The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-27 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence. The preparations for the Abyssinian campaign are now fairly begun. Y esterday the departmen he ts in Woolwich Arsenal received i n structions from t W ar Department to occupy th e mselves in the arrangements for furnishing the expedn, which is to be despatche d from India with the slightest possible delay. The members of the Ordnance Select Committee continued their investigation of the pack saddles and mountain transport, already referred to in Ihe Son, and urged the necessity of carrying out the proposal of Capt. Fenn with all reasonable haste. A number of mules and bat animals, it is stated, are to be purchased at Malta and Gozo for the mountain service. A large amount of stores of every con ceivable kind necessary for the campaign, to be de- . spatched iu transit to Malta, will shortly be in readiness for shipment at "•Voolwieh, including 7- p Kinder riled guns, with complete equipment and stores, the efficiency and abundance of which the cauntry has reason to be well satisfied with. Col. Campbell, superintending the Royal gun factories at Woolwich, has, moreover, been instructed to pre pare two additional batteries of steel guns as ad juncts to the brass batteries in course of prepara tion on the approved system alluded to. The new batteries will fire the same species of projectiles — namely, a 71b. shot. The weight of each gun will not-exceed 1.501 b. Twelve carriages, also of steel, for their equipment, are to be made in the Royal Carriage Department at Woolwich, under the direc tion of Col. Clerk ; the weight of each carriage without wheels to be less than lcwt., and they will thug' be available for transport in the most rugged and difficult passes of the enemy's country. Capt. Gordon, superintendent of the Military Stores, was on Sunday in consultation with Sir John Paking ton and the various officials of the War Depart ment in Pall-mall, and was instructed to urge the matter forward without delay. The manufacture of the new batteries will occupy about six weeks, wit' it is a matter of doubt if their assistance will then be required. Col. Boxer, commanding the department of the Royal Laboratory, has given direction for the issue of case shot and a thorough supply of stores for their use when ready. The , expedition will ba under the chief command of Major-Gen.. Napier and Brigadier-Gen. Staveley. A Lamour was current yesterday at the Military Train" CaMP at Woolwich that the 17th troop, Capt. Corbett, 18th, Capt. Baby, the 19th, Capt. MiNeil, and the .20th, Capt. Bence, are to be held in readi ness for departure ; but as the whale of the troops will be supplied front India it is probable that the Military Train will be held in reserve only to com pose a relief for India. The officers under orders to accompany the troops are as lollows :—Major Buller, •in command ; Surg. WArthur, Lieut. Warner, Lieut. Warren, Ensigns Andross, Stow, and Newbury. The whole of the officers and sappers and miners of the Royal Engineers employed in the fieldwork depot at head-quarters, Chatham, have been en gaged for several weeks past in the formation of parallels, magazines, and stockades, and in the erec tion of batteries and other fieldworks preparatory to some siege operations on an unusually extensive scale, which are fixed to take place on Monday next, on which occasion there will be a review of the en tire force of the garrison. In addition to the regular troops it is intended that a large body of Volunteer corps shall take part in the operations, which, from the arrangements in progress, promise to be carried out on a scale of great magnitude. For some months past the whole extent of the lower lines at Chatham has been in possession of the Royal Engi neers, who have covered every portion of the ground at their disposal with trenches, batteries, saps, ma gazines, and other works which are carried down to the Medway, several hundred men, under the super vision of a numerous body of officers, having been daily employed in the field .vorks ever sin the wea ther would permit. The siegeoperations will be Nr s•mally directed by Sir Jo'ln F. Burgoyne, G.(1.13,, Inspector-General of Royal Engineers. The depot of the 22d Regiment, now stationed at Chatham, is shortly expected to proceed from that garrison to Newcastle, the route for the depar ture of the regiment being daily expected at Chatham from the Horse Guards. The Channel squadron, comprising the ironclad screw steamships Minotaur, flagship of Rear-Admi ral Frederick Warden, Capt. James Goodenough ; Bellerophon, Capt. Edward Tat ham ; Achilles, Capt. Edward Vansittart ; awl Lord Clyde, Captain Roderick Dew, C. 8., arrived in Portland harbour Saturday from the westward. The fleet are under orders to remain at the Portland rendezvous until the Lords of the Admiralty make their annual official inspection of her Majesty's ship stationed in Portland harbour, as well as the progress of the works connected with the fortifications in course of construction on the Verne heights, the breakwater, &c. Their Lordships are expected to arrive at Portland on Wednesday or Thursday next. The ironclad screw corvette Pallas, Capt. M. Connolly, joined the Channel squadron on Sunday at Portland. The uuarmoured screw steamer Trafalgar, 72, 2,900 tons, 500-horse power (nominal), late the flagship of thn Coastguard at Queen's Ferry, is ordered to be brought forward for the first division of the Steam Reserve in the Medway, in readiness for being recommissioned. It is stated at Chatham that she is intended for service in one of the ports of Ireland. The screw steam frigate Liverpool, 35, was placed, on Saturday, in Nu. 1 dock at Keyham. The screw steam frigate Phoebe, 35, Capt. John Bythesea, will probably leave Plymouth for Halifax on Saturday next. Iler Majesty's double-screw gunboat Plover, under a series of experimental trials, has again returned to Woolwich, and was yesterday docked to shift her two-bladed screw, to be replaced with a three bladed one, in readiness for another trial of speed. The trial just completed was to test the increase of speed caused by the fan having been reefed 2 feet forward, and which gave an additional speed of about one-tenth of her former trial. The increased speed was registered at 10.792 full speed and 9.486 half po - ver; and with the port engine stopped the speed was 8.261 knots per hour, which was very favourable. The Plover was commanded by Com. Dillon, of the Steam Reserve at Woolwich, and Mr. Steel and Mr. Crossland were in attendance from the Admiralty and tit.; Controller's Depart ments. She will be shortly commissioned, and is pronounced especially suitable fur China, the River Plate, or any shallow water service. This will be her first conudssion. Lieut. and. Adjt. John Straghan, Royal Marine Light Infantry, is appointed to be Second Captain at the Woolwich Division, vice Capt. Wilson, re tired full pay. Lieut. I'. A. Le Brcton is rai eel to increased pay, vice S . . ragliau. The fol:ov:ing appointmok has been male in the lloy al NaVal Reseive DJuglas, to he sub-lieut. The following appointments were tu.tde yester day at the Admiralty :—Staff Commander B. B. Stuart, Staff Cournander W. G. Aldrich, and Staff Commander J. Symons, to the Fisgard ; Lieut. C. B. Payne, to the Nelson ; Lieut. G. T. Morrell, to the Fisgard, - additional, for temporary service as Tr tnsport CY.l.:er at Deptford ; Lieut. Duke D. Yox,;., C.. 1. WiT.l, Lieut. Spene....r M. Med- W. F. llo.lghey, Li at. E. L. Green, Li t mt. F. W. to the Fisgartl, additional, fur temporary s:rvicc in transports ; Navigating Lioxs. J. E. Sz.ulamorc an IJ. F. Aylen, to the Fi:3glrd ; • S 1:,-1;eitt. C. E. S:ewart to the Ja3eur ; J. D. paymaster, to the Indus; E. Jago, paymaster, to the Nelson ; It. JohEson, assist.- paymaster in &largo, to the Oberon; and F. Ilynd man, assist.