The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT WESTERN.

It appears that the directors of this company are
about allotting to the shareholders, in rateable pro-
portion to their holding, 41 per cent. perpetual
irredeemable preference Shares to the amount of
£1,227,562. They state that it will not create any
fresh or additional charge upon the revenues of the
company, being issued in substitution of moneys
borrowed from bankers and others in the form of
temporary leans, renewable at short periods.
Though the state of the money-market and the
credit of the company have enabled the directors to
borrow this money at 4 or 4.1, per cent., yet
the commission and other expenses of frequent
renewals have increased the yearly charge to an.
amount more than equal to 41 per cent. So
then, when taken up as proposed, the interest
payable upon that amount will be rather less
than it has hitherto been, and the company will
thus be secured against all contingencies in respect
thereof. The allotment will be in the proportion of
one new share of £lO for every £lOO ordinary stock
or shares in the company. The new shares are to
be issued on the 29th inst., payable by six instal..
ments, the last being on Sept. 29, 1864. The shares
will be treated in respect of dividend as fully paid
up from the 29th inst., being equivalent to a bonus
of £2 per cent. A discount at the rate of 41 per
cent,paid in advance.perannum is to be allowed on any instalment

LONDON, THURSDAY, ocr. 22, 1863.

The principal news just received from America
may be summed up in three announcements. An
important flank movement on MEADE'S right—
reported at New York on the 12th, as having been
effected by General LEE! An attack upon the
Federal fleet before Charleston, apparently by Con-
federate ironclads, causing considerable damage
among the vessels of that fleet end great alarm
amongst them as to their safety The continued in-
terruption of all communication between ROSEN-
CRANZ'S bass at Nashville and his main force at
Chattanooga! In those three announcements we
have the gist of all the tidings brought to us yester-
day end to-day by the Bohemian and the
Glasgow—the gist at least of those portions of the
tidings relating to the warlike operations at the
three chief points of interest, on the Tennessee, on
the Rapidan, and at Charleston. Simultaneously
with the receipt of these fragments of intelligence
we have vague intimations from the North, as to
certain mysterious plans for a pacification lately
submitted (with what result, if any, we are not in-
formed) to Mr. LINCOLN'S Cabinet. And from the
South a frank expression through the Richmond
Enquirer, of the gratification of the Confederates at
having the French for neighbours in Mexico, the
Confederate journal remarking that "the South
would willingly make an alliance with France to
protect French and Southern interests in America."
The Richmond Examiner, at the same
time, denouncing all peace propositions, as
craven hi •
nts not for one moment to be seriously
thought ofl In effect, it has been manifest here
on the PAiropean side of the Atlantic ever since the
successful
for
theaa eemplishment of NAPOLEON'S enter-
priseoccupation of Mexico—it has been
perfectly manifest
to
every unprejudiced observer
of events as seen fromthis side of the Atlantic,
that the one inevitb l
Medico
be sequel to that successful
occupation of
by French troops, would ne-
cessarily be the
bringing together, sooner or
later, in intimate 'alliance, offensive and de-
fensive—of the French and
nd the Confederates.
The proclivities of
France,
have been to the the first,
Iffrom
South.
European personage who is regardedt by
is one
by the North
with especial repugnance and indignation, it is the
French EMPEROR. His MAJESTY'S tw
bat ill considered and utterly attemptsfutileo to
generousbring about a reconciliation between the
bellig
rents have estranged the feelings of one
Portion at
least, of these belligerents against him and his
Go-
vernment, more and more earnestly than
ever.
This estrangement, this antagonism, it should be
celled, has been completed, has been perfected, se to
speak, by the knowledge, all but unendurable to the
North, that Mexico—that Mexico so often coveted
by American Republicans—has fallen completely
into the possession of the Emperor of the FRENCH.
813 completely that his MAJESTY can coolly affer, as
he has offered, tho conquered republic to the Austrian
Archduke MAXIMILIAN for transformation into a new
Empire. Later on, the result is sufficiently- obvious
of its kind. France must fall on the one hand into
biore direct antagonism with the rederals, and into
more intimate and cordial alliance on the other
hand,
with the Confederates. Triumphing over
their antagonists, even when unaided from without,
the Southern
veterans would infallibly be heartened
on to yet more doughty
sciousness that there
was already avowed sympathy,
and that there might bs eventually, if such should be
deemed in anyw
on the part of they
_advisable, actual co-operation
bours, there, in
MexFice f nch troops, as near neigh-
derates. Meanwhile thehere
troops, of the Confe-
.n
England the popular
feeling, whatever may
be
said
the contrary on
the one hand by Earl RUSE LL
by Mr. BEECHER, the popularanfd on
the other
England is every day becoming
more
here in
unmistakably Southern or Confederatree and more
A packed
audience in Exeter-hall, a body of
people (no
matter how large and noisy) got together there
for a set purpose, to listen open-mouthed to the
rhetorical ravings of a man of such exceedingly
bad taste and vile passions as the Rev. WARD
BEEC ffER, and to applaud him to the echo, can be
accepted in no way as evidence of what in reality

