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

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Under the Management of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison. THIS EVENING. Wallace's Romantic Opera, THE DESERT FLO WER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ' • Messrs. II essrs. W. H. Weiss, 11. Com. A. Cook, and W. Harrison. Conductor, Mr. A. M ellon. —Doors open at hall-past Seven. commence at Eight. TE ROYAL DRURY- LANE, - M ana gers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy and. Miss Murray. After which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, 3IANFRED. Messrs. r helps, Ryder, Rayner, Meagreson, Ward, Spencer ; Miss Heath, 3lis! E. Ant:noon, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss titter, Miss Cio ely N o v-, Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift. To conclude with A ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER. LIEATRE ROYAL HAY NI ARKET.- Sole Lessee and Mana7er, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVE.AING, OUR MARY ANNE. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles itiathews. Followed by THE GOLDEN FLEECE Messrs. Charles Mathew,, Compton,WeathersbY,&c. ; Mesdames C. MAthews, L, Keeley. Griffith, &e. And MY HUSBAND'S GHOST. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Mr. FECHTER beErs respectfully to inform the Nobility , and Public that the above Theatre will 0 P on SATUR DAY next, with a new Drama, entitled BEL DEMON lA, a Lore Story, in Four Acts, in which Mr. Fechter will ap pear, supported by Measrs. Brough,im, S. Emery, G. Jordan and F. Charles ; Miss Kate Terry, Miss Layenue, Aire. Lee and Miss Elsworthy. The Box-office will be opened on Monday, Oct. 26, from eleren till five. IWSS BATEMAN.—LEAF[.—The celebrated young American Actress, Miss BATEMAN, having an her first appearance in the New Drama of LEAH ob tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has been witnessed for many years, and the profound impression created by her impersonation of the character ratified LEAH upon a c'owded audience hiving been completely ratified by the unanimous verdict and critical approval of the entire Daily Press, the Manager of the NEW ADEL VIII THEATRE has the honour to announce that Miss BAT EMAN will appear in the New Drama of LEAR EVERY EVENING till further notice. NEW T ATR E-R0 YAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Proprietor and Manager. M 7. B. Webster. TEIIS EVENING, at 7, TIIE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs. Stirling.9‘t 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman suPpOrted by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, H. Phillips, Billing ton, staart Wood, .6burne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billing,ton. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRE6S : Miss Vir oo l g ar and Mr. A. Wood. NCESS'S THE ATRE.--HERRMANN PRI F9 , ESTID IGATATEUR.—Great Succe ss o f Herr- ' Per f or mances.—" always keeps as cl ose t o h is nivave a s he can, and courts their vigilance, that his s u p er i or P a l e bterlty may he legitim.tely triumphant." Ti mes, O ct 27. x s celebrated FISH, RING, HAT, and MONEY TRICK, InT E Ry 14:Vk NINO-. Constant change of programme. commencing at Eight. Half-price at Nine o'Clock. N.B.—First Grand Morning Performance on SATURDAY next, at Three. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, TURN HEM OUT. Mr. C. Fenton. After which, MIRIAM'S CRIME. Messrs. G Honey, Parselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Handers. Followed by THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL THE ftE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan borough, F, Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny White. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing. the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ;an be had Every Evening of G. R. GLIsNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. nits DAY.—Morning, 2h. 44m.—Afternoon, 3h. 3m. ro-moß.Row.-;Horning, 3a. 22m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m. The Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 27, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-29.68. Wind—South-Westerly ; moderate breeze, end cloudy, with zain. ttijgj:; oo,7 „tut LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28, 1863. _-4,.-- Although this latest news from America—the news but just now brought to us almost simulta neously by the City of London and the North American—adds but little to our previous know ledge (that is, in regard to the position occupied relatively by the Federal main army under MEADE, the Army of the Potomac as it is called, and the Confederate forces under LEE) it is so far remark able that it has precisely the same drift or tendency that that earlier information had. The storm current sets still strongly and steadily ageing Washington. The belligerents are drawing nearer and nearer to the capital the Federals, of course, retreating, the Confederates ad vancing. The headquarters of LEE are still, it is true, upon the field—the twice " foughten field"—of Bull Run. But, a portion at least of the Federal army in their avoidance of a more serious disaster by a timely withdrawal before the late formidable movements of the Confederates, have retreated, it seems, to within a distance of a very few miles indeed from Washington. The mere in timation now put forth, first of all as a vague rumour, afterwards very confidently and even ex plicitly, of another call by the PRESIDENT for fresh volunteers, would almost seem to be ominous of new panic. Mr. LINCOLN'S call is variously stated at 300,000 and upward, actually, according to one account, at double that number, at fully 600,000 volunteers. OWEN GLENDOWER again rising to our remembrance, when we bear of it ! The system upon which Mr. LINCOLN has been carrying on the war all along would really appear to be about the most reckless well imaginable. As for the financial part of it—we all know what that has been. The expanding and expanding Federal Debt, illustrates it frightfully even now. Paper ad libitum—credit unstinted these being the two axioms heartening on the slapdash dare-devilry of the :Federal Government, According to the old Arabic proverb, a straw, at last, may break the back of a camel. But it is not a. mere straw that that b ut too has been heaped up on we ll named symbol—the gree n b ac k, One of our English caricaturists hit the mark months ago, when he represented, by a touch or two of his comic pencil, the Federal President and the Federal Financier, hauling away at an apparent :y intermin able coil of paper. Certain, however, i s i t that, if continued thus rec klessl y , u p on the principl e of these wonderful administrators letting themselves it must either snap altogeth er or have rope enough, strangle them in its involutions. It is the maddest "piling up mountainously" that even the Yankees have even yet adventured upon. And—with what result ? With the disastrous result, after two or three years of the most sanguinary con flict, of bringing the main bodies of the belligerents back to their old battle ground, within easy dis tance, not from the Southern capital, but from the Northern capital—not from Richmond, but from Washington. And all this while, too, the supplies