The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-24 00:00:00

1.9 0 YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. Will Open, for the Sixth Operatic Season, THIS EVENING, Oct. 24, 1861, when will be produced (first time) an entirely New Grand Opera, in Four Acts, by Howard Glover, to be entitled RUY BLAS. The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking, or fees to Box-keepers. Stage-Manager, Mr. Leigh Murray., Acting-Manager, Mr. Edward Murray. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE, Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. 'J' HIS EVENING, biIrAIINI'S Alter which, ab Eight o'clock, the new and success nl comedy of WOMAN; or, Love against the World. iracters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, Bruton, Mrs. Bowers, Miss Murray, and Miss Lydia Thomp son. - 'l'.► conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, In which Miss Lydia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer quick Step. P7iceß as mini. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-oam open daily from 11 till 5. nrHEA TR .r4l. RO Y AL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstop.. THIS EVENING. the performances will commence with THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. Alter which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Backstone , Mr. Compton, Mr. E.Villiers Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Willdns, &c. With PACT. PRY MARRIED AND SETTLED. Paul Pry (in a new position), Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. Commence at 7.1 11OVAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, ) Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Harris, THIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. A i ter w, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ; characters by Mr. John Brougham, Mr. Ryder, Mr. H. Wid dicombe, Mr. G.' Jordan, Miss It Lelelereq, Miss Angle, and mra. Weston. To conclude with a new Transatlantic Extravaganza, PO-CA-HON-TAS. Mr. John Brougham, Mr. A. Harris, (Irc. EW THRATRE-R0 ITAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENI Open for the Winter Season. NG, MUSIC M ATEI CHARS. Messrs. D. Fisher, Romer, War lc, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw. or After which (259th time), TfTE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. tiondcault, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson, Smith, Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss (Agar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Tolonclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. 31r. SAM COWELL'S New Song*, "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT," on Wednesday, pct. 30. Also, Grand Selections from STRADELLA, LA ritAVIATA, and DINORAH By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a powerful Chorus. Solos on the Cornet-a-piston by the renowned performer Mr. LEVY. The Comic department comprises Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr. Marshall, Messrs. Harvey and French, and Miss Harriet Coveney Musical DlTeetor, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d..; Stalls and Balcony, ls. T x E O X F ORD 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. A Grand Selection from Anber's New Comic' Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," by Miss Ernst, Messrs. Greene, H. Herbert, and the Company. Also from Verdi's new Grand opera, "Simon Boecanegra," by Miss Russell, Messrs. Morley, Greene, Greville, and the Company. Balfe's new ballad, "The Maid and her Moorish Knight," by Madame E.derssohn. Mr. Levy on the Cornet-a-piston, and varied Comic Entertainments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Mr. and Master Wood, Messrs. Harvey and French (The Nerves), Mr. E. Marshall, and Mr. W. Randall. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6cl.—Musical Director, Mr F. Jongluans. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.--Morning, 4h. 46m.—Afternoon, bh. Om. TO-MORROW.-Morning, sh. 20m.—Afternoon, sh. 44m. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, Ocromu 24, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 57—highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.13. WlND—South-Westerly—light; with fine warm weather, frrf..* 116, • 716411111'11''P''' ' • "' 4 THE SUN. LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1861. The Federal reinforcements which by the last accounts had left for Cape Hatteras were not an hour too soon ; putting together the telegrams which have already reached us, it would appear that the Confederates had been already partially succes,ful when the reinforcements arrived. They had crossed over from the mainland to the long narrow island on which the forts at Cape Hatteras are placed, and had already compelled an encamp ment of Federal troops to retreat, we presume to the fort, leaving behind them fifty prisoners ; these we may suppose to be rebel prisoners, with whom they did not wish to be incumbered in a retreat to the fort. While however the Confederates were engaged in the attack on the forts, the Federal steamers Montebello and Susquehannah arrived, and began shelling them. The numbers on each side are generally found afterwards to be exaggerations ; but we are told that the Confederates had six steamboats, no doubt transports merely, with 3,000 men on board of them, and that by the sinking of three of them under the fire 700 men perished. Another account says simply that two of the C2n federate vessels were sunk. All that may be taken for certain is, that though the Federals hold the Hatteras Inlet and the Cape, the Confederates are bold and strong yet on the land side of Pamlico Sound. By the last accounts they had sent out from Roanoke Inlet, further north, three steamers, and had captured the Federal ship of war Fanny, with 150,000 dollars worth of stores for troops on board. And now they have attempted, though with signal want of success, to retake the forts. BEAUREGARD must have many men to spare. Of some part of the other naval accounts we hardly know what to make. The leaving of a large naval expedition for the South, consisting of 20 ships, with an unknown destination, is a distinct and probable statement, and the telegraph of the 12th from New York mentions the precise time of the day. We may, therefore, expect, before long, to hear something of its performances. But what are we to make of the telegrams three days later from New York to Cape Race, brought by the Edinburgh ? They tell us of a naval rout of the blockading squadron at New Orleans, by a fleet of Confederate gunboats ; and, that after a sharp fight, one Federal vessel was sunk, and the rest driven ashore ! The telegram of the 12th from New York As, that " New Orleans is now effectually bi o k e ausd," that of the 15th to Cape Rase, appears__ to tell us that this blockading scluaar '11 is now effectually dis posed of. This second account reached New York from Norfolk, whi ch with the navy yard, must be still in the hands of the Virginians; it is, therefore, a Southern account, not that we kno w o f the less likely to be true. It cannot • In any case be the heavy vessels which were in the golf, on the blockade service, but must, if the telegram be correct, be some detachment of smaller vessels which were watehing New Orleans on the Missisippi itself, which have been so effectually dealt with. Our cotton consumers must not, however, begin to hope for shipments thence, for we are also informed that the Go. vernor of Louisiana has forbidden the entry of cotton into New Orleans, either by steamer or railroad. At present the South is anxious to keep its cotton at home. It desires to punish Massachusetts and still more to compel France and England to break the blockade to sup- Ply their