The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-21 00:00:00

On the Ist of October will be published, a Third and Cheap Edition, price 10s. td., OBSCURE DISEASES of the BRAIN and MIND. - - - Ey FORBES WiNsLow, D.C.L. LondJn : Robert Hardwicke, 192, Piccadilly. !THEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE• Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, the new and original Comedy, by Ed mund Falconer, entitled NATURE'S ABOVE ART : A Ro mance of the Nursery : Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder, Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles. Neville ; Miss Charlotte launders. Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and rs. Edmund Falconer. To conclude with TETE DEAL BO:OMAN • Messrs. G. Bellmore, F. Charles ; Miss R. L eclercq, and Mrs. Edmund Falconer. Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usual. Commence at 7. THEATRE ROYAL HA YMARKET.— Oven for the Season.—Notice. —During the recess the undermentioned alterations have been made to ensure the comfort of the audience :—A. distinct row of Stalls has been erected, with two new Stall Staircases, one on each side of the Theatre. In the Dress Circle, all the partitions and ori ginal seats have been removed, and chairs or a convenient size, covered with Utrecht ve; vet, introduced. The approaches to the Dress Circle wily be carpeted and g enerally improved, while the seats in the Amphitheatr e will be made as commo dious as those of the Pit. In addition the whole of the inte rior of the Theatre has undergone a thorough restoration. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan every evening. ILIS EVENING, and during' the week, to commence at Seven with FOUNDED ON FACTS : Mr. Compton. After which, Planche's revived Drama of CHARLES THE 'TWELFTH : Charles the Twelfth. Mr. Alfred Wigan : Adam Brock, Mr. Buckstone ; Muddlework, Mr. Compton I_lirica, Miss Louisa Angel ; Udiga (with the original song of '` Rise Gentle Moon"), Miss Louise Keeley. To be followed by THE BENGAL TIGER : Mr. and Mr,. Alfred Wigan. C " 9l nding; with the Spanish Ballet of THE GALICIAN FETE: Miss Fanny Wright, Senor Ricardo, and the Corps de Ballet.- On Monday, September 28th, will be repeated Lady Gitrord's Comedy of FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter "SPY. And due notice will he given of the return to the Lon don Stage of Mr. Charles Mathews. The Box-office, under the direction of Mr. George Turpin, open daily, from Ten VII Five. THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELI'HI.- Solo Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN. Mrs. Followed by the new comic drama, THE HEN AND CHICKENS ; or, A Sign of Affection. Messrs. Billington, R. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss H. Simms. After which, at 4-past 8 o'clock. the new drama of THE _HAUNTED MAN; OR, THE G OST'S BARGAIN, in tchich will bd exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptat!on of the Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. A. Wocd, R. Phi:lips, Sefton, C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss 11. Simms. To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Mr. A. NEW THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL ANNUAL BENEFIT of Mr. BENJAMIN WEB STER, Sole Proprietor and Manner. SATURDAY NEXT, Sept. 26, and LAST NIGHT of the SEASON, when will be revived, for this night only, the celebrated Comedy of MASKS AND FACES, with Mr. Benjamin Webster and Mrs. Stirling in their original characters of Triplet and Peg Woffington. With other attractive Entertainments. NEW THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL— Mr. B. WEBSTER. begs to announce that having entered into an engagement with the young American Actress. Miss BATEMAN, the Theatre wilt be cLOSe-D from SATURDAY, fhe 26th of September, and will RE OPEN on the following THURSDAY, an interval being re quired for cleansing and re-decorating the interior, and fo r the due prepara ion of a New Dr a m a , in five acts, with en tirely new Scenery and tresses, founded on the celebrated German Play of Deborah, by Morenthal, and entitled LEA In which the principal character will be support ed by Miss Bateman, who will make on this occasi , n her First Appear ance in Entland since her recent and extraordi nar y ficcess in this and other characters in the chief cities of America. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, IBIS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr Leigh Murray. Followed by (55th time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Clifton; Mesdames Ada Swanboroug - h, F. Josephs, Maria Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White. To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss Thorne. Commence at 7. T HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN, " Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLIGNIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim DAY. — Morning, 7h. 14m.—Afternoon, 7h. 60m. To-moßnow.-Morning, Sh. 35m.—Afternoon, Oh. 20m. The Weather---. Sun Office, Sept. 21, 1863. THERMOMETER. This morning This day at Two o'clock 59 Barometer-29.83 . Wind—West; very fine. (OS' Ll*'‘ AV SUIT LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 21, 1863. --471- - Quousque tandem—the old Ciceronian reproach— might be uttered nowadays quite as aptly, as when first syllabied in scorn to CATALINE. It might be uttered now quite as aptly by all around us, as well as, in one sense, also by ourselves. Here in England, it would have reference, mainly, to those social and political retorts that have been so often promised and that are nevertheless still being so perpetually postponed. In France it would signify the weari ness engendered, there, by the long delays in the constitutionalizing of her despotic Go vernment. In Prussia it world be manifestly in allusion to the outrageous arrogance with which the reigning Sovereign rides rough-shod over a representative system ' which i he abhors from his soul, and Set shrinks from actually attempting to destroy altogether. In Poland the cry would have allusion to that cruel circumlocution of the diplomatists of Europe, lengthening out the corre spondence between the four principal Governments with so painfully cool a deliberation, though all the while the population of Russian-Poland itself is struggling, for the life and for the death, against the serried ranks of the soldiers of the Autocrat. From across the Atlantic the same reproachful accents are no less audible to all those at least who have tars to hear—accents coming alike from the North and from the South, to the two chief Powers at least in Western Europe, Powers who all this while might at any moment have interposed between the be lligerents, and who have, yet, in spite of that, hitherto sisrunk from the responsibility of so inter 13°Bing. It is from America that the same inarticulate reproach is coming--mail after mail, More and more impressively. Not from Ri o , unsond or Washington. Not from the Federal, or the Confederate Government. But from every terrible oattle-field, from the dead or the dying strick en down, there, by thousands upon thousands