The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-14 00:00:00

1/(R. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS j EVERY EVENING, at Fight. YAL ITALIAN OPERA HOUSE, COVENT-GARDEN. Th . is Evening (Wednesday), Mdlle. C. Patti, Mr. Santley, Mdlie. Krebs, Mr. Levy, Mr. rol ltzer, and Ali Ben Sou -alle, will apl.car. Orchestra of One Hundred Performers, and the Band of ;he Coldstream Guards. The Faust Selection. Conductor, Mr. ALFRED 31ELLON. Promenade, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Amphitheatre, One Shilling; Dress Circle, 2s. ed. ; Private Boxes, £1 ls. and 103. ed. To-morrow,Thursday, a STOUR NIG llT,when will be per formed the Symphony, "The Power of Sound." Mr. bant le y Wt 1 sing two of Spohr's favourite Compositions. On Friday next, a MEYERBEER On Monday next, a GOU NOD NIGUT. HEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET. — Mr. BUCKSTONE respectfully informs his friends arid the public that this Theatre will ,th o, en Ballet, on Mentitle ONDAYd next, Sept. 19, to commence at. 7 w a 131. Cell US AND AR ADN E, in which the Messrs. Arthur sod Charles Leclercq. with Bliss Caroli ,e Adams and Miss Fanny Wright, will appear. After which, at half - past 7,0 , heefe s revived Comic Opera of THE CAST LE Ol' AN DALUSIA. Don Caesar, Mr. We who will sing the original songs, "Flow thou regal purple stream.' "On by the spur ot valour goaded," and The Wolf ;" Don Alphonso, Mr. Arthur Mathison, with the original song, " rhe hardy sailor braves the ocean" and " The buy f the ro.e ;" Don Solid°, Mr. Chippendale: Don Fer nando, Mr. W. Farren ; Spado (a robber), Mr. Buckstone ; Pedrillo, with "A master I have, and I am his man," Mr. Compton ; Don Juan. Mr. Rogers ; Sanguine, Mr. Braid ; Victoria, Miss Nelly Moore; Catalina, with "Two strings to hi . ho vi.," Miss Louise Keeley ; Donna Isabel a,Mrs.Griffiths ; Donna Lorenzo, Madame Weiss, who wills n " Alt ! why do we love ?" (Hatton), " Love is a gentle thing" (Howard Glover,, and "The lark n,w leaves her watery nest" (Hatton). To be followed by (first time at this Theatre) Morton's Farce of FRIEND WAGGLES. Horatio Waggles (his original character), Mr. Compton. Al ter " Friend Waggles,"" God save the Queen" will be sung by mr. Weiss, Mr. A. Matthison, Miss Louise any Keeley, Dices Fosbro.ke, Madame Weiss, and the en tire comp. Concluding with A KISS IN THE DARKon of Alexander On Monday, Oct. :3, will be produced aversi Dumas's play of "Mademoiselle de Belle Isle," the Engli version by Frances Anne Kemble, in which Madlle. Beatrice Lucchesin, of the Odeon and Vaudeville, Paris, will make her first appearance in England. In rehearsal, a new Farce, by the Author of "Box and Cox," in which Mr. Buckstone, Mr.. Rogers, Mr. Walter Gordon, Miss Snowdon, and Mrs. E. Fitzwil lam will appear. The box-office will be opened on Saturday next, Sept, 17, and daily from 10 till 5, under the direction of Mr. G. Turpin. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. Paddy O•ltafl'erty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, TIIE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her. D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11. Forremter. 11. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwynne. NEW THE ATRE-RO SCAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manager. Mr. B. Webster. For the Benefit of Mr. J. LAToole. THIS EVENING, A WOMAN OF BUSINESS. Messrs. Toole and Billington. After which, first time, STEPHEN DIGGES. Messrs. J. L. Toole, It. Phillips, Killington, Stephenson; Mrs. Billing ton, Miss H. Simms, and Ars. Alfred Mellon. And TILE BABES IN THE WOOD. Messrs. J. L.Toolo, P. Bedford, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. A. Mellon, &c. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. MIEN `TALENT AND COMEDY. This popular Theatre is now Open for the Winter Season. Tins EVENING (tor the third time) Mr. Arthur Sketchly's hi:4llly •successful and original Comedy of HOW WILL THEY . GET OUT OF IT. After which, F. C. Burnand's Laughable Travestie of FAUST AND MARGUERITE. 'lo conclude with UraDEtt THE ROSE. Those cele brated artists Mr. and Mrs. Char es Mathews are re-engaged. MrA. Stirling, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Matthews, Mr. F. Robin son, Mr. Ashley, Mr. J. Clark, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. John stone, Mr. H. Montague, Miss Cottorel . , Miss Fanny Joseph Miss l'atti Josephs, Atm &o. ' Scenis Artists, Mr. Gates and his pupil. Acting Manager, Mr. J. Kinloch. Musical Con ductor, Mr. Wallenstiene. Stage Director, Mr, F. Webster. COUNTRY and SEASIDE DRESSES. Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street, have now in stock a variety of WASHING SILK DREISES, suitatle for the country and seaside, and at the c:earing-out price of only £1 Ils. 6d. the dress. ~.._ _ JAY'S, 217,249, and 251, Regent-street. BLACK SILKS.—The price of Silks in the raw material has already esen 15 per cent., and it will soon reach a far greater per-centage. Messrs. JAY, therefore, Invite their numerous patrons to take advantage of the stock they have on hand, which they can now dispose of on favour able terms ; but the same qualities will naturally b more costly as the price of silk fluctuates to a higher average JAY'S, 217, 210, and 251, Regent-street. COALS. —The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 235. per ton. I Double 20s. per ton. Top 225. „ Deep ....215. „ Well screened and delivered within live miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf, Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke lss per chaldron. Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, sole Agent. all-1E THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN,' _IL Containing the Latest sronTING INTELLIGEINCE, Dan be had Every Evening of G. It. GLItNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Ityde-park. 11l HE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN' supplied, as soon as published every Eveninp.: by 11E.N1t1( BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T xis DAY.—Morning, 12h. 12m.—Afternoon, 12h. 40m. 0-IsollßOw.-Morning, lh. 10m.—Afternoon, lh. 32m. Wig R ' 414. 0 1 4 4 r0 1 SUM a . 11 . 11 1 / 4 0. 4-I'4oll LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 14, 1864. While the Prince and Princess of WALES seem to be prospering in their visit to Denmark, and ina• proved in health and spirits on their projected c)urse, it cannot but be felt by many how different it might have been. It is generally a sad task to compare what is with what has been, and the lost chances of the world fill many a gloomy page of its history. Still in this instance of the visit of the Princess of WALES to her own country, it cannot be denied that we have a particular proof of the instability of human greatness, and the insecurity of prosperity under the brightest auspices and most flittering promises that the world can give. While it is a graceful act on the part of the Prince and Princess to visit the spot which is endeared to one by remembrance and the other by associations, the considerations that will henceforth attach to the place must in a degree be fraught with gloom. It must be painful to reflect upon the disappointment of the Danes as regards the benefits that they hoped would accrue from the English alliance. It was not thus that they had hoped or expected to welcome 'back their Princess, and to receive the heir of the English Crown, who had signalled their land by choosing the daughter of their King to be his Queen. It cannot be that the efficted people of 'that ilkiied and forsaken country can entertain the same feelings towards England now as they experie enced a year ago. They have been taught a bitter leeson of the want of good faith on the part of Eng land, and learned the unwelcome truth that Ger. many, in the hour of her most extreme aggress ion, is considered more worthy of our support and countenance than