The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-18 00:00:00

THE UNITED STATES. (Prom the Times Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4. The long-promised statement of the Federal debt has at length appeared, and the Secretary of the Treasury announces that hereafter the statements 'will be published every two months. On the 31st of July the debt was as follows : Bearing Dollars ob. Dollars Chi. Interest in coin 1,108,662,641 80 Int. 64,521,837 50 Interest in paper 1,289,156,545 5 Int. 74,740,630 78 No interest 357,906,968 92 Interest ceased on 1,527,120 9 Total debt $2,757,253,275 86 $139,262,468 28 The number of legal tender notes in circulation is $685,236,269 : currency under $l, known as frac tional currency, $25,750,000 ; amount in Treasury on the 31st of July—coin, $35,338,000 ; paper, $81,402,000 59c. ; total, $116,739,632 59c. The last statement of the debt was made on the 31st of May, and since that time it has increased about $122,000,000. The amount of legal tenders in circulation has increased $26,075,700. Since the beginning of last March about $165,000,000 have been paid to the army, and for several days past the l am ount paid from the Treasury has averaged fi v e or six millions daily, and this enormous outlay will continue for same time to come. Even with this large expenditure, the payments to contractors are much delayed, and the amount of claims now out standing is estimated at $175,000,000. So strait ened has the Treasury been that nearly $80,000,000 of Seven-thirties have been paid out directly to creditors, on, condition that they are held four months without being put upon the market. Secre tary M'Culloch, however, as he ought, puts a good face upon the matter, and has written a letter, in which he says, " The Treasury is in a comfortable position, and I expect, by concentrating the avail able funds and economising the tax receipts, to meet all obligations without pressure until the meeting of Congress." What Congress will do, no one can foretell, but it is reported on all sides that a tre mendous effort will be made to add at least $200,000,000 to the amount of currency authorised for the national banks, and to declare all national bank notes legal tenders. The prospect will not be very promising if the latter scheme succeeds. There is a painful rumour current that the state ment of the debt is not correct, and the total amount has been made too small by about $150,000,000. This difference is made by not adding the whole of the later subscriptions to the 7-30 loan to the debt, and if the rumour be true, the debt really amounts to over $2,900,000,000. It is to be hoped, how ever, for the credit of the Secretary, that the rumour is untrue. It is idle to deny that there is a strong feeling in many parts of the country against the national debt, and it appears to exist in its greatest intensity in the New England States. The opposition has taken a positive form, and in two of those States the Legis latures have assessed heavy taxes upon all persons holding Government loans. In New Hampshire a tax of 25 per cent. has been laid on all incomes from Government bonds, and 15 per cent. has been laid in Connecticut. In Vermont the: issue of the coming town elections tarns entirely upon this point, and the people will vote for or against the candidates as they wish the loans to be or not to be taxed. Secretary APCulloch has decided these•taxes illegal. Some of the Eastern journals regard it as a little singular that this phase of opposition to the debt should have been first developed in Republican States, and that Wendell Phillips should be among the leaders in the movement. Yet it is so, and it only illustrates that New England, after securing its darling wish, the abolition of slavery, is very anxious by Yankee tricks to avoid paying for it. The condition of the South is not materially changed from what has been currently reported for some time past. There has been lately a perfect storm of proclamations and orders from all the officers, big and little, scattered over the South, and they rival any of the documents promulgated when the war was raging. In Virginia, no less than five Generals have given reasons for the recent annulling of the Richmond election, and three of them say that they cannot for prudential reasons yet publish the main cause of that arbitrary pro ceeding. It is insisted that the election was an nulled with the consent of President Johnson, but this makes very little difference, for the people being all of the same stripe will always elect Secessionists to office. At Lynchburg, General Gregg, imitat ing his brethren at Richmond, has issued a procla mation, 'commanding all Confederate soldiers to re port themselves at headquarters within 24 hours and make known their means of living. The poverty of the country is the burden of all our advices, and it is said that Governor Letcher, once among the wealthiest men of Central Virginia, has now scarcely a dollar he can call his own. In North Carolinia proclamations are as plentiful as in Virginia. Governor Holden has issued an " official telegram," stating that he apprehends no trouble in North Carolina when the military are removed ; that Union men will not be hanged, nor negroes maltreated. This is pub lished to contradict various reports that have been current of threatening disturbances. Yet the people still talk very defiantly, and the most out spoken are those recently appointed to Federal offices. William A Graham, formerly a United States sena tor, declares he will not consent to the return of North Carolina to the Union if negro suffrage is made a condition. The coming State Convention will contain a large majority against Holden, who favours negro suffrage and Radicalism generally. The Fayetville Daily News lately said that North Carolina would stultify itself if it adopted the con stitutional amendment abolishing slavery, and the military authorities at once threatened it with sup pression. The Daily Union Banner, published at Salisbury, North Carolina, has already begn sup pressad, and the order directing its office to be closed eo remarkable that I quote it:— "Headquarters Department of North Carolina, Army of the Ohio, Raleigh, North Caro lina, July 21. " General Orders, No. 111.—The publication of the Daily Union Banner, Salisbury, North Carolina, will be suspended until further orders, for the publication, on the 19th July, 1865, of an article headed The Freedmen,' containing matter disloyal in spirit, and also the following paragraph, which is in substance false : " ' General Ruger, General Howard, and generals gene rally are fulminating their peculiar views. If these gentle men are to fix the status of our coloured fellow-citizens of African descent, where then is the necessity of holding a convention? The same power that gives them this right would entitle them to say what we should do in every other relation in life. They have already assumed the power to say what we shall drink and wear.' "An order prohibiting the wearing of insignia andbadges of rank by persons lately officers of the insurgent forces, and one for the p revention of the sale of liquor as a police regulation, cannot honestly be construed as assuming the power to say what we s h a ll drink and wear. Brevet Bri gadier-General G. W. Schofield, commanding the First Division 23d Army Corps, is charged with the execution of this order.