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ire of eet, red at 11- EMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS' kJ VERY EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred del lo n'Rs Promenade Concerts. sti- N C IRIVICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. Ti le business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. Se duty paid to G overnmen t f or th e year 1862 WRS 10( 8 5,1 ' 6 2, and. the amount insured on farming stock, 6,332. A 1 bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to P. trti es insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received tu 1015 amountinc,, in the aggregate to Z 410,000 ; and the Society a t ow h o ld s a large Reserve appli-able to future Bonus. Th q ? rates of premium are i n no case higher than those th iarg ed by the o th er principal offices making no returns to .eir insurers. Poer Pro'Pectuses apply at the Society's O I Offices, SurreY _ !e t fare, t. wich ; and 6, Crescent, N ew Bridge-street, 131aek , BC or. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1863. 'an e:18 2101 to out N°. 22,226. STAXPED ....sd. MRS. GREY'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., fl G OOD SOCIETY. By MRS. GREY, The Story of the Mhow Court-Martial: tain Smales then declared his intention of proceeding to England, and on the following day went openly on board the steamer. He was then again arrested in consequence of another telegram, and imprisoned for two months, at the end of which time—he having made no defence—the grand jury ignored the bills which had been sent up against him, and lie proceeded on his voyage to England. We should here mention that, pending the court-martial, Captain Smales's accounts had been carefully examined by a com mittee, consisting of Lieut.-Col. Prior and Captains Ren shaw and Garnett, all of whom were witnesses for the pro secution ; and that this committee reported " the paymas ter's accounts to be perfectly correct, with a balance standing in his favour." or Ash Church stations, whereby the whole of the material and commissariat stores from Chatham, Woolwich, and the Tower will be conveyed direct to the government stores by rail. The capital cal culated as sufficient to complete the undertaking is £75,000, which it is proposed to raise in 7,500 shares of £lO each. ought at least to be ready to accept peace on terms which the South would make by no means onerous (From the United Smite Gazvtle.) As the trial by court-martial in England of Lieut.-Col. Crawley, of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, on charges con- or offensive. CM' 4::ai, had ith. his Author of " The Gambler's Wife," &c. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. This was in June; but July followed, and with it an almost complete reverse of fortune. Lee drew back in confusion ; Grant broke through the Mis- A - P ' l1 -T ARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established IS2I. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. Now ready, 1 vol., with Illustrations, 145., bound, netted with the death, whilst under close arrest, of his re gimental sergeant-major, must now take place within a very short period, and will necessary absorb a good deal of public sissippi barriers; the South-West was reconquered ; the siege of Charleston progressed favourably. It was now for the Republicans to hold their con vention, and the mob cheered them as loudly as it had hailed the peace men of the previous month. War is drawing to a speedy and happy conclusion, why should it break short now ? Wby should it not be pushed on to the thorough restoration of the Union, and the complete emancipation of the slaves ? In the abstract, no doubt, every American of the LADY'S VISIT TO MANILLA AND JAPAN. Fy ANNA D'A. attention, we feel that we shall be rendering a not unaccep- in DIRECTORS. Sir nrNTo FARQUHAR, Bart, M.P., Chairman. ; . 21 T ARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman !, B. nry Hulse Berens, Esq., iG. J. Shaw Let7re, Esq. , •,. enry Bonham Carter, Esq. I.oh3laitlp.,. Esq.. Esq. A larleg F Devas, Esq. 3 g kF. Rowland Mitchell, E F :. rands Hart Dyke, Esq. I James Morris, Esq. , 1 r Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq, ~ Lmes Goodson, Esg. Henry R. Reynolds, Egg, ! • homson Hankey, Esq., DLP Abraham_ J. Rob arts, Esq. • ohn G. Hubbard, Esq., DLF. Henry Vigne, Esq. J E• 'redk. H. Janson, Esq. " This book is written in a lively, agreeable, natural style, and we cordially recommend it as containing a fund of varied ii-Atormation connected with the Far East not to be found reciniei in so agreeable a manner in any other volume with which we are acquainted."—Press. table service in giving such a brief outline of the line ab ovo usque ad mala as shall enable people to form some gene ral idea of its bearings, and serve as a key to the more com plicated and elaborate details which must be submitted to the public at the trial. In doing so we do not make any pre tence to close verbal accuracy, nor hope to produce more than such a slight general thread as shall serve to connect the detached facts which are yet to be submitted ; but we ion by Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great 31arlborough-street. Naval and /thlitary Intelligence. THE NAVY. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting, Esq. Th os. Ta n emac h, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary :LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT or PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In- Eurers EIGI4TY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium Without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in twill value £860,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life A ssurances in force, with txistino• Bonuses thereon, 'mounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, independent of the capital, exoeeded £1,618,000. FIRE DE PARTMENT.--Insurances are effected upon every description of property at moderate rates. No expense is incurred in effecting a new Insurance be yond the payment rf tb,p"Nwrt7al Preinturn and Duty, 'mitten the I t eau um amounts 1 h 6a. Claims liberally and promp;.ly settled. NOTICE IS HErIcEBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies 411 loh expire at Iretaelmas must be renewed within fifteen ( days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's— street, corner of Pall-Mall ; or with the Company's Agents throughout the. 'Kingdom, otherwise they become void. ApPlication for Prospectuses and Agencies to be made to the secretary_ TLIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY• Established in 1836. Offices :--1, Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry, London. E.C. PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY SINCE 1850: 17, rear, Fire Premiums. Life Premiums. Invested Funds. -----.... .______ £502,874 385 L £51,305 .£27,157 1856 222,270 72,78 1 821,081 1861 1,3 , 1,905 300,130135,9 74 1862 436,005 13 , ,7 03 1,417.808 -- The Fire Duty pa id by this Company in England in 1862 'as 471,2 8 4. SWINTON BOULT, See - et3ry to the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Se, retary, London. A.D. 1720. nOYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (141;stablished by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir Joni./ HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. 11 :,, ( 'IlrY Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Robert Barclay, Req. Earl of Leven and Melville. ohn Garratt Ca 4 Alev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. liark Currie Cl ,se, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. Gilliam Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Deni, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Drum, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Riveradale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: William Wallace, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SoLLT. Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.— rhe usual fifteen days all'jwed for payment of EIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Michaelmas will expire On 14th October. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms, The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave raged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have. 'been made in the Premiums ayable by persons who pre;erred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit tak e place every Five years. Any sum not exceedmg £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation, s;fords to the Assured— Liberal partir,ipation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities at partnership. A rate of r,onus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—veith the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perienc of nearly a CENTURY AND A DALT% SPECIAL NOTICE. Politic' 14 on the participating system, granted on or before the gist, December, 18e3, and in force at th- close of the year 1865 , be entitled to share in the next division of profits ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY HEAD OFFICES, 29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inturancc buildings, LiverpoeL Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500, 0 10. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1 OOO,OOO. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. xxnucrs FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1882. The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now called uPon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting 01 its Shareholders. FIRE BA. The Directors have, as pleasingly H RS unexpectedly, at the close of the yea r , t o announce, for the first time, that the Fire emitting have not only reached, but exceed £.300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is again fully maintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the commencement of this Office, the balance to the credit on account of Briti s h an d F ore i gn I nsurances b e i ng £95,107 10s. Ud., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa rately, £11,007 16s. 10d. LIFE BRANCH. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to state the sum assured on new policies for fhe year 1F62 exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £701,127 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last few years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which has just been announced as the result of one year's business was all but unheard of. This portion of the Company's business has been carefully watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the future to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for assuran^e smounts to £143,281. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis stole in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. - If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more rapid than that of any other Company established either in Lond)n or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for It a sphere of still greater magni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the OfTiee with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the puble. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. I Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is • • • • .. £51,000 The Acoumulated Fund exceeds .. 2 o,r 00 It has paid i n Claims • • • • .. 112,000 The whole of the profits are divided quinq uenniall y amon g the Members. Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the - .. .. X 5,400 11,500 23.200 56,500 Dec. 31, 1847 .. „ 1852 „ 1857 .. 1882 Inakint; the total bonus additions, £08,600. Bonuses be received in v ish or applied to the retine lion of premi ums a t t h e opt i on of the assured, in li eu of an addition to the i ol.ey. Attention is espe c i a lly I nv it e d t o th e system of free or paid nll Policies introditeod by this Association, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of Po icy is wholly avoided. The balance -sheets of the Association are open to all, Whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. Chief Office, 15, MoorgW 3 t. THOS. LINFORD , S ecre t ary. ate - street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office Aldershot 24 September,, 1863. TENDERS will he received At. this office, until noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for th e supply of 7ADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1864. Price 6d. "4 Fiftieth Thousand. Contains a full Report of the Action for Libel and Verdict gained by the Editor. Stinging reply to the Critics of the Press. Letters from H.R.H. the late Prince Consort to Zadkiel ! London : G. Berger, Holywell-street, Strand, London. T " OXFORD 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes —Miss Russell. Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, guish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean &c. Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. 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Admission, is. Manager—M. GRENET. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GHOST ! new version—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN-- Grand Divertissement —Favourite Onera Selections —NICO SIA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL, DE SOLLA. the Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler, Every Evening. Doors open at 7 —commence at half-past 7. ROYAL ALILA.IIII3RA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction — lmmense success of SIGNOR NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. ESTABLISHED 1833. 114 0 WDEN'S lERATED GINGER BEER, i n AI glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, votass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manutactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. RITPTURES.—I3Y ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. TE MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFEC.XIIIDITED IN THE GREAT I RITIRITIONS OP 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to oe the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of li ERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, a here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the tody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting, with so much ease ,nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn luring sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being - , cut to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. - - A Single Trim, les., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. el Postage, la. X. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 428., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. ed. Postage, ls. lod. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly, NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are vomits, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on IlYe an ordinary stocking. price 4s. 6d., 78. 6d., 108., to 16s. eadh. Postage 6d. FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November, 143, to 3'st October, IF6I, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Porms of Tender ant Conditions of Contract may be ob 'nine(' on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. da'ihv e _ Te nders must be properly fil l e d up and sin - ned a n d 0nt,47:11,...at this office (under closed envelope, w m i a l r l k ho ed n o o n ti t c h ed e ,T e nder for Forage"), and o Tender LT the 110... -e forms o bt a ined from this office, and deli vered aP Pobated. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy c()Mnlit3sary-Ueneral, R OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Inoorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—IIer Most Graeious Majesty the Queen. IRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., CHAIRMAN—Tbos. Baring, Fsq., M.P., P.R.S. V.p, DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., P.h.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since he beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments On the Coasts of Eng'and, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Lite-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800; for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat Trans porting-carriages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet ot 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and i screws practised in the managemert of their boats, whi - r , can only be eff ected b y a large and permanen t annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating se great and truly national a work. 'the Committee gratefuliy acknowledge the following con tributions:— Her Majesty the Queen • • annual 1 1 0 £ s. d Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. • . annual 50 C 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. • • . • •• • • rainual 50 0 o li ., s 3 q le , ssrs.,..Bank . e . ra • ..... • • annual 10 0 0 (.7Ti u rr t i t e s , Erie, Lord C'hiet Justice • „ • • .. d -• 4th don.lo 0 0 Puutillawe, Vice-AdmiralKe.B. .. 2 _9 1 4; 10 10 0 F enw ick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat _ il _ :01 r u t ( 1 ) 1 1. 25 0 0 sporting Carriatre • • • • • • ,• a r _ a rrn C . Harvey. Rev. G. G. and •Mrs. • • 250 0 0 •• •• don. 3 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • . .. .. 7th don.lo ° Moore, Rev. G. B. • • •" • • • don. 0 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • .• 15 15 0 3 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.R. . • .. annual 2 Thomas, Lady, W es t o p-super-3lare, collected by her 0 0 Ladship • • • • • • • • • • • • 16 16 0 0 Willoughby d'Eresby ord • • .. annual 5 0 I.• L Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re .. eived by the Bankers of th e Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and lii, Lombard - street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Co.,essrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by all the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the Unitedltingdom; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of th 6 Institution, ?I, John-street, .6..tielohi. London, 11.1. . shall endeavour to be as impartial as possible, ant to avoid saying anything which may unfairly prejudice a prisoner who has yet to be tried for one of the most serious offences known to the military, or indeed to the general law of the land. To begin with the beginning, we find that Lieut.-Col. Crawley joined the Inniskillings as commanding officer at Ahmednuggur, in April, 1861. At that time the regi ment was in the state of perfect discipline at which it had been maintained by the skilful handling of Colonel Shute, since transferred toothe 4th Dragoon Guards, ex• pressly for the purpose of restoring order in that once dis tracted regiment. The high disci line of the 6th at the time of Lieut -Col. Crawley's joining is proved by the confidential reports of the local commanders, and the minutes of Field- Marshal the Commander-in-Chief of the Army based on those reports certifying to the satisfactory state of the regi ment in the most eulogistic terms. When Lieut,-Colonel Crawley joined the regiment his reception from the officers was of the most friendly character, and it is specially to be noticed that none were more anxious to conciliate the new colonel than the paymaster who subsequently became the object of the most relentless persecution. Capt. Bmales ten dered the use of his house and servants, and the other officer were not less cordial in their demonstrations, the story about the refusal of the mess plate being pronounced by Major Swindley, the officer principally responsible for such an act of discourtesy, if it had been committed, to have no foundation except in the lieut.-colonel's imagination. Very shortly, however, after the arrival of the new commanding officers symptoms began to show themselves in his deport.. meat which augured anything but an unbroken countenance for the internal harmony of the regiment. Lieutenant- Colonel Crawley, in the words of a competent witness, began "to condemn everything in the regiment," and when on parade would " rise in the stirrups, shake his whip at the officers, and tell them that their backs were up, but he would soon straighten them." The combustibles necessary for a proximate explosion of discontent were thus rapidly accumulated, when an accidental circumstance served as a spark to the pile. A copy of the Times newspaper contain ing the report of a rather remarkable trial which had taken place in one of our superior courts at. home was received in the regiment, and as that report intimately concerned one of its officers, other officers (married ones) considered it their duty to submit the report to the colonel. For obvious reasons, we glance at this portion of the case in the most distant and rapid manner. It will be sufficient to say that the lieutenant-colonel's point of view in looing at it was different from that of his officers, and that when the latter appealed to him his characteristic reply was, " Look at that box (pointing to a tin box which lay close at hand) ; if I were to turn out the contents of that box, which is Colonel Shute's legacy to me, few officers in the regiment would be able to stand up against it." It is said that a certain un popular personage can quote Scripture to his purpose, and it is evident that Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley had a well known passage in the New Testament in his naiad when he gave this discouraging reply. The consequences may be anticipated—the "hot water" in which the regiment had been so suddenly placed now began to boil over, and " scaldings " became the war-cry of the regiment. Leaves, exchanges, everything were obstructed and interfered with, until at length the lieutenant-•colonel's rage, seeking for a single object, seemed to concentrate itself on the unhappy paymaster. A brother officer, he whose name had occurred in the newspaper report which had first thrown the regiment into a ferment, was set on to watch him, and a demand was made and refused for troop-money, at 8 o'clock in the evening, when his office had long been closed and locked up for the day. This was the opening of the first parallel. The recusant paymaster was put under arrest, a court of inquiry was held, and the result submitted to Sir William Manefield, who gave Lieut.-Col. Crawley a severe wigging for his pains. The system of espionage was still carried on by the same persons, who were alone the colonel's confidants and advisers. A second charge was got up against Capt. Smales about sending his clerk beyond the limits of . . the cantonment ; and this time Lieut.-Col. Crawley's pro ceedings were confirmed by Major- General Farrel, although the clerk had been sent beyond the bounds in order to get a cheque for Lieut.