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

aFOR GE HOBSON respectfully invites the attention of Gentlemen tog is The new new Shoot Autum ing Snits, Coatin s Trowierings, and Waistc oatin £2 18s. to £3 3s. The superfine West of England Woaded Black Cloths for Beaufort and Frock Coats, £2 15s. to £3 3s. Excellence with Economy. GEORGE HOBSON, 57, LOMBARD-STREET. ALF'RED 'MELLON'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. GRAND ORCHESTRA. Mdile. FLORENCE LANCIA, Mme. LA RA BAXTER, and Herr FORMES, every Evening. - - On Thursday next, the ITALIAN NIGHT, on which oc casion Mdlle. VASCHRTTI (from La Scala, Milan, and other Continental Theatres), will make her first appearance. On Friday next, the WE 3ER NIGHT. On Saturday next, a VOLUNTEER NIGHT, when will be performed BEET HOVEN'S BATTLE SYMPHONY. Commence at 8. Promenade, is. ; Amphitheatre Stalls, is. 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes , £ 1 l s., and tOs. 6d. ConCuctor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON. THEA TR ke, it° Y AL, HAYM ARK ET. Lessee, Mr. J. B. Eackstone. ITTR EVENTN . , the performances will cornmPnoe with T THE SUN AND THE WIND. Mi ss Fanny Wright, the Leelercqs, tc. After which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOE.Villiers, FT SEX. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Fi ne k s tone, Mr. Compton, Mr. Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilidns, To conclude with PAUL PRY. Mr. C. Mathews. Commence a 7 ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. 31anaf,rer—Mr. Edmund Falconer. . EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'clock, the new and suc- WOM AN ; or, Love against the World. cessful comel , Characters by lessrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, and Miss Lydia Thomson. Preceded by, each evening, the new and original farce entitled TnE FETCFIES; or, The Onconvanience of Sino•le Life. Tira O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer ; Mary O'Brady, Miss Lydia Thompson. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Bo x-office open daily from 11 till 5. NTERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. Selections from the followin , Operas :—NORMA, TRO VATORE, TRAVIATA, MARTHA, UN BALLO IN MASCHERA. The Comic department comprises the Prince of Comic Vocalists, Mr. SAM COWELL , who w ill a pp ear at Nine and a quarter to Eleven o'clock—Mr. Marshall — Messrs. Harvey and French, "The Nerves "—Mr. Wood and his talented Son - and Miss Harriet Coveney. Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans. Admission—Hall, 6c1.; Stalls and Balcony, is. H E 0 XFORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. EVERY EVENING. A Grand Selectiln from Verdi's new opera, " Simon Boc cane7,ra" (now produced for the first time in this country), by Miss Russell, essrs. C. Greville, Tivoli, Greene, norley, and Herbert ;also from Verdi's " Macbeth " by Madame Enderssohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic entertain ments by Messrs. M• P. Marshall Sam Collins, Harvey and French (the Nerves), E. , and W. Randall. Hall, sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE• THIS DAY. —Morning, 4h. 36m.—Afternoon, 4h. 56m. To-moßßow.-Niorninz, sh. 20m.—Afternoon, sh. 43m. THE WEATHER. -SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 8, 1861. THEEMoMETEA, IN THE SHADE. 65—highest since noon yesterday.' 4S—lowest this morning and during tho night. 67—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.10.)'1 WlND—Westerly—rather fresh; with fine weather, bul cloudy. Afternoon—some rain. SEPT. 9. THERMOMETER, IN THE 81{A.D11. 67—highest since noon yesterday. 53—lowest this morning and during the night. 63—this day at noon. BAROMETER--29.97. WLwn--W,. N.-W.—light ; with fine weather. Some rain ladt night and this morning early. cli 4 't4c l -, ) i ? 11 4--??.., ( .. 4 S. --, - ,'T.IT ,• P. 4 4 ..7 -..., ' .'9, • •• ~.f.l 1 i ' l '4", ‘.'/-*- ,-''_ 'J s -...:,-;,*-- , :-_, t', 7 , 2 _ . • ' ,...,' . .Th,r , A , .: . 4.4 - , ,g * ;, :i i j e ' r j ~ ..: % i ; [J. - , -,),..31 . • ,t..:÷ i ,o.' , i , ~.. ;,-, • ,:. ----- :'. - ;;;':' , - - e:' ~.- -" ,:,- k .- 2 , ;',,,,„; ~,.., ~: THE SUN• LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 9, 1881 At the commencement of the American civil war we ventured to tell our Northern friends that, as abolition of slavery was neither their object nor their weapon, they had better at once make terms with the South, and thank it for ridding them of the disgrace of complicity with slavery. All the thanks, however, which we and others who told them the truth was—to be accused of sympathy with slaveholders, on the ground of English want of cotton and indifference to the abolition of slavery. We Englishmen were subjected, indeed, to wholesale accusations of hypocrisy, because we avowed that we felt little interested in the strife. It was in vain that we replied, "Inscribe Aboli tion of Slavery' on your flag, and you shall have our most cordial support." No ; they would neither avow abolition objects nor withdraw their accusations against us. On the contrary, the President not only watched most care fully against every emancipating proposal, not only more than once declared it to be his purpose to maintain slaveholding institutions in their full vigour in the Slave States, but was very reluctant to include confiscation, that is, liberation of slaves, in a bill providing for the confiscation of rebel pro perty. We think, however, we see some indications o. the Northern mind itself beginning to waver. The Government has got, it is true, £10,000,000 of its loan of three times that amount, and ex• pects the other two-thirds to be forthcoming, but it is at the rate of seven per cent., and there is no proof that the larger part of the money will be so readily forthcoming as was the first part. The bankers too are evidently uneasy, since they have sent a deputation to the Govern ment to expedite its action—advice which, if acted on, might be as perilous as that which prompted the advance at Bull's Run. But the want of men is beginning to be felt. The only hope of the North can be in such a number of well-disciplined troops as will completely overpower the South, and this it co nnot obtain. The numbers of the regiments cannot be completed. Volunteers come in slowly. Fighting is seen to be a serious business, and the Yankees—who were ready to pour forth all their loose hands by hordes, while it was supposed that to be able to pull a trigger was enough to make a soldier, and that the Southern levies would run away before immense levies of such a kind—now that they have learned that soldiering may mean charging artillery in position, are by no means so ready to enlist. The " sublime uprising" has sunk down to but half successful efforts at enlistment on rather higher terns. M'CLELLAN does, indeed, seem to general confidence, and as he is a have gained deter mined enforcer- of drill, and of the essential sanitary and commissariat regulations of camp, he m a y, by the aid of the Bull's Run disaster, suc ceed in making soldiers of his men; but the worst is, that now that men are to be transformed into soldiers, recruits are slow to come forward. We think the North is altogether in a better position ; that is for gaining a victory or two. FRE MONT seems likely to get some very much needed reinforcements in Missouri, and his/chief opponent's for •;e4, those of General PILLOW, are reported to be