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Take, for example, the 67th, or Hampshire, Regiment of the Line ; let that be styled the Ist Battalion Hampshire ; the Hampshire Militia 2nd Battalion, Ist Reserve ; the Hampshire Volunteers 3rd Battalion, 2d Reserve. The recruiting for the Line regiment, or Ist battalion, to be entirely from the 2nd battalion, Ist Reserve, the vacancies in which should be filled up as they occur by volunteers from the 3d battalion 2d Reserve. If the Volunteers were distinctly informed that they were looked upon as forming a com ponent part of our regular army there would never be a lack of men obtainable by the Volunteer officers to speedily fill up vacancies caused by the absorption of the 2d battalion or militia by the Ist battalion or line regi ment. Let the Militia and Volunteers be formed into brigades, with a proper staff, and drilled in brigade for a fortnight, assisted by any line regiment available. The drill might take place in the autumn, after havvest ; this drill would c rea t e as it were a perfect unit out of a number of infinitesimal particles ; appoint officers to the vacancies in the reserve from the half-pay list ; increase the half-pay of those officers 2s. per diem the whole year round ; let the appointment of all officers rest solely with the War-office ; by giving the Militia 28 days' training in the spring, as well as fourteen days in the autumn with the Volunteers and Line. An increase of expenditure would of course take place, but it would be counterbalanced in a measure by the reduction of the expence in obtaining recruits, as being transfers from their several battalions, the expense of bringing money and other incidentals would be done away with. The Artillery and Engineer Volunteers and Militia might act as reserves for supply of men to the regular forces of that arm. The Welsh Rifle regiments might form reserves to the Rifle Brigade and GOth Rifles, those corps having no county distinction. Any 11 T ilitiaman or Volunteer joining the Ist Battalion should be allowed one-third previous ser vice towards . pension or discharge. I will say nothing as to the manner in which many of our Militia regiments are at present officered, but. while the present syst em o f se l ec ti on an d a pp o i n t m e n t exists, there will never be a change for the better.—Yours obediently, DANIEL M`CAY, Late Captain 55th Foot, and Denbigh Militia. 79, Tavistock-crescent, Westbourne-park, 19th August, 1870. NEW NOVEL BY NOELL RADECLIFFE. Just Ready, in 3 Vols., THERESA. By NOELL RADECLIFFE. Author of "Alice Wentworth," &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ZADKIEL'S ALMANACK for NEXT YEAR contains the YEAR of FATE for FRANCE. Will appear early in September. Berger, London. Best Advertising Paper in the Western Counties. 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(Four Doors from Somerset House), LONDON. Read "Water; its Impurities and l'urificatio.," nice, 2d, LAW AND POLICE. VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—Thomas Ward, a young man, was brought up before Mr. Knox, at th e Marlborough Police-court, charged with violently assault ing Police-constable Booker, 382 E, and Mary Ann White was charged with attempting to rescue Ward from the custody of the police. The constable, who was much bruised about the face and body, stated that on the pre vious evening he was in Broad-street, Bloomsbury, when he saw Ward, who was drinking, making a great dis turbance. He requested him to go away, when he refused, and knocked him down, fell on him, and struck him several times, and he was obliged to use his truncheon on him to get him off. On taking Ward into custody White tried to get him away, and it took five constables to get him to the station owing to his violence. In answer to Mr. Knox the constable stated that he was very much hurt. After hearing evidence as to the prisoner's violence, Mr. Knox committed Ward for a month with hard labour for the assault on the constable, and ordered him to pay for the damage done to the con stable's cape, or be further imprisoned for seven days, and as it appeared that White had not been guilty of any violence discharged her. CANNIBALISM. — John Callaghan, a seaman, was charged at the Thames Police Court with unlawfully wound ing Mary Buckley, in Williams'-court, Cable-street, Whitechapel. There was a row in Williams'-court among the Irish fraternity there, and the prisoner, who came from Red Cross-street, Southwark, on a visit to his " Shister's husband," joined in the fray, and the whole party began knocking each other about in wild confusion. The prisoner was scratched by Mary Buckley, and he threw her down, fell upon her, and bit her lip off. She was raised from the ground and taken to the London Hospital, where she has been and is now under medical treatment. The prisoner denied the alleged cannibalism. He was remanded for, a week. 4 A DISHONEST SON.