The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-15 00:00:00

THE SU'N, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPtEMBER 15, 1861 THE WESTERN STATES. E (Tim the Special Correspondent of the Times.) CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Aug. 30. 'Deere are drawbacks and hardships enough con nected with American travelling; but there is one peculiar advantage more than counterbalancing all the evil. In America there is nothing to see ; there are no lions to kill. The town you arrive at to-day is nothing but the town you quitted yesterday all over again. Not only is there nothing to see, but nothing that you are pressed or even expected to see. You alight from the cars, are driven to your hotel, write down your name in a book at the office, are shown to your room, go down to your breakfast, —the same printed bill of fare, same table atten dants ; you have travelled 300 miles, but find your self precisely as you were. Your palatial inn, the broad street before it, the still wider avenue at right angles with it, the lofty warehouses, the spacious stores, the trim villas and gardens, are all familiar objects, the hotel itself being by far the greatest wonder of the town. Gonna! Canna ! you have seen a hundred towns like the one now before you. There will be no cicerone or valet de place to plague you with medieval minsters, or to break your shins against the remnants of Roman rubbish. No picture gallery to inspect, no cradle of genius, no martyr's shrine to worship at, nothing to see. It is the easiest travelling in the world. Take as a sample this Chicago, this "Queen of the West,' , this big city of the big State of Illinois; a bran new place sprung up in one night as if by magic. Five-and-twenty years ago I lived in Ame rica; I resided for three years in the States, and even travelled west as far as the Mississippi, yet I never heard the name mentioned; the site of Chi cago was hardly marked on the map. "In 1831," now learn, "it was an Indian trading post; in 1840 it boasted 5,000 inhabitants." Its population exceeds at the present day 150,000 souls. Its main thoroughfares stretch out seven miles in length. Wonderful as its growth has been, it has, however, fallen short of the expectation of its sanguine foun ders, who were bent on making it the biggest city of the Union. At the time of my that visit to Ame rica Cincinnati was the city of golden hopes. It was she that then bore the proud title of " Western Queen," and the removal of the seat of the Federal Government to her hills on the bank of the Ohio was looked upon as a probable, and by no means remote, contingency. Since then the shine has been taken off Cincinnati by this new upstart on the shore of Lake Michigan. Cincinnati has been designated under the new appellation of " Porkopolis," and seen to that distinction she scarcely has any good title nowadays, seeing that the pork trade itself flourishes at Chicago with greater activity than at the rival city; and I am assured by some very ear nest patriots here that " we beat Cincinnati by a yearly average of 40,000 hogs !" In 1838 Chicago only exported 78 bushels of wheat ; in 1862 the ex , port of breadstuffs exceeded 70,000,000 bushels. No doubt Chicago, as the centre of three or four States of unrivalled agricultural wealth, could not fail to become a vast city. The inhabitants laid out a plan, allowing ample room for any future extension. They traced the widest streets in the world, planned the broadest avenues. Everything was conceived on that colossal, superlative scale which seems par ticularly to delight this biggest of nations. The consequence is that we have as yet only the magnifi• cent sketch and embryo of a town, we have dust and glare, empty spaces, inconvenient distances. I came to the West, as you are aware, with a hope to be enabled to solve to my own satisfaction the problem which puzzled my brain—" How do these people fare under the scourge of this civil war, and who is to pay for it I" The answer that is given here to my question is by pointing to the buildings at this moment in progress in every quar ter of the city. The town had originally been laid on a dead level along the lake shore ; anything like wholesome drainage was a material impossibility; the people have been and are now striving against the evil by raising every house and street seven or eight feet above the ground. The primitive settlers had no other building materials than wood or brick, but magnificent quarries of white stone have lately been discovered a few feet under the level of the prairie, a few miles from the city ; and a miracle such as the imperial nephews of great uncles achieved in Rome and at Paris is being reproduced here. Such glorious flags for the side-walks, such excellent white blocks for the houses, the world :hardly ever saw. Chicago, which is only half-built, is being rebuilt all over. It is at this very moment undergoing this transformation ; a proof that the war not only never stopped, but rather hastened and strengthened, its growth and prosperity. Well, as to the town ; but what about the coun try ? In the country, lam told, most people have profited by the war. There was no country in the world where the minor landowners, farmers, and labourers were more deeply in debt than in these fertile Western districts. Over speculation is land, successive bad harvests, and the decreased demand s from Europe had compelled the farmer to raise the wind on any terms. The landed property was heavily mortgaged ; the rural population w as on the brink of ruin. The war brought the remedy of all evils. Provisions found a brisk, open market near home. The man who owed 1,000 dols. could pay hie debt in greenbacks to that amount, although in reality he hardly gave 500 dols. real value, he received his full acquittal for the whole sum. That what was benefit to the debtor must be dead loss to the creditor is sufficiently evi dent; but, somehow, hardly one as yet feels in clined to complain. The spirit of enterprise, of gam bling in these countries exceeds all belief. The State of Illinois had in 1852 only 95 miles of railway ; it boasts now no less than 3,003 miles. By what amount of jobbery, of downright robbery, these ex tensive lines have been achieved it would be idle to inquire. The railways, et any rate, are there. The end is attained—what signifies the means ? Ame ricans seem to be of Butler's opinion about " the pleasure being as great in being cheated as to cheat." Their eagerness for money-getting is equal to their recklessness about money-losing. Their fortunes are like so many castles of cards, which they delight to see blown down at one breath. The unlimited issue of Mr. Chase's greenbacks has been a glorious swin dle in the American style. It works wonderfully well for the day; who gives a thought to the mor row ? The gain for the millions is immense ; who would trouble his head about the few who may hap pen to be:osers by and by ? The man who comes to this country with Old World notions has reason to feel very small, and to look very foolish in his own eyes. " There is nothing like civil war to fatten a country; nothing like civil war and paper money!" " Before the war," we are informed, " the total circulation of the whole country, North and South, was 362,000,000 dole. between paper money, gold, and silver. Now, in the North alone, with only two thirds of the population, the circulation is computed at 605,000,000 dole. Mr, Chase has, besides, the au thorisation by Congress to issue 300,000,000 dols. irredeemable bank p a per, besides 550,000,000 d o l s . of legal-tender mon ey. There are now 200 new banks being organised to iss ue Treasury paper, and there is no limit to the amount to be issued. ,, There is no doubt but by this Prodigious shower of greenbacks the whole country h asbeen enor mously 4 6 The stocks har e fertilised. ad vanced on an average fully 300 per cent. The. Erie Railroad, which formerly sold for five, is now 120. The Ga lena and other roads of this State, which were down to 30 and 40, are now up to 130 and 140." The same rule applies to every other branch of commercial, agricultural, or industrial enterprise. However fictitious and illusory, however ephemeral this prosperity of the country may be, it behoves every man to make hay while the sun shines. How ever worthless the greenbacks may be in them