The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-29 00:00:00

CARD PLATES ENGRAVED.
Any Pattern
50 BEST CARDS, Printed from Plate
REAL MOROCCO CARD CASES ls.
BUSINESS ENVELOPES, " NEWSNEWSPAPER ENVELOPES, 4 d guoz...mmed• Os
6d'.
P. ARNOLD, Manufacturing Stationer, 86, Fleet-street, E.C.

KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY-
ING PO WDEII for which a Prize Medal was awarded
to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862,
rivalled in destroying Fleas,
This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un-
Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, Moths in furs, and every other
species of Insect. Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches,
Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy-
ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs.
Being the original importer of this now invaluable article,
which has found so great a sale that it has tempted others to
vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to
observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the
autogragh of THOMAS KEATING.
Sold in Packets, ls 2s. 6d each, or
and 4s. 6d.
14 or 38 postage at " "Ps amps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St.
ul s-c uchyard London, E.C. post free for

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOC-MAINT LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXIIIRITED IN TDB GREAT
EXIIIBITIONS or 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective
invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA.
The use of a steel spring; so often hurtful in its effects,
Is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
sent to the manufacturer,

Mr. WHITE, 228, Plooadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is.
A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is ed.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-offfoe Orders to be made payable to John White, Poet.
office, Piocstdilly.

NEW PATENT
ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all oases of
Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are
9orous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
IYe an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 165.
eadh. Postage 6d.

JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer. 22R. Piccadilly.

PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE
BIACHINEg, for hand, horse, or steam Dower, are the
most simple and effident extant.—Fnl: particulars and prices
obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co., Laurence Pountney
place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, E.C., where
they may be seen in operation daily.

MONEY PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a
Private Gentleman upon FURNITURE (without
removal). Leasehold and Freehold Property, or Reversions,
&a, in sums from £2O to £5OO,—AI Howard, Howard, 18, Queen-
street, Cheapside.

TO Persons in WANT of MONEY rin
Town
or Country).—A GENTLEMAN Is willing to MARE
ADVANCES of CAS Li, without delay, to respectable person ,4
(male or female), on their own security. The utmost secrecy
can be Yelled on.—Apply (if by letter enclose four stamps) to
W., et Mr. Robertson's, Accountant, 40, King William-street,
London-bridge, E.C.—Money advanced on Dock Virarrants.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs Hanbnrys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co , bankers, London.
The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he luved, and where he lived and died.

110YAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
malitY of eovernors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it
one the ratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
„_ average,-than 3,000 out-patients a week.
Contributions
_, & Ile Ncre-i...
pARNEvaiy Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
ST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
o enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Masrerman, E 8 ares; received by the Treasurer,
Co. ; Druminoncla'
IV alma,
and teholas-lane; also by
Co.;Messrs. Coutte and
Tre Edward
Co. ; Prescott, Gro
and Co. ; Jones L and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and, U
,d
,liGanu_rn hansom and
aiynnd
and Co. ;
eCaoco.n;, 'lanedrleoß. ;anod-veren
Loyd and Co.;• Barclay and Co. ; Denison
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; 31
and at the Hospital essrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool

STANFORD S. SMITH, SecretarY.

In reply to questions by Mr. Gminice and other share•
holders,

Lord Henws said that, with reference to carrying the
line on to the pier at Ramsgate, difficulties had arisen in
consequence of arrangements insisted upon by the Admi-
ralty and the Board of Trade. It was hoped, however, that
the arrangements for running these trains to the pier would
soon be made.

Mr. FORBES, in reply to questions, said that the arrange-
went with the South Eastern Company was perpetual. It
was true that that company had raised their fares, but it
was with very good reason, as it was for the directors to
consider whether it was advantageous or not. It was
their intention originally to run the boats between Dover,
Calais, and Boulogne and Ramsgate and Antwerp. When
they got their bill they pledged themselves to give Dover
additional facilities of traffic. They had done so. If they
had insisted upon running to Boulogne the South Eastern
would have resolved upon running to Calais, and that would
have necessitated a double train service to the coast and a
double packet service across the Channel. They had done a
much wiser thing in having made arrangement by which
they secured a certain route, leaving Boulogne to the South
Eastern, but obtaining for every passenger that went by
Dover or Folkestone to Boulogne asimuch value as from
those who travelled by Dover to Calais. The traffic was thus
divided between the two companies. The reason that the
goods traffic at Folkestone was more valuable than that at
Dover was that the Corporation of Dover charged such heavy
tolls, which had induced the South Eastern to establish their
goods station at Folkestone. The London, Chatham, and
Dover, when they had suitable premises, and were met in
a properly liberal spirit by the corporation of Dover, as to
the tolls and charges,t arp wotu. ldHdeo couldaanlltitchiepyateda on
tcofsoisdteerraletbhe
goods trade at that
trade for the boats between Ramsgate and Rotterdam.

