The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

AMERICA. The Royal Mail Steamship Asia, Captain Shan non, from Boston on the 22d, and Halifax o❑ the 24th ultimo, arrived in the Mersey shortly before 10 o'clock yesterday morning. She brings 130 passengers, and 212,351 dollars in specie. The New York papers received by her are no later than those by the Great Eastern, but we have Boston papers of the 22d ultimo. A Washington telegram gives the particulars of the surrender of Port Hudson thus. It appears that General Gardner, on the 7th ult., asked General Banks by letter whether Vicksburg had surren der2d. G , neral Banks replied, enclosing a despatch from General Grant, Port Hwfeou, July B.—General,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your commu nication from Major General Grant, United States, America, announcing the surrender of the garrison of Vicksburg. Having defended this position as long as I deem my duty requires I am willing to su►render to you, .7.nd will appoint a commission of three officers to meet a similar commission appointed by yourself, at nine o'c:ock this morning, for the purpose of agreeing upon and drawing up the terms of surrender, and for that purpose I ask for the ces sation of hostilities. Will you please designate a point outside of my breastworks where the meeting shall be held for this purpose ? I am, very respect fully, your obedient servant, FRANK GARDNER, Commanding Confederate Forces. To Major-General Banks, Commanding United States Forces. Headquarters, U.S. Forces, before Port Hudson, July 8, 1863. General,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of this date, stating that you are willing to surrender to the forces under my command the garrison under your command, and that you will appoint a commission of three officers to meet a similar commission appointed by me at 9 o'clock a.m., for the purpose of agreeing upon and drawing up the terms of surrender. In reply, I have the honour to state that I have desig nated Brigadier-Gen. C. P. Stone, Col. H. W. Berge, and Lieut.-Col. R. B. Irwin, as the officers to meet the commission appointed by you. They will meet your officers at the hour designated, and at a point where the flag of truce was received this morcing. I will direct that active hostilities shall entirely cease on my part until further notice for the purpose stated. —Very respectfully, your obedient servant, N. P. BANKS, Major-General Commanding. To Major-General Frank Gardner, Commanding Confederate Forees, Port Hudson. The following are the articles of capitulation of the garrison of Port Hudson, as published by the New York journals : Article 1. Major-General Frank Gardner sur renders to the United States forces under Major. General Banks, the place of Port Hudson, with its dependencies, with its garrison,armament, material of war, in the condition, as nearly as may be, in which they were at the hour of cessation of hostili ties—viz., 6 a.m., July 8, 1863. Article 2. The surrender stipulated in Article 1 is qualified by no conditions, save that the officers and enlisted men comprising the garrison shall re ceive the treatment due to prisoners of war, accord ing to the usages of civilised warfare. Article 3. All private property of officers and enlisted men shall be inspected and left to their re spective owners. Article 4. The position of Port Hudson shall be occupied to-morrow at 7 a.m. by the forces of the United States, and its garrison received as prisoners of war by such general officers of the United States as may be designated by Major-General Banks, with the ordinary formalities of rendition. The Confederate troops will be drawn up in line, officers in their positions, the right of the line resting on the edge of the prairie south of the railroad depot, the left extending in the direction of the village of Port Hudson. The arms and colours will be piled conveniently, and will be received by the officers of the United States. Article 5. The sick and wounded of the garrison to be cared for by the authorities of the United States, assisted if desired by either party of the me dical officers of the garrison. The following despatch has been received from Admiral Porter announcing the capture of Yazoo city ; U.S. Mississippi Squadron, flag ship Black Hawk, off Vicksburg, Jaly 14. To Hon. G. Welles—Sir,—Hearing that Johnston was fortifying Yazoo City with heavy guns, and gathering troops there for the purpose of obtaining supplies for his army ; also that the remainder of the enemy's best transports were there, showing a possibility of his attempting to escape, Major-Gen. Grant and myself determined to send a naval and military expedition up there to capture them. The Baron de Kalb, New National, Henwood, and Signal were despatched, under command of Lieut. Walker, with a force of troops numbering 5,000, under Gen. Herron. Pushing up to the city, the de Kalb engaged the batteries, which were all prepared to receive her, and after finding out their strength dropped back to notify Gen. Herron, who immediately landed his men, and the army and navy made a combined at tack on the enemy's works. The rebels soon fled, leaving everything in our possession, and set fire to four of their best steamers that ran on the Mississippi rive:•. The army pur sued the enemy and captured their rear guard 260 men, and at last accounts were taking more pri soners. Six heavy guns and a vessel, formerly a gunboat, fell into our hands, and all the munitions of war. Unfortunately while the Baron do Kalb was moving slowly along she ran foul of a torpedo, which exploded and sank her. There was no sign of any thing of the kind to be seen. While she was sinking another exploded under her stern. The water in the Yazoo is rising rapidly, and we can do nothing more than get the guns out of her, and then get her into deep water, where she will be undisturbed until we are able to raise her. T he ()facers and men lost every thing.—l have the honour to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, D. D. PORTER, Acting Rear-Admiral commanding Mississippi Squadron. The fnt eiving, remarks upon the fall of Port Hudson ar e flora a Southern paper, the Montgomery Mail : The surrender of the garrison at Port Hudson was not unexpected, a n d will Cans e nothing like the same depression in the Confederacy , net : fall of Vicksburg, though in point of resistance to the enemy it has borne a part no less credit theab for gallantry and e n g fall of the two place s Zaaste* Under the circumstances, inseparably c onnec t e d, an d it wou ld have been little short c a miracle if Port Hudson had been abl Vick withstand the portonutlm 3d, and a despatch Vicksburg. sburg stip t u ate rg e long after the fall of of yesterday informs us that i ld . B oll surrendered on it seemed to be the Bth. Up to the fall of Vicksbujigen ad mitted, even by the Yankees, that BuwOrleaos, which gallant little garrison had badly worate e d r a t l Gardner and his force he could rake and scrape about New Gar wig all the no doubt exceeded ours two to one. point to Port Vicksburg, which gave the enemy the advantage the o thefa f ll of Mississippi to transport his troops from thatanct.age Hudson, the reduction of the latter place in a very followed as a matter of course, and no intellit3:enfetw days acquainted with the situation could have expected any Person result. Port Hudson is situated on the east bank of the sissippi, in Louisiana, 15J miles from New Orleans, and 2do from Vicksburg by the course of the river, and is distant 138 miles south-west of Jackson by land. It is, therefore, easy to see that no succour from our forces was possible, with out almost the certainty of capture by the enemy, who could throw his immense army in a very short time at any point on the river, and thus there was no alternative left, after the facts became known at Port Hudson, but to surrender with as little loss of life as possible. Another Southern paper, the Atlanta Appeal, thus refers to the fall of Vicksburg : The most disastrous intelligence of the I%a:etc was the announcement that Vicksburg- had fallen. To those who were posted as to the true situati on of affairs in that vicinity this was not unexpected. We have raason to believe such a result was anticipated by the authorities at Richmond days before it was announced. The repeated calls of Gene ral Johnston for help, in the way of men, munitions, and supplies, were, for some cause, disregarded ; and those who were acquainted