they are. The Treaty of 1852 , which was expected to do so much good 'to Denmark, has been given up altogether, and the brave people of the independent little country are to see their possessions torn from them, and their treasures seized, while the English, compelled to acknowledge the injustice of the acts, will not lift a finger on their behalf. Such recollections as these tuu,t unquestionably cast a blight over the recep. tion of the Prince and Princess, and it is quite idle for the devotees of Germany to say oth erw i se . Deep sorrow is ever abiding , it exhibits n o t th e . wild untutored expressions o f excitement, 'out i t knows not the sudden reaction of evanescent des pression. In this generation at least Denmark can liccer be the same in heart or sentiment as she was when she took leave of ALEXANDRA, on the eve of her bright and promising wedding. It is 'well to contemplate iha er:odued pleasure with 'which the Danes now meet her whom they /need from nnder such diff:rent circumstance.. In many nmantries it would not have been practicable for is visit to have been performed at all, and cer ininly not during this year. The feeling of die appoin!ment at false expectations, the sense of mis. placed trust, and the thought of abused confidence aen all too strong and overpowering, s resemble the English in their honest ppreciation of character. They feel ung Princess has never forgotten in )r triumphs in England .that she was , f Denmark, and that the Prince, had he the opportunity, would be as willing as he is able to defend their rights. Still the complete overthrow of a nation's hopes cannot take place' without causing a signal change, and the remarks of the Dagbladet are most opportune, and well represent the true circumstances of the case. That journal contrasts the present visit of the Princess with the leave-taking of last year, and points to the moral that is contained in the "enthusiastic demonstrations," and the " silent welcome." Such facts speak for themselves, and do not need the tongue of wisdom to make them plain, nor the voice of eloquence to make them memorable. The Daybladet truly says that in the expressions of delight at the departure of the Prin• cess there was a double significance, they were meant to celebrate not only a personal, but a national union. Of course, in such a light, the present moment is i❑ every respect different, there is the sound of mourning for the voice of rejoicing, and the bitter feeling of disappointment for the eager expression of hope. There are no roses to scatter before her, because they have all been strewn upon the tombs of the warriors who had fallen. After pet using this epitome of the national senti. went, it remains to us to reflect upon the causes that have produced such effects,. and the actions whose issues have been such deplorable conse quences. Why is it that Denmark is desolated, and the young Princess returns to find the land of her birth wrapt in a pall, and the people re. maining panic-stricken, as it were, in the valley of the shadow of death. Why have the nations of the world beheld a spectacle which has renewed the thoughts of past days of tyranny and oppression in the history of ages gone by. There can be but one answer to all these querieo, and that is a painful one to give. The conduct of England has been the cause, the mainspring, and origin of the offence. The fact is that nations, no more than individuals, can play at power ; the strong must show themselves willing to exert their strength, or else it will be of no avail to those whom they may wish to succour. It la very likely that Earl RUSSELL and his colleagues really thought that the moral influence of Great Britain would have some weight in the councils of Europe, but the event has shown how lamentably he was mis taken, and we are left to mourn over his mistake, while the victims reap the bitter fruits of his inca pacity to think and his reluctance to act. This subject of Denmark is an oft-told tale; but it is true, and it cannot be too much dwelt upon. It we are to seek the annals of the past for knowledge the present teaches us still more and better, but people prefer to comment upon subjects not so per. Banal. It will long be a sorrowful era in the annals of England that this spoliation of Denmark should have been permitted ; and indeed the memory of the defalcation will remain a lasting stain upon the fair fame of her rulers. To abandon the weak to the strong is always a base action, but to give up a people who had reason to trust us •was indeed dastardly, and no plausible explanation of the affair can do anything to mitigate the nature of the evil, or to lessen the enormity of the conduct according to the reader of truth and honour. The details of the Chicago Convention prove that its proceedings were the effect of no mere local or sectarian influence, but the expression of the long suppressed feelings of the great mass of the Northern people. The enthusiasm of the assembly knew no bounds, and found ready expression on behalf of any allusion to the restoration of peace and the recognition of civil rights. It was no in significant assembly in point of numbers, for it is said that never before bas there been so great a concourse. As one of the American journals de scribes it, writing on the day of gathering—" In numbers, enthusiasm, sincerity of purpose, sad true patriotism, the great Convention which met here at noon to.day is without precedent in the history of American politics." From every aide the people came pouring into the town until the streets were thronged, and the great hotels almost impassable inside. On the Sunday, the day before the opening alone, no less than 27,000 people poured into the town, brought by the eleven different railroads which centre there: Large delegations were con tinually arriving with bands of music, firing salutes in answer to the cheers with which they were greeted. It was calculated that more than a hun dred thousand visitors were in Chicago, and, in ad dition to the regular meeting, large mass meetings were held throughout the day at the chief hotels and in the streets. At night, on the 29th of August, the day of the opening, four immense meetings were held, and sixty thousand persons were in the streets listening to the speeches. The Missouri and Illinois delegations held mass meetings, and "en dorsed M'CLELLAN in the warmest manner." So that the verdict of the great West is unmistakably for peace; but it is not the verdict of the Western States alone, since the New York delegation held a meeting to vote for a nominee, at which the names of four candidates were brought forward, leaving General M'CLELLAN 53 votes; Judge NEL, SON, the next in number, 11 ; CHARLES O'CONNOR, 2 ; and JAMES GUTHRIE, 1. So that the risk of rivalry from these gentlemen is not a very serious one for M'CLELLAN. Meanwhile, the interior of the great hall was no less animated than the streets of Chicago. The presentation of the credentials by the delegates gave rise to vivid demonstrations of enthusiasm, especially when the representatives of the Western States came forward. But when the delegates from Kentucky advanced to the platform, the whole assembly rose to their feet and cheered for old Kentucky. The recollec tion of the martial law established in that province gave fresh zeal to the cheers that rung to the roof at every allusion to the rights of the people. In recognition of one of the most valuable of those rights—a free press—the Chicago limes received the compliment of a serenade from an immense crowd, and speeches were made in answer to it' declaring that the freedom of the press would here after be maintained at all costs. The address of G ove rnor SEYMOUR was in harmony with hi s openly proc l a imed opinions, and was s trai;;litforward, manly, and explicit. It the conviction s c which the people of this country earnestly d es i re to see brought h°.. - die to the