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CARD. —MR. A. NIMMO r e tu r ns hi s heavtf e lt thanks to the Professional and Amateur Artistes who generously assisted him, and to his Friends anti the Public whom ci vwded the COLOSSEUM on the occasion of his Benefit on Friday last. Royal Colosseum, 19th October, 1563. FOR SALE.—RAILWAY BONDS. having Three Years to run, in Lots, to suit Purchasers. Coupons are attached for Interest of 5 per cent. per annum, Payable Half-yearly, at the London anu Westminster Bank. Applyto Mr. S. 0. Rattenbury, 6, John-street, Bedford-row, London. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIFE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established in 1836. Offices :-1, Dale-street, Liverpool ' • 20 and 21, Poultry, London, E.C. PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY SINCE 1850 Year, Fire Premiums. 1 Life Premiums. Invested Funds. 185 t 45005 1856 222,279 1861 1852 360,130 - ____ 136,065 £27,157 72,781 135,974 13 •z,703 £502,83 821,061 1,311,0.1 1,417.808 The Fire Duty paid by this Company in England in 1862 Was £71,234. SWINTON BOULT, Secretary ti the Company. JOIIN ATKINS, Resident Secretary, London. CONVEYANCE OF TROOPS. Transport Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, Oct. 17, 18,3. THE COMMISSIONERS for Executin g the Office of LORD HIGH. ADMIRAL of the Unit e d gin Office of' Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on TUESDAX, the 20th instant, at Half-past One o'clock, they will be I.eady to treat under the Conditions contained in the Reg - aPations for her Majesty's Transport Service and the form. of Charter Party, which may be seen at the above office, for the conveyance, from Woolwich to AUCKLAND, N.Z. in two fast-sailing ships, of about In one Ship. In the other Ship. Office's 14 Ladfies 6 OrAcers' Children 4 Soldiers Women Soldiers' Children Stores (heavy) 10 tons Stores (light) 106 tons. Tenders are to be made at rates per head (officers and me n separately), and per ton for Stores. The rates per head wee to include conveyance, freight of h.gr. , ;age according to /Government scale (App. XXII. of the Transport Regulations), the supply of articles for the mess place, cabins, and berths (App. XV.), articles for table use of Troops (App. XVI.), and of cooking utensils, fuel, lights, and necessaries for their nee (App. XVII.), as well as of all such Stores (especially those referred to in Art. 97), and other requisites as are re quired by the Transport Regulations to be provided by the owners. Messing for officers or other first and second class Passengers is to be supplied by the owners, and will be paid ter, in addition to the above charges "per head," at the rates specified in App. XXIII. of the Regulations, which rates are to include the supply of bedding (exclusive of bed men and towe)ts), medical comforts, articles for table use, cooking utensils, fuel, light, and other requisites (see Art. 2 0 1 and APP. XV. to XVII. of the Regulations). Fittings will be erected, and provir,ions, a supply of water, medical comforts, and Bedding for the eoldiers and their families, will be put on board by Government. The owners are to supply a dis tilling apparatus, and water casks or tanks. Drinking tanks in the mess .tecks for the daily use of the troops will, how ever, be le'at by Government, in lieu of the usual mess water barrels. The Vessels are to be ready for immediate service, and to sail as soon as the Government fittings, ,tc., are completed. without any delay on account of the shipment of private cargo. o N private passengers are to be conveyed. All Tenders must be made on the printed form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application at the toilet office, and be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, Somerset House, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "'Transport Department." No tender will be received after half-past one o'clock on the day of treaty. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be ;;ci;;cfaCthis Office until 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of November, from persons Who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply BREAD AND MEAT In such quantities -s may be required, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from 'st December, 1863, to 31st May, 1864 :- 1. Brompton House, Hyde-park, and Kensington. 2. Regent's-park and St. John's-wood. 3. New Barracks, Chelsea. 4. Wellington Barracks, Buckingham Palace, and St. George's Barracks. 5 . The Tower. 6. Hounslow and Knell.er Hall, 7. Hampton Court. 8. Winds"r. 9. Brighton, with Coast Forts from Newhaven to Shore ham. 10. Croydon. 11. Sandhurst. Separate Tenders for Bread and for Meat must be made for each of the above.-mentioned Stations or Barracks as sepa rately grouped a'id numbered. - Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between th , .: 'hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and si , :n'ed, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the under-mentioned Office, under closed envelope (marked on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies "), before 12. o'clock noon on the 3d November next. W. T. POWER, Comm ssary-Gencral. puty Commissary-General's Office, 5. New-street, Spring-,gardens, London, S.W., 10th Oct., 1863. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct. 9, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 181'3, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. The se elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director and Conductor, Mona. L. JULLIEN. Great Success of his new Quadrille, " The Prince of \Vales," nightly encored. The band is selected from the Italian Operas and the Household Troops. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, Is. ➢lanagcr—M. GRENET. FLOUR AND MEAT, in such qtrintitiea as may be required, from the Ist December, 1863, to .ilsr. May, 1864, for the use of her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the command. Separate Tenders are required for Flour and for Meat. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours 01 ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and sinned, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside, "Tender for Army Supplies,") and no Tender will be no riced unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat-office, Aldershot, Oct. 9, 1863. /VENDERS will be received at this Office, until A. 12 o'clock, noon, on TUESDAY, the 3d November, 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract to supply FLOUR FOR HOSPITAL BREAD, in such quantities as may be required, from the Ist Decem ber, 1863, to 31st May, 1:64, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, be tween the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Army Supplies"), and no tender will be noticed un'ess made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. DEAFNESS. —The SOUND MAGNIFIER INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptib:e, removes singing noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, Oct, 9, 1863. TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock, noon, on THURSDAY, the sth November, 1863, f rom persons who may be willing to enter into Con trat to supply PAfl STRAW AND STRAW FOR ROYAL ENGINEER SERVICE, ill such quantities as ma) be required Pram the Ist December, 1 863, to 30th November. 1864, for the use of her Majesty's PO , :ceS stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the cora- Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered atthis office (under closed envelope, marked on the out-Ric "Tender for Supply of Straw)," and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. Tir WALKER'S NEW NEEDLES.—" The .11. • Patent Ridged-Eyes extend the Cloth, so that the thread may pass through it quickly and without the slightest drag. Por ease in threading they surpass all others.' Samp e•. 