The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 19, 1864.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[BEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON

CAPE CLEAR, AUG. 19,

The Inman steamship, City of Washington, from
New York on the 6th inst., arrived here this morn-
ing. Her advices have been fully anticipated by
the Belgian, which brought despatches to the 6th
evening.

NEW YORK AUG. 6, 11 A.M.

The re-invasion of Maryland is fully confirmed.
The Confederates crossed the Potomac yesterday
morning, in three columns of six to eight thousand
each, at Hancock, Shepardstown, and Williamsport,
at 10 a.m. They occupied Hagerstown. They are
reported to have reached Middleburg, 11 miles north
of Hagerstown, this morning. Despatches from
Harrisburg assert that the three columns have
united, and are marching upon Cumberland and

Pittsburg.
The situation at Petersburg is reported unchanged

Nothing later from Atlanta.

Nonaoffizial advices from New Orleans state that
Admiral Farragut, with a large fleet of gunboats
aad ironclads, attacked the defences of Mobile on
the 27th ult., and succeeded in passing Forts Gains
and Morgan, commanding the entrance io the har-
bour. The contest was still in progress on the 30th
ult. The result is unknown.

Governor Seymour has remonstrated with the
authorities at Washington upon the excessive
quotas assigned to the cities of New York and
Brooklyn under the President's late call for tioops.
Gold 1611.

The City of Washington takes out 79,561 dols.

in specie.

SPAIN.

MADRID, AUG. 18.

It is asserted that the Minister of Finance
intends to propose a modification of the Customs
tariff with France, which is to be framed in a
more liberal sense.

ARRIVAL OF THE RIPON.
SOU [HAMPTON, AUG. 9.

The Peninsular and Oriental Cumpany's steam-
ship Ripon, with the heavy portion of the Calcutta,
China, and Australian mails, arrived here to-day.

She brings 144 passengers, £942 in specie, 858
packages of cargo, including ra w silk, value X 60,000;
musk, 1,600 rupees; precious stones, 1,000 rupees;
gold embroidered velvet carpets for Sir Charles
Wood, value 25,000 rupees; and jewellery, value
500 rupees.

GIBRALTAR, Aug. 14.
Her Majesty's ships Procris and Redpole, the
French transport Jura, and an Egyptian gunboat,
were in the harbour. Exchange on London, 90
days, 501 ; on Paris, 5 21; on Genoa, 5 31 ;
Madrid, eight days' sight, par.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
SUEZ, AUG. 19.
The Bengal, with the above mails, reached Suez
at midnight yesterday,
The Nubia arrived at Poiltt de Galle on the 2d
inst., all well.

BANK OF FRANCE.

(REITTER'S EXPRESq

P.laiN, August 18.
The following is the retu:-,o of the Bank of Franc:,
for the week, toget
-..,er with the corresponding
figures of the Fr.:
rtous account :
-r• AUGUST 18. AUGUST 11.
_f.,R.,f
5. C. t c.
„,aP'' -....r ot the Bank 182,500,000 182,500,000
... routs in addition toCapital
(Art. 8 law June 9,1657) 5,126,1 711 5,114,862 48
Reserve in the Bank and
its branches
Reserve in lanch d property 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation 769,096,425 777,023,925 --
Batik notes to order and re-

ceipt4 payable at sight:. 5,290,677 16 6,233,349 15
Treasury acJ. cur. creditor 61,400,09 79 57,968,339 40
Currentaccounts—Paris,.lll,o77,3B6 20 122,254 979 44
Do. branch-banks 28,49,631 26,611,833
Dividends paybblu 2,240,824 75 2,16b,71U 75
Discounts and sundry
interests 7,848,640 17 7,124,840 91
Re-discounts of the last

six months
2,588,735 17 2,588,735 17
Sundries .. 1047,085 24 15,838,120 4 t

1,216,891,401 77 1,231,833,445 85
CR.
Cash in hand and branch-
banks 276,200,182 91 272,433.487 38
Commercial bills overdue 1,075,097 95 8,246,818 11
Commercial billsdiscouLted

