. ,„ber, Office advertisement, under date the 22d a O e w. t i o s 1866, stipulates that both the arms and aun ll L 3l a ge, sent in shall be capable of bearing rough , be r, damp, and exposure in all climates ;' and fi l ' arr y 0 among other things, that ' the cartridges roust jog their own ignition," and that the cartridges u lle ie a arranged on a table, the arm must be ca1 33 4 0 0t firing at least twelve rounds per minute wl " t he aiming.' The objections of the committee to o l Morse' rifle were three :-Ist. The rifle fire d e . ag eo the ammunition too quickly ; 2d. The car tri es oi were metallic ; 3d. The cartridges carried th eir NV. ignition.—l am, sir, your obedient servan t ' Ot HOPE, late 7th Royal Fusiliers. Malvern, V et ' 1866. [P.S.--When the War Office have P- O oet chosen the rifle of the future, I intend to Wl; l th to try how it behaves when loaded under wa . er' or jet weeds and sand grinding in the mechanisin ,lll o va that I may fully appreciate its vast superiorit.iteeio the ' Morse,' and the astuteness of the colu e l i condemning that worthless weapon.--W- Births. k V? HASLEHUST—On the 12th inst., at Chestnut soll• tuamstow, the wife of W. H. Haslehust, Esq ., ("" to o ' LOWNDES—On the 11th inst., at Braunston, Norha`' shire, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Lowndes, of a 6°o ' ooa til NICKALIS—On the 13th inst., at Holmesdale, Darenth, the wife of Tom Nickalis, Esq., of a 0013 89dr NICHOLSON—On the 13th inst., at 4, Sussex-acigs,re,,./00. park, the wife of W. Nicholson, Esq., MY., • u Marriages. t P ar° i MIDWINTER— SOPER— On the 12th inst., at be d 0 011 ,. ° church of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Charles, seclovitae'; the late Captain Midwinter, of Albert-squ are ,' j SO" vial-road, o t r o d, S ljarr WirtnnAm—Vccux—On the Bth inst , at St. Nra r P'lc o33 .4" Dorset, t t , h s i o rd lie d i a to u r g . hter of the lave • lebone, Lieut.-General Sir Charle; A. Windham' gent to Charlotte Jane, eldest daughter of the late ite v " Des Voaux. Deaths. 7,011 ,134 ' DUCHANAN—On the 13th Sept., at Dunedin, st., Ne w d 41 ' John Buchanan, formerly of 47, Moorgate- nb - faCV BASSETT—On the 11th inst., at Il e rntitage l iii° ' mond, Thomas P. Bassett, Esq., aged 8 3 . VW': BERNARD—On the 12th inst , at 6, Jer Colonel Peter Bernard, formerly' of the 68 f h g , myn_street, wow (Light Infantry), aged 65 CAFFIN —On the 10th in t . at Myrtle 17111„87 Blacki° Kent, the wife of W. Ct s tli ' n, Esq., aged 8u- .0.n., of DOUGLAS—On the 12th inst., Robert J. Douglas', P" 4 31°51 Lockerbie. . e /4. 94 AlAhsrox—tra On the 12th inst , at L u dlovr, B. 1411 a Magistrate and Alderman of the bOro , age d 5 s ite , °ll ROSSITER—On the 12th inst., at Kensing ton, It FpS Esq., aged 53. WENTWORTH—On the 11th inst., at Wandswo rth , J .-- Wentworth, Esq., engineer, aged 47. ..,. l _ jito oS • London : Printed tad Published byWILLIAg -5 $O. o f of No. 112, Strand, Printer at Tna SuN 0000600ty Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy. In_t he Mlddlesex—Wednesday, November 14,1 i i li 1 ,~-