with his true condition, as the authorities should have been, and others who enjoyed no official chan nels of obtaining information could have anticipated no other conclusion. From prudental motives of doubtful pro priety the discouraging facts were suppressed, while such as could be tortured into encouragement were mcgnificd. The public disappointment, therefore, is greater than the true situation warrants. In the future, however, we shall deprecate and endeavour to disappoint, as far as rossible, all attempts to mislead our own people. We , elieve them equal to any emergency, and if their zeal canl , t be relied upon, even under adversity, to save the ca • , 611 is lost. In regard to the state of affairs in Ycw York, a letter in the Boston Journal says ; New York is quiet, but it is the quiet of an armed force. The regiments are all under arms in their armouries, The 7th have not been allowed yet to go home. They are kept in the:r armoury in war trim, and sleep on the floor. The park in front of the City Hall looks warlike indeed. The whole front is filled with Duncan's battery. Heavy rifled cannon, with four horses to each cannon, all harnessed and ready for action at a moment's notice, attended by men with draw❑ sabres, ready to mount, show the preparation for a renewed outbreak. Nearly all the pulpits had the rioting for their theme. Bishop Hughes's call on "the men called rioters" has raised the American element as it has not been raised for years. The city has placards in all parts, as has also Brooklyn. " Sam aware," " Sam organise," and kindred notices, which the initiated say means au American party. A committee of the Common Council of Brooklyn agreed to recommend an appropriation of half a million dollars to secure exemption to drafted men having families dependent on them. This will cover nearly halt the quota of the city. The supervisors will, it is understood, appropriate 200,000 dots. more. The Common Council of Rochester, New York, passed an ordinance voting 207,300 dols. to pay 300 dols. for each man drawn in the city under the present draft. The money to be paid to the conscript if he goes, and to the Govern ment if he does not, Upwards of 7,000 dols. had been raised in New York for the coloured sufferers by the late riot. Several distin guished legal gentlemen hail volunteered their services to such as were despoiled of their property in prosecuting claims for reimbursement against the city. THE ATTACK ON CHARLESTON. A correspondent of the Providence Journal de. scribes the renewed attack on Charleston : United States steamer Montauk, inside Charleston-bar, July 10. 6 , This morning was soft and mild. At a quarter to 4 a.m. all hands were called, anchor was soon up, and in a few moments we were well under way, steaming well in across the bar. It was too early to perceive the condition of affairs on Morris Island, and not until half-p as t 4 o ' clock could we easily distinguish the shore. Admiral Dahlgren, who had come up from Port Royal in the Augusta Dinsmore, now took his position on board the Catskill, as his blue pennant indicated. As we crossed the bar the work of the day began, commencing with the guns of General Gillmore on Folly Island, which threw three of their shell and grape over the low lands and bluffs of Morris Island, into the channel be yond—indeed, into the neighbourhood of the four ironclads. It was a magnificent sight indeed. One heavy, unbroken, continuous boom, boom, boom, filling the air with bursting shell and spreading grape, and sending a broad, heavy veil of blue smoke behind and over the woods, against the dark foliage of which we watched with peculiar interest the ra pidly succeeding flashing of the guns. It was now half-past 5 o'clock, and the firing by the rebels from Morris Island was very irregular. The iron clads steadily and slowly moved up the channel, sending their blocks of iron across the island and into the bluffs which lined the coast. The batteries upon the bluffs were not used, probably from the scarcity of men and the surprise of the attack. And yet we saw men around the little clusters of tents, which were near the batteries and upon the shore, but they seemed excited and unable to man the batteries, even if disposed, which they did not seem to be after the location of part of our cargo in the midst of them. Soon, however, we saw large bodies of men coming from the centre of the island up to and into the batteries which co vered the bluffs. Immediately our shell were sent with astonishing precision among them, which caused the evacuation of their stronghold to be as rapid as the possession had been. Over the tops of the bluffs, through the valleys between them, around them, and in all directions, the rebels were flying in straggling crowds, driven by our shells from the seaward, and from the land side by the troops of General Gillmore's army, whose occupa tion of the south end of Morris Island had been in dicated by the discontinuance of the firing of the heavy guns and the rattling of musketry which now filled our ears. No sooner would a crowd occupy one of the batteries than a 15-inch would imme diately dislodge them, sending them in confusion to the next battery, from which again they were scat tered in a similar manner. From bluff to bluff and through the gullies the rebels were continually fly ing, never stopping to use the muskets which they carried over their shoulders. But now, over the low point of beach on the south end of Morris Island ap pear a dozen or 20 men, bearing the familiar army signal flag, and waving in excited exultation the Stars and Stripes. They had scarcely come in view when the solid black mass of our men, with splendid front, and bearing above them our own banners, came over the point and moved, line after line, in beautiful order along the smooth beach. In vain the rebels tried to turn the guns upon the bluffs upon the advancing columns, for our shells immediately scat tered sand and men in all directions. The line of bluffs, about half a mile long, had now all been eva ousted, with the exception of one solitary battery, from which they succeeded in throwing four shot upon our advancing men. The concentrated fire of the four ironclads in two minutes drove the rebels from their last position, and sent them in flying crowds down the hills and over the low lands to wards the city. Instantly our men secured the bat tery and turned the guns upon the flying rebels. In 25 minutes after the appearance of our men upon the lower end of Morris Island they held all these bluffs, and were using the guns. There are no other earthworks upon Mortis Island, except 11D011 the northern extremity. Between the bluffs and the upper end, a distance of perhaps two miles and a halt', the island is low and narrow, easily swept by guns from the channel. Along the slope are some six or eight h ouses, towards which our forces rapidly moved. About two miles from the bluffs and near the shore, a n d w i t hi n easy range of Fort Sumter, is a large and finely constructed earthwork, with all the usual accompaniments of an extensive fort, and mounting probably some 20 guns. This fortification, called Fort Wagner, was commenced immediately upon the breaking out of the rebellion, and is a formidable affair. Further up, upon the extreme point of the island, and where the old Cummings Point Battery was, is another work, and a strong one, Battery Bee. Sumter covers b o th of these. After the evacuation of the bluffs we moved slowly up the channel, shelling the low land as we moved. Soon the long range guns of Wagner opened upon us, with an occasional gun landward towards the troops. Shells were filed from Wagner, destroying two of the houses o n shore, as they were serving as a protection to our skirmishers, who were rapidly advancing under their cover. The burning houses filled the sky above with the black smoke, adding to the interest which was now becoming intense. The four iron clads were now in excellent position off Wagner, and sending their 11-in. and 16-in. shell through and through the parapet, and opening great caves into the immense solid walls and traverses which formed the earthwork. Seldom was a head seen above the parapet, and when the men sprang to load their guns as soon as the black portholes in the tur ret were turned towards th e f or t, th e men imme diately disappeared as though shot. Shell after shell, with an occasional shrapnel and grape, were sent ged and nicely slowly and deliberately into