The Sun. — London, England, 1866-08-20 00:00:00

Railway and other Companies. GREAT NORTHERN. The directors of this company state in their report that the capital has been increased during the half year by the incorporation of the original stock of the West Yorkshire undertaking with that of the Great Northern, by the receipt of calls on the ordi nary stock (dividend deferred), and by loans on mortgage. Those additions amounted to £766,714The , and the total capital was now 116,808,615. expenditure included £335,478 for land and works, chiefly for the Doncaster and Gainsboroye,ah, March and Spalding, an d Lincoln and Honington lines now in course of construction, and £156,719 for additional rolling stock. The lines between March and Spalding and Lincoln and Honington, and the branch to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail way at Bradford would shortly be opened. In the ensuing spring that between Doncaster and Gainsborough would be ready for traffic, and arrangements would be made to hasten the com pletion of the Edgware and Highgate Railway. The railways in Lancashire and Cheshire owned jointly with the Midland and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Companies were also being steadily pressed forward. The proprietors would be.asked to authorise the creation of new capital to the extent of £1,075,000 under the powers of nine acts. It was intended to create this capital with a preferential dividend of not exceeding 5 per cent. per annum, and to allot the stock rateably to all proprietors. With regard to the revenue account for the half-year ending the 30th of June the coaching traffic had increased by £93,918 and the merchandise traffic by £27,808. The gross amount of increased receipts was £50,449. The expenditure on the working of the whole line had increased from causes beyond the control of the company, including the rate of wages, and advance in the prices of the principal materials consumed. The directors had determind to ex tend the use of steel rails through all principal stations and on inclines, and to place to capital two-thirds of the difference between the cost of steel and iron, charging to revenue the remaining third, in addition to the sum that would have been ex pended on rails if the rails had been relaid, as here tofore, with that material. In the locomotive de partment 296,076 additional train miles had been run. Twenty-five engines had been thoroughly reconstructed and fitted with new boilers, and with steel tires in place of iron, and . 367 waggons had also been rebuilt in an improved form and of an enlarged size. Those and other causes had increased the expenditure by £46,941. The gross traffic re ceipts for the half-year ending the 30th of June amounted to £960,784 against £910,335 in the same half of 1865 ; the gross expenditure amounted to £526,345, against £479,404, leaving a balance of £434,439 against £430,931 for the same half of 1865. The total net revenue amounted to £447,012 against £445,327 for the corresponding half of last year, showing an increase of £1,685. Out of the net revenue £271,459 was deducted for fixed charges, leaving £175,553 divisible as ordinary dividend. The ba lance available would admit of a dividend of £2los. per cent. for the half-year on the original stock, £3 per cent. for the half-year on the B stock ; and £2 per cent. for the half-year on the A Stock, leaving £624. This dividend was less by ss. per cent. for the half-year than in the corresponding period of 1865. On the Ist of February they took pos session of the West Riding line, by which a saving in time of about 20 minutes between Leeds and London had been affected by the adoption of this route. The Royston and Hitchin line had reverted to the Great Northern Company on the Ist of April last, since which date it had been worked by them. Running powers had been obtained over a short line to be constructed by other parties, from Wood-green, on the main line, to the Alexandra Park. Clauses for facilitating traffic were obtained by the Great Northern Company, acting in concert with the North-Eastern Company, in the bill for amalgamating the Scottish North-Eastern and the Caledonian Railways. SOUTH DEVON. The directors state in their report that the re. venue for the half-year ended the 30th of June lasi amounted to £109,172, as compared with £101,518 received during the corresponding half of 1865, showing an increase of £764. The working ex penses amounted to £59,860, against £53,903, showing an increase of £5,957. The profit on the working amounted to £49,311, against £47,615 for the same half of 1865, showing an increase of £1,696. The weather during the winter was very unfavourable for the maintenance of the permanent way, and the increased value of labour had also added to the expenses of this, as well as of other rail way companies. The revenue account presented a disposable balance of £29,649, and after providing . for all preference and other charges, the di rectors recommended the payment of a dividend on the ordinary stock at the rate of £1 15s. per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £155 to the credit of the current half-year. The goods traffic on the Launceston and South Devon Railway was undeveloped from the want of proper accommodation at the stations, and that company found it necessary to issue preference shares in the first instance to the extent of about £lO,OOO, but eventually to the amount of £36,000, to meet exist ing liabilities and future necessary outlay on works. The South Devon Company was authorised by Par liament to guarantee interest on this capital for 7 years, and the directors recommended the proprie tors to attach their credit to the shares. The pre sent surplus revenue of the Launceston Company was more than sufficient to cover the interest on the capi tal now required. The working of the Moretonhamp stead and the South Devon Railway commenced on the lthJuly, and the passenger traffic on the line had since been satisfactory. This railway opened up a very picturesque and healthy district, which had hitherto been comparatively inaccessible,but was now largely visited. The goods traffic had only been partially commenced at Moretonhampstead, but there were already indications of a considerable and important merchandise and mineral traffic there and at the other parts of the railway. The South Devon, the Cornwall, and the West Cornwall Railways, 2141 miles in length, had since the Ist of July been worked for locomotive purposes as one railway. The direc tors had appointed Mr. J. Wright the locomotive superintendent of the three lines. During the past half-year communications had taken place between the associated broad gauge companies and the Lon don and South-Western Railway Company, with the view of bringing about an agreement for afford ing additioaal facilities to traffic in connexion with their respective railways, and for rendering the several systems of greater public and mutual advantage. All concerned were earnestly endea vouring to arrive at a permanently binding agreement, which would be brought before the proprietors of the respective companies, and to which the sanction of Parliament was proposed to be sought in the ensuing Session. The expenditure on capital account amounted to £2,710,172, leaving a balance of £27,999. NORTE' LONDON. The report of the directors ofthis company states f that the traffic receipt s half - year ending the 30th of June last amounted for passengers to £82,216, for merchandise and minerals to £54,464, and for live stock to £2,loo—total £138,780, against £96,0 30 for the correspondi ng half o th f 1865 s h ow ing an increase of £42,750, of which of .E 36,922 was for passengers, and £5,437 fore sum mer chandise and min erals. The ex p ens es on the other hand were necessarily