-paymaster, to the Victory. r ADVERTISEMENT.] —liolloway's Ointment and Pills aro the mo.:t Lippropiiato remedies for tho blotches, pimples, boils, • and carbuncles, which aro . annoyin;,r, sometimes dangerous, cud always 'disfiguring when summer heats alternate with wet wintry weather. The subtle permeat ing 'cowers of this ointment, by repressing inflammation and irritalon, reduce the skin to its aettr.:l temperature and colour, while radically expelling the cause of the blemishrs from the system. The pills assist the cooling and purifying infittnnce of the ointment, by dispelling all that is gross from the bowels, and by thoroughly rectify ing digestion under t his treatment evert' organ of th 3 body is fore,al to cast off both irregularities nod inpuritie?=, whereby the bealth becomes robust, the feelings joyoue, and the_skia soft and silky. THE AUSTRO-FRENCII ALLIANCE. The .Nerve Fremrlen Blatt, a semi-official organ of the Chancellor of the Empire, Baron Von Beust, publishes the following remarkable leader : We think that there is no need of a Russo-Prus sian alliance to incite an accord between France and Austria. The cause of that accord is of a date more recent ; it dates from the treaty of Prague, which, it is true, is a mere convention concluded between Austria and Prussia, but the tenor of which is of an importance eminently European. The peace of Prague has created in the very centre of Europe a power unknown there since the great Emperors of Germany. It is true that, till now, it has been contended that a great and powerful State in the middle of Europe:was neces sary to maintain peace on the Continent ; but, in that case, it would be desirable that such a State shoull be animated with pacific ideas. Such event would have occurred had Germany succeeded in recovering her ancient grandeur; for Germany is an empire of civilization and progress—an empire of peace. Issteaci of a united Germany, there rose a great and powerful Prussia, which has thus be come a new danger for the peace of Europe. It is a fact that the Hohenzollerns must be logically aggressive, because a pause from Prussia would amount to a backward step. After Frederick the Great, that pause brought on Jena; the pause of the Holy Alliance brought on Olmutz. Prussia must be active ; in other words, she must aim at con quests and never cease to disquiet Europe. Un fortunately, close to her are numerous morsels, such as to excite her appetite. Germany is at the present time under the yoke of Prussia ; mili tarily speaking, Prussia is a great power. It is of and join with them, in the interest of France. ' According to our correspondents, the Austrian statesmen, of whom they are, in a kind manner, the interpreters, start from this point—that the Treaty of Prague has not definitively settled all the questions to which war gave rise, and that in many respects the situation of Germany has remained provisionary ; this is so true that that situation has been greatly modified since the sign ' ing of the treaty, and especially by the arrange ments entered into by Prussia and the four Southern states. But Prussia has not finished, and she fol lows without delay the execution of her designs. She has already obtained such an influence over Ilea 3-Darmstadt that one might almost say that Mayence is in her power. She is not the less powerful in the Grand Duchy of Baden, for at any moment she may be mistress of Rastadt. But Prussia, since last year, has rather lost than gained in the Kingdoms of Bavaria and Wurtemburg. In those countries a strong repugnance is felt for the military institutions of Prussia, and even for her civil and political institutions—liberal in appear ance but very harsh and very absolute in reality. The Prussians, moreover, have manners which repel rather than attract. There is, therefore, among the people of Bavaria and Wurtenaburg a great dislike for Prussia. Now, at the same time as the populations of Bavaria and Wurtemburg separate themselves from Prussia, they draw closer to Austria, in such a manner that Austria has gained what Prussia has lost, independent of the affinities which exist between the populations of those two kingdoms and Austria. The question being thus stated, its theoretical solution is very simple, according to the opinion of Austrian statesmen. The Southern states should form an association and unite with Austria as a confedera tion, distinct and separate from the North German Confederation, with which, however, it could form a close alliance. Thus Germany would be united as thoroughly as she can be without giving um brage to her neighbours, and the rights of all would be respected; Prussia with the North and Austria with the South German Confederation would be two great European Powers quite independent from each other, quite free in their , action, and between which there would no longer be any pretext for antagonism. paramount necessity to circumscribe that power, and the end must be reached by means of the treaty of Prague. What Pr - ussia took from the Austrians at lioniggratz, and what France had granted to her previously, has been in Germany limited by the Maine. Bat what neither France nor Austria did ever acquiesce in is that Prussia should plant her foot in Southern Germany. Already she bas twice tried to do so. Firstly, by her treaties of offensive and defensive alliances; secondly, by the Zollverein convention. Austria could, with reason, find in these a violation of the treaty of Prague, because in both circumstances Prussia used her preponderance, and compelled the southern states to accept her proposals. But enough of concessions. As soon as Prussia puts forward for the third time exigencies that would destroy the independence of the southern states of Germany, Austria and France ought to oppose Prussia. To- day they openly ask in Prussia why France should interfere with the treaty of Prague ? Such a question is sheer nonsense, and it is also a denegation of the truth, both precon certed and bold. Let us ignore that at Nikolsburg M. Benedetti was always between Count Bismarck and Count Mensdorff. But would it not be a shameful thing ' to forget that France by her attitude greatly helped Prussia to go on with the war of 1866? Has not the Prussian Prime Minister been at Biarritz—did he not offer Luxemburg to France as the price of her benevolent neutrality ? Had not France shown herself disposed to such an ar rangement—had she informed Italy that she was opposed to her conquering Venetia through Prussia—had France placed a corps of observa tion at Life or at Besancon —would Prussia have been able, even with her needle guns and her in tellectual strength, which we gladly admit, to send a single man to the frontiers of Bohemia ? The arrare pensee of a Prusso-Russian alliance had not yet dawned at that time. Russia was not ready, and the pacification of Poland—we mean her crushing—was not in the advanced state that it is now. And, also, the Prussian army did not possess then that assurance and that confidence in its own strength that it entertains now. Prussia would have deemed herself happy if she had been able to acquire the Elbe Duchies for a portion of the county of Glatz, and for a large sum of money. The Sovereigns of Hanover, of Hesse, and of Nas- sau would sit still on their thrones. It is France which has accomplished the greatness of Prussia. And the Emperor Napoleon should not be entitled to interfere with what is going on in Germany ! Is it, perhaps, because he did not paraph any pact with Count Bismarck at Biarritz? No. We can reckon on the association of the principal Prus sian organs, if we recognize the right of France to interfere in what is going on on her frontiers. We are edified enough.about that continual bavardage of inimity from France to Germany. It was the same in old times ; but we do not know yet to day if we must prefer Prussian hegemony to the Emperor Napoleon's protection upon the Rhenish Confederation. But one thing is certain—Austria and France, the most interested neighbours, are compelled to keep a careful watch, since not Ger many, but Prussia, has acquired so much power Ai the centre of Europe. A wider development of Prussia would give them the right to oppose that country in common. This would not be an alli ance against Germany, but one against