—William Miles, aged 14 years, was charged with robbing his father, Thomas Miles, of two hats and a coat. The prosecutor bewailed the dis honesty of his son in a very indignant and sorrowful manner, and said this was not the first time be had to charge him with robbery, and he was insulted and told that he wanted to get rid of his son cheaply, which was not so. He had six children, and they were all honest with the exception of the prisoner, who contaminated them all. He was a very poor man, and his earnings only 15s. per week, but he educated his children and brought them up properly, and it was a grievous thing to have a wolf in sheep's clothing among them. The robbery and sale of the hats and coat was proved by the father and mother of the boy, who treated the whole affair with the most supreme indifference. The magistrate said he would remand him for a week, and then send him to a reforma tory.school. The father must pay something out of his earn ings for his support. THE LATE RULE OF 'NEWCASTLE'S ESTATE.—In Vice- Chancellor Bacon's chambers, the case of " Davis v. Antrobus " was brought before Mr. Allen, the chief clerk. The suit is one instituted against the trustees under the will of the late Duke of Newcastle, Sir E. Antrobus and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, for the purpose of ascertaining whether, by reason of the non-payment of the yearly rent, the mansion house in Carlton House terrace did not revert from the present duke to the trustees, the property having been bequeathed con ditionally to the testator's successor in the dukedom. It was admitted that there had been default, but it was contended that the bequest was not thereby vitiated. It was argue d, on the other hand that, under the circum stances, the trustees had acuired a beneficial interest in the mansion, to the ex exclusion of the creditors of the estate of the present duke. An applica tion was made for an extension of time for the pur pose of filing further affidavits, and there being no objec tion, the application was granted. ACTIONS FOIL DAMAGES ON RAILWAYS. —Two more actions arising out of railway accidents were tried at the Leeds Assizes on Monday, and in each case the verdict was in favour of the plaintiff. A machine and metal broker, named William Brown, was awarded the sum of £550 for injuries sustained while travelling on the Lanca shire and Yorkshire Railway in November last, and the widow of Mr. W. Armitage, carpet manufacturer, of Heckmondwike, recover e d £l,BOO f or th e l oss o f h er s band by an accident on the Caledonian Railway in February. The defendants were the Midland Company, as the deceased took his ticket at their station at Brad ford. SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A POLICEMAN,-If the evi dence of twelve or f our t een w it nesses , exam i ne d before tne Manchester stipendiary magistrate on Monday, is to be believed, a member of the Manchester police force has been guilty of an outrage of the grossest kind. The evidence proved that on the night of Saturday, the 6th instant, a coachpainter went to a bazadr at the Free trade Hall, that about midnight he was in a perfectly sober state, and that not long afterwards he was seen by a man who knew him in the custody of a policeman. He is described as appearing to be at that time • quite sober, and capable of taking care of himself." The man offered to take him home, whereupon the officer immediately closed with his prisoner and both fell to the ground. The prisoher was on his back, and the officer "clutched him by the throat with both hands," and at the same time was " kneeling with both knees " on the man's chest, though he offered no resistance. Another policeman then came up, and the prisoner was handcuffed, and dragged along the flags " like a sack." A bystander noticed that the prisoner was frothing at the mouth, and told the policeman that he was in a fit. They dragged the man forty yards further, when a third policeman went to their assistance. Then they car ried him, and a witness who followed them heard the man's head " bumping "on the pavement. During all this expressions were used by the officer who first had the man in custody which give a deeper colouring to the affair. When they reached the police-station the officers found that their prisoner was dead. On Monday, the policeman who took the deceased into custody was charged with causing his death. Evidence was given in the prisoner's behalf by the two policemen who assisted him and by two other persons, after which the case was adjourned till Thursday. A NOTABLE BANKRUPT.-At the Court of Bankruptcy, the case of Sir Minto Walter Townsend Farquahar, Bart., was mentioned to Mr. Registrar Hazlitt (sitting as Chief Judge). The hon. baronet is described as of Earl's-court road, Brompton, of no occupation. No less than three petitions for adjudication of bankruptcy have been pre sented against him, one of which stood for hearing at that time, but an adjournment was ordered by consent until the 7th of September, when it is understood that the whole of the petitions will be heard. AUGUST 24, 1870. SERIOUS FIRE AT ROTHERHITIIE. TWO PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH-OTHERS INJURED. Yesterday morning the inhabitants of the densely populated neighbourhood of Rotherhithe, were aroused from their beds, at a few minutes before three o'clock, by the springing of the policemens' rattles, and eries of "Fire." It was soon seen that the conflagration was one of no small magnitude, and