The Sun. — London, England, 1867-09-24 00:00:00

The Fenians at Manchester. MANCHESTER, Monday Afternoon. The murdered policeman, Sergeant Chas. Brett, was followed to the grave yesterday afternoon by the Mayor and members of the city council, a large number of corporation officials, numerous representatives of each division of the local police, including the firemen, and a long train of vehicles occupied by private persons, who took the oppor tunity to show their respect for a man who had died at the post of duty. It seems to be beyond doubt that when Brett was summoned by the mob to give up the keys of the police van he declared he would not do so " under any circumstances," and was then killed. The deceased bore a very high character, as is evidenced by the letter of the clergyman, Mr. Richardson. Another clergyman, the Rev. Stanford Harris, incumbent of St. Bar nabus, writes to say of Brett : "lie and his family of wife and daughters have been known by me in connection with my church and schools for all the 15 years that I have been their clergyman, and everything that I have known has been to their credit and honour. The con stancy of the man is quite consistent with the little but pleasing circumstance of his having, when he beard at church last Sunday of intended collec tions on the following Sunday, expressed to his family much sorrow that an official duty would oblige him to be at the Cathedral instead of in his accustomed place, and with them taking some trouble that some friend should represent him there." Brett's relatives yesterday were almost over whelmed by the magnitude of the popular demon stration in his honour. Considered as a public funeral, the multitudes who attended it rendered it one of the most imposing ever witnessed. The pavement on each side of the streets leading from Brett's house to the Harpurhey Cemetery, a dis tance of two miles, was entirely filled with well dressed people walking from six to eight abreast, the middle of the road being thronged beyond the possibility of moving except en masse. The blinds of the houses were drawn, and hats were taken off as the funeral procession—a third of a mile in length—passed by. The funeral office was cele brated by the Rev. S. Harris. The total strength of the police force present was about 400 men ; and some burglars took advantage of the occasion to ransack a large warehouse belonging to Mr. Collinge, in the heart of the city. The contents of almost every room in the place were found last night to have - been turned topsy-turvy, and several small safes were broken open. The amount of property that may have been stolen has hardly been ascer tained, but it included a case of hock, with which the thieves regaled themselves before quitting the premises. A number of further arrests has been made since yesterday for complicity in the rescue from the prison van. It was hoped that among this large number of fresh arrests would have been included one of rather special importance, but it is to be re gretted that the constables and other witnesses of the rescue stationed in the identification office have not seen this man among the captives. He is a man stoutly built, over the middle height, who took the leading part in attacking the rear of the van while others were assaulting it in front. Some by standers saw him present a revolver at Police constable Knox and Constable Corrall, those being the two policemen stationed on the footboard behind the van. He was also heard to say, " Turn up the keys and let the prisoners out !" The constables making no answer to this demand, he and another fired at them, but neither of the shots took effect. Some more shots followed, and eventually the policemen were hustled away amid a crowd of the attacking Fenians, who by this time had entirely surrounded the van. We learn that these same constables will be able to give such evidence as will clear away any doubts still existing as to the cir cumstances attending Sergeant Brett's death. When the van was about to leave the police-court, en route for the city gaol, there were among the prisoners two young lads whom Constable Knox had in charge, and was instructed to leave on his return at the Industrial School, Ardwick-green. It was for this purpose that Knox accompanied the van, and not with any idea of adding to its safe escort. Before leaving the police-court Sergeant Brett, seeing there were more officers than usual, said to Knox, " I will go inside Knox, and you give me the keys through,the ventilator." There were three keys on Brett's ring--two of which were required for the locks on the outer door, while the third was neces sary to enter the interior compartments. The upper lock in the outer door is only a catch lock, such as is seen in railway carriages, and the lower one, below the ventilator, is like the lock on an ordinary door. Knox handed the keys through the ventilator, as Brett had desired him, and there is now no doubt that Brett kept hold of them till he was shot, through the ventilator, and that then they were handed out by a number of women who had not been put in separate compartments, but were along with Brett in the central corridor, and that this was done under threats by Allen and others of being fired upon un less the keys were passed through. It was possibly at this crisis that a witness, to whom we are indebted for much of this information, heard a woman's voice scream out, inside the van, " He is killed !" It will probably be a matter for inquiry yet as to how much blame is due to the Manchester authori ties for this rescue, and how much to the Home Office. Blame is laid on the former that they did not send an armed guard. It appears that the warning telegram from Dublin would have been in time if it had been delivered at once, but it did not reach the mayor until hours after it came to hand. This will have to be inquired into. But if the Manchester police had been ordered to arm and accompany the van it is very doubtful whether their armoury would have furnished any but a few old and efficient weapons, with which they would have been a doubtful match for men armed with six and eight chambered revolvers. The Manchester people are generally a law respecting people, and probably it has never been contemplated that such formidable arms would be required. Nor is it certain, if the van by means of a detour had escaped the ambush laid for it on the way, that the prisoners would have been much safer in the city gaol. The gaol is a new edifice, presenting to the eye on every side very formidable masonry, but it has in front of it the two handsome houses of the governor and chaplain, which open directly into the prison, having glass doors, with stanchions outside, but of a character which would not have rendered the passage invul nerable in case of surprise by resolute men. The situation of the gaol itself renders it almost as re mote from public observation as was the scene of the actual contest. At 2.10 this morning a man named Peter Lynn, born in Ireland, and living in Dale-street, Huline, was taken to the Albert-street station. The priso ner has been identified by a young lad named Thomas Patterson, who was watching the attack from over a wall near the arch. This witness says he saw the prisoner among those who ran away in the direction of where the platelayers were at work. The prisoner is a tall, powerful man Eft. lin. in height. Some years ago he was in the Irish contabulary. Michael Brian is also among those last arrested. He is a short thickset man, who says lie is a labourer, though his hands do not appear to support that statement. He was arrested