The Sun. — London, England, 1867-09-11 00:00:00

Who was the Architect of the ParLa. ment Houses• — Mr. Welby Pugin, in a letter to a contemporary, says :—In February, 1860, hearing that Mr. B. Ferrey was preparing, unknown to m e, a biography of my father, I called upon him to protest against such a step being taken previous to reference to my self. He represented that the work was too far ad vanced to be suppressed, but promised compliance with such minor alterations as I might suggest, ask ing me in return to procure from Sir Charles Barry some information regarding my father's connection with the Houses of Parliament. My application to Sir Charles was followed by a visit from him—the first he paid me since my father's death. On my suggestion that my father's correspondence would throw some light on the subject, Sir Charles assured me that every line of it was destroyed, and expressed an emphatic hope that all his own letters to my father had shared the same fate. He was, how ever, greatly surprised to hear that I had found 76 of his letters referring to the earlier period of the work. On the ground of his plea that the perusal of them would be interesting to him, and on the faith of his promise to return them, I placed them in his hands ; receiving at the same time au invita tion to dinner on the following day, and an intima tion that they should then be restored to me. This promise, however, was evaded by his re quest for an extension of time, and a renewed en gagement was made to return them by Lady Barry, who certainly did call to offer some civility to my stepmother, but did not bring the letters. During my first interview with Sir Charles Barry it was distinctly laid before him that he was enjoying the honours in a great measure earned by another, and that I was determined that my father's share of fame, so often guaranteed to him by Sir Charles, and so justly merited, should be publicly recognized. Sir Charles promised to do all in his power to meet my wishes, and on reaching home wrote to my mother as follows :—" I am much concerned that you should be under the impression that .1 could be indifferent to you and all concerned with your late husband, whose memory I shell ever cherish and respect, both as a warm friend and a man of genius of the highest order." These were the only approaches to consideration and sympathy which Sir Charles Barry evinced for us since my father's death. He had, however, pre viously refused to become my mother's trustee for the Government pension, and yet in this same letter he goes on to deny that he had done so. He further states that " all suspicions to his disadvantage ase perfectly groundless." Three weeks after Sir Chas. Barry died. I have detailed these circumstances in order to show that I did take a step towards obtain ing a recognition of my father's merits, but it was thus unhappily rendered nugatory. Up to the pre sent time my statements have been simply met with counter-statements ; for to say that the contradic tory and partial assertions of Messrs. Talbot Bury, Wolfe, &c., in any way prove themselves or each other, is mere folly. They are but the shreds and patches of a story which I and another alone know in its entirety. I will now to some extent complete the chapters, very small portions of which have been communicated rightly, and rectify their mistakes. The evidence they give of Sir C. Barry's compe tition drawings being in pencil is correct. My father's competition drawings were also in pencil ; and this givesgreatprobability to Mr. Talbot Bury's revelation made to me on the 11th of August last, that many of my father's designs were re-drawn by Barry, so that the same touch should not be de tected in his and in Mr. Gillespie Graham's de signs." In spite of this precaution, however, the style was detected, and thus referred to at the time by the Morning Post :— " Gillespie Graham has given a plan in the genuine spirit of Gothic architecture, defying symmetry and order, but presenting combinations of convenience and pic turesque grouping in perfect keeping with the character of the style, which it is delightful to contemplate. The designs evince the author's intimate acquaintance with the style. The drawings by the same hand which ap pears to have assisted No. 61 (Mr. Barry's), are masterly and entirely peculiar." It was at this period that my father told his in timate friend, Mr. Grieve, that " he was the de signer of the Houses." I have also ascertained that my father had pre pared designs for Trentham for Sir Charles Barry some time before he began those for Westminster, and it is a fact verified by Mr. —, who mounted the drawings, that my father intended to be himself a competitor for the Parliament Houses previous to his receiving the applications of Mr. Gillespie Graham and Mr. Barry. These competition drawings of my father's were lost sight of from the day they were mounted, but there can be no doubt that they were the designs for which Sir Charles Barry paid 400 guineas, and which were subsequently, as far as possible, engrafted on Sir Charles's ground plan. I affirm this on authority, to be produced if necessary. This is rather curiously confirmed by a passage in in a letter from Sir Charles to my father :— "I am much flattered by your hearty commendations of the plan, and shall know where to look for a champion if I should hereafter require one." Mr. Talbot Bury has been applied to, hitherto without success, respecting the date of my father's first visit to Mr. Barry. Is it probable, when my father had been preparing for Sir Charles Barry such designs as those for Trentham and other build ings, when of ceurse his intercourse with Sir Charles must have been most frequent, that he would never have heard of or seen a design of which he is alleged to have spoken in such raptures to Mr. T. Bury ? Was the weakness which availed itself of my father's genius in . the less important works of Trentham, &c., suddenly transformed into a giant power of grappling with the far greater difficulties of the Palace at Westminster? Impossible. If any one wants to see what Sir Charles Barry's ideas of Gothic architecture were at this period, let him look at St. Peter's Church, Saffron-hill. That building will satisfy any one that he could then no more design anything at all resembling the Houses of Parliament than he could have engraved the plates of the con tracts. It is simply the churchwardenish carpenter's Gothic of the time. Mr father's designs having proved successful, he was called in to complete his work. His diary for 1835 shows that he was designing during a con siderable portion of that year for Sir Charles Barry; and circumstances lead me to the . conclusion that much of his work did not meet either his own or Sir Charles' views. On the 1st September he was " all day on compositions," and continued thus en gaged up to the 19th. On the 2d of November he worked at the " river front—five compartments." This I imagine to mean five different designs for the same compartment, and conclude therefrom that Sir Charles Barry was in those days what he was when I knew him—never satisfied until he had seen ten different ways of doing one thing. Another entry shows that my father was engaged on " sec tions." Will my opponents inform me whether " compositions," "compartments," and " sections" moan only details ? And will Mr. Talbot Bury, who is so earnest in describing these and other drawings merely as " drawings for tenders" (as though that fact made them of no importance) reconcile this ab surd depreciation with the fact that "drawings for tenders" mean working drawings, elevations, sec tions, full-sized details, &c. ? On his own confes sion, then, my father actually made drawings, as his diaries testify, for every portion of the houses. In September, 1836, Sir Charles sent my father a parcel of tracings taken from my father's drawings. That this was his practice appears from a subsequent letter, in which he slys—" I enclose a tracing of the end as it appears in your drawings." In a former letter he writes :-- They (the tracings) will furnish you with the necessary data (dimensions) for the