The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-22 00:00:00

THE ABYSSINIAN CAP7IVES. The Independance Beige of Tuesday publishes the following letter, received by a clergyman of Lau sanne (Pastor Panchaud) from his son-in-law, one of the captives in Abyssinia : " Magdala, Abyssinia, 30th April, 1867. "My dear Father-in-law, —We are obliged to take such precautions in our correspondence, and the route from here to the coast is so infested with thieves, that the messengers, in order to pass in safety, are often obliged to sew up in their clothes any letters or other small articles which they may wish to take away with them. "You have been able to follow the different phases Of our career, our successes and our reverses, but most likely you are labouring under the same illusion as so many others as to the fate which awaits us ; and the portrait of King Theodore has been so badly painted by his biographers that you are pro- bably entirely unacquainted with this strange cha . racter. I will, therefore, give you a summary of everything that has happened to the Europeans dur ing the reign of the present Emperor, a 3 far as the paper of which I can dispose will permit. " In reading the accounts of travellers since the time of Father Lobo, who visited Abyssinia in the 15th century, or the more recent voyages of Bruce, Salt, Gobat, Jamisier, Parkins, &c., we find every where the same civil wars, the same feudal chiefs arrogating to themselves the ruling power, the same devastated provinces, the same great battles, which, by deciding the fate of a few months or a few years, allow the country at intervals to taste the blessings of peace. At the end of every brief period new rivals start up, and anarchy and disorder succeed the tem porary calm. It is therefore not at all surprising that during the reig❑ of King John, or rather that of his all-powerful Minister, lies-Ali, a young man of good family, though poor, named Li-Kassa should have rejected the Imperial authority and de fied the cowardly but powerful Ras, and proclaimed his independence. About 32 or 33 years of age, possessed of courage for an Abyssinian, sober, pious, and endowed with a superior intelligence, it is not strange he should have rallied to his banners a troop of brave and hardy soldiers. Ras-Ali, beginning to be alarmed, gave him his daughter i❑ marriage and named him governor of the country he had taken possession of. lia.ssa agreed to these terms, and from that time directed his attention to the Soudan the cradle of the Abyssinian empire. At the head of sixteen or twenty thousand men, he descended the heights of lichelsa into the plains of Gala bar, which are extremely fertile in grain and cattle. At Gadarof his army was cut off by a handful of irregular Turkish troops, who, entrenched behind some earthworks, repulsed all the assaults. Far from having accomplished the easy conquest which he had expected, he returned to his own terri tory, deceived, humiliated, and wounded, and his army decimated and mutinous. To add to his dis comfiture, the mother-iu-law of Ras-Ali even refused to give him a cow which he bad asked for to give to his doctor, who refused to extract a bullet by which he had been struck without payment in advance. "At this juncture Kassa resolved on two things, namely, to avenge the insult which had been offered him by the grandmother of his wife, and one day to conquer this beautiful province, so long the object of his ambition ; but it was here that he was to re ceive a serious lesson for his future guidance. " Scarcely was he restored to health when he raised a new army, and commenced pillaging the provinces of the Government of Rasi-Ali. The youthful insur gent was summoned to Court, but he refused to go. " Several generals were sent out against him ; these he vanquished with ease, and increased his army by means of their soldiers. At last, fancying himself strong enough to attack Bas-Ali at Anaba, he did so, and without difficulty obtained possession of the territory of this libertine, who only managed to save his life by flight, leaving to the fortunate conqueror his army, his country, and his power. Kassa, hav ing once obtained this point, well understood the value of his prestige, and successively attacked all his rivals, the independent chiefs of Goddam, Choa, and Tigre. In the meanwhile, sustained by courage and cunning:, a year scarcely elapsed from the flight of Ras-Ali before Kassa was hailed by the whole of Abyssinia as the Emperor Theodore, under which name he was crowned in 1655 by the Bishop of Salarda at the church Aaum. For several years everything went on smoothly ; all Abyssinia was subject to him. His army of 150,000 men looked upon him as more than human, and was ready to follow him everywhere and any where. The idea of re-establishing the ancient Ethiopian Empire became his predominating thought, and he made ready to invade Soudan and the territory of Gallas. Here, unfortunately, he lost much time, and calling to mind the check he had sustained at Gadarof, he feared to again lose all by a like mishap. It is probable that if he had invaded Egypt at this period he would have caused great ravages in the Egyptian provinces near the Nile and the Atbara. " But reverting to the Emperor Theodore's pro ject to insure his success he wrote to the Sovereigns of England and France, proposing a new crusade against the Mussulman race, a war in which he could have nothing to lose and had much to gain. In the meanwhile the army had swelled to the enor mous force of almost 700,000 men. This mass of men had to be fed and clothed by the rest of the population, particularly by the peasants. The latter worn out at last by their miserable existence, being naked and badly fed, whilst the soldiers were pro vided with everything, refused in several places to continue to submit to a yoke that had already be come so odious. Instead of subduing them, the Emperor failed to re establish order ; and, indeed, when once authority is set at defiance in Abyssinia, it is difficult to make the peasants return to their allegiance. In all parts of the distant provinces, and in Choa and Tigre, the peasants took refuge in the mountains, and under the conduct of regular leaders offered a successful resistance to the troops of Theodore. The latter took the field in person, and such was the terror of his name that he no where encountered any resistance. The rebel pro vinces he laid waste; but as the peasants no longer cultivated the ground, the booty, consisting of grain, money, and stuffs, was no longer so abundant in the camp as formerly. The soldiers murmured, and desertions began to occur. King Theodore made vain efforts ; he went about in all directions, but no enemies, nor even living beings, were to be seen. It was a passive war. Theodore's soldiers, who had been always conquerors on the field of battle, were in their turn conquered by famine and desertion. " Little by little his empire, as well as his army, dwindled away ; new independent States became established. At present, at the head of scarcely 6,000 men, it may be said that, with the exception of a few small provinces and ambas (territories), his kingdom no longer exists. At the beginning of his career he proved himself, as we have shown, gene rous, sober, and brave ; but on arriving at power he gave himself up to debauchery, and became cruel and treacherous, and gradually even his courage forsook him. " lle promised the chief of Goddam his liberty, if his wife, who was mistress of the fort which com mands the country, would deliver it up to him. No sooner, however,was