during the progress of this misera ble war. The mere continuance of the war, under every aspect i t luau assum ed hithprto, is a perpetual, and a p er Petually increasing reproach to Christendom. N un. . Intervention, as a theory, is, of course, very adua; _ 'Etple, very just, and very beautiful. But, persistently carried into practise every where and Under all imaginable conjunctions of circumstances,People are beginning now to conjecture th at it is i ntrinsically the very reverse. Whenever — s Whenever--we take thi s to • e really and truly undeniable—when ever intervention can put a stop to useless and, to all appearance, intettnina ble bloodshed, an obstinate persistence it, ad hering to the principle of non-intervention r oust by necessity be flagrantly culpable. The horrors 01 war in America go on increasing. The prospects O f peace there, if ever there can be said to have been any Since the contest began,have faded out altogether. They are, in no one direction that we can see, any where r ecognisable. The picture presented to view there is complete throughout, in its ghastly consis tency of its monotony- War in the f o reground — war in the m id dle distance—war on the remote horizon. Th e very vanishing point, so far as the eye can follow it through the lurid reek of slaughter —war, also, to the very last. And the passions of the belligerents are rising and in tensifying, instead of being in any nay mitigated or allayed. A fiery rain descends, not from Heaven, but from the ordnance of the Federal assail ants, upon the outworks of Charleston, as though Charleston were some new Gomorrah. President LiscoLN, at the commencement of this year of grace, gives the signal for a servile war. As yet that execrable signal has happily not been answered— "less the answer to it can be described by the rule of contraries, as being the recEnt calling out of 500,000 black soldiers in the South to fight against the armies of President LINCOLN, by order of Mr. DAVIS—an order not enforced by a threat, but, on the contrary by the promise of land to the negroes enlisted, and, better than the guarantee of any number of acres to the black, the offer of his immediate eman cipation from slavery. Without intervention in some form, diplomatic or otherwise, when is there to come an end to this dreadful war between Federal and Confederate, a war that, while it is a curse to America, is also and ever increasingly a reproach to the European part of Christendom ? Th 3 Russians reply to England is about as unsa isfactory in effect, and as unsuitable in tone, as could be imagined. Grown bolder by the approach of winter, and rendered tolerably restless of con sequences by the knowledge that there is no im mediate prospect of a war, Prince GonTs- CHANOIT has cast courtesy to the winds, and totally ignored the usual practice of affecting a vir tue if you have it not. He throws off the mask, and as gocd as says that Russia has a right to tyrannise over Poland, that she means to exercise it to the full, and that she will no longer brook any inter ference with her plans, or contradiction of her wishes, by any foreign power whatsoever. Many who were at first sanguine as to the result of the attempted mediation nil). Russia have since given up their hopes in despair, but still it was hardly tc, be expected that so curt a reply, and so ungracious a response, should have been made to a country like our own. Aiso it is surprising that such truths as Earl RUSSELL uttered in his despatch should produce no effect whatever, and that earnest solicilations and impressive warnings should be alternately pooh-poohed or sneered at by the sarcastic and sardonic arbiter of the destinies of unhappy Poland. He assumes a dictatorial tone from the outset, and declares:that it would be quite useless to prolong this discussion from the moment when it is perceived that it can only tend to confirm the " divergence of their views." This is meant, of course, to do away with the awkward necessity of attaching weight to the hints of the from regarding the ru E th n a g t l w ishoulGdoevnesrunemfconsequences treaties, au and ptur t e he of Government the cruelty exercised towards the insurgents when ever chance gave the Rus • stans an opportunity of retaliation. This refusal to give any reason for their actions is far preferable to the hypocrisy with hich the concluding imbued. It can be given no better name, 'or those who hav3 at all regarded the course of events must wonder how much further assurance can go, when they read that Prince GOItTSCIIAKOFF avers that they "entirely share" in the desire expressed by the English Cabinet to re store tranquillity to Poland. When, still further, be says that his " august master continues to be ani mated by the most benevolent intentions towards Poland," it is really too much to endure patiently. It is insulting to the common anse of those to whom he addresses it, it is a direct denial of facts that is degrading for a statesman to utter, and in the sight of GOD and man it is entirely false. It would be more consistent to say that such tyranny was ren dered imperative, and that stringent measures alone could he effective in putting down an insurrection that at any cost must be quelled. Prince GORT SCIINEOPF actually says that the EMPEROR has accepted before GOD, his conscience, and his people, to provide for the welfare of all classes of his people. After this it seems absurd to expect that any representations can do anything, or any arguments produce an effect. The only way to convince such characters is at the point of the bayonet; the only persuasion will be superior force. The attempt to succour Poland by media tion has failed, but not for want of effort on the part of those who were engaged in the difficult and delicate task. It has been solely because those ap pealed to could not be influenced by any of the claims of humanity, the appeals of foreign States, or the voice of self-interest even. They were re solved to take revenge on those in their power. It cannot be that this conduct will answer in the long run, and the day may not be distant when Russia will regret she took the course she has wil fully chosen, and the part she has so wantonly played. From this temporary triumph of despotism, it is really refreshing to turn to a country where it has sustained a defeat, if it is not a very impertant one. The King of PRUSSIA is, of course, not to be ranked with the CZAR for arbitrary measures, but he is following in the wake of his northern allies with dangerous imitative powers, and no one can tell in such a case when the devotee may say to himself -7- " Thou shalt go no further." It is, therefore, in every way satisfactory to learn that the Uovernment of Berlin, having been defeated in their attacks upon the press, the editors who were accused of " ex citing contempt and hatred against the authorities" were all acquitted on their trial. This must be a severe blow to M. BISMARIi and his colleagues. No one can pity them their annoyance, or refrain from rejoicing at the damaging shock they have sus tained, who reflects upon the injuries they have inflicted upon the great country whose interests were