The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-29 00:00:00

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In this business he succeeded hi s uncle, the late Mr. David Humphery, who was for-• merly the occupier of Hay's Wharf in Tooley-street, which was destroyed by the great fire at London bridge which occurred about two years ago. In the year 1832, during the mayoralty of Sir Peter Laurie, Mr. Humphery was chosen by the livery to fill the important position of one of the sheriffs of London. and Middlesex in conjunction with Mr. Richard Peck. After this, further civic honours were con ferred upon him, and on the 17th December, 18:35, he was elected alderman of Aldgate ard, mad this position he retained until his death. He was sub sequently elevated to the position of chief magistrate in the year 1842, and filled the office in a most exemplary manner. The deceas e d was no t, h o wever, merely content with the position he had acquired in the City; for he was chosen by the electors of the borough of Southwark to represent them in Parliament, and for about 20 years he retained this position, and was always a stanch suppori:er of Liberal principles. He retired from the representa tion in favour of Mr. Apsley Peliatt. The deceased alderman also filled the offices of Master of th e Tallow Chandlers' and Clothworkers' Companies, and was, at the time of his decease, governor of the Irish Society, director and treasurer of the Argus Life Office, director of the Paris and Strasburg Railway, &c. His death was somewhat sudden, as he had within a brief period paid a visit, in com pany with the rest of the members of the society of which he was the head, to the estates belonging to the Corporation of London in Ireland, and upon his return to town he appeared to be in robust health. Some time afterwards, however, he complained of ill 1 - l." radnally sank, until yesterday, when 1. It was found, by the medical geut/owuu attAntled him up to thn time of his death, that he was afflicted with diabetes. THROUGH TRAINS will also run to and from the Great Icorthern and Great Western Railways. The Metropolitan Company's NEW CARRIAGES, lIGIITED WITH GAS, will be ready in a few days. MYLES FENTON, General Manager. Paddington, Sept. 28, 1863. LONDON TAVERN COMP ANY ( Limited). Incorporated under the Companies' Act, with Limited Liability. N°. 22,232. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1863. PRICE..... -..4d. STAMPED ....M. Capital £120,000, in 12,000 Shares of £lO each. First Issue 6,000 Shares. Deposit on application £l, and £1 10s. on allotment, with a further Call not exceeding £2los. within three months. NOTICE. FLORIAN'S HUSBAND, A NOVEL, will be ready at all the Libraries on FRIDAY, Oct. 2, in 3 vols. Also now ready, in 3 vols., GOOD SOCIETY. By Mrs. GRET. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Naval and Military Intelligence. AMERICA. army of emigrants from Europe within the last ten years of 2,500,000 souls, most of whom have marched into these North-Western districts." THE NAVY. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) DIRECTORS. Jose Mr. Alderman ABBISS, Chairman. ph Causton,Eastcheap. Sir tnsack P. Roney q , 15, Longhorn-place. J. W. Chater, Esq., London Tavern, Diansaing Director. (With power to add to their number.) MANAGER. Mr. John Fungc. QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 28. The Inman steamer City of New York, from New York on the 19 th inst., arrived here at 4.20 p.m. to-day. She brings 118 passengers and 246,580 dols.in specie. She proceeded for Liverpool at 4.40 p.m. NEW YoRE, Sept. 18 (Evening). _ _ AY E. The Bank of London, Threadneedle-street; and 450, Strand, W.C. The Confederates hold a strong position on the Rapidan, but are not in large force. Considerable skirmishing has occurred, and 150 Federal cavalry are said to have been captured by tha Confederates. It is reported that Federal General Thomas's corps has met with a reverse at Lafayette, Tennessee. The Southern journals state that the Confederate General Wheeler had a skirmish on the 11th inst. with the Federals near Lafayette, and retired be fore a superior force. D UBLIN IJNIVER No. 370. FOR OC CONT SITY MAGAZINE.-- `OBER. Price 2s. 6d. :NTS. 5. An Old Greek Scene and Adventure. 6. Irish Dancing Fifty Years Ago. 7. Alastor and Eola. 8. Studies of Old Actors. 9. Icelandic Lore and Scenery. 10. Savonarola—Priest, Pa triot, and Martyr. 1. Political Pasquirade and Comic Literature. 2. Wylder's Hand. By the Author of "The House by the Churchyard." Part V. Buckner has captured 300 prisoners. The capture of Little Rock by the Federals is officially reported. The Confederates retreated southward, pursued by th e F e d e ral cavalry. NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (Morning). General Meade's army h as advanced. A battle on the Rapidan is expected. Generals Rosecranz and Bragg are confronting each other in Tennessee. An engagement is immi nent. Gold is higher. Stocks are steady.- 3. Dr. Pentagram on Divers Things. No. 11. 4. Bella Donna ; or, the Cross before the Name. A Ro mance. Book 11. Dublin: George Herbert. ,ondon : Hurst and Blackett. NEW SPORTING NOVEL. Immediately, at all libraries, in Three Vols., Price 31s. 6d. SACKVILLE CHASE. By C. J. COLLINS. London : John Maxwell and Company, 112, Fleet-street. 3fe SOLICITORS. ssrs. Sole, Turners, and Hardwick, 3 and 4, Alderman bury, E.C. BROKERS. Messrs. Eykyn Brothers , 22, Change-tiley, E.C. AUDITOR. henry ~..oney, Esq. (Honey and Humphrys), 14, Ironmonger lane. SECRETARY pro tem. Mr. Reed. Offices—The London Tavern, BishoPsgate-street. PROSPECTUS. It is proposed to form a Company to purchase the business of the well-known London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. The Directors have entered into a provisional agreement 'With Mr. Chater, which g ves them the cption of purchasing the Freehold (within three years), or leasing the property at a fair rental. The stock in trade. good will, wines, plate, furniture, fit tings, &c., are estimated at £30,000, and' the present Proprie tor guarantees a minimum dividend of 10 per cent. on that amount for three years. These estimates have been verified as to the furniture and Plant by Mr. Daniel Cronin ; as to the wines and spirits, by 3fr, R. C, Wilson, of 37, Drury-lane; as to the fre hold, by 31r. Debenham, of the firm of Debenham and Tewson, 80, Cheapside ; and a report has been made on the profits of the business by Mr. Henry Honey, of the firm of Honey and Humphrys, Accountants. The t ompany to take possession on the Ist October next, and the profits will accrue as from that date. The option of purchasing the freehold of constantly increasing va ue, and a substantial guarantee of a minimum dividend of 10 per cent., are obviously great advantages. In the formation of this Company no promotion-money has been or will be paid, and with a view to avo d a'l unnecessary expenses, the offices of the Company will be at the London Tavern. Upwards of two-thirds of the requisite Capital for the first issue has already been subscribed for by Mr. Chater, the Lirectors, and their friends. Forms of Application for Shares to be made in