The Sun. — London, England, 1864-08-22 00:00:00

i ValaW THE CONFEDERATE STATES, ("From the Correspondent of the limes.) RICHMOND, July 20. In analysing the material of the Federal and Conf ., sderate rank and file in Virginia, it is easy to arriv a at an explanation of their attitude, as they lie id ly facing each other at St. Petersburg—the Federals willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; the Confederates satisfied to repel attack, but in. disposed to subject themselves, by assuming the initiative, to such decimation as they have hitherto been able, by awaiting Grant's onslaughts, to exact from him. It is evident that the available resources of mt in in both sections are drained to the lees. Of what. elements are these final and champion armies composed ? It is susceptible of demonstraa tion that in the Southern army the foreign ele ment, liberally estimated, does not exceed 5 per cent. The rolls of company after company exhibit not a single name other that of a native-born Ame rican- It is squeamishness, because these Southern armies are undisciplined, to deny to many Of the men serving in them the title of veterans. It is doubtful whether in any three years of this cen tury the most disciplined and war -experienced veterans of Europe have seen more or harder fight ing than many of these Southerners. There is with. them no enlistment for 100 days, or one year, or three years. Not a man but is in "for the war," and those who have seen less fighting than their fellows take their tone from, and are leavened by, the men of Ball Rua and of th e seven d ays around Richmond. They are of such stuff as Victor Hugo's Vieille Garde, who, diminished in number, waxed greater in heart. Their aim as marksmen is such as would warm General Hay's heart, and their practice in these familier Virginian woods would far surpass that of the best regiment that ever graduated at Hytlae. It will be conceived what reciprocity of confidence and attachment ex ists between General Lee and them. Turn next to the Federal army and investigate its ma. terial, On the roll-call there are probably not 100 names whose owners were present at Bull Run. There are tumultuous and spasmodic expressions of confidence in Grant (more audible at New York than at Petersburg), but what can he and his army know, or how much can they care, about each other? Oat of every hundred Federal soldiers the names of prisoners brought heie to Richmond reveal that 60 are foreigners, who have been either starved, bribed or hocussed into the ranks. What is to be expected in the way of daring of self-devotion from a man wha is tossed upon the wharves of New York from either Ireland or Germany, and who turns soldier because he knows not how to get a meal ? Of what account are soldiers lured into the ranks by thousand-dollar bounties, or will the rule that "the hireling fleeth because he is an hireling" be for the first time reversed upon this continent ? But large as is the proportion of men who have been bribed or starved into the Federal shambles, I believe that no previous army that ever existed exhibits so large a number of kidnapped, drugged, and naturally disaffected men. It is, I protest, a marvel to me, when I reflect on the different morale of the two armies, that even such success as has attended Sherman and Grant should have been realised by the heterogeneous piece of diversified mosaic, by the tesselated pavement without cement, to which their armies may be likened. Here are a few specimen cases which will reveal of what stuff Grant's army is composed. There was lately brought to Castle Thunder (one of the prisons of Richmond) a young chubby-faced Engiish boy, named James Addy, 18 years of age. He was a deserter from the Yankees, and his story is such as I have heard again and again repeated, bat rarely with such appearance of veracity as in this case. His father is by him stated to be a yeoman farmer, living near a Yorkshire village called Askern, about six miles from Doncaster. At 13 James Addy says that he was appointed mid shipman on board her M ijesty's frigate Emerald ; but alter serving, with intervals of sickness, for about four years on the coast of Africa, his health gave way, and he resigned and returned home. Last winter, accompanied by two friends, Henry and Thomas Garner, he visited New York, intending to return in two or three weeks to Eng• land. The keeper of the house in New York where they boarded dragged their wine, and put them while insensible in the guardhouse, The ruffian, in addition to stealing the money and valuables of young Addy and his companions, doubtless realised the bounty money paid by the recruiting officers for three recruits. They were put into company Aor 33, 47th New York Regiment. They refused to do duty as soldiers. Addy tried twice to escape before he succeeded, and says that one of his companions, Henry Garner, was arrested while trying to escape, and, as Addy fears, was shot. After many hard ships and difficulties Addy succeeded in getting to Bichmond, and was committed to Castle Thunder, the prison for deserters. The poor boy says that he . would die a dozen deaths rather than go back to the Yankees. The Commissioner appointed by the Confederate Government to examine Yankee de- serters has taken pity upon him, and he has been sent to Wilmington with a view to running the blockade and getting back to England. It is hard to see, if this story be true, why Henry Garner's parents are not entitled to demand from the Wash ington Government compensation for the death of their son (as compensation was exacted for the murder of Capt. Brabazon from the Chinese Go vernment), or, at any rate, the punishment of the New York lodginghouse keeper, whose name is known. It must be obvious that this case is one which admits of verification by reference to the captain of the Emerald, and courts investigation. At the risk of wearying your readers, I will men tion one other of the many cases which are con stantly coming under my notice. Henry Miller, born of German parents in England, was a private in her Majesty's 30th Foot (now quartered at Mon treal or Toronto), and was discharged, his time having expired, at Montreal in May last. He crossed the Canadian frontier, entered the State of New York, was drugged, and in less than a week found himself encamped on an island in the Hud son river off Sew York. He was sent down to Grant's army, put into a cavalry regiment, and de- • serted with his horse, which he delivered over to the Confederates, into whose lines in Petersburg he also piloted a Virginian lady who was cut off by the Federals. This poor fellow, whose story seems to me in every respect trustworthy, has to pay for the ordinary faithlessness of Yankee deserters by a long incarceration in Castle Thunder. His hatred of the Yankees exceeds belief. I might prolong this list by giving the history of many other British subjects now immured in Castle Thunder as Yan kee deserters, who all agree in their tale of wrong, suffered at the hands of that Power whose unifor m they have lately worn. Bat the interest of these narratives consists for your readers in the insight which they afford into the constituent elements of that army which "threatens Richmond." General Lee has lately given clear evidence how far he con siders Richmond threatened by dismissing a third of his army, under Early, to act against Washing. ton. At any rate, the mention of these cases in your columns may serve to put all British subjects who have occasion to visit the North American continent on their guard, if they do not wish to final themselves carrying a musket in the Yankee ranks. The chronic inaction of the armies before Peters. burg still continues but we aro promised by the Northern journals some surprising wove on the part o f Grunt before long. If this prophecy has any moaning , it may refer to the mining ope rations in which Grant is known to be engaged. n o Federal and. c ouf „ d , ,ra,o lines, as they wind around Petersburg, are in many plac.,.s not more than 60 yards apart. It i s known that the Fede rals are running a mine forward at one spot, and that they are makia7 Rimilar it is believed Efforts in other spots. no 811 C 1283 Which General Grant m ining under the w or k s of VickQa bad last year in bur encourages him, presume, to repeat the clic. g. ration agai ns t Petersburg. lle will hay° a good deal burrowing to do before he works his way to Rich mond. It will he