The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

YORK SHIRE.

In the North and East hidings during the past
week the progress of harvest work has been rapid.
There has been very little interruption from the
weather, only a trifling :shower or two having
fallen. The temperature of the week has been
low, with a keen north-easter blowing and frotsy
nights, on Friday night, in low .districts, even
damaging the dahlias and vegetable marrows, 8...7e.
The crops during the week have not ripened much,
and farmers, fearing rain, have mown them rather
green in some cases. Wherever it has been practi-
cable the fields have been cleared, and a journey
through the district now shows new 'wheat stacks
more frequent than is generally supposed. As more
acquaintance is being made by farmers with the
actual character of the crops, Vaere are very few of
them who now grumble abeeat the deficiency, but as
a rule they admit the wheat to be an average crop.
Barley, on alt hands, is stated to be the best. Oats
however are generally reported ligbt. Potatoes are
small, but little gill be done among them till the
corn harvest is out of the way. The turnips have
made no progress, and the deficient crop is a great
cause of anxiety upon sheep farms especially. One
wold farmer has not an acre left out of 90—all are
killed by the drought. The pastures are so brown
and burnt up that at a distance they can with diffi-
culty be distinguished from the corn stubbles. The
want of water necessitates leading from the rivers
for stock, and new oats are being used as fodder for
cattle in some places. The first fall of rain of any
value to the root crops and grass lands was during
Saturday night and Sunday, when very nice showers
fell, and there is every indication of more. Rain to
the pastures and roots would far more benefit the
farmer than any temporary interruption to the liar•
vest would do him damage. At the time of writing
the atmosphere is very still and moist for the first
time for many weeks.

Charing-Cross Railway Refreshment Rooms.

One portion of the extensive pile of building for the
Charing-cross Hotel is now so far completed as to be ready
for opening in a few weeks. It consists of a noble room on
the ground floor in the Villiers-street front connecting with
the railway station, and it is to be appropriated to refresh-
'. ment rooms. In connection with this department the di-
rectors entertain opinions which will be considered as
heterodox by some other boards—they think that a refresh-
ment room at a railway station should be what its name
implies, and not a mtckery and a delusion to railway tra-
vellers. We believe that the public will regard with no
small favour this bold innovation upon a state of things
which has already existed too long. It is strange that it
should have required the experience of so many years to
convince sensible men, as directors of railways are generally
presumed to be, of the absurdity of a system which con-
demned travellers to the alternative of hunger or
indigestion, and which was alike mischievous to the
revenues of the companies, and to the health and
comfort of travellers. All this, we are glad to say,
is now to be changed; brighter days are in store
for the traveller on the South-Eastern, and let us hope that,
their example followed by other lines, we may soon witness
a complete reform in the matter of refreshment rooms. The
experiment of supplying good, wholesome, and nutritious
food and drink is about to be made at Charing-cross by
Messrs. Spiera and Pond, who come to us from the Anti-
podes. These gentlemen, who were enterprising enough
to engage the team of cricketers and took them out to
Australia, who have been negotiating for some time
with Mr Charles Dickens for a series of readings in
the gold and weci producing colonies of Australia,
and who, it is rumoured, have designs of a similar
character upon either Mr Spurgeon or Tom Sayers, will not,
we are assured, be found wanting in the enterprise neces-
sary for a railway refreshment room at Charing-cross. The
same firm have, we believe, also entered into arrangements
with the London, Chatham, and Dover Company for the
supply of refreshments at all stations on their line. The
arrangements made are mutual in character, the companies
receiving, instead of a fixed rent for the stations, a certain
percentage of the gross receipts, thus giving to each party
to the contract an interest in the extension of the business
to be done. The contractors will endeavour to attract
customers by the quality and price of their goods supplied,
and the companies will assist by giving facilities for carry-
ing on the business.—Railway News.
Course of Exchange,---This Day,

Amsterdam
Short. 11 18 11 19
Ditto
Rotterdam — 12 1 12 1±
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 65 25 70
Hamburgh
Faris ... .
Ditto
Marseilles .. — 25 65 25 70
Frankfort on Maine.. —120 k
Vienna .. — 11 75 11 80
Trieste ... . ........ 11 75 11 85
Petersburgh — 31 31a
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo ..
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto

471 48
47k 48k
25 75 2b 80
25 77} 25 80
25 74 25 80
25 80 25 82k
25 771 25 80
25 771 25 80
51k 511
611 611

Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard).......per oz ,£3 17 0
Silver in Bars (Standard) 0 0 0