the form annexed to the P ro spectus, w.th deposit of £1 per Share, to the hankers, The Bank of London, Threadneedle-street, and 450, Strand. The Articles of Association can be inspected at the offices of the Company. Prospectuses may be obtained at the office of the Brokers, 12 . Change-alley, E C. ; at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street ; and at the Company's Banker s. The liability of each shareholder will be limited to the amount of his subscription, and if no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in full. TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE LONDON TAVERN COMPANY (Limited). Registered as a Limited Company under the Joint-Stock Companies' Act, 1862. Centlemen,—l request gnu to allot me Shares of £lO each in the above Company, and I hereby agree to accept Buell Shares, or any less number that may be alloted to me, and to pay the deposit of £1 10s. on allotment, and I further authorise you to enter my name on tue Reg ister for the num ber of Shares so allotted. Siffnature •••• •••••••• -•• Address in full Date GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1521. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions, DIRECTORS. Sir mnfTo FARQUHAR. Bart., M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WILLIAM CORTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman henry Hulse Berens, Esq., G. J. ShawLefevre, Esq. - 1 1enry Bonham Carter, Esq. Joh n Martin, Esq. ( liarles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. Tames Goodson, Esq. ' Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. ;! - ohn G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. Henry Vig,ne, Esq. r redk. H. Janson, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. I H e nry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. Noel Whiting, Esq. Thos.Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPAILTMENT.—UNDER Tim PROVISIONS OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In uirers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Eonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon, amounted to upwards of £1,730,000, the Income from the Lite Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every description of property at moderate rates. No expense is incurred in effecting a new Insurance be yond the paymmt of the Annual Premium and Duty, when the Premium amounts to ss. Claims liberally and promptly settled. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies 'which expire at Michaelmas must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. :Tames's street, corner of Pall-Mall ; or with the Company' s A g ents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void. Application for Prospectuses and Agenc ies to be made to the Secretary. ItrINERALOGY —King's College. London.- -LT Prrfealor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a COURSE OF LECTURES en MINERALOGY, with a view to facilitate the study of Geology , and of the a pp lication of mineral substances in the Arts. The Lectures will begin on FRIDAY , October 2, at Nine o'clock, a.m. They will be continued on each succeeding Wednesday and Friday at the same hour. Fee, L 2 28. R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal. ('IELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of .J the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon - Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton. Bart., K.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee , at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs. Ilanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co., bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. ItOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, B.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is FlCCOM prailed by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have NO beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutta and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Retries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W 'Marne, Deacon, a n d _Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 2d September, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this office, until noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of FORAGE. in such quantities as may be required, from Her November, 1563, to 3'st October , 1865, for the use of F o rces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and withinr Majesty's mand. the com- Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or i n person, b e tween the hours of ten an d four o'clock. The Tenders must be p ro p erl y filled u p and sign e d, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Forage"). and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at this Office until 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of Oct ober, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW, in such quantities , s may be required, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from 'st November, 1863, to 31st October, 1861 : FORAGE. 1. Hyde-pa-k, Kensington, Regent's-park, and' Horse Guards. 2. Hounslow and Kneller Halt 3. Hampton Court. 4. Windsor. 5. Brighton. 6. Sandhurst. 7. Enfield. PAILLASSE. STRAW. 1. Brompton House. Ilyde-park, and Kensington. 2. Regent's-park, St. John's-wood, and Portman-street .Barracks. 3. New Barracks, Chelsea. 4. Wellington and St. George's Barracks. 5. Thi, Tower. 6. Hounslow and Kneller 7. Hampton Court. 8. Windsor. 9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore lam. . 10. Croydon. Separate Tenders must be made for Forage and for Pail asse Straw for each of the above-mentioned Stations or Bar racks as Grouped and numbered. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. 'Fenders on the printed limns must be properly filled up and cf.:fled, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the under-mentioned Ithee, under closed envelope (marked on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), before 12 o'clock noon on the 3d October next. W. 'l'.P Com O ra WE ;s, 4 (Sic.;ned) Y-General Deputy Commissary-General's Office, 5 . New-Street, Spring -gardens. London, S.W,, 10th Sept, 1883, RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXIIIBITED IN TDE GREAT ExtirurrioNs OF 1851 AND 1882), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective .nvention in the curative treatment of HEItN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, Is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the m co-Main pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, A Single Truss, 168., 218., 265. 6d., and 31s. Bd. P os t age, ls. A. D o uble Truss, 31s. 6c1., 428., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 428. and 528. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly- NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all oases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are porous, light in s texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn ton 111 ean ordinary ocking. Price 4s. 6d., 75. 6d., 10s., o ea:b. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228. Piccadilly. KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY ING POWDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862, This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un rivalled in destroying Fleas, Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches, Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, Moths in furs, and every other species of Insect. Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs. Being the original importer of this now invaluable article, which has found so great a sale that it has tempted others to vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the autograph of THOMAS KEATING. Sold in packets, ls., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. each, or post free for 14 or 36 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St. Paul's-churchyard, London, E.C. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DRPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life - boats of the Society and other means, since its formation, is 12,800; for wh ich_ services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £lB, 4B cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting -carriages and Boat-houses. Committee The —ommittee desire" to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeb oats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and i's Crews practised in the management of their boats, will q, can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. Committeef gratefultY acknowledge the following con tributions Tier Majesty the Queen X 14. d C a mpbell, the Tlon. Mrs. G. :: •• •• annual i f' 0 0 Clerk. Colonel, R.A. .• .. • • •• annual 50 0 Coats and Co.,Messrs., Bankers .... ' • annual 11 0 Currie, Win. Esq., • • .. .. . • I,i‘daon. 25 0 0 annual 10 0 0 Erie, Lord Chief ustice „ .. -. 41h don.lo 0 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.G.B . •••• !_, 1 7”. 10 10 0 • • • • .• annual 2 0 0 Fenwiek, G. .1., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat. and •• 250 0 0 .. • .. don. sporting Carriage . • 3 0 0 nhdon.lo 0 n Moore, Rev. G. B. • • • . .. ~. d m. _ 1 - - Martin, iI 't eY ' Sir ile v I . I G e n . rGy G. .• Smith, Dirs. George, Greenwich • . .. . 15 5 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. • • .. • 3 0 0 Thom t, s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Ladyship • • • • " • • • • • • 1 6 16 0 Willoughby , d'Eresby, Lord .. • . •• annual 50 0 Donations and Annual t'! , ubscriptions will be thankfully re , eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Banacrltl‘•lrs' .. .. .. Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. "terries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St, James's-street, London ; by al the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the United Ring,dom ; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Inetitution, If, John-street, Adelphl, Lonflcon, iv .C. : The armour-plated screw frigate Caledonia (in tended to carry 35 guns), which has been in No. 3 dock at Woolwich since October last for the pur pose of being plated, was yesterday undocked. The great accumulation of mud and refuse in the river opposite the dockyard rendered this an operation of great difficulty, as the draught of water of the ship was 16 feet 6 inches forward, and 20 feet 6 inches abaft. A slide of hard wood has been laid under the keel of the ship, and powerful " purchases" were attached to her sides and the falls brought to the capstans, so that as much artificial strain might be brought to bear on her removal as was found necessary to lift her over the shallow shelf of the basin, which it was expected she would barely clear. Precisely at two o'clock the word was given by Mr. Turner, the master shipwright of the yard, who had charge of the arrangements on one side of the dock, and Mr. Thornton on the other, when the whole of the men at the capstans started to the work, and the great ship, resembling a huge block of shaped or carved iron, instantly moved. After floating about 40 feet outwards, her sternpost caught the mud in the bed of the river, and at this juncture the towing hawser from the Sheerness tug snapped like a piece of thread, and the vessel was brought up. However, by dint of unusual exertions she was again moved astern through the mud, and was taken in tow by the Bustler, Adder, and Sheerness tugs, and was removed to temporary moorings down the river, to await the early morning's tide. She will this morning go up to the Victoria docks, and be placed under the shears to receive her boilers and machinery of 1,000 horse power, to be supplied by Messrs. Maudslay. The armour plates, consisting of 41 inch rolled plates, from Messrs. Brown and Co. of Sheffield, and Messrs Beale of Rotherham, have been all bent to the form and fitted in their places with the most admirable nicety by the shipwrights, without a single accident or mishap. The smoothness of sur face and finish are deserving of great praise, more especially when it is remembered that the armour casing of the ship has been accomplished by ship wrights only, who till quite recently were utterly unaccustomed to work on iron. Her Majesty's 6.gun paddle sloop Hydra, ordered :o replace the surveying ship Medina in the Med terranean, was yesterday taken ont of the fitting basin at Woolwich and moored in the river to be completed ; and the 5-gun vessel Speedwell, Com mander Cottam, commissioned for service on the West Coast of Africa, was yesterday unlocked and was made fast alongside the receiving hulk for th e transfer of her crew. The iron frigate Tamar, 3, 500-horse power, fit ting at Sheerness for commission, =has completed coaling, and is being pushed forward as rapidly a s possible in her fittings, &c. There is still a great amount of work remaining to be executed on board before she is fit for sea. The Salamander, 6, paddlewheel steamer, ha s been fitted with her engines and boilers in the great basin, Chatham, and on Saturday steam was got up on board for the first trial of her machinery, which was found to work very satisfactorily. She is intended for immediate commission. The paddlewheel steamer Rhadamanthus, 4, 220- horse power, Master C')mmander G. Raymond, is being fitted with new boilers and having some tri fling defects to her hull made good. The following screw gunboats, attached to the three divisions of the steam reserve at Chatham, are ordered to be sent round from that port to Deptford dockyard, where they are to be broken up by the artificers at that establishment—viz., the Fidget, 2, 20-horse power; the Dwarf, 2, 20-horse power ; the Manly, 2, 60-horse power ; the Spey, 2, 60-horse power; the Thistle, 2, 60-horse power; the Mastiff, 2, 60-horse power; and the Tickler, 2, 60-horse power. The high-pressure engines and machinery with which they are fitted are, if arrangements to that effect can be carried out, to be removed from each vessel before it is sent to Deptford. The follow ing will be the only gunboats remaining in the Medway after the above are removed to Deptford, viz., the Carnation, the Sepoy, the Spanker, the Erne, and the Bullfrog, all of which are attached to the first division of the Steam Reserve, and are fitted with condensing engines ; the Louisa, also fitted with condensers ; the