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

.I)AR, DOCTOR, what do :von eideige ? I k vA „,, advise Alfred Mellon's Concerts, afterwards . to on e - :`:' 3 ', Covent-garden, hear some charming singing, order h„f their ca,ital chops and magnificent potatoes, and that "tie beat advice I can give you. ICINAHAYS LL WHISKY v. COGNAC, BRANDY. t it .r ti,,, , 4 celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest 1 ,." 0 C11 BRANDY, • B ‘li Pare, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. th e ° ,,k l in Bottles, 3s. Rd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by it 4gents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale n , S, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. ib.."userve the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded ‘4-lnahan's LL Whisky." CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS. ROYAL HOSPITAL, Chelsea, Aug. 20, 1861. Th e 8 tc,f , lght Honourable the LORDS and others COMllS that7,ltB of the Hospital d) HEREBY GIVE NOTICEIteat they are ready to RECEIVE TENDERS from and to „.with such persons a may be willing to ' I CTUALLING the IN-PENSIONERS CONTRACT ot the said 1841,ital, from the Ist October, 1861, to the 30th September, th days inclusive with the following ARTICLES of R ut s; v Is roN s, viz::—Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Parley or Rice, Pepper, c a Vir, Suet, Cocoa, Black 'lea, Sugar, Milk, Onions or Leeks, Pa - ,l ° ,ts, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savoury, and cg t lq daily, at per head per diem, according to the / L ablished allowance of the house, as specified in the form of igcler. which may be obtained at the Office of the Secretary T e '',,,`"ty between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock, which It o - ' o ' 4 'r must be filled up and delivered sealed at the Board o r b i n of the said Hospital by the party or parties tendering, kiLan agent appointed on his or their behalf, on TUES- L or k Ibe 6th September, at 12 o'clock, at which time their hipstlo t T will be prepared to take the cams into considers- It conha f 0 be observed that the Contrac'ors will be required to Security to the Crown for the due perfwmance of the 1144Taot, and that no Tender will be received alter the day hour above mentioned. In„.`ueen To Cmm endissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the "'Yer. A. J. 3100RHEAD, Secretary and Registrar. TELE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, 29, Lombard-street, London ; and Royal Insurance-buildings, Liverpool. 1 , 4 t the Annual Meeting, on'the sth inst., the following were ele cf the leading results disclosed in the Report to the -4areholders. FIRE BRANCH. T he Premiums of the year 1863 reached the sum of O( 4 an advance of r 18 62; an amount of increase exceeding that of any pre- The .( 8 year. Revenue from Fire Premiums has been en hanced in four years by the large sum of £113,353 rfie D b tu° uty paid to Government in 1862 was ditto, 1863 88,966 s howing an Increase in one year of lt; 111 ,. °LIZ the incidents which have tended to the advance lte the Royal within the last Jew months may be reckoned. %to a ton with respect to the losses sustained by the explo to of th , Lotty Sleigh . which although on y con istent with ki t - s t Zeneral tenor of the conduct of the Company, and ulti elY proved to 132 no more than what had been done in for ht4l4 times by the oldest and most proverbial) , honourable 14 13112 ; its contemporaries, yet attracted attention and public our by its unhesitating prompt ,ess. b i ,ls the largest tot a of Revenue and the largest nail (Id NZ ` ession have been attained in the present year, so it 1)11: e ns that the largest Profit which it has ever Callen to the ecter s to recerd has likea ise on this occasion to be an t° .ft lin eed. The balance of net profir on the year has amounted to g..) 5 t5 • of which sum £34,1t0 only has been appropriatel o.l,vlden'd and Bonus, and the large balan e of £49,441 been - "Led to Reserve. LIFE BRANCH. )111,i' Progress of the Life Branch, as shown by the New th e ;,ess transacted In the last year, is most promising. and ati r - ,,;;lvances made, year by year, in the amount of New In- Co anew effected, sh , w clearly the estimation in which the jk' a nY is held. ' The following is a statement for the last Years het o .11m Assured on New Policies after deducting Guarantees. Net Premiums. 1889 Z 434,470 11 10 leo 1861 1862 1863 Th• A. la rapid growth, amounting to 73 per cent. on the Sum ,78ured, and upwards of 80 per cent. on the Premium re jVved in the course of five years, may justly be considered as f i r l ger than any which could have been reasonably expected. e first half of the current year 1864, however, far outstt ips t',!o ratio of increase indicated by the figures just quoted, as sum assured for that period of six months only actually - Zceeds Half-a-Mil ion sterling. ~r t he rate of Mortality, likewise, still presents highly favour :ole features, and augurs well for the result to be shown by :)e quinquennial investi ga ti on, w hi c h i s to take place when t he present year is concl u d d. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. Attgust, 1864. E ABERANIAN IRON WORKS (Li m ited), ti A (late Crawshay Bal'ey'sl. Introduced by the FINAN CORPORATION (limited), who invite Subscriptions litl„4,..kares of which upwards of 5,030 have been applied for he above Company.. " s4e43 rPoraied under ire Companies Limited LiabLity Act, N°. 22,515. :-)EitsoNs SEEKING - LANDED A , LAATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES, FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND PROPER TIES GENERALLY- . . To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices, No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, 3ressrs. E. and H. Lumley's "FREE PROPERTY =GINTER," containing a varied selection of landed and house properties now in the market, from the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the cottage with its few acres. OWNERS OF PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em brace the opportunity that the medium of this Reiser affords, by sending the particulars of their properties to the Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs. Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers, where the property is of an eligible Ohara ter, thereby avoid ing the disadvantages of delay and its attendant incon veniences. THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur cnaser is introduced through Messrs. Lumley's Agency, and then onlythe usual moderate commission. Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London. 1862. Capital £50^,000, in 100,' CO Shares of £5O each. Zt . 4 1 Deposit on Application, and £4 on Allotment. 18 of contemplated to call up more than £25 per Share. WVis DIRECTORS. tm tarn Walter Cargill, Esq., M.P., Director of the Orien n - nk Corporation. b a "Zene Collins, Esq., Director of the London, Birming -1,, and South staffordshire Bank ,Limite , t). t„:„B• Cumming, n.sq Messrs. J. B. Cummlng and Co., (troll\ Director of the Continental Bank Corporation ratted) kll' tam Huah Logan, E.qq Banker, Berwick-on-Tweed. James Marsh al, .11aq , Wil iwood, Hampstead. tp,' Naylor, Esq. (Messrs. B. Gott and Sons), Lads, Di tor of the London and Lancashire Assurance Company. k n 'oharoy Price, Esq., Director of the Western Life Assur bee Company, ' e glltaid Read, Esq., Director of the Crystal Palace Com- E AGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT of the Directors for the Year ending 30th June, 1864, read at the Annual General 3Leting, 12th August, 18;4 — Sir JAMES BULLER EAST, Bart., D.C.L., in the Chair. The duty once more devolves upon the Directors of makieg a report to the Proprietors on the transactions of the past year, and, as usual, they commence it by a reference to the particulars exhibited in tit.: Surplus Fund Account. Thee particulars are as follows : INCOME OF THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1864. Balance of Account, 30th June, 1863 4)28,263 12 11 Premiums on New Assurances ..