The Sun. — London, England, 1867-11-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONimN. MONE)AY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 18t7, Miscellaneous Foreign News. ROME, Oct. 25. You have learned by the telegraph how Nerola was retaken on the 18th at midday, at the very time I was writing my last letter. The fighting was severe, not on account of the number of Gari baldians (there were scarcely more than 300, Menotti and 700 men having retired the evening before), nor on account of their valour. These chance soldiers, ill-armed for the most part, little or not at all trained to military life, are not formi dable, were they even ten times more numerous, but on account of the height of the mountain on which the town is situated. Nerola is ten kilo metres from Corese, and less than a kilometre from the frontier. The Garibaldians took away with them six Zouaves wounded at the engage ment of Monte Libretti on the 13th, and Mrs. Stone, who went from Rome, as I told you, to take care of them, together with Mgr. Stonor, who, at the request of this lady, obtained permission to leave Rome to hear the confession of the Zouaves. During the assault, which lasted two hours, Mrs. Stone, Mgr. Stonor, and the wounded occupied a house set apart for them. Madame Kanzler, wife of the Minister of War, went to Monte Rotondo to take care of the Pontifical wounded, who might, in case of a reverse, have been transported thither. The column was composed of Zouaves, of Gens darmes, of the Legion Antibes, and of foreign Chasseurs, all under the command of General Charette, of the Zouaves. his troops amounted at least to 900 men, because it was believed that all the Garibaldian bands were concentrated at Nerola, under Menotti ; three pieces of cannon were brought out. The Consul of the United States had joined the column as a volunteer. Each corps was accompanied by its chaplain. Mgr. Bastide, chaplain of the Legion of Antibes, marched in the midst of his soldiers with a cru cifix in his hand ; beside him was the American Consul, armed with a good rifle, and shooting at the Garibaldians with much sang froid. Two cannon shots, directed against the fortress—an old tower of the time of the Colonna—soon knocked a hole in the wall. During this time the soldiers assaulted the fortress from two opposite sides. Col. de Charette had his horse shot under him, and at night, for want of food, the horse had to be eaten. Some Garibaldians were placed as riflemen out side the city; but they were soon forced to with draw inside,Aud the whole band took refuge in the fort on seeing the soldiers enter from all sides. But the besieged, fearing that the artillery would reach them in their retreat, surrendered the moment the gate of the fortress was forced by the Zouaves. About 140 Garibaldians were made prisoners, with their leader, Valentini, who confessed to Mgr. Bas tide that he had studied theology under the Rev. Father Perrone for two years. "I do not compli ment Father Perrone," replied the chaplain, laugh ing. The band had lost one man and had ten wounded; the attacking column had one killed and eleven wounded, among whom was Captain Eschmann, captain of the Legion of Antibes. The Zouaves, in their hunger, went from door to door asking for bread. One door opened and they saw Mrs. Stone, the kind guardian of the wounded. She passed many nights without sleep. Captain Eschmann was placed on a carriage with other wounded, and was conducted towards Rome, but on his way he had to pass over an angle [of Italian territory. The captain of a troop of Italian soldiers stopped the carriage, in violation of the law of nations, which respects the wounded. More over, this officer insulted Captain Eschmann for being a Frenchman, and took away his money, his watch, and sword, and retained his servant and Mrs. Stone, who had taken this opportunity of returning to Rome ; but the next day the captain let them go. I know that the French Embassy at Florence has demanded the punishment of this officer. During the attack on Nerola, a charge d'affaires of France, M. Armonde, went to the Pope and declared to him, in the name of the Emperor, that, happen what might, the support of France would never fail the Pontifical Government. From that time, we began to believe in the intervention, not only moral but material, of France. The next day, we learnt that the Garibaldians had been driven out of Orte, where they had entered on the 17th, and proclaimed the Government of Garibaldi(" Il Governo di Garibaldi.") We learnt, almost at the same time, that a band of 180 Garibaldians had been repulsed at Farnese by a mixed column of Gensdarmes, Zouaves, and peasantry. At this engagement Lieutenant Du Fournel, a Frenchman, of the regiment of Zouaves, was killed. This officer had only arrived a few days since from Valentano, where he was in garrison, and much respected by the inhabitants for his piety and amiability. He died as a saint, offering up his life unto God for the Pope. A French despatch boat, l'Actif, arrived at Civita Vecchia on the evening of the 20th, and landed General Prudhon, sent by the Emperor to inspect the state of Rome and the means of defence, which were at the disposal of the Holy See. General Prudhon saw the Holy Father next day, and announced to him that the French fleet had left, and would arrive at the latest on the 25th. He then visited the Minister of War, and advised him to fortify Rome against a coup de main, so that the city might hold out until the arrival of the French. Rome has been fortified ; the gates not easy to be defended, are barricaded ; the others are open during the day, and are defended on the outside by earthworks and cannons at each gate ; the bridges in the neighbourhood are mined ; all peace able citizens are ordered to go home if they hear five cannon shots, and all shopkeepers to shut their shops if they hear five cannon shots ; all gatherings of more than four men are forbidden, and will be dispersed by force. On the evening of the 22nd, a certain number of Garibaldians having succeeded in passing into Rome, and com bining with those inside the city, made an attempt at a rising, which was speedily put down. At half-past six an Orsini bomb was exploded on the Piazza Colonna, near to the column of Antonine, of which it knocked off a fragment, and did no further mischief. It is supposed that this bomb was thrown from the windows of the Palace Piom- bino, which, in the absence of the Prince, a poli tical exile, is occupied by private persons. A little time afterwards, a fearful explosion was heard. It was the Serristori barracks of the Zouaves which was blown up. It was situated near St. Peter's, and was very large and very high. The revolu tionists had placed two barrels of powder in a drain under the building. One only of these barrels took fire, and, therefore, only one wall was destroyed. Fortunately the musicians only of the regiment were in the barracks. Up to the present time sixteen dead or wounded have been taken out of the ruins. The Pope, on hearing of the explosion, sent Mgr. de Merode to the spot, who passed the night in assisting the workmen in extricating the wounded. There were not more than three or four hundred Garibaldians inside the city. They were to have been joined by those on the outside, but this junction did not take place, because on the previous night the Garibaldians in the vicinity of Rome, in the neighbourhood of San Paolo, were taken prisoners by Colonel Eligi, who seized at the same time a large depot of arms. This is how the rising was put down. Some sentinels here and there were disarmed. The most serious affair took place on the Capitol. The guard routed