THE ABBE CHATAIGNON.—The Civil Tribunal of
Angouleme has just given judgment in the action
which was brought by the Abbe Chataignon against the
officers of the etat-eivil of the communes of Plassac-Rouf-
fiac and of Mouthiers, for refusing to publish and celebrate
his marriage. The Court has decided that as the Catholic
Church imposes celibacy on the priests ; that as cense+
quently a citizen who enters into holy orders engages never
to marry, and that as it is on the faith of such engagement
that the Church authorises him to exercise his ministry and
to receive confessions, which he might abuse if he had not
laid aside all hope of ever again returning into the world,
the officers of the etat-civil of the said communes were jus-
tified in refusing to comply with the application made to
them by the Abbi; the plaintiff, therefore, is nonsuited and
condemned to pay all the costs.—Galignane,
THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE CORPS OF COM-
MISSIONAIRES. —ln March last the captain an•
nounced that for this purpose a sum of £3,000 was neces-
sary, although men of business allege that the institution
is more than self-supporting. From March to August, the
amount subscribed towards this £3,000, is less than £360,
of which at least ono-half must have been absorbed by the
cost of advertisements in the Times, of shich the captain's
brother is the chief proprietor, and which has had a mono-
poly of the advertisements. —The Comet.
THE GAME SEASON.—Partridge shooting com-
mences on Thursday next, Sept. 1, and there is every pro-
spect of good sport for the gunner. In consequence of the
dry weather the season has been very favourable for
hatching and rearing both pheasants and partridges. The
latter are numerous and strong, and the former are also
plentiful and strong on the wing. Some covies in Wor-
cestershire could fly well before the end of June. The
great scarcity of cover, however, has made the birds un-
usually wild, and sportsmen will have to walk a good deal
in order to make up a " bag." Hares and rabbits are plen-
tiful, the season being also favourable for their increase.
The harvest is finished everywhere, so that there will be
no interruption to the sport.

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LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening,

At the Court at Windsor, the 27th day of August, 1864.
Present—The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
It is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council that the
Parliament which stands prorogued to Thursday the 13th
day of October next, be further prorogued to Friday, the
11th day of November next.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AUG. 30.
3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Captain Thomas Sutton
Kirkpatrick, from the Military Train, to be Captain, vice
Elliot, who exchanges.
10th Hussars—Henry John Lindley Wood, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice John Cecil Russell, pro-
moted.
20th Hussars—Lieutenant Henry Edward Keneit to be In-
structor of Musketry.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant- Colon el and
Brevet-Colonel William James Smythe to be Colonel,
vice John Noble A. Freese, C. 8., retired upon inll-pay—
Captain and Brevet-Mejor Stapylton Robinson to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Smythe—Captain and Brevet-Col.
Michael A. Shrapnel Biddulph to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice Frederick J. Travers, retired upon half pay—Second
Captain Henry Sheridan Elliot to be Captain, vice Brevet
Major Robinson—Second Captain Henry Prantagent
Prescott Phelips to be Captain, vice Brevet-Colonel Bid-
dulph—Lieut. Fitzroy Somerset Talbot to be Second
Captain, vice Elliot--Lieut. Francis Duncan to be Second
Captain, vice Phelips—Gentleman Cadet D'Arcy Bow-
man East, from the Royal Military Academy, to be
Lieutenant, vice Duncan—Gentleman Cadet Albert
Beauchamp Astley Cooper, from ditto, vice Alexander
Day, who has been permitted to resign his Commission
from the 17th August, 1864—Gentleman. Cadet Henry
Vaughan, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Richard Thomas Roberts, who has been
permitted to resign his Commission from the 23d August,
1864—Second Captain Hubert Le Cocq to be Adjutant,
vice Maclachlan, promoted—Second Captain Francis
Duncan to be Adjutant, vice James Barton, who resigns
the Adjutancy only.
Coast Brigade of Artillery—Second Captain James Scott
to be Captain, vice M'Gillivray, placed upon temporary
half-pay—Lieutenant Robert Kettle to be Second Cap-
tain, vice Scott—Quartermaster-Sergeant John Revill to
be Lieutenant, vice Kettle.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain and Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Graham to be Captain, vice
Andrew Clarke, seconded—Lieutenant William New-
some to be Second Captain, vice Brevet Lieut,- Colonel
Graham—Gentleman Cadet Henry Rhodes Gilbert
Georges, from the Royal Military Academy, to be Lieu-
tenant, with temporary rank, vice Newsome—Second
Captain John Mervin Cutcliffe Drake to be Instructor of
Musketry, vice Captain Lempriere, who has been at-
tached as Captain Instructor to the School of Musketry,
at Fleetwood.
Military Train—Captain Philip Herbert Elliot, from the
3d Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Kirkpatrick,
who exchanges.
9th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant William James Massy
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Brevet-Major John
William Percy, who retires—Ensign Henry Augustus
Brudenell Bruce to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Massy—Herbert Conor, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Bruce.
21st Foot—Lieutenant John Dunbar, from the .Bth Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Coote, who exchanges.
22d Foot—Ensign John Banks Linley to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Haworth Peel Massy, who retires ;
George Arnold Christian, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase. vice Linley.
53d Foot—Gentleman Cadet Richard Godman Temple Cot-
ton, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice John Seymour Wynne Finch,
transferred to the 60th Foot.
57th Foot—Ensign Archibald Kennedy Douglass to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice John Parkinson, who re-
tires; Ensign Kenneth Douglas, from the 50th Foot, to
be Ensign, vice Andrew Balfour Duncan, deceased;
George Garnett, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Douglass.
58th Foot—Lieutenant Edmund Eyre Coote, from the
21st Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Dunber,who exchanges;
Staff Assistant-Surgecn Hunt Johnson Bailey to be
Assistant-Surgeon, vice William Barry, placed upon
half-pay.
60th Foot—Ensign the Honourable Ralph Albercromby
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice John Miller,
deceased—Ensign John Seymour Wynne, Finch, from
the 53d Foot, to be Ensign, vice the Honourable Ralph
Abercromby.
63d Foot—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Edward
O'Loughlin, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Alexander
Thorburn McGowan, whose transfer from the Staff as
stated in the Gazette of 28th June, 1864, has been can-
celled.

