The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-20 00:00:00

ROUNDELL PALMER, Q.C. and M.P.— La Vie de Cesar par L. Napoleon--Fashionable Intelli Bence —in FUN this week. One Penny. NEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELP HI.- Sole Proprietor snd Manac•cr. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER. after which, at Eight o'clock, a new drama, entitled THE TJNTED MAN ; T .E GHOST'S 13ARGAIN, in Which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptation of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. Phi:lips, efton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. Followed by a new Burlesque, entitled ILL-TREATED IL TROVATORI4I Mcssrs. Toole, P. Bedford, R. Phillips, Ebnrne, C. J. Smith, Romer ; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and bars, and Miss K. Kel Commence at 7. "ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, IBIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr. Leigh Murray. Followed by (28th time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough , P. Josephs, Maria m pson , Wallace, and .Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM our. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. MUM THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' Containing - the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, min be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tyin DAY.—Morning, bh. 20m.—Afternoon, sh. 40m. To. •moßnow.-Morning, sh. 59m.—Afternoon, 6ti. 19m. - - The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 20, 1863. THERMOMETER. This raorninte This day at Two o'clock .. Cs Barometer-29.15. Wind—N.-Westerly ; moderate, and cloudy. 4c-b, at t SUIT LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1863, The Montgomeryshire election will take many by surprise. The electric telegraph this morning brings the final close of the poll, leaving Mr. TRACY with a majority of 109, and this in spite of the time-honoured influence and associations of the great Conservative families of Montgomery. There will be rejoicing, and not without reason, in the Liberal camp ; while among the ranks of the Op . position the prominent feeling, we doubt not, will be one general sentiment of unmitigated sur p,-ise. So many recent elections had prospered with them, that, after the successful issue at Ponte fract the other day, they were beginning to feel tolerably secure at the polling-booths, and to con sider a contested election, especially in certain dis tricts, merely as a matter of form—a necessary con cession to the exigencies of party. They begin to find now that they are reckoning without their host. Many unexpected triumphs have, it is true, during these latter months fallen to the share of the Con- servatives, occasioned, in some instances, by a very culpable neglect on the part of their opponents, and occasioned very considerably also by a general disappointment among Liberal elec tors at the non fulfilment of their pledges and promises on the part of Liberal Representatives and Liberal Governments. Great as these defalca tions have been and well-deserving of some natural retribution, the Liberals of the United Kingdom, disappointed and disheartened though they may be, are not disposed to play entirely into the enemy's hands. There is still enough vitality left in the Liberal cause—enough to scatter dismay among the opposite ranks, if only a fitting occasion presents itself. As an evidence of this vitality, an evidence perceptible and tangible to all, witness this unmistakeable triumph at Montgomery ! Here in an old Tory stronghold, upheld by aristocratic influences and political associations of long standing, in the very midst of the enemy's camp, yet a Liberal has there won the day, and by a large majority ! Take heart, then, disappointed electors of Pontefract, and moderate your jubilations, antagonists of reform! The men of Montgomery have read you all a lesson. They have set an example to their fellow-Liberals of England, one that will not be without its effect in coming days. The names of TRACY and Mont gomery will be worth a hundred votes at every new and impending election. And while Liberal electors are heartened on by this example, by this new proof of the vigour and animas of Liberalism, the chiefs of that party, the popular representatives of that party, men chosen by Liberal electors to carry out, and not merely to cavil about, Liberal principles and Reform, should take the encouraging 'example to heart individually. Let them ask them selves, until how long the, popular patience will tamely suffer itself to be abused, as it has been during these recent years, by the so-called cham pions and advocates of popular privileges. Let them be warned in time. The same determined spirit, not dead but dormant, that has yesterday placed a Liberal in the place of a Conservative, at Montgomery, will, to-morrow, if need be, place some real Reformers and true Friends of the People in the place of some of those Time-servers who now bear and desecrate their name. It is difficult for the casual observer to realise the amount of work that must be done before the ap pliances of civilisation are fully brought to bear on a wild uncultivated land; and before those dis coveries and improvements which modern skill and Ecienco have made common among us are practically applied in a rude and untried country. We look around us and see an ample supply of water com munication, a perfect network of railroads, and have at our fingers' ends maps, charts, and directories for any and every spot in the United Kingdom. Pro fiting by these advantages, we are apt to forget the slow and tedious steps by which they were gained, and many readers will probably be startled when they h ear of a survey going on for sixty years, and still incom plete I Yet, when we remember the vast extent of British India, and the numerous obstacles and dang ers in the way of the surveyors, as well as the cautious and dilatory fashion in which every official undertakin g is carried on, we shall not, perhaps, be v ery mush surprised at the result. The task of surveyl demands men of s kill, science, and energy, Nona but E uropeans can b e suffered to take charge of such an expedition, and they have to encounter the tribes, the extremes of temperature, of hostile e, the difficulties of traversing the country, and countless other impediments. No less than three su rveys are be ing carried on simultaneously--the Trigonom etrical, rigonome trical, the Revenue , a n d the Topographic a l — at a total expenditure of nearly £170,00 0 per annum The Trigonometrical Survey, which is the chief undertal;.ing, has been in action since the co mmence. ment of the century. It began at Cape Comorin, and thence proceeded up the Himalayas, the alti tudes of which offered not the least formidable of the obstacles to the task. Captain MONTGOMERIE and his party succeeded, two years since, i n satisfactorily completing the Topographical survey of more than 12,000 square miles, a great part of which was on the mountain tops. In some parts the stations were 17,000 ft. high, and the highest altitude ever gained as a point for observations was reached, when on one occasion they were made at a height of 20,000 ft. In these lofty ranges, the largest glaciers yet found south of the Arctic Seas were met. We hear of one glacier measuring 36 miles, and a junction of two forming a mass of ice 64 miles in length. The wonderful art of thf photographer was called on to picture these mar vels of nature, and amid the alma and itiiinees of those untrodden heights the magic glasses were set to work, and the icy monsters were reproduced to a stonish the eyes of the lower world. The part of the Trigonometrical Survey yet