the assailants, about 200 in number, who fled across the Forum. In all, the army lost four men and had two wounded. About fifty of the Garibal dians were killed or wounded, and about 150 were taken prisoners, all strangers not belonging to the Papal States. The next evening, at seven o'clock, a band of eighty or a hundred Garibaldians ap proached the I'orta del Popolo. They were stopped by a company of Chasseurs, who killed or wounded fifteen men and put the rest to flight. This band was composed of young men of good family. There were in its ranks two Collaredos, of Udine nephews of a former ambassador of Rome. At this moment moveable columns are scouring the coun try about Rome. A column of young Romano, not soldiers, patrol Rome ; amongst them are several nobles. ROME, Oct. 26. The road into Rome by Leghorn and Civita Vecchia is quite free. There are people still com ing in as if there were nothing amiss, nor is there any sign as you travel along but that all is as usual, and local circumstances seem as little altered as the blue Mediterranean, or the green Campagna. The following announcement, however, appears in the papers :—" Government has provisionally or dered that the city of Rome be temporarily declared in a state of siege. This measure completes the system of security which the Roman people have called on Government to adopt." I am sorry to find the story of the blowing up of a Zouave barrack is too true. Finding them selves worsted in fair fight, some few Garibaldians, who are hiding here, resorted to this mode of doing mischief. Most providentially there were only the band in barracks at the time ; these are all Italians, but, I believe, the loss amounts to at least twelve. Among the injured by this affair is the only non- Italian in the band, a little Spanish boy, who, out of his devotion to the Holy Father, travelled all the way hither alone last year to beg to be put into the Zouaves, and cried so bitterly at finding himself pronounced too young to be received, that the colonel, out of very pity, got him placed in the band. It was most providential that not more were injured. The men had been ordered not an hour before to investigate a suspected house flti open country at:the Tre Fontane, about six miles out side the walls, where they found a considerable quantity of arms concealed, and about 70,000 francs. This was on the 22nd. Since then there has been another seizure of concealed arms in the Trastevere, and all the apparatus for manufactur ing bombs in active operation ; but no attempt of any sort at any disturbance of public order, beyond the explosion of a few bombs, and an oc casional cry of alarm in the streets, in the view of creating panic and excitement, and inducing the timid, who are always the majority, to prefer the imposition of a government they hate to the con tinuance of a condition of fear. The declaration of the state of siege will put an end to this sort of thing. The order for the surrender of arms, too, is issued to-day. _ . . There does not appear the least disposition on the part of the people to sympathize with the movement. Every one speaks with indignation of the diabolical affair of the 22d, and, indeed, of the whole Garibaldian interference. Yesterday all the chief representatives of the great Roman families paradedßome, wearing white and yellow scarves—the Pope's colours—to testify their ad hesion to the established regime in the most public manner possible. Yesterday Viterbo was attacked on six different points at once, and the Garibaldians were repulsed everywhere and forced to retire with the loss of five dead, thirty-five wounded, and fifty prisoners. On the Roman side only one dragoon was killed and two wounded. All the ammunition of the attack ing party fell into the hands of the Pontifical troops, as well as a number of horses. The whole number of wounded in hospital only amounts to about thirty. They are all in the best disposition. Indeed nothing can be more edifying than the devotion with which all bear their suf ferings. Many cases are very sad to witness, par ticularly one poor German who received a ball in his mouth. The lower part of his face is all manner of colours. It was hardly supposed he could re cover, but under the unremitting care of the Sisters of St. Vincent he was able yesterday, for the first time, to eat something. Garibaldi was seen here one day this week, and is reported to be at Foligno. He was very nearly taken while here, but it is as well he was not, for as a prisoner he would be rather like a white elephant. _ . There are a good many foreigners here, quite as many as usual at this time of the year. P.S.—To•day's Osservatore comes out a quarter of an hour before post time, and as the door of the office is always besieged, I could not get it in time to send you, but the man in the office has promised by all his gods to despatch it faithfully in a cover I have left with him. It is a rather anxious time here, because there are so many cowards and alarmists who predict dreadful things, but I think what I have written is a fair statement,and all is from most authentic sources, but I cannot put names. The poor Zouaves are terribly overworked. It is wonderful what spirits they are in, as they are hard at it night and day. FLORENCE, Oct. 25. At last, the line by Orbitello is pronounced to be clear, and in a few hours more I shall be on my way back to Rome, and shall at last learn the truth as to what is passing there. We hear such surprising budgets of news every day, that it requires some forbearance to abstain from inundating you with reports. It does not do either to suppress them all, for, even when most unreliable, they serve, like the straw before the wind, to indicate the direction of the coming storm. The amount of false intelligence industri ously circulated every day in the legion of little cheap papers throughout the streets of this capital is a noteworthy instance of the gullibility of human nature. According to them the Papal Zouaves (who only number about 2,500 in all, remember!) are continually appearing in bodies of 2,000 at a time at various points of the frontier, and are always beaten and dispersed by the Garibaldians ; and the number of victories these have obtained ought certainly by this time to have made them masters of a province more than double the size of the Roman State in its present reduced limits. One of the most notable instances of imposture known, came within my own notice on Tuesday, when some of the so-called liberal prints had the effrontery to report a grand demonstration in favour of the "liberation" of Rome, in the Via Calzaitioli, the night before at half past five. Now it happens that I passed through this street (the Piccadilly of Florence, and about half its width, consequently always a particularly crowded thoroughfare) twice between a quarter past five and a quarter to six without meeting the appearance of anything at all unusual going on ! After this, what faith can we put in anything else they publish? The streets were placarded early on Tuesday with announcements that on Monday the Romans had risen against the Government [subsequent telegrams and private letters prove this to be a mere fabrication], and calling on their " fratelli ' of Florence to make a grand demonstration in their favour at eleven in the morning. Just at the appointed hour the rain came down in torrents, and may have afforded one cause for thinning the number of demonstrants; but the show was weak enough. A few hundred boys and roughs and curi ous idlers lounged about and listened to some haranguing and then tramped—a procession of wet umbrellas—to the office of the Ministry of the Interior. Here