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F PORTING

A SPE' MAL RDMON et ths N EXPRRBB,"
ssatainini f the results of the day's Ramon is pub-
lished or. ry wising daring the Sporting demon, at
sin o'clor k.

Dill' Al and deeper still. Rvery day's ilereber
examine Airs into th• gigantic mess at Weedon owns
only to Wastage the homely truth of &mob
Pawsda unsavoury proverb : "The more you
" stir it," &c. It is all • floating, !Wandering
aposgoare, that gives way inesessally under the
most cautiously planted footsteps. The search after
a fact, • vanisher, er • reliable soment, is about the
most hopeless of enterprises. For a moment it
almost mum that Mr. Burs and hie coadjutors
have grasped masethieg tangible—a positive result
ie all bat arrived at—a discovery is on the eve of
being made, when, Hey-prome ! it all vanishes again,
Chaos and Night resume their ancient reign, and the
much-enduring Coaunissioeers are Mooed to the
enviable pesitioa of Tote Mools's needle—

•
" Gals* rimy,
Wits Ma sail aye sat throash a bartla .1 lay."

There was one fact which the other day seamed
pretty clearly aide oat. The Moran. luace de-
clared that payment was due to them for 1,800 pairs
of boots, 600 delivered on the 19th of Aagast bat,
and 1,000 ea the 16th of January. Mr. WArtiou,
the inepartor, for some time resisted this claim,
declaring that no such delivery had hese made.
Farther examination into, what are by curtsey
galled, the books at Weedon disolosed, or appeared
to disclose, that WATSON wee in OTTOr here, and
that the 1,600 pain of boots had been delivered and
inspected. Oa this discovery being made, War
sox was impended from his oflioe, and still
cuticulae 'upended, or did so when be
was last examined before .the Commissioners.

Here, then, them seemed to be a eleari; ascertained
fact. The Messrs. Isaacs had supplied the boots in
qesetioo on the days stated ; and proof existed in
the Weedon books this 1,500 pairs had been re-
ceived, inspected, and were therefore owing for. It
was comfortable to reflect that thus mach of cer-
tainty was attainable, even though it were the tardy
result of long and circuitous investigation.
In this assurance the:public and the Commissioners
were permitted to repose until the meeting of last
Saturday, when the illusion we, dispelled by the
Ilemorselers evidence of Mr. OZOROR MUNRo, the
assistant military storekeeper. According to this
gentleman, all the elaborate apparatus of book-keep-
ing at Weeders was mere make-believe and amounts&
There were neither receipts nor Moe journals hem
which to poet the ledgers. There was no attempt to
ascertain whether vouchers ever existed. la Unmeant
department the receipt, inspection, monody, and issue
of the various stores for each breath were all in the
bands of one moon, without any kind of check on
his correctness. In the contract branch there wee
the same laxity, with every facility furnished to any
clerk who might be in collusion with a contractor,
by merely altering or adding a figure to cause sash
contractor to be paid for articles that never maxi
near the storehouse. Applying these general remarks
to the particular can of the Messrs. Imam'
1,600 peas of boots, Mr. Monaco reported
that it certainly did appear by Warmers WSW
random-book (the only bona fide bon, stess4
ing to this witness, in the establishment) that
the 1,600 pairs of boots were delivered on the days
stated, but there wee no note of their having been
inspected : there was no record or day-book in the
office to trees the deliveries; there was no decontrol
to check the entries by, except a book kept by one
M'KAT, t labourer, which pupated to be a daily
mooed of ell packages entering the office. This
book, on examinatioo, was found not to agree with
WATSON'S es to the dates or quantities of the alleged
delivery of boots by the Messrs. Imam. But this
book of ICKait's is justly rejected by the wit-
ness Musts as wholly undeserving of credit. It
was checked by no one ; though purporting to be a
day-book, it was a month in smear; and it contained
no lees than twelve serious °minima in the space of
three months. No very firm footinghere, atall mats.
WATSON. book admits the delivery, but contain no
note of the inspection, of these 1,600 pairs of boots.
AVA book 001Ititditti WATSON'S, and there is
no other entry of any kind at Wooden to show whe-
ther in actual fact Government me or are set
debtors to the Messrs. leant or if so, fee what
mount. Under these Winds eirennestensen the
assistant military storekeeper at Windom is driven
upon the following naive resentsmidatin ; " I
" would suggest that Messrs. Isaacs be regained to
" tarnish a statement of oil the heel they hoes seat
to Me depot, a Mat, in wy epiaiwk is as rvill *DV
we here of demising thr oessomts." Paneled in-
becility can hardly sink much deeper than this.
The officials appointed to elan the seconote of the
contractors have kept no each eissek—themfins let
the contraries* nod in what asuman they like, it
being left to Own to act as a cheek en tbesisolom.
The Commissioners are evidently somewhat posed
at Ibis rather startling cooclution. The following
eerie' of questions and answers, taken verbatim he,
the report of the svidenos, brings out the salient
absurdities of the whole hosiers into stmeg and
bold relief:

•• A. I saiderstaad you, lasses hays really bees
paid ? Fre eamsoeposititsfy say. They claim for
orrtais velocities delivered on certain days, but
WI have no corresponding notes of their hawing

' gone in. It will be wen
" stone went direct to the

only record wea NVKA
" Bat the person who
" lutowledges than P—Yea. he aeknowledgeeto have
" received them, bat he says he had other notes for
" which he bee me ecevespeediag delivery, and that
" he took the boots to moot the other notes, which
" was a regular practice.

" Bat bow same the other sato into his power
" aim 1---71ss othw °mansion sent in their notes
eowethess without the boots.

s nes, in order to clear this up, yon now wish to
“ have a statement from lassos of the deliveries I,—
" Tee.

" Then yea hare to ask As contractor what he has
" seat is, the same way so Cbeensissary-Gsweral
" ADAMS said they had to ask the regiments what
" they had remised ?—lt is the wily way."
There, then, at last we have one clear negative
result. In the absence of anything positive let as
cling to that. It is made oat from the evidence of
thoee bast oompetent to form a judgment, that the
great clothing establishment at Weldon posseseed
absolutely no means whatever of ascertaining what
amount of goods were delivered to it, or issued from
it. In order to ascertain the one set of facts it is
obliged to ask the contractors what they have sent
in, and in order to asoertaie the other, it is obliged
to ask the regiments what they have received
out. So mach is clear. It is equally clear
that Mr. COUltnillery-CieDITSI ADAMS and his
staff of military accountants are engaged in
a task compared to which that of the fifty patrici-
dal daughters who figure in the classical Hades
was a cheerful recreation. They have been at it
some nine months already, these military °minter-
parts of the DAN4IDILS ; the evidence of Mr.
Assistant M ilitary Storekeeper MONILO may possibly
enable an expert Actuary to reckon how mach
longer the elaborate torture most last before its
victims arrive at anything approximating to a
result.

There is one circumstance connected with the
sitting of Saturday last which it is impossible
to is over without notice. We allude to what
wee very properly characterised and resented by
the Commissioners ea an attempt by the authorities
of the War-office to intimidate a witness whose
evidence was distasteful at head quarters. Nothing,
indeed, could be mach worm than this interpoei-
tim. It was a communication addressed, not to the
. .

Osatrissionere—r, if seat at all, it ought to hey'
beim—bet to Captain GORDON. with a mere request
that he would explain the matter to the member, of
the Commiesisa. It was a direct interference with
that freedom. with which the public interim im-
peratively remands that evidence on this important
subject should be beedred. It was addressed most
pointedly to the Oral timidity of the witness, direct-
ing him "to report for the information of General
" PM. (the Secretary of State for War), on what
" authority he made a statement," which he was
reported to have made before the Commissioners. No-
thing mould by possibility be mote objectionable, and
the public will have observed with satisfaction the
spirit and promptitude with which the unworthy
attempt at coercion and suppression was repelled. It
was intimated very properly and very significantly,
' that Weedea was not the only establishment on its
trial, bet that the War-office itself was on its trial
also; and a desire was expressed in terms the moot
unequivocal that all further attempt, should be
at ono, abandoned at interfering in any degree
whatever with any evidence or any witnesses that
the Commissioners might call before them. This is
the right spirit. The whole of this inquiry at
Weedon is to the last degree inconvenient to the
warriors, and will be resolutely obstructed by the
whole force of Officialism; but the Commissioners