the rebel works, doing fearful execution among the men, guns, and the well arran who had sodded It w as a and bastions and angles. possession of a standing within the little sight, and . he was a lucky one scene which was becoming pilot house and watchedtri through the eyeholes the On the right is Moul .sointensely . exciting. the narrow seaway is e, silent and still ; across Sumter, .with its red walls Ind it, with its parapet looming above the sea walls ja,:us.c. gra.cettilly occasionally lighted by the gen-fl under the rings of blue s he w hi l c a i h ' While fThrn float away above the strong and bolts, but falling into th e the fleet no harm. To the rear of Sumter and the steamers are occasionally running, the evidently carrying men and munitions. To the left of Nva-teer ~,o t Sumter is Cumming's Point and Battery Bee; still further to the left is Fort Wagner, now being torn and rent by our shells. On the extreme left the regiments which ware but a few hours before marching in solid column up the beach are now resting, their muskets stacked, and the men in groups upon the sandhills, watching the fight in whicti they have now no participation, excepting, indeed, the wary skirmishers and sharpshooters who, advancing from hut to bush, quietly kneel and give the rebel gunners knowledge of their presence, and receive in return every now and then the com pliment of a shell. At 40 minutes past 12 o'clock, at signal from the Catskill, the iron-clads slowly withdrew down the channel and came to anchor, to give the men a resting and eating spell. The fire from Wagner, which for an hour had been decreas ing, now rapidly revived, both upon us and upon the troops which now held and occupied the island. Neither, however, paid any attention to the firing, and it soon became slow and irregular. The little tug Dandelion, Captain Barryman, which forms a part of the blockading fleet, ran up into range of Sumter and received in quick succession three or tour l which threw hi g h i nto t h e a i r grea t o mu shots, s of . water. They are cont i nua ll y f i r i ng columns the tug when an opportunity occurs. Just as the Montauk came to anchor a nth d bolt from Wagner struck our deck on the starboard quarter, made a long deep indentation into the iron, broke in two, and the parts went whizzing over our heads. We anchor abreast of the bluffs, and come out upon the iron decks once more with the most perfect noncha• lance. A field battery of General Gillmore'a, which has been harnessed up all the morning, is moving off from the beach to wards the low level land of the island. The troops fall back from the advanced position which they had attained, and are resting and taking dinner. Although the sun shines warm the air is cool, with a fresh breeze. The comman ders of the four iron-clads lunch with the Admiral on board of the Catskill, and after returning to their respective vessels the order is given to get under way again, and at a quarter past one our anchor is up and we are steaming towards Wagner again; in half an hour the old position is attained, and the little iron fleet are once more paving the interior of - Wagner with iron globes. A large two-horse ambulance which came to Wagner this morning now moves slowly away up the beach displaying an immense yellow flag. A large steam boat comes to the rear of Wagner with ammunition, and Capt. Fairfax tells our master, Mr. Giraud, who has charge of the guns, to fire at the steamer, and a 15. inch flies above it, throwing up fountains of water beyond. Mr. Giraud is one of the finest shots in the service, and the accuracy of his fire to day has been remarkable. As the afternoon wore away the fire from the Wagner slackened again and grew irregular and inaccurate. At 20 minutes to 8 p.m. we withdrew, after a hard day's fighting, and came to anchor again in the channel below. The officers and men are much worn and fatigued, but have stood to their weary labour admirably. We have been struck but once ; the Catskill, how ever, bearing the Admiral's blue pennant, has some honourable scars, and well she deserved them, for her shells must have done much damage to the rebel fort. In the evening Capt. Fairfax went on board the Conemaugh, and, returning at midnight, informed us that he learned Gen. Gillmore had lost 10 killed and 56 wounded, and taken 2CO prisoners. At 10 o'clock in the evening Gen. Gillmore, with his men, was in the rifle pits before Wagner. In formation was also obtained, from papers in the possession of the prisoners, of the capture of Vicks burg and the retreat of Lee. And so, after one of the most fatiguing day's work, we go to sleep on the deck, turret, and, in fact, anywhere, fully con scious that no one but ourselves can imagine, much less appreciate, the duties and labours which are necessary to a day's fighting in an ironclad." THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1863. THE LOSS OF THE ANGLO-SAXON. The following is the official report as to the loss of this vessel 46 TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORDS OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE. " My Lords,—l have the honour to report for the infor mation of your lordships the result of the inquiry which, in conjunction with Captains Harris and Baker, as nautical assessors, I have held into the circumstances attending the wreck of the screw steamship Anglo-Saxon, on the 27th of April last. " The frightful magnitude of the disaster naturally ex cited an unusual amount of interest, and communications relating thereto, chiefly from passengers by the ill-fated vessel, now residing on the other side of the Atlantic, have in the course of the inquiry reached one or other member of the Court. " Their communications, though not receivable as evi dence of the facts stated therein, have on several points guided the Court in the examination of the witnesses, as it seemed highly desirable that the public mind should be set at rest as to the truth of certain statements which had ob tained currency through the public press both in this country and Canada. The conclusions, however, at which I have arrived are deduced solely from the fects proved in evidence by the witnesses who were examined viva voce before the Court. "The Anglo-Saxon was built at Dumbarton in the year 1860, and was owned by Messrs. Allan and others, and was one of the line of steamers trading between Liverpool and Montreal, and carrying the mails for the Canadian Go vernment. Her gross registered tonnage was 1,713 tons, and she was of 250 horse power. She had a crew of 85 persons, and was commanded by Mr. W. Burgess, who held a certi ficate of competency as master. " The Anglo-Saxon left Liverpool for Quebec on the 16th April. She had on board, in addition to the master and crew, 360 persons, 48 being cabin and 312 steerage passen gers, a general cargo consisting of iron and measurement goods, and the usual mails in charge of Mr. Green. The requirements of the Board of Trade with respect to boats and compasses had been complied with, and the ordinary declaration for a foreign-going steamship, signed by the shipwright surveyor at Liverpool, was shown to the Court, specifying the number of passengers allowed to be carried, and the number and cubical contents of the boats, from which it appears that the vessel was licensed to carry 455 passengers ; and in the present instance, including the master and crew, there were on board 446 persons. The usu•il certificate as to compasses was also produced, signed, as required by the Board, by the previous master, and dated Oct. 29, 1862. " After touching at Moville on the 7th of April, the vessel proceeded on her voyage without anything to call for remark until 8 p.m. on the 25th, when she fell in with ice, accompanied by foggy weather. The engines were at once slowed, and at 10 p.m., the ice becoming thicker and the fog increasing in density, the engines were altogether stopped, and, according to the evidence of the first engineer, so remained until 10 a.m. on the 26th, when, the ice being somewhat less compact, the engines were occasionally moved slowly ahead by one or two revolutions at a time, until two p.m., when clear water was reached, and the engines were put on full speed ; all sail was made with the wind from the S.S.E., and a oourse shaped N.W. and by W. towards Cape Race. At noon on this day, an observation had been ob tained, which gave the lat. 46 54 N,, and at 3 30 p.m. sights were taken for the chronometer, which, brought