The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-03 00:00:00

NORTH BRITTSH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.

Established 1809.
Inoorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
_ . _

Accumulated and Invested Funds.
Annual Revenue....

£2,122,528
. •
422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insurances :wanted both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. of the profits divided among the Insurers
on the participating principle.
The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Amount Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES :
LONDON
...... 58, Threadneedle-street.
•• •• • ....... 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury.
Wr,st-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY TELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
Henry Bainbridge, Ea q. Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Eso, Earl of Leven and Melville.
John Garratt Cattl.e;, Es Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Clow. p " •
, sq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davids,m, Eso. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. '
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander D'znce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carring.ton Smith,
Riveredale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Esq.
ltobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes Esq., M.P.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq.
!
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. v Chas. Baring Young, tsq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL Sow!, Esq., F.R.S.
NOTICE.— the usual fifteen days allowed for payment of
FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Michaelmas will expire
on 14 t h October.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
The Reversionary Banns on British Life Policies has ave-
raged pearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
ayahle by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Life. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one

This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Stock. Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
The advantages of modern praetice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CErvrtinv AND A HALF.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
Polici^s on the participating system, granted on or before
the list December, iSe3, and in force at th.. close of the year
WS, will be entitled to share in the next division of profits
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
P.OBT. P. STEELE. Secretary.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
READ OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildings, Liverpoel.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £soo,oln.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.

Chairman in Liverpool :
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.
Chairman in London :
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR
1862.
The. Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
lifeeting of its Shareholders.
E BRANCH.
The Directors have FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is again fully m.intained.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of this Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurances being £15,107 10s.
Zd., and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa-
rately, £11,097165. 10d.

The ver LIFE BRANCH.
statey gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
the sum assured on new policies for fhe ear 1862
exceeds even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and hays arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
4701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few ears it is believed that Ruch a sum assured as that which
has Just been announced as the Jesuit of one year's business
Was
all but unheard of.
This but
of the Company's business has been carefully
watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
future to the participating life assurer.
Evidence ot continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the agzregate sum
proposed for assuranre amounts to .£ .43,281. Various
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. degrees
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at
all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.
If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
London or elsewhere, except when amalgamationsn Life, thehavetakeu
place. The returns of duty have proved this. In
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
evidence needless.
The Directors conclude their
Ro al
expression of an inion that the prospects of the
present Report with the
Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, tha..t
beth future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magnle
iuelle, g distinomished commercial success to th eheeNvcombpititbhuac.lengthenecr career of usefulness and protection
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

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of " Small House in Piccadilly." [On Oct. 10.
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Fcap. Bvo., 280 pp., cloth, lettered, 3s. free by post,
THE PRINCIPLES and PRACTICE of
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Founded on Chemical Analysis, and embracing the most
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of Man."
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T H 0 X F OR D,
8, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. "Bishop's THE SLAVE, CLARA, the
MAID of MILAN, and Bellini's SONNAMBULA.

Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Iluish, dr,c., with full band and chorus.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean. &c.
Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any oiler man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, George Hodson, and those marvellous French
Clowns, Messrs. ARTHUR and BERTRAND.
Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
inga full baud of 40 instruments.

The HALL hss just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock Admission, Cd. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ;
private boxes, 10s. 13d.

OANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order
x_./ to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper and HenryDircks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, "THE GHOST," to the Concert Hall, where a
new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample
view of the Illusion from Stalls, Balcony, and body of the
Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give
(with all that gentleman's latest improvements and effects),
REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENTING, at half-past
Nine o'clock.
All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Comedy by Ernsworth
(the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, George Hodson, and the
marvellous Arthur and Bertrand.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street,
These elegant !looms are NOW OPEN for the Winter
Season. They have been entirely redecorated.
Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele-
brity. The band Is selected from the Crystal Palace, the
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty.

Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, is.
Manager-111. GRENET.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
GHOST ! new version—The FAIRY FOUNTAIN—
Grand Divertissement—Favourite Opera Selections—NlCO-
SlA, the eminent Violinist—RAPHAEL DE SOLLA. the
Infant Tenor—LANGLOIS, the Great Juggler, Every
Evening.
Doors onen at 7—commence at half-past 7.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great
Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR.
N ICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every
Evening;

THE LAUNDRESSES to her late Majesty
Queen Adelaide say, that " BRIGGS' AUSTRALIAN
S LARCH needs but to be tried to be approved." Sole
Wholesa'e Agent, Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley-by Buw,
London, E.

SPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the
Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra-
ordinary relief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and 13
SOLOMONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti-
mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They
especially recommend their 'improved Family Tea, reduced
to Is. 2d. ; Souohong, reduced to 3s. 6d. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d.
to 3s. 11d. per lb.

aurrumos.—By ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT
EXHIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective
.nvention in the curative treatment of II ERNI A.
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
Moe-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, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is.
A Double Truss, Us. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.

The Lord Chief Baron on Agricultural
Science.—Mr. Lindsay, M.P., on American
Slavery and the War.

NEW PATENT
ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of
Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are
vorous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. ltd., 76. Bd., 10s., to Hs.
ea4h. Postage 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer. 22.8. Piccadilly.

SIIEPPERTON,

Fri&

The annual meeting of the Middlesex Agricultural Asso-
ciation took place today in the village. In the absence of
Lord Enfield (who is at present in Ireland), Major General
Wood presided at the dinner, and was supported by a large
gathering of the gentry, clergy, and farmers of the district.
The dinner took place at the Anchor, and the proceedings
wore enlivened by some excellent glee and part-singing
under the direction of Mr. Simpson, assisted by Mr. Chap-
lin Henry and Mr. G. Ford.
After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts,
The CHAIRMAN gave" The Health of Lord Chief Baron
Pollock and the Judges of England," which toast was re-
ceived with loud cheers.

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
\J 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. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
(Ilyn 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 u the groun that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, bud t he centre of att,action to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
hme, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