4, post tree, at is. per 1(0, of any Dealer. H. Walker's Patent Penelope Crochet Needles have the word "Penelope" 0 , ' Sd.: n each handle. A set o f four Bone Handles for 10d . ; Japanned, Parallel Tartan, ls. : Black, sd. A set of tour with the new Patent Uncotopic Handles, which keep the hoo ts at all ti mes in their true position for work, for ls. post free of any dealer. —H. WALKER, P a t entee and Manufac turer_ to her M a j esty of Needles, Fish Hooks, Pins, Hooks anal DR- SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER PILLS. —A. NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre pared without any mercurial in gre di ent, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer trom bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind. spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE -BO AT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. FRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland , K.G., CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the beginning of the year 1861, the Roya, National Lifeboat institution has expended £28,550 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the ?°clety and other means, since its formation, is 13,220; tor whi o ch services 82 Gold Medals, 733 Silver Medals, and .1.7 2 0in . cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu- T ri , n _l_laa also expended £75,380 on Life-boats, Life-boat evi,p_9rting-car and Boat-houses. the7ek...;omtnittee desire to express their grateful sense of itritimVerous support which they have received from the has ~J),a b lic during the past few years, a support which ot 125"'M them to establish their present magnificent fleet Deeply 4: l, !ciats on the shores of the United Kingdom rests on th :Thle, how ever , o t th e great responsibility that state, a nd I I n s to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient boats, win% ,?ews practised in the managemmt of their annual ine o , l o,9nly be effected by a large and permanent countrymen to zy earnestly appeal to all classes of their great and truly nationaltem in upholding and perpetuating so The Committee a work. con tributions:— gratefully acknowledge the following !Ter Maie9t7 the Queen Campbell, the Ilon• 2 - .t s. d Clerk, Colonel, R. A, •G, • Irs •• • .. R111111 , ,f 50 c• 0 .. .. anr.nal 5 0 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs.,B ank __ • • .. aT,nual 1 1 0 .e.rB : s . . annual 10 0 0 Currie, Wm., Esq., ... .. 4th don.lo 0 0 Erie, Lord Chief Justice . Vice-Admiral Sir • • Fanshawe , . don. 10 10 0 A .. K • Fenwick, G. J•• Esq , coat o f a • Lifeboat .. 2d don. 25 0 0 sportim,r Carriay.-e .. and Tran .. • ... .... .. 250 0 0 Harvey, Bev. G. G. and Mrs. •. .. at a Solid .. don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. Palmer, Sir Roundel], M.P., u. ....,.. 7thdon. 10 0 0 .. • • .. annual 2 2 0 tor-General .. .. 'Royal Yacht Squadron Steel, Michael , E s q . • • .. ... - • annual 10 0 o .. ..., annual 16 16 0 Thomas, Lady, Westou•super-Mare, coll ec i e don. 100 0 0 Ladyship .. .. .. , dbY her Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. Donations and Annual Sul , scriptions will be is t i h estrs reived by the Bankers of the Institution, u s , l l,Y o re o - Perci7al, and 6, Lombard-street; Messrs. e m i t r s i llia , Co., 59, Strand ; Co., tilessrs. Berries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, a gl i James's-street, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs' ' and Bankers in the United liing,dom ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, ii, ilaal-street, Adelphi, Loadon, to ,C. TIDMAN'S SEA SALT has been analysed by Dr. 'Hassan, who strongly recommends it as very superior to the rock and other salts commonly used for bathing purposes. It is the only efficient substitute for sea bathing. In bags of 141b5., price 2s. ; 281b5., 4s. ; 561bs , Bs. 1121b5., ICs. Sole Proprietors, TIDMAN & SON, 10, Wormwood-street London, E.C. Sold by all Chemists. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMAItELLA. Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 3, Icing-court, Lnmbard street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respecta bility, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell and co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, tn d Dining-room, consisting of a new and eiegaiit assort ment of VASES - , Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &a., in Italian, Alabas er, Parian Marble , Bronze, Derby s hi re Spa r , &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Ilaiesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, iITINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate t tie interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY. and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.C. CELEBRATION of the TERC(oEfi.Tisrlt the BIRTH of SHA.KSPEARE, at Stratfo r d -upon - Avon. Y - Tercentenary Committee bert N. C. Hamilton, Bart K.C.8., is ChP.irrnan) are now receiv ingi SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be p a id to the account of the Tercentenary Comtnittee , at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-un-Avon ; 3lesP,rs. Greenway , Smith, and Greenway, -Warwick; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co., bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion li , t to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shaksrene for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest thei.i claims upon the ground that Stratford i s not onl y the bl'; thplace of Shakspeare, but the centre o f attraction to all PAmirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his ho,me, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. _ _ This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing, cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer. Edward alas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. outts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and co. ; W !hams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overeud, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barnett and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD,S, SiLTH Secret. IN°. 22,249. NOTICE, MISS SAVANAGH.'S New Novel, " QUEEN 31A8," in 3 vols., is now ready at all the Libraries. Also now ready, in 3 vols., GOOD SOCIETY. By Mrs. GREY. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in Bvo., with Illustrations, 155., bound, A WINTER IN UPPER AND LOWER EGYPT. By G.' A. HOSKINS, Esq., F. n.G.s. "We have to thank Mr. Hoskins for his present publica tion. The book is a welcome addition to the literature of Egypt, and not less valuable as a guide to the invalid who may seek the recovery of his health in the laud of the Pharoah s. "—Daily News. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES. Immediately, with forty illustrations by Twecker, 4t0., THE ICE MAIDEN. By HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, Author of' " The Improvisatore." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. 122, FLEET-STREET, LONDON. MESSRS. JOHN MAXWELL AND CO. beg to announce that the undermentioned new Works may be now had at every Circulating Library. Subscribers to those useful Institutions should not experience any delay in ob taining copies, as adequate editions have been printed, and the type is kept standing, to meet every demand as quickly as it arises :- 1. SACKVILLE CHASE. 3 vols. 2. 3. AUG . STRONGHAND. By G. AIMARD. 2 vo]s. BREAKFAST IN BED. By GEORGE ,usTus SALA. Second Edition. 1 vol. .THE REV. ALFRED HOBLUSH AND CURACIES. 1 vol. 4. HIS 5. SECRETS OF MY OFFICE. 1 vol. 6. CROSS OF HONOUR. 1 vol. [This day. London : John Maxwell and Co.. 122. Fleet-street. TH E OXFOR D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R, Bishop's THE SLAVE, CL A.RA, the MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's SONN A MBULA. Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ell:son, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c. Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or an; other man "), Eucene, W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND. Also, a Pei formance by Herr SCHAL KENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHEsTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper and HenryDircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, "THE GHOST," to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at half-past Nine o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, E. Marshall, and the marvellous Arthur and Bertrand. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GHOST ! new version—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN— Grand Divertissement—Favourite Opera Selections—NlCO- SlA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL DE SOLLA. the Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler. .Every Evening. Doors oven at 7—commence at half-past 7. LUXURIANT WHISKERS or MOUSTACHES. —My formula tircrs them to grow heavily in six weeks upon the smoothest face, without injury to the skin, and a sure remedy for bal mess. 13 stamps.