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According to the prevailing rule, the discussion of political questions is usually excluded from agricultural aseemblies. The members of the As. sociation and their guests examine the exhibition celebrate their annual festival, and discourse upon the prospects of the crops and the condition of the labourer. When a foreigner is among the company, however, it is natural there should be seme little variation, and more especially when that foreigner bears so distinguished a name as Baron BUNSEN. Therefore, at the recent assembly of the North Walsham Agricultural Society, in Norfolk, at which the son of the late Prussian Ambassador was a guest, it is not surprising to find the vexed question of the dispute between Denmark and the Duchies brought under conside. ration. It is worthy of notice, however, that although the Baron spoke at some length in favour of his countrymen, no Englishmen followed suit. Politeness fcrbade their contradicting their guest, and the eubject was therefore prudently but markedly avoided. It n ust really have required all the patience which his audience could muster to listen to the Baron's arguments without imme diate contradiction. It certainly needed some moral courage to confiont a body of Englishmen and gravely declare such sentiments; bat we give Baron BUNSEN credit for their being his delibe rate convictions. lie started with the assertion that " the Schleswig.liolstsiners had been at war in the right, that the Danes were in the wrong, and 9 were bound by every cons i deration that of self respect and national duty to separate an d save the Schleswig-Hoisteiners from the oppression of the Danes," In support of this theory, h e triumphantly declares he will ask a few home clues,. liana, which are, let, How it is that during the last 13 years of_undisturbed Danish rule in the Duchies, a rule which was tolerably, some say in tolerably, strict, not one single newspaper in Schleswig-Holstein advocated the Danish view ? 2dly, How it was that during that time the Duchies had failed to obtain anything like a majority in either Parliament ? and, 3dly, How it was that, while the political refugees now returning from Germany are everywhere welcomed by the inha bitants of the Duchies, the Danes bad at all times met with a very bad reception ? Baron BUNSEN did not perceive that the answer to some of these queries have exactly the contrary effect to what he intended. It is scarcely "an intolerably strict rule' which permits the whole power of the press to be directed against the Government. The Prose sian journals of last year might tell a very difa ferent story, but the first movement of a despot is to curb the power of the press. Where that is left free and unfettered there is little reason to apprehend an oppressive administration. In the second place, it is not very clear on what grounds two provinces of a kingdom should expect or wish for a majority in its united councils. Englishmen would certainly not be well pleased if the chief proportion of their representatives were Scotch or Irish, not from any prejudice against their fellow-subjects, but because such a Parlia ment would not fairly represent the nation. As for the political refugees returning from Germany in a time of excitement, when the Germans are masters of the field, and when everything German is the order of the day, it is not very likely that they would meet with other than a favourable reception. Baron BUNSEN tells us that the greater number of the young Schleswig-Holsteiners are sent to the German colleges—another fact which looks.oddly enough, considering the severity of the Danish rule. Baron BUNSEN is not much happier in his replies than in his questions. He gave, he said, " the most unqualified contradiction" to the charges, that the object of the war had only been obtained by num bers, that the Danes had been treated with cruelty, and the Schleswig-Holsteiners with harshness, and that the King of PAUSSIA meant to keep the coun try for himself. The Baron frankly admitted that he did not approve of the preponderance of Austria and Prussia in the affair; but he was absolutely certain that the King of PRUSSIA never entertained for a moment such a shameful idea. Baron BUNSEN is one of the members of the Prussian opposition. If all his fellows were equally credulous, M. Von BISMARK will have an easy time of it. Perhaps he has not seen a significant paragraph which was going the round of the journals, in reference to a change in the advisers of the Duke of AUGUSTEN , BURG, with a view to a close connection between Prussia and the Dachies. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in Baron BUNSEN'S philosophy, bat certainly his idea in some points are novel and striking. He says of the extor tionate levies that the money was mostly spent in the country it was taken from, so that the in• habitants were better off than before. To what school this aphorism belongs is not clearly apparent, but it is as good an excuse as any other. "The in habitants of the DucLies think themselves very cheaply delivered from their oppressors," but the address to the Danish KING the other day did not indicate much content. As for the charge of cruelty, Baron BUNSEN is forced to turn the tables upon England, and to rush wildly from Kagosima in 1864, to NELSON at Copenhagen in 1807, to prove either that the English are cruel, or that the Germans are not ; but which is his meaning is not very clear. He paid a tribute to the bravery and readiness for war of the Prussian army, and hints that after all the Germans would not be such a bad match for the French. In fact, their superb triumph over poor unaided little Denmark, who is behiud the age, not in courage, but in military skill and appliances, seems to turn the heads of the wise Prussians, who seem to regard the subjection of Sonderborg as another siege of Sebastopol—while in the open field, S tlamanea and Vittoria were nothings to their victories. We omit Waterloo, because everybody knows the Prussiacs won it, and the English only looked on. But Baron BUNSEN, though doubtless he inherits many of those talents that made his father's fame, has not succeeded in the art of proving that black is white; and we give hi n credit for believing a further ac quaintance with the intentions and opinion of Prussia will considerably modify his the case. The reports which continue to be received from various quarters respecting the progress of the cotton cultivation give us every reason to anticipate its steady advancement. Tho success has, of course, varied in the different places in which the experi ment has been made, having in some instances far exceeded expectation, and in others from unfavour able weather, parasitical insects, deficiency of la bour, and other drawbacks, it has by no means fulfilled the hopes of the sowers. Altogether the prospect is satisfactory, and it is gratifying that in many quarters they are preparing themselves for a possible competition with American cotton, so that there will