denttoralised. BANKS at Harper's Ferry is able again to art trance, and at Washington all i s con fid en c e that M'Cut :LL 0' is making the "Army of the Potomac" worthy of the natneof an army. GencralWooL, the old soldi arw.ho Fen w t broil h theConfederates'military wrote the letter to Gen era l policy at` first, and 17110 CAS'S which induced him to. resign beraw e BUCHANAN would not adopt General WOOL'S ouggestions, which would have prevented secession ' ll .q,Pether_thia General WOOL is now is com- Instead at Fort Monroe, and, though very old, is 11 ,the soldier yet, and is to have his forces streetrthened. If LINCOLN 'could send him 50,000 men , nod he could advance on Richmond from the East, W hile M'CLELLAN came down from the North, the C, 7ntederates would probably be obliged to leave the capital of Virginia to its fate, especially as BANKS seems to be now in a condition to prevent the Western rebel corps in Virginia from coming up as they did to turn the scale at Bull's Run. But suppose the most successful strategy and fighting on the part of the North. Suppose Rich mond gained, Missouri quieted, and Kentucky ob. liged to follow the lead of its anti-slavery half. What then ? Would the North have done much more than retrieved its reputation ? Would it be I able to go on to the conquest and subjugation of the Southern States P The armies would be far from the Free States and on hostile soil. Every step they took would remove them further from friendly supplies, and necessitate great care in order to keep up its communications. The first victories will be its easiest to win ; but they will be of no direct avail towards the desired conclusion, that of the reunion of all the States. The Southerns would be no less unwilling to submit to the Northern yoke, but rather the more exasperated against it. The political difficulty would be increased, and the hardest part of the military task yet to be achieved. Would not a demand then arise on both sides for negotiation ? The South and the North would each have gained their military honours—Bull's Run, and the Northern victory yet to come, might cry quits, and the demand from the North as well as from the South might be—negotiation, and the putting an end to the costly strife. Were the contest one of principle, were it like the noble struggles in Italy and in Hungary, we should not say so. Unfortunately, it is the reverse ; and, as we have pointed out from the beginning, the real struggle is not for liberty in any shape, much less in its noblest shape, that of clearing the union of the curse and infamy of slavery. The struggle on the part of the North is for neither more nor less than to remain so big a Republic that it could go on bullying England and other European countries with impunity. It is willing to be a Slave Republic so that it can have the privilege of being a bully Re public. In this Europe can, of course, feel no inte rest ; but they will probably find also that they themselves have not enough interest in it to go on fighting and paying quadrupled taxation for the requisite time. On this side the water an opinion favourable to negotiation and peace between the two sections of the country is evidently aligng. A man of the standing and judgment of the right honour able JAMES STUART WORTLEY thus expressed himself at the Cutler's feast at Sheffield :—" They have now arrived at a point when not England may interfere, when not England and France to gether, not all the potentates of Europe may in terfere, but the voice of humanity, and the public opinion of the world mast interfere to prevent the further effusion of blood in so senseless and savage a war. It has been supposed we are influenced in this country by some feeling against the North. I appeal to youwhether at the outset, when it was sup posed to be a question of slavery against anti-slavery, our disposition was not to side with the North. We did not interfere, but our good wishes were rather with the North. I indulge the hope and anxious expectation that the able men who conduct the affairs of the Federalists and of the Confederates will feel that the time is come when the coercion of one by the other is improper, and that they are strong enough to form two great nations, a result which the people of England would be glad to see. It is imputed that our desire to side with the North is overruled by the fear of being deprived of the cotton of the South. No such thing. If we look to our own interest we believe we shall derive great advantage, for our active and eager search for cotton in other direc tions will increase our supply. In the next place, we believe that if the first NAPOLEON, with his iron arm, could not exclude our manufactures from the continent by his carefully devised measures and his enormous power, neither the slave States nor the Northern States, nor the American people, can prevent the cotton from reaching us. For a time their measures may check and interrupt our commerce. They may embarrass and distress us ; but eventually this country will again rise by the great energies of her trade above the difficulties created by this senseless hostility." These sentiments were cheered by a large and highly respectable and intelligent assembly in England. If they spreao, they can but have their influence. But we certainly believe with Mr. WORTLEY—indeed, we have expressed the same opinion ourselves—that the permanent inte rest of England and her colonies is in the con tinuance of a war which would drive cotton cul tivation to the free-labour industry of our own colonies and dependencies. Amongst our volunteers for national defence we must number the British Association. Science — mechanical sience we mean—is every day increas- ing its importance in respect to the general science of attack and defence. When battering-rams brought besiegers hand to band, if we might so say with lofty walls, and when ships of war blockaded mouths of harbours, by joining their broadsides till they presented an impassable mass, the science of that day performed feats at such close quarters which even now surprise us ; ARCHIMEDES at Syracuse will never be forgotten or his fate cease to be mourned ; and another mechanist actually gained the surname of the City-besieger through his fertile devices. But now that attack and defence becomes a question of miles, and of hurling and resisting 3001bs. shot, we have need of science beyond any thing that ARCHEMEDES or DEMETRIUS POLIOR , , CETES could dream of. Just now the question is one of naval attack and defence; and iron is the great question. Unlucky Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, with the best intentions, but ill-advised by an officer which forgot all that was demonstrated at Kilburn, let us in for a vast navy built of wood. The proprietors of the batteries off which the enemies balls rattled as peas would from the back of a lobster, were wiser ;• they quietly in vested for naval defence in iron—and when with all the deficiencies ascribed to La Gloire, she proved to be a formidable vessel, then at last our dockyard authoritiesbegan to rub their eyes ; an iron casing, it was found, would certainly resist shot for a time long enough to prove fatal to the ship of wood, and above all, as Mr. SCOTT RUSSELL ob served, "The whole question was contained in this expression of a good sailor, ' whatever you do for GOD'S sake keep out the shells." If iron was not ah3olutely invulnerable to 300-pounders, it was at least