The Sun. — London, England, 1861-08-21 00:00:00

rTO Pi' EA TR E. P. 0 Y AL, liA:1 MARKET. Lessee, Ir. J. E. Baokatene. T7IIF EVENTNn the pertormances wi ll commence With THE BALANCE OF' COMFORT. Miss M. Oliver. After which, a new Comedy, entitled MY LORD AND MY LADY ; or, It Might have been Worse. Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Buckstone, Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c. Followed by HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR. AND ARIADNE. To conclude with a Ballet, Miss BACCHUS THE CHRISTENING. Fanny Wright, the Leclercqs, Mr. Webster, &c. Commence a' 7 iN' THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. The Annual Benefit of Mr. Wm. Smith, Acting Manager. THIS EVENING, THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. .lessrs. 3. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Miss Woolgar, Ltc. Atter which, THE WOMAN HATER. Mr. B. Webster and Miss H. Simms. To conclude with PERFECTION. Miss Rebecca Isaacs and Mr. W. Smith. Doors open at half past B—Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer. THIS EVENING will be performed the new and original comedy, entitled WOMAN; or, Love against the World. Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin, J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray, and Miss Lydia Thomson. To conclude with the Farce of MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia Thomson. Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to commence at 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5. (IANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS AN]) kJ FINE. ARTS GALLERY.—SAM COWELL,' the Prince of Comic Vocalists, will make his First Appearance since his return to England on THURSDAY, the 29th AuErust. Admission--Hall, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls. CI A NrERBURY HALL CONCERTS, AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. -- - - - - - Two Grand Selections from Operas, including UN BALLO IN MASCHERA, arranged and conducted by Mr. Jongh mans. Mr. Wood and his talented little Son. The extraor dinary comic duet, "The Nerves," by Harvey and French, Mr. Marshall in " The Excursion to Brighton," " Selina Sly," and "In the Park." And Miss Harriet Coveney Every Evening. Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is. T H E F 0 R D, o x 6, OXFORD-STREET. The architectural beauty, elegance of ornamentation, and brilliancy of lighting of this noble building, render it one of the sights of London. Open Every Evening. The pro gramme is varied, and includes Selections from "La Tra viati," "Un Ballo in Maschera," &c., (by a full company of principals, powerful band, and chorus). Solos by Miss Bryant en the Piano Forte, and by Mr. Russell on the Trombone. Old English Ballad, by Miss Green, Scotch Duets by the Misses Stuart, and other vocal and instrumental music of the highest order. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. The Comic portion of the entertainment is supported by Messrs. M. P. Foster (in his " Life Sketches"), Sam Collins, Harvey, and French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall, sixpence ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes, 10s. 6d. HIGH WATEB. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuis DA.Y.—Morning, 2h.Z2Bm.—Afternoon, 2h. 48m. To-Ntonnow.-Morning, 3h : sm.—Afternoon. 3h. 24m. THE WEATHER.—Sux OFFICE, AuGun' 21, Is6l. THEISMOICETER, IN THE SHADE. 68 —highest since noon yesterday. 49—lowest this morning and during tho night. 65—this day at noon. BAROMETER-30.23, WlND—Variable ; North• Westerly in the morning, now ranging from W. to S.W. ; cloudy and sunshiny weather at times. ~....„.• ~v fr-1., -„,,,,, .r u , • ....1, \_... .--9 ' 4 - 4 4 !, 4 ' . L-'•:- . '- ' ' ' 1 , -* :::_ - _ --- ' ‘.:-.. r -- -....4 \ '1 “c., e : '-:. r ••-: 4 • . . ,-;- s ,7' . 7-,_ ,- , .- - -• L ~- . .ii‘.„,........___..., THE SUN. I,().NDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1861 England may now sleep in peace. Invasion has had its day. France is erecting granite monuments to its memory. Past glories will be henceforth sufficient ; enough that in one thousand sixty-six, WILLIAM the BASTARD subjugated England, and founded the dynasty of which Queen VICTORIA is the living representative. Once to have established French rule over the whole of England, an achieve ment never performed by England on the other side the Channel, may well satisfy the aspirations of French love for military glory. Iron-plated ships can mean no menace to the throne set up by WILLIAM the CONQUEROR ; and the British QUEEN, if we look at things by the light of history, is the living evidence of the great Frenchman's victory. Such, we suppose, must be the Manchester in terpretation of the ceremony performed last Sun day at Dives in Normandy. That was the place where, eight centuries ago, WILLIAM TIIE CON QUEROR mustered his forces, fifty thousand strong, before they set sail for England ; and there, on Sunday last, a granite monument, commemorative of the feet, was uncovered in the sight of an appro priate assembly. For a month long lay his army on that shore; and the orator of the occasion told the company that the modest column there erected, on ground given by the public authorities, would inform inhabitants, travellers, and sailors of the fact. The greatness of the undertaking he described in the words of a speech of M. GUIZOT'S, delivered ten years ago ;—" Remember," said the great historian of modern times, our learned and illustrious master, M. GUIZOT, in his address at Falaise in 1851— " Remember a fact which has been accomplished in our own days, before our own eyes, the expedition to Algeria in 1830. The task to be performed was to embark and convey to the opposite shores of the Mediterranean an army of 30,000 men, to exact a just reparation from a barbarian. -What immense preparations ! What care, what energy, what Fos erful means employed by our powerful civilization ! And all this was deiemeel necessary. And when the day of trial came nothing of all this was found superfluous. Well, in the 11th century, almost on the outskirts of barbarism, without a n y of those means which civilization and scienceprov id e, D u k e 11T iv ILLIAM assembled, embarked and transported beyond the Channel, and landed on an enemy's soil 50,000 men, and shortly after landing gained battles and con quered a kingdom;"This, gentlemen, is the greatest fact in our Norman annals. It is glorious for the hamlet of Dives to have been the point of assem'blage of that powerful army." lii the opinion of the French orator, it was glori oun for the port of Dives to have assembled in its F eters the great conquering army. "But," said le, "What is glory if forgotten ? The great fact I have just mentioned, and which eight centuries ago startled the world, is almost ignored to-day, and, in fact, there is no monument to record it—not one! We exhaust our resources to embellish , great cities, to erect palaces, to construct 'AI streets ; but no heed is taken of locali ties of an inferior order, even if they possess a glorious past. Dives is a proof of this." The granite monument was to redeem France from the charge of such unsentimental indifference to its weatest glories. And then all this is but introduc tory to a still greater commemoration of the glory of France and the humiliation of England. There is to be yet another gathering. There are to assemble next year ten thousand persons, in- Q l'l'dinte, deputations from all the towns, haanlets, and communes