The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-12 00:00:00

on the Carlisle account £42,552 ; and on the Dar lington account £71,868. Out of these balances the directors recommended a dividend on the Ber- ------ -_ RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT EASTERN. The report of the directors of this company states that the total receipts for the half year ending the 30th of June last were £872,213, and the working expenses £479,279, leaving the net traffic £392,934, to which was added £3, the balance from last ac count, making £392,937. From this was deducted £96,977 for rents to other companies, £148,282 for interest on mortgages and debenture stocks ; and £12,88 2 for interest on temporary loans, making together a total deduction of £258,141, leaving a net balance of £104,796, which was sufficient for the dividends on all the preference stocks of the company created prior to the amalgamation, and £2 15s. per cent. per annum on £1,122,600, created under the act of 1832, leaving the stocks subse quently- created unprovided for. The passenger re ceipts were less by £16,634 than for the correspond ing half of 1866. This was attributed in part to he distress which had prevailed with so much seve ity in the eastern districts of the metropolis in the winter and spring of the year, which was still felt, and in part also to those causes which had affected railways generally. The goods receipts were less by £11,788 than for the same period of 1866. The grain traffic had also suffered from the scarcity of last year's crops. In regard to working expenses, the amount expended on permanent way was less by £18,421 than for the same period in 1866 ; the m aintenance of the line, however, had been care fully attended to, and more materials had been used than in the same period of 1866. In the locomotive department there was a reduction of £6,201, not withstanding a large increase in the cost of the coal and coke used ; at the same time, the re pairs and renewals effected had been more exten sive than for the corresponding period. The steamboat service might be considered more satis factory ; the increase in the tonnage of goods carried by the company's route was considerable, and had not the foreign cattle traffic fallen off so ser i ous ly through the rinderpest the returns from this branch of the service would have shown a very material increase. The directors had succeeded in obtaining powers to run their boats to the ports of Harlingen and Geestemunde. This would enable the cattle traffic to be renewed, notwithstanding the continuance of the plague in South Holland. The item for compensation for personal injury was un usually laree. On this head a number of claims arising in prior half-years had been ascertained and arranged during this half-year, including one of nearly £6,000 awarded in an action for damages on account of injuries sustained in the year 1865. The arrears on this head were now entirely dis posed of. The directors had been requested to in vite the co-operation of Mr. Laing, M.P., and in February last he joined the direction for the pur pose of attending to the finance of the undertaking. Mr. Laing was unfortunately unable to do more than float a portion of the debenture capital on the plan of providing a sinking fund of a half per cent. for the redemption of the debenture in 52 years. When the issue of debenture stock, on the basis suggested by Mr. Laing, proved to be only partially successful, it was deemed advisable to solicit an in terview with the largest holders of ordinary and preference stock. This took place on the 26th of March last, at which a committee was appointed to confer with the directors as to the best course to be pursued. The committee and the directors met frequently, and the preference holders most hand somely proposed to take debenture stock in lieu of cash for their dividends for four years. This would have raised about £1,500,000. An application was made to Parliament to raise £1,500,000 of deben ture stock to take rank after the existing debentures and debenture stock o f the company. This Bill was rejected by the Select Committee of the House of Commons. The directors had reason to believe that one of the causes of the rejection of this Bill was the fact that the committee considered the amount sought to be raised was not large enough to relieve the company from its difficul ties. The failure of this Bill increased the hesita tion of the public to take the company's debentures, and, consequently, when, on the Ist of July, £BO,OOO of the ordinary debentures became due the holders would not renew them. The company, having no means of providing capital to take them up, one of the debenture holders applied to the Court of Chancery for a receiver of the tolls of the line, which the Court granted on the 2d of July ; but the Court authorised the receiver to pay the interest on the company's debentures as it became due. Under those circumstances the directors con vened a meeting of the whole body of the preference proprietors, which was held on the 3d of July last. At this meeting resolutions were adopted authorising a further application to Parliament for the raising of three millions of debenture stock upon terms of awarding a greater control over the affairs of the company to the preference proprietors. The bill was accordingly recommitted, and it had now passed both Houses of Parliament and awaited the Royal 1 assent. The £3,000,000 authorised to be created by this Act would be sufficient to relieve the com pany from its difficulties. The debts to be paid were to be proved in the Court of Chancery under the provisions of the Act. The stock could not be raised by the company without the sanction of three-fourths in value of the two classes of prefer ence stocks, guaranteed and unguaranteed, at sepa rate meetings convened specially for the purpose ; but as the refusal of such consent would not prevent the payment of the £3,000,000 in priority to all preference dividends, but leave the preference holder without dividends for some years, the Board felt satisfied this consent would be given. Although at first sight it might appear that the charge in respect of the new debenture stock, amounting to £165,000 a year, including the redemption fund, would be an additional burden on the undertaking, the case was not so, for in point of fact interest upon the company's debts had been already represented in the accounts by temporary loans, which, at the rate of interest paid thereon, would represent nearly a million of the amount now authorised to be raised. If the Metropolitan Extensions be made a separate undertaking, under the pro visions contained in the Companies Additional Powers Act of the present session, but a small pro portion only of the new capital would become an additional chorge against the general undertaking. The bill gave stringent powers to the preference shareholders with regard to any further capital ex penditure, and provided that when the ordinary stock received 3 per cent. per annum, the preference proprietors were to possess larger powers of voting than those accorded to them by the Additional Powers Act of the present Session. Although the revenue of the company was payable to the Court of Chancery, the directors succeeded in obtaining the appointment of the company's own officers as receivers in the suit, thus obviating the payment of the usual 5 per cent. commission. The directors had taken the necessary steps to protect the pro perty of the company from any undue preference on the part of creditors ; no interference could, there fore, take place in the working of the line. The debenture interest would continue to be regularly paid under the decree of the Court, as well as the rents of all leased lines. The capital account showed that £21,131,514 had been expended, in cluding about £2,000,000 for new lines and sub scriptions to them, leaving a balance of £1,013,050 against the company. NORTH-EASTERN The report of the directors of this company states that the gross traffic receipts for the half -year end ing the 30th of Juue last on 1,229 miles of railway amounted to £1,800,437, and for the corresponding half of 1866 on 1,2201 miles to £1,790,279, showing an increase of £10,158. The working expenses, taxes, &c., amount to £872,923, and for the corre sponding half of 1866 to £855,749, showing an in crease of £17,174, leaving the net receipts £927,514 against £934,530 for the same half of 1866, show ing a decrease of £7,016. After providing for the interest on the debenture debt, for the rents of leased lines, and for the dividends on all classes of preference stock and shares, there remained the following balances to the credit of the revenue account of the different sections :—On the Berwick account, £203,270 ; on the York account, £71,0K; on. the Leeds account, £18,083; wick ordinary stock at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, leaving £2,551 ; on the York ordinary stock at the rate of 4-1- per cent. per annum, leaving £2,669 ; on the Leeds ordinary stock at the rate of 21 per cent. per annum, leaving £653 ; on the Car lisle ordinary stock at the rate of e i per cent. per annum, leaving £1,488 ; on the Darlington ordinary stock at the rate of 74 per cent. per annum, leaving £235 ; and on the Thirsk and Malton stock at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, leaving £46. While the trade of the country had not been in a satisfac tory condition, this company had been specially affected during the past hall-year by a strike of their engine-drivers, and also by an increase in the price paid for coal and coke, consequent on the termination of contracts a year ago. Ilaving regard to those circumstances, and that revenue had as usual been charged with interest on the whole capital expenditure, the directors considered that the results of the half-year's working might be re garded with satisfaction. Of the £500,000 new 5 per cent. preference stock created in March last £461,020 had been issued to this date. The direc tors bad not found it necessary to promote any bill in the present session of Parliament, and, without appearing before any Parliamentary committee, they had been able to arrange for the protection of the company's interests as far as they were likely to be affected by measures introduced by other com panies. The directors had no hesitation in assuring the shareholdecs that the accounts in the various departments were kept in a satisfactory manner, and that an efficient system of audit was adopted. Referring to the late strike on the part of a large majority of the company's engine-drivers and fire men, the directors informed the shareholders that very valuable and important assistance was ren dered during the strike by many persons largely connected with the manufacturing and mining in terests of the district, and they deemed it right to record their sense of the zeal and ability displayed by the company's officers and servants on the occa sion, by which the directors were enabled to con duct the traffic with comparatively little inconve nience to the public, and speedily to overcome all the difficulties in which they were placed. The capital account showed that £38,973,102 had been received, and £39,023,507 expended, leaving a ba ance against the account of £50,405. METROPOLITAN. The report of Mr. M. Fenton, the general mana , ger of this company, states that the number o passengers conveyed on the railway in the half-year ending: the 30th June, 1863, was 4,823,437, and the receipts were £53,058 ; ending the 31st Dec., 1863, 4,631,738, and the receipts £48,649 ; ending the 30th June, 1861, 5,207,335, and the receipts £54,740 ; ending the 31st Dec., 1864, 6,514,551, and the receipts £61,749 ; ending the 30th June, 1865, 7,462,823, and the receipts £69,072 ; ending the 31st Dec., 1865, 8,301,081, and the receipts £72,441; ending the 30th June, 1866, 10,303,395, and the receipts £102,947 ; ending the 31st Dec., 1866, 10,969,709, and the receipts £107,295 ; and for the half year ending June 30, 1867, the number of passengers conveyed was 11,488,358, and the receipts were £114,442. The increase over the cor responding half of 1866 was 1,184,963 in passen gers and £11,495 in receipts. The increased re ceipt had been earned on the same mileage, and without any additional sources of traffic having been opened. The largest number conveyed over the railway in any one week was in Whitsuntide last, from Saturday the Bth June to Friday the 14th June, both days inclusive, the total being 542,833 ; the largest number in one day was 113,075 on Whit-Monday last. EDINBURGH AND BATHGATE. The half-yearly meeting was held at Edinburgh on Friday—Mr. T. Hill in the chair. The directors reported that the decreet-arbitral in the submission between this company and the lessees (North British) was pronounced in April last, and the findings were much in accordance with their own views. They had not yet been able to obtain detailed returns of the traffic, but the returns for the year ended July, 1864, and July, 1865, showed a considerable apparent surplus rent due to this company. They recommended a dividend for the half-year of ss. 6d. per share, with 4 per cent. paid in anticipation of calls. The CHAIRMAN expressed the satisfaction of the directors that they were able to continue a dividend to the shareholders. They hoped by next meeting to lay a statement before the shareholders of the accumulated surplus profits they were entitled to under the arbiters' award. In answer to a question, the CnAIRMAN said they had no difficulty whatever in getting their rent from the North British. The report was adopted, the dividend declared, and the traffic auditors were re-appointed. DISCOVERY OF COAL BEDS ON TILE UNION PACIFIC RAlLROAD.—Extensive deposits of coal have been discovered on the line of the Union Pacific Railroad, Kansas branch, about 170 miles from Pond Creek, on th 3 route of Alborquerque. Mr. Sandess, the proprietor of the Santa Fe stage line, reports the veins from 11. to 15 feet thick. Specimens received at St. Louis, Mobile, on July 13th, are pronounced a good quality of bituminous coal. At three feet a vein has been discovered, twenty miles east of Fort Harker. These discoveries aro believed to settle the question of fuel for the Kansas Pacific Railroad. The stock of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad has been taken to the extent of $5,000,000. There is no doubt that if the new enterprise is rightly conducted a largo portion of the products of the West will be brought direct from Ohio to the sea coast by a route that will save hundreds of miles in transportation. RAILROADS IN COLORADO.—It is understood that railroad men recently visiting Colorado have proposed building and stocking a branch to Golden City and Denver, if the Colorado people will do the grading. They estimate it at six hundred thousand dollars. Gilpin County, in which Central City is situated, proposes tl contribute two hundred thousand of this. This branch will doubtless be built speedily, and will run from Denver by way of Golden City to Cheyenne, its junction with the Union Pacific. 'TIE SIOUX CITY AND ST. PAUL RAILROAD. — The Land Office has just received from the Secretary of the Interior* a map showing the definite location of this railroad, starting from Sioux City, on the Missouri River, and extending in a northerly direction till it strikes the southern boundary line of Minnesota, in township 100 north range, 41 west, and filed under the provisions of the act of Congress approved May 12th, 1864, entitled " An Act for a grant of lands to the State of lowa, in alternate sec tions, to aid in the construction of a railroad in such State:' STEAM CARRIAGE. —A light open buggy, in which were seated two men, appeared in the streets of Boston, a few days ago, with no visible means of locomo tion save a slight apparatus under the behind The vehicle came down the street on th e track just e a horse guided as easily asif a horse had been attached. RAILROAD EARNINGS.