increased, but not to a.greater extent than was anticipated, by the additional cost of working consequent ou the opening of the City Extension line and stations. The general result after providing for debenture interest, was a disposable amount to the credit of revenue of 262,128, from which the directors recommend that a dividend be declared on the preference shares at the rate of 4,+ per cent. per annum ; and on the ordinary stock and shares at the rate of 6 per cent.. per annum ; leaving a balance of £4,578. The goods station in Broad-street, now in course of construction by the London and North- Western Company, being still unfinished, the earn ings on the City Extension line did not include any receipts from that source, while the interest and dividends on the entire capital expended by the com- ----.., pally formed a charge against revenue. A new station had during the past half-year been con structed at Poplar ; arrangements had also been made for the construction of an additional station between Dalston junction and Shoreditch. The capital account to the 30th of June showed that £2,788,033 had been expended, leaving a balance against the company of £20,146. The revenue ac count showed that £146,365 had been received, and £28,011 expended, leaving a balance of £68,353. STAINES, WOKINGIIAM, AND WOKING. The report of the directors states that during the past half-year debentures to the amount of £5,900 at 41 per cent. and £3,500 at 5 per cent., had fallen due, of which £6OO had been renewed or rebor rowed at 41 per cent., and £5,400 at 5 per cent. The traffic for the half-year ending the 30th of June last showed that the receipts for passengers amounted to £10,302, against £8,661 for the same half of 1865, showing an increase of £1,642 ; and for goods to £3,397, against £2,917, showing an increase of £4Bo—total increase, £2,121. The passenger traffic to Ascotltaces was not equal to that of 1863, but the ordinary traffic showed a general and pro gressive improvement. The traffic in goods showed an increase at each station on the line, and as building was taking place on many parts of the line the directors submitted that a progressive increase of receipts might be calculated on. The above tolls were exclusive of the sums due under the Reading and Wokingham traffic arrangements, and for the toll of the Read ing junction line. The account for the past half-year was credited with £3OO on that account. The balance to the credit of profit and loss was £4,940, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the preference shares, and of ss. 6d. per share, or 2i per cent. per annum, on the ordinary shares, both less income tax, leaving a balance of £262. The divi dend on the ordinary shares for the corresponding period of 1865 was at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum. The capital account showed that £393,727 had been expended. LYNN AND HUNSTANTON. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Lynn on Saturday. The report stated that in consequence of the cattle plague and the late cold spring, the traffic had declined during the past half year. The opening of the West Norfolk Junction would bring additional traffic on the line. The re ceipts on revenue account during the six months, ending June 20, had been £3,779 ; and after pay ment of working expenses to the Great Eastern (2.1,840), and providing for debenture interest and other charges a balance of £1,227 remained avail able for dividend. Out of this balance the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, leaving £27 to be carried to the credit of the current half-year. The dividend recom mended was declared, and the proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. CORK AND BANDON. The report of the directors states that the traffic receipts for the half-year, ending 30th of June last, amounted to £10,700, and for the corresponding half of last year to £9,369, showing an increase of £1,331, which was deemed satisfactory, as the West Cork and Macroom Railway had not opened their lines for traffic until the middle of June last. Owing to Captain Huish's award there had been an in crease in the expenditure for the half-year of £1,396, the directors being obliged by it to erect a new goods store and new cattle pens at the Cork Station ; the former being too small and insufficient for the increasing goods traffic, and the latter was removed to make room for building the engine house for the Macroom Railway Company ; also a large number of sleepers and iron rails were laid, and extensive repairs to the engines made, all of which requirements were considered necessary for the advantage and safe working of the company's railway. The accounts, after providing for working expenses interest on loans, &c., showed a surplus of £1,427, out of which the directors recommended a dividend to be paid on the No. 1 preference shares, for the past half-year, at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, leaving a balance for the next account of £lO7 ; they also recommended that a dividend be declared on the No. 2 preference shares for 'the same period at 4 per cent. per annum, for which deferred dividend warrants would be issued. The Cork and Macroom and West Cork Railway Com panies having opened - their lines in June last, the directors expected very favourable results from the additional traffic which would pass over the line. The capital account to the 30th June showed that £343,888 had been expended. CHESHIRE AMALGAMATED SALT WORKS (LIMITED). The adjourned general meeting of this company was held on Friday at the offices, Finsbury-pave ment. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, stated that although the past half-year had proved so disastrous to commercial and joint-stock enterprise, still this company had been able, after makingprovision for bad debts and having expended large sums in repairing the works, to realise a good profit. The company was in a prosperous condition, and the works were in an efficient state of repair. The report was adopted, a dividend at the rate of £8 per cent. per annum was declared, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. Miscellaneous American News. The Union Convention has assembled in Phila delphia, and absorbs the interest of the country. Major General John A. Dix will, it is thought, be president. The wig-wam, by the latest accounts, up to 3d August, was only half finished. The dele gates will number some three thousand persons, and the building will accommodate upwards of 10,000 spectators besides. The Convention is strongly supported in the Southern States, and that it should receive the unqualified aid of such men as the rioters of New Orleans will cause it to be regarded with great suspicion throughout the North. The Con vention may be useful if led by such politicians as Mr. Raymond, for it will then tend to pour oil on the troubled waters, but if it gives an unqualified adhesion to the President's policy of reconstruction, it will meet with the sternest opposition and con demnation of that party which crushed the South in war. It is the grossest fallacy to suppose that the Republican section will ever again allow themselves to be ridden roughshod over by the South, and such scenes as that enacted lately at New Orleans will strengthen this determination. That the greatest war of modern times should have been fought for nothing is too ridiculous to believe. Nor is it likely that a party that no d isaster could ben d during the g s o h e avywarfare should cost. h o w c can s n t o o w rn s i y ur t r rls e i n a th f e or s n u o ut p der of all fo t ur hey ye g a a rs in v ed arY a i t n t s, and t Peoplehepreesihdoeueltd, the et Democrats, themse l ves, ra exert will suffice to conquer the s tern resolution of the ascendant party led by Co n g