from Upper and Lower Nor m alh q; to tint t day the orator looked f~rvraru• almost vt ith rapture, exclaiming, the monument which :1 this day offer to the coun tr only and eornplate the preoursor of a more lasting Toonumet t—" The Golden Book of the Conquest" will be placed by our care in the' church of Dives ; th e rench Archeological Society will have en ;raved ea tablets' of marble in the walls of the church the names of the fami lies that accompanied Duk e WILLIAM in his perilous and audacious expedition. "Then, C sa id our leee to , gentlemen," " that is indeed to be an illustrious day w hen we b e h o ld that immense concours e ' assembled at Our call to pay a debt contracted to tLe past; vhen wet sh a ll gee artisans with their ban ners, comm unes with their flags, warriors, men of science, magistrates, the whole population, in fact, rendering homage to the illustrious Normans of the 11th century, we may say with confidence :—‘ Patriotism i 3 not ex tinct in France, as has been asserted, and though it may smoulder it will always blaze up when the proper moment arrives." All we can say is, may France henceforth be con tent with past glories. It is far cheaper, far less disturbing to the peace of Europe, to build monu ments to the memory of successful expeditions, and to deposit golden books in churches, than to build frigates in rivalry with the once conquered coun try, and to assemble armies by the half million in camps and garrisons. We can be content to forget Cressy, and Agincourt, and even Waterloo, if France will but be content with her WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. Very harmless will such trophies be if they be but rightly interpreted ; and let the interpretation be, if so it pleases France, that when she sent us over the Norman she rendered us invin cible against all future invaders. That we can assure her is our interpretation of this monument and its inscription. We angrily, at first, accepted the ruthless' conquerors; in the course of the eight centuries we have thoroughly amalgamated them. Saxon popular freedom, and Nor man feudality are now harmonized in the social life and the Legislature and Government of the country. We are the better for the fusion ; and looking to the modern r epresentative of Dives —to the Docks of Cherbourg—we confidently tell the would-be WILLIAMS of this age that their day is gone by. The expedition from Dives was the parent of counte r • ex p edi tions which we need not, enumerate ; and we only hope that the age of monuments will be the age which shall give occasion to no more. ~ All work and no play—makes JACK [supposing we read it JOHN BULL] a dull boy." It is an old saying, and a very true one. It is pleasant to know now for certain that the wisdom latent in it is being every day more and more widely recognised. Of this we have abundant evidence about us. There is the early closing movement, to begin with. The more widely that system is applied in the trade of this industrious country—this land, as NAPOLEON called it, of shopkeepers—the more clearly does it prove to be really and truly to the advantage of the employers. During the diminished hours of labour the employees are found to do quite as much work, if not even more, and to do it more energeti cally. The compromise brought about in a lower class, that is, among the bricklayers, &c.—a com promise securing to those wielders of the trowel and their attendant bearers of the hod the advantage of a Saturday half-holiday, without any diminution of the week's wages — tends satisfactorily in the same direction. An excuse for the more general arrangement of this Saturday half-holiday among all classes of the mer cantile and professional community—rather than a simple excuse, perhaps, we should say a good and valid reason—has been furnished opportunely of late by the consolidation of the Volunteer Move fnent. For the purpose of securing to the Volun teer Riflemen, whether employers or employed, the certainty (so far as anything can in this way be rendered certain) of a weekly drill together in their respective corps, the Saturday half-holiday has come to be generally recognised as a patriotic no less than a sanitary necessity. The argument for the half-holiday movement all along still remaining in its way good and valid likewise. That argu ment being one in favour of affording the employed, particularly the younger members of the employed class, the opportunities at pleasure of self education or of rational amusement. By abbreviating the du ration of office hours, by closing just a trifle earlier , the shops and manufactories, those hitherto " cribbed, cabined, and confined," at the desk or behind the counter, almost uninterruptedly during their waking hours (saving for the mere snatch ' of meal-time) might it was felt be afforded the op portunity—it was a secondary matter whether they used it or not—might at any rate be afforded the opportunity of making their nightly choice between the allurements to study and the allurements to innocent recreation. It is now some years since the question here alluded to was gradually (after long argument in its favour) brought into a state of some thing like systematic organisation. It has been in operation now, for a long while, far and wide, throughout the country—not everywhere it is true, as yet, but in a vast number of localities. And that aggregate of localities, we are glad to know, is steadily multiplying. Nowhere has it been found to result in disadvantage to the employer —never with inconvenience to the public—always with more or less appreciable benefit to those who have obtained this opportunity for relaxation, or for self-education. It has advanced so well and so advantageously for all parties as a system that we can no longer have any anxiety about it. We can never dream of the chance of its abandonment. It has gone on too excellently, it has been diffused too widely for that. The Early Closing Movement has taken its place for good and all (in every sense of those words) among the number of our national and popular "institutions." There is no more left for one moment's fear in its regard. As well expect the current of the Thames to flow back upon its course, not by the simple tidal rise, but altogether flow back upon its course past Fulham, past Rich mond, back through all its windings to its fountain head at the " Seven Springs," in Gloucestershire, there to be swallowed up like the river in the "Arabian Tales," or like that other river in the old classic mythology ! The responsibility of carrying on the good movement is past and gone. It advances now by its own impetus, by the momentum it has already attained : and it would be just fairly impos sible, we believe, for anyone, either now or hence forth—even temporarily —t o impede its progress. In the metropolis and in the provincial towns all through the country the Early Closing Movement, , we repeat, has taken its place now among the most practically beneficent of our national institutions. ;thoroughly It has already become, so to speak, acclimatised. Brought down amongst us from the " empyrean" of abstract reasoning —it has been taken home (even in this hard, practical age) as BACON aspired to have the truths incul cated in his Essays taken home—" to men's businesses and bosoms." Added to the daily benefit accruing to the industrial masses from the operation of the Early Closing Movement —comes the weekly benefit resulting from the system of the Saturday Half-Holiday. And that, as we have said, has latterly had