selves, the lands that can be bought, the houses that can be built with them, are solid goods. The stretch of private and public activity here is immense; the travelling on every line of railway, the crowding of all hotels, might well exceed all belief. Indeed, the soc i a l machine is going at so stupendous a rate at this moment that people are only anxious as to what m ay happen in the event of its coming to a full stop. Were the war to come to an end, and the time for settlement to arrive, then it seems natural to anticipate "a general smash, both financial and commercial." The expenses of the war must fall upon somebody, and the "vanquished enemy" w in in_this case hardly be in a condition to bear the costs, Indeed, people here evince no trifling anxiety as to " what is to become of the Confederate Debt." The restoration of the Union, whenever it b 3 echieved by main force, will find the United States neither a larger nor a mightier Power than it was before; its liabilities will scarcely fall on conquered tribu tary nations. The Americans will have to settle their accounts among themselves ; the expenses not only of the greatest, but also of the most lavish, extravagant, improvident war that ever was waged will have to fall on the people ; the people will have to familiarize themselves with every variety of burdensome taxes. These taxes are, as far as I can: judge, cheerfully enough paid at the present moment. In New York, city and State, the collectors of the inland revenue find no obstruction in the discharge of their irksome duties. People lay down their bank notes in high glee, and only wish they were called upon for greater sacri fices." In the West, lam told, only those pay who are inclined; the system is new and imperfectly applied; the burdens weigh upon'the various classes or individuals with nothing like justice or equality. The fact is the Americans aro as yet merely playing at taxation, as they have hitherto been playing at soldiering. When the game becomes earnest, when all citizens have been made to bear the burden for two or three years, they will think it high time to get rid of it altogether, or greatly to lessen the load of interest. In fact they will refuse to pay it. When the greenbacks have done their utmost, when there shall arise that natural reaction in every kind of business consequent upon the cessatioenorfmutohes war and the rapid depreciation of the enormous amount of paper currency i n c irculation, which would then be without employment, then will be the w the time to look out for the mighty c rash. America is, however, inured to such catastrophes m troph tress will be only temporary ; the a e te s ri al dis tress being occasioned by the war , a nd noticeable in the extension of railways and th e encoura g ement o f all other branches of commercial and industrial specu- 1 lation, will be solid and permanent. Such are the views tanen by the persona I see most frequently, with respect to the great financial question of the country. Here in the West, a vast majority, no doubt, wish for a speedy termination of the war; but their wishes find no ready utter ance, their vote carries but little weight on the des tinies of the country, Illinois, like the greatest number of the North Western States, was originally colonized by New Englanders, who are, even at the present moment, the cream and salt of the commu nity. Bankers, wealthy merchants, land specula tors, school teachers, lawyers, and doctors are for the most part Yankees, and they, naturally enough, monopolize social and political influence. Under them are the masses, chiefly aliens, Irish and Ger mans, at war with one another, and thus neutraliz ing each other, and lying at the mercy of that Yankee minority whom they detest, but dread and obey. The New Englanders here are Republicans, Abolitionists to a man ; they insist upon the war being pushed on,: upon no quarter being given, upon the extermination of the Southern race, confiscation of Southern property, &c. The war has done nothing but good to themselves. Like the New Yorkers they have been contractors, purveyors, &c. Among the lowest :classes a different spirit is rif e , although, as I said, it makes itself nowhere audible. The mere threat of the draught, for it will never come to a reality here, created a vast amount of ill will and alarm. Up to the 31st of December, 1862, Illinois has sent 130,000 men into the field, out of a population of 1,711,951, outdoing all other Western States by the zeal with which it responded to the President's proclamation. This readiness for self sacrifice ought to spare the State the horrors of the 1 conscription ; and it is probable that no more may be heard about it. The loss of the volunteers during these two foregoing years was not so very seriously felt in this part of the country, inasmuch as the Illi nois contingent, like all others, consisted of, to a great extent, the riffraff the country could well spare, and more especially of those foreign immi grants who were on their first arrival unable to find profitable employment. It would be too much, however, to assert, as some Republicans do, that the agricultural interests of the country have not in the least suffered from the removal of so many hands from the sphere of their useful exertions, An Illinois farmer, my fellow-traveller by railthe other day, answered my question on that subject by saying, "Look at me, stranger. Three years ago I had 10 sons, all working with me at the farm; of these seven have gone to the war, and three I know will never return." The - gaps left by these young volunteers is not easily to be filled up, nor can the three homekeeping sons do the work of the seven who are off to the battle-field. In the like manner, whatever may be stated to the contrary, there is no doubt but a great many large estates in these dis tricts are falling out of cultivation from want of labourers. It is true the tide of emigration comes in at these times more actively than ever; but the newcomers—Danes and Norwegians in vast num bers—push further; they seek their settlements in the more northern latitudes of Wisconsin and Min nesota; this rich and deep soil of Illinois, which would have such attractions for them, is mainly in the hands of railway proprietors and land specula tors, harpies who by their absurdly high prices scare away the new colonists, and burn their own fingers, leaving behind vast tracts of unbroken forest and unreclaimed prairie. The ideas of a Earopean as to the strength of Government and the sacredness of the empire of the law are liable to be as rudely upset by what here occurs daily as his notions about paper money and the real solid foundation of financial prosperity. When, at the outbreak of the war, the State of Illi nois, anxious about th e safety of Cairo, on the Mis sissippi, came to the resolution of occupying that place with 300 volunteers, it was found that neither in Chicago, nor in Milwaukie, nor in all Illinois and Wisconsin, could be found muskets enough to arm that little squad, so that half of them departed hence with only double-barrelled shot hands. Such was at that tim e the guns in their security of these Western districts, that the law and its una rme d officers had sufficed for more th an six millions of men. This is only another instance of the fact I s tated the other day about Boston in my times —th a t is, a quarter of a century ago--being k e p t i mperfect order by only two old constables. But wh at do we hear now ? At Vandalia , Fayette County, quite in the centre of this State, Provost-Marshal Summer ville, while engaged in arresting deserters, was at tacked by a party of men who, swelling up to the number of 400 or 500, overpowered the militia, horse and foot, took possession of Vandalia, an d demanded the release of the father of One of th e deserters, threatening, in case of refusal, to burn the houses and destroy the property of the Uni on men in the town. The authorities, overawed by the armed mob, were compelled to deliver the person asked for. Facts like these speak volumes. A people may well be left to take care of itself when Government is under no necessity to interfere with its movements, to curb its passions, or strain its resources. But when it wants men or money, what do we see now in New York ? It takes 44 regiments and batteries to guard against riots, to say nothing