obvious that, even if it were imp os , him by countermini ng , Bible far G. Lee to mot little resu!t would arise front b!ewing into the air perhaps 100 yards of earthwork; along a line which runs :or 12 or 15 miles. The indica;•if)TlS 6r3 thal Gen. Grant will pass the summer and autumn in his present location, and that the Northern States will be amused for the next four months by the constant cry that the "on t o Richmond" is proceeding most satisfactorily, until President Lincoln is reinducted on the 4th of November into the Presidential chair as the presiding genius over operations which at some unknown future period are to eventuate in the capture of Richmond. As to Grant with his present army taking Richmond or Petersburg, the child born this day will be a stalwart man before he wit nesses such an event. If the Northerners are carry ing on this war with any other object than the res election of President Lincoln, they have no hope unless they put at least 100,000 additional men,not drugged or kidnapped, but earnest Yankees, into Grant's ranks. As matters stand, I see no reason why Lee should not send 20,000 additional men to reinforce Early, in which case the latter may, after he has collected and sent south as much lout as he wants, march to Baltimore, or Philadelphia, or Pitts burg, or whither he likes. It is hard to say what force is requisite to enable Gen. Lee to hold his pre sent lines at Petersburg against so loosely coupled and downhearted an army as now oppose him. In the words of a Richmond journal," General Grant's army is at this moment the object rather of pity than of alarm." These words derive their significance from the well known want of water under which, in their present situation, the Federal troops are suffering. The sewers of Petersburg empty into the Appomattox, the sewers of Richmond into the James River, and from these two streams the supply of water employed by the troops which besiege Peters burg is derived. There is said along the whole length of the Federal lines to be only one fine nas tural spring of water. It may be conceived what are the sufferings of troops mainly dependent, under the vertical sun and exhausting heat of a Virginian July, upon the hot and foetid water drawn from these impure sources, and served to them in barrels hauled by waggons into their lines. It is probable that, with their wonted spade industry, the Federals will have sunk many wells, but in the existing long continued drought the supply of water thus obtained cannot be abundant. The Confederates, on the other hand, have at their command all the wells and springs which supply the city of Petersburg. It is universally believed here that the latter end of August and September will be almost as fatal to Grant's soldiers, unused to Southern heats, and in one of the most pestilential spots on the James River, as were the tearful battles in the month of May. It is not anticipated that Lee is likely to waste his men's lives by butting against the strong fortifications of his opponent. I see little probability of any change in the situation of these two armies for many weeks to come. The attempt to starve out Richmond and force Lee's army to retreat or venture upon a hazardous attack is an admitted failure. Both the railroads which feed Richmond from the South—the lines I mean which communicate with Weldon and Danville—are again in operation—the former for 14 days past, the latter since the 17th inst. It will not be an easy task for Grant's cavalry materially to interfere with these lines again. The interest of the war, as it ebbs feebly round Petersburg, is altogether superseded by the fiercer excitement which attracts all eyes at this moment to Georgia, where an immediate battle is expected between Generals Sherman and Hood (the latter, as I foreshadowed in my last letter, the successor of Johnston) within four miles of the city of Atalanta. The expectation in well-informed quarters here is that the decisive battle, of which Atlanta is the prize, will be fought to-day or to-morrow ; but, judging from previous experience, I should predict that it will be longer delayed. It is hardly conceivable that having retreated across 130 miles of most de fensible country, and abounding in natural fast. nesses, General Johnston would have delivered battle in the plain which surrounds Atlanta against an enemy in intrenchments. is is because I believe Sherman to be intrenched, and, therefore, little likely to take the aggressive, that I doubt the near proximity of the decisive battle. The importance of its issue to the Federals cannot be overstated. It is hardly possible that Sherman, able as he has shown himself to be, could retreat with a beaten army over the 130 miles which he has so successfully and and incomprehensibly been allowed to traverse in his advance. The result of the fall of Atlanta upon the Confederate cause could only be the prolonga tion of the war. My belief is that the superiority of morale possessed by Johnston's army over Sher man's is almost as marked as the superiority of Lee's over Grant's ; but it is asserted by Johnston's partisans in this town that the estimate of the strength of his army, which is accepted in high quarters here, is grossly exaggerated. The general, and I have no doubt the correct, impression is that there never has been anything like the disparity between Johnston and Sherman that existed at the commencement of May between Grant and Lee. The displacement of General Johnston, and the sub stitution in his place of General Hood, is a step which may lead to momentous consequences. It has not been without much anxiety that this step has been resolved on ; and, in addition to much cool bravery, General Hood has the recommendation of experience under General Lee, and of the advice of General Gustavus A. Smith, a very competent offi cer, who is Hood's intimate friend, and who, though shrinking from responsibility himself, is about as capable an adviser as could be desired. It is understood that General Bragg has lately gone to the West, armed with the full confidence of President Davis, to assist General Hood, and will thence proceed to the Mississippi River, in order to promote the passage from the western to the eastern bank of General Kirby Smith and many of the men who triumphed last spring over General Banks. It is obvious that if a considerable portion of Kirby Smith's army is brought across the Mis sissippi, and escapes the Federal gunboats which patrol the mighty stream, a considerable difference in the relations of the armies following Sherman and Hood will be established. My impression is that General Kirby Smith, if he crosses the Missis sippi, will effect his passage not far from Memphis, and will be apt to attack the bases of General Sher man's operations at Nashville and Chattanooga. Two of the most active and efficient officers in the Confederate service, Generals Stephen D. Lee and Forrest, are detained in Northern Mississippi by the necessity imposed upon them of watching a large body of Federals who are striving to march from Memphis to reinforce Sherman before Atlanta, and who have already received a slight defeat at Tupelo. It will be remembered that, with less than 4,000 men, Forrest in May last scattered to the winds a similar force to that which is now advan cing through Mississippi under General Wash. burne, and which, numbering in strength 10,000 men, was then under the command of General Sturgis. It is difficult for those unacquainted with this continent to follow not only the operations of the trunk armies under Lee and Hood, but also the movements of legs and arms—as for instance of Early in the neighbourhood of Washington, ofKirby Smith on the Mississippi, and elsewhere of S. D. Lee and Forrest. If the map of the once United States exhibits still the similitude of a seething plain covered with molten lava, and coursed over by in carnate fiends, there are very patent indications that upon both sides, the supply of combatants is waning low, and that, unless the most strenuous efforts are put forth by the Federals, the war can net be much longer prolonged. Is the temper of the Northern people such as to admit of success attending these effort s ? The answer to this question can be given better in New York or London than iu Richmond, encompassed as it is by the prejudices and embittered by the venom which spring from fratricidal strife, but upon the correctness of the answer depends the solution of the problem in which England is chiefly interested,—will the approaching autumn bring this weary strife to a close, or is an oiler winter of trial and privation in tnrc for the Confeilorate States ? The more: I see of II:is American war the more inscrutable doer; any future event except the certainty of plenary inde. Pcndonce for these much-enduring Southerners app:Ar to me ; and I must decline to litizArd specu lation upon a subject which I am convinced is far beyond the ken of any man in the Confederate States. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 425 per mark and the short exchanv on London is 13.51 per £1 stErlin-i. Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, about 3-10ths per cent, dearer in London than in -Hamburg. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1864. The Prospect of Peace, (bow t 1 hulex.) Oar readers will acquit us of having ever been unduly sanguine in our appreciations of the events of the American war. While we have never for an instant doubted the ultimate triumph of Confederate independence, and while we have seldom been de ceived, even transiently, by the boastful impostures of Federal newspapers and diplomatic documents, we may modestly claim the credit of having been substantially correct in the few predictions we have ventured, and of never having encouraged false hopes of peace based upon either the exhaustion of the North, its financial collapse, its return to reason, or even the successes of the Southern arms. We have consistently held to the conviction that the war, left to its own course, whatever might be its vicissitudes, must be a long one; that no influence from within, at least during the time of Mr. Lin coln's administration, would be potent enough to end it; and that the only hope of shortening this fated period lay in the wisdom and justice of Euro pean Powers, if, by recognising an incontestible political fact they had exchanged a false for a true neutrality. Within the last two years and a half this only hope seemed several times on the point of realisation. To-day none but a visionary will deny that the idea of recognition is practically less pre sent to men's minds than it was twelve months ago. Whether this arises from the frequent disappoint ment of well-founded expectations, or from a strengthening conviction that the South now stands in less need than formerly of even such moral aid from abroad, we need not here inquire. Certain it is that the South itself has long ceased to expect, scarcely to desire, recognition ; and in inverse pro portion has grown the proud confidence in its own Heaven-aided ability to accomplish the great work of national salvation. Yet at this very moment, when we once more acknowledge the fallacy of the only hope upon which we had heretofore dwelt seriously, we are able to say with all calmness and soberness, that the prospects of speedy peace were never so promising—so almost absolutely certain. It is our sincere be lief that, unless some great disaster befalls the Con federate arms before the 29th of this month, the Democratit party then assembling in Chicago will nominate a peace candidate for the presidency, and within three months after there will bean armistice. It is not because the military situation presents unprecdented features that we stake our judgment upon so bold a pre:dition. Another Confederate in vasion might possibly end in another Sliarpsburg or Gettysburg. Another period of reciprocal inactivity might ensue, affording time for recruiting another army in Ireland and Germany. Nor is it because the financial condition so unmistakably indicates that the bottom of the nation's pocket has been reached. Federal finances have so often defied rational calculations, so many grave crises have been passed—not safel, but still passed—so buoyant and sanguine is the American temperament, that we would hesitate to deny the possibility of another miracle, and, given a drawn battle or two, or some illusory success, we are not sure but even this last crisis might be tided over, and the inevitable ruin carefully concealed by " shoddy" flowers from pub lic view, might be staved off for another season. These embarrassments have become periodical ever since the battle of Bull Run, aggravating with each year. To a cool observer at a distance they seemed fatal in 1861 ; they were worse in 1862; still worse in 1863. It is not because they are worst in 1864 that we look fir peace, but be cause in 1864 they correspond with embarrassments of quite another kind—with a quadrennial civil revolution which, even in ordinary times, puzzled and perplexed the rawest understanding of Euro pean statesmanship. The curious feature of the Amhrican federative system is its affectation of mathematical mechanism. The Federal Govern. ment is wound up, warranted to run four years. It may run as wildly fast or as tamely slow as the materials of its clock-work will admit, bat at the striking of a certain hour ite motive power is ex- hausted. At one second after twelve o'clock on March 4 the four years' king is dead—four years' life to the now king. Alas! however, for human ingenuity, there is an interval between the winding up again and the running down, and this interval is an interregnum, The new king is elected in November, the old one dies in March. In the four months intervening, unless he happens to be his own successor for another " term," the courtiers desert the setting sun to worship the rising one. The Federal Government has only a nominal head. At noon of Mach 4 of next year Mr. Lincoln, unless re-elected, loses the last semblance of power; four months and four days earlier, on the first Enesday of November next, the entire substance. In the meanwhile the semblance and the substance remain irremediably disunited, and therefore dor mant. How slim are Mr. Lincoln's chances of re-election may be seen by the indecent alacrity with which the rats are scampering away from his ship. Already ho is opposed by h candidate of his own party, one who is not oni:s— tho first lose of that party—its candidate when Lincoln was not yet known outside his own village —but one who represents that very section of the party which by its rabid radicalism leavened the rest, and in the heat of the fermentation flung Mr Lincoln into power. Even the convention which lately nominated Mr Lincoln, composed as it was of his own office-holders, deemed it necessary to save the appearance of self-respect by insulting him in his Mexican policy. The most important corn• mittee of his own Congress has denounced him for the attempted usurpation of arbitrary power for the purpose of manufacturing fictitious votes from the "rebellious" States; and the two Houses of Congress, as one body, have given practical effect to this denunciation by a legislative enact ment that the votes of the "rebellious" States shall not count in the ensuing election. In open feud with his Congress, at variance with his party, deserted by his mercenary friends, ridiculed by the press, despised by the public, his favourite generals defeated in the field, his pet schemes ending in disaster, Mr. Lincoln is not a very formidable competitor for the presidency. Add to this that the Democratic opposition, keenly alive to the possible turns of fortuue in their favour, have adjourned the neraination of their candidate to the decision of the issue of the summer's campaign, fixing it at a date barely eight week© prior to the November election. At that election the success.