Thrasher, which is now being fitted as a tender to the Cumberland, 74, Capt. Hall, C. 8., guardship of the Steam Reserve, and the new gunboats Wizard, Linnet, and Pigeon. The whole of the gunboats directed to be broken up were originally ordered to be sold, but the terms offered for them were not deemed satisfactory by the Lords of the Admiralty. A notification has been received at Chatham that the paddlewheel steamer Cycloin, 6, 1,195 tons, 320. horse power, the Phoenix, 6, 809 tons, 260- horse power screw sloop, and the screw ganvessel Victor, 6, 859 tons, 350-horse power, belonging to the steam reserve, have been disposed of by the Admiralty to Mr. Gibson, of London, with their engines, machinery, and the whole of their gear complete, and their names will consequently disap pear from the new Navy List. The Victor is to be docked in one of the vacant docks, in orler to have her hull examined before being taken away at the expense of the purchaser. The Cumberland, 74, Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., guardship of the Chatham steam reserve, has taken up her former moorings at the entrance to the har bour, having been removed from the steam basin, where she had her jury lower masts taken out, and heavier spars put on board, to adapt her for mut ing the smaller descriptions of vessels of war, ac cording to a plan submitted to the Admiralty by Captain Hall. The Duke of Somerset returned to his official re sidence at the Admiralty yesterday evening from Maiden Bradley, the family seat, in Wilts. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—W. Wright has been nominated to a naval cadetship ; J. L. Rastrick, of the Mi randa, promoted to acting first-class assist.-engi neer; and W. Stratton, assist: engineer, to the Scylla. T" oxF ORD, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Bellini's SONNA MBULA. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean 46e. Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any oi,her man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Also, a Pet formance by Herr SCHALICENBACIT on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTItE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In or d er to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the represent a ti on o f Pro fessor Pepper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, " THE GHOST," from the ricture Gallery to the Concert Ball, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Uesworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. POLYGRAPHIC HALL.-MISS HERAUD and Herr KRITEGER'S celebrated SHAKESPE MAN ENTERTAINMENT Illustrative of TIIE PAS SIONS, interspersed with Descriptive Music, THIS EVEN ING, and every Evening, at Eight; Saturdays at Three. Music by J. C. Beuthin, Esq. Solos Miss Mabel Brent, Mrs, Beuthin, Herr Bonn, Mr. Page, Mr. Stedman, and Signor Nappi. An efficient chorus. Booking, &c., at the Hail, ki ng . William-street, Strand, from Ten to Five, or Tickets of Musicsellers. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill -street, These elegant !looms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, ions. Jullien, of mo"ster concerts cele brity. 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Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate Vie interesting study of MINERALOGY, COY CHOLOGY. and GEOLOGY, at 2, 5,10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. EULOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT. at 149, Strand, W.C. THE ARMY. The I battery of the 4th Brigade of Field Artillery will commence its march from the Ili!sea Artillery Barracks at Portsmouth this morning, for Woolwich, to embark for service in New Zealand. Me fol lowing officers accompany the battery, Lieut.-Col. Barstow in command :—Capts. Betty and Martin; Lieuts. Toogood, Robson, and Donnythorse. It is a very creditable fact, and also suggestive of the present serviceable elate of the field artillery of England, that within one hour of the I battery re ceiving its orders to prepare for embarkation for foreign service, it was complete in all respects, even including its tent equipage, and could have been embarked. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 45. "High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Sd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Sunday an attempt at suicide was made by a woman named Caroline Murray, living at No, 3, Woodin-street, Cornwall-road. It appears she had taken the best part of a bottle of a com pound mixture used for French polishing. She was taken to Guy's Hospital, where the stomach-pump was used by the house surgeon, but she remains in an insensible con ion. [AnvEnTrsrmrgr].—lTolloway's Ointment and rills. — Fear Not.—Though surrounded by circumstances disad vantageous to health, these remedies, properly applied, will cut short fevers, influenza, inflammation, diptheria, and a host of other complaints, always lurking about to seize on the weak, forlorn, or unwary. - The superiority of Hollc way's medicines over others for subduing disease has been so widely and fully proved, that it is only necessary to ask the afflicted to give them a trial, and if the instructions folded round them be followed no disappointment will ever ensue, nor dangerous consequences result. Tn hoarseness and ulcerated sore throat the Ointment should frequently be rubbed on the neck, and top of the chest ; it will arrest the increasing intlAmraltion, alley disquietude, and gr - 01utili7 The whole of General Meade's army is moving forward, and a general engagement is expected un the Rapidan. No positive information has been received as to the strength of General Lee's army, but it is supposed to have been depleted by the despatch of troops to Tennessee and other parts. It is stated at Fort Monroe that Lee is evacuating Virginia, but this amounts to little more than sur mise. The Mobile Register says:—‘ , General Joe John son has assumed the command of the army of Virginia, and a Philadelphia telegram asserts that General Lee has proceeded southward for some purpose." Unreliable rumours received from Memphis state that Generals Bragg and Johnston have driven Rosecranz back, and that their cavalry have de stroyed his communications. Sixteen thousand Confederates attacked General Negley's division, 5,000 strong, at Bird's Gap, and drove him back three miles and a half. On the fol lowing day, however, General Negley recovered his ground with the loss of 35 men. General Bragg has massed his army at Lafayette, and holds the gaps of Pigeon Mountain directly in front of Federal Gen. Thomas's column. The lines of the opposing armies are representedto be a crescent shaped by Pigeon Mountain, which extends like the arc of a circle round Lafayette. The Confederates hold the interior and the Federals the exterior lines. Both armies are within a few miles of each other, but separated by a range of mountains. The latest reports state that the Confederates were moving through Pigeon Mountain Gap, and form ing in line as if for attack. Gen. Rosecranz has as sumed a strong defensive position on Checkamanga Creek, covering Chattanooga. Gen. Bragg is reported to have a larger