—By command of "Brevet Major-General Ru GER." South Carolina also has its proclamation generals. The first is General Gillmore, who has abolished by one stroke of his pen the entire judicial system, and' ordered that military provost courts shall try a u cases, civil and criminal. In South Carolina they deal with troublesome newspapers in a way that strikes at the root of the evil. General Hatch has issued another proclamation, that no on e shall begin publishing a journal without first obtaining his con sent. Governor Perry by a third proclamation has reappointed all the Confederate State and local officers, and ordered them to continue the discharge of their duties. Still another proclamation has been issued in South Carolina, and this time for a good purpose, to prevent Federal military officers from charging 2 50c. for administering the amnesty oaths to the people. South Carolina is a unit in op position to negro suffrage. Kentucky is, perhaps, the most unfortunate of all the States. An existing canvass for Congressmen is progressing, and the election will take place on August 7. Were the people let alone a ticket strongly opposed to the Government would be almost unanimously chosen, but this must be pre vented, and resort had to the inevitable proclama tions. General Palmer has issued one declaring martial law to exist in Kentucky, and ordering all persons who, by word or d ee d, di rec tly or in directly aided the rebellion, to keep away from the polls under penalty of arrest and trial before a military Court. By this sweeping disfranchise ment it is hoped to elect Congressmen favour able to the Government, yet so strong is the Democratic majority that scarcely a republican candidate will be returned. The exodus of negroes from Kentucky on General Palmer's emigration passes is greater than ever. Over 25,000 crossed to the North bank of the Ohio during the week ending July 30. General Palmer denies that he gives " free papers" to the negroes, but when the negroes all manage to get into a free State by means of his passes it is hard to discover the distinction between them and free papers. These passes read as follows : " Head-quarters United States Forces, Paris, Kentucky, -, 1865. " To all whom it may concern. " In pursuance of general orders No. 49, Head-quarters, Department of Kentucky, July 19, 1865, - (coloured) is authorised to pass at will in search of employment. All public carriers will respect this pass. " --, Commanding United States Forces at Paris, Kentucky." General Palmer, it seems, does not rely wholly upon his proclamation to carry the Kentucky elec tion, for in one day he arrested seven candidates for the Legislature in Central Kentucky on charges of disloyalty, and he has given a memorandum to his subordinates of the persons who are to be arrested if they attempt to vote. This includes all who served in the Confederate army, or have aided any one who did serve in that army, and all who have rejoiced over Confederate victories or possessed Confederateflags. Were such an order promulgated at an election in Philadelphia, half the voters at least would be deprived of their rights, and it strikes at nine-tenths in Kentucky. In Mississippi the politicians have announced their intention of going into the State Convention and reconstructing the state with slavery, and the con sequence is that the military have been ordered to keep a sharp look-out on election-day, and over throw all candidates for the Convention who enter tain such ideas. General Sharkey, in order to defray the expenses of the Convention, recently imposed various taxes, among them v 1 upon each bale of cotton sent to market. The owners have in nearly every case refnsed to pay this assessment, and their cotton has been seized, and will be sold to pay it. I have already written of the efforts being made by the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the North to bring back the Southern Bishops to the general Convention at Philadelphia. The first response has come from Bishop Green, of Missis sippi. He says he is opposed to a reunion with the Northern Church, but has instructed the clergy under his charge to resume their prayers for the President of the United States when the military shall be withdrawn. Bishop Wilmer, of Alabama, has given similar instructions. _ It is reported that only about one-fourth of the old lawyers of New Orleans have submitted to the order of the Government requiring them to take an oath of allegiance before they are allowed to prac tise law in the United States' courts. They prefer to abandon their business, and the consequence is that strangers from abroad come in and secure it. I hear of no proceedings in confiscation outside of Virginia. In Florida all sales of property confis cated heretofore have been indefinitely postponed ; but in Virginia new property has been seized, and the stocks and bonds owned by wealthy citizens are daily libelled. The Virginia negroes are making themselves heard throughout the country by means of a Con vention held at Alexandria. It was called to ex press the opinion of the negroes in favour of suf frage, but black men as well as white ones will wrangle in public assemblies, and nearly all the time was consumed in an angry quarrel whether three Washington negroes, who claimed to represent the negroes of Fredericksburg, should be admitted to seats. There is no end to the dispute yet appa rent, for it and the Convention appear to have closed together. A claim has been made by several negroes of Virginia before the Freedmen's Bureau, and it will no doubt be enforced, for wages from their masters since the Emancipation Proclamation of the Ist of January, 1863. If adopted as the policy of the Bureau, of which there is little doubt, it will lead to endless trouble and vexation throught the South. In the early part of • this week 10,000 negroes of New York and Brooklyn celebrated the anniversary of emancipation in the British West Indies by a pic-nic and public meeting. The negroes certainly exhibit au astonishing aptitude for imitat ing white men in all their doings. On July 30 the Inman steamer Glasgow sailed from Liverpool with about 250 passengers and crew and a large cargo. On the morning of the 31st a man in delirium tremens rolled overboard and was drowned, and the excitement had scarcely subsided when about 1 o'clock fire was discovered in the fore part of the ship, and the second-class passengers flocked aft in great numbers. Guards were at once placed at the boats, and a vessel being seen about eight miles off, a signal of distress was raised and the Glasgow steamed for her. The vessel, which proved to be the bark Rosamond, of New York, changed her course and made for the Glasgow, and they soon met. All the passengers and then all the baggage were transferred to the bark, and Captain Manning, of the Glasgow, stood by his ship until 10 p.m., when the bull was wrapped in flames. The next morning the steamship Erin, from Liverpool, came alongside, took off the passengers, and carried them to New York. Strangely enough, they met on the Erin some of the passengers of the ill-fated ship William Nelson, who treated them in the kindest manner. The ability and energy displayed by Cap tain Manning, by which every passenger of his ves sel was saved, cannot be too much praised. Although Jefferson Davis is shut up in Fortress Monroe, he still has friends who are determined to see that he is fairly dealt with. A meeting has been held in New York, at which some of the principal citizens were present, and it was resolved that money should not be wanting to provide. him with counsel. The New York Post endeavoured to ridicule the meeting, but was very quickly made to apologise for its slurs. Charles O'Conor has publicly stated that he is Mr. Davis's counsel, and will stand by him to the last. General Richard Tayler, having procured the permission of the President, had an extended interview with Mr. Davis on Saturday last, July 29. There is a growing feeling in the country, fostered by the more sensible newspapers, in favour of treat ing Jefferson Davis leniently. The torrent of abuse which ran so strongly a month ago has entirely stopped. The indications from Washington are that General Lee and Vice-President Stephens will be pardoned, though how soon they will receive the Executive clemency is not yet known. General Kirby Smith and Judah P. Benjamin, after most eventful journeys