of the" sprightly little gunboats darting to and fro in the harbour and up and down both rivers with clean, tasteful,' all ready' marines, quite prepared for action." That free Ame r i ca s h ou ld have come to such a state of violence is sad enough ; bat far sadder that party run mad should exult at such a national degradation, and should only see in it the humiliation of the Copperheads, who now " roar as gently as sucking doves." Unless my inexperience of men and things on a first arrival greatly deceive me, we shall soon re quire no le ss vast a display of force in the West. As many as are willing are free to desert from the Fede ral army ; and the breakinr , up of the Confederate force on the Mississippi has scattered many thou sand desperate c haracters loose into th e thi n l y settled districts o f t hi s western world. The affair of Vaudalia is perhaps only a fi rst spec i men of w h at par ties here may attempt with utter impu n ity. Any strong measure adopted either to catch de serters or to enforce the draught can scarcely fail to multiply similar scenes. But far more startling tragedies are being played further south, on the Mis souri and Kansas borders, countries long used to the raids of Bushwhackers, Jayhawkers, Redlegs, and malefactors of every description, by whatever strange names they may be known. A leader of one of these meraudince, parties, one Qatiatreil, nothing b ut a robber, but pretending to have a commission from the Confederate Government, fell suddenly upon the town of Lawrence, in Kansas, beyond Leavenswortb, and slew nearly the whole male population in cold blood, plundering their habitations, and setting fire to them. I shall enter into no particulars about that a wful butchery, as it was already an old story by the time I arrived in this part of the country, and more than one account of it will have reached you from other quarters. What is important to note is merely that there was, naturally enough, a raising of bucklers throughout Kansas; that a large body of the " boys" of the country instantly set out on the traces of the Missouri:robbers and murderers, and that they have been slaughtering more than 80 persons, three or four of whom were known as Quantrell's followers, the others being only sup posed to be sympathisers with his cause. The Kan sas boys declare they will have no rest till they have laid the four border counties of Missouri, from which the marauding party took its start, into a howling and smoking wilderness. The reprisals may be just, and vengeance may be a sacred duty, but it is awful to think that this country, in which three years ago 500 muskets could not be mustered, should now betake itself to the practice of private war; that it should set up the maxim of "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," and that Government should look on while the avenger visits on four counties the sin of a few hundred ruffians. A meeting of Kansas boys was held on Friday evening last, the 28th, in which it was resolved that " loyal men" should meet at Paola on the Bth of September, all armed and fully equipped and orga nised, under the command of General Lane, who trust he shall by that time have assembled 5,000 men ready for an onslaught into Missouri. At the same meeting the commander of the department, General Scholcfield, was denounced as imb ec il e an d inefficient, and his removal demanded. G enera l Ewing, who also commanded in the name of th e Government, telegraphed Lane, saying "that h e will defend Lawrence and Kansas, and requesting Lane to use his influence to prevent unauthorised raids into Missouri." Lane answers that "he will, on the Bth inst., assemble 5,000 men at Paolo, and tender his services to him (Ewing), and, if rejected, he will appeal to a higher power." General Ewing has placed two companies at Platte city to protect the borders against avengers from Kansas. The " loyal men" cause hardly less trouble and anxiety than the " Bushwhackers." From all these crude items of information it ap pears clearly that the worst passions of that fierce border population are strongly excited, that Go vernment has lost all influence or control over them, and is in as great fear of its friends as of its adver saries. Nothing seems more likely than we shall have a long internecine struggle between the lawless marauders on either side. Guerillas are also very active throughout the region of Kentucky and Ten nessee, THE HOMBURG GAMING HOUSES. (From tite Atheuxum.) About 10 miles north of Frankfort-on-the-Maine liee Homburg on the hill, nestling am 4 d the forest-clad spurs of the Taunus range. This well-built little town has the honour of being the capital of a land a few square miles in size, and combines with the advantages which its quality as a resi dency gives it the further merit of being possessed of excel lent curative springs. Persons with diseased livers and de ranged stomachs who visit these waters find, in addition to the pleasant landscape, a chateau with an extensive garden, promenades in the vicinity of the Kursaal, a pretty street called the Luisenstrasse, and a first -rate band, which plays the march from " Tannhauser" or the overture to "Der Freischutz," while the guests imbibe the waters. But it is not to these sources of amusement, or even to the waters, that Homburg owes its reputation. The thing that attracts thousands on thousands to a town which is as quiet as death h except i tably duringspread thewatering in the li season u raa is l. wi t h . e B b o l a a n r of green cd has rieonv cloth converted the capital of the Landgravo of Hesse-Homburg into the capital of hazard. Baden-Baben, in spite of M. Bona zet, is but a star of the second magnitude, and Homburg outshines all the other gambling dens of Germany. The bank is held by a company whose manager is the above-mentioned M. Blanc. In spite of the largo sums which aro expended in beautifying Homburg and its vici nity—in spite of the very high rent which the Bath Com missioners claim, and in spite of the heavy salaries of the directors, croupiers and servants—the dividend is rarely less than 40 per cent. This enormous profit has a vezynatural cause. With a few rare exceptions every player loses. Hence the croupiers do not find their equanimity disturbed, even should the bank be broken twice or thrice in the evening, On an occasion of this sort, M. Blanc remarked about the fortunate winner, "He belongs to us, as they all do; he will bring back what he has won, and will leave his skin in the bargain." When a gambler asked him whether he had better back the red or the black, the worthy humorist re plied, "Back red or black, it is all the same; white (Blanc) ale. ays wins." In addition to M. Blanc, who has the chief management as Directeur Gerant du Conseil d'Administration, there are a sub-manager and two other directors. One of the latter was formerly cook, and then for a long time a simple croupier. His colleague died a short time back, and left a fortune of £20,000 behind him. The substitute of the managing director commenced his interesting career as an actor, and took a company to the East Indies, with whom he opened a French theatre. To his surprise his perform ances did not meet with the necessary recognition either in Calcutta, Bombay, or Pondicherry ; and hence he was com pelled to bid farewell to the Land of Palms. He took back with him a number of monkeys and! other animals, and opened on the Boulevard de Temple in Paris a cafe, in the principal apartment of which room was made for a large cage with the Indian monkeys, The animals played their antics, while a pretended negro wench waited on the guests; and these novelties attracted numerous customers. When the public curiosity began to pall, the proprietor established a small lansquent table, which, however, soon assumed such a character that the police interfered and shut up the house. M. N---- crossed the frontier after this cross in Paris, joined M. Blanc, and became his right-hand man. Of greater importance even than these important em ployes is a shareholder intrusted with confidential duties. He manages and looks after the professors and tempters. What the latter are their name explains; they are pretty, reckless women, generally Parisian lorettes, whose business it is to seduce young men and old men to the gaming -table. The most notorious of these ladies is a