The Sun. — London, England, 1867-09-02 00:00:00

TILE TII.IIIES EMBANKMENT. This, the greatest of all our great metropolitan improvements, is, so far as it has been contracted for at present, fast approaching completion. Much of it is already finished. In another fortnight the whole of the under-water foundations on each side of the Hungerford-bridge pier will be built. Already the work of perfectly levelling the immense area that has thus been so successfully reclaimed from the river is going forward. The remaining holes and inequalities on the surface are being rapidly filled in, and it is calculated that at the present rate of progress the end of next February will witness the entire completion of the bank from Westminster to Temple-gardens. We wish we could add that by that titne al:io the public may expect to have the use of this noble thoroughfare, but this seems almost as remote as when the works first began. In the first place, the contracts for completing the Embankment from Temple-gardens to Blackfriars, and from Blackfriars to Southwark-bridge are not yet given out—hardly, indeed, are the plans for these portions definitely resolved on. The latter section is not of much consequence, for the comple tion to 13Iackfriars, and thence by the new street (when it is made) into Cannon-street, would effect almost all the improvement as to the traffic that is imperatively necessary. It is therefore a matter for public regret that this latter part of the work has not been as vigorously pushed forward, and is not now as much advanced towards completion as the rest. As it is at present, the Thames Embankment leads nowhere, for it can hardly be said that the narrow and tortuous alleys which lead up into Fleet street from the Temple-gardens would afford any for the traffic which might nse the Em b tnkment as far as it went. What makes the matter worse is that there is not much reason to hope this part will soon be begun, for the delay arises on a question of the compensation to be awarded to the gas company at Whitefriars, which, by the Embank ment, will he cut off from their river communication, and compelled to establish their works elsewhere. If the Embankment did nothing but compel the re moral of these works, it would deserve the grati tude of the metropolis ; for, in spite of all the care with which they are managed, they are, and always must be, a nuisance to the neighbourhood. It is to be hoped, therefore, that no needless delay on the question of compensation will be allowed to hinder what, next to the main drainage, is the greatest national work that has been undertaken in London since the rebuilding of St. Paul's. Unfortunately for the public, however, even the gas works are not all they have to dread. There is a railway to come through the Embankment—a link in the circular line of the underground railway, and one of the most important links of all, for with the completion of this the subterranean circle of the me tropolis will be finished. Of course until this railway is completed the embankment cannot be used for traffic,and when it will be completed no man knoweth; for not only is it not begun, but there is no indica tion of its being begun for some long time to come. It is a pity that these matters could not have been arranged to fit each other better. As it is, everything seems waiting for something else. Thus, the north side, or rather the abutment end of new lllackfriars bridge, is to be left rough and unfinished, waiting till it is seen in what manner the Embankment is to join it. The designs for the completion of the Em bankment are kept back till it is seen what call be done with the gas works. The gas works are waiting to see what the railway intends to do, and the whole Embankment will be waiting idle till the railway works are finished. For nearly 300 yards of its length eastward from Westminster-bridge the Embankment is entirely finished, with the single exception of fix ing the bronze lamp-posts which are to surmo Int its massive parapet. here the immense solidity and ex tent of the works can be best seen. Here are colossal blocks of Aberdeen, Dartmoor, Irish, French, and Guernsey granite—for almost every quarry had to be ransacked—joined with the neatness of cabinet work. They are all much of the same grey hue, but the prettiest, hardest, and finest grained of all is that which cornea from Irel Ind. The approach to the Embankment from Westminster br:dge is quite ready for use, and when it is opened we think all architects and persons of taste will see how the fine effect of the massive granite ma sonry is marred by the cheap, paltry, and somewhat narrow flight of common stone steps which leads down to the steamboat pier. The pier itself is very good. It has a double outer wall of granite, between which is to be laid a long floating stage which gives access to the outer floating pier at which the steam boats will call. From Westminster up to the end of Whitehall Palace, a strip of land about 200 ft. wide, is Crown property, and this is to be added to the grounds of Montague-house and the houses in Whitehall-gardens. This space will be planted with shrubs, and further screened by a very handiome ornamental wall about 7ft. high. Thus the privacy of the inmates of these houses will be entirely secured, though before long we doubt if they will feel very grateful to the wall which will shut them off from what will then be both by day and night one of the prettiest and most animated scenes in London. A little past Whitehall-gardens an exceedingly handsome pier for small boats and wherries is being, constructed. The pediments of the outer wall en closing the steps leading to the river will be sur mounted by two smaller copies of Landseer's lions. At the end of the steps on the Embankment a very noble arched gateway in carved Portland stone is being erected. This is to be of the same character as the York Gate of Inigo Jones—indeed it was at one time intended to use the old gateway as it now stands near the river for this purpose, but the price asked for it was too extravagantly high. Beyond this point up to near Hungerford the bank is finished but east and west of the pier of that bridge for about 500 ft. the foundations of the river wall are being put in. The mode of building is very simple. Wrought iron caissons of elliptical form, l2ft. by 7ft., and4Oft. or 501 t. long, are sunk in a long row by means of guiding piles, and weighted in the ordinary manner till thry have sunk deep into the clay. Until they have got a firm foundation the tide water is allowed to flow into them freely, but after they have taken their bearings they are pumped dry, and the flange edge outside each caisson bolted to that next it, so as to form a perfectly water-tight wall, the ends of which are of course closed in a similar way. About 200 yards are thus built at a tune. The powerful chain pumps driven by steam soon empty the space enclosed by the body of water it contains, and leave it in a few days not only free from water, but even tolerably dry. Of course, as the water is pumped out, immense sturts of timber are erected leading from all parts of the line of caissons to the earth in order to support them against the great pressure of the high tides which they have to bear. These once made secure, and the water all out, all is then very easy, The mud and subsoil are dug away till the clay is reached, which is sometimes not done till near the foundations of the caissons them selves —often not till nearly 30ft of the bed of the river has beeu excavated. Then an immense founda tion of concrete, more than four times the width of the intended superstructure is laid. On this is built the embankment wall. It is composed of the very largest slabs of granite set on edge, 2ft. thick, and backed up by a massive wall of brickwork nearly 4ft. thick, and laid in Portland cement. While excavating atllungerford the soil was moved to a depth of Bft. below the foundations of Hungerford-bridge pi T. The foundations were foun 1 to be perfect, except in oue trifling split be tween the piles, which had evidently arisen as the bri toe itself was building, and had