—New York papers state that the Hudson River Railroad Company is earning plump 8 per cent. dividend on the stock, which has just been in creased from about seven millions to fourteen millions of dollars, and in addition from $700,000 t 0 .51,000,000 a year. This latter sum is to be devoted to extinguish the debt of the company, and the policy is to capitalise the annual sums thus paid out of the income by dividing a corresponding amount in full paid stock to the stock holders, so as to leave the whole property repre sented, as at present, by $20,000,000, and in the course of a few years entirely in stock, and no debt of any kind against the road. This road is 144 miles long. The main line of the New York Central Company is about 300 miles. The Hudson River Railroad is represented by $20,000,000, stock and debL The Now York Central Railroad is represented by $39,218,442, stock and debt. For purposes of comparison, the New York Central Road may be taken as double the Hudson River Road, in capital and length, but the advantage will be on the side of the Central, which, with its branches, has 555 miles from which to receive earnings, against 144 miles on the Hudson River Road. Besides the Harlem Railroad, and the Hudson River itself, divide business with the Hudson River Road. The New York Central has a substantial monopoly of trade and travel along the natural path from Albany to Buffalo. In 1865 the New York Central carried 223,229,271 passengers one mile, while the Hudson River Road carried one mile only 85,778,513 passengers. in the same year, on the former road, the total movement of freight was 264,993,626 tons one mile against 53,738,444 tons one mile on the latter road. The business of the New York Central is more than doubleon passengers per mile of road, and five times as great on freight per mile of road as on the Hudson River Railroad. The fare for first-class passengers is two cents a mile on both roads. We have no accurate standard of comparison on freight, but it may be assumed that with the broad river by its side, the Hud son Riter road does not far exceed the charges on the other route. Yet with this tariff the nett earnings on the Mason THE SUN, LONDON, MONIMY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1867. River Railroad aro stated to be 13 per cent. on the entire amount of money represented. While this result must be very encouraging to the stockholders, it has a broader sig nificance as bearing on the value of railroad property, and on their earnings. it is true that this road has the advantage of immediate connection with the metropolis. But it divides, for the whole year the passenger trade with the Harlem Road. During the summer months the river carried thousands of passengers, and nearly all the freight. Competition is for eight months sharp and constant. The road was very expensive in construction, and the cost of maintenance is very heavy. Yetit is earning, according to the statement eight per cent. for regular dividends on the increased capi tal, and five per cent. to be applied to other purposes. If this can be done on that road, on two cents a mile fare, why cannot it be done elsewhere ? There is no business mat ter in which all classes are more interested. Transporta tion is an element of cost in almost every article of con sumption. The capital invested in railroads in the United States is about $1,500,000,000. Are the statements of net earnings on the Hudson River Road at two cents a mile fare correct ? If they aro accurate, why ao not other rail roads make as favourable an exhibit ?-1,71ea Gazette. The Bridgeport Standard learns that the New York and New Haven Railroad Company intend soon to put a new invention for ventilating cars on their road. The air passes in at the front window, over water, where it is purified, and then is distributed through pipes opening into various parts of the car. The Wall-street Journal reports that at a meeting of the board of directors of the New York Central Railroad Company, held at Albany on July 25, Henry Keep resigned the presidency of the road. The position was unanimously tendered to William C. Fargo, but he declined. H. H. Baxter was then elected president of the road. Tho ad vices from Albany are to the effect that the regular half yearly dividend of three per cent. has been declared, and that Mr. Richard M. Blatchford (of the old direction) has been elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resigna tion of Mr. Keep. Mr. Blatchford was the vice-president under the administration of tho late Dean Richmond, and left the direction, in common with other friends of Mr. Vanderbilt, last December. The same journal states :—" A good deal of talk is made at Cincinnati over aome alleged astounding dis closures concerning the sale of the Lafayette and Indiano polis Railroad to H. C. Lord and others. W. F. Raynolds, of Lafayette, formerly President of the Lafayette Road, is charged with fraudulently concealing the financial condi tion of the road from a part of the directors, and paying no dividends for fifteen years, secretly accumulating the sur plus earnings, and representing the road as losing money, while it was in a most flourishing condition—all for the purpose of buying up the stock for a song. The Tippe canoe County Commissioners sold him the county's stock in the road in 1865 for $25,000, when it really was said to be worth $340,000. RNILROADS Iv TEXAS.—The Houston and Texas C e ntral Railroad Company has acquired by purchase a controlling interest in the Washington County Railroad. The Central Company now takes the Washington County Railroad into their own hands. The lino is to be put in thorough repair. The Kansas City Advertiser of the 13th inst. says:—" We learned yesterday that the iron for the Fort Scott and Kansas City Railroad had been secured, and that the work of laying it would begin in the course of a month ; also that the most of the heavy grading upon this road will bo completed in 60 days between this and Paola, a distance of 40 miles, so that when the work of laying the iron begins, the light grading can be rapidly completed. We may not be surprised to hoar of a pleasure trip being given by this road to Fort Scott, on Now Year's Day, 1868. COMFORT FOR RAILWAY TRAVELLERS ON THE CONTINENT.—Tho directors of the Baden railways have set a good example in the way of improvement. All the carriages of every class are to be furnished with heating apparatus in winter, a great boon to the third-class pas sengers. Hitherto only first and second-class carriages bad been so provided. In Franco first-class carriages are alone supplied with hot-water cylinders for the feet. In England the first step has yet to be taken in that direction. DIVIDENDS. The TVall-street Journal says the Pacific Bank, of New York City, will pay 5 per cent. on demand, free of tax ; the Southern Bank of New Orleans, 4 por cent., at the Cho- mical Bank, New York; the Fulton Fire Insurance Corm pany, 5 per cont.; the Republic Fire Insurance Company, 61 per cent.; the Yonkers and New York Fire Insurance Company, 5 per cent.; the Williamsburg City Fire Insur ance Company, 5 per cent.; the Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Railroad Company, 4 per Cent.; the Cincin nati and Martinsville Railroad Company, 3 per cent. on the Guaranteed Stock, and the Columbia Oil Company, of Pittsburg, 75 cents per share. The Sensenderfer Mining Company, of Colorado, have de clared their regular monthly dividend for June, of 1 per cont., payable at the office of the company, 19, Broad street. New York, on July 25th. The Eureka Lake and Yul-a: Canal Company, Consolidated, have declared a quarterly dividend of 2i per cent., payable in gold on demand at their office, 31, Now-street, New York. The Allegheny and Pittsburgh Oil Company have declared a dividend of 1 per cent., and the Dalzell Oil Company of 2 per cent. (on their reduced capital stock of 8100,000), both payable on demand at their respective offices, in Philadelphia. The St. Nicholas Insurance Company of Now York City will pay a dividend of five per cent., free of tax, on August Ist ; the Corn Exchange Bank, five per cent. ; the Home Insurance Company, five per cent; the Broadway Insurance Company, six per cent. ; the Peter Cooper Firo Insurance Company, five per cent. ; the Delaware and Bariton Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies, five per cent. ; the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, five per cent. on the full stock, and two dollars per share on the scrip stock ; the Buffalo and Erio Railroad Company, five per cont.; the Sixpenny Savings Bank of this city a semi annual dividend at the rate of six per cent. per annum ; and the