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

THE ATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. - Marragers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the new and original Comedy, by Ed mund Fal toner, entitled N ATURE'S ABOVE ART A Ro mance of the Nursery Messrs. Walter Lacy,:Addi son, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles. Neville ; Miss Charlotte Saunders. Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. To conclude with A DAY WELL SPENT : Messrs. G. Belmore, F. Charles ; Mesdames Murray, Harfleur, and C. Weston. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usual R OYAL, PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. George Vining. Open mid( tr the Management of Mr. Walter Montgomery. THIS EV ENING, 3lassinger's Play of A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Sir Giles Overreach, Mr. Walter M on tgomery ; Lady Allworth, 3diss Atkinson. To conclude with THE POST BOY. Mr. Sefton Parry. Commence at 7. NEW THE ATRE-RO VAL, ADELPHL— soIe Proprietor and ManaLrer. Mr. B. Webster. THIS EV - ENING, CATCHING AN HEIRESS : M r. A . Wood (his 2 d appearance). Followed by THE TRAGEDY QUEEN. Mrs. Stirling,. After whiob, at 4-past 8 o'clock. the new drama of THE _FLAUNTED MAN; OR, THE Gs , os rs BARGAIN, in which will l) exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptat!on of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. A. Wood, R. Phillips, Sefton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms. To conclude with a new comic drama, THE HEN AND ICK EN:S ; or, A Sign of Affection. Messrs. Billington, E. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss 11. Simms. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swa.nborourh. THIS EVENING, HIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr. Leigh Murray. Followed by (50th time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Bimpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. THE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," Containing . the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY.—Morning, 2h. 45m.—Afternoon, 2h. 58m To-woßßow.-Morning, 3h. 16m.—Afternoon, 3b. 30m The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 14, 1863. THERMOMETER. The South has numbered up the most various and the most signal victories, and has given rise upon the battle-flelas to the most illustrious reputations ! The Northern armies, and not those of the South, have familiarized observers in Europe with the ignominious fact expressed by the ludicrous word —Skedaddling! One Federal Commander-in- Chief after another has been worsted, while General LEE has held the same post of honour and respon sibility over the Confederate forces, un interruptedly to this hour, with this only change, in himself, as the Southern Commander-in- Chief, that he has been increasing his high repute all this while as a Great Captain, by the variety and importance of his warlike achievements. Grouped about that one central figure of LEE as the Foremost soldier of the South, Generals like " STONEWALL , ' JACKSON, and like BEAUREGARD, and JOHNSTONE , and a throng of other brilliant chieftains, have ap peared during the progress of the conflict—leaders with whom the Federals themselves have none, no not One in any Ray fitted to compete. As MANHATTAN bas it, the Panther of rebellion in the Confederate States, has been hunted "up a tree" by the Federal Government—it is true • but, lo! and behold the hunter finds his piece, the weapon upon which he has been relying, not loaded ! He cannot run—or the Panther will be after him ! He lies down— and waits ! The Panther waiting, too, probably— for a spring ! The intelligence which reaches us from New Zea land is anything but pacific in its character, and is not altogether satisfactory. The Maories are still in a state of great excitement throughout the whole of the Northern Island, and, from their numbers and resources, their proceedings cannot be regarded with indifference. We heard a short time since that General CAMERCN'S energetic measures had struck terror to their minds ; that the English soldiers had occupied the disputed block of ground; and that the colonists were sanguine as to the results. N ow , however, all seems to be changed for the worse. We learn from the Australian papers of last month thet the troops, for some unexplained reason, have been withdrawn from Tataraimaka, leaving only a garrison, a circumstance which has given great encouragement to the natives, who have mustered in considerable force-5,000 Waikatos having taken the field. It is rumoured that they have threatened Auckland, and, what is still more surprising, that they have captured an English schooner, hoisted the colours of WIREMU KINGI, and sailed up and down before Government House by way of bravado. Unless these accounts are very greatly exaggerated, it seems strange that our authorities should not act with more promptitude and vigour. According to the latest intelligence no fighting had then occurred; but the Waikatos were busily engaged in entrench ing themselves ; while volunteers were on duty at Auckland, and the Governor had issued a requisi tion to the Maories to lay down their arms and swear allegiance. This may be a necessary form, but it is certainly not very likely that the Waikatos will heed it, and it seems singular that they should be allowed to entrench themselves unmolested. Their fortifications are not to be despised, for they have obtained a good idea of throwing up earth works, so as to make a formidable resistance. Why they should be suffered to turn this knowledge to account if there are men enough in the island to prevent them is hard to guess, as it is manifest that the outbreak must be put down with a strong hand, and that nothing can be hoped from forbearance and conciliation. The natives misconstrue every sign of toleration and mercy into an evidence of fear of provoking them, and this mistake has been very often committed of late years by our autho rities. The savage and relentless cruelty of PIZARRO has found no imitators in modern times, but the aborigines have often doubtless been the victims of harshness and oppression in European colonies up to a very recent date. The very pre sence of the white man, with his knowledge, his energy, his skill, and his power is prejudicial to the original race. However few in numbers or scantily equipped, the settlers are generally regarded with not unfounded suspicion by the natives, and in their sense of the justice of this feeling, and our contrition for the cruelty and greed of other days, many ex cellent persons have rushed into the opposite ex treme. Conscious of the horrors of a war in which, however secure onr ultimate success, stray travellers and outlying settlers are at the mercy of the natives; conscious, too, of the loss and inconvenience occasioned to the colony and colonists generally, by long-pending strife and internecine warfare, they been so eager to avoid giving provocation that they have let the Maori perceive that they dreaded war, power Then lying g ard the natives, i gnora nt o f the vast in the shadow of their pretentious but inactive Government, have been ready to avail themselves of any trifling excuse to endeavour to regain their pre-eminence in the islands. Some months since we remember seeing a letter which a resident in New Zealand had addressed to an Aus tralian paper, ie which he expressed the indigna tion felt by the colonists at the manner which the natives were allowed to assume, and the petty tyranny which they exercised over European settlers. The writer expressed his conviction that before long the authorities would see re ason t o re pent of the line of action they Nver the insolence of the Maories w asepursuing, since growin g bounded. Such anticipati ons have been but utono soon verified. However energetically defensive measures are now being carried o n , i t is too late to to undo the mischief done by allowing the natives usurp the power and privileges which they h ave hitherto assumed ; but it is all important to succeed, if possible, in overawing them at the commencement of hostilities. It was hop e d that the movements of General CAMERON, which we recorded last month, would have had that effect, This morning: This day at Two o'clock 6O Barometer-30.26. Wind—S. to S.