remaining to be done is t!ae country round Vizagapatam, the Central Provin ces, Berar, British Burmah, and part of the coast. The Revenue Survey is being pressed forward with more vigour, owing to the increased interest which is now taken in Indian affairs, and the demand for ' waste lands which has lately arisen, owing to the improved prospects of the tea and cotton trade. It is, however, disappointing to find that only two of the numerous surveying parties are working in re ference to waste lands, such as are wanted for tea plantations, &e. At this rate, and with Sir CHARLES WOOD'S strict regulations on the matter, it will be long, indeed, before merchants and capi talists get what they want. The task is not a light on; and considering its vast importance, the auth rities would do well to encovage a larger experedi ture, if by its mean 3 they could expedite its, pro gress. The surveyors are said to be underr,aid, and if so, this is a great mistake, since if European labour be necessary for the organising and taking charge of an exploring party, it must be paid for at a rate proportioned to its value. If really capable men are required, they will always be worth paying for, and this is sTirely a case in which eco nomy is altogether a fetid saving. The valuelonf the information collected is often very great. last three seasons upwards of 65,000 square mi t le e s have been accomplished, the survey showing general features of the country, the territorial sub-division, and, in some instances, giving the fac similes of the villages. It is conjectured that the Trigonometrical Survey has accom plished about half its business, and the others about one-third of theirs. The Indian Surveyor-General has now a lithographic establish ment which in three seasons has issued 199 maps from the work of the survey, besides plans of vil lages and statistical information. The visitors to our Exhibition have already seen some specimens of Aoglo-Indian industry in the lithographic atlas which received a prize medal. The mass of informa tion collected by these various parties will probably be of immense service, and we shall be glad to see a greater stimulus given to the undertaking, espe cially so far as regards the survey of the waste lands on the hill slopes. Matters are improving so much in India that we may hope for a little more rapid progress than could have been looked for a few years ago. The accounts brought by the last mail of the expenditure upon branch roads is most en couraging. The want of proper means of transit and communication is greatly felt to be a serious drawback to the development of trade. When these cotton roads, as they are termed, are terminated, the whole aspect of affairs will be changed. In the last two years, we are told, half-a-million ger- Hug has been spent on cotton roads, and the present year will show the same rate of expense. A few years of such an outlay will alter the whole face of India, and will render the grand system of railways now developing a practical benefit to the whole population. Since the days of the Romans the im portance of road-making has been recognised by all civilised nations, and we cannot more effectually assist India in her onward progress than by im proving and extending her means of internal com munication. President DAVIS'S address, recently issued, appears to be spirited and yet moderate in its tone. He says that the enemy continue a struggle in which " our final triumph" must be inevitable. This has long been the opinion of many lookers-on of the struggle, but circumstances have lately damped the hopes and darkened the expectations of those who fancied that the end of that struggle was near. President DAVIS does not deny the adverse aspect of affairs at present, but confidently declares his conviction of a speedy adjustment of their difficulties, and, a happy termination to their long and arduous endeavours. -" The enemy," he observes, " elated with recent success, imagine that temporary reverses can quell your spirit or shake your determination. In pursuance of this idea, im mense masses are being collected, and thus success is sought for by desperate plans." President DAVIS eloquently expatiates on the full meaning of that term. The enemy's meaning, he declares, is nothing less " than the extermination of yourselves, your wives, and children—to destroy what he cannot plunder, to parcel out our homes as the spoils of victory, to incite servile insurrection." This is certainly a sad picture to sketch of a war carried on by civilised nations, but experience has proved that it is only too true in its delineation, and that, dark as the description may be, the reality might be even far worse. In truth, it would be difficult to say to what lengths a Federal army might not go if they were excited by triumph, and desperate, to prove that they had the power to act as they pleased. In another passage further on, President DAVIS alludes to the disingenuousness of the con duct pursued by the Federals in their declining to enter upon any terms, or even to consider the pro priety of so doing. " Conscious of their inability to prevail by legitimate means, and not daring to make peace lest they should be hurled from power, the men now ruling in Washington refuse even to confer on the subject of ending outrages disgracing the age, or listen to any suggestion for conducting th e war according to civilised usages" That such a stat ement should be made, and such . a charge preferred against a State calling itself civil ised is a great disgrace, and as such it will be con sidered by all excepting themselves. The actions that will not boar inspection, the policy that. can not bear the light of day, and the men who refuse to act according to the recognised rules of honour among combatants, are unworthy of belonging to a people that once was so distinguished for great it The fact is that the FederalGoviteernwmaernm po Governm ent i g s u f a a l e t is. losing e its hold, and the good opinion of th ose whoup werert ers. onceMistakes its firm cer adherents,and in the rul e and m ayou s management of a State, and misrepresentations be made to a very considerable extent, but yet both sides may "agree to differ," as it were, and carry on their contention in an honourable style ; but the war in America has been characterised from the outset by a series of deliberate and desperate out• rages on the part of the Federals. It is, therefore, not the language of exaggeration that the President of the Southern States adopts when he stigma tises the ruling spirit of their opponents, and denounces the whole teuour of their actions as unworthy of a civilised race. Often in these ad dresses and proclamations it is necessary to make allowances for the excitement un d er w hi c h t h e orator and to take for granted that at least half of the matter set before us is composed for a purpose but in this instance it is not so. President DAVIS is borne out by facts in all he says, hints at, and infers. He concludes by nece ssity of se lf- reliance and sted strongly impressing upon his hearers th e fastness. "No alternative is left you but victory utter ruin o f your or subjugation, a n d the selves, your families, and your country. Vic tory is within your grasp ; you need b ut stretch forth your hands to seize it." It would h a ve been difficult to find words at once so atirring and so imprvsive. J-i shqwa the danger to be horts them to use the on l y means of avoided, an d ex averting s downfall trona wlaiela time) will be no TIM SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1863, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) MEXICO. MADRID, AUG. 20. Intelligence received here from the city of Mexico to the 12th July states that Cobos and Benavides