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~+ pride it the ur ther of the leather •ty old hen he at bond bitants point, erate, BO ° marevel is luil, at hake. h a bo"° 1 Barley la nd peas m° 33s 366 11:35s 3 ,1: 40s ')" o suppll f w ace of a i I ,ll , c p co g. na in. 01'' .37s 4°6 Q9s 400 ... A 3O ..40s 716$ ..33s s ..34s r- --8 .. A O6 ..35s 7..- 6 35$ „30$ m s of groln. arket. na. 1.9 6 g . 6 ... is .11 6 '•• • .. 17 ... 6 .. 17 6 ........ 17 V Oct. lg. Oct. 5. ct. , Oct. 0 3 9 )13 sep-. 0 e s pt. Sep t.. Oct. -0. ." t st• en 25, • Sep . 6. ..oet. • Oct•`o, ▪ Oct. '3O, ...Sept. ::Sept. Le t . seP t • 10, '2'a. ...Oc t ' 9 . 4, ..5e1 3 , 14 ;Sr os, Sept. Vaya a eta ;iotle e 0 !.s fifty O li o ; nn, rector er, aealthl lic r ei y, and en c o ` t it ct n f eW de h'one f° arc-1 ev e n va y for Se; s j al ov er ' o a. Ca ble De L or d ) .1,77 1 • many 1 1 •thable co ustiP Btj ' ►laria .3.°lll. of e S u rrey , y, tver d e r be t,. iss ~Uya therinr ,o,B,l° Che Pre'. • orP' On an m eat ' I trea , 4 0' • • 2 228 • Tct,L oooo ClietaiBtB 001 ......,,...' H. Hold, life of 035°. .eet, biter. S i e. on S ind'Ce, raylOr) St. 01 0 ., e t , rdon, Lie 0",c1, a, the S toll, )Moor 'ih r istchti rcil t; a of the 1$ to B etershlr e '•ot , of Ch 0 lay, ESCP) 1 fte es-pla ce ; r eet , ,wgate-0 dlesex, 5/11331' re, svidoci of tl O gueviief Le LadY tenth "- a l rs. Elitia be lip ° 10 A - tyv the )ItMENTIIER WE SUP AT EVANS' af en j''VERY EVENING THIS WEEK aftcr Alfred promenade Concerts. .AT ORIVICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE The SOCIETY. business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. TY tp „ le duty 'paid to Government for the year 1862 was j"° 6 ?, and the amount insured on farming stock, 0,086,132. harties b onus of thr ee -fif t h s of the profits periodically made to insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received ,urnB a mounting in the aggregate to £llO,OOO ; and the Society '"°:v holds a large Reserve applimble to a future Bonus. qc h e rateß o f premium are in no case higher than those th:i r l: Zi sti b i y the oth er principal offices making no returns to Po r x t re _r, p_ c o.p ec t uses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey orwich ; and , Crescent, New Bridge - street,, E G-UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. No. 11, Lombard -street, London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two Millions. DIRECTORS. ii' MINT() FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman. '-"ARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman li e e "3 , Hulse Berens, Esq., IG. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq. ~ ; r h an r r i Y e si lp ,n . ham Carter Esq. 1 John Mdrtin, Esq. Devas, Esq: Inowland Mitchell, Esq. iLalleis Ilart Dke, E. 1 James Morris, Esq. . 1 .. Walter R. Farquhar Bart. 1 Henry Norms,n, Esq. 'trues G R., 7,_ Goodson Esq. 1 Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. ~"„urnson Hankev, Esq M.P ' Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. , on D ci ~ 1 , ,,,,„_ • Rubbari, Esq., M.P. i Henry Vigne, Esq. —4, - Ff. Jamon, EEq. AUDITORS. p ; Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. WAs Loyd Esq. tiOrnelius Pitine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting, Esq. Thos.Tauemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER THE P ROVISIONS OF AN bUPCO'e PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In -1,1 .r• EiGwry prn CENT. of the P ro fit s, at Quinquennial sions, or a Low Rate of rremium without participation of Since the establishment of th e Company in 1821, the = Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in ':'ash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary 13onuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, with existincr Bonuses thereon, amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Life Branch £207,000 per a'anum, and the Life Assurance Fund, independent of the c•Apital, exceeded £1,618,000. FIRE DEPA RTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon every description fat property at moderate rates. iondlo expense is incurred in effecting a new Insurance be the paymn.nt of the Ann ua l P rem i um and Duty, when he Premium amounts to ss. Claims liberally and promptly settled. IrhiIOTICFI IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies ch ex*pire at Michaelmas must be renewed within fifteen street at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St.,James's reet,. throe g -lorner of Pall-Mall ;or with the Company s . Agents "."'Zfl out the Kingdom, otherwise they become void. A .c • the attonry. for Prospectu ses an d A genc i es t o b e ma d e t o pertz dE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. - - O ffices Established hi 1836. 1 . Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry, London, E.C. PROGRESS OF TriE COMPANY SINCE 1850: ,i' ''.lE UO3II'AN I SINCE 165 u: „iteal .............1 F ire Premiums. Lit e P rem i ums. I n vested Funds. igii ~........____ 185 / £5 f,3q5 £27,157 L 502,824 186 1 222,279 72,781 821,081 1862 3;,0.130 13 5974 1,3 , 1,905 _______ 430,065 13 , ,703 1,417.808 i The p b z ,_ re. - rl,,+s, .-..:, a_._ .... 