-Col. Crawley himself. The system of worry continued. Lieut. and Adjutant Fitzsimon was sent to Capt. Smales s quarters to see what he could find out, and even the bandmaster was required to report such broken scraps of conservations as might come to his know ledge. There is a curious bit of evidence in the proceedings of the court-martial about an officer who, by accident, was was hid behind a pillar whilst the paymaster chatted with his commanding officer ; and a coincident accident, through which an exact written report of the conversation thus overheard was produced by the prosecu tor. We select the above from scores of similar facts, as showing the circumstances which led up to the writing of the now celebrated letter for which Paymaster Smales was finally brought to court-martial. That letter, which charged Lieut.-Colonel Crawley with systematic absence from the monthly musters of the regi ment, was written on the 26th Feb., 1861 ; but it must be noted that Capt. Smales, as was perfectly competent and proper for an officer in his regimental position to do, had previously reported Col. Crawley's absence from parade to the War-office. Lieut.-Col. Crawley kept the letter a month in his possession before he took any official notice of its con tents; but, in the meantime, it is alleged, took frequent and intimate counsel with Col. Payne, who was subsequently president of the court-martial. At the end of that time the paymaster was placed in arrest, without the intervention, as is usual, of a court of inquiry, and finally was brought to a court-martial on the charge of making false and mali cious charges against his commanding officer. The charges he had made referred to Lieutenant -Colonel Crawley's frequent absence from the monthly musters, and the paymaster's sta'ements on that point were confirmed by an overwhelming mass of evidence on the trial. During the court-martial, which lasted for two months, and which during its progress threw public opinion in India into a officers, to side, 3 his hli perfect hurricane of exciteme n t as against the prosecutor, five or six witnesses were fou nd to depose to the general seen their lieu -1 amiability a o n f d L i e u t n Davies,an t d - o C p o o l s o o n d e l t 0 C r b a a w v l i e n y g , and two witnesses,tenant including n o nge fieldor t w o a ffirc musters. iovras,ted re soldiers, regimental tsaofficers, , the deposed other non commissioned officers, and private systematic absence, and amongst these latter witnesses were Lieutenant and Adjutant Fitzsimon, whom the lieutenant colonel has since benevolently endeavoured to deprive of his eyesight, and the three non-commissioned officers, namely, e w n t a a l k e S fi e e r l g da a n n d t Regime-Major Duval L w i b l l o e s y e . u a n n ta d r T i t r e o d o p p e Sergeant- Majors rseeution s have concentrated English public opinion on the proceed ings at Mhow, and compelled the government to grant a re opening of the whole case at Chelsea. When it became known to the lieutenant-colonel that these non-commissioned officers were to bo calied as wit nesses for the defence, he immediately ordered them all into close arrest, on the following very grave and definite charges :—Unhappy Lilley was accused of having, i n familiar conversation with brother non-commissioned officers, applied an offensive epithet to his colonel ; Duval of saying that ho had not heard the epithet applied ; and and Wakefield for saying, over hik beer, that he would do something to Morton [another non-commissioned officer] for having reported him." Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley had repeatedly and extrajudicially examined these men at his own quarters, in the presence of his friends Renshaw and Davies, whilst the field officers present with the regiment were excluded, and the adjutant was obliged to remain out side in the verandah. Lieut.-Col. Crawley having somehow obtained the sanction of Brigadier Farrel for his proceedings, placed the three non-commissioned officers in close arrest, raider circumstances which in Lilley's case produced the premature death of a brave, honest, and high-charactered soldier; and, secondly, disturbed Wakefield's mental balance and induced him to escape from the regiment by obtaining his discharge. Notwithstanding a positive Indian military order to that effect, there was no inquest held on poor Lilley; but the whole circumstances of that awful case are too familiar to a shuddering public to require further detail in so brief an outline as the present. There will be time enough, as the trial approaches, to give it in all its dark and tragic proportions, and no attempt to narrow the charges into petty technicalities will prevent a full and searching investigation of the whole affair. The trial and Mhow terminated on the 21st of June, and the finding was read to Captain Smales on the 13th of July, when he was :formally cashiered and taken off the strength of the regiment. He thus became, of course, free man, loft the cantonment, and at oTnhcees:a:::: sforteEng land vie Bombay, with a view of applying to the ultimate court of appeal for redress. Lieut.- Col. Crawley had hot, however, overtaken q en ui r te ou d te on b e y with leg h r i a m m y o e r t d . oring his was areest by the civil power on a charge of having abscondeil, from his rogi. one information that went, was subsequently released, with the arrest h a d b ee n a mistake, a- so . he n h a a t d ß w o a m p ba Bombay on charges _ finally thrown into pil accounts, although l e d with his regimental - . 0 at 010141 thAt jaf:NF Ur)thilag hisPr iuqiev , b y it DI; the military eimmediately°np n a e y oe m n a h s i t s e e s a a e n h d i n w g. a was that ac lmaCap ede The foreplating of the iron frigate Achilles, building at Chatham, will be completed in the course of the present week, when, with the exception of a few plates required to be fixed beneath the stern, the whole of the exterior of the vessel will be in cased in armour-plating varying from three inches to four and half inches in thickness carried to five feet below her water line. On board the same energy is being used in constructing the armour plated and other bulkheads, together with the ma gazines and shell-rooms, the latter of which are to be constructed of a size sufficient to contain 180 filled and 120 empty common 110-pounders, 60 filled and 50 empty common 20-pounder Armstrongs, 120 filled and 180 empty 110-pounder segment Arm strongs, 50 filled and 50 empty segment 20-pounder Armstrongs, 25 boxes filled and 100 empty segment 12-pounder Armstrongs, and 25 boxes of filled and 100 empty of the 9-pounder segment Armstrongs. The magazines are made to hold 456 whole penta gon cases of poweer, and 75 metal lined half-cases, together with charges of 440 8-inch or 68-pounder shells. _ _ On the recommendation of Capt. Hall, C. 8., of the Cumberland, 74, the screw gunboat Thrasher, 80-horse power, is being fitted up to be used in con veying the officers and m en of the Chatham Steam Reserve to and from the ships in harbour to the shore. Her Majesty's screw steam gunvessel Wrangler, 4 guns, 477 tons, 80-horse power, Commander Henry the Sheernessed only th e short space of 50 minutes, and the commander and officers were addressed in congratulatory terms on the efficiency and discipline manifested by the crew. The Wrangler has been fortunate in making several prizes, some of which had slaves on board. She will be placed in the 3d division of the Steam Reserve at Sheerness. A Naval court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, on Friday, for the trial of Patrick O'Brian, an able seaman in her Majesty's service, on the following charges :—Fiest, for having, while borne on the books of her Majesty's ship Pioneer for passage to England as a prisoner from her Majesty's ship Eclipse, on the sth of September last, disobeyed the commands of Lieut. Meyer, of her Majesty's ship Pioneer, by refusing to return a pair of boots to the chief of the ship's police when ordered to do so, and for using threatening and insulting language to Lieut. Meyer and a corporal of Marines, and for resisting efforts made to compel his obedience; second, for offering to strike on the same date Ser geant John Carter, Royal Marines, the acting chief of the ship's police. The Court, under the presidency of Capt. Scott, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Victory, found the charges proved, and sentenced the pri soner to be imprisoned in Lewes Gaol for 12 months with hard labour, and to be dismissed from her Ma jesty's service. The same Court assembled on board the Victory, on Saturday morning, for the trial of Mr. J. A. Leicester, Assist.