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_ • • -. L. - ( 1:1 , . • • ;I ! , err - 4 tyr' 61. , g IP ,z,`• 1- a ' • 9" - V q ll (f\,\ • • • \ •-• 4s -0 4 .) •-• :• -4 • '\ s= - 1. 9,^SAIIv 070, To 4111-11,"' • 40 , • • , , 1 . /.) !E , 4/ ..... • v ..„„.... ~~~~ X7l z X. '~=/, NORWICH UNI ON REVERSIONARY • INTEREST COMPANY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ANNUAL _GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors, purstant to the Wed of Settlement, will be held at the Company's Offices, 23 , Lincoln's-inn-fields, on TUESDAY, the 25th day of June next, at One o'clock precisely, at which three Directors and the Auditors will go out cf office. The Directors and Auditors so going out of office are 0 ).-tible for re-election, and will offer themselves accord- June 10, 1861. HENRY NORRIS, Seeretary. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1861. PRICE 4D . STAMPED, SD. N°. 21,510 NORWICH UNI 0 N REVERSIONARY INTEREST COMPANY. NOTICE IS 'HEREBY GIVEN, That an EXTRAORDI NARY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors will be Feld at the Company's Offices, 23, Lincoln's-inn-fields, on TUESDAY, the 25th day of June next, at half past One Oclock, for the purpose of making certain alterations in the oxisting Deed of Settlement of the Company, extending the business of the Company to granting Annuities, and making Loans, subject to certain provisions for limiting the liability of the Propri. tors ; varying the mode of taking the accounts and declaring dividends, and extending the powers of making temp o rary investments. June 10, 1861. HENRY NORRIS, Secretary. PUbLICATIONb. RESTAURANT and CAFE DE L'EUROPE, atUd 10, HAYMARKET, adjoining the Theatre. Joints in succession, from four o'clock 2s. Od. Soup and Joint 2s. 6d. 3s. ed. Severn Salmon, or other Fish and Joint The Cafe Dinner of Soup, Fish Entrée, and Sweets 3s. Cd. A Haunch of Venison on Wednesdays. Suppers after the Theatres. quaintance, The' handshaking is a remnant of bar barous times, when men with the same coloured skin were glad to see each other. The country through which we rode was most uninteresting, thick brushwood and pine trees springing out of deep sand, here and there a nullah and some dirty stream—all flat as ditchwater. On our return we halted at the general's quarters. I had left a note for him, in which I inquired whe ther he would have any objection to my proceeding to Fort Pickens from his command, in case I ob tained permission to do so, and when I entered General Bragg's room he was engaged in writing not merely a very courteous and complimentary expression of his acquiescence in my visit , but let ters of introduction to personal friends in Louisiana, in hope of rendering my sojourn more agreeable. He expressed a doubt whether my comrades would be permitted to enter the fort, and talked very freely with me in reference to what I had seen at the batteries, but I thought I perceived an indica tion of some change of purpose with respect to the immediate urgency of the attack on Fsrt Pickens NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " GRAND MOTHER'S MONEY." Just ready, in 3 vole., UNDER THE By the Author of "Grandmother's Money," "Wildflower," &c. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. SPELL. TO NIGHT-HATTON'S GREAT CONCERT —ST. JAMES'S HALL.—SINIS REEVES, ARA BELLA GODDARD, PAREPA, SANTLEY, and all the Artists in Town. Admission, ls., 25., 45., 7s. To commence at 8 precisely. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY On SATURDAY, June 15, an EXCURSION TRAIN hilt leave PADDINGTON at 6.30 p.m., and Reading . at 7.40 pm., for CHIPPENHAM and BATH (fares 12s. and Os.), and -, 1 , 5 R1T0L (4s. and 75.), returning on Monday, June 17 , at .J. 30 pan. Now ready, in I vol., with Illustrations, RECOLLECTIONS OF A FOX HUNTER. By SCRUTATOR. " Scrutator is one of the most graphic and eloquent histo rians of the sport., of the field, and for vital interest and utility this is decidedly kis best production."—Sunday limes. MR. W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAIN MENT, the CABINET of CURIOSITIES, POLY GRAPHIC HALL, King Wil ism-street, Charing-cross, TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at Eight. Private boxes, £1 ls. ' • Stalls and box stalls, 3 s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre , Is. -A plan of the stalls may be 4een, and seats secured (without extra charge), at the Box office, from 10 till 4 Morning Performance, Saturday, May 11. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CHEAP EXCURSION to the SEA-SIDE.—On SA TURDAY, June 22, an Excursion Train will leave PAD DINGTON at 2.15 p.m., and READING at 3.20 p.m. for Arelksham, Trowbridge, Westbury, and Frome (10s. and Os.), truton, Castle Carey, and Yeovil Ws. and 75.), Maiden New ton, Bridport, Dorchester, and Weymouth (12g. and Bs.), re turning on Tuesday, June 25, as per bills. This Day, in Demy Bvo, 165., the Second Volume of the HISTORY OF CIVILISATION IN ENGLAND. Containing the History of Civilisation in Spain and Scotland. RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, ith the Celebrated BAND , Forty in number (established eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by Monk Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt.—Dancing at Nine o'clock.-Is. admission. By HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. London : Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. 14.REAT WESTERN RAILWAY. On SUNDAY, June 23 d, a CHEAP EXCURSION TRAIN will leave PADDINGTON at R. 45 a.m. tbr Reading ( s s. 6d., is., and 35.), Theale and Aldermaston (65., 4s. 6d., and 3 s. 3d.), Woolhampton, Thatcham, Newbury, Kintbury, and Runv,erford (6s. 6d 55., and 3s. 61), Pangbourne. Goring, and Ilrallinford-road (es. and 3s. 6d.), Cuiham, Abingdon, and Oxford (6s. 6d. and 45,), returning the same day. THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S I • " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercieal, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co., late Piper and Co., Paternoster-row. compared with his expressions last night. — ii length I departed with many thanks to General Bragg for his kindness and confidence, and re turned to a room full of generals and colonels, who made a levee of their visits. rrHE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS , L High Holborn. Open every evening at 8 o'clock. — This popular and magnificently appointed Ball Room, de cidedly the most fashionable and best conducted entertain ment in •he world. The very excellent band, under the able direction of Mr. Packer, is constantly introducing the choicest and latest music of the day. The wines supplied are of the very choicest quality. The refreshment rooms are elegant in the extreme, and replete with every comfort. Admission throughout, is. On my return to the schooner I observed that the small houses'on the side of the long sandy beach were filled with men, many of whom were in groups round the happy possessors of a newspaper, and listened with the utmost interest to the excited delivery of the oracular sentences. How much of the agony and bitterness of this conflict—nay, how much of its existence—may be .due to these same newspapers no man can say, but I have very de cided opinions, or rather a very strong belief, on the subject. There were still more people around the various bar-rooms than were v attracted even by the journalists. Two of our companions were on board when I got back to the quay. The Mobile gentlemen had gone off to Pensacola, and had not GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-ASCOT RACES, 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th of June.—On each day of the Races Trains will run between PADDING FON and WIN DSO R, as under : Leaving Paddington at 6.0 a.m., 7.30 (3d class), 8.30, 10.0 (3d Class), 11.0 (Fast), 11.15, 11.45 (Fast), 12.0, 1.10 p.m. (3d class), and 2.0 (Fast). Returning from Windsor at 4.45 p.m., 6.0 (Special Fast), 6.25 (3d class), 7.45 (Special Fast), 8.30 p.m. (3d class), 10.0, and 10.45 p.m. On THURSD AY, the Cup Day, in addition to the above, a SPECIAL TRAIN will leave Paddington at 10.15 a.m. for Windsor direct. Carriages and horses will be conveyed by any of the regu lar trains. orni.ibuses will be provided to convey Passengers from the Windsor station to the Course and back. CHEAP RETURN TICKETS to Windsor are i.sued at Paddington by the 8.30 a.m., 10.0 a.m., and 12 noon Trains, available for return at 6.