-W. ; , cloudy. 4-14telltik kaAllto LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1863. The clouds that are now looming up from all quarters beyond the Atlantic, threatening to over shadow the Northern States of America with a darkness ominous of all kinds of disaster, will be found elsewhere most minutely enumerated and picturesquely described by MANHATTAN. That brilliant, but as some cynical readers are disposed to consider him also, flashy, correspondent of the Herald and Standard, proves himself, in this last effective communication of his, to be not only still, as one may call him, a genuine Yankee JUNIUS, but, in his power of word painting, a sort of Federal RUSKIN into the bargain. After his grotesque fashion, he sketches in, rapidly, in a sort of MINAS' pen-and-ink drawings, a series of rolling volumes of clouds, comparable only (in their odd way) to the cloud-pictures pencilled in glowing colours upon so many pages of that first wonderful book on "Modern Painters"—the famous volume originally presented to the scrutiny of the public, by the then unknown JOHN RUSKIN, under the titre rather than the nom de plume of "An Oxford Graduate." The worst of it is, for his co-Federalists, that the clouds painted here by MANHATTAN, are essentially different from all other clouds, according to the old proverb, for inasmuch as they manifestly have no silver lining whatever I Lurid, they are, sombre, conflicting, charged with lightning, stored with thunderbolts, and lowering up from all directions. The " News" transmitted now by MANHATTAN from the seat of war, in the midst of which he—ever vigilantly watching, and quite frankly reporting upon the instant, from mail to mail—is compounded from the same diverse regions, from the initiale of which the very name of NEWS is made, according to the felicitous explanation of that problematical word, according to the old rhyming epigrammatist : "North, East, West, South, and the solution's made, Each Quarter brings account of War and Trade." Only, the accounts of War predominate now disas trously, as they have long done, over those of Trade in the half serious, half sarcastic, wholly sinister record of events compiled out yonder in North Americs by that " cheil" jotting down his notes with a stick of lunar caustic—MAN HATTAN ! One, whose even most hurried scribblings are luminous, page after page, as he writes, with a phophorence of irony almost glittering at times into wit. Hitherto, with all his blunt out-speaking, whatever the nature or bear ing of the truth he has to tell, MANHATTAN has hardly ever assumed to himself the character of an Alarmist. Reading him nosy, however, in this his latest communication, he seems at last fairly and honestly to come within the category. Not applying the phrase to him, however, with any sneering significance latent in it, but simply and purely as the statement of a fact. MANHATTAN, in truth, here does quite unmistakeably so un d th e alarm. He tells his brother Federals, that the future looks black enough before them, in whatever direction they may look for comfort. Whether to the Army of the Potomac, or to the assault upon Charleston ! Whether to the calling out of the white recruits in the North, by order of Mr. LIN COLN, or to the summons of the black resruits (to the number of 500,000) in the South, by order of Mr. DAVIS ! Looking, as it were, before him and be hind him, to the right hand and to the left, MAN • RATTAN can:see only the dark clouds gathering, and mustering, a nd lowerin g u p' more and more threat eningly. Clouds, once—as with so many a tempest while in preparation--no bigger than a man's hand! In this instance—the hand of that great Yankee Tilarplot, Mr. ABRAHAM LINCOLN—in old times a splitter of rails, now a sp litter of States asunder! Not a mere ordinary political hair-splitter, mind ! but a ren der i n twa i n of Republics. The wonder is that With suc h a dis ruption as has taken place in the sonaetime United States of America, ever since the evil hour when Mr. LINCOLN was raised to the Presidential c h a i r, and was located for the customary term of four but the unfortunate removal of the great body of years in that White House, from which he has yet to "hail" for rather more than one year 0,,, of those four still remaining to him ! Within which interval he has, alas! to play out Lis little game, his wretched little losing game of misgovernment. The wonder is to us that with such a disruption, caused mainly by the _ - flagrant incapacity of Mr. LINCOLN, the rods of the American fasces were not separated and scattered widely apart, directly the bond of Union, binding them for a time together, bad once been snapped ! Instead of which —they are clubbed together, all this while, in two distinct clusters— there the States of the Federalists, there these of the Confederates. Only with this discernable, through out, upon a comparison of those belligerent powers— that while the North, in wealth, intelligence extent o f popu lation, in value of commerce, in (so far as the educated proportion of each community i s concerned), in resources of all kinds, in maritime armaments, and so forth, enormously surpasses the South, the South in the long run has held its own throughout the war the more securely of the two ! TM!? SON, LONDON TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863, ould bring it to meetings of that kind it wou 1 be very beneficial in showing the farmers and labourers its actual workings. He considered it the " great arm" of agricultural improvement now in vogue, and just being made conducive to the cultivation of land by being brought into active use. Mr. HENLEY concluded his excellent address by impressing upon his hearers the importance of their making progress and keeping up with the spirit of the age in which they lived. "In the race of life now being run by different classes of the com munity," he said that it behoved farmera to use every means that " skill, energy, and capital" allowed to make the best of their trade, which agriculture, after all, must be considered to be. In the cultivatioa of the earth, steam-power was of the greatest advantage. Those who have been in the habit of ranking Mr. HENLEY as one of the old school