The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-29 00:00:00

YAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. Under the management of Miss Louisa Fyne and Mr. Wm. Harrison, Sole Lessees. THIS EVENING, THE MARRIAGE OF GEORGETTE Hies Thiriwall and Mr. A. Corti. After which, at Eight o'clock,RUY BLAS. Miss Louisa l'yne, Mesdames Susan Py ne. Thirlwall, Jessie M‘Lean ; Messrs. Santley, A. St. Albyn, Patey, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. Commence at Seven o'clock. - _ The Box-office open from Ten to Five daily. No charge for booking. or fees to Box-keepers. stazzo-Manager. Mr. Leigh Murray. Acting-"tanager, Mr. Edward Murray. rritEA'rRE.RO YAL, HAYMARKET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backatonc. TVIS EVENING, the neriormances will commence with RICHARD THE THIRD. Richard, Mr. Edwin Booth ; Elizabeth, Mrs. C. yo ung . Atter which, FITZSMYTHE OF FITZSMYTHE HALL. Mr. Buckstone and Mrs. Wilkins. To conclude with FISH OUT OF WATER. Mr. Compton Commence a 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager--Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING, MY AUNT'S HUSBAND. Alter which, at Eight o'clock, the new and success ful comedy of WOMAN ; or, Love against the World. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy , Addison, Herman Veen, Bruton, Mrs. Bowers, Miss Murray, .n€l. Miss Lydia Thomp son. conclude with AN UNPROTECTED FEMALE, in wuich Miss Lydia Thompson will danee a New Volunteer Quick Step. l'zices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 1.30 x-office open daily from 11 till 5. ROYP L PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- - and manager, Mr. A. Harris. Is E vENING, JEAN ETT.E'S WEDDING. Miss M. I] at ris and Mr. H. Widdicomb. A tter which, a new and original comedy, In five acts, writ t•l n by John Brough am, entitled PLA YING WITH FIRE ; ch al alters by Mr. John Brougham, Mr. !Oder, Mr. H. Wid dicombe. Mr. G. Jordan, Miss R. Lelc , ereq, Miss Angle, and Mrs. Weston. a conclude with a new Transatlantic Extravaganza, FO-CA-HON-TAS. Mr. John 13tougham, Mr. A. Harris, Ac. EW THEATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.- -L1 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Open for the Winter Seasor. THIS EVENING, MUSIC HATE' CHARMS. Messrs. D. b'isher, Romer, Warde, Misses K. Kelly and Laidlaw. Alter which (263 d time), THE COLLEEN BAWN. Mr. D lioucicault, D. Fisher, Billington, S. Emery, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, Earner, Howard, Ward ; Mrs. Boucicault, Miss Woolgar, 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 onen at half-past 6—Commence at 7. ' C INTERBU RY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. 1. r. SAM COWELL'S New Song. "THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT," on Wednesday, Oct. 30. Also, Grand Selections from STRADELLA, LA ritAVIATA, and DINORAH By Miss Russell, Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli, with a powerful Chorus. Solos on the Cornet-a-piston by the renowned performer Mr. LEVY. The Comic department comprises Mr. Sam Cowell, Mr. Marshall, Messrs. Harvey and French, and Miss Harriet Coveney Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Halt, Bd. ; Stalls and Balcony, le. - Jr HE O X F O RD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. New Comic Opera, " LA CIRCASSIENNE," and Verdi's new Grand opera, " Simon Boccaneg - ra," by the entire Company. Balfe's new ballads by Miss Russell and Madame E,,derssohn (composed expressly for them). Mr. Levy's Solos on the Cornet-a-piston, and varied Comic Entertain ments by Miss Harriet Coveney, Messrs. W. Randall, Harvey and French (The Nerves), E. Marshall, and SAM CO WELL. Hall, 6d. ; Balcony and Stalls, is ; Private Boxes, 10s. ed. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnis DAY.—Morning, 9h. 34m.—Afternoon, 10h. 14m. To-MORROW. -Morning, 10b. 50m.—Afternoon, 11h.:20m. THE WEATHER.—SuN OFTICE, OCTOBER 27, 1861. THERMOMETER, IN THII SHADE. SC—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 55 —this day at noon. BAnomnTER-30.15; falling. WIND—N.-Easterly—fresh ; with fine weather, but cold. OCT. 28. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 50—this day at noon. B•RONUTEIL-30.18. WIND—N.-Easterly—fresh and cold; with dull weather. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 1861. A Scotch Laird at home is in a wonderfully dif- ferent position from that filled by his feudal ances- tors. The Duke of ARGYLE felt constrained to ad- vert to it last Friday when instead of looking down from a semi-royal head of a long Baronial table, on long rows of retainers, he was himself the guest—the first in his own family—of his own tenants This was, however, no disparagement to his ancestors for " He was not vain enough to believe that he enjoyed more affection and attach ment from those among whom he lived than other representatives of the family of ARGYLL had done in former times. The truth was that this was a modern form of expressing a very ancient feeling. Scotland and this country had now long been in a state of profound peace, and there had eon time for the old feelings created by the old relations which existed between a Highland chief tain and his tenants and retainers to take the more modified and modern form of the relations which now subsisted between a landlord and his tenant." The Duke may be a free trader now, for all landlords have become so through the force of facts ; still he could not quite surrender the relation of landlord and tenant to the political economists. It ought to be something more he still thought than a pecuniary arrangement. " For his own part, it was his firm belief that it was one of the great public advantages of the country that, while there had been a continued advance from one generation to another, yet the ideas of to-day were always modified and took the form of old feelings and associations which had descended from former times. And he believed that the feudal element, which undoubtedly still did remain in the ordinary relation between landlord and tenant, was one of the great strongholds of the liberties of this coun try. It gave local attachment, and in the strength of local attachment and local feeling there was and there always had been the best security against the -inroads of a centralising tyranny. He said this, whether they referred to former or to present times; for whether those were away or not, of this he was quite certain, that the relation of landlord and tenant was not, and could not in its own na ture be, one of a merely and purely pecuniary kind." The Duke may be right, but unfortunately for him no artificial effort to reserve medieval rela tions can long resist the advancing modern life. Whether for good or evil, thetile ()f relations loyalty to a sort of mystic authority is fast of vanish ing. The good old serv ant , and the confiding tenant, who half worship a paternal master or "right divine" landlord , are becomi ng rarer every e a day; and the basis o f relations between al l classes is becoming, not exactly pecuniary, but honourable. Honourable fulfilment of the duties belonging to each party is now the proper ground of mutual social regard. And, it should be added, that the honourable claims of a landlord are every day viewed in a light less degrading *to the tenant, and will continue to be so in pro portion as the tenant surpasses in intelligence, skill, and often in capital, the feudal landlord, of by go no days, and makes it more and more difficult for the landlord to be his superior in anything but money. 