`= s, 8.30, end 10 a.rn t•-=‘ , cliere anti back, in ctmexect ca. riages, 2s. ocL Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, 6s. 6d., ON THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA ; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. VVANS'S MUSIC and SUPPER ROOMS.- 1-A Gentlemen meet as Nsual every evening. Mackney as ever—Sydney's admirable New Song—The Elliot Family and the American Brothers' elegant Performances, superior to anything yet seen. Four-part Songs, Glees, Madrigals, and Classic Vocal Music formlthe main element of the entertain ment. "Play-goers sup at Evans's to glees extremely well sung."—Athenaeum. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which Mr. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of the scientific principles upon which theivraanagomo.i , is 11,...uLt. By his systematic management au immense mitigation of pain to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuab_ contribution, both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be found in the private study of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular. S KIN. LONDON AND ILW SOUTH AY. -WESTERN RA At the SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprie tors of this Company, held at the Waterloo-bridge Station, Lambeth, on Thursday, the 30th day of May, 1861, C. CASTLEMAN, Esq., in the Chair. The notice convening the Meeting having been read, and resolutions having been passed, approving of the "Alton, Alresford, and Winchester Railway Bill, the "Southampton and Netley Railway Bill," the Salisbury and Dorset Junction Railway Bill," and the "West London Extension Railway Bill," and the Chairman having stated that the " Mid-Devon and Cornwall Railway Bill" has been rejected by the House of Commons' Committee, and therefore requires no further notice ; and that the " London, Chatham, and Dover Rail- Way Bill" is not in a position to be considered to-day. It was Resolved—That the Meeting be adjourned to Fri thy, the 14th day of June, 1861, at One o'clock p.m., at this place. By order, L. CROMBIE, Secretary. SCINDE RAILWAY COMPANY.-INDUS STEAM FLOTILLA. The Directors are prepared to receive applications for DE BENTURES at par, in sums of not less than £lOO, for the unappropriated portion of the £83.000 Debentures about to be issued for the purposes of the Indus Steam Vlotilla, bearing Interest at 5 per cent. for five years, renewable for a second jperiod of five ears, and paabe by couon at he Ban king house of Messrys. Smith, Pay y ne, l and Smiths, Not 1, Lombard street. The bonds will be dated on the Ist of May, 1851, and will bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum from that date on all monies paid on or before the ?oth June, 1861. The payment of the principal and interest is guaranteed by the Secretary of State for India in Council, as will appear on the face of the Bonds. The Debentures are convertible into Indus Steam Flotilla Stock at par, at the option of the holder. Forms of application may be obtained at the offices of the Compiny. By order of the Board, THOMAS BURNELL, Sec. Scinde Railway Offices, Gresham-house, Old Broad-street, May 25, 1851. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH. M.D., of the University of lona, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous Sufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work , THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike to Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will be sent, post free, secure from ob nervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH, M.D., 8, Burton creacent,-, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. DR. BRIGHT'S APHRODISION, The Phosphorised Nervine Tonic. A Newly-Discovered CHEMICAL COMBINATTov of PHOSPHATIC SALT 0, qui.i..,, the most mar vellous and only remedy for Spermatorrluea, Nervous and Generative Debility, Incapacity, Gleet, Stricture, and Prema ture Decline of Manly Power, caused in early life. Prices : 11s. per bo•tle, or four lls. bottles in one, 335. ; and in cases containing three 335. bottles, £5, which saves £1 12s. Newbery, 45, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Hannay, 63, Ox ford-street. THE VIC OUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S • ESSENCE OF LIFE. NO CONSULTATION NECES -ARY. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This life -restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by the medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst. Dr. Rilord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in' structions for use, at lls., or four quantities in one for 338., and may be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed on receipt of remittance or stamps. Dr. Ricord's Sole Arent in London is Front, Patent Medi cine Warehouse, 220, Strand (five doors west of Temple-bar). (Entered at Stationers' Hall.) SZPECTACLES.-SIGHT AND HEARING.- DEAFNESS.—A newly-invented instrument for ex treme cases of deafness, called the SOUND MAGNIFIER, Organic Vibrator, and Invisible Voice Conductor. It fits so into the ear as not to be in the least perceptible ; the unplea rant sensation of singing noises In the head is entirely re moved. It affords instant relief to deaf persons, and enables them to hear distinctly at Church and at p ublic issemblies. ...r.very other kind of hearing instruments. Messrs. SOLO LIONS have invented spectacle lenses of the greatest trans rarent power. The valuable advantage derived from their invention is, that vision becomes preserved and strengthened ; very aged persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation, can see with these lenses of a much les s magnifying power, and they do not require the frequent changes to the dangerous effects of further powerful assist- Vice. -39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York TELESCOPES, Opera, Race-course, Field, and general Out-door Day and Night Perspective Glasses, very small, for the waistcoat pocket, each containing 12 and 18 lenses, constructed of German glass. Will show distinctly a person to know him at two-and-a-half and three miles, and 211 object from 8 to 10 miles distant. Her Majesty's Coast Guard are making use of them as day and night glasses in preference to all others ; they are also preferred for deer stalking by sportsmen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Tele scopes, 3a inches long, by which a person may be clearly seen and known at 3 miles, and an object at 12 to 14 miles' di e lance ; and with an extra astronomical eye-piece Jupiter's moons, Saturn's rings, and the double stars are distinctly E4een ; they are in endless variety, of larger and all sizes , with i , ncreasing powers, and are secured by her Majesty's Royal letters patent.—Messrs. S. and B. SOLOMONS, Opticians, 39, AiDemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, W. and DISSOLVING MAGIC cIEWS lent out, and s s e . n .s t into ß. so tpe country, with the MONS Improved opt i on to clurchase. Messrs. of_ pure German °B na beautiful light, Phantasmag-oria Lanterns h w a i vi th ng so l i e o n m se . Glass, and being arranged other for its simplicity brillialy t , 'which surpasses any a clear disc is obtained 20 feeediameter, hitherto d unattain n ea. Slides in great variety. They also beg to introduce their new Instrument, which is one of the most amusing and in structive ever brought out. It illustrates the motion of the Planets, Armstrong's shot, and many wonderful effects, price 2 55. Also, the improved Life-boat Barometer, by Admiral Fitzroy; it needs no com ment upon its superiority, and Is now arranged by them for the use of the public. Price £4 4s. Scientific Instrument Makers, 39, Albemarle -street, Picca dilly, W. "The temora relief obtained by means o f p urgative medicines is p urchased at the high price of the aggravation and A the perpetuating the disease.' —HENRY, M.D. NO MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER PHYSIC FOR CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION (DYSPEPSIA), PALPI TATION, NERVOUS, BILIOUS, AND LIVER COMPLAINTS, DEBILITY, DROPSY, EPILEPSY, PARALYSIS, COUGH, ASTHMA, CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, SORE THROAT, PETERS fIU BARRY'S delicious HEALTH RESTOR ING REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD, which, at a ew pence per day, saves fifty times its cost in Medicine, and urea without purging or any of the uncertainties, annoy - noes, and ruinous expenses incurred by medicine, cod liver oil, or visits to distant climates. Certificate No. 36,418.