be less likelihood of future dis appointment and abandonment of the scheme. It has been proved by the researches made in conse quence of the present demand for the raw material that cotton is indigenous in many places. At the recent meeting of the Cotton Supply Association a letter was read from Buenos Ayres, stating that in the province of Corrientes and in the Grau Chaco wild cotton grows in the greatest abundance. Millions of pounds could, it is said, be gathered with very little trouble or expense, but no one takes the trouble to do so. This is surely worth further inquiry, since if the account received is but half true, it promises a most valuable source of supply. That it is not entirely illusionary is proved by the fact of a quilt and a sample of the cotton of which it is made being forwarded to the Association. We shall probably learn from a future meeting what is thought of this production, and what ie the estimated value of the cotton. At all events a soil which grows cotton of any sort spontaneously can hardly be otherwise than favourable to the cultivation of the better kinds, so that we may hope a valuable field will be opened in this quarter. The success of the experiment in the Bahamas has been very striking. Long Island is said to be covered with cotton fields, 900 or 1,000 acres being now planted with it, instead of only 130 as was the case when the last report was sent. One man, who planted some cotton in the spring of last year, had no assistance but that given by his own children, ex cepting on one day when he hired a man for 2s. This planter has since sold his cotton for £125. The only difficulty arises from want of labour, but it is thought something might be done to remedy this evil, in this and the neighbouring islands, by assist ing the poor white population of Barbadoes to emigrate thither. In Syria the cotton crop has been much damaged by a caterpillar which has, it is said, destroyed 30 per cent. of the plants, but about 80,000 bales will still be left. In Salonica a strong wind had proved unfavourable, bat the crop hag, in the opinion of competent observers doubled since last year. In other parts of the Turkish empire great efforts are being made, but the tax gatherers often hamper the progress of the experiment. At all events there is no lack of exertion and enter prise in the matter, and we ought before long to reap the fruits of all these endeavours in the re• clued prices of this useful material. Thursday morning witnessed un interesting and in some degree a novel spectacle in the venerable old city of London. The first railway train that has entered its ancient precincts passed over the new Bridge at Blackfriars to the new Ludgate Station, and returned thence to the station in the Blackfriars-road, from whence it had started on its eventful journey. The Fenchurch-street station and the Farringdon terminus of the Metropolitan Railway are not, strictly speaking, within the limits of the City proper, although they are commonly regarded as City stations, and therefore we may look upon Thursday's adventure as the pioneer of those fiery horses which are about to transform our traditionary City, making its confusion worse con founded, and tearing breathless through its few quiet and secluded spots. Anyone who has not visited the City for six or eight months, may well pause amazed at the alterations. Ever the grave old Charterhonse, though spared itself, must look round upon the devastation and commotion. The whistle of the guard, the shriek of the engine, will accord but ill with its sombre grey walls ; but it cannot expect to be exempt from the general transformation. Bat the railways are working changes in every quarter; and Charing-cross itself, with its iron bridge in place of the Hungerford Sus pension, and the monster hotel rising confronting old St. Martin's, is scarcely recognisable. The citizens for the most part look with some suspicion on the innovation, whose advantages they will be the first to recognise and to profit by when the limes are fairly at work. The wise supervision of the Houses of Parliament has restricted the reckless folly of speculators, who only thought of turning the tide of the time to suit their own fortunes, with little regard to the public safety or requirements. If schemes are good and practical they will not suffer by a year or two's delay. On the contrary, the public will be better able to appreciate their utility, and will be less inclined to offer unreasoning oppo sition to them. Should it, however, prove that the lines already in course of construction are amply sufficient for the wants of the day, there will be no need to cut the City up further, destrojing property and occasioning inconvenience. At any rate, the managers of that enterprising company of the Lon don, Chatham, and liaver Railway, whose opera tions Punch has warned us will i❑ due time require the appropriation of Windsor Castle and the Crystal Palace, have reason to congratulate themselves on the successful progress of their arduous undertaking. The new bridge over which the train passed on Thursday was a work of no slight labour, 300 men and boys having been constantly employed on it from the close of January to the last day of September. It consists of four lines of railway, the whole of which are not yet completed. Telegraph wires, of course, run overhead, and they ere arranged in a new fashion, which adds to the beauty of the struc ture. Some of the directors, the managers, the en gineers, and contractors, and other gentlemen interested in the progress of the line were in the train, which, like the bridge, was gaily decorated with flags, and the assembled workmen, whose strong hands had carried out the designs of the others, looked on with satisfaction, and cheered heartily as the carriages moved across the river. The first City line was, therefore, inaugurated with every prospect of success without a single draw. back. We trust its public opening will prove equally satisfactory, and that when it and its competitors come into play they may serve they may serve to relieve, in some measure, the ex3es bive traffic of cur streets, which is now not only productive of great inconvenience and delay, but is becoming fraught with absolute danger, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, OCTOBER 8, 1864. Wills and Bequests. The late Lady Kindersley, wife of Vice-Chan cellor Sir Richard Turin Kindersley, of Hyde Park gardens, having died possessed of property in her own right, without having disposed thereof by will, letters of administration were granted by her Ma jesty's Court of Probate to her husband, Sir Richard, as the sole person legally entitled thereto. Lady Kindersley was the only daughter of the Rev. J. L. Bennett, and married in 1824. The late Mrs. Vickers, of E istbourne-terrace, Hyde Park, who died in August last, and whose will has just been proved, has left legacies to the fol lowing institutions ;—The Deaf and Damb Asylum, Bath, £2OO ; the Church Missionary Society, £160; the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East, the