The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-08 00:00:00

LAST NIGHT BUT FOUR OF 1t LFRED - AIE LI,ON'S PROMENADE CONCERTS THEATRE ROYAL' COVENT-GARDEN. 114thoven's Battle Piece, and the Comic Orchestral Fantasia " Three Blind Mice," every Evening." The Programme this evening will consist of popular Vocal and Instrumental Music, including Songs, (tc., by Mdlle. Parepa, Mme. Laura Baxter, and M. Fontanier—Part tiongs by 400 Members of the National Choral , Society—Grand Seim- Hon from La Travlata —Overtures, Dance Music, &c., kc. Commence at 8. Promenade, is. Connector, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. TO-MORROW (Wednesday), for the Benefit of Miss Julia Woolf, when Beethoven's Concerto in E flat will be per formed. Thursday, nos .ini's STABAT MATER. Friday, a MONSTER CONCERT, commencing at 7, and On Saturday (the last night of the Concerts) for the Bene fit of Mr. Alfred Mellon. ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison. Will OPEN for the Sixth Operatic Season on MONDAY, October 21st, when will be presented (first time) an entirely new Opera, by Howard Glover, to be entitled BUY BLAS. Full particulars in future advertisements. THEATRE.ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee. Mr. J. 13. Backstop. , THIS EVEN fNG the performances will commence with THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Atter which, a new Comedy, entitled TILE SOFT SEX Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Buck:Atone, Mr. Compton, Mr. IL Villiers, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. With PAUL PR.Y MARRIED AND SETTLED. Paul Pry (in a new position), Mr. C. Mathews. To conclude with THE CHRISTENING, Commence a 7. UI~YAI, PRINCESS'S THEATRE...- lA(4sft and Manager, Mr. A. Harris, THIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. After which, a new and original comedy, in five acts, writ ten by John Brougham, entitled PLAYING WITH FIRE ; characters by Mr. John Brougham (his 9th app earance ) , M r. Kyder, Mr. H. Widdicombe, Mr. G. Jordan (of the principal theatres of the United States, his 9th appearance in Eng land), Miss C. Lelciercq, and Mrs. Weston. With THE GARIBALDI EXCURSIONISTS. ROYAL LYCEU M THEATRE. Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, A MIDSUMMER'S EVE. Alter which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success ful comedy of WOMAN; or, Love against the World. tharacters 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, ADELPHL- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Open for the Winter Season. THIS EVENING, MUSIC BATH CHARMS. Messrs. D. Fisher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw. Alter which (245th time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D Bandeault, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson, C. .1. Smith. Romer, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boueicault, Miss Wnolgar, Mrs. Billington, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Toconclude with LOVE AND HUNGER. Messrs. Fisher, Emery, C. J. Smith, Mrs. H. Marston, and Miss K. Kelly. Doors open at half-past 6—Commence at 7. ( IANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Mr. SAM COWELL every evening at Nine and a quarter tc Eleven. Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE, TRAVIATA, NORMA, MARTHA, Are., 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. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, Is. T H E 0 X F O R D, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. Selections from Auber's New Comic Opera, LA CIRCAS STENNE by Madame Enderssohn, Mr. Greene, Mr. H. Herbert. and the Company. Also from Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simon Boccaneg - ra," by Miss Russell, Messrs. Mor ley, Greene, C. Greville, and the Company. Full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic Entertainments by Mr. and Master Wood, Harvey and French (The Nerves), Mr. E. Marshall, and Mr.W. RandalL Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAY.—Morning, 4h. 16m.—Afternoon, 4h. 40m To-monnow.-Morning, sh. Om.—Afternoon, sh. 30m. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, OCTOBER 8, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday. 52—lowest this morning and during the night. 69—this day at noon. BAltomnTEß-29.92 ; falling rapidly. WIND—S.-Westerly—light ; with very warm weather, and cloudy. • .; , ,,,•—`;:j r. 4 .1 A f 4 ,••• r . c kTet r iTi, #h r • - THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 8, ism Another Federal misfortune seemed necessary to keep the balance even. The centre, of course, shows little oscillation, the grand armies on each side the Potomac at Washington remain in statu quo, like the pivot of a balance ; but the scales, East and West, act with perfect propriety. The Confederates kicked the beam in the East at Cape Hatteras, so, of course, the Federalists perform the like feat in the far West in Missouri ; and, accord ing to all accounts, the Confederates seem likely to keep them hard up in that position in the most im portant State beyond the Mississippi. Where the fault lies, the North itself has not yet decided. Some blame FREMONT for not sending aid to Lex ington ; they tell us that he was at St. Louis with 80,000 men ready for his grand expedition down the Mississippi, and that he trusted, if successful, in the ma in attempt, the smaller mishaps would prove of little consequence; that the roaming bands of rebels on his flank, and in his rear, must soon give in. Others report that he had despatched Succours, but that the regiments sent were recalled, and ordered by the PRESIDENT to Washington. One thing is certain that the fort of Lexington was left to its fate; that it was surrounded by a vastly greater force of the enemy than it could well resist ; that the officer in command, and his soldiers, fought most bravely ; but they were human beings—they could not live without water—and the enemy was able to cut them off from their only supply, the Missouri. Four thousand Federalists therefore capitulated to THIRST, and were dismissed under an engagement to defend no more forts against the Confederation ; the officers, more wanted than men in the North, were prudently retained. And thus, all quiet on the Potomac, and up and down in the East and West respectively, is the sum of the last advices from America But what is Mr. LINCOLN doing, and his worthy Cabinet with him ? Spending money, at least, and rather faster than he is likely to get it, for the loan comes in but slowly. Nor should we be sur prised if the difficulty on this score proved even tually the most severe of all, and did more than any thing else to bring about some kind of accommoda tion. But the PRESIDENT is d o i ng far worse for his own objects—he is spending his moral strength. In every way he is frowning en negro emancipa tion. If the slaves of the loyal run away, he sends them back ; if the slaves of traitors run a way, he forbids a general to emancipate them unless it can be proved that their masters used them in further ance of the war. Worst of all, if coloured m en come to Washington from New York to fight in the cause of the States in which they were born, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the Anti-slavery President, strips the - United States uniform off their backs, and exclaims—non tali auxilio, nec defen soribus istis, tempus eget ! One would have thought that of all persons in the North, the free coloured men had a right to be led against the Southerners —but no.