Prussia. So far the Viennese journal. The Journal des Debats of Saturday had a still more striking decla ration as to the intentions of Russia and Prussia. Here are the salient points of the Debats article:— The news received at Vienna from Berlin is not at all satisfactory, and in no way pacific. It is believed that the Prussian Government is continu ing its war preparations, under the pretext that the other Powers have set the example. The Prussians say that it is necessary they should fortify them selves against certain dangers with which they say they are menaced. It is the same tactics which Prussia employed against Austria last year, with what success is well known. The report has spread in Vienna that the Prussians are placing cannons on the ramparts of Cologne, and are also actively at work on the fortifications of Mayence, which they desire completed. Certain things, it is said, have been pronounced by General Moltke, the importance of which is probably exaggerated. The general having been invited to give his opinion on the new organization of the French army, such as will result from the Bill presented to the Corps Legisiatif, and which will be discussed next winter, replied, " The French army, no matter what is done, will always be inferior in number to the Prussian army, in consequence of our landwehr institution. The battalions of infantry of the landwehr can, whenever we like, supply us with MAO men to reinforce our permanent army." Russia, also, is not in good grace ; the under standing between the Cabinets of Vienna and St. Petersburg is singularly cool. Not only does the Cabinet of Vienna not forget the tolerance which the Russian Government extended to the Sclavonian meetings at Moscow, where Austria was publicly attacked with great violence, but it reproaches the • Cabinet of St. Petersburg for its incessant propaganda in the provinces of Turkey, and even in Galicia. That propaganda is being pushed with prodigious activity, and it is impos sible to deny its results. At the same time Russia is reorganizing and completing her army. It is stated at Vienna that Russia is at the present moment concentrating considerable bodies of troops on the frontiers of Austria. The Danubian principalities have refallen into the sante state of agitation and disorder as at the commencement of last year, and this disorder is attributed to Russian influence. It is expected that another revolution will shortly take place, when Prince Charles will be dismissed. "It is all these things," we are told, " which give great importance to the meeting of the two Emperors. The statesmen of A'istria have, therefore, made on this meeting their programme, which is only based on conjectures, no doubt, but those conjectures are founded on a state of things so true, on a situation so pressing, that they acquire great probability. We have said that it did not seem possible that the two Emperors should separate without speaking of the affairs of Mexico and the Eastern question. we may add that it neither seems possible that th ey can . dispense with exchangin g th e i r v i ews on the affairs of Germany, and we will endeavour to explain the opinions entertained on this important subject by those statesmen interested in this que3tiya. We shall, at the anmc time, say how these statesmen persuade themselves that the Emperor Napoleon ought to approve of their views, Til E SUN, LON DOY. TUESIJAY EV ENING AUGUST 27, 1.867.;1 Miscellaneous Foreign. News. Secretary M'Culloch, on the 7th instant, pub lished a statement of the Public Debt of the United States, as it appeared on his books on the Ist August, 1867, of which the following is the abstract : c. Debt bearing gold interest ... 1,678,906,691 80 Debt bearing paper interest ... 574,964,855 0 Debt on which interest has ceased 15,636,815 87 Debt without interest ... 417,177,533 72 Total debt, August 1 2,686,685,896 39 papers are filled with stories of Indian outrages and depredations. In Louisiana 42,662 whites and 79,129 blacks have registered, which gives the blacks the control of that State. In Alabama the whole number re- gistcred is 112,400, of whom 65,700 are blacks, giving the majority also in that State to the negroes. At Savannah, Georgia, the white voters registered number 2,269, and the blacks 3,062. Registration is to commence at once in South Caro lina, the post commanders acting as superintendents. General Iloward, chief of the Freedmen's bureau, has been named for the Presidency, and it is sup- posed that he will have a strong negro backing. Great complaints have been made in Tennessee that negro labourers who voted the Republican ticket have been dischargel by their Conservative employers. An additional burden has thus been thrown on the Freedmen's bureau to find eniployment for these destitute labourers. Thaddeus Stevens has written :o state that at the next se:siou of Congress he will ,ntroduce a bill to confiscate the property of Southern employers who have dismissed freedmen for voting for Republican candidates. Coolies have been imported into the Southern States, three or four cargoes having arrived from Havanna, and been placed on plantations in Louisiana. The At torney-General is preparing instructions for the United States District attorneys on this subject, the nature of which are as yet unknown. At West Point a board, composed of army officers, has lately been sitting to consider General Emory Upton's new system of infantry tactics. The United States' troops, both regulars and volunteers, have hitherto been drilled on Hardy and Casey's system. General Upton's combines infantry and cavalry tactics, giving greater facility and rapidity to movement, with extreme simplicity. The method which the West Point board is expected to adopt makes of four men the unit upon which company's movements are formed. The rear rank are correspondingly numbered. Each group of eight men moves and acts together as a separate section. When on the march the column is in fours, and the line is formed by wheeling the fours, right or left. The old division into platoons and sections is abandoned, and only those evolutions re tained whose value has been tested by actual service. We confess that we do not understand the value of the new system of tactics, from the few remarks we have seen, basing movements on this unit of fours rank and file. If the column be on the march in their sections of fours, right in front, and line is formed by wheeling the fours to the right, it follows that the line and companies are inverted, as we are informed that the fours arc told off from right to left. How is this remedied ? How is the front in- creased ? Some years ago the unit of British in fantry was threes a radically bad system. For simplicity there is no formation equal to fours, formed as in the British army. After General Up ton's experience it is scarcely probable that he woull propose other than a highly practical system, and if he did a board of competent officers would not approve it. It is calculated that a line of a a single rank, armed with breechloaders, would be more destructive in its fire than the double line with muzzle-loaders, and the new system gives great facilities for forming rank entire. The bat talion, brigade, and division drill and discipline are said to be brief, concise, and intelligent. Many improvements are also said to be introduced into skirmish drill. The correspondent of the Times remarks on these f ig ures that there " has been no public debt state ment since the Ist of June, and during two months since that statement the debt has been reduced the stnall amount of $354,623. On the Ist of January last the debt amounted to $2,675,062,505 43c., so that during the seven months of 1867 that have passed by it has been increased $11,623,391." We ' cannot understand what the object of this gentle man can ba in misrepresenting so systematically the financial condition of the United States. It is manifestly unfair to calculate the receipts and ex penditure, the total debt, without bringing into the account the amount in the Treasury on the date of the statement. He omits