- fat candidate requires, since the votes of one-third of the States are counted out, a numerical majority of the actual votes cast, such as no president since Washington has ever obtained. The personal triumph or hu m ili a ti on o f Mr, Abraham Lincoln is, however, m ere l y an i nc id e nt — and in no sense an element—i n our ca l cu l at i ons for peace. If the war against the South is to be prosecuted, we prefer him as President of the United States to any one of the four millions of adult males in the population of Federal America. Our prognostication assts upon the fact that a new idea has entered the Northern mind, and that this idea is the only practicable bridge from war to peace. This idea scores of newspapers, which before were eagerly clamouring, for a more vigorous pro secution of the war, have within the last few weeks taken up with utterance more or less distinct. It is in the minds and mouths of men of all parties, defended or denounced, but familiar to all. It is reflected in the public correspondence of the Euros pean press from America; it is sharply mapped out in nine-tenths of the private letters which fill the American mail-bags. It is like the confused sound of many voices; unless a providential event hushes it, it will have swollen, arc our printed pages reach the other side of the Atlantic, into the deafening chorus of millions of men. It is an idea all the more powerful because it flatters American vanity wi!hout being altogether chimerical and :mpreclie,:ble. It is an idea which impli: s solution, and not defeat. It is an idea which grati fies vague popular longings for revenge, and which yet prorniscs wild material advantages. This idea, in, which we recognise the mustard. seed of a lasting and prosperous peace, may, when stripped of it s surp l usage of words and extravagan. Cl2B 0f drape r y, b e succinctly described so inewhat as foiiows. The North says to itself--" In the event of succrss (and no true Northerner perm'As himself to doubt cf eTeritual svccess), whet ehall we gain ? The experience of over three years of war has demon strated that the chances of success upon which we most counted either never did or certainly do not now exist. Thanks to an Administration as imbecile as it has been ferocious, there is neither latent Union feeling' nor ' negro-rising,' and there will be none. lf, therefore, we succeed, after incalculable further expenditure of blood and treasure, in con quering the South, we shall find ourselves chained to a corpse. We are persuading ourselves that we are fighting for the Union—that is to say, for commercial prosperity at home and power and prestige abroad. If, after years of war, we subdue the South, our prosperity at home will consist in having the productive portion of our national terri tory laid waste, and the industrial portion of it burdened by a debt which is equally ruinous to re pudiate or to pay. Our prestige abroad will consist in having the flower of two-thirds of our manhood employed in keeping under subjection the mutinous remaining third. The price in our own liberties which we have already paid for the mere attempt, gives the standard of what success will cost us; and if we shall be further called to strike an average of the amount of liberty suitable equally to white American freemen and emancipated black :slaves, the future is sickening to contemplate. Viewing all this, three years of war have greatly changed circumstances. If we were right then, we are not now. It is the part of wisdom to make the most of circumstances as they are. The nations of Europe, by their own shortsighted ness and cowardice, have let a golden opportunity pass. It present itself to us now ; let us be wiser than Europe. The South is neither conqueror nor conquered ; let us have the credit of doing gene rously what some we may have to do by compulsion. North and South, since the formation of the Union, have ever been recognised entities. We nominally classed both under a varying number of States, and we lived prosperously when these States numbered 34. Why should we not live prosperously if the Union meant two States instead of 34 ? In or out of the Union, as contiguous empires who have tested each other's strength, we must live together upon some sort of terms. The South has war debts as well as we. There will, therefore, with a little concession on both sides, be no insuperable ob stacle to an identical commercial policy, much as Southerners talk about ' free trade.' The South owes no favour to Europe, neither do we. There is no abstacle, therefore, to a permanently identical foreign policy. Why should not the Union become a marriage between two great States, a marriage without possible divorce, admitting a dis tinct individuality and independent rights i❑ both, but representing a unit to the outside world ? Such is the substance of the argument which, at the family fireside, in the club, at the domestic breakfast table, or at the public table d'hOte, now forms the staple of discussion—for and against— throughout the Northern States, We have tran scribed it almost textually from the mass of Northern correspondence, unconnected and even antagonistic in its sources, which has reached us directly, or been submitted to us. We have awakened to its import ance, through the coincidence in many essential points which forced itself on our attention in our Southern correspondence. It is not for us to pro• notion o❑ the merits of the arguments. The North, being the aggressor, must initiate the terms of peace. But this much we are free to say. In the heart of the population of the Confederate States, wearied of war, though undaunted in the confidence of its issue, proposals of this sort must touch a responsive chord. The men of authority may see the inconveniences of so close an alliance with the North, but the people will see that they must choose their allies from be tween the Western European nations or their nearest neighbours, and neither England nor France, nor even 'Janie Mexico, has done aught to interfere with the natural claims of that formidable nearest neighbour. In spite of their habitual self-restraint, Southerners are disgusted at the imbecility of the English Government of the day, and at the incon sistency, not to say treachery, of that of France. If they aro forced to choose between Europe and America, they might very well choose their own hemisphere, provided the first word of every treaty of alliance was always unchallenged Confederate independence. There is only one logical conclusion to these re flections it is, that if any selfish hope of exhausting both American belligerents has animated the policy will have its just reward. Neither have lost the restorative energies of youth. Both have only just learned their own strength. Debt-burdened and bled as they may be, the day that they make an honourable peace, with amity and identical foreign policy, the twin confederations will be physically and morally stronger than ever was or could have been the undivided Union, with its materialistic tendencies, and its external strength neutralised by an internal national balance of power. Mayor was intended as a mark of respect, and I not of insult, and the affair of the gas lamp was grossly exaggerated. Regarding himself, he denied the assault, and he was prepared to clear him self, but paid the L 5 rather than come before the public, or trust his reputation in the hands of the Lord Mayor, who would have tried the cqse. The allegation with regard to the hissing of the police he stigmatised as entirely false ; and with regard to the other complaints he relied upon the memorial sent to the Commander-in-Chief. We learn from a letter dated Colchester, Aug. 15, and addressed to the Recorder of York, that the com plaints have been decided in favour of the regi ment, and the gallant colonel, in its name, thanked the citizens of York for the kind manner in which they, one and all, "aided us in protecting our re putation from the aspersions of one who appears to have been actuated by a spirit of animosity towards the regiment difficult to be accounted for." He could not " refrain from expressing the deep feeling of indignation and disgust experienced by the whole regiment at the bold assertion of the Lord Mayor that we were on unfriendly terms with the citizens of York and with the Rifle Volunteers, when we were all fully award that such an idea could only have originated in the fertile imagination of the chief magistrates." The greatest satisfaction is felt in York at the decision of the Commander-in• Chief. —Manchester Courier. Military Scandal at York. During the past few weeks the Commander-in- Chief of the British army has been engaged in investigating certain charges brought by the Lord Mayor of York (Mr R. W. Hollon) against Colonel Dickson and the officers and men of the 16th Queen's Lancers. In a letter, dated the 23d June last, and addressed to the Adjutant General to the forces, the Lord Mayor complains that, soon after his election in November last, Col. Dickson and the officers invited him to a ball " without any cards even accompanying the invitation." In ordinary life (said the writer) this is an incivility that could not be overlooked. He then complains that two cf the officers committed irregularities in the streets on a Sunday evening by attempting to put out the gaslights, and for which they were fined £2 each and costs. Oa the