who do not approve of change and progress, must acknowledge that he could not have spoken out more heartily for improvements, and advised more strenuously the use of the appliances of modern science, had he been an out-and-out re former of the latest date. He remarked that "in this world an impetus is required to be given to everything—nothing will gu of itself ; and certainly a very great impulse has been given to agriculture of late years which cannot but be attended with the most important results." On the whole it may be considered that the "senior member for Oxford shire" spoke to the point, and his speech deserved the applause with which it was greeted. It was suited to the occasion, which, as one of the after speakers observed, was the only opportunity afforded to agrit e gen e t ur y l t , urit farmers, s s of bringing and a bo their ure labourers—three" t_h,r,eteo together t a h s classes-- — a t least once in the year." troops from Tataraimaka seems to have given them fresh encouragement. Me Taranaki Herald of July 11th, a New Zealand paper, asserts that the withdrawal of the troops from Tataraimaka has excited the natives wonderfully, and they boast that they will drive the Jakehas into the sea, Some of their own race who are interested in the matter stir them up with false reports, and the priests and prophets with their incantations and predictions help on the mischief. Six of thess ill-timed sooth- sayers have arisen within six weeks ; all agreeing in foretelling a great reverse and subsequent sue , ceases, including the capture of New Plymouth, and the driving of all the English soldiers into the sea, a climax which seems to be the great object of their ambition. As the Maories put much faith in these prophets, we must not therefore hope that one defeat will discomfit them, seeing it is thus foretold in the forerunner of such signal triumphs. Native too, carrying them i nte l- Oyn a recent occas o ;p h ro e p lil ose the dat enemytacks. b ion, an old woman, under prete nce of hawking firewood, contrived to elude the pickets at New Plymouth, and carried the news to a neighbouring pah of a proposed attack upon it the next morning. In stantly messengers were despatched f or assistance, and 800 picked men were ready to meet the assault. Our Government has thus many and serious difficulties to contend against, awl, Governor and General have alike need of all their prudence, sagacity, and resolution. The colonists, it le egad, place full confidence in a.n. CA =305 'hose repo ti ation for spirit and ability stands high. The colonists on theirside have come forward readily on behalf of their homes and possessions. They have declared from the first their readiness to assist the Government to the full extent of their power, and volunteers have been forthcoming in large numbers. If the war proceeds on the same scale, which is feared, more men will be needed, and the colonists will doubtless reply readily to the call. Meanwhile, if, as we are assured by the local jour nals, the energies of the troops in the colony will be heavily taxed to suppress the rebellion, why not invite assistance from the sister colonies of Austra lia ? A band of volunteers could very quickly be enlisted there under certain regulations, who would do good service among the Maories, and, in the in terest of all parties, it is desirable that the war should be as short as possible. It will not do for the authorities to resign themselves to the prospect of a war of the interminable length which we have had of old; and it is mistaken kindness to the na tives to suffer it to drag on, while it is absolute cruelty to the colonists and ruin to the colony. Let decisive measures be taken at once by the enrol ment of Australian volunteers. A few hours' notice would suffice to raise in Melbourne alone a force which would offer very serious difficulties to the Maori prophets; and it is certainly unbecoming the power and dignity of England to suffer one of her recognised colonies to be convulsed and impove rished by a horde of savages. Mr. HENLEY has been distinguishing himself at Oxford. The annual meeting of the Thame Agri cultural Society took place on Thursday. Mr. HENLEY'S health, as the senior member of the county, was received with great applause. The right hon. gentleman commenced by observing that he rejoiced on some accounts, and regretted on others, that he was the senior member. He was happy to think that he had served them so long, and he was sorry to feel that his advancing age precluded him from entertaining the hope of being able to serve them much longer. He said, which was very true, that it was matter for rejoicing that the country was now so happily circumstanced with regard to all parts of the world, that there was no one vital question of interest. It might be more pleasant for members of Parliament coming into the country, to have something very striking to talk about, but the result was not always so satis factory. As compared with the rest of the world, it was impossible for them not to feel how much our nation owed to Almighty God for its present pros perous state. Whether we looked to America, and glanced at the various countries of Europe, the home.condition was greatly delightful to contem plate and encouraging to consider. Not only are we at peace within ourselves, but are blessed with one of the most abundant harvests that has been known for years. At one time it was considered the fashion for all farmers and agriculturists to grumble and be dissatisfied with everything. All weather was unfavourable ; if it was fine, it was too late to repair the evil done by previous incle mency ; and if tempestuous, it was exactly at the most unfortunate moment that the deleterious change took place. Mr: HENLEY has learned a better lesson, and strives to inculcate among his hearers a right appreciation of the benefits they are enjoying, and a spirit of thankfulness to the Giver of all good gifts, who has so altered the seasons and controlled the elements, that their garners are plenteous with all manner of store, and that they have brought their joyful harvest home. Mr. HENLEY then touched upon the serious topic of the Lancashire distress, but ea en there he said that it was a relief to think that the sufferings had not spread further and effected the entire population of the country. Many tfo f ru e f e a r stt r shh e e d eidnr get alshat than snneostnihiteen particular,nta iosmr done;teh w t that a uf t lodtrh t se h he e rta tevi deplorablesea gofaextendedsit dhee state of county dnuiets yh has been prosperous. It way, therefore, subject of ss n c e o or n tt g egd r u a it t to u e 1 a bs t oe i o e n antt t i o rt ehfleeye time. g a e .l t athe While i o la t es t o i n t h interest wa sa we sympathised with that interest, and deplored its present eclipse, it was gratifying to feel that the welfare of the cboeuent2tsry urdmidisendotinsofmoramteerriallyde times by yend competent ientt judges s d h g a e d s and well-informed individuals. This is very correct reasoning, for it is always a great drawback and fatal hindrance to any community to depend en tirely on any one source of employment, and to draw its support, and derive its strength from one origin. The more extended the means, and the more widely -spread the ramifications, the more sure and solid will be the progress, and the more cheer ing the prospects. Mr. HENLEY then referred to agricultural statistics, and said he wished to correct an error into which some had fallen regarding the prejudices of the farmers militating against these returns being made. He was convinced that they had no objection whatever to their taking, place, and did not interpose any obstacles, or interrupt the process. All that the agricultural con stituencies, through their members, had wished, was that the farmers should not be oblged to pay for the collection. "Let the nation pay," they had argued, "as it is a matter in which the whole country is concerned, and not the farmer alone ; you want to get at how many acres of corn are planted, get it by all means, but let the nation pay for it." The gentlemen who clamoured for "agri cultural statistics" demurred, however, to this wise proposal, and hence, as Mr. HENLEY ably sum marised the course of events, the affair has gone on . _ "shuffle," "shuffle" ever since, and every now and then some astute economist, or far-seeing disciple Of progress calls out that the farmers are stopping the way. It was said that in Ireland the attempt was always successfully made, but then the reason was that over there the Government pay every farthing of the expense. They used there the machinery of the poli ce , w hil e we ll- pa id b y them selves. Mr. HENLEY went on at some length to explain that the Chancellor of the Exchequer of f a c n o t i ed themieeting information,to bear the a ur o b dt d ol e d n of th e t m he t e o x p pns a e yi e t out of the rates. This they very naturally refused to do, and ho wound up by declaring that until those who wanted the information chose to pay for it, he, for one, should decline to accede to their re quests, and he hoped that all his constituents would follow his example, and do the same. Certainly Mr. HENLEY succeeded in making out a very good case for his friends, the farmers, and it seems very unreasonable that they should be expected to take so much trouble, and incur so much expense for nothing. It is short-sighted policy, on the part of the Government, to propose such a scheme, and they show that they have not truly learned the doe. trine of political economy in insisting on maintain ing their parsimonious scrupulosity in this par. icalar. There are times and seasons to save, and ,here are also epochs when to spend is a duty, and it would appear that the subject here re ferred to is a case in point, when the gain is a loss, and the reliance in reqlity an expense, since it is money kept back at the expense of knowledge that might be useful, and the altercations occasioned by the angry bickerings and debates are not worth tLe amount that is called under notice in the discus sion and dispute. Mr. HENLEY wisely remarked that if thine who possessed any steam machinery Opening of the Nunnery at Abbotsleigh, It is known to many of our readers that for some time past the Cath o li cs have b een prepar i ng a very large building at Abb otsle i gh, a b out a m il e and a half from Newton Abbot, and within sight of the South Devon Railway, for a Nunnery. An elegant chapel has been erected at one end of the building, and on Tuesday it was consecrated, and yesterday it was opened with all that form and ceremonial which marks the principal services in the Catholic Church. At eleven o'clock a procession entered the church, when the choir sang "Lutatus Sum;" and high mass commenced. This was performed by the Right Rev. and Hon. Dr. Clifford, Bishop of Clifton, eSSISted by the Rev. Dr. Drinkwater, vice-president: of the English College at Rome; Canon Wollett Rev. Mr. Walsh, Rev. Mr. Graham, Rev. Mr. Meagher, Canon Mansfield, and a number of other priests. The choir then sang Kyrie Elieson, vocal fugue by Jomelli, the Gloria in Excelsis by Sechter. Between the Epistle and Gospel the Hal lelujah Chorus, by Handel, was sung. The Right Rev. Dr. Vaughan, the Bishop of Plymouth, then preachtd the sermon, and took his text from the Book of Chronicles. After the sermon the choir sang the Credo, from Mozart's No. 12 Mass. Dur • ing the offertory the Laudi Jerusalem was sung; Sanctus, Mozart's 12th Mass ; 0 Salutaris, by Himill ; Agnus Dei, by Mozart. After the mass was finished the procession re formed and l e f t t h e chapel. T h e c h o i r was com posed of the members of the Plymouth Cathedral, consisting, be s id es the boys, of t h e R evs . Mr. Walsh, Truman, O'Flaherty, and Trenor ; conductor, Faber Crowth er •; organist, M. de Prins. After high m ass all the compa ny dined together at the Nunnery, and a t four o'clock th e Bles sed Sacrament was carr i ed in process ion into the cha pel, all the n uns carrying l i g ht e d tapers. The Benediction w as performed b y t h e Bishop of Ply_ mouth, which brought the interesting proceedings to a c lose.— iVeBtern Daily Mercury. THE PROBLEM OF COMPLEXION made as plain as Black and White l•--As Africans are very dark, and the inhabitants of Northern Europa very fair, and as, moreDver, the nati ons o f S ou th e rn Europe are much darker than those of N or th ern E uro p e , it is perfectly reasonable to suppose th a t c limate has a tendency to bleac h as well as to blacken. The thickness of the skulls of the negroes h as been wisely arranged by Providence to defe nd their b rains from the tropical climate in which they live . If Go d had not given them thick skulls their brains w ould probably have become very men of the present day. The woolly hair is not con sidered by Africans as a mark of inferiority, though some of the m m uch like those of many scientific gentle. shave it off, but it also answers the purpose of defending the head from the sun. VICTOR HUGO'S BETROTHAL,--.When the gates were closed Victor wandered on to the boulevard s, overwhelmed with grief and tired o f life. [He had just attended the funeral of his m other in Pere la Chais e.] The ardent desire of having som ething still to ho p e f or Caused him to weni his w ay towards the Rue du Cher c h e-Midi, by a group who entered there, indulging where the Fouchers lived. It was 11 o'clock at night, and he expected to find everybody asleep and the lights put out; the out, but but ib , Wr a teae n ydt d o suffer, g— up. He h a d just been acted, the stage of was r h tpy e ua p s rh e d r e perceived e n i a d v b e ot d uh that ha t windowsti m h r e pi d eel o l wereoe r d sbt wishedyobo ra d : :al w ide itmar noantklg o ey pa desire ei large open, r in shouts of laughter. it was impossible to take a step in advance. i T ----e paused for entered d yar in cl io san th d e hean inhsatsatnent,edandtotlhveanrd, He saw his face rapidly ascended ge deserted was deadly pale, room,th eg r e w a h t e rstaircase,of another tol it b. which reminded him crape e noticed round h itsh hat, w hilst overhead he heard the sounds of lie could not resist ascending one andrefle h c t e e d alsoin asamwirrthore which he had not and t h e n another; knowing the plan of the course towards a sort of skylight, removed from his head' The sight of this brought him to his senses. lie fled precipitately and lost himself in ball -room from above. There, alone, and m a a d s a i r c k a p n a d ss d ag an e, ning. flight