heart of every Atneri. can, and gulch have been long silently but surely Pi:../1)g ground, until we see their full strength evidenced in the assembly at Chicago. Four years ago, said Governor SEYMOUR, the party which now rules the States had its birth on this opal ; let it die where it was born. Four years ago a con vention met in the city of Chicago when the country was peaceful, prosperous, and united. " Its dole. gates did not wish to destroy our Government, to overwhelm us with debt, or to drench our land with blood, but they were animated by an ignorance of the spirit of our institutions, the character of our people, and the condition of our land." All these direful results have been brought about, and, as Governor SEYMOUR truly said, the party in power have marched on step by step to con. elusions which at the outset they would have shunk from in horror. The refusal of the LINCOLN party to entertain the idea of a compromise was especially censured by all parties. They demand conditions, it was declared, which have nothing to do with the Constitution, and which they have no right to ask. They put obstacles in the way of any terms of reconciliation, and by the expression of their own vindictive passions have hampered their own cause so much that it is equally impossible for them to restore the Union or to make peace with out it. No word was breathed at Chicago of recog nition or separation of the States. The Union was everywhere spoken of, but peace and conciliation and compromise were upon every one's lips. And conciliation and compromise must lead to that end which we are all hoping to see. When once the sword is sheathed, and the smoke of the battle field is allowed to clear away, men will look round and count the cost of the war. They will recog nise the utter hopelessness and futility of their efforts to subdue a people as brave, as determined, and far more united and singleminded than them• selves. They will see, too, the inconsistency, we might almost say the absurdity, of WASHINGTON'S descendants fighting to enforce the very principles Which he spent his life in opposing. It is the principle of independence, the recognition of the rights of States which has made America a nation, and it is those principles which the North must acknowledge in the inevitable recognition of Southern independence, to which the Chicago Con vention is the first decided step. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. No. IV. Its Peerless Capacity as a Music Hall. The Diameter of the Handel Orchestra has already been spoken of as exactly double the dia• meter of the Dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. From that one consideration alone, it will, upon the in stant, be recognised that, in the mere scope of the arrangements permanently made within the edifice for its various musical performances, the Crystal Palace, as a melodic arena, regarded simply as a Music) Hall, stands forth, here also, as it does in so many other particulars, altogether unrivalled. - The magnitude of the area set apart thus for orches tral purposes —upon a scale so gigantic and hitherto unexampled—is . attributable to the gradual after expansion of what was originally a very grand enterprise on the part of the designer. And the drop. ping of the pebble, us one may say, from the which— ring upon ring —there has subsequently expanded, circle upon circle, tier above tier, this magnificent choral and instrumental amphitheatre, was—the carrying out of the project of the First Great Handel Festival in 18571 Since that occasion, the enter prise then happily set on foot has been developed to its present vast and unrivalled dimensions. The Orchestra—thenceforth to be known as the Handel Orchestra—grew and grew until it came at last to occupy, as it does now, permanently, the whole of the western portion of the Great Central Transept. It has contrived at last to assume such dimensions, there, in fact, that it can be said of it (not by any means extravagantly or hyperbolicall3 ) that, if need were, it could contain within it, and that comfortably seated before their music stands, the six largest orchestras in the United Kingdom. It could so accommodate those six largest orchestras, and yet, even then, have elbow-room ! In point of fact, no farther back than in 1862, at the Great Handel Festival—then given with a pomp that a pagan might have said must for a certainty (shall we say, for a dead certainty !) have soothed the manes of the giant composer, nay, that that pagan might almost in the old heathenish classic times have regarded as Handel's Apotheosis—more than Four Thousand vocal and instrumental performers were ranged to• gether, there—immediately below and upon either hand of the great organ—upon the benches of the Handel Orchestra. That superb instrument just mentioned, The Organ—so to speak, the palpitating heart of the whole Orchestra—an organ, expressly built for the Crystal Palace by the Messrs Gray and Davison— it should here be remarked at once at this first mention of it assumes high rank among the noblest specimens yet fabricated in that im perial class of instumente. Tt ia worth mak ing a journey, indeed, round the upper gallery, immediafe:y at the back of it, to peer in through an obscure looking door, which there some• times stands ajar, at the throng of men standing in a cluster there, working away for the bare life of them at the bellows which give it breath ! Breath to those glorious sounds rolling out day after day, at an appointed hour (according to the varying announcement in each day's programme), under the touch of the master-hand of Mr. James Coward, the Company's Organist. Glorious sounds rolling forth at that touch under the every movement of the accomplished performer's hands from an instrument having an array of Four Rows of Keys —an organ containing within it upwards of Seventy Stops, and consider. ably more than Four Thousand Five Hundred Pipes ! The Stops of this Mammoth Organ, in point of fact, number exactly 74—the Pipes of it no less than 4,593. Hearkening at limo to the enormous volumes of sound pouring forth from the instrument, sounds reverberating under the arch of the great transept, and rolling in re-echoing peals, to the right hand and to the left. down the loneperspective of the Nave, it seems almost incredible that they can emanate from the momentary touch of that one isolated performer. Ranging, as they do, from treble to diapason, varying from trumpet: to flageolet, breathing now with the dulcet tones as of a solitary hautboy, now as with a very tumult of horns and ophecleides, it seems more like.the performance of a whole orchestra than that of a single instru mentalist. Reverting, however, to the mere mechanical arrangements of the interior structure here raised in this western portion of the Great Centre Trans. sept, it is especially noticeable among these, how it has come to pass that so signal a triumph has been there won over a world of acoustic difficulties, The secret of the success thus achieved may be recognised, in truth, at aglance—in the wooden ceiling arched in a single span over the whole vast area of this unrivalled orchestra. Remora boring that, in the clear span of it, this immenee wooden arch—about the largest timber arch ever constructed—remembering that this spas cions arch is in the clear span of it upwards of One Hundred Feet—that it has a depth of considerably more than Two Hundred, and that, besides this, it rises more than thirty feet in the centre, where it reaches an attitude of upwards of eighty feet from the floor of the Orchestra —it mutt be allowed to have been very exquisitely adjusted, indeed, in its component parts, when it comes to be added, after all this, that no lateral pressure whatever has been thrown from it upon the edifice of glass and iron within whioh the who!e of this supplementary framework has, with such wonderful ingenuity, been contrived. That, in other