The Sun. — London, England, 1864-09-13 00:00:00

The Extradition of Muller. Owing to the extraordinary interest felt by the iublic in this case we take from the New York lepers full details of the hearing in the New York )istrict Court. The lengthened summary which ve gave exclusively yesterday, however, conveyed he main features of the case. The hearing on the extradition case of Francis yfuller, charged with the murder of Mr Thomas triggs, near Hackney, London, on the 9th of July ast, was resumed on the 27th ult. before Commis. loner Newton. The British Government, through is consul at this port, was represented by Mr F. Marbury; the accused by his assigned counsel, Slessrs. Chauncey Schaffer and E. Blankman. The examination took place in the United States District Court-room, which was thronged with per ms, who evinced the greatest in the proceedings, end who anxiously sought for a view of the accused. The latter sat beside his counsel with an unmoved countenance and a calm demeanour, apparently the most uninterested and unaffected person in the densely crowded court. Mr Blankman said that as the prosecution had closed their case on the previous day, having bad everything in preparation for submitting it to the Court, it devolved upon him to make a few remarks, in urging upon the Court an application for an ad journment to give the counsel assigned to the ac cused an opportunity to read ove r the testimony, and to agree upon the proper line of defence. There was, however, much to urge preparatory to entering upon that stage of the proceedings. The warrant issued for the apprehension of Muller set forth that " on the 9th day of July he (Muller) did fel°. piously, w ilfully, and of malice aforethought, kill and murder one Thomas Briggs.' If a case of murder had been wade out in accordance with the statutes of Great Britt.in and the law of this land the duty of the Court would certainly be a plain one. Bat if to the mind of the Court this did not appear to be (as it did not appear to him) legal evidence of a murder having been committed, then the case did not come within the treaty of 1842, and there were no grounds whatever for the appre hension and commitment of the accused. If the case even be one of manslaughter it would not come within that treaty. Whatever view might be taken of the case, it would be an act of simple justice to allow counsel for the defence an opportunity to examine the testimony adduced against their ardor. tunate client. He, therefore, moved that the fur ther hearing of the case be adjourned, in order to give counsel time to prepare their defence. Mr Marbury, on the part of the British Govern ment opposed the motion for the adjournment. On the day the prisoner's arrest, Mr Beebe had been assigned by the Court counsel for the accused. That gentleman had accepted the task, and had an inter view with the prisoner, and it was expected that he (Mr Beebe) would have been present to defend him on the day fixed for the examination. The deposi tions in the case had been handed to the two able counsel subsequently (in consequence of the absence of Mr Beebe) assigned for the defence, and those gentlemen were present on the previous day when the testimony of the witnesses was given. This in quiry was a preliminary one. The commissioner was siiting in the capacity of an ordinary commit ting magistrate, not for the purpose of determining whether this man was absolutely guilty or not, but whether there was a sufficient degree of suspicion of criminality against him to justify his commit• ment for trial, supposing the offence charged had been committed here. In other words, supposing, instead of Mr Briggs having been murdered between Bow and Hackney, he had been murdered between Twenty seven - etreet and Harlem, under precisely similar circumstances as appear in this case, the question then being whether the evidence that has been prtsented would justify the commit ment of the accused for trial in the ordinary way, and according to the due course and process of law. Hs (Mr Marbury) Would extremely dislike to do anything bearing the appearance of a desire to withhold from the unfortunate man any privi lege or right that belonged to him ; but it seemed to him that the request made by counsel was not a reasonable one. The whole facts lay within an exceedingly narrow compass, and from the reading of the depositions, and from the testimony adduced on the previous day the general conclusion arrived at must be that, whatever the ultimate fate of the man may be, whatever the result of the more formal and legal investigation. enough has appeared and transpired here to justify his commitment. What follows ? He is committed for trial ; he is sent to the scene of the murder, to the place where he can find and produce witnesses who will state all the circumstances of exculpation that can be found. A great and appalling crime has been committed, and circumstances of great weight and moment con nected the accused with the commission of that crime. Necessarily, the case must undergo an in vestigation, and it is not depriving the prisoner of the right to the fullest defence secured to him by the common law of England and by the practice of English jurisprudence to commit him for trial. He did not think that anything was likely to arise in the case that heretofore failed to present itself to the experienced and acute counsel who represent the accused on this occasion ; and it appeared to him that great inconvenience and detriment would arise from any postponement of the case. Mr. Blankman briefly responded to the remarks of the counsel for the prosecution, urging anew his motion for a brief adjournment. Mr. Chauncey Shaffer followed for the defence. He advocated no new doctrine, advanced no new law when he declared that there was nothing in the evidence before the Court to justify the com mitment of the accused on the charge here pre ferred against him. The accused was a foreigner, a German by birth, who had a few days since arrived on these shores in the ordinary course of transit. When any man thus lands here he is presumed to be innocent of any crime. The law throws around him that shield of presumptive inno cence, and he is secure, and that power Which sends forth fiesta and armies, and which on this occasion is emboaomed in your honour, is here to shield and defend him from any violation of that principle. He was not present to-day to quarrel with the policy of England ; but here he would fearlessly state, at the outset, that he did not regard the treaty under which it was thought to extradite this man as nnything else than a violation of the constitution of the United States, and utterly inoperative. The great Webster held and ruled and wrote and declared that 'MtLeod, who crossed the Canadian frontier, and landed at Slogger, and who murdered Duprey and set the steamer Caroline on fire, and then set her afloat, so that she went down into the sublime depths of old Niagara, that he should be set at large. Great Britain defended M'Llod as jus'ified by the mixed and unsolemn state of war that then existed. Webster was for discharging that man, after he had been arrested on the soil of New York and indicted for trial on the charge of murder. But the Supreme Court of the State held him, and he as tried and acquitted but the dignity and sovereignty of the Empire State was vindicated, and Excelsior is her proud title still, Now the constitution of the United States provides that no man shall be put in peril of his life or liberty, except upon indictment by a grand jury or presentment of a grand jury, which means the same thing. The extradition of this man is claimed by virtue of a treaty between this country and Eagland. Treeties are made by the Presidi of and submitted by him to the Senate, and when ratified by that body they become pert of the law of the land, with almost the same binding force as the constitution itself if the treaty be not in violation of the constitution. He would not stand there and say that it would be better that the nation should perish than the constitution be violated, but would he say that it wou ld b o far better for him as anindividual, and for all of U3 ' that this once proud i.slanl and ell it co nta i ns should ho de:it:eyed, better indfeel that this goodly island. became a sand bank for the storms of earth and ocean to meet in conflict dire—that it should be a spot for sea monsters to fatten on, than that the supreme law of the island should be violated by the treaty-making power of any other power. Now, by this treaty you are asked to surrender the man to be tri , d for his lite before he is yet indicted. In t h at the treaty is in contravention of the constitution. You are asked to do what the President and Cone gress could not constitutionally do—put this man in the peril of his life before an indictment for any offence is found against him. He did not ask the Court to say that the treaty was unconstitutional, but he would show conclusively that it was