72d Foot—Paymaster Christopher Myers Dawes, from the
Royal Lancashire Artillery Militia, to be aymaster,
vice George Fowler, who has resigned.
99th Foot—Ensign Charles John Greenham to be Lieuten-
ant, by purchase, vice Henry Richmond Sayce, who re-
tires—Arthur Collingwood Jenkins, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Greenham,
4th West India Regiment—Lieutenant Thomas John
Gray, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Parr Wm.
K ingsmill, deceased—Ensign Wm. Fowler to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Gray.
sth West India Regiment—Captain Henry John Fane has
been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his
commission.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant John Mould, from the 7th
Hussars, to be Captain, without purchase.
BREVET.
Colonel John Noble Arbuthnot Freese, on the
Retired Full-Pay List of the Royal Artillery, to be Major-
General, the rank being honorary only.
Limit-Colonel William Robert Maxwell, Royal Marines,
having completed the qualifying servioe in the rank of
Lieut-Colonel, to be (Alone], under the Order in Council of
Nov. 13, 1858.

Paymaster Georgo Pringle, of the Royal Engineers, to
have the honorary rank of Captain.
MEMORiNDU3I.—Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
William Brookes, half-pay, late 75th Foot, has been per-
mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commis-
sion, under the conditions of the Horse Guards' Circular
Memorandum of the 15th February, 1861.
The Gazette contains a number of promotions and altera.
tins of rank amongst the officers of the Staff Corps and of
her Majesty's Indian Military Forces.

BANKRUPTS,
The following are the only bankrupts of commercial im-
portance in the Gazette :
John Simpson, builder, Bromley
John Turnham, licensed victualler, Edgware-road
John Harriss, picture dealer, Green-street, Leicester-
square
Philip Lander, stone mason, Kensal-green
William Coney, builder, St. John's-wood
George W. Thomas, ship owner, Bromley
Hugh Brown, merchant, 27a, Bucklersbury, City
Thomas Evans, cowkeeper, Lambeth
William Collins, shoe dealer, Hackney-road
Charles Millington, publican, Haverstoek-hill
Hugh William Hagart, commission agent, Holborn
Thomas Peters, tobacconist, Birmingham
William Thiele, decorative artist, Paddington
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Alex. Ross, contractor, Arrocher
Alex. Grant, printer, Edinburgh
Atchibald Robertson, spirit merchant, Stirling
A. and L. Clark, ironmongers, Glasgow
Hugh Campbell, grocer, Port-Glasgow
John Davidson, stationer, Glasgow
Don ►ld Archibald Macleod, ladd surveyor, Dingwall

DEATH THROUGH TILE UPSETTING OF A CUP OF
TEA.—Oa Saturday afternoon Mr A. A. Fletcher, coroner,
held an inquest at Walsall touching the death of Elizabeth
Tomlinson, a child 3} years of age, the daughter of a wag-
goner. Tho child while at the breakfast table accidentally
upset a cup full of hot tea over her chest, arms, and aide,
and extensive inflammation being caused she was taken to
the Cottage Hospital, and there treated as en out-patient
until Wednesday last, when she was admitted into the in-
stitution, but death terminated her sufferings on the follow-
ing day. A verdict of accidental death was returned.

UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS.—The unclaimed • divi.
dends handed over to the Commissioners for the Reduction
of the National Debt, and by them invested in the public
funds, amounted at the close of the last financial year to no
less than £2,579,975 stock. There is also in the hands of
the Commissioners more than'Xsoo,ooo stock on which no
dividend has been claimed for upwards of 10 years.
DEATH OF LORD NIORLEY.—PLYMOUTII, Aug.
30.—The Earl of Morley died on Sunday evening
aged 54, after a short illness, while on a visit at Whitaway
near Chudleigh, Devon, the residence of Mrs. Parker, the
Countess of Morley') mother.

The Peace Movement in New Yo: k.

The following is the chief portion of the article
of the New Turk Herald, published on the 13th
inst., advocating a six months' armistice and the
appointment of Federal commissions to proceed to
Richmond with a view to arranging conditions of
pcace:—" In the present state of effe.irs, if we con
do nothing more, it is all important to the snfety of
the country and the administration that we should
place the leaders of the rebellion clearly in the
wrong before their own peoplo and the civilised
world, and the Government as clearly in the right
before all the people of the loyal States in the fur-
ther prosecution of this dreadful war. We can do
this through a special embassy of three peace com-
missioners to Richmond, if we can do no more.
We believe, however, that through a movement of
this kind, comprehending an armistice of six months,
and a convention of all the States, subject to such
conditions and ratifications as may be hereafter
agreed upon, we can secure a permanent peace
upon the basis of the Union and the Constitu-
tion. Let us suppose, for instance, that Mr Lin'
coin assuming this responsibility for the sake of
peace and a ' decent respect for the opinions of man-
kind,' has detailed three peace commissioners to
Richmond with these simple propositions :—First,
for an armistice for six months; and, second, for a
convention of all the States, to consist of one
delegate from each Congressional district, and two
additional
delegates at large from each State; and
that said convention, thus constituted, shall meet,
say in Baltimore, on the first Monday in December
next, to consider the ways and means for peace—
could anything, in any event, but the greatest ad.
vantage result to the Union side of the house ? No.
Rejected or accepted, the loyal States and the
Government have everything to gain and nothing
to lose in the undertaking. If Jefferson Davis, his
Cabinet and Congress, accept the armistice and the
convention, we shall still retain
under the first our
blockade, and all the forts and places wrested from
the enemy as now held by our land and naval forces;
and if the convention shall come to nothing we shall
be in a position to resume the war with all, and
more than all, the advantages which we now com-
mand, But we have great faith in the opinion
that
the representatives of the rebellious States, in being
brought into familiar council with those of the
loyal States, where they will be relieved of the
despotic authority of Davis, will be so charmed
with the suspension of the war that they will find
a treaty of peace and reunion, satisfactory to
the North and to the South, an easy achieve-
ment. It is probable that Davis may reject
this convention ; it is possible that he may
reject the armistice, or couple its acceptance with
prosperous conditions of Southern independence;
but the overtures suggested will compel him to show
his hand, and if he shall flatly refuse to listen to
any propositions of peace, expect upon the basis of
a Southern Confederacy, all doubts, all divisions,
and all discords among the people of the loyal States
will bo at an end. The copperhead peace faction
will be disarmed and powerless for furthermischief,
the North will be united, and divisions and dissen-
sions will break out in the South. Let it be made
to appear to those people, in their present crippled,
exhausted, and desperate position, under Davis,
that the Government does not seek their subjuga-
tion to an abolition idea, or their destruction, but
their reclamation and salvation in the Union, and
President Lincoln will soon realise the immense
advantages of this peace movement, It will serve
the country and make sure his re-election, accepted
or rejected at Richmond; but, short of some con-,
cession to public opinion, he may now even read
the handwriting on the wall. Surely, after having
been so far led astray and betrayed, as Mr. Lincoln
has been, by such treacherous guides as Ben. Wade
and Winter Davis, he must now be in a frame of
mind to listen to good advice."

