The Sun. — London, England, 1863-11-13 00:00:00

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (Fr om the Speeicg Correspondent of the Tones) NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Unless the bungling, blundering, eccentricities of American strategists for the hundredth time disap point the world, we are, indeed, on the eve of some great feat of arms in East Tennessee. Gen. Grant, in command. of all the forces stationed in Tennessee, Xentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and p ar t o f West Virginia and North Carolina, is bringing u p as many men as he can muster from distances of 200 and even 500 miles to the rescue of Thomas's army, hemmed in and almost beleagured by Bragg's Southerners at Chattanooga. On the other side, Gen. Lee, having put a spoke in the wheel of the Federal Army of the Potomac by the destruction of the Alexandria. and Orange Railway, is believed to have sent a large division of his troops against Burnside on the borders of West Virginia, while it is stated a portion of Bragg's army threatens the rear of the same Burnside on the Tennessee side. The lat est tidings of the Northerners at Chattanooga were rather disheartening, for their communications wen', cut off in most directions, and provisions could only reach them by a tedious march over a long ar,d wretched mountain road, rendered almost im :passable by recent heavy rains. Lately, however, if we can give credit to a despatch of the 27th, which reached the Cincinnati Gazette on the 29th, a new communication has been thrown open for the benefit of the F e d era l s b e t wee n Chattanooga and Bridgeport, a place d own th e Tennessee river, about 30 miles below the F e deral headquarters , and this was effected by a sudden attack of the Federals, who succeeded, not only in clearing the left bank of the presence of the Southerners, but also in driving them from their commanding position on Lookout Mountain. We have, up to this time, no other account of this combat, which is said to have cost the Federals only five killed and fifteen wounded, than the somewhat meagre telegram in the Cincin. nati Gazette, which, in some unaccountable manner, has in this instance, stolen a march upon the all monopo lising Washington official press. The Army of the Potomac, under Meade, enjoys a happy holiday. Some changes in the position of his tortes are said to have taken place, with a view t o protect the men engaged in the repairs of the damaged railway. The work of construction is :pushed on with great eagerness and 15 miles—i. e, , nearly up to Warrenton J unct i on, are reported as ready for use. General Gilmore seems to have started . up from his prolonged nap at Charleston, and, as if to rouse a ll ot h er sleepers in the neigh: bourb cod, has keen, on the 26th, firing away from Batteries Gregg and Wagner against Forts Sumter and Johnson. It was, however, mere noise, and no hurt. One hundred shots were thrown from Morris Island and 160 from two Monitors which took part in the noisy fireworks. Fort Moultrie thundered in return from th e b es i ege d s id e. I t i s reported that Gilmore is making ready for a bombardment of the cify of Charleston in dread earnest. The New York State election for which the 3d 'lay of November is appointed seems likely to turn out rather a tame affaii It is not about the choice of a new Governor, nor about the return of new members to their Legislature, that parties are now astir, as you are undoubtedly well aware; they are simply contending about the refilling of some magis terial offices and naming a few second rate function aries, a matter rather of personal than of great general interest. Every trifle is welcome, however, which offers the least opportunity for a fight. The Democrats, borne down by the results of the late struggles in Pennsylvania and Ohio, are further *weakened by internal dissensions ; and it is very doubtful whether all the eloquence of Governor Seymour, who is expected to address a grand meet ing at the Cooper Institute tomorrow evening, will have power to give weight and consistency to the Conservative vote. By his indecision and faintheart edness during the riots of last July Mr. Seymour threw away a golden opportunity which will never offer itself again. Moreover he is, or professes him self to be, a Unionist, or partisan of the war, "to the utter subjugation of the South." Now a freak of fortune, eome great calamity in East Tennessee, or some terrific panic in Wall -street, may perhaps open the way for the triumph of the peace-et-all price men of the Fernando Wood and Vallandigham school; but the. views to which Governor Seymou r is wedded are already represented in the Cabinet, and are even supposed to be entertained by the head :itself of the executive power, and are corvequently of no weight as an instrument of opposition. Paced at the top of that see-saw in which the Blair-Seward pertsg are striving to outbalance Mr. Chase, and all the burden of his million greenbacks, President L'.neoln shifts and shuffles with a dexterity little cal ri to confirm the titles of "idiot" and "half witted fellow" with which some journals salute him. Lately he has deemed it good policy to exhibit some leaning towards the Blair faction. These B lairs are a mighty family. They have at their head still living, and from his retirement, still swaying their councils, that Francis P. Blair, son., the right-hand man of Gen. Jackson, " whose tren chant battle-axe hewed down all impediments that stood in old Hickory's way," and who carried the election of that little Dutchman Van Buren, whose glory was limited to "treading in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessor." The Blairs have only one of their name in the Ministry, Mr. Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair, but without the walls they reckon Francis P. Blair, sen., warrior and statesman, in himself a host, a man gifted, it is said, with all the acco mplishments of an Admirable Crichton, stirred b 414 ambition fully commensurate with his abili i;s' l' eB iNviso was said to aspire to Presidential honours, but who, lis t his father, probably considers the position of r of a Ring, Ring -maker tn ognaker far more enviable than that and set of th em, i 8 , 7ho, like his father and the whole conversant with all the machinery, all the ins and outs all the pipes, wires , all the highways and byways, pulleys, and trapdoors, and all the strategy and ta,: eetriycsof every political party in the country, and e Presidential candidate, from the uprising of Old Beek Abe.' " These Blairs, -e-"Y to the advent of ' Old Frank and Montgomery, we are told, are causing the A dministration l a vast deal o en ifies cago ribz f trouble. The Chi completely idt them wi th thsaeysCoth . erh r c c o a u d r s se and the St. Louis D emocrat, a ien s er r " ii P s P black as . the ace of spades," says that they have gone, "hook Coppe r h eads. " li ne , bob, and sink er, over to the , oPPerheads." The real fact is, however, that the Blairs, apart from . any vssaitfharthet scheme they may have of personal a , gerandizement, are peace men, promoters of the found consistent of Pea" on terms that may be any and they are in restoration of the . Union ; drawn knives witt-Mr. Chase and the Radicals, these latter will only hear of peace and of the Union itself conditionally uponi the total and final abolition as n d I s b a y i s b a y b a his n u a o n n s a e leeeart of slavery, The Presiaent, to the Missouri Deputation, and of the measure of the draught, at least for the pre sent, is thought to have ev inced a wish to sn ub the too zealous Republicans, and to let th e signed by sun of his countenance shine upon the Conserva tives. There are letters in circu.l,e.tion, some of Mr. Lincoln's intimate friends in Illinois, d has been for asserting that " the President is, a long time, in favour of peace ;" and hints are he inee thrown out in some eccentric papers tha t sending out trusty messengers, in the guise of ped lars, s scouts, and deserters, to see how the land lies, and acquaint him with any chance that may present itself for negotiation, whether it be with the reb e l chiefe, or with any party among the Southern people which might show any disposition to come to terms. Without attaching the slighest shape of import ance to this idle gossip, I think it is just possible that it may suit the President's present mood to humour the Blairs, and that peacefully inclined sec tion in his Cabinet and among the public at large which, rejecting the " lymphatic" Mr. Seward as a candidate, show a disposition to place him, Mr. Lincoln himself, at the head of the ticket for the next general election. "Secretary Seward and the Blairs," it is already freely blurted out, " have dis covered that the Republican candidate for the suc cession stands six feet three in his stockings, and