ress. Intelligence from Ottawa, C anada West, to the the Republican party 3d August, informs us that form of Legislature for Lower Canada were defeated in their efforts to obtain a Democratic by a vote of 69 against 31. Upper Canada will have a Legis lature of one elective chamber, which is the form sought by the Republicans of Lower Canada. Mr. Gerin, editor of Le Canada, assaulted Mr. J. B. E. Dorion, editor of the Defricheur, and a member of the house. These gentlemen met in the library, when Mr. Gerin taxed Mr. Dorion with an article which had appeared in the Defricheur, and ended (according to the account given to the house by Mr. Dorion) by striking him repeatedly. The Speaker issued his warrant to the sergeant-at-arms, and Elzear Gerin was taken into custody and brought before the bar of the house. The commercial interests in America have ex perienced a relief from the adjournment of Con gress. Trade is hampered by constant change, and many prefer not to act at all than to act in the dark. While Congress was sitting, an alteration in the Tariff, or the Currency, or the Public Debt, was- not only possible, but probable, and tended to distract trade. Comimrce is now secure for some six months, and merchants within that peri9cl can act without fear of any sudden and vi lent change. The prospects of trade are at present very encouraging, and the reports of the grain harvest from all parts of the country are much better than were anticipated. - - The effects of the German war were considered as likely to create a demand for breadstUffs in Europe, but as that war has suddenly ceased, and as the har- vests in Europe appear to be a fair average, the anticipated demand is not likely to be realised. The New York Times states- that the Monitor Monadnock, when passing through the torrid zone on her way to the Pacific, developed in her fire men and engineers several cases of active spinal disease, attended with violent convulsions. This was caused by extreme heat. In the engine-room the thermometer reached 125 to 130 degrees, and this ranged 20 degrees higher in the fire-room. It will be difficult to make vessels thus submerged really habitable in the tropics. If the system for so protecting the hull of a vessel from an enemy's shot be generally adopted, the only plan by which she can be thus secured, and at the same time made habitable as a regular sea-going cruiser, is to invent a power of submerging the vessel at the will of those on board. The construction of wing pas sages to be filled with water has been suggested. We have no doubt, however, that the whole subject has been fully considered by the clever heads that planned and the skilful hands that executed such war machines as the Monitors. Congress has passed a bill for increasing the salaries of the members from $3,000 to $5,000 a year. This, together with the mileage, as the allowance for travelling expenses is termed, makes up the pay to a nice sum. A person aspiring to a seat in the British Parliament sees before him a heavy disbursement. In America, however, the honour and influence of the position is sweetened by a handsome salary, together with the power of franking, to which the late Postmaster so strongly objected, and other advantages which make up in all a very good thing. Although the accounts from the South stow in many places a brutal spirit of oppression towards the blacks, yet the condition of the population im proves gradually, and in some States that improve ment is general and marked. Of the 360,000 blacks in the State of North Carolina, only 3,294 are receiving rations. One hundred and nineteen schools are now in operation, with one hundred and thirty-five teachers, the daily attendance averaging 9,034. The destitution among the whites and blacks in various parts of the States is being gradually relieved. Old North Carolina coupons have gone up, at the National Bank of Raleigh, from 50 to 55, and they will continue to rise, we feel assured, with increased material prosperity. The New York Times says that no appointments to office had been made by the President, as Mr. Johnson has determined to move slowly and cau tiously henceforth in the matter of removals and ap pointments, notwithstanding the prediction by many that he would, as soon as Congress ad journed, begin a wholesale, indiscriminate official . - decapitation. Some of those who were rejected by the Senate upon political grounds, or because they were to succeed officers who opposed the Pre sident's policy, will immediately be commissioned to fill the several offices to which they were nomi nated by the President. The report that General Fullerton has been appointed Private Secretary to the President has no foundation in fact. No selec tion has been made by Mr. Johnson. General Fullerton has been named for the position how ever. General Steedman has notified the President by telegram that he declines the appointment of Superintendent of Public Printing. Mr. Johnson has not yet determined what he will do in the matter. It is understood that the Philadelphia Sloanaker contest for the position of Collector of Internal Revenue for the First District of Penn sylvania has been put at rest by the appointment of Sloanaker, and his commission will be issued to- morrow. The celebrated piratical cruiser Sumter is now engaged in a traffic likely to bring more credit and profit to her owners than her late occupation. She hasbeen purchased by a Mr. Lyon, taken to null, and has commenced running between this country and the continent with cattle. There may be less chivalry in the " beast trade " than in the exploits which formerly characterised this soi-disant war steamer, but more utility and honesty. The President signed the joint resolution re-ad mitting Tennessee ; not, however, without commu nicating his objections to Congress. Subsequently Messrs. Fowler and Patterson appeared as Senators, and the former, having taken the oath, was ad mitted to the seat ; but the other, who is the Presi dent's son-in-law, and is charged with complicity in the rebellion, was not at once received, but was subsequently sworn in. In the House Messrs. Leftwich, Stokes, and Cooper were admitted to seats. The President vetoed the Montana bill ; while that admitting Nebraska failed for want of his sig nature. The names of these eminent Americans appear in the New York. Independent as follows : `Zr. Harlan having resigned the Secretaryship of the Interior. Mr. Orville H. Browning, of Illi nois, has been nominated and confirmed as his suc cessor. " Gen. Jno. A. Dix has been confirmed as Minis ter to the Netherlands, and Mr. Jno. B. Skinner as First Assistant Postmaster-General. " Mr. Schuyler Colfax is a candidate for re-nomi nation from his district in Indiani, having finally declined a contest for the Senatorship. " Mr. Thaddeus Stevens has consented to stand for the Senatorship in Pennsylvania. " John Covode has been unanimously nominated by the Republicans for Congress in the twenty first district of Pennsylvania, which has been re presented for the last fotir years by Mr. Dawson, Democrat." The President has named the Commissioners to represent the United States at the Paris Universal Exposition next year. These gentlemen have been selected for eminence in science and invention. Louis Agassiz, the great naturalist, stands foremost on the list. Among the principal inventors is John Ericsson, a specimen •of whose brain-work has lately excited so much attention in Europe, the celebrated monitor Miautonomah. These appoint ments have all been confirmed- by the Senate, and we may therefore expect some of the most renowned Americans shortly among us. By direction of the Lords of the Admiralty, Mr. Brown, connected with the civil service, attended at Chatham dockyard the other day for the pur pose of submitting to the