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

TF tE ATRE ROYA L DRURY - LAME...- 311',nagers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. VHF EVENING, GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy and Ali; ,s Murray. Al rel which, Lord ByToll'l3 Choral Tragedy, MANFRED. Messrs r helps, Ryder, Rayner, Me agreson, Ward, Spencer; Miss Beath, Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E. Flo finer. Voe,alists—Miss Poole, Miss ratter, Miss Cicely NOV Miss - Hey o wood, and Mr. S wift. conclude with TH Miss R. Leclercq,E DEAL BOATMAN and Mrs. M Edmund : essrs. G. Belynore, F. Ch a rles ; aleoni FRINCESS'S THEATRR.—Great S uccesA of ig ERRMANN. PRESTIDIGITATEUR. HERR 1111.11•31 AN has the honour to announce that, in conse quence the great succe!3s and flattering recepton he has an cc-Ith, he wilt continue his Performances, EVERY EVENING, until further notice. Commencing at Eight. T El EATRE ROYAL HAY MARKET.- Open for the Season. TATS EVENING, and during the Week, to commence at 7, with AN UN LUCKY _MORTAL 7 Mr. William Farren, Mies M. Harris, &c. After which, at a quarter to 8, the new Comedy of FINESSE ; or, spy and t minter Spy: characters by Mr. Alfred Wigan, Mr. Chippendale, Mr. Howe, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Dowton, Miss L. Ang•el, and Mrs. Alfred Wigan. Concluding with TURNING THE TABLES. On Monday, , Det. 26, Mr. and Mrs. CIiAS. MATHEWS will return to the London stage. NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII.- Solo Prooriotor and Manager. Mr. R. Webster. THIS EVENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN : Mrs. Stirling. At 8, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supiportcd by Messrs.fiathur Stirlingg, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart, A. Wood, Eburne, Miss 11. Simms and Mrs. Billing ton. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRE6S miss Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood, MISS BATEMAN.—I,EAH.—The c elebrated young American Actress, !Kiss BATEMA.N, having on her first appearance in the New Drama of LEAH ob tained the most triumphant and enthusiastic success that has been wi , nessed for many years, and th e p rofound impression created by ner impersonation of the character ot LEAH theuon a crowded audie nc e h a ving been completely ratified by having unanimous verdict and critical approval of the entire Daily Press, the PI anager ot the NEW ADELPHI THEATRE has the honour to announce that Isl,ss BAT EVENIN lint AN wil till appear in the N ew D ram a of LEAH EVERY G f notice. — - ROYAL sTRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. If. Swanborough. THIS EVENING (2cl time) MIRIAM''t CRIME. Messrs. Honey, Porselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K. Saville, and Miss Moners. • Followed by TH E. MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messr Honey, Turn er, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny Dvers, estop, Cl ' 1e Mesdames Ada Swa b oro ugh, F. Hughes, Vs White. To conclude with W .HEmmence RE'S YO Uat 7 R WIFE. Mr. Belford. Co. nil HE THUM EDITION OF " THE SUN,' 11_ Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, ca n be had Every Evening* of G. R. GLIsNIE. NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-part HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TNis DAY.—Moming, 12h. 26m.—Afternoon, 12h. 45m To-moßsow.-Morning, 3n.—Afternoon, Ih. 20m, The Weather—Sun Office, Oct. 10, 1863. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 59 Barometer-29.68. Wind—South-Easterly, moderate; fine, but cloudy. ~ i`'~~~ \_ ~Y~`l ~i~JT. LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 10, 1863. The broad arrow has at last sped to its destina tion at Liverpool. It was afEzed yesterday after noon to the steam-rams recently completed by LAIRD Brothers, and still in their ship-building yard in the great Lancashire seaport. With the flight of that arrow to the destination so often of late anticipated for it, the Foreign Secretary may say at length, in regard to his policy, as I)ne of the most confused and bungling of living diplomatists, aleajacta est. How often the noble lord has blun dered already as a diplomatist, who shall say ? But, often as he has done so, he has never done so yet more flagrantly than in this instance. His notorious despatch, addressed but a few months back to Den- mark, in respect to that most vexatious—as it would almost seem interminable—European grie vance, the Schleswig-Holstein difficulty, was a blun der, iu its way, unparalleled (at that time) even by Lord RUSSELL himself. His muddle of our foreign poliey a few years back when be unhappily went, himself, over to Vienna upon a sort of extra-Extra. ordinary Mission of Diplomacy, is an incident still painfully within the popular recollection. It was more of a failure in its way than even Mr. GLADSTONE'S well designed but ill executed expedition to Corfu ! An outline of an enterprise, sketched though it was by the hand of an eminent statesman, so indifferently filled in, shaded and coloured by the tyro fingers of a mere amateur plenipotentiary, (as Mr. GaaDsToNE, unhappily proved himself to be) that the brilliant first effect was soon enough destroyed, and the ori ginal design all but obliterated. Far more to be regretted, however, than that loniatapieode in the career of the Homeric critic, now her MAJESTY'S Chtincellii of the ExCheqUer, was the Vienna mis sion undertaken —and " botched"—by the sometime Prime Minister of the realms, then Lord JOHN since Earl RUSSELL. The recent substitution of an ELLIOT for the HUDSON at Turin, though intrinsically a small matter of importance so far as it can be looked upon as indication of a_ rd chan ge i n the Italian policy of the noble I Her MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary —that in cident, though of itself one of a very subordinate character indeed, affecting, as it does, rather the mechanism of administration than the force of the motive power animating It—has still its signifi cance, nevertheless, because, though a mere detail, one perfectly en regle, entirely characteristic, mi nutely con *listen t with Earl 1111SSELL' whole career, as a dip'.omatic blunderer. A meddleso me , o f ten a mettlesome, disregarder as Foreign Secretary, of Lis former Colleague, L or d M ELBOURNE'S favourite rit warning query, " Can't you let it alone ?" For the life of him, Earl RUSSELL cannot! Come what, come ma y, he must be perpetually interfering, obtruding .his assistance, his advice, his positive, and actual interposition, that is, in act. Addressing an out of th e wav gathering of tenantry down i n t h e far orth there at Blairgowrie, only the other day, h e must needs blurt out the wholly uncalled-for and wholly untenable, declaration that the English in their sympathies are Federalists. That was, in itself, a bl , ander on the part of Earl RUSSELL