to say that the Secretary of the Treasury ceased for some months to redeem the superfluous paper currency, and that the balance in the Treasury had accumulated to the unpre cedented sum of $102,905,174 in gold, and $72,474,296 in currency, making a total of $175,379,470, being nearly thirty-three millions in excess of the sum given in the return of the Ist February, that is just six months before. Thus the correspondent omits from his calculation the trifle of six millions sterling in hard cash in Uncle Sam's coffers, which he has allowed to accumulate instead of paying away. The cur rency debt has been reduced during the year $5 4 3,063,741. The net reduction of the Public Debt during the sixty days that preceded this statement was $1,309,000, and during the year. ending August Ist $121,792,850, taking into account the increase in the Treasury balanca of $35,007,357. The Times' correspondent; in esti mating his own resources, would not overlook his balance with his banker. But this is preci.,ely what 1 he does when estimating the financial position of the United States. The split in the Cabinet at 'Washington is now explained. Mr. Stanton, it was known, has all along opposed the policy of the President, fully identifying himself with the Republican majority in Congress. Several reasons combined to induce Mr. Johnson, when fairly relieved from the presence of Congress, to force Mr. Stanton to resign his office. He wrote to the Secretary, stating that considera tions of a high character constrained him to ask that gentleman to withdraw from the. Cabinet, to which Mr. Stanton replied that public considerations of a high character constrained him to hold his office till the next meeting of Congress. The President appears to have submitted to the Attorney-General the ques tion whether he had a right under the law regulat ing the tenure of office to remove the Secretary of War. The Attorney-General considered that lam to apply only to persons appointed to office by Mr. Johnson ; and as Mr. Stanton was not among the number, the President retained the power of re moving him. Mr. Johnson addressed his com munications to Colonel Townsend the Assistant Adjutant-General, and Mr. Stanton refrained from attending the Cabinet meetings. The Cabinet held the right of the President to remove the Secretary, though two of the number considered it would be injudicious to exercise it. Both General Grant and Chief Justice Chase appealed to the President to forego his intention, but in vain. Mr. Johnson has taken the step, and it now remains to be seen whether Congress will reas - emble as threatened for the express purpose of impeaching the President. General Grant has been appointed to the vaeait post, to act till the Senate meets. The Indian Commission, consisting of Colonel Taylor, .Senator Henderson, Colonel Tappan of Colorado, M. Sanborn of Minnesota, and Generals Sherman, Hancock, and Terry, met at St. Louis on Tuesday, the 6th inst., and elected Colonel N. G. Taylor Commissioner of Indian Affairs, president; and A. S. 11. White, of the Indian Bureau, secre tary. They agreed that General Sherman and Col. Taylor should communicate with the officers and agents under their control, despatching runners to the Indians in:the vicinity of their localities, asking a meeting at Fort Laramie, at full-moon, in Sep tember, to be followed by a general assembly at Fort Larnel of all tribe 3 south of the river 'Platte at full-moon in October. The board a :journed, to meet at Leavenworth, Kansas, on the following Monday, and then to proceed to Omaha, ascending the Missouri river to its highest accessible point to confer with the Indians, and examine the lands for a Northern reservation. General Sherman, although totally disbelieving in any satisfactory re sult, has oi yen the following instructions to the troops: r —"Do not invade the country south of the Arkansas river, except in pursuit of parties guilty of hostile acts. I want the deliberations of this Commission to be as little disturbed by acts of our troops as pos sible, so that this effort to settle the Indian question peaceably, may have a fair chance for success." While the peace commission was sitting Spotted Tail, with a party of savages, struck the Union Pacific Railroad at Plum Creek, 223 miles west of Omaha. There he heaped tics upon the line, then the party concealed themselves till a train rushed on the ob struction, when the driver, a fireman, two break men, and three telegraph operators were killed. The savages at once rushed on the disabled train, killing and mutilating seven persons ;--the wreck was set on fire and the bodies consumed. Two days after, Spotted ail murdered three other men along the line. The Indians made a daring dash on the Smoky Hill route line, killing seven labourers sic miles from Fort Harker, Kansas, running off 20 horses and mules at the Big Creek stage-station, although exposed in broad daylight to the fire of 50 infantry and a dozen employe? not 300 yards away. Indeed the war has become general, and Western news- Tin mines have been discovered in Madison county, Missouri, near the famous Pilot Knob. A company has been formed, who have opened a lode and extracted some small parcels of ore. The tin crops out from the hill side, giving every facility for working, and the metal yields from 4 to 15 per cent. A reward of $lO,OOO was long ago offered for the discovery of a tin mine, and it is believed that the United States will derive great advantage if the mine proves as rich as anticipated. Professor Nathan H. Parker has reported on this discovery, and Professor Beauregard has furnished an analysis, of which the result is as follows : " Having pulverised one pound five and a half ounces of ore (tin stone), gathered from the surface of the lode, and selected from different places, I united with this ore four ounces of two chemical agents necessary to facilitate the idisagregation' of the mineral from the granite and other foreign matters. After having composed this mass to a white heat for two hours, in a German sand-pot, I obtained the following result : " 11 grains of pure white tin. "17 grains of pure black tin. " If we take into consideration the difficulty aris ing when extracting a metal so oxidable, and the loss of which is not less than 20 per cent. from using a new pot (or crucible), the re su lt s o f t h e assa y are cer t a inly very satisfactory." The Iron Age saya that the importance of the as the one m i nera l i n w hi c h the dis covery is much greater than it s mone y va l u e would States was hitherto defi c i en t. F or the fiscal indicate, as being year ending June, 1866, England received in gold for tin plates $6,097,609, and for blocks, pigs, or bars of tin for the same period, $1,993,361. The steam yacht Quaker City arrived at Con stantinople from Italy, with 66 American ex cursionists, on Saturday last. On Wednesday, 31st July, the monitor Onon daga left New York for France, having been sold to the French Government. When outside Sandy Hook she encountered a gale of wind and was com pelled to return in distress. She was built by Mr. Rowland, the iron plates being fixed on the hull w ithout the usual backing of wood. Two large centrifugal pumps were placed on board, supposed to be able to pump her clear of water in an hour, even if full. For some reason or other they did not act as anticipated, and as water gained rapidly, for a short time she was in danger. The Dunderberg made a trial trip on Friday, Aug. 9, in charge of a French crew, with Admirals Paris and Raynaud on board. There was a little delay in consequence of the ignorance of the French firemen in Using an thracite coal, but when the fires had been kindled the performances of the Ship gave great satisfaction. Last Saturday she was taken i n t o th e basin at Cherbourg, where there is no dock sufficiently large to receive her without alteration. Her exact di mensions are as follows:—Extrem:3length, 380.0 ft. ; extreme beam, 72.10 ft. ; depth of main hold, 27.07 ft.; height of casemate, 7.09 ft. ; length of ram, 50.00 ; draught when ready for sea, 21.00 ; displace