The Sun. — London, England, 1867-09-11 00:00:00

.0 was the Architect of the Parlia. went Houses• Mr. Welby Pugin, in a letter to a contemporary, says : —ln February, 1860, hearing that Mr. B. Ferrey was preparing, unknown to me, a biography of my father, I called upon him to protest against such a step being taken previous to reference to my self. He represented that the work was too far ad vanced to be suppressed, but promised compliance with such minor alterations as I might suggest, ask ing me in return to procure from Sir Charles Barry some information regarding my father's connection with the Houses of Parliament. My application to Sir Charles was followed by a visit from him—the first he paid me since my father's death. On my suggestion that my father's correspondence would throw some light on the subject, Sir Charles assured me that every line of it was destroyed, and expressed an emphatic hope that all his own letters to my father had shared the same fate. He was, how ever, greatly surprised to hear that I had found 76 of his letters referring to the earlier period of the work. On the ground of his plea that the perusal of them would be interesting to him, and on the faith of his promise to return them, I placed them in his hands ; receiving at the same time an invita tion to dinner on the following day, and an intima tion that they should then be restored to me. This promise, however, was evaded by his re quest for an extension of time, and a renewed en gagement was made to return them by Lady Barry, who certainly did call to offer some civility to my stepmother, but did not bring the letters. During my first interview with Sir Charles Barry it was distinctly laid before him that he was enjoying the honours in a great measure earned by another, and that I was determined that my father's share of fame, so often guaranteed to him by Sir Charles, and so justly merited, should be publicly recognized. Sir Charles promised to do all in his power to meet my wishes, and on reaching home wrote to my mother as follows :—" I am much concerned that you should be under the impression that I could be indifferent to you and all concerned with your late husband, whose memory I shell ever cherish and respect, both as a warm friend and a man of genius of the highest order." These were the only approaches to consideration and sympathy which Sir Charles Barry evinced for us since my father's death. He had, however, pre viously refused to become my mother's trustee for the Government pension, and yet in this same letter he goes on to deny that he had done so. He further states that " all suspicions to his disadvantage ase perfectly groundless." Three weeks after Sir Chas. Barry died. I have detailed these circumstances in order to show that I did take a step towards obtain ing a recognition of my father's merits, but it was thus unhappily rendered nugatory. Up to the pre sent time my statements have been simply met with counter-statements ; for to say that the contradic tory and partial assertions of Messrs. Talbot Bury, Wolfe, &c., in any way prove themselves or each other, is mere folly. They are but the shreds and . _ patches of a story which I and another alone know in its entirety. I will now to some extent complete the chapters, very small portions of which have been communicated rightly, and rectify their mistakes. The evidence they give of Sir C. Barry's compe tition drawings being in pencil is correct. My father's competition drawings were also in pencil ; and this gives greatprobability to Mr. Talbot Bury's revelation made to me on the 11th of August last, that many of my father's designs were re-drawn by Barry, so that the same touch should not be de tected in his and in Mr. Gillespie Graham's de- signs." In spite of this precaution, however, the style was detected, and thus referred to at the time by the Morning Post : " Gillespie Graham has given a plan in the genuine spirit of Gothic architecture, defying symmetry and order, but presenting combinations of convenience and pic turesque grouping in perfect keeping with the character of the style, which it is delightful to contemplate. The designs evince the author's intimate acquaintance with till style. Tho drawings by the same hand which ap pears to have assisted No. 61 (Ur. Barry's), are masterly and entirely peculiar," It was at this period that my father told his in timate friend, Mr. Grieve, that " he was the de signer of the Houses." I have also ascertained that my father bad pre pared designs for Trentham for Sir Charles Barry some time before he began those for Westminster, and it is a fact verified by Mr. —, who mounted the drawings, that my father intended to be himself a competitor for the Parliament Houses previous to his receiving the applications of Mr. Gillespie Graham and Mr. Barry. These competition drawings of my father's were lost sight of from the day they were mounted, but there can be no doubt that they were the designs for which Sir Charles Barry paid 400 guineas, and which were subsequently, as far as possible, engrafted on Sir Charles's ground plan. I affirm this on authority, to be produced if necessary. This is rather curiously confirmed by a passage in in a letter from Sir Charles to my father : " I am much flattered by your hearty commendations of the plan, and shall know where to look for a champion if I should hereafter require one." Mr. Talbot Bury has been applied to, hitherto without success, respecting the date of my father's first visit to Mr. Barry. Is it probable, when my father had been preparing for Sir Charles Barry such designs as those for Trentham and other build ings, when of course his intercourse with Sir Charles must have been most frequent, that he would never have heard of or seen a design of which he is alleged to have spoken in such raptures to Mr. T. Bury ? Was the weakness which availed itself of my father's genius in ,the less important works of Trentham, &c., suddenly transformed into a giant power of grappling with the far greater difficulties of the Palace at Westminster? Impossible. If any one wants to see what Sir Charles Barry's ideas of Gothic architecture were at this period, let him look at St. Peter's Church, Saffron-hill. That building will satisfy any one that he could then no more design anything at all resembling the Houses of Parliament than he could have engraved the plates of the con tracts. It is simply the churchwardenish carpenter's Gothic of the time. Mr father's designs having proved successful, he was called in to complete his work. His diary for 1835 shows that he was designing during a con siderable portion of that year for Sir Charles Barry; and circumstances lead me to the conclusion that much of his work did not meet either his own or Sir Charles' views. On the Ist September he was " all day_on compositions," and continued thus en gaged up to the 19th. On the 2d of November he worked at the " river front—five compartments." This I imagine to mean five different designs for the same compartment, and conclude therefrom that Sir Charles Barry was in those days what he was when I knew him—never satisfied until he had seen ten different ways of doing one thing. Another entry shows that my father was engaged on " sec tions." Will my opponents inform me whether " compositions," "compartments," and "sections" mean only details ? And will Mr. Talbot Bury, who is so earnest in describing these and other drawings merely as " drawings for tenders" (as though that fact made them of no importance) reconcile this ab surd depreciation with the fact that "drawings for tenders" mean working drawings, elevations, sec tions, full-sized details, &c. ? On his own confes sion, then, my father actually made drawings, as his diaries testify, for every portion of the houses. In September, 1836, Sir Charles sent my father a parcel of tracings taken from my father's drawings. Th a t this was his practice appears from a subsequent letter, in which he says—" I enclose a tracing of the end as it appears in your drawings." In a former letter he writes They (the tracings) will furnish you with the necessary data (dimensions) for the preparation of a large batch of internal