Bible Society, the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity amorgst the Jews, the Ragged School Factory, Lambeth, to each £5O. To the parish of St Peter and St Paul, and to the widows and aged poor of Walcot, £l9 each. The will of George Beaufoy, E-q., of South Lams beth, was proved in London under £250,000 per. sonalty. The executors and trustees are his widow, Mrs Anne Beaufoy, C. B. Thornhill, Esq. (his nephew), John B o l ton, and J. R. Turner, the two named being engaged in the testator's but in ess, under the firm of Beaufoy and Co., vinegar makers, menus facturers of acetic acids an d chlor i des of soda and lime, also millers. •The will disposes of his library ot books and museum, which had belonged to his late whose wish of hi lineal deeceudants Beaufoy,re mtlseutqs.h' should not be b w r a o s t htehra, that Henrythe library B . H . and sold, but, whilst any i mained, be held as heirlooms with the family man sion, and carefully preserved, and at some future period applied to a public purpose as an exhibition, and designated the "Beaufoy Collection." To carry out such object and intention, the testator has be queathed the sum of £lO,OOO. The library and mu seam to be held by his relict until his son Mark be comes of age. The testator directs that his business shall be carried on by his relict, who shall receive the profits to the extent of £7,000 a year, and leaves to her his residence and the esthte at Battersea. To his daughter he leaves £30,000; and to his son be devises his freehold estate, and appoints him residuary legatee of personal property. To each ot his four executors £l,OOO, and a further sum to MI Bolton of 300 gs., and to Mr Turner 250 gs., and like liberal legacies, varying in amount, to twenty five other gentlemen of his establishment. To each of his clerks £lO, and legacies to his servants. He has further expressed his wish that the annual feast, as well as gratuities to the clerks, and prizes to the men, should be continued whilst the business is in the hands of his relict.—lllustrated London New. M. RENAN.—The Corr espondance Litteraire states that M. Renan is about to leave for Asia, to visit the places which were the theatre of the greater part of the life of St Paul. A new work of M. Renan's is to be devoted to the preaching of the Apostles. HOOD'S LEGS. — Confederate ingenuity is never at a loss. The head and trunk of a man deprived of one or more limbs will furnish the wisdom and ardour of a perfect Hercules. The means of activity can be acquired by art. A regular service has been organised in the Con federacy for the supply fro:n the most skilful makers in Europe of artificial limbs and members equipped with all the most cunning contrivances that modern ingenuity has devised to render them e flit:live substitutes for liv ng bone, and muscle. In the early part of this year an eminent staff surgeon in the Confederate army was , despatched to London, and took up his quarters in the neighbourhood of a skilled artist. He came provided with models of the truncated members of a number of Confederate officers, spent several weeks in superintending the manufacture of a number of arms, km hands, &e., which were supplied in sets of two or three each, that amidst the perils of blackade-running one at least should reach its destination in safety. On one particular specimen of inge nuity particular care was bestowed, and the surgeon took charge of it himself, sewing it up in a waterproof casing, that it might survive the chance of being thrown overboard to be rescued from the clutches of Federal chasers. This was the identical limb—an "Anglesey leg," as it is called which enabled General Hood to take active service again, and assume the commaqi of the army at Atlanta.—The LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REIJTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, OCT. 7 Tho Noticias of to-day says :—" It is asserted that at a Council of Ministers held yesterday the recall of Admiral Pinzon was decided upon. " Measures were also adopted for the future coma wand and destination of the Pacific) bauedron." CHINA. (By telegraph from Suez ) SHANGHAI, AUG 22 According to the latest intelligence received hero faom Japan, the state of affairs had btc)me more complicated. There was a prospect of hostilities in the Straits of Shimonoseki. An attack on Prince Nagato's fortifications was expected. THE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. MELBOURNE, AUG. 25. Advices from New Z3aland indicate the possi bility of peace. The rebels are suffering from wan of food. No further military movements have taken place, FRANCE. PARIS, OCT. 8. M. Bouree has been appointed French Minister to Lisbon ; M. Gobinean to Athens; and M. Bondy to the Court of the Elector of Hesse. The speech which the Duke de Pereigny deli- vered some time back at St. E'ienne having been the object of many attacks, the Duke has recently addressed a letter to one of his friends, in which he replies to the objections of his critics. The follow ing are the principal passages of the answer;— " When comparing the organisation of English society with ours, I said that since, in France, the functions of authority were not confided to the electoral body itself as in England, but to an administrative hierarchy constituted apart from that body, it was impossible to establish amongst us the forms of English liberty without rendering authority subordinate to liberty. and thus ruining one by the other ; that this all• important consideration imposed on us the obligation of founding our institutions on the separa tion of authority and liberty. instead of uniting them in the same hands as in England. This was the substance of my speech. As the liberty founded by the Empire is, after all, only an application of the theories propounded by Locke and Montesquieu, it would have been curious to see pro fessors of liberalism assail the leading doctrine of of those two great chiefs of modern Liberalism. Nothing could have been more piquant than the refutation, by the Liberal school, of the famous chapter of the Esprit des Lois, which treats of the condition of liberty among all natii,ns. When the illustrious philosopher so strikingly demonstrated that liberty resides in the separa tion of the three great Powers which exist in every kind of society—the executive, the legislative, and the judicial and —that as they happe❑ to be more or less united in the hands of one man or one assembly, or more or less separated and independent, so despotism or liberty prevails, he little thought that the defy would ever come when his faith- less disciples, more occupied with particular aims than with liberty itself, would abjure his doctrines, What do I say ? They have not ventured to deny the doc trines ; but, finding it more prudent to ignore them, they have passed by without seeing them. Do you know, in fact, in what light they consider the thesis of my speech ? Sometimes as the glorification of administrative centraliza tion in opposition of a political