The LORD CHIEF BARON, in responding, said that he
acknowledged with gratitude the honour that they had con-
ferred upon him and his colleagues in the administration of
justice. They had, no doubt, arduous duties to perform, and
it was always gratifying to them to find that they dis-
charged their duties to the satisfaction of the public whom
they served. He must confess that he was more pleased
with this kind of public recognition of their services when it
cccurred at a meeting of his friends and neighbours in this
part of the country ; and he was, therefore, highly delighted
to find himself received at the present meeting as one whom
they respected and were glad to see, He might, perhaps, be
asked what he had to do at an agricultural meeting. He
was afraid that there were very few now present who were
able to recollect that he took the chair at the first meeting
of the Middlesex Agricultural Association. (Hear, hear.)
He also had the honour of filling the chair on a second, and
he believed on a third occasion. Although be Was not much
addicted to agricultural pursuits himself, he had not alto-
gether neglected other studies than those which belonged to
his school and college ; nor had he entirely confined his pur-
poses as a lawyer to the dry details of his profession, but he
had studied other matters which had afforded hies the delight
of an enlightened existence. Perhaps he might be permitted
to say that he thought agricultural as compared with other
science was a little behind hand, although it was the first
branch of industry that was cultivated by the human race.
He was very glad to hear the tribute which had been paid
by the gallant officer who returned thanks for the army and
navy to the agricultural classes, and hear him say that it
was from that class that our best soldiers were obtained.
Still it was rather to be lamented that agriculture was at
the present moment behind almost all other pursuits of life.
They were, he thought, as a class at least 50 years behind
any other class following pursuits the objects of which were
to increase human means and human happiness, and to do it
by availing themselves of all the circumstances necessary to
ensure success. Mineralogy, meteorology, chemistry, and
mechanics had as yet contributed little or nothing to agri-
cultural science compared with what might be expected
from them—(hear, hear)—and in his view of the question
the science of meteorology alone would become one of the
greatest exponents to teach farmers when it would be pro-
per to cultivate one particular description of produce rather
than another. At the present moment the study of meteo-
rology as an agricultural science was entirely neglected,
and there was no man who attended to it in the slightest
degree in an agricultural point of view. Who could doubt
that if due attention was paid, and a proper record made of
the various changes in recurring seasons, such an accumu-
lation of experience would be obtained as would enable the
farmer to judge beforehand in what manner he should direct
his industry and his course of crops. So again with respect
to the improvement of the soil and the application of manure
much remained to be done. Then again, in regard to the
application of mechanical power to agricultural labour, no
one could doubt that a great enange had come over the far-
mers, and many prejudices had been dispelled. Of this,
therefore, they might be assured that no riots would
ever take place because machinery was resorted to as a
means of assisting agriculture. It was a remarkable
fact that, according to all experience that had
yet been obtained on the subject, wherever they
had introduced machinery, and had thereby displaced one
labourer, they had actually introduced two others in conse-
quence of the adoption of improved machinery. That ought
to be borne in mind by every one interested in the question.
He recollected very well being Attorney-General at the time
of the introduction of railway traffic, when a deputation of
post-horse masters waited upon the then Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Mr. Goulburn, and put in a strong claim for
the reauction of the post-horse duty, on the ground that the
diminution in the amount of duty might be so great that it
would be hardly worth collecting. But, said Mr. Goulbum,
" Gentlemen, if that be the only ground on which you can
urge for a remission of the duty, I assure you that you are
very much mistaken, for so far from there having been any
diminution in the number of post. horses consequent upon
the introduction of railway traffic, the post-horse duty has
actually doubled." And that was perfectly true. Those
ho expected that the number of horses would be diminished
by the introduction of the railway system were never more
mistaken in their lives, for the number of horses was doubled.
So, again, when a new mode of conveyance was started in
the metropolis, great complaints were made by the hackney
coach and cab proprietors that their business would be
ruined, whereas, on the contrary, it was greatly increased,
because people soon found out that it was a great advantage
to them not to use up that strength in walking which they
required for the performance of their ordinary duties.
(Cheers.) It was a great pleasure to him to find himself
respected by those among whom he lived, and he thought
he might say he had been of some service—(cheers)—for
although he was Attorney-General at the time of the Re-
becca riots, he was engaged and successfully engaged, in
the removal of a toll-bar in that neighbourhood, for which
he had the pleasure of receiving a testimonial at the hands
of the farmers and others passing that road. (Hear, hear.)
In conclusion, ho begged to return his sincere and hearty
thanks for the manner in whieh his name had upon all oc-
casions been received by them. (Cheers.)
The health of the county members was then drunk, the
chairman apologising for their unavoidable absence on the
present occasion.

The next toast was, " The House of Commons, in connec-
tion with the name of Mr. Lindsay, M.P."
Mr. LINDSAY, on rising, was received with cheers. He
thanked them very warmly for associating his name with
the House of Commons, of which he had now been a mem-
ber for some years. The longer he was a member of that
house the prouder he was of his connection with it. It was

indeed a noble assembly, and, after all, the palladium of our
national liberties. It was an assembly to which not only
the people of the British Empire looked as an impartial re-
presentative body, but it was an assembly to which the four
quarters of the world looked, and were actuated by the opi-
nions expressed in it, because they believed that the opinions
there expressed were always boldly and honestly avowed.
Above all, it was an assembly which truly represented the
opinions of the great British people. No doubt there were
times and occasions when the leaders of that assembly did
not fully adopt the sentiments of the people and the house,
and when even the leaders of the Executive Government
did not fully express the feelings and sentiments of that
assembly. (Hear, hear.) Even at the present moment he
believed there were some great questions on which he was
afraid the Government did not altogether represent the
opinions and sentiments of the people or of the House of
Commons. The noble earl at the head of the Foreign-
office, when speaking the other evening as a member of the
Government and a leader of the executive, said he thought
the sympathies of the majority of the people of this country
were in favour of a particular section of those who were
now engaged in a great civil war in America. He might
have been speaking his own sentiments when he gave utter-
ance to such words, but he (Mr. Lindsay) denied that Lord
Russell had spoken the sentiments of the country or of th e
House of Commons on that occasion. It might be per-
fectly true that the House of Commons felt the propriety of