-Surgeon of the Ist class on board herMajesty'sship Pioneer, on a charge of having between the Ist of October, 1861, and the 30th of June, 1862, l en t certain sums of money to seamen belonging to the Pioneer, the said sums being made repayable to his (the prisoner's) son with usurious interest, such conduct being a breach of the 34th article of war. The trial lasted the whole day, a number of witnesses were exa mined, and the evidence was of a very voluminous character. The Court found the charge proved and sentenced the prisoner to be reduced to second-class assistant, and put at the bottom of the list. The paymaster of the Pioneer is under arrest for an al leged serious defalcation in his accounts, and i s ex pected to be put on his trial on board the Victory to morrow_ This will cause a further delay in the paying of the ship out of commission, which was originally fixed for Saturday last. By an Admiralty order issued in Woolwich dock yard, the shipwright establishment is to be re duced by a discharge of 300 hired mechanics and labourers in the following weekly ratio :-24 ship wrights, 10 joiners, 14 smiths, and 20 labourers, the discharge to commence on Saturday next, the first batch having already received notices to that effect. The following appointments were made on Satur day at the Admiralty :—Commander Edwin C. Symons, additional to the Cornwallis, for service in the Coastguard ; Commander Charles Fairholme, additional to the Colossus, for service in the coast guard ; Silas W. Parker, paymaster to the Pelorus ; B, G. Little, assist.-engineer to the Fisgard, as s upernumerary ; an d R. H. E a st, assist-engineer to the Indus as supernumerary. THE ARMY. Owing to the continued fine weather the troops at Aldershott were enabled to have another " divi sional field•day" on Wednesday. At 9 o'clock the division was formed upo n Claycirt-ridge in line of contiguous columns, to resist an enemy approaching in great strength from the north-west, his right resting upon Bedridden -copse and his left upon Pyestock-hill. The object of the General appeared to be to attack both flanks of the advancing army, and for this purpose the 3d brigade was directed to the right flank of the enemy, and the Ist, 2d, and cavalry brigades on the left. The 3cl brigade, con sisting of the 24th, 3d, and 64th Regiments covered by the 13th and one squadron of the 18th Hussars, first came into action, the advanced trcops opening fire on arriving at Bickey-cop se , and keeping up a warm engagement within its coverts. The let and 2d brigades advanced upon Long-hill, and opened a very heavy fusillade, while the 6th Dragoon Guards and the Ist Royals executed some splendid charges on the right, supported by I)" b a ttery Royal Horse Artillery. The 13th and 18th Hussars advanced to the front, and pursued the right of the enemy, which was already routed and retiring in confusion. A general advance followed, under cover of two batteries of artillery, which were posted in an excellent position on Long-hill, and from which a tremendous cannonade was kept up. At this juncture the infantry threw in an overwhelm ing fire, and before this concentrated attack the enemy gave way, and fled in disorder. After the tnauceuvres the troops marched past, the cavalry and artillery in open column of squadrons and bat teries, and the infantry in open column of grand divisions in quick time. The cavalry afterwards passed from the reverse flank left in front, at a ga llop. The trcops returned to their quarters about half-past 1 o'clock. The movements throughout were of a very animat©d description, and attracted a large concourse of spectators. The Project for connecting AkTershott camp with London by a railway junction is now assuming a more definite form. According to the it preliminary prospectus" just issued, the proposed line will be about "LI- miles in extent, comme nc ing from the South Western Railway between the Woking and Farnborough stations, proceeding by a direct route to Alderehott and thence to a point near to the Pernham station of the I Joadoa and South Western Railway Company. It can be connected also with the South Eastern Railway at or no.tir Novo -„i:14 The squadron of the 18th Hussars, which, under the command of Captain Peyton, has been stationed in the North Camp'since the departure of the head quarters and six troops to Norwich, removed on Friday into the cavalry barracks at Aldershott. The D, E, F, and G batteries of Horse Artillery, comprising the entire portion of that brigade at present at headquarters, were yesterday drawn out on Woolwich Common for the inspection of General Sir Richard Dacres, commanding the garrison. The General was attended by Major Reilly, aide de-camp, Major Milward, brigade-major, and Cap tain Mangle, deputy assistant quarter-master general. The strength of the batteries consisted of 750 men, 550 horses, and 24 guns, the whole in command of Col. D'Aguilar, C. 8., in the absence of Coi. Sir David Wood, K.C.8., on sick leave. The inspection commenced at 10, and terminated about 1, upwards of an hour being occupied in marching past and undergoing a general and searching exami nation. The batteries afterwards formed in various positions, and went through a number of movements, firing 15 rounds of blank ammunition, the steadi ness and regularity of which could not be surpassed. At the close of the evolutions, the General expressed his satisfaction with the discipline and efficiency of the brigade, and informed Col. D'Agnilar, that he should do them justice in his forthcoming half yearly report to his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief. I frwo regiments of infantry, the 55th and 76th, will very shortly embark for India. The 55th will be succeeded in their present quarters in Ports mouth garrison by the 26th Cameronians, from Gosport, the latter regiment being relieved by a re giment from Aldershott. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturar. 228. Piccadilly. TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. fd. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 45. 4d. to 3s. Ild, per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY o f the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N, C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co., bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Grav's-inn-road , in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCIT, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by, sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masierrnau, Esq. Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond' and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ranso m and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; D en i son and Co. ; W llianas, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. THE WESTERN STATES. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Sept. 6. A great Republican Convention, or monster meet ing was held last Thursday at Springfield, the poli tical capital of this State. Hopes were entertained for some time that Mr. Lincoln would attend the gathering, but he acquitted himself of his promise by a letter which has already been before the public for several days. Deprived of the prestige of the Presidential presence, the Springfield meeting sank to an affair of second-rate importance, and was not even remarkable for a very numerous attendance. The power of the masses in this democratic country lies exclusively in the ballot. Any meeting which is not intended as the immediate preliminary to an election is mere waste of breath. It is idle to con sider its resolutions as the manifestation of the popu lar mind. The people here do not know their own mind ; they echo the sentiments of those two or three cracked fanatics or designing politicians who under take to be their mouthpieces. There is a prodigious amount of bawling, ranting, pushing, drinking, and rioting; but when the crowds go asunder there are very few indeed who have taken the resolutions to heart, who care to treasure them up in their memory, who consider themselves bound to act up to their import. I have said from the outset, in one of my very earliest letters, that the Americans do not under- stand their own affairs any better than the stranger who, upon his first arrival, will be at the trouble to take a careful and dispassionate survey of what lies before him. The Americans never knew what they wanted—their wishes have been perpetually swayed by the various phases of the war into which they were most unwittingly drifted. There were a thousand of the most relentless Republicans at the outset who subscribed to Mr. Edward Everett's principle, "that if the Southern States were unwilling to abide in the Union, they should, in God's name, be al lowed to go asunder." That slaves and slave owners should quietly take themselves off was the wish particularly of those black Abolitionists to whom at that time no other means of a thorough going emancipation presented itself. The war that broke out d►d not for a long time materially affect this general disposition. The Southerners had in sulted the flag, they had set up the standard of rebellion ; they must be taken to task for it, they must be soundly beaten, severely punished, but then, when enough was done for the honour of the Federal arms, they must be left to "fry in their own fat," to wallow in their own ground with their unwholesome negro, and the great Republic must wash its hands of that hereditary guilt, it must cease to be a partaker of that liberticide iniquity. Slavery, no doubt, was a very sore subject with many a noble and honourable man of the North. I have lived in Boston in the days of Channing—the days in which humane, moderate, and truly benevo lent men were turning; in their minds if there was indeed any possibility to wash out that foul blot of negro slavery from the American escutcheon. I have known abroad, at Geneva, at Florence, at Rome, distinguished citizens of the States who wasted away an existence which might have been most valuable to their country simply because they would not sanction with their presence the con tinuance of an institution which was in their opinion at war with all the laws of God and man. But then, again, I have seen many equally virtuous and well-meaning men who weighed this matter of negro slavery with the vital interest of the Union, who looked upon the condition of the South as a disease which admitted no cure, and who, in the alternative of lopping off a member which, however corrupt, was essential to the existence of the body, decided that the sore subject of negro slavery should be hushed up, that vaunt ing Abolitionism should bo tabooed, that a tacit compromise should be established with the South, and the interests of so many millions of whites should never be jeoparded for the sake of the rights of a few million of blacks. War merely for or against negro slavery had become an impossibility in the States ; but, unfor tunately, the Southerners conceived that their pecu liar institution could only exist by being expansive and aggressive. In order to promote its increase and spread, they took more than their allotted share in the management of public affairs. Party spirit was mixed up with what was originally a mere social controversy ; a moral question assumed all the bitterness of political animosity, hence the elec• tions of 1860 and the hostilities of 1861. The war, however, exasperated the parties, but it did not change or displace them. From the begin ning there was a large Democratic party, to which a very great many of the Republicans joined them selves, who were anxious above all things that the war should be a short one—a kind of tournament for the honour of the stars and stripes rather than an arrangement which either should bring back the South on the old conditions, or should allow it to go its own way without further contention. These two parties, the War Party and the Peace Patty, have been leading the Northern multitude to and fro ever since. 1 see nothing about me but say of 99 men out of 100 , who a vast passive mass , have been yielding to the impulse, now of one sid e , now of the other, es ready to shout far the Demo crats at the Springfield meeting of June l est as to bawl with the Republicans at the Springfield meeting of last Thursday. In the month of June of this year the Democrats of Illinois visibly had the upper hand. General Lee had crossed the Potomac; his cavalry threat ened Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburg, or Phila delphia ; Vicksburg and Port Hudson held out against all odds. There was no hope of speedy vic tory, no chance of a happy termination of the war. The peace men had it all their own way. Enough had been done for the honour of the Federal arms, and these who had tio 6gnelly raiimultJged the war North harbours very strong feelings for the union of his big country, and for those Abolition prin- ciples which aim at the removal of the darkest of stain from its fair banner. Impress them with the possibility of reconquering all the Southern terri tory and of enfranchising the whole negro race, and the mass will follow you, no doubt, unwearied in its exertions, and regardless of sacrifices. But can the conviction of the feasibility of that great scheme of restoration and emancipation really strike deep root P Behold ! the Government was in some measure com mitted to it. The President's proclamation, his de cree of emancipation, confiscation, 8,:e., have laid the views and plans of the Government very openly before the public. The " rebel" land was to be mili tarily occupied—subjected to martiel rule, doing away with the right of property of the present owners, manumitting slave labour, and reorganising free labour under Government superintendence. Specious as the scheme seemed to many of the sanguine Republicans, it, however, struck many as not only monstrously inhuman and barbarous, but also most supremely chimerical and impracticable. Many people were disposed to look upon that procla mation of the President's as a mere brutunzfulmen— an empty threat, never to be carried into execution. It was understood that several members of the Cabi. net at Washington, n o l ess t h an mos t o f th e leaders of the Government party, were opposed to the wholesale destructive measur e . St rong remon strances and point-blank questions were addressed to the President on the subject. Hence his letter dated " Executive Mansion, Aug. 26," in which, although he shifts his ground and wriggles about with a lawyer's dexterity, he gives us, nevertheless, clearly to understand that the war is to be followed up to the bitter end. Notwithstanding all the President's letters, and notwithstanding the shouts and cheers with which the wild effusions of Republican orators were re