117' do not see much in the Duke's reasons for his lo rv e of semi-feudalism. " Leases," he says, " are for ,`wenty years, when they exist, and he need Ilardly L 'ell many of those whom he saw now • tl6---,,....10. .* ' --4. ' - ''. -;# ."...,, • s : . r. 41. . '-"P ' ' lkai ‘ . ''• t.• '. ' \ ' rei -45 ' - r ';,-,..-- 4.:lV'' ~, „S ' ..*,..." 411•4t ~. . "" V,,i,,- . ......4.,,- ' , cc ~, - - ~ - THE SUN. rim SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 729, 1861. I present that with regard to the smaller class of he moral verdict of mankind upon the just ice of tenantry who had not, and never had, a lease in this the cause which they have risen to assert." country, their tenure had very often been much more permanent than that of those who had had leases. There were tenants in that room who had been on this estate, he believed, for many gene rations—for some centuries— in fact, from time immemorial. The relation between land lord and tenant, therefore, whether they looked at it with reference to the large tenements under lease, or with reference to the small tenements, was in its nature an almost permanent relation ; and it was impossible that in such a relation there should not arise, and there ought not to arise, feelings of mutual regard,'and he might say of mutual depend ence which were wholly different from those which sprang from a purely mercantile transaction." There are numerous relations quite as permanent as that of tenant. But from another part of his speech we should have thought the permanence itself rather questionable. We have heard of Scotch landlords clearing their estates of their yearly tenants, and , driving them from the land to catch herrings on the sea. What the Duke has done on his estates we do not know, but we do know that he himself tells us not that the surplus of a rapidly increasing popu lation has been obliged to leave their homesteads, but that the population has considerably decreased in Argyleshire ; which must mean that numerous tenants without leases had to quit their little feudal Edens, with the wide world only before them and "Providence their guide." But for the banks of the Clyde, and perhaps, in many cases, those of the St. Lawrence or the Ottawa, it would have gone hard it seems with fifty per cent. of the con fiding clients of the northern landlords. Referring to the state of agriculture in the county of Argyll, he said " That from the late census it appeared that during the last 30 years the population of the county had decreased by nearly 20,000 souls, being a decrease of very nearly 20 per cent. upon the total amount of population. Other counties had diminished, but not in the same ratio. The popu lation on the shores of the Frith of Clyde having undoubtedly very largely increased, they must come to the conclusion that the decrease in the purely rural and purely agricultural part of the country had certainly been not less than from 25 to 30 per cent. That was a very re markable fact, but he found that, coincident with this decrease of population, there had been an in crease in the valuation of the county to a very much larger extent. In the 16 years from 1844 the in crease in the value of the county had been no less than £73,800 a-year, equal to 30 per cent.; and he could not for a moment doubt that if they took in the other periods from 1831 to 1844 the increase in the value of the county had been no less than 50 per cent. ; an increase, the benefit of which was certainly not felt by the expatriated fifty per cent., however pleasant to the landlord and the luckier tenants. His Grace, however, does seem to have learned the lesson that the price of agricultural produce must depend upon the prosperity of manufactures and commerce. "I hope," he observed, "although there are some misgivings in the aspect of public affairs at present, that agricultural produce may still maintain such prices as fairly to remunerate the cultivator of the soil. We have now learnt, I think all of us, whatever political party we may have formerly belonged to, that we must look for the prosperity of agriculture to the prosperity of the manufacturing industry of the country. So long as they are prosperous and the demand is great, there is no question whatever that agricultural industry will proper and succeed. This VMS a lesson which his order were slow indeed to com prehend. It is well for us that they now under stand how entirely the prices of corn depend on the number of the non-agricultural population; of those who make it worth the farmers while to grow more than he and his family themselves can eat. This natnrally led him to the clouds across the Atlantic, which threaten our vast cotton manufac ture. A manufacture which has done more than any single cause to raise the rent-rolls of our Lords and Dukes ; but one for which they are only just overcoming the feelings of profound con tempt they entertained even a quarter of a century ago. Yet the cotton lords beat them. The son of a cotton spinner, who himself, in his holidays, when a lad, assisted, to our knowledge, in his father's warehouse at Man ehester, in serving provincial customers, over threw, as Prime Minister of England, the landlords grand monopoly, and removed their tax from the food of the people. Now the cotton lords fear for their supplies of raw material, and a ducal land lord dreads the effect of manufacturing embarrass ment on the prices of his tenants' produce, and therefore on his own bankers' balance. All the recent accounts from India give hope that general attention is awakened among the natives to the growth of cotton, and that, with some excep tions, there is general good-will towards the object• The exceptions we allude to are two :—One, that of some poor peasant growers in the interior who actually rooted up their crops on inquiries being made among them as to the probable yield of their crops; such inqiuries having always, hitherto, pre ceded increased taxation. They took, therefore, as they thought, the prudent precaution of presenting a low basis of assessment when their crops should be overhauled:by the collector. The other excep tion is that of the Punjaub agriculturists. Some years ago, they made great and successful efforts to supply an American deficiency ; they erected screws and gins, and invested much capital in cotton. Slavery increased its produce again— Manchester, of course, cared not a straw about slavery—lndia was deserted, and the money all lost. The memory of this makes, in colloquial phrase, the burnt child dread the fire. They want to know what reason there is to hope that, after they have incurred all the expense, they shall not again have their work thrown upon their hands. But taking a view of the whole country the prospects are very encouraging. From all parts the accounts are that a larger area of cotton has been planted, that ryots and Zemindars are alike interested in it ; that the Madras and Bombay Presidencies are making great efforts; and that the district accessible by the water carriage of the Godavery has considerably extended its culture of the now so eagerly desired plant. In Tinnevelly the efforts are represented as having been great and successful to improve the plant and the quality of its produce, by the introduction of dif ferent kinds of foreign seed. In Oude itself the great proprietors are beginning to give themselves to the cultivation of cotton. Altogether the response of the natives is quite as general as could possibly have been expected, and the only thing needed is, that the American slaveholders and slavehunters should continue for two or three years the it com bination to lock up their cotton, and India will have secured the essentials,—good plants, good clearing, and good roads. But there is yet another hope for India. America sends us tobacco as well as cotton. Vir ginia and Maryland, the very seat of the war, are the two great tobacco growing States. Their supplies will nearly cease, and .