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We have to announce the death o Ir.qfuj
Humphery, alderman of London, who expired yei
terday between 12 and 1 o'clock at his private ree
dence at Clapharn.common, North Side. Th.)
deceased, as is well known, carried on a very exten-
sive business as a wharfinger, and was the owner
of the large property known as Hibernia Wharf at
London-bridge. In this business he succeeded his.
uncle, the late Mr. David Hnnanhery, who was for-.
merly the occupier of Hay's Wharf in Toolev-street,„
which was destroyed by the great fire at London-
bridge which occurred about two years ago. In the
year 1832, during the mayoralty of Sir Peter Laurie,
Mr. Humphery was chosen by the livery to fill the
important position of one of the sheriffs of London.
and Middlesex in conjunction with Mr. Richard
Peck. After this, further civic honours were con-
ferred upon him, and on the 17th December, 1835,
he was elected alderman of Aidgate ard, and this
position he retained until his death. He was sub-
sequently elevated to the position of chief magistrate
in the year 1842, and filled the office in a most
exemplary manner. The deceased was not, however,
merely content with the position he had acquired
in the City; for he was chosen by the electors of
the borough of Southwark to represent them in
Parliament, and for about 20 years he retained this
position, and was always a stanch supporter of
Liberal principles. He retired from the representa-
tion in favour of Mr. Apsley Peliatt. 'The deceased
alderman also filled the offices of Master of the
Tallow Chandlers' and Clothworkers' Companies,
and was, at the time of his decease, governor of the
Irish Society, director and treasurer of the Argus
Life Office, director of the Paris and Strae burg
Railway, &c. His death was somewhat sudden, as
he had within a brief period paid a visit, in com-
pany with the rest of the members of the society' of
which ho was the head, to the estates belonging to
the Corporation of London in Ireland, and upon his
return to town he appeared to be in robust health.
Some time afterwards, however, he complained of
ill health, and he gradually sank, until yesterday,
when he expired. It was found, by the medical
gentleman who attended him up to the time of his
death, that he was afflicted with diabetes.

STAMPED ....sd.

Davis, the traitor Lee, and the " Bogus Confede-
racy." No doubt, the ruin of the slaveowner is uni-
versal and complete, and there is a good chance of
the negro blotch being removed from the American
escocheon. The chances are, however, that an an-
cient injustice may be repaired by a thousand acts
of far more glaring iniquity. The stanchest friend
of emancipation surely never contemplated the utter
ruin of the master for the more than doubtful bene-
j fit of the slave. There is not even a werd said
about the Maryland gentleman above alluded to
either bearing arms against or evincing any hos-
tility to the Federal Government. The deeds of
spoliation and confiscation which are now being so
recklessly perpetrated throughout the invaded South
no less than through Maryland, strike the loyal no
less than the disloyal, the innocent no less than the
guilty, with not the feeblest attempt at discrimina-
tion, and it is precisely in this unsparing work that
the Federal troops are cheered and hounded on by
the ruthless outcry of Northern popular opinion.
Extermination is urged, not only with savage ran-
cour, but with a sneering levity, a childish glee,
which certainly reflects no honour upon the manli-
ness of the American character. Peter of the North
is now at last beating out the brains of Paul of the
South, and he shouts and crows in the eager hope
to drown the world's outcry against the fratricide.
May be the work of desolation which elicits his
loud applause may, at some time or other, recoil
upon his own head. I already repeatedly told you
how the havoc of the lower lands of the Mississippi
fills these Wester, ers with dismay, makes them
anxious about their Southern markets, and causes
them to regret the downfall of that Southern com-
merce which places them utterly at the mercy of
the rapacious -Western traders. The time may come
when Peter of the West may have a bone to pick
with Paul of the East, and then he who succumbs in
the strife may look into his own heart to know what
moderation an d clemency, what tenderness and sym-
pathy he may expect from American brotherhood,
" There is." we are again assured to-day," almost
no business in New Orleans except that connected
with the army. Around the whole crescent,'
where there used to lie 3,000 or 4,000 ships, there
are now hardly 100 vessels of all classes. These
are all employed, to some extent, in the military ser-
vice. The charters of some of these ships are curio-
sities, and indicate into whose pockets go the
many millions of money extravagantly expended in
the prosecution of the war. One vessel carrying
3,000 sacks of corn from New York was under char-
ter at 125 dols. a day, and had been out 122 days,
making the cost of freight alone about 15,000 do's., or
about 2 dols. 50c. per bushel. Another vessel, that
had probably taken Kamschatka in her route from
New York to New Orleans, had been out so long and
at so extravagant a charter that the corn she brought
stood the Government in nearly 5 dols. per bushel
when landed in New Orleans," &c. The necessity
of " supplying the Department of the Gulf from the
North-West, and by means of the Mississippi river,"
is the great topic of men's thought and talk here,
and in the meanwhile all accounts agree in describ-
ing the navigation of the great river as still unsafe,
and both its banks overrun by guerillas daily in-
creasing in numbers and daring.
There are serious complaints of prevailing drun-
kenness in the army. The evil is less among the
soldiers than among the officers, who are "the liberal
patrons of the army merchant, whose tempting spirit
cases go to all parts of the lines." Could the cata-
logue be made out of the shames and crimos, the
sacrifices of bravo men, the self-immolation of noble
souls thus squandered, the people would stand ap-
palled. Common conversation singles out this and
that commander, and once promising officer, es the
victim of this vice, perhaps dismissed in disgrace,
or gone home to die, not because of a southern cli-
mate, bus laLcause of a habit the deadly blight of
which no miaem can equal. A general lapse into
drunkenness among the people is, I am told, one of
the most striking concequences of the war. Not a
few of the officers of the army are also desperately
addicted to gambling.

