The Sun. — London, England, 1865-08-21 00:00:00

COMPANIES. ,AIL WAY GREAT EASTERN. Tho report of the directors states that the total receipts for the past half-year amounted to £804,816, against £778,280 for the corresponding half of 1864, showing an increase of £26,536. The expenses amounted to £413,080, against £392,970, showing an increase of £20,110. The total receipts from traffic and other sources amounted to £804,816, and the total working expenses to £413,080, leaving a balance of £391,736. The payments made to the Northern and Eastern and other companies, interest on guaranteed, preference stocks, and mortgages, &c., amounted to £348,813, leaving a balance of £42,923. The net balance available for dividend was £43,409, which would provide a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 1 per cent per annum on the ordinary stock of the com pany, leaving a balance of £1,731 for the next ac count. The available balance was less by £9,248 than that for the corresponding period of last year, which was mainly occasioned by an increase in the expenditure for goods' traffic of £11,351. Wh en Mr. Moseley, the traffic manager, was in a position to give his undivided attention to the traffic ar rangements of the company the expenditure in his department would be greatly reduced. The direc tors regretted that the amount charged as compen sation for injuries to passengers exceeded by £3,500 the charge under that head for the corresponding half of 1864. But for these exceptional charges, and notwithstanding the increase in the charge for interest, the directors would have been enabled to declare a dividend equal to that of the correspond ing period of 1864. The directors had, as on pre vious occasions, charged to the capital account the interest upon the stock created for the purpose of meeting the payments in respect of lines and works in course of construction, but not yet available for traffic to the amount of £18,338. The directors believed that this course was generally adopted by other railway companies, although it was in some cases provided for by an arrangement with the con tractor, who in that case, of course, added it to the contract price, and thus it became a charge upon capital. If the shareholders were of opinion that the whole amount should be charged to revenue, the divisible fund would of course be diminished to that extent. The new lines from Sudbury to Clare, Shelford, and Bury St. Edmunds, had been opened for traffic. With regard to a communication with the North, and the rejection of the Northern Junc tion Bill last session, the report states that there is no doubt that Parliament would grant to this com pany the means of an independent communication with the Northern districts, and particularly as re garded the carriage of coal into the eastern parts of the metropolis ; and it was probably owing to this conviction being so generally felt that overtures were received from the Great Northern Company with a view to utilise the loop line belonging to that company, and which, when their line from March to Spalding was com pleted, would form an outlet from the lines of this company as far as Doncaster ; and, after a prolonged discussion between the two Boards, and a mature consideration of the details by the officers of the re spective companies, arrangements had at length been agreed to between this company, the Great Northern Company, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company, which, if carried out, would enable this company to have the indepen dent use of the line in question, and thus secure to them a route from the company's station at March, by way of Doncaster to Wakefield, and all the great manufacturing towns of the North of England. This company were to bear one-half the cost of the construction of the line now in progress from March to Spalding ; that, if found necessary, the line be tween Spalding and Lincoln should be shortened at the joint expense of the two companies ; that this ompany should also bear one-half the expense of the line now in course of construcdon by the Great Northern Company from Gainsborough to Doncas ter ; and that they were also to become joint pro prietors of the existing loop line from Spalding to Lincoln ; the price to be paid for the same to be the subject of arbitration, and not, as in the case of the lines now being constructed, one-half the actual cost. 13y the agreement with the Manchester and Sheffield Company this company had secured the means of conveying their traffic from Doncaster to Wakefield and the other northern districts, and with regard to coal, this company had the uncon trolled power to fix the rates, and as to all other traffic, the rates charged by the two companies were to be the same ; and in the event of any dis agreement they were to be submitted to arbitration. Under the present agreement the company would be in a position to open this traffic in the spring of next year. The directors were using their best endeavours to hasten as much as possible the formation of the metropolitan station. As to the steamboat accommodation, the directors believed they had placed this service on a proper footing by the appointment of a competent continental traffic manager. In conclusion, the directors state that the solid advantages which must eventually flow to the company from the extension of their system to the North, the profitable future working of the conti nental traffic, the increase of suburban traffic to be anticipated on the completion of the new metropo litan terminus, and the fact that the company was on amicable terms with all it s ne i g hb ours ,.. justified them in congratulating the shareholders upon the future prospects of the undertaking. All that was required was an united Board to give their undi vided attention to the development of the resources of the company, enforcing the strictest economy with due efficiency, and that a prosperous future might be fairly anticipated. The expenditure on capital account to 30th of Junelast was £22,992,152, including £622,971, expended during the past half year, leaving a balance of £427,878. GREAT NORTHERN. The half yearly general meeting of this company was held on Saturday at the King's-cross station—. Col. Macke, M.P., in the chair. Mr. Oakley, the secretary, having read the no tice convening the meeting, the seal was affixed to the register of proprietors, and it was stated that the number of shareholders was now 7,213, being 40 more than at the last meeting. The report, an abstract of which has already appeared in our columns, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it had been in their hands some days, and he trusted they had found it satisfactory. They had been obliged during the past half year to in crease their capital to the extent of £487,231, but the accounts showed how that sum had been ex pended. On new works and in subscriptions to other unde r t a ki ngs they had expended £375,000. In the locomotive department they had expended 1112,0 ons oo m p rov i ding new engines, carriages, and wagg. This had become absolutely necessary in consequence of the increased traffic of the railway. lie had no doubt that they would now be able to carry on the traffic with more satisfaction to them selves and the public than when he had last the honour to address them respecting the avant of a sufficient supply of locomotive power to convey the traffic which was crowding on their line. lie th en adverted to the revenue account, and said that it was a matter of satisfaction to himself and colleagues that they had during the past half-year received an increase in the gross traffic receipts of £76,520, but out of that increase must be deducted the receipts on the West Yorkshire and those of the Sleaford and Boston lines, which were not included in the corre sponding half of last-year, and, deducting those, the increase would amount to £44,352. The increase in the fixed charges and dividend amounted to 0E27,515, leaving a balance of £16,837, which was absorbed by the new ordinary stock. With the increased amount of traffic and mileage there was of course an increased expenditure, which he was sorry to say amounted in the half-year to about £33,000, but that outlay would not be so large in future. With re gard to the payments out of revenue,—first, there was the engineer of the line ; his expenses on re