£5,000,000 of revenue depend on English love of the practice which Sir BENJAMIN BRODIE condemns. Sir BENJAMIN however, will not interfere by his advice with Mr. GLADSTONE'S calculations, if the " weed' , can but be obtained. It is, it seems, of universal growth in India ; but also of such universal con sumption, being the one luxury of the poor ryot, that none worth notice has been exported. No attention, moreover, has been paid to the quality, which is said to be capable of indefinite improvements. Expe riments with foreign seed, have shown that excellent qualities can be as easily produced as of the other; and as in the case of cotton, the preparation of the leaf for the market, which is now effected in the rudest style, may be also considerably improved. Mr. SETON-SAAR has proposed, it seems, to lay a tax on tobacco of 20 per cent. This it is urged, in the face of the prospects now referred to should be withdrawn. We should think it certainly will be. When we add to the above that the indigo planters and the ryots seem likely to settle their quarrel, we may conclude with a hope that the prospects of india are substantially improving. Tower-hill was yesterday the scene of a very interesting spectacle. Earl RUSSELL, who has falways been a staunch supporter of the Free Drinking-Fountains Associations, has given a practical proof of his conviction of their utility by contributing largely to the erection of a sub stantial and beautiful fountain in this populous locality. We have frequently expressed our cordial approval of this movement, so conducive to the health and temperance of the people, and The Duke, however, is wise enough to object to any interference on the part of England, in the quarrel which locks up the cotton needed by Man chester, in the plantations of the South. He objects, very properly, not only to breaking the blockade, but also to proffering our advice, which they would certainly little car© to receive. We might easily find, indeed, a strong case for recognising a Southern Government, and fetching away their cotton, whether Mr. SEWARD liked or not ; but at present, and if the Northerns behave with anything like decency, it is better not to go to war with them, and India will get the benefit of the embargo on the South. As to advice, we quite agree with the Duke, that we should de serve the cold shoulder from the Americans if, like the Emperor of RUSSIA, from very good in tentions, we proffered merely the general advice to make it all up as soon as they could. Such advice does seem to treat the ground of the dis pute as trivial; while, as the speaker justly ob served, " Whatever we may think of that con test, in fairness to our American friends we ought to admit that no more tremendous issues were ever submitted to the dread arbitrament of war than those which are now submitted to it upon the American continent. I do not care whether we look at it from the Northern or from the Southern point of view. Take the mere question of what is called the right of Secession. I know of no Go vernment which has ever existed in the world which could possibly have admitted the right of secession from its own allegiance. Gentlemen, I think we ought to admit, in fairness to the Ameri cans, that there are some things worth fighting for, and that national existence is one of these. And then, gentlemen, if we go to the South, if we look at the matter from the Southern point of view, difficult as it may be for us to do so, I must say also that I am not surprised at their conduct. If they believe —as they loudly proclaim that they do be lieve—that slavery is not an evil which is to be tolerated only and brought to an end as soon as possible, but a Divine institution for the benefit of mankind. to be maintained, and, if possible, ex tended, and which if it is assailed, even in a single outpost, must be defended to the death, then, even though the citadel of slavery be not assailed, but only an important outwork, then it is but natural that the South should rise in its defence. But, of course, in this, as in all other revolutions, those w ho take part in them mu st be judged finally by forcible testimony to its merits was given yesterday by Earl RUSSELL in his inte resting observations on the subject. After corn menting upon the many social and otherwise great wants of the crowded population of London, fresh air and pure water, and the importance of supply ing as far as might be these requisites for public health, he went on to show that the people fully appreciated the benefits conferred on them by these fountains. It has been computed that no less than 6,000 persons daily obtain water at the fountain lately opened at the Royal Exchange. As the noble speaker observed if we take only half that number we shall see the large proportion of persons who take advantage of the eighty-five fountains of th• metropolis. It must not be supposed that they only supply the needs of the thirsty traveller or diminish the temptations of the beershop and gin-palace to the working man : although these are great advantages. These fountains are largely used by poor persons in the neighbourhood who readily appreciate the benefits of dressing their food in the pure water supplied by them instead of the tanks and pumps they were formerly compelled to use. Every one must remember that one of the great aids to the cholera was the use of impure water, and those who have penetrated among our London alleys and bye ways, may well ask how anything else can be found in their vicinity. It is almost more than we could have hoped that the people should so readily avail themselves of the better and purer water offered to them, instead of showing indifference or ignorance of the benefit. The supply, however, is as yet far from meeting the demand. Eighty-five fountains, among a popula tion of more than two millions is a very small number, and it is a matter of surprise and regret that the :public who are generally so liberal in a good cause have not come forward more readily in their behalf. Lord RUSSELL said justly yesterday that this movement ought to be an object of municipal care. Up to the present time, however, such has not been the case, all the fountains having been erected by the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Assciations, aided by the voluntary contributions ofa few friends,among whom the noble lord is conspicuous by his recent munifi cent gift to the city. It is satisfactory to have the testimony of no less an authority than Dr. LANKES • TER as to the quality of the water supplied to these fountains. The impurities contained in the tanks and pumps from which the poor are forced in their absence to draw their supply, he considers are very de trimental to their health, and he expressed his hope that the public would give more ready help, since the association was sadly in want of funds. We hope the meeting of yesterday, and the example offered