The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-03 00:00:00

The Prince and Princess of Wales in Sweden. (From the limes' Special Correspondent.) STOCKHOLM, Monday Night. It is not surprising that the Prince and Princess of Wales should have been willing to vary a little, and to give new zest to the quiet happiness of their stay in Denmark by an excursion of a few days to Sweden—a country of which little is ever heard in general conversation, and which yet holds out so many inducements to travellers. In Denmark the presence of their Royal Highnesses not only would strengthen family ties, but prove successful, be• pond the expectation of many natives, in smooth- ' ing away political bitterness. Before the journey was undertaken the Princess had been well known, and, what is more to the purpose, loved in Den- ' mar k, Upon her husband a share of this cordial feeling was reflected; but then he had to contend against a counter-feeling at the moment uppermost in the people's mind, and to his own personal quali ties he owed it, that in the rare opportunities which a private visit afforded of meeting the inhabitants of Denmark, he was enabled to overcome -political prejudices and to elicit demonstrations of popular approval whenever he came before the public. In Sweden, happily, there are no strong political cure rents to ruffle the satisfaction which the people of the country and their illustrious visitors feel in making each other's acquaintance. Indeed, the unmistakeable enthusiasm with which their Royal Highnesses were greeted upon landing is the hap piest augury of the feelings likely to be excited by their stay. The curious in such matters have often remarked that bad weather is an accompaniment almost as in variable of any journey undertaken by the Prince of Wales, as brilliant sunshine used to be of any public appearance of her Majesty. If there be any truth in the saying it certainly received confirmation on Saturday last, when the departure from Copenhagen which was expected to have been a very fine sight, was spoiled as to effect by the rain. The wind sub. sequently proved so unfavourable that the Royal yacht was compelled to put into Dagoe, the southern most point on the coast of Zealand touched in its course, and, after a delay there of several hours, again put to sea, and succeeded in passing Falaterbo, the souih.western extremity of Swden, at a quarter past 5 o'clock on Sunday morning. The wind blow ing strongly from the northwestward those on board had anything but a favourable passage, and many of their number were for a time invalided. The original calculation was that the yacht might be expected to arrive in Stockholm in the course of Monday forenoon, and accordingly at an early hour a very distinguished party went on board the Val kyrien, the screw steam-yacht belonging to the King of Sweden, which started from the end of the Admiralty pier at a quarter before 10 o'clock, with the view of meeting the Osborne at a distance of some miles down the bay, and of returning with her to the capital. The party on board the Valkyrien included the Prince Oscar, heir presumptive to the Swedish throne; Countess Piper, first lady in waiting at this Court, and Madlle. la Countess Horn, who are both to be attached to the suite of her Royal Highness during her stay in Sweden ; the follow ing gentlemen intended to form part of the suite of the Prince of Wales:—M. de Durdel, chamberlain; M. de Fis•cherstrom, Ecuyer ; M. de Simdin, naval aide-deicamp to the King; and M. de Gyllensam, of the Swedish artillery ; Mr. Hamilton, charg€ d'affeires, and Mr. Menage, secretary, representing the British Legation, with Mr. Hunt, the British consul at Stockholm, &e. The sail from Stock holm towards the 1341 tie does not lie along a river, nor is it by any means in the open sea, nor yet among a chain of lakes. It is a eombination of all three, consisting of a deep channel of sea-water, wide as the Schelde below Antwerp, beautiful as the Thames at Richmond, twining and turning amid myriads of islands, most of them wooded, many of tkem rising sheer blocks of granite from the water's edge. At 12 miles distance from the capital, through navigation of this description, the banks in many parts being lined with villas, the fortress of Waxholm is reached. This is the key to the entrance to Stockholm, and. is built on a posies lion made so strong by art and nature that every ship bound for Stockholm must pass within 300 yards of its formidable armament. At this point, about eleven o'clock, the Valkyrien encountered her Mjesty's ship Aurora, which was waiting to convoy the English yacht to Stockholm, and for a long time b.qore the vessels acually crossed the delicate tracery of their rigging respectively had been plainly visible one to the other, and as the hulls were shut out now and again by low lying lands, and their courses apparently altered by the curves of the channel, the yachts seemed to be dancing a maze in and out between the inter vening islands. The frigate, upon discovering who was on board the Valkyrien, fired a salute and manned yards in her honour. The Swedish yacht proceeding on her way arrived at what is known as the man-of-war anchorage, two miles below Waxholm. There the distinguished party, while awaiting tidings of the Osborne, were entertained at dejeuner by Prince Oscar. About 3.15 p.m. a despatch was sent off by the governor of the Castle, intimating that the ship containing their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales had pa.saedLandsort, the outer lighthouse of the entrance to Stockholm, and about 60 miles distant from the capital. It was therefore evident that it could not be expected to arrive for some time longer, and the Valkyrien accordingly retired to Waxholm, where those on board were again entertained at dinner by Prince Oscar. At 4 o'clock they steamed down again to their old anchorage, and shortly afterwards sighted the Osborne, upon which they lay to and waited for the English yacht to come alongside. Unlike the case of the Aurora and the Valkyrien, the Swedish and English royal yachts had seen no thing of each other till they were close together. On rounding opposite sides of an island they found themselves face to face, and after so much waiting the meeting came with the shock of a surprise. Be. hind the Osborne glided the beautiful lines of the Salamis. A little packet in attendance on the Swe dish yacht carried Prince Oscar and all those who had come with him to the Osborne, the deck of which was reached about half-past five, and the members of the royal families respectively having exchanged greetings, mutual introductions of the English and Danish suites took place. It was just previous to this point of the day's proceedings tha a fatal accident occurred, casting a gloom upon all who knew the circumstances. One of the crew of the Osborne told off to assist in bringing the ladder up the ship's side, missed his footing and fell into the water. The Osborne at the moment had still way upon her, and so the sailor drifted astern. A life buoy was dropped almost over his Lead, but either the man could not swim and be came confused, or possibly he had received some injury in the fall, for though the buoy was within three feet of him in the water, and he kept himself up for a little time, he was quite unable to grasp the safety which lay will; his reach. The yachts Ead not met at the time he felt overboard, and the Princess of Wales was the first in the English ship to see the accident. As soon as it was perceived that the man could not reach the buoy a rush was made from opposite sides—from the Osborne by a boat hastily pulled by his shipmates, and from the Vslkyrien in the little tug steamer, Prince Oscar himself hastening and dirccOlg the ciflrt. Both boats simultaneously reached the spot, whe re a tenth of a second bef ore the poor fellow was struggling for lite. A hat still m ar k e d the place where he had a bn, and a few feet b e low it tome cried out that they could see a dark mass settling down like a stone, A hasty thrust of a boathook was made, but it fell short some to the feet of the mark, and the body now: ea the surface again. The Sala mis remained behind recov for the purpose of continuing the exertions to ne, for at th a t point but the task is a difficul t one, o thei recover it, is from 30 to 40 feet deep. An incidentf otherwise a character natu rally disarranged wh a t the course of events. The princess would have beer, se eees