so gross and 80 gratuitous of its kind, that it is only to be desig nated accurately by saying that it was—putting his foot in it! And now—Perfecting his policy of blun ders —now, while Lord RUSSELL is probably exult lain4 muttering to himself plea facta est (when thinking a of the " broad arrow" just affixed to the steam rams down at Liverpool), has be no prescient sense, We Wonder, of that arrow being hurled back at himself shortly after the meeting of the Houses of say, next February— Parliament, let n, of its being hurled eagle-eyed marksman at hi m w ith f a tal effect by an on the front bench of the Opposition in tie House of Peers ? Has he no an ticipatory thought flitt ing across his conjectures at this moment as to tae Probable incidents of this next session, that hi s own Political rtquiem ma) perchance then be chantecl to i t , h ,)r e d m ii ea sure of the familiar and melodiou s veree of " Keen were his pangs, b u t k eener far to feel He nursed the pinion that i mpelled the steel," For it certainly does appear now upon the cards that that broad arrow affixed by Lo r d R USSELL to the s t e am rams may, before another half.vear h as elapsed, prove the death of his foreign policy, the missile likely to prove fatal to the Government. the bounder ofundary ALE'. M ALET clearly inter erence, Earl RUSSELL ' S and distinctly defines the strong point of his marighumt a b n e tdwiene this u s liesti - fiable and unjustifiable e t :it. It is true that the Federal Assembly upon the duchy of holstein a 8 8 u a n y e i n g. put th t e h i e r ir el v a e i t m o the right of independence, and yet have vindicated ite a nY to such authority, an d even excused measures issued th ereupon. arbitrary To ca rr y It' stran ge question, however, wh en we look tq u jogs relative to the Danish Posseesioo:he another proceed-. their interference into those territories; to dictate t e rms to the Danish monarchy, i s i ndeed a proceeding. Our Foreign Secretary h as the con_ currence of all independent men when he denounces this extraordinary line of action, and holds it up to the and contempt of the nations o f E urope. rl'h sceaorrgauments put forward in this despatch are well-known facts, it is true; but then there a re „ ea _ sions when it becomes imperative to remind persons of circumstances that they may know full well in theory, but ignore altogether in practice. Besides, the reference to certain contingencies sometimes assumes a significant form, and foretells momen tous consequences. The . _ coo sr, Federal A 3 se mbl y must The opening of the Social Science Congress i s ignorant, or else very i n f a tuated, not to re ni .7 se the i m passage which tells every year a matter of general interest. The num- ortance of the them that P they are assailing the integrity and in- arid variety of the subjects touched upon, th e i r dependence ckf Denmark, which " her MAJESTY ie intimate conuction with our social well-being, and bound by the " The the high repute of the men who preside over the meaning of this • Treaty of 1852 to reepect. la much patent to all lookers en, several sections, combine to render the annual more is it aPpre . elated by those who are playing the game of Statesmanship, and who are versed in every " Pass and ward, To thrust, to strike, to feint, to guard," • We know and recognise the magnitude of the affair, how necessary it is for a check to he put upon the arrogant and absurd pre tensions of the German Federation, and hence it is with admiring approbation that we peruse the following emphatic notice—." Her MAJESTY would not look with indifference on a military occupation of Holstein, and her MAJESTY'S Government would not recognise this military occupation as a legiti mate exercise of the power of the German Fede ration, nor admit that it could be imposed in the name of a proper Federal execution." If this lan guage does not convince those to whom it is ad dressed it must be utterly useless to make any at tempt to put an end to the altercation by verbal or written communications. "He who runs may read" the interpretation of this address; while the statesmen to whom it is sent may find enough in its eArnest phrases to afford them sabjects for the con templation of their leisure, and topics for discussion in their official transactions for some time to come. It is often idle to predict, but it may not be a super fluous effort at prophecy to declare that the tone and temper of this despatch will surprise and startle the equanimity of the pompous Federation to whom it is addressed. They cannot shut their eyes to the fact, they cannot close their ears to the sound of the unwelcome prospect and the unplea sant tidings that they may mar their fortunes in this rash and precipitate venture that was to make them so much the stronger and the better. Many nations take advantage of our dislike to war, and the inconvenience to which it may subject us is a potent auxiliary on the side of the offender in seve ral cases; it was so in the late interposition of the three Powers with Russia. Many States presume on the divided opinions that exist in regard to the disputed question among ourselves, and the partial views taken upon it by influential parties. [his feeling is now working the cause of the North in the American contest at present. But as regards the future of this vexed Schleswig-Holstein affair there is neither the one excuse nor the other for the interested parties to take, because our Minister for Foreign Affairs has spoken out as strongly as he could do, and shown no sign nor symptom of wavering in his attempts to do justice to a right cause, and his assertions to vindicate an injured nation. In this bold and straightforward address Earl RUSSELL has done his best to retrieve his past blunder, and to rectify the evil effects that may hav e ensued from his former mistakes. So far as i t g oes this communication must be considered conclusive as to the ideas and intentions of her MAJESTY'S Go vernment, and it could hardly go further without greatly extending the present confines of the die. cussion, and exchanging the area of the dispute, until it passes the limit that divides theory fr om practice, and separates peace from war. There le yet time for a wise and happier course to be tak en by the German Federation. They may still recog nise the validity of a maxim that as the world grows old in kno w l e d ge st ill reta i ns the force of its first freshness—" P ru d ence i s the better part of valour." If they tak e th e a d v i ce that i s tendered to them in the clo se o f E ar l RUSSELL ' S admirable Note, and "pause" before they commit themselves irretrievably to a f a t a l po li cy, they will d o well and wisely; but if they per s i s t i n runn i ng out the reck less course they hate projected, all the conseq uences of their mistaken a n d m i sc hi evous policy w ill be upon their own h ea d s , an d t h ey w ill incur the stigma of having pr ovo k e d b y t h e i r e xtravagant pretensions a catastrophe that their combined -wis dom and bravery may be unable to avert, raising a st orm th a t th ey h ave no pow er to stem nor to survive. a nd of STRAND THEATRE. " MIRIAM'S CRIME." Last night a new serio-comic drama, entitled " Miriam's Crime," was produced at this theatre with unbounded success . T he aut h or of the piece is Mr. H. T. Craven, a n d muc h as " The Postboy" heightened his reputati on as a d rama tist, his latest , and, certai n l y t o our t hi nk i ng his b e st, add con s id era bl y to hi s celebrity. Manyeffort will of the si t ikaticas ate hovel and striking ; the serious - - comic scenes are v er y j u di c i ous ly bleildedl,-, and .the audience'cannot fail to b e interested ill. tbf3 ain de, Et - VelOpttlent of the' and Crime"' turn iu:Pon an act of s elf- sa crifice which Cue. Miriam story. The plot of. "X ir t West, a' poor dependent, eaMilllts'io' do what she considers justice to another, herself from unjust susp i c i ons . B e ing and upon a " crime" w hi c h s h e a f terwards com mits to free l e ft the sole heiress of an a ge d l a d y o f property with whom she has lived as a companion, she destroys the will, that one Bernard Reynolds, whom she loves ( ne p hew of the old lady), may not be deprived of his inheri tance. A will made prior to this, however, having been lost by the lawyer who drew it up, this is tie document that Miriam is supposed to have destroyed, and she has no evidence to clear herself from the accusation. To mak e ma tt ers w orse, the property is clai me d b y a returned convict, w ho appears to be th e h e i r-at-law, and who is ass i s t e d by an eccentric and n o t over - scrupu l o us lawyer's clerk in taking possession. Fortunately this clerk was concern e d f or hi s master i n ma king the second has the o r i g i na l , which he saved f ro m will, whi c h gave Miriam the proper ty, and h e a fire at his master's office. This original, however, is in his boxes, which are detained for rent at a lodging house, and takes th e she is tur ne d out of her home, searc h es th ese b oxes , and Miriam, w h o goes to these rooms after will, with which she is able to estab lish her i nnocence and defeat the p l ans o f th e returned convict and his accomplice. The part of Miriam was alloted to Miss Kate Saville, a niece of Miss Helen Fancies, to whom she has imparted all that womanly grace and pathos which has rendered h er one of the most charming actresses of her day. In the second and third acts she more particularly distinguished her self by the intense fervour of her acting, and won the most enthusiastic applause. The two scamps of the piece, comic ones by the bye, were capitally hit off by Mr. Belford and Mr. George Honey, whilst Mr. Parselle, by his quiet and gentlemanly acting, made the part of Miriam's lover, Bernard Rey nolds, stand forward very prominently. We have great pleasure in recording the success of this drama, because it is an attempt at rather larger things than is generally produced at this elegant little theatre, which has now by the liberality, taste, and good management, become one of the most fashionable resorts of the metropolis. in announced that the proceeds of the concert will be applied Bedford-square. EVENING the CONCERT Concer t i is Hall, to Store take street, r l e a e c t e , to on A Mo G nd R a A y N , O D t ob l e t r is also the funds fur the erection of the new It a li an c h urc h, recently built in Ilatton-wall. The s erv i ces o f severa l pro f ess ona ls of celebrity and a occasion, number of ama t eurs h ave b een secure d f or the and a ri c h mus i cal treat is promised. The programme will be iss ue d next week. DEATH OP G ENERAL J. D. JOIINSTONE.—We have to repsirt the death, at a comparatively early age, of General J. Douglas Johnstone, late colonel of the 33d Regiment (the Duke of Wellington's). He went out to the Crimea with his regiment, from whence he was sent home to England, so seriously invalided that he was consi dered to be in a dying state. On his partial recovery he again joined his regiment at the seat of war, and, with his son, Captain Johnstone, was the first in the assault on the Itedan, where he lost an arm. He never fully recovered this shock to a highly nervous and sensitive system. Gen. Johnstone remained in the Crimea till the end of the war, and six months afterwards he went out to India in broken health, having in this brief interval formed a regiment, only 60 of the trained soldiers of the 33d who went out to his return ititoClr Cr imea h h e avi n retired g r e f t r u o r m n e t d h e h s o e ra r v e i aceg,abin. never recovered hie health. He died in Dublin, whither he had gone for medical advice, aged 55, assembly an occurrence of national importance. Subjects are brought forward which at any other timo of the year would not be heard of beyond their own immediate circle, and questions of vital inte rest to the general welfare are thus not unfrequently brought intr.) notice. The quantity of papers con tributed to each section increases year by year, a fact which shows that the interest felt in the labours of the Congress has grown rather than les- served. As most of these papers are written by those who have had some personal knowledge of their topic, it is evident that the contributions contain a mass of valuable matter, and in addition to the light thus thrown upon the ques tions to be considered, we have the advantage of e t t the e e e C s u e b e s g e r q e u e s en t t h e d r i e s c a n s have members thought f on s g ona th e s s s e i m o n b e a d m . t that more good is done audience than by the re ea b in y g th ef e th c e om ee m ea e y n : s ah o d f e t e h r e . au ra ti v e results of extended p tainly the contact of quick ex mi e n r d ie s ec a e n h d ri t h h g e t c e om lig p h a t • ne w aspects of a subject, show the opposite views which may be held by thinking men, and enable the public to judge more correctly of the matter as a whole. It is, in fact, a social Parliament, only unfortunately, with the restriction that they may not legislate on the points discussed. In this re spect it bears perhaps more resemblance to a Par liamentary Committee, whose business it is to collect evidence, to gather the opinions of those best qualified to judge, and then to re port to the larger assembly the results of their labours and the conclusions at which they have arrived, The house to which this sum total is made known is, in this case, the great body of the public, who have an advantage over their Parliamentary prototypes, in the fact that a great part of the evidence upon which the conclu sion is founded is duly before them. In this manner much that, if published in other forms, might have been slighted or passed over, is brought promi nently forward, and