—as pel linaciously, as madly, as our Austrianised Ati • lusters refused to accept a Polish legion to storm Sebastopol, lest they should inconvenience that curse an d bane of the Crimean War—Austria, so does LINCOLN refuse the aid of coloured men, lest he should i nconvenience Southern Slaveholders. S uch a man dosemea to be beaten. one fact we aro pie%med to notice—if the men are 1 timorous, the women are coming right, at least one of the best of them, and one who has a European reputation. Mrs. BEECHER STOWE'S hist letter we were obliged to criticise more severely than we wished. She might be forgiven, for she took her cue from the second Preuidential mes sage, and declared that the North was fighting in z cause far transcending the smaller one of personal liberty for 4,000,000 men. But Mrs. STOWE learns from events, if Presidents do not. In a letter to the New York Independent, headed " The Valley of Humiliation," she calls on her people to regard the warnings of PROVIDENCE in the Bull's Run disaster : " Let us look, she says, at our defeat for a moment God ward, and ask if there be not a meaning in the sudden panic which was sent into our armies, as real as when the armies of Israel fled before those Canaanites they were tent to de stroy. Let us look to the ACHANS in our camp who hide the wedge of gold and the Babylonish vest in tents. Has there been no secret cleaving to the accursed thing which is the cause, and sun; and soul of the whole war ? While slavery was hemmed in by constitutional limits, and pro tected by laws, so that we could not overthrow it without fighting against law and destroying government, our course was ono of strict moral influence alone. But these Slave States have forsworn the Government and repudiated the laws which protected them in their ill-gotten gains. Why not we the opportunity to break every yoke ? Why not do it openly, bravely, and martially—not like lawyers and politicians, but like soldiers ? Proclaim liberty through all the land to all the inhabitants thereof. Let the President of the United States proclaim that all men shall hereafter be declared free and equal, and that the services of all shall be accepted without regard to colour." This is all admirable. The latter part of the ar gument is precisely that which we have often urged. The failure to perceive its justice convinces us that ABRAHAM LINCOLN is not the man we had hoped that he was. He is, morally, a man of little courage. He babbles about the constitution when those against whom he is matched have torn it to shreds ; and is tender over the claims of shareholders under the Constitution, when for the sake of slavery they have made open war upon the Government. As if anticipating the crime of putting American uniform off the backs of free coloured men, Mrs. STOWE re marks : "Some are shocked at black regiments—they are shocked too late. The question is not, Shall therebe black regiments? but shall they fight on our side or on the side of our enemies? One of the returned Massachusetts men testifies to having fought with a company of black soldiers in the Confederate army, and they fought hire tigers. Perhaps they fought under promise of emancipation—for that very freedom which we had power to give them, and did not give. We may rest assured, if we delay till we alienate the blacks, that the enemy will find means to turn them against us effectively, as they have done hitherto. Who dug the trenches and raised the masked batteries before which so many Northern men lie dead ? The negroes. Why were the Southern forces fresh and our weary ? They had the negroes to do their hard work. We have then no choice but to conquer with the negroes—to conquer by a glorious act of gene rosity and justice that shall make our cause go by acclama tion through the world—er to fall under the very hoof of the men whose wrongs we would not right, and whom GOD will justly make our punishers. The poor blind SAMSON in our land is still an awful and a fateful power—and all the horoscope of our destiny is affected by him." Noble sentiments, again, these last. How paltry do Presidential technicalities and timidity appear beside them. Surely the American people will hearken to their prophetess ; if not, we venture to predict that the result will be somewhat like that of old, in which the honour came not to the leader, but the " LORD sold Sisera into the hands of a woman." Assuredly a "woman's" counsels are now in the right, and if the cowardly American Government has not courage to adopt them, either ignominious defeat, or the people irresistibly demanding a FREMONT and STOWE policy, will be the result. Heartily do we concur with Mrs. STowE's closing advice :—" Let everyone ponder this. Now is the time—the accepted time. Now emancipation can be given as a gift—by-and by it will seem to be wrung out as a cowardly expe dient. Let the people petition the Government— let them demand that this mighty weight shall be cast into our scales now." Worthy this of the authoress of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Who is there for Canada P Among all our sixty colonies, it is, perhaps, everything considered, the one combining within itself the largest number of attractions. Not but that others are indisputably most alluring. Not but what there are induce ments almost irresistible in their way leading the enterprize of the intending emigrants towards Bri tish Columbia, towards Australia, towards New Zealand, towards the Cape, towards Ceylon, and elsewhere throughout our vast and scattered pos sessions. Comparisons, however, are rejected even in the proverb as odious. They are most frequently, without a doubt of it, very invidious. And we as suredly do not here propose to adventure upon any one illustration of their being so. We content our selves with reiterating the assertion that Canada holds out advantages to the emigrant almost un rivalled in their way, certainly altogether unsur passed. To begin with—the Colony, though a Colony, enjoys all the advantages of political independence. The Governor-General is no doubt nominated by the British Sovereign. And he, in his turn, nomi- nates the Executive Council. But—beyond the Governor-General, beyond the Executive Council —there are tie two chambers of the Canadian Par liament ! And these aro the nominees neither of Monarch nor of Viceroy—they are the free choice of the free people of Canada. The Legislative Council is the House of Lords—the House of As sembly the House of Commons—of this Canadian Parliament. Time was when the Legislative Coun cil was composed of the creatures of the Crown. That time has long since passed by, however, and both the upper and lower chamber of the Canadian Legislature owe their origin to the choice of the ect ors in Canada. Virtually, therefore, the colony, though a colony, is, we repeat, guaranteed its poli tical independence. Again, as to its dimensions. Surely there, too, Canada has its attractions. It holds out "room and verge enough" for the development of almost any amount of enterprize for centuries to come. No fears can then be entertained during many future generations like the fears that formerly affrighted the Rev. Mr. MALTHUS—an alarmist whose cranium must, we may rest assured, have been entirely deficient in the organ of philoprogeni- tiveness. Recolleet, just for an instant, the extent of the area of Canada and the amount of its actual population. The province which, as everyone knows full well, is only second among the powers of North America, extends (independently of its north-western territories) over no less than 350,000 square miles. Fiance, in fact, would make only two-thirds of it ! The British Islands (the nucleus of the mighty empire of which Canada is but one of the colonies) would make but very little over one-third of it ! All Prussia would not make one third of it ! Yet up to this time, notwithstanding the immense development of the colony during the last half century, the whole population embraced within its boundaries does not exceed an aggregate of 3,000,000! A country one-third larger than. France, nearly three times as large as Great Britain and Ireland, more than three