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 yond 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 mark. 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 effirded 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 curs rents to ruflis 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 Dagco, the southern moat 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 Falsterbo, the southwestern 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 bat 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 Madile. la Countess Horn, who are both to be attached to the suite of her Royal Highness during her .et3y in Sweden ; the follow ing gentlemen intended to form part of the suite of the Prince of Wales :—M. de Durdel, chamberlain ; M. de Fischerstrom, ecuyer ; M. de Simdin, naval side-decamp to the King; and M. de Gyilensam, of the Swedish artillery ; Mr. Hamilton, charge d'affaires, and Mr. Ilenage, secretary, representing the British Legation, with Mr. Hunt, the British consul at Stockholm, &a. The sail from Stock holm towards the Bettie 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 combination 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 them rising sheer blocks of granite from the water's edge. At 12 miles distance from the capita], 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 posi , . tion trade 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'cicck, the Valkyrien encountered her Msjeety's ship Aurora, which was waiting to convoy the English yacht to Stockholm, and for a long time before th© vessels actually 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 w - ey 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 passed Landsort, 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 Waseholne, where those on board were -gain entertained at dinner by Prince Oscar. At 4 o'cicck 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 eenrora and the Valkyrien, the Swedish and English royal yachts had seen no thing of each other till they were dote together. Oa 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. Bea 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 that 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 aatern. 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 be kept himself up for a little time, ho was quite unable to grasp the safety which lay with :n his reach. The yachts had not met at the time he fell 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 Valkyrien in th e littl e tug steamer, Prince Oscar himself hastening and directing the eff.irt. Both boats simultaneously reac h e d the spot, where a tent h of a second before the poor fellow was struggling for life. A hat still marked the place where he ha d been, and a few feet below - it zome cried ' out that they could see a dark mass settling down like a stone. A hasty thrust th of a boathook was made, but it tell short som e ree feet of the mark, and the body never came to the b,hindfo, surface again. The Sala mis rernsine!i the exertions to the purpose of continuing r p e o c• i : t er th - it, but the task is a difficult one, for at that water is from 30 to 40 feet deep. An incident of e'aaracter Law ally disarranged what otherwi se ''. for soma to her the course of events. Th e prisneeNcould.have been cabin, and did not appear on a .6 _c o .,. was fortunate, perhaps, that a litetleucrpotomi time. It into set its . mality, upon which the Swedish g al t r- . b net d of for. heart, turned the thoughts of the party ferent channel. Ifs Royal Highness, adh ‘ eri a n the rule which he ins acted upon throughout hie present journey of appearing as Baron Renfrew, and not as Prince of Wales, contemplated an entry into Stockholm in equally simple morning coAnme to that in which he landed at Elsinore. And to that wish so much respect was paid that the members of the Britishlegation went to meet his Royal High ness 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 gi le to the former a marked degree of in dividual interest—and in no respect is the origin 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 bouring houses, and a mere approach, known as the Lion's Staircase, is a marvel of architecturalbaldness and success. This site is far finer than oar own Tra falgar-square, 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 is Stockholm. Almost every room placed at the disposal of the niece 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 es 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 0-borne could best be seen when she drew up beside the quay. A long platform extend ing for a couple of hundred feet and covered with 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, bat 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 scene. They wore the Swedish Life Guards, and until recently the regi 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.'s favourite cavalry. The straight cocked hat and square-cut coat appear now upon the oceasion of all state ceremonies. Functionaries clad in uniforms radiant with decorations began to appear towards 6 o'clock, and, among others, the Come menden tof the City, the Commander-in- Chief of the Swedish forces, the chief and second in command of the police, &e. 