retired to her deck f cabin, and did not appear on some time, It of was fortunate, perhfipß, that a pointlittllrt had set its for mality, upon which the Swedish e heart, turned the thoughts of the party into a ff-:rent channel. H;3 Royal Highness; adherin g di tfo the rule which he has acted upon throughout his present journey of appearing as Baron Renfrew, and not as Prince of Wales, contemplated an entry into Stockholm in equally simple morning costume to that in which he landed at Elsinore. And to that wish so much reapect was paid that the members of the British Legation went to meet his Royal High. nese in plain clothes. Prince Oscar, however, who himself was in full uniform, caused it to be known that a strong desire existed at Court to obtain that one concession, and eventually the Prince of Wales gave way, and with the members of his suite affected a change of dress in the interval of time remaining before the capital was reached. Meanwhile, preparations had been going forward energetically in Stockholm to receive the Royal visitors with becoming respect. The wishes of his Royal Highness were complied with as to all that could give a public character to the arrival ; but, privately, the Swedish Court felt itself at liberty to take carte blanche, and did,everything that was possible to render the reception of their illustrious guests magnificent. The principal apartments in the Palace were to a great extent refitted. This is a building for which we have no equal in England, and those who have never seen it must throw their minds back to the giant structures of Assyria and Babylon, if they would attain a proper conception of its dimensions. Stockholm has been called " the Venice of the North," and the name has a certain appropriateness, for the capital is in a great measure built upon islands and intersected by side channels ; some of its streets have also much of the irregu larity of Edinburgh. But there are points of dif ference between Stockholm and both of these cities, which gin) to the former a marked degree of in dividual interest—and in no respect is the origis nality of the chief city of Sweden better seen than in its Palace. Built on the highest part of the central island, its walls tower above all the neigh , • bearing houses, and a mere approach, known as the Lion's Staircase, is a marvel of architectural b6ldness and success. This site is far finer than our own Trite falgarasquare, and it has been turned to far better account. All the grandest apartments are on the highest story, from which magnificent views are obtainable over the lakes surrounding or forming thoroughfares in Stockholm. Almost every room placed at the disposal of the Peirce or Princess of Wales has its separate historic interest, and upon the decorations, either now or at some recent period, an amount of wealth must have been lavished which England, wealthy ss she is, is seldom in the humour to expend upon her palaces. In front of the building is an extensive terrace laid out as a garden, and overlooking the quay and harbour. The landing place for the royal party was immediately under this terrace, and from an early hour all the points of view were occupied from which it was supposed that the Osborne could best be seen when she drew up beside the quay. A long platform extend ing for a couple of hundred feet and covered w ith blue cloth was laid down from the carriage way to the water's edge, and protecting barriers at either side were similarly covered with the cloth, ornamented with the yellow crown, showing that the space was reserved for Royal purposes. This privileged promenade from the point of debarka tion to the nearest point where carriages could draw up was kept by a double line of police in neat shakos of a new shape, and a number of gendarmes with silvered batons of more pretending appearance. These gendarmes were moulded somewhat after the French model, but equipped with better taste. In fact, it may be said of all such regular forces as Sweden possesses that they are, for the most part, exceedingly well dressed. Some infantry helmets and naval uniforms mingled with the gathering, but the great bulk of the attendance was composed exclusively of the people. Immediately under the castle wall a body of men on horseback waited with the royal carriages the arrival of the yacht, and the appearance of these troopers formed a very characteristic item in the ecene. They were the Swedish Life Gaards, and until recently the regie ment wore a uniform somewhat resembling that used in other countries for the especial service for which household troops are intended. The present King, however, conceived the idea of reviving the uniform of Charles Xll.'e favourite cavalry. The straight cocked hat and equare-cut coat appear now upon the occasion of all state ceremonies. Functionaries clad in uniforms radiant with decorations began to appear towards 6 o'clock, and, among others, the Come me.ndan tof the City, the Commander-in. Chief of the Swedish forces, the chief and second in command of the police, &c. About the same time it began to be evident that the royal party unless they arrived very soon would be unable to see any of the arrangements made for the reception, ES the evening was fast closing in. Half-past 6, and ultimately 7, o'clock came and no Prince and Princess of Wales. The rows of expectant faces and flower vases along the castle terrace first became invisible, then the Palace itself grew into a dull gloomy shadow. Finally night settled down upon the scene, with no moon or stars to be seen. Here was a disappoint ment, for all the arrangements had been made for a landing in daylight. The Swedish officials, how ever, apparently know how to adapt themselves to circumstances, for in five or ten minutes the police were provided with lighted torches, Li g ht s a l so began to burn cheerily and with a welcome gleam in many of the rooms in the Palace, and on the water level the interest was sustained by watching the little steam gondolas, which holding 12 or 15 persons each, and all with their red or blue light, like so many glow-worms darted within and without regardless of the darkness. After several false alarms, the guns of the battery a short distance below Stockholm an. nounced that the yacht might be expected to arrive in 15 or 20 minutes. Then the guns of the Aurora answered the salute, and this was an additional gauge of the safe arrival of the party. The reports neither from the fort nor the Aurora could be heard, but the successive flashes had in the distance ex actly the effect of sheet lightning, illumining for a secord one whole quarter of the sky, and then dying away into shadow as complete as bafore. For a time, though cheering could be heard rolling loudly along the banks of the stream, it was impas sible to make out anything of the Osborne. At last a range of blue lights held along the vessel's side revealed clearly what was taking place. The largest pinnace had been lowered and manned, and into this their Royal Highnesses and Prince Oscar, with the members of their respective suites, Eng lish and Danish, had already descended and taken their places, and were now being rowed towards the shore. The delight occasioned by this discovery and by the really beautiful spectacle that burst on the crowd was very great. And no picture could well have been more charming than that revealed in the blue glare. A capacious ship's boat with flags, fore and aft, holding a co•_npany of some 40, consisting partly of ladies and partly of officers in full uniform, was making its way with the aid of all but noiseless oars through deep shadow into the welcome glare of th© torches. These reached and foot set on terra firma, it was bat a step to the carriages, and as the memb ers successively of the Royal family took their places in them, running footmen with flambeaux dashed to the front, the quaintly-costumed horsemen galloped at their side, the coaches themselves tore off at sp ee d, and a spectacle exciting and in the highest degree pleasing was presented. The members of the Royal circle and suife assem bled with as little delay as possible after their arrival at dinner in the castle. The latter was set in two separate, but adjoining rooms. In the inner apart ment the King ;and Queen of Sweden, Prince and Princess of Wales, Prices Okar and the queen Dowager,Prince Augustus, and the Danish Minister repreEenting the King of Denmark dined—a purely Royal party—by themselves, In the outer room all