times as large as the whole of Prussia—has no more inhabitants than our metropolis alone! It must be remembered, of course, that, while the area of the province ex tends, as we have said, over more than 350,000 square miles, of those 350,000 square miles no more T RE than 40,000 are as yet " settled" or inhabited. But even then, the 40,000 square miles already thus in habited constitutes an extent of territory a third larger than all Scotland, twice as large as Denmark, three times the size of Switzerland. And this, with :300,000 square miles and odd—yet to be cleared, and settled, and cultivated ! It is not simply, however, that wo would here insist upon it that Canada is geographically large, or politically independent, so far as relates to its own capacity for self-government. Its fruitful ness is so wonderful ! Its climate is so various ! Its facilities for communication by land and by water are so glaringly extraordinary ! To begin with the last mentioned class of ad , vantages. Wo will suppose that some merchant vessel sets out across the ocean from any Euro pean port, and arrives in due course at the mouth of the St, Lawrence. Let our transatlantic con temporary, the Canadian News, say then how it fares with that ship upon its arrival there at that earliest point in its destination at that broad out let of the giant stream of the St. Lawrence. Says our contemporary, putting its array of facts before us in the simplest, plainest manner imagi nable, "Four hundred and ten miles sailing from this outlet brings us to Quebec, the great seaport of Canada, with a large and increasing foreign com merce ; 500 miles sailing finds us at the limit of the tide-water, and we now begin in reality to ascend the stream of the St. Lawrence ; 590 miles brings us to Montreal, near where the Ottawa, or Grand River of the North, mingles its red waters with those of the St. Lawrence, after draining a valley of 80,000 square miles in area, lying to the north-west, and thus commanding the inexhaus tible treasures of the magnificent forest of a part of Canada, more than twice the size of Bavaria, and six times the superficial limits of Holland.' Nearly six hundred miles inland navi gation for merchantmen ! Then as to actual facili ties already secured to the colony in the way of railway communication ; enough if we say that already Canada has very nearly two thousand miles of railway virtually completed and in active operation. That is really and truly more accom plished in the way of railroad enterprize yonder in Canada than we have been enabled as yet to effect close at hand here within Ireland or in Scotland. To particularise merely one fact—" There is," we read, " an unbroken line of railway from a point 110 miles below Quebec, on the St. Lawrence river, to Lake Huron, a distance of 780 miles, and through its instrumentality a saving of five days is effected in the transmission of goods between the Atlantic and the Mississippi over all other routes," That, however, is merely one portion of the already vast railway system of Canada, when, as we have said, altogether very nearly 2,000 miles of railroad, or, to be precise, exactly 1,876 miles of railway are already completed. No wonder the rise in the value of land there has been so remarkable. No wonder that with the advantages alone already enumerated, the tide of emigration has set thither so strongly, so steadily, nay, for that matter, so increasingly. So considerable, in truth, let us here remark in conclusion, is the rate of advance made in the settlement of Canada, that it has been reasonably calculated, according to the progress now making out there, that in all human likeli hood within the brief internal of another decade the inhabited portions of Canada will equal the whole of the fifth of the great European Powers, that is, the whole of the Kingdom of Prussia. The Duke de Caumont Laforce and the Marquis do Caumont Laforce have left the Clarendon for Paris. The Marquis of Bute, accompanied by General Stuart and Mrs. Stuart, has arrived at St. George's Hotel. The Marchioness of Clanricarde left town yester day. morning, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Cork, at Marston House, Somersetshire. Earl Granville returned to town on Saturday. The Earl and Countess of Craven are entertain- ing a select party at Ashdowne Park. Amongst the visitors are the Earl of Sefton, Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton, Viscount Uffington, Colonel Bathurst, the Hon. Frederick Craven, Mr. Hope, Mr. G. G. Johnstone, &c. The Magyar Saito states that the Earl of Derby has been at Pesth for some days with his family, and has lately paid a visit to Arad. Lady Cowley left London for Paris yesterday, via Folkestone and Boulogne. Lady Bulwer, who has been staying at Dover, came to Folkestone to meet and accom pany her ladyship to Paris. LAND IN IRELAND.—An official return shows that the area of land in Ireland devoted to the growth of potatoes in 1847, immediately after the great blight, was only 284,116 acres, but the produce per acre exceeded 67 barrels of 20 stone weight each. In the following year the acreage was nearly tripled, but the product fell to 44 bar rels. The extent of land in 1859 was no less than 1,200,347 acres, but they yielded only 28 barrels each. Last year the acreage was 1,172,079, but the average yield had fallen to only 18 barrels, bein six barrels less per acre than in any previous year of the series alluded to. THE NEW ORDERS IN BANKRUPTCY.—We be Hove wo may state that the general orders under "the Bankruptcy Act, 1861," will be issued to the profession and the public on the 12th inst. The statute provides (section 232) that the aot shall commence and take effect from and and after the 11th day of October, 1861, and the publica tion of the general orders could not, therefore, take place until the day after the commencement of the act itself. This is, we believe, the only instance in which general orders under any new statute have been promulgated con currently with the law itself. It will be recollected that the Bankruptcy Law Consolidation Act, 1849, received the royal assent on the Ist of August, 1849, and that the orders under that statute were not issued until the 19th of October, 1852. BOROUGH BRANCH OF LONDON AND WESTMIN sTER BANK.—An enlargement of some importance to the Borough branch of the London and Westminster Bank is now nearly completed. The building adjoins the Bridge House Hotel, and is within a house of the open space in front of St. Saviour's church. The front as it is now seen consists of six windows on each floor. The openings on the ground floors are divided by Doric pilasters, resting on moulded pedestals. The openings at either extremity of the front are doorways. The first floor windows are en closed by architraves, and surmounted by pediments with convex freizes in the entablature and vermiculated key stones dropping from the bedmoulds to the souffits of the openings. Balustrades, slightly projecting, rest on the ground floor cornices in front of the first floor windows. The second floor windows have plain moulded architraves and cornices ; balconettes resting on enriched corbels, and pierced with connected circles, are placed at the feet of the windows. The moulded sills of the third floor rest on plain corbels. The openings are segment headed with key stones, connected with the necking under the principal cornice, which is enriched with block modilllons and din tels. The whole is crowned by a simple parapet. The front is executed in Portland cemtnt, and the works are being carried out by Messrs. Nicholson and Co. A good featly e about the building is, that all the mouldings of cor nices and strings are returned upon the flank walls, thus permitting it to be advantageously seen from every point of view, as well as from that directly in front of ft.