retired French actress. While employed at a minor theatre, she was taken by one of her numerous gentlemen-friends to Homburg. Here she made the acquaintance of a Frankfort Creesus, who, sur prised by her boldness in punting, intrusted her with 30,000 francs, and she won 400,000. Trusting to her star, and deaf to sensible advice, she went on playing for the highest stakes and was ruined in a few days. She then entered the service of the bank, and has since become one of the cleverest seducers of gamblers. "The " professor " is always a respectable-looking man, dressed after the last fashion, and has a title. Ho calls him self marquis or count, or, at the least, a baron. He drives his phaeton, seatters gold around, and contrives to slip into high society. He has common sense enough to recognise at a glance those whom he can attract to the table by decen live calculations and falsehoods. The professor is in the regular pay of the bank, and receives special encouragement when he delivers up a rich victim. He is not merely a pro fessor, but also a Greek, and is a first-rate hand at the trick known in the swindling language as the " snuff box." He persuades unsuspecting players to let him stake for them, as he i 5 luckier than they. When he has a pile of gold before him, he scratches his neck every now and then, and lets a louis-d'or glide under his coat collar. Here he has a tube, down which the coin slides into a bag made in the lining of his coat. Our extracts from the volume before us had better be re stricted to the comicanecdotes about gamblers, for the tragic ones are too ghastly for the present season. For several years a Countess carried on very high play at Hom burg. She remained at the roulette-table all day through, covered nearly 'tall the numbers with louis-d'or, and con stantly lost. It is said that she annually sacrificed to the bank the sum of £B,OOO. On one occasion she was left so high and dry that she was compelled to sell her carriage and horses: After losing for three years, her religious feel ings were enkindled, and she hastened to Rome to obtain forgiveness of her sine. She received absolution, but on condition that she would give up play. To promise is easy, but the difficulty lies in keepin g the promise. The gambling mania gained the victory over the piety of the countess. She returned,to Homburg, and seated herself once more at the roulette- table. " I will no longer play for myself," was her mental apology, " but for the poor." The gambling chronicles tells us of two brothers, poor PruF,sians, who played upon a calculation, and, as an ex ceptional ease, won. Asa s r s u te le m. ,noTthheintgwloeapdrus t s o si r a u n i s n , h m o o w re . e st v i e re r, ly h t a n d a fi n OM pl e a th in in g cn a y g more in their favour than a mere cal. ciliation of recurring numbers and so on. T hey earned a livelihood at Frankfort by giving instruction lesson ; one w as a teacher of languages, while the other imparted in Mathe matics. While the first was paying his co ur t to a young lady, the mathematician was watching the play at Ho m b urg. At length hand, and an the loverbrought gained h ima fortunehis ends; o f 0,00 his lady love gave t him her this moment the mathematician brought forward the experiences " Every morning," h e said he had acquired a t Homburg. "an attendant cleans the roulette machine with whiting: and is contantly obliged to press heavily on certain parts which take a polish with difficulty. Through this some spots on the brass are depressed in a manner imperceptible to the eye but palpable IA Ito reotatot The relliz3g WI is diverted from its ordinary course by these invisible grooves; hence certain numbers are sure to win repeatedly during a day, while others never turn lip." The brothers proceeded to Homburg and began playing. The mathematician regularly mado his appearance two hours earlier than his brother is the Kursaal, and noted down all the winning numbers, though without punting. Those which came up freqently during the two hours were then backed by his brother. TLeir want of passion insured them success, for they were as ciol and as calm as the bank, They won I,ooof. a day. When this sum was attained they infallibly left the green table, and did not return till the next morning. In this way they are said to have gained half a million of francs. auvu se system, ab ceene p A Polish Count alsobelieved in the existence of an infal libleh baurtt ofha hi dn s o f t e y rt e an t d e to g v a e m re h d h i n t. g, A he ft i e n r ve l a o t s e iz th a considerable e rest in Homb urg B an k S hares. Every morning there was visible in the K ursaa l a tall thin man with a long, redm h t w ak h e o n fr f o e m r an his Ea g g a i i t t l m m a a n n n , er b , ut a w nd as fa i c n e, r m ea i l g t h ty t our Pole, He walked restlessly round the table, and evi uadnuenad l e l r Y astt w ano r n wrestled with the temptation to punt. A professor of the spe c i es we h ave d escribed noticed his restlessness, g b w a i s t e h d t h a speculation atereu rtere opposite,'' e ho said "I have m y t a e n . riously to the Pole, who knows the secret of making the ball roll so that red must win. Stand just here, and when you notice that the croupier takes a pinch of snuff and looks straight at you, stake 12,000 f. on red. Pay me 8,000 f., of which I must give a moiety to the croupier, and the rest is for yourself." The Pole hesitated, but finally accepted the offer. Ha proceeeded to the indicated spot just opposite the croupier,[and when he took a pinch and looked at him he staked the 12,000 f. on the red. He won, gave the professor the B,ooof. and proposed to punt again. " No,' said the swindler," not again to-day, for it might attract atten tion." On the following morning the Pole was again at his post opposite the croulier, staked his 12,000 f. and lost them, He looked around furiously, but the professor had disappeared, and did not return. The croupier who, when he took a pinch, was wont to look straight before him, had not the slightest cognisance of the affair, nor had he received any portion of the B,ooof. It was a swindling trick which succeeded once, by accident. Another "professor" d.d not earn so much who was aware that the bank likes to hush up any scandal with gold. He fastened a rope to a tree in the vicinity of a sentry, waited till some persons were coming along through the park, and hanged himself. There was a disturbance, the sentry hurried up, and the hanging man was cut down and recalled to life. All Homborg talked about the occurrence, and the bank administration at once sent I,ooof. to the pre tended unfortunate gambler. A couple of months later he hanged himself again in the same way and received I,ooof, but with a hint that "he had better hang himself elsewhere in future.' During the play-hours a swarm of men may be seen round the Kursaal, who can be recognised as Shylocks a long way off. They are waiting for gamblers whose last gold coin the croupier's inexorable rake has drawn in. Such persons always believ e th ey could w i n i t a ll b ac k if they only had a small sum o f rea d y money. Wh en a us urer of this sort knows a play er t o b e safe, h e di scoun t s a little bill for him at cent. p er cen t ., b ut if he does not k now hi s eircurastenees ho lends on Pledges. This latter business is transacted in the open a i r . E very even i ng some player leaves the Kursaal, r e t urns w i thout bresst - p i n or r i n gs, without watch and chain ; stakes again, loses his last coin, and rushes from the room. The pawnbroker does a roaring trade in this way. On a gem worth 1,00011. he will advance 300, and that only for a month. If the pledge is not redeemed in that period it is sold. The Parisian lorettes carry to the Homburg Jews most of the ornaments which they have beguiled their admirers into buying for them. Some of these honourable ladies carry on pledging as a profession. One fine day they appear without jewellery at the drinking fountain, complain to some c h ar i ta b le soul ;hat losses at play h ave compelled them to pl e d ge th eir precious soucen i rs , receive the money to redeem th em, f etch tae jewelry b ac k , an d pledge it again the same d a y I T hey share the pro fi ts o f t he transaction The Jew gains 200 p er cent. by the with Messi re Sh ylock. Every autumn th e Paris jewellers send