— Mr. FOX. Macclesfield. Fo X's celebrated Hair wash Formula, for removing scurf and curling the hair, seven stamps, TEA.-11100RE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. ed. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 3s. Sd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d. to 3s. 11d. per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 33, London-bridge, City, E.C. A REAL SEA BATH in your own room by using TIDMAN'S SEA SALT. This article, extracted from the " foaming billows," is a valuable adjunct to the daily bath, and the best possible sub • statute for a visit to the sea-side. Price 16s. per cwt. For warded on receipt of post-office order or stamps. TIDMA. and SON, Chemists, 10, Wormwood-street, Lon don, E.C. TIDMAN'S SEA SALT is of great benefit to weakly children, and a boon to all who would obtain the invigoratina effects of a sca bath in the comtortable sc clu-ion of an apartment. Instructions for use are enclosed in each packet. -6.-----"'-'-ze=e-•C-e.d..c.."-a' , . . ,• . , . • . -- - . :,:tqeit. „ . _ .. - ~. _____ IN EW S PAPER ....., . , ,7.g , c ,•.--) • ~..„ , - ::',4 , • , : -- ,'. .• -,..„, ,t ~, ~,„.; r, 7 ..,...., -..--..,----- -- Q.111.70-A, ' • 4- =‘ .... 3 „, !7)) . ,.. : 7;1.01,,, - -.. c t _ ;,,,, 4. 0 ,. _ ..,-40 , -- -1.:-..:-...' ': :-.....` -- .... , .-.-- -.). , s _ . ___-..„.„ _.„,.;.., _...... .. ................,*,, r , •:;),...._,., .... ;1 „, . - - .. . 44 , \ -v i taw 'v. cr ____, , / , 44 ....., — .., 4 ~ j z , L . , .. t - -. ~, -,.: --.- •-• I National Leagtt of e r fo o r la t n hL . Indep_ e . n h d a i . ,r ~ .-11 - 44.1 et,. - ....,iy,.....„ , 4 - _ • • , . . ~, . . , ..tx ~ /A 41111 r ,, A6b 1 01 111110 ar , . ~, .. • t , ci . !}'ms s{ 7c*A N, . -- -.....,- ~.. , . II ': \ _, . ..---, , "W' : • , Cc . ' - 16- 13 -ire. 4 r• 6 'BROM .N", , ~.2sll- ,to 111$ _., ifors taGl ety , il L' ,, *. s s , 1p ..., • ' 77 ' .. ...z ''' II L a s At the usual monthly meeting of t Council of Sheffield, held on Wednesday, , inst.—the Worshipful Mayor, John Brown, presiding—it being the last meeting in the rapidly expiring municipal year, 1863, at which is customary to discuss the general business placed upon the notice paper, the next meeting being usually too fully occupied in the consideration of electoral questions, there was a full attendance of members. PR1CE..........4d. STAMPED ....sd. to the Egmont; Dr. John Walsh, acting assistant surgeon, additional, to the Sutlej ; W. Melville, in the Orestes ; William C. Wheatley, in the Fox ; R. Winter, in the Pylades ; Thomas Brindley, in th e Edinburgh; and Herbert Beach, in the Shamrock, promoted to the rank of engineers; William W. Webber, to the Perseus; George T. Crook, in the Chamelion ; and James Ireland, in the Rinaldo, pro moted to the rank of acting engineers ; G. Murray, first class assistant-engineer, to the Black Prince ; and Charles A Nognell, second class assistant engi neer, to the Black Prince. Upon p the fulfilment -- -----. Mr. Alerman SAIL:WM - RS rose to move the follo w' owers agreed to the sovereignty of Rtt signify to the _Env ing resolution, No. 6 on the paper of notices : " That an address from the Council be presented to her am earnestly praying her lq. the Treaty has freed Great Britain from the• • Majesty, expressing of Russia still persists in violating* the Treaty of Vienna, ssia over a portion ljesty to at once the of dwehepichreg-rGeret f ir e t lt that the Emperor e wa t s he no P t o ' Poles so brutally treated as they Britain and other of Poland, 1 Most Excellent Majesty. Russia. He did not, however, say that we• tioning such sovereignty." ought r fu o s wer, but we ought Ls. l t to It w Mayor, Aldermen, Aldermen, and Burgesses of t Russia o e that t n stand s e t, a ' ei .contract oin, violation tyrabety sa fla: : are by hold diplomatic relations with her. The adch.ess which he had to propose for the adoption of th•e the Borough of Sheffield, in Council assembled, to go to war with "Humbly showeth,—That, at the congress of Vienna, 1815, the Duchy of Warsaw was made into the Kingdom of Poland by Great Britain and the other Powers that were parties thereto, and given to Russia on certain conditions. Council,,rrhe Petition , was To tha the Queens i f 01 l e follows " That one of these conditions was a guarante e by E ng _ land to pay the Russian Dutch Loan, and the instalments have been since yearly voted by Parliament. " That your Majesty's petitioners regret to learn, from the correspondence presented to Parliament by command of your Majesty, that the Emperor of Russia has flagrantly ' and persistently violated the conditions of the treaty. has been "That the conduct of Russia towards Poland of the most cruel and unjustifiable character, by which con duct Russia has forfeited all right to the privileges granted by such treaty. " Your Majesty's petitioners, therefore, httrably pray that your Majesty will signify to the Emperor of Russia that by his systematic violation of the Treaty of Vienna, and his arbitrary conduct towards Poland, he has freed your Majesty from that treaty; and that your Majesty, therefore, withdraws your sanction to his continued do minion over Poland, so far as that treaty is concerned; and further, that your Majesty will be graciously pleased to command that all payments on account of the Russian Dutch Loan shall ceasa. " And your Majesty's petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c." istahi edifraotro Mr. ISAAC IRONSIDES seconded the address in a speech of some length, minutely entering into the subject of the Treaty of Vienna, so grossly violated by Russia, and into the grievance of the Russo- Dutch Loan. It was, however, unnecessary for him to enter at greater length into the question, as more than one-half of the members of the council had become members of the Polish League. He had more hope for Poland now than ever he had before in his life, especially since the speech of Lord Rue sell at Blairgowrie. Alter a few words from Mr. BOOTH, in support of the motion, it was carried unanimously. e are enabled to state, in confirmation of Mr. Ironsides' statement, that the following gentlemen, members of the Sheffield Town Council, have joined the National League for the independence of Poland : —The Worshipful Mayor, John Brown, Esq., and the following Aldermen—William Fisher, Esq., J.P. ; Robt. Jackson, Esq., J.P. ; Edward Mycock, Esq.; William Anthony Matthews, Esq.; John Buckett, Esq., and Francis Hoole, Esq., and 20 Town Councillors—Messrs. Ironsides, Hutchinson, Brittain, Round, Grundy, Cooper, Foudan, Lomas, Woodcock, Neill, Moore, Skelton, Ward, Gledhill, Mosley, Wortley, Robertson, Hawkesley, Fowett, and Jones, and W. M. Winter, of the Sheffield Town Clerk's office. And further—That the Most Noble the Marquis Townshend, since his elevation to the Upper House, has expressed his intention to continue as the treasurer, and that the Earl of Ilehester, Sir Henry A. Hoare, Bart.; Henry Brinsley Sheridan, Esq., the Hon. Member for Dudley, have become Vice-presidents of the League, and Lord Campbell, and other gentlemen of dis tinction have recently joined it, and also that the working classes are amongst its most earnest and strenuous supporters. Amongst others, a very large number of the workmen engaged at the Kates Grove Ironworks, Reading, have enrolled themselves as members of the League. The Austrian Note on the German Question, FRANFORT •ON-THE-AIAINE, Saturday. The Europe of to-day publishes the following circular note on the German question, addressed by Count Rechberg to the representatives of Austria abroad, dated Sept. 26: " TO M. --, MINISTER OF H. I. R. APOSTOLIC MAJESTY AT THE COURT OF --. ,‘ The Baron de Werthern has remitted to me, to be for warded to his Majesty the Emperor, the reply simultane ously addressed by his Majesty the King of Prussia to the Sovereigns who signed the collective note of the Ist inst., together with a despatch from the Ist inst., together with a despatch from the Minister, President M. Von Bismarck, the latter accompanied by a copy of the report addressed to the King on the 15th of this month, by the Royal Minis try o This report is already known to yo u by the publicity given to " and I complete your inform ationupon the state of affairs by forwarding you a copy of the Royal reply