at pre sent suspended by the act of the British Govern ment itself, who seeks here for its enforcement. The ocean is as much a portion of the heritage of the American people as the broad prairies of the West. He would come briefly to the main point of his argument. It was an elementary principle recognised by the Jaw of nations, that a state of war between the two nations suspends the opera tions of all treaties. But it may be said, there is no war between this country and Ureat Britain. Neither is there in their sovereign relations and capacity, but there is a war notwithstanding. There does exist what the eminent Grotius terms " a mixed and unsolemn state of war" between the two nations —between the subjects of England on the one side, and the subjects of the United States, as represented in her commerce on the ocean, on the other. The test is easy of application. For instance, the officers who are here in court today, representing their Sovereign while in pursuit of this man, supposed to have his hands red with the blood of his fellow man, were actually afraid this supposed murderer would escape condign punish ment. Why ? What gave rise to their fears ? The fear that a pirate vessel infesting the ocean as the highway of nations —sent out from the friendly British ports by British subjects, would snatch from British justice that which it was in pursuit of. Britain committing suicide upon her own justice. That is a state of war, and that state of things by the common consent of mankind suspends all treaties between the two countries. There is that hostility on the part of English subjects towards this country which the writers on international law denominate mixed and unsolemn war, and which can be carried on without any formal declae ration of war. There are three sorts of war — public, private, and mixed. Mixed war is subdi vided into solemn and unsolemn war. When hos tilities are carried on without any previous declara tion of war that is a mixed and unsolemn war ; and this, as in any war, leads to a suspension of treaties previously existing, being a war between the sub jects and citizens of one nation against another nation ; and that nation or power which cannot prevent this state of things, that nation which can not control its own subjects ceases to be a nation. England cannot say she is neutral in this matter, when she furnishes our rebellious subjects with ves sels of war, mans them, opens her ports to them, furnishes them with arms and ammunition, and sends them forth on their errands of destruction, burning merchant ships, and destroying the com merce on the seas of a friendly power. The Ala bama, built and armed in England, and manned by Englishmen, sunk and burned 120 of our ships; and when at last she meets the fate she so richly deserved, we find an English subject, in his yacht, snatching from an officer his legal captives. Look at the case of the steamer running from this port to Portland, in Maine, seized by pirates, the engis neer murdered, passengers murdered, the vessel brought into an English port, and the murderers and pirates protected by British subjects. But, as in the case before the court, when a man is found murdered near London, they pursue the supposed murderer to our shores, and cry, " Treaty, treaty, treaty." They tore that treaty to pieces three years ago. (Applause.) Nay, more, great argosies laden with the choicest treasures of the nation have been sunk in countless numbers, with connivance and consent of this neutral friendly power. The torch has been applied by the pirate Florida, built and sent out by English subjects, a robber on the highway of nations, murdering oar citizens and destroying our commerce, and humiliating the nation before the world, so that no longer is it an honcur to claim to be an American citizen. This was not so much the act of the Go vernment or the people as of the aristocracy, who misrepresented the government and the people. The latter were true to liberty and to the United States. God bless them. This treaty, then, under which the rendition of this man is demanded is suspended and is a dead letter until this mixed and unsolemn state of war on the part of the Britian sutTcte against the Government ceases. England to claim this man must come into court with clean hands. She must not cone hero and ask of ns to honour her justice when she dishonours her own justice, breaks her tre,ties, and cries peace and neutrality while at the same time eta lets slip the dugs of war, and with piratical vessels drives our peaceful commerce from the ocean. This cannot long continue. Better for us we had war at once, when we could send our cruisers and assert our rights of retaliation on the ocean. The times of D. , catur are not forgotten, and we have aFarragut worthy to take the firstplace in any contest, where the pride and honour and courage of America are at stake. (Applause.) Leaving the case of his client in the hands of the court he would close. Inspector Tanner wasre-examined as to the height of the prisoner and his personal appearance, to show that he could not be one of the two men seen in the compartment of the railway carriage with Mr Briggs on the night of the murder. This ended the case for the defence. Mr Marbury, for the British Government, then ad• dressed the Court. He did not think it quite generous or becoming in him to enter upon a criticism of the speech of the gentleman who had just spoken, nor would he attempt to follow him through the wide and discursive range of topic he had introduced iota the case. Ile would even hold himself excused from the necessity of as much as adverting to many of the irrelevant matters which he had dragged into the discussion of this question. All that was immaterial. With 'eference to the treaty under which the accused was claimed, whether that treaty was faithfully observed or not was not a ques• tion for this Court to determine. That was for the execu tive government, and when the executive shall have taken the ground that by reason of the grievances to which coun sel had so eloquently referred, the Ashburton treaty was of no further force or effect. it would then be time enough for the courts to follow the action of the executive. But as long as the government of the two countries regarded that treaty as a subsisting treaty then it holds its place under the constitution, next to which and under which it is the supreme law of thalami. It would be trifling with the time of the Court to pursue that point any further. The only excuse or apology counsel could possibly offer for the intro duction of such topics must be in the tact that the case on its own merits aff aded no entertainment to the audience which the counsel is always expected to produce whenever he appears in court. This was a very serious and grave business for this young man, and looking upon him one could hardly conceive that he perpetrated the dreadful crime with which he stood charged. And if he could escape from the evidences of guilt that came from so many quar t ters, all converging and pointing to him, he (counsel) would experience relief f rom a we i g hty re s pon s ibili ty. Thi s was not a case for sickly sentiment or sympathy. If he were really guilty of murdering the venerable man (Mr Brigg s) in the way described, then his crime was o ne o f the blackest dye, as well as one of the meanest and most revolting in all its aspects, that had ever been perpetrated. The facts were these .--First, the corpus delicie is fully established, At half-past 9 o'clock, July 9, 1864, Mr Briggs was seen alive and in perfect health. In two and a half or three minutes afterwards he lay moaning and insensible in the six-feet way of the North London Railway. The carriage in which he had been riding, and from which he was thrown, exhi bited proofs of a recentaad bloody struggle. Several mortal wounds ware inflicted on the deceased, from the effects of which he soon afterwards died. 2d, the evidence which has been adduced shows clearly and conclusively the prisoner is guilty of the murder of Mr Briggs with which he is charged. On Saturday evening, July 9, between half-past seven and half-past eight o'clock, Muller left the house of Mrs Repsch, 12n Jewry-street, Aldgate. Ho did not return that evening to his lodgings as it was usual for him to do. On examining the compartment in which Mr Briggs had been assaulted and mut dered, a hat was found, made by T. H. Walker, 42, Crawford-street, Marylebone, London. It was crushed, and had marks of blood upon it. This hat is proved by the witness Matthews, wbo has been examined here, and by Mrs Repsch, whose deposition has been taken, to have belonged to Muller, and to have been worn by him up to the time of the murder or nearly so. Mr Briggs's hat was taken away by the murderer. Muller, on the llth day of July, had on at Mrs Repsch's a nearly new hat, with white silk lining.. Ho told Mrs Repsch his old one had been thrown jet- a duethele. When arrested hero a hat is found stowed a , .