th at have necessitated this enormous expenditure have been quite as much supplies to the Confede rate t -r° °Ps, as supplies to the Federal troops. That it i s so, is matter long since of absolute noto riety. w hen the South has been harder put to it than usual fo r suppli es th ey h ave gone north an d taken th em , r nis has beou done not once or twice in a moderate w ay, but again and again upon a gigantic scale. provisi ons,k end artillery, amunition, bag and baggage, li vestock dead-stock, all have been as one in that way between the belligerents. And most of the booty seized . this way vi et armis by the Confederates, has b een in fresh from the depots of ern contractors. the North often but just ego as Dr. RUSSELL'S ti me , As long the English pu blic k n ew a ll t i n this pu about i way, namely , that, for miles and miles al ong the roads lead ing' from the fields vacated by the Fed eral ek e.. dadlers" lay scattered over the ground, fl ung down by hundreds upon hundr eds in the agony of Precipi tate flight, military:goods and chattels, hardly Worn or tarnished in the least, beyond their mere exposure thus to the weather. Furious fighting the belli gerents have had since then, no doubt, stern heroic combat has vindicated alike the fair fame of the North and of the South, their warrior fame that is for daring and endurance—and this, too, upon many dreadful fields of slaughter—but still the supplies have passed abundantly from the Federals to the Confederates. The patience of the population of the North, through all this stormy period of strife and ruin, almost passes our wamp•tehension, now that we come to look back upon it. What they are hoping for—what they are looking forward to—it would be difficult to conjecture. For the seizure of Richmond ? Their urgent necessity, it is rather, to look anxiously, again and egaic, to the safety of Washington. The conquest of the South ? The victories in the vast majority of instances have been conspicuously and undeniably on the side of the Confederates. The rising up at last of a military chief whose g en i us and valour may at length turn the tide of battle and render the Northern cause, through success upon success, triumphant ? Why, it is notorious that one after another the Federal Commanders-in-Chief h a ve been egregious failures, almost as egregi ous failures as the Federal President himself—Mr. LINCOLN being well matched by disappointing Generals like M'CLELLAN and ITooxER and M BADE, Generals b 3aten,outw itted, out-man ceuvred, trapped, and one after another, in consequence of all this,—shelved by their own Government ! Whereas, upon the President DAVIS other hand—there is not the least bit in the world of a failure—but just exactly the diametrical opposite of a failure. And, co-operating with DAVIS as the political Ruler of the Southern Confedera tion, there is all the while, there, at the head of the Confederate army, the greatest soldier the whole war has produced—that General ROBERT LEE, of whom STONEWALL JACKSON used to say that he would obey his orders at all times, and under any circumstances, no matter what they were, instantly and unhesitatingly. And, grouped around that cen tral figure of the Great Captain, we know how many gifted and heroic Generals there are (the noblest of them all, alas ! gone, it is true !) as LEE'S lieutenants in the conduct of the army of the Confederates— that valiant and adventurous army, now again threatening so very closely the Federal capital of Washington. There are some questions that seem fated to be the standing perplexities of European statesmen. Diplomacy fails to unravel their intricacies, while Time, instead of smoothing the way, only adds force to the obstacles in the road to a settlement. The state of Poland has long been one of those vexed questions, while Turkey bids fair to become ano ther. Schleswig Holstein occupies a prominent position in this catalogue of official difficulties, and for years it has been the plague and perplexity of successive statesmen. It consists of elements as ir reconcileable as Russian tyranny and Polish na tionality ; it is influenced by agencies as antago nistic as Moslem effeteness and the spirit of progress which animates Christendom. If its course has not been marked by the disaster, bloodshed, and suffering of the prolonged and mournful story of the Poles, it has nevertheless served to cripple the energies and retard the development of a high spirited and enterprising people. It has embroiled the inhabitants of what might otherwise have been a contented and united people, in constant conten tions and disputes with their neighbours, while the independence of the North has been threatened, and the whole peace of Europe imperilled by the unjust and unreasonable ambition of one encroach ing Power. Matters are now, it would seem, ap proaching a crisis ; and in spite of German delibe ration, and the various hindrances in the way, we are likely to see the long-pending dispute brought to an immediate iseue. It is often said that slow people are the most difficult to move when they have once made up their minds, and the rule would seem to hold good with nations as well es indivi duals, for the German Diet having once determined on proceeding to extremities in Holstein, are not to Moved from their purpose by the resolute attitude of Denmark, the alliance concluded bet ween that Power and Sweden, or the threats, entreaties, and persuasions of Earl RUSSELL. Our English Foreign Secretary indeed occupies at this mo ment no very enviable position, thanks to his own inconsistency and extraordinary conduct. Conscious, perhaps, of the responsibility attaching to his present actions, and sensible how completely the feelings as well as the interests of the country are identified with the Danish side of the question, he is anxious to prevent, if possible, the fulfilment of the German threats, and to avoid the possibility cf a collision with Prussia. But, remembering his former vacillation, and the ingenuity with which he endeavoured to make the worse appear the better cause only last year, we ought not perhaps to feel surprised that his intervention appears neither to have materially modified the intentions of Germany nor to have substantially encouraged the hopes of Denmark. The text of Earl RUSSELL'S second note to Sir ALEXANDER MALET is now before us, and the Diet has certainly no reason to complain of its tone. It begins by requesting Sir ALEXANDER to represent to the President of the Diet the readiness of Denmark to modify the obnoxious patent of March 30, so far as to make it provisional until such time as the position of Holstein be finally settled, With such dispositions Denmark hopes to obtain an adjournment of the threatened Federal execution. The next paragraph proceeds to a little stronger language. Having tried persuasion, Earl RUSSELL thinks it bat prudent to show that the disadvan tages of hostilities are not all on one side, as the probable blockade of the German ports would be very damaging to the commerce of the Fatherland. The Diet is furthe r rem i n d e d t h a t, i n t h e event o f the war ext en di ng t o S c hl esw i g an d J utland, Aus tria and Prussia, as well as France and Great B ritain, are bound to respect the integrity of Den mark by the treaty of 1852—treaties having proved to