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/. ____ ~C~ r~tvl . NEWSPAPER P" 'v r k ( ..Kvfli Ip 4. making a road to the shore. From this P-71 e146' / /c0 4'1'414 :42,7, confidence 'in the resources o f Tangier has ste, increased. The numbers who have found empl., l - n S ment there all the summer have ranged between 400 and 800, and the number of small lots taken up is now about 95, for which £475 currency has been paid. The quantity of gold taken out it is impos sible to estimate, as'no royalty is exacted, and no returns are made. Everybody digs out of his own claim what he can, and carries it away ; but from the quantities brought to this city and sold, or ex posed in other parts of the province, it is apparent that a very large amount of gold has been brought to the market, while stores of uncrushed quartz have accumulated at the mines. Whatever has been obtained has been got by the most simple process, and without any of the aids which science in other countries lends the miner. A rude sort of crusher • has been placed upon the ground within the last month, but it does its work imperfectly, and is un provided with the apparatus by which the finer particles of gold are amalgamated and secured after the quartz is crushed. -.- ' 3l l'jv , C-: • • he 4ts , or , t tel , fi gt . lAy1( • 1. , V,C4I/k L r - •,,,_.„ L ,fp. 3 ,- % , • • 7,72, I, • (90 e • .ty 'it • - • • ...• ' - ,44a W 44, p , „, 15 , - 1- 4 OPP' .t p • • _ Di , 8 s , .41 • OIT • a - • p-w ...... - .) •, ' aHEAT WESTERN RAILWAY. \--A --CHEAP EXCURSION to the NORT ll.—An EX CURSION TRAIN, at LOW FARES, will leave Paddington at 9.15 am., and Reading• at 10.50 a.m., en SATURDAY. Oct. 12, returning on Wednesday, Oct. 10, for OXFORD (Fares (Gs. Ed. and 45.), Banbury (Ss. and Is.), Leamington and War wick (10s. Id. and Os.), Stratford-on-Avon and Birmingham (12s. and 7a.), West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Bilston (121. 6d. and 7s. 6(1.), Wolverhampton (13s. and Bs.), Welling ton and Shrewsbury (17s. ani 10s.), Oswestry, Llangollen road, Wrexham, and Chester (ISs. 6d. and lls.), Birkenhead, Liverpool, Warrington, and Manchester (21s. and 12s. 6(1) THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 1861.. PRICE 4d, STAMPED bd. BEAT WESTERN RAILWAY.-CHEAP TWO DAYS' EXCURSION to GLOUCESTER, CHELTENHAM, HEREFORD, ,te—Ou SUNDAY, the 6th of October, :us Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 7.30 a.m., and Reading, at 8.40 a.m., for Cirencester and Stroud (Fares, ss. and :is.), Stonehouse, Gloucester and Cheltenham ( 1 0s. and 68.), Ross and Hereford (12s. and 75.); returning at 5 p.m. on the following day. N°. 21,610. ment of Ohio should in future consist of Ohio, Indiana, and that part of Kentucky within 15 miles of Cincinnati. General Mitchell was to command, and had his head-quarters at Cincinnati. So much of Virginia as lies west of the Blue Ridge was to con stitute the department of Western Virginia, under the command of General Rosecrans. Arrangements had been made by means of :which the volunteers might assign their pay for the benefit of their to New York, was also sell !-i , PUBLICATIONS. PILESIDEN2' LINCOLN AND THE BIGIIIB OF FREE NEGROES. AMERICA. ;, um Supposi' Now ready, at an the Libraries, in 3 vols., O T I C E TO Q U IT. By W. G. WILLS, Author of " Life's Foreshadowings." ." A novel of remarkable power. The interest never fl a g s There is real genius in this writer."—Spectator. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. SlR,—Fully appreciating the kindly feeling for my unhappy and hitherto disgraced country (in consequence of the cursed slave system) which actuates you towards the United States, I hope the information I send you in the enclosed copy of a letter I addressed to Lord Brougham a few days ago will give you and your readers pleasure. It certainly is of immense importance that the present government of the United States should hav e vir tually repealed. the decision of the Federal Court in regard to the denationalizing American negroes, depriving them of the privileges of citizens of the United States, which was the effect of the decision in the case of " Dred Scot." _ _ SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY. The Hamburg-American Company's screw steam ship Hammonia, Captain H. F. Schvvensen, which left New York on the 21st uliimo, and passed Cape Race on the 24th, arrived off Cowes at noon to-day, and went on to Hamburg after transhipping mails, &c., for this p.rt. Strong westerly winds, and a heavy sea in the same direction, wre experienced all through the passage. A large iceberg was passed in lat. 47.30 N., long. 46 W. BANK OF DEPOSIT (Established A.P. 1844.) 'No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Prospect uses and Forms for Opening Aenunts sent free en application. PETER MORRISON, Mann, , ing Director. ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1862 . The forty fourth thousand ; price 63., eontains ;—Result of the War in America. Louis Napoleon's Danger. Warlike Doings in England. The Dc - usions of 1)r. Cumminc , dissi pated, &c., &c.—G. Berger, liolywell-street, Loudon; and all Booksellers. alcailies. The .11rew York Herald of the 20th says : .THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. On the 23d ult., in lat. 42,29 N, long. 63.7 W., the Hammonia passed the American ship M. R. Ludwig. The Hammonia brings 19 passengers for South ampton, 72 for Havre, and 160 for Hamburg, and on freight 2,250 dols. in specie for q Enoiand. _ _ Established 1836. OFFICES. 1, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry, London. FIRE DEPARTMENT. 'I:IHE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex - perienced in IMO. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus. ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive. intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." The Annual Premiums exceed £310,000. and place it in the first class of Fire Offices, Its liberality and promptitude in set tling claims have been established in the adjustment of enor mous losses ; and its influence in determining rates of Pre- Mium has uniformly been given to proposals for improving the character of risks that high Premiums may be unneces sary, LIFE DEPARTMENT. The Annual Premiums exceed £140,000; the Accumulated Reserve in this departm - ent is £707,000. RESOURCES. The invested funds of the Company exceed £1,260,000. The liability of proprietors is unlimited. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary, London. FIRE POLICIES due at Michaelmas should be renewed by the 14th day of October, 1801. R OY AL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK, (Incorporated by Royal Charter). Founded in 1824:—Supported by Voluntary Contributions. PATRONESS—IIer Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT —Vice-Admiral his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN —Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.It.S., V. l'., Chair man of Lloyd's. DEPUTY-CirmumAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., p.n.s., V.P., Chairman of Lloyd's Registry of British and Foreign Shipping Society. APP The Committee of Managen the past year, the Institution 1 in; to £0,?58 ls. on the follow. 