words, it is self-sustaining, upon its own foundations. Here it is, in effect, under this stupendous sound ing•board, that between Four and Five Thousand Performers, vocalists and instrumentalists, can interpret, as nowhere else can be interpreted, nay, for that matter, here it is that they have so inter preted the sublimest imaginings of the demigods among our musical composers—a Handel, a Beethoven, a Mendelssohn. As a music-hall in quite another sense, the Crystal Palace is no less, than in the ono i❑ which we have been here examining it, wholly and entirely without any competitor. As an aviary of song birds—it is altogether unrivalled. Loitering within the Crystal Palace, of an evening, when the sun is verging westwards, and when the whole glittering Pane, nave and transqte and wings, kindles under the horizontal beams—one may listen there —among the statuary and the verdure—to the notes of all the various song birds that make the Cr) stal Palace their perpetual haunt, flitting about, hither and thither, free as air under its transparent roof, nesting among the boughs of that indoor garden—melodious singers as varied in their skil: as the thrush, the robin, the blackbird, and the nightingale. The Preaehership of Archbishop Teniamee Chapel, Regent-atreet, has been conferred on the Rev, C, R, Gor don, M,A, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY. MADRID, SEPT. 13. The Correspondencii announces that the whole of the Ministry, after holding a conference, deter. mined yesterday evening upon tendering their re signation to the President, who has instructed the Queen of their resolution. Her Majesty's acceptance of the resignation is still problematical. The Madrid journals put forward lists for the new Ministry in accordance with their political opinion?. PORTUGAL. BANK OF PORTUGAL. LISBON, SEPT. 13. The Bank of Portugal, authorised by the Govern• ment, has raised its rate of discount to 7 per cent., an unprecedented measure. The other banks will follow. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SEPT. 14. The prolougatioa of the armistice may be con• sidered as tacitly accepted by both belligerents. THE BOMBAY MAIL• MALTA, Sept. 13. The Delhi, with the above mails, will leave Malta at 9 p.m. to-day for Marseilles, where she may be expected on the 16th inst. The Malta brought the mails to Snrz, arriving thereon the 9th inst, OUTWARD CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS, The Masailia, from Southampton on the 4th inst., reached Malta to-day at 11 a.m., and will leave at 8 p.m, for Alexandria. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 13,—The market continues with- out much animation, and prices well maintained. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried at 67f. 75c. Mobilier at 1,017 f. 50c. Railway Market quiet The market closed as follows :- 41 per Cents .. 92 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 75 Credit Mobilier 1015 Do. end nionth 1018 75 Bank Shares 3400 Credit Fonder Roman Italian Loan 67 30 Do. end month 67 45 Ditto Threes .. Mexican Russian Austrian .. Bl 75 Spanish Threes..., -- h Debt Deferred 11,11LWITS. 'Cash. Account. Orleans 895 •.r 895 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 921 25 .. 927 50 Southern G3O 633 75 Western Eastern . ... Sardinian .. 346 25 .. : Austrian Lorrbard North of Spain - Saragossa 487 50 .. 490 Ditto to Barcelona Capital Punishment, The correspondent of a contemporary writes as follows : Another instance has been afforded, by the late execution at Leeds, of the levity exhibited by base human nature, at the public strangulation of their fellow-creatures. We read that seats were let on a platform raised for the purpose at 2s 6d per spectator, that there was all the ribaldry and provision of a fair, Now, I would ask (as much in the name of common sense as humanity) of what utility are these spec tacles exhibited, and to what extent they deter men from the fearful crime of murder P Let as agitate this question again and again until the great law of God and man, " Thou shalt do no murder," is at least obeyed by those who now violate its precept. I subj )in a letter of Mr Charles Dickens to a contemporary, which appeared after the exe cution of the Mannings at norsemonget-lame Gaol. The graphic description of that writer is I think well worth a reprint : CHARLES DICKENS, ESQ , ON THE LATE EXECUTION. Sir,—l was a witness of the execution at Horsemonger lane this morning. I went there with the intention of observing the crowd gathered to behold and I had excel lent opportunities of doing so at intervals all through the night, and continuously from daybreak until after the spec tacle was over. I do not address you on the subject with any intention of discussing the abstract question of capital punishment, or any of the arguments of its opponenti or advocates. I simply wish to turn this dreadful experience to some account for the general good, by taking the readiest and most public means of adverting to an intimation given by Sir G. Gray to the last sessien of Parliament, that the Government might be induced to give its support to a measure making the in fliction of capital punishment a private solemnity within the prison walls (with such guarantees for the last sentence of the law be'ng inexorably and surely administered as should be satisfacti,ry to the public at large), and of most earncstly beseeching Sir G. Grey, as a solemn duty which he owes to society, and a responsibility which he cannot for ever put away, to originate such A legislative change himself. I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun. The horrors of the gibbet and of the crimo which brought the wretched murderers to it, faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks and language, of the assembled spectators. When I came upon the scene at midnight, the shrillness of the cries and howls that were raised from time to time, denoting that they came from a concourse of boys and girls already assembled in the best places, made my blood run cold. As the night went on, screeching, and laughing, and yelling in strong chorus of parodies on Negro melodies, with substitutions of "Mrs Manning" for " Susannah," and the like, were added to these. When the day dawned, thieves, low prostitutes, rufffins and vagabonds of every kind, flocked on to the ground, with every variety of offensive and foul behaviour, wst Ii n F w i h g e h n t ns, swooning fa in t w i n o g; e , n were hi gs, imitations of Punch, brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrati ons o f i n d ecen t d e li g ht dragged out of the crowd by the police with their dresses disordered, gave a new zest to the general entertainment. When the sun rose brightly—as it did—it gilded thousands upon thousands of upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in their brutal mirth or cal lousness, that a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore, and to shrink from himself, as fashioned in the image o f th e devil. When the two miserable creatures who attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering into the air, there was no more emotion, no more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls had gone to judgment, no more restraint in any of the previous ob scenities, than if the name of Christ had never been heard in this world, and there were no belief among men but that they perished like the beasts. I have seen, habitually, some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think th ere are not man y phases of London life that could surprise m e . l am so lemnly convinced that nothing that ingen u it y could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and 1 stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits. Ido not believe that any commu nity can prosper wh ere suc h a scene of horror and demora lisation as was enacte d th i s mor ning outside Horsemonger lane gaol is presented at the very do ors of g ood citi zens , and s parsed by, un k nown or forgotten. And when, in our prayers an d t h an k sg i v i ng s for the season, we are i humbly expressing before Clod our desire to remove the moral evils of the land, I would ask your readers to con sider whether it is not a time to think of this one, and to root it out ?