and hairbreadth escapes, have ar rived in Havannah. On the night of July 29 a party of men made an attempt to abduct George N. Sanders from his residence in Montreal and carry him into the United States, in order to get the re ward offered by the Secretary of War for his arrest. The men concealed themselves in the cellar, but Sanders was not at home, and after a scuffle with stbohumethe theyoo f se t e. he members of his family they fled from very Tpheed. Some ryca police of Montreal pursued them, important shipping statistics have just been published, by which it appears that during the past 18 months 608 American 328,665, were sold to eric n a g n lis s h hips,with a owners. I t i s tonnage esti mated that during this period over 1,000 vessels, with a half-million tonnage, were sold to foreign nations. This is apparent by walking along the wharves of any of our large seaports ; foreign flags float over a majority of the finest vessels we have built during the past ten years. The long-anticipated election for Congressmen in Tennessee was held yesterday, and we are now re ceiving the first reports from the eastern part of the State. The vote was very light, nearly all the citizens being kept away from the polls by the mili tary. Nashville returns a Democrat in spite of the soldiers. Nothing decisive has been received from any other district, though in Knoxville and Chattanooga the Government candidates will pro bably be chosen. The expedition sent from New York to repair the cable across the Bay of St. Lawrence has begun its labours. By underrunning the cable it was found that part of the coating had rusted off about three miles from shore. Other breaks will no doubt be discovered as the cable still refuses to work; but it will probably be in order by the time the Great Eastern reaches Heart's Content. sosqwwirrNl THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 18, 1865. narrow gauge, the latter would be extended to Truro and other places, as he had no doubt the intention of Parliament would be carried out. The South- Western Company had always kept good faith with the South Devon Company, and he thought that the Bristol and Exetern and Great Western Companies had better make terms so as to admit of the narrow gauge being carried over the broad gauge, otherwise the narrow'gauge would gain the victory. He con cluded by calling attention to a Transatlantic steam company that was about being established between Southampton and American ports, which he thought would bring them traffic. Mr. CASTLEMAN seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which was agreed to ; and a dividend at the rate of £4 10s. per cent. on the or dinary stock was declared, payable on Sept. 1. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the directors were authorised to create and dispose of the share capital in the company authorised to be raised by the Ilfracombe Railway Act, 1865, the Dover and South-Westeru Company's Act, 1865 ; and the South-Western General Act, 1865, making together about £560,000, exclusive of borrowing powers. Formal resolutions were carried approving working arrangements with the Okehampton Company for the extension to Bude and Torrington, and the Sid mouth and Budleigh Salterton Company ; also ap proving a lease of the Alton, Alresford,Winchester, and of the Mid-Hants undertakings. The forfeiture of 77 shares of the Andover and Renbridge Railway was confirmed, and the directors were authorised to dispose of them. . _ _ A SHAREHOLDER requested that the capital accounts should in future show the total cost of the main line and each branch line separately as well as the expenditure on every half-year. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE STAINES, WOKINGHAM, AND WOKING. The directors of this company have resolved to recommend a dividend of 4s. per ordinary share, being at the rate of £2 per cent. per annum for the half-year ending the 30th of June last. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Waterloo-bridge station ; Captain Mangles in the chair. Mr. Clarke, the secretary, having read the notice convening the meeting,:and also the minutes of the last half-yearly and several subsequent special meetings, which were confirmed, the report, an ab stract of which has appeared in 7 he Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it was the 63d half-yearly meeting of the company, and it would not be necessary for him to detain them long, as neither the report nor accounts required much notice from him. It would be necessary to make a few observations on some of the items, as the shareholders had generally a dis like to the increase of capital. He could assure them that it was only the strongest necessity that induced the directors to make new lines, or to make leasing arrangements with other companies. The additional capital authorised would not be re quired at present, and it was the intention of the directors to spread the outlay over as long a period as possible in making those new lines. (Hear, hear.) The capital would be sufficient for the purposes in tended. The directors believed that when those lines were constructed they would supply the wants of the districts through which the mainline passed, and that there would be no necessity for a further increase of capital to make other extensions or branches. He wished to be clearly understood, because within the past five years their traffic had increased 50 per cent., and if that increase of traffic was to go on they would require additions to stations, sidings, and goods warehouses when necessary, so as fully to accommodate the increasing traffic. Owing to the number of towns and very large villages in the district accommodated by the company there was a great temptation for the promoters of what he called " sporting lines," that were intended to be sold or leased to the established company. When they did lease or purchase such lines they took good care to do so on such terms as would not encourage persons to continue that kind of warfare. The company at present worked the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway, the Staines and Wokingham, the Lymington, the Topsham and Exmouth, the Exeter and Crediton, the Christchurch and Bournemouth, the Bishop's Waltham, and the Stoke's Bay Rail way and Pier ; and they would have to work the Okehampton and its extensions to Bade and Tor rington, the Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton, the Alton, Airesford, and Winchester, and the Mid- Hants. They had avoided making those lines, and they would continue that course of policy. They believed that the public requirements of the country through which those lines passed would be so com pletely met that there would be no encouragement for those sporting gentlemen going any further in the company's districts. With regard to the capital account, the items he proposed to refer to amounted in the whole to £580,000 expended during the past half-year. Of this sum £18,715 was expended on the original line for extensions of stations, plat forms, sidings, and goods sheds; £4,168 on the Metropolitan Extension ; and £3,700 on the Wind sor loop for sidings and strengthening Barnes bridge. They found it necessary to lay down steel rails near the stations, the cost of, which was £l7 per ton, while that of iron rails was £7 per ton, and the £lO difference in the cost he thought was a fair charge against capital. There was £11,505 ex pended on doubling the line between Basingstoke and Salisbury, which was also a fair addition to capi tal. There was £5,400 expended on the Southamp ton and Dorchester line, which included £2,200 for sidings at Wimborne and additions at four other sta tions. They had expended £6,102 on the Yeovil and Exeter line, for additional sidings and steel rails for the permanent way on the. Petersfield and Mid hurst, £10,983 ; on new workshops at Nine-elms, £17,516. They had expended £16,200 