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a word, the expe liment which so signally failed when
the North was the aggressor would equallY fell if the.
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South in its turn bacame the attacking party. If*,t::
then why is it that not only has the Southern
Commander-in-Chief adopted an aggressive policy,
but that in the opinion of most men it is believed
that policy will bo crowned with success? The
answer to this question is to be found in the
peculiar nature of American institutions, and the
strangeness of the light in which the issue of
the war is regarded by one at least, of the belli-
gerents. However singular it may appear, there
are many in the Northern States who are perfectly
indifferent which of the contending sections of the
republic should prove victorious provided that ulti-
mately the Union should be re-established. To
these persons—and they are more numerous than is
imagined—it v;ould matter little whether Lincoln
should dictate to the S mthern States from Rich-
mond, or Davis to the Northern States from Wash-
ington. lliTce it happens that the advance of the
Southern Commander-in-Chief is regarded with
7eplings which on this side of :he Atlantic it is so
difficult to comprehend. The attr-ret to dictaiu
terms to the South hv failed, and tow there
appears to be a willingness to discover whether a
similar end e ,nnot be attained by allowing the
he Pennsylvanians,
Mouth to dictate teems to the North. To this fed-
mg must he ascribed the strange apathy pith which
re-
garded the inv ,sion of Gen. Lee.
though opposed lo slavery,
ing was well known
rate Command • C •
enterprise which would io the Contede-
er-in- hief the existence of this feel-
and it doubtless
in the extreme. otherwise have been rash
prompted an
Nine have elapsed since the
Confederatesthat period
m last crossed
hoccurred the Potomac, and during
_il to shake the confi-
dence of the Northern
time
eulthtion in the prowess of
they fondly imagined
Southern armies which at one
would overrun the entire area oe
that Gen. Lee
Con-
federacy. But supposing
de-
feat Meade and enter Washington as a victor, should
would be the consequences ? Again we must whatv
revert
to
to the singular condition of public opinion in tu'rwt.
North for a reply. Would the North act in suell
a contingency as the &nth would have acted if
Richmond had fallen ? We are inclined to think
not. Neither strategically nor politically is tho
security of Washington indispensable to the North ;
but stilt if it was occupied by a Confederate army we
believe the war would come to a close. The North
is utterly disgusted with the Administration which
has now for two years and a half done its best to
lead the country into irretrievable ruin. We con-
sider that, with the fall of Washington, the Go-
vernment would equally fall, and its successors,
appointed, would command the homage of the
multitude. There is at this moment, as indeed there
has been throughout the entire war, a thorough
want of patriotism, in the European acceptation of
that term, in the Northern States. The sentiment
expressed by the Federal officers when flying from
the first battle of Bull Run of having been " licked
into a cocked hat," has never ceased to pervade the
language in which the Northern population have
always spoken of their reverses. The people
of the free States have witnessed, without the
slightest feeling of shame, an army cross their fron-
tier and threaten their principal. towns. And with
the same absence of shame we verily believe they
would see General Lee march into their capital at
the head of a victorious army, and dictate the con-
ditions which should henceforth regulate the politi-
cal system of the American Federation. Already
sanguine politicians in the North have begun to
speculate on the possibility of the Union being re-
stored in its original integrity under Southern
auspices, and have gone so far as to express a hcpe
that, under the restoration, the North may once
more secure its previous supremacy. "We will
fetch up again on that arrangement," writes Man-
hattan, the correspondent of one of our contempo-
raries, " for we can outvote if we cannot outfight
them." But it might possibly have occurred to
Manhattan and those whose spokesman he is,
that the South has not " outfought" the North in
order to afford the latter an opportunity of after-
wards " outvoting" it. Setting aside political con-
siderations, is it at all probable that the South
would ever coalesce with a people which has laid
its territory desolate, and which would, if it had.
been possible, have exterminated its population?
The bare idea of such a contingency appears to our
mind so inexplicable that again we are obliged to
account for its being entertained by referring
to the singular condition of opinion in the North.
It is scarcely necessary to say that the Southern
States will, if they prove victorious, form
an independent league. They have learnt too bitter
a lessen during the administration of an ultra-
republican President not to profit by the morel
which it inculcates. Slavery is no doubt an odious
institution ; but fur that very reason there can bo
no amalgamation of States it by some it is tolerated
and by others disavowed. The separation which hue
at length taken place between the free and slave
States of America was foreseen long since by Ame-
rican statesmen ; and the only cause for wonder is
that it was so long postponed. It is much to be
regretted that the separation was not effected, as it
might and ought to have been, in peace ; but having
occasioned a war, the bloodiest ar.d most disastrous
with which modern history has made us acquainted,
it would be strange indeed if it was not final.
HERALD.--Lord Russell is the last man in the
world to get out of a mess with dignity. The award
of the King of the Belgians has given him an excel-
lent opportunity for abandoning the absurd position
he now occupies in respect to Mr. Christie's demands
and Admiral Warren's reprisals. Still he cannot
make up his mind act upon Sir Lucius O'Trigger's
principle, that an affront handsomely apologised for
becomes an obligation. But he endeavours to con-
ceal his defeat and his errors by the agency of the
Portuguese Minister at the Court of Brazil. Well,
we do net desire to see an English Minister on the
stool of repentance, a butt for all the jests of foreign
journalists, and we shall be heartily glad if the good
offices proffered may be made the means of restor-
ing friendly relations between the Governments of
Brazil and this country. But we cannot too strongly
speak of the perversion of facts of which our
Foreignaccused
thSeecrßertaazryilian was
authoritiesguilty last
night, when he
of
refusing to
produce the bodies from the wreck, or to hold
Four bodies were produced. The
an inquest to know what had become of them.
There is not a shadow of proof to substantiate
orities did nos.tm
eßirthazeirliacnhargth.
refuse to produce
the remaining bodies, they ;
inability to discover them,
a tittle of evidence that would be ere is not
received in any
court of law in this country to prove that it was in
their power to produce them. As
d assertedth their
an investigation was held over the to the inquest,
discovered, and the verdictwas Found drowned ;" bodies that were
"
but who ever heard of an
inquest on bodies that
could not be found, or an •
had become of theme
served, the British As herd
to ascertain what
Government had assumed at
Lord Malmesbury oh-
-he might add, 'Witte' appraiser, and executioner
once the offices ofiod
for more perfect truth, of false wit-
ness;unwarranted accusations than those
to haEvearlhheausell
made by
ast night we never remem-
berup this most the Portuguese Minister