their t rave ll ers to H om burg and buy up th e unre deemed pledges,transaction, and th e j ewe ll er h a s no cause to grumble. As a typ e o f the common pro f ess i ona l gambler wo will select a man w h o, in February o f t h e p re sent year, became universally known throigh a scandalous trial. We allude King to Garcia, th e of the French Greeks, and therefore called Garciapoulos tie first of his n ame (accordin g to Robert Houdin , the first Gree k d e tected was a man of the n ame name of Apo ° 8 ). Ever sinc e he has been known in Parisian society his lie has been the same. In winter he plundered th e f ashicnable soc i e ty of the City of the Seine by playing with cogged dice an d packed cards, and in sum mer he proceeded to homburg to lose his dishonestly ac quired money at the green board. Two years ago a turn apparently took place a his fortunes. lie played ono day from 11 a.m. till 11 par• with fabulous good luck. He be gan with a stake of 1a,50011., the highest allowed at Trente et Querante, and by four in the afternoon ho had won 500,000 f. At this pout he asked leave of Blanc to exceed the limits of the stakes, and received it at once. From this moment he staked G1,000f., and for seven hours was the solo player. All t h e ta bl es were d ese rted, the most eager gam blers mer e ly l oo k e d on, an d a perfect silence prevailed. Garcia broke the bask five thrice, there being 350,000 f, in it on each occasion, and whou the Kursaal was closed at 11 pan., h e r ose a winner of 1,750,0001., or £70,000. a wen ire The next morning Garel • t ay from H om b urg, after rel eas ing all the g amblers im p risoned for debt. The shareholders maw him hires t3m er i c h go with long faces ; but M. Bl anc only smiled and s hru gg ed his shoulders in a nwie4alant way, for he knew the demoniacal p ower of attraction which gam bli ng ex ercises over :ucky players. G arci a returned the next year, and at ithin a week had re p aid the bank o ne mil lion francs, Ile h urried t o Paris, sold out anot her million, carried them to the Hombur g bank, and within si x days he was thoroug hly cleaned cut. Thus the millionair e returned to his old condi tion, and was a g ain com p elled to cheat in Paris during t he winter, in or d e r to try his l uc k at Hom burg in the summer. Garcia spout a part of last w inter in Nic e . Wh en h e re turned to Paris he movE d in the highest circles, was a mem ber of the Cirque ImParial, the Jockey Club, & c , On February he invited a nother g am bl er, C a l za d o, t o the Kruse of the Countess B arucc i, w here they would accompanyr ary 3, fi 6 young fellows and plenty of high play. Theo Countess"B kept a saloon in whi c h f as hionable and equivocal ch aracter * were accustomed to assemble. On this evening there were present a Prince Demideff, a Due de Gramont Caderousse, a M. de Miranda, a Marquis P—, a director of the Italian Opera, and a Sous-Prefet, as well as ladies who, in the retort of the Criminal Court relating to the events of the night, are merely designated femmes et fines. The play was high, and for a time conducted hon ourably. When the gamblers, however, began to grow ex cited, Garcia quitted the room, and on his return proposed Baccarat instead of Trate et Quarante, at which they had hitherto been playing. Some of the visitors did not take part in it, an d these noticed that Garcia secretly exchanged the cards lying e n the table for others. The play began, and in six deals De Miranda load lost 120,0001. to Garcia. The enormous amount saved hint : the spectators declared Garcia a swindler. The exchange of the cards was alluded to, and Garcia was compelled to confess it, when one of the party brought the covers of some packs from the ante-room to which Garcia had retired for half-an-hour. The cheat now confessed that he hid packed the cards ho brought with him. He took to flight, scattering bank notes around him , but his accomplice was seized and searched. Alto gether 85,000 of bliranda's francs were recovered, and Garcia must have carried off 41,000 with him. The court sentenced him to five years' imprisonment in default, and Calzado to 18 months. It need not be expected that the scandal served as a warn ing to th e gamblers. Play produces a mental excitement, which is a necessity for men of a certain class. Let these play if they like, but the temptation ought not to be placed in the way of respectable persons who visit watering-places. The air of gambling rooms is heating, and robs many a man o f his senses. M. Sirven adds, that the director at Baden- Baden has received a notice to quit, and M. Blanc will not be allowed to reap his harvest much longer when the Landgrave of H esse-Homburg, now eighty years of age, closes his eyes, Unfortunately for our stern moralist, who, we suspect, h as b urn t hi s wi ngs p re tty se verely at : Homburg, and is" taking (out" abuse, the m ighty potentate of Hesse-Cassel is granting fresh con cessions every Year ; ani it is not likely that his succesors will be so virtuous as to resign the best part of their in come for love of honesty. We hope they may. 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TIMES.—We learn from our Ameridan correspon dence of yesterday that, while Mr. Seward is patting Canada a visit, the American press is urging it in the most pressing language to put itself under the protection of his paternal Government. The New York papers supplement their threats to this country of annexing Canada by force with the most tempting invitations to Canada itself. The unassisted speculation of our readers would proba bly be exercised in vain to discover what advan tages the United States can offer the Canadians in exchange for the temperate freedom and material Prosperity they experience under the Govern ment of the Queen. But the New York World certainly holds out a prospect which might tempt a young and growing community. If th© Canadians obtain admission into the Federal Union, they are told that they would be insured exemption for ever from all the horrors of war ; they would be saved " the enormous expense the mother country is try ing to impose upon them in the way of fortifica tions ;" they would have the boon of absolute free trade with the Federal States ; they would have " the benefit of Yankee energy and capital to deve lope their resources ;" and lastly, " they would gain a share in the destiny" of the great Yankee nation. This language really sounds like the mere cry of an ignorant rapacity. But as it seems from our Corres pondent's letter of yesterday that it actually repre sents the feelings of not a few well-informed Ame ricans, it may be worth while to draw some atten tion to it. The extraordinary part of the matter is not so much that the Americans should display such entire ignorance of the feeling of this country re spectin g its relations with Canada, as that they should be so hopelessly blind to the most patent facts of their own condition. That a people in the agonies of a bloody and exhausting war, and threatening war every day to the most powerful and warlike States of Europe, should hold it out as the principal advantage of union with their country that it in sures exemption from war for ever, implies an amount of audacity or fatuity which is quite incom prehensible. Such assertions would be ludicrous if they were not fatally mischievous. It is this reck less disregard in their leading writers of the terrible reality of their position which makes it possible for the American people to be led away into the ruin ous madness which possesses them. Ali folly and crime depends more or less upon ignorance, and the most terrible feature in the condition and prospects of the American Union is the pertina cious and shameless way in which their leading press spreads every bad passion and fosters every pleasant delusion. People get to believe lies if they tell them and hear them told often enough, end the writers and readers of the New York World may have been really cajoled by Mr. Seward's rhodomontade and the incessant asser tions of the New York press into a belief that the Southern rebellion is a mere domestic quarrel, that the South is not a belligerent, and that the North therefore is not at war. But the Canadians, who are separated from the draug,hting, the marching, the garrisons, and the gunboats of the States, may look on matters with a cooler