The Sun. — London, England, 1861-09-23 00:00:00

LAST WEEK BUT TWO OF ALFRED - MELTON'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THE ENGLISH NIGHT. Vocalists this Evening :—Mdlle. PAREPA, Mdlle. LANCIA, Madame LAURA BAXTER, Miss S. COLE, Mr. VERNON RIGBY, and Mr. WEISS. The first part of the Concert this evening will consist of Vocal and Instrumental Music by English Composers.—rhe second part will be Miscellaneous, and include Beethoven's BATTLE Symphony, performed by the Orchestra, assisted by the Bands of the Victoria Rifles and the City of London Rifle Brigade.—Grand Operatic Selection, "Robert le Diable." —Part Song by Mendelssohn, Solo Oboe, M. Lavigne, and other Vocal and Dance Music. Commence at R. Promenade, Is. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. To-morrow (Tuesday), a MOZART NIGHT. On Wednesday, a FRENCH NIGHT. On Thursday, a MENDFU , SOHN NIGHT. On Friday, an ITALIAN NIGHT ; and on Saturday, a VOLUNTEER NIGHT. HET 5 .i. It YA L. HAY MA.B.,KET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Blackstone. Ting EVENING, the nertormanoes will cc rnmenoo with FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY. After which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SE X. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Blackstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. E.Villiers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c• With THE CRITIC: Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with the Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. Commence a 7 j~UYAL PItINC F. S S'S THEATRE.- 1 V an d m a nager, Mr. A. Bangs. This theatre will open on Saturday, Sept. 28, with a new and original comedy, in five acts, written by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ; characters by Mr. John Brougham (his first appearance at this theatre), Mr, Ryder. Mr. ff. . Widdicombe, Mr. George Jordan (of the princip a l theatres of the United States, his first appearance in Enc , - land), Miss C. Lelcee.xcq, and Mrs. Weston. With other En tertainments. In active preparation, Shakespeare's tragedy of OTHELLO, wit h new scenery, dresses, and app o i n t ments - Othello, Mr. Fechter. The box - office will open on Wednes day,. Sept. 25. • T 1 0Y AL LYCEUM THEATRE. D u 3Tanez,rer 7 Mr. Edmund Falconer. - ---• For the Benefit of Miss Lydia Thompson. THIS EVENING, the new and original farce, entitled THE FETCHES ; or, The Onconvanience of a Single Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer; Mary O'BradV, miss Lydia Thompson. After which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success ful comedy of WOMAN; or, Love against the World. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin , J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in which Miss Lydia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer Quick Step. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. NEW THEATRE -ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATH CHARMS. Messrs. D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw. After which (232 d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D. Boucicault, D. rimier, Billington. S. Emery, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Romer, Howard. Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Billington. and Mrs. H. Lewis. To conclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at halt past 6—Commence at 7. CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Mr. SAM COWELL every Evening at Nine and a quarter to Eleven.—Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE, TRAVIATA, NORMA, MARTHA, &c., by Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Morley, and a powerful Chorus. The Comic department comprises Messrs. Harvey and French, " The Nerves " Mr. Marshall—Mr. Wood and his talented Son -• and Miss Harriet Coveney. New Opera by Auber LA CIRCASSIENNE.—A Grand Selection, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans, from this Opera will be produced, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS COUNTRY, on MONDAY next. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, is, T' HE 0 XFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. A Grand Selection from Verdi's new opera, "Simon Boc canegra" (now produced for the first time in this country), by Miss Russell, Messrs. C. Greville, Tivoli, Greene, HoHey, and Herbert ; also from Verdi's " Macbeth " by Madame Enderssohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic entertain ments by Messrs. M. P. Foster, Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. RandalL Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. f3d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIO DAY.—Morning, 4h. 7m.—Afternoon, 4h. 20m. To - MORROW.-Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 50m. THE WEATHER.—Suar OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 22, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE• 62—highest since noon yesterday. 49 —lowest this morning and during the night. 58—this day at noon. BAROMETER-29.06. WIND—S.-Westerly—light ; with dull, dirty weather ; heavy rain yesterday and during the night. SEPT. 23. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 58—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 61—this day at noon. BAROMETER—Down to 29.38 ; now up to 29.47. WlND—West. N.-Westerly—fresh , with fine weather. It rained in the night and morning. ~ „ ,• VVF, - 4 ,; ~ i',.:22- 2 1- 4 : '' .- -;x, v. r ., k: I , 't t• ----77.44'1l , THE SUN. LO;;DON, MONDAY, SEPT. 23, 1861. Colonel FREMONT'S proclamation has created, it would appear, some little perturbation in the Cabi net at Washington. The President, with kis con stitutional and paternal care for the integrity of the unmodified Union, his constant solicitude,there fore, and that the war should not be a war for eman cipation, is not a little disconcerted to find that one of his most popular and efficient generals has gone so far beyond the bill which he was reluctant to sign as the Congress broke up. The Bill authorised the confiscation of slaves who had been employed for purposes of war. General FREMONT confiscates, or rather decrees the liberation from slavery, of all slaves of rebel masters. Now, as in Missouri, the slave-masters must, as a body, have been rebels, practically the proclamation is one of emancipation in Missouri. The Examiner has some severe, and not unjust criticisms on the proclamation ; it illus trates, however, as we conceive, both the real desire of General FREMONT and the difficulty of his posi tion under Mr. LINCOLN, and close upon Kentucky. FREMONT desires emanicipation as a fruit of tie war. LINCOLN does not. What, therefore, can FREMONT do more, than strain the act of the re cent extra Session of Congress far beyond its letter i or even its spirit. We observe that the cant is still frequently heard, both in America and here, of the crime of liberating " four millions of savages," and involving all the South in the horrors of a servile war. If the negroes be savages, the fault and the consequences of it lie at the door of the slaveholders. They have had them entirely in their hands to teach and train as they pleased. The School, and the Church, end social training were all at their disposal. Presidents have sent messages to Congress on the blessing of a Christian training and teaching, as the compensa tion for what they termed " involuntary set vitude.'' And if, after such professions, with such