The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-25 00:00:00

THh SON. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1363,

MISCELLANEOUS —[Co ntinued].
Hudson's Bay, 91 1
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour),
Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds rd. 1870 issued 90, 8,91
Joint •stock Discount, 71 PO
London Financial Association, lim., 14
London General Omnibus Company (lira.), 21
National Discount Company, Urn., :1
Oriental Inland Steam, lim., 31 4 3i 1
Peninsula and 0. iental Steam,
Ditto, new, 491 8
Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, lira., 271
Royal Mail Steam, 72
Trust and Loan Co. of Upper Canada, 51

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

MONMOUTH RACES—THURSDAY.
The County Members' Plate (Handicap) of 30 sow, added
to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, &c. One mile. 12
subs.
Marquis of Hastings's Odine, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (Judd) 1
Mr. Barnett's Zingari, 6 yrs. Bst Sib (Langston) 2
Mr. J. Adams's `Northam, 5) re, B,t 811) .. (J. Holman) 3
Betting-2 to lon aline.

Won by six lengths two lengths between second and
third.
The Beaufort Cup (Handicap), of 10 Bove each, 5 ft, with a
piece of plate added by the Duke of Beaufort. One mile
and a quarter. 20 subs, 7 declared.

Mr. Morris's Balham, 5 yrs, Bst 21b (Judd) 1
Mr. Brayley's Golden Dust, 3 yrs, 7st 51b .... (Cannon) 2
Mr. F. Rowlands' Doncaster, 6 yrs, Bst .. (A. Edwards) 3

Ripon and Trumps also ran.
Betting-2 to lon Balham, 3to 1 agst Golden Dust.
Won by two lengths ; 'a length between second and
third.

The Kymin Stakes of 5 sots each, 2ft to the fund, for 2-
yr-olds, with 50 added. 6 furlongs. 14 subs.
Lord Uxbridge's Vabalathus, Bst 51b .... (A. Edwards) 1
Duke of Beaufort's Esperance, Bst 71b (Judd) 2
Mr. Redliff's Cranbury, Bst 101 b
Betting-6 to 4on Cranbury, 7to 4 agst Vabalathus, sto
2 agst Esperance.
Won by two lengths ; a length between second and
third.

The Monnow Stakes of 3 soya each, with 20 added ; weight
for age , selling and other allowances. 6 furlongs.
Mr. Morgan's Cosette, 2 yrs, sst 121 b
Lord Uxbridge's Lady Constance filly, '2 yrs, sst 12&b

(G. Sopp) 2
Mr. Knight's Nathalie, 2 yrs, Est 121 b (Deacon) 3

Merry Widow also ran.
Betting-6 to son Nathalie, 2to 1 agst Lady Constance
filly, 5 to 2 agst Cosette.

Wen by two lengths ; half a length between second and
third. The winner wax bought in for 110 guineas.
The Chippenham Stakes of 10 sovs each, sft, and 2 if
declared, with 60 added ; winners extra. 6 furlongs.
20 subs.

Mr. F. Jacob's Lufra, 3 yrs, Sst 91b (Maidment) 1
Mr. J. Powney's Lady Williams, 2 yrs. 7st 21b (Deacon) 2
Air. Brayley's Golden Dust, 3 yrs, Bst 91b (Cowley) 3
Mr. F. Rowlands's Doncaster, 6 yrs, 9et 1 110
(A. Edwards) 0
Betting—Even on Lufra, 5 to 2 agst Lady Williams.
Won by a head ; a neck between second and third.
The Troy Plate (Handicap) of 25 sovs, added to a sweep-
stakes of 5 sovs each, 2 it to the fund ; certain penalties
and allowances. 1 mile and a half. 10 subs.

Mr. Adam's Wortham, 5 yrs, lost .. (Mr• Williams) 1
Mr. Brayley's Tonic), 5 yrs, 10st 121 b
Mr. E. Herbert's Whitehall, 3 yrs, 9st 7th (J. Holman) 3
Betting--2 to lon Wortham,
Won by three lengthf ; two lengths between second and
third.

WALSALL RACE S-THITUSDA.Y.

The Hurdle Race Handicap of 3 soya each, with 20 added;

winners extra. Two miles.
Mr. Hunt's Jacob, 6 yrs, 12st (including 71b extra)
Captain Moss's Portland, 6 yrs, lOst 2
Mr. E. Jacobs' Nereus, aged, lOst 21b
The Nursery Handicap of 3 sovs each, with 30 added

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Samuel Leman was placed before the Lord Mayor,
charged with obstructing the footway in Princes-street,
Bank.