he placed in possession of it then he sent the too credulous couple in chains to one of his forts. "In order to induce the sons of Pas-Oubie to deliver up to him the fort of Simien, he espoused their sister, and when they, relying on their family connection with the Emperor, came to meet him he had them imprisoned, and repudiated his wife, their sister. " The Queen of the Gallas gave him her son as a hostage and sent him, accompanied by the chiefs of the Galtas, to Magdala. The Prince was made governor, •but shortly afterwards, as King Theodore exacted,too much from Gallas, they refused com pliance with his unreasonable demands, whereupon the Prince and his companions were thrown into prison ; and at the time of the flight of tbe Prince Menilok, son of the late Lakale-Selasai, King of Choa, who was received by the QUeen of the Gallas with tile honours due .to his rank, King Theodore immediately executed tile Prince of the Gallas,- and his companions had their mutilated but still:fiiing bodies thro wn d own a precipice. I could fill the two pages which I have still left in the recital of his cruelties and perfidy towards his chiefs, his people, and his neighbours ; but the little I have narrated being, as I think, sufficient, I shall confine myself to a sketch of his conduct towards the Europeans who have had the misfortude to become his guests. "The first in order of dateisthe Coptic Patriarch David. The Viceroy of Egypt. wishing to save his provinces and the Soudan, endeavoured to appease his savage neighbour, and thought that no one would be better received by the Emperor than the David Chief of the Abyssinian Church. He was mistaken. Proud of being able to throw contempt upon the power of the Uhurch, of which he had always been jealous, the King imprisoned his spiri- ,ual father for three days. Suspecting, however, hat in doing so he had gone too far, he afterwards begged his pardon, and allowed the poor priest, who was half dead with fear, to quit his den. Annoyed at the first repulse, the Viceroy sent the Bey Abd ul-Rahman with numerous presents as soon as the Patriarch had returned. But he was even more un- 'ortunate than his predecessors, being prevented !rom returning home for nearly three years. Dur- ing most part of the time they were closely impri- soned, and when upon the reiterated representations of the Viceroy the Ambassador obtained the permis sion to depart, he was robbed on the way of all his property, and arrived at Meteuna almost naked and famished. King Theodore wrote, however, to the • Viceroy to say that this had not occurred with- . _ out just cause—that the chief who had robbed Abd-ul-Rahmau had told him that the Bey had himself endeavoured to pillage the village, and accused him of several crimes of so odious a nature that the Bey, fearing the anger of his King, poi- soned himself at Berker. " On another occasion the Naib of Arkiko paid a visit to King Theodore, at the latter's request, to consult him on the subject of the territory which he governed, and brought with him rich presents. Upon some paltry pretext the King imprisoned the Naib for 45 days, and only let him go on condition that his tribute should be doubled—a promise which the Naib did not inconvenience himself to fulfil. "M. Lejean, who arrived in Abyssinia with some i presents and a letter from the Emperor Napoleon, accompanied King Theodore into Goddam, a pro vince against which he was leading his army. Hap pening to receive letters which required his imme diate presence in Europe, the French traveller asked an audience of the King to obtain permission to depart; but he received the reply that King Theodore could not see him. He again sent a mes senger, to say that every day's delay would render his voyage the more difficult, seeing that the troops were advancing into the enemy's territory. This time the answer was—' Put him in irons ;' and the Abyssinian army had the glory of seeing a French Consul in uniform taken prisoner and chained. At the end of 24 hours he was released from his chains and sent to Gaffat, the Europeans in the service of King Theodore being retiiued as bail for his good conduct, and in order that M. Lejean should not endeavour to escape. Some months afterwards, on the arrival of M. Bardel, who had been sent to France 3 as the bearer of a letter from King Theodore to the Emperor Napoleon, and who brought back an answer, M. Lejean obtained permission to leave, only 24 hours, however, being allowed him to make the necessary preparations for his departure. " We have therefore the Patriarch imprisoned, the Egyptian Ambassador imprisoned, and the French Consul put in irons and driven out of the country. What will happen for all these outrages? Nothing. King Theodore can with reason boast of being master in his own country. He was persuaded that Europe could do nothing against him. Thus on the first occasion which presented itself for show ing his hatred towards the white man he no longer showed auy timidity; and, not fearing chastisement, he became more and more hardened. The good and learned missionary Stern was about to return to Europe, after having formed a mission iu this coun try for the conversion of the Jews, when he fell in with the King's army on his way. Although the bearer of a passport he deemed it necessary, as an act of politeness, to pay his respects to the King. The result of so doing is known. At sight of him King Theodore suddenly became furiously enraged, had the two servants who accompanied him beaten to death, and not content with this double murder, he ordered M. Stern to be beaten, and he would probably have perished unless Providence had pro tected him. " M. Rosenthal, another missionary,was some time afterwards chained and imprisoned with his com panions. Subsequently Consul Cameron and all the Europeans iu Abyssiania submitted to the same fate, with the exception of some missionaries from Basle who worked for him. Nearly four years have elapsed since then, and during this long period these unfortunates have had to submit to such privations and cruelties —even amounting to torture—that it is difficult to conceive how they can have lived so long. " Our mission, after being first well received, was degraded and humiliated at Gagee before all the im perial officers, and subsequently conducted to this amba (fortress), where, for nearly ten months past, we vegetate in chains, having before us one of the most dismal prospects, one of the darkest horizons. The English Government has made numerous and noble efforts to procure our liberation, but nothing has succeeded, and nothing will succeed. Nothing short of an armed force will vanquish the stubborn. ness of King Theodore ; it is only when he is con vinced that he will no longer be permitted to mal treat the whites, and that vengeance awaits him, that he will open his eyes to the necessity of prJ tecting and liberating us. "It is true that, with a character like his, one cannot tell what he may do in a moment of rage, but our trust is in Him who never forsakcth the inno cent, and who accords his gracious protection amid all dangers. In either case there is no other issue ; therefore the sooner the better. If it is necessary we should undergo such ordeal, it is better to do so when it is still time, and when our strength is not too far gone ; to expect more would be doubtless fatal to our cause.