the neighbours flocked in large numbers towards the locale indicated by the reflection of the flames. Upon reaching Church street, they beheld a scene seldom witnessed at a London fire, notwithstanding the great number that usually take place in the metropolitan district. At the second floor windows were three persons crying out to those below in an agonising way for help. At the same time immense sheets of flame were belging forth from the ground floor, and rising to. the first story. The staircase and, the upper landing were also on fire, which prevented anyone from either ascending or descend ing to render the least assistance. The poor creatures at the second floor windows could see the top of the fire escape coming to their rescue when the flames entered their rooms with much rapidity. Thinking, however, thgt it stOuld be too late, and to avoid being burned to death, they all simultaneously jumped out of the windows. By so doing ; they were seriously; if not fatally injured, and they were obliged to be removed to the hospital. Their names are Henry Cox, aged 22, a greengrocer, who occupied the front shop, and the front rooms on the second floor ; Henry Welsh, aged 20, and Frederick Thomas, aged 13. The other portion of the premises, which stood at No. 6, Church-street, belonged to Mr. T. Lewis, a tobacco pipe maker, and upon the alarm being given, two men, a father and son—one named Thomas Dinnie, 60 years of age, and his son, Thomas, aged 14, were unable to effect their escape, and unfortunately both were burned to death. The engines of the Metropolitan Brigade, including three powerful land steamers by Stroud, Mason and Co., promptly attended, when the firemen found plenty of water flowing from the mains of the Southwark Com pany's works. The London Salvage Corps also attended, and owing to the combined exertions of all present the flames were eventually extinguished, but not until the premises, consisting of seven rooms, were burned out, the roof destroyed, and the furniture and other effects consumed. When the ruins wete apparently cooled, Mr. Dennie and his son were found burned in a fearful manner, and of course quite dead. 'Their renfains were placed in shells and removed to the workhouse to await the Coroner's inquest. The other parties who jumped out.of window, before spoken of, still remain in the hospital, and are pronounced to be in a very preca rious state. Several of the adjoining houses were also more or less injured by fire and water, and unfortunately none of the sufferers are insured. The origin of the fire up to the present time is enveloped in mystery. THE RETREAT TO MONTMEDY. The Paris eOrrespondent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writing on Monday night, says after two days of great anxiety people breathe more freely this evening, consider ing that Bazaine is not only safe but formidable to his enemies. The Marshal is said to have telegraphed to the War Minister that he is executing his retreat with regularity, and carrying with him all his artillery, baggage, and provisions. He asks for a little patience and absolute silence as to his movements. It was for this reason that Count Palikao refused to tell the Chamber all he knew this evening, although much impatience was manifested to learn how Bazaine was extricating himself. •The Liberte affirms that the Marshal has gained the line of rail from Mezieres to Montmedy, and that he has received the provisions and ammunitions which he had awaited several days, and which had not been able before to get past Sedan in conse quence of the übiquitous Uhlan. The Libertl also knows that Marshals Bazaine and MacMahon are about to effect their junction, and that they are already in communication. According to the writer, too much importance should not be given to the fact of the railway communication between Paris and various parts of the east having been cut off. According to the Lzberte the Prussians were totally defeated on the 18th, when they. left 40,000 wounded on the field of battle, and had to demand leave to send them home through Belgium and Luxemburg. The Em peror, it is added, has left Chalons with MacMa hon's army, leaving behind him all his baggage, and intent on carging at the head of the cavalry of the Guard. In addition to these rumours, which have restored confidence on the Boulevards, it is said that the Crown Prince has suddenly arrested his course - 7-7ft:- tztinge - quence of the inability of Prince Frederick Charles and Marshal Steinmetz to get rid of Bazaine and co-operate in his movement on Paris. It is true that M. Lesperut, deputy tried to get to Chaumount on Saturday, and was obliged to return without seeing his constituents. He announces that the army of the Crown Prince is marching on Vitry-le-Frangais by Saint Dizier, Chateau Neuf, and Ligny, at the rate of twenty-six kilometres a-day. Those who maintain that the Crown Prince has suspended his march credit him with the intention of falling back to aid the " Red Prince " and Steinmetz to finish off Bazaine. A third version is that only a portion of the Crown Prince's army has retrograded to Bar le-Duc with that intention. There is a great deal of uncertainty still, but not the same despondency