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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EYES' ING, JULY 19 1864,

of High-street, Camden Town, and its vicinity find
that the only benefit which this much-talked-of
line is to confer upon them is to transport them
over (or under) a distance which they might very

easily walk. If they are to travel by the oircumlo.
eution route of the London and North-Western line,
they may as well start from the station at the
Eagle and avoid the annoyance of a junction. It
is very plain that the company feel themselves
altogether in the wrong in this matter, for by an
ingenious piece of management that bill has been
hurried through the Lower House without giving
the opportunity of opposition on the part of the
discontents. It was hoped, perhaps, that the ad-
ditional expense of opposition in the House of
Lords would deter those who felt themselves
aggrkved from pursuing their resolution so far.
Happily such is not the case, for Sir JOHN
SHELLEY intimated that the parties interested
would carry their opposition to the Upper House.
On the assembling of the Commons last Wednes-
day for private business, Sir JOHN SHELLEY called
attention to what he very appropriately styled a
piece of sharp practice the day before. The corn.
mitten on the North Western and Charing-cross

Railway Bill had, he said, come to a conclusion
greatly affecting the interests of many residents in
the northern part of London, and these persons
were prepared to take steps to oppose the bill. They

received, however, no notice that the bill was to be
brought on at the twelve o'clock sitting on Tues-
day until ten o'clock on the morning of
that day; Sir JOHN SHELLEY very justly said
this was no notice at all, and the consequence
was that increased expense and delay would be
inevitable. Other members supported this com-
plaint, and it was agreed that twenty-four hours'
notice, at the least, should be given in a matter of
this kind. It certainly does not improve the case
of the Company, who are evidently aware that
they have incensed the parties interested by their
breach of faith, and who had too much reason to
anticipate opposition to be willing to give dissen-
tients a fair opportunity of stating their grievances.
This is not the way to conciliate the public, nor to
induce other districts to lend a willing assistance to
the schemes of new projectors. Already there is
some uneasiness felt respecting the manner in
which bills of this kind are hurried through Par•
liament, and only yesterday " A Citizen," writing to
a contemporary, complains of the haste with which
the Metropolitan Districts Bill is being passed
through the necessary stages. This bill, which
largely affects the City, and indeed the metropolis
generally, commences its operations at Tower-hill,
and passes to Blackfriars, where it joins the Thames
embankment, going from thence along Victoria-
street to Chelsea. It was approved by the Corpora-
tion of London, the Metropolitan Board, and others,
but the Select Committee have shown it consider.
able favour, granting the unusual indulgence of
seven years for its construction. This is somewhat
extraordinary, as it is admitted that none
of the necessary funds are yet subscribed,
and therefore the whole project bears
too much the appearance of a speculation,
to have much claim on public consideration. How-
ever, it is but just to add that when it was moved
in the House yesterday, that :the bill be read a
third time, Lord STANLEY, the chairman of the
committee, end other members spoke strongly in its
favour. There are of course many arguments pro
and con, but the public are anxious that all matters
of this kind should be thoroughly sifted, and it is
not enough to tell thew that measures of this kind
are only framed with a view to the general good.
They require ample and convincing proof that it
is so, and a metropolitan railway is a work of such
time, expense, and labour, involving so many
and such various interests that full time
should be allowed for the consideration of
every scheme. A month or two more or less
can certainly make no great difference in a task of
such magnitude ; but it might be supposed, from
the haste with which such schemes are pressed
forward, that a day's delay might be fatal. Un-
questionably the public derive great and lasting
benefit from railways, but they had need watch
over their own interests in regard to them notwith-
standing.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

LREUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.
(Per the Hibernian, via Greencastle.)

NEW YORK, JULY 9 (Noon).

The reports concerning the number and purpose
of the Confederate raid northwards continue to be

conflicting.

Grant reports that a large Confederato force has
[eft his front.

It is reported that the Confederates are concen-
rated between Hagerstown and Baltimore, intend-
ng to move on the latter place.