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, as 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, Lights also 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 fishes had in the distance ex actly the effect of sheet lightning, illumining for a second one whole quarter of the sky, and then dying away into shadow as complete as before. For a time, though cheering could be heard rolling loudly along the banks of the stream, it was impos 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 figs, fore and tl a y ft o , f ho l l a d d i i n es g a a n c d o al p a p r a t n l y y oof fosffio me e r 4 i o n , consisting par full uniform, was making its way w i t h t h e aid of all but noiseless oars through deep shadow into the welcome glare of the torches. These reached and foot set on terra firma, it was but a step to the carriages, and as the members 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 speed, an d a spectacle exciting and in the highest degree pleasing was presented. The members of the Royal circle and suite assem bled with as little delay as possible after their arrival at dinner in the castle. The latter was met in two separate, but adjoining rooms, In the inner spar'. ment the King _and Queen of Sweden, Prince and Princess of IV.:les, Prince Oscar and the Queen Dewager,Princo Augustus, and the Danish Minister representing the King of Denmark dined—a purely Royal party—by themselves, In the outer room all the members of the Royal euites, with the English Charge 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 Ref-Theatre at Copenhagen. Five tiers of boxes rise one above the other to the ceiling, the drearations being purely white and gold ; and in the case of the stage boxes there is a curious arrangement by which the size of the ap er t ure , b e i ng reduced to that o f a l arge ova l medallion, the Occupant for the time being pres-.lits 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 proprietor) with the decorations of the Seraphim, of St. Olof, and of the Freemasons. The Prince of W 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 twined 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 cluding 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 caloric one already has in excess, hatred for him, or even her, follows in logi cal sequence, and we were waiting, absolutely wait ing, for more passengers. "Are you going on, conductor?" 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 ba seen; I, being con. scions of an odour of hall - 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 be read aloud—" In case of incivility." There ho stopped, and grunted "Ugh!" But that conductor was conquered; Low 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 after this. " Please help me in, I'm 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 it she had been in very truth what she looked like—my parian Clytis —the same sweet face, with the delicate features aui 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 grow popular. "Do they let you go fir alone " said the cross woman. " Oh, yes." The little one gave a low glad laugh of triumph. " I've been to the blind school ; I can do everything for myself now." " Wculd you mind saying that again, my dear I'm very deaf," said the old gentleman. She re peated her sentence, adding, with an old womanly pity, ‘`lt mu3t 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 I such a little darling, but she was ill for a long time, so long," Cly tie's voice faltered, as though she were living over again a great sorrow. " But she is well now ?" I said. " Oh yes, quite strong, and it is so nice." "Hive you many sisters and brothork ?" asked the young lady." an great fat f e ll )w , an d h e l aughs, you can ' t y b No, ho Emy, and one b ro th er , b a by- T om ; think how he laughs." If it was anything like the musical rill his sister sent rippling through the sir, I should like to have heard that baby. " What does he laugh at ?" said the cross woman, " Oh, everything; at Emy and me, wh en we pl a y , when th ere ' s dump the floor, an d l aug h s Plinu g n s c , h a a u n d d s tr om ad e y ti ; m a e ll s d h a e t l d ay in s la o e n r at himself, and we laugh too, it's so funny." The little one's mirth was infectious, we all joined in, with various modulations of the roar of the deaf gentleman, who could'nt stop himself, and set us off again, little Clytie clapping her soft gloved hands, 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 consciou3 of what my dear mother used to call the apple in my throat, so I was grateful to the deaf gentleman for saying " Eh I" and saving the eff)rt 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 flower*crown 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 en the principk3 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 wom to 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 bo a woman with a mission, I would chose that of my unconscious little Clytie. ACCIDENT TO A CATTLE DFALEIL—A very serious accident occurred on Friday afternoon last to Mr. Benjamin Greaves, of Worksop, an extensive cattle dealer, who, having been at Lincoln market, called at Gainsboro' on his way home, having some cattle grazing at that place. He 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 hie 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 H. N. Hett, surgeon, called in, under whose treatment hopes are entertained of his recovery.— Stamford Mercury. The Death of General Morgan. (From the Abingdon TY irg;nian.) 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 yllage 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 appears sho 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 oil 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 U. Capta. 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 on!y rebel left— Withers and Clay having been discovered and betrayed by a negro—Major Gaisett's ingenui:y was Fut 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 firs, 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 near by, and made his escape. A great many shots were fired by the 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," sdhen 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. 