thrust, as it were, upon public attention. At the sitting of Thursday, for instance, a paper was read on the causes of the excessive mortality among the British troops in India. It emanated from no less distinguished and able a writer than Florence Nightingale, whose name stands in honour, not only among her own country men and women, but throughout all Europe. Few could speak with so much authority upon such a subject as one to whom the soldier's risks, and perils, and sufferings, have been the object of anxious thought and toilsome exertion during many years. It was observed that Prince ALFRED, who was pre sent among the audience—a fitting representative of the interest invariably taken by his lamented father in all matters of soeial science—paid especial attention to the paper by Miss NIGHTINGALE. We can readily imagine with what deep sympathy and heartfelt regret the soldier's friend must have learned those terrible statistics, which startled even the inert self-complacency of our India Office. The suggestions in her paper, based upon a thorough knowledge of the soldier's wants and requirements, will probably do much practical good ; and number less other topics might be mentioned, on which we shall be enabled, through the agency of this assem bly, to learn the views of those best qualified to form a definite opinion on matters which closely affect the interests of the great body of the people. On points of science, too, we are likely to gather much valuable information from the eminent men who think it not unworthy of them to unfold the treasures of their knowledge and experience to the common gaze. Although we have already in existence an association professedly for the advancement of scientific learning, and the assembly of the chiefs of each branch of natural philosophy, there remain many minor points which can be better dealt with in a less strictly scientific assembly, and the scope and importance of the subjects discussed by the Congress annually increases. Year by year the contributions accumulate, a more ready audience gathers round the reader or the speaker, and every annual meeting of this kind places the Congress _pore and more among the recognised and standard institutions of the country. At first all was enthu siasm, but subsequently critics and censurers wero found to detect flaws in the conduct of the assem bly, and to decry its utility and practical good. Such faultfinders forget the great principle of our English life, the respect for free dam/salon which has presided over the fortunes of the country, and has proved a safeguard agaipst darigers,trom within and without. If every speech in our representative Houses were measured by its 'Erect value and prac tical importance, the general estimate of the Eng- lish Parliament would, we fear, sink very low. It is the principle which is of consequence—the fact that every man in that assembly has a right to raise his voice on every subject, no matter whom it concerns, and so the influence exercised by the Social Congress is unquestionably good and prac tical, although it may rest beyond the power of its members to frame laws or to pass resolutions. The gatherting together, year by yee.r, of so many eminent men is of itself an interesting and profitable spec tacle; more especially when they assemble as they do under the presidency of one whose career has been one of our national boasts ; who, as the Lord Advocate remarked, went forth sixty years agofrom the very city in which he is now reaping such well merited honours, to fight and to win those great battles of life, in which he has proved himself so able a warrior. Such a recept i on as was accor d e d to the venerable statesman affords a gratifying proof that public services are not always unrecog nised and unrewarded, even as his comprehensive and luminous address bears unquestionable evi dence that the capacious and energetic mind which has wrought so much good amongst us still retains undimmed its old 7ervent interest in the social wel fare and progress of mankind. THE SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, 001 1 0 BER 10, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 11. The royal mail steamship Arabia, from Boston, on the 30th ult., and Halifax oa the 2d inst., arrived here at 5.30 a.m. She brings 87 passengers and 50,200 dols. in specie. She landed the mails, con sisting of 117 sacks, and 8 passengers, and pro ceeded at 6.10 a.m. All well. NEW YORK, SEPT. 29 (Evening). No fighting has taken place in Tennessee since the 21st inst. Unauthenticated rumours, unfavou able to Rosencranz and Burnside, are current at Washington. Burnside was still at Knoxville on the 24th inst. It is reported that his resignation has been accepted and that Hooker supersedes him. News from Charleston to the 25th inst. states that preparations for the bombardment were pro gressing. Meade's and Lee's armies were quiet. Oa the 24th ult. salutes were fired by all the Confederate batteries in the city, and by Forts Moultrie and Sumter, in celebration of Bragg's vic tory over Itosencrans. Fort Sumter fired 13 guns. 10,000 Confederates are reported to have concen trated at Mount Jackson, for a raid into the Shen andoah Valley. The Albany Court appears decided that green backs are legal tenders. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, SEPT. 29 ',Evening). Money easy. Gold 431 per cent. premium. Ex change on London, 1561. Stocks steady—New York Centrals, 135 ; Illinois, 126,1- ; 6 per Cent. United States Bonds, 107. A large advance has taken place in cotton. It is still firm and advancing. Middling Upland is quoted 830. to 85c. NEW YORK, OCT. 1 (Evening). (By Telegraph to Halifax.) No movement has taken place on the Rapidan. General Rosencranz remained on the 30th ult. in a defensive position, the Confederates confronting him. In the battle of the 20th General Bragg claims to have captured 7,000 prisoners, 36 cannon, 25 colours and 5,000 small arms. General Hood was not killed, as reported. A plot has been discovered in St. Louis to destroy all the Federal vessels on the western waters. The Republican ratification meeting held at New York was largely attended. A conciliation policy was announced ( ? denounced), Vice-President Hamlin said he did not believe that peace worth having laid in any other direction than through force of arms. Some want the contribution as it is, and union as it was, but this they can never have. A public reception and a congratulatory address was given to the Russians to-day. One Division of the National Guard escorted the precession up Broadway, which was lined by enthusiastic crowds. Admiral Lestgski rode in a carriage drawn by six horses, and was accompanied by Alderman Fremont. Yesterday the Russians visited the Forts in New York harbour. At a banquet on board the steamer Admiral Paulding made a speech in which he expressed a hope that whenever it became necessary for America to fight foreign enemies, Russia would be found shoulder to shoulder with America. visited M ayor The British f r i ga t es Nile and Immortalite, and the French frigates opdy G ke u . errie and Belone have ar rived at N ew Y or k. Admiral Milne officially The Morning Post alludes enthusiastically to the Admiral's visit to the Mayor, and observes that the reception given to the Russians will not be extended to the officers of any other nation. The Russian war sloop Nowiteh has been wrecked at the entrance of San Francisco. The officers report that the Japanese batteries at Vagoizinia had re pulsed the British fleet. Mobile despatches of the 26th statp ,that the New Orleans Era mentions a Federal disaster in . Louisiana, confirming the'hinionr cuirent.in: Mo bile that General Weitzel watrdefeated , find killed at Napoleon;Loaisians. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, OCT. 1 (Evening). Gold has fluctuated during the week between 39 and 44, influencing exchange and general markets accordingly. Closing quotations to-day are: Gold 42 1. Exchange, 1561. Stocks dull. New York Central, 1332 ; Illinois, 126 k ; Erie, 106,1; Six per Cents. U n i te d S ta t e s Bond s , 107 . C o tton very firm. Middli ng Upland, 82c. t o 83 c . Flour heavy. Wheat dull. Corn steady. Provisions, good in quiry. Coffee and molasses firm. Sugar, good demand. Petroleum declining. Crude, 34e. Re fined, 650. to 57c. (By Telegraph to Cape Race.) NEW YORK, OCT. 2 (Morning). It is reported that there is no difficulty in rein forcing Geo. Rosencranz , the c o mmunication be tween Washington and Chattanooga being per fect. The Southern journals assert Gen. Lee had infor mation that two corps from G e n. Meade's army have reinforced Rosencranz. Conflicting rumours concerning the position of the latter are still current. A considerable Confederate force is moving north wards, near the Blue Ridge, supposed to form part of the force now being concentrated in the Shenan doah Valley. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Money lighter. Gold 421 per cent. premium. Stocks steady• New Y or k Centrals, 1341 ; Illinois Central, 12 6 ; Erie, 107; 6 per Ce nts. United States Bonds, 1 06 1. Cotton buoyant. Middlin g U p land, 84c. ......•••••••• (By Teleg rap h to Cape Rac e .) N EW YORK, Ocr. 3. The Federal g un b oat Salin a (?) is reported to have captured th e B r i t i s h ship Sir R obert Pee l in Mexican waters off M atanao ras. She was supposed to be fitted out as a privateer.. NEW YORK, SEPT. 29 (Evening). The correspondent o f the New York Herald asserts that it is impossible for Bragg to dislodge Rosencranz from his position at Chattanooga by direct advances. General Rosencran z could o nly be dislodged by a campaign in force against h is communications. General Grant is unable through sickness to resume active duty. The Federal troops repulse d at Sabine Pass are proceeding to Texas as rapidly as possible overland. The Confederates have been defeated in two en gagements in the Indian terr itor y . Female bread riots are re ported to have occurred at Mobile. The women thre atened to burn the city unless relieved, and A were eventually pacified. considerable amount of Government cotton is arriving at Vicksburg. Great popular sympathy is evinced t o wards the officers and men of the Russian fleet, which, it is reported, will rema i n at New York many months. A dinner has been given to thy AllAbiall Admiral at the Metropolitan Hotel. The Admiral made a speech, in which, referring to Russia, he, expressed a hope that present circumstances would end peace fully ; the Russians, however, were ready for any sacrifice, and as Moscow was burned, so they would not shrink from burning St. Petersburg if neces sary. If foreign nations were for peace, the Russians would receive it on honourable terms, and bless God for peace. The Admiral's speech produced a great sensation A speaker named Walbridge observed that Russia, in sending a fleet to New York, wished to have it where, at a given signal, it could sweep English and French commerce from the seas, Preparations are being made for a ball and public reception. The New York weekly Bank statement shows a decrease of 1,000,000 dole. in gold. The blockade runners, Alice, Vivian, Fox, Ala bama, and Montgomery, have been captured in the Gulf of Mexico. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 9. The Budget has passed the Grand Council, and will be published next week. The Levant Herald announces that there is a surplus of £188,791. The secularisation of the Vacoufs is again under serious consideration by the Council, and will very probably be carried. The Porte has offered to buy the steam rams which are being built in the Mersey, and Earl Russell is said to be favourable to this solution of the difficulty. The Porte has addressed a note to the Viceroy of Egypt, reiterating the arguments in Aali Pasha's note relative to the Suez Canal. SPAIN. MADRID, OCT. 10. In view of the present position of affairs, the Council of Ministers have decided on sending to the Colonies 3,000 soldiers and 30 millions of reals. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, OCT. 10. The Journal de St. Petersbourg says :—" Foreign journals have reprinted the news that the Senate had decided that the treaties of 1815 were no longer binding on Russia. But the Russian Senate is not called upon to pronounce an opinion on political questions, and treaties can only be concluded or cancelled by the will of the Sovereign." THE POLISH INSURRECTION. BRESLATJ, OCT. 9. The Breslau Zeitung of to-day has news from Warsaw, stating that the English Consul in that city had protested against the fine imposed on Mr. Evans. The latter is said to have refused to pay it. BRESLAU, OCT. 10. The Breslau Gazette of to day announces that in consequence of the protest of the English Consul at 'Warsaw Gen. Berg has released Mr. Evans from payment of the fine of 15,000 roubles imposed upon him, and has granted him permission to reopen his factory. BERLIN, OCT. 10. According to news received here from Warsaw, MM. Massaliki, Silwicz, Joiz, and Wroblewski, all Polish nobles, and Wroblewski's wife, have been shot, the latter on suspicion of being a spy in the interest of the insurgents. AUSTRIA. FRANKFORT, OCT. 9. The Europe has received the following commu nication from Vienna : " Austria will borrow this year 100,000,000 florins, namely, 33,539,846 to cover the deficit of the Budget, 30,000,000 in aid of Hungary, now suffering from famine, 12,000,000 to withdraw from circulation the 10 Kreutzer notes, which are not comprised in the 52,000,000 of redeemable bank notes, and the remainder for the diminution of the floating debt of 100,000,000, for which amount the salt mines have been mortgaged. THE CHANNEL FLEET. PORTSMOUTH, Saturday Morning. '4": • • The east division of the Channel fleet is now entering Spithead. The Resistance has anchored; the Warrior is steaming in past the Warner ; the Edgar, Emerald, and Devastation are steaming in for the Nab Light. FRANCE. BOURSE, Oct. 9.