£23,683 14 1 Ditto, old ditto 218,,06 1 4 £311,970 5 5 Interest from Investments Bl, 46 13 10 4393,126 8 3 Profit on the Sale of Securities.. 17,515 16 •8 Total Income ................................ 410,642 511 £938,910 18 10 CHARGE OF THE YEAR. Div dend to Proprietors £10,323 15 0 Claims on decease of Lives As sured .. -• £199,324 2 0 Adaitions to those under Parti cipating Policies. 15,993 9 8 Policies surrendered 1?,953 13 1 Re-assurances, new 1 2 2 -- old £274,779 2 6 Commission . 9,518 19 3 Medical Fees 7lB 7 2 Income-tax Expenses of Management 12,926 18 6 ,- ~ 300,510 11 10 Total Charge Balance of Account, 30th June, 1864 £938,910 18 10 Examined and approved, THOMAS ALLEN, 1 Auditors. HENRY ROSE, . _ Here it will be seen that the total income of the year is £110,642 ss. ltd., and the total charge £ 10,831 6s. 10d. The difference—£9',Bol 19s. ld.—increa-e the surplus Fund to £628,076 12s. The difference las tyear, it may be remembered, was £50,875 lts. 7d. The income of the year is greater than that of the preceding one by nearly £22,000. The increase is mainly attributable to the profit derived from the sale of premises in the City, and elsewhere. With exception of the payments on account of re-assurance, and those to the proprietors, all the , tems of charge are less than those of the previous year. Thus, the sum paid for claims is less by £27,000, an t that for surrender of policies by £5,330. A considerable reduction, too, is observable in the expenses of management, arising from a diminution in the number of the Board, and from other circumst 'flees. The Balance Sheet is as follows : BALANCE SHEET. LIABfLITIES. Interest due to Proprietors £5,432 14 9 Claims on decease Of Lives Assured and ad- ditions thereto unpaid Cash Bouus due to Policy-holders 67f 2 8 Sundry Accounts 1,015 10 10 Value (186') of Sums Assured 4,731,195 7 0 Proprietors' Fund £190,187 10 0 Surplus Fund, as above 818,264 2 0 45,651,801 13 1 ASSTS. Amount invested in fixed Mortgages £903,790 1 6 Ditto, ditto, decreasing Mortgag, s Ditto, ditto, Reversions Ditto, ditto, Funded Securities 402,148 28 4 Ditto, ditto, Temporary Securities Cu , rent Interest on the above Investments 28,085 1 3 Cash and Bills Advanced on Security of the Company's Po licies Agents' Balances 32,177 2 3 sundry Accounts 28,957 8 1 Value (1862) of Assurance Premiums Value (186 .) of lte-assurances 34,263 10 8 £5,651,801 13 1 Examined and approved, T H 0 NIAS ALLEN, j Auditors. HENRY ROSE, The Assets here specified remain nearly as they were in the last Report, except that the amount invested in Rever sions is i ,creaEe I, and that in fixed Mortgages is diminished. The balance of the Surplus Fund is, of course, increased (as it should be) from £528,268 12s, 11d. to £623,U76 12s. The Trustees and Directors of the Company are now as follows : (With power to add to their number). BANKERS. t 1 ,2 , e London and County Bank and its Branches. Alli Alec Bmk, at Liverpool and Manchester. igssrs Bail ic, Cave, and Co., Bristol. 15V'e Leeds Ranking' Company, Leeds. 4essrs. Crawahay Bailey, Greatlex, and Co., Monmouth, W Port, and Abergavenny. Messrs. SOLICITORS. 8 . Sole, Turners, and Hardwick, 68, Aldermanbury. London. BROKERS. Mmes Shepherd, Esq., 36, Throgmorton-street, London. I,.eaars. T. Tinley and Sons, Brown's -buildings, Liverpool. users. Ridsdale and WaLes, Park-r ow, Leeds. loc t iessr . Mewburn and Barker, Moult-street, Manchester, AUDITORS. F rederick Maynard, Esq., Bread-street, London. James o Maurice, Esq., Oid Jewry, London. S amuel Lowell Price, Esq, Gresham-street, London. SECRETARY. J. 11. Flesher, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 29, Threadneedle-street, Lcndon, E.C. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. e;0 10 -„ .. eXtensivi. and valuable properties of Crawshay Baile 41 - P., known as the Aberaman Iron Works and Col aul4, Which are of European celebrity, have been carefully rti l , l e yed by Joshua Richardson, Esq., M.1.C.E. , F.G.S. , ttu;',,,,Xtend over an area of 1,53 ) acres of Freehol d Land on North Crop of the South Wales Coal Basin, and contain 44teater number of the veins of it onstone an 4 ,1 1 3, found in any property of equal extentd coal than is by ,t J r coal is the noted Aberdare Steam Coal, and certified tt u rz Richardson as " The best steam coal in the kingdom," At s , abds at the head of the GOVernment list. bl tt r Richardson describes the property in his Report " as teet . 4l, ling 16 veins of coal, of the aggregate thi e kn esi of 48 besides the numerous courses of ironstone, of the aggre h't thickness of 141 feet ; these extcnd over the area of the 14 1 0 estate, and there are four veins of the average th ck it4,9f 8 feet, which crop out on the side of . the mountain ; below the 9 feet there are fbur more veins of coal of io 1 11 thickness." mhthe ironstone "is the black band, a carbonaceous ore, Of f. n IS comparatively rare, and yields from 69 to 70 percent. rtg„,,`" , ." and aso the ordinary argillaceous ironstone. The -, regate thickness is 5i feet. Th e estate contains at least 91,485.440 tons of whole or un te'raed coal, which would yield a supply of upwards of 1, , 00 bl_, day, or 3(.0,0)0 tons per annum for 304 equal' and of black band iron ore, 4,(10,5 *tons, which is to 3,000 i ro " of bar iron per annum for 773 years ; and of ,trgillaceous p4, ll , B tone, 135,3 9,270 tons, whi.l is equal to 500 tons per ` , E, or 26,000 tons of bar iron per annum for 1,300 years. p a is Company bits entered into a iprovisional contract for Purchase ot the whole of the freehold and leasehold e state,.._ including the whole of the minerals, rents, royalties, ZaYleaves, &c., besides the ironworks, coal-fields, and good ,nill of the business, and a so the mansion, 300 cottages, buildings, plant, machinery, engines, stocks, railways, tram- Ways, and other property. Mr Crawshay Bath y, althouch working the property only 0 a very limited extent, has realised very large profits, and fotires, in consequence of advance age, with a princely glue. Mr Richardson reports that t d he income may be dOubled ° l * treble ith moderate additional outlay , and Mr. D. Jon e s ` ,, Ports that iOO,CO I per annum net profit can easily be r ealised ; and assuming only half this income be pro wed, bud supposing the share capital upon which the dividend will teryl to be £250,000, i follows that, aftcr allowing able in test on loans, &c., from 15 to 20 per cent. will be ava.l 4 °14 dividend to the shareholoers, and this not from an un- Oakino• requiring to bode, eloped, but from an old-estab ',..._°ed and lucrative b,,With a view to keep the called-up Share Capital as low as t2Bible, arrangements have been made by which the vendor tQagreed to allow large rtion of Ihe urchase money to to - lito at interest ; ti a is will portion materia ly incr p ease the dividends shar e h o ld ers . t er r„ o_Pies of the Articles of Asso ciation, which contain the t e ' lB of the provisional contract, and of the reports referred. 14 13% /na y be seen at the offices of the Solicitors of tne Com 10,4Plications for the remaining shares must be made in the itliZ annexed, and be accomp , nied by a payment of Li per fo r te ; if no allotment be made, the amount will be returned tti:uwilh; if a less number is allotted than is applied for, p a - b _artiourit pail on anpli ation will be applied towards the ,Pnent of the £4 due on allotment —the balance, if any, '; o lg re turnel. h.etail e d Prospectuses and Forms of App'ication may be k e 'o. at the Office of the Company, and of the tiankers, Bilo t.,rB, and Solicitors ; and also at the Offices of the Financial —l l so ration (limited), 14, Leadenhall- street, London. O L BRIDGE'S BALM of COLUMBIA stands unrivalled as a toilet requisite. It has been tc' a olished 40 y.ears. and is the best and only certain remedy orer discovered for preserving", strengthening", beautifyinv, r estoring the Hair, Whiskers, or Moustaches, and pre a B e 4 , t „tug them turning gray or fa ling off.