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GRRAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —^ REAP Excu sioN to BATH and BRISTOL.— On SA OA Y, A uo - ust 24, a TRA IN Will leave Paddingtonat A. 20 p .m., and Reading at 7.25 m., for CHIPPENHAM and BATH (12s. an d 6 9. ) , and BRI-TOL . (14s. and 75.), re turning ft on' B 1 istol on Monday, Aug. 26, at 5.30 p.m., and other stations, as per bills. CIRFAT WESTERN RAILWAY. ‘ A TWELVE DAYS' EXCURSION t 3 the WEST of ENGLAND. - On MONDAY, August 26, an Excursion Train will leave PADDINGTON at 8 a.m., and Reading at 9 a.m., for Weston-super-mare, Highbridze, Bridgewater, Taunton, Tiverton, Exeter, Barnstaple, Bideford, Starcro=s, Dawlish, Teignmouth, Newton, Torquay, Paiguton, Rrixham-road (for Dartmouth), Totnes, Kingsbridge-road, and Plymouth ; r eturning on Saturday. September 7, from Plymouth, Passengers will be booked by this Train to Truro, Pen zance, and other stations on the Cornwall railways, proceed -141E,' from Plymouth on the followinc , day, and returning to rinnouth on September 6. For fares and full particulars s ee bandb , lls. The Plymouth Races will take place on the Pth and 30th August, and Exeter Races on the 3d Septem ber. PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery made in a cause "DE BROC DE LA TU LEY 'ERE v. DAWSON," the Creditors of George •owland Ju inshull, late of Aston Clinton, in the county of Bucks, and of Bentioil-street, Cavendish-square, in the county of Mid • dlesex, Esquire, who died in or about the month of July, 1810 , are, hy their Sorcitors. 311 or before the 4th day of No vember, 861, to come in and prove their Debts at the Cham bers of the Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, No. 3, Stone-build incrs, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex ; or, in default thereof, they mill be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Tuesday, the 12th day of November, 1811, at 12 o'clock at n ; 01 1 at the said Cuambers, is appointed for hearing and a djudicating upon the claims. CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk. CLARKE, GRAY, and WOODCOCK, 20, Lincoln's-inn-fields, W.C.. Plaintiff's Solicitor. NORWICH UNION LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY. Instituted 1808. SECRETARY—Sir Samuel Bignold. The whole of the profits divided with the assured. Ample security offered by an accumulated Capit , 1 of £ 2 ,000,000. One-half of the first five annual premiums may remain as 3 Permanent charge upon policies granted for the whole du ration of life. The income of the Society is upwards of £237,000. The amount insured is upwards of £5,078,000. Sinee its commencement 32,7 , 0 policies have been issued, and £5,666,555 paid to the representatives of 6,854 deceased Members. The bonuses may be applied at the opti3n of the assured as follows : As a. bonus added to the policy. or the amount may be re eeived at once—that is, its cash value—or it may be applied In reduction of the future annual premium. The rates of premium are lower than those of some offices by nearly 10 per cent., a benefit itself equivalent to an annual bonus. For prospectuses apply at' the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, Blackfriars, London. R OYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES — Lombard-street, London ; and Royal. Insurance Buildings, Liverpool. Branch Offices—Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin. EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1860. The success of the Company, e en in its earliest years, received the marked atten ion, and elicited the surprised coy ments, of writers best acquainted with the history of In surance Companies. "Mire Premiums for 1860 EQUAL the Total Fire Premiums for the SEVEN YEARS 1845 to 1851. "Life Premiums for 1860 I , XC ED the Entire Life Pre miums for the EIGHT Y ARS ending 1852. "Purcha e of Annuities in IQ6O LARGELY EXCEEDS the similar receipt= for the first TEN YEARS, 1845 to 1854. "This progress, it is believed, is unsurpassed, considering lhat it applies to each of the three branches of the business." ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Hay ma‘ ket, will RE-OPEN for the Season on SATUR DAY, • 4th August, under the direction of Mons. BOULCOURT, principal Cornet-a-piston and Conductor. The music will be selected from Verdi, bleyerbeer, Rossini, Flotow, Balfe, and other eminent Composers. During tne recess these well known Rooms have been entirely RE-DECORATED and I WPROvED by Messrs. H. T. SMITH and assistants. The new Chandeliers by M. Benjamin. Admission, One Shilling. —All the new Music to be had at the Office, No. 7, Great Windmill-street. NATTONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High Holborn.— This brilliant and favourite Ball Room IS N. )W OPENED FOR THE SEASON. During the recess the entire building has been re-decorated, and many impor ant additions and alterations effected conducive to the comfort of the visitors. The celebrated Band, under the able direction of Mr. W. 117. Packer, will perform Over tures and Selections from the latest Operas, &c., with the newest and cho test dan e music. New Selections from the Rose of Ca4ille, Der Frieschutz, Robin Hood, Un Ballo in 11fa , •chera, La Heine Top ,z. La Circassienne (never per fbrmed in England), La Sanciniere, Redowa, New Champagne Galop, &c.—Doors open at half-past B.—Admission, is. FIRE BRANCH. " The Fire Branch has certain y shown no exhaustion dim ing the year 1860 of that impetus which had previously brought it to a position of the first magnitude among the Insurance Companies of the United Kingdom. '1 he Fire premiums In 1859 had advanced to the sum of £2'8,314 7s. 3d. . 1859 the amount of Fire Premiums has arrived at a sum of t 2 2,977 19W. 11d., showing an increase of £34,663 12s. Bd., ex ceeding the large advance of the preceding year, so that in two years the - Fire Revenue of the Company has been en- In need by the enormous sum of £66,829 17s. sd. "The Parliamentary Report of Returns of Duty paid to Government for the year 1860 exhibits the augmentation of the business in a more prominea t way, as it affords the means of comparison with otoer Companies. The Proprietors will be gratified to learn that the increase of Duty paid by the Royal in the last year is more than double that of any other Co't pang, either London or Provincial, whilst only one of those Companies even approaches to 50 per cent. of the ad vance of this Comp ny. Our increase actually equals 30 per cent. of the entire increase of the whol •of he 3litropolitan Offices combined, whilst of the Provincial Offices it forms up wards of 30 per cent. of the total advance of the other 2.f: offices established out of London, LIFE BRANCH. "The Reports of the Company for several years have had invariably to announce a constant periodical expansion of its Life Business, the New Policies of each succeeding year show ing an advance over the one that had immediately preceded it. A similar result is shown in the year 1860, the Premiums on New Policies, after deducting Guarantees, be ng £15,097 17s, led., wh ch is an increase on that item of £1,993 17s. sd. above the am••unt received for the year 1859. "But even this advance is small when compared with the sudden and remarkable momentum which has been given to this Branch of the Business in the present year (18611. " It was not until the commencement of the year that the Public seemed to have become fully acquainted with the fact th t the Royal Insurance Com^any had published late in the last year an account of the investigation into the Assets and Liabilities of its Life Department, under a nuvel form, and in as plain and intellifrible a manner as the abstruseness of the subject admitted, together with the entire statements and valuations necessary for that purpose. " It is conjectured from the extensive Notices of this Pam- Phiet and its accompanying Diagrams, which have appeared in the Periodicals of the day, that it has largely attracted the attention of vast numbers f Persona in all parts of the United Kingdom, as well as in other parts of the World. Indeed a most satisfactory and conclusive evidence that such is the case Is afforded by the fact that the sum Assured on New Policies in the six months to the 3d June of the present year is ac tually 50 per cent. in excess of the sum assured in the corres ponding months of the year 1860, although the latter amount in if self exceeded the sum assured in any like previous period of time "lithis success be continued, the Royal Insurance Cam- Pany would, with respect to the amount of its new business, be at once placed (at least with one or two exceptions) at the head of all the Insurance Companies doinz business in this Country, and the anticipations of the last Report, to the .Pffect that the details of the Lire Business then to be pub lished would form an epoch of the Establishment, will have a speedy and very happy realisation." SPECIAL ADVANTAGES OF THE LIFE BRANCH. PROFITS.