content
good offices of
to make someuna. d. We sincerely trust that the
advances
quarrel, and that Earl Rus-
sell, with his present triumph, will see fit
which vances to the friendly Government
he has so cruelly outraged.
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nomy has gained much by the debate on tha Spit-
head Forts. Thos.:, who object to our present large
expenditure on armaments and fortifications should
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1 vessels, nor even to permanent fortifications on terra
firma, but to the three forts called respectively
" Horse Sand," " No-man's Land," and " Stur-
bridge," at the entrance of Spithead. This narrowed
the issue materially, and if the opponents of forti-
fication showed bad generalship in selecting their
point of attack, they must not complain of having
been left in a somewhat ignominious minority. We
freely admit that if we had to make our option
between forts and ships, and if we were
bound to be governed exclusively by the expe-
rience of the last year, we should be inclined
to suspend our judgment a little longer. It
was thus that the subject was treated by
the most adroit supporters of Sir M. Peto's motion,
and they were able to make good use of the fact
that the vote was postponed last year till further
experiments should be tried in gunnery and iron-
plating. Since that time two remarkable but con-
flicting piece of evidence have been furnished by
the American War. Several Federal ironclads suc-
ceeded in running past the batteries on the Mis-
sissippi, while a well-equipped fleet of the same
class was discomfited in half an hour by the forts of
Charleston. It is said, on the one side, that the
former were favoured by darkness, and, on the
other, that the latter were confronted by obstacles
peculiar to Charleston harbour. For our own part,
we are quite content to set the one precedent against
the other, or rather to abstain from generalising at
all from a single case, even if it were not weakened
by a contrary instance. Unless common sense and
well-ascertained facts can guide us in this matter, it
is better to remain where we are and wait for more
complete information. If, on the other hand, as e
have already quite sufficient materials for our deci-
sion, it would be folly to stop halfway in the execu-
tion of a great projtxt. The first thing is to re-
member that we are not discussing whether forts
can take the place of ships, but whether ships can
take the place of forts, so as to make the construction
of forts, at the mouth of an important roadstead and
in front of our greatest naval arsenal, superfluous and
useless. The mere statement of the question is enough
to sett le it. Forts cannot do the work of ahips,because
they ere available only for defensive, and not for
offensive purposes; because they cannot bring an
unwilling adversary to close quarters ; because they
are incapable of being used as rams—in short, be-
cause they are immovable. For equally cogent and
still more obvious reasons, ships cannot do the
work of forts. They cannot, even with the aid of
steam, operate independently of wind and weather ;
they cannot be mounted with guns of indefinite
weight and calibre; they cannot be coated with
armour of indefinite thickness ; they cannot defy
the corrosive agency of sea water ; they cannot be
repaired without being sent into dock. It would be
easy to extend the list of these disabilities if our ob-
ject were to dare age the reputation of ships instead
of defending that of forts. Far be it from us to pre-
dict what may be the ultimate form which the in-
genuity of man may devise for these floating for-
tresses, but as we follow with our mind's eye the
progressive rivalry between ordnance and naval
architecture till we lose sight of it in a dim vision of
Titanic encounters on the ocean,the powers of destruc-
tion always seem to have the best of it. We cannot
help believing that explosive forces mighty enough
to stave in the side of anything that can navigate
the sea will be discovered, if they are not already in
existence ; but it does not follow that such engines
can be carried on shipboard. On the contrary, the
presumption is that the ship of the future will be
impregnable to the assaults of any similar antagonist
and will be vulnerable only by guns planted upon
the solid earth. After all, we need not earry our
calculations quite so far as this. The sum voted for
these works, considerable in itself, is absolutely trifl-
ing compared with that which would be required to
provide an equal armament if the alternative of ships
were adopted. Ships must be built of perishable ma-
terials, their screws will always be tearing the stern
to pieces, their armour-plates will always be working
loose in spite of fastenings, their bottoms will neveraf
cease to corrode, their crews must be comPosena,
skilled men and kept in a state of constant
einuoire cy
se a-
and as soon as they prove inferior in speed
going qualities to some new model they
mustt be cast
fore
them
ever,
aside. Forts, if massive and well built, las
ak
and no change in the art of war can ever m
worthless. Placed on the shoals arouadwSep..itahaeoaudr,
as
they would shelter our merchantman
would
enab'
n
dockyards, arsenal, and garrison,
our navy to operate effectivel YU aist true that jinn
where it might be wanmostof
war t
.1 et d
w. y f
hich migahstnPh:stasvite-o
ould be just
the present state of gunnery
el fleet, and which should
ble for a hostile ship
mid-channel,
slipped through our Chanel.
be steered with such admirable precision.
breadth from the
deviate by a hair's
to run between them without. being sent to the bot-
it must run the same tom. To get out again. gaunt-
let, and in the meantime our gunboats
andshore
doing presumed to be
batteries must be nothing.
Such are the conditions. required by Mr. Osbor '.
own showing to illustrate the inutility of Osborne 's
The moment Mr. Whitworth 3'
Sirthese
forts.
Armstrong produces " a gun Which or W.
I vessel in motion 1,000 yards," he will pierce a
argument is " gone," and that confesses that his
W
forts at once." The advocate e may " build the
as this, in a case where del who admits as much
puts himself out of court. delay may be dangerous,
Posla—The tide of •
backwards by the ar 'invasion having been rolled
racy, and the lattermiesof the Southern Confede-
offensive, an abqer having in turn assumed the
ver is
into the probable naturally led to inquire
well appear a results of what at first sight maY
port of the hazardous course of proceeding on the
no precise info weaker ef the belligerents. We possess
sti ength of the Northern
respecting the comparative
and Southern armies ; butl:n
even bun,„inc,
la
rn Euid a mijour: that General Lee has at cO
numerous force lately
appointed Federal .
into the general, there must still be thrown
scale, as against ' South, the population
of the , the .
invaded
States. Regarding the inhabitants
of a country as the raw material out of which its
armies are formed, the North possesses, in the nume-
rical superiority of its population, an immeasurable
advantage over the Southern Confederacy. If the
inhabitants of the Northern Border States viewed
the advance of the Confederate army with the same
feelings that the Southern population regarded the
invasion of M'Clellan, Pope, and Hooker, it is
needless to say that the Confederate army would
experience no less difficulty in approaching Wash-
ington than the grand army of the North did in
attempting to enter Richmond. The States of
Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York collie
with ease supply 150,000 militiamen who, combined
with the army of the Potomac, would certain_y.
suffice to stern the stream of Southern invasion. 1