pairs had decreased £7,630, but the renewal of way had increased by £9,174. There was an increase on the whole of £1,544 under the head of renewal of permanent way, but he was glad to say they had paid off the suspense account of £44,000, and, having the means, they thought it wise and prudent to wipe out the whole of that debt. (Hear, hear.) He was not an advocate for sus- toriously an expensive half-year. The cost of one pense accounts, he disliked them, but he believed item of expense alone had amounted to £13,000 odd. the one they had just got rid of was absolutely The rise in price of coke and coal for locomotive use necessary at the time it was created to meet the had caused an increased expenditure of £9,000, and cost of extra works, and to enable the directors to there was an increased cost of £4,000 for the addi pay the shareholders their dividends. They had tional mileage run. The increase in the revenue continued to reduce its amount, and had now not had arisen notwithstanding an important reduction only wiped it off, but gave the proprietors the same in first-class fares which was made last year, and dividend as at the corresponding period of 1864. notwithstanding a very slack trade in the iron dis- He hoped they would never again require such an trict. The minerals on the whole showed an increase account, but that they would in each future half- of £11,372. There was a diminution in certain year be able to pay out of revenue all charges for branches of the mineraltrade, which had been coun , the renewal and maintenance of the permanent way. terbalanced by other branches. The receipts of the Mr. Johnson, their engineer, had not only repaired coal traffic in the half-year would have amounted to the permanent way, but had likewise relaid a portion £300,000 if it had not been for the falling off in the of it with 357 tons of steel rails, and 1,833 tons of ironstone traffic and the coal for furnace purposes. rails of 801 b to the yard, in substitution of rails Many of the leading railway companies had shown which were only 751 b to the yard, all of which had a diminution of dividend, but this company hadbeen been charged to revenue. (Hear.) With respect able to show an increase of dividend. At the same to Mr. Sturrock's department the expenses were time, he would remark that the shareholders must very heavy, but when they cook into account the not expect a rapid increase of dividend. Thepolicy great increase in the number of trains run, and the of the company was the safest, and the only policy extra cost of coke and of various materials, they by which they could calculate on a permanent and would be convinced that the increase in the expen- steadyimprovement in the valueof their undertaking. diture could not have been avoided. They had run They had spent large sums of money in self• defence, 308,122 train miles more during the past half-year and so long as the company was prosperous, andthe than during the same half of 1864, at an additional district progressive, so long would people be anxious cost of £16,200. They had been obliged to hire en- to get into the district. ' They had made arrange gines and waggons to carry on the heavy traffic, merits with some of the leading companies, from which had involved an expense of £5,741, and like- which they hoped all contests in the future would wise to incur an additional cost for repairs, in con- be avoided. The whole amount expended on sequence of having so sm a ll a s t oc k o f engines. new works since the amalgamation in 1864, was There had been a diminution in the law and Par- nearly £7,000,000, which involved a serious amount liamentary expenses, the rates and taxes were about of liability, but the result was highly satisfactory. the same, but the amou n t pa id f or compensation He called their attention to the amount of dividend was nearly £5,000 less. As to the result of the last paid on £lOO Berwick, York, and Leeds stock, for session of Parliament, he could not but congratulate the first 5i years of the amalgamation, and the them with having passed through that ordeal in a amount paid in the second 5i years. On the Ber most satisfactory manner. It proved that they wick stock there were paid in the former period £24 did not apply to Parliament for useless and un- 12s. 6d. ; York, £lB 10. ; and Leeds, £6105., mak necessary bills ; and that bills promoted by ing a total of £l9 12s. 6d. In the second period other companies required insertion of clauses the amounts paid were, on the Berwick stock, £2B to protect the interests of the Great Northern £l3s ; York, £24 12s. 6d. ; Leeds, £l5 11s. 3d., Company. He then alluded to the advantages of making a total of £6B 16s. 9d. He would look at the Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax and the West the matter in another point of view, and that was Yorkshire amalgamation with the Great Northern the increase of capital. In July, 1854, the gross Company ; they would in future be worked toge- value of the £lOO stock in each of the above cora ther at much less expense than formerly. The ar- panies on the London Stock-Exchange was £l6l, rangement with respect to the Cheshire lines ad- but in July, 1865, that value was £286, being an witted the Midland Railway Company to partici- increase of £125. (Applause.) He thought there pate with the Great Northern and Manchester, were exclusive proofs that though they had been Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Companies in laying out a great deal of capital they had not laid the ownership of those lines, each paying one-third out more than was in proportion to their means. of the expenditure. in the Acts passed last Session During the next three years important reductions for amalgamating the Caledonian and Scottish would be made in the fares, and that was a reason Central, and the North British and Edinburgh and why they should not look for a great increase of Glasgow Railway Companies they got clauses in- dividend. serted which would protect the interests of the Great Mr. LEEMAN, M.P„ seconded the motion for the Northern, and allow them to go northward, as far adoption of the report. as Perth, by which they expected to secure a fair Some discussion then took place, and Captain share of the Scotch traffic. The next important Trotter observed that they had reason to be thank bill in the last Session, and which considerably ful to the board of directors for the general policy affected the Great Northern interests, was promoted they had pursued. jointly by the Great Eastern and Lancashire and The report was adopted, and the dividends re- Yorkshire Railway Companies for a parallel line to commended by the directors were agreed to. the Yorkshire coal fields. The Great Northern di- The meeting was then made special, and rectors used every endeavour to reconcile the Great authority given to subscribe £175,000 towards the Eastern Board and to induce them to come to a fair construction of the Hawes and Melbcrry Railway, arrangement before the second reading of the bill, and £lO,OOO towards the construction of the Hex but all their efforts were in vain. Finding that to ham and Allendale Railway. be the case, they determined to oppose the second The meeting then separated. reading, and were successful in doing so. While on this point, he must say that he considered both the public and the press took a very one-sided view of the matter, and leading articles were written in which they were spoken of as monopolists ; but the writer forgot the river and the sea were open to all ; that the Midland Company went to a coal field; that the London and North Western Company went to a coal field ; and that the Great Northern did the same. They forgot, too, who were the first parties to open the coal trade of the metropolis. (Hear.) These circumstances considered, he thought it was rather hard that they should be called mono polists. The Great Northern, however, succeeded in getting the bill to which he referred thrown out on the second reading, and that was one of the most beneficial things which could have happened to in duce the Great Eastern directors to come to a fair arrangement with the Great Northern Company ; and, accordingly, on leaving the house after the bill was rejected, he said to some of the Great Eastern directors whom he met in the lobby that he was as ready then as he had been 24 hours