1 rl • TN.. ....a in ',Aft' " l' e. D \ ' 4 B 47 1, ir 234. ut y paid by this Company in England in 1862 SWINTON BOULT, See - etlry to the Company. JOHN' ATKINS, Resident Fe retary, London. A.D. . PiioyAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE cEtt CORPORATION ab lished by Charter of his Majesty George the First) P OR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIG RAM, Esq., Governor. GEORcr PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. II DIRECTORS. I;anY tainbriclge, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Esq. 10,fert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. IN" Garratt Cattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Currie Close, 14`3sq. Henry Nelson, Esq. Th, 5,11 Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Al:as Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. p.reender Druce, Esq. Samuel Lco Schuster, Esq. Edlmann, Esq. William Carrinaton Smith, Esq. tt(47sdaleW. Grenfell, Esq. oltau, Esq. • Amadeng Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. Tetlow TTibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Es "'• Stewart Hodg - son, Esq. ' Chas. Baring Young, Req. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. paOTICE.— file usual fifteen days allowed for payment of 0 ,; 43 1 PREMIUMS falling due at Michaelmas will expire , 14th October. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this 'orporation on advantageous terms. The Reversionary Bonus on British Life Policies has ave. 'raged cearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums l ayable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take plaeo every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with 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- Perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A lIALF. SPECIAL NOTICE. ti l , on the participating system, granted on or before u„llit December, 18 , 3, and in force at th•• close of the year , will be entitled to share in the next division of profits • ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. rIE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. lIEAD OFFICES, 20, Lombard -street, London, and Royal Inturance- Vuildings, Liverpool. Total Annu9l Revenue exceeds £500, 0, 0. Ac cumulate.d Funds in hand over 1,000,000. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman In London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. :TR ACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR Th e 1862. Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now biee 11 Pon to make their ac customed periodical Report at the of its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. pirectors have, as pleasingl as unexpectedly, at the 1 4, . e 0, the year, to announce, for Ae first time, that the Fire '„,e;alunis have not only reached, but exceed £30 0 ,0u 0 - ~..ne high comparative position held by the Royal in the "„,v,ernment Returns of Duty is again fully maintained. th'Lle profit of the business of the year exceeds co . nsiderably Posses amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur ,„ "es that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the Z' ra mencement of thi. Office, the balance to the credit on Zecount of British and Foreign Insurances bein£4s,lo7 10s. ,„” (1 -, and et' the North American business, whichis kept sepa alelY, £11,097 16s. 10d. LIFE BRANCH. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to State the sum assured on n.ve policies for fhe year 1562 e xceeds even that of th e y ear 1861 by £190,000, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last few years it is believed that such a sum aesured 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 1,- atched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the t 'hareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the ktere 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 a mounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum o r °Posed for assuran^e amounts to .£ ' 43,281. Various degrees f I neligibility have led to these lives being declined. X 0 small number of th e A ssurance C om p an i es o f th e d ay , tord their accept e d li ves annua ll y a t a sum not muc h . i f at , exeeedine , those which the Royal has declared as inadmis -I'l6l e in a single year from deterioration of some kind or ko th , r. If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert ;briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that 1 11 Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more ~anid than that of any other Company established either in -Loud in 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, to, nded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater maeni combining. distinguished commercial success to the Office with a le_ gthened career of usefulness and protection to the pubic. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. pROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Batintr, Esq.. 31":1'. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. T homson Ilankey, Esq., 31. P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. A rutual Life Assurance for all classes. to his Association ,oo has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a - Lai. sum of £1,5000. , The Annual Income is . • •• •. 