secured to it the additional reason, the additional inducement, of furthering in a most effectual manner the better discipline and completer organisation of our National Guard, now from 100,000 to 200,000 strong, our supple mentary army of Rifle Volunteers. In connection with the subject involved in all this, we are glad to see that the importance of a larger amount of physical education in our public schools has been recently insisted upon by.Mr.F.DwiN CHADWICK, in one of the papers contributed by him to the recently-published bundle of Blue-books, upon the subject of National Education. It was only the other day that Lord BROUGHAM took occasion, at Dublin, to eulogise the labours of Mr. CHADWICK, and inferentially to commend his own (Lord BROUGHAM's) discernment, in having years and years ago pronounced the efforts made by Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK in the public interests to be worthy of praise. The encomiums lavished upon this veteran public servant would have found fewer dissentients, we cannot but think, however, had these efforts of his in the public cause been always as much to the purpose as in the instance here referred to. We earnestly trust that the wise and judicious rea soning of Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK, upon the im portance of paying more sedulous attention to the subject of physical education, will be taken seri ously into account by those entrusted with the mental and moral training of Young England. Elsewhere we give the argument of Mr. CHAD WICK in its condensed form, and we commend it heartily to very general consideration. Before another twelvemonth shall have elapsed there will come into operation that Treaty between France and England, recently concluded between the two Governments, for the free emigration of coolies from the shores of our Indian empire to Re union, Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique. It was only on Monday that the text of this Treaty was published in the columns of the 111oniteur. It is to come into operation on the Ist of July, 1862. It will thenceforth be in operation for three years and a half—namely, until the new Tear's day of 1866. Supposing, however, what is called the denun ciation of the treaty does not take place previously to the end of the third twelvemonth, that is to say, in the July of the year 1865—it is so arranged that the Treaty may thenceforth be renewed from year to year as an annual undertaking. How this may be decided, it were, of course, impossible to predict at the present moment with any confidence. The decision, in fact, is avowedly to be one dependent upon a contingency. England and France will agree then as to the future in the matter of coolie emigration from our Indian possessions to the French colonies coming to their decision at that stipulated period by the light of the expe rience in the meantime gained. Supposing the treaty to have worked well during the previous three years, it will be renewed, as w 3 have said, annually, twelvemonth by twelvemonth. Sup posing the reverse—or, supposing the advantages arising from the operation of the Treaty to be in any way dubious or equivocal—according to arrangement—from the Ist of January, 1866, that Treaty of three years and a half will finally cease and determine. Whether its operation is to be merely thus temporary, or whether it is to be rendered in a manner permanent by renewal upon renewal, time alone can show. Meanwhile, it is satisfactory at any rate to know in regard to the Treaty itself that every reasonable security for the freedom of the coolies has been as sured to them through this Treaty by the agreement of Earl COWLEY and M. DE THOUTENEL, the two distinguished plenipotentiaries by whom it has been negotiated. In itself, however, it is pleasant to regard The Treaty as another visible fruit of the intimate alliance between the two Governments. Mr. BOWYER'S clients are receiving their due from the counsel for the prosecution of brigands, Generals CIALDINI and PINELLI. The atrocities perpetrated by the wretches would baffle all con ception were they not reported on too good autho rity. They put on frequently the old Bourbon uniform that they may pass, if caught, for rebels only but their practice is not merely to ransack houses for plunder, but to kill men and women, too, if known to be Liberals, with every device of cruelty and indignity. One man, we read, who was attempting to escape from their hands, in order to alarm the neighbour ing villages, was dressed up by them as a woman and burnt alive in the public square. These fiends arc cowards enough if danger approaches, and they flee at once on the approach of any regular troops. The generals appear, however, to understand their work well. All of the brigands cannot run fast and far enough to get under the wing of his Holiness, and the French, but are overtaken by their pur suers and killed, or captured, or have to surrender at discretion. They are met with in small bodies, who descend from the mountains if they think the soldiers are at a distance, and plunder, burn, and shoot more apparently from brutality and revenge than for the booty of which they can make sure. They fire for instance at railway trains, and attack help less villages. One CHIAVONE, the Lieut.-General of FRANCIS IL, as he seems to be called, is the chief leader, and has a large number with him. He has no means of resisting, however, successfully, the regular troops, and but for the mountain difficulties, would soon be killed or taken. We read of one case in which the insurgents num bered 400—but they fled, leaving 100 prisoners, and 35 dead. They were well supplied with arms and ammunition ! In one case 150 men wanted to surrender if assured of immunity, but the answer invariably made to all such offers is you will be tried by the tribunals, and acquitted if guilty of rebellion only,but condemned if you have made rebellion a pretext for robbery and murder." The insurgents are but poor fighters, the Italian losses in engagements with them being very small. It is really time that these savage wretches were deprived of the only countenance which supports them. They can be of no use to the fallen monarch. To permit him and Rome to continue this devilish kind of revenge, out of mere malice, on the innocent, is a disgrace to civilisation, and we hope Lord PALMERSTON will be able to convince his friend the EMPEROR of this. Italy will never be at peace till Rome is in its power. Her Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has arrived at the Chateau of Tumpenheim, near Frankfort, on a visit to his illustrious relatives. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary have already joined the family circle assembled at the chateau. Married, yesterday, at St. James's Church, Pic cadilly, by the Rev. Lord John Thynne, uncle of the bride groom, the Marquis of Bath, to the Hon. Fanny Vesey, eldest daughter of Viscount de Vesci. In consequence of the recent death of Lord Herbert, uncle of the bride, the marriage was celebrated in the most private manner, none Imt the nearest relations being present. The following young ladies acted as bridesmaids on the occasion :—The Lady Louisa 'I hynne, the Hon. Georgina Vesey, the Ilan. Beatrice Vesey, and the Lady Constance Murray. The majority of the Marquis of Tullibardine, ( only son of the Duke of Athole, has just been celebrated with great rejoicings on the family estates in Perthshire. Married, yesterday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, Mr. Francis Houlton Hartwell, eldest son of Sir Broderick Hartwell, Bart., to Emma Jane Dymoke, only child of Sir Henry Dymoke, Bart. FOLKESTONE, Tuesday.