The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at Derby—Mr. W. E. Hutchinson in the chair. The report, an abstract of which appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said that the receipts during the half year showed a considerable increase in all descriptions of traffic ; the total was rather more than £60,000. That amount was much greater than they had been led to expect from what took place in the first three months of the year, for, in consequence of the de pression in trade and other causes, the amount taken at the end of March was £l,OOO less than in the cor responding period of 1866. The gross amount of the traffic receipts in the past half-year amounted to £1,365,000, to which they had added £75,000 taken from their reserves. In the corresponding half of 1866 they had taken £26,000 from the reserve to assist revenue in consequence of the large amount of unproductive capital. The same course had been pursued, and for the same reason, as to the last half year. Of the £75,000 to which he had referred, 1,60,000 had been taken from the amount received under Mr. Phipson's award. That fund was exhausted now, but they had still a sum of £82,000 in reserve on account of the Scotch traffic fund, the same to be distributed as occasion might require in future half years. (Hear.) He regretted that the expenditure in the last half-year had teen unusually heavy. That arose partly out of the great increase which had taken place in salaries and wages. There had also been a considerable advance in the price of materials, so that the increase in the expenditure had been unavoidable. He hoped that a period of " rest " was in store at no distant day for the Midland Com pany. They would not be asked to aid in the pro motion of any new lines next Session, but they would be compelled to apply to Parliament for per mission to raise new capital to provide for the excess of expenditure on the estimates and the construction of the Bedford and Loudon extension line. In con nection with that undertaking it had been thought advisable to purchase land sufficient for laying down four lines of way, which would have to be done at once on the first eight or nine miles out of London ; and had they delayed purchasing the remainder of the land until the railway was opened they would have to pay double price for it. In reference to the cost of constructing the Bedford and London Ex tension, it would far outstrip the estimates made four or five years ago by the most competent per sons. Situate, then, as they were in that particular, they thought it would be a wise course to apply to Parliament for power to raise additional capital. It was impossible at present to say what the amount would be. The interest paid on debenture stock and " calls in advance" last half-year was £31,000 more than in the corresponding half of 1866. For the money raised in the course of the past half-year the average rate of interest paid was £4 9s. 6d. per cent. They had now reverted to the old rate on their de bentures of 4 per cent. Their expenditure on new lines and works in the last half-year amounted to nearly a million and a half, of which £120,000 had been on the old lines to enable them to carry on the increased traffic. The amount of unproductive capital expended up to June 30 was £5,000,000, but it was thought better to expedite works as rapidly as possible i❑ order that the earnings might be speedily increased. As to the Bedford and London line, on which £3,000,000 had been expended, it would be opened for mineral and merchandise traffic next month. Several other of the new branches would be opened as speedily as pos sible ; that connecting the Great Northern and Midland line at Newark at the end of the year. The loss of the bill for amalgamation with the Glasgow and South Western line was a subject of much re gret to the board ; but under all the circumstances it was not intended to renew the application for it next session. (Applause.) All that had passed, how ever, on the subject had only served to confirm the opinion held by the direction of both companies, that there was a measure the utility and advantage of which would be very great to both companies. He regretted that the dividend they had to offer was not greater, but when the large amount of dormant capi tal became productive the dividends would be in creased in proportion, and on this occasion they had not felt justified in taking a larger amount from the reserve. It was his individual opinion that the pre sent dividend was the lowest the Midland share holders would receive. Mr. PRICE, M.P., seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Dr. O'BRIEN complained of the excessive law charges—more than £lB,OOO in the half year. Ile moved that a solicitor be appointed at a salary ; he to provide clerks. and pay other expenses. This was the plan adopted by the London and North Western and other companies, and a great saving was the result. He denounced the scheme for amalgamation with the Glasgow and South Western line. The gross amount of traffic from it that would come south was a little over £90,000 a year. Let them abandon the construction of the Settle and Carlisle line, which the officials of the company were urging the board to proceed with. Mr. PEARSON seconded the amendment that a paid solicitor be appointed ; in two half years, he said, they had had to pay more than £40,000 for law charges. Mr. SIIEPHEP.D defended himself from some impu tations which had been cast upon him in reference to the recent Wharncliffe meeting. Mr. ALLPORT, the company's manager, made a statement exculpatory of Mr. Shepherd from all the imputations reflecting upon him. Mr. HADLEY said the fatal mistake of this com pany was the number of new and unproductive lines being made. He urged retrenchment in the number of trains run on the branch lines, and in some other departments. Mr. GAINSFORD was in favour of the appointment of a salaried solicitor. The CIIAIRMAN replied that Mr. Carter, their present solicitor, was second to none in professional eminence; more than a year ago that gentleman . conveyed a wish to retire, and it was at his earnest entreaty that Mr. Carter withdrew a letter of re signation which he had written to the Board. Under those circumstances, it must be quite evident that if they wished to appoint a solicitor on the terms suggested, Mr. Carter was not the man to stand in the way. (Hear, hear.) The Board would not accept the amendment, but would carefully consider all the circumstances, and state their views at the next half-yearly meeting. He suggested that the amendment be withdrawn. Dr. O'BRIEN assented, and the motion, for the adoption of the report was carried unanimously. The various dividends were declared as recom mended, and resolutions passed for the conversion of certain shares into stock. Other special business was transacted, and the proceedings terminated with the usual vote of thanks to the chairman. RHYMNEY. The half-yearly generatmeeting of this company was held yesterday at Wood's Hotel, Furnival'a inn ; Mr. J. Boyle in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said it was so full that it did not require many remarks from him. He thought this an important period in the history of the company. They had now obtained all the powers necessary to complete the undertak ing as a railway system. When they completed the tunnel line from the junction at Caerphilly into Cardiff they would have a line in competition with the Taff Vale line into Cardiff, over which they now ran trains and paid toll. When