details, including the two Houses complete, the King's robing room, gallery and staircase, entrance and vestibule." Ile then goes on to state that he also wants a col lection of doors, archways, and openings to corri dors, &c., and a series of designs for wall framings. He wishes the designs to be made to a scale of half an inch to the foot, " except where doors, windows, turrets, &c., are drawn out separately, when I agree with you it will be desirable to adopt a scale of one inch to a foot." Similar references are made to St. Stephen's-hall, central hall, committee rooms, &c. These extracts go far to prove that Sir Charles on THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1867. many occasions did no more than supply the instruc- hall and Westminster-hall for the exercise of your tions usually given to an architect by his client, and inventive genius." confirm my statement that, " although the general On the 11th of August, 1851 :—" I approve your drawings then and subsequently supplied comprised design and arrangement for the wall tiles, as well as every portion of the building, Sir Charles was un- the floor tiles." able to proceed whenever details were wanting." Con the 22d October, 1851 :—" I really forget the Thus, with the general designs for the different pore arrangement of the tiles in the angle spaces of the tions of the House of Lords in his possession, he central hall floor, but if you are satisfied with it, I writes from Brighton in 1844 thus : have no doubt I shall be content with the design as "DearPugin,—l am in a regularfix respecting the fittings it ie. Therefore, give your orders to Minton for the and decorations for the House of Lords, which it is of vital new tiles, as it seemeth best to you." importance to me should be finished with the utmost do- On the 7th November, 1851 :—" I approve the spatch. lam induced to write to you that you may be both able and willing to pass a week or t en d a y s w ith mo principles of the rough s k e t c h es , w hi c h I return en for the purpose of working out the dra w i ngs i n ques ti o n, closed without alteration." and of enabling me to consult you gen era lly." On the Bth Novembe r , 1851, Si r Ch ar l es as k s f or Further on the letter proceeds : a " sketch of the regalia, as symbols of the dignity "But I think you will now have enough to do for acme of the house." time to come, notwithstanding your fifty-horse power of On the 26th November, 1851 :—" lam much creation." obliged to you for the satisfactory accounts of your From all this it may be plainly seen what Sir progress of all that is now in course of preparation Charles Barry meant by " details,"--not some for the great work, as well as for your zealous and minute ornament for one of hi s own d es i gne d f ea - unremitting exertions therein." tures, but the " features" themselves—" not one of On the 18th December, 1851 :—" The drawings which," Mr. Wolfe declares, " was ever designed by for badges for the Commons' gallery front will do Pugin." On the 22d of O c t o b er , 1836, Si r Ch ar l e s very well, and Crace has orders to make use of them. writes :—" Being from home yesterday, I could not The arrangement of them which you prose will, I acknowledge by return of post th e rece ipt o f th e draw- have no doubt, answer. With some of po them I am ings of the House of Lords, which came to hand last unacquainted; I shall therefore require instructions night, and afforded me a rich treat." (May I ask , respecting them." (Here Sir Charles is again ask by the way, whether people generally have " a rich ing for explanations from my father; the positions treat" in seeing merely enlarged copies of their own are reversed.) designs ?) In the same letter, speaking of the King's On the 27th December, 1851, referring to the and Record Tower entrance :--" This you may make heraldry in front of the houses, he says :—" I shall of any design you may think proper ;" and of the be very glad, if it would not be bothering you too King's stairs, " The design of this part should, I much, if you would give the subject your deliberate think, be of a simple and m ass i ve c h arac t er ." If this attention, and favour me w ith your id eas. " is not an admission that my father actually designed On the 14th June (no year given) :-. 4 ‘ I enclose a these portions of the building, what is it ? Perhaps rough tracing of flying buttress of central tower it may convince Messrs. Charles and Edward Barry (the designs for which I find, by reference to the that so far from my father ever getting " unmerited diary, my father had made in 1835), and shall be credit for his share in the designs of the New Palace," glad of your advice at your earliest convenience." he never got a tithe of what was due to him. The foregoing extracts declare in actual words There are a multitude of other entries of the that • from my father proceeded sketches, ideas, same character in his diaries, all proving that be drawings, proposals, instructions, explanations, in was constantly supplying Sir Charles Barry with vention, arrangement, principles, advice, orders every kind of design. —and all for—" glory," which another en- When Sir Charles had obtained what he considered joyed. More than this, Sir Charles was so a sufficient supply he cut the cable by which he rode completely at fault, even in the smallest matters, so long, and intrusted my father's designs to Mr. that he applied for sketches and designs for ink- Thomas, a man whose practical education was due stands, blotting cases, umbrella :stands, paper to his working according to my father's drawings holders, ventilating roses, tapestries, papers, stuffs, and under his instructions at the Birmingham carpets, &c., for some of which he asks for full-sized Grammar School. My father acutely felt this un- drawings. I have myself a distinct recollection of generous treatment, a nd for many years refused all hearing my father constantly complain that without intercourse with Sir Charles Barry—a fact quite him everything would come to a standstill, and the contrary to the oft-repeated assertion that " their time he lost, and the journeys he took in come mutual friendship was continuous and uninterrupted." quence. When my father again consented to design for Sir Now, first, will any one deny that the above ex- Charles, he did so—as he himself constantly assured tract s disp r ove the statements signed (but not me—solely on condition of having an official ap- writt e n) by Mr. W. Wright, upon whom Mr. E. pointmentunder Government, over which Sir Charles Barry called two days before my lawyer saw him, should have no control ; n e or , ,, he s a id, ~ as soon when he bluntly refused to give any evidence what as Barry has obtained what he requires from me he ever ? will repeat 1837." The letter of 1845 was simply Secondly, do they not indicate in what sense my the sequel to his having sold his brains in 1835. In father was subordinate to Sir Charles Barry ? The that year he beca m e a Catholic, and I have often latter was the appointed and publicly recognised heard him say, " With that my chance for the Houses architect of the HOUS2S, and his decision was final. vanished, and I made the best of the situation." He had the power of selecting and of refusing all The Messrs. Barry ridicule this statement, and that my father submitted to him ; he had a great speak of "an anonymous competition, the essence of plan in his head, and to carry out this plan he had which was the concealment of the names of the to give instructions. What he wanted he had to ask competitors ;" but, independent of the consideration for, and my father designed and supp li e d i t. In that his success, with an almost absolute certaint y, w h a t o th er way h e was " subordinate" it would might not have been followed by confirmation, lam puzzle any one to make out. compelled to say that, while it is quite true that Thirdly, do they not fully explain the nature of their drawings might pass without d e t ec ti on i n the the "details" to w hi c h my f a th er ' s work was con most limited competition, my father's touch was as fined ? The word " detail" has been so depreciated conclusive as his autograph, whether