absolute power in their hands, and with such a parade of compensating for enslaving, by Christianising, the blacks, the latter are still " savages"—all we can say is, that those who have left them so deserve to suf fer the consequences of their wickedness. The truth, however, we believe to be far otherwise. It is not a servile war of liberated negroes against their masters which is dreaded, but a bloody and ferocious onslaught by their masters, the real "savages," on the negroes who endeavour to avail themselves of the war as a means of escape from bondage. If slaveholders in the South die, they will perish as DIGGES, the would-be captor of ANDERSON, perished, in endeavouring to reconvert into chattels the MEN who had become the masters of their own persons. It is a question of a master's war, not of a servile war ; of a raid of " white savages" on inoffensive blacks, not of blacks on whites ; and still more is it a question of dollars and absolute power. The slaveholders are mad for the right to beat a negro as boys do a donkey ; and at the bare thought of their " property" using its set to run away. IVe are by no means sanguine, t 11° Ilisa we would hop a the best from the FREMONT commencement, Of one thing we feel pretty cer- that such is the cruel negro-hatred of the North, that if it can conquer without emancipation, it will piefer to do it. 'lf it hates slavery, it hates free negroes yet more. Just now the ripples, we can hardly say the tide, of war have turned in favour of the North—the suc cess at Fort Hatteras was altogether creditable. It is not fair to smile at its being a bloodless victory. Had Sir CHAS. NAPIER been able to occupy Swea borg by the process which both he and General BUTLER employed, the triumph would not have been thought the less, because no English family was put into mourning. Mr. Secretary WELLEs appears to have planned in all respects well, He employed capable commanders and a sufficient force, and the consequence is, that he is now at leisure to send a second expedition thoroughly to ransack with gunboats the rivers and creeks of Pamlico Sound, and to give by landing soldiers on the coast the superiority to the Union party, which equals the Seeession party in numbers, in that part of North Carolina. Fort Macon, com manding Beaufort harbour, at the southern ex tremitTof the Sound, - is as yet not captured. It is said to be strong, and to have been reinforced, but it is not supposed to be able to resist the national fleet, should it be attacked as Fort Hat teras was. Already the result has been felt in the Confederate lines, for they have had to send ten regiments to North Carolina; they will, how ever, find that State politically disorganised, for the account now is that the governor is a Unionist, and that eight members have been elected to the national Congress. The navy administration, which has suffered vituperation enough, seems to have been guilty of the unpardonable offence, in America, of not brag ging of what it was doing. We all remember how it was denuded of strength in all respects by the conspirators under BUCHANAN. There were but four ships of war, mounting just twenty-five guns at the President's disposal when he entered on office, amidst secession and threats of further se cession—now, there are 84 vessels on blockade duty, carrying nearly 700 guns, and manned by nearly ten thousand seamen. Indeed, from the interrup tion of commerce, seamen are plentiful, and M'CLELLAN has actually employed them to work heavy ship guns in some of his forts. We can re member what seamen did ashore in the Indian Mutiny. Doubtless American seamen will astonish the landsmen, as gunners, as much as Capt. PEEL'S men astonished Lord CLYDE. From the building de partment our Admiralty might learn a lesson. A gun-boat of five hundred tons, for instance, has just been turned out in less than eight weeks; and the Ordnance Department is working with cor- responding vigour. In the West the Federals have been also successful. They have seized just in time a place, whicb,judging from the way it is spoken of, appears to be an important one on the Mississippi, named Paducah, in Kentucky. It was a favouritee rendezvous of the Secessionists ; the Secession flags were already flying, and 4,800 rebel troops were only sixteen miles off. Kentucky, however, wants to keep out of the:trouble. Federals enter her territory on one side, Confederates on the other, while its Government warns both of them to quit her soil. Neither will probably pay any attention to her injunctions unless she calls out her militia against them, and then she will probably be dealt with as a foe. How, indeed, can Mr. LINCOLN, who is such a constitutional man, forget that neutrality, when called on to arm for the Republic, is itself rebellion. Hitherto he has from policy winked at this fact. It will not be easy for him to do so much longer. The Governor of the State—MACGOFFIN —expects that the President will if requested with draw his troops. He certainly cannot do so unless tie Confederates withdraw theirs. And, since the Governor distinctly declares that the State's strongest sympathies are with the Slave States, the President can hardly forego the advantage of his position. The CZAR'S affectionate despatch appears to have received a brief answer from Mr. SEWARD, the pur port of which we are left to guess. It is hardly to be hoped that the North will listen to recommenda tions of peace. It begins to see the dawn of better days in regard to military and naval matters, and will certainly not forego the chance of proving ifs power at the expense of the South. The CZAR seems to contemplate a pacific reunion ; if so, and if the courtesy of diplomacy permits, his arguments ought to be addressed to the South, which cer tainly, without a single actual grievance, originated the disruption. He should appeal to Messrs. DAVIS, STEPHEN S, and BEAUREGARD to re nounce their ambition to be the President, Vice-- Presidents, and Commander-in-Chief of a union of their own. While the House of Commons is equally divided on the subject of Church Rates, and the speaker has, according to our friend Punch, to throw his wig into the scale in which the Bishop sits balanced against the popular young Non-Con. of the Metro politan Tabernacle, the friends of Church Rates are exhibiting to the country the real cause of their hatefulness. Here is a specimen of their procedure, and that at the very time when all per sons who have brought in Church Rate Bills of late, Mr. WALPOLE himself not excepted, propose to exempt Dissenters, bona ; fide Dissenters at least, from the rate. We give the passage as we find it in the West Surrey Times SEIZURES AT DORKING FOR CIFURCII.RATES.