are the popular feelings, sympathies, or predilec-
tions. A day's journey upon any railway, a day's
sojourn in the coffee-room of any one of
our large hotels, will tell a very different
tale, indeed, as to the direction in which
the sympathies of the English people tend, in this
fierce and terrible struggle between North and
South for supremacy. France and England so
sympathising—the one through her people, the
other through tier Government—with:the cause of
the Confederates, it would be difficult to believe
otherwise than that that double sympathy must
" tell" upon the fortunes of the belligerents.

The affair of the poor street stall-
k
Westminster, which was supposedbe e e quietlyPerti
settled, appears to be in anything
that
a thesesatisfactory
state. It will be remembered h
stall-
keepers were summarily refmololvoewd
theirfrom eetehuesiro.
ikfoerboiTdidteEnLttoo,
their occupation is
autrnatdse.aniid
ol dm
e haunts
gone ; and, unfortunately for them, their livelihood
goes with it. These humble market-places are by
no means regarded by their occupiers with the con-
temptuous indifference with which they are
treated by the police authorities. They appear to
have been held for the most part by steady,respect-
able persons, who each had their regular position,
and some of whom boasted of having held the same
stall in their families for thirty years. Many of
the stall-keepers are aged persons, unfit for any
more laborious occupation, and the hardship is con-
sequently much increased for them. Their removal
was owing to a resolution passed by the Westmin-
ster Board of Works, from the laudable motive of
preserving the thoroughfare of the parish from in-
terruption. It had been represented to some of the
members that these stalls created confusion, and
interfered with the legitimate trade of the neigh-
bourhood. In both these pleas it appears that the
complainants were mistaken or misinformed, as
plenty of persons have since come forward to
declare that, instead of producing any inconve-
nience, the stalls supplied a public want, while a
very convincing proof of the sentiments of the
resident tradesmen was afforded by their active
exertions to obtain the rescinding of the resolution.
A number of the regular shopkeepers united in
forming a committee to secure the return of the
stalls to their old position. Their efforts were
strongly seconded by the general feeling of the
neighbourhood, and the result was that the West-
minster Board were induced by their representa-
tions to rescind the original motion. Great were
the rejoicings of the poorer classes at this
supposed victory, and hearty their grati-
tude to those who had laboured so suc-
cessfully in their cause. The members of the
Board proved that they had been actuated by no
prejudiced or personal motives by their ready
admission, that their former resolution had been
based on a mistake, and by their willingness to
retract it. Some of the members who had been
foremost in passing the original motion came pro-
minently forward in the subsequent discussion to
declare the change in their views, and it was confi-
dently anticipated that a very few days would see
the stalls restored to their old position. All these
pleasant expectations were, however, premature.
Sir RICHARD MAYNE was absent on the continent,
and therefore the matter had to be left in abeyance
until his return. Patience was the motto, and no
more was heard of it beyond the immediate vicinity
until very lately. Sir RICHARD MAYNE, whose
original proceedings were taken upon the represen-
tation of the Board, has again appeared on the scene,
but declines to comply with the present wishes of
the instigators of the mischief. In spite of public
dissatisfaction and private exertion, notwithstand-
ing the distress of the poor and the expostulations
of the wealthy inhabitants, the Chief Commissioner,
crow some reason or other, refuses to give permis
sion to the stall-keepers to occupy their old ground.
It is difficult to understand why Sir RICHARD
MAYNE should act with such unwonted severity.
There is no apparent reason why stalls, which are
permitted in Tottenham-court-road, in the Borough,
in Clare street, and a dozen other busy and populous
places, should be especially objected to in West-
minster. If they obstruct the thoroughfares, the
inhabitants have the first right to complain, and so
long as they stedfastly maintain the contrary,
there can hardly be much need for interference.
It seems that a deputation from the acting
committee in this matter waited upon Sir
RICHARD MAYNE last week, and represented to
him that the permanent removal of the stalls would
entail great privations on many of the poorer in-
habitants of Westminster, and urged upon him
that the resolution on which he had acted had been
rescinded by the local Board of Works. In answer
to those arguments the Chief Commissioner stated
tkat he had no alternative but to enforce the law.
He further said that he understood the stalls were
the resort of thieves and bad characters, and that if
a market was really needed in Westminster it could
be opened in due form. Upon this another meet-
ing was held in the Temperance Hall, Broadway,
to which Sir RICHARD MAYNE'S decision was com-
municated. The discussion was earnest and ani-
mated, and that the assembly did not restrain the
expression of their Ben timenta may be seen from the
terms of the resolution, which was carried with
loud applause :—" That this meeting, having heard
the report of the deputation, is of opinion that the
Chief Commissioner had entirely and most unjusti-
fiably set at naught the wants of the neighbourhood,
the necessities of the poor, the requisition of the
Board of Works, and the general business of the
district; and that the traffic of Stratton-ground,
Great Chapel-street, and the Broadway was not
obstructed by the stallkeepers, and that the Chief
Commissioner had acted on his own caprice rather
than on the principles of the law of the land." We
should hope some compromise may be arrived at, as
it is scarcely probable the respectable inhabitants of
the district
would have taken up the cause so
warmly if
the stalls had been the resort of dis-
orderly
persons-
decent
and
, and if they were conducted in a
repet,, 1_
bie manner, giving occupation to
many Poor
the wants persons in •
winter time, and supplying
of the lower
of
classes of the neighbour-
hood, there can be
no
it
upon the establishment re reason for insisting
other localities where they are Buffered to remain
a market there than in
unchallenged.

