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

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. - Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the new and original Comedy, by Ed mund Fal"oner, entitled NATURE'S ABOVE ART : A Ro mance of the Nursery : Mess rs. Walter Lacy,:Addison, 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, Hartleur, and C. Weston. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usual. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. George Vining. Open under the Management of Mr. Walter Montgomery. THIS EVENING. Massinc" , er's Play of A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DE RTS. Sir Ma Gile ss Atkinson. s Overreach, Mr. Walter Montgomery ; Lady Altworth , To conclude with THE POST .110 Y. Mr. Sefton Parry. Commend: at 7. NEW THEATRE-T;.O YAL, ADELPHI.-- Sole Prooriotor and T Sanazer. M. R. Webst er . Ti ns EVENING, CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Mr. A. Wood (his 2d appearance). F o llowed by THE T 1 0.GEDY QUEEN. Mrs. Sti r li ng. Alter which, at -paf4t 8 o'clock. the new drama of THE HAUNTED MAN; (JR, THE G, OSII"S BARGAIN, in which will be exhibi'ced Professor Pepper's adaptation of "he Great Spectral I'dusion. 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 CHICKENS ; or, A Sign of Affection. Messrs. Billington, R. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss H. Simms. ROYAL STRAND THE A T R E . Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanboroug,h. 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; Mesdam es Ad a Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. THE I'HIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," it 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-htoßnow.-Morning, 3h. 16m.—Afternoon, 3h. 30m , The Weather—Sun Office, Sept. 14, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning. This day at Two o'clock Barometer-30.26. Wind—S. to S.-W.; , cloudy. ~ ~'~ ~1 ~.F. ~~~, .~ Y>► LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 15, 1863. The clouds that are now lcoming 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 soma cynical readers are disposed to consider him also, flashy, correspondent of the ld 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 EUsKIN into the bargain. After his grotesque fashion, he sketches in, rapidly, in a sort of MINASI 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 ail other clouds, according to the old proverb, for inasmuch as they manifestly have no silver lining whatever t 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 initials of which the very name of N E iv s is made, according to the felicitous explanation of that ' problematical word, according to the old rhyming epigrammatist : ".,vorth, 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 America 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 troth he has to tell, MANHATTAN has hardly ever assumed to himself the character of an Alarmist. Reading him now, however, in this his latest communication, he seems at last fairly and honestly to come within the category. Not applying the . phrase to him, h owever , w ith an y' sneering significance latent in it, but simply and purely as the statement of a fact. MANHATTAN, in truth, here does quite unmistakeably sound the 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 recruits (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, and lowering up: 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 M r . A Baa nAll Ttlarplot, LINCOLN—in old times a splitter of rails, now a splitter of States asunder! Not a mere ordinary political hair-splitter, mind ! but a render i n t wa i n o f Republics. The wonder is that with su c h a dis ruption as has taken place in the sometime United States of America, ever since the evil hour when Mr. LINCOLN was raised to the Presidential chair, and was located for the customary term ter of four years in that \V bit e House, from which he has y e t to "hail" for rather more than one y ear out of those four still remaining to him ! Within which interval he has, alas! to play out hi s little game, his wretched little losing game of misgovernment. The wonder is to us that with su c h a di sru pti on , cause d ma i n l y 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, had once been snapped! Instead of which—they are clubbed together, all this while, in two distinct clusters— there the States of the Federalists, there those of the Confederates. Only with this discernable, through out, upon a compariso n of those belligerent powers— that while the North, in wealth, in extent of popu lation, in value of commerce, in intelligence (so far as the educated proportion of each community is concerned), iu 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 tho war the more securely of the two The South has numbered up the most various and the most signal victories, and has given rise upon the battle-fields 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 way fitted to compete. As MANHATTAN has 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 relyin g , no t l oa d e d ! H e cannot run—or the Panther will be after him ! He lies down — and waits ! The Panther waiting, too, probably— for a spring ! an Z d ea is l a nTdh is E n lr t e y l t l h i intelligence u w t which e r fi e e a i e n h e i s om t The Maories are still not altogether satisfactory. s u character, h f a r t New er, in a state of great excitement throug h out the whole of the Northern Island, and , f rom th eir numbers and resources, their proceedings canact be regarded with indifference. We heard a short