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, private 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 yes!orday at Portsmouth, and from inquiries made there is every reason to believe that it is well founded. It is that the Royal Sovereign turret ehip is to be paid out of commission and placed in the first class of the Steam R 2, 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 principle, has taken place on board the Excellent, gunnery ship, at Portsmouth, 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, sinee 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 Laded at the breech with the prepared or Enfield cartridge. The cost of conversion is stated to be about 30s per arm. The Pcreheater, 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 prison, 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 o: 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 Orontes, 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. She got as far as the entrance to the Channel when a first-class boy, Henry Kitt, having ex • hibited inlication3 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 lauded 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 been consider a bly re duced 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 c.)rps of Royal Engineers took place at Brompton Barracks, Chatham, on Saturday morning. In accordance with an order from the Horse 0 uards a full dress parade of th e w h o l e o f th e o ffi ce rs and men now at headquarters w a s h e ld on th e b arrac k parade ground for the purpose of witn ess i ng th e procee di ngs . The prisoner, Wm. Watkins, of th e 37 t h company , a l t h o ugh 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 ho has been in tho service, almost his whole time having been spent in prison and wider pun ishment. On the last occasion of his being tried by court martial—which was for desertion and making away with uniform and regimental n ece ssaries—he was sentenced t o be branded with the letters B. C. (bad conduct), to be 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 were 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 " R o gue's March," and finally handed over to a strong escort at the barrack-gate fur con veyance to Canterbury to undergo his imprisonment. The prisoner danced and jumped while 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, 0.8., H. 0. Grady, B. C. Cator, W. Popham, and H. Litchfield—Vice-Admi rals the Hon. 'l'. Best, J. Brasier, W. Monier, and J. Drake --.Capts. J. F, C. Hamilton (killed in action), G. Brown, J. Lindsey, the Hon. A. S. DonKlas, F. Grove, A. D. Fordyce, C. H. Jay, J, H. Brown, 0.13., W. Robinson, and J. F. L. , Wood —Commander s F. A , Ellis, E . H a y, C. K. Scott, J. Long, C. Robinson, J, George S. Hill, T. Mowbray, T. Atkinson, C. Caldecott, E. Blight, A. Samthill, and J. C. obinson—Lieuts. C. H. Smith, G. A. T. Drake, A. An derson, C. Hill, C. F. Ryder, H. Izod, It. 0. L, Madden, and G. W. Lewis—Stall Commanders J. Dillon and R. Beecroft—Masters H, Hutchings and J. H. Ryan—Chap plain the Rev, T, Howo—lnspector-General of Hospitals J. Drummond—Surgeons S. Bailey, J. H. 49.cheson, and J. Davis, M.D.—Assis,-Surgs. W. H. O'Toole, M.D., J. O'Brien, F. A. Curran, and H. 8. Willmott—Paymasters H. Gray, J. Watton, W. K. Cnwley, E. Griffin, and A. H. Gilbert—Assistant-Paymasters W. 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 Ist ;of September : Lieut,-Generals 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, Est West India Regiment--and A. M. Hay, Lieut. and Adjt. J. urause. 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,, 2d battalion 2d Regiment—D. Milroy, M.D., 30th Regiment—and G. Youell. Deputy Purveyor H. Hen derson. Deputy Aesist. Superintendent of Stores C. Wore 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 —B.. 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 Hasler Hospital—James Parker, assist surg., 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 discours 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 foe 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 respscts 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 suc cesses—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 minyily of that undignified absence of fitting repose there is in it, of that want of the enloymsnt of lu minous thought for its own sake, that uneasy fret ting and fuming of acute intelligence which pro. 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 Lynd hurst rose from precisely th 3 same class, and made, apparently at least, a has scrupulous 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 I: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 mina. Lord B ougham, in the energy of his desire to pay a tri bute to Lord Lyndhurst, invoked him in a quotation which, by the rawness of its eloquence and strange uefitnees 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 ILA ? Back to its heavenly source tip , 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 interest P If either of the two were come tary 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 admire 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,alwa 's incomplete and ambitious, intellectual efforts which have dotted so thickly Lord Brougham's career, and have degene rated lately into the omnium gatherwn addresses— whose only merit it ie to picture pretty accurately the loose half-knowledge and slipshod judgment of our busy nineteenth century on all conceiv a bl e sub jects—with which he now annually introduces social science to our notice. The true difference be tween the two intellects is that while Lord Lynd burst's intellect subserved 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 central 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 was to " s t an d b y the i r co l ours. " fhey 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 le as t one county, N ort h ampe 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 Narthamptonshire, must have pain fully conflicting