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bed so long and profitably worked by the Mansfcld Company
also exists in the present grant.
The thickness of the copper-bearing schist, at the points
where it has been examined, is very uniform, and the en-
gineer reports it to exist, with little variation in this re-
spect, throughout the greater part of the lands included in
the concess.on.

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PROMENADE CONCERTS.
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The strata overlying the Kupferschiefer offer no difficulty
to the operations of the miner. The cost of piercing them
must necessarily vary with the dimensions of the shafts.
Labour can be freely drafted from the Ober Harz. and the
scale of wages payable for an eight hours' shift is one third
less than is paid in England.
Materials of every kind are readily procurable in the vari-
ous markets of Prussia. Saxony, and Westphalia, and can be
transported to the mines by means of the railway which
passes directly through the property.
The Royalty payable to the 101,,cal Government is 1-20th
of the value of all Ores raised, sold or smelted. No mini-
mum rent is imposed, neither is there any State supervision
calculated to prevent the free and unrestricted development
of the property.
The copper schist deposit is only known to exist in the
Mansfeld district, at the foot of the Harz Mountains and
New Brunswick, British America, but it has alone been
worked at Mansfield.
The value of this property and the regularity of the pro-
duce of the cupreous beds may be best estimated by reference
to the following statistics of the Mansfeld Mines, the weekly
yield of which at present is upwards of £8,003 worth of sil-
ver, and £16,000 worth of copper.
STATISTICS.