preparation of a large batch of internal details, incruding the two Houses complete, the King's robing room, gallery and staircase, entrance and vestibule." He then goes on to state that he also wants a col lection of doors, archways, and openings to corri dors, &c., and a series of designs for wall framings. lie wishes the designs to be made to a scale of half an inch to the foot, " except where doors, windows, turrets, &c., are drawn out separately, when I agree with you it will be desirable to adopt a scale of one inch to a foot." Similar references are made to St. Stephen's-hall, central hall, committee rooms, &c. These extracts go far to prove that Si Charles on many occasions did no more than supply the instruc tions usually given to an architect by his client, and confirm my statement that, "although the genera) drawings.then and subsequently supplied comprised every portion of the building, Sir Charles was un able to proceed whenever details were wanting." Thus, with the general designs for the different por tions of the House of Lords in his possession, he writes from Brighton in 1844 thus :— "Dear Pttgin,—I am in a regular fix respecting the fittings and decorations for tho House of Lords, which it is of vital importance to me should bo finished with the utmost de spatch. I am induced to write to you that you may be both able and willing to pass a week or ten days with me for the purt oso of working out the drawings in question, and of enabling me to consult you generally." Further on the letter proceeds :— "But I think you will now have enough to do for scme time to come, notwithstanding your fifty-horso power of creation." From all this it may be plainly seen what Sir Charles Barry meant by " details,"—not some minute ornament for one of his own designed fea tures, but the " features" themselves—" not one of which," Mr. Wolfe declares, " was ever designed by Pugin." On the 22d of October, 1836, Sir Charles writes :—" Being from home yesterday, I could not ackn owledge by return of post the receipt of the draw ings of the House of Lords, which came to hand last night, and afforded me a rich treat." (May I ask, by the way, whether people generally have " a rich treat" in seeing merely enlarged copies of their own designs ?) In the same letter, speaking of the King's and Record Tower entrance :—" This you may make of any design you may think proper ;" and of the King's stairs, " The design of this part should, I think, be of a simple and massive character." If this is not an admission that my father actually designed these portions of the building, what is it ? Perhaps it may convince Messrs. Charles and Edward Barry that so far from my father ever getting " unmerited credit for his share in the designs of theNew Palace," he never got a tithe of what was due to him. There are a multitude of other entries of the same character in his diaries, all proving that he was constantly supplying Sir Charles Barry with every kind of design. When Sir Charles had obtained what he considered a sufficient supply he cut the cable by which he rode so long, and intrusted my father's designs to Mr. Thomas, a man whose practical education was due to his working according to my father's drawings and under his instructions at the Birmingham Grammar School. My father acutely felt this un generous treatment, and for many years refused all intercourse with Sir Charles Barry—a fact quite contrary to the oft-repeated assertion that " their mutual friendship was continuous and uninterrupted." When my father again consented to design for Sir Charles, he did so—as he himself constantly assured me—•solely on condition of having an official ap pointment under Government, over which Sir Charles should have no control ; " for," he- said, " as soon as Barry has obtained what he requires from me he will repeat 1837." The letter of 1845 was simply the sequel to his having sold his brains in 1835. In that year ho became a Catholic, and I have often heard him say, " With that my chance for the Houses vanished, and I made the best of the situation." The Messrs. Barry ridicule this statement, and speak of " an anonymous competition, the essence of which was the concealment of the names of the competitors ;" but, independent of the consideration that his success, with an almost absolute certainty, might not have been followed by confirmation, I am compelled to say that, while it is quite true that their drawings might pass without detection in the most limited competition, my father's touch was as conclusive as his autograph, whether shown on the margin of a note or on the magnificent designs still existing, which he prepared for the Houses, manyof which I saw on Monday the 12th of August last, as well as drawings made by Sir Charles Barry from my father's designs. These designs can be produced, as also a witness who saw them prepared. In addition to the emoluments of his office, I find on reference to his pass-book that in the space of one year, from July, 1844, to July, 1845, my father received directly from Sir Charles £006 2s. Gd. This must have been for work of some value, and surely not, as Mr. Talbot Bury de clares, for taking charge of wood carving works, or for showing his " old friend" large detail drawings prepared by Sir Chas. Barry himself, which he was engaged to see properly executed. Mr. Barry has told the whole story in one word. He says that between 1840 and 1818 the whole of the designs for the great work which passed through his father's office were " finally" prepared by Sir Charles alone. This may be true to the letter, for as soon as he had obtained my father's designs he invariably had them redrawn for use in his office. Mr. Barry does not, however, state by whom the previous designs were made, which " finally" became Sir Charles's own compositions. Now, I was myself engaged for many years together with another, whom I will not at present name, in assisting to draw out designs for the houses, which designs I know emanated from my father alone, and were pre pared by him. I have seen my father on number less occasions prepare every kind of design while Sir Charles himself stood by, but never on one single occasion did Sir Charles put pencil to paper, and he generally left with large rolls of drawings. Sir Charles also in his letters constantly acknowledges the receipt of designs and drawings. If, then, as my opponents insinuate, none of them were ever seen in Sir Charles Barry's office, what became of them ? Did Sir Charles pay large sums for their production and take them away merely to destroy them ? Or, rather, does not the very denial of their existence prove that I was correctly informed by my father that Sir Charles traced all his (my father's) designs privately before they were submitted to "final" preparation? Some of these tracings, and the ori ginal sketch of the clock tower, I have now in my possession. The above statements are somewhat confirmed by Mr. Ferrey himself in his Biography, page 247. " Pugin drew, and Barry suggested and digested, the parts in which the skill of Pugin was required." In further confirmation of what I have advanced I give a few other extracts from Sir Chas. Barry's letters. In one dated November 25, 1845, evidently a reply to a letter from my father, complaining of insufficient remuneration, he says : — " I am well aware that your remuneration has been hitherto altogether inadequate to your deserts, and that the fat has yet to come. It shall not be my fault if your remuneration ultimately is not all that you can wish; but I will not do you the injustice to believe that filthy lucre is the mainspring of all your efforts on behalf of the great work ; but that, like myself, you are prepared to make a sacrifice for the glory of making it the means of establishing for the future what you believe the one and only true style of art." On the 23d of October, 1848, speaking of metal work, screens, and fittings generally, required for completing the House, he writes--" I shall be glad to receive sketches of your ideas at your earliest convenience." In another letter, dated December 18, 1850 :— " 1 should much like to see what