—The tone of the market has improved. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f. 95c. Mohilier have risen to 1,200 f. Railway Shares are also firmer. The market closed as fol lows :- 4i per Cents 96 Italian Loan 73 80 Do. end month.... Do. end month 73 70 3 per Cents Do. end month.... 67 85 Do. end month.... 73 40 Credit Mobilier....llBs Russian Do. end m0nth....1205 Austrian Bank Shares 3307 60 Spanieh Threes.... Credit } oncier l2BO Rome Debt .. --- - - BA ILWATe. Cash. Account. Orleans 983 75 .. 983 75 Northern New. ditto ... ......... • - Lyons and Mediterranean 1010 -7 • • Geneva Southern Western ...... Eastern . ... 517 50 .. 510 Sardinian...... Austrian ...... 405 .. 4 0 6 25 Lon.bard 568 75 .. 545 .. 547 50 North of Sp a i n Saragossa . . 630 .. 632 50 Ditto to Barcelona FATAL OMNIBUS ACCIDENT AT LIVERPOOL.- Or. Wednesday night, as the omnibus which left the Exchange for the Old Swan, at half-past nine o'clock, was proceeding along Lime-street, on the east side of St. George's-hall, Mr. George 011erhead, the eldest son of Mr. 011erhead, one of the proprietors of Myers' s Mercantile Gazette, who was sitting on the front seat of the omnibus, suddenly fell off the vehicle, pitching violently on his head. He was picked up as soon as possible and conveyed into the Grapes Hotel, but life was already extinct. The head and face of the deceased, who was about 29 years of age, pre sented a frightful spectacle, being entirely covered with blood. Ihe front part of the skull was broken in, and he had evidently received other severe injuries. The body was conveyed to the dead-house, preparatory to an inquest. NATIONAL SHAKSPEARE COMMITTEE. -H. Blackett, E6q., the Rev. G. B. Bubier, W. Butter worth, Esq., D. Croker, Esq., G. Daniel, Esq., the Rev, H. R. Reynolds, M.A. (Principal of Cheshunt College), G. Routledge, Esq., the Rev. W. H. Thompson (Regius Professor of Greek in the Uoiverity of Cambridge), and R. J. Wood, Esq., have been added to the National Shak speare Committee. The committee have resolved that on the first Monday of next month they will take into con sideration a proposal for calling a public meeting in Lon don of persons interested in the Shakspeare Ter -centenary M ovement.—.Athenceum. DEATH OF SIR GEORGE BONHAM, RI.C.B.—The late Governor of Hong Kong, Sir Samuel George Bonham, died on the Bth inst., aged 60 years. The late baronet, who was born at Faversham in Kent, iu 1803, was descended from the ancient family of Bonham, long seated in Essex. He married, in 1816, the eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Barnard, late of the Bombay Civil Service, but her ladyship died in 1859. Sir Georgo Bonham was for nearly 10 years Governor of Prince of Wales's Island, Singapore, and Malacca, and was appointed, in 1817, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Island of Hong Kong, and Plenipot en ti ary an d Chief Superin tendent of Trade in China ; which post he held till December, 18)3 , Ho was noternatsc. a C.B. in 1848. a in 1850, and was created a baronet in 1852. Sir George is succe eded by his son George Francis, who was born in 1847. LITERATURE. Question des Sours de la Charite en Portugal, 1857-1862. D'Aprei la Presse et les Documents Officiels. Bvo., pp. 449. Lisbonne: Napoleon the Great, while yet First Consul of the French Republic, wrote upon the 28th August, 1802 (a date known then absurdly as the 10th Fructidor Year X.), wrote them to the Archbishop of Paris, in respect to the Sours de la Charite—" My instruction is to secure to these Good Daughters all those prerogatives which they already possess, in order to enable them to continue the good labours they have hitherto been doing —a testimony of sympathy, on my part, which I am rejoiced to render to them :" mon intention est de dormer a ces bonnes Filles toutes les prerogatives, &c. (Corres pondence de Napoleon 1., iii. 8), That was the testi mony offered spontaneously and emphatically, sixty-one years ago to those " ministering angels," then, as now, so familiarly flitting through all the darkest' haunts of disease, even amidst the foul abodes in which the criminal popu lation fester, far and wide among the densely peopled cities of the continent—that was the impressive tribute of respect and admiration ex pressed towards the Scours do la Charlie by the young General, known then, as to all after times, as the Child of the Revolution. And now, as it were but yesterday, what is the tribute again spon taneously and emphatically offered to those gentle ministrants at the sick-beds of the dying and the suffering in the back-slums of our own vast capital, and in the crowded wards of one at least of our great London hospitals, by an aged philosopher like the ex-Chancellor Lord Brougham ? "It was more than once urged," said that venerable orator, on Wed nesday evening last, in the midst of his noble in augural address to the Social Science Association, " It was mere than once urged at our last congress that the invaluable attendance in French hospitals of Sours do Charite made their establishment in this country not only expedient, but a kind of duty. There is great satisfaction in finding that steps have been taken with much success towards the attainment of this object. The most important by far is the foundation, by the sister of our col— league, Lord Granville, Lady Georgians Fullerton (so well known for her excellent writings), of a Sisterhood under a Paris superior, in a spacious building, for which her coadjutor, Miss Easton, has nobly contributed £5,000. These ladies being Roman Catholics, their sisterhood is of the same persuasion, and this somewhat interferes with their attendance in hospitals. But Miss Brownlow Byron has established another body of the same kind—the All Saints' Home, in Margaret-street— and there are no other attendants than these sisters at the North London Hospital of University Col lege. This is a great benefit gained ; and undoubt edly the exertions of this association, and of those ladies especially who are in co-operation with us, have mainly effected it. It is plain that the duties of nurses offer a great and constant means of female employment, as our amiable and able colleague, Miss Hope, and her coadjutors in this town, have shown, confirmed by the excellent training schools for nurses under M rs. Balfour. The Scours de Chant also perform the service of nursing the sick at their dwellings. I remember that, when attending M. de Tocqueville's funeral at Cannes, the feeling most gene- rally expressed by all present was thankfulness for the comfort which attended the last weeks of his life from the care of these excellent persons. Surely those who have introduced this sisterhood into our