The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-22 00:00:00

THE WESTERN STATES.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times.)

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, Sept. 6.

A great Republican Convention, or monster meet-
ing was held last Thursday at Springfield, the poli-
tical capital of this State. Hopes were entertained
for some time that Mr. Lincoln would attend the
gathering, but he acquitted himself of his promise
by a letter which has already been before the public
for several days. Deprived of the prestige of the
Presidential presence, the Springfield meeting sank
to an affair of second-rate importance, and was not
even remarkable for a very numerous attendance.
The power of the masses in this democratic country
lies exclusively in the ballot. Any meeting which
is not intended as the immediate preliminary to an
election is mere waste of breath. It is idle to con-
sider its resolutions as the manifestation of the popu-
lar mind. The people here do not know their own
mind ; they echo the sentiments of those two or three
cracked fanatics or designing politicians who under-
take to be their mouthpieces. There is a prodigious
amount of bawling, ranting, pushing, drinking, and
rioting; but when the crowds go asunder there are
very few indeed who have taken the resolutions to
heart, who care to treasure them up in their
memory, who consider themselves bound to act up
to their import.
I have said from the outset, in one of my very
earliest letters, that the Americans do not under-

stand their own affairs any better than the stranger
who, upon his first arrival, will be at the trouble to
take a careful and dispassionate survey of what lies
before him. The Americans never knew what they
wanted—their wishes have been perpetually swayed
by the various phases of the war into which they were
most unwittingly drifted. There were a thousand
of the most relentless Republicans at the outset
who subscribed to Mr. Edward Everett's principle,
"that if the Southern States were unwilling to abide
in the Union, they should, in God's name, be al-
lowed to go asunder." That slaves and slave-
owners should quietly take themselves off was the
wish particularly of those black Abolitionists to
whom at that time no other means of a thorough-
going emancipation presented itself. The war that
broke out d►d not for a long time materially affect
this general disposition. The Southerners had in-
sulted the flag, they had set up the standard of
rebellion ; they must be taken to task for it, they
must be soundly beaten, severely punished, but
then, when enough was done for the honour of the
Federal arms, they must be left to "fry in their
own fat," to wallow in their own ground with their
unwholesome negro, and the great Republic must
wash its hands of that hereditary guilt, it must
cease to be a partaker of that liberticide iniquity.
Slavery, no doubt, was a very sore subject with
many a noble and honourable man of the North. I
have lived in Boston in the days of Channing—the
days in which humane, moderate, and truly benevo-
lent men were turning; in their minds if there was
indeed any possibility to wash out that foul blot of
negro slavery from the American escutcheon. I
have known abroad, at Geneva, at Florence, at
Rome, distinguished citizens of the States who
wasted away an existence which might have been
most valuable to their country simply because they
would not sanction with their presence the con-
tinuance of an institution which was in their opinion
at war with all the laws of God and man. But
then, again, I have seen many equally virtuous
and well-meaning men who weighed this matter
of negro slavery with the vital interest of the
Union, who looked upon the condition of the South
as a disease which admitted no cure, and who, in
the alternative of lopping off a member which,
however corrupt, was essential to the existence
of the body, decided that the sore subject of
negro slavery should be hushed up, that vaunt-
ing Abolitionism should bo tabooed, that a tacit
compromise should be established with the South,
and the interests of so many millions of whites
should never be jeoparded for the sake of the rights
of a few million of blacks.

War merely for or against negro slavery had
become an impossibility in the States ; but, unfor-
tunately, the Southerners conceived that their pecu-
liar institution could only exist by being expansive
and aggressive. In order to promote its increase
and spread, they took more than their allotted share
in the management of public affairs. Party spirit
was mixed up with what was originally a mere
social controversy ; a moral question assumed all
the bitterness of political animosity, hence the elec•
tions of 1860 and the hostilities of 1861.