duties. In another part of Eng. land we have heard of a man who had votes for two boroughs —we 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 ear in a manner hardly more intelligent. No doubt there is many a man who would scorn 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 as completely identified with a secondary meaning as the word which is utterly meaningless. Liberal cases to mean liberal, and Conacryativo to mean co_tservatire; 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 coarse 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, bat the gro tesque incongruity makes you laugh in your sleeve. But if the Liberal is illiberal, or it 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 cell them meaningless, we mean that, to an English ear, they are not descriptive; they- ih valve 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 whic 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 several parties. If he finds that the practice 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 be 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 convenience 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 political 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• ticular 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 Republics?). 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 Demouracy 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 Canstitue lion be National, or should it be only Federal ? Here the word Federal was used 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 th© Constitution was actually estab lished on a basis intermediate between the two ex treme theories, then the word Federal, 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 them3elves,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 tain fundamental institutions w*eich 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 ani Tory have practically no primary meaning. The historically primary meaning of Scotch fanatics and Irish banditti is quite forgotten and is quite inapplicable. In some cases, 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 and 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 had a meaning when they were first given in the twelfth century, but they had quite lost it long before the beginning of the sixteenth. Oae 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, moat likely, the Shanavests and the Caravats had at first some intelligible ground of difference, but they went on breaking one another's 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 London: Printed and Prt. , lfelled by WILLIAM ANDREWS, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tan SUN Office No. 112 . Strand, In the Precinct of the Sivoy, In the Ccunty of AlidileeeZ.—Monday, October 3, Mi. merely guess at it. What is a Hard Shell ? What is a Barn burner ? The Hard Shell is beyond our power of cracking; he is as hard as Whig or Tory must seem to a Chinese, But the Barnburner suggests many curious speculations. We can hardly believe that there ever was a political party whose avowed principle was to burn down their neighbours' barns We can hardly believe that, as we may crou p over the illiberal Liberal the despotic Republ i• can, so it wuold be a legitimate retort en a Barn. burning orator to affirm thAt he had never been guilty of arson. It strikes iis 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 least descriptive, the least capable of ' retort. On th is principle, Barnburner is a better na:ne than Liberal, and Ghibeline a better name than Ba.rnburner. Bats look at what age and country we will, we shall find no party names which did such good service or which were so thoroughly suited to their end, as the good old half-forgotten names of Whig and Tory. THE "EXAMINER" ON WALTER SAVAGE LAN' DOR.—A fortnight ago, at the age of fourscore and ten, - Walter Savage Landor died at his home in Italy. With the free soul and fine culture of a noble Greek when Greece was at her noblest, with a depth of true scholarship that made the speech of the great republicans of old a living voice to him, and sympathy that gave the rarest charm of truth to the wit and poetry of his Imo Binary Conversations of the Greeks and Romans , the l oet who has gone to his grave so ripe of years was an Englishman to his heart's core. Never was Greek one man for ninety years ; but Landor never changed. His English steadfastness ran through his politics, his poetry, his friendships , For seventy years he has been known as a poets his first verses having been published in 1795, and one of Southey's earliest enthusiasms was for Lan dor's " Gebir." In all that time there has been ne tyranny against which his brave spirit did not utter an indignant protest. In early manhood, after he had dealt with his patrimony in heroic vein, he led a troop to join the Spanish patriots who rose against Napoleon. In later life, old readers of ours know how many a time through this journal he has launched in pregnant verse his scorn against usurpers of the rights of men, and hymned for the soldiers of liberty their praise. Free of heart, free of speech, though pure of soul, and defiant of conventional reserves when he believed them insincere, in his old age the sturdy poet, whom few equalled in genuine refinement, brought by his own act the whole avalanche of the respect abilities upon his head. All that he had been, all that he was, scandal forgot, and that only was talked of, which alone in all the public acts and 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 this morning, and a quiet trade was done, the prices of last week were not in all cases realised. Of barley there was an abundant show, and secondary sorts receded is per qr. Oats in moderate request, and in favour of buyers. Beans were a moderate show, and rather cheaper. Wheat, red 37s to 40s Oats.... l9s to 23; White do .40s to 44s Beans 40s to 431 Barley .27s to 32s Peas to Malt, 58s to 60s per qr. ; rye, 30s per qr ; flour, 303 to 32s per sack. LEICESTER—SA.runDAY. To-day there was barely an average show of wheat, the quality of which was varied. The demand was dull, and realised about late rates. Barley plentiful, but a slow sale. —Old white wheat, 42s to 445; red, 40s to 42s per 36 stone. New white, 44s to 483'per 36 stone. Malting barley, new, 33s to 36s per qr.; grinding, 25s to 275; old oats, 308 to 325; new oats, 24s to 27s per 24 stone. Beano; old, 41s to 43e per 38 stone ; flour. 