looms. A pretty plain proof that if we recognised the South, it would, relying on King Cotton, soon become as insolent to us as the North *has been. The military positions remain much as they were. The Federal's have made some cautious ad- vances opposite 'Washington, of no importance however, so far as we can perceive. The Confede rates were slowly retiring before them, but until the Federals begin again to approach Manassas Junc tion, if they venture to do so, we need not expect a battle; from -which indeed both sides seem equally to shrink, as well indeed each may. The attack ing party must fight at great disadvantage, and neither seems disposed to risk it. At present the Confederates are not within sight of the Federal position at Louisville, in front of Washington. I n Western Virginia the Confederates are also reported to be retiring. In Missouri we can discover nothing certain. By the last accounts PRTCE was running before FREMONT into Arkansas. Now we hear of him as waiting for reinforcements to attack Jefferson city itself! Thus the best we can say of the war is, that it wriggles along the whole line, from Cape Hat teras in the East, to Lexington in the West. Advance, it does not—not visibly at least. Lord JOHN MANNERS has taken a leaf out of the book of his right hon. friend and colleague the member for Buckinghamshire. He closes his last political speech, almost one might call it " political Man ifesto,"with one of those epigrammatic sentences flavoured with the acidity of sarcasm that leave a more or less lasting relish upon the palate of the general public. "However, for a time," said his Lordship, " unprincipled combinations may place in office heterogeneous politicians, those time honoured institutions of our land [Lord JOHN MANNERS is referring to Church and State] will not be handed without a struggle, and a successful struggle, to philosophical pedants or to the more avowed inroads of political demagogues." The sentence might really have been uttered by Mr. DISRAELI himself. One would have deemed it more likely to have sounded to us from the direction of Bucks, than from that of Leicestershire. It is a significant cir cumstance, we cannot but think, when a gentle hearted and almost unimpassioned politician, like this accomplished younger son of the late Duke of RUTLAND, is incited to the utterance of taunts and gibes as galling as those compressedwithin the narrow compass of his recent harangue to his constituents, at the great Conservative Demonstration which took place at Leicester on Tuesday last. It tells its own tale. It speaks of the confidence infused into the heart of Conservatism. It reveals also the latent determination there to overthrow the "powers that be" upon the very first opportunity. Not that we believe, for an instant, that there is any intention whatever, among the Chiefs of the Opposition, to adventure upon any deliberate move ment next session, with a view to the ousting from office of the "heterogeneous politicians" now making up the rank and file of her MAJESTY'S Government. Under the very appropriate leadership, by the way, of the noble lord who, among all our living states men, is least embarrassed by what are called (evidently a mere phrase in his estimation) " principles." The Opposition, we are satisfied, have no systematic design whatever of struggling for power in 1862 with the present Administra tion. Supposing there should be any change of Ministry at all, after the meeting of Parliament in February, that change will be brought about more by failure on the side of the Government than by any successful antagonism on the part of the Opposition. In fact, the Conservative party learnt a good deal last session, as to the superior wisdom of a course apparently no other than one simply apathetic. Whenever they undertook any thing at all in the shape of an attack, direct or indirect, upon the Ministry, they found to their cost that their so doing rallied round the Cabinet those very heterogeneous politicians who were otherwise in a fair way of being estranged from each other preliminary to their disband ment. Ever since the Opposition has adopted the laissez faire, the laissez aller system, they have found everything, in their own interests, tending directly and indirectly to the good. Has a Liberal seat, become vacant, there has been a local contest set on foot at once, resulting almost invariably in the return of the Conservative candidate. We remem ber how this occurred during the sitting of Parlia ment within this last twelvemonth. We remember that it occurred so often that the small difference there was between the aggregate on the side of the Govern ment and the aggregate on the side of the Oppo sition gradually faded out of view as a difference in favour of the Liberals, until at last it even began to glimmer out in a ghostly manner almost as a difference in favour of the Conservatives ! At the close of the late session at least the fears of the Liberals and the hopes of the Conservatives said as much pretty confidently. Recollect for a moment how the two Great Parties actually stood in regard to each other in numbers, at the moment when Lord DERBY'S Cabinet fell to piecee, and when Viscount PAL MERSTON assumed the reins of Government. Is it clearly enough borne in recollection how small was the majority that led to that transference of power from the hands of the Conservatives to those of the Liberal Coalition. The division that threw out Lord DERBY'S Reform Bill, and with it Lord DERBY'S Government, was a division in one of the largest Houses known for years and years past down at Westminster. And the clear majority in that largest house within the recollection of the present generation, was a clear majority of—how many ? Of "thirteen !" That is to say—had but seem of those members who took part in this momentous division by voting with the majority— voted with the minority instead of with the majority, the tables would have been turned ! The Conservatives, instead of being defeated, as they were, by a clear majority of thirteen in a House of 638, in that sitting of the Commons on the night of Friday, the 10th of June, 1859, would, by that transference of seven votes, have been in a majority of ONE ! Seven votes only making that difference ! Recollect, since then, how many more than seven votes have been gained to the Conservative Opposition from Liberal constituents ! Recollect how the Government side has lost, how the Opposition side has gained in this manner at Leicester, in the county of Cork, in the southern division of Lancashire, and elsewhere ! No wonder—remembering these things—that the Tories are becoming heartened as to the future! But how has it all come about that the tables, in this age of table-turning, have been turned so very surprisingly ? Is it not visible at a glance through the records of the last session of Parliament ? The constituencies have, in the instances glanced at, returned Tories instead of Liberals to the House of Commons —not because they love Toryism more ? but simply because they love Liberalism (that is, the very dubious Liberalism of Lord P ALMERsToN's Coaliti on ) less ! They have t urne d this di rectly against the Government through sheer indignation at the Ministerial falsification of so many fair promis es . The Administration that came in to do so much has done just nothing in the way of good, and wholesome, and comprehensive Reforms. The Cabinet that was formed with the avowed design of reforming the existing system of popular re presentation upon a scale, and with a tact and adroitness far beyond anything attempted in that way by tin late Tory-Reforming Government, has i THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING', OCTOBER 24, 1861. . Lady Herbert is expected in town on Monday from Deal Castle, Kent, on her way to Wilton House, Salisbury. Lady Robert Cecil was safely delivered of a son yesterday morning at her residence in Fitzroy. square. Her ladyship and infant are progressing favourably. The Lady Lurgan gave birth to a daughter on . the 19th inst., in Dublin. Lord and Lady Aveland have been entertaining a succession of visitors at Normanton Park during the past month. The gentlemen of the party have had capital sport in his lordship's well-stocked preserves. ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS.—The number of per sons to be admitted in the following term is 162, of which 128 are candidates for the first time, and the rest are read missions, &c. There are about 10,000 attorneys on the roll. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S FIRST LEVEE.—AC cording to custom from time immemorial the Lord Chan cellor is expected to receive the judges and other legal func tionaries on. the 2d of Nov., the first day of Michaelmas term. As it will be the first Michaelmas term since his lordship's elevation a large attendance is expected. The Great Eastern still lies off Milford. Her coals have been advertised for sale, 5,000 tons, but no one has yet telkdered for them. She is again beco m i ng an o bj ec t of much mention to visitors. The financial letters from Paris state that there has been no apparent mitigation of the financial crisis. On the contrary, bills on London were in increased demand, and it appeared as if a renewal of gold remittances to this side would be unavoidable, unless some new measures to avert it can be speedily devised. THE LATE JOHN FIELDEN, M.P.—The committee of the Fielden Memorial Fund havo determined to com memorate the services of the late Mr. John Fielden, M.P. for Oldham, in improving the condition of factory children, by the erection of a bronze statue in a public part of Tod morden. The statue will be 7ft. bin. high, and will cost £l,OOO, independent of the pedestal and expenses of erection. The sculptor to whom the work has been entrusted is Mr. J. H. Foley, R.A. Many of the leading manufacturers of the neighbourhood have subscribed to the fund THE FORTHCOMING MICHAELMAS TERM.—This daThursday) the long vacation oinio in the cm-en-inn /aw courts, and the several offices will resume their wonted activity in preparation for Michaelmas term, commencing on Saturday week, the 2d November, when the law and equity courts will be reopened. The arrears in the three common law courts number 109—of which 73 are in the Court of Queen's Bench, 13 in the Court of Common Pleas, in addition to which will be the registration appeals from the late courts of revision of voters, and 23 rules in the Court of Exchequer. In the Queen's Bench there are 26 rules for new trial; 36 in the special paper, and 11 enlarged rules. In the Common Pleas, seven new trials and six de murrers; whilst in the Court of Exchequer there are 14 errors and appeals, two matters in the peremptory paper, including the case of " Hatch v. Lewis and another." There are besides five demurrers in the special paper, and only two rules for new trials in the ensuing term. THE BALLOT SOCIETY.—The first of the resumed weekly meetings of the executive committee was held at the office, 5, Guildhall-chambers, on Tuesday—the Rev. W. H. Bonner in the chair. Mr. M. E. Marsden, Mr. Elt, Mr. Whitehurst, Mr. Le Maitre, Mr. Everett (Luton), &c., were present. Subscriptions from the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, £lO ; Rev. B. Armitage, £2 ; Rev. W. Grif fith, 10s. ; Rev. H. Richard, 10s. ; Rev. Mark Wilks, 108.; Mr. M. E. Marsden, £2, and other smaller amounts, were announced. It was resolved to issue an address to the electors of Plymouth in reference to the ballot and the corn ing election for that borough. A letter was read from the secretary of the Birkenhead Ballot Society, soliciting a deputation to attend a meeting in that borough, which it was unanimously resolved to send accordingly. Applications from Lincoln and other places were also received. It was also resolved to convene a conference of the various reform associations throughout the country, to bo held at the Whittington Club, on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 3 p.m., to adopt measures for providing ballot candidates to contest elections, as vacancies in the representation from time to time occurred. In the collection of criminal records now on view at Messrs. Southgate and Barrett's, is to be seen a receipt for £lOO, blood money, given by the notorious Jonathan Wild, and a petition from him to the Lords of the Treasury, requesting payment of additional remunera tion for services rendered by him as thief-taker. Besides this precious scrap of criminal lore, reports of several thou sand trials, scarce pamphlets and broadsides, and a host of rare and curious engravings, are also included in this sin gular miscellany. THE RECENT PRIZE FlGHT.—William Evans (young Broome) who contended with a herculean opponent named Thomas King, in a prize fight on Monday last, has' been removed to town in an alarming state from internal injuries received during the contest. He has also sustained a fracture of the os magnum, or principal bone of the right hand, which, it is said, will incapacitate him from again appearing in the prise-ring. STRIKE OF THE EDINBURGH SCAVENGERS.— About the beginning of harvest the scavengers of Edin burgh petitioned the Town Council for an increase of pay, which was at that time 14s. a week. This request was complied with by an increase of Is. being added to the weekly wages of each. Since the conclusion of the harvest however, the authorities have contemplated reducing the wages again to 145., and have been advertising for men at that salary. The scavengers determined to resist this reduction, resolved to strike on Monday night, when work was entirely suspended. The streets in the early part of Tuesday presented a very unusual and not very pleasant appearance, being unswept, and in many places strewn with ashes, &c. In the afternoon, however, the scavengers got notice that if they resumed, the 15s, a week would be retained. The men accordingly consented tp this arrange ment, and commenced work immediately after. THE LORD AND THE POLICE:KAN.—A rather amusing incident occurred on Monday week at the Music Hall, Newcastle, on the presentation of the address to Earl Russell. After the hall was filled to overflowing, a young man, of a modest and retiring appearance, presented him self at the door for admission. The vigilant janitor in at tendance stopped his progress to the platform, a small space on which had been reserved for distinguished visi tors, when the stranger remarked that he was Lord Amber ley, son of Earl Russell, and that he wished to join his noble father. The " wide-awake" policeman looked at the modest youth with an air of astonishment, and sternly asked, "Who he was making a fool of ?" and appeared seriously inclined to "walk him off." However, some good Samaritan interfered in Lord Amberley's behalf, and the rigid guardian of the peace eventually allowed his lordship to pass. CHlNA.