The war, however, exasperated the parties, but it
did not change or displace them. From the begin-
ning there was a large Democratic party, to which
a very great many of the Republicans joined them-
selves, who were anxious above all things that the
war should be a short one—a kind of tournament
for the honour of the stars and stripes rather than an
arrangement which either should bring back the
South on the old conditions, or should allow it to
go its own way without further contention.
These two parties, the War Party and the Peace
Patty, have been leading the Northern multitude
to and fro ever since. 1 see nothing about me but
say of 99 men out of 100, who
a vast passive mass,
have been yielding to the impulse, now of one side,
now of the other, es ready to shout far the Demo-
crats at the Springfield meeting of June lest as
to bawl with the Republicans at the Springfield
meeting of last Thursday.
In the month of June of this year the Democrats
of Illinois visibly had the upper hand. General
Lee had crossed the Potomac; his cavalry threat-
ened Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburg, or Phila-
delphia ; Vicksburg and Port Hudson held out
against all odds. There was no hope of speedy vic-
tory, no chance of a happy termination of the war.
The peace men had it all their own way. Enough
had been done for the honour of the Federal arms,
and these who had tio 6gnelly raiimultJged the war

North harbours very strong feelings for the union
of his big country, and for those Abolition prin-

ciples which aim at the removal of the darkest of
stain from its fair banner. Impress them with the
possibility of reconquering all the Southern terri-
tory and of enfranchising the whole negro race, and
the mass will follow you, no doubt, unwearied in its
exertions, and regardless of sacrifices. But can the
conviction of the feasibility of that great scheme of
restoration and emancipation really strike deep root P
Behold ! the Government was in some measure com-
mitted to it. The President's proclamation, his de-
cree of emancipation, confiscation, 8,:e., have laid the
views and plans of the Government very openly
before the public. The " rebel" land was to be mili-
tarily occupied—subjected to martiel rule, doing
away with the right of property of the present
owners, manumitting slave labour, and reorganising
free labour under Government superintendence.
Specious as the scheme seemed to many of the
sanguine Republicans, it, however, struck many as
not only monstrously inhuman and barbarous, but
also most supremely chimerical and impracticable.
Many people were disposed to look upon that procla-
mation of the President's as a mere brutunzfulmen—
an empty threat, never to be carried into execution.

It was understood that several members of the Cabi.
net at Washington, no less than most of the leaders
of the Government party,
were opposed to the
wholesale destructive measure. Strong remon-
strances and point-blank questions were addressed
to the President on the subject. Hence his letter
dated " Executive Mansion, Aug. 26," in which,
although he shifts his ground and wriggles about
with a lawyer's dexterity, he gives us, nevertheless,
clearly to understand that the war is to be followed
up to the bitter end.
Notwithstanding all the President's letters, and
notwithstanding the shouts and cheers with which

the wild effusions of Republican orators were re-
ceived at Springfield the other day, we must not
believe that the war party is very strong in these
Western States, or that the notion of " exhausting
the North to lay waste the South " finds many
hearty supporters here. So long as success crowns
the efforts of the Federal armies, so long as hopes
can be entertained that three, six months at the
utmost, may bring about the termination of the
strife, the people here endure and wait. But let us
only hear, for instance, that the siege of Charleston
has to be raised, or that Lee has been successful in
a now raid across the Potomac, and you will soon
hear the cry of the Springfield Democratic Conven-
tion of last June set up again. The common mass

follows here the impulse of every breeze, and its
leaders, when they are not ambitious adventurers
without principles, are empty•pated fanatics whose
principles are as unsteady as those of the multitude

they presume to control.
I hope you will not charge me with exceeding
conceit if I declare to you my conviction that there

is very little political sense among party leaders
in this mighty Republic. The question of negro
slavery in the South was a very serious and painful
one at all times ; but that any one should propose
to solve it by the extermination of the whole of the
white, and the no less unavoidable extinction of the
whole of the black race is something that baffles all
the comprehensive powers of an un-American mind.
Yet that is what many repeat here daily with un-
abashed asseverance, and it must be hard but come
of them do really mean what they say.
The vivork of extermination, to whatever extent
it may ultimately be carried, is, while we are here
discussing, being hurried on with mad fury in the
South-West. I gave you in my last letter an extract
describing the deplorable condition to which New
Orleans and Louisiana have been reduced since
they fell into Yankee hands ; I have to-day to add