—We find it the safest remedy, An drew Ure, M.D., F.R.S. ; Dr. Harvey; Dr. Wurzer ; Dr. Shor . and ; Dr. Campbell. We extract a few out of 56,000 eures_ : — Cure No. 1,771. Lo r d S tuart de Decies of many years' dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,832. Of fifty yea rrindiscribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipa tion, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting, Maria Job', of Lynn, Norfolk . Cure No. 47,121 . Miss Elizabeth Jacobs ' spirits, and extreme n ervousness, indi g est ion , gatherings, low a n d nervous fancies. Cure No. 54 ,816. The Rev. James T C am pbell, Syderstone Rector y , near Fakenham, Norfolk of indi ge stk.n and liver complaints. Cure No. 56,814. Mr. Samuel Lax on ,;Leicester, of two years' diarrhoea.. Cure No. 180. Mr. W. Reeves, 181, Fleet-street, London, of 25 years' nervous ness, constipation, indigestion, and debility. Cure No. 4,028: Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousness, debility with cramps, !yams, and nausea , Rev. John W. Flavel, Ridlington Rec. 'my, Norfolk. Cure No. 3,90& Thirteen years' cough, indi gestion, and general debility, James Porter, Athol-street, Perth. Cure No. 58,314. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman, Gateacre, near Liverpool, of ten years' dyspep and all the horrors of nervous irritability. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Similar testimonials from 56,000 patients who can be re ferred to. The Food is sold in canisters, 11 b. 28. 9d., 21b, 45. 6c1., 121 b. 101 b. 338. The 328 ., 241 b. 405. ; super-refined quality , 51b. 225„ 101 b. 121 b., and 241 b. canisters carriag e free oureceipt of Post- , offioe order by Barry Du Barry a nd Co., , Regent street. ondon ; Fortnum, Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly, •Ventlon ; Abbis, 60, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapdde ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street ; 330 and 452, Stran d ; 49 Phillips 60 kishopsgate-street ; Batty,l 6 , Finsbury-pavement ; and Co.. tea dealers ; Petty , Wood , and Co., King Willi/M . trset, City , andlZ7,lllo Et9lborai and all &mem 4 London: H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. AN INCOME FOR A POUND !—Any person wishing to know how it is possible to realise a large fortune with .£l, can obtain satisfactory information by ad dressing a letter to E. 8., 15, Calthorpe-place, Gray's-inn road, W.C. MPORTANT TO OWNERS OF HORSES.- After long experience, deep researches into chymistry, by the aid of costly machinery, I have discovered the means whereby oats, beans, and oilcake may be ent rely dispensed with in the feeding of horses and cattle. I have now invented a compound meal, composed of locust beans, Indian corn, linseed, &c., at £l6 per ton, which is equal in value to £24 worth of oats, beans, or any other feeding material in the market. Two quarts of this compound meal, weighing 31bs., at the cost of 5d., mixed with a peck of chopped hay, is afeed tor a draught horse, and superior in every respect to three quarterns of oats, costing 71-d. 14 barrels weigh net 1 ton 1 cwt., at 16s. per cwt., £l6 Its. net cash, free, delivered by my own waggons to any station in London. Nothing less than 21 cwt. sold at the manufactory, and orders must be accom panied with cheque. crossed, made payable to the inventor, JOSEPH THORLEY. Steam Mills, Caledonian-road, King's-cross, April 8, 1861. Single barrels, weighing 11 cwt., may be had for its., at 77, Newgate-street, City, or of any of my accredited Agents in the country. THORLEY'S CONDI ME NT AL FOOD (mixed wi h crushed Oats, ttc.) for My Fforses.—Read A dmiral Rous on the English Racehorse. 40s. per barrel, containing 448 feeds. THORLEY'S CONDIMENT for My Cows. -1- Increasing the quantity and enriching the quality 01 Milk. 40s. per barrel. THORLEY'S COMPOUND for MT Sheep. I- Sold in barrels, containing 4l feeds, with measure mlosed, and carriage paid to any railway station in the ingdom. THORLEY for My pigs, 40s. per barrel. THORLEY'S GLEANER is Published every Monday in time for post, and contains forty Columns of valuable information, including Mark-lane Report, Agri cultural and Sporting Intelligence up to time of going to press. Price One Penny. Order of any Newsvendor.-77, Newgate-street, City. pRESENTS.— ORNAMENTAL and SCIEN LL IF IC.—ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, ,nd Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assortment VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, ~ )eautiful inlaid Tables_Paner weights. &c m in I talian,Alabas er, lvtaruw, bwuae, Derbyshire spar, &c. Imported .na manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her ilajesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. r. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, SIINERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate he interesting study of MINERALOGY, CONCHOLOGY , nd GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANf, at 149, Strand, W.C. TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre ared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. cott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a fa mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appe ite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, and by most druggists, in boxes, ly. lid. and 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," engraved on the stamp. DR. BUCHAN'S DOMESTIC MEDICINES, known throughout the world, for the cure of every disease. PATENT SUGAR-COATED VEGETABLE PILLS for regulating the bowels and purifying the blood, &c., Is. lid., 2s. 9d., 4s. 60., and lls. VEGETABLE SKIN OINTMENT, for all skin eruptions, deep-seated ulcers, sores, boils, etc. ls. 10., and 2s. 9d. CONCENTRATED VEGETABLE ESSENCE, for re invigorating the nervous and muscular system, weakened from causes acquired in early youth, also curing chronic and spasmodic stricture, renal pains, diseases of the bladder, kidneys. nervous debility, and all female complaints, at the same time enriching and increasing every vital fluid.. 4s. 6c1., Us., or four quantities in one, :Ps. Physician's ad vice free on application, and " Buchan's Guide for Patients," one stamp. Sold by Buchan and Co., 22, Newman-street, Oxford-street. London, W., and medicines forwarded on re ceipt of post-office order. To be had of all chemists. Wholesale Agent. , : Barclay, 75, Farring,don-st. ; Newbery 45, St. Paul's Churchyard ; J. Sanger, 150, Oxford-st. ; Han nay. 63, Oxford-st.; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Hooppr, 43, King William-st., London-bridge ; 'Lowden, 78, Gracechurch-et. ; Pront, 229, Strand, London. 8, GREAT MARLBOROUGH-STREET, W., NEAR THE PANTHEON. DR. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo heeariss' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, toss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functicnal Derangements I both Sexes, emanating from early and excessive .indul (noes Has Just published, price Is.; by post, 11 stamps., 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and original Work, entitled OURSELVES. z,ynopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. 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Mr. Ellis, a lieutenant in the Louisiana regiment, who is aide-de-camp to Brigadier-General Bragg, has just arrived with a message from his chief to escort me round all the works, and wherever else I like to go—without any reservation whatever. He is a handsome, well built, slight young fellow, very composed and staid in manner, but full of sentiment for the South. Returned from a tour in Europe, he is all admira tion for English scenery, life, and habits. " After all, nature has been more bountiful to you than to us." He is dressed in a tight undress cavalry jacket and trousers of blue flannel, with plain gold lace pipings and buttons, but on his heels are heavy brass spurs, worthy of the heaviest of field officers. Our horses are standing in the shade of a large tree near the wharf, and mine is equipped with a saddle of ponderous brasswork, on raised pummel and cantle, and housings, and emblazoned cloth and mighty stirrups of brass fit for the stoutest marshal that ever led an army of France to victory; General Braxton Bragg is longer in the leg than Marshal Pelissier or Canrobert, or the writer, and as we jogged along over the deep hot sand my kind companion, in spite of my assurance that the leathers were quite comfortable, made himself and me somewhat uneasy on the score of their adjust ment, and, as there was no implement at hand to make a hole, we turned into the general's court yard to effect the necessary alterations. The cry of " Orderly," brought a smart soldierly-looking young man to the front, who speedily took me three holes up, and as I was going away he touched his cap and said, "I beg your pardon, Sir, but I often saw you in the Crimea." His story as he told it was brief. He had been in the 11th Hussars, and on the day of the 25th of October he was following, as he said, close after Lord Cardigan and Captain Nolan when his horse was killed under him. As he tried to make his escape the Cossacks took him prisoner, and for 11 months he was in captivity, but was exchanged at Odessa. " Why did you leave the service 9" " Well, sir, I was one of the two sergeants that was per mitted to leave in each regiment on the close of the war, and I came away." "But here you are sol diering again 9" " Yes, sir; I came over here to better myself, as I thought, and I had to enter one of their cavalry regiments, but now I am an orderly." He told me further, that his name was Montague, and that he "thought his father lived near Wind sor, 21 miles from London ;" and I was pleased to find his superior officers spoke of him in very high terms, although I could have wished those who spoke so were in our own service. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times. ) I do not think that any number of words can give a good idea of a long line of detached batteries. I FORT PICKENS AND PENSACOLA. went through them all, and I certainly found A VISIT TO BOTH CAMPS. stronger reasons than ever for distrusting the extra- MOBILE, MAY 16. ordinary statements which appear in the American Our little schooner lay quietly at the wharf all journals in reference to military matters, particu night, but no one was allowed to come on board larly on their own side of the question. Instead of without a pass, for these wild looking sentries are hundreds of guns, there are only 10 . They are mostly of small calibre, and the gun-carriages are excellent men of business, and look after the prat- old and unsound, or new and rudely made. There tical part of soldiering with all the keenness which are only five "heavy" guns in all the works, but their direct personal interest imparts to their the mortar batteries, three in number, of which one notions of duty. The enemy to them is the incar- is unfinished, will prove very damaging, although nation of all evil, and they hunt his spies and ser- they will only contain 9 or 10 mortars. The bat teries are all sandbag and earthworks, with the ex vents very much as a terrier chases a rat —with ception of Fort Barrancas. They are made after intense traditional and race animosity. The silence all sorts of ways, and are of very different degrees of the night is not broken by many challenges or of efficiency. In some the magazines will come to the ' All's well' of patrols, but there is warlike sig- speedy destruction ; in others they are well made. nificance enough in the sound of the shot which Some are of the finest white sand , and will blind the working parties are rolling over the wooden jetty gunners, or be blown away with shells; others are cramped and hardly traversed; others, again, are very with a dull, ponderous thumping on board the fiats spacious and well constructed. The embrasures are that are to carry them off for the food and nourriture usually made of sandbags, covered with raw hide to of the batteries. With the early morning, however, save the cotton bags from the effect of the fire of their came the usual signs of martial existence. 'started own guns. I was amused to observe that most of these up from among my cockroaches, knocked my head works had galleries in the rear, _generally . in connec tion with the magazine passages, which the construe against the fine pine beams over my hammock,and, tors called "rat-holes," and which are intended as considerably obfuscated by the result, proceeded to shelter to the men at the guns, in case of shells fall investigate all the grounds that presented themselves ing inside the battery. They may prove to have a to me as worthy of consideration in reference to the very different result, and are certainly not so de theory which had suddenly forced itself upon my sirable in a military point of view as good tra verses. A rush for the "rat-hole" will not be very mind that I was in the Crimea. F or close at hand dignified or improving to the morale every time a th ro ugh the sleepy organs of the only sense which bomb hurtles over them ; and assuredly the damage was fully awake, came the well-known reveillee of to the magazines will be enormous if the fire from the Zouaves, and then French clangours, rolls, Pickens is accurate and well sustained. Several of ruffles, and calls ran along the line, and the volun- the batteries were not finished, and the men who teers got up, or did not, as seemed best to them. An ought to have been working were lying under the ebony and aged Ganymede, however a eared shade of trees, sleeping or smoking—long .limbed, , long-bearded fellows in flannel shirts and slouched with coffee, and told me " the Cap'n wanto mak hats, unlformlebs in all save bright well-kept arms, weder you take some bitters, Sar ;" and indeed the and resolute purpose. We went along slowly from Captain did compound some amazing preparation one battery to the other. I visited nine altogether, for the judges and colonels present on deck aq not including Fort Barrancas, - and there are three below that met the approval of them all , and was others, among which is Fort M‘Rae. Perhaps there may be fifty guns of all sorts in position for recommending it for its fortifying qualities in mak about three miles, along a line extending 135 deg. round • Fort Pickens, the average distance being ing a Redan and Malakhoff of the stomach. Break fast came in due time—not much Persic apparatus about 1 1-3 d mile. The mortar batteries are well to excite the hate of the simple•minded, but a great placed among brushwood, quite out of view of the deal of substantial matter in the shape of fried fort, at distances varying from 2,500 to 2,800 responding nearly with our 10-inch pieces. Several yards, an and the mortars are generally of calibres cor onions, ham, eggs, biscuits, with accompaniments of the gun batteries are put on the level of the of iced water, Bordeaux, and coffee. Our guests were two—a broad farmerlike gentleman, weighing beach; others have more command, and one is par some 16 stone, dressed in a green frieze tunic, with ticularly well placed, c l ose t o th e Whit e Li g hth ouse gold lace and red and scarlet worsted facings, and on a raised plateau whi c h d om i na t es th e sa n dy a felt wideawake, who, as he wiped his manly brow, strip that runs out to Fort M‘Rae. Of the latter I informed me he was a "rifleman." We have some have already Fort Barrancas is an old fort spoken. —I believe of Spanish const ruc ti o n, with a very vo lunteers quite as corpulent, and not more patrio- meagre t race —a plain curtain-face towards the sea, by dry tic, for our farmer was a man of many bales , and in protected a ditch and. an outwork, in which, becoming an officer in his company of braves had however, there are no guns. There is a drawbridge given an unmistakeable proof of devotion to his in the rear of the work, which is a simple paral distant home and property. The other, a quiet, lelogram showing twelve guns mounted en barbette on the sea-face. Th modest, intelligent-looking young man, was an offi- thewalls E are of brick, and sand cer in a different battalion, and talked withsense guns are protected by thick merlons of bags. The sole advantage - of the fort is in its posi about a matter with which sense has seldom any- t i on ; it almost looks down into the casemates of thing to do—l mean uniform. He remarked that in Pickens opposite at its weakest point, and it has a serious action and close, fighting, or in n i g ht a fair command of th e sea entrance, but the guns work, it would be very difficult to p revent serious are weak, and ther e are only which can do much mischief. three pieces mounted While I was looking mistakes, and even disasters , ow in g to the officers rou nd there was an entertaining dispute going on of the Confederate States' troops wearing the same between two mea, whom I believe to have been distinguishing marks of rank and similar uniforms, officers, as to the work t o b e done, and I hear d t h e whenever they can get them , to t hose used in the inferior intimate his pretty b roa d ly h i s conv i ct i on t h a t regular service of the United State s, and that much his chief did not know own business in refe rence to some orders he was conveying. inconvenience will inevitable