their extension into Cardiff was completed they could call upon the Great Western Railway Company to double their line into the Aberdare district. There was another reason for completing the line into Cardiff as soon as possible—they had made an arrangement .with the London and North Western for making a short line jointly with that company to convey the pro duce of some of the principal works in Monmouth shire. The company could not have to find all the capital for the extension lines, but only for portions of them. When the tunnel line between Caerphilly and Cardiff was completed, they would no longer have to pay a heavy toll for running over the" Taff Vale Company's six miles of line to go into Cardiff ; and therefore those tolls, about £lO,OOO a year, would be applicable to pay interest on the cost of the tunnel line, so that the capital of their new line would be a perfectly safe investment, and would be found well worth the amount of toll now paid by the company for that accommodation. They proposed to cancel certain 5 per cent. shares, and to reissue them as 6 per cent. preference stock to provide the requisite capital to complete the lineto Cardiff, and to make the northern junction line to the London and North-Western railway, by which a large goods traffic would be brought over their line north of Rhymney, instead of, as at present, from Ilengoed. The London and North-Western Company were pressing them to make the northern junction line, and they were anxious to do so. The directors had made an arrangement with Lor 1 Bute, by which £2,500 would be saved to the company, and a l s o some rates that would increase with the increase of traffic to the docks. The arrangement would be mutually beneficial, and he trusted they would approve the arrangement. Mr. AUSTIN seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr. E. J. lIERAPATII objected to the charge of £721 to capital for interest on unproductive works. He would like to know if the company had power to charge interest on unproductive works to capital. As there was only a balance of £383, it was clear that if they had not charged the• £721 to capital they could not pay, as proposed, a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum for the past half- year, Mr. E. WRIGHT said he intended to object to the same item ; in fact, he objected to it on the ground that, if the Brighton and other companies had charged interest on unproductive capital against revenue as the Midland and London and North- Western Companies had done, many serious errors of extending shareholders' money on worthless lines would have been prevented. Mr. ROY, the solicitor, had no doubt they bad ample power to allow interest on calls paid in ad vance, and to sanction the course adopted by the directors. Mr. AUSTIN, a director, said the matter was to a certain extent open to the approval or disapproval of the shareholders. The duty of the directors was to do what they could to protect the five classes of shareholders in the company. Under the circum stances they had adopted a course which they be lieved would be just to the ordinary shareholders and tend to uphold the credit of the company. The extensions were not like ordinary extensions ; they would be valuable feeders to the main line. The extension line to Cardiff had been forced upon them by Mr. Savin, and no doubt the tolls alone would make it a paying concern. After other observations, the CHAIRMAN explained that the Caerphilly line was no speculation, and that the other lines would not only be productive, but complete the company's system of lines. The direc tors proposed to send a circular to the shareholders, with a map and explanation of the company's lines and district, which he trusted would be satisfactory and induce them to take up the new capital. Mr. E. J. Herapath and Mr. E. Wright appeared satisfied with the explanations, and the report was unanimously adopted ; the dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum was declared for the past half year on the ordinary stock of the company. Mr. Stephenson and Mr. G. W. Horne were elected auditors, at 25 guineas per annum each. A vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the proceedings. Messrs. Bellot des Minieres Brothers and Co., of Gresham House, London, the well-known Public Works contractors, have succeeded in raising £1,600,000 towards the construction of the Ame rican Central Railway. This, besides other finan cial arrangements in regard to the share and bond capital of the line, secures, beyond doubt, the com pletion of the road through the States of Indiana, Illinois, and lowa. In the face of difficulties almost insurmountable this great contracting house may be congratulated on the success attending their efforts. The greatest energy and perseverance, and a high com- mercial namo would of themselves have been insuffi cient under the present ucparalleled distrust. The Times says in a leader yesterday on the judgment of . _ the Lords in the Overend-Gurney case—" There is no poverty like the poverty of the rich man who has riches but cannot use them, and this poverty has been made general by the blows which they and such as they have given to credit." But the Messrs. Bellot des Minieres were effectually aided by the un equalled advantages of the railway in whose in terest they were engaged. They were also materially assisted by the intelligence of those on the other side with whom they had to deal. It is not every man who could understand the financial situation of London at this moment. Never within the memory of living financiers has there lain idle so vast an accumulation of capital paralysed by the annihilation of credit. The llon. John S. Thomp son, president of the line, has known how to esti mate these difficulties, though few could realise or make allowances for a state of things they had never experienced. To carry through these nego ciations successfully at such a period is proof of an extraordinary degree of power, energy, and credit —and when the circumstances are better under stood in America these gentlemen will obtain a high meed of praise. The Old Colony railroad earned $1,360,863 last year, and expended $883,089, leaving a balance of income of $309,286. The gross income last year exceeded that of the year previous by $65,219, and the gross expenses were $163,480 larger. The real cost of the road, together with improvements, in cluding the new depot at Boston, which cost $158,000 will amount to about $7,961,055 ; of this amount $4,848,320, is now represented by capital stock, leaving a balance of $3,115,735 as liabilities. Ground was broken, on Monday, July '22, on the Lebanon Springs Railroad, and by June of next year it will be completed. The Troy and Benning ton Road from lloosiac Junction to the Vermont line, on which no trains have been run for several months, has been permanently abandoned. A horse railroad from Northampton to Hadley is talked of. Offers have been made to build and equip the road for $40,000, an i to guarantee one half the stock. Since November six miles of the Troy and Green field Railroad has been built, and the track is being laid down at the rate of one-third of a mile a day. To accomplish this six miles 170,000 cubic yards of earth and 5,000 yards of rock had to be removed, and 4,500 cubic yards of masonry constructed, and 613 feet of bridging and 2,000 feet of trestle work built. There are four bridges between Greenfield and Shelburne Falls, 472, 470, 170, and 110 feet long respectively. The Oriental Bank of New York City will pay a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent., free of tax. The Bank of the Manhattan Company will pay on August 10th, a semi-annual dividend of five per cent., free of tax ; the Leather Manufacturers' National Bank, six per cent. ; the St. Nicholas National Bank, Five per Cent. ; the National Bank of the Republic, five per cent. ; and an extra divi dend of five per cent., the Long Island Bank, six per cent. ; the Brooklyn Bank, five per cent., and the Morris Canal and Banking Company, Jersey City, five per cent. on the preferred stock. I he Jersey City Insurance Campany will pay on demand, free of tax, 5 per eeut., being their twentieth semi-annual dividend. The Washington Insurance Company will pay the same, being th e ir thirty-second dividend. Gebliard Fire Insurance Company will also pay on demand a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent. 