The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-28 00:00:00

'ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT -GARDEN. - 11 - 11) Under the ManaLrement of Miss Louisa Pyae and 31r. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING, Wallace's Romantic Opera, THE DESERT FLOWEI t : Miss Louisa ryne, Miss Susan Pyne ; Messrs. W. H. Weiss, 11. Cord. A. Cook, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. A. ?lellon.—Doors open at half-past seven. tominence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE. - Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. Tins EVENI NG, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy and Miss Murray. Atter which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED. Messrs. r Miss ls Ryder Rayner, Ikl , -agresun, Ward, Spencer ; Miss Ileath, E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss ..iitter, Miss Cicely Nutt, Miss "Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. ?THEATRE ROYAL HAYNIARKET„ Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr, Buckstone. EVE-NING, OUR MARY ANNE. Atter which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Messrs. Charles Mathew ,, , Compton,Weathersby,&z. ; Mesdames C. Mathews, L, Keeley. Griffith, &c. And. MY HUSBAND'S GIIOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Mr. PECHTER begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Public that the above Theatre will 0 E'NN on SATUB.- DAY next, with a new Drama, entitled BEL DEMON lA, a Love Story, in Four Acts, in which Mr. Fechter will ap pear, supported by Messrs. Broughsm, S. Emery, G. Jordan and F. Charles ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss Layenue, M re. Lee and Miss Elsworthy. The Box-office will be opened on Monday, Oct. 26, from eleven till five. MISS BA.TENIAN.—LEM-I.—The celebrated young American Actress, Mi ss BATEMAN, having an her first appearance in the New Drama of LEAH. ob tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic suc cess that ion has been wi , nessed for many years , and the profound impres created by her impersonation of the character of LEAH upon a crowded audience having. been completely ratified entire tified by the nna.nimous verdict and critical approval of the Daily Press, the Manager ot the NEW A.DEL PHI THEATRE has the honour to announce that Miss BAT EMAN wilt appear in the New Drama of LEAH EVERY EVENINGtiII furt notice. N EW THE ATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. at 7, THE TitA,GEDY QUEEN: Mrs. THIS EVENING. ltitling. Bit 8, the New Drama of LEAH : .Miss Bateman, supported by Mesars.Arthur Stirling, R. Billing,ton, Stuart, A. Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billington. To c onclude w ith CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood. RI NCESS'S THE ATRE.--HERRMANN, ppRESTIDIGATATEUR.—Great Success of Herr mann P e rformances.—' tie always keeps as close to his pa blic as he can , and co urts their vi g il ance , that his superior -dex ter ity may be legitim.tely triumphant." Times, Oct 27. His celebrated FISH, RING, HAT, and ,HONEY TRICK, EvitlitY EV NING. Constant change of programme. Commencing at Eight. Half-price at Nine o'Clock. • - N.B.—First Grand Morning Performance on SATURDAY next, at Three. - ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, TURN HIM (Ur. Mr. C. Fenton. After which, 311RiMI'S CRIME. Messrs. G. Honey, parselle, Belford, Turner, Hiss K.Saville, and Miss Handers. Followed by THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan borough, F. Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny White. Commence at 7. VHE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," A. Containing. the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Hsu be had Every Evening of G. R. GLIcINTIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 44m.—Afternoon, 3h. 3m. Tootonnow.-Morning, 3h. 22rn.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m. The Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 27, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.68. Wind—South-Westerly; moderate breeze, and cloudy, with rain. - 4 1 , 2 '%:.„ -- 004 .111114* * 0 Vat, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, ocr. 28, 1863. Although this latest news from America—the news but just now brought to us almost simulta neously by the City of London and the North American—adds but little to our previous know ledge (that is, in regard to the position occupied relatively by the Federal main army under MEADE, the Army of the Potomac as it is called, and the Confederate forces under LEE) it is so far remark able that it has precisely the same drift or tendency that that earlier information had. The storm current sets still strongly and steadily against Washington. The belligerents are drawing nearer and nearer to the capital the Federals, of course, retreating, the Confederates ad vancing. The headquarters of LEE are still, it is true, upon the field—the twice " foughten field"—of Bull Run. But, a portion at least of the Federal army in their avoidance of a more serious disaster by a timely withdrawal before the late formidable m ovements of the Confederates, have retreated, it seems, to within a distance of a very few miles indeed, from Washington. The mere in timation now put forth, first of all as a vague rumour, afterwards very confidently and even ex plicitly, of another call by the PRESIDENT for fresh volunteers, would almost seem to be ominous of new panic. Mr. LINCOLN'S call is variously stated at 300,00'3 and upward, actually, according to one account, at double that number, at f u lly 600,000 volunteers.to OWEN GLENMOWER again rising our remembrance, when we hear of it ! The " It " 1 11 1 001 1 which Mr. LINCOLN has been carryi ng on. the war all along would really appear to be about the most reckless well imaginable. As for the financial part o f it— we a ll k now w h at tkat has been. T he Debt, illustrates ixt,Pf7ing and expanding Federal htfully even now. Paper ad libitum—credit heartening on ns the ed : th ese b e i ng the two ax i oms slapdash da re -d ev il r y o f the According Federal Government. to the old Arabic proverb, a straw, at last, may break the back of a camel. But it is not mere straw that has been heaped up on that but too we ll named symbol—the greenback.trk One months ago, m our English caricaturists hit the ago, when he represented, by a t ouch or two of his comic pencil, the Federal President and the Federal Financier, hauling away at an apparent'Y intermin able coil of paper. Certain, however, i s it that, if continued thus recklessly, upon the principl e of these wonderful a dministrators letting themselves have rope enough, it must either snap altogeth er or strangle them in its involutions. It is the maddest 4, piling up mountainously" that even the Yankees have even yet adventured upon. And—with what result With the disastrous result, after two or three years of the m ost sanguinary con flict, of bringing the main bodies of the belligerents back to their old battle ground, within easy dis tance, not from the Southern capital, but from the Northern capital—not from Richmond, but from - Washington. And all this while, too, the supplies that have necessitated this enormous expenditure have been quite as much supplies to the Confede raterrh troops, as