you have done and are doing for me before I see you on the 30th, in order that I may have time for lucubration, and arrange everything with you finally when we meet on that day." On the 5th of January, 1851, in reference to designs received from my father :—" I have been overhauling the whole of them with a view to be come acquainted with them, in case any question, whether of a critical or other character, should be put to me respecting them. The bulk of them I perfectly understand and approve ; the one which I enclose I confess I am at loss both to read and com prehend perfectly. Pray enlighten me with respect to it." In this instance the drawings are so tho roughly my father's own that Sir Charles requires an explanation of them to give to higher au thorities. On the 10th of January, 1851, he writes :—" I like the idea of the heraldic illustrations of the his tory of the Black Prince for the polygonal stairs, and I should like to have a little time to think over the details." This proves what Mr. Wolfe states, that " my father's suggestions led occasionally to Sir Charles's ideas." On the 25th of January, 1851:—." I enclose tracings of windows of the central ha , St. Stephen's- 'IME SUN, LONDOS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1.1, 1867 hs dl and Westminster -hall for the exercise of your inventive genius." On the 11th of August, 1851 :—" I approve your design and arrangement for the wall tiles, as well is the floor tiles." On the 22d October, 1851 :—" I really forget the arrangement of the tiles in the angle spaces of the central hall floor, but if you are satisfied with it, I have no doubt I shall be content with the design as it is. Therefore, give your orders to Minton for the new tiles, as it seemeth best to you." On the 7th November, 1851 :—" I approve the principles of the rough sketches, which I return en closed without alteration." On the 8th November, 1851, Sir Charles asks for a " sketch of the regalia, as symbols of the dignity of the house." On the 26th November, 1851 :—" I am much obliged to you for the satisfactory accounts of your progress of all that is now in course of preparation for the great work, as well as for your zealous and unremitting exertions therein." On the 18th December, 1851 :—" The drawings for badges for the Commons' gallery front will do very well, and Crace has orders to make use of them. The arrangement of them which you propose will, I have no doubt, answer. With some of them I am unacquainted ; I shall therefore require instructions respecting them." (Here Sir Charles is again ask ing for explanations from my father; the positions are reversed.) On the 27th December, 1851, referring to the heraldry in front of the houses, he says :—" I shall be very glad, if it would not be bothering you too much, if you would give the subject your deliberate attention, and favour me with your ideas." On the 14th June (no year given) :—" I enclose a rough tracing of flying buttress of central tower (the designs for which I find, by reference to the diary, my father had made in 1835), and shall be glad of your advice at your earliest convenience." The foregoing extracts declare in actual words that from my father proceeded sketches, ideas, drawings, proposals, instructions, explanations, in vention, arrangement, principles, advice, orders —and all for—" glory," which another en joyed. More than this, Sir Charles was so completely at fault, even in the smallest matters, that he applied for sketches and designs for ink stands, blotting cases, umbrella :stands, paper holders, ventilating roses, tapestries, papers, stuffs, carpets, &c., for some of which he asks for fall-sized drawings. I have myself a distinct recollection of hearing my father constantly complain that without him everything would come to a standstill, and the time he lost, and the journeys he took in conse quence. Now, first, will any one deny that the above ex tracts disprove the statements signed (but not written) by Mr. W. Wright, upon whom Mr. E. Barry called two days before my lawyer saw him, when he bluntly refused to give any evidence what ever ? Secondly, do they not indicate in what sense my father was subordinate to Sir Charles Barry ? The latter was the appointed and publicly recognised architect of the Houses, and his decision was final. He had the power of selecting and of refusing all that my father submitted to him ; he had a great plan in his head, and to carry out this plan he had to give instructions. What he wanted he had to ask for, and my father designed and supplied it. In what other way he was " subordinate" it would puzzle any one to make out. Thirdly, do they not fully explain the nature of the' details" to which my father's work was con fined ? The word " detail" has been so depreciated in the minds of many people that it signifies t9 them no more than the crockets of a cano py or the mi nutiae of a finial. Setting aside, however, the above statements, which show thatmy father worked out masses as well as parts, of what are the houses composed if not of " details?" Why, they are all " detail." So that, by my opponents' own showing, the whole is the work of my father. Yet Mr. Edward Barry, after saying, with Mr. Wolfe, &c., that my father's share in the work was confined entirely to details, coolly indites words for the signature of Mr. Wright, declaring that " no one portion of the louses at all accords with any details prepared by my father ; while Mr. Wolfe says that " not a single feature was designed by Pugin ;" and Mr. Bury writes that " Mr. Barry did all the sections and elevations," and that my father " had nothing to do with the competition designs." In the name of wonder, then, and common con sistency, for the sake of Sir Charles' sanity, will they inform us what was the work for which my father received from him 400 guineas and such com paratively large sums afterwards, in addition to his salary from Government? (Although, indeed, he has often assured me that Barry had received from him drawings paid for in hundreds when thousands were not sufficient remuneration.) Does any one in his senses pay on this scale for enlarged drawings, perspective views, details that were " set aside," and other ordinary employments of third-rate clerks ? Mr. E. M. Barry may fairlyplead ignorance of what occurred previous to the date he has selected (1850) but it is unwarrantable that he should state what is positively false with reference to events which took place after that period. He says in his letter to the Pall Mall Gazette of Aug. 21, " I can state most positively that after 1850 every design for the 'West minster Palace emanated from himself (Sir Charles) alone, and was fully worked out by his own hands." Ten of the extracts given above are from his father's letters of 18b1. After this what reliance can be placed on any one of the statements made by himself or his witnesses? I acquit them of all intentional misrepresentation ; but it is evident there was something going on of which they had no cognisance; a head and a hand they saw not were thinking and working on, day after day, encircling the brow cf another with glory and conceiving marvels of art, to be recompensed only by an equal balance of flattery and depreciation. Fourthly--If the nature of Sir Charles Barry's correspondence is so fully betrayed in the few letters from which I have quoted the above extracts, what might not have been proved from their entire num ber ? And what wonder that Sir Charles destroyed c o e d n o s u f c h h i s a g own i t at io (t n h e w o h w e he n n er m fo y un fa d th th er a ' t s I le w tt n e n rs in a p n o d s e s v ex in si ship of which forms no part of the present question), and broke his faith with me in regard to their resti tution ? I expect even yet to confirm the proofs I now advance, by a further discovery of letters, &c. My friends, I see, are doing their utmost to evade the apparent difficulty in the letter of 1845 ; but to my mind, viewing it even in the light they do, this very letter is the most convincing and conclusive evidence yet advanced in confirmation of my state ments. Long before I could