Hunter is near Martinsburg.
Sigel has been relieved from his command, and
ordered to report to Hunter.
It is stated that Lincoln has ordered General Dix
not to reappear in the civil courts for the purpose of
defending the action for the seizure of the New
York TVorld and Journal of Commerce. It is re-
ported that Governor Seymour will enforce the
orders of the Court, and order General Dix's arrest.
Governor Seymour has ordered an increase of
militia of 75,000 men by draft.
The authorities have arrested numbers of persons
at New Orleans for recruiting for Jaarcz.

The steamer Rouen has been captured.
The Nova Scotian and Peruvian have been inter-
cepted off Cape Race.
NEW YORK, JULY 9 (Evening).
The Confederates have occupied Frederick, Mary.
land. The Federals have fallen back to Monocacy
Rh er.

Ewell, Breckenridge, and Rhodes' Corps are all
north of the Potomac.

Governor Seymour has ordered 5,000 militia to
Washington.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, JULY 9 (Noon).

Money tight. Geld, 270. Exchange on London,
298. Stocks tending downwards—New York Cea.
trals, 1311; Illinois, 1301 ; Erie,ll4 ; United States
Bonds, 5.20'5,1031.
NE IV YORK, JULY 9 (Evening).

Money tight. Gold, 275. Exchange on London,
298 ; on Paris, 1.871. Stocks steady—New York
Centrals, 1351 ; Illinois, 131 ; Erie, 11411; United
States Bonds, 5-20's, 1031. Cotton advancing—
Middling Upland, 168. Breadstnffs and provisions
advancing. Coffeo very firm. Sugar and molasses
good inquiry. Crude petroleum, 556 ; refined
ditto, 90 to 91.

(FROM THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT.)
(Per the Sidon, via Cape Clear, July 6.)

NEW YORK, JULY 6.

General Grant has again demanded the surrender
of Petersburg. No answer has yet been returned
by General Beauregard.
General Wilson's losses in the recent raid are
ascertained to have been between 2,000 and 3,000.
Thirteen hundred negroes whom he kidnapped
during the early part of his expedition were
rescued.

General Sigel evacuated Harper's Ferry and re-
treated
across the Potomac to Maryland Heights,
destroying the iron bridge of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railway at that point, on the 4th. The Con-
federates also crossed the Potomac on the same day,
and at 4 p.m. were preparing to assault General
Sigel's position.
Great alarm exists in the Border towns and
counties, and also serious apprehensions for the
safety of Washington and Baltimore.
The sinking of the Alabama by the Kearsage
has caused great rejoicing. Regrets are expressed
that the Deerhound was not also sunk for rescuing
Captain Semmes. Captain Winslow has been math
a Commodore in recognition of his services.

(Per the Hibernian, via Greencastle, July 18.)

NEW YORK, JULY 8.

The actual number of the force invading Mary-
land is still unknown. They are engaged in de-
stroying the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, securing
the harvest in the Shenandoah Valley, and running
off horses, cattle, and other spoil.
Some unimportant collisions with the Federals
have occurred, resulting generally in favour of the
Confederates.

General Hunter is hastening eastwards from
Parkersburg, but it is thought that he cannot reach
the scene of depredation under 10 or 12 days•
Breckinridge is repottel to be moving to retard his
advance.

Grant is preparing to reduce the Confederate
works at Petersburg by bombardment.
No later authentic news from Georgia.

The examination into the suppression of the
World and Journal of Commerce, before Judge
Russell, commenced on the 6th. General Dix and
counsel exhibited an order from Mr. Lincoln, direct-
ing the General to resist the process of the Court if
necessary. The case Was then adjourned until the
9th.

Governor Seymour has instructed the District
Attorney to enforce the laws of the State at all
hazards.

The Governor has ordered an immediate draught
to increase the State Militia to 73,000, in view of

contingencies.

JULY 9, AFTERNOON.