given to their charge. It is to be feared that even this signal instance of the unpopularity of their views, and this crowning proof of the illegality of their assertions, will not be of any great avail while the KING is still so completely under the dominion of BISMARK. That sedulous Minister seems never to quit him; he haunts him like his shadow, and thus a better influence has no chance of getting dominion over him, and no more enlightened counsel is likely to come to his ears. It was a dark day for Prussia when that unwise and --infatuated Statesman, to give the mildest terms to his career, was invested with authority. True-hearted Prussians must rue the evil choice that selected him for their ruler and guide. His evil influence is tenfold more per nicious, because he is not content with the mis. chief that a minister might do in his own legiti mate department, but virtually arrogates to him self all the, rights of sovereignty, and not only that, but he changes the kingly power from a con stitutional one to a despotism. The philosopher and the disciple of progress may well be amazed and appalled at the state of the nations of the Continent, This has been a sad year as regards the fortunes of Poland, and a very sorrowful one fo r the welfare of Prussia. The annals of civil war are usually fall of pain ful and melancholy incidents. Households are divided again s t arms against th e i r fathers thems e l ves ; sons fi n d themse l ves i n , and brothers stand face death. Th e same l anguage to face in the fi e ld of is spoken in the watchwords of both camps, the towns stormed and assaulted have been often visited by the besiegers on errands of peace or pleasu t re, The roads and rivers, the hills and dales that wit ness march and countermarch, attack and repulse, all the tragic panorama are familiar to both com batants alike. Success or defeat, too, is alike inju rious to the country. There is no hcpe of getting the expenses of the war paid from the wealthy treasury of a foreign foe. In any case heavy debts will burden the national exchequer; whichever wins or loses, the State will have paid the fine in the blood of her best and bravest. All these con- siderations, and many others added to them, have made reflecting men esteem a lengthened civil war to bo one of the greatest misfortunes that can befall a nation, and so in the pages of history experience has ever proved it to be. In resisting a foreign foe the spirit of unity and patriotism among the people, the common struggle for a common end, has at least some ele vating and ennobling attributes. But the conflict with fellow-countrymen, fellow-citizens, the carry ing of fire and sword into the hearths where our own names are perhaps familiar, the bringing of widowhood and orphanhood to the smiling mothers and happy children of our own land, the destruc tion of those supplies of food and treasure which might perhaps havo relieved the very beggar who cries to us for help—all this dims the glitter of the sword and takes the freshness from the laurels. Civil war, like every other undertaking, may be sometimes necessary, sometimes advisable. Good, tender-hearted, and upright men, have taken part in it, we know, and through such fiery ordeals do nations, like men, sometimes have to pass before they reach their greatness. But when civil war is recklessly begun from insufficient or unworthy motives ; when questions of profit, of power, are allowed to kindle the torch of interne tine strife, when it is persistently maintained in defiance of right and reason ; when war is made against old men, women, and children, the sick and the helpless; when the food of the poor is pillaged and the property of the wealthy wantonly de stroyed; when free speech, free action, free thought, are well nigh suspended, and the ingenuity of civi lisation is exercised by the spirit of savages, then is civil war indeed an unmitigated calamity. It is a calamity which not only impoverishes for the time, bat desolates for the future; not only suspends a nation's progress, but sends her backwards in the scale of civilisation. Peace may and must return on some terms or another between the two great contending parties in the American States. The Temple of Janus may be closed again, and the daring energies of the Transatlantic people turn again to their old courses, but who shall erase from the memory of Europe or the history of mankind the dark deeds of cruelty and barbarism which have stained the annals of the North ? The worst fea tures of their conduct we have, we fear, yet to learn. We have all heard, indeed, of the atrocities o! - Gen. BUTLER, and a few kindred spirits ; we have thril!ed with indignation as occasional tales are told of needless oppression, of shells exploding even under the sacred yellow flag, of Greek fire poured in on the midnight slumbers of peaceful citizens. But the the whole story of wrong and harshness is still to be told, and will never be fairly told until we gain our information from Southern sources, instead of from the North. The letter of Lieutenant MAURY, an officer whose name is a sufficient voucher for the accuracy of his statements, addressed to our princi pal contemporary on Saturday last, is sufficient to call forth an indignant reprobation from all humane and civilised men. The new system of campaigning followed by the North is, he says, to avoid pitched battles, but to subdue the South by devastating defenceless provinces. Not content with destroying the present resources of the people, they aim at inflicting lasting injury. " The plan of the enemy now is evidently to destroy not only the industry of the South but also its future powers of production, by devastating those regions espe cially in which those great staples of commerce are produced, and which were at once the source of our wealth, power, and influence. He is aiming so to devastate certain regions as to leave us during the war without the ability to till our fields, and when peace is restored without the plant or the labour to supply the world with cotton, or tobacco, or sugar, or naval stores, or rice, and the like. They not only burn the cotton they cannot carry away, but they burn the gins, and destroy all the plant re quired for the future production of the article. This attempt to leave paralysed the powers of industry and the capacity of production, even alter peace shall have been restored, comes, it appears to me, in the category of filling up wells in the deserts and erasing from the charts of navigation a haven of the sea." The course pursued at the little town of Winchester by the forces of the remorseless Milroy is described by Lieut. MALRY, in words which will move the sympathies of all readers. He pictures the charming village in its fertile valley, with re fined and hospitable inhabitants, converted into a desert ; all trade suspended until the oath of alle giance to the hated LINCOLN Government had been taken by every tradesman, the physician forbidden to prescribe for his patient, the clergyman to bap tise or bury, the mother to purchase necessaries for her sick child until the same form had been gone through. To make the cruelty the more