existed unchanged for years. The brickwork, even to its lowest course, was abs•)lutely perfect ; but being laid in a stratum of gravel, the water, notwithstanding the immense weight of the superstructure, percolated through it freely. Round this pier, up to nearly the level of the Embanknient, has I:ren filled in with a solid mass of concrete, which has hardened round it like a rock. In the same way at Waterloo-bridge the ex;avations were carried to some eight feet below the foundation of the first pier on the Middlesex shore. The foundation here was not found to be in s ll c l l goo , l orler as those of Ilungerf u rd, and it is likely . that if th e scour o f t h e r i ver i s i ncreased, as it must be by th e Th ames E m b an k ment, all the piers of this noble structure will want support. The Hun gerf or d, W aterloo, and Temple-gardens steamboat piers will be of their kind perfect models of convenience, while in architectural beauty they can hardly be surpassed. Each differs somewhat in details, but their effect from every point of view will be massive and beautiful. Wide and noble flights of granite steps will lead down to the water. Bronze lions, the size of those in Trafalgar-square, will be fixed at the abutments of the parapets on either side, while the parapets above the pier, and those on the sides of the steps leading down to the water, will be open balustrades of carved granite, similar in pat tern, though on a smaller scale, to the balustrade of Waterloo-bridge. Temple-gardens pier will cer tainly be the prettiest, though those. at Waterloo and Ilungerford will be more massive and monu mental. From Waterloo-bridge a great part of the work has been effected by means of wooden coffer dams, a slow aryl expensive process, and one which would not again be tried under the same circum stances. Here and up to Temple-gardens the Em bankment wall is entirely complete, and only wants its parapet and the ground inside levelling to be finished and ready for the public use. It is impos sible to speak too highly of the perfect finish of style with which the two contractors for the different parts —Mr.Furncss and Mr.Ritson— have done their work. Such fine specimens of granite workmanship have not been seen in London before. The brick work is equally good, and especially in the subways and low-level sewer. The latter is very deep down in deed—almost as low as the foundations of the Em bankment wall itself. It is a continuous tunnel 81t. in diameter, made of three rings of brickwork laid in cement. Above this is the subway for gas and water mains. This is built of the same strength as the low-level sewer, but is Bft. 6in. in diameter. Ample means are provided for the ventilation of this fine underground road—in fact, all the engi neering details are perfect, and do Mr. Bazalgette the highest honour. The intended railway is to pass inside these works in a closed tunnel, formed, we believe, by retaining walls with a low-crowned brickwork arched roof, built upon deep wrought iron girders. The quantities of material consumed in the embankment up to the present are something stupendous, six times more than enough, indeed, to rebuild the Pyramids. No less than 800,000 tons of earth have been filled in, nearly 50,000 tons of granite used, with 15,000,000 of bricks, 100,000 cubic yards of concrete laid, and upwards of 400,000 bushels of Portland cement expended. THE FUTURE OF AUSTRIA. The meeting of Napoleon and the Emperor of Austria at Salzburg, and the defensive alliance, which is said to be the result of this interview, is of the gravest importance. It amounts to a revolution in the ideas of Austria, considered as a German Power. What a change for Austria to become the ally of the stranger against the Father land, for the moment a war breaks out between France and Prussia the whole of Germany will be drawn closer to Prussia in defence of the common country. It is hopeless to argue that Austria is acting only in self-defence, that she stands in mortal dread of the insatiable ambition of Prussia, that she is driven, by sheer necessity, into an alli ance with the arch-enemy of Germany, with the nation which lusts after German territory or the possession of the German Rhine. The danger of the Austrian Empire is great, but will she find a permanent safety in a French alliance ? The first effect of this alliance will be to estrange her more and more from Germany, to drive the secondary States—too many of them, as far as the governing and ambitious classes are concerned—nothing loth, into the arms of Prussia. The closer the alliance of Austria with France the more impossible will it be for her to recover influence in Germany. To France the alliance will be of some use as throwing a further obstacle in the path of Prussia's aggran dizement, a hindrance in the consolidation of a mighty military power at the gates of France ; but an alliance with an enfeebled and discredited Austria is not of such value as not to be sacrificed, when it has served a temporary purpose. And what is to become of Austria if it were to chance to lose the protection of France. Of Austria we mean not as a Sclavonic but as a German State. The rejected of France could never hope to recover again influence 07 leadership in Germany, even though Prussia were hated for its arrogance and intolerance, as it is sure to be hated sooner or later. But the instinct of self-preservation is strong—the desire to be a member of a strong State, that has no fear of the " Welschen," who are han kering after German land, is keen in the breast of every German. Add to these motives the military ambition in the governing classes, which sees in the warlike power of Prussia an outlet for its hopes and the prospect of a wider commerce opened up to the commercial classes, without taking into consideration the wide-spread influence which ever attends success, whatever its character, and we shall see but small reason to doubt that all the lower and the more immediate and palpable at tractions are in favour of the union of Germany with Prussia. As to the permanetn character of the new Prussian Kingdom—of its moral cohe sion—of its power over the Revolution, which like a volcano lies heaving at its base—that is quite another question. But in the meantime, what is to become of Austria, threatened with internal dis ruption—with German ideas against her—with the suspicion of treachery upon her name ? How can she resist the progress of revolutionary ideas, the theory of nationalities which is taking pos session of the European mind ? Austria, made up of various nations and races welded into a homogeneous and powerful nation—was a stand ing protest against the disintegrating action of the principle of nationalities. But how long will she be a standing protest ?—that is the question. Aus tria, by the very nature of her Empire, is the battle field of the two contending principles, the ancient Conservative principle of sovereign rights, of ex isting treaties, and of the law of nations, and the new revolutionary theory of nationalities. If this latter theory triumph, if it more fully and univer sally take possession of the minds of men, Austria will cease to exist. An alliance with France will not save her; trust in the liberalism of Count Beust will not avert the catastrophe. She is doomed beforehand. All Catholic nations are falling. As nations they have deserted the public principles of Catholicism, and they perish by the Revolution. What is this but to say that revo lutionary principles are destructive of Catholicism. Catholic nations changed their front in the face of an enemy, and have been outflanked. They abandoned the idea—the principle—which consti tuted their highest unity, which gave strength and purpose to national life to play with the Re volution, to act the part of a go-between in the conflict of antagonistic and mutually destructive principles. But these nations have lost the strength of Catholicism without identifying themselves with the Revolution, without sharing its destructive force. Between two stools, to . use a common phrase, they fell to the ground. This is how we account for the present