Mr. BEECHER is dete •
I —5.
_rrained
not
opportunity of appealing to the
to lose any
sympathies of the English prople,sh"timents and
that he reckons without his host, ut it may be
I and after all
excitement and enthusiasm excited by his 0 the
the question will remain where it was. rator.7,
Certainly,v
he tried all that ingenuity
on Tuesday evening, can
devise, and bold assertion can effect, to make Ilis
cause appear the only true and laudable one, and
to induce his audience to believe that the party of
which he is a shining ornament is greatly maligned
and often misrepresented in this country. Mr.
BEECHER certainly possesses one merit as a speaker
—he is straightforward and consistent. He boldly
lays down his line of argument, and unflinchingly
asserts his views, without a shadow of hesitation or
a particle of mystery. In the first p - ce he endea-
vours to fix the limits of the point at issue to the
question of slavery. He denied that they would
make
slavery Worse by meddling with it, and did

not approve patting on the back those who were its
advocates and upholders. This sounds all very fine,
but comes rather under the head of what are termed
" embroidered facts." It is well known that no-
where is there a greater resistance to improving the
condition of the negro than in the Northern States.
The circumstances of the case favour the opinion
put forth by so many that this war is one of
" slavery." Because the Slave States, as they are
termed, are situated in the territory of one section
of the combatants, it is deemed feasible to give out
that the question of dispute regards that subject.
It seems rather begging the question for Mr.
BEECHER to ask the people of this coun-
try to take their standing point, and judge
of the state of affairs, from an American
point of view. It was all very well for him,
as an advocate for his special cause, to deprecate
their taking their opinions from his opponents,
but we must form our judgments and declare our
convictions as independent of both sides, and thus
be better able to judge correctly of either. If the
expression of feeling evidenced in England since
this civil war broke out, has been in favour of the
Southern States, it is because, after attentive obser-
vation and mature deliberation, they have displayed
the most admirable qualities, and are animated by
a love of independence that universally aitracts the
sympathy and goodwill of mankind. It is a little
too much for Mr. BEECHER to tell us at this ad-
vanced period of the war that the reason why the
North did not go to war in the first instance for
emancipation was that they respected " local"
rights even before " moral" rights; this, he thought,
" was one of those things of which they might be
justly proud." This seems rather a strange doctrine
for a clergyman to promulgate, and he will have
some difficulty in making good his theory, since
surely it must be an acknowledged fact that all
laws should be subservient to the claims of morality,
and no State can flourish that makes them subser-
vient to other considerations. It must also be said
that the idea of " forbearance," as connected with
the North, is a very strange one, and if that feeling
existed in such force at the commencement of the
struggle as Mr. BEECHER asserted, it is a pity
that it so soon became extinguished, and
utterly vanished from the scene. Its influence
did not appear when General BUTLER asto-
nished and scandalised the civilised nations
of the world by his conduct to the ladies of New
Orleans, and its spirit was not very strongly
manifested when the Federal troops poured Greek
fire among the inhabitants of the besieged city.
When a man has all the talk to himself, and is
possessed of any considerable powers of oratory,
he can always produce an effect, and make some
converts to his views, however ultra be their ten-
dency or prejudiced their character. It is only
by the touchstone of debate that the truth is
arrived at, and the general aspect of affairs cleared
from the mist of error with which the wisest often
envelope subjects in which they are specially in-
terested. It is a pity that Mr. BEECHER should
be so violent in his diatribes against those who
have the misfortune to differ from him. It is