FRENCH ACADEMY OF ►SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting a paper was received from Dr Gaillouete, on
the insufficiency of the means commonly employed against
the bite of mad dogs and the sting of venomous reptiles. in
his opinion, cupping effected on the wound is greatly to be
pl-eferred, The secretary of the Academy, however, re.
marked that cupping had already been tried and a report
been presented on the subject to the Academy,in which it was
shown that in most cases the effect of this operation was
only suspensive, that is, that it prevented the absorption
of the virus until other therapeutic agents could be procured
to destroy it. M. Chautard communicated certain results

obtained by him in experimenting on currents of induction
traversing rarified gasses. On examining the spectra pro-
duced in such cases, when the gaseous matter was raised to
a state of incandescence by making a current obtained from
Ruhmkorft's machine pass through it, M. Chautard finds
that the red and brilliant light emanating from a tube filled
with hydrogen is gradually transformed into a livid greenish
with tint; the spectrum, instead of presenting three magnifi-
cent bands,red, green,and violet respectively,as usual consists
only of a very pale green band. The tube acquires no heat
during the process. In nitrogen also various colours disap-
pear, the red and orande first, the violet last. In carbonic
acid the bands are very numerous under the influence of an
ordinary current, but if the tension of the circuit be dimi-
nished, the same absorption of the extreme shades takes
place. M. des Essarts sent in a paper on a method of his
for transmitting the oscillating power of the waves of tho
sea to certain apparatuses placed on the beach, which may
be substituted for steam engines in the various workshops
of arsenals.

LOVE IN A DRAPER'S SHOP.—In an accident
that has just occurred in Liverpool we have another
evidence of how the powerful promptings of a "tender"
heart control the more reflective senses of the mind. In a
rather extensive business establishment in Liverpool,
where several assistants are engaged, there might have
been seen, a week or two since, a young man of command-
ing deportment and of agreeable features, who gave effect
to his avocation behind the counter in a manner that was
at once inviting to the customers and conducive to the
success of his master. With many purchasers he became
a favourite, but with one in particular. More than once—
sometimes mere than twice—in the course of a week, a car-
riage would be drawn up at the shop door, from which would
emerge a lady, apparently between 30 and 40 years of age—
tall, of delicate appearance, but with an outline of features
that unmistakably indicated an aristocratic descent. If the
young gentleman—we say young, for he was scarcely 21
years of age—was not at his accustomed position behind
the counter upon her entering the shop, she made the most
urgent inquiries after him, desiring that he should attend
to her and no ono else. The worthy proprietor was always
too happy to comply with her desire, for she was one
of those first-rate customers that settled a good ledger
account once in six months without the allowance of the
ordinary discount. The favourite salesman was soon at his
post serving the lady, and though a goodly number of
articles might be disposed of, there appeared to exist a
" peculiar something" in the " business transaction" which
in the course of time looked very much like a warm cordie
ality of sentiment, and a reciprocity of feeling and idea
bordering upon mutual attachment. Of coarse the
young man was "chaffed" exceedingly by his envious
shopmates, who were wont to ejaculate in their
strange surmisings that it was a sort of proceeding
"no fellah could understand." Since one day last week,
however, the buxom stripling has become non est as far as
the establishment is concerned, while the face of the lady as
well has not presented itself within the visionary region of
the other assistants or their employer. It is stated that a
letter was addressed by the young man to his mother on
the eve prior to his leaving stating " that he had left h;;
old place to better himself elsewhere. Fortune had sm.
denly smiled upon him in a wondrous manner !" 119
assured his mother also that, "the next time she con-
fronted her darling boy' she would see him a gentleman
of the first stamp. He should then decline to say where
he was gone, but he trusted she would not be nervous on
that account, as she would hear from him again shortly."
On inquiries being instituted it was discovered that the
lady too had been missing for several days from her home.
No traces up to Thursday last—nearly a week having then
elapsed—had been discovered of her whereabouts, She
has been a widow for five years and is without encumbrance.
She has been residing in a rather picturesque village in
Lancashire since her widowhood, and is in receipt of a
liberal income, Under present circumstances we omit the
namesNL NEUTRALISATION
R theALpiasrAtTieiso.--N OF MlLlTARYLieerpoolCou
Courier.
HOSPITALS IN
TIIIE OP \VAR.—The deliberations of the International
Medical Conference at Gonna, have terminated in the con-
clusion of a convention in 10 articles, which deem the neu-
tralisation of all military
hospitals of the whole official
medical staff, and of the wounded. Twelve States only
figure therein a contracting parties,
namely, France,
Grand Duchy of Baden. Belgium, Denmark,
Spain, thethe
Grand Duchy of Hesse, Italy, Holland, Portugal,Prussia,Switzerland, and AVurtemburg; tut the protocol having
been left open, all the other Powers can accede to the con-
vention.

An interesting ceremony took place two days
ago in the Church of La Charite at Lyons, where
Mgr. de Charbonnel ordained, as priests, two young
deacons belonging to the establishment of the African Mis-
sions, and who aro about to proceed to the Kingdom of
Dahomey. lle also baptised a young negro about eleven
years of age, a native of that country. Tho church waa
crowded with persons to witness the ceremony.