occasion of a ball at the York Assembly Rooms, and as the rompsoY were leaving, it was alle ge d t h at C o l. Di c k s on assaulted the policeman who had given information about the officers just mentioned. A summons was conse quently issued against Col. Dickson, but the matter was made up by the gallant colonel paying £5 to the police fund. The Lord Mayor also spoke of the conduct of the private soldiers, who ill-treated the police and publicly hissed them while they (the soldiers) were paraded to allow the police to iden tify some of th em . Fi na lly, he alleged that a " bad f ee li ng " ex i sted between the regiment and the volunt eers o f t h e c i ty , "supposed to be in con sequence of th e L or d Mayor being captain com mandant of the Artillery Volunteers." The moat intense surprise and indignation was felt by the in. habitants of the city when they heard that these complaints had been made to the Under Sec retary of State for War, and they conse quently sent a memorial, signed by the recorder, city sheriff, nine aldermen, 29 councillors, eight magistrates, and many other influential gentlemen and tradesmen of the city, to the Duke of Cam brdge. The memorial certified to his royal high. ness " that the conduct of the regiment was no t such as t o j us tif y suc h co mplaint; but, on the con trary, Colonel Dickson and those under his com mand, both officers and men, were held in very high esteem and respect by the citizens, who greatly re gretted their departure from the city." The officers of the West York Rifle Volunteers also wrote to the Duke of Cambridge, stating that " the best feeling existed during the whole stay of the Lancers, when stationed in this city, between them and the local volunteer corps to which we belong, as evidenced by the interchange of ogreeable hospitality among the officers of each service, and by the fact that the volunteer band asked for and obtained permission from their commanding officer to accompany the Lancers in their final march through our city, thus giving evidence of the friendly feeling of both volun teer officers and men towards the 16th Lancers up to the hour of their departure from among us." Mr. Councillor Cooper, whose residence adjoins the bar racks, certified that he regarded the regiment "as COO of the best ever quartered in York." In addi tion to the above overwhelming teeiimeny as to the nod character of the officers and men of the 16th Lancers, the watch committee of the city forwarded to the Horse Guards a minute expressing their aatisfaction at the conduct of the regiment. The reply of Colonel Dickson is straightforward and manly. He characterises the statements made by the Lord Mayor as in the main " untrue," and " the remainder grossly exaeYgerated." He showed that the iu77:tltiert to the bail , Art. to the Lord Naval and Military Intelligence. The Admiralty paddle yacht Enchantress, Staff Comman der Petley, with the Lords of the Admiralty on board and the Admiralty:ensign flying at the main, arrived at Spithead at 10 a.m., on Saturday, from Cowes roads, attended by the Fire Queen steam yacht, Staff Commander Paul. The En chantress steamed slowly through the Channel Fleet, and, after their Lordships had communicated with the Edgar flagship of Rear-Admiral S. C. Dacres, C. 8., left Spithead again under full steam for the eastward. A letter dated Malta, Aug. 16, says :—" Her Majesty's steam surveying vessel Firefly, arrived from Sfax on the 11th, having completed her soundings along that coast, and found them to vary with those marked on the Admiralty chart as taken many years ago by Admiral Smythe. She will leave shortly to check the soundings taken at the same time between Marsala and Malta. Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Phoebe left on the 15th for Susa, and her Ma jesty's screw steam corvette Chanticleer on the same day for Sfax. Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Chanticleer is under sailing orders to join the flag of Rear-Admiral Yel verton, at Tunis. The schooner Cecile arrived at Malta on the 10th of August, from Cork and Algiers, having on board the Marquis of Drogheda. The cutter yacht Mary left Malta for Palermo on the 14th of August." The Aurora, screw frigate, Capt. Sir L. M'Clintock, arrived at Spithead on Saturday, from the westward, and joined the Channel fleet. The Royal Sovereign, turret ship, Capt. Sherard Osborn, C. 8., was undocked at Portsmouth on Saturday, having completed the work of fixing the teak band at her load line. The Reindeer, 17, 950 tons, 200 horse power, one of the squadron of wooden vessels lying on the building slips at Chatham Dockyard, on which no hands have been employed for several years, has undergone a survey by the officials connected with the Master-shipbuilder's Department, in accordance with orders to that effect received from the Admiralty, with the view of ascertaining the time it would take to complete her in order that she may be fit to be launched and towed away from the harbour. The Reindeer is about half completed, and as the present de mands at the dockyard will only pern.it of a comparatively small number of shipwrights being employed, on her, it would take two or three months to complete her for launch ing. The service for which the Reindeer is required is not stated, Major-General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., who has re cently assumed the command of the forces in the Chatham district, held his first review of the troops quartered at Chatham garrison on Saturday afternoon. The several corps assembled in front of their respective quarters at 2 o'clock, and the various dispositions having been made, they marched to Chatham great lines, where they were formed in contiguous colunins of companies. The forces on the ground comprised all the available troops now quartered at the garrison, with the exception of the Royal Artillery, sad included the head -quarters of the Royal Engineer forces, numbering six companies, the three battalions of infantry of the line, consisting of the depot companies of the Ist and 3d battalions of the 4th King's Own, Ist and 2d battalion of the 12th Regiment, Ist and 2d battalions of the 19th Regi ment, Ist and 2d battalions of the 20th Regiment, 31st Regi ment, 35th Regiment, 434 Light Infantry, 61st King's Own Light Infantry, 524 Light Infantry, 75th Regiment, 77th Regiment, Slat Regiment, 63d Regiment, 91st Ar gyllshire Highlanders, 94th Regiment, 101st Royal Bengal Fusiliers, and the 102 d Royal Madras Fusiliers; and the Chatham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry, con sisting of 28 companies, the whole forming an infantry force numbering several thousand bayonets, but necessarily destitute of cavalry, On the arrival of Sir Robert Walpole, who was accompanied by Capt. H. M. Moorsom, aide de-camp, Brigade-Major W. Congrcve, and other officers, the line gave the customary salute with colours lowered, after which the proceedings of the day commenced by the customary inspection of the regiments and companies forming each brigade. This completed, Major-General Walpole took up his position at the flagstaff, when the entire force marched past by sub-divisions, in open column, slowln and quick time, the whole of the bands being massed together on the occasion. A body of skirmishers was then thrown out, and preparations made for the customary ad vance of the troops to repel a supposed attack upon the right flank, ths disposition of the forces leading to the inference that the attacking force was very strong in cavalry. The movements ordered by Sir R. Walpole were somewhat com plicated; but the whole were carried out by the troops with steadiness and rapidity, showing the high state of training to which the corps forming the garrison at Chatham have been brought. The final movement of the day was the for mation of the whole troops in square to resist a supposed advance of cavalry, after which, in consequence of the rain beginning to descend, the battalions were formed into line, and a few of the commanding officers were called to the front and addressed by Sir R. Walpole. The several corps were then marched off the ground to their respective quar ters, each being headed by its band. The division at Aldershot assembled for field manoeuvres at 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning on the common near the Royal Pavilion, Major-Gen. B. Taylor commanding, in the absence of Lieut.