force than he had at Murfreesboro'. General Longstreet is reported to have passed through Resaca, with 20,000 men. His advance is positively stated to have reached Lafayette. The Confederate troops were hurrying to Atlanta from all directions. According to advices from Charleston of the 15th inst., General Gilmore was shelling Fort Moultrie from Fort Gregg. The Confederates had strength ened Fort Moultrie. A Federal reconnoitring party has been captured on the Savannah Railroad. The Confederates have increased their force in front of the Federal lines in North Carolina. The Confederates in Western Virginia, 8,000 strong, are preparing for a raid. Martial law is to be rigidly enforced throughout Missouri. _ _ The Federals from New Orleans are moving in Texas in three columns ; one by way of the Gulf to Sabine Pass, another by way of Red River to Ope lousas, and another along the Teche. Two gunboats of the expedition arrived at Sabine Pass, which was found to be well fortified. One of the gunboats was destroyed by the Confederate batteries, and the other was captured by two Confederate gunboats which came out for that purpose. The remainder of the expedition retired. The judge of the New York District Court has decided that President Lincoln's proclamation pre vented Writs of habeas corpus being granted in all cases occurring before or after its issue. A fearful state of affairs is reported to exist on the Kansas-Missouri borders. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YoRK, Sept. 18 (Evening.) Money easy. G o ld, 331 ; per cent.prem. Exchange on London, 146/. Stocks steady. New York Cen trals, - 1 - 35 Z ; Illinois, 1241 ; Erie, 1 0 7.1 ; 6 per Cent. United pi States B on d s , 1051. Cotton very firm. Mid. Upland, to 71. c. Flout firm and advancing. Wheat advan c i ng. C orn goo d inquiry. Provisi ons an d coffee ste a d y . S ugar quiet. Molasses good inquiry. Crud e p e t ro l eum quiet at 35,1 c. to 36c. mnd, 70e. . (Front the Special Correspondent of the Times.) CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Sept• 11. _ I shall leave this to-morrow, on my way to St. Louis, Missouri. The Jayhawkers of Kansas held their war council at Paola on the 9th, as they had announced, and mustered 3,500 armed men. They did not, however, carry into immediate execution their threat of a raid across the borders, to the an nihilation of Missouri Bushwhackers, and revenge for the Lawrance massacre. They limited them selves to fiery speeches and thundering resolutions ; the upshot of which was the sending of a deputa tion to Washington, headed by the Senator and Gen. Jim Lane, to demand the removal of the two Generals in command of those districts for the United States Government, Schofield and Ewing. Letters from Washington assure us that the substi tution of Gen. Hunter for the unpopular Schofield was already contemplated by the Cabinet. Whether Hunter or nay other man may succeed in establish. ing the authority of the Government among that border population, and break them of the habit long rooted among them of taking the law into their own hands, time will show. Great exaspera tion, no doubt, reigns in Kansas, and Missouri is a prey to terror and confusion. Mayor Anthony, of Leavenworth, one of the Kansas Jayhawkers, was suddenly arrested by orders of Gen. Ewing, who, however, gave way befor3 popular excitement, and immediately released his prisoner. The guerilla Quantrell is still at large at the head of 1,100 Bush whackers. To do these people justice, their confidence in ultimate success, however remote, their conscious ness of their power to undertake a foreign war im mediately on the termination of the civil struggle, or even simultaneously with it, never belied them selves at the - most critical moments. The bragging faculties of these Yankees transcend all comprehen sion. They ought to borrow the cock from the French, and bet it up instead of the French eagle on their national escocheon, and take "While I live I crow," for their motto. Their attachment to the Union partakes of religious fanaticism ; the idea that their country is to be a world and their nation in a few years a mass of 100,000,000,000 of people is not to be shaken out of their heads. Talk to any man you list, you are immediately referred to the "stunning" results of the last census, to the " 35; 1 ; per 100 increase of the population in 10 years," to " more than 50,000,000 of acres of fresh land brought into cultivation within that same period ;" " the produce of manufactories increased in a decennium from 1,000,000,000 to 1,900,000,000 dols. The banking capital from 227,000,000 dols. to 421,000,000 dols. ; railroads increased in ten years 22,000 miles in length, and their capital from 296 000 000 tiold, to 1,150,000,000 dolp; anti au The Yankees never tire of dinning these big numbers into your ears, and the augment of " hun dreds of millions" in ten years, the doubling of wealth and produce, equally extend to every branch of domestic industry or foreign trade. Without placing too implicit reliance in the numbers of the census, for I am assured that its operations have been neither carefully nor conscientiously achieved, it requires no great persuasion to bring me to be lieve that the prosperity of the Union, and espe cially of the Northern division, was something enormous, and that, without any unforeseen check, the growth of the country and its wellbeing must go on at a rate obeying the laws of geometrical pro gression. Only did not the civil war, breaking out just upon the publication of that astounding census, act as a material check upon the groat tide of Ame rican felicity ? The answer of the West, so far as, after nearly a month's inquiry, I can make out, is unanimously negative. The West was just recover ing from a succession of bad harvests. The price of previsions rose in the same measure as the plentiful supply enabled the Western producers to meet the demand of the war. The inundation of greenbacks, though puzzling and alarming at first, was hailed as a fertilizing element. It was not wealth in itself, but a means to get wealth. The Westerner was as eager to seize on that paper money as he was anxious to rid himself of it. The transmission of property when gold was up at 60 or 70 was astonishingly and almost absurdly rapid and fretful. In this city alone, with 140,000, or, as people here contend, 165,000 Souls, the sales of real estate were in those stormy days reckoned at something like 150 per diem. Now, with gold at 31, or more recently at 28, the sales are about 15 a day, the average in normal times. Money and, what is more, money's worth, was within everybody's reach. Every one had a chance to settle his own affairs and look oat for what seemed to him the safest investment. There has been as yet no serious abatement in this spread of well-being, which, as it certainly took place in spite of the war, the Americans rather too sanguinely ascribed to the war itself. Financially speaking, many of them consider the war as a blessing and look for ward with uneasiness to its conclusion. Neither is the loss in men very seriously felt. The battles of which we have read the long roll with awe