in the pur chase of land at Portsmouth, to improve the station there, which was much needed. There was also £107,000 expended in the purchase of the North Devon line ; they had given for each £lOO of that company £49 stock in the South-Western Company. They had previously worked the line and paid a rent for it of so much a year, which they would not have to pay in future. He thought. on the whole, it was a good bargain for both companies. They had also given £48,723 for the Bideford Extension line. There was an item of £101,147 for the purchase of the Thames Valley line, which they had been forced to take in order to prevent the broad gauge invad ing their district. They had expended £76,663 for additional plant, which was rendered necessary by the increase of traffic and the new lines they had to work. So that they had paid £330,000 out of the £580,000 for the purchase of other lines and addi tional rolling stock. The directors were most anxious to keep down the expenditure on capital account as much as possible. If any question were asked with regard to the balance-sheet, he would refer them to the auditors, who, from their constant at ' tention to the accounts, were well able to explain anything connected with them. He would be glad if gentlemen would ask questions about the accounts so as to be fully satisfied. The renewal of the per manent way account showed a debt of £57,316 in the last half-year, but it was now reduced to £54,679. Since June, 1862, they had reduced the renewal ac count by £30,126, or by about £lO,OOO per annum. Some remarks had appeared on this subject iu the leading journal as to the desirability of having such an account in order to enable a company to make timely renewals, and so prevent any failure or acci dent in the working. The debit against renewal ac count stood at £84,000; they had since taken £30,000 out of revenue, and reduced it to 54,000. He thought that was a very desirable course, and they would go on gradually reducing it. The report gave them full particulars as to the traffic. It showed an in crease in the gross traffic receipts of £30,360, as compared with the same half of 1864, and also an additional expenditure of £16,154, leaving an addi tional net profit on the working of £14,206. The additional expenses had been caused by an additional train mileage and other matters, which were ex plained in the report of Mr. Beattie, their able en gineer. The new workshops at Nine-elms were now in full operation, and Mr. Beattie had so skilfully arranged the various workshops, giving ample room to each, that a considerable saving of time and ex pense would in future be effected in carrying on the repairs and renewalsfor the company. The exertions of Mr. Stratton, their storekeeper, had, he believed, saved them a considerable sum. Mr. Strapp had be stowed great attention on the permanent way, which had been maintained in excellent order, and portions of the main line had been relaid. As to the perma nent way, the directors were most anxious that no expense should be spared in keeping it in the most substantial state of efficiency. The doubling of the Exeter line was going on, and the Salisbury and Yeovil Company were at last finishing the double line, so that when it was completed they would have a double line throughout to Exeter, which would en able them to work it better and increase the traffic. He mentioned that they had recently sent an excur sion train to the West of England that had earned £BOO. He then adverted to the several railway bills affecting the company's interest in the last session of Parliament, and he thought very great credit was due to Mr. Bircham, their solicitor, for the able and successful manner in which he had conducted the hadd obtained succeeded whole of their Parlia men t ary procee di ngs. Th ey all in thethe rejection powers eetien the e y f for,a s p e papplied inj nri an ons d had projects, with the exception of three, which were BO modified as to have had the sting taken out of them. The works were progressing for connecting their lines with those of the London, Chatham, and Dover, which would enable them to run their trains from several places on their lines to Ludgate station. He hoped the South-Eastern Company would make an intermediate station in the Waterloo-road, so as to make it practicable for the South-Western passengers to go to Charing cross and to Cannon-street. The " battle of...lithe gauges" has lasted 20 years, and he thought, unless the broad gauge came to reasonable terms with the _ .~: - - ~.: NORTH-LONDON. The half yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Euston station ; Mr. Bancroft in thc.chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN said that a clerical error had made the total authorised capital of the company £3,365,866 instead of £3,165,866. The capital of the new undertakings would exceed the original estimate, and there were two causes to account for this. The first was the enlargement of the Liver pool-street goods station, but it was hoped that the profit in excess of expenditure would be as great as that looked for on the original capital. The other cause was a larger purchase of land than was needed for the requirements of the company. This super fluous land would, however, be sold, and he had been informed that it would fetch an increased price, so that there was every probability of a profit accruing to the company ; and the lands purchased with the company's capital were not only for the accommo dation of this company and the London and North Western, but for the accommodation of the other companies which would have to work over the line. The company was paying interest on a sum of £350,000, which was at present entirely unproductive, and by Christmas next this sum would be increased by £700,000, but he trusted that both sums would be soon productive. It was hoped the new passenger station would be opened by October, and then there would be some return. The passenger traffic of the line had increased over the corresponding six months of last year by 161,596 passengers, and had resulted in an increased return of only £39. This arose from the Hammersmith and City Company having charged lower fares, which had necessitated the lowering of rates by the North London Company. There had been an increase in the cost of the staff to the amount of £4OO, which had arisen from the company undertaking to work the Hampstead Junc tion line. There was an increase in the carriage department—a department which had not beenlkept up so well as it ought to have been ; and with respect to the locomotive department, a report had been re ceived from the inspector at the Crewe works, and the recommendations therein would be submitted to the proprietors. All the extension lines in the me tropolis had far exceeded in the workin g the antici pations of those who projected them, and there was no reason to doubt the success of the city extension which the company was constructing. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report. Mr. SCOTT seconded the motion, which was carried. A resolution was then passed declaring a dividend of 3 per cent. out of the net profits of the under taking on the half-year ending the 30th of June last upon the company's capital stock of £1,125,000, and at the same rate in proportion on 10,000 £lO (widening capital, 1864) shares, and 30,000 £lO city branch shares, payable on the 25th inst. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. STOCKPORT, DISLEY, AND WIXALEYBRIDGE. The half-yearly meetingof this company was held yesterday,at Euston station ; Mr. 8.. Birley in the chair. The Secretary read the report, which stated that the directors recommend a dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum on the preference shares and of 44 per cent. on the ordinary stock, leaving a balance of £l6O. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it was a question whether the dividend should be maintained at its present rate when the Midland line was opened between Buxton and Manchester. The motion was agreed to, and the proceedings terminated. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the Euston station—Mr. R. Moon in the chair—when a financial statement for the half year was submitted, showing that the expenditure on capital account was £1,672,000. The CHAIRMAN moved a resolution that a divi dend at the rate of 4i per cent. per annum be paid on the ordinary shares, and of 5 per cent. on the B shares, which was agreed to, and the proceedings terminated. BRISTOL AND NORTH SOMERSET. The half-yearly meeting was held at Bristol, yes terday—Mr. Colthurst in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that looking at Bristol as the northern end of the line, and going south through the mine ral and agricultural districts of Dorset, and the upper part of Somerset, they had a right to obtain the powers they sought. The result of the Parlia mentary contests of the last session was that, although they did not succeed in carrying their own bills, the measures promoted by their opponents met with practically a similar fate, while the committee of the House of Commons gave an expression of opinion most faiourable to the future success of the southern extension of the Bristol and North Somer set line. The works at present going on were making satisfactory progress, and be hoped that the line would soon be completed and opened for traffic. Mr. SMITH, deputy-chairman, seconded the mo tion. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. W. COATES moved a resolution requesting the directors to take immediate steps for the com pletion of the railway and for its junction with the Somerset and Dorset and other narrow-gauge lines of the south of England, in accordance with the original design. Mr. FRY seconded the motion, which was car ried unanimously. Mr. W. Nicholls was elected auditor, and a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors terminated the proceedings. MADRAS. The traffic receipts on this company's south-west line, for the quarter ending June 30 last, amounted, on 492 miles open, to £80,658, against £75,803 on 407 miles open for the corresponding period of 1864. On the company's north-west line the receipts for the three months have been £7,473, on 79 miles open, against £4,195 on 41 miles open, for the same period of the previous year. The aggregate receipts on the two lines have been £88,131, showing an in crease of £8,133, or 10 per cent. over those of the corresponding quarter of last year, the open mileage having increased 27 per cent. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TustES.The Great Eastern has returned to Crookhaven, and her arrival dispels all doubt about the fate of the Atlantic Cable. We have failed a second time in the attempt to connect Europe and America with an electric chain, but the circum stances of the failure exclusively prove the possi bility of success. Two or three petty accidents, due to causes which were plainly preventable, put an end to an expedition which, from first to last, ap pears to have been conducted by those immediately concernedin it with the utmost skill, discretion, and courage. Two or three little pieces of wire sticking in the gutta-percha, an ill-made swivel of imperfect strength, a rope unfitted to bear the strain of haul ing the Cable up from the depths in which it had. : been laid—these are the comparatively trivial cir cumstances which compelled the Great Eastern to return without having done her work. There was no defect in her sea-worthiness, no question of elec trical or mechanical science presented itself which was not capable of immediate and satisfactory solu tion • the ultimate failure was due simply and solely to the imperfect strength of a grapnel and the in adequacy of the machinery provided for hauling in the cable after it was once paid out. The Great Eastern herself, as was suggested by several corre spondents in our columns, lingered about the spot where the break of continuity happened, and it was not tilr after repeated attempts were made to get at the fault, and the drag ropes had been broken again and again, than an absolute exhaustion of the tackle on board forced her to return. Even then the leaders of the expedition had lost heart so little that they moored a buoy to mark the place where they left off, so that they may return to prosecute the en terprise to success before autumn brings its equinoc tial gales. The Great Eastern sailed from Valentia on the 23d of July, and for 10 days she proceeded on her way with scarcely an interruption. Two faults were, as we know, discovered in the cable, due in each case to the perforation of the gutta percha by a piece of iron wire ; but these faults were so soon detected and so easily cured, that they only served to heighten the prospect of ulti mate success. The first fault occurred in soundings of 1,000 yards, and ten miles of cable were hauled in before it was detected. The second happened in 4,100 yards soundings, and it was reached after about two miles and a half of cable had been hauled in. On the 2d of August a third fault was disco vered, which the electrical tests placed about six miles astern, and which was apparently due to the same cause which had produced the other two. The ship had then advanced five-eighths of her way, being 1,063 miles from Valentia, having paid out 1,212 miles of cable, and she was in 3,900 yards soundings. Is was resolved to haul in the cable as on the former occasions, and for that purpose it was passed from the stern, where it had been paid out, to the bow. About two miles had been hauled in when the •cable itself, which had been injured by chafing on the stern of the ship, parted ten yards inboard of the bow wheel ; the end, as a matter of course, went straightway overboard, and those earth currents which were signalled at Valentia began working. The spirit of the men on board was not damped by this untoward accident, and they immediately began a labour than which no thing can be imagined more wearisome. A grapnel was lowered, two miles and a half of rope were paid out, and the Great Eastern drifted to and fro over the line of the cable in the hope of hooking it up. How many times it passed and repassed drawing up nothing we are not yet told ; but on the 3d the cable was hooked. The rope was hauled in, and nearly one-half of it got back, when a connecting swivel gave way, and the half which had not been drawn up went to the bed of the Atlantic to join the Electric Cable, which latter it was calculated had 'been lifted 1,200 yards, or nearly one-third of the distance from the bottom. It is possible that some means were adopted to lessen the strain, otherwise the attempt to haul up the cable by a single rope seems imprudent. In any case, it would, perhaps, have been wiser, on the insufficient strength of the grapnel cable being thus made evident, to have steered at once for home to get better hauling-in machinery, but it is difficult to blame the perseverance of those on board, even though eight precious days of summer were lost, mainly in futile attempts, each failing for the same reason. For three days, indeed, fogs and contrary winds prevented anything being done save marking the spot by a buoy with a flag and ball, but on the 7th the cable wa4 again hooked and again lost, through the breaking of a swivel, after it had been raised 1,000 yards. A third attempt failed to hook the cable at all, on account of the grapnel chain having fouled the flukes of the grapnel ; but on a fourth being made on the afternoon of last Friday the grapnel cable again broke, after the electric cable had been raised 600 yards from the bottom. The stock of rope on board was by this time ex hausted, and any further attempt to haul in the cable with the imperfect machinery provided was abandoned. The Great Eastern