'EAT, tent !Nitre to state that, during has incurred expenses amount ing Life-boat stations: — Llandudno, Carnarvonshire. Southport, Lancashire. Lytham, Silloth, Cumberland. ENGLAND. Ncwbiggin, Northumberland. Saltburn, Yorkshire. Filey, Caistor, Aldborough, Suffolk. Margate, Kent. Walmer,. Seism West Sussex. Grange, Isle of Wight. Brooke, Penzance, Cornwall. St. Ives, if ------ -- Newquay, .• IRELAND. Penarth, Glamorganshire. Portrush, Antrim. Llandwyn, Anglesey. Tyrolla, Dundrum Bay. The Institution has also expended on the repairs, stores, alterations, and inspection of its numerous Life-boats, Boat houses, and Transporting-carriages, Z 3,6.32 Ds. ; and 41,550 for exercising the Crews of its Life-boats--making altogether 4 total of £11,441. b en ig the past year the Life-boats of the Institution have n , trumental in rescuing the Crews of the following 'Wrecked Vessels : Schooner Ann Mitchell, of Montrose Schooner Jane Roper, of Ulverstone • • Brig Pallas. of Shields .. Ship Ann Mitchell, of Glasgow .. Smack John Bull, of Yarmouth .. Schooner Catherine, of Newry 0, • • Barque Niagara, of Shields A Barge of Teignmouth •• •• •• trig George and James, of London • • Brig Zephyr, of Whitby •• •• •• Coble Honour, of Cullercoats • • • • Schooner Eliza, of North Shields Marque Oberon, of Liverpool • • • • Brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth Smack Wonder, of Teigninouth Brig Scotia, of Sunderland .. Sloop Three Brothers, of Goole Sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge Brig Ann, of Myth •• •• •• •• Sloop Hope, of Dublin Sclioener Druid, of Aberystwyth .. Barque Vermont, of Halifax, Schooner William Keith, of Carnarvon Brig Flying Fish, of Whitby Smack Elizabeth Ann, of Byrne Regis .. Steam Drecte, at Newhaven .. Schooner Admiral Hood, of Rochester .. Schooner Susan and Isabella, of Dundee .. Schooner Rose, of Lynn • • Brig Prodroma, of Stockton . Brig Eliza, of Middlesborough Brigantine Freia, of Konigsberg Brigantine Diana, of Fredrikshamn Brig Gloucester, of South Shields SCOTLAND. Ayr, Ayrshire. Irvine, Kantyre, 'Amyleshire. Buckle, Banffshire. Banff, St. Andrew's, Fifeshire. North Berwick, Haddingtoll - .. 7 .. 7 Total 11. 00 , iDlo —.210 For these and other Life-boat services the Institution has Voted £9OB Bs. 4d. as regards. It has also granted rewards a mounting, to £203 4s. for saving 245 shipwrecked persons, by s hore-boats and other means, making a total of 455 persons s aved from a...watery grave on the Coasts of the United During the present year (1861), the Life-boats of the Insti tution have also been instrumental in rescuing the Crews of the following Vessels : Brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham Brigantine Nugget, of Bideford .. Schooner Prosp , et, of Berwick Sleep Thomas and Jane. of St. Ives A Fb,hing-boat of Whitburn Brig Arethusa, of Blyth Schooner Dewi Wyn, of Portmadoc Flat Cymraes, of Beaumaris Schooner 'William, of Morecambe .. Smack Gipsy, of Newry .. • • • • Schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston .. Brig New Draper, of Whitehaven Schooner William, of Liverpool Lugger Nimrod, of Castletown Brig Providence, of Shields .. Brig Mayflower, of Newcastle Sch9oner Village Maid, of Fleetwood .. Barque Guyina, of Glasgow Brig Roman Empress, of Shields .. Brig San Spiridione, of Galaxide Schooner Voador du Vouga, of Vianna French Brig La Jeunc Marie Therese .. Barque Perseverance, of Scarborough Schooner Elizabeth, of Bridgewater • Ship Danube, of Belf as t •• •• • •• .1 Schooner Hortensia, of Hanover .. • • • • I Schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven 4 Brig St. Michel, o f M arans • • Spanish Barque Primera de Torrevieg,a (saved ves sel and one of the crew)' Schooner Hurrell, of Penzance (saved vessel a n d crew) .. .• .. 4 .. 8 .. 4 .. 10 .. 2 .. 8 .. n .. 5 .. 4 Total .. . • ..183 The public cannot but sympathise with the visorous efforts how being made by this Institution to save the lives of Ship wrecked Crews. Their help was never more needed than at the present time, when, through the extraordinary exertions the Society has made within the past few years, it has now One Hundred and Fifteen Life-boats under its management, tor the maintenanceot which, in a state of thorough efficiency. a large permanent annual income is absolutely needed, if its humane mission is to be perpetuated. 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SELF-PRESERVATION . —A popu l ar E ssay on Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from injurious habits contracted in youth, or excesses in maturity, which, by prematurely exhausting the functions of Manhood, de stroy the happiness of Married Life or prevent the fulfil ment of engagements which constitute the most cherished objects of existence. By Dr. LA'MERT, 37, Bedford-square, London. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Member of the Royal College of surgeons of England, dm The above work contains most useful and interesting Information on the physiological changes which occur in the Reproductive System during the periods of youth, PUberly, and manhood ; and on the due attainment of that degree of functional vigour upon which the hopes of posterity depend, It also •points out how all the attributes of Man hand Can be preserved to an advanced period of life, how they are lost, and how they can be recovered. 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Just published, Bvo, in cloth, price 55., by post free, ss. 6d., nN THE SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA; showing why they so often appear Incurable, when in reality they might be removed by the most simple means. By F. B. COURTENAY, And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " This work is the production of a surgeon whose special attention has been directed, through a long professional life, to the treatment of strictures of the urethra. The cases which lkir. Courtenay has given supply ample evidence of his great discriminative power in the diagnosis of the various kinds of stricture, and of,the scientifiaprinciplqs upon which their management Is founded. Bsrhis systematic management an immense'mitigation of pain- to the unhappy sufferers is attained, and future mischief prevented. The work we can most unreservedly and confidently recommend as a valuab. contribution, , both to the general and professional reader, and ought to be foundin the privatestudy of all who are subject to stricture."—Medical Circular. London: H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. Just published, 132 pages, illustrated with cases, in a neat 12m0., price Is., or post free for 18 stamps, The Third Edition of MANLY VIGOUR; the Art of Preserving, Improving, and Recovering It. With Practical Remarks on Spermatorrhcca, Seminal Weakness, and Nervous Debility, Impotence. Barrenness, Sterility, and all other Disorders of the Generative Organisa tion in Males and Females. Likewise a chapter on Venereal Diseases, interspersed WLth clear instructions for self management and prescriptions for cure, and for ensuring the blessings of wedded happiness, and restoration to the privi leges of health and vigour. From this work it will be seen that none need despair, but all may look forward confidently to permane at recovery. By Dr. A. F. lIENERY. London : Published by the Author, Medical Institution, 53, Dorset-street, Manchester square, W. A RGY L L ROOM S.