The corps of Ewell, Breckinridge, and Rhodes
have joined the Confederates in Maryland, occupied
Frederick City, and are marching upon Baltimore.
Governor Seymour has ordered 5,000 militia of
the city of Washington,
President Lincoln has appointed the Bth of
August for a day of humiliation and prayer.
Gold, 276.

ACCOUCHEMENT or THE PRINCESS

CLOTILDE.

PRIVATE BAPTISM OF THE PRINCE,

PARIS, JULY 19.

The Princess Clotilde and the infant Prince are
both doing well. The Prince wag privately bap.
tieed after the acconchement, and received the names
of Napoleon Louis Joseph Jeronaq.

DEPARTURE OF THE POPE ]OR
CASTEL GONDOLPHO,
ROME, JULY 18.
The Pope has left Rome for Castel Gondolpho.
General de 'Montebello paid his respects to his
Holiness at the station.

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CAPE OF GOOD HOPE,
PLYMOUTH, Stay 19.

The London and East India Company's steamer
Hydaspes, from Calcutta, Madras, and the Cape,
has passed up Channel, landing at Plymouth by
fishing.boat this morning, nine passengers and a
mail from the Cape.

CAPE TOWN, JUNE 1.

Great alarm had been spread at the Cape by a
tel.-egram from the frontier, stating that there was
danger of a Kaffir war. On the frontier it was
even asserted that the paramount chief, Kreli, had
crossed the Bashee in force„and had come in col-
lision with the mounted police. Official telegrams,
from the Governor to the Commander of the Forces,
required the latter to proceed to the frontier im-
mediately, with every available man in the garri-
son. Accordingly, the Commapder of the Forces

had started in the Valorous with the 2d battalion
of the 11th Regiment, and a detachment of artil-
lery with a battery of Armstrong guns, for East
London. The Cape Town Volunteers had tendered
their services for garrison duty.
Later advices from the frontier reported this
alarm to have been in a great measure groundless,
nothing like actual collision having taken place.
Kreli had been irritated by the reported intention
of the Governor to remove the Tambookies from
their Queenstown locations into Transkei, and on
that account the chief had been assuming a threat-
ening tone. In return the Governor was desirous
of making a warlike demonstration. The British
authorities considered there was no fear of any
actual disturbances, and it was likely that the
Governor would reconsider the Tambookie question.

The boundary line between the Orange Free
State and the Basutas will in all probability be
amicably settled.
The agitation against the arbitrary ex post facto
legislation of the Government and Parliament in
connection with the Customs' Protection Bill was

continued in the colony.
The Home Government has consented to the an-
nexation of Noman's Land.

The Narcissus left Mdy 25.

PORTUGAL
PARIS, JULY 19.

According to a despatch received from Lisbon, a
numerously signed petition of merchants have re-
quested from the Government the free importation
of cereals, the warehouses being empty and the crop

insufficient.
The Constitutionnel of this morning says :
" Some journals have sought to make it believed
that the title of the Dukude Montmorency has been
accorded to M. de Adalbert Talleyrand Perigord in,

view of his projected marriage with the Pr'xcess
Anna Murat. These journals are misinformed,
there never having been any quer;ciaa of such a

marriage."