and of M. Von Bismarck's despatch. " I made no delay in despatching the above mentioned documents to his Majesty the Emperor, at present at Ischl. " The impression they will make upon his Majesty I foresee but too clearly. It is with deep regret that the Em peror will learn the declarations of Prussia, and I cannot doubt that this sentiment is shared by all the German Sove reigns and Governments now in possession of the reply of Prussia. " In fact this reply fully justifies the many apprehensions entertained that Prussia will not serious associate herself with the tendencies to reform exhibited by her confederates, but that she will endeavour to obstruct the development of the Federal constitution by proposing unacceptable condi tions. " According to our convictions the three prejudicial car dinal points on the preliminary acceptance of which the Royal Court of Prussia wishes to make even its resolution to treat upon a reform of the Confederation depend, are not only altogether incompatible with the maintenance of the Federal principle in Germany, but it appears to us veil significant that Prussia opposes the precise propositions of her confederates with general pretensions whose vague fors and deficiencies do not convey a clear and preeise idea• it will be neither a gratifying nor consoling, but by no ineet difficult task, to point out one by one the deficiencieeZ well as the flagrant contradictions, in which the Ministers have involved themselves in their repo of the 15th inst. Governments " I think, nevertheless, that the Ger_inall be e ver extra. e n formally ow cannot withdraw from this task, after having summoned by the Prussian GoNernmen‘ace a report, ad. ordinary this proceeding may be, W of ;ate, the subject of dressed to the King by the Minister ari his t have not their deliberations, "The only circumstance whichd lkinisters we are able to note with the satisfaction is, that the King ja a d i re ot a.rd reproach eon.. in the face of the Germa n express manner, thought proper to reiterate , So e reigns ' riaire port, according to which the tamed in a former miniate I can have no oth er . intention than to make ray I t impress ions, and consequent' dignity and power of Prussia were wounded by the P rank . fort propositions. entirely provisional appreciation ofthe Y to " At present resent moment. expedient to p draw up in a known to you express only an opinion it induced to take a u t t t a h t steps which the participators in the Frankfort work e ion r of the o ll r ru e s f : l i: will feel ii i n nor o pinion it would be es f Federal friendship a radical ref tons o stiplations, and to transmit them to by , w eans of identical notes frontall the Cabinet of Berlin in tereat©d in the Act of Reform, t ogether the Governments in manifestation of a hope that Pru ssia with the urgent her unacceptable preliminary will not insist upon to treat on the basis of the conditions, but will consent propositions accepted by the 24 German Governments. "A declaration that it is impossible that these propo sitions can remain without practical results would be per fectly well placed in the same identical note. "Moreover it would be expellent to invite some of the Courts, which, while declining to accept the Act of Reform en bloc, took part, nevertheless, iu the Congress of Princes at Frankfort, notably the Courts of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Saxe - Weimar, to join in this step, in so far, at least, as they consider it compatible with their views. " In tke meantime these observations will serve, as arule l in your communications, and it is needless to add that I wait with the strongest interest your report on the C m ann er t in which the Prussian reply is judged.—Receive, EI G ; _ ~, (Signed) " RECI" OWN& THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT'S SPEECHES have been translated into German by Pr. Wrest), the translator of " Adam Bede." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1863. T 1 PERSONS SEEKING LANDED ESTATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER VIES G ENERALLY— TO BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-line, London, Messrs. E. and li. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Reiser affords, by sending the particu!ars of th eir p ro p erties to the Estate Offices, e 7, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, •where the property is of an. eligible <Mara ter, thereby avoid ing the disadvantages of delay and its attenuant incon veniences. THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur chaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, and then only the usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. pass around the precipitous face of this cliff, and between it and the river, on their way west. Chattanooga is on a great bend or horse-shoe in the river—not in the horse-shoe, but at its front or toe ; the bend of the river being towards the south and Chattanooga being on the southern bank. Mis sion Ridge, on and behind which Rosencrans was in trenched at last accounts, runs nearly parallel to Lookout Mountain, leaving Chattanooga to the west about a couple of miles. So far as we understand the situation of the two armies, gosencranz is cut off from all movement this side of the river in any direction. His railroad communication with Nashville is lost. Nothing is left him but the road behind him. This road crosses the Tennessee on a pontoon bridge, and traversing the horseshoe made by the river, it climbs Waldron's Ridge, which, at a short distance, flanks the river there, and then desceiads into the valley which lies beyond, and then leads away toward Kingston, on the north-east, at the junction of the Tennessee and the Clinth. We do not know what facilities we have for cutting off Rosencranz's retreat across the river, and by the road we have indicated. It would seem to be a des perate strait for him to have to move a large army where he has no depots of supplies,and no communications. Ho can now get supplies only by this road across the river; and if Wheeler's cavalry are indeed over there, he will find this resource valueless. He cannot possibly have in Nashville the month's supplies of which the enemy's papers boast. His movements have been too rapid,and he has held Chattanooga too short a time to permit this. To us it seems that.Rosen cranz's situation is full of peril and difficulty ; and this apart from all those ill-considered boastings of which some of our people are not yet cured. The thing that most makes us doubt this conclusion is, that Rosencranz seems to feel con fidence in his position. Whether it is a good judgment, or obstinacy, or necessity that holds him to his post on Mission Ridge is yet to be fully known. We will not venture to pass an opinion." Fatal Colliery Explosion in South Wales. TAIBACH, GLAMORGANSIIIRE, Saturday. On Saturday morning, at 10 30, an explosion took place at the Morfa Colliery, three miles from the Port Talbot Station, Glamorganshire, by which 35 persons have lost their lives. The pit in which this terrific explosion occurred is one of the largest in South Wales. It is situated in the parish o, Margam, Glamorganshire,and about eight miles from Neath. It is the property of, or situate on the estate of Mr. C. R. M, Talbot, M.P., and Lord-Lieutenant of the county, but is leased to and worked by the Messrs H. A. Vivian, M.P., and Co., Mr. Pendarvis Vivian being the resident partner. Generally there are from 800 to 1,000 men employed in the pit, or dependent on work connected with it. The un derground workings extended for miles, and there are about 600 tons of coal worked per day, which are shipped either at Port Talbot, Briton Ferry, Neath, or Swansea. The coal is bituminous, being part of what is known as the south crop of the Vale of Neath coal basin, the northern crop being the well known and highly prized steam coal of Aber dare. The pit is between 110 and 120 fathoms deep, some of the levels being as much as 900 yards from the shaft. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. A notification has been received at Chatham dockyard that the Admiralty have decided on con structing a squadron of iron gunboats, to take the place of those wooden gunboats which have been sent round from the Medway to Deptford dock yard for the purpose of being broken up, The new gunboats are to be constructed on an en tirely new system, from plans proposed to the Ad miralty by Mr. Reed, the chief constructer of the nav y. They will be armour-plated, and will be driven by double screw propellers, each boat being adapted to carry two heavy Armstrong guns. The design of the proposed gunboats is at present being worked out at the Admiralty, and as soon as the plans have been finally adopted by their lordships the construction of the proposed squadron:will be at once commenced. The iron-built screw steamship Defence, 16, Capt. Augustus Pillimore, one of the Channel sq uadron, was placed on Thursday in No. 1 dock in Reyham steam-yard. Her repairs are very un important, and will therefore be completed in a few d ay s. When at Portsmouth she received in April or May last a coating of Peacock and Buchan's com position, which appears to have had the effect of retarding, if not of preventing, the growth of sea weed and the presence of shellfish on the ship's bottom' As in most similar cases, light grass about s i x inches long has appeared on the water line, but it did not extend below the deep load line. All the other parts are remarkably clean, excepting some i so lated tufts of grass about half an inch in length. There is no appearance of corrosion anywhere. She w ill now receive another coating of the same com position. During her recent cruise the Defence has g i ven great satisfaction. Her speed is; slower than that of wooden ships, but above the average rate of iron -plated ships. The utmost roiling extends to 15 deg -, which is very unusual; the average ranges being from 15 d eg . t o 20 d eg . Th e D e f ence is su pplied with two bilge pieces on each side of the kee l, which are intended to counteract any pro pensity to roll. Her b ows p r it ( s t an di ng ) is of iron, a nd there is a proposal to replace it by a sliding bowsprit. Th e H ector, 34 , h as one o f th a t description. It seems absurd that a ship like the Defence, built for a ram, should have ever been fitted with a standin g i ron b owspr it, w hich must be in the way if ever there should be an effort made to use her for the p ur pos e of running down , besides which it might be convenient to reduce the weight forward occasionally which cannot be done with a fixed bowsprit. The for ward we ights in the War rior h ave b een grea tly re duced since she was first fitted. The Defence is sup plied with two pairs of davits forward, by which the anchors can be tatted further aft when necessary. The comparative light ness o f her armamen t con good qualities of the ship when duces mu ch to the at sea. She has 16 68 and 100 pounders, two 32- niers, a nd four sm a ll guns. Her eng i nes are o f pou power, and d ur i ng t h e l ate tr i p , w h en 600 horse only, as mu c h as 10. 8 k nots per h our under stea m wa s made. Under steam an d canvas she has, dur i ng a heavy squ all, run for a f ew m i nutes at t h e rate o f 15 knots. She is Peculi ar l y r i gged, having a stand ing lower top sail- y ard Para! sled to the cap, above which i s Cunningham's patent top sa il. Th e Resist to be the only ot h er sh i p i n t h e navy anc e is said similarly rigged. The mode is found very advanta geous in w orking the ship, b e i ng muc h li g h ter f or the cress-. Oa the deck of the D e f ence th ere are t wo ver y heavy launches, eith er o f which can carry a fieldp i ece , These launches, rowed by seamen, with art i llery -race forward, and marines aft, have been frequently exercised during the cruise. The field pieeee • co nsist of a 25- pounder and 12-pounder Arm strong, a nd a 24-pounder end 6-pounder brass gun. Counting her GO mcrines, she has on board nearly 200 men capa ble of usin g sma ll arms in military order. The Defence is a vessel of 3,720 tons , an d h as 15 vertical water -tight compartments. She was built by Messrs. Palmer Brothers, of Yarrow. His Russi an Majesty's scr ew steam fr i gate O leg, 51 Capt. An dreef, left Plym ou th S ound on Thurs day, afternoon for Toulon. The screw steam corvette Scylla, 21, which left Plymonth on the 6th inst. fo r Chi na, put back to the Sound on Friday night. She had experienced a con tinuance o f very heavy weather. O n th e Bth,d ur i ng a heavy swe ll, she sprung her fore and main topmasts. At midnight on the 9th it blew so hard from W. and S.W. that she was placed und er c l ose-reefed topsa il s. On the 10th her wizen topmast cross trees were car ried away; i t N aas found that th e jibb oom had sprung, and it was therefore woolded. On the 12th inst., at N., lon g . 8 30 W., it was 5 50 s . na , in lat. 46 9 blowing hard from the south-west, when she shipped a heavy sea, w hich extended f rom h er port cathea d to the wizen r igging, and incr ease d t h e water i n t h e hold to a d e pth of seven inches ; the ship then gave which filled h er star b oar d cutter a lurch, to le eward, and jolly boat, and carried them off. In the after moderated, with a h eavy swe ll f rom noo n the wind the westward. On the 13th, during a fresh gale from the south-west, Charles O'Ni e l e , fi rs t- c l ass b o y, fell from t he wizen chaina, overboard. Lieut. Pringle, 4th, and a boat's crew of eight men rescue d hi m. On the 14th, at 6 P.M., lat. 47 50 N. ; long. 9 34 W., wind eouth-west, a sail was observed on the star board bow right ahead ; at 6 50 a red light was seen close to the starboard bow. The Scylla, which was on the port tack, having broken off two points, kept the ship close to wind. The stranger, which proved to be the Duke of Wellington, then crossed the Scylla's bows, and when about two points on the port bow s howed both he r li g h ts; t h e S cy ll a put her helm bard sport, and came up in the wind. The ship, which was on the starboard tack, struck port bow and f e ll off. While tack the Scylla on t he in g the Scylla g athered ster nway, t h e D u k e o f wellington, having headway, struck the Scylla main rigging, a n d f orge d a h ea d, again, abaft the carrying aw ay her own bowsprit, f oremas t, and mainmast, and knocking holes in her bows, and grin di n g along the S c y lla ' s port side, carrying away her h ea d sails, waist, a n d f orecastle nettings, break ing her main chains, and shoving her port sheet anchor inboard; one gun was so depressed that it left the dispast sticking in the upper portion of the porthole. The shit'then separated, and no thing more was seen of her, but ch 2e of her crew was left on board r doublere e f e d t o psails and the Scylla. She was u nti e" co urses, jib, foretopmaet staysail, and staysa il. Charles Deboo, 2 0 , a na tive tet Ostend, the man saved from the Duke of Wellington, states that she be longed to Liverpool, and registered '7:21 tons. Con mended by Capt. B. Bro wn , she was bouladeend to railway iron, oil, and cutlery, and was Colombo. She left London on the 3d of SET' - close. At the time of the collision she was uilde " r topsail , reefed maintopsail , double-reefed nein.On close-reefed foresail, foretopsail, and span k! '; the first contact Deboo jumped from tho sh t ip hat j on boom to the Scylla's forecastle. He state t s hat a col board the Duke of Wellington they d s-a t Nbvetter to run lision was inevitable, and considereinto by the ship. into the corvette, than to be run oeze on Saturday, The Scylla was towed into 3 where she will and placed alongside the jetty, unbent, nbent, and her dis charge her powder ; her sails w were defects will be made geed forthwith. An official report has been mede to the Lords of the Admiralty of the result of the recent expe riments made at Chatham by Capt. AFF:illop,R with his canvas machine for cleansing ehip'a bot toms afloat. The result quite justifies the morn. mendations. The simplicity and portability of the machine, as well as the moderato cost, are further recommendations in its favour. The following appointments and promotions were made on Saturday at the Admiralty :—Lieu'. J. N, Croke, to command the Investigator, vice Lieut. Bothell, drowned; Lieut. H. Packe, to the Ajax ; George -Williams, master, to the Indus, for the Gla diator ; Robert R. Jones, nominated to a naval cadet ship; William F. nelinton (surgeon), additional, AMERICA. QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 17. The Royal mail steamer China arrived here at an early hour this morning, bringing New York dates to the 7th inst. The China called at Cape Race on the 10th. New Orleans advices to Sept. 25, published in the New York: Journal of the 4th inst., are as follows : " On Tuesday