The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-07 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1863•

gig Court.

ROSENALI, 00BURG, Birr. 2.
The King of Prussia visited the Queen on Mon-
day afternoon. The King arrived by special from Bsden,
soon after are o'clook. at Nan, where Prime Alfred and
Prince Louis of HMSO met his Majesty, and &communed
him in the Queen's carriage to the ROIODIII, where be was
received by the Queen. and Princess Louis of Heats,
Primes Helena, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice.
The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were in attendance.
The Bin remained with her Majesty till half-mot seven
o'clock, when his Majesty took leave of the Queen, and
drove to the railway station, accompanied by Prince Alfred
and Prince Louis,

Hie Majesty tem attended by only an aid►de-aamp.
The Duke ci Coburg bee arrived at the Kalleoberg, and
with the Duette= elated the Queen this afternoon.
. .

Prince Alfred left yesterday morning, attended by
Major Cowell, for Hummelsheim, on a visit to the Duke
and Dachau of Saxe Altenburg.

Their Royal Highnesses Prcaw and Princess Louie of
Hews mead the greater part of every day at the Rosman
with the Queen.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

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AMERICA.

THE DEMOLITION OF FORT SUMTER.
THREAT OF A WAR WITH FRANCE.
(Per the Merida.)

NEW YORK, Auourr 28, Evaurc.

General Gilmore officially reports, on the 24th
inst., the practical demolition of Fort Sumter after
seven days' bombardment. It is a shapeless and
harmless mass of ruins. " A longer fire," he
says, " would make it a greater mass of ruins, but
scarcely more powerless for the defence of Charles-
ton Harbour. It is unnecessary to continue to
fire on the ruins. I have established batteries on
my left within effective range of the heart of
Charleston, sad opened with them, after giving
General Beauregard due notice. My projectiles
entered Charleston, and General Beauregard desig-
nates them the most destructive missiles ever used
in war."

Unofficial accounts to the evening of the 24th
state that Fort Sumter was entirely destroyed, but
had not surrendered. The fleet were preparing to
move up the harbour. Great dissatisfaction pre-
vailed at the slowness of the operations of the fleet.
Fort Moultrie, Greig, and Johnston, and the
batteries on Sullivan's Island, kept up a steady
fire upon the Federals on Morris Island, doing
little damage.
It is reported that the Confederates will not re-
gard Colonel Straight as a prisoner of war. The
Federals will place Morgan on the same footing.
The New York Board of Supervisions has passed
an ordinance appropriating 2,000,000 dollars to
exempt from the draft unformed militia, firemen,
police, and beads of families. The mayor has
signed this ordinance, which, it is supposed, will
settle the difficulty between the municipality and
the mayor.

NEW YORK, Almon 29, Nounco.

The batteries which destroyed Fort Sumter were
located at distances varying between 3,330 and
4,900 yards and remain as efficient u ever.
The New York Herald says it is rumoured in
Washington that General Butler will command the
South Carolina department after the capture of
Charleston.

There is a considerable Confederate infantry
force at Port Conway, t etween the Potomac and
the Rappahannock, who are enforcing the conscrip-
tion. Colonel Kilpatrick had a skirmish with
them, but was compelled to fall bock from his re-
connaissance.

Quantrill's guerillas are being hunted through
the woods and mountains of the border counties of
Missouri large numbers of them have been killed,
and their horses destroyed.
Despatches from Stevenson, Alabama, state it is
probable that the Confederates are evacuating
Chattanooga and all east Tennessee. Deserters
report they are moving guns and important machi-
nery from Chattanooga to Atalanta. Confederate
cavalry are concentrating at Rome, Georgia. The
Mobile Tribune says there are ten vessels and Aix
transports in Pensacola harbour.
The New York Herald asserts that the troops
now in New York will be sent to Vera Cruz.

The New York Times urges the government to
prepare foe a war with France. Such a war, it
says, is not certain, but it would be dangerous and
foolish to act as if it were impossible. The New
York Times has little doubt that Napoleon has
made a secret treaty with President Davis for the
cession of Texas as the equivalent for recognition
and substantial aid.
The draft has been concluded in New York, and
commences in Brooklyn on Monday. Gen. Dix has
published correspondence to prove that he called
on the Federal government for troops to enforce
the draft, in consequence of the delay of Governor
Seymour in replying to his application for the
services of state troops.
The steamer Cronstadt has been captured off
Wilmington.