and dismay were no doubt sanguinary affairs, and the actual losses of the Northerners in dead and wounded are something appalling. American regi ments have, however, a singular knack of melting away, whether in success or defeat, so that their dwindling to mere squads is not wholly, nor yet mainly, occasioned by fatal casualties in the field. The freedom of the citizen greatly interferes with the discipline of the soldier, and especially during the first campaign the volunteer only considered himself bound to the standards by his own free will. Young heroes coming home from camp without leave were hardly looked as deserters ; they were simply called " absentees," There was no one to interfere with them ; no call from their officers to bring them back to duty. Not a few of them were as ready to enter a second engagement as they had been to break through a former one. When we say that, for instance, Illinois had, before the 31st of December, 1862, sent 135,000 men into the field, we must be under stood to mean that regiments and other corps to that amount at several times left the State, and when we hear that a regiment which mustered 1,000 at its start is reduced to 50 or 60 combatant, we must not be too sure that all the '• balance," as the Americans have it, is either under the sod or in hospital. The answer of the American volunteers to the call was no doubt very creditable. Mere patriotikm would have been sufficient to supply the State with the ele ments of an army equal to a happy prosecution of the war, had the Government only known how to manage them; but the waste and lavish use made by civil and military authorities of the means placed at their disposal shook the volunteers' confidence in their leaders, and they soon tired of being led like sheep to unavailing butchery. The era of volunteer ing came to an end, and was succeeded by enlistment by bounties. It was then that the alien and mer cenary was widely mixed up with the native and patriotic element. The army became rougher and more brutal, but admitted of stronger management, and was, to a certain extent, more readily amenable to discipline. The strongest pecuniary inducements failed in the end to procure voluntary recruits, and then was that Government resorted to that most impro. vident of all measures—conscription. Conscription, however—it is well to be undeceived on that point—was never carried into effect, and was, perhaps, never seriously contemplated. The Bill passed at a time in which the affairs of the North were at the lowest ebb, and attempts to en force it were not made until after Gettysburg and Vicksburg had allayed the worst Northern anxieties, till all necessity for the odious measure was provi dentially removed. New York and other parts of the - North-East put forth their demurrer, and the President, with vain obstinacy, determined to pro ceed with the draught, precisely because he saw that the measure was unpopular. Violent resistance was at an end instantly, but citizens, town magistrates, State authorities, and the whole communities con spired to turn the law into a dead letter, and the Government, after a vast deal of expense, danger, and disturbance, only collected at three times the cost about one-third of the force that was to spring from the draught—a force, with very few excep tions, consisting of substitutes, hirelings, and bounty men of the very worst description. All this for the North-east ; as for the West, we heard not a word of the draught in Illinois and the States further to the West, with the exception of Wisconsin, nor am I sure that a single conscript has as yet been drawn from Ohio ; while Indiana has been declared exempt. With all its readiness to offer up hundreds of thousands of its youth to the national cause, it must not be supposed that the actual loss of the country in men may be very serious. In every city on my way I have always been assured that the men who went out as soldiers were those who could be spared as citizens. Labour in the towns has never ceased from want of hands, and the prodigious spread of agricultural implements (increasing in the last ten years from 6,000,000 dols. to 17,000,000), together with the influx of immigrants from the North of Europe, has enabled the husbandman to pursue his undertakings with undiminished activity. No doubt, the North-West, as well as East, has thriven and thrives by the war, and if there is anything that may have power to alienate all sym pathies, and to set tho heart of every generous man against their cause, it is the brutal exultation, the savage delight with which they hail not only their own success, but the wanton misery which their not over-civilised warfare inflicts over an enemy to whose valour and endurance they are themselves compelled, in unguarded moments, to do full justice. President Lincoln struck the keynote of his countrymen's feel ings when he ordered thanksgivings for the results, whatever they might be, of a war between brethren. The greatest victory in a civil conflict must be looked upon as a subject for national mourning. In con• sonance with the President's note of triumph, every calamity, whether of God or man's own inflicting, which may strike that "Bogus Confedere,cy," as the; call it, is the occasion of 1111Filemly and unmanly mirth for these cold-blooded Northern Ei publicans. Something of the relentless cannibal spirit of vin dictiveness would seem to have crept into the Yankee character from contact with the Red Indian, whose bunting -ground he usurped. " Such a gen tleman in such a county in Maryland was the owner of 400 slaves ; he is now left with 14 betweAt batiks and decrepit men and women." Such items of in telligence are to be read daily in the papers here, followed by insane cries of " Burn Charleston!" and riba!d jokes about the downfall of the ruffian Jeff. Davis, the traitor Lee, and the "Bogu s Confede racy." No doubt, the ruin of the slaveowner is uni versal and complete, and there is a good chance of the negro blotch being removed from the American escocheon. The chances are, however, that an an cient injustice may be repaired by a thousand acts of far more glaring iniquity. The stanchest friend of emancipation surely never contemplated the utter ruin of the master for the more than doubtful bene fit of the slave. There is not even a word said about the Maryland gentleman above alluded to either bearing arms against or evincing any hos tility to the Federal Government. The deeds of spoliation and confiscation which are now being so recklessly perpetrated throughout the invaded South no less than through Maryland, strike the loyal no less than the disloyal, the innocent no less than the guilty, with not the feeblest attempt at discrimina tion, and it is precisely in this unsparing work that the Federal troops are cheered and hounded on by the ruthless outcry of Northern popular opinion. Extermination is urged, not only with savage ran cour, but with a sneering levity, a childish glee, which certainly reflects no honour upon the manli ness of the American character. Peter of the North is now at last beating out the brains of Paul of the South, and he shouts and crows in the eager hope