The Sun. — London, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

THE ( 3IVIL WAR IN AMERICA, (1 tom the Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORK, Sept. 29. Ten dreys ago General Rosencranz was the only genu'ene Napoleon of the war. All others, includ ing General M'Cl.ellan, were fictitious, or, in Ameri can, parlance, " b ogus." Rosencranz was the man of the hour; the non-political General who was to win battles, pierce the heart :of the Confederacy, and bring the southern leaders to their knees howl ing for mercy. But General Bragg has wrought a change, and Rosencranz has been thrown from his pedestal, and will, unless he gain a victory even now —which no one expects,—be consigned to the lum ber-room where rest, more or less broken and dilapidated, the once heroic statues ,labelled with the names of M'Dowell, IVl‘Clellan,Fitzjob.n, Porter, Pope, Stone, Butler, and others, who have served thoeir turn, and are now considered neither useful nor ornamental. Disheartened by one reverse, the supporters of the administration are calling for the dismissal of Rosencranz, and the appointment in his place of General Thomas, whose division in the great battle tel Chickamauga on Sunday, the 20th inst., saved the army of the Cumberland from total rout and an nihilation. But the Administration, knowing that it ordered Rosencranz to advance against his better judgment, hesitates to adopt this course. Knowing at the same time that a scapegoat of some kind is necessary to appease the people, and help to divert attention from its own mismanagement, it has found the victim in the person of General Burnside, who, whether as military satrap of Ohio or a loader in the field, has been without exception the most unfortunate person the Federal Government has ever had in its employ. The General has had a keener appreciation of his own demerits than the Government. He has never willingly assumed high command; he protested against his own nomination to succeed General 111gCleltan ; he went reluctantly to Cincinnati to play the part of a dictator, but having once tasted the sweets of arbitrary power, he appears to have become unfitted for a secondary position, and to have yielded but a grudging obe dience to General Rosencranz, his junior in the ser vice. A fortnight ago he resigned his command, but was persuaded by the Government to reconsider his deterw.ination. He did so, and was ordered to mar cli frc,m Knoxville to the support of Rosencranz. This for some reason he failed to do. The battle of Chickamauga was fought in his absence, and Rosen era= was defeated. Though the same fate might have befallen the army of the Cumberland had Burn side been present with his 25,000 man, the Govern ment asuumes the reverse, and has marked its dis pleasure at his ill luck, or his inability, by relieving him of his command, and appointing General Joseph Hooker, the defeated of Chancellersville, in his place. But General Burnside has not been allowed to fall without a defender. Parson Brownlow, the most profane "rowdy" that ever pretended to preach the Gospel, or was dubbed " the reverend," a man who - would not be tolerated as a clergyman in any part of the world but in America, has publicly declared in the columns of the Cincinnati Commercial that Burnside has not been to blame, and that the Go vernment, in ordering him to advance, acted in the profoundest ignorance of the topography of the country to be traversed. The " Parson" states that 4, he has Down the country since 1829, when it was possessed by the Cherokee Indians; that he has in the interval travelled over it in every conceivable way ;" and that a great deal more was expected of Burnside than it was possible for Burnside to per form. The distance from Knoxville to Chattanooga is, he says, 110 miles, and from Chattanooga to La fayette—in the immediate vicinity of which the battles ol' the 19th and 20th were fought-45 miles more. 'Throughout this district all the bridges had been burnt by the Confederates ; the streams are sluggish and deep, and the banks high ; and the country thickly timbered with a heavy undergrowth, making it rather impassable for the operations of a large army." The "Parson" calls lustily for rein forcements for Rosencranz, and thinks, if he gets them "in sufficient numbers," which is exceedingly daub tful, that Rosencranz will " whip the whole f;onfederacy." As for himself, he has no fears of the result. Blood, murder, fire, and extermination are the; weapons he recommends. " Greek fire for the masses of the Southern people, and hell fire for thei r leaders"—so shrieks this minister of the Gospel, this man, who would be a shameless ruffian if he w m.e not a lunatic, which for the credit of Chris tianity and humanity it is to be charitably hoped ho must be. Public expectation has for weeks been on the stretch to hear of great events on the Rapidan and in the harbour of Charleston. But the war languishes in both places. General Meade has not the means to advance against General Lee, and though sorely pressed by the fools of Washington to run his head against a wall, refuses to perform the J apanese ceremony of Hari Kari. General Gilmore and Admiral Dahlgren at Charleston are equally power less, or equally prudent, and find themselves so effectually checkmated by General Beauregard and the gallant defenders of the brave little city as to be unable even to plant their banner upon the ruins of Fort Sumter, or make a single move with their monitors and ironclads against the formidable ob structions that might in one moment quench the pride of Ericsson, and prove that great as the capa cities of science are for offensive warfare, they are more than equalled by its capacities for defence. But Charleston, the Rapidan, and Chickamauga— all the phases of the war—have for the moment lost their interest in comparison with that excited by the Presence in New York harbour of a greater fleet of for • sign war vessels than was ever seen in those 'waters since the discovery of America. Admiral Milne, on board the Nile, arrived yesterday from the West India station , accompanied by the gunboats Immortalite and Ni mble. The French frigate Guerriere has sudd enl yreturned from Halifax with three others, and a Russi a n fleet of no less than seven war ships has been her e f or nearly a week. No one knows why this rendez vou s has been appointed, or ate - what hostile or amicable of it. Gen. - Hiram Wallbridg e, purposes a corn dealer and at the bottom one of those haters of En gland , who tossed con temptuously his grain bags to t he People of Lanca shire a few months ago when George Griswold was laden with ostentatious charity, to s how how mise rable English operatives were and how generous and forgiving were the merchants o f New York, ha s , it is true, taken u p on himself t o declare in presence of so me of the Russian officers the (who, alth oug h spoke Engl ish, and had previousl y addr essed the Y com pany in that lan g ua g e, did not p e. think it ex client to contr adict him), that the object of the Cz ar in sending such a fleet to New York was to have it at a place " where, at a given signal, it could sweep the commerce of Great Britain and France from the seas." But as Gen. Hiram Wallbridge is no autho rity upon that or any other matter, except the price of breadstuffs, the gratification that might have been excited in the American heart by his pompons an nouncement is qualified by the misgiving, largely Prevalent, that the bloodless general spoke from the e xuberance of feeling excited b y the flowing howl, r a ther than from knowledge or from any official P r otnptin, either Russian or Ameri can. Neverthe less, ther e g is much wonderment to pierce it, the mys tery 01 the _ n gold is aitl_neets. As no one can so l ve a nd as com modity ha rwl at the doubt, that trem ulous nom per cent., lest up from 38/ to a premium of 44 should, after all , G reat Britain, Frauce, and Russia and conjointly . 