the following few lines :
At this season of the year the population of New Or-
leans is ordinarily 160,000 souls. In winter, during the
busy season, it reaches near 230,000. It is now but little
over 60,000, if the soldiers are left out of the count. Within
the past few days there has been an apparent revival of
business, owing to the arrival of the bulk of General Ord's
command, the 13th army corps. But, making due allowance
for the season, and other present circumstances, there are
evidences cn every hand that the great commercial im•
portance of the city is a thing of the past. Her trade in
the great staples, cotton and sugar, is gone. It is true
that some apparently successful experiments in sugar
culture have been made, and at the proper time some sugar
may be looked for; but the area devoted to these expe-
riments is comparatively very small. Both sugar and cot-
ton will for a year or two come to New Orleans in drib-
lets, where they formerly came in floods. Then, again, the
trade with the West Indies is gone, and cannot be recovered
for a long time. This is one of the calamities which was in-
flicted on the West and South "West by the closing of the
Mississippi river navigation, Now that the river is again
open, a resumption of the whole trade may be expected,
but it must be a work of time. The shipping necessary is
otherwise employed. The attention of buyers has been
turned elsewhere, and will not immediately revert to former
channels. Trade restrictions, moreover, must be removed
before receiving and forwarding can be conducted in a legi-
timate and prosperous way.
We may see by this that the evil wind of the war,
which has blown so much good to New York, has
done no such good turn for NOW Orleans ; and the
calamity was inflicted on the West no less than on
the South West. Push on the war to the bitter end ;
crush the white race in the slave-holding States,
and set the negro free. We shall see how long a
time it will take before the recolonization of those
desolate territories, and the reorganisation of the
labour of " freed men working on compulsion," make
up for the losses and calamities inflicted not less
upon these North-Westerners who fought so stoutly
for the Union as upon tho South-Westerners who
were bent upon its dissolution.
There are not a few persons about me who take
this view of public affiirs. The solid well-being of
the country is to be sacrificed in pursuit of an ab-
stract notion of philanthropy. The happiness of the
whites must succumb, not only With no hope of im-
proving, but with the certainty of impairing the
condition of the blacks. The slaveowners, whatever
may be said, were not the bitterest enemies of the
negro. The prejudices of the Northerners against
the African race were far more fatal to the few free
blacks that lived among them than even the over-
seer's whip which kept them to their task in the
South. This Western State of Illinois is in such
matters no better than it should be. ft is perfectly
amazing to read among its statutes, statuts which
cannot be older than 40 or 50 years, such barbarous
enactments as the tollewing—" No person of culour,
negro or mulAtto, of either sex, shall be joined in
marriage with any white person male or Jr male, in
this State; end all marriage or marriage contracts
entered itito between such coloured pereen and white
person, shell lie nail and void in law ; and any per-
son marrying or contracting to marry shall be liable
to pay a line, be whipped in not exceeding thirty-
nine lashes, aiitl be imprisoned no less than one
year." This pLrleet gem of mediaeval jurispru-
dence, especially if we take into consideration the
corporal punishment, bears no earlier date than that
of the constitution of Illinois, in 1810. It wee
brought forward for discussion before both houses
of the State Legislature as late as 1847 by men who
wished to wash the statute book of such illiberal
provisions, but the wise majority of Illinois free
citizens ruled that the law was very well as it was,
and should suffer no change. Surely a man need
not be as anxious for the amalgamation of races as