have agreed with Suarez to demand, in common of the Powers, that the French intervention should be limited to the application of the Treaty of London. CHINA AND JAPAN, ATTACK ON NANKIN BY THE IMPERIALISTS, EXPULSION OF FOREIGNERS FROM JAPAN. (By Telegraph from Suez.) SHANGHAE, JULY 4. The city is quiet. The Imperialists have attacked Nankin, and captured the outworks. Intelligence received from Japan announces that the Japanese have paid the indemnity. The Mikado had issued orders to expel foreigners and to close the recovery. No one can say that he has been misled by illusory hopes, or deceived by false promises, when he leads the statement of JEFFERSON DAVIS. The truth in its stern reality is laid before him—in the vista of the fuiure, he may see the shadowy forms of evil and desolation that are to come upon him unless timely measures be taken to prevent the catastrophe. At the same time there is no despon dency in the tone of the address, and no despair observable in the language of the speaker. He wants the assistance of brave men to face the peril, and with this assistance there is no talk of anything but victory full and complete. In order that all maiv immediately return to military duty the PRE SIDENT grants a pardon and amnesty to all who have b .en absent without leave twenty days. This is a very wise precaution, and may doubtless prove of essential service to the cause he so strenuously endeavours to support. On the whole, the address of the Confederate PRESIDENT is one well worthy of attention, and will find favour in the sight of those who have already appreciated the sterling qualities and grasp of mind which have caused many to de clare that JEFFERSON DAVIS had made the South a nation. It was a difficult task to execute, and especially at this particular juncture, to issue an address at all. Various unforeseen events and some adverse combinations have made the prospects of the Confederates appear overcast, but the energetic mind is never too much daunted to face any con• tingency. In his address to the army President DAVIS has shown that he does not lack confidence in the final issue of the controversy, if they have only strength and spirit to carry on as they have begun, and think nothing gained while aught re mains to conquer. LONDON, WITH ITS TELEGRAPHIC WlRES—trailed from housetop to housetop—is really beginning to look, for all the world, as though some Spider of Brobdignag had been spinning about the Streets of Lilliput 1 Among the foreigners of distinction invited by the Emperor to be present at the mauccuvr?s of the Camp of Chalons, besides Marshal O'Donnell, are the Duke de Tetuan, and Prince Hohenzollern de Sigmarin gen. The Prince is accompanied by •Baron de Loe, aide de-camp to the King of Prussia, Colonel Rauch, Lieut.- Col. de Wedell, and Captain Barries, also belonging to his Majesty's staff. THE MODEL EUPHELTIST.—Ia the stilted and euphuistic style which characterizes the writers of the Arcadian age of Elizabeth and the first Stuarts, scarcely any higher proficiency was attained, says a recent critic, than by tha accomplished and courtly author of "Religiu Medici." Of those high-flown artifices of language, stately or trivial, which formed the indispensable index to a polite and scholarly training—which aro seen in their full poetical flow in Spenser, in their dignified ease in the sinewy grace of Bacon, and in their more delicate fancy in the rythnuical prose of Jeremy Taylor—hardly a greater or more varied assortment can well be collected from the pages of any contemporary writer. THE PROPERTY AND TITLE OF THE LATE SIR FREDERICK SLA DE.—Legal proceedings, involving circumstances of a most romantic charaeter, are likely t o arise out of a claim made by the brother of the late Sir Frederick made to the title and estate of the deceased baronet. It is alleged that when Sir Frederick married Lady Slade the latter was then the wife of an Austrian gentle man, who died in 1857, and not only so but that when the Austrian alliance was formed there was a previous marriage. We believe it is a fact that Sir Frederick, for obvious reasons, repeated the marriage ceremony as often as children were born to him. The defence will turn, we are told, upon the legality of the second marriage, which is held to be no marriage if the first husband was then living—it being contended that the third cne, if contracted after the first husband died, is thereby a strictly legal and binding engagement. The case will probably come on for trial at an early date, and Lady Slade, of course, will be the most prominent and important witness. Eminent counsel are already engaged for the occasion.—Western Daily Press. NIANFIATTAN HANKERING AFTER A CARDINAL'S inHAT hs t FOR as sA communication,MEßlC A !—h been en p sp o r t ea l d i, i o n m g e, himselflae writes up American affairs, in a letter to Archbishop Hughes. The letter is all very well in its way, but it would have been better, and would have given more pleasure both to the archbishop and the American Catholic Church, if he had added in a postscript, " Wherefore Venerable Cardinal, we send you with this Apostolic benediction, a new hat of the latest fashion, furnished by our regular hat maker, which we beg you will accept." Our venerable archbishop would have been pleased. ieo would everybody else. As our late consul at Rome says, " The only English paper the Pope reads is the London Herakl, and enjoys at his solitary breakfast the Manhattan letters." I hope he will read this hint about the cardinal's hat for Archbishop Hughes, and adopt the kind and Catholic suggestion. The Pope's letter was written in Latin, and dated Oct. 18, 1862. It has been nearly a year on its route, having gone first to John Marcy, Archbishop of New Orleans, who is scattered about the Southern Confederacy. GROWTH OF WESLEYANIS3I.—The Wesleyans combine, in a far greater degree than any other Non-conformist body, practical business-like qualities with religious zeal. It is entirely within the compass of a man's life that they have risen from the very smallest beginning to a society of vast dimensions. Many of their members now alive remember the time when Wesleyans were very few, much scattered, and almost exclusively in straitened circumstances. Now they are all over the world, and their wealth is such that they can afford to spend £134,887 in one year alone, in the erection of new chapels and the repair of old ones. When it was proposed the other day to celebrate a jubilee in this present year, a member gave £2,000 at once towards the fund, and several others £250 each. That much of this success is due to the excellent management of their affairs, and to the constancy of their aim and study to push on, very few Wesleyans will deny. They are ruled upon the principles similar to those which produce success in commercial undertakings. They are always pushing out their arms to take a wider grasp of the world—they seldom loose their hold when they have secured it; they strive tc pay their way, and endeavour to keep up good discipline among their members. If they are not always successful in this last object, the failure is probably owing rather to intrinsic defects in their system than to any want of energy or conscientiousness in its administration. A MANCHESTER BATCH OF MARRIAGES.—Mr, N. Hawthorne, in a paper in the Atlantic Monthly, on " Outside Glimpses of English Poverty," gives the fol lowing picture :—" I was once present at the wedding of some poor English people, and was deeply impressed by the spectacle, though by no means with such proud and de lightful emotions as seem to have affected all England on the recent occasion of the marriage of its Prince. It was in the cathedral at Manchester, a particularly black and grim old structure, into which I stepped to examine some ancient and curious wood carvings within the choir. 