'The New York Central Railroad Company will pay, on August 20th next, a semi-annual dividend of 3 per cent., free of Government tax, dividend in New York ; will be paid at the office of Duncan, Sherman, and Company, and in Albany, at the Albany City National Bank. The Clinton Oil Company give notice that the sixth dividend of one per cent. will be paid on and after August Ist, at the office, 115, Liberty street, New York. AUGUST COUPONS PAYABLE. M. K. Jesup and Co. will pay the coupons of the Wilmington and Manchester Railroad Company of N. C. Third Preferred First Mortgage Bonds, less Government tax; also the coupons of the First Mortgage Bonds of the Toledo, Logansport, and BPslington Railroad Company, guaranteed by the Columbus and Indianopolis Central Railroad Com pany. The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company will pay the coupon of the Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad ; Dabney, Morgan, and Co., the coupons, in gold, of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, Eastern Division ; the Importers' and Traders' National Bank, N. Y., the coupons of the Mort gage Bonds of the Seaboard and Roanoke Rail road Company ; the American National Bank, the coupons of the Marietta and Cincinnati Rill road ; the National Bank of Commerce, the coupons of the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company ; IL Messenger and Co., the coupons of the North Shore Railroad ; A. L. Pritchar,l, trea surer of the Chicago and North-Western Railroad Company, the coupons of the Preferred Sinking Fund Bonds, of the Consolidated Sinking Fund Bonds, of the General First Mortage Bonds, of the Appleton Extension Bonds, of the Green Bay Bonds, and of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad 'Company's First Mortgage Bonds ; the coupons of the Central Park, North and East River Railroad Company, by the treasurer ; and the coupons of the Crawford Coal Company by the treasurer pro tens.—Wall-street Journal. 7HE GUNPOWDER PLOT AT MON7E VIDEO. The following narrative of a plot which has created a profound sensation in the River Plate is drawn up from official sources and the personal knowledge of the writer : On the 30th June a German, named Wilhelm Haustoffer, called upon M. Honore, the manager of the Foreign Club in Monte Video, and informed him that he had been asked by a countryman named Paul Neumayer to assist him in driving a mine in con nexion with an engineering experiment, and offered X2OO (about £10) for one night's work, adding that he would be glad to earn the money, but was afraid, from the mystery and caution of Neumayer in pledging him to secrecy, and yet not fully commu nicating the object of the work, that there was something wrong about the matter. The work was to be executed in a house in course of demolition for rebuilding, situated at the back of the Government House, commonly called the Fort. By M. llonore's advice this communication was repeated to the political chief (Col. Bustamente), who imme diately took measures to ascertain what was going on. In consequence of the information he received the chief ordered a sufficient force to be placed in the neighbourhood of the Fort, and, having Neu mayer pointed out to him in the theatre, he remained there till the latter left, which he did at the time he was to meet Haustoffer. Neumayer went direct to the place of appointment, followed by Colonel Bustamente, disguised with an old poncho and a straw hat. On the chief giving a signal precon certed with the police, Neumayer made an at tempt at fight, but was immediately surrounded, captured, and taken to the Cabildo. The police then entered the house indicated by Haustoffer, where in a small cellar, newly constructed, they found two barrels of gunpowder, three sacks, and a Rumford's electric multiplier, in working order, and capable, according to Mr. Oldham, of theTelegraph office, of igniting gunpowder at a distance of six miles. These articles were taken to the head police office, and guards were placed in the house for the night. Neumayer refused to give any information, alleging that he had bought the house, and had the right to use it for any experiments he liked. Next morning the Government ordered an in spection of the house and cellar by the Director- General of Public Works, assisted by an eminent builder. These gentlemen reported that there existed sufficient proof of an intention to drive a mine in one direction, and that a hole had been broken through the wall of the cellar in another direction, probably for the same purpose. The " mine" bad by this time become the topic of every conversation, and some English naval officers, who had heard an exaggerated version of the story, had their curiosity excited, and Mr. Havers, who for the last two years has been Director of the Scien tific Inspection of Public Works, offered to ascer tain if there were any foundation for the alarm ing rumours in circulation. From a report sub quently drawn up by this gentleman, it appears that he examined the cellar, and, being made acquainted with the circumstances already narrated, came to the conclusion that there must be other operators, and that such persons must still be con cealed in the drains. Returning through the Fort, Mr. Havers communicated his opinion to the Minis terThtaoinisgt deh o e re f ttelofs l irue V ofml a mtt r aow , who kcateohs ltea. hi 3pas a tut i tyc e aci tdnsnii Provisional investigation. Floresel s t tt . teraet requestedpi oena Governor,. t necessary h i osGAureleanrar.. Guards Haverso n l or f ee o r s assistance,re. at a n t the e a m l l o p ia t a h r t o s f 0 f t h the e m a e i e n l I s a e r w e e a r r , e t f h u e l l y s t r e e x e a ts . The objects found pro ve d th at t h e operators placedcleared, iwere ei nleed. n o l t ' ordinary labourers, and the hole in the wall was found to lead into the apparent drain of the house. Conceiving that the conspirators were either in the drain or the main sewer, Mr. Havers ordered a countermine to be sunk at the calculated junction n e o d f t h t a h t e n otwo, one an was d , i g. n oi t n li g at d s o e w ct n ion hir o n f se t l h f e main sewer, so far as it could be seen with a dark lantern. He then entered the house drain, which could only be done creeping on accaunt of its small dimensions ; and here he found a man, who retreated through the hole in the wall into the cellar, followed by Mr. Havers. The cellar being guarded the man was at once captured, having been already sixteen hours in the drains. Further inves tigations followed, after which the openings were closed up, guards set, and the search suspended. The prisoner, who was in his shirt