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London, England, 1864-06-23 00:00:00

burned, thereby causing great suffering among
the population.

Advices from the blockading fleet announce the
capture of the U.S. steamer Water Witch by a
force of Confederates from Fort M'Allister, Georgia,
who boarded the vessel with launches during the
night. The Water Witch was a regular navy
built vessel carrying five guns, and very fast. An
expedition was fitting out at Port Royal to endeav
your to recapture or destroy her.

The following resolution was adopted on the 3d
inst. in the Confederate Senate :—" Resolved, that
the President be requested to make an exposition,
through our commissioners abroad, to the various
European Powers, to which they may be accredited
of the violations of the rules of civilised warfare
and outrages committed by the armies and Govern•
ment of the United States in the prosecution of
hostilities against the Confederate States."
In the Federal Senate Mr. Powell moved to take
up the bill prohibiting military interference with
elections. Ths bill was defeated.

Mr. Larn, of Kansas, offered a resolution recog,
❑ising the legitimacy of the loyal State and Govern,
meat of Arkansas.

The Baltimore Convention on June Bth nomi-
nated Mr. Lincoln and Andrew Johnston, of Ten-
nessee, for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency.
The Platform adopted a series of resolutions de-
claring that the rebellion shall be suppressed, and
no terms from the South listened to other than un-
conditional surrender, and a return to their alle•
giance to the constitution of laws of the United
States. Other resolutions embraced an enforce-
ment of the Monroe Doctrine, and the abolition of
slavery by constitutional amendment. Another
resolution endorsed the course of the present
administration.

At a meeting of a M'Cleilan Democratic club of
New Jersey, Mr. W. Cornell Jewett, well known
for his exertions to secure European intervention,
offered a series of resolutions, which were adopted,
nominating for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency
General George B. M'Clellan and Milliard Fillmore,
and declaring that the war, if it must be continued,
shall only be prosecuted with a view to preserve
the constitution and union, independent of slavery ;
that the liberty of speech and the press shall be
maintained; that all slave confiscations and other
proclamations, and Congressional acts connected
therewith shall be rendered null and void ; that the
people of the United States shall vote upon the re.
cognition of Maximilian's Government in Mexico;
that coloured troops shall be withdrawn from the
field, and that a cessation of hostilities should be
proclaimed, during which commissioners from the
different States, Norbh and South, can meet to de-
termine upon a just mode of settling the existing
difficulties by arbitration or otherwise; the final
result to be submitted to the voice of the people
by ballot.

THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS,

6OUTHAMPTON, June 23.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, Cspt. Evans, with the heavy portion
of the Calcutta, China, and Australian mails, has
arrived.

The Ceylon brings 196 passengers, among whom
are Sir R. and Lady Walpole and finally ; Lieut.
Moorson, A.D.C. to the General; Col. Wingfield,
Capt. and Mrs. Douglas, Capt. Mackenzie, Mr. H.
Arnould, Capt. Duncan, Capt. Ferguson, Major-
General M'Duff, Ensign Morley, and Dr. Aiken.
Her cargo comprises 13 cases of valuables, 2
packages of specie, value not stated, 625 packages
of sundries, and 1,035 bales of raw Bilk, value
£90,000 sterling.

The Ceylon spoke the following ships during her

ps.Esage

Suns 10th—Exchanged colours with the British
barque Thorwalden. Juno 12th Exchanged
colours with the Peninsular and Oriental steamship
Delta. June 16th—Exchanged colours with the
brig Cisgar, the bark Escort and the barque Acacia,
and exchanged night signals with the Peninsular
and Oriental steamship Delhi off Tarafa ; on the
20th passed the steamship Corinthian and the steam-
ship Arabian ; on the 21st exchanged signals with
the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Poonah,
bound for Gibraltar ; and on the 22d exchanged
colours with the barque August of Hamburg.
Her Majesty's ships Orlando, Trident, Liffey,
Magicienne,Mve knee, Dromedary, Cossack, Orontes,
Marlborough, and Foxhound were at Malta on the
10th inst.

The Ottoman line of battle ship Peyki Mnsret,
and frigates Etowul and Rephen Munet, under the
command of Vice Admiral Ettrem Pasha, were at
Gibraltar on the 16th on their way to England
to be fitted with screw machinery.
Her Mojesty'a screw frigate Galatea left Gib-
raltar for England on the 12th.

Her Majesty's ships Redpole and Prccris were
at Gibraltar when the Ceylon left.

