The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-15 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR 1N AMERICA. ( From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) THE NORTH-WEST. RACINE, WISCONSIN, SEPT. 23. Persuaded that nothing of importance could take place for some time to come in the vicinity of Washington, I left it on the 17th, when the New York papers were amusing their readers with the comforting assurance that "a great fight" was coming off " immediately," and when many people were actually coming to the capital to "assist" at the battle, in the French use of the word. I was anxious to change the scene and the air, and to ascertain, as far as a hasty journey would permit me to do, the state of feeling in reference to the war in the very district where the love of the Union burns with the brightest and steadiest, if not with the purest flame. On the night before my depar ture there were warning voices raised against any rash confidence in appearances. A spy had come in—the honoured and most trusted spy of all—and he had most violently and solemnly asseverated that before 24 hours had elapsed Beauregard would be hurling his battalions against the southward de fences of Washington. " If that is not the case," observed the trusted spy, " never will I ask for re liance to be placed in me again." All his reports had been found trustworthy np to that point, but 'when he ventured to declare that any general could move an immense army, such as Beauregard and Johnson commanded, in an attack on one point, without more than 24 hours' preparation, and when he asserted that men of military capacity, such as Beauregard and Johnson are said to be, would direct that mass on narrow converging paths, to be slaughtered by formidable batteries in a hopeless assault, it was plain that the information he gave could not be depended upon. The movements of the Confederates, indeed, indicated a desire to in duce an attack rather than a determination to assault; but, at the same time, they displayed an uneasiness which gave reason to believe that if they failed in that object they were not in a position to remain inactive, and that the future would develope different plans, such as I speculated upon in previous letters in connexion with operations on other points of the Potomac. It was known to me that no move ment would be made by General M'Clellan till he was ready ; and ready he was not likely to be for some fortnight or three weeks to come. Since that time, indeed, the imperfect information which has been received shows that the Confederates have conceived the idea of penning in the Fede ralists by earthworks commanding the roads along which they must debouch, so as to form a sort of investment; but this plan would require a much greater development than it has yet had to prove a very serious obstacle on the right of the Federal, position. It is a remark made by a British officer of experience, who recently visited the lines with General M'Clellan, that it is impossible to fight a battle on the ground in front of Arlington and Alexandria. And so, indeed, it is. There may be a tremendous brisk fight and considerable artillery duels, but anything like a regular organised com bined movement of an army of 60,000 men on either side in attack or defence is scarcely practicable as a single operation. If Shooter's-hill could be mul tiplied by 40 or 50, covered with dense woods, and placed in aline parallel to the banks of the Thames, with the intermediate valleys seamed with water courses and ravines, it would give some idea of the country from the front of Alexandria round to the positions on the proper right front of Arlington. In fact, now that the forests are cleared away so as to leave a fair open before the works for the fire of their artillery, although it is quite possible to ad vance within certain distances masked by the woods it is scarcely within the range of probability that an organised attack can be made successfully along the whole front. It would be interesting to inquire how far the passions of men are affected by the physical condi tions of the country in which they live. In war the operations of armies are regulated by those condi tions almost exclusively. It is a certainty that an army properly intrenched with great natural ad vantages of position will defeat an assailing force. A Thermopylae is only a great monument to the heroic dead who defended it if there be men enough to take it. A wedge only goes as far as the man can strike it, and If the tree is not split then and no other wedge be at hand, the iron is merely buried and lost. So far there has been a complete vindication in the United States of the wisdom of those old generals who generally in times gone by marked out certain; battle fields and strategical points in Europe for the decision of their conflicts and manoeuvres, just as in America the fashionable duelling grounds are set out and resorted to in the neighbourhood of the great cities. Gen. Beauregard seems inclined to prevent any such debouching of the army of the Potomac as that which M'Dowell conducted on his position at Manassas with every prospect of successful issue till Johnson's reinforce ment threw itself upon the straggling right of the Federal line; and it would surprise most military men to hear that he intended the works he is now throwing up merely as lines covering the advance of his columns of assault. But it appears to be true that the confederates are led to think they will speedily be conducted to a direct attack. If they are, their defeat ought to be a matter of positive certainty, for the Federalists will assuredly fight with every possible condition of success on their side. Under the circumstances it is probable that the first important offensive operation of the Federalists will be made by General Fremont, who is urgently called upon to retrieve the fortunes of the United States in Missouri. Lexington is lost. it is taken, too, by a force which must have come some thou sands of miles, without proper arms or transport. And now the Confederates are on the Missouri, high above Jefferson City and St. Louis, iu the north-west portion of the State of Missouri itself. The Federalists are assured this is just the place where their enemies ought to be, and that Mulli gan and his command were a mere bait for General Price, put there in order that General Fremont might close on him ; and they are told to be com forted because a great fight will soon take place, "in which the rebels are sure to be pretty badly worsted." In a former letter I expressed a doubt whether General Fremont was of the stuff of which great commanders are made; but I am by no means inclined to join in condemning him for the surrender of Lexington till fuller informa tion shows he was culpably negligent or careless, for he is not a man who would epose himself to such censure, particularly in the present state of his relations with the Government. General Fre mont may not be all his friends suppose he is ; b u t an earnest, e nerget i c, c l ear - s i ghted, and determ i ned man, quite above the commission of culpable neglects or foolish in differences. If he be guilty of either it will sonrrperrise me, though it i s qu i te pos sible that his d have been misunderstood or disobeyed ; or, a s ay ga m i i that he may not h ave h a d the means to effect that which ought to have been done. Here is a State larger than Ireland, and disaffected to the core in many counties to the Fe deral Government, or rather to the Ya nke es," surrounded e a p surr ounded by Confederate St ates and sy mpa thies, and stretching far up on the flank of Illinois' and the great Abolition North-West. It is overrun by small —small for the work—parties of Federalists, wh o move away in the air without any traces of opera tion from point to point till they are attacked, obliged to concentrate, to fall back, or to fight hope less battles, such as that in which the gallant Lyon was killed and his corps terribly defeated, and meantime the North is kept happy by promisss that these defeats were victories in their way, and that digesters are cunning devices to obtain triumphs; that Lyon's sacrifice is