sleeves, and evidently much exhausted, gave the name of Louis Neumayer, but refused to make any statement until he learned that Paul Neumayer (no relation) was in custody, when he commenced a confession. Paul Neumayer also lost all his effrontery on learning that his co-labourer was in custody, and denounced as his principal employer Captain Don Eduardo Bertran, an officer who accompanied General Flores during the revo lution, indicating as accomplices several friends of Bertran, and declaring, by way of extenuation, that they only intended to destroy General Flores him self. An immediate search was made for Bertran, but he had already fled. His house and the office at which he managed the commissariat business of the Brazilian hospital were searched, but nothing was found which threw any light on the conspiracy. A timber merchant in Monte Video stated that he met him eaily on the morning of the Ist in the suburbs, and that he asked the deponent not to divulge having seen him. It was soon ascer tained, by means of the submarine telegraph, that Bertran had gone to Buenos Ayres, and thence, under an assumed name, to Rosario, en route for Santa F 6. It also transpired that, although the house had been bought in Neuina) cr's name, Ber tran was surety for the payment of the purchase money. Independent, therefore, of the confessions of the prisoners, the strongest suspicion rests on Bertran. General Suarez, Commandantes Man cini and Bergara, and Senores Torres and Marquez, were arrested in the course of the evening of the Ist, and placed in separate confinement. On the 2d Mr. Havers resumed his investigation. The pavement was taken up, the main sewer opened, footsteps discovered in it., ascert allied to be tho.a - of Louis Neumayer, and 130 feet from the cellar an opening was found towards the windows of the saloon in which the Couuci!s of State are held. From this hole a mine had been driven to within six feet of the wall of this saloon, and in it were found the tools used by the operator. It appears from the report made by Mr. Havers to the Govern ment that, in six or seven hours, with the aid of the other person expected to join in the work, the mine could have been extended under the floor and charged for the explosion. It was also proved that the cellar was constructed expressly for the Fur , pose of concealing these operations, and that the works carried ou in the house were merely a blind to cover the proceedings of the conspirators. From in quiries made at the foreign consulates, it appears that the nrisoner Paul Neumayer was formerly a sub- lieutenant in the Wurtemburg army, was cashiered and handed over to the civil tribunals, convicted of forgery, and condemned to five years' penal servitude. He offered his services to both sides during the revolution in various projects for mining, and for making Orsini bombs and detonating com pounds for the destruction of human life. Louis Neumayer is said to have been mate of a slaver. Nothing having transpired to show that the other persons arrested had any hand in the iniquitous project they have been set at liberty. The extra dition of Bertran was demanded of the Argentine Government and immediately conceded ; but nothing further bad been heard of him, and he is supposed to have fled into Chili. ON SHEILII.I.vS TRACK. By John 11. Kennaway, M.A. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, Fleet-street, London. 1867. The author has wisely avoided any long introduc tory accounts and descriptions of travel so often before handled, that his pen could scarcely be suc cessful in imparting to them any fresh interest. Like Hepworth Dixon, be makes his starting point a cen tral town in the United States, indeed the central town which one day will be the seat of Government —St. Louis. The travelling party consisted of two Oxford and two Cambridge men, our author (of the former two) from Baliol College, Oxford. From St. Louis, which they reached through Canada round by Chicago, they were about to return east by the populous cities, when unexpectedly they met Gene ral Sherman, who suggested the route through the Southern States, celebrated as the scene of his own destructive march. The English party had no idea that the way was practicable, the railways being destroyed ; but they acted on the hint, and started for Chattanooga, through Nashville, the capi' a;, of Tennessee. As they passed over this great Ste, to they crossed many a celebrated battle-field, rear: ing at nightfall Chattanooga, one of the most fiercefy contested positions, and Look-Out Mountain, the scene of a great Confederate disaster. Chattanooga may be taken as the spot where Sherman com menced his celebrated march. It was from that town, with an overwhelming force, and with the cautious and wary Johnston in his front, in the spring of 1864, that he began the movement that annihilated the Confederacy, and will always rank among the most renowned military exploits. The distance to Atlanta is 138 miles. Sherman's army numbered 100,000 of the veteran soldiers of the Union, and under Johnson the Confederate troops did not exceed 40,000. The country was difficult; the Confederate Commander an officer of consum mate tact. It was not therefore till the middle of July that the Union army reached Atlanta. The South, impatient at the steady advance of the Federal force—at the successive abandonment of position after position -- at the fatal moment when the Northern General had the key of the Confederacy in his front, removed Johnston and placed Hood in command. The day of great Southern victories had passed. There were no more Bull's Runs to be achieved against veterans like those commanded by Sherman and troops so skil fully handled, and it was vain to look for any crushing defeats. Hood, though a good divisional leader, was headstrong and rash. lie took the offensive—to discover his mistake by an experience the Confederacy could ill afford. He detached his cavalry to operate in Sherman's rear, and that officer seizing the opportunity captured Atlanta. With the fall of the great Southern arsenal fell the last hope of the South of successfully resisting Northern invasion. The Gate City being in his possession, opened for Sherman on the one hand, the way to the Gulf, and on the other to Charleston. The control of the Southern railroads passed to him, and he intercepted the supplies of Lee's army. The shot, shell, and pistol manufactories, the railroad machine shops, were all lost to the Confederate cause. It was a worse blow than would have been the fall of Richmond ; indeed it broke the Con federacy. Lee, on hearing the intelligence, wrote to Davis that all hope of ultimate success was at an end. Then arose the question—Ought not the war to have terminated on the fall of Atlanta, and the clearly-expressed opinion of the General-in -Chief that the contest was hopeless. \Ve feel certain that history will not exonerate Mr. Davis from blame; but we are not so sure that the cause of future peace has not been benefited by administering to . the South the terrible lesson that followed when the walls of their Jericho began to fall before the loud blasts of the North. In esti mating this question, we must not forget that the future is mere conjecture—the past a horrible reality. Sherman cut the Confederacy in two, and spread a devastation over the fair counties of Georgia and South Carolina, which will be long re membered with the bitterest anguish as among the vilest works of war. Thousands afterwards fell before Richmond, and lives and property continued to be recklessly