regime which would exclude any change in the present state, by condemning before- hand all the progress of which liberty is capable. - The last of those two charges appears to me to be puerile. How, in fact, admit that a nation which disposes in a sovereign mariner of the legislative power by Euearts of universal suf frage, can be deprived, against the progress which it may wish to be accomplished ? In what can the principle and form of the info itutions of France be an obstacle to the manifestation of hek will From the moment the country is rendered the master of i:s destinies, its liberty is founded, for it has the means of realising whenever it pleases all the developments which it may consider to be required. To it. self, therefore, still more than to the founder of liberty, be longs the power of accelerating or retarding. according to circumstances, the progress of its institutions. If, rendered prudent by the experience of the former disorders of France it shows itself to be less impatient than certain minds to favour all the aspirations of liberty, that fact as a disposi • tion of public opinion which may be approved or regretted, but which can in no way affect the theory of the liberty of the empire." The Duke complains of being unjustly blamed as a pat tisan of centralisation, and calls attention to two de crees of an opposite tendency issued at his instance while Minister of the Interior. He declares that he was in favour of decentralisation before it had become popular, and sup ports his assertion by quoting from the preamble to the decree of the 25th March, 1852, two passages in which he stated the necessity of decentralisation in all administrative matters. Though be still thinks, as he thought then, poli tical centralisation indispensable to the grandeur of the State, he is and always has been desirous of seeing the de partments and communes left to manage their own affairs The Duke concludes with asserting that none of his critics have confuted the doctrines he advanced at St. Etienne, and that he considers them unassailable. By Imperial decree M. Brunet de Presle, mem ber of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, has been named Professor of Modern Greek at the special school for Oriental languages, in the room of the late M. Hase. According to the Ost-Deutsche Post, the Arch duchess Maria Theresa, eldest daughter of the Archduke Albert, has been betrothed to Duke Philippe of Wurtemberg. The Princess was born in 1845 and hbr future husband in 1838. The Duke is the son of Duke Frederick William Alexan der and the Princess Marie of Orleans, daughter of King Louis Philippe. It was the Princess Mar:a who executed the well-known statue of Joan of Arc, considered one of the most charming produc tions of modern art. Several journals relate the following :—A con. gress has just met at Brunswick. A congress of princes ? No. Of diplomatists ? No—but of hotel keepers. Grave and interesting questions were exa mined. 1. The complaint of foreigners at the high price of breakfasts and dinners. 2. The complaints made against the smallness of the bottles. 3. The outcry against the high charge for waxlights ; and 4. The discontent shown at the bad attendance of the servants. What, think you, was the decision corns to ? That waxlighte, dinners, breakfasts, and bottles were all for the beat, and that the only com plaint attended to should be that about tha servants. The Patrie, in reply to some journals which had announced that the date for opening the session of the French Chambers is to be this year advanced, states that it has reason to know that the Senate and Legislative Body will not assemble before the end of January or the begin ning of February. BOURSE, Oct. 7.—The following Securities were yesterday quoted ex div. :—Bank of Franca Shares 35f., Orleans (Old) Railway Shares 30f., Western 17f. 60c., Roman 12f. 60c. The market has been very heavy; Stock and other Securities generally offered, and prices are lower. Threes, for the Ac count, are now at 65f. 70c. Mobilier have receded to 960 f. The Riilway Market has also retrograded. The market continued heavy to the close, and left off as follows : 4t per Cents .. 92 Do. end 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 65 Italian Loan 66 40 ' Do. end month 66 75 Ditto Throes .. New Mexican 51 Russian Austrian Span i a h Threes Flom° Debt Deferred Credit Mobilier,,,, 9,57 50 Do, end month.... 952 50 Bank Shares 3385 Credit Foncier l2OO Roman AU. Account. Cash. 840 . •• Northern OBR3A7 60 Orleans.. 0 ..... - 985 . .. ~. Lyons and Mediterr a n ean 935 50 .. 910 Southern 617 ..622 50 Western - Eastern . ... Sardinian 313 75 .. 315 Austrian 435 .. 441 25 Lon'berds23 75 520 ---- .. f-b 4 North of Spain Saragossa 47.5 " 475 Ditto to Barcelona BA IL ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM GRANTHAM GAOL. —On Monday afternoon the police were thrown into consternation by the discovery of the escape of a pri soner, who contrived to got into the prisoner's house, whence he borrowed one of his great coats and coolly walked out of the prison door in Guildhall-street. Within five minute© be was missed by the warder, and immediately the officers were sent in all directions in pursuit of him, and succeeded in securing him. The prisoner's name is Jessie Dale; he was convicted last April sessions for picking the pocket of a woman from Gonerby in Grantham-market, and sen• tented to 18 months imprisonment, six of which he had served. Oa Tuesday he was taken before the magistrates charged with stewing the coat of Mr Mawyer (dro governor), and committed for trial at the next poem. The Belvedere Catastrophe. Fragments of the mutilated and mangled remains of persons who perished in the explosion of Satur day continue to be picked up among the ruins. Several of these relics, blackened and charred, have been found since the inquest was opened at Belve dere on Tuesday, and talc.ea to a shed behind the hotel there. 'They appear to bo beyond identifica tion, if, indeed, that were desirable under circum stances so revolting. It is now certain that 11 per sons in all perished in the catastrophe. Of these the bodies of five have been found and identified, and six are missing—namely, the four bergemen, and two men named York and Wright, labourers employed about the magazine of Messrs. Hall. The death of the young Italian, Angelo, who received mortal injuries in the crowd at the Erith railway station on Sunday night, adds another to the num ber. The case of the Yorks is very lamentable. Father and son (t boy of 13) were killed in the explosion ; a younger boy of six or eight, now an orphan, lies in a precarious condition at Belvedere; and the mother and a little girl, the latter of whom is nearly recovered, are in Guy's Hospital. The bodies of George Rayner, the storekeeper, and of the lad York were buried on Thursday in one grave in the little cemetery attached to the parish church of Erith, hard by the scene of the calamity. The considerate kindness of Captain M‘Killop, of Belvedere, in taking the poor