back to noon, placed the ship in long. 47 24 W. A similar sight taken at 4 p.m. the same result. From the position of the ship at noon Cape Race bore about W. S., and the ship steered about W. 1 deg. S. till 8 a.m. on the 27th, so that it is obvious that in the long run of 18 hours she would be at that time clearly to the northward of the Cape. At 8 a.m. the engines were slowed to half speed, and the course was then altered to W.S.W., true, until she struck, shortly after 11 a.m., about half a mile to the southward of Clam Cove, and became a total wreck. Immediately on the vessel striking such of the boats as could in the position of the ves sel be got at were lowered, and by that means and also by means of a spar which was thrown across to the nearest rock and a whip from the foreyard, to which a basket was attached, many lives were saved, and in all probability, had not the ship listed over to port and sunk in deep water, in little more than an hour all hands might have been rescued. Those earliest on shore proceeded to Cape Race and communicated by telegraph with St. John's, in consequence of which the steamer Dauntless was at once sent off in search of the boats, and picked up three of them, and also took several persons from parts of the floating wreck. In all, according to the most reliable accounts that could be fur nished 209 persons were saved. " In reviewing the circumstances attending the catas trophe the main difficulty arises from the conflicting evidence as to the actual speed of the ship during the period from 2 p.m. on the 26th, when her position would be little changed from the time of the noon observation of that day, till S a.m. on the 27th. But in carrying back the reckoning from the spot on which she struck till 8 a.m., it is clear that she must have run at the rate of 12 knots an hour during the period in question. During this long run of 18 hours the tendency of the wind and sea would be to place the ship ahead and to the northward and westward of her reckoning, and the distance run was pro bably thus accelerated ; but for this it would appear that no allowance was made. Had the lead been occasionally used, as, without doubt, in such weather and approaching land it should have been, Captain Burgess might have had timely warning of his danger. Nor can I omit to n ,- dice (though I feel most painfully the necessity under which I am laid to comment upon the acts of a man who, when the fatal accident happened, nobly did his duty and perished in i dh l .:,,,_ P e; e n r f f el o eu r l m rti na:gucnaed) thicktherefore, that f o t g h speedenadc tiiacting the a u t whichnd ervicinityth et advice df v v l ieacsnes land, of NNinvvaayss na'uutilycailrnaPs7eds e so u r t ; to pronounce that the Anglo-Saxon was lost owing to a wrong estimate of the distance run ; that there was a culpable omission to use the lead after 8 a.m., and that it was a most reprehensible act on the part of the commander to continue his Giourse in a thick fog, even at half-speed, in such an uncertain position. " I may here refer to a recent report now before me, made by Capt. Orlebar, R.N., surveying officer on the stati in, to Sir Alex, Bannerman, Governor of Newfoundland, bearing on this question, and which may prove useful to future navigators. Capt. Orlebar says--' There are few coasts more safely approachable than the south-eastern coast of Newfoundland from Cape St. Mary to Cape Race, if the lead be used and tL e speed moderate. Soundings of moderate depth extend far off all these headlands, and the water shoals ets currents, r l graudually to the shore. But if ve sse l s cont i nue to be navi gated in foggy w ea th er , w ith ou t using there is so muc h uncerta i nty i n the strength that shipwre c k s mus t occur, as they have occurred with l amentable frequency.' , 6 With respect to the boats, I find, from th e d ocuments t u which I have already referred, th a t t h e authorities at Liver pool certified that the vessel was properly equipped. I am glad also to be able to refute th© charge of insubordination and cowardice which has been alleged against the crew of boat No. 4. The evidence of the first mate has fully con firmed the assertion made, and to some extent proved in :e -penden tly of his evidence on their behalf, that the boat had beea injured in lowering and was laying off for the necessary repair. I may also add that the crew were stationed to their respective boats, and that a list was hung up in the proper place, while the first mate distinctly speaks to the fact that he at any rate found the right men in his own boat, which was No. 2. " I have but one other point to touch upon in reference to this casualty. There was only one chronometer on board. In all other respects the Anglo• Saxon appears to have been thoroughly equipped. " I think it due to the owners to state that, among their instructions to their captains, is the following When you meet with fog or ice, or when, owing to the darkness of the weather, there is any risk of proceeding, the safest course is to lay to till daylight, or until the weather clears up.' And again :—' The lead should be used frequently, and the utmost care exercised when you are in any doubt as to your position.' Would that these admirable instructions had been fully carried out I " Considerably controversy has arisen out of this disaster in reference to the expediency of a fog signal on Cape Race. I have not thought it right to close my report without an allusion to this suggestion. It is nu part of my duty to discuss the respective merits of the plans proposed for adop tion. I am informed that the matter has already been before your lordships, and I feel confident that you will not delay to take such measures as may in your judgment seem most desirable if, upon further inquiry, any action is deemed ex pedient. " I have the honour to remain, my lords, your lordships' most obedient servant, " T. S. RAFFLES, Police Magistrate. "Liverpool, July 31. " We concur in th e a bove report, "HY. H ARRI S, Nautical Assessors." " ROBY. BAKER, RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTHERN. The directors of this company have determined to recom mend the proprietors at the general meeting on the 22d inst. to declare a dividend for the half-year ending June 30 last at the rate of £1 58. per cent. per annum on the original stock of the company, giving for the half-year £2 2s. 6d. per cent, to the original stock, £3 per cent, to the B stock, and ss. per cent, to the A stock. METROPOLITAN. Yesterday numerous passengers on the Metropolitan Rail way were surprised at the appearance of placards posted at all the stations on the li ne ann ouncing that the Great West em Railway Company h a d given notice that they wou l d cease to carry passen gers over the line on and after Monday, the 10th inst. It appears that the Great Western, who have hitherto worked the line between Bishop's-road station and Farringdon-street, deem it desirable to co nclude th e ar rangement for working th e line, and to throw th a t duty on the Metropolitan Rail way Company, on the ground that the working arrangements as they at present stand do not pay them, and that in a pecuniary point of view they are losers to the extent of something like .E2OO a week. The Metropolitan Railway Company are thus temporarily thrown on their own resources, and hope to be able to make arrange ments for carrying the passenger traffic between Farring_ don station and the Edgware-road station. There will thus be a break between the Bishop's-road and the Edgware road stations. Yesterday the directors of the Great Western issued a notice stating " that they would not be responsible for the trains or the working of the Metropolitan Railway beyond the last train at midnight on Monday, August the 10th inst." VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yester day, at the office, Duke-street, AVestminster—Mr. W. Lee, M,P,, in the ch a i r . The CHAIRMAN, i n moving the adoption of the report, i n a position to pay 3 per c en t f or th e said they e E y . w ß e e r l e la n m o y w , the secret ar y , read the re p ort . ppaayst6hpalefryceeanrt,.,anwdhifoohr, he hoped, would b e sa ti s f actory to the year 1863 they would b e a bl e t o the proprietors. H e would be happy to answer any ques tions the proprietors might deem necessary with regard to their affairs. In reply to Mr. Borradaile, it was stated that the com pany were bound to expend £105,000 on the station. They had already expended £102,000, and there remained £3,000 to expend. After this was expended there would remain £16,000 towards the reduction of the debenture debt. The London, Chatham, and Dover and Brighton Companies had come to an engagemen t to enlar g e, or wide n , the line and station; and, in lieu o f a certain contin g en cy in respect of source for an annual p a y men t f rom July, had agreed to comm u t e th e expected the London and Nort h-Western usin g the Br ighton station, receipts e eipts Victoriai.rom that rce 1864, of £1,125 a year- After deducting all charges, the in come of the company would amount to £20,425 in the year 1867, when the maximum rent would be paid by the Lon don, Chatham, and Dover and Great Western Companies, together with the commutation of £1,125 by the Brighton Company, It was believed the dividend would then. be some thing more than 9 per cent, per annum. Mr. BLYTH seconded the motion for the adoption of the report, which was carried unanimously, A dividend of 3 per cent. for the past half-year was de clared payable on the Bth inst., and it was stated that the dividend for 1864 would be at the rate of 7 per cent. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors closed the proceedings. thi3 company wa s h e ld yester day at office, Duke-street,eeetsng of Westmi ns t er; M r. W. A, MID-KENT. The half-yearly 0 the Wilkinson in the chair. Mr, E, BELLA v, 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 the position of the company had now become very satis factory ; its traffic was increasing as usual, and no doubt it would continue to increase. They had remonstrated with the South-Eastern Company on their extension to Tun bridge, and had endeavoured to show them that there was a better line than they had selected. The directors did not think it necessary to oppose the London, Chatham, an d didD over Company's extension fro m B ec k en h am ; b ut t h ey interfere with the South Eastern Company's exten sion to Tunbridge as affecting the interests of the company. He was sorry that their application for the extension of their line to Croydon had been rejected by the Parliamentary Committee, He thought the committee should have paid more attention to a petition signed by 1,000 persons resid ing in Croydon, including the authorities of Croydon, in favour of the company's application for an extension of their line to that town, especially as there had been no opposition from landowners. The only reason for not granting the lino to Croydon was because the Brighton Company did not like it. Since the last meeting the South-Eastern Company had offered to pnrchase the Mid-Kent Railway. The terms were to the effect that the South-Eastern would assume the debenture debt and preference shares of the Mid• Kent Com pany, and pay the latter company a premium of £40,000 for the £BO,OOO of share capital, making the purchase money £120,000, upon which interest at the rate of 4i per cent. would be payable (being at the rate of GI per cent. on the £BO,OOO of original capital) until that sum was paid. He (the chairman) believed it would be a good bargain for both companies. The matter could not be submitted for their approval until the bill was prepared for the next session of Parliament. Mr. L. SIMPSON, a director, seconded the motion for the adoption of the report. He thought it a wise policy on the part of the South-Eastern Company to secure the Mid- Kent line, which was intended to open up a beautiful dis trict, and it was constructed at a time when no other line could be formed for so small a sum. He thought the arrange ment would be a great advantage to both companies. Resolutions were unanimously passed adopting the report, and declaring a dividend of 21 per cent. for the past half year, payable on the 7th inst. The CHAIRMAN stated that in future the shareholders would receive 41 per cent. on the purchase money of £120,000, instead of, as at present, so much from the profits of the lino. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. GRF.AT WESTERN OF CANADA. It appears that the directors of this company have been informed by their financial agent in Canada that the lose on through traffic collected and converted, ascertained up to the 18th July, amounted to 269,895 dols. 69c (,£55,458), and that there remained a further sum of American funds for conversion at that date of 25,305 dol. 58c. In addition to which there were balances in account with connecting rail ways still unadjusted. BOMBAY, BARODA, AND CENTRAL INDIA. It appears from a statement of the number of passengers conveyed over the hue that for the year ending the 30th of June, 1861, the number of first-class passengers on an ave rage of 62 miles open was 1,206 seeond-class, ~211; of third-class, 212,089 ; and of fourth class, 117,087—total, 335,592, being at the rate of 5,109 per mile. For the year ending the 80th of June, 1862, on an average of 130 miles open, there were conveyed 2,063 first-class; 10,980 second class, and 838,285 third-class--total, 851,328 passengers, being at the rata of 6,576 per mile. A comparative state ment of the number of passengers carried over the above and other Indian railways for the year ending the 30th of June, 1862, shows that on 245 miles of East Indian (North-West provinces) line 342,935 passengers were con veyed, being at the rate of 1,399 per mile, On the Madras Railway, 282 mites open, 1,081,539 passenger g were con veyed, being at the rate of 3,835 per mile; on the Great Indian Peninsula, 416 miles open, 2,509,962 paseengers were conveyed, being at the rate of 6,033 per mile; and on the East Indian (Bengal division), 311 miles open, 1,937,100 passengers were carried, being at the rate of 6,228 per mile ; and on the Baroda and Central India, 130 miles open, 851,328 were carried, being at the rate of 6,576 per mile. The aggregate length of line open for the year ending June 30, 1862, was 1,384 miles ; the number of first-class passen gers carried was 59,431, of second-class 290,058, of third class 6.030,417, and of fourth-class (on the Great Indian Peninsula 342,958—t0ta1, 6,721,864 passengers, being at the rate of 4,804 per mile. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TIMES.—It is more than ten years ago that the attention of the world was called in a practical manner to a scheme which had been the dream of at least the last four centuries. In the first days of commercial speculation which succeeded the coup d'etat of 1851 it was announced by a French gentle man, M. Lesseps, that a company was to be formed for piercing the Isthmus of Suez by a canal navi gable by the largest ships, and for thus restoring to the old highway to the East more than all its for mer traffic and fame. It cannot be said that this scheme at first met with much commercial favour. First there were against it the conceptions which people had formed of the Arabian desert and the Red Sea. To cut an immense trench through 90 miles of sand, to run out moles into the Mediterranean, to deepen the shoal water at the two extremities of the canal so as to create ports capable of receiving the huge vessels which now make the voyages to India and Australia, and the still huger ones which the next twenty years might be supposed to produce; finally, to keep this grand work in repair and open for traffic, seemed an enterprise more befitting some all-powerful Prince who disposed of the wealth and labour of a whole race than a mercantile company, which must buy everything it wanted, pay wages to every one it employed, and ever have an eye to a satisfactory return for capital. Never theless, by degrees the enterprise took form and consistency. Its object was declared to be praise worthy, whatever might be the chances of success. After a little time it became a favourite subject with the French press, it was much discussed both on the Continent and in this country, and though it did not attract men of capital, it rather fired the imagination of those who are anxious to see grand experiments tried with the capital of others. M. Lesseps wee a man of energy, and while all Europe was intent on the great quarrel which had broken out between Russia and the Western Powers, and thought little of peaceful undertakings in the East, he obtained a concession from the Egyptian Viceroy for a canal navigable by large vessels from Suez and Pelusium. The details of the enter prise were to a certain extent agreed upon. The work was to be completed in six years. Four-fifths of the workmen were to be