shown on the in the minds of many people that it signifies to them margin of a note or on the magnificent designs still no more than the crockets of a canopy or the mi existing, which he prepared for the Houses, manyof nutiaa of a finial. Setting aside, however, the which I saw on Monday the 12th of August last, as above statements, which show that my father worked well as drawings made by Sir Charles Barry from out masses as well as parts, of what are the my father's designs. These designs can be produced, houses composed if not of " details?" Why, they iy, as also a witness who saw them prepared. are all " detail." So that, by my opponents' In addition to the emoluments of his office, I own showing find on reference to hi s p ass -b oo k that in the , the whole is the wo r k o f m y f a th er . Yet Mr. Edward Berry, afte r sa yi ng , w ith M r . , space of one year, from July, 1811, to July, Wolfe, &c., that my father's share in the work was 1845, my father received diroctly from Sir Charles confined entirely to details, coolly indites words for £906 2s. 6d. This must have been for work of the signature of Mr. Wright, declaring that "no one some value, and surely not, as Mr. Talbot Bury de- portion of the Houses at all accords with any details dares, for taking charge of wood carving works, or prepared by my father ; while Mr. Wolfe says that for showing his " old friend" large detail drawings " not a single feature was designed by I'ugin ;" and prepared by Sir Chas. Barry himself, which he was Mr. Bury writes that " Mr. Barry did all the sections engaged to see properly executed. and elevations," and that my father " had nothing Mr. Barry has told the whole story in one word. to do with the competition designs." He says that between 1840 and 1818 the whole of In the name of wonder, then, and common con the designs for the great work which passed through sistency, for the sake of Sir Charles' sanity, will his father's office were "finally" prepared by they inform ue what was the work for which my Sir Charles alone. This may be true to the letter, father received from him 400 guineas and such com for as soon as he had obtained my father's designs paratively large s ums a ft erwar d s, i n a ddi t i on to hi s he invariably had them redrawn for use in his office. salary from Go vernment ? (Although, indeed, he Mr. Barry does not, howev er , s t a t e by whom the has often assu re d me t h at Barry had received from him drawings p a id f or i n hundreds when thousands previous designs were made, w hi c h " finally" became were not suffici en t remuneration.) Does any one in Sir Charles's own compositions. Now, I was myself pay on this sca l e f or en l arged drawings, engaged for many years together with another, hi s senses whom I will not at present name, in assisting to other ordinary e m pl oyments of third-rate clerks ? perspective vie ws , d eta il s t h at were " set aside, " and draw out designs for the houses, which designs I know emanated from my father alone, and were pre- Mr. E. M. Bar r y may f a i r l y plead ignorance of what pared by him. I have seen my father on number- occurred previous t o th e d ate he has selected (1850) less occasions prepare every kind of design while Sir but it is unwarr an t a bl e t h at he should state what is Charles himself stood by, but never on one single positively false with reference to events which took occasion did Sir Charles put pencil to paper, and he place after that period. He says in his letter to the generally left with large rolls of drawings. Sir Pall Mall Gazett e o f A ug. 21, " I can state most (Sir Charles) Charles also in his letters constantly acknowledges positively that aft er 1850 every design for the West the receipt of designs and drawings. If, then, a s my minster Palace emanated from himself alone, and was fully wor k e d out by his own hands." opponents insinuate, none of them were ever s een T in Sir Charles Barry's office, what be came o f th em ? Ten of the extr ac t s g i ven a b ove are fromhis father's Did Sir Charles pay large sums for their production y letters of 1851. and take them away merely to d es t roy th em ? Or, After this wh a t re li ance can be placed on an one of the statements -made by himself or hi s witnesses? rather, does not the very denial of th e i r ex i s t ence prove that I was correctly infor me d b y my f a th er I acquit them of a ll intentional misrepresentation g that Sir Charles traced all hi s ( m y f a th er ' s ) designs but it is evident t h ere was somethin going on of w privately before they were su b m itt e d t o " final" which they had no cognisance; a head and a hand a they r saw , n e o n t e i r were cl n g t t h h i n e k b i r n u g w a e n f d a n w u o t r h k e i r n w g i t o h n g , I d e a r y y preparation? Some of these t rac i ngs , an d th e ori ginal sketch of the clock t ower , I h ave now i n my and conceiving marvels of art, to be recompensed possession. The above stat emen t s are somew h a t y, only by an equal b a l ance of flattery and depreciation. confirmed by Mr. Ferre t ' hi mse lf i n hi s Biograph page 247. " Pugin dre w , an d B arry suggeste d an d Fourthly—lf the nat ure o f Si r Charles Barry's correspondence i s so f u l ly betrayed in the few letters digested, the parts in which the skill of Pugin was ,nightf om w n h o i c t h i 1 I a v h e a b y e e eqnuportoe proved e d t h f e r o a m b o t v h e e i e r x e t r n a t c i r t e s , n w u h m a _t required." In further confirmatio n o f w h a t I h ave a d vance d I give a few other extra c t s f rom Si r Ch as. Barry's ber ? And what wo n d er th at Sir Charles destroyed nced such agitation a reply to a letter from m y f a th er, comp l a i n i ng w letters. In one dated No vem b er 25 , 1845 , evidently my father's letters, and ev i found that I was in poss ess i on of his own (the owne hen he of insufficient remuneratio n , h e says : " I am well aware that your remuneration h as been ship of which forms no p ar t o f t h e present question), and broke his faith with me i n regard to their resti that the fat has yet to come. It shall not be hitherto altogether inadequate to your des er t s , and tution ? I expect even yet t o con fi rm the proofs I my now advance, by a further discovery of letters, &c. fault if your remuneration ultimately is not all that My friends, I see, are doing thei r u t most to evade you can wish ; but I will not do y o u th e injustice the apparent difficulty in th e lett er o f 1845 ; b ut to to believe that filthy lucre is the mainspring of all • my mind, viewing it even in the light they do, this your efforts on behalf of the great work ; but that, very letter is the most convincing and conclusive like myself, you are prepared to make a sacrifice evidence yet advanced in confirmation of my state for the glory of making it the means of establishing ments. Long before I could have had any influence for the future what you believe the one and only on the question, what I have now been claiming for true style of art." my father was generally believed. On the 23d of October, 1848, speaking of me t a l Now, it is reasonable to i magine that unless there work, screens, and fittings generally, required for completing the House, he writes—" I shall b e glad were some very great difficulty in preparing thi s letter, it would not have been necessary for Sir to receive sketches of your ideas at your earliest Charles Barry and his confidential friend Mr. Wolfe convenience." to meet my father in consultat i on, to see h ow they In another letter, dated December 18, 1850 : could best crush a report to the truth of which the " I sho u ld much like to see what you have done and work itself is the strongest testimony. Giants are are doing for me before I see you on the 30th, in not to be met with every day, and their youth and order th a t I may have time for lucubration, and growth, as well as their middle age, are generally arrange every thing with you finally when we meet known to those around them. The great results on that d a y." achieved by my father were foretold in his early On the sth of January, 1851, in reference to childhood ; and his drawings , end