—Large nroportton Returned every Five Years to Policies then in existence Two ENTIRE YEARS , Expenses chiefly born • by the Fire Branch, in order to Increase the Bonus to be Returned. LIFE BONUSES DECLARED, Two per Cent. per Annum on the Sum Assured : THE GREATEST BONUS EVER CONTINUOUSLY DECLARED BY ANY COMPANY. SECURITY FOR BOTH FIRE AND LIFE BRANCHES CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS Sterling. Accumulated Funds in hand exceed £BlO,OOO. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1821. DIRECTORS. HENRY VIGNE, Esq., Chairman. Sir MINTO T. FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Deputy Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., John Labouchere, Esq. Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Charles F. Devas. Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. James TuHoch, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. John Henry Smith, Esq. Cornelius Payne, jun., Esq. Thomas Tallemach, Esq., Secretary.—Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER TUE PROVISIONS or AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In surers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial I►ivisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £160,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary _Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existimr. Bonuses thereon, amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund exceeded £1,618,000. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No -Extra Premium is required for service therein. INVALID LIVES assured at corresponding Extra Pre miums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their r a lucs, if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re solved and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge or Policy Stamps. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every description of property at moderate rates. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company. GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. -HENRY SMITH. M.D., of the University of Jena, 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 1 0 Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &e., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health End vig-our. The book will sent, post free, secure from ob Fervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITE!, M.D., 8, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE.- ALL CONSULTATIONS FREE. ARTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW and tIM PROVED PRINCIPLE, at TEN SHILLINGS EACH TOOTH (including all char.-es.) 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Just Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price le., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 1 2 stamps, 110 ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of' PRE -71 MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological structure and Functicns of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER 11.--Causes of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence; ki: &rlv Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER Review of the various Disqualifications of Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Pollies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of ecnorrhcca and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting v ases, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive _Lotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.--This is a truly va luable work, and Ahoul4 be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," karch, 1856. "The a u th or h as con f erre d a g reat boon by p u blishing this little w or k , in which is described the source of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," March 27,1858. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of Professional criticism and empiric.al hostility, treats in aplain and sympathising m ann e r on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de • 'bility ; and to invalids suffering from youthful errors and c'xcessea it Nil' be found valuable and useful."—Record. London: Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, rater -401,46 „4 noster - row; Mann. 39, Cornhili" CQUOultation-10 tg 3 and 6 10 8 ; slllldayS, i 0 till 2, RIIPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. 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Synopsis: The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation —The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. I so, an Exposition of. and Remedy for, all Urinsry Derange m ^nts and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennorrhagia ,lionorrhoca), Spermatorrhcea, Impotency, and all Diseases of 'be Urinary Organs, with Prescriptims, FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women—Functional Ir re ;clarifies in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage— T neir Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and Removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2. LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Cher Obligations, happiness, and Disappointments; Love rd other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy Off vring secured.' No. L THE CASE BOOK: 190 Cases of SPERMATORKEICEA, l'Oelr Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confession and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, Sze. are. fro be had of Mann, 39, Cornhili ; and the Authors. Advice to the Worlrina Classes t ee H a ll- a -Guinea. (SPECIAL NOTICE.) Dr. Culverwell is the only legally qualified medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be columned (only as above). N°_ 21,571. PUBLICATIONS. CAPTAIN MAYNE REID'S NEW NOVEL. On Friday, Aug. 23, in 3 vols., A HERO IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. By Capt. MAYNE REID, Author of "The Scalp Hunters," &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Mariborough• street. Now ready, in 2 vols., with Portraits, 215., bound, THE SECRET HIS WRY OF THE COURT OF FRANCE UNDER LOUIS XP. Edited, from rare and unpublished Documents, by Dr. CHALLICE. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. THE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " 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 exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Bent and Co., late Piper and Co.. Paternoster-row. Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 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. " 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 their management is founded. By his systematic management an 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. London: H. HaiMere, 219, Regent-street RADICAL CURES BY ELECTRICITY. Just published, Bvo., of 300 pages, price ls. 6d., FIXTRACTS FROM DR. CAPLIN'S CASE -1 BOOK. Containing the Demonstration of his System in Opposition to the Übual Mode of Practice, with the Ra tionale of Fifty-six Cases.--Th be had at H. Bailliere's, 219, Recent-street, and at the Author's Electro-Chemical Bath Establishment, 9, fork-place, Baker-street, London. R dYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—Her Majesty the QUEEN. President—His Grace thethikeof Buccleuch, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This Hospital relieves distress in its most helpless shape, that of disease aggravated by destitution. With more ade quate funds the Wee4ly Board could make immediately avail able 500 beds for the relief of the large mass of suffering in this metropolis. Its present resources, supplied entirely by the Voluntary Contributions of the Public. enable it to afford, in addition to its in-patients, effe^tive Medical Assistance to an average exceeding 2,000 Out-patients weekly. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.;• Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at the Hospital. J. B. OWEN, .M.A„ Chairman of the Weekly Board. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST SALE. CUSTOM HOUSE, London, August, 1861. FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the COMMERCIAL SALE ROOMS, Mincing-lane, on WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21st, 1861, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, the following GOODS, for the Benefit of the Crown, viz.:--- BRANDY, RUM, and WINE. The above goods may be viewed by sample at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames-street ; and at the Lon don, West India, and Victoria Docks ; on Tuesday, August 2uth, 1861, from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the day of Sale, from ten o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock at noon— the tasting, as regar is the Queen's warehouse, being restricted to the day of sale. Take notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be de livered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Re ceiver-General after two o'clock in the afternoon. Catalocrues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames-street, price 3d. each. CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS. ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, 17th Aug., 1861. THE Right Honourable the LORDS and OTHERS, COMMISSIONERS of this HOSPITAL, Do Hereby Give Notice, That they are ready to receive TENDERS from and to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for Victualling the In-Pensioners of the said Hospital, from the Ist of October, 1861, to the 30th of September, 1562, both days inclusive, with the following Articles of PROVISIONS, ac., viz. : Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or Rice, Pepper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea. Sugar, Milk, Onions or Leeks, Carrot. Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savoury and Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the whole ration, according to the established allowances of the House, as specified in the form of Tender, which may be ob taine r at the office of the Secretary any day, between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock, which tender must be filled up and delivered, sealed, at the Board Room of the said Hospital, by the party or parties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their behalf, on TUESDAY, the 3d of September, at 12 o'clock, at which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the same into consideration. It is to be observed that the Contractor will be required to find security to the Crown for the due performance of the contract, and that no tender will be received after the day and hour above mentioned. The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest tender. A. J. MOORHEAD, Secretary and Registrar. „' ~. " ,~': . . ...., .:.--. . . 4 _..—. 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Dr. Maguire, Canon Theologian,at St. Patrick's Catholic Chapel, Sutton street, Soho-square, for the repose of the soul of Prince Adam Czartorvski, who died, at the Chateau Montfermeil, near Paris, on the 15th of last month. A superb catafalque was erected in the middle of the chapel, and ornamented with the arms of the Prince, on which appeared the Polish motto, " Come what may." The service was attended by a large number of Polish exiles, and the chapel was filled with other persons, friends of the Polish cause, generally attired in black. Later in the day a meeting of the Polish His- torical Society (of which the lamented Prince was a patron) was held at Sussex Chambers, Duke-street, St. James's. In the absence from London of Colonel Szyrma, the President, the chair was occupied by the Vice-President, Major Szulczewski, who thus addressed his countrymen : But a few years ago we met in this very place to pay the last tribute of gratitude to the memory of the most generous friend Poland ever possessed, the lamentel Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart; to-day we are assembled to deplore in com mon the loss of a fellow exile and a most illustrious coun tryman, Prince Adam Czartoryski, who departed this life on the 15th of July last, at the Chateau de INlontfermeil, near Paris, in the ninety-second year of his age. Words are unequal to describe the feelings with which I address you on this occasion. The affectionate sorrow of a son blends in my heart with the grief of the patriot; for it is not only a great statesman we have lost, who was the mainstay of our cause, who lent it dignity in the eyes of the world, who represented, as it were, its entire history, but a patriarch around whom we used to gather to listen to the words of wisdom that dropped from his lips— a fatherly friend, whose heart was ever open to the griefs of others, and whose sympathy was never barren. However, the juncture at which our revered chief has been called away from among us is so significant, that it gives the blessed hope that the object for which he laboured during his long life has been consummated, that the faithful servant has been allowed to go to rest, because his work can, and will, now be finished by others. The career of Prince Adam Czartoryski represents the history of Poland during the last 73 years. The first time he entered upon public life, it was to take up arms in de fence of the constitution of May 3, 1791, by framing which the Poles gave such striking evidence of their power of self reform, that their spoliators, who had planned their ulti mate destruction, strained every nerve to complete it ; feel ing that if this constitution were once firmly established in the country, the Polish nation, rescued from those dissen sions which, growing out of its former most defective orga nisation, had placed it at the mercy of its enemies, would soon become strong enough to defy all their efforts. And now, when having attained an age far beyond that generally allotted to man—when, after a career of honour and useful ness, chequered by much sorrow, much bitter disappoint ment, but unsullied by a single stain, he passes away from us, it is at the very moment when Poland, after long years of silence and apparent death, has once more arisen, and proclaimed by the voice of the people at home, not only by that of the emigration, that her vitality is not extinct, that her nationality is not absorbed, that she still looks to a future of liberty and independence, and at the mo ment when her name is once more heard and her rights re-asserted in the councils of Europe. In the interval between the two epochs to which I have just alluded Prince Adam Czartoryski's name was not only mixed up with every effort that was made to keep alive the nationality of the Poles and for the restoration of our country, but he was the chief promoter of whatever was accomplished in that direction. The family of Prince Adam was descended from a younger branch of the lagelions, Dukes of Lithuania and afterwards Kings of Poland. The name of the Czartoryskis is of fre quent occurrence in the history of Poland, in the 15th and 16th centuries more especially in connection with the efforts that eventually resulted in the incorporation of Ruthenia and Lithuania with Poland, and in the 18th century with labours greater even than these, and which, carried out by them with unrelenting perseverance from generation to generation, have been denominated in Polish history " The system of the Czartoryskis." The ends which this system held in view were, as we all know, externally to identity the interests of Poland with the interests of Western Europe generally, and internally to spread enlightenment by the encouragement of education and the development of industry and commerce ; gradually to affranchise the peasantry and to make them proprietors of the soil they occupied ; to establish religious equality, to reduce the undue power of the aristocracy, to encourage the growth of a middle class, and while maintaining the representative form of government and other free institu tions, which the nation had always possessed, to eradicate from these the elements of licence, such as the liberurn veto and the custom of electing kings, and to transform the State from an elective into a constitutional monarchy. The consummation of this system was the Constitution of 3d May, which Prince Adam Czartoryski was called to deli berate upon in the famous diet of 1788, on his first entrance into public life, and in defence of which he subsequently shed his blood. But, although our country was doomed, and with it perished the Constitution of the 3d May, the addrees to their fellow-countrymen recently issued by the inhabitants of Warsaw, proves to demonstration that the system of the Czartoryskis has not to this day been aban doned. - - Having been forced by circumstances after the final par tition of his country to enter the service of Russia, we know how Prince Adam Czartoryski availed himself of the ascendancy he gained over the Emperor