Universal Life lusumnce Company, three and one, half per cent. The coupons of the first mortgage bonds of the Union Pacific Railroad Company (Eastern Division), duo August Ist, will be paid on that day, by Dabney, Morgan, and Co., New York; of the first mortgage bonds of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company, due on August Ist, by Winslow, Lanier, and Co., New York ; and of the first mortgage bonds of the Hudson River Railroad Company, duo August Ist, at the treasurer's office, New York. And alluding to Juarez he said :—" After having conquered this impious enemy, who has spilt the blood of our fellow-citizens, and outraged our flag —to treat with him would be to give the lie to the entire campaign which we commenced the 31st of October, 1861. It would be to say to the Mexican Indians : Have confidence no more in us ' • trust no more the flag of Fra n ce . ' " But this is what is said to-day by the blood of poor Maxi- milian. In that debate M. Rouher praised the new Em peror of Mexico, and his bold, but prudent and sagacious policy. And, speaking of the French expedition in Mexico, he added : " This will be a glorious page in history." That glorious page was closed on the 10th of June, 1867 ; and now the Mexican expedition may be classified under four heads : French brag, Napoleonic desertion, treachery of Lopez, and murder of Maximilian. When, in April, 1865, far-seeing politicians trembled for the fate of Mexico, M. Rouher re- Have no fear ;" — this matter is, that p an li d ed a t d o de t d he : L ,, e l g v i h sl a a t ti i v s e t ß ru o e dy in : we have accomplished a great deed, a great enter prize ; what is true is that legitimately called upon to revenge the wrongs committed in this vast territory of Mexico, we have established there order, civilization, and liberty ; what is true, is that we have suppressed anarchy and civil war ; and that in a few years this pacified country will bless France." Two years have nearly passed, and what is true is that Napoleon 111. founded an Empire in Mexico, and conducted thither an Emperor ; and in the moment of greatest danger he deserted the Empire and the Emperor ; and that the Empire was de stroyed and the Emperor shot. The Minister of Bonaparte concluded his speech to the Legislative Body of France by declaring that he know well the policy of Juarez, who had said—" I will weary out the French troops and make them go back to France." And M. Rouher gave him to understand that he was mistaken in his reckoning. But, after all, he was not mistaken. Napoleon's army did return to France, and Maxi milian, abandoned and betrayed, is shot. The French army, however, is returned, therefore the work is accomplished. The balls of Juarez have put an end to Maximilian. He who is dead is more to be envied than he who sentenced him to death, or than he who permitted the execution. By a glorious end Maximilian has been able to blot out his errors ; and history will pardon in him all except the one unpardonable fault of having believed the promises and accepted the offers of one who shortly before had been his brother's un relenting enemy. Maximilian ought not to have forgotten that Napoleon I. always reserved for his own family crowns that were worth having, and he might have replied to Napoleon. 111. that, fol lowing the example of his uncle, he should have created his own cousin Emperor of Mexico.— 7estininster Gazette. 111 E NORTH ADAMS SCANDAL. REV. MR. MERRILL'S CONFESSION. (From the Springfield Republican.) Rev. S. M. Merrill, the Plattsburg Methodist minister, who was the hero in the scandal case with a young lady at North Adams, and afterwards tried to make people think he was drowned, when he had in reality run away, appears now in the role of a penitent, confessing his misdeeds and asking for mercy, in a long communication addressed to the 7 roy Times. Mr. Merrill lays the beginning of his troubles to the fact that he was poor and in debt. Changing about from p lace to place, after the Methodist plan, the first years of his ministry not getting enough to live upon alone, and after that burdened with a constantly increasing family, his debts continually grew more in number and larger, and he was so low-spirited that he he could only and find consolation in the company of t young giddy. Thus sTtahtusionheed in wentN eornthfrAomdambsa,dintolBw6olr,swe,hteirlel he found the needed consolation particularly in the company of one young lady, which may have been natural enough, but to the unimpassioned ob server would hardly seem to furnish the help needed in his particular case. From this point the confes sion goes on as follows, closing with a despairing plea to the public for mercy. Whether Mr. Mur rill in the confession tells the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, we leave it for the public, to which he appeals, to judge. To us this confession appears fully as remarkable as any of the previous developthents in this remarkable case : " My debts perfectly overwhelmed me at times. I sought the society of the young, and where most freedom. and gaiety could be found there I visited most frequently. This gave occasion for talk. Some scandal soon started in connection with my name. But as God is true, I only sought this society in pre f eren ce to the mor e sober t o d r ow n m y trouble of listenmintdo mind. thewasproud and wilful, and would not c ounsel of friends. Up to this time my reputation as a minister had not materially suf fered. As the last year drew to a close my reputa tion was suffering more than I was at the time aware of. I was indiscreet. I called at the house of the family with whom my name has been so sadly associated more frequently than I ought to myself an injury, but knows I did not intend have the f family done. to injure any one. Two or three of the family were i d u n u o t t o o n e l d y members of the choir and excellent singers. This served to furnish relief from the gloom and darkness also. ld which had settled down upon me. I always appeared cheerful. But it was all put oWestn. I I me was t the mise r la abl dy e indeed. Wh e n on my way , w hose name has been and so unf ace om ortunately her to associa Albany, ted with my own in Troy,accompanied a most careless and imprudent step. This gave oc casion for that awful article which appeared in the limes, charging us with an elopement. When that article was published we were more than 200 miles apart, and when the paper was handed me and I read the article the last ray of light se emed to be extinguished . I was on m y wa y home. Oh God! my mind wandered and my brain was on fire. I tried to pray. I wept and walked the boat. I returned to Troy and secured a retraction in the papers. But whatever paper I took in my hands froth distant parts of the country, my eyes were horrified with the most extravagant and false state ments in relation to me. And here I desire to say that no part of the blame or censure belonging to me for imprudence or wrong doing in the whole matter should be cast upon the young lady involved in this sad affair. lam older, and on my un covered head let the blows of condemnation fall. I am to blame. Every fair-minded person will see that what I now say cannot be said to screen me or in any way help my case, further than as truth will do it. But as God is my judge, and as I expect to give a strict account at His bar in the last great day for all I speak and do ; and as I hope for ac quittal when all men shall stand silent before God, so far as any crime is concerned with me, or any other being on earth, as far as I know, that young lady is as pure as the stars that shine over her head by night, or the sun which lights her path by day. " I went home to my desolate and sorrow-bowed family. I tried to hope. I tried to pray. A horror of darkness came over me. I owed full one thousand dollars, three hundred of which was bank paper just due, and but one hundred dollars on earth to pay the debts. My reputation was blasted—my hopes crushed. I walked my house— I walked the streets in gloom. I did not know what to do. I resolved to throw myself into the river, and either sink to the bottom never to rise or escape in the darkness and never be seen again by any one I knew. I arrat4.;ed