be suc h serious obstacles in the way of ambitious and chide unscrupulous s Sovereigns ! The dispat c h con witha declaration th a t, a lth oug h t h e B r i t i sh Government fully ack now l e d ges the cla i ms of the Diet in Hol s t e i n and Lauenbnrg, it is of opinion that, if the German demands were restricted to than the t those Duchies, the y might be satisfied, without proceedi ng to extremities. This is telling the Diet very much what it k new b e f ore, ad • mitted by Danmark a nd what was pretty pl a i n l y in the famous proclamation of M arch. If the in terference of the Diet extended no furtherl German duchies , we should have heard less about the so bj c „ v i g . Holstein question, and i enmark wo uld not now be mustering her forc es . W e sh ou l d have been glad :o see a decided intimation that E llg . land would feel it her duty to support the resistance of Denmark take the place of this closing platitude, a declaration which would p robabl y have b een a good deal more effi c acious. Unfortunately, th e antecedents of our Foreign Secretary are by no means alarming to the Prussians or cheering to the Danes, and accordingly we find King CHRISTIAN is reported to have said in a recent speech that if compelled to succumb, if France and Sweden per mitted Denmark to share the fate of other trampled nations, he would never consent to d i smem ber his kingdom, b u t wou ld d escen d f rom hi s th r one and proolmra a republic. If this singular declaration be accurately reported, it is somewhat strange that the KING omits entirely all mention of England— a power with which he is now so nearly allied. Time will serve to exemplify the real intentions of the disputants. At present it would be a consider able satisfaction to the public to know that Earl RUSSELL shared the sound and independent opi nions so clearly stated by Lord PALMERSTON at the close of the Parliamentary session. It is a fearful thing to reflect upon that many are dying in this rich capital from starvation ; but it is incalculably worse to consider that a large propor tion of thi s num b er owe their deaths to neglect. As painful a case as has come before the public for some time is that of CAROLINE JAMES. The poor woman died of want. Her agonised exclamation to her neighbours, "Did yon ever know what it was to feel starvation," is a lasting reproach to all who had to do with the case, and a stigma on the parish authorities. The conduct of Mr. CHRISTIE, the parish officer, was greatly in fault, and it is to be trusted that few other such authorities could have behaved in so unfeeling a manner, and acted with such harshness throughout. It was in vain that repeated application was made on behalf of the unfortunate woman. No notice whatever was vouchsafed to the argent demand. The first appli cant was met with abuse, the second with kicks. Surely after this conduct has been made public, such a man will not be permitted to exercise authority, nor to maintain responsibility. While this worthy, who was called " relieving officer," oh the principle of locus non lucendo, was refusing this demand, and sending away that applicant, declaring he could nothing, and proving by his manner that he wished to do nothing, life that will not wait for the freaks and fancies of parish authorities was ebbing away, and the poor woman died. It is surely a scandalous thing that when two doctors had sent in certificates, and several other attempts had been made by pitying neighbours to pro cure some assistance from the workhouse, that such gross neglect and such wanton cruelty should have been exercised. It is to be regretted that the jury did not bring in a direct verdict against the man who so unworthily and so unfeelingly carried on his voca tion. It is time that some decisive change be made in the manner in which the relief is doled out to the poor. Next session some bill ought to be brought in to amend and regulate the general plan and practice adopted. It is certain that the object is or ought to be to offer succour to those perishing from want, that there should be " no complaining in our streets," from those done to death from actual want of the common necessaries of life. No one can dare to say that the system which has just sacrificed a human life can be satisfactory, and no time should be lost, and no efforts spared, which can in any way mitigate the cruel wrong which now presses heavily upon so many of our poverty-stricken brethren, and remove in some measure the reproach that now attaches itself so strongly to those who are in any way connected with the transaction of the Work house mechanism and management. The abuses of our naval administration aro of such old standing, and such extended character, that it has become almost hopeless to attack them. Our electoral representation, our civil and criminal codes of law, our official departments generally, have successively yielded to the influence of mo- dery energy and improvement, but there is one sacred spot, it seems, where Reform may never enter. England may call herself the mistress of the seas, and as thriftless men sometimes outrun their income in keeping up an imaginary position, she may be called upon to pay annually increased sums for the privilege of that title. For the title rather than the fact. To ask for an account of the enormous outlay, is as hopeless as to discuss the secret of perpetual motion, unless, indeed, that secret be hidden in the continual outpouring of public money from the Admiralty. To attempt to unravel the dockyard accounts might alarm HERCULES himself, and would hopelessly con fuse the prodigy who could multiply nine figures by mental arithmetic. The rapid and unac countable increase of items and expenses would certainly baffle even his powers of multiplication, and the result of it all is that our fleet is declared unfit for a maritime war, while blunders are made in the construction of vessels which would disgrace the merest novice. The last news is that, when the armour plated ship Royal Oak was placed in the dock last week, great consternation was excited amongst the authorities of the dockyards by the appearance of the plates. A series of corroded holes, from half an inch to five eighths of an inch, were visible, some of the plates containing 188 such holes, while none had less than 40. In many places they had ran one into another to the extent of five or six feet, and the whole ap pearance is described as most extraordinary. And what was the cause of such an appearance in a ship commissioned last April, and only eight months afloat ? The iron armour plates were in contact with copper sheathing of the vessel, and wherever the under coating had washed off, galvantic action had corroded the plates. It is a pity that the gentlemen in authority did not learn a few of the commonly known laws of science before they attempted remodelling the Royal Navy. The contact of iron and copper in water invariably pro duces this result—a fact so well known that this is a common mode of exciting electricity, and has been lately suggested by an eminent electrician as the surest means of superseding the difficulties attend ing the Atlantic telegraph. It shows a remarkable degree of ignorance of very necessary knowledge that the dockyard authorities should express such consternation at a result they might have expected when they sent the ship to sea. Suspicious folks might hint that the experiment was intended to be a failure by those who object to adapting our noble old wooden vessels to modern improvements, and prefer to lavish public money in costly experiments to employing stores ready to hand. This recent disaster will give a convenient opportunity for more Admiralty bungling, possibly with a repetition of the same egregious mistake. Another characteristic blunder has recently come to light respecting the construction of Mr. REED'S new iron ship Pallas at Woolwich. It has been found that the slip on which preparations were being made for her being laid down was much less than her proposed length —225 feet. Considerable delay will, therefore, be experienced, as both slip and shed will have to be lengthened. Such mistakes as these are perfectly in excusable, and in any other department would not be tolerated. How long is the most expensive and important of our administrative departments to be likewise the most unprofitable and ill governed ? THE EX-CHANCELLORS.