officials of that establish ment a newly invented binnacle lamp about to be fitted on board the Reindeer, now preparing for sea at Chatham. The experiments previously carried out by Mr. Brown with the invention at the joiners' shop of the dockyard, in the presence of the leading officials, fully bore out the merits claimed for the in vention over all other binnacle lamps, not the least : f on ah and h e area entire the considerable at ot g ir os a naortfeo the o h n e rs et light firaeectt eo b dr y , at thehrde o p p l e a w r c from the absence of a downward shadow, and the great facility with which the bearings of any object can be taken at night. A further improvement has o a also Ad b d e m e i n r a e l f f n e effected r n i n t 1 the e h e i n a v d e o n p t t i o n n a of t f the a t r s a u li g s g p e a s r t ion t index, notifying the course to be steered, the position of the index being so placed that it can be consulted with reference to the compass card. The invention has been adopted on board the Great Eastern. It is most important that the following plan should be adopted universally, but especially in all large cities : --" It is proposed to use the garbage of the city of New York as the base of a valuable manure, by placing air-tight boxes in convenient places, into which every decaying substance shall an d disinfected by a n c d om li p m o e und .V o il f gyp this substances method s b u e lamp,ced, charcoal,sta n lv e o s o d m o a s s t h e d s e , and eterious to health can be converted into elements of fe r t ilit y , and into b real blessings instead of poisons for man. The success of the Atlantic Cable was suddenly announced in New York on a Sunday morning, and the news, as may readily be believed, created some excitement and much joy throughout the country. Cyrus W. Field, immediately the cable was landed, July 28th, announced its success to the President, and received the following reply :—" I heartily congratulate you, and trust that your TIIE SUN, LONDON, MONOAY 1 4 1VENING, AUGUST 20, 1866. enterprise may prove as successful as your efforts have been persevering. May the cable under the sea tend to promote harmony between the Republic of the West and the Government of the Eastern hemisphere 1" The message to Secretary Seward was answered in these words : "Acknowledg ments and congratulations. If the Atlantic cable had not failed in 1858, European States would not have been led in 1861 into the great error of sup posing that civil war in America would either per petuate African slavery ordivide this republic. Your great achievement constitutes, I trust, an effective treaty of international neutrality and non-interven tion." The first telegram brought the news of July 27, and was published in New York two days after leaving London. The Associated Press gave their despatch in the following words :—" The London Times of the 27th of July says of the Atlantic Tele graph, It is a great work, the story of the age and nations, and they who have achieved it deserve to be honoured as the benefactors of their race.' A treaty of peace has been signed between Austria and Prussia. A previous telegram says that a five days' armistice between Austria and Prussia com menced at noon on the 23d." A contract has been entered into between the Associated Press and the Atlantic Telegraph Company for the regular trans mission of news. The Press will receive daily a despatch from Europe of about 40 words, for which they will pay annually £22,000. The expense will be borne by the daily newspapers published in the United States and Canada—the arrangement is, of course, contingent on the cable lasting. Many people think that petroleum is destined to finish off the world's career in a universal blaze— that for a spell will light up the whole heavens, and be a marvel to other worlds, ere it burns out, leaving a charred and dried ball, if it does not melt with fervent heat and run to chaos. This inflammable oil is doubtless spread over the surface of the earth, and we have lately had two examples of what con flagrations can be produced by comparatively small quantities. Ten thousand barrels of petroleum have furnished fuel for a blaze in Antwerp that has seldom before been seen in Europe. Once on fire any attempt to extinguish it was mere child's play in the result produced, though no child's play in the danger involved. Barrel after barrel exploded, shaking the city and tumbling down houses. The burning petroleum flowed into the sewers and carried a flame into the surrounding houses. Probably half a million of property has been destroyed. Only a few days earlier the oil regions in the State of Phila delphia was treated to a similar illumination ; on the 2d instant exactly 10,000 barrels were burned at Pithole. In this district, however, people are accustomed to the conflagrations caused by petro ,eum, and the tremendous explosions resulting there !rom. By advices from Vera Cruz, dated 27th July last, we learn that a revolution had been attempted in the city of Mexico. Many arrests had been made. Some were banishedto Yucatan,'others were brought as prisoners to Vera Cruz, and placed in the castle of San Juan previous to transportation. The country was very excited. Three hundred exiles from the Rio Grande have arrived at Tampico. Yellow fever prevails at Vera Cruz. The Empress is now at Paris, and has had an interview with Napoleon. Her presence in Europe has had an injurious effect on Mexican Bonds. The holders interpret her visit as a sign of overwhelming financial embarrassment, and they have little faith in France acting as Maximilian's paymaster any longer. Maximilian is said to have signed a treaty with the French Minister with the following provisions: —" Seven thousand French troops will remain in Mexico for five years. France will furnish beside $500,000 every month for five years, to meet the civil ex penses. Maximilian is to give as security the rail road from Vera Cruz to Mexico. Maximilian's re venues are to be collected by French officers." Although the Tariff Amendment Bill failed in its passage, two changes have been effected. The duties on cigars are 50 per cent. ad valorem, or $3 per lb. A clause previously stricken out has now been re-inserted, adding to the estimate of the cost of merchandise the transport, shipment, tranship: ment, packages, &c. This will add $10,000,000 to the revenue. As the subject is of considerable importance we give the clause :—" Sec. 9. That in determining the dutiable value of imported mer chandise, there shall be added to the cost on the actual wholesale prices, or general rin omaarl markets ketvalue o at f the time of exportation in the principal the country from which the same shall have been imported into the United States, the cost of trans portation, shipment, transhipment, with all ex penses included, from the place of growth, produc tion, or manufacture, whether by land or water, to the vessel in which shipment is made to the United States ; the value of the sack, box, or covering of any kind in which such goods are contained ; com mission at the usual rates, but in no case less than two and a half per cent., brokerage, export duty, and all other actual or usual rates for putting up, preparing, and packing for transportation or ship ment, and all charges of a general character incurred in the purchase of a general invoice, shall be dis tributed pro rata among all parts of such invoice, and every part thereof charged with duties based on value shall be advanced according to its propor tion, and all wines or other articles paying specific duty by grades shall be graded, and pay duty accord ing to the actual value so determined. Provided, That all additions made to the entered value of merchandise for charges shall be regarded as part of the actual