his works all lead designs received from my father :—" I have been up and point to the greatest of them all, the Palace overhauling th e w h o l e of them with a view to be- of Westminster. What, on the other hand, has Sir come acquainted with them, in case any question, Charles Barry got to show? Where is there one whether of a c r iti ca l or other character, should be executed work of his which would induce the belief put to me resp ec ti ng them. The bulk of th em I that he was, in very truth, the art architect of that perfectly understand and approve ; the one which I noble pile? enclose I confess lam at loss both to read and corn- The foregoing are some of my facts and my evi prehend perfectly. Pray enlighten me with respect dente for them, but should I again be met by the to it." In this instance the drawings are so tho roughly my father's own t h at Sir Charles requires empty assertions of M r . E. M. Barry and his friends, although reluctant to call unwilling witnesses, I an explanation of them to give to higher au- shall not hesitate to produce men who can prove thorities. everything by a word. On the 10th of January, 1851, he writes :---c I In conclusion, allow me to add, that from the like the idea of the heraldic illustrations of the his- emphatic denial s con t a i ne d i n M r . E. M. Barry's tory of the Black Prince for the p o l ygonal stairs, former letter, we had a right to expect proofs that and I should like to have a little tim e t o t hi nk over remark the details." This proves what Mr. Wolf e states , would have exhausted th e su bj ec t ; but his able assertions have been followed by no proof that "my father's suggestions led occasionally t o whatever. Had he any affirmatory evidence beyond Sir Charles's ideas." a few letters which nullify each other, he would at On the 25th of January, 1851:--" I enclose once have met the question by the production of the tracings of windows of the central hal, St. Stephe n ' s - original drawings, which mug yet be iu exigence. It is not too much to demand that they should now be brought forward, and that before the tribunal named by Mr. Wolfe. Miscellaneous Foreign News. It is denied both by the President and General Grant that any elaborate official correspondence occurred between them on the removal oZ General Sheridan. On Saturday, the 17th ultimo, General Sheridan was aware that he was to be removed, and he is said to have taken it coolly, observing that he had only done his duty. His last official act, a tele gram from New Orleans says, will be the removal of Sheriff Hares of New Orleans for joining with Steadman and Rousseau for opposing Reconstruction. By the news the Java brought, which is to August 27, he had removed the city attorney and city sur veyor, and ordered the jurors to be chosen among the registered voters. He is to proceel direct to Fort Lawrence in Kansas, and not by way of Wash ington, as formerly reported. He will assume the command of the department of Missouri, while Gen. Thomas remains in charge of that of Cumberland. In a letter of the 3d ult. to Grant, Sheridan says that no opposition had come from the masses of the people, but assistance and encouragement, while from the Press, office seekers, and office holders disfranchised, he had met with bitterness and oppo sition. His chief embarrassment arose from the constant rumours of his removal, and he strongly complained of Rousseau for interfering with his duties, and suggesting his removal. General Rous seau had proceeded to New Orleans at the instiga tion of the President to inquire into Sheridan's doings. So greatly was Sheridan annoyed, that had he not been prevented by the President he would have arrested Rousseau and tried him by a military commission. On Monday, the 19th ult., Generale Sheridan, Secretary of War, re ceived instructions the Preside n t t o super the following day the super sede Grant, a and s Actingfro on m order was published. All agree that Grant remon strated, but it is unknown whether he based his objections on personal or private grounds. There is a clause in General Grant's order which expressly provides that General Sheridan's acts are to remain in force till rescinded by the General of the Army. The cable news from New York is that Monsieur Dano, the French Minister to Mexico, had arrived in New York on the 30th August. On the 31st the shipment of gold for Europe was small. Sept. 3. General business was reviving. Sept. 4..—Presi dent Johnson has issued a proclamation warning persons not to obstruct the decrees of the Federal Courts, as was recently the case in Carolina, and ordering the military and civil officers to assist the enforcement of these decrees. The public debt of the United States amounted on the Ist inst. to $ 2 , 5 00,000,000. We presume this is given in round numbers, but it signifies a considerable reduction, as the debt on the Ist August was $2,511,306,426. It is very remarkable to note how the prophecies of impending financial evil are belied by the United States. The meeting of the Emperors at Salzburg has had an unexpected result. The body of the son of Na poleon the Great, who was born King of Rome, and died Due de Reiehstadt, is to be removed from Vienna to Paris. When Napoleon I. abdicated, it was expressly in favour of his son—at th 3 time three years of age—who thus succeeded as Napoleon 11. His cousin, the present Emperor, has decided on removing his remains from the Imperial burying places of the Austrian family to the Abbey of St. Denis, celebrated as the resting-place of the sove reigns of France. This Abbey, situated in the suburbs of Paris, has lately been restored, having suffered much at the hands of the revolutionists. To Marshal Valliant has been confided the arrange ment of the funeral ceremony. Marshal Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, the Duke of Bassano, M. de Cambaceres, and General Fleury will convey the body from Austria to France, where it will be re ceived with all the splendour—whether it be in tr n a a r p i p s i i a n n g ss so of woemch or gala festival—in which the Some attention has lately been called to the anomaly, that the postage from London to Paris will soon be higher than that from London to New York, in so far that by the late treaty sixpence will carry half an ounce to the United States, whereas eight pence is charged to France if the letter exceeds seven and a half grammes in weight. By the French postal tariff to Italy, Germany, and other countries on the Continent, ten grammes is the weight allowed. The French allege that the English Post-office is to blame for the reduction of the 2i grammes, who have advanced the pretext that they do not possess any measure corresponding exactly with the French weight of 10 grammes. Those in England who maintain a large correspondence with France a:e kept alive to the anomaly that exists in the postage. If the English have no weight which corresponds to 10 grammes, the French, we presume, have no weight which exactly the authoritie s t ra equals the quarter ounc e , and it would be sure ly a to introduce the 10 easygramme m we i g ht as for the F rench to introduce s ra m f or e the the quarter ounce. The case ill ustrates not only the that baneful whereve r red tapes but also the fact h construe the law against the public the y d o so. Lately at a b ranc h post-office in Paris we had a lett er we i g h e d , t h e postage on which was there decl are d t o b e suf ficient. It was addressed to London, where we pro ceeded, and arrived before the letter was delivered. It came, bearing an extra charge of ten pence ; why we were never able to ascertain. It is probable that the branch office weighed the letter by the common standard of 10 grammes instead of 71, the exceptional postage to Great Britain. Fully a third of the letters we receive from Paris are marked "Insufficient," and we pre sume that great loss results to those who conduct a large correspondence between the countries. The Paris correspondent of the Times asserts that positive information had been received by the French Government that Russia had bought six lArge ironclad fri gates from the United States. Russia fomented the insurrection