8 in accord, and have severally South for the comm anding to notify to North and harbour, that the war bad position of New York had lasted a great deal too long, and that it is highti me for the North to ad mit the logic of facts and the independence of the South , and consent to h• necessity, Among minor affairs the electio n e o f Mr. Vallan digham for the Governorship on f ohio takes prece dence. The event comes off x stra gentleman, effort is and will be made by ti,„ Atwee utnini k• Everyon to defeat the candidature of that ilia suc cess would ba a blow so damaging to the re putation of the Cabinet that no stone is left unturned it. The State is "stu m p e d" by ev ery 'nedto pre ki nd of speaker and orator in the interest of the Republic an party - ic'ho can be persuaded or paid to declaim against the man who in his exile gives Mr. Lincoln and bis friends almost as much uneasiness as Gen. Le© or Gen. Beauregard. The services of the gentle Anna Dickinson —gentle in anything but her tongue —and of the ungentle General Butler, are both said to be engaged for the occasion—the one to be rewarded by "greenbacks," the other by the pro mise of a high military appointment. Lectures, pam and phle appliancesnewspaperts, of articles—all the parapher naliapolitical warf ore—are in full activity. The soldiers of Ohio, servin.e with Gen. Meade or Gen. Rosencranz, or scattered in other parts of the Union, are to be allowed to vote in camp; and there can be little doubt that, under the control of their officers, they will be persuaded that to vote for Mr. Vallandigham will be treason, coming under the category of aid and comfort to the enemy. Should there be any ultra-democratic dis trict in the State likely to give Mr. Vallandigham a majority, disturbances will be fomented before the day of election, martial law will be proclaimed, and the ballot prevented. As the Irishvotet in Ohio is strong, and the Irish are Dem ocrats in pro portion of nine out of ten, thereforeandtheD at Democratic yt ic o support Mr. Vallandigham and ticket, it has been considered of extreme import ance that some eminent Irishman, having the ear of his compatriots, should publicly address the Irish in Ohio in favour of their Ministerial candi date. For this purpose General Francis Thomas meagher, known in the cabbage garden rebellion as Meagher of the Sword," has been selected. For- getful that had he not been a rebel he would have been nothing, not even a brigadier-general in the service of the North, and that he not only owes his present position but his life to the contemptuous clemency of the generous Government against which he took up arms, Gen. Meagher has written a long letter to the Union Committee of Ohio in denuncia tion of the Southern " rebels" and of Mr. Vallandig ham. He speaks of" the brilliant and vast advan tages of national unity," advantages that he would deny to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and indulges in a vast amount of Hiber nian eloquence on the subject of the Southern leaders and the Northern friends of peace. For the Copperheade, whose principles are those of the Con stitution and the law as it existed prior to the assumption of officeby Mr. Lincoln, he has no words but those of hate and scorn. New York, he says, abounds with them, which is true, and their venom, he adds, "as well as the slime, the fangs and the slippery skin of the reptiles, warn the country of danger," which is a figure of speech somewhat stale and overworn. He admits Mr. Vallandigham to be no contemptible foe, but one who has been consis tent, intrepid,uncompromising, and implacable from first to last, and as such calls on the people of Ohio to deal with him, and keep him, if not in exile, in obscurity until the war is over. If he be elected Go vernor, the imaginative brigadier without a brigade is of opinion that "the drooping spirits of the South will revive ; that the severe thin features of Mr. Jefferson Davis will dilate and soften with the news ; that the sweetest smiles will break out and play in tropical radiance all over the neat round chin, the dainty lips, and the plump and cosy cheeks of Mr. Judah Benjamin ; that Mr. Tombs will be induced in the enlivening sunshine of the event to think better of Southern finances ; that "the London Times will plunge into the wildest raptures of rhetoric ;" that " Lord Palmer. ston, spirited old rake that he is, will straighten himself up and talk more jauntily and impudently than ever ;" that " the shipwrights of Glasgow and Birkenhead will be emboldened to lay the keels of another couple of monstrous ironclads, to be named respectively the Vallandigham and the Cop perhead;" and that "M. Michel Chevalier will be inspired to write another pamphlet setting forth the expediency and grandeur of recognising the South." From these excerpts it will be seen that General Meagher's longer residence in America has not de prived his phraseology of its native characteristics ; that the fun of Donnybrook Fair, the persuasive ness of Blarney Castle, and the style of the Four Courts, still linger in his words, and lend to his pen those peculiar graces that flourish so luxuriantly in the Green Isle, and that not even transplantation to another hemisphere can deaden or eradicate. The General has been rather shabbily used by the Fede ral Government. His brigade was reduced by the casualties of war, by death, sickness, desertion, and disgust, to less than the number of a regiment; and he was not allowed to replenish its attenuated ranks, and march, as he wished to do, to new fields of glory, with " the green flag fluttering o'er him," in loving companionship with the stars and stripes. But he has not been discouraged, and if, after his letter to the people of Ohio, he be not again ap pointed to a command, Mr. Lincoln will be as un grateful as ail Princes are supposed to he, and as he, having more than the power and authority of a Prince, ought certainly to be, if he would duly qualify himself to take his proper moral rank among the despots of the world. Want of sympathy with the effort of the Federal Republicans to overrun the South with fire and sword, and with a policy of emancipation that would only free the slave in order to expatriate him, has long been considered so flagrant an offence on the part of the British people and their rulers as almost sufficient to justify a declaration of war. But weary of declaiming against Englishmen in the ag gregate, the Abolitionist fanatics who think the Union of all the States preferable to liberty and the law in any of them, have taken to abusing English men and English institutions in detail. The clergy of the Church of England, as a rule, sympathise with the South. For this reason, the Church of England is a wicked institution, and ought to be abolished. The titled aristocracy of England consider that Mr. Jefferson Davis has as good a case against the North as Gee. Washington had against George 111. ; therefore the aristocracy of England ought no longer to be suffered to exist. The commercial classes rejoice at the prospect of Southern independence, for commercial, not for sentimental reasons; and therefore these classes are base and sordid, and ought in due time to be made to suffer for their heresy by feeling the full weight of a war that shall sweep their commerce from the seas. Any one who does not side with the North is "no gentleman." And as for the poets, novelists, essayists, and historians of England, they have not the slightest spark of manly feeling in their bosoms, not because they exalt the cause of the South, but because they have not a word to say in favour of the North. "We have yet," says a New York Abolition journal of Satur day last, "to encounter among the idealists of England the first great, generous, far-reaching phrase, respecting the nature, aim, and result of our mighty contest. Dickens has not a word of cheer, nor Thackeray, nor Tennyson, nor Bulwer, nor the lesser lights." A Bostonian Abolitionist is equally scandalised at the apathy of British men of letters. " Let us not," he says, " reprint the works of or even make quotations from the pages of these English enemies. There is no good time c d o e m at i h ng st i r n ug th g i l s e c i, ountry for the poets and novelists who have no symlptatnheyvertoseeemxsprteossstfroikreussucinh cri tics tics as tehneusseethwa.hti, a h fter all, there may be something irnntghleiehman, withc ghtfrtokerls sympathy, and that an prefer the strai a his dislike of slavery, may the h with Southernkindnes s, planter, who treats the negroes enforced labour, to y p po h c!itical Northern Abo litionist, who has made u is over that every black shall smind when the war man be extruded from the country, or hunted down as remorselessly as the Red Indians. They do not see, too, that the sturdy Englishman, whenever he is witness of a fight be tween a big man and a little one, always takes the little one's part. The heathen philosopher declared that a brave man struggling with adversity was a spectacle that was pleasing to the gods. A gallant nation fighting for its independence against tearful odds, and never losing heart or hope in the darkest day