'lire woman in attendance greeted me with a smile (which always glimmers forth on a feminine visage, I know no c why, when a wedding is in question), and asked me to take a seat in the nave till some poor parties were married, it being the Easter holidays, and a good time for them to marry, because no fees would be demanded by the clergyman, sat down accordingly, and soon the parson and - his clerk appeared at the altar, and a considerable crowd of people made their entrance at the side door and ranged themselves in a long huddled line across the chancel. They were my acquaintance of the poor street, or persons in a precisely similar condition of lite, and were now come to the marriage ceremony in just such garbs as I had always seen them wear, the men in the loafers' coats, out at elbows, or their labourers' jackets, dotaced with grimy toil; the women drawing their shabby shawls tighter about their shoulders,to hide the rag gedness beneath; all of them unbrushed, unshaven, un washed, uncombed, and wrinkled with penury and care; no , thingvirgin-hke inthe brides, nor hopeful or energetic in the bridegrooms; they were, in short, the mere rags and tatters of the human race, whom so me east w i n d o f ev il omen, howl ui angfraalgornagn cthheeap. streets,aoahndandall of chanced tohe swee conscious p toge together ofhis o her in an r her individual misery, had blundered into the strange mis • calculation of supposing that they could lessen the sum of it by multiplying it into the misery of another per son. All the couples (and it was difficult in such a confused crowd to compute exactly their number), stood up at once, and had execution done upon them in the lump the clergyman addressing only small parts of the service to each individual pair, but so managing the larger portion as to include the whole company without the trouble of repeti. tion. By this compendious contri vance, one would appre hend, he cone dangerously near making every man and woman the husband or wife of every other; nor, p er h aps, would he have perpetrated much abdditidenatl mischief by th e mistake; but, after re e c s e i i n ving a their own fashi l o o n a , lens tchTmonoln,y they assorted themseiv the garrets, Or the cellars,yor the unsheltered street-corners, where their honeymoon and sub knew how, and departed to sequent lives were to be spent. The parson smiled decor ously, the clerk and sexton grinned broadly, the femals at tendant tittered almost aloud, and even the married parties seemed to see something exceedingly funny in the affair; but for my part, though generally apt enough to be tickled by a joke, I laid it away in my memory as one of the saddest sights I ever looked at. The Lord Mayor of Dublin has forwarded a re quest unanimously adopted by the Corporation to the Lords of the Admiralty for the Channel fleet to visit Dublin Bay, where there is ample water and safety, as stated in The Sun afew days ago. The Admir a l h as wr itt en t o th e Lord Fro- Vest of Glasgow that the fleet would be ih the Clyde Ile4 l week, ports, The loss of property caused by the earthquake a' Manilla amounts to forty million dollars. MARSEILLES, AUG. 20, The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluse left this port yesterday with mails for India and China, 36 passengers, 451 packages of merchandise and specie, value £136,032. CONGRESS AT MALINES. (no m OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) MeLiras, Wednesday, Aug. 19. You called the attention of your readers, ou the 20th ult., to the kind of Social Science Congress which the religious world of Belgium, essentially a Catholic country, intended to hold in this its old ecclesiastical metropolis, and to which were invited foreigners connected with any of the religious works to whose social influence the attention of the in tended gathering was to be directed. The invita tion of the committee of the society, or " Assemblee des Catholiques Beiges," has been responded to in a most extended way ; and yesterday, at half-past ten, we witnessed a gathering of representatives of all nations in the fine old Cathedral of St. Rombauf, to the number of something like three thousand, to assist at the grand high mass, which was the open ing ceremony of the meeting. His Eminence Car dinal Wiseman was the observed of all observers, as he sat in the sanctuary next to the offi ciating Cardinal Archbishop of Malines, and held the first place in a long line of prelates, beginning by the Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Jerusalem, and ending with Mgr. Geoghegan, Bishop of Adelaide, in Australia. Between these two extreme points were seen various Bishops from Germany, Belgium, Holland, and England, the latter being represented by Dr. Cornthwaite, Bishop of Beverley. Several French bishops had expressed their intention to be present, but it seems that their temporal Sovereign objected to their going, on the p r i nc i pa l o f di sco untenancing all ten dency to re li g i ous independence from S tate nurs i ng , and that he had intimated to some of them that the borders of Belgium were like a prison the threshold of which may be crossed on entering but not on in tending toreturn. France, however, was nobly re presented, in this assembly of children of that Church of whi ch she is the el d es t d au ght er , by h er best know n wr i ters, priests, an d zea lous l a y men, among wh om might be observed t he President- General of th at world-w i de c h a ritable organiza tion, the S oc i ety of St. Vi ncen t de P au l, M. Adolphe B au d on, who st ill continues to direct it in all other countries but France, where the jealousy of Imperial power bas forbidden the society to have any sort of central direction. At half-past 11 o ' cloc k t h e g entlemen who had gathered in th e C athedral marc h e d —preceded by the cardinals, bishops, and prelates—to the Petit Semi narie, or ecclesiastical college of the diocese, which is situated at about 10 minutes' walk from the cathedral, and th ey soon f i lled the immense hall used ordinarily f or t h e a nnual public exhibitions of the college pupil s . The upper end of the hall was ornamented with a red v elve t canopy , or throne dais, under which was placed the crucified figure of the Divine Teacher of Mankind. Above it, against the wall, might be discerned the portrait of his Holi ness, the present Pope, surrounded by a trophy of flags of all nations. Other trophies of Belgian flags, with all the rich effect of black, gold, and red, decorated the hall, a n d in the midst of the most prominent was displayed the portrait of the King with the mottoes of " Union" and " Petrie," The chair on the raised plat form at the upper end of the hail, was at first occupied by his eminence the Cardinal Arch bishop of Mechlin, who opened the proceedings with a most appropriate address, recalling to those present the Christian precept of union and brotherly feeling enjoined by the Saviour, and which he had promised to reward by being specially in the midst of those who assembled in his name. He spoke of their meeting to confer on works of faith and of charity, and on the duty of laymen to the Church to support and defend her as children do for a mother, a duty which they could but imperfectly fulfil if isolated from each other. He invoked for them the spirit of courage and wisdom, and mom mended them to aim at practical conclusions in their endeavours to render service to the Church. He recommended also the greatest consideration and freedom to be extended to the expression of all opinions morally just and honest. Their mission was one of faith and charity, of truth and civilisa tion. It would