‘ ay in his box, Mr Briggs's hat is gong, and Muller is found with one in his box. From the person of Mr Briggs a gold watch and chain were taken by violence. This chai n is proved distinctly to have been in Muller's possession on Monday, July 11. On that day it was ex changed by him at the whop of Mr Death, 55, Cheapside, London, for another chain and ring. This other chain was packed in one of Mr Death's card-boxes and delivered to andthe psrinisgontoera,evelirael persons. subse q uent l y The benxxh w ib , i t t h ed m t r h D is ,3a n t e h w .a ehanamein end address on, he gave to Mr Alatthews' little dauzher. On the 12th July, 1564 (Tuesday), the prisoner pawned the new chain to Mr Annie, No. 121, Minories, and re ceived a pawn ticket therefor. On the 13th July (Wed nesday) 1864, the prisoner sold this pawn ticket to John Haifa, his room mate, for the sum of 121, which sum he needed, as he said, to pay for his passage to America. On his arrival here he is identified clearly by Mr Death as the person who sold him Mr Briggs's chain. He is also identified by Matthews as the owner of the hat which was found in the compartment of the railway carriage where Mr Briggs received the wounds, from the effects of which he died. There is also found in Muller's box a heavy gold watch, made by Archer, of Hackney, where Mr Briggs re sided. Muller is not known to have had any watch of his own. If he had he would probably have exhibited it, or it would have been seen by Matthews and other witnesses to whom he showed the chain and ring and with whom he was on terms of intimacy. Third, the evidence is such as would plainly require the commitment of Muller for trial if the offence had been committed here, and it results that a certificate leading to his extradition, that the case may un dergo an investigation, should be granted. Thus the chain of evidence was complete ; not a link was wanting to con nect the prisoner with the commission of the crime with which he stood charged. Commissioner Newton then proceeded to deliver the decision of the Court. Having complimented the counsel assigned for the defence for the able manner in which they had defended their client, he said—l am not at a loss to see, after carefully looking over the testimony and weighing it in my mind, that there is sufficient testi mony for me, sitting in the capacity of a committing magistrate, to commit this man for trial. My simple duty is to determine whether there is sufficient probable cause from the evidence which has been produced to that effect, which would cause me to remand him that he may have an opportunity to be tried at the place where the crime was committed, and there proving his innocence, or, being found guilty, to be punished for his crime. It is not neces sary for me to determine absolutely that he is guilty of the crime. The fact to determine is, has a crime been com mitted ? If it has been committed, is there probable cause, from the evidence, to show that the party accused is the party who has committed the crime ? Now, it appears to my mind, looking at it in the light of probable cause, that my duty is very simple and very plain. Ido not desire to sit in judgment upon this man—far be it from me. I wish it was in my power to discover any evidence or trace of innocence to justify me in withholding the certificate of extradition. But lam free to say that, from all the com bined circumstances, the chain which seems to have been inked around this man points fatally to him as the guilty man. So clear and distinct is the question of probable cause that I cannot for one moment have a doubt as to the proper course to pursue. Under the circumstances lam constrained to grant the certificate, and the prisoner there `ore stands committed. The prisoner was then removed. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, TIMES.--While Lord Russell has declined to in tervene on behalf of the Georgia, the Government of the United States has justified the confidence o the English public by ordering the immediate extra dition of Franz Muller. It was only a vague idea that the evidence might be incomplete or that some technical point might be raised to procure delay that suggested any doubt as to the issue of the pro ceedings at New York. Whatever may be said against American politics, and even against the con duct of the American Judges when they merge their proper character in that of politicians, no well-in fornaed:person would venture to speak disparagingly of American tribunals. Acting in their judical capa city, American jurists have - merited and obtained a very high place among legal authorities, and the present Attorney - General has more than once taken occasion to cite with the utmost respect their deci eions on internationai questions. In the present in stance, indeed, there was little room for the exercise of a magnanimous impartiality, inasmuch as the case —that is, the prima facie case upon which the requi sition was founded—proved to be free from all doubt. The only hitch was as to the identity of the watch, and the want of this link was not material. Nothing seem to have been elicited in cross-examination that could influence the result of the inquiry, except the alleged want of resemblance between the prisoner and either of the persons seen in the railway car • riage with Mr Briggs. Nothing was said in the course of the defence that could shake the presump tion of Muller's guilt, except in this one particular, and the terms used by Commissioner Newton in granting the necessary certificate indicated no hesi tetion whatever—" My duty is simple and plain. I do not desire to sit in judgment on this man ; far be it from me. I wish it was in my power to discover a trace of innocence to justify me in withholding the certificate of extradition, but I am flee to say all the circumstances point fatally to the prisoner as the guilty man. So clear and distinct is the question of probable cause that I cannot for one moment. have a doubt as to the proper course to be pursued." Language such as this is perhaps a little more ems phatic and unqualified than we should expect. from a committing magistrate; at all events, it does not betray any unworthy reuetence to surrender an English criminal under the Extradition Treaty. It is right, however, that we should take notice of the atrenge arguments employed by Muller's counsel — first in support of the motion fur a further adjourn meat, and afterwards in support of the motion for the prisoner's discharge. It was urged that the case of Muller stood on the same footing as that of Anderson and the Confederate pirates, and that in asmuch as the claim for extradition was there dis allowed by the British Courts after solemn inquiry and deliberation, time should at least be granted to find a like flaw in Muller's favour. The answer was obvious—viz., that the murder of which Anderson was accused appeared on the face of it to be no mur der in the eye of the English law, and that the piracy with which the Confederate seamen were charged turned out, upon the preliminary investi• gation, to be piracy of a kind for which they could be tried in this country. No such objection relating to the nature of Muller's crime had been established or even put forward; the evidence went to prove a murder in the plainest sense, or nothing at all, the only possible doubt being as to Muller's com plicity. But, then, argued Mr. Shaffer, the Extradition Treaty itself mast 'ba con sidered void as violating the American Consti tution, or if not void ab initio, it has been annulled by the state of war now subsisting between Great Britain and the United States—not,indeed, between the two Governments, but between the peoples, so long as Confederate cruisers issue from English ports. We are not surprised that Mr. Marbury, who conducted the . prosecution for the British Consul, wasted very little time on this marvellous paradox. It is so obvious that the Executive Government alone can abrogate a treaty that w e can h ar dly sup pose the exception to have been taken in earnest. Remem b er i ng Mr. Edwin James's famous defence of Bernard, we are not disposed to make too much of forensic appeals to national prejudices, or to pre sume that because a fallacy of this kind was thrown out, in desperation, by an advocate, it had the least chance of imposing on the court. We question, however, whether an English barrister would have had the assurance to address such a piece of reason• ing to an English judge, even it he were capable of trying its effect on a jury. As if to deprive it of all pheusibility, it so happens that when the Extradi tion Treaty was made, the relations of the two coun• tries were in quite as precarious a state as they have been at any time during the last three years, and serious difficulties had arisen, the recurrence of which it was calculated, and probably designed, to prevent. Disputes on the frontier, originating in the Canadian rebellion, constantly threatened to em broil us, while the