—With every kind wish to your self and my dear mother, I remain yours affection ately, " HENRI BLANC." The New York Bench and Bar. The New York press, following in the wake of the July number of the North American Review, is engaged in discussing the corruption of the Metro politan bench and bar. In this the Tribune has thrown the weight of.its influence, as it formerly did when the Review (in a number issued some months ago) discussed the corruption of the Legislature at Albany. The Nation of July 25, handles the sub ject in a powerful article, in which it comments with great severity on the whole system of legal adminis tration. The Review declares that many of the judicial officers of New York are in the habit of using their position for purposes of indirect and un warrantable profit—that some of them take, and indeed extort direct bribes, and that most are incom petent to fill properly the stations which they hold. The Nation says, " We are in possession of informa tion of the most explicit kind, and upon the best authority, which confirms some of the gravest charges thus made, and demonstrates to our satis faction, as it would to the satisfaction of the public, the personal corruption of some of the judges ; but the :details having been given to us in confidence, we are not at present free to publish them." If the fountain be impure, it is vain to look for purity in the stream. If the bench be corrupt, it would be folly to expect rectitude in the bar. It appears that young men are admitted in America to the bar after a merely nominal examination, and the certificate of good moral character is such that any person can procure it who has not been con victed of a crime, and served a term in prison. After the candidate's admission there is no organised body within the pr o f ess i on responsible for preserving 'the reputation of the bar, and he is therefore .left untrammelled. In the large cities, where every man looks out for himself, there is no al it is no on e ' s b us i ness check on knavish lawyers, to 'expose malpractices, In the smaller country towns the check of public opinion does exist, as the character of the individual becomes known to his clients and neighbours. In a great city like New York, where thousands are competing for the means of living, and prey , on the ignorant and'unwary, there are no means of confining the careers of the THE SUN, LONoON, THUIISDSY EVENING, AUGUST 22 1867. ill-disposed to the paths of honesty. At the same time that the leaders of the profession and those on the judicial bench are unable to exercise any moral authority owing to the notoriety of the fact that same of them are guilty of the grossest cor ruption, the younger members see these judges maintaining their places both on the bench and in society, though known not only to take, but to extort money for selling what they call " justice." We may easily imagine the effect of such an example. The New York Press does not hesitate to write in the strongest terms in condemnation of conduct of which they openly accuse the profession. These are the words of the Nation :--" There are many lawyers in practice in this city who habi tually plunder their clients, sometimes by retaining the moneys collected by them, sometimes by selling their clients' interests outright to the adverse party. One of th 3 most reputable firms in the city not long ago offered a bribe to a young lawyer opposed to them, to allow judgment to go against his client by default. The offer was refused ; but it would never have been made by lawyers of so much re spectability if it had not been true, as they said, that such offers had been accepted in other cases." The Round Table, contends that the New York city judges are on an average superior to those of other parts of the country, maintaining that corruption and worthlessness are seen more clearly in a metro polis where a thousand eyes are watching with a concentrated gaze, than in other parts where no two persons can be got together to look into such things. The very reverse of this is the view taken by the Nation, at least as regards the Bar, where mem bers are sheltered among the crowd by their ob scurity, while- in the villages and small towns the character of the individual becomes known. Although the Round Table does not dispute the corruption, it contends that it is only part of a general system, and suggests that the North American Reviewer should next take in hand the corruption of the daily press. Every one allows that the Elective Judiciary is radically bad, and that the first step in the path of reform is to abolish the system so as to secure greater independence. For the improvement of the Bar more stringent examination of candidates is urged, together with a rigid watchfulness over the conduct of lawyers after their admission. The Nation says that there is abundant material in the Bar even as it now exists, for an organisation which should make it a business to expose fraud and trickery, and secure their punishment. The public are in fault for per mitting so impure a system to secure so great a hold. Itissaid to be impossible to find ten lawyers, no mat ter how high their standing, with sufficient courage or public spirit to have a judicial offender removed from the bench. The North American Review deserves much credit for so fearlessly exposing wickedness in high places, and however painful such an expose may be to a large body of honourable members of a profession of which they ought to be proud, the open discussion cannot fail to alarm the guilty and strengthen the hands of those who wish to purge both bench and bar of these impurities.-- Anglo-American Times. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. NORTH LONDON. The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Euston-station— Mr. J. Bancroft in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CIIAIR3IAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said the receipts bad been very satisfactory ; the dividend was not so large as sonic might have expected, but, looking to the company being in a transition state for about a year or a year and a half, and considering other matters he need not re fer to, the dividend on the whole was, he thought, a satisfactory one. The aggregate traffic was very large, and the working expenses were not greater in proportion than when wages were not so high or materials so dear as they were at present. The percentage of working expenses on the whole had not increased. The number of passengers conveyed over the line in the corresponding half of 1866 was 6,993,860, and for the past half year ending the of 1,126,738 passengers, which he thought wa s a 30th of June last 8,120,5 98 , showing a u increase wonderful increase. They had carried 300,000 tons of merchandise, 412,000 tons of minerals, and 164,968 sheep and cattle. They had been renewing the permanent way with steel rails. In the first half of 1866 they ;had expended £2,000 on those re newals; in the second half, £3,500 ; and in the first half of this year they had appropriated £2,500 to the renewal of way. The balance brought into the past half-year's account was £557, and after paying everything they would carry over to the next ac count a balance of £l,lBB ; that showed they had paid everything out of the net revenue of the half year. They had also paid during the half year in terest on £135,000 of unproductive capital. The net revenue had not only been burdened with in terest on that capital, but, beyond it, there was upwards of £lOO,OOO expended on surplus lands, making together about £240,000 of unproductive capital upon which th ey were paying interest. They had expended during the half year £19,475 f or additional rolling stock, and £52,976 on the City Extension and widening, which was so much added to the