GIBRALTAR; June 16.
Commercial letters received from Mazagan and
Casabianca by the Amazon, state that the prices of
wool continued the same, and the supply Was short
at both places. The crop of maize and garbanzos
are very abundant this year, but the bean crop is
lost in conacquence of the late rains. An officer of
the Sultan arrived at Tetuan on the 6th, and it is
inferred that he was the bearer of peremptory
orders for the departure of the Governor Hash•
Hash, who is disgraced for want of proper activity
in the pursuit of the assassins of the French sub-
ject at Tetuan. Hash-Hash set out for the Sul-
tan's Court the day after the arrival of this last
messenger. The advices from Tangier confirm the
report that the Sultan had given full satisfaction
to the demands of the French Government, and
state that all differences had been finally arranged.
The following British vessels have arrived out at
Gibraltar. Steamer Cadiz, 7 days from London;
schooner Shamrock, 11 days from Cardiff; brigan-
tine William and Jane, 27 days from Swansea;
schooner Perseverance, 14 days from Cardiff; brig
Elizabeth Young, 11 days from Swansea; brig
Marmion, 12 days from Liverpool ; steamer Fortuna,
6 days from London ; brigantine Amytas, 20 days
from Liverpool ; schooner William Keith, 12 days
from Newport ; schooner Margaret and Jane, 14
days from Newport; and steamer Geneva, 9 daps
from Glasgow.

Exchange on London, 90 days' date, 501- ; on
Paris, 90 days, 5f 32c; on Marseilles, 90 days, 5f
33c; on Genoa, 90 days. 5f 34c to 35c; Madrid, 8
days' sight, par; Cadiz, 8 days' sight, 2 dis.; Seville,
8 days' sight, l; dis. ; Malaga, do., I prem. ; Barce-
lona, do,, prem.; Almeria, do., par ; Valencia, do.,
par ; Alicante, do., par. Premium on 5 franc pieces,
to per cent. premium.

CHINA.

REPULSE OF GORDON FROM CHANGE

CHOW-FOO.
SHANGHAE, MAY 7.
(By telegraph from Suez.)
Major Gordon and the Pottle have thrice as•
saulted Chang-Chow-Foo, and have been each
time repulsed with groat loss.
The city still holds out.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—This vessel has just
taken 3,000 tons of coal on board, and will shortly leave
Liverpool for Sheerness or Deptford, where she will be
fitted with water tanks, in which the Atlantic cable now
being made by Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co. will be stowed
away as it is made.

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short history of horology, and enables those who live in any
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LITERATURE.