was reluctantly turned homewards, but the temporary failure so little daunted those concerned in the undertaking that they were unanimously of opinion that with stronger tackle the lost end can yet be almost cer tainly recovered, and the line, nearly two-thirds of which are laid, can be completed. The simple tele graphic despatches which give ua a summary of the proceedings of the Great Eastern, bare as they are, are a record of steady persistence and endeavour ; but they show also the complete feasibility of the Atlantic telegraph. The principal difficulties of the enterprise are overcome, and failure has ensued from accidents which may be called provoking from their littleness. The Great Eastern herself behaved admirably, and it was the opinion of those on board that she could be trusted to lay the cable in any weather. The paying-out machinery worked without a check or accident, and the insulation of the cable improved as it was submerged. The enterprise, in fact, failed simply because no proper machinery had been provided to meet the accident of the cable breaking. The cable did break, and although the lost end was hooked time after time by the grap nel, it could not be hauled in. The swivels of the grapnel cable were unequal to the strain upon them, and as they rose out of the water the weakest gave way. The strain was no doubt enormous, and it constantly increased as the Electric Cable was raised from the bottom, but it must be possible to construct tackle sufficiently strong to bear even this strain. Imperfect, however, as the strength of the grappling cable was, there were methods of lessening the strain upon it, and it is somewhat surprising that they were not adopted, especially after the failure of the first attempt to raise the cable. It must have been pos sible as soon as the cable was hooked and slightly raised from the bottom to secure it by a second and a third grapnel, and so to divide the weight between three cables instead of trusting it to one. At first sight, too, it would seem that th e a tt en d an t steam ers might have been used to advantage, though they do not appear to have in any way intervened in the matter. Had one or both of them been employed to tow the cable slowly ahead while its weight was mainly supported by the grapnels from the Great Eastern, its rise to the surface would have been greatly facilitated. But whatever opinion we may form on the method of hauling in adopted it is clear that the hauling-in machinery was radically defec tive, and some explanation of this ought to be forth coming from those who provided it. The weight of any given length of the cable could be easily calcu lated, the depth of soundings along the line of the telegraph was well known, and it was therefore not difficult to determine the exact strain which the picking-up tackle and machinery ought to have been made to bear. Unfortunately for the Atlantic Tele graphic Company, they were too economical or too careless in this part of their preparations, and they have suffered for it. Taught by the past, they may, however, yet redeem their error and accomplish the great work they have undertaken, for the experience of the voyage warrants the electricians and seamen on board in declaring that nothing has happened to throw the least doubt on the practicability of the scheme, and that in fact their confidence in success fully laying and working the Atlantic Telegraph Cable is greater than ever. POST. —The prospect of a cessation of the war in New Zealand is exceedingly welcome in this country. If the surrender of William Thompson really has all the importance generally attached to it—if he is as influential as he is reported to be, and the Maoris consent to his act and deed, the war may be pronounced to be virtually at an end. We may look for the return of the Queen's troops, for the revival of trade, and the return of the colony to its normal state of prosperity. It is useless now to re count over again the bungling which led to this un happy contest. Much has been said and written on both sides, with the usual vehemence of partisans, but nothing has been said to shake the general be lief of English people that more tact and considera tion on the part of the local Government, in the first instance, might have quashed the land dispute and saved this inglorious struggle. Perhaps this is only what may be said of all immediate causes of war, which are often as insignificant in themselves as they are gigantic in their consequences. But in the case of New Zealand the dispute about Wirimu King's plot of land only brought to a crisis confu sions that had been long working, and were only waiting for some opportunity of breaking out. The real basis of the uprising of the Maoris was the old one of antagonism of race. Wherever the abori gines of any country are brought into contact and social intercourse with Europeans they immediately begin to fail, and eventually disappear altogether. It is not to be expected that while this decay of race is in process the feelings of the iosing side can be very tender towards its aggressive superiors. The New Zealanders have seen the English people land , ing amongst them by thousands, taking land, settling down, establishing cities, reproducing the Old World over again in their very midst, encroaching on the land over which they once ranged so free, and gradually introducing a state of life for which the native habits and constitution are not in the least adapted. While this has been going on the Maori population has decreased at the rate of five thou sand a year, and it needs no gift of prophecy to foresee that this is one of the things that cannot go on. It must stop before long, for the steps from hence to the grave of the last New Zealander are not many nor far between. That very hardworked idea of a New Zealand chief contemplating the ruins of London in a pensive mood is destined never to be realised. The poor Maori will not survive the decay of the British capital. He will perish off the earth long before London has reached its culminating point, leaving the reversion of the broken arch of London-bridge to some other Islander of the far Pacific, probably a Bornese or Feejee. The hope was once entertained that the New Zealander might be wholly civilised, and by intermarriage with Europeans establish a race which should have all the great physical qualities of the native, combined with the more refined and ci v ilised mind of the English immigrant. That dream has long been dis pelled ; such intermarriages are few in proportion to the population, and the results are not encourag ing, either as regards the happiness and moral con dition of the couples, or the vigour and goodness of their children. Under these circumstances all that can be looked for in the fut ure o f th e M aor i i s a gradual extinction in pursuance of what seems to be a fixed law of the aboriginal condition. It is use less to try to stave off that result. It is part of the nature of things. But it may be, and doubtless is, possible to alleviate the hardships of this downward path, and to make the period of Maori existence peaceful while it lasts, and to this the energies of the local Government should be directed. Our Maori fellow-subjects should have every advantage con sistent with the right of European settlers, and be left as much as possible to their own modes of life and forms of self-government. As long as any habits, laws, customs, or pursuits of theirs do not peril the Queen's authority, the safety of the settlers and the general prosperity of the colony, the natives should not be interfered with. The treatment of them by those in authority should be rather for bearing than exacting. It should not be forgotten that although it is the fate of the Maori race to die out, yet Europeans have no right to endeavour to hasten that extinction. Quite the contrary; justice and mercy alike dictate that the dominant