that his name is Honest old Ab e . , e S great a part of the future destinies of thi s country depend s on t the th u e n w ge a n r, er a o n u d s e vicissitudes of it seems so prob able, in despite of eff arts of the War-office to nip all military vegeta_ tion in the bud—that some successful commander may secure in his favour the suffrage of the multi tude, and be borne on the shields of his followers to the seat successively occupied by the Jacksons and Taylors, heroes of former wars, that the squabbles of these Cabinet schemes would seem to be, to say the least, strangely premature. Their divisions, however, have their own uses, inasmuch as they draw more distinctly the lines between the political parties, among which they seek their support, and may eventually enable °need them so to fix the principles of the Govern ment as to place it on an intelligible and consistent line of policy. The Blair party, the Conservatives, the Union peace men, are strong in numbers at the present time, and would be farther strengthened a few months hence if the snowy curtain of winter were to fall upon the bloody drama of the war be fore any great episode came to relieve its dreary sameness ; or if, in the event of a failure of the pre sent Enlistment Act, the desperate measure of the draught were again to be resorted to. National union is at the top of the thoughts of nine Ameri cans out of ten, but speedy peace would also be popular with the worn out multitude. If those two blessings were to be combined together there cer tainly would be immense rejoicing about the re covery of the strayed Southern sheep and the negro would be the fatted calf immolated to supply the reconciliation feast. Only " how do the Democrats propose to bring about so happy a consummation ?" people inquire. "H ow d o they intend to go to work . There is something vague, utopian in their plans ; they do not tell us how they could negotiate for union with the South, so stubbornly bent on separation ; they do not acquaint us with the ad vances to be made, or the terms which might prove acceptable, to an enemy who gives no sign of laying down his arms ; and they do not reassure us as to their p ower of guaranteeing us against the reproduc tion of effects of which they do not propose to re move the causes. To save both Union and slavery is a very arduous task for the present, and it entails endless difficulties, complications, and new perils for the future." On the other hand the programme of the Repub licans, and of the arrant Radicals among them, is extremely simple and easy. They purpose to carry on the war till they have emancipated the last black by the annihilation of the last white. There is something monstrous and atrocious in their views; but the scheme is not only feasible—it is what is already half done, what is being done day by day. General Butler, the man who goes in New Orleans by the name of "Beast Butler," made himself the mouthpiece of this per fectly consistent and intelligible, though ruthless, set of politicians. At a meeting of the Union State League of Massachusetts, held in Boston on Tues day, the General " took ground with those who be lieve the seceded States have annihilated themselves as States, while the power of the general Govern ment still remains intact over their territory. He combated the position of a member of the Cabinet (Postmaster Blair), that `the rebel commonwealths, by throwing down their arms, should be received into the Union with unimpaired rights, and with their old local institutions.' . . If the Confede rate States were readmitted, and their representa tives took their seats in Congress, before some radi cal change were effected, what guarantee would there be that the Federal National Debt would not be repudiated, or made to stand upon the alternative that the Confederate debt must likewise be paid ? The rebel States must be regarded as de stroyed, or it would be almost impossible to choose another President, for the reason that no candidate likely to be selected would receive such a support in the North as to give him a majority of the whole electoral college, constituted of all the States, both loyal and rebel." You may perceive by this that the ruin of the South is decreed upon principles of mere reason of State, with which the everlasting negro has but little to do. The North has, by Mr. Lincoln's elec tion, reconquerel a supremacy in the Union which had slipped from its hands for nearly a quarter of a century. It is necessary that the South should cease to be, or Northern ascendancy would be im perilled by the tacitly acknowledged fact that the unanimous South would always have it in its power to turn the scales in favour of any of the parties into which the North is hopelessly divided, and with which the South might choose to ally itself. While one orator in Boston appeals to the selfish interests of a coldblooded policy, another in New York strives to stir up the passions of a blind multi tude. Governor Yates, of Illinois, at a large assem blage in the Cooper Institute last evening, indulged in that strong style of invective which has become so common in this country. "If," he said, "in setting aside your Constitution, if in rebelling against your Government, your pet institution, slavery, dies, I say let it die and be damned for ever." And again —" The traitor has only two rights. He has a right to be hung in this world, and a Divine right to ne damned for ever in the next.' , Mr. Yates is a pro found admirer of the President, but was "inclined to find fault with him because he was " slow," did not call out a million of men, and did not put forth his edicts of confiscetioa, emancipation, conscription, &c. He found out, however, after all, that Mr. Lincoln " could not move faster than Providence and God," And when he sent his flaming despatches to the President—" Issue your proclamation of con fiscation, and call out a million of men"—" old Abe" telegraphed back to him, "Dick, hold still, and see the salvation of God." (Tremendous cheering.) Another orator, the Hon. Lewis Barker, said, " We have a missionary spirit in New England. We send Bibles and money and tracts and men for the conversion of the heathen abroad, and we have a home missionary spirit sometimes, and when we fail to convert with the Word, we send bombshells and bullets and bayonets, and we prove our prin ciples orthodox by Apostolic blows. (Laughter.) We propose to convert and bring back our mis guided brethren into the Union, if we have to do it in the way the Methodist missionary made a convert of the blacksmith on the Blue Ridge—he pulled off his coat, and mauled the grace of God into his unbe lieving soul," It is to this odd mixture of unreason, profanity, and utter blasphemy that this church-going, Bible. reading people are becoming accustomed, as they frequent the school of their rabid stump orators. The multitude follows these rhapsodies but too eagerly. The notion that the Union is to be re established by the utter ruin, disfranchisement, and degradation of the "rebel" States gains ground daily, and the only plausible solution of the great national question seems to be that which extreme Radicals recommend. No one can have lived any time in this country without being aware of the immense ground lately gained among all classes of men by the views of the out-and-out Abolitionists. They have no faith in the practicability, and less in the dur a bili ty, o f peace on ot h er t erms ; an d were it poi w sib tt l i et l o stem the mighty tide, and bring the Peo ple b ac k to m i lder v i ews, any comprom i se would come rate. nthe too late to undo the work of destruc tion, as I said, is going on at so tremendous . The news fro October 31. intelligible by tulhiee hattanooga has been made more 27t4 utenorning's despatches. It seems that on the art:eral Smith succeeded in open ing by force o f d and water communica tion between Chatt ati a o lan °n u og th a and Bridgeport, a place below Chattanoogu Tennessee River. By this movement the position eenathe Contedere.tes on the Look-out Mountain was 2, er th als without any 28th it was abandoned to t h e p e a a n g er ed, and on the midnight, attempt at resistance. On the betwSeen General Hooker was attacked by the at Brown's Ferry, on the river, bat?? h ri i dgeport and Chattanooga, and, it is said," repulsed , a nts in grand sty le." m3 light a l ssa st th The fight by till 4 o'clock in t he morning. The conduct of th e d Northern troops is re p orted as " splendid.,, Thel result is the opening of an easy communicatio n for the Federals both by railway and waggon roads and by the river, relieving- them from the worst 4nxieties of their somew hat distressing position. It is remarkable, indeed, that the Secessionists should have given up Look-out .10-antain without firing a shot in its defence; but it is presumable that Bragg