in Candia, the rising in Bulgaria, which exists, though we hear little of it, and she is doing her best to get up a disturbance in Servia. The state of preparation of Russia puzzles politicians, who hold the most diverse opinions of her intentions. The fuller knowledge now obtained in money circles regarding her financial position is not reassuring, and if Russia contemplates war she will not find it easy to raise the necessary funds. The rapidity with which she is piling up a great national debt, and with which loans in her behalf have followed one another in the markets, have had a depressing effect on he r credit. By the Java we learn that the members of Mr. Johnson's Cabinet are reported to have notified to him that they will willingly tender their resignations if requested by him so to do. This action appears to be dictated by a fi ne f ee li ng , which recognised the President's difficulties as placed by the people at the head of the P. —xeeutive and responsible for its acts, yet powerless under the late decree of Congress to remove the chiefs of departments. By this course the Cabinet nullifies the Act of Congress, each member refusing to avail himself of a law which might enable him to carry his opposition to the chief of the nation into the very council-room of the President. Admiral Tegethoff sailed from New Orleans for Vera Cruz in the corvette Elizabeth, Aug. 22. He will proceed to the city of Mexico, and, if granted an interview with President Juarez, will ask for the body of Maximilian. Before leaving he desired to contradict the reports that the body had been de livered to any one, or any willingness manifested to deliver it. A l etter is published i n a L e i ps i c paper, written by M ax i milian just before h i s d eat h . Wi t h singular ca l mness and simplicity he directs what is to be done w ith his body. It is to b e ta k en t o Vera Cruz, and placed in a ship of war for carriage to Europe without ceremony. " I waited calmly for death, and I desire to enjoy calm in my coffin," he says. " I d es i re to be buried by t h e s id e o f my poor wife, but if th e news of her d ea th b e no t t rue, it must be l a id i n some place until the Empress shall be re-u n it ed to me by d eat h. E n d eavour also that th e w i fe of my faithfu l companion-in arms, Miramon the ships, as s h e i s charged by Inc t o p r e sen t her self to my in Vienna." The American , m ay re t urn to Europe in one of mother lawyer Frederick Mall has also furnished some particulars of the closing hours of the Emperor, by whom he was employed as counsel. He states : _GI have gathered a good many facts in re lation to him, and may write his biography when I get home. I think he was one of the best men I ever knew—so kind-hearted and conscientious." A private letter is published in the New York, Times which we would fain believe to be untrue. " Make known to the American people," it says, " that the Emperor was spat upon in his prison, that his corpse was insulted during the eight days they had it hung up naked by the neck, for public exhibition, from the bannisters of a staircase in the ex-church of the Capuchins. It is now on view, under glass, for money, and they are selling the hair of his head and beard." We presume this despicable nation will close this scene of infamy by selling the body to the Austrian Emperor. On Sunday last, M. Schmidt, attaché to the late Austrian Embassy at Mexico, arrived at Vienna from that country, having with him several articles of clothing which were given to him by the late Emperor Maximilian just before his execution. The advices from Mata moras to the 15th August state that Canales had proclaimed in favour of Ortega, and that Escobedo, with 5,000 men, was marching against him. At a meeting of Conservatives at Washington Andrew Johnson was named for re-election as President of the United States, and General Sher man Vice-President. A committee was organised to forward this object. The idea is so prepos terous that people regard it as a joke. If Mr. Johnson's chances of re-election to the Pre sidential post are of the faintest hue, he shows determination to be President for the short period of power left to him. Rumours were rife of a reorganisation of the Cabinet at Washing ton, and it was even said that the Ministers had agreed to place their resignation in the President's hands, to take effect as successors are appointed. The news of the 27th August so far confirms this that all signify their willingness to resign when ever requested to do so by the President. General Sickles has been relieved ; General Howard will, it is said, be removed, and General Pope also. Both Sickles and Howard will revert to their rank of colonels, and be assigned to duty in the 'Vest. The President has imbibed the notion that Northern opinion is changing in favour of his policy, and he is making a strong effort to carry General Grant with him. A scheme has been sug gested to enable Mr. Stanton to turn the tables on his late chief. Mr. Cameron is to resign his seat in the Senate in favour of Mr. Stanton, who is to be appointed by Governor Geary. The Hon. Benjamin Wade is then to vacate the Presidency of the Senate, and Stanton is to be elected. It will then remain for the Senate to impeach and remove Mr. Johnson, and Stanton succeeds as President of the United States. The Springfield Republican, which gives currency to this brilliant scheme, adds that the only thing wanting to its success is the consent of all parties. General Sickle; in the original order which brought him into contact with the Supreme Court of the United States, intended only the public good. The people of his district were harassed by fore closures of mortgages and collection of debts when it was impossible to obtain money even on valuable estates. To meet the case the General issued an order suspending the enforcement of decisions of the Courts in these cases. No distinction was made between State and Federal Courts ; but the order was believed to be applicable only to the former. At the sitting of the Circuit Court at Raleigh some cases of debts were decided by Chief Justice Chase. It was in the execution of these that Lieut.-Colonel Frank interfered with U. S. Marshal Goodloe. The Marshal reported to 'Washington, the Post- Commander to Sickles, and the President supported the former and the General the latter. The Gene ral was informed that processes of the Federal Courts were not be stayed by the military, whereupon he requested a suspension of the matter for a week, for time to communicate his views on the subject. The Raleigh Sentinel, supposed to speak for him, states that he plants himself on the language of the Reconstruction Acts, and is not bound by the opinion of any civil officer of the United States. This is strange language in allusion to the President, who is Commander-in-Chief of both army and navy. On Wednesday, the 21st ult., the President and Cabinet met to take into consideration General Sickles' continued disobe dience, and the council seems to have been fol lowed by his removal, General Canby being ap pointed in his stead. General Sickles advanced in self-justification that if.the Federal Courts are per mitted to enforce their decisions in his district they may declare the Reconstruction Acts null and void ; but his argument seems to have had little effect on the President, judging from the telegram of the 4th inst. It is reported that in the process of muster ing out Volunteer Generals, Brevet-Major General Sickles will revert to his rank of colonel, and be thus disqualified for his department command. The simple and forcible denial of Messrs. Ben jamin Wood and Roger A. Pryor of all knowledge of the conspiracy of which they are accused has settled that plot. Judge-Advocate General Bolt states that he signed the application for Canover's pardon as a private citizen, and not as a Govern ment official, and General Butler and Mr. Ashley appear to have taken no further action in the matter. Leave of absence has been granted by the President to Mr. Holt, with thl understanding that he will be transferred to another post ; but he has declined to avail himself of this leave, and talks of demanding