result from the great The amount of am munition variety and wonderful diversity of the dresses of which I saw did not appear to me to be at all sufficient for one day's the immense number of companies forming the dif- moderate firing, and many of the shot were roughly ferent regiments of volunteers. The only troops cast and had deep flanges from the m ou ld s i n th e ir near us which were attired with a reg ard to sides, very destructive to the guns as well as to accuracy. In the rear of these batteries, among the military exactness were the regiment of Zouaves pine woods and in deep rush, are three irregular from New Orleans. Most of these are French- which, to the best of my belief, could not men or Creoles, some have belonged to contain more than 2,700 men. There are probably the battalions which the Crimea first made 3,000 in and about the batteries, the Navy-yard, and famous, and were present before Sebastopol and in the suburbs, and there are a l so , I am i n f orme d, Italy, the rest are Germans and Irish. Our frie nds 1,500 at Pensacola, but I doubt exceedingly that went off to see them drill, but as a believer in the there are as many as 8,000 men,. all told, of effec enchanting power of distance, I preferred to look tive strength under the command of Gen. Bragg. on at such of the manoeuvres as could be seen from It would be a mistake to despise these Irregulars. the deck. These Zouaves look exceedingly like the One of the Mississippi regiments out in camp was real article. They are, perhaps, a trifle leaner and evidently composed of men who liked campaigning, taller, and are not so well developed at the back of and who looked as though they would like fighting. the head, the heels, and the ancles as their proto- They had no particular uniforms—the remark will types. They are dressed in the same way except often be made—but they had pugnacious physiog that I saw no turban on the fez cap. The jacket, the minks and the physical means of carrying their cummerbund, the baggy red breeches, and the inclinations into effect, and every man of them was, gaiters arc all copies of the original. They are all lam informed, familiar with the use of arms. Their armed with rifle-musket and sword-bayonet, and tents are mostly small and bad, on the ridge pole their pay is at the usual rate of 11 dole., or some- pattern, with side flys to keep off the sun. In some thing like £2 Os. a month, with rations and allow- battalions they observe regularity of line, in others antes. The ofa..ers do their best to be the true they follow individual or company caprice. The " chacal." I was more interested, I confess, in men use green boughs and bowers, as our poor fel watching the mo ti o ns of vast shoals of mullet and lows did in the old hot days in Bulgaria, and many other fi s h, w hi c h fl ew h er e and there, like flocks of of them had benches and seats before their doors, plover, b e f ore th e re d fi s h and other enemies, and and the luxury of boarded floors to sleep upon. darted under our boat, than in examining Zouave There is an embarrassing custom in America, drill. Once, as a large fish came gambolling along scarcely justifiable in any code of good manners, the surface close at hand a great gleam of white which in the South at least is only too common, shot up in the waves beneath, and a boiling whirl and which may be still more general in the North; marked with acrimson pool, which gradually melted at all events, to a stranger it is productive of the 1 off in the tide, showed where a monster shark had annoyance which is experienced by one who is taken down a part of his breakfast. " That's a obliged to inquire whether the behaviour of those ground-sheork," quoth the skipper. "There's quite among those whom he is at the time is inten a many of them about here." Porpoises passed by tional rudeness or conventional want of breeding. in a great hurry for Pensacola, and now and then a For instance, my friend and myself as we are riding turtle showed his dear little head above the enviable along see a gentleman standing near his battery or fluid which he honoured with his presence. Far his tent ,—" Good m orrow, Colonel," or "G enera l" away in the long stretch o f wa t er towards Pensa- (as the case may be), says my friend—" Good cola are six British merchantmen in a state of block- morrow (imagining military rank according to the ado—that is, they have only 15 days to clear out, notion possessed by speaker of the importance of according to the reading of the law adopted by the the position of a general's A.D.O ), Ellis." " Colo- United States' officers. The navy -yard -yarlooks clean nel, &c., allow me to introduce to you Mr. Jones of and neat in the early morning, and away on the London." The Colonel advance s with effusion, o ther side of the channel Fort Pick e n s —t e t err inra holds out his hand, grasps Jones's hand rigidly, casas a—raises its dark front from the white sand and says warmly, as if he had just gained a par and green sward of the glacis, on which a number titular object of his existence, " Mr. Jones, I'm of black objects invite inspection through a teles- very glad to make your acquaintance, sir. Have cope and obligingly resolve themselves into horses you been pretty well since you have been in our turned out to graze on the slope. Fo r t M'Rae, at country, sir," &c. But it is most likely that the the other side of the channel, as if to irritate colonel will just walk away when he pleases, with its neighbour, flings out a flag to the breeze out saying a word to, or taking the least notice which is the counterpart of the " Stars and Stripes" of the aforesaid Jones, as to whose acquaintance that waves from the rival flagstaff, and is at this he had just before expressed such friendly feelings, distance identical to the eye until the glass detects and in whose personal health he had taken so deep the solitary star in its folds instead of the whole an interest; and Jones, till he is accustomed to it, galaxy. On the dazzling snowy margin of sand feels affronted. The fact is that the introduction that separates the trees and brushwood from the means nothing ; you are merely k pea close at hand the outline of the batteriep which names, and if you like you may i m p roTe th e ac, returned to time, and under any circumstances it was not probable that they would be permitted to land, as undoubtedly they were no friends to the garrison or to the cause of the United States. Our skipper opened his eyes and shook his rough head a little when he was ordered to get under way for Fort Pickens, and to anchor off the jetty. Up went the flag of truce to the fore once more, but the ever-watchful sentry, diverted for the time from his superintendence of the men who were fishing at our pier, forbade our departure till the corporal of the guard had given leave, and the corporal of the guard would not let the fair Diana cast off her warp till he had consulted the sergeant of the guard, and so there was some delay occasioned by the necessity for holding an interview with that functionary, who finally permitted the captain to proceed on his way, and with a fair light breeze the schooner fell round into the tideway and glided off towards the fort. We drew up with it rapidly, and soon attracted the notice of the lookout men and some officers who came down to the jetty. We anchored a cable's length from the jetty. In reply to the sentry's hail, the skipper asked for a boat to Rut off for us. " Come off in your own boat.