—Sold' in bottles, to ", 65., and its. by C. aud A. OLDRIDGE, 22, Welling.f 0-street, Strand, N.C. ; and all chemists and perfumers. 411.u_r Children's and Ladies' Hair it is most efficacious and CAMERON'S GOUT SPECIFIC. k at , An Effectual and Speedy Remedy for the Gout, Rheu kePM, Sciatica, Lumbago, and Neuralgia. This invaluable weine is so pre-eminently efficacious as to admit of no 41111e1. Instance have been known, in which sufferers have een confined to their apartments, hand and foot, writhing h rter the most intense agony, whose sufferings, to the asto thamnieht of their friends, have been wholly removed in less r e a m. 2 4hours after takinthe above medicine, and themselves ren d red ab'e to resume their avocations, Indeed, the effect Th s been such, and brought about in so harmless and speedy th — ,,anner, that the propriPtor, with the utmost confidence, atrp' e nges the medical world to I reduce a medicine equal to .0 the constitution it is harmless ; to the fluids of the —"an frame it adds an agreeable impetus ; to the system hatier illy it is invigorating to a degree unparalleled ; and the or female may take it to equal advantage. A dose of above medicine taken about once a month operates most 248,ectually in preventing a return of the complaint. e proprietor,land 4s. 6d. per bottle. I'repared only by the R 'Cameron, 40, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, .IP", 4 r lon. Wholesale London agents—Barclay and Son, 95, Of Q r t agdon-street ; Butler aud Crispe, 4, Cheapside, corner a t , Paul's Churchyard ; Cleaver, 63, Oxford-street ; Dart, A, So uthampton -street, Strand • Sanger, 150, Oxford-street, c ei tTle bottle fiamp forwarded free from the manufactory on re opl9 ts. T" IMPERIAL M ASSOCIATD Capital subscribed, £5,000,c00, Paid up, BOARD OF JOHN CH APMA Xenophon Balli, Esq. E. J. Coleman, n:sq. Mr. Alderman Dakin. James Dickson, Eeq. P. D. Hadow, Esq. J. 0. Hanson, Esq. W. H. Harlord, Esq. G. F. Holroyd, Esq. J. G. Homere, Esq. Capt. J. Gilbert Johnston. BANKERS. The Bank of England. The Agra and Masterman's Bsnk, Limited. The Bank of London. The Union Bank of London. bir W. Miles, Bart., and Co., BristoL SOLICITORS. lERCAN FILE CREDIT ON, Limited. in 100,000 shares of £5O each. , £50r , ,C00. DIRECTORS. N, Esq., Chairman. Charles Kelson, Esq, G. G. Macpherson, Esq. Sir J. H. Pelly, Bart. W. Seholefield, Esq„ M.P. Sir 5..). Scott, liart H. D. Seymour, Esq.. M.P. Joseph Thornton, Esq. F. G. Westmorland, Es 1. Alfred Wilson, Esq. M. Zarifi, Esq. Messrs. Edwards and Co., and Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and CO. MANAGERS. Henry 3. Barker, Esq., and T. Fraser Sandeman, Esq. This Association receives money on deposit at notice, and for fixed periods, on terms to be agreed upon ; makes advances on approved securities, and effects purchases and sales of stocks, shares, and debentures ; negotiates loans, and under takes general financial business. Communications io be addressed to the Managers. By order. W. C. WIN TERBOTTOM, Secretary. TEMPORARY OFFICES. Crosby House, 96, Bishopgate-street Within. TRUSTEES. Lord Bateman. I Riehar I Harman Lloyd, Esq. Robert Cheere, Esq. Wm. James Maxwell, Esq. Joseph Esdale, Esq. Hon. E. T. Yorke, M.P. And other Gentlemen. DIRECTORS. Thomas Godfrey Sambrooks, Esq., Chairman. Charles Chatfield, Lsq., Deputy-Chairman. Charles Bischoff. Esq. Sir W. G. Ouseley, K.C.8., Thomas Boddington, Esq. D.C.L. Sir James Buller East, Bart., Ralph Charles Price, Esq. D.O L. Philip Rose, Esq. Nathaniel Gnuld, Req. George Russe 1, Esq. Robert A. Gray, Esq. Capt. Lotus Symonds Tindal, William tugustus Guy, M.D. R.N. Charles Thos. Ho'combe, Esq. Col. Chas. IV etherall, K.C.T. Richard Harman Lloyd, Esq. Rig ,t Hon. Sir John Young, Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Bart. James Murray, Esq. fONNECZING SHIP OWNERS - (Limited). Incorporat d under the Joint-Stock Companies' Act, 1862, whereby the liability of each shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares. Capital .£1,000,000, in 60,000 shares of £2O each. Deposit El per share on application, and £1 on allotment. Scrip Certificates. which can be converted into Registered Shares, at the option of tne holder, will be issued imme diately after allotment. These certificates will be capable of transfer, by delivering from hand to hand, without any necessity for registration. DIRECTORS. Rear-Admiral Currie, Bletchingley, Surrey, Chairman. E. Lloyd Bagshaw, Esq, Bath. J. Britten, Esq., Director of the Bank of Wales, Basinghall street, and 3i) and 31, London-wall. G. Howard Fenwick, Esq., C E., late R es id en t E ng i neer Madras Railway, Oatlands Park, W , ybridge. G. W. Harris, Esq., Merchant, 5, Nicholas -lane. The Hon. Augu tus Jocelyn, late Chairman Dundalk Steam Packet Company. Col. William R. Nedham, Royal Horse Artillery, Ramsgate. George Pearce Pocock, Esq., Director of the Crystal ralace Gas Company. George Scammell, Esq., Director of the Submarine Telegraph Company. BANKERS. Union Bank of London, 2, Princes-street, and Branches. CONSULTING ENGINEERS, Edwin Clark, Esq., and J. C. Gunn, Esq., 24, Great George street, Westminster. SOLICITORS. Me srs. Davies, Son, Campbell, and Reeves. BROKERS. Messrs. Castello Brothers, Throgmorton-street. AUDITORS. Messrs. Alison and Waddell, Public Accountants, 14, Walbrook. SECRETARY (PRO TEM Horace Fenwick, Esq. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 61, Cornhill—Entrance, 126, Bishopsgate-street. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. This Company is established to own and work Connecting Steam -hips. Connecting Steam Ships are designed on a new system, which consists in constructing steamers in several distinct compartments for carrying large cargoes, with great economy of power, the compartments being all of one gauge, admit of immediate disconnection from and re -connection to each other; and of the transfer of the compartment containing the engine, officers, and crew from one set of cargo compart ments to another, so that it can be kept in constant employ nt, while the inexpensive cargo compartments are detained during the loading, unloading, or sale of their careees, enabling one engine and one crew to perform the work of three s, earners of the ordinary construction, and realise pro portional profits. It is intended to commence business by running one steamer compartment, and three sets 01 Caro Compart ments, to demonstrate the enormous advantages to be gained by the system before proceeding to build the proposed fleet, which will consist of Eitzliteen Screw Steamer Compartments, and one hundred and ninety-eight Cargo Compartments, and will deliver over one million of tons of coal to London, and over three hundred thousand tons in Paris, annually. - - Estimates of the cost of the proposed fleet, and details of the annual expenditure and receipts have been prepared, showing the large profit of more than 20 per cent., after making ample provision for insurance , depreciation, and con tingencies. A pro4pectus with plans and drawings of vessels con structed on this system, detailed estimates showing the pro bable profits, together with forms of application for shares, can be obtained, or will be sent post free, on applicati93l, at the Otacep, 61, cianhill, entrance iliohopsgateltreet. :~~"ia .4.1 1 . ' 1 '= ~ •.- , t ~ , . i•-, ...,:.:;•:' ~.' .