leaving the Government unfettered in its retTpon
on this question. The how() felt that the responsibility
ought to rest on the Government, and on it alone, because
it was not certainly the duty of the house to dictate to the
Government what course it should pursue in respect to the
civil war now raging on the other side of the Atlantic; but the
noble lord did not express the sentiments of the people of
England when he said that the sympathies of the nation
were with the Northern section of that great people now
unhappily
engaged in war. (Hear, hear.) If the people of
England believed that horrible war was Leing waged in order
to put an end to slavery, then he could understand that
their sympathies would be with the Federals. We, in this
country, however, had seen sufficient to persuade us that
they were neither honest nor earnest in their profession to
put down slavery, but that there were other reasons which
wage war against the Southerners. He had
was desiredpeople,
pyto
tpoustadye,wina
this country admired, they would have obtained the sym-
pathies of a very large majority of the people of this country.
(Bear, hear.) But when they found that the President
himself entered office and made it his platform, that he did
not enter office for the purpose of putting down slavery, and
did not intend to take any steps to put down slavery, nor
did ho believe he could legally do so, the people of England
could not believe that he was in earnest, and it was vain for
him to attempt to support a mere political cry by endeavour-
ing to persuade the people of this country that his motive
for carrying on the war was to put down slavery, and that
upon that ground he was entitled to their sympathies. Vas
it the fact that the Northern people entertained any friendly
feeling towards the coloured population ? No one who had
travelled in America could believe they did. On the contrary,
they lost no opportunity of showing their disgust when they
were brought into contact in a public carriage, or a steam-
boat, with the negro. Ho had often witnessed their conduct
on such occasions, and their attempts to exclude even
the most educated and well behaved negroes from parti-
cipation in the rights and axneuitied of civilised life,

P.R.—TOWER.
SALE OP STORES.—By Order of the
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR, Mr. GEORGE
SPILLMAN will SELL, by Public Auction, in the Tower,
fiIIiIiTRSDAY, the Bth of October, 1863, at Eleven o'clock
Red !Forenoon precisely, the following Stores :
qN....."ea and Blankets. Small Arms of various de-
et,,,k.:lothing and Woollen scriptions.
Bae.
.
20 Cit.ock Itur, Armourer's Pack-saddle
v
IttanzeBC:_opt,4B. Forges.
Sets of Ironwork for do.
May 1
and 411 erg aplete, with Ovens 1 Files, various.
„
daYa PrevZ,lewed at the Tower from 10 to 4 o'clock the three
at the war 'la to the day of sale Tower; may bc had
Woolwi kmAte, Pall-1141; the and Royal Arsenal,
,OPAL ta
in the i REE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
way Terrninus%n,e,,dlate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
Preside " ting's-coss.
Treasurer-7.1,11u
nt4htron_The QUEEN.
Alward Masterrnan, Esq.
ke of BUCCLEIJCII, K.G.
This was the first hoi,
n tp_ital to introduce the principle of free
and instant admissio
mality of governors, I,,t`t'erlic destitute sick, without the for-
pantution in its most pitiable t. It is entirely, devoted to desti-
nted by sickness and d;',ea —viz., that which is accom-
Manitude that, with adequat'ee, and is now of sufficient
Capable of admitting into its wai.,374l)Port, it may be rendered
the casual sick of this great metro 8 a very large proportion of
funds in order to have 500 beds aviZiiil:* It requires but the
le for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fello';zrtures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a
wmeedicine to more,
The Weekly Board feel it their imperativ:e IdEnty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for
to enable them to admit and relieve the dist"tinued support,
diet" cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions arc received by the Treasurer, Edward
Master an. Esq. Nicholas-lane; also by Mesajait•
aCoutts and
i
CO. ; Drummond' and Co. ; lierries and Co.
Co. ; Prescott Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Zso°lll. C:114
and . Co. Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co.;i); J- n
and CO. ;
and Lo
Deacon, and Co. ; Overeusrneyniasnond
Co.;Nis
, bet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and CoCo., ,Liverpool
STANFORD kW at the HOSpitAL
bTANFORD a 5111TII Secretary.

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THE SUN, LONDON, SA I URDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1863.