they found the inner gates of the Cortile closed against them, and (very unneces sarily) lined with a detachment of gendarmi. Nothing followed but the uttering a few " evvivas" for Garibaldi, &c. Many of the more respectable townspeople stood in their doorways and sneered at the train as it passed. In spite of the perpetual posting up of thrilling notices in large type, and the screeching by small boys of fabulous victories, there is nothing like popular enthusiasm in favour of a movement on Rome. The most significant part remains to be told ; the said haranguing was by Garibaldi himself, and yet elicited so little in terest that no one even greeted his pretended escape from Caprera with any emotion which could be construed into delight. No London mob greeted him. In the night he left for the South, and as there are no special trains to be had without the express permission of the Government he left by the half-past six train. But that this prisoner of State whom four men-of-war are sup posed to be guarding in his island, should be openly walking about the streets of the capital in sight of every one, and suffered to depart in triumph on a mission forbidden by law, is irrefragable proof of either the incompetence or the connivance of Government ! But for whose benefit has the farce been played ? The enlistment of recruits is being actiyely pushed. on without any concealment ; you may see knots of these ill-conditioned hirelings waiting round the door of the depot. Poor wretches thrown out of work by the present crushing scarcity of money, glad of any employment by which they may eat a piece of bread, and who do not scruple to beg of you as you pass. Fifty francs in hard cash (and remember we never see coin here unless we buy it at an enormous premium) is the bounty held out to them, and it is astonishing that there are not more attracted by such a bait, for the amount of distress in the streets is most depress ing to witness. Beggars accost you at every turn ; if you let your eye rest for an instant on any pale faced, careworn fellow in the street, even if in tolerably-respectable garb, he immediately holds outhis hand for an alms. 1 was going into the magnificent mausoleum of San Lorenzo yesterday when I found an emaciated woman lying across the doorstep, crying bitterly ; she had been turned out of her house for default of rent, and had no place to go to. I was later in another church, and was assailed by five different applicants, none of them bearing the cachet of regular beggars. I am happy to be able to give you the news from a reliable source that Orte, the only place at which the Garibaldians have had even a temporary suc cess, was retaken by the Papal troops within a few hours of their entry, and before they had succeeded in wresting the subsidy I told you in my last they had demanded of the religious communities of the place. Their short triumph was marked by many outrages. The Governor and other public officers who all faithfully asserted their allegiance to Go vernment were ill-treated and their houses rifled ; the Pontifical arms were torn down from the front of the public buildings, and broken in pieces in spite of the indignant remonstrance of the towns people. At Viterbo they committed even worse excesses ; a party of them forced their way into the church in the hopes of pillaging it of whatever precious ornaments they might find, and, being disappointed with the amount of their booty, vented their rage on the religious symbols of the altar, and even, if report speak true, on the sacred contents of the tabernacle. All the Pontifical troops seem to have done their duty gallantly on all occasions. If there is any distinction to be made it is of course in favour of the Zouaves, who, being entirely a devoted body, have naturally both more intelligence and more entrain than others. One Englishman, young Col lingridge, I hear, fell nobly at Monte Libretto. All who were absent:on leave came pouring into Rome at the first suspicion of danger, and there has not been a single case of desertion among them, or, in deed, from any corps. The Romans among their number have been as devoted as any, belieing the reported doubts of their bravery, or of their alle giance to Government. One of the most spiteful misrepresentations of the " Liberal" papers is the calling these troops habitually " mercenaries," when, certainly, a more disinterested army never was called together, men of position and rank offer ing themselves as mere privates, without a chance of distinction in this world for their services. Nor are these only among the Zouaves. Many a scion of families of the oldest names of Rome are among the Dragoons. The peasantry, too, round Frosi none, who have for some two years past been armed for the defence of the border against bri gands, applied of their own motion to march against the Garibaldians, and have done good ser vice. And a Florence paper complains bitterly of the services rendered to the troops by a spirited Roman lady. To return to the Zouaves, I must repeat a testimony to their intrepidity which has just been mentioned to me, borne by a member of another corps, the gendarmi, as fine a looking regi ment as you could wish to see, and all Italians. He could hardly find words to express his admira tion of their bearing. "Their efforts are something superhuman," he said ; " when they have once fired they do not waste the time to reload, but charge at once with the bayonet, and thrust and thrust again ; nothing can stand before them. They don't seem to know what danger is." All day yesterday and the evening before, a new placard was sedulously posted at the corner of every street, quite seditious in its remarks, on the attitude of Government. It announced the most alarming state of things in Rome, and declared that Gari baldi was to head the attack there within a few hours, ending, as usual, by begging for money. Every here and there a man was posted, who pro duced a taper and matches in the most casual way, but appeared so intent on reading it that he could not forbear doing so aloud, whereby the passers-by were arrested and enlightened as to its contents at the same time. You will smile at the narration of such tricks ; but they are significant as speci mens of the system which is at work here. This placard was very soon torn down, for some reason it would be difficult to guess—possibly only be cause it failed to bear the penny stamp which is inexorably required on the smallest notice, be it only a strip of paper with the announcement in a shop window that " English are spiked here." Its successor was closely printed, and gives a most detailed account of stirring events it alleges to have taken place in Rome on Monday and Tues day. It asserts that all the large piazze were filled with troops, that the people indignant at this exhi bition of force shot at them with pistols and re mained masters of one or two positions, while it goes on to blame the military for firing on what it calls the unarmed people. Then, forgetting this plea of their harmlessness, it goes on to narrate their prowess in attacking the soldiery in their barracks, and blowing them up, " by which means," it concludes with savage glee, " who can calculate ; the harvest of victims ? Up to eight in the morn , ing fifty corpses of Zouaves had been extricated from the ruins, and every moment more are being brought out." At the same time that this notice, purporting to have come direct from Rome, was being circulated, private persons got no letters, and to-day those of the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, were re ceived together. Where so many untruths are being told, it is difficult