—Her Majesty Dona Maria Christiana, Queen Dowager of Spain, accompanied by her husband, the Duke d e Ri anzares , l e ft t h e R oya l Pavi lion Hotel this morning at ten o'clock, and proceeded by the Lord Warden, Captain Paul (South-Eastern Railway Company's passenger-boat), to Boulogne. The Countess de Kinto, M. Feria (Maria Christina's confessor), and a physician, were in attendance on her Majesty. The Spanish Ambassador and M. Merre (secretary of legation) accom panied her Majesty from London, taking leave as the Lord Warden was ready for steaming out of the harbour. THEATRICAL LICENSE FOR THE FREE TRADE MAN ESTER.—Mr. U. B. B. Cobbett, solicitor, applied to the magistrates, at Manchester, yesterday, en behalf of Mr. 11. B. peacock, for a license to enable that gentleman to give stage-play performances at the Free ; trade Hall. The application was opposed by the lessees of the two existing theatres, Mr. Knowles and Mr. Egan, but the taisgistrates decided, after a very brief consultation, to grant the license. The Opinione gives some statistical details con cerning the city of Milan, from which it appears that the population, which was 176,052 inhabitants in 1851, is now 211,674. The daily floating population is calculated at 2,000. The garrison is not comprised in these numbers. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1861. PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. Mr. Rlayall announces the publication of a new series of photo graphs of the Royal Family, taken during the past season at Buckingham Palace and at his studio, 244, Regent street. The series incluees 8 different portraits of the Queen. Having been taken just before the death of the Duchess of Kent they are free from the sombre effect which deep mourning produces in photographs, an effext which was not avoided in Mr. Mayan's former series, her Majesty being in mourning for the late Prince of Leiningen. The Prince Consort is depicted in a series of a similar kind, as well as in various group pictures with the Queen. The portrait of the Crown Princess of Prussia, having been more recently taken, represents her Royal Highness in mourning. The Princess Alice, on the contrary, is in a dress of light material, as also are the Princesses Helena and Louise. Prince Arthur and Prince Leopold are in Scottish costume. Besides the portraits here enumerated there are portraits of the Princess Beatrice, the Crown Prince of Prussia, and Prince Louis of Hesse. SHIPBUILDING ON THE MERSEY. Yesterday (Tuesday) Messrs. John Laird and Sons launched from their shipbuilding yard at Birkenhead a magnificent new steamer, built for Messrs. Jardine, Matheson, and Co., the well-known China merchants. The steamer (the Riva), built with the utmost care, is intended to carry light but valuable cargoes of tea, silk, &c. She is of 2,000 tons bur den and 400-horse power, and it is confidently anticipated that her speed will average from 16 to 17 knots per hour, The launch, which was in every way a success, was wit nessed by an iinmense concourse of spectators, including 2,200 workmen employed by Messrs. Laird and Son, whose yards are crowded with fine vessels and steamers, either in process of building or repairing. Among them are the unhappy Galway steamers Hibernia and Columbia, which are being nearly rebuilt. Messrs. Laird have also just finished, for the owners of the abovementioned Rive, a two - funnelled steam-tug, intended for service in the Yang-tze- Kiang river. It is also rumoured that an iron-plated war steamer will be shortly commenced by Mr. Laird. THE HARVEST AND THE CROPS IN ESSEX.— During the past week the weather has been all that could possibly be desired for the ingathering of the grain crops. Even the rain of Friday last was welcome to the farmer, in improving the body and colouring of the barley, as well as being highly beneficial to the growth of turnips and grass land. A large acreage of wheat has gone into stack, and some considerable breadth of barley and oats has been car ried. As the harvest proceeds, it confirms our previously expressed opinion as to the deficiency of straw ; it now re mains for the thrashing machine to determine whether our opinion is correct as to a deficiency of produce. What has been thrashed already is reported as anything but satisfac factory—from two to three-quarters per acre ; at the same time this must not be considered as conclusive of the general crop, as early thrashing has been mostly confined to the needy farmer, whose cultivation, generally speaking, is not a very productive one. Occasionally may be seen some excellent crops, where farming is high, especially of the red variety of wheat—golden drop, syer, and nur sery—the hardy constitution of those wheats having been able to resist the intense frost of last winter far better than the more tender varieties of the white.—Essex Herald. A MAN'S LEGS TAKEN OFF BY A RAILWAY TRAIN. —About half-past 9 o'clock on Saturday night, a plate-layer, named John Beveridge, living in Gateshead, left his home, being then considerably under the influence of liquor, and proceeded to walk along the North-Eastern Railway towards the Felling, with the intention, it is supposed, of going to Sunderland. He was not again seen until half •past eleven o'clock, when a gamekeeper at the Felling, named Graham, found him sitting by the side of the line, near the Felling Station, with both his legs taken off a few inches below the knee ; one of the limbs being thrown on one side of the line, and the other on the opposite side of the rails. The unfor tunate man was holding up the stump of his right leg when found, and he was only able to gasp out his name and place of abode, when he lapsed into a state of unconsciousness. He was conveyed in a cart to the infirmary at N ewcastle, where he arrived at half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning. His case was then pronounced to be hopeless. He lingered through the day, and became sufficiently sensible to state to his friends that he was knocked down and run over by an engine ; but at nine o'clock at night he was in a dying state. It would appear that the unfortunate man was run over by the south mail, which is due at Newcastle at 10.15 p.m., and which does not stop at the Felling. Beveridge leaves a wife and two children to deplore his loss.—. Newcastle Ch oniele. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUlClDE.—Yesterday the mayor (Mr. Wood), and magistrates of Worcester were occupied some time in investigating a charge of attempted murder, brought against a young man named Chas. Pugh, who also bad made an attempt upon his own life. The escape of the two parties from death was somewhat extra ordinary. It appeared from the evidence of a number of witnesses that Pugh had become desperately enamoured of a woman of loose character, named Dinah Mason, and that after cohabiting with her for a short time she left him and went to live with another man. He made several attempts to induce her to live with him again, but she flouted him, and actually set her new paramour to beat him. This so in flamed Pugh that he took to drinking, and, according to one witness, he had been in a state of intoxication for three weeks. On going to see Mason, at 11 o'clock in the morn ing, he found her in her room and asked her how she was. She ordered him to leave the room, and threatened to send for a policeman if he did not. He asked her to speak one word to him, but she only abused him. This was spoken to by a neighbour who was present, but who then left the room. Immediately afterwards screams were heard, and on some women going upstairs they found the prisoner in the act of cutting Mason's throat with a razor. The women screamed, and the prisoner, leaving Mason, drew the razor across his own throat, ran downstairs, and fell into the street. Both were taken to the Infirmary, where their wounds were dressed. Mason had two cuts across the face and one round the neck, reaching from ear to ear. Happily however the vital parts were missed, and she is now pretty well recovered. The escape of Pugh from death was most miraculous. his windpipe was completely severed, and all hope of his recovery was given up. However, no effort was left untried, the wounds were sewed up, and the prisoner has now so far recovered as to be able to be removed to the gaol, whence he was brought up in a fly for examination. He appeared deeply distressed, and hid his face in his hand kerchief during the whole of the examination. He was remanded in order to complete the depositions. JOHN HEENAN'S (THE BENICIA BOY) BELT.— When the exc tement and "party feeling" caused by the unsatisfactory termination of the great contest between Ileenan and Sayers on the 17th of April last year bad sub sided, it was suggested that as the combatants had con sented to draw, each of the heroes should be presented with a belt as a mark of appreciation of their courage. This suggestion was at once acted upon. Messrs. Han cocks, the eminent jewellers of Bruton-street, received in structions to make two belts, a complete fire simile of the original one. So far as Heenan is concerned, the brave Yankee never received his belt, as the amount required to redeem it was never paid. Heenan left England in com pany with his trainer and second, John M'Donald, on Wednesday, the 4th of July, following the contest with Sayers, and as the belt has remained unredeemed, the gen tleman who held possession (Mr. Morris, we believe, of the New York Hotel), resolved to have it sold by public auc • tion. Tne sale took place yesterday at Debenham and Storr's, Covent-garden. The first bid was 17 guineas, but this soon rose to 30—ex-Champion Ben Caunt standing close beside the present holder, of the belt-31, 32, 33 guineas, when Ben shouted 34, and now the bidding went on rapidly up to 40 guineas, when two or three, this being the limit of their commission, were knocked out of " time." A quiet little gentleman, who might have been taken for a lawyer or M.D., now gave fresh impetus to the bidding by making an advance to 42 guineas. Caunt paused for a se cond, and then once more went at it, 43, 44, 45, 46, and thus on until 50 guineas were offered. There was another pause, when Ben exclaimed with warmth, "I'll have it, if it cost me £100." He now bid 51 guir eas, when, as there was this time no response to the persuasive eloquence of the gentleman in the rostrum, the belt was knocked down to Caunt at the price above-named. POACHING AFFRAY IN YORKSHIRE.—A poaching affray, in which more than one person was a good deal in jured, took place on Sunday, on the estate of Mr. Hold forth, of Caley Hall, near Otley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. About 1 o'clock in the morning Mr. Holdforth's gamekeeper, the keeper's son, along with a man in the ser vice of Mr. Burst ow, a farmer in that neighbourhood, and another man in the employment of Mr. Alderman Kelsall, of Leeds, who has also a farm in the same locality, dis covered three poachers setting nets in a field. The watchers went up to them, and succeeded in apprehending one of the men without much difficulty, but the others resisted, and in a very short time six more men came up, and assisted the poachers in attacking the keepers. A severe conflict en sued, sticks, stones, and dogs being employed in the affray, and two er three men on both sides being knocked down more than once. The poachers had three dogs, the keeper a only one. Ultimately the keepers were overpowered, and all the poachers escaped ; but during the struggle, or as the poachers were making off, one of the keepers fired a revolver, which, no doubt, wounded ono of the men, for marks of blood were afterwards traced for some distance in the direction of Leeds. 'I he cap of one of the poachers was found on the ground. Information of the affray was given to Mr. Superintendent Pollard, of the West Riding con stabulary, who is making every exertion to discover and apprehend the men. A marshal of France being lately in a railway carriage with two officers, who had no idea of who they were travelling 'vial, ma d e t h emse l ves so c o mpletely at home that they b egan smoking without e i t h er apo l ogy or inquiry as to whether the fumes of tobacco would not in. convenience their fellow travellers. The marshal, who, it is unnecessary to say, was not in uniform, begged them to leave off, as the smoke made him ill. They took no notice of him, indulged g c , o ( n i t l i l n l u s e o d m t m eo uncomplimentarysoke d , au, on reflections remonstrated about N t V c i p t a l ;ins," who ought to keep at home, &c. The marshal did not take any further notice of them, but on reaching his journey's end, and alighting, took out his card, and, hand ing it to the officers, said, " Gentlemen, you will please to request your colonel to put you under arrest for a month, to teach you better manners." r 71 1 J. er,,,,1 1 1 • ..L.4 ----- -~--a~--- AUSTRALIAN, INDIA, AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Delta, Captain Field, with the heavy portion of the above mails, arrived here this morning. She brings 79 passengers, £4,500 in specie, 1,085 bales of silk, value £lOO,OOO, and 239 packages of general cargo. The Himalaya, from Woolwich, with troops for Malta and the lonian Islands, arrived at Gibraltar on the 15th inst. The brig Tennis Conta, with nuts for England, had gone ashore on the island of Tarifa, and it was expected would be a total wreck. Intelligence from Mazagan states that the Moors in that neighbourhood were again beginning to revolt. The Kabyles, who a short time ago be seiged Azamar, had again threatened the place. At Gibraltar, on the 16th inst., freight and ex change continued unaltered. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Massilia, with the above mail, left Malta for Marseilles on the 18th, at 9 p.m. The Mooltan, with the heavy portion of the mail, left Malta on the 19th at noon, and may be ex pected at Southampton about the 28th inst. The Behar brought the mail to Suez, arriving there on the 14th. SOUTHAMPTON, Atm. 21. The Spanish war steamer Ulloa, Don Fernando Guarro, from Ferrol, has arrived here, in order, it is said, to receive the Duke of Montpensier. FRANCE. THE CAMP AT CHALONS. The correspondent of the Constitutionnel writes as follows : " CAMP AT CHALONS, AUG. 18. " At the experiments with the rifled cannon yes terday the Emperor, the better to judge of their precision, took up his position not far from the butts. This morning a large concourse of people came in from all quarters to witness the military high mass. It was celebrated with the usual pomp ; the Emperor, the Prince Imperial, the Minister of War, General Fanti, the Prefect of the Marne, the military household of his Majesty, a numerous cor tege of generals and officers, attended the service near the altar. " After mass on the terrace in front of the Imperial pavilion various foreign officers were presented