but the loss of a sprat in order to catch such a whale as Price. When Lord Clyde was placed in somewhat similar circum stances with regard to Oude—and that province or kingdom, by the bye, is not quite unlike the State of Missouri, being intersected by the Gogra, very much as the latter is by the great river from which it takes its name—he was urged by what is called publie opinion and the press in India to make au inua movement and to sweep the rebels off the soil. But he had already seen how utterly futile it was to attempt a permanent subjugation of the e country till he h rison at every strategic force su ffi cient to leave a gar he resisted all press post a s h e a d vance d, an d sare till he was able to me ye forward with such an army as would suffice to beat his enemies on the field and Prevent their reassembling in his rear and flanks by putting forces as he passed along in all the principal cities strong enough to overcome the populace and ' defend themselves. Such must be the it ilitat y ope ration in Missouri, where it is obvious a large pro portion of the population is hostile or indifferent. Now, it is for Gen. Fremont to show that he could not have done what was done by Lord Clyde, and I do not think he will fail in the proof, however diffi cult it may be for him to demonstrate that he could not have helped Col. Mulligan. Into the great Blair.cum-Fremont controversy let me not enter— let no one enter, indeed, who desires not to leave hope for the Union behind. It is to be dealt with only by those who can determine the amount of " shoddy" which can be properly shoved into a con tractor's cloth ; or, again, it is a case far those who are versed in military law, and can detect the differ ence between the choleric word of a politician and the rank blasphemy of a subordinate officer, On an occasion on which I met Gen. Fremont at Washing ton it was at the house of Mr. Blair, the Post master-General, and I was certainly informed that it was mainly owing to Mr. Blair's influence that the General obtained his command, so that this im broglio is the more inexplicable. The Colonel Blair who is under arrest is so well thought of by his friends at Washington that one of them did not hesitate to tell me all the early successes of the un fortunate Lyon were due to the political knowledge and guidance of Frank Blair. I am told that the prisoner refuses to be released, and insists on being in arrest till he is tried by court-martial—a proceed ing which will not fail to embarrass General Fre mont at this particular juncture. The place from which this letter is dated is one of the wonderful creations of the grain harvests and immigration in the vast prairie tracts which lie on the western shores of the Michigan inland sea. It looks like a Russian settlement—not un- like, indeed, to the suburbs of Kherson, with a view of wide, muddy streets, plank footpaths, wooden houses, shady trees by the roadside, spires and metalled domes and well-built houses of brick, rising above the dead level of the edifices of timber. Here, too, are to be seen the omni present German beer saloon and the well-known names and trades followed by the Teutons in Russ land as in the United States. Nor are railways absent, nor corn elevators, nor a great future firmly believed in , though Milwaukee on the one side above on the lake, and Chicago below, rather abduct the refreshing juices of commerce from the little place, and leave Racine somewhat sapless and desiccate. Here were drums and fifes for the Union, and more men for the Union—a very awkward squad to look at, but Wisconsin is not behindhand, and consider ing scanty population, has done well towards the Federal cause. The Racinites were rather proud of an officer from their city who was taken prisoner the other day before Washington, or who, more properly speaking, surrendered himself, and was walking back with his unsuspecting captors when, being asked to give up his arms, he drew a brace of revolvers, shot two of them as they marched before him, ran away, and finally escaped by shooting another of his pursuers, although he was hit by a buckshot through the cheeks, and cut in two places by bullets. His course was scarcely justifiable according to the rules of civilised warfare, for if he surrendered, as he himself states, he had no right to shoot those to whom he yielded up his sword. This by the way: Racine has several newspapers for its population of 4,000 or 5,000, and boasts of a variety of religions, not including the Spiritualists, who, to the disgrace of the intelligence and educa tion of the New England States, prevail in Con necticut and Maine, and spread across the States to the West, so that there is scarce a little town in which there is not an advertising " medium," who prepares prescriptions according to recipes given her or him by angels (on the cheapest terms) for all sorts of diseases, and practises all sorts of blasphemous, wicked, and shameless impostures on the miserable victims of superstition. It has a river and a port, and trading schooners, and is now sending out a feeder in the shape of a railway to the west to the Upper Mississippi at a place called Savannah, by which it hopes to coax more trade and more grain to its warehouses, although pressed by competing lines, The great influx of emigrants to this part of the world has been a good deal accelerated by the operation of the homestead law. Every man's house is his castle— no landlord to eject, no creditor to distrain. And so the sagacious poor have hit on an excellent plan never intended by the legislators of using this law. Whenever they spy a nice bit of land convenient for their purposes they assemble their planks on a Saturday night ; on the stroke of midnight they are at work ; on Sunday the house is completed ; on Monday they are " monarchs of all they survey— their right there is none to dispute." It was won derful to see how wretched some of those edifices are—open to winds and rain and all the skyey in fluences. The country around is level and covered with rich grass and patches of wood, which, in the varied hues the trees are beginning to assume with advancing autumn, show pleasantly to the wayfarer and refresh his eye. A few miles out to the *est and we reach the rolling prairie, which is, however, settled so thoroughly that but few portions are un tilled, and little is to be seen of the natural soil. Wooden houses are scattered over the great wave like undulations on which lie in stack and stook thousands of quarters of Indian corn and wheat running to waste. It is an actual fact that maize is so cheap that it is burnt in the railway engines as fuel, and wheat will not pay the cost of its re moval—and there may be starving millions in Europe ! Eyes, curious and Milesian, gaze out from shanties on the roadside, as the train rumbles by. " What's your name ?" asked lof a little boy. " I'm Mister Pat Hennessy," he answered. "Do you go to chapel ?'". No, I don't, it's too far away." Do you go to school "To be sure an' I do." And he could spell too, although he cer tainly was in imperfect clothing, and did not dis dain to tread the earth with naked feet. There is an idea—l don't know that it is a delusion— among the Irish out here that they have made the United States what it is; that they have built the cities, made the railroads, reclaimed the land, and done all the fighting—as they say they are doing now, though disposed to admit their co-citizens and anything but comrades, the Germans, have had a little to do in that way. The " Yankees," they add, "do all the talking." At Freeport, 50 miles or so to the west, I found a repetition of the other Freeport on a small scale, minus the lake—a town with a huge hotel, wonderful to say, quite full—a town which is not of age yet, as it is still a minor in years; yet it has three newspapers, gas in the streets, billiard-tables. Among some of the people in this district there is, wenderfnl to say, a tendency towards Secession principles, and an aver sion to the war, or rather to the war taxes ; and I was told by more than one or two that he and his neighbours would resist the payment of the impost. Pleasant times coming surely, if this feeling