coun try are worthy of all acceptation. They well de serve to be the countrywomen of Florence Night ingale —and no higher panegyric can be pronounced. Lady Georgiana Fullerton's fame as an author, great though it be, is eclipsed by her distinction as a philanthropist." It is Lord Brougham, remember, who is speaking thus, not half a century back, but, as it were, we repeat, only yesterday. It is Lord Brougham who was speaking thus on the 7th of October, 1863, in kindred words to those penned by Napoleon the Great on the 28th of August, 1802. In painful, almost we had said, in execrable con trast to which tributes of homage to these benignant ladies the Scours de la Charite, tributes offered by men as remarkable and authoritative as Henry Brougham and Napoleon Buonaparte—come forth in the shape of this most distressing volume, now lying upon our desk, the shameful disclosures here given in regard to the treatment endured by those very Sisters of Charity in the kingdom of Portugal. Upon every page of these disclosures there is the scathing brand of truth. The materials here grouped together most impressively are taken from the journals of the day between the year 1857 and the year 1862 inclusively, and beyond that also from a huge collection of official documents. The facts herein related therefore are perfectly well authen ticated. They speak, in the very simplicity witb which they are given, with most persuasive elo 'qtiOnCe. , The'illfe the veil again in regard to the doings oil xevolutionary party, not by any means confined to Vortrigal in its operations, but ramifying those its operations into all. parts of the European Continent—ci revolutionary party prostituting the worst interests of liberalism by their most illiberal proceedings in the name of that very cause which they, beyond all others, are the most effectually ure dermining. And in this—(as our introductory quotation from the voluminous correspondence of the great modern Conqueror and Law giver Napoleon, the Emperor an d Ri ng, will have already signally evidenced) —in ' this, running directly counter to the opi n i ons ex pressed, and the principles maintained by th a t in carnation of the Genius of the Revolution ! The builder up anew, us Napoleon was, of the altars of G o d after they had been, first of all polluted by the worship of the Goddess of Reason, and after wards burled down in ruins into the bloody dust, in the midst of the hideous Saturnalia by which the earlier phases of that great movement had been inaugurated. The Question of the Scours de la Charite in Portugal (1857-1862), as here put for ward in this painfully interesting volume, appeals to every generous heart, unbiassed by religious pre judice or political fanaticism, to every heart capable of appreciating the generous sentiments expressed in 1802 by the great First Consul, and in this pre sent year of grace 1863 by the eloquent lips of the venerable es- Chancellor Lord Brougham. THE NEW ITALIAN CHURCH, HATTON-WALL, HATTON-GARDEN.—The music at this church, which has been erected for the worship of the Italians of London, is on Sunday morning announced to be of a very grand character. In addition to the selections from Mozart and Haydn for the morning service, the offertorium, " Venite Mortalis," by Gounod, will be sung. Madame Rose Hersee, Miss Julia Elton, Mr. Swift, and many other distinguished artistes, professional and amateur, form the choir at this church. Zingarelli's "Laudate," and Rossini's " Tantum Ergo," will be sung at the Grand Vespers at 7 COLOSSEUM.—We have great pleasure in an nouncing to the friends of Mr. A. Nimmo, the acting ma nager of the above place of amusement, that he intends to take a benefit on Friday, Oct. 16 (morning and evening). From the bill set forth there can be no doubt that the at tractions on this occasion will be very superior., We wish Mr. Nimmo a bumper. AN EQUATORIAL CALAI.—We knew that the weather about the line was often calm, but had pictured to ourselves a go r g eous sun, golden sunsets, cloud less sky, and sea of the deepest blue. On the contrary, such weather is never known there, or only by mistake. It is a gloomy region. Sombre sky and sombre sea. Large cauli flower-headed masses of dazzling cumulus tower in front of of a background of lavender-coloured satin. There are clouds of every shape and size. The sails idly flap as the sea rises and falls with a heavy, regular, but windless swell. Creaking yards and groaning rudder seem to lament that they cannot get on. The horizon is hard and black, save when blent softly into the sky upon one quarter or another by the rapid Iy- ap proa chi n g squall. A puff of wind, " Square the yards l'' The ship stirs again; another—she moves slowly onward; it blows—she slips through the water ;it blows hard—she runs ; very hard—she flies ; a drop of rain—the wind lulls; three or four more of the size of half-a-crown —it falls very light; it rail's hard, and then the wind is dead ; whereon the rain comes down in a torrent which those must see who would believe. The air is so highly charged with moisture that any damp thing remains damp, and any dry thing dampens. The decks are always wet. Mould springs up anywhere, even on the very boots which one is wearing ; the atmosphere is like that of a vapour bath, and the dense clouds seem to ward off the light, but not the heat of the sun. The dreary monotony of such weather affects the spirits of all, and even the health of some. Ono poor girl, who had long b een c onsumptive, but who apparently had rallied much during the voyage, seemed to give way suddenly as soon as we had been a day inthi t s he belt of calms, and tour days after w e lowered her over ship's aide into the deep,—Butler's Year in New Zealand. lht .4 Gu l 'lv slritular THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND. BALMORAL, OCt. 8. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louise of Hesse and Princess Helena, drove yesterday to Alt-na-Guithasach, where they lunched, and re turned home in the evening. The King of the Greeks. The King of the Greeks and the Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut. Funch and Capt. Grey, left Marlborough yesterd a y morn i ng f or Rich mondpark,aimi and went shooting with the Duke of Cambridge. The King of the Greeks and the Prince of Wales inspected, in the afternoon, specimens of the photo graphs for which his Majesty and the Prince and Princess of Wales sat on Wednesday to Messrs. Southwell, in Baker-street. The Prince of Wales received last evening a party at dinner to meet the King of the Greeks. The company consisted of his Majesty the King of the Greeks, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Danish Minister, the Mar chioness of Ely, Eirl and Countess Spencer, Vis count Torrington, Viscount Palmerston, Hon. Chas. Augustus Murray, Colonel and Mrs. Brownrigg, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Gosch, of the Danish Legation ; Mr. A. lonides, Greek Consul-General; Count Sponneck, Baron Guldencrone, Lieutenant Punch, Lieutenant Leth, Dr. Philemon, Professor Koeppen, Lieutenant• General Knollys, Captain Grey, the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, and Mr. Holzman. The Hon. Mrs. Murray was prevented by indis position from obeying his Royal Highness's commands. The band of the Scuts Fusilier Guards attended, and performed during dinner. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, went out in a carriage in the fore noon. Her Royal Highness took a drive in an open carriage in tho afternoon. The Mayor of Coventry and . Miss Soden attended at Marlborough House, and were introduced to the Princess of Wales by Lord Harris, K. 5.1., cham berlain to her Royal Highness. The Prince of Wales visited Prince William of Hesse at Thomas's Hotel, Charles-street. Prince William afterwards paid a visit to the Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. PRINCE ALFRED IN EDINBURGH. On Tuesday morning his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, accompanied by Major Co well, left Holy rood Palace on foot, and proceeded to the Free Church Assembly Hall to listen to the opening address of Lord Curriehill, President of the Juri sprudence Department of the Social Science Asso• ciation. After the conclusion of his lordship's address, Prince Alfred and Major Cowell paid a visit to the Parliament House, where they were met by Professor Lyon Playfair, CM., who had the honour of conducting his Royal Highness through the Great Hall, where the learned professor pointed out the principal paintings, statues, and marble busts which adorn that magnificent hall. The recently executed portrait of Lord Brougham was examined and much admired by his Royal Highness. The Rev. Dr. Lee had the honour of being presented to Prince Alfred in the Great Hall. The Prince was then conducted by Professor Playfair to the room in which the Social Economy Department was sitting, ar,d where Colonel Torrens was reading a paper on " The Relation between Great Britain and her Colonies." After remaining some time in this department, his Royal Highness was next con ducted to the department of public health, in which was being read a paper by Miss Florence Night ingale en "How People may Live and not Die in India." Here, as in the other departments which the Prince honoured by his presence, his Royal Highness was greeted with hearty and spontaneous bursts of cheering, the audience in each department invariably rising to their feet, and remaining in that position till the Prince was seated. In the evening the Prince went to the University to attend the grand conversazione given there by the Profes sors. The Prince was attired in the Highland costume, in which he appeared to very great ad vantage. Health of Lord Lyndhurst. The following bulletin was issued this morn ing : _ _ _ " Saturday, Oct. 10. " Lord Lyndhurst has passed a more restless night,. but he floes not appear to he materially weaker than yesterday,. " THOS. HAWESLEY, M.D. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS CHRISTIAN OF DEN• MARK.—The royal parents of the Princess of Wales and the King of the Greeks, the Prince and Princess Christian of Denmark, will arrive in London this day. Their royal highnesses will remain in England until the de• parture of his Majesty for France on his way to Greece. PRINCE WILLIAM OF HESSE.—His Highness Prince William of Hesse arrived in London early yesterday morning, and proceeded to Thomas's Hotel, Charles-street, St. James's. The Prince of Wales visited his highness in the course of the day, and in the evening Prince William left London on a visit to her Majekity at Balmoral. Queen Amelia has arrived at Claremont from Tunbridge Wells. The venerable ex-Queen of the French is in good health. HIS Highness the Prince Victor Bariatinsky has arrived at Long's Hotel. The Prince Nickeline and suite have left the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, for Paris, on the way to Rome. I,,Cardinal Wiseman, we are glad to announce, is greatly improved in health. The Duke of Athola has not left his house since the day after her Majesty's visit. The Duchess of Athol° is in constant attendance upon the duke at Blair Castle, her watching being only shared in and relieved by his grace's relative, Miss Macgregor, assisted by a professional nurse. The Duke of Newcastle has arrived in town from his seat, Clumber-park•. The Marquis and Marchioness of Anglesey and the Countess of Winchilsea have returned from Folke stone to Eastwall•park, where a fashionable party is assem bled to partake of the sports of the field. The Marquis and Marchioness cf Exeter cou rt i e n s u t restored, in e d ise marquis oo soon greatly leav e town.and it is The expectedhealth o thatf the the no familybl for Burghley to pass the winter, and entertain there a cession of visitors. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesoury, ac companied by the Countesses Henrietta and Amy Dannes. kiold, have left Pall-mall for Tottenham Park, near Marl borough. The Earl and Countess Delawarr arrived at their residence on Thursday evening front Kissengen, Germa ny. Lord Delawarr is greatly heproved in health. Earl Spencer has made arrangements by which, during his absence from England, the management of the Pytchley Hunt will be divided between the Hon, Frederick Villiers on the Harborough side, and Mr. Knightley on the Althorp side. The Earl and Countess Russell and family arrived. yesterday at their residence, Pembroke Lodge, - Richmond, from visiting (on their way from Scotland) the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, at Beaudesert, near Lich field. The Earl and Countess of Craven have been en tertaining the Earl of Sefton, Lord and Lady Grey do Wil ton, the Hon. Colonel Forester, arid a select circle, at Ashdown Park, (?wring the coursing meeting. The Earl and Countess of Wilton leave Heaton Park to-morrow for Newmarket. Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yester day from his seat, Broadlands, Hants. The Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P., arrived in town on Thursday night, from Dieppe, for the autumn. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left his seat, Falloden, in Northumberland, on Thursday, for Balmoral, to relieve the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, in attendance on her M.jesty. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to leave Balmoral on Thursday last from attendance on the Queen. Mr. Gladstone is expected at his house on Carlton House-terrace next week. The right hon. gentle man intends to stay a few days with Mrs. Gladstone and family at Sir Stephen Glynne's seat in Fliutshire. Birmingham has 50,000 houses, and 296,000 in habitants; Wolverhampton has a population of 1l4,000; Wa41,11 of 60,000; and Dudley, 45,000,