value of such merchandise ; and, if such addition shall exceed by ten per cent. the value so declared in the entry in addition to the duties imposed by law, there shall be levied, collected, and paid a duty of 20 per cent. on such value. Pro vided, That the duty shall in no wise be assessed upon an amount less than the invoice or entered value. Provided further, That nothing herein con tained shall apply to long-combing carpet-wools costing twelve cents or less per pound, unless the charges added shall carry the cost above twelve cents, in which case one cent per pound duty is to be levied." We have more than once alluded to the subject of providing means to enable distressed Americans in London to return to their native country. The class most concerned are seamen, and we are rejoiced that the British Government has taken the initia tive with respect to them. Sir Frederick Bruce has proposed officially on behalf of England that a reciprocal treaty be entered into by the two coun tries for the benefit of seamen in distress. Con gress can alone ratify such a treaty, but there can be no doubt that the measure will receive its sanc tion. Each nation will agree to send home seamen of the other country in distress in its ports. When the treaty comes to be discussed we hope the whole subject will be fully entered on, as seamen are not the only class deserving of Government aid. Most distressing cases of destitution among Americans occur in London. Good men may be deprived of the means of living by sickness, failure of their employers, and circumstances over which they have no control, and find themselves reduced to the greatest straits in this vast metropolis, with no other resource than the private assistance of Ameri can residents. Some recognised official should be authorised to inquire into such cases, and where the applicant was found to be the victim wholly of misfortune, the means of returning to his country at his country's expense might surely be extended to him. Many of these persons could give bonds to return the amount, and what is done by such colonies as New Zealand to introduce a population into the country might be done by the Great Republic in aid of its own citizens in distress in a foreign city. We extract the following account of the Generals of the regular army and their order of seniority from the New Pork Post : " The quick promotion of Sherman to the rank lately held by Grant, and of Porter to that of Farragut, will please everybody. The army have, in the establishment of the new rank of General, an especial and professional pleasure, as it completes the round of grades. Hitherto we have had no rank to correspond with the highest com mands in our army. During the late war a Major-General commanded a hundred other Major-Generals, which is as though a Colonel should command an army corps. This anomaly is now remedied. The promotion of Hancock to a Major-Generalship in the regular army will be re garded as a fit recognition of the brilliant and important services of one of the most prominent subordinate com manders of the army of the Potomac, who was always— f em the Drat tight st Williamsburg to the last of filo cam- paign under Grant and Meade—distinguished forthe vigour of his movements, as well as for a gallantry which con tinually led him and his command into the hardest and thickest of the fighting. Of General Ord, who is pro moted to the brigadier-generalship made vacant by Han cocks' elevation, we can say that there is not in the service a more thorough or faithful officer. In the West he was a favourite of General Grant, and in the Eastern army he fully maintained his reputation and standing. The gene rals of the regular array now rank in the order of their names in the following list :—General, Ulysses S. Grant ; Lieutenant-General, William T. Sherman ; Major-Gene rals, Henry W. Halleck, George G. Meade, Philip H. Sheridan, George 11. Thomas, Windfield S. Hancock ; Bri gadier-Generals, Irwin McDowell, William S. Rosecrans, Philip St. George Cooke, John Pope, Joseph Hooker, John M. Schofield, Oliver 0. Howard, Alfred H. Terry, E. 0. C. Ord. Of all these, General Terry, the brilliant captor of Fort Fisher, and faithful commander in Virginia, is the only officer drawn from civil life. All the others were educated at West Point ; but Grant, Sherman, Hooker, Ifoward, and Ilaßeck were in civil life when the war broke out, having resigned from tho army after the Mexican war." TIIE FIRST AMERICAN " GENERAL " AND "ADMIRAL."—The United States have now, for the first time in their history, a General upon the land and an Admiral upon the seas. Heretofore we have had " Lieu tenant " Generals and " Vice " Admirals ; but both these titles implied that there was a higher military and a higher naval grade known to the law, while in truth there were no higher grades in law or in fact. The President, though constitutionally Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy, has properly no military grade and no military title ; and, in fact, the subordination implied in the prefix " Lieu tenant" and the prefix " Vice " has no reference, histori cally or actually, to any relations with the President. The new titles have been conferred upon those to whom the country would award them by universal acclaim. Grant and Farragut are not only the two foremost names in our warlike history, but their pre-eminence is undisputed by any rival. All hail " General " Grant ! All hail "Admiral " Farragut !—New York limes. The Boston Journal, of the sth instant, says : The United States practice ship Macedonian, Lieutenant- Commander Luce, arrived here this forenoon from Port land, and anchored in the stream off Long Wharf. Soon after reaching this city she fired the usual salute. She is attached to the Naval Academy fleet, and has on board 136 midshipmen of the different classes—embracing 17 of the Ist class, 22 of the 2d class, 48 of the 3d class, and 49 of the 4th class. At Gazetteville, near Buffalo, a natural gas spring was discovered a year ago. Since that time various experiments have shown that it is of remarkable purity, and flows over forty thousand feet per day. The well has flowed in this manner over a year. The income of Augustus llamenway, of Boston, for 1865, was $220,000. He does not enjoy it, however, being a lunatic. He made his first venture by chance. He was supercargo of a vessel bound from Boston to Buenos Ayres, many years ago. Nearing the latter port they learned that it was blockaded. Changing their course, .they wont into Valparaiso, sold their cargo of flour for 300 or 400 per cent. profit, and took in a full load of copper ore, which cost not a single cent, and sold it for an im mense sum in Boston. John Mitchell writes that $75,000 have passed through his hands from the Fenians of America to James Stephens, for all of which sums he holds Stephens' receipts. A man fell asleep in a theatre in Buffalo, the other night, and only woke up when the rats began nib bling at his face, long after the close of the performance. REJUVENATED TO DEATIL—The Milwaukie News says :—" Mr. William Burton, an old citizen of ,North Prairie, Waukesha county, killed himself on the Ist inst.. by experimenting a la Turkish bath. He had conceived the idea that by subjecting himself to intense heat, ho could regain the elasticity and buoyancy of youth, and the beauty which usually appertains to that period of life. He had been experimenting for some time previous, for the purpose of attaining this object, and on the night of his decease had got up a high temperature, and on the following morning he was found lifeless, the flesh upon his limbs being literally cooked. Ho was an excellent mechanic, a bachelor, and about 45 years of age." We are informed that Mr. Horatio Ames, the patentee and manufacturer of the gun