—Great success of the RUSSIAN VALSE, by Laurent. played every Night at 11 o'clock.—Series of NEW DANCE MUSIC this week. Conductor and principal Cornet, M. Boulcourt ; Manager, P. Grenet. Admission is. Selections : Trovatore, Massaniello, Fra Diavalo, Martha, Crown Diamonds. 8, GROSVENO R-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE.- ALL CONSULTATIONS FREE. ARTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW and IM ' PROVED PRINCIPLE, at TEN SHILLINGS EACH TOOTH (including all charges.) 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JOZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED eCAPSULES.—Copaiba and Cubeba are doubtless the best remedies, but these drugs arc of a repulsive taste and odour, and occasion colicky pains, nausea, and gastric dis turbance. M. Jozeau has succeeded in rendering these valu able therapeutic agents perfectly innocuous by increasing in his Copahine all tie curative properties. This preparation has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Medicine, after more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different Lon don hospitals, viz., St. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. Bartholo mew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clark.—" Lancet," Nov. 6 and Dec. 10, 1857. The Copahine, which is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure in about six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. 100 capsules, 4s. 6d. ; post free, ss. 2d. Post-office order required; at J. JOZEAU'S, French Chemist, 42, Haymarket, London ; 22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris ; and all the most important Chemists. 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Just Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a scaled envelope, price le., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, forl 2 stamps, i 1 T-1_ ANHOOD: tho CAUSE and C URE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions for Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. . , CONTENTS: 1 uctive Organs. Structure and Functions of the Reprod d Impotence; CHAPTER INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiologic& Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect ot Ma rriage ; whether resulting from Youthful Abus e , the CHAPTER lII.—A Review of the various DisqualiCeations Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Rook concludes with numerous varied and interesting asps, to which is add e d th e A u th or 's recipe of a preventive L i tton. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. `Curtis on Manlmoit.--Thils is a truly valuable work, and Id be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," 13i1 Nardi, 1856. "The author has conferred gre a t boon by publishing this which produce decline i little work, in whi c h Is d escribed a 0 l "Thisl a ff e " work, D oilyw whi c h 1 Telegraph , ,, h e l f eir a t p w h n ' the source of those diseases and em youth , o m rmoir l e rl freii m iztly premature Professional criticism pi t r y iea y i e h a o rs ati h li a t s y, s t to re o a d t t a h th e test of g manner on the various disqualifications impediments arising from nervous excitement and de bility and sympathisin and v sy n e a r b i l e e % from r : d us c l i T il et , h ,_ % errors id and eses an it d w t il o l 1 ) in e v fo al ut London : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann, as k c omma, INo tire 91 Consultation-10 to 3 and oto $ i_SUAdays, 10 till P, exee With the kindest feelings for your sympathy for my unhappy country, I am, &c., AN AMERICAN FEDERALIST. 21, Tokenhouse-yard, London, E,C., Oct, 3. (Copy.) IN RE DRED SCOT. My Lord,-1 have great pleasure in informing your lordship that the decision of the Federal Court in the " Dred Scot" case is practically annulled by the present Government of Washington. I have be fore me the passport granted to the Rev. Henry H. Garnet, a black man of note and of great distinc tion among the negroes of New York, given by Wm. H. Seward, the Secretary of State, dated Washing ten, August 26, 1861, in which the secretary .ff re quests all whom it may concern to permit safely and freely to pass Henry H. Garnet, a citizen of the United . States, and in case of need to give him all lawful aid and protection." This passport is im pressed by the seal of the department of State and signed by the Secretary of State in the 86th year of the independence of the United States.. Your lordship is aware that by the decision of the Federal Chief Justice Taney, all negroes and mulat toes, ail persons with tL e least drop of black man's blood in their veins, were pronounced to be not American citizens, and to have none of the privileges and protection due to Americans. I have no doubt but that the Supreme Court will be soon so consti tuted as to procure an early reversal of the " Bred Scot" decision, and although passports to persons of colour had before been frequently refused by the influence of Southern control over the State depart ment, this is the first passport granted to a coloured person since the " Dred Scot" decision was promul gated. In the meantime lam rejoiced to give your lordship the gratifying information that the cabinet at Washington are now acting in direct opposition to this iniquitous decision. We may have some hope, now that the whole disgusting system of slavery—" the sum of all vil lanies"—will soon be eradicated out of my unhappy country, although its baneful influences will re quire scores of years to correct, and to put the Southern States on an equality for morality, en lightenment, and industrial success with the Northern States, which' have hitherto been so dis graced by the unfortunate union between liberty and slavery.—l have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) GERARD RALSTON. To the Right Hon: Lord Brougham, &e. London, Sept. 28. 7HE AFFAIRS OF TURKEY'. Constantinople letters and journals to the 25th ult. have reached us. The following is a summary of general intelligence :—On Saturday last, Sir Henry Bulwer presented his Lilliputian steam yacht, the Cinderella, to his Highness Youssouf eddin Effendi, the Sultan's son. The little vessel had been beautifully fitted up, and fresh painted from taffrail to figure-head. Shortly after she came to a mooring under the windows of the palace, his juvenile Highness took personal possession, and seemed delighted with his property, rummaging cabin, engine -room, and forecastle with the liveliest curiosity and satisfaction. His Majesty the Sultan looked on from one of the windows, and at the close of the little owner's inspection sent out a handsome backsheesh to the late crew of the vessel. The Union-jack had been previously hauled down and the crescent-and-star hoisted in its stead Seventeen now regiments of police are to bo forth with embodied. Of these the six which are destined for service in Roumelia are now nearly complete, and officers have already been named to their