had been compelled to weaken himself on this side in order to have it in his power to detach a large division of his forces against Burnside. The Posi tion of the latter Generll b e t w een a part of Lee's -, corps an d a port i on of Bragg's troops, is welt c4l TITh SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13, 1863. culated to create great uneasiness among the friends of the Federal cause. As was anticipated yesterday, Gilmore opened fire against the city of Charleston on the 27th, throw ing large shells containing Greek fire, No results are as yet known. The American papers seem disposed to make a 4 , prodigious fuss" of the reception accorded by the President to Don Matias Ramero, the Envoy Ex. tz e o x r i d a iann Republic . ary and The inis President, terPlenip however,o fotentiaryw the s exceedingly guarded in his expressions of goodwill towards a State with which amicable relations were never interrupted, and towards an Envoy who had won personal regard in his former residence here. The President simply assured M. Ramero that " the people and Government of Mexico had our good will and sympathy," and bade the Envoy welcome to rirashington. No allusion to recent events oc curred in the President's answer, and the Minister had been advised to avoid such topics in his address. It remains to be seen what reception is reserved for the Ambassador of the Emperor Maximilian, when ever that potentate chooses to ask for recognition at the hands of the United States' Government. Mr. Lincoln's policy, as we all know, is " one war at a time." The newspapers, however, are already firing from all their batteries against the French invaders, and vowing vengeance against " the combined des potism and aristocracy of the besotted Old World." I have before me a few specimens of the new " fractional currency," several million dollars' worth of which is about to be iesued by Mr. Chase. They are, if possible, uglier than the crumpled bits of paper they are intended to supersede. They are not green-backed, but red backed for 50c. pieces, and purple-backed for 25c. They bear a vignette, with steamers, mail coaches, locomotive engines, and other emblems of a nation's movement and prosperity. The paper is crisp, and rather flimsy. In the centre, in front, is a gold circle in the shape of a little frame surround ing a likeness of Washington, so clumsily contrived that the great patriot hero seems to be grinning through a horse collar. The value of the piece is very cleverly printed in large figures, also in gold, at the back, The gold is obviously introduced es evidence that precious metals have not altogether and for ever fled the country. Altogether, this new paper money is rather a proof of the ingenuity than of the good taste of the " universal Yankee nation." It is so contrived as to a great extent to defy the forget's skill, but as to its durability—why, it is to be hoped that even the Republic, " one and indivi sible," may have longer life than this new currency with which it will soon be inundated. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL AUTUMN MEETING. THURSDAY. A bright sun and clear atmosphere improved the aspect of affairs this morning, and together with a well-filled card, gave promise of an enjoyable day's sport, which began at 12, or rather would have done so had certain jockeys not been refractory at the post, thereby delaying the start for the first race upwards of half an hour—a crying evil, which no punishment seems able to meet. When they did start, tho course being 3 furlongs and 100 yards, Cutaway re peated her yesterday's performance cleverly. A new race, a Handicap for 3-yr-olds and upwards, afforded a sharp contest between the four placed, Spicebox winning by a length; the other three separated respectively by a head each. The Sefton Handicap, a mile and a quarter, was an agree able change after the half-mile scampers over the T.Y•C• Charming Woman was made the favourite, and led into the straight, where Despair and Alice came up, and a fine race between the three ensued, Alice getting her head first past the chair, and Despair and Charming Woman making a dead heat for second place. An objection was made by Lord Bateman, as well as by Mr. Hart, the owners of Despair and Charming Woman, against the winner on the ground of foul riding, but after hearing evidence the stewards awarded the stakes to Alice. The steeplechase, although not possessing the interest of those held here in the spring, yet brought eight sufficiently well-known horses to the post, including Reporter, the winner of the Worcestershire, Lincoln, Thotnastou n, and others. De Ruyter was made the favourite, but Reporter found many supporters on the strength of his Lincoln and Worcester victories. The race is fully described below, and it is sufficient to say here that Thomastown,De Ruyter, and Reporter were in the front rank throughout, that the first-named took a very commanding lead for some distance after jumping the second fence, but was subsequently passed by De Ruyter, Reporter, and Gla diator, and that on entering the straight the race was left to the two former, Reporter jumping the last fence ahead of his opponent and winning a good race by two lengths, Thomastown, who came with a rush at the last, securing third place. There were no casualties worth reporting ; the Gift alone falling at the first fence, and being out of the race from that point. The Scurry Nursery Handicap of 50 sovs, for two-year olds. 'Winners extra. Three furlongs and 100 yards. 26 subs. Mr Barber's Cutaway, Bst 21b (in. 101 b ex.) (E. Taylor) 1 Mr Hodgman's Virginia, 7st 61b (J. Morris) 2 Mr Peace's Alice Leigh, Est 61b (J. Griinshaw) 3 Mr W. G. Craven's Practitioner, 7st 10Ib (Loates) 4 The following also ran :—Lady Nichol, Usher, Hypatia, Prescription, Lady Mary, Jane Shore, and London. Betting —5 to 1 each agst London, Usher, Cutaway, and Practitioner, 8 to 1 agst Hypatia, and 10 to 1 each agst Lady Nichol and Virginia. A tedious delay of upwards of half an hour took place at the post before Mr. Marshall could get them in order. When the flag was lowered they left the post to anything but a satisfactory start, Hypatia, rearing up at the moment, being left behind. Cutaway with Lady Nichol next the rails were the first to show in advance, followed in the centre of the course by Usher and Virginia, and on the upper ground by Practitioner and Alice Leigh, to the en closure, where Lady Nichol and Usher retired, and Vir•. ginia and Alice Leigh took the second and third places, but without having a chance of reaching Cutaway, who won in a canter by three lengths, Virginia defeating Alice Leigh by a neck ; Practitioner finished next half a length in their rear, Lady Nichol was fifth, and Prescription next. The last three (who got badly off) were London, Jane Shore, and Lady Mary. A Sweepstakes of 3 sous each, with 30 sous added, for two and three-year-olds ; 2-yr-olds, 7st ; 3-yr-olds, Bst 81b ; with maiden allowances. The winner to be sold for 50 soya. T.Y.C. 7 subs. Mr Hart's Jenny Wren, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (H. Grhnshaw) 1 Mr Kenyon's Lord Dundreary, 3 yrs, Bst 51b.... (Dixon 2 Mr J. Peace's Crisis, 3 yrs, 7st 111 b (Hoystead) 3 Mr R. Riddell's Deerstalker, 2 yrs, Get 611) (J. Grimshaw) 4 Betting—Even on Jenny Wren, and 2 to 1 agst Deer stalker. They ran throughout as placed by the judge, Jenny Wren with a slight lead, which she retained to the end, and won easily by a length and a half, Lord Dundreary beating Crisis by half a length for second ; a bad fourth. The winner was sold to Mr Luche, and goes to Prussia. A Handicap Plate of 30 soya, for 3-yr-olds and upwards ; ruled the objection, and gave the race to the owner of Alice (by Lord of the Isles). The Liverpool Autumn Steeplechase (Handicap) of 100 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya each. Winners extra. About three miles. Mr F. Symond's Reporter, 4 yrs, list Mr Holman ns De Ruyter, 6 yrs, 105 t.... (G. Holman) 2 Mr M`Naghten's Thomastown, aged, list 41b (Brotherick) 3 Mr Bennett's Gladiator, aged, lOst 121 b.. , . (W. White) 4 The following also ran :—Lincoln, Maid of Perth, The Gift, and South Australian. Betting-5 to 2 agst De Ruyter, 3to 1 agst Reporter, 5 to 1 agst Lincoln, and 6 to 1 agst Thomastown. Immediately the flag was lowered, Gift, in company with Thomastown, De Ruyter, and Gladiator, appeared in front, with the others lying up ; but as they came across the com mon De Ruyter took a clear lead, followed by Gift, Thomas town, and Lincoln, to the bushed fence opposite the Stand, which the leader refused, and in so doing caused those be hind him to follow suit, the first to get over being Thomas town, who was quickly followed by Reporter, South Aus tralian, Gladiator, Maid of Perth, De Ruyter, and Lincoln, and then came Gift, some distance in the rear. In these