as yesterday. M. Jeannerod, the able corre spondent of the Temps, was at Rheims on Sunday even ing, on his way to Chalons, when he learned that the camp was breaking up, and the news had hardly reached him before he heard the drums and bugles of regiments on the march, and saw "at the same time a long column of all arms wound along the Laon road as far as the eye could reach." This looks as if Mezieres were MacMahon's ol - jective. "In the same manner as after Woerth and For bach I felt comforted by the aspect of Bazaine's splendid army, so on seeing the fresh troops, which have as yet suffered none of the hardships of war, I felt hope return again. Eighteen trains have arrived at. Rheims since noon, and many more are expected to-night ; at this rate in a very few days our effective in men and stores will be entirely replenished." _ THE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The Great Yarmouth boats engaged in the North Sea herring fishery have made a fair beginning this season. Deliveries have already been made by from thirty to forty smacks. Prices have ranged at from £lO to £2O per last (13,200 fish). The Lords of the Admiralty have given directions that no surplus stores nor ships which could be of service to the belligerents shall be sold until peace be proclaimed. The determination respecting the men-of-war has been the result of a communication received at Whitehall from the Foreign Office. A SUSPECTED FENIAN.—At Bolton an application► for the transfer of a beerhouse license from John Proctor to Daniel Nearey has been opposed on the ground that the latter belongs to the Fenian organisation. The appli cant stoutly denied the charge, and at the suggestion of the chief constable the case was adjourned for a week. The steamboat Silver Spray, while coming up the Mississippi from New Orleans, bound to Cincinnati, ex ploded her boilers near Memphis on the 30th of July, at midnight, and soon after catching fire, was burnt to-the water's edge. The passengers and crew had little time to escape, and twenty-one were either drowned or scalded and burnt to death, while some twenty others were seriously injured. The Dean of Chester headed a deputation to the magistrates of Chester, and presented a memorial pray ing their worships to refuse all new applications for licenses at the forthcoming Brewster sessions, and to make a large reduction in those already in "mischievous existence." The Dean stated that in Chester there was one public-house to every 24 other houses, and that every five public-houses found employment for one policeman. The magistrates promised to do all they could to put a restraint upon intemperance. AMERICA AND THE WAR.—The Germans through out America are very active in raising funds for aid for the wounded in Germany, and over $40,000 is said to have been subscribed for this purpose in New York city. Very few recruits for the Prussian armies have left, how ever. The French in New York have also opened sub scriptions for the benefit of their wounded. North. German ships in American ports, with some few excep tions, are being laid up to avoid risk of capture. An order for the purchase of 50,000 tons of hay for the French army has been received at St. Louis. SINGULAR DISCOVERY AT SEA.—Captain of the ship Argo, belonging to Messrs. Pollock and Gil mour, has made a very singular discovery at sea, while on a voyage to Quebec, on the 9th July last. It appears that while taking soundings in about 35 fathoms water on St. Peter's Bank, the lead brought up a spade half guinea of the reign of George 111., dated 1788, and in a wonder• fully good state of preservation. A similar incident has probably never been recorded in the annals of a seafaring life. CUBA.—News from Habana, dated August 3rd, says that the hot weather, the rains, and the prevailing sickness are paralysing all operations in the field. It is said on good authority that Bembeta, who has returned to the Santo Espiritu region has united the greater num ber of the insurgents under his command. General Rados says he has troops enough to finish the war, but Spanish residents think the hostilities will probably be prolonged through the winter. TIIE FENIAN PRISONERS IN THE UNITED STATES. —The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times writes : " Now that the Fenian prisoners have been incarcerated in the State prisons of New York and Vermont, efforts have begun to secure their pardon. Having been con victed in United States? Courts, the power of extending clemency to them lies with President Grant, and as the Fenians have influence at the polls, it may, be that, aided by the politicians, they will succeed in their petitions for pardon. Already several members of Congress in districts that have a large Irish vote are labouring for the pardon, the release of General O'Neill being the first one urged. The argument made is that the law has been fully vindi cated by the conviction and sentence ; that this satisfies the British Government ; and, therefore, no international question will be involved in a pardon. The President will visit St. Louis in a few days, and the Fenians there are contemplating a demonstration on his arrival to urge him to pardon O'Neill and his