sacrificed throughout the States before the South was smitten into the dust, with a prostration so great that it took months even for them to realise their helplessness, which became more apparent both to themselves and the world the better the circumstances were known. What would have been the case had a t r eaty been effected on the f all of Atlanta ? Al though manol suspected, none then fully knew the the South. Supposing the rebel States exhaustion had succumbed on condition of re-entering the Union with all their rights unimpaired, and the abolition of elavery accepted through a gradual pro cess, the world would have remained under the im pres3ion that, though the South might be deso late.l by the North, it could not be conquered. Richmond would have opened its "gates, and Lee's army retired, the heroes of th e war. C harleston would have proudly raised its uneonquered head, and the chivalry of North Carolina would have loudly boasted that they were the first to raise the Palmetto flag, the last to furl it, while it had waved defiantly over their city in spite of all the hostile fleets the North could send. Who can say what elements of future war would lie in such facts? The cup that Sherman held to Southern lips was the most bitter draught that men could swallow. It entailed on the present generation terrible miseries, but he honestly believed, and we hold truly, that it was the most merciful course in the end. " Sherman entered Atlanta on the 2d of September — within a week ho issued an order that all citizens must leave the place, making their choice between being trans ported North, or' to a place within the Rebel lines. His subsequent destruction of Atlanta must be his justifica tion for an exorcise of power apparently so cruel. He was revolving the sc h eme o f tho great march , and to that everything had t o b e subordinate. Re feared that Atlanta might agai n b ecome f o rmidable in t he hands of the enemy, and h e reso l ve d t o it incapable, wh en h e t urne d his back upon it, for an y further mischief." w ipe it out, and to re nder Four months had elapsed since Sherman left Chat tanooga before Atlanta fell, and there he remained during the heated term till the 15th November. The season then opened for the grand expedition on which he had secretly determined. Hood, who had been manoeuvring before Atlanta, suddenly made a detour, throwing himself on the lino of Sherman's communications. This was a move ment not unlike that practised by Napoleon when the Allies were marching on Paris, and it met with no better fate. Indeed it was exactl y what Sherman wanted. Ile telegraphe d— " Hood has crossed the Tennessee. 'Thomas will take care of him and Nashvill e ; Georgia and So uth Carolina are at my mercy, and I shall strike." The better t 0 deceive, he followed Hood, as if in pnrsuit ; then turning suddenly lie rapidly retraced his steps to Atlanta, which city he gave to the flatne.s, and launched his whole force into the wilds of Georgia. For three weeks that great army was lost to the world ; and if Europe and Northern America held its breath in anxiety to know the result, what must have been the agony of the Confederacy when behind the smoke of the burning city it disappeared from sight. On a broad track, extending sixty miles, the destroying army trailed along. Be fore them the land VMS rich and prosperous — behind, it was a charred or smoking desert. "The foraging parties scattered over the country without any order or discipline" (thus writes the correspon dent of the New York Herald), " pounced like harpies on the unfortunate inhabitants, stripping them of provisions, jewels, and valuables. Boxes were burst open, clothes dragged about. The finest silks carried off to adorn negro wenches ; pictures, books, and furniture tossed about or torn in pieces. In most instances they burned down houses to cover depredations, and in some cases took the lives of their victims, as they would not reveal concealed treasure." Sherman himself estimates that they carried off 10,000 horses and mules, and countless numbers of slaves, besides the consumption of corn, fodder, cattle, hogs, sheep, poultry. " I estimate," says that General, " the damage done to the State of Georgia and its military resources at $100,000,000 ; at least 20 millions of this was ruin to our advantage, and the rest, simple waste and destruction." It was not till the 15th September, 1861, that the leading columns of the destroying army began to emerge from the interior and mass their forces before the city of Savannah. There the Confederates had retreatel, flooding the surround ing rice fields, leaving the only approaches by five' narrow causeways, commanded by heavy ordnance. One of Sherman's finest qualities as a general was the care he took of the lives of his soldiers. He never needlessly sacrificed them, and as Admiral Dahlgren arrived almost immediately, he got into communication with the fleet, waiting for this co-operation, instead of recklessly attacking with his troops. In conjunction, everything was prepared by the 17th for the assault, when a demand was made and declined for the sur render. But General Hardee knew that he could not hold Savannah against the overwhelming force both by sea and land now brought against it, and on the night of the 20th December, leaving his fires brightly burning, and while his artillery played on the right, he pushed his troops through swamps supposed to be impracticable by a pathway, aban doning the city to the enemy with 200 guns, maga zines, locomotives, steamboats, and 35,000 bales of cotton. The energy of the North may be seen by the promptitude with which Sherman's base of operations was changed. Scarcely was he in Savan nah before a fleet was discharging vast stores of all kinds, the obstacles having been removed which im peded the channel of the river ; and again Southern cotton left Southern ports in vessels flying the Stars and Stripes. After remaining a month in Savannah, Sherman recommenced his destroying march. He was now in South Carolina, the State of all others the object of Northern vengeance, and if his soldiers, as our author says, carried whips in their march through Georgia—in their march through the Carolinas they were armed with scor pions. Trailing along on an average breadth of 40 miles, they traversed the country from Savannah to Goldsborough, consuming everything. " History," says one of the staff, " will be searched in vain for a parallel to this scathing and destructive march." Sherman reports, " the public enemy instead of drawing supplies from that region to feed his armies will be compelled to send provisions from other quarters to feed the inhabitants." Mr. Kennaway says : "The advance was not an easy one. The floods of the Savannah, the swamps of the Combalee and Edisto, the high hills and rocks of the Santee, the quagmires of the Pedee and Cape Fear Rivers had all to be passed in mid-winter in the face of an accumulating enemy. Johnson too was before long replaced in command, and Sherman knew well that as long as ho was in front. of him any slip would be fatal. Columbia was the first point made. The beautiful capital of the Palmetta State, rich in mansions and in public buildings, fell a prey to the flames, the kind ling of which is alike repudiated by both armies, each of them seeking to lay the blame on the other. Perhaps the conflagration may have been accidental ; it certainly was most destructive, and produced an amount of suffering frightful to contemplate." Sherman struck inland, leaving Charleston and