000 2 £5l o,eoo The Accumulated Fund exceeds • • It has paid in Claims . • • • • • 112,000 I, T he whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among Members. Three divisions have already been made' Poli to the following sums have been added as bonuses o the cies Dec. 31, 1847 .. £8,400 ~ 3852 11,500 „ 1857 .. •• •• •• 23 200 rzt _,, 1062 56 500 4 „-inc.r, the total bonus additions, Z 96,600. . ti r 'onuses may be received in cash or' applied to the vklue " 0 1 premiums at the option of the assured, in lien of an addition to the ol.cy. • Attention is especially invited to the system of free or p ~"? Policies introduced by this Association, by which the - ,, - scrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of vo,!ey is wholly avoided. balance-shorts of the Association are open to all, R h then assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre o▪ ented distric ts. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot. 2d September, 1803. TENDERS will he received at this office, until fro ,„ noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1853, tll B uP Persons who may be willing to enter int o C on t rac t f or Ply of FORAGE, in mu isc, c h quantities as may be required, from Ist November, Pe r ' ° 3 at (Moho% Isal. tor the use of Her Majesty's ru An e d. es ktatioued at Aldershot Camp, and within the corn_ Perm s *aired of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob betweentitp•Drdication at this oce, by letter or in pers on, The hours of ten and four o' clock. (tclivt , r Q4 - 41.1 ' „ ti t s o urtoutsuk be properly filled up and signed, a n d nnhs "odei.lince (under closed envelop., inark, don the by th e h ti,(l, on Peraf!e"). and no 'render WI ll be noticed c)/It aPpoi t Z tt obtained from tWs office, and delivend lIENRY 13. MORSE, Deputy COMlllbary- euerait N°. 22,226. MRS. GREY'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., GOOD SOCIETY . By MRS. GREY, Author of "The Gambler's Wife," &o. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-str -et. Now ready, 1 vol., with Illustratio ns , 14 5., b oun d , A LADY'S VISIT TO MANILLA AND JAPAN. Fy ANNA D'A. " This book is written in a lively, agreeable, natural style, and we cordially recommend it as containing fund of varied information connected with the Par East not to be found rec.)r; of in so agreeable a manner in any other vo;ume with which we are acquainted."—Press. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Mallborough-street. 7ADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1864. Price 6d. AEA 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.11. the late Prince Consort to Zadkiel ! London : G. Berger, Ilolywell-street, Strand, London. TH E 0 X F ORD 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 ElUson, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, Ace., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jong, , hmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean ttc. Comic, by UNSWORTII ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George HOdSODI Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls and balcony, le. ; private boxes, 10s. Gd. ('CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order kJ to gratify , the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper end Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, "THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. POLYGRAPHIC HALL.-MISS HERAUD and Herr KRUEGER'S celebrated SHA KESPE HIAN ENTERTAINMENT IlluAtrative of THE PAS SIONS, interspersed with Descriptive Music, Tuesday, Sep tember 22d. and every Evening, at Eight ; Saturdays at Three. Music by J. C. Beuthin, Esq. Solna Miss Mabel Brent, Mrs. Beuthin, Herr Bonn, Mr. Page. Mr. Stedman, and Signor Nappi. An efficient chorus. Booking, &c., at the Hall, fano. William-street, Strand, from Ten to Five, or Tickets 437 Musicsellers. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-stroet, These eleeant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele brity. The band is selected from the Cryktal Palace, the Italian Operas, and the Household. Troops of her Majesty. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager—M. GRENET. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GirosT ! new version—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN— Grand DivertissemPnt—Favourite Opera Selections—NlCO- SlA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL DE SOLLA. the Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great J ugg l er, Every Evening._ Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7. IFIOYAL ALHAMBRA. PALACE. Great Musical Attraction Immense success of SIGNOR. NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening, ESTABLISHED 1833. OWDEN'S lERATED GINGER BEER, in JILP glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, rotass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, hite Hart-street, Drury-lane, RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. Tipinvs MOC-MAIIV LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT XHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of 11 EItN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, , s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease Ind closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be 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 sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 21e., 265. ed., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is. A. Donblo Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. ed. Postage, le Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. ed. Postage, ls. 10d. 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 porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn en :ire an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7a. ed., 10s., to les. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 228. Piccadilly. TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. Th ey especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souchonz, reduced to 3s. (id. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from is. 4d. to 38. 11d. per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.O. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY o f the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, 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 Rourbridge 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 Shakspesre 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, Gray'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 BUCCLEUCII, 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 by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas -lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; .Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and CO.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; B arc lay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Mame, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Graeious Majesty the Queen. Bnr.sinExT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G.,F.R.S. CTTATRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., vE rUTT-CnAmmAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since -- -n.nEr, of the year 1860, the Royat National Lifeoat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estbab lishments on the Coasts of England. Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800; for which s erv i ces 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 Transporting-cart iages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public durin g has enabled them to esttliabeilpshastthfeetwr present years, amasuenpifiocertnwt fleetehiceht of 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' ;Crews practised in the mana ,, enterzt of their boats, whirl/ can only be eff ec t ed b y a large 'and permanent annua l income, they a l earnestly appeal to all classes of their coun t r ymen to cthe min upholdi ng and perpetuating so grrrahteacnodmmt nationalru i l t y teegr at e fu a i i w y oi•k acknowledge the following cot)- tributions: — work. .. .. annual annu }0 0 0 annual 1 1 0 • • .. .. :l a th d ' On l .lo s 0 0 0 0 • • on. 1 0 1 8 0 . d O Campbell, 3pfbaejlels,ttyhethiejoQnuemenrs. G. .. Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. •• annual 10 o 0 Cruoirirtites,altivdniCol,;. 8341e,sers.,...Bank.e.rs Erle Lord dhief .lustice • • ••• .. , 2d don. 25 , , Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Trait- " " Panshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. sporting Carriage • • • • • • • • - • 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. aG. and Mrs. •• •• don. 3 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. ......7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. • • • • •• • • don• is is ~ Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • • • • 3 o (‘; Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. .. annual 20 0 Thomas, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Ladyship • . . • • • • • • • • • 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Ereshy, Lord .. .. .. annual 50 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re eived by the Bankers of the Intstitution, Messrs. Willis, Percival. and Co., 76, Lombard -street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by ad the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis. Esq., at the office of the lUStiti# l o% 11, John-street, Adelphi, London,Wow. , ___ - -____•_7— , -- - . _ ~^•-•........,-... , ~.., ~ of C '''4 .1. ''" • r , 7 ' .• 1 . . . -,.. . - . . ~'l . ' c %......., ~4 : ), -1) , • .‘ • ?' . .r .- , , le • ''..„,-, _ r* , NV.... ~• . . .1 , - -- -s - sa r _kern(' , *t.• ():U. I . ' A-- --- "*,....Vt4k,Tir ....--- ..,,,, \ , ) ' ' '-'4Wi.&*, , •' •, ~ ; . - - ' ~,,,-,,:‘,:.„: O'' , ze 7 r , 4 1111(, ~,,...... --01 , ' - `• 1 4:4:. " . . ~_ ~ • , •*. .. ~ I "AV ' ,'.,., , 16.0- , ..4... , 1,1 , ':\ :. -, 1, - 14., .', `''-'s„e . : . , 4 4 ' , ':B ' ' ' Dm ' .-:' 4,,a 1: 401110i , 1,411.1,:,1' -" •; 4 1 t.,. r . ..al l , \ l ..." . ,_ . ... .. ~....., _DRUM ' di ' \*- '''''' •; , -...e...- :" , ' L ., 4 - • 4 k; ,c 3 PA P E Mr. Greeley professes himself to feel thc‘ftlqi7ll46W774c of the sexes should be left to the naturilate*#lielt4o l ? w , ,'!.•of mankind, and that th e l aw should ipri4 a race such social disabilities as amountkta3 hideous kind of slavery. „: • v The disorders on the border s of KansA-tra - Aiskiiial-L...„, souri, consequent on the massacres perpetr&d Lawrence gigantict e chief dimensions. f bus hw i a c k j e m Lane, who s Qu itrell, are assuming by is styled a General, and is a senator in Congres s , will place himself at the head of a band of " jay hawkers,' and lay waste the four border counties of Missouri,where Quantrell is supposed to h ave Bough t his refuge. The deeds of murder and lawless bret -1 tality of which Jim Lane boasted himself the authoz at public meeting the other day, qualify him as a. ruiliate of no better s: amp than the very Quantrell against whom he is at to march. Between Mis souri busiivehackers and Kansas jawhawkers, or Red Legs, there is not mue:h to choose. The mere report of Lane's intended enaset has been sufficient to spread dismay and conste.eration into those un fortunate Missouri counties, aetaq the whole