Alexander's mind, to inspire that monarch with friendly feelings and generous intentions towards the Poles, and how, while awaiting an opportunity for realising those intentions, the Prince, following out the traditionary policy of his family, sowed the seeds of good citizenship among the inhabitants of the Polish provinces which had fallen to the share of Russia, by means of the national educational institutions which, as Director of Public Instruction, he founded and prom ted among them. And when England, Russia, and A us tria, determined to make a vigorous effort to stap a th ll e ia u n s o u e rp w a h t i i e o h ns le o d f t t h o e t F he re w n a ch r o c f on l q B u os er , o p r, ri e n n o t e er e e z d ar toy into rs t ki7 h . e in his capacity of Foreign Minister of Russia, conceived the bold idea of connecting the glory of the Emperor Alex ra e n e d t e o r r , a t t i o o n w h a n o m d f h a e t r w e e d w a e affection of and g o m w t i n t u;l o e n n , tr with . t A h e t that decisive crisis the tortaous and vacillating policy of Prussia for a long time refused to the Russian armies a passage through her territories, and, seizing this opportu nity, Prince Czartoryski proposed to the Emperor Alexan der to deal a decisive blow against Prussia by im mediately proclaiming the restoration of Poland, as suming the title of King of that country, and rousing an insurrection in the Polish provinces which, at the par tition, had fallen to the lot of Prussia. The project was approved, and overtures were made to Prince Joseph • Poniatowski, then residing in Warsaw, which at that time was held by Prussia. Poniatowski acceded, and pro mised co-operation, while the Russian army was marching to the rescue of Vienna ; but the indecision of Alexander, together with the intrigues of some members of his cabi net, frustrated the design. The disasters of Austerlitz completed the destruction of the hopes thus raised in the Poles; but the efforts of Prince Czartoryski, nevertheless, bore fruits, for they undoabtedly served to point out to Napoleon the advantages to be derived, for his own policy, from this idea of the recon struction of an independent Polish state ; and, in conse quence, shortly afterward Europe heard the name of Poland pronounced again, for the first time, since the last partition. Prince Adam Czartoryski, however, retired from the conflict in 1806, as soon as a provisional govern ment was established in Warsaw under the auspices of Napoleon. Resigning his portfolio of Foreign Affairs in spite of the Emperor Alexander's urgent entreaties, but retaining his post as Director of Public Instruction in the Polish provinces, comprising eight mil lions of Poles, he thenceforward devoted himself exclusively to the promotion of education among these, the conflicting feelings and duties which bound him to Alexander as well as to his country having forced him to remain neutral even during the great struggle of 1812, when his countrymen in the armies of Napoleon were fighting for the restoration of Poland. After the struggle was over, however, and Alex ander having defeated Napoleon, had become again the arbiter of the fate of the Poles, Prince Czartoryski reaped the reward of the painful neutrality he had imposed upon himself ; for, re-entering then the councils of Alexander, he resumed the plan of inducing that monarch to gather toge ther under his sceptre, and to restore to a certain degree of political independence, the dissevered members of Poland. Accompanying the Emperor to the Congress of Vienna, though in a non-official character, he there also made him self the advocate of the rights of his country ; and although the jealous distrust of Alexander entertained by the other European Powers, prevented Prince Czar toryski's projects from being accomplished, he never theless succeeded in establishing, through the mediation of Alexander, over whose mind he continued to exercise great influence, a kind of moral unity among the Poles by the national and representative institutions secured by the Congress to the Polish provinces of the three partitioning Powers ; by the p er f ect lib erty o f commerce an d naviga tion established th roug h out all the d i s j o i nte d parts of ancient Poland; by the erection of the Duchy of Warsaw, constituted by Napoleon into an independent kingdom, under the sovereignty of Alexander ; and by the erection of the city of Cracow (the anci en t ca pit a l o f Poland) and its territories into anindependent republic. Unfortunately for us, however, Alexande r ' s c h arac t er was as wea k an d vacillating as it was open to generous impulses, and no sooner had he signed the ac t o f C ongress that guaranteed to the kingdom a separ a t e nat i onal and representative administration, than he began a series of retrograde steps towards the former oppres s i ve system o f government, for the introduction of which he f oun d b ut too willing instru ments in his brother Constantine and his Minister Novo siltzoff, two men whose very names f reeze th e bl oo d o f every Pole, and whoseaatrocitieshave earned for them the execra tion of every civilised nation. Hackneyed as is the subject of the deliberations during the Congress of Vienna, the mem o i rs w hi ch Prince Czar toryski leaves behind him aro, nevertheless, destined, if ever given to the world, which we trust they may be, to throw new light upon maw' of the transactions during that famous meeting of Sovereigns. Again Prince Czartoryski exerted hi mse lf as me di ator b e t we en the nation and the Government, an d i n a ser i es o f le tt ers , which, if ever given to the world, will still further enhance the fame of the revered chief whom we have just lost, he placed before the Emperor the abuses and excesses of which the unhappy country had become the theatre. But finding that these truths fell on listless ears, he severed for ever the ties which bowl hin2 to Alexander i awl re signing his seat in the Executive Council, thenceforward took part in public life only as a member of the Senate, in which he defended the rights of his country with fearless zeal, and continued his exertions is favour of national edu cation, in whichdirection he was so successful that the ruffianly Novosiitzoff declared thst he had retarded for a century the amalg onation of Poland with Russia. How - ever, dispairing of effectinc , any amelioration in the unhappy condition of things which the change in Alexander's feel ings and the ruthless disposition of his brother had intro duced, Prince Czartoryski soon withdrew entirely into pri vate life, and for a considerable period devoted himself ex clusively to those literary studies which had ever been his solace and delight, and to which he owed the rich stores of knowledge which excited the admiration of all those who knew him intimately. _ _ _ The prosecutions commenced against a number of Poles in 1825 in connection with the disturbances in Russia, which immediately preceded the accession of Nicholas, once more called Prince Czartoryski back into the arena of pub lic life. Hastening from Italy, where he was then staying, to take his seat in the Senate, convoked to deliberate on the fate of the political prisoners E443cused of high treason, he proved himself during the yeatof the trial the soul of that assembly, which distinguisheititself by the independence and moderation of its deliberations, and the dignity with which it vindicated the constitutional rights of the nation. The report drawn up on this occasion by Prince Czarto ryski, and addressed to the Emperor as King of Poland, would in itself have sufficed to secure to the Prince the attachment and esteem of his fellow-citizens ; but the sen timents of confidence and affection with which he was looked up to were further increased by the speech which, very soon after, he delivered at the grave of the venerable Count Bielinski, the President of the Senate, and in which he gave such full expression, though in veiled and guarded terms, to the hopes and feelings that pervaded the nation, that he was at once pointed out as one of the probable leaders of the insurrection, the approach of which was indicated by many unmistakeable signs. What that insurrection was, and what its results, we all know but too well. Polish valour once more shone forth in all its brilliancy, and once more succumbed to overwhelm ing numbers, but also, in some measure, to that want of union which, on so mamr,Epsvious occasions, had proved the bane of the nation. Mance Czartoryski, though dis approving the premature outbreak, at once submitted to the will of