positions they cleared the water jump without a mistake, with the exception of Gift, who dropped her hind quarters into it, and seat the spray glittering in the air. Rounding the stable turn, Thomastown considerably increased his lead, and as they entered the meadows he was upwards of half a dozen lengths in advance of Reporter, who was closely followed by De Ruyter, Gladiator, South Australian, and Lincoln, Gift beinging up the rear, in which way they crossed the ploughed land, the leader taking a line to the left, the others going somewhat to the right. Approaching Valentine Brook, De Ruyter ran past his horses and assumed the command, Thomastown going over second, Reporter third, with Gladiator and South Australian, side by side, next. Gift, who followed, being out of it, was pulled up and returned home. Little or no alteration in these posi tions occu red until clearing the fence by the canal bridge, which the leadieg horses cleared nearly together, Thomas town with a slight advantage, which he retained to the turn into the straight, where Lincoln was beaten, and in a few strides further the leader was joined by Reporter, De Ruyter and Gladiator, who reached the flight of hurdles at the dis tance nearly together. Reporter and De Ruyter, however, being the quickest, cleared them in advance, came on toge ther, the former with a slight lead, which he held to the end, and won a good race by two lengths ; a like distance between the second and third. Thomastown, coming with a rush in the last few strides, obtained the third position, four lengths in advance of Gladiator. South Australian was hitt. Lincoln and Maid of Perth did not pass the post. The Hunters' Stakes of 40 sovs for bona fide hunters which have been regularly hunted a, least six times, with any established pack of stag or fox-hounds in the United kingdom. Three-yr- olds, lOst 61b ; 4-yr-olds, 12st; -yr olds, 12st 81b ; 6-yr-olds and aged, 12st 121 b. A winner of any race 71b extra. Thorough-bred horses 141 b extra. Gentleman riders. Entrance 2 soya. Mile and a half, starting opposite the stables. 13 subs. Mr Saxon's The Monk, 6 yrs, 13st (inc. 71b extra) (Mr. G. S. Thompson) 1 Mr Ashworth's Zeloo, 3 yrs, cOst (inc. 71b extra) _ (Mr. Wood) 2 Mr R. Thorpe's Emblem, 4 yrs (h b), 12st (Mr. Bamford) 3 Betting-4 to lon The Monk. Zeloo, making use of his weight, made a strong running, followed by Emblem and the favourite, to the half distance, where the latter got up in the last few strides, and won a fine race by a head. Emblem, who ran out at the bottom turn, was beaten off a long way. The Helter Skelter Stakes of 5 sous each, with 40 soya added. Two-yr•olds, 7st 71b; 3-yr-olds, 9st 31b; 4 •yr olds, lOst; 5-yr-olds and upwards, lOst 51b. Winner to be sold for £6O ; if entered to be sold for £4O allowed 51b ; £3O, 101 b ; and £2O, 141 b. Winner to be sold by auction, and any surplus over the selliag price to go to the fund. Six furlongs. 11 subs. Mr Yardley's Mrs. Nesbett, 2 yrs, Est 41b (£2O) (Carroll) 1 Mr T. Hughes' Pilot, 4 yrs, Sit 61b (£20)..(D. Hughes) 2 Lord Westmoreland's Annington, 2 yrs, Ost 21b (£2O) (Morris) 3 Mr G. S. Thompson's Prairie Flower, 3 yrs, Bst (£2O) (Owner) 4 The following also ran :—Telseombe, Saltant, Atlas, and Contractor. Betting—Even on Mrs. Nesbitt, and 6 to 1 each agst Psi )t and Annington. Pilot with the favourite laid together to the half-dis tance, where the latter got her head in front, and won cleverly by a neek ; Annington was third, three lengths in their rear; Prairie Flower was a bad fourth; the next lot comprised Telscorube, Saltant, Contractor, and Atlas. The winner was bought in for 200 guineas. A Handicap Plate of 50 sovs, for all ages. A winner after the publication of the weights (October 30, at 10 a.m.) 71b extra. Entrance 2 sovs. About six furlongs. 24 subs. Mr C. Peck, jun.'s Bernice, 5 yrs, 7st 12Ib (E. Harrison) 1 Mr R. Rich's East Lancashire, 3 yrs, 6st 11Ib (Connor) 2 Mr H. Goatees Poland, 3 yrs, 7st lib Mr Saxon's Amazonian, 3 yrs, Get Miss Livingstone, Zaleika, and Mousetrap also ran. Betting-5 to 4 agst Bernice, 4to 1 agst Polaud, 6to 1 agst Amazonian, and 8 to 1 agst Miss Livingstone. Poland jumped away with a clear lead, and wilh Amazonian, East Lancashire, and the favourite lying up, made the running to the distance, where the favourite came out and won cleverly by a length—a neck between the second and third, a like distance separating the third and fourth. Mousetrap was fifth, the two last wet e Zuleika and Miss Livingstone, have unfastened the front door from the inside to let himself out; the lock might have been picked from the outside. Witness found some Brazil nuts under the broken window. Miss Gorman, recalled, said that she had thrown the Brazil nuts at the window to make the Grieves hear. She must have thus broken the window. The Coroner said that although the persons who were disturbed in robbing the house of the deceased had, perhaps, no settled intention of killing her, by their violence they had caused her death, and they were therefore guilty of wilful murder. The police had so little present prospect of bringing the murderers to justice, that he considered a verdict of wilful murder against some persons unknown might as well be returned at once, without an adjournment. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown," The proceedings then terminated. winners extra. T.Y.C. 14 subs. Captain Christie's Spicebox, 6 yrs,7st Gib (J. Grimshaw) 1 Lord Uxbridge's Erythia, 3 yrs, bat slb (Loates) 2 Mr T. Hughes's Vigil, 4 yrs, 6st 71b (car 6st 91b) (Morris) 3 Mr E. A. Watson's Wetsail, 4 yrs, 7st 61b . Covey) 4 Confidence, Cutler, Rupture, Who's Who, Reviver, Acorn, and Atlas also ran. _ _ Betting-9 to 4 agst Vigil, sto 2 agst Confidence, 7to 1 agst Spicebox, and 10 to 1 azst Wetsail. Confidence, in the centre, jumped away with a slight lead of Erythia and Vigil, and made play to the distance, when they were joined on the whip hand by Spicebox and Wet sail, the lot running nearly in a line to the stand, where Confidence dropped back and his place taken by Spicebox, who won a fine race by a length, a head only dividing the second and third, a similar distance between the third and fourth, Confidence finishing fifth, close up, Who's Who was sixth, Atlas, Cutler, and Rupture next, succeeded by Re viver, who was extremely fractious proceeding to the post, and threw his rider, but who was soon remounted. The Sefton Handicap of 100 soya, added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Winners extra. Mile and a quarter. 34 subs. Mr Temperley's Alice, 3 yrs, Est 41b .. (Loates) 1 Mr T. Hunt's Charming Woman, 4 yrs, 6st Bib (Neale) t Lord Bateman's Despair, 4 yrF, Tat 121 b (in 81b extra) (H. Grimshaw) Mr. Saxon's The Monk, 6 yrs, Bst 2lb (Midgiey) 4 Colonel Towneley's Newchurch, 3 yrs, 6st 41b.. (Carroll) 5 Mr Redhead's My Mary, 4 yrs, fist 101 b.... (Clarkson) 6 Betting-5 to 4 agst Charming Woman, 3to 1 agat De • spair, 6 to 1 agst My Mary, 7 to 1 agat The Monk, and 100 to 8 agst Alice. The lead was taken shortly after etarting by Charming W T h o e rn A a l n o , n w k h , o p made r p 7 l a N y e a w t c a hu slow reh pf a c n e f o A I o y w i‘ e i d a r b y y i A n i t c h e e , order we h av e g i ven th em , a n d which positions they re • tained to the Canal-bridge, where Alice ma up to the f avourite and in a few strides further she obtained a de cided ad vantage, The Mon k t hi r d , w i t h D espa i r at his quarters. On entering the straight Newchurch dropped back and joined My Mary in the rear. At the distance Mr Saxon's horse was in trouble, and shortly after beat a retreat; Grinashaw at the same time brought up Despair between the two leaders, but at the moment Alice hung so much upon the favourite that he was compelled to pull back and come up on the outi,ide, the three finishing a close and exciting race home, Alice winninc , in the last stride by a head ; a dead hat for second ; The Monk was a bad fourth. At the scale an objection was made to Alics by the riders of the " dead heaters" for foul riding, hut the stewards over- ALLEGED MURDER. Last evening Mr. W. Carter, coroner for Surrey, held an inquiry at the Anchor and Hope Tavern, Southampton street, Camberwell, respecting the death of Mrs. Mary Wat son, otherwise Gorman, aged 59 years. Captain Webster Wedderburn said he was fo merly captain in the 4th Royal Irish Dragoons. He had sold out, and was now living on his means. He resided at No. 13, Addington •square, Camberwell. He lived with the accessed. She was his housekeeper for 20 years. Her name was Mary Gorman and she was 56 years of age. On the evening of the 27th October he was out. When he returned home he found the house in the possession of the police. He had only been absent about an hour. The deceased was lying on the sofa insensible. Miss Watson was in the room, as were also two police-con