--By the death of Lord Lyndhurst a pension of £5,000 per annum reverts to the public, that being the stipend which the noble and learned lord enjoyed as one of the five ex-Lord Chancellors, who divided between them the round sum of £25,000 per annum. The surviving ex -Chancellors now in receipt of retiring pensions are four in number, namely, Lord Brougham, aged 85 ; Lord St. Leonards 82 ; Lord Cranworth, 73 ; and Lord Chelmsford, 69. A N-ICE REMEDY FOR SEA-SICKNESS.--A Tra veller sates that he has tried it (ice) himself with success, and that if the stewards of steamers would keep a supply of lemon-water ices on b oard, they would profit themselves and render a great ser v i ce to their passengers. THE CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW IN TIIE TEMFLE GARDENS promises to be this season the finest display ever witnessed in London. TIM SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1863 LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, OCT. 28. The Queen of Spain on quitting the Empress of the French presented her Majesty with a bracelet, bearing the word " Recuerdu" (keepsake) in dia monds and rubies. THE POLISH INSURRECTION. PROHIBITION OF MOURNING. WARSAW, OcT. 25. General Barg has issued orders forbidding mourn ing to be worn after the 10`h of November inst. Passengers on foot violating this ordinance are to be fined 10 roubles; the proprietors of private carriages, with mourning emblems, 100 roubles; persons in hired vehicles, 15 roubles. Officials transgressing are to forfeit one month's pay. Mourning for the dead is permitted. • WILNA, OCT. 22. On the ;17th, Felix Pestroweki, a noble of the district of Sokel, in the government of GrOdno, and two peasants, were hanged at 10 a.m., in Kobryn. The peasants were named Felix Hornszewski and Theodore Trofimczuk. All three were insurgents. Letters from the palatinate of Augustow, under that Mouravieff ha s e d n a t t i e r e o l f y t t h a e k e 2 n o t u h p the October, gove r say that of that palatinate, whose incorporation with Lithuania is nearly com pleted. Mouravieff began his rule by two execu tions ; that of Byslo vski, the station-master of Pilwiszki, at Wylkowiszki. and of the forester Sz ware (called Saawa in the Courner de lVilna) at Szaki. Both were hanged. Women are forbidden to wear mourning. Tzgrunntowski, a Russian, has superseded the civil governor, Korytkowski. All the Pulish employes are being removed and their places filled by Russians. In the town of Wyl - the Russian pope compels parents to have their children baptised in the Greek religion. In the town of Wisztyniee nearly all the inhabitants, except the peasants, have been arrested, and Puchacz, a forester, was beaten to death. These atrocities were committed by the Russians in order to force the inhabitants to confess where arms were concealed, and being still unsuccessful they began to torture the children before the eyes of their mothers. Four little babes were so tortured that their lives are despaired of. BRESLAU, OCT. 27 (Evening). The Breslauer Zeitung of this evening publishes the following from its Warsaw correspondent:— " General Trepow, the chief of the police, has paid a visit to the Consul-General of Saxony, Herr Lesser, and has explained that the steps taken with respect to him were the result of a misunderstand ing. The seals placed upon the Saxon Chancellory have been removed. " Railway communication between Warsaw and Vienna is interrupted, the insurgents having de stroyed the bridge at Skierniewice." PRANCE. General the Marquis de Lawcestine, who has just been appointed Govercor of the Invalides, was born in 1786. He is descended from a noble German family, and was grandson to Madame de Geniis, and godson to King Louis Philippe. Ia 1805 he was hub lieutenant, and took part in the campaigns of the Grand Armee ; in 1812 he was recalled from Spain, where he was aide-de camp to Marshal Sebas tiani, to take part in the Russian expedition. He was promoted to the rank of Chef d'escadron for his valour displayed at the battle of Moskowa, and to that of Colonel after the combat at Arcis-sur- Aube. He commanded the 3d Chasseurs at Water loo, and retired from the army under the Bourbons. He returned to active service in 1830; was made Lieutenant-General in 1841 ; Commander of the National Guard in 1849, and was nominated a* Senator in January 1852, General Mellinet, who supersedes General Law ce3tine as Commander-in- Chief of the National Guard, is a son of a General of the First Empire. He entered the service at the age of 15, and was wounded the same year at Metz, and later at the biego of St. Sebastian. In 1846 he had attained the rank of Colonel, and was Placed at the head of a sub-division in Algeria. He served at Sebastopol as General of Brigade of the Imperial Guard, and was wounded in the first attack on Fort Malakoff. For his services in the Crimea he received the grade of General of Divi sion. He afterwards commanded the Ist division of Infantry of the Imperial Guard in the war of Italy. BOURSE, Oct. 27.—The market remains without any change for the better or worse, and quotations are about the same as yesterday, Threes, for the Account, being now unvaried at 67f. 25c. Mobilier are a shade higher. Railway Shares heavy, but without material variation in prices. Sales took place towards the close, which caused a slight de cline, and the market left off as follows Italian Loan 73 40 Do. end month 73 30 New ditto — Do. end month — Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 53 7 5 Florae Debt Deferred NAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans 9BO .. 980 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 1016 25 .. 955 Nevi ditto .. 910 .. 915 Geneva 6OO .. 498 75 Southern 693 75 .. 690 4f per Cents .. 95 25 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents:l Do. end month 67 10 Credit Mobilier 1110 Do. end month 11 11 25 Bank Shares 3330 -- Credit Fonder — -- Roman .. BAIL' Western .. 516 25 .. Eastern .... Sardinian Austrian Lombard 565 .. 565 North of Spain Saragossa 632 50 .. 