have had any influence on the question, what I have now been claiming for my father was generally believed. Now, it is reasonable to imagine that unless there were some very great difficulty in preparing this letter, it would not have been necessary for Sir Charles Barry and his confidential friend Mr. Wolfe to meet my father in consultation, to see how they could best crush a report to the truth of which the work itself is the strongest testimony. Giants are not to be met with every day, and their youth and growth, as well as their middle age, are generally known to those around them. The great results achieved by my father were foretold in his early childhood ; and his drawings and his works all lead up and point to the greatest of them all, the Palace of Westminster. What, on the other band - , has Sir Charles Barry got to show? Where is there one executed work of his which would induce the belief that he was, in very truth, the art architect of that noble pile? The - foregcing are some of my facts and my evi dence for them, but should I again be met by the empty assertions of Mr. E. M. Barry and his friends, although reluctant to call unwilling witnesses, I shall not hesitate to produce men who can prove everything by a word. In conclusion, allow me to add, that from the emphatic denials contained in Mr. E. M. Barry's former letter, we had a right to expect proofs that would have exhausted the subject ; but his remark able assertions have been followed by no proof whatever. Had he any affirmatory evidence beyond a few letters which nullify each other, he would at once have met the question by the production of the original drawings, which must yet be in existence. It is not too mach to demand that they should now be brought forward, and that before the tribunal named by Mr. Wolfe. Miscellaneous Foreign News. It is denied both by the President and General Grant that any elaborate official correspondence occurred between them on the removal oi? General Sheridan. On Saturday, the 17th ultimo, General Sheridan was aware that he was to be removed, and he is said to have taken it coolly, observing that he had only done his duty. His last official act, a tele gram from New Orleans says, will be the removal of Sheriff Hares of New Orleans for joining with Steadman and Rousseau for opposing Reconstruction. By the news the Java brought, which is to August 27, he bad removed the city attorney and city sur veyor, and ordered the jurors to be chosen among the registered voters. He is to proceed direct to Fort Lawrence in Kansas, and not by way of Wash ington, as formerly reported. He will assume the command of the department of Missouri, while Gen. Thomas remains in charge of that of Cumberland. In a letter of the 3d ult. to Grant, Sheridan says that no opposition had come from the masses of the people, but assistance and encouragement, while from the Press, office seekers, and office holders disfranchised, he bad met with bitterness and oppo sition. His chief embarrassment arose from the constant rumours of his removal, and he strongly complained of Rousseau for interfering with his duties, and suggesting his removal. General Rous seau had proceeded to New Orleans at the instiga tion of the President to inquire into Slreridan's doings. So greatly was Sheridan annoyed, that had he not been prevented by the President he would have arrested Rousseau and tried him by a military commission. On Monday, the 19th ult., General Grant, as Acting Secretary of War, re ceived instructions from the President to super sede Sheridan, and on the following day the order was published. All agree that Grant remon strated, but it is unknown whether he based his objections on personal or private grounds. There is a clause in General Grant's order which expressly provides that General Sheridan's acts are to remain in force till rescinded by the General of the Army. The cable news from New York is that Monsieur Dano, the French Minister to Mexico, had arrived in New York on the 30th August. On the 31st the shipment of gold for Europe was small. Sept. 3.— General business was reviving. Sept. 4.—Presi dent Johnson has issued a proclamation warning persons not to obstruct the decrees of the Federal Courts, as was recently the case in Carolina, and ordering the military and civil officers to assist the enforcement of these decrees. The public debt of the United States amounted on the 1st inst. to $ 2 ,500,000,000. We presume this is given in round numbers, but it signifies a considerable ruction, as the debt on the 1st August was $2,511,306,426. It is very remarkable to note hot the prophecies of impending financial evil are belied by the United States. The meeting of the Emperors at Salzburg has had an unexpected result. The body of the son of Na poleon the Great, who was born King of Rome, and died Due de Reichstadt, is to be removed from Vienna to Paris. When Napoleon I. abdicated, it was expressly in favour of his son—at the time three years of age—who thus succeeded as Napoleon II. His cousin, the present Emperor, has decided on removing his remains from the Imperial burying places of the Austrian family to the Abbey of St. Denis, celebrated as the resting-place of the sove reigns of France. This Abbey, situated in the suburbs of Paris, has lately been restored, having suffered much at th e h an d s o f the revolutionists. To Marshal Valliant has been confided the arrange ment of the funeral ceremony. Marshal Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, the Duke of I3assano, M. de Cambaceres, and General Fleury will convey the body from Austria to France, where it will be re ceived with all the splendour—whether it be in trappings of woe or gala festival—in which the Parisians so much excel. ..._____ Some attention has lately been called to the anomaly, that the postage from London to Paris will soon be higher than that from London to New York, in so far that by the late treaty sixpence will carry half an ounce to the United States, whereas eight pence is charged to France if the letter exceeds seven and a half grammes in weight. By the French postal tariff to Italy, Germany, and other countries on the Continent, ten grammes is the weight allowed. The French allege that the English Post-office is to blame for the reduction of the 2fr grammes, who have advanced the pretext that they do not possess any measure corresponding exactly with the French weight of 10 grammes. Those in England who maintain a large correspondence with France are kept alive to the anomaly that exists in the postage. If the E ng li s h have no weight grammes, the French, weight which exactly and it would b e sure ly t o i n t ro d uce th e asew w ci b eue i a c a l h pssyr te c fhs oouerrt presume, qt e eh s u, p ea o r u n ther d ari s vt i se tho Post-officeounce,n 01 e came, 10 gramme weig ht as for the French to introduce the quarter ounce. The case illustrates n o t only the baneful effects of red t ape, b ut also the fact th a t wherever the authorities can const r ue the l aw aga inst the public they do so. Lately at a branch addressed to L on d on, w h ere we eed e d ) pro post-offce in Paris we had a lett er we i g h e d, th e postage on whic h was there declared to be suf ficient. i a t n w d " a rrived before th e l etter was delivered. It bearing an extra charge of ten pence ; why we were never able t o ascer t a i n . It i s probable that the branch office weighed the letter by the com mon standard of 10 grammes the excepti ona l postage to Great a third of th e l etters we rece i ve i B ils ri t t e a a i d n . of Fully 7, from Paris are marked "Insufficient," and we pre sume that great loss results to those who conduct a large correspondence between the countries. The Paris correspondent of the Times asserts that positive information had been received by the French Government that Russia had bought six large ironclad frigates from the United States. Russia fomented the insurrection in Candia, the rising in Bulgaria, which exists, though we hear little of it, and she is doing her best to get up a disturbance in Servia. The state of preparation of Russia puzzles politicians, who