Police-constable 433 said the prisoner was standing with
nis basket of walnuts on the pavement in Princes-street,
and, as h 9 refused to go away when directed, he took him
to the station-house.

Defendant—Yes, and spilt all my walnuts. I wasn't
obstructing the pavement. I'd just put my basket down
on the kerb to rest when this gentleman comes up and takes
me into custody.

The Lord Mayor—Whit have you to say to the charge ?
Defendant—What am I to do, sell walnuts or steal? 1
try to get an honest living, and should do so if it was not
for the police. They drive us about Ike dogs.
The Lord Mayor—But you have no right t 3 cause an
obstruction ac that particular place.
_ _

Another constable informed his lordship that the boys in
Princes street did something more than sell their walnuts.
Many of them were regular thieves, and gave the office to
their companions, who were engaged in picking pockets,
that the officers were watching them.
Defendant—Have I ever done so ? I know I've been a
bad boy, but you know it's never too late to mend, and I'm
trying to get on honestly; but—(laughter)—one can't do
that if the police is to drive us about.

The Lord Mayor--I shall only inflicts small fine of 35.,
but if you come here spin I'll not let you off so easy.

SCINDE RAILWAY COMPANY.

HALF-YE XRLY MEETING-THIS DAY.

The 15th half-yearly meeting cf this company was
held to-day at the London Tavern; W. P. Andrew, Esq,,
chairman of the board of directors, presided.

The report stated that there had been a gradual increase
and development of the traffic in every description of goods
for the past half-year, fully bearing out former anticipa-
tions. The average gross receipts of the half-year ending
June 30 last amounted to £2,016 per week, being an average
weekly increase 0fX640, 0r.C16,683 for the half-year preccd in g.
The revenue account for the half year ending Dec. 31,
1862, has been submitted to Government, from which it
will appear that, after deducting working expenses and
maintenance, the receipts yielded a net return of £7,141
ss. 10d. The receipts per mile were about £360 Os. 3d.,
and the expenditure £292, leaving a sum of £6B 03. 3d. per
mile to be carried to the credit of the net revenue account,
in part liquidation of the interest advanced by Government.
Major Malcolm, in his report to Government in March
last, stated that " mar ing allowance for the steady increase
of traffic which may be reasonably expected to continue,
there are fair grounds for hoping that within two years of
the present time the Scinde Railway may return 5
per cent. plus an annually increasing contribution
towards the re payment of the guaranteed interest
allowed up to that date by the State to the shareholders."
Prior to 1862, a bale of cotton in transit was rarely seen
upon the Indus. But a considerable supply of this article
is being received from the Punjaub. The value of the
cotton exported for the past' year was Rs. 1,43,93,483, or
about £1,319,402 12s. 2d.

Indian Branch Railway Company.

HALF-YEARLY MEETING-THIS DAY.

The second ordinary meeting of the directors and share-
holders in this undertaking was held to-day at the London
Tavern.

The report, which was adopted, stated that the opening
of the Nulhatee line had been delayed, from the roadway
which the Government undertook to deliver to the
company not having been originally provided with suffi-
cient openings to carry off the flood waters of the district; the
Government undertook to supply the additional waterway
required, but the non-completion of and of the principal
bridges had up to Aug. 1 prevented the closing in of the
line, The chief engineer, however, expected to get a train
through at a very early day, and then a telegram would
be sent to the board. This announcement is daily expected.
Arrangements had been made with the Government for
extending the Nulhatee line 81 miles to Bogwan-
gola, a port on the Ganges, and the road which
the Government had to make and deliver to the
company was reported in May last as in a forward state.
All (or nearly all) the materials of the permanent way,
locomotives, &c., for the extension had been shipped for
Calcutta : there was, therefore, every prospect that the
whole of this branch line might be opened for permanent
traffic by the middle of next year. The negotiations with
the Government of India for the concession of the whole
system of railway lines in Oudh and Rohilkund were pro-
gressing. satisfactorily.

The Withdrawal of the Confederate
Commissioner,

The I4dex, the London organ of the Confederates,
publishes the following as the text of the letter in
which Mr. Mason announces the termination of the
Confederate mission to England :
" 24, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square,
Sept. 21.
" The Right Hon. Earl Russell, her Majesty's
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

"My Lord—ln a despatch from the Secretary of
State of the Confederate States of America, dated
4th day of August last, and now just received, I am
instructed to consider the commission which brought
me to England as at end, and I am directed to
withdraw at once from this country.
" The reasons for terminating this mission aro set
forth in an extract from the despatch, which I have
the honour to communicate herewith.
" The President believes that the Government
of her Majesty has determined to decline the over-
tures made through you for establishing, by treaty,
friendly relations between the two Governments,
and entertains no intention of receiving you as the
accredited Minister of this Government near the
British Court. Under these circumstances, your con-
tinued residence in London is neither conducive to
the interests nor consistent with the dignity of this
Government; and the President therefore requests
that you consider your mission at an end, and that
you withdraw with your secretary from London.'
"Having made known to your lordship on my
arrival here the character and purposes of the mis-
sion entrusted to me by my Government, I have
deemed it due to courtesy thus to make known to
the Government of her Majesty its termination, and
that I shall, as directed, at once withdraw from
England.—l have the honour to be yours, &c.,
(Signed) " J. M. MASON."