supplies to the Federal troop s. at it is so, is matter long since of absolute noto riety. When the South has been harder put to it than usual for supplies they have gone north and taken them. This has been done not once or twice in a moderate Way, but again and again upon a gigantic scale. Provisions, artillery, munition bag and baggage, livestock a n d dead stock, all have been as one in th a t way betwee n the belligerents. And most of the bo o t y seized in this way vi et armis by the Confederates, has been often but just fresh from the depots of the Northern contractors. As long ago as Dr. RUS SELL ' S time, the English public knew all about it in this waynana le e a ly d: that, for miles and miles al ong the roads ing from the fields vacated by the Federal 4, eke. dadlere" lay scattered over the ground, R ug down by hundreds upon hundreds in the agony o f precipi. tate flight, militaryfegoods and chattels, hardly Wm or tarnished in the least, beyond their mere exposure thus to the weather. Furious fighting the belli gerents have had since then, no doubt, stern heroic combat has vindicated alike the fair fame of the North and of the South, their warrior fame that is for daring and endurance—'and this, too, upon many dreadful fields of slaughter—but still the supplies have passed abundantly from. the Federals to the Confederates. The patience of the population of the North, through all this stormy period of strife and ruin, almost passes our comprehension, now that we come to look back upon it. What they are hoping for—what they are looking forward to—it would be -diffivalt to conjecture. For the seizure of Richmond ? Their urgent necessity, it is rather, to look anxiously, again and again, to the safety of Washington. The conquest of the South? The victories in the vast majority of instances have been conspicuously and undeniably on th e side of the Confederates. The rising up at last of a military chief whose genius and valour may at length turn the tide of battle and render the Northern cause, through success upon success, triumphant ? Why, it is notorious that one after another the Federal Commanders-in-Chief have been egregious failures, almost as egregious failures as the Federal President himself—Mr. LINCOLN being well matched by disappointing Generals like M'CLELLAN and HOOKER and MEADE, Generals beaten,ou twitted, out-man ce avred, trapped, and one after another, in consequence of all this,—shelved by their own liovernment Whereas, upon the other hand—there is President DAVIS not the least bit in the world of a failure—but just exactly the diametrical opposite of a failure. And, co-operating with DAYIS as the political Ruler of the Southern Confedera tion, there is all the while, there, at the head of the Confederate army, the greatest soldier the whole war has produced—that General ROBERT LEE, of , whom STONEWALL JACKSON used to say that he would obey his orders at all times, and under any circumstances, no matter what they were, instantly and unhesitatingly. And, grouped around that cen tral figure of the Great Captain, we know how many gifted and heroic Generals there are (the noblest of them all, alas ! gone, it is true !) as LEE'S lieutenants in the conduct of the army of the Confederates— that valiant and adventurous army, now again threatening so very closely the Federal capital of Washington. There are some questions that seem fated to be the standing perplexities of European statesmen. Diplomacy fails to unravel their intricacies, while Time, instead of smoothing the way, only adds force to the obstacles in the road to a settlement. The state of Poland has long been one of those vexed questions, while Turkey bids fair to become ano ther. Schleswig Holstein, occupies a prominent position in this catalogue of official difficulties, and for years it has been the plague and perplexity of successive statesmen. It consists of elements as ir reconcileable as Russian tyranny and Polish na. tionality ; it is influenced by agencies as antago nistic as Moslem effeteness and the spirit of progress which animates Christendom. If its course has not been marked by the disaster, bloodshed, and suffering of the prolonged and mournful story of the Poles, it has nevertheless served to cripple the energies and retard the development of a high spirited and enterprising people. It has embroiled the inhabitants of what might otherwise have been a contented and united people, in constant conten tions and disputes with their neighbours, while the independence of the North has been threatened, and the whole peace of Europe imperilled by the unjust and unreasonable ambition of one encroach ing Power. Matters are now, it would seem, ap proaching a crisis ; and in spite of German delibe ration, and the various hindrances in the way, we are likely to see the long-pending dispute brought to an immediate issue. It is often said that slow people are the most difficult to move when they have once made up their minds, and the rule would seem to hold good with nations as well as indivi duals, for the German Diet having once determined on proceeding to extremities in Holstein, are not to moved from their purpose by the resolute attitude of Denman:, the alliance concluded bet ween that Power and Sweden, or the threats, entreaties, and persuasions of Earl RUSSELL. Our English Foreign Secretary indeed occupies at this mo ment no very enviable position, thanks to his own inconsistency and extraordinary conduct. Conscious, perhaps, of the responsibility attaching to his present actions, and sensible how completely the feelings as well as the interests of the country are identified with the Danish side of the question, he is anxious to prevent, if possible, the fulfilment of the German threats, and to avoid the possibility of a collision with Prussia. But, remembering his former vacillation, and the ingenuity with which he endeavoured to make the worse appear the better cause only last year, we ought not perhaps to feel surprised that his intervention appears neither to have materially modified the intentions of Germany nor to have substantially encouraged the hopes of Denmark. The text of Earl RUSSELL'S second note to Sir ALEXANDER MALET is now before us, and the Diet has certainly no reason to complain of its tone. It begins by requesting Sir ALEXANDER to represent to the President of the Diet the readiness of Denmark to modify the obnoxious patent of March 30, so far as to make it provisional until such time as the position of Holstein be finally settled. With such dispositions Denmark hopes to obtain an adjournment of the threatened Federal execution. The next paragraph proceeds to a little stronger language. Having tried persuasion, Earl RUSSELL thinks it bat prudent to show that the disadvan tages of hostilities are not all on one side, as the probable blockade of the German ports would be very damaging to the commerce of the Fatherland. The Diet is further reminded that, in the event of the war extending to Schleswig and Jutland, Aus tria and Prussia, as well as Fr a nc e and Great Britain are bound to respect the integrity of Den mark by the treaty of 1852—treaties having proved to be such serious obstacles in the way of ambitious and u n „ r Holst e i n apulous S overe i gns ! Th e di spatc h con cludes wi th a declaration that, although