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sonri, consequent on the massacres perpetrated at
Lawrence by the chief of bushwackers, Quantrell,
are assuming gigantic dimensions. Jim Lane, who
is styled a General, and is a senator in Congress,
will place himself at the head of a bend of "jay-
hawkers," and lay waste the four border counties of
Missonri,where Quantrcll is supposed to have sought
his refuge. The deeds of murder and lawless bru-
tality of which Jim Lane boasted himself the author
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in command in these quarters, has issued strict
orders both to the Missouri and the Kt.nsas militia
on no account to overstep the borders. His orders,
however, are hardly likely to be respected by Lane,
who accused him of imbecility, and moved resolu-
tions for his removal. It seems, indeed, that there
are plans at Washington for sending General Hun-
ter into Seholefield's place. The day appointed for
Jim Lane's murderous expedition is the 9th inst.
There seems to be no little animosity among poli-
tical parties in Kentucky. "Taking the whole
State together," we are told, "they may be classed
as follows :—Of those who support the Administra-
tion and its policy, say one-fifth ;of those who are
loyal to the Union, as it was formerly, with slavery,
say three-tenths ; of those who were in favour of
secession, and are at heart with the South, three-
tenths. There are all shades of political intensity,
ranging from the compensatory emancipationist to,
the uncompromising slave-advocating fire-eater..
About equal numbers have gone to bear arms North
and South, perhaps 40,009 to each side. Entire
unanimity does not exist among the less passionate
and prejudiced who remain. Many private feuds,
brawls, and even open violence, are of continued
occurrence. The wealth, the breeding, and the re-
gard for reputation, keep many from open strife,
but there are many muttered threats of vengeance
dire. The presence of the national troops has the
effect of suppressing at least one portion of the mal-
contents. When the war is over and the army is
withdrawn, it will be impossible for the former
inhabitants to live peaceably together again. The
Unionists, with the bayonets at their back, have
tyrannized over their rebel neighbours, all of which
they assert is to be repaid with interest. The for-
tune of arms, however, will doubtless decide the
fate of Kentucky, as of the rest of the South. The
disloyal will hav e to leave the State, or be contented
to remain quiet. Very many of them have left,
placing their land and property in the hands of
women and assignees. Some of them are at the
North, in Canada, or Europe. Others at the South.
Homefarms are going to decay. Stock has been.
driven off across the Ohio. Agriculture is suffering
a blight. There is a very general desire for peace."
Such are some of the results of this great civil war,
as they begin to develope themselves. No wonder
many secretly long for peace, even among those who
are most loudly clamouring for " continuation of tho
war to the bitter end."

THANKSGIVING FOR THE HARVEST.

The Bishop of Rochester has addressed the fol-
lowing letter to the Archdeacons of Essex, Colches-
ter, and Rochester with St. Albans, in his
lordship's diocese
"Danbury Palace, Sept. 19, 1863,

"My dear Archdeacon,—lt has been generally expected
that the great and good harvest which have been permitted
to gather in would have been folio ived by a Royal command
for the use of an appropriate form of thanksgiving through-
out the churches. The adverse weather which has embar-
rassed our agriculturists in many places has, I presume,
rendered such a general procedure unsuitable. If it be so,
a deeper gratitude becomes us, because we have been nwro
favoured than our fellow-countrymen in other parts. I ,ern
unwilling to pass by the special mercy we have received,
though an appeal from me on the subject is scarcely needed;
seeing that the voice of thanksgiving has been heard already
in so many churches of the diocese. A local paper, now be-
fore me, has a whole page full of these proceedings. In such
reports I witness with unfeigned pleasure the result of the
conferences between the laity and clergy of 1861, when har-
vest-homes were considered (amongst other matters), and it
was agreed to promote them to the extent of our power. The
kindly spirit which is generated by these gatherings, and the
cordial sympathy which is stirred up afresh between all
classes by the parish harvest-home, is very cheering. I de-
sire to express, through you, my thanks to the laity and
clergy for what has been done in this way ; and I would ask
you to invite any one who have not yet adopted a similar
course to make some public acknowledgment forthwith in
their churches of the mercy of God, to preach on the occa-
sion (whether on the Lord's day or a week day they will
decide best), and to command a thank offering in testimony
of what is felt. I do not desire to specify any particular
appropriation of the collection or offertory. Already with
the concurrence of the clergy, and partly at their own sug-
gestion, I have asked them, as you know, to promote an-
nually in their churches a spring and an autumn collection
for a home and a foreign object. The result of that measure
has been very gratifying. lam very sensible of the kind
exertions which have given much success to the scheme.
Moreover, the diocesan societies and the parent societies in:
London nave acknowledged these services on the part of the
clergy in most marked and cordial terms. I leave it then to
my brethren individually to determine with their parishion-
ers how the gatherings shall be appropriated, and will only
add (as a suggestion) that--1. The public hospital in each
of the three counties of the diocese ; 2. The Eastern Coun-
ties Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles at Colohester ; and 2.
The Female Refuges at Rochester, Chatham. Chelmsford
(in connexion %% ith the gaol), and similar institutions in our
other large towns, commend themselves strongly to my re-
gard as appropriate receptacles for the charity of the diocese
at the present time. Beseeching Almighty God, for His Son's
sake, to shed abroad amongst us a lively spirit of thankful-
ness for His forbearance and love, and to awaken all to live
and work for Hia glory while their day yet last, I remain,
my dear Archdeacon, your affectionate brother and friend,
J. C. ROCHESTER,"