value of their property. The bill had re ceived the Royal assent for authorising a junction of their line with the London, Tilbury, and Southend Railway, He considered that it would enable them to open a most important and undeveloped district. The proposed junction curve would make them in dependent of the Great Eastern line, and give them direct communication with the Tilbury line, over which they had running powers. He believed that arrangements with the Tilbury Company could not fail to be mutually beneficial to both companies. It was expected that the junction line would be com pleted early next year. Mr. R. R. DEAN, a director, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. A SHAREHOLDER thought it strange that they could pay 6 per cent. dividends in 1865 and for the first half of 1866, when they hal less traffic, the gross receipts being £99,036 in the first half of 1865 and £118,780 in the second half; and £146,361 in the first half of 1866 ; but in the second half of 1866 the gross receipts were £151,711, and in the past half year £157,152, and the dividend had been reduced from 6 per cent. to 51 per cent. It wai true that during that time the capital had increased by £700,000, upon which they had to pay interest, the total expenditure being £2,976,000. The CHAIRMAN explained that every attention had been paid by the directors and manager to the interests of the company ; they had been deprived of part of their goods traffic since the burning of the Ilaydon-square goods station, but when the works were completed the goods traffic would add to their resources. lie thought there was not much to com plain of ; the directors obtained the stores from the London and North Western Company on the best terms, and everything was being done to develope the resources and to increase the value of the property. The report was unanimously adopted, and a divi dend of £2 ss. per cent. on the preference stock, and of £2 15s. per cent. on the ordinary stock and shares of the company for the past half year was declared payable on the 28th inst. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. receipts £1,536,146, at June 30, as compared with £4,517,725 on Dec. 31, 1866. The expenditure on capital account amounted to £136,633 during the past half-year, and the total capital expenditure was £4,482,515, leaving a balance of £197,851 un issued out of the present available borrowing power of £970,911, exclusive of £51,500 to become here after available. The average rate of interest on the debentures outstanding at the end of the half-year was £4 7s. 4d. per cent., as against £4 ss. 9d. per cent. at December :11, 1866. The directors did not contemplate any bill for next session involving new works or fresh capital. DI INAL C OURT -Aug. 21. BRISTOL AND EXETER. The directors' report states that the revenue ac count for the half year enled June 30 showed the available balanca £40,999, out of which the directors recommended a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. p.er annum, payable on September 6, leaving £550. The traffic receipts showed an increase of £4,759, and the working expenses an increase of only £B5O. The total receipts from all sources on revenue ac'. count for the half-year amounted to £193,081, as against £187,355 iu the corresponding period of 1866, showing an increase of £5,746. The balance of £2,474 brought from the previous half-year made a total £199,555, as against £189,041 in same half of 1866. The total expenditure amounted to £101,741 (as against £95,614), leaving a profit of £93,814, out of which was deducted debenture and preference interest £52,814 (as against £46,821), leaving the balance before mentioned for dividend. The capital accou n t Dhows an increase of 818,421 ; and the total CENTRAL CR OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Bramwell). TIIE TAILORS' STRIKE. The learned Judge having summed up the evi dence, The jury retired, and in a few minutes after re turned, and asked that Lambert's evidence might be read over to them. Mr. Baron Bramwell read it from his notes. A Juryman observed that he had taken a note of what Lambert said, and that Lambert had repre sented the pickets as never to have held out any threat. Mr. Baron Bramwell said he had no note or re collection of Lambert having made any such ad- mission. The shorthand writer was appealed to. He read over his note., but there was nothing in them to strengthen the recollection of the juryman. The jury again retired, and were absent about three-quarters of an hour. On their return they found Druitt, Lawrence, and Adamson guilty, but with a strong recommendation to mercy, upon the ground that they might have considered that they were not acting illegally. They acquitted the five other prisoners. Mr. Baron Bramwell—Then the five men will be discharged unless there is another prosecution against them. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—There is no other prosecution against them, my lord. Mr. Baron Bramwell—As to the three who have been found guilty, I suppose you will agree to accept their usual bail to appear to-morrow morning ? Mr. Sergeant Ballautine —Not exactly; I must have other bail. Mr. Lewis (their solicitor)—l will be bail for them. Mr. Sergeant Ballantine—l shall be satisfied with Mr. Lewis. The three prisoners then entered into their own recognizauces for £2OO each, and Mr. Lewis for £l5O each, for their appearance to-morrow morning to receive sentence. The defendants then left the court, and were re ceived with cheers by the crowds assembled in front. Mr. Baron Bramwell then fixed the trial of the other prisoners in the tailors' strike for to-morrow morning. AMERICAN RAIL TVA YS. Messrs. BELLOT DES MINIERES' pamphlet, al though treating on American railways in general, has special reference to the American Central Line, for which they are general contractors. This mag nificent undertaking is, in truth, a direct continua tion of the Union Pacific Railway, carrying that road in a straight line from Omaha city into Ohio. It is being worked in three divisions ; that of In diana extending from Fort Wayne to the Illinois State Line 126 miles—that of Illinois extending from the State Line to New Boston on the Missis- sippi River 18G miles ; and that of lowa from. the Mississippi to the Missouri 273 miles, giving a total length of 585 miles. Of this 125 miles are graded and ready for rails, and as many more partially completed. :The main point contended for in this pamphletis that the richest States of the Union are Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and lowa. Of these Illinois is the queen, being perhaps the most fertile and productive piece of land in the world. The system of carriage by which the unequalled wealth of this and theacljoin— ing States is conveyed to market has been a mis take, though forced on the people by circumstances they could not control. A glance at the map will show that the natural outlets were by the lakes and the connecting rivers to the North, and the Missis sippi to the South. Thus Chicago to the North, and St. Louis to the South, became the great em poriums, and the direction taken by the railways traversed the State North and South. It is certain however, that the true direction of traffic is West to East. The authors do not hesitate to state that Chicago is a failure, which will be fully apparent when the American Central Line is com pleted. This road crosses the numerous lines intersect ing Indiana and Illinois on their way to Lake Michi gan, where they deliver annually in the warehouses of Chicago about 50,000,000 