the British Governm ent Diet in fully acknowledges the claims of the that, if th e Germ and Lauenburg, it is of opinion those Duchi es demands were restricted to ' t hey might be satisfied, without proceedi ng to extremities. This is t e lling the Diet very m u ch and what was pretty plainly admitted what it knew befor e , by Denmark famous proclamatio n If the in in the of March. farther LI thanil an tn the ark terferenco of the Diet extended no German duchies, we should have hear d . less about the Schleswig-Holstein question be mustering her fo rce w ould not now a. We should have been glad :o see a decided intimation that Eng land would feel it her duty to support the resistance of Denmark take the place of this closing platitude, Et a declaration which would probably hav e b een good deal more efficacious. Unfortunately, the antecedents of our Foreign Secretary are by no means alarming to the Pruss i ans or cheering to the Danes, and accordingly we fin d King CHRISTIAN is reported to have said in a rece nt speech that if compelled to succumb, if France and Sweden per mitted Denmark to share the fate of oth er tram p led nations, he would never consent to dismember his kingdom, but would descend from his throne and proclaim a republic. If this oingular declaration TILE SO_N. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, 001 1 0 BER 28, 1863 be accurately reported, it is somewhat strange that the KING omits entirely all mention of England.— a power with which he is now so nearly allied. Time will serve to exemplify the real intentions of the disputants_ At present it would be a consider able satisfaction to the public to know that Earl RUSSELL shared the sound and independent opi nions so clearly stated by Lord PALMERSTON at the close of the Parliamentary session. It is a fearful thing to reflect upon that many are dying in this rich capital from starvation ; but it is incalculably worse to consider that a large propor tion of this number owe their deaths to neglect. As painful a case as bas come before the public for some time is that of CAROLINE JAMES. The poor woman died of want. Her agonised exclamation to her neighbours, "Did you ever know what it was to ?eel starvation," is a lasting reproach to all who had to do with the case, and a stigma on the parish authorities. The conduct of Mr. CHRISTIE, the parish officer, was greatly in fault, and it is to be trusted that few other such authorities could have behaved in so unfeeling a manner, and acted with such harshness throughout, It was in vain that repeated application was made on behalf of the unfortunate woman. No notice whatever was vouchsafed to the urgent demand. The first appli cant was met with abuse, the second with kicks. Surely after this conduct has been made public, such a man will not be permitted to exercise authority, nor to maintain responsibility. While this worthy, who was called " relieving officer," on the principle of locus non lucendo, was refusing this demand, and sending away that applicant, declaring he could nothing, and proving by his manner that he wished to do nothing, life that will not wait for the freaks and fancies of parish authorities was ebbing away, and the poor woman died. It is surely a scandalous thing that when two doctors had sent in certificates, and several other attempts had been made by pitying neighbours to pro cure some assistance from the workhouse, that such gross neglect and such wanton cruelty should have been exercised. It is to be regretted that the jury did not bring in a direct verdict against the man who so unworthily and so unfeelingly carried on his voca tion. It is time that some decisive change be made in the manner in which the relief is doled out to the poor. Next session some bill ought to be brought is to amend and regulate the general plan and practice adopted. It is certain that the object is or ought to be to offer succour to those perishing from want, that there should be " no complaining in our streets," from those done to death from actual want of the common necessaries of life. No one can dare to say that the system which has just sacrificed a human life can be satisfactory, and no time should be lost, and no efforts spared, which can in any way mitigate the cruel wrong which now presses heavily upon so many of our poverty-stricken brethren, and remove in some measure the reproach that now attaches itself so strongly to those who are in any way connected with the transaction of the Work house mechanism and management. The abuses of our naval administration aro of such old standing, and such extended character, that it has become almost hopeless to attack them. Our electoral representation, our civil and criminal codes of law, our official departments generally, have successively yielded to the influence of mce dern energy and improvement, but there is one sacred spot, it seems, where Reform may never enter. England may call herself the mistress of the seas, and as thriftless men sometimes outrun their income in keeping up an imaginary position, she may be called upon to pay annually increased sums for the privilege of that title. For the title rather than the fact. To ask for an account of the enormous outlay, is as hopeless as to discuss the secret of perpetual motion, unless, indeed, that secret be hidden in the continual outpouring of public money from the Admiralty. To attempt to unravel the dockyard accounts might alarm HERCULES himself, and would hopelessly con. fuse the prodigy who could multiply nine figures by mental arithmetic. The rapid and unac countable increase of items and expenses would certainly baffle even his powers of multiplication, and the result of it all is that our fleet is declared unfit for a maritime war, while blunders are made in the construction of vessels which would disgrace the merest novice. The last news is that, when the armour plated ship Royal Oak was placed in the dock last week, great consternation was excited amongst the authorities of the dockyards by the appearance of the plates. A series of corroded holes, from half an inch to five eighths of an inch, were visible, some of the plates containing 188 such holes, while none had less than 40. In many places they had run one into another to the extent of five or six feet, and the whole ap pearance is described as most extraordinary. And what was the cause of such an appearance in a ship commissioned last April, and only eight months afloat ? The iron armour plates were in contact with copper sheathing of the vessel, and wherever the under coating had washed off, galvautic action had corroded the plates. It is a pity that the gentlemen in authority did not learn a few of the commonly known laws of science before they attempted remodelling the Royal Navy. The contact of iron and copper in water invariably pro duces this result—a fact so well known that this is a common mode of exciting electricity, and has been lately suggested by an eminent electrician as the surest means of superseding the difficulties attend ing the Atlantic telegraph. It shows a remarkable degree of ignorance of very necessary knowledge that the dockyard authorities should express such consternation at a result they might have expected when they sent the ship to sea. Suspicious folks might hint that the experiment was intended to be a failure by those who object to adapting our noble old wooden vessels to modern improvements, and prefer to lavish public money in costly experiments to employing stores ready to hand. This recent disaster will give a convenient opportunity for more Admiralty bungling, possibly with a repetition of the same egregious mistake. Another characteristic blunder has recently come to light respecting the construction of Mr. REED'S new iron ship Pallas at Woolwich. It has been found that the slip on which preparations were being made for her being laid down was much less than her proposed length —225 feet. Considerable delay will, therefore, be experienced, as both slip and shed will have to be lengthened. Such mistakes as these aro perfectly in excusable, and in any other department would not be tolerated. How long is the moat expensive and important of our administrative departments to be likewise the most unprofitable and ill governed ? THE EX-CHANCELLORS.