—Build ing News. UNDEVELOPED TALENT. There have been very popular writers who were brought out by mere accident. They did not know what precious vein of thought they had at command, till they stumbled upon it as if by chance, like the Indian at the mines of Potosi. It is not much that we know of Shakspere, but it seems certain that it was in patching up old plays for acting that he discovered within himself a capacity for producing that which men will not easily let die. When a young military man, disheartened with the service, sought for an appointment as an Irish Commissioner of Excise, and was sadly disappointed because he did not get it, it is probable that he had as little idea as any one else had that he pos sessed that aptitude for the conduct of war which was to make him the Duke of Wellington. And when a young mathematician, entirely devoid of ambition, desired to settle quietly down, and devote all his life to that unexciting study, he was not aware that he was a poison of whom more was to be made—who was to grow into the great Em perer Napoleon. I had other instances in my mind, but after these last it is needless to mention them. But such cases suggest to us that there may have been many Folletts who nev er h eld a brief, many Keans who never acted but in barns, ma ny Vandyke who never earned more than six pence a day, many Goldsmiths who never were better than penny-a-liners, many Michaels who never built their St. Peters; and perhaps a Sh akspere who held horses at the theatre door for pence, as the Shaksper e we k now o f did, and who stopped there.—Fraser's Magazine. 'SUN, CONDO NT, TUESDAY RIigNING, OCTOBER 8, 1861. DEATH OF MR. HENRY KNIGRT.—This venerable and respected individual expired at his residence, at Eton, on Friday last, at the advanced age of 81. What old Etonian is there to whom the name of" Old Jack Knight" (as ho was commonly called) of the Christopher Tap is not familiar ? His kind and generous heart was ever ready to soothe the distressol, and many in his own neighbourhood will lament the loss of a warm-hearted friend. Ho has finished a long earthly career, and descended to the grave in a ripe old age, leaving behind him a lasting monument— a good name. Peace to his ashes. The Paris Bourse was weak yesterday morning, on reports that another advance was to be announced in the rate of discount of the Bank of France. At the same time, it is generally believed that the result of the recent special meetings of the directors is that the bankers of Paris have agreed to some proposal made to them by the Bank of France for mitigating the existing difficulty. The very heavy amount of dollars brought by the Mexican steamer has been disposed of at 691 d., for the Continent. This shows an advance of id. on the price realised for those by the previous packet, but small sums have been sold in the interval at higher rates, The bar silver has been disposed of at GOld., being an advance of id. A Paris letter in the .Nord says :—" There is no longer any doubt as to the official character of Borges. His aide-de-camp, who has just been arrested in the Neapolitan provinces, had on him important letters, signed Bosco and Lamoriciere. What then becomes of the protestations of M. Del Re, Minister of Francis 11. ? And what can be thought of a Prince who, whilst he declares that he has no complicity with the bands in Calabria and elsewhere, gives to M. Borges the right to call himself generalissimo of the King's armies ?" M. LAMARTINE.—M. Larnartine writes to the Paris papers to say that his detention at Macon is caused by his having found it necessary to superintend the vintage on his property there, as well as to remain in the country while working with redoubled ardour at the now edition of his works. 31. Lamartine now rises at two in the morning to his desk, and without interruption remains at it till about eight. He then takes a slight repast previous to going out and superintending some agricultural improvements taking place on the property still remaining in his hands. After the second detainer he again resumes his pen, and writes till coming up at dinner time. He makes it a rule, and has generally done so, not to write after nightfall. AN ENGINEER SCALDED TO DEATH.—Gleorge Mason, an engineer in the employ of Mr. Bull, a builder and contractor in extensive business at Southampton, on Saturday afternoon,went into the engine .room of his mas ter's works in James-street, in that town, and imprudently took off the valve of the blow pipe. There being no stop cock on the pipe, the steam and water immediately rushed out with immense velocity, and the incautious and unfor tunate man was fearfully scalded. Death at once put an end to his sufferings. His body, the skin and flesh of which peeled off on an attempt to remove his clothes, was removed to his residence in Coleman-street to await a coroner's in.. quest. IMPORTANT TO VOLUNTEERS.—On the 23d of September last George Gale, collector of tolls at the White Ladies turnpikegate Bristol, was summoned before the magis trates of that city by Mr. F. Shipton, solicitor, a member of the Bristol Volunteer Artillery Corps, for having demanded toll of him, he being in the uniform of a Volunteer Artil leryman, and being on his way to the practice ground of the corps, near the mouth of the Avon. Mr. Shipton was accompanied by other Volunteers, but it was admitted that there was a civilian in the carriage with them, and owing to his presence the defendant insisted on the toll being paid. On Saturday the magistrates delivered a lengthened judgment, in which after having reviewed the points raised by the information, which de pended mainly on the construction of the Act 24 and 25 Victoria, cap. 126, they came to the conclusion that exemp tion from toll for carriages conveying Volunteers could be claimed for carriages employed only in carrying or conveying Volunteers, and that for this reason the exemp. tion claimed in the case before them could not be allowed. Judgment was therefore given for the defendant. TRADE BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA.—A letter published in the Russian journal Amcor states that, on the 13th of June, a caravan of Russian merchants had arrived at Tiagne-Tzine. It had left a town called Torino Tjoou, about 20 versts from Pekin, embarking in three boats under the Russian flag. The Muscovite traders ap pear to have found that some English speculators had anticipated them. The Russian report describes the town of Tiagne-Tzine as populous, and the inhabitants actively engaged in traffic with English merchants. The latter had opened about a dozen establishments, well supplied with European goods, but at very high prices. The Chinese shops are principally stocked with English cotton stuffs, manufactured to suit the Chinese market. The Russians were waiting for the arrival of Chinese goods, of which the town contained but a small quantity, and had consequently done a very limited amount of business. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.—Austria and Hun gary once more stand face to face before Europe, Austria drifting every day more and more into the one feeble hope of repressing all life in her dependencies by a dexterous use of military force; Hungary asserting the majesty of the law, inspired with life and hope, united in itself, and show ing to the world the difference between a paper constitution and a real historical ane. How long this state of things may last no one can tell, but it is difficulty to see that any of the uses that Austria once served are now fulfilled by her. She no longermaintains the balance of power, for her divisions and weakness are the greatest of all encourage ments to France and Russia. She no longer upholds poli tical ideas superior to those current in her dependencies ; for Hungary has done her utmost to reject the Concordat which Austria has tried to impose on all her subjects. Sho no longer furnishes a race of princes and statesmen superior personally to the leaders of her provinces ; for no prince or statesman at Vienna is fit for a moment to bo compared to M. Deak. The only service we can ever expect from her is that she may last just long enough to prevent the consoli dation of Italy, the union of Germany, and the establish ment of an independent Hungary being accomplished be fore everything is ripe for their accomplishment.