Wilmington to his right, to destroy the lines of road from which Lee derived a portion of his supplies. He knew that with the back country gone, the seaport towns would be helpless, and when his force was gathered in rear of Charleston, Wil mington, and Richmond, he was an arrow in the flank of the Confederacy ; indeed he had searched out and laid bare the weakness of his enemy. The Confederacy had been pierced through and through, and after a few more convulsive sobs and struggles, the stricken nation fell helplessly at the conqueror's feet. Sherman's march was arrested by the intel ligence of Lee's surrender on the 9th of April, when General Johnston sought an interview with the Northern commander, and a capitulation was agreed on, which ended for ever the last hopes of the Confederacy. We have followed our author " On Sherman's Track," the chief and most interesting subject in his work, and in this we have reached our limits. But Mr. Kennaway does not confine himself to this subject alone. He writes copiously on the social position, the feelings, and the prospects of the negro in the South. He carries his readers to Richmond and Washington. He discusses the pri sons of the South, and who is to blame for the suf ferings of Northern soldiers, and as a lawyer he argues the case in a fair and dispassionate manner. This subject will shortly be elucidated by a lengthy report of a commission lately appointed by Con gress. When that report is before us we will be able fully to discuss Mr. Keunaway's argument. He writes fairly and without bias, and his book can be read with pleasure by both Northerners and Southerners. 'We looked for a more detailed ac count of Sherman's expedition, and the work would have been of greater value had it been confined to this subject - , and more pains been taken, to follow and describe more fully the whole line of country. But the author travelled for his own instruction and amusement, and the public have to thank him for a well-written volume, descriptive of scenes which but a short time since, absorbed the attention of the world.—Anylo-ilmerican Times. THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (Front the Registrar-Genera's Return.) In the week that ended on Saturday, August 17, the births registered in London and 12 other large towns of the United Kingdom were 4,144 ; the deaths registered, 2,862. The annual rate of mor tality was 20 per 1,000 persons living. In London the births of 1,017 boys and 980 girls, in all 1,997 children, were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1857-66 the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 1,954. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,391. It was the 33d week of the year, and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of population, 1,337. The deaths in the present return exceed by 54 the esti mated number. The great and almost tropical heat which pre vailedin the early part of last week has not as yet increased the mortality of the metropolis to any Large extent. It is of the utmost importance now that there should be a plentiful supply of pure water in every house, and that the streets, courts, and alleys of this great city should be kept perfectly . clean. Some of the towns of Europe are suffering terri bly from the ravages of cholera, and it is only by con stant and unremitting attention to the purity of the water supply, by the early treatment of diarrhea and by sanitary measures, that a recurrence of the calamity in this country can be avoided. The deaths of 181 children and 19 adults from diarrhoea were registered last week. Twenty-nine cases occurred in the west, 37 in the north, 27 in the central, 56 in the east, and 51 in the south dis tricts. Eleven children and four adults died from cholera or choleraic diarrhoea. Thirty-five deaths occurred from scarlatina, 16 from typhus, 37 from apoplexy, and 57 from disemes of the heart. In the corresponding week of last year (1866) the deaths from diatTliceA were 191, and from cholera -155. The wife of a bricklayer, aged 56 years, died on Aug ist 6, at St. Mary's Hospital, of congestion of lungs, accelerated by the suffocative atmosphere of the Underground Railway. Post modem. (In- Quest.) Proper steps should be taken for opening and ventilating the tunnels, which are necessarily charged with noxious gases. Kensington ; Brompton.—At 15, Wallgrave road, on August 10, the son of a labourer, aged 11 months, infantine cholera (30 hours). Westmin ster ; St. John.—At 116, Ilorseferry-road, on August 15, the daughter of a hosier, aged two years, choleraic diarrhoea (14 hours). St. Martin-in-the- Fields ; Charing-cross.--At 25, Whitomb-street, THE SUN, LONuON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1867: on August 10, the son of a poulterer, aged eight ' hand where Gladding left it, and were until recently weeks, choleraic diarrhoea (10 days), convulsions (8 subjected to the scoffs of many incredulous heirs ; days). Marylebone; The Rectory.—At 12, Gray's- but the announcement of the finding of the will buildings, on August 15, the daughter of a plas- silenced cavil, and drew together the largest multi terer, aged four months, choleraic diarrhoea (30 tude of the heirs that ever assembled. Mr. Ingra hours.) Pancras ; Regent's Park.—At 13, Little ham has no doubt whatever that the descendants of Albany-street, North, on August 13, the wife of a Sarah Cowell can recover this enormous property, carman, aged 32 hours, English cholera. Totten- which he estimates to be worth much more than ham-court.—At 35, Howland-street, on August 11, $100,000,000 —exclusive of theback-rents, for which a needlewoman, aged 51 years, cholera. Gray's- it may not be worth the while to contend. inn-lane.—At 2, Chad's-place, on August 11, the COPY OF THE RECORDS OF TIIE INGRAHAM FAMILY. daughter of a carpenter, aged 10 weeks, choleraic The old and magnificent estate of Temple New diarrhoea (48 hours). In same sub-district, at 16, some, originally a preceptory of the Knight Tern- Argyle street, on August 12, a gentleman, aged plars, was escheated to the Crown in the year of about 70 years, choleraic diarrhoea, followed by re- 1312, and in the reign of Henry VIII. was given, to active bilious fever. Camden-town.—At 19, the Earl of Lennox, the former occupants, Lords Suffolk-street, on August 10, the son of a beershop d'Arcy and Meywell, to whom the estate had been keeper, aged 7 months, chronic meningitis, choleraic granted by Edward 111., having been beheaded. di:trrlicea. Islington ; \Vest. —At 11, ifundell- The grand3on of Lennox, " James First of Eng street, ou August 13, the daughter of a charwoman, land, gave the estate to the Stuarts, who sold it to 3 months, chokraic diarrhoea. East—At 15, Fre- Sir Arthur Ingrain or Ingraham. Sir Arthur was derick-place, Orchard-street, on August 13, the son a cavalier, and only saved his head and estates by of an excavator, aged 3 years, cholera (Asiatic). his connection with Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Shoreditch ; 110xton Old-town.—At 13, Queen's- Manchester. At the Restoration his son was created place, on August 8, the son of a horse-dealer, aged Viscount Irwin. This title died in 1778, when the 8 months, choleraic diarrhoea. Bermondsey ; property, after passing through several hands, Leather-market—At 196, Bermondsey-street, on finally came to Hugo Charles Meywell, with the August 10, a wharf labourer, aged 43 years, diar- condition that he should take the name of Ingram. rhoea (eight days), cholera (24 hours.) Greenwich ; Temple Newsome is one of the most magnificent St. Paul, Deptford.