inexcusa ble Winchester had been a loyally disposed town, and only joined the Secessionists out of conformity with its parent State, Virginia. Still more monstrous was the order of the Northern General to destroy every implement of agriculture, to root up the beds sown by the inhabitants wtth vegetables for next year's consumption, and to shoot the horses and cattle. Such tyranny as this may be called by fine names by the people of New England —to us it looks as if the Federals, unwilling to meet the Confederates in open fight, felt better matched against old men, women, and children. THE BRITISH MUSEUM, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-With reference to my note, published by you on the 16th instant, I beg to state that I have received an order for admittance to the Reading Room after sending a second certificate as a recom mendation, which the principal librarian, by the existing rules, has a right to require. In reply to your question respecting the renewal, I answer that ray original ticket for admission was granted in the year 1847, for a particular purpose, and it expired by el:fluxion of time, without renewal. Hence a new license, with sponsors, was rendered necessary upon my recent application. 19th Sept. Yours obediently, C. Beaumarehais's " Eugenie" has been revived at he Theatre Francais. THE NEW METAL POISONOUS.-111. Dumas an nounces that M. Lamy has recognized very poisonous properties in the sulphate of thallium. Five grammes of that salt were dissolved in milk, and the milk given to 11 various animals, fowls, ducks, and dogs. All were dead at the end of a few days. In another experiment a decigramme only was given to a dog, which died in 40 hours. M. Lamy is reported to have experienced involun tarily some of the effects of this metal upon himself. At the late British Association meeting, a mass of the solid metal, weighing a quarter of a hundred weight, Ni as ex hibited by Mr. Crooke& It was extracted by Messrs. Bell, of Newcastle. M. RENAN'S WAY OF PUTTING IT !—" That the Gospels aro in part legendary is evident enough, since they are full of miracles and of the supernatural I " (p. xv.) In part I—he must mean nine parts out of ten, as the after expression, " full of the supernatural," would more naturally import. It is much like saying that " oat•cake" is in part made of "oats," when, in fact, it is little else. MR. HENLEY, of all the Tory party (observes the Spectator)—we fear he will scarcely appreciate the compliment—is our especial favourite. It is not merely that his character is such as to command the respect of all who are brought into contact with him; nor even that he is by no mans an obstructive among Tories. It is not that if you can give him mathematical proofs of the advantages of change, he is by no means averse to it; although con sidering that he is a county member, very well off in the world, and naturally not disposed to run risks, that shows very considerabl e f ree d om from pre j udice. But what we especially admire i s , the ingenuity with which, when he does take up a crotchet, he always contrives to defend it in a mnnor ValiCiA is 911 th coA of it logical, TLIE SUN, _LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, f?d 21, 18,62. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA. NEW YORK, SEPT. 11 (Evening). (Per the Jura.) General Burnside's right wing is within easy reach of the left wing of General Rosecranz's army. It was expected that Rosecranz's head quarters would be at Chattanooga on the 10th inst. The Richmond Dispatch, referring to the capture of Fort Wagner, says persons from Charleston state that the Federal trouble will not commence until they get into Charleston Harbour. They express an opinion that if the ironclads enter the harbour they never can get out. The Confederates have retired from Little Bock to Fort Washington, where they are fortifying. Southern papers strenuously advocate the concen tration of the Southern armies and the employment of negro troops. The New York Democratic Convention have re solved that they will support the Government to restore the Union as it was, and the constitution as it is. They urge the Government to manifest a conciliatory policy, as President Lincoln's abolition policy would lead to an indefinite protraction of the war and national bankruptcy. They declare the Secession doctrine is as false as the claim of the Federal Government to obliterate State rights or boundaries. Mr. Charles Sumner, who is supposed to speak semi•officially, addressed an immense au dience at the Cooper's Institute, on the subject of foreign relations. He denounced England's recognition of the Confederate States as belligerents, and her pro clamation of neutrality as a betrayal of civilisa tion. He declared that Earl Russell's treatment of the Federal Government since the commencement of the war had been unfriendly, and his correspon dence hard, curt, captious, and cynical. He said that the foreign Governments had not acted fairly since the war. The British Government could not avoid the consequence of its compli city with the private ships in their law less depredations. Moral considerations would not permit foreign Governments to recognise the South. He denounced the French offer of interven tion, and declared that the Emperor of Mexico would be as powerless as King Canute against the rising tide of the American people. His chair must be withdrawn or overwhelmed. The remarks of Mr. Sumner denouncing France and England were received with loud applause. RESIGNATION OF GENERAL BURNSIDE. NEW YORK, SEPT. 12 (Morning). General Burnside has resigned. The--whole army of the Gulf is moving from New Orleans. Its destination is unknown, but is supposed to be some point in Texas. The Richmond Whig opposes the idea of arming the negroes, advocated by some Southern journals. (Latest by Telegraph to Father Poi nt. ) NEW YORK, SEFT. 12 (Evening). Advices from Ch ar l eston to the 9th instant state that the fleet was still shelling Fort Moultrie . General Gilmore w as erec ting works to sh ell the city. He had mount e d guns on Morris Is land o ne mile nearer Charlest on . O ne of the maga zine s in Fort Moultrie had explod e d. Half the town of Moultrieville was bu rne d. In consequen ce o f a detachment of Confed era t e troops having lande d at Fort Sumter, severa l h u ndred Federal s in bo ats proceeded at dark and landed on th e ruins of Sum. ter, but were met by the Confedera tes on the para pets and repulsed with the los s of 60 killed, wounded, or missing. Several F ederal naval lieu tenants were captured. Advices from Havana state th at the British bri g Atlantic had arrived there. She is said to ha ve been captured by a Federal cruiser in neutral waters, while loading at whoAlarn took thetaoras,and ordered vessel to to New Orleans, but the pize crew were over powered by the captain,the Mozart and Tammany H a ll s Havana. Delegates from a w t e A re lb b a o n t y h . admitted t o the Democratic Convention COMAIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, NEW YORK, SEPT. 11 (Evening). cent. bills, pr i. e 4 m 2l iti . rn. Ex- change on London I ; Illinoi s , 123' ; _, Stocks Money easy. Gold Erie, 1031 ; 6 per Ce nt. U. S. Bonds, 10 51. Cot ton quiet; middling b2a9nl pere rs Upland, C9c. Fl our, wheat, heavy. New York Centrals, 132 and corn declining. rrovisions quiet. Coffee steady Sugar, good inquiry. Molasses steady. Crude petroleum, 36 to 37, slightly fi rmer. SEPT. 12 (Evening). Money easy. Gold 29 1 per cent. prem. Stocks heavy. New York Centrals, 13% ; Illinois, 123, :i l ; Erie, 102'1. gEXIco . representatives had urgedt resist s e r n e NEW YORK, SEP T . 