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Ar , , -,• ,• , . ..1.., . - 4,1, • - ..t N..., 36. - • ,z) - f ) ''W,,,.,,./ , - 4.oitorD• '' . . ... ~, ~- • • c • I n - :,:••• ' tmEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS' afell RVERT EVENING TH WEK IS E aft ]r Alfred on's Promenade Concerts. U" TOO! , he was s " S'elp coloured ARMY CONTRACTS. ENDERS will be received at this Office until ma 12 o'clock no on on the 3d of October, from persons who Y be willing to enter into Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW, Anantities as may be required, for the use of Her f ro '`' , Y Forces stationed in the following places, la Ist November, 1863, to 31st October, 1861 : FORAGE. T. Tryde-patk, Kensington, Regent's-park, and Horse ,„ Guards. Rounslow and Keller Hall. '• Timm :don Court. 4. 'Windsor. 6. Brighton. 6. Sandhurst 7. Enfield. PAILLASSE STRAW. 1 . trom Pton House. lip - le-park, and liensinzton. , egent's-park, St. John s-wood, and Portman-street Barracks. Barracks, Chelsea. ,!.ellinrzton and St. George's Barracks, 0. -une Tower. ou l ; he nslow and Kneller Hall. "alnrifon Court. • Windsor. 9. Bri " -rht ml, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore -10. ham. Croydon. • late Tenders must be made for FOrVe arrl for Pail r.7,sSfraw for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Bar 'Llc as Prouped and numbered. tarorms of Tender and Conditions of Contract ma . y be b etween the " application at this office, by letter or in person, Tenders the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. on the printed forms must be properly filled up 81 ` - 'ned, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered % t ,le under-mentioned Office, under closed envelope (marked F Lae outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies"), before O ' clock noon on the 3d October next. (Signed) W. T. POWER, Comm' ssary- G eneral. Deputy Commissary-General's Office, 5. New-street, Sprint-gardens, London, S.W., 10th Sept., 1863. N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1909. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumnhted and Invested Funds .L2,122,82S Annual Revenue.... ............................... 422,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuran'es rrrante4:l;Othatli;;;;cl:liiForeignCountrie oa the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of th e P ro fit s di v id e d amon g the Insurers on the particip3ting principle. The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows: Policies. Am^unt In=ured. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished on application at the LONDON OrrlcEs : 58, Threadneedle-street. 4 New Bank Butldinvs. Lothbury. West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-man. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE The SOCIETY. business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was 4 '62,332. and the amount insured on farming stock , A . °B6 , bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to s ums insuring, who h av e thus, from time to time, received 3 : 18 amountin g in the aggregate to £4 40 , 000 ; and the Society W holds a large" Reserve applicable to a future Bonus. C h ar rattes of premium are in no case higher than those their insurY g e d the other principal offices making no returns to e t t:or ;sandprospectues apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey ,. y et, Norwich arian riE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 29, Lombard -street, London, and Royal Ineurance buildings, Liverpool. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,ono, ACenntulated. Funds in hand over 1 OOO,OOO. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : WILLIAM IVAINWRIGIIT, Esq. Xrpr. ------ ----aers FROM TIIE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. rr he Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now tailed upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the lieeting of its Shareholders. The Directors have, as FIRE pleasingl ßßANCH. y as unexpectedly. at the close 01 the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000. The high comr,arative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is again fully maintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur- Passes that of any year. with but two exceptions, since the commencement of this Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s. 5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa rately, £11,007 16s. 10d. LTFE BRANC IT. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to state the sum assured on new policies for the year IFG2 exceeds even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of' £701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last tow years it is believed that such a sum aosured as that which has just been announced as the result of one year's business Was all but unheard of'. This portion of the Company's business has been carefully Watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for th e future to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for as suran^e R mounts to X 141,2 R I . Various degrees of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more rapid than that of any other Company established either in •Lond3n or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken place, The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the Ixpression of an opinio n th at t h e prospects of the Roya l ,uraneu Company were never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater mmni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the () Mee with a lecgthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY M DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. FROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., 11. P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, N.P. ?Intim' Life Assurance for all classes. rhis, total sum As of socia I, tion has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a £500,000. The Annual Income is .. .. £61,000 The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2r0, 1 :'00 It has paid in Claims 112 , 000 The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among the Members. Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the policies Dec. 31,1847 .. 45,400 ~ 1852 11,500 ~ 1857 23.200 , 1862 .. 50,500 Making the total bonus additions, £96,600. Bonuses may be received in cash or applied to the redue tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the policy._ Attention is eipecially invited to the system of free or paid lap policies introduced by this Association, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of po' icy is wholly avoided. The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all, Whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARR:ES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHE HE:SRY FELIX, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. • Henry Bat:otidge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esc'. Robert r J arcl a y, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. John r 'arratt Cattlei, Esq. ~ . . 1 " Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. 7,-k Currie Close, Esq. # Henry Nelson, Esq. „ itrilliam Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy, Thomas Dent, Esq Esq. . Charles Robins on, Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Alexander Drum, Egg. Predk. Jos. Edlmann, E Eric Carrington S m ith, E sq. N E. Riversdale W. Grenfell, BSCI• William Soltau, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. .Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq : WM. Tetlow Hibbert, Egg-William Wallace, Esc. s Jas. St ewar t H o d gson , Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq , Medical Referee, SAMtrEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assuranc es are granted with par -- "ciPation in Profits, or , a t lower Premium s, without such Participation.' The Reversionary BMUS on British Policie s has avera g ed nearly 2 per cent, per annum on the sum assured. Premiums Equivalent reductions have been made in the Payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Life, Any sum not exceeding X 15,000 may be insured on o ne This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns,of Mutual Societies —with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. 