stables. Miss Watson was the daughter of the witness, and the deceased. The deceased had a terrible contusion on the temple and a black eye. She had no such injuries befot a the witness west out. The witness and deceased lived as Mr. and Mrs. Watson. Miss Ellen Mary Gorman said that she was the daughter of last witness. On the evening of Tues day, the 27th of October, she returned home at about six or half-past 6 o'clock. She had been out all the afternoon. The witness, in about 10 minutes after her return home, went into the back garden, accompanied by her mother. They noticed a light in the back room upstairs of the adjoining house (No. 14), occupied by Mr. Grieves. It was Mr. and Mrs. Grieves',bedroom that the light was in. The deceased imagined that Mr. Grieves and family had returned home, and she said, "It is strange they did not thank me for looking after their house while they were out." The Grieves had asked her to look after the house while they were absent at the funeral of a relative. The witness knocked at the back pailings dividing the two gardens, but no answer being returned the deceased said she would go to the front. She went away for that purpose, closing the door after her. Witness remained in the back. Some little time after a boy knocked at the door and told witness that her mother had fainted. Witness closed the door, as she did not believe what the boy said, her mother being so well a moment before. Shortly after a ring of the bell caused her to open the door. Her mother came in and said, " Stay with me, or they will murder me." She fell down in the passage. The witness saw that she was very much confused and almost insensible. She ran next door to Grieves' gate, and saw a policeman there. He and another policeman returned with her to deceased, and they lifted her on to the sofa. She was insensible and breathed very hard. A doctor was sent for. The next morning witness saw that she had a black eye. The deceased said that when she knocked at Mr. Grieves's door she heard some one coming downstairs. She thought it was Miss Grieves, andshe said through the keyhole, " It's only me, don't mind coming down." The door was then opened, and two men knocked her down. They did it so instantaneously that she had no opportunity of seeing who they were. The deceased became again unconscious on the following Saturday, and remained insensible till her death on Sunday last. The front door of Mr. Grieves' house was a few yards down a passage leading from the front garden gate. The witness had no relatives in England. She had a half sister and a half brother in Paris. She saw the latter about six weeks ago. The family were not on goad terms with him. Her mother did not at any time say she knew who struck her. Mr. G. Taylor, surgeon, said that he was called to the deceased on the morning. after the occurrence. She complained of headache. Her right eye was very much blackened, apparently from a blow from a fist. Dangerous symptoms set in on the Ist or 2d of November. They had not been before immediately alarming, but they were always more or less dangerous. She died on Sunday morning. The post mortem examina- HAI, in witness's opinion, showed that the cause of death was the blow which had been inflicted on her. He had no doubt that her death arose from external violence. Miss Mary Grieves said that she lived with her father and sister at 14, Addington• square. On the 27th of last month wit ness and her father left home at half-past 11 o'clock. Her sister was at the residence of her late brother, and they all went to his funeral. The witness locked up the house. The front gate was locked and the windows were fastened, but the shutters were not shut. The witness took the keys with her. She returned at 10 o'clock and found that the house had been entered. The front gate and front door was open. A pane of glass was broken in the back kitchen window , next to the drop catch. A person could have entered there, but those that examined the premises believed that no entry had been effected. The witness found that a variety of things had beeni removed. Some rings, brooches, trinkets, and silver spoons, and some clothing had been taken. She saw none of those articles since. A hat and a jemmy were left behind by the persons. They were found in the garden by a policeman. By the Coroner--Witness told deceased that she was going from home that day, and requested her to listen at the back, to see that nothing happened. Witness didlnot think that there was any access from one garden to another. If a person had entered the house from the back he could THE RECENT MURDERS. Very few facts of any importance besides those already known have come to light since yesterday. The story told by the cabman who carried the Hunts from Camberwell to Shoreditch, that Mrs. Hunt called at the chemist's shop on the way, has been investigated by the police. It turns out that Hunt stopped the cab at a chemist's near Worship street, and directed Mrs. ,Hunt to purchase an ordinary draught and a medicine-glass out of which to drink it. The circumstance is well remembered by the chemist in conse quence of Hunt sending back the medicine glass to be changed for one with a foot. The post mortem examination of Hunt's body was made yesterday by Dr. Puckle, assisted by Mr. Flower, the divisional surgeon of the P division. The appearances presented by the different organs are indi cative of poisoning by aconite. One of the symptoms of poi soning by this powerful drug are mental hallucinations, which may possibly account for many of the apparently pur poseless falsehoods told by Hunt before his death. Aconite, or rather the poisonous alkaloid contained in it, aconitine, is exceedingly difficult of detection by chemical means, its action being somewhat uncertain and obscure; the proof of its presence in Hunt's body will consequently rest upon the symptoms before death, and the physiological appearance of the different organswhich wereexaminedat the post mortem examination. A cheesenionger in the neighbourhood states that on Saturday afternoon Hunt's eldest girl called at his shop for a small quantity of butter, saying they did not re quire more as they were all going into the country. The poor child seemed delighted at the prospect of the trip, and bade good-bye to a little acquaintance who happened to be in the shop at the time. Nevertheless, from the appearance of Hunt's house, the journey seems to have been suddenly conceived and carried out. The inquest on Hunt's body will be held to-day at half-past 10, at the Rose and Thistle ta vern, Warner-road, Camberwell New-road. Dr. Lankester and the foreman of the jury that sat on the bodies of Mrs. Hunt and the children at St. Mary's Hospital, on Monday, will be present. (Front the Lancet) The suicide of the man who accompanied the unfortu nate persons found poisoned in a cab, under circumstances which have produced e.o profound an impression of horror on the public mind, hardly diminishes in any degree the necessity for carefully prosecuting the inquiry as to the actual cause of death in those cases. Indeed, by closing the only course from which direct information might probably have been obtained at fist hand, it gives additional im portance to the inferences drawn from the physical ap pearances and cheraical reactions of the tissues removed for examination by the order of the coroner, Dr. Lankester. The stomach and other of the viscera have by his direction been placed in the skilled hands of Dr. Matthiessen, F.R.S., and Dr. John Randall, the professors of chemistry and medical jurisprudence at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, and are now undergoing analysis. Their evidence will be given at the adjourned inquest early next week. The inquiry is still incomplete, but enough has been done, we believe, to determine the nature of the poison, with certainty, in the case of the mother, The stomach, we learn, presented a general condition of pink congestion, with three spots of the characteristic " plum-coloured" extravasation, each about the size of a sixpenny piece, near the lesser curvature, at its posterior aspect. After distil ling over the contents, which were only about an ounce and a• half of a syrupy fluid, of treacly colour, the affir mative tests for hydrocyanic acid, with silver sulphide of ammonium and the " iron test," were applied, and the characteristic reactions obtained. Hence it may be accepted as true that the woman was poisoned with prussic acid. With a view to ascertain whether it was really ad ministered in beer, the presence of alcohol in the stomach will also be quantitatively determined. It has been sug gested that the mixing of prussic acid with beer might be a work of some difficulty, inasmuch as the prussic acid, being of much less specific gravity, would float on the surface ; but this would not be the case