Recollections and Wanderings of Paul Bedford.
One Vol,, pp. 160. Routledge, Warne, and
Routledge.
A capital book of its odd kind is this anecdotal
chit-chat about himself and his belongings given to
us (as just a taste or flavour of his autobiography)
by the biggest and jovialist among our popular Low
Comedians. As about the best word we could say
for it—we immedietely on getting it read through
the whole of the thin gilt-edged volume in which
Paul relates his "Recollections and Wanderings,"
we read through the whole of it from
cover to cover, if not literally at a single sit-
ting (seeing that we began the reading of it
in the street), at any rate, right off, at one innings,
on end, or however we may like to put the fact
idiomatically, a fact that Sam Slick would
express in Yankee lingo by tho term—at a single
streak. Chuckling not iefreo,uently as he turns the
leaves, anyone else who has a keen relish for, we
won% say exactly wit, but we will une
hesitatingly say for a capital bit of fun, may do
the like, with great profit to his digestion.
From cover to cover, that is, the reader of Paul
Bedford's souvenirs may skim lightly and pleasantly
through his amusing recollections from the lifelike
frontispiece representing Paul Bedford in propria
persona (of course with an open overcoat, of course
with his hat on, the said hat having just the
faintest perceptible cock over the left ear)
from the frontispiece, we say, flown to the last
words of the book ending so very characteristically !
We may fancy we hear the words trolled out
in a deep bass voice, rather guttural in its intona-
tions, "And now, my fostering friends.and patrons
[meaning the kyind public'] allow me to subscribe
myself—your devoted boy—PAUL," It is just for
alt the world the very kind of a book that we should
hare looked for at the hands of our devoted boy
Paul, is the nappy event (now realiz.d) of his
jotting down his professional aouNenirs. The
only fault is—there is not by any means
enough of it. Like Friar Bacon's brazen head in
the old pantomime, now that we have tasted so
much, we are clamorous for " more !" And, no
matter at what uncertain intervals, just as Gri-
maldi used to feed the Brazen Head with " more"
—we shall really hope to taste a few supplementary
tidbits of the ulnae relishing kind, vouchsafed to us
(to devour just precisely in the same way, off hand,
and with an almost audible smack of the lips),
vouchsafed to us benignantly by a sort of
an after-thought, by our exhilarating friend
Paul—Paul with the stalwart form, and the
purple face, and the deep voice, and the irresistibly
winking eyelids ! At any rate, for as much of his
recollections as he here obliges us with spontane-
ously, he merits at once our thanks and our congra-
tulations. Who, indeed, shall venture to say that
he is not entitled to our congratulations, seeing that
the book reveals himself (the writer of it) as the per-
sonal associate (among a crowd of other celebrities)
of men of mark as illustrious and as varied in their
genius as Edmund Kean, as the Emperor Napoleon
111. when fiance Louis Napoleon, as Lord Byron, as
Madame elalibran, as Sir Walter Scott, and Madame
Catalairn and Daniel O'Connell ! Yes—be.it now
known and henceforth borne honourably in remem-
brance, not only that Paul Bedford asso-
ciated with these and a great number of other
famous and gifted people, but that some among them
he knew intimately, with some amongst them
he enjoyed the high and enviable privilege of an
earnest and cordial friendship. For one thing, by
the way, we can't fancy any man being—seriously
—an enemy of Paul Bedford's. We don't know him
in the least personally. But, at any rate, we can
say that. The word Enmity and the name of Paul
Bedford somehow or another seem incompatibli,
incapable of any association whatever ! The
coupling of the two gives one upon the
instant a notion of the ludicrous ! However
here, in honest black and white, are proofs positive
of his friendships. About the earliest recorded
among these being his intimacy with one of the
greatest actors that ever breathed (of whom Paul
Bedford tells many a pleasant anecdote), meaning
that world famous Ganius of Tragedy, Edmund
Kean, Paul's first setting eyes upon Edmund Kean,
es the former relates, occurred on the stage of the
Bath Theatre in "Richard HU—Pew Bedford as the
Duke of Norfolk, Kean as Richard—the scene
Bos worth's Battlefield! There it is that the King

"has any careful friend
Discovered yet the number of the rebels f"

Norfolk.—My lord, as I from spies am well informed,
Six or seven thousand is their utmost power.
Richard.—Why our battalia trebles that account;
Besides, the king's name is a tower of strength,
Which they upon the adverse faction want.
Norfolk.—Their wants are greater yet, my lord, those e'en
Of motion, life, and spirit—Did you but know

How wretchedly their men disgrace the. field ;
Oh, such a tattered host of me unted scare-crows I
So poor, so famished ; their executors,
The greedy jack, 'laws, fly hovering o'er their heads,
Impatient for their lean inheritance.
Now, for my misfortune. When I uttered the words,
" Jack Daws," the audience were convulsed with laughter,

in which mirth the wondrous "Richard" joined. I could

not imagine what caused this merriment, but was very soon
illuminated on the point, for on quitting the stage my patron
manager came to me in terror, saying, " My dear, you com-
mitted a great error." Why so, sir ?" said I. " Why,
my dear, you mistook the name of the bird. It should
have been 'the greedy crows.' " " Oh, pray, sir, forgive
me," said I, for my alarm was so great at the moment, I
knew not what I said. " But, my dear," said my manager,
"what will the great Mr Kean say to it ?" I said, " I
am sure I don't know. I suppose I shall have my
marching ticket signed." When the tragedy ended
amidst a hurricane of applause, I rushed to my
dressing-room, and commenced changing my gar-
ments, hoping ito escape from the theatre unnoticed ; but
before I had completed my toilet, a knock was heard at the
door. " Who is there ?" said my attendant. A voice from
without replied, by saying "Mr. Kean requested Mr Bed-
ford would come to his dressing-room before he leaves the
theatre." At that summons I became nervously excited.
I approached the dreaded chamber, tinder the impression
of instant dismissal. But not so ; for on entering the room
mad imploring forgiveness for the mistake I had committed,
the kind and wondrous tragedian said, " Make no apology,
my young friend, for you made me laugh more heartily
than I have done for years." He concluded by in-
viting me to dine with him she following day, which event
commenced a friendship that ceased not during the lifetime
of that inspired dramatic genius.