of its fortunes, desiring only to be left alone, encouraging no dream of conquest or dominionover others, and turning defeat itself with matchless skill and courage in to a fu l crum of future victory, is, in like manner, a spectacle t h at the idealist, the poet, and every generous-minded man, must look upon with favour. That they should withhold their sympathy because these brave m en possess slaves is simply impassible; for, if the question of slave holding were to determine either in the past or the present, the degree of favour with which the heroic strugglese for independen ce of individuals or a peopl e and their liberty were to be regarded, such havoc would be made e in the pages of history th at there would scarcely b e a great name l e ft in the wide THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1863. interval of time that separates the days of the patriarch Abraham from those of George Washing ton. But these one-idead Abolitionists deserve their name, although they have not yet abolished slavery or the negro, they have abolished the Union, the constitution, and the writ of Habeas Corpus. And if they and their armies be half as successful as they hope, they will end by abolishing the peace of the civilised world, and perhaps the existence of the Federal North, as a political and military unit. Disasters off the North-East Coast. SHIELDS, Monday Evening. A sad boat accident occurred upon the bar of the Tyne this morning, by whict two men met instant death. In consequence of the recent N.E. winds a rough sea has been breaking upon our coastduring the past three or four days, and this morning there was an awkward swell on the bar, and, the recent heavy fals of rain having flooded the river, a strong ebb tide was ruining out to sea. A number of ships had arrived in the offing during the night, and this morning after daylight steamboats, pilots, and foyboatmen put off to them. Abet': 7 o'clock this morning, the tide being last quarter ebb, ind running down strong, Edward Rogers and Joseph Bage, foyboatmen, proceeded down the estuary of the Tyne in $ small ballast boat, with a view of going out to sea. They were towed down the Narrows by the Brothers steam-tug, but getting among the sea, and being aware of their danger, they called to the steamboat men to cast off the towline, which they did. The poor fellows then pulled for their lives to endeavour to find a place of shelter in Prices Haven, but they were too late. As they were pulling a huge wave overlapped them and capsized the boat. They were observed from the shore to crawl on to the boat's bottom, and the steamboat put about to try to save them, but durst not go near enough on account of the broken water, and a third sea struck the poor fellows, washed then off the boat, and drowned them. With the usual daring courage of Tyneside men, no sooner was the accident seen from the shore than the William Wake lifeboat was raanned and pulled out into the raging sea. But the lifeboat was too late; the men had disap peared. Roger's bay was washed up on the Spar Hawk rock about an hour after the accident, and the boat has drifted ashore. A number of men are among the rocks looking for the body of Bage. Rogers has left a widow and four children, and the poor woman is far advanced in pregnancy. A report got about that two Hartlepool pilots, whose coble had upset with them off the Durham coast in the storm of last week, had been picked up by a Tyne steam boat and brought in here. That, unhappily, is not the case ; there is no doubt that they are drowned. The local papers of this morning contain particulars of the total wreck of the Energy steamboat, of Middlesborough, in the habit of trading between that town and the Tyne About half-past 7 o'clock on Saturday morning some Pilots on the Hartlepool Heugh observed a steamboat com ing out of the Tees, and as the tide had considerably ebbed, and there being a heavy sea running, they concluded it was some strange boat unacquainted with the navigation of the river, and with their glasses eagerly watched its progress over the bar. When crossing this dangerous point it was evident she had struck, probably on some sunken wreck, for she turned athwart, and the sea breaking over her a few times she disappeared from view. At Seaton she was also taken particular notice of, and after she sank a portion of her mast and funnel were for a short time discernible, but they gradually disappeared. The Seaton lifeboat was at once equipped, manned, and taken along the sands to launch op posite to where the steamboat went down. She left the beach and, after an hour's severe struggle through the turbulent waves, came near the place where the melancholy scene had just been witnessed, but not a vestige of the wreck was to be seen. The fate of the poor fellows being inevitable,the lifeboat bore away for shore. An hour after the steamboat had sunk a quantity of wreck, washed up on the Hartlepool rocks and the West Hartlepool sands, and a piece of taffel rail,' picked up at sea by a pilot-cobble, being put on board the Thomas and Mary steamtug, was identified by Mr. Dawson, the owner, as being part of the Energy steamboat, of Middlesborough, the property of Mr. F. Leitch, which Mr. Dawson had formerly in his employ. In addition to the crew of this steamer, it is more than probable, from the number of vessels in the offing, that some pilots would be on board, as they would be unable to proceed to sea in their own boats. The steamboat was uninsured, and is valued from £l,OOO to £1,600." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. DAILY NEWS.—" The great Liberal cause " of which the Hon. Henry Cowper was the champion at Tamworth, has gone the way of the " great Libe ral cause" as represented by Mr. Arthur Peel at Coventry last week. It has been ott both occasions soundly and handsomely beaten. We hasten to as sure our morning and evening ministerial contem poraries that we are as little distressed as surprised at these defeats. Nor, we may be allowed to add, should we have felt the least elated at the triumph instead of the discomfiture of the great Liberal cause, as it was personified by the defeated of Coventry and Tamworth. Believing, as we most Quixoti cally do, that politics should be public morality in action, we discern a righteous logic in these repulses, and we smile at the spectacle of personal government perishing of inanition. For those who have only a life interest in the " great Liberal cause," such losses must be bitter ; but for those who represent a principle and not a person, and who look to what the great Liberal cause is to be ten years hence, the recent elections at Coventry and Tamworth point an obvious and instructive moral. The Liberal party have been recommended by the hizhest authority to seek in contented repose the reward of past struggles, and to be thankful that the Whigs are in office. This is no doubt excellent advice for the satisfied ; but why should the Oppo sition be satisfied ? Granted that the true test of modern Liberalism is fidelity to an aged Minister whom nine-tenths of the Conservatives cheerfally accept, and that modern Conservatives are only Li berals out of office, still there must always be a con siderable majority of Liberals and Conservatives out of office, and consequently unable to rest and be thankful. " Love the gift is love the debt." A Government that exists by conciliating its opponents is apt to alienate its friends, and a Go vernment without a policy or a principle is at the mercy of local and personal discontents. Coventry having for years elected an expert and venerable cynic who had been a zealous Reformer when to be a Reformer was to do the dirty work for the Whigs, has naturally chosen for its new member an old gen tleman who has the courage to preach and profess what his predecessor only counselled in secret. Mr. Ellice, it is true, was a free-trader by conviction and in action, but what other principle did he re present in Parliament if not the principle of " leave well alone ?" Now, this is a principle which Co• ventry is not in the best of humours to appreciate just now; so when a young man comes down to lecture them with the premature gravity of an ex hausted Whig, they prefer the old Tory, dry and crusted, who does not taste of " the wood." Having no principle before them to fight for, they take to the man who is most originalin his talk, and they admire independence, though it be indepen dence of common sense; and Tory talk of forty years ago has a savour of independence in these sterile and neutral