635 Ditto to Barcelona MARKETS—This Day. MARK-LANE. A very moderate supply of English wheat was received fresh up to this morning's market. The trade, however, was by no means active either for red or white qualities. A clearance, however, was effected at Monday's currency. The show of samples of foreign wheat on the stands was large. A' moderate businese was transacted in most de scriptions, at previous quotations. Floating cargoes of grain were in slow request, at late rates. Malting barley sold steadily, at full prices. Grinding and distilling qualities, however, were a dull inquiry, at the late decline in prices. The market was but moderately supplied. _ We have to report a dull trade for malt, at late rates. Tho supply of new is as yet small. Good and fine oats were firm in price. Inferior qualities, however, were dull, at the recent low rates. The supply on offer was large. Beans sold heavily, at fully the late decline in the cur rency. The market was well supplied. . Peas moved off slowly, at late rates. Tho show of samples was very moderate. Most kinds of flour were in fair average request, and prices were steadily supported. AltitlYALS THIS wEni. Wheat, Barley. Unit. Oats. Flout. English-- 830 1,010 i 2720 ' 1020 I 250 Irish.. :„ru 10,60 3,000 I 27,870 - 460 sks, 80 bris. IVIIITECHAPEL. The trade is firm for good and prime meat; but inferior qualities are dull. Beef, from 2s Gd to 4s Od; mutton, 3s Od to 4 s 4 d ; veal, 3s Gd to 4s 4d, and p or k, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per 81bs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. Good and fine hops are firm in price. Otherwise, the rado is dull, and the quotations are barely supported. MRS. JAMES ROGERS, widow of the celebrated low comedian, is engaged by Mr. Suckstone. A PLEASANT TRAVELLING COMPANION. —Mr, E. Villiers, proprietor of the South London Music Hall, has lately made a successful tour in Germany With 9, i 6 Ghost', LITERATURE. The Cross of Honour. By Annie Thomas, author of " Lady Lorme," &e. One Vol., pp. 306. Max. well. This is a very charming tale, and will find favour with many readers. It is simply and pleasantly nar ratedmith no striving after effect, yet,while accord ing these commendations to it, we cannot say that we are quite satisfied with the main incident upo❑ which the principal interest of the story depends. Captain Tierney's secret promise is regarded in too serious a light. He might surely have endeavoured to procure a release from the fair tyrant to whom his word had been so fatally pledged, or at least he should have explained his actual position to his cousin. Trusting too much to his own powers of self-command he risks the happiness of Beatrice, and almost compromises that high sense of honour, about which he is, in other respects so fastidiously sensitive. In illustration of the dilemma in which the hero is placed, and the position of the heroine, let us quote the following scene which occurs very shortly after the first acquaintance of Beatrice and her cousin Frank Tierney. At a pic-nic excursion to some ruins, Beatrice has been induced to ascend a crumbling wall, and then grows charmed at her own temerity. A. RETRACTATION. " Can't I get down this way?" she said ; " I dare not go back along the wall. 013, Walter ! why did you get me up here? I'm frightened." "I'll go round and down," said Walter, "and help you down this way. Don't be frightened. Or shall I take you back with we ?" "No," she shuddered, " don't. ' "Well, stand quite still then," he said, "and don't look down. You are not usually nervous." Not usually nervous! No,' truly it could not be said of Beatrice that " usually" she gave way to aught approach ing to young ladyism. But now—on this occasion---when she found her cousin Frank by her side, with his arm round her waist, with his hand warmly clasping her own, she gave what sounded uncommonly like a gulp of hysteri cal satisfaction. "I feel safe now, Frank," she said; "I could walk back over anything with you." And he forgot prudence, as the most prudent men will do at times, and said, as he clasped her still clo'er to his side— "Beatrice I my darling I you ought to feel safe with me, indeed ; for I love you !" Memory, prudence, self-reproach, all came to him before the last tones of the words that had caused that lovely flush to rise on her cheek had died away. She, gazing at him as he now, with only chivalrous politeness, guided her steps along to safety, saw him turn pale; and her own heart failed her, in quick response to that gathering gloom on his brow. " Frank," she said, softly, when the exclamations of joy at her safe return, and surprise that she could have been foolish enough to get alarmed at all, had subsided— " Frank, I have to thank you for bringing me well through my difficulty; no one size—" " Would have made such a fool of himself as I lid at the moment, thanks to Mrs. Forest's champagne, Beatrice. Come. prove to me that you forgive me, by forgetting those idle words; will you ?" Captain Tierney was himself again, with a vengeance, as he said those words. And Beatrice emulated his com • posure as she answered, '• Forgotten and forgiven, Frank , as entirely as even you can desire. Beatrice Constable is a natural, loveable character, ❑ot too perfect or too good, but 'very weak and womanly, and, being such, her story will be read with sympathy and interest. Captain Tierney would be an attractive hero were it not for his well nigh fatal mistake in following the shadow rather than the substance. The Forest family are very naturally described, and Captain Constable is a delightful character, whom we are sorry to lose so early in the tale. Secrets of My Office. By a Bill-broker. One Vol. pp. 348. Maxwell. Andrew Love old, of the firm of Lovegold and Co., here presents us with sundry interesting re miniscences respecting his own history and other people's affairs. He tells us that success has crowned his praiseworthy career, and fortune has favoured his indefatigable efforts, but he does not sufficiently initiate us into the mysteries of his craft to enable us to profit by,t he information. Such "secrets of the office," we presume, must not be revealed out of school. Oat, of the most stirring chapters of these revelations is entitled " My Battle of Waterloo." Andrew Lovegold, then young in business, is treacherously deserted by his senior partner on the very day of the battle of Waterloo, Sunday, 18th Jane. On the next Wednesday, unless he also saves himself by an ignominous flight, Andrew will be arrested for heavy liabilities, and will incur tLe penalty of fraudulent acts of which he is himself innocent. The absconding partner has left nothing for the victimised Andrew but some scrip that is valueless in consequence of the evil rumours afloat. THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. Waterloo Sunday afternoon in London was a time of violent fitful weather. Black clouds pouring down torrents; cascades of rain, alternated with stainless blue ether and brilliant sunshine. Which—which in the financial firma ment would finally prevail—the black etorm•clouds or the clear other and joyous sunlight ? Storm, darkness, total eclipse; no sun, no moon would ultimately prevail, was the opinion of almost every one I spoke with. That Wellington's army had been destroyed, Prince Blucher only saved from the like fate by shameful flight, moneyed men, as a rule firmly believed. The church bells were ringing—to my ear they were funeral bells, for evening service, when I returned home in a state of desperation. Respite, absolute respite till Wednesday I What might not happen in the meantime ? On Wednesday there was only £14,000 to pay on those accursed bills! My downbeaten spirit seemed to leap up again into life, --tremulous, but hopeful life. Who, after ail, had ever heard of an English army being beaten—at all events, for the last thousand years or thereabouts ? At Hastings certainly Harold's forces got the worst of it; but then that was a sort of trian gular fight, the English tackling first one, he down t'other came on ; and the Danes being first and down, of course the Normans had it their own way, and won by accident. An English army commanded by Wellington, too! Non sense! At all events, I would try and believe so. There would be always time enough to hang, drown, shoot oneself, or jump out of a three. pair back window. 