There could be no question whatever that the Nor-
therners were very highly prejudiced against the ne-
groes. But apart from all considerations of that kind,
had those who cried out about the emancipation of the
slaves ever considered how that great question was to be
dealt with—how it was possible to liberate all at once more
than 4,000,000 of blacks, who had unfortunately been trained
to slavery ? The thing was impossible. It could not be
done, It would not take merely one, but two generations
to do it. He said still more, with that object in view, if it
was their object, which he did not believe, their conduct had
bean both vain and wicked. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Lincoln, in
his proclamation, had talked of giving freedom to the whole
of the slaves, and of their being sent away to some district
Far West, where the foot of civilised man had never trod ;
but when offered freedom on these terms the blacks had re-
fused to accept it. Thep hay talked of sending them away
to some other country. But they had never considered the
possibility of carrying out such a scheme—had they ever
considered how utterly impossible it was to convey 4,000,000
of men, or in what ships they could be conveyed ?
The LORD CHIEF BARON—Twenty Great Easterns could
not do it. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. LINDSAY—No, nor a hundred nor a thousand Great
Easterns. Where were they to take them to ? To Africa,
from where their forefathers came ? Why, if they were sent
to Africa they would have to endure far greater miseries than
they did at the present moment. He had conversed with
Dr. Livingstone on the subject,and Dr. Livingstone had told
him that it was not possible to conceive the amount of de-
gradation to which the black people were subjected in Africa.
(Hear, hear.) If, therefore, they were sent back to that
land from whence their forefathers came they would be sent
to en amount of misery far worse than that to which they
wore subjected in the South. (Hear, hear.) Any one who
gave these questions a calm consideration, and who did not
speak upon them merelyfor the purpose of carrying with them
the popular voice, who find, however much he might de-
sire to root out slavery, that any attempt to do so suddenly
by means of a civil war would create an immense amount of
injury, not merely to the proprietors—the white people in
the Southern States—but to the blacks themselves. This
bad been found to be the case. He had just received a letter
from New Orleans, in which the writer stated that the plan
of giving freedom had been tried, and that the result had
been that the negroes in general had returned to their owners
on the nominal condition of payment for the labour.
(Hear, hear.) Emancipation had been found impossible, un-
less the United States would consent to the establishment
of poor-houses and asylums to support the negroes in idle-
ness. The emancipation proclamation had hurt no one
but its author and his party. It had been stated on reliable
authority that the American Government, in answer to
communications upon the subject, had said, "If the free
negroes refuse to work whip them." So that, after all, they
would get nothing by the change, and the same system of
discipline would be carried out, and probably in a more
cruel manner, by the Southern than by the Northerns.
(Hear, hear.) He was surprised to find that some gentle-
men, and especially clergymen, had stated that the procla-
mation of emancipation from slavery by President Lincoln
was a humane act. Humane to whom ? It could not be
humane to the slaves, who were not yet prepared for freedom,
and it certainly would not be humane to the five or six mil-
lions of white people in the Southern States, because the
real object, aim, and end of that proclamation was nothing
less than this—" You black men, henceforth be free ; if any
one resist you in your desire to live, resist him, and the
arms of the North will support you in that resistance,"
Practically, that is—" Massacre your masters, massacre your
mistresses, and massacre their children, so that you may
obtain your freedom." (Hear, hear.) Instead of being a
humane proclamation, it was in fact a specimen of the most
horrible barbarity, and a more terrible proclamation than
had ever been issued in any part of the world. There was
one question on which he wished to say a word, he meant
the building of ships here to be afterwards used by the Con-
federate Government. He was not going to enter into any
discussion of the legal part of the question in the presence of
the Lord Chief Baron, but a good deal had been said about
maintaining an impartial neutrality. He was in favour of
doing so, but were they ? It was said that they ought not
to allow ships to be built in this country for the Southern
States; but ought they to allow cannon and ammuniticn to
go out of this country to supply the Northern States? The
cannon now being need to bombard Charleston was obtained
from this country, and for aught he knew the horrible Greek
fire, of which so much had been said, was manufactured
here too. He could not see why they should prevent the
Southern people from being supplied with ships while the
Federals continued to be supplied with arms. 0 course if a
clear infringement of the Foreign Enlistment Act could be
proved the case would be different, but the whole question
at present amounted to this, the South American coast had
been declared to be under blockade, and if they attempted
to run the blockade the Queen's proclamation said that they
must de it at their own risk. Of course if a vessel which
was running the blockade, having been made here and in-
tended for the Southerners, was captured, her owners must
bear the loss. For his own part he confessed that he
could see no immediate chance of the war terminating,
but ho could see what the end would be. It would not be
reunion but separation, and he believed that before many
years had elapsed that separation would not be merely into
two countries—the Northern and Southern—but that it
would be separated into four different parts—that was
into North and South, and West and California. The
Southern men and Southern women would fight to the last
drop of their blood before they would be reunited to the
States, and if the Northerners persisted in the course they
were now taking, terrible as the war had been, he grieved to
say it would become far more terrible before it was brought
to a conclusion. At present the Southerners felt that they
had gat sufficient white men to defend themselves and
maintain their independence; but if they once called out
the slaves, as they would be justified in doing, no more
horrible scenes had ever been witnessed than would be wit-
nessed in the American war. In endeavouring to subjugate
the South, the North had committed a grievous mistake.
The employment of slaves would be the last resources of
the South, but when that period came, the retribution and
the vengeance would be terrible. (Hear, hear.) He believed
that he only spoke the sentiments of a large majority of the
people of this country when he said it would be impossible
to restore the Union, and in those sentiments he believed
the House of Commons joined. (Cheers.)
Various toasts of a local character followed, and the pro-
' ceedings did not terminate till a late hour.