—Fraser's Magazine. Fisn BROUGHT FROM CHINA.—Among the late arrivals at Toulon, from China, is an intelligent Chinese, who has brought with him some four or five thousand young fishes of the best kinds produced in this country. These were transmitted in three jars, the water being changed frequently on the way. When the voyage from one port to another was too long for this, the simple expedient was adopted of throwing the yoke of an egg into each jar. On arrival our Chinaman was amazed at the price charged him for a fish breakfast at Toulon, and wrote a short memoir showing how anybody having a small pond at disposal may raise any quantity of fish at almost no ex pense. All that is necessary is to watch the spawning time, and throw yolks of eggs into the water from time to time, by which means an incredible quantity of the young fry aro saved from destruction. These specimens of the produc tions of far eastern rivers and lakes aro to be presented to the Minister of Agriculture, and will probably figure in the new aquarium in the Bois de Boulogne.—Galignani. . A FATHER MURDERED BY HIS SON.--On Satur day last an inquest was held at the Anchor Inn, Liphook, Hants, before Mr. Edward Hoskins, one of the coroners for the county, on the body of William Trussler, a sawyer, re siding. at Cornford, in the parish of Brarashott, whose death had resulted through injuries inflicted by his son, George Trussler, who was in the employ of his father. From the evidence it appeared that a man name d Willi am Windebank, also a sawyer, went to w or k w ith G eorge Truss ler about 7 o'clock on Thursday morning, when the de ceased upbraided them for being so late, telling them they ought to have done half a day's work. George Trussler said to his father " It's no difference to you if we do our work." Deceased said to him, " You aro spending my m oney," and then said to George's wife (who was standing about three yards from him, in the garden in front of the cottage) " Did you not begin at Bill (meaning Wind e bank), and he put you down on the bank, and rolled over you, and halloed and squeaked out like a horse and mare ?" 'This remark seemed to put the son in a great passion, and he took up an oven-peel lying on the bank, which formed the fence in front of deceased's cottage, and ran towards deceased, and struck him a blow behind the left ear with the blade of the peel. George Trussler held the peel in both bands, and the blow was a severe ono. De- Ceased fell to the ground, and blood immediately flowed from his mouth and nostrils. In falling, deceased struck his head against a flat paving -stone. Mr. Fredk. Vaughan, surgeon, of Bramshott, was sent for. lie found a wound behind deceased's left ear about an inch and a quarter in length, from which blood was oozing. Deceased never re covered consciousness, and died in about 12 hours after the blow had been struck. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against George Trussler," who stands committed to take his trial at the next Winchester assizes. SUICIDE IN A LIGIITIIOTISE.—Last week one of ho light-keapers stationed at the Longships Lighthouse, off _ - the Land's End, committed a most determined act of self destruction. It appears there were three men on duty at the time, and one named Harding had gone to the upper room t) take some rest, leaving the other light-keepers on duty. When a change in the watches came on one of the men on duty went to call up their comrade, and upon enter ing the room found him bleeding profusely from a wound which he had inflicted with a knife in his breast. The two men endeavoured to stop the bleeding by placing some tow in the wound, until assistance could be obtained. In this state the three men remained together through Thursday night, and on the Friday morning two black flags were hoisted as signals of distress. Assistance having arrived, the dying man, from the roughness of the weather, was obliged to be swung out of the lighthouse into the boat, and was thus brought ashore to tell his own tale. He declared that he did nut regret having done it, and that to render the wound more effectual he put the handle of the knife into it after he had stabbed himself. Mr. A. llarvoy, surgeon, of St. Just, was soon in attendance, but the man died very soon after ho was brought ashore. lle was no ticed to be affected very much in his head of late, and was often very desponding. He unfortunately leaves a wife and three children. An inquest was held on Monday, when a verdict of tow porary insanity was roturned.—Plywouth Journal. k r E f U. PARIS, OCT. 8. The Illoniteur of this morning, in an article on the prices of breadstuffs, says : " In view of the arrivals of corn and other pro visions from the North of Europe, it is likely that the rise in prices, which has already made a retro grade movement, will not be maintained. In any case the price of a kilogramme of bread will not exceed 50c., as the Caisse de la Boulangerie will cover the d fference, if, contrary to all expectation, no fall in the prices takes place. MADRID, OCT. 8. The Correspondencia Antografa of to-day says ; " In pursuance of instructions received here from Fiances IL the Neapolitan Archives will be given " The reception of the Moorish Embassy was magnificent." THE CHANNEL FLEET. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 8. Part of the Charnel fleet, consisting of the Revenge, Hero, Conqueror, and Centurion, arrived here this morning. The Aboukir is also expected. THE MEDITERRANEAN. SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 8. The Union Company's Mail Steamship Dane, Captain Hofmau, sailing hence to-day at 2 p.m., for Madeira, takes out 42 passengers, including Lord Kensington and party. The Dane is expected hero on her return passage about the 26th inst. FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 7. The Patrie of this evening says :—" It is asserted that orders have been despatched to the French ports for the organisation of the squadron destined for Mexico. Admiral Jurien Lagraviere, it is said, will command the squadron." The Pays says :—" The King of Prussia will leave Compiegne at one o'clock on Tuesday next." The same paper announces that an average fall of 2f. per hectolitre has taken place in the price of corn at various markets in the departments. The arrivals of grain at Marseilles during the last two days amount to 140,000 hectolitres. Further arrivals are expected. The price of corn is de clining. It is believed that the ex-Grand Duke of Tus cany will arrive here to-night. The King of Holland will arrive in France on the 12th, and will remain until the 19th inst. BOURSE, Oct. 7.—Stock has been rather offered, and prices are rather lower than on Saturday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 68f.20c. Rail ways heavy. The following are the last quotations :- 41 per per Cents ... 95 95 , Credit Fancier l2OO Do. end month.... 1 Belgian 41 lOl 50 3 per Cents .. 68 05 Piedmonteso Fives. 70 80 Do. end month.... 68 20 Roman Bank Shares 2915 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 718 75 Spanish Threes 451 Do. Account 720 , Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1342 50 .. 1345 Northern .. New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1023 75 .. 1025 Geneva 342 50 .. 345 Southern Western Eastern .. . S9S 75 .. 