0 f Theoo Office advantages whose ofre resource s na 113aryacetheeice,n—wit ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A nAe Lettrhe the tested by security la the Militia, Yeoman The Corporation have alwaysallowed ~,s; the Assured to serve olunteer Corps within the the United Kingdom, free ofYcharge. R°YAL ExcRiIOANBGT. EPL. °SNTI7I'.E, Secretary. Stratford-upo n- N. (oaf:which Sir Ro b ert OELEBRATION of th T Ft EReE k . ) the BIRTH of SHARSPEARE NTENARy to the Avon. The Tercentenary Committee' N. C. Hamilton, Bart ., K.C.8., is Chaim, ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may n as Messrs also r e now reeelv aCcount of the Tercentenary Committee, at thee,:giudrbridge or Messrs: and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamino., Strati ord-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, ”A O ,:, Banks, or their London agent Greenway, War w ick ; th, and Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and C Glyn and Co., bankers, London. ti on Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrin Ilion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirer i.e Shal cf!Peare for their aid and assistance. The is _ rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the tarth l au ad j) ace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to h^tne, 01 ' era of the great Poet's works, and that it was his e tovrn he loved, and where he lived and died. " blt p ACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented al i Y, inel Sp,f„„ippatronised by the majority of the are arq un t Palmerston. They afford extra "' ' 4 4o3,lo — NZer to w rrl e ' k dim and detective vision.—S. and B °MC' 39, Xlbewarle-street, riccadlll7. ping bini is she e an ole ow is if t D see you one, that )t be un- gone 11/) en sold," d tell me taking a spense. It ly is sold e has she pathising die bom• requested that had , if you'd hs r head she sold 'ere; but 'seen bad F" asked. u didn't a glad to a humour to oblige 31 see." rtment of a take a Bence one rued with rnnibal 1" his arms. b y Mr. much on ieft of last at rather re rates of Fi ne Bar ry scarce, .335 368 .359 38 s .40s 42s .353 383 r show of es prices l in other .37s 40s .39 2 403 .40s 436 .335 36s .—s ---S .34s 393 .-8 —s .35s 406 .—s - -3 30s :38s s of grain ket. s, d. ...18 6 1 I* • • 8 6 ...17 6 ...18 6, u ...17 ...17 6 17 6 ...16 9 _l6 9 ...18 6 ... 17 0 ...17 6 , t ...17 ,; :: : 16 15 9 Sept. 15 ' Oct. 13 ' Oct. 6• Sept. 2 ' 9 t 18 ' Sep • 0/ Sept. Sept. 1. Sept. 18' E * . ept. 27 . Sept. ;° Sept.,: " pet. °; Sept. 20. Sept. Oct. 1. Sept. 24' Sept. 18 ' Oct. 10 ; Sept. t• l 'L' Sept. k°' Sept. 28' ifearn er p ool on Besides 1 a full ,30 a.lllO egramS, Mrs. E. it Cuelc amuse'', DII, gr°' ) wife of 10a 1 g 8 3i tv, and, 6ter eat, all a t St* .10 Lady Duchess Nor . t, _ e a L., a 6 ChO e ' t son of Salop, r Edill' terroe' ;quail WC.. oitY - No. 22,221. T " X F 0 it JJ , OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Fiute Solos by Drew Dean &c. Connie, by UNSIVORTII (" or any (act* man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Also, a Pei formauce by Herr SCIIALKENI3 NCH on him wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCIIESTRE, contain ing a full band of 40 instruments. the ITALY. has just been newsy Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, Cd. ; stalls andbalcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. Cd. CIANYERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order .J to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation ot Pro fessor Pc pper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-tamed spectral Illusion, THE GHOST," from the ricture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Uusworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Moos. Jullien, of monster concerts cele brity. The band ms selected from the Crystal Palace, the Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, Is. Manager—M. GRENET. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GII OST ! The Polish Giantess, Countess Demoloth, will be introduced in the Ghost Illusion this Week—The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN—Grand Divertissement by Twenty young Ladies—Operatic Selections, by NI iss M'Gregor, Mr. Albert, Vernon -Rigby, and Signor Georgini—Band and Chorus of 60 Performers. V First appearance of DE SOLLAC. the Infant Tenor, and LANGLOIS VELOCIMAN, the Great Indian Juggler, THIS DAY (MONDAY). - 13 OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great iv Musical Attraction —lmmense success of _ SIGNOR NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ESTABLISHED 1833. BOWDEN'S JERATED GINGER BEER, in glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, Potass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manutactory, No. 3, VF hite Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. TEA. —MOORS BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souchomr,, reduced to 3s. Rt. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 3s. Bd. and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d. to 3s. 11d, per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. IIfARPER TWELVETREET GLYCERINE JIAL SOAP POWDER makes its own Soap, and saves one-half of time, two thirds of Soap, and triree-fourths of labour ! Patentee : Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley •by-Bow, London. Sold by Grocers, Druggists, and Oilmen. PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE MACITINE‘ 4 , for hand, horse, or steam power, are the most simple and efficimat extant.—Ful: particulars and prices obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co., Laurence Pountney place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, E.C., where they may be seen in operation daily. NIONEY PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a Private Gentleman upon FURNITURE (without removal). Leasehold and Freehold Property, or Reversions, ,ta., in sums from £2O to £.soo.—Mr. Howard, 18, Queen street, Cheapside. TO Persons in WANT of MONEY (in Town or Country).—A. GENTLEMAN is willinz to MAKE ADVANCES of CAS H, without delay, to respectable persons (male or female), on their own security. The utmost secrecy can be celled on.—Apply (it by letter enclose four stamps) to at Air. Robertson's, Accountant, 40, King. William-street, London-bridge, E.C.--Money advanced on Dock Warrants. lIEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY ING PO WDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862, This Powder is quite harmless to an mai life, but is un rivalled in destroying Fleas, Bwrs, Flies, Cockroaches, Beetles, Gnats, Mosquit os, Mot h s in furs, and every other species of Insect. _ :Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs. Being the original importer of this now invaluable article, which has found so great a sale that it has tempted others to vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the autograph of THOMAS KEATING Sold in packets, is., 2s. 6d., and 4s. fid. each, or post free for 11 or 36 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St. r,ul's-churchyard, London, E.C. Pm SCOTT'S BILIOUS ANI) LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDT.—Fre eared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who , uffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they arc truly excellent; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat OMee, Aldershot, 2d September, 1863. MENDERS will be received at this office, until 1 noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of _ _ _ FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November, 1863, to 3lst October, 1861, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob• tained on application at this office, by letter or in person between the hours of ten and four o'clock. • The Tenders must be properly filled and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed unless made on.forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail• way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEIICIE, E.G. Treasurer—Edward Maaterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Maaternaim, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams,Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretor ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England. Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the oociety, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800; for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting -cart iages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they haVe received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet ot 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom Deeply seusible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and t Crews practised in the management of their boats, can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions:— £ e. d Her Majesty the Queen • • • • .. annual 50 0 0 - • .. annual 5 0 0 Aire. G. .. I .. .. annual 1 1 0 Messrs., Bankers • • • annual 10 0 0 C eco a leu m rtk p t.s b c e a l on l l:ol t oC h eo e l: H , It o . A n .. Currie, Wm., Esq. , • • • • • . 4th d on.lo 0 0 . Erle, Lord Chief Just! 1 K. . e . 13 .. don. 10 10 0 FPaenuNgyihackw,e' Vice-Admira Sir A ., ~ ... 2d don. 25 0 0 don. .. 250 0 0 sportingG.arrJ.,iagEseq., cost .. of . a . Lifeboat . afd 'frau- M na o rv or e e. Y. R ß ey ev ..O G ..l3 G . Martin, Sir Henry, Bart .. • • 7th don. 10 0 0 G. and Airs. rs. .. :: :: don. 135 105 00 Smith, Mrs. Oeorge, Greenwich • • • • • • 30 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 20 0 Thomas, Lady, Weston-super- 3 lare , collected by her C 0.,, s, Ladyship • • • - • • • • • • 16 16 0 Strand ; r a a n n d d ;C of; le 7 l3 6 ;rs L . lle b rr a i r e d s: street 'Will oughby d'Ere — sby, Lord .. .. .. annual 50 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re ceived al by the Bankers of the institution , Messrs. Willis , Farquhar, Messrs. and Co., Couttsd 16, St. om ; an Janle ''o - street, London ; by al the Collectors of Customs and Banker s i n the Unitedlthigdom; and by the Secretary Richard Lomb, Esq. , at the Office of the Instif4loD, 24, J 9ll - 11 'etreet, 434Ciphi, 1, 02492 1 , --117•%--;• THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1863. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER, RACES—TUESDAY. The great northern meeting at Doncaster has on this oc casion commenced most auspiciously. Of late years, in deed, since an improved regime in the a dministration of affairs has caused us to forget the failures of the past, our task has been to record success. To tell of crowded trains despatched in quick succession from King's-cross and Eu ston-square, of the little town being thronged to an almost fabulous extent by bipeds and quadrupeds, of the equally fabulous prices demanded by its thrifty inhabitants for ac commodation for man and beast, and of the daily gathering on the beautiful moor of all that the north can boast of in rank and beauty to grace the scene. These conditions pro mise to be fulfilled to the letter this year. Doncaster il4 as full as apparently it can well be, though, doubtless, like the carpet-bag so often quoted, it will expand itself to late arrivals, and some nooks and corners be still discovered at "an alarming sacrifice." A great number of horses have arrived, the weather is magnificent, and the ground in splendid order. Can we say more ? The rooms were inconveniently crowded last night. Avenger was firm at 5 to 1 at the commencement of busi ness, but went back half a point before the close. The Ranger was backed for a little money at 10 to 1, but he saw a better price before midnight, as 8 to 1 was offered in our hearing. Lord Clifden was, as usual, considerably knocked about, and unfavourable reports of his style of going that morning were circulated-10 to 1 was his latest quotation. Queen Bertha, who was said to be look ing magnificent, was installed first favourite, and left off in force at sto 1. The Serf was mentioned, and Borealis was backed for a good deal of money at 12 to 1. The morning dawned brightly, and, after the usual sale of stock by Messrs. Tattersall,three lots of which,belonging to Mr. Sutcliffe, were unfortunately destroyed by their stabling being burnt on the previous night, an adjournment to the moor took place. On the first day the attendance is never very large, and there was no exception to that rule on this occasion. The Fitzwilliam Stakes proved an easy victory for the favourite, Carnival, and the Doncaster Plate was a no less easy thing for Col. Towneley's Newchurch. The meeting of Fille de l'Air and Linda in the Cham pagne was looked forward to with much interest, the latter's performance at York having stamped her as one of the best fillies out this season. The French mare had slightly the call in the betting, 5 to 4 being laid against Linda. The re sult was one of those surprises that tend so much to show the uncertainty of public running. Linda appeared to be winning opposite the Stand,' but died away to nothing on Aldcroft bringing Ely with a rush to the post, and Chat` loner not persevering, Fille de l'Air defeated her by a nee for second honours. The Yorkshire Handicap brought 16 to the post, out of which number Blondin and Dulcibella were most fancied, Lord Stamford's mare winning a very straggling race with the greatest ease. The issue for the Handicap had the effect of sending Avenger still higher up in the Leger betting. More than 4 to 1 could not be procured against him after the race. 7t o 1 was offered against Lord Clifden, and Queen Bertha was slightly on the decline. The Fitzwilliam Stakes of 5 sous each, with 100 added, for all ages ; weight for age, winners extra; the second to save his stake. One mile. 13 subs. Mr. R, C. Naylor's Carnival, 3 yrs, Sat 61b (in. 41b ex.) (Challoner) 1 Mr. Gordon's Johnny Armstrong, 4 yrs, 9st 91b (includ. 41b extra) (Doyle) 2 Mr. Henry's Lady of Coverham, '2 yrs, 6st llb (includ. 41bextra) . ................ (Carroll) 3 Mr. G. Bryan's . W elland, 4 yrs, 9 st .............. Lady de Trafford, King of Utopia, Minie, Entremet, and Bathilde also ran. Betting—Even on Carnival, 3 to 1 agst John Armstrong, 6 to 1 agst King of Utopia, and S to 1 agst Welland. After a couple of failures, the flag was lowered to an indif ferent start, in which Minie and Lady do Trafford were left at the post. On settlinC into their places King of Utopia, next the rails, made play, closely attended by Carnival, who was followed by Welland and Bathilde side by side next, Lady of Coverham and Johnny Armstrong lying n ex t. Crossing the road King of Utopia died away, the lead being taken. up by the favourite. Half-way in the distance Ba thilde and Welland were in difficulties, and were headed by Lady of Coverham ; and in a few strides further by Johnny Armstrong, the latter in his attempt to get up on the out side had to pull off, and at last succeeded in going through next the rails. At the enclosure Doyle made his effort to reach the favourite, but failed, and was beaten easily by half a length, three lengths separating the second and third, and a like distance the third and fourth ; Bathilde finished fifth, and King of Utopia next. The others trotted in. Match for 300 sous, 100 ft, Sst 101 b each, both 2-sr-olds. T.Y.C. Mr, J. Osborne's Prince Arthur, Sat 10Th .. (J. Osborne) 1 Duke of St. Albans' Coeur de Lion, Bst 101 b (T. Adams) 2 Betting-3 to lon Prince Arthur, who jumped away with a decided lead, and won in a canter by two lengths. The Doncaster Plate (Handicap) of 70 sovs, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Winners extra, One mile. Colonel Towneley's Newchurch, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (T. French) following Knave ran of Trumps, : T e n :—Calabria Lord Bateman's Despair, 4 yrs, Bst .... (G. Fordhani) 2 Lord f '3 y , rB B , Queen, Meriden, and Manchester. Betting-5 to 2 agst Knave of T rum p s , 3to 1 agst Trump Queen, 5 to 1 agst Newchurch, 8 to 1 a gst