days. The rationale of these Op position victories is not far to seek. Look at Tam worth, where the Hon. H. Cowper was announced by his great local patron as " the popular candidate" and the champion of " the Liberal cause." As though his name and connection were not enough to guar antee this aspiring young gentleman's political in dependence, Sir Robert Peel, whose exalted patrio tism sinks the family in the party and the party in the Government he serves, assured the electors that ha had known nothing of this name sake of the Chief Commissioner of Works until Mr. Cowper came to Tamworth as a candidate ; but that Mr. Cowper, and not Mr. John Peel, was the truly Liberal and popular candidate, because ho was a thick-and-thin supporter of Lord Palmerston. A very few years ago Sir Robert would have said as much of a thick-and-thin supporter of Lord Derby. Mr. Cowper's opponent, the Mr. John Peel, whom Sir Robert stigmatises as a " name sake," but who is also a near relation of Sir Robert's, is clearly, to judge from his speeches, as good a Liberal as Mr. Cowper. The only difference we can detect between them is the difference between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Mr. Cowper, who has probably taken some lessons from his friend, the Tamworth Alcibiades, speaks perhaps with more dash and desinvolture than his rival ; but his principles are as hopelessly mature as those of a Patronage Secretary. On financial and economical questions Mr. John Peel is at least as sound a free-trader as Mr. Cowper, for he declares himself a faithful follower and disciple of the late Sir R. Peel. As to church rates, Mr. Peel has a great re spect for those who differ from him, and would do violence to no man's conscience, but he is a member and sincere lover of the Church. Mr. Cowper won't vote for total abolition, but he wishes the rate to be abolished for dissenters. As to political reform. Mr. Cowper does not believe the question is likely to be agitated at present ; but he will be ready to vote for a moderate extension of the suffrage ; but, at the same time, he wishes it to be extended rather to individuals than to classes, and any bill for admitting " a certain number of people who ought to be recognised by the constitution" shall " receive his earliest consideration." Mr. Peel is an ardent lover of the British Constitution, but desires the Hou3e of Commons "to be in practice what it is in theory, a faithful representative of all classes of the community," As to the American war and foreign policy in general, both Mr. Peel and Mr. Cowper are for neutrality and non-intervention. As to the present Government, however, Mr. Cow per, as Sir Robert somewhat superfluously declares for him, is a sure supporter of Lord Palmerston ; whereas Mr. Peel is certified to be " a hearty and independent well-wisher" only. That is the amount of difference between the candidates, except indeed that one of them bears the names of Peel, which we are glad to find has not yet become a disad vantage at Tamworth, in spite of the generous efforts of the head of the family. It may be assumed, therefore, that the electors of Tamworth have preferred the " independent well-wisher" of Lord Palmerston to his thick-and-thin sup• porter, and the near relative of the late Sir Robert Peel to the namesake of Lord Palmerston s Chief Commissioner of Works, though recom mended by the late Sir Robert Peel's namesake. In short, at Tamworth as at Coventry, having nothing to choose in political professions between the can didates, the electors stood up for their local inde pendence—and as local independence is itself a principle worth fighting for, we are quite disposed to congratulate the Tamworth electors on their triumph. POST.—Up to the time when the last mail left America the victory of the Confederates at Chatta nooga had led to no important results. It is conceded that on that occasion the Northern army suffered se verely, but nevertheless Gen. Bragg has been unable to turn his success to any practical account. It would seem as if the armies of the two Federations not only in Virginia but in Tennessee were so evenly matched that either can by entrenching its posi tion, render it an almost hopeless enterprise for the other to attempt to overwhelm it. All the principal battles in the Border States were succeeded by long terms of inactivity, during which the opposed armies contented themselves with sluggishly watch ing each other's movements. The battle:of Antie tam was succeeded by three months of manoeuvring in Northern Virginia ; and when at length a vain effort was made by Burnside to force the Confede rate lines at Fredericksburg., a still longer interval elapsed before the attempt was renewed with equal ill success by General Hooker. General Rosen . cranz has now entrenched himself at Chattanooga, and the Confederates, who, having already occupied the same position are well acquainted with its strength, hesitate before attempting to dislodge their worsted but still formidable opponent. Gene ral Burnside has not as yet been able to effect a junction 'with. what may not inappropriately be termed the beleaguered army. His force still re mains at Knoxville, although, according to the latest rumour, no longer under his command. About a month since it was reported that he had sent in his resignation to the Government at Washington, and that it had not been accepted. Now, however, we hear that General Burnside has been relieved from his duties, and that General Hooker, the hero of Chancellorsville, has been appointed in h is stead. Mr. Lincoln has so frequently tried the hazardous experiment of displacing generals at the most criti cal junctures, and invariably with such ill luck, that we should have supposed he would by this time have been convinced of its extreme danger. Whatever may have been General Burnside's motives for resigning some weeks since, when to all appearances entering on a victorious campaign, we can hardly believe that in the precarious position in which the troops under his command are now placed he would be so unpatriotic and, we might add, so dastardly as to press his resignation upon the Federal Government. Burnside is very far from being a model general, but he is honourably distinguished in many respects from his reputed successor, Hooker. The latter threw up the command of the army of the Potomac as soon as Lee entered Maryland, for no other reason than because he believed that the Federal troops would be unable to stem the tide of Southern inva sion. He therefore gladly shifted his responsibility to the shoulders of another. We cannot believe that Burnside could set in a similar manner. His resignation was doubtless under consideration, and, for some reasons test known to themselves, the advisers of Mr. Lincoln decided on reinstating "fighting Joe Hooker" in an important command. The reverses sustained in the West by the Confede racy have not at all events had the effect of dispirit ing the population of those States whose indepen dence was more immediately jeopardised by the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. The command of the Mississippi by the Federal gunboats, it was rightly supposed, would have the effect of severing in twain the western portion of the Confederacy, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING. The usual amount of interest attendant on the second of the autumn meetings was not lacking apparently to this, if we may judge from the trains laden with men and horses that successively poured into Newmarket from Saturday until Monday. It would be rather a difficult matter to de cide which was at the highest premium in the town, accom modation for man or horse, so evenly balanced was the tariff which the inhabitants have framed for the benefit and delight of its frequenters. The ground, despite some heavy rain last week, and a steady downpour on Sunday night, was in good order for going, and as the weather promised to hold up) this morn ing, a brilliant meeting was anticipated. But comparatively few subscribers were present at the rooms last night. For the Cesarewitch Lioness still held her position, 100 to 30 being offered, while Emblem was in force at 9to 1. The advance of Lord Coventry's mare, and the coming of Sum merside at " the corner" on Saturday, with the consequent retirement of Myrtle, were the only noticeable events in the betting. The racing to-day presented no remarkable features, though the contests were, in most cases, close ones. Wal loon again showed his form over the T.Y.C. by winning cleverly with the steadying weight of Bst 121 b, after a good race with Peignoir; Mr. Greville having paid forfeit in the other two. Lord Glasgow won his only remaining match to-day with the Maid of Masham filly, Sir Joseph Hawley's Rapidan never succeeding in reaching her. Light's run ning in the (second class) £5O for 2-yr-olds showed a great falling off on her spring form, when she met and defeated her present conqueror at Ascot, and Marquis of Hastings' Attraction proved a good thing for the fielders in the Han dicap for 2 and 3-yr-olds. Linda very easily beat Lord Stamford's Yamuna in the 300 sovs Sweepstakes, and then " the Cesarewitch trial," as it has been called, a Handicap Plate of £5O over that course, excited the attention of the speculators. Gibraltar, despite his weight, from his recent good running at Bedford, was made about equal favourite with Bally Edmond and Tornado, ani very gamely the old horse ran, but the heavy impost of 9st 71b told over that severe course, and he suc cumbed a few yards from home, Bally Edmond winning easily by four lengths, The other events call for no particular remarks. The afternoon ultimately turned out a magnificent one, with a drying breeze and warm sun. Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, and only sft, to go to the owner of the second horse ; for 3-yr-olds a nd up wards. Z.Y.C. 13 subs., 4of whom declared. Mr. C. P. Hudson's Walloon, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (A. Edwards) 1 Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Peignoir, 4 yrs, 7st 71b....(Da1eY) 2 Baron Rothschild's Canace,3 yrs, 6st 111b(J.Nightingall) 3 Lord Chesterfield's Zelle, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (S. Rogers) 4 Mr. H. Goater's Creole, 3 yrs, 7st 21b .. (r. French) 5 Mr. S. Thelluson's Laura, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (Mord an) 6 Betting-7 to 4 agst Peignoir, 4to 1 agst Canace, 7to 1 agst Laura. After a quarter of an hour's delay, occasioned by Canace breaking away, the flag was lowered to an excellent start, Peignoir on the extreme right, with Walloon and Canace at his girths, came on with a slight lead into the cords, where Walloon got to his head, and ran looked to the end, the favourite running the longest, winning at last by a neck, a length separating the second and third; the others were beaten off a long distance. First Class Fifty Pounds, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101b.and fillies, Bst 81b. T.Y.C. Dake of Beaufort's Crytheia, Bst 81b. (Judd) 1 Mr. W. G. Craven's Young Rapid, Bst 101 b (J. Goater) 2 Sir J. Hawley's Caryophyllus, Bst 101 b (Wells, 4 The following also ran :--Lucky Star, No Name, Temp lar, Guerilla, London, and Miss Whip filly, Betting-2 to 1 agst Young Rapid, sto 1 agst Cary • ophyllus, 6to 1 agst Crythea, 8 to 1 agst the Miss Wh i p filly, and 7 to 1 agst No Name. London in company w ith th e f avour it e , G u erilla, and Caryophyllus made play a t a s l ow p ace un til entering the cords, when Young Rapid drew away, closely attended on the whip hand by Crytheia, and Sir Joseph's colt, wide on the left. Half way up C r yth e i a h ea d e d the favourite, and won a fine race on the p os t by a s h or t head. There were two lengths between the second and third, the Miss Whip colt finishing fourth, three lengths their rear. No Name was fifth, G uer ill a s i x th, and Temp lar next. Lucky Star and London, side by side, were the last two. Match, Sst 101 b each, T.Y.C. 300 sovs, h ft. Lord Glasgow's Maid of Masham filly (Alcroft) 1 Sir J. Hawley's Rapidan (W ells) 2 Betting-5 to 2on the Maid of Masham filly. The favourite came on with a clear lead into the cords, where Wells brought up Rapidan, who for a few strides ap peared to have the best of it, but giving way shortly after, he was beaten by half a length. Second Class. £5O, for 2-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillie s Bst Sib, T.Y.C. Baron Rothschild's To ma t o (Wells) 1 Mr. Lincoln's Light (Una Honer) 2 Lord Glasgow's Fl u tt er co lt (Aldcroft) 3 Mr. G. Angell's El g i va (Terry) 4 Mr. Clark's Rood ee (Fordh am) 5 Lord Westmoreland's Signalman (J, Goater) 6 Mr. Saville's G enera l L ongstree t (j. Mann) 7 Betting -6 to 4 apt Light, and 7to 4 agst T omato. Roodee, with the two favourites lying up, m ade play to the cords, wh ere h e d ro pp e d b ac k, l eav ing Light w it h a slight advantage, which she retained to half way up, when Wells brought up Tomato, who won in a canter by two lengths; the Flutter colt was a bad third; the others, who were widely spread, passed the post as placed by the judge. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, for 2 and 3-yr-olds T.Y.C. 14 pubs. Marquis of Hastings's Attraction, 2 yrs,6st 91b (a 6st 101 b) (Deacon) Mr. Saxon's Water Kelpie, 3 yrs, 6st 7lb (jr. Grireshaw) 2 Baron Rothschild's Canace, 3 yrs, 7st 91b ...... (Daley) 3 Oscar, Dolphin, Dirt Cheap, Edward the Confessor, Bay Celia, and Warhorse also ran. Betting ---2 to 1 agst Privateer, 9to 2 agst Water Kelpie, 5 to 1 agst Warhorse, 6 to 1 agst Dolphin, 10 to 1 each agst Attraction and Oscar. Water Kelpie, lying on the far side, made play, closely attended by Dolphin and Canace, Attraction, with Dirt Cheap following next wide on their left. They ran thus to half way in the cords, where Attraction ran past her horses and took a clear lead, which she held to the end, and won very cleverly by half a length, three quarters of a length separating th e secon d an d thi r d, D o lphin fourth , Warhorse fifth, Priv a t eer s i x th, an d O scar seve nth. Match, Bst 71b each, last half Ab M.; 100 soya h ft. Mr. Payne's Tomfoolery received. Duke of St. Albans' Ostentation, paid. Sweepstakes of 300 sovs each, h ft, for 2-yr-olds ; fillies Bst 101 b; those out of mares that never bred a winner of 600 sous allowed 31b ; last half of Ab M. Mr. N a yl or ' s Linda, Bst 71b .............. (Challoner) 1 Lord St am f or d' s Y amuna, Bst 10 16 ...... (A. Edwards) 2 They ran in company 3 subs. Betting -5 to l on Linda. to half way down the hill, whe re Linda dre w away, and won i n a can t e r by two lengths. Handicap Plate of X5O, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Cesarewitch Course. Mr. S. Thellusson's Bally Edmond, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b (Fordham) 1 Mr. Lowe 's Gibraltar, lla 6 yrs 9st 71b (Custance) 2 Lord Stanford's Dnicibe; 6 yrs, Bst 71b (A. Edwards) 3 Tattoo, Past e , Black Prince, Myrtle, Gorse, Fitz Eva, Tornado, Little Dick, and Villette also ran. Betting -5 to 1 eaah agst Gibraltar, Bally Edmond, and Tornado, 7 to 4 agst Dalcibella, 8 to 1 each agst Gorse, and Little Dick, 10 to 1 agst Villette, 15 to 1 agst Paste, 20 to 1 agst Myrtle, 100 to 3 agst Fitz Eva. At the second attempt they were despatched upon equi table terms, the light weight, Little Dick, taking a decided lead immediately they settled into their places, having Myrtle, Villette, Dulcibella, and Gorse as his immediate followers to the ditch gap, when Lord Stamford's mare came up on the extreme right and assumed the command, closely followed by Paste, Little Dick, Tornado, Gorse, and Myrtle, the two heavy weights following next on their left. They ran in these positions nearly in a line to within a short distance of the Bushes-hill, w)aere Fordham brought Bally Edmond to the front, and in a few strides dispossessed Dulcibella of the lead, and was joined im mediately after by Gibraltar, the three running together into the bottom. Half-way up Gibraltar made his effort to reach the Lewes horse, but failed, and was beaten with great ease by four lengths. Dulcibella finished a bad third, Gorse fourth, Tornado fifth, Myrtle sixth, Little Dick seventh, and Villetta next, all widely spread. The last three were Fitz Eva, Tattoo, and Black Prince. Match, last half of R.M. 200 soya, h ft. Lord Westmox land's Confidence, .5 yrs, Bst 101 b (J. Goater) 1 Mr. Beauclerk's Southport, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (Aldcroft) 2 Betting-5 to 4on Confidence, who won in the last stride by a head. Renewal of the Sweepstakes of 50 soya each, 30ft ; for 3-yr old fillies, Bst 71b ; 31b and 51b allowed, with 61b for maidens. D.M. 3 subs. Sir R. 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To add to the metits of Holloway's medicine no risk or danger attends its use, n a wea kness follows its employment, Extraordinary Conduct of a Clergyman, On the 25th ultimo a pooman named John Alcock, a parishioner of and res idi ng a t Cauldon, died from age and paralysis, after having been in a helpless state for years. On the following Sunday—viz., the 27th ult.