12 (M orn i ng ). of all the S outh American Repub lica Advices from San Lui s Potosi assert that the to form a cont i nenta l a lli ance with th e m o E t z urop ean en cro a c hments. The had delegate to co - op erate in been invited to send a the movement. Federal Govern ITALY. TURIN, SEPT. 21. left Turin a this morning to witness the which are to take place at msoi T ltni h tma e ray Kin g amna manoeuvres Milan. Hie Majesty Was accompanied by the Ministers of War and Marine, and will return to Turin on Thursday next. OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLES, SEPT. 19. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Pelnse left this to - day With 86 passengers, 323 packages of £280,000 in specie for India a nd China , and 78 passengers, 711 pac k ages o f m erchandise, and port merchandise, and .£7,800 is specie for Alexandria. FRANCE. BOURSE, Sept. 19.—The market has been again buoyant, and the business done shows an improve ment. Three s are now at 68f. 50c. Railway Share Market quiet, but up to the present time pretty firm. The market closed as follows:- 1t per Cent 5....... 96 15 Italian Loan 74 20 Do. end month.... — Do. end month 73 7 5 3 per Cents ...... 68 50 N ew ditt o Do. end month.... 68 45 Do. end month.... Credit M0bi1ier....1222 50 Russian Do, end m0nth....1225 Austrian Bank Shares ...... 3100 Spanish Threes — Credit }owner ....1410 Home Debt RAILWAYS• --- .. ^C Cash. Account. Orleans..." 1036 25 .. 1040 Northern .... 1005 .. New ditto.... ......... Lyons and Mediteran.eL 1037 50 .. 103 5 Geneva ....... ' 497 50 .. 498 75 Southern ........ . 747 50 .. 746 25 Western ]astern Sardinian 432 50 .. 432 50 Austrian Low bard 571 25 .. 572 50 North of Spain Saragossa 665 .. 667 50 Ditto to Barcelona II I 1 365 ---• • 367 0 LITERATURE. History of the Plague of London, By Daniel Defoe. 18mo. pp. 206. Longmans. Another—the fifth—instalment of the Shilling Entertaining Library, edited by J. S. Laurie, and published by the Messrs. Longman, has, in this wonderful little book, but just now made its appear ance. Already we have taken occasion to note the really remarkable merits of this same charming little series of English Classics ; when directing, that is, attention to the four earlier volumes introducing it to the reading community. The very selection of the works picked out for re-issue in this lovely little set of bijou volumes, indicates on the part of Mr. Laurie a perfection of good taste, eminently befitting him, in his capacity as editor of the series. Besides the volumette containing a miscellaneous cluster of Christmas Tales," calculated of itself to render the Miniature Library welcome at every hearth around which a good story of any kind can be appreciated—what are the other books Mr . Laurie has in this form selected here for republica- , tion ? " Robinson Crusoe," " Gulliver's Travels,' " Sandford and Mertcn," and now another book of Daniel D.3foe's, the famous " History of the Plague !" These—immediately to be followed by such old familiar worms as " Evenings at Home " and the " Swiss Family Robinson !" So far, we are informed at least in regard to the future, by the publishers own advertised announcement. Let us hope that' among the pet books of the nation thus selected for re-issue in this delightful shape—in the form, that is o f a pretty little square 18mo volume, or as we have called it volumette, illustrated, each one of them, with half a dozen graceful and most of them very original embellishments, the whole printed on excellent paper, in clear large type, and published in a good serviceable cloth binding, et the rate of no more than one shilling foreach volume ; let us hope, we say, that among the works destined to follow those already anuounced,thus, for republi cation, may be found, later on, the "Old Manor House," the " Old English Baron," the " Children of the Abbey," the " Vicar of Wakefield," eunz (there are but few, certainly, co m i ng un d er t hi s denomination) eteteris paribus. Here, however, instead of thinking about the "pippins and cheese" that are " to follow," let us be thankful for the feast already spread before us. Have we not, in the little volume now at our elbow, a feast of horrors as enthralling as any ever writ by the hand of an Englishman? And that Eng lishman, foremost and best beloved among all our story-tellers—th e immortal Author of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe, one of the earliest, one of the bravest, one of the most consistent, sterling, thoroughly outspoken, bravely and honestly inde pendent of British journalists ! Here in, this mar vellously realistic record or diary of a citizen of Landon during the ravages made by the Great Plague, we have, as in " Robinson Crusoe" itself, a fictitious narrative founded upon indisputable facts, reading from first to last as though it were virtually what it purports to be, and what in the inner sense of it, it is artistically, an ower true Histo r y. W e ll might Hazlitt write of it, as he has written, that it is penned "with all the characteristics of the author's genius !" And those ? Hazlitt himself thus enumerates them— " intense reality, rich natural pathos, and exqui site moral feeling !" What more could be wished --that is, in a narrative of this kind ? The grass grown desolate streets of the great city in 1665 are traversed awfully by us as we turn the pages. We hear the death cart going its dismal round, the wheels creaking under its ghastly load, the sexton driver's bell tolling, his voice crying aloud, "Bring out your dead !" We think of the 100,000 souls who perished during that appalling visitation— that Great Plague of 1665, which was to be followed up and purged out, as it were, by the Groat Fire of 1666. One while, as we read, there flits past us the stark-naked form of the half-witted fanatic, who was wont to shriek through the streets, night and day, with a distracting monotony of repeti tion, " Oh, the great and dreadful God!" Again and yet again those six wild words and no others ! Another while, it is a kindred form, the form of another, but this one a really his torical, religious enthusiast (Solomon Eagle) with nothing but a napkin about his loins and a burning chaldron of fire upon his head ! In every minute detail, the Great Plague of London, with all its attendant horrors, Defoe has here depicted in this extraordinary little narrative. Often as the work has been reprinted before now, it has never, until now, appeared in a form so compact, or one in every way so acceptable. It is here placed at last within reach, moreover, of all ranks and classes of Defoe's fellow citizens and fellow-countrymen. Croquet. By Captain Mayne