going too far for him to proclaim at
a public
meeting that " some of the public organs in this
country had deliberately and knowingly suppressed
the truth." Abuse is not argument, is a very
veracious aphorism, and it would be well if vehe-
ment denunciators would subscribe to its
merits.
Mr. BEECHER went further, however, and said
that "it was a monstrous lie" to declare that
the blacks were not well treated in the North.
Mr. BEECHER may plume himself on his sagacity
of discernment, and his skill in detecting the
feelings of the English people, but he had better
take heed to his words, before he
recross the
Atlantic, and tell the friends he has left there
that this country has sanctioned the "significant
facts," as he calls them, of the detention of the
steam rams, and the speech of Earl RUSSELL at
Blairgowrie. He may make a serious mistake if
he enunciate any such theories, and hereafter be
glad to retract his words. Without being un-
duly conceited or intolerant, it does not appear
that this is the time for an American orator
to leave his country and tell us that it does us
good for him to speak of our faults. Whatever
these may be they are not intolerance in peace
and unchivalrous bearing in war ; and till these
errors are rectified among the Federals they who
fight under the "flag of the cross of St. George"
will scarcely fulfil Mr. BEECHER'S
prophecy of
acting in uniformity with those who boast of the
flag with the "stars of hope and promise."

The Cornhill Magazine for November contains a
timely article on the Mhow Court-martial, by Jacob
Omnium, the well•known correspondent of the Times news-
paper. The facts of the case are all given in a lucid and
forcible narrative.
ANCIENT INHERITANCES.—The interesting and
often-quoted statement made some time since by
Lord Palmerston, respecting the uninterrupted descent for
nearly eight centuries, from father to son, of a small estate
in his own neighbourhood in the New Forest, relates, as is
well known; to the family of Purkis the lime-burner, who
picked up the body of William Rufus and carried it in his
humble cart to Winchester to receive the last sad rites. But
we can place upon record a case of still longer descent of a
small property among persons in no way allied to rank and
fortune, and who have never risen above the condition of
yeomen ; while, we believe, they have never fallen below it.
At Ambrose's Barn, on the borders of the parish of Thorpe,
near Chertsey, still resides a farmer of the name of Wap-
shot, whose ancestors have lived, without break, upon the
same spot, ever since the reimn of Alfred the Great, by
whom the farm was granted to Reginald Wapshot. There
are several families among our untitled gentry—the county
aristocracy who can trace their names and possessions in
a direct male descent back to the Saxon times; but below
that rank we are not aware of a more striking instance
of permanence among change than the past history of the
Wapshots.—Once a Week.
SINGULAR PHENOMENON.—The Tenby Observer
mentions a curious phenomenon which was observed
in Carmarthen Bay on', the 6th inst., the day on which the
earthquake was felt in this country. " From a base extend-
ing some three or four miles in the direction of Auiroth
Castle, an immense piece of water, of a dark drown colour
(as if holding earth in solution), seemed to be pushed for-
ward in the form of a cone—of course surrounded by water
of a natural colour. As they came in contact the water was
thrown up a height of several feet, the agitation extending
round the whole edge of the phenomenon. It steadily ad-
vanced in the same form towards Monkstone, and from
thence some miles to sea, when we ceased to observe it.
Some friends in amusing themselves with fishing, were not
a little startled by the strange sight. When the coloured
water overtook the boat, they found that the point of
division between the colouring was maintained throughout
the depth of the water; the boat was violently pitched about
and the water thrown completely over it. Either side of the
line of contact was perfectly calm, and the water kept up a
lashing noise something like what would be made by an
immense shoal of mackerel. It was observed first at about
11 a.m."