bushels of grain. These warehouses become choked, as for half the year the outlet by the Lakes is barred by ice. The route by water is circuitous, dilatory, and insecare, and the charges for breaking bulk and storing accumulate so rapidly as to deprive the producer of a large por- L on of his gains. A bushel of corn from the Mis sissippi river to Chicago costs 25 cents, two cents are added for transshipment, and 65 for freight to New York—total, 92. By this railway the same corn can be carried direct from the Mississippi river to New York for sixty cents. From Galva (Illinois), one of the stations on this road, the Bur lington and Quincey Railway charges $l4 for carry- ng a ton of broom corn to Chicago. When there, it is no nearer New York, Philadelphia, or Boston than at Galva. On arrival at Chicago it breaks bulk, has to be stored, or at once transshipped, each move adding to the expense before it reaches the consumer. Thus it is maintained that a vast ad vantage will be secured by running a road direct through these rich and level States, on an air line due east and west, which is the natural course for American traffic. So productive are these States— especially that of Illinois•--that the lines having their terminus at Chicago, though trusting wholly to local traffic turned in a wrong direction, pay handsome dividends. This being the case, it must follow that the local traffic of a line taking the course of the American Central must be still more productive. But this railway does not depend upon local traffic for its returns. It will be but a main line of the world's highway from New York to San Francisco—from London to Hong Kong. It is not easy to realise the revolution that will be worked in the tide of travel when the road is finished across the American continent. On the one hand lie China and Japan peopled with their 400 millions ; on the other, the great empires of Europe, and between these extremities a trade has arisen which as yet is merely in its infancy. Japan, North Eastern China, Australia, and New Zealand will be brought much nearer to the centres of civilisa tion, and a boon we cannot as yet estimate will be conferred on the world. That this railway, in common with the other links, will reap a rich har vest cannot be doubted ; and we do not consider that the authors exaggerate the advantages when they assert that the through traffic will be the grandest on any line, while the local traffic will be the most profitable. Basing calculations on an estimate so large, the way is formed 100 feet wide, with the intention of laying down seven tracks if hereafter required. The impression left on the mind of the profits is such as to make a greedy man's mouth water, and the authors fear to state them, evidently dreading a charge of exaggeration. But though they do not openly estimate they do not hesitate to state that there are railways in America which pay to the original stockholder over 40 per cent., and there is no railway in America that will pay as large a dividend as the American Central. The facts in support of this startling assertion are very strong, consisting of an elaboration of the points we have generalised. There are, however, some special advantages on which we have not touched arising from the nature of the States traversed by the line. The main feature is a perfectly level way. The second great advantage is the absence of rivers, the Illinois being the only stream of magnitude which intercepts the course. We do not include the Mississippi, which there is no intention of bridging. It is asserted—and this will, per haps, convey to the English mind the best idea— alat the construction of the whole line of 585 miles, fully equipped, will not cost as much as a single one of so:ue of the London Railway Stations. We have, then, a grand result at a comparatively small cost, mainly owing to natural advantages, and in a smaller degree to the application of common sense to dearly-bought experience. The American system has run into the opposite extreme to the English system. It may be a nice point to decide which error is the greater, as constructing so frail a road that it cannot bear the traffic offered, or building one with grand stations and magnificent bridges which cannot return a cent to the original pro prietors. if a line is tunnelled and bridged for one track, anti it is alterwarda found that two or 'oven three are required, a great loss ensues. The happy medium was that dictated by common sense, which in no way starves the road, but rejects all unneces sary or avoidable outlay. That the American Central Railway is strongly opposed by those whose interests are centred in Chicago, and other great lake ports, we have little doubt. Chicago can, however, afford to have a portion of its trade diverted, for so fertile and immense is the district of which it hitherto has been the main outlet, that more business has been thrown in its way than it can well carry through. However jealous some of the great carrying interests may be there is no reason for jealousy, as Chicago, for instance, has, as we have remarl , ed, more trade than she can possibly accommodate, from the closing of the lakes by ice six months in the year. No railway can do more than supply the wants of a limited track along its course if it runs through a fertile country, and although nearly a third of the rail ways of the world arc to be found in the United States, grain has been destroyed in Illinois in thousands of bushels for want of carriage, and there have been hungry mouths in the Eastern cities and starving thousands in Europe, while vast fields of hay have rotted on the prairies that would have fatted lean beasts if carriage only had been forthcoming.—Anylo-American Times. SOUTH DEVON. The report of the directors state sthat the revenue of the half-year ended 30th June last amounted to £109,129, 8,6 compared with £109,172 earnedduring the corresponding half of 1866. The past six months had been a period of great commercial stagnation, and the causes which had depressed railway traffic generally throughout the kingdom had been aggra vated by the unfortunate condition of mining indus try in Cornwall and Devonshire. The result had been that the traffic of the mainline had considerably decreased, although that on the branches had im proved. The revenue account was for the first time debited with this company's proportion of the deficit arising under the lease of the Cornwall Railway, for mer losses having been met by the Cornwall Com pany. Under that lease the associated companies were to • have their losses refunded prior to pay ment of ordinary dividend on Cornwall stock, but until there was some nearer prospect of such a re sult, it was proposed to charge the company's pro portion against revenue. The working expenses of the past half-year amounted to 47.46 per cent., while those of the corresponding period of 1866 absorbed 51.83 per cent of the receipts, showing the gratify ing reduction of 7.37 per cent. in these expenseL The revenue account presented a disposable balance of £27,102, and after making provision for all pre ference and other claims, the directors recommended the declaration of a dividend on the ordinary stock at the rate of £1 ss. per cent. per annum, carrying forward a balance of £552. The Plymouth Great Western Dock Company had recently, by the sale of surplus land to the Admiralty, been able to pay off several capital liabilities, including £4,000 owing to this company. The company still held overdue debentures to the amount of £31,500, on which a debt of £19,950 had accumulated