the grim and dreadful work with the hot tears burning their way down my face. I plunged wild and madly into the stream. But, oh God ! The agonised cries of my poor affrighted boys tore into my bleeding heart. I made my way out far down the river. I ran to my house, and passing up through the cellar, got some dry clothes, and started on my dreary and desolate course to wards Canada. All night long I walked, and cried and prayed, those fearful cries tearing into my heart and making me sick and faint. But the awful deed was done. The ruin was accomplished. For two weeks I moved about from place to place a walking desolation. For the first time it occurred to me that my life insurance might be paid to my wife, sup posing me drowned, and at last subject her and my family to the additional disgrace of being suspected of complicity in wrong. I wanted them to be pure and innocent as the light of heaven. This I could not bear, I went to my desolate room and wrote a letter to my distracted family that I was alive, and not to take any money on my life insurance. Oh God, what an hour was that I I began to realise as I had not done before the awful fall I had experienced. Oh, I held my poor throb bing temples in my hands. I lay in agony upon the floor. I tried to pray. When that letter was once in the office I felt an indescribable relief. But oh, the sadness of my poor heart ! What sleepless nights ! What long, weary, desolate days ! Oh my poor Cordelia, the companion of my youth ! How true and forgiving ! My poor children 1 For saking all their childish sports to mourn for one whom they had loved and trusted with the faith and purity of the angels ! All these things hung upon me and filled me with a horror of darkness. How many times I asked myself the question, Is this true, or is it a hideous dream—some horrid nightmare, from which I shall awake to find myself at my home safe and happy ? But alas ! it is too true. " And now, how can language give adequate ex pression to the thoughts and feelings of such a sad and desolate heart as mine ? How have I wronged them ! I will not blame any one but . myself. I will attempt no excuse whatever ; I alone am to blame ; I ought to have suffered on, if need be, till death. Then there is the church of God for which I have worked so hard. How I have injured and disgraced her ! How I have wounded and wronged the ministers ! How I have loved and prayed for them ! God knows I did not intend to harm one of them. Oh, the com mu❑ities where I have lived ! How I have wronged them all ! And the whole public, how I have in sulted and wounded it. Oh ! I am a poor, deso late, helpless, ruined man ! I come to the church, to the ministers of all denominations, to the people of Plattsburg, who have been so distracted, but so forgiving and kind, and hold up my trem bling hands, and raise to you my weary longing eyes, and ask you to forgive me. By all that is humane and tender, by all that is to be hoped for in this world, and by all that is to be desired in the next, I ask you to forgive me ! As ye would that men should do unto you, do you even so unto them.' Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of those ye have done it unto me.' Oh, think of my long public life without one stain upon it save my debts, which God knows many of them I could not help, and then find it in your hearts to forgive me I Oh, think of my wife, noble, gener ous, and pure—think of my poor children, who in their grief have forgotten to play, and for their sake forgive me, and extend a friendly hand to me once more. If I had ever betrayed your trust before, I would not ask it. But surely you will not refuse me now. Oh, think of your own happy homes and mine all desolate and sad—think of your own sweet children, some of whom are in heaven; and then think of mine, and for their sake forgive me. lam prostrate in the dust—l am helpless and homeless— I lift up my poor trembling hands once more, and ask you to forgive and help me.—Yours in peni_ ,ence and sorrow, " S. M. MERnILL." The War of the Express Companies. (From the Round Table.) Few people who have not had special opportu nities for examination are aware of the magnitude of the business transacted by express companies in this country. From small beginning, going back to the time of canal-boats and stage-coaches, this business has grown until now it extends over the continent, and is as übiquitous as the post-office itself. There is not a village in the country, whether in the East, the South, or the West, which has not its express office ; and packages of large and small dimensions, of great or little value, may by their agency be distributed with certainty and despatch to any point, even in the remote settle ments of the newest territories, and, for aught we know, to the towns in our new acquisition on the shores of Behring Straits on the North Pacific. During the war the express companies were called into request in every hamlet in the land, to carry to the soldiers in the field the thoughtful contribu tions of home which kept them inspired with the tender memories that cluster around associations of the affections, and the good Samaritan supplies of the Sanitary Commission were effectively trans ported by them to the points where they were most needed for the relief of suffering. The stimulus thus applied gave to all the express companies enormous gains. After distributing in dividends sums that to the uninitiated would appear fabulous in the extreme, the stock of the companies was quadrupled by a new capitalisation, and the most stringent rules and treaties were made between the companies to avoid competition among themselves, and to insure unity of action in the event of any outside opposition. The National Bankers' Express Company was projected, and as it threatened to deprive the old companies of the very lucrative portion of their business which consists of the carriage of packages of specie, bank notes, and securities generally, it was considered desirable to crush the project in its infancy. This was effected by purchase. Hardly, however, had the National Bankers' Company been absorbed when a new opposition took its place. The Merchants' Union Express Company at once took the field, and occupied it with a great deal of energy and determination to succeed. For several months during which it has been in operation it has succeeded so well in establishing its popularity with the public that it has done more than a fair share of the express business. To be sure that business has not as yet been profitable to the stockholders, but the new company has not suffered in the competi tion as much as the old ones. The course of the old companies towards their new rival has been marked from the outset by a spirit of intolerance of competition which clearly indicates a determination on their part to erec themselves into dangerous monopolies. But it is too late in the day to bring forward arguments in favour of competition or against monopolies ; an intelligent public will require neither. The ques tion at issue is whether the old companies own a monopoly of the express business, or whether, like every other calling in this country, it is open and free to fair competition. The Merchants' Union Express Company has been established upon the co-operative system, which is now attracting so much attention in England and in this country. The stockholders in this company are mostly merchants who pay out large sums yearly for express freight, and they have adopted this plan in order to reduce what they conceive to be the excessive charges of the old companies. Of course, the old companies have a perfect right to take all proper measures to retain their busi ness ; but we think that the course they have determined on for that purpose is not only unfair in itself, but that it is, as a matter of prudential foresight on their part, a mistake. It is true that the presidents of the old companies deny that they have instigated the legal proceedings which have been commenced for the purpose of winding up the Merchants' Union Company. It is probable that the assertions of these gentlemen are correct, but the public will still believe that some one interested in the old companies is at the bottom of the proceeding. The