not combustible ; and it was anyhow no small gain for ships to be safe against shells fitted with molten iron or other inextinguishable com bustibles. So common sense triumphed even at the Admiralty, and the country whose iron manu facturers stand at the head of those of all the world, resolved to see what it could do in building ships which should be invulnerable, or as nearly so as possible. _ But the grand point decided now, the questions arise to solve which we must call in, not the suc cessors of our Nelsons, but of the Grecian Archi medes ; and here we have them at the meeting of the British Association telling us all they know Shall we have huge ships with many guns, or smaller ships carrying one or two monster guns? Shall we have wood backing up iron, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 9, 1861 or all iron ? Shall we have sloping plates with a great " tumbling home," or retain the ordinary shape of our vessels ? Shall our new large ships be plated all over, or shall the bows and stern be of wood only? All these are serious and practical, and not mere amateur questions ; and there are numerous minor, yet hardly less important ones, relating to the quality of iron or steel for the plates, and the manner of fastening them, since it is found that the holes for bolts are the weakest points of the plates, and that the bolts are apt to break loose from the impact of the shot. Smaller vessels—gunboats, in fact—armed with one or two guns of power sufficient to smash the side of a warrior or La Gloire, were advocated by Dr. EDDY. Granting superior speed, the smaller vessels could do anything they pleased with the larger and less manageable vessels ; and he thought that they might, with a small but powerful arma ment, gain a speed of sixteen knots an hour. But the speed, it seems, is not to be gained by small vessels. Size and proportionate power are essential to speed. And from what was said by Sir E. BELCHER we fear there is no chance of any small vessel contending in velocity with a large one. To build entirely with iron, we have a strong conviction, is what must be ultimately come to. We have expressed this opinion before, and what was brought forward at the meeting quite confirms us in our opinion. Not only is the stowage of the ship immensely increased by using the same . weight of iron plate, alone, as would equal the weight of the wood and iron combined, but we should be saved the enor mous expense of having to pull the ship every now and then to pieces to repair the wooden part, which has a strong tendency to rot in such close contact with the iron and excluded from the air. We are, therefore, glad to see that the Admiralty has not even yet decided to reject the plan of exclusively iron plates in building the ships just ordered, but has the contracts prepared for them to be built on either plan. They ought to resolve that iron alone should be used, and then we are con fident that our Fairbairns and Scott Russells would not be behind the demand made on them to settle the best plan for fixing these massive plates. Give us a real ship of iron, built with six-inch plates well put together, and why should she not be as good fifty or even a hundred years hence as she was when new. We must be prepared, however, to pay pretty handsomely for our change of Navy. Suppose eighteen of these ships to be get ready, then the hulls of the eighteen ships will cost us £4,681,600, and their engines £l,l43,ooo—to gether nearly £6,000,000. When masted, rigged, armed, and fully equipped for sea, they will of course represent a much larger sum, probably nearly £8,000,000. These estimates will afford some faint conception of the nature of that reconstruction of the navy upon which we may now be said to have fairly entered, in so far as the ships themselves are concerned ; but this is not all, we must have docks suitable to receive our monster invulnerables. " Many considerations," said Mr. REED, " combine to exalt the importance of this part of the subject; but there is one which is paramount—namely, that we dare not send these ships against a French fleet unless we have docks for them to run to in the event of a disaster. We know not what may happen to these altogether novel structures until they have been exposed to successive broadsides or a heavy naval battery, and it would be madness to send them out to encounter a powerful fleet of vessels as strong as themselves, unless we are prepared to open docks to receive them in case of necessity. What is required in each case is deep water up to the en trance of the dock, a depth of not less than 27 or 28 feet at the sill, and a length on the floor of the dock of 400 feet. These things are not com bined in any dock in great Britain, and cer tainly not in any of her Majesty's dockyards. The French have docks varying from 200 feet to 720 feet in length, and some of them 90 feet wide. In order to place ourselves on an equality with the French navy, no less than to meet certain emergencies, we must, with a reconstructed fleet, found a colossal dock establishment on some favour able point on our southern shores, furnished with the means of carrying on extensive repairs in time of war. The most suitable of all positions is South ampton Water, and if we are wise enough to build a set of decks there before the time of war arrives, we shall have the satisfaction of knowing that the largest iron-cased ships now in contemplation will be able to run in and be docked with all their stores on board, and everything standing; and with nothing less than this should we be satisfied." The Right Hon. Frederick Peel, M.P., was attacked with severe illness shortly after the marriage cf Sir George Wombwell, Bart., and Lady Julia Villiers, the right hon. gentleman's niece. For some days he was ex trernely ill, but on inquiry on Saturday we are glad say he was pronounced out of danger, and was progressing favourably. . Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, accompa nied by the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P , and Mrs. Cowper, arrived in town on Saturiay evening from Walmer Castle. ments. The Earl Granville has left town on a visit to the Dowager Countess Granville and Mr. and Lady Georgiana Fullerton, at Littlehampton, Sussex. We are happy to learn that the Earl Fortescue is so far recovered from his recent serious illness, that the noble earl will be able to leave Grosvenor-square in the course of the week for Castle Hill, his seat in Devon. The Bishop of London is expected to return to England about the middle of October, and will immediately afterwards enter upon his diocesan duties. THE KINGSTON MURDER.—Martha Bradish, the woman who was tried at the last Surrey Assizes at Croydon for murdering her step-sister in Kingston barracks, and who was acquitted on the plea of insanity, has bean removed from Horsemonger-lane Gaol to the Fisherton-house Asy lum, near Salisbury, pursuant to an order from the Home office. BLONDIN.