ceived at Springfield the other day, we must not believe that the war party is very strong in these Western States, or that the notion of " exhausting the North to lay waste the South " finds many hearty supporters here. So long as success crowns the efforts of the Federal armies, so long as hopes can be entertained that three, six months at the utmost, may bring about the termination of the strife, the people here endure and wait. But let us only hear, for instance, that the siege of Charleston has to be raised, or that Lee has been successful in a now raid across the Potomac, and you will soon hear the cry of the Springfield Democratic Conven tion of last June set up again. The common mass follows here the impulse of every breeze, and its leaders, when they are not ambitious adventurers without principles, are empty•pated fanatics whose principles are as unsteady as those of the multitude they presume to control. I hope you will not charge me with exceeding conceit if I declare to you my conviction that there is very little political sense among party leaders in this mighty Republic. The question of negro slavery in the South was a very serious and painful one at all times ; but that any one should propose to solve it by the extermination of the whole of the white, and the no less unavoidable extinction of the whole of the black race is something that baffles all the comprehensive powers of an un-American mind. Yet that is what many repeat here daily with un abashed asseverance, and it must be hard but come of them do really mean what they say. The vivork of extermination, to whatever extent it may u ltimately be carried, is, while we are here discussing, being hurried on with mad fury in the South-West. I gave you in my last letter an extract describing the deplorable condition to which New Orleans and Louisiana have been reduced since they fell into Yankee hands ; I have to-day to add the following few lines : At this season of the year the population of New Or leans is ordinarily 160,000 souls. In winter, during the busy season, it reaches near 230,000. It is now but little over 60,000, if the soldiers are left out of the count. Within the past few days there has been an apparent revival of business, owing to the arrival of the bulk of General Ord's command, the 13th army corps. But, making due allowance for the season, and other present circumstances, there are evidences cn every hand that the great commercial im• portance of the city is a thing of the past. Her trade in the great staples, cotton and sugar, is gone. It is true that some apparently successful experiments in sugar culture have been made, and at the proper time some sugar may be looked for; but the area devoted to these expe riments is comparatively very small. Both sugar and cot ton will for a year or two come to New Orleans in drib lets, where they formerly came in floods. Then, again, the trade with the West Indies is gone, and cannot be recovered for a long time. This is one of the calamities which was in flicted on the West and South "West by the closing of the M i ss i ss ippi river navigation, Now that the river is again open, a resumption of the whole trade may be expected, but it must be a work of time. The shipping necessary is otherwise employed. The attention of buyers has been turned elsewhere, and will not immediately revert to former channels. Trade restrictions, moreover, must be removed before receiving and forwarding can be conducted in a legi timate and prosperous way. We may see by this that the evil wind of the war, which has blown so much good to New York, has done no such good turn for NOW Orleans ; and the calamity was inflicted on the West no less than on the South West. Push on the war to the bitter end ; crush the white race in the slave-holding St a t es, and set the negro free. We shall see how long a time it will take before the recolonization of those desolate territories, and the reorganisation of the l a bour of " freed men working on compulsion," make up for the losses and calamities inflicted not less upon these North - Westerners who fought so stoutly for the Union as upon tho South-Westerners who were bent upon its dissolution. There are not a few persons about me who take this view of public affiirs. The solid w ell-being of the country is to be sacrificed in pursuit of an ab stract notion of philanthropy. The happiness of the whites must succumb, not only With no hope of im proving, but with the certainty of impairing the condition of the blacks. The s laveowners, whatever may be said, were not the bitterest enemies of the negro. The prejudices of the Northerners against the African race were far more fatal to the few free blacks that lived among them than even the over seer's whip which kept them to their task in the South. This Western State of Illinois is in such matters no better than it should be. ft is perfectly amazing to read among its statutes, statuts which cannot be older than 40 or 50 years, such barbarous enactments as the tollewing—" No person of culour, negro or mulAtto, of either sex, shall be joined in marriage with any white person male or Jr male, in this State; end all marriage or marriage contracts entered itito between such coloured pereen and white person, shell lie nail and void in law ; and any per son m arrying or contracting to marry shall be liable to pay a line, be whipped in not exceeding thirty nine lashes, aiitl be imprisoned no less than one y e ar." This pLrleet gem of mediaeval jurispru dence, especially if we take into consideration the corporal punishment, bears no earlier date than that of the constitution of Illinois, in 1810. It wee brought forward for discussion before both houses of the State Legislature as late as 1847 by men who wished to wash the statute book of such illiberal provisions, but the wise majority of Illinois free citizens ruled that the law was very well as it was, and should suffer no change. Surely a man need not be as anxious for the amalgamation of races as PAP ii: -,...4.,.....„,„.._ Mr. Greeley professes himself to feel that.i,ieXtl.,:\ ' ' l-44,%Ttr) of the sexes should be left to the naturalitet. of mankind, and that the law should pit i s i .: . „Z:T z; *..i race such social disabilities as amount ttk ,,, t11 : ii:;:,t0ft . ... 0 1,....5 ,,,: )ii_ f :;;;) hideous kind of slavery. ~*-• O ,-- - 1 / 4., 44 11 gv , ,, , if The disorders on the borders of Kansas and Mis- ,I '"-"--,----.' sonri, consequent on the massacres perpetrated at Lawrence by the chief of bushwackers, Quantrell, are assuming gigantic dimensions. Jim Lane, who is styled a General, and is a senator in Congress, will place himself at the head of a bend of "jay hawkers," and lay waste the four border counties of Missonri,where Quantrcll is supposed to have sought his refuge. The deeds of murder and lawless bru tality of which Jim Lane boasted himself the author at a public meeting the other day, qualify him as a ruffian nattfd 00ioerrasndtepuisnLrnti ess aebatstgofuduewa:ffs fast , ‘d,hheni bushwhackers mmnh b gaah e scy t e,k t a e ei bs r rnusadt s b t acoo a nou m ndntl p syttioe t ia h ramnn a n n axas tria t icos h ohun e .si ver y aitßwno int o a: escapewQwt he u keo a eus n res r ui e Mis souriomnir.l.. eo r eu Missouri is counties, t m i e u s c , h a n to d c t h h o e o a w e h . 