not yet due ... 321.703,934 02 330,403,019 35
Do. branch-banks,,,, 305,316,363 --- 303,092,566
Advances on deposits cf
bullion ...
Do. branch- banks „ „ 3,831,700 -- 3,957,700
Advances on Frenchpublio
securities ..
Do. branch-banks.. , , 9,154,150 —9,412,8 A
Advances on railway shares
and debentures......,, 27,692,600 --. 27,792,900
• Do branch-bans..., 18,669,6L0 —. 18,704,050
Advances on Credit Fen
tier Bonds 400,000 --- 395,000
Do. branch-banks „ ,
Advances to the State
(Conven, June 10, 1857) 60,000,000 -- 60,000,000
Govt. Stock Reserve ~ „ 12,98u,750 14 12,980,750 14
Do. disposable
Rentes immobilisees (Law
June 9, 1857)
Rotel and furniture of tha
Bank
Landed property', branches
Expenses of nianagernent 713,400 44 712,921 54
Sundries 2,296, 903 65 5,186,074 37

1,216,891,401 77 1,231,833,445 85
Certified by the Honorary Vice-President of the Council
of State, Governor of the 13ank
• A.D. Wally.

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BUTT or PUNCLI FVN A--The Teak:
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Will not have forgotten the Curious coincidenee
matter
of the same kindp lief tldnhttited with any
ter of public fie but • h th*
..4ortance, with some mg of an en-
-fly private character. A person of decidedly Hebraic
weeks(P une ha
origin, adorned with whiskers of gigantic proportions, was
represented entering the studio of an artist, and request-
ing (or rather demanding) of him to purehase a work of
hie in consideration of prospective puffs in the newspapers.
Some people ate), think that such a notion was utterly
chimerical and too far removed from the region of the
possible to be seriously considered, but to all such
and also to those who are sceptical as to the ffdetity
with which the comic caricaturists adhere to the
truth of nature, we commend the report of a case
which Was tried in the Marylebone County Court a few days
ago, before Sir J. E. Wilmot, the judge; which case is re-
ported in The Borough of Mal ylebone Merctoy of last week.
The plaintiff in this case was a certain Mr Ben Charles
Jones, who described himself as an author, living at No.
9, Arundel-gardens, Kensington-park, and the defendant
was Mr C. Silvy, the well-known photographer, residing at
38, Prochester-terrace. Mr Jones was endeavouring to re-
cover the Bum of 41 14e for books stated to have been
ordered by and delivered to the plaintiff, The statement on
behalf of the defendant was, that Mr Jones had been intro-
duced to him in February last, and had proposed to him to
subscribe for "a hundred lectures." The defendant re-
fused to sign any contract, but said he would pay for the
volumes as he had them. Three volumes had been sent,
and the author had called to state that he was "an author
of great repute and an influential member of the press, in
which latter capacity he could du for the defendant a vast
amount of good by mentioning his name favourably in the
different Loudon newspapers." Tee defendant further-
more stated, that on being called upon to pay the money
"be declined to have anything whatever to do with him;
and on plaintiff pressing him, he peremptorily told him
that he would have nothing to do with either him or his
books," Some days afterwards, however, a parcel was left
with the books, and eventually the plaintiff called for pay-
ment, but he soon ordered him off and his books too. No
evidence was given as to " the vast amount of good" which
the plaintiff was capable of doing, and after going into the
case with some minuteness, the judge announced his inten-
tion of postponing it for fresh evidence, when the plaintff
elected to be non-suited. A case like this, unless properly
explained, is not likely to raise the reputation of the press
in the estimation of the world at large,— ThTe,
_ady' 8 News-
paPor,

MR. ALFRED MELLON'S CONCERTS.