—On Friday Superintendent PAGE, armed with a warrant bear ing the signatures of J. LABOUCIIERE, C. F. ROBINSON, and C. H. CALVERT, Justices of the Peace, entered the dwelling- of the Rev. J. 0. WHITEHOUSE, and took there from the following articles for a Church-rate made last y e ar, amounting to 6s. 3d., and expenses 15s. 6d.:—An eight-day clock, a passage lamp, a portrait of Mr. Edward Mien, and another of the Rev. T. Binney. A visit was afterwards paid by the same officer to the shop of Mr. T. MATCHES, chemist, the seizure in his case being for a Church-rate of 3s. 6d., and expenses 15s. 6d. The articles taken from Mr. MATCHES' shop comprised a quantity of tea and coffee, and sundry bottles of pomade, capers, and ther p ickles. The sale of the arti cles seized from both dowellino-s, will, we understand, take place on Wednesday next." Mr. WHITEffousE, we must suppose to be a Dis senting minister, and the chemist possibly one of his flock, perhaps a deacon or an active Sunday school teacher—a Dissenter anyhow. The Dissent ing clergyman would seem to be a thoroughgoing anti-State-Churchman; which, of course, he has as good a right to be as the patron of Down to be a n opponent of the Free Church in Scotland. W e judge so because, among Mr. WHITEHOUSE's Penates were pictures of the Rev. T. BINNEY, wh o declared that the Church of England destroyed more souls than it saved"—and of that redoubt able foe to Establishments, the Editor of the Nonconformist, and ex-representative of Rochdale. Five shillings and three pence was the sum demanded of the Dissenting minister to wash the surplice, and to provide sacramental wine and bread for the rival minister. The demand was of course :augmented by treble expenses twenty shillings and nine pence beine , the total sum demanded; and, this, by the usual process of geometrical progression in the affair of mulcting heretics, was swelled again, we suppose, to many times the amount, by the plundering of the officiale. As the Anti-State Church deities might not sell for much, an eight-day clock and a passage lamp were added to the booty, and hurried off to be sold for less than a pound. As to the chemist, he fared somewhat better. He, too, must pay 15s. 6d. ex penses for refusing 3s. 6d. ; but his payment was not enforced by entering his dwelling-house. The officials went off, content to help the Church of England by taking what they thought proper quantities of tea, coffee, pickles, and the like. Now, we happen to know none of the persons concerned in this disgraceful matter ; we are sorry to say that even the names of the "Great Unpaid" who put them to the warrant, were unknown to us till we saw them in print; in a connection, in which we cannot say that we are " happy to make their acquaintance." But in the name of Religious Liberty, in the name of the Church of England it self, we beg to remonstrate with all the moving actors in this business. As the question now stands, we may excuse the warm Churchmen con vening a parish meeting and levying a rate if they can obtain a majority. For, tirough we are per fectly sure that they would do better for their Church by adopting Sir G. C. LEWIS' advice and troubling no one for money but the actual wor shippers, yet it might be too much to expect of a hot political :party, to give up the opportunity of displaying their strength. And. we regard the Church-rate party, especially during the last two years, as being nothing but a political party; there is not a particle of religion in their cause. It is the vested abuse party, under the leadership of Lord DERBY; and, till he put himself at the head of the cry—the Church-rate in danger, it was daily sinking into into insignificance. But surely it is quite enough, as matters stand, to carry the rate in the vestry if it can be carried. That triumph ought to content all reasonable men. What further end can be gained by wresting small sums from known Dissenters, at an extrava gant cost, we are at a loss to conceive. The money cannot be the object, for we feel sure there must be a score or two of Churchmen in Dorking, who could pay voluntarily the whole amount which Dissenters in Dorking could be made to pay and not miss it from their bankers' balance, pro bably not from the loose money in their pockets. It cannot be any principle, since that has been already vindicated in their holding a meeting and laying a rate, which, if legally laid, of course, they can levy. It cannot be to frighten others, since all Churchmen would willingly pay the rate laid in accordance with the present law. If, indeed, the Churchmen in Dorking would not pay except by compulsion, they should be attacked first ; but as the rate could not be laid without a majority of Churchmen, the supposition seems impossible. It is therefore difficult for those at a distance who hear of these facts, to imagine any motive but a very unreligious one for such acts as these. Passions and feelings such as we pray in the Litany to be delivered from, are what every reader of these facts will at once believe to actuate those who in the present state of public opinion can dis grace religion and their Church by seizing Dissen ter's gocds. The act is a public scandal. Many timid but worthy people may feel l ,some doubt as to how the offensive feature of Church Rates, that of taxing those who voluntarily support their own worship can be best removed—that is, with most safety to the pecuniary interests of the Church ; but we can hardly conceive of any reasonable man at this time of day, having the least least doubt that raids and forays on Dis senters' pictures, clocks, lamps, tea, coffee, pickles, pomade, and so forth, are :calculated to bring the Church in whose name it is done into hatred and contempt. We read further in our contemporary. " The mat ter, however, is not likely to end there, as a determina tion exists to institute legal proceedings against all concerned in this act of spoliation. Donations of £lO £5, and sums of smaller amount are already pro mised toward the commencement of an action in the Court of Queen's Bench, and there is no doubt that an appeal to the friends of religious liberty generally for pecuniary assistance would be promptly and liberally responded to." This shows that there is something much beyond a money question in this business. This is, in plain truth, bad blood, and the parties guilty of originating it must be the Rate party. We beg that party to put themselves in the Dissenters' place. They are Englishmen, and if they be, and if a rival sect came to them, told them that they had legal power to make them pay for their worship, in addition to their own, we imagine they would button up their pockets, and bid them take what they could get. We certainly know that such would be our feeling; and it is just because we fairly realise what we should feel in the same position at Dissenters that we denounce seizures for Church-rates as an outrage on the religious sentiments of the English public. The men who can, at this time of day, be guilty of it, would, in Catholic countries, im prison men for reading the Bible, or would, as in Spain, prohibit any worship but their own altogether. The proposed abolition of Passports in Holland is a most satisfactory piece of intelligence, and one that all lovers of freedom must rejoice at. Few of the contrivances of despotic Governments are more vexatious and prove more irksome than the enforce ment of that inquisitorial system. It interferes with the freedom of travelling, as the complicated arrangements of the passport office present hindrances at every step. Another disadvantage of paramount importance is that it places restric tions on commerce and prevents the carrying out of many plans from absurd stoppages and unnecessary delays, where immediate action is often requisite and unfettered progress all but indispensable. The intimation to her MAJESTY'S Ministers declares that no subject of Great Britain travelling through Holland will require a passport. Such information is always wel come, both for the immediate good, and the prospective advantage, inasmuch as any state that inaugurates this system of free traffic and non interference is a pioneer of progress to less favoured nations. England