command. Selim Bey and the Council of Police are actively engaged in the organization of a similar force for the Anatolian provinces. On Friday last the aide-de-camp of the Seraskier, who recently took considerable supplies of money to Omer,Pasha, returned from Mostar, with important despatches for the Ministry of War. Since we last reported the progress of the Tartar and Circassian immigration, the arrival of these new subjects of the Porte has continued at an undiminished ratio—at the rate, in fact, of fifty to one of the Bulgarians who are emigrating to Bessarabia. About 10,000 a week have been arriving at the various ports of the Black Sea, whilst those who came on hither have numbered about 6,000. Yesterday a strong detach ment of Schamyl's tribe arrived from Daghestan, and ansther Dageestanee tribe—the Koumouks— are said to be on their way, almost to a man. The Bezlence tribe has also reached Samsoun, leaving hardly one of its number behind. The Grand Vizier has issued peremptory orders to the tax farming saraffs who are in arrear for last year's revenue to pay in the amount of their obligations to the Treasury without further delay. The total thus due on last year's receipts amounts to 120,000,000 p. in metallic, a. sum of sufficient im portance at the present juncture to call for real pressure on the defaulters. His. Highness might usefully put the screw with similar force on the other saraffs who for a much longer period have been debtors to the Government to the tune of 3,000,000 liras. Mercy to such gentry is cruelty to the hundreds of civil employes whose pay is now seven months in arrear. The Imaum of Sana (Arabia Felix), hitherto Virtually independent, has accepted the sovereignty of the Porte, and ordered the Friday's prayer to be for the future offered up in the name of the Sultan. The Porte has accepted the submission, and granted the Imaum a pension of 10,000 p. a month." RIFLE MATCH.—SCOTLAND AGAINST FRANCE. — The riflemen of Franco having conveyed a hint, through the secretary of their Tir National, that they would like to try their skill against the riflemen of Scotland, Mr. Edward Ross, the ox-champion of Wimbledon, has at once come for ward and has challenged the best shot in France to a match at various distances. We hope that the prompt challenge of our young champion will be accepted. If so, the match will excite very great interest in both cOuntries.—Edin burtjA Courant. Tuesday, ut uri T eggs n ho i pyo on ß ,et thEtcheTa their tei inst,, net Queen TILE C aonUdltT suiteF FROM will B arriveAL 310 i n R A E L d . i — n o f n re a m th ß at al o m n or t al ho , o f n oll t o h w e in ev g e d n a in y g h o is f Royal Highness the Prince Consort will lay the foundation. s fAo t i o rn s n E e e s nu o gni f l a t bn h ud e i l n ed e ai w rnl gy G so. o n n e TT r hh a l ou Po rcsd ao st- u yr t o flic mwoi and leave morning. the now .H Wo ieyruolnonddde Palaceur ssttarni al d that the Lord Provost's committee have the subject of the ceremonial to be observed on th e 2 2d inst. under their con sideration; and we presume that in a matter in which the public are so generally interested this committee will be enlarged so as to include representatives from the other public bodies who, it is expected, will join in such procession as shall be deemed most suited to the occasion. Of course it is well understood that as the Prince Consort, and not the Duke of Athole, is to lay the foundation stones, the Masonic body as such, cannot be ex pected to attend in their official costume. But it cannot be doubted that, as on the occasion of his Royal Highness inaugurating the National Gallery structure in 1850, the leading citizens as well as prominent persons from the neighbouring towns will gladly avail themselves of the op portunity of celebrating the commencement of two build ings like the new Industrial Museum and the New General Post-office —the one important as the he a d o f the depart mh'e°easnrtifg on theorScotlarnesdo,and intended o th f e th o o th o e o r unry, nd b to on h e a ll v o e ia s l p 9 e ff e e i o a t l on the industrial youth of Scotland. t Of the actual details of the ceremonial nothing can be even indicated at present; but it is hoped that they will harmonise as much as possible with the character and magnitude of the edifices (which will be tLe largest in the metropolis), and give full effect to that our streets w hich the situation and_ outline of most of generally impart to a well organised processional ppectacle,—*Q(6o". The intelligence from Missouri is interesting and important. The Confederate General Price, who evacuated Boonville, attacked Lexington on the 16th, but was repulsed by the Federal forces after suffer ing severe loss. General Price summoned General Mulligan to surrender, to which General Mulligan profanely replied, "Go to hell." The Confederates then opened fire, and the battle commenced in earnest, but the Union troops replied vigorously. Later advices fully confirm the repulse of the Con federates, and give some additional particulars of the operations of the first two days, but no indica tion .of the final result. It appearsthq Price on the first day made an effort 'to gain posseSsion of three ferry-boats lying in the river on the Lexing ton side, for which purpose he detailed two large bodies of men to approach both above and below. Such was the vigour with which they were met, however, that they were repelled with heavy loss, and subsequently removed 12 waggonloads of killed and wounded. The next day Price assaulted the Federal intrenchments four or five times, but was each time repulsed, with a loss of between 300 and 400 men. From Southern Kansas we learn that Rains was marching towards the North, but that General Lane, with the Kansas troops, was close upon his heels. Another body of about a thousand Confederates, supposed to have been engaged in the recent bridge burnings, was being pursued by Federal troops from a station on the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. Skirmishes were reported to have taken place near Kansas City and Ironton, in which the Confede rates had been worsted. A descent was made on the 12th ult. upon a Con federate camp at Petersburg, Hardy County, Vir ginia, by Captain Kidd's company of cavalry from New Creek, Maryland, and a company of infantry from Fort Pendleton. The Confederates only waited for one shot from a 12-pounder, and then fled. Several were killed and wounded, a number taken prisoners, and their camp and all its equipage were captured. On the same day a body of 250 Con federates was attacked and dispersed at Barbours ville. The Confederates had not yet made their promised demonstration against the Federal lines on the Potomac (says the New l'ork, Times of the 21st), and the chance of their doing so appeared every day to be growing less. On the 20th they confined their operations to firing upon the pickets, in which Christian amusement they appear to have come off second best, as several of them were wounded by the return fire of the pickets, none of whom were hurt. _ _ _ The murderous practice of picket-firing, which was inaugurated by the Confederates, and has been constantly kept up by