nominal plaintiff in the action asserts that he is the owner of fifty shares of Merchants' Union stock, and seeks to dissolve the company in order, as he says, that he may get his money back. His money which he aims to save amounts to about $1,500, and yet it is notorious that the expenses of the proceedings he has instituted already amount to many times that sum ; and should he succeed in dissolving the company he and every one else knows that he would never realise his money by such a success. Here, then, is an example of the old adage of throwing good money after bad with a vengeance. It has been asserted in a card of the attorneys of the Merchants' Union Company that the gentleman who has brought this action against the company was paid $1,700, by persons in the interest of the old companies, to bring the suit. Although, since the publication of that card, Mr. Water bury, the person alluded to, has issued an answer THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. On the Ist of July Napoleon 111. delivered, at Paris, a long and pompous speech at the distribu tion of prizes, to those who had most distinguished themselves at the great show, in which he spoke of France, great, prosperous, and free ; of the gran deur of France, always fertile in generous ideas, and of the national genius " which never allowed itself to be enervated in material enjoyments." lie spoke further "of the national French fibre, ever prone to vibrate when the honour of the country was concerned ;" and " of the noble sus- ceptibility of the French," and he was proud at having to show to the greater part of the kings of the world, la France telle qu'elle est. At the same moment the untoward news arrived in Paris that the Emperor Maximilian had been shot on the 19th day of June. The Court of Austria had received the terrible news at the same time from its Minister at Washington, and from the captain of the Elizabetta, stationed at Vera Cruz. The Austrian journals, also published on the Ist July, declared that it was but too true that the Emperor Maximilian had been shot on the 19th of June. And this, your Imperial Majesty, who bear the name of Napoleon 111., this is the glory you ascribe to France. You took away from the tranquillity of Miramar an august prince, a man of large intellect, and of larger heart, and with a hundred blandishments and a thousand promises, you entice him to Mexico to receive the crown of an empire which you had founded. But when he had arrived there, and difficulties, opposition, and dangers accumulated on his head, you first aban doned him, and then allowed him to be shot. Say now to the French people Felicitos nous !" Not only was the Emperor of Austria conquered in Lombardy and overthrown in Bohe mia, but his brother was shot in Mexico ! Say now to the French p eo p le :—" Soyons fers," hold your head high. You defenders of every just cause! You have permitted, in the most atrocious manner, the repetition in the person of Maximilian of the horrible fate of the Duke d'Enghien. Speak now of patriotic faith. Faith in your patriotism had the unfortunate Maximilian, and he has paid the price of his mistake. Boast now of the generous ideas of Napoleonic France ; history will register your generosity with the blood of Maximilian. But if we continue to write what we feel in our heart, our article, perchance, will not be suffered to meet the eye of any but the representative of France and the Procuratore del Re in Turin ; there fore, it will be a better plan only to recite the words spoken and reported in the Legislative Body by the Minister of Napoleon 111. Twice M. Rouher favoured the French deputies with his views on Mexico and Maximilian—once in the sitting of the 27th January, 1864, and then in that of the 11th April, 1865. The first time, in' reply to those who had pro posed the abandonment of Mexico, he said :—" It would be the most shameful of all desertions." thereto, in which he alludes to other subjects men-1 tioned therein, he does not deny the allegation that he has been paid $1,700, but maintains a discreet ' silence on that point. What is the natural in ference from his failure to deny this damning charge? Is it not clear that he could not deny it because the charge is true ? There appears to be, then, ample proof on the face of the proceedings that Mr. Waterbury did not bring this action for himself, but has been induced to bring it in the interest of the old companies. The effect of the action has been to stir up the stockholders in the Merchants' Union Company to new exertions, and that effect has been made appa rent by the satisfactory manner in which the call for additional payments on the stock has been responded to. Another effect has been to throw the sympathies of the public entirely on the side of the new company, and thus to render its success almost certain. Public meetings have been held at various points throughout the country, at which the cause of the Merchants' Union Company has been warmly advocated, and the course of the old com panies denounced. Whatever, therefore, may be the immediate termination of the contest, one thing is certain—that the fierce opposition of the old monopolies to any competition will make competi tion certain ; and should the Merchants' Union Company be forced into liquidation to-morrow, a new company would soon be formed to occupy the field and to prevent the old companies from reaping that golden harvest which they expect to reap when they are again a gigantic monopoly. Miscellaneous Foreign News• The close cf the session was marked by some snarling in the Senate and some confusion in the House. In the Senate Messrs. Chandler and Fessenden had a regular " set-to " in the old-fashioned style, in which "scorn" was flung to and fro with great vigour. The amount of this commodity which is consumed in Congress in the course of a single session during the " spicy " personal debates would astonish the public if it could bo set down in figures. Mr. Fessenden, be sides being very conservative in temperament, is rather tart in manner, but has a sharp, clear, busi ness mind, and marches straight to the point with precision. The small amount of sympathy existing between such a man, and Radicals like Messrs. Sumner and Chandler can be readily imagined, and Mr. Sumner, in particular, has undergone several severe mailings at his hands, many of them entirely unprovoked , and a ll borne with great patience and good temper. When Mr. Chandler and Mr. Fessenden attempt to work together, however, the scene very much resembles the efforts of an Austrian drill-sergeant to put a bashi-bazouk through the manual of arms. With Mr. Chandler's peculiar style of warfare, and his particular " ideas," most people are familiar, and few, therefore, will be surprised to learn that when ho is not extravagant ho is abusive, and that in this last bout with Mr. Fessenden he was both.—The Nation. "how, for instance," asked our London cor respondent last week, "will you deal with Mormonism ?" Mr. Bowles has answered, "Run the Pacific Railroad through Salt Like City." That expedient will be tried presently; but the Mormonism of Brigham Young is at this moment exposed to greater dangers from within greater, oven, than if the Government were to forbid the importation of Scandinavians into the country. The anti-polygamous branch of Mormondom which was re united in 1860 by Joseph Smith, jun., and has now its seat at Plano, Illinois, the State which bloodily expelled the original founder and his followers, is making proselytes not only in Europe, tut even in Utah. The "Josephites" denounee the " Brighamites," and if the martyr's son were not afraid of turning martyr himself, he would undoubtedly contest the primacy of the faithful in the Salt Lake tabernacle. Within the immediate sphere of Brigham Young's despotic authority little has as yet been accomplished ; but outside the City of the Saints the Illinois emissaries are preaching with some success, and do good service in meeting and turning back the fresh accessions to the Utah colony. About a month ago Brigham, we quote from The Vidette, an eye-witness, "boldly and openly announced that Amasa Lyman, Orson Hyde, and Orson Pratt had apos tatised and were cut off from the