the people and assumed his share in the heavy responsibilities of the Government, thus lending to the movement the immense moral support of his name and posi tion ; but though seeing the necessity for the moment of the concentration of power in the hands of a dictator, he was too disinterested and too unambitious to seize upon this power for himself, and his noblest virtues in this one in stance thus militated against the cause to which his life had been devoted. After the fall of Warsaw, however, when driven into exile, when condemned to a dishonourable death by a special tribunal erected by the Emperor Nicholas, and deprived of all his property, he no longer hesitated to make himself the centre of exertions, which could then only fix the martyr's crown more firmly on his brow. The name of his family, which had for ages been known to Europe in connection with the foreign policy of Poland, as also the position which he had himself held there, and the part which he had taken in many of the most important transactions in European politics, lent to his opinions, even in exile, a weight of which he availed himself again and again to remind the Governments and representative bodies of Europe of the rights of his country, guaranteed by treaties; while to his countrymen he, in speech and writing, ever recommended patience, modera tion, and perseverance, adding to these recommendations lessons full of deep and practical wisdom. The two last public acts of his life—the discourse pronounced by him on the 3d of May last, and the answer g,ven by him to the address of the Literary Association of the Friends of Po land in London—fully characterise the double activity of his life during his protracted exile, and the recent noble atti tude assumed by our countrymen at home, bears witness to the fruits which his activity has borne. His private life was adorned by the most refined quali ties of mind and heart. An affectionate father, a loving husband, accessible to all who approached him, ever ready to listen to a tale of sorrow and to assuage every pain ; exercising, as far as his means allowed, a truly Polish hos pitality in the Hotel Lambert, the departed Prince added to his great political worth all those domestic virtues that render life happy and agreeable. Of all the sons of whom Poland is justly proud, none have sacrificed more in her cause than he. Of no patriot of whom history makes honourable mention can it be said with greater truth than of Adam Czartoryski, that he lived for his country alone ; and, with his mental gaze still fixed upon her, he died. When his eye was already glazed in death, and he could no longer distinguish the sorrowing group that stood around him, his last words, addressed to his nephew, General Zamoyski, who had hastened from London to take the last sad farewell of his uncle, were— " What hopes for Poland do you bring from England ?" What solace to that grand and devoted spirit that was pass ing for ever from this life of travail, to hear that the great British heart was again beginning to stir in sympathy with the land of sorrow, for which his last prayer was breathed. He is gone, and his mission was accomplished ; but we have still duties to. perform, and in no way can we prove ourselves more faithful to his memory than by following the example of untiring zeal and never failing moderation, which he always set us—by discarding all dissensions, and by endeavouring in every way to build up that union in which resides the strength of nations, whether to retain or to reconquer their independence. After a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meet ing separated. TILE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) WASHINGTON, AUG, 5. " Let us only hold on till October and we are safe." That, or something like it, was said to me over and over again in the South by men who play no inconsiderable part in the mystery drama of the Confederates. And when I asked one of these gentlemen, more than two months ago, what chance there was of the North giving the South all that time, I was answered almost in these words, " We are bound to go to the assistance of Virginia. The whole of the northern frontier abounds in good posi tions, which can be fed by the rail from the South. The Abolitionists will come and give us battle. We are certain to whip them if they attack us, and the North will then learn it can't at once overrun us as it fancied. The leaders will pause. There will be a reaction up there. e will work all the harder and all the better for our victory, drilling our men and consolidating our resources. The northern cities will become discontented. Foreign nations will ask when the cotton ports are to be open. The North will have no reply. We shall be better able to fight in November than we shall be to fight in June. Every week's delay will add to the complications and weakness of the North, and the end of the year will find them further from their aim than ever— divisions in their councils, even disturbances in their populations, while we, inspired by the approach of success, will exhibit increased energy and unani mity." A part of the programme has been already accomplished, but it does not follow that the remain der of the prophecy will be fulfilled with so much nicety. So far the result of the action of the 21st has been the prolongation of the war in America. The effect it may have abroad will be known in a few days more. It is now plain that the Con federates were not only really unable to pursue their advantage, but that they were not at first aware of its extent. They suffer from deficient transport, and are better prepared for defence than for attack. Their army was almost as much " scared," to use an English word in an American way, as the Federalists, if the reports are to be be lieved of confusion, wavering, and retreat in their ranks—and of the passionate exertions of the offi cers, as well as of their losses. In fact, the Confede rates stand before the world stripped of a good deal of the strength of which they boasted in actual numbers ; and it is a poor cover to their weakness to put forward the asserton that only a small por tion of their force was engaged, when it is notorious that they had sent to all quarters f or re i n f orcemen t s , and above all when it is considered that, by using all the men at their disposal, they could have forced the mass of the Federalist army to surrender pri soners of war, and have occupied the capital. Their operations up to this time indicate hesitation and want of vigour, but it is just possible they may be preparing to strike some great blow. It is given out that General Beauregard has gone for a short time to Charleston. General Johnston has not shown in any force in front of his old positions about Harper's Ferry, nor has he threatened the Federalists under Gen. Banks, who are covering the passage of the river from the Maryland side. Before Hampton and Fortress Monroe there is an equal absence of offensive demonstrations. The Se cession cavalry and pickets occupy the Alexandria road, and the communicat ions leading by Vienna and Fairfax Court House, towards Manassas, at a considerable distance from the outposts and lines of the Federalists, and there is l ess o f th a t w ild, guerilla sort of work between the two armies than was formerly the case, but the attitude of the Con federates is not that of a confident or aggressive force. One does not bear either of the vigorous ad vices to drive the enemy from the sacred soil of Vir ginia, which were so rife, nor of the het menaces to take Washington, nor even of the earnest promises to liberate Maryland and other afflicted portions of the slaveholding sisterhood. There may be policy in this, and notwithstanding the growing opposition of one or two papers in the South to the men and measures of the war, the influence of Mr. Jefferson Davis is quite sufficient to induce the press to keep its peace, or adopt any tone he may suggest in fur therance of the common cause. They can organise a transport corps in time. There are plenty of excellent mules in the South if the planters can in their patriotism submit to ruin and send them from the fields. Horses is abundance can no doubt be procured from the south-west and smuggled out of Kentucky. Twenty-five brass field-pieces, one rifled gun throwing 301 b. shot and shell from a small bore, and perhaps several other guns not enumerated, captured at Manassas, will go some way to make up for the want of field artillery, under which the Con federates were labouring, and the quantity of am munition of all sorts whieh fell