before they sus tained their defeat to enter into an arrangement with them. (Hear, hear.) He mentioned this to show that he lost no time in his endeavour to bring about a peaceful arrangement. He trusted, however, that they had at last come to an arrangement which was equitable for all parties, but which could not be kept unless it was carried out on fair terms. They ontheir part had consented to open the coal traffic to the Great Eastern Company, so that he hoped they would not hear anything more about their being monopo lists. The Great Eastern might run their coal train at the same rates and prices as the Great Northern, or they might lower them, just as they pleased. This arrangement was, of course, subject to the approval of the proprietors. Colonel DUNCOMBE seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. IluGnEs wished to know if the Great Northern, like some other companies, had exceeded their bor rowing powers, and how much the law expenses had been reduced. SOUTH-WESTERN. The directors of this company are applying Mr. W. 11. Preece's system of electric signals to the car riages generally on their lines, the working for seve ral months of experimental trains having given highly satisfactory results. The following is a copy of printed instructions which have just been issued by the company :—" This train is fitted up with an electric communication between passengers and guards. In the event of something of a serious nature occurring, which urgently requires the stop page of the train, the passenger may break the glass,' and ring' by moving the bell-handle in the direction denoted by the arrow. Thereby a bell will ring in each guard's van in the train, and also on the engine. When the guards and engineman hear the bell ring they will at once look carefully along each side of the train, and in case any violent oscillation be seen, or a carriage be on fire, or other occurrence of a serious character be observed, the train will he stopped as speedily as possible, and, when stopped, must be protected by signals as pre scribed by the rule book. Should, however, the guards and engineman fail to observe anything which really necessitates an immediate stoppage of the train, their duty will be to stop the train at the next station or junction, so as to protect the train, when stopped, by the fixed signals. When the train is stopped the passenger who broke the glass and rang the bell will communicate with the guard, but should he fail to do so, the guard will detect the compartment from which the passenger gave the alarm by looking for the broken glass, and in case the alarm has been mischievously and wantonly given, or from insufficient cause, the names and addresses of all the passengers in that compartment will be taken, in order that the law may be enforced. Passengers are earnestly requested themselves to protect the communication from improper and mis chievous use, as it is very important that it should not be used without real and urgent necessity." Mr. GIESLER thought it would be difficult for them to maintain their present dividend if they went on increasing their capital at the present rate. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to questions, stated that the company had never exceeded their borrowing powers, but, on the contrary, had constantly kept within their borrowing powers. In fact, the direc tors would rather go their own bankers and borrow money, if they wanted it, than deceive the public by issuing a debenture for a single sixpence be yond the company's borrowing powers. (Hear.) No doubt Mr. Hughes forgot the borrowing pow ers of the East Lincolnshire which they had assumed. The reduction in the law and Parliamentary charges was £B,OOO as compared with the corresponding half of last year. The whole amount of them was £15,417. The Great Eastern would be at liberty to carry coal at whatever price they wished, but the price must be uniform, so much per mile over the whole distance from the collieries to London. TAFF VALE. The report of the directors states that after placing the usual sum of £750 to the credit of the deprecia tion fund, the directors were enabled to declare a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum upon the ordinary stock and the " C" shares, payable on the 6th September, leaving a balance of £767. As the new works occasioned the outlay of additional capital, the directors considered that the time had arrived for reissuing the £120,000 preferential stock paid off in January, 1864. They proposed that it should be issued as a perpetual preference stock, bearing interest at 4 per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, on the Bth of January and Bth of July. The Penarth dock was opened on the 10th of June last. The two leases —one of the railway and har bour, and the other of the dock, had been settled by counsel. The Cowbridge Railway was opened for goods traffic in February last. The capital ac count showed that £1,590,819 had been expended. The revenue account for the half-year showed that £145,578 had been received, and £70,702 expended, leaving a balance of £74,876. The report was then unanimously adopted, and the usual preference dividends of various denomina tions were declared, and also dividends on the ori ginal undivided stock at the rate of £2lss. per cent. for the half-year ; on the B stock at the rate of £3 per cent. for the half-year, towards 6 per cent. for the year; on the A stock at the rate of £2 10s. per cent. for the half-year, and at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum on the proportion of new ordinary stock entitled to dividend. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION. The report of the directors states that the traffic receipts during the past half-year produced £34,674, against £33,330 for the corresponding half of 1864, showing an increase of £1,344. The total income of the company for the half -year amounted to £35,931, the working expenses to £14,105, and the total ex penditure, including interest on loans and rent, to £21,213, leaving as profit £14,718, being £2,468 more than for the corresponding half of 1864. The disposable balance was £17,185, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 3i per cent. per annum, lessincome tax, leaving £i.899. During the half-year the directors concluded an agreement with the Postmaster- General, under which the company would receive £6,000 per annum for mail services over the line during a period of five years from the Ist of June last. The day mails were now conveyed between Dublin and Belfast in four hours. The expenditure on capital account was £1,119,154. NORTH-EASTERN. The half -yearly meeting of this company was held at York on Friday, Mr. H. S. Thompson, the chairman, presided. The report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN said it had frequently been his duty to move the adoption of half-yearly reports of this company, but he never did so with greater satisfaction than on the present occasion. The great success of their Parliamentary measures had been such as to call for some special remarks on his part. The most important of the measures promoted by this company was the West Hartlepool amalga mation. Ile had before pointed out to them several strong reasons which made it a most important measure in giving them the control of the commu nication with all the north-eastern ports, so as to en able them to follow out that policy they had always advocated and pursued—viz., to put all the ports on an equal footing, and they had prevented that port from being the nucleus b yh another ted t r e a omz s a a n n y d . supported This amalgamation was merchants iu the district almost unanimously. This company, during the late session of Parliament, had almost unexampled success in opposing measures promoted by other companies which would have af fected the interests of the North-Eastern. In 1864 the revenue of the company had increased by more than £300,000 over that of 1863. They had seen in the past half-year an increase of £65,000 upon the very extraordinary increase they had in 1864. This had been realised in a half-year which had been no zation does tend to make man only a little lower than the angels, and to doubt whether the good in tentions of humanitarians, in relaxing the severity of all punishments, are mistaken in their kindness. In this