tive of the ends for which it was established, to recur to
the original principles, and to institute new guards for their
security. The separate independence of the States as the
sovereign and coequal members of the Federal Union, had
never been surrendered, and the pretensions of applying
to independent communities, so constituted and organised,
the ordinary rules for coercing and reducing rebellious sub-
jects to obedience was a solecism in terms, as well as an
outrage on the principles of public law.
The war made upon the Confederate States was, there-
fore, wholly one of aggression. On cur side it has been
strictly defensive. Biro freemen and the descendants of
a gallant ancestry, we had no option but to stand up in de-
fence of our invaded firesides, of our desecrated altars, of
of our violated liberties and birthright, and of the prescrip-
tive institutions which guard and protect them, We have
not interfered, nor do we wish in any manner whatever to
interfere with the internal peace and prosperity of the States
arrayed in hostility against us, or with the freest develop-
ment of their destinies,in any form of action or line of policy
they may think proper to adopt for themselves, All we ask
is a like immunity for ourselves, and to be left to ourselves
in the undisturbed e-ajoyenent of those inatineable rights of
" life, liberty, and, the pursuits of happiness," which our
common env:sacra declare to be the equal heritage of all
the part'.es to the social compact.
Los them forbear aggressions upon us, and the war is at
an oed. If there be questions which require adjustment
by negotiations, we have ever been willing, and are still
willing, to enter into communication with our adversaries
in a spirit of peace, of equity, and of manly frankness.
Strong in the persuasion of the justice of our cause, in the
manly devotion of our citizen soldiers, and of the whole
body of our people, and above all the gracious protection of
Heaven, we are not afraid to avow a sincere desire for peace
on terms consistent with our honour and the permanent
security of our rights, and an earnest aspiration to see the
world once more restored to the beneficent pursuits of
industry and of mutual intercourse and exchanges so
essential to its well-being, and which have been so gravely
interrupted by the existence of this unnatural war to
America.

But if our adversaries, or those whom the:::nave placed
in power, deaf to the voice of r. ason awl •
justice—steeled to
the dictates of prudence and hurn:.aity_ by
and delusive confidence in t a presumptuous
weir own numbers, or those of
their black and foreign,
mercenaries, shall determine upon
an indefinite , prolr-
_ gation of the contest, upon them be the
responsibility of a decision so ruinous to themselves and so
injurious. co the interest and repose of mankind.
For ourselves, we have no fear of the result. The

wildest picture ever drawn by a disordered imagination
comes short of the extravagance which would dream of the
conquest of eight millions of people, resolved with one mind
"to die freemen rather than live slaves," and forewarned
by ;he savage and exterminating spirit iu which this war
has been waged upon them, and by the mad avowals of the
supporters of the worse than Egyptian bondage that awaits
them in the event of their subjugation. With these decla-
rations of our dispositions, our principles and our purposes,
we commit our cause to the enlightened judgment of the
world, to the sober reflections of our adversaries themselves,
and to the solemn and righteous arbitrament of Heaven.

Threatening the Lives of the Prince of Wales
and Sir George Grey,

Yesterday afternoon Edward Pope, a young man
of about thirty, and apparently well educated, was
placed at the bar of the Bov, -street Police-court,
before Mr. Vaughan, to answer the charge of having
addressed threatening letters to his Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, to tho Home Secretary, and
others of her Majesty's subjects, by which their lives
were endangered.

The prisoner was brought up by warrant, in the
custody of Williamson, the chief inspector at Scot-
land-yard, and Sergeants Thomas and Langley, also
of the detective force. On entering the court he
showed a strong indisposition to enter the prisoners'
dock, apparently preferring the reporters' box ; but
after some persuasion Sergeant Thomas prevailed
upon him to take his place at the bar, and the case
was then proceeded with.
Sergeant Thomas, being sworn, said—On Satur•
day last I received the letter produced from Mr,
llalswall, the Middlesex magistrate, and chairman
of the governors of H;zwell Lunatic Asylam. The
letter is addressed to Dr. Bagley, the medical
superintendent of that establishment, and is signed
"E. Pope." I know the letter and signature to be
both in the handwriting of the prisoner.
Mr Burnaby, chief clerk, read the letter pro-
duced, which was as follows :

Chelsea, July 1,

Dr. Bagley,—l know not by what inscrutable means you
induced me to forego the rights which Chatterton con-
ferred upon me about this time last year.
That you did practise upon me is evident from the fact
that I was no sooner freed from your bondage than the re-
collection of all that Chatterton had told me dawned gradu-
ally upon toe once more.