—I am, sir, your faithful servant, CILARLES DICKENS. Devonshire-terrace, Tuesday ) Nov. 13. TIM COURT AT BALMORAL—Oa Thursday her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Helena, and their highnesses the Duko and Duchess of Saxe - Coburg, drove Vein Balmoral, via Inver cauld-house and Allasquoich, which was reached about 2 p.m. Hero ponies and men from Balmoral were in waiting, and the whole party having mounted, rode up thenquoich, nearly to the hoary pine forest of the Beechen, which is proximate to the foot of Ben-a-Bourd, where a sump tuous luncheon was partaken of. After a brief sojourn, and a delightful walk through the wild and picturesque district around, the royal party returned to Braemar, via OA Mar Lodge an d Li n n of Dee, At the latter place, a brief stay was made to view the unique beauty and unparalleled scenery that surrounds the Falls. At the Invercauld Arms Hotel horses were changed. Mr Fisher was in prompt attendance, and personally attended to the requirements of the royal party. A large and respectable assemblage of visitors and others lined both sides of the area in front of the hotel, and greeted the royal party with a warm salute, which was very graciously returned by her Majesty and the other occupants of the royal carriago. The horses having been changed, the Queen and party drove on to Balmoral at half-past 6 p.m. The day was delightful, and only a slight shower of rain fell, which in no wise in commoded or marred the enjoyment of the royal sojourners. —,Thendee ,44vertiser. AMERICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESTONDENT.) NEW YORK, Aug. 30. As was stated, in effect, in my last letter there does not appear that any definite object would be gained by entering into a discussion upon the abstract question raised by the Northern quasi-envoys and their so-called British friends. They persist in the assertion, or opinion, that a most friendly feeling exists towards Great Bri tain and the British people in the United States, or, rather, in that section thereof which these quasi envoys represent. The question as to the real nature of the active sentiments, as they are called, of any largo country would be a compli cated, difficult one to dissertate upon. Asiuredly I am not presumptuous enough to try my hand upon those of the United States, But as the per sons referred to chose to give their opinion to my countrymen, I considered it my duty to give mine; and I here repeat it—merely, however, because the same opinion has akvays been expressed to me by every British person who, like myself, has had reasonable opportunitees to observe realities for some years in this country. The ruling classes in the Northern States are not only unfriendly to England as a nation, but malig nantly inimical to her commercial and political interests. Having arrived at that conclusion, after as earnest and impartial an inquiry as it was in my powor to make, I expressed my opinion, quant. sal., and en. tered into detail in your journal, more than two years since. On the present occasion my purpose simply is to give again my opinion, but now a still more experienced one—and to spare your readers my details; but I shall subjoin some extracts from newspapers published in the North, which pro bably will be considered relevant to the "differences of opinion" in question. It is necessary to remark here parenthetically, that no quotations from the New York herald shall be put forward. In consequence of that great organ of public opinion, having the largest circulation in the Northern States,—to use its own modest de scription—being so much oftener quoted by the Bri tish press than its contemporaries, it is only fair to give those a turn. Moreover, the quasi-envoys and their organisation inEngland avow most vehemently that they repudiate the anti-British, proclivities, loud talk, and, they might have added in plain English, the slanderous, abusive language of the organ aforesaid. Apropos of this repudiation, it reminds me of a story told of a very distinguished and able, tut sometimes coarse spoken, Chief Justice of former times. The attorney in a cause objected to some decision or ruling of his lordship, and said, " I protest against" so and so. "Go home, sir," qnoth the irate judge, "and protest and be hanged. Now really when these quasisenvoys, who never utter a word in public, nor publish a line, when they are over here, to even deprecate the course pursued by the Herald—tell their audiences and readers in England that they " repudiate the journal and all its works, one might be inclined to para phrase the rough and ready ejaculations of the Chief Justice, and Bay, "Go home, gentlemen, and repudiate, and"—ccetera desunt. Before giving the extracts referred to, I shall conclude—and gladly—my remarks in connection with the repudiated Herald, by repeating what was said, to the same effeot as the following, by me (in The Sun) two years ago :—Many persons here assert that the New York Herald is, quoad its home politics, &e., a corrupt, disreputable journal. I leave those who understand such matters best to decide ; but consider, if it be as stated, that it does not enjoy R monopoly in the respects stated. Be this as it may, there is one thing certain, that the New York Herald has a large circulation in the United States—is anti-British and anti-Canadian, but merely gives expression to the dominant anti pathies of the people among whom it circulates. There are scores of extracts from sundry news papers published in the Northern States before me. There are many, for instance, from the New York Tribune, Evening Post, &c., that for rabid abuse of England and misinterpretation far exceed in dogged dulness, but equal inapparent malignity, the quasi envoy-repudiateds//era/d. However, as the New York limes is the avowed organ of the Washing. ton Government, I shall give it the first place. After pronouncing eulogistic comments upon Rues sia, and rather the contrary in reference to France and England, the article concludes thus : They imagined that the American Republic had fallen not to rise again; while, AntseJus-like, it has but touched the earth to rise all the stronger. Never was it surer of the mightiest destiny than now. England, in its prostrate hour, turned against it. She did all she dared to do to make its destruction sure. That is the way in which she repaid its outflow of goodwill towards the heir to her throne. The treachery at first confounded—it then exasperated—it now is coolly accep`cd as a development of England's dispo sition we were fortunate so early to learn. The bewilder ment and the passion are fast subsiding into a fixed, un changeable policy. We accept the new relations which England, in our sore straits, saw fit to establish ; and it shall go hard with us but that she shall have enough of them before we are through with he-. It is idle to talk about an oblivion of the past, There are crimes which it is not in human nature to forget, and this is cf them; and democracies proverbially have very tenacious memories. Henceforth American people will recognise no tie to Eng • land, They will consider her the friend of human slavery, the accomplice in the attempt to assassinate free institu tions, and a nation that professes goodwill only to betray in the day of need. They wilt remember that Russia on the other hand has stood firmly by them through every trial. They will admire her for all cf her grand efforts to enfranchise and elevate her own people, and will take it as an earnest of a grander final Commission to infuse fresh blood into Western Eu'ope, and redeem it from