them whenever the opportu nity has offered, is wholly discountenanced by the officers of the Federal army. The general dis favour with which the practice is viewed has found expression in an order issued by General M'Clellan, in which he declares the practice contrary to the usages of civilised nations, and establishes the rule that there shall be no firing upon the Confederate pickets, unless it becomes necessary to resist their advance, or to return a fire commenced by them. There was little probability that this good example would be followed by the Confederate commanders. Washington despatches state that General Fre mont's military action in Missouri had given cause to the President for dissatisfaction. A despatch of the 20th says : "If the President has not already done so, it is believed that he has decided to depose General Fremont, and order some other General to the command of that department. The fact that Lexington and other places have been left almost undefended, when General Fremont has a strong force at his disposal, is a mystery that annoys the President and Cabinet, and it is inexplicable to General Scott. Gene ral Fremont will unquestionably be called to Washington to explain." The Navy Department at Washington had ac cepted a number of proposals for iron-clad ships. Captain M'Kean had been appointed flag officer in the Gulf, Captain L. M. Goldsborough and Captain S. F. Dupont were to succeed Captain Stringham, his command being divided. A number of other changes had taken place in the commands of the vesseld engaged in the blockade. The New York, Herald of the 21st, under the head of " Cotton for Europe," has the following : " Tha Government is now organising, and has perhaps partly despatched, several military and naval expeditions against the South, employing in the aggregate about 150,000 men and 3,000 ships of war and transports. With this large force the Southern cotton crop will be seized at the different depots, when it is ready for market, and the Government will have about 2,000,000 bales by the Ist of January next for export to England and Franco. There is no necessity therefore for European nations to quarrel with us about the cotton supply. We shall be ready to let them have all the cotton they want by the time they require it." - - The following items are from Washington de spatches of the 20th : " The Spanish Minister had an interview to-day with Secretary Seward relative to the present state of affairs, which occupied considerable time. It is certain that Secre- tarp Seward assured M. Tassara that the Government of the United States entertained no other than the most friendly feeling towards the Government of Spain. The result of this interview, which I am assured, was highly important, having special reference to the position of Spain, and her probable recognition of the Southern Confederacy, was the forwarding of despatches to the Spanish Government by M. Tassara and instructions to our Minister by Secretary Seward. " No explanation will be asked of the British Government of the reasons for the extraordinary increase of the military forces of Canada. The Government will tacitly admit the right of Great Britain to bristle Canada with bayonets, without asking or giving opportunity for explanations. In like manner wo may exercise the privilege of accumulating men and munitions of war within reach of the Canadian frontiers, without being questioned as to the ultimate ob jects we have in view, or the immediate purposes of such an aggregation of forces. "A treaty of commerce was ratified with Denmark to day. It concedes to Dented* the privileges accorded to the most favoured nations, and our intercourse .is to be on the same footing." The news from Kentucky was still exciting, and seemed to foreshadow the approach of a battle at Muldraugh's Ferry. The Union forces, on reaching Rolling Fork, found the bridge b urned, and the ' d and 400 of the Home Guard, was despatched from Louisville amid htfheillohilsls.eauCool.cSoomhihnsaohn, with 700 men, c e o n n em sis y ti o n n g great enthusiasm. Communication with the South via Louisville seemed to be entirely suspended. On the 19th ult. the United States Marshal seized the office of tho Louisville Courier, and ar rested ex-Governor Morehead, Reuben T. Murrett, one of the proprietors of the Courier, and Martin W. Barr, on charges of treason. Gen. Buckner was reported to be it. command of the Confederates. A general excitement prevailed on the 20th, and can non and other arms had been received in Louisville. Indiana troops were expected to help the Union troops already engaged. Telegraph communication with the South was entirely stoppekso nothing was accurately known of the movements of the troops on either side. War had been declared by the Le gislature, the Union Home Guards being placed under the Charge of Brigadier Gen. Critten and the troops o ntroof under l Gen. the Anderson , and d w am ho m h u a n d it t io h n e . supreme State e arm s a It had been arranged that the military depart. " From a statement of a deserter from the rebel camp it is understood that General Jefferson Davis was at Munson's hill on Wednesday, together with Generals Beauregard and Johnston, making reconna'ssances. Jefferson Davis was busily engaged inspecting our works by the aid'of a glass. Only 1,000 rebels are reported as being at that place, the balance of the force being located at Fairfax Court-house and Centreville. They are said to be now only 100,000 strong, and that 15,000 had a short time since been sent to North Carolina for that State's protection. The deserter is of opinion that the rebels did not contemplate an attack upon the Union forces, but were daily awaiting one from them. They had formerly intended to cross into Maryland, but he was of opinion they would not now do so. Gen. M'Clellan, while reviewing the command of Gen. Franklin, discovered a reconnoitring party of rebels approaching, and at once saluted them with shell, sighting the guns himself. As the shells exploded in their midst they speedily withdrew. General M'Clellan next sent a few winged messengers among the rebels who were engaged erecting a battery on Mason's-hill, near Munson's-hill. The missiles having taken effect, the workmen suspended operations pro tem." From General Banks's column we have intelli gence of a reconnaissance near Leesburg, which discovered three Mississippi regiments of the Con federates. drilling on the fair grounds. The 4th Mississippi regiment had mutinied and disbanded, The rumour of the advance of the Confederate General, Johnston, on the Upper Potomac, was re affirmed, but General Banks was ready for him. The House of Representatives of Kentucky had ordered a committee of 13 to be appointed by both Houses to prepare a Bill to provide for the calling of a national convention to consider the misfortunes of the nation, with a view to their permanent set tlement, based on constitutional provisions, mutu ally forgiving the wrongs of the past and assuring good fellowship in the future; also a Bill calling on both sections for an armistice of 90 days, to give time to consider these propositions and to provide for a joint commission. An immense