the members of the Royal suites, with the English Chargé d'Affaires, dined. About 10 o'clock the leading members of the Court having in the meantime dressed for the pur pose, the Royal party paid a short visit to the theatre, where they arrived in time to see the last act of the Swedish version of "The Daughter of the Regiment." The house is much larger and of a more ornamental character than the Hof-Theatre at Copenhagen. Five tiers of boxes rise one above the other to the ceiling, the decorations being purely white and gold ; and in the case of the stage boxes there is a curious arrangement by which the size of the aperture, being reduced to that of a large oval I medallion, the occupant for the time being pres nte, to the audience the appearance of being, not an in dividual, but a portrait set within this frame. The audience rose immediately on the entrance of the Royal party, and the orchestra performed the Na tional Anthem, which so closely resembles our own as to be scarcely distinguishable. Etiquette, on such occasions, is opposed to any other manifesta tions, The King led the Princess of Wales to a seat at his right hand, the Prince of Wales in like man ner brought in the Queen Dowager, the Prince Oscar conducting the Queen of Sweden to her seat. The King wore the uniform of the Hussars of Charles XV., of which regiment he is the proprietors with the decorations of the Seraphim, of St. Olof, and of the Freemasons. The Prince of IN' ales wore a general's uniform,with the riband of the Bath. The three ladies in the Royal box wore simple wreaths of flowers, the Queen and the Princess of Wales being dressed in blue and white lace, the Queen Dowager in mauve with white lace, having, moreover, mauve ribands wined into her wreath. At the close of the Na- tional Anthem there was a flourish of trumpets, during which the King stood and bowed repeatedly. The Royal family seemed much gratified with that portion of the performances which they had the opportunity of seeing. The Prince of Wales manifested satisfaction in the English manner by smiling and looking pleased. The King, on the contrary, freely kept time to such passages of the music as he most approved, directing the attention of his visitors apparently to morceaux of special excellence. Both on the way to and from the the• atre the Royal party were loudly cheered in the streets. In the Omnibus—A Sketch. The following charming little sketch (signed " Sadie") is taken by us from The Queen of last Saturday : A mighty woman with a bundle, a cross woman with a baby, an uncomfortable woman with a dog, an old gentleman with an ear-trumpet, a beaming young lady with an expansive crinoline, and the usual complement of nothing.particular-people, in. eluding mineself, John Hayes, gentlemen at large. I would not have been inside if I could have helped it; nor in an omnibus at all if I could have helped it; and, judging from the surrounding faces, we were all in the same plight. We were all hot, and we all hated one another. When a fellow-creature is visibly radiating the calorie one already has in excess, hatred for him, or even her, follows in Iogi• cal sequence, and we were waiting, absolutely wait ing, for more passengers. " Are you going on, conductor P" said a gentle man near the door. " Gent's of inquirin' turn o' mind," was the re■ ply, addressed to the lamppost. The meek man was quenched, but the mighty woman, pointing into the omnibus, said—" Look there, conductor,' and he peered in. Her tone was so solemnly ex pressive that we were all conscience-stricken. The uncomfortable woman covered her dog to the verge of suffocation, the old gentleman put up his ear-trumpet. as I have noticed deaf people generally do if there is anything to be seen ; I, being con scious of an odour of half - burnt cigar about my waistcoat pocket, tried to look Eau - de-Cologne. The mighty woman repeated " Look there !" and the conductor's eyes, as in a mesmeric sleep, fol lowed her finger up to the end and the roof of the omnibus. Then he read aloud—" In case of incivility." There he stopped, and grunted "Ugh!'' Bat that conductor was conquered; how delighted we all were, and with what toadyism we looked at the mighty woman, who tried to seem un conscious, and at last failed ignominiously by breaking into a hearty laugh, and exclaiming, " That did him, I thick ; but it was almost a shame, poor fellow." We ceased to honour, and began to love our champion afier this. " Please help me in, blind." It was the tiniest, sweetest voice ; we all turned to see a little girl lay her hand confidently on the conductor's arm. 1 took her from him as fearfully as if she had been in very truth - what she looked like—my pariah Clytie —the same sweet face, with the delicate featu►es ant drooping white eyelids; but the sadness of her pallor was relieved by the vivid dark gold of her hair, which fell in dark thick rolls into her neck. "Isn't there a dog here ?" she said presently. " Yes, darling," and the dog's owner, us she handed it to the child, looked uncomfortable no longer, the blind face turned to her's seemed to charm away its nervousness. • " What a dear fellow," said Clytie, and the rough terrier grew popular. "Do they let you go far alone" said the cross woman. " Oh, yes." The little one gave a low glad laugh of triamph. " I've been to the blind school ; I can do everything for myself now.'' "Would you mind saying that again, my dear 1' I'm very deaf," said the old gentleman. She re peated her sentence, adding, with an old womanly pity, "It must be so sad to be deaf." I said involuntarily, " You don't look as though you were ever sad." " I ? Oh no, I never am now Emy is well." "Who is Emy "Why, little sister ;° oh ! such a little darling, but she was ill for a long time, so long," Clytie's voice faltered, as though she were living over again a great sorrow. " Bat she is well now ?" I said. " Oh yes, quite strong, and it is so nice." "Hive you many sisters and brothor ?" asked the young lady." " No, only Emy, and one brother, baby Tom ; he's such a great fat fellow, and he laughs, you can't think how he laughs." If it was anything like the musical rill his sister sent rippling through the air, I should like to have heard that baby. what does he laugh at ?" said the cross woman, " Oh, everything; at Emy and me, when we play Punch and Judy; and at dinner, when there's dump lings, and sometimes he lays on the floor, and laughs at himself, and we laugh too, it's so funny." The t f i o theus, w ro e ar all of the deaf joined in, l w it i t t l h e one'svarimirth was ula in n f s ec o ous tio gentleman, who could'nt stop himself, and set us off again, little Clytie clapping her soft gloved hand s , mod till she made the dog bark, and the conductor looked in to say, " Well, if ever I see such a row." " Easton-road, please," said Clytie, turning into a business woman all at once. The unwelcome place seemed to come directly; as I turned from helping the child out, I saw the cross woman's face breaking up into tears. " It's queer," she said, " but I feel like to cry to see Ler so merry." I was unpleasantly conscious of what my dear mother used to call the apple in my throat, so I was grateful to the deaf gentleman for saying "Eh 1" and saving the effort of replying. We all fell into quietness, but it was curious to notice how forbear ing we grew to one another; the child's great loss, worn like a flowemrown on the heal of some pic tured saint, made our petty discomforts all melt away. The young lady began to play with the baby, the old gentleman with the dog, and I, who object to all gratuities on the principle of never having any money to spare, was absolutely pleased, when the mighty woman handed back her change to her vanquished foe, saying— " Never mind the penny, conductor." Even the cross woman grew quite interesting over a reminiscence of a youth she had known when she was a girl, who had recovered his sight after being blind for a year. I think if, instead of being a plucked civil service candidate, I could be a woman with a mission, I would chose that of my unconscious little Cly tie. ACCIDENT TO A CATTLE DEALER.