600 Sardinian 355 .. Austrian Lowbard 530 .. 531 25 RUSSIA. The commercial reports from the great fair of Novgorod state that, in consequence of the high price of American cotton, an unusually large quantity of that material, the produce of Bokhara and Khiva, was brought into the market. Not less than 50,000 poods were purchased for Russian manufacturers, by whom it is readily used ; the thread it makes is said to be of very good quality. A further supply of 100,000 poods, from the same source, will be imported into Russia before the end of the year. THE GERMAN FLEET. The principal members of the German National Association have held another meeting at Frank fort. The creation of a German fleet was the sub ject of discussion. A Dr. Metz, who represented the Committee of Coburg-Gotha, proposed that the money raised by subscription should be given to the Prussian Government and placed at the dis posal of its Marine Department. But other speakers declared that the present Prussian Ministry did not sufficiently possess the confidence of the German Liberals to justify that party in giving the control of the future German fleet to Prussia; they believe that the nation itself ought to direct the construc tion and arming of the fleet, which should after wards be entrusted to the Central Power of Ger many. The motion of M. Met; however, was car ried, though by a small majority. The money col lected in the Duchy of Gotha will be sent to the Prussian Treasury. NAPLES. A communication from Naples, 2d October, says ; —" For some weeks past the party of action have been preparing to offer us a demonstration extraor dinary for the anniversary of the battle of the Vol turno. M. Petrucelli Della Gatina, a deputy of the Parliament, and a clever and cutting writer, pointed out the real character of this manifestation in a late number of the Nomade. 'lt appears to us,' ho said, that it is time to have done with those organised manifestations, and with those theatrical evolutions which have no other merit than that of trying the patience of the gendarmes and of the agents of public safety—manifestations which only give pain to serious men, and excite smiles of pity from enemies and the indifferent. Those who com prehend the honour of the country, and who possess any feelings of dignity, ought to abstain from taking part in the acts of the ltalianissimi crOpera Contica.' This article obtained an immense success, and on the following day the Popoli d'ltalia, the organ of the party of action, published a very violent reply. Yesterday morn ing, about 10 o'clock, M. Petrucelli was at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, searching among the archives for matter for his History of Naples, when a person, a stranger to him, came and requested him to descend to the street and speak to a gentleman who wished to see him. M, Petrucelli replied that he could not derange himself without knowing who it was that wanted him. A quarter of an hour after, another person came with the same request, and received a similar reply. A few minutes after, M. Nicotera, a colleague of M. Petrucelli in the Parliament, entered, and a deplorable personal struggle took place between them. M. Petrucelli refused to go out into the street, and told M. Nicotera that, if he had anything to say, he might find him at his residence at any hour he would appoint. M. Nicotera replied by striking M. Petrucelli a 'violent blow on the head with a cane, which broke his spectacles. The latter e turned the blow with his fist ; the attendants in terfered, and the two deputies were parted. A Commissary of Police was called in to arrest M. Nicotera as the aggressor, but the latter invoked his quality of deputy, and walked away. This scene has produced a very painful impression. A duel is inevitable, and will take place at Pausilippo. The conditions will be decided on to-day by the seconds. M. Libertini, a deputy, and M. Albert Mario (husband of Miss White), have been chosen by M. Nicotera ; while M. Petrucelli has fixed on M. Alexandre Dumas and M. Cassola, formerly an emigrant." A postscript of the same letter adds : " Yesterday the four seconds were unable to come to any decision, MM. Dumas and Mario having declared themselves incompetent to judge the affair according to Neapolitan usages. They, accordingly, called in the assistance of Baron Gallotti and the Duke San•Donato to form a jury of honour, charged with deciding as to the necessity and conditions of the duel." VEN ICE. A letter from Venice of the 29th ult. says :—" It has been stated that three ladies, the Countess Labia, Mme. Secondi, and Mute. Gargnatii had allowed themselves to be locked up in prison, rather than pay fines to which they had been condemned for having attended, dressed in mourning, a mass in honour of Count Cavour. The last two have since been discharged from confinement, and a grand demonstration has been made in their favour by the mega notable persons of the city—upwards of a thousand visiting cards and numerous bouquets having been left at each of their houses. The Countess Labia is still in prison, the condemnation on her having been more severe than theirs. The desertions from the Italian army have considerably declined, and I learn from the frontier that for some days past none have been remarked. I am even assured that SGMC of the Neapolitans who crossed the Mincio, and had been incorporated in the Austrian army, were so ashamed at the recep tion given them by the populations, that they have gone back to the Italian ranks. The Austrian army has been much reduced, owing to numerous de tachments having been sent towards Hungary and Montenegro: it does not now greatly exceed 100,000 men, distributed in the different provinces." HAYMA.RKET THEATRE. Last night Mr. Edwin Booth appeared as Sir Giles Overreach, in a " New Way to Pay Old Debts," and achieved a success much greater than on the occasion cf his debut as Shylock. The delinea tion of a character so abounding in villany, so lost to all principles of honour, and so opposed to natural instincts of human nature, it must be confessed, was no easy task, yet nothing daunted by the trying ordeal, Mr. Booth set himself vigorously to the task, and the result was, as we have already said, a decided success. His performance bore evidence of the most careful study. The view taken of the character was a most judicious one, as it would have been a decided error to have attempted other than to point boldly out all the villanies of so great a tyrant. There were, however, certain passages in the part with which we cannot agree with Mr. Booth's idea; yet, taken as a whole, his Sir Giles is a very praiseworthy performance. In the fourth act, where the marriage of his son with the daugh ter of Lord Lovell appears to he approaching, he was particularly effective, and at the fall of the act drop he was loudly summoned before the audience. The fifth act was also given with great dramatic power ; and although the audience must have felt a relief in being well rid of so groat a villain, the curtain descended amidst great applause. Mr. Booth received the honour of an unanimous call at the close of the play, and a like honour was awarded to Mr. Wm. Farren, for the manner in which he acquitted himself as Wellborn. Comp ton's Marall was, in parts, exceedingly good, but the fifth act lacked that spirit which immun it from harm from Sir Giles ought to have given him. Mrs. Wilkins, as Lady Allworth, gave the lines very excellently. The play was "mounted" with good effect, and from the applause with which it was received throughout it will, no doubt, prove a successful hit for the talented manager of the little theatre in the Haymarket. CONSERVATITE LAND SOCIETY. QUARTERLY MEETING-(THIS DAY) The thirty-sixth quarterly general meeting of this society was held to-day at the offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand. Col. Brownlow Knox presided. The SECRETARY (C. L. Grunoisen, Esq ) having read the advertisement convening the meeting, The CHAIRMAN read tho report as follows : " The financial year having ended on the 30th of Sep tember, 1861, it is the pleasing duty of the Executive Com mittee, in presenting their Thirty-sixth Quarterly Report, to indicate in the annexed returns the highly satisfactory state of the society's operations during the past twelve months : Shares ' . Shares I Shares. Total Comp lete Quarter ending in Receipts. . prop res. Dec. 25,1860 ,' 213 51 i 294 £15,206 16 3 March 25, 1861 I 77 71 148 14,728 3 2 June 24, 1861 1 194 120 314 17,820 310 Sept. 30, 1861 ! 