and enthusiastic mass meeting of the citizens of New York was held on the evening of the 20th ult. in the Cooper Institute, to give re newed expression to their determination to uphold the Union, and at the same time to ratify the nominations made by the convention of the Union People's party at Syracuse. Among the speakers was the Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson. When he declared, in tones of fiery eloquence, that, although he was poli tically opposed to the President and his Administra- tion, he would rather cut off his right arm than cast an obstacle in the way of their crushing the rebellion, the sentiment was hailed and endorsed by the immense audience with vociferous applause. His denunciations of the "miscreant peace party" were received in a similar manner, and when he said that the President should not only have sus pended the habeas corpus, but should also have suspended some of the apologists of the rebellion, there was one universal shout of approbation. The war spirit was developed in the most unmistakeable manner. On the afternoon of the 19th a mass meeting of the inhabitants of King's County, in the city of Brooklyn, was held on Fort Greene, to endorse the action of the Government in prosecuting the present war, and to recommend the sinking of all party ties, with the one object in view of suppressing the re bellion. The meeting was large, harmonious, and enthusiastic. Resolutions were adopted urging a vigorous prosecution of the war, and the union of all parties upon one ticket for State and local offices at the November election. The offices of the meet- ing were equally divided between Democrats and Republicans. The gunboat Unadilla, the first of the 25 vessels of war of that class ordered by Congress, went on her trial trip down New York harbour on the 19th. Her performance proved perfectly satisfactory to all parties interested: Two change& have been made in Jefferson Davis's Confederacy Cabinet since its formation on the 6th March last. Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, has been made Secretary of State in place of Robt. Toombs, of Georgia ; and Braxton Bragg, of Loui siana, has succeeded Leroy P, Walker, of Alabama, as Secretary of War. The Cabinet as now formed is as follows : Secretary of State—Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia. Secretary of the Treasury—C. L. Memminger, of South Carolina. Secretary of War—Braxton Bragg, of Louisiana. Secretary of the Navy—Stephen R. Mallory, of Florida. Postmaster-General—John H. Reagan, of Texas. Attorney-General—Judah P. Benjamin, of Louisiana. His Imperial Highness Prince Jerome Napoleon returned to New York on the 18th, after an absence of about three weeks, in which time he enjoyed himself in hunting on the vast Western prairies, had a view of the grand cataract at Niagara, delighted his quasi•countrymen,the Cana dians, with his august presence, and finally arrived at Albany on Tuesday, where he remained until Wednesday morning. He then proceeded to West Point, made a critical inspection of the Military Academy at that place, and arrived at the New York Hotel late on the same evening, where his consort, the Princess Clothilde, was awaiting his coming. In his peregrination through the West and the Canadas his Imperial Highness was accom panied by his suite, and M. Mercier, the French Minister resident at Washington. The Princess Clothilde met her husband at Buffalo, went with him to Niagara, and returned to New York, where she remained at the hotel, having as company only the Duchess De Abrantes. On the morning of the 19th the Prince took a carriage at the hotel, and, accompanied by M. Mercier, Col. Raj on, and Mr. Sands, went on board his yacht, lying off the Bat tery. In the afternoon the Prince took another drive before dinner, as did also the Princess, accom panied by the Duchess De Abrantes. His Imperial Highness, attended by M. Montholon and four gen tlemen of his suite, also visited the studio of M. Gignoux, in Tenth-street; The Prince expressed himself greatly pleased with the artist's last work, "The Indian Summer," which he hoped would find its way to the next Paris Exhibition. The Princo also paid a visit to Mr. Cisco, of the sub-Treasury ofg.ce, on the afternoon of the 20th, and was shown by that gentleman through the Government finan cial establishment of the city, with which he ex pressed himself both pleased and surprised. The distinguished visitor was accompanied by the Italian Minister at Washington. The Prince was to leave for Boston in his yacht on the 21st. The Prince de Joinville, his son, nephews, and suite were presented to the President on the 20th by the Secretary of State. The Prince was pre sented to Secretary Seward by the representative of Brazil. Interesting intelligence from, the Pacific coast had reached New York by the Pony Express, which passed the outer telegraph station IGI miles west of Fort Kearney on the 16th ult., having left San Francisco on the 7th. Since the State election in California the markets had taken a much firmer tone, the overwhelming Union vote dispelling all fears of any domesti c t rou bl es. The returns of the election were still incomplete, but sufficient had been received to insure the success of the Republi can ticket. The vote of the whole State was ex pected to be 120,000, and, so far as heard, the Re publicans had 43,800, the Union Democrats 20,500, and the Breckiaridge Democrats 19,400. The United States' Marshal in accordance with the provisions of the Confiscation Act, had commenced the seizure of vessels in the harbour of San Fran cisco. He had already taken possession of the ship Henry Brigham, just arrived from Liverpool, loaded with coal, and belonging to Lathrop Brothers, of Savannah, ( .ieprgia. The BeneActor, belonging. that she was partly owned i n Virginia, but she was subsequently released. Emil ;rants from Texas were arriving in great numbers i n the Southern part of the State. They report( Al. a terrible condition of affairs as existing in Texr ,s, the result of secession. From Washoe and the ph' adds of Oregon there are the most tempting accoul its of the great yields of the glittering cres. The wb ole region of country lying between the Cascades and the Rocky Mountains is represented to be very ric! 1 in auriferous deposits. The overland express, • with San Francisco news to the 11th, had also arri vied. The United States' District Attorney had seen red another condemna tion of a vessel for fitting ant with intention to pro ceed upon a slave voyage. The forfeiture of the barque Sarah was annourici.!d some weeks ago. The present accounts report 'tho condemnation of the Augusta, which Mr. Sn rah seized in July, and brought to trial in Augu s±. The Augusta was an nounced for a whaling v. )yage, but some suspicious circumstances led to an in vestigation, which resulted in stripping off the alleged disguise, notwithstand ing that she was closely assimilated in her equip ment to a fair trading vessel. (LATEST BY TEITEGRAPII TO CAPE RACE.) NEW YORK, SEPT. 24. Lexington, Missouri, has capitulated to the Con 'ederate forces. The Count de Paris and the Due de Chartrs have been appointed officers in the Federal