to his Majesty. The Emperor presented the cross of the Legion of Honour to an Arab chieftain who is here. The Arab was much moved when the Emperor himself fastened it to his burnous. Before retiring to his apartment the Emperor had some conversation with Vivier, the celebrated artiste. Various generals and officers of distinction have arrived. Nalim Pasha has left for Paris. Tomorrow we expect the Prince of Baden and Marshal Canrobert. " The division of Cuirassiers from Nancy and Lun &vine has arrived at the camp, and has taken tip a position to the right, not far from the division of Lancers. " Grand manoeuvres are announced for to-mor row in the plain, at 5 a.m., at which all the troops will be present. " AUG. 19. "This morning, at 5 o'clock, the troops were all in motion for the grand manoeuvres I announced to you. " An attack was to be made upon the so-called white works—fortified mounds—which are within the enceinte of the camp, near the road from Suippes to Baconne. Those works were occupied by the enemy. " A corps d'armee is supposed to advance by Bar • le-Due on Rheims, following the Roman road. " On its march, as soon as its advanced posts reach the heights of the farm at Bouy, it perceives the enemy in position on its right. " The Commander-in-Chief reconnoitres the posi tion, and ascertains that the enemy has a footing on the plateau of the white works, where he has fortified himself. As the troops forming the re connaissance approach, the enemy's artillery opens fire upon them. " The Commander of the chief corps d'armee having carefully ascertained the enemy's position, does not intend attacking it in front, as he should thereby expose himself to heavy loss. Attacking on the left, his line of retreat would be endangered. He, therefore, resolves to attack the enemy on the right of his defences. This determination taken, he endeavours to manoeuvre so as to flank the left of the enemy's position, at the same time disposing his troops in such guise that he can keep back the enemy, if issuing from its lines, it should attempt to attack his left. To prevent this movement troops are established on a line parallel with the white works. A regiment of cavalry and of in fantry are placed on the right and in the rear. " These disposition taken, the corps d'armee at tacks in two lines. Two divisions advance en eche lons on the right; the commanders of these echelons having between them the distance necessary to form obliquely to the left in battle, by a simple change of direction to the left. " While these various movements were taking place the Emperor, accompanied by a numerous staff, arrived at the scene of action. Princess Murat, on horseback, followed the movements of the staff. "At the moment of his Majesty's arrival the first echelon of the corps d'armee arrived on the plateau to the right of a small wood, where it met with a determined resistance, so that it had to wait till the echelon to its left had reached the rest of the high ground running from the little wool to a given point in the plain. " Artillery, with a reserve, is established in bat tery on the crest so as to play upon the enemy's works. " Meantime the reserve division comes up to the support of a division placed to the right, and the various corps united attempt a general effort upon the enemy's left. " The remainder of the army only now begins moving, and advances against the white works as soon as the left defences are threatened. " The cavalry supports the right of the corps d'arnzee, ready to fall upon the enemy's flank should an opportunity present itself. " The works are stormed and carried, and the enemy is pursued by the main body of the army, the cavalry charge, the rout is complete, and the enemy retreating by the village of St. Hilaire, crosses the river Suippes, thus placing that stream between itself and the victorious army. "Just at the close of the manceuvres the Prince Imperial arrived on horseback, and accompanied his august father in visiting the different corps on the ground. " This grand manoeuvre, which commenced at 3 a.m., lasted till 10 o'clock. " All the troops behaved admirably. " Prince William of Baden arrived at Mour melon at five o'clock. The imperial train went to meet him at Chalons. On alighting he was received by Prince J. Murat, who accompanied him in an open carriage to the Emperor's head-quarters." BOURSE, August 20.--The market continues in- animate, with prices well maintained--Threes, for the Account, being now at 68f 50e. Railways also firm. The following are the last quotations:— ft per per Cents ... 98 Credit F oncier 1283 75 Do end month.... 98 10 Belgian 4f — 3 per Cents Do. end month 6B 55 , Roman Bank Shares 2890 —• ! Austrian - Credit Mobilier.... 741 25 : Spanish Threes 4Bl Do. Account 743 75 ! Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 1407 50 .. 1410 Northern 9BO .. 982 25 New ditto 907 60 .. Lyons and Mediterranean 1018 75 .. 1020 Geneva 350 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lombard ITALY. We find the following interesting particulars of the banditti warfare in the Neapolitan mountains in the correspondence of the Temps, dated the 12th :—" Cialdini has been successful its three en counters with the reactionists at Sora, Benevento, , and Cancello, near this city. The official despatch dated from Sora, 9th inst., states that a company of the 44th of the line, quartered at Isola, killed four brigands. The rest of the troops killed nine. The mobiliped guard, sent to scour the country, had seen some twenty men near the top of Monte Sant'- Angelo. Another despatch, received by the Nazionale, says that Colonel Lopez, having been apprised that Chiavone was in communication with the inhabitants of Sora, drew him to Monte Sant'- Angelo. The Lieutenant-General of Francis 11., being there assailed in front and in flank by Capt. Bianchi, lost eight men, with his aide-de-camp, and took refuge in the forest. Capt. Lanzi, when the despatch was sent off, was endeavouring to turn the band and attack it behind. In another en counter Chiavone lost five men, while the Italians had only an officer wounded in the arm. A letter, addressed to the Pungolo, says that firing was heard at Sora from 3 o'clock in the morning till 7, and from 10 till 12. The engagement began at a thickly-wooded spot, called Rico, a mile and a-half from the town. The writer affirms that some com panies of the 44th, ascending the heights of Rocca vioa, were to have attacked the Chiavonians (as they are called) in the rear, and that if those com panies had arrived in time, Chiavone's campaign would have terminated then and there. But, being delayed by the deepness of the ascent, they arrived two hours too late. At the moment I write this, four brigands have been executed on the Piazza di Santa Restituta, as examples. Others were left dead in the field, and the wounded were very nume rous. This letter states that the wounded Italian officer is Captain Falardi, who, in a close encounter with eight brigands, two of whom he shot with his revolver, received a slight wound in the foot, not in the arm as reported. The National Guard pro tected the town during the engagement, and the pupils of the Norman School defended the line of the Lire for some distance. I now come to the affair of Benevento, which was rather serious. The number of insurgents is not easily ascertained, as there rare so many persons who are Bourbonists when the brigands approach, and Italians when the troops arrive. Some fifteen villages were attacked ; but some of them, Circello