case of the officer—Major de Vere—shot, but happily not killed, we have to notice a crime which, strange to say, is by no means so uncommon in the army as would be imagined. This instance is the third within the last four years of officers shot by their own men in barracks, and there are many others that would be found if we were to search the records of the service for them. The soldier, it must be remembered, lies under the temptation to use the weapon in his hand if he mee t s w ith provoca tion, and he is but too often, according to our system of recruiting, a man chosen from the ranks of crime, or at least from that class of society whose moral per ceptions are not very clear. We do not, of course, think of excusing a man for so dastardly an act, as this at Chatham ; the point is, that we take men for soldiers from the scum of society, arm them, and insist upon their keeping their arms in effective use by having so many rounds of powder and ball in their pouch, and then expect them to submit like lambs to a discipline of the sev:rest kind, which often requires to be enforced by the most galling and depressing punishments. Is there no means of obviating a state of things that evidently conduces so much to these outrages ? It is notorious that our army is constantly weakened by the large nu m b er o f men under punishment. Surely,instead of seeking for recruits in the slums and alleys of the large towns, and taking all that come, it would be better to make some selection upon the test of character. By this means, although the number of recruits would be lessened, the num ber of men in prison would be decreased also, and the improved status of the army would be a source of incalculable advantages. But we leave this rather large question to speak of the more direct Aource of these crimes, m the regulation of the service which orders every man to retain the ball -cartridges he takes with him when on guard. Th e m ilit ary autho rities have always resisted all efforts to interfere with the soldiers' arms. It took many years to convince them that the bayonet was a highly dangerous orna ment for a soldier to wear, and many lives were sac rificed to this absurd military prejudice. We are afraid to say how long it will take to convince the Horse Guards that the soldiers forming the guard might, with perfect ease and regularity, take their ammunition from the magazine, and leave it there on coming off guard. If this plan were adopted, it would be difficult for any ammunition to find its way into the barrack-room, as an officer would be held responsible for every man's ammunition being returned. But the real opposition to this very evi dent remedy, we believe, comes from the officers themselves, who positively prefer the chance of be ing shot by some ruffian who owes them a grudge to making themselves safe from such cowardly at tacks. It seems to be a point of military feeling, which the authorities—themselves soldiers—are not disposed to touch. But we must say that it is for the Minister of the War Department to deal with this as a matter of common sense. Considering, how ever, the facilities for these crimes which exist, it is especially incumbent upon all who are in the posi tion of officers, and hold the power of punishment in their hands, to have a full and fair regard for the men under them. Not that any sort of flinching from the strictest rules of discipline should be main tained with temper and firmness without exceeding the just limits of reproof and punishment. In this case the man Currie appears to hare had no greater grievance than being ordered to continue at his drill longer than others, because of his incompete n c e . The hard and malicious way in which he continues to speak of his crime without the least sign of regret is a feature that may perhaps receive some explana tion at the trial; in the meantime, the circumstances, as at present known, seem to offer very little in the shape of provocation to so base and murderous an attack. The most important evidence in the case will come from Major De Vere himself, whose re covery is now, we are happy to see, predicted with some confidence. life and duty which his inferior predecessors in the art and science of slaughter only showed us in im perfect glimpses and single aspects. Stephen Forward would be called by the penny papers a psychological curiosity, and we shall be told, or perhaps have been told, that his views of duty exhibit " a tangled and intricate problem in:morals." What we have to say about him is this—that in one, and that a very seri ous, sense his horrid crimes may become a great benefit to society. There is not the least occasion for us to summarise or epitomise his disgusting life and character. It may suffice to say that he is clearly a person of very considerable powers ; and that he has made such use of his education that, had he turned his mind to sensational fiction, he might have earned a very much better living than by wasting his talents on billiard -marking and beg ging letters. Even now he writes quite as well as many of the guides of public opinion, and offers as good a vindication for himself as some of our daily instructors have offered for his predecessors in crime. This is the real moral of Forward's cha racter. If, as Dr. Forbes Winslow assured us, Townley was mad, not because he could not dis tinguish between right and wrong, but because his whole moral nature was inverted, so that he made wrong right and right wrong, this is precisely Forward's case. Forward only brings out, enlarges, insists upon, and with scientific breadth and precision expounds, the philosophy of his new moral w o r ld, an d h e often argues lo g ically enough upon it. He a d m it s th a t h e an d society are at issue upon first principles ; but he is right, and society is wrong. This is intelligible. He is only a blackleg, and an adulterer, and an extortioner, and a thief, and a murderer ; but this is his morality. Evil is, as it was to Milton's Satan, his good. He has a high and noble soul, a sublime vocation ; he worships duty, and recognises its claims ; he is governed by high principles and aims. His quarrel with society is, that it is not disposed to give its confidence unreservedly to a man who deserts his wife and child, and endeavours to extort money by threats and menacing letters. So, to show society that it is wrong, and that its whole moral system is disjointed, he murders his wife and child and three other children—probably also his own—almost at a single blow. In " his desperate extremity"—that is, after he had violated almost every law, human and divine—he feels himself to be justified in teaching us all a great moral lesson. He " obeyed the dictates of his conscience in sharing his destiny" with another victim of our social laws —that is, he committed adultery upon the highest principle and from the purest motives ; and now, consistently enough, he perpetrates a whole crop of murders under the inspiration of a high and para mount sense of duty to himself and others. " The imperfect letter of what is right, as represented by social laws," he has learned to live above. Being in the spirit, he can dispense with the lettter of such cold and pedantic formulas as " Thou shalt not steal," " Thou shalt not commit adultery," " Thou shalt do no murder ;" and his emancipated nature revolts against the artificial and cramping restraints of the barbarous criminal law of England. Now what we have reason to be grateful for to Forward is that he is a living fact. We have heard a good deal of this sort of talk before. Shelley, in his worst days, had the same kind of quarrel with the world and social laws. So had Rousseau. So had the whole crowd of Byron heroes. So have the con ventional heroes and heroines of romance, French and English, of the sensational school. In Forward, however, we have the advantage of seeing the thing at work. He is, as the modern phrase has it, the outcome of these fine fictional theories. What this person's studies may have been we do not know, but when we find him observing that " it is not external circumstances which measure human consciousness of pain, but individual sensitiveness thereto," we almost recognise the fine Italian hand of George Sand, or M. Sue, or the daily preacher who informed us that Constance Kent was a psychological pheno menon. Not only is