—A very serious accident occurred on Friday afternoon last to Mr. Benjamin Greaves, of Worksop, an extensive cattlo dealer, who, having been at Lincoln market, called at Gainaboro' on his way home, having some cattle grazing at that place. lla was turning away from inspecting a cow, when it rushed upon him, knocked him down, and gored him with its horns most fearfully. On his attempting to rise the beast again attacked him, breaking his collar-bone, and bruising him all over his body. Assistance was rendered as soon as possible by two boatmen who were on the river bank, and owing to their aid Mr Greaves' life was saved. He was afterwards conveyed to his home at Worksop, and the assistance of Mr li. N. Hett, surgeon, called in, under whose treatment hopes are entertained of his recovery,— Stamford fferceery. The Death of General Morgan. (From the Abingdon Virginian.) On the 3d September, accompanied by the brigades of Giltner, Hodges, and Smith, a detachment of Vaughan's, with four pieces of artillery, Gen. Morgan and his staff approached the town of Greenville, Tennessee. Scouts had brought the information that the enemy were not nearer than Bull's Gap, 16 miles distant, and, in addi tion, a guard had been sent into the village to recon noitre. Upon the report of the entire absence of the enemy, Cassel's battalion, commanded by Captain I. M. Clarke, together with four guns, were posted some 300 or 400 yards from the Courthouse, when General Morgan and his staff entered and established their headquarters at the residence of Mrs Williams, near the centre of the town. Shortly after the advent of the guard in town, young Mrs Williams, daughter of the lady at whose house General Morgan had his headquarters, disappeared—a scout was sent for, but could not find her, and as she returned with the enemy next morning, it app ears she had ridden all the way to Bull's Gap, and had given information of Morgan's whereabouts, and the strength of the guard. After visiting the camps and seeing that pickets had been duly posted, General Morgan and his staff, at a late hour of the night, retired to rest. They were startled from their slumbers about 6 o'clock on Sunday morning by the elder Mrs. Williams, who informed them that the Yankees had surrounded the house. The General and his staff at once sprang from their beds, armed themselves, and rushed out at the opposite door to that at which the Yankees were thundering. On the side of the house where they escaped there is a very large yard and garden, with a great deal Of foliage and a vineyard. These, together with the basement of the oli hotel at the south-western extremity of the grounds, enabled them to conceal themselves for a time ; but the Yankees by this time began to appear so thick and fast around them that concealment became hopeless, and they rushed out to attempt to fight their way through, in the hope of succour and assistance from the battalion so near at hand. The officers with General Morgan were Major Gassett, and Capts. Withers, Rogers, and Clay, and a young gentleman named Johnson, a clerk in the office of the Adjutant General. At this time they were all, except Withers and Clay, in the basement of the old hotel, occu pied by Mrs. Fry, who was all the time calling to the Yan kees, informing them of the hiding place of the "rebels." Seeing escape almost hopeless, General Morgan directed Major Gassett to examine and see if there was any chance of escape from the front of the basement into the street. Major Gassett looked, and replied that there was a chance, but it was a desperate one, which Gen. Morgan did not hear, as at that instant the Yankees charged up to the fence separating the hotel from Mrs. Williams's ground, when the General, with Major Gassett, Captain Rogers, and Mr Johnson, sprang out in the direction of the vineyard, when the two latter were captured and the General killed. The latter had just fired his pistol, and was in the act of firing again when he fell. Capts. Withers and Clay had not been able to get out of the house, and concealed themselves in or near it. Major Gassett, in the meantime,sought shelter in the basement and vineyard alternately, but could not elude the vigilance of Mrs Fry, who was all the time directing attention to his whereabouts. Being the only rebel left— Withers and Clay having been discovered and betrayed by a negro—Major Gassett's ingenuity was put to work to avoid capture. Mrs Fry knew he was in the basement, and the Yankees were as thick around him as snakes in harvest. After passing to and fro several times between the basement and the garden, all the time under fire, he finally took shelter in the former, and at an auspicious moment sprang into the street, gave, Mrs Fry a parting blessing in his exit, mounted a horse hitched mar by, and made his escape. A great many shots were fired by tho Yankees, but the only one which took effect was that which killed Gen. Morgan, piercing his right breast, and ranging through diagonally. Withers, Rogers, Clay, and Johnson are now, we presume, in a Yankee prison, and Major Gassett is again on duty with his command. The general was determined never to surrender, and told members of his staff they must not give up. He was heard to say, " They have got me sure," when he drew his pistol and commence i firing. After General Morgan had been killed, the unfeeling brutes threw his lifeless body across a horse, and paraded it through the streets. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1864. Naval and Military Intelligence. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of the Admiralty, accompanied by Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., Rear-Admiral Robinson ; Capt. Hall, ptivato secre tary to the Duke; Mr Alfred Buckley, the director of engineering and architectural works, &c., left town on Saturday evening at 8 o'clock for Paris, to proceed via Mar seilles to Malta. Her Majesty's steamer Enchantress awaits the Duke's arrival at Marseilles to convey the party to Malta, for an official inspection of the contemplated new docks. A most extraordinary rumour was current on Saturday and yesterday at Portsmouth, and from inquiries made there is every reason to believe that it is well founded. It is that the Itoyal Sovereign turret ship is to bo paid out of commistion and placed in the first class of the Steam 8... serve. The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. E. Lacey, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday from Plymouth, with the 31st Regiment on board, under the command of Lieut-Col Eager, The regiment was landed at the dockyard soon after the Himalaya's arrival, and forwarded by special train to Alder shot. During the past week a trial of naval rifles, converted to breech loAders on the Mont Storm priaciple, has taken place on board the Excellent, gunnery sLip, at Port smouth,under the superintendence of Capt. A. C. Key, C.B. The trials, we are informed, have teen attended with the most com plete success. and Capt. Key has expressed himself tho roughly satisfied with the principle and its adaptability to the present naval rifle. Several slight improvements have been made in the mode of fitment, and in the ammunition, since the last trial. The special ammunition prepared for the ordinary Mont Storm rifle, or the ordinary Enfield am • munition, as now issued, can be used with the converted navy rifle. This weapon can also be used as a muzzle or breech-loader. It can also be leaded at the breech with the prepared or Enfield cartridge. The cost of conversion is stated to be about 30s per arm, The Perchester, which has been chartered by Govern ment for the conveyance of convicts to one of the penal settlements, embarked this morning 90 convicts from the Chatham convict pi icon, for conveyance to Gibraltar, where they will be employed on the public works. The Porchester will also call in at Portsmouth and Portland, at each of which places she will embark convicts for conveyance to Gibraltar. On Saturday a detachment of 40 troops em barked on board as a guard over the convicts. - The iron screw steamship Omuta, 2, Captain Henry W. Hire, left Plymouth on Saturday morning at 2 o'clock for St. Helena, the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, and the East Indies, conveying a number of Royal Artillerymen and some engineers, under command of Col, M'Clean and in medical charge of Dr. Voss, together with several naval supernumeraries. Sho got as far as the entrance to the Channel when a first-class boy, Henry Kitt, having ex hibited inlications of sickness which Mr Sabben, her sur geon, considered might terminate in smallpox, she returned immediately, and arrived in the Sound in the afternoon ; and having landed the patient, resumed her voyage within an hour. The boy is now in the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, but