* Skiff of Charon ! But there was no choice. island with its guns it is not possible for the Con federates to effect a lodgment. If Fort M'Rae were strong and heavily armed, it could inflict great damage on Pickens; but it is neither one nor the other, and the United States' officers are con fident that they will speedily render it quite un tenable. The beuches a feu of the fort may be put down at 40, including the available pieces in the casemates, which sweep the ditch and the faces of the curtains. The walls are of the hardest brick, of nine feet thickness in many places, and the crest of the parapets on which the merlons and traverses rest are of turf. From the walls there is a splendid view of the whole position, and I found my com panions were perfectly well acquainted with the strength and locus of the greater part of the enemy's works. Of course I held my peace, but I was amused at their accuracy. " There are the quarters of our friend, Gen. Bragg." "There is one of their best batteries just beside the lighthouse." The tall chimney of the Warrington Navy-yard was smoking away lustily. The Colonel called my attention to it. "Do you see that, sir ? They are casting shot there. The sole reason for their forbearance' is that navy-yard. They knowiwell that if they open a gun upon us we will lay that yard and all the work in ruins." Capt. Vogdes subsequently ex pressed some uneasiness on a point as to which I could have relieved his mind very effectually. He had seen something which led him to apprehend that the Confederates had a strong entrenched camp in the rear of their works. Thereupon I was en abled to perceive that in Capt. Vodges' mind there was a strong intention to land, and carry the enemy's position. Why, otherwise, did you care about an entrenched camp, most excellent engi neer ? But now I may tell you that there is no intrenched camp at all, and that your vigilant eye, sir, merely detected certain very absurd little fur rows which the Confederates have in some places thrown up in the soft sand in front of their camps, which would cover a man up to the knee or stomach, and are quite useless as a breastwork. If they thought a landing probable, it is unpardonable in them to neglect such a protection. These furrows are quite straight, and even if they are deepened the assailants have merely to march round them, as they extend for some only 40 to 50 yards, and have no flanks. The officers of the garriscn are aware the enemy have mortar batteries, but they think the inside of the fort will not be easily hit, and they said nothing to show that they were acquainted with the position of the mortars. 0 From the parapet we descended by a staircase into the casemates. The Confederates are greatly deceived in their expectation that the United States' soldiers will be much exposed to sun or heat in Pickens. More airy, well ventilated quarters cannot be imagined, and there is quite light enough to enable the men to read in most of them. The plague of flies will infest both armies, and is the curse of every camp in summer. As to mosquitoes, the Confederates will probably suffer, if not more, at least as much as the States' troops. The effect of other tormentors, such as yellow fever and dysen tery, will be in all probability impartially felt on both sides ; but, unless the position of the fort is peculiarly unhealthy, the men, who are under no control in respect to their libations, will probably suffer more than those who are restrained by disci pline and restricted to a regular allowance. Water can always be had by digging, and is fit for use if drunk immediately. Vegetables and fresh provi sions are not of course so easily had as on shore, but there is a scarcity of them in both camps, and the supplies from the storeships are very good and certain. The bread baked by the garrison is ex cellent, as I had an opportunity of ascertaining, for I carried off two loaves from the bakehouse on board our schooner. Our walk through the case mates was very interesting. They were crowded with men, most of whom were reading. They were quiet, orderly looking-soldiers—a mixture of old and young—scarcely equal in stature to their oppo nents, but more to be depended upon I should think in a long struggle. Everything seemed well arranged. Those men who were in their beds had mosquito curtains drawn, and were reading or sleeping at their ease. In the casemates used as an hospital there were only 12 men sick out of the whole garrison, and I was much struck by the ab sense of any foul smell and by the cleanliness and neatness of all the arrangements. The Colonel spoke to each of the men kindly, and they appeared glad to see him. The dispensary was as seat as care and elbow grease could make it, and next door to it, in strange juxtaposition, was the laboratory for the manufactory of fuses and deadly implements, in equally good order. Everything is ready for im mediate service. lam inclined to think it will be some time before it is wanted. Assuredly, if the enemy attack Fort Pickens they will meet with a resistance which will probably end in the entire destruction of the Navy-yard and of the greater part of their works. A week's delay will enable Col. Brown to make good some grave defects; but delay is of more advantage to his enemy than it is to him, and if Fort Pickens were made at once the point d' appui for a vigorous offensive movement by the fleet and by a land force, I have very little doubt in my mind that Pensacola must fall, and that General Bragg would be obliged to retire. In a few weeks the attitude of affairs may be very different. The railroad is open to General Bragg, and he can place himself in a much stronger attitude than he now occupies. At last the time came for me to leave. The Colonel and Captain Berry came down to the beach with me. Outside we found Captain Vogdes kindly keeping my friends in conversation and in liquid supplies in the shade of the bakehouse shed, and, after a little more pleasant conversation, we were afloat once more. Probably no living man was ever permitted to visit the camps of two enemies within sight of each other before this under similar cir cumstances, for I was neither spy nor herald, and I owe my best thanks to those who trusted me on both sides so freely and so honourably. A gentle man who preceded me did not fare quite so well. He landed on the island and went up to the Fort, where he represented himself as the correspondent of an American journal. But his account of himself was not deemed satisfactory. He was sent off to the fleet. Presently there came over a flag of truce from General Bragg, with a warrant signed by a Justice of the Peace, for the correspondent on a charge of felony ; but the writ did not run in Fort Pickens. The officers regarded the message as a clever ruse to get back a spy, and the correspondent is still in durance vile or in safety, as the case may be, on board the squadron. All sails filled, the Diana stood up towards the Navy-yard once more in the glare of the setting sun. The sentinels along the battery and beach glared at us with surprise as the schooner, with her flag of truce still flying, ran past them. The pier was swept with the glass for the Mobile gentlemen; they were not visible. " Hallos! Mr. Captain, what's that you're at ?" His mate was waving the Confederate flag from the deck—" It's only a signal, Sir, to the gentlemen on shore." " Wave some other flag, then, while there's a flag of truce flying, and while forw e a s r o e m i e n ttihmeesetwh the tpewaratsetr.arteyckwAwefarteserdc permitted,bee a rs t c e k r tii i nhe n dla g ye ik a cn n eo m d tt heine their- ghd filling eiosiffr_ tance. id A ntu g ht a ee i sm n, tht t h h eey e watery skiff was sent off, and in fw passes, f e anrvme m ertyo shortco m e t o i ff m . Some The They were a, confidential xi o p o e s r s t o o n s t h a a y d . a t in n e. They had seen friends at Pensacola, and were full of praises of " the quaint old Spanish settlement," but mine is, unfortunately, not an excursion of plea sure, and it was imperative that I should not waste time. Everything had been seen that was necessary for my purpose. It was beyond my power to state the reasons which led me think no fight would take place, for doing so would have been to betray con fidence. And so we parted company—they to feast their eyes on a bombardment—and if they only are near enough to see it they will heartly regret their curiosity, or I am mistaken—and we to return to Mobile. It was dark before the Diana was well down off Fort Pickens again, and, as she passed out to sea between it and Fort M'Rae, it was certainly to have been expected that one side or other would bring her to. Certainly our friend Mr. Brown in his clipper Oriental would overhaul us outside, and therheelayal. friendly bottle in a nest of ice waiting strongan from l s a a t n e d ; . tl gal lant p t r s n a m i i o s r e w . hoo Out t a w s e to g t l farewelldkeedinto night of us f odar into the g cool sea breeze, which blew fresh andblack ab g t iaifinavvieeerriynp pressed. j oe na s e s l me o odnaf.kg feo a m BO close to us form of the the north. In the distance the Powhattan could be just distinguishe d; bade out by either h n e ho r t e the sea l lantern was hoisted by myorders, the schooner was clear of the aft for some time after of the squadron could w The wind was not very forts. Still no schooner. ng towards the Powhattan, The somewhere e wwhi wind was to theabs abeam, nis and the e a and Diana ae and favourable for running eye or glass, nor was s O tt r i 1 1: Oriental was it was too late to approach her with perfect confi dencet e schooner waoa csutthat utamahrtn i eee