the degene racy and decrepitude which seem otherwise inevitable. Young America salutes Young Russia. Let the heathen rage. As a p.ndunt to the " editorial," a sample of the "London Correspondence" of the same journal is giver, : London is hot and dull. The concerts aro over—the theatres closing. Hyde. park is deserted—Rotten-row a solitude. Belgravia a4d Tyburnia have closed their shutters and are off to the mountains and the sea. The lower classes, left without the good example of their betters, grow drunken and savage. Men beat their wives; women scratch and bite each other— some swallow ears, some gnaw off fingers. The Cannibal Islands are less savage than this drunken, besotted lower million of London—the saddest, hardest, most repulsive populace, I verily believe, to be found in any civilised country. It was my intention to offer a few more specimens of the style and sentiments of the Northern press— minus the New York Herald—but as, in some re spects, the above are actually " mild examples," probably your readers may cry " hold, enough!" of such trash; so I shall add one of the instances of clerical attacks on England that are so common in this country, and shall only observe that the reverend orator is represented to be of the " Presbyterian denomination," was chaplain of the Senate, and is, or is to be, the pastor of the," American Congrega tion," or chapel, in Paris. The Rev. Dr. Sunder land, in his sermon delivered on the occasion of the " FAst-day" lately proclaimed by the President, observed, inter alia, of England : " This (slavery) was the apple of discord NVhich perfidious England—never more to stand in the affections of the American people—had thrown among the sisters of the American Union, to divide and plague us. This is the heir-loom we had from the mother country, the source of so mush misery, and the pretext of this terrible con vulsion. No doubt England contemplates with complacency the works of her hands to-day. „ The young giant, after a growth and an activity of more than eighty splendid years, begins to feel in his veins the virulence of that deadly poison which has been circulating there. England looks on and exults over the operation. Oh ! thou foul, false, hypocrite of the nations (loud applause), thou may'st laugh now, but the hour of thy own retri bution shall come.' The login of the rev. gentleman appears to me about on a par with his charitable teaching ; how ever, the above charitable extract pretty fairly represents the tone and spirit in which the " Clergy" of the majority of the inhabitants cf the Norther❑ States—at least of those of New England—treat of our country. In the aggregate, the ministers of the Episcopalian, the Roman Catholic Churches, and those of a few other deno minations, refrain from references to political subjects. An Interview with Muller. The correspondent of a contemporary states that he visited Muller in the Tombs Prison, on the 30th ult., by permission of the United States Marshal, and that he and a friend who accompanied him had a long conversation with the prisoner in regard to the explanation he had to offer of the circumstances bearing against him. The following is his report of what passed, for the accuracy of which, how ever, we are unable to vouch : Fortunately we happened to reach there just as Muller was entering the prison yard to take his morning walk. " Well, Muller," remarked one of the bystanders, as he mute his appearance, "how do you feel this mornirg ?" He answered readily enough to show that he understood the English language well, although his pronunciation was quite imperfect, " I feel weak and bad ; I am sick." And the poor fellow's countenance sustained his words. Since 1 saw him in court on Saturday last he had been allowed two days of perfect quiet, and after the exciting scenes that ho had passed through the irritable reaction had set in. He had evidently begun to comprehend the peril of his condition, and to appreciate the consequence of a conviction for the crime ‘e ith which he stood charged. The same gentleman who had opened the conversation proceeded— " Muller, I understand that you feel confident ycu can prove an alibi—that you were not upon the Northern Rail way the night Mr Briggs was murdered ?" "Yes," he replied, "I was not there." "You have a sister in this country ?" some one remarked. "I have," he said. "She lives at 139, Nassau-street, but she has not yet been to see me." " Perhaps she does not know that you have arrived ?" "Perhaps not," he replied, " but I have tried to send her word." "Is she married or unmarried ?" " She was unmarried when she came to this country," he answered, " 14 years ago, but she is now married." The warder of the prison took down her name and ad dress as Muller gave it, and promised to try and find her. Some further conversation ensued regarding the adoption of means to make the prisoner as comfortable as possible while he remained in the prison, and I took advantage of a lull in the conversation to remark to him that I expected to write to England to-day, and wauld gladly do my best to make public any statement he might desire regarding his whereabouts upon the night Mr Briggs was murdered. At first he did not seem to understand me, apparently supposing that I desired his version of the fact for publication here, as he answered that he did not care to have anything said—his counsel knew all the circumstances. A casual allusion to a statement I had seen in some of the London papers to the effect that the German societies were interesting themselves in his case, and endeavouring to gather testimony for his defence, seemed to give him the correct idea of my object, and he at once proceeded to say that on the night of Mr Briggs's murder he left his boarding place shortly after sup per, rode to London-bridge, as he was troubled with a lame leg, a cart having run over his foot a few days previously and bruised it ; that he walked across London-bridge and took another omnibus to Camberwell New-road. Going into a publichouse in that locality he drank a glass of beer, and remained there until half-past nine, when he again took an omnibus to return to London-bridge. On recrossing the bridge and going to the Royal Exchange, which he reached about ten o'clock, he found that the last omnibus had left, and he was obliged to walk home. In consequence of the lameness of his foot it was eleven o'clock before he reached there, and all the folks had gone to bed. Ho made his way to his room as soon as possible, and saw none of them until the next morning. I toll Muller, after he had completed this statement, that much curiosity was felt to know how he came in pos session of the hat and watch which were said to belong to Mr Briggs. He promptly answered that he purchased the hat at a shop in London a year ago. The watch he stated he bought of a pedlar on the docks the Monday before he sailed. The vessel left port on Friday, and he narrated the circum stances as follows :—The pedlar had rings and other trinkets for sale, and upon Muller's stepping up to look at them he offered him this watch. Muller had but four pounds and three half-crowns in his pocket, money which he had been saving up to purchase bis passage ticket to America, and when the pedlar offered him the watch for £5, he replied by offering £4 for it. This was refused, and Muller turned to go away, but ho had taken such a fancy to the watch that he determined to purchase it if he could by the payment of all the money in his possession (four pounds, three half crowns), and this the pedlar finally accepted. When he got the watch in his possese'ion ho said he was afraid that it might be worthless, and so went to Mr. Death's, in Cheapside, to exchange the chain, thinking that if this proved to be pure gold the watch also must be as valuable as it seemed to be, "Then," said I, "Mr Death's statement was correct. You bartered the chain with him ?" "Yes," Muller