—At 60, Railway-grove, on houses in England. August 17, the daughter of a railway platelayer, aged 8 months, choleraic diarrhoea ; Wool wich Dockyard.—At 10, Parson's-hill, on Aug. 17, the daughter of a tailor, aged 7 months, English cholera (about a fortnight), convulsions. The deaths of seven persons who were killed by horses or carriages in the streets were registered. The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 22 in Edinburgh, and 21 in Dub lin ; 17 in Bristol, 24 in Birmingham, 27 in Liverpool, 26 in Manchester, 28 in Salford, 24 in Sheffield, 29 in Leeds, 23 in Hull, 28 in Newcastle upon-Tyne, and 25 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 23 per 1,000 during the week ending the 10th inst., when the mean temperature was 5.2 deg. Fahrenheit higher than in the same week in London, where the rate was 22. The fatality of summer diarrhoea usually reaches its maximum about the end of July. London, Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham are the only large English towns in which the mortality has, during the past few weeks, been raised to any con siderable extent by deaths from this disease. In Manchester the greatest mortality occurred at the end of July, bat has since declined ; in London, Liverpool, and Birmingham it is, however, still high, and the 200, 47, and 42 deaths from diarrhoea respectively returned last weak in these towns give annual rates in the proportion of 3.4 in London, 5 in Liverpool, and 6.4 in Birmingham, to 1,000 per sons living. This fatality from diarrhoea in Bir mingham is the more remarkable from the compa rative immunity from cholera and diarrhoea which that town has usually enjoyed. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.789; n . The barometrical reading decreased from 30.02 in. on Sunday, Aug. 11, to 29.50 on Thursday, Aug. 15. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 661. deg., which is 4.5 deg. above the average of the same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The highest day temperature was 89 deg. on Wednesday, Aug. 14. The lowest night temperature was 50.2 deg., on Sunday, Aug. 11. The entire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 38.8 deg. The highest read ing of the thermometer in the sun was 147.1 deg. on Tuesday, August 13. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 61.5 deg. ; that of the lowest was 62.6 deg. The highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 66, on Wednesday, the 14th of August. The difference between the mean-dew point tem perature and air temperature was 8.4 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 75, complete saturation being represented by 100. The air was very dry in the early part of the week, but on Thursday, the 15th of August, the degree of humidity was 95. Rain fell to the amount of 0.77 in., of which 0.76iu. fell on Thursday, the 15th of August ; during the early morning hours of this day the rain was accompanied by thunder and light ning. The general direction of the wind was S.W. London, according to the returns of the eight companies, was supplied daily with 108,000,000 gallons, or 491,998 cubic metres of water, equal to about as many tons by weight ; the supply is equal to 35 gallons per head on the population. A considerable quantity of this water, however, was used for other than domestic purposes. " A. D. SIDERA VULTUS." COUNTRY MARKETS. BRISTOL-TUESDAY. The corn market to-day had a thin attendance, and there was littlo or no demand for wheat, unless at a decline of is on the prices of last week. Maize fully as dear. Barley firm. Weather very unsettled. THE INGRAHAM CLAIMS. The following is an extract from a Portland journal, dated July 25, 1867, and also a copy from ,he records of the Ingraham family:— AN AMERICAN TITLE TO AN ENGLISH CITY--A BIT OF ItO3IANCE. About 200 representatives of the Ingraham fa mily, from different States in the Union, met in New York on Wednesday, to devise means to pro secute their claims against a large property in Eng land. The leading points of this claim we noticed a short time ago. It was stated to be necessary to raise $20,000 to secure the will of Joseph Cowell, which, it is said, has been found in America, but the location is not stated. Only $1,500 was sub scribed at the meeting, and the subscription is to by resumed. This remarkable claim to lands which were be queathed nearly 200 years ago, and on which an opulent and busy city of 200,000 population has been built, involves a love-story which might form the thread of a readable romance. The daughter of Joseph Wilson, a wealthy freeholder of proud descent, married, without her father's approval, Edward Cowell, a plebeian of Yorkshire, and the young couple, renounced by Wilson, emigrated to the American colonies, and cast their lot in Boston. In 1680 Wilson died, without, however, relenting toward his daughter, and when his last testament was opened it appeared that he had given his pro perty, consisting of lands on the River Aire—about six miles in length by three in width—to his grand daughter, Sarah Cowell, entailing it, however, to the fourth generation. The will was sent to Sarah Cowell lung before her marriage with Timothy In graham, and was banded down to her daughter ; but the estate, being unsettled and yielding no revenue, and being, moreover, entailed to the de scendants of heirs dwelling at a great distance, was left in the hands of agents and almost wholly for- gotten except by them. At length a manufacturing town of considerable importance rose on the Wilson lands, and a grand son of the devisor made an attempt to recover the property, but he died on shipboard before reaching England. The next effort was made in 1803 by Capt.. Solomon Ingraham, a great-grandson of the devisor. He was an East India captain, and sailed with his wife from New York, taking all the papers relating to the estate. These be intrusted to Mr. Erskine, of London, then an eminent lawyer, but afterwards Lord Chancellor of England. Captain Ingraham having died at Madras, the papers were retained by Erskine in London, nobody making further inquiry touching the property until 1825, when the Ingraham family learned that London newspapers had contained advertisements seeking the heirs. They then sent Isaac Smith to England to look up the estate, which was then reported to be worth more than .£lO,OOO a year. Ile learned that the papers had been left by the first Lord Erskine to his son and successor, then Minister to Belgium, awl that they were locked up in London. There fore Smith returned unsuccessful to America. No further effort was made until 1852, when Gilbert It. Gladding, of Providence, and Columbus Smith, of Vermont, the latter a lawyer, who had been eminently successful in prosecuting American claims to English estates, went to London and saw the late Lord Erskine, to whom the papers had fallen ; but Lord Erskine dallied with Messrs. Glad ding and Smith, until, their funds failing, they were compelled to return to America. Mr. Gladding pursued his researches, and, after scouring England in vain, died in Providence in the full belief that the will had been brought back to the United States, and was somewhere to be found iu this country. Mr. W. J. F. Ingraham and others took the task in LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. Wo had only a moderate attendance of the town and country trade at our market to-day, but the fineness f the weather caused trade to rule dull for wheat, and last week's prices declined 2d per contal. Flour in dull demand, but rather easier. Indian corn in fair request., and prime quali- ties brjuglit rather more money. Oats and oatmeal and barely maintained previous rates. Beans were 6d to 9d and peas 6d lower than last week. LEEDS-TUESDAY. Wo have a moderato attendance at our market to-day The wheat trade was slow, and the rates of last week were nominally unchanged. Barley, beans, and other articles wore rather easier. MELTON MOWBRAY.