time since that General CA:SIN:RCN'S energetic measures had struck terror to their minds ; that the English soldiers had occupied the disputed blcek of ground ; and that the colonists were sanguine as to the results. Now, however, all seems to be changed for the worse. We learn from the Australian papers of last month that 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 cccurred ; 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 Waikato, 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 ever sign of toleration and mercy into an evidence of fear of provoking them, and this mistake has been very often committed o° 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 our ultimate success, stray travellers and outlying settlers are at the mercy of the natives; consciou s , t oo , o f th e l ess an d 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. Then ceforward the n a ti ves , i gnorant o f th e v ast power lyi ng 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, in 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 reason to re pent of the line of action they were pursuing, since the insolence of the Maories Was growing un bounded. Such anticipations have been but too soon verified. However ener get i cally defensive measures are now being carried on, it i s too late to usurp s n u d r o p themischiefthepowerand don done by allowing th e natives to privileges which they have hitherto assumed ; but it is all important to succeed, if possible, in overawing th em at the com mencemen t o f hostilities. It Was hop e d that the movements of General CAMERON, Which we recorded last month, would have had that effect, but the unfortunate removal of the great body of troops from Tataraimaka seems to have given them fresh encouragement. The Taranaki Herald o : 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 these ill-timed Booth- sayers have arisen within six weeks ; all agreeing in foretelling a great reverse and subsequent suc . _ _ cesses, 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 as the forerunner of such signal triumphs. Native spies, too, help the enemy by carrying them intel ligence of proposed attacks. On a recent occasion, an old woman, under pretence 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 for assistance, and 800 picked men were ready to meet the assault. Our Government has thus many and serious difficulties to contend af?;ainst, and Governor and General have alike need of all their prudence, sagacity, and resolution. The colonists, it is said, place fall confidence in Cr;n. CAMERON, THE StlN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1363. v - hose reputation 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 Theme 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. Ho 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 must 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 even there he said that it was a relief to think that the sufferings had not spread further and affected the entire population of the country. Many feared at one tin that the deplorable state of things in the north would have extended much further than it has done ; for setting aside the dis tressed classes in particular, the rest of the county has been prosperous. It was, therefore, subject of c ongratulation to feel that the cotton interest was not quite so entirely England's, as it had been as serted to be at the time. While we sympathised with that interest, and deplored its present eclipse, it was gratifying to feel that the welfare of the country did not so materially depend upon it as had been surmised in former times by competent judges and well-informed individuals. This is very correct reasoning, for it i s a l ways a great drawback and fatal hindranc e t o any commun i ty 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 obliged 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, howev er , to this wise proposal, and hence, as Mr. HENLEY ably sum marised the course of events, the affair has gone on " "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 police, while well-paid by them selves. Air. HENLEY went on at some length to explain that the Chancellor of the Exchequer wanted them to bear all the burden of the expense of collecting information, and told them to pay it out of the rates. This they very naturally refused to do, and he 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, send do the same. Certainly Mr. HENLEY succeeded in making out a very good case for his friends, the farmers, and it seems very so much trou s le th 0 , r a p t and s go i h n s et c e u a r p s suchoo : m y s c oh h ne me thexe ,p part and n a s r e t unrea sonable that they s h ould be expected to take have not truly l earned the t o f h o f i e . t y h n e o sh t G h o o i w n v g e t r . h n a m t lt e th n is ey it doc trine of political economy in insisting on maintain- 'ng their parsimonious scrupulosity in this par :icular. There are times and seasons to save, and there 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 reality an expense, since it is money kept back at the expense of knowledge that might ba useful, and the altercations occasioned by , he angry bickerings and debates are not worth the amount that is called under notice in the discus- sion and dispute. Mr. HENLEY wisely remarked that if those 7020 DOSSCS6Od any steam machinery ould bring it to meetings of that kind it would 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 farmers 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 cultivation 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 agriculturistsob served,peakersof bringing wasthe their onl y opportunity h t re e l afforded ass es e least once in th e year." the gentry, farm e rs, and labourers—" together at LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] SPAIN. MADRID, SEPT. 15. The Queen has sent the Prefect of Alava and a General to compliment the Emperor Napoleos. 