Manchester, an d 10 to 1 agst Despair and Meriden. (eL, Trump 6st.. oates) 3 T h e Stamford's also With the exception of Birdli me , w h o was l e ft some dis tance in the rear, the lot left the p os t i n c l os e company' Trump Queen next the rails having a slight lead, attended by Calabria, Meriden, and Newchurch, Despair lying a length or so in their rear. On entering the straight Trawl' Queen dropped back, leaving Meriden with a slight advan tage, the favourite going on second, with Newchurch and Despair at their quarters to the distance, where Meriden and Knave of Trumps gave way to Newchurch, who came on with a clear lead to the centre of the enclosure, when the favourite coming again joined him, with Despair on his whip hand, the three finishing a fine race home, Newchurch w h i ning cleverly at last by a length. Despair, who got up in the last stride, defeated the favourite by a head for se cond ; Meriden was fourth, close up, Manchester fifth, and Calabria next. Trump Queen walked in, but did not pass the post. Birdlime, in making the bend after recovering her ground, struck into the heels of one of the leading horses and came down, but, fortunately, without injury to Clement. The Champagne Stakes of 50 soya each, 11 ft, for 2-yr-olds; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 81b. The second saved his stake. Red House in. 43 subs. Mr. W. S. Cartwright's Ely, Bst 101 b...... . . (Aldcroft) 1 Count F. de Lagrange's Fille de l'Air, Bst 81b (Watkins) 2 Mr. R. C. Naylor's Linda, Bst 81b .......... (Challoner) 3 Mr. Henry's Rouge Crosse, Bst 81b ........ (Fordham) 4 Betting—Even on File de rAir, 5 to 4 agst Linda, and 10 to 1 agst Ely. The Fille de l'Air was the first off, and came on with a slight lead of Linda to the bend, where the latter got her head in advance, the pair running together to the Stand, where Mr. Naylor's filly stopped to nothing, w hi c h gave the favourite again a lead, but Aldcroft coming with one of his rushes headed the pair, and won in a canter by two lengths, a neck between second and third ; bad fourth. The Selling Stakes of 5 soars each, with 50 added, for 2•yr olds and upwards. Weight fo r age, with selling allow ances. T.Y.C. Mr. H. Joyce's Folly, 2 yrs, sst lllb :(VO) (J. Grimshaw) 1 Count Lagrange's Daniel, 2 yrs, Est (£4O) (H. Bell, jun.) 2 Lord Chesterfield's Disdain, 4 y rs, Sat 101 b (£40)(IL Grimshaw 3 Mr. E. Brayley'a Victoria Cross , 2 y rs, 6 ( 8 1 4 02an 401 4 Mr. 3, Osborne's Game Pullet colt, 2 yrs, 6st 111 h (£75) (Whiteley) 5 Mr. G. Solomon's Curie, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (VO) (S. Adams) 6 Betting-3 to 1 agst Folly, 4to 1 each agst Victoria Cross and Disdain, and 5 to 1 agst Daniel. Won cleverly by a head ; three lengths between the se cond and third; a bad fourth. The winner was sold to Mr. Fish for 81 guineas. Match for 100 so y a , h ft, both 2-yr-olds. Half a mile. Mr. Chancello r ' s W ee A gg i e . 7 s t 71b.... (EL G Mr. G. Crook's D aw dl e , B s t 71b (E. Taw) 1 lor) 2 rira Betting-2 to 1 'on Dawdle, :who, with a lead of three parts of a length, made the running to the distance, when the non-favourite came out and won in a canter by two lengths. The Great Yorkshire Handicap of 25 soya each, 15 ft, and only sif declared, &c., with 100 added. Winners extra. The second horse to receive 60 sous out of the stakes. St. Leger course. 86 subs, 63 of whom declared. Lord Stamford's Dalcibella, 6 yrs, 7st Blb (A. Edwards) 1 Mr. Mr. Nahl u er n ' t s .s D u ru ji m th m tied c i rß , a yrs, 6st b .. Boy, yrs, 1 7 2 a 1 t51b . .................. T. Mr. H. Wilkinson's Oldminster, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (Doyle) 4 The following also ran :—Knowsley, Lady Ripon, Wel come, Change, Hubert, Dr. Syntax, Silkstone, Biondi°, Cachuca, Schoolmistress, Barter, and Jack's Alive. Betting.-5 to 1 apt lilondin, 6to 1 each agst Dulcibella and Cachuca, 10 to 1 agst Schoolmistress, 12 to 1 each agst Drummer Boy and Silkstone, 100 to 8 each agst Dr. Syntax and Barter, 100 to 6 agst Blithfield. Several false starts were made before Mr. Marshall could prevail upon the riders to keep their places. At length the patience of the spectators was rewarded by the flag falling to an admirable start. Hubert, with Dulcibella, Schoolmistress, and Dr. Syntax, lying up, was the first to show in advance, the others, headed by Drummer Boy, Blithfield, attd Jack's Alive, following up ot the hill horses is close order, the rear being broi:,ght up by Change, Knowsley, Oldminster, and Barter. Pi". °ceeding the leaders were joined by Welcome, the r 21.111 4h e mile at the same time closing up, and as they reachea ' - post Schoolmistress gave way, and was passed in sueoeastou by Dr. STutax, Dalcibella, Drummer Boy, and Blithfield, Oldminster at the same time, having improved his position, ran up the front as they came past the half-mile post, and followed closely in the wake of Mr. Hunt's colt. At the rifle butts Dulcil•ella headed Dr. Syntax, who shortly after dropped away beaten, and on their fairly entering the straight Hubert was added to the beaten division, leaving Lord Stamford's mare in possession of a decided lead, which she improved as she came on, and won in a canter by three lengths, Drummer Boy defeating Blab&Id by a length for second, the latter being a neck in advance of Oldminster, who was fourth; Knowsley was fifth, Hu bert sixth. The others were pulling up and did not pass the post. The Revival Plate of HO sovs in specie, for 2-yr-olds and upwards. Weight for age ; winners extra, with maiden allowances. Red-house in. Captain Christie's br in Lady Clifden, 5 yrs, 9st 91b (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. R. Buckley's b m Tattoo, 5 yrs, Ost 21b ..(Aldcroft) 2 Mr. J. Carey's b f Mother Carey's Chicken, 2 yrs,6st 10Ib (S. Adams) 3 Mr. J. Osborne's b c Lord Adolphus, 2 yrs, Gst 91b (Whiteley) 4 J. Grimskaw weighed for Persuasion, 7st 11b. Shortly after Mr. Phillips requested the number to be removed, as the lad had no instructions to weigh. Betting-3 to lon Lady Clifden, who made her own running, accompanied by Lord Adolphus to the bend, where the latter dropped back, and Tattoo became second, but without a chance of reaching the favourite, who won easily by a length—a bad third. The Filly Stakes of 30 sous each, 20 ft, for 2-yr-old fillies, Bst 101 b each. Red House in. 15 subs. Lord Zetland's Saragossa, Bst 101 b ...... (A. Edwards) 1 Mr. Watts' br f Gondola, Bst 101 b........ (J. Snowden) 2 Captain Grey's lir f Syren, Bst 101 b ............ (Doyle) 3 Polonaise, Chalybeate, and Clairvoyants also ran, Betting-6 to 1 agst Syren, 4to 1 agst Polonaise, sto 1 agst Saragossa, and 7 to 1 agst Chalybeate. Polonaise, with Clairvoyants, made play to the turn into the straight, when Saragossa calla out and won easily by three parts of a length, half a lenei separating second and third. Polonaise was a bad fourth. The Glasgow Stakes of 30 seas each, 20 ft, for 2-yr-old colts, Bst 101 b each. Red House in. Count Batthyany's b c Midnight Mass, Bst 101 b (A. Edwards) w.o. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Duncan, 74, old sailing ship, which is being broken up in No. 3 dock at Chatham, will be out of the shipwrights' hands by the end of the first week in October, when the dock will be entirely cleared in readiness for the reception of the iron paddlewheel steam frigate Recruit, 6, 150-horse power, which is once more to be docked in order to discover the locality of a leak, and for a few slight repairs. Since she has been lying in the harbour her bottom has become very foul, and is largely en crusted with weeds and animalcules. Admiralty instructions have been received at Chatham Dockyard, directing that all launches shall in future be schooner-rigged, according to the plan recommended to the Admiralty by Admiral Elliot, instead of the old system of lugger-rigging them adopted in the navy since 1841. Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steamer Blood hound; Lieut.