with the mixed acid probably used under such circumstances. It was considered possible that a solution of cyanide of potassium had been employed, as this poison has similar reactions and properties ; but Dr. Matthissen has applied a test with the view of ascertaining that fact, and we believe the conclusion on that score at which he has arrived is ne gative. The analysis of the contents of the stomach of the children is yet incomplete. In addition to the parts of the mother and children, some pewter pots, a cork, and three cakes and figs found in the possession of the children will be examined. And, in the first instance, the physiological test will be employed of feeding some small animals with parts of these cakes and figs. Little, however, can be ex pected from the examination of powters, as the man is said to have emptied the pot after handing the beer to those sit ting in the cab, and some of them, at least, were used in the course of trade during the evening. When all has been done there will still remain in connexion with this case se veral features of a remarkable kind and difficult to explain ; for if it be assumed that the three persons were poisoned by the hydrocyanic acid conveyed in beer, it is difficult to see why some one of the three did not take alarm at perceiving the sudden effect which must have immediately followed the drinking of the beer in the others. The further examination of the contents of the stomachs of the children will be awaited with interest. The entire absence of any alarm given to the driver, or any appearance of a struggle, is a fact of importance in juridical science. Railway Directors in the French Corps Legislatif. I❑ the Corps Legislatif on Monday M. Emile 0 iivier formally announced toe determination which the Opposition had come to not to raise the question of the incompatibility of railway directors to sit in the house. His short speech is very impor tant. He said, apropos of the election of M. La croix St. Pierre for the Daubs : I do not oppose this election, although M. Lacroix St. F ierre is a railway director, and it has been argued else where that such a position is incompatible with the func tions of a deputy. It is for the dignity of the house thtit an objection of this kind having been strongly insisted on out of doors should be distinctly answered here. Now, in my own name, and in that of several of my colleagues, I am here to express an opinion that this pretended incompatibi lity does not exist. The argument is that Art. 81 of the law of 1849 is not expressly repealed; and that Art. 2 of the decree of'lBs2—which only in a general way repeals all former laws inconsistent with itself—does not affect this law of 1849, It is further urged as a matter of public po licy, that there is something repugnant in a deputy being entrusted in that character with the duty of overlook ing himself in the character of a director of a company privileged by the State. I do not deny that there is something in this worthy the consideration of the Legis lator—if not with regard to railway directors, at least with regard to Government contractors. But we have not to make a new electoral law at this moment. And, dealing with the law as it stands, we think it clear that the law of 1819 is repealed by the decree of 1852. Art. 26 of that decree says that all electors 25 years old and upwards are eligible without any condition of domicile. This positive enactment evidently does away with all anterior incapaci ties. lam happy that the Opposition has had the oppor tunity at this cur first sitting to show by an act what is the attitude it means to assume in the Chamber. The attitude will never be either annoying or violent, but on the contrary, loyal and high-minded ; for we feel that one of the privi leges of right principles is to have no need to resort to equivocal and blameable means. - This speech was marked by loud applause from all parts of the house. Naws has, however, transpired since that one of the bureaux of which MM. Marie and Picard are members does not take the same view as M. 011i vier of the decree• of 1852, as having repealed all incompatibilities not expressly mentioned in it. This bureau, by a majority of 12 against 8, is un derstood to have voted that the Marquis d'Avrin court, one of the Emperor's chamberlains, is, on account of his office, incapacitated from sitting in the Chamber. STAMFORD ST. SIMON AND ST. JUDE FAIR.— r his great annual fair commenced on Monday, and was brought to a close on Tuesday, The cattle fair on Tuesday was pretty well supplied with mulch cows, store beasts, &c. There was a fair demand, and good prices were obtained. M.lch cows, £l5 to £2O ; barren cows, £7 to £l4 per head. The show of sheep was rather abundant, and a satisfactory amount of business was done at full prices— ewes, 40s to 50s; shearlings, 508 to 635; lambs, 25s to 36s each. Horses were in limited supply, and good animals were very scarce. The best cart cart horses made £lO to £l5; colts, £2O to £2B each. [ADVERTISE3eENTI—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.-- Gout, Rheumatism, and Sciraica.—These maladies are always more or less connected with disorder or disease of the digestive organs—hence the facility with which they yield to Holloway's remedies. Temporary alleviation re• sponds immediately to the proper application of this .sooth ing Ointment to the pained or inflamed. part, while the Pills internally reduce the digestive functions to ord . er, and arrest all inflammatory tendenckas: I,!ervous invalids will derive ease and consolation from the influence of these medicaments, which are free from mercuryand all noxious ingredients. Holloway's celebrated Ointment and Pills present, at a trifling outlay, the. means of preserving the health o uprooting d i seasFB which have assailed ihe body through r accident, luxury, indolence, or other causis, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS TVAEs.—The customs and the law of all the world are very suspicious of absolutely gratuitous proceed ings. They endeavour to protect the simple, and to protect themselves against those who are not so sim ple, who appear before the world as spontaneous movers and disinterested benefactors. There must be some wisdom in a universal prejudice founded on a common instinct and dictated by Nature. No doubt, law itself discovers that the property and rights within its cognizance are transmitted much better in the order of descent, affinity, alliance, purchase, and other secular causes, than by the more ca pricious and impulsive rule of private or public benevolence. So a man is aways supposed to have an interest, an object, or a duty capable of definition and measurement. When men enter a meeting, they innst have a known ground of interest or duty to stand upon. When a man appears as a deliverer of his conscience, or a messenger from Heaven, he unites against himself all who are conscious of a more humble footing, and who are content to be so taken. Even law itself is at a disadvantage when it interposes without extreme necessity to reconcile or reduce to order, those who think they have really something to quarrel about. Such is the weak and odious position which England is invited to take in a European Congress. She can only appear with high-sounding moralities addressed to persons who are not moralizing, but playing a game of prizes and forfeits. In such a company England will always be as the stranger who intruded himself among them, and must needs be their judge. If we could imagine a man taking his post in a country fair, and preaching the moral duties of horse delling, that would be our case in a Congress. The man who is most respected in that sphere is he who gets the most, or pays the least, for a given animal. If England is ever to enter a European Congress without more than the present occasion, she must either be en idle listener or she must rake the office of preacher and adviser. Her position will be at once difficult and invidious. She has certainly a large budget of suggestions, but she will have to wait for opportunity and willing ears. We give a great deal of our time to business, and very little to preaching and praying ; and the latter is about the proportion of talk that England is likely to have in a Congress—that is, so long as she confines herself to her original footing as a perfectly disinterested and unprejudiced adviser. Indeed, if she is perfectly consistent, and so con tinues, she will come under the spirit of her own law which forbids the presence of a " spiritual per son" in her leading House of Legislature. The general impulse of the crew will be to throw the trou blesome prophet to the mercy of the storm, which his presence will be supposed to have created. But the discomfort of an unmitigated unpopularity will remedy itself by a worse evil ; and, that she may not be abused and