—Letters from China to the Moniteur de Arnze'e confirm the news of the successes gained over the rebels by the Imperial troops. The insurgents have been driven back into the Western Provinces adjoining Thibet. The population of those provinces, exasperated by the acts of cruelty committed" by the rebels, have taken part with the Imperialists, and have assisted in causing the siege of Sching aing, the chief awn of the province of Se Tchouan, to be raised. General Men-Kuan, the chief of the rebel army, has been killed. Two French missionaries, of the mission of Sechowan, succeeded in getting into Thibet, and hope to be able to reach Dahsa, the capital of the country. They speak the language of Thibet fluently, which will enable them to furnish valuable information on the geo graphy and religion of that curious country. At the date of the 7th of August Tien-tsin was perfectly tranquil ; com merce was developing itself in that city, and the Tartars, who possess magnificent flocks of sheep, appear desirous of making it the principal sntrspot for their wool. The commercial letters from Calcutta report very favourably on the prospects of the revenue and the general condition of the country. The rains and floods in Bengal had been beyond any experience since 1838, when similar events followed the famine of 1836 and 1837; but it was thought their beneficial effects upon the crops of the next season will more than compensate for any present damage. The Government receipts from the stamp and income taxes had thus far exceeded the estimates, and the rally which had occurred in the price of opium tended to confirm the expectation that the amount calculated by Mr. Laing from that source will yet be fully realised. The Government cash balances were well maintained, and were slightly over the total at the corresponding date of last year, and nearly £3,000,000 in excess of those at the same period of 1859. Government securities were again coming into favour, and a rise of about 2 per cent. had occurred within a month. The import markets also presented an appearance of im provement, which was expected to increase. The American trade,' however, had become so reduced that there were only two ships loading for Boston and New York, and these prin cipally with saltpetre. The stock of bullion in the American banks and the Treasury of the Federal Government on the Ist inst., although not quite so large as a few weeks previously, amounted to £10,700,000, which shows an increase of £4,750,000 since the commencement of the year, and is more than double the amount held at the corresponding period of 1860. These results are quoted by all the jour nals throughout the Union to support the delusion that the war can be indefinitely prolonged without a disturbance of national credit, and to tempt all classes of investors to sub scribe to the Government bonds which are being offered by paid agents in every part of the country. As there is no publication that would now dare to risk the consequences of questioning such statements, and nothing is easier than to mislead the multitude on financial points, the effect for the moment is complete, and the remarkable fact is wit nessed that the most commercial people in the world is being plunged Into an expenditure unparalleled for its recklessness, without any person among them being found to venture to call their attention for a moment to even the most elementary principles of econotnisal science. Pro bably the most fatal consequence of this state of public in fatuation will be developed in the panic that may be ex pected when enlightenment shall be suddenly brought about. It is not unlikely that the moment a drain of specie commences the financial community of America will have its Bull's Run. No people are more likely to be acted upon by epidemic fears, and if the passion for hoarding should seize them, it would be carried to an extent no less remark able than that of the blind confidence in which they are at present grovelling,. jest cleverly contrived to shelve the cause of Par liamentary Reform altogether! This—is what the country has gained from another of these very ques tionable Coalitions! This—has been the result of our dropping the substance of Reform actually in one month in the summer of 1859, to snap greedily at the apparently more tempting morsel shadowed forth to view in the pellucid current of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S " dodging" Resolutions ! As the Com mons crossed the plank of that ever-memorable divi sion of June the 10th, 1859—there were the two fables of the Dog in the Manger and the Dog and the Shadow realised together. The great champion of Reform among the Liberals (then in Opposition) could not bear the notion of any one bestowing the boon of Parliamentary Reform upon the country but himself ! Well, the " Dog in the Manger" has kept the sweet-smelling bundle of hay to himself, has prevented the ox from enjoy ing it, has prevented JOHN BULL, that is, from enjoying his feast of Reform in 1859: and here is the winter of 1861-62 coming fast upon us— and how much has the country gained by that decision of the 10th of June, two years and a half ago ? All that it has gained is the satis faction (such as it is) of seeing that Lord JOHN —in reward for his brilliant services—has gained his Earldom ! Eyery honourable foreign resident in. England will be pleased that a scoundrel who so disgraced his foreign country as COLLUCCI should meet the re ward of his deeds. His conduct was villany by the laws of every land, and no ignorance of English habits and customs, or of English law, could be pre tended. Literary men, artists, gentlemen all over the world, will rejoice that a man who made con siderable artistic knowledge not only the means of access to a lady of property, and of ultimately gain ing her attachment—all which might be fair enough —but who afterwards, when he found that the at. tachment to him was not strong enough for her to be willing to marry him, basely turned round and endeavoured to extort money from her—gentlemen of all classes and everywhere will rejoice that an English judge and jury awarded him his just deserts. It is the interest of the whole world that such rogues as these should be punished. What is law worth if it will not protect our females, not only against the attacks of cabmen, but also against the stratagems of a YELYERTON, and the coarse threats of a CoLLuccl. It is, of course, nothing new that a man of culti vated taste should gain the attachment of a female of whom he is little worthy, and on whose affec tions cool by-standers may think he has little claim ; but, happily, the cases are few in which such a man could so coolly make it manifest that the money not the lady was all he cared about. Mar riage had been talked of between COLLUCCI and Miss JOHNSTONE, before he went abroad, having first swindled her out of £250 for his journey. But when, on his return, he was informed that after a serious illness the lady had, in the exercise of a more sober judgment, declined to think further of marriage, this appears to have caused him no particular sorrow; he ob viously wished to continue their acquaintance merely for the sake of money, for this was the point and object of all his remarks. He seemed " very unhappy" at the announcement that she declined to marry him, but not one word of disappointed affection appears to have escaped him ; the whole might be summed up in his own words, " Money, money, money, I must have." At various times this fellow had cajoled or frightened Miss JOHNSTONE out of £2,000, value received being only one picture, a Spagnoletti, valued at £3OO. Yet he had the audacity not only to demand £2,000 for returning her letters to him, but to do it both by violent menaces and worse insinuations, and, after all, to cheat her of the letters themselves when Miss JOHNSTONE had actually inconvenienced herself to get the money for him, hoping to be quit of him for ever. A baser combination of rogueries and cunning—first seeking a lady's hand for money only, then abusing her confidence, then making it the means of pecuniary extortion, and that by the most infamous as well as violent threats, and lastly, when he suc ceeded in procuring from her what amounted in all to £4,000, cheating her out of the very letters for whose return she had paid so outrageously—a baser series of villanies will not easily be found. The issue for the jury was of the simplest