eye. They will not sail to see this simple fact—that while they are enjoying perfect peace, and are able to afford a quiet and un disturbed holiday to Mr. Seward and his wearied correspondents, the Foreign Ministers at Washing ton, the United States are engaged in a terrible war. As to the " horrors of war," they know that a rich and prosperous Northern State was lately invaded by an enemy whose generosity alone prevented him from inflicting all the miseries of plunder and devas tation. A State immediately on the other side of the St. Lawrence has just suffered from bloody riots in a vain effort to avoid the hardship of a military conscription, and in spite of this the people are being draughted off to fill up the ranks of a more than decimated army, or compelled to pay 300 dol lars to provide substitutes for slaughter. To invite Canada to join the Union in order to escape the horrors of war is much the same as to invite a man to Newcastle to avoid burning coals. But this egregious step would save the Canadians " the vast expense the mother country is trying to im pose upon them in the way of fortifications." It might save some of it, though, to judge by the ex tent of the Federal debt, the taxation of the Cana dians would probably become heavier than ever it has been under our rule. But the most im portant part of fortifications is the men to man them; and if the Canadians saved bricks and mor tar by annexation they would certainly have to provide men instead, and would see some of the strongest and bravest of their population sent away to fight distant battles in a cause with which they have no concern, either in its boginningoniddle, or end, The political advantages offered by the World are equally problematical. Annexation would give the Canadians " the boon of absolute free trade with the States." As our correspon dent suggests, the influence of mutual interests would probably enforce this concession sooner or later, whether Canada were annexed or not. But it is equally important for the Canadians to remember that, if they were by this means to gain free trade with the States, they would lose free trade with Greatßritain and the rest of the world. As matters stand at present, they can regulate the duties on their own commerce at their will; but if they became part of the United States their trade would at once be subject to a system of heavy protective duties whether they liked it or no ; and they will scarcely think the trade of the United States sufficiently important to make that of every other country in the world a matter of indifference. Annexation, too, would, we are told, " give them the benefit of Yan kee energy and capital to develops their resources." We hope the Canadians have too much knowledge of political economy to be influenced by this unfor tunately expressed offer. Yankee energy is not of a particularly attractive sort, and capital will go to Canada to develops its resources from England or America indifferently if it see a fair chance of a pro fitable investment. Moreover, even if the war were to end to-morrow, all Yankee energy and capital would be required for some time to meet the demands which the war has created and to remedy its terrible devastation. The capital of England is much more likely to be at the service of the Canadians than that of a country newly burdened with a heavy debt and already possessing vast tracts of unreetaimed wilderness. As to the value of a share in the des tiny of the great Yankee nation, we must leave the Canadians to form their own estimate. The people who once formed the United States have, no doubt, an important destiny. It does not look very hope ful at present, enveloped in the glare and the gloom of war, devastation, and debt. But we will only ask the Canadians to consider that they would have to give up some certain and present advantages for the sake of this doubtful and distant destiny. At present they are to all intents and purposes in pos session of perfect self-government. The appoint ' ment of a Governor-General by the Cro wn is almost the only restriction on their political freedom, and his authority is as little check upon the free action of their Legislature as t he veto of . the Queen is upon the English Ho uses of Parliament. As a member of the Federal Union, they would not have half the independence they now enjoy ; and they must remember, too, that as matters took at present, the destiny wh i c h t h e y are invited to share would very probably involve a sacrifice even of this inde pendence to a military despotism. They enjoy, moreover, at present the certainty of an equal and impartial administration of the laws. They are sure of personal liberty, of the freedom of the press, and of complete security for property. In contrast with all these advantages let them ra floet on the presence of Mr. Vellandigham on their soil as an exile for no other offence than that of free s peech, upon the state of siege in which New York is held, and upon the reminiscences of Fort Lafayette suggested by Mr. Seward's visit, and they will be perfectly able to judge for them selves of the sort of exchange they would make. We urge all these considerations on the attention of the Canadians without any anxiety for their de cision. Our hands arc clean as far as they are con cerned. We have set them up as a nation, lent them mon ey for their public works, and supplied them with troops and munitions of war; and if they make their choice to stay with us, and will but show a reasonable willingness to bear a fair share of the necessary burden of defence. we shall be heartily glad to keep them, and quite ready to help them to the best of our abilities. We only stipulate that we cannot and ought not to do all ti,n3 fighting for them. If, however, with their eyes open to the prospect, they prefer annexation to the United States, we are equally ready to let them go. We are quite sure they have no other alternative but these two. They could no more exist as an in dependent nation by the side of the United States than a lamb by the side of a wolf. They have to choose between union with us and annexation to the Federal States; and by the choice they make wo shall abide. By way of bringing these consi derations to a point wobeg to suggest for their par ticular consideration at the present moment the fol lowing question :—They have lately shown an ex cessive unwillingness to provide even a reasonable force of militia to resist a possible invasion by the United States. If they were annexed to the Union, they would immediately have the conscription forced on them by gunboats and artillery. Which will they choose,—to fight freely and willingly for the defence of their own homes, or to be dragged at the cannon's mouth to feed an alien struggle in the heart of a distant, foreign, and unhealthy country ? POST.—We learn that the Emperor Napoleon has conferred the title of Duke upon the Count de Per signy, a statesman to whom much of the success of the Empire at home and abroad is undoubtedly owing. We are only giving expression to English I public feeling on the subject when we eongzatul4e the Duke de Persigny on the new mark of distinc tion which the Emperor Napoleon has bestowed on him. M. de Persignsa i during his two missions as Ambassador to this Court, did much honour to his cateatry and to himself. In all the anxious, intri cate, and often difficult diplomatic negotiations with which he was entrusted he won golden opinions from all the English statesmen with whom he came in contact, Earnest, acute, and gifted with unusual penetration, the French Ambassador was indefati gable in the service of France. But what men, and specially those Ministers with whom the current business of affairs brought him in contact,especially admired in him was a sincerity, a candour, and that high sense of honour which, to us, is so clearly ex pressed by the idea of "a perfect gentleman." At the unpleasant periods of the Conspiracy Bill and of the annexation of Savoy and Nice, when distrust and suspicion were so rife, no one for an instant ever doubted whatever was alleged by M. de Persigny. The Re Galantuomo himself had not a higher re putation for chivalric honesty than the French Ambassador. When we add to these personal claims on our liking that the English alliance has, from the earliest days of Napoleon's advent to power, been the unswerving