•. . et.,. •--- • , ~....., :, Great Fire at Woolmer Fore'' 11 4 \ ........ t".....',„„,,,,,,,,..„.... „.... r , '9 I , , , 1 l i A: " ... • N , :3- . '',, ..0" ' •—% &., . 7 ... Z:r..-__ —• . ''' 1 4 6 17 ''"1. i 2' ... 5.: c.., ; 4 , T l. : r il.. : : ' •- , 1 . .';',7 - - . g e l l t gforia. ' 4 14:; t' , .. .hta,z4. ' 3 _. 4 .. , .... ~,... , ; ____ _.,.....__ 1r , .. ' - ''l,.. . ~,...... ,' 'NT ••• l 4, " ris.l\ l'.7i, 4Q....3 . ..1 ,, ,J1i* ---'I"A 41 3 ..... ~. ~. ~,. ...._ i't - '1: , a• .,,, 1 1 V / ,' ,5: 1 11:2 ,4 t,-.' ,:ii, 'x• '#,., ,i . , - , L =,, 114 - Zei ''* ' -1 2filt. lt: , .*" 1 : : ..?' ' • r g ' .."'*.'wo . —... , , --., yvv.....- ,L,,- '''. i " ' '''' ' ~. :,.,.. ; - , ..e .. '7 ,--,.. . ,ft., , D. . a, ~ ~,,z, . .... • ii . y - Aso , : ~ • i' '.• •f i' .. - ...r... , , . ,4 , ~.- ornek. - • 'DRAT. 1 ' , `ice:" , " iIIOPA , ''- ',.. .., 1 50 .- 4 Liss, Sunday Evening. A tremendous conflagration, more like one of tk e prairie fires of the western continent than anything we are accustomed to realise in this country, oc curred in Longmoore enclosure on Wednesday evening, and in its course, which has only just been arrested, has rendered a belt of country seven miles in breadth and three in depth a scene of Wank des°. lotion. Hundreds of acres of fir plantation, the property of the Government, have been destroyed, besides several plantations belonging to private in dividuals, end an immense quantity of r , me. The fire commenced just below Seafonh gate, to the right of the Peterstield-road. It was observed to break out simultaneously is a dozen diarent places, and owing to the dr2. fleas of the heath end furze, it spread with alarming rapidity. It was not long before the plantations became a sheet of fire, which roared and crackled with ominous fury, and tinged the sky for miles with a lurid glare which inspired the belief in distant places that a whole town was in flames. At Godalming, Guild ford, and Aldershott the fire was plainly seen, and when the authorities of the latter piece had ascer tained its situation and magnitude, a body of troops, consisting of the 75th and 83d Regiments,aad a dem tachmcnt of the Royal Engineers—in all abcut 1,000 men —were despatched to Woolmer to dig a a trench, and employ other mi,itary means for cut, ting off and subduing the fire. By the time of their arrival, however, the flames had extended over a vast area of fir plantations, and it was evident that the reduction of the conflagration 'would be a work of Great fears were entertained for the farms and oth er some time, if not of difficulty, dwellings near, the mass of flame was so great and the heat so fear ful; and it was a fortunate circumstance that there was scarcely any wind, as otherwise the fl ames must have embraoed a still wider area of destruc 'tion, and perhaps have defied every effort for th e i r extinction. Notwithstanding the active exertions of the military, the fire continued to rage daring Thursday, Friday, and a portion of Saturday, leav ing little but the blackened embers of thousands of fir trees in once flourishing plantations, and trans forming the landscape for a long distance into a dreary and blighted-looking wilderness. On Friday the conflagration was a grand though almost ter rifying spectacle. For a mile mile beyond New Inn the fire was burning to Weaver's Hill, a dis tance of at least five miles, scaring from the coverts every living thing that it did not destroy, and darkening the air as far as the eye could see with rolling billows of smoke. Several cottages and out buildings fell a prey to the flames, and of the quantity of game destroyed some idea may be formed from the fact that no less than twelve hares were taken out of one hole burned to death. On Saturday the military succeeded in successfully ar resting the progress of the fire, and if no further damage is apprehended the force will return to Aldershot tomorrow morning. The fire was evidently the work of incendiaries. There is no one who ventures a contrary opinion, and the supposition is strengthened by the fact that the gipsies and broom sellers, who were allowed to gather broom and heath, and to depasture their cattle in the neighbourhood, have this year been denied those privileges. Some of them were heard to say that they would be revenged on this account, and the extensive conflagration is pretty generally considered as the fulfilment of this threat. A considerable number of persons visited the neighbourhood of the fire to-day, and gazed with no small astonishment upon the scene of wide-spread desolation. At least 1,200 acres of timber in various stages of growth have been destroyed, and the total value of which cannot at present be estimate ed, but which must have, represented a large sum of money. PRICE .4d. STAMPED ....sd. pointment at the failure of Grant' s expedition, and growing financiniafavourl of embarrassment,may perhap s at l ast produce a re action peace. It is impossible to foresee the course of popular feeling, nor does it follow that urgent sons will operate as cogent motives of action. Perhaps, how • ever, the collapse of Grant's military reputation may render a change of policy more feasible. The Democratic party some time since postponed its convention at Chicago to the end of July, with the obvious purpose of waiting for the result of the pending campaign. If Richmond had been taken, it would have been necessary either to acquiesce in the ro election of Mr Lincoln, or to persuade the victorious cum • mender to accept a Democratic nomination. As both can didates are now discredited by a succession of defeats, there is at last an opening for M'Clellan. No rival has, on the whole, displayed less incapacity, and the unwise enmity of Mr Lincoln has converted his former General into an irre concilable opponent. The Democrats have for some time discovered that it was useless to affect, in their contest with the Republicans, superior enthusiasm for the prosecution of the war. Even now their success is hopeless unless they undertake to advocate a policy of their own, and there can be no doubt that the majority of their leaders are sincerely desirous of peace. For the present, it will be necessary to possess a determination to preserve the Union, but the real terms of compromise will consist in the recognition of Southern sovereignty, to which it would be the policy of the North to add a Customs Union, and, if possible, a common fsreign policy. There are some indications that the Confe derate Government would not be unwilling to listen to such proposals, and it might not be impossible to reconcile Northern feeling to an alliance which-would partake of the nature of a federation. Whenever the negotiations com mence, the scheme which may be adopted will be recom mended to popular favour by its Northern promoters on the ground that it will facilitate the humiliation of England by the conquest of Canada. There are, in fact, dangers of the kind to be apprehended, whenever the present contest is terminated; but, for some time to come, neither the North nor the South will be inclined to engage in a wholly gra tuitous war of aggression. THE SPECTATOIL—MR BROWN ON THE CANADIAN FUTURE.