315 390 735 32,832 18 11 Totals for year 18611 859 632 1,491 80,588 2 2 Totals to Sept. 1860 12,107 3,148 16,055 481,000 8 7 Grand totals to Midsummer 1861 13,766 3,780 1 17,546 561,588 10 9 3,780 1 17,546 561,588 10 9 The foregoing returns of the financial year show an increase on the final quarter over the Christmas one, of £17,626 2s. Bd. ; over the Lady-Day quarter of £18,104 lbs. 9d. ; and over the Midsummer quarter of £15,012 15s. ld. Compared with the corresponding quarter of September, 1860, the increase is £6,743 18s. ld. ; and of September, 1859, is £15,709 7s. 10d. The increase in the receipts of 1860-18G1 over the cor responding financial year of 1859-1860, is £7,561 Bs. Od. ; and compared with the year 1858.1859, the increase is £31,565 3s. 4d. The quarter just terminated is the largest in amount since the formation of the Society, in 1852, and the receipts for the present financial year (with the single exception of 1854) exceed those of any other year. Total withdrawals from the formation of the society in Sept. 1852 to Michaelmas 1861 £244,581 is. 3(1. The returns of the register of the order of rights are as follow : Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total. 4512 3140 1651 9303 Deduct Rights exercised on estates, &c. 6701 Total .. 2602 The last share number on the register by seniority, on the 30th of September, 1861, is No. 13,128, and the last share number taken to the same date was No. 17,546. The total sale of Land for the four quarters just ended has been : To Christmas, 1860 . £3,841 3 0 To Lady-day, 1861 To Midsummer, 1861 4,366 5 7 To Michaelmas, 1861 Total for the year 1861 43,657 13 1 Grand Totals to Michaelmas, 1861 £298,748 4 0 The two auditors, nominated under the rules, by the exe cutive committee, aro William Astbury, Esq., and Newn ham Winstanley, Esq. Tho candidates for the two audi tors to be elected by the shareholders at the present quar terly meeting are the Rev. Mr. Goodehild, Mr. James Goad, and Mr. Harding. After the audit of accounts, the balance-sheet will be submitted to the members at the an nual meeting next December. The third estate acquired in Hertfordshire, and the third portion of the Woodbury Park estate, Tunbridge Wells, were allotted on Wednesday, the 17th of July last. The roads and drains on the last-mentioned property aro pro gressing rapidly, and the completion of the works on the Hertford estate, including a complete system of sewerage, will be forthwith proceeded with. The marked success which attended this year the allot ments of the second and third portions of the Woodbury Park Estate induced the Executive Committee (as but a small quantity of land now remains unallotted) to purchase another freehold property at Tunbridge Wells immediately adjoining the first estate, of which originally it formed a part. The only communication to this newly acquired land was from the London Road, but the society will make additional openings through the Oueon's Road, and thus facilitate a new access to the town and station through the Woodbury Park Estate. The allotment of the new pro perty (on which are sixteen substantially built cottages) is fixed for Wednesday, the 16th of October. Although Bessborough House and a portion of the Roe hampton Park have been sold, there still remain on hand about thirty acres of valuable freehold building- land to be disposed af, and it is the intention of the Executive Com mittee to offer the same, or a part thereof, under the allot., ment system in the ensuing spring. On the 7th of September last, the ninth year of the Con servative Land Society was completed, and the Executive Committee have commenced their duties for the tenth year with the conviction that the social and commercial advan tages which have been already secured for all classes of the community will b:: increased as the system,is better under stood by the general public. it has been the aim of the board to discourage wild and visionary speculation ' and to rest the prosperity of the society on a sound and safe basis, both for the monetary investor an d th e purchaser of free hold. land. RE-OPENING OF THE TEMPLE CHIIRCH.—On Sun day morning this magnificent church, which has been closed since the commencement of the long vacation, was reopened for Divine service. It is an annual custom to close this church fur a short period, to admit of any necessary repairs or renovation ; but the time generally allowed has this year been unavoidably exceeded, in consequence of some inter nal and external alterations having been made. There was a full congregation, and service was performed in the after noon - - MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—(This Day.) (Before the Assistant Judge.) John Willis was indicted for stealing a. quantity o I hoz ness, the property of the Duke of Devonshire. From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner was a kind of helper in the stables of his Grace, at his town mi . - (knee, and the property in question was offered in pledge at the shop of Mr. Attenborough, when the cre4 and other marks excited znnpicion, and the man oEering the articles was questioned as to how he became possessed of the property. He said the prisoner had sent him with it, which he did not deny. On being taken into custody, Willis said he had no intention of stealing the property--he only intended to raise a little money on them for a short time, and then redeem them. The prisoner, in his defence, said his wages were but 12s. a week, out of which he had to find his own clothes, and receiving a letter informing him of the illness of his sister in the country, he sent the harness to pledge, in order to raise a little money to enable him to go and see her. He had no felonious intention. The Assistant-Judge asked if it was true that th e man had but 12s. a week, out of which he had to find his own clothes ? One of the witnesses said ho was not a servant on the establishment of his grace; he was merely engaged by one of the coachmen to assist in the stable work. He had lodging over the coach-house, and was not prevented from doing anything else on his own account, provided he did not neglect to take care of the property entrusted to his care. The jury found the prisoner guilty, with a strong recom mendation to mercy. The Assistant-Judge said he would not pass sentence until he had some inquiry made about the prisoner, as it was possible ho might be deceiving the court. Two mon, named Godfrey and Price, were indicted for stealing a watch. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoners, on the pretext of looking at some furnished apartments, entered the house of the prosecutor, and while they engaged her in conversation they managed to make their exit, taking with them the watch, which was in the room. The Jury found both prisoners guilty. The Assistant Judge sentenced them to seven years penal servitude. SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Payne.) James Scandlan pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of bacon from the shop of Mr. Fisher, St. Andrew -street. Police-constable atts, 82 F, said the prisoner had been previously convicted for a similar offence. Mr. Payne sentenced him to eighteen months imprison ment with hard labour. POLICE iNTE'LLIGENCE.