at 42, I:Aga-street, Huhim A man named Kelly, oft. 10in. in height, who did not I.now his own age, or what trade lie belonged to, is among th 2 prisoners brought in from the outlying towns. Ile was arrested in Ashton. On being charged with riot and murder, he made a statement which, if true, would show he was elsewhere at the time of the attack. A man named John Martin, who, in answer to Capt. Palin, chief constable, said he was a pensioner in the Ist Dragoons, has also been arrested. He said he had served 12 years and 68 days. Capt. Palin said this part of the prisoner's statement seemed likely to be true. The proceedings of identification are neatly complete, and so many:of the prisoners as have been " spoken to" have been conveyed to the city police court, where, as in the other cases, Superintendent Gee will ask for a remand. The Manchester Examiner and Times publishes the following :—. " The following communication has been for- warded to us from a reliable source, with a request for its publication :—" In their . zeal to capture all suspected persons, the Manchester police, on Friday evening, summarily apprehended on suspicion a highly respectable young gentleman, a land surveyor, residing in Stockport. Our officials conceived that he bore a very strong resemblance to the renowned ' Colonel Kelly,' and it was not until late on Saturday afternoon that he was set at liberty—•un• deniable evidence of his non-complicity in the out rage having then been established." hliscellaneous Foreign News. The Passport Bill submitted to the North German Parliament proposes to abolish the necessity for passports in North Germany. The elections in Vermont commenced on Tuesday, the 3d, John B. Page, of Rutland, being chosen Governor-General ; Stephen Thomas, of West Fairlee, Lieutenant-Governor; and John A. Page, of Montpellier, Treasurer. The Republican majority was this year 20,000, against last year's 22,000, showing a decrease in this Republican State. The Senate is unanimously Republican, and the Re.. presentatives all but Republicans, there being only 15 Democrats in that house. John W. Stewart, of Middlebury, will be Speaker for the third time. General Pope has suppressed a paper called the News, at Albany, Georgia, on the general charge of disloyalty. Every general appears to work out his own hobby. Sheridan put his military heel down on State officials, General Sickles " ran a-muck " against the Supreme Court and the lawyers, and Gen. Pope is butting at the press. The latter officer has appointed the Ist October for the Reconstruction election in Alabama, when a convention appears certain to be returned, which will frame a constitu tion acceptable to Congress. The American papers discuss the prospect of impeaching the President. It is generally consi dered that if Congress were now in session the House would find articles of impeachment, though it is doubtful whether two-thirds of the Senate would bring in a verdict of guilty. The country would rejoice in the removal of the President, but the Senators being the supreme jury of the nation, acting under oath and presided over by Chief Justice Chase, would have to keep well within the limits of the Constitution and laws, acting only on the fullest evidence that they had been infringed by Mr. Johnson. Mr. Wendell Phillips, writing to the New York journals, says that President Johnson will be impeached after the reassembling of Congress. lle considers the amnesty treason able and rebellious. The New York Committee who had in charge the collections made last spring for the benefit of the starving Southern people report that $3,000,000 were contributed for this purpose, and that 170,316 bushels of corn were sent to the South. General Sheridan was escorted to the railway station, on leaving New Orleans, by the Mayor and city officers. lie was expected at St. Louis on the 7th instant, and on the 9th he was to receive a pub lic demonstration of welcome prepared for him by the Republican clubs and the grand army. Several Radical Senators have joined in advising General Grant to re-instate Ex-Governor Wells, at least for a time sufficient to enable him to legalise by his signature, the Bonds of the Louisiana Levee Loan, which his sudden removal has left in an unsatisfac tory state. In this the lion. Reverdy Johnson joins, and other prominent gentlemen. The Hon. E. H. Amgamar, Special Levee Commissioner, has by his judicious labours and his indefatigable industry greatly forwarded the interest of this important matter to Louisiana. That gentleman has persis tently maintained his duties free from political entanglements, earning the support alike of Demo crats and Radicals, so far as the Levee is concerned, which is in truth the great interest of Louisiana at this moment. Advices by the Cuba inform us General Sheridan received an enthusiastic reception from the Democrats at St. Louis, but declined speaking. Yellow fever continues to rage at New Orleans ; 45 deaths having occurred on the sth inst. On that day General Griffin had assumed conimaud, endors ing all the orders of his predecessor. On Thursday, the sth instant, General Canby relieved General Sickles, who left Charleston on Saturday, the 7th. Sickles's last act was to appoint a prominent negro, named Beverley Nash, of Co lumbia, South Carolina, a police magistrate. The staff and other officers entertained their old com mander at a splendid dinner, served at Mill's house, General Canby and staff being the invited guests. The following sentiment was proposed :—" Our departing guest, the retiring commander, carrying with him our affectionate attachment, thoroughly earned. May a prosperous voyage bear him where welcomes await him as cordial as our adieux are regretful." To this General Sickles responded in a short speech. It is stated that General Sickles's interference with the process of the Federal Courts was contrary to Grant's orders. On giving up his command Sickles addressed a long letter to the Commander in -Chief, declaring that the laws in his district had been administered with the least possible military interference, and that his course was justi fied by the Reconstruction Act. lie returns to his old home in New York, and it is said will demand an investigation by a Court of Inquiry. It will be seen by our New York commercial letter that a clerical error, now corrected by Mr. M'Culloch, reduces the total debt of the United States from $2,505,456,095 05c., as given in the statement of Ist September, to $2,492,783,365 05c., which was the correct sum as the debt stood on the Ist inst. The policy of hoarding in the Treasury gold and greenbacks had given dissatisfaction ; there fore the Secretary acted on the power granted him by Congress to redeem in August 4,010,000 of green backs, and while selling in that period a large amount of gold. lle has now brought down the balance in the vaults from $175,579,470 38c. to $148,336,094 59c. It thus appears that there remains in Uncle Sam's coffers a balance reduced by the sum of $27,243,376, against which the reduction of the debt amounts to $32,893,706. Therefore the surplus of revenue over expenditure for the month of August was $5,650,330. These are the answers to give to Mr. Pendleton's dishonest schemes of repudiation. The Democrats only talk ; the nation acts, and with such vigour and success as to counteract proposi tions which might otherwise have a damaging effect on the credit of the United States. The debt was highest on the 31st August, 1865, since which date it had been reduced by $246,497,260, averaging nearly ten and a half millions a month. Could this rate be continued the