become largely extended ! Here I heard of a new form of the Protean jobbing which prevails in the States. When a colonel of a regiment receives orders to march, the agents of all the railways which by any possibility can make out that they can carry his men to their destination proceed to his quarters at once, and beset him with offers for the job, and attack every officer who may have interest with him, even giving large bribes in order that they may procure the conveyance of the troops, for which the Govern ment pays two cents. per head, or a penny a mile. Thus, soldiers have been carried by circuitous routes, and the public service has been interfered with. It is strange that the Government has not found it expedient to appoint a director and a board of railway transportation in connexion with the Quartermaster-General's Department, particu larly after the frightful accidents which have oc curred. If that were done and worked honestly, it would be well for both the soldiers and the public. The farmers are all expecting high prices for grain, and dream of wheat at a dollar a bushel. But they ' are not content, and the war tax is a bugbear which forbids peace and happiness even in this remote The same sentiment prevailed even in r egion. Pennsylvania, and one gentleman said the sub ject filled him with apprehension. The contractors and providers of army stov9 arq happy and pros perous, he said ; but they are not the people, and Pittsburg bas hard times before it if the war goes on, although Government orders come in freely and give a semblance of life to manufacturing industry. The mauvdis sujets, to be sure, are cleared out of the large cities into the ranks of the army, but there are enough left to give trouble if occasion arises. Some men praise the war, and expect good results from it in teaching the people useful lessons. To others it has been a source of wealth and novel prosperity. One house at Pittsburg had cleared a considerable sum by selling 1,500 bales of cotton of surplus stock at 25c. a pound to manufacturers in Philadelphia who had run out and could get no other ; another had made a fortune by shoe leather; a third had done well in iron. But on the whole trade was suffering, and there was no prospect of relief. There are remarks more frequently heard in conversation than seen in the public papers or in patriotic speeches, and people begin to see that, in the fight for the Union, what each man was proud of in his individual State may possibly be endan , gered as much as personal liberty, freedom of the press, and trial by jury. Whenever the doctrine of State Rights is opposed to the action and proceedings of the Federal Go vernment it is at once set at naught, for it is, in reality, advanced not for the protection of the State itself, but for the purposes of Secession and of Southern Confederation, and, in the name of ,the Union, the Federal Government tramples under foot a principle which, right enough in the abstract, is used, in the presence of a state of things to which it was never intended to apply, as the means of re sisting and destroying the Central Government ap pointed for all the States. How far State Rights can ever be restored must be matter for the future. In the name of Union the Federal Government is producing a homogeneous condition in the States, in which the Governors and Legislatures exer cise little more power than the Lord-Lieu tenants and grand juries of English counties, and between which there are boundaries not much more distinct and broadly marked. Wherever the internal polity of a State in which the Federal Government had power was opposed to it, no hesitation has been felt in dealing with the State as a subject province, in which martial law and force of arms were the only rule. The Supreme Ccurt's decisions are of no avail when there is no power to enforce them. Exclusive legislation and supreme jurisdic tion within their own limits, claimed by the States, ,and said to be guaranteed by the Constitution and by decisions of the Courts, cannot be admitted by any Power on earth, when both are used to destroy it ; but it is felt that the Government, which sends orders by telegraph all over the country to arrest insignificant persons in places where the Courts are open and the Judges are sitting, and which refuses to let the accused go before a jury, is doing more than is required for self-preservation. I have got away so far from Freeport that I can only say it was the limit of my journey westward, and that on Wednesday last I returned from it on my way to Washington. In passing through Ohio there were indications among my fellow passengers of discontent and ap prehension—an idea that Government was going a little too far, and that Mr. Seward was somewhat too much of a Grand Vizier in his style of conducting business. A propos of Mr. Seward, I may observe that his acquiescence in certain unknown, anony- mous accusations in secret memorials against me, and his hypothetical insinuation that I have per verted the hospitality I am said to have received, to the detriment, and have used it for the misrepre sentation of Republican institutions, are neither candid, nor generous, nor " hospitable;" nor can they be well reconciled with a spirit of justice when it is considered that Mr. Seward declares he never read the letter complained of, and therefore did not know what it contained, although he appears to have accepted as true all the representations, what ever they may have been, of those who thought fit to address memorials to him respecting my communica tions toyou. Before I left Washington I wrote to Mr. Seward to ask if any such memorials had been re ceived, and stated that I was anxious to reply to them, but the reply from the State Department was that Mr. Seward had not seen any such documents as I referred to. With the matter itself I must leave you to deal, merely remarking that I utterly deny I have abused any "hospitality" whatever. Mr. Seward is surely the last man in the world, or ought to be, at all events, who would restrict freedom of speech on the part of a foreigner, even though he may not be more intelligent or respectable than the other foreigners who have entered the ranks of an army which, according to Mr. Lincoln, contains the mate rials for whole Cabinets, Ministers, and Generals wholesale in its file. If he had read the letter referred to he would have been utterly astonished at the exceeding absurdity of any charges based upon it of enmity to the United States or their theories of government—though I maybe permitted to say I don't like the lettres de cachet or arrests by telegram, and then refusal of trial. Let the mem bers of an English club picture such a scene as this : —A body of men in plain clothes march up the steps, forbid any one to leave the house, place guards in the hall, take the keys out of the doors, proceed to tear up the floors, to disturb the cellars and throw over the coals—refuso to show any warrant to any of the members, and merely state that they are look ing for concealed arms by authority of the Marshal, and then leave as they came, without the produc tion of warrant, or showing in dress, uniform, or badge that they are really constables, or employed by any authority whatever. And yet this is what took place at the Maryland Club in Baltimore the day of my arrival—a club of the most respectable gentlemen in the State—without a word of excuse, explanation, or apology. It is not perverting hos ' pitality, nor is it hostility to republican i ns tit u ti ons , I to condemn such acts as these. MIRACULOUS ESC,IPE OF A WHOLE 110 USEHOLD. Yesterday morning, shortly before two o'clock, as a police constable of the H division was passing along his beat, his attention was suddenly attracted to the premises belonging to Mr. S. Davis, a corn chandler and seed merchant, carrying on business at No. 169, St. George-street, in the East. Smoke which he saw issuing from the ground-floor ware house, at once satisfied him that the building was on fire, and without a moment's delay he sprung his rattle, and aler repeatedly knocking at the front door he succeeded in making Mr. Davis sensible of the great danger he and his family