—Byper the noble and learned public, that being the s tip en d which Chancellors, who lord enjoy e d as ono of the five ex-LordLyndhurst a pension of £5,000 per the annumderaetvhe r o t s f t L o o t r h d e divi e ded r b vi e v tw in e g en ex th . e c m ha t n h c e o r ll o n u r n s d n s n u w m of £25,000 .£ receipt2s, 000 perof retiringann u m. Pe are f ou Pe r in number, namely, Lord Brougham, TdLosrd; e L la t ts S fc , :rd L , Lon . ards, 82; Lord Cranworth, 73 ; A N-ICE REMEDY FOR SEA-SICKNESS.—A Tra veller states that he hes tried it (ice) himself with success, and that if the stewards of steamers would keep a supply of lemon -water ices on board, they would profit themselves and render a great service to their passeners. THE CHRYSANTH EM g UM SITOW IN THE T EMPLE witueSSed i 4 London, 1 GARDENS promises to b e this s eason the finest display ever LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, OCT. 28. The Queen of Spain on quitting the Empress of the French presented her Majesty with a bracelet, bearing the word " Recuerdu" (keepsake) in dia monds and rubies. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. PROHIBITION OF MOURNING. WARSAW, OCT. 25. General Berg has issued orders forbidding mourn ing •o be worn after the 10 . h of November pest. Passengers on foot violating this ordinance are to be f ned 10 roubles; the proprietors of private carriages, with mourning emblems, 100 roubles; persons in hired vehicles, 15 roubles. Officials transgressing are to forfeit one month's pay. Mourning for the dead is permitted. WILNA, OCT. 22. On the 117th, Felix Pestrowski, a noble of the district of Sokel, in the government of Grodno, and two peasants, were hanged at 10 a.m., in Kobryn. The peasants were named Felix Hornszewski and Theodore Trofimczuk. All three were insurgents. Letters from the palatinate of Augustow, under date of the 20th October, say that Mouravieff has entirely taken up the government of that palatinate, whose incorporation with Lithuania is nearly com pleted. Mouravieff began his rule by two execu tions; that of Bys2e, vski, the station-master of Pilwiszki, at Wylkowiszki. and of the forester Szware (called Saawa in the Courrter de Wilna) at Szaki. Both were hanged. Women are forbidden to wear mourning. Tzgrunntowski, a Russian, has superseded the civil governor, Korytkowski. All the Polish employes are being removed and their places filled by Russians. In the town of Wyl kowiszki the Russian pope compels parents to have their children baptised in the Greek religion. ID the town of Wisztyniee nearly all the inhabitants, except the peasants, have been arrested, and Puchaez, a forester, was beaten to death. •These atrocities were committed by the Russians in order to force the inhabitants to confess where arms were concealed, and being still unsuccessful they began to torture the children before the eyes of their mothers. Four little babes were so tortured that their lives are despaired of. BRESLAU, OCT. 27 (Evening), The Breslauer Zeitung of this evening publishes the following from its Warsaw correspondent :..._. " General Trepow, the chief of the police, has paid a visit to the Consul-General of Saxony, Herr Lesser, and has explained that the steps taken with respect to him were the result of a misunderstand ing. The seals placed upon the Saxon Chancellory have been removed. " Railway communication between Warsaw and Vienna is interrupted, the insurgents having de stroyed the bridge at Skierniewice." FRANCE. General the Marquis de Lawcestine, who has just been appointed Governor of the Invalides, was born in 1786, He is descended from a noble German family, and was grandson to Madamede Geniis, and godson to King Louis Philippe. In 1805 he was but) lieutenant, and took part in the campaigns of the Grand Armee ; in 1812 he was recalled from Spain, where he was aide-de camp to Marshal Sebas tiani, to take part in the Russian expedition. He was promoted to the rank of Chef d'escadron for his valour displayed at the battle of Moskowa, and to that of Colonel after the combat at Arcis-sur- Aube. He commanded the 3d Chasseurs at Water loo; and retired from the army under the Bourbons. He returned to active service in 1830; was made Lieutenant-General in 1841 ; Commander of the National Guard in 1849, and was nominated a Senator in January 1852, General Mellinet, who supersedes General Lawcestine as Commander-in- Chief of the National Guard, is a son of a General of the First Empire. He entered the service at the age of 15, and was wounded the same year at Metz, and later at the biege of St. Sebastian. In 18 46 he had attained the rank of Colonel, and was placed at the head of a sub-division in Algeria. He served at Sebastopol as General of Brigade of the Imperial Guard, and was wounded in the first attack on Fort Malakoff. For his services in the Crimea he received the grade of General of Divi sion. He afterwards commanded the Ist division of Infantry of the Imperial Guard in the war of Italy. BOURSE, Oct. 27.—The market remains without any change for the better or worse, and quotations are about the same as yesterday, Threes, for the Account, being now unvaried at 67f. 25c. Mobilier are a shade higher. Railway Shares heavy, but without material variation in prices. Sales took place towards the close, which caused a slight de cline, and the market left off as follows : 4t per cents .. 95 25 Do. end month.... 3 per Cent Do. end ::month 67 10 Credit Mobilier 1110 Do. end month 1 11 1 25 Bank Shares 3330 Credit F oncier Roman litaliau L0an...... 73 40 Do. end month.... 73 30 Eceq ditto ........ Do, end month.... Russian ........ Austrian ........ Spanish Threes.... 53 75 52 25 Home Debt ...... Deferred ........ Cash. Account. 980 , 980 • 981 25 .. -- 1016 2.5 .. 955 910 915 :500 498 75 693 75 690 516 25 -- 516 25 .. 510 413 75 .. 415 420 417 50 565 565 542 50 .• 542 50 3 6 4 3 0 2 _5O :364325 50 RAIL' Orleans Northern Lyons and Mediterranean N ew ditto Geneva.. Southern .. Western Eastern .... Sardinian .. Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona MARKETS—This Day, MARK-LANE. A very moderate supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market. The trade, however, was by no means active either for red or white qualities. A clearance, however, was effected at Monday's currency. The show of samples of foreign wheat on the stands was large. A moderate business was transacted in most de scriptions, at previous quotations. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at late rates. Malting barley sold steadily, at full prices. Grinding and distilling qualities, however, were a dull inquiry, at the late decline in prices. The market was but moderately supplied. We have to report a dull trade for malt, at late rates. Tho supply of new is as yet small. Good and fine oats were firm in price. Inferior qualities, however, were dull, at the recent low rates. The supply on offer was large. Beans sold heavily, at fully the late decline in the cur. rency. The market was well supplied. Peas moved off slowly, at late rates. The show of samples was very moderate. Most kinds of flour were in fair average request, and prices wore steadily supported. whea h t ltl is tl a V r e ie t y . S . TI M IT a S It. OWEEKa.tm. Flout. , 830 1,010 / 2720 1020 i 250 Irish.. i 1810 . _ b'oraign 10,260 3,0 - 90 1 27,870 1 460 sks, 60 brla. ............. ...... WHIT E C E L.. The trade is firm for good and prime meat; but inferior qualities are dull. Beef, from 2s Gd to 4s Od ; mutton, 3s Od to 4s 4d ; veal, 3s Gd to 4s 4d, and pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per Blbs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. Good and fine hops are firm in price. Otherwise, the rade is dull, and the quotations are barely supported. MRS. JAMES ROGERS, widow of the celebrated low comedian, is engaged by Mr. Buckstone. A PLEASANT TRAVELLING COMPANION.—Mr. E. Villiers, proprietor of the South London Music Hall, has lately made a successful tour in Gr erway with a " Qrhoot." LITERATURE, The Cross of Honour. By Annie Thomas, author of " Lady Lorme," &c. One Vol., pp. 306. Max- well. This is a very charming tale, and will find favour with many readers. It is simply and pleasantly nar rated,with no striving after effect, yet,while accord. ing these commendations to it, we cannot say that we are quite satisfied with the main incident upon which the principal interest of the story depends. Captain Tierney's secret promise is regarded in too serious a light. He might surely have endeavoured to procure a release from the fair tyrant to whom his word had been so fatally pledged, or at least he should have explained his actual position to his cousin. Trusting too much to his own powers of self-command he risks the happiness of Beatrice, and almost compromises that high sense of honour, about which he is, in other respects bo fastidiously sensitive. In illustration of the dilemma in which the hero is placed, and the position of the heroine, let us quote the following scene which occurs very shortly after the first acquaintance of Beatrice and her cousin Frank Tierney. At a picnic excursion to some ruins, Beatrice has been induced to ascend a crumbling wall, and then grows charmed at her own temerity. A RETRACTATION. " Can't I get down this pay?" she said ; " I dare not go back along the wall. Oh, Walter I why did you get me up here? I'm frightened." " I'll go round and down," said Walter, " and help you down this way. Don't be frightened. Or shall I take you back with we ?" "No," she shuddered, " don't.' "Well, stand quite still then," he said, "and don't look down. You are not usually nervous." Not usually nervous I No, truly it could not be said of Beatrice that " usually" she gave way to aught approach. ing to young ladyism. But now—on this occasion---when she found her cousin Frank by her side, with his arm round her waist, with his hand warmly clasping, her own, she gave what sounded uncommonly like a gulp of hysteri cal satisfaction. "I feel safe now, Frank," she said; "I could walk back over anything with you." And he forgot prudence, as the most prudent men will do at times, and said, as he clasped her still closer to his side— "Beatrice I my darling! you ought to feel safe with me, indeed ; for I love you!" Memory, prudence, self-reproach, all came to him before the last tones of the words that had caused that lovely flush to rise on her cheek had died away. She, gazing at him as he now, with only chivalrous politeness, guided her steps along to safety, saw him turn pale; and her own heart failed her, in quick response to that gathering gloom on his brow. " Frank," she said, softly, when the exclamations of joy at her safe return, and surprise that she could have been foolish enough to get alarmed at all, had subsided— " Frank, I have to thank you for bringing me well through my difficulty; no one else----" " Would have made such a fool of himself as I lid at the moment, thanks to Mrs. Forest's champagne, Beatrice, Come. prove to me that you forgive me, by forgetting those idle words; will you?" Captain Tierney was himself again, with a vengeance, as he said those words. And Beatrice emulated his com• posure as she answered, '• Forgotten and forgiven, Frank, as entirely as even you can desire, Beatrice Constable is a natural, loveable character, ❑ot too perfect or too good, but very weak and womanly, and, being such, her story will be read with sympathy and interest. Captain Tierney would be an attractive hero were it not for his well nigh fatal mistake in following the shadow rather than the substance. The Forest family are very naturally described, and Captain Constable is a delightful character, whom we are sorry to lose so early in the tale. Secrets of My Office. By a Bill-broker. One Vol. pp. 348. Maxwell , Andrew Govegold, of the firm of Lovegold and Co., here presents us with sundry interesting re miniscences respecting his own history and other people's affairs. He tells us that succees has crowned his praiseworthy career, and fortune has favoured his indefatigable efforts, but he does not sufficiently initiate us into the mysteries of his craft to enable us to profit by.the information. Suck, "secrets of the office," we presume, must not be revealed out of school. One of the most stirring chapters of these revelations is entitled My Battle of Waterloo." Andrew Lovegold, then young in business, is treacherously deserted by his senior partner on the very day of the battle of Waterloo, Sunday, 18th June. On the next Wednesday, unless he also saves himself by an ignominous flight, Andrew will be arrested for heavy liabilities, and will incur tt.e penalty of fraudulent acts of which he is himself innocent. The absconding partner has left nothing for the victimised Andrew but some scrip that is valueless in consequence of the evil rumours afloat. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Waterloo Sunday afternoon in London was a time of violent fitful weather. Black clouds pouring down torrents, cascades of rain, alternated with stainless blue ether and brilliant sunshine. Which—which in the financial firma ment would finally prevail—the black etorm•clouds or the clear ether and joyous sunlight ? Storm, darkness, total eclipse; no sun, ab moon would ultimately prevail, was the opinion of almost every one I spoke with. That Wellington's army had been destroyed, Prince Blucher only saved from the like fate by shameful flight, moneyed men, as a rule firmly believed. The church bells were ringing—to my ear they were funeral bells, for evening service, when I returned home in a state of desperation. * * Respite, absolute respite till Wednesday I What might not happen in the meantime ? On Wednesday there was only £14,000 to pay on those accursed bills I My downbeaten spirit seemed to leap up again into life,—tremulous, but hopeful life. Who, after all, had ever heard of an English army being beaten—at all events, for the last thousand years or thereabouts ? At Hastings certainly Harold's forces got the worst of it; but then that was a sort of trian gular fight, the English tackling first one, he down t'other came on ; and the Danes being first and down, of course the Normans had it their own way, and won by accident. An English army commanded by Wellington, too! Non sense! At all events, I would try and believe so. There would be always time enough to hang, drown, shoot oneself, or jump out of a three pair back window. I will pass briefly every Monday. Consols could not be disposed of to any considerable amount at any price. I care not what the official quotations assert to the contrary. Luckily, perhaps, or Treherne's hint might have been acted upon. The devil has yon at advantage when you must either accept the gallows or his offer. All I could hay done was to procure an advance for a month of £30,000, at heavy interest, by depositing as security the whole of the stock I had the control of. Tuesday morning brought no positive tidings. The wind was not so fair for a vessel leaving the Dutch coast for an English port as on the previous Saturday. It was, how ever, confidently whispered that the Government had re ceived news which they were afraid to publish. Sick at heart, dizzy with dread, I wended my way to Dolly's Chop•house, Paternoster-row, ordered a slight lunch by way of excuse, sat down, and sank into a sort of mediatative stupor, the theme being whether it would not be insanity on my part not to take the £20,000 and— Suddenly I became doubtfully conscious, as it were, of a bustle, a commotion without, of people hurrying past, of shouts, cries, inarticulate to me, but loud, joyous, fiercer. Springing up, shaking myself into sense, I looked out, listening eagerly. Boom I boom I boom I The tower guns, by Heaven I Oat I rushed, joined the excited crowd, hur rying eastward, along Cheapside, amidst shouts of " Vic tory Wellington for ever I " I pushed, forced my way to the front of the Mansion House; just as the Lord Mayor, arrayed in his robes of office, made his appearance, holding a paper in his hand. As soon as the deafening cheers by which he was received permitted him to be heard, his lord ship officially announced a glorious victory achieved by the Duke of Wellington over the French army, commanded by Bonaparte in psrson. Thirty thousand prisoners; all the French cannon and colours taken; Bonaparte himself only saved by flight, &c. Lord how my head spun round I how I shouted, screamed, laughed, capered, jumped, frantically whirled my hundkerchicf round my head ! and should probably have dropped down and been trampled upon by the crowd, had not two gentlemen compassionately seized hold of and forced me into a neighbouring coffee-house. Very foolish and absurd antics on my part, no doubt; but any one who has ever had the misfortune, and the luck, to stand, at tended by the Caleraft of his time, upon a drop, with a halter neatly fitted round his neck, anti been reprieved just as the prison chaplain came to the words, " In the midst of life we are in death," he will be able to make allowances. I have only further to say that the immediate and rapidly continuous advance in saleable value of all Government securities, Treherne and Company's time• bargains netttnintsg a slapping sum, enabled me to meet all eu g quietly obtaining possession of and burn those.dreg:atf.lf par tner and truthfully assert, on the day the dissolution e u ni l bills, ship between Joshua ounds man I gazetted, that I was a forty -hog thouSall,. Treherne and Andrew Lovegold was tot e w eßritish ld i n Thanks for which, above and before al army for winning the ba ttle of Waterloo foro"ve h o r the general, myself in ;particular; in grateful coolluernoratio2 of which 0)0 , 9 45 "Ilt"9111c4t I wver fail, at every until. versary of the great day, to drink in solemn silence, "Peace to the souls of the heroes." Thenceforward the position of Andrew Lovegold is secure, and the nine succeeding chapters chiefly , chronicle the histories of some of his more remark able clients. SDme of these stories are tame and spiritless, and "hang fire," others are sufficiently interesting or amusing. We cannot say that Mr. Lovegold gives us any remarkable instances of his own acute sagacity, for in the majority of the cases he brings forward, he is himself the dupe or victim. Perhaps revelations of an opposite charac ter would not so well bear the telling ! Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Folk- Lore. By Walter K. Kelly, One Vol., pp. 308. Chapman and Hall. This is a singularly-interesting work, a perfect treasury of curiosities. Unlike those over-wise innovators who seem to exult in bringing forward some unpalatable truth to extinguish our most cherished traditions, the author of this volume bringa chapter and verse to authenticate favourite legends and popular superstitions, and to enable us henceforth to " believe as truth" what has hitherto only been " beloved as a fable." In his preface Mr. Kelly pays the following deserved tribute to the labours of Jacob Grimm : " The labours of their great master have received due honour in this country—they have gladdened the hearts of our children, enriched the minds of our studious men, and nurtured a spirit of inquiry which has done not a little to wards rescuing from oblivion the perishing remains of the old ways of life and thought of our forefathers. Learned and unlearned, we have all been delighted to sit as listeners at the feet of Jacob Grimm, but I am not aware teat any attempt has yet been made to naturalise amongst us the admirable fruits secured within the last few years by Ger man explorers of his school. Yet th© attempt is surely worth making." Setting forth with a recognition of the "common ancestry of the Indo-European nations," and the " common origin of their mythologies," we next ponder over the early records and traditions respec ting "Prometheus," and "Dragons," and "The Drink of the Gods," &c., &e., followed by legends of fire and legends of biros, and stories about the mistletoe, and the hazel, and the mandrake, and the forget-me-not; the origin of th© " were-wolf," and the " wild mint," and the " hearth fire," and legends about divers other popular superstitions, even about red hair and pea shells ! As an in stance of the miscellaneous information to be acquired in turning over this volume, we learn (at page 295) that " sib," meaning " kin," the word gossip or god sib, originally denoted the spiritual relationship between the god-fathers aid god mothers of the same child. Abundance of similar facts are here to be met with—the result of most praiseworthy industry and most elaborate research. Nature's Secrets, or Psychometric Researches. By William Denton and Elizabeth Denton. Edited, with an introduction, by a Clergyman of the Church of England. One Vol., pp. 335. Honiston and Wright. We are all familiar with fictions " founded upon fact ;" the volume now before us appears to consist, to a certain extent, of facts founded upon fiction ! A series of geological and other researches are here presented to us, more or less true, perhaps, in a geological point of view, for they are given under the authority of a Boston lecturer on geology, but we cannot vouchsafe much credence to the mode of revelation ; for example, here is a description of the mysterious science. PBYCIIOMETRY. I know numbers of persons who, by taking a letter in the hand or placing it on the forehead, without seeing the writing, or having the slightest idea of the writer, can de.. scribe his character with as great or greater accuracy than his mcst intimate friends. On reading the statements of Dr. Buchanan, I resolved to see what portion of them I could verify by experiment. My sister, Anne Denton Cridge, being highly impressible, was able, in a short time, to read character from letters readily; and what was still more wonderful to us, and at the same time equally inexplicable, that at times she saw and described the writers of letters, and their surroundings, telling correctly even the colour of their hair and eyes. After testing this strange phenomenon thoroughly by numerous experiments, being intensely interested in geology and paleontology, it occurred to me that perhaps something might be done by psychometry—the term given by Dr. Buchanan to the power by which character was described by contact with persons, or from letters—in these depart ments of science. If there could be impressed upon a letter the image of the writer and ,his surroundings during the brief space of time that the paper was subjected to their influence—and this was the conclusion I eventually arrived at-- why could not rocks receive impressions of surrounding objects, with which they had been in immediate contact for years, and why could they not communicate the history of their relationship in a similar manner to sensitive persons, thus giving a clue to the condition of the earth and its in habitants during the vast eras of the past ? I accordingly commenced, some ten years ago, a series of experiments with mineral and fossil specimens and archaeo logical remains, and was delighted to find that without possessing any previous knowledge of the specimen, or even seeing it, the history of its time passed before the gaze of the seer like a grand panoramic view; sometimes almost with the rapidity of lightning, and at other times so slowly and distinctly that it could be described as readily as an ordinary scene. The specimen to be examined was gene rally placed upon the forehead, and held there during the examination; but this was not absolutely necessary, some psychometers being able to see when holding a specimen in the hand. The result of some of the experiments, made at various times, I shall give in the following chapters. In a few instances the phraseology has been slightly changed, the idea never. And now let us subjoin an example of this most marvellous and mysterious power— VERY LIKE A WHALE. Whalebone Walking-cane. Mrs. Denton knew it was a walking-cane, but, having no opportunity of examining it, supposed very naturally that it was wood. " I feel as if I were a monster. There is nothing of a tree about it, and it is useless for me to go any further." (With great difficulty she was induced to continue the ex periment.) "I feel like vomiting. Now I want to plunge into the water." (Convulsive shuddering.) " I believe I am going into a fit. My jaws are large enough to take clown a house at a gulp. I know now what this is—it is whalebone. I see the inside of the whale's mouth. It has no teeth; it has a slimy look; but I only get a glimpse of it. Now I see the whole animal. What au awful-looking creature ? _ _ _ This identification of the psychometer with the animal psychometrised is at times so complete as to compel the suspension of the experiment, the influence produced some • times affecting the person for hours. If after this specimen our readers seek further psychometric information, we commend them to the volume of Mr. and Mrs. Denton. "We are," they say, " NNT.ser than we know," yet, perhaps, also, let us acid, " more ignorant than we imagine." Beeton's Robinson Crusoe. Illustrated. One vol., pp. 384. S. O. Beeton. An extraordinary catalogue might be made by come ingenious bibliographer of the various editions of "Robinson Crusoe." Very recently several new ones have made their appearance. Among our other literary notices this very day, indeed, there is mention made below of one in a small form, as being just at this time upon the eve of its publication. The Messrs. Longman, moreover, the Great House of the Row, have included Defoe's lovely masterpiece in their beautiful little bijou Library, Edited by Mr. Laurie. And the compe tition. thus evidenced among the publishers n the perpetual reissue of this ever fresh and ever delight fulhe loved story book—no one, for one instant, can well Alm der at! Robinson Crusoe being, among all . l t pet and fictions of the schoolboy, his one especial naEbenezer favourite. Who does not .remember. Scrooge is whisked awayi we don't Spirit of Christmas P"t—the fl drea o r ff ily to alo h n is e in b h a i dc s ak n y i sa g go h fa t - tb s h h , i e r t poorby theoi y know how many years, t h e. hunx's boyhood, does not realm in the shabby schoolroom — who f ghhertes ld oe is Scrooge moping Robinso❑ • • • Crusoe, with his dream pictur3 of dear d ber how the thoughts c o a his goat-skin clothes an p, h d musket in his hand, a kid at his heels, and, pere e on his shoulder, the parrot, with a green thing like a lettuce growing out of the top of his head ? So welcome to us indeed, is the merest thought of that wonderful solitary inhabitant of the far-off island, that every fresh republication of his famous Life and Adven tures comes, to each one amongst us, almost like a personal benefaction. Here, in this very beautiful illustrated edition, pubEshed by that boy's-friend, Mr. Beeton, of the Strand, is a sort of paragon re -issue of Defoe's won derful book. The embellishments—charmingly designed by T. H. Nicholson and carefully engraved by C. W. Sheeres—are very numerous. How num°. rous, we will now relate. Besides a coloured frontis. piece revealing to us a home interior, Crusoe, the aged preparing for another journey—there are eight " se parate plates.' also coloured, that is, plates full-paged size, and thirty-eight woodcuts scattered among the letter•press. Forty-seven illustrations in all, and almost every one of them characterised by a pecu liar interest. In one we see " Crusoe and his Father," in another, " Crusoe and his Goat," Here he is cast upon the shore, yonder he is steering his raft from the wreck. Now meeting with Friday, now rescuing the Indians. Meditating in sickness— walking by the seashore—gathering his harvest— discovering the footprints encountering the wolves—fighting with the Cochin Chinese, Pre fixed to the narrative is a brief but enthralling ac count of the life and adventures of the author of " Robinson Crusoe," a:at true-hearted man of letters that staunch lover of liberty, that very confessor of Journalism, Daniel Defoe, one who had the body and spirit, heart and brain of a genuine English man. Among the numerous works of interest pub lished of late years by Mr. Beeton, in very elegant forms, but at very moderate prices, not one, to our recollection, has