which bears his name, and which has been repeatedly tried with extraor dinary results by the ordnance officers of the American Government, has lately brought it under the notice of the Emperor of Russia. The resources of the Russian gun factories were at once placed at Mr. Amos' disposal, to gether with a liberal appropriation of money to establish their manufacture in that country ; but, we believe, the offer has been declined, and, indeed, no experienced iron master would think of commencing such an undertaking in a country so lacking in skilled labour told in general facilities for special manufacture of iron as Russia. • General Sherman, in a recent address to the stu dents of Yale College, said :—" I tell you that before you pass from the stage there will be fighting in comparison with which mine will seem slight." Navigation of the Missouri. The 12th July marked a new era in the navigation of the Missouri. The Railway King, who is Vice-President of the Great Pacific Road, Mr. Durant, has won new tributes to his sagacity and still as a manager of great interests, by transferring his powers from the field of building railroads to that of navigating great rivers. Stimulated by the zeal which he brings to the manage ment of the Pacific Road, he undertook the work of bring ing increased facilities to the navigation of the Missouri — the worst navigable stream for its volume in the world, owing to its shifting sand-bars. The question to be solved was whether barges could be used in the Missouri, as they have been used in the other rivers of the country in the transportation of freights. Mr. Durant, after an oppo sition to his views by the most experienced navigators of the Missouri, by pilots, masters, steam-boat owners, and every body else, insisted that heavily laden barges could be made to run in this river. Nothing would satisfy him but the ex periment itself, and the plan for trying it was organised and put into execution under his direction. The result brought to the Omaha levee yesterday the new and ele gant steamboat Elk Horn, having in tow two splendid barges, fitly named the Hero and the Heroine, laden with 900 bars of railroad iron and 3,600 bushels of coal. We regard this, as all will regard it, a great triumph in tha navigation of our much-abused river. The friends of the Missouri should be grateful to Durant for having vin dicated these mighty waters against the slanders of their traducers, and for a result which places it on a par with its twin sister, the Mississippi. THE BARGES-THEIR ADVANTAGES. These barges were made in Pittsburg. They aro 25 feet beam, and 125 feet in length. They are to be kept in the service of the Union Pacific Company, iu bringing iron and ties to build a railway at the rate of nearly two miles a day. They have made a great conquest of the obstacles to our navigation in this, that, while in our lowest water, boats like the Colorado cannot navigate the river with 100 tons without difficulty, these barges can carry 200 tons on two feet of water with ease. THE NEW BOAT ELK HORN. This is a splendid freight boat, provided with a neat cabin, and eierything in order ; built in Pittsburg by order of Mr. Durant, for the Union Pacific Company, at a cost of $52,000. It has entirely new and powerful engines, and was made to encounter all the hard hits of Missouri navigation. The now boat is complete in every part, and has the following dimensions : Length ,Width Main kelson 151 feet in depth, and 31 feet thick. Floor timbers 6y by 31. Plank 4, 1 ,- inches thick forward, and 31 aft. The Elk Horn had the honour of towing the first barges that ever navigated the Missouri. Her power is demon strated. She made the trip from St. Louis to Omaha in nine days and fourteen hours running time, and never delayed a moment on account of the barges. These were not unfastened once, nor was a pound of freight moved on account of them. Our old friend, Mr. H. M. Iroxie, had the direction of Mr. Durant's experiment from St. Louis, and it could not have been in abler hands. Hoxie has the force in him and the capacity to execute which few possess, and is a man who is never disconcerted by difficulties. The Elk Horn is commanded by E. H. Barnes, master, and William Lingo, pilot, veteran steamboat mon and obliging gentlemen, who are astonished at the victory achieved in barging on the Missouri. We congratulate Mr. Durant upon his achievement. It is exclusively his own. Ho won it by that iron will and resolution which have made him eminent. He has marked a new era in the navigation of the greatest of navigable rivers, and has demonstrated anew his tremendous force and grasp in whatever ends he seeks to accomplish. 475 feet. ... 35 2-3 The Paris correspondent of the Star gives the following amusing account of the mode in which the Census is now being taken in Franco :—" Two solemn gentlemen in black, each armed with huge resistors, ink bottles, and pens, arrive and demand the age, profession, &c., &c., of every individual inhabitant. The intelligence with which the printed forms are filled up is remarkable, especially in country parts. Tho census lately taken at Envermeu, near Dieppe, contains the following insertion : Louis Denis, aged three months; no profession; bachelor.' A little further on : Marie Jouret, aged eight days, idem, spinster.' ADVERTISEMENT. j —Holloway's Pills.— Conscientious Convictions.—No investment of money can be so profitable as that which insures good health. It has been established beyond dispute that Holloway's . pills, which cost but a trifle, will successfully wrestle with and ove rthrow disease. In all the many forms in which dyspepsia or indigestion presents itself, it may bo thoroughly removed by these purifying and gently aperient pills, assisted by a diet which must be simple in quality and moderate in quantity. Long indisposition, resulting from defective appetite or imperfect assimilation, yields to this efficient treatment, and nausea, disagreeable tastes in the mouth, headache ' and the annoy ing collection of phlegm which plagues the dyspeptic in the morning, will be banished by these Dalsanue and strengthening pills. - American Securities. Englishmen carry their strong prejudices in favour of their country, even into their investments. Generally speaking, money banishes the romance of imagination, and brings questions down to hard facts and dry figures. But it is not always so ; or it would be difficult to account for discrepancies in values, which a glance at the Stock Exchange list of prices will at once show. The revenue derived from the United States is at the present moment fully a third larger than that of Great Britain, while its expenditure will in future be less. This revenue is collected with facility, and borne by the nation with ease. The national wealth increases year by year prodigiously; outstripping beyond all proportion the growth in wealth of any ether coun try. Yet on comparing the value of American stocks with those of this country or any of the great kingdoms of Europe, we find that the most solvent debtor pays by far the highest interest. Few people are prepared to dispute the question that a " promise to pay" on the part of the United States is as good as a "promise to pay" on the part of any kingdom of Europe. Intrinsically we maintain that such a " promise" is better, with the doubtful exception in favour of the United Kingdom. It is better because the nation is more wealthy now, and growing more wealthy than any other nation ; be cause its Government, being firmly fixed on the shoulders of the people, is more stable, and with less risk of change; and because it stands alone on the continent, without a foreign foe that could in any way interfere with or change the destinies of the people. The Union is free from all chance of attack which