tend to make them better citizens and benefactors to their fellow men. He announced in conclusion that his Holiness the Pope sent them his blessing and a special brief, approving the He promised that the altar would be offered daily, either by himself or by s ome o f th e bi s h o p s present for sacrificethe th e ofsuccess meeting , theof the Congress, and he ter minated His emi nence then left the chair, to sit b in thelessibny g again bestowing on the assembly his own body of the hall in the midst of the pre 1a t es, who formed the first line of spectators, and at the left hand of bis eminence Cardinal Wiseman. In a few minutes, M.Dupectiaux, the indefatigable secretary and organiser of the Congress, had sub mitted to the assembly the names of those proposed as officers of the meeting, and soon the venerable Baron de Gerlache was seated in the chair as Pre- sident of the Assembly, and began to read an address which received additional interest from the weight of authority of such a man, who, after having been the President of the first Belgian National Assem bly, and the most prominent author of its free con stitution, now leads a secluded life and speaks very seldom in public. The assembly heard him, with ever-increasing delight, define the object of this meeting as being —not to widen the divisions already existing in Belgium and throughout Europe, not to foster party spirit, but to unite more closely together Christians of all countries, whose device was love for friends and for enemies. If Catholicity was a party, it was that of the people and of the poor; while those who opposed it had no fixed principle, bat that of aiming at power for the pur pose of enjoying its fruits among themselves only. The perpetual agitation produced by such ambi tious instincts compelled Catholics to hold such assizes, not to be left defenceless, at its mercy. Liberty was not to be separated from religion. Catholics should lore liberty dearly, for without it they could not ba thus assembled. The Church was a mother towards whom they had a double duty as citizens and as Catholics. In Belgium they had for merly experienced what it was fora Catholic nation to be subjected to a foreign Protestant Power; but they now found that it was very similar to being under the rule of free-thinkers, who, mingling vio lence to cunning, destroyed gradually all real liberty in the name of the law. Catholics, on the ___. ....._ other hand, never provoked their enemies, but wished f s o t i r t ra u t e i r o s n t had at e o f subjectiondecreed n B Belgium, Under th e i r they had see n gju a in: simply to profit by th e freedom which the con themselves compelled to receive even their clergy at the hands of Xing William of Holland, who insisted on young priests icing =ado to study in edqcittion-41- establishments of the State, where the teaching of professors was specially devised to undermine their faith, while he closed all colleges and schools kept by men of religious independence, and secured to himself a monopoly of science. This iniquitous prccess was not devoid of certain outward forms of liberty. He recalled this not from any wish to revive any ill-feeling against the neighbouring Dutch nation with which Belgium became daily more united from commercial intercourse, and the common interest of the defence of their individual independence. But he wished to show that now the system of a free press, under which they were, was less corrupting than the influence of power, and that it was amply compensated by freedom of edu cation. In fact, while they considered the moral statistics of Belgium, and watched there the struggles of the parties which divided the world— tt e Christian and the anti• Christian—they must take into consideration the immense good produced by such a University as that of Louvain, which has now been in existence for more than thirty years. As we shall find the Baron de Gerlache's admirable discourse published by all the Belgian and French religious journals, I refrain from giving you a more extended report of it. At the end of it, the brief addressed by the Pope to the committee was read to the assembly, which stood up during its reading; after which the address drawn up in answer was unanimously approved, and a telegram sent to Cardinal Antonelli to apprise his Holiness of the dutiful wishes and thanks of the assembly. An address signed by 750 pupils of the Louvain University was also read, and the nomi nation of the officers of the five sections of the con gress took place. The secretary announced the list of the orators who would address the meeting on the successive days, among whom is included the Count de Muntalembert, who is expected to speak on Thursday, on the principle of a free church in a free state, a principle which has been so mis quoted against him. Cardinal Wiseman is to address the assembly on Friday on the state of religious and charitable works in England. At 5 o'clock, the members of the congress met again, dividing their numbers and attention among the five sections into which the discussions of the Assembly resolved themselves. I attended on this first day the fifth section treating of the press, and especially of the question of founding in Belgium a great Catholic international journal. The first three articles of the programme were approved of, after a most animated and interesting discussion, in which the following gentlemen took part :—The able president of the section, M. Ad. Dechamps, Minister of State; Mr. Charles Audley; M. Digard, of Paris; M. Lem mens, of Ghent; Prince Ladislaus Czartoriski, the celebrated preacher; Abbe Mer milled, of Geneva ; Senor D'Albeida, from Lisbon, the superior of the Polish mission in Paris ; Herr Meyer, from Cologne ; M. Armand Neut, of Bruges; and Count de TheuA, Minister of State in Belgium. The discussion of that section, which lasted a little longer than that of the others, terminated at eigh o'clock. In the evening the Jardin Botanique of the town was splendidly illuminated, as part of the festivals, which are kept up.here for the whole week. Gakqnani, to-day, in allusion to the Great Con gress, the inauguration of which has been here described by our Special Correspondent, thus noti fies the loyal reception accorded by the people and visitors at Malines to King Leopold and the Royal Princes:—" A grand fete at M Alines, in Belgium, on the occasi.in of the Jubilee of Notre-Dame d'Hans wyck, commenced two days back in presence of a great concourse of spectators. At 1 o'clock the King with the Duke and Duchess de Brabant, arrived, and were received by M. Broers, the Burgomaster, attended by the Communal Council, and by the Chevalier Pycke, governor of the province. The Royal party at once proceeded to the Archbishop's palace, amidst loud acclamations. At two the authorities were received by the King, when the Burgomaster delivered a loyal Address. At the close of the reception a grand cavalcade was to have taken place, but, unfortunately, the weather was no unpropitious, the rain falling in torrents, that it was postponed to the 20th, In the evening the King, and the duke and duchess, were present at a grand ban quet given by the town. At the dessert M. Broers proposed the health of the King. The toast was drunk with the loudest acclamations, which his ALjesty briefly and appropriately acknowledged, amidst repeated cries of " Vine le Roil" THE FRANKFORT CONGRESS. THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH. FRANKFORT, Aug. 18, 7 p.m. The military part of the population of Frankfurt was a-foot at 5 o'clock this morning, and greatly it disturbed the slumbers of the burghers and of the strangers now residing here. At the hour mentioned, military bands paraded the streets, and at short in tervals guns were fired in honour of the Emperor of Austria, who to-day celebrates, at Darmstadt, his birthday. Hie Majesty wished to spare his fellow potentates the trouble of calling on him to offer their congratulations, but in matters of etiquette German Sovereigns are great " sticklers," and they therefore proceeded in corpore to a railway terminus in this city, at which the Emperor was expected to arrive at half-past 10 o'clock. His Majesty was as punctual as usual, and, as a matter of course, he was obliged to accept the more or less long winded felicitations of his illustrious " brothers and cousins." The banquet given by the Senate of the free city of Frankfort went off with great eclat, but the fireworks partly failed, as it rained heavily in the afternoon. In the evening the weather cleared up, but the air was so damp and cool that few persons were inclined to remain long out of doors. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary were to have seen the fireworks from a villa on the right bank of the Maine, but it is very pos sible that their intentions were not carried out. The Duke of Cambridge is frequently here, and the names of the Earls Granville and Clarendon appear in the strangers' list. The Emperor of Austria gave the following toast at the civic banquet : " I speak in the names of the Sovereigns here present, and thank the Senate and municipality of the free city of Frankfort for the hospitable reception given to us. I think that we—the Princes of G.rmany assembled in this federal city—cannot better express our gratitude to our patriotic hosts than by proving to them that a heart-felt love for our common Fatherland is the bond of union between it. " We all cherish a friendly feeling towards this honour able city, which is so rich in historical recollections, and your illustrious guests will therefore readily join me in emptying a cup to the welfare and increasing prosperity of Frankfort." The speech which the Emperor of Austria made at the opening of the Congress of Princes is as follows : " Most illustrious and beloved Brothers and Cousins, most valued Confederates,—An assembly of the heads of the German nation, for the purpose of deliberating on the wel fare of the Fatherland, is an event which has not occurred for centuries. May we, by the blessing of an Almighty Providence, be on the eve of a happy future. "Confiding in the elevated sentiments of my fellow Princes, confiding in the just spirit of the German people, who have been enlightened by experience, I have sought to bring about a meeting at which the German Princes should i n a fraternal spirit unite their hands for the strengthening (Befestigu)ag) of the Confederation. I have deemed it my duty openly to express my conviction that Germany justly (mit Becht) looks forward to a development of its constitu tion ( reefassuieg), which shall be in accordance with the necessities of the times, and I have come in person to ex change ideas and opinions with my Confederates, and to state what I consider feasible, and what I, for my part, am ready to grant. "Your Mejesties„ and all of you, my illustrious and be loved Confederates, accept my thanks for your kindness in consenting to act with me. " I have forwarded to my illustrious Federal allies the draught of a project of reform which was drawn up under my immediate superintendence. "Being of opinion that the sphere of action of the Bund should be enlarged, I, in my plan of reform, propose that the executive power shall be placed in the hands of a Direc tory, which shall have a Federal Council at its side. We require the periodical meeting of an assembly of Deputies, which shall have full power to participate in the legislation and in the control of the finances of the Bund. I propose that there shall be periodical meetings of the German Princes. By the introduction of an independent Federal Court a satisfactory guarantee is given for the proper ad ministration of justice in Germany. In all these matters the priucipla of the (quality of the several independent States will, as strictly as is possible, be upheld. At the same time, due regard must be paid to their political in flll4ce and to the number of tluir inhabitants, is orig that an effective executive power and a general representation in :the Band may be inseparably united. " All details are based on one single idea—on idea that has taken complete possession of my mind. It is, that the time has come for renewing in a way which shall be in accordance with the spirit of the times, the Bund which our ancestors entered into. By allowing our peoples to participate in the Bund, we shall give new vigour to it, and enable it to up hold to the end of time (bis in die spiitesten Tage) the honour, power, security, and welfare of Germany as one great and inseparable whole. " Doubtless my propositions will admit of improvement. I readily admit that such is the case. But I beg my Con federates to take into consideration whether it is not our common interest not to postpone, even for a time, the ac ceptance of a plan which, as it now stands, is a great im provement on the present state of things in Germany. In the proposed Act of Reform (Refonn• aete) the necessary means for repairing its defects in a constitutional way are pointed out. I see no prospect of finding a firm basis in the ques tion relative to the future of Germany by means of pro longed deliberations. The question must be settled by the prompt, unanimous, and disinterested resolves of the Ger man Princes, who, in matters of inferior moment, most magnanimously make sacrifices for the attainment of the great object which they have in view. "Most illustrious and beloved Brothers and Cousins, most valued Confederates,—As you all share with me the " exalting " (erhebend) impression of the present moment, so must you participate in the deep regret which I feel that Prussia is not represented here. One of my most heartfelt wishes has not been fulfilled. I was not so happy as to be able to persuade King William of Prussia to participate in person in our work of union' (Einigungs-icerke); but, nevertheless, I have not lost the conviction that the results of this day will be salutary. The King of Prussia fully appreciated my arguments concerning the urgent necessity for a reform of the Bund. King William had no other objection to make to my proposition to hold a Congress of Princes than that the necessary preparations for such an important step had not been made. In principle, the King was not opposed to an assembly of Princes, but he was of opinion that a Conference of Ministers ought to precede it. I called his Majesty's attention to the fact that all former negotiations by means of second persons (Mittelspersonen) had been fruitless, and that it was for us to reform the Bund, and that we were firmly ra • solved that the German nation should no longer be de prived of the means of enjoying greater (hi;here) political development.' Let us pass quickly over mere matters of detail for the sake of the iccalculably more important whole. In good federal faith let us preserve for the mighty (king dom of) Prussia the place to which she is entitled, and let us hope that our unity will produce an indelible impression on all German hearts. " In as far as I am personally concerned, my allustrious Confederates and Friends, I shall always feel satisfied to have done all in my power to draw closer the ties which unite all the German peoples, and to make the Bund, as one great power (Gesammtmacht) a boon (Heil) for Germany and a guarantee for the peace of Europe." The Emperor of Austria delivered (read) his speech in such an impressive manner that his hearers could not doubt that he deeply felt the necessity for a reform of the Bund. When his Majesty had