were exposed to. Other police-officers having arrived, some were sent off for the Royal Society's escapes and the engines. During the interval, Mr. Davis and several children made their appearance at the front window, the former stating that none of them could get down-stairs, owing to the density of the heated smoke, which no doubt arose from burning hay and clover seeds. The police told him to drop the children one at a time out of the window and they would etch them. He did as requested, and fortunately the only injury they re ceived was from inhaling the smoke. By the time the children had been got out, Conductor Douglas came up with the Royal Society's escape just in time to rescue Mr. Davis and his servant, there being then no other- means of escape. The engines of the parish and London Brigade under the direc tion of Mr. Brydges, the foreman the district, and engineer Maidman, were remarkably early in arriv ing, and the mains of the East London Company having been drawn, a copious supply of water was procured, and the firemen taking advantage of the same they went to work in their usual daring manner, but they were unable to get the mastery over the flames until the warehouse on,the ground floor and the contents were nearly destroyed, and the remainder of the premises was seriously injured by heat and smoke. The origin of the fire is un known. Fortunately Mr. Davis was insured in the State Fire-office. The Lord-Lieutenant's visit to Lord Castlerosse has terminated. On Wednesday his Excellency was present at a grand stag-hunt on the lakes. LADVERTISE3IENT.I—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.— The human Constitution.—The systems of thousands become impaired, and their subsequent happiness destroyed by the neglect of trifling causes. Every person has the power of efficiently repelling these by the use of Holloway's well known remedies. The mother or the nurse can always eradicate disease on its first appearance in their charges by means of these preparations. The Ointment is particularly well suited by its soothing, cooling, and heal ing qualities, and by its easy application to the little ail ments of childhood. It penetrate s f rom the :surface inter nally, and thus places •in the h a / 1 6 of an attentive nurse an efficient means of extinguishing disorders of the throat, chest, or belly, without alarming or annoying the child with internal rne(Wne, 4 111 E SUN, ISNDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1861. A REAL SOCIAL EVIL. Last week we had to report of an inquest at Holloway on the body of a young lady who met her death, as many other women have within the last five years, from the absurd and mischievous fashion of wearing enormous and distended skirts. From Wakefield we had an account of a female servant burnt nearly to death from the same cause, and yesterday a London physician walking in the public streets had his leg caught by a steel skirt and received very serious injuries. The remark seems to be a just one—that no fashion of dress on record has probably caused so many deaths. In the fatal case of last week the jury added to their verdict of accidental death "a strong recommenda tion that, from the numerous fatalities which have occurred in all classes of female society, the present fashion should be immediately abandoned." The deputy-coroner agreed with the jury. A wish has been more than once expressed that somebody would publish the number of victims to accidents from the use of crinoline and hoops since the present mania set in. In the last century there was a fashion of hoops which we all, in our young days, considered so foolish and ugly that it sensibly affected our impression of female character in that generation. The idea that our countrywomen could ever again adopt such an absurdity was scouted, when propounded by some philosopher who understood the laws of the human mind in regard to the authority of fashion. But the hoop of the 18th century was far less troublesome and mischie vous than that of the 19th. Readers of " Sir Charles Grandison" remember that Harriet Byron and her friends were wont to " slip their hoops over the left shoulder" in order to get into a sedan chair, and also to make room for the gentlemen in the coach. The roomy family coach of those days would not accommodate the gentlemen if the ladies' hoops had hung down. But the ladies were more conside rate then than now, and had their dress so mode as that the hoop would slip out of the way. The grates then stood higher and further into the fireplace ; there were no railway platforms, and no narrow steamboats from which victims could be swept to destruction by the ladies' petticoats. Bad as the fashion was, it did not compel the appeal to the conscience and humanity of the sex which our very juries now find themselves called upon to make. Nothing can be more distasteful to us, and to many others who will say " Amen !" to the com ment of this jury, than the petty tyranny which overbears the will and pleasure of women in regard to their dress, or which annoys them in their proper work and amusement of arranging themselves ac- cording to their own taste and convenience. True gentlemen were as heartily disgusted as any ladies when, some years ago, a dirty trick was resorted to discredit the Bloomer dress, which was supposed to have some recommendations in regard to health, cleanliness, and convenience, as well as grace. In stead of leaving women free to decide this for themselves, their judgment was overborne in a singularly disgraceful way. This was not the only occasion on which Englishwomen have, had reason to complain of molestation by masculine opinion in a province which is professedly their own. They have also, 'on the other hand, met with great and long-continued indulgence in regard to fashions pernicious to themselves and others. The bonnets of the last two or three years are declared by our physicians to be the cause of the great increase of maladies of the head and eyes; the rheumatism, the neuralgic pains, the decaying teeth, the in flamed eyes; yet the bonnets which Mr. Spurgeon would have Preached against, but that looking round him he " could not see any," have not been inter fered with by coroners' juries, or by patriarchal domestic authority, any more than the tight lacing which has tortured to death many a poor martyr to a conventional idea. This very evil of crinoline and hoop we have borne now for above five yeas, with more or less discontent, but without interfering. The date is fixed, and will be remem bered in history, by its being a trifle older than the Prince Imperial of France. It suited his mother's convenience to adopt the fashion when his birth was expected ; and " all ladies in all lands" in which French fashicns bear sway had senselessly followed the lead of the Empress till they have be come responsible for more deaths, as we before observed, than any other fashion ever caused. During these five years we have done our best to be patient under an evil which we hoped would be short-lived. We have had no comfort in social meetings, because no dinner-table and no ball room, no box or stall at the theatres, no carriage, and no boat could accommodate both our families and ourselves. We have found it difficult and dis agreeable to walk with our wives and daughters on pavements and in lanes and country footpaths made for people more naturally dressed. We have seen the choicest flowers in our gardens, and the most cherished plants in our greenhouses cut off by the hoop, We have paid .a fare and a half each for wife and daughters in travelling by coach in rural dis tricts, and have lost all our pleasure on board steamboats from the anxiety of watching lest any of our party should sweep a child over into the lake or river. Our wardrobes afford no room for our clothes, because the women of the family want more space than they can get. For five years we have not had room to turn our selves round in our own homes. The cost of female dress in a household when every gown and petticoat, from the wife's to the cook's, is twice as large as it ought to be, is no small consideration to the bre ad - winner of the esta blishment ; and a graver one