to steer clear, but the pro bability is that there was an interruption on the line, that no letters were received yesterday or the day before from Rome, and that the placard is a fabrication like the rest; for all the letters from Rome I have seen to-day—some from people who are professedly observing what is going on, are written in blissful ignorance of any such excite ment. Meantime, while the cheap Radical papers and the mysterious Comitato are regaling us with these sensational fictions, we are kept most strangely in the dark as to the movements ;and intention of Government. The ministerial crisis is believed to be a mere ruse for gaining time ; and, in fact, there is such duplicity in all matters, that no one puts faith in any statement. There is certainly an, at least, momentary lull in the onslaught on Rome. Last evening's papers tacitly confessed the dis comfiture of the Garibaldians, and even allowed that there was not one left in the neighbourhood of the Eternal City. BOULOGNE, Oct. 29. The following short description of a very inte resting ceremony, which took place in the mag nificent cathedral of this city on Sunday last, will, no doubt, prove acceptable to many who are not strangers to this very beautiful church, which is still far from being finished, although the Vene rable Mgr. Haffreingue is indefatigable in his exertions to complete it. A very fine marble altar, with its tabernacle, manufactured in Rome, and presented by the family of Larder M'Lean, has been placed under the large painting of the Imma culate Conception, and was solemnly consecrated by Mgr. Marinelli, bishop in partibu?, and Papal Sacristan. The ceremony was very imposing, and perfectly carried out in all its details, Mgr. Cataldi acting as Master of Ceremonies, his second being the Rev. Abbo Alphonse Debette, so well known both in England and at Turin, and everywhere esteemed for his amiable and gentle manner. He is a most efficient Master of Ceremonies. The Vene rable Mgr. Haffreingue assisted at the ceremony. After the consecration Mass was celebrated by one of the canons of the diocese resident at the college, and who wore a particularly rich suit of vestments. The music was very good ; the cere mony concluded at about half-past two. Some of your region may be aware, perhaps, that there are four lateral dtars round the dome, two on each side of the Sanctuary of our Lady of Boulogne. On the Gospel side are the altars of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin and the Annunciation. Facing these are the altars of the Visitation and of the Immaculate Conception. The three others are for the present only temporary . . Perhaps some charit able friend may (following the pious example of the donors of the altar of our Lady of Boulogne, and the one consecrated on last Sunday) come forward and bestow on the church the three still wanting. The two already named are the gifts of English friends, and a young lady of the family, who gave the one the Immaculate Conception, was received into the Ursuline convent in this city, some few days since, Mgr. Haffreingue giving her the habit and white veil. We are glad to be able to inform those who visited this church in August that since then the frescoes in the Sanctuary of our Lady of Boulogne have been all completed. Six were then wanting— three on each side of the altar. They are all well done, and represent the different mysteries of the holy Rosary. This beautiful little chapel or sanc tuary is fast approaching its conclusion, and will certainly be a gem in its way, well fitted to attract the attention of artists and people of good taste. The erection of this mighty pile in honour of Mary will be the most lasting monument to the memory of the venerable and saintly man who has so nobly devoted his life and energies to this great work, and his good Queen and Mother seems to so favour him as to enable him to see the com pletion of his work. THEORIES OF GUNNERY. (From the Pall Mall Gazette.) We have at last a final and formal abandonment by the Americans of the great American gunnery theory of " racking." By most Americans we are inclined to think the theory was tacitly given up long ago, and what remained of it was destroyed by the first round fired against an iron target by the Rodman gun at Shoeburyness. But " when all the rest of the American press was disposed to give up the gun as a failure," one journal, whose words we quote (words, by the way, which let us into the secret of the sort of estimation in which the gun is held in America), clung to it with desperate energy. This journal was the .New York limes, and we have at last, on the part of the New York Times, a frank disclaimer, not, it is true, of the gun, but of the theory which matched the gun and gave it half its seeming value. What a world of trouble it would have saved if this had all been said before I " The Americans," says the New York Times, "have no such theory [as racking]. . . . The American gun is not made to rack' nor to punch,' but—" And here we may well pause and wonder what, iu the name of al that is practicable, even an American gun can be designed to effect against an ironclad, if it be neither to rack nor to punch ? Well, the American gun is designed, it appears, simply "to penetrate, as any other gun, small or large, ought to do." If it were not for the further enlightenment vouchsafed us on this point, we might still be at a loss as to the real object of the American attack. Racking is not sought for, punching is not sought for, but penetration. However, " there are two kinds of penetration, one of which is the British sort, con sisting in punching' awl-holes, and the other the American sort, which strives to make great jagged holes, such as cannot be plugged." At last, then, we have a definition of the sort of effect which the Americans really desire to produce, " a great jagged hole, such as cannot be plugged." Distinct as this expression may seem, it is open to manipulation in skilful hands, and it is because we are anxious prospectively to prevent such manipu lation that we will set forth the two possible senses in which the words may be understood. They may be understood, then, to mean a hole externally jagged—cracked and splintered like a hole in a broken window pane ; or they may be understood to mean a hole clean itself, but internally broken and splintered, and bearing within the structure of the ship evidence of destructive effect. We should suppose that the New fork Times means by " a hole which cannot be plugged" a hole externally jagged ; for that is really the only sort of hole which it is difficult to plug. In this case we have only to observe that such a hole is not produc - A by the 15-inch Rodman with 100 lb of powder. That hole is as clean and defined in the iron as in the holes made by our rifle pro jectiles, as of easy to plug. powder, or w Firedwith and a lessh e practically argeh every ta whitnloolb some approximate equivalent, the Rodman gun makes not a hole at all, but an indent more or less deep, and fails, therefore, to accomplish what we are now told the Americans desire--complete pene tration. Turning from external to internal destruc tive effect—the second possible sort of jagged hole —it would surely appear to any one not absolutely purblind that a very much greater amount of splintering and total destruction must be wrought by the passage of a shell through a ship's side than of a shot —briefly, by the English system as op posed to the American system, the most audacious advocates of which have never yet claimed for it the merit of being a shell system. If, then, the Americans think that their 19-ton gun will produce great chasms in