into their hands must strengthen them in their weakest point. The thou sands of muskets left on the field will be no indif ferent acquisition, and they have been already ap plied to arm men who were not well p rov id ed pre viously with small arms, while whole regiments are made happy by the blankets, overcoats, canteens, knacksacks, and accoutrements of all kinds dis tributed among them, to the great relief of the Confederate Treasury. Meanwhile, the army of the United States is undergoing a complete reor ganization in the face of the enemy. The old army of volunteers and three months' men may be looked upon as annihilated, or, at all events, dissolved. It would be curious to ascertain how many of them will re-enlist, even u n der different officers. The affair at Manassas not only destroyed M'Dowell's army, but it gave a heavy blow and great discouragement to the very spirit of the American system, by which men were placed in positions they lead no fitness for, and large masses of armed men were assembled whom it were delusion to consider as an army. Mr. Davis saw the mischief long ago, and by special act of Congress of the Confederate States at Mont gomery he seized the power of appointing officers. It may seem strange that the soldiery should not feel proper respect for the men they had selected to command them, but the fact is that such a mode of selection, particularly in the lower grades, was in jurious to all real discipline. If an officer insisted on obeying the rules and regulations of the army, he was regarded by his nominators as an ungrate ful fellow, who was using the power they had given him to vex and harass them, and he, too often, in spirit of retaliation and in ignorance of the proper means of enforcing a respect to which, per sonally, perhaps, he had little claims, resorted to gross language, abuse, and harsh treatment, and in curred the positive contempt and hatred of men who took little care to conceal their feelings. It is hard to teach Americans discipline. Their regu lar army has been for the most part composed of Germans and Irish. The people are averse to obedience on principle ; and even children, as I have observed particularly in the North, are less managable—" biddable," as mothers say, than in the old fashioned country where the fifth com mandment is held in respect. Master Pickle and Miss Pert are fond enough of saying "I won't" all over the world, but the breed is unusually large in America, and disobedience seems to pass current for independence. And, as the child is the father of the man, so Sovereign Smith on prin ciple rebels against obeying the order of Sove reign Brown ; kicks in his inner man, recalcitrates morally and even physically, and only succeeds by the pressure of a self-applied duresse. " Sergeant, will you come and look at this man's pass," called out a sentry at the Long-bridge the other day ; " do you think I'm going to shout myself hoarse for you ?" And when the sergeant did arrive the sentry, who had been sitting down when I came up, used bad language and threatened to report him ! Yesterday evening, as I was riding through George town, I saw an officer " fall in" his men to go on some patrol or relief. They were drawn up by the side of the street. " What have you got in that bottle ?" said the officer to one of his men. " Whisky." " Let's have a drain," quoth the affable subaltern. " Don't take it all then," responded the proprietor, producing from his haversack the black bottle, which had been detected by the eagle eye of his superior. The officer held it up to the light, gauged the contents, smelt the mouth, and then took a long pull, which was followed by a sounding smack of the lips, and a " Fust rate" of great intensity. The bottle was restored, and then " Shoulder arms—by the right—wheel—quick march," and away es ent bottle, officer, and men. It would be very unfair to assert that such officers are common, and such practices usual ; but that there is on questions of discipline an extraordinary deviation in principle, sentiment, and practice in the American people from those of any other military people requires no proof when we see Col. Richardson, in an official document respecting the conduct of his troops at Manassas, accusing his senior officer, Colonel Miles, who was in command of a brigade, of being drunk and incapable on the field, and Colonel Miles in reply publishing a state ment, which appears in all the newspapers, in which he says he was not drunk, and prays God to forgive his accuser. They will be taught by experience, and the sweet uses of adversity—bitter to them, will force them to bend to discipline in order that they may conquer ; and if they desire to carry on the campaign, and escape the Caudine Forks, they must stoop, as people free, intelligent, and brave as they are have done, to the thrall of order and obedi ence. That much can be done by the judicious exer cise of authority in enforcing military rules and regu lations among them, as among the rest of mankind, is conclusively shown by the great changes and im provements effected in the army of Washington, and above all in the city itself, by young General M'Clellan, who bids fair to be the next President, if his success is at all commensurate with the enor mous praise and flattery which, much against his will, are forced down his throat. Before his nomi nation the streets of the capital presented a spectacle the like of which was probably never seen in any civilized city. A routed, demoralised army, with just sufficient equipment to enable them to be a terror to civilians, and to inflict death and wounds in their drunken quarrels, crowded the thoroughfares, for midable only to those whom they were intended to protect. The hotels and bars were filled with officers whose regiments were in a state of complete disorganisation. The small tradespeople trembled for their little stores. Suddenly out comes an order, which I give entire, lest it might be said the words I have used exaggerate the condition of affairs at the period in question : " GENERAL ORDERS (No. 2). " Head-quarters, Division of the Potomac, " 'Washington, July 30. " The General commanding the Division has, with much regret, observed that large numbers of officers and men stationed in the vicinity of Washington are in the habit of frequenting the streets and hotels of the city. "This practice is eminently prejudicial to good order and military discipline, and must at once be discontinued. " The time and services of all persons connected with this division should be devoted to their appropriate duties with their respective commands. It is therefore directed that hereafter no officer or soldier be allowed to absent himself from his camp and visit Washington, except for the per formance of some public duty, or for the transaction of im portant private business, for which purposes written permits will be given by the commanders of brigades. The permit will state the object of the visit. " Brigade commanders will be held responsible for the strict execution of this order. " Col. Andrew Porter, 15th United States' Infantry, is detailed for temporary duty as Provost-Marshal in Wash • ington, and will be obeyed and respected accordingly. " Col, Porter will report in person at these headquarters for instructions.—By command of Major-Gen. M'Clellan, " S. WILLIAMS, Assistant Adjutant-General. Col. Porter, an active officer of the regular army, and a man of great determination and vigour, at once organised his patrols, and, though the guard houses may be full the streets are empty. He set to work with such speed that Washington, which went to bed in very poor spirits one night, found that the evil had vanished in 24 hours, and that next night she could sleep in peace. That the steps taken were vigorous, and that they were requisite, , 'Hi.r-57177F N N N.EW.SPAP.ER \i_;l‘r. ic,lsOi „.: esei '• • e se te e eelaisle ao l v @eiaa . , witieh has obtained in Europe in estr 7- '1 7 6;,. - t . e;;;4 ) , ( . . essasess conflict will not soon be resented espy 'roar < • nence dan insulting affectatin of indaerence . , e • - I that which Atnericanse regard as the greatest c0n .4110 . test the world Las ever seen. No one can ho honestly indifferent to the results, for they must affect Europe, just as any great disturbance in anS . State must produce an impression on the rest of the world. It is useless to say that we are not jea lous of the grandeur and glory of the United States, for the national vanity would regard the thing as impossible. It is, indeed, impossible to regard with indifference the fight which has such enormous