-. Gen, Pennefather. The programme of the day comprehended a sham fight. An opposing force, consisting of B battery, 4th brigade Royal Artillery, and the 2d battalion 60th Rifles, under command of Lieut.-Col. Turner, .R.A., was detached from the division, and took up a position to the west of Cassar's camp. Gen, Taylor quickly made his dispositions to defeat the anticipated foe, despatch ing the Royal Horse Artillery and the cavalry to form the left of his force on Hungry-hill, the right being near the Pavilion. The first brigade, consisting of the Ist battalion 6th, 59th, and 73d regiments, under command of Lieut.-Col. Lodder, formed the advanced line ; and the 2d brigade, con sisting of the Ist battalion 14th and 62d Regiments, under command of Col. Ingall, C B„ the left advance, The 3d brigade consisting of the 3d battalion Grenadier Guards, 39th, 79th, and 83d Regiments, under command of Col. Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, formed the reserve. The engagement was commenced about 20 minutes past 10, by Brigadier Turner firing a signal gun from the heights, which was quickly answered by General Taylor. A continuous cannonade followed, during which both sides advanced skirmishers, the enemy plashing them nearly to Cmsar's camp, apparently to ascertain the strength and position of our army. Prince Ed ward formed his brigade into two lines, the first consist ing of the 3d battalion Grenadier Guards and the 75th Regiment (two companies of the latter skirmishing), and the second of the 83d and 39th Regiments. This brigade then lay down, while the battle progressed between the light troops. The cavalry brigade might now be seen dashing round from Hungry-hill to the plateau on the westward to attack the enemy's right. Brigadier Turner, perceiving this movement, fell back in the face of the superior force in the direction of the Waterworks, while Gen. Taylor, finding that his artillery and cavalry were succeeding in clearing the heights, brought his infantry and artillery round the base to the north-west, and steadily advanced in that direction. The enemy, having dropped down the hill to the Waterworks, continued his retreat to the northward, and took possession of Rickley Copse, where he made a de termined stand. At this juncture the cavalry, consisting of the Royals, Scots Greys, and 14th Hussars, with B and D Batteries Royal Horse Artillery, descended the hill, and again threatened the right of the foe. At the same time the three brigades advanced on to Burns's Plain, the artillery and light troops pouring in a continuous fire. The combined attack forced the enemy again to fall back and to take up another strong position on Long-hill and Cocked Hat-wood. To dislodge him Gen. Taylor rapidly concentrated the whole of his troops to bear on the position. The 14th Hussars, the Royals, and the Greys charged the right of the enemy, the artillery fired from every quarter, and Prince Edward bringing his fine brigade into action opened a splendid fusil lade, which was admirably taken up by the Brigadiers Lod der and Ingall. The enemy warmly returned the fire, but the concentrated attack proved too strong for him, anti his force tell back across the valley between PyGttock and Eel moor-hill—a movement which was performed in good order and with steadiness, although in front of a superior force. This retrograde movement secured to Brigadier Turner the position of Eelmoor-hill, which ho made good use of by keeping up a splendid fire upon our army. Several attempts to dislodge him were .wade by General Taylor, but without success, and i vshen the last shot was fired at,a few minutes after 12, he remained defiant as ever. His force , in consi deration of its extra fatigue and dexterous movements, was allowed to proceed direct to barracks; the remaindhoerround. of the division marched past as usual before leaving t g The 11-inch cast-iron Blakely gun, which burst at the proof on Thursday at Woolwich Arsenal, was not purchased by thee War Department, as stated in The Sun of Friday, 1 but was ordered by them conditionally on .i 701 b. of pewsierassing satisfac torily the following proof :—Two ronnda of and ono shot weighing 4001 b. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, GREAT NORTHERN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Saturday at the King's-cross station—Col. Packe, M.P., in the chair. _ The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting, the report was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said he thought he might follow the example of chairmen in other similar undertakings by congratulating the proprie tors on the increased receipts during the past half year. The increase on their line had amounted to upwards of £lOO,OOO, but with the increase in the receipts there had also been some additional expenses. There were two or three items more prominent than others—for instance, an in crease in the item for maintenance of the permanent way. Their engineer had relaid 19 miles of permanent way with entirely new rails and sleepers at a cost of £25,000, but in the corresponding period of last year only eight miles were relaid, so that the value of the property had been increased by the entire renewal of 11 miles of railway. In the loco motive department a considerable addition (124,000) had arisen from running a great number of miles, by which they had earned the increased receipts. There had also been an increase of £11,300 in the expense for renewals and repairs of carriages and waggons, but the cost of all the improve ments in Mr Sturrock's department had been placed to reve nue account, as they had done on former occasions, so that the property was decidedly increasing in value instead of deteriorating. In respect of the merchandise traffic there had been an increase of £5,000. There was an item for com pensation in respect of losses and accidents of £14,366, which was a large amount, but when explained he thought it would be satisfactory. The greater portion of the ex pense was caused by the Witham river having flooded the canal, overflowed its banks, arid inundated the country, and for this purpose £7,000 had been set aside to meet any ex penses to which they might possibly be liable; but it was not certain that they would be liable, and whether they were or not he believed they had reserved sufficient to cover , the expense of the dilapidation. The company were the owners of the navigation, and had been sued for compensa tion in consequence of damage from the overflow of the river. There had also been an increased charge this half year for interest on money previously expended. which had been raised in 1861 as new 6 per cent preference stock, to be entitled to no interest for three years. There were other items, but altogether the increased expense was not more than at the rate of 50 per cent of the increased receipts. He had no doubt that many of the shareholders had gone through the accounts and compared the items with those for the corresponding period of 1863. The directors had endea voured to give them a detailed statement of the expenses and liabilities on capital account. With respect to the par. liamentary business of the last session, the directors had been very successful in defeating their principal opponents who promoted the Great Eastern Northern Junction scheme, The bill for that line had been rejected unanimously by the committee of the House of Commons. Mr Bidder, on the part of the Great Eastern, opposed the Great Northern Bills for the completion of their loop line from Gainsborough to Doncaster and for a line from Lin coln to Honington, in which he was defeated; but, not content with that, Mr Bidder opposed their Bills in the House of Lords, and was also defeated in that opposition by the unanimous vote of the committee. He (the chairman) thought, after two such defeats as those, there was not much chance of the Northern Junction line being sanctioned. In addressing the Great Eastern proprietors, at a recent meeting of that company, Mr Bidder contended that committees should be required to give reasons for re jecting a Bill. He (the chairman) could give the reasons for rejecting the Northern Junction Bill; they were simply that the Great Northern proved that they had a better line than the Great Eastern proposed, and that when the Great Northern lines were completed to Gains borough, and between March and Spalding, they would be prepared to take the whole of the traffic upon fair and equit able terms, similar