—It was announced some days since that this popular performer had departed for the north to accept an invitation from the Scotch to cross the border and prove his abilities at Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dundee, and Edinburgh. At all these towns his reception has been most enthusiastic, not only at his places of performance, but whenever he appeared in pub ic. On his visiting the theatre at Glasgow the whole audience rose and greeted his entrance with cheers. He has been compelled to decline a pressing invitation to prolong his stay owing to an engage ment to appear at the Crystal Palace to-day, where his per formances have always ensured a numerous attendance. AN AQUATIC BLONDlN. — Considerable excite ment was created on Saturday in and about Hampton on its being given out that John Snell, the celebrated water man and boat builder there, was going to walk across the river on a tight rope, and consequently hundreds of spec tators flocked to the spot towards the time announced—six o'clock—the spirited supporter of aquatics, the Right Hon. Lord Kilmorey, and a large numbs of ladies and gentle men being present. After the regatta, in which S nell had been engaged, he had the rope chalked, and commenced walking it from the Middlesex side, balancing himself with a large ballast polo. The rope was a common line used in towing barges, only one inch in diameter, and having bcen broken in one of the trials, and the guys besides being in a very insecure state (as the whole of the expense of prepar ing the rope had been defrayed by Snell himself), it swayed up and down is a very dangerous manner, and was in effect a slack rope. Notwithotanding the disadvantages under which Snell, a perfect amateur in the art, laboured, he walked the rope with the utmost coolness and courage, and accomplished his task amidst the cheers of those as sembled. It had been Snell's intention to wheel a man over the rope in a hand barrow, but Lord Kilmorey, who made him a handsome present, was decidedly against his attempting the feat until he obtained a better rope. We understand he will ere long attempt this more dangerous task, and from the coolness he displayed in walking the rope on Saturday there is very little doubt that he will suc ceed. The betting at Hampton was as much as 4 and sto 1 against his accomplishing his task. -114 . • ROME, SEPT. 8. The official Giornale di Roma of to-day says : " The Pope has visited the Terne of St. Maria. An immense crowd cheered him on his passage. The return of his Holiness took place amid the waving of flags and still more enthusiastic ovations." VIENNA, SEPT. 8. To day the Emperor received the deputation bearing the address of the Lower House of the Reichsrath. His Majesty said in his reply : " The address to which I have just listened strengthens my glad conviction that you place confidence in me, who myself am faithful to the constitution. 4 , The Lower House, in entirely adopting my prin ciple that the provinces should possess legal auto nomy, but that they should be bound together in a natural unity, has likewise conceived that such an autonomy sbali only be limited by a conscientious fulfilment of the common duties towards a power- ful integral monarchy. "To carry out these principles against those who do not respect them is certainly a necessity which I hope, however, to confine within the narrowest possible limits. " The result will prove the overpowering might of the truth and justice of the principle which I have stated." In conclusion, the Emperor thanked the deputa on for the loyal manifestation of their ser.ti TRIESTE, SEFT. 8. The elections to the Diet, which took place yes terday iu the communes of the district of Istria, have resulted favourably to the Government. state, and former prices are no longer obtained. Notwithstanding the increasing value of goods in Manchester, the accumulation of stocks here, the heavy shipments on the way, and the want of de mand from the interior have induced the dealers to draw back, and the importers to be less firm. To effect sales holders have been obliged to submit to easier rates. The export-market is firmer ; with the exception of cotton, in which the business is active, there is little doing for other produce in consequence of scanty supplies, FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 7. Under the head of " Latest Intelligence," La Patrie publishes the following : " Rear-Admiral Bonnard, appointed Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Military and Naval Forces in Cochin-China, left Paris this morning (Bth) for Toulon. He will hoist his flag on board the steam-frigate Eldorado, which will convey him to Alexandria. At Suez the Forbin awaits him to convey him to Saigon, where Vice-Admiral Charner will duly install him. " Captain Lavaissiere de Lavergne will join Rear- Admiral Bonnard in October. He remains at Paris to superintend arrangements connected with the colony." BOURSE.—The market has been heavy, and prices are a trifle lower than yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f 10c. Railways dull, and some lines lower. The following are the last quotations: — Credit Foncier l2OO Belgian 4f lOl Piedmontese Fives 7l 40 Roman — Austrian Spanish Threes 49 75 Home Debt 41- per per Cents 96 65 Do. end month 96 70 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 10 Bank Shares 2930 Credit Mobilier 760 Do. Account 762 50 RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1421 25 .. 1422 50 Northern 985 .. 987 50 New ditto 915 .. 915 Lyons and Mediterranean 1021 25 .. 1022 50 Geneva 350 .. Southern 660 .. 662 50 Western Eastern Sardinian . . Austrian Loirbard .. 0... 543 75 .. 545 INDIA. By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have re ceived files of papers from Bombay to the 12th of August, and from Calcutta to the 30th of July. We take the following from the Bombay Gazette of the 12th of August : "The English mail of the 18th of July arrived in Bombay on the Bth of August. " The season continues most propitious, and the weather most favourable for agricultural labourers throughout the length and breadth of the land. " The Committee of the Punjaub Famine Fund have announced to the subscribers to that fund that there is no longer any need for the continuance of their subscriptions. " We give the following cheering description by a traveller through the Doab a conspicuous place in our heads of intelligence : " The aspect of the country is wonderfully changed. From Allighur to Delhi, from Delhi to Meerut, and from Meerut to Mooradabad, the coun try is one glorious mass of green, variegated here and there, where the land is low and flat, by patches of water. Population seems called into existence as by a wizard's wand, and every acre of ground, however distant from a station or remote from a vil lage, is brought under the influence of the plough. From early dawn to dewy eve, as the carriage con veys you from one station to another, look where rveeratrhee hpulasbinanhdumsyenwiwthiththtehireiprleohxgehn., syluusdtarwaendilglaeltrlhteo rav elling through this part of the coun try would scarcely credit that famine had so recently visited the land. His entrance into a station, how ever, would tell him a sad tale. The sufferers of the famine, though not numerous, are yet sufficient to draw attention, to excite his pity, and to call for sympathy. The poor-houses bear their testimony to this. Better times, however, are at hand ; and when one reflects on the barren state of the Doab but a month back, and sees the country as it now is, he may without exaggeration say it is a land flow ing with milk and honey. " The Paper Currency Act, to provide for a Go vernment paper currency, received the assent of the Viceroy on the 16th of July. This Act provides for the establishment by the Governor-General in Council of a department of the public service, to be called the Department of Issue, for the issue of promissory notes of the Government of India, pay able to the bearer on demand, for such sums, not less than 10 rupees, as the Governor-General of India in Council shall from time to time direct. Circles of issue are to be established in British In dia. The whole amount of bullion and coin received for notes is to be kept as a reserve to pay such notes, excepting an amount not exceeding four crores of rupees to be fixed as the minimum limit of circula tion. " The indigo question has been further embittered by a public trial—' The Queen v. James Long,' for publishing a libel upon the indigo planters and the Englishman newspaper, which took place on the 19th and 20th of July in the Supreme Court, Calcutta, before Sir Mordaunt Wells. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and on the 24th idon the judge sentenced the Rev. Mr. Long to one month's im prisonment, and a fine of I,ooor. The Hon. Seton Karr, implicated in the circulation of the libel, has averted a probably similar punishment by a public apology. "The Government of Bombay has finally de cided upon Warree Bunder as the terminus of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, and Colaha as the terminus of the Bombay and Baroda Railway. "The European and native residents of Bombay are memorializing Government for the abolition of the ramparts of the fort, and the dedication of the space thus obtained to the use of the public. The ground now occupied by the ramparts would realize a sum of GO or 70 lacs of rupees ; and the commer cial interests of Bombay are suff.ring greatly for want of room. The ramparts are of no practical utility in a military point of view. "There is now a decided break in the weather — we have had open weather for eight days. The fall of rain up to this day, the 12th of August, has been GS inches. " The health of the city and neighbourhood is generally good." COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. REPORT ON THE BOMBAY MARKET. (From the Bombay Gazette of August 12.) The reports from the interior continue favourable as to the progress and prospects of the monsoon and the crops. The import-market has relapsed into a languid AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 8. The Royal Mail steamship Persia, Capt. Judkins, has arrived, with advices from New York to the 28th ult. On leaving she spoke the ships Union Rinaldo, and the Royal Mail steamship Asia, bound in. On the 29th the City of Washington, Hibernia, and Teutonia had arrived out. Passed the ship Cultivator, bound west, and the screw steamer Chersonese, bound east. On the 4th inst. spoke the schooner Petrel, bound east. _ _ . The New York, Tribune publishes the following special despatch from Washington : " Mr. Adams, Minister at St. James's, writes that in the British mind the independence of the rebels is fully admitted as a military and political neces sity ; that their acknowledgment by England is but a question of time and prudent courtesy; that while Britain is impatient to get cotton from the South in exchange for manufactured goods, she is anxious not to lose Northern markets,and is unwil ling to part with her hope of breaking down the Morrill Tariff, by the same means with which she chained the North with the Walker Tariff; and that two or three more successes like that of Bull's Run would entitle the slaveocracy to immediate recognition." The Secretary of the Treasury had issued a cir cular to the officers of Customs, containing the in structions necessary to insure a strict observance of the non-intercourse ordered by the President's late proclamation. Passes had been refused to the representatives of the press, and they were consequently unable to visit the camps on the Potomac. Mr. Berrett, Mayor of Washington, had been sent to Fort Lafayette for refusing to take the oath of allegiance. Mr. D. C. Lowber, of New Orleans, a bearer of despatches from President Davis, had been arrested on his way to embark for England. General M'Clellan had reviewed in detail every brigade of troops in the neighbourhood of the capital. Mrs. Phillips, wife of a Washington counsellor had been arrested on a charge of holding treason. able communication with the enemy. Females arrested by the Government were permitted to re main at their residences, a guard being placed at the doors to prevent escapes or communication with friends. After Mrs. Phillips was thus honoured, she called out of the window to a friend, " Ain't you proud of your country ? See here, lam a prisoner." It had been decided to prohibit the carriage of correspondence from Confederate States by express companies. Some rioting had occurred at Danbury, Connec ticut, in consequence of the raising of a " peace flag." The peace men, being the most powerful, attained their object after some fighting. The transmission by post of journals which de precated the continuance of the war was strictly forbidden. Even the New York Journal of Com merce, a paper of moderate principles, had come under the ban. The New York Tribune of the 21st publishes ex tracts of correspondence found on the person of Mr. Robert Muir, of Charleston, confined in Fort Lafayette. One letter from James S. M. Carter, is dated Charleston, July 31, and is addressed to " Charles Cavendish Clifford, M.P., House of Com mons, London," and gives a resume of the events which had occurred, but with which our readers are familiar. He says in one portion that he is " pained to see the disposition of my neighbours to underrate the courage and patriotism of the North, and have feared it might have led us into fatal se curity. The last battle has taught us that the Yankees will fight, and most desperately, and will lead to greater• caution in future. I could hope that neither section would be again humiliated by so dis astrous a defeat as that of Manassas. The bankers are everywhere subscribing tha half of their entire crops to the Government loan. Everywhere in North Carolina and Virginia there is a promise of most abundant crops, and I have never seen such favourable prospects for planters as there are now." Another letter says, " Have no doubt that there will soon be direct opportunities with the South by steam." A Miss Annie K. Anderson, writing from Norfolk on the 11th of July, states that the blockade had caused everything to rise in value, and that meat was almost beyond the reach of the poor. The schooner Henry Middleton was loading with 600 barrels of spirits for Liverpool, and would run the blockade. " Mr. Robert Muir," the letter says,— "One of the parties interested in the adventure and by whom I send this, will confer and advise whether it will be better for the schooner to clear for a Northern port, so that, in case she is ordered off by the blockading fleet, she may proceed to New York or Philadelphia. Confer with Mr. Muir on this point, and whether it will be necessary to put her under the British flag. Endeavour to have some goods to meet the raising of the blockade. Salt is worth to-day 4 (lois. per sack." Mr. R. T. Walker, of Charleston, writes, on Aug. 6, to Mr. Charles Moore, of Liverpool, that 600 barrels of spirits of turpentine had been sold for shipment to Liverpool at 25e. the gallon : " Should the vessel be overhauled by the blockad ing fleet, the captain has instructions to fire her. The parties making the shipment are determined the Yankees will derive no benefit from it. The stock of spirits in the place is about 1,200 bar rels ; none of it for sale under 30c. There will be very little resin