Mr. Forward not a worse apostle of a new moral world than some of his literary con temporaries, but he is rather better. Anyhow he is more practical. He applies his philosophy—and it is really not much worse metaphysics than one meets with in the Daily Telegraph—to practice. Very ugly practice it is, to be sure. He murders his wife and child, who were not only no incumbrance to him, but were simply respectable, decent, and in offensive ; and he does this, so far as we can see, only because they were respectable, decent, and in offensive. And he murders the three other children, who were neither trouble, expense, nor discredit to him, but whom he " claimed as his by the strongest ties"--such strong ties giving the right to murder them. Townley, too, avowed the same right to do what he pleased with his own. It is perhaps just as well that it should at last come to this. Forward, with his five murders at once, will perhaps bring people to their senses, for after all, an excellent case might, on certain familiar grounds of argument, be made out for this precious villain. There is, in the first place, that perfect and complete absence of intelli gible motive in all his murders which, as we all know, divests crime of its criminality, and converts every form of wickedness into mere cerebral malady. There is, again, what has been laid down to be the great scientific test of irresponsibility—the wicked and blasphemous substitution of wrong for right, which the experts held to be conclusive of Townley's insanity. There is, in short, an irresistible homi cidal mania in its strongest form. Five innocent persons murdered, and without the slightest reason for it. If 'Townley was mad, if the Queen's nurse was mad, if Constance Kent was morally insane, if Celestina Su mner was not b e hung because nobody could assign a sufficient cause for her crime, how can anybody pretend that Forward is not mad ? Whatever arguments could be used—and they have been successfully used—in favour of each one of these notorious and atrocious criminals, why are they not produced in behalf of this poor irrespon sible victim of a disordered intelligence and a dis torted ethical system--the lunatic Stephen For ward ? Why not ? Only because the penny news papers and the public opinion of the Peckham omnibus begin to suspect that this is going rather too far. But we must hint to the penny newspapers and to the Peckham omnibus that they must either make up their minds to give Forward a good word, and to accept what we have no doubt will be offered in his defence on the homicidal mania dodge, or else they must swallow a good deal of the fine talk that has been talked about that interesting young mur deress Constance Kent. We could, upon scientific grounds, construct an apology for Forward immea surably stronger than that which succeeded in Townley's case. For if Townley was mad be cause he was outrageously wicked, and avowed his wickedness with shameless audacity, then Forward is ten times more mad, because he is ten times more wicked, and ten times more outspoken in his impu dent assertion of wickedness on principle. Only, as the Peckham omnibus will probably think this is really rather too much of a good thing, Forward is just a trifle too conclusive, too argumentative, too consistent, and to o practical. And so, possibly, the Peckham omnibus may agree with us that, if we cannot refute Forward and his superfine talk, it is perhaps as well that we can hang him ; and per haps the Peckham omnibus will go a step further with us, and will begin to have its doubts whether, if we had hung some of our recent heroes and heroines, our Celestinas and Constanccs and Victors, w e might not have been spared our Stephen For ward. It comes to this at the last. Severity in the first instance is mercy in the long run. Peck ham cannot sleep in security if homicidal mania is to talk with impunity as loudly and as long as Stephen Forward talks, and, which is even more important, to act as well as talk. The last, and perhaps the only conclusive, argument with mur derers of high religious and moral sentiments is the latter. It is, we admit, vulgar, barbarous, coarse, and altogether a painful specimen of what Mr. Forward so indignantly denounces as " our present iniquitously defective social justice." The gallows does not make a discriminating allowance for those fine natures which, touched by fine issues, elevate adultery into a duty, robbery into a virtue, and murder into an act of piety. The Swedish clergyman and Air. Forward have a view that, generally speaking, people are better off dead than alive. It is a theory which has, perhaps, some thing to say f or it se lf . A t any rate, the Peckham omnibus does not quite know how to answer it. But when this theory is worked out by a revolver, and a little nicotine, and a poisoned Eucharist, the matter begins to be serious. It may be all very well to say that the dead are better off than the living, and that it was our duty to help them on their journey to the better land, but we somehow feel that this won't do. We must draw the line somewhere. Stephen Forward has rather overdone the thing—has put too fine a point upon it. We are almost afraid—and it is a serious consideration for the future interests of the homicidal maniacs —that he will hardly get' even the boldest of ex perts to argue that he is so excessively wicked that he must be mad, and therefore that we have no right to hang him. TIIE " READER" ON TIIE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The Great E as t ern h as returned for a rope. But this is not all ; she has brought with her the most san guine hopes of our ultimate success in girdling the earth, and a record of facts which demolish we know not how many adverse opinions expressed during her absence. From th e t e l egrap hi c report received while we are go i ng to press, we learn that the Great Eastern had arrived in lat. 57 deg. 25 min., long. 39 deg. 6 min., on the 3d July, and had paid out 1,212 miles when the cable parted in 3,900 yards soundings. It will be recollected that when the tele graphic communication ceased, the electricians at Valentia fixed the position of the fault at about 1,230 miles from land. IVe learn, therefore, that the difference between the calculated and the real length paid out is only some 20 miles, so exact has modern science become in its practical details. Even this difference would have disappeared, and elec tricians on land could have foretold within a mile the position of the fault, had the copper conducting wire been equally resisting throughout; but here, as elsewhere, nature refuses to furnish us with a perfectly homogeneous. body ; such a wire is, there fore, well-nigh an impossibility. The account goes on to say that " a partial loss of insulation having been discovered, the Great Eastern was stopped to recover that portion of the cable in which the fault lay, electrical tests placing it probably within six miles. The cable was passed from the stern to the bow of the ship for this purpose, and after getting in two miles of cable, the fault being still overboard, the cable broke about ten yards in board of the wheel at the bow, having been injured by chafing on the stern of the ship. Two previous faults had been discovered—the first in soundings of about 1,000 yards, and the second in about 4,100 yards, and had been successfully recovered and made good —in the first case ten miles, and in the second two and a half miles, of cable were hauled in. After the cable parted, a grapnel with two and a half nautical miles of rope was lowered, the ship being placed so as to drift over the line of cable. The cable was hooked on the 3d, and when 2,200 yards of the rope had been hauled in, a swivel in the latter gave way, and 2,800 yards of rope were lost, the cable having been lifted 1,200 yards from the bottom. On the 4th, a buoy, with a flag and ball, was moored with 500 yards of rope to mark the place. It is in lat.: 51 deg. 35 min., long. 38 deg. 42 min. 30 sec. From the 4th, fogs and adverse winds prevented a further attempt until the 7th, which was then made nearer the end of the cable, and was unsuccessful from the same cause, when the cable had been lifted about 1,000 yards. Another buoy was here placed lat. 51 deg. 28 min. 30 sec., long. 38 deg. 56 sec. 9 min. A third attempt was made on the 10th, which