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 Loue. 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 to•day. 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, 148 ; lumber, 34 to 37 ; flour unchanged; refined sugar, 161. FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 15. The Monileur 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 691. oc. Railway Shares have been also well maintained at Satur day's closing quotations, with a slight advance on some of the lines. The market closed as follows : ft per Cent 5....... 95 75 Italian Loan 74 Do. end month.... Do. end month 73 95 3 per Cents ... 69 15 [slew ditto Do. end m0nth....... 69 10 Do. end month 73 80 Credit Mobilier....l2oo Russian Do. end m0nth....1202 50 Austrian Bank Shares....., 3380 Spanish Threes 53 Credit Foncier ....1420 Home Debt RAIL' 'AYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO3B 75 .. 1042 50 Northern lOOO .. 1002 50 New ditto oo • • • Lyons and Mediterranean 1052 50 .. 1055 Geneva Southern Western .. Eastern Sardinian 432 50 .. 430 Austrian LOW bard North of Spain Saragossa .. 657 .. 673 75 Ditto to Barcelona .• • • -- • • --- Opening of the Nunnery at Abbotsleigh, It is known to many of our readers that for some time past the Catholics have been preparing a very large building at Abbotaleigh, about a mile 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, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Drink water, 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 preached 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 left the chapel. The choir was com posed of the members of the Plymouth Cathedral, consisting, besides the boys, of the Revs. Mr. Walsh, Truman, O'Flaherty, and Trenor ; conductor, Father Crowther; organist, M. de Prins. After high mass all the company dined together at the Nunnery, and at four o'clock the Blessed Sacrament was carried in procession into the cha pel, all the nuns carrying lighted tapers. The Benediction was performed by the Bishop of Ply. mouth, which brought the interesting proceedings to a c lose.— Western Daily 3fercury. THE PROBLEM OF COMPLEXION made as plain as Black and White Africans are very dark, and the inhabitants of Northern Europa very fair, and as, moreover, the nati ons o f S ou thern Europe are much darker than those of N or th ern Europe, it is perfectly reasonable to suppose that climate has a tendency to bleach as well as to blacken. The thickness of the skulls of the negroes has been wisely ar ra nged by Providence to defend their brains from the tropic a l climate in wh i ch th ey liv e . If G od bad not given them thick sku lls t heir brains w ould probably have become very much like those of many scientific gentle. men of the present day. The woolly hair is not considered by Africans as a mark of inferiority, though some of them 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 boulevards, overwhelmed w i t h grief and tired of life. [He had just attended the funeral o f his mother in Pore la Chaise.] The ardent d es i re o f having something still to hope for caused him to wend his way towards the Rue du Cherche-Midi, where the Fouchers lived. It was 11 o'clock at night, and he expect e d t o find everybody asleep and the lights pu t o u t ; but he perceived that t he do or stood wide open, and that the courtyard and the win dows w ere brilliantly lighted up. He was pushed about by a group w h o en t ered there, indulging in shouts of laughter. He wished to make his wa y ou t, b u t it was impossible to take a step i n a d vance. He paused for p l a y had just b een acted, the stage of of another t om b . an instant, and then, i m p elle d. by a stro ng d es i re to suffer, he hastened towards th e courtyard, rapidly ascen d e d the great staircase, and e ntered into a lar ge d eser t e d room, where a which reminded him He saw his face reflected in a mirror and noticed that -t was deadly pale, and he also saw the crape round his hat, which he had not removed from his head. The sight of this brought him to his senses. Ile fled precipitately and lost himself in a dark passage, w hilst overhead ho heard the sounds of music and dancing. He could not resist ascending one flight of stairs, and then another ; knowing, the plan of the house he directed his course t owards a sort of skylight, which lighted the ball -room fro m above. There, alone, and in darkness, his eyes g lued to the window pa n e, he gazed despairingly on the gay multi tude. He so o n s a w her for whom he sought. She was dr essed in white, crowned with flowers, and was dancing with a smile on her countenance. Mademoiselle Foucher had suffered quite as much as Vic tor did at the separation that had occurred between the two families. Her father and mother sought to cheer her by taking her to every kind of entertainment. The 29th June was M. Foucher's f'e'e day ; they had solemnised it to the best of their ability; they had organised a ball, and had got up some private theatricals. "Monsieur Guillaume" was the title of the piece they acted, and Mademoiselle Adele took the principal female character. On the eve of that important day M. Foucher heard of the death of his old friend, whom he had not seen for so long, and whose ill ness he had scarcely heard of. He 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 Foucher, dizzy and tired with the gaiety of the preceding eve ning ; was sauntering in the gard ens belonging to t he Wa r_office, She perceived Victor com in g in, at the eight of wh omand of his pale face she kne w im mediately that some mi sfortune had h appene d. She ran up to him. " What is the ma tt er ?" ' "My mother is dead I buried her yesterday. "And I was dancing a t the time 1" He saw at once th a t s h e had known nothing abou ~ it. They began to sob t oge th er , and thus were they be trothed.