to drown the world's outcry against the fratricide. May be the work of desolation which elicits his loud applause may, at some time or other, recoil upon his own head. I already repeatedly told you how the havoc of the lower lands of the Mississippi fills these Westerners with dismay, makes them anxious about their Southern markets, and causes them to regret the downfall of that Southern com merce which places them utterly at the mercy of the rapacious - Western traders. The time may come when Peter of the West may have a bone to pick with Paul of the East, and then he who succumbs in the strife may look into his own heart to know what moderation and clemency, what tenderness and sym pathy he may expect from American brotherhood, " There is," we are again assured to-day, " almost no business in New Orleans except that connected with the army. Around the whole crescent,' where there used to lie 3,000 or 4,000 ships, there are now hardly 100 vessels of all classes. These are all employed, to some extent, in the military ser vice. The charters of some of these ships are curio sities, and indicate into whose pockets go the many millions of money extravagantly expended in the prosecution of the war. One vessel carrying 3,000 sacks of corn from New York was under char ter at 125 dols. a day, and had been out 122 days, making the cost of freight alone about 15,000 dots., or about 2 dols. 50c. per bushel. Another vessel, that had probably taken Kamschatka in her route from New York to New Orleans, had been out so long and at so extravagant a charter that the corn she brought stood the Government in nearly 5 dols, per bushel when landed in New Orleans," &c. The necessity of " supplying the Department of the Gulf from the North-West, and by means of the Mississippi river," is the great topic of men's thought and talk here, and in the meanwhile all accounts agree in describ ing the navigation of the great river as still unsafe, and both its banks overrun by guerillas daily in creasing in numbers and daring. There are serious complaints of prevailing drun kenness in the army. The evil is less among the soldiers than among the officers, who arc "the liberal patrons of the army merchant, whose tempting spirit cases go to all parts of the lines." Could the cata logue be made out of the shames and crimes, the sacrifices of bravo men, the self-immolation of noble souls thus squandered, the people would stand ap palled. Common conversation singles out this and that commander, and once promising officer, as the victim of this vice, perhaps dismissed in disgrace, or gone home to die, not because of a southern cli mate, but because of a habit the deadly blight of which no miasm can equal. A general lapse into drunkenness among the people is, I am told, one of the most striking consequences of the war. Not a few of the officers of the army are also desperately addicted to gambling. Completion of the Charing•cross Railway, Formal notice was on Saturday given to the Railway Department of the Board of Trade that this important metropolitan railway would be com pleted by the Ist of November, and requesting that the official inspection should be made by the officers previous to the opening of the line for public traffic. The time specified in the contracts for the comple tion of the works has already expired, and the delay in opening has been solely attributable to the slow progress made in the preparation and delivery of the ironwork for the bridges and stations. For nearly 12 months the brickwork has been completed, the rails and permanent way laid, and, with the exception of some of the iron bridges, everything has been ready for the accommodation of that traffic which for months past has blocked up the leading thoroughfares from the 'Vest-end to the City, and which this railway will most conveniently divert from its present channel. The most strenuous ex ertions have been made during the past few weeks by Mr. Hawkshaw, the engineer, to stir up the con tractors for the ironwork; but the dispute in the iron districts has retarded the delivery of a large quantity of:the girders and other portions required for the Charing-cross Station. It is probable that the whole of the works connected with this large and handsome station and the hotel will not be finished by the Ist of November; bat, as the whole of the permanent way will be ready by that time, it has been thought advisable to open at once, leaving the completion of the roof and some other ornamental works, which can be carried on without obstructing the traffic, to be proceeded with after wards. Had the effortsof the engineer been seconded with the vigour and energy which the directors had a right to expect from the contractors, the whole work would have been opened in a finished and completed condition by the middle of the present month. Tho bridge over the Thames has been tested with very satisfactory results, a deflection of not more than three-eighths of an inch taking place in the first span of the Surrey side under a load equal to 700 tons. The hotel, which will be over the offices at the station, is being pushed forward with rapidity, and has now reached beyond the second story. The hotel is being built of stone and white brick with terracotta ornaments, and is from the design of Mr. Edward Barry. The building will have a frontage in the Strand of about 300 feet in length, and it will be set back 100 feet clear from the roadway, leaving ample room for approaches to and from the station without interfering with the accommodation for the ordinary traffic. In addition to the front facing tho Strand there will be a wing on the western side of Villiers-street. The Strand front will hav e a t ower a t eac h end, and the roof will be in the French style, similar in manY respects to that of the Grosvenor and Westminster Palace Hotels. The station has a bold semicircular span of 170 feet, constructed of light ironwork and glass, and will be furnished with suitable platforms fo r the short City traffic, and for the main lino of the South-Eastern Railway. There are four lines of rails on the bridge, but these expand on the Cher i ingset OES side into seven lines, which are included , within the station. The accommodation for foot passengers across the river will be provided for by means of a projecting pathway seven feet in width on each side of the bridge, and the steamboat pas sengers will still have benefit eth --- •Ja, as before, of a pi e r at Hengerford. The Signal posts and the pots at, the junction u ii h the South-Western Reil way in ' the Waterloo-road were tested and adjusted or ) Saturday, and from the excellent m anner in which , the whole of the works had been c arried out by Mr. Wythes, the contractor, there is no doubt that the report of the Government inspector will be of such a character as to admit of the opening of the rail , way by the time specified. .... " Tou BRowtsr," tbut is Major Hughes, of the 19th Milcile,4ex, proposes that gymnastic exercises ehaii be introduced amongst the Volunteers. ------- - THE STEAM RAMS OF LIVERPOOL. (From the Times' City Article.) Although the statement of Lord Russell at Blair gowrie, so far as it