-Commander Stokes, from the West Coast of Africa, was yesterday paid out of commis sion at Woolwich, and will be docked f or re pairs. She sailed from Ascension on the 44th day of July, and called at Goree, Teneriffe, Madeira, and Vigo, and on account of the fearfully bad state of her boilers and machinery, and the accumulation of barnacles, &c., on her bottom, she was two months making her way home. The officers and crew were all paid off in good condition. Her Majesty's steam storeship Fox yesterday went down to Woolwich Dockyard to complete her cargo of steam machinery shipped at the Victoria docks, and will sail to-day for Pembroke -card. The Monarch, target ship, was undocked yester day at Portsmouth, and placed at the practice moor ings in Porchester Creek. At Fort Cumberland the Royal Marine Artillery, under the supervision of Col. Alexander; at Lumps Fert the, Royal Artillery of the 6th Brigade, under Col. Longdon's supervision ; and on board her Ma jesty's ship Excellent the trained gunners, under Capt. A. C. Key's directions, have been engaged in making a series of experimental rapid firing courses with shot and shell from the new " wedge" Arm strong 10 and 70 pounders. Similar experimental firing i s taking place at other out-stations under competent officers, and each officer engaged in con ducting the experiments, will, at their close, for ward his own report, independently of all others, to head - quarters. The guns now under trial are the most perfect form of the Armstrong breech-loader extant. The whole of the experimental firing has not yet been concluded with all the guns under trial, but it has proceeded sufficiently far to enable a correct judgment to be formed of the gun's power and its suitability for service on board ship. The 7C-pounder wedge gun under trial concluded its course yesterday, after firing 200 shot and 50 com mon shell (Armstrong, but not built in segments). The target was placed at 2,000 yards' distance, out on the Horse Shoal, seaward. The charge of pow der used for the shot was 101 b., and for the shell 91b. ; the letter containing 31b. of powder as a burst_ ing charge. Two different targets were used for shot and shell, that for the latter being built up of nine-inch oak plank, as the shells were fired with a pillar fuse, and therefore required a resisting object of some solidity to strike again to cause them to burst. The practice made throughout with this gun was magnificent. Y es t e rday it wa s much inter rupted by vessels crossing the range, but on the pre vious day, when the range remained more open, 65 shots were fired in 47 lc minutes, and the ta r g et was struc k 36 times. This was tho longest period of firing at one time to which the gun was subjected, for the " keybolt" gave out on several occasions, and the gun became disabled until the armourer had re moved the pi n an d repaired the damage. The Armstrong armourer stationed at Portsmouth being present, e xamined the bol t b y C o l. L o ngdon's direc tions, and gave it as his opinion that it was made from a similar metal to the gun. He snggested that he should be allowed to make a new steel bolt. To this the colonel at once acceded, and yesterday the new bolt was tried, and 64 shots were fired from the gun consecutively without any burring up of the metal on the wedges or any serious damage to the bolt, beyond the indentations which might be expected on the side of so small a piece of metal. The firing from the 40-pounder also under trial is not yet concluded. One of the 70-pounder shells burst at the mouth of the gun yesterday, but that was the only instance of the kind throughout its firing, and no cause could be assigned for it. With all the wonderful accuracy exhibited by both the guns, there was a great eccentricity of movement observed in the after course of the shots, and the general opinion which has been formed thus far of the wedge gun is that it is not in its present state at all fit for sea service. As the present trials have been ordered to obtained a simultaneous testing of the gun under officers of known skill and experi ence, it is very possible, as before observed, that their reports of the trials may contain such valuable information and suggestions as may render the 70- pounder a serviceable main-deck gun for our ships of war, so far as its calibre and the weight of its shot will permit its being so. We have to record the death of Vice-Admiral of the Red Henry Dundas, second eon of the late Right Hon. Robt. Dundas, of Arniston. Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, which occurred at Craig Royeton, near Edinburgh, on the 11th inst. The deceased admiral, seho had attained the ago of 64 years, entered the Royal N ava l College in February, 1813 , and embarked in Sept., 1815, as a volunteer on board the Niger, 38, on the North American station. In July, 1817, he was made midshipman of the Leander, 50, flag ship of Sir David Milne on the mane station, and, after a t welvemonth's subsequent attachment to the Liffey, 50, was promoted to lieutenant, Dec. 7, 1819. As lieutenant he served in the Glasgow, 50, and Euryalus, 42, in the Mediterranean, where he was promoted to the command of the Rose, 18, May 16, 1823. He obtained pest rank Feb. 9, 1825, and commanded the Dartmouth, 42, a n d sapphire, 28, brinin and South Anatrleen stations from the date of his promotion until 1830. He became rear•admiral Nov. 17, 1853, and vice-admiral March 7, 1858. The deceased admiral married in 1863 Robina Mary, sister of Sir David Dundee, of Beech wood, Midlothian, and of Dunira, near Perth. The following promotions, to date from the 12th inst., will take place consequent on the death on the 11th inst. of Vice-Admiral of the Red Henry Dun des :—Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Henry Byam Martin, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red ; Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir Thomas Hastings, K.C.8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White ; Rear- Admirals the Hon. Arthur Duncombe, Robert Fitz roy, and Charles Henry S winburne, on the reserved list, to be Vice-Admirals on the same list ; Rear- Admiral of the Red Joseph Nies, C. 8., to be Vice- Admiral of the Blue ; Rear-Admiral of the White the Right Hon. Lord Clarence Edward Paget, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red; Rear-Admiral of the Blue George St. Vincent King, C. 8., to be Rear. Admiral of the White ; Capt. James Paterson Bower to be Rear-Admiral on the reserved list; Capt. Frederick Warden, C. 8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. Retired Rear-Admirals William Hamley and John Drake to be retired Vice-Ad mirals. By the promotion of Capt. F. Warden, C. 8., to flag rank, a good-service pension of £l5O per an num is placed at the disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Sebastian Gassiot to the Gibraltar; Lieut. Charles J. H. Bliss to the Pelorus ; Lieut. Atwell P. M. Lake to the Marl borough; Edward C. Du Bois Phillips, promoted to master ; and George Gleason, chief engineer, to the Liverpool. The undermentioned gentlemen were yesterday nominated to naval cadetships:—J. C. P. Vereker, George Toler, James C. Johnston, Reginand R. Neeld John S. Murray, Walton Drake, and J. W. W. Wells. THE ARMY. Instructions have been received at the head quarters of the Royal Engineer establishment, Chat ham, directing the non-commissioned officers and Sappers, selected from the depot companies at Brompton for service in New Zealand, to hold them selves in readiness to embark for their destination on the 25th inst. The detachment goes out to aug ment the 6th company, which has latterly become very much reduced in strength. Yesterday a numerous party of officers of Royal Engineers left headquarters,Chatham, to go through a course of ball practice at the newly-established Government rifle renge near Gravesend. Orders from the War-office have been transmitted to the various commanding-officers of Royal Artil lery throughout the several districts, in which the Secretary of State for War, in concurrence with the Lords of the Admiralty, directs that Pettman's fuzes be in future supplied for all 8-inch or larger nature of shells, and that the existing