1 will pass briefly every Monday. Consols could not be disposed of to any considerable amount at any price. I care not what the official quotations assert to the contrary. Luckily, perhaps, or Treherne's hint might have been acted upon. The devil has you at advantage when you must either accept the gallows or his offer. All I could hay done was to procure an advance for a month of £30,000, at heavy interest, by depositing as security the whole of the stock I had the control of. Tuesday morning brought no positive tidings. The wind was not so fair for a vessel leaving the Dutch coast for an English port as on the previous Saturday. It was, how ever, confidently whispered that the Government had re ceived news which they were afraid to publish. Sick at heart, dizzy with dread, I wended my way to Dolly's Chop thouse, Paternoster-row, ordered a slight lunch by way of excuse, sat down, and sank into a sort of mediatative stupor, the theme being whether it would not be insanity on my part not to take the £20,000 and— Suddenly I became doubtfully conscious, as it were, of a bustle, a commotion without, of people hurrying past, of shouts, cries, inarticulate to me, but loud, joyous, fiercer. Springing up, shaking myself into sense, I looked out, listening eagerly. Boom I boom I boom I The tower guns, by Heaven I Oat I rushed, joined the excited crowd, hur rying eastward, along Cheapside, amidst shoats of " Vic tory I Wellington for ever I " I pushed, forced my way to the front of the Mansion House; just as the Lord Mayor, arrayed in his robes of office, made his appearance, holding a paper in his hand. As soon as the deafening cheers by which he was recaived permitted him to be heard, his lord ship officially announced a glorious victory achieved by the Duke of Wellington over the French army, commanded by Bonaparte in person. Thirty thousand prisoners; all the French cannon and colours taken; Bonaparte himself only saved by flight, &c. Lord I how my head spun round ! how I shouted, screamed, laughed, capered, jumped, frantically whirled my handkerchief round my head I and should probably have dropped down and been trampled upon by the crowd, had not two gentlemen compassionately seized hold of and i forced me into a neighbouring coffee-house. Very foolish and absurd antics on my part, no doubt; but any one who has ever had the misfortune. and the luck, to stand, at tended by the Caleraft of his time, upon a drop, with a halter neatly fitted round his neck, and been reprieved just as the pri son c h ap l a i n came to the words, " I n t h e m idst o life we are in death," he will be able to make allowances. I have only f ur th er to say t h at t h e i m mediate and rapidly continuous advance in saleable value of all in Governmentnetting securities, Treherne and COmpally's ' i e n : all ba ' ,a eng agements, a slapping sum, en a bl e d me to quietly obtainin g poss es sion of andbmurnthosel odreadful bills, and truthfully assert, on the day the dissolution partner ship betwe e n J o shua Treherne :e and the Andrew Lovegold was thousa nd pounds man gazetted, that I was a forty fl Thanks for which, above and before all, I owe to the British of W a terloo for the world in army for winning the battl e general, myself in ;partic ular; in grateful coramemoratioE t I never fail, at every tumi d which gloriotts aclaieVelue4 versary of the great day, to drink in solemn silence, "Peace to the souls of the heroes." Thenceforward the position of Andrew Lovegold is secure, and the nine succeeding chapters chiefly chronicle the histories of some of his more remark able clients. Some of these stories are tame and spiritless, and "bang fire," others are sufficiently interesting or amusing. We cannot say that Mr. Lovegold gives us any remarkable instances of his own acute sagacity, for in the majority of the cases he brings forward, he is himself the dupe or victim. Perhaps revelations of an opposite charac ter would not so well bear the telling ! Curiosities of Indo-European Tradition and Fodk• Lore. By Walter K. Kelly, One Vol., pp. 308, Chapman and Hall. This is a singularly•interesting work, a perfect treasury of curiosities. Unlike those over-wise innovators who seem to exult in bringing forward some unpalatable truth to extinguish our most cherished traditions, the author of this volume brings chapter and verse to authenticate favourite legends and popular superstitions, and to enable us henceforth to " believe as truth" what has hitherto only been " beloved as a fable." In his preface Mr. Kelly pays the following deserved tribute to the labours of Jacob Grimm : " The labours of their great master have received due honour in this country—they have gladdened the hearts of our children, enriched the minds of our studious men, and nurtured a spirit of inquiry which has done not a little to wards rescuing from oblivion the perishing remains of the old ways of life and thought of our forefathers. Learned and unlearned, we have all been delighted to sit as listeners at the feet of Jacob Grimm, but I am not aware that any attempt has yet been made to naturalise amongst us the admirable fruits secured within the last few years by Ger man explorers of his school. Yet the attempt is surely worth making." Setting forth with a recognition of the " common ancestry of the Indo-European nations," and the " common origin of their mythologies," we next ponder over the early records and traditions respec ting " Prometheus," and " Dragons," and "The Drink of the Gods,' &c., &c., followed by legends of fire and legends of biros, and stories about the mistletoe, and the hazel, and the mandrake, and the forget-me-not ; the origin of the " were-wolf," and the " wild mint," and the " hearth fire," and legends about divers other popular superstitions, even about red hair and pea shells ! As an in stance of the miscellaneous information to be acquired in turning over this volume, we learn (at page 295) that " sib," meaning " kin," the word gossip or god sib, originally denoted the spiritual relationship between the god-fathers and god mothers of the same child. Abundance of similar facts are here to be met with—the result of most praiseworthy industry and most elaborate research. Nature's Secrets, or Psychometric Researches. By William Denton and Elizabeth Denton. Edited, with an introduction, by a Clergyman of the Church of England. On© Vol., pp. 335. Houlston and Wright. We are all familiar with fictions " founded upon fact ;" the