popula• time is fast migrating eastward, exposed to the direst sufferings, but only anal ws to esoape im pending destruction. General Seitelefield, who is in command in these quarters, hag , issued strict orders both to the Missouri and the Kansas 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 Genera 1 }lnn. ter into Scholefield's place. The day appointed for Jim Lane's murderous expedition is the 9th inst. There seems to be no little animosity among peeli tical parties in Kentucky. "Taking the who,'e 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 doubtless decide the fate of Kentucky, as of the rest of the South. The disloyal will have to 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 the 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, 1363, "My dear Archdeacon,—lt has been generally expected that the great and good harvest which have been permitted to gather in would have been followed by a Royal command for the use of an appropriate form of thanksgiving through out the churches. The adverse weatner 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 more favoured than our fellow-countrymen in other parts. I era 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 appropriation of the collection or effertory. 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 taw 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 Colchester ; and 2. The Female Refuges at Rochester, Chatham. Chelmsford (in connexion with 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'a 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 His glory while their day yet last, I remain, my dear Archdeacon, your affectionate brother and friend, J. C. ROCUESTER," MR. KINGLAHE'S ADMISSION OF 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 I' They arc as follows Garan' should be ' Gagarin ;' Captain Schane should be Captain Schaw ;" Luxmore' should be Lux moore ;" Bisset' should be 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. Crace-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 lead 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 are extremely simple. Ho 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. Fab., 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 found to answer every pur pose.—/Ltining Journal. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur. 3hasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s 4d. and 4s. " High Standard" at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the strongest and moat delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. [ADVERTISEMENT]. - Holloway's Fills, Vigorous Health.—All diseases affecting the nervous system arise frail impurities of the blood or vitiated secretions. Hollo way's pills are invaluable for removing all poisonous ele meats from the body, and are famed for curing indigestion, flatulency and costiveness, as well as palpitation, pain in the side, and other morbid feelings. The neuralgic pains at tendant on the nervous class of diseases soon yield to these purifying pills; the sensations of anxiety and alarm daily diminish under their use ; sound sleep supersedes n!ghts of watching, and calm repose displaces hideous dreams. Holloway's pills are the best correctives of tainted breath and disagreeable tastes in the mouth, they soon clean the furred tongtr, angtirnt the srpetite, and invJgorate both body and mind, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1863. The Story of the Mhow Court-MartiaL (From the United ScY vice Gazette.) As the trial by court-martial in England of Lieut.-Col. Crawley, of the Gth Inniskilling Dragoons ; on charges con nected viith the death, whilst under close arrest, of his re giwental sergeant-major, must now take place within a very short period, and will necessary absorb a good deal of public attention, we feel that we shall be rendering a not unaccep table service in giving such a bs'ief outline of the line ab ovo usque ad male 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 shall endeavour to bo as impartial as possible, and to avoid saying anything which may unfairly prejudice a prisoner who has yet to be tried for one of the most 'serious of f ences 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 to the 4th Dragoon Guards, ex• pressly for the purpose of restoring order in that once dis tracted regiment. The high discipline 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 anxicus to conciliate the new colonel than the paymaster who subsequently became the object of the most relentless persecution. Capt. Smales 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 ment 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 wa s 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 Now Testament in his mind when he gave this discouraging reply. The consequences may be anticipated—the " hot water" in which the regiment had been so suddenly pieced 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 unheppy 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 np 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 Mansfield, 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 comnaanding officer. The charges he had made referred to Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley's frequent absence from the monthly musters, and the paymaster's statements 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 perfect hurricane of excitement as against the prosecutor, five or six witnesses