..—, —.
There was a new line now forming between Calais and
Boulogne, which would shorten their route to Paris.

In reply to Mr. HARTRIDOE,
Mr. HOLROYD said that the 6 per cent. preferences had
been issued at a rebate of 20 per cent. under the authority
of the shareholders, who had resolved that the directors
should issue the stock on suoh terms and conditions as thep
might think fit, and, in answer to Mr. Knight, he added
that the Dover preference stock took precedence next after
debentures ; but the 4} per cent. stock, being a rent-charge,
took preference of the debentures.
The report was adopted, and Mr. Holroyd was unani-
mously elected to the vacant seat at the board.
A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors closed the
proceedings.

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.
t o earningsi
4The34 40for
,reporta thenofd thethe half-yeardirectorsordinary
ending
ofw o trhk iti snh company
leaving a balance of £157,136. From this was deducted
m3opt
expenseshanyJ
£32,963 for renewals of permanent way, leaving a net
balance of 124,173. The receipts from traffic and. all
other sources as above amounted to £434,340, against
ustnat
oet ealsm2t7ho7ua :n2ttohe4cle,
£382,993 for the corresponding half of 1862, or an increase of
£51,347, or 13.45 per cent., and against £347,110 for the
corresponding half of 1861, or an increase in 1863 over 1861
of £87,230, or 25'13 per cent. Nearly every item of the
company's traffic revenue had increased during the half-
year, the main exception being the local passenger traffic.
In that item the decrease of £1,052 was much more than
accounted for by the extraordinary receipt caused by the
movement of troops in the early part of 1862 ; the receipts
for military services in the corresponding half year of 1862
having been £12,630 as against £1,853 in 1863. The work-
inghrpeenr
increasee ew cent. x
renewals.
expenses no si
fone
na r setthvohoetenhwugaercote ososstefas
xee
texsheplei expenditure tpaueshrnao
expenditure
tmf
üb£rpee2ae7rne7 d,
for2wit,
nthoheerd 67,
:3
the 82s
43t
revenuep totalaif
Yeaexnaptri e.
an showed
rheeaedmh acoadour::.enesed decreaseotno reducedd
3:3 451389eb period
;09, of
1862;adding
s
that expense the increased charge for renewa,ls. The net
i
1389670 to bo includingl
l ao2g6r in
in 1861 to £142,494, and in 1862 to £170,234. From the net
profit of the halt-year—viz., £124,173--here had to be de-
ducted a nominal amount of £10,462 for postal and mili-
tary service receipts; the charge for the former being still
unsett led, and the money being still retained by the provin-
cial government. The sum of £6,589 for " lies on Ame-
rican currency"—an item of loss which would, it was feared,
be even heavier in the current half-year, with its large;
traffic—had also to be deducted. These deductions left the
sum of £107,122, which had been applied as follows:—In
payment of interest on lands, bonds, debentures, and notes,
£10,693; Portland sinking fund, £2,312 ; Atlantic and St.
Lawrence lease in full, £32,763 ; Detroit lease, £11,250 ; in-
terest first preference bonds, £49,913, leaving infull a balance
of £lB6. The whole amount expended for renewals and im-
provements of the permanent way, ordinary and special, had
been charged to revenue. The charge in the half-year was
£9,261 in excess of that incurred in 1862. It had been
decided to renew during the current half-year 100 miles of
line with the hollow rails. The unexhausted balance to the
credit of net revenue account at December 31, 1862—viz.,
£37,986 had been credited to capital account. The sum of
£6,247 had been expended during the half year in addi-
tional works and plant, and had been duly debited to capital
This sum is the only real expenditure on "capital account,"
although that account was also charged with the amount of