by Lord RUSSELL, Mr. GURNEY, and others may have weight with our men of wealth and influ ence, and go far to supply the existing deficiency in the required 200 fountains of the metropolis. The accounts from the Paris Bourse continue to show a diminution of anxiety. Money is in demand, but the supply is also good at 51 to 6 per cent, in the open market. A decline in wheat is reported from many of the principal markets, and especially at Marseilles, where the arrivals have been extremely larze. THE TREATRES. DRURY-LANE. The winter season at this national establishment com menced last night, when, after a very lengthened absence, Mr. G. V. Brooke made his re-appearance as Othello. The production of the same tragedy at another theatre where so much that had always been considered proper and correct had been swept away, and new situations and effects introduced, tended to heighten the interest of the perform ance at Olt Drury. On the entrance of Mr. Brooke he received a welcome that must have been exceedingly gra tifying, and the warm reception having been suitably acknowledged, the artiste proceeded with his part. In the first act, with the exception of the senate scene, lago occu pies the greatest importance; but the celebrated address to tho council spoken by the lusty Moor, was given with good effect; it being plain to all that the soldier, not the lover, was the model of Mr. Brooke. In the third act the true interest of the play commences ; and here it was the actor made some great efforts. In many of the passages he produced the finest effects, but then in others the over-elaboration and redundant elocution consi derably marred the performance. In the fourth act Mr. Brooke seemed to put forth all his power, and the applause was enthusiastic and unanimous. Taken as a whole, how ever, the performance is one of great merit, and if it is not marked by those exquisite touches of the French actor, it has all the grandeur of a great soul crushed and broken down by jealousy, passion, and remorse. The Brabantio of Mr. Mellon was the only part that was given with artistic skill, the other characters being sustained in the most inefficient manner. Miss Louisa Keeley made her first appearance at this theatre in a farce, by Stirling Coyne, entitled " A Terrible Secret," and by the freshness and humour of her acting, sent the audience to their homes in the best of tempers. HAYMARKET. Mr. Edwin Booth, last night, appeared for the first tim 8 in England as Richard 111., a character that few person since the death of "the Kean" have had the courage to essay. A crowded audience was attracted by the announce. meat, and if the anticipations of some were not realised to the full, it must be admitted by all that the performance was a very praiseworthy one. Mr. Booth's conception of the part is exceedingly good, and his elocution full of taste, but it lacks sarcastic humour and many other requisites that are required to give a true embodyment of the crooked backed tyrant. His scenes with Lady Anne were the most successful. Mrs. Charles Young as Queen Elizabeth gave the part with artistic skill and true womanly pathos, but the other actors seemed out of their element in tragedy. At the fall of the curtain, Mr. Booth received the honour of a call, which he very gracefully acknowledged. His next character is to be Richelieu. The house was most brilliantly attended. LYCEUM. The success of the new comedy " Woman" still con tinues; and owing to that fortunate circumstance, the production of the new drama "Peep o'Day ; or, Savourneen Deelish," is very wisely delayed. Mrs. Bowers has become a recognised favourite, although she had a very difficult task to perform, comigg after so accomplished an actress as Mrs. C. Young. Mr. Hermann Vezin and Mr. Walter Lacy continue to act their respective parts with all that care and finish which marked their efforts on the first night of the comedy ; and Mr. Addison is as effective as ever as the kind, good, and benevolent Irish gentleman. A more perfect comedy, or one better perfored in all its parts, has not been produced for years. ST. JAMES'S. The admirable play "The Isle of St. Tropez," which was so successful last season, was reproduced here last night with very great success. Mr. Wigan's acting as Menri Desart was the theme of general admiration and elicited the greatest applause. Certainly we know of no actor of the present day who can approach him :n the embodiment of parts similar to that he enacted last night. It was marked by all that reality for which he is so conspicuous, and the exhibi tion of the tortures produced by poison was the very height of the actor's art. It is almost needless to say it evoked the most rapturous applause. Mr. G. Vining's Antoine was in some parts good, but in others it was hard and unnatural. Miss llerbert was exceedingly effective as Amelia, so was Miss Kate Terry as Estelle. The house was very fashionably akended. SCHOOLDAYS OF SIR JAMES GRAHAM.—At an early age Sir James was sent to Westminster School, where he was contemporary with his friend Earl Russell, and several noblemen and gentlemen who have since become eminent in all the walks of life. As a school-boy, the young heir of Netherby was highly popular among his con temporaries, and was as remarkable for his quickness and intelligence as for his proficiency in all manly exercises. No youth of his day could feather an oar with more skill and precision, or steer a " trim-built wherry" more adroitly. From Westminster, in 1808, he proceeded to Cambridge. At this period young Graham was remarkable for the manly beauty of his person, and for a frankness and generosity of of disposition which endeared him to all his associates. Though foremost in all the manly sports and pastimes of the undergraduates, and engaged at every social and fea- tive party, he was nevertheless a diligent student, and even thus early was marked for the variety and extent of his attainments. CRYSTAL PALACE.—At Blondin's performance yesterday a momentary terror was caused by the sudden snapping of the balance-pole, which fell in two parts into the organ. The loss, however, seemed to have no effect upon the performer, for he at once made his way to the end of the rope, when a new pole was brought, and the remain der of the programme proceeded with. Blondin's engage ment terminates with his 33d ascent on Thursday next. By special permission he will cn this occasion repeat his benefit performances, and give two ascents—one on the interior, the other on the exterior rope, at 3 and 6 o'clock. The latter will afford the opportunity for repeating the extraordinary display of fireworks by Blondin during his passage along the rope, similar to those prepared for his benefit on the 7th instant, the effect of which was marred by the severe fog which then set in. 32d Ascent of AL Blondin.—One Shil ling Day, Monday. Oct. 28.