0 l The hpeo popular report of Ltitaihsees n t i ntended d e e a d s onset ti%. a rd , has ex b p e o e s n e sufficient a to t ha migratin g 'si pending destruction. General Seholefield, who isr in command in these quarters, has issued strict orders both to the Missouri and the Kt . nsas militia on no account to overstep the borders. His orders, however, are hardly likely to be respected by Lane, who accused him of imbecility, and moved resolu tions for his removal. It seems, indeed, that there are plans at Washington for sending General Hun ter into Seholefield's place. The day appointed for Jim Lane's murderous expedition is the 9th inst. There seems to be no little animosity among poli tical parties in Kentucky. "Taking the whole State together," we are told, "they may be classed as follows :—Of those who support the Administra tion and its policy, say one-fifth ;of those who are loyal to the Union, as it was formerly, with slavery, say three-tenths ; of those who were in favour of secession, and are at heart with the South, three tenths. There are all shades of political intensity, ranging from the compensatory emancipationist to , the uncompromising slave-advocating fire-eater. . About equal numbers have gone to bear arms North and South, perhaps 40,009 to each side. Entire unanimity does not exist among the less passionate and prejudiced who remain. Many private feuds, brawls, and even open violence, are of continued occurrence. The wealth, the breeding, and the re gard for reputation, keep many from open strife, but there are many muttered threats of vengeance dire. The presence of the national troops has the effect of suppressing at least one portion of the mal contents. When the war is over and the army is withdrawn, it will be impossible for the former inhabitants to live peaceably together again. The Unionists, with the bayonets at their back, have tyrannized over their rebel neighbours, all of which they assert is to be repaid with interest. The for tune of arms, however, will dou btless decide th e fate of K e ntucky, as of the rest of the South. The disloyal w ill h av e t o leave the State, or be contented to remain quiet. Very many of them have left, placing their land and property in the hands of women and assignees. Some of them are at the North, in Canada, or Europe. Others at the South. Homefarms are going to decay. Stock has been. driven off across the Ohio. Agriculture is suffering a blight. There is a very general desire for peace." Such are some of the results of this great civil war, as they begin to develope themselves. No wonder many secretly long for peace, even among those who are most loudly clamouring for " continuation of tho war to the bitter end." THANKSGIVING FOR THE HARVEST. The Bishop of Rochester has addressed the fol lowing letter to the Archdeacons of Essex, Colches ter, and Rochester with St. Albans, in his lordship's diocese "Danbury Palace, Sept. 19, 1863, "My dear Archdeacon,—lt has been generally expected that the great and good harvest which have been permitted to gather in would have been folio ived by a Royal command for the use of an appropriate form of thanksgiving through out the churches. The adverse weather which has embar rassed our agriculturists in many places has, I presume, rendered such a general procedure unsuitable. If it be so, a deeper gratitude becomes us, because we have been nwro favoured than our fellow-countrymen in other parts. I ,ern unwilling to pass by the special mercy we have received, though an appeal from me on the subject is scarcely needed; seeing that the voice of thanksgiving has been heard already in so many churches of the diocese. A local paper, now be fore me, has a whole page full of these proceedings. In such reports I witness with unfeigned pleasure the result of the conferences between the laity and clergy of 1861, when har vest-homes were considered (amongst other matters), and it was agreed to promote them to the extent of our power. The kindly spirit which is generated by these gatherings, and the cordial sympathy which is stirred up afresh between all classes by the parish harvest-home, is very cheering. I de sire to express, through you, my thanks to the laity and clergy for what has been done in this way ; and I would ask you to invite any one who have not yet adopted a similar course to make some public acknowledgment forthwith in their churches of the mercy of God, to preach on the occa sion (whether on the Lord's day or a week day they will decide best), and to command a thank offering in testimony of what is felt. I do not desire to specify any particular a ppropriation of the collection or offertory. Already with the concurrence of the clergy, and partly at their own sug gestion, I have asked them, as you know, to promote an nually in their churches a spring and an autumn collection for a home and a foreign object. The result of that measure has been very gratifying. lam very sensible of the kind exertions which have given much success to the scheme. Moreover, the diocesan societies and the parent societies in: London nave acknowledged these services on the part of the clergy in most marked and cordial terms. I leave it then to my brethren individually to determine with their parishion ers how the gatherings shall be appropriated, and will only add (as a suggestion) that--1. The public hospital in each of the three counties of the diocese ; 2. The Eastern Coun ties Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles at Colohester ; and 2. The Female Refuges at Rochester, Chatham. Chelmsford (in connexion %% ith the gaol), and similar institutions in our other large towns, commend themselves strongly to my re gard as appropriate receptacles for the charity of the diocese at the present time. Beseeching Almighty God, for His Son's sake, to shed abroad amongst us a lively spirit of thankful ness for His forbearance and love, and to awaken all to live and work for Hia glory while their day yet last, I remain, my dear Archdeacon, your affectionate brother and friend, J. C. ROCHESTER," MR. KINGLAKE'S ADMISSION OP HIS OWN ERRORS I—ln a preface to the 4th edition of his " History of the Crimean War," he says Well, but what impres sion has public criticism made upon the rest of the book ? What (properly) historical errors have owed their correc tion to the vigilance of the periodical press? They arc as follows:—` Garan' should be Gagarin ;' Captain Schane' should be Captain Schaw ;" Luxmore' should be ' Lux mooro ;" Bisset' should bo Bissett ;" 'Woolcombe' should be Woolocombe ;" Montagu' should be Montague.' " INJURIOUS ACTION OF LEAD PIPES ON WATER. The importance of discovering a really efficient means of preventing the injurious action of lead pipes on water is universally acknowledged, and the experiments of of Dr. Cracc-Calvert have proved beyond question that no proposition hitherto brought forward has been calculated to remedy the evil complained of. A discovery, however, has now been made, through which the water supplied by leaden pipes may be obtained by the consumer as pure as from the original source. Dr. H. Schwartz, of Breslau, has disco vered a means by which the portion of the load forming the interior surface of the pipe may be converted into an in soluble sulphide; the natural consequence being that the water passing through will be as free from contamination as if glass were used. The means by which Dr. Schwartz effects this conversion ate extremely simple. He simply passes a strong solution of the sulphide of an alkali through the pipe to be acted upon, and the process is completed. This solution, which is either a sulphide of potassium or of sodium, is used at a temperature of about 212 deg. Fah., and is allowed to act upon the metal for from 10 to 15 minutes. it is stated that, in practice, the boiling solution of caustic soda and sulphur is fuuud to answer every Fur' posc.-111ininy Jou) nal. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tca ; very choice at r,s. 4d. and 4s. "Haigh Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. 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