up to yesterday (Sunday) morning the disease indicated had not developed itself. The screw steam corvette "Wolverine, 21, Capt. Algernon F, de Horsey, left Plymouth on Saturday for North Ame rica and the West Indies, taking supernumeraries for ships on these stations. A detachment of the 31st Regiment, numbering GO non commissioned officers and men, under the command of Capt. F. J. Cassidy, with Ensign A. A. Yeo, left the depot of that regiment, at Chatham garrison, on Saturday for Alder shot camp, for the purpose of augmenting the service com panies, which have beer considerably reduced from casual ties and discharges. The officers who left Chatham in charge of the draught will rejoin their depot at the garrison. The unusual ceremony of what is termed "drumming out" one of the corps of Royal Engineers took place at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, on Saturday morning. In accordance with an order from the Horse Guards a full dress parade of the whole of the officers and men now at headquarters was held on the barrack parade ground for the purpose of witnessing the proceedings. The prisoner, Wm. Watkins, of the 37th company, although he has only been in the corps about three years, has been tried 11 times by court-martial for various offences, and he has hardly done a single day's duty since he has been in the service, almost his whole time having been spent in prison and under pun ishment. On the last occasion of his being• tried by court martial—which was for desertion and making away with be branded with tha letters "B. O." (bad conduct), to be uniform and regimental necessariesee -he was sentenced to marked with the letter " D," to be imprisoned for three months in Canterbury gaol, and to be dismissed the service with ignominy. After the corps had been formed the various courts-martials held on the prisoner v, ere read, as well as the order of the Duke of Cambridge for his discharge with ignominy. The prisoner's buttons were then cut off, and he was marched through the ranks to the tune of the 4 6 Rogue's March,' and finally handed over to a strong escort at the barrack-gate for con veyance to Canterbury to undergo his imprisonment. The prisoner danced and jumped whin going through the ranks. A strong disposition was manifested by his late comrades to hiss him, and it was with some difficulty that they could be prevented disregarding in this manner the strict rules of the service. The deaths of the following officers have been reported at the Admiralty since the 29th of Juno last :—Admirals the Right Hon. the Earl of Cadogan, C. 8., H. 0. Grady, B. C. Cator, W. Popham, and H. Litchfield—Vica-Adm!- rals the Hon. T. Best, J, brasier, W. Morier, and J. Drake —.Caws. J. F, C. Hamilton (killed in action), G. Brown, J . , Lindsey, the Hon. A. S. Douglas, F. Grove, A. D. Fordyce, C. H. Jay, J, H. Brown, C. 8., W. Robinson, and J. F. L. Wood--Commanders F. A, Ellis, E. Hay, C. K. Scott, J. Long, C. Robinson, J. George, S. Hill, T. Mowbray, T. Atkinson, C. Caldocott, E. Blight, A. Samthill, and J. C. Robinson—Lieuts. C. 11. Smith, G. A. T. Drake, A. An derson, C. Hill, C, F. Ryder, H, Iz It. 0. L, Madden, and G. W, Lewis--Staff Commanders J. Dillon and R. Beecroft—Masters 11, Hutchings and J. H. Ryan—Chap plain tho ftev. I'. Howo—lupcotor-General of Hospitals J. Drummond—Surgeons S. Bailey, 3. H. Acheson, and 1 J. Davis, M.D.—Asriis,-Surgs, W. H. O'Toole, M.D., J. O'Brien, F. A. Curran, and H. S. Willmott—Paymasters H. Gray, J. Watton, W. K. Cowley, E. Griffin, and A. H. Gilbert—Assistant-Paymasters %V. A. Crump—Chief Engineer A. W, Buist. Royal Marines—Col, E. T. P. Shewen—First Lieuts, W. R. Alder, J. Chambers, and R, G. Hallilay—and Second.L.eut. F. Hewett. The deaths of the following officers have been officially reported at the War-office since the let :of September : Lieut,- Generale E. Byam, col. of the 18th Hussars, :and J. W. Frith, col. of the 3d Buffs—Major-Generals A. F. Crawford, Royal Artillery, and E. Vicars, Royal En gineers--Col. F. Browne, C,8., 66th Regiment. Capts. W, M. Gowan and C. L. H. M'Ternan, Royal Artillery—A. E. Lockhart, Royal Engineers—W. Stewart, Ist battalion 3d Regiment—T. B. Holloway Ist battalion 21st Royal North British Fusiliers—G. Thorne, 4th West India Regiment— R• Macdonald, 12th Regiment—and T. M. Cockerill, pay master, 3d Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards. Lieuts. B. C. Cochrane, Royal Engineers—G. Turner, instructor of musketry, 2d battalion Queen's Royals—J. Parsons, 31st Regiment—W. H. Gore, 33d Regiment—E. Harding, 76th Regiment—D. J. Boileau, 90th Light Infantry—W. H. B. Fitzgerald, 107th Bengal Infantry—A. F. P. Cosens, Ist West India Regiment—H. W. Frampton, Royal Marines— A. M'Duff, 100th Regiment--B. S. Pinniger, 6st West India Regiment--and A. M. Hay, Lieut. and Adjt. J. 4.drausa. Ensign B. B. H. Popham, 2d battalion Queen's Royals, Staff Surg. Major H. Franklin—Surg. J. Clarke, M.D., Ist battalion 15th Regiment—Assist. Surgs. H. S. Lodge, M. 8,, 2cl battalion 2d Regiment—D. Milroy, M.D., 30th Regiment—and G. Youell. Deputy Purveyor H. Hen derson. Deputy Assist. Superintendent of Stores C. Woo fold. The following appointments have been:made at the Ad miralty :—Lieut. W. Moriarty, to the Britannia, additional, for service, in command of the Dapper—Lieut. H. C. Kane to the Excellent—Lieuts. H. York and E. G. Maddock to the Achilles—Sub-Lieut. R. F. Britten to the Achilles —R. H. Armit and J. Philips, midshipmen, to the Victory —The Hon. D. 0, Murray and S. G. Smith, .midshipmen, to the Achilles—G. A. Smith, nominated to a naval cadet ship—Dr J. W, Reid (B) and J. D. Macdonald to the Vic tory, additional for Haslar Hospital—James Parker, assist- Burg., to the Sharpshooter—G. H. Maunsell, assist.-surg., to the Cambridge—C. R. Mulvany, assist.-surg., to the Nimble—T. Robinson, second master, to the Nimble—J. M. Ross, master's assistant, to the Nimble—W. Ramsey, assist.-paymaster, in charge, to the Nimble—G. B. West cott, assist.-paymaster. to the Impregnable—J. Dearden, engineer, to the Nimble—W. Roberts, engineer, additional, to the Saturn, for the Asp—J. Stocks, promoted to first class assist.-engineer—R. H. Dobney, first class assist.. engineer, to the Nimble—and E. C. Scourer, second class assist.-engineer, to the Nimble. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE " SPECTATOR" ON LORD BROUGHAM. — Lord Brougham in his eighty-sixth year discourse ing at York on almost all things human, and moderating the discussions of acute men who have given much time and thought to special subjects, is a spectacle at which all England, always full of admiration for the pluck of aged men, is naturally delighted. Nor is the satisfaction probably dimi nished by the obscure feeling that Lord Brougham is in many respects the impersonation on a great scale of the eager, restless, ambitious, half-success ful intelligence of the rising middle class of Eng land in the nineteenth century, We say " half successful," for great as have been the worldly sue. ceases—the political and social achievements of Lord Brougham, it is of the very essence of that character which he represents to rest in no achieved result, never to enjoy the placid intellectual sere• nity and wide horizon of old age, never to sink back even intellectually, on the calm of a highly discip lined judgment, but to grasp hastily to the very last at every opportunity of putting knowledge to ambitious uses, and making it subserve social ends. We are not now speaking of any moral character istics in the restless intellect of Lord Brougham, but simply of that undignified absence of fitting repose there is in it, of that want of the enjoyment of lu minous thought for its own sake e that uneasy fret ting and fuming of accute intelligence which pros claims that its end is less truth than some kind of power. There was a striking contrast to Lord Brougham in this respect in one to whom Lord Brougham paid the other day a somewhat inflated tribute, and who cannot in any way be regarded as morally Lord Brougham's superior. Lord Lynda hurst rose from precisely th) same class, and made, apparently at least, a less ecrupuloue use of his very great powers than Lord Brougham. Yet intel lectually he did not represent in any way the same type. His was the calm, luminous judgment which rested quietly, almost like Goethe's, in the lucidity and maturity of its own thoughts. His ',test speeches were remarkable for their light, their breadth, thoroughness of