for interest. The expediency of removing the West India mail packet station from Southampton to a Western port had at various times been strongly urged upon the (;overn , ment, and the claims of Falmouth (the original packet station), Plymouth, and Dartmouth having bad consideration, a decision had recently been come to in favour of Plymouth, at which port the mails were in future to be landed. The public advantage consequent on this change might ultimately lead to an important and valuable accession of traffic. The directors reminded the proprietors that they had no costly and unprofitable branches or extensions to make ; that the capital liabilities were ascertained and defined, and had been incurred for the most legitimate objects ; and that the credit of the com pany had remained unimpaired during the anxious and trying events of the past 12 months, and should be jealously maintained. The capital account showed that £2,913,129 had been expended, leav ing a balance against the account of £138,145. The revenue account showed that £109,129 had been received for the half year, and £51,791 ex pended, leaving a balance of £57,338. N ORTH- WESTERN. The directors of this comp any in their report state that the traffic receipts for the year 1866 amounted to £78,180; and, deducting working expenses, &c., there was left £38,645, to which was added rents, £366, leaving a balance of £39,011. The sums paid by the Midland Company for guaranteed interest and dividends, including income tax, were on de benture debt £13,153, ditto on preference shares £6,314, ditto uncompleted Lind purchases £l2, divi dend at 31 per cent. £,27,495—t0ta1, £46,974. The usual dividend warrants, at the rate of 6 per cent. on the amount of A, and 11 per cent. on the amount of B Stock, would be issued on Sept. 1 next. As regarded the working of the railway last year, the Midland Company furnished in April the above statement of its results, and the directors were gra tified to find a steady increase of revenue amount ing to nearly £4,000 gross, but much of this had been absorbed by the increased rate of working expenses on the Midland system (viz., £5O lie. sd. per cent.), but the directors hoped this might prove an exceptional rate, to be reduced. The \Yenning sieline'connecting the North Western Lake and Furne ss di s t r i c ts, was c in June last. The directors had t on o: tei ni a lev n da d yf oFlNr.ui traffic rh n a e f fit s , looked with confidence to this junction, uniting as it did the Midland and Furness systems. If the Settle and Carlisle Railway was to be made, it was all im portant to the interests of the company that the best arrangement should promptly be made to secure for the Midland and North Western route a fair and just proportion of the English and Scotch traffic, now estimated to amount to nearly £1,500,000 per annum. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE. The report of the directors states that the receipts for the half - year e ndin g the 30 th June last amounte d t s howing a decrease o f £3,114. The expenditure am ount to £16,924 a ga i ns t £17,289 for half o 3 f 9 18 8 6 3 ,6' against £42,597 in the co rre sponding h the corresponding half of 1866, showing a decrease of £365. The balance for the half-year, after car rying £373 to the credit of the contingency account, was £18,446, which enabled the directors to recom mend a dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 71 per cent. per annum, and on the preference shares according to their respective guarantees. The cost of renewing the Cumraersdale Viaduct, amount ing t o a £ would be paid out o f reve nue, but being and exceptional expenditure it was not large 2, 7 37 , desirable to charge the whole against the income of one half-year. The continued absence of commer cial confidence and consequent depression of trade continued to affect the traffic receipts. The Der went branch bad been opened for public traffic, and was realising, the expectations of the directors. All payments due to the contractor for the construction of the line had been discharged. Contract agree ments had been settled with all the landed proprie tors except four. The greater proportion of the land had been paid for and conveyed to the com pany. The directors observed with satisfaction the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Rail ways, "that in order to meet the irregularities in the local taxation of railways means should be de vised by which some public authority, such as the Poor Law Board, should make the assessment on an equitable principle. It was therefore hoped that a remedy might no w b e app li e d which would relieve railway companies from the burdens entailed on them by the present unfair mode of assessment. The capital account to the 30th of June showed that £:712,591 had been expended. SOUTH YORKSHIRE. The report of the directors stated that the expen diture on capital account for the half-year had been £24,420. The gross traffic receipts from traffic and rents from the railway, and navigation for the half year had been £111,2)5. The amount payable by the Manchester, Shea;ld, and Lincolnshire to cover rents, interest charges, a nd guaranteed 5 per cent. dividends amounted t 0171,043. The £3,250 charged against capital was fo7 works in course of construc tion. The capital account showed that £3,207,811 had been expended. .. A FATAL FIGHT LIVIIVEEN WORKMEN. —On Mon lent blow behind th e ear , day two men, rinnis and MAlugh, emp lo y ed in a cigar manufactory, in Manche s t e r, quarrelled an d went into a field to fight. Afte r sevral rounds Finn is received a vio lent when he fell and ex p ired. Durin g the confusion that p rtva i w d liglugh escaped. [AnvERTHEmENT.]-liolloway's Pills a re the medicine -P offer relief, if most in repute f or th e mu ltif ar ious maladies whic h beset mankind when dry sultry w eather suddenly g ives p lace to chilly drenchin g d a y s . i n f ac t these ills they fail o f p rov i ng an a b so l u t e r emedy, for all the dis turbances of digestion, circulation, and nervous tone which occasionally oppress a Nast portion of this population. Under the general purifying and strengthening powers exerted by this excellert medicine, the tongue becomes clean, the appetite improves, digestion is quickened, and assimilation is rendered perfect. These pills possess the Highly estimable property of cleansing the entire mass of blood, which in its renlvatod condition carries purity, xength, and vigour to Dory Uwe of the Indy. ........ A Heartless Impostor. The Glasgow Herald says :—" A person calling himself James Walters, an Englishman, professing to be a travelling lace merchant, known in Glasgow from having made occasional purchases of lace here, and also in Aberdeen, found his way recently to a town not a hundred miles from the latter city, and took lodgings in the house of a respectable unmarried female, where he remained for several weeks. He employed his time to some purpose, for he succeeded in effecting a lodgment in her heart as well as in her house, and made a proposal of marriage, which was accepted. He managed this by dint of great plausibility, and by representations which were, unfortunately, believed to be true. Ile seems to have been an adept in attacking the sensibilities of the female heart, for he, as it now turns out, feigned illness for some time, so as to become an object of sympathy and attention, know ing, doubtless, that "pity melts the heart to love." Banns of marriage were duly proclaimed in the parish church, and the confiding bride-to-be ad vanced to her successful wooer some £2O for clothes and other articles preparatory to the mar riage. She was naturally anxious to be married in her own house ; but a strange whim had ap parently taken possession of the now convalescent bridegroom, for he expressed a strong wish to be married by the Rev. Dr. Taylor, of the U.P. Church, in this city, as that gentleman, accord ing to the statement of the veracious vendor of lace, was a particular friend of his. It is hard to shake a woman's confidence when once it is fixed, and the lady did, what probably a good many others similarly placed would have done— she consented. Before leaving for Glasgow she endorsed a deposit receipt for £2O, with the view of cashing it in one of the local banks; but as it happened to be a bank holiday, she put it in her pocket-book, intending, if it were necessary, to get it cashed in Glasgow. This was not unobserved by Walters, who managed to possess himself of the receipt before the train arrived in Glasgow by ab stracting it from her box. On leaving the railway station the lady expressed her anxiety that they should at once go to Dr. Taylor and have the ceremony performed ; but this was not exactly the intention of Mr. Walters. He stated that the rev. doctor might he from home, and to save her the fatigue of walking to his house to no purpose, it might be, he would in the meantime go himself and make the necessary arrangements if he were at home, and re turn to a refreshment-room to which he had taken her, and where she was to await his return. The fel low never came back, but lefthis unsuspecting victim penniless in a strange city to find her way back as the best might. In her distress she applied to Mr. Miller, of the Guardian Society, who took a state ment from her, and furnished her.with means to get home. The deposit receipt has been traced and payment stopped. Walters had gone to a re- spectable whole,ale house in this city and bought lace to the amount of some £l4, which he received on handing over the deposit receipt, getting the difference in cash. Of course the house referred to had not the least suspicion of the way in which the document had been obtained. Mr. Miller having furnished the necessary information to the Pro curator-Fiscal, a warrant was immediately issued for the apprehension of Walters, but as yet he has not turned up. Walters is about 30 years of age, and is believed to be a married man. He ought to be well known in the eastern and northern counties, as it is understood he called upon private families with lace and articles of a similar description." PETROLEUM AS FUEL. Public attention in the United States has recently been directed to generating steam by means of petroleum. Colonel HENRY IL FOOTE, of Ten nessee, has patented a process by which this new steam generator may be used for ships. A board of three chief engineers, appointed by the United States Navy Department, examined the patent and reported favourably. The gunboat Palos was fitted up, and after several trials in Boston harbour the system was declared to be successful. The new apparatus consists of a small iron box placed on the grate bars, having burners. Beneath it are burners, by which it is kept hot. The oil is carried to the box by a small iron pipe and becomes gas as it enters. Steam is then introduced through a coil of iron pipe filled with filings placed over the burners, and its gases enter the retort, into which air is forced, and the whole forms a gas which supplies a multitude of burners with a clear blue flame, fill- ing the furnace, and extending through the flues emitting an intense heat. There is no smoke, and the fire is entirely at command, instantaneously in creased or decreased, or extinguished, by merely turning a stopcock. Any man of ordinary intelli gence, after an hour's instruction, can superintend the furnace. Any mechanic can repair the appara tus if broken. The labour saved in coalheavers, in taking in fuel, in discharging ashes, and keeping the fires going, though enormous, is but a portion of the economy. The inventor believes, when his apparatus is perfect, that one-tenth the weight or bulk of the anthracite coal required. ill be sufficient in this fuel. Ships can with ease carry enough to steam round the world. Although of lesser interest, SPENCE'S burner for adapting this fuel to the locomotive is likely to prove of great utility. It was lately tried on the Warren and Franklin Railroad with the most encouraging success. The apparatus consists of a pan covering the bottom of a fire box in the locomotive and taking the place of grates. On the pan are placed heaters or gas gene rators, six in number, consisting of inclined plates of cast iron, supported at an angle of 45 degrees ; opposite to each heater is an injector conveying the oil to the heater, where it is instantaneously con verted into gases, oxygen being also furnished to the gases iu their nascent state for combustion. The oil is contained in a tank on the tender, from which it is conveyed by feed pipes to the injectors, each pair of injectors being con trolled by a throttle, by means of which the fire is regulated as readily as the light of a lamp. " After a whistle to clear the track," says the writer in the Titus-ville Herald, " we backed down the road, the velocity of speed gradually in greasing, and with about 85 pounds of steam, running the distance of four miles in less than eleven minutes, or at the rate of twenty miles an hour ; the experiment ex ceeded all expectations, and has suggested such im provements to the parties, as will before long bring petroleum into general use on all railroads, it being estimated by a careful comparison that oil will be a much cheaper fuel at sixteen dollars a barrel than wood or coil, even in this region." There are few subjects of more wide importance than these simple experiments which have hitherto attracted so little attention. The prodigious and increasing consump tion of coal has caused fears on the part of scientific men lest the supply should be exhausted, and the bare idea has raised a feeling of horror as to the fate of coming generations. It is the undoubted duty of those now living to economise the world's re sources for those who may come hereafter, and perhaps no greater economy could be exercised than in thus utilising petroleum. But a short time ago, dismay reigned in the oil regions of Pennsyl vania. The oil was there in abundance, but the question was, what to do with it. The price had fallen so as scarcely to pay its working expenses. Over a region which in the United States alone ex tends upwards of 62,000 square miles the springs are found. In Kentucky, Ohio, and Western Virginia the oil is in the carboniferous group, in Pennsylvania in the Devonian. It has been discovered in over 300 localities beyond the oil districts of these States. California, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, and lowa, all furnish petroleum. In the Oil Creek Valley, Pennsylvania, there are 500 wells, yielding a daily average of about 4,000 barrels. The total exports of petroleum were in 1862 upwards of 10,000,000 gallons ; in 1863 more than 28,000,000 ; in 1864 in excess of 31,000,000; in 1865, 42,000,000 ; in 1866, 1,700,000 barrels; while the shipments for the first six months of 1866 are exceeded by the same period of 1867 by about 50,000 barrels. The average price of refined oil during 1866 was from 40 to 45 cents per gallon ; and the average price for the first six months of 1867 has been from 24 to 26 cents per gallon. Prices are now rising rapidly after this heavy fall, and petroleum will cer tainly