Another week of these delightful and thoroughly
popular musical entertaiments is drawing to a close,
with, on the part of the public itself, a growing
evidence of their appreciation. The nightly atten-
dance in the Royal Italian Opera House at Covent
Garden, affords evidence of this, of the most conclu-
sive character. Nor is it matter for surprise
that it should be so—particularly now when
the vast majority of the places of public
entertainment (among these nearly the whole
of the London theatres) are closed inhos-
pitably against all sight-seeing Londoners.
Thanks to Mr Mellon, however—no w that the Opera
Houses are both of them closed, here at Covent
Garden, there at Her Majesty's, when Drury Lane
is shut, and the Haymarket, and the St. James's,
and the Westminster, and Sadler's Wells, and the
Lyceum—when even individual entertainers,
like Mr Woodin, have packed up their proper-
ties for a tour in the provinces—thanks, we
say, during this no-season among the generality of
managers, conductors, and entertainers, thanks to
Mr. Alfred Mallon's enterprize in the matter of
these Concerts, we can enjoy any, nay every, night
if we please, a feast of sweet sounds—musie by the
most gifted masters, executed by the most accom-
plished performers. Madlle. Marie Krebs on the
piano, Mr. Carrodus on the violin, Mr Levy on the
cornet. -piston, Ali Ben Son-Alle on the Turko-
phone, Madlle. Carlotta 'Patti on that marvellous,
magical organ of her own—her voice I Last even-
ing (another of Mr. Mellon's Thursdays!) was the
night set apart, this week, for the, works f
Mendelssohn—as the previous Tl,:arsday had been
set apart for those of /11,-zut
and as next
Thursday (an exceptior.-dtly grand attraction even
among these Thurrddays) is to be set apart for
the works of, T;:ceethoven.

Meeting of Crowned Heads at Kissingen.

Galignani publishes an interesting letter from
Kissingen, giving a comparative sketch of its merits
over those of other watering places, and containing
an amusing account of the doings of Royal and Im-
perial personages there :

There are but few French here, and scarcely and ngliah,
In the social aspects of Kissingen there is a cell-mendable
absence of the follies of fashionable life. Ttere is no Casino,
no Kursaal, as at Wiesbaden, Ems ~
andßaden Baden, and,
consequently, the canons of taste are not offended by
the pretentious toilettes and vicious excesses which have
rendered those 1316 Les so notorious. In its secluded position,
its rural enr...ons, and the every day life of the visitors,
Kissin:;en bears a strong resemblance to Schwalbach. Yet
the, appearance of the guests and the character of the waters
in the two places are the very antipodes of each other. At
Kissingen, the majority of the visitors are more or less over-
grown, more or less florid-looking, and the males out-num-
ber the females .0 to 1. The waters, with a plain dietary
regimen and plenty of exercise,are very efficacious in check-
ing any tendency to corpulency, and are useful in the cure
of dyspepsia and all derangements of tho stomach. At
Schwalbach the visitors are generally thin, pale-looking,
and the females outnumber vastly the males. As the iron
waters enrich the blood, and the object in taking them is
to add flesh and not reduce it, the exercise prescribed
to those taking the cure at Schwalbach Is very
light, while the diet is ri,n and abundant. At the late,
place the ladies re:Jain sitting all day long on rural benches
under the tr:,es, listening to the music; whilst at Kissingen
every -eath and corner is invaded from six to eight in the
r"..orning and four to six in the afternoon by endless crowds
of mostly male promenaders, walking with intense energy,
and looking as if engaged in the performance of some solemn
religious duty. A fine band of music performs during the
hours of promenade, The visit of the Imperial and Royal
personages here produced no perceptible influence on the
Usual routine of life. The Imperial family of Russia set a
Lotable example by the unostentatious style of their manners.
The Empress walked out in the beautiful grounds every
day, dressed in marked simplicity. Wherever she went, she
was the observed of all observers. She is a graceful-looking
Woman, of slight physique, Saxon type of features, and ap-
parently about 45 years of age. She took the cure regularly
under the advice of the best resident physician, whom
she consulted upon her arrival. She looked well, and
was not seriously indisposed, but the cruel rigour of the
Russian winters had tried her constitution severely, and it
was believed by her medical advisers that a thorough
change of air, with tho use of proper medicinal waters,
would do her great good. Of the Russian Imperial family
who have been sojourning in Kissingen, there were, besides
the Emperor and Empress, two of the younger Grand
Dukes, the Grand Duchess He!oa, and the Prince Imperial
Cesarowilch, just turned 20, of fine personal presence and
very agreeable manners. He is at present, as you are aware,
making a general tour through Europe. The Emperor was
to be seen constantly during his stay walking about the
public grounds, and not untrequently in the society of the
new King of Bavaria. his costume was a simple morning
dress, with a plain grey hat, in striking contrast with the
military unitorra which he invariably wears in public when
in Russia, In most of his rambles he was accompanied by
his favourite black setter dog, " Mylord," of English stock.
The young King of Bavaria had an opportunity of making
the personal acquaintance of the Emperor of Austria and
of the Imperial family of Russia. He is not yet nineteen,
but very manly in appearance, with a fine Raphaelite face,
and expressive large blue eyes. He has been brought up
with his younger brother, under the guardianship of a
Protestant mother, in a strict and domestic manner, and
his seen comparatively little of life cutside of his father's
palace. Indeed, his education was not yet completed, as it
had been definitely arranged that he should go to the Uni-
versity this winter, when all at once his father's demise de.
volved on him the duties of Royalty. His portrait, which
previously was scarcely known to the people, is at pre-
sent in every window. For two or three days prior to
quitting Kissingen, he was confined to his apartment by
the effects of fatigue, and his re-appearance on the morning
of his departure, was a signal for quite an outburst of
popular enthusiasm.