Sbowinr the accuracy obtainable by the Yearly Estimates of
the Mansfield Copper Company as compared with actual
results.

For live years, from
1855 to 1859 inclusive.

Estimate. Result'.
Copper, Slate, and Sißeim Ore tons 264,117 .. 268,968
Quantity of Mineral to be Smelted „ 249,657 .. 234,999
Refined and other Copper „ MOO .. 6,345
Fine Silver marks 115,018 .. 155,209

The following are also the results of the Mamield working :
Amount of Dividends paid on 24 years, ending 1854—£494,712
11
It 5 ~ 184— 289,285

Total £783,997

Average price of each share, 1830-5.... £72
1845 .... 418
1855 ....
" 1859 1 300
1863 "• •
The property in the Mathilde Mines has been obtained
upon the following reasonabb. terns :—£15,000 in cash and
£25,000 in shares. A large portion of the capital has alreidy
been subscribed, and the remaining shares arc offered to the
public as a sound and profitable investment.
Abstracts of Reports of Mr. E. H. Blake, C.E., 25, Poultry,
and Mr. Hausmann, Head Government Engineer, of Bruns-
wick and Hanover, are appended.
The Reports, in extenso, as also the Analysis by Messrs.
Johnson and Son, of Basinghall-street, and 3lessrs. Johnson
and Matthey, of Hatton-garden, and samples of the ore, can
be seen at the Temporary Offices of the Company.