—It is a pity that the speeches of colonial notables are so seldom reported at home. They are frequently as much superior to colonial articles as the Parliamentary de bates are to our own provincial leaders. The Hon. George Brown, for example, member for " S nith Oxford, Canada," and author of the plan for the federation of the North American Colonies, has recently explained his policy to his constituents in a speech which is incomparably the best essay yet published en the political history, position, and prospects of Upper and Lower Canada. It does not add very much except upon one grand point to the information previously received, but it justifies the new policy suggested 'ey arguments which will weigh heavily withher Majesty's Government. Mr Brown talks like an English statesman, without a trace of bombast or dreamy oratory, states facts simply, quotes figures which do not weary, bases a great proposition upon intelligible grounds of national interest, looks steadily at the future, and above all refers throughout his discourse to ideas higher than those of mere political expediency. The coalition which he has helped to frame is in itself, he declares, a thing to be condemned. A combina tion of politicians who have always opposed each other to take office ought, he argues , prima facie to shock the public mind, can be justified only by the presence of some overpowering national need, but in this instance the need, he contends, exists. The state of things is, it appears, even worse than was at first reported in this country. We all knew that the political equality of the provinces had ren dered Government impossible, that three administrations had been overset in thres years, that the country was in a perpetual agony of elections, and that the finance of the eombined colonies was wasteful beyond all precedent. But we did not all recognise that the equality was based on a radical injustice so great that unless another remedy could befound one mast be sought in a dissolution of partnership. Not only has Upper Canada outstripped her rival in popu lation by 400,000 souls, say 30 per cent., so that in one in stance a county member represents more electors than eight other county members elected by the same class, but there is still a greater inequality in taxation. Upper Canada, possessing only half the political power of the united colony, pays four-fifths of its taxation, contributing, for example, ' 578,000 dole from excise duties, while Lower Canada yields only 193,000 dole. The productions of the two provinces, the best means of testing their comparative wealth, show a still greater disproportion, the most important items being— The Extraordinary Murder on the High Seas. COMMITTAL OF THE ACCUSED. SOUTHAMPTON, Sunday. The adjourned examination of Adolphe Bjornsea, the Ger man sailor charged with murdering his captain on the High Seas on the 21st June last, was resumed yesterday morning at the Guildhall before Mr G. S. Brinton, the mayor of Southampton, and a bench of borough magistrates. listeners, who manifested the deepest interest in the pro ceedings. Upper Canada. Lower Canada. Wheat (bushels) .... ~.. 24,620,000 2,654,000 Indian corn (bushels).... 2,256,000 334,000 Value of farms and stock for taxation (dols) . —306.442.000 178,870.000 Whatever, therefore, is taken as the basis of calculation, population, or property, or taxation, or all three, the more numerous and wealthy and highly taxed province is still always the sufferer. Add to these facts that the equality is in reality only nominal, that the lesser and poorer and less taxed French Catholic province permanently governs the larger and richer and higher taxed English Protestant pro vince, and we have a state of affairs which in the nature of things could not hope to endure. It is as if England were subject to Ireland under the semblance of strict political equality, and compelled to provide from her own resources a tribute to fatten her less energetic associate. This really happened in the Canadas. The representatives of the Lower Province always voting together always retained the substance of power in their own hands, and they used it to spend on the province contributing one-fifth as much as on the province contributing four-fifths of the common fund. "If an extra sum at any time has to be voted to Upper Canada for any special purpose, a corresponding sum must be invariably appropriated to Lower Canada to maintein the equilibrium Three or four to one is the principle of taxation—equality is the principle of expendi ture !" It does not need much to prove that an English and Protestant majority is not likely to endure long so preposterous an arrangement, kept up for the exclu sive -benefit of a French and Catholic minority. So evident did this appear that even the French Canadians admitted the propriety of re-arrangement, and only pleaded for local powers of a very extensive kind. These, says Mr Brown, are to be conceded, and this is the most important hint in his speech. The details are not yet settled, but it is obvious that the clauses in the American Constitution which prescribe a monotonous uniformity of form to the different State Govern:nents will not be repeated in the Canadian federal compact. The desires and interests of the colonies are too widely opposed. No clause prohibiting hereditary power will be or can be sanctioned by the British Govern ment, the French Canadians are determined to uphold the "right" of their Church, to place it beyond the power of a Protestant majority; they are resolved that their language shall not be superseded; they intend to keep the civil law as the basis of their legislation ; and they will not give up their own ideas, which are English ideas, upon the descent of landed property. All these questions must therefore be declared local questions, and it will be difficult to a degree to retain for the central Parliament sufficient authority to make unity any longer desirable. The scheme, it 43 true, will admit of internal experiments, of diverse or hostile forms of society highly favourable to development, but then so would separate colonial life, and the Coalition may go so far as to destroy the national sentiment they obviously wish to foster, to create an antagonism of civilisation in place of an antagonism of geo graphical position.Jhis is the rock upon which the Ameri canvery tenderly with the matter it will find that it has created a powerless and therefore usually mischievous central as sembly. It is the enormous power of Parliament, its sense of responsibility, which steadies its action, and to bind it in paper bonds, to deprive it of the power of acting in emer gency with autocratic energy and decision, is to deprive it of its greatest means of utility. Italy exists as Rome existed, because her Parliament could at need create a Dic tator. Finally Mr Brown approaches the greatest subject of all, the political future to which these colonies are to look, and upon that point he is distinct and emphatic. He does not want annexation either to the North or the Union, On the other hand, he does not believe that Great Britain will for ever lend her fleet and soldiers to colonies from which she gains nothing that independent states would not yield. He accepts the third alternative, and remembering British America is larger than the United States, that her popula tion is incessantly increasing, her vast mineral wealth unde veloped, her forests unexhausted, her commercial fleet the fourth in the world, he looks forward to the day " when the whole of British America shall stand together, and in close alliance and heartiest sympathy with Great Britain, be pre pared to assume the duties and responsibilities of a great and ?atelars I sl — an d s now coming forward to the front of English powerful nation." That also is the dream of the statesmen form into which as they hope the Colonial Empire will be transmuted. The " mother country" is to be changed from an Empire owing dependencies she does not rule into a kingdom ringed round with independent but cordial and politics, the faithful allies. If these are the views of many among the leading politicians of Canada, we can congratulate her Par liament on its success in the very highest functions of Par apparently British Parliament, let butit Par liament—that of breeding and training statesman. One only hint . we . w .n ou e ld on a v d i d ne o i n ng e really of vital importance—lf the new coalition succeeds, as it may, in conciliating all the colonies of the Atlantic coast, point and, as it will, .... invent for the nation it will have created some common brat -tar, via Southampton ...... Aug. 18. national name, some sound implying unity which a great (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Aug. 18. via Marseilles.... Aug, 27. lation can use. The colonists of Victoria and New . South 1 3 din (Bombay), via Southampton Aug. 25.1 South Wales. Tasmania and Queensland, are all alike via Marseilles Aug. 20. j Australians, but the citizens of the United States, like those f -eortugal.... . .. of the United Kingdom, have to this hour no name, ex . I Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Soufaanapton Aug. 18. cept one used in reproach and another begotten of arroganue. via Marseilles Aug. 18. Aug. 31. They are not Yankees, nor the only Ameri cans , an d when Newfoundland and Vigo .. . the Canadians join themselves with the people of New U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Aug. 25. Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, they will by U.S. packet, find it wise to adopt a title a little less unwieldy than that by Canadian pac ket.A.ug. 26. of 13ritish North Americans. AU parts of West Indies, including Chili, Pen 1, I Aug. 29. 12..:44-1.. Mr B. Mackey was again present to watch the case for the accused. The prisoner was brought up in the custody of Superin tendent Enright, and having been placed at the bar, Mr Eldridge, the clerk of the court, called Heinrich Alten, who deposed—l was steward on board the vessel Gustav Adolph. On the 21st June last I was forward with the rest of the crew, I was half asleep. About 9 o'clock in the evening the chief mate ran forward, calling out, " What is the matter with the second mate ? I think he is mad." We jumped up and ran aft, as we did not know what was the matter. As we cams aft I saw the second mate walking up and down the quarter deck. By the time we arrived there the captain came out of the cabin on deck, with his right hand holding on his left arm. As soon as the captain came on deck he called out, " Where is the second mate ? Have you secured him ?" As he said [those words the captain went towards the second mate, who said, " 'What I secure me!" and I then heard a report and saw the captain fall. The second mate stopped a moment, and then walked leisurely towards the companion, and jumped down the cabin. After that we were busy washing and laying the body of the captain out. I remained with the body, and procured fresh water and vinegar, while the rest of the crew went forward. The body remained by the skylight, and I, being afraid to remain by myself, went forward, and begged of the crew to help me to bring the body of the captain from aft forward, No one would go with me, and I went back by myself. When I came back the captain groaned several times, opened his mouth, but could not speak. Although I called him seve ral times he did not answer. I then went again forward to the crew and begged of them again to come aft, but they re fused. I had to go back again by myself. The captain was still alive, When I proceeded the third time forward I got two of the crew to come aft with me, and we carried the body forward. The captain died about 20 minutes after he was shot. By that time the chief mate wanted to go down into the cabin, but the crew would not let him. About an hour and a half after the captain was dead I proceeded aft near the skylight and tried to lock down the cabin to see what was going on. I went to the companion and looked down the staircase, and saw the second mate, and was frightened and went forward again, and half an hour after wards I saw the head of the second mate peeping out of the staircase companion. The man at the helm then left the wheel and made signs to us. After this several of the crew went aft, and then the second mate came on deck. I stood midships and saw the prisoner standing at the top of the staircase companion. I saw he had one gun in his hand, and another he gave to one of the crew. I saw him before this bring several things on deck, and amongst them one ham, one case, different clothing made up in a bundle, and a large tin case containing biscuits. After this he went in to the the port side into th e b oa t. Th e thi ngs were put the boat by several of the crew. The boat was lowered and the second mate went away in her. One of the sailors had two guns a nd fi r ed two show at him, but missed him. One of the guns belonged to the second mate. He fired 'several shots, but they hit against the mast. During this time two of the crew went below and fetched up several fire-arms, which were kept in the se cond cabin, where the chief and second mate had their berths. After this I and the chief mate went down below to look for powder and shot. We went into the captain's cabin, and saw several marks of blood on the table, sofa, and at the back of the sofa. We found powder and shot. I sew a hatchet on the top of the companion which ought to have been where the second mate slept, On the floor I saw two rings and the captain's hat, Oat of the captain's berth was missed his gold watch and chain and his revol ver, as well as the gold watch of the chief mate. The evening before the prisoner showed me a double-barrelled pistol while at tea. He drank his tea but ate nothing. I asked him why, and he said he had no appetite, Two days before this I saw him pack up several things in his clothes bag, and put in a berth under his own. This closed the ex am i na ti on, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial at the next assizes. Foreign Nail Packet List. MAILS DUE. • Aug. 18 Australisk and Mtiurithu), via Southampton. ▪ ;Sept 12. v!.a. Marseilles ****** Sept. 4. packet. Airazil and Calla Verde, by British pst. Helena Aug. 29. Ca• , o of Good do p e, China, pea kaig, and A si s n e g ell ap s o i° r l :: vavnijaadmSoaurtbhealluilep:.o.n ,Aug, 17. 2187; THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, A UGUST 22, 1864. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " COUSIN GEOFFREY." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., GUILTY; OR, NOT GUILTY. By the Author of "Cousin Geoffrey," &c. " Guilty, or Not Guilty,' will find many readers. 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The genuine arc a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the tamp. world. 13ut, as every system reacts on itself, the consequence of the adoption of a method so arti ficial is to compel still greater care in keeping the soldier, and the populations from which he taken, utterly sunk in ignorance, lest, if the armies should but learn their real purpose and ve)rk, a convulsion of despair might yet vindicate their manhood. So the downward progress ever advances with increasing velocity, men are ever more and more degrades, and, as their masters have themselves confessed, it becomes every day more and more needful to absorb and destroy all states in which the image of liberty is still reflected. Twenty years ago, we watched with apprehension the strides of Russia over the steppes of Central Asia, and feared the extending influence of France in the East. Oar alarm at that time was only for India; yet it was sufficient to engage us in despe rate wars, lest our situation by quiescence might become such as no war could redeem. But the mare 3 of our enemies is now no longer eastward upon our dependencies, but westward upon our allies and aurselve. And because we now think we made blunders in resisting it by force when it only threatened to curtail the limits of our Empire, we have come to the conviction that we ought to allow it to hold its way when it strikes at the very centre. Strange infatuation ! Singular delusion, to imagine that a system by its nature so inevitably aggressive will be driven back by the narrow seas that protect our shores ! Like Canute, we sit on the brink, and bid it recoil at our word but, unlike Canute, we believe in the potency of our own command, and calmly watch the tide as it submerges all surround ing objects, confident that it dare not come to u 3. Heaven grant that we may soon receive such warn ing as will at last rouse us—a warning merciful, if it be but severe enough to teach us that we are mortals too, that we cannot dissever our fate from that of our fellow-men, and that, if we would retain freedom, civilisation, Christianity itself, we must be ready to fight for them whenever they are assailed. 