a ship's plating instead of " awl-holes," they are as mistaken as they imagined that those hteo pieces. To penetrate they hole must be what undoubtedlytg tough un gshwould iron of were arunnyk when thicknesse s n h p t the .New York Times would call an " awl-hole," whatever its diameter. To penetrate such plates the effect must be intensely local ; and the result of local effect is a clean hole. Behind the plate the hole assumes a different character —it becomes a great splintered rent ; and this rent will be more extensive, the splinters more numerous, and the de stru ct bursting ionimn itsore complete when a sh e ll p asses th roug h, passage, than a shot, while in nine cases out of ten the shell produces the additional compli cation of setting fire to the woodwork, to say nothing of its greater effects, moral and physical, upon the crew. If the Am ericans will state frankly that, abstractedly, they prefer shot to shell penet ra ti on , and that they prefer to use a heavy gun to a light one, then we shall be better able to appreciate the alleged merits of their guns; but as it is doubtful if they will ever be brought to acknowledge this, we must decline to admit the advantages of a sys tem of attack which permits of the use of shot only over one which is available equally for shot and shell, and which necessitates the use of the most massive ordnance in place of guns of more moderate dimensions. _ _ Another fallacy underlies the whole of the argu ment of the New York Times. It is the old fallacy common to most American arguments upon the subject, which we have before pointed out—that the immediate object of attack is the destruction of the enemy's material and not his men. The real ob ject in the attack of ironclads, as of other ships, is less the disablement of the vessel than of the men and guns which it contains. The vessel is a means of defence and attack merely—a protection or shield, so to express it, which we desire to strike through, wreaking our destruction upon those within. The penetration of the vessel is in fact the means only to an end ; and to destroy the vessel when we can if we chose reach the men and their guns is a tedious and roundabout way of accomplishing our object. What is claimed for the English system is that it accomplishes the true object more swiftly and more easily than the Amen i ean system. We say" the American sy - stem,"al though we really do not believe that the Americans have any such system. They know, and the New York Tines knows as well as any one else, that the great American smooth-guns were adopted at a time of great pressure, as a rough and ready means of doing that which with our leisure and opportunities for experiment we found ourselves able to do by other means very much more certainly and effec tively. We are far from blaming the Americans for adopting these guns, and for trying to evolve out of them a sort of " system." indeed, we have always thought that under the circumstances the guns did infinite credit to their constructors. But what we have all along been anxious to show is that in point of science and completeness this system is theoretically and practically inferior to that which we have elaborated at such great pains and expense. We may ask not unfairly why, if the Americans are so well satisfied with their smooth-bore guns, are they now so busy constructing large rifle guns ? If we were engaged at this time in making big smooth-bores the fact would certainly be accepted in proof of our dissatisfaction with, or want of com plete confidence in, our rifled guns. But since we have discovered that the most fatal wouncldcan be inflicted most promptly, conveniently, and certainly on men and material by pointed shell, we have never swerved from the system of ordnance which alone permits of such projectiles being used. It is tedious to have to hammer away at this sub ject month after month, but the shifty nature of the American arguments leaves us little choice. And the advancement of this new theory requires a few words of reply. The controversy is now nar rowed down, however, to a sufficiently fine point. The Americans—if the New York Times is to be accepted as a fair exponent of Ameri can opinion on these subjects desire, as it seems, like ourselves to penetrate their enemy's vessels. But if they really are in clined to cling to smooth-bores in preference to rifle guns, simply as a means of making ragged holes instead of clean holes, then we would refer them to the target recently penetrated by the Rodman gun at Shoeburyness in proof of our assertion that the hole made by a smooth-bore in a good thick plate is very much the same sort of hole as is made by a rifled gun, neither better nor worse ; while the effort required to produce it with a smooth-bore is infi nitely greater than with a rifle gun, and inferior also to the extent to which shot penetration is infe rior to shell. -_- 2HEATRICALS IN NEW IORK. The New York Citizen, writing of Giacometti's new tragedy, " Marie Antoinette," as acted at the Theatre Francais, New York, observe s that it was written expressly for Madame Ristori, with the understanding that she should make her first ap pearance in the character of Marie Antoinette in New York. " The effect of the play as a historic performance is perfect. Madame Ristori sustains her part with as near an approach to perfection as can be looked for. She accurately represents the changing phases of Marie Antoinette's character, and is equally truthful as the gay young Queen, the passionate, proud Austrian, at bay against her foes, the despair ing victim of the Revolution. She wai received with unanimous applause, and henceforth her Marie Antoinette will rank beside Marie Stuart and Elizabeth. " Mr. Bateman has made an arrangement for a season of French comedy at the Theatre Francais, to commence at the conclusion of Madame Ristori's engagement. " It the New York, Mr. Daly's 6 Under the Gaslight' has been withdrawn while in the full tide of success, and Mdlle. Zoe, the ' Cuban Sylph,' who is universally admitted to be the best ' French Spy' that we have had—not excepting Celeste—is now drawing full houses. She is a very beautiful woman, and possesses not only pantomimic abilities of a high order, but also extraordinary physical strength and agility. Her feats with the sword would be wonderful if executed by a man, and are positively marvellous when the lady's comparatively delicate figure is remembered." The same paper, speaking of the Academy of Music, observes of Miss Janauschek, whose debut was a great success, " that she is a lady of magni ficent presence, the splendour of whose personal beauty would alone render any play in which she might appear attractive. Her acting is finished, careful and elaborate—the result of the loving study which a true artist always gives to the work in hand. In Medea she evinced great and unusual strength. The best way in which to de scribe her Medea is to say that it was first of all, and chiefly, forcible. The tragedy does not afford much opportnnity for the display of delicate shades of emotion ; and its pathos is nearly always of the stern, passionate type. As a representative of this character, Missjanauschek was perfectly successful. In her Deborah, in which she will appear on Satur day, she will have an opportunity of showing how she can manage scenes of more tender and quiet pathos. "At the Olympic Mr. Jefferson's engagement is drawing to a close. He has never been more successful in New York than during the present season, and he will be deeply regretted when he departs and takes his other self, Rip Van Winkle,' with him to the happy provinces. "At the Broadway Mr. Forrest's triumphant