Reid. Bvo, pp. 46 Skeet. The huntsman of the wild prairie has dismounted from the saddle, hung up his rifle for a while, sauntered on to a pretty English lawn, amongst the flower-beds, taken in hand a croquet mallet, and told us here, clearly and pleasantly, from beginning to end, all we can possibly wish to know about the Game of Croquet, about the fascinations of Croqueterie. The mere circumstance of Captain Mayne Reid having done precisely what we have, in the foregoing sen tence, described him as doing, is proof positive, in itself, that about Crcquet, as a game, he is a bit of an Enthusiast. Nothing bat what we are accus tomed to call an infatuation could ever have in duced Hercules to exchange his club for a distaff, for however brief an interval. And something very much like what the big Pagan demi-god is described as having condescended to do according to the fables of the old mythologists, Captain Maine Reid has here done in exchanging, as we hav e said, the rifle for the croquet mallet —namely, succumbed to an odd kind of sudden fascina tion. He is fairly infatuated (to repeat the right word) not by a woman but by a game. That game we cannot but think he estimates just a trifle too highly, where he says of it in the very first sen tence of his present hand book, not only " that Cro quet is the most attractive pastime of the age ;" but that "in point of intellectuality it will dispute the palm with billiards or whist—perhaps even," he hesitates not to add, almost with a sneer, " per haps even with that selfish duality, chess," Truly, after that, he may be recognised as, indeed, an en thusiast about Croquet ! But, at any rate, this good has already come of his enthusiasm. It has led him to produce, in the shape of this little treatise, a handbook upon the Game of Croquet, that will hence forth stand, in regard to that game, precisely on the same footing asthat so tenaciously held for years upon years by Hoyle's Handbook on Whist —namely the footing of an elementary guide, or book of rules, in every way unrivalled as an authority. What " Jonathan" is in regard to Billiards, that we sus pect the author of this brochure must needs prove to be, i n regard to Croquet—i. e., the most formid able of antagonists, What Howard Staunton is at the chessboard, that we conjecture Mayne Reid must be on -the turf among the croquet bridges —the most reliable cicerone through all the un traversed tracks of amusement opened up there enticingly to the novice. "Major A." we are certain, must at all times be pleasant reading to those who love a ruhber. " Captain R.," we are equally certain, will be found at all times precisely the same, that is the pleasantest possible reading, to those who care at all to handle the mallet of the croquet-player, through all the mazes of the new fangled recreation variously entitled by our author, in a burst of enthusiasm for it—the King of (games, the Queen of Sports, the Prince of Pastimes. Mr. J. H. Foley, RA., is advancing with his colossal equestrian statue of Sir James Outram, which is to form a companion to the sculptor's admirable equestrian statue of Lord Hardinge at Calcutta. Franz Liszt has composed a hymn for the thousandth anniversary of the inauguration of Christianity in Panonnia by the Bishops Cyril and Method, celebrated a short time since at San Giorolamo degli Schiavone, in Rome. The literary Times, after half•a-year's trial, pub lished its last number on the sth instant, having just pre viously raised its price from ono penny to twopence. The Critic, which for some time past has ceased to be a weekly publication, and has become a monthly journal, announces that it will in future abandon criticism, and Nano itself to the collectieß iQrWatiou► Lord Brougham and the Negroes of Jamaica. The following address from the Jamaica negroes to Lord Brougham has been sent to us for pub lication : " To the Right Honourable Lord Brougham : " May it please your Lordship —We the inhabitants of St. John's, Jamaica, at a public meeting held this day, commemorative of Negro Emancipation in the British West Indies, desire with feelings of affection and grati tude to approach your lordship, and to express our great obligation for the valuable services which you have for s o many years rendered to the cause of liberty, in pro moting every object of benevolence and enterprise, for the benefit of humanity • and the general improve ment and enlightenment of the people of the world. Nations and creeds have alike derived benefit from your lordship's generous liberality, unwearied exertions, and enlightened advocacy. We, the people of Jamaica, in giving expression to our gratitude for your lordship's past efforts, would humbly solicit your kind consideration for the future. " May the Author and Giver of every good gift, who has granted to us the blessings resulting from your lordship's benevolent life, spare you for many years further to develop your noble designs, and when His righteous purposes with you are ended, may He receive you into His everiastfng kingdom and glory, are the prayers of your lordship's most grateful and ever faithful servants —On behalf of the meeting, " G. FRASER, Chairman. " F. A. B. VINEN, Acting-Secretary. " Point Hill, St. John's, Jamaica, " August 1, 1863." Death of Rear-Admiral Washington, We regret to announce the death of Rear-Admiral John Washington, late hydrographer to the British Admiralty, who expired at Havre on Wednesday last. It will be recollected that,owing to ill-health, the gallant officer was recently obliged to resign his position, so that he has not long survived his re tirement from official duties. He entered the navy on May 15, 1812, as a first-class volunteer on board the Junon, of 46 guns, Capt. James Sanders, fitting for the North American station, where he took part in many operations in the river Chesa peake, assisted in making prizes of several of the enemy's vessels, and contributed to the com plete discomfiture of 15 gunboats that had been dispatched for the express purpose of capturing the Itinon, after an action of three hours, fought in June 20, 1813. Removing as midshipman, in the following October, to the Sybille, he sailed in that ship, in 1814, under Captain Forrest, with the Princess Caroline, Capt. Downman, for the latitude of Greenland, in fruitless pursuit of the American Commodore Rogers. In November of the same year, having returned to England, he entered the Royal Naval College at Portsmouth. On leaving that institu tion he was received, in May, 1816, on board the Forth, Capt. Sir Thomas Louis, under whom he was again employed for upwards of three years on the coast of North America. He then, in succession, joined the Vengeur and the Superb, both on the South American station, where be remained, until after his promotion to the rink of lieutenant, which took place on January 1, 1821. He was subsequently employed on particular service, and, in August, 1860, was appointed to the Royal George, as flag-lieutenant to Sir John Poer Beres ford, commander-in-chief at the Nore, continuing to serve under that officer in the Queen, until advanced to the rank of commander in 1833. To the active service consequent