Completion of the Charing- cross Railway,

Formal notice was on Saturday given to the
Railway Department of the Board of Trade that
this important metropolitan railway would be com-
pleted by the Ist of November, and requesting that
the official inspection should be made by the officers
previous to the opening of the line for public traffic.
The time specified in the contracts for the comple-
tion of the works has already expired, and the delay
in opening has been solely attributable to the slow
progress made in the preparation and delivery of
the ironwork for the bridges and stations. For
nearly 12 months the brickwork has been completed, '
the rails and permanent way laid, and, with the
exception of some of the iron bridges, everything
has been ready for the accommodation of that traffic
which for months past has blocked up the loading
thoroughfares from the West-end to the City, and
which this railway will most conveniently divert
from its present channel. The most strenuous ex-
ertions have been made during the past few weeks
by Mr. Hawkshaw, the engineer, to stir up the con-
tractors for the ironwork ; but the dispute in the
iron districts has retarded the delivery of a large
quantity ofthe girders and other portions required
tor the Charing-cross Station. It is probable that
the whole of the works connected with this large
and handsome station and the hotel will not be
finished by the Ist of November; bat, as the whole
of the permanent way will be ready by that time,
it has been thought advisable to open at once,
leaving the completion of the roof and some other
ornamental works, which can be carried on without
obstructing the traffic, to be proceeded with after-
wards. Had the effortsof the engineer been seconded
with the vigour and energy which the directors had
a right to expect from the contractors, the whole
work would have been opened in a finished and
completed condition by the middle of the present
month. The bridg3 over the Thames has been tested
with very satisfactory results, a deflection of not
more than three-eighths of an inch taking place in
the first span of the Surrey side under a load equal
to 700 tons. The hotel, which will be over the
offices at the station, is being pushed forward with
rapidity, and has now reached beyond the second
story. The hotel is being built of stone and white
brick with terracotta ornaments, and is from the
design of Mr. Edward Barry. The building will
have a frontage in the Strand of about 300 feet in
length, and it will be set back 100 feet clear from
the roadway, leaving ample room for approaches to
and from the station without interfering with the
accommodation for the ordinary traffic. In addition
to the front facing the Strand there will be a wing
on the western side of Villicrs-street. The Strand
front will have a tower at each end, and the roof
will be in the French style, similar in many respects
to that of the Grosvenor and Westminster Palace
Hotels. The station has a bold semicircular Span
of 170 feet, constructed of light ironwork and glass,
and will be furnished with suitable 1 tr
P-aorms for
the short City traffic, and for the main line of the
South-Eastern Railway. There are four lines of
rails on the bridge, but these expand on the Cara.-
ingacross side into seven lines, which are included
within the station. The accommodation for foot
passengers across the river will be provided for by
means of a projecting, a Dat
• --way sown feet in width
on each Fide of the bridge, the steamboat por-
eeugers will still huye the benefit, as before, of n
pier at I lunger '3r(l. The signal posts and the pe:nts
at Or j auction With the South- ‘lref,tern Railway in
the Waterloo-read wire tested and adjusted on
Saturday, and from the excellent manner in which
the whole el the works had been carried out by Mr.
WYthee, the contractor, there is no doubt that the
report of the Government inspector will be of such
it character es to admit of thu opoui,..)g of the rail-
?guy by the time specified.

st Tom BROWN," that is Alajcr Hughes, of the
19th Middle/es, proposes that gymua2tio exercises shall by
illtroduccd amongst the Volunteers,