little orphan boy York, suffering from compression of the brain, into his house, and providing him with medical attendance and all the comforts of a home, is the theme of praise throughout the neighbour• hood. Grimes, the master of a Trinity ballast lighter, who was seriously inj ured by the explosion, remains at the Yacht Tavern in Erith in a condition which precludes his removal. He had a narrow escape. He was passing the spot in the lighter at the time of the explosion, with two other men named Bruce and Clarke. He was steering at the moment, and his two mates were in the hold of the lighter. The effect of the first explosion was to sweep him clear off the barge to a considerable distance, and as he fell in the water fragments of timber and bricks were hurled upon him from the shore by the second and still more appalling one, some of which struck him upon the hip, inflecting a dangerous wound. The shock prostrated his companions in the hold of the lighter, and for some minutes they were unable to render hi►a any assistance. Being a strong man and an expert swimmer he made for the lighter, disabled though he was, but made vain attempts to catck hold of it, and was on the point of drowning when one James Williams, who had been fishing in a little boat just opposite the magazines at the time of the explosion, went to his rescue, though he himself was hurt, and with the aid of Bruce and Clarke put him on board his own lighter. Williams is the man who had his right whisker blown off, and it may interest Mr Carttar, the Coroner, to know that ho lives at 9, Queen -street, Greenwich, and may possibly be able to throw some light on the matter. A waterman named Gray, at Erith, who was on the steamboat pier there at the time of the explosion, has made a statement which goes to con firm the general belief that it originated in one of the barges. The pier at Erith projects far into the river, and commanded a view of the powder maga.. zincs, which were about two miles distant. On hearing the first explosion he says he looked in the direction of the magazines, and saw a great flash of !fight between the water, which was lo iv at the time, and the embankment. This, he adds, was followed instantaneously by the second and more astound.. ing explosion, and then by a third. Two brothers named Jones, who are reported to have taken away a quantity of gunpowder in a barge from one of the two barges which lay off the jetty on the evening preceding the explo,ion, are expected to be forth coming at the adjourned inquest on Tuesday. Yesterday again about 100 navvies, in the service of Mr. Webster, the contractor at the outfall sewage works at Crossness-point, were at work backing up the embankment with solid clay at the place where the breach was made by the explosion. From day to day there have been high tides, and often strong winds blowing in that direction, but the work so promptly begun by flat navvies, and ' followed up by the Sappers and Miners from the garrison at Woolwich after the catastrophe, has never in the least yielded from the first, and pro bably when it is finished the breakwater will be stronger at that particular point then all the rest of the embankment, which has lasted for ages. Had the attempt to repair the breach failed in the first instance the subjacent country for miles would have been deluged with about seven feet of water, and engineering skill would have been taxed for months in the attempt to recover it. Some ame nities have been exchanged between Major-General Warde, the Commandant of the garrison at Wool wich, and Mr Lewis Moore, an engineer connected with the Thames embankment, residing at Erith, in reference to the manner in which the embank ment was reinstated. Mr Moore, it will be recol lected, was among the first who proceeded to the spot after the explosion, and having at once per ceived and appreciated tLe emergency arising from the peril of inundation, he despatched messengers both to the garrison at Woolwich and to Crossness Point, which had the eff:ct of bringing first the navvies, and then the Sappers and Miners and the Royal Artillery, with General Warde at their head, upon the scene, with what glorious result is now well known. Mr Moore states, in a letter to the Gene ral,. that the assi s t ance rendered by him and by his officers and men during the trying crisis bad saved from inundation an immense trect of country extend ing from Gravesend to Battersea. He has co hesitae tion, he says, in asserting that, having himself been present from half an hour after the accident, but for that assistance, with the aid rendered by the 400 men in the employ of Mr Webster at the Main Drainage works at Crossness, nothing could have prevented a disaster exceeding in magnitude that of the Dagenham Reach or Middle Level inunda tion- He took the responsibility on himself as an engineer in communicating with the garrison, knowing that one tide fiewing through the breach would wash down a great part of the river wall and render it irreparable for years. Gen. Warde writes in reply to the effect that it was very for tunate Mr Moore was on the spot and capable of realising the very critical state of things. He adds that he has forwarded his letter to the Horse Guards, and he thanks him, on the part of the troops, for giving them the credit they deserved. An inquest has been held by Mr. Serjeant Payne, the coroner for the city of London, on the body of Angelo Morandi, who died at Guy's Hospital from the irjuries he received at the Erith station of the North Ken Railway on Sunday evening. The de ceased was 24 years of age, and a cabinetmaker by trade. With thousands more, he went to the scene of the explosion on Sunday, and about 8 o'clock in the evening was one of an enormous crowd of people waiting at the Erith station to be taken - back to London. In a rush which was made to a train on its arrival he fell or was pushed under the wheels. On being taken up he said, "I'm a dead man." He was conveyed to Gay's Hospital, where he arrived half an hour after midnight, having bled profusely in the interim. He was found to have sustained a compound fracture in the right thigh and other injuries; he was cold and almost pulseless. He ob jected to amputation, which would have afforded the only chance of life, saying he would rather die than lose his leg, and he expired in three quarters of an hour afterwards. His account was that he was pushed under the train by the crowd, It came out in evidence that from 700 to 1,000 people had as sembled on the platform at the time, that the corn pany's servants were wholly unequal to restrain the crowd; that numbers had got upon the platform ever th J railings for a quarter of a mile on each side of the station; and that many slipped down an em bankment 50 feet deep. When the train was coming into the station it became necessary to telegraph to atop it 400 yards down the line, on account of the people who were being pushed upon the rails by the pressure. The jury returned a verdict that the death was accidental. The Lord Chancellor will