—Admissions on payment, 3,454; do. by season tickets, 1,006 ; total visitors, 4,460. SUSPECTED MURDER IN THE REGENT'S CANAL. —Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the body of a young woman unknown, apparently about 20 years of age, de cently attired, was discovered by a labouring man floating in the water of the Regent's Canal, Rosemary Branch bridge, near North-road, Hoxton. The body had been in the water several days, and presented a sickening:spectacle, the head being battered in and the eyes removed from their sockets. The arms and legs were bruised, and the body in various parts was contused, and the skin abraded from ex ternal violence. A messenger was despatched for Mr. E. Walter, the coroner's officer, who proceeded to the spot, and had the body removed in a shell to the workhouse of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, where Dr. Clark, the parochial medical officer, made a minute examination of the body, which was that of a fine young woman. The skull was ex tensively fractured, and the brain lacerated. The injuries were no doubt the cause of death. A full description of the deceased was at once forwarded to the whole of the metro politan police stations, and at noon yesterday Mr. Walter received information which leads him to believe that the name of the deceased is Emma Jones, and that her friends reside in the neighbourhood of the Curtain-road, Shore ditch, from which place she has been missing for nearly a fortnight. Search had been made for her by her father and mother, but at present the cause of the deceased's death is involved in great obscurity. THE BUILDERS' STRIKE.--The masons are now the only branch of the building operatives standing out against the hour system, and about 240 men are on the strike books of the society. Last week the whole of the men remaining on the strike books of the bricklayers' society were cleared off; having obtained employment, either under the compromise, or on the old terms of the trade, at ss. 6d. per day of ten hours, and the committee have ceased for the present any further active opposition to the system, and withdraw their pickets from all the yards and jobs where they have been kept on for the last seven months, and are now devoting themselves to the perfecting the new organi sation and amalgamation of their trade throughout the country, with the purpose of uniting in combined action with the other branches of the building trade, in opposition to the system, at the commencement of the building season in the spring. In the meantime, in common with the car penters, painters, and plasterers, who are working on the hour system under protest, they have decided on throwing their pecuniary support into the masons. THE LATE SIR JAMES GRAHAM.—For the last eighteen months the late Sir James Graham had been suf fering from attacks of acute pain in the heart on the least mental or physical exertion. On Thursday week, having dined with his family as usual on the previous day, ho was seized with pain of more than usual severity in the heart. Remedies were applied ; the attack yielded to their influ ence, and he gradually improved. Last Thursday he was so much better told his medical attendant he thought he should shortly be able to dispense with his services, and after having bad dinner in his bedroom, ho retired about six o'clock, saying he felt all the better for having sat up longer than usual. Soon after that he had another attack of acute pain, which did not yield to the remedies applied. He expressed a strong conviction that it was useless to try any more remedies, as he was quite sure, from the long con tinuance of spasms and from his general feeling, that his end was at hand. He then gradually sank during the night, and died at a quarter before 12 on Friday. Ills faculties were bright and unimpaired to the last, and he died expressing the utmost resignation. The Friend of India says:—" The ex-King of Belhi, Bahadur Shah, is dying in his comfortable wooden house at Rangoon. He is not expected to survive this cold season. He has received every comfort which 10 rupees a-month could purchase, and has been allowed, in common with his family to wander at will, on his parole, within the limits of cantonments, a privilege he has seldom been able to avail himself of. His son, Jumma Bukht, and the two brothers, are fast becoming accomplished English scholars. We wonder Bahadur Shah has survived the events of 1857 so long. Ilia wife is still hale n 4 yogl.' ' • ~ 1I moir e • • hM ~~ THE SEASON TICKET-HOLDERS ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The Great Northern Railway di rectors have, we are glad to say, returned a favourable re ply to the respectful but urgent request of the season ticket holder, promising that on and after November 1, they will discontinue the 10 p.m. train, and again run the trains at 9.20 p,m: and 11.35 p.m.—The News. THE WHALING SEASON.—DUNDEE, Oct. 26. — The steamer Narwhal, Captain Deuchars, from Davis Straits, reports the following whalers :—Alexander, of Dun dee, six fish ; the steamer Tay, of ditto, 15 ditto ; the Active of Peterhead, two ditto; the Sir Colin Campbell, of ditto, 15 ditto; the Chieftain, of Kirealdy, three ditto; the True love, of Hull, two ditto. THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.—The screw steam ship Bermuda, from Hartlepool, which recently_ran the blockade at Charleston, is now due at this port with a re turn cargo of cotton. We are expecting to hear of the arrival out at Southernports of three other steamers, which sailed from British ports.—Liverpool Albion, THE CHARING• CROSS RAILWAY COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEES OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL.— On Saturday the arbitrators and umpire selected for the purpose of settling the amount of purchase money to be paid by the Charing-cross Railway Company to the trus tees of St, Thomas's Hospital held an adjourned sitting, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, Victoria-street, Westmin ster. After the close of the session of 1869, when the rail way company obtained their act, they called on the trus tees to send in their claim for compensation, which they did, naming as the amount which they would require for giv ing up the hospital the large sum of £750,000. The railway company thereupon offered £lO,OOO for a portion of the site, over which they intended to construct the railway upon arches. Mr. Frederick Marrable thought the trustees of the hospital were entitled to receive in the aggregate from the directors of the railway company £467,639, plus the value of the fixtures. No decision has yet been arrived at. THE PECKHAM HOMlClDE.—Yesterday evening an adjourned inquest was held upon the body of Mr. George Allen, the timekeeper of the Camberwell Omnibus Associa tion, who died on the 22d inst. from injuries inflicted on him by Henry Budd, a well-known pugilist. It appeared from the evidence that Allen was sitting quietly on a chair reading a newspaper, when Budd came up drunk and attempted to pluck it out of his hands. A struggle ensued. Budd seized the deceased by the whiskers and hair, and threw him on the pavement with great violence. The de ceased was taken up insensible, and died next day. As the resu't of a post mortem examination, Dr. Charles Nind stated that the skull had received a fracture over the right ear, and that there were three ounces of blood extravasated on the surface of the brain, These injuries were the cause of death, and must, he stated, have been produced by a fall or heavy blow. The jury, after twenty minutes' consulta tion, returned a verdict of "manslaughter." Great sym pathy is manifested for the family of the deceased, who was much respected. A subscription opened for them already amounts to £lOO. Budd is now in the gaol infirmary suffer ing from delirium tremens. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE ADELPHI THEATRE.