Church." These three men wore then, or had been, members of the Quorum of Twelve—the Apostolic body that ranks second in the Mormon hierarchy—and Lyman was actnally their president. Pratt is returning from a missionary tour in England, and the other two are in Southern Utah beyond Brigham's reach. They are ac counted among the ablest and most intelligent members of the Church, which they have aided powerfully to sus tain. We do not gather that they were really heretics, but it is possible they could not brook Brigham's intention to make the Presidency hereditary in his own line, and nothing would bo more natural, in order to divest them selves of the appearance of selfish motives, than to take u p the complaint of usurpation preferred by the Josephites against Brigham, in behalf of their present leader, the lawful and ordained heir of the martyr. Other factions and secessions en masse aro reported, and the issuo of the struggle deserves to be watched by the trans-Atlantic pupils of Mr. Hepworth Dixon. THE EMPRESS CHARLOTTE. —Quoting from a Triesto letter the Memorial Diplomatique says that the physicians were unanimous in recommending the Queen of tho Belgians to spare h er sister-in -law from any great excitement on the occasion of their first meeting after a long separation. At the sight of her Majesty the Empress appeared more surprised than moved. Her peculiar saga city caused her instinctively to comprehend that some great event had occurred when she who had been so long kept in complete isolation was allowed once more to embrace a beloved relative, but fearing, doubtless, to learn too speedily the irreparable loss she had sustained, she made no inquiry at the first inter view for information concerning the Emperor Maxi milian. She rather appeared to study the countenance of the Queen, in order to detect some ground for hope or alarm. The Queen was attired in half mourning only, with the object of occasioning as little excitement as pos sible on the mind of the august sufferer. But the latter the next morning perceived from the window of the apart ment that the Queen's attendants were in deep mourning, and immediately understood the extent of her misfortune, without, however, exhibiting her deep emotion further than by a melancholy which was the more affecting that it was not expressed in words. It could not be doubted that the Empress no longer entertained any illusion as to the fate of her husband, although no ono had ventured to reveal it to her. Her calm resignation was a sufficient proof of her knowledge of the sad event. MEXICO.—The Republic of Mexico, after the loss of some of its finest provinces, comprises an area of 750,000 square miles—more than treble the area of France. The population exceeds 8,000,000, made up in unequal pro portions, difficult to fix, of Creole, or whites of Spanish descent, the dominant class ; Indians, or indigenous Mexicans ; and mongrels, half-breeds, or mixed races. The Indians computed at two-thirds of the whole, a subject and submissive race, count for little or nothing in the political scale ; although they now and then sent forth a successful competitor for power. Juarez and Almonte aro Indians. The prominent feature in the social and political system is the Church—the Roman Catholic Church, with (till very recently) more wealth, more influence, and more corruption than in any other quarter of the world at any period. Spanish bigotry, combining with Indian superstition, has hero produced results which stagger credulity. Prior to 1861 more than half the productive land of the country was held in mortmain by the religious corporations or the clergy ; their property being roughly estimated at $300,000,000, and their revenue at $20,000,000 (£4,000,000 sterling), double the revenue of the state. In the city of Mexico alone, they possessed 2,000 houses, which they were in the habit of letting ; and there is hardly a town which is not half made up of churches, convents, or ecclesiastical buildings of some sort. Schools are singularly scarce, the Mexican priesthood having an instinctive dread of education ; and they have been remarkably successful in preserving their flocks from the mischievous taint of knowledge. Indeed many of the working clergy aro little superior in this respect to the Indians, who aro permitted by heir spiritual guides to confound the most revolting practtices of their traditional superstitions with Christianity.—Fraser's Magazine. Some two months since a gunner of the Royal Artillery, stationed at Woolwich garrison, made a circum stantial confession of a murder committed by him at Now York about four years ago. The man was kept a prisoner at the barracks until last week, when an announcement was received from the Secretary of State that no further pro ceeding would be taken against him, as after making in quiries the representativ e of the American Government in this country declined to proseente. The self-accused murderer has therefore been sot at liberty, and has returned to his duty in the regiment. SILVER MINING IN TIIE UNITED STATES.—It may not unlikely prove to be the case that eur silver fields will prove to be richer than our gold fields. True, silver mines aro far more inexhaustible than gold mines. The veins do not run out. Those of Kouigsbug, Norway, whose ore is seldom more than an inch wide, have been followed to the depth of 1,800 feet, and are now worked at a basa l workedrge pro forfit. The mines of Freyburg , Saxony, have 700 years, and are now 2,880 feet deep. They have yielded over a thousand millions of dollars. The celebrated mines of Potosi have yielded more than sixteen thousand millions of dollars, and their richest parts are untouched. Accord ing to Humboldt the silver mines of Mexico produced in two hundred years after their discovery twenty-five hundred and seventy millions of dollars. Of these mines the San Dumas yielded in twenty-five years as many millions of dollars ; the annual dividend groat; the Tom boon e N s • e i r] nth K times sa s $5,000,000; and o p f e r t a h t o e 1. 11 ) (L a y s i 1 yieldedli has in seven the San Avasco in three years $51,000,000. Our own mines, though in their infancy, compare favourably with the above. The Washoe Mines are amongst the mos t noted. One of the mines in this region, the Gould and Curry, within four years after it was offered for sale for $lO,OOO, without finding a purchas3r, yielded nearly $13,000,000. There are now on the Comstock foie forty six companies, employing seventy-six stamp mills, which crush 1,800 tons per day. The yield in 1861 was $15,000,000, and in 1865 nearly $16,000,000. The Reese River Mines, whose dovelopmont was commenced on a small scale four years ago, yield a daily average of $225 per stamp, fifteen times the yield of California gold quartz, while the Pah Ranagat ledges are twice as rich as this. Such resources are comfortable, and will donbtloss bo much more rapidly turned to account when the Pacific Railroad is completed, as the cost of transporting supplies and materials to the silver mining regions is now enormous. It is reported that a life of the ex-Emperor Maximilian is in active preparation by ono of our leading publishers, and that it will be put on the market in a very short time. The Boston Post antithetically observes of its New York evening namesake that "Mr. William Cullen Bryant is in the Scotch Highlands, and his paper is wal lowing in the lowlands." Mr. James Pech, Mus. Doc , the learned organist of St. John's, purposes shortly to publish "Lays of Love and Friendship," a book of poems in one volume ; " Tales for the Instruction and Amusement of the Young ;" and "A Child of Sorrow," a romance in two volumes. If Mr. Pech is as proficient in literature as in music his produc tions will be of substantial value. Messrs. Broughton and Wyman, of New York, are about to publish a work entitled " The History of the Great Republic, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, considered from a Christian Point of View," by Jesse T. Pock, D.D. It will be illustrated by twenty seven stool portraits, and will be sold by subscription only. —The Round Table. Mr. Bancroft, the American Ambassador, with his wife, arrived at Berlin last Tuesday. Captain Terry, of the 60th Rifles, has been sent to St. Louis to take evidence of the death of the British officer, Captain Speer, killed on the Upper Missouri by a sentry. Sanford Conover, the perjurer, has been detected in an attempt to break out of prison. Secretary Seward and his son, F. W. Seward, are going to Auburn, New York, accompanied by Sir Frederick Bruce. The Hon. E. B. Washburn sails from Bremen to-day in the steamer Union for America. Ito has been at Homburg les Bains for some weeks past. Admiral Farragut was at Frankfort on Tuesday, but left on Wedn.,sday for Dresden. Had it been known that the glorious old veteran, who captured Now Orleans with his gunboats, was at Frankfort, he would have re ceived much attention, and probably a public dinner. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, who lately left Paris to attend the extra session of Congress, is actively canvass ing on the Republican side for the election of governor of that State. The Republican State Committee of California met July 19 at Sacramento, and nominated ex-Congress m an John Bidwell for governor, D. G. McCullomfor secro tary of state, William Jones for comptroller, and Edwar Jeffers for state printer. Dr. Wilson, U. S. Consul at Antwerp, has re turned after a fortnight's absence. The Prussian Government decline to give an exequatur to Julius Movins of Buffalo, Now York, recently appointed U.S. Consul at Goblentz. The grounds of the refusal were that they could not allow a foreign Consul to reside within one of their forfeited cities. Their Govern ment doubtless feared ho would be at the head of some plot for the capture of the fortress. Mr. 31 ovins had, however, resigned even before ho had heard of the non receipt of the exequatur. 'The total sum handed to the Pope as Peter's Pence by the French bishops is estimated at from 15 to 16 millions. The question is agitated of establishing a Press Fund in Now York like that of London, for the benefit of decayed or superannuated newspaper writers. COUNTRY IdARKETB. NORWICiII—SATURDAY. White wheat (weighing 631 b), 76s to 78s ; red aitto t (weighing 631 b), 68s to 74s per qr. Flour, Ds Od to 50s Od per sack. NOT T INGHAM—Sarum:Wt. Old white wheat, 70s to 77s ; old red, 66s to 73s ; now white, 74s to 78s ; new red, 68s to 733 per 36 stone. Oats, fine, 28s to 36s ; now, 28s to 36s per 24 stone. Beans, old, —s to —s ; new, 46s to 50s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 503 to 52s per sack. LEICESTER—SATURDAY. New white wheat, 68s to 75s ; new red, 62s to 69s ; old, white, —s to —s ; old rod, --s to —s per 36 stone. Ear ley, for malting, —s to —s per qr.; grinding, 35s to 405 per 30 stone. Oats, fine, 37s to —s ; new, 34s to 38s per '24 stone. Beans, old, —s to —s ; now, 44s to 49s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 52s ; seconds, 46s to 48s per 20 stone. YORK—S ATURDAY. White wheat, from 61s to 72s ; red, 60s to 66s per 3 6 stone. Barley, for malting, 35s to 39s per or. ; grinding , 36s to 38s per 30 stone. Oats, new,2Bs to 30s per 24 stone• Beans, new, 4Gs to 48$ per 38 stone. Malt, 66s to 68s• Flour, 49s to 50s per sack of 2801bs. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. &ustralia And New Zealand, via Sonthampton.....Aug. 21. Ditto, via Aler3ei ll ee . . Aug. 18. Ditto, via Panama . . • • Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sept. 3. Ditto, by french packet Aug. 22 Cape Verds, by Brazil pat:Met ...... , Sept. 3. Gape of Good Hope. Asoension. anti St. Helena— Aug. 2 ()Una. Penang. and Singapore , v ia Southampton Aug.;271.. Ditto, via Marseilles Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton A Septu u g g ... 1 31 1 . India, via Southampton . ........ ........... Aug. 2 4 . Ditto, via Marseil es Malta, Egypt, terc. . .... ... • Aug. 1 1 . Ditto, Marseilles Aug. 18. Mauritius, Cape of Good hope, and Natal, via Southampton Aug. 2t. Ditto, via Marvel lea Aug. IS. „Aug.l l . Newfoundland ...... ... • Portugal. Sept. 3. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto .. Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &0., by British Aug. 14. packet . ... Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) .. Ditto, by Canadian packet Aug. 9 . West Coast of Africa , Madeira , and Teneriffe A.ug. 17- West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- Aug. 13. mas) Cuba and Mexico „ ...Aug. 28. Aug. 22. B a h a mas, via New York B e rmuda, via ditto [ADVERTismurir.]—Avoid Medicines: they always aggrog,to chronic complaints: but Du Barry's delicious health-rectoroe Rovelents Arabic°, Food, which yields three times t he nourist" meat of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other remedi e 3 and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sotai r _ i lungs, healthy liver, pure' blood, refreshing sleep, functio; regularity, and energy to the most disordered o r enfeebled. .A extract a few out of 68,000 cures ;—" The Pope's health resto7i: by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68 , 413 . — " "Rome, July 21, 1 8° , —The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially sin c i;, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entire to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabic°. Food, of which he consurac; a plateful at every meal. It has prod u c ed a surprisingly 13°1101 ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this 0,_., 1 . 0 lent food too highly." From the "Gazette de Midi, July 25. ( - 1 .',7r No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' 1 1 0 with a ner c :,(l complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, 414 the most intolerable nervous agitation? Cure No. 1,77 1 ; I ' o o' Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many 3 7 f... 0 0 dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony ";,d, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough , constipation, flatulero, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly."—Cure 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 Y e oci diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, „0 p a rtial deafness. Important Cautio n.—Beware of the .1:1,1'out u nsavoury and more than sloppy im itations to which, NV I „,(1, authority, Baron Liebig's name i s most audaciously attaT4 ; In tins at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2' lbs., 45. 6d.; 5 110, 12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 408 . — BARRY Do BARRY and Co., 14°,iw0; ,c og ent - street, London; also Fortnam a nd Mason, 182, piece d 2 28, a nd at 61, Gracechurch - street; 4, Chea p side; 63, 150, an Oxford-street ; 330 Strand; and all grocers Births. BOWRING—On the 9th inst., at Larkbear e, Exeter, the - of John C..Bowring, Esq., of a son. near Hon ito nr FULLER —On the 9th inst., at Pomeroy , Devonshire, Mrs. Kenyon-Fuller, of a son. WARREN —On the 9th inst., at Gloucester Lodge, Worthil:6 the wife of Capt. J. S. Warren, of a son. Marriages. ITODGES—PALAIRET—On the Bth inst., at Harpsden , 1 ° 5 '14 Henry, eldest son of J. F. Hedges, Esq, of Bolney o° %. Henley-on-Thames, to E leanor, third daughter a t late Captain Palairet, 29th Regiment. r r r i itl MATTHEWS—STUART-011 the Bth inst. a t at Holy " Church, Twickenham, James 11. Matthews, of Calo ° „ 0 .• sou of James Matthews, Esq., of Wimpole-street , dish -square, to Sarah Julia, second daug ht er of .10 0 -e" Stuart, Esq., of Endsleigh-street, Tavistock-square' Deaths. BODDA —On the 9th inst., Mrs. Sarah Bodda, o f 2, Nott ilW h am -t erra ce, York-gate, Regent's-park, aged7o. DAwsoN—On the Bth inst., John Dawson, Esq., late o f the Inner Temple, aged 7 8 . FULLER—On the Bth inst., at Pomeroy, near Honitolb Devonshire, Henry A. Kenyon-Fuller, Esq. GoULD—On the 9th inst., at Hormeadbury, Bees , '- Charlotte Augusta Chetwood Gould, aged 80. PAKENHAM-At Brennan, in Switzerland, the Wm. Pakenham, widow of the Hon . Henr y Pakenhara, v`" of St. Patrick's. PAIGE—On the Bth inst., in London, Ur. o f late of Basingstoke, aged 32. P Hl rrs—On the 9th inst., at Plymouth, Edmund, son C ap t a i n Phipps, Royal Artillery, aged 5 weeks. London : Printed and Published by WILLT.A.II AN of No. 112, Strand, Printer , at 'DIE SUN Ofllce, oou - 10',.11'i 131 Strand, in the Precinct of the Se voy, in the I.liddlesez.—Monday, August 12, 1867.