intellectual penetration. They seemed the ripe fruit of a placid judgment that had no interest in expressing any thought before it was spread clear and keenly before his mind. Lord B. oughem, in the energy of his desire to pay a trie bute toLord Lyndhurst, invoked him in a quotation which, by the rawness of its eloquence and strange unfitness for its purpose, would probably have an noyed Lord Lyndhurst more than the tribute would have gratified him, and which certainly marked the wide gulf between Lord Brougham's eager, vigor ous, acquisitive, but showy and superficial intelli gence, and his contemporary's wide, calm intellect. Soul of the past I companion of the dead I Where is thy home, and whither art thou fled ? Back to its heavenly source thy being goes Swift as the comet wheels to where he rose. Faith lured thine eye to deathless hope sublime, Beyond the realms of nature and of time. Is it possible to conceive lines which the cold and lucid lawyer would have felt more utterly inappro priate to his own worldly sagacity and clear, tran quil self intereet P If either of the two were ceme tery it is certainly the irregular, dispersed, disor ganised, heady, straggling genius of Brougham, with his brilliant tail of popular following ; but Lord Lyndhurst, could he have pronounced Lord Brougham's epitaph, would certainly have found something expressing a more precise idea than this versified rhodomontade. We purposely choose the comparison in intellect with Lord Lyndhurst be. cause we do not ad mire Lord Lyndhurst's career. Lord Brougham's ambition has been far more useful to the world than Lord Lyndhurst's. But the type of mere intellect in the latter was much the higher of the two. It was not of the kind which snatched so eagerly at useful knowledge for the sake of its ap plications—it rested far more tranquilly in the pleasure of lucid insight. It would have been simply impossible for Lord Lyndhurst to produce the many vigorous,various, often useful,al ways incomplete and ambitious, intellectual efforts which have dotted so thickly Lord Brougham's career, and have degene rated lately into the onznium gatherum addresses— whose only merit it ie to picture pretty accurately the loose half-knowledge and slipshod judgment of our busy nineteenth century on all conceivable sub jects—with which he no w annua lly i n t ro d uce s social seience to our notice. The true difference be tween the two intellects i s th a t w hil e L or d Lynd burst's intellect eubserved his own private purposes directly, Lord Brougham's often subserved the public interest through his huge appetite for popularity and the latter process curiously enough disturbs and deranges the mere intellect even more than the coldest self-interest. A great lover of popularity gets accustomed to the restless and partly theatric habit of looking at everything with a thousand eyes besides his own ; but cold and passionless self-interest finds its account in facing the absolute truth, so far as it can arrive at it, pri vately, whatever suppression it may find it desirable to make in public. Lord Brougham has with great Justice been called Argus-eyed ; but though many eyes are useful to an orator, it is scarcely a compliment to his intellect. The many-eyed crea tures, mythical or actual, get many glimpses of the world from before and from behind which others do not get, but after all this must confuse their con ceptions of the universe if they have any. Intel. lect is homogeneous and single, though it may make use of many channels of apprehension ; Lord Brougham never seems to take a c e nt ra l intellec tual survey of his subjects. His mind is a tangle of strong popular middle-class views. THE" SATURDAY REVIEW" ON P ARTY N AMES .— There is, or used to be, a class of politicians whose 'They principle w as t o " stand b y their colours. " They were sometimes a little puzzled at finding that the meaning of blue and yellow was not fixed by the hand of nature, but that the Tory symbol of one county spoke a Whig language in another. Nay, we know at least one county, Northampe tonshire to wit, where blue had one meaning for the county and another for the borough. A burgher of Northampton, who chanced also to be freeholder of Northamptonshire, must have pain fully conflicting duties. In another part of Eng. -land we have heard of a' man who had votes for two boroughs —WO think they were Nottingham and Newark—where blue and yellow interchanged their meanings in the same way. We forget whether the honest man was blue or yellow, but he regularly voted for the Tory candidate in one town and for the Whig in the other, and then prided himself on his consistency in being always true to his colours. Here, then, is a class of politicians who can be appealed to only through their eyes; there are others who are governed by the oar in a manner hardly more intelligent. No doubt there is many a man who would acorn such consistency as voting always for blue or for yellow, yet who votes always for Whig or Tory in a manner almost mechanical. Nor is the matter mended by substi. tuting the new-fashioned- names Liberal and Con servative for the old-fashioned Whig and Tory. The descriptive name gets es completely identified with a secondary meaning as the word which is utterly meaningless. Liberal ceases to mean liberal, and Conservative to mean conservative; they simply mean support of Lord Palmerston's Administration or of Lord Derby's Opposition. The Liberal elector would often have great difficulty in showing that there was any particular liberality in the course to which his party is committed ; it is, however, in his eyes a Liberal course, because it is supported by a Liberal Administration. It would be almost harder for the Conservative elector to prove just now that the policy of his party is, in any special way, conservative ; for to be conservative in oppo sition is quite as difficult as to be liberal in office. In short, the use of descriptive names—the assump tion of certain merits or qualities as characteristic of the party—seems really to serve no purpose ex cept that of supplying the adversaries of each party with a weapon of derision against it. If the Conservative measure is not conser vative, if the Liberal measure is not liberal, then great is the joy of the other side. Whig and Tory, as being quite meaningless words, had no disadvantage. It was of course easy to reproach either party with the inconsistency of its acts with its principles, but the inconsistency did not involve any such contradiction in terms as is involved in the notion of a destructive Conservative or an illiberal Liberal. A party name of this sort has the same kind of disadvantage as a personal name expressing any marked quality. If Mr Long happens to be very short, politeness hinders you from laughing at him because of it, but the gro• tesque incongruity makes you laugh in your sleeve. But if the Liberal is illiberal, or if the Conservative is destructive, you do more than laugh in your sleeve ; you are delighted with the opportunity of laughing as loudly and as publicly as you can. When we say that Whig and Tory are meaningless names, we do not intend to imply that they are sounds absolutely without meaning, or that it was without a meaning that they were given to the two great English political parties. Both names had a well-known meaning in the neighbouring countries ; the Whig was a being well known in Scotland, and the Tory was equally well known in Ireland. The names were originally given to the two parties by their respective adversaries as names of contempt. It is curious that both parties should have gradually adopted them as honourable badges. This could hardly have happened if the names had not been, to English notions, so meaningless in themselves. When we call them meaningless, we mean that, to an English ear, they are not descriptive; they in volve no profession of political faith; they would convey no idea whatever to one who understood the English language but knew nothing of English politics. The names soon became mere arbitrary signs for the two parties, simply meaning those two parties and nothing else., " Tory" came to mean Tary, just as " horse means horse. It is not so with names like Conservative and Liberal—names which have a meaning, ann which consequently make a profession. Every one who knows the language at once sees what sort of profession is made by the severe' parties. If he finds that the practise of either party does not agree with the