army. The steamers City of New York and Jura have arrived out. The Saxonia and the Persia have been inter cepted off Cape Race. THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA The following intelligence was received direct from the Southern States by the last steamer from New York. It must be taken at what it is worth : The cotton loan to the Confederate Government amounted to 1,000,000 bales on the Gth of Sept. On that day, the day that he was reported to have died, President Davis was at his office at Richmond attending to his official duties. The news is confirmed that the authorities of Spain in Cuba have issued an order to have the same protection extended to vessels sailing under the Confederate flag that is enjoyed by the flags of other countries. At Richmond the loss estimated of the enemy at Manassas is 15,000 in killcd,wounded, and prisoners. ISPClellan is closely hemmed in between the lines of Beauregard and Johnson and the Potomac. No importance whatever was attached to the loss of Hatteras. The press in the South is at liberty to discuss public matters freely. Never were a people more cordially united than the citizens of the Con federate States. The cotton picking season had fully commenced, and the planters were storing their crops away in the seed on their estates, there to remain at the disposal of Government until the raising of the blockade. TILE NOVA SCOTIA GOLDFIELDS, (From the Quebec Morning Chronicle Sept. 21.) The following extracts comprise the most impor tant portion of a report of the Provincial Secretary of Nova Scotia to his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor of that province : " Provincial Secretary's Office, " Halifax, N.S., Sept. 4, 1861. " My Lord,—The gold discoveries in this pro yince having not only furnished employment to hundreds of its inhabitants for some months past, but having now attracted the attention of capi talists in England, and of the labouring classes at home and abroad, it becomes desirable that the Government of Nova Scotia should furntshln-sorno official form such information as shall guide those who may desire to invest either labour or capital in our mines. Your Excellency having assigned that task to me, I enter upon it with a design to state the facts in the order in which they have accumu lated, without colour or exaggeration. There are too many profitable employments in this province to make it desirable to lure people to one that may be unprofitable or even doubtful ; and I am well assured that your Lordship has no desire to attract immigration to our shores by statements that are unfounded, or arts that have elsewhere produced much misery and disappointment. "The existence of auriferous deposits in Nova Scotia was unsuspected till 1800. It is strange that they should not have been turned up by the agri culturist or the road-maker, still stranger that they have escaped the vigilance of the early pioneers of natural science—Titus Smith, George Duncan, Dr. Gesner, Dr. Webster, Alger, and Jackson, all of whom were laborious and painstaking investiga tors, and some elaborate writers on the mineralogy of this country. Dr. Dawson, in 1855, suggested the possibility of finding gold in Nova Scotia, and in dicated with some accuracy the region where it might be discovered. But the doctor had found none, and no interest was taken in the subject until gold was discovered, last summer, in the neighbourhood of Tangier. " The discoveries made in 1860, your Excellency is aware, were unimportant. Some hundreds of persons, tempted by rumours of the existence of the precious metal, rushed into the woods near the head-waters of the Tangier, 10 miles from the sea coast, and proved the existence of gold, it is true, but in quantities so small, and at such a distance from roads and navigation, as to promise no return to the most industrious miner. The facts having been investigated and made public, the excitement subsided, and the people returned to their ordinary pursuits. " In March this year a man stooping to drink at a brook found a piece of gold shining among the pebbles over which the stream flowed. He picked it up, and, searching, found more. This was about half a mile to the eastward of the debouche meld of the Tangier River, a stream of no great magnitude, taking its rise not very far from the sources of the Musquodoboi, flowing through a chain of lakes, which drain, for many miles on either side, and a rugged, wilderness country, and fall into the Atlantic about 40 miles to the eastward of Halifax. " The locality was most favourable for mining operations, being within half a mile of navigation and surrounded by a hardy population engaged in the fisheries, whose small craft could readily transport everything that the miners might require. " Your Excellency visited the mines in May, and your attention was arrested by the fact that two men from the agricultural districts had taken fr om a pit, dug four feet wide by five deep, 75 dols. worth of gold three days prior to your visit. As 6 dols. would have paid these men for their labour, it was apparent that they had made a profit of 69 dole. in three days. This profit was not derived from the chance discovery of a nugget, but from crushing the quartz, veins of which, there was good reason to believe, ran for miles along the sea coast ; or from washing the crumbling rock or soil by which they were surrounded. " It was impossible to resist the conclusion that what these men had done, hundreds might (I) on and around the same locality ; and that if aurifer ous deposits of equal richness could be discovered in other sections of the country, profitable employ ment would be furnished for thousands of men, and our exports and revenue would be largely increased. "Though still reluctant to add to the excitement which this fact, and others of a similar character, occurring every few days, occasioned, it was the duty of the Government to give reasonable facili ties, that the voluntary exertions of the,people them selves should be materially aided, and that as little as possible of their labour should be lost. "The surveyor was instructed to reduce the price of the lots from 40 doh , . to 20 dole., and to expen d the money received in draining, the ;nine§ Ana " Until recently only two attempts have been made at Tangier to work any but single claims. A small company, headed by Mr. AVm. Chambers, have combined four or five lots, and are running a tunnel through them ; and Mr. Robt. Sibley, who acquired some experience and made some money by mining in Australia, has leased from the Government three quarters of an acre, and is sinking a shaft to enable him to work his claim at all sins of the year. "The lowest depth yet reached is 43ft., and the largest nugget found is valued at 300 dols. The gold is got in quartz veins, running through slate or earth resting upon granite, in the form of scaks, jagged and torn bits, like shot or bullets fired against a wall. It is sometimes globular, but seldom com pletely round. "While attention was generally directed to the upland, Mr. John Campbell, a gentleman of con siderable science, with a natural turn for geological researches, rightly judging that the