ment, 7,000.00; tonnage, 5,090.00 ; weight of iron armour, I,ooolb. Mr. Webb, it is said, has cleared $700,000 by thus safely delivering her to France. The barritie Plato, with the Fenian expedition on beard, returned to New York on the 28th July, and .gave the following account of the cruise. On the 27th of April last this vessel, of 500 tons register, with 350 picked and well-armed men, left America to liberate Ireland. She was spoken off Newfoundland by a British man-of-war, when she displayed American colours. On the 23d May, having received a supply of fresh water and provisions from the Isleasi..Torry; she proceeded to the Kinsale Head, where she was informed a man of-war was cruising. On learning this she put to sea, where she remained several days before run ning into Bantry Bay. After communicating with the shore, they leit the Bay and landed a party on the 6th June, who were captured at Wexford. On the 9th, at Antrim Bay, they received an account of the Wexford affair. A descent upon Antrim was then discussed, from which their friends on shore dissuaded them. After remaining some time at Antrim they proceeded to Belfast Lough, where several consultations were held with Fenians on shore as to their chanus on heading an insurrection. On all sides they appear to have been strongly ad vised r.ot to attempt it ; therefore, after cruising for a few days more on the coast, they returned to the United States. They state that they communicated freely with their friends in Ireland . by means of signal rockets. A curious case has arisen under the Reconstruction Act. General Sickles issued an order forbidding judges in his districts to entertain suits for matters which had occurred from the 19th December, 1860, to 15th May, 1865. Lieut.-Colonel Frank, command ing the post of Wilmington, interpreted t his order to extend to the decisions lately made by Chief Justice Chase in North Carolina. United States Marshal Goodloe, of North Carolina, reported to Attorney- General Stanberry that the process o!'.! the United States Circuit Court, shortly since held by the Chief Just ice. at Raleigh, was obstructed by the Colonel's order on the plea that the cases decided were within the period designated. The Marshal states that mony then closed with the examination of four witnesses he has suspended action till he hears from General in surrebuttal. The per diem of the jurors at this time Sickles, or receives instructions from Washington, amounts to $1,381. Tho jurors are allowed $2 per day. Four being anxious to avoid collision with the military ofthoniwore es h w e Government in 59 days ago, and others bl tw e fo for tale authorities in the performance of his duty. By the afterward. T hotel bill of the jury , and it is ss also not known onsi yet wh . at it letter of the Act it is believed that General Sickles amounts to. From the latest accounts of Deputy Marshal has the power, though Congress never intended Phillips it appears that the amount actually paid to wit that such power should be exercised against the flosses up to this time is $11,963 51c. The fees allowed Supreme Court. It is hoped that General Sickles are $1 25c. per day, and Sc. ea c h wa y f or ever y m il e tra will disallow the act of his subordinate. veiled. The largest amount paid to any one witness was to St. Marie, who received $668 15c. for 113 days' attend- The Treasurer of New Orleans dismissed by anee, and 4,894 miles travelled. The cour t a l so or d ere d General Sheridan was Joseph Hernandez. Tho that the witnesses for the defence should be paid, and of General continuing his course on the Bth instant, these Stephen F. Cameron received $137 95c. for 61 days' dismissed Edward Dougherty, Judge of the Twelfth attendance, and 617 miles travelled. General E. G. Lee Judicial District of Texas, for denying the supre- received $230 35c. for 61 days' att en d ance an d 1,541 m il es macy of the laws of Congress, an I openly de- travelled. New York Times, August D. nouncing the Government of the United States. E I ward Bass was appointed his successor. He also removed Thomas E. Adams, chief of the New Orleans police, at the request of Mayor lleath, who was succeeded by J. J. Williamson, ex-chief of police. But the cup of Sheridan's misdoings, in the eyes of the President, was now full. He had bowled over the States' officers of his district like nine-pins, but a mightier hand was now in the act of bowling over himself. In spite of the strong advice of General Grant, the President removed General Sheridan, and appointed General Thomas his successor. FRENCH INTERFERENCE AT ROME. A good deal of strong languzge was expended in Italy last week about an alleged breach of the convention by the French Government, which, it was said, had sent General Dumont to Rome to review the Antibes Legion and harangue them about their desertions. The fact was denied offi cially on the part of France. This week a new grievance has been discovered in the shape of a written document. The Gazette de France publishes the following letter, from Marshal Niel to the Commander of the Legion, Colonel D'Argy : " Paris Jun 21, e 1867. A shocking account is given in the New York. limes of the execution of General Santiago Vidaurri at Mexico from a correspondent who was an eye-witness. Admiral Tegethoff bad passed through Washington on his way to New Orleans, where the Austrian frigate Elizabeth awaits his arrival, whence he will proceed to Vera Cruz to receive Maximilian's body, which has been delivered to the Prussian Minister. Santa Anna had been sent to Vera Cruz for trial., Official advices received in Paris by mail from Mexico to the 20th July confirm the telegraphic intelligence published by the Moniteur of the 11th inst. respecting the position of the French Minister, and the probability of his speedy departure. The Austrian Charge d'Affaires has left for the coast, inten4ing to return by way of Tampico. The Belgian and Italian representatives remained in the capital. Juarez entered the city of Mexico on the 15th July, and officially issued a proclamation to the inhabitants, which was couched in moderate language. No important arrest had been effected since the execution of Vidaurri. A report is going the round of the papers that Juarez refused to pay Lopez the 3,000 ounces of gold for which he had sold Maximilian and Queretaro, ob serving, " We must never encourage traitors." Lopez will be the heavy villain of many a story, and active brains are no doubt at work painting the traitor in strange form and unenticing colours. The little scene with his wife emanates, we suppose, from a hand skilful in drawing on imagination. - A new kind of fire-proof is described by the Idaho World as follows :—While at Centreville, the other day, we were shown a novel kind of fire-proof above ground collar, belonging to and in the roar of the store of Duke and Co. Tho inner walls are of wood—ordinary plank. Against these upon the outside are the novel and perfectly fire-proof walls, made of mere dry earth mixed with molasses, with short cut fibres of old rope, to serve as hair in plastering, included in the mixture. When prepared, this strange plaster ing is spread on the boards, with a heavy plank to retain the mixture in the place intended, and then a big maul is brought to play upon the plank to boat the mix ture solidly in. This is the process, and it is repeated, layer upon layer, and width upon width, until the whole mass is two feet thick and entirely envelopes the building. A roof of the same materkl, put on the same way, is added, and the building or collar is com pleted. The cellar of Duke and Co. has boon finished only a few days, and y 4 this covering of dry earth, molasses and hempen fibre' is so hard that a nail cannot bo driven into it, and it is impervious to either fire or water. It is an invention of Mr. J. B. Duke's, and though a good many laughed at him, and tried to ebnvince him, while he was putting on the queer mixture that it would boa signal failure, all now admit that his head was soundest on that, and all agree that it is a model fire-proof cellar he has made. " My