supply of Moorsom's shells be confined to 32-pounders and under, until used up. AMERICA. REUTER'S TELEGRA3f. (Per the City of London.) QUEENSTOWN, Sept 15. Tho Inman steamship City of London, from New York on the sth inst., arrived here at 1.30 p.m. She brings 281,400 dots. in specie, and 159 pas sengers. She proceeded for Liverpool at 1.40 p.m. NEW Your, Sept. 5, Morning. The siege of Charleston continues. The position of affairs has not materially changed. It is reported from Washington that the Ame rican consul at Frankfort hoisted the Mexican flag on his own responsibility. The panic in the stock market continues. Admiral Dahlgren is reported well. The confirmation has been received of Stuart's raid into Maryland. General Grant has left Vicksburg for New Orleans. Senator Jun Lane has made a speech at Leaven s worth,Kansas,of a most bloodthirsty character. He believed in a war of extermination of the frontier counties in Missouri. If that could not secure safety for Kansas people, all counties should then be exterminated until they were secure. The Governor of Kentucky's inaugural address takes up the ground that the Southern States by rebelling did not change their status. They can not be remitted to a territorial condition. All they have to do is to return to their fealty. He objects arming negroes. Kentucky desired to preserve the Union upon a constitutional basis. The Missouri Republican State Convention has denounced the military State organisation as pro- slavery. The Union ticket has been elected in Vermont and California. A mass meeting of conscripts has been held at Brooklyn, calling on the citizens to subscribe to the municipal loan to aid conscripts. It is estimated the conscripts will cost Government nearly 4,000 dols. per man. The steamer Warrior has been captured north of Sortugas. LATEST BY TELEGRAPH TO CAPE RACE. NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (Evening). Advices from Charleston are to the 3d inst. A general engagement occurred on the Ist between the iron-clads and Forts Sumter, Wagner, and Moultrie. The forts were much damaged. A renewed attack was to be made on Fort Sumter. _ _ _ The advance of Gen. Steele's army has driven the Confederates, 7,000 strong, across the Bayou Melorie bridge in Kansas, killing and wounding 100 and capturing 209. The Confederates burnt the bridge. According to information received at Washington from General Burnside, part of his cavalry had arrived at Knoxville; others were on the line of the East Tennessee and Virginia rail roads, north-west and south-west of Knoxville. --- LIVERPOOL, Sept. 15. The Canadian mail steamship North American has arrived, with advices from Quebec to the sth inst. The following is President Lincoln's letter : Executive Mansion, "Washington, Aug. 26. Hon. :lames C. Conkin. My dear Sir, Your letter inviting me to attend a mass meeting of unconditional Union men, to be held at the cqpital of Illinois on the 3d of September has been received. It would be very agreeable to me thus to meet my old friends at my own home, but I cannot just now be absent from this city so long as a visit there would require. The meeting is to be of all those who maintain uncondi tional devotion to the Union; and I am sure that my old political friends ►ill thank me for tendering, ac I do, the nation's gratitude to those other noble men whom no par tisan malice or partisan hope can make falie to the nation's life. There are those who are dissatisfied with me. To such I would say :—You desire peace, and you blame me that We do not have it; but how can we attain it? There aro but three conceivable ways. first, to suppress the rebellion by force of arms. This lam trying to do ; ar e you for it ? If you are, 0,1 far we are agreed. If you are not for it a second way is to give up the Union. I am against this; if you art you should say so plainly. If you are not for force, ncr yet for dissolution, there only remains some imaginable coin promise. Ido not believe t hat any compromise embracing ' the maintenance of the Union is now puesible. All that I learn leads to a directly opposite belief. The strength of the rebellion is in its artily. That army dominates all the country and all the people within its range. Any offer of terms made by any man or men within its range in opposition that army is South s imply nothing for the present, because such man or men have no powe r whatever to enforce their Lide of a compro mise, o l f i the n as e,if Supposeon one refugees were ina made with om them.the and peace ustrst mene '- To illustrate North get together in Convention and frame and m com p r omise embracing a restoration of the Union. p In what way can that compromise be used to keep General Lee's army out of rennsylvaula meraP ea e s army can keep —..4d. STAMPED ....sd. Lee's army out of Pennsylvania, and I think can ultimately drive it out of existence, but no paper c a o r m e p no o t mise to which if s rm o a rta y t such con a fp r r ee m a the at a c ff o / t t ro th ll a e t rs a o rm f G y. ene l r ri al a L n Lees i ca se n w a e t would waste time, which the enemy would improve to our disadvantage, and that would be all. A compromise to be effective must be made either with those who control the rebel army, or with the people first liberated from the domination of that army by the success of our army. Now, allow me to assure you that no word or intimation from the rebel army, or from any of the men con trolling it, in relation to any peace compromise, 'has ever come to my knowledge cr belief. All charges and intima tions to the contrary are deceptive and groundless, and I promise you that if any such proposition shallhereafter come it shall not be rejected and kept secret from you. I freely acknowledge myself to be the servant of the people, accord ing to the bond of service in the United States Constitution and that as such I am responsible to them. But, to be plain. Yea are dissatisfied with me about the negro. Quite likely there is a difference of opinion be tween you and myself on that subject. I certainly wish that all men could be free, while you, I suppose, do not. Yet I have neither adopted nor proposed any mea sure which is not consistent with even your view, pro vided that you are for the Union. I suggested compensated emancipation, to which you replied that you wished not to be tax( dto buy negroes. But I had not asked you to bo taxed to buy negroes, except in such a way as to save you from greater taxation to save the Union exclusively by other means. You dislike the Emancipation Proclamation, and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconsti tutional; I think differently. I think the Constitution in vests the Commander-in-Chief with law of war in time of war. The most that can be said, if so much, is that slaves are property. Is there, has there ever been, any question that by the law of war property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed ? and is it not needed whenever taking it helps us or hurts the enemy ? Armies, the world over, destroy enemies' property when they cannot use it, and even destroy their own to keep it from the enemy. Civilized belligerents do all in their power to help themselves or hurt the enemy, except a few things regarded as barbarous or cruel. Among the exceptions are the masacre of vanquished foes and non-combatants, male and female. But the proclamation as law is valid or is not valid; if it is not valid it needs no retraction; if it is valid it cannot be protracted any more than the dead can be brought to life. Some of you profess to think that its retraction would operate favourably for the Union. Why better after the retraction than before the issue? There was more than a year and a half trial to suppress the rebellion before the proclamation was issued, the last 100 days of which passed under an explicit notice that it was coming unless averted by those in revolt returning to their allegiance. The war has certainly progressed as favourably for us since the issue of the proclamation as before. I know, as fully as one can know the opinion of others, that