still is th e e ff ec t . on the morals, sense, and taste of the maid ser vants. In the recent report of the Education Com missioners there is an anecdote of a school filled by 150 girls, nearly all of whom would afterwards be domestic servants. Of those 150 scarcely one had a pocket-handkerchief, and scarcely one had not a h oop— a thick, hard, hea d v y y, unyielding hoop. After a n address by a la who remonstrated againt the folly, and cited Miss Nightingale's ex cellent remarks on crinoline petticoats in her "Notes on Nursing," many hoops disappeared, and pocket-handkerchiefs became more common. The girls who did not yield had the example of ladies and their maids to plead for continuing to require yards of space apiece wherever they went. But what a prospect was before them ! The cook could not pursue her business without incessant personal danger; the housemaid may meet the fate of other housemaids, and be burnt to death upon the hearth ; and the nursemaid is more likely than not to push some of the children off a footbridge, or a river side path, or from the causeway into the road. Such things as these we have borne for five years with out further resistance than a declaration of our distate to the fashion, and an occasional hint of its inconvenienceS, and of the effect produced by this folly to the general estimate of female sense and delicacy in our day and generation. The matter has now become more serious. It is a question whether we can be justified in permitting . a practice which we were anxious to keep our tem pers with as a nuisance, but which is now recog nised as dangerous to life. It would be a public ser vice if somebody would publish a list of the known casualties from this cause. Besides the deaths by fire there have been many by crushing under car riage wheels and in machinery, and in narrow spaces where a woman reasonably dressed would be in no dAnger. There have been cases of actual dis embowling from the gashes inflicted by broken steel springs and hoops. There have been 'drownings, wounds, cruehings, burnings, many torturing modes of death ; and it is no wonder that juries and coroners now appeal to the sex to cease their sub ornation of murder. How is it to be done ? some ask. Our country women are apt to follow a fashion abjectly, we are told, because they have a horror of appearing inde pendent in their judgment about external appear ances, and earning the name of being " strong minded women." Has it never occurred to them what dreadful strength of mind it must require to uphold a fashion which will inevitably cause the death by torture of a certain number of persons before the end of the year? We are told that the imaginations of women are too strong for their judgment•; and that they are carried away by an idea. We should lather say that it is from defect of imagination that they err in this case. If they could once see a girl in the agonies of burning, and hear her shrieks : if they could once encounter the little procession carrying a child to the hospital, his baCk broken by a lady's petticoat having swept him under the wheels of a dray ; if they could see a fac tory girl caught by •the skirt, and crushed before the shaft could be stopped, they would gladly wear any shape of gown for the rest of their days rather than be responsible, in the millioneth degree, for any more such intolerable spec tacles. But who is to move ? There are ladies, and not a very few, who have throughout de• clined making themselves foolish and mischievous; there are millowners who have interdicted crinoline in their factories, and hospital authorities who in sist on rational and inoffensive dress in the wards. But who will introduce a change in places of less grave occupation—at home, and in scenes of public resort ? Surely we may look for this to the first lady of the land. She has never exhibited the extreme of that or any other fashion, and it must naturally be a consideration with her that whatever mode she adopts will be exaggerated by others. When her daughter was on fire, some years since, from her hanging sleeve catching the flame as she was seal ing a letter, the Queen adopted in the royal laundry the mode of starching muslins which prevents their burning dangerously, and in multitudes of private houses the example has been followed. If it had been as well known in America the house of the poet Longfellow would not now have been desolate, and the six ballet-dancers at Philadelphia, whose fate has shocked us all, would have been living still. If the Queen were known to discountenance, practically and expressly, the fashion of hoops, which renders it but too easy to set women and children on fire, and impossible to put it out, the evil would immediately disappear from our draw ing-rooms—•presently after from the farmhouse, the shop, and the schoolroom—and ere long from the kitchen and the workhouse. Meantime a coroner's jury has pointed out to our countrywomen a respon sibility which we trust they will, of their own free will, take to heart, so as to be ready to follow the royal example which we anticipate; or, if that should be wanting, to act without it in that sphere of home in which every F,nglish matron is a queen. —Daily News. PEDESTRIANISM. WEST BROMPTON. FOUR MILES RACE BETWEEN DEERFOOT, THE INDIAN, AND WILLIAM JACKSON, THE AMERICAN DEER.—The Indian, it will be recollected, came to England from America early in August last, and although not more than two months has elapsed since his arrival, that brief time has been sufficient to win the foremost place as a runner. As all that appertains to the career and doings of this really wonderful runner possesses interest, we may here mention the men with whom he has already con tended. The first match was with E. Mills, of Bethnal-green, for £25 a side, and the six miles champion belt, when Mills proved the winner ; but although the Indian was upon that occasion de feated, the style in which he ran at once stamped him a pedestrian of high capabilities, and it is not a little for Mills to boast that he in this struggle had the fortune to be victorious, as the Englishman ran this race under no slight difficulties, having suffered, while training, with a bad foot. The next match in which the Indian figured was on Monday, Sept. 16, at the Copenhagen Grounds, Manchester, when, in the presence of thousands, he defeated John White, the" pet runner of the North," in this memorable four-mile race for £5O, the Indian being allowed 50 yards start. Although White was de feated in this brilliant struggle, it is only just to state that among his friends he lost no feather of his popularity, as no man could have struggled with greater perseverance ; and defeat by his admirers was alone attributed to the fact of his having to allow a : start to such an opponent as " the stranger;" who, it was admitted by all, was well able to have contended with the Manchester champion on even terms. After this race, on Monday, the 23d of Sept. at Hackney-wick, Deerfoot contended for the Ten Miles' Champion Cup and £6O in specie, when he again proved triumphant, running those who opposed him to a stand-still. After this he ran John Levett (once the fastest ten-mile runner of his day), at the Rotunda Gardens, Dub lin, for £5O, and disposed of him with ease. This race took place on Monday, the 30th of September, and on the following Monday (Oct. 6) he again ran in Ireland. On this occasion the dis tance was 12 miles, when he was once more victori• ous, displaying his speed and endurance in this struggle in a pre-eminent degree, the twelve miles being run in 65 min. 6 sec., beating his old opponent Levett, with three minutes start, at seven miles, and again running little Mills so completely down that on the termination of the tenth mile he fainted, and was carried off the ground. It will thus be seen, that with but one single exception, he has been successful in all the matches in which he has been engaged. The doings of William Jack son are familiar to all who take an interest in this popular pastime ; and, taking all in all, a more ex traordinary runner never stood before the public during the long number of years (more than 22) he has been "on the road." The