whole debt would be annihi lated in 1889, just twenty years hence. M. M. Dano, the French Minister in Mexizo, ar rived at Brest last Tuesday. General Sherman's Indian Commission passed Sioux City, lowa, on ➢ionday, 19th August. All well. Story's statue of Edward Everett has been re ceived at Boston for the public garden. The cost was about $30,000. Messrs. M'Ghee and Carter, the Conservative candidates, wore elected at Montreal in the midst of riots, which were quelled by the military after causing numerous casualties. General Sheridan has handed over the command of his district to General Griffin, and left New Orleans for Leavenworth. Tho citizens of St. Louis are preparing a public reception for h'm. General Sickles has addressed a long letter to General Grant, asserting that the laws in his district have been administered with the least possible military in terference, and that his course was fully justified by the Reconstruction Act. It is reported that he will demand an investigation by a court of inquiry. I)r. Lieber ba, actiresetl a memorial to the Con stitutional Government of New York, proposing that a majority of two-thirds of a jury, shall be competent to give a verdict, and recommending the abolition of the rule re quiring unanimity, adopted in no other country than Eng land and the United States. Last Sunday the Dutch police at the Hague ar rested a man named Gardensier, in whoso possession they found 500 forged American bank notes for $l,OOO each. The notes wore forged at the Hague, but it is thought pro bable that the forgers have accomplices both in other countries in Europe and America. Several false notes have already been put in circulation. They have been since proved to ha Confederate Bonds. General Canby, on the sth inst., assumed the corn maw.' of the sth military district, and endorsed all the existing orders. The barque Moneynic/e will soon be despatched for Borneo froiu California, with flour and other stores. She will be the first vessel that has ever been gent hence to that island, which is now largely under the control of American capitalists. The idea of an American establish ment in that island meets with much favour in San Francisco. Tom King, the great English pugilist, was among the victims carried off by the yellow fever at New Orleans. Colonel Parker, an Indian of the Oneida tribe, now on General Grant's staff, will bo appointed, it is re ported, to the management of the Indian bureau. Senator Norton and Mr. Shellabarger have de livered powerful speeches in Ohio, in tho Republican in terest. The Honourable Reverdy Johnson and wife of Maryland, and General R. C. Schenck, of Ohio, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. F. W. Rice, United States Consul at Aspinwall, is at the St. Nicholas Hotel. William Bar rington, Esq., of the British Legation, is at the Albemarle Hotel. The Hon. John A. Griswold, M.C., Troy, is at the New York Hotel. All the officers of the United States squadron were entertained on Thursday by tho Minister of War. The squadron will probably sail on Thursday next for Eng land, proceeding afterwards to Antwerp, awl thence to the Mediterranean. Governor Helm, of Kentucky, was inaugurated at Elizabeth's Town on Tuesday, the 3rd inst. His health prevented his proceeding to Frankfort, and necessitated the ceremony taking place at his residence. Mr. Throckmorton, of Texas, has addressed the people of that State excusing himself, and accusing mili tary agents and officers of the Freedmen's Bureau of unjust and arbitrary acts. Dr. Krapf, a distinguished linguist, who has tra velled in Abyssinia and knows the person of King Theo dore, has accepted an appointment to accompany the ex pedition to Abyssinia in the capacity of interpreter. The President has given way to General Grant, retaining General Howard for the present at the head of the Freedmen's Bureau, and General Popo in command of the 4th Military District. ihe San Francisco Mining and Scientific Press, of August 3, gives a sketch of the new Merchants' Exchange building opened on the 15th July last, in San Francisco. This handsomo structure was completed in a year, at a cost of $170,000, and furnishes a proof of the rapid advance of San Francisco. The American frigate Minnesota arrived at Lisbon on Sept. 15, 11.38 p.m., from Corunna. THE GREAT SAFE TRIAL. There was a time when England boasted, above all things, of exhibiting a spirit of " fair play." A reputation for any virtue must be maintained by acts, not by mere professions and assertions. IVhe ther right or wrong, Americans believe—a belief daily growing stronger—that in international com petitions in Europe they meet with but scant jus tice. 'I hey consider that all who present themselves to the public, be they artists, sailors, manufacturers, or pugilists, are not justly estimated, but harshly criticised, and in any competitive trial, even the broad rules of fair play are frequently infringed. This was notably the case in the celebrated fight between HEENAN and SAYERS, and this appears now to be even more strongly exhibited in the interna tional trial between the great safe-makers, HERRING and CHATWOOD. Last month, as our readers are aware, the meeting of these eminent manufacturers led to a challenge, the terms of which were settled by a committee, before whom the operations were conducted to decide the result. A fire and burglar proof safe is made with clear, well-defined objects. On the one hand, it is designed and framed to resist fire, preserving the property which it encloses till picked up from the debris of the consumed building. No safes have been exposed to a more terrible ordeal of fire than those of HERRING. In America, where so many houses are composed of wood, fires are more frequent, more general and destruc tive than elsewhere. The ruins of the city of Port land, in the State of Maine, last year almost totally de stroyed by a conflagration ,furnished proof of the value of these safes, freely acknowledged by merchants, whose books and papers were then preserved wholly uninjured. Although one of the most destructive fires on record, Portland is but a single instance of the incalculable benefit conferred on his coun trymen by the science and skill Mr. HERRING has brought to bear on the construction of a safe. If fire be the greatest enemy that those en trusted with the custody especially of valuable papers have to guard against, there is another scarcely less dangerous, and in England perhaps even more so. We refer to the skilful appliances, reduced to a science, which burglars bring to bear. Against the former HERRING'S safe had been fully tested, and had come out victorious ; against the latter the trial in Paris was intended to decide who could claim the championship. No safe is impreg nable, as time and opportunity, it is thought, will enable burglars to effect a breach in any. The question, then, is the length of period it can resist. We cannot imagine any other, and this was evi dently the one that suggested itself to the committee, who resolved, first--" That a marked block of wood about 6 inches by 2 inches by 3 inches shall be handed to each of the compe titors to be placed by them in their safes, and that after the safes have been closed by them, the production of either of these blocks shall be deemed conclusive evidence that the safe from which it has been taken has been opened ;" and finally, " That the challange trials as to open ing shall commence simultaneously on both safes, and shall be declared ended as soon as either safe has been opened." The trial was made on the 13th August in the English test-house of the Paris