has always been foremost in this cause and it is certain that we have fewer conspiracies than those countries where the police have the right of surveillance into the most minute particulars of social life, and where the law permits innocent persons who are supposed to be tiresome to the authorities, or likely to prove at all in their way to be committed to prison and kept there for years par prevention. The very irritation pro duced by such unnatural regulations raises up real malcontents in place of imaginary ones; these are dealt with in their turn with all the rigour of the offended law, and the cruel codes of such statutes sow broadcast the seeds of revolution and fill the prisons with wretched victims to the tyranny of absolute rule and the wild rage of reckless democrats. It is one great point gained, if the English are allowed a free ingress and egress to and from those countries where the light of their liberty has not yet penetrated, and where the blessings of their free institutions have not prevailed. The in fluence must be felt ; and if the example of France and Holland be followed by the northern countries, as has been suggested in the case of Sweden and Norway, the day may not be far distant when the 5 -4'' traveller from our free shores may find reciprocal advantages in the states he traverses, as the visitors from those states have so long enjoyed when coming to our land. Immunity from annoying arrange ments and restrictive interpositions will prove an immense advantage to all engaged in commercial transactions, and the Government of the King of the NETHERLANDS has certainly made a step in the right direction, and deserves commendation from all concerned in the cause of freedom. THE GREAT EASTERN. (From the Examiner.) The disaster of the Great Eastern raises two dis tinct questions. Was she sent to sea to cross the Atlantic at a season when gales are to be expected with all the proper precautions against bad weather? Does her scale exceed the size of a good and man ageable sea boat ? As for the first question, it may be shortly answered. It seems that nothing was properly secured. Everything broke adrift when the ship began to roll violently. The cabin tables were not lashed, and the furniture was arranged as it might be in a river steamer, where smooth water may always be reckoned on. The consequence was, that the vessel was internally wrecked by her own motion as much as if she had been beat ing on a rock. A cow-house with two cows broke into the ladies' cabin, everything movable was flying violently about ; and as one of the witnesses, who well describes the scene, says, the stewards were capturing the various ar ticles of furniture and binding them down as if they were so many wild and savage beasts. A mirror and a stove fell out, and into a conflict in which several persons interposing were injured. The narrator in the Ti mes h a d hi s h ea d cut, a finger dislocated, a tooth knocked out. In another cabin an attempt was made to supply some food : The passengers catch hold of tho tables to support them selves. The tables are not fastened, for whoever supposed the big ship would become so rampant ? The tables give way, and the scene of the grand saloon is enacted again with fearful violence. The stewards rush into the rescue, but in two minutes every piece of crockery on the table is inevitably smashed, knives and forks fly about in reckless confusion, and the scene closes by a general accumulation of tables, chairs, crockery, passengers, and stewards in the middle of the saloon. To realise what passed, imagine a large room dashed violently about, the persons in it thrown rapidly from one side to the other, backwards and forwards, and every moveable article of furniture becoming a restless missile. The astonishment is that the passengers did not suffer greater injury, but several, amongst them a lady, have been seri ously hurt. Who would have thought it ? will be the apology for all the omissions of precaution, and consequent mischief. On deck things were not managed much better than below. Indeed the disaster seems to have commenced with the breaking of the tackles of one of the forward boats suspended from davits. One of the accounts in the Times says : Efforts were made to secure the boat, but these proving un availing the captain ordered it to be cut away, at the same time directing the paddles to be stopped and the helm to be put down to bring the ship up in the wind, in order that the boat might drift clear of the wheel. The vessel did not answer her helm, but the boat fortunately went clear. There must be error here, as bringing the ship to the wind would have rendered it more likely that the boat drifting to leeward alongside would foul the wheel. Another account gives a better clue to the primary cause of the disaster. The ship was making head against the storm when the accident happened to the boat which made it necessary to cut it away, and in order that it might drift clear of the wheel, the ship's port side was exposed to the gale to make a lee for the boat to drive wide of the other side. The broadside once shown to to the wind, the vessel could never afterwards be brought head to wind, or near it. She had irrecoverably lost that advan tageous position for the whole of the storm, and lay like a log helplessly tumbling and rolling in the trough of the sea. The first account to which we have referred says that when the ship fell off, the captain ordered the head sails to be hoisted for the purpose of bringing her head up; but the effect would be the exact opposite, and if the head sails were indeed hoisted it was in the hope of wearing her, or bringing her round not to the wind but from the wind. The sails, however, were blown away, and it is probable that in so large a vessel, wanting head-way, sails will no more stand against the fury of a gale than they would if set upon an immovable body. The sails not being of a power to act on so immense a body, offer a dead resistance to the wind, and are torn to ribbons. One after another the paddle wheels of the Great Eastern were next carried away. In the endeavours to get the ship out of her jeopardy in the trough of the sea, the rudder head, a piece of iron ten inches thick, broke like a twig, and the vessel was then thoroughly disabled, the working of the screw having been stopped by the wreck of the rudder. Happily, she had amongst her passengers an American civil engineer, Mr. Towle, by whose skill a steering apparatus was ulti mately contrived, but from Thursday to Sunday the ship was labouring with the buffetings of the Atlantic, for it was impossible to do anything with her. No other vessel, it is said, could have borne what she bore, but the question is, whether another vessel would have been placed in the same difficulty and danger. We cannot but think that one of Cunard's compact, handy ships, with all things in due proportion, the steerage power equal to the length, would have weathered the storm which proved too much for the huge Great Eastern. In deed, the Candia, homeward bound, was near the same place at the same time; and the little brig Magnet, of Nova Scotia, made good weather of it, and lay by the huge ship in her distress. It may be, however, that the Great Eastern was in the focus of the gale. Bat be that as it may, the ques tion is whether so huge a body does not offer too much resistance to the wind and sea. A smaller vessel, while she presents a less surface, yields