Dear Colonel,—My attention has been too seriously fixed on the Roman Legion to allow me to ignore the grave events which have taken place for some time past. How can the desertion, no longer individual but collective, which threatens to reduce your effective to nothing—how can it be. explained ? The soldier has nothing to envy in the condition of the troops of the mother country. He is commanded by French officers, having a respectable standing in our army ; he serves a respectable cause, which he asked to serve ; he has before him what has always animated the French soldier—an enemy to fight with, a danger to con front; and yet he shamefully deserts the flag he freely chose, and abandons his chiefs, to follow foreign reprobates, who try to seduce the soldi e from his duty. "The desire to return to his country is not an excuse, for he well knows that as soon as he re enters France he will be sent in a disciplinary corps to Africa, where he will remain till he has served his time. I deplore this state of things, my dear colonel, because it is a stain on our army which, wherever it is represented, ought to conserve its prestige for honour and courageous self-denial. But, notwithstanding such sad incidents, I do not despair of seeing the good qualities which your Legion possesses wipe away by devotion and per severance the remembrance of the past few months. " Your energy, my dear colonel, is well known to me • the Government of the Emperor and that of the Holy Father know that it will not be found wanting. It is necessary that your officers, on whom you so justly rely, impart confidence to the troops by their attitude, by their words, and by that military spirit which, in France, has been the source of such great things. I shall be glad to signalize to the Emperor all whose conduct is meri torious, whether among the officers or the privates. I know thatyou are about to present to me Sergeant Doussain and two of his men, and it will be with great interest that I shall examine them. " Tell your legion, my dear colonel, that our eyes are upon them, and that I am deeply pained at any injury to its flag, which is so justly vene rated ; I place the legion on the same footing as other corps of our [army in all that concerns its military honour and the necessities of its organiza tion.—Receive, my dear colonel, the assurance, &c., NIEL." It is only necessary to remark that if the Italians be sincere in their desire to carry out the conven tion, they cannot wish the Antibes Legion to desert; they cannot be jealous of the interest which French officers of rank feel in the efficiency and good conduct of that volunteer corps of French soldiers who have to support not only the throne of the Holy Father, but the honour and credit of the French military character. 'We cannot affect to doubt that the Italian Government is sincerely desirous to ward off any Garibaldian attack from Rome. Overwhelming reasons of policy, involving considerations of no less moment than the existence of the Italian Kingdom itself, compel thcmto pro tect the Pope from without. We suspect; how ever, an arrire pensiv; a secret hope that some internal uprising which the Pontifical forces may be unable to cope with, will open the door to an Italian occupation of the city and adjoining coun try. It is a delusive hope. Not only has Gari baldi's star long ago paled, but all accounts agree to assure us that the Pope's Government is per fectly able to keep order in his own dominions, if only he be guaranteed against invasion from abroad. He will be aided by his own subjects. There are, in fact, no malcontents in Rome. How should there be, when Rome alone is prosperous, and is the one oasis in the dismal swamp into which all Italy is sinking deeper and deeper ; in plain English, the slough of despond, of irretriev able ruin, national bankruptcy, and social insol vency ! The Romans know when they are well off. The late assemblage of bishops and other foreign ecclesiastics brought above a million ster ling in hard cash into the city. And in a few months there will be the General Council. The following letter from Rome, in the Debats, is worth all the more as evidence, because the writer is evidently no friend to the Pontifical Go vernment. He says :—" I believed for an instant that an invasion of the Pontifical territory was imminent, that a rising of the Romans would take place, and a serious attack upon the temporal go vernment would be made. Wbat I see and hear confirms me in the opinion that the moment for great events is not yet come. That does not mean that the Romans have become less hostile to the domination of the clergy, that they are less desir ous to escape from it and to proclaim themselves Italian citizens ; but it does mean that they do not judge circumstances to be favourable, and violent means aro not much to their taste. The fact can not be dissimulated that the prestige of Garibaldi has greatly diminished, and that his popularity is on the wane. Happy would it be for Italy if the hero of Caprera could be persuaded of that truth. His intemperate language and his incessant dia tribes against the government of 'bin country, against the parliament of which he forms part, against the army which has preserved him from more than one check, have alienated from him the sympathy of many. People are at length convinced that he is a man of action, enterprising, audacious, always ready for an attack, but incapable of direct ing a party, of ripening a project, and executing it with prudence. His transports are disapproved, his temerities dreaded, association in his enterprises refused. Such is the general opinion of the Ro mans of a man they have not ceased to admire, but to whom they are not willing to confide their faith. The sentiment which dominates here is absolute confidence in the policy of Victor Em manuel and his Government, and a blind submis sion to the orders or instructions from the Cabinet of Florence. What formed the strength of the former national committee was that the source whence it drew its inspirations was known ; if the new junta attempts to depart from that line of conduct it will expose itself to finding a greater number of dissidents." So, if the Romans wait for Victor Emmanuel, and his Italian Majesty, in his turn, wait for the Romans, it may be long enough before the " party of action" work their will on Rome.— Westminster Gazette. [ADVERTISENIENTj—Dyspepsia (Indigestion) Constipation, De bility, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and liver complaints in every stage, are only aggravated anti accelerated by dins of every description, but perfectly curable by Du Barry's health-restoring ReValent.4 Arablea Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, such as—cough, asthma, also diarrho3a, hreaurrholds, liver com plaints, tlatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, core throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head anti care, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, in itability, sleeplessnees, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, head ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sielcucse, even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking tits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders, &e. We quote a few :—The Pope's health restored 11 Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 63,113, —"Romp, July 21, 1866.—rhe health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially sicce, abandoning all other remedies, lie has ccntlned himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he Consumes a plateful at every meal, It has produced a sur prisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, timber merchant, of Fernley Surrey, of hilts years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partla deafness. Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable agony from dispepsia, nervousness, :stlainne cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and vomiting.—Maria July.' Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liehig's name is most audaciously attached.