multitude of matches he has during that period been engaged in, both in England and America, would fill a column. On American soil, 17 years since, he beat, at all distances, the "red skins"..brought against him, and at his age yesterday's defeat was a cre dible proof of how much he can yet do. The struggle took place yesterday, on Mr. J. Roberts's Ground, Brompton, and such was the interest the event produced that there could not be much less than 6,000 spectators assembled on the ground. Reserved seats were provided by the proprietor, for which an additional price was charged, but towards the time of starting so dense became the crowd that they broke down the barriers, and having achieved this, took possession of the green, and arranged themselves some three deep all round the course. Some who had paid the extra for re served seats, complained of being thus interfered with in this unceremonious manner, but it is only right to say that the proprietor might as well have tried to stay the waves as to have prevented the rush of tee human tide. The race had been fixed to be run at four o'clock, and soon after the time named the competitors made their appearance, Deerfoot, who was waited on by Mills, being the first to do so, although Jackson was not more than two or three minutes behind. The same excitement prevailed to get a peep at the " Apollo of the Forest" as on former occasions. The Indian was dressed in the same fashion as when he ran Mills at Hackney Wick, having his body dress of red and white, ornamented with bells, while round his head he wore a red braided band, in which was placed an eagle's feather. He was much thinner than when we last saw him, and altogether was in better trim than he had been on any preceding occasion. Jackson, who had trained at Wandsworth also, looked well for an ', old 'un," and so satisfactorily had he run his trials that it was considered by many that the Indian would have to do all he knew to win, the shortness of the distance being looked on as a point in Jackson's favour. As Jackson is of small stature, the contrast between the Paleface and the Redskin was striking. The competitors walked gently over the ground, Jem Mace (the Champion), who took great interest in the match, forming one of the In dian's train. As they proceeded round the ground they were received with much enthusiasm. To com plete the four miles they had to make the circuit of the course 16 times. The preparatory matters having been adjusted, the competitors took up their position at the mark, and on the word off being given bounded away. On starting the competitors went away level, and con tinued to keep side by side for something like 30 or 40 yards, when Deerfoot came to the front, and just headed his man. "The Indian has taken lead," was shouted by a hundred voices. As they went round the bend of the course the Indian made one of those spurts for which he is now famous, and though there was the same rolling, rocking gait in his action, for which he is noted, still, from the wonderful style in which hel was covering the ground, there could be no mistake in his run ning. Jackson, too, who in style and action formed a striking contrast to his opponent, was also run ning remarkably well, and on the finish of the first lap (440 yards) was not more than three yards in the rear, indeed, according to his accustomed prac tice he was waiting on his man. Throughout the second lap there was not the slightest variation in the positions of the men, the lead still maintained by the Indian, the " music of whose bells " an nounced his approach before he could be well seen. When the third lap (three-quarters of a mile) had been commenced, Red Skin was still about three yards in front of his opponent. As they were racing this lap, and while they were going dow n the de of the course, it was imagined that Jackson had b passed his opponent, but this was foun d not to e case; Mills, who ran just in front of his man, in waiting on him, being, by these in the distance, taken for the American Deer. No sooner d the fourth lap been commenced than Jackson mnatwa pretty effort, and closed upon his man. For a few strides they kept together, when Deerfoot gathered himself up, made a vigorous dash, and soon left his opponent, thus maintaining the lead to the finish of the mile, which was covered in 4 minutes 52 seconds, Jackson being not more than three yards in the rear. Throughout the fifth, sixth, and seventh laps the race was admirably contested ; for although the Indian had the lead, yet he was not more than two or three yards in front. When the competitors had finished the eighth lap, this being the end of the second mile — which was done in 10 minutes 11 seconds— ' they were all but shoulder to shoulder. As they went up the straight, for the commencement of the third mile, Jackson, with his arms screw ed well into his quarters and his head slightly bent on one side, made one of his well-known efforts to wrest the lead from his opponent. For some 30 or 40 yards they kept even strides, but again, as before in these spurts, did the Indian display his turn of speed by breaking from his plucky oppo nent—being, as he once more went away with the lead, cheered in the most enthusiastic manner. On the finish of the lap, Jackson was, as before, about three yards in the rear; when the tenth round (two miles and a half) had been accomplished, he was at least five yards to the bad, and thus he kept gra dually falling more and more behind until the finish of the third mile, when the Indian headed his oppo nent by at least a dozen yards. This portion of the match was covered in 15 min. 34 sec., and now it became evident that it was all up with Jackson. As he commenced the first lap of the fourth mile it was apparent he was in distress. The muscles of his neck were much swelled, while, with his head bent forward, and mouth partly open, his breath came with that sobbing sound which is a sure sign that nature must soon give way. This proved to be the case, for before this lap was ;finished Jackson stopped dead beat. Deerfoot, who was well ahead at the moment, was therefore left to run the last three-quarters of a mile by himself, which he did at unabated speed, the four miles being completed in 21 min. 2 sec. The Indian at the finish did not appear distressed. In fact, it was the opinion of many that he had run the latter part of the dis tance quite within himself. THE B.RI7ISH PEERAGE. (From the Dublin University Magazine.) The principle of primogeniture, infact, is stability, while that of partition is division. At the same time, we enter- I tain no bigoted prejudices that could prevent us from acknowledging that the prayer, esto perpctuum, should never be tranformed into the shape of laws for perpetuat ing either particular families or dynasties. The elastic ' freedom Britons enjoy in this respect is one of the best parts of their general liberty. The institutions of their country do not, indeed, admit of a Bonaparte rising to empire, or of a Lincoln obtaining the highest office in tho state; yet less barriers than exist in France oppose them selves to a man capable of elevation in British society, the manners of which, moreover, admit of more calm and real enjoyment of its various dignities than is possible in the Transatlantic Republic. While high birth retains its due value, this consideration is held insignificant compared with great personal merit. An examination of the British Peerage-book will show that the House of Lords has been recruited without regard to ancestry, though, at the same time, the honour of admission to that assembly is enhanced by the circumstance that it contains men of the most illus • trious lineage. Uninformed persons sometimes speak as if it were an :exclusive, antique, feudal caste ; but the bulk of the peerage is composed of comparatively modern titles, which have been acquired, for the most part, in the profession of the law, in the military, naval, and civil service of the Crown, and, to a large extent, by rising from the ranks of industry. Some of these latter instances furnish striking examples of that energy of character which enable the founders of those titles to raise their