—Madame Hugo's Life of her Husband. PERILOUS POSITION OF AN AERONAUT, AND FATAL ACCIDENT. —L ast Satur d ay n i g ht a ga la was g i v en in the Piec e , h a l l, Halifax, and a grand balloon asc ent wa s announced, i n t h e car of which it was sa id wou ld be se ated Mr. Youn g and a lady. A little before 7 o ' c l oc k Mr. Young took his s ea t, b ut not the lady, and t h e b a ll oo n com menced its ascent. On leaving the hall it came against some telegraph wires which pass over the hall. This had the effect of rendering the balance somewhat unsteady. After it had risen out of the building a slight breeze from the west 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. Ile, however, retained presence of mind and more than once waved his hat, of which the people took note and cheered. A rope was let down 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 some 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, when the rope snapped in two, he fell to the groun d , an d was t a ken up dead. His body was shockingly mangled. Rawson was 37 years of age, and has left a family. AN INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION AT VIENNA is to take place in 1864, to open on the 15th April, and to close on the 31st May, and works of art will be re ceived only from the 16th of March to the Ist of April, and must be sent by the artists themselves. There will be eleven prizes, but only A ustrians can rece i ve th em . They cons i st of three gold m e d a l s, seven prizes of 315 gulden, and ono prize of 80 AMERICA. GREENCASTLE, Sept. 14. The Montreal Ocean Company's steamer North American, from Quebec on the sth inst., arrived hero at 5.50 p.m. to-day, with 5,000 dols. (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, Gregg, 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, 32f 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 limes 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 hi s brother, Baba Batt, an older man, and, according to description, considerably more like the photo graph we have seen than the Nanehimself. 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 moat joint-stock com panies' shares have been well maintained, but the market is, nevertheless, dull, and the business done for cash limited. CHINA. (Rom the Hongkong Mail, 29th July.) The latest dates from Peking are to the 11th July. There is no news of importance. The health of the different members of the foreign legations is good. The rains have begun, rather late in the season. Our advices from Tien-tsin apprise ns that a treaty has been concluded between Denmark and China. Negotiations were conducted at the capital be tween Colonel Raasloff, the Danish Minister, and Hang-ki, the mandarin appointed last year to meet Senhor de Gaimarens. Tsung-hau, superin tendent of trade for the northern ports, was 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 Tsang-hart on the 13th inst., at Tien.tsin. Its conditions will, according to cus tom, not appacr until the ratifications shall have been exchanged a twelvemonth hence; but, with the exception of the right of ministerial residence 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 tsze 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 to 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 nations, but if our information be correct their treaty has the honour of permanently recording sundry modifications that have been adopted in tle 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 fature relations. Along with payment of the 440,000 of indemnity money was tendered, as already stated, the information, that the Mikado was positive in 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 settlednesa. The Shanghae .Recorder has the following star ling item " The 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." „„: HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept. 14. • - The Queen, with their Royal Highnesses the Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Primce Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea trice, left the Castle for Balmoral at a quarter behre seven o'clock this evening. Tito suite in attendance consisted of the Lady Augusta Bruce, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Major. General Seymour, Major Cowell, 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 her Majesti immediately at Balmoral. . - THE 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 tary affairs. The large force now under the com mand of the General has been recently strengthened by the opportune arrival of the 18th 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 tho 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 p& - oposed 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 hate 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 cif 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 foolish as to undertake any such enterprise as this, against a iarge 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 security to the citizens as any ramparts could be. 