Murder and Robbery in the Public Street.

Considerable excitement has been created in the neigh-
bourhood of Shoreditch, by the murder in Old-street-road,
of a pork butcher named Edward Vial, who was brutally
attacked and robbed of a small sum of money by some mis-
creants, who subsequently made their escape. Last evening
Mr. John Ilumphreys,one of the Middlesex coroners, opened
an inquiry into the circumstances, at the Princess Royal
Tavern, Paul-street, Shoreditch,when the followingevidence
was adduced :

The Ship Run Down by the Great Eastern.

Mrs. Phoebe Humphreys, 4), Willow-street, Shoreditcb,
said that she was the sister of the deceased, who lived at
14, Willow-street. On Tuesday week, having heard that
he had been robbed, and had received dreadful injuries, and
that his life was in great danger, she went to his house.
she found him lying on the bed. He had been rendered
deaf by the manner in which he had been beaten on the
head. He was, however, then sensible. He said that on
the preceding evening he had been to the West-end. On his
way back he felt thirsty, and he turned into the Luke's
Bead Tavern and called for half a pint of beer. Deceased
said that when he left the house, which he did soon, he pro-
ceeded along the Old-street-road, until he came to Mr. Fel-
ton's coach factory at the corner of Pump-row. He had then
in his pocket a bag, containing the following pieces of sil-
ver:-two florins, four shilling pieces, one sixpence, and a
threepenny-bit. He said that he saw no person about at the
time' but he suddenly received a dreadful blow on the
temple which dashed him at once to the ground. It was so
violent that he was instantly rendered senseless. He knew
nothing whatever further about the attack, it was so sudden
std so violent. He had no idea of how he got home.
aslisaid
ley the Coroner—lt was well known that deceased was in
the habit of coming home by the corner of Pump-row. At
that spot there was a stack -of timber, and a person could
essay have concealed himself behind it and have inflicted 1
the injury upon the deceased before the latter was aware
that anyone was there.
Emily Vial, 15, Willow-street, widow of deceased, said
her late husband was a pork-butcher. On the night in ques-
tion he left home at six o'clock to sell some German sau-
sages. She saw no more of him until one o'clock the fol-
lowing morning, when he knocked at the door. She opened
it, and be rushed past her in a terrified state exclaiming
„ They're after me. There they are." When he became
sensible he made a statement to his sister. He said, "My
God, they have not only robbed but they have injured me,
and 1 tlo not know who they are." There were signs of
blows on the baCk of his head as well:as upon the temple.
Dr. I. Poole Collier said that on the 23d ult, he was
called in
to see the deceased. Deceased was then dull and
heavy,
and was suffering great pain in the temple and back.
Ho a
that he had received a blow which stunned him,
d
believed he had fallen on the ground. Death
tookn place
on the 20th ultimo. Witness made a post-
mortelly examination, and there were extensive bruises
around the neck and on the back of the head and on the
shoulders. Those bruises were the result of a frightful
fall.
Upon removing
the temple there was a lump as if from a blow.
removing the scalp he found the temple muscle
highly congested where the blow had been delivered.
A blow there would produce almost instant insensibility.
On
the hack part of the head and corresponding with the
mark from the fall there was an extravasation of blood.
The immediate cause of death was effusion into the ven-
tricles of the brain from the violence inflicted.
up
By the Coroner—The blow on the temple was such as
would be inflicted by a knuckle-duster. A person skilled in
the use of the knuckle-duster would have produced pre-
cisely such an injury.
After some further evidence,
The Coroner said that one fact had been very clearly
at deceased had been murdered. The next step
them to justice. He should adjourn the in-
Pwrlvedcl--betlito ascertain, if possible, who the perpetrators were,
gengve the police an opportunity of discovering some
uilt a ' rttes.
clue to the g y P
The Court was accordingly adjourned.
and to
tbori