hold the most diverse opinions of her intentions. The fuller knowledge now obtained in money circles regarding her financial position is not reassuring, and if Russia contemplates war she will not find it easy to raise the necessary funds. The rapidity with which she is piling up a great national debt, and with which loans in her behalf have followed one another in the markets, have had a depressing effect on her credit. By the Java we learn that the members of Mr. Johnson's Cabinet are reported to have notified to him that they will willingly tender their resignations if requested by hi m so to do. Thi s ac ti on appears to be dictat e d b y a fine feel i ng, w hi c h recogn i se d the Preside n t' s difficulties as placed by the peop l e a t the head of th e E xecutive and respons ibl e f or it s act s , yet powerless un d er the late d ecre e of Congress to remove the chi e f s of departments. By this course the Cabinet nu lli f i es the A c t of Congress, each member ref us i ng to avail himself of a law wh i ch might en a bl e h im to carry hi s o pp os ition to th e chief of th e nation into the ver y cou ncil-room of the President. Admiral Tegethoff sailed from New Orleans for Vera Cruz in the corvette Elizabeth, Aug. 22. IIe will proceed to the city of Mexico, and, if granted an interview with PreEident Juarez, will ask for the body of Maximilian. Before leaving he desired to contradict the reports that the body had been de livered to any one, or any willingness manifested to deliver it. A letter is published in a Leipsic paper, written by Maximilian just before his death. With singular calmness and simplicity he directs what is to be done with his body. It is to be taken to Vera Cruz, and placed in a ship of war for carriage to Europe without ceremony. " I waited calmly for death, and I desire to enjoy calm in my coffin," he says. " I desire to be buried by the side of my poor wife, but if the news of her death be not true, it must be laid in some place until the Empress shall be re -united to me by death. Endeavour also that the wife of my faithful companion-in arms, Miramon, may return to Europe in one of the ships, as she is charged by me to present her self to my mother in Vienna." The American lawyer Frederick Hall has also furnished some particulars of the closing hours of the Emperor, by whom he was employed as counsel. He states : I have gathered a good many facts in re lation to him, and may write his biography when I get home. I think he was one of the best men I ever knew—so kind-hearted and conscientious." A private letter is published in the New York Times which we would fain believe to be untrue. " Make known to the American people," it says, " that the Emperor was spat upon in his prison, that his corpse was insulted during the eight days they had it hung up naked by the neck, for public exhibition, from the bannisters of a staircase in the ex-church of the Capuchins. It is now on view, under glass, for money, and they are selling the hair of his head and beard." We presume this despicable nation will close this scene of infamy by selling the body to the Austrian Emperor. On Sunday last, M. Schmidt, attaché to the late Austrian Embassy at Mexico, arrived at Vienna from that country, having with him several articles of clothing which were given to him by the late Emperor Maximilian just before his execution. The advises from Mata moras to the 15th August state that Canales had proclaimed in favour of Ortega, and that Escobedo, with 5,000 men, was marching against him. At a meeting of Conservatives at Washington Andrew Johnson was named for re-election as President of the United States, and General Sher man Vice-President. A committee was organised to forward this object. The idea is so prepos terous that people regard it as a joke. If Mr. Johnson's chances of re-election to the Pre sidential post are of the faintest hue, he shows determination to be President for the short period of power left to him. Rumours were rife of a reorganisation of the Cabinet at Washing ton, and it was even said that the Ministers had agreed to place their resignation in the President's hands, to take effect as successors are appointed. The news of the 27th August so far confirms this that all signify their willingness to resign when ever requested to do so by the President. General Sickles has been relieved ; General Howard will, it is said, be removed, and General Pope also. Both Sickles and Howard will revert to their rank of colonels, and be assigned to duty in the 'West. The President has imbibed the notion that Northern opinion is changing in favour of his policy, and he is making a strong effort to carry General Grant with him. A schetne has been sug gested to enable Mr. Stanton to turn the tables on his late chief. Mr. Cameron is to resign his seat in the Senate in favour of Mr. Stanton, who is to be appointed by Governor Geary. The Hon. Benjamin Wade is then to vacate the Presidency of the Senate, and Stanton is to be elected. It will then remain for the Senate to impeach and remove Mr. Johnson, and Stanton succeeds as President of the United States. The Springfield Republican, which gives currency to this brilliant scheme, adds that the only thing wanting to its success is the consent of all parties. General Sickle; in the original order which brought him into contact with the Supreme Court of the United States, intended only the public good. The people of his district were harassed by fore closures of mortgages and collection of debts when it was impossible to obtain money even on valuable estates. To meet the case the General issued an order suspending the enforcement of decisions of the Courts in these cases.. No distinction was made between State and Federal Courts ; but the order was believed to be applicable only to the former. At the sitting of the Circuit Court at Raleigh some cases of debts were decided by Chief Justice Chase. It was in the execution of these that Lieut.-Colonel Frank interfered with U. S. Marshal Goodloe. The Marshal reported to Washington, the Post- Commander to Sickles, and the President supported the former and the General the latter. The Gene ral was informed that processes of the Federal Courts were not be stayed by the military, whereupon he requested a suspension of the matter for a week, for time to communicate his views on the subject. The Raleigh Sentinel, supposed to speak for him, states that he plants himself on the language of the Reconstruction Acts, and is not bound by the opinion of any civil officer of the United States. This is strange language in allusion to the President, who is Commander-in-Chief of both army and navy. On Wednesday, the 21st ult., the President and Cabinet met to take into consideration General Sickles' continued disobe dience, and the council seems to have been fol lowed by his removal, General Canby being ap pointed in his stead. General Sickles advanced in self-justification that if the Federal Courts are per mitted to enforce their decisions in his district they may declare the Reconstruction Acts null and void ; but his argument seems to have had little effect on the President, judging from the telegram of the 4th inst. It is reported that in the process of muster ing out Volunteer Generals, Brevet-Major General Sickles will revert to his rank of colonel, and be thus disqualified for his department command. The simple and forcible denial of Messrs. Ben jamin Wood and Roger A. Pryor of all knowledge of the conspiracy of which they are accused has settled that plot. Judge-Advocate General Holt states that he signed the application for Canover's pardon as a private citizen, and not as a Govern ment official, aad General Butler and Mr. Ashley appear to have taken no further action in the matter. Leave of absence has been granted by the President to Mr. Holt, with the understanding that he will be transferred to another post ; but he has declined to avail himself of this leave, and talks of demanding a court of inquiry. We presume that some such action is necessary to dispose of the charges made by Dunham against him. Mr. George Dolby has arrived in America. He