tend strongly upwards, if its value for generating steam can be established. It is spread over the world, obtained with great facility, and at a small expenditure of labour. The United States produce about 10,000 barrels daily, a quantity which could be largely increased if the demand arose. " BACON'S Handbook," to which we are indebted for some of the above statistics, de scribing the ease with which fortunes have been made in this oil, says Here somebody has punched a hole in the ground, thrust in an iron tube with a spout, erected enormous reservoirs, and straightway up the tube, through the spout, and into the tank, there flow $ll,OOO every day. Ho does nothing ; he may go to Europe or to Halifax, but the work goes on just the same." Emphatically, this man has struck ile. If those whose work benefits mankind deserve a fortune, it may soon be proved that the strikers of oil are among the best of this class. Tie petroleum from the wells of "West Vir ginia can be handled and stored as safely as coal. Its gravity renders it non-explosive, which is the objection to the light oils of Pennsylvania. Pre suming this fuel to be deprived of its dangerous qualities, it requires little effort of the imagination to understand the advantages that steamers will derive from its use. It is not the expense of en gines that forces shipowners so generally to rely on sails ; but the cost of fuel, which necessi tates the main part of the cargo to be stowed away in the ship for her own propulsion. Reduce this to one-tenth, and scarcely a large sail ing ship will ever afterwards be found on the high seas. If sails are rendered almost useless, if the heavy outlay for stokers be unnecessary, an im mense saving will be effected in the number of hands necessary to work a ship. The power of war vessels will be greatly increased, coaling stations become useless, and vessels will glide along with no black train of noxious smoke behind them, passing from ocean to ocean, from continent to continent, relieved from the uncertainty of the weather, and lightened from their black burden of coal. These are experiments better worth a nation's while to test than the destructive force of projectiles or the resisting power of Warrior targets—Anylo-American Times. COUNTRY MARKETS. HIILL.-T UESDAY. At our market to-day there was a small show of Eng lish and foreign wheat, and the demand was not active for either. Spring corn of all descriptions was slow, but made fully last week's prices. English white wheat, 64s to 70s; red, 60s to 70s ; Dant sic and Konigsberg, 65s to 728 ; Baltic red, 62s to 67s ; Danish and hamburg, 60s to 66s ; Russian, 57s to 595• Barley, English, 408 to 425; grinding, Mediterranean , 31s to 35s 6d. Oats, new English, 26s to 28s; Russian, 26s to 278. Beans, old English, 58s to 60s; foreign, 43s to 4 is. Peas, English blue, 42 <to 44s Od ; foreign white, 4.1 s to 455; grinding, 43s to 44s Od per qr. LYNN-T LTES DAY. At to- day's market the supply of wheat was limited, and but a slender attendance. Prime old samples of wheat realised last week's quotations. The trade in spring corn was firm. New wheat, 74s to 7Gs ; new red, 62s to 66s ; old white, —s to —s; old red, —s to —s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 47s to 51s; secondary, 42s to 455. Oats, new, '24s to 27s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 43s to 48s. Peas, 40s to 42s per 28 stone. MONMOUTHSHIRE-TUESDAY. Owing to harvest operations attendance at the market has been very thin. There have been a few samples of new wheat on offer. Barley, with little offering, but firm in price. In oats and beans the trado generally 1i been steady. The following aro the average quotations:—Wheat, red, 78 9d to 8s Od per bushel; white, 7s 9d to 8s 6d • inferior , Gs Od to 6s 6d ; malting barley, 40s to 44s per cl:r ; ing ditto, 34s to 36s Od; beans, 43s to 4os ; white oats, 2 , ° Gd to 29s 6d ; black ditto, 26s Od to 27s Od. SALISBURY.-TUESDAY. At market this morning the attendance of farmers, Tail: lers, and dealers was small. A short supply of whetul with little business doing. Grinding barley, beans, oats' and peas wero also moderately dealt in, but prices were no higher than last week. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised from 58s to 74s ; barley, 31s to 375; oats, 26s to 32s ; beans, 46 3 to 52s ; and peas, 40s to 48s per qr. Tares, from 5s fid to 76 6d per bushel ; Best bread., 16d ; household ditto, 15d per 81b loaf. Flour, 48s to 53s per sack. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. lustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... Sept. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles ..., .... ...Sept. 13. Ditto, via Panama Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sept. 3. Ditto, by French packet Cape Vcrds, by Brazil packet uape of Good dope. Ascension , and St. Helena.— Aug. 2 1 . China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southamptou..Se,t. 2.„, Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 2, • Falkland Islands Sept. 3 Wbraltar, via Southampton .. Aug. 21 ' India.via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil es Aug. 21 . Malta, Egypt, &o. Aug. - 1 • Ditto, Marseilles Aug• 23 ' Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Sept. 19 ' Ditt ), via Mareei les Sept- ' 3 ' Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by private ship to Oporto ... Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British packet .. Aug. 28 • Ditto, by United States packet Ditto - ditto (New York, Ditto ditto (New York) Di ttr. ditto (Baltimore) .. Ditto, by Canadian packet , Au g . 23 ' West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenoriffe Sept. 4 . West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) Cub: and and liexico .. —Aug. . 43 ' Bahamas, via New York Sept. i 1 Bermuda, via ditto Births. C OLT —On the 21 st inst., at 6 , Claren don- g ardens, the Wife .of Frederick Hoare Cult, Esq., of a daughter. DONALDSON—On the 17th inst., at Spring-grove, 0 the wife of the late Capt. Donaldson, 3d (K. 0.) aus' of a son—posthumous child. MASSY—On the 16th inst., at 26, Kildare-street, the Lady Lucy Massy, of a daughter. Marriages. s t op' B L A GD EN—STEELE—On the 20th inst., at St. Luke's , Holloway, George Blagden , Esq., soicitor, of Tolliugsci,, park, to Lizzie, only child of the late Joseph Steele , of Stock Orchard-crescent. CRAWFORD—GORE—On the 20th inst., at Holy Church, Paddington, John Chesterton Crawford, fo rd, Royal Marine Artillery, son of the late Gen. Ccallote , ILA., to Helen Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Joh° Esq., of Hampstead. Deaths. te llOf COSTELLO— On the 15th inst , in Paris, W. B. G es ,;3 o Esq., M.D., editor of "Ency . clopwdia of Surgery' aged 67. f , t: l ' COUSENS—On the 19th inst., at Tregunte r Park, Pr;,eat shire, Sidney Cousens, Captain H.M.'s 13th lt°g--- Bombay Native Infantry, aged 39. C a y tgl GRANT —On the 17th inst., at Moy House, Fortes' John Grant, yr. of Glenmoriston, Inverne ss-shir ° ' tr ot! ROBERTSON—On the 19th inst., at 56, Frederick -s Edinburgh, James A. Robertson, S.S.O e rr/I RITCHIE —On the 16th inst., at Ro_khill,. htv William Ritchie, Esq., aged 69. terr c r °' W.ARDLAw—On the 19th inst., at 19, Blot-1114.J. - {O/ Hyde-park London, David 13rown Wardlaw, t.ftbs. merly of Gogar Mount, county of Edinburgh, age ----- A NI: 0 ' London : Printed and Published by wrIALIA— so. f of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tag SUN Oface , co otl " Strand,- in the Precinct of the Sc voy, in til ° aiddlOOQX.—Tlllll-Pday, tok, , ttst 22, 1867.