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MADAN. ON TNN WITNINDAY.
NW. to fl.w. and 8.E... NOITUN:A3N. B.g. to S.W. sad N.W.,
strong, squill', nu, strong to fresh,
settled, .thowsry.
N. w. to S.W. and 8., Wilor comers. B.W. to N.W., troll
strong, to It gale In
to strong.
places, then node-

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N. W. to 8.11. W., strong, hOUTHCOLSTS. W.&107. to N.N. W.,
squally, showery. strong to moderate.
N. W. to 8.W., strong Borrit.Eser. S.W. to N., fresh,
W flesh, some rain. squally to moderate.
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North-Bast,-Colthnew to Norfolk. West= Drnesal to Corn-
wall. Bouth=Cßannel and Boy Co.wts. South-tfaot-oStratt of
Dover to Norfolk.

GERMAN NATIONAL LIAOUR IN LONDON.—The
third annual election of this society took place at Seyd's
Motel on Saturday last. Professor Kinkel was chosen
chairman for the teeming year. Mr. Berndt+, Mr. Born,
Mr. Oppler, Dr. Beigel. and Mr. Jobens are the elected
deputy chairmen, and Dr. Betel, Mr. Laster, and Dr.
&blued, the recretaries. The object of the society is to
promote the coniplete anion of Germany on • constitutional
and popular heals.
TRIG TRIAL OP COLONEL CRAWL/rt.—The charges
nu which Colonel Crawley is to be %tied are, we learn, as
follows:—" 1. For having caused the orders under which
Sergeant-Major Way wee phased in arrest id May, 1862, to
be carried into effect with unnecessary and undue severity,
whereby the sergont.major and his wife were suhjected to
great sod grievous hardships and sufferings. 2. For having
stated in his reply to Mr. Smoke's defence before the court-
martial, that it was Mr. Fitz-Siumes's fault if the sergeant's
wife was inonveuieneed by having the sentries placed near
her bed. whereas he knew well that Mr. Fitz Simons bad
acted in the matter by his express orders and directioo."—
Tizsa of India.