object of this states man's policy, and that in the couneil, or from his embassy, his voice has always been heard in its favour, we add what is indeed well known, but what cannot be too well appreciated. It is by listening to the advice of such men, with whose notions his own have most fortunately coincided, that the Emperor has been able to do all the great things that he has achieved for France. It required prodigious powers of mind on the restoration of a dynasty so strongly.aesociated with ideas of war, of conquest, and even of revenge, to be able frankly to discard them, and to enter upon a new era which has proved a fresh revolution and a new glory. It is marvellous when we come to think of what the Empire has done for France. Prostrate after the great war, she occupied but a position of mediocrity under the Restoration, while under Louis Philippe that position was still further lowered. Yet at this moment no voice is more powerful in Europe, whilst her eagles are borne in triumph in every quarter of the world. Aiied with us in the Crimean war she broke the power of Rus sia, and with her own arm alone she has freed Italy under that guiding star of Napoleon which has again shone in the splendour of victory on immortal battle-fields. Add to all this that the prosperity of France is prodigious, that every Frenchman who has a house, or land, or a business, finds his pro perty nearly doubled in value; that railways (with, by the way, large dividends), telegraphs, and every application of modern science are spread throughout the country; that not only Paris and Msrseilles are nearly rebuilt, not only the Louvre finished and Notre Dante restored, but that every town and village in France has its new road, its waterworks, its bridge, its church to boast of, all owing to the Empire. Rich at home and respected abroad, need one be surprised that eur neighbours are eminently satisfied with the Empire ? Now, it is only justice to M. de Persigny to say, what is well-known to many persons, that he actually foresaw all that has come to pass. If he worked for the cause of Napoleon and threw his whole soul and every capa city of his being into the success of the Empire, it hr's been because he understood what France was and what she needed. He devoted himself with passion to what he deemed the salvation of his country. The results are what we see. France has every reason to be proud of the men who have con tributed to make her what she is. The Emperor performs only a graceful duty when he confers the title of Duke on a man who has led the vanguard of the new Empire. To M. de Persigny the public acknowledgment of what is his due must be grati fying, but his heart must beat with great happi ness, and a just pride, when he looks at the prosperity of his country, and her position in Europe, and recognises in both the fruition o f his dearest aspirations. His many friends in England will wish him many years to enjoy his honours, and to continue labours which will add distinction to the present, whilst in the future they promise a noble record in the page of history. That high character to which we have referred has always given great weight to his words. His devotion is undoubted, and so is his fearlessness. One of the commonest remarks about him is, " He is the only man who dares to speak the truth to the Emperor," meaning, not that others are not also frank and loyal, but that he is almost the only man who, regardless of consequences, would boldly tell unpalatable facts, or dare to eive the most unpleasant advice if at any moment he thought it to be his duty. M. de Persigny is one of those natures so thoroughly ap preciated by all who come in contact with him, that, however many opponents he may have—and the very straighttorwardness and impetuosity of his character almost creates them—he is a man who has but few, and deserves to have no enemies. In Eng land he left many pleasant memories and many sin cere friendships. The genial hospitalities of Albert gate, and the agreeable impressions which his embassy left in English society, will long be remembered. The best wishes of troops of friends accompanied him when he quitted London, and their congratulations on his now ,Hgnity will re mind him of that neighbour land for whose alliance with his own country he has always striven, and where a sincere interest will always be felt in the Duke de Persigny. Giving Two Fingers. There are people in England to be met with every day who have a horrid habit of giving two fingers only when they pretend to shake hands. They use this means to express the feeling of their own importance, and also to convey to the person on whom they confer this doubtful honour a proper sense of the distance that separates them. Fine ladies in the country not unfrequently hold out this signal of their consequence to creatures like curatee, attorneys, younger sons, and led captains ; and from the affable smile with which they accom pany the gesture it is evident that they seriously believe that those kind of people :must be pleased an d proud to have this mark of condescension shown them. It seems a happy mixture of amiability and reserve. The general public which sees the hand stretched out may be supposed to admire the socia biiity and grace with which the great lady wel comes the canaille, whereas the object of the con descension receives a private warning that this must not be taken to mean too much, and that he must be as discreet and unpresuming as before. It is as if the horse on which Mordecai was sent round the town had only been painted white, but the dis heartening secret had been revealed to him alone. Heads of Houses, too, at the Universities, who are like fine ladies in more ways than one, are in the habit of intimating in this way to the younger Fel lows and to the Bachelors of their colleges what is the true distance that separates the real full-blown don from the mere budding or possible don. Many of those, however, who have the two fingers pushed into their hand are stung with the implication of inferiority, and do not like this trait in the manners of their superiors. Sometimes they even threaten to give what they get, and to offer two fingers in return_ But we doubt whether this is good taste, for besides the inevitable ludicrousness of two sets of two fingers trying to catch each other, it may be argued that either the superior is acting within the limits of good manners, and then the inferior ought to grin and bear it just as he bears a carriage and four passing his ponyechaise ; or else the superior is guilty of rudeness, and to meet rude ness with rudeness is undignified and un-Christian. The proper thing is to have it understood, once for all, whether this extension of two fingers is good manners or not ; and if it is settled that it is not, the shame of the breach of goodmaonfniet. manners oughtlfa fine to fall exclusively on the person guilty lady or a don were to spit profusely while accost ing an inferior, there would be no occasion to notice it. The best thing would be to look the other way, and clear off as quickly as possible. So, if giving two fingers is once accepted as a piece of vulgar rudeness, there is no need to resent it. But whether it is bad manners to give two fingers—and if so, why—are questions which lead as into a wide field of discussion ; for manners are but the signs of genera l habits of thinking and acting, and we m a y easily see that giving two fingers is not an isolated part of English manners , wheth er g ood or bat: but is connected with many other things that are eithCr approved of in Erigland or are gassed over without notice.—katurday Review. THE LATE CASE OF FLOGGING WOMEN AT A BROTHEL.—It is stated that the three "gentlemen" who assisted at this delectable amusement have been dis— covered by a detective named, appropriately enough, Ser geant Birch. One is said to be the nephew of a duke, and a nother of still higher rank; b ut they have fled to the Con tinent, and are consequently be y ond the reach of the law. To-day's telegram is bro u g ht to us with lightning speed by magnetic foiee. The same power, and with th e same suc cess, is employed by Mr . Herring' in his magn e ti c b rus h es . Dr. Hassanreports ~ I regard them as the most perfect brushes hitherto made, as respects their mechanical con struction and their m aL. - ,Ynetical action." They are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia, .rheumatism, &c. .N.l,.