6 ' THE EXAMINER" AND " THE NORTHERN WHIG" ON THE IRISH VICE-ROYALTY.--The Earl of Carlisle being compelled by ill health to resign the Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, again the questi in arises whether it be worth while to maintain an office of which all the uses seem to have departed. We need not repeat what we have often said in ex pressing our wish for its abolition. One evil in the office, as matters now stand, is that respect for Ire. land makes it desirable to send a man of high cha. racter and ability; yet it is hard on an able man to ask him to play the part of a State dummy. Our respected contemporary, the Northern Whig, sug gests the appointment of Prince Alfred, and if that be not feasible, asks whether the Government cane not find an Irish nobleman who would grace the office:—" We have no great sympathy with the cry of ' Ireland for the Irish,' which often means, 6 All Ireland for the Irish, and as much of England as we can get,' but we are patriotic enough to think that it is a slight upon the fair fame of our Irish aristocracy to pass them over in the case of the vice-Royalty. It cannot be said that there are no Irishmen who are eligible for the office. An Irish man now governs Canada, and there would be more of the class in similar positions if they chose to leave home. It may appear invidious to make a election, but there is one nobleman whose great abilities, elegant taste, courteous manners, and culti vated judgment eminently fit him to be at the head of the Viceregal establishment. We refer to Lord Dufferin. His lordship did good service in the East, and he was soon afterwards offered one of the highest offices in the gift of the Crown, which he refused because its acceptance would necessitate his departure from Ireland. We have not had an Irish- Luau in the (Zee of Viceroy since the Revolution. Lord Pelmerston's policy cannot be said to be "measures, not men," but the reverse. We can assure him that it would be a most popular measure for him to select an Irishman for the post of Lord. Lieutenant. This is well suggested, and the credit given to Lord Dufferin is even leas than his due. If the Vice-Royalty is to be continued, a more desire able man to fill it cannot be imagined. Is there a dignity beyond that of ceremonial in the Viceroy's office ? Can a true political service really be done to the two kingdoms by a viceroy specially apt for his duty, whom the two kingdoms would gladly trust, and who could bring high aims, warm sympathies, clear judgment, and the quick insight of genius to the public service? If so. Lord Dufferin is of all men the one most able to show that it is so. Ei.har let the office be got rid of as worneout upholstery of State, or let it be treated as a real and living trust, and given to a man with every claim on Irish sym pathy and the full confidence of England, who will bring out whatever hidden value it may yet pos. sets. THE "SATURDAY REVIEW" OH THE LAST FEDERAL DEFEAT.—The repulse of Grant's attack upon Petersburg has produced a more painful impression in the North than any of his previous failures. His repeated changes of the plan of the campaign were applauded with deliberate levity, as successiveimprovem ents on the original project which had proved to be impracticable. His pliant tenacity in adapting his measures to the necessities of his position were more reasonably admired. No Federal General before him had so fully appreciated the advantage of vast superiority in numbers and resources. If he sacrificed a large army in fighting his way to the James River, where he ;night have landed without the loss of a man, he surprised both friends and enemies by proving that he could still afford to threaten Petersburg and Richmond. For the obsolete anaconda popular fancy substituted a bulldog who had fastened on the throat of the rebellion, nor was it necessary to remem ber that every other line of approach had been vainly essayed before the enemy was attacked in front. The defeat in the breach of Petersburg has, for the first time, disturbed the easy confidence of the North. It is generally felt that no alternative plan of campaign can be discovered, nor can the loss of 6,000 men be regarded, as in the beginning of the summer, with indifference or complacency. The most discouraging circumstance is the employment of negro troops in the decisive assault. During all the previous operations since the passage of the Rapidan, General Burn side has commanded the reserve, including the greater portion of the coloured regiments. It is impossible to sup pose that Grant would have risked his success on the steadiness of the blacks, if he had not already expended the best portion of his army. Even in the last assaults, he seems, as might have been expected, to have placed white troops in front ; and if the Confederates had been driven from their defences, the negro regiments might have been competent to improve the vic tory. Little blame can attach to recruits from a servile and despised race for their inability to stand against adversaries o f unsurpassed energy and daring ; but the panic which ensued, though perfectly excusable, was not the less fatal to the hopes of the North. The losses of Grant's army since it crossed the Rapidan are variously estimated at 80,000, at 100,009, and at 150,000 men. Whatever may be the actual numbers, it is certain that the best troops have b ee n expended in the earlier battles. It is as natural for a general to use his chosen regiments first as for a mechanic to put a steel point to an iron tool. Napoleon, indeed, generally held his Guard in reserve; but the bulk of his army was superior in fighting qualities to his continental o pponents. In the Italian war of 1859, the picked troops o f the French army were always placed in the front, and one of the supposed reasons for the hurried pacification was the a pproaching necessity of depending on the conscripts. The com position of the Federal army involves an unusual amo un t o f inequality. The soldiers who have served through tw o or three campaigns are better than the recent levies, and the itegroes, though they have displayed commendable di sc ipline and steadiness, fall far short of the standard o f A mer ican or European efficiency. If Grant was not forc e d to employto h a is chargeolo coloured e o d f troopsekI r e c k l ess a cruelty desperate a and d attack, injustice. The he would be defeat or destruction of the negro regiments will tend to di scre dit the strange measures by which the Northern St a tes are prepared to answer the demand for 500,000 recr uits. When Congress, after many changes of pur pose, finally abolished the money compensation for the person al service of conscripts, a singular clause in th e sta t u t e provided that substitutes might be procured from lieliable the States in rebellion. As the Confederate population is by no means likely to volunteer suicidal assistance to the North, the measure was intended to apply exclusively to fugitive or liberated slaves. A citizen of New York or Massachusetts who finds himself drafted for service, in stead of going into the market fc.r