morning last considerable excitement was caused in this city by a report that the steamer Leviathan had been captured by a squad of rebels at South-west Pass, and that she had escaped to sea. A few hours later. and ' • another report arrived - that she had been recaptured by the United States steamer De Soto. Yesterday the Leviathan arrived at the wharf at this city. The Leviathan was lying at the Telegraph wharf at the mouth of the river, at South west Pass, near Pilot Town. About half-past 3 o'clock on Tuesday morning a party of rebels, 18 in number, sprung on board from a small boat, and, firing their revolvers, de- manded the instant and unconditional surrender of the ves- sel. No resistance whatever being made by the few un armed men on board the Leviathan the enemy put the cap tain and crew in irons, and made preparations to proceed at once to sea. About daylight the steamer left the side of the wharf. Two of the crew of the vessel were placed on shore, after promising that they would not mention the fact of her capture until she had had three hours' start, when they were at liberty to say all they pleased of the affair. As soon as these men were placed on shore they made all haste to the telegraph-office and informed the operator of what had taken place. In a few moments every person in the neighbourhood was at the wharf, and the Leviathan was seen by the dawn's early light' making off to sea. Half a dozen men ran to a 6• pounder howitzer stationed on the wharf and fired four shots at her, and as each shot fell short or passed her harmlessly by the rebels cheered and waved a rebel flag, which they afterwards hoisted. The Leviathan had not proceeded far before she saw a bark rigged vessel. Approaching within hailing distance the rebel chief shouted, ' Ship ahoy I send a boat aboard,' Her flag was still flying ; but at the distance from the bark, in the gray light, its character was not discerned, and a boat was being lowered from the bark, when, as the Leviathan steamed nearer, the rebels were thunderstruck at finding that the guns were aboard, and that they had almost run into a Union war vessel. Turning the prow of the steamer seaward the rebels concluded not to wait the arrival of the boat, which had already left the side of the bark, but steamed away as rapidly as possible. The vessel of war preyed to be the bark Anderson. Though every movement of the strange steamer from the first was suspicious, and no doubt remained as to her character when she so unceremoniously left, the officers on board the vessel could do nothing, as the Anderson was at anchor, and the steamer kept in such a position that not a gun could be trained upon her. The guardship Pampero was not more than a quarter of a mile above the Leviathan when the latter was captured, but she, too, was unable to prevent her escape. At half-past 5 o'clock the De Soto, one of our cruisers, was coming up the pass for coal, and took a pilot on board eight miles from the bar. At half-past 7 p.m. the steamer Crescent arrived at the mouth of the pass, and, hailing the De Soto, informed her officers that a steamer had been surprised and captured three or four hours previous. The De Soto immediately changed her course and started in pursuit—no vessel in sight at the time. In about 15 minutes the lookout at the masthead cried Sail, ho.' The chase now continued with increased interest, the De Soto rapidly gaining on the Leviathan, and at 10 o'clock fired a shot to bring her to. This was followed by two others, when a sheet or table cloth was hoisted and the vessel hove to. Fifteen minutes later and the Le viathan was boarded, the Star and Stripes hoisted, and the rebel captain and crew put in the very irons that they had placed the former crew of the Leviathan in. A priz3 crew was then placed on board, and the vessel taken to New Orleans. The rebel flat, which she heisted when she went to sea, was lowered as soon as she saw a vessel in pursuit. Of the 16 men whom the rebels captured but six remained on the Leviathan, and they were heavily ironed. Two were placed on shore, and the other eight were com pelled to enter a boat, which was turned adrift, without sails, oars, or a mouthful of anything to eat. The wind was blowing a gale at the time. Up to 3 o'cloctr this afternoon no news was received of the boat or crew, and it was sup posed that the former was swamped in the heavy sea, and that the latter were drowned ; but at this hour I learnt that the boat had been picked up, with all the crew alive and well, The prisoners were turned over to the proper autho rities of the city." The banquet at New York to the officers of the Russian fleet was expected to take place on the 14th or 15th inst. The following particulars of the capture of a British vessel are published in the New York Herald of the 4th : " The United States steamer Circassian, W. B. Eaton commander, arrived from Sabine Pass and Galveston, Texas, and the Rio Grande, Mexico, on the 21st inst. We learn by her the particulars of the capture of the British steamship Sir William Peel, by the United States steamer Seminole, at the mouth of the Rio Grande. This steamer came over 11 weeks before from Liverpool. She kept in Mexican waters, and discharged part of her cargo, which was in cases that resembled boxes of arms. She had on board over 100 men at one time, and, as she was built for a man-of-war for the Brazilian navy, is eminently fitted for a first-class vessel of war. She began to take in a cargo of cotton, and had taken in over 1,000 bales when the French authorities, evidently deeming her intended for a rebel pri vateer, gave her notice to leave Mexican waters, which she accordingly did. Captain Rolando, of the Seminole, sent two offices and a number of men to seize her, as she was then on the American side of the river. The men and officers were transferred to the Seminole, and the ship sent to this port. During the day Captain Hood, of her Majesty's ship Pylades, sent to know why this seizure was made. The following is a copy of Captain Rolands's reply :-- "' United States' Steamer Seminole, off Rio Grande, Sept. 15, 1863. " ' Sir, ---I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 10th inst., in which you request I will please acquaint you with the reasons for taking possession of the British steamer Sir Wm. Peel, and detaining her crow as prisoners of war on board the vessel under my com mand. I have to state that I seized her in American waters from whence she had landed contraband of war, and at the time of her seizure had the same on board. She has been sent to New Orleans, where the Prize Courts and authori - ties will take cognisance of and investigate the justice of the seizures. In connexion with your request for the reason of her seizure, I would state that she is in every way fitted and formed for a rebel privateer, and for such I have every rea son to think she was intended. My duty to my Government demanded I should seize her, and prevent in time her ag gressions on American commerce—as we have already be fore our eyes the examples of the Alabama, the Florida, and the Georgia.-1 have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, " H. ROLANDS, Commander, United States' Navy. " ' Captain A. W. A. Hood, R.N., commanding her Bri tannic Majesty's ship Pylades, off Rio Grande.' " The Sir William Peel is a splendid ship, bark-rigged, 2,000 tons, and very fast. A bearer of despatches from Matamoras, who came up in the Circassian, says that about a week before her capture she was purchased by the house of Hale and Co., Brownsville, Texas. He also reports that there were naval gun carriages being manufactured at Ma tamoras, supposed to be for this ship, and that the cotton put on board was merely a ruse to get away from the Rio Grande. It is almost known that she has guns under her cotton, and would have been immediately converted into a privateer after discharging her cotton. As soon as she was captured the engineers of the Seminole discovered that they had attempted to sink her by opening her water cocks and she has been leaking badly somewhere ever since. This, of course, would not have been done had the officers of the Peel not felt she was a lawful prize. Forty two of her officers and crew were sent to this place in the Circassian." The following Southern view of the position of G en . Rosencranz is from the Richnzond Sentinel of Sept. 29, published in the New York papers of