THE DUKE OP DEVONSHIRE ON AGRICUL-
TURAL

The town of „Keighley, in Yorkshire, presented
• very py appearance en Friday, and there was • large
acoteron of visitors. Triumphal arches were erected I.
'needy .11 the streets, and there was a prober display ef
flip, banners, floral wreaths, mottoes, and designs of •
varied and appropriate character. The Keighley Avicul-
ture! Show, in honour of which all this display was ere*
was held in the grounds belonging to Mr. Cheeshoroogh, of
the Devonshire Arms, and the day being fine, and then
being a moral holiday in the town and neighbourhood, the
proceedings paned off satisfactorily. The entries of stook
were superior in point of numbers and quality to those
of former shows, sod the exhibition may be re.
girded as • complete success. Amongst the most
successful exhibitor of bulls and crows wen Do-
lma Tombola, of Burnley ; Mr. Richard Booth, of
Warkhy, Northallerton ; Mr. Robert Truant, Scarcroft
Lodge, Deeds • Lady Pigot, Branches Park ; Mr. B. Mani-
ere., and Mr. Benj. Baxter, Barwick HalL Is cows the show
was very good, a large number of the animals being com-
mended by the judges. In sheep there was a good display,
Mr. Joseph Simpson, of Spoflorth Park, showing some
splendid. specimens and gaining. • large number of prizes.
Colonel fowneley also showed in this department, which
attracted much attention. Mr. W. Widdop, of Bowden
Top, exhibited • ram, the broad back of which was
literally covered with prises which had been gained at vari-
ous shows. There was a very fair show of horses, and the
jumping which took place late in the afternoon attracted
meth attention. The prizes included nips very handsome
silver cups, one of which, that for the best lot of short-
horns, was of the value of 201., and was won by Colonel
To mislay. The display of pigs was large, and some of the
animals were of remarkable sine and quality.
The town was extensively illuminated on Friday night.
The annual dinner of the arodatios took place at the
Devoeshire Arms. His Gnus the Duke of Plzvomunin,
E.G., worded, and amongst those pelmet were Lord Fred.
Cavmh, Sir El kanah Armitage, Mr.Gteenpod, IL P., he
The Duke of DiVONSIIISS, is proposing ' Prosperity S.
the Keighley Agricultural Society," rid the peculiar and in.
tereatiog character of the occasion on which we are moan-
bled is so well known to you all, the whole town evidently
bears such testimony to the fact to which I allude, that it
is really hardly necessary for me to advert it, but rill,
occupying the position I do, and being about to give thereat
which I have named, it would hardly be right for me to pars
over in entire silence the subject to which I refer. (Hear,
hear.) This society, then, has to-day attained what is coin.
wooly called its majority. (Cheers.) I shall not endeavour
to find (artful analogies between the opining of age of the
heir to • large estate and the period to which this society
baa now attained ; bat I may remark that having had the
honour of presiding on former occasions at meetings of this
society, and in the earlier periods of it, existence, Ira bear
Mtn/se—and, indeed, there are many present still more able
to do so then myself—that it has displayed • - cos-
stitution from its earliest infamy, and ea it advanced in
growth it has displayed from year to year an increased
vigour and activity. (Applause.) lam sere we have all
ocular testimony this day it has entered on the period of its
manhood with every prospect of • loug career of usefulness
before it. I al waysconsader that with regard to the character of
the show itself, the judges who will Were you presently are
the proper persons to speak, and I shall, tefore, merely
say that when we look at the comparatively narrow ex-
tent which this society embraces in its operations, it
would be speaking in terms quite unworthy of the show
if I merely described it as creditable. I think it may more
properly be described all grand, • show in which the inha-
bitants of the neighbourhood may well feel the utmost de-
gree of pride. (Hear, hear.) We have seen to-day sped-
rotes, I believe, of as good saimals in the short-horned breed
as are to be found in the whole country. (Applause.) Of
coursesuch animals are not to be found in the farm yards
of agricultural tenants generally, but we shall take • very
mistaken view of the subject if we suppose that the benefit
of this high breed in animals does not extend far beyond
the possessor, of them. (Hear, hear.) It is doe to those
who have spent so many years in the breeding of this de-
scription of stock, to remark that whatever may have been
the mutts as far as their own pockets are concerned, the
agricultural dares generally have derived benefits from
their neighbours. (Cheers.) In every part of the °pantry
now, the good effected by the infusion of this high bred
blood is to be felt, more or leas. (Hear, hear.) Perhaps I
may now be allowed for a moment or two to advert to the
view which a retrospect of farming matters during the hat
twenty-one years naturally presents. Groat as has been the
advance of this country in almost every department during
that period—so great that it was thought the farmers could
not keep pace with it—yet when we take a fair dis-
passionate view of it, I really believe that the progress
that has bees made in farming matters is not less remark-
able and rapid than that which has taken place in every
other department of English industry. (Cheers.) Every
topic connected with the improvement of agriculture has
bees discussed, and not merely discussed, but carried into
practical application. Her.) Every one connected with
agriculture is so familiar with the great topics to which the
attention of the agricultural world his been celled, that it is
almost unnecessary for me to refer to them : but on this or
caaion, having been almost invited to take a retrospect of the
21 years of the society's existence, I may call your attention
to the question of drainage, which was the tint and greatest
of all improvements, then quite in its infacy, now so familiar
to us all that it is hardly necessary to allude to it. Hear,
hear.) It is the very rudiment and first element of good
fanning. (Hear, hear.) In how few words could the stock
of implements which the farmer had at his commaud at that
period be described. Now I know nothing so surprising
as to gaze at the vast array of implements, of the finest
construction, which we saw to-day and which we see at the
exhibitions of the agricultural societies generally. (Hear,
bear.) Perhaps the,. may serve more to display the inge-
nuity of the maker, but at any rate a very large proportion
of them has done service to the cease of agricultural im-
provement. (Applause.) I believe it is scarcely ten years
ago since the tint reaping and mowing machines were intro-
duced into this country ; now io many parts of this country
no
farmer thinks it possible to get in his crops without the
use of them. (Hear.) Then we see as the final triumph of
science, the application of steam playing an important part
in ell the departments connected with agriculture. It is
long indeed since, in all the purely arable districts, the port-
able steam engines superseded both the flail and hone
threshing machines. I myself, though not far advanced in
yeses, can remember the time when there were great
disturbances in some parts of the south of the country
' because of the introduction of thrashing machines worked
by horses, and when the agricultural labourers threatened
almost an insurrection unless the use of them was discon-
' Coiled ; but now it is hardly possible, even if any one
wished it, to get a labourer who would submit to use the
flail. This is not perhaps a district in which many of these
topics attract very great attendee ; it is a district of small
farms, but still every portion of the agricultural world
must feel en interest in what concerns the general advance
of agriculture. I am well aware it would not do to talk
' of everything as if it were bright, and as if there were no
dark side to the picture. At any rate, if there is not a
dark side. there is • side of which we cannot speak with
anything like praise. (Haar.) However great the advance
r made in some parts, there is still much connected with land
' —both for owners and occupiers of land—to do. Everyone
I is aware that much improvement cannot be made where the
• land. from careless management, has been left to produce
half what it is capable of producing. We still see there is a
vast deal of niggardly and ceremonious management, assisted
at the same time by wasteful management. (Hoar, bear.)
A fanner grudges the proper outlay for superior articles.
We see him allowing his manure to run to +este, his crops
to be overrun with weeds, and that is what I mean by •
. niggardly and persimmons management, and, at the same
time, a wasteful management. (Hear, hear.) At the
same time I think we have every reason to look
forward with confidence to the prospect before
us. The last twenty or thirty years has worked remark-
able changes in the direction of agricultural improvement.
We have every name to believe that the influence of good
example, the influence of such societies as these. will tend
to promote that improvement, and I look forward with
confidence to the timo when no one will venture to make
such remarks as those T have ventured to make, which now
form the exception to the rule. (Hear, hear.) But everyone
who travels along the railway mint sr there is a great
difference between the well-cultivated and the badly-culti•
rated land. (Hear, hear.) In proposing this tort I feel I
have done very imperfect justice, and I wish it had fallen
ioto abler heeds ; but as I take greet interest in the society.
I therefore have mesh pleasure in proposing the toast of
"Prosperity to the Keighley Agricultural Society."( Cheers.)