The Receiver of Wreck of the port of Liverpool has for-
warded to the Marine Department of the Board of Trade
the depositions of Capt, Paton, the commander of the Great
Eastern steamship, and Capt. Duff, of the ship Jane, of
Liverpool, which latter vessel was run down in the Atlantic
find two of the crew killed.

Capt. Paton thus reports the catastrophe :—The Great
Eastern left New York on Sept, 8, with passengers and a
cargo of merchandise, comprising grain, provisions, and
tobacco, and reached lat 51 deg 15 min N, long 14 deg 4
On the 18th, at 2 15 a.m.,
min W, without casualty.
weather dark and rainy, wind W., under steam and sail,
standing about E.S.E., at about 13 knot speed, regulation
light burning in proper position, watch on deck, saw a bright
light three points on starboard bow. Put helm hard aster-
board, but finding we were closing with the light, stopped
and reversed the engines, when the ship Jane, of Liverpool,
came alongside on starboard bow, both rolling heavily; car-
ried away Jane's mainmast, foretopmast head, and bowsprit.
As the ship was apparently breaking up fast, succeeded in
saving the master, mate, second mate, and 18 of the crew,
one man being killed, and another supposed to have fallen
overboard. Having ascertained that no more of the crow
were left on board, backed clear of the wreck. At 225 a.m.,
heavy swell, ship rolling heavily, found it impossible to
lower a boat, and stayed by the wreck until daylight. At
4 35 a.m., steamed twice close past the Jane slowly, but
could not discern any one on board, the rolling of the ship
still rendering it impracticable to lower a boat, continued
our course towards Liverpool. The crew of the Jane were
taken to Liverpool by the Great Eastern.
Capt. Duff states the ship Jane left Liverpool for Quebec,
in ballast, on Sept. 10, and had reached lat 51 15 N, long
14 11 W, without meeting with any casualty. On the 18th,
with rain, wind W.S.W., under
at 2 30 a.m., weather thick,
all plain sail, standing at N.W.I watch on deck, saw the
masthead light of a steamer two points on the portbow,
steering eastward. Immediately Put helm hard sport, the
regulation lights at this time on board the Jane were burn-
ing brightly and in position. The vessels being very near,
a collision occurred immediately. The other vessel, which
was the Great Eastern, itruck the Jane on the portbow,
carrying away the bowsprit and gear, fore-topmast, main-
topmast, and all attached, and the mizen top gallantreast.
The vessels now swung alongside each other, and the rolling
of the Great Eastern caused the aponsons to cut the Jane
down on the port side, so that all hands considered it un-
safe to remain longer on the vessel, and got on board the
Great Eastern as best they could. Two men of the Jane
were kilcd by the casualty.
The names of the deceased men are not given. The
Jane was a ship of nearly 1,000 tons.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The meeting of the Metropolitan Board of Works
was held
60 i
7 yesterday at the office in Spring-gardens, Mr. J.
Thwaites in al
the chair.
The financial statement was presented, and the principal
heads of a
London,
were as follows :—Current accounts in the
Bank of £26,383 15s. ; in the Bank of England,
L 15,4
Deposit accounts in the Bank of England,
£74,000. '
Government securities, £87,500 98. Id. The sums
to be set aside this year for repayment of mortage debts are
n; 268 6s. 7d.
THE NoTHERN EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES.
The following report was brought up from the Thames
Embankment Committee :
isu