Thenceforth Bedford, obtaining among his other
well known sobriquets, that of "Jack Daw Panl."
Conspicuous among the revelations here made by
this " unbuzzuming" of Paul's, as he might call
it himself pre-eminent among them all in its
importance—should stand the remarkable dis-
closure made by our comic hero of the fact that
the phrase of phrases that he has most signally
immortalised by his mere manner of uttering it,
was interpolated by Mr, Buoketone in the original
manuscript of Green Bushes, at the suggestion of
the late Mr. T. P. Cooke ! That paragon among
theatrical sailors, inimitable not only in his vast-
heaving and his hornpipe, but in the very hitch
of his trousers, in the very turn of the quid in his
cheek I' And—the phrase hinted at ? Why
every one will surely recognise the allusion
as pointing to no other Bedfordian or Paulo-post,
Past, present, and, we had almost said future
phrase than—" I believe you, my boy !" The
origin of it being this. according to raul'a own
account of it, in the manner following ! Saith Paul
Bedford :
The world.wido and domestic phrase of " I believe you,
my boy," was indicated to the talented author by that Tar
of all nations, the late T. P. Cooke, who said, that when
he was a lad, at tho naval engagement of the taking of
Cape St. Vincent, they had on
amid the battles roar, would make them
board a funny and facetious
shot had just cleared his figure-head, his
Imauesgshm;atwe,h‘evnhoa,
gun mate would say, " Hollo, Joe, that was too near to be
pleasant." " I believe you, my boy," sung out Joe.
Not another plum or bit of candied peel in the way
of anecdote will W 3 venture unfairly to pick thus,
Jack Horner-wise, out of this very rich slice
of autobiographical cake. To the slice ithelf
in its integrity, Es here served up for
those who list, we commend the attention
of all lovers of such good things as theatri.
cal small-talk and green-room facetiousness.
Again we say it—the book is just precisely what,
from its title, we should have expected it to be :
Which is certainly saying a good deal, as books go !
It is, in other worde, exactly what it assumes to be—
namely, a thoroughly good-humoured, merry, wink,
ing, dig-in-tbe-ribs eon of bulton-holdiog Gossip of

Paul Bedford's, giving us (with parenthetical roars
of laughter, from us, every now and then, as Vii 3
stand listening to him, so to speak, at the street
corner) giving us all kinds of amusing recollections
of his, in tho shape of memoranda illustrative of
his professional wanderings.

THE YELVERTON CORRESPONDENCE, oppor-
tunely collected and edited by the respondent in
the great case now before the House of Lards, ha 3
been published in form of a pink volumette of tIOS
pages, by Thomas Laurie, of Edinburgh. 'lb°
publication is wonderfully complete in itself, and
throws a flood of light over this extraordinary
romance founded on reality. The little book 14
embellished " with portraits from drawings by
Major and Mrs. Yelverton," so says at least
the title-page—thereby, rather ambiguously
giving us to understand, as we take it, that
the portraits are drawn each one of, or by the
other! Altogether the book containing this
wonderfully clever and interesting correspondence
is as enthralling, in its way, as many a novel writ-
ten (after the manner of famous works like in
phrey Clinker," "Evelina," "The Dodd FanlilY,;
and "Guy Mannering") in the form of letters. It
is singularly readable and—though about love, end
often intensely about it—readable throughout.

A POPULAR GUIDE TO THE GREAT NORTITEBN
RAILWAY, in 87 pages, has recently been issued
from the press by Messrs. Smith and Son, of IS%
Strand—the compilation (as with one or two similar
guide books, each of them very well known) of
George Rose Emerson. As evidence of the co."
pue's quality as a cicerone along the north lice'
take the follovs leg :
Once mere the eye ranges over the fields and undulat-
ing hills, and rests on the round tower of Knebworth, abc:vs,
the trees of the wooded park—Elnabworth, the residence °I
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, the accomplished and popular Poet'
novelist, dramatist, and orator, of whom it may bo truly
said, " He has touched nothing which he has not adorn'a'"
The mansion at linebworth is worthy of a man of letters
and taste. There are pictures, antiquities, treasures sf art'
and objects of historic interest, and charming grouncls,
where the author of the "Disowned" may enjoy the
tions of delightful sylvan scenery, and glades sombre enough
for even the teller of the " Strange Story." The church,
dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is in the centre of the par"
and contains several monuments of the Lytton family.
The work is just the very one to wile away el°
tedium of a solitary journey from King's-cross to
Nottingham. attrac-
tions