a court of inquiry. We presume that some such action is necessary to dispose of the charges made by Dunham against him. Mr. George Dolby has arrived in America. He has proceeded to the United States as agent for Charles Dickens. Generals Beauregard and Magruder visited the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, the 16th ult., and met with a very cool reception, being hissed by the mem bers as they left. Mr. R. L. Catting was censured for in troducing them. James Buchanan, ex-President of the United States, is seriously ill at Philadelphia, having been brought there from Gape May. His recovery is said to be doubt ful. Thaddeus Stevens has had a relapse, and is thought will be unable again to take his seat in Congress. Colonel Gordon Grainger will, it is reported, succeed General Howard as chief of the Freedman's Bureau, or, in default of him, John M. Langston, the coloured lawyer from Oberlin. Brigadier-General C. H. Tompkins, in charge of the subordinate quartermaster's offices, is ordered to Omaha, and General John C. Macfarren succeeds him. Colonel J. M. Moore, of the Burial Bureau, proceeds to Richmond, and the post will be abolished. Brevet-Colonel F. H. Luddington goes with General Totten on a tour to inspect the Atlantic fortifications. Brevet-Major N. J. Luddington, Chief Ordnance Master of the Washington depot, is ordered to New Mexico. Brevet Major H. A. Royce, chief of the Eighth Division, Lieutenant-Colonel Payne, and Major Francis J. Crilloy are mustered out. Colonel Henry Clay Wool, Assistant-Judge-Advocate- General, accompanies General Rousseau to Russian Ame :ica. The above arrangements have followed General Grant's assumption of the Secretaryship of War, in reduction of the expenditure of that department. The Rev. Henry \Yard Beecher, in a serial which ha is writing iu the New York Ledger, discusses, through a negro character of the story, the probabilities of horses going to heaven. Hiram points out that white and rod and black and grey horses, aro spoken of in the Revela tions, that Death rides on a pale horse, probably a cream colour, and that in the ninth chapter mention is made of an army of 200,000 horsemen. "Now," asks Hiram, " where could they get so many horses in heaven if none of them that die off here go there ? It is my opinion that a good horso is a darned sight likelier to go to heaven than a bad man." Colonel Robertson, of St. Paul, is importing fruit trees from Russia and Northern China, for tho pur pose of obtaining varieties that can be grown in Minno- sofa. Efforts aro being made with tho same object in California. The remains of Captain Wilfred Speer, who was shot on board the steamer Octavia, near Fort Buford, Mis souri River, in Juno last, were interred on Monday last in the family vault, at the Necropolis, Woking, Surrey. DEATH OF MR. PIERCE BUTLER.—The New York Herald announces the death of this gentleman, who, it will be remembered, was formerly the husband of Fanny Kemble, who obtained a divorce. Ho is described as a man of large erudition, and an agreeable and fluent con versationist. Simon Brewster, the largest real estate owner in Jewitt City, Connecticut, was stricken down while work ing in a hay field, on Tuesday, and died in a few hours. Dr. John H. Wheeler, a prominent citizen of Dover, Now Hampshire, died on Wednesday, August 21, after a brief illness. George Wingate Chase, well-known as the historian of IlaTerhill, and Ai AU Alith9; 91 §QINI4.I Masonic works, at ono time a member of the Legislature, and afterwards employed in the State Department, died at Stockton, Minnesota, on the 13th of August, of con sumption. The action of Judge Fisher in prohibiting Mr. Bradley, senior, from practising in his Court has boon approved at a meeting of 30 lawyers of the district. General E. Salgar, for some years Minister of the South American United States of Columbia, has been recalled. .Rev. J. W. Harding of Longmeadow and Charles D. Brewer, of Springfield, were to sail for Europe, the former on the 29th August, and the latter on the 11th of September. Both will bo absent several months. Lieutenant Herbert C. A. Brand, RN., of Jamaica notoriety, has been reappointed to a ship—the Irresistible, 60. It was rumoured that Mr. Dunbar, of New York, was to be arrested for circulating in the Globe false reports of Treasury frauds. John Savage is likely to be elected the new llcad Centro of the Fenians by the Congress in Now York. Marshall, the engraver, who executed the excel lent portrait of Abraham Lincoln, is at work on a lino engraving of General Grant, from a portrait painted by the engraver himself. The new Italian Minister to the United States, Signor Marcell° Cerruti, arrived in the Scotia this week al Now York. Mrs. (Longworth) 'Yelverton was amongst the passengers who sailed from Liverpool on Saturday last in the City of Washington for New York. Her luggage was directed " The Hon. Mrs. Yelverton." Her object in visiting the United States is, it is stated, to give a series of readings. The following officers were elected for the Savage Mining Company, July 18 :--Trustees—Alpheus Bull, Thos. Bell, M. Mayblum, A. H. Rose, and A. Hayward ; president—Alpheus Bull; secretary—E. B. Holmes ; trea surer, W. C. Ralston ; superintendent, Charles Bonner. Office, corner California and Sansome streets, San Fran- Cisco. A. M. Salter, of St. Louis, lately ascended Mont Blanc; and also a Mr. Copent, of New York. The latter was attended by four guides, nearly all of whom came near losing their lives in a great snow crevass, about 100 feet deep. A CAVALCADE.—Last week was seen at Heidel bergh an American lady and her son, having in charge some dozen and a half young ladies from some female school at Kalamoyoo, Michigan. Mrs. Stone had the party in charge, and her son was the treasurer of the association. They are making the tour of Europe, and excite much comment on account of numbers. Mr. Mozier, the distinguished American sculptor, lias left Hamburgh for Florence, where ho will spend a few days and then return to Rome. Few persons enjoy a greater celebrity as a sculptor than Mr. Mozier. Mr. Ransom Moore of North Adams and a sister in Williamstown have just discovered that they are the sole heirs to a $30,000 estate in Now Jersey. The Tennessee Central College has called the Rev. W. F. Mallalleu of Boston to its Presidency, and ho will probably accept it. General Butler is building a red granite summer residence, spacious and solid, at Annisquam, near Glou cester. The Morrill homestead at Belgrade, formerly the home of Anson P. Morrill and Senator Lot M. Morrill, was destroyed by lightning on Sunday, August 18. The loss was $3,000 and insurance $7OO. Republican nominations for Orleans county (Vermont) are—Senators, Luther Baker of Newport and James W. Simpson of Craftesbury ; state's attorney, L. H. Bisbee of Newport; sheriff, James Buswoll of Barton. Ex-President Barnas Sears, of Brown University, at Providence, now agent of the Peabody Educational Fund, will purchase a house, and reside at Stanton, Vir ginia. The Springfield Republican says—" The recent cure of Elias Howe, jun., the inventor of the sowing ma chine, was something of a miracle. He was affected with an enlargement of the heart, and after seeking in vain for relief at Paris and London, came home to Bridgeport to die. When ho was just at death's door, after his body had began to swell up and turn black, ho heard of a New York female physician, and had her telegraphed for. She came, prescribed for him, and he is now able to travel about the country. Sir Moses Montefiore has been successful in his mission to Roumania. In his eightieth year he undertook a similar mission to Morocco. A most interesting tale, "The Arab's Pledge," just published by Hatchard and Co., 187, Piccadilly, to which we will allude more fully in our next i ssue, mentions in the preface the great ameliora tion secured to the Jows of Morocco through the humane exertions of Sir Moses Montefiore. Ho was Sheriff of London in 1867, and was knighted on tho Queen's visit to the City ; High Sheriff and Deputy-Lieutenant of Kent in 1813 ; created baronet in 1846. It is reported that Lieut.