to those they had with other companies. The committee thought this proposal so fair and equitable that they inserted clauses in the bill to the effect that, upon the Groat Eastern giving one month's notice, they might make use of the Great Northern facilities sanctioned by the Legislature. They had always been peaceably inclined towards their neighbours if they would only agree with them, and they hoped that some arrangement would be made to prevent the Great Eastern from attacking them any further in their own district. The directors would use their utmost endeavours to protect the property of the pro prietors. (Hear, hear.) The directors had succeeded in carrying the Great Northern Bill for the line from Doncas ter to Gainsborough ; and this, when completed, would, with the loop line from Lincoln, Boston, Spalding, and Peterborough, enable the Great Northern Company to put as much coal on the Great Eastern line as they wanted to carry, upon terms to be agreed upon between the two com panies; or in case of disagreement they would leave the terms to be decided by arbitration, as provided for in the act. The loop line from Doncaster, when completed as they proposed, would extend to Peterborough, and the worst gradient upon it would not exceed 1 in 400, and in many places it would be level up to that point. They proposed, with regard to the London, Chatham, and Dover, to advance them £300,009 on their City lines undertaking at 31 per cent. interest in perpetuity, in return for which the Great Northern would have many advantages. They would have running powers over the line to Blackfriars, to the Crystal Palace new station on a level with the main floor of the building, also from Blackfriars to the Victoria station, Pimlico, and all the distance from Blackfriars to Dover for their coal and coke traffic. In reply to a question, he stated that this agreement with the London, Chatham, and Dover was for 999 years. Mr AsTELL, M.P., seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. Mr HUGHES had no doubt that, as the meeting was to be made special, the directors had taken the precaution to se cure their position by obtaining a large number of proxies, and therefore it might appear that but little could be done by any observations shareholders made in reference to the company's affairs, or in opposition to the policy of the direc tors. Still, it was a mistake to suppose that observations at their meetings from time to time had been fruitless. It was not so ; on the contrary, they were from time to time accom plishing what they desired. For instance, the shareholders had obtained the taxation of their law expenses, the holding of their meetings at King's-cross station instead of at the London Tavern, the appointment of a law clerk, and ether things which the chairman at first told them when proposed that they could not be done. Thus it was that the opinion of the shareholders had worked its effects on the board. He thought there was another point which the directors were about yielding to the shareholders. Hitherto, when a ca cancy occurred at the board by death or resignation, the directors immediately filled it up by the nomination of some friend of their own, whereas the spirit of the Act of Parlia ment was directly in favour of the election of directors being vested in the proprietors. He perceived that on this occasion they had not nominated a successor to the late Mr Barff, and, if the directors intended to concede the principle and leave the election to fill the vacancy in the hands of the pro prietors, he would congratulate them on the occasion. He presumed they would soon have Government auditors, as by the act of 1844 Government might in 1867 purchase the lino, and those auditors had the power of examining ail the accounts during the three years antecedent to the time at which they might exercise the option of purchase. He com plained that the accounts were mystified, and that law charges were mixed up with compensation for accidents and other items, so that it was impossible for them to tell what the whole of the law charges amounted to in any half-year. Mr MORGAN, one of the auditors, said the accounts were kept with the greatest clearness. The accounts of capital and revenue were kept perfectly distinct. With regard to the law expenses, he had told Mr Hughes on a former oc casion that he would not be responsible for them, as the board were alone responsible. They were incurred in de fending the interests of the company, and the bills had to be paid. After some observations respecting the accounts, Mr MARRIOTT called attention to the proposed outlay of £40,000 on a potato market. The CHAIRMAN said the money was being expended. From the first they had a potato market near King's-cross, which bad absorbed to itself the potato business of the me tropolis, and it was necessary they should provide every convenience for carrying on their business. At one period last year they had 900 trucks full of potatoes at their goods depot, and the dealers had no immediate means of getting at them, nor the company room to empty the waggons, BO that there were great complaints and loss from the detention of waggons. He hoped the new market would be ready by September, as it would handsomely"repay them for theout lay. In reply to Mr Hughes, he stated that the vacancy at the board by the death of Mr Barff remained open in con sequence of Mr Denison being unable to attend the board meetings. A SHAREHOLDER asked whether it was intended to im prove the approaches to the King's-cross station, as they were very muddy in wet weather, and if it was contemplated to get rid of the old hoarding which disfigured the front of the building. The CHAIRMAN said he was glad the shareholder had called attention to the subject, as the directors had attended more to works of utility than those of ornament—(laughter) —but if they could combined the two at a moderate charge they would. The subject would no doubt have the consi deration of the board. The report was then unanimously adopted ; the various preference dividends of 1 per cent., 4 per cent., 4i per cent., and 5 per cent, were declared, and also at the rate of £2 158 per cent. for the half-year on the original undivided stock, of 3 per cent. for the half year on the B stock, of £2 lOs per cent. for the half-year en the A stock, of 17s 9il per cent. on the first instalment of the new ordinary stock ; all payable on tho Ist September. The meeting was th ou ma d e special, and the directors were authorised to raiso £300,000 by the creation of new ordinary stock, und er th e p owers of the Londo n, Chatham, and Dover Rail wa y ( c ity li ne s) Act, 1864, to be offered to the proprietors at the rate of £125 for each £lOO stock, on condition that the whole amount be paid on or before t he 10th Sept. nest ; and to offer at the like rate to the proprie tors the balance of ordinary stock, £51,050, created on the 12th April, 1864, upon the seine conditions as to payment and otherwise as the stock created under the foregoing resolution. The CHATIoux then proposed that under the powers of the Great Northern (Boston and Sleaford) Stock Act, 1864, £200,000 be created entitling the holders thereof to a perpe tual preference dividend at the rate of £5 5s per cent. per annum, and under the powers of the Great Northern (Lin coln to Bourn) Act 1864, £24,000 Great Northern Bourn and Essendine stock be created entitling the holders thereof to a perpetual dividend of 5 per cent. per annum from the Ist Jan. last. It was stated that the £24,000 represented £48,000 capital. The resolutions were agreed to. The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEEDS, August 20. (Before Mr. Justice Blacklurn.) LISTER V. WRAY.