engagement has but just terminated ; and at Niblo's the Black Czook' is as far from coming to an end as ever." Wilkes' Spirit of Oct. 12 says : " Belle Boyd had a benefit recently in Memphis, Tennessee, tendered her by the ex-Confederate General Forrest and numerous other citizens of that lively city. _ _ "Barnum, the great showman, has just bought a house on Fifth Avenue for the sum of eighty thousand dollars. With ' Pale Janet' and the sure enough gorilla, Phineas's financial affairs are moving along as regularly as (Jerome) clock-work. Ristori ice -creams, having had their day, are superseded by La Grande Duchesse kid gloves and Gerolstein hats. Lalande, the celebrated cantatrice, died re cently at Chantilly, France. She was sixty-nine years of age. " The last act of ' Marie Antoinette' arrived only on Monday last, and the piece was produced that evening. No wonder the voice of the prompter was heard through the house. " Lotta is doing her banjo soliloquies in Chicago. "Lady Don played Polly Eccles in ' Caste' at De Bar's, in St. Louis. " George Jordan is playing Beauseant—the fellow who didn't marry Pauline in Claude Mel notte. Pechter does the bombastic humbug, Claude. 4 , Major-General Thomas Thumb, inspired by the example of his Nestor, Phineas, is going into politics. _ . . ~ The boy soprano, Coker, has completely lost his once superb voice. He has gone to England. " Lotto, is St. Louis's favourite star. She has played for more money than any artiste who ever appeared in that city." Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. kustralla and New Zealand, via Sonthampton.....Nov. 19. Ditto, via Marseilles ... • .........Nov. 13. Ditto, via Panama ........ ......... ...Nov. 28. Brazil, Buenos "Lyres, and Monte Video Nov. 4. Ditto, by Frenoh paoket Cape Verdi. by Brazil paotet ....» .., Nov. 4. Cape of Good Hope. isoension. and St Helena Nov. 27. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Nov. 3. Ditto, via Marseilles ... . Nov, 13 Falkland Islands Nov. 4: Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Nov. 2. India, via Southampton Nov. 3. Ditto, via Mandl ce ..... ..Nov. 7. Malts, Itypt, Am. .• ......... •'• Nov. 3. Ditto, Marseilles Oct. 27. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Nov. 19. DIU via Marseilles Nov. 13. Newfoundland Portugal Ditto, by r•N la ship to Oporto ... Ditto 4 . 1 to Lisbon United States, ( ana California, (to., by British packet Ditto, by 1_ i ited 'fates packet Ditto ditto 'New York) Ditto ditto w York) Ditto dittt (Baltimore) Ditto, by Canadian paoket ..... West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tetteriff 3. West Indies and Pa:.lfic (except Mexico and Baha mas) Cuba and Mexico ...Nov. 28 Batta:nas, via New York Nov. 11 Bermuda, via Halifax The conservatory at the Presidential Mansion, which was destroyed by fire last January, has been re built, and it is furnished anew with rare and beautiful plants. The room is 140 feet long by 40 feet in width, and the proper temperature is maintained with hot water, passing through about 1,500 feet of 5-inch pipe. In Virginia City, a poor widow, iu overhauling an old vest of her husband, who bad recently died, found a dusty paper in the pocket, which, upon examination, proved to be the deed of three feet of the salvage claim. The secretary of the company informed her that it was genuine, and that $l,BOO in dividends were duo on it. She took the money, sold the dirty paper for $14,000, and Want to her hem and friends in the east. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Newmarket Correspondent of the Racing Times.) Sporting writers have been in the habit of calling the Houghton the last legitimate race meeting of the year; but the two meetings held at Worcester and Lincoln must not have the word " bastardy" applied to them, as they were legitimate in every sense of the word. Chelmsford, lam sorry to say, was a failure, as far as regards the attendance. The Ring was the most meagre I have seen at any meet ing this year; and the principal handicap brought out only two runners, of which long odds were laid on the lion tamer, Van Amburgh, but Caprice won in a canter. Mr. Fleming will not be believed when he tells his friends again that Van is the best horse in the world. There was some capital sport at Lincoln, but Mr. Chaplin was very unfortunate on his own ground, as he furnished a favou rite for nearly every race the first day, and did not win once. Caithness won the handicap in a canter, and was not backed for a shilling by his own party, but he received considerable support from the public - indeed, all those who study public form were bound to back him, as he was always a much better horse than Treasure Tr ov Tho racing on Friday opened with a match between His torian and Miller's Maid. Seven t 3 four was laid on the Admiral's filly, but the fielders bad the best of it again, Historian winning by a head. In fact, luck was dead against the backers, and not a favourite won all day. Tho defeat of Lord Lyon in the Queen's Plato was the most severe blow of the two days, as several people plunged on his lordship to get their losings back. It is really ridicu lous to read the remarks of some sporting writers about this race. It is quite certain they were not at Lincoln, and could not have seen it, or they would not writ* such rubbish ; for the greatest tyro in racing must ad mit that if Challoner had ever moved on his horse he must have won. The fact is, he thought of winning hands down ; but Custance kept his horse going, and snatched the race out of the fire in the last stride. Lord Lyon is a lazy horse, and would make a race with a donkey, and wants rousing at times ; but his jockey thought he did not require riding to beat Rama, but he made a mistake, and put the backers of Lord Lyon in the hole We are now told Mr. Chaplin made a mistake in not running the match at Newmarket, as Rama could have beat Lord Lyon, but I have no doubt Mr. Sutton would be glad to accommodate him with a match on the same terms, for in my opinion Lord Lyon could give Rama 71b over any course in England. In looking over the programme for the four days racing at Liverpool one would suppose we were just in the beginning of the year instead of Novem ber. Mr. Topham has succeeded in obtaining large entries to nearly all the races; there are eight races to be got through on the first day, quite enough for the month of November. The Trial Steeplechase has twenty-seven weighted for it, and whichever Chris. Green runs will about win, as both King of Hearts and Reporter are well just now; and for the Hurdle Race I fancy Thalassius, if Lord Stamford should make up his mind to run him, as he has been schooled pretty well over hurdles lately, and there is no better schoolmaster in England than Chris. Green. He began well at Worcester by winning the steeplechase with Reporter in Lord 4Stamford's colours; as I predicted last week he would do, which augurs well for his lordship, and' it is to be hoped fortune will be more favourable to him at steeplechasing than it has been on the flat. There is a large entry for the Knowsley Nursery, but as I know nothing about the intentions of owners of horses I am not in a position to say what is likely to run, but I fancy the first time Mr. Richard Porter puts the pieces down on Epworth he will be worth follow ing, for I feel convinced he did not run up to his trial within two stone at Newmarket. Dawdle looks best in of anything for the Flying Stakes, and if her party back her she will win ; the money was on at York, when she was only beaten a head by Sundoelah, which was no disgrace to Mr. Beanett's mare. She has four pounds less to carry here, which