kind—was Miss FREDERICA JOHNSTONE a perjured woman or VINCENT COLLUCCI a liar. No one can hesitate a moment on that question, much less can any one doubt that three years' penal servitude is a light punishment for the offence. AMERICAN WAR BALLOONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—By the latest intelligence from New York, we find that the application of balloons for military purposes has been attended by an serial reconnais sance of considerable importance to the Government. Possibly this circumstance may induce our owns authorities to attach some importance to suggestions of this kind, although I believe aeronautic proposi tions have not been regarded with anything like serious or scientific consideration. But it is almost invariably the fate of novel appli ances to be rejected at the outset. However, if those who agitate for the advancement of science display more perseverance than those who labour to retard modern improvements, success is sure to follow. Just 12 years since I called attention to this sub ject, and demonstrated—first at Brussels, then throughout Germany, and lastly in England—that balloons, besides being sent up for amusement, were susceptible of other important uses, even in their present form. The Italian war and the present unhappy conflict in America furnish proof that they have been brought into requisition with advantage, and as the unceasing advocate of " balloons for warfare," as detailed by me in a pamphlet with that heading during the Russian war, I sincerely trust that this bold and triumphant manoeuvre will not be wholly lost sight of, for the time may not be far distant when foreigners will be our recognised instructors, not because the sons of Britain lack inventive genius, but because the fruits of their studies are too often rejected here, and only find a market abroad. lam of opinion that the engineering department of out army and Volunteers should be supplied with mili tary balloons, for observation, for destructive pur poses, and for day and night signalling. No one can say I make these suggestions for the first time, as it is well known I have endeavoured to call attention to them for years. - W by not have a balloon at Aldershot, and try the experiment whether aerostatic signals may not in some measure be made the medium of more rapid communication than hallooing, bugling, and retail ing orders ? Why not again test the capabilities of professed aeronautic spies, and see what account they can give of 10,000 troops supposed to be in ambush ? At least it would afford a diversion to a sham fight, and as many a true word is spoken in jest, so many a good hint may come out of playing t th a e t 0t1hd.e......at soldiers and sending up e x pe r i men t a l b a ll oons . Even th e th row i ng up o f a s t raw i s f oun d to b e signifi cant to the weather wise, and I sincerely trust htl iig hrtt t e : L e , a s ir, Mountain obedien inlv yours, the u r s, New World may cause us to see which way the wind blo ws i n Tottenham, Oct. 22. HENRY COXWELL. Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby enter tained a select party at dinner last evening, at their resi dence on the Terrace, Piccadilly. LATEST NENVS. PARIS, OCT. 24. The Aloniteur of to-day announces that the interest on Treasury bills has been raised to 4, 41, and 5 per cent., according to the date of their fall ing due. TURIN, OCT. 24. The brigands have insulted the French Vice- Consul at Corignola, in the Capitanata, and pillaged his residence. Roth and Apricena are infested with brigands. PARIS, OCT. 23. It is asserted that Signor Rattazzi had an au dience of the Emperor yesterday. The Constitutionnel of this evening, in an article signed by its present political director, Dr. Veron, calls attention to the promise made last session by M. Magne, Minister of Finance, that the right of voting the budget of each Ministry by chapters would be granted to the Corps Legislatif, and says,— "It appears certain that the Government will submit a Senatus Consulturn on this subject to the Senate in November next." The session of the Senate will be a short one. TURIN, OCT. 23. A Royal decree published to-day authorises the last two-fifths of the national loan, which are due in November and January, to be paid in four equal instalments in November, December, January, and February next. Another decree abolishes the Lieutenancy of Naples and the separate Government of Tuscany. VIENNA, OCT. 23. The Royal Commissioner Koller has proceeded to Pesth to-day, with instructions to the C =man der Coronini for the strict maintenance of order. FRANCE. Under the head of "Latest Intelligence," La Patric publishes the following : " The Marquis de Moustier, appointed Ambas sador to the Ottoman Porte, has left Paris to take possession of his post. M. de Moustier will pass through Vienna to present his letters of recall to the Emperor of Austria ; from Vienna he will pro ceed direct to Constantinople, where he is expected to arrive early in November. " The steam frigate Junon, carrying the flag of Captain Baron Didelot, appointed to the command of the naval division on the Western Coast of Africa and establishments 'of Gabon and of the Gold Coast, has sailed from Brest for her destination. She will relieve the Danag frigate, which returns to France, and which, according to the accounts, was at anchor in the roads of Gabon." BOURSE, Got. 23.—There has been but little business doing, but the quotations of yesterday have been well maintained—Threes, for the Ac count remaining firm at 67f 95c. Railways quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents ... 96 Credit Fonder 1165 Do. end month.... 96 05. Belgian 4/ — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 95 Roman Bank Shares 2915 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 696 25 Spanish Threes 4B Do. Account 697 60 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1327 50 .. 1330 Northern New ditto 902 50 .. 902 50 Lyons and Mediterranean 1020 .. 1018 75 Geneva — • • Southern Western Ep.stern Sardinian 350 • • —'— Austrian 6OO 498 75 Loirbard AMERICA. PER EDINBURGH, via QUEENSTOWN. NEW YORK, OCT. 12, MORNING. The New York press generally discredits the report that the Federal Government has acqui esced in the Mexican intervention. The World believes that the Government would not consent to proceedings which might eventually embroil America with the allied Powers. The American Polar expedition arrived at Hali fax on the 9th inst. They were unable to pene trate through Smith's Straits either this summer or last, on account of the heavy ice. By means of dog-sledges, however, they .succeeded in pene trating as far as latitude 81 deg. 35 min. on the west side of Kennedy Channel. Advices have been received from Havannah to the sth inst. It was reported that General Ser rano left for Spain on Sept. 20. - Gen. Prim was on his way to Cuba to assume the Captain-Generalship of that island. He would command the Spanish expedition against Mexico. The Bavaria has arrived out. • (LATEST RY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.) NE W YORK, OCT. 15, EVENING. The latest reports from Norfolk announce that the Confederate fleet of gunboats had attacked the blockading squadron at New Orleans, and, after a sharp fight, had sunk one Federal vessel and driven the rest ashore. The Richmond papers state that the steamer Nashville, with Messrs. Mason and Slidell, the Confederate Commissioners to England and France on board, ran the blockade at Charleston on the 12th inst. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Cotton firm. Breadstuffs and provisions dull. The Stock-market has been excited, but closed flat. New York Central, 78;1; Illinois Central, G 8; Erie, 321, Exchange on London—Bankers' bills, 1071. THE KINGDOM OF _ITALY. A letter from Turin, dated Oct. 21, says :—There is some intelligence from Rome going the round of the Italian newspapers to which it would be diffi cult to give credit were it not for the character of the person who is described as playing the main part in the transaction. Four Bersaglieri of the regular Italian army, it is said, on duty on the fron tier of the Pontifical State, crossed inadvertently the Papal frontier, were taken prisoners, and con veyed to Viterbo. The officer in command of their corps solicited their release from Gen. Goyon. The latter answered. that he would set the four prisoners at liberty, but only in exchange for four brigands now in the hands of the Italian Government, whom the French general mentioned by name. This cool assimilation of four soldiers to four robbers and bandits on the part of a military man, in command of military men of honour, is so enormous a breach of all rules and principles as to exceed all belief. Yet there seems td be no doubt that the French Emperor, or the authorities under him, at least, are bent upon putting the endurance of the Italian people and of their rulers to all kinds of severe trials ; and, on the other band, Gen. Goyon has given such proofs of his attachment to the cause of the Pope- King, and of the dethroned Princes and brigands under Papal protection, as deserved, in the opinion of the smarting Romans, the honour of a cardinal's hat. I repeat, the outrage seems to me too mons trous even for the devoutest French kisser of the Pope's toe to be guilty of. Had the news any foun dation at all, I should rather feel inclined to sup pose that the insulting proposal came from either the civil or military Papal authorities at Viterbo, or that the four persons described as Bersaglieri were in reality only volunteers of the ultra-patriot party on this side of the frontier—men whom the not over nice discrimination of a Legitimist general officer might fain value no higher than the heroes of Chiavone's bamd. PRINCESS'S TI!JL TRE. Last night, in the presence of one of the most brilliant audiences that ever assembled within the walls of the Princess's Theatre Mr. Pechter made his first appearance as Othello. "The event had been anxiously looked for, not merely on account of the great success that had attended the representation of Hamlet, but more particularly as rumour had been busy with her hundred tongues relative to the "alterations, alditions, and improvements" made in the text and business of the tragedy. In the little blue edition of the piece, by Mr. Pechter, printed and most ex tensively circulated within the theatre, the alterations cer tainly were of the most novel description. All that had previously been observed in the acting of the tragedy was thrown aside, and in its place the most minute directions touching the emotions to be portrayed and the positions to be observed, were given. 'With respect to many of the alterations public opinion will, no doubt, be much divided ; admirers of it most certainly will be found, but on the other hand those who will still retain the pre ference for the old edition will not be few. On the entrance of Mr. Fechter, in the second scene, he was re ceived with the most unbounded applause, which he ac knowledged in a very graceful manner, and, evidently with some emotion, he commenced his great undertaking. His appearance, or, as it is professionally termed, " make up," was in exquisite taste, and in place of the old costume he wore the scarlet robe of a Venetian general, with the lion of St. Mark embroidered on his breast, light coloured Moorish burnows and appointments of the most splendid description. In the first:and second acts the part is of a very even na ture, pathos being the prevailing sentiment; and the manner in which the address to the Senate was delivered showed at once the view Mr. Fechter had taken of the character of the Moor. It was marked by all that grace for which he is so remarkable, but, to our thinking, it lacked that tragic grandeur and sublimity with which other eminent actors have invested the part. There appeared to be too little of a soldier in Othello's bear:ng, while as the lover he was every thing that could be desired. In the third and two succeed ing acts Mr. Fechter achieved his greatest triumph, but even here, in many places, he seemed to sacrifice too much to break down the traditional notions of the cha racter of the noble Moor. In the scene where Ingo first commences to pour the poison into Othello's ear, Mr, Fechter's acting was unourpnagnhlP. His blank look of horror, and his attempts to shake off the dreadful impres sion, were masterpieces of dramatic art ; and when worked up almost to madness he springs upon lago and demands proof of his damned insinuations, the audience gave vent to their feelings by a perfect hurricane of applause, Nothing could equal in effect the deep, heart-breaking accents in which the succeeding lines of the scene were given. The direction to lago to set Emilia on to watch Desdemona was • magnificent piece of acting, The concluding scene was also very finely given, but the arrangement of the climax savoured too much of the French stage to be thoroughly relished by an English audience. The lago of Mr. Ryder was a careful and thoroughly artistic performance ; and Mr, Basil Potter, as Bra bant* acquitted himself in a manner that calls for very high praise. Mr. Jordan's Cassio was heavy, dull, and very much below the mark; but Mr. Shore's Roderigo was clever and commendable. Miss C, Leclercq, as Desdemona, acted in a manner that must have surprised many, anclnever was applause more liberably be stowed or better &tie - fwd. At the fall of the curtain, and at the end of some of the acts, Mr. Fechter was vociferously called ; and on his ap pearance at the termination of the tragedy, hand-in-hand with Mr. Ryder, ho received a perfect ovation. The scenery, specially painted for the occasion, was equally beautiful, and the dresses magnificent ; in fact, everything was done in that perfect and complete manner which so conspicuously marks the management of Mr. Augustus Harris. (From the Times.) The theory of Mr. Fechter, practically manifested last night, is not to be sought merely in his own performance of the principal character. The lago of Mr. Ryder and the Desdemona of Miss Leclercq must be regarded as embody ing to a certain extent the conceptions of the ingenious in novator, for they must have been forced to unlearn all they retained of stage tradition before they could move easily in the path prescribed for them in the rehearsals. All those details of:action which are technically expressed by the word "business" have been changed, and the work is pre sented under an aspect entirely new. People sit where they were wont to stand, are scattered about where they used to be huddled together, are formed into pic turesque groups where they once were marshalled into the unvarying straight line. When Othello hears the first insinuations of lago, he is quietly writing his despatches at a table ; when lago utters his satire against woman, he is leaning on a pillar, with his merry listeners gathered around him; when the death of Roderigo takes place, it is with all the preparation and circumstance of a grand melodramatic murder. And so on through the en tire piece. Having, in his preface, declared war against " tradition," as tho wormeaten and unwholesome prison where dramatic art languishes in fetters, Mr. Fechter car ries his hostility to the utmost. Woe to the merely con ventional actor, who, relying on his knowledge of routine, shall venture on the path now prescribed. He will find himself on the right hand when he ought to be ou the left, he will knock against chairs and tables when he expects to find a clear pathway