Ndhtonornitach, &
S.
Coast_
2°
Lancashire & Yorkshire
Limerick and Ennis.
263 264
Limerick and Foynes
464 464
Llanelly
North-Western
London, Chatham, & Dover 72f 'at
LondonLL
oo nn
dd .e nB
Brighton,
gn
Do. Metropolitan Extension 10.
London & South-Western
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 94
Maryport and Carlisle 2B
Aletropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 29j
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton... 5O
llhymney 195
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
81
SomersetSS Irishlcci:lvttet etetvoiirrnssffahhoexl
reaCdse aea&nntnhtdAdrabl )K1e0....
_z . North-Western
d .e North-Easternetn j ane
.
8 56
:
South Devon '•
•
754
South-Eastern• 306
55
Ulster 64i
Vale of Clwyd
Il
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k.. Y........
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25
West Cornwall
W.FlartlepoolliarbrAßail 4B
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
&ntwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,674 1,654
Austrian ... .
Belgian Eastern- Junction 26, 26 277 313
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 z 1324 2,768 1,135
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6lz 1615 1,605 1,880
Detroit and Milwaukie
Dutch Rhenish 1168891
1108854
Eastern of France
East Indian .
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090 15,623 12,3 5
Great Indian Peninsula 5384 4371 4.882 5,212
Great Luxembourcr
NOGP
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79: 6187 i 134
794 90 4,610
4,611
Great Western of Canada—. 345 315 7,902 7,886
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant• • 499 435 18,671 17,181
4,655 1,870
Northern of France ........... •'
• 697 691 62,314 60,805
N orwegian Trunk ..... ..
44 44 1,258 1,444
346 291 Paris, Lyons, .&
Mediterrn 1491 1354 133,240 133,123
Paris and Orleans.. •
1340 1204 65,902 63,053
482
Sambre
Royal Danish - al 794
W 813:
Victorian .............. *"•* 174▪ 68;
173761; 35:041"62197562751 25511,221404162931
IE6 151 6,1
26, 554
West Flanders . -
1 178 1,189
W. and N.W. of France 76785 775: 51,038-' 46,103
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14,329 13,415
60,049 67,147
3,408 3,533
8,676 6.315
1,343 1,200
915 1,045
2,017 1,982
5,710 5,360
6,320 6.076
430 399
4.226 4,195
29,631 28,518
5,395 5,809
1,840 1.801
289 283
2,332 1.946
361 404
1,350 1,131
856 1,009
4,455 4,102
598 478
762 690
822 659,

'aval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY,
The Odin, -16, paddle frigate Capt. Lord John
Hay, C. 8., was paid out of '
commission yesterday at
Portsmouth, under the superintendence of Capt. H.
Broadhead, commanding
her Majesty's ship Asia
and the port reserves, She
Was
commissioned at
Portsmouth in Sept., 1869, and
conveyed the gun-
boats Foam, Weazle, and
Grasshopper out to
China. She arrived at Hongkong on the 24th of
April following, and was
Hay": afterwards sent to
the North, Lord John
gunboat division in the en commanding the
subsequent operations
against the Taku forts. After
the reduction of the
forts the Odin remained there th
suing winter establishing a e whole of the depoten-
and keeping open
the communication with the troops
at Tien-twin. In
August, 1861, the Odin sailed for Japan, where she
remained as senior officer's ship until January 21,
1862, when she conveyed the J
England. afta
ep
ranese Embassy to
Suez en route for
,which she con-
veyed the Grand Duke of Sare•C
and suite to
Abyssinia, and afterwards proceeded to Trinco-
malee, where her captain hoisted commodore's
pendant is senior officer in command°
and finally
sailed for England in M of the station,
sent year. In paying off, Lord Johnarch of the pre-
James Sutherland, the Odin's blaeltlllaY presented
silver hammer, value £l2, enclosedsruith' with a
in an ebony
case, as a mark of approval of his e
serving on board the ship. The following ng men were
recommended to the A
tuities for goad conductdmiralt and.lony for medalss and gra-
Hooper, chief boatswain's mate • Heee :----Samson
sick berth steward; Sergeant illor nry Weller,
ebten, Royal
Marine Artillery ; James Sutherland.
Robert Meredith, Quartermaster; lackenlith ;
John Auston,
leading stoker.