received here this year, in compa rison with the last, many of the distillers having abandoned the business." Among other letters was a draught for £250 from the Bank of South Carolina in favour of R. Stokes, being a legacy. Raveul and Co., of Charleston, send a draught in favour of Coates, of Paisley, for 717 do]s. A mother and daughter write to their " dear Willie," and mention that there was little tea or coffee for sale in Charleston. Mr. E. N. Thurston, of Charleston, writes to Mr, C. K. Priolau, of Liverpool, and speaks hopefully of the state of affairs. It is mentioned in Washington letters that the Government contemplated encouraging privateer ing ventures by waiving their claim to a share in prizes captured. With the sanction of the Federal Government the foreign Ministers at Washington had opened a cor respondence with their respective consuls atSouthern ports, requesting them to obtain the release of foreigners captured by Southern vessels, On the representation of Lord Lyons several sol diers claiming to be British subjects had been dis charged from the army. The refractory men of the 2d Marine and 13th New York Regiments had been despatched to the Dry Tortugas, where they would be confined. The place of their imprisonment is reported to be very unhealthy. There were, according to Washington letters of the 27th, indications of a general advance of the rebel army, and it was dexterously seizing many unoccupied points that would be of great import ance in the event of an attack. A large force had been thrown forward to Bailey's Crossroads, where they are making a strong entrenched position. At Vienna they had assembled in some force, and Fede ral s: outs reported a large body at Falls Church. A secret expedition sailed from Fortress Monroe on the 27th, randk- the command of General Butler and Commodore Stringharn. It consisted of the frigates Minnesota and Wabash, the sloop-of-war Pawnee, gunboats Monticello and Harriet Lane, the steamers Adelaide and George Peabody, the propellers Fanny and Adriatic, with a large num ber of schooners, barges, &c. The Quaker City would follow. The vessels carried over 100 guns and about 4,000 men. Colonel Tyler's Federal force in the Kanawha valley is reported to have been defeated at Sum mersville by the Confederates under General Floyd. The reports from Kentucky exhibit symptoms of an impending civil war in the State. The Confederate privateers were becoming ven- turesome. A schooner which had arrived at Boston from a port in Maine, reported having been over hauled by a privateer only 20 miles north east of Cape Ann. She was a clipper schooner of about 140 tons, named the Freely, from Charleston, South Carolina, and showing about 40 men on deck. The Charleston Courier says that the ironclad steamer, named Randolph, 155 tons, has been pur chased at Savannah for the coast of South Carolina She makes thirteen to fourteen knots an hour. From north-east Missouri we learn that General Green, with 1,200 Confederates, was fast moving towards the Missouri river, pursued by General Hurlbut and Colonel Moore. From Rolla we learn that an attack is reported to have been made on Montgomery's force at Fort Scott, and that the Con federates were repulsed. A deserter from New Madrid reported General Pillow's force at 20,000, much demoralised. Jefferson Thompson had 8,000 at Benton, General Hunter 800 at Charleston. Masked batteries were being built by the Confede rates along the river bank. The Confederates at Cedar Creek were reported at 1,500. Mr. Gamble, Provisional Governor of Missouri, had issued a pro clamation, calling out 42,000 of the State militia. FINANCES OF EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria, dated Aug. 31, says : The financial reforms which I lately described as being in progress have thus far been steadily carried out. In every administration, and wherever the slightest possibility of retrenchment could be dis covered, the process of reduction and elimination of dispensable changes has been relentlessly enforced —not, perhaps, without some cases of individual hardship, but of these many are inevitable, end others will probably before long be righted. The rate of expenditure at which we have thereby ar rived is calculated not to exceed £1,500,000 sterling _ . per annum, including all but the Viceroy's civil list. That sum, it is true, must be looked upon as below the limit at which the Government of the country, even with all possible care and economy, can practically be conducted, and it is believed that the annual expenditure must be reckoned at about £2,000,000 sterling. But the revenues of the coun try do not fall far short of £4,000,000, and conse quently the Government might free itself from its debts in some 6 or 7 years. Under the present aspect of affairs, therefore, things are not in a hopeless state. There is no doubt that the Viceroy is tho- roughly in earnest, and he seems, indeed, to fee] himself stung in his amour propre. The engage• ments he is contracting towards his foreign credi tors, to which I have now to refer, will, moreover, give him the most powerful motives for persevering in his wise resolutions. On the other hand, it may be said the strongest will may become relaxed when a lapse of years is in question, and it is but a truism that, hopeful as one may feel on the subject, specu lations in which a distant future is involved cannot quite sefely be indulged in. As your readers would gather from the statement I lately sent on the financial position of the country, it was rather more than a matter of surmise that a sum of money for present wants would be indis pensable, of a less or greater amount, according as the Government might or might not succeed in bringing to a successful issue its negotiations with M. Lafitte for deferring the repaymentof last year's loan of 28,000,000 f. The particulars of these nego tiations had not become public, but Draneht Bey and the representatives of the Paris bankers left for Marseilles by last French steamer, and according to what has transpired it appears that a basis of ar rangement has been agreed upon, which will in all probability be carried into effect. The Egyptian Government, it is stated, has stipu lated for a loan of such amount as will produce about £2,000,000 sterling, net cash. This and the old loan of 28,000,000 f. will be consolidated into one debt, redeemable by means of a sinking fund in about 30 years. Other conditions differ little from those previously proposed and with which your readers are already acquainted. There are a few ex ceptions, but all, as far as is known, more favour able to the Egyptian Government ; thus commis sion will be reduced from 72 to 6 per cent., and it will be levied upon the net produce instead of upon the gross amount of the loan. The restrictions upon the liberty of action of the Government will be less stringent,but the engagement to contract no new debts of any kind until the present one is paid, un less it be with the special concurrence of the bankers, will be rigidly enforced. The above agreement is said to have been attained by the mediation of the French Consul-General, who, by the terms of the contract for the old loan, was appointed ex officio arbiter in case of any dis agreement. It must, in justice, be added that he receives a large share of praise for having urged the Viceroy to undertake his financial reforms, and for encouraging him to persevere in his good. reso lutions. It is difficult