MR. KINGLAKE'S ADMISSION OP HIS OWN
ERRORS I—ln a preface to the 4th edition of his " History
of the Crimean War," he says Well, but what impres-
sion has public criticism made upon the rest of the book ?
What (properly) historical errors have owed their correc-
tion to the vigilance of the periodical press? They arc as
follows:—` Garan' should be Gagarin ;' Captain Schane'
should be Captain Schaw ;" Luxmore' should be ' Lux-
mooro ;" Bisset' should bo Bissett ;" 'Woolcombe' should
be Woolocombe ;" Montagu' should be Montague.' "
INJURIOUS ACTION OF LEAD PIPES ON WATER.
The importance of discovering a really efficient
means of preventing the injurious action of lead pipes on
water is universally acknowledged, and the experiments of
of Dr. Cracc-Calvert have proved beyond question that no
proposition hitherto brought forward has been calculated to
remedy the evil complained of. A discovery, however, has
now been made, through which the water supplied by leaden
pipes may be obtained by the consumer as pure as from the
original source. Dr. H. Schwartz, of Breslau, has disco-
vered a means by which the portion of the load forming the
interior surface of the pipe may be converted into an in-
soluble sulphide; the natural consequence being that the
water passing through will be as free from contamination
as if glass were used. The means by which Dr. Schwartz
effects this conversion ate extremely simple. He simply
passes a strong solution of the sulphide of an alkali through
the pipe to be acted upon, and the process is completed.
This solution, which is either a sulphide of potassium or of
sodium, is used at a temperature of about 212 deg. Fah.,
and is allowed to act upon the metal for from 10 to 15
minutes. it is stated that, in practice, the boiling solution
of caustic soda and sulphur is fuuud to answer every Fur'
posc.-111ininy Jou) nal.

Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur-
chasing Horniman's pure Tca ; very choice at r,s. 4d. and
4s. "Haigh Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Sd.), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Ascuis every
town supply it in rackets.
[Anvrwrisrxtr.Nr]. Holloway's rills. Vigorous
Health.—All diseases affecting the nervous system arise
from impurities of the blood or vitiated secretions. Hollo-
way's pills are invaluable for removing all poisonous ele-
ments from the body, and arc famed for curing indigestion,
flatulency and costiveness, as well as palpitation, pain in
the side, and other morbid feelings. The neuralgic paths at-
tendant on the nervous class of diseases soon yield to these
purifying pills; the sensations of anxiety and alarm daily
diminish under their use; sound sleep supersedes nights
of watching, and calm repose displaces hideous dreams.
Holloway's pills are the best correctives of tainted breath
and disagreeable tastes in the mouth, they soon clean the
inritd tongue, augment Vat, appetite, and invigorate both
body and mind.

WHEAT] tE ROYAL DRURY - LANE. -
lianag,o s, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVFNING, the new and original Comedy, by Ed-
mund Fal'oru .1", entitled NATURE'S ABOVE ART : A Ro-
mance of the Nursery : Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Ryder,
Barrett, G. B.elmore, F. Charles. Neville; Miss Charlotte
.aun.iers, Mie q Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, Mrs. Melville, and
rs. Edmund Falconer.
To conclude with THE DEAL BOATMAN Messrs. G.
Belmore, F. Charles; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund
Falconer.
Box-office open from Ten till Five daily. Prices as usual.
Commence at 7.