controversy about the right of search was still outstanding, the Slaves States were furious at the release of some negroes at Nassau, and, besides the unfailing sympathy of an American party with disaffection in Ireland, there were the formidable questions of Texas, Mexico, and Oregon to keep hostility alive. If, therefore, there was ever a time when either party might be tempted to repudiate a treaty expressly made terminable at thy will of either, it was when the ratifications of it were first exchanged. Yet, so far from regarding it as an additional element of discord, its framers seemed to have intended it as a palliative, and it is a little curious that it is mere comprehensive than the treaty made with the friendly Government of France a few months afterwarda. The latter, it is true, includes the crime of fraudulent bankruptcy, but it is silent as to piracy, arson, or robbery, the very offences which are most akin to private warfare on the border or the high seas. Since this treaty was signed similar conventions have been made by the United States with France and other Powers, and a special machinery was provided by Congress in 1848 for giving effect to their stipulations. It vrt cEg virtue of of Inspector f ida the Actthenpa Tanner, ssedth andat Muller on his ulleris itl:a b owyy Courts to i in and Government ud in th e having e'Ena. thus l'h honourably discharged discharged themselves of their obligations, it le tames for us to consider what is due to English jus tice. When we hear of vast crowds awaiting Mul ler's arrival at Queenstown, and li s t e n to expres sions of relief at the murderer being capturck we are compelled to remind our readers that the pri soner has still to take his trial, and that it will be a disgrace to us if it be not a fair one. It is too much to expect that any one of the jurymen will not have read accounts of the case and formed an impression of his own. No one will envy these gentlemen the effort of clearing their minds from all prejudice and weighing the evidence as if they heard it for the first time, but it is an effart that must be, made. Without entering upon details which are already familiar to every one, it is manifest that almost everything must turn upon Muller's ability to explain two facts,—the discovery of a hat be lieved to be his in the railway carriage, and the possession of Mr. Briggs's property. If he can do THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1864 this, or prove an alibi, ete he stated he could on being arrested, he will be entitled to an acquittal. The German Society, which has humanely espoused his cause and provided him with legal assistance at New York, will doubtless leave no stone unturned to protect his interests. Something still remains to be cleared up, and the coroner's jury have pro perly abstained from finding a verdict until they have all available information before them. Let the chain of circumstantial evidence be ever so strong, it is not conclusive so long as some key which purports to unlock it has not been applied. When that has been:tried and failed, then, and not till then, presumption becomes moral and legal cer tainty. HERALD.—The Asia brings important news from America, news less favourable to the Confederacy than we have of late been wont to receive, but far less unfavourable than some persons in this country have been led to suppose. Unless the War Office at Washington has been more than usually impne dent in its falsehoods Atlanta has fallen into the hands of General Sherman. This is a misfortune no doubt—a" misfortune, chiefly because it will strengthen the hands of the Federal Government and encourage a war party at the North. Two years ago it would have been a terrible blow ; six weeks ago it would have been a much more serious matter than it is now. At present so little is thought of it in New York that the premium on gold, which was 135, ranges between 149 and 154 k. The truth is this, Atlanta was the great railroad centre of the South; the nucleus of a set of lines which branched into every part of the Confederate States, which connected Tennessee and Northern Mississippi with Georgia, and through Georgia with the Gulf States on the one hand, and with Richmond and the Cnrolinas on the other. While the whole region through which this system passed was in the mili. tary possession of the Confederates, the loss of At lanta, if such a loss could under those conditions have occurred, would have been terrible. Even while Vicksburg remained to the South the fall of Atlanta would have been a deplorable misfortune, as it would have cut the communication between the eastern and western halves of the Confederacy via Vicksburg. In a word, Atlanta is the nucleus, the meeting point, the central knot, of a great rail way network. But at this moment one-fourth of that network is in the hands of the North; and this fact has destroyed the value of the centre. What remains is independent of Atlanta. The great line of communication between the Gulf States and Richmond passes from Montgomery to Augusta— from the heart of Alabama to a point on the fron tiers of Georgia and Sisuth Carolina. One line passes through Atlanta, and this Sherman has now cut. One line, therefore, is lost; and in so far the South has sustained an injury. But the communi cation is not cut. Another line passes from Mont gomery through Macon to Augusta. Macon, the nearest point of this line, is 100 miles or so south of Atlanta. Unless, therefore, Sherman can follow Hood along this road, drive him into Macon, and, finally, take that city, he cannot out the Confede racy in twain. And if he could, the northern and southern halves might still maintain a separate and independent yet healthy life, as east and west have done since the fail of Vicksburg. In another point of view the loss of Atlanta is a misfortune, but a fur less serious one than it would have been six weeks ago. Hood's defence has gained time, and time was of vital importance. Atlanta was a great arsenal and machine shop. It has furnished the Confederacy with arms turned out of its workshops ; it had factories, it had stores, it had machinery. shell, while defend. ing it against Sherman, Hood has been removing, in heavily laden trains, the stores of arms and am munition, the tools, the workmen, the machinery. We doubt if he will be found to have left behind anything more than the defences of the place and the houses which formerly sheltered a population somewhat like that of Crewe. When Sherman placed himself at East Point, interrupting the lines leading to Macon and Montgomery, Hood's work was ended, and he has left the empty shell of Atlanta to its fate. Such seems to be the history of Sherman's success, so far as we can interpret by our present knowledge the very meagre informa tion which hes reached us. There is no reason to doubt but that the mischance may be repaired be fore the evil goes further and the conquerors of Atlanta approach the defences of Macon. Fort Mor g an, Mobile, after a twenty-four hours' bona bardnent, has followed the fate of Fort Gaines. These two disasters are both, as yet, incomprehen sible : we can neither understand how it should happen that Mobile should be entrusted to the pro tection of forts which could not be held for a week, or how, if they could be held, they came to be sur rendered. As yet, treachery and cowardice have been unknown among the Confederates; nor has any previous event, on the other , hand, suggested the probability of such lack of engineering science on their part as would be indicated in the con. struction of forts that could not be held for a con• siderable period against any means at Farragut's Jtsposal. In outer quarters the confederates have not been altogether unsuccessful. In Virginia, more than half the ground held by Hancock upon the eldon Railroad has been wrenched from him, after hard fighting; and we may expect to hear that he has abandoned or been driven from the rest. The possession of this line is of no inconsiderable im portance to the defenders of Richmond, and they certainly will not relax their efforts to recover it. Report says that in the Shenandoah Valley Early has disappeared from Sheridan'e front; a part of his force, perhaps, having been. recalled to operate against Grant, as, in 1862, Stonewall Jackson was called away from his successes over Banks and Fremont to assist in the movement which drove M'Clellan through the swamps and woods back to the shelter of his gunboats on the James River. And in Arkansas the capture of a whole Federal regiment appears to have re warded some unexpected movements on the part of a Confederate force of which, lately, we had heard little or nothing. Such are the advantages which are to be set off against the fall of Atlanta and Fort Morgan. The balance is perhaps against the South. Yet if the worst should come, if Macon should follow Atlanta, and Savannah Macon, and if Montgomery and Mobile should share their fate, the fortunes of the South would not be at a