— In tins at ls. l e ld.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. '2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., Ils. 12 1b5.,.225.; 21 lbs., 405.—BAnny Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Aegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, and! 89, 0119 r d -street; 830 Strand; anti all grocers and chemists, The yacht Vesta, which Lorillard, of New York, entered fur the great ocean race, has been purchased by Richard Baker, jun., of Boston. _ _ A self-propelling steam fire engine has been corn ple`ed in Manchester, New Hampshire, and made a suc cessful trip through the streets. The Worcester machinists, IVood, Light, and Co., are making six profile or edging machines, used in the manufacture of gun-locks, for tho Russian Govorement. They will cost $3,000, and are to be finished in November. HITTING ONE'S BEST FRlEND.—Operatives strik ing work. --The Free Lance. John Weson, a shiftless fellow, living at Boston Corners, had the good luck to find a box containing $5,000 in Spanish dollars, while picking berries in the woods the other day. A paper with illegible writing on it was found in the box, but there was no clue as to when or by whom the deposit was made. VEGETABLE HAlR.—Californian papers state that there is now dug out of the mountains of the Sierra Nevada Range a better material for beds than has boon hitherto available in the markets of the world. It is the soap root, which grows in unlimited quantities in that region. It is a bulbous root, enveloped in a very tough and supple fibre, resembling somewhat the husk of cocoa nut in colour and appearance,. but nearly as tough as whalebone. The roots are dug chiefly by Chinamen, bound in bundles of 1001 b each, and brought on poles to the factory. The first work is to put the roots through a picker similar to a thrashing macttine, which is run by horse power. This separates the fibre into a hair cf eight or ten inches long, which is placed in a largo vat or Steamer till it becomes flexible, and is free from all gummy or glutinous matter. It is then dried on fiats in the sun, put through another fine picker turned by a Chinaman, then taken and twisted into ropes, at a common rope walk, then steamed again, which sets the curl. The ropes are then bound in bales and are ready for the market. The natural colour is brown, but it is often coloured black, and an expert would find it hard to tell it front curled hair.—Toronto Globe. The great strike just at an end in the iron-works of Pennsvania has ended badly for the strikers. The origin of the strike was an announcement by the iron masters in December last, that in consequence of the decline in prices the wages of puddlers—then receiving nine dollars a ton—would be reduced. On hearing this the puddlers struck, and the other workmen dependent on them were, of course, compelled to follow their example. Three thousand men have conse quently been out of work for seven months. The dispute has now been arranged on the following basis t —The pud dlers are to receive 9 dollars per ton for the first fortnight in August., and after that date are to be paid in proportion to the selling price of iron. To attain this result, which they might readily have attained without any strike at all, strikers have thrown away at least 3,000,000 dollars. THE YEAR OF GltleAT PLENTY.—The agricul tural department at Washington reports that there has never before been so favourable a prospect for uniformly good crops since the establishment of the statistical bureau. The average production of wheat has been five bushels for each individual in the country, but the promise for the present year is about six bushels. The statistical returns for July show an improvement iu the condition of winter wheat over last year in every State but Texas, Nebraska, and Minnesota, the diminution iu . the latter case being four 'per cent. The highest improvement is in Ohio, 160 per cent, West Virginia 78, Georgia 96, Tennessee 72, Indiana 51, Kentucky 53, Michigan 35, Vermont 25, New Jersey 25, Now York 17. All the States except Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania show an increase of spring wheat on last year. The ave rage of corn is unusually largo, and other grains show au improvement over last year, though not so great as in wheat. Other productions generally of July reports show a largely increased yield. In fact, the reports received from all sections, except in certain limited localities, are most encouraging, and indicate highly remunerative re sults for agricultural labour. Mr. Stetson, of the Astor llouse, has related to a few, an anecdote of Mr. Webster, with whom ho had for a long tune been very intimate. On one occasion—ten or twelve years before his death—Webster was in his room, a dozen gentlemen with him, to dine. One of them asked the great Daniel : " What, Mr. Webster, is the most seri ous thought that ever occupied your mind?" The ex pounder of the Constitution was silent for a few minutes, and seemed to be reflecting deeply. His face at last lighted up, and his whole soul shone through it. IL) rose with dignity, and said in his deep; rich tones —" The most miens thought that over occupied my mind was my responsibility to Almighty 'God." And for twenty minutes—to quote Stetson —his languige sparkled like the sunshine upon molten diamonds. I have heard Webster in almost every great effort he ever made, but I never heard him so fluently eloquent, so much the representative of the glorious genius he was, so incomparably superior to all other orators of this or any other country, as on that never-to-be-forgotten ocoasion. THE SunnArr TRIAL.—It is now 59 days, in cluding Sundays, since the first juror was sworn iu. During the progress of the trial 282 witnesses in all were extuniued. The prosecution first examined 71 witnesses in chief ; 92 witnesses were examined by the defence ; the prosecution followed in rebuttal, and after examining 73 witnesses, none others appearing, the defence was allowed to examine 13 witnesses in rebuttal, principally in relation to witnesses whose characters had been assailed. The prosecution,,,ye uming, examined 26 witneslQiu rebuttal, and the teisti- i~ COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENC, - The favourable harvest weather has had more to do with the lath improvement in public securities than any change that has taken place in the appearance of Conti nental politics. In that respect no change has taken place ; the same large standing armies are still kept UP, and nothing has been done as yet to place Europe upon a peace footing, though it is said that it is the intention of the French Government to give public opinion soon some security in that respect, in order to restore con fidence, but no article in the Ilfoniteur can have any beneficial effect unless it is accompanied by a decree for the reduction of the army ; the only act on the part of France that can enable roreign Governments to reduce their war expenditure. The harvest is now far advanced in Franca; the yield is stated to be under an ave:age crop, the quality being not E 0 good as was expected. In Algeria there has been a total failure on account of the excessive dry weather, and the Government will be obliged, it is said, to send the seed necessary for the nex t crop. The country, it is sta.t:Tl, is in a state of famine , and importations of corn for sustenance will also be neee e ; sary. It is, therefOre, not probable that corn will full much in price this year, unless large supplies arrive from America, where the crops are said to be very promising' Any rise in Stock Exchange securities is an immediate cause of reaction by the realisation of old standing limits for sales, together with the distrust still entertained by the operators in the possible permanence of any advanc e, each moderate rally that has occurred, whether from f - vourable harvest prospects or the influx of bullion, bay; ing throughout the present year been speedily followcn by a return bf weakness and stagnation. At the meeting of the London and South-Wester n Railway a dividend was declared at the