and San-Lupo, for in stance, defeated the banditti. In the night of the 10th, Colonel Negra marched against Page, which ho promptly occupied, and shot the Syndic, Luigi Orlandi, for having taken part with the brigands. The struggle was severe at Pietracalcina, where the insurgents numbered 400 at least, 35 of whom (not 135, as first reported) were left on the field, and 100 others remained prisoners in the hands of the troops, In the pursuit 15 horses were taken, together with a quantity of ammunition and arms. The Italians had ouly one man killed, and two others wounded ; a sergeant and a trumpeter were also missing. The smallness of the loss proves that the insurgents do not fight well, however formi dable they may be against defenceless villages. Indeed, they seldom make a determined stand against even a small number of troops. The day before yesterday, at Pesco, above a hundred of them fled before a mere handful of soldiers. Yester day the Italians were already victorious throughout the province; the insurgents fled in all directions, committing their usual atrocities in all the villages through which they passed. I now come to the affair at Cancello, which more nearly interests us, as being so close to Naples, You know that the brigands had collected in considerable numbers there, and harassed the country all round. Seldom did a day pass without their firing at the trains on the railway between Cancello and Nola, but that was the least of their misdeeds. General Pinelli accordingly took measures to clear the country of them. He occupied the heights where they usually concealed themselves, and soon drove them out. The first accounts (nearly always exaggerated) state that the brigands lost 80 killed, and 240 prisoners and wounded. The result of this vigorous measure is that the insurgents are now anxious to surrender. Yesterday a band of 150 men in the environs of Naples offered to surrender if assured of impunity. The answer invariably made to all such offers is—" You will be tried by the tribunals, and acquitted if guilty of rebellion only, but condemned if you have made rebellion a pretext for robbery and murder." THE POPE AND CA VO UR'S CONFESSOR A letter from Rome of the 13th, in the Gazette du Midi, a paper noted for its information on cleri cal matters, gives the following as the correct account of what passed between the Pope and Count Cavour's confessor : " Father Giacomo, the confessor of the late Italian Premier, is decidedly suspended from his ecclesiastical functions at Turin. The following particulars of what passed during the reverend father's stay at Rome may be relied on. The Holy Father, wishing to be informed as to the administration of the sacraments to Count Cavour, Father Giacomo was ordered to draw up a full account of the whole case. He did so, and sent his statement to Rome; but the Holy Father, not being satisfied on the matter, directed the Superior- General of the Franciscans to request Father Gia como to come to Rome, or send some ecclesiastic acquainted with all the particulars to give all the explanations desired. Father Giacomo decided on going himself, and on his arrival he had an audi ence of the Pope. The Holy Father said to him, I neither ought nor do I desire to know anything respecting the Count's confession ; I am only anxious to know why you administered the sacra ments.' Father Giacomo replied that, having been called to attend Count Cavour, he heard his confession, and afterwards carried the sacrament to him publicly. The Pope remarked that, be fore administering the communion, he ought to have formally required a religious retractation. The Franciscan explained that Count de Cavour had declared, in the presence of several persons, that he had always been Catholic and wished to die in the bosom of the Church. This answer did not satisfy the Pope, who then ordered Father Giacomo to go to Father Panebiance, Counsellor of the Holy Office. He went and was there called upon to declare in writing that he acknowledged having failed in his duty in adminis tering the communion to the Count without requir ing a retractation. The father refused to sign any declaration of the kind. The Pope then charged Father Antonio di Regnano, a learned Franciscan, to confer with him, and accompany him to the Vati can. When introduced a second time into the pre sence of his Holiness, Father Giacomo persisted in refusing to admit that he had done anything wrong. The Pope became excited, and reproached him with his conduct. Father Giacomo only replied that he had acted cons.:ientiously, and so the a udience tter minated. The Pope saw him a third time at h e Convent of St. Benaventura, and being still his dis satisfied with his answers, suspended him from . s benefice. Suet , is the whole trnthc,)fagtghiersaatffeday,, which certain journals have g reatly exaggerated." MR. BRAIDWOOD'S SuccEssor,..---The committee of the London Fire Insurance Companies have appointed Captai n Shaw, from Belfast, to be the new superintendent in place of the late Mr. Braidwood. A machine has ju st been invented for reducing the labour required in extracting, making, and removing paving stones, and au experiment was made with it a few dischar g i ng the them, send them down agan, AMERICA. NEW YORK, AUG. 9, Evening. (PER CITY OF BALTIMORE, via QUEENSTOWN.) More skirmishing has taken place in Missouri. The Southern Privateers are reported to be very active off the coast of North Carolina. The operations of the Federal army on the Vir ginia side of the Potomac are being very actively carried on. Prince Napoleon has visited Fairfax and Manassas. The Canadian mail steamship Anglo-Saxon,wlaich touched at Londonderry yesterday, has arrived. A despatch dated Springfield (Mobile), August 2 gives an account of an engagement at Dug Spring:--- LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. A battle occurred to-day at Dug Spring, 19 miles south of this place, between the Federal forces under Gen. Lyon, and the Confederate troops under Gen. M'Culloch, in which eight of the former were killed and 30 wounded, and 40 of the latter killed and 44 wounded. Gen. Lyon took 80 stand of arms and 15 horses and waggons. A troop of United States' cavalry, 270 strong, made Et charge upon a body of rebel infantry, said to have been 4,000 strong, cutting their way through, and routing them with a loss of only five men. The charge was a most gallant and terrible one, several of the Confederates being found with their heads cloven entirely through. The enemy retired during the night, and Gen. Lyon took possession of the field. A battle was momentarily expected, the enemy being is large force west of Springfield. A second despatch says that news reached on ThursdaY that the enemy were advancing on in three columns with et force of some 20,000. Gen. Lyon immediately set out to meet them with the 2d and 3d New York Regiments, and the 4th and 2d Kansas and Ist lowa Regiments, with two or three companies Of regular infantry, and two or three companies of regular cavalry, from Camp M'Clellan, about 12 miles west of here. Gen. Lyon encamped that evening on Tyrel Creek, an& on Friday advanced to Dug Spring, about 19 miles south west of Springfield, when he obtained intelligence of the enemy. A fight took place between 4 and 6 p.m. A party of 270 of Gen. Lyon's cavalry, as previously reported, were crossing a ridge of high land particularly enclosed on the east by a valley, and, when descending the hill, came upon a large force of the enemy's infantry, variously estimated