posterity to hereditary permanent wealth and rank ; and the accomplishment of this ;result, to which our laws sanction and favour, was, in all likelihood, their strongest incentives. In fact, the peerage has received continual ac cessions in an eminently commercial country, where every 50 years has, by developing some vast source of riches, seen a new and powerful class rise up. First, the Turkey merchants, then the planters enriched in the West Indies, and then the nabobs of the East, who mostly merged in the squirearchy or lordship of their native land. The enormous contracts and expen diture of succeeding wars created the loanmongers the application of steam and science to industry developed the manufactures, and enriched shipowners and merchants ; and the vast railway works have increased the great and still growing class of capitalists, most of whom have, in turn, aspired to take well merited place among the landed aristocracy. The transfers in England during the first half of the present century, the comparatively larger in Scotland, and superlatively vast in this country, prove how extensively the soil is put up for sale; and we believe we may assert, without fear of contradiction, that any capitalist who may prefer the smaller percentage land renders to either the high profits of speculation or early returns from the funds, can select to invest in the purchase of an estate in any country in the three kingdoms that pleases him best. Such being the freedom of the British soil, how are we to understand orators who harangue about the evils of the existence of "feudal laws and tenures" in Great Britain ? If they know what they mean by these terms, we do not. Excepting a very few estates feudally held—such as those settled by the nation on Marlborough and Wellington— every landed property is liable to alienation; and there is neither legal nor conventional barrier raised against the ad mission of a man of the people into the highest circle of the aristocracy. It has often been remarked that the nearer a country is to the capital—whether London, Dublin, or Edinburgh— the less lasting are its landed families, because its proxi mity to a centre of luxury draws the aristocracy into a vortex of expense, which sometimes engulphs the un guarded. Quaint old Fuller illustrates this action of a metropolis by the fable of the contest between the sun and the wind, which first should force the traveller to put off his clothes. The heat of the sun soon made him part with them, while the wind had only caused him to wrap them the closer round kim. " This," observed he, "is moralised in our English gentry. Such as live near London, in the warmth of wealth and plenty of pleasures, quickly strip themselves of their estates; whilst the gentry living on the confines of Scotland, in the wind of war, buckled their lands, like their armour, the closer unto them, and since have no less thriftily defended their patrimonies in peace than formerly maintained them in war. Happy for the social fabric of the three centuries has been the free dom with which wealth newly made in counting houses frequently supplanted ancient but:decaying fami lies. The aim of prosperous traders to settle their posterity in honourable and permanent positions in the neighbourhood of the cities where the accumulations were made, has pro bably acted asj the strongest motive for making those accumulations. But the two processes of sale and purchases are continual, particularly within widening circics round the, capitals ; and the instances, near Edinburgh, in which families, raised to wealth in the first generation, launched into ruinous ex pense in the second, and disappeared in the third, have been so numerous, that this social revolution was hitched into a proverb—" The grandsire digs, the father bigs, the son thigs," or, in ordinary parlance, the grandfather worked and made a fortune, the father built a fine house, and the son, "an unthrifty son of Linne," took, when lands and goods were gone and spent, to thieving. Merchants are proverbially princes to .day and beggars to-morrow, and so long as the genius for speculation is exercised by a mercantile family, this talent which gave them landed pro perty may deprive them of it, unless the prudent step of settling and entailing be taken by each succeeding her. Suck an act is a deed of insurance in favour of posterity, a fortification against extravagance. When omitted, there is no safeguard for the permanent prosperity of even the highest noble family;— And Helmsley, once proud Buckingham's delight, Slides to a scrivener, or a city knight. It was because the Duke was proud that the favourite seat of this vain-glorious Villiers passed into other hands, pride in extreme preceding his fall, and giving place to humble and honest industry. As our author shows in his chapter, called " The Doom of Buckingham," a singular fatality has attended every family that has borne this title. Our own day has witnessed the sale of much of the estates of Richard Plantagenet Nugent-Grenville-Temple; the late wearer of this ducal coronet, proving that the posses sion of a princely revenue is no security against running into the real poverty of debt. The vast treasures of art and literature collected at Stow, one of the finest show places in England, have been sold and scattered, and the splendid seat itself — How changed I Those oaks that tower'd so high, Dismember'd, stript, extended lie. Allegorically viewed, this has been the fate of innumer able proud families. Bat while those oaks of the British forest of society have fallen, other stems have risen in their place, and gradually taken rank among tho old timber of the land. y q u f r e o n m e e r e g of ni e the t f r t a h n r s o f e o b r a m t t transformation s o n f t t r h e e . Au l s n trian co a n r s n e i giments of four, 300 out of 1,200 officers who were not in active service have obtained employment. We stated some little time tack that the force at Tien-tsin would be reduced to two European regiments. The Indian forces move immediately. They obtain Indian pay and allowances, and of course the Europeans must be placed on an equality. It is said, however, that when the Indian detachments leave, the Europeans will be deprived of a large portion of their present emoluments, a proceeding not very fair or dignified on the part of the authorities. We cannot regard the withdrawal of the troops with feelings other than those of uneasiness. Oar private accounts from China are of a very unsatisfactory character. Mr. Bruce is in fear of his life at the capital, and, despite all assertion to the contrary, the treaty of Pekin is as much a nullity as was that of Tien-tsiu. We now hear of the death of the Emperor, and whispers that the Chinese are disposed to disavow the whole of the arrangements so hurriedly made with Lord Elgin in 1800. It seems a very difficult condi tion of affairs to deal with, and sending away our troops, the only kind of ambassadors apparently respected by this inscrutable people, does not wear the aspect of wisdOn2. — Army and Z'avy Gazette, CAS.e OF ALLEGED IMPOST.ZION. A - person - . styling herself Miss Mary Josephine Hilton Hu ;hes, and representing herself to be a young lady of rank and fortune, and a native of the isle of Fre.) ice, when on her way to Ireland from the Mauritius early in the present year, became ac quainted - with two ladies (fellow passengers), and relatives to a highly-respectable gentleman whose family live near Thurles. Miss Hughes so won the friendship of these ladies by her fascinating man ners an d well-told stories of the unkindness of her guardian, who, having fallen in love with her, and. being indignantly rejected by her, ceased to give her money, and as she was not of age, left her in a;stress, and then poisoned himself. They, believing her tale to be true, took pity on her and gave her an invitat' ion to Thurles, which she accepted, and remained t here several weeks. Miss Hughes also became tht guest of the Roman Catholic Bishop, with whom she dined. She was present at the imposing ca remony of the profession of a nun,. and devoutly t joined in all the religious observances which too l ' place at the