she ought to do in this company. The next one I fanny most is the King of Spades. Master Willie will win the Welter Cup. There are only three closed races for Wednesday. Skylark ought to win the Sefton Handicap, if he has any of his last year's form left. Pero and Slander look best in the Liverpool Nursery. The Carinthian Hurdle Race has Thalassius in again, and I can see nothing to beat him if he runs. On Thursday the chief event of the day will be the Grand Sefton Steeplechase, and as the stake is worth winning, and I know King of Hearts is well, I must give him my vote of confidence in this company. I know nothing about the other races on Thursday, there fore I shall not hazard an opinion about them, but shall proceed at once to offer my comments on the Liverpool Autumn Cup. Sundeelah heads the list, but after his performance in the Queen's Plate at Lincoln ho can have no chance, as he could never live the pace with the other three in any part of the race. Moulsey cannot run for ever, and indeed he must be made of iron to stand all the racing he has had this year; and I don't expect him to be so near as he was last year. Regalia ran well in the Queen's Plate, with Rama and Lord Lyon for the first mile and a half ; and I much question if she could not have beat either of them up to that distance, as she was pulling double at the half mile post ; but she seemed to stop as soon as she was asked to gallop. lam afraid to trust her on this occasion, as it will most likely be a fast-run race, and she has plenty of weight to carry. The three-year olds have so often won this race, that I must look out for another to pull me through on this occasion. Dalby has been talked about, but I should advise your readers to lot him alone until they see his number up ; and, as the Squire's mare is under a cloud, I must make the same re mark about her. Zonobia is only moderate, and Knight of the Garter can't get over a mile. Pearl Diver is getting stale. Aborgeldie I have no great fancy far, and Ackworth lost his form two years ago ; and I very much question if he will ever turn out another Flash in the Pan for those who follow the yearling stable. Caithness must h-ve had an immense chance previous to Lincoln, and as I stated last week I should stand nothing else if I could see him well on the day ; but ho has now incurred 81b penalty by winning the Lincoln Handicap. It would be downright treason were I to state my mind about this horse's running at Lincoln, but I am quite sure they have thrown the Liverpool Cup away, by making what I may term a very groat mistake. The Corporal and Newland I have Ito fancy for. Primate is well enough in, but I have not seen him this year and cannot recommend him, for it is really of no use to select horses to win races that one knows nothing about; and for all I know ho may be out of train ing. Acteea is well in, and if she can't got a place this time, she must be out of all form. Mandrake is a fair honest hors; and from getting so close to Julius, at Newmarket, at a difference of 111bs., it would bo putting the Cosarowit 311 winner in hero at 7st. 71b., and he would be as near winning as possible. Proser pina Thalia, and Rose have no chance. 1 now come to Honesty, and your readers are well aware of what I wrote about this horse before the Cesarewitch and Cambridge shire. I then stated ho had no chance of winning, espe cially the last-named event, fooling quite sure the Cam bridgeshire hill would never suit him, but I am prepared to see him run full 71b. a better horse next Thursday than he did in the Houghton meeting. He has been doing some rattling work lately, and seems to lay hold of his bit and give his mind to it more like a race horse than he did formerly. It is really amusing to road the different opi nions of sporting writers about Honesty. All those who selected him for the two great handicaps have now put him down as a bad horse, and perhaps they have never seen him; besides a man is always allowed to alter his mind as long as he lives. Honesty has, however, altered his style of going, and I must have him to do battle for me on the present occasion. The Doctor I have no fancy for and Dr. Syntax has got too far into the sere and yellow leaf to have any chance of ever winning another race. The Peer is now first favourite, and is fancied by all the touts and tipsters for no other reason than that they invariably follow the money, but in my opinion he is a slow bad horse, who wants a man to ride him, therefore I must have the despised Honesty in preference to Lord Stamford's horse. I have no fancy for Conundrum and Fair Wind. Montgoubert went amiss before the Cesarewitch, but should he come fit to the post would be dangerous with such a light weight on his back. Bracken is well in, and deserves some respect, but, as I have not seen him lately, I cannot give an opinion about him. Rabbit Trap, Deceit, and Jeanie Deans I have no fancy for. The latter could not stay two miles with 4st on her back. Tribune I know nothing of. Orne is a moderate horse, but I have a strong idea he will pull off a good race before the year 8 over. I have no opinion of the remainder of the horses in this race, and it will bo seen by the foregoing remarks that in my estimation HONESTY and MANDRAKE aro must trust worthy, and that CAITHNESS will beat all those above 7st. Conundrum, wo hoar, broke down badly on Saturday. John Looch (2 yrs) has boon added to the list of geldings. The following assumed names have boon registered : Ur. Vasoy and Mr. A. Clark. Faint Heart, who won the Hurdle Plate at Chelmsford on Wednesday, was sold to Mr. Seabrook for 150 guineas. Gladiateur is advertised to cover mares at 100 guineas each next season at Middle Park. The Popo, 2 yrs, was sold to Mr. Savilo for 100 guineas after winning the Witham Stakes at Lincoln on Thursday. Phantom Sail was bought in for 52 guineas after winning a handicap Plate at Worcester on Wednesday. COLOURS OF RIDERS. —Mr. A. Clark, green, black and red cap; Mr. Webb (altered to), white, blue sleeves, orange cap. The Liverpool Autumn Cup consists of a silver-gilt tankard and pair of goblets, inlaid with gems. The work is executed in the richest style, and is surmounted by a figure of a horse and jockey. Messrs. E. and E. Emmanuel, of Burlington Gardens, London, are the manufacturers. SALE OP MR. CHAPLIN'S HORSES.—Messrs. Tattersall have advertised 19 horses in training, tho property of Mr. Chaplin, for sale on Monday, the 25th inst., at their esta blishment near Hyde Park ; and at the same time a draft of 7 from Captain Machell's stud. THE SEVERN BANK STAKES.—Lord Westmorland, after hearing evidence, disqualified Sir William, and awarded the stakes to Mr. R. G. Price's Nun, who ran second. The two year old colt by Newcastle, dam by Colster dale out of Lateef, fell while running in the Consolation Scramble at Lincoln on Friday, but Butler who rode him, was not injured. Rama was sold for 1,400 guineas to go abroad, previous to winning the Queen's Guineas, in which ho defeated Lord Lyon, on Friday, at Lincoln. Arthur, late Oscar, won a Selling Steeplechase at Worcester on Thursday, and was afterwards bought in for 200 guineas. TILE FORFEIT LlST.—Me ssrs. Weatherby announce that the Forfeit List is being prepared for publication, and request that gentlemen who have not yot paid their forfeits will do so without delay. Lord Stamford's Reporter, after winning the Grand Annu a l Steeplechase, at Worcester, on Thursday, was ob jected to on the ground of going the wrong course, but the objection has not yet been decided. HEAVY WAGER.