Exhi bition, in presence of a committee of five engineers, M. DO ULIOT, chief engineer of CALL and Co.'s works, Paris, acting as chairman, and W. J. Ho ICLE, secre tary of IViirrwouni and Co.'s works, Manchester, England, acting as secretary. The terms had been agreed to, and the attack was made on the CHAT WOOD safe by three Germans, and on the HERRING safe by three Englishmen, the tools being proposed by CIIA TWOOD and accepted by HERRING. The simple test of victory was the production of the block of wood, handed by the committee to each of the competitors. Whichever safe first yielded up its block was defeated in this contest. In two hours and fifty-four minutes after operations commenced the block was extracted from CIIATWOOD'S safe, and the trial then, in the terms of the resolution, ceased. On the evening of the 13th August Mr. HERRING stood (one would suppose) indisputably the winner. The committee, however, adjourned, and on the morning of the 14th the attempt to open Mr. HERRING'S safe was resumed. This they ac complished, counting both days, in four hours fourteen minutes, adding nearly an extra third to the time occupied in opening CIIATWOOD'S safe. In acting thus the committee may have been actuated by curiosity, or may have desired to furnish burglars with the assurance that no safe was proof against their attacks, but it is clear that by the terms of the resolutions they had no right to carry on the operations against Mr. HERRING'S safe after the block had been extracted from Mr. CIIATWOOD'S, which they did, not only without his sanction, but against his protest, he . himself being denied admission to the scene. That a trial admitting of so simple a test could afterwards give rise to a dispute may surprise our readers ; but although the contest ended on the 13th of August, the day it commenced, the award cer tainly up to Tuesday last had not been made. Mr. CIIATWOOD'S friends attempted to make the trial a drawn fight, and on failing framed a report, which they endeavoured to make official. We may conjecture its nature, if the statement be correct, that Mr. CIIATWOOD, who had staked £5O to £5 on the result being in his favour, claimed and obtained on this document the stakes from the holder. On the 24th ultimo a telegram was despatched to New York, stating that " the English competitors in the recent trial of safes in Paris deny that the Elm; RING'S safe wa , , a success. They openly charge that the decision to that effect was brought about by bribery and corruption. They will immediately ask for a new trial." Now it is of this that we complain. An American gentlem-n, the senior partner and representative of a great New York firm, arrives in Paris too late to be present on the examination and awards of the jury on safes in the manufacture of which lie claims to excel. His safe on exhibition--one of four for warded by the firm from New York—being locked, and the keys kept by him, the jury could not examine it, and thus he was barred from a fair trial. In consequence he issues a challenge, which SAMUEL C lIATIVO OD, of Bolton, noticing on this safe, accepts. Mr. HERRING intended in the challenge to pit biz bankees safe, accidentally de. tained at Havre, against any other to resist bur glars. To this Mr. CIIATWOOD objected, that safe not being in the Exhibition. The one tested was a fire-proof safe, with cash box inside, considered by the makers inferior as a burglar proof safe. Mr. CHATWOOD'S had been manufactured expressly to resist burglars, and bore on it when exhibited a sign with gilt letters,- stating "£6OO will be paid to any one who c:an open CHATWOOD'S Invincible Intersected Safe with burglars' appli ances." Thus it happened that an inferior Ameri can safe was tested against Vie very best manufac ture of England, and it was - aot without grave mis givings that Mr. HERRING found himself compelled to stand the result of such a. trial, or abandon the contest. "When victory therefoze declared in his favour, under circumstances he rightly considered scarcely just, it was the more galli'ag that attempts should be made to deprive hint of the fruits. The message to New York, alleging that the result was obtained by bribery and corruption, was an outrage of which we would be slow to accuse the competitors. If a trial, the terms of which were almost dictated by the losing side, is to end by casting a slur on the honesty of the rival contestant international contests must cease, and England may remain hedged within a Chinese wall of egotism and conceit, but she will be like the ostrich with her head in a hole exposed to the world in her blind folly. That such remarks are not uncalled-for may be gathered from the following extract of a letter from Mr. HOYLE, the secretary of the committee, in reply to Mr. HER RING'S narrative of the trial. His official position enabled him to judge of the truth of the state ments, and he observes—" When I undertook the office of secretary I knew nothing •of your safe or yourself, and even little of Mr. CIIATWOOD'S safe, and nothing at all of himself, and could have had no bias any way ; but I was disgusted at the partisan spirit shown by Mr. CIIATWOOD and his representatives, and I am ashamed for my country's credit to say that I felt they were not seeking a trial of the merits of the safe, but to gain a victory for CIIATWOOD at any risks ; and I, therefore, as I think honestly, tried to see fair play done as much as I could." It may be natural in Mr. CIIATWOOD to endeavour to evade the circumstances which tell so strongly in favour of a rival firm. But it would better become all parties honestly and straightforwardly to accept the results, for if the contest is to be carried on as a controversy and to end in legal proceedings, which, from the spirit manifested, is not unlikely, the facts will become more widely circulated, tending to en hance HERRING'S Victory, and to proclaim to the world that Messrs. HERRING, FARRAN, and SIIER MAN, 251, Broadway, New York, are the best safe manufacturers in the world. Anglo - American Times. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. The Union Pacific Railroad is now completed 460 miles west of Omaha, and it is expected the track to the Rocky Mountains, 517 miles, will be finished in about a month. The net earnings of the road for the quarter ending July 31 were $485,789, exclusive of $479,283 charged to the contractors for transportation of men and materials. The Cali fornia end of the Pacific Railroad is also being rapidly pushed forward. The Summit tunnel through the Sierra Nevada mountains, 1,658 feet long, through solid granite, is entirely completed, and the track on the eastern slope of the mountain is now being laid. THE MEMPHIS AND OHIO RAILROAD.—Governor Brownlow, of Tennessee, has taken possession of this road on behalf of the State of Tennessee, as first mortgagee. The company, among some few others, failed to provide their quota of July interest on the bonds of the State advanced for the con struction of the road. Governor Brownlow has acted with decision and promptness in all cases of default, and the State has possession of the roads and the equipment as security for $13,000 per mile ; the average cost of building and equipping having been over $30,000 per mile. The taxation on the real and personal property of the whole people of Tennessee is very large, and the revenues from this source into the States Treasury are in pledge as further security for the half-yearly interest on the State Bonds, including the railroad debt where the railroad companies default in their respective quotas. A TEXAS PACIFIC RAILROAD.