- Last night it was rumoured that a female, waiting to ob tain ingress to that place of amusement to see the " Colleen. Bawn," had been crushed to death, and which on inquiry was found to be true. It appears that the deceased, whose name is Anne Burrowes, and whe lived at No. 7, Warren street, Pimlico, went with her sister to the above theatre, intending to go in by the entrance in Bullin-court, Strand. On the door being opened a general move took place of those assembled, and so violent was the pushing that deceased was observed to fall to the ground from exhaustion, when notwithstanding the alarm immedtately given by those near her, before she was extricated several persons had passed over her. Police-constable F 163, with assistance, conveyed the poor creature to the Charing-cross Hospital, where Mr. Travers, house surgeon, pronounced her to be dead. The body awaits an inquest. SALE OF THE FOREIGN - OFFCE.—Yesterday there was a sale by auction on an extensive scale of the materials composing the dingy building in Downing -street which has hitherto been used as the Foreign-office; and which is nowto be forthwith removed for the proposed public offices' extension. On the south of Downing-street whole streets have vanished within the last few weeks, and more are to be forthwith sacrificed, in order that there may be as little delay as possible in commencing the new works. Yester day's sale was conducted on the premises by Mr. Glasier, the materials disposed of consisting of 2,000,000 stock bricks, a large quantity of slates, plain tiles, timber in roofs, floors, &c., gilt moulded and other doors, mahogany plate-glass and other sashes and frames, upwards of 20 tons of lead in flats, paving, staircases, stoves, and fixtures and fittings of all kinds. Some of the materials fetched good prices. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE ON CRINOLINE.-It is, I think, alarming, peculiarly at this time, when the female ink-bottles are perpetually impressing upon us "woman's particular worth, and general missionariness," to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for any " mission" or usefulness at all. It is equally un fitted for all poetic and all domestic purposes. A man is now a more handy and far less objectionable being in a sick room than a woman. Compelled by her dress, every woman now either shuffles or waddles; only a man can cross the floor of a sick room without shaking it. What is become of woman's light step, the firm, light, quick step we have been asking for ? A nurse who rustles (1 am speak ing of nurses professional and unprofessional) is the horror of a patient, though perhaps he does not know why. The fidget of silk and crinoline, the rattling of keys, the creak ing of stays and shoes, will do a patient more harm than all the medicines in the world will do him good. The noise less step of woman, the noiseless drapery of woman, are mere figures of speech in this day. Her skirts (and well if they do not throw down some piece of furniture) will at least brush agaiiist every article in the room as she moves. i Fortunate it is if her skirts do not catch fire, and if the nurse does not give herself up a sacrifice, together, with her patient, to be burnt in her owe petticoats. I wish the Registrar-General would tell us the exact number of deaths by burning occasioned by this absurd and hideous custom. I wish, too, that people who wear crinoline could see the indecency of their own dress as other people see it. A re speotable elderly woman, stooping forward, invested in crinoline, exposes quite as much of her own person to the patient lying in the room as any opera dancer does on the stage. But no one will ever tell her this unpleasant truth. Notes on _Nursing. UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—The half-yearly meeting of the General Council (graduates) of the Univer sity of Edinburgh was held yesterday, Sir David Brewster, Principal and Vice-Chancellor presiding. Two " deliver ances" of the University Court were read, the first relating to the proposed extension of the system of open teaching, on which the Court reserved their opinion, the matter being be fore the Parliamentary Commissioners, and the second re ferring to the opening of the University library to graduates, of which the Court expressed its apprOval and its desire to grant the privilege when empowered to do so. On inquiry it was found that the first subject had not been sent up by repre sentation to the Court, and had been taken up inadvertently, the last meeting having simply passed a resolution, not made a representation on the matter. Several members having expressed dissatisfaction with the deliverance on the library question, it was explained that during the existence of the commissioners, whose statutory functions would expire next year, the Court had no power of dealing with these matters. Mr. A. Nicolson, advocate, asked what had been the recep tion of the petition in favour of Parliamentary representa tion of the Scotch Universities adopted at last half -yearly meeting, against the advice of the Solicitor • General and others, who held that the Council, not being a corporation, and being only a part of the University, could not petition. The Principal said the petition which had been signed by him as chairman had been presented and received as the petition of the council, and no doubt had the full weight of a petition emanating from them. Mr. T. Smith remarked that, though the petition had in this case been received, its reception could form no precedent, for, the council being no corporation, the petition must have been rejected had any objection to its reception been made. In reply to Mr. Bell, the Principal stated that the petition had not been sent to to the Rector, Mr. Gladstone, it being thought that Mr, Stirling was the proper person to present it. QUEEN'S MESSENGERS,—.Tbe Queen's foreign service messengers are 15 in number. The first three for service are obliged to be in attendance at the Foreign-office. Formerly there was no distinction between them and the home service messengers ; they were all under the Lord Chamberlain, and their connection with his office is said to be the origin of the silver grayhound pendant from their badge. At a later period they were transferred to the Secre taries of State, and took journeys abroad indifferently in their turn, but in 1824 there was a separation into home and foreign service. Lord Malmesbury reduced the number of foreign-service messengers from 18 to 15, and these are found quite sufficient, owing to the greater speed with which journeys are now performed, and the introduction of the electric telegraph rendering many journeys unneces sary. Lord Malmesbury also reduced the number of journeys very considerably, effecting a saving of about £ll,OOO a year. The Queen's messengers formerly had very small salaries, only £6O a year, but large profits by mileage and other allowances when employed. The situation was worth £BOO or £9OO a year, Col. Townley has stated that his profits were nearly £l,lOO in one year. Lord Malmesbury altered the remuneraticn to a salary of £525, and the travelling expenses. This was considered by the messengers too great a reduction of their income, and the arrangement was open to the objection that it gave them an inducement to shirk work which was expensive to them. Very recently Earl Russell has made a new plan, giving them salaries of .