n adlytn. s ew i al g iaaya h nasni sight. kgaoeuypol itdffn, the phrase, s.hsyidea. biscuit"Besid Besides, Theall shore, or w as through her galls, and fie along wasA al Diana to breathe it W th a e s n n nautical u from tc w at an With all the bathos of that remarkable structure it could not go down in such a short row. And if it did ? Well, "there's not a more terrible place for sharks along this coast," the captain had told us incidentally en route. Our own boat was inclined to impartiality in its relation with the water, and took quite as much inside as it could hold, but we soused into it, and the men pulled like Doggett's Badgers, and soon we were out of shark depth and alongside the jetty, where were standing to receive us Mr. Brown, our friend of yesterday, Capt. Vogdes, and Capt. Berry, commanding a United States bat tery inside the fort. The soldiers of the guard were United States regular troops of the Artillery, wore blue uniforms with brass buttons and remarkably ugly slouched felt hats, with an ornament in the shape of two crossed cannon. Captain Vogdes in formed me that Colonel Moore had sent off a reply to my letter to the fleet, stating that he would gladly permit me to go over the fort, but that he could not allow any one else under any circumstances whatever to visit it. My friends were therefore constrained to stay outside, but one of them picked up a friend on the beach and got up an impromptu ride along the island. The way from the jetty to the entrance of the fort is in the universal deep sand of this part of the world ; the distance from the landing-place to the gateway is not much more than 200 yards, and the approach to the portal is quite unprotected. There is a high ramp and glacis on the land side, but the face and part of the curtain in which the gate is are open, as it was not considered likely that it would ever be attacked by Americans. The sharp angle of the bastion on this face is so weak that men are now engaged in throwing up an ex tempore glacis to cover the base of the wall and the casemates from fire. The ditch is very broad, and the scarp and counterscarp are rivetted with brick work. The curvette has been cleared out, and in doing so, as a proof of the agreeable character of the locality, I may observe upwards of 60 rattle snakes were killed by the workmen. An abattis has been made along the edge of this part of the ditch—a rough inclined fence of stakes and boughs of trees. " Yes, Sir ; at one time when those terrible fire-eating gentlemen at the other side were full of threats, and coming to take the place every day, there were only 70 men in this fort, and Lieutenant Slemmer threw up this abattis to delay his assailants, if it were only for a few minutes, and to give his men breathing time to use their small arms." The casemates here are all blinded, and the hospital is situate in the bomb proofs inside. it The gate was closed ; at a talis manic knock was opened, and from the external silence we passed into a scene full of activity and life, through the dark gallery which served at first as a framework to the picture. The parade of the fort was full of men, and at a coup d'ceil it was obvious that great efforts had been made to pre pare Fort Pickens for a desperatt defence. In the parade were several tents of what is called Sibley's pattern, like our bell tents, but without the lower side wall, and provided with a ventilating top, which can be elevated or depressed at pleasure. The parade ground has been judiciously filled with deep holes, like inverted cones, in which shells will be comparatively innocuous; and, warned by Sum ter, everything has been removed which could prove in the least degree combustible. The officer on duty led me straight across to the opposite angle of the fort. As the rear of the casemates and bomb proofs along this side will be exposed to a plunging fire from the opposite side, a very ingenious screen has been constructed by placing useless gun plat forms and parts of carriages at an angle against the wall, and piling them up with sand and earth for several feet in thickness. A passage is thus left between the base of the wall and that of the screen through which a man can walk with ease. Turning into this passage we entered a lofty bomb proof, which was the bed-room of the commanding officer, and passed through into the casemate which serves as his head-quarters. Col. Harvey Brown received me with every expression of politeness and courtesy. He is a tall, spare, soldierly-looking man, with a face indicative of great resolution and energy, as well as of sagacity and kindness, and his at tachment to the Union was probably one of the reasons of his removal from the command of Fort Hamilton, New York, to the charge of this very important fort. He has been long in the service, and he belonged to the first class of graduates who passed at West Point after its establishment in 1818. After a short and very interesting conver sation, be proceeded to show me the works, and we mounted upon the parapet, accompanied by Captain Berry, and went over all the defences. Fort Pickens has a regular bastio ned trace, in out line an oblique and rather narrow parallelogram, with the obtuse angles facing the sea at one side and the land at the other. The acute angle, at which the bastion towards the enemy's batteries is situate, is the weakest part of the work ; but it was built for sea defence, as I have already observed, and the trace was prolonged to obtain the greatest amount of fire on the sea approaches. The crest of the parapet. is covered with very solid and well made merlons of heavy sandbags, but one face, and the gorge of the bastion, are exposed to an enfilading fire from Fort M'Rae, which the Colonel said he intended to guard against if he got time. Ali the guns seemed in good order, the carriages being well constructed, but they are mostly of what are considered small calibres now-a-days, being 32- pounders, with some 42-pounders and 24-pounders. There are, however, four heavy Columbiads, which command the enemy's works on several points very completely. It struck me that the bastion guns were rather crowded. But, even in its present state, the defensive preparations are most credit able to the officers, who have had only three weeks to do the immense amount of work before us. The brick copings have been removed from the parapets, and strong sandbag traverses have been co ns t r ucted , to cover the gunners, in addit ion to the " rat-holes ' at the bastions. More heavy guns are expected, which, with the aid of a fewmore mortars will enable the garrison to hold their own against everY - 11 9 i i i i n g g a fi b u t t h a e regularo covers t o il % t i e ta l r a o n yf d suieda of the 1 4 •1%.1i . t fiA t '. l7 , , ...;PW 4744 onishing rate through the phosphorescent watelvijl 9 with a prow of flame and a bubbling waked (lancing meteor-like streams flowing from her helm, as though it were a furnace whence boiled a stream of liquid metal. "No sign of the Oriental on our Ice how ?" " Nothin' at all in. sight, sir." The sharks and huge rays flew off from the shore as we passed, and darted out seawards, marking their runs in brilliant trails of light. On sped the Diana, but no Oriental came in sight. I was tired. The sun had been very hot ; the ride through the batteries, the visits to quarters, the ex ettrE4ion +. l ): , _ , kens had found out my weak places, 4;, nead was aching and legs fatigued, and so 1 thought I would turn in for a short time, and I dived into the shades below, where my comrades were already sleeping, and kicking off my boots lapsed into a state which rendered me indifferent to the attentions no doubt lavished upon me by the numerous little familiars who recreate in the well peopled timbers. It never entered into my head, even my dreams, that the captain would break the blockade if be could—particularly as his papers had not been endorsed, and the penalties would be sharp and sure if he were caught. lint the confi dence of coasting captains in the extraordinary capabilities of their craft is a madness—a halluci nation so strong that no danger or risk will pre vent their acting upon it whenever they can. I was assured once by the " captain" of a 13illybov," that he could run to windward of any frigate in her Majesty's service, and there is not a skipper from Hartlepool to Whitstable who does not believe his own "Mary Ann," or " Three Grandmothers," is, on certain" pints," able to bump her fat bows and scuttle-shaped stern faster through the seas than any clipper which ever flew a pendant. I had