of stairs, multitude. He soon saw her for heshgeaywas dressed in white, crowned with inh whicho d u a s r e k lighted h n e e s s, his th eyes y hie es glued to the window pane, he gazed w de h s o p m air h in e g s l o y ug o u n t t . flowers, and was dancing with a smile on her countenance. Mademoiselle Foucher had suffered quite as much as Vic tor did at the separ ation that had occurred between the two families. Her hi ther and m ot h er sought to cheer her by wastakingm M. F her o u t o cil eeveryr , e fete day they had solemnised it to the kind of en tertainment. The 29th June best of their ability; the y h ad organised a ball, and had got up some private theatr icals. " Monsieur Guillaume" was the title of the p iece th ey acted, and Mademoiselle Adele ; took the principal female c haracter. On the eve of that rtn dayl‘l. Foucher h eard of the death of h i s old friend, mpo whom had not s een for so long, and whose ill ness he had scarcely heard of. lie thought of his daughter, who would be deprived of an entertainment, had she known of it, and he kept the sad intelligence to himself. The next day Mademoiselle Faucher, dizzy and tired with the gaiety of the preced in g evening, ar.menwas sauntering in the gardens to the W belonging - --.ce. She perceived Victor coming in, at the sig ht of w hom and of his pale face she knew im mediately that some mi s f ortune h a d h appene d . Sh e ran up to him. " What is the matter ?" "My mother is dead I I buried her yesterday,,' "And I was dancing at the time 1 ,, He saw at once that she had known nothing about it. They began to sob together, and thus were they be trothed.—Mad4ine Ilugo's Life of her Husband. PERILOUS POSITION OF AN AERONAUT, AND F AT AL ACCIDENT,--.uT l‘ t i e r o . k Y h o i u s la s g e seat, but ast Saturday night a gala was g i v en in the Piece..h a q , Halifax, and a grand balloon ascent was a nnounced, in t h e car of which it was said would be seated d a lady. A little before 7 o'clock Mr. Young menc ed its ascent. not the lady, and the balloon com • On leaving the hall it came against some telegraph wires whi c h pass over the hall. This had the effect of rendering th e b alance somew h at unstea d y . Aft er it had risen out of th e b uilding a s li g h t b reez.l f rom t h e we st carried it against the top of Messrs. Firth and Son's mill chimney, and there it was held, either by the lightning conductor or by the net getting fast to the cornice. There it collapsed. The crowds of spectators were horrified, ex pecting every minute that the aeronaut would be precipi tated from the top of the chimney, which is about 35 yards high. He, however, retained presence of mind and more than once waved his hat, of which the people took note and cheered. A rope was let (town out of the car, and eventually to it was attached a Pulley and another rope, which were drawn into the car, The pulley was fastened to the car, and the aeronaut was fortunate enough to reach the ground without being hurt. There the balloon remained all night. Next day come men ascended to the top of the chimney to recover the balloon. One of them, a man named Charles Rawson, had reached to the top, w hen the rope snapped in two, he fell to the ground, and was taken up dead. His body was shockingly mangled. Rawson was 37 years of ago, and has left a family. AN INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION AT VIENNA is to take place in 1861-, - --- - to open on the 15 th April, and to close on th e 31 st May, an d wor ks of art will be re ceived only from th e 15 th of Marc h t o the Ist of April, and must be sent by the artists themselves There wiR be eleven prizes, but only Austrians can receive them. They consist of three gold medals, seven prizes of 315 gulden, and one prize of 840 gulden, TLATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT. 15. The Queen has sent the Prefect of Alava and a General to compliment the Emperor Napoleon. Her Majesty has left for Atocha. Several Progressistas have protested against the policy of abstaining from voting. PORTUGAL. LISBON, SEPT. 14 (Evening). The railway to Evora has been successfully opened, under the auspices of the Duke de Louse. The accouchement of the Queen is daily expected. Great preparations are made for national rejoicings upon the occasion. THE BRAZIL MAIL. LISBON, SEPT. 14. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Estramadure with the above mail arrived here at noon today. RIO DE JANIERO, AUG. 24. Exchange on Paris, 350 to 353. BUENOS AYRES, AUG. 15. The question of the Southern Railway has been settled. Exchange, 66.3; ounces, 431; wet salted hides, 36 ; dry American, 33 to 35; wool dull, small stock ; tallow, 14x ; lumber, 34 to 37; flour unchanged; refined sugar, 16,1. FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 15. The Moniteur of this morning states that the King of Greece will embark on the 17th inst. for St. Petersburg. BOURSE, Sept.l4.—The market has been firm, but without a large amount of business doing. Threes, for the Account, are now at 69f. sc. Railway Shares have been also well maintained at Satur day's closing quotations, with a slight advanee on some of the lines. The market closed as follows : 4t per Cents .. 95 75 Italian Loan 74 Do. end month.... Do. end month 73 95 3 per Cents Do. 69 end month.... 10 I Do. end month 73 80 Credit Mobilier....l2oo Russian Do. end m0nth....1202 50 Austrian Bank Shares ...... 3380 Spanish Threes.~ Credit l'oneter ....1420 Home Debt BAIL 'AYS• Cash. Account. Orleans lO3B 75 .. 1042 50 Northern . ... New. ditto ............ ~• .. -- Lyons and Meditorranean 1052 50 .. 1055 Geneva.. Southern 751 25 .. 753 75 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian Lon.bard North of Spain ...... Saragossa 657 .. 673 75 Ditto to Barcelona AMERICA. GREENCASTLE, Sept. 14. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer North American, from Quebec on the sth inst., arrived here at 5.50 p.m. to-day, with 5,000 dole. (silver) in specie. NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (Evening). Federal advices from Charleston to the 31st ult. state that the monitors moved up on the 31st abreast of Moultrie and attacked that fort. Forts Moultrie, G regg, and Wagner, and Sullivan's Island Battery replied to the monitors. The latter passed Forts Sumter and Wagner without opposition. There were said to be no obstructions in the harbour, and an impression prevailed that the fleet could pass up to the city. The Confederate flag was still flying on Fort Sumter, which the Confederates were en deavouring to repair. General Gilmore's approaches were close to Fort Wagner. NEW YORK, Sept. 5 (Morning). News received from Charleston to the Ist inst. announces that the Federal ironclads had withdrawn from the attack on Fort Moultrie. The Confederates had remounted some guns on the ruins of Fort Sumter, and made other prepara tions for defence. General Gilmore had driven the Confederates from the rifle pits on the left of his advanced line, capturing 70 prisoners. He had also run a parallel against Fort Wagner. No further bombardment of the city had taken place. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Sept. 4 (Evening). Money tighter. Gold, 321 per cent. premium. Exchange on London—Bankers' bills, 145 to 146. The panic in the stock market continues, and Prices are declining. The market, however, closed a little steadier this afternoon. New York Cen trals, 128; Illinois' 1211 ; Erie, 106 (?) INDIA. By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have received Calcutta papers to August 8. There is no news of particular interest. The Englishman of the above date contains the following : We recently extracted from the Times of India a very lengthy detailed account of the capture of the Nana, and the statements made by those who have come forward to speak to his identity, the whole far too long for an overland paper. The same paper has also the following : " We are glad to be able to relieve the public of all further uncertainty concerning the Nana. The blind Brahmin has become Queen's evidence, and identified the Nana himself. This information reached us yesterday from Rajpootana." Judging from the photographs we have seen, we should be inclined to think that they have got his brother, Baba Butt, en &der man, and, according to description, considerably more like the photo graph we have seen than the Nana himself. We are, moreover, rather in a difficulty as to how the blind Brahmin could identify the arch rebel, unless the smell of a living traitor is as powerfully plea sant to the Brahmin as that of a dead one was to Louis XI. Anyhow, it is now generally believed, even by the Government, that the prisoner is not the Nana, one of the evidences of this feeling on the part of the authorities being the fact that the de tachment of the 28th sent to Ajmere has been with. drawn. COMMERCIAL. Produce Market—Most productions of produce are quoted at somewhat easier rates, the tendency to a decline in prices being caused by unsatisfactory reports from home arriving simultaneously with more ample supplies from the interior. Rice and jute, however, prove exceptions to the general dull state of these markets. Import Market—Piece Goods—There is some improve ment in demand, and buyers are gradually coming nearer the prices demanded by holders. Accounts from the North west are still unfavourable, but dealers appear to expect improved advices thereon shortly. Joint-stock Shares--The prices of most joint-stock com panies' shares have been well maintained, but the market is, nevertheless, dull, and the business done for cash CHINA. (From the Hongkong Nail, 29th July.) The latest dates from Peking aro to the 11th July. There is no news of importance. The healt h of the different members of the foreign legations is good. The rains have begun, rather late in the season. Our ad vices from Tien-tsin apprise nsthat a treaty has been concluded between Denmark and China. Negotiations were conducted at the capital be tween Colonel Rsasloff, the Danish Minister, and Hang-ki, the mandarin appointed last year to meet Senhor de Guimarens. Tsung-hau, superin tendent of trade for the northern ports, w as named joint commisioner with Hang-ki, and the treaty negotiated at Peking, and there signed by Colonel Raasloff and Hang-ki on the 10th inst., was finally signed by Tsung -hau on the 13th inst., at Tien tsin. Its conditions will, uccoi•ding to cus tom, not appear until the ratifications shall have been exchanged a twelvemonth hence; but, with the exception of the right of ministerial rcbidenco at Peking, for which it appears the Danish Minister did not stipulate, it will secure to Danish subjects all privileges enjoyed by other Powers. The Danish flag has been excluded from the benefit of the Provisional Rules under which the Yang teze kiang is open above Chin-kiang. The treaty, we understand, concedes to the Danes this trade on the same terms as to the elder treaty Powers, and the Chinese Government has so far shown itself friendly as at once t. admit all steamers and square-rigged Danish vessels to a participation in the river trade, without waiting for the formality of an exchange of ratifications. The Danes, naturally, have not gained any advantages that are not practically within the reach of other nati ins, but if our information be correct their treaty has the honour of permanently recording sundry modifications that have been adopted in tie interests of trade in the last two years. The opening of the bean trade, for instance, is esta• blished by the disappearance of the old limitation from the Tariff and Commercial Articles. The term within which drawbacks are to be obtain able on Chinese produce carried from one treaty port to another, when re-shipped from the second to a third port, or to a foreign port, is extended by the Danish treaty to twelve months. The coast trade itself, at the half-tariff duty, is also become a treaty right. From Japan there is no decisive news as to the aspect of future relations. Along with payment of the 440,000 of indemnity money was tendered, as already stated, the information, that the Mikado was positive i❑ his injunctions to the Tycoon's Go vernment to drive all foreigners out of Japan. This may be another way of stating that no security short of foreign retirement can be given against the frequent recurrence of outrages similar to those for which the indemnity was demanded. There was an apology stipulated for, but we cannot learn that it has been given. Moreover, the destruction of the Legation buildings at the Goten-yama, near Yeddo, has yet to be atoned for, and the murderers of Richardson executed, so that it is quite impossible to report matters as settled in Japan ; it would be easier at once to predict a permanent state of un settledness. The Shanghoc Recorder has the following start ling item : " Tne new Port of Osaka, it is confidently ex pected, will be opened in about three months. The foreigners were still quietly resident at Yokohama, and everything bore a peaceful aspect. A civil war was taking place, and the Tycoon was hemmed in by the troops of the Mikado at Osaka. The Elgin was conveying Japanese troops to the latter place." TEE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND, The latest intelligence from New Zealand is un mistakably warlike. General Cameron has been permitted to assume the absolute direction of mili taiy affairs. The large force now under the com mand of the General has been recently strengthened by the opportune arrival of the ISth Royal Irish at Auckland, and there was at the last date (July 14) a body of not less than five or six thousand regular British infantry, besides the volunteers and militiamen, available for the protection of the Queen's interests in the provinces of Auck land and Taranaki. By the latest advices, the object of General Cameron appears to be to con stitute the neighbourhood of Auckland the centre of the forthcoming campaign. Men and guns have been concentrated at the northern capital from all parts of the island. The province of Taranaki itself it is proposed temporarily to abandon, with the exception of the towns of New Plymouth and Wanganui, and the fortified position at Tartaraimaka. The news, although of a somewhat contradictory character as to the movements of the insurgents, seems to leave little room for doubt that another great rising of the natives is to take place, under the leadership of the powerful and warlike tribe of the Waikatos. The Melbourne Argus says : Should the Waikatos take the field, it is almost