—the body was taken by hie f r i en d s an d re l a ti ves to be interred in the usual way at the parish church, when, strange to say, the Rev. Rowland Henniker, the incumbent of Cauldon, refused to perform this solemn duty, and this without assigning any reason for his strange behaviour. This, of course, created great excitement. The body still remaining unburied on the 30th ult., information of the fact was sent by the parish clerk to the Bishop of Lichfield, who wrote an expostulatory , letter to M r . H enn ik er . Hi s l or dship wrote to the clerk, re questing him with the churchwarden to endeavour to get the body i n t erre d . Wi t h t h e bi s h o p's letter in h an d th e y, with some fri e nds of th e d e ceased, appealed to the clergy man to bury the body. Mr. Henniker, however, still refused, giving permission to the clerk to put the body in the grave, but refusing himself to read the burial service. His continued refusal was again made known to the bishop, who wrote to the clerk and churchwardens requesting them to get the nearest clergyman to bury the body, and promising to in demnify them from any consequences which might result. The Rev. IV C . Ward, of Carlton, volunteered to perform the service, and fixed a time, but Mr. Henniker, who had got possession of both keys of the church doors, positively told Mr. Ward he should not do so, still refusin.e to read the burial service over the body himself. On Sunday, the 4th inst., Mr. Henniker tried, by offers of beer and money, to get some persons to remove the body out of the church, but as the inhabitants were determined that the body should have Christian burial, he was unable to accomplish his object, and the churchyard was described as being on that day more like the scene of a riot than consecrated ground. As the friends of the deceased were afraid that the body would be clandestinely removed at night into the grave without Christian burial, a watch was kept day and night for several days and nights past. What the result of this disgraceful affair will be it is hard to conjecture. The mat ter is being represented to the bishop from various quarters, and is creating well-merited expressions of disgust at Mr. Henniker's conduct. Mr. Henniker had a short time pre vious given notice to his clerk that he should not inter the bodies of any more Dissenters, telling him he must take the responsibility of the interment of Dissenters upon himself. It appears, however, in the present case the deceased had been brought up a Churchman, and was at least an occa sional worshipper at church. The relatives of the deceased had also been interred in the churchyard of Cauldon. The feelings of the friends and relatives of the deceased may be better imagined than described, for although in receipt of parochial relief previous to his death, the deceased was so ranch respected that his friends undertook the expenses of his burial without any aid from the parish authorities. The foregoing represents the state of affairs up to Tuesday night. From inquiries made on the spot yesterday we learn that after repeated endeavours to obtain Mr. Henniker's consent to give the body a Christian burial, the Rev.W. C. Ward, and the friends of the deceased, determined to do so without his consent. Accordingly, on Thursday, they pro ceeded to the church, and, in the presence of a very large number of people, forcibly obtained possession of the body. They were proceeding to bury it when Mr. Henniker ar rived, and, after taking the surplice off Mr. Ward, locked himself up in the church. The burial service was then read by Mr. Ward in the churchyard, without a surplice, and the corpse was thus interred after remaining above ground 14 days. Whether the incumbent of Cauldon will be made amenable to the ecclesiastical law for his conduct yet remains to be seen. The strangest part of the affair is that, so far as we can ascertain, he has never assigned any reason for refusing burial to his late parishioner. As showing the excitement which has been created by the affair we may state that daring the last 12 days the church has been watched by as many as 16 men at night, in order to prevent the clandestine removal of the body out of the church.—Stafordshire Sentinel. CURIOUS ACTION.--The Civil Tribunal of Lyons has recently given judgment in an action brought by Dr. Bron, of that city, against the executors of the late Marshal de Castelline, to recover a, sum of 2,000 f. as his fees for attending the Marshal during the 15 days preceding his decease. It appeared from the statement of counsel that the Marshal had been in the habit of giving his physician sf. per visit, and that all was paid to the 31st August. After that date the state of the Marshal's y, h ea lth rendered it necessary for the p laintiff to remain with him five or six hours dail an d on the Marshal's death he su perintended th e embalment of the body. For these services he demanded 2.000 f. On the side of the defence,lit was argued that the plaintiff had at first demanded only 400 f., being 240 f. for three visits daily from the Ist to the 16th, and 100 fr. each for two nights which he passed at the Marshal's, but th a t h e afterwards demanded 1,030 f., and ultimately, 2,000 f, This amount was considered exorbi tant by the execut ors , w ho refused to p a y more than 500 f. The court, after h ear ing the plai ntiff ' s counsel in re p l y , gave a judgment t o th e effect that , althou g h the p lain tiff's devoted services could hardly be estimated in mone y , it re sulted from the circumstances of the case that the offers of the executors wore sufficient, an d accordingly awarded the invariably e they cures them, always plaintiff the 500 f. paid into Cou rt, leaving each p art y to pay their own costs. 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In the first place, the isolation has proved by no means so complete as was expected; and secondly, the sentiments of the population have not undergone the favourable ch ange which was anticipated. An address has been issued by the Governors of Texas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Arkansas, to the inhabitants of those States, as also to the allied Indian nations, inciting them to rene wed struggles in the cause of independence. Like the great majority of Southern manifestoes, it is couched in a very moderate tone. The fall of Vicksburg is admitted to have seriously interrupted the communications between the two sections of the Confederacy, and to have thrown each of them mainly on its own resources. The most serious blowsinflicted on the Southern States have, how ever, had the effect of compelling the population to be more self-dependent than they had previously been, and it is with an honest pride that the popu lation can point to the extraordinary progress which they have made in the development of their indus trial resources at the same time that they have been waging a most unequal war. The Governors of the south-western States consequently see in the loss of the command of the Mississippi less to regret than they might have done at an earlier period of hostilities. It is certainly true that in many respects the resisting power of the Confederacy has been much increased during the past twelve months. Mines have been opened, and factories established, in the Southern States, which, but for the war, would never have been heard of. When the South first raised its banner of independence it was com pelled to rely exclusively on foreign States for its supplies of the material of war. " Now," to quote the words of the address, " with our own manufac tories of cannon, arms, powder, and other munitions of war . . with cotton as a basis for financial measures, and with abundance of food, we are able to conduct a vigorous defence and seize occasions for offensive operations against the enemy." What ever may be the issue of the war, or whatever the results to which, in other respects, it may give rise, the Southern States will have gained a material advantage if, at its conclusion, they have learned the great lesson of self-dependence. The political importance attached by the New York press to the arrival of a Russian fleet in Ame rican waters, and the warmth with which the officers of the most despotic of autocrats have been welcomed by the model democracy of modern times, afford striking illustrations of the peculiar character of American institutions. There is pro verbially no despotism so uncompromising as that of a mob or its nominees, and it therefore seems natural that