—A sensational bet of 10,000 to 1,00 0 was laid at the Victoria Club, on Saturday afternoon, by Mr. Stevenson, tho well-known bookmaker, to Mr. James Smith, of " Vigilant" notoriety, against Caithness, for the Liverpool Autumn Cup—the taker of the otitis to have the control of the animal until after the lace is run. All increase of the bet to double the amount was declined " with thanks." 31.4RKETS—(77iis Day.) METROPOLITAN CATTLE. To-day' s market was fairly supplied with foreign stock, the quality of which was tolerably good. The demand ruled steady, at prices equal to Monday last. ' The fresh arrivals of beasts from our own grazing dis tricts were only moderate as to number, but in full average condition. For most breeds there was a fair demand, and last quotations were well supported. The primest breeds sold at 4s 8d to 5s per Blbs. From Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Northampton shire we received about 1,600 short horns, &c. ; from other parts of England 600 various breeds, and from Ireland 410 oxen, cows, ctc. The latter were in very poor condition. The show of sheep was slightly on the increase. Good and prime breeds moved off freely, and, in some instances, prices were a shade higher than on this day se'maight. Otherwise the trade was inactive, at late rates. The primest Downs and half-brads realised 5s per 81b. The supply of calves was only moderate; nevertheless, sales progressed slowly, at previous rates—viz., from 4s 4d to 5s 4d per 81bs. There was a fair sale for prime pigs at full prices; bu t large hogs were much neglected, at late cu:rencies. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. sdsd s d s d Crse & inf. beasts... 3 4 3 6 Pme ors-wool sheep 4 4 4 8 Second quality do ..3 8 4 0 Prime S'thdown n 0.4 10 5 0 Prime large oxen ..1 2 6 Large coarse calyes.4 4 4 8 Prime Scuts, &c.... 4 8 5 0 Prime small d0......1 10 5 4 Crse. and tat. sheep. 3 4 3 6 Large hogs ..3 4 3 tt Second quality do —3 8 4 2 Small. porkers.. ..... 310 4 2 Suckling oalyes, 2is to 26s ; and quarter old-store pigs, 233 to 27s each,. Head of stock on sale. Total supply. Foreign supply. Beasts . ... 5,6301 Beasts 0 ,960 Cows .. Cows — Sheep and lambs 23,390 Sheep and„l4mbd Calves 2t9 Calved .. ~ 1 12 rigs ..... 550 Plgs lO I.istatement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stoc— exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market on Monday, .Nov. 5, 1866, and this day, Monday, Nov. 4, 1867. Oct. 5, Nov. 4, 1866. 1867. sd sd sd 0 d Coarse and inferior boasts 3 6t03 10 3 4to 3 „ Second quality do. Prime large oxen 4 8 5 0 4 2 4 0 6 Prime Scots, &c. Coarse and inferior sheep ... 310 4 2 3 4 3 6 Second quality do. Prime coarse-woolled do. 5 6 6 0 4 2 4 6 Prime Southdown do 6 2 6 4 4 8 410 Lambs Largo coarse calves 4 4 410 4 4 4 8 Prime small do. Large hogs Neat small porkers 4 8 5 2 310 4 2 Boasts 6,080 5,630 Sheep • 24,050 23,390 Calves Pigs SUPPLIES ON SAL; Nov. 6, 1866.—Beasts, 5,050 sheep, 20,960—calves, 142—pigs, 399. Nov. 7, 1864—Boasts, s,9lo—sheep, 20,950—calves , 329—pigs, 390. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 12,398 head. In the corresponding week in 1866, we received 15,023 ; in 1865, 22,916 ; in 1864 15,032; in 1863, 13,281 ; in 1862, 13,625 ; and in 1861 11,423. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Antwerp Barcelona 6O 040 Bremen Cadiz - ••• 22 ... ---- ••• -- ••• - ... 13 ... --° Now Diep Corunna ••• ••• ••• Rotterdam - Geistemunde ••• ••• ••• • -"" Trouvillo ••• ••• ••• ••• Gothenburg lB4 ... 16 ... ... 36 ... Hamburg 166 ... 236 ... ... .. --• . 0 Harlingen .... Medemblik Oporto Ostend 5O ... ... 23 ... Twining 2546 ... 1418 --- The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pig?• 1866 1865 5229 ...4965 644 _171 4 1864 NEWGATE •AND LEA.DENHALL. These markets aro tolerably well but not 'to say beavili supplied with each kind of moat. On the whole the trade is steady, at our quotations. Last week's imports into London amounted to 33G packages from Rotterdam and 28 ditto from Hamburg. Per 81b8 by the carcase. I d d Interior beet 3 2 3 4 1 Middling do. 3 6 3 8 1 Prime large do 3 10 4 21 Prime small do 1 4 4 6: Veal 3 8 4 & ad ed Interior mutton.— 3 2 3 6 Middling mutton-3 8 4 Prime do 4 4 4 ° Large pork 3 2 3 8 , Small pork 3 10 4 z BOROUGH HOP. Tho market has ruled firm, and a fair averago business has been concluded at full currencies. Choice sample s have commanded extreme quotations. The imports into London last week consisted of 1,540 bales from Antwerp , 505 Boulogne, 675 Dunkirk, 122 Now York, 898 Rotter dam, 678 Calais, 689 Hamburg, 265 Bremer, and 119 tales 39 pockets from Ostend. Mid and East Keats £8 8s to £l2 Os per cwt. Weald of Kent Sussex 7 10s to 9 Os „ Farnham 9 lOs to 12 Os „ Bavarian 7Os to 9 9s „ Belgians 5 12s to 6 lOs „ Yearlings BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Ample supplies of potatoes are on sale at these markets• Most qualities aro in moderate request at our quotations' Last week's imports consisted of 100 tons 2 sacks from Caen, 1,840 bags 138 tons Havre, 5 casks 200 sacks Boulogne+ 5 sacks Ghent, 5 bags 11 packages Harlingen and NeW Dieppe, 22 bags Amsterdam, 3 bags 5 barrels Bremen, 10 bags Ca!ais, 329 sacks Dieppe, 4 baskets Rotterdam, jrs tons Honfleur, and 36 tons Le Yidier. English Flukes l2os to 140 s per ton. Regents llOB to 1503 ~ TALLOW. The market is flat at 43s 3d for Y.C. on the spot. TOO tallow, 46s 6d not cash. 1863. 1865. 1866. 186 7 ; Stock—(this day) Pricos of Y.O 43s 9d to 50s 6d 41s Od 43s 3 d 1.44 s Od —s Od —s Od - --5 ()a Delivery last week 2,174 2,793 1,768 1,24 3 Do. from June 1 ~ 30,355 48,512 41,104 30,01 1 Arrival last week Do. from June 1 55,702 62,627 56,459 35, - 06 6 Price of Town 45s Od 54s 3d 45s 3d 46s 6,1 WOOL. The trade for colonial wool has been in a very depresse d state at nominal currencies. English wool has been much neglected on former terms. The import into London JO t week consisted of 968 bales from Adelaide, 1,729 Cape, 361 Mazagan, and 531 bales from Odessa. Current prices of English wool per lb. 0 d 0 Fleoces—South Down b ogets 1 3 1 4 Half-bred do 1 3} 1 4 Kent fleeces South Down e we s a nd w e th ers 1 2 1 ~!". Leicester do 1 2 1 2- Sorts—Clothing Combing The Pall Mall Gazette says :—The Claude Duval of the present day is to be found in the mountain regiong of the State of California. Ho wears a mask but the old fashioned pistol has been discarded for a repeating rifle. According to a correspondent of a New York journal 1 1 is very systematic, and almost invariably successful. P' ia stage coach containing a box of treasure is in the iniddl of a rocky pass or a thick forest, when a man appears 1,, the roadside and says—" Hello, Charley, stop a Charley, the driver, never carries arms, and according' , stops. One robber unfastens the traces, another ol? 0 °, the door, and the passengers stop out. The Californit o3 ' never resist, which is curious, as they have a great disre; w ) gard for life ; but then in the gold country t hav°,, still greater disregard for money ; it is, in fact, the o thing they do not care to fight about. The gentlenien accordingly step out, and are ranged in a line. strong box is also brought out, sad buist open with fiX e t or gunpowder. If the haul is good the passengers are n ° ,, robbed at all. If the supply of bullion is scarce, are requested to hand out their money, but are neve r searched. There is no cursing or swearing, chopping ° ff fingers for the rings, and other brutal European practicerei. everything is conducted with good taste and proprieti o ' and if any ladies happen to bo in the coach they are treated with that politeness and deference for which t h Western Americana are famous as far as the fair se% .l concerned. 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