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two hundresi a year. who perpetually
country because he was not iu the
little help is to get
pens, within certain limits, that to get a
no claim whatever to sixpence : sorpeecrlipaptsoift ufosuura'llhyahvainpg.
a notion of being defrauded of more. "Howlaeecllothweaysptahses
their lives in this beautiful and peaceful p
subject of my speculation with a visitor who once accom-
panied me to a charming rustic retreat for old men and
women: a quaint ancient foundation in a pleasant English
country, behind a picturesque church and among rich old
convent gardens. There were but some dozen or so of houses,
and we agreed that we would talk with the inhabitants, as
they sat in their groined rooms between the light of their
fires and the light shining in at their latticed windows, and
would find out. They passed their lives in considering
stewat rd who li
hemsslves mulcted of certain ounces of tea by a deaf old
ved among them in the quadrangle. There
was no reason to suppose that any such ounces of tea had
been in existence, or that the old steward so much as knew
what was the matter; he passed his life in considering hi
self periodically defrauded of a birch-broom by the beaOle, m-
-
Gharks blames last o?onitnerciai.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.

The following telegram has been received at Mr.
Reuter's office from the Russian Consulate-General
in London :

A detachment commanded by Orlik was dis-
persed on the 14th October, in the Government of
Plock. A considerable number of the insurgents
were killed, and 40 of them with their leader,
Orlik, were taken prisoners.
THORN, OCT. 21.

News received here from Warsaw to the 20th
states that on the preceding evening a sergeant and
one of the men belonging to the police were stabbed
in the Tam Ra-street.

The assassin succeeded in effecting his escape.

THE KING OF THE BELGIANS.
MIRAM AR, OCT, 22.
_

The King of the Belgians will pass some weeks
on the Lake of Como. His Majesty will then visit
Miramar, the residence of the Archduke Maxi-
milian, end return to Brussels via Vienna.

•,...M............

SPAIN.
MADRID, OCT. 22.
Brilliant files have taken place in honour of the
arrival of the Empress of the French.

The Empress has received the Corps Diploma-
tique at the hotel of the French Embassy. Her
Majesty was not present at the bull fights.

AUSTRALIA.
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING.
The Wellesley, Capt. Smith, 86 days from Mel-
bourne, with 32,7900 z. of gold, 72,000 sovereigns,
&c., was off Portland on Tuesday, under all sail,
with a moderate wind from W.S.W. Among her
96 passengers are Major Brinxley, and Captains
Gilson, Newman, and Rasmussen.

FRANCE.
PARIS, OCT. 22.

BOURSE, Oct. 21.—The market continues heavy,
and prices are again lower—Threes having de-
clin?d to 67f. Railway Shares are also lower.
The market closed as follows :

tt per Cents .. 95 90
Do. end month....
3 per Cents ...... 66
Do. end month.... 67 05
Credit Mobilier...,lll2 50
Do. end m0nth....1113 75
Bank Shares....., 3370
Credit F oneier ....1245
Italian L0an..... 73 30

Do. end mon.th 73 35
New ditto ..... 73 --
Do. end month
Russian —
Austrian . B5
Spanish Threes 53
Rome Debt . 52
Deferred
Roman

RAIL WAYS•

Orleans
Northern . ...
Lyons and Mediterranean
New. ditto ............ .
Geneva
Southern ........
Western
Eastern •• • •
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa ..........
Ditto to Barcelona..

Cash. Account.
975 .. 975
980 .. 981 25
1013 75 .. 960
910 ..

685 - .. 685 -
616 25 .. 517 50
505 - .. 505 -
415 - .. 417 50
417 50 .. 417 50
562 50 .. 562 50
543 75 .. 540 -
635 - .. 637 50
347 50 .. 345 -

AMERICA.

REUTER'S EXPRESS.
(Per the Glasgow.)