time. When she made up he, mind to leave Thurles she had not money suffici cut to pay for a ticket to Dublin, and left a parcel -e 'ith the station-master in lieu of her fare. Having 6 pent some time in the metropolis she again visited 1 hinges, and on her arrival there told the station-mast 'er that she had lost her ticket and. had no money to ,pay ; but inquiry being made by the railway offices s , suspicion was excited. Soon. after she went to J emplemore, where she spent a •taken a d r i ve w ith h er one week with a young , lady who h a d b een a governess in Thurles, and havit. day to Borrisoloigh sh eyartook rathe r f ree l y , it i s alleged, of wine. Noth ing more was heard o f Mi ss Hughes until the month of June, when a clue was found to her whereabouts .in Dublin. Last Friday she again made her appear. nee at Templemore, and told the old story to the statio,l-master, of having lost her ticket, and being without money for another. From the railway station she e i lrove to Mrs. Connell's Hotel, and thence to Barnane, vhere on finding Mr. Carden from home she represented herself to Mrs. O'Donohoe, the housekeeper, as a. lady of rank,who had most important intelligent e for Mr. Carden, respecting a matter in which he was deeply inte rested, and she appeared greatl- - 7 disappointed at Mr. Carden's absence. Mrs. O'Doi iohoe invited her to tea, and offered her a bed, whicl i she graciously accepted, and on Sunday the phaet in was placed at her disposal, and she was drive, a into town and again went to the hotel, where, the afternoon, she was visited by a gallant captain L„ who, if report be true, opened his purse and gay ° a supply of money with which to pay her hotel b i 11; but having soon after gone out for a walk, and. not returning until a late hour, the hotelkeeper's sat spicions were aroused, and she determined to get rid of her visitor as soon as she could. Next day Miss R ughes ordered a car, and drove oat once more to Bs mane, where she took up her abode for the night, but not alto gether to the satisfaction of either b,c 'usekeeper or butler, for they took the precaution 1 - 1) lock her up in her bedroom, and to carefully lock and bar every door in the house; and next morning, ; is Miss Hughes and the housekeeper were sitting o.orafortably at breakfast, the former became greatly 'Alarmed when it was announced by an attendant t hat the super intendent of the railway police wish e d to speak to her with reference to unpaid railwiz,y fares. He was at once ushered into the breakfa St parlour, and Miss Hughes was shown in her true colour to the housekeeper, who instantly despatohed her on a car to Templemore, and a warrant being in the hands of the police, she was committed to Bridewell by Mr. Gore Jones, R.M., for fraud rwnd imposition. She was brought up at the petty sessions on Wednesday, the 9th inst., when tb.e magistrates, acting on the evidence of several rr iilway officers, who had charged her with defraudin g the railway, she was sentenced to pay a fine of 1:2, and in de fault of payment, to be imprisoned fox the period of two months in Nenagh gaol. The denouement of this affair has excited con siderable amusement in the neighbourhood of Templemore and Thurles, at the expense of those upon whom she so successfully practised. COMBY MARKETS. GLOUCESTER-0mi12 , . A better supply of English wheat, which met a good de mand, at an advance of is to 2s per quarter on last week's rates. Foreign sorts more inquired for, and in some cases Is higher. No change in the value of barley and beans. Oats very dull. COLCHESTER—Ocv. 12. A small supply of wheat ; a ready trade, at is to 2s per qr advance on last week. Barley in good supply; finest samples nearly maintained late rates, of her sorts declined is to 2s in price. Beans and peas very scarce, and the turn in favour of the seller. _ 'Wheat, white. 54s 64s Beans, Ma zagan ..34s 38s red 468 62s middle ASc 5ma11.383 44s Barley Oats CHELMSFORD—OcT. 11. A fair supply of wheat, the best samplcs of which rea lised an advance of is to 2s on last week's prices, with a good demand. Spring corn firm, except barley, which met a slow trade, at unaltered prices. Wheat, old white 30s 61s Yeas, Partridge,- ...36s 40s new 50s 67s White ..38s 44s old red.... 30s 50s Boiling ..40s 46s new 55s 61s Dun 34s 38s Barley 29s 40s Ditto new .. —s --s Chevalier 3os 41s Beans, Tick, old ..36s 428 Grinding 26s 35s new..—s —s Malt.... 6ls 67s Harrow Ticks ..388 44s Chevalier 64s 69s Oats 23s 308 new..—s —s Mazagan... 34 36s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—OcT. 12. We had fair supplies of grain to. day. Sales ready. Wheat rather dearer. Barley and oats much the same as last market day. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First.... 35s Od I 27s Od I 24s Od Second ..56s Od 31s Od 27s Od Third....6os Od 37s Od 30s Od ET—OCT. 14. the dose of the market Walls,End. d: a. Ridd011..... 16 6 Acorn Close.. 17 0 Tunstall Stewart's.... lB e Keiper Grange.... l7 3 Eden 17 0 Thornley Heugh Hall 17 0 Hartlepool.... lB 3 Hetton South Hetton.. 18 6 Hedley l6 6 Haswell lB 6 Byron ....17 0 Hunwick . 15 0 47 ; sold. 45 . COAL MAR (Frioes of Coal per Ton at s. d. Hastings Hartley IS 0 Walker Primrose 12 0 Carway and DuffiTn. Malting Do. Anthracite 21 6 Jonassohn's Hartley 16 0 North Pelton.. 13 6 Tanfield Moor 13 3 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 3 ilolywell 15 6 Lambert's West Hart- ley l7 9 Seaton Hartley 17 6 Walls End. South Hart1ep001......17 3 1 Ships at marke FOREIGN MAIL PACKET LIST. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Oct. 19. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Nov. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Oct. 19. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 19. ' -- via Marseilles Oct. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 11. via Marseilles Oct. 20. Lisbon Oct. 11. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 11. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .. Oct. 11. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Oct., 16: by U.S. packet by Canadian packet Oct. 16. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Oct. 10. Bahamas, via New York Oct. 24. Mexico All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 California,and British Columbia.. Oct. 14. BIRTHS. COLEBROOICE. — On the 12th inst., at Ottershaw-park, Chertsey, - Lady Colebrooke, of a son. CUST.—On the 10th inst., in Hertford -street, Mrs. Henry Cust, of a son. DECIES.—On the 11th inst., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the Lady Decies, of a daughter. MONSON.—On the 11th inst., at Kirby-under-Dale Rec tory, Yorkshire, the Hon. Mrs. T. T. Monson, of a daughter. ITAMILTON—ScnoLE MARRIAGES. 12th inst., at Chel tenham, Vi ce -Ad m i ra l Art h ur P. H am ilt on , of 48,Wim pole-street, Cavendish-square, and The Mount, Ching ford, Essex, to Ellen Gertrude, youngest daughter of the late Rev. J. Scholefield, rector of Barton -on-the-Heath; Warwickshire. YARDLEY—STUART.—On the Bth inst., at St. Peter's Church, Dublin, Thomas Yardley, Esq., 86th Royal Regt., to Minnie Louisa, eldest daughter of Lieut.-Cei s Stuart, C,8., Commanding 86th Regt. DEATHS. BOAZ.—On the 13th inst., at 6, Priory-grove,West Bromp ton, the Rev. Thos. Boaz, LL.D., aged 55. BYFORD.—On the 12th inst., at the Royal Naval Hospital Plymouth, William Byfo rd, Es q ., Master Royal Navy: aged 45. GREEN.—On the 6th inst., a o t f th is e ie ß ad o e y w al .h iLe i tc H l. o D u r s o e i , tw T i u c ii h . , E o br d i w d gaer-welts, r a e g e e n d , HAnnAr.—On the 12th inst., at his private residence, 49, Old Steine, Brighton, Henry Harrap, Esq., aged G 7. HUTCHISON.—On the 12th inst., at 19, Wilton-place, Bel grave-square, Johnllutchison,Esq., of Ashmor e , Perth silLiEe'll7'ogoeidc:s.: Ho -On the 13th inst., at 13, Victoria-grove terrace, Bayswater, Miss Catharine Holbr•oke, aged 71. R o sE.—On the 12 th inst. , at Home Lodge, Wimbledon, Frances, widow of the late Right Hon. Sir Geo. Henry Perth shire, Rose. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Office, No. 112,Strand s in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of Middlesex, TtieFiclaY, ()Qtoer 151186 L