answered. "fled you heard of Mr Briggs's murder," I asked, " when you bought the watch ?" "I had," he replied ; "but I did not think of the watch being his." "How was it you happened to take passage for America just at that time ?" " Oh," said he, "I had been intending for some time to come here, to follow my trade, and had given my landlady notice a fortnight before that I meant to leave." "Another question," I said; "You have just told me that you gave all the money you had for the watch ; where did you raise funds to pay for your passage ticket r , "1 pawned the watch chain," he answered, "and after wards sold the ticket." " Certainly," I replied, "that could not have been suffi cient." " No," said he, " I had a gold watch before I purchased the one said to belong to Mr Briggs, which I sold, and which brought me sufficient." You will remember that several of the witnesses who have testified before the London tribunals have stated that Muller had no gold watch previous to the time that he se cured possession of Mr Briggs's, Bearing this fact in mind I did not think it worth while to push my inquiries farther, and, after a few unimportant remarks, took leave of Muller. During the conversation he bore himself with great compo sure, and was never at a loss to answer any questions that I put to him. He was dressed in the same clothes he wore in court, with the single exception that he was without a coat. His shirt had apparently just come from the hands of the washerwoman, and was consequently clean. His pants were threadbare, but were neatly brushed, and on the whole his appearance was as much in his favour as it could have been expected to be. As I turned to leave the "Tombs," the warden remarked, " He is a hard case, you may depend upon it—his mouth shows that," - HORRIBLE Cl/ILD MURDER.—Yesterday morn ing, at 8 o'clock, a charwoman employed in clean ing out the first class ladies' waiting room on the departure platform of the Great Western Railway Station, Padding ton, found under a sofa the dead body of a fine female child in long slothes, and tied up in an apron, the string of which was twisted tightly round the child's neck. Informa tion was at once given to Mr Durdle, chief inspector of the railway company's police, who ordered the body to be taken to the Paddington police station, when it was examined by Mr J. S, Beale, surgeon, of Porter's-road, Paddington, who said the child was about seven days old, had been remarkably healthy, and had ,been dead about three hours. At the time the babe was found there was a lady in an adjoining first class ladies' waiting room, who on being interrogated by Mr Durdle, stated that she had come.to the station to see a lady off by the 6 a.m, train, and that she had been resting herself since that time. The lady gave her name and address, and Mr Durdle finding them to be correct he allowed her to go at large. The matter is now in the hands of Inspector Everton and Ser geant Hawtree, of the D eivision. LIMITS OF HUMAN POWER.—It is, on the one hand, rash and unphilosophical to attempt to set limits to the ultimate power of man over inorganic nature, and it is unprofitable, on the other, to speculate on what may be accomplished by the discovery of now unknown and unimagined natural forces, or even by the invention of new arts and new processes. But since we have seen aerosta tion, the motive power of elastic vapours, the wonders of modern telegraphy, the destructive explosiveness of gun powder, and even of a substance so harmless, unresisting, and inert as cotton, nothing in the way of mechanical achievement seems impossible, and it is hard to restrain the imagination from wandering forward a couple of gene rations to an epoch when our descendants shall have ad vanced as far beyond us in physical conquest, as we have marched beyond the tropics erected by our grandfathers. I must therefore be understood to mean only, that no agencies now known to man and directed by him seem adequate to the reducing of great Alpine precipices to such slopes as would enable them to support a veget able clothing, or to the covering of large extents of de nuded rock with earth, and planting upon them a forest growth. But among the mysteries which science is yet to reveal, there may be still undiscovered methods of accomplishing even grander wonders than these. Media nicll philosophers have suggested the possibility of accu mulating and treasuring up for human use some of the greater natural forces, which the action of the elements puts forth with such astonishing energy. Could we gather and bind, and make subservient to our control, the power which a West Indian hurricane exerts through a small area in one continuous blast, or the momentum expended by the waves, in a tempestuous winter, upon the break water of Cherbourg, or the lilting power of the tide, for a month, at the head of the Ih of Fund. 7, or the pressure of a square mite of sea water at the depth of 5,000 fathoms, or a moment of the might of an earthquake or a volcano, our age—which moves no mountains and casts them into the sea by faith alone—might hope to scarp the rugged walls of the Alps and Pyrenees and Mount Taurus, robe them once more in a vegetation as rich as that of their pris tine woods and turn their wssting torrents into refreshing ctretuns. Mail and Nature, by G. P. Illai sh. The number of visitors at the Patent Museum South Kensington, fur the week ending Sept. 10, w:ts 2,322; total number since the opening of the museum free daily (12th May, 1858), 819,040. 6,lntrt 42411401:07 (ti rtibt HER MAJESTY BALMORAL, Sept. 12. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Helena and attended by the Hon. Mrs Bruce, drove on Saturday to Alt-na-Guithasach, and went to the Dhu Loch. Sir Charles Wood left the Castle on Saturday. Her Majesty, with the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Helens, attended Divine service at the parish church of Crathie yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Mr Stephen of Renfrew officiated. The Duke of Hamilton arrived at mansion in Arlington-street yesterday morning from Baden-Baden. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland and Lord Albert Leveson Gowa arrived at Stafford House, St, James's, last evening, from the Continent. Toe Marquis of Bristol and Ladies Hervey are among the arrivals at Baden-Baden. The Earl and Countess of Yarborougb, who came to town on Monday last from Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, left yesterday on a continental tour. _ _ The Count de Commingee Guitaud, Fcenoh Ams bassLdor at the Belgian Court, has left the Hotel Mirabeau for Brussels. Lard Rendlesham has taken the house of the late Mrs Clifton, in Grosvenor-square, for a term of years. His lordship takes possession in the course of the month, Lord West has passed through town on his way to visit Lord and Lady Frederick Gordon Hallyburton, in Scotland. Lord Napier, British Ambassador at St. Peters* burg, and Lady Napier have arrived in London from Russia. Baroness Adolphe de Rothschild has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Continent. Lady Georgina Fane has arrived in town from Weymouth. Admiral the Hon. Edward Howard and Mrs. Howard have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Holker Hall, Newton• in•Cartmel. The Hon. George Cecil 0. Bridgeman, third son of Viscount and Viscountess Newport, has just entered the Ist Life Guards. • Lady Middleton has arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. FUNERAL OF THE LATE DUKE OF CLEVELAND. —The funeral of the late Duke of Cleveland took place yesterday at St. Mary's Church, Staindrop, Durham and, in accordance with the feelings of the Duchess of Cleve land, there was as little display as was consistent with the character of the ceremony. It was not generally known until Monday that the funeral would take place on the fol lowing day, but the number of people present from the adjoining districts