insulted by everybody, England will naturally seek the friendship of some, and, therefore, the enmity of others. The bad position of a representative who represents nothing but the public opinion of his country, and some harsh con clusions upon the conduct of its neighbours, will itself be an element in the materials of intrigue, and will be used by those who can use everything to their purpose. Every time the British Represeeta tive receives a rebuff, he will be driven to seek that sympathy which even the severe and impracticable sometimes require. In the years 1814 and 1815 England brought to the Congress immense sacrifices already ma le, and professions that required no proof. She had done all that she could, and nothing remained but to offer the moral of the tale which for twenty years had been sounded in the ears of all nations. But when she had done everyt hin g even to refunding as much as if had been the con quered instead of the conqueror, she found herself a mere shadow of the past. Mortified and out of temper, she quarrelled as all the rest did, and was on the point of an alliance with France against Russia, when Napoleon threw away his own chance by escaping from Elba, and taking the game once more into his own hands. It is impossible to say what England may be driven to do when she finds her words received with contemptuous neglect. It is said to be a reason against war that it is like a ball, in which though you know your first partner you do not know your last; but if a nation enters a Congress with no partner at all, it is still less able to foresee what may change its resolution. The worst of all solitudes is to be a.one in a crowd, and even the assumption of superiority does not make it agree able. Yet what will the British Representative be able to do in his original character but sit en his throne of opinion and proclaim those maxims of justice and piety the sound of which, according to the poet, aggravates the torments of the damned ? His first appearance in the Congress will be simply as one of those statues which, speechless and blind, hold their idle scales over the heedless mob of a market or an exchange. We know how little power the works of the mightiest artiste have to overawe the living conscience or palsy the rude hand. So the statue will have to grow warm, to flush, to throb, to move, to descend from its pedestal, and take a part in the work before it. That is what the British Representative will most certainly do, and neither people nor statesmen can say what he will not do, what partnership he will not make, whose game he will nor clay, and wnether when all is over the East or the West, the North or the South, Sovereigns or nations, will have most reason to thank him. But even if it were possible to preserve a proud supe riority to parties and interests, and to carry out the character of umpire, that is the very character already assumed by the Sovereign who opens the proposed Congress. Even that barren dignity is denitd us, and, haa ing nothing to gain in a sub stantial sense of the word, we find the honours of impartiality claimed by another. France is to be the iEitus who governs the winds; France, the Jove who distributes with equal justice the warning nod and avenging brand. Napoleon 111. proclaims to Europe what we have been proclaiming in every mode possible in a country and with a Constitution such as ours. By a dexterous obtrusion of his per sonal history he points out that, of all Sovereigns he is the one best qualifi-d to instruct, to conciliate, and do all 9.lse necessary to a European settlement. He alone has played all honourable parts, suffered exile, confinement, poverty and contempt ; endured the threats and malignity of all parties and powers ; and he alone is capable of entering into all feelings and wants, understanding all difficulties, and media ting between the direst antipathies and the fellest antagonisms. How can England, stable, well-to-do, and tranquil, always rich, and always the same, pretend to vie with a man raised by Providence for the very purpose ? There is only one thing wanting to complete the proof of a mission which makes such demands o❑ our homage, and even credulity. It is that this almost preternatural personage should have shown himselt exempt from the foibles which mark the common herd of successful adventurers. But though France may be glad for the moment to overlook a few excesses of power, some trifling annexations, and a policy of aggrandisement, neither we nor the rest of Europe can forget so complacently. What we see in France is the man of violence, not the founder of a temple of justice and peace. Yet the last is the character claimed in this address to the Sovereigns of the Old World. Not even is this to be ours. What, then, shall we have to do in this Congross, should it ever be more than an ideal con oeption ? There is no place left to us. The honours of peace and war, of abounding mercy and prevail ing strength, of conception and execution, of a humble bearing and a magnificent nospitality, are all to attach by natural gravitation to France. We should not grudge her anything that would make her happy and contented, if only because we know not how soon her fortunes may be ours ; but we must still ask what part is left us by this ambitious performer, and in what guise we are to enter the scene. We might be content with even a second or a third rate part, but we are left with none at all. DAILY NEWS--The discussion which has fol lowed the French Emperor's speech has established a few points of which in the present state of nego tiations it may be useful to take note :-1. The pro posal of a Congress is made without the assignment of any adequate reason. The grounds put forward to justify it are unreal and factitious. An imaginary danger is :pretended in order to give effect to the recommendation of a cherished project, offered as a safeguard. Ile proposal of a Congress is not founded in the condition or the requirements of Eurbpe, but in the personal character of the Em peror of the French. 2. The Congress, as pro posed to the Governments of Europe, is without definite aims and objects ; it is a court to which all the passions, ambitions, and rivalries of the world are to be invited, but which will harveessnyy of no power o r to control them. It is, th erefore, well ada p te d to become a focus of intrigiusec,aannedd expressly nursery 3. The Congress of 1864 the work of that of 1815, and, to mark the Antago nism more distinctly, as that was held at Vienna, this is to sit at Paris . In order to efface tu e acts of the Congress of Vienna, that of Paris must assume in the name of peace and " the legitimate aspira tions of peoples " a power not inferior to that as sumed by the other in the n ame of victory. Less right cannot be attributed to generous sentiment than to the conquering sword. Paris must therefore t a k e to itself l a ' u h t e ho C r o i n ty gr t e o ss re o - f re distribute territories and dominions, with or with oh ht, thee c i o d n ea se o n f t i o ts f tanepnutbolif publication in a Paris, p atuhtehir possessors, or it will not or. Without the remarue of Europe, foreshad owe d i n man y even to comparein p th o e rt C so on oo gr w es i s th w t i h ll a n t o w t h b i e o a h bl i e t is designid to eclipse. oa the tlm ,i;ogphas set his mind on a 4. It is moat unlikely that oeroth.s c r of the h French f 4racter without living provided, by arrangements with one or more other F Sisv'eThrse for the success of his undisclosed Plana- de claim of a Congress to the exercise of power, 1a ;ions quate to a " supreme arbitrament" in the q nes which the ambition of sovereigns and states LT.t., bring before it, is certain to be resisted by those wh may be prejudicially affected by it ; and thus goni sms will arise, alliances and counter-allialle" 7 will be formed, and the Congress will have diveken; Europe into hostile camps. In the pr.aaent state 0 1 Europe these, and such as these, would the dencies of a Congress like that propo.ied by da tiger Emperor of the French. They constitute a' greater far than any which, apart from thoJnl cad be said to threaten Europe. On the other side, a n f to allay alarm, we are told of the pacific id,"sa ° t Napoleon 111. Nobody has the slightest doubt tho_ bo the ten the Emperor of the French desires and inte,od° peace—that is to say, if the world will let him ba le his own way, he will not make war for war's sake' Further than this his Majesty's antecedents do n et warrant us in extending our confidence. The dein"' stration, at recurrent periods, of his p re dominan ce in Europe is for him a domestic necessity. Itt is for Frenchmen the compensation for til a privation of liberty in which they so strange ], acquiesce. If the Emperor's ascendancy can be established peaceably, well ; but it not, still it lun ar " be established, and that in a manner patent to all. the world. Before this overwhelming necessity 011 mere sentiment gives way. The fact does not c o ' cern England nearly so much as other countries; We do not live from day to day on assure flees . or the influence we exercise in this or that foreige, capital. Batons external policy is founded on of the rights of others, and we know that there 15 a point at which pressure such as the French ET,: peror seeks to exert becomes unendtwable, and lot': to war. The British Government he.s a most seTict duty ° to perform in deciding on the answer to b respec,k returned to the Emperor's overture; ht:t its con ro e : we imagine, cannot be very doubtful. The Enl, 9e ror's proposal, though in many points obiectio nabl!, should be examined with a view to ascertiOu whether it is capable of modification,so as t o become the starting poitit of a work useful to Eurore• British Government cannot be expected toe 'rob e- a on a p )liFy of adventure. We ought to know, i 1 0 1 1/ : t othey things, whether any limitation of thest of discussion will be admitted, and what is its , ciple. We ought to know, moreover, what wi. (. 