state of the Catholic nations ; this is why we look with ap prehension at their future. There is a want of thoroughness about them—about Austria in par ticular ; and therein lies her doom. They will not break entirely with the Revolution, or entirely join with it. This doing things by halves is their ruin ; however despicable, it is better to be ruined as a half Revolutionist like Austria, than to suc ceed for a while as a whole Revolutionist like Prus sia. Yet this half-he,artednes3—this disowning of ganeneuviiille,moofrethdoirfamcitgalti -gt-ooilCnpathooultic thanpri nc a ipi n e i s or i e s violent disease. The Josephism of the last cen tury, the Febronianism which affected the Royal Houses of Catholic Europe, is the cause of the weakness and of the fall of Catholic nations to day. In Austria Count Beust's Liberalism will not mend matters. Already Cardinal Rauscl►er, Car dinal Schwartzenberg, Professor Arndt, the leaders of the Catholic party, are in opposition to the Go vernment. The Hstorisch-Politesche Matter, which has long enjoyed the deserved reputation of pos sessing the soundest publicists in Europe, after a somewhat prolonged hesitation, has declared against the present policy of Austril. And now Austria seeks safety 'n an alliance with Napoleon, and in the counsels of Count Begat ! Poor Austria ! Westminster Ga.c-ett!. Mi.cellaneous Foreign News. The news by the Russia is to the 21st inst., and we learn that President Johnson has transferred General Sheridan to the command of the Depart ment of Missouri. General Thomas is to command the Fifth Military District, and General Hancock the Department of Cumberland, vice General Thomas. The news by the cable of the 29th inst., however, shows that Hancock is to relieve Sheri dan, as Thomas was ill. General Grant, who had strongly objected to Sheridan's removal, has, it is added, executed the order. The President appears to have had an interview with Grant, when they seem to have harmonised their differences. Sheri dan was directed to report at Washington in person previous to taking over his new command. We suppose he is to go like a naughty boy to be scolded. The other items by the Russia are, that Gen. Pope has written to Geu. Grant complaining that some prominent rebels in his district retard Reconstruction, which, however, he believes will be sustained by a large majority of voters at the ap proaching conventions. General Sheridan has or dered the election of delegates to the Louisiana Convention to be held on the 27th and 28th of September. The national troops are to protect the elections where fraud and violence are perpetrated. The Richmond City Council has protested to General Scholefield against having to support negro paupers. Meetings of the Radical soldiers and sailors have been held at Washington and Philadelphia, at which the conduct of Mr. Stanton was heartily en dorsed, and the removal denounced. The captain of a steamer plying between Charleston and Beau fort has been fined for refusing a negro woman a first-class passage. General Sickles has been removed by the Presi dent. The last news by mail from America left his subordinate, Lieut.-Colonel Frank, commanding the troops at Wilmington, at war with the United States' Marshal, whom he obstructed in carrying into effect the decisions of the Supreme Court. We presume that General Sickles has sustained the action of his inferior. No explanation had been given by him at the date of the last mail, and the President, on the 13th, sent an order, through Gen. Grant, stating that no order can be issued or signed by any military commander which conflicts with the functions of the Courts of the United States. On the representation of Governor Worth, showing the impossibility of revising jury lists, General Sickles had, for the present term of the Courts at North Carolina, suspended the paragraph from his recent order requiring their revision before the trial of cases. He has, however, declined to withdraw his order suspending a forcible collection of debts, which, with various others, he had been petitioned to do by the Charleston Board of Trade. He argues that the people of the State, being conquered, ought quietly to submit to military rule till reorganised under the offers of Congress. lie has approved the sentence of the court-martial in the case of Daly and Radcliffe, who are each to suffer six months' imprisonment for assaulting two Northern men in a bar-room. Three prominent citizens three months ago were arrested at Fayetteville, North Carolina, charged with shooting a negro, and imprisoned in Fort Macon. A military court has found them innocent, and this instance of military justice has had its effect in the North. As we surmised, General Sickles has been removed for disregarding the President's orders not to inter fere with the Federal Courts. The execution of the processes is still obstructei we learn, by the general's order. The action of the President in this case will be sustained by public opinion. We have now the complete registration returns of Louisiana, which give a total of 127,637 voters, of whom 44,732 are whites and 82,907 blacks. In New Orleans there is a majority of 40 whites, and in ten parishes the whites have small majorities ; but the total gives nearly two blacks to one white, which makes the negroes the future masters of Louisiana, and, in the words of Mr. Lowe, " the sooner they learn their letters the better." In Virginia the registration has as yet resulted in a white majority of 19,344 ; the numbers being— whites, 31,575; blacks, 15,231. In Florida regis tration is sufficiently advanced to show ~that; blacks will be in the majority. The accounts froll North Carolina show that in 47 of the 83 counties 60,000 have registered, giving a black majority of 6,673. It is thought, however, when all the returns are complete that there will be a strong majority the other way. Registration commenced at Charles ton (South Carolina) on the 13th instant. The Surratt trial closed on Saturday, the 10th instant, after a session of 73 hours, at the end of which the jury were of the same mind as at the be ginning —eight being for acquittal and four for con viction. All the eight, except one New Yorker, were Southerners. Of the four, two were Northern men, one a Scotchman, and one a German. The jury was discharged—Surratt being remanded to gaol for another trial. It is stated that half the next jury will be negroes, and the charge will be for attempting the abduction of the President. At the close of the Surratt trial, after the dis miosal of the jury, Judge Fisher announced he had a painful duty to perform when he proceeded to order the name of Joseph H. Bradley, senior counsel for Surratt, to be struck from the roll of attorneys practising in the Criminal Court. On hearing this Mr. Bradley protested; but the judge stopped the protest by adjourning the Court. Our readers may recollect that the hostility between these lawyers on one occasion almost brought about a personal en counter. Mr. Bradley followed the judge into the hall, and there handed to him a challenge to settle the dispute by pistol or rapier, which the judge very properly declined. The matter has been taken up by the bar, and a committee appointed to investi gate the facts, and, if possible, bring about a recon ciliation. The action of the Judge in this matter has been generally applauded. Some painful disclosures have been made, in which the actors are ministers of religion in the United States. The crimes are of the most disgraceful type, and neither public interest nor morality can be advanced by discussing them in newspapers. The Rev. 11. Wenat, a regularly. ordained Lutheran clergyman and superinten dent of an orphan asylum at Philadelphia, has been committed to gaol. Tereno nowe, a Congre gational preacher, a States school officer, and a member of the Massachusetts Legislature, had excited the intense disgust of the country, as well as another preacher in Vermont. The New York Tribune sent a correspondent to Galena (Illinois), General Grant's old home, to pick up information to be used against Grant in his canvas for the Presidency. The