—Judge Paschall, a prominent Unionist of Texas, has written a long letter to the Galveston News, in relation to a rail road enterprise which concerns not only Texas, but the whole country. The great railroad project which is at present engaging the attention of Judge Pas chall and other leading Texans, as well as of capi talists in other States, is that of a road from a point on the Rio Grande between El Paso and El Presido, toG ouYcanalsast a port on the l ower en d o f th e eastern of the Gulf of California. East of the Rio Grande there are likely to be several feeders for this route. One is the South-West Pacific Railroad in Missouri, which is to be built in a south-westerly direction through Arkansas. Either in Arkansas or Texas its line will cross that of the Memphis, El Paso and Guyamas Railroad, which is to run through Little Rock, in Arkansas, and Monroe in the north west corner of Louisiana, to Jefferson, in Texas, which is reached by river navigation from New Orleans. It is expected that a line from the latter place will meet this road at Jefferson, or further west. These lines will thus converge and unite through the greater part of Texas, One route may diverge to San Diego, in California, and another to Guyamas. In addition to the great " feeders" we have mentioned, it is likely that before many years Kansas, to Gal. v t h e e s t projected b r e o a b d uil from t. Iv Lawrence, hether Guyatuas or San Diego, or both, be selected the western terminus of the South-Western Pacific Railroad, the route is one which has many and manifest advantages. It is the are acquainted with t o h p e in p io ro n p o o f se m d a l n i y ne o a f se cr t o h s o sm m .e 'h x o ico, and with that to San Diego, that the former is decidedly the better of the two. We are told on good authority that the route across Mexico presents few engineering difficulties, and passes through a region abounding in wood and water, while the inhabitants are friendly and peaceable. Guyamas is one of the best ports on the western coast, spacious, and with water enough to float the largest ships. At a special meeting of the stockholders of the Western Railroad on Wednesday, Sept. 4, at Boston, the long-pending question of consolidation was dis cussed, and the following vote was accepted unani mously :—" Voted, That the stockholders of the Western Railroad Corporation agree to unite and consolidate the same with the Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation, in accordance with an act passed by the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, entitled an act to authorise the extension of the 'Western Railroad to the City of Boston, and for other purposes." The property of the Western Road amounts to about $11,000,000, to be divided among 87,000 shares ; the Worcester to about 136,000,000, held by 50,000 shareholders. The net earnings of the Western Railroad for the last three years have been $1,270,720 4 3 ; Wor cester, $501,907 63. Capitalise these earnings at 8 per cent.--the same system by which the Cleveland and Erie and the Cleveland and Toledo have been joined—and we have a total capital stock for the Western of $15,884,000; for the 'Worcester of $6,311,347. After deducting all its debts, the Western would have a clean capital stock of $13,356,880. At the election for directors of the Albany and Susquehanna Railroad Company, held Sept 3,1867, tile following were elected for the ensuing year : Joseph 11. Ramsey, Jacob Leonard, Peter Gagger, Jeremiah Austin, Albany ; Minard. Harder, Cobleskill ; John Westover, llichmondville ; John Cook, Worcester : Jared Goodyear, Collierville ; Eliakim R. Ford, Oneonta; Samuel North, Una dilla ; Ira E. Sherman, Sidney ; Alonzo Everts, Binghamton ; Daniel Drew, New York. The TVall-street Journal has the following items of railway intelligence : Ohio and Kentucky are now united, not only by a bridge, but by a horse railroad. Cars run across the great bridge between Cincinnati and Covington, starting every ten minutes. From the Ohio side, across the bridge, through Covington and return, the circuit is nearly three miles. The extension of the Cincinnati and Martinsville Railroad, from Indianapolis to Vincennes, is now a " fixed fact." A portion of the line from Indiana polis and Gosport has already been surveyed, and a contract entered into to complete the road to the last-named town by the Ist of January next. The report of the Boston and Maine Railroad Company for the year ending May 31st, 1867, gives the following figures : Gross revenue from all sources 51,620,667 66 Expenses, including taxes of all kinds 1,112,971 90 Net profits 5507,701 76 Divided among stockholders ... Remaining undivided 592,131 76 14' I The length of the road constructed by the cor poration is about 83 miles. This includes the Med ford, the Methusen, and the Great Falls branches. The whole length of the road now actually operated by us, say the directors, including the Danvers, the Newburyport, and the Dover and Winnipisiogee Railroads, is about 145 miles. There is a double track from Boston to North Andover, a distance of about 28 miles. The remainder, with the exception of the usual turnouts and sidings, has a single track only. The Columbus, Tifflin, and Tolede Railroad Com pany has been incorporated with a capital stock of $1,000,000. The incorporators reside in Sandusky, Seneca, and Crawford counties. The line of the road is to pass through Franklin, Delaware, Mor row, Crawford, Seneca, Sandusky, Otawa, Wood, and Lucas counties. The Kansas Pacific Railroad Company have made a proposition to Leavenworth County, to build the bridge across the Kansas River, on condition that Leavenworth County will surrender her $200,000 of stock in the Union Pacific Railway. THE PROPOSED PORTLAND OGDENSBURGI AND OSWEGO RAILROAD.—Hon. Gerrit Smith, of New York, addressed a large meeting at the Merchants' Exchange, Portland, Maine, on August 28th, in favour of this road, urging it strongly. RAILROADS IN LOUISIANA.—At present the ;7°l - comprise the railroads in the State :—Baton Rouge, Gross 'fete, and Opelousas, from West Baton Rouge to Gross Tete, a distance of 17 miles ; Clinton and Port Hudson, from Clinton to Port Hudson, 22 miles ; Mexican Gulf, from New Orleans to Proctorsville, 27 miles ; Lake Ponchar train, from New Orleans to Lake, 6 miles ; New Orleans, Jackson, and Great Northern, 80 miles ; New Orleans and Carrollton, 15 miles ; New Orleans and Great Western, from Algiers to Frank lin, 80 miles ; Vicksburg, Shrevesport, and Texas, westward, 75 miles ; West Feliciana and St. Francisville, to Woodville, 26 miles. A powerful locomotive has just been built for the Camden and Amboy Railroad. It is a ten-wheel engine, having six drivers 41 feet in diameter. The cylinder is 17 inches in diameter, with a stroke of 24 inches. It is intended to draw a train of 100 cars laden with coals. IRISH-AMERICANS. The audacity of the Fenian rescue at Manchester has excited the greatest astonishment, not unmixed with consternation, throughout England. The freedom with which the attacking party used their revolvers on the Queen's highway at mid-day, in the vicinity of the second largest city in England, has produced an uneasy feeling that a conspiracy backed and upheld by such; desperate agents must have extensive ramifications. What has caused the most surprise is that England, not Ireland, should be the stage of the greatest Fenian enterprises. Nothing so audacious was attempted in the Emerald Isle as the attack on Chester ; nothing so fatal as the rescue at Manchester. The accounts show that a man, named WILLIAM O'MARA ALLEN, headed a gang of about