ABSTRACT OF MR. BLAKE'S REPORT.
MATIIILDE MINES, NEAR SEESEN, HAIIAUSEN
FOREST-REVIE ft HAHAUSEN, GERMANY.
This property, consisting of 1,200 acres of land, held under
grant from the Government on liberal terms, is situated about
three miles north-east of the town of Seesen, and is inter-
sected by the railroad from Brunswick, and also by the public
road from Seesen to Goslar ; it consists of a basin of sedi-
mentary rocks, underlying N.W. at an angle of 12 deg. from
the south boundary of the property, and extending from W.
to E. through its whole length until cut off at the eastern
boundary by an upthrow fault, on the east side of which are
the clay, slate, and porphoretic rocks, forming the northern
portion of the it arz Mountains.
The peculiar value of this property is the existence of a
bed of bituminous shale of the came character as the cele-
brated Mansfeld Mines. The shale is here eight inches think,
with four inches of copper sandstone, while in Mansfeld it
is only four inches, and the sandstone ore is absent, but it is
found at Sangerhausen, and is more productive of copper
than the shale. The contents of which average in Mansfeld
14 per cent of copper. The identity of the bed is also proved
by the fossil fish which are found between the lamina of the
shale, and all in one position doubled up, having been all
dead before being enclosed in the rock.
The existence of this bed, under the whole property, has
been proved by the shafts marked on map S.. K., H., in the
eastern portion, and two in the western, markek L„ in all of
which the shale maintains the same character and strength.
The depth from surface is, on the south side, about 30 feet ;
. and, in the deepest portion, where the main shafts should be
placed. marked M., wilt not exceed 100 feet. while the depth
of the Mansfeld Mine is 303 to 400 feet. There is also an ab-
sence of water, which offers great advantages in the cheap-
ness of working. This property being of quite an exceptional
character, I considered it right to visit Mansfeld, to ascertain
for myself the method of treatment of the ores, and also the
cost of working and extracting the copper and silver ores,
which have rendered these mines so famous. The weekly
yield being at present £B,OOO worth of silver and 116,000 worth
of copper from eight mines. The nature of this ore is such
that it is treated at a mere nominal cost, and without any ex-
pensive chemical or patent process, and the ores at Mathilde
Alines can be all treated in the same way.
I now give you a statement of the expenses required, and
the results which may be depended upon as being correct,
the prices having been carefully ascertained from Mr. Asses-
sor Hausmann, of Brunswick, the head Government engi-
neer, and carefully checked by personal observations and in-
quiries at Mansfeld, wages being here one-third less than in
England.
I have, therefore, no hesitation in recommending you at
once to complete the purchase of this most valuable property,
r•a‘irlivalue of
which contains o
54,140,0t0 feet, over 4,000,000 tons of ore ; 1,200 acres elves
,orwehri2l,cor(i)too 14 cent per
anfodot;tllwo illnyyleolndea.
big ar value of
will yield £2,500,000 profit, without includ-
e me of the silver
ABSTRACT *
GOVR,RN -F REPORT OF ASSESSOR HAUSMANN,
Wie K. MEN'T MINING ENGINEER, BRUN S-
.deepafts d
a westerly direction, Ztrille
100 feet and bra to the copper schists are from 30 to
deeper as you go farther north. In
depth may vary from argb the length of the property, the
to 100 feet, but in all other parts it
Action of the schist and sand ores is contracted for
is
The extraction
at about 12s. per ton.
The Railway crosses the p
to Ilarbur
on close to the newly estab-
roper
to west ; there is a rAlway statt ety in its length from east
lished experimental shafts, and
veg. There is a direct
the erection of works for smelting the ores. the place adapted for
c )mmunication by rail
freight, 6s. per ton. g , distance 80 miles ;
cording to experiments, up to this d
schist and the sand ores have, on the aver ate, the copper
opper • and, In each httad
per cent. of c •
_age, produced two
weigtitof
four oz. of silver—there being a considerable copper,
portion of gold
in the silver.
The copper schist layer has everywhere, as in
strength, 14 inches, the county of
Mansfeld, the same
malleable ore, and 21 inches sand ore. The whole strengths
of the malleable bed, 10 inches.
minimum.
These items are given in
ay that in these flat beds
In conclusion, I beg to s Where the
diffused, the profit
copper schist layer is equally
ad
land
over coppseirom these
2 per cent. ores have a great a
E niand and other co r tlres of a
richer per tentage, which in n, unr,rj," are
firm, mixed with gaugue.
that the whole of the Copper,
schist must not omit to mention diffused
and equally amount
schist layer has a considerable which ie stro
1 i 1
ar a oil,strong
of bitumen, photogene, and ea
a little woodw for roasting
that a heap of it once ignited by
t
purposes, continues to burn wit iout further trouble.
in theform a
los. nnexed
Applications for shares must he made
deposit of Il per
to the Prospectus, a.cc,,mpanied by t
will be returned
Share. If no allotment be made, the depositsn s applied for,
in full ; and if a less number be allotted
mention allotment.
the surplus will be used towards the pa
y - for Shares may be
Prospectuses and Forms of App he the Bankers,
obtained at the 'Temporary Offices, and of
Brokers, and SOlieitOrs of the Company.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
AuKralia and Mauritius, via Southampton .. July 19•
via Marseilles ......... July 13.
&nil and Cape Verde, by British packet........ Aug. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. July 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via SouthamPton.July 19.
via Marseilles ...July 13.