before him ; he will stand in isolated wretchedness when he ought to form one of a well.devised group. The position of some quiet gentleman who stumbles by mistake into the midst of a polking party, to be hustled by all tho dancers, will furnish the best parallel to the possible case of the conventional actor who attempts to play a leading part in the newly arranged Othello. Mr. Fechter's impersonation of the Moor is, from its thorough novelty, in perfect keeping with the whole of the performance. The audience are astonished to find an actor so instinctively shrinking from clap-trap that speeches which from time immemorial have been followed by loud ap plause are now scarcely distinguished from the rest of the text. The same theory, doubtless, that has caused him to restore Bianca has made him so far diminish the show of suspicion in the Moor's character that he very tardily listens to the insinuations of Ingo, and does not begin to feel a tinge of jealousy till he has long paused over passages which preceding Othellos have spoken in a whirlwind of fury. Nothing can exceed the subtlety with which he indicates the progress of jealous uneasiness, or the delicacy with which he displays a tenderness for Desdemona that remains unconquerable to the last. ' The movements of his face tell a whole history of internal suffering; you may plainly perceive him logically working out the reason for his own misery; the exhibition throughout is highly intel lectual and refined, but still we would suggest something like an occasional expenditure of force on verbal expres sion. Surely a line may be drawn between the Scylla of rant and the Charybdis of ineffectiveness; and it is possible to make an occasional appeal to the undiscriminating mul titude, without offending those who can pursue the thread of a subtle ratiocination. (From the Daily .IVews.) It is not until the third act that Mr. Fechter puts forth any of his power, and up to that period many celebrated speeches hitherto known as " points " fall flatly enough upon the ear. The address to the Senate, for instance, which has for solongheld an Enfield's Speaker-ish celebrity on oration-days at minor schools, is divested of all that ro tundity of eloquence and pompousness of manner hitherto allotted to it. In Mr. Fecbtyr's mouth it is simply an honest apology for a natural action, colloquially delivered. In the second act, too, there is nothing specially noticeable, save the overweening tenderness invariably displayed towards Desdemona, and the purely natural savage tone in which the" noisy bell" is ordered to be silenced during the drunken quarrel between Cassio and Montano. But the whole of the third act, so far as Othello is concerned, sparkles into origi nal genius, When lago first asks of Cassio's acquaintance with Desdemona, Othello answers him lightly. He is look ing over some papers, and speaks at first almost at random; then, finding his interlocutor repeating his phrases and harping with fell purpose on certain words, he rallies him lightly and playfully ; nor even when the suggestion of his wife's infidelity is made does he wince, until lago reminds him of the manner in which she deceived her father. Then his face falls, and the avowal, " And so she did 1" comes in dreary, heart-broken accents from be tween his parted lips. This entire scene is replete with beauties. Nothing can be finer than the touch of nature canveyed in the tone in which he replies, " Not a jot, not a jot," when lago hints that he had dashed his spirits ; no thing more suggestive than the abrupt stop which the noble hearted Moor comes to when the hint, so loathsome to his real nature, that Emilia should be set on to watch Desdemona, first rises to his lips ; nothing grander than the gradual rousing of his rage during lago's recital of Cassio's dream, and the vehement burst with which he declares that he will be satisfied of his wife's fidelity. It is in touches of this kind—and there are dozens of them throughout the play—that Mr. Fechter's genius is shown. In every scene a buzzing murmur of appreciative applause is to be heard rising after some happy reading—som, pure, sweet, natural pathos—some honest burst of rage. This applause comes from the educated tenants of the boxes and stalls, and with them—although even with them by no means to the same extent as the Hamlet —is the new im personation certain to be attractive. (From the Morning Post.) Mr. Fechter's Othello is a sensitive high-souled gentle man, doubtless of a constant loving, noble nature, but with an air and aspect anything rather than martial or heroic. There is little of the soldier about him. Least of all is he demonstrative. His sorrows eat his heart, but rarely con vulse his frame. He bleeds from within. You may see the working of the anguish that consumes him in his wrung brow, his compressed lip, and the quivering muscles of his face ; but he seldom gives way to those terrific transports of rage, those tempests, so to speak, of tropical emotion in which the English representatives of the character tradi tionally indulge, and which they 4eetn to be due to its Ori ental origin. That Mr. Fechter's perfortr ance repeatedly gives evidence of a cultivated taste and a romantic imagina tion must be admitted; but, whether owing to a want of physical power, or to whatever othercause, it is not always as vigorous in execution as it is poetic in conception. But though Mr. Fechter's voice and person aro not a1t0.% gether in consonance with the:charaeter, his "make up" EP' the part, in so far as that theatrical phrase may be taken to relate to colour and costume, is excellent. In the first act of ihe tragedy the Moor as played - by Mr. Fechter is free, gracious, and completely at his ease. • In the third and fourth acts, Mr. Feehter's performance is rather unequal, the fervour, tenderness, and tragic emo tion which frequently distinguish it being occasionally sus ceeded by a coldness and languor of manner which neces sarily impairs its general effect. But his mode of exclaim ing, " 0 fool I fool I fool I" when he discovers how he has been abused, like one awakening from a trance to horror s of which he is scarcely conscious, and his last sad retro spect of the sorrows of his life and of the angelic qualities of his lost love, aro very impressive; as also is the wild despair with which ho hangs over the dead body of Desde mune, and vainly calls upon her by name. The manner of his wife's death, however, as well as of hire own, is rather too elaborate; and the throwing of the dagger at the feet of lago, who shrinks in terror as if struck on the face by the blood of Othello,is a piece of stage device which savours quite too much of artifice to evoke a cordial response from the hearts of the audience. (From the Mornibg Advertiser.) The long-announced, eagerly-expected, and elaborately prepared version of Shakespeare's " Othello" was produced last night at this theatre. From first to last we see the understanding of M. Fechter at work. For every why he has a wherefore, and we should be sorry to contest the matter, syllable by syllable, with him. He would, no doubt, confound us ; but we had rather feel than reason. If ever burning words meant anything, they meant rage, grief, horror, vengeance, remorse, in the heart of the poor, befooled, half-maddened savage, who is tricked into tor ments by the cool conventional villain, who hates him and his race, and all such open-hearted, simple-minded, direct, susceptible, and undiscerning creatures. By the time the third act begins the audience have, or ought to have done with the manners of Othello, or indeed of any of the characters. We don't know whether they are short or tall ; whether they are elegant or brusque ; and whether they arc ugly or handsome, We are interested in