fifty men, a large proportion of whom had pistols, while others were supplied with hatchets, hammers, and stones. The spot selected for the attack showed judgment. The plan was carried into effect skilfully and unfalteringly ; the horses were shot, the police driven from the con veyance, the panels of the door burst open, and on the refusal of Sergeant BRETT to deliver up the key, ALLEN did not hesitate to shoot the policeman through the head, thereby in a few hours causing his death, when he deliberately forced open the com partments, and liberated the prisoners. Having released the [lead Centres, who were handcuffed, ALLEN devoted himself to saving KELLY and a man named LARKIN to DEASEY. Both these desperadoes aided their handcuffed chiefs over hedges and ditches, and only separating from them on the pur suit becoming too hot, when ALLEN was heard to say to KELLY "I will die for you." ALLEN and MICHAEL LARKIN were captured, while KELLY and DEASEY have, at least so far, escaped. It is idle to disguise that there is something in this rescue which displays a certain nobility of spirit. Both ALLEN and LARKIN have devoted themselves to almost certain death in their efforts to secure the liberation of their leaders. Men who can thus act must have strong faith in their cause, and find in the society in which they move a deep sympathy which could alone prompt the self-sacrifice. Brutal outrages, such as those lately exposed in Trades' Unions, are dangerous from the wicked depth of immorality they indicate ; but the hateful character of such villainy is in itself an antidote to the poison, as publicity stigmatises both the acts and the actors. ALLEN'S and LARKIN'S affair is of a totally different kind. There are scores of thousands who will regard these men and their fellow-con spirators as heroes, and even if they died on the gallows will continue to regard them as martyrs to a noble cause. This is the great difficulty of deal ing with such crimes. A more deliberate murder than that alleged against ALLEN could scarcely have been committed. He shot a brave and unarmed officer when in the honest execu tion of his duty. He fired at and wounded unarmed men, and be can scarcely com plain of his fate if the law, on such acts being proved against him, should consign him inexorably to the gallows. In all classes of English society there ii a horror of such outrages. The employ ment of deadly weapons in Great Britain is almost unknown. The policeman is but armed with his baton, and the soldier when off duty is deprived even of his side arms. The military some years ago wore either swords or bayonets, but to prevent the chance of such weapons being used in a fray, an order was issued that they should be laid aside. The free use of such arms as revolvers was un known in Great Britain till lately introduced by a class who appear to be assuming a distinct type, under the name of Irish Americans. The thing an Englishman most abhors is the un fairness in a quarrel, of an armed man using his weapon against an unarmed adversary. He re gards it as treacherous, cowardly, and cruel—to be resorted to only in the most desperate extre mity of self-defence. It is on this principle that a strong feeling of indignation has been excited against the attacking party in the Fenian rescue. Yet the rescue could not have been effected except by the employment of such weapons. Even then the crowd but waited till they thought the barrels were empty to rush on the assailants. It is fortunate that the spirit of suppressing the use of deadly wea pons exists so strongly, that the Government will be aided by all classes in their strenuous efforts to crush the vile habit of secreting arms on the person which the Irish-Americans have introduced. If the statistics of the United States included the lives lost in paltry brawls, by having revolvers ever at band, the number would show what a price American citizens pay for the privilege. Like other vicious customs, it becomes a neces sity. The one fearing to be anticipated by the other, and knowing that his life may depend ou shooting first, is urged at the commencement of the quarrel to murder his antagonist. Witness the case at the Union Hotel, Saratoga, where a drunken man in sulted a sober one, and stepping back, made a move ment as if to put his hand into the pocket where an American usually carries his revolver, which com pelled the sober man to anticipate him at once by shooting him dead. Thus a murder was forced on him for an assault, he would otherwise probably have treated with contempt as a drunken brawl. Such an appeal favours the most vicious and un scrupulous, placing the best men at the mercy of the worst, without even the small modicum of nobility of fair play that characterised the exploded system of duelling. The Irish in England will we fear, if such outrages be continued, create a feeling of intense dislike, which they will find easier to raise than to allay, and which may hereafter be produc tive of great suffering among them. The injury the Irish-Americans have done to Ireland is best shown by more than one answer given to a gentle man who wished to introduce this newspaper when travelling in that island. "An American paper !" exclaimed one, who associated Americans with the Irish specimens who claim the dignity of citizenship, " if I had my way I would hang them all—they have ruined this country."—Anglo-Amertcan limes. THE PEACE CONGRESS OF GENEVA AND THE PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD. This is a year of Congresses. Not now to speak of the grand gathering of the bishops of the world-500 in number, who at the feet of the successor of St. Peter, declared that " they believed and taught whatever he believed and taught, and rejected as error whatever he condemned,"—we have just witnessed two Catholic Congresses, each of which, in the addresses which they presented to the Pope, made a similar unanimous profession of faith. At Malines, upwards of five thousand persons took part in the Congress ; and at Inns bruck, more than two thousand of clergy and laity attended at the general meeting of the Catholic " Unions "of Germany ; and in these vast gather ings there was nothing to disturb the unity of their faith, or to interfere with their profound submission to the Holy See. They opened their proceedings with the sanction of the Pope, and concluded them by seeking the Pontifical blessing. But outside the unity of the Catholic Church, there is danger in such gatherings convoked for the sDcial or religious guidance of society. They either degenerate into mere solemn shams which excite contempt, or break out into violent dissensions. In imitation of Catholic associations, Protestantism, Socialism, and the Revolution have been convoking their Congresses, Councils, and Synods at Lau sanne, at Geneva, at Amsterdam and Lambeth. Under the name of an International Peace Congress, the European Revolution met in Synod at Geneva. Many of its notabilities were present, and many more were invited. Prim, whether or no an invited guest, hastened fresh from his revo lutionary and sanguinary work in Spain to the city of the Peace Congress, but Garibaldi was the real hero and spokesman. Universal peace was to be inaugurated by a general war, to overthrow exist ing dynasties ; to re-arrange the boundaries of kingdoms ; and to alter the public law of Europe. Implacable hostility was declared before all things against the Papacy ; blasphemies were uttered against the name of Christ ; and religion was at tacked with the ferocity common to the Revolution. But the anti-Christian, Socialistic, and Revolu tionary