correspondent writes : "Before the war, Grant—Mr. Ulysses Grant—was a young married man, living in an unpretending hired house on a hill west of the town. His father was a pirtner in a house—no ,v Perkins's— in the main street, devoted to the trade in hides. Ulysses was what is called in city firms a light porter in this store, but still he did some pretty heavy work, loading carts with hides, as well as casting up ac counts. He wore a slouched hat, and used to go through the town with his hea I lowered, and al gays smoking a cigar, and, as the salary was but small, these cigars, even at the low prices which then ruled in the article, must have been an important item in his annual expenditure." He manifested no distinguishing traits, and was so unpretending and reticent that many old residents could not recall him when his name became famous. Besides many other questions, the correspondent asked if he would be supported for the Presidency by the votes of the citizens, and was answered that although no one there was aware of his fitness for the post every one would vote for him out of local pride. They bad purchased a handsome, plain brick house, two storeys high, as a present for the Gene ral, which was kept by a man, so that Grant could always have a bed ready when he visited the town. Fifteen privates of Battery M Fourth United States Artillery have been tried by court-martial at Fort Porter, and sentenced to 18 months' imprison ment in the Albany Penitentiary, for parading with the Fenians in a recent pic-nic. That held at Haan's Park, at Harlem, about six miles from Chi cago, on the 15th inst., ended in a regular Donny brook row. In addition to the military organisa tions 5,000 civilians were on the ground. General Spear addressed the Fenians, and other speeches were to follow, but the programme was interrupted by a fight, which was the signal for a general injb:e. While General Spear was speaking, a hollow square 0.8 formed enclosing the platform, but all order was THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY 18VENIN3, SEPTEMBER 2, 1867. lost when the hollow square be , mme engaged in the contest. John Leonard was fatal lysta'abed in the neck by William Burns, who was arrest ed. A Fenian named Jeremiah O'Brien was lately hanged for murdering a woman, on whose waf ;es be had lived, because she stopped the supplie3. One of the Generals of his order superintende 1 the obsequies. Roberts appears to be losing the confidence of his party from his action in Italy :against the Pope, which is opposed to the religious principles of many of his brethren. A Congress had been called to assemble in Moz ►rt's Hall, New York, on the 21st instant, to receive official reports, to elect new executive officers of the Irish Republic, &c., &c. Circulars had been printed detailing the objects which are signed by Mr. A. Griffin. Sonic prominent citizens of St. Joseph's county, Missouri, have been arrested with other men for complicity in burning a bridge o Ter the Platte River, on the Hannibal and St. Joseph It Lilroad, in 1861, in order to destroy a train loaded with Federal soldiers. By this act a ptssenger train was de stroyed, and many persons killed. The information was laid by a man who had boon convicted of theft. A point will arise on the trial of considerable in terest, as it will involve the acts committed by citi zens as belligerents during the war, and how far they are amenable after the war, even if those acts were contrary to the rules of war. If the news from Mexico is to be believed, Lopez has been assassinated. He was residing at an hotel in Puebla, when a Mexican called, had Lopez pointed out to him, took a seat opposite him at dinner, drank a glass of wine, leant across the table, and with a knife he had drawn from his coat stabbed Lopez nine times. On departing, the Mexican said, " This is the way all traitors should be paid." Santa Anna is confined in the Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa, Vera Cruz, where his wife and companions are also prisoners. A reward of $lO,OOO had been offered for the capture of Marquez, who, it is reported, has been taken. Prince Salm Salm had been sentenced to be shot. Juarez had entered the capital on the 29th July, and, according to some accounts, had been enthusiastically received. He had issued a moderate proclamation, in which he urged the people to lend all their efforts, warned by a long and painful experience of the calamities of war, to obtain and consolidate the benefits of peace. The people are to be convoked to elect, at entire liberty, him to whom they shall choose to confide their destinies. The Congress was to be convened in November, and the Presidential elec tion to take place in December. The Ministry stands thus :—Minister of Foreign Relations, Sebas tian Lerdo de Tejada ; Treasury, Jose Maria Yglesias; War, General Ignian Mejia ; [Justice, Jose Martinez de Castro. Admiral Tegethoff was in New Orleans, where he has detained the frigate Elizabeth. Canales was said to be marching on Matamoras with a strong force, and Castillo had escaped from that town. The Mexican army has been divided into four grand departments, each under a general. The doctor who embalmed Maximilian's body charged $15,000 ; and it is said did his work badly. It is reported to be lying in the Church of Queretaro, and not delivered, as reported, to Baron Magnus. _ _ The reports which have lately been so freely cir culated of large over-issues of national securities and gross frauds ou the U. S. Treasury, implicating officers of high official position, have received an emphatic contradiction from Mr. M'Culloch. The items of intelligence by the cable are that the Dominican Republic has agreed to sell Samna Bay to the United States. President Johnson has removed General Sickles, and appointed General Canley in his stead. General Grant had protested against the removal of General Sheridan, and held the order for his removal in abeyance; but, after an interview with the President, the order is to be carried out. If the despatches of the Spanish Minister of War are to be believed, the insurrection in Cata lonia, in Taragona, and Arragon have been almost suppressed. The chiefs Zamora, I'ellicer, Parreta, and Ruis, with 663 insurgents, have availed them selves of the amnesty. Pierrad had crossed into France, 4,000 insurgents had submitted to the autho rities in Catalonia, the band at Cuenca had also sub mitted, and that at Bejar had taken refuge in the mountains. The Spanish Consul at Bayonne an nounces that Contreras, with the insurgents under his command, has been defeated and driven across the frontier. Accounts from Rio de Janeiro to the 9th August state that the allied army is advancing into the in terior of Paraguay. A battle is imminent. Porto Alegre remains at Tiguly with 6,000 men. The fleet was to force the passage of the Humaiti on the 29th of July. _ Accounts from Athens, received on Thursday at Marseilles, state that the Turks attacked the insur gents at Omalos, in Candia, and after three days' fighting entered the town, when the insurgents fired the houses, closed the wells, and the Turks were obliged to leave. Being reinforced, the Cretans pursued the Turks, compelling them to descend into the level country. Several were killed on both sides ; fevers and dysentery prevailed among the Turkish troops. Greek accounts maintain that the Alussul mans continue to massacre women and children, and vessels of all nations were conveying them into Greece. The blockade runner Union continues her voyages. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, ani Mr. M. Gibbs, the European agent of the United States Treasury, have recently visited the principal manufacturing towns of England, and have been received everywhere with great courtesy by manufacturers and others interested iu the trade between England and the United States. It is surmised that the valuable information a cquired will lead to cer tain modifica tonlses of British manufacture. iu th e ra t es o f duty im ptioosnesd, uponif n ot certainto redu ac rtiic Eastman's Street Rails. ' to be drawn by horses on street railroads, which we discussed some months since, Mr. Z. EASTMAN S system of rails and carriages, has been most favourably reported on by the engineer of the Paris Municipal Board of .Public Works. That gentleman, after giving full details of EASTMAN'S system, observes " that the intention is to furnish an iron road for the public use, liberating it from the control of a monopoly. The object deserves great encouragement, and to be put seriously into practice. It is an old idea to secure for horses a solid footing, and at the same time to reduce the resistance on the public roads ; but to create in a city iron tracks for every kind of vehicle is a radical and important innovation." In Italy, for instance, in certain tow ns w h eels were ma d e to run on flat hard stones, whil e t h e h orses trave lled on the paving between. Su c h a p l an wou ld n ot answer iu any great thoroughf are ,f or the obvious reason that the track would b e o b l i terate d i n m ud, while the ad vantage would n o t b e sufficient to induce drivers to keep the way. The case would be very different with EASTMAN'S rails ; just the difference between a part of a road freshly macadamized and a part worn into a solid even surface. with Where drivers see a clear advanta ge ( as t h ey d o there), they will avail themselves of it even at the risk of colli siontheir neighbours' vehicles. Let the people beli eve i n the ga i n to their horses, to their carriage s , an d to their comfort, and they will keep th e t rac k . Th e only objection the en gineer alludes to is, that in conveyances following each ‘ other the slow would detain the quick, and the speed would be reffulated at the minimum. Now it is on this point Mr. EASTMAN mainly urges the utility of his invention. The rails are especially constructed for getting out of the track with the greatest ease. When a fast conveyance drives up to a slowe r one t h e d r i ver t u rns from the rail s , passes th e o b struct i on, an d re - en ters, as we see coachmen act whe n s t r iving to keep on the worn and smooth way, the other portion being under repair. Ind ee d , t hi s i s M r. E AST MAN'S grand point. Ile says to th e pu bli c— l w ill con struct a way better than ordinary p av i ng in the ratio we have already observed. It i s on l y poss ibl e t o form this road by making parallel lines of tracks, for it must embrace two irreconcilable advantages over the present sys- 1 tem. It must be harder than paving for the wheels ' and softer than paving for the horses. The advan tages will accrue to those who keep the track. A slow vehicle will only check a faster so long as the faster romaine ballad, and it is raised ao an objec. tion that the more speedy is compelled momentarily to abandon the advantage and drive on the ordi nary paving. If this be your only objection, the inventor may assuredly remark, you acknowledge in the fullest degree the advantage of my system, and the sooner you set to work to secure its bene fits for all your cities the better. Monsieur BUFFET observes : "In short it is proposed to diminish in a great degree the noise, mud, and dust, of the great roads of Paris, and to very largely reduce, much to the profit of the city, the expenses necessary to keeping the roads in repair. And to the people at large it would reduce the cost of traffic, as well as saving horses and rolling stock. The inventor aims withal to give more order and greater security and profit to commerce. There is in our opinion a reason able claim in his invention to justify a trial which is so little expensive." He closes his remarks with the following proposition :—" Con sequently we propose to establish at the ex pense of the city, and with the concurrence of the inventor, a double track of his new system, on quays of the left bank, from the Bridge du Car rousel to the Champ de Mars ; and to appropriate to this double track a paved area or space of 5.00 (5 metres), which would be laid alongside of the pavement nearest to the houses. If the city accepts our propositions, we shall hasten to examine in de tail and give an estimate of the cost. The question of the carriages would be reserved for the time being." The progress of this experiment should be narrowly watched by the Board of Public Works and the municipal authorities of Great Britain, and Mr. Z. EASTMAN, United States Consul at Bristol, will, we doubt not, answer inquiries with pleasure.— Anglo-American Times. THE CULTIVATION OF COTTON. The Anglo-American gimes says : The following interesting letter from General R. V. Richardson, Vice-President of the United States Cotton Company, to Judge Thompson, Pre sident of the American Central Railway, was not intended for publication, but the information it contains is of so valuable a nature that it has been placed at our disposal : London, England, Aug. 21, 1867. Judge T. S. Thompson, President of the American Central Railway. DEAR SIR,—I cannot express too strongly my gratifica tion at the prospect of building your road under auspices so favourable to energetic progress and speedy completion. Running on an air line from the Mississippi River to Fort Wayne, thence by the shortest route to the cities of Phil adelphia and New York, when completed it must bo the great thoroughfare of cotton to the spinneries in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and the New England States. The great cotton zone of North America extends from the Atlantic Ocean west to the Rocky Moun tains, between the parallels of 30 deg. and 36 deg. 30 min. north latitude. The Mississippi River cuts this zone on its middle line from north to south, and the largest por tion constitutes what is called the valley of the Missis sippi; and this valley of the cotton zone contains a trans verse belt, about forty miles wide, of alluvial lands, called the bottom or delta of the Mississippi River, extend ing from the mouth of the Ohio to Baton Rouge, a distance, with the course of the river, of about eight hundred miles. This delta is the richest body of lands on the globe, and the best adapted by soil, sunshine, and showers, to the cultivation of -the Green seed and Upland varieties of cotton. Here these varieties attain their best development and make their greatest yield. The soil of this delta is of recent alluvial formation, and is of surpassing fertility to a depth of forty feet. It is so rich that it could be imported into England to be used as a fertiliser with good profits. In climate and soil this delta is superior to those of all other countries for the production of good merchantable cotton. This delta produced in 1860 about one-half the crop of that year, which was over 5,000,000 bales, weighing each 400 pounds. This delta is likewise highly favoured in having that magnificent "inland sea"—the Mississippi River —to pass through it. Indeed, this groat river is the father of this delta, since it has been formed by the action of his waters, and ho is therefore the great. aqueous channel of commerce through, from, to, and bAween this delta and the world. There are two principal cotton marts upon this river, situated respectively at the southern and northern verges of this cotton zone. New Orleans is the elder and larger market, having the advantage of being situated 120 miles from the mouth of the great river, and also being the'entrepot and depot for the foreign and coast trade of this valley. Memphi i is a young, prosperous city, enjoying the advantage of an equable and genial climate, and centeetl continental position. Under the old regime of water communication culy New Orleans was thepeerless queen of commerce for this magnific Int valley, but since the great interior bosom of the Continent has been interlaced with rails ays, Memphis, situated at the Upper or Northern verge of this cotton zone, has steadily grown to be a cotton mart. The spinners of the States mentioned have been discovering that it was their best policy to buy supplies of raw cotton at Memphis, because it was so much nearer and accessible to them at all seasons of the year. Hence the largest portion of cotton heretofore for the last ten years received at Memphis has been purchased by