The same journal makes the following comments
on the foregoing document :
" We are permitted by Mr. Mason to publish his letter
to Earl Russell, announcing his recall as special commis-
sioner from the Confederate States of America to England,
and the termination of his mission. It will be seen by the
extract given in the letter of recall that it is placed by the
Confederate President on the ground of the persistent re-
fusal of England to enter into the relations of amity usual
between foreign Powers—a condition of things which, in
the opinion of the President, would make the continuance
of the mission neither conducive to the interests nor con-
sistent with the dignity of the Government of which he is
at the head.' Mr. Slidell, we understand, will remain in
France as special commissioner to that Government, nor
is it at all contemplated to terminate that mission ; and
yet France, equally with England, has so far refrained
from entering into international relations with the Con-
federate States. All England will admit that the Govern-
ment of those States is in the hands of able, experienced.
and judicious statesmen ; and we are sufficiently conversant
with Southern circles and Southern men to know that, with
other marked differences between the sections North and
South in America, there exists this—that in the South the
general feeling to England has been one of good-will and
respect. There must be, then, some over-ruling cause for
the difference thus made between France and England in
the termination of the mission to the one, and not to the
oLber. To those at all conversant with what is passing
in the Southern States this is no mystery. Mr. Slidell
has been received, and has been uniformly treated by
the Government of France, with every mark of con-
sideration and respect for the Government he repre-
sents. There may be grave reasons regarding policy or
public law why France, like England, may not deem it in-
cumbent as yet to recognise those States as an independent
political power; but their representative has been freely
admitted to every form of intercourse with the Government
of France, to personal interviews with the Emperor when-
ever he asked for them, with immediate access to all or any
of the Ministry at first request. This would seem, indeed,
but an ordinary courtesy to a gentleman in his position—the
refusal of it would be more than a discourtesy, it would be
an actual indignity to those whose representative ho is. In
England Mr. Mason has been held by the Government in
the very opposite position. His correspondence with the
Foreign Office, laid before Congress at Richmond, we
know from the Southern press, produced a feeling of
deep and universal indignation. It showed that, with
the exception of a single and formal interview with Earl
Russell ma his first arrival, appointed at his residence, and
not at the Foreign Office, he had been admitted to no inter-
course whatever with any member of the Government;
whilst a second interview with Earl Russell, asked for some
months after the first, was by that Minister curtly refused.
It showed further that, to all outward or other manifestation,
the presence of a Confederate commissioner in London was
no further recognised than by brief replies to such COMM'
nicatians as he was from time to time instructed to make
to the Minister of this Government. Whilst we sincerely
regret, therefore, the necessity which has imposed on
President Davis the duty of terminating the Confederate
commission to England, we are bound to admit that
his forbearance has been tested to the utmost.
Earl Russell has now succeeded in establishing absolute
non-intercourse with the Confederate States—those States
whore our commerce has found sources of incalculable
wealth and profitable employment for countless millions of
our capital, with like profitable employment for hundreds of
thousands of the people of England. We say absolute non_
intercourse, because we know through the press that of the
three British consuls who remained in the Southern States
exercising their functions by permission of the Government
there, Mr. Bunch at Charleston, and Mr. M'Geo at Mobile,
were recalled by this Government; and Mr. Moore at
Richmond was dismissed by the Confederate Government
for contumacy. It remains to be seen hereafter what ad-
vantages France may derive from a course of policy more
consistent with her own self-respect and with national de-

corum."

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY. The Government
inspector yesterday approved of the works of the junction
lines with the Great Northern Railway at Kin g's•cross,
and through trains will run between Farringdon-street
station and that line on and after the Ist October next. .
" Striking a light" fifty year's since was done by a flint and
steel, and a limiter match was considered a physical impossi-
bility. Many are still sceptical of the fact, patent to thou-
sands, of Herring's magnetic brush and comb restoring the
colour to grey hair, and curing the severest c saes of neuralgia
and nervous headache. Recent improvements prevent the
possibility of their failure. N.B.—Counterfeits are being
made. Offices, 12, Basinghall7street, London.