in terests and great principles involved in the issue, but it is unfortunate for the 'United States that it has by turns affronted nearly every Government, in Europe, and left to itself only the natural sympa thies of the peoples for those who appear betbre them as the friends of liberty. There is one thing to be said about civil wars—they do not last long. It is probable that the exce,ptionalism," if one may use the word, on which the Americans rather pride themselves, will not prevail ia the case of the struggle between North and South. Each of th e contending parties, however, believes it is sure. to win. The voices from the South are, to he sure, rather deadened, and those of the North are swollen • and blown out through penny trumpets and brass whistles, but there is still reason to think that. both are bent on '‘‘ leaving it out." And, indeed, the North must do so, even if separation comes, for there would not and could not be an honourable . peace if it followed an unaveuged defeat. in a con test wherein the victors had announced beforehand that their opponents were destitute of courage and manhood. It would not be possible for the North to live on terms of decent amity with the South if the leaders on both sides were to agree to a peace to-morrow. The violence and triumphant jubila tion of the conquerors would render it a mere ar mistice of short duration. Those who can see the reconstruction of the great Republic in the warring elements of this great convulsion must believe in some new atomic theory, and in some novel che mistry of political affinities. A I passed the State Department the other day, I observed on the ground great columns of marble in wooden coffin-like cases lying by the road side ; near the White House there was similar food for Above the unfinished dome of the Capitol rises a great machinery of saffoldage and leverage, motionless and lifeless, and around the very build ing in which Senator and Representative keep high debate, lie the vast fragments which at some future day are meant to supplement arch and dome—the idea of a conception not yet brought into being. There are, then, two sorts of ruins—those of the thing which has been, and those of the thing which is not yet, and may never be at all. It was strange to see that all the effect of the work of years could be produced by the materials of work unaecom plished. The public buildings of 'Washington are surrounded before they are completed by the evi dences of what they must be when they shall have been destroyed. Before the Republic has finished its temples the worship - of the deities to whom they are erected is assailed by terrible heresies. The Capitol can never see within its dome the Senators and Deputies of the Union, of which it seems no inapt type in its aspiring incompleteness. Can any even of the Powers most menaced and affronted by the Republic rejoice in its researches among the fragments ? Certainly England has not by word or deed within her borders exhibited a trace of the passions attributed to her by many bitter enemies. The reports industriously circulated in some American journals that Great Britain has de manded, or solicited, the establishment of a free port for the exit of cotton are untrue. There is no foundation whatever for such statements, which are prepared by the same people who originate the stories of Admiral Milne's despatches and views in reference to the blockade. The indifference to foreign politics which has marked the proceedings of the Congress has been a suitable commentary on the mode in which American affairs have been treated in Europe. Mr. Sumner was severely re buked for alluding to the probable effects of the increase of the Morrill Tariff on the sentiments of Franc.: and England ; as if the Senate regarded such an allusion as a confession of weakness or an indecent introduction of an unsuitable element of consideration. The bill confiscating the property of rebels passed after a division of 60 to 48, not withstanding the energetic and argumentative op-, position of Mr. Breckinridge and others ; and I send elsewhere some reflections on the mode in which it will be carried into effect. Congress adjourns to morrow till the sth of December, unless summoned by the President at an earlier day. Members of Congress are the first to touch the nice new paper money. On receiving their salaries they were pre sented with 50 dollars in gold and with 250 dollars in the Treasury notes as payment for the month . They did not like it. The brokers charge 5 per cent. discount, although the Government pays 6 per cent. interest on the two-year notes, so that there is a loss to the original holder of 81 per cent. per annum if he submits to the discount. These, however, are very trifling matters in consideration of that which is to come. There is a rumour of an attack on Cairo. It can only succeed in consequence of incapacity and cowardice on the part of the de fenders. PR1CE....... . 4d. STAMPED ....sd. will appear from another order issued in support of the former : " GENERAL ORDERS (No. 1). " Head-quarters, City Guard, Provost-Marshal's office, Washington, Aug. 2. " The following regulations for the Provost Guard of this city are published for the guidance of officers command ing guards and patrols, and for the information of all con cerned :, • "In pursur.nce to instructions from Major-General M'Clellan, it is directed that all officers frequenting the streets or hotels of the city without written permits to be absent from their regiments or stations, setting forth the object of the visit, approved by their brigade commanders, shall be arrested and sent to their regiments or stations by any officer commanding a patrol who may observe them. " Any soldier found absent from his company without a 'written permit from the commander of his brigade, and all soldiers found in the streets, hotels, or other places in the city after 9 o'clock p.m., shall be arrested and confined for trial and punishment. All prisoners will be taken to the central guardhouse of the city, where they will be turned over to the officer commanding the guard at that station, who shall detain them in custody until otherwise ordered. " It shall be the constant purpose of all officers command ing guards or patrols to keep the city under vigilant obser vation, day and night,' to the end that the public peace may not be in a n y way di s t ur b e d, nor the citizens molested in their persons or property by any person in the service of the United States. "Reports containing the time and places of all arrests, with the names of persons arrested, together with such other information as may be deemed important to the pub lic service, will be made and handed in to this office at 9 o'clock a.m. daily. "A. PonTrn, Colonel 16th Infantry, United " States' Army, Provost-Marshal." The citizen soldiery were astonished and were indignant, but they were nevertheless arrested and " blackholed," and I confess it gave me infinite satisfaction to observe the very salutary results of the process. The Sanitary Commission, with considerable boldness, publish certain recommenda tions ftr the improvement of the discipline of the army, which is indeed "in need of change for the better. They ascribe the difficulties which they meet in carrying out reforms to lack of discipline, which thus injures the health of the army. General Lana, who commands the Spanish troops in Cuba, has been over here on a tour, and he expressed to me his profound astonishment at the state of things visible in the camps at the other side of the Poto mac. He was here, however, at a bad time—just after the flight from Manassas. His criticisms, how ever, on lazy sentries, on slovenly and ill-equipped troops, on dirty arms and accoutrements, were just. Above all, he was amazed that in an army of re cruits there was no drill or exercise to be seen. Company drill is not much attended to; the batta lion drill is of the most elementary character; and indeed, with the exception of the skirmishing at Cairo, I have never seen anything but ordinary ad vance in line, or marching past at stow time, or at the double in columns of companies or of subdivi sions, and such common movements. This generally results from the ignorance of the officers as much as from the incompetency of the rank and file. General M'Clellan is talking about brigade drills and field days, and there is some nonsense attri buted to him about drilling by trumpet, which means, I presume, that he is about to have more at tention paid to bugle notes in giving orders than is at present the case. The new levies, as far as I can judge, are not equal to the departed three-months men, and the camps are certainly not as well filled. Tilde are about 24 battalions of infantry of all sorts, and eight squadrons of cavalry in the capital, and around it on the left bank of the Potomac, up to the chain bridge. There are some 30 battalions across the river and some 700 sabres, the whole force being probably under 45,000 men, not including Banks's column at Harper's Ferry, or the commands of Gen. Butler and of Gen. Dix, at Baltimore. Of the 49 guns which INl'Dowell's army took into the field, 25 remain in the hands of the enemy, and there is some deficiency in artillery, which Govern ment is doing its best to supply. Gen. M'Dowell, I am glad to say, remains in command of the troops at Arlington, although serious accusations have been made against him in the papers, most, if not all, of which were quite unfounded. What could he do with the materials he had, except, as the Pre sident said, "drive the locomotive as he found it ?" Granted bravery, heroism, devotion, and all that kind of thing, what could be expected of a regiment thus described in a New York paper ? " In one of our regiments, while the Colonel was on trial for drunkenness, the Major lay drunk in his tent, and the Lieut.