some of the commanders of our armies in the field who have won us our most important victories, believe the emancipation policy and the aid of the coloured troops, constitute the heaviest blows yet dealt to the rebellion, and that at least one of those important suc cesses could not have been achieved when it was but for the aid of black soldiers. Among the commanders holding these views are some who have never had any affinity with what is called aboli tionism, or with Republican party politics, but who hold them purely as military opinions. I submit their opinions as being entitled to some weight against the objections often urged, that emancipation and arming the blacks are un wise as military measures, and were not adopted as such in good faith. You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem to be willing to fight for you ; but no matter, fight you, then, exclusively to save the Union. I issued the pro clamation on purpose to aid you in saving the Union. When ever you shall have conquered all resistance to the Union,'if I shall urge you to continue fighting, it will be an apt time then for you to declare that you will not fight to free negroes. I thought that in your struggle for the Union, to whatever extent the negroes should cease helping the enemy, to that extent it weakened the enemy in resistance to you. Do you think differently ? I thought that whatever-negroes can be got to do as soldiers leaves just so much less for white sol diers to do in saving the Union. Does it appear otherwise to you ? But negroes. like other people, act upon motives ; why should they do anything for us if we do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom, and the promise being made, must be kept. The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea, thanks to the great north-west for it. Nor yet wholly to them ; 300 miles up they met New England, Empire, Keystone and Jersey hewing their way right and lel t. The sunny South, too, in more colours than one, also lent a hend. On the spot their part of the history was jotted down in black and white. The job was a great national one, and let none be banned who bore an honour able part in lit: And while those who have cleared the great river may well be proud, even that is not all. It is hard to say that anything has been more bravely and better done than at Antietam, Murfreesboro', Gettysburg, and on many fields of less note. Nor must Uncle Sam's web feet be forgotten, At all the waters' margins they have been present, not only in the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow , muddy bayou, and w here v er the ground was a little damp, they have been and made their tracks. Thanks to all for the Great Republic, for the principle by which it lives and keeps alive for man's vast future. Thanks to all. Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time. It will then have been proved that among freemen there can be no suc cessful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such an appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost. And then there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue and clenched teeth, and steady eyes and well-poised bayonet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation; while I fear there will be some white men unable to forget that, with malig nant heart and deceitful speech, they have striven to hinder it. Still, let us not be over sanguine of a speedy, final triumph. Let us be quite sober. Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God in his own good time will give us the rightful result. Yours very truly, A. Li.xconrr The following is General Gilmore's reply to Gen. Beauregard's communication, which has already been printed at length S.C. H ea dquarters in the Field, Mor ris Island, , 9 p.m., Aug. 22. Sir,--I have the honour to acknowledge©. the receipt of nag a r t l h e s a t t o n o a e n o d f y m o y ur ba c t o t m er m ie r h i a c ci atio o n pe o n f ed th o is n d a th te e , c c ° lt n ; thrown a number of hea v y ritlo s hells into the city, the inha bitants of which of course wer e asleep and unarmed. My leiter to yo u demanding the surrender of Fort Sum• ter and Morris Island, and threatening in default thereof to open fire eonarl time etml,m‘ri regarded rsg s ot aaom d rs e dhs l yiea i g v dovnu e ee r ardp e s d —e ahr nnu headquarters iz a dt r .:c l: 4d ahoyrroottueuArrrVss unfortunate .a a o m t e r , at 11 15 a.m • the 21st . . instant, and should have arrived Theth answer o tf t a iu o t me y t reacheotohufra re n o t n d ur wiii:tehaii artery the s tays tn e bn l cir cumstances for the city of Charleston, but it is ono for which I clearly am not responsible. This letter bore date at raY headquarters, and was officially delivered by an officer of my staff. The omission of my signature doubtless affords grounds for special pleading, but it is not the argument of a cowman der solicitous only far the safety of s lee p ing children and unarmed men, women and Threats of retaliation for acts of mine which you do not allege to be in violation of the usages of c ivilised. warfare, except as regards the length of time allowed as notice of my intention, arc passed by without comment. I will, howc;rer, call your attention to the well-established principle that the commander of the place attacked, but not invested, having its avenue of escape open and practicable, has no right to a notice of intention of bombardment other than that which is given by the threatening attitude of his adversary. Even had not this letter been written, the city of Charleston has had, according to your own computation, 40 days' notic e of her dan g er . Durin g that time my attack on her defences has steadily progressed. The ultimate ob ject of that attack has at no time been doubtful. If, under the circumstances, the life of a single non-com batant is exposed to peril under the bombardment of the city, the responsibility rests with those who have first failed to remove the non-combatants, or to secure the safety of the city after having held control of all its approaches for a period of nearly two years and a half in the presence of a throatening, force, and who afterwards refused to accept the terms on which the bombardment might ilave been post- pene,d. F.-om variens sonrcPs, official and unnflirdal, I em led to believe that most of the women and children of Charleston were long sines remoTed from that city, but on your assur ance that the city is still full of them, I shall suspend thw bombardment until 11p.m. tomorrow, thus giving you two days from the time you acknowledge to have received my communication of the 21st. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Q. A. GILMORE, Brigadier-General Commanding. To General P. T. Beauregard, Commanding Confederate Forces, Charleston, S.C. It appears that the Spanish and British Consuls reepectluily aildre:ised General Gilmore on behalf of the subjects of their countries in Charleston, and he cheerfully mpea OA the bonabi;rdrnent, for 24 hour Intelligence received here 24th July, states that the Japanese had fired into the British ship Medusia, and the American ship Pemberton, between Ningaradi and Kanagawa —killing several. The American steamer Wyoming and the British steamer Lavendale proceeded to the scene of the outrage, destroyed the town forts, and spiked the guns. The British lost 3 men, and the Americans 5. 