may rely upon receiving from the public the most
energetic support in the thanklem duty which they
appear to be prosecuting with so sincere and honest
a desire of investigating the truth.

Cm Court.

BALMORAL, Oar. 2.
The Queen, Princess Alice, sod Princess Helena,
rods to the Pala of the Gaeraoak, olohodod by Lady
Muddll.

The Priam Naomi wad out deer-eteldne.
Prince Alfred west ant shooting accompanied by Lent..
Colonel Pasaciaby and Lima. Cowell.
The Coast ef Pleaders wired at Balmoral on a Melt le
b linleity. HU royal %imam w attended by Goa&
Parr&

Mr Cbseks, Lady, rd Las Phipps, bad the Decor 4
norm kviimbas 4 Yr.

Mr IN lifiesklisto, Nest, President of the Lasko
Counditee of Depot. of the British Jews, Mews. Nathan
Nalklea, Navy Harris, Wiesen floweetra. Joseph &bag end
essnesi Nes. sod Mr. gawps= flannel, end
feei to the Leaden Oolimielse of Delmar of the BOMA
Jewy teameeted bushman yesterley at the Foreign-cake.
Ile. mom Beds& reamed to town yestuday
moths Clentener of Ilawiaquer at litteb-
Bain.

Dagyamise film in Gannon ge Ma North Americas
rsintagra, Haag Ism Calks asd Matta, gad from tie
Lard High COMlRilliallif of the Imam Iglaads, wen received
1 yesterday at dm Colemial-once.

The Queen and the Prince Consort visited their
romaatic but et Alt ea Ouseols or Thazeder, awl paled the
night therm This lust or lodge le situated among the MIL,
sad einemesde wee beinilhd Irby, of the eurrousding
✓ery. Its acuontsodatieas ere ray limited, and kr
Majecty le ea there °coulter attended by the emallset pos-
sible swiss coneilnat wit► her peracmal seselort. Ms radar
Imes Imo an haree ride er drive hoes the Castle, mid is
/assay *tied tyke or thrice dartag the say of the Court
at Balmoral.

The Earl of Carlisle will preside at a publie
tostleg at the stesthirs of the Menebeeter If echanke' la-
eelleolea en tate Illth hest., spout wallah occaeloo the dipinteas
embed to Me members by the Bodo, at Arts will be
distributed.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady
Clssesatise Vlllire tare left town for Middleton Park.
The Ertl and Countess of Albemarle and the
Ledies Emmet ham left Quiddaakeet Hall, Norfolk, ea a
visit le Sir Jena sod Lady ebsilsy, at Mansfield Park,
demer.

The Lori of Portmouth boo loft Howohla's
Notol, St Jameohlroot, far hie root, Egeslord Soot
North Dorm.

Lord sad Lady Poky bare arrived at Worksop
XIIINI, Mats, hen visit* Lord wed Lstly Wawa
Powisst et A:maims Hall, SeMilk.
Lord Crewe has arrived at hie rigida:toe in Hill-
*est, boos Craws Hall, Mudd».

Lord Charebill her arrived at Itareefield Park, on
sAnil Blr Jobs fad Ledy
air Robert and Lady Rally Peel have arrived
ken the Coat:West at Drapes Kew, whin they Intend
amity to naive oclopeay.

Laity Chattrey ieoretented to Claridge'. Hotel
tram Mamboed.