been. some two hours and a-half asleep when I was awakened by a whispering in the little cabin. Charley, the negro cook, ague-stricken with terror, was leaning over the bed, and in broken French was chattering through his teeth, " Monsieu, Mon sieu, nous sommes perdus ! The bateman de guerre nous poursuit. Il n'a pas encore tire. va tirer bientot ! Oh mon Dieu! mon Dieu!" Through the hatchway I could see the skipper was at the helm, glancing anxiously from the compass to the quivering reef points of his mainsail. "What's all this we hear, captain ?" " Well, Sir, there's been somethin' a runnin' after us these two hours" (wry slowly). But I don't think he'll keech w up no how tide time." " But, good heavens, you know, it may be the Oriental, with Mr. Brown on board." "An wall—may bee. But he kep quite close up on me in the dark—it gev me quite a stark when I seen him. May be, says I, he's a privateerin' chap, and so I draws in on shore close as I cud,—gets mee centre-board in, and, says I, I'll see what yer med of, mee boy. He an't a gaining much on us." I looked, and sur e e nou gh, ab ou t half or three-quar ters of a mile astern, and somewhat to leeward of us, a vessel, with sails and hull all blended into rt. black lump, was standing on in pursuit. I strained my eyes and furbished up the glasses, but I could make out nothing definite. The skipper held grimly on. The shore was so close we could have almost leaped into the surf, for the Diana, when her centre-board is up, does not draw much over four feet. " Captain, I think you had better shako your wind, and see who he is. It may be Mr. Brown." " Meester Brown or no I can't help car rine on now. I'd be on the bank outside in a minit if I didn't hold my course." The captain had his own way; he argued that if it was the Oriental she would have fired a blank gun long ago to bring us to ; and as to not calling us when the sail was discovered he took up the general line of the cruelty of disturbing people when they're asleep. Ah ! captain, you knew well it was Mr. Brown, as you let out when we were safe off Fort Morgan. By keeping so close in shore in shoal water the Diana. was enabled to creep along to windward of th e stranger, who evide n tly was deeper than ourselves. See there ! Her sails shiver ! so one of the Crew says; she's struck ! But she's off again, midis after us. We are just within range, and one's eye become quite blinky, watching for the flash from the bow, but, whether privateer or United States schooner she was too magnanimous to fire. A stern c h ase i s a l ong chase. It must now be somewhere about 2in the morning. Nearer and nearer to shore creeps the Diana. " I'll lead him into a pretty mess, who ever he is, if he tries to follow me through the Swash," grins the skipper. The Swash is a very shallow, narrow, and dangerous passage into Mobile Bay, between the sand-banks on the east of the main channel and the shore. Our pursuer holds on, but gains nothing. The Diana is now only some nine or ten miles from Fort Morgan, guarding the en trance to Mobile. Soon an uneasy dancing motion welcomes her approach to the Swash. " Take a cast of the lead, John ! " Nine feet." " Good ! Again !" " Seven feet." " Good—Charley, bring the lantern." (Oh, Charley, why did that lantern go out just as it was wanted, and not only expose us to the most remarkable amount of " cussin," im precation, and strange oaths our ears ever heard, but expose our lives and your head to more immi nent danger ?) But so it was, just at the critical juncture when a turn of the helm port or starboard. made the difference perhaps between life and death, light after light went out, and the captain went dancing mad after intervals of deadly calmness as the mate sang out, " Five feet and a-half! seven feet—six feet—eight feet—five feet—four and a-half feet (oh Lord!)—six feet," and so on, through a. measurement of death by inches, not at all agree able. And where was Mr. Brown all this time? Really we were so much interested in the state of the lead-line, and in the very peculiar behaviour of the lanterns, which would not burn, that we scarcely cared much when we heard from the odd hand and Charley that she had put about, after running aground once or twice, they thought, as soon as we entered the Swash, and had vanished rapidly in the darkness. It was little short of a miracle that we got past the elbow, for just at the critical moment, in a channel not more than 100 yards broad, with only six feet water, the binnacle light, which had burned steadily for a minute, sank with a sputter into black night. When the passage was accomplished the captain relieved his mind by chasing Charley into a corner, and with a shark, which he held by the tail, as the first weapon that came to hand, inflicting on him condign punishment, and then returning to the helm. Charley, however, knew his master, for he slyly seized the shark and flung his defunct corpse overboard before another fit of passion came on, and by the morning the skipper was good friends with him, after he had relieved himself by a series of castigations of the negligent lamplighter with every variety of Rhadamanthine implement. The Diana had thus distinguished her dirty little person by breaking a blockade and giving an excel lent friend of ours a great deal of trouble (if it was indeed Mr. Brown), as well as giving us a very unenviable character for want of hospitality and. courtesy ; and for both I beg to apologise with this account of the transaction. But she had a still greater triumph. As she approached Fort Morgan all was silence. The morning was just showing a grey streak in the east. " Why, they're all asleep at the fort," observed the indomitable captain, and. regardless of guns or sentries down went his helm, and away the Diana thumped into Mobile Bay, and stole off in the darkness towards the opposite shore. There was, however, a miserable day before us. When the light fairly broke we had got only a few miles inside, a stiff northerly wind blew right in our teeth, and the whole of the blessed day we spent tacking backwards and forwards between one low shore and another low shore, in water the colour of peasoup, so that temper and patience were ex hausted, and we were reduced to such a state that we took intense pleasure in meeting with a drown ing alligator. He was a nice-looking young fellow, about 10 feet long, and had evidently lost his way, and was going out to sea bodily, but it would have been the height of cruelty to take him on passed board our ship, miserable as he was, though he within two yards of us. There was, t o be sure, the pleasure of seeing Mobile in every lump and Ina a ssible view, far and near, and east and west, he and more than our d any run out, but it was not relished a very gamy Bologna dinner, which consisted of °decided whether he would. sausage, pig who had not cook. At sin the even be pork or bacon, and °onions fried in a terrible pre paration of Charley, the g been nearly 14 hours beating were landed at an outlying ing, however, havin g about 27 miles, w ed off for the Battle House and are filled with wharf, and m l wi the usual rub-a -g . ands, an parades of rest. The streetsb dub- companies dubbin o f the citizens in grotesque garments and arma ment, all looking full of fight and secession. I write my name in the hotel book at the bar as usual. Instantly young Vigilance Committee, who has been resting his heels high in the air, with one e ye on the staircase and the other on the end of his cigar, stalks forth and reads my style and title, and of slapping I have the satisfaction the door in his face as he san-aters after me to my room, and looks curiously in to see how a man takes off his boots. They nre all very anxious in the evening to know what, 1 think about Pickens and Pensacola, and I am pleased to tell the citizens I think it will be a vary tough affair on both sides whenever it comes. I proceed to New Orleans on Monday. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD.--• The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the week ending Juno was 2,605, of which 771 were new cases. The "Antiquary " would have stoutly maintained the im possibility of a message being received in Landon within a few minutes of its being written in Edinboro'. But it is un deniable. Equally so is the fact of grey hair being restored to its natural colour, and neuralgia and nel TOW headache cured by Herring's magnetic brushes and combs. Recent improvements have made them almost ini fallible. N•n• - : Counterfeits are Doing made. Caws, 32, Bo ,ainghall-str ee " London.