the 4.h inst. : tc chattanooga, in 1860, contained a population of 6,000, It is situated on the south bank of the Tennessee River, in the midst of a very mountainous region, owing to w hi ch the course of the river i n the neighbourhood i s very sinu ous. Lookout Mounta in, which is prominently mentioned just now in the despatches from that quarter, is a range that comes up from the south-west, and abuts abruptly upon the Tennessee River at a point about 21 miles below or west of Chattanooga. It ends in a cliff or peak of remarkable height, called Point Lookout, about I,SOO feet above the bed of the river, which washes its northern. base. The railroad from Chattanooga to Nashville end also a common road We believe we are correct in stating that two fatal acci, dents, though of minor extent, have occurred in this pit within the past eight or nine years—one some eight years ago, when 16 lives were lost, and the second about three years ago, when four workmen were killed, These acci dents naturally led to the most earnest desire on the part of the proprietors to prevent a recurrence, and Mr. Vivian has been known on more than one occasion to tell his general manager to spare no expense in providing against acci dents, The colliery is ventilated by means of a furnace. There are two shafts, the up and the down shaft, and in order to add still greater security the colliery was worked entirely with locked safety lamps. At the time when the accident occurred there were about 400 workmen in the colliery. The immediate scene of the explosion is the west side of the nine-foot seam, which is about 500 yards from the bottom of the shaft. There were 43 men and boys working in this heading at the time of the explosion. In a few mo ments after it occurred it became painfully known that a serious accident had happened in the pit. Unfortunately the inhabitants of the district of South Wales are too much accustomed to the peculiar noise or shock of explosions to be easily mistaken. Long before any of the workmen were able to ascend to the surface a large crowd of anxious rela tives and friends had assembled around the mouth of the pit, and when it became known that a serious accident had, in reality, happened, the most painful anxiety was mani fested, many of the women having husbands and two or three eons in the pit at the time. Our correspondent was on the spot in about two hours after the accident, and saw the bodies brought up at intervals of ten minutes or a quarter of an hour. It was not long before the great majority of those in the pit were able to make their escape. The other parts of the pit seem to have been but slightly, if at all, in jured by the explosion, but the old nine-foot vein has been much destroyed—doors and airways blown down, while there are such extensive falls of roof and rubbish as to ren der it exceedingly difficult to reach the bodies of those thus buried—in fact, the whole of the timber in this heading had to be reset before the bodies could be got at. The foul gases or chokedamp having been partially cleared off a number of workmen volunteered to go down the pit to render what assistance they could to their comrades. A gang of colliers from the Cwmavon Colliery deserve especial mention for their courage. They in one or two instances risked their lives to rescue the nearly expiring sufferers, and happily their exertions were crowned with success. One poor old man named Stephens was in an almost frantic state en hearing Df the explosion. He had a little boy, 12 or 14 years of age in the heading where the explosion occurred. Three times did the father descend the pit in the hope of ren dering aid to his child, and twice was he driven back by the firedamp. He descended a third time and reached the scene, but only to find his son dead. The body was brought up in a sack, the father helping to carry it. He could not cry, but his whole frame was visibly working under the strongest emotions, and as he silently carried the corpse along it was evident he was suffering the deepest anguish. Another case was that of a man named Williams, who was working in the old 9-foot seam in company with his son at the time of the accident. The son was completely over powered and fell, but the father caught up the body in his arms, and although weak and much exhausted himself car ried it a considerable distance, He, however, was soon com pelled to drop his boy in the roadway and hurry on to the bottom of the shaft to save his own life. Happily both were brought out alive, but we are informed the son has since expired. While our reporter was standing at the mouth of the pit seven men were brought out alive, but in the most ex hausted and critical state ; one died within a few moments of being brought up, and another subsequently. At the time when our reporter left 12 bodies had been recovered, and there were then 24 more bodies in the pit. The roof has so completely blocked up the heading that'only one body can be dragged through the aperture at a time, and that with the greatest difficulty, in consequence of the suffocating state of the atmosphere. The following bodies had been brought up dead ; or known to have expired, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon : —l, Hum phrey Jenkins, of Taibach—he was dreadfully burnt and much disfigured, and was brought out alive, but expired shortly dor ; 2, Michael Crawley, of Taibach, aged about 40, married ; 3, Henry Wilkins, of Taibach ; 4, William Evans, of Taibach ; 5, David Matthews ; 6, Thos. Lodwig, married; 7, Henry Griffiths, married; 8, Rees Williams day fireman; 9, Thomas Williams, son of the above, le, Peter Stephens, door boy; 11, Herbert Griffiths, married, with a large family; 12, a corpse so disfigured as to be un recognised. With two exceptions the above met with their death from the chokedamp, and when brought to the mouth of the pit were stiff and rigid. Mr. William Grey, the manager, was in the heading when the explosion occurred. He was ren dered insensible by the gas, but in a few moments reco laboured t o b r i ng some of t h e vered consciousness, and workmen to a place of safety, and ono or two were unques tionably saved through his instrumentality. It was only by being forcibly carried out of the heading that Mr. Grey could be compelled to g ive up his work, an d when b roug h t out of the pit he was scarcely able to walk. The workmen received every assistance which could be rendered them, both by Dr. Pritchard, surgeon of the works, and Dr. Rus sell, of Cwmavon. The dead were plac e d on h ast il y con structed biers and conveyed home with all decent speed. Mr, Thomas Evans, the Government Inspector of South Wales, was on the spot within a few hours of the explosion, and instantly descended the pit and rendered valuable aid. Of course, in the midst of such excitement as that now prevalent no cause can be possibly assigned for the amident, but front the most careful inquiries we are sorry to be ob liged to say that there is every reason to believe it arose from the criminal act of one of the workmen in picking his lamp for the purpose of getting a light. Although nothing can co mpensate for the su dd en bereave ment, it is somewhat consolatory to find that there is a good money club in connection with the works, but the sympa thies of the public will doubtless be appealed to on behalf of so many widows and destitute children. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Holloway's Ointment and Tills. — Be advised.—Sufferers from disease would act wisely in trying these noble remedies before they abandon further efforts for recovering their lost or fading health. The health or enduring illness mo mentous question of enjoying should determine all invalids to use Holloway's healing ointment and purifying pills before yielding themselves up to despair. The ointment not only cures all skin dis eases, outward sores, and superficial inflammations, but restrains deep-seated ailments of the throat, chest, and bowels, when it is well rubbed externally over those parts. From this ointment's known power to quell irritation it was supposed it would be eminently useful in checking diph heria, diarrheas, and dysentery i a prediction which ioac racciim have verified, THE ARMY. Maj.-Gen. Rumley, Inspector-Gen. of Infantry, has just made a half-yearly official visit to the camp at Colchester. He made a minute examination of the 4th, 9ih and 10th depot battalions. The sergeants of the 4th depot battalion have presented a testi monial to Serj.