A marriogo is about to be solassisod betwurs Mr.
Boa Fittimbort, sopisew st Mr. John Pisolmwburt, of
age__ Pact, sad Itlas 6,allord Jerstagbaas„ skirt
imimbtor of the Hoc Mr. &afro"! Jerolostiam, and *Mot
M Lard 6etind. Tao osr moor is to Wm pies at Ids
kmioldro's it, Cootoory Hall, towards elm middle of mat
moth.

A marriage is to take place ea the 21st instant
Isteses Mr. BMA lorfleld. K.P. for Ledlers, sad the
Wait daughter of Sir Baldwla Lalsbtos, Ran.
It is currently reported that the Home Beeretary
(Yr. Walpolto) I. about to pay a vlalt to Ireland.

LORD STRATFORD DE RRDCLLFFR AT

CONSTANTINOPLE. '
The Journal do Constontilsople at the
eel=
nesday, the following :—" On the afternoOd 4111 r
nesday, the 22nd, Lord Stratford do Ratliff',
aimompanied by the personages attached to his
special mission, made his viait at the Ports to his
highness the Grand Vizier. M. Saul acted aa
interpreter. The noble lord was received at the
entrance of the department with all the honours ob-
served on such occasions. Much cordiality was mani-
fested on both sides and we have reason to be-
lieve that the speeches exchanged between the
Ambassador and the Grand Vizier, were charm-
terieed throughout by the woe friendly spirit and
sentiments of mutual good will. It appears that
Lord Radcliffe explained to his highness the circum-
stances which led to his resignation as representa-
tive of the Queen at the Suiten', court, and
also the object and character of hie present
visit. He concluded by making that his Majesty
might be solicited to appoint • day upon which he
(tbe ambassador) could have the honour of present-
ing the letter of his Sovereign in an imperial
audience. The Grand Vizier, in reply, expressed
himself in terms of great feeling. He said with
• lively emotion, how happy be and his colleagues,
without exception were, to see the return of Lord
Stretford to the seat of the Ottoman government,
although his stay was to be short. His highness
dwelt upon the eminent services , which
his excellency had rendered to the ;empire
in the coarse of his long diplomatic
relations with the Sublime Porte, and expressed the
desire of the government of his Imperial Majesty
that the friendly sentiments which gave rise to
these services might be manifested elsewhere. The
Grand Vizier soespted readily the agreeable missies
of asking an 'adieus of his Imperial Majesty, and
he believed be weld already assure big excellency
that his Majesty would grant it with a great deal of
plumes."

nAccording to the same journal, Lord Stratford de
Radcliffe was to be received by the Sultan on the

OCTOB'

STATES.