the Government which has during the past two years frittered away the liberties of the American people should cordially fraternise with the representatives of the Sovereign who is now, after his own peculiar manner, reforming the con stitution of Poland. If any proof were wanting to demonstrate how totally antagonistic to every notion of constitutional government is the regime which has now for some time been established at Washing ton, it would be supplied by the sympathy which is so ostentatiously manifested by the Americans for the Russian Government. The fact that England and Russia are now at issue on an important matter would in itself lead the Americans to strain a point to do especial honour to the latter. But, indepena dently of this consideration, we believe that those who have done their best to carry a war of extermi nation into the States of the Confederacy cannot but have a fellow feeling for the Government which has decimated the population of the kingdom of Poland. We might have doubted whether it were possible for the population of the Northern States further to alienate from themselves the sympathy of Europe, but we must admit that by thus gratuitously ap proving of a policy which the rest of the world con demns as barbarous, they have succeeded in widening the chasm which already separated them from those States which regard religion, humanity, and law as something more than empty names. Times. -T hat some men have greatness thrust upon them has been said often enough to be believed without a fresh example, but our foreign letters apprise us that the Times has recently contributed to the very unexpected elevation of an unknown gentleman to renown and favour. It seems that a Mr. Apol or Appel—for the heroic syllables are ambiguously spelt—has been accepted on the scene of the Polish insurrection as the correspondent of this journal, and has found himself not a little in debted to the importance with which this imaginary capacity invested him. Whoever he may be, or on whatever errand he may be bound, he did actually join one of the insurgent bands on Polish territory, and in that company he went into battle. We may hope that he conducted himself becomingly, but it appears that at the end of an engagement he was found, not metaphorically, but actually, "up a tree." In that proverbially awkward position he was descried by a Cossack, who endeavoured to bring him down by a bullet, but who missed his mark. Judiciously declining to risk a second shot, Mr. Appel deEcended from his eyrie, made terms with the Cossack below, and surrendered at discre tion. The predicament might have been an exceed ingly unpleasant one hut for his official reputation. It is painful to think what might have become of plain Mr. Appel, taken with arms in his hands, but " our own correspondent" was reserved for a diffe rent treatment. The distinguished captive was escorted with especial ceremony to the town of Lublin, and there brought into the presence of the Russian Commander, by whom, instead of being handed over to a file of soldiers, he was invited to dinner. That he should drink the health of the Emperor Alexander was, under such circum stances, perhaps, a pardonable proceeding, but we trust it is untrue that his politeness induced him to abuse and malign the cause of his late comrades. However, we have only now to say that Mr. Apel or Appel is not, and never has been, any correspondent of ours. No such person has any connexion with this journal. We have no know ledge of the man whatever. We are much obliged to General Chrnstcheff for the attention which he showed to a supposed representative of the Times, and we ought to acknowledge, we presum e , the complimentary terms in which the "interesting" prisoner was introduced to the notice of the Russian public by the journals of that country, but the simple fact is that their politeness has all been thrown away. Whether Mr. Appel did really de scribe himself as our correspondent, or whether, as we ought perhaps in charity to presume, his ac t u al connexion with some other employers was magnified by popular imagination into a special mission from the Times, we can but say that the whole story is a delusion. He may be a correspon dent of some kind, bat he is no correspondent of ours. We are not accountable in any way w hatever for him or his doings, and the Russians must dis abuse themselves of the idea that they have ca ught a correspondent of the Times, and impressed him by their magnanimity and deference. M r. Appal w i ll soon be owned by somebody, we dare say, but he is no property of ours. We suppose we must not com plain of such accidents, but it would be well ii foreigners would be at the p ains to verify such claims as were set up on beh alf of Mr. Appel. T he representatives of the Times in all parts of the world are always properly accredited, and little difficulty will be found in authenticating their posi tion. It is intelligible enough that pretensions should be occasionally made to such a character without foundation or warrant, but the imposture cou ld not be easily maintained. We do not say that in the case before us there was any imposition at all. We have as yet no exact information about the facts, and it would not be very surprising if some species of newspaper connexion had, in Mr. Appel's case, been translated by rumour into a connexion with that newspaper of which foreigners hear most. We place the truth of the matter before the world because we do not choose to be misrepresented, or to allow the doings of an unknown person to be fathered on the Times. If it is imagined either at St. Petersb urg or W arsaw th a t M r . App e l was sent into Poland by us, or that he enjoys any connexion of any kind whatsoever with this journal, the idea must be at once discarded. We have never heard of the man until this moment. For his proceed ings, whatever they may have been, he must bs accountable either to some other employers or to himself alone. A bl THE ANNAMITE AMBASSADORS.—zx lanquet, followed by a display of fireworks, took place the evening before last, at the residence of the Annaraite Am bassadors, in honour of the birthday of their Sovereign. Numerous invitations had been issued to persons in the official world. Although females in Cochin China hold but a secondary rank, and never sit, particularly in the higher classes, at table with their husbands, Phan-Tang- Giang departed from the usual etiquette, and invited Mme. Vannier, the old Annamito lady,formerly married to a French officer, and her;daughter to the banquet. They presented themselves in splendid Annamite costume, and the ambas sador, feeling grateful for this mark of attention, departed from the customs of the East, and paid them a well-turned compliment on their politeness. Oa the company taking their seats at table, M. Aubaret, the officer who acts as in terpreter, presented the first ambassador with a letter from M. Drouyn do Lhuys, in which the hon. Minister testified to the delegates of Tu-Dec his sympathy in the fete which was then being celebrated. The letter express:id in the most f r i en dly terms the desire of the French Government th at t h e treat y c oncluded at Hue, between France and the Empire of Annan), might lead to a durable union between . the two r the long countries. Phan-Tang Giang received the letter mark of respect, holding it for a shpoerrtsotinmsepriensebwottihth,, o o ff ve er r u his t h h e e a ra d , 0 s a t n s d i n t e h e e r n e s w a i i s d h t e o s t f h o e duration hands over I also friendly relations which now unite the tv ? r of the West and of the East," 0 greatest nations COUNTRY MARKETS. GLOUCESTER—OcT. 10. There was a moderate show of English wheat to-day, and, except for fine dry lots, prices were in buyers' favour . Foreign wheat was dull, and at the currencies of the last week. Beans and oats sold very slowly, but without a tiy change in value. Barley slightly declined. COLCHESTER—OcT. 10. -- - There was a moderate supply of wheat to-day, but the demand was slow, and the rates of last week were generally made. Barley of fine quality was scarce, and realised full prices. Beans and peas unchanged. Wheat, white. 44s 48s Beans,Mazagan..33s 36s red 42s 46s middle & 5ma11.353 42s Barley Oats CHELMSFORD-Om 9. At this corn exchange to-day there was an average supply of wheat, with little business done. Barley maintained the prices of las , week; inferior sorts at a reduction of Is per qr. Beans, peas, and oats slow, but no change in prices. Wheat, old white 30s 47s ‘ Yeas, Partridge.... 