failed on account of the grapnel chain having fouled the flukes of the grap nel. The grapnel and last 800 yards of rope came lup covered with ooze. A fourth attempt was made on the 11th at 3 p.m., which also failed throughthe breaking of the grapnel rope when the cable had been raised 600 yards from the bottom. The stock of rope having now become exhausted, it became ab solutely necessary to proceed to England for more and stronger tackle." Thus the biggest ship in the world has come back to us for a bit of rope. That the attempt to raise the end of the sunken cable will prove successful, seeing what has already-been done, is almost certain ; still the task w ill b e a most diffi cult one, even should the cable itself be easily found. If the main object of the expedition this time prove a failure, invaluable lessons have yet been learnt, both as regards the cable itself and the means of paying it out. The way to the grandest discoveries has often been paved by the bitterest failures, until determination and energy, guided by accumulated experience, have at last brought success. The Great Eastern has been proved to be fit for her work, her size gives her a steadiness which no other ship can emulate. The paying-out machinery is thoroughly reliable, and the insulation of the gutta percha has been found to be admirable, greatly improving, in deed, when submerged. The fault of the first At lantic cable was its bad insulation, but this has proved itself to be " the best insulated cable ever manufac tured." The primary cause of the failure of the cable is an apparently insignificant oversight, which was re vealed beforemany miles had been paid out. The fault then discovered, and now so disastrous, was caused by one of the cuttings of the iron wire covering sticking in the cable and perforating the gutta percha through to the copper conductor. The cable was thus tapped, and through the way opened the current flowed back to Valentia. This serious fault must be guarded against in the future laying of the cable, THE " EXAMINER" ON A NUT FOR FUTURE ANTIQUARIANS. —ln the year 2500 a question may arise amongst our posterity travelling ex press a hundred miles an hour whether their remote ancestors had not some modes of loco motion by sea and land attaining to an in comparably higher rate of speed, in support of which theory antiquarians may produce fragments of the Times newspaper, in which these advertisements have appeared : " THEATRE ROYAL, MELBOIIHNE.—Under the Manage ment of Mr. Barry Sullivan.—Every Evening, ARRAII-NA POGUE ; or, the Wicklow Wedding. The scenery painted after models and sketches by Mr. W. Telbin. The drama produced under the written directions of the author." " PRINCE'S THEATRE, MANCHESTER.—Sixth Week of ARRAII-NA-Poaux. Full every night. This beautiful drama has been produced regardless of expense in every department. The scenery by Mr. Grieve and assistants and Mr. Holding has been allowed to equal in perfection the cqlebrated miss en scene at the Princess's Theatre, London.-0. Calvert." "NIBLO'S GARDEN, NEW YORK.—Fifth Week and un precedented success of the gre a t Irish drama, ARRAH-NA POGuE ; or, the Wicklow Wedding. Tho whole of the Scenery has been painted after coloured sketches and *to dels by W. Telbin, and the miss en scene is rendered an CAPE TOWN. The traffic returns on this company's line, 63 miles open, for the month of June (winter) amounted to £2,065 for passengers, and to £1,125 for goods; total, £3,190. LONDON DISTRICT TELEGRAPH. The half -yearly meeting of this company was held on Thursday, at the offices, Cannon-street; Mr. R. Taylor in th e chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN said the company had now turned the corner, as there was a surplus of earnings in hand sufficient to pay a dividend on the capital of 1 per cent. The time would come when the company would be enabled to pay a larger dividend, and that time was not far distant. If the surplus at the end of the next half-year amounted to £l,OOO, that would give them a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. The directors could do a great deal more business if they rim SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1865. had more capital. Every day they were obliged to turn away private wire business. They had to hire a number of instruments, which if purchased would save 20 per cent. on the purchase. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. was paid on the borrowed money; if this were replaced by capital the interest would be saved to the company. There were 1,260 unissued shares. Mr. SIIEWARD seconded the motian for the adop tion of the report, and it was carried. The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" ON Mn. BRIGIIT'S PILGRIMAGE.--it is very pleasing to find that the proverbial ingratitude of republics is not to receive another historic illustration in the conduct of the Government of the United States towards its friends. A rumour has, it appears, reached the ears of the President that Mr. Bright desires to visit the politi cal paradise of his dreams, and no time has been lost in taking measures for recognising him as the nation's guest. The most appropriate compliment which the President can think of for the man of peace is to offer him a man of war. Accordingly the Admiral of the European squadron ha s b een directed, so it is said, to tender to Mr. Bright a steam-frigate in which he may make his voyage to the promised land. At first sight, there is some thing rather startling in the notion of sending a fri gate to fetch a person to whom a frigate is the very incarnation of all that is mischievous and abomin able, and the greater portion of whose life has been taken up in denouncing frigates and all their be longings. It seems about as delicate an attention as it would be to send a deputation from the Evan gelical Alliance to welcome the Pope to our hos pitable shores. One thinks that Mr. Bright on board a man-of-war, surrounded by big guns and balls and shells, would be as distressed as a very nervous old lady on the engine of an express-train on a line with plenty of long tunnels. To invite him to place his peaceful feet on the deck of a war steamer seems like inviting a bishop to go to a casino. Possibly, however, the offer of the frigate has been dictated by that shrewd forethought for which the Americans are famous. There is, as we all know, no villany too atrocious for the bloated potentates of Europe, no crime too hateful for the vile aristocrats of the mother-country. Is it too improbable a thing that one of these perfidious beings should put violent hands on the courageous orator who has laid their corruption and grinding tyranny bare before the eyes of all men ? At this season of the year the seas swarm with the yachts of these fierce and haughty nobles. What scruple should restrain them from doing a bloody mischief to the mild and gentle apostle of all that is peaceful and brotherly? Let the electors of Birmingham be truly grateful for this most timely shield of defence which President Johnson's careful prudence has held in front of their inimitable repre sentative. After all, it is not much more funny that the most eminent member of the Peace Society should take his pleasure in a man-of-war than that he should represent a town whose chief business is the manufacture of the most destructive engines and the most deadly weapons. It most be a sore trial to a man whose prime aim is to persuade the nations to turn their swords into pruning-hooks, to feel that he owes his seat to men who actually make their money out of swords and rifles, or, as he might put it, batten on the blood of brothers. Perhaps Mr. Bright has learnt to bow with resignation before the cruel and grotesque fate which invariably associ ates his name with everything that is most repug nant to his avowed professions, and most profoundly inconsistent with his public aspirations. He abhors war, and yet he represents a place which lives on war. His sole wish is that all classes in the land should dwell together in unity, and that brotherly love should continue, and yet an unfortunate duty is for ever farting him into a position which makes him appear to the spectator as if he were urging one class to hate the other. Wholesale bloodshed is, in his opinion, so execrable a means that no end, how ever good, can justify it, and yet he finds himself hotly sympathising with one of the most reckless slaughters to be found in history. There never was a man so persistently dogged by ill luck. The same irony follows* Mr. Bright, it would seem, even into his pleasures. Instead of being allowed to perform his pilgrimage to America as the lowly man would have wished, in the Company of meek and peace loving brethren, he is constrained to make his entry into that holy land in all the pomp and circumstance of war. A shudder will run through the Peace Society as it thinks of the men of Belial with whom their chief will have to consort. 