NEW YORK, OcT. 8.
The latest from Chattanooga is up t. the 29th
ult., and represents the condition of affairs there as
unchanged, Rosencranz's position being deemed
impregnable, and his communications open. Heavy
reinforcements are said to have reached Rosencranz,
but nothing definite is known about it outside 01
the War Department.
Accounts from General Meade's army state that
there are no indications of immediate active opera-
tions. Drafted men were arriving daily in large
numbers. Nine hundred came in on the 6th from
New York and Vermont. The Federal cavalry are
said to have scoured the Shenandoah Valley as far
down as Strasburg and Front Royal, finding no
rebel forces whatever.

A dispatch from Baltimore denies the report that
General Imboden had made a raid on the Betimore
and Olio Railroad. The road is in complete
running order all the way through.
Information was received in Chicago yesterday
that General Franklin's corps was repulsed in
an attack upon the rebels at Brasher City, and
that Ord's 13th Army Corps shortly after came up
and completely defeated the rebels, No particulars
are given, but the news is said to have been offs
cially communicated to General Sherman at
Memphis.

Charleston advices date to the 3d inst. Every-
thing was progressing favourably. A despatch from
Admiral Dahlgren, dated 3d, has been received at
the :Navy Department. The iron-clads are said to
have been engaged with the rebel batteries at latest
accounts.

It is reported by way of St. Louis that 7,000
rebels from Marmaduke.'s command, under Colonel
Shelby, have entered South Western Missouri from
Arkansas for raiding purposes. It is believed that
this force is intended to be the nucleus of the Mis-
souri State Guard, the organisation of which, since
the capture of Jeff. Thompson, has been placed in
the hands of Waldo P. Johnson, late
U.S. senator
from Missouri.

Washington correspondence of the New York
Herald states that tremendous exertions are being
made there to secure the election of Curtin, the Re-
publican candidate, for Governor in Pennsylvania.
It is estimated thlt 10,000 voters will go from
Washington alone, arrangements having been made
to defray the expenses with money collected from
Government employees. It has been decided not to
send the soldiers home to vote, as that movement
would create too much dissatisfaction.
_ _

The Herald states, editorially, that their
of the Cabinet of
Wash-
ington correspondent has given them information
of an
Mr. Lincoln. It is not
important character, concerning propositions
of peace said to have been submitted to the conside-
rationknown what these propositions are, nor from
whence they come.
A bitter feeling is said to exist in the Cabinet
between Secretary Chase and Postmaster-General
Blair, the latter having in a speech in Maryland
been very severe upon Mr. Chase. General Blair,
in which he assailed the Radi-
brother of the Postmaster General, delivered a
speech at St. Louis,
cals in general,
and Mr. Chase in particular, in
highly denunciatory terms. It is not thought,
however, that any Cabinet resignations would re-
sult from the quarrel.
The Russian officers continue to receive great
attention. A grand ball to them is on the tapis.

NEW YORK, OCT. 10.

Advices have been received at Washington from
Chattanooga up to the 6th inst. On the sth the
rebel batteries opened on Rosencranz' position at
long range, the longest being three miles and the
shortest two and seven-tenth miles. No damage
was done. There is no official confirmation of the
had
rbeepenorctatrhraietatwawoaoy Telegraphic communication be-
had
Rosencranz' pontoon bridges
tween Nashville and Stevenson has been restored
The Washington Repub/jean contains the following
despatch from General Rosencranz' Lead quarters,

dated the 6th inst., says :—" Not a man was injured
by the rebel batteries yesterday." The _Republican's
extra says:—" Other despatches go to show the
impregnable situation of Rosencranz. It is ascer-
tained that none of General Rosencranz' latest de-
spatches mention anything relative to the situation
in the locality of Chattanooga, all of them referring
entirely to military details. Other despatches, how.
ever, recently received by the Government, speak
of events in that quarter, and are from General
Meigs."

A special despatch to the St. Louis Democrat,
dated Vicksburg, Sept. 30, says Joe Johnston was
at Canton, Mississippi, with 15,000 troops, his
supposed design being to prevent reinforcements
going to Rosencranz. Gen. Stephen I). Lee had
4,000 rebel cavalry near Vicksburg. Johnston says
their victories are useless unless they crush Rosen-
cranz before reinforcements reach him.

The Memphis-Atalanta Appeal says :—" We shall
now be recognised. Our securities will rise—Val-
landigham will be elected."

It was rumoured in Nashville on the Bth inst.
that a force of rebel cavalry had captured and
destroyed Shelbyville, Tenn. No particulars have
been received. The report was discredited. It is
thought that the rebel cavalry have divided, part
making towards Kentucky to harass Burnside's line
of supplies, and part going south against Rosen-
cran z.