Imprieoriment of Four Italians in Bokhara.

The Rurkaru gives some details relating to the
imprisonment of the Italian adventurers, now sup-
posed to be lingering in the custody of the barba-
rous Khan of Bokhara, or, as is more probable,
condemned to the fate of our own unfortunate
Stoddart and Conelly in the same inhospitable
region :—" The party consisted of four Italians and
an attendant, who acted as an interpreter and gave
himself out as a Russian. Thev arrived at Bukhara
in October last and took up their quarters in a cara-
vanserai in the town. Here they were visited by
the Wuzser, to whom they explained the object of
their mission, He closely examined their effects,
which comprised some merchandise, in the Shape of
spring toys, jackesinshoxes, a handsorgan, and other
sariosiies, and after exacting a heavy duty he left
qleM, intimating that, they would be allowed to
purchase small qtiatitities of silk in the bazaar until I
the King's pleasure was knob. The Ameer was
at this time absent on an expedition to-IL:than, and
on being apprisedof the presence of these foreigners
at his capital, he ordered that they should be placed
in the principal fort, the B sla Hisses, but should not
be treated as prisoners. On his return, the Ameer
granted them an audience, and inspected their curio-
sities. Their papers subsequently underwent 3 closer
scrutiny, and, unfortunately for the Italian's; some
sketches of the country traversed by them, and a
plan of the bazaar of Bokhara itself, were dis-
covered, which roused the Ameer's worst suspi-
cions of their inimical character, and led to their
immediate removal to the notorious subterranean
prison known as the Al Ktiunna,' or Dark Well.
After a week's incarceration in this chamber of
horrors, the Amer, it is alleged, relented, and
ordered the strangers back to the Bala Hisser, or
principal fort. This occurred in November last,
and later intelligence received would seem to show
that they continued to be detained at this fort
pending a reference made to the Court of St.
Petersburg by the Ameer. On their removal to
the prison of the Dark Well, orders were given for
the confiscation and public sale of their property,
and a few articles belonging to the captives have
thus found their way to the hands of the Punjab
authorities. Wo have in this oircumstance a repeti-
tion of what happened to a portion of the property
of the lamented Stoddart, one of whose sextants and
several hooks were brought to St. Petersburg during
his captivity at Bokhara. Meanwhile the Chevalier
Bonhomme, as an envoy from the King of Italy, will
have reached Teheran, and will lose no time in for-
warding letters which he bears from the Sultan of
Tar' ey, as head of the faithful, to the Ameer of
Bokhara in behalf of the Italian captives. But it is
to be feared that, like that of the spiritual head of
Rome, the influence of the Ottoman Sultan in tem.
poral matters is very faint in the ultramontane re-
gions of Bokhara. The general impression is that
the illatl3llCo of Russia alone can save the men, and
it is confidently expected that it will be vigorously
employed,"

Frederick Douglass on the American War,

The following is an extract from a recent letter
from Mr. Douglass to an English correspondent
who had helped to send out a box of clothipg for
the distressed fugitives in Washington, D.C,, and
who wished to assist the society conducted by
coloured people. Mr. Douglass's rebuke of Mr.
Lincoln's Government comes with peculiar force
from one of the sufferers :