fellow-prisoners." PRICE 1 C, STAMPED 2d FRANCE AROUSED. The banks of the, Moselle no longer demand our first attention; the interest of Europe centres on the banks of the Seine. All France is in uproar, and Paris is revolu tionary. A French levy en masse is a terrible and a den gerous thing. Men now from one end of France to the other are rushing together, clamouring for arms and leaders, chanting the Marseillaise, and shouting, "A ban la Prusse / A real enthusiasm for war has seized upon the whole nation. There is no doubt that the Government, if it had means of transportation and subsistence, may to-day throw upon the Prussian lines almost every Frenchman capable of bearing arms, and these men would fight to the death to drive back the hated invader. But a populace in arms is not an army! A large proportion of the new levies are doubtless men who have served already in the army or the national guard, and could soon be made effective soldiers. We are told, also, that the French are a people of military tastes, which is quite true ; yet the average French peasant, before he has been made over by drilling and discipline, is one of the most unmartial creatures in the world. A long -stay in camp or barracks is necessary to fit him for the fi ld. So if the full strength of the Empire is now called forth, only a small part of it will be immediately available at the front. On the other hand, a levy of this kind, if not immediately formidable to the enemy, is very apt to be formidable to its own com manders. The patriotic enthusiasm kindled by disaster does not readily brook delay, and the French populace, in their present temper, if not led at once against the Prussians, will be apt to turn their arms against the Government that has got them into trouble. They are not satisfied to enlist quietly and go where the general* want to have them. They insist upon taking the reins, into their own hands, and declare that in a crisis like this , every citizen must be " armed and ready." It is easy to see what this means. If another victory should be won by the Prussians, those arms would never again be under the command of Napoleon. The soldiers would overturn the throne for the sake of saving the country, The events of last week have shaken the dynasty almost to its fall, and we see little probability that Napoleon will recover the prestige he has lost. His inefficiency as a c,ornmander, which military men knew well enoh ug before, has new been manifested to everybody. If his fortunes should beretrieved by a victory at Metz, the credit will not belong to him and will not be given him. Perhaps in the course of the campaign some great military genius may arise among the French host, as a great military genius arose in the last century among the hosts of revo lutionary France, and the people, after marching to victory under him, may place him at the head of the nation. But the sick man who lies suffering and beaten at Chalons, will never again enkindle their ardour. It is not for him that France has arisen. It may soon prove, indeed, that it is against him France has arisen. The French Chamber votes a want of confidence in his Ministry. The Ministry, in turn, does what it can to allay the rising storm, by ignoring alike Emperor and Regent. Ap peals to Paris are officially promulgated, which implore that there be no rising, on the avowed ground that it would place the French army between two fires. And all this we learn over wires guarded with the most jealous surveil lance, by what is left of the French Government When the official censorship permits so much to be known, as the best face it can put on affairs, what must be the worst ? That Napoleon is not expected ever to enter Paris again comes to us in a despatch from one of our correspondents there ; and the prediction seems an easy one. That the Empress is preparing for flight is a rumour no longer hard to believe. Paris seems trembling on the verge of revolution.—New York 2 ribune, August 10. FRANCE Ai' BAY. These are the darkest days France has been called upon to pass through since 1815. Fear and anxiety hang over every household in Paris. A few days ago the majority of the French people believed that their armies would never be uprooted from German soil until Prussia sued for peace. With startling suddenness, the whole prospect has been changed. It is a question not of marching to Berlin, but of saving Paris. The Emperor has fled to Chalons, apparently in the desperate hope of stemming the tide of invasion should it pene trate beyond Metz. The disaster is too vast to be disguised. The French Ministry, instead of an nouncing triumphs, can only beseech the people to go forth to the defence of their native land. Those who have seen in this war only a question between Napoleon and Bismarck, between despotism and freedom, between one man and the ascendancy of liberal ideas, would naturally suppose that this appeal for fresh armies would be unheeded. They leave out of consideration the fact that when a proud nation sees its existence threatened, it will generally push all political differences aside, and strike for the preservation of its honour. If Napoleon perished to-morrow, this war would go on. Already the National