lower ebb than were those of the colonists at more than one period of that war of independence which ended so disastrously for the mother country. Federal successes can only prolong the war, with its fearful crimes and its grinding misery ; they cannot avert its predetermined and long foreseen inevitable issue. To this conclusion the Democratic party at the North appears to have come. The convention held at Chicago has adopted a programme which, though in form a compromise between the two sections of the party, derives its spirit and substance from that which makes peace its first and paramount object. Union, but union through armistice, negotiation, and a general con vention ; union to be obtained by the cessation, not by the protraction and exacerbation of hostilities — such is the proposal on behalf of which the assem bled leaders of the Democratic party appeal to their country and their adherents. " War, if it can con quer the South, cannot restore the Union ; let us try if we cannot restore the Union by peaceful means ; failing in that, it will be tiuio enough to draw the sword again." Such is their policy ; and they have agreed on a candidate for the Presidency whose name will give weight to that policy and credit to his sups porters. With a good sense which the republicans have failed to learn even from the terrible lessons of the last four years, they have agreed by acolamation to propose the strongest man of their part; perhaps the best and wisest man among the known men of the great general ; but he rises into positiv e g randeur North. M'Clellan is not a great man, hardly a by comparison with such intellectual pigmies a s Lincoln, Seward, Sumner, a nd the rest of those whom a R e p u bli can v i c t or y would confirm in pow er ; and if he achieved no more than Grant has done he was at least chary of his soldiers' lives. The quiet dignity with which he has endu red enforced retire ment, the unselfi s h pa t r iotism which inspired his career while in comman d, ensure for him such a respect and est eem as E ur opeans, No name could better serve As a at least, have not been able to ent er t a i n f or an y one who during the last forty years h as occu pied the Presid ential chair. rallying point for the respectable, sober minded men whom the ex cesses end follies of the present possessors of power have utterly terrified and disgusted, and who desire nothing—not even the Union —so much as a decent, capable, and law-abiding Government. No man could be more likely to unite all the elements of good that may exist in the Northern population, and form a party strong enough and brave enough to create and carry out a consistent and practicable settlement of the present embarrassments of his country. Taking up the programme of the Chicago Convention, such a party may be a ble at once to in• duce the South to negociate on such terms as the North can accept, and the North, after negotiation, to acquiesce in the inevitable independence of the South. With the Republican in power negotiation can hardly be expected, nor, if accepted, could it lead to any result; but with a President like M'Clellan the South could treat in confidence. His election would prove the N or th at least half re covered from its fever of ferocity and fanaticism ; and a convention held under i ea auspices, if it failed —as we think it mutt fail—to restore the Union, would probably succeed in establishing an amicub'e separation. The n om i na tion of INl'Clellan as the Presidential candid a t e o f the Democracy, with a programme so decid e dl y p a cific, is the one hopeful augury that appears amid the confusion of the pre sent of America and the darkness of her future. For the fu:filmcnt of that augury we can rather pray than hope. What is the differeuee between the English and the American soldier ?-one fights for tb.? Frown 11441 fie other for the 44ar Arr9tro Naval and Military Intelligence, Hamoaze, the inner harbour of the port of Portsmouth, is one of the safest and most capacious in Great Britain. It is over three nautical miles long, and has an average width of deep water for about three quarters of a mile, and yet for mercantile or even naval purposes its navigation is both difficult and dangerous, being constantly occupied by a numerous and incongruous fleet of active,'passive, and obse lete ships of war. Formerly merchant vessels might find sea room for sailing on one side or the other ; latterly both sides are used for the accommodation of gun and mortar boats, and it therefore becomes absolutely necessary for these vessels to employ steam tugs, which with their convoy may be able to find a passage if the streams run up or down true, but when it is high tide or slack water, or when freshets prevail, the passage is fouled by the long ships of war, which being caught by contrary currents, swing about in different directions, and completely chock the navigation. The bed of the harbour is equally inconvenient to merchant vessels, for if one should be unfortunately compelled to drop her anchor, it is very likely to catch in the numerous chain moorings laid across the stream, and it is contrary to Admi miralty regulations for a merchant master himself to adopt measures to free his anchor. The fleet in Hamoaze consists chiefly of the Steam Reserve, which is classed in four divi sions. In the first division there are the Donegal, 81, the Constance, 39, the Ocean and the Caledonia, 35, both iron cased, the Doris, 30, the Zealous, 20, ironcased, the Gannet, 17, the Megsera, 6, iron troop ship, converting into a store. ship, the Sphynx, 6, paddle, the Espoir, 5, and the gunboats Ripple, Tilbury, Fervent, Dapper, and Clinker. In the second division the Windsor Castle, 97, the Royal William, 78, the Royal Albert, 76, and the Brunswick, 68. In the third the Howe, 107, the Defiance, 81, the Renown, 81, the St. Jean d'Acre, 81, the James Watt, 79, the London, 78, the Nile , 78, the Exmouth, 76, the Sanspareil. 70, Centurion, 68, the Russell, 60, the Topaae, 39, the Encounter. 21, the Desperate, 8, the Intrepid, 6, the mortar vessels Forth and Seahorse, and the Snake,the Violet, the Skipjack, the Jack daw, and the Seagull ; and, in the fourth division, the Ajax, 60; the Hogue, 60; the Centaur, 6 (paddle); and the Rain bow. Among the Steam Reserve there is a very large ma jority of ships which, from the nature of their build, are not adapted for modern warfare. The three-decked wooden ship Windsor Castle, 97 guns nominal, 3,101 tons, launched at Pembroke on the 24th of August, 1858, and supplied with superior engines, has never been to sea, and never will in her present state, although built so recently. She may be cut down and iron-plated, like the Caledonia. Another wooden ship, the Howe, 107 guns, 4,245 tons, launched at Pembroke on the 7th of March 1860, and considered muoh superior to the 'Windsor Castle, may also be cut down ; and several other. ships will, unless otherwise disposed of, re quire expensive modification or reconstruction. Many of the older wooden ships are becoming unfit for any duty. The Russell, Hogue, and Ajax will neither steam nor sail ; their machinery is complicated and useless, and their hulls are detenceless against modern artillery. The Majestic, Centu rion, and Brunswick may do for coastguard ships, but not active warfare. The Forth and Seahorse are scarcely avail able as mortar ships now ; perhaps, like the Fox, they will be appropriated for the transport of stores and machinery. It is understood that the Lords of the Admiralty are desir ous of selling the paddlewheel steam sloops Centaur, 6, 1,270 tons. Among the sailing ships are the Amphitrite, 44 -Arachne, 18-Atalanta, 16-Cambrian, 40-Cambridge, 44-Canopus, 41- Cerberus, 42-Circe, 42-Creole, 26- Flora, 40 -Foudroyant, 78-Grecian, 12-Hamadryad, 42 -Impregnable, 78- Indefatigable, 50-Indus, 78 -King fisher, 12-Leda, 41-Liberty, 12-Martin, 12--Nautilus, 6-Nemesis, 44-Pique, 40-Royal Adelaide, 78-Squirrel 12-Stag, 44-and Sybile, 40. Some of these aro applied to useful purposes ; the Royal Adelaide carries the post admi ral's flag, and receives seamen for active service; the Indus bears the admiral superintendent's flag, and is a depot for engineers, stokers, and pensioners; the Cambridge is used by seamen gunners, the Canopus for disposable seamen, and the Impregnable, Implacable, and the two brigs Martin and Squirrel are floating schools for training boys for the sea. All the obsolete sailing ships, and many of the steam fleet in Hamoaze, are termed ships in ordinary, and every one involves a constant expense for caulking, repairing, and painting. In addition to the engineers in charge of the ma • chinery on board steamers, each line of battle ship in ordi nary has two warrant officers, three men and a boy to take care of her ; every frigate has two men, and most of the smaller vessels have ono man, with a warrant officer in every third ship. The sailing frigates Hamadryad, Cerberus and S:ag have each a lieutenant. Whatever difficulty