has proceeded to the United States as agent for Charles Dickens. Generals Beauregard and Magruder visited the New York Stock Exchange on Friday, tho 16th ult., and mot with a very cool reception, being hissed by the mem bers as they left. Mr. B. L. Catting was censured for in troducing them. James Buchanan, ex-President of the United States, is seriously ill at Philadelphia, having been brought there from Gape May. His recovery is said to be doubt ful. Thaddeus Stevens has had a relapse, and is thought will be unable again to take his seat in Congress. Colonel Gordon Grainger will, it is reported, succeed General Howard as chief of the Freedman's Bureau, or, in default of him, John M. Langston, the coloured lawyer from Oberlin. Brigadier-General C. H. Tompkins, in charge of the subordinate quartermaster's offices, is ordered to Omaha, and General John C. Macfarren succeeds him. Colonel J. M. Moore, of the Burial Bureau, proceeds to Richmond, and the post will be abolished. Brevet-Colonel F. H. Luddington goes with General Totten on a tour to inspect the Atlantic fortifications. Brevet-Major N. J. Luddington, Chief Ordnance Master of the Washington depot, is ordered to Now Mexico. Brevet Major II. A. Royce, chief of the Eighth Division, Lieutenant-Colonel Payne, and Major Francis J. Crilley are mustered out. Colonel Henry Clay . Wool, Assistant-Judge-Advocate- General, accompanies General Rousseau to Russian Ame :lea. The above arrangements have followed General Grant's assumption_ of the Secretaryship of War, in reduction of the expenditure of that department. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in a serial which he is writing iu the New York Ledger, discusses, through a negro character of the story, the probabilities of horses going to heaven. Hiram points out that white and rod and black and grey horses, aro spoken of in the Revela tions; that Death rides on a pale horse, probably a cream colour, and that in the ninth chapter mention is made of an army of 200,000 horsemen. "Now," asks Hiram, "where could they get so many horses in heaven if nono of them that die off here go there ? It is my opinion that a good horse is a darned sight likelier to go to heaven than a bad man." Colonel Robertson, of St. Paul, is importing fruit trees from Russia and Northern China, for the pur pose of obtaining varieties that can be grown in 'Minne sota. Efforts aro being made with the same object in California. The remains of Captain Wilfred Speer, who was shot on bgard the steamer Octavio, near Fort Buford, Mis souri River, in Ano last, were interred on Monday last in the family vault, at the Necropolis, Woking, Surrey. DEATH OF MR. PIERCE BUTLER.—T110 New York herald announces the death of this gentleman, who, it will be remembered, was formerly the husband of Fanny Kemble, who obtained • a divorce. He is described as a man of large erudition, and an agreeable and fluent con versationist. Simon Brewster, the largest real estate owner in Jewitt City, Connecticut, was stricken down while work ing in a hay field, on Tuesday, and died in a few hours. Dr. John H. Wheeler, a prominent citizen of Dover, New Hampshire, died on Wednesday, August 21, after a brief illness. George Wingate Chase, well-known as the historian of liaverhill, and 60 an author of several Masonic work; at ono time a member of the Legislature, and afterwards employed in the State Department, died at Stockton, Minnesota, on the 13th of August, of con sumption. The action of Judge Fisher in prohibiting Mr. Bradley, senior, from practising in his Court has been approved at a meeting of 30 lawyers of the district. General E. Salgar, for some years Minister of the South American United States of Columbia, has been recalled. Rev. J. W. Harding of Longmeadow and Charles D. Brewer, of Springfield, were to sail for Europe, the former on the 29th August, and the latter on the 11th of September. Both will bo absent several months. Lieutenant Herbert C. A. Brand, KN., of Jamaica notoriety, has been reappointed to a ship—the Irresistible, GO. It was rumoured that Mr. Dunbar, of New York, was to bo arrested for circulating in the Globe false reports of Treasury frauds. John Savage is likely to be elected the new head Centre of the Fenians by the Congress in Now York. Marshall, the engraver, who executed the excel lent portrait of Abraham Lincoln, is at work on a lino engraving of General Grant, from a portrait painted by the engraver himself. The new Italian Minister to the United States, Signor Marcollo Cerruti, arrived in the Scotia this week at Now York. Mrs. (Longworth) Yelverton was amongst the passengers who sailed from Liverpool on Saturday last in the City of Washington for New York. Her luggage was directed " The Hon. Mrs. Yelverton." Her object in visiting the 'United States is, it is stated, to give a series of readings. The following officers were elected for the Savage Mining Company, July 18 :--Trustees—Alphous Bull, Thos. Bell, M. Mayblum, A. H. Rose, and A. Hayward; president—Alpheus Bull; secretary—E. B. Holmes ; trea surer, W. C. Ralston ; superintendent, Charles Bonnor. Office, corner California and Sansome streets, San Fran cisco. A. TI. Salter, of St. Louis, lately ascended Mont Blanc; and also a Mr. Copent, of New York. The latter was attended by four guides, nearly all of whom came near losing their lives in a great snow crevass, about 100 feet deep. A CAVALCADE.—Last week was seen at Heidel bergli an American lady and her son, having in charge some dozen and a half young ladies from some female school at Kalameyoo, Michigan. Mrs. Stone had the party in charge, and her son was the treasurer of the association. They are making the tour of Europe, and excite much comment on account of numbers. Mr. Mozier, the distinguished American sculptor, :las left Hamburgh for Florence, where he will spend a few days and then return to Rome. Few persons enjoy a greater celebrity as a sculptor than Mr. Mozier. Mr. Ransom Moore of North Adams and a sister in Williamstown have just discovered that they are the sole heirs to a $30,000 estate in New Jersey. The Tennessee Central College has called the Rev. W. P. Mallalieu of Boston to its Presidency, and he will probably accept it. General Butler is building a red granite summer residence, spacious and solid, at Annisquam, near Glou cester. The Morrill homestead at Belgrade, formerly the home of Anson P. Morrill and Senator Lot M. Morrill, was destroyed by lightning on Sunday, August 18. The loss was $3,000 and insurance $700. Republican nominations for Orleans county (Vermont) are—Senators, Luther Baker of Newport and James W. Simpson of Craftesbury ; state's attorney, L. H. Bisbee of Newport ; sheriff, James Buswell of Barton. Ex-President Barnas Sears, of Brown University, at Providence, now agent of the Peabody Educational Fund, will purchase a house, and reside at Stanton, Vir ginia. The Springfield Republican says—" The recent cure of Elias Howe, jun., the inventor of the 'sewing ma chine, was something of a miracle. He was affected with an enlargement of the heart, and after seeking in vain for relief at Paris and London, came home to Bridgeport to die. When he was just at death's door, after his body had began to swell up and turn black, he heard of a New York female physician, and had her telegraphed for. She came, prescribed for him, and he is now able to travel about the country. Sir Moses Montefiore has been successful in his mission to Roumania. In his eightieth year he undertook a similar mission to Morocco. A most interesting tale, "The Arab's Pledge," just published by Ilatchard and Co., 187, Piccadilly, to which we will allude more fully in our next issue, mentions in the preface the great ameliora tion secured to the Jews of Morocco through the humane exertions of Sir Moses Montellore. Ho was Sheriff of London in 1867, and was knighted on the Queen's visit to the City ; Iligh Sheriff and Deputy-Lieutenant of Kent in 1845 ; created baronet in 1846. It is reported that Lieut.