-Major Wren, on the occasion of his leaving the battalion to fill the appointment of gar rison sergeant-major at the camp at Aldershot. A draught comprising 1 sergeant and 37 rank and file of the Ist battalion, 6th regiment, left the camp on Thursday morning to join the service companies of the regiment at Portsmouth. RAILWAYS IN LONDON. The railway scheme for 1864 must now soon be put into the shape of Parliamentary notices, and as the decisions of next session will probably settle the general plan of metro- politan railway communication, it is desirable that the public should be fully in possession of what passed before the Lords' Committee of last session appointed to consider the whole subject. There are three objects to be kept in view, One is the substitution to a great extent of the rail , way for the omnibus and cab in the internal traffic of Lon don. Mr. Thwaites, of the Metropolitan Board of Works, pronounces this " a great evil," and says, when confronted with the use made of the Metropolitan Railway in this manner, " the greater the facility of conveyance, the more you educate people in the habit of riding instead of walk ing." But another witness, Mr. Brunlees, takes a different view, and observes that the metropolis may be regarded as a series of contiguous towns, requiring facility of intercourse with one another. Col. Yolland, of the Board of Trade, has "a strong opinion" that it is necessary for the relief of the streets that some arrangement should be wade by which passengers may go from one part of the town to another by railway. " I am a great advocatee' he says, "for railways coming into London." The committee have reported that additional railway communication is needed in the densely populated part of the metropolis. The City Surveyor main tains that it will come to this, that there will be trains run ning north, south, east, and west within the metropolis every 10 minutes, the lines communicating with each other, and requiring scarcely any change of carriage. The two other objects in view are the collection and distribution of the traffic for the long lines without its having to pass along so many of the streets, and the establishment of railway communication across London between the northern and the southern termini. The traffic in passengers going from north to south without stopping in London is very consi derable, and many in crossing London lose their trains through the delay in the streets. No wonder the streets are obstructed. The manager of the Midland states that that railway company alone cart through London to the ' southern stations about 100,000 tons of goods in the year, and that in a few years the quantity will probably have in creased five or sixfold. The Great Northern spend £l,OOO a week in cartage of goods (not coals) to their destination in London, or to the southern termini. The boldest scheme propounded to the committee was that of Mr. Fowler, the engineer of the Metropolitan Railway. He proposed that that railway should be extended westward from its present Paddington terminus to Notting-hill, and then turned southwards just beyond Kensington gardens, and brought back into the pity, passing in its way under a new wide street into Holborn, and finally forming a junction near the Fleet valley with the existing Metropolitan line. The committee ad,pting substantially this project, propose what they style " an inner circuit of railway," connecting all the principal railway termini, and comprising not only an extension of the Metropolitan Railway westward and southward, but also eastward—and they recommend also that an cuter circle of railway be formed, intersecting the principal northern lines at a greater distance, but still within the metropolitan dis trict, and that every such system of internal railway com munication be under one management. Earl Grey pro posed a novel arrangement—namely, that as the Metropoli tan Railway Company are already in possession of a route which must form a very considerable part of any system of railways in London, that company should be invited to pro pose a plan for its extension upon the understanding that if it should prove satisfactory Parliament would refuse to en tertain oompeting proposals from any other quarter ; that, in fact, a concession of the exclusive right of proposing bills next session for the district between the existing line of the Metropolitan and an extension line passing round by Kensington to the raver should be offered to that com pany, and that the shares in the new lines to be thus devised should be disposed of by public competition, and half of all profits over eight per cent. be paid over to the Metropolitan Board of Works towards the expense of new public works. But the committee negatived Earl Grey's re solutions. It is thought doubtful whether all the objects in view can be served by the same line. It is the interest of the company to give a preference to the short traffic. Mr. Fowler himself says that the local traffic on the Metropolitan would be inconsistent with its being used largely for the purposes of the long lines, or at all events for many of the long lines coming on at the end of it; but he holds that it might be made of great service in collect in g and distributing traffic for all the railways, and its traffic raight be increased at least threefold without difficulty. Mr. Hawkshaw bring _ their stations nearer to the centre of London, (3 land considers that .the extension of many lines into the metropolis would be advantar with lie. The committee, however, resolved that, , lion of the Great Eastern, it is not d l e o s n g main stations of any of the principal to the pub lines existing it s h the excep aable to bring the lines further into s hould be made for London, but that one or more railwayst:opar of London to the carrying passengers from differeont be in the hands of any main stations, such new lines n t laced under such manage- one of the great companies, ment as to ensure equal advabnutwaPgaessotnooalt.yAmong the pre- Mr. Bezel tt jects laid before the cora Tnllliatmte:s embankment and new street gee for a railway under the g the Cannon to the Mansion -hou se, com m unicatin with the a c y it wood points to the line street terminus and extending r to H the North London termi nus in Liverpool-street, butuM y nd Charing-cross. already constructing btetw.fee . the G.eat Eastern had come to F in b states constructing Finsbury-circus he should have proposed a continuation to qu are on a viaduct, roofed over, worked on the Leicester - s 1 with one stationary engine, and atmospheric PriuciP e, having a continuous platform, the carriages to stop every quarter of a mile, and access to the platform to be given by turnstiles at penny fares, people getting in where they like and out where they like. Another project has the high sanction of Colonel Yolland—a line from Euston-road to onaeingecross, giving direct communication between the Sonth-Eastern lines and the northern lines; the northern lines might then find room about Leicester-square for stations, where they might make up auxiliary trains to be coupled to the main trains in Easton-seed. The committee say nothing of this project, but recommend that there be a line on the eastern sido of the metropolis connecting the g railwa ys north and south of the Thames ; m ean i n appa rently, either a high level line across the Thames, or aline through the Thames-tunnel, notwithstanding the difficulty of the gradients. They consider that the heavy goods traffic can, as a general rule, be most conveniently carried from the northern railways to the southern by lines not passing through the central portions of the metropolis. There is such a way by Kensington, but the manager of the Midland states that after his company have brought coals to London from Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire for about 6s. a ton, a demand of 2s. is made for passage over the lines to Ken sington-basin, which practically has the effect of stopping the traffic, and doing its part towards keeping up the price of coals in the south of England. Mr. Forbes, of the Chat ham line, states that it costs ss. or 6s. a ton to get goods i. `larough London. It is estimated that now lines in Lon dot, will cost on an average 1300,000 per mile. 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