rate of 3 pe r cent. per annum, payable on the 2nd of September, amounting, on £7,772,611 4s. sd. of paid-up capital, to £145,737 Os. 5d., leaving to be carried over to the current half year £1,664 13s. 11d. The average rate of interest on the mortgage debt has been slightly increased, it stand ing for the half year at 4.40 per cent. as compared with 4.31 for the corresponding period of 1866. During the half year great exertions have been made to reduce the working expenses, and a saving has been made of £10,4541 with a reduced mileage of troins run of 128,140. It is anticipated that the same saving will be made during the coming half year ; and, as it is to be expected that deben tures will be renewed at reduced rates, there is owl prospect of a better dividend for the ,presdnt half, as the first six weeks show an increased receipt of X 17,000. The chairman gave a full explanation of the accounts, a nd said that the liabilities of the new lines under consync tion amounted to only £650,000. A resolution was pass ed , against any further extensions or branches without fir s : consulting the shareholders. With the present gee:l management the South-Western will, no doubt, stand We' in the market. The directors of the London and North-Western Ba il ; way Company have issued their report with statement 0. accounts for the half-year. They show that the net Pro ceeds of the working for that period have b e en £917, 851 : 17s. 5d., to which has to be added the balance from lag account, amounting to £24,500 6s. 3d., together £942,352, 3s. Bd. From this sum they pay a dividend at the rate °'` 5 4 1 -, per cent. per annum, leaving £28,676 4s. Bd. to be ca r : ried to the credit of next half-year. The traffic reWn ° show for the six months a decrease of £10,723 in receiP tS from passengers, and an increase of £21,649 in those goods as compared with the corresponding period ° 1866. With regard to the South-Eastern Railway, it is state i d that the accounts of the company are made up to the half" year ending the 31st of July last, and are now in cours° of audit. They show a total net profit of £330,613 11 0 , 11 ; able for dividend, after the rate of £2 16s. 6d. against 17s. 6d. in the corresponding period of last year. It liP c i pears, however, that the directors have adopted the sotto resolution to recommend the proprietors to charge to re' venue the whole of the interest, amounting to £29,18 2 71 the unproductive capital for lines and works unfinis lie i n including the direct Tunbridge line, a process whieb• W o reduce the amount available to £78,694, and will glue, dividend after the rate of 2 per cent. per annum, and le a ' a balance of £2,300. In relation to the Rio Improvements Company, 3 _5 pears that the Brazilian Government have, as usual, 17. punctually the half-yearly tax to the agents of the c° ': pany, Messrs. John Moore and Co., of Rio. At the .efr e ; tremely low rate of exchange, caused by the continuant of the war, and the creation of paper money, the re ral „ o tance is only £34,700, to pay expenses and dividend nris a share capital of £850,000 and debentures, during th first half year. The report of the directors of the Great Northern '3,1 way Company has been issued. The receipts on cainti:o account for the half year aro £560,565. Mortgages t° amount of £62,300 have been paid off, and £24,600 has hoe d reborrowed at a reduced rate. The revenue account sbow 7 , receipts £992,373, and expenditure £544,193, leaving , 't ft ' o f payment of fixed and preference charges, the sure at £163,953, from which it is proposed to pay a dividend , a the rate of 41 per cent. per annum. The interest upon the mortgage debt of the company is X 4-219 , 1 ,s against £31,613, paid during the corresponding six m oV ", of last year, showing that a large saving may be petted when the debentures are renewed. The t° ,,',l ' capital authorized to be raised is £18,345,460, and the Ws", powers not exercised £3,197,211. The weekly tr 30,0 shows a fair amount of increase, and the dividend fur pt, last six months of last year was at the rate of 8 p er ce per annum. The business in the markets for stocks and shara not been of an extensive character. Railway share° 1; hibit greater firmness. Foreign stocks continue neg locte i they may, however, be expected to improve if no liero loan is brought out, and the peace of Europe made ril° °l 9 secure. The bargains in English securities aro fa r ft largo— Westminster Gazette. COUNTRY MARKET 6. COLCHESTER--Auo. 21. Id This market was well supplied with now 14 0 , last week's prices declined about 3s per qr. 4 0 ' 3. 4 Wheat. white 6s 761 Beans. Mazagrl- - a• ' 0 Aid 4 ~g red 60s 7 s Middle and sinall.-7' 4 , Barley ........ l2a 48s Bus, white. ......... Ps§ 4° Oats grey .... - .." CHELMSFORD—AVG. 23. to' qlo . There were mart' samples of now wheat 01 1 5 ` $ 1 1 day, the principal in good condition, but business 5v,01.103 to thee slow, merchants and millers not being inc li goriP 6 buy except at lower rates. A few transactions in corn, at late rates. 42 5 Wheat, old white 5Ss 723 Peas, Partridge ...... Ora 513 , 0 : new tOs 75s White ...... ••••::.3 l o s old red. '6, etis B Bing ....... ..is ' i .i • WM. 61s 70s Dun.... ..... ••• • , 1 5 4 55 Barley.... 26s 3;s ditto, nevi•••: 4 o 4 3 L hevalier 1 a 53a Beans, Tick, old••••• . 30 60 Grind ng :6s 32a new. • • ,„, ,„ Malt.. 66s 74s harrow fickS.it; iro Chevalier 68s 76s n Oats ••• 2oa 26s Mazsgan e vr.. .. .. : : 4 .' 4 i j ABERDEEN—Auo. 23. afi tl3 Prices for all descriptions of grain were on Act a g r o , tD ° last week. There was a quiet business done, t- attendance. White wheat 58s Od to 63s 0d) 6216 b v bushel' Red wheat 5 0s Od to 58s Od . c h„l. Potato oats 28s Od to 29s Od) 401 b it bu s ✓ Common oats Hs 6d to 27s Od 'le i ' 35s 6d to 3Gs 6d t 531 6 .ii bll9 Barle 3ss Gd to 36s Gd j ri f 0 '01) Oatmeal 20s Gd to 21s Gd 11 1 13(1 7, 0 d 2 6) Flour, line 52s Od to 5/s Od V sac' - KIRKCALDY—Auo. 24. O s : Small supplies of wheat at our market to-daP th or samples of oats, and one of barley. Wheat was° favour of buyers. Wheat. Bar ley. Oats. First...... C2s Od 318 Od 278 Od tfecond.... (38 lid I —6 Od 31s 6d Taird . (4( 01 ' —s Od —0 Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. 0 , t s. d. .z• -.; 1 9 6 Holywell Main l7 0 Original Hartlepool •• 0 0 North Felton Gas Haswell Wharneliffe Bradyell'sHetton lB 3 Tunstall ... .. . ........ •0 0 KOllOO Heugh Hall Ships at market, 44—sold, 42. Births. ifil° BAKER — On the 21th inst., at Bayfordhury, 11046 tll© of W. Clinton Baker, Esq., of a daugh ter. V et „ 9 9 C AM PBELL —On the 21th inst" a t Glebeland Fl° lls ll.Y . Kent, the lady of Captain A. 11. E. Cainpbe'' f Madras Cavalry, of a son. G W YTTIER—On the 24th inst., at Meadow ero ft, i' e Sydenharn, Mrs. H. Gwyther, of a daughter. ...Marriages. rot' ~cfitl,,t , r WIBILL —ROGERS-0 ni the 22d inst. at St.JaM es - gill'`W . Olapton, Lieut.-Col. James Twibill, ' late 38th 1,1"/ t " to Maria Josina Catharina, widow of the lat e 3° i°l Armstrong Rogers, 95th Regiment. ,#. Fe te ' r WEATTIERALL —EMMEL —On the 24th inst , a l • ' - ',.,;ri P o f Bap-water, Frederic Weatherall, Esq., of vier, D ter 4 o ih, late Herrn P. I'. Dm park, and the Temple, tu 11 0 101 Auguste alhevi" tu , n it,un Prussia. ' 1 fRI . liollero, ANDERSON—On the 25th 1. FARADAY —Oa the 24th p i i n ae s s t at :, it a ha t ts li e. 3f l. ' Andeis9n, aged 83. DP peg , Faraday, of the Royal Ins ' titution, aced 76. col. C. IIILL—On the 22d inst., at Tickhill Castle, Liollfr J. Hi11,. 105' late of the 7th Hussars, aged 69. n billi , KIYGI ahmipplit80:1,c80:::::_ ~ —On the 23d inst., at Wellington-road, mu Smyth-King, Esq., barrister -at-law. 10 t, 8 it li °1 MARSHAM— . On the 21th bast at Iliooster WO°, , the Rev. Charles ll•trshau'i, vicar of Stoke •••• Caversfield, aged 81. cot, 0, `VESSEL—On the 25th inst. , at 14, Broinpton-Cre6c R. H. \Vessel, Esq., aged 45. London : Printed and Published by W ILLI.:IS I 1 0 1 0 , ti ° of No. 112,_ Strand , P rinter, at Trtls SUN 00 00 e, t o Strand, in the Precinc t of the Se voy, the ed° Middlesex, --Tuesday, August 27, 1867.