-Governor Claflin, Hon. J. B. Alloy, Dr. G. B. Loring, Hon. J. A. Pond, Hon. R. C. Pitman and Hon. H. L. Dawes, are aspirants for Gov. Bullock's place. The Spanish Plenipotentiary to Mexico has arrived at Havannah. If Echoes from the Clubs is to be believed, Sir William Mansfield has had a misunderstanding with the successor of Captain Jervis, this time about a leg of mut ton, being the sequel to the former pickle case. Captain John Parsons, of New York, who had just arrived at Homburgh les Bains, on Tuesday last, fell down in the Park in a fit of apoplexy, and was at once convoyed to the hospital, whore ho died in about an hour. He never spoke after the attack. He was attended by Dr. Lewis, the English physician at Homburgh, and also by Dr. Deets, a German doctor. He was married to a niece of Commodore Decatur, who resides at Mertweh in Germany. Ile had not boon well for some days. The French poet, M. Amand, was one day at an assembly where a prominent figure was a man with black hair on his head, and a white beard on his chin. A lady inquired of M. Amand if he couldexplain the contrast. " 1 suppose, ma lam," he replied, " the gentleman's chin does more work than his head." A workman in the Gardner Coal Mine, Illinois, found imbedded in the coal a square block of stone, eighteen inches in length, one foot wide, and thirteen inches thick, partially hollow, and having the appearance of petrified wood. In the centre were found two plates, three inches in length, two in width, and three-eighths of an inch thick, that appeared to bo solid gold. On each are curious inscriptions and hieroglyphics. The plates have been sent to New York for deciphering. Judge Hall, of New York, has decided that a married woman may bo delared a bankrupt under the in voluntary clause. On Wednesday last a party of Americans, num bering some 18, visited the famous wine cellars of Patet man and Son, and of C. A. Capporbergh (sparkling wine), in the city of Mainz. They went down upon the invitation of these celebrated wino dealers, who met the party at the Mainz department, with six carriages, and transported them all to the famous city of Ilockhohn, where the celebrated Hockheimer Dom presents, and Victoria Burgh brands of wines are produced in Stockholm ; a splendid lunch was propaled for the party, and any amount of tho grand wines opened on the occasion. After lunch the party repaired to Mainz, and visited Mr. Kupp er b erg h' s i mmense sparkling wine fabric. Here the whole processof making wines was immense cellars, to the party, w h o t raverse d the cellars, garrisoned with a million bottles of the wines so celebrated in Germany. The party repaired to the public gardens and heard the great Prussian military band play for an hour. After this they adjourned to one of the grandest dinners, prepared by Messrs. Patetman, and Kupperbergh, ever seen in Mainz. Over fourteen courses were given, with a fine wine for each course. The dinner lasted over two hours, when the party returned to Frankfort. Among the visitors were Parson Stevens, of tho Fifth Avenue and Continental Hotels, Mr. Dyer and family, Mr. Mozier, the great sculptor, Con.-General C. Murphy, W. H. Town send, and Mr. Routh, &c. All expressed groat delight over their visit. A correspondent asks us who is Colonel or Brevet- General Alexander, who claims to be a brother-in-law of Speaker Colfax. Wherever he goes on lhe Continent his name is herald e d as th e h ero o f man y bartles. CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.—In a recent letter to a friend in Philadelphia, Mr. Chase says :—" I don't want to bo represented as particularly poor or particularly disinte rested. 1 think I am worth now about $lOO,OOO. I should, at any rate, be quite willing to take that sum in 5-20's, and make a clear conveyance of all I have in the world to any body who will pay my debts. I would willingly be worth a great deal more if I knew of an honest way to get worth more. All that the people are interested in knowing is that I haven't a cent which of right belongs to them. I didn't serve them to make money out of them, but to save money for them ; and I really feel that the rascals who aro slander ing me ought to be denounced, and the mean attempt to injure me in the public esteem exposed. It is much more important to the people than it is to me that those who have served them faithfully shall be fully and generally sustained, otherwise rascality will be at a premium, and those who are trying to make them suspect me will run their arms to their shoulders in their money-bags.—New York Herald. The American squadron, under the command of Admiral Farragut, left Cronstadt last Friday, after a splendid reception at that port. The celebrated American actress Miss Bateman will shortly return to England. It is said she will make a tour through the provinces, extending it to Scotland and Ireland in October. Among the Americans now visiting Spa we find Colonel Norton and family, of Paris ; Hon. 11. S. Sanford, United States Minister, and family, Brussels; Mr. R. Toppan and family, New York ; Mrs. Mason and family, Boston; Mr. llammersloy, and Mr. Oclaro, New York; Hon. Mr. Kasson, United States ; Mr. Cavey and family, and tI Derthelet and family, New York. In all the num bor of porsons registered to the 29th of August are 10,897. Dr. J. Mason Warren, eminent in his profes sion and as a surgical teacher, writer, and operator, died at Boston on Monday, August 19, at the ago of SG. On the Bth August, Captain Yierce, with 30 men) forcibly entered the office of the Constitutional Eagle at Camden, Arkansas, smashed the furniture and broko up the presses and type, which were thrown into the street. The Constitutional Eagle was strongly Southern in sentiment, and opposed to the Reconstruction Acts of Congress. The Rev. Dr. Cobleigh, recently editor of Zion's Herald, has boon olectod president of the East Tonnessoo Wesleyan Collego. John Lothrop Motley, late Minister at Vienna, is about to publish the third and fourth vols. of his " United Netherlands," from the death of William the Silent, to the twelve years truce, IGO9. The Round Tible tells us that " Mr. E. Steiger, who has been known rather as a re-publisher of stand•• and German works and school-books, with occasional translations of American books, as well as the New York agent of many of the German periodical publi cation; ventures on a somewhat new line of busi ness in tho publication of Goschichte der deutschen Eiu wanderung in Amerika.' Mr. Froderick Kapp, its anther, has devoted no little time and research to the subject of German immigration to this country, and his little book must prove of interest and value to his countrymen here and in their native country An interesting circumstance respecting it is that its publication here is simultaneous with that by a Loipzic house—the first instance, in the absence of international copyright, of a foreign house com pensating author and publisher for a German work cog righted in the - United States." - ------- Principal Dawson, of M‘Gill College, Montreal, has prepared a new edition of his "Acadian Geology" in which geological information respecting Nova Scotia, Nog Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island is made complete to date ; and chapters are added on pre-historic times in Acadia, the flora and land fauna of the carboniferous and Devonian periods, the recently discovered fossiliferous pri mordial beds, the coal, iron, and gold deposits, and the mining industries. Sassaki Gowrok, the Japanese official stopping' ill Springfield, has presented to James L. Amsden, the fruit dealer, a copy of an illustrated work on botany, published and bound in Japan. The work is a real curiosity, a nd was presented to Mr. Amsden in acknowledgment of in formation given him through his interpreter, concerning the mode of making cider, vinegar, and fruit winos. Although they have apples and other fruit in Japan, they have never known how to make from them the articles mentioned. All their vinegar has heretofore been made from a distillation of rice, and the commissioner Wil l introduce on his return the Yankee method of making ♦inogar, as well as some other things. COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL-TUESDAY. At tho corn market to-day there was a fair attendance of country millers, who took foreign wheat at an advance of 2s to 3s per qr. Grinding barley scarce, and therefore 6d dearer. New oats 6d cheaper. LEEDS-TUESDAY. Wo have little demand for wheat to-day ; but what sales were made in new sorts b roug ht an a d vance of 2s to 3s Per qr on the prices of last week ; old, is to 2s more money_' A few samples of new barl e y offering, which brought 13 thor irregular prices. Other articles unchanged. LIVERPOOL —TUESDAY. d Wo had a good atte n d ance t o -d ay o f b ot h t h e tow n and country trade at our m ar k e t, b u t w h eat met w i t h o nly moderate inquiry, although at prices ranging 4d to 8d P e nA cental on the week. Fl our i n f a i r request, an d 6d to " n ' per sack advance o n th e ra t es o f l ast Tuesday. 