doctrines avowed in this Congress excited the indignation of the Catholics and of the peace able citizens of Geneva to such an extent, as to lead to the sudden departure of Garibaldi, " alone like a dog," as it is described, and to the tumultuous breaking up of the " Peace Congress." The former stronghold of Calvinism resents the insults offered to the Papacy, and demurs to the presence within its walls of the godless Revolution. The Revolution was in earnest about its business, and has paid the penalty of belief in its own principles and doctrines by the irrevocable break up of its Congress. Has Protestantism the same belief in its principles, or in the truths which it ostensibly holds, and will it venture to bring them to the test of public discussion, even in so solemn and select an assembly as the Pan-Anglican Synod ? It is pitiable to see the timidity which the Angli can bishops display in their programme of dis cussion, and to note the manifest avoidance of any attempt to grapple with the real difficulties, the deep dissensions, which are tearing their commu nions to shreds and bringing such scandal and dis credit on the Christian name. Unlike the Synod of the Revolution—terrible in its godless earnest ness—the Pan-Anglican Synod threatens to be nothing more than a solemn and rather unctions farce. In an assembly in which so many bishops of the Anglican Church, and of Churches which the English race have set up in the various coun tries it has populated—countries of English blood, language, and religion--in such an assembly ques tions in dispute as to the essential doctrines of the Christian faith are to be carefully eliminated. What is known to all the world cannot be unknown to the dignitaries of the Anglican Church about to assemble in Lambeth Palace, namely, the failing faith in revealed religion among the intellectual classes, the looseness of interpretation by which the members of their Church explain away the funda mental doctrines of Christianity, the errors against the Christian creed which Anglican clergymen, not to speak of bishops, propagate without let or hindrance, and which laymen adopt without reproach—all this is known, and yet the Anglican Church assembled in Synod does not venture to define even one Christian dogma in clearer terms, to speak a good word in favour of the Bible, so long its sole standard of faith, or to pronounce an anathema against the errors which are sweeping away the remnants of the Christian faith yet pre served in its formularies. What will be the verdict pronounced upon the Anglican Church as represented by its bishops— not by Catholics, for their verdict has been pro nounced more than three hundred years ago—not by Tractarians and Ritualists, whose grief and shame at the falling away of their Church is not disguised—but by the vigilant and thoughtful leaders of intellectual opinion in England, by the enemies of revealed religion ? Can we doubt that such a spectacle as the Pan-Anglican Synod pro mises to afford of interior feebleness and of out ward pomposity, of words without deeds, of the profession without the fruits of faith—as shown in earnest action against recognized evils—will not be turned on every occasion into a most powerful means of attack—effective ridicule against all Church authority? For the faults of its counter feit in England, the Catholic Church will have to suffer, if even the name of Christ be not alto gether lost in the land by the cowardice and faithlessness of a false teacher. Already in the intellectual press a mocking anti-Christian tone— which was unknown in Eng land twenty years ago—is making itself heard. The Times ridicules the pretensions of the Anglican bishops, and vaticinates on the but too certain results of their mock Synod. It denounces Ritualism and Sacerdotalism, and demands a reasonable worship in harmony with the spirit of the age and of the English nation. The Pall Mall Gazette more gravely argues that the Church of England is not " an institution divinely set up for the purpose of teaching mankind certain truths, and conferring upon them certain supernatural benefits, by means divinely appointed for that purpose," but that " it is to be regarded as the most important branch of the public service " for religious purposes--that it is to conform itself to truths as they are brought to light at different periods, and not to set itself in opposition to the spirit of the age. All this, the Pall Mall Gazette acknowledges, is utterly inconsistent with the fundamental ideas of Sacerdotalism. " Great changes of all sorts would no doubt be required," it continues, " to bring this about—better discipline—much greater free dom of thought—reconsideration of the theory and gradual modification of the practice of public worship." The Pan-Anglican Synod, by avoiding the affirmation of the primal truths of Christianity, so gravely and so openly repudiated by members of its own communion, by the intellectual guides and leaders of the nation, and by restricting its attention to the discussion of three resolutions on matters of minor importance, has already exposed itself and the cause of religion, which it ought to defend, to the scoff of the unbeliever. The Pall Mall Gazette repeats the reproach which has so often been cast on the Anglican Church, that it was " dying of decency," and condemns the Pan- Anglican Synod as being busy only on matters of comparative detail at a juncture when, according to the conviction implied by Dr. Pusey in his recent letter to the Times, a considerable part of the edu cated classes in the present day required "to be converted to the true belief as to Almighty God." The Pall .314 Gazette gives the l'au-Anglican Synod the cynical advice to reconsider the whole position of their Church—to make it give lIP " playing at a variety of antiquarian ecclesiastical games "—and "to accept the position of the first branch of the public service," and become in verity a national Church in harmony with the faith and sentiments of educated Englishmen in the nine teenth century. This Gospel of the nineteenth century is the new religion announced by M azz i n i, an d a pproved of by the Saturday R ev i ew , as ex p ress i ng in sub stance, though in an Italian form, th e belief of the educated classes in England ; b u t if it b e in har mony with the spirit of the age, it i s in direct antagonism to the first principles of Christianity , as well as to the belief in a perso na l God. On this new religion, which is gai n i ng so inani disciples in the Anglican Church, the Pan-Anglican Synod—on account of the uncert a i n ty and weak ness of its own divided faith—will, according to its own programme, be as silent as the grave .-- Westminster Gazette. COUNTRY MA RKE TS. COLCHESTER—SEPT. 21. This market was fairly supplied with wheat to-day, an d the trade was firm, at fully last week's prices. Alaltivg barley in demand, and prices advanced is to 2s per qr on the quotations of last week. Beans and pas in favour of the seller. Wheat, white 649 70s Beans, 31azagan...-386 483 red .60s 68s Middle and 5ma11..449 483 Barley ... 3Bs 46s Peas, white 3 8 3 429 Oats grey ••• 365 423 CIIELISISFORD—SEPT. 20. There was a larger supply of wheat than usual on sale to-day, and as no great demand was made prices declined, a reduction of is per quarter on the best and 2s on inferior being submitted to. There was a fair amount of transac tions in Spring corn, at late rates. Wheat, old white....sBs 72s Peas, Partridge 405 420 new ...Os 75s old red 5.6 s 66s 8,, ' 36 4 # new. 61s 70s il i ii ii t n e g . 34 s s 3g: Dun—. ..... bBs 41 Barley.... 26s 3.58 dit o, new....