volume now before us appears to consist, to a certain extent, of facts founded upon fiction ! A series of geological and other researches are here presented to us, more or less true, perhaps, in a geological point of view, for they are given under the authority of a Boston lecturer on geology, but we cannot vouchsafe much credence to the mode of revelation ; for example, here is a description of the mysterious science. PSYCHOMETRY, I know numbers of persons who, by taking a letter in the hand or placing it on the forehead, without seeing the writing, or having the slightest idea of the writer, can de scribe his character with as great or greater accuracy than his mcst intimate friends. On reading the statements of Dr. Buchanan, I resolved to see what portion of them I could verify by experiment. My sister, Anne Denton Cridge, being highly impressible, was able, in a short time, to read character from letters readily; and what was still more wonderful to us, and at the same time equally inexplicable, that at times she saw and described the writers of letters, and their surroundings, telling correctly even the colour of their hair and eyes. Alter testing this strange phenomenon thoroughly by numerous experiments, being intensely interested in geology and reeleontology, it occurred to me that perhaps something might be done by psychometry—the term given by Dr. Buchanan to the power by which character was described by contact with persons, or from letters—in these depart ments of science. If there could be impressed upon a letter the image of the writer and his surroundings during the brief space of time that the paper was subjected to their influence—and this was the conclusion I eventually arrived at—why could not rocks receive impressions of surrounding objects, with which they had been in immediate contact for years, and why could they not communicate the history of their relationship in a similar manner to sensitive persons, thus giving a clue to the condition of the earth and its in habitants during the vast eras of the past ? I accordingly commenced, some ten years ago, a series of experiments with mineral and fossil specimens and archm logical remains, and was delighted to find that without possessing any previous knowledge of the specimen, or even seeing it, the history of its time passed before the gaze of the seer like a grand panoramic view ; sometimes almost with the rapidity of lightning, and at other times so slowly and distinctly that it could be described as readily as an ordinary scene. The specimen to be examined was gene rally placed upon the forehead, and held there during the examination ; but this was not absolutely necessary, some psychometers being able to see when holding a specimen in the hand. The result of some of the experiments, made at various times, I shall give in the following chapters. In a few instances the phraseology has been slightly changed, the idea never. And now let us subjoin an example of this most marvellous and mysterious power— VERY LIKE A WHALE. Whalebone Walkin¢•cane. Mrs. Denton knew it was a walking-cane, but, having no opportunity of examining it, supposed very naturally that it was wood. " I feel as if I were a monster. There is nothing of a tree about it, and it is useless for me to go any further." (With great difficulty she was induced to continue the ex periment.) "I feel like vomiting. Now I want to plunge into the water." (Convulsive shuddering.) " I believe I am going into a fit. My jaws are large enough to take down a house at a gulp. I knew now what this is—it is whalebone. I see the inside of the whale's mouth. It has no teeth; it has a slimy look; but I only get a glimpse of it. Now I see the whole animal. What an awful-looking creature ? This identification of the psychometer with the animal psychometrised is at times so complete as to compel the suspension of the experiment, the influence produced some • times affecting the person for hours. If after this specimen our readers seek further psychometric information, we commend them to the volume of Mr. and Mrs. Denton. "We are," they say, " wiser than we know," yet, perhaps, also, let us add, " more ignorant than we imagine." Beeton's Robinson Crusoe. Illustrated. One vol., pp. 384. S. 0. Beeton. An extraordinary catalogue might be made by come ingenious bibliographer of the various editions of "Robinson Crusoe." Very recently several new ones have made their appearance. Among our other literary notices this very day, indeed, there is mention made below of one in a small form, as being just at this time upon the eve of its publication. The Messrs. Longman, moreover, the Great House of the Row, have included Defoe'e lovely masterpiece in their beautiful little bijou Library, Edited by Mr. Laurie. And the compe tition thus eviden3ed among the publishers in the perpetual reissue of this ever fresh and ever delight ful story book—no one, for one instant, can well won der at! Robinson Crusoe being, among all the loved fictions of the schoolboy, his one especial pet and favourite. Who does not remember when Ebenezer Scrooge is whisked away in his night Spirit of Christmas pa st —back again s,hirt b we don't -y the know how many years, to the days of the poor old hunx's boyhood, where he is moping drearily alone in the shabby schoolroom —who does not retnem ber how the thoughts of Scrooge fly off to hi s dream picture of dear old Robinson Crusoe, with his goat-skin clothes and cap, his musket in his hand, a kid at his heels, and, perched on his shoulder, the parrot, with a green thing like a lettuce growing out of the top of his head ? So welcome to us all, indeed, is the merest thought of that wonderful solitary inhabitant of the far-off island, that every fresh republication of his famous Life and Adven tures comes, to each one amongst us, almost like a personal benefaction. Here, in this very beautiful illust ra t e d e di tion, published by that boy's-friend, Mr. Keeton, of the Strand, is a sort of paragon re 'issue of Defoe's won derful book. The embellishments —charmingly designed by T. H. Nicholson and carefully engraved by C. W. Sheeres—are very numerous. How nume rous, we will now relate. Besides a coloured frontis. piece revealing to us a home interior, Crusoe, the aged preparing for another journey —there are eight " se parate plates." also coloured, that is, plates full-paged size, and thirty-eight woodcuts scattered among the letter-press. Forty-seven illustrations in all, and almost every one of them characterised by a pecu liar interest. In one we see " Crusoe and his Father," in another, " Crusoe and his Goat." Here he is cast upon the shore, yonder he is steering his raft from the wreck. Now meeting with Friday, now rescuing the Indians. Meditating in sickness — walking by the seashore—gathering his harvest— discovering the footprints encountering the wolves—fighting with the Cochin Chinese. Pre fixed to the narrative is a brief but enthralling ac count of the life and adventures of the author of " Robinson Crusoe," tat true-hearted man of letters that staunch lover of liberty, that very confessor of Journalism, Daniel Defoe, one who had the body and spirit, heart and brain of a genuine English• man. Among the numerous works of interest pub lished of late years by Mr. Beeton, in very elegant forms, but at very