at from 3.000 to 4,000. Being unable to retreat, they charged and cut their way through, with the loss of only five men. The lieutenant commanding the' cavalry was killed, after killing eight of the rebels. Mean time the enemy appeared in large numbers moving along the valley, but they were put to flight by our artillery. Our infantry was not engaged. The Confederates retreated southward to a place called M'Culloch's Store, on the Fayetteville-road. The number of Confederates found dead amounted to 40, and some 44 wounded were picked up- General Lyon is said to be strongly entrenched in close . proximity to the enemy, and another battle was expected , . It is said that there is a body of some 5,000 men 30 miles west of us, who are coming in to attack the town during General Lyon's absence. We have here two companies of the 3d Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, and about 700 or 800 Home Guards from the surrounding counties, and We pieces of artillery. While I write, two companies of the Home Guards have just gone out to reconnoitre for the enemy from the west. We are waiting for them with confi dent hearts and strong arms, determined that they shall not take the town without a bloody struggle. An engagement had also taken place on the sth in Missouri, which is reported as follows : A band of rebels numbering from 1,000 to 1,200 men, wade an attack on a camp of Union men at Athens, Missouri, on Monday morning last, at 5 o'clock. There was a consider able amount of arms and ammunition for the United States' troops stored at this place, under a guard of troops com posing this camp. The fighting lasted about an hour, when the rebels ran. The United States' Volunteers, numbering 350 men, were reinforced by 150 men, and gave chase to the rebels for about a mile a half, killing five, taking 18 pri soners, and capturing 31 horses and two Secession flags,. Several of the rebels were also wounded during the chase, After the battle six or eight rebels were found dead on the field. Three Union men were killed. The Confederate privateer Petrel, formerly the United States' revenue cutter Aiken, ran out of Charleston harbour and fired into the Federal fri gate St. Lawrence, under the impression that she was a merchant vessel. The St. Lawrence re turned the fire with a broadside which sunk the Petrel. All but five of her crew were rescued by the frigate. It is stated that the privateer was cut in two by the broadside. Several Confederate privateers are reported to have been very successful in capturing Federal vessels off the coast of North Carolina. The Confederates had constructed numerous land batteries at Cape Hatteras and other points along the coast, with which to cover the retreat of their privateers when chased by Federal cruisers. HOW THE SUMTER PRIVATEER GOT TO SBA. A letter dated Federal steamer Brooklyn, Mouth of the Mississippi, July 10th, says :—" Since my last missive, of the 28th ult., items of interest have turned up,' of which, as an opportunity nog' occurs, I hasten to apprise you. Sunday last, the 7th inst., as the following will vividly show, was a day pregnant with misfortune for us. It was then the pirate Sumter escaped us, and that, too, by our own injudicious management. Now, as there is the greatest probability that this steamer, manned as she is by a band of cutthroats, will capture, robt and sink, or burn some of our merchant vessels, laden with valuable cargoes, I opine it will be no thing more than fair if the manner of her escape is put upon record in your journal —so here goes :---- At daybreak on the morning of Sunday, the look out discovered a vessel in the offing, acting very suspiciously and leading us to believe that she would run the blockade if an opportunity was given her. We duly got under weigh, and went in pursuit of her. She kept standing off, and led us a merry chase of some fifteen miles from our anchorage, but finally overhauling her, we found her to be an English barque, bound for New Orleans; we warned her not to attempt to enter. During this chase it was reported to our captain that, taking advantage of our absence from Pass i•l'Outre, a steamer was making its way down the river with terrific speed; Instead of continuing to follow the confounded old barque upon the reception of such important intelli gence, we should have ignored her presence, and , instantly putting about, hastened back to the river with all possible speed ; for it had been uraiversallY known for a long time that the Secession man-of-war steamer Sumter was lying at the head of the Pass, awaiting an opportunity to pass us and escape, that she might be at large upon the high seas to plunder and murder indiscriminately. But no; our captain did not seem to discern the neces sity of such an action, but kept our vessel steaming on, until, overtaking the barque, he simply or dered her on board as stated. 'Tis true, in doing this we were performing our duty to the very letter; but it was of minor importance when compared to the in terception of a vessel notoriously a pirate. When he returned it was reported to us that the Sumter had already succeeded in crossing the bar, and at this moment our captain, as if awakening from sleep, ordered us to carry all the steam possible/ and crowd on all sail, and start in pursuit of the fugitive. This order had hardly been carri ed into effect when a terrible squall came up, and it con tinued with such severity that f or aw hile we could. not see the length of our ship a h e ad of us. For fear of grounding, we lessened our speed, and even tually stopped a'together, s o until the remaining squall had passed. Much to our chagrin, we then _ saw the Sumter a very great distanceaheadof us, c a o n n d ti g nu oi e n t ttbhercobuagshe,tbhuetwsahteer witch,slloikwelya increased the W e distance between us, it being a de a d calrn after the use our sails our squall, and we could not •Had vessel been in as good cond ition as she was at the commence ment of this cruise, instead of th e miser able state she is now in , w e could hav e caught her easily under steam a lone. Still we kept and at p.m. we were gladdened by to wind coming around fair and freshening every moment. We fourmadep all sail until the spars and masts cracked and groaned under their burden, and we were rewarded by the fact that we were rapidly gaining u pon the eitallivs€od us to feel un usua lly we ll, as would be a nice job' if we could S w u e n a i t r e g r u , e w d h t i b c a li t succeed in trappi ng juncture Captain of the pirat e . S u dd en l y , a t this affairpse, earndervdeerryedtutrbneinebigppoitne b t in e our favour, put about, to abandon the chase, and return to our anchorage. Amazement was depicted upon the countenance of every man on board, and, as a m atter of course, the greatest and most bitter indignation prevailed because of this action. It was so uncalled for, so inexplicable, that wonder and scorn were the predominant feelings manifested. A duel with swords took place, three days ago, at Puy (Haute-Loire), between Capt. and Capt' F-----, of the 81st Regiment of the Line, when the latter was dangerously wounded. The blade penetrated into the chest, and produced a dangorous effusion of blood. The wounded officer was taken to the Hotel Dieu, where every' attention was paid t 3 him, and hopes are entertained that he is now out of danger. His adversary called on him a t the hospital, shook him warmly by the hand, and expresse d his sincere wishes for his speedy recoverTi ' The Cause O f the 4101 is Aot stated,