--s -- Chevalier tie 53s Beans, Tick, 01d......40s 45s Grinding 6s 32s new.... 390 t Malt.. 665 74s Harrow ricks.42s 46 0 Chevalier 68s 76i Oats .•• 2os 268 mazaganne.w....= te s ABERDEEN—SEPT. 20. Prices for all descriptions of grain nominally the same al last week. There was a brisk business done, with a good attendance. Flour is clearer. White wheat 58s Od to 63s 0d) r 621 b ift bushel. Red wheat 50s Od to 58s Odi Potato oats Common oats 2 26 8 5 s 0 6 d d t t o o 3 3 0 0 8 8 0 0 d dl 40/13 Bere 35s 6d to 36s 6d t gq lb V bushel. Barley 35s 6d to 36s 6d r ‘'‘' Oatmeal 20s 6d to 21s 6d iil boll of 28 01 b .... 11 bushel. Flour, fine 48s Od to 50s Od sack of 2801 b KIRKCALDY—SEPT. 21. Small supplies of wheat at our market to-day, which sold at is higher than last week. A few bags of now bar ley and one parcel of new oats. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 678 6d 3 s 6d 3.!.8 6d second 66s Od I 36s Od --s Od Third -s Od ' —a Od —s Od Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. &saran& and New Zealand, via Oct. 20. Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 14. Ditto, via Panama Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Oct. 4. Ditto, by Prench packet Oct. 22 Cape Verds. by Brazil packet ...... . Oct. 4. Cape of Good Hope. Ascension. and St. Helena Sept. 27. China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southampton Oct. 3. Ditto, via Marseilles. .... Falkland Islands Oct. 4 Gibraltar, via Southampton. .. Sept. 27. India, via Southampton *Oct. 3. Ditto, via Handl es Malta, Egypt, (Spa Sept. 27. Ditto, Marseilles Sept. 2 7 . Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via __ Southampton - Oct. 20 DM), via 31areetles Newfoundland ....... ........ ....... Sept. 2 5 . Portugal Oct. 4. Ditto, by private ship to Oporto . Ditto ditto to Lisbon United States, Canada, California, &e., by British packet .Oct. Ditto, by United States packet Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (New York) Ditto ditto (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian poet Sept. 27. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerin.... „Oct. 3 West Indies and Pacific ;except Mexico and Baha mas) Cab ► and Mexico ...Sept. 2,8* Bahamas, via New York Oct. 9 B .:rmuda, via Halifax The Pall Mall Gazette is a rod in pickle for dis honest authors. Nu cookery can disguise from the kee n scent of the critic the re-hash when served. Spina , sauces, garnish, and other tricks to dish up the cold joint in a new form will not pass muster with this tyrant. Al l are ruthlessly swept away, and the source of the suppli exposed in the fiercest glare of light. Tho thin disguise s attempted by Mrs. Henry Wood were seen through at once, and others much less transparent removed. Last Monday's number of the Pall Mall contained a soya° critic on " Circe," by Babington White, which is now re published from Miss Braddon's magazine, Belgravia. 1311 t it is not the faults of this book that has mainly excited the wrath of the critic. " Circo " is de dared to be a mere robbery, little more than a transla tion from " Dalila," by M. Octave Feuillet in 1 853 ' Miss Braddon immediately wrote to the editor, stating the discovery of the theft had fallen like a thunderbolt ° her senses. Then in her haste she announced a resolution which she may have cause to repent—' , As the worker of precious metals will never refuse for his honour's sake in take back the base stuff he may have sold, unconsciouslil for gold, so I should wish at once to publish my willing ness to return the amounts paid by my subscribers for those numbers of Belgravia in which Circe' has usurped a place." This is artfully worded, but if it means that Miss Braddon will re-purchase the numbers of her maga zine containing !' Circe," she opens a fine field for "Bird of Prey." Should she return a shilling for each numb er which may be picked up over the country at loss than hel l that, she may soon have her knowledge largely increased by a practical experience of all varieties of birds of prey. It would perhaps have been wiser in Miss Braddon l° have taken no notice. For her letter has raised the ques tion—Who is Mr. Babington White ? The following letter we give in full : " WHO IS MR. BABINGTON WHITE? " To the Editor of the Pall-Mall Gazette. "Sir,—lf Miss Braddon has recovered from the shooU of the 'discovery of the theft from M. Octavo Emilia,' sh e will perhaps be good enough to tell us who committed that theft. In a tolerably largo acquaintance with profession al litterateurs I never yet found any one who had met 1 ,11. * Babington White. Several persons, however, who ough t to know, have assured me that, as Mrs. Prig remarked of Mrs. Harris, `there was never no such person,' and that. Circe' was really written by a certain lady novelist of considerable popularity. However, Miss Braddon mu st know, and it concerns her that there should be no such mystery in the matter.—Faithfully yours, "A MAG.'s MAN. Miss Braddon has received much sterling - coin in 0 % . " change for much bad morality, some trash, and aWI great deal of morbid and sensational stuff, so that the ba lance, being largely in her favour, she can afford in silence to let tho Pall-Mall rail. On Friday evening Miss Braddon presented her compliments to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, an d informed him that the letter that appeared in its column s as coming from her was a forgery. The editor add' some remarks, but we think he ought to explai n whence the letter came. Miss Braddon is a f Bir , object of attack so long as the attack is fair ; b ut the editor of the Pall Mall has no more right t ° publish spurious letters, signing people's names, than gis° Braddon has to purloin novels from the French. The one requires at least as much explanation as the other. Births. BATHURST—On the 21st inst., at 33, Devonshire-stre ett Portland-place, the wife of Charles Bathurst, Esq., of son. COLES —0 a the 22d inst., at Madeira Villa, Ventnor, 01° wife of Captain Cowper Coles, R.N., of a son. DIGBY— On the 21st inst., at Chalmington House, DorElett Mrs. Digby, of a son. Marriages. FOSTER —STURGES—On the 19th inst., at Trinity Churelv Paddington, Richard B. C. P. Foster, Esq., of Gr e y 'S' inn, only son of Lieut.-Gen. T. Foster, R.E., of Clov e ; land-terrace, Hyde-park, to Mary Jane, elder daugh, • t e of S. Sturges, Esq., of Westbourne-terrace, Hyde - p ar ' GIRTON—HANSON—On the Feast of St. Matthew, at Nagy ,, stead Parish Church, S. J. Girton, Esq., of Islington, - Isabella, fourth daughter of the late Benjamin Hato o ' Esq., of Hatnmersmith. Deaths. ALEXANDER— On the 21st inst., at Straw Hall, Carlow, W. Alexander. BASER—On the 20th inst., at Tho Mount, York, George Baker, Esq., aged 71. CARTER—On the 18th inst., at 10, Albion-street, H 3 de- park, Mr. Wm. Carter, agOd 74. FORSTER—On tho 18th inst., at Bryn Eglwys, Carnal- 1 1 i Robert W. Forster, Esq., late of Mersea Island, BO' aged 58. FISHER —On the 21st inst., at Cambridge, T. IL Vis her ' Esq., aged 79. PRICE —Onithe 20th inst., at Leeds, W. Price. F.R.C. 011 formerly of tho Royal Navy, aged 82. URQUHART —On the 20th inst., at Bembridge, Isle of Wig" John Urquhart, Esq., Surgeon Royal Navy. WILLMOTT—On the 20th inst., Mr. Joseph Willniott, Cooter's End, Harpenden, Herts, aged 56. . . London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW', of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Viz SUN Office, N . ° 112 'r Strand, in the Precinct of the Ss voy, in the Coady 14iddleen.—Iuteclay, September 24, 1867. I SU N... , ESDAY VENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1867