Tar CLOTREA FOR THE MARTFACTURTNO
TRICTIL—Large bundles of worn-oat •rtklea came down to
us foe distribution ; and it was ludicrous to see what
strange and inconsistent clearings of the wardrobe were
unpacked. Here was an admiral's full dress, with cocked
hat to match ; no doubt it had paced the quarter-deck r ne
day, and strutted in pride of place and authority. Some
wag was for encasing • certain half-witted lad in it, on
which the simple fellow would have rejoiced and warcht d
proudly in his uniform and unique headpiece: but the salt,
water suit was sent to the second-hand clothes dealer for
exchange or sale. Here again was a pair of decayed satin
shoes, which once, perhaps. enveloping the" light fantastic
toe," had tripped gramfally at Alinack's. Lo ! out pops a
pair of buckskin breeches, which bad no doubt crooned the
broad fields of Leicestershire on some Jupiter by Thunderer,
while tha bounds were in full cry. Rollo! here come the
red omit and the top-bonts also. What Nimrod can we find
among the spindles and shuttle* to array in this equestrian
apparel? Now a drab top-coat with many capes falls upon
the floor before no ; it bee withstood many a shower as it
waited impatiently at the door of the Opera House or the
mansion in Belgravenquare for the dilatory Wilily ; we
must see what the second-hand clothes-dealer will give us
for this manymmiert relic of other days. Here a soiled
dress and • faded bonnet—both of the latest Parisian
fashion—are hauled out of the clothes-bag. What • depth
of degradation, to be trimmed up for the ungainly propor-
tion, of • factory gir'., after airing themselves in the park
on those graceful shoulders behind those splendid bays !
"Imperial Clear, turned to dust sod clay, stopping a hole
to keep the wind away!" We beard of • charwoman re-
miring • satin gown as her share of the booty. "And
what have you made of it, Sally r ioquinid the mistrem el
a house where she was working, "yon will look as floe ea a
(Inches, in it, I expert?" " Well, nnw, Mews you,
replied Sally, " I couldn't for the life of me, for shame to
wear it. Fancy me, a waaherwoman, in satin ! So I sold it
for five shilling, and had a jolly good spree with it."—Framer
Magazine for September.