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 pahs, 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 which the advancing enemy may be securely annoyed—not as fortresses, to be defended for their own sake. The Waikato, 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 of 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 gotashore, 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 (Air. 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 he ad which is left, the body is that of a young man of fair complexion, between 20 and 21 years of age, about Eft. Gin. in height, and very slender. DOVER SAILORS' HOME, Sept. 14.—This mottl 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 care of the superintendent at the Sailors' Home. They 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 ,radon with a free pass in the even'ng • This makes 170 wrecked crews, of different nations, who have been received and succoured at the Dover Sailers' H9lllO. 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 the Con tinent in the course of the day., and her Royal Highness will leave in the evening for Balmoral, vin 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:seeme to have been the ruling amusement of the Prince and Princess during the past week. The weather, though unsettled and showery, has not prevented them enjoying the usual amount of outdoor re creation. The Prince, nothing daunted by the passing showers, persistently pursues his new favourite pastime, deer-stalking, and not unfrequently has he tried the lunge of his more elderly keepers to follow him on the hills in pursuit of gainc. On Saturday week the Prince was out shooting at Invergeldie, 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. an 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 fine titer, 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 that,though 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. Coke has left Aber. geldie as lady•in-waiting, being succeeded by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce.—A berdeen Herald. His Excellency the Turkish Arnbassador left Bryanston-square yesterday for St. Leona rd's-on-Sea, to join Madame Musurus and family. His excellency takes hig departure for Constantinople to-morrow. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio has left Spa, Belgium, for his estate in Italy. His excellency is 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 Wilhelmsthal, 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. THE 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 for Exton Park, the seat of the Earl of Gabas" 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 Huntingfield has arrived at Brown's Hotel. Count Bonde, of Biornii, has arrived at Long'a Hotel from Sweden. The marriage of the noble count with Miss Ida Marryat, daughter of Mr. Horace Marryat, and granddaughter of the late General the Right Hon. Lord Edward Somerset, G.C.8., is fixed to take place on Sat-ar day next. Captain and the Hon. Mrs, Blundell have Te eently left the Portland Hotel. Southsea, for Rome. Madame Tchertkoff, née Countess Krouglikoff, and family have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, from Bournemouth. Count K rouglikoff has also arrived at this hotel. TELEGRAPH TO INDIA COMPANY (LIMITED.)-- The report of the directors, to be submit ted to the proprietors at an extraordinary general meetin g of the company on the 18th of September, 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 p u rpose 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 balance Of £ll5. They state that there is no reason to fear 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 Axiah line referred to in the last report, and a new company lute 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, eze., 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 Phil'. Trans. for 1669 (No. 45). The eye looks through a pinhole at the point of sight, and the hand carries the end of a pointer over the outline to be traced. If this pointer moved en a glass plane it would trace out the picture ; but no plane is interposed—the picture plane, w ith drawing-paper on it, is at the side, and the motion of the pointer, by a sim ple parallel-motion contrivance, is communicated to a pen or pencil. This is the only machine which I happen to have met with for continuous tracing of outline. THE REGISTRATIONS.—The Metropolitan Regis trations have been appointed. Mr. Beall, the barrister, will commence the revision of the lists for the 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 Louden 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 Xist 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 was found in the canal at Pendlebury. It was not identified at the time; Ibut a sister of Mrs. Charles, 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 foind at Pendlebury has been issued by Sir George Grey. _ _ . THE CHANNEL FLEET.—The Channel fleet ar.. dyed 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 bad bet xi entertained by the Mayor of Belfast at a deeuner, and flit y were retnrning by railway to Carrickfergus, when Lieu tenant Gardiner, in spite of the remonstrances of his com panions, got upon the top of the carriage to smoke. This dangerous freak cost him his life. He fell upon the line, and hie head was crushed into a " a shapeless mass." THE STEAM RAMS IN THE NI E ESEY.•—• We ha va authority for stating that the two iron-clad vessels now building at Liverpool will not be allowed to leave that port pending further inquiries, WO until freshl instructions V° , I ~. I , 71 fei Pr be 33 c o In, )43