may exist regarding the disposition of some ships propelled by steam, there cannot be much doubt about the propriety of selling or breaking up the non-effective ships, which not only obstruct the navigation, but involve the constant ex pense of ship-keepers and occasional surveys by the officers of Davenport dockyard, who,with their assistants,necessarily expend some time on board, and bore holes with small augurs in all directions to ascertain the condition of the timber. When it is determined at Whitehall to sell a ship, the course usually observed is to publish her name, with an inventory of her stores, and to wait for tenders which are sent there. If the price offered approach the valuation of the dockyard surveyor, the ship is sold. Occasionally the offer is increased two or three times before a sale is con cluded. The prep.,. dinmeal of useless ships of war has long been a difficult problem for solution by the successive Lords of the Admiralty. The necessity for preventing thew from falling into the possession of unfriendly nations in their perfect state is the principal obstacle. Breaking up wooden ships in naval arsenals is found to be a most costly process It is said that the charge for haulage and for stack ing the topsides of the Royal Sovereign, recently cut clown in Portsmouth Dockyard, was tnore than the value of the timber when stacked. Oa the other hand, the prices given by professional shipbreakors, 30s or 40s per ton, bears ap parently an unfair relation to the original cost of the ships, £2O or £3O per ton. But, although the timber may be per ftct, a merchant ship built of it is not classed for more than six years by the Committee of Lloyds, who allow 12 or 13 years for new timber. The period is in some measure re stricted by the number and large size of the trenail and bolt holes in the old timber, and the difficulty in cutting it without considerably reducing its strength. All market copper found in the old ships is returnable to the Go vernment, and is paid fur at the current market price, Within the last three or four years the Lords of the Ad miralty have sold from Hamoaze the sailing ships Lan caster, 1,478 tons; Armada, 1,749 ; Lively and Druid, 1,080; Pallas, 951; Pilot, 485; Pandora, Express, Petrel, ant Crane, 360; Lapwing, 228 ; the gunboats Arrow, Lynx, Viper, and Partridge , 477 ; the p a ddle -wheel vessel Avon, 361; the Medusa, 3 guns; the Hecla, 6; and the sailing ships Audromeda , 44 guns ; Proserpine, 44 ; and Cadmus, 12. The Proserpina was 30 years old, and had never been to sea. The engines were removed from the Partridge before the sale. Their Lordships intend to dispose of the Grecian, built in 1838 ; the Heroine, 1841; the Nautilus, 1830; the Vigo, 1810 ; the Endymion, 17`97; the Bellona, 1812 ; the Egeria, 1807 ; the Jupiter, 3813; the Bacchus, 1813, the Linnet, 1835; the Arachne, 1827; the Circe, 1827 ; the Nemesis, 1826 ; the Lavinia, 1806, and six mortar vessels. These ships are roughly estimated to be worth less than £50,000. It is understood that for the Sybilla £5,000 has been refused. 'While we aro writing it is rumoured that their Lordships contemplate offering to contractors the privilege of breaking up ships-,.f - war in private yards under the supervision of Government inspec tors. It is to be hoped that they will speedily adopt this or same other vigorous course for realising the value of a perishing stock. The cost of its maintenance will at once be saved, and in the port of Plymouth considerable relief will be given to the important agricultural and mining traffic carried through the estuary of Hamoaz 3 from its tri butary rivers-the Tamar, Lynher, and Tavy. Her Majesty's screw troopships Himalaya and Vulcan are hourly expected to arrive at Spithead with troops on board the Himalaya from Canada and the Vulcan from China and the Cape of Good Hope. A Portuguese war corvette sailed on Saturday from the Motherbank, off Hyde, Isle of Wight, for the westward, Rear-Admiral R. S. Robinson, Controller of the Navy, is expected to embark this morning at Portsmouth on board the Admiralty paddle yacht Enchantress, Staff-Commander Petley, which will immediately afterwards sail for the Mediterranean station. Rear-Admiral Robinson will pro bably disembark from the yacht at Malta, the Enchantress then proceeding to Marseilles to receive other members of the Board, who have travelled by the overland route, and who will join the Controller at Malta. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com pany's steamship Poonah arrived at Portsmouth on Friday from Southampton, and was docked in the Warrior duck of her Majesty's dockyard to repair damages to her four blade I screw. She was undocked again on Saturday and left Portsmouth for Southampton. The Imperial French naval cadet training corvettes Le Boujainville, Capt. Nourry, and Le Chasseur, Commander Cony, sailed from Spithead on Saturday in continuation of their cruise of instruction. Capt. Rice, of the screw steamship St. George, 72, hav ing completed his survey of Coastguard stations in the gunboat Hind, left Plymouth on Saturday for head quar ters at Falmouth, Tho establishment of the Davenport dockyard is to be made up to 2,200 men ; several artisans in various depart ments will be entered shortly. The paddlewheel steamsloop Geyser, 6, Com. Arthur A. Thrupp, is having defects made good in Plymouth Sound. A considerable number of the hands hitherto employed on board the ironclad frigate Achilles, 29, 1,250 horse power, completing for sea at Chatham, have been withdrawn from that vessel, and placed on the other ships building and fi ting, in consequence of most of the works in the way of fitting, &c,, on board the Achilles being now completed. During the last few days the Achilles has been visited, by special permission of the Admiralty, by Mr King, the head of the engineering department of the United States Navy, who spent a considerable time on board the frigate, over which he was conducted by the principal officers of the yard. At the termination of his visit Mr King expressed his unqualified admiration of everything he had witnessed on board the Achilles, and frankly admitted that there was no vessel of the same class or description in the Federal navy which would bear comparison with her, while in the opinion of this gentleman she even surpassed the ironclads Minotaur, Agincourt, and Northumberland, all of which he had inspected. Such disinterested testimony as that given by Mr King is the mere valuable whorl it is re:limbered that the Achilles is the first of the squadron of ironclads built at the Royal dockyards. In consequence of the length The Ilysterisa of time which the Achilles has been lying in Chatham har bour her bottom has become exceedingly foul, notwithstand ing its having been coated with one of the numerous so called anti-fouling compositions. She will accordingly require to bo docked and her bottom cleaned before she proceeds on her first cruise. Second Capt R. Decie, in command of the 9th Company of Royal Engineers at Woolwich, will succeed Capt C. E. Harvey as Adjutant at the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, on the promotion of the latter officer. A serious accident occurred on Wednesday last to Mr Lighton, a cadet of her Majesty's ship Britannia,who,while running about the rigging fell from the main chains and struck on the landing stage of the gangway, by which he received a fracture of the skull and severe internal injury. Mr Sayce, a young cadet, seeing him in the water bleeding and insensible, instantly sprang overboard in the most gal lant manner to the rescue, and was quickly followed by Mr Stackpoole, another cadet (both having their clothes on). They endeavoured to support him as well as they could, but, finding the tide too strong, were about to relinquish their hold, when Lieut Hereford, observing their helpless position, swam to their relief, and succeeded in keeping the drowning boy above water until picked up by one of the officers and seamen who . hastened from the ship in a boat which was fortunately alongside. Mr Lighton was removed to the hospital at Dartmouth, where he remained under the care of Dr Bremer, the surgeon in charge. He is still in a precarious states, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. The division at Aldershot, under command of Sir J. L. Pennefather, 1i.C.8„ formed up on Clavcart-ridge at half past 10 o'clock onWednesday morning for field manoeuvres, and after the usual marchipast was disposed in order of battle, the 10th Hussars throwing out skirmishers and ad vancing to the westward, the Scots Greys being in support, and the Royal Dragoons forming the reserve of this brigade. On the recall of the skirmishers, the Hussars advanced in line at a gallop and halted, the Greys advanced on their right in the same order, passing the 14th for some distance before halting, and a troop of the Royal Dragoons was pushed forward by Major Ainslie at a smart gallop until far in advance, This troop