name, he is struck with the inconsistency. He will say, at the first blush, that the so-called Conservatives are not really conservative, or that the so-called Liberals are not really liberal. But he cannot thus, at the first blush, say that the so-called Tories are not really Tories, or that the so.called Whigs are not really Whigs, because the words Whig and Tory convey to him no meaning except as the arbitary names of the two parties. Before he knows whether they are consistent or otherwise, he must study their past history and their present policy. The in convenienee of a descriptive name comes out very strongly in American politics. What are Democrats and what are Republicans? The Democrats are not more democratic than the Republicans ; the Repub licans are not more republican than the Democrats. The names are even more puzzling than Liberal and Conservative, because, in their literal sense, they more distinctly express recognised pa litical opinions. That is to say, it may be a matter of opinion what is Liberal and what is Conservative, but Republic and Democracy are terms which can be defined be forehand. In the common acceptation of words, Republican is a genus, of which Democrat is a par• titular species; in that acceptation of words we should say that both the American parties are alike democratic and consequently alike republican. Historically, it is not difficult to see how the name Democrat obtained its special party meaning ; it is not so easy to see how the like happened to the name Repub'ican. But, as the names are now applied, they are perfectly meaningless ; they afford the best possible opportunity for retorts and mistakes of every kind. It is not long since an article appeared in the limes, which began with some general speculations on the nature of democracies, and then went on to quote the American Demo cracy in illustration of some of them. A few more lines showed that the words American Democracy Were not to be taken as equivalent to American Republic, but were intended to express the Demo cratic party as opposed to the Republican party. The writer, in the innocence of his heart, evidently thought that a Democratic party must illustrate the nature of an ideal democracy in some way in which the Republican party failed to illustrate it. The turning about of American political names are specially curious. While the Federal Constitution was under discussion, the great dispute about Federal and National arose. Should the Constitu tion be National, or should it be only Federal ? Here the word Federal was te..ed to express the party which wished to give the smallest degree of autho rity to the central power; their opponents, it was argued, were for giving the power so large a degree of authority that the Constitution would cease to be a Federal Constitution and become a Consolidated one. But when the Constitution was actually estab lished on a basis intermediate between the two ex treme theories, then the word FI deral, as a party term, changed its meaning. It now meant, not the party which was for giving the central power the least authority, but that which was for giving it the most. It meant the party attached to the Federal power as distinguished from the power of the States. The opposite party called themeelves,firstßepublicans and then Democrats, evidently as implying that the Federalists had forsaken true republican and de mocratic principles. Jefferson, in his inaugural address, used the words, " We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans," words which to many of his hearers sounded like a contradiction in terms. Of course Jefferson meant to conciliate by falling back on the original meaning of both words. In that meaning all were Republicans and all were Federalists. Adams was a Republican, in so far as he had no wish to establish a monarchy; Jefferson was a Federalist, in so far as he had no wish for a consolidation of the States. Thus we might say in England, We are all Liberals and we are all Con servatives. We are all Liberals, in so far as no one supports measures which he allows to be illiberal. We are all Conservatives, in so far as there are cer• thin fundamental institutions which no man wishes to disturb ; we are all Conservatives, in so far as no one avowedly professes himself a destructive. A Radical Reformer may on his own showing be per fectly Conservative; it may be his very wish to preserve the institution itself which makes him so eager to tear up all its abuses by the roots. In all these cases we fall back on the original meaning of the word as distinguished from its secondary party meaning. It is in this sense no contradiction to say that all Americans are at once Democrats and Republicans, that all Englishmen are at once Libe rals and Conservatives. But it would be a contra diction to say that all Englishmen are at once Whigs and Tories, because Whig and Tory have practically no primary meaning. The historically primary meaning of Scotch falaties and Irish banditti is quite forgotten and is quite inapplicable. In some eases. party names, without being so completely unmeaning as Whig and Tory, yet completely drop their primary meaning, so that it is not in the least thought of when the words are uttered. The word Quaker, for instance, has quite lost its original meaning. Nobody expects a Quaker to be more given to quaking than the most orthodox Churchman. In fact, Quakers are just the people who do not quake ; they are commonly the most calm and self-pos sessed of mankind. The word Quaker, then, is neither unmeaning, like Tory and Whig, nor yet does it retain its primary meaning, like Liberal and Conservative. Liberal end Conservative are terms which are still capable of a serious retort, while the word - Quaker can yield nothing beyond the mildest of puns. Of course there is this diffe rence, that the Quakers did not invent the name, nor do they formally accept it. You may, there fore, charge the illiberal Liberal with inconsistency, but you cannot bring any charge against the Quaker who does not quake, because he never undertook to quake. The term Methodist, originally given, like that of Quaker, in contempt, and still often uttered in a contemptuous tone, is, unlike that of Quaker, formally adopted by the body to which it is applied. But the original allusion implied in the word Me thodist--namely, to a sect of ancient physicians— Was so very far-fetched and unfamiliar that the word may be looked upon as practically unmean. ing. Guelfs and Ghibelines were something like Quakers and Methodists. That is to say, the names bad a meaning when they were first given in the twelfth century, but they had quite lost it long before the beginning of the sixteenth. One may doubt whether the Guelfs and Ghibelines of that age retained so much as the general notion of being for the Pope and the Emperor respec tively ; they certainly had forgotten every thing about Duke Welf and the Castle of Wiblingen. So, most likely, the Shanavests and the Caravats had at first some intelligible ground of difference, but they went on breakin g one another'e heads long after the original dispute was was forgotten. So, again, some of the lesser and temporary American names probably had some meaning or other, though at this distance we can - . merely guess at it. What Es a Hard Shell ? 'What IS a Barnburner? The Hard ..S .l hell is beyond our po wer of cracking; he is us hard as Whig or Tor y m e ss seem to a Chinese, But tho Barnburner suggests many curious speculations. We can hardly believe. that there ever was a political p a rty whose avow ed principle was to burn down their neighbours' barns We can hardly believe that, as we may crow over the illiberal Liberal or the despotic Republid can, so it wuold be a legitimate r been guilty of arson. It strikes us on the whole that those political names are best which are the most purely arbitrary signs for their several parties-- those which are the most unmeaning, the leas t descriptive, the least capable of retort. On this principle, Barnburner is a better name than Liberal. and Ghibeline a better name than Barnburner. look at what age and country we will, we shall fi n no arty names which did such goo d s ervice o r which were so thoroughly suited to their end, s! the good old half-forgotten names of Whig a" Tory: THE " EXAMINER" ON WALTER SAVAGE LAS' DOR.