more. It is to be remembered, too, that in the Great Eastern a bold departure was taken from all experi ences. The steering power necessary to vessels of ordinary size was understood and easy of adjust ment, and also the effect of the sails, but with the vast length of the Eastern all this has been doubt ful and left to experiment. We may be reminded that she has before been found handy, but she was not then put to the extreme trial in which she has been found wanting. When she was designed the calculation was that the surges of the Atlantic would be to her only what the ripple of the Thames is to a river steamer ; but it would now appear that she is like those sovereigns who are either absolute in their sway over their subjects, or powerless against their revolt. A smaller vessel is like a constitutional king, whose safety lies in timely concession. Still it may be said that the ship has not been fairly tried, but whose fault is that ? If her boats had been properly secured her side would not have been turned to the gale, in order to get clear of one of them adrift, and she might have continued to hold her course head to wind, or to lay to in that safe position, with some head-way from the screw to keep life in her. But still it is an awkward fact that so small a derangement as happened, taking the best view of the case, was so disastrous and dangerous in its consequences, and irremediable so long as the gale lasted. HOOD'S LAST LETTER TO SIR ROBT. PEEL, AND THE REPLY.—" Dear Sir,—We are not to meet in the flesh. Given over by my physicians and by myself, I am only kept alive by frequent instalments of mulled port wine. In this extremity, I feel a comfort, for which I cannot re frain from again thanking you, with all the sincerity of a dying man—and, at the same time, bidding you a re• spectful farewell. Thank God, my mind is composed, and my reason undisturbed, but my race as an author is run. My physical debility finds no tonic virtue in a steel pen, otherwise I would have written one more paper—a fore warning one—against an evil, or the danger of it, arising from a c ne .. a s i literary m humanity, o ve n o e p n p t o i s n i t w e h to i c t h h a l t h c a a v t h e o h l i a m c d s s h o ak e sh are, a p s er a u r e t: sympathy, which felt with king as well as peasant, and duly estimated the moral temptation of both stations. Certain classes at the poles of society are already too far asunder; it should be the duty of our writers to draw them nearer by kindly attraction, not to aggravate the existing repulsion, and place a wider moral gulf between rich and poor, with hate on the one side and fear on the other. But I am too weak for this task, the last I had se' myself ; it is death that stops my pen, you see, and not the pension. God bless you, sir, and prosper all your measures for the benefit of my beloved country.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most grateful and obedient servant, THOMAS HOOD." This Sir Robert Peel answered in the following note :—" Dear Sir,—l must write one line to express an earnest hope that it will please God to restore you to health and strength ; and that you may be enabled to apply your unimpaired faculties to the inculcation of those just and really benevo lent doctrines which are shadowed out in the letter you have addressed to me.—With my best wishes, believe me, dear sir, faithfully yours, ROBERT PEEL." A telegram received by Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co. from Port Vendrel, announces that the submarine tele graph cable lately laid between that port and Minorca has been joined to the cable laid between Algiers and Minorca in September last, and that a direct communication is now OStablished between France and Algiers. L E N NY S. PARIS, SEPT. 23. The Moniteztr of this morning announces in its political bulletin that the King of Prussia will arrive at Compiegne ou the 6th October, and adds:-- "It appears certain that, almost at the same period, there will be another Royal visit to France." VIENNA, SEPT. 23. The Oest.-lieutsche Post and the Presse of to-day give a formal denial to the rumours of a Ministerial crisis which had been circulated by some other Vienna journals, and state that, on the contrary, Baron Schmerling on Saturday last conferred, and still agreed, with Baron Forgaoh, Aulic Chancellor for Hungaay, upon several administrative questions. ATHENS, SEPT. 20. The following fresh details have now transpired respecting the attempted assassination of the Queen of Greece. The miscreant is a student, named Durios, 17 years of age, the weapon he used was a revolver. On being arrested, he declared that he had no accomplices. The Queen displayed great coolness, and visited the Arsenal on the day following the attempt. FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 21. The ifioniteur of this morning says : " The Eeho d'Aveyron has received a first warn ing for having published an article odiously insult ing to a Sovereign who is a friend of France, and has been recognised by her." The Pays of this evening says " The rumour that General Cialdini will be re placed at Naples by General Fanti as Military Go vernor, and the Marquis di Villamarina as Civil Governor, acquires consistence." The Constitutionnel of this evening, in an article on the speech of the King of Italy at the opening of the Italian Exhibition, says : "It is only revolutionary and reactionary parties that demand the immediate evacuation of Rome, "Everything will be unravelled in time. " France will not have made an useless sacrifice, " The unity of Italy will be longlived and strong, because it is the will of Italy which alone accom plishes it. " France solely makes the stranger respect this patriotic work. " Italy, freed from the Austrian yoke, will work out alone the modification of her national existence. " France has neither seconded nor hindered the manifestation of the will of Italy. "This will has overturned the throne of Naples, and that very respect for the will of Italy renders it imperative on us to wish that the subverted throne may remain in the dust, and that the grand edifice of an united Italy may rise upon its ruins." BOURSE, Sept. 21.—Firmness continues to be the prominent feature of the market, while busi ness is still limited in amount. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 25c. Railways quiet, but firm. The following are the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents ... 96 20 Credit Fonder 1240 Do. end month.... 96 30 B e l g i an 41 — 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 30 Roman — Bank Shares 2925 ! Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 771 251 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 772 501 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1425 .. 1427 50 Northern New ditto 915 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1031 25 .. 1035 Geneva 357 50 .. 358 75 Southern 662 50 .. 665 Western Eastern Sardinian 365 .. Austrian Lorrbard •e 541 25 .. 