—(This Day.) MARLBOROUGH-STREET. APPLICATION FOR a PROTECTION ORDER. —Mrs. Amelia Paine, of 41, Wardour-street, Soho, applied to Mr. Beadon for a protection order, under the following circumstances : The applicant said she was married to her husband, Louis James Paine, about 13 years ago, and in 1859 he left her, but returned. In May last he left her again for the purpose of going on business to Liverpool. She had never seen him since nor heard from him, but she had seen aletter her husband sent to his late partner, Mr. Martin, dentist, of Newman-street, in which he stated that he was living with a female named Violet Allen in July last. She (appli cant) had set up in business as a sponge-bag maker, and wished her stock, of the value of between £5O and £611 4 as also some furniture, protected. Mr. Beadon, being satisfied it was a case for a protection order, granted it, the applicant being told to register it in the county court of the district. DARING ROBBERY AND VIOLENT ASSAULT.—John Bryant and Henry Adams, two determined looking fellows, were charged before Mr. Beadon with attempting to steal some linen from a barrow, and also with violently assault ing the person in charge of it, Robert Storey, of 10, White Hart-street, Kennington-cross. Storey said that on the previous evening he was coining down Gerrard-street with a barrow, on which was a quantity of linen he was taking home to his wife to wash, when. Bryant deliberately snatched up a bundle and was making off, when he said, " What's your game ?" The prisoners then drove his barrow off, and Adams gave him a severe blow under the ear, knocking him under a horse's head, and then Bryant kicked him in the ribs. He (Storey), however, got up and stuck to one of the prisoners till he was nearly throttled by him, when Inspector Walker came to his assis tance, and they were taken into custody. Mr. Beadon, ascertaining that the Inspector was at the sessions, remanded the prisoners for his attendance. THAMES. RAILWAY COMPANY'S NEGLIGENCE.—A seaman named Henry Wells, belonging to the Royal Naval Reserve, came before Mr. Woolrych, and complained of the non-delivery of a bag of clothes, value £lO, which he had delivered to art officer of the Great Western Railway, at their station ifl Bristol, on Wednesday, the 25th ult. The bag of clothes was directed to No. 2, Jamaica-place, West India-road, Limohouse. He had made inquiries at the Paddington station of the Great Western Railway, and his bag of clothes was not forthcoming. He had been sent by the clerks and guards to various offices to make inquiries. Ile went wherever he was told to go, but could obtain no tidings of his property, and he had been puttOserio:slo; and inconvenience. He could not obtain a ship without his kit. He might have obtained a berth in a ship about to proceed to sea ten days ago if his bag of clothes had been, properly delivered. Mr. Woolrych—Did you pay the carriage of your bag of clothes ? Wells—l did, sir. I paid 2s. 6d.—here is the receipt. (Ho handed to the magistrate a printed receipt of the Great Western Railway, signed " Paid H. Corfield.") Mr. Woolrych—Yes, that is a proper receipt. Where do you live ? Wells—At No. 4, Ratcliff• street, Ratcliff-highway. It is a hard case that I should lay out of employ and not bo able to get a ship. Mr. Woolrych thought it was a very hard case indeed. The Great Western Railway Company were liable to make good the loss of the seamen's bag of clothes, and to pay him reasonable damage for his loss of time and loss of ern— ployment. He thought the applicant could summon the secretary of the railway company in the Whitechapel County Court, and if not there at the Marylebono County Court, near the Yorkshire Stingo, Marylebone-mad. He advised the applicant to make one more application for his property, and compensation for his loss of employ at the Great Western Railway station, Paddington; to produce the receipt, but not to part with it, and if his demand was not complied with, to summon the secretary of the railway company. Ho hopod that company would act liberally by the sailor. A MARINE SWINDLER.—George Franks, a foreigner, aged 21, was charged with obtaining a suit of clothes and some money of Mr. Henry Fayle, outfitter, of Providence place, Commercial-road, near Limehouse Church. The prisoner, a dirty and dissipated-looking fellow, waited on Mr. Fayle a few days ago and represented that he belonged to the ship Lancester in the West India Dock ; that he had just returned after a long voyage, and that he had £25 wages to receive. He asked Mr. Fayle to provide him with some clothing; and he told such a plausible tale that Mr. Fayle was induced to supply him with a suit of clothes, neckerchief, stockings, and other things ; in fact the prisoner had a completely new rig out, and was also provided with 25., and subsequently with 3s. more, the prisoner having promised to pay for his clothing and repay the money when he received his wages. Al r. Fayle subsequently discovered that the prisoner was an im poster, and did not belong to the Lancaster at all, and had not a farthing to receive. He met the prisoner afterwards and upon demanding his money was violently assaulted by the prisoner, and knocked down. A description of the pri soner was given to a policeman and he was taken into cus tody. On being searched a document was found upon him from which it appeared that he had been making a false de claration, and cheated the Naval Reserve, but in what manner was not explained. The prisoner said Mr. Fayle made him put on the new clothes. His ship was gone to Alexandria. He left her in Ramsgate Harbour. Mr. Fayle came to his lodgings with. the old clothes left in the shop and carried away the now ones. Mr. Fayle said he had recovered the property of which he had been swindled. The prisoner had duped others, and that was the reason he prosecuted him. The prisoner said he was knocked down five or six times by Mr. Fayle, who fell down, and while he was falling he ran away. The prisoner was fined 20s. for the assault on Mr. Faylc, and in default of payment 10 days' imprisonment. lle was sent away in the van, and when ho comes out of prison other charges of swindling will be brought against him. The commercial accounts from New York indi cate an increase of gloom and dissatisfaction consequent upon the taking of Lexington, in Missouri, and the capture of 3,000 Go vernmen t t roops. Th e nex t movemen t of the Confederates would, it was supposed, be an att ac k on Jefferson city. Meanwhile, civil war had broken out in Kentucky, and the Confederates had fortified Munson's hill, which is only three or four miles from Washington. Some anxiety was also caused by the progress of enlist ment for the Federal army being slow, and the consequent prospect that it may be necessary to make draughts on the militia of the various States. Produce of all kinds con tinued to rise, but the effect on the rate of exchange had been temporarily counteracted by the purchases of wheat for France, and although the present steamer has brought £1,160 in specie, the quotation on London had receded from 109 to 1081 Tho belief that if the war continues the banks will, in the course of a few months, be compelled to suspend cash payments, was nevertheless, undiminished. The total subscriptions to the Federal loan of £10,000,00 0 had as yet amounted only to £3,600,000 from all parts, but the New York journals continue to express confidence that the banks would bike the fresh £10,000,000 required on Tuesday last. Among the mercantile disasters of the week had been the failure of Messrs. C. W. and J. T. Moore, one of the oldest and most respectable houses in the dry soda trade,