to perceive, also, how it could be possible to extricate the country from its diffi culties without resorting to external aid—at least to such an extent as would meet immediate require ment. Still, there can be no concealment about the matter that a foreign debt, liable as it must be to affect the independent action of the Government, is at least suggestive of unpleasant thoughts. In abedience to repeated invitations, the last of which is said to have come in peremptory terms, Said Pasha has left for Constantinop l e, to pay the customary homage to the new Sultan. In his pre sent mood for economy the Viceroy's unwillingness to undertake the journey may fairly be attributed to its enormous expense. He has been obliged to provide himself with a large amount of ready cash, and it is believed that the wretched system of lar gesses which prevails at the Turkish capital will subject him to contributions to an amount of little short of £200,000, levied by all with whom he contact, from the highest personages down to the lowest servants of those whose hospitality he may have to accept. His Highness sailed from Alex andria last week in the steam frigate Siaghet-el. Bahr, and was expected to be absent some 20 or 25 days. . TILE N.ASONS' STRIKE. The following is a copy of the c ircular sent by the Executive Council of the Masons' Society, cal ling the men off from the cou ntry works of the London hour-paying masters :—" Bristol, Sept. 5, 1861. To the Masons at ---, in the employ of Mr. —, builder, of London. Fellow-workmen : It now, becomes the duty of the Executive of the Operative Masons' Society to call on you to suspend labour, as recently decided by the Society, on all works in the provinces under the control of the metropolitan builders who are enforcing the per nicious system of paying by the hour, in their London workshops. Your firm havi ng b een waited upon prior to the taking of this step, and refused to accede to the compromise offered, it only remains for us to give you notice to suspend work on Satur day, Sept. 7, 1861, and fall back upon the Society's rule in strike cases. .By order of the Executive of the Operative Masons Society, RICHARD HARNOTT, Gen. Secretary. St. John's Porter House, Stone bridge." The names of the works from which the men have been withdrawn, and the number of men who have left, will not be known for a few days ; but the following were reported to the London Com mittee on Saturday evening :-64 men and 4 boys from Mr. Myers' works at Netley Hospital; about 50 men from the works of the same firm at Bo x, Somerset ; 18 men from a job of Messrs. Tiollope, at Warwick ; and 14 men from Messrs. Holland and Hininer's job at Bulstrode Park. These com prise the whole of the masons employed at those works. The total number of men that will be withdrawn is expected to be from 600 to 700. A meeting of the master builders will be held on T tursday next to take this ne w movement of the masons into consideration. THE YELVERTON MARRIAGE CASE.--The corn, mission for taking proof in this case has (says the Freeman's Journal) terminated in Newry in a rather queer fashion. The counsel for Mrs. Yclverton required that the major should be produced in order to be identified, as several of the witnesses had made mistakes in referen ce b th to the lady and gentleman. The major's advisers did not produce him for that purpose, and moved the commissioner to ad jouln the examination to a future day. This motion of the major's counsel was granted by the commissioner against the remonstrance of the lady's advisers, who stated that the protracted proceedings in the suit were impairing her health and overwhelming her with costs which she could not bear, and that unless she were protected by the court she must, in despair, abandon her suit. Apparently the proceedings iii this case will:never terminate, SP a TES. The Stockton running has settled the pretensions of several St. Leger horses, including Dictator, Gardener, Caller Oui, and Yorkminster. The only alteration in the betting being a demonstration in favour of Brown Stout, who has gone to Whitewall to finish his preparation for the above race. If John Scott had a donkey in his stable, the public would be sure to back it. No doubt ho has got one of the best horses in England as a trial horse, if he still possessed such another as Klarikoff ; but how any person could be so stupid as back such a wretched two-year-old performer as Brown Stout is utterly beyond my compre hension his only performance last year being at Harpen den, where he was beaten all the way by Blisworth, Ring of Kent being second, filly by Barnton third, Viscount Brignall (51b extra) fourth, Rupert (51b extra) fifth, and Brown Stout last. His performances this year have been nearly as bad. Those who stand this son of Sir John Bar leycorn outright will not get intoxicated with their win nings when the race is over. Betts, another horse that used to be in " the Wizard's " stable, would be a far more trustworthy representative if sent with winning orders, and it wculd not surprise me to see him carry off both the Great Yorkshire Handicap and Leger. Kettledrum still maintains his position of first favourite with firmness, and, bar acci dent, there is certainly no other horse that will lower his colours if he only gets to the post in the same superb con dition that his trainer brought him on the hills of Epsom. Next to him, in my opinion, is Janus, of whom I still con tinue to receive good accounts, and if any mishap should befa 1 the favourite, the St. Leger will fall to the lot of Baron Rothschild. The absence of Ivanhoff for the Great Northern St. Leger disappointed those who thought to have Kildonan's correct measure, as, after the close race between the two on Tuesday, a spin between Ivanhoff, Virgilius, and Silverhair would have afforded a most useful line. Ivanhoff cannot be within 101 b of himself, after having been stopped so long in his work ; and Caller Oui, who was third to Mr. Parr's horse, having been beaten almost as easily by Oldminster in the Middlesborough Handicap, I cannot see why Kildonan should have advanced in bet ting after his head victory. MI . Merry has issued a very respectable bill of fare at Warwick, nearly £BOO represent ing the added money (although there are two cases in which the forfeits go to the fund), and the nine events already complete show an average of more than a score en gaged in each. Only a third of those entered for the Lea mington Stakes have accepted. Masterßagot, aged, Bst 131 b, declared forfeit on Saturday; and tie performances since the weights were published of Prince of Denmark, 6 yrs, Bst 41b ; Emblem, 5 yrs, Bst 41b ; Yorkshire Grey, aged, 7st 131 b; the Prophet, 4 yrs, 7st 51b; Brownie, 3 yrs, 7st llb ; and Tulip, 3 yrs, 6st 91b, do not say much for their pretensions, which leaves but sixteen horses apparently "in the race." Of these W. Day's stable contains De fender, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b ; Schism, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ; and Romu lus, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b ; T. Cliff's Petra, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b ; and. Zodiac, 3 yrs, 7st; Wadlow's Flirtation, 3 yrs, 7st 81b; and Jingling Johnny, 3 yrs, 7st ; and out of this lot it must not be anticipated more than four will reach the post, the remaining seven comprising Oxford, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b ; Newstead, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b ; Pitman, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b Artless, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b ; Baron Munchausen, 4 yrs, 7st 81b ; Shipwreck, 3 yr-i, 6st llb ; Knightsbridge, 3 yrs, Est 91b; and Calabria, 3 yrs, Est 41b. Whichever W. Day sends will be difficult to dispose of, but I would trust Artless, the winner of the Cesarewith in 1859, than anything else in the race, if I knew that the money was all right. Romulus i beat a good field at Salisbury at the commencement of the season, and if he can only stay over the two miles he ought to be there or thereabout at the finish. Shipwreck and Ram Munchausen are also favourably weighted. With a start and the money on, I can see nothing to beat Artless. The Warwick Cup, three miles, twenty subs. The con ) ditions, as regards the penalties and allowances, do not affect t many of the competitors, the following being the weights - they have to carry : Yrs st lb Yrs st lb Master Bagot a 9 6 Dulcibella ... 