'What has the great national peace-maker to do with admirals, and com modores, and boatswains, and the like sons of gnus ? It is appalling to think of the amount of powder, and shot, and shell that will lie within a foot of his bid-head ;of the cursing and reviling which will offend his sensitive ears—and cursing and reviling not after Mr. Bright's own elegant pattern, but rough, and coarse, and profane ; of the fierce tales of chasing, and cutting-out, and sinking w ith which the m en o f blood, his hosts, will regale his after-dinner hours. But perhaps we may reason ably hope that sailors who have had the privilege of being reared under the purity and simplicity of a Republic are free from the debasing vices that are to be expected in the crouching victims of a mon arch, or the hirelings of an oligarchy. And we all know how alien is all outrageous boasting, and curi ous swearing, and irreverent imagery to the American taste. So there is some hope that Mr. Bright may escape all strong and bad language. Still the position is not without its dangers. Evil communications corrupt the very best manners, and the close intimacy which life on board ship compels with men whose trade is fighting may turn even a Bright into a fighting man. True, this saintly messenger of peace never for a moment allows himself to be carried away by gusts of passion. He is, by nature and habit alike, quite incapable of the shocki ng emot i on of hatred!' Peace on earth and good-will towards men has ever been his text. It is not as if he were a man of vehement anger and irrepressible fierceness of dis position. There is no material in that gentle spirit which the tales of cutting -out and sinking South erners would be likely to kindle into a pestilent enthusiasm for war. However, one never knows what revolutions in character may spring from a sudden change of surrounding ; and, dreadful as it is to contemplate, Mr. Bright may possibly return with a downright admiration for what in other times be has so powerfully denounced as the bane and scourge of the human race. His enemies, indeed, malignantly declare that the revolution has already gone as far it could, that the furious sympathy with which he looked upon the slaughter of men and destruction of property is one of the coarsest and most flagrant pieces of inconsistency of which a p - rominent politician was ever guilty. The war levied by the North against the South may have been just or unjust, and it is worth remembering that success is no indisputable proof of either the wisdom or the justice of beginning a war. But in either case the spectacle of the eloquent, powerful preacher of peace -at-any-price exerting all his power and all his eloquence to encourage a nation to pour out blood more recklessly, and consume treasure more lavishly, in a contest for territorial aggran disement, is a sight which will recur strikingly to men's minds when Mr. Bright next has occasion to denounce the profligate expenditure on armies and fleets in his own degraded country. Luckily for the commander of the steam-frigate, the voyage to America is not too long. His illustrious guest will not have time to get restless and wearied with the monotony of life on board ship. Otherwise the commander might awake some morning and find the illustrious guest delivering a turbulent and seditious harangue to the crew. Mr. Bright, after a little repose, would surely sigh for new worlds to conquer, new crow d s t o fill with a sense of the iniquities of their rulers. In lack of the Free trade Hall at Manchester, the deck of a steamer would be sufficiently capacious to gratify his ambi tion. The infamous tyranny of the captain would be for the moment as good a subject as the infamous tyranny of the English lando Amer. All men are born equal. Why, then, should they be ground to the earth with toil and anxiety, be badly paid, and ill fed, at the beck and bidding of a despotic official strutting too and fro in the tawdry majesty of gold lace ? All the illustrations which have excited a sense of their atrocious wrongs in the bosoms of thousands at Birmingham or Manchester would be just as useful and just as appropriate as addressing the crew of his frigate. "Why should there be any difference between captain and men ? D? not the brows, their rising taking men earn a runp sc e a a n ri t y y bread anc l time restsweat pampered rulers, the ca pt a in and the lieutenant, live on dainty mea t s , an d 1 0 1 l l a nguidly in gilded their saloons? If M r . B r i g ht qvoti ld only act thoroughly late, of while up to his principl es , we d o no t s ee how he can pos sibly reconcile it to hi s consc ience to abstain from stirring up a mutiny. But perhaps he may learn to look at things rather differently when he gets to what Mr. Elijah P ogram ca ll e d hi s " bright home in the setting sun." "THE SATURDAY REVIEW" ON lIIGII-PRINCIPLED MURDER.--The balan ce i s recov e r ing itself. The gentle sex has had almost a monopoly in murder of . art of slaying children was a woman's the Innocents. C e l est i na Sumner, Catherine Brough, Constance Kent, a n d th e hag Winsor seemed to show that the speciality. B u t th e recent exploits of Stephen Forward are redres s i ng the di spar it y w hi c h th e sexes displayed i n t hi s matter ; and the career of that very exceptional homicide brings into one focus, repeats and presents in a condensed and available compass, though in an extreme form, that theory of THE " LONDON REVIEW" ON THE MILITARY OUT RAGE AT CHATHAM. —The amiable Queen of the savage islanders of the Pacific, now a visitor to this highly-civilised and much-favoured island, will have a strange story to tell her subjects when she returns. How will the Sandwich Islanders shriek their dis gust at the Pritchard poisonings of wife and mother, the Winsor smotherings of innocents, the revolting butcheries of the man Forward, and the dastardly assassination of an officer by one of his *own men ! How can we venture to explain away any of these hideous crimes to the good Queen Emma, so that we may not be placed at the bottom of the scale of civi lization in the estimation of the savages we are al ways calling from the error of t•:ieir ways ! Truly one begins to question whether what we call civili- exact counterpart of that at the Royal Princess's Theatre, London." " METROPOLITAN THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO, California. —Production of Mr. Dion Boucicault's new Irish drama, ARRAH-NA-POGUE ; or, the Wicklow Wedding, under the direction of Mr. Charles Wheatleigh. The drama is mounted with every care from designs and models obtained from the author, and from a manuscript m i nu t e l y e dit e d for the action o f the play. Shaun the Post, C. Wheatleigh. "CHESNUT STREET THEATRE, PHILADELPHIA.