'Oil; corn in good demand, and 2s to 2s 6d advance on the vire°;i Oats firm, and the rat es o f l as t wee k supporte d . Oatille steady. Beans at late quotations. MELTON M 0 WBRAY.—T UESDAY. White wheat, 64s to 73s ; red, 58s to 68s per 36 ston e ; Barley for malting, 40s to 52s per qr; feed, 32s to 38s r t , 30 stone. Oats, old, 30 s t o 32 s ; new, 25s to 30s per 2 1 5 Beans, old, 52s to 545,; new, 45s to 50s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. There was a good supply of wheat, and the busine ss transacted was at an advance of 2s to 3s per qr, but tracl° was slow. Oats and other articles as before. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels 2ls Od to 259 0 1 White do do . „ d .. .309 Od 32° Od New red do do 2is Od 28 9 v New white do do Us ud 2 70°a . 1 Beans do do His Od 220 01 Peas, per qr. ls Od 19s °: Grinding, barley, per qr 35.3 Od 388 Od Malting- barley, t o Oats, do 27s 320 ° d F10ur....2s 3d to 23 8d per 111 b. °d MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TUESDAY. With a small show of wheat, there was a fair &IVA" at 3s advance. Old white wheat, 65s to 74s ; new red, Gls to 69s per 83t, stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; o th er ki n d s, 23 s t o 36 s p e r 3 u id, Oats, new, 25s to 30s ; old, 30 s t o 32 s Per qr. Bdaus, 46s to 535; now, 42s to 47s prr qr. Foreign Nail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Se•i t • ~1 9. Ditto, via Marseill es ............. ............„Sept• " Ditto, via Panama ......... ........ ........ Brazil, Buenos Ayre s , a n d M on t e Video • Oct- 4 ' Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde, by Brazil packet ...... ,.,,0ct. 4 ' Ospe of Good Hope. Ascension, anti St. Helena Sept* , 4,. 27* China, Penang, and Singapore, via So u th ampton Se e t• Ditto, via Marseilles ... SePt• I ' . Faikiand Islands Oct. 4 Lilbraltar, via Southampton .. scp.t . 19. India, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil es Malta, Egypt, dm Ditto, Marseilles Sept. 13 " Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Sept. 1 9 • Ditto, via Marseilles SePt• 13. Newfoundland s c pt• . ... . •• • •Oct• 4' Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ... Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &a, by British 19. p ac ket - Sep t. Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet S e p t. • - t• West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriff.)...• • •- si e l ) • 19 West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- , 13. mas) Sept. Cuba and Mexico . ...Sept' 28 ' • g Bahamas, via New York 9 Oct Bermuda, via Halifax he TIIE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT CIIATIIA:11.^ -1 task of dragging the river in Long Reach for the • body of the unfortunate officer of the Royal Englu°resf Lieut. J. J. Robertson, who was drowned by the upsotrtiDai; of a boat last Friday evening, was resumed yes' , ° d morning by the water police of the metropolitan P° force doing duty in the dockyard, and several m en o . f the corps to which deceased belonged were engaged in dtv for the body. The hooks attached to the drags cam° 10 contact with the sunken boat on Saturday evening. appears that only three officers were on board the '— ot in i t A h D e v b E o ß a r t i seems sE3l ENr (ADVERTISEMENT.]—DU have Barry'sben when the disaster occurred. The report that ladies W° ll healthynßoera lseh remedies,ave rnee A rts,t r o o a f rbteihsc the best e r F f Food o cmt d , de meat gte ssta which ivoen 'total s fi t f r t o y n t g ime contains three A l oe to the most disordered or enfeebled, removing refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and on ant Health effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual constiP 3 o us, diarrhoea, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nerviio, ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, ini lu e e r ur noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, imptirities , tions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity,,,sl;o, pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, s P o hitiS, nausea, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, br° n , in s at nerves, i ts speedilye soundstt.iuels; incipient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the chest, Pu' uote the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. We 61 b yDu few out of 68,000 cures :—The Pope's health restorecl e..... . , rbo Barry's Food.—Cure No. 68,413. " Rome, July 21, 18 a bair health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, l to cloning all other remedies, ho has confined himself o n inr,'„" e s et, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he co , 1 7 30 (1 plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprising l Y ; „„ t his cial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot julY excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du 1 ‘ 11u *:, frau , '25. Cure No. 49,832.—"0f fifty years' indescribable sig.o t ?, lou cy, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation , na__`: jo iy, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting:' is ltfisB Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47, 1 - s '' i f e rts, Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, g 9 10N9 of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gathcrin and nervous fancies. Important Cautiou.—Beware 0 1 . unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to whicu t , uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously at.teDis, In tins at is. 11d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. Gd.; 5 ' 12 lbs., '225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY Du BARRY and c r ( .iir ce ,difly Waltham Cross, ategent-street, Loudon; also Fortnam and Mason, 1 82, ;', - ' an d 2 89, and at GI, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 15'' chemist Oxford-street : 330 Strand; and all grocers and Births. rfon• BY 3 N l Ci rs — . O i n .an th ci e s i ß th yn i g ii , s o t. f , a at tit 2 tu O g , hOtenis..low-gardens? the .- BAGoT— F On the 9th inst., at Brocton Lodge, Staffordshire' the wife of Rear-Admiral 11. Bagot, of a daugh ter. 3il' s. TROLLOPE—On the 10th inst., at 37, Eccleston-inuare' Charles B. Trollope, of a daughter. Marriages. ftll l ' COOK —PALmER—On the 10th inst at St. George's, 1 sta over-square, Major Cook, late 11th Hussars, to Aegi i- 46, IPlo"rtylaonu d e - g p e l s a t ee d , a l u v g . h , t E et s : ci o . f the late W. U. Palmer/ e philiP WETHEIIELL—GREATBATCH—On the 7th inst. at t — Bilea• and James, Oxford, N a th an Wetherell, inst., .- - Eliza, third daughter of L. Greatbatch, Esq* Deaths. ARMITAGE—On the 9th inst., at Woodville gall, hill, John Armitage, Esq., aged 50. FOreS t ' FnIEND—On the 7th inst ,at Tunbridge-Wells, Co lin ; alicier Charles Friend, R.N., Eamsgate, Kent, ag ed 7 ,. 0 1 LA L Y ra c .y o c c o K e — k, On sq t „ ho j.l 7 , t . h , C i h n a s i t r ., at Bradford, York, Pl a to P Bradford Banking Companmy,aangeodf B t l h . e -r o seel °COCK— 0 u the Bth inst., at Warminster, Wilts, " _........ Pocock, Esq., aged 91 Directors o London : Printed and Published by AN, 11 ,12: of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUE SUN 01 0 % y. f Strand, in the Precinct of the So WY, in 1113 ° nn Mllale"—Yfecluoday, September 11, 1567.