these spinners, and has been transported up the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers to St. Louis, Cairo, and Cincinnati, thence taken by railroads and carried eastward into the States mentioned. These lines have been zigzag, and therefore long, tedious, and expensive. The great desideratum has been, and is, to carry the cotton on steamboats to some point on the Upper Mississippi River to a point about the latitude of Philadelphia and New York, there place it on a line of railway that runs, as the crow flies, to these cities. Thus we save distance, circuitousness, delay, and cost in the transportation of cotton from those who make to those who spin. The American Central line, leaving the Upper Mississippi at New Boston, thence by Fort Wayne, Pitts burg, Harrisburg, branches to Philadelphia and the city of New York by lines of nearly equal distances, supplies this great want. The Mississippi is at all times navigable except when impeded above the mouth of the Ohio with ice in the winter. The distance from Memphis to Now Boston is about 650 miles by the river. A line of steamboats could be organised to ply between Memphis and New Boston, touching at intermediate places, carrying bales of cotton already compressed for ocean shipment to be freighted over your road east ward, and these boats returning could carry coal, taken from the end of your road, the product of mines on your line to Memphis and intermediate places. In 1860 the receipts of cotton at Memphis were about 500,000 com mercial bales, and over one half was shipped up the Mis sissippi for interior consumption. This line of boats having a certain return cargo of coal, beside thei r coasting trade,could afford to carry cotton from Memphis to New Boston for $1 per bale, Each bale of 4001b5., by the use of improved presses, could be compressed into 40 cubic feet. Estimat ing the cubic contents of a car 50 feet long, 8 feet wide , and 10 feet high at 4,000 feet, we shall find it capable of holding 100 bales of cotton, weighing 20 American tons. If the car can support this weight, the capacity to hold is sufficient. The freight, at my latest advices from New York, for a bale of cotton from Memphis to the former city by either of the two lines now usually employed is lc. the pound, or $4 per bale. The routes are the one down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, thence by gulf and ocean ; the other by rail through Tennessee, Mississippi State, Alabama, and Virginia to Norfolk, thence by ocean to the city of New York. A third route, which is now a little more costly than either of the others, is up the Mississippi and Ohio, and thence by present railway facilities to New York. By your road the cost will be about as fol lows : —By boat to New Boston for each bale, $1; the hire of a car to carry .100 bales at $5O per day for two days (that being the time it would take to load and carry the load over your part of the line), $1; and for ono more day to destination, 50 cents, making total freight on a halo of cotton from Memphis to New York $2 59c., saving $1 50c. per bale. Now when you remember that the American cotton spinners consume each year over 1,000,000 bales of cotton, much of which, and more, is grown in this great delta, you can see in a moment a complete revolution in the transportion of cotton, as to lines and routes, from the producers of this great Mississippi Valley to these spinners of the States mentioned. The larger number of the spin neries aro situated many miles interior from the Atlantic seaports, so that the cotton going to them by ocean must after it roaches the seaports take river, canal, and rail, to reach its destination; whereas the cotton which goes up the Mississippi River, thence by your road, intended for these interior spinners, would not go to any seaport at all, but would roach its destination before getting to any seaport whatsoever. But as I have shown that your line will be the cheapest to the seaports of New York and Philadelphia, so I show that the cotton raised in the delta of the Mississippi, designed for ship ment abroad, would also seek your line. Let us suppose 1,000,000 bales of cotton produced in this delta to pass over your road to supply the domestic and foreign demand, this would give you -100,000,000 pounds or 200,000 Ameri can tons of freight, requiring 10,000 cars, carrying 20 tons each, to move it over your road. The distance from New Boston to New York is about 800 miles. Your freight for moving this quantity would be about $1,000,000. All the shipping points on the Mississippi River, even from New Orleans up, would contribute this freight. The principal points, however, would be Vicksburg, Napoleon, Helena, and Memphis. This groat delta, and an immense country adjacent to it, is destitute of miaoral coal deposits, so far as yet known. It now draws its supply of this mineral fuel from the coal fields of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois. I under stand that a superior article of bituminous coal underlies much of your road, and that valuable mines are now ready t 9 be worked are 000 n you can givo outlot to market. The boats carrying the cotton to New Boston could return loaded with coal for the use of the people in this delta and adjacent country. Large quantities of coal aro con sumed every year at Memphis and on and along the Mississippi River. I understand, likewise, that your coal could be mined and delivered on boats at New Boston for 82 50c. per ton. It would find a ready sale at Memphis for 86 per ton, leaving $3 50c. per ton to pay for transporta tion and profits to dealers. Thus you see how intimately blended ought the interests be of the two enterprises managed respectively by you and myself. Tho United States Cotton Company has its principal office in the city of New York, and its principal agency at Memphis. Its object is to stimulate and promote the cul tivation and increase of cotton by a judicious system of loans of money to resident cotton planters, at good rate of interest, secured by bowls and mortgages created by the planter on their unencumbered real estates ; employing the money in the production of cotton, and they to consign tho crops when ready for market to my co:np.uoy for transp,rtation and sale in the domestic and foreign markets. In this way we shall direct the transportation of cotton to such lines as we find best. Having perfected your financial plans, you can aid me by giving mo your influence in the sale of the bonds of my company for ten years, bearing 7 per cent. interest per annum, secured by a mortgage upon the real estates of the company. These bonds and the interest are payable in gold. The real estates consist of 6,000 acres of sea island cotton lands in South Carolina, about 500 acres beingcul tivated this year in Sea Island cottonl; and 10,000 acres in Georgia, on the line of the Maconand Brunswick Railroad. —Yours truly, R. V. RICHARDSON, Spirit of the American Press. (From the IVatton.) The Mexican paper Libertad has been attempting a justification of the Mexican dislike of foreigners, to which Escobedo has recently been giving such brutal expression, and alleges truly that foreigners have been the cause of a considerable portion of the Mexican troubles, owing to the attempts of their Governments to interfere on their behalf for the redress of their grievances of one sort or another. Now if the Libertad will consider a little, it will find that there is no such perfect guarantee against foreign interference, and against all troubles from the presence of foreigners, as good government, in cluding a good police, sensible legisiation, and a pure administration of justice. It is this, far more than physical strength—this, and not savage procla mations and decrees, plunderingsand slayings, which preserves weak states from the meddling of power ful neighbours. Poland fell because she had one of the worst Governments the world ever saw, and not because Russia and Prussia were greedy ; Turkey is for ever under the thumb of the foreigner because she has neither police nor courts of justice; but Switzerland and Holland, though weak states, and