-TUESDAY. White wheat, GBs to 7.1 s ; red, 59s to 68s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 40s to 52s per qr; feed, 32s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 31s; now, 26s to 32s per 21st. Beans, old, 52s to Ms . ; new, 45s to 50s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDAY. There was only a moderate business transacted to-day in the corn trade, with a largo supply of old wheat, and prices were is to 2s down. Some fair samples of now wore on offer from the south. Flour rather lower. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....22s Od to 26s 01 White do do 3is Od 33s Od New red do do Ws Od 2is 61 New white do do 23s 64 255 6d Beans do do l9B Od 22a Od Yeas, per qr. Grinding barley, per qr 35s Od 3ss Od Malting barley, Co Oats, do 27s Od 32s Od F10ur....2s 3d to 2i 8d per 111 b. MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TUESDAY. Old white wheat, 67s to 72s ; new red, G2s to 67s per 3 6 stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; other kinds, 23s to 36s per 30 st. Oats, new, 26s to 35s ; old, 34s to 35s per qr. Beans, old, 46s to 538; new, 42s to 47s pi. qr. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. &wird'', and New Zealand, via Sonthanipton.....S ea t. 19 Ditto, via Marseilles .........5ept. 13 Ditto, via Panama ... ...... ........ Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sept. 3. Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde, by Brazil packet ........ . . Sept. 3. ()ape of Good Elope. Ascension. and St. Helena Aug. 27. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Seit. 2. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug„:27. Faikiand Islands Sept. 3 olibraltar, via Southampton.. Aug 27. India, via Southampton Ditto, via Dlarseil cs Slalta, Egypt, So. Aug. ' 1. Ditto, Marseilles.. Aug. 2 1 . Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Sept. 19. Litt ), via Marge' les Sept. 3 . Newfoundland „Aug, 28 Portugal 'ept. 3. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto .. Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, dre., by British packet Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York; Ditto ditto (New York) Dittq ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian packet Aug. 3. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffa Sept. 4. West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- Aug. 2 1 mas) Cuba and Mexico ...Aug. 28 % Bahamas, via New York Sept. Bermuda, via ditto THE ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL IN CHANCERY•'' On Tuesday nextthe Accountant-General's Office in Chan eery will be closed to the 28th October, with the exception of a few days in the middle of that month, and the Regis trar's Office will also ke closed. Both offices have been open longer this year on account of the pressure of bug- ness. The New York Tribune of the fst iust. says " The English Trade Unions appear to be the most unmi tigated despotisms in the world. Even since the Broad head exposures, a unionist of Sheffield has been arrested for threatening to blow np a fellow-workman 10° refused to pay to the trade, and in another place fou r bricklayers were brought before a magistrate recently for attempting to throw one of their comrades Off scaffold and severely assaulting him, because he ha' violated a rule of tho union by shaving off his mous tache. That freemen can voluntarily enter associations which claim such a preposterous authority over the actions of individuals is to Americans almost incredibl e. There is something evil in the condition of the English working melt which we can hardly appreciate." The United States frigate Savannah (50) from Cherbourg and Portsmouth, was off Plymouth at 11 a•ra' on Wednesday, August 7, when she took a pilot from the sloop Zadora, which left her at 8.30 p.m. off the Lizard. The Dale (12) was off Falmouth on Thursday at no on ' These ships, with the Macedonia, are bound to Chesapeol° Bay, and it is said they will vie with each other across tho Atlantic. The United States gunboat Swatara, from LO' bon, sailed for Candia by order of the American Gove rn ment. The American steamer Shamrock has sailed O f Madeira The specie movements during last week were co 6 rather moderate scale as regards the imports, which ha l , ° only amointed to £393,698, including £105,238 from 14 " York, by the Hermann; £31,000 by the City of' Ant/Dell £3,600 by the Allcmannia ; £71,000 by the Virginia; 511 £21,220 by the Cuba. The La Place, from the Brat i has brought £95,168 ; and the Galileo , £52,272; besid which about £11,200 in silver has been receive d fro East Continent. The exports have been £9,459 to the Indies and China by the Euxine , an d there have been 11- mit i ances to the Continent through p rivate sources Or mated at £661,991 ; the total amounting to £674,45 0 . (ADVEitTISEMENT. I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills r e ; the most appropriate reme dies for the blotches, phoP,„eir biles, and carbuncles which are a nno y in g , sometimes u.r, gerous, and always disfiguring when summer heats sit. e n a nate with wet, wintry weather. The subtle perraes tl p powers of this Ointment, by repressing inflammatio n irritation, reduce the skin to its actual temperature colour, while radically expel lin g the cause of the bletail;, from the system. The Pills assist th e coolin g and periol,o ing influence of the Ointment, by dispelling all that ise.o. from the bowels, and by thorough l y rectif y in g dige st to Under this treatment eve r y or g an of the body is force tiro cast off both irregularities and impurities, whereby health becomes robust, the feelings joyous, and the " soft and silky. Births. BROWNE—On the 17th inst., at Reigate, the Lady rti clz Browne, of a daughter. :f Of G ORDON —On the 18th inst., at Shoeburyness, the Ny'' Colonel S. E. Gordon, R.., of a son. WILRR AM —AIIOn the 16th inst., at Blackheath, the wife °f Lieut.-Col. Wilbraham, cf a daughter. Marriages. „ o tlx AnDINER—GRANT —On the 19th inst., at St. Paul's' tto Kensington, W. A. Gardiner, Esq., Mcdica l S3P.4los' Caroline Katherine Gran t . daughter of the kite Grant, Clonakilty, county Cork. NEWMAN —K EN NEDY On the 19th inst.,the Old Cr i t c el3 ,.cl: Brighton, John Newm an, Esq., of ' 53, Clapham, to Alicia Jane , y oun g est daughter of Alecio.o. Kennedy, Esq., late of her Majesty's Customs, LoP CaP t ' Deaths. ARMSTRONG—At 1, Richmond-terrace, Brighton, Armstrong, late 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers, age d ' 11 001 GRAY—On the 18th inst., at 1, Brook-place, Tott769. Joseph W. Gray, late of the Sto ck Exchange, B .g ° vortt O'CoNNELL—On the 20th inst., at 7, Charles-str eet, man-square, William John O'Connell, Esq. i u ROBIN—On the 19th inst., at De nbi g h, Chas. l'''ob /side SANDISON—On the 19th inst. , at Al g ebr Villa, Au° road, Surbiton, Samuel Sandison, aged 52. London : Printed and Published by WILLIA.SI of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 'Dlr., Su:4 0013 0, '`' ‘ , ° la . ty 0 { Strand, tbo Precinct of the Se voy, in tb9 C°-- tiicialVA.--"Wtabaegitty, Augwit 21, 1667.