Falkland Islands ........................
Gibraltar, via Southampton .... ........... July 11.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via SoullaraPton. • July 19.
via Marseilles.... July 13.
India (Bombay), via Southampton July 11.
via Marseilles July 20.
Portugal.... ... t . Aug. 4.
Malta, Egypt, and ...... via Southampton July 11.
via Marseilles July 13.
Newfoundland ..July 22.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. acket.... July 16.
i
.by U.S. packet...

by Canadian paciel.July 10.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife July 10 •
Bahamas, via New York July 30.
Mexico .... July 29.
All California. and British parts of West Indies,
Colu m includibiang Chili, Peru, 1 July 14.
..

EDUCATION .—From 1839 to the clost. of 1862 the
Government grants made to schools connected with
the Church of England amounted to £4,039,333; to schools
connected with the British and Foreign School Society to
£587,279; to Wesleyan schools to £308,113; to Roman
Catholic schools England and Wales) to £288,110; to pa-
rochial union schools of £75,677 ; to schools connected with
the Church of Scotland to £406,185; to schools connected
with the Scottish Free Church to £322,778 ; to schools con-
nected with the Scottish Episcopal Church to £3444 ; and
to the Scottish Roman Catholic Poor School Committee to
£18,793. Including charges for inspection, administration,
&c. the total expenditure of the Committee of Council on
Education from 1839 to 1862 amounted to £6,710,863. The
" &c." included £20,036 for " poundage on Post-office
orders."
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—Not less than 297
joint•etock companies, with limited liability, have
been registered in England in the first half of the year 1563.
Thirty- three of them are banking companies, but une of
these has already registered a resolution dissolving the com-
.pany, and others may probably have come to nothing. The
nominal capital proposed for there banking companies was
more than £18,000,000.