cliffs with the quartz veins running through them having been for ages washed and crumbled by the sea, gold might be found among the sands which surrounded the sea shore, tried the experiment, was successful beyond his hopes, and immediately applied to the deputy surveyor who had taken charge of that portion of the shore which immediately adjoins the Ovens. " As soon as the auriferous character of the sands upon the sea-coast was known, there was much ex citement. Everybody rushed from their upland claims and began to scramble for the treasure over which, strange to say, the farmers in the neighbour hood had gathered sea manure for more than a cen tury without dreaming of its existence. " With some difficulty the excitement was allayed, the rights of all parties acquired by dis covery or occupation were respected, the report of the deputy surveyor being taken in all cases by the Government as the basis for the adjustment of claims. Your Excellency visited Lunenburg, and a simple code of regulations was framed by the Council, with the aid of your observation and expe rience. All is now tranquil at the Ovens; com panies are preparing for systematic operations, and individuals are working their separate claims with cheerfulness and order. "The shore washings have proved very rich. Mr. Campbell having associated himself with Mr. William Cunard and Mr. R. G. Fraser, proceeded to work the four shore claims, which formed the frontage of some 70 upland lots taken by this com pany in the rear. Though no accurate return has been given by these gentlemen, there is every reason to believe that a very large sum has been taken from these shore claims within a month, and the rights of those three gentlemen have since been sold to a larger company for £1,200, they retaining all that had been obtained up to the day of sale. "About the same time that public attention was attracted to the auriferous deposits at Lunenburg, gold was discovered in several other places—at Dartmouth, at Sheet•harbour, and at Lawrence town. Quartz rockiwas found all along the southern coast, and running for miles back into the interior. From what was known of the geological structure of the country, the presumption was reasonable that quartz would, and that gold might, be found in at least 10 of the 18 counties into which Nova Scotia is divided. "Lawrencetown is a scattered settlement, named after Governor Lawrence, on a small stream that rises in the granite region behind, and falling through a chain of lakes, finds its outlet to the sea, between saitmarshes protected by an aboitcau. It is about 10 miles east of Halifax, with boat naviga tion to the shore; but the harbour is a poor one, with only shelter for small vessels. " Gold having been discovered near this stream in June last, quartz-digging and placer-washing were commenced in a rude way, and anybody who chose, or who could get permission from the pro prietors, dug, and washed, and prospected. Quartz was found upon the surface, and in veins beneath the soil; but although at one time expectations were highly raised, the interest in Lawrencetown gradu ally diminished, until, when I visited the place about a month ago, there were only four or five men at work, and the prospects did not warrant the em ployment of an officer or any interference of the Government, " As it is apparent that persons working small claims, without shafts, tunnels, or machinery, will be compelled to suspend operations on the approach of winter, your Excellency is aware that, for some time past, it has been the policy of the Government to favour the formation of companies or associations who can afford to hut over their works in winter, and who have capital sufficient to employ the working miner all the year round. Till? FLOODS IN IRELAND. It seems the north of Ireland has suffered almost as much as the south from the feedings caused by the late heavy rains. The rivers have been swollen to such an ex tent as to overflow their banks, carrying away crops, &c., causing in some districts serious losses to the farmers. The Airry Post thus describes the first flood at Tralee : terday we were visited by the highest and most disastrous flood which has ever deluged our county town. The morn ing commenced with a heavy and continuous downpour until about one o'clock, when one would have imagined a waterspout had broken over the whole face of the country, turning the fields into lakes, sweeping away hay-cocks and cereals, and inflicting utter destruction upon the potato crops. Before 1 o'clock the water had risen so much in the river that it began to flow down the surface of the streets, warning the inhabitants to prepare for a isit3tion of the flood. At two o'clock the current swept fast and furious over the whole line of streets from Big River to Bloody-bridge, increasing in volume and violence till after six o'clock, when it reached its height. It then ceased to rise, but it did not subside for a considerable time, and it was long past midnight before it left the streets. At the height of the flood, the section of the town ex tending from the end of the archway over the river above the Rectory, down Nelson. street, Church-street, and 1 Denny-street, the Mall, the Square, Bridge - street, the Rock, Russell-street, the Abbey, Stoughton's-row, Day place, Prince's-street, the Terrace, and James's-street, with several smaller streets and lanes leading off them, were one yellow sea of muddy water, with a rushing and roaring cur rent, and a depth in most places of from three to six feet. Up to four o'clock the householders were enabled by a great deal of exertion :to keep the water out of their front and shop doors, but at this hour the flood had risen so high that it burst up into back premises, &c,, and very soon had free course through the several houses. On this occasion the inundation was swelled as it were from every psi .1t of the compass. From the Rohr:lbw, or eastern end of the to n, the water from Ballybeggan swept over the road like a rapid, parts of the public way near Mr. Spring's being deep enough to that a hooker. The Ballyinullen river as the evening advanced, and the tile (fortunately a ore) came into operation, made quite a wilderness of water in the whole district surrounding the barracks. But the great scourge Of the day wa s the Big hive' i which, rushing like an Alpine to rrent, swept away the bridge in process of erection on the road leading to the new the cemetery, tearing up the streets , rushing into the shops and d we lling-houses in places wh ere a flood was never seen be fore, and, dwellings oT .e the poor in recd dbeallY add, desolating the humbl e several lanes along th e route we have indicated . The flood at tho western end of the extent, the great b o dy o f o t o s, earofuetthalreeftu M allwi th t he appalling torrent and Square con verg i ng which twthorwtener wiw s a w a sh scpeshtawrdoc sw ept olhwl of an Rock-street. Barrel;, pieces of heavy scaffolding, timber, planks, desks, grates, and various articles of furniture were here to be seen floating in the direction of the canal, while the various areas and kitchens Were filled, SQMO as high as Six and seven feet, Yes- T, . 1 . 3 i us ad ch es qr