542 50 AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 21. The Real Mail steamship Asia, which arrived here at 11.20 p.m. to-day, brought 69 passengers. She landed the Irish and English mails and five passengers, and proceeded at 11.40 p.m. for Liver pool ; all well. The Asia left New York on the 11th inst. NEW YORK, SEPT. 10, EVENING. (Per Asia, via Queenstown). The following is the text of the despatch read by the Baron de Stoeekl to President Lincoln at an audience on the 7th September : , " St. Petersburg, July 10. _ " Mr. de Stoeckl, &c., • "Sir,—From the beginning of the conflict which divides the United States of America you have been desired to make known to the Federal Government the deep interest with which our august master was observing the development of a crisis which puts in question the prosperity and even the existence of the Union. " The Emperor profoundly regrets to see that the hope of a peaceful solution is not realised, and that American citizens, already in arms, are ready to let loose upon their country the most formidable of the scourges of political society—a civil war, " For more than the 80 years that it has existed the American Union owes its independence, its towering rise, and its progress, to the concord of its members, consecrated under the auspices of its illustrious founder, by institutions which have been able to reconcile the Union with liberty. This Union has been faithful. It has exhibited to the world the spectacle of a prosperity without example in the annals of history. It would he deplorable that, after so conclu sive an experience, the United States should be hurried into a breach of the solemn compact which, up to this time, has made their power. In spite of the diversity of their constitutions, and of their interests, and perhaps even be cause of their diversity, Providence seems to urge them to draw closer the traditional bond, which is the basis of the ♦ery condition of their political existence. In any event the sacrifices they might impose upon themselves to main tain it are beyond comparison:with those which dissolution would bring after it. United, they perfect themselves. ; isolated, they are paralysed. " The struggle which unhappily has just arisen can neither be indefinitely prolonged nor lead to the total de struction of one of the parties. Sooner or later it will be necessary to come to some settlement, whatever it may be, which may cause the divergent interests now actually in con flict to co-exist. The Americannation would thengive proof of high political wisdom in seeking in common such a set tlement before a useless effusion of blool, a barren squan dering of strength and of public riches, and acts of violence and political reprisals shall have come to deepen an abyss between the two parties of the Confederation, to end, defini tively, in their mutual exhaustion, and in the ruin, per haps irreparable, of their commercial and political power. " Our august master cannot resign himself to admit such deplorable anticipations. " His Imperial Majesty still places his confidence in that Practical good sense of the citizens of the Union who ap preciate so judiciously their true interests. " His Majesty is happy to believe that the members of the Federal Government and the influential men of the two parties will seize all occasions, and will unite all their efforts, to calm the effervesence of the passions. There are no interests so divergent that it may not be possible to re concile them by labouring to that end with zeal and perse verance in a spirit of justice and moderation. "If within the limits of your friendly relations your language and your councils may contribute to this result you will respond, Sir, to the intention of His Majesty the Emperor in devoting to this the personal influence which you may have been able to acquire during your long residence at Washington, and the consideration which be longs to your character as the representative of a sovereign animated by the most friendly sentiments towards the Ame rican Union. "This union is not simply in our eyes an element essen tial to the universal political equilibrium; it constitutes, besides, a nation to which our august master and all Russia have pledged the most friendly interests, for the two countries, placed at the extremities of the two worlds, appear called to a natural community of inte rests and sympathies of which they have already given mutual proofs to each other. I do not wish here to ap proach any of the questions which divide the United States. We are not called upon to express ourselves in this contest. The preceding considerations have no other object than to attest the lively solicitude of the Emperor in the presence of the dangers which menace the American Union, and the sincere wishes which his Majesty entertains far the main tenance of that great work, so l a b or i ous ly raised, Old which appeared so rich in its future. " It is in this sense, Sir, ;that I desire you to express yourself as well to the members of the general Government as to the influential persons whom you maymeet, giving them the assurance that, in every event, the American nation may count on the most cordial sympathy of our august master during the important crisis which it is pass ing through at the present. " Receive, sir, the expression of my very deep conside ration. (Signed) " GORTSCHAKOFF." " The Secretary of State has delivered to Mr. Stoeckl the following acknowledgment " DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 1861. " The Secretary is authorised by the President to express to Mr. do Stoeckl, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia, his profound sense of the liberal, friendly, and magnanimous sentiments of His Majesty on the subject of the internal differences which, for a time, have seemed to threaten the American Union, as they are communicated in the instruc tions from Prince Gortschakoff to Mr. de Stoockl, and by him read, by His Majesty's direetion, to the President of the United States and the Secretary of State. Mr. de Stoeckl will express to his Government the satisfaction with which the Government regards this new guarantee of a friendship between the two countries, which had its be ginning with the national existence of the United States. "The Secretary of State offers to Mr. de Stoeckl re newed assurances of his high consideration. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. " Mr. Ed. De Stoeckl." The Washington Corresspondent of the New York Tribune, writes as follows : "Prince Gortschakoff, to give impressive earnestness to the meaning of the Emperor's letter, directed Baron Stoeckl to read it in person to the President. The Baron came on expressly for this purpose from New York yester day, and the despatch was read by him to Mr. Lincoln and the Secretary of State in the blue room. Prince Gort schakoff further directed the Russian Minister to make the Emperor's friendly letter public to the people of the United States through the newspaper press." It is reported that ten Confederate regiments have been withdrawn from Virginia for the pro tection of the North Carolina coast. It is also rumoured that an additional expedition to the Southern coast will be inaugurated imme diately. The Federal Government has forbidden the transfer agents of the New York Central Railway to transfer or pay dividends on stock to owners in the South. The Hammonia has arrived out. The Africa was intercepted off Cape Race on the 9th inst. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Provisions slightly firmer. Wheat firm and ad vancing. Flour improving. Corn and sugar, good inquiry. Coffee unchanged. Molasses steady. Cotton quiet; midling upland, 22c. to 222 e. Money tighter. Exchange steady, 1071. Stocks steady. New York Central, 73k; Erie, 251; Illinois Cen tral, 67,4. NEW YORK, SEPT. 11, Morning. The Baltimore American states that a Mississippi regiment at Leesburgh had revolted, broken their muskets, and started home. One company of the New York Rifle Regiment has attempted to desert. They were fired upon, and two men were killed; the remainder were arrested. General Polk has proposed to the Government of Kentucky that both Confederates and Federals should withdraw from that State and respect its neutrality. The greatest activity prevails in the Federal navy departments. The report of the death of President Davis is now totally discredited. The New York World states that an impression is gaining ground at Washington that the Con federates will await an attack from the Federals. The North Briton has arrived out. QUEENSTOWN, SEPT. 22. The Royal Mail steamer Niagara arrived here to day at 1 p.m., embarked the mails, passengers, and latest telegrams, and proceeded for Halifax and Boston at 4 p.m. ; all well. NEW YORK, SEPT. 7. The steamship Arabia arrived at Boston early on the morning of September 6, and the steamship Glasgow at New York on the night of the 4th. The New York Herald of September 7 gives the following summary of news :- 1 " A reconnaissance was made yesterday along the whole line of the Union army, from Alexandria to the Chain Bridge, and the condition of the troops proved to be most satisfactory. There are no longer complaints of dernoraliantinn or want of fligeipline the spirit of the men is described as most excel lent. The War Department is receiving fresh troops as fast as it can assign them positions. Some heavy firing in the direction of Chain Bridge yesterday created an impression that a con flict was in progress, but it proved to be only some artillery practice from one of the batteries. The re bel pickets, however, in the vicinity of Bailey's Cross-roads and Manassas Hill are within some 700 or 800 yards of four companies of the 37th New York Volunteers, company E, commanded by Capt. Kavanagh, being in the ad,vance, and completely under the fire of the rebel batteries on the hill. The most important news we have to chronicle to day is concerning the condition of affairs in North Carolina, resulting from the late naval victory at Hatteras Inlet. The rebels, alarmed at the expedi- tion under Stringham and Butler, have abandoned Ocracoke Inlet, spiking the guns before retiring, and leaving the white flag flying. The Government is thus in possession of Albemarle and Pamlico Sounds, and, with the exception of Beaufort, virtu ally commands with its navy the whole coast of North Carolina. The War Department sent orders to General Wool yesterday to hold Fort Hatteras permanently, and the fate of Beaufort cannot long remain doubtful. The moral effect of the capture of Hatteras Forts upon the Union men of North Carolina has been most striking. They are pour- i ing in by hundreds to Hatteras Inlet to take the oath of allegiance to the Federal Government, and otherwise demonstrating their fidelity to the only authority that can preserve their Stat© from the horrors of a despotism which is endeavouring to overrun the whole south. The loyal citizens of North Carolina have, perhaps, been made the vic tims of this despotism as much as any of the Border States. On Feb. 28 last the people of North Caro lina voted on the proposition of the Legislature to call a State Convention, and the following was the result :—Against convention, 47,269 ; for conven tion, 46,627—majority against convention, 648. Of those who voted for a convention it was said that more than one-half were Union men, who took the affirmative side under the impression that our dif ficulties might be healed by a body of repre sentatives fresh from the people. Notwithstanding that there was a clear majority of voters opposed to a convention as it was exhibited through the ballot box, Governor Ellis convened the Legisla ture in its extra session on the Ist of May for the express purpose of having a bill calling a regular Secession Convention, which was done in confor mity with the governor's wishes. On the 20th liay the Convention so authorised met at Raleigh, and on the following day they tumbled the old North State out of the Union. Is there any wonder, then, that after this proceeding large numbers of men flock to the standard of the country where ever an opportunity offers ? Governor Ellis, after thus endeavouring to deal death and destruction to the State, soon succumbed to the fell de stroyer himself, for he died immediately after the consummation of this nefarious scheme. Accounts from Leesburg, report 7,000 rebel troops there, and considerable activity in throwing up entrenchments at the junction of the Little Falls Road with the Alexandria and Leesburg turnpike. The pickets of the enemy line the shores of the Potomac above Leesburg, though there were no large bodies of troops there. " We have very important news from Kentucky, via Cairo. General Grant, with two regiments of infantry, a company of light artillery, and two gun boats, took possession of Paducah at 11 o'clock yes terday morning. He found the rebel flags flying, but they were immediately torn down by the Union citizens on the approach of the troops. He took pos session of the telegraph offices, marine hospital, and other public buildings, and issued a proclamati on to the people which we give in another colu mn. The town was in great alarm at the rumou re d ap proach of 3,800 rebel troops which were in cl ose proximity to Paducah. We have to record to-day one of the most horrible episodes that ever disgraced of Missouri, modern warfare on the part of the rebels namely, the destruction of a railroad bridge on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad, over Plate River, 9 miles east of St. Joseph, by which a whole pas senger train, containing nearly 100 inoffensive people, men, women, and children, were precipitated into the river, and 17 killed and others horribly mangled. It appers that the timber supports of the bridge bad been nearly burnt through, and the fire then extinguished, thus leaving no suspicious appearance about the structur e, so that when the train entered the bridge at night, the whole track gave way, resulting in the fear ful consequences above stated. It was subsequently discovered that some other bridges on the route to St. Joseph were similarly disabled, and the track obstructed with logs, in order to prevent assistance being conveyed from the town to the wounded vic tims of this cowardly outrage. The obstructions weze, however, removed, and a large number of phy sicians and others proceeded to the scene of disaster." The applications at the Sub-Treasurer's office in New York for subscriptions to the Federal Loan and for the new Treasury notes have been so numerous that the banks in New York have been authorised to issue Treasury notes over their counters in the same way and on the same principle as at the Sub-Treasury. Individual subscriptions paid into the Sub-Treasurer's office have some days exceeded 800,000 do's. The Kentucky State Legislature assembled at Frankfort on Sept. the 3d. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times states that the Federal government had given no instructions for the proclamation issued by General Fremont in Missouri, but that the measure is approved by the Federal Cabinet. The same cor respondent states that the Governor of Missouri is now in Washington, remonstrating against the ex tension of martial law over the whole of Missouri, and urging the restoration of the provisional go vernment, of which he is the chief. He is said not to be successful in his mission. LITERATURE. East Lynne. By Mrs. Henry Woods, author of " Danesbury House." 