Egyptians, who it was understood were to be found by the Pasha and paid by the Company. As another minor undertaking— namely, a canal for irrigation and the passage of fresh water from the Nile—was included in the con cession, it came to pass that a considerable tract of land was brought under the operation of the Com pany, and over this land they were granted rights which almost gave them the sovereignty of a slip of territory lying between Egypt and the rest of the Turkish Empire. For these extraordinary con cessions M. Lesseps, in the name of the fature com pany, contracted to do the work in a masterly and complete manner. Lake Timsah was to be converted into an inland harbour, fit for vessels of the highest tonnage ; a harbour of refuge was to be constructed in the Mediterranean ; the port of Suez was to be improved ; in short, by the combination of French genius and Egyptian liberality the greatest work of Vie age was to be accomplished. But it happened that at that time the Porte was more than ordinarily jealous of its rights, particulafly as regarded the semi-independent provinces. Already Europe was at war; the Sultan was calling for troops from the furthest extremities of his empire to resent an inva sion of one outlying province ; and there was no in clination to give to a Power like France, good ally as she was at the moment, rights which might be I used as much to Turkish detriment as the rights of Nicholas in Moldo-Wallachia. This new conjunc tion between the French and the lately rebellious family of Egypt to carry out so singular an under taking was scrutinised narrowly by the Porte,which came to the conclusion that there were circumstances in it which would make it more prudent to refase a firman. When we say that the British Ambassador at Constantinople concurred in this opinion, and is even reported to have urged it on the Porte, and when it is also remembered that Lord Palmerston was almost vehement in his opposition to the pro ject, it may be supposed that there were valid reasons against it. The chief of these was in fact the imprudence of granting terri torial rights to a foreign company belonging to a nation which had always been most strict in maintaining the independence of its citi zens in the Turkish empire, as allowed by the Capi tulations, and which might be expected to take this company, with its 90 miles of ground, under its especial protection. Then there was also the belief that the canal would really be nrde, and that the company's works, though inadequate for the passage of an Australian liner or the Peninsular and Orien tal steamboat, might be turned into an excellent barrier between Egypt and Syria whenever it might please a descendant of Mehemet Ali to renew the daring policy of his ancestor. The end of the ne gotiation was that, in spite of all the entreaties of M. Lesseps, no firman was granted to his under taking. But this event, which might be supposed to be fatal to the enterprise, was in reality the cause of its first real success. What it wanted was share holders—men who would not only give a languid yap proval as to something beneficial to humanity, but l who would take an active part in it, and were obtained for tined a zeal by a liberal subscription. for it by the sharp discussions which Theee ensued on the refusal of the firman, and continued for two or three years. It was said with considerable_ truth England had been the chief cause of M. Lesseps' non-success, and with no truth at all that her reason was a jealousy of Frenchto the far East, and trade and French influence making their way . supplanting her own. The piercing of the Isthm us of Suez became a standing topic of declamation in the French papers, and pub lic feeling was so roused on the subject that when the rock of Perim was oc cupied for the purpose of placing alight upon i t, the Continent rang with invectives against th e na tion which has thus st o pp ed up the Red Sea in fear of the speedy piercing of the . Isthmus by its rival s . The consequence of th ese political discussions was, that, when in the end to procee d without the firman , and the subscription w as opened, the whole capital of £8,000,000 was forthcoming in less than a month. From that time M. Lesseps and his friends have practically had their own way. The Porte had reserved its rights, and, as the only wish of the British Government was to maintain those rights, there was no fin ther cause to interfere. As a political question the Suez Canal has ceased to be discussed for several years, much to the advantage of both ourselves and oar neighbours. A general interest was revived a few months ago by the note of the Porte,which followed on the Sultan's visit to Egypt, and which was di rected to the questions of the forced labour by which the canal is constructed, the possession of the lands on its banks, and the agreement with regard to its neu trality. This communication of the Porte, though quite consistent with its formerpolicy in not granting the firman, of course brought it at once into col lision with France, and has produced discussions of rather a spirited kind—France being as imperious as usual, and the Sultan showing more resolu tion than was expected of him. The end, we learn, is a compromise. On the first point it is under stood that the fellahs are to be better paid, and it is promised that they shall be fairly hired, though this last substitution for forced labour is not likely to be fully carried out. But the most important question relates to the Company's land, and on this subject it is stated that the Viceroy is to come to an understanding with the Company, which will receive a pecuniary compensation, to be decided hereafter, in place of the grant of the lands. The third question—of the neutrality of the canal —is likewise satisfactorily settled. When every thing is arranged between the Viceroy and the Company on the bases already agreed to, the Porte will ratify the convention and recognise the . undertaking. We may congratulate all part concerned on this conclusion, which must entirely remove the Suez Canal from the domain of politics, and puts an end to any uneasiness that may have been felt at Constantinople, or, in a less degree, in London. The Porte has, in fact , established principle for which it co ntended in 18 . 50, when it declined to recognise the late Viceroy's concession. The Company's enterprise is now merely an ordi. nary work of industry, and as such will be looked upon with goodwill by all . Europe, an . d . by no people more than by the English, who, ifit sue ceeds, will profit by . most. On this l a st question we have no desire to give an opinion. Mr. Hawshaw has, after a long examination of the works in progress, reversed, as it were, the judgment of Mr. Robert Stephenson and the French engineer who reported with him against the scheme, and is of opinion that the work can be completed and kept in repair for a sum not very much more then that originally estimated. That this may be a correct opinion we sincerely hope, for a Suez Canal, if even it did not bring the trade with Eastern Asia back to its mediaeval channel, would undoubtedly do much to civilise the regions which border the Red Sea. POST .—lt has been well said by a great observer of men and things that no one should attempt to write a history of England without having carefully read the 35 volumes of the " State Trials ;" and it may as truly be observed that no one should attempt to c cribe the social state of our country in 1863 without L:ving carefully examined the reports of our assize court The accounts now in course of ...'