were found to depose to the general amiability of Lieutenant-Colonel Crawley, and two officers, Renshaw and Davies, deposed to having seen their lieu tenant .colonel at one or twe musters. On the other side, 13 witnesses, including field officers, regimental officers, non commissioned officers, and private soldiers, deposed to his systematic absence, and amongst these later 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, Regimental Sergeant-Major Lilley, and Troop Sergeant- Majors Wakefield and Duval, whose unmerited persecutions 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 be called 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, in familiar conversation with brother non-commissioned officers, applied an offensive epithet to his colonel ; Duval of saying that he had not heard the epithet applied ; and and Wakefield for saying, over his 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 ssesction of Brigadier Farrel for his proceedings, placed the three non - commissioned officers in close arrest, under 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 Po 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 Stunles on the 13th of July, when he was ,formally cashiered and taken off the strength of the regiment. Ho thus became, of course, a free man, left the cantonment, and at once started for Eng land via Bombay, with a view of applying to the ultimate court of appeal for redress. Lieut.-Col. Crawley had not, however, quite done with him yet. The paymaster was overtaken cn route by a telegram ordering his arrest by the civil power on a charge of having absconded from his regi ment, was subsequently released, with the information that the arrest had been a mistake, and finally thrown into pri son at Bombay on charges connected with bis regimental accounts, although immediately on his reaching that place he had waited on the military paymaster, and was informed by that official that he /azAm nothing to his prejudice. Cap tain Srnales 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 he 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 fav3ur." Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. 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, 50 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 powder, 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 men of the Chatham St eam 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 Hamiliton Beamish, recently returned from the West Coast of Africa, was paid off at Sheerness Dcckyard yesterday, under the superintendence of Capt. W. K. Hall, commanding the Sheerness Steam Reserve. The paying off occupied only the 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. Sh e w ill 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 :—First, for having, while born e on th e 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 her Majesty's ship Pioneer, on a charge of having between the Ist of October, 1861, and the 30th of June, 1862, lent 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 is 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 Fairhohne, 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 supernumerary ; and R. H. East, assist.-engineer to the Indus as supernumerary. or Ash Church stations, whereby the ivhole 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. 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 Col. 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 rounda 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'Aguilar, that he should do them justice in his forthcoming half yearly report to his Royal Highness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief. f Two 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. THE ARMY. Owing to tl.e 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 upon 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 3d brigade, con sisting of the 24th, 3d, and 6 4th Regiments covered by the 13th and one squadron of the 18th Hussars, first came into action, the advanced troops opening fire on arriving at BickiercoPse, and k ee ping up a warm engagement within its coverts. The Ist 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, s upported by " D" battery Royal Horse Artillery. The 13 th 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 manoeuvres 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 gallop. The troops returned to their quarters about halt-past 1 o'clock. The movements throughout were of a very animated description, and attracted a large concourse of spectators. The project for connecting A:dershott camp with London by a railway junction is now assuming a more definite form. According to the "preliminary prospectus" just issued, the proposed line will bu about 7 miles in extent, commencing from the South Western Railway between the Woking and Farnborough stations, proceeding by a direct route to Aldershott and thence to a point near to the Farnham station of the London and South Western Railway Company. It can be connected also with the South pastern BAilwfly 03 or near North Camp THE WESTERN STATES. (From the Spe;ial 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 bhould, 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 did 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 Chan ning—tbe days in which humane, moderate, and truly benevo lent men were turningiin 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 home, 