Irish or German substi tutes, will employ a broker to find a negro volunteer at the market price of the day. It seems scarcely probable that a sufficient number of coloured recruits will be ultimately forthcoming; but the supply is not yet exhausted, and the morrow must take care of itself. For the present the nego. tiations are conducted on behalf of States or townships which desire to fill up their quota before the compulsory draft is enforced. Under the pressure of immediate per sonal liability, prices are likely hereafter to undergo a rapid• rise. If a large coloured army is raised, the Con federates will have little cause for alarm, No proceeding could be more certain to estrange the feelings of the North from a warlike policy. The honour of the Federal arms would be compromised by the inevitable defeat of the black mercenaries; and even if it were possible that they should conquer, their success would grate upon all the national sympathies and prejudices. The vic torious army must occupy the South, after overpowering resistance in the field, and the Northern Americans are not yet prepared to place their countrymen in subjection to emancipated negro slaves. It is only as auxiliaries that the coloured regiments can be safely employed, even if they can be induced to take arms against their former masters. ,R e pup= c o to new methods of conducting the war, dimly- 20th Thousand, price is., DR. HARVEY ON CORPULENCE.—Its diminution and cure without injury to health, with Remarks upon the Maladies produced by obesity. 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Residents on this property will be entitled to the privileges of Harrow School, and the occupant of each house of the value of £5O per annum will receive a free first class railway ticket to London for thirteen years. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON DENMARK'S DREAM.—Last week, the chiefs of the last Polish National Government wore hanged on the glacis of 'Warsaw, and the preliminaries of the partition of Denmark were signed at Vienna. An ominous co. incidence ! Is it to be reckoned as simply fortuitous, or is it such a coincidence as natural philosophers seek to explain dreams to be—those fatal dreams in which the unconscious soul receives the in press of events which yet lie in the womb of time, but are too surely brought forth at last ? Is Poland Den. mark's dream ? Is the consummation of the fate of the earlier victim only by accident simultaneous with the commencement of the later eignny, cc is it the foreboding shadow of that which in the ripe ness of time the world shall yet see a second time realised ? At least, by such coincidences—whether we call them the result of natural law, or glimpses of the unknown vouchsafed by Providence—we are sometimes usefully startled into recognition of the influences that beneath the visible current of daily events are hurry tog on. And Europe has had mote than one such ill dream of hate. More than once she has plainly seen that— ., An eagle, towering in his pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed." Her the models o f th e highest deyee p n form or intellect humanity seems reaching, h ave b ee n strangely a hordes o f m i sshapen savages or offsprings of a f a l se c i v ili sa ti on . Th e s io tstruck no k e nnoblestctdown capable pt owa bn whichleraces, byot i fantastic Frenchman, well described by a poet of ajesthic holds in ain bondagehis own nation as a mixture o f the tiger and th e a p e , has his foot on the nec k of the still haughty the ill-featured and the superb Hungarian ; the Russian serf i s th e s lave-driv er an d execu tioner of the gracef u l and po li s h e d P o l e; the murderous gross Saxon boor seizes the inhe r itance of the large souled descendants of the Vikings. Most strikin g , a" Croat majestic perhaps, if least apparently important, is that this, very year has seen the root and type of our race, the beautiful and pliant Cireassians, driven from their prediluvian home by th e T artar and the Calmuck to perish in an alien land. Ugly petnightmares, these, to haunt us in the sleep of overfed prosperity. A new i r ruption of barbari ans presses the l i fe out of Europe. If its progress is lees distinctly perceived than that which , it is R oman civil i sation in blood and ruin, is because it is more general, and therefore more sure. Prom the Euxine to the North Sea it spreads steadily onwards, and irresis tibly absorbs its successive opponents. It is on e , wh i le we are ma . many, and it turn s w ith s av age cur . ning our disunion into our defeat. It carries off the conquered Pole to aid in conquering the Circas sian; it transplants the . subjug a t e d H ungar i an to hold Venice and Denmarkin subjug a tion ; it m i xes Italian and Finlander in the armi e s that d eso l a t e Poland; and soon it will have absorbed the Miles: wig-Dane in the . ranks that hold all Europe east ward of the Rhine .in bo d ndag e , and that st i ll are p re ssing on. We, Indee . , th e heart of civ i l i sation, still escape, But how long after th e ex t rem i t i es are enchained will the heart be able t o k ee p i ts healthy action P There is, indeed, something at once unnatural and appalling in the means by which this new tide of barbarism gains ground ore freedom and intellectual refiuement. It is effected by turning t h e arms of Science and pro gress against itself, and making those dis coveries whose nat ural actio n tends to raise mankind the very . instrument by Which growth is stopped and mankind brut alised. Th e l a t est inventions in firearm s, in shi ps of war, in the defence of fortresses, are instantly taken advantage of by the despots whose bittalions overrun Europe. With all our own energy and _ manefe c t ur i ng skill we are laggards in the race of milit ary improvement beside the Russian, th e Austrian, or the Prussian Powers. No wonder, then, that the smaller and less active States, such as Denmark, Switzerland, or Holland, though the very nurses of freedom and all peaceful arts, should find themselves far outstripped, and forced, when driven to bay, to combat with weapons and systems whiea a few years of rapid modern progress h ave rendered as antiquated as chain armour or the science of the bansta. .But even m ore cruel and deadly is the method by which the mass of i nert or even repugnant humani t y which has b een already enslaved is forced to work its master's will in fur thering the enslavement of others. Th e conscript serfs knows nothing of the merits of the quarrel in which he is driven on to fight ; the conscript Pole, or Hungarian, or Italian, knows well that it is against his own country he combats wh en h e charges the foes of his tyrant sovereign. Yet such is the new power of modern discipline that i n di fference and disaffection are alike stifled and made to fulfil the purpose designed as thoroughl y as if they were replaced by patriotism and devoted loyalty. With demoniac knowledge of human nature, the tyrants count on the natural pugnacity of the human race to make man fight with man like bulldogs in a ring when once brought face to face ; and they are able, by the modern military system of strategy, to wield them so that, till brought into the field, they hay . e . no knowledg e o f the work they have to do. Lite those singular bands of musicians whom the Czars love to main• tain, in which each performer utters only a single note, but by the skill of the teacher and the con ductor the combination is made to execute the most difficult pieces ; so the single soldier who knows no more than to march and halt at word of command, and to strike one blow when placed opposite his pretended enemy, is the unit in a vast system of which the result is the overthrow of ancient king• dome, And the crushing of freedom throughout the