31s to 395 . per 20 stone. GRANTHAM-SATURDAY. At our market to-day wheat came well to hand, but the trade was dull, and prices were in favour of the buyers. Barley also dull, and fully is per qr down. Oats inactive. —Old white wheat, 41s to 508; red, 39s to 43s per 365 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) 265; new, 19s to24s; beans, 34s to 40s; peas, 34s to 375. NOTTINGHAM-SATURDAY. We had a limited supply to-day, the bulk of the samples being of the new crop. The demand was not very brisk, and lest week's prices were maintained. Barley came ra ther freely to hand, and sold at is decline. Oats slow. —White wheat, from 42s to Ms ; red wheat, 40s to 445• Barley—malting, 32s to 35s ; grinding, 28s to 295. Oat 9, old, at 26s to 30s Od ; new, 23s to 265. Beans sold at 411 to 44s per qr, ; new, —s to —s. Flour, fine, 28s to 30s ; super, 34s to 37s per 20 stone. NORWICH-SATURDAY. There was a limited supply of wheat to-day, and trade was dull, at last week's prices. In barley there was a fair supply, and previcus prices maintained. Other articled dull. White wheat. 44s to 45s 1 Red wheat 36s to 383 Malting barley ...35s to 36s 1 Chevalier barley 33s to 34s Distilling do . 29s to 30s Oats. 248 to 263 Flour, 28s Od to —s ed per sack from the miller. DUBLIN-FRIDAY. s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 2l 6 to 24 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 s. d. s. d• Oatmeal lO 0 to 13 0 Beans.. Bere Rapeseed Bakers' flour 14 oto2o 0 Indian corn Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton....... Oct. 19. win Marseilles .. Oct. 13. Lirazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Oct. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Oct. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southarapton.Oct. 2. via Marseilles ...Oct. 2. _ _ _ Falkland 'glands •••• Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 2. via Marseilles Oct, 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 11. via Marseilles Oct. 6. Portugal .... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 2. via Marseilles Oct. 6. Newfoundland .. Oct. 12. Oporto and Vigo.. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 6. __ _ by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Oct. 7. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, j Oot. 14. California. and British Columbia. FRIGHTFUL DEATH ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Saturday afternoon Mr R. Clarke, coroner for Berke, held an inquest at the Railway Hotel, Twyford, on the body of a man named Parsons, who was employed on the Great Western Railway as a platelayer, and met his death under these circumstances :—He was at work on the line between Twyford and Reading, and during the temporary absence of a fellow-labourer he perceived Et down train advancing, and he accordingly stepped on the up-line, when the 3 45 up-train from Birmingham rapidly app. oached, and, striking the unfortunate man on the back part of his head, the engine hurled his body a distance of about 50 yards. One of his legs also was dreadfully crushed. When the second wozkman returned he missed Parsons, but soon found his mangled body, from which life had entirely departed, and it was evident from the frightful way in which his head had been smashed that death must have been instantaneous. The accident was not observed by the driver of the train. Deceased was a mazried man, and lived at Twyford. A verdict of accidental death was 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 much affected by the accident that a medical man stated it would be dangerous to remove him to be present at the inquiry. It seems that the pistol was left under the pillow by Mr. Wright, an innkeeper, of Hull; and the jury, while exone rating Mr. Parke, expressed the opinion in their verdict "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, Cheshunt the wife of Wentworth Clay, Esq., of a son. CONGREVE.—On the 26th ult., at Chatham, the wife of Captain W. Congreve, of a son, ROBERTSON.—On the lst inst., at 6, Brunswick-square, the wife of John Murray Robertson, Esq., of a son; stillborn. Marriage& BOYSON—SPRIGGS.—On the Ist inst., at the parish church of Wadingham ' Lincolnshire Ambrose Philip Boyeon, of Wandsworth, Surrey, to Lincolnshire, Eliza, second Baugh' ter of Wm. Spriggs, Esq., of Kennington, Surrey. WEBB SEAULE.—On the 28th ult., at Reigate Church, Edward Henry, eldest son of Henry Webb, Esq., Red.. stone Manor House, to Jessie, eldest daughter of demos Searle, Esq., of Furze-hill, Reigate. Deaths. BRICKENBURY.—On the 29th ult., at Brighton, Ralph Brackenbury, Etq , egcd G 7. BYWATER..—On the 29th ult., at 03. Albert-street, Be gent's-park, John Ingram Bywater, Esq., of H.M. Cue toms, aged 51. Montt's —On the 30th ult., at Carmarthen, David Morris, Esq., 11. P., aged 74. RIDLEY.—On the Ist inst.. at 7, Park-terrace, Sydenhanl Maria, relict of the Rev. W. C. Ridiey, M.A. SMITII.—On the 28th ult., Wm. Smith, Esq., of the Dam House, Sheffield, and of Gray's- ;n, barrister• at-law aged 68. TOLLEMACHE —On the 27th sit. ' at Bath, the Hon. ar s. Charles Tollemache, widow of the late Hon. Charles Tollemaehe, aged 85, TEE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1864.