—Counter kits a t e peipg wady , ( Mc" , 32 1 BaSIPOI4II-street, 7.01100)1. SLAVE LIFE IN AMERICA. BRUTUS AND BELLA SOLD, AND HANNIBAL "SOLD" TOO! Ono day, while loitering along the river side, he was astonished at hearing in a familiar tone the words " S'elp me heving, dar's Hannibal." He looked up and saw an o ld acquaintance, a coloured youth and fellow-slave from New Orleans. "Brute," said llannibal, rushing up and catching him by the hand, " has your mistress come north? Is she here ?" "Dar you ah," said Brutus, "only glad to see an ole fren, cans he knows suffers of some one else. Now is Let dat de troof ?" "No, Brutus," said Ilannibal, "I am pleased to see you for yourself; but of course there is one more, only one, that I would like to sae better. You know we must not be un gallant to the fair sex." "Ob course not," said Brutus. "Well I why don't you relieve my anxiety?" " I has been sold," said Brutus. On seeing Brutus the hopes of Hannibal had gone up like a rocket, but on hearing the words "I has been sold, they suddenly fell in darkness. " Here is a seat," said Hannibal, "sit down and tell ma all about it. How did you leave Bella ?" " Open your mouf for bad news," said Brutus, taking a seat. " Well! what is it ? Don't keep me in this suspense." " Missus broke up her 'stablishment, and Belly iS old too. Dar, now you hab it." " Sold I sold II " exclaimed Hannibal. " Where has she gone ?" " God knows whar," answered Brutus in a sympathising tone. "I war fetched hare." •' My God, what shall I do," exclaimed Hannibal. " wish I was dead. Ido wish that I was dead!" " Wait awhile," said Brutus, "I spec you'll die ban' bye." When Hannibal's grief had a little subsided, he requested Brutus to tell him everything circumstantially that bad transpired. " Sartin, sartin, dat's jus what I'se gwine to do, if youd let me," said Brutus. "You see raissus took it in her bead to go norf to lib, and did n't want no servants, so sbe sold us. A furrin woman bought me and fotched me here; but I do n't think much ob her, she spokes such disgusseu btld British." " But do n't you know who bought poor Bella F" ask ed Hannibal. " Ob course I do." " And do you know where she is now ?" "Knows whar she is? Sartin I do." " I thought you said that you did not know." " Souse me. I said God knows whar ; but you did Al gib me time to say dat I know too." _ " Well I where is she ?" i, y es , I' m j us g wine to told you. Now aint you glad to see me?" "Yes, Brutus, I certainly am," said Hannibal, to humour him. " You'd oughter to be, cans I'm allers woollen to oblige you in any way, or oblige any man." " Where are you going ?" asked Hannibal. " Come along and ax no questions, and you shall see.'' Hannibal followed him into the servants' department e a second-class public-house. "Hares whar I lib," said Brutus; "will you take 5 char; and please souse the presence ob my absence 0118 .munnit ?" Brutus left the room, and soon afterwards returned w ith a beautiful young woman. There were the exclamations "Bella I"—" Hannibal and the next instant Hannibal was holding her in his ar l°6. —From "Andrew Deverell," just published by 14". r. Bentley. COUNTRY MARKETS. GLOUCESTER—SEPT. 12. The show of English wheat to-day was very much the increase, and the trade was dull at the currencies of la s er week. Foreign wheat was very dull. Barley at ratl l more money. Beans, and oats were dull. COLCHESTER—SEPT. 12. There was a fair supply of wheat to-day, and the rates of last week were rather lower, with a slow trade. Fine 1 0 " ley fully realised late prices. Beans and peas very scarc e ' and the turn in favour of buyers. Wheat ,! white. 44s LOs Beans,Mazagan..33s „ 3 2 red ..42s 46s middle & small.3ss gle 40s Barley Oats CHELMSFORD--SEPT. 11. At this corn exchange to-day there was a fair show of ecS wheat., but the trade was inactive, and last week's 1 )11- r were barely maintained. There was no alteration M °the articles. ~ 9 40s Wheat, old white...3ls 49s , Peas Partridge.. •• 31 s - 3 0 new ..46s 50s White .. ,0, 40 4j5 old red....36s 44s Boiling 4os 333 ''''' „,,, new 40s 46s Dun ..-0 Barley ..2's 36s Ditto new —s Chevalier .. 28s 39s Beans, Tick, old .. 34 s :39° -- Ai ,: Grinding 228 31s new.. —s Ma1t..... 618 6 7s Harrow Ticks ..355 ',— Chevalier 6 Oats 2os 2 8 s Mezagan ..303 39 KIRKCALDY GRAIN—SEPT. 12. To-day we had small supplies of all descriptions of go ° at market. Sales free, at last week's rates. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....3ss Od 2os Od I 22 s Od Second .. 36s Od 31s Oct 23s 6d Oct 33s Od 25s Od COAL .rY FriOeo of Coal per Ton al 8. d. ,All.li ET. the Mose of the market. 0. d Byass's Bebsido West Hartley ....16 3 ..17llolywell Carway and Dufiryn _ Walls End. 6 Haswell.... IS I 6 South Raton 6 Haugh Hull 17 6 East Hartlepool 1(-7, 6 South Hartlepool .... •• l' Kelloe ..... 6 South Ke110e.......• • • 11 9 Gosforth ............ 1" 9 Wharneliffe ..16 6 Hetton 18 0 Tunstall .17 6 Russes Hetton 11 6 llruddyll's Hetton 17 g Belmont .16 9 Thorpe . 16 105 ; sold, 91. Malting 2O 0 Walker Primrose l2 6 Eden Main l7 0 Lambert's West Hart ley 16 0 TatLield Moor 13 3 West Hartley 16 9 Walls End. Framwellgate.. l7 0 Eden l7 0 Acorn close 17 0 Ships at marke Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. SePt', 3l B: via Marseilles Oct. drazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Oct. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Sept. t. 6 1.7. 6 5 .: China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.SePt• via Marseilles Sept. Falkland sl c t IS 0 ' Gibraltar, l via ands Southampton Sept. . India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Sep t ' 0. via Marseilles Sept. 05. India (Bombay), via Southampton S e pt. , o. via Marseilles b e pt., Portugal .... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. , 20 . via Marseilles Sept., Newfoundland .. Oct. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... SeP" .... _ . 'by T.J.S. packet.... , iS. by Canadian packet.Selno. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .. Oct. ‘ ,4, Bahamas, via New York Sept. ..4, Mexico. Sept. ` 7 All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, I S e pt.S . pt. 0 California. and British Columbia.. AMERICAN MAILS.—The royal mail ateaniet China, Captain Anderson, sailed from Liverpoool oX 1 ide Saturday for New York, with the usual mails. D these, she also took out 106 passengers, and had a full cargo. She arrived at Queenstown yesterday at 6. 30 u ' r " em barked mails, 15 passengers, and the latest telexrarast and proceeded for New York at 4 p.m. ; all well. .01 Births- GLASS.—On the 10th inst., at Stevenage, Herts, Mrs. f' Glass, of a son. MAUNSELL.—On the 14th inst., at Grassland, near Cit" field, Sussex, the w ife of Commander Eyre Mauoselif 14. N., of a daughter. S TU RT.—On the 12 t h inst., at 16, Stockwell-common, 1411. Edward Sturt, of a son. sTAuNTos ._on the 14th . inst., at 9, St ran d, the wife of Alr. W. S. Staunton, of a daughter. Marriages. . ALLE N—On -0 11 . the 10th inst., at St. Thoma s /..„,1 Stam f o rd-hill, Joseph All en , of Abchurch-lane, ci_Lv7"'"of St o ke Newington, to M ar y M ason, youngest daught er d H. 1). C. Satow, of Idol-lane, Great Tower-stree t, Upper Clapton. at St. LONDESBOROUGH—SOM ERSET .— O n th e 10th inst., George's, Hanover-square, Lord Londesborough, t" - 4 Edith Somerset, youngest daughter of Emily, Due of Beaufort. Deaths. BATEMAN.—On the 12th inst., at Guilsborouol , thareptonshire, the Rev. John B. Bateman, 317. A., 58. CHA t :E.—On the 10th inst., at Brighton, Samuel ClifiGef Esq., aged 77. o f ConnErt- -On the 12th inst., Henry, the youngest U ve d a l e Co:bett, Esq., of Aston Hall, Aithall, 56 ' ° ' aged 30. DUNDAS.—On the i'lth inst., at Craig Royston, near Or - ,hurgh, Vice-Admiral Henry Dundas. Pit—On the 13th iost.. at 44, Westbourne-te rOce° Hyde-park, John Edward Phillips, Esq., aged ' 64. co RANGEILOn the 12th inst.l a t 39, St. George s-14 u° William &Algal., Esq., C.E., aged 63. .off C.• WALLACE.—On the 13th inst., at Guildford-street, • David Wallace, Esq., aged 78. rtf"S" London : Printed and Petished by WILLIAM AND— i v , of No. 112, Strand , P rinter, at TIIE SUN Office 1 4° ;,,0t Strand, in the Prec inct ofthe .lavoy, in the co ull ' i iiiiddlcseL--Tues,;laY, September 15, 180. 0f044•.'