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 institueon which was in their opini on men see who how d this matt er many equally virt uous weighed at war with all the laws of God and man. But a t t hen, t I have en, well-meaningaan 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 i 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 bushed up, that vaunt ing Abolitionism should be 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. Party spirit War merely for or a ga i ns t negro s l a very had become an impossibility i n th e S tates; but, unfor expansive its increase al t i in u na n drt a hia t ne e gs l gi nt y ir , taeu t ne i h tsai e j govn S ee m o . e South erners eur c be o lxt n i oci e s e atp i ffrb v aoy e im d r bso t .e h t ie a n t g their - and spread, they took more than their al l ott e d share was mixed uP with what was orig inall y a mere social controversy ; a moral question assumed all the bitterness o f p o liti ca l animosity, hence the elec tions of 1860 an d th e h os tilities 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 whi c h a very great many of the Republicans joined them selves, who were anxious above all things that the war should bo 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 Party, have been leading the Northern multitude to and fro ever since. I see nothing about me but a vast passive mass, say of 99 men out of 100, who to the impuLse, now of one side, have been yielding now of t he other, es ready to shout far the Demo crats at the Springfield meet in g of June last 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 Leo 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 th e wa r. The peace men had it all their own way. Enough had been done for the honour of the Federal arms, and time who hld to signally mismanaged the nor PR1CE....,.. STAMPED ought at least to be ready to accept peace ou toms which the South would make by no means onerous or offensive. 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 sissippi barriers ; the South-West was reconquered ; the siege of Charleston progressed favourably. It was now for the Republicans to bold 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 ? Why 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 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 o its f f r a e i o r o b og an ne n r e i r u . g withp all trheessstohuetmhern he terri tory and of enfranchising the whole negro race, and the mass will follow you, no doubt, unwearied in its the possibility p exertions, and regardless of sacrifices. But can the conviction of the feasibility of that great scheme of restoration and emancipation rtally strike deep root? Behold ! the Government was in some measure com mitted to it. The President's proclamation, his de cree of emancipation, confiscation, &c., 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 martial 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 brutunifulmen— an empty threat, never to be carried into execution. It was understood that several members of the Cabi net at Washington, no less than most of the leaders of the Government party, were opposed to the wholesale destructive measure. Strong 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 new 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 hops 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 whit many repeat here daily with nn abeshed asseverance, and it must be hard but some of them do really mean what they say. The work of extermination, to whatever extent it may ultimately 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 250,000. 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 on every hand that the great commercial hal., portanca 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 Mississippi 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 rest rictions, moreover, must be removed b e f ore re ceiving and forwarding ca n b e conducted in a legi timate and prosperous way. - - w e 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 New 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 whits race in the slave-holding States, 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 labour 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 the South-Westerners who were bent upon its dissolution. There are not a few persons about me who take this view of public affairs. The solid well-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 the certainty of i m pairing the proving, but with condition of the blacks. The slaveowners, 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 *hem to their task in the South. This Western State of Illinois is in such matters no better than it should be. It is perfectly amazing to read among its statutes, statutes which cannot be older than 40 or 50 years, such barbarous enactments as the following—" No person of colour, negro or mulatto, of either sex, shall be joined in marriage with any white person male or female, in this State ; and all marriage or marriage contracts entered into between such coloured person and white person, shall be null and void in law ; and any per son marrying or contracting to marry shall be liable to pay a fine, be whipped in not exceeding thirty , nine lashes, and be imprisoned no less than one year." This perfect gem of medieval 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 was 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 or rr.;.cu is 1 , ; , 2. O'