• publication from the different summer circuits pre sent a fairer epitome of :he moral and social condi tion of oar country than cal: be obtained from any other source. There are, doubt'ess, fewer crimes of violence and robbery, and fewer deen s of blood, than were recorded in tho older time; but, on the other hand, crimes of covin, fraud, and deceit are more prevalent, and forgery, false pretences, and seduc tion figure more than ever in the accounts of our circuits. Fifty or sixty years ago cases of seduc tion were rarely brought into court unless the de fendant was really a person of condition and sub stance, occupying a certain position iu society, but of late years, owing to the improvements in our system of law and indicature, humbler delinquents offending in this respect are " dragged into day," and are made to pay, as they ought to pay. the penalty of their crimes and amours either in purse or in person. The seducer of the sensation novel, which in nine cases out of ten is an inexact and untrue portraiture of real life, is frequently described as a young lord of ancient descent, immense wealth, and great expectations ; or a young baronet, a cap tain in the Life Guards, cool, self-possessed, and diabolically heartless, the owner of a castellated mansion and park in a northern county. But if we descend from the ideal to the real, and examine life as it really exists—as Feydeau or Henri Murger would paint it—we shall find that seducers are to be found among the lowly as well as amongst the titled and high-born—among shopkeepers and petty dealers as well as amongst earls, viscounts, and barons de la vielle roche. Previous to the institu tion of the Divorce Court an idea prevailed among the ill-informed that infractions of the married vow were more common among the higher than the lower and middle classes. But the records and re ports of the late lamented Sir Cresswell Cresswell's court abundantly prove the utter falsity of this as sumption. Possibly, if judicial statistics were care fully conned, and every case of seduction, no matter who the defendant, were brought into court, it would be found that the higher classes in England have been unjustly charged with crimes to which they are no more prone than their humbler fellow men. There are, if the truth were known, gay Lo tharios amid all ranks, and we learn from the last report of the Midland Circuit that .they are even found among footmen. We are not among the num ber of those who would run down domestic servants as a class. In no country in the world are there better or more faithful domestic servants than in England; but in a body so numerous as this, num bering several hundreds of thousands, there must necessarily be many black sheep, and some particu larly unprincipled and heartless scamps. In this latter category was the defendant in the case of Shaw v. Baum. From the name of the miscreant, we cling to the hope that the fellow is not of Eng lish cut, as his name imports a German origin. The circumstances of the case are briefly told. The plaintiff in the action was a person named Shaw, a tenant farmer and a timber dealer, who occupied a large farm under Lord Stamford, at Burton Lin ford. Mr. Shaw had a family of three daughters and a son. The eldest of the daughters was Eliza beth Shaw. This girl was courted by Baum, the defendant, who was in the habit of walking out with her unknown to her parents. But as the father of Baum was a gamekeeper of the Earl of Stamford, and lived close to the plaintiff, the parties had known each other long, and the families were on familiar terms. In December, 1861, Baum the younger became the footman of the earl, and about this period he effected the poor girl's ruin. In March he proceeded to London with his master, but he returned to the country in May. Elizabeth, finding she was likely to become a mother, sought him on his return to Bradgate, and said she had something particular to tell him. He hurried away, saying he could not stay, but that he would meet her in the evening. This appointment he did not keep, and she wrote to him saying she wished to see him " very, very particular." His answer was as follows : ",Dear Elizabeth—i have been very buisey this week as we are without a footman i have not been away from the house yet i will come down one day next week—from yours, " W. B." He never kept his promise, and finally returned to London without seeing her. • She then wrote him the following touching letter sorrowfully and sadly, though not harshly toned : " Charley Mill Farm, August, 1862. " Dear William,—l write to you once again to tell you in writing what you would not come down to Newton to hear. Little did I think the time would come when I should have to ask you to come to see me, after the many times you came down last winter, and after what passed between us. I would give all the world, if it was mine, to recall the past. I now write to you, dear William, to ask you if you will make me a wife before I am a mother and you a father. However humble the home, I care not. If ever you loved me, as your words and ways made me think in the winter you did, I ask you now to prove it, not only for your sake and mine, but for your family and mine, for I cannot hide it from the world much longer." To this no answer was returned by Baum. In the gaieties of London he forgot the poor creature he had left behind him, who was the victim of his heartlessness and deceit, who addressed him in her anguish with no angry upbraidinge, but with an ardent hope that he would perform his promise. She, however, addressed this stolid, stupid, lump of gold lace and hair-powder in vain. In October, 1862, the poor deceived creature, who wrote to her seducer with such artless and natural pathos, was confined, and her father was obliged to seek a remedy for the loss of services of his daughter in the Assize Court at Des by. Ayoun p g r w ap o r m is a t n y who and could express herself with so much feeling in writing to the man who had so deeply wronged her, as this creature did, was doubtless the delight, the pride, and the solace of her parents, and possibly looked to as one on whom an aged mother, anguished by sickness or sorrow, could repose. The jury clearly appears to have thought so, for, though the counsel for the defendant contended it was not a case for heavy damages, they gave a ver dict for the plaintiff, with £125 damages. This will consume four or five years of the wages of Mr. Baum, and, with the costs, will eat considerably into, if not exhaust, his capital. An obdurate and heartless fellow, like this Lothario of low life, can only be reached by the pocket ; and it is plain the jury thought so, for £125 of damages against a foot man is equivalent to a sum of £5,000 against a gen tleman. There was one statement made by the counsel for the plaintiff in which we should hope— indeed, in which we believe—there must be a mis take. It was said by tt e learned advocate that after the poor girl's confinement an agent of Lord Stam ford's informed the plaintiff unless he turned his daughter out of his roof, and sent her away from his home, he would be turned out of his farm. A state ment of this kind we deem to be incredible, and we should think somebody on Lord Stamford's behalf will take an early opportunity of correcting it. It is added that when this threat was held out to the father, he replied that when Baum was dismissed from the great house he would think of turning out his daughter. But Baum, if we are to believe the report, has not been dismissed, though the plaintiff has been dispossessed of a farm which his ancestors occupied for two centuries. We repeat we cannot credit this statement—at least, so far as the cause assigned for the dispossession is given. That a tenant may be ejected by a landlord for twenty good and valid reasons we freely admit, but we never can believe that a kind-hearted and indulgent landlord like Lord Stamford would turn out a tenant because he gave the protection of his name and roof to a daughter who had been betrayed, who had lost her honour and good name by the artifices of the liveried p lackey si bol, and of his non s e The h m e nthing, have b e ereen peat, is i mpossible, misunderstood. Had any counsel seriously made such a statement in the presence of a judge, there is no British magistrate who would not comment on a circumstance not merely repugnant to ideas Of humanity, but to all our notions of natural justice. 