A correspondent of the New York World at Nash-
ville, under date of sth inst., says that the reported
capture of M'Minnville by the rebels has calmed
great apprehension of an attack upon Mnrfriesboro',
and that several hundred persons have fled from
that place to Nashville. The total number of
wounded sent to Nashvill from Chickamanga
battle-field is 5,125. Reinforcements were being
rapidly sent forward. The prospect of a great
battle was hourly growing stronger.
The Eichniond Enquirer of the Bth inst. contains
the following :
MISSIONARY RIDGE, OCT. 5.

We opened upon Chattanooga at 1 a.m. from
Lookout Mountain, and points along our lines. One
shell exploded in the enemy's camps, as well as in
the city, setting fire to one house. The enemy re-
plied briskly from Moeassin Point, and feeby from
Star Fort. The firing still continues.

OCT, 8.

The Tennessee River is rapidly rising. It has
already swept away the lower pontoon bridge of
the enemy, and submerged the trestle bridge.
Major Mitchell, Chief Quartermaster of General
Longetreet's corps, died last night. No firing on
either side at 11 o'clock today.
A special despatch from Leavenworth, Kansas,
received at St. Louis, Oat. 9, says that intelligence
having reached Fort Scott of a threasened attack
on Fort Smith, General Blunt left the former for
the latter post. On Sunday last the rebel General
Cobell, with about 10,000 of Cooper's forces, crossed
the Arkansas River east of Fort Smith, and on the
10th joined Caffee at Crooker Prairie, Mo., deter-
mined to make a raid into Arkansas or Missouri.
On receipt of this information, all the cavalry in the
Kansas district and a battery were sent to Fort
Scott.

A letter from Fort Scott of the 7th says Lieut.
Tapper, of Gen. Blunt's staff, had arrived. He re-
ports that all the staff and body guard of General
Blunt had been captured; also the command under
Lieut. Pond, at Baxter Spring. Gen. Blunt had
got 10 miles away, bat it was uncertain whether
he has escaped.
The rebel army under Qnantrel, Hunter, and
Gordon was moving towards Fort Scott. That port
is in no danger of being taken, the force there being
strong enough to resist the attack.
The New York World states that an engagement
took place on September 29, at Morgan's bend, 25
miles above Port Hudson, between Gen. Herron's
division and a large Confederate force, in which the
Federals were defeated, losing several hundred
killed and wounded and 1,500 prisoners. The Texas
expedition still " hung fire," and the guerilla bands
on the banks of the Mississippi have been replaced
by large bodies of rebel troops, rendering uninter-
rupted navigation of the river very doubtful.
A report has reached Louisville that Gen. Crook's
brigade overtook several regiments of Wharton's
rebel cava:ry near Franklin, and routed them, kill-
ing 125, and capturing 300 prisoners and four pieces
of cannon. Union forces were still pursuing.
News from Charleston is unimportant. There
was some firing on the sth inst. between Federal
batteries and rebel works on James Island.

The following telegrams are in the Richmond
papers of the Bch :

" CHARLESTON, Oct. 6.—An attack was made by
us to-day on the frigate Ironsides, damaging the
Ironsides and alarming the fleet. Two of our men,
including Lieut. Gasset, of the Chiavra, are missing.

" CHARLESTON, Oct. 6, p.m.—For the last
24 hours there has been but little firing. The
enemy's works on Morris Island seem nearly com-
pleted.

" MOBILE, Oct. 6.—Enemy's cavalry, 1,500, with
four guns, attacked Col. Richardson, near New
Albany, yesterday. Engagement, artillery. Enemy
repulsed.
" SAVANNAH, GA., Oct. 7.—Election returns
show Governor Brown largely ahead."
The Government at Washington has received no
intelligence of the reported battle at Brasher City.
The War Department has stated, in reply to
several inquiries, that no further draft is to be
made at present.

The report of the Peace Proposition is said to
be a canard.