4 8 3 Blue Jacket rhormanby Bivouac 4 8 7 Lysiscote The Wizard 4 8 7 Eleho 3 7 0 Wallace 4 8 7 The Lawyer 3 7 0 Optimist Crater 4 8 7 Flirtation Oxford The Wizard and Thormanby will be reserved for their Doncaster engagements, which will reduce the race to a match between Elcho and The Lawyer—the latter for choice. Baron Munchausen or Rockley should secure the County Handicap, and Mr. Naylor cannot lose the Castle Stakes with one of his trio, especially if it should be Can tiniere. In the Shorts Handicap Doncaster and Prince Plausible have nothing to complain of. Godding has charge of three out of the nine accepting for the Welter Cup, one mile, and Capt. Little's mount will be worth standing, ev en I should it be the Moderate Prince Imperial. A Sweep stakes, for two and three year olds, six furlongs, eleven, subs., is only worth 100 soya clear, and yet the entry has attracted half a dozen such performers as Reaper (3 yrs), Turn of Luck, Ethel, Blackcock, Middleton Maid, and Genealogie, while the remaining five have good looks to re commend them, with scarcely one exception. The French filly, Genealogie, carried a lump of money when running second to Johnny Armstrong for the Gimcrack Stakes at York, and, as all her opponents have penalties, she ought to retrieve her lost laurels here, good as the company is, if the Mounseers do not keep her for something more important that will take place at Doncaster. The Members' Plate (five furlongs), Grand Stand Plate (six furlongs), and Scurry Stakes (one mile), are all handicaps, and they close the evening before running at the Grand Stand. A FRESH MAN. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-SATIIRDAY. For the Leamington Stakes, Artless was supported at different times at 5 and 6 to 1; but, ultimately, 7 to 1 was laid and offered on the field. Romulus, Shipwreck, De fender, Prince of Denmark, and Jingling Johnny were talked about, but no agreement was come to as to the taking price. For the St. Leger, 2 to 1 was taken very freely against Kettledrum, but 7 to 4 was declined. 10 to 1 would have been taken to money about Kildonan, but there was no higher offer than 9to 1. Aurelian was very firm. Janus had a rather shaky appearance, but his friends rallied, and 100 to 8 was taken freely. 'malls appears to , be the selected one from Lord Stamford's lot ; from the 100 to 3,taken and offered yesterday, he finished to-day at 100 to 8 (taken). Closing prices : LEAMINGTON STARES. 7 to 1 on the field (offered) , GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 100 to 7 agst Voltella (taken) 20 to 1 agst Betts (taken) 20 to 1 agst Highflyer (taken) ST. LEGER. 7to 4 agst Kettledrum (offered, 2to 1 taken freely) 9to 1 agst L Ady Ripon (offered) 9to 1 agst Kildonan (offered, take 10 to 1) 12 to 1 agst Aurelian (taken) 12 to 1 agst Janus (taken) 12 to 1 agst Imaus (taken) 15 to 1 agst Brown Stout (taken) 33 to 1 agst The Sage (offered) 50 to 1 agst Bombardier (offered) THE DERBY. 1000 to 15 agst Lady Alice Hawthorn (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Hurricane (taken) A LADY KILLED ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. An investigation was held on Friday by Mr. G. S. Brent, the deputy-coroner for West Middlesex, at the Coach and Horses, Ealing, on the body of a lady-like person, unknown, about 30 years of age, who was found dead near the Ealing bridge, on the Great Western Railway, having apparently been run over by a train. It appeared that about eight o'clock on Monday evening last a policeman at the Ealing station re ceived information from the driver of the 6.45 train from Windsor, that he had run over a woman. He took a lamp, and on proceeding about 200 or 300 yards down the line he first found a cape, and then a bonnet, and subsequently the body of a female. She laid with her head inside the rails, and her body outside. The left arm was separated from the body. She was conveyed to the Coach and Horses, where she was searched, and in her pocket were two very good P ocket handkerchiefs m ar k e d eA. M. a pair of gloves, and a portemonnaie, containing 2s. 6d. and smaller mon e y. Sh e was very respectab l y attired, with lace o r open work rou nd her under clothing, and s h e wore several articles of je weller y , denotin g her to be of respect ability. The driver and fireman b o th saw h er coining down the bank, but it was impossible to stop the train, The deceased had been seen in a neighbouring village during Monday, and also be tween seven and eight eveningo' a c s l t oc s k ee t n he sh s e am ap e pearedin on Ealing-bridge. When l a study, but there was nothing remarkable in her appearance. Inquiries had been made at a photo graphic artist's in Regent-street, consequent on a ticket being found on her bearing that address, and apparently her name, " Miss Davis." The body, however, could not be identified, as some other per son had fetched away the portrait, and no copy had been taken. The jury were in doubt as to whether deceased attempted to cross the rails before the engine could reoch her, whether the accidentally slipped down, er whether she had a suicidal ietention, and there upon returned an open verdict, with an expression way company or any h thatno ot blame er pe w r a so s n. a ttached to the rail LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE NEAR THE STRAND. —Yesterday afternoon, as two servant girls belonging to the Bello Vue Hotel, in Norfolk-street, Strand, were look ing over some railings extending from the house, one of them u nfortunately dropped over into the Thames, and the other girl followed to save her. Boats were put off from the police ship and shore, when the girls were picked up, but one was quite dead. The remains of the unfortunate creature were taken to the house of Mr. Pryor, the Howard Arms, for a coroner's inquest. Tho deceased, whose name is King, was about 22 years old, and the principal support aller aged parents, Th in thi exceF opera strict Cott° dersfi mode ever, Lecei. the It field, eaten price: A 1 Liver• Were 1 Al chase; Satur THE took ( Th CnueE trade factui has ID denial mond Bank lities, merea the a and lc at me: The lish S has b cent., the ac busini 91t Cent. ditto per C rathe ness. ditto, Equa Ayres Btu mode: place have and ' Brigl Th , wand advai Penh 7a conti and Bank prov I MO Ccizsc India Each Drs.zi Dit lilt Euen flit Dit Ducc Equa Russ 1),11- Span Turk ' C WE Nori Trek East soul T 1 tetv