1 ", held to be the position before the Congress of ° power unwilling to make the sacrifices which m be required of it. When war has placed some oft. '} parties to a Congress in a position to exact, an others in a position to yield, concessions, the recoil' structive work of diplomacy Las a basis in fact ; but this is not the situation of the Powers now con' yoked. No general necessity furnishes a guarantee of general consent' For himself, the Emper or Na" poleon may easily promise magnanimity and mod e ,: ration, because it is well understood th a t , althongi : France may gain much in this Congress, she is 1 1 °,,' to be asked to give anything. The difficulty vil y ' arise entirely out of the situation of other Stao' The English Government certainly cannot attribut e to the Congress power to override the rights c' sovereign States, and if the intention todo so exist l4 and the combinations are prepared beforehand, vi e shall do better to stay away. We can not lend oC sanction to acts of aggression, past , pr esent, or tt: come, with whatever specious sentiments o r imPas, ing show of authority it may be sought to cove' them. The Emperor Napoleon will be asked, ther e 'a fore, to present his scheme in a more definite as appreciable form, with guarantees for t he respe et t due to international riots; and upon the' nature °, his answer the decision of the British Goa•ernraen" will depend. COUNTRY MARKETS. -•1 MANCHESTER—TunusDAv. ,; ( 1 At our market this morning the attendance was ge lod. wheat, both English and foreign, was held with much 1219' ness, but mil era showed very little disposition to. Flour was in very limited inquiry, at the prices of tb se'nuight. Oats and oatmeal fully as dear, but with 0 , 1 ? ,0 a moderate demand. Beans about former values. WO corn the turn in favour of buyers. BRISTOL--ThuusPAY. ad We had a good supply of English wheat to-day, a, sales freely made, last Thursday's prices being suppoiV Foreign more in demand at Is more money. Malting b''''to ley unchanged in value; grinding sorts gave way 6d t o e per qr. Oats a slow sale. Beans and In dian corn sv neglected. —THURSDAY. Wheat was in fair BIRMINGHA supply M to-day, and all dry sanciP le : found buyers at fully last week's rates. Barley as bolo English wheat was sold at 44 s t o 48s for white, It'll, to to 44s per 36 stone for red. Barley , new malting, o'6oo 42s per qr ; grinding, 26s to 30 s O ats, old, 24s to 7 t, per 30 stone • ' Irish, 21s to:2ss. Beans , 40s to 44s per q Peas, 36s to 44s per 36 stone. EDINBURGH GRAIN—Nov. 11. A large supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which met 1 fair sale at fully the prices of last week. Barley in go o sale, and prices unaltered. Beans were s low. Oats wet° sold well, at rather more money. do wn , Wheat on the top 68 Od up. Barley on the top 2s Od up............ Oats on the top Is Od down ....average Os 2 1 up . Beans on the top is 9d down ave ra g e Os average a a v v e er ra a g g e e O is s 0 .91 : 11 Total Supply and Sales. Wheat ...119 0 qrs Sold 462 qrs Barley... 1756 qrs Sold 1530 qrs Oats Sold 1600 00 qrs Beans 5B qro q r Oci Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 38 s Od ; extras, 36s superfine,.34s Od ; tine, 32s Od. DERBY SMITHFIELD --Nov. 10. Beet 6d to 7d Veal ....••••••. , ....... 7d v 6,1 Mutton .. e. Lamb Bd to —d Rough fat, y 8 9d per stoll Hides, 3d to 41d; calf skins. M to 6d. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. •alia and Mauritius, via Southam 1 5 ' ItOn .. NOV' 1,) via Marseilles Nov x 4 ,srazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Dec. A, Uapo of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. H elena Nov. .irs. (Anna apore, v. Penang, g and Sin via Southampton.No , 1 ,, via Marseilles Nov. ' E , alkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton .. /. Nov.' 0' India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. , via Marseilles Nov. 1 .," India (Bombay), via Southampton .. . N0v.,,'0, i via Marseilles 1' Egypt,...' Dec. and Aden, via So u th am pton Portugal..., a u , g a l , 1 yL o a r i Nov. 7 via Marseilles Newfoundland „Nov. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and Briti s h N. A mar i ca , by Brit. packet 3Si° v ' by U.S. packet l 3' by Canadian packet 1 0, W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerille ......... •Nov' o . iialiatnas, via New York NNo;r: 1n 'ig, Nlesico 111 parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru , 1 Nov 71 California. and British Columbia.. ikustri (ADVERTISEMENT.]—OOIISIIIIIOIOII, all nervous, bi ll° 17 liver, and stemach complaints, in every stage, are only „%t gravateu and accelerated by drugs of every description, put perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Reval erj j Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which been considered hopeless. We quote a few. — Cure No. 62,',,j Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical mei , p o t abandoned all hope; of her recovery from the last stage , pulmonary consumption, with f-arful cough, expec torati° 0 0 exhaustion, spitting of blood, perspirations, hollow chee, i f emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank God, a perfee'cie healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—N. Lange, Commissair e Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. James Robert s, of FrirOleeic Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting' of blood, l i 4 o derangement. and partial deafness. — Cur e, No. 47,121. Divtu Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nerv ousness, in,digestl f , gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—(titre, 54,816. Ihe Rev. James T. C am p bell, Fakenham, A,Tort°;,l of indigestion and torpidity of the liver, which had rea' e 51p, all medical treatment. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 6cl; 91+ lie ; 121 b, 228; 241 b, 408. Barry du Barry and C0.,N0 ; f ,ll R ege nt-street, London ; also Fortnum and Mason; grocers and chemists in every town of the United King')lj: Births. g' BA.RNARD.—On the 11th inst., at B owa t er H ous e, 1 -- - ,o a ° t on - c ourt, the wife of Li eu t.-C o l onel B arnar d, Gl' dier Guards, of a son. nr e,' HERinst., VEY.—On the Bth at the British Legation,' den, Lady Augustus Hervey, of a son. 0 ' WILDY.— On the 11th inst., at 11, Queen's-terran e t gent's-park, Mrs. Augustus Wildy, of a daughter . Marriages. „Of GILMOUR—POSS ITT. —O n t h e 10 t h i ns t . , at Parsoase' Ireland, Geog,s County,rgeGilmour, Esq., 21st Fusiliers, t° becca, f ourt h daughter of John Fossitt, Esq., ef Island, fa, PA.NTLIN—FRANKLIN.—On the 10th inst., at St. o°° d e ttot Hanover-square, Mr. Edward Pantlin ' of Rottingoirit Sussex, to Aun, youngest daughter of Mr. F. Fr n of Waltham Abbey, Essex. Deaths. , t tf ARDEsotr.—On the 9th inst., at 13, Southwick -cre°c'' Hyde-park, Miss Ardesoif, aged 85. lenr a BARNEWALL.—On the 11th inst., at Brighton , Barnewall, Esq., formerly of Copthall Court, ag` R.I.P. 04.1, DENNIS.—On the 11th inst., at King's LangloY, the Rev. Henry Dennis, aged 64. ttfig esf GREENWOOD.—On the 11th inst., at 2, Man" Bl. Upper Holloway, Michael Greenwood, Esq ., aged v,sCl.l MANSON.—On the 9th inst., Charles Ross Manson, late ot 24, James-street, Buckingham-ptch 0 . RIDDLE.—On the 9th inst., at Brighton,i Gabri Et.q., aged 78. t S te 'e 0.„ STEVENS.—On the 9th inst., at Brighton, Esq., of 78, Bishopsgate-reet within, aged 310. „ ve ld, WELD.—On the Bth inst at Marseilles, Gordon ' aged24l London : Prirczed and Pul,lfshed by WILLIAM AND -Et U. 1318111, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN OfaCe Strand, in the Precinct of the 3avoy, in the cottaw Witldieex,—Fri.lay,_NovenYlaer 13, 1803. 1 C ~.. t ,on