My knowledge of the character and efficiency of
the Freedman's Relief Scciety at Washington was
obtained last summer by attending its annual
meeting at the Fifteenth-street Presbyterian Church
in that city. eft ere were present about fifty ladies
and gentlemen. But these were to all outward
seeming well entitled to the name I give them. I
never was in a more orderly or ousiness-liko society.
Tne eight of these kind, good people endeavouring
to do something towards mitigating the sufferings
of their race, and to assist in their imprcvement,
would have been gratifying to you. I ehall send
your letter to Miss E. V. Brown, the correspond-
ing secretary of the Washington Freedman's
Association. She is better able than I to give
you direct information as to what the society
has done, is doing, and proposes to do. When the
question of organising
these Freedman's Associa-
tions was first raised I opposed such organisations,
chiefly on the ground that ttsey
alive the hurtful id would tend to keep
that the negro cannot take
care of himselr.. And even now I insist that these
societies ought not to be necessary, and would not
if t.,lde Government and people of the country would
only be just in their dealings with them. These
newly-freed people are victimised on every hand.
Their strong men have been literally swept
into the army, and the weak ones left to endure
untold B,;2Teeing. Heretofore our Government
ha.:Uty paid them money enough to buy the shoes
they march in. Had we justice we should not need
generosity.

You have said some sharp things in the Inquirer
of the conduct of the Washington Guveinuient,
but none too sharp. The more you can say of the
swindle by which our Government claims the
respect of mackind for abolishing slavery—at the
same time that it is practically re-establishing
that hateful system in Louisiana, under General
Banks—the better. I have not readily consented
to the claims set up in the name of anti-slavery for
our Government, but I have tried to believe all
fur'the best. My patience and faith are not very
strong now. The treatment of our black soldiers
—the refusal to pay them any like equal compen-
sation, though it was promised them when they
enlisted; the refusal to insist upon the ex-
change of coloured prisoners, and to retaliate
upon rebel prisoners when coloured prisoners have
been slaughtered in cold blood, although the Presis
dent has repeatedly promised thus to protect the
lives of his ooloured soldiers—have worn my patience
quite threadbare, The President has virtually laid
down this as the rule of his statesmen : Do evil by
choice, right from necessity. You will see that he
does not sign the bill adopted by Congress restricting
the organisation of State Governments only to those
States where there is a loyal majo:ity. His plan
is to organise such Governments wheiever there is
one-tenth of the people loyal !----an entire contra-
diction of the constitutional idea of Republican
Government. I see no purpose on the part of Lin-
coln and his friends to extend the elective franchise
to the coloured people of the South, but the con-
trary. Thia is extremely dishonourable. No rebuke
of it can be too stinging from your side of the
water. The negro is deemed good enough to fight
for the Government, but not good to vote or enjoy
the right to vote in the Government. We invest
with the elective franchise those who with bloody
blades and bloody hands have sought the life of the
nation, but sternly refuse to invest those who have
done what they could to save the nation's life. This
discrimination becomes more dishonourable whe❑
the circumstances are duly coneidered. Our Govern-
ment asks the negro to espouse its cause ; asks him
to turn against his master, and thus fire his master's
nate against him. Well, when it has attained peace,
what does it propose Why this, to hand the negro
back to the political power of his master, without
a single element of strength to shield himself from
the vindictive spirit sure to be roused against the
whole coloured ram

You can easily imagine that my life during all
this war has been an anxious one. Constituted as
I am, and identified as I am with the hated class
whose fortunes tremble constanny in the balance,
there is no rest for my spirit amid this terrible
strife. My son Lewis has been honourably dis
charged from the 54th Massachusetts Regiment,
but he is still with the regiment in South Carolina,
acting as sutler's clerk. My son Charles has been
in several of the recent battles round Petersburg,
Virginia. A week ago he was still unharmed. We
take up the paper each morning with a hesitating
nand, for we know not what it may bring. Our
country—l mean the North as well as the South—
seems rapidly tending to ruin. Our financial con-
dition is rapidly r, aging itself to the level predicted
for it by some of your statesmen as well as ours. Our
people don't want to be taxed to sustain the public
credit, and impose upon our financiers the Egyptian
task of making bricks without straw. Chase's re-
signation, I fear, will prove a heavy blow to our
credit abroad. Of all members of the Cabinet Mr.
Chase wcs perhaps the most anti-slavery. I am ex.
petting to visit the freed men's camp about Wash-
ington and Alexandria soon, and may hereafter give
you some account of their condition and prospects.
My friends about Washington think it does some
good to have me go down and talk to them. lam
sure it does me good.