2,000 Japanese were reported to have deserted towards British vessels, but it was thought they would not pass within range of the British guns. CITY COMMISSION OP SEWERS. lesterday afternoon the —w— mcznbers of this commission met at Guildhall fo r th e p e r e e r s k e , n i t t Nv e a e d r ,e Lott, Alderm a n jn e dale, Deputies of business. The chairman, Deputy de Jersey, presi d ed,Elliott, y n Do d tetp a , u m nt o iae n tsh g bu t o h nn e ew c ti o nL m ,o u rt i e s : sie : r n aen e s r frd s , ntwecoessi:ry anato7 works at p y & cr e w s . ons, owners of pro- A Israel,nn is ; J .B . l \ e \ s r s a r t s c . ri G e \ . v l , lr j a . l Walter, Sanders, . ou g, Stillwell, Houghton. n h t a h v e i ncourse carriedo f o the t certain t t i a n in g perty in the poorer parts of the City, were summoned for not l houses belonging to them, in accordance with s notices t which had been served upon the m b y Mr. Parso ns' he inspector. This o fficer reported to-day that it was necessary sanatory the works should be c arried out, and therefore the Crt or dered that the works sh ould be com p leted within seevuen days; and it was further decided that, if at the expiration of that time the works were not done, the contractor to the Commission should be called in to carry out the order, and that the defendants should be charged with the attendant expenses. DISEASED MEAT. Mr. Baylis, solicitor to the Commission, reported that ha had taken proceedings on behalf of the Commission against; a meat salesman of Leadenhall-market, named Thompson (and who had refused to give to the inspector the name of the consignor), for having in his custody the carcass of a sheep unfit for human food. The defendant admitted that the meat was in a very bad state, and urged that it was brought up without his knowledge. Sir R. W. Carden, the alderman before whom thesummonswasheard, thought the case was proved, but mitigated the penalty to 20s. and costs. The solicitor further reported that on the 29th August last he attended before Sir R. W. Carden, at the Mansion house, and procured the condemnation of the hind quarters of a cow as unfit for human food, which had been seized by the inspector at the shop of a butcher in Aldgate High street. The meat was in such a highly inflamed state that he caused inquiries to be made into the circumstances under which it was sent up to London, and he now recommended that further proceedings should be taken in respect of it. Another report was brought up respecting the condemna tion of two sides of a calf which had been seized by the in spector as being unfit for human food. The meat when seized was in a very inflamed and diseased state, and the whole of it had been rubbed both inside and out with fat to hide the appearance cf disease. It was decided in these two last cases that further pro ceedings should be taken against the parties who had sent the meat to the London market, and with this viow the re ports were referred back to the solicitor. SANATORY CONDITION OF TIIE CITY. Dr. LETHEDY presented the following report on the sana tory condition of the City : "Gentlemen,—The inspector's returns which are before you relate to 224 houses that have been visited during the r w u rn e v k tTe , formh a e n nmh d t u. markets human k s la u entt b , sl mfsoaoiont food. It a s submitl u s t t gc aho ofn ter-houses listis 470 e of place s p 0 lfaplacesese hss sheep, ev o e e r eq sanatorypub: er4eirequiring sc duly further vlye im provement. -2 proceedings, but not yet complied with. in spected, and the officers have condemned 7661b5. of meat as pigs, and 55 joints of meat; 4341b5. were diseased, and 2081bs. were from animals that had died from natural causes. "The mortality returns for the week are slightly in excess of the average for the season. 50 deaths were registered, and of these 22 were among children of less than five years of age, and 8 were among persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were as follows :—Phthisis, 7 ; mesenteric disease, 5 ; pneumonia, 3 ; bronchitis, 3 ; con tinued fever, 2; scarlet fever, 3; small-pox, 1; whooping cough, 1; and diarrhoea, 5; making together 12 deaths from tubercular diseases, 16 from inflammatory affections of the lungs, and 11 from diseases of a zymotic character. 48 births were registered in the week, namely, 25 boys and 23 girls. " I remain, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, (Signed) " HENRY LETHEBY." " Guildhall, Sept. 15, 1863." QUARTERLY REPORT ON Tur. Gits SUPPLY. Dr. LETHEBY presented to the Court the following report: "To the Honourable Commissioners of Sewers of the City of London. " Gentlemen,-1 have the honour to submit the quarterly report of the illuminating power and chemical quality of the gas supplied to the City of London by the Great Central, the Chartered, and the City of London Companies. " The examinations of the gas have been made at the la. boratory in J awry-street in accordance with the instructions of the act of Parliament. Altogether there have been 735 experiments on the illuminating power of the gas, and the results have been as follows : ‘ 6 ILLUMINATING POWER IN SPER)I CANDLES OF STANDARD QUALITY. Maximum. Minimum. Average. Great Central Company 16.05 .. 12.14 .. 14.15 Chartered Company.... 14.65 .. 10.79 .. 13.03 City of London Company 16.26 .. 8.50 .. 13.78 "From this it will be seen that the illuminating power of the gas of each company has been generally good. On one or two occasions the power of the City Company's gas was very low, but this arose from the unavoidable access of at mospheric air to the pipes during the operation of relaying the mains of the neighbourhood. " The chemical quality of the gas has not, however,:bees so satisfactory, for in a large majority of cases the amount of sulphur present in the gas of each of the companies was largely in excess of the quantity authorised by Parliament. This will be evident from the following table : " AMOUNT OF SULPHUR PRESENT IN 100 CUBIC FEET OV GAs. Maximum. Minimum. Average, Great Central Company .2 28 .. 12,9 18.8 Ch ar t ere d Company 28.9 .. 16.9 .. 23.1 City of London Company 30.9 . • 1 71 .. 3.4 ' "In 26 examination s of the Great Central gos 13 were above the Parliamentary proportion; in 29 of the Chartered G l e s n , tl l e s m 63 en .,, , your obedient servant, YO 11(:13:10yiaaGg,ilnniasked reply, said that unless the proportion a2bsowveeriet.above it; and in 27 of the City Company 23 were " The average pressure of the gas has in each case bees good, for it has always exceeded one inch of water. Sept. ed) "11Y. LETHEBY. the medical officer if the presence gas is injurious to health? obfel‘‘De'larGrm Mr , C. sulphurl.s so large as to be positively offensive and hurtful to the breathing, he did not know that it was seriously injuri ous to health, but the products of the combustionof sulphur are so destructive to textile fabrics , that Parliament had decided that the amount of sulphur should not exceed 20 grains in 100 cubic feet of gas su pp lied to the City. (Hear.) Dr, LETHEBY said he had received a letter from Mr. Gray, the chairman of the City Gas Company, respecting the super ply of gas to the public lamps by that company. That gentleman expressed regret that the supply h a d no t been in accor dance with the provision of the act of Parliament, in sulphur in consequencep r se u in of theth the s g o as fa a r n a d s r elated t t h o a thet thispr h o p a o d r t a i o r n i s e o n f coalas notwhich being h d o b f e s e u n c h ein a p l g o o y o e a d q i u n a l t i h an t y e amsa anticipated. of the ge added that a fresh supply of coal had been obtained, and expressed a hope that the quality of the gas would now be found to be satisfactory. He (Dr. Letheby) found by ex aminations he had made during the last week, that the gag supplied by the City Company had been of much better quality, fur out of the six testings made he found that in lour of them the supply had been strictly in accordance with the a^t of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) After transacting some further business, the meeting wal adjourned. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choico at 3s. 4d. and 4s. "High Standard" at 45.4 d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. THE PROBATE, AND DIVORCE COI:MTS.—Sir James Plaisted Wilde,the new Judge of the Probate Court, will not sit to hear motions, or take his seat on the bench, until after the commencement of Michaelmas Term on the 2d of November next. Ile will take his seat on the 3d. In the u.eantime the registrars will sit at the 13 , 14i= - try-office, Doctors' Commons, on the days already ap pointed during tho vacation, to hear summonses and mo tions in non-contentious cases. 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