upon his various appointments, he had united the practice of mari time surveying and the related pursuits of a scien tific hydrographer and geographer. In 1835 he suc ceeded Capt. Maconochie as secretary of the Royal Geographical Society of London, but resigned that office in 1841, on being appointed to cantinue the survey of the North Sea, which had for some time been in progress. During this undertaking, in which he was continually engaged until the close of 1844, he was occasionally occupied in correcting the existing charts, as the positions of the shoals, and the directions of the navigable channels, had in many cases become changed. In 1842 he had been appointed to the rank of post-captain, in compliment to the King of Prussia. The sur vey was Captain Washington's last service afloat. In 1845 he was appointed a commissioner for in quiring into the state of the rivers, shores, and har bours of the United Kingdom. On the retirement of Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, in 1855, he was elevated to the responsible office of hydro grapher to the Admiralty, and subsequently attained the rank of rear-Admiral. In 1833 Ad miral Washington married Eleonora daughter of the Rev. H. Askew, rector of Graystock, in Cum berland, by whom he has issue. Deceased was a member of various learned societies, and is the author of many papers of a scientific and useful character. The Great Eastern in a Storm. The following is an extract from the private letter of a passenger by the Great Eastern in her last out ward voyage :—" I left Liverpool on 12th Aug. per Great Eastern for New York, which place I reached on the 25th after a very stormy and dangerous passage. We had strong head winds all the way, and the ship, having but little cargo, rolled about fearfully. On the tenth day out, when near this side of the ocean, we encountered a most fearful hurricane, such as the captain and oldest sailors in the ship had never seen the equal of. It came on about six in the evening, and lasted until about midnight. During part of the time we all completely despaired of ever seeing the next day ; and if the storm had continued two or three hours longer, we should have been dashed to pieces. The great ship was tossed about on the waves like a cork. She was entirely beyond control, and lay in the trough of the sea during the entire storm. It was what is called a ' cyclone,' and a description of storm very rarely seen anywhere except in the Chinese Seas. Every thing moveable about the ship was dashed to pieces, and many of the passengers lost all their luggage, and some of them were severely hurt themselves. The third officer had his leg and arm broken ; three or four of the boats were broken to pieces ; one of the boilers burst, filling the ship with hot steam; the gallery got on fire with the cook-stoves upset ing, and altogether it was a fearful time, enough to frighten any one from ever going to sea again. We have all reason to feel thankful, however, it was no worse, as very little more would have ended the affair most deplorably. I shall never venture to sea in the Great Eastern again, nor could I desire any one else to do so, as she is entirely too large and unnmanageable. We had 23 men lashed to the wheel all night trying to right her to the waves, with as little effect as a cnild would have; so when such a large ship is left to the mercy of the waves, in such a storm as we had, matters were very se. rious. But I must say no more about it, or I will frighten you from ever visiting Canada. All I can say is, when you attempt to cross the Atlantic, come in a moderate sized vessel; don't trust your self in such an experiment as the Great Eastern."— k cotsman. OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—Major Robt. Miller hlunday has been appointed to be Lie u t enant -Governor of the Island of Grenada; Mr. Benjamin Way has been appointed chief magistrate, and Mr. Thomas Mayne to be etipendiary magistrate of the settlement of Lagos ; Mr. Mildmay Sherrington has been appointed to be attorney general for the Island of Grenada ; Mr. James Meagher is to be superintendent of public Works for the Island of Tri• nidad.—Observer. CONFLAGRATION IN ISLINGTON.—GALLANT CON• DUCT OF A FIRE ESCAPE CONDUCTOR.—On Sunday morning, shortly after 4 o'clock, a fire broke out at No. 43, Halleford-street, Isling,on, in the occupation of Mr. Whalley, which, had it not been for the timely arrival and gallant conduct of conductor Francis Bartons, of the Lower.. road station of the Fire Escape Society, would have been attended with fatal consequences to four persons. The po.• ]iceman on duty was the first to discover the fire, and im mediately gave the alarm to the inmates, but so rapidly did the flames gain the raa,tery that it was impossible for them to escape but from the top of the house. On the arrival of the escape the four persons were on the parapet in their night dresses, screaming most piteously for help, and pre paring to throw themselves into the streets. There being a front garden in the house, the fly ladder attached to the machine had to be used, and in the midst of a dense volume of smoke and flames, the conductor ascended, and at great risk to his own life, succeeded in bringing the four persons down in safety, amidst the cheers of the assembled crowd. We are informed that the house and furniture is insured. Owing to the warmth of the late summer, many chestnut-trees in the Champs-Elyges and other quarters j of Fula are ROW in bloom for the second time, afr73 - 1 , r j 1111 HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Sept. 17. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and the Princess Victoria, attended by Baroness von Schenck, Captain von Westerwel ler, and Dr. Becker, arrived at the Castle at half past four yesterday, and were received by the Queen, the Princess of Wales, and the remainder of the Royal Family. Sept. 18. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse drove to Abergeldie to visit the Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined at the Castle, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel an d Hon. Mrs, Bruce. The Court in the Highlands; Although the weather has been somewhat rough and cold since the arrival of the Court at Balmoral► yet her Majesty has not missed a day in being cut of doors and visiting scenes endeared by associations of the late Prince Consort. On Wednesday she made a visit to the " cairn" raised to the memory of his Royal Highness, inspected the new dairy, now quite completed, and also drove to Abergeldie Castle on a call to the Prince and Princess of Wales. Their Royal Highnesses seem to be enjoying the High lands very much, and continue to take long drives among the fine romantic scenery every other day► accompanied by Col. R. Farquharson, Col. Keppel, and Captain Farquharson. The Prince has been deer-stalking in the forest of Invercauld, where on Saturday he had the good fortune to see a herd of 300 noble stags. Some rare sport was expected, but the wind having suddenly veered, the herd passed beyond rifle range, and consequently nothing could be done. At an after period of the day, however, when the