-Colonel was so intoxicated at evening drill that he had to stagger up to the Adjutant, and request him to give the orders." ruins. The President is now vested with most extraordi nary powers, such as were never heard of before, except under a virtual despotism, because by a re cent bill he is enabled to dismiss officers at pleasure, without giving a Court of Inquiry. But the evil was enormous. Every where is the same story. At Newport the troops have been in a state of mutiny; officers have shot soldiers in self-defence. Demoralisation prevailed largely in Butler's force, and the men have burned down part of the pretty village of Hampton. The day before yesterday a soldier shot a comrade in the street, close to the spot where I was standing—one of many similar cases. The officers may not be responsible for all this, but they are to be blamed fur a good deal of the disorder. As a treat for Prince Napoleon, who is passing his -time here very quietly, the Wash ington papers propose that he should be invited to review the army by General M'Clellan, but I do not think he will be asked to do anything of the kind. A few months hence the suggestion would be less distasteful. Apropos of the Prince, it may be worth mentioning that when the President en tertained him the other evening at the White House the band treated him no less than twice to the " Marseillaise." Lord Lyons, M. Mercier, and all the Ministers were present, but, owing to some un explained reason, the Chevalier Bertinatti, Minister of the King of Italy, was not invited, which is all the more curious on account of the Prince's con nexion with the House of Savoy. On Sunday the French Minister, M. Mercier, gave a dinner at his house, where the Prince is residing, to the Cabinet Ministers, at which Lord Lyons and the foreign re presentatives were present, as well as Mr. Sumner and other distinguished persons. The vapid air of the capital is scarcely ruffled by the Prince's presence. As a proof of the grand fibs which are manufactured here, and of the way in which they succeed, it may be mentioned that Gen. Scott was deceived by the statement that Confederate troops had desecrated Mount Vernon so far that he issued an order, not remarkable for excellence of composition, though full of feeling, calling on the United States troops to respect the place in case they should be called on to occupy the grounds. The Confederates were never there at all, and Lady Georgina Fane and a lady who is travelling with her had no difficulty in going and returning recently under the escort of a British subject. The tendency, or rather the habit, of saying the thing which is not, and of putting out of all proportion to the truth the thing that is, has been so developed by the war that one of the most respectable journals in the city gravely and seriously lectures the whole nation on its indiffer ence to truth and its inveterate love of exaggera tion in language which would be resented with acrimony if it were used by a stranger. Criticism is always resented by the criticised unless it be all sugar and treacle, and of all people the most diffi cult to please are those who are vain, irritable, un fortunate, and conceited. The voices which come from the other side of the Atlantic cannot be agree able to a race above all thing emulous of military prestige. " Optat ephippia bos." He will get them and have to pay for them presently, but in what will President M'Clellan differ from Napoleon 111. except in tenure of office ? The United States army and navy will be made worthy of the young Republic, and in their hearts men rejoice at the prospects of a strong Government, which must come, though they cannot see how, out of the present ; conflict. the lam not quite cer t a i n th a t silence) AN INCIDENT OF MANASSAS. Soon it came our turn to charge. As we rose to our feet and advanced, a long cheer went up from the men which could be heard above the boom of the cannon and the roar of the musketry. w e moved slowly and steadily at first, for the wa y was extremely uneven , an d it was difficult to pre serve the regularity of t he lin e. On nearing the valley weleybnet downtween s u s s the an hudthrraneiobate of iron 'we found it every side. Numbers of our men difficulty that we iron swept by n ra s, ke a d nd by it ha w ttaeer iewith enoe little could close up the line so as to charge effectively. charged up the hill with was Confederates Soon e gull ul l until passed, and our men brow of the hill, and of smupeninewe appeared above the renewed vigour. The then poured such a volley peculiar upon us as decimated fell the regiment in an instant. forward on their faces with a motion,. as a wave falls forward on a beach. Captain Brown being in advance, and seeing the Confederates running from their guns to the cover of the trees, rushed forward, waving his sword, shouting, "Now, boys, rally." Scarcely were the words from his lips when a rifle-bullet pierced him through the neck ; at the same instant a cannon ball entered his side, and he fell to the earth, pinned as it were to the ground. Some of his men tried to take his watch, by order of the lieutenants, but found it buried in his vitals. He died bravely and as he had wished, having often expressed the hope that he might never survive the defeat of the regiment. Captain Shilling law was shot through both knees, and immedi ately after one of his men, lifting him up— for he was lying on his face -- found him dead, with his beard dabbled with blood from a wound in the head. At this time the storm of battle re doubled, the regiment wavered, then fell back and retreated slowly, still firing at every lost several of its best offices.A step, 'h av i ng general retreat commenced. Some members of the sth company and the Staten Islanders of company 10 made a gal lant stand behind a fallen tree, Where they kept up an obstinate defence for some time. To our asto nishment, however, we saw the ;stars grad stripes waving from the battery, and an officer, in uniform like that of the Ohio regi () invents, cried tit, " Cease firing, you're killing your own men ;" We rallied once more, and on some of our :men breasting the hill again, the flag disappeared, the. Confederate flag waved in • Its place, and another dßath-stOrm of bullets poured up attack,on us ; and the regivient not being for sudden fell haok in disorder. Colonel Cameron, who had succeeded in rallying the men t w i ce , seeme d paralysed at this new reverse —the sword which he had been waving dropped from his hand—he stood a momui it looking at the retreating mass, some of the men still obstinately firing; and on one of his lieutene, tits . coming down from the front of the battery to ask advice about the wounded officers, he turned suddenly toward him, faced the battery, and . she same instant a Minie bullet pierced his breast,. He fell without a groan. After his fall the ro at became complete. The fatal cry of "same q ua pent" seemed commu nicated from regiment to reg ,iment ; and night saw the disheartened army in fn 11 retreat towards Fort Corcoran.—New York Tim es. IMMENSE LARCH.--Thy 3re is a larch at the upper end of Loch Kindar which i it six feet from the ground girths 8 feet 8 inches. This is a good size, although there may be many in the Stewg,r try larger,—.Dti mfrios Courior ley ind le a I nd re- 12s 14s 18s 108 I