—A fortnight ago, at the age of fourscore° and ten, Walter Savage Landor died at his be of in Italy. With the free soul and fine culture ", l a noble Greek when Greece was at her nobles with a depth of true scholarship that mad? t he speech of the great republicans of old a voice to him, and sympathy that gave the rar es , charm of truth to the wit and poetry of his leia ginary Conversations of the Greeks and Itomarl the poet who has gone to his grave so ripe of Ye ar r was an Englishman to his heart's core. Di ev j e r was Greek one man for ninety years ; but Lsou ° „, never changed. His English steadfastness Fe" through his politics, his poetry, his friendshlPS' For seventy years he has been known as a Pee t c i his first verses having been published in 179 5, e n one of Southey's earliest enthusiasms was for Lan . does " Gebir." In al.l that time there has been nee tyranny against which his brave spirit did 13°_,' utter an indignant protest. In early man hee ?' after he had dealt with his patrimony in heroic vein, he led a troop to join the Spanish patriot! who rose against Napolec.'n. In later life, old readers of ours know how mc ny a time through this journal he has launched in pregnant verse his scor n againa,t usurpers of the rights of men, and hymne d ,„ for the soldiers of liberty their lasting praibe. F r e " of heart, free of speech, though pure of soul, an defiant of conventional reserves when he believe them insincere, in his old age the sturdy 1 03 , 6 , whom few equalled in genuine refinement, bro u g ht by his own act the whole avalanche of the resp ec t abilities upon his head. All that he had been, a" that he was, scandal forgot, and that only we i s talked of, which alone in all the public acts a n " words of his long life our after comers Will be ready to forget. COUNTRY MARKETS. YORK—SATURDAY. A tolerable supply of wheat on offer from the farmers th i ti morning, and a quiet trade was done, the prices of las: week were not in all cases realised. Of barley there was an abundant show, and secondary sorts receded is p er c 1 Oats in moderate request, and in favour of buyers. B ean were a moderate show, and rather cheaper. Wheat, red 37s Jo 40s Oats.... White do .40s to 44s Beans Barley .27s to 32s Peas Malt, 58s to 60s per qr.; rye, 30s per qr..; •.l— fi g o ss3 ur ttt s o°o --423:31e; to 32s per sack. LE ICE STEM-.-SATunDaY. To-day there was barely an average show of wheat, tha quality of which was varied. The demand was dull, or; realised about late rates. Barley plentiful, but a slow 6 8 • 1 ,, e 4 —Old white wheat, 42s to 445; red, 40s to 42s per 0 " stone. New white, 44s to 48s`per 36 stone. Malting barlelt new, 33s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 25s to 275; oi.d oats , 30s to 328; Row oats, 24s to 27s per 24 stone. 1 3 ° 3 ' 14 old, 41s to 43s per 33 stone ; flour, 31s to 395, per 20 tittOn°' GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. At our market to-day wheat came well to hand, but til e trade was dull, and prices were in favour of the buyrr ° ' Barley also dull, and sully is per qr down. Oats inactrie: —Old white wheat, 41s to 50s ; red, 39s to 43s per 3 6 s t " new white, 46s to 48s ; red, 40s to 435. Malting barleY, —s to —s per qr ; grinding, 27s to 30s ; oats, old, 23s t 3 265; new, 19s to24s; beans, 34s to 40s; peas, 34s to 3713. NOTTINGHAM—SATURDAY. We had a limited supply to-day, the bulk of the sampl es being of the new crop. The demand was not very brisk! and lest week's prices were maintained. Barley cam e re, ther freely to hand, and sold at is decline. Oats 8 10 " —White wheat, from 42s to 518; red wheat, 40s to 440. Barley—malting, 32s to 358 ; grinding, 28s to 2Vs. 01 4 , 4 old, at 26s to 30s Od; new, 23s to 265. Beans sold at 0/ to 44s per qr. ; new, —a to —a. Flour, fine, 28s to 30s; super, 34s to 37s per 20 stollo. NORWICH—SATURDAY. Thero was a limited supply of wheat to-day, and tracla was dull, at last week's prices. In barley there was a f air supply, and previous prices maiMaiued. Other article° dull. White wheat. 44s to 45e I Red wheat 36s to 389 Malting barley 35s to 36s Chevalier barley 33s to 348 I Distilling d 0..... 29s to 30s Oats.. 24s to 2 0 Flour, 28e Od to —s Od per sack from the miller. DUBLIN-FRIDAY. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white.. 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red .. 21 6 to 24 0 Do., new .... 0 to 0 Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 s. d. 0. d. Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 v o Beans.. . 0 to --- 0 Bere — 0 to ---- 0 Rapeseed - i , Bakers' flour Indian corn Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. I ,?* via Marseilles Oct. I °' Arazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Oct. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.Oct. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 2' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 2„. —, via Marseilles Oct. I °' India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Oct. 1) - ' via Marseilles Oct. v. Portuga 1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. , f,'' via Marseilles Oct. v• Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo: U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 6. by Cry:: packet. Oct. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, l Oct. 14. California. and British Columbia.. FRIGHTFUL DEATH ON THE GREAT WESTE RAILWAY.—On Saturday afternoon Mr R, Cler coroner for Berks, held an inquest at the Railway Ele tel ' Twyford, on the body of a man named Parsons, who Na' employed on the Great Western Railway as a platelaye r s and met his death under these circumstances :—He was I/. work on the line between Twyford and Reading, and during the temporary absence of a follow-labourer he perceived i b down train advancing, and he accordingly stepped on the up-line, when the 345 up-train from Birmingham raPidY„ app. oached, and, striking the unfortunate man on the part of his head, the engine hurled his body a distance °I about 50 yards. One of his legs also was dreadfully crushed. When the second workm an re t urne d he m issed Parsons, but soon found his mangled body, from which li" had entirely departed, and it was evident from the frightful way in which his head had boen smashed that death n 3 1 . 11 have been instantaneous. The accident was not observed by the driver of the train. Deceased was a married pol l ' and lived at Twyford. A verdict of accidental death WB° returned. The barmaid who was accidentally shot at the Windmill Inn, York, by Mr 'Sims Parke, of Manchester' died on Thursday morning. Mr. Parka was so ma ch ; affected by the accident that a medical man stated it wou ld be dangerous to remove him to be present at the It seems that the pistol was left under the pillow by M r ' Wright, an innkeeper, of Hull ; and the jury, while ozone : rating Mr. Parke, expressed the opinion in their verd ict "that great censure is attributable to Mr Wright for the careless manner in which he left the pistol." Births. CLAY.—On the Ist inst., at The Manor House, Chasllur it the wife of Wentworth Clay, Esq., of a son. CoNanEvE. r On the 26th ult., at Chatham, the wife of Captain W, Congreve, of a son. ROBERTSON.—On the let inst., at 6, Brunswick-squ are ' the wife of John Murray Robertson, Esq., of a 01 stillborn. Marriages. BOYSON—SPRIGGS.—On the Ist inst., at the parish au OP, of Wadingham , Lincolnshire Ambrose Philip Boy „ of Wandsworth, Surrey, to Lincolnshire , Eliza, second da u g ' ter of Wm. Spriggs, Esq., of Kennington, Surrey. WEBB— SEARLE.—On the 28th ult., at Reigate Chu,r d ; Edward Henry, eldest son of Hen r y Webb, Esq., l' e m stone Manor House, to Jessie, eldest daughter of Jain Searle, Esq., of Furze-hill, Reigate. Deaths. BRACKENEURY.—On the 29th ult., at Brighton, +.4"' ivb, Brackenbury, Esq., aged 67. BYWA.TEEL.—On the 29th ult., at 63. Albert-street , itc, gent's-park, John Ingram Bywater, Esq of H.M. Gus toms, aged 51. Monnis.—On the 30th ult., at Carmarthen, David Al" ritst Esq., M.P., aged 74. RIDLEY.—On the Ist inst., at 7, Park-terrace, Sydenhalit Maria, relict of the Rev. W. C. Ridley, M.A. SMITH.—Onhe 28th alt-, Wm. Smith, Esq., of the 8 - 91 House, Slleffield,' and of Gray's-inn , barrister• at-111" aged 68. TOLLEMACIIE —On the 27th ult., at Bath, the Hon. bra. Charles Tollemache, widow of the late Hon. Olt". - Toilemaehe, aged 85, ~...... --n--------"-=---- , London: PrinZed and Prbitshed by WILLIAM ANDit}nlr; n of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at I . z Sufi ()Inv , 1"• of Strand, in the Precinct of the S sToy, at th e C CU 41.hltilmx.—Montlay, October 3, 1864.