Guard are clamouring to be led to the front. The love of " Fatherland," which we praise in the Germans, is not extinct in the French, and although our sympathies are withdrawn from the latter people in their struggle, we may assume for the present that the invasion of their soil by a foreign army will not be a subject of rejoicing with them. But the crisis is tremendous. Even France with all her resources may not be able to cope successfully with it. The Prussian commanders are succeeding by the same tactics as those which they found so efficient in the Austrian campaign. While the enemy is laying plans for an advance, they hurl vast masses of men upon him, and swallow him sip. Thus they . gain an in estimable advantage at the outset of the struggle. It was said of the Austrians that they did not fight so well as the Prussians, and that they were not so well armed. Mr. Dicey wrote, iu 1866, " The Prussians have not as yet had the opportunity of chewing how their troops would conduct themselves if confronted by an army which attacked them with the vigour of the French." The test has now been made, and the result is a repetition of Koniggratz. The Prussian Army, and the Prussian system of tactics, are still invincible. Every part of Napoleon's plans has been brought to utter confusion. If he had any chance at all to begin with, he very soon lost it. He has now to lead a beaten army. The magic which still clung to the name of Napoleon in the minds of the sol diers is gone. It is an alarming emergency which the French Chambers will be called upon to consider. The Journal OjJiciel tells that the relations of the French Go ' vernment with the neutral Powers continue to be satisf tory. These relations would probably be much more satisfactory if some of the Great Powers would throw off their neutrality, and send a few battalions to the nil of France, If the position of England is " satisfactory" to herself, she enjoys that satis faction alone. Prussia is covertly threaten ing her, and France is deeply incensed. It is the story of our own war over again. England's policy, if a series of blunders can be dignified with the name of policy, is so contrived as to offend both sides at once. England may some day be called upon to account both to France and Prussia fel- pursuing a course which pretended to be strictly neutral, and was in reality inimical to both. When that time arrives she will find it more hopeless to look for allies than France does now. She has sown the seeds of hatred all ( ver the world, and the crop of vengeance will assuredly spring up. The bulk of the people in England know nothing about foreign politics—the organs of "public opin ion " generally run wild in times of excitement. Thus it happens that at this moment Prussia is shaking the rod over England's back, and France remembers that she has something besides Waterloo to avenge. Mean while France is called upon to make fresh sacrifices in behalf of this new war for an " idea." The Ministers think the National Guard can defend Paris, but " there is a point not less essential—it is the necessity of filling up the void in our army." They deal plainly with the people —there is no help for it. It will be necessary to call out all available forces—even a portion of the gendarmerie. So soon has this great Power been reduced to its last re sources ! The " seven weeks' war " with Austria was not half so startling, for Austria was ill-prepared, and knew nothing of her antagonist's strength. France has been making preparations for years, and yet two days fighting a d i n s o p t disperses i n a t o m t a h g e n fi ffi e c ld en . tgaatrhmerye,dand from m ob a des li qu le a i r r ter to s. bring Ministers boast that they can still bring forward two millions of men Lo meet the invader, all armed, and many of them trained soldiers They are not afraid to call out those forces which are ordinarily sup posed to be l ess favourable to the Empire than the regular army. So far we hear of no dissensions. A common danger unites the country— just as a common danger lately united Germany. A foolish telegram from Antwerp says that "the opinion" there is that the war will be over in a week. Antwerp was, we believe, a place of some importance in the 15th century, but we were not aware till to-day that the opinion of its inhabitants at present decides the fates of empires, or is a potent factor in European politics. It is probable, however, the opinion of these omniscient burghers, notwithstanding that it will take more than a week to break either of the great Powers now arrayed against each other.—New York Times, August 9. WALL-STREET AND THE YACHT RACE—It was a western judge who used to adjourn court whenever the circus came along. Yesterday the brokers, who disliked betraying their indifference to business while the yacht race was in progress, finally " confessed the maize," and adjourned at the close of the morning call. The only dealers who remained in the street were the speculators in gold. Their solicitude was so thoroughly aroused by the war news that they dared not leave the Gold-room, but hung to its railing all day long.- 17 M York Herald, August 9th. ak en) red) :en) redk. ~ and pton, Field E, of m at f the