-Governor Claflin, Hon. J. B. Alley, Dr. G. B. Loring, Hon. J. A. Pond, Hon. B. C. Pitman and Hon. II. L. Dawes, are aspirants for Gov. Bullock's place. The Spanish Plenipotentiary to Mexico has arrived at Havannah. If Echoes from the Clubs is to be believed, Sir William Mansfield has had a misunderstanding with tho successor of Captain Jervis, this time about a leg of mut ton7 being the sequel to the former pi c kl e case. Captain John Parsons, of New York, who had just arrived at Homburgh los Bains, on Tuesday last, foll down in the Park in a fit of apoplexy, and was at once convoyed to the hospital, whore he died in about an hour. He never spoke after the attack. He was attended by Dr. Lewis, the English physician at Homburgh, and also by Dr. Deets, a German doctor. He was married to a niece of Commodore Decatur, who resides at Mertweh in Germany. Re had not been well for some days. The French poet, M. Amand, was one day at an assembly where a prominent figure was a man with black hair on his head, and a white beard on his chin. A lady inquired of M. Amand if he could explain the contrast. " I suppose, madam," he replied, " the gentleman's chin does more work than his head." A workman in the Gardner Coal Mine, Illinois, found imbedded in the coal a square block of stone, eighteen inches in length, one foot wide, and thirteen inches thick, partially hollow, and having the appearance of petrified wood. In the centre were found two plates, three inches in length, two in width, and three-eighths of an inch thick, that appeared to be solid gold. On each are curious inscriptions and hieroglyphics. The plates have boon sent to Now York for deciphering. Judge Hall, of New York, has decided that a married woman may be delared a bankrupt under the in voluntary clause. On Wednesday last a party of Americans, num bering some 18, visited the famous wine cellars of Patet man and Son, and of C. A. Capperbergh (sparkling wine), in the city of Mainz. They went down upon the invitation of these celebrated wino dealers, who met the party at the Mainz department, with six carriages, and transported them all to the famous city of Hockheim, where the celebrated Hockheimer Dom presents, and Victoria Burgh brands of wires are produced in Stockholm; a splendid lunch was prepared for the party, and any amount of the grand wines opened on the occasion. After lunch the party repaired to Mainz, and visited Mr. Kupperbergh's immense sparkling wine fabric. Here the whole process of making wines was explained to the party, who traversed the immense cellars, garrisoned with a million bottles of the wines so celebrated in Germany. The party repaired to the public gardens and heard the great Prussian military band play for an hour. After this they adjourned to one of the grandest dinners, prepared by Messrs. Patetman, and Kupperbergh, ever seen in Mainz. Over fourteen courses were given, with a fine wine for each course. Tho dinner lasted over two hours, when the party returned to Frankfort. Among the visitors wore Parson Stevens, of the Fifth Avenue and Continental Hotels, Mr. Dyer and family, Mr. Mozier, the great sculptor, Con.- General 0. Murphy, W. H. Town send, and Mr. Routh, &c. All expressed great delight over their visit. A correspondent asks us who is Colonel or Brevet- General Alexander, who claims to be a brother-in-law of Speaker Colfax. Wherever he goes on the Continent his name is heralded as the hero of many battles. CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.—In a recent letter to a friend in Philadelphia, Mr. Chase says ;—" I don't want to be represented as particularly poor or particularly disinte rested. I think I am worth now about $100,000. I should, at any rate, be quite willing to take that sum in 5-20's, and make a clear conveyance of all I have in the world to any body who will pay my debts. I would willingly be worth a great deal more if I know of an honest way to got worth more. All that the people are interested in knowing is that I haven't a cent which of right belongs to them. I didn't servo them to make money out of them, but to save money for them ; and I really feel that the rascals who are slander ing mo ought to be denounced, and the mean attempt to injure me in the public esteem exposed. It is much more important to the people than it is to me that those who have served them faithfully shall be fully and generally sustained, otherwise rascality will be at a premium, and those who aro trying to make them suspect mo will run their arms to their shoulders in their money-bags. —New York Herald. The American squadron, under the command of Admiral Farragut, left Cronstadt last Friday, after a splendid reception at that port. The celebrated American actress Miss Bateman will shortly return to England. It is said she will make a tour through the provinces, extending it to Scotland and Ireland in October. Among the Americans now visiting Spa we find Colonel Norton and family, of Paris ; Hon. H. S. Sanford, United States Minister, and family, Brussels; Mr. E. Toppan and family, New York ; Mrs. Mason and family, Boston ; Mr. Hammersley, and Mr. Oclare, New York ; lion. Mr. Kasson, United States; Mr. Cavey and family, and Mr. Berthelet , and family, New York. In all the num- leer of persons registered to the 29th of August are 10,897. Dr. J. Mason Warren, eminent in his profes sion and as a surgical teacher, writer, and operator, died at Boston on Monday, August 19, at the age of 56. On the 8th August, Captain Pierce, with 30 men, forcibly entered the office of the Constitutional Eagle at Camden, Arkansas, smashed the furniture and broke up the presses and type, which were thrown into the street. The Constitutional Eagle was strongly Southern in sentiment, and opposed to the Reconstruction Acts of Congress. The Rev. Dr. Cobleigh, recently editor of Zion's Ilerald, has been elected president of the East Tennessee Wesleyan College. John Lothrop Motley, late Minister at Vienna, is about to publish the third and fourth vols. of his "United Netherlands," from the death of William the Silent, to the twelve years truce, 1609. The Round Table tells us that " Mr. E. Steiger, who has been known rather as a re-publisher of stand ard German works and school-books, with occasional translations of American books, as well as the NO York agent of many of the German periodical publi cations, ventures on a somewhat now line of busi ness in the publication of Geschichte der deutschen wanderung in Amerika.' Mr. Frederick Kapp, its anther, has devoted no little time and research to the subject of German immigration to this country, and his little book must prove of interest and value to his countrymen here and in their native country An interesting circumstaeoe respecting it is that its publication here is simultaneou s with that by a Leipzic house—the first instance, in the absence of international copyright, of a foreign house com pensating author and publisher for a German work coil" righted in the United States." Principal Dawson, of M'Gill College, Montreal, has prepared a new edition of his "Acadian Geology" in which geological information respecting Nova Scotia, Nel y Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island is made complete to date ; and chapters are added on pre-historic times iu Acadia, the flora and land fauna of the carboniferous end Devonian periods, the recently discovered fossiliferous pri mordial beds, the coal, iron, and gold deposits, and the mining industries. Sassaki Gowrok, the Japanese official stopping in Springfield, has presented to James L. Amsden, the fruit dealer, a copy of an illustrated work on botany, published and bound in Japan. The work is a real curiosity, and was presented to Mr. Amsdon in acknowledgment of in formation given him through his interpreter, concerning the mode of making cider, vinegar, and fruit wines' Although they have apples and other fruit in Japan, th©y have nevor knuwn how to make from them the articles mentioned. All their vinegar has heretofore been wad ? from a distillation of rice, an d th e comm i ss i oner introduce on his return the Yankee method of maki n g vinegar, as well as some other things. BRISTOL—TUESDAY. At tho corn market to-day there was a fair attondav c ° of country millers, who took foreign wheat at an advanc; of 2s to 3s per qr. Grinding barley scarce, and therefor. 