party should treat with pity and consideration those who are rapidly ceasing to have any hold upon their native soil. If we once admit the fact that, in obedience to a law that obtains everywhere, the Maori race is fast passing away, we cannot be sur prised if, in proportion to the decay of the natives in wealth and numbers, they regard the European settlers with feelings the reverse of affectionate. They see all that they think worth living for coming quickly to nought in the presence of foreigners with whose social habits and varied industries they have no sympathies. In proportion as these foreigners encroach upon their land, and bring them under the operation of new laws, the reason of which is not always self-evident, it is impossible but that feelings of anger, of sullenness, and hate should arise, and sometimes, under strong provocation, real or fan cied, break out into savage and prolonged hostility. But if we admit this, surely we have a clue to the policy which ought to regulate the government of the colony. It must be a policy that recognises the existing rights of the natives, while it alleviates rather than exasperates their temper towards their rulers. There has not been enough of this in the past government of New Zealand, and there must be a change for the better unless we are to have these outbreaks from time to time on slight and avoidable provocations. Nothing that we have said is inconsistent with the most vigorous administra tion of the Colonial Government. It may be neces sary, too, to make signal examples of some con spicuous native offenders, but the general tone of the Europeans towards the Maoris must be more generous than it has been, and better adapted to make the condition of this invaded race— for such it is—as tolerable as possible while it lasts. The efforts of the bishops and clergy have done much to draw out the good side of the Maori character, and to the Church it is mainly due that civilisation has been able to do as much as it has. But a great work remains yet to be done, and it is not too much to hope that with the restoration of peace the gentle influence of religion may again be felt. - It does not follow that because a few brutal cannibals slaughtered poor Volkner, and afterwards abused his remains, that the whole race is of like brutality. Those Pai Mariris were no specimen of the ordinary natives, who are in the main a noble race, though the passions of war have of late shown us only the worst side of them. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEEDS, Aug. 16. (Before Mr. Justice Blackburn.) LORD V. HUMPHREY-BREACH OF PROMISE. Mr. Blackburn for the plaintiff; and Mr. Made for the defendant. Mr. Blackburn, in opening the case, said that Maria Pamela Lord, the lady who had lost the comforts of a home, was a widow, and had reached the age of 40 years or more ; and the defendant was only a few years younger. linen the parties first became acquainted the defendant was mar ried, and on his wife dying he engaged the plaintiff to be his housekeeper and to attend to his four children. So attentive was she to the comforts of the defendant and his family, that he believed there was no woman like her any where, and continually pressed her to marry him. At one period he actually put in the " spurrings" (i.e., the banns), but the lady was suffering at the time from inflammation of the eyes, and with a degree of natural bashfulness de clined to go through the ceremony until her personal ap pearance was improved. So violent was the defendant's attachment that he said he would marry the plaintiff al though she was blind with one eye and could not see with the other. The plaintiff being ordered to the country for the benefit of her health, the defendant engaged a house for her and her children at Bothwell Haigh, near Leeds, and went from York once a fortnight to see them. After this had continued for some time he suddenly announced that he had married another woman in York who had £6O a-year. Mrs. Monica Layland, sister to the plaintiff, having been examined to prove the promise, was cross-examined by Mr. Maule—Was three years older than the plairitiff. In Feb ruary last an action was brought against the defendant by her sister, in the County Court, to recover her wages dur ing the time she had been in defendant's service. She sued for 132 weeks at 3s. per week, and recovered £l9 16s. 4d. She also recovered £1 per week for the board and educa tion of the children. Mr. Maule—Was any claim made then for the loss of a husband ?—No. Mr. Maule (after turning to the defendant, who was sit ting behind him, and asking him to stand up)—Do you know this unfortunate man ? (Laughter.) I have known him for several years. Do you know that his wife died in 1861 ? I know she died somehow or other. (Laughter.) Did your sister have a husband once ?—Yes. Did he hang himself ? (Laughter.)—There was grief and trouble over that. The doctors said it was the fall that killed him. (Laughter.) He was a boiler-maker, was he not ?—He was. And did he ever get into hot water? (Laughter.)—l cannot tell you that. Now, Mrs. Monica, 1 am going to put rather a delicate ques tion to you, which you need not answer unless you please. How old was Maria Pamela? (Laughter.)—She is 48. And how old is the defendant, about 30 ?—I don't know what his age is. Is he not a man just got out of the foolish heat of youth ? (Loud laughter.)—l think he looks about 36. (Laughter.) Are you a judge of age, Monica— (laughter)—of the age of young men, I mean ? (Renewed laughter.) I don't know. At the time you were living at Hunslet, was not your sister acting as servant to the de fendant ?—Yes. And was not there some joking about tying up one eye ? Was it not all a joke ?—I don't think it was. Do you know what a joke is, Mrs. Monica ? (Laughter, which was again and again repeated at the blank look on the face of the witness.) I will take it that you don't on the view. (Renewed laughter.) Was there any thing really the matter in your sister's eye ?—There was. Did you see anything wrong in the defendant's eye ? (Laughter.) Was he blind with both eyes at the time he made this promign ? (Renewed laughter.) Have you ever heard of Cupid ? (In reply to these questions the witness did nothing but stare in blank amazement at the counsel and at the audience.) Have you ever heard that Cupid was blind? (Laughter.) Did you ever see Cupid; is this man (pointing to the defendant) like Cupid ? (Loud laughter.) His Lordship—Venus was attached to Vulcan—(laugh ter—so after all there is not so much improbability in this case. (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Maule—About those "spurring" lines. Did you read them, or hear them read ?—He read them himself. What were those lines ? Were they in verse or in prose ? (Laughter.) Was it a valentine ? (Loud laughter.) lam a bachelor, and want you to tell me what "spurring" lines are. (Renewed laughter.) Ah, I see you cannot tell me the contents of the lost document. Mrs. Armillo Moss, another sister, said the plaintiff was very ill after she heard of the defendant's marriage. She was almost heartbroken. Cross-examined —Her sister and the defendant's childrea had resided with her for two years. When the defendant sent for the children they were very unwilling to go. Mr. Maule—What about the quarrel in the kitchen ? What about the kettle and hot poker? (laughter).—l was out when the defendant came for his children, and when I got back I found my sister crying. But did she not tell you that there had been a battle royal between a kettle and a hot poker? (loud laughter). —I never heard of it. How often did he come over to see his children ?--Once a fortnight. And did you hear him joking about her eye ? Did you hear him say be would go with one eye to the altar, like a Cyclops? (loud laughter).