surrounded by powerful ones, have never to com plain of foreign meddling, or to propose to cut foreign throats. If Mexicans would put Escobedo to hard labour in macadamising roads, hang her brigands, collect her taxes, and establish tolerable courts of justice, we warrant there will be little talk anywhere of regenerating her from the outside. (From the Springfield Republicdn.) The general aspect of public affairs is not alto gether pleasant to contemplate. During the war the patriotic devotion of the people elevated the tone of politics, and led to the hope that they had been lifted permanently out of the slough of small part nership and personal self-seeking. But disappoint ment has fallen upon these hopes, and at this moment we seem to be in danger of sinking back into worse degradation than that from which the war lifted us. The contest between President and Congress is not wholly wanting in earnest convic tions as to principle and policy on either side, but the means and the spirit in which the controversy is waged shame the moral sense of the country. What more monstrous could be conceived than public charges against the President of the United States by members of Congress that he procured the assassination of his predecessor ; or the hurling back by the President of counter charges that these men have been trying to suborn false witnesses to fix the terrible crime upon him. And all this for party ends, and against the peace and honour of the Government and the country. The disgraceful violence connected with the close of the Surratt trial, and the spirit of partisanship so often seen cropping out in the trial itself, are smaller exhibi tions of the same degeneracy, which seems to mark everything at the national capital. Yet we must not despair of the Republic. In spite of all perversions and hindrances, the restoration of the national unity is assured, and with it eventually the freedom and equality of all citizens. The scum that always comes to the surface in troublous times will be thrown off and leave the body politic sounder and purer. The people are quiet, but they are not indifferent spec tators of events ; when their forbearance reaches its limit they will move with irresistible force, and sweep away at once the whole swarm of plotters, of whatever party, who would keep the country in perpetual turmoil in order to promote their petty ambitions or gratify their personal revenges. These are dog-days iu Washington politics—and the dirtiest dogs must have their day ; but the cool breezes of autumn will drive away the fog and fetor, and bring clean and invigorating air once more. Deep in the heart of the people there is a sound basis of honour and patriotism, and while that lives the Republic cannot die. SARA7OGA DURING THE RACE WEEK Saratoga has lately been unusually gay, as the racing week ended on the 10th instant. The sport was good, the prizes generally being closely con tested. Mr. Jerome's famous thorough-bred Fleet wing was advertised fur a three mile dash against any horses that might enter the lists for a purse of $l,OOO. None took up the challenge. Nor did Kentucky appear, as expected, to attempt his famous running match against time, of seven miles in seven minutes twenty seconds. The admission to seats on the stand is high, being from two to three dollars. Several grand balls have been given, and the season, although late, appears to have been a profitable one to hotel keepers and others. The correspondgnt of the Springfield Republican says :—" The Union Hotel has 700 guests, the Clarendon 400 or 500, and the American, Colum bian, Marvin, and one or two others, from 150 to 200 each. Among the notables here are Com modore Vanderbilt and August Celmont, Governor Swann of Maryland, ex-Mayor Opdyke of New York, with his family, A. B. Medina, secretary of the Peruvian legation at Washington; MM. Bassano and Brumdeth, attaches of the French legation, and Major Gen. Allen. Twoother military gentlemen are also here, whose presence is attended with less per sonal hazard than it might have been a year or two since, when their acts of rebellion were more recent, and treason less thoroughly abashed in the presence of victorious loyalty. They are General Magruder, who defeated Ben Butler at Big Bethel, the first battle of the war, and afterwards the hero of M'Clellan's Yorktown campaign, and General Tom Taylor, a staff officer in the early days of the rebellion. Both are men of good personal presence, more credit able than their reputations, but not that which con veys the idea of thorough manliness nor honest loyalty. Congressman John Morrissey is stopping at the Union House, and is a constant attendant at 'the races. He appeared to-day in an immaculate suit of white duck and flannel, with a generous amount of straw hat, looking altogether well worthy the questionable honour which he has lately secured from his constituents. Mr. Morrissey is a gentleman in his address and appearance, courteous and af fable, and popular in the extreme among his friends and fellow-townsmen at his native city of Troy. The reports of his appearance have not done him justice, and many better men, I am positive, have voted for worse -looking representatives. Webster and Murray are not standard authorities with Mr. Morrissey, but he does not lack words nor the method of their forcible expression without the rules of these venerable dogmatists." LADVERTISEMENT.j—IieIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— Good news! —Honours, wealth, or station may be desirable possessions, but they are not, like health, necessary to man's happiness. The former may be difficult of acquisition, the latter is always to be had at little cost, with moderate perseverance and fair attention to the directions wrapped round every pot and box of Holloway's remedies. With these in hand we may advance fearlessly through many dangers that beset us, and we m a y feel confident that when used early these preparations will restore those afflicted by disease to health, strength, and soundness. These noble medicaments will cure sores, bad legs, enlarged joints, and release the victim from the painful present and hopeless future. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. It is now impracticable to obtain any rate whatever for loans of money on Government securities, and largo sums that would willingly be placed out by capitalists at one per cent. aro lying idle. In the open market money is barely worth more than two per cent., and yet the same stagna tion continues to exist in almost every Stock Exchange security. The public have been so deceived during the last two or three years that the best names in the City command no longer any kind of confidence. Every week seems to add fresh grounds of distrust, as the half-yearly reports of many companies are far from giving that fa information that the times require. It is only by giving a very full account, so as to show the correct and exact position of affairs, that confidence can be restored. Th(" e c.ompanies which at their half-yearly meeting have bee n able to answer every inquiry, and give full explanations , are already held in greater estimation, and their shares are held at higher prices in the market, as they have been able to show better future prospects. On the other baud , no new company, however good, can be brought out with success at present. The public have seen enough of these limited liability companies, and they now know that the calls make the liability a very heavy risk and that those companies only which have called up all their capital r eally represent a limited liability. It is probable that a large amount of capital unemployed is at present held to me et liabilities which, perhaps, will never be called up. It W with the view of getting:over that difficulty that the Oven s Company, formed for working one of the Governmen t concessions in Nova Scotia, proposed that the shares shoul d be paid up in full on application. But in spite of the great richness of the ores said to exist in those mines, the public have not as yet subscribed the necessary capital, but it i 5 hoped that the company will