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On taking the, ae apartments the mother of the child stated that her na me w as Mrs. ChaPPelf and that her nurse was Miss Russell. Slit ' also stated that her husband, through business engage.mei its, could only periodically visit her. After she had taken I he lodgings a gentleman repeatedly visited her, and repres ented himself as her husb an d. Th ese v i s it s con ti nu ed until seven weeks ago, wh en th ey h a d a quarre l , an d th e - visits ' were discon tinued. On Friday at 1 o'clock Mrs. Chappel sei it her nurse to Covent-garden mar k e t t o b u y a p eac h. On h, or return, at half-past 3, she found that the door of Mrs, o: ll aPPers room was locked. She knocked several times, any then became alarmed by h ear i ng moan i ng soun d s , w hi c h pro ceeded from the interior of the room. Not being able to obtain admittance, in her fright she ran for Mr. Cathrow, Mrs. Chappel's medical adviser, who lives at 42,Weymouth street, Marylebone, and he returned with her to Mrs. Chappel's residence. Mr. Cathrow knocked at the door several times, and hearing no noise was dubio us as to any' one being inside, but after waiting about five minutes he Lieard a groan, when he kicked in a panel of the ,door, mak ing an aperture sufficiently large to admit him and the nurse. On their entering the room they were horr;fied at seeing Mrs. Chappel lying on the floor bathed in blood, which proceeded from the wounds inflicted on her throat. Making further search, Mr. Cathrow found the child on the bed, covered over with a pillow. The bed and wool mattress were soaked through with blood, which Mr. Cathrow found to come from a wound inflicted about an inch below the child's loft nipple. First directing his attention to Mrs. Chappel, he sewed up three large gashes in her throat. He next attended the child, and bandaged up its wounds. Mr. Cathrow was desirous of avoiding an exposure, and, think ing both the lady and her child would recover, he refrained from informing the police. However, on Sunday morning the child was seized with alarming symptoms, and died at 12 o'clock. Mr. Cathrow then addressed a letter to Mr. Tiddy, the superintendent of the D division, notit:ving that murder and an attempted suicide had been committed, and that he should continue in charge of the mother until the arrival of the police. At 1 o'clock Mr. Inspector Simms, and Isaacson, a constable, both of the D division, arrived on the spot, and on being acquainted by Mr. Cathrow with the facts of the case they commenced to search the room. Behind the shutters Isaacson found a small stiletto or dagger, the end of which was bloody up to about three inches. The surgeon handed to Mr. Simms a razor, the handle of which was covered with blood. They found the child quite dead, and Mrs. Chappel in a low delirous state. On making a further search they discovered a quantity of bedding and clothing covered with blood and steeped in cold water. On the side board a Bible was laid open, with the 9th, 10th, 12th, 13th, 15th, and 18th verses of the 37th Psalm underscored in ink. There was also en the sideboard a lecture by Hugh Miller, on " Courtship and Matrimony," several passages of which , were underscored. They also found a quantity of money and documents, among the latter of which there was a copy of a will, containing a codicil leaving a large sum to Mrs. Chappel. It appeared from further investigation, and the admission of the young woman herself, that after she had sent the nurse to market she fetched the child from the upper room to her own apartment, when, after stabbing it in the place mentioned, she cut her own throat and then fainted. Reviving after some time, and finding her child still alive, she, after giving her throat two other cuts with the razor, took a pillow and, placing it upon the face of her child, lay upon it ; but it appears she afterwards slipped down on the floor to the position in which Mr. Cathrow found her. The police also ascertained that just prior to committing the deed the woman had dressed herself and her child in white clothing, and had put out on the bed side all the 'linen necessary for laying them out when dead. Subsequently it has been ascertained that the young woman's real name is Sarah Emily Mitchell, aged 24, and that the nurse, Mary Mitchell, is her sister. She is said to have been seduced by the person who visited her, while in his employment as housekeeper. Both the razor and the dagger were new, and in such a state as showed that they never had been used before. The woman is at present in a most dangerous condition. She is in the custody of the police, and will remain so until the ease is fully investigated. Dr. Lankester will hold an inquest on the body of the child this day. COUNTRY MARKETS. GLOUCESTER—Aua. 1. The show of English wheat to-day was very fair, with prices the turn in favour of buyers; and foreign wheat in limited demand. In barley, oats, and beans there was no alteration. COLCHESTE. There was a small supply o : were as last quoted. Spring supplies. Wheat, white 46s 56s Beans, Mazagan 30s 330 red 42a 62. middle & small.3ss 425 Barley —s —a Peas, white 40s 42s Oats in—Aua. 1. of wheat to-day, and prices corn very dull, for want of CHELMSFORD—JULY 31. At this corn exchange to-day there was a fair attend ance, but trade was very dull, at barely late rates. The supply of wheat was adequate. Other articles dull, at the prices of last week. Wheat, old white 30s 62s new 34s 49s old red 36s 47s new 34s 44s Barley 2Bs 36s Chevalier ..28s 40s Grinding 22s 31s Malt.... Chevalier ... 64s 69s Oats 20s 28s Yeas, Partridge 37s 408 White 39s 408 Boiling 4os 438 Dun 358 388 Ditto new -8 .-8 Beans, Tick, old 34s 39s new.. —8 —8 Harrow Ticks ..35s 40s new.. --s —e Mazagan .......30s 38e KIRKCALDY GRAIN-AuG 1. To-day we had very small supplies of barley and oats, but rather a good supply of wheat. Sales slow. Barley and oats at fully previous rates. Wheat is cheaper. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....34s Od 2Bs 6d I 24s Od Second ..40s Od 29s 3d 26s Od Third....--s Od —s Od —a Od COAL A Prfoes of Coal per Ton a• [ARKET. the close of the market. Carway and Duffryn_ s. d. Malang - 19 Eden Main ..16 North Pelton Ga 5..... 13 Hastings Hartley ....16 Tanfield Moor Butes ..13 8. d. Walls End. Belmont ..16 0 Russel's Hetton 17 3 Ships at marker Walls End. Heugh Hall 17 0 Hartlepool.. l7 6 Trimdon Hartlepool 17 6 South Hartlepool 16 6 East Hartlepool,. 18 0 South Kelloe. l7 0 Haswell Framwellgate.. l6 3 ,South Hetton ...... • lB 0 st, 65 ; sold, 63. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..Aug. 18. via Marseilles Aug. 13. drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Sept. 3. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. —• China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug. 2. via Marseilles Aug —, Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. 2. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 2. via Marseilles Aug. —. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Aug. 10. via Marseilles Aug. 4. Portugal ............ Aug. 4. Malta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton Aug. 2. via Marseilles Aug. —. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, Ly Brit. packet.... Aug. 5. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Aug. 7. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Aug. 10, Bahamas, via New York Ang. 27. Mexico.. All and Briti sh st Indis Columbia including . Aug.ili, Peru, 1 ' - la. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4s. "High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. Births. BOND,—On the 2d inst., at Onslow Housearompton, the wife of Henry Bond, Esq., of a daughter. BLLts.—On the 2d inst., at Clay-hill, Epsom, Mrs. Edwd. Ellis, of a soh. LEVETT.—On the Ist inst., at Lambeth Palace, the wife of Major Edward Levett, of a daughter. P L UMER.-01 . 1 the 3d inst., a t 23, T a lb o t- square , Hyde park, the wife of Hall Plumer, Esq., of a daughter. Marriages. NASMYTH — NTCHOLLS.—On the Ist inst., at St. Marga ret's, Westminster, Michael George Nasmyth, C.E., the youngest son of the late Sir James Nasmyth, Bart., of Posso, to Mary A nn , e ld es t d aug ht er o f M r. J . Nicols, Lord Chancellor's Court, Westminster. WAYTE—PAXTON.—On the Ist inst., at Saint George's, Hanover-square, George H. Wayte, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Annie, the youngest daughter of Sir Joeeph, Paxton, M.P. Deaths. ABBOTT. —On the let inst., at Ospringe Parsonage, Faver sham, suddenly, John Abbott, Esq., aged 63. FORSTER.—On the Ist inst., at 124, Pall-mall, H e n r y Forster, Esq., of the Foreign Office, aged 55, GUEST.—On the let inst., at Chichester Villas, Upper Westbourne-terrace, Mrs. Douglas Guest. JOLLIFPE.—On the 2d inst., Isaac Jolliffe, Esq., late of Watling-street, city, aged 75 . OLDFIELD.—On the 2d inst., at Oldfield Lawn, Sussex, General J. Oldfield, K.H., Col. Com. of Royal Engi neers, eged 74. q . THARP.—On the 2d inst. , at Upper Clapton, John Tharp, Esq., aged 86. WATERS.—cesOnntphiae, Ist inst., poran iw Edmond Thos. W a t ers , Esq., Portman-square. London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREWS , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Surf Office, NO. 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Bavoy, the County of Middlesex.—Tuesday, August 1, 1863. y