—Crowded houses nightly to witness the new drama, ARRAH-NA- PoGUE, produced, with now scenery designed by W. Telbin, and new costumes by Mr. S. May." The antiquarian of 2500 will reason upon these announcements, that the facilities must have been equal, or nearly so, f or go i ng to a ll t h e theatres advertised. It is believable, it will be triumphantly asked, that people in London would be apprised of the performance of " Arrah-na-Pogue " at Mel bourne and at San Francisco nightly, if it was not easy to go to either, and as easy to go to one as to the other, or for that matter, as easy to go to the Princess's in Oxford-street ? Nay, the fact that the Manchester announcement is stuck in between the Melbourne and San Francisco argues that it mattered little to the wonderful people of that age whether they were invited to go a distance of some two hundred miles for an evening's amusement, or one of many thousand leagues. It must have been all the same to them, possessed of some wonderful and inconceivable locomotive power for sea and land. For never will the sages of 2500 divine the fact that it is the marvellous power of puff that annihi lates space and time, and makes the Theatre Royal, Timbuctoo, or the Theatre Royal, North Pole, as much within reach with its " Arrah-na-Pogue" as the Princess's in Oxford-street. COUNTRY MARKETS NOT TINGHAM--SlTiativor. Very little progress has been made with the harvest work, the weather being very unsettled up to Friday, and much anxiety has been felt for the corn crops. Wheat is injured by mildew, and neithor the quality nor yield will be so satisfactory as last year. Old white wheat, 47s to 53s ; old red, 44s to 49e ; new white, 47s to 53s ; new red, 438 to 49s per 36 stone. Bar ley, new malting, 278 to 36s per qr ; old grinding, 26s to 295; new, 22s to 27 s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 26s to 31s ; new, 22s to 278; old f ore i gn , 22 s t o 26 8 per s t one. B eans , old, 434 to 46s ; new, 418 to 44s per 38 stone. NORWICH-SATURDAY. Tho supply of wheat was only moderate at this market to-day, and the farmers asking much higher prices than buyers were disposed to follow business was checked, but an advance of 3s. per qr. was realised on the transactions which took place. The weather during the past week has been unsettled, and heavy rains have fallen at intervals so as to prevent much grain being carted ; the little secured will, it is feared, be in somewhat poor condition. To-day the weather appears more settled with a rising barometer and a drying wind. White wheat (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 48s to 52s ; red ditto (weighing 631 b to 641 b), 42s to 488 ; best malting barley (weighing 551 b to 561 b), 30s to 33s ; runs ditto (weighing 541 b to 551 b), 28s to 36s ; distilling ditto (weigh ing 521 b to 531 b), 24s to 26s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 37s to Os ; peas (maple), 36s to 38s per qr; flour, 26s to 818 Gd per sack. YORK-SATURDAY. On the heavy clay lands there are some good crops of wheat, and fine weather is very much needed to secure them. Barley is a fair yield. Very little grain has been removed from the fields during the week. New white wheat, 478 to 53s ; new red, 445 to 47s per 86 stone. Barley, for malting, - sto —s per qr ; grinding, 28s to 29s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 23s to 27s per 24 stone. Beans, 43s to 45s per 40 stone. Malt, 58s ; rye, 28s per qr. Flour, 33s to 34s per sack of 2801 b. LEICES TER-SATURDAY. In the Vale of Belvoir there are some' good crops of wheat and barley, and a continuance of fine weather is very much being needed to secure them. Very little has been cleared during the week, harvest work being almost laid aside by the unsettled weather. During the past two days, how ever, it has been fine. The new grain at market was not in good condition. Old white wheat, 47s to 50s ; old red, 42s to 46s ; new white, 46s to 498 ; new red, 40s to 43s per 36 stone. Bar ley, malting, 33s to 35s per qr. ; grinding, 26s to 29s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 29s to 33s ; new, 25s to 29s per 24 stone. Beans, old, 418 to 4ss ; new, 39s to 42s per 38 stone. COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Friday. Amsterdam Short. 11 181 11 19 Ditto 3 Months. 12 1 12 1 Rotterdam Antwerp — 25 52} 25 57 Brussels Hamburg - 13 9/ 13 10 Paris Ditto 3 Months. 25 42} 25 47 Marseilles Frankfort on the Maine 120 1 1211 Vienna — 11 1/1 11 25 Trieste — 11 20 11 25 Petersburgh - 30-} 30/ Berlin ••• •• Madrid — 471 47f Cadiz Leghorn Milan Messina Nap Gonles oa 25 57* 25 62 Palermo Oporto — 511 511 Lisbon —51 f Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton- —Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Sept. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pao,et Sept. 4. Ditto, by French packet Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and st. Helena Aug. 21. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Sou' hampton Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 26 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton . A ug. 18. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Aug. 18. Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug. 25. Ditto, via Marseilles ... Aug. 19. Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseire 4. Sept. 4. Newfoundland , Aug. SO. Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri tish packet ... . . Aug. 21. Ditto, by United Stat es p ac k e t , via Southamp tat ...... . Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Aug. 25. West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept. 10. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba, _ __ _ and Mexico Aug. 23. Bahamas, Tia. New York. Sept. 13 Bermuda, ditto .. Aug 30. Cuba and Mexico Aug. 29. GALLANT RESCUE FROM DROWNING.—A labour. ing man, named James Birtwistle, was gallantly rescued from drowning at Oakenshaw, near Accrington, on Thursday. The Accrington Gas and Water Works Com pany aro making a new gas well near the river Hyndburn, at Oakenshaw, the excavations being deposited on the Bide of the river opposite the well. For this purpose a plank, supported by trestles, was laid across the river. The stream was swollen by the rains, and washed away one of the trestles just as l3irtwistle was crossing the plank. He was carried down the river at a great speed. His fellow-work men seemed to be so confounded that they did not know what to do ; but, fortunately, the superintendent of the works, Mr. John Hall, came up, and throwing off his mackintosh, he jumped into the stream and swam to the drowning man. Withlsome: difficulty he conveyed him to the bank, just in time to save his life. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— The knife superseded.—All afflicted with ulcers, diseases of the bone, inflammation of the joints, should read this testimonial to tho curative powers of these healing and purifying remedies. Mr. John Allen, 17, Denmark-street, Leicester, suffered severely from a bad foot for three years, during which long period he was under surgical treatment, without any perceptible benefit. He resolutely objected to amputation, which seemed the only course open, till he providentially tried Holloway's remedies. These gave him great relief, and at last completely cured him. Spots, blemishes, and skin diseases, arising from impoverished blood or a reckless course of life, may be removed by the judicious use of Holloway's Ointment and Pills. Births. ATTLER.—On the 18th inst., at Lower Tooting, Mrs. Chas Attler, of a daughter. ANDERSON.—On the 18th inst., at 2, Norfolk -crescent, Hyde-park, the wife of J. M. Anderson, Esq., of a son. EuwakunEs.—Gia the 18th InSt., at Lowestoft, the wife of Captain Stanley De Burgh Edwardes, 2d Bombay Grena diers, of a daughter. NIXON.—On the 18th inst., at Lyndhurst, Upper Norwood, the wife of Henry Nixon, Esq., of a son. Marriages ITARDCASTLE—PURDON.—On the 17th inst., at Seaton, Thomas Hardcastle, Esq., of Bradshaw Hall, eldest son of James Hardcastle, Esq., of Firwood, Bolton-le-Moors, and Pen-y-lau Park, Denbighshire, to Emily Augusta, youngest daughter of tho Rey. W. Purdon, M.A., rector of Seaton, Rutland. SUTTON—TILBURY.—On the 17th inst., at SL Luke's, Chelsea, Ch as . S utton, Esq., of Nassau, N. P., Bahamas, late Lieutenant 25th Fusiliers, to Harriet, eldest daughter of W. 11. Tilb ury, Esq., of Walfiam-green, Fulham. Deaths. BLEADEN.—On the 18th inst., at Epsom, Mr. John Bleaden, formerly of Lothbury, city, aged 82. CLATDEN.—At Little Linton, Cambs , Mr. Samuel Clayden, aged 51. CRIPPEN.—On the 17th inst., Miss Elizabeth Crippon, of Ferry Villas, Walthamstow, Essex, aged 74. ENTWISLE.—At Hanford, near Blandford, Wm. Entwisle, Es 7., of Rushulmo House, Manchester, and Lancaster gate, Hyde-park, aged 57. JEFFERD.—On the 16th inst., William Jefferd, Esq., of Chichester, Sussex. KINGSTON.—On the 15th inst., at Brussels, suddenly, John Kingston, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn-fields, aged 55. MARmorr.—On the 18th inst., the Rev. Harvey Marriott, vicar of Wellington, Somerset, aged 84. London : Printed and Published by WIL LIAM ANDEAWO. of No. 112, Strand, Puinter, at Tnz Sum Ohre, No 10', Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tb, County of 111.1ddlesexs--Monday, August 21, 1865. arrol!