—No. You know that he is an iron man—that he has an iron heart (Laughter.) His Lordship—The iron appears to have entered into her soul. (Loud laughter.) Mr. Maule—Do you know that he is a man who dabbles in boilers—that he is a boiler man ? (laughter).—Yes. Whatever the state of her eyes might be, do you know that she tried to shut up one of his ? (laughter). About these " spurring" lines, do you know what they were like ?—I saw them. You saw a piece of paper. Did it contain a receipt for her eye ? (Laughter.) Did it order the appli cation of a little opodeldoc ? (Loud laughter.)—l never heard it read. Mr. Blackburn then summed up his evidence, contending that he had proved the promise, and warning the jury against the ridicule his learned friend was attempting to cast on the case. Mr. Maule said he rose with considerable embarrassment after the earnest appeal made by his learned friend to the jury, not to be carried away by any of the remarks which might be offered to them on behalf of this unfortunate de fendant. It was to him a matter grave and serious, and no jocularity. To be a young man pursued in this manner by three ladies more or less advanced in life, one of whom insisted upon being claimed as his wife, was a serious thing for this audacious man, who had become a husband for the second time. What would the jury think of the probabilities of this case when they were informed that the plaintiff, who was the defendant's servant, had pursued him in February last in the county court for her wage, and had never said a single word about this promise ? Just let any the jurymen put themselves in the position of the de fendant. What would they feel if two ladies like Monica and Armadillo—(laughter)— he begged the lady's pardon, Armillo—one of whom was deaf, should have heard some joke about going to the altar with an eye bunged up— (laughter)—and seriously making it the basis of an action ? In regard to those " spurrings,"nobody had ever seen them or heard them read, and the contents of the document in question was much more likely to be a prescription from the doctor, of opodeldoc for the plaintiff's eyes, than any thing else. (Laughter.) When the inflammation had sub sided, Cyclops put the paper into his forge and burned it. (Renewed laughter.) His learned friend deprecated any attempt to laugh the case out of court ; but he would laugh at it in court. Monica, Maria Pamela, and Armillo—(loud laughter)—had put their heads together to pursue this un fortunate man, and, as if they thought that his having got a second wife was not punishment enough, they had re solved that he ought to have a third. (Laughter.) Really this was the whole case. He hoped the jury would not encourage such an absurd claim, and that they would be of opinion that he had treated it as it onght to be treated, as an absurdity altogether. (Laughter.) His lordship then summed up, remarking that though there was some evidence of promise, if the jury believed the witnesses, it rested on the slightest basis of any case that had ever engaged his attention. The jury, after a moment's consultation, returned a ver dict for the defendant. COUNTRY MARKETS BIRMINGHAM-THURSDAY. At this day's market there was a large supply of wheat ; but the day being very wet, it was taken off at 2s to 3s per qr. above the currency of this day week. Fine barley 4s, secondary 113 higher. Oats held for 6d to 18 per qr. more money. Beans and peas tending upwards. Currencies :—English wheat, white, 43s to 49s ; red, 39s to 46s per 36 stone. Malting barley, 30s to 35s ; grinding, 22s to 25s per qr. Oats, 24s to 308 ; Irish, 21s to 24s per 30 stone. Beans, 42s to 45s ; and peas, 408 to 42s per qr. BRISTOL-THURSDAY. The wheat trade has been much excited during the last few days, owing to the continued rain, and prices daily stiffening. The crops have suffered severe injury, and the yield, especially of wheat and fine barleys, will be seriously affected. Our market to-day was shortly supplied with English wheat, which sold freely at 3s per qr. advance. Foreign 3s per qr. dearer, with a good inquiry. Flour 3s to 4s per sack higher. Malting barley scarce, and a fair demand for grinding at 3d to 6d per qr. over last week. Old oats scarce and 6d higher. Beans and maize as dear. MANCHESTER-THURSDAY. The weather since our last report has continued unset tled, causing considerable anxiety as to the result of the harvest. Wheat and flour consequently commanded ad vanced rates, and other articles have also participated in the improvement. Our market was well attended, and the weather continuing wet some excitement was apparent. English and foreign wheat about 3s per qr. dearer ; flour advanced 2s per sack. Oats and oatmeal unaltered. Beans is and Indian corn 6d to is per qr. higher. EDINBURGH—WzDicEsnAY. At to-day's market supplies were fair. Wheat sold at about last week's prices. _ Average prices. Wheat, 43s 7d I Oats, 25s ld Barley, 2Bs 8d 1 Beans 42s 6d Wheat on the top, Os 6d up average, is 7d up. Barley on the top, Os 6d up average, Os lld down. Oats on the top, Os 3d up average, Os 4d down. Beans on the top, is Od down average, Os 6d down. Total supply and sales. Wheat 1142 qrs sold 1052 Barley l9l qrs sold 87 Oats 1349 qrs sold 982 Beans 92 qrs sold 87 Town-made flour sells as follows :—White, 37s Od; extra superfine, 35s Od ; superfine, 33s Od ; fine, 31s Od. GLASGOW-WEDNESDAY. We have had heavy rains since the beginning of this week. To-day's market was well attended. Wheat was held at an improvement. CORK-WEDNESDAY. The following were the quotations this morning :—Red wheat, 78 4d to Os Od ; white, 9s Od to 9s id ; barley, 6s 9d to Os Od ; oats, 8s Od to 8s 4d ; black oats, is 6d to 8s Od; bere, 6s 6d to 7s 10d. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Aug. 18. - - Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. —. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pac‘et Sept. 4. Ditto, by French packet . Aug. 22. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena...`‘Aug. 21. China. Penang. and Singapore. via Sou:hampton.. Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. —, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles . . - ....Aug. 19. India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug. 25. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 19. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil'e;... Newfoundland Portugal • .....Sept. 4. Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon .. United States and British North America, by Bri- tish packet Aug. 24. Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Aug. 25. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept. 10. West Indies and Pacific (exoeptßahamas, Cuba, and Mexico Aug. 28. Bahamas, via New York. Sept. 13 Bermuda, ditto Aug. 30. Cuba and Mexico Aug. 29. SUSSEX ARCHEOLOGICAL SOClETY.—Yesterday the annual meeting of the members of this society was held at Amberley and Pulborough, near Arundel, the Bishop of Chichester and a large number of the local gentry being present. The Rev. P. Royston, of St. Catherine's College , Cambridge, acted as guide to the various points of interest in and near Pulborough, while the objects of interest at or near Amberley were explained by the Rev. G. A. Clarkson, M.A., of Jesus College, Cambridge, vicar of Amberley and Houghton. The Bishop of Chichester presided at the dinner in the evening. • i:ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Painful Diseases.—Many simple diseases aro permitted to become virulent through persons' reluctance to expose their infirmities to another. For rightly using Holloway's esteemed remedies no counsellor is necessary, no advice beyond that contained in the " accompanying directions" is required. Piles, fistulas, and many other ailments which demand secrecy, can be safely conducted by Holloway's ointment and pills to an easy and permanent cure. They can be confidently applied in the most painful, irritating, and dangerous diseases. 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