could alter its boundaries, or work any permanent evil, even were a combination of Governments hostile to it possible. In this security the Americans stand alone. We have an instance of a great European military Government struck down in the campaign of a few days. The map of Europe will be altered, and vast changes result from a single battle. With such an example before us, we cannot consider any European Government ab solutely safe. The great monarchies of Europe are liable not only to external attack, but to internal revolution. With scarcely an exception these Go vernments guard against this danger by an expen diture in developing their military resources which outstrips their revenues, and year by year dips them deeper in hopeless debts. It is strange, then, to see the stocks of nations so placed quoted at a higher value than those of the United States, A natural belief in one's own country, a Government one sees, and a revenue one partly pays, in some measure may account for this fact. Habit, the strength given by time, and the confidence inspired by long and honourable fulfilment of engagements, are also among the reasons. But ignorance and timidity have far more to do with these quotations than any other cause. The timidity which arises from ignorance is, indeed, the main reason, which perhaps time only can fully dissipate. English investors are but beginning to know what five-twenties and seven-thirties mean. Gradually these stocks rise in value, even during a . terrible panic which has prostrated English credit. There are no subjects more keenly and attentively con sidered by men with money than the investment of capital. Every one who has put by savings eagerly listens to the person who can satisfy him that there is a secure and profitable means of laying them out. Most grasp at the highest interest, and many plunge into a sea of trouble, in pursuit of the great object of making much out of little. Others timidly hold back, believing in the security of no thing they cannot see and know by long experience to be sound. There is, however, a class who work out for themselves their scheme of investment, and attentively study the subject, uninfluenced by the prejudice and the ignorance around them. These are the men who come in for the good things, buying low where the public have little confidence, and selling high when that confidence has become unbounded, after the knowledge they had earlier ob tained has been widely spread abroad. It is now difficult to believe that the English preferred Con federate Bonds to those of the United States when the war was raging. The Germans more accurately estimated the position and invested largely in American Government securities. John Bull was full of prejudice and ignorance, and paid the penalty in giving his money for a considerable quantity of worthless Confederate paper. The shrewd, stolid Dutchman and German reaped the harvest. The clouds of ignorance and prejudice are but slowly rising, and United States Bonds still remain a sub ject well worth the earnest attention of those who seek to derive a secure means of living and high interest for their money.—Anglo-American Times. Executive Appointment'. On the 2nd August the President made the following appointments :—Monroe Young, collector of customs, Frenchman'd Bay, Maine ; Charles H. Hildredth, surveyor of customs at Gloucester, Mass. ; Sylvester Birdsell, sur veyor ,of customs, Camden, N.J. ; William L. Ashmore, collector of customs at Burlington, N.J. ; Henry Richard Coggshall, assessor of the fifth district of Penn sylvania ; Edward Wallace, naval officer at Philadel phia ; William F. Johnston, collector of customs at Philadelphia; Albert Sloanaker, collector of internal revenue for the first district of Pennsylvania ; E. Reed Meyer, surveyor of customs at Philadelphia ; Thos. Jones, jun., assessor of the eighteenth district of Ohio ; John Atkinson, collector of customs. at Port Huron, Michigan ; James J. Langdon, surveyor of customs at Quincy, 111. ; Richard J. Howard, surveyor of customs at St. Louis, Mo. ; John W. Stewart, collector of internal revenue, second dis trict, lowa. NEW ORLEANS. The following are copies of despatches from the Presi dent to the Federal and State officers in New Orleans, and from those officers to the President, including a telegram from General Sherman, all having reference to tho conven ing of the Convention in New Orleans, and the disturb ances in that city. None of these communications have been published before DESPATCH PROM THE PRESIDENT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, July 26.—T0 his Excellency Gover nor Wells, New Orleans, La.—l have been advised that you have issued a proclamation convening the Convention elected in 1861. Please inform me under and by what authority this has been done, and by what authority this Convention can assume to represent the whole people o' the State of Louisiana. ANDREW JOHNSON, REPLY OF GOVERNOR WELLS. _ _ NEW ORLEANS, July 28.—T0 his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President United States :—Your telegraph re ceived. I have not issued a proclamation convening the Convention of 1864. This was done by the President of that body by virtue of a resolution adjourning the Con vention subject to his order, and in that case authorising him to call on the proper officer to issue writs of election in unrepresented parishes. My proclamation is in re sponse to that call, ordering an election on the 3d day of September. As soon as the vacancies can be ascertained an election will be held to fill them, when the entire State will be represented.—Your obedient servant, J MADISON WELLS, Governor of Louisiana. SECOND DESPATCH FROM THE PRESIDENT. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, Aug. 1, 1866.—T0 Albert Voorhees, Lieutenant-Governor, or Andrew J. Herron, Attorney- General, New Orleans : —Were the civil authorities State or Federal conferred with by General Baird before he de clared martial law ? Could not tho civil authorities, State and Federal, enforce the law and preserve order, with tho aid of the military and without the necessity of martial law ? I hope that order has been restored, and the rio . not as disastrous as represented. Please show this de spatch to General Baird. (Signed) Axnurw J oussos. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SHERIDAN. In order that the following from General Sheridan be fully understood, it should be stated that he was absent from Now Orleans when the disturbances commenced in that city : " NEW ORLEANS, 1.30 p.m., August 1, 1866.—T0 General U. S. Grant, Washington, D.C.—You aro doubtless aware of the serious riot which occurred in this city on the 30th. A political body, styling itself the Convention of 1864, met hero on the 30th, for, as it is alleged, the purpose of re modelling the present constitution of the State. The leaders were political agitators and revolutionary men, and the action of the Convention was liable to produce broaches of the public peace. " I had made up my mind to arrest the head men if the proceedings of the Convention were calculated to disturb the tranquillity of the Department, but I had no cause for action until they committed overt the act. About 40 whites and blacks were killed, and about 160 wounded. Every thing is now quiet, but I doom it best to maintain a mili tary supremacy in the city for a few days until the affair is fully investigated. I believe the swain:out of the gene ral community is great regret at the unnecessary cruelty, and that the police could have made any arrest they saw fit without sacrificing lives. _ _ _ 44 P. H. SHERIDAN, Major-General Commanding. —The Philadelphia Inquirer. COUNTRY MARKETS. --ter-- NORWICH- SATURDAY. 