—A LADY CHARGED WITH BREACH 07 PROMISE. In this case plaintiff, a waste dealer in Leeds, claimed £l,OOO damages from Mrs. Patience Wray, who has already been thrice married, and who is possessed of a jointure of £704 per year. The action attracted considerable interest, in consequence of the singularity of the case, an d the ad vaneed age cf the parties. The court was a scene of merriment during the whole course of the hear in g . Mr. Digby Seymourr, Q.C., and Mr. Middleton were for the plaintiff; and Mr. Maule and Mr. V. Black burn represented the defendant (who occupied a seat in thew gallery.) Mr. Seymour, in opening the cause, stated tha t the pre - liminaries with respect to the marriage had been so far arranged that the wedding breakfast wes ordered, and the Rev. Mr. Hudswell was the gentleman selected to perform, the ceremony. On the day before that arrange d for the ceremony, a message came from the lady tha t she had a t the changed her mind. Plaintiff had a carpet b a g house of the defendant at the time, containing his we,cl,: ding suit, and when he went to accompany her, t here P" thought to the altar, the door was Blamed in his face. was no material disparity in point of years between the par ties. Plaintiff lost a wife, and a benefit and a solace Whi he he sought in his declining years, and he had also lost t r advantage of her handsome income of £6OO or £7 OO pe year. This was certainly a case in which the la d y ba d promised to marry and had not fulfiled that contract, ant the question must therefore go to thejury as to the emQ ua. of damages. William West, tailor and draper, of Leeds—l w as °a m t . e ing at Craigland's Hotel, Ilkley, in September, 1863. defendant was staying at Ilkley, and occasionally I saw the defendant plaintiff coming to the place. I have seen them together a s ' they were on terms of intimacy. They appeared te s ___ ; j e/ each other's company. Had never seen any act of feu' liarity between them. The defendant (Mrs. Wr a) is a ve C yr fresh looking lady for her years. a bout ross-examined by Mr Maule—ls not Mrs Wray 75 ? Witness—lt is hard to judge a lady's age. (Lal ighter ) . Were you staying at Ilkley at the same hotel ?-4 was. Did you happen to be present in the garden when the plain_ wig was blown into a cherry tree ? I was. s ? Did you not make a remark that it would scare the croir —I did not. Re? Were you of opinion that they were about the sam e a -I should think the gentleman was the junior. ea Mr Sedgwick, clerk in the Superintendent Reg,istra. Office, East-parade, Leeds, stated that in Februarfmtne plaintiff and defendant came into the office together. .112_': seemed very happy. Mr Lister asked for a notice of lice . ee c i Wane" 41sg . e z and the lady waited until it was filled up. Laughtr.)--- plaintiff's name, and his residence, and whom he wa's to marry ? The answer was "Patience Wray)" "d abfe the two guineas was paid by the plaintiff. The ag e g iven lady was 69, and the " youthful bridegroom " was 58 years of age. The lady looked fresh and sPrig h I for her years. a note te .. The Rev. Mr Hudswell said he had received state that he was to be prepared to marry the plaintiffurs: defendant on the 15th February. On that mornillg' defendant ever, he received another note to the effect that the ...n had been taken ill during the night, and that the We"' g_ The Ma rriage would have to be postponed for a few days. stated that he had not since been performed by him (witness). Re-examined by Seymour—l understan d plaintiff ga up business just before the time fixed for the m arriage o . . n . do not know that the lady provided the money for Pnt the plaintiff through the Bankruptcy Cou rt. Did no t think that there was any great disparity in the age s of the partie concerned. Harriet Barker (who was for some time servant to 3 1115 Wray) stated that she had seen plaintiff and defendant to: gether on several occasions. Witness heard from defending. last February that she would not marry Mr Lister, and th at she did not intend to marry again. A carpet-bag contain' ing plaintiff's clothes was handed to him, and h e was told to go, inasmuch as the defendant would not marry hire• Cross-examined by Mr Maule—You say that Mrs Virreit before she went, said she would not marry Mr Lister 2 .-- * Yes, she did. The Judge—The promise of marriage is proved, and both of you gentlemen can address the jury, if you like, on th e point of damages. Mr Seymour—l hope they will not insult him. (Laughte r ' ) The Judge—l hope they will. (Increased merriment .) The question was then left to the jury, who speedily decided in favour of the plaintiff. Damages one farthing. COUNTRY MARKETS. GRANTHAM—SATURDAY. A moderate show of wheat which sold slowly a t formerrates. Barley scarce, and prices firm. Beans rather dearer! —Old white wheat, 46s to 48s ; red, 378 to 42s per 3 68 " new white, 44s to 48s ; red, 398 to 445. Malting barlY' —s to —s per qr ; grinding, 27s to 30s ; oats, old, 23 265; new, 19s to24s; beans, 34 s to 40 s; p eas, 345 to 31s. LEICESTER—SATuRDAY. A fair show of wheat. Scarcely any barley showing, s' t late rates. Oats sold readily. Bea ns scarce, but tiro,: —Old white wheat, 4 6 s to 50 s; red, 43s to 46s per lays So stone. New white, 40s to 45 s pe r 36 : stone. Malting bar new, 32s to 34s per qr.; grinding , 28s to 30s; old oats, 24s to 295; new oats, 21 s to 23s p er 24 stone. Bps' old, 4N to 44s per 38 stone ; flour, 34s to 39s.per 20 stone. NOTTINGHAM —SATURDAY. A small show of wheat, which met a firm sale, an a late prices were fully supported. Barley limited in sup' ply, and trade inactive, at late prices. Oats met a tolerab l y good trade, at full prices. Beans in favour of sellers . —White wheat, from 4G's to 515.; red wheat, 40s to 4P• Barley—malting, 30 s to 37 s ; grinding, 28s to 30s. Oilet old, at 26s to 30s Od; new , 20s to 265. Beans sold at 40 to 43s_per qr. ; new, 35s to 3sB. NORWICH —SATURDAY. here was a attendance again to-da w i t h only a limited supply of thin wheat, and last week's prices must bo quoted. White wheat. 45s to 4 63 Red whe at ........ 41 34 a s to 4 2 ' 1 Malting barley to 35s to 36s Chevalier barley...33s to 64 Distilling 29s to 30s I Oats.. ........ 249 .... Flour, 28s Od to —s ed per sack from the miller. YORK—SATURDAY. A fair supply of wheat on offe r from the farmers flail ess va s morning, and the attendance was moderate. Busin still ,d te prices o last week were no t in all instances inactive made. an Bar h ley scarce, f and commanded lull,' late rates. Beans were in limited show, with a fair demana. Wheat, red 39 s to 44s Oats.... ........ 203 to .39 to 2 4 ' White do ......... . 45 s to 485 1 Beans ........... 368 Barley ........... . 24 s t o 28s Peas .... flour, 316 --s to --- 6 Malt, 58s to 60 s per qr..; rye, 30s per qr.; to 34s per sack. r—FRIDAY. at easily sold ; old spring corn Sans in g ood supply. s. d. 15 . Cit; 0atmea1...... 10 0 to 1 3 0 Beans.. —0 to 0 Bere ........ to Rapeseed .• • • -- 0 to2o 0 Bakers' flour .. j 74 0 0 t t o o 23 0 Indian corn .. DUBLIN• A few samples of new whe unsaleable. New oats and bi s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 24 0 to 26 6 Do., red 21 6 to 24 0 Du., new 0 to 0 Barley Oats Do., black — 0 to 0 A SNOW STORM ON THE ALPS.--The 124rIti Gazette of the 16th states that on th day snow fell heavily on Mont Cenis. The c rests of thethe Alps which surround Turin were white. T h4t i , f i a n c h t' d journal states, explains the lower temperature ¶vm.- suddenly taken place in that • e previous Births. vein d' HARRIS.—On the 19th inst ,at 4, Osborne IrillaS, " sor, the wife of W. H. Harris, 8.A.., of a son. ct. li o MASON.—On the 19th inst. , at 65, Mildmay-road, ,--% Newington, the wife of Colonel Mason, of twin de ll g -- tern. at Greencroft, Darlin g too) t il PEASE —On the 19 th i nst., of e wife of Gurney Pease, Esq., eon. Marriage& CAPERN--VOULBIr.—On the 20th inst., at St. Geore,_'°: Hanover-square, John, third son of the late litr. I l iZ t , Capern, to Alatilda, youngest daughter of the late Anu yodel, Esq. HAitnlS--GAMBELL.—On the 17th inst., at HaltonChureiti; Charles R. Harris, third son of Johnarris B'cl.9ll,ger of Peter Gambell, Esq., of Cotton's Wharf, London, to Sophia, second dag-- Halton, Bucks. ' ~-0n the 18th instat Brighton, Deaths. DTINELTGeOIg° , Dunell, Emq., aged 55. • GE ( A , CII,—On the 19th inst., at Pa k treet Westrainer,4: harles S. Geach, Es of 19, D r -s ' re, m ine r ,=' cf., Dorset-square, park, aged 76. JE I NNINGS.—On the 17th inst., at The Precincts, Cante.,r; riy, James Jennings, Esq., of The Elms, OldWiade" Berks, aged 63, JONEs.—On the 19th inst., at Co nant House lisle- v o, the Rev. Thomas Jonec• BD Y " • ~ rector o f A'tilhall° Robert Lombard-street, aged 79. late of the 19th inst , , Mr . Geo. Snelling, Greenwich. wicloW m Visn.—On the 20th inst.,of Eliza Ella de V ismet drewn 0. of the late Gerard do Vism e, Esq., 5 . A place, E.egenL'B-park, ____—_---- .s-,1 - S• ! London: Primed and ITb:felled by WI T Ii LN LIAM AND.U , .., Sing NO Office 1 . '" of No. 112, Strand, Prin ter, at Strand, in the Precinct of the Eiavoytin the tuntY. oi Jliibtlesex, Illonday, August 2.2, 1840.