THE MEDITERRANEAN TELEGRAPRs.......On Satur-
day week a message was received at
Malta from
on board the screw steamer Hawthorns, 64 miles off Alex-
andria, stating that the telegraph cable had been picked
up at that distance from that port. The spot, it is stated, is
that where a stouter cable was spliced to the deep-sea cable,
when the line was laid, owing to the rocky nature of the
bottom ou that part of the coast. The faulty parts having
been cut out the final splice was made on the morning of
the 18th inst., and at 3 30 p.m. the communication be-
tween Bengaze and Alexandria was completely re-
stored. The line throughout fious Malta to Alexan-
dria is perfect, and is again open to the public.
Just at the moment when the Alexandria cable was thus
successfully repaired, another of the Mediterranean lines, a
French one, that from Corsica to Toulon, laid by Messrs.
Glass, Elliot, and Co., in 1861, stopped working. It may be
remembered that tke hemp covering of this cable, so
strongly approved by the French Emperor, was protested
against at the time by the makers as an insufficient protec-
tion against the numerous destroying agents to which sub-
marine cables are subjact. Mr. Andrews, engineer, and
general superintendent of the Mediterranean Extension
Telegraph Comps ny, returned to Malta last week from his
official tour of inspection of the company's cables in Sicily
and Calabria, which, it is said, were found in very good
condition.

The Selling Plate of 60 sous; weight for age, with selling
allowances. Half a mile.

Mr. Mills's Lady Constance filly, 2 yrs, sst 71b (Z3O)
(J. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. Treen's Vision, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (LEO) (Clement) 2
Mr. Nightingall's Cosette, 2 yrs, sst 71b (c sst 91b) (3.0)

Mr. Fleming's Marpesia filly, 2 yrs, 6st (Z5O) (Morris) 3
J.
Mr. Saxon's Lady Keppell, 2 yrs, Est 71b ( (X3O) Loates) 4
(Lightfoot) 5
Betting-6 to 5 agst Cosotte, 3to 1 agst the Lady Con-
stance filly, 4 to 1 agst Lady Keppell.
The winner made all the running, and won easily by two
lengths, a head between the second and third.
The winner was bought by Mr. Morgan for 65 guineas,
and Mr. Treen claimed Cosette.
The Stand Plate Handicap of 40 cove ; winners extra.
Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. J. Abel's Camperdown, 6 yrs, 7st 91b.. (H. Bradley) 1
Mr. Cooper's Hungerford, 6 yrs, 7st 71b (Clement) 2

_ . . .
Spicebox, Lord of the Manor, and Quicksand also ran.
Betting-7 to 4 agst Spicebox, sto 2 age Quick.
sand, 4 to 1 agst Lord of the Manor, 6 to 1 agst Camper,
down.

The latter jumped off in front and won without being
headed by 20 lengths from Hungerford, neither of the
others passing the post.
The City Members' Plate of 50 sovs,added to a Sweepstakes
of 5 Boys each; winners extra. One mile and a quarter.
Mr. Crawford's Crochet colt, 4 yrs, Est 121 b (S. Adams) 1
Mr. Golby's Church Militant, 4 yrs, Est 81b.. (H. Clark) 2
Mr. J. Pouney's Raglan, 3 yrs, 6st 51b (Deacon) 3
The following also ran :—Berkeley, Colonel Crockett, and
Quicksand.

Betting-6 to 4on Colonel Crockett, 4to 1 agst the
Crochet colt, 6 to 1 agst Church Militant.
The favourite led to the distance, and then dropped
away, the Crochet colt coining on, and winning easily by
two lengths; Raglan was a bad third ; and the others
beaten off.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
ST. LEGER.
9 to 2 agst Lord Clifden (taken)
sto 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
sto 1 agst Ranger (taken and offered)
100 to 7 agst Golden Pledge (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Saocharometer (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Donnybrook (taken and offered)
CESAREWITOR.

1000 to 15 agst Myrtle (taken)
1000 to 15 aget Grimston (taken)
1000 to 15 apt Accident (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Anfleld (taken)
1000 to 10 apt Hartington (taken)
1000 to 10 aget Canzonette (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Dusk (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Tademus (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Gillie (taken)
1000 b 10 agst Romanoff (taken)
1000 to 10 aget Thalestris (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Faultless (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Catch'em Alive (taken)
1000 to 10 aget Watchman (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Cowley (taken)
a CIMBILIDGESHIRB.

1000 to 20 agst Catch'em Alive (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Jacqueline (taken)
1000 to lb agat Limosine (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Myrtle (taken)
1000 to 15 agst Gillie (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Queen of Spain (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Polynesia (taken)
1000 to 10 agat Tadewus (taken)
1000 to 10 agst Exchequer (taken)
DERBY.
1000 to 40 apt Hollyfox (taken)
40 to 1 agst Claremont (taken)
40 to 1 agst Historian (taken)
50 to 1 agst Coast Guard (taken)

Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur-
chasing Ilorniman's pure Tea; very choice at 38. 4d. and
4s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4u. Bd.), is the
strongest and roost delicious imported. Agents in every
town supply it in wickets.