£4OO a year and £1 a day for their personal expenses while employed abroad, besides their travelling expenses. There is a pension or superannuation. Their social position has been very much improved of late years, and the life is one that would be exceedingly agreeable to many persons. To gentlemen who have left the army the appointment is very acceptable. Queen's messengers are treated 'with great kindness and consideration abroad ; they are usually invited to the Minister's table. They are exa mined on appointment by the Civil Service Commissioners ; the qualifications required are an age between 25 and 35, some knowledge QI French, German, or Italian, and ability to ride or. horseback. The home-service weesepeprs occupy very inferior position. LATEST NEW 6. PARIS, OCT. 29. The Moniteur of to-day publishes the follow- ing ; " At the ceremony of delivering the Cardinal's hat to the Archbishop of Chambery the Apostolical Delegate addressed a speech to the Emperor, in which he said : " ' The S overeign Pontiff, notwithstanding the grief by which he is overwhelmed on account of vicissitudes too well known, was happy to respond with eagerness to the wish of the Emperor that the Archbishop of Chambery should be raised to the rank of Cardinal: " The Apostolic Delegate concluded his speech by expressing a wish that, by more and more protect ing religion and the Sovereign Pontiff, the Emperor may obtain the Divine aid. " The Emperor said, in reply, that he should always congratulate himself on the good under standing which must exist between the Holy See and the French Government. ' This good under standing,' continued the Emperor, ' which is so necessary, could not be better manifested than by the kind adoption of the propositions of the French Government.' " His Majesty concluded by recalling the sincerity of his wishes and sentiments for the venerated chief of the Church. " The newly -appointed Cardinal enumerated and thanked the Emperor for the services he had ren dered to religion, and especially for preserving to the Holy See the city of Rome, and that portion of its States which yet remains to it, whereby the Emperor had, he said, strongly excited the grati. tude of all Catholics. " The Emperor replied— "'I was anxious to testify my esteem and sym pathy to the clergy of Savoy, who have proved their devotion to France and their attachment to myself. I have heard with emotion your simple and touch ing words. You appreciate my efforts for the good of religion and the prosperity of the new provinces." VIENNA, OCT. 29. The Cardinal Primate has been summoned to Vienna by order of the Emperor, in order to justify himself with respect to his reply to the circular of the Aulic Chancellery in reference to military levies in the Comitats. THORN, OCT. 29. It is expected that serious measures will be taken by the Government at Warsaw. General Luders will, it is said, replace General Lambert as Governor-General of Poland. MADRID, OCT. 29. The bases of a treaty with Morocco for the final settlement of the war indemnity were arranged yesterday. Morocco will shortly pay 60,000,000 of reals, which, together with the Customs' duties, will make up the amount due by Morocco to Spain, namely, 200,000,000 of reals. Tetuan will be restored to Morocco. The majority of the members of the Cortes have agreed to oppose the Coalition Opposition under Sartorius and Rios Rosas. The Spanish expedition against Mexico will leave shortly. THE WEST INDIA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, QM/ 29. The 'loyal Mail steamship Shannon, with the West India and Pacific mails, arrived off the Needles at 10.40 a.m. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 28.—The market has been heavy to-day, and stock having been offered by many par ties in furtherance of their arrangements for the approaching settlement, quotations are rather lower than on Saturday, Threes, for the Account, now standing at 67f 95c. Railways quiet. The following are the last quotations :- 4t per per Cents 95 50 Credit Foncier 1177 50 Do end month.... 95 65 Belgian 4i lOl 25 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 95 Roman Bank Shares 2900 Austrian Credit Mobilier.... 698 75 Spanish Threes — Do. Account 7OO Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1325 .. 1327 50 Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 1010 25 .. 1018 75 Geneva 338 75 .. 340 Southern 630 .. 631 25 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Low bard 523 75 .. 625 BELGIUM. The immediate consequence of the modification in the Belgian Ministry will be, in all probability, the recognition of the kingdom of Italy by Belgium. The Independance Beige says:— "We are informed that the Moniteur will very shortly publish the Royal decree, appointing an Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary at Turin, in the place of M. de Lannoy, deceased." PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin, dated 26th inst., says : " The disturbances have ceased, and order is re established in the city. Nevertheless, this affair has caused great excitement, and the organs of the feudal press allude to it as a democratic manifesta tion. Prince Frederick of Prussia, cousin of the King, is seriously ill. He has had two or three strokes of apoplexy, and his legs are paralyzed. The Prince is in his 67th year. The celebrated jurist and ex-Minister of State, M. de Savigny, died yesterday at the age of 83. It seems now certain that a permanent bridge will be erected over the Rhine at Dusseldorf. The site for the bridge had long been a matter of discussion, but Dusseldorf has been selected in consideration of the railway, which has a terminus them The new Polytechnic Institution is to be established at Cologne. The Palace at Konigsberg is to undergo full repairs, so as to be ready to receive any mem bers of the Royal Family when they may visit that city. AU annual grant of 30,000 dole. has been made for the purpose." AUSTRIA. The Emperor of Austria arrived at Vienna on the night of the 24th from Miramar, the seat of the Archduke Maximilian, near Trieste, and imme proceeded to the Castle of Laxenburg. SPAIN. The Madrid Cabinet has ordered the armament of the steam-frigate Concepcion and of another frigate of the same class, both to reinforce the Spanish squadron in the Mexican waters, actually. under organisation at the Havannah. These two frigates will shortly leave Cadiz for Brest, and will accompany the French division to Vera Cruz. SYRIA. La Fable has the following:— " A despatch from Beyrout, dated 18th inst., has brought the news that the country continued to en joy perfect tranquillity. Fuad Pasha had returned to Damascus, to superintend the collection of the taxes due from the Mussulman population. " On the 17th, the steam corvette Colbert, belong ing to the French naval division, under the orders of Commandant de la Grandiere, cast anchor in the roads, having on board Monsignor Valerga, dele gate of the Holy See to Syria. This prelate has paid a visit to the pashalie of Aleppo, and has been received with the greatest symp a th y . T he organi sation of the Lebanon had been completed, and Douad Pasha was busy constituting the armed force destined to maintain order in the mountains. Already three companies of Zapties had been Iformed, and had been sent in detachments to the different posts in the mountains." A Paris correspondent of the Independance of Brussels says :—"Nothing has yet been definitively settled with regard to the affair of Mexico. The contingent to be supplied by Spain is to amount to 4,500 men, and that number appears to be accepted by the two other Powers. But no understanding has been come to as to the respective participation of each Power in the mixed navfl squadron which is to act on the coast. Moreover, at one time, there was a question of France sending a demi-brigade, and now only 1,200 men are spoken of. It is, how ever, remarked with justice that France either ought not to send troops for disembarkation at all, or that the number of them ought not to be inferior to that of Spain." AMERICA. (PER NjtiWEGIAN, via QUEBEC AND LONDON- DERRY.) NEW YORK, OCT. 18 (Evening). The Confederates have evacuated Vienna, and destroyed the railroad. They have fallen back with their entire column on Fairfax Court house. Colonel Rankin has been dismissed from the Canadian Militia for violating the Queen's procla tion respecting neutrality. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO FATHER POINT.) NEW YORK, OCT. 19. The New York Banks have offered for the third 50,000,000 dole, of the Federal Loan, and for 100,000,000 dols. of 7 per Ce n t. B on d s . .... Lord Lyons has protested against the arbitrary confinement of British subjects, alleging that the authority of Congress was necessary for such mea sures. Mr. Seward replied to the effect that, in the pre sent emergency, all classes of society alike must cheerfully acquiesce in the measures which the safety of the people demand, and that the British Government would hardly expect the President to accept their explanation of the Constitution of the United States. General Price has made a stand at Carthage, Missiouri. A battle is expected. Large reinforce ments have gone to Kentucky, where a battle is imminent. The navigation of the Potomac is almost closed by the Confederate batteries. For the last two days fighting has been going on at Harper's Ferry, which has resulted favourably for the Federals. It is strongly rumoured that General Fremont will be withdrawn. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Cotten steady. Breadstuffs quiet. Provisions quiet. Stockss heavy. New York Centrals, 77k; Erie, 314; Illinois, 654. Exchange on London, 1076. Money abundant. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Niagara has arrived, with advices from Boston to the 16th, Halifax to the 18th, and later despatches from New York, via Cape Race. Fifty-seven Federal soldiers detained as prisoners at Richmond having been released on taking an oath - not to take up arms against the Confederate Govern ment, an equal number of the prisoners of war taken from the Confederate States, confined in Washing ton and in New York harbour, were to be released on taking the prescribed oath of allegiance to the United States, or -,an oath not to engage in arms against the United States. On the 10th 15,000 troops passed over the Anna polis Railroad from Washington for some unknown destination. Five of the largest of the vessels in tended for the demonstration on the Southern coast had sailed from New York for Hampton Roads and Annapolis. On the 11th the Confederates advanced in large force in the direction of Prospect-hill, driving in the Federal pickets. General M'Call's division was immediately formed in order of battlo, and ad vanced supported by cavalry and artillery. No collision, however, occurred. On the 12th the Con federates showed in considerable force at Miner's hill, but retired without any skirmish. The Fede ral outposts on the left of their line had been ex tended to the mouth of Little Hunting Creek, six miles below Alexandria. Thence they skirted around the Mount Vernon estate, touching the upper part of Dougue Run, crossed the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, and ran north to Edsall's-hill. Frequently, in the daytime, the pickets pressed west to Springfield Station, but they were drawn in at night. The Confederates' pickets were occasionally in sight. Scouting parties penetrated each day further towards the south and south-west from Alexandria, but except in the above instance had not been able to see more than an occasional picket. Skirmishes continued to be of frequent occurrence. The Federal steamer Union had succeeded in burning a schooner fitted out near Acquia Creek, by the Confederates. A Federal account of an engagement at Pensa cola is contained in the following telegram : " Baltimore, Oct. 12. "The Norfolk Day Book, received this morn ing, contains despatches from New Orleans giving an account of a surprise and attack made on Col. Billy Wilson's Zouaves, at Santa Rosa Island, on the Bth instant. Detachments from several Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama regiments made a landing in the night and drove in Wilson's pickets, and shortly afterwards a fierce fight began. The Zouaves of Colonel Wilson are credited with having fought with great bravery, and the rebels admit a loss of 40 killed and about double that number wounded. The rebels claim to have spiked the guns of the Zouaves and destroyed all the camp equipage. They also claim to have committed great slaughter among the Zouaves, but give no number of the killed. The rebels also say they carried off a number of prisoners." A despatch from New Orleans tells a somewhat different story : " About 2 o'clock on the morning of the Bth inst. the Confederates, commanded by Gen. Anderson, crossed the bay, and landed on Santa Rosa Island near Wilson's 2onave encampment, without being discovered, drove in the pickets, and stormed the place in ;less than an hour. They destroyed all Wilson's tents, with the exception of the hospital one, captured a large amount of rations, equip ments, stores, and ammunition, and spiked all the guns placed in position. Among the Confederate loss are Capt. Bradford, of Florida, and Lieut. Neims, of Georgia, killed ; and Lieuts. Bugler and Syre, badly wounded. The Confederate force con. sisted of three companies of a Georgia regiment, a portion of the Mobile Continentals, three companies of regulars,a detachment of Mississippians and Geor gians, 200 Alabamians, and a number of naval offi cers and seamen, commanded by Capt. Brent, for merly of the National na vy . Li eut. J. E. Slaughter, g o o ud f n tr e u d c . e for ivia j a or ce l s . sa v t o io d n ge o s f , of the National 2d Li ght Artillery, recently at hwohsitlielitcie carrying Fortress Monroe, was taken prisoner." Secretary Cameron had concluded his visit to the seat of war in Missouri, and was reported to be on his return to Washington. He spent the night of the 12th in Jefferson City ; arrived in Tipton, General Fremont's headquarters, on the following morning; rode over to Syracuse in company with General Fremont in the forenoon, and reviewed General M'Kinstry's division, making a speech at the close; went to Tipton again, where he reviewed General Asboth's division, and returned by special train to St. Louis. Secretary Cameron was supposed during this brief visit to have satisfied himself that the affairs in General Fremont's department were in a highly satisfactory condition. General Fremont was reported to be on the eve of moving, but was greatly embarrassed by want of transports. Late Federal intelligence from Price's army represented it to be much dissatisfied and demoralised. It was stated to be a short distance south of Johnstown, in Bates county, moving southward. The New York Tribune's Washington correspondent says that the Secretary of War had ordered General Fremont to discontinue, as unnecessary, his fieldworks around S. Louis, and that which he was erecting at Jef ferson city, and to suspend work on the barracks building near his residence for his body-guard of