receive the judges and the Queen's counsel at the noble and learned lord's resi dence in Upper Hyde-park-gardens, on Wednesday, the 2d proximo, being the first day of Michaelmas Tern, The Lord Mayor elect, with the Recorder and civic authorities, attend before the ja4ges anemble. The Stranding of the Brig Governor Maclean. The following is the report of Mr James Trail], stipendiary magistrate, assisted by Captains Baker and Cow, as nautical assessors, of the investigation into the stranding and damage of the brig Governor Maclean, on the Owers, on Sept. 5, 1864 The brig Governor Maclean was 216 tons burthen, was built at Millwall in 1833, and was the property of Mr John Forster, of London. Though upwards of 30 years old, she was strong and seaworthy. She was employed in the African trade, and at the time of her stranding was on her homeward voyage from that coast, bound for London, laden with palm oil, cotton, and ivory. She was commanded by Carl August Gyllenspetz, a Swede, holding a Board of Trade certificate of competency as master, dated Sept., 1854, who has commanded English merchant ships for many years, during which he has had opportunities cf being acquainted with the navigation of the English Channel. Besides the roaster there was a chief mare, holding a Board of Trade certificate of competency, dated the 19th June, 1862; and also a boatswain and acting second mate, a Swede, who holds a Swedish certificate of competency as master. The brig was in every way properly found, and manned by a sufficient crew. The facts of the case, as regards the strand ing of the Governor Maclean, lie in a small oompass, and may be collected from the ship's log, which is admitted by the master to be a correct statement. The following is a transcript of these entries, from 4 a.m. of the 4th Septem bar, till 3 a.m. of the sth, when the brig went aground on the Owers :—" 4 a.m , Start Light N. E., 10 miles. 5 a.m., set port foretop and maintopgallant studding-sail. 7.20, wind heading; in maintopgallant studding-sail, and braced forward the yards. 8 a,m., St. Catharine's Point N, 11.30 a.m., squared the yards and set all studding-sails, Noon, Dunnose Head N.N.W. W., lat. 50 23 N., bar. 30. ther, 64, let. account 50 45, long. account 234 W. Pumps attended to, 6 p.m., got sight of Beachy Head, it being thick, hazy weather, so that at dark, when we saw the light, could not distinguish any flashes as from the light on Beachy Head; but presuming that some alte ration had taken place with that light took in all studding sails, royals, and topgallant sails, wind W. to W.S.W., squally, with thick haze and drizzling rain. Steered east and east by north till eight o'clock, when Dungeness light came in sight. At ten o'clock, very thick, dark, and rainy, with wind inct easing and blowing in heavy gusts, the light then bearing N.N.W.—sounded in 15 fathoms, keep ing the course for a short time, and burning flash lights for the attention of pilots, but saw no sign of return signals. Braced up the yards and stood off to the star board until twelve o'clock, when it became necessary to take in two reefs in the topsails, stow mainsail, jib, and mainstaysail, the light being nearly out of sight, and the object being to keep near so as to get a pilot at daylight. Wore ship with her head to the N. W,, until we got sight of Folkestone, or the reflections from the gaslights of the place. Sounded in 13 fathoms, Wore ship round, the light bearing S.W. by W. Steered a S.S.E. course, and got to the southward and westward of the light, and about what could be judged in about two miles distance, and sounded in 15 fathoms. At a quarter to two hove the vessel to under the double-reefed topsails, with the head N. W., windrW.S.W„ and the tide ebbing; the vessel seemed to gain to the west ward or north-westward. At half-past two the vessel struck the ground several times, and all attempts to back her eft were unsuccesstul. Clewed up and stowed all sails, and got the longboat and surf boat hoisted out. As the vessel struok the rudder was unshipped, the wheel and everything around knocked to pieces, and the vessel, as the tide fell, listed over on her starboard bilge. At daylight, found that the vessel had stranded on the elbow of Owes, and that Owers Light had been mistaken for that of Dunge ness," From these entries it will be seen that the master made a series of the most extraordinary and unaccountable mistakes as to his position during the whole of Sept. 4. At 4 a.m. he knew he was off the Start, and when he next sighted land, at 8 a.m., only four hours afterwards, he fan cied it to be St, Catherine's, in the Isle of Wight, a distance of 91 miles. If the master knew so little of this part of the Channel as to make so great a mistake, he was the more inexcusable in not examining his chart, which would have made him aware that this land was not St. Catherine's but the Bill of Portland, 50 miles short of it. Once pos sessed of this erroneous notion of his position, he goes on with a succession of mistakes, first supposing St. Catherine's Light, seen at 5 p m., to be Beachy Head, 69 miles further up the Channel, and afterwards, at 8 p.m., mistaking the Owers for Dungeness, above 60 miles further up. Under these circumstances, the stranding and damage of the Go vernor Maclean was adjudged to have been caused by the default of the master—and it was further considered a de. fault on his part that, with so great reason to be doubtful of his position in the night of the 4th and 6th, he did not lay his ship to with her head to the southward, and wait for daylight, particularly when, at or about twelve p.m. he found the soundings reduced to 10 fathoms, and the light which he took to be Dungeness appearing to sea ward of the ship. Had he done this he would, in all pro bability, even at that late period, have escaped the conse quence of his mistakes. For these reasons the master's certificate has been suspended for six calendar months from this date, and would have been suspended for a longer period but for his general good character and the care he seems to have used in all other respects, with the exception I of a proper examination of his chart. JAMES TEAILL 1 R. B. BAKER J JOHN Cow, To the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, &3, MARKETS—This Day. COVENT GARDEN. The show of fruit and vegetables was seasonably large, and the inquiry for roost descriptions ruled steady, as follows : FRUIT. s. d. s. a. Pine apples 5 0 to 6 0 Foreign do., each 1 6 to 2 6 firapes,per lb 2 0 to 6 0 Foreign do. 1 0 to 1 6 Melons Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0 Apples, per hf-sv. 1 3 to 2 6 Pears, per do Oranges, per 100..10 0 to 14 0 Lemons, per 100 5 0 to 8 0 Gooseberrieshf ave . ) 0 to 0 0 Strawberries pr pt 0 0 to 0 0 S. d. a d Muiberries,prpt 0 4to 0 0 Cherries, per lb. 0 oto 0 0 Foreign ditto, punt/ oto 0 6 Filberts, per lb .. 0 9to 1 0 Walnuts, per 100 1 oto 2 0 Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 6 Figs, per doz. .... 0 oto 0 0 Peaches, per d 0... 3 0 to 10 0 Currants, per h.sv 0 oto 0 0 Plums, per db. .. 