What is more, in obedience to my earnest -prayers, be
has condescended to renew those visits which my slavish
obedience to you had induced him to discontinue,
He has repeated the invitations which he gave me on a
prior occasion, and has commanded me to take a deadly
vengeance upon those who have united to persecute me.
Three months in the devilish hole at Boulogne I Eleven
months in the hideous prison at Hanwell I Good God !
what measure of vengeance can repay me for all that I have
suffered during that time
English Consul at Boulogne, your doom is sealed.
Sir George Grey, your fate is nigh at hand. You have
but hours to live.
You, 0 incarnate imposter and chief of liars and usurpers,
a terrible vengeance is waiting you. The measure that is
meted to your servant Grey shall be meted unto you.
And your vile agent of a wicked Government shall re-
ceive their share in the reward of those who are condemned
by their acts. All who have injured me shall suffer, but
notably Grey and the-impostor. They shall feel how bit-
terly', how deadly it the revenge of one who has been
served as I have been—who has been trampled upon as I
have been—who had been contemned and persecuted as I
haie been.

Say lam mad ? No one will believe you! Can a mad-
mail speak as I speak ? act as I act ? think as I think ?
write as I write?

Beware of my vengeance in the time to come I Not yet I
My first victims are Grey and the' impostor,
Ah, my God, how smart that will be
.I 9 God, I thank
Thee with tears of joy for giving me the opportunity of
working out this deed.
No note of warning I No fOolish scrawl warning them of
their coming fate I Deadly silent—silent as the grave.
Beware, 0 wretched doctor. Your turn will come by and
by...4' sign myself, that you may know me,
EDMUND C. POPE,

By the Court—I know the prisoner's handwriting
from having seen him write frequently, and I have
some of the blotting paper used by him also.

Mr. Vaughan—ls Dr. Bagley here ?
Witness—No; I have only had the prisoner in
custody about an hour and a half. He was taken
into custody on Friday at Gravesend, for threaten-
ing the life of the mayor of that town. Three
letters, already sealed and bearing postage stamps,
were found upon him.
The letters were then opened and read by direction
of the court, the first being as follows, addressed to
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales :

To the Impostor calling himself "Prince of Wales."-
0 vile impostor, wretched tool of a wicked clique, know that
the avenger is at hand, who will speedily hurl thee down
from thy lofty station which thou haat for so long held in
the plenitude of honour
This letter was signed " Beware."
The second letter was addressed "To Sir G.
Grey, Home-office," and signed "The Avenger ,' :
You, in connivance with that infernal Dr. Bagley, of the
Hanwell Asylum, and the Impostor, have brought ruin
and disdain upon men. Eleven months' imprisonment at
Hanwell, and three at Boulogne, cry out for revenge.
Beware, for your term of life is short indeed. It is in my
hands. The taking of it will be a meritorious execution
and no murder. You, with your master, that vile impostor
who usurps my station, shall fall by my hand. I shall give
you no warning of the time. lam commanded by a higher
power to say no more.—I am, in eternal hatred,
THE AVENGER.

The third letter was addressed to the English
consul at Boulogne, and was couched in similar
term.
Mr. Vaughan—Are you prepared to say that
these letters also are in the handwriting of the
prisoner ?
Sergeant Thomas—Yes, they are.
Prisoner (to witness)—When did you ever seem;
write ?
Witness-1 saw you write several letters, about
a year ago, when you were in custody on a similar
charge at the King-street station. You wrote let-
ters both in the French and English language.
Mr. Vaughan (to prisoner)—Have you any other
questions to ask ?
The prisoner made no reply to this question, and
when it was repeated by Buck, the warrant officer,
he said, " Hold your tongue."
Mr. Vaughan remanded the prisoner.

THE CORPS OF COMMISSIONAIRES.—His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales has been pleased to
signify, through Lieut.-Gen. Knollys, his approval of the
organisation and utility of the Commissionaires, and has
sent a donation of 25 guineas to the endowment fund of the
corps. Among the regiments that have lately subscribed
for the same object are the 2d Dragoon Guards, the Bth
Hussars, and the 16th Lancers. During the past week
Yiighthasale sent a. clouatiou of £2.5,