their conduc4. We have begun to sympathise ; and we like or detest ; pity or hate ; and think no more about their manners than a criminal does of those of ajury who are trying him for life or death, As an actor of real life he almost stands alone on our stage ; as a passionate tragedian he has some, and has had many, superiors. It is but justice to the dead to say he cannot approach Edmund Kean in passion. His acting Othello from the commencement of the third act was a tor rent of passion and pathos never to be thought of without tears ; never, in all probability, to be seen again. Perhaps, happily, for we can scarcely say why the sight of a human being stricken to death by the emotions of his heart should be a sight to dwell upon. IVEST INDIA STEAM COMPANY. -01 A half-yearly meeting of the Royal Mail (West India) Steam Company was held yesterday after noon, Captain C. E. Mangles presiding. From the report and the opening statement of the chairman it appeared that the working of the past six months has been satisfactory, the receipts showing an in crease of £8,510, and the working expenses a dimi nution of £4,662, arising from a reduction under nearly every head. Th ere h as b een an apparent augmentation in the salaries, but this is mostly at tributable to an adjustment of account. In the cur rent half-year the business of the company is also progressing favourably. A considerable falling off has taken place in outward passage money and freight in the last six months, chiefly owing to the French competition to Brazil, but it has been more than compensated by the augmentation in the homeward receipts. Arrangements have been effected with the Panama Railway for a develop ment of the through traffic, and it is hoped that such further concessions will be made by that com pany as will place the West India steamers on the same footing as other vessels trading up to Panama. The repair and renewal account, after placing to its debit the repairs of the half-year, for the first time since its publication in 1855, shows a surplus of £1,882. At the same time the fleet has been main tained in excellent order. The ships and engines now stand in the company's books at £lB 15s. per ton, while the premises, which originally cost between £45,000 and £46,000, have been reduced to £lB,OOO. The proceedings respecting the Australian contract are still pending, and the matter now stands in precisely the same position it occupied a year ago. The directors have anxi ously considered the question of the renewal of the contract, and express a belief that the Go vernment will not allow the service to pass out of English hands, as they assume would be the case if the contract were to be abolished, into those of the French, who have just contracted for a fleet for the West Indian and Mexican trade. After some discussion the report was adopted, and a dividend declared at the proposed rate of £2 per share, free of income-tax. Annexed is a list of the company's fleet : Registered Horse No. Names. Tonnage. power. 1. Shannon (iron) .. .. .. 3,472 800 2. Seine (ditto) .. .. .. 3,440 800 3. Atrato (ditto) .. .. .. 3,126 800 4. Parana .. .. .. .. 2,730 800 5. Magdalena .. .. .. .. 2,567 800 6. La Plata .. .. .. .. 2,404 1,000 7. Oneida (iron screw) .. .. 2,284 530 8. Tasmanian (ditto) .. .. .. 2,253 550 9. Tyne (iron) .. .. .. 1,916 400 10. Avon .. .. .. .. 1,834 440 11. Tamar .. .. .. .. 1,737 400 12. Medway .. .. .. .. 1,895 430 13. Thames .. .. .. .. 1,889 430 14. Trent .. .. .. .. 1,856 430 15. Solent .. .. .. .. 1,689 400 16. Teviot .. .. .. .. 1,744 450 17. Dee .. .. .. .. .. 1,699 440 18. Clyde .. .. .. .. 1,371 430 19. Mersey (iron) .. .. .. 1,001 250 20. Conway .. .. .. .. 895 260 21. Wyo (iron screw) .. .. .. 751 180 22. Derwent .. .. .. .. Y 94 260 23. Prince (iron) .. .. .. 398 200 43,715 11,480 FEARFUL ACCIDENT ON THE S.HRETTSBURI AND WELSIIPOOL RAILWAY. Yesterday morning between five and six o'clock a terrible accident occurred near Hanwood station, between three and four miles from Shrewsbury, on the Welshpool line (now nearly completed), by which two men were killed, and seven or eight others frightfully wounded. It will be necessary to state, in order to understand the matter clearly, that Mr. France, the contractor, runs a train, con sisting of an engine, several ballast waggons or trucks, and a guard's van, along the line from Shrewsbury to Middletown, a distance of 14 miles, for the convenience of the workmen. Nearly 200 leave Shrewsbury every morning and return at night. The train left the station as usual yesterday morning, shortly after five o'clock, an d a ll wen t right for the first few miles. Shortly b e f ore th e y reached the Hanwood station it was observed that the trucks suddenly began to oscillate fearfully, and in an instant the last tru c k b u t one tum b led over with a terrific crash d own a s li g h t em b ankment , pitching the men out in all directions. The truck which followed was also dragged down the embank ment, and the men in that also were thrown out, but not with such violence, as the train was not proceeding at a rapid pace. The break van was not thrown off the line, but the men in it jumped out in the greatest consternation. It is computed that there were about 20 men in each truck, and eight or ten in the van. The cries of the poor fellows were heartrending, and as soon as assistance could be procured it was found that two men were killed on the spot, their names being George Dax, of Shrews bury, carpenter, and Joseph . Bates, of the sam e place, labourer. Both are married men with fami lies. One had been driven against a post on the side of the line, and over the other the wheels of the track had run, completely smashing him. Two other men were fearfully mang l ed, and no hopes are entertained of their r ecovery. Some six more were rather seriously injured. As soon as possible Mr. Blakeway, of H an woo d- m ill , rendered assist , ance by administering sti mu l an t s t o th e su ff ere rs, and, with the as s i s t ance o f t h e stat i onmaster a t Hanwood, sent the wounded to the infirmary at Shrew s b ury. Med i cal assistance was then promptly administered. Upon examining the trucks it was found that one of the irons which run under neath, and to which coupling chains are attached, had become loosened from constant working, and while they were proceeding along had worked out from beneath the third truck from the end of the train. That truck passed on, but the next came right upon one end of the bar, the other being driven against a rail, the truck being thus turned com pletely over, thereby causing the accident. The former part of the train proceeded for some distance without any one being aware of the accident, as it was quite dark. At present no person is held blamable for the accident, but the facts will be elicited at the inquest, which% fixed for to- morrow. The Dowager Lady Rivers and Mr. Cobb have arrived at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street. PLYMOUTH, Wednesday.—The barque Eliza Susanna, 471 tons, Captain Grafthuis, of and for Rotter dam, which left Rangoon with a cargo of rice May 15, was towed into the Sound yesterday evening, her crew being prostrated by scurvy. She left Rangoon with a comple ment of 18 men, wh3 were attacked when the ship was off the Azores. Four died—viz John Lindross, sailmaker, of Louise, Finland ; and three able seamen—A. Kivaut, of Groningen; L. Pauls, of Kronen; and Arinaud Peters, of Papenburg. Nine continue sick ; the remainder (five) are in health. Tho attack is attributed to the quality of the water obtained at Rangoon, which, like that from Moulmein, is said to encourage scurvy. The barque Ta glioni, Captain Hunter, from South Shields, with coal for 'Lisbon, put into the Sound yesterday, leaky. ~~ _~