done speaking there was a murmur or rather " hum" of approval, which was continued until the King of Bavaria rose to reply to his fellow Sovereign. In substance his Majesty said that he acted as the mouthpiece of his illustrious Confederates when he assured the Emperor that they fully shared the opinions he had just expressed. The members of the Bund then present had accepted the invitation of his Majesty without knowing the exact nature of the propositions he was about to make, as they felt assured that the rights of all would be respected, and that if sacrifices were necessary, they would be required of all the members of the Bund, and not of some few of them. The King of Bavaria said,— " The assembled Princes will take the propositions made by your Majesty into conscientious consideration, and it is probable that some modification of them may be deemed desirable, although we are as desirous as yourself that the important questions now at issue may be brought to a speedy and happy end. We share the regret of your Majesty that the King of Prussia, our dear federal ally, is absent, but we cherish a hops that at our next meeting for the despatch of business that powerful link in the great chain which con nects the different German States will not be wanting." It is said (but I know not with what truth) that the King of Saxony, who is a literary man, acted as secretary to the Congress. The only furniture in the hall in which the Congress of Princes holds its sitting are a very large table and a certain num ber of arm-chairs, on which are emblazoned the arms of the different members of the Confederation. There is one chair of less pretension, which is said to have been intended for the person who was to act as amanuensis. FRANCE. DECREE AGAINST THE BISHOPS' LETTERS, PARIS, AUG. 20. An Imperial decree has been published to-day condemnatory of the Bishops' letters on the subject of the elections, and declaring them an abuse of ecclesiastical authority. The preamble of the decree states that it is based upon the articles of the Concordat and the Papal Bull of December, 1801, the apostolic decree of 1802, and the declaration of 1682, establishing as a funda mnntal maxim of French public law that the Chief of the Church and the Church itself have control solely over spiritual and not over temporal and civil affairs. The last basis quoted in the decree states that the bishops and archbishops are not empowered to deliberate together or pass common resolutions without the special permission of the Government. BOURSE, Aug. 19.—The arrival of Consols with a rise ot has tended to maintain the firmness before apparent in this market, but without causing any further improvement in price,. Threes are now ucvaried at 67f. 65c. Little doing in Railway Shares, and up to the present time the variations have been but trifling. The market closed as follows : 11 per Cent 5....... 96 85 Italian Loan 72 Do. end month.... Do. end month 72 3 per Cents ...... 67 85 New ditto Do. end month.... 67 85 Do. end month 72 Credit M0bi1ier....1125 Russian oo. end m ont h ....1123 75 Austrian - Bank Shares 3385 Spanish Threes.... Credit k owner l2BO Home Debt JIIILWAYEI. Orleanti Cash. Account. 1020 .. 1020 Northern .. .. 990 . . 990 New ditto — • • --- Lyons and Mediterranean 1031 25 .. 1030 Geneva 492 50 .. 492 60 Southern .. 712 50 .. 716 25 Western Eastern Sardinian 416 25 .. 417 50 Austrian .. 427 50 Lou , bard - North of Spain Saragossa.. Ditto to Barcelona .... 355 .. 355 85 7o 70 75 A RUSSIAN -AMERICAN ALLIANCE.—VIENNA, Aug. 17.—The Presse says :—" We hear that com munications have been received from an English source, according to which we must prepare ourselves for the ap proaching ratification of an offensive and defensive alliance between St. Petersburg and Washington. This eventuality, should this somewhat speculative information be confirmed, would principally affect the bearings of the Mexican and Polish questions." METROPOLITAN BENEFIT SOCIETIES ASYLUM. —The Fancy Fair and Ball, arranged at this Institution far Monday and Tuesday,was so successful that the festivities were continued on Wednesday, and the efforts of the ladies to swell the Endowment Fund were most un- tiring. The chief feature of the soiree was the spirited rendering, by Miss Emma Wallington, of several Poems by Eliza Cook, and one on Poland, written by herself. An excellent glee choir, sang at intervals; and on the grounds during the day, the bands of the Duchess of Bent Lodge. Staleybridge Odd Fellows, St. Bartholomew School, and Finsbury Rifles, entertained the visitors, thoroughly arousing the neighbourhood of Ball's-pond-road from its UEll 11 quiet. There are now six candidates for admission to the Asylum, from whom one is to be elected at the half yearly meeting, fixed for the 28th inst„ at Salter's Hotel, Victoria-street. HOPE DEFERRED MAKETII THE HEART SICK. —At a recent examination of Mr. Logie, farmer, MurrayEhall, on his sister entering the box to be examined, the following conversation. took place between her and the opposing agent :—Agent.—" How old are you ?" " Oh, weel, sir, I am an unmarried woman, and I dinna think it richt to answer that question." The Judge—" Oh, ye s , answer the gentleman how old you are." Miss Jane-- " Weel a weer, I am fifty." Agent—" Are you not more ?" " Weel, I am sixty." The inquisitive writer still farther asked if she had hopes of getting married, to which Miss Jane replied, " Weel, sir, I winna surely tell a lie—l hinna lost hope yet;" and she scornfully added, " but I widna marry you, for I um sick tired o' your palaver already," The examination then proceeded.—Du;li.:e Co?:rier. A SLIGHT CONFUSION OF IDEAS.—Under th e head of Reuter's Telegram, the Court Jourrwa bewilder ingly announces that "the Atebdulie Maxiatilian: (sic) I zleccPtcd the throne of Gl= (I)," r. HER MAJESTY. The Queen in Germany. A communication from Lisbon, in announcing the confinement of the Queen of Portugal for October, states that King Fernando will be the godfather, and the Princess Clotilda, sister of the Queen, godmother.—Galt:ynatti. The Duke of Somerset, the First Lord of the Admiralty, together with the Hon. Captain Drummond, C. 8., Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., and Rear. Admiral Robinson, returned to the Admiralty last evening from a tour of in spection of the western ports. The duke and commis sioners closed their visit westward yesterday, after visiting Pembroke Dockyard. Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Fred. Grey and Rear-Admiral Eden, C. 8., had returned to town the day previous from Devonport and Falmouth. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland left town yesterday for the north, for the season. The duke was to stay at Newcastle last night, on his way to Alnwick Castle, and the duchess was to pay a visit to Lord and Lady Wenlock at Escrick Park, Yorkshire. The Duke of Newcastle has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for his seat, Clumber, Notts. The Earl of Dunmore left Dunmore Castle, N. 8., at the end of last week, in order to embark for Canada, to resume his military duties with his regiment, the Scots Fusil.er Guards. The Earl de Grey returned to town last eveniog from a personal inspection of the fortifications in the western district. The noble earl extended his progress of inspection as far as Pembroke. Lord Londesborough has returned to town from attending the review of his volunteer rifle corps in York shire. Lady Mordaunt and Misa Mordaunt have ar rived at the Alexandra Hotel (late Wallace's), Hyde-park corner. Lord and Lady Chelmsford and the Hon. Miss Thesiger and Lady Rolle have left Port Elliot for Pen carrow, on a visit to Lady Molesworth. Lord Clarence Paget, M.P., after attending with the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in their inspec tion of the western ports, has gone to his seat in Wales, to join Lady Clarence Paget and family. Major-General Frederick W. Hamilton, C. 8., Vice• President of the Council of Military Education, left town on Tuesday evening for Germany. The gallant general intends to be present at the great military ma noeuvres of the Prussian army this autumn. General Ha milton is not expected to return home until the close of the ensuing month. DEATH OF SIR ANGUS CAMPBELL, BART.