certain that they will be joined by nearly all the tribes south-east and west, from Taranaki to Hawke's Bay. The Waikatos themselves are said to be able to muster 5,000 fighting men, but this is certainly an exaggeration. This number would more nearly represent the total of the whole armed force which is likely, at any one point, to encounter Gen. Cameron. The Waikatos themselves are certainly the most formidable enemy we have to meet in New Zealand, and should they be induced to ally themselves to the cause of the Maori King, they will make this the greatest of our New Zealand wars. By their important stra tegic position, on the road between Auckland and New Plymouth, and surrounded as they are by deep impenetrable forests,and protected by every variety of natural barrier, they will be able to exercise a most potent influence on the character of the war, and will certainly give General Cameron more trouble than any of his predecessors on the Maori war-path have yet experienced. The report of a contemplated attack by the insurgents on the town of Auckland itself is most likely a canard, the product of some Maori Seward or Kingite Hooker. The singular aptitude for mili tary strategy which marks the Maori genius is not likely to betray the insurgents into a policy so fcolish as to undertake any such enterprise as this, against a large town strongly garrisoned by Euro pean troops. Auckland, it is true, is almost de fenceless on the land side ; but the wide extent of open country immediately surrounding it on the south and west is as good a securi'y to the citizens as any ramparts could he. No native army is likely to venture into an encounter with British soldiers in the open field ; and it is only British generals who commit the blunder of fighting the enemy after his own fashion. The insurgents, if they mean serious war, will probably rest content with that sort of fighting in which their genius is best displayed, and not attempt to look for General Cameron, but force General Cameron to look for them. The country of the Waikatos abounds in positions almost im pregnable to regular troops, which can be defended with little or no loss on the part of the natives. The mere shelling of half a dozen paha, as has been shown in former campaigns, has little effect in influencing the result of the war ; for, according to the Maori tactics, the pahs are merely held as places of cover from whica the advancing enemy may be securely annoyed—not as fortresses, to be defended for their ow❑ sake. The Waikatoa, by pursuing their traditional system of warfare, may contrive to prolong the struggle to an almost inde finite period—they can only be decisively conquered when they either venture to attack us in the open field, or are attacked themselves by men who are able to accommodate themselves to the Maori mode o fighting. DETERMINED SUICIDE.—A suicide of a most de termined and extraordinary character was commit.. ted at Brighton on Saturday night. The promenaders of the Junction-parade and West-cliff were alarmed at 8 o'clock by a loud report from the beach, and on looking in the direction whence it, proceeded, a man was seen falling from the groyne known as " Anscombe's Groyne," opposite the swimming baths. Information was at once forwarded to the Town-hall police-station, and the body of a man was with some little difficulty got ashore, when it was discovered that the right upper part of the face and nearly the whole of the top of the head was blown away. The body was at once placed upon a stretcher and conveyed to the dead house, but up to last night had not been identified. That the act was contemplated is plain from the fact that he had so placed himself that in the event of being only slightly injured by the pistol he would have been drowned. Every means had been adopted to destroy identification, as the portions of two letters which would have furnished a clue to recognition had been carefully torn away, and not a mark was to be discovered on any portion of the clothing. An inquest was held on the body by the borough coroner (Mr. David Black), last night, at the Town-hall, and an open verdict as to the state of the deceased's mind was re turned, Judging from the portion of the head which is left, the body is that of a young man of fair complexion, between 20 and 21 years of age, about sft. 6in. in height, and very slender. DOTER SAmorhs' HOME, Sept. 14.—This mom ing 11 of the crew of the bark Waleria, lost in the gale of the Bth inst., in the North Sea, were safely landed at the Dover, and are all under the caro of the superintendent at the Sailors' Home. Tbey are in a sad condition, but as far as possible every want will be supplied by the institution, and they will be forwarded to L .ndon b. a free p ilsg is the evening. This mfikes 170 wrecked crews, of different nations, who have been received and succoured at the Dover Sailors' 1101)1e, - Tr vto N lo - 11111311 T. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept. 14. The Queer. with their Royal Highnesses the Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea trice, left the Castle for Balmoral at a quarter before seven o'clock this evening. The suite in attendance consisted of the Lady Augusta Bruce, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Major General Seymour, Major Cowel', Mr. Buff, and Dr. Jenner. Lady Churchill, who succeeds the Marchioness of Ely in Waiting, will join her Majesty at Oxford, and will travel with the Royal party to Scotland. Colonel Hon. A. Liddell left the Castle this morning far Dover, to await the arrival of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and the Princess Victoria, who are expected in England to-morrow, and will join he: Majesty immediately at Balmoral. Princess Louis of Hesse. Her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse Darmstadt and her infant, the Princess Victoria , are expected to-morrow in London from thd Con tinent in the course of the day, and her Royal Highness will leave in the evening for Balmoral, via Aberdeen. The Princess of Hesse will remain with her Majesty and the Royal family during their stay at Balmoral, and return with the Court to Windsor on the 9th of October next. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES AT ABER' GELDlE.—Picnicking seems to have been the ruling amusement of the Prince and Princess during the past week. The weather, though unsettled and showery, has no prevented them enjoying the usual amount of outdoor re creation. The Prince, nothing daunted by the passin showers, persistently pursues his new favourite pastime deer-stalking, and not unfrequently has he tried the lungs of his more elderly keepers to follow him on the bills in pursuit of game. On Saturday week the Prince was out shooting at Inv ergeldie, and succeeded in taking down three noble stags, which he exhibited to the Princess that even ing by torchlight on the lawn in front of the castle. On Sunday they both attended Divine service, when Dr. Fow ler, of Ratho, near Edinburgh, then on a visit to Crathie, preached an eloquent sermon. In the afternoon the Prince and Princess drove to the wood east from Corbieha', and took tea among the heather. Monday being a day of rain, the Royal party stayed mostly inside. On Tuesday the Prince was again among the hills, and brought down a fine dter, which was afterwards shown at the castle. The Prince and attendants drove to the Garrawalt and took luncheon. On Wednesday the Prince, Princess, and suite drove to Garmundie, a hilt on west side of Balmoral, and lunched, returning late in the afternoon. In the evening a ball was given to the servants and gillies of the Prince at the Castle. In connexion with the jottings, it may not be uninteresting to notice thatohough the Prince and Princess, more especially the latter, almost daily hover round Bal moral Castle for a while, they have never yet been inside —the notion in the locality being that the Queen, " the lady of the manor," wishes them not to enter until she is there herself to receive them. The Hon. Mrs. Coxe has left Aber geldie as lady•in-waiting, being succeeded by the Hon,Mrs. Bruce.