Princess of Wales had joined the party —all of wbom partook of luncheon served on the grass near the skirts of the wood—the sportsmen were more successful. A deer drive having been proposed from Craig Cluny, the Prince and Prin cess gaily ascended the hill. Her Royal Highness took up a favourable position at the pass and soon had the pleasure of seeing a number of fine stags go bounding past at some 20 or 30 yards' distance. Two of the herd fell before the rifles of the Royal party. At the conclusion of the sport, the Prince and Princess were conducted round to the romantic Falls of the Garriwalt. On Tuesday the Prince went out shooting, and killed two fine stags. The same day his Royal Highness, accompanied by the Princess, drove to Balmoral to wait the arrival of the Queen. In the interval they visited the Lochnagar distillery, where the proprietor, Mr. John Begg, had the pleasure of explaining to his noble visitors the whole process of the manufacture of whisky as car ried on at his famous establishment. Afterwards the Royal party honoured Mr. and Mrs. Begg by partaking of refreshments at their residence near the distillery. Returning to Balmoral Castle, the Prince and Princess were in waiting to welcome her Majesty on her arrival at half-past 6. On Wed nesday the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred bad good sport among the grouse, and in the afternoon ;he Princess enjoyed what appears to be a favourite pastime with her Royal Highness —a hill-side pic nic. On Wednesday evening the Prince and Princass Louis of Hesse arrived at Balmoral Castle and received a very hearty welcome from the Queen and a number of the tenantry who had been made aware of their coming by command of her Majesty. Princess Alice was always a great favourite at Balmoral, from her frank and winning manners in mixing with the dwellers on the estate, and when, on her arrival on Wednesday evening, she held up her child so that her old friends might see "baby," the inci dent was felt to bespeak kindly recollections of past days. The crops on the upper reach of Dee are ex cellent, and harvest is pretty general. The congre gation of the Free Church at Crathie have just erected a neat tablet in that building in remem brance of the late Prince Consort, who liberally gave the site for the church. It bears the follow ing inscription : "To the noble and illustrious Prince Albert, K.G., Consort to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and Lord of the Castle and Lands of Balmoral, this tab let is dedicated, in deep sorrow for his early death, and in pious remembrance of his beneficent gift Of the site whereon their church is erected by those who worship under its roof.'' When her Majesty left Windsor Castle for Scot land it was with the intention of returning in a month. It is now understood that the royal visit to Scotland will extend to five weeks, and that the return of the Court to Windsor will be on Saturday, the 17th of October,—Court Journal. Tneir Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will prolong their residence at Abergeldie till the close of next week, and will then go to Sandringham, Nor folk, for a few weeks. A report is afloat that the PRINCE IMPERIAL is to be made KING OF ALGIERS, and Marshal Pelissier is to be his Viceroy. The Duchess of Hamilton (nee Princess Marie of Baden) and Lady Mary Hamilton are expected to leave Baden in the course of the ensuing month, to make a short visit to Hamilton Palace, N B. The Eirt Grosvenor, M.P., has arrived in town from Homburg. His lordship has improved in health by his short visit to the Continent. The Earl of Warwick has arrived in town from Warwick Castle. The countess and family remain at the castle. On their journey south the earl and countess visited Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby at Drummond Castle. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan arrived in town on Friday from a tour of the German Spas, and w ill proceed to-day to IJeene Park, to receive a select circle of friends for the shooting season. The Earl of Craven leaves town to-day for Ash down Park, Berks. The Countess of Craven and family arrived at Ashdown on Saturday from Coombe Abbey, near Coventry. Viscount St. Asaph arrived at Baden-Baden a Few days since. The Right Hon. Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice of England, arrived in town on Satur day from a tour in Germany. The learned baronet has been detained on his way home by illness. The Grand Reception Room at Windsor Castle, which has been closed to the public for several wee" past, will shortly be reopened. The decorations, in th e Louis XIV. style, have been entirely repainted in the same richness and splendour as when originally finished from designs prepared in the reign of George IV. The painting was entrusted to Mr. J. Vyse Cooper, of Windsor. As soon as the scaffolding is removed the public will be admitted as heretofore. HERNE'S OAK.—Before removing the time-worn trunk of " Shakepeare's Oak" from. the place on which it fell, it was visited, we learn from the Court Jour nal, by her Majesty and the members of the royal family, when the Queen, who has taken much interest in this inte resting relic of bygone ages, commanded that its remains be converted into a variety of ornamental furniture for the principal rooms of Windsor Castle, such as cabinets, work table, dressing-cases, &c., and for which purpose Mr. Goertz, the royal upholsterer, who has great taste in these matters, has been entrusted to carry out her Majesty's wishes. The tree is supposed to have been flourishing 300 yews previ ous to William the Conqueror coming to Windsor, and there is little doubt but it is the identical tree alluded to in Shakspeare's "Merry Wives of Windsor." Some portions of this tree are nearly in a state of petrifaction. On Friday last, the ground having been prepared under the directions of Mr. Ingram, the royal gardener, and a fine young Eng" lish oak, between tour and five years old, ten feet in h e ight, brought from Mr. Turner's royal nursery at Slough, her Majesty, in order to eternise the spot of this historical tree, attended with the members of the royal family, and planted the oak with her own hands, which will carry to future ages the memo, y of a good Queen with that of the prince of dramatic writers. THE NEXT MAILS DUE FROM AMERICA.—There are three steamers due at Liverpool this wrek with the mails from Amenca—viz., the Jura (a.s.), with dates from Quebec to the 12th, may be looked for at Londonderry to •morrow (Tuesday) morning; the City of Baltimore (s.s.) from New York on the 12th, may be expected to reach Queenstown in the course of Wednesday; and the Cunard steamer Africa, with dates from Boston to the 16th, and from Halifax to early on the morning of the 18th, will no doubt turn up at Queenstown on Saturday next. During the past week Dr. Milnasn, Dean of St. Paul's; Dr. Trench, Dean of Vi estminster; Dr. Alford, Dean of Canterbury ; the Rev. Thomas Aveling, Kings land ; Prof. Craik, of Queen's College, Belfast; Mr. Robt Davis, of York; and Mr. IL. G. Bob; h ave b een a dd e d to 'llO Nativicial Slashopere Committee, J In 13; Coi Inc Ea