6d dearer. New oats 6d cheaper. LEEDS—TUESDAY. We have little demand for wheat to-day ; but what sales were made in new sorts brought an advan ce o f 2s to 3s P er qr on the prices of last week; old, is to 2s more mon e y' A few samples of new barley offering, which brought ra ther irregular prices. Other articles unchanged. LIVERPOOL—TUESDAY. na We had a good attendance to-day of both the town !I - , country trade at our market, but wheat met with oP 1 1 moderate inquiry, although at prices ranging 4d to 8d P 9 e ci contal on the week. Flour in fair request, and 6d per sack advance on the rates of last Tuesday. In" eY• corn in good demand, and 2s to 2s 6d advance on the we1 Oats firm, and the rates of last week supported. 0o,tule steady. Beans at late quotations. MELTON MOWBRAY.—TuEsDAY. White wheat, 64s to 738 ; re d, 58 s t o 68 s per 36 gto rl ! l ; Barley for malting, 40s to 52s per qr ; feed, 32s to 386 , 6 t, 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 32s ; n ew , 25 s t o 30 s per Beans, old, 52s to 54s; new, 45s to 50s per qr. SHEFFL. There was a good supply of —TUESDAY wheat, and the bilsill e f: transacted was at an advance of 2s to 3s per qr, _but tr ail was slow. Oats and other articles as before. 1 Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels 21s Od to 258 ot i White do do 30s Od 3.2 !„ od New red do do — 245 Od 26 od New white do do 20s e d 2 7 ' o i Beaus do do 19s Od 220,,d 13" n Peas, per qr. . 1 s od 1d GrindingGrindingha- ley, per qr Maltinebarley, ( o Oats, do Flour....25 3d to 2 8d per 11 2 1 3 b 735 .. s:°°°ddd 328S0 s8 u:;-;11 MARKET HARBOROUGH.—TuEsDAY• With a small show of wheat, there was a fair denl at 3s advance. r 6 Old white wheat, 65s to 74s ; new red. 61s to 6 9 s 11 0 o t. stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; other kinds, 23s to 36s per ' 0 1 ( .1, Oats, now, 258 to aus ; old, 30s to 32s per qr. Beans , 46s to 53s; new, 42s to 47s per qr. MAILS DUE. L 19. Australia and Now Zealand, via Southampton.....S0P- Ditto, via Marseilles..,..........Sept 13' Ditto, via Panama • •• Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Oct 4',2 Ditto, by French packet Sep t ; Cape Verds. by Brazil packet ..... Oot. 417 Cape of Good Hope. Asoension. and St. Helena.... Sep t ' v , China. Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton..Sek t • Ditto, via Marseilles . ..... Sept.. Falkland Islands Oct- 4 , S e pt. •-• Gibraltar, via Southampton India,via Southampton Ditto, via Marseil es Malta, Egypt, &a Ditto, Marseilles Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and N . at . a . i....v .. i . a .SSSSeeee4P:71:13 9 -939 : 1; Southampton Sept' 4 . IS. Ditto, via Marseilles SeP7 2 5, ot.: Newfoundland s Portugal 00 1 " 1. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto .. Ditto - ditto . - to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &c., by British ig packet „ • OOOO SePt" Ditto, by United States packet ..... _ Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) . . ........ Ditto ditto (Baltimore) I Sept 3. Ditto, by Canadian packet :,„`t 1 6 . West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffc...• • •. - r West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- 13. mas) Sept t s • - Cuba and Mexico Sept Bahamas, via New York OA g q s ScO• - Bermuda, via Halifax ........... , 1 11° THE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT AT CHATHANe" the r task of dragging the river in Long Reach f°r 0 ee ' P body of the unfortunate o ffi cer of the Royal EP • log Lieut. J. J. Robertson, who was drowned by the uPsen tt aor of a boat last Friday evening, was resumed Y ester l ice morning by the water police of the metropolitan Il t io force doing duty in the dockyard, and several men ° 13 ; corps faoprpte ha ert sobthat oewhichirdneysts E. t, r estor es rEnterr d hNls y e erhp c . be3et e_ erh a fsr s D net eeaoemedtav hooksdbo ;flegeochr attachedientai r,civ g oshs een e s rro d ,wcoo N e v nnr e teeta r oo e i nu on est.nhgethboadrgeerareadgdstileuscli:".:Teioreiltit contact with the sunken boat on Saturday even ,. i u ll' bo ot i'hriaRni' healthy a l. au t v Ae l h i hy lb e n Eh msl o t Re i Revalenta 00 4 Be st_ 0 report that lad ies " to the most disordered or enfeebled, removing sPee w .,'„'" a tioT effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), habitual cons 1 1.0 0 " noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, strong ifetlritocyinog times u s ne H r v.i e te a ss l ,e t s h lut nidu Li jefso i diarrhoea, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency , n f e tu eO 0 ' sleep, functional regularity, an d i e v u AO' ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, in e rar: i m p u ritie? , , , pal tions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, aciditi1,60 pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, crawl* , s o bitil nausea, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthina, br ° _Los 0 _ incipient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the cheer © P ci 7 no to P t the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. W e , by P o few out of 68,000 cures :—The Pope's health rest Barry's Food.—Cure No. 68,418. "Rome, July 21, 1 .b' e sto k , health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially 8 ' 11 %1.011 " 9 , doninr , all other remedies he has confined himself en 0 ,00,„ Du Barry's Revalenta Ar a bica Food, of which he cons 1 00 1 4 plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprising Y •so t b ly tedArsis:3:118:isbinftircesearsthoiFehcogurred. The cial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot ,,,.Prt . ,, ye., excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du 0 . v jr',2 25. Cure No. 49,832.—" Of fifty years' indescribable settle:lc, dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipati9 13, V r ig, .;° 0 • 8 7 0 spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting.' 121,- - so, Wortham, Ling, near Dies, Norfolk.—Cure No. 47, ... s, tict. o , Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing Vicarage, Waltham Cr,°:,, spir'or of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings , 1 'il i o t ti t and nervous fancies. Important Caution.—Beware ,, w it1 1 , unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations tow hi e joic 6 ; 0 . ; uthority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously it, „ s ., 1.'/, In tins at ls. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; ..,;.', pro :l i y , 12 lbs., 22s.; 24 lbs., 400.—BARRY Du BARRY auL v pice9Pg$9, xtegent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 1." and 15 0 , and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 6 - 2 , o stO , Oxford-street ; 330 Strand ; and all grocers and 0 b . ____,/ Births. 11°°. BYNG—On the 7th inst., at 20, Onslow-gard ens, t 11 Mrs. ' Francis Byng, of a daughter. ff° O ire BAGOT—On the 9th inst , at B roc t on Lodge, Si' r r the wife of Rear-Admiral II. Bagot, of a daughte-;, TROLLOPE —On the 10th inst., at 37, Eccleston-09.116r Charles B. Trollope, of a daughter. Marriages. , „stO 0 0- COOK—PALMER-0n the 10th inst., at St. over-square, Major Cook, late 11th Hussars, tamer' of M., youngest daughter of the late W. u. rat Portland-place, W., Esq. WETIIERELL —OREATBATC — On the 7th inst., a t I t c ; 0 1°11 and James, 'Oxford, Nai ban Wetherell, Esq. , " Eliza, third daughter of L. Greatbatcli, /%5 ( 1 . ARMITAGE—OnhllIJohn Armitage, the9t1Eipsignes,ai.a,tghaestd.W50o.odville 1 1 ° 1 ' 1‘71.est fintnni tlildef FRIEND—On the 7th iust , at . Tunbridge-Wells, `',1' 73. , I Charles Friend, R.N., Ramsgate, Kent, ag e- Stira' e o LAYCOCK —On tho 7th inst. at at Bradford, york; e1 o f Laycock, Esq., J.P., Chair . man of the Dire ct° 41 Bradford Banking Company, aged 81. ROY POCOCK— On the 8th inst., at Warmi ns ter, w" Pocock, Esq., aged 91. At Of" 1 1, „ London : Printed and Published by WILLI A • rm .A. , r 4° ,,,, 1 0+ of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tag SUN '',7,sce0000'1" Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 311dclieaex.—Wedneulay, September 11, 1867.