moderate prices, not one, to our recollection, has been more deserving of admiration or more sure of winning for itself a wider popu larity than this charming edition of our English Sinbad the Sailor. The Handbook to Paper Flower-Making. Illus trated. By Mrs. J. H. Mintorn. Routledge. This new number of Routledge's useful shilling handbooks, describes, practically and clearly, the graceful art of paper flower -making. It is plenti fully illustrated with designs of all the tools re quired, and is further embellished with , numerous copies of the flowers best adapted for the fair artists task. We doubt not the little volume will find a ready welcome at many a boudoir and many a work-table. What to do with the Cold ..1 - utton; a book on rechaujes. One Vol., pp. 22e. Bentley. The problem is solved at last! The domestic difficulty is at an end ! Clubs and chop-houses may now close their shutters, their days are numbered, their attractions are over. No longer shall the eternal " cold mutton" induce the Paterfamilias to turn a " cold shoulder" to his home. The "do mestic muffin," celebrated by Thackeray, must henceforth divide its triumphs, with the renovated " mutton" adorned with all the charms of culinary art. This little book, so welcome to the wives and housewives of England, is filled with an abund ance of receipts suited to " the kitchen of a gentle man of moderate income," among these are a variety of rgchariffes of diverse kinds, which are likely to prove generally acceptable. The old adage rerenons d nos moutons should have been selected as an apprc,priate motto for this book. A Series of Seven Essays on Universal Science. By Thomas Clark Westfield, F.S.A. One Vol., pp. 210. Hard wick. Seven essays on universal science, " embracing some investigations of the Mosaic cosmogony and the interpretation of the Scriptures, with the ob ject of proving their scientific exactness," aro here presented to us by Mr. Westfield, who very empha tically and truthfully observes that " God's works cannot contradict His words." Therefore, as he most logically proves, every apparent discrepancy between the Sacred Writing and the world around us, is due to some misconception on the part of the expositor or the translator. "We have repeatedly found," says Mr. Westfield, " that when men em ploy their scientific knowledge to the detriment and injury of the Scriptures, the knowledge possessed has neither been very deep nor very profound." The Bride of. _Messina. A Tragedy with Choruses, by Schiller. Translated by Adam Lodge, Esq., M.A. Third Edition. Day. This very felicitous translation of Schiller's " Bride of Messina" has reached a third edition. Prefixed to the tragedy is a peculiarly interesting essay on the chorus of the classic drama. Love and Jealousy, Europa, and other Poems. By the Rev, Gerrard Lewis, B.A. The principal p:rtion of this poem is taken from "Ariosto"—a strange source of inspiration for a reverend poet. Some of the minor poems are pleasing and graceful, without possessing any high claims to poetic merit. Lectures. By B. C. Jones. Third series, contain kg nine lectures. One Vol. Allen. . The third series of Mr. Jones's Lectures, which are dedicated to Lord Brougham, consists of nine lectures, upon the Ancient and Modern Drama, and Dramatic Poets, with many quotations from the masterpieces of Euripedes and Sophocles. Cassell's Illustrated Almanack, for 1864. The first of the almanacks for the coming year has, here, already, before the close of October, made its appearance. And although the price of it is no more than sixpence, the appearance it makes, thus promptly, is very beautiful. It is a lovely little publication even ex ternally—radiantly colour-printed with fruit and flowers in abundance. The illustrations inside, moreover, are numerous and appropriate. Several life like portraits of celebrities recently deceased are among them, and a seasonable engraving for each month. The letter-press, which is copious and admirably well arranged, comprises a store of useful, and most of it highly interesting, information. Cassell's Illust7ated Pilgrim's Progress. Part V• Another instalment of this very cheap and v , OY elegant edition of Banyan's famous allegory briJigs us rapidly towards its conclusion. The embellisil meats are good enough for the costliest form of p' 3l9 " lication. We are glad to see the announcement of a similar edition of " Robinson Crusoe," to be pal"' lished by the same enterprising firm, the first ,;um ber to appear in November. An edition of Defoes masterpiece, we hope it will prove to Yee as cheap as this one of Banyan's, and one, we trust, as cteverlf illustrated, and therefore in every way as likely t° vie with " Casseli's Illustrated Pilgrim's Progress in popularity. Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company. -• GENERAL MEETING THIS DAY - The general meeting of the direc tors and proprietor: of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Com p any was held to- ay, of £30,001 at the London Tavern. The Ch MANGLES, chairman the report, ea d d i n r p ec ti t n o n rs, n p i rec ided . said that the total receipts for the half-year were leos than. rm ov a i n ng of th th e lls. 65., for hire of some of the company's ships cr t rens in 1862 by £11,566 Bs. 65., but as the sum ports, was included last year. the ordinary receipts to J'une, 1863, exhibit really an increase over those of 1862 to the amount of £18,411 3s. From the satisfactory state of the company's finances, the directors recommended the t pay ment of a div idend of £3 per share out o the ordinary profits, and a bonus of 30s. per share from t h e • nsurguic o f u nd, free of income-tax. I The report was adopted unanimously. BEAUREGARD.—"Of Beauregard I know li ttle ' but had heard much. Ile was contin uaIIY mov i n g about from place to place, his appearance anti es cort being so unoste n t a ti ous that many met and 1468,e a . without knowing hi m . It was hi s custom to walk in garden of the cottage where his head-quarters were es t ''' . blished after meals, smoking; and it was there I first him. He is a small man, with a sallow complexiorh: heavy black moustache, and closely -cut hair. Wi th h t left mind in his trousers pocket, a cigar in hie l' euh ; buttoned-up coat, and small cap, he is the exact typ e ° for French engineer, and could not anywhere be In islakell , er , a civilian. He is jaunty in his gait, dashing in n 'r war . and evidently takes delight in the circumstance of It must be confessed his modesty is equal to his 11 for orit ho is not imperious or overbearing, bears great• respects„a to his brother officers of the old service, and is neverorr an ,, such advantage as when standing on an giving orders, or conversing with animated?) g ian Jos t Battle Fields of the South, by an English conz a c published by Smith, Elder, ¢ Co. an 01a DEATH OF A VETERAN.—WiIIiam Fry , he the 'J ut ; Tyne seaman, died last week at the ageofto all ' who lage of Tynetuouth. Fry was well knownamong the few old earthwork, visited that seaside watering-place. He " d e r Nelson. Ile W vn o men spared who fought Admiral Duncan.- : fought under Lard Nelson and A many years after fie wounded in the left hand, and fo a r c. _nos at Tynemoutb. tired from sea he kept bathing 111 aboard the British fleet at Ostend e nd Conenhageu, in( thi ref thi