was almost as groat as when the former duke was interred, only a few months ago. The demise of the late nobleman has taken every one by surprise, and much regret is expressed at the occurrence, not only by the tenantry, but by all residing in the vicinity of Raby. Since he assumed the title he has been most liberal to the former, and, although his residence at the castle has been but brief, ha has been much respected. The fact of the title having past into three hands in so short a time, and the present successor being the third brother who has taken it successively, has been a theme of much comment in the north. Shortly after the doors of the old church were opened it was filled, with the exception of the pews retained for the mourners; and along the road leading from Raby Castle to Staindrop there was a large assemblage of specta tors. The tenantry of the deceased nobleman were permitted to join the procession, and the number who thus testified their respect was very considerable. The funeral co) lege left Raby Castle at half-past eleven in the morning, the car riages arriving by the west entrance and leaving by the east. The hearse was drawn by four horses, and bore the deceased's coat-of-arms and monogram. The Duchess of Cleveland , and the present duke were the chief mourners. As the funeral procession reached the church, about 12 o'clock, it was met at the entrance to the churchyard by the Rev. H. C. Lipscomb, rector of Staindrop, Rev. J. Parker, Rev. J. Wright, &c. The office for the dead was recited as the coffin was borne to the church, the " Dead March in Saul" being played by the organist ; and when the coffin had been placed on a raised platform erected to receive it, the service for the dead, in which the choir took part, was corn • menced—the Rev. H. C. Lipscomb officiating. At its con clusion the body was conveyed to the mausoleum built by the late duke's predecessor, and which contains the remains of several members of his family. Lord Essex on the Game of Croquet, In a letter to a contemporary his lordship says :—Several of my friends having expressed a wish that I should state circumstances connected with the "injunction" lately i,9ued against me at the suit of Captain Mayne Reid, I shall feel greatly obliged if you can find space in your paper for a few lines. Early in July I first was informed that Captain Reid was about to take some steps against me on the ground of certain rules on croquet by an "Old Hand" being an infringement of his copyright to a similar work. At that time I had never seen his work, and was so impressed with the utter groundlessness of his complaint, and his inability to sustain it, that I wrote, perhaps, somewhat hastily to that effect to his solicitors. Very shortly after I did see his work, and I immediately wrote to him, stating that I had then done 00 for the first time ; that the " Rules by an Old Hand" were not written or compiled by me, but for me by a lady, her self a great authority and adept in the game, but unversed in the laws of copyright, and entirely ignorant that she was transgressing them in taking what she had taken from Captain Reid's work. For myself I said that never (till at the moment I was then writing) having seen his work, I was quite ignorant as to its having been t• pirated" by the'• Old Hand." I candidly admitted to Captain Reid that wrong had (inadvertently) been done him, I expressed my re • gret thereat and my readiness to make him any rea sonable compensation. (I subsequently offered him £lOO, which he insisted should be increased to £125, and the pay ment of his lawyer's expenses.) I, moreover, gave him my word and assurance that I would recall all copies in circula tion, give a true account of all that had been issued, and issue no more, although doing so suddenly at once might put me to much inconvenience. I must own that had I been the aggrieved party, and the aggressor, being a gentleman and an honest man, had thus candidly admitted he had been in the wrong and had given such assurance as I gave to Captain I should have been fully satisfied, and should have at once stayed all further proceedings. That gentleman apparently was not thus easily satisfied• He determined to push his advantage to the utmost, pur sued with his lawyers and counsel to Hampshire the Vice- Chancellor, who was there enjoying his vacation, gaining thereby nothing beyond what I have already voluntarily ceded to him, beyond the satisfaction of giving his solicitors an apology for sending in a bill of charges of £lB5. The bill of costs, however, I am about to submit to the scratiny of the taxing master in tho hope and belief that he will reduce it to somewhat more reasonable limits. WINDSOR CASTLE.—During the last fortnight number of workmen have been engaged in excavat ing a portion of the road and footway on the north side of the Castle-hill, near the eastern end of the Royal Tomb" house, of Wothey Castle, which is being repaired as a memorial to the late Prince Consort. In this work the men have laid bare a portion of the ancient foundation o f the chapel, which consists of a bed of chalk concrete some feel' in thickness, hard and well laid, Leading foom the chapel up the hill near the Lord Chamberlain's-Oflice a deep trench has been cut, and in digging this portions of an ancient building have been discovered two or three feet below the level of the roadway opposite the Deanery.. These remains consist of what appear to be two stone jambs forming a small window, which probably lighted a narrow staircaE o leading underground. Close by a vault has been discovered and broken into. This vault lies under the ground of the Deanery. It is built of red bricks, which retain their fresh' ness of colour, while from a small opening in ;.he roof the water from the surface above would seem to have been con' stantly trickling, as the vault is exceedingly damp. Z t l o t however, stated that the position of this vault, thoug&- generally known, was acatentally discovered some y O r !, back. The floor is paved with red brick, and on being strale . " with a hard substance gives forth a hollow sound, as if the° was yet another vault beneath. The north end, which would seem to lead beneath the Deanery, is bricked up, ee l the only present entrance is that in the bottom of the trench , There is also at the north end of the arched room a smel l trap-door, the wood of which is rotten with age and de a d" TORPEDOES IN MOBILE BAY.-- , 4 I saw one of these inventions," says the correspondent of the Ncto York Tribune. "It consisted of a tin case, in slasPe like a largo coffee-pot or boiler, holding, perhaps, 10 or A gallons. The lower half of this consisted of an air chambe r ' by means of a transverse partition, and the upper, or smal l end was filled with powder. Upon the end of a rod bee s inside this, and in contact with the powder, is placed a OP which is to be exploded by means of a hammer, which le held suspended outside of the tin case of powder, whiel l hammer is passed through a spiral spring that operates i t ", When the torpedo is sunk the hammer is elevated, arid he there by a peg placed ro as to hold it up. To this peg a ttached a float, which, Ly moving the peg when a paes ilb boat draws the line attached to it, lets down the hantre er su.denly with a sharp blow upon that part of the tin eas e just inside of which the cap is placed, and explodes it, ell" presto 1 the harm is done. Fortunately for us, °if° barnacles gather so soon on any of these cAltrivances 301:1 to soon render the action of the hammer impossible, the salt water quickly corrodes the tin cases and destroy. the powder, otherwise our fleet wonld not have escaped ar easily as it did iu getting iutu Mobile Bay." The Bishop of Bath and Wells has instituted lb : Rev, Sydney Bast, Vicar of Northover, near Ilclaester. the Reotory of Wheathiil, near Castle Carey, Somerset. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1864.