The _Richmond Examiner has the following on

peace propositions :

" We notice that recent propositions have been
made in several of our State Legislatures for nego•
tiations with the enemy and suits for armistice.
These deserve unqualified oondemnation. They are
generally made in artful language; they are very
innocent on their face; they are always accompa-
nied by certain protestations that the interest of the
South is not to be sacrificed that the negotiation
is to be an essay ea Christian charity, and the ob-
ject an honourable' peace. There is no possible
truth in such protestations. They are convenient
covers of traitorous designs, or of cowardly ac-
quiesence in the failure of our struggle. It is not
wonderful that if these suggestions in our State
Legislatures of pacific negotiations should be in-
variably interpreted by the North to cover proposi-
tions of reconstruction. To every candid mind in
the Confederacy they can moan nothing else. Those
who desire a suggestion of peace to be made now to
the South know very well what its price would be.
We congratulate the Legislature of this State on
the signal rebuke it has given to two attempts at
peace propositions in that body. It has shown a
spirit worthy of the ancient and honourable com-
monwealth of Virgistia, and one that should be in-
culcated in the war. It is that of resolution to pro-
secute the war without being turned aside by use-
less and impatient speculations of peace—expecting
that blessing only in the sustained and increased
success of our arms, and awaiting it with calm and
intelligent confidence in the progress of !vents."
The New York journals of this morning take a
gloomy view of the situation. The World says:—
"The news of the few last days from Tennessee and
Northern Georgia is calculated to excite no little

apprehension for the safety of General Rosencranz
throughout the North. We are favoured, as usual,
with the most assuring despatches from Washing-
ton, but the Administration withholds all the facts,
and merely' prophecies smooth things.' No reliance
is to be placed upon what comes from the War
Department. General Rosencranz has only his own
army with which to confront Bragg. He will doubt-
less be able to hold out until Hooker and Sherman
arrive, but there will be no little anxiety respecting
his situation until more definite information is re-
ceived from him."

The New York Times, on the same subject, says :
—" The telegraphic despatches concerning affairs
at Chattanooga indicate that the military situation
in that quarter is imminently critical. We do not
say it is perilous to Gen. Rosencranz, for we imagine
that officer now holds his position so stoutly, and
has such a largely augmented army, that, in the
event of another battle, the chances are greatly in
favour of his achieving a decisive victory over the
army of Bragg and Longstreet ; but appearances
certainly indicate that the peace which has pre-
vailed on the Tennessee since the 20th of Sep-
tember is likely soon to be broken, and that the
thunder of war which crashed and rolled along the
mountain ranges of Upper Georgia three weeks
ago will burst forth again before many days.”
The same journal adds:—" We could wish it was
Rosencranz, instead of Bragg, who was giving signs
of offering battle."

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.

BREADSTUFFS—FIour—SaIes, 20,000 bls, at sdol 10c to
sdol 40c for superfine, sdol 60c to sdol 75c for shipping extra
state, 6dol 80c to sdol 90c for choice do., sdol 65c to 6dol for
low grades Western extra, and 6dol 10c to Bdol 50c for
medium to choice grades Western extras. Southern flour,
6dol lac to 6dol 90c for superfine, 7dol to 7dol 75c for fancy
and extra, Bdol 10c to 9dol 26c for choice shipping and
family brands. Canada flour, sdol 750 to idol 50c. Wheat
in demand, and 2c or 3c higher.
COTTON firm and active. 2,000 bales sold at 89c to 90c
for middlings.
COFFEE is unchanged.
GUNNY CLOTH—Sales, 400 bales, at 13%c.
TOBACCO—Kentucky, in hhds, 14dol ; seed leaf, 19dol
48c.

Smut—Cuba, llic ; Manila, 121 c. Refined quiet at
16c.

TIN-Pig firm, at 441 c; Banca, 51c; small lots Eastern,
at 43c.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The North German Lloyds' steamer America,
Capt. Wessels, from New York, Oat. 10, has arrived
off Cowes. She brings 133 passengers, 841,558 dots.
for England, 79,600 dole. for France, and 600 for
Bremen.

She spoke, Oct. 11, the Bremen barque Marco
Polo, in lat, 40 deg. 42 min., and 69 deg. 3 min. W.
long., westward bound. October 12, the Bremen
steamer Bremen, at 6.30 a.m., in 41 deg. 5 min.
lat., and 65 deg. 55 min. W. long., westward bound.
Oct. 20, the American ship Compromise, in 49 deg.
43 min. lat., and 11 deg. 43 min. W. long., east-
ward bound ; and the English ship Catherine,
southward bound.

QUEENSTOWN, OCT. 22.

The Inman steamer City of Manchester, from
New York on the 10th inst., arrived here at 5 a.m.
to-day. She brings 117 passengers, and 1,402,856
dole. in specie.