— We have to record the death of Sir Angus Campbell, Bart., who died on the 13th inst., at Dunstaffnage Castle, Argyllshire. The late baronet was the eldest son of Sir Donald Campbell, who obtained the baronetcy in 1836 for his civil services. He succeeded his father, who was Lieu tenant-Governor of Prince Edward's Island from 1847 to 1850, in the latter year. The late baronet entered the navy, and obtained the rank of lieutenant in 1849. He was un married, and is succeeded in the baronetcy and estates in Argyllshire by his next brother, Donald. The Campbells of this line are descended from Colin, first Earl of Argyll, and from him his descendants hold the hereditary title of Captains of the Royal Castle of Dunstaffnage, SIR JAMES HUDSON has presented to Verdi a very fine copy (by Poussin) of the Venus of Titian. Several of the Paris journals mention that M. Dubois de Saligny, the French Minister at Mexico, is about to be recalled. The Malta and Alexandria Telegraph Cable has been repaired, and is now open to the public for messages direct from London to Suez. OLD SMITHFIELD is about to be turned into a new poultry and meat market. HEAVY CHARGES !—lt has been calculated that nearly six tons of lead were shot into the Wimbledon butts, in the form of bullets, during the late competition I DENISON'S REPLY TO LYELL!—Sir William Denison, Governor of Madras, brother of the Speaker and of Archdeacon Denison, is writing a reply to Sir Charles Lyell's recent work on the "Antiquity of Man." A CLASSICALLY SARCASTIC HINT.—If sensation ropewalking continues, it has been suggested that every tea-garden or circus where Blondins, either male or female, perform, might, perhaps, be dedicated to the public, with the appropriate and classical motto of " Morituri to salu taut." A monument to Captain Cook, the great navigator, is to be erected in the Sandwich Islands. THE "UNBLEACHED AMERICAN s."—The Eighth avenue Railroad Company have pasted the following notice in their office and in the several cars running on their road :—" Coloured persons are not allowed to ride on the cars of this company."—New York Times. CURRENTE CALAMO! From an ingenious answer to Dean Alford's recent attacks upon Jour nalists in reference to "The Queen's English," we extract the following brief passage from our contemporary, the Skejleld Independent :—" The most obvious reason why the writing in newspapers is, as a rule, more liable to mis takes than that in less ephemeral productions, is the haste , with which it is inevitably composed, and the hurried man ner in which it has to be corrected. Time, with newspapers. and especially with daily newspapers, is of primary import ance. The matter must be ready by a certain hour, and the time for its preparation is always short. This necessi tates off-hand writing. The editor has no time for care fully weighing every sentence, for labouring antitheses, and for scrupulously choosing each word. He has to select his subject, to ascertain its bearings, and to express his opinion thereupon in clear and forcible rather than elegant language. And for the whole process he has probably about as much time as the Dean of Canterbury would take in making up his mind what to write about." REYNARD OUTWITTED BY A PlKE.—Whilst fish ing in the great pond, a large pike of 18 or 191 b. weight was caught ; this was to be brought at night to the castle at Pyrbaum ; but it escaped—sprang out —as the vessel in which it was placed was not properly watched, and the persons who carried it came home empty ; so they were sent back to seek for the pike. When they arrived at the place where the pike was lost, they observed a fox in the wheat, who even on their approaching him remained standing still; whereupon they hurried nearer, and per ceived that the pike had hold of the fox by the snout, and had so bitten into it that they could not release it. So the fox was killed, and the living pike brought to the castle.-- Cholmondeley .Pennell's Angler Naturalist. MADAILE PUSS —A WORD IN HER FAVOUR."'" The faults of puss, like those of women, are chiefly due to the injudicious way in which she is ordinarily treated by men. The faculties of the dog are developed by regular food, freedom, kindness, and association in our daily amuse ments. The cat is restricted to the house. stoned if she leaves it, fed scantily or not at all, despised as a household drudge, a forlorn Cinderella—but for whom, however, we should be overrun by vermin—abandoned to the caprices Of children, and made occasionally the subject of cruel scientific experiments. We ill-treat her and yet inveigh against her want of affection; we dine on mutton and reproach her with her carnivorous instinct; we frequently resent even a kind ness, and aro shocked at her promptness to avenge a wrong. I confess that I rejoice to hear the howl of lamentation that follows the scratch she inflicted on the vicious child for i t is not whose daily amusement is tormenting her ; well, of e 0 because eoieret eh parents fortheff g a re eu injudicious,ertu sof u that or cruelty andlack e fellow-creatures should pass unpunished. — Once a Week GALLANT CONDUCT OF A CUSTOMS' BOATMAN.-- SUNDERLAND, Tuesday.—Last night about eight o'clock pilot, in descending the quay in the North Dock Basin, fell into the water. A man in a boat attempted to gat to him, but could not. The pilot had sunk, when George John ston, Customs' boatmen, leaped from the quay, caught aim by the flair, and held hint up until beth were rescued from their perilous position. DESPATCH OF AMERICAN MAILS. —SOUTHAMP TON, August 1 9.—The North German Lloyd"' steam-ship, New York, Captain Wenke, sailed hence a t 2 p m. to day with the French and English mails for NeW York direct. She' took out 167 saloon, exclusive of steerage ) passengers, also a large and valuable cargo, including 76,384 francs value in jewellery from Havre. Amongst the Passengers by the New York were Mr. and Mrs. Ferrero and family, Mr. Hillman, United States consul at Rome; Mr. Turner and family ; Colonel Morton and family, Ezc. ; Captain von Boleslawsky, of the Austrian artillery ( 741 ° goes out on a mission f rom hi s G overnment ) . T he Amer can families, who have s p en t th e summer i n E urope, are irls r returning home, and many applications for passage in the New York had to be refused. A MIGHTY RUSH OF WATERS.—An unsuccessfu l attempt was recently made to sound the Falls of Niaga ra ; Au iron weight of ten pounds was l e t f a ll f rom a h e i g ht 13 ' 22 feet. It struck the surface fairly with the pint) but was not out of sight for a second, skipping like a chip 011 the surface. The velocity of the iron, when striking, niust have been equal to 124 feet per second, and its 'flameo ut 5,000 °f p give so idea ul the strength6strengthtllcurroeunntd;. This eneattl will tiaeFills, ROSENAU, COBURG, Aug. 16. The Queen arrived at Rosen an at ten o'clock yeE. terday morning. _ _ Her Majesty - was much fatigued by the intense heat in the journey from Laeken, and has remained in perfect quiet since her arrival. The Duke of Coburg is absent at the Congress at Frankfort, and tke Duchess of Coburg received her Majesty and the princes and princesses at Rosenau, and visited her Majesty in the evening.