retired, and the Greys and Hussars advanced in a line at a trot, changed positions to the south ward, and threw out skirmishers. The three brigades of infantry advanced by brigades in columns in mass, with the heads of columns in line, at deploying distance, each bri gade covered by a line of skirmishers. Generals Taylor and Russell, commanding the Ist and 3d brigades respectively, then changed positions to the southward, the latter form ing; his right on the left of the 14th Hussars. Brigadier Ingall, commanding the 2d brigade, also changed positions to the left, forming the advanced line, which brought him opposite Gen. Russell, skirmishers covering his front and throwing in a smart fire. The plan of attack now begins to develops itself. The Royal Dragoons advanced in line to the southward, on the left of the infantry, and charged in splendid style. while the 14th Hussars made a similar dash on the right of the infantry. As the 14th retired the Greys came forward and charged over the same ground with equal impetuosity. At the same time Brigadier Ingall opened a sharp file fire, and the Rifles, recalled, took up their position in the brigade. During this time the Artillery was busily engaged. and made good use of its guns from every point of vantage, the sound of the incessant discharge mingling with the sustained fusillade in one continuous din. At this junc ture Gen. Russell came into action on the right of Brigadier Ingall and commenced filo firing. Brigadier Ingall retired and the Royal Dragoons again charged the enemy. " Cease firing" was now sounded, and Gen. Taylor could be seen bringing up his brigade to the front. In the meantime the 1411 Hussars again dashed forward, charged at a tremen dous pace, and retired by columns of troops from both flanks, the Greys immediately charging through the inter vals and retiring in like manner. Gen. Taylor's brigade, having arrived in front, opened a smart fusillade, where a battery of the Royal Horse Artillery and the Grey Bat tery of Artillery on the left and right respectively, kept up a vigorous cannonade. '' Cease firing" ve,s again sounded ; and the effect of the operations having been to drive back the enemy, he was allowed to reoccupy Bricks burg-hill, and the water works, where it was determined to leave him. The army then retired under cover of the Royal Horse Artillery and a line of skirmishers, while as a finale, the Royal Dragoons advanced in line to the front of the infantry at a gallop, and a squadron of the 14th Hussars dashed on from the right, cutting the " pursuing practice" in a skilful manner; the enemy, however, again making offensive demonstrations, the Lieut.-Generals once more changed position to the westward, the Royal Dragoons charged on the left, and the division fell back under cover of the Greys and 14th Hussars, until the original position on Claycart was gained. The troops were then dismissed to their quarters. The 3d Infantry Brigade at Aldershot, under the com mand of Major-Gen. Russell, paraded a iew days ago, for the purpose of presenting a medal for long service and good conduct, with a gratuity of £l5 to Colour - Scrgt. W. Eager, 39th Regiment. The gallant General made some compli mentary remarks upon the meritorious career of the Colour Sergeant, which were listened to with great attention by the troops. Ho then alluded to the pleasing duty which devolved upon himself, and presented the medal and gratuity to the sergeant amid the customary demonstrations. The regimental returns at Aldershot just Issued show the following figure of merit and classification per cent of men at target practice on the 31st Aug., 1864 :--lst battalion 6th Regiment—battalion, 94 . 75; best company, 12083; marks men, per cent., 9. 73d Regiment—battalion, 67 92; best company, 91.68; marksmen, per cent., 3. 62d Regiment— battalion, 6713; best company, 75.11; marksmen per cent., 2, 59th Regiment—battalion-56 09 ; best company, 83.70; marksmen, per cent., 6. 83d Regiment—battalion, 5207 ; best company, 79.00 ; marksmen, per cent., 4. Ist battalion 14th Regiment—battalion, 4754; best company, 73 . 26 ; marksmen, per cent., 5. 75th Regiment—battalion, 44 09 ; best company, 60'65 ; marksmen per cent., 1. 2d battalion 60th Rifles—battalion, 40 . 03 ; best company, 44.49 ; marks men per cent., nil. The best shots at the same date were, first period, Private T. Sullivan, 73d Regiment, 67 points ; second period, second class, Sergeant J. Mason, Ist battalion 6th Regiment, 53 points ; third period, Ist class, Colour Sergeant E. Hayles, 2d battalion 60th Rifles, 38 points. Capt. Cockburn's company, Ist battalion 6th Regiment, shows the highest figure of merit—viz., first period, 42.10; volley firing, 1913; percentage of first and third classes, 63.4; difference, first class, 59, total 120.83. The following appointments have been made at the Ad miralty :—Commander W. Codrington to the Warrior — Robert Towers, second master to the Dromedary—G. C. Lerken, second master, to the Dee—J. J. Grew head, chief engineer, to the Procris, for service in Gibraltar yard— Leonard Heckler, assist.-engineer, to the Victoria and Albert—and Alfred Smith, clerk, supernumeraoy, to the Fisgard. Deatl Railway, Metropolitan The frightful and mysterious death of a young female, at present unknown, which took place just after midnight at. the Portland-road station of the Metropolitan Railway, now that the circumstances connected with it are becoming more fully developed, tend to the inference that the ocow:- rence was not one of accident, but of deliberate foul play on the part of the man who was in deceased's company,. and who, notwithstanding he must be fully aware of the late which has befallen her, had not, up to yesterday afterno on, made his appearance to identify the body. From the ,in yeatigations made by Mr Boyle, the summoning officer .of Marylebone, it appears by the statements of Mr H. Fisher, of the general manager's office, Itichd. Giddens, the guard, and the ticket clerk at the Portland-road station, that the last train from Farringdon-street h to Bishop's-road left the former precisely at 12 o'clock on Saturday night, and reached Portland station at 12.12 on Sunday morning. Just before the train arrived a man, in company with the deceased, whom the ticket colltctor identifies, came and took two third-elass tickets for the Edgeware-road station. The train had arrived, and when he went out of the ticket of& e, seeing they were both standing on the stairs, he called out to them that unless they made haste they would be too late. They then ran down to the platform together. Ide then lost sight of them. Giddens, the guard, states that the train. was in motion, and when he looked down he saw one doo open and a woman attempting to get into the carriage, ar a hand either attempting to pull her in or push her o at, he could not say which. He called out twice to b er g " You are too late—too late ;" and as he said it the ss3 cond time he saw the woman disappear between the vails and the platform. At the same moment a man was seen to run from the train and upstairs to the entrar tee to the station. At all events the wan who was whin. lief whether he ran up the stairs or got into the carriage) l as not since been heard of. The body was first found by 11 rilliara Clarke, a porter at the station, frightfully mutilated-. Iler right arm was torn from its socket, one of the legs b cciken two places, the pelvis completely divided, and the entrafie protruding. Death must have been instantaneous l , and the body was at once removed to Marylebone Infirmary. The deceaaed, who was poorlyclad, is a remarkably goc d looking young woman, about 24 years of age, light brown hair, neatly plaited over the temples, grey eyes, full act teeth, rather prominent mouth. She wore a brown and blue striped crinoline extended by cane, and much darned, elastic side boots, old white cotton stockings, a red petticoat, up parentlY made out of window curtains, a black cashmere shawl, black chip bonnet with lavender and white flowers, the bonnet-cap black, with blue velvet, and white stars. She is about five feet five inchest.in height, and instead of chemise she had a man's shirt on. On her person was found a number of lead pencils and envelopes. During the afternoon, yesterday, as no one had identified the body, and as there is a suspicion of foul play, Mr Tubbs, assistant overseer, suggested that a photograph of deceased's face should be taken, as decomposition is fast setting in. Information has been forwarded to the coroner. COUNTRY MARKETS. COLCHESTER—SEPT. 10. We had a fair supply of grain on offer at our market to-day, and the trade was slow at about is cheaper. Wheat, white 43s 48s Beans,Mazagan..33B 368 red 388 44s middle & 5ma11.358 403 Barley Oats .... :. 20s 25s grey 368 380 GLOUCESTER—SFr'''. 10. There was a good supply of English wheat, which sold slowly at is decline on late rates. Foreign dull, and price unaltered. Barley 6d under late quotations. Indian COra dull. Oats were firm. NORTHAMPTON-SrrT. 10. ----- White wheat, now, 424 to 465; new red, 41s to 445; old. 40s to 43s per qr. Barley, new malting, 30s to 335-' grinding. 