1r.."" There was a limited supply of wheat at market to-day, and prices were about the same as last week. A few samples of new oats were offered, of heavy quality ; the high prices asked, however, checked business. Little doing in barley, beans, or peas. White wheat (weighing 641 b), 55s to 57s ; old red aitto weighing 651 b), 51s to 53s ; new red ditto weighing 601 b to 631 b), 51s to 52s ; best malting barley weighing 521 b to 531 b), 36s to 38s ; runs ditto (weighing 511 to 521 b), 34s to 365; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 30s to 32s i oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 57s to 39s ; peas (maple), SO to 38s per qr. Flour, 376 6d per sack. LEICESTER SATURDAY. We were very sparsely supplied with wheat to-day ; samples made quite recent rates. For barley the demand was slow, at previous prices. A moderate inquiry for oats, and prices little altered. Beans in limited request, and prices the turn downwards. New white wheat, 55s to G2s ; new red, 53s to 58s ; old, white, Ms to as ; old red, 52s to Ms per 36 stone. Bar ley, for malting, 35s to 40s per qr.; grinding, 30s to 33s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 28s to 348 ; new, —s to —s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 50s to 54s ; new, —s to —s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 43s ; seconds, 38s to 39s per 20 stone. YORK—SATURDAY. We had a limited supply of wheat at market to-day. With a low temperature and very little mut, the corn crops have not ripened much, but harVest prospects are generally fair. There was a tolerable demand for grinding barley, and recent currencies were easily supported. Oats were sparingly represented, and sales were effected at about late rates. The show of beans was limited, and there was slow demand at recent prices. New white wheat, 52s to 58s ; new red, 48s to 53s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 32s to 34s per qr. ; grinding, 32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 28s to 30s per 24 stone• Beans, new, 50s to 52s per 38 stone. Malt, 66s to 68s. Flour, 38s to 40s per sack of 2801bs. NORTHAMPTON-SATURDAY. There was an improved supply of wheat at our corn mar ket to-day, which met with a fair inquiry at extreme quo tations. Barley scarcely worth quoting. Oats a steady trade, at last week's prices. New white wheat, 54s to 595; new red, 48s to 52s ; old white, 52s to 555; old red, 48s to 52s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, —a to —s per qr. ; grinding, 30s to 36s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 21s to 31s ; new, 28s to 30s per 21 stone. Beans, old, 48s to 50s ; new, 42s to 45s per 38 stone. Peas, 40s to 43s per 36 stone. Foreign Mail Packet List. -4- MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Ang. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. -•-• Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet ...... Sept. 3. Ditto, by French packet . Aug. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.... Aug. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton—Aug 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 13. Faikland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. 1 0 . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug 27. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 2 1 . Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 13. Mauritius, via Southampton Aug. 19 Ditto, via Marseille 3 . Sept. 13 Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet - Aug. 23, Ditto, by 'United States packet, via Bouthamp- ton ... Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Aug. 17. West Coabt of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....Sept. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and II ondurai) •••• ....Aug. 28. Cuba and Mexico Aug. 23. Bermuda, via Halifax Aug. 29. Bahamas, via New York. Aug. 20. • The Emperor of the French put in a claim for rectification of frontier on the German side of ble empire. This demand excited in Germany a uni versal feeling of consternation and indignation, and the Cabinet of Berlin showed to his Imperial Ma jesty that they had no choice in the matter—tha t they could not accede without facing a people roused to the highest point. The Emperor having put forth the feeler, and seen its effect on both France and Germany, quickly took in the whole position, and in a few sensible words an nounced to the Prussian Envoy his object in making the demand, and his reasons for withdrawing it. Whether foiled or successful Napoleon is alwar master of the position. What would have brought down a storm of indignation on any other ma n produces little effect on the mighty reputation of the Emperor of the French. Whatever intriguers may say France is well aware that the honour and influence Of the country are in the best hands, and that there is no nation in Europe, or combination of nations, as long as the Emperor rules, that dare excite the just pride and wrath of the gallant Gaul. At first some fears were excited by this demand, bu t people soon settled down to the confident belie f that the Emperor would not press his claim to a war with Germany. Happily for all parties than was no doubt what the result would be. The Ger man mind spoke out at once, and the whole natiel l o united, declared their minds on the subject. The question, therefore, got out of that drift which tenl so often to add complication to complication, an, ends by exciting the liveliest feelings of anger 513 k involving the honour of both sides.—Anglo-Am eiv can Times. HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.—The claims of th i : company to three-fourths of British America, contain, i°° the only prairie land, should be submitted to the ri l l Council for decision . Whatever rights they have to 011,0 son's Bay, Canada, the public say they have none to districts between British Columbia and Canada. A mote c ° or was lately made in Congress to offer them $10,000,000. ,t. their Red River district, but to this they had nolegal rl A committee of the House of Commons sat some year s !, g o t on this question, but the result of their labours 10 known. 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Bourchler, of a o °,: es uulyi CLAY—On the 18th inst ,at The Manor Ifouse, L'u Herts, Mrs. Wentworth Clay, of a daughter. re , t 10) MARSHALL—On the 15th inst., at Bagnoros do wife of of J. G. Dow, Marshall, Esq., late CaPt' landers, of a daughter. • Marriages. of „ re, 1 1•1 IforE—Fuvrox—On the 16th inst., at the pari s 'l 7 , l l 11-1 Drumbo, Theodore C. Hope, of H.M.'s w, t° .lervice . , and Lincoln's-inn, Esq., barrister-s,.tf l i. ii: M'Gildowny, only osephine Mary Fulton, of Braidoigle House, near Lisburn, in the ter -g" of Antrim, and of the Inner Tem 1 Esq r-is 1 , daughter i, ' c oo .4 . Temp 10, 1 Jaw. ~„ iviArY',.-- WATSON BIDDLECOMBE —On the 19th inst., at ta-,, f CV ° bone Parish Church, Walter W. Watson, Esq.,r:onght,6; lotte-street, eldest son of J. Watson, Esq. , of — b.tor °' street, Portland-place, to Emily, youngest of Biddlescombe, Esq., of Great Russell-street. Deaths. h'ref tOO5-I,IS Diony—On the 16th inst ,at O rton, NortbsOP Goal' ' Lt.-Col. H. IL Digby, late of the Scots Fusilier aged 74. EAST-- On the 12th inst., at Ra Isle of 'Wigh t, S o d ir 4 63 : Gilbert East, Bart., of Hall place, Berk..shirs, agol,l -. to P . NEWTON—On the 15th inst., at The JNOSCO 7 2 0 ' Cheshire, Wm. Newton, Esq., aged 76. ne ar PINENI—.On the 16th inst., at East Peckham, --___ los As9p. lits:1" bridge, Kent, James Pimm, aged 67. IQ ss oll-scl Co l ' WiirrEguL—On the 14th inst., at 40, .-u,,.t0 lA. - Brighton, Caroline Whitehill, relict of the xo Chas. Whitehill, Bombay--.,08, London: Printed and Published by wir,o ,„ o. of of No. 112, Strand, Ptiater. at Tits SUN OLurcootti I Strand, in the rI•CCIOnt of the Savoy , in b" i AllddleNOL—Nonclay, August 20, 1860.