THEATRE ROYAL HAY M ARKET -
Open for the Season.—Notice.—During the recess the
undermentioned alterations have been made to ensure the
comfort of the audienca : A. distinct row of Stallschi ass.dbeen
erected, with two new Stall Staircases,
one
tc.itnt ea eof
the Theatre. In the Dress Circle, all the.par ons and ori-
ginal seats have been removed, end chairs o- a convenient
size, covered with Utrecht ve vet, introduced. The approaches
to the Dress Circle wil be carpeted and generally improved,
while the seats in the Amphitheatre will be made as commo-
diousln addition the whole of the inte-
rior as those of the Pit.
of the Theatre has undergone a thorough restoration.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred 'Wigan every evening.
THIS EVF.NING, and during the week, to commence at
Seven with FOUNDED ON FACTS : ifr. Compton. After
which, Pianehe's revived Drama of CHA tiLES THE
TwE EFT : Charles the Twelfth. Mr. Alfred Wigan ;
Adam Brock, Mr Buckstone ; Muddlework, Mr. Compton;
inrica. Miss Louisa Angel ; Udiga (with the original song,. of
Rise Gentle Moon"), Miss Louise Keeley. To be followed
by THE BENGAL T GER : Mr. and Mr.. Alfred Wigan.
Concluding with the Spanish Ballet of THE GALICIAN
FETE : Miss Fanny Wright, Senor Ricardo. and the Corps
do Belle.. On Monday, September 28tn, will be repeated
Lady Gifford's Comedy of FINESSE ' • or, Spy and Counter
spy. And due novice will be (riven of the return to the Lon-
don Stage of Mr. Charles Mathews. The Box-office, under
the direction of Mr. George Turpin, open daily, from Ten
till Five.

ROYAL PRINCRSS'S THEATRE
Lessee, Mr. George Vining.
Open under the Managemc nt of Mr. Walter Montgomery.
THIS EVENING. THE LADY nF LYONS. Claude
Melnotte, Mr. Walter Montgomery; Beauseant. Mr. Edgar;
Damas, Mr. Fitzjames ; Pauline, Miss Kate Saville.
And NOT A BAD JUDGE.
Commence at 7.

NEW TFi EATRE-RO YAL, ADELPHL-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

-
THIS EVENING, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN. Mrs.
Stirling.
Followed by the new comic drama, THE HEN AND
CHICKENS; or, A Sign of Affection. Messrs. Billington,
R. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss H. Simms.
After which, at -past 8 o'clock, the new drama of THE
HAUNTED MAN; OR, THE G osrs BARGAIN, in
which will be exhibited Professor Pepper's adaptatlon of
`he Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. A. Wood, R. Phillips,
Sefton. C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss H. Simms.
To conclude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Mr. A.
Wood.

NEW THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.-
ANNUAL BENEFIT of Mr. BENJAMIN WEB-
STER, Sole Proprietor and Manager, SATURDAY NEXT,
Sept. 26, and LAST NIGIIT of the SEASON, when will be
revived, for this night only, the celebrated Comedy of
MASKS AND FACES. with Mr. Benjamin Webster and
Mrs. Stirling in their original characters of Triplet and Peg-
Woffington. With other attractive Entertainments.

NEW THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI.-
Mr. B. WEBSTER begs to announce that having
entered into an engagement with the young American
Actress. Miss BATEMAN, the Theatre will be CLOSED
from SATURDAY, fhe 26th of September, and will RE-
OPEN on the following, THURSDAY, an interval being re-
quired for cleansing and re-decorating the interior, and for
the due prepara ion of a New Drama, in five acts, with en-
tirely new Scenery and Presses, founded on the celebrated
German Play of Deborah, by M orenthal, and entitled LEA H.
in which the principal character will be supported by Miss
Bateman, who will make on this ezcasiLn her First Appear-
ance in En; land since her recent and extraordinary success
in this and other characters in the chief cities of America.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough.
THIS EVENING,
WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Bel-
ford, Miss Simpson.
Followed by (56th time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL
THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Clifton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria
Simpson, Wallace, and Jenny White.
To conclude with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss
Thorne.

Commence at 7.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, Bh. 35m.—Afternoon, 9h. 20m.
TO•KORRow.-Morning, 10h. In.—Afternoon, 1011. 48m.

The Weather—Sim Office, Sept. 22, 1863.