been more deserving of admiration or more sure of winning for itself a wider popu larity than this charming edition of our English Sinbad the Sailor. The Handbook to Paper Flower-Mak,in . q. Illus trated. By Mrs. J. H. .Mlntorn. Routledge. This new number of Routledge's useful shilling handbooks, describes, practically and clearly, the graceful art of paper flower-making. It is plenti fully illustrated with designs of all the tools re quired, and is further embellished with numerous copies of the flowers best adapted for the fair artists task. We doubt not the little 'volume will find a ready welcome at many a boudoir and many a work-table. What to do with the Cold Mutton; a book on rechaujes. One Vol., pp. 22e. Bentley. The problem is solved at last ! The domestic difficulty is at an end ! Clubs and chop-houses may now close their shutters, their days are numbered, their attractions are over. No longer shall the eternal " cold mutton" induce the Paterfamilias to turn a " cold shoulder" to his home. The " do mestic muffin," celebrated by Thackeray, must henceforth divide its triumphs, with the renovated " mutton" adorned with all the charms of culinary art. This little book, so welcome to the wives and housewives of England, is filled with an abund ance of receipts suited to " the kitchen of a gentle man of moderate income," among these are a variety of rechaujes of diverse kinds, which are likely to prove generally acceptable. The old adage rerenons d nos moutons should have been selected as an appropriate motto for this book. A Series of Seven Essays on Universal Science. By 'Enemas Clark Westfield, F.S.A. One. Vol., pp. 210. Hardwick. Seven essays on universal science, " embracing some investigations of the Mosaic cosmogony and the interpretation of the Scriptures, with the ob ject of proving their scientific exactness," are here presented to us by Mr. Westfield, who very empha tically and truthfully observes that " God's works cannot contradict His words." Therefore, as ha most logically proves, every apparent discrepancy between the Sacred Writing and the world around us, is due to some misconception on the part of the expositor or th© translator. "We have repeatedly found," says Mr. Westfield, " that when men em ploy their scientific knowledge to the detriment and injury of the Scriptures, the knowledge possessed has neither been very deep nor very profound." The Bride of Messina. A Tragedy with Choruses, by Schiller. Translated by Adam Lodge, Eeq., M.A. Third Edition. Day. This very felicitous translation of Schiller's " Bride of Messina" has reached a third edition. Prefixed to the tragedy is a peculiarly interesting essay on the chorus of the classic drama. Love and Jealousy, Europa, and other Poems. By the Rev, Gerrard Lewis, B.A. The principal pertion of this poem is taken from "Ariosto"—a strange source of inspiration for a reverend poet. Some of the minor poems aro pleasing and graceful, without possessing any high claims to poetic merit. Lectures. By B. C. Jones. Third series, contain ing nine lectures. One Vol. Allen. The third series of Mr. Joneb's Lectures, which are dedicated to Lord Brougham, consists of nine lectures, upon the Ancient and Modern Drama, and Dramatic Poets, with many quotations from the masterpieces of Euripedes and Sophocles. Cassell's Illustrated Almanack for 1864. The first of the almanacks for the coming year has, here, already, before the close of October, made its appearance. And although the price of it is no more than sixpence, the appearance it makes, thus promptly, is very beautiful. It is a lovely little publication even ex ternally—radiantly colour-printed with fruit and flowers in abundance. The illustrations inside, moreover, are numerous and appropriate. Sevf.tral life like portraits of celebrities recently deceased are among them, and a seasonable engraving for each month. The letter-press, which is copious and admirably well arranged, comprises a store of useful, and most of it highly interesting, information. Cassell's Illust7ated Pilgrim's Progress. Part V. Another instalment of this very cheap and very elegant edition of Banyan's famous allegory brings us rapidly towards its conclusion. The embellish ments are good enough for the costliest form of pub lication. We are glad to see the announcement of a similar edition of " Robinson Crusoe,'' to be pub lished by the same enterprising firm, the first num ber to appear in November. An edition of Defoe's masterpiece, we hope it will prove to be as cheap as this one of Banyan's, and one, we trust, as cleverly illustrated, and therefore in every way as likely to vie with " Cassell's Illustrated Pilgrim's Progress" in popularity. Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company. raeeting M of E t E he Tl d N ire G ete T r H s l a S nd llA.Y. The general GENERAL 1 the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company was .: at the London Tavern. Capt. MANGLES, chairman of the directors, presided. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the a do p tion of the report, said that the total receipts for the half -year were less than °ePldrie to-days ot , in 1862 by £11,5(36 Bs. 6d., but as the sum of £30,007 Ils. Gd., for hire of some o f the company's ships cr trans ports, was included last year. the ordinary receipts to June, 1863, exhibit really an increase over those of 1862 to the amount of £18,441 3s. From the satisfactory state of the company's finance s, the directors recommended of heo in ordinarymeatdredthsep profits, of s ,and a a dividendbonus o o f 0 f 3£3s per p : r shareshare out from the fund, free of income-tax. The report was adopted unanimously. BEAUREGAI:D.®" Of Beauregard I knew little, garden a u , rt t hd nuht of knowing oh \ heard Nei ng bi cottaget much. He was continually moving . about from place to place, his appearance and escort e . being so unostentatious that many met and passed wh e. l e t r N e va h s is hi h s ea c d us .( t i o u m art t e o rs w w al e k re in et t bl . ished after meals, smoking; and it was there I first saw' him. He is a small man, with a Billow complexion, " heavy black moustache, and closely-cut hair. With the left hand in, his trousers pocket, a cigar in his mobil, a buttoned-up coat, and small cap, he is the exact type 01 French engineer, and could not anywhere be mistaken f or a civilian. He is jaunty in his gait, dashing in manna , and evidently takes delight in the circumstance of war. It must be confessed his modesty is equal to his merit- - he is not imperious or overbearine, bears great respect for his brother officers of the old .ervice, and is never seen L° such advantage as when standing on an earthwork, and giving orders, or conversing with animated gesture. Battle _Field, the South, by an English combatant ; jusb publish.a by Smith, Elder, DEATH OF A VETERAN.—WiIIiam Fry, an old seaman, died last week at the age of 87, in the vil lage of Tynemouth. Fry was well known to all who visited that seaside watering-place. He was among the few old !pie men spared who fought under Nelson. He was aboard the British fleet at Osten d and Co p enha g en, and fought wound eudnidnert the left Nelson hand, tired from sea ho kept bathing an nndd in i A b a r d e ra m h i l a u r : e l y a Duncan a y t ea T r y s nei3 after o l juhtele2 w.rse