2 6to 3 6 Greengages, pr do. 2 6to 3 0 VEGETABLES. Greens, dz bunch 3 oto 4 0 Cabbages, pr doz. 1 6to 3 0 1.{.1 ditto 2 OSo 2 6 Savoy do., pr dz 0 oto 0 Cauliflowers, pdz 0 9to 2 0 Brocoli sprouts 0 oto 0 0 Potatoes, per ton 8) 0 to :20 0 New ditto, pr cwt 0 oto 0 0 Turnips, dz bunch 2 0 to 3 0 Carrots,pr do 3 6to 4 6 Cucumbers 0 Ito 1 6 Garlic, per lb Sorrel, per sieve 0 oto 0 0 Green peas, 11. -sv. 0 oto 0 0 French beans,h.s. 1 6to 2 0 Onions, doz. ha 1 oto 2 0 New Do., dz bun 0 oto 0 0 Spinach .. 0 oto 0 0 Brussels sprouts 0 oto 0 0 Shallots, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0 Horseradish, pdn 1 oto 2 0 Parsley, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 1 Celery, per ditto 1 oto 1 3 Beet, per doz. .. 0 oto 0 3 1 Parsnips, per do. 0 oto 0 0 Small salad, p. pn, 0 oto 0 0 Mushrooms, p pt. 0 oto 0 Artichokes, each 0 oto 0 0 Cos lett, score .. 10 oto 1 0 Mint and savory.. 0 oto 0 0 Endive, per score 0 oto 0 0 Radishes, dz hnds 0 oto 0 3 Tomatoes, doz... 0 oto 0 0 Chillies, per ditto 0 oto 0 0 Capsicums, per do 0 oto 0 0 Rhubarb, per bun 0 oto 0 0 Asparagus, pr do. 0 oto 0 0 Seakale, per bun. 0 oto 0 0 POULTR Y. Turkeys, 5s 03 to 7s Od ; geese, 5s Od to 8s Od each ; goslings, 4s to Os Od ; ducks, 2s Od to 3s Od ; ducklings, 2s Od to 3s Od; rabbits, is od to is 10d each; wild do., 8a to is Od ; pigeons, Os 5d to Os 8d each; Surrey fowls, Os Od to 13s 6d ; chickens, Gs to Os Od ; barn door fowls, 3s Od to 5s Od ; capons, Os Od ; hares, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; ptarmigan, Os Od to Os Od each ; pheasants, 4s to Os Od ; partridges, is Od to 2s ; woodcocks, is to 2s Od; snipes, Ott to Os Od; teal, Os Od to Os Od ; wild ducks, Os Od to Os Od ; widgeons, Os Od to Os Od ; plovers, Os Od to Od each ; guinea fowls, Os Od to Os Od; roasting pigs, Os Od to Os Od each; Ostend fresh butter, is to is 2d ; English, is 2d to is 5d per lb; English eggs, 9,3 Od to Os Od ; French do., 6s 6d to Lis 3d per 100 ; leverets, 2s Od to 3s Od,; grouse, 3s 6d to 4s 6d. BILLINGSGATE. Salmon, Os Od to Os Od ; trout, Od to Od eels, Bcl to 10d ; prawns, Os; pike, skate, sturgeon, and halibut, Gd per lb ; turbots, 2s Gd to 15s ; cod, 28 Gd to 12s Od ; brills, is Od to 7s Od ; doreys, 2s Od to 3s 6d ; mullets, Os 6d to is 6d ; lobsters, is Od.to 58; crabs, 18 to 4s Od ; plaico and gurnets, Od to Os Od each; soles, 6,1 to 3s Od per pair; common oysters, 18s to 40s ; natives, 60s to 84s per bush. ; whitings, 3s Od to lOs ; haddocks, 58 to 15s ; smelts, Os Od to Os Od ; flounders, Os Od per dozen; mackerel, .50s to —s per 120 ; fresh herrings, Ss to Os per 100 ; bloaters, Os to Oa per 100; carp and tench, Os Od to Os per brace. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 4d; mutton, 33 8d to 4s 81; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and pork, bs 6d to 4i 8d per Blbs, by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 33 Od to 4s 4d; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d; veal, 3s 8d to 43 8d; and pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8,1 per bibs by the carcase, BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from Old to 7d, of household do., 5,1 to 6d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d ; 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 3id ; 721 b to 801 b 3id to 31d ; 801 b to 881 b, 3id to 4d; 881 b to 961 b, 4d t o 4id ; 961 b to 1041 b, 4d to 41d ; 1041 b to 1121b,—d to —d. Horse hides, 9s Od to lOs Od ; calf skins, light, 2s Od to 4s Od ;jull, 7s 6d to Os Od ; polled sheep, 6s Od to 7s Od ; half-breds, 4s 9d to Os 3d ; Downs, 3s 9d to 4s 6d; lambs, 3s 6d to 7s Od. HAY MARKETS. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 153 to 8s; clover, £4 108 to £6 103 Od ; and straw, 88 to £1 123 per load. Trade firm. CUAIRERLAND.—Meadow hay, £3 15.3 to £4 Ss ; clover, £4 10s to Di LOs 0(1 ; and straw, £lBs to £1 128 per load. A steady demand. W ILITECHAPEL,—Meadow bay, £3 15s to £4 8s ; clover, £4 Isto £6 108 ; and straw, £1 8s to £1 120 per load. An active inquiry. University Intelligence, OXFORD, Oct. 7, On the 15th of December and following days an exami nation will be held at Queen's College .for the purpose el eleoting two Fellows. The election of Principal of St. Edmund's Hall, vacant by the decease of tho Rev. Juhn Branthwaite, M.A., will take place on Thursday next. The election is in the hands of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College. We under stand that the Rev. N. Pocock, M.A., late Michel Fellow of Queiers College, is a candidate. Cant,. Cirobt HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, OCT. 6• The Queen drove out yesterday morning, secom 4 panied by Princes® Helena; and in the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied by PrinceEs Helena and Prince Arthur, went to Craig Ciunie. Foreign Coin ts. VIENNA, OCT. 5. The fete of the dedication day of the Emperor was celebrated yesterday in all the churches of the capital, which were filled with crowded congrega tions. Most of the archdukes were present at the grand military mass celebrated on the occasion. The Archduchess Maria Theresa, who hes just been betrothed to Duke Philip of Wurtemberg , i 8 the eldest daughter of the Archduke Albert. Her highness, who was born in July, 1845, excels as a sculptor, as is proved by her statuette of the Maid of Orleans, which is esteemed one of the most graceful works of modern statuary. Duke Philip is son of Duke Frederic William Alexander and Princess Mary of Orleans, daughter of Louis Philippe. BRUSSELS, OCT, 6, The King of the Belgians left Brussels on Tues day morning for Germany, accompanied by Msj•r Prisse, his aide-de-camp, and Dr. Wimmer, 1115 physician. His Majesty, who is going to Ettenberg and Baden, will be absent about a month, but will return before the opening of the Legislative S. anion on the Bth November. At a dinner given by the King at the Palace of Brussels on the previous Saturday, there were present, besides the royal family and Prince Arthur of England, MM. Nadar, Quetelet, Van Pract, the Ministers of the Interior and Foreign Affairs, &c. The King and the Duchess de Brabant conversed for some time with M. Nadar, and his Majesty seemed to take great int rest in the question of aerial navigation. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge Will leave Gloucester House, Piccadilly, early in the ensuing week, for General Hill's seat in Cambridgeshire, for a feW days' shooting. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have arrived at Apsley 1101130 from the noble duke's shooting quarters in Inverness-shire. The noble duke and duchess shortly go to Sisathfieldsaye. The Duchess of Bucciench and Lady Victoria Scott have.been in town for several days, having come from Drumlanrig Castle, N,B. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff and family intend to leave St. Leonard's-on-Sea at the end of this month for the Prussian Embassy, on Carlton-house•terrace. The Marquis and ➢ZarcLiouess of Exeter are entertaining a select circle at Burghley House, near Stam ford. Among the guests are the Countess (Dowager) Of Ellesmere, Lord Robert Cecil, Lard Burghley, Lady Sarah Spencer, Hon. C. Bertie Percy, Hon. Spencer and Mrs. Lyttelton, Col. Lowther, Hon. Mr and Mrs Noel, Hon. NC and Mrs Fitzwilliam, &c. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath are enter. taining a succession of visitors at Longleat, The Earl and Countess of Lincoln, immediately after her ladyship has recovered from her confinement, pur pose to leave Piccadilly, with their youthful family, to pass a few weeks at Brighton. The Earl and Countess Russell and the Ladies Russell were to arrive at Pembroke Lodge last evening from Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire, where the noble call and countess end daughters made a short visit on their vral from Scotland. The Earl of Camperdown is, according to the latest accounts received in town, gradually improving in health, The Earl Brownlow and Lady Marian Alford intend to embark at Liverpool for Madeira on the 12th instant, with the purpose of passing the winter at that island. Co-ant and Countess de Flahault and Hon. Mdlle. E!phinstone do Flabault, are expected to leave Tul liallan, N. 8., the countess's seat, for Coventry House, Pic cadilly, early next week. Vi,count and Viscountess Palmerston arrived at Cambridge House yesterday morning, from Broadiands, near Romsey, 'lints. Vincula tess Jocely n and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn have arrived from Paria after a tour in Switur land and Italy. A FAMILY SCENE AT ST. CLOUD.—The Empress was close before us on the upper terrace, which is connected with her apartments by a light iron bridge , This bridge was entirely concealed by a wild vine, whose splendid dark red leaves wero the sole thing that reminded me of autumn. The terrace was still covered with the gayest flowers, and orange and pomegranate flowers stood in the open air. In the centre, near a perfect mound of flowers, the Empress was seated in one of those pretty wire work chairs, which are so elegantly made in Paris ; in front of her lay, on a similar table, a book and some needlework ill a plain basket. The face of the exalted lady was sickly and pale, the noble profile, which appears so classical in marble busts of the Empress, was still the same; and so was the full hair, but in the features there was a sorrow, and the pallor was almost painful to look on. A cheerful contrast was afforded by the youthful Prince ; he was playing with a snow white dug, which impudently leaped on the lap of the Empress What does a dog know of the etiquette of a court ? The Prince is a remarkably handsome boy, tall, and well grown for his age, with curly hair, a round fresh face with clever eyes, and very like one efßaphael's angels ; atthe same time his manner is admirable, and there is grace in all his movc ments. He wore the trousers of the corporal's uniform, and over them a blouse, pale yellow with blue embroidery, which became him well. In the background sat two ladies, in one of whom I recognised Madame Bruat, " tiouvernante des Enfants de France." At this moment the Emperor slowly crossed the iron bridge ; an old white haired gentlem accompanied him, Mocquard, the chief of his cabinet. The Emperor said a couple of words to him, and then dismissed him with a kindly wave of the hand. Moe' guard, after making a deep bow, disappeared. The little Prince ran to meet his father, and the dog barked at the Emperor, most improperly, The latter raised his son from the ground, kissed him on the forehead, then took his hand, and walked with him up to his mother. The Empress rose, and the couple walked along the flower beds in conversation, with the prince behind them. The Env' peror was in civilian dress, with hat and gloves and the traditional lilac paletot—a fashion which the King of Hole land lot him on his visit, The Emperor looked remarkably stout—his face was as usual dark and stern, and the heavy moustache rendered it still sterner. Still he seemed to be in good spirits—he often laid his hand on the Prince's curly head, and pointed to several of the flower pots, as if telling him the names of the plants, The Empress soon seated her self again at her former seat—the Emperor took a chair IT her side, and took a portlolio,in which he wrote,though with out interrupting his conversation with the Empress. To prince was very busy with his mother's work basket, and listened the while to his parents' conversation. The little Prince suddenly addresses a question to his father, who shakes his head in refusal; but the boy leaps on his knee, and begs and coaxes, and at last draws his mother into the embrace. At length the Emperor appears to give way , and consent; the Prince, at least, leaps about merrily, the lapdog comes to life again too, and the old gentle.* man with the white hair appears again in the alley and begins bowing lung before their Majesties notice hire' Monsieur Mocquard announces that the Ministers are assembled, and awaiting the Emperor. His Majesty rises, kisses his son, and seems to repeat his promise; then he offers the Empress his are', and escorts her over the bridge to her apartments. The Prince remains on the terrace with the two other ladies and the lapdog, while Dl' Mocquard disappears again on the side allde. On the ston e day I read the following notice in an evening paper " The Emperor came this afternoon from St. Cloud to Paris, in order to inspect the new Boulevard du Prince Eug6na ; he was in a light open phaeton, and drove YAW' self. The Prince Imperial was seated by his side ; the first time he has accompanied his Majesty on such a drive. The carriage was without escort—there were only two footmen behind, His Majesty was received wish loud shouts on ell the Boulevards, and the public were delighted at the plea" sant salutes which the little Prince offdred on all sides." It was this, then, the little Prince had asked and coaxed from his father—a trip with pap., and nut, as usual, in the large stupid four-horse state coach, surrounded by clattering dragoons and galloping aides- de-camp, —Bentley's Ills' cedany. ACCIDENT ON TILE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. —List evening an accident occurred on the Great Northern line, which, although it has not resulted in th e loss of life, caused much destruction of property, and very much delsyed the traffic on the line. the Midland pas senger train which leaves King's-cross at seven o'clock ran into a Great Northern goods traia at Welwyn, 22 mile° down the line, and the collision was so violent that many of the passengers were much bruised and injured, while the goods train and its lading were scattered over both up an d dawn lines, and for some hours all trains were obliged to stop at the point where the accident occurred. Medical assistance was offered to all %Cho required aid, but we ar e infiamed that no serious injuries were sustained by any of the passengers. So great was the delay on the line that at half-past one o'clock this morning up•trains were stillthr"