MINT.)
NEW YORK, em. 31.
The Atlantic Telegraph is still silent, and none
of the excuses put fore-era by the company so far
sat sufficient to aoooant for it. We ware first told
that it would be open to the public on the Ist of
September • then, nearly three weeks ago, that the
directors had gone down to Valentin to open it;
then, that the company was bound to allow each of
the electricians a chance for experimenting on it;
and now, that Hughes has still to have his turn.
Which of all these is correct, time will show ; but
the discrepancy between them all has produced, and
is still producing, a very unpleasant impression on
the public mind. The croakers are beginning to
take heart again, and assert positively that
the cable will never work, or that it is
already broken. Should their predictions be falsi-
fied, and the great experiment succeed as fully as is
anticipated, it will work some curious changes in
the business hours of the commercial world of this
city, or at least of that portion of it which has mace
beldam to transact with England. The Lesiva and
Liverpool business day will, at its close at five in
the evening, find the New York merchant still abed.
So that in order to be able to act instead/Tepee all
despatehes reosived from his oonespaimel at the
other side, he will need to be down at kis effise sad
have his plans matured fonr or five hours earibithin
at preterit. In other words, instead of reaching
Wall-street by nine, a.m., he will, if he does not
wish more energetic rivals to forestall him, have
to be there by Ave or six MIL In like
manner the London or Liverpool merchant
who is anxious to bear the result of the New Ye&
market of the same day mast remain in his oillabf
lag-house until tee or eleven at night. Who know
how many inconveniences and derangements of this
sort may be occasioned, when the electric wires are
extended to all puts of the globe, and the afternoon
news from each will be into the great oom-
meroial centres every hour of the twenty-tour.
We are still labouring in the throes of the excite-
ment caused by the distraction of the quarantine
buildings. A military force is still encamped on
Staten Island, and the country remains under martial
law. A large and influential meeting of the inha-
bitant. was held yesterday, sad, strange as it may
seem, they all expressed their approbation of the
sots of the rioters. However it may end, the whole
affair is certainly a singular episode in the history of
the cenntry.
It is curious to see how rapidly, and yet how im-
perceptibly, this country is being Anglicised, and no
law curious to observe how strenuopely the native.
persist in believing that they are building up a
state of society peculiarly and distinctively Ameri-
can. lam inclined to believe that the points of dif-
ference between the United States and the moths,
country are not only yearly decreasing, but an L,
reality less to-day in number and magnitude Beal
before the revolution. The old feeling of politini
hostility which in reality has been for jean*e
only barrier between them, is gradually dying t,
and they are now flying together as if by the mere
force of sympathy. Of course, it is imporibie to
demonstrate mathematically the existence of at eove-
meat of this sort, but it is by no means difficult
to detect numerous very trustworthy indications
of it in manners, literature, and pursuits.
English newspapers were never so mach read as
they are sow, and English news never so 6ltenaively
copied by the daily press here. Two or three
London weeklies have now a large circulation in the
States. All the reviews and monthlies We a wide
and increasing circulation. Punch is in everybody'.
hands, and is relished keenly. English society,
English social, religious, and philantluopie move;
aunts, are watched with the closest interest. The,
leading incidents of them all are discussed in the'
newspapers with as much assidnity, and in pretty
much the same tons, as it they were home totem
Of late years a taste for agricultural shows has been
springing up, which is certainly of British origin!
Every year there is now a monster horse show, to
which the best bloods from all pate of the country are
brought, andwhich is followed by &dinner and speeches
in regular Buckinghamshire style. All through the
country there are now large farms held and worked
by wealthy amateurs, stocked with cnoice breeds of
cattle imported from England, and cultivated with
almost as much enthusiasm as 'fiptree. The soilage@
have taken to boating with as mush net as either
Oxford or Cambridge, and Yale and Harvard, the
two leading universities of New England, now have
their clubs and matches every year. MON gm! this,
there is • rage springing up for talgalllJell
cricket, and lootball—sports almost mamma %kw
years ago. Cricket, especially, has chi vlikarist
beam quite la vogue. ith a little statdrikaida*
of the stealthy and leisurely class I shall at
be surprimii to see fox-hunting one of lin
fashionable amusements. Perhaps no portion of thit
public inclinesso strongly England-ward as the'
religious public, which hers sujoys an influent*
that is •flir from falling to its let att the Old World.
'file religious press in pertlenise is intensely British,
and all pulpit abeam's to England are as flattering
as the mast "Bullish" of her eons could desire. I
heard • sermon in an episoopalian church about
sixty miles up the Hudson two weeks ago, in the
centre of an old sad somewhat aristocratic) neigh-
bourhood, the scene of many of the stirring epi-
sodes of the revolution, which was simply • long
panegyric on England and her institutions, and fer-
vidly exhorted the congregation to closer religions
fellowship with her. A visit paid by Mr. Charming
of Liverpool--.t nephew of the late William
Jittery Charming, and now the successor of Mr.
Martineau in the Unitarian church—to this city last
week furnished occasion for a demonstration on the
pert of the Unitarian clergy of much the same sort.
A meeting wee held on Sunday evening, at which
the leading. Unitarian ministers were present, and
Mr. Channing was charged with enough kind
messages fur the British Lion to keep that furious
anima in a tender mood for years to come. It is
rather amusing to witness the desperate efforts of
the Russia& and French party here to fight against
ieflueaces of this eon. It is quite evident tnat as
long as they are at work it matters little what tree-
ties ate made by diplomatists.

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