26s to 29s per qr. Oats, 24s to 32s per 24 steno. Beans, 390 to 425. rea,s, 37s to 42s per qr. CHELMSFORD—SEPT. 9. At this corn exchange to-day there was a large supply of wheat, with a heavy trade, and last week's quotatio o needed ls. per qr. Barley inactive, at late prices. Wheat, old white 44s 48s Yeas, Partridge.... 36s „St ° new 43s 4781 White 30s 0 Boiling 3BB 420 Dun ---" Ditto new —s Beans, Tick, old 345 37's new -8 "II Harrow Ticks 3 55 3 '; new -5 ~„ Mazagan ..... daM•3IMLICId. old red 41s 45s new 40s 44s Barley 25s 33s Chevalier ..26s 36s Grinding 208 28s Ma1t..... 61s 67s Chevalier ... 64s 63s Oats 20s 26s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—SEPT. 10. We had very small supplies of wheat, oats, and barley a t market to-day Sales stow. Wheat about is per qr oYer and oats 6d over last week, but barley unchanged. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....3Bs 6d 25s Od 18s 6d Second ..40s Od 28s Od 19s 6d Third....4ls 6d 30s 6d 193 Od COAL MARKET. Prfoee of Coal per Ton at the close of the market. e. d. r. 6 ' lief ywell l7 6 Eden Main l9 6 Ilastings Hartley 2O 3 l'antield Moor Butes l4 0 Burna',West Hartley, lB 0 Walls End. Hartlepool ........... 20 °. I' East Hartlepool... ... 20 „ lielloe.. ..... .19 " 4 South Iletton ......... 20 „ u Tunstall South Kelloe ......... 19 v, Heugh Ha 11.......... 19 u 42 ; sold, 42, Walls End. Haswell ...20 6 1 Ships at market Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. . . Sept. I,' via Marseilles Jraail and Cape Verds, by British packet. Oct. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Sept. 28 ' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Sept. 1,.. via Marseilles ...Sept. 14 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Sept.. I °' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton SoP-t S • 1 via Marseilles Sept, 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton Sept. I° ' via Marseilles Portugal.... - Oct. 4 . p, Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Sept. I s see p p t t .. 1 1 1 : via Marseilles Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo .. f 14. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Sep t . by U.S. packet.... --by Canadian packet.SeP t • 16. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Sep t. la California, and British Columbia. MR FECIITER'S OPENING PLAY, TIIE " —will be an adap,ation of Paul Meurice's play, "Faa ft ' la Tulipe." This was the piece with which Mr GeorW Vining started in business as a manager, in May, 186 3-° his version being called " Court and Camp `LASSO CREEPING OUT OF A PAWNBROKER'S Sli° l (suggests the London Revicte), would make a very Pre tt picture of the vain glories of this life, and of the eraptine of poetic glory. The auction room often brings to light, 11 an old letter, or on the flyleaf of an aged book, shreds of 03 true story, a lineament of the face without paint, or a bit c i the time-honoured plate, lacking its former showy B il What a little lesson does this scrap from Paris teach u 5 "A curious autograph of Tasso was sold today, v/ 111 ,, c gives an insight into the poet's early struggles t ' undersigned, acknowledge to have received from Abrabal Levy, 25 livres, for which sum I have pledged a sword 4 my father's, six shirts, and two silver spoons." The du ct went bears the date of March 2, 1573, at which time TO was 26. [ADVERTISEMEN2 ]—Holloway's Pills.—Good Dige; tion.—Hoiloway's phis are universally acknowledged to I the safest, speediest, and best corrective for indigestio l Loss of appetite, acidity, flatulency, and nausea, are a few the inconvenieneies remedied with ease by these purif: ing pills. They strike at the root of all abdominal ailmen t They excite in the stomach a proper secretion of gastl juice, and regulate the action of the liver; promoting that organ a copious supply of pure wholesome bile so v cessary tor digestion. These pills remove all distention vi obstruction, and, from their harmless composition, are culiarly well adapted for delicate persons and young ch dren ; whilst casting out impurities, these excellent P' strengthen the system and give muscular tone. Births. GREY.—On the 9th inst., at Sandgate, Kent, the Wife Colonel Grey, 85th Regt., of a daughter. RITSON : —On the 11th inst., at Winkfield, Barks, the vir of Major Kitson, of a son. YARDLEY,—On the 11th inst., at Hadlow-park, J‘ e: Lady Yardley, of a Bon. Marriages. FITZGERALD—CAVENDISII. — On the Gth inst., at ton, Captain Fitzgerald, oldest son of the late T. X i gcrald, Esq., of Shalstono House, Bucks, to Miss IND Cavendish, eldest daughter of the llon. _Richard Cap' dish ) of Thornton Hall, Bucks. Srnix—CurronETT.—On the 10th inst., at ChristChu' . Newgate street, Joseph Spink, Esq.. to Lucy Dorott only daughter of the late Thomas Critchott, Esq., of Bank of England, Deaths. BY/x.—On the 9th inst., at Byam House, Brighton, Liot General Edward 13yam, Colonel of the 18th liege' aged 69. COWDERT.—On the 10'h George Themas Cowdery, of 9, Ciarway-read, Weatbourne-grove, and 36. Qat nester-row, aged 47. FORTESCUE.—On the 11th inst., at Bournemouth, Eh ) " Hester, fifth daughter of Earl and Countess Fortes e aged 20 months. Locri..—On the 10th inst., at 22, Talbot square, Mr. 6 Lock, aged 61. PETRE.—On tho 11th inst., at Bodfords, in Essex, Edil t the eldest son of the lion. Henry W. Petre, 19. London: Printed and Prbashed by WILLIAM AND ES of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at ThE Sufi Office Dl ° l Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , n the Co up, AIPIte - gex Taesday, September 13, 18Gi. THE ASHANTEE WAR. The following is an extract from a letter dated Cape Coe st, August 14:—» Tho troop-ships Wanbojieg and Gladiator arrived here on the 2Gth of last month, and on the 29th embarked the fol lowing officers and men :-1 field officer, 2 captains, 7 sub alterns, 1 staff assistant surgeon, 250 men, including 18 sergeants and G drummers of the Ist West India Regiment -133 men, including 6 sergeants and 3 drummers, of he 2d West India Regiment—and 1 sergeant of the 6th West India Regiment. The Gladiator towed her about 300 miles to sea and committed her to the winds, and returned here on the 7th of this month. The next morning she em barked 165 men, 3 officers, 1 staff assistant-surgeon of the 4th West India Regiment, with 21 men of the 6th West India Regiment, and steamed to Lagos to relieve the de tachment of the 3d West India Regiment stationed there. We are now garrisoned with about 450 men, who are in excellent health, there not being more than 30 on the sick list, and those are rapidly recovering. One officer goes home this mail on sick leave, and another, who refused to go in the Wanbojieg, accompanies him. We have not had a drop of rain for more than a month. A tolerably good harvest is expected. The distilling apparatus is not doing much; it is badly situated, and there is no one here to rectify the mistake made in the first instance. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE, PENART H. The half-yearly meeting has been held at their offices, renarth, Cardiff—Mr Bailey, M.P., in the chair. The report stated that the remainder of the works would soon be completed, and they expected the docks would be ready for opening on Jan. 1 next. After providing for the interest on the preferential charges a sufficient balance re mained to declare a dividend of 15s per cent per annum on the ordinary capital. The leases had been forwarded to the Taff Vale Company, and as soon as the works were completed the whole undertaking would be transferred to that company at a rental of 4), per cent per annum on the capital expended. The report was unanimously adopted, and a dividend at the rate of 15s per cent per annum was declared for the half year. TRENT, BARTON, AND WINTERTON. Railway communication between Barton and Winterton, which has long been desired, is about to be supplied, and the whole of the district placed in communication with the West Riding and Doncaster and the South Yorkshire coal ields. Tho proposed line will bo about 10 miles in length. As the latidowners along the route are favourable to the project it is expected that the line can be made at a mode rato sum. The promoters rely on the coal and mineral traffic from South Yorkshire to Winterton, Barton, and Hull. NORTHERN OF FRANCE. The total receipts on this company's old lines from J an. 1 to the Ist inst. amounted on 631 miles to £1,829,978, agf 'nst £1,714,972 for the corresponding period of last year, showing an increase of £115,006, or 61 per cent. The total receipts on the company's now lines, 66 miles in length, amounted to £65,912, against £74,910, showing a decrease of £9,028, or 12 per cent. A NEW RAILWAY TERROR.—On the Manchester and Milford Haven line (shortly to be opened), there will be a station named Pontrhydfendigaid I on thl