bears on the case of the Liverpool iron-clads, was indefinite, an opinion has been gene rally formed in the City that it is the intention of his lordship to cause them to be detained, even if the existing law should be decided in their favour, so that Parliament should have an opportu nity, at the instance of the Government, to pass a measure for the purpose. If this be really the course contemplated, it will be viewed with great anxiety. Not only does it involve the ques tion whether that system can be called " neu trality'' which in the midst of a conflict between two belligerents makes a law to alter the balance in. favour of one of them, and gives to that law practi cally a retrospective effect by detaining the objects upon which, if it now existed, it could be brought to bear, but also whether we shall not enter upon a. path of inextricable embarrassment if we once attempt to commence a plan of selection so as to declare that as neutrals our traders may make and sell certain specific articles, and must refrain from making and selling other analogous articles, it being left a matter of theoretical discussion as to the things to which, under particular times and circumstances, any especial belligerent may be entitled to make objections. With such a precedent established we may be sure that in every future caeaz the most extraordinary demands will be put forth, and that if we point to the law as it stands we shall be told we have nothing to do but to alter it ; that we made such alteration at the time of the American struggle, and that if we now refuse we shall indicate an animus that must be resented. Looking at these points it is believed that, however convenient for the Ministry that proposed plan may be in order temporarily to stave off importunities or threats, there could tcareely bo one for which we might throughout the future have to pay more: dearly. It is felt by our merchants that a Parlia mentary debate on the proposition will draw out every point that either the patriot or the political economist could wish to be weighed, and that in that respect the introduction of the contemplated measure will be attended with advantage, no assem bly in the world being more fitted to deal with it than the House of Commons. But at the same time it is doubted, looking at the possibility of the Ministerial proposal being rejected whether it will not prove that the most expedient course would have been to have stood quietly on the existing law of England and the United States, and not to have given a new pretext for irritation such as will bo afforded by any Parliamentary remarks or decision that may not be palatable to the Washington poli ticians, or that may serve the purpose of diverting attention from indignities inflicted by France by raising an increased outcry against England. PROSPECT OF A GAYER SEASON--The gentle. men of her Majesty's private band, who have been released from duty for some time, are in expectation of receiving orders to resume their services at Windsor Castle during Christmas. GRAPE, CANISTER, SHRAPNEL, AND SHOT.—.. Grape consists of nine shot arranged in thre9 layers, which vary in size according to the calibre of the gun ; they are held together by two plates of about one-fourteenth of an inch less diameter than the calibre of the gun, two rings, a bolt and a nut. The canvas bag arrangement is toe old for this war ; it is not so simple or durable, and has not been used for years. Canister for a gun contains 27 small cast-iron balls, arranged in four layers, the top of xis, the remainder of 7 each; for a howitzer it contains 4S small iron balls in 4 layers of 12 each ; for the same calibre you will see that the balls for canister is a tin cylinder, closed at the bottom by a thick cast-iron plate or a wooden sabot, and at the top by a sheet-iron plate with a handle attached ; the interstices between the balls are closely packed with saw.. dust to prevent crow di ng w h en th e p i ece i s fired. Shrapnel consists of a very thi n s h e ll, w hi c h i s filled with musket balls ; the interstices are then filled by pouring in Melted sulphur; a hole is then bor e d through the mas s of s ulphur and bullets to r e ce i ve th e b urs ting charge. Now to explain the difference between a "shrapnel" of "spherical ease'. and a " shell." The destructive force: of a shra p nel i s what it receives from the charge in the gun, the powder ;i n th e shrapnel b e i ng on ly t o b r eak the en velope and sp rea d the balls, they still moving forward by force of the impulse they received from the charge in the gun. A shell is made much thicker than the envelope of a shrapnel,and nearly OA with powder, and will do no great execution it it explodes on the ground, it having destructive qualities in itself, aside from the discharge of the gun. Ashrapnel has only half of the charge of powder that a shell proper has ; thus a 24-pounder shrapnel contains 175 musket balls an d 6 ounces of powder. A 24-pounder shel l has 12 ounces of Powder. A 6-pounder shrapnel has 39 musket balls and 25 ounces of powder:* American raper. AN AME RICAN FOREST.- - -These forests are gene' ra ll y e ntirely composed of tr ees o f th e same family, which render it impossible to guide oneself, unless gifted with that miraculous intuition which the Indices and huu.. tern possess, and which enables them to march with cu. t a inty in the most i nextricable labyrinths. Wherever the eye may turn, it only their desperat e monotony, and wearying t o the eye by n ameless streams, Perceives immense a rcades of verd ure, i n finitely prolong e d , thatt u a ll runlea l o e nt i wild beasts only crossed at inte rvals b y the tracks of beneath the cover t , an d Which are mixed strang el y to g eth er , and even whose windings cannot possib l y be follo wed. Tho trees, of 3r,unknownagwiooatmcriiinyg places, prodigious height and size, grow closely together, and aro connected by a network of lianas, which, growing in every direction, form an impassable wall ; from the end of the branches bang, in long festoons to the ground, that greyish moss known as Spanish beard, while the tall straight grass, that everywhere covers the ground, shows that human foot has nut trodden the soil here for a lengthened period. 111 theAtuerioan forests, night has mysteries st ill inure terrible. Beneath these immense domes of verdure, which the sun is powerless to pierce even at mid-day, and which remain constantly buried in an undecided clear obscure, the dark ness may, so to speak, be felt; nothing could produce a flash in this chaos, excepting, perhaps, the luminous eye balls of the wild beasts, that dart electric sparks from the thickets, Here, night is truly the mistress; the darkness is peopled by the sinister denizens of the forest, whom the obscurity drives from their unknown hiding-places, and who begin their mournful prowling in search of prey. From each elump, from each ravine, imae confused sounds that have no name in lmman language; some clear and sharp, others hoarse and low, and others, again, resembling al i aw ii n , ;, or sardonic laughter, aro blended in a horrible concert. 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