3 vols. Bentley. The readers of the monthly serials have from time to time found their attention attracted by narratives of varying lengths and remarkable • ability. The subjects, it is true, were frequently painful and startling, and belonged almost alway s , to the darker shades of life. Now it was a murder, now a forgery, now an unjust accusation, now a painful family secret, a warning dream marvel ' lously realised, or some one of the thousand disas ters, crimes, and catastrophes of every-day life. But while the lovers of tragedy and melodrama might be fascinated by the very horror of the sub ject, there was an attraction which readers of quieter and more cultivated tastes were equally sensible of, without perhaps accounting for it as easily. The charm lay in the style, in the natural and truthful delineation of ordinary life, and it is this charm which has ren dered " East Lynne," the last and longest of these stories, so great an object of attraction during the last few months. The plot of the tale is painful in the extreme. Lady Isabel Vane is 3 represented as gifted with all the qualities which should adorn a heroine by right. Her beauty, her gentleness, and her misfortunes secure the reader's , interest, and her miserable fate awakens his regret. She is the only child of the Earl of Mount Severn,who dies suddenly, leaving his affairs in a fearfully em ' barrassed state. His property of East Lynne has been disposed of during his life to a wealthy young lawyer of the neighbourhood, who bears a high re , pute in his profession. This laywer, Archibald Carlyle, is the hero of the book. His character is well kept up throughout, and he is represented as consistently kind, honourable, and highminded. On fthe :earl's death his creditors became furious, and the authoress takes the opportunity to intro duce one of her scenic effects, for one cr e dit o r bolder than the others arrests th e dead body of the earl as he lies in his chamber. Lady Isabel is forced to live with the new heir to the title, a distant rela tive,who is individually kind, but whose wife, jealous of her beauty and attractions, treats her with cruel harshness, and insults her openly. Mr. Carlyle, who has long loved her in secret, is emboldened by her miserable position to ask her to return once more to East Lynne as its mistress, and Lady Isabel, lonely and perplexed, and stongly urged by her hostess, who longs to be rid of h er, b ecomes his w ife. Unfortunately she has already given her heart away to one most unworthy of it, though, for a few years, all is comparative happiness. A complication of events awaken her jealousy of her husband, and at the same time throw ' her into the company of the designing Levi son, and in a moment of madness she forsakes her husband and children for him. The most extra ordinary point of the story comes further on. Yeats after, when she has long repented of her fault, and found out the true characters of her husband and Levison, when she is supposed to have been killed by a railway accident, she returns to East Lynne as governess to her own children. Mr. Carlyle is married again, to Barbara Hare, a prominent charac ter in the book. The story of'the murder, of which. her brother Richard is unjustly suspected, runs through the story, and absorbs a large portion of the interest. It displays much of the elaborate ingenuity for which Mrs. Woods is so remarkable, and the scenes in the court are ably drawn. Sir Francis Levison, who is the villain of the piece, is the real criminal, but this is cleverly concealed until the close, suspicion being directed to other parties. The secret visits of the unfortunate Richard Hare to his native place, where his own father is his worst enemy, are full of interest, and Barbara, who does not always please us, appears to most advantage on these occasions. Lady Isabel, who has been won derfully altered by the accident, which has dis figured her face by a scar, and rendered her lame and lisping in her speech, further disguises herself by her dress and by the adoption of blue glasses, and escapes detection. She suffers a martyrdom, living in her own former home under such unnatural cir cumstances, and however ably described, this part of the book is painful and unsatisfactory. The fail ing health of one of her children retains her, and at his deathbed she nearly betrays herself. She does not, however, long survive her child, and in her last hours her secret is known, and she dies forgiven by him she has so deeply injured. There are many other characters sharply defined and well contrasted. There is the violent irascible Judge Hare and his gen tl e b ro k en sp i r i ted wife, who i s afraid to give an order in her own house ; there is gaunt Miss Corny, with her extraordinary head dresses and her love of money. She is sometimes a little overdrawn. Then we have a crowd of actors concerned in the murder, and reappearing at inter vals. Altogether there is certainly no lack of va riety, originality, and talent, and however much we may dislike the point on which the story turns, we cannot fail to admire the skill with which the author rivets our attention throughout, and never suffers the interest to flag. Nothing is more difficult than to describe little home scenes and every day incidents with ease and natural effect ; but when it is done no writing is more fascinating. The great secret of Mrs. Wood's success lies in the easy art with which she carries us through domestic and social details as well as through the turmoil of an election and the excitement of a trial for murder. "East Lynne" can scarcely fail to take its place among the most prominent novels of the season. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—SATIIRDAY. The greater part of the day was devoted to settling on the recent events at Doncaster. There were several horses supported for both the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire Stakes, but generally to small amounts. Nothing occurred to show that anything was in . great force nor calling for particular notice. The pricesgalusotteadnyatshinhgay. pricestaken Doncaste c r E w s A e t e t e kffe d en a t s 100 to 7 agst Asteroid (offered) 1 3) 322 0 3055 0 tttt t 0000 0 116: agst agst t t DxDR P I ilie n anefop s efgo t onpr e oodha t ( free o ern ff e ( offered) taeadkk)ee (taken)(taken) — in glo b si e n e g n 2 3330 5 tt t oo o 111 agst t t t M c g o l u p r a e v ( 33 to 1 agst Babette filly ( K t a e k n e t ( n ta ( ) t k a e k n e ) n ) 40 to 1 agst Bvenhand (taken) CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 10 0 to 7 agst Asteroid (taken and offered) 25 to 1 agst Gabriel d'Estrees (taken) 33 to 1 agst Sporting Life (taken) 40 to 1 agst Queen of the Vale (taken) 40 to 1 agst Flirtation (taken) %ALLING IN THE COPPER' COINAGE.—On Satur day the authorities at the Mint commenced the exchange of the old coinage pence, halfpence, and farthings, for the new bronze coinage. No less quantity than £2O worth of the old coin will be taken, but a bonus of £2 per cent. will be given for the trouble of collection. In Prussia there Were five schools of navigation —namely, at Stettin, Stralsund, Pillau, Memel, and Dant zic, and a sixth one has just been created in connection with the School of Manufactures at Berlin. The number of pupils of the first five schools Was last year 273.