—Aberdeen Herald. His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador left Bryanston-square yesterday for St. Leonard's-on-Sea, to join Madame Musurus and family. His excellency takes his departure for Constantinople to-mcrrow. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio has left Spa, Belgium, for his estate in Italy. His excellency i° expected to return to the Italian Legation in the course of the ensuing month to resume his diplomatic functions. The Duke of Newcastle has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Clumber, Notts. The Duke and Duchess de Chartres have arrived at Withelmsthal, in Prussian Silesia, travelling with the Grand Duke of Saxe- Weimar. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter and Lady Victoria Cecil are remaining in town. The noble marquis is improving in health. TIIE EARL OF DERBY has resumed in earnest his philanthropic labours as Chairman of the Central Commit tee for the Relief of Lancashire. The Earl and Countess Spencer are, we under stand, making the necessary arrangements preliminary to their departure for Egypt, his lordship having been advised by his medical attendants to pass the approaching winter in that country for the benefit of his health. It is said that in all probability the noble earl and countess will be absent six months. The Earl and Countess of Roden left London on Saturday !or Exton Park, the seat of the Earl of Gains borough, The Countess (Dowager) of Jersey leaves town in a few days for Brighton for the autumn. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left Lon don yesterday for Broadlands, Hants. The Dowager Lady Hantingfield has arrived at Brown's Hotel. Count Bonde, of Biorto, has arrived at Long's Hotel from Sweden. The marriage of the noble count with Miss Ida Marryat, daughter of Mr. Horace Marryat, and granddaugbter of the late General the Right Hon. Lord Edward Somerset, G.C,8., is fixed to take place on Satur day next. Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Blundell have re cently left the Portland Hotel, Southsea, for Rome. Madame Tehertkoff, née Countess Krouglikoff, and family have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, from Bournemouth. Count Krouglikoff has also arrived at this hotel. TELEGRAPH TO INDIA COMPANY (LIMITED.) The report of the directors, to be submitted to the proprietors at an extraordinary general meeting of the company on the 18th of Sep, ember, 1863, states that the directors having received the first half-yearly payment of £1,250 from Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co., under the arrangement for working the Alexandria and Suez line, which was approved by the shareholders in February last, have summoned a special general meeting for the purpose of declaring a dividend. They recommend that a dividend at . the rate of 5 per cent, per annum, free of income tax, be paid to the shareholders for the half-year ending the 30th June, which will absorb £1,135 out of the amount received from Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and Co., leaving a balarole of £ll5. They state that there is no reason to tear a recur rence of the failure which interrupted the traffic on the Malta and Alexandria line for a few weeks. They have re.. ceived the concession for the construction of the El Arish line referred to in the last report, and a new company hag been registered under the title of the Syrian Telegraph Company, by which it can be carried out whenever it is considered advisable to do so. NOTRE DAME DE PARIS !—Carvers are restoring hands, heads, noses, ears, fingers, toes, &c., to the statues on the Port du Zodiaque of that Cathedral. PERSPECTIVE MACHINE.—The invention of Christopher Wren, a mechanist of great genius, better known to the world at large by what he did than by how he did it, is thus described in the Phi?. TraNs• f c ' r 1669 (No. 45). The eye looks through a pinhole at the point of sight, and the hand carries the end of a po inter over the outline to be traced. If this pointer moved on a. glass plane it would trace out the picture; but no plane i s interposed—the picture plane, with drawing-paper on it , is at the side, and the m o tion of the pointer, by a sim p le parallel.motion contrivance, is communicated t o a p en o r pencil. This is the only machine which I ha pp en to h av e. met with for continuous tracing of ou tline. THE REGISTRATIoNS.--The Metropolitan Regis trations have been appoint ed. Mr. Beall, the barrister, will commence the revision of the l ists for th e county of Middlesex on Friday next at Uxbridge, and conclude at Kensington on the Bth of October. Mr. Han son will revise the lists of the city of Londen on the 23d inst. The other metropolitan districts have been fixed. By the Registration of Voters Act the revision must be completed between the 15th of September and the 31st of October. The forthcoming revision, it is expected, will be contested in almost every place, as an opinion prevails that a general election will take place before the next revision. The fee to each revising barrister is 200 guineas. The policeman Charles, who is charged with the wilful murder of his wife, was further remanded at Bury yesterday. On the 14th of February last, the body of a woman w as f oun d i n t h e canal at Pendle b ury. ht was not identified at the tim e ; [b u t a s i s t er o f M rs . Ch a rles, on being recently shown some clothes taken from the body, at once declared them to have belonged to the prisoner's wife, who has been missing since the 13th of February. An order for the exhumation of the body found at Pendlebury has been issued by Sir George Grey. _ HE CHANNEL FLEET.—The Channel fleet ar rived in the Mersey yesterday. One of the officers of the flagship—Lieutenant Gardiner—met with a fearful death on Friday evening. The officers of the fleet had been entertained by the Mayor of Belfast at a dejeuner, and they were retnrning by railway to Carrickfergus, when Lieu tenant Gardiner, in spite of the remonstrances of his cow pardons, got upon the top of the carriage to smoke. This dangerous freak cost him his life. Ho fell upon the and his head was crushed into a " a shapeless mass." THE STEAM RAMS IN TILE MERSEY.— We have authority fOr stating that the two iron-clad veesels now building at Liverpool will not be allowed to leave that port pending further inquiries, and until fresh instrtustions are givon,—Tints3. s4' Cpl Ind I Li, 1 Ch E~ 9 Eg „~, ~.~ /