ARMY EXAMINATION s.—We are requested to
state that the next examination of candidates for admission
to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, will commence
on Thursday, the 17th of December next, at Chelsea Hos-
pital ; and that for admission to the Royal Military Aca-
demy, Woolwich, on Monday, the 4th of January,
1864, at
the same place.
[AnyEßTlsEarzwr ]—Holloway's Pills.--
To Nervous
Safferers.—Nervousness, so called, has been said to arise
from foul blood or a guilty conscience. When the first is
the origin :Le afflicted may be cheered by the knowledge
that a course of Holloway's Pills will dissipate both cause
and effect. Many nervous maladies of long duration have
affordedithe most remarkable recoveries under these puri-
fying Pills, they have assuaged sufferings of the severest
character and steadil restored the afflicted to comfort, con•
fidence and health after change of climate and every other
means had signally failed. Holloway's Pills renew the lost
appetite and conduce digestion without permitting those
feelings of fulness, flatulency, distension, faintness andpal-
pitationwhich seem to threaten instant death to the timid
and enfeebled,

The Government has received ad vices from Ten-
nessee that the Chattanooga .Rebel reports an awful
bombardment of Charleston upon the 15th. The
firing from the land batteries and Monitors was
chiefly directed against Fort Sumter. The Iron-
sides, all the Monitors, and numerous transports
were inside the bar during the engagement. The
fight continued.
Gen. Bragg is at Chattanooga with 25,000 men.
Gen. Johnstone has 25,000 at Brandon and Enter-
prise. Large desertions from Bragg's and John-
stone's armies are reported.

The Governor of Alabama has issued an address
enjoining the impressment of negroes into the
Confederate service.
Gen. Lee has made a demonstration on Gen.
Meade's left, the cannonading lasting some time.
Gen. Lee is said to be moving in a south-easterly
course, abandoning the region around Culpepper
and Gordonsville.

Articles urging peace in the Raleigh Standard
are said to have received the sanction of the Conk,.
derates of North Caroline.

Southern papers assert that the French Consul at
Richmond has informed the Confederate Government
the Emperor Napoleon had desired him to transmit
his very warm thanks to the Confederate Government
and the Charleston authorities for the assistance
rendered to the steamer Renaudin. The Confede-
rate Secretary of State replied that the Govern-
ment was gratified at the opportunity of testifying
to the sentiments of cordial regard the Government
entertained for the Emperor Napoleon and the
French people.
The New York Herald asserts that the owners of
the ship Nord, destroyed by the Alabama, have
filed a claim in the State Department of 80,000 dols.
against the British government, alleging that the
Alabama is a British vessel.

Deserters assert that 17 large steamers lately en-
tered Wilmington with enormous supplies for the
Confederate government.
The governor of New York has prepared a pro-
clamation warning the citizens against disorderly
conduct during the draft.

NEW YORK, Aug. 20, Evening.
(By Telegraph to Halifax).
Advices from Charleston to the 16th inst. state
that a grand attack was appointed to take place on
the 17th. It is intended that the Ironsides should
engage Fort 'Wagner whilst the Monitors and shore
batteries engage Fort Sumter. The wooden fleet
should engage Fort Moultrie.
An impression prevails that the Confederates ar
evacuating Fort Sumter. They have strong works
on James Island.

The Savannah Republican expresses an unfavour-
able opinion of the strength of the Charleston de-
fences.
The New Fork World says :—" Many troops from
Gen. Meade's army have been sent to Charleston.
The offensive mission of Gen. Meade's army is aban-
5, rely for the defence of
doned, and it is now held

Washington."
Gen. Halleck has officially ordered that General
Lee and Captain Winder should be executed imme-
diately upon information being received of the exe-
cution of two Federal officers in Richmond. He
says The United States will retaliate for every
similar barbarous violation of the laws of civilised

war."
Gen. Grant has permitted persons having Cotton
or produce nut required by the army to bring it to
any military port in Mississippi to be disposed of
according to the seizure regulations.