36s 39s new 44s 48s White 38s 39s old red....34s 40s Boiling .. 39s 41s new 38s 42s Dun 33s 36s Barley 27s 36s Ditto new —s —s Chevalier 2Bs 39s Beans, Tick, aid ..318 39s Grinding 22s 31s new..—s ---8 Malt.... Chevalier . 64s 69s now..— s -8 Oats 20s 28s Mazagan •.••... 30 s 38s KIRKCALDY GRAIN—OcT. 10. We had good supplies of all descriptions of grain to-day at market. The trade was slow. Wheat, barley, and oats Gd to is per qr under last week's rates. tWheat. Barley. Oats. First....34s Od I 26s Od l9s Od Second..3ss Od 28s Od 19 s Gd Third....3Bs.od 30s Gd 20s Od COAL .1% Prins of Coal per Ton a' s. d. Buddle'sWest Hartley 17 6 Carway and Dufryn Malting . 21 0 Lambert's West Hart- IARSET. the close of the market. Walls End. s. d ley 17 3 Walker Primrose 12 6 Cowpen Hartley 17 6 Ships at mark .. .... ____ Russell's .. 17 6 K elloe ... Haswell 2l 0 South Hartlepool 19 6 Harton 18 6 Framwellgate.. l9 3 Tunstall ...... lB 6 it, 23 ; sold, 22. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Oct. 19. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Arazil and Cape Yards, by British packet.. Nov. 4. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Oft. 19. via Marseilles Oct. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Oc!' , . 16. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct.. 27 via Marseilles Oct. 13. India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 18, via Marseilles Oct. 21. P0rtuga1.......... Nov. 4. Nittlta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 19. via Marseilles Oct. 2,5. Newfoundland .. Oct. 17. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 16. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Oct. 17. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritfe ..Nov. 10. Bahamas, via New York Oet. 22. Mexico.. All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru'Oct. California. and British Columbia.. Oct, 14. CRYSTAL PALACE.—The French excursions to the Crystal Palace, from Calais and Boulogne, came off yesterday with great sucsess, considerable numbers availing themselves of this opportunity of visiting this popular place. A variety of amusements were provided. Blondin's low rope performance was loudly applauded, and frequent repetitions of the " Ghost" allusion appeared to afford much gratifica tion to the excursionists. In the afternoon his Royal High ness the Prince of Wales, accompanied by his Majesty the King of Greece and Prince Christian of Denmark, with a numerous suite, visited the palace, and witnessed the latter portion of Blondin's performance. On their royal high nesses taking their seats upon the great orchestra they were immediately recognised by the assembled thousands, and cheered vociferously, the band of the company playing the National Anthem. On their departure the band of the Coldstream Guards performed the Danish National Air. The palace was lighted up in the evening, and the visitors departed. SHOCKING AFFAIRS.—SHIELDS, Saturday Night . —A homicidal mania seems to have seized the Irish population of the North. This morning an Irishman named Terence Quin was placed before the Newcastle magistrates, charged with killing a fellow-countryman, a week ago, in Scotswood-road, in that town, by stabbing him in the neck. He was remanded, but at the time he was at the bar a most shocking affair occurred in this town, which is almost cer tain to end in a charge of murder against the offander, as the surgeons have no hope that the woman will live. A pensioner named Thomas Booth lived in Church-street, North Shields, he having been 22 years in the 36th Re giment before he received his discharge and pension. He is an Irishman, and his wife is also of Irish parents, and he followed the occupation of shoemaker in Church-street. Ho has been married some years, but re cently he and his wife have led a drunken dissipated life. Two months ago his wife left him on account of his ill-usage, and went to live with her mother; but he, having received his quarter's pension on Friday week, went to her mother's on Sunday, and persuaded his wife to return and live with him again, and from their return until this morn ing they have been drinking and quarrelling. On Thurs day evening, the woman applied to the police for protection, stating, as her appearance proved, that she had been beaten by her husband, and she displayed her gown to the police man on duty in evidence, also, that he had attempted to wound her with a knife. The policeman advised her to apply next morning to the magistrates for a warrant for th e apprehension of her husband, but she did not appear at the police court to lodge a complaiiit. This morning, about half-past 10 o'clock, Booth went to a publiehouse and pur chased and took home with him a gill of whisky, and im mediately on his return a tearful quarrel arose between him and his wife. Cries of distress arose, but no one durst go near the house, until a water-woman, named Elizabeth Garfitt, came to the door, which she opened and went in. She immediately observed a quantity of blood upon the floor, and Booth's wife lying upon a shakedown bed with her husband kneeling upon her. He held a shoemaker's sharp pointed knife in his hand, which was covered with blood, and he attempted to thrust it into his wife's neck. Garfitt exclaimed, " Booth, what are you doing ? You'll be hung for this." He replied, "No, I won't." His wife then called upon Garfitt for God's sake to come and save her, and with much courage and firmness the woman closed in upon Booth and held him fast until his wife crept away, and found shelter in a neighbour's house. Booth after wards skulked away, and was captured in about half an hour afterwards crouching in a back yard. Booth's wife, immediately after she got into the neigh bour's house fainted, and as she had the appearance of having been desperately wounded, medical assistance was sent for. Dr. Emerson and Mr. Burt, of the Dispensary, shortly after arrived. Dr. Emerson found that there were two wounds in the woman's abdomen apparently caused by a sharp pointed knife. The bowels were protruding from the wounds and there was great loss of blood. Tho woman was almost pulseless and apparently at the point of death. She has somewhat recovered under the use of stimulants. Dr. Emerson dressed the wounds, and has been unremit ting in his attendance, but holds out little hopes of her re covery, Another dreadful case of assassination nearly oc curred at Gateshead yesterday. Wm, Todd, a farmer, had discovered that an impropriety had existed between his wife and another farmer named Robert Rutherford. Todd had purchased a pistol and loaded it with shot, and then sought out Rutherford, whom he found standing in a shop, and pointed the pistol at his chest. It fortunately missed fire, and before he got another cap on it Rutherford overpowered him and held him till a policeman came up and took Todd into custody. The pistol was charged with sh o t. Th e borough ma gistrates of Gateshead, before wh om T o dd h as been brought, have intimated that he will be sent for trial. Births, CHADS.—On the 10th inst., at Colchester, the wife of Lieut... Colonel W. J. Chads, 64th Regt., of a daughter. C ./E6AR.—On the llth inst., a Tarvin House, Forest-hill, Kent, the wife of Julius Caa t ar, Esq., of a son. STIA.W.—On the 11th inst., the wife of Captain E. M. Shaw l London Fire Brigade, of a daughter. Marriages. LOFTS—FuLCHER..-On the 10th inst., at Putney parish church, Frederick F. Lofts, Esq., to Jessie, the third daughter of the late George Fu!cher, Esq., of Mark lane. LUCAS— D'AVIGDOL—On the 12th inst., at 5, Upper Har ley-street, Horatio Joseph, son of the late Louis Lucas, Esq., of 19, Hyde-park-gardens, to Isabel, only daughter of the Count and Countess d'Avigdor, and granddaugh ter of the l a t e Baron de Goldsund and de Palmeira. Deaths. CurtzoN.—On the 11th inst., at Scaleby Rectory, near Carlisle, Mary, third daughter of the Hon. John Henry Roper Curzon. CLEMMITT.—On the 10th lust., Mr. John Clemmitt, of the Old aged 64. GAR r,N E 10 th inst., at 11, Susaex.gardens, Bailey,n O a n g he Hyde-park, Captain Gardner. GROSVENOR.—On the Bth inst , suddenly, Wm. Grosvenor, Esq., of Summer Bank, Kidderminster, aged 54. HEALD.—On the 10th inst., at Garston Lodge, near Liver. pool, George Heald, Esq., aged 58. LOADEN.—On the 11th inst., at 28, Bedford-place, Russell. square. Wm. Leaden, Esq., aged 63. SummEns.--On the 11th inst., at 3, Gloucester-crescent, Regent's-park, George Summers, Esq., J.P. for Middle sex, aged 52. 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