soon be able to complete their subscriptions, so as to enable them to get the machinery into full operation. A recent assay of ores from the mines/ brought over in the Duncan, made by Messrs. Johnson and Sons, of Basinghall-street, shows the very extraor dinary yield of 242 ounces of gold, and 16 ounces of silver to the ton of quartz. Thi s i s no t th e on l y compan y, re cently formed, that has not been able to find its capital, although there exists so large an amount of unemployed money. The public, no doubt, feel that limited liability companies require rest as much as foreign loans or any other speculative investment, and until the list of most of the old companies stands again at par price it will be of little or no use to invite subscriptions, as the market is already too much burdened with shares which er a quoted under their intrinsic value. At the meeting of the Great Northern Railway Conr pany the shareholders expressed their feelings against anY further extensions or branch lines. A motion was pro posed by Mr. Hughes to the effect—" That no prelimina r y arrangement or negotiation be made on behalf of this co" pany for any amalgamation, extension, or guarantee, with out the previous consent of a meeting of the proprietors duly convened for that purpose ; and that no Bill in Pa r t liament be permitted on b e h a lf o f thi s company w ithou such consent." The chairman explained that it would be unwise to tie the hands of the directors, who, one an ci all, aro against extensions, and promised that everything should be done to abandon, as far as possible, even thosa lines authorized by Act of Parliament. This promise 105 accepted by the meeting, and the motion was lost by 5 show of hands, there being 31 to 13 against it. The mid i ; tors' new plan of p u bli s hi ng th e accoun t s was approved. It would be difficult to show better the exac t position of the company and the extent of its liabilities All railway companies would do well to adopt a simila r statement of accounts. It speaks much in favour of the auditors, and a cordial vote of thanks was given to thou , at the close of the meeting. The directors of the Great Western Railway Company t recommend a dividend for the six months ending the 31s of July last of 11 per cent. on the ordinary stock; of 55 i on the West Midland, O x f or d ; o f 10 s . ditt o N ew Tort ; °‘ 31 on the South Wales ordinary stock ; of 5 on the Vale w e Neath ; carrying forward, u p on a sum t o b e di v ided 01 £132,800, the sum of <£20,431 ; and they propose to P a l these dividends in debenture warrants of 6 per cent. The directors of the South-Eastern Railway Compa n y have resolved to reco mmen d th e propr i etors at t h e i r half-yearly meeting, on the 29th instant, to declare a Pl' dend at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum. The return of the Bank of England for the week ending the 21st of August, shows the stock of bullion to Ue £23,532,661, and the stock of bullion held by the 1310 1 ° France;is £37,350,000. The Southampton Dock Company have an available total of £10,062, including a previous balance of £ 1,136 and pay a dividend at the rate of 5 p er cen t. per ann um i for the half-year, leaving a balance of £1,054 for the u e ' account. The Markets for Stocks and Shares continue in a r - fluctuating condition ; little activity i s a pp aren t. A g °° , deal of interest attaches to the d e v e l o p men t o f the c oli ferences between the Emperor Napol eon an d the EmPerf t o of Austria at Salsburg, particularly with reg ard to t' i t position of Prussia and the state of affairs in the East, bd their influence has been unimportant from a want of al'" parent authority. There is no change in the price of 16 :: reign stocks. In railway shares the tendency is less verse.— Westminster Gazette. COUNTRY MARKETS. NORWICH—SATURDAY. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 64s to 70s ; red ai i n (weighing 631 b), 56s to 62s per qr. Flour, 46s Od to Vs" per sack. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. Old white wheat, 69s to 75s ; old red, 65s to 709 ;„ 13 : 0 , 4 white, 64s to 68s ; new red, 60s to 64s per 36 stone. old, 35s to 388; new, 26s to 31s per 24 stone. Beans. ' - ', ( 73 —s —s; new, 46s to 50 8 per 38 s t one . Fi ne flour, to 49s per sack. LEICESTER —SATURDAY. 4 011 New white wheat, 68s to 74 s ; now re d, 60 s t o 685; via white, 67s to 74s ; old red, 60 s t o GM per 36 stone. '''sgs ley, for malting, — s t o — s p er qr . ; gr i n di ng, 34s to 24 per 30 stone. Oats, old, 31s to 38s ; new, 28s to 34s Arno. stone. Beans, old, —s to —s ; new, 46s to 52s per 3 8 $ 1 " Fine flour, 53s ; seconds, 45 s to 48 s per 20 stone. ATURDAY White wheat, from YORK— 61s to S ns ; red,. GOs to G6s per 36 stone. Barley, for malting, 39s to 40s per qr. ; g rindiog 3tss to 40s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 26 s t o 28s per 24 stt : Beaus, new, 46s t o 48s p e r 38 s t one . M a lt, 66s to Flour, 49s to 50s per sack of 2801bs. Foreign Mail Packet Lim MAILS DUE. s . lustralia and New Zealand, via SouthampWn••••• -c- .1• 19 Ditto, via Marseilles .............. ... ..... ....Sept. 13. Ditto, via Panama .................• Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sept. 3 • Ditto, by French packet Cape Verde. by Brazil packet ...... Cape of Good Elope, Ascension. and St. Helena Sept. 27 . China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Se,t. 7. Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Sept. 3 tiibraltar, via Southampton India via Southampton Sept. 7. Ditto, via Marseil es Sept. 5 . Malta, Egypt, &.e.' Sept. 2 . Ditto, Marseilles Sept. 6 , Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. via Southampton. Sept. 1 9 • Ditt r, via Rambles Sept. 13 : Newfoundland Sept. 1 " Portugal dept. 3 • Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ... Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British packet Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) O •.•. • Ditto, by Canadian packet Sept v• West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriff SePt• 4. West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha sept. 3 mas) Cub i and Mexico ...SePt' 2 , 6* Bahamas, via New York Sep t ' Bermuda, via Halifax - Capt. Henry A. Gadsden, the popular cornin 396 " of the American steamship Arago, had the good fo rtu n on his last voyage from New York, to fall in with 5.1'4 rescue the officers and crew of the British ship Czar, WI! ' a was found in a sinking condition. Capt. Gadsden re coll 'a , several years since from the British Government & han some testimonial for similar services rendered to Br itis sailors in distress. Births. BUXTON—On the 30th ult., at Wadies, Waltham A the Lady Victoria Buxton, of a daughter. BAILEY On tho 28th ult., the wife of Sir J. B. Bart., M.P., of a son. SEYMOUR. —On tho 29th ult. at Brooklands, SouthaalPt°l3' the wife of Captain Culmo Seymour, R.N , of a son' Marriages. ho 6 ' CLARKS—SMITH—On the 29th ult., at Pickwell, Clarke, Esq., of Peatling 11411, Leicestershire, to nj t illf eldest daughter of A. Smith, Esq., of Leesthorp o near Melton Mowbray. Si I'ART—P ISTOCCIII— 0 u the 27th Jun e . a t Villa r to Some, Emmeline, Countess Dowager of Castle Stw lr dea• Signor Alessandro Pistocchi, only sou of the Ist° , Pistocchi, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, cte• Deaths. Davis—On the 29th ult., at Shrubland-6 ro ve, Ralsto n ' %V. Davis, Esq., aged 81. I,le 011 DANIELS—On the 29th ult., at N un h ea d, S u rrey, Ur' Daniels, of Nunhead and Highgate, aged 63. vhal33, LOWE—On the 30th ult., at St. George's-road, Jesse Lowe, age d 61. Geo. MAY —On the 28th ult., at Clachnabarry, Inverness, May, Esq., C.E., aged 62. child PAGET —On the 31st ult., Charles Agnes, young est c of Lord George Paget, aged 91 years. WARD—On 31st ult., at 18, Warwick-road, Maido.-bill' Mrs. Ward, aged 99. ---- - London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AII D , II , 1,1 2, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tii& Six Office, of Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, 0 Cowl' Alittcll9p9z.-11Quclay, September 2, 1867.