The Conservative politicians have held a meeting
at Rochester to organise the next Presidential
campaign. Their platform opposes secession,
abolition, or " nativism" of any kind favours the
suppression of the rebellion, the maintenance of the
Union, the adherence to the constitution, fidelity to
the Government, and opposition to foreign inter-
vention. They uphold that the rights of property,
including slaves, is exclusively within the jurisdic-
tion of States, and that the people cannot be de-
prived of them by Federal authority except for
public use or compensation for crimes of which
they are constitutionally proved guilty. The sole
end for which the Government has the power to
carry on the war is to suppress the insurrection, and
to compel the people to obey the laws of Congress.
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The New Pork Herald thinks that this party will
curry the Presidential election.
Drafting was continued yesterday and to-day

The foreign ministers at Mexico have refused an
offer of Juan z to remove to San Luis Potosi.

QUEENSTOWN, Friday-.
The steamer Louisiana, from New York on the
15th inst., ria Halifax, passed the harbour at 12 30
p.m. to-day. She brings 190 passengers, and the
crew and passengers of the wrecked steamer Georgia.
She landed 20 passengers and proceeded.
Her news has been anticipated.
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

The section meetings were opened on Thursday
morning in the various rooms appointed for them.
The day was unfortunately most unfavourable Ler
any out-of-door proceedings, the rain descending in
torrents during the greater portion of the morning,
In spite of this drawback, however, the streets were
thronged about the hour at which the section meet-
ings commenced, Kith "philosophers" of every de-
scription, in many cases accompanied by their -wives.
The scene during the earlier hours of the day at the
reception room was one of unusual bustle and
excitement, and a great number of fresh Visitors
appeared to he entering their names in the lists of
members and associates. The attendance at the
various station meetings was much better than could
have been anticipated, considering the inclemency
of the weather. At the Assembly Rooms the ad-
dresses of bir Roderick Alurchiscn, Captain Pim,
and the other gentlemen who took part in the pro-
ceedings of the geographical section, were listened
to by a densely packed audience. Geology and
chemistry had also numerous adherents, and the
various sections were respectably and in some cases
numerously attended.

In the geological section an interesting paper on
the coal trade of Northumberland and Durham
read by Mr. Nicholas Wood, who is regarded as the
patriarch of coal mining in the district, and an
authority on all matters relating to the subject.
Mr. Wood differed from Sir William Armstrong as
to the probable duration of the supply of coal in the
Northumberland and Durham field. He said the
duration of the coal field was a subject which they
were very far from being able to go into with any
degree of satisfaction ; but looking to the facts he
had stated with reference to the extent of the coal
field, and seeing that it was more a matter of extent
of demand and quantity of coal used than extent of
the coal, he might say that he questioned the accu-•
racy of Sir W. Armstrong's conclusion. He thought
Sir William had overlooked the importance of that
part of coal which is under the sea. The other part
of the coal field was pretty accurately ascertained ;
but of the extent under the sea they had nn know-
ledge and no real facts whatever. They had not
worked au acre of coal under the sea, and therefore
he thought it at least premature to go fully into the
inquiry at present. He might add that whatever
feelings he might have for the Americans, he hoped
it would be long before they supplanted us in the
production of ccal. (Applause.) The gentlemen
connected with the coal trade were quite ready to
go into the duration of the coal field whenever they
had laid before them any facts which bore upon the
subject—(Applause)—but they had decided at pre-
sent that it would be inexpedient and illusory
to do so.

THE DERBYSHIRE MURDER. The remains of
Miss Goodwin were interred in the cemetery, North
End, \Virksworth, on Thursday. Throughout the town
the shops were closed and the blinds were lowered. At the
cemetery a large assemblage awaited for some time the ar-
rival of the funeral. Shortly after 11 o'clock the mournful
procession left the hall. The burial service was read fy
the Rev, C. H. Owen. During the ceremony Captain
Goodwin and the deceased's father were affected with ex-
treme grief, and their sobs were audible in the assemblage
which thronged round the gi ave. Amongst the bystanders,
too, many were the eyes that were dimmed with tears. As
the solemn words of the service of the Church were read,
the crowd store] by with heads uncovered, notwithstanding
the rain which at this time commenced to descend. The
coffin plate bore the following memory of Elizabeth
Caroline Goodwin, granddaughter of Francis Green and
Caroline 'Goodwin. Barn, Sept. 22, 1810 ; •died Aug. 92,
1563."

1 AMERICA AND CANADN.--LIVERPOOL7 Friday.—
The mail steamer America (chartered), Capt. Cook, from
Quebec, and the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia
Steamship Company's steamer City of Manchester, from
New York, both having sailed on the 15th inst,, arrived
this morning early, The news of both arrivals has been
already published.