ALONG WALK.—Mr. Elihu Burritt, " the learned
blacksmith," well known as the great linguist, and whose
"Sparks from the Anvil" has made his name a household
word, was yesterday to complete a long walk. He has ac-
tually walked all the way from London to John o'Ciroat's.
He was in Wick on Saturday, and was to complete his walk
to John o'Groat's House yesterday. He is to lecture this
evening (Tuesday) in the Free Church, on " Tho Benevo-
lent Institutions of the Day—their PLilo6ophy And Power."
Journ«(.

foron etohnes7idtheraotfioAnuagnurist, having refer
" Spring-gardens, Sept. 28.
°ll
Committee; Board,
red to your report the plans
for the construction of that part of the northern embank-
" yourb
embank-
ment of the river between Waterloo-bridge and the eastern
end of the Temple-gardens, and instructed your solicitor to
report to your committee as to the several properties which
will be effected by these works, your committee have now to
report that they have considered said plans, and have re-
ceived from your superintending. architect a report which
has been carefully examined by your solicitor with regard
to the properties ref erred to, and they have directed the
necessary notices to be served for acquiring or otherwise
dealing with those properties. Your committee have also
ascertained that the question with regard to the interest of
the Crown in the foreshore required for the works has been
arranged, and that no impediment now exists to the Board
approving the plans and letting the contract for the works
in question ; and your committee therefore recommend that
the plans for the Thames Embankment (North) from
Waterloo-bridge to the east end of the Temple-gardens,
submitted to the Board by the engineer on the 7th August
last (No. 17); be approved, and that advertisements be issued
inviting tenders for toe execution of the works. All which
your committee beg submit."
Mr. FREEMAN moved that the Board do receive the re-
port and sanction the recommendations of the committee.
The
cHAIR,,c,,r put the motion, which was unanimously
agreed to.
THE PROGRESS OF TIIE MAIN DRAINAGE WORKS.
The Chief Engineer presented the following report on
the progress of the main drainage works :
" Spring-gardens, Oct. 1.
(4 Satisfactory progress continues, upon the whole, to be
made in the execution of the several sections of the works
intended for the main drainage of the metropolis. Messrs.
Brassey and Co. have now completed about 101 miles of the
Middle Level Sewer and its branches, in sizes varying from
4ft by 2ft Sin to 12ft by Oft Gin. A junction has been effected
between the works passing under the various private pro-
perties from Wilderness-row to Clerkenwell Sessions-house,
and
the
sewer, with slight exception, is now complete from
Old Ford up to that point. The Metropolitan Railway has
yet to be crossed at Victoria-street, the design (a single
wrought iron aqueduct), for effecting which object is now
under the consideration of the Board. The works
for the diversion of the Fleet Sewer are progressing as
fast as their nature and the difficulties of the locality and
ground will permit. The main line westward of the Fleet,
passing along Liquorpond-street, Oxford-street, and other
leading thoroughfares, is, with the exception of a portion
by Saffron-hill and some minor works, completed. The
works of the Piccadilly branch are also in progress. The
total value of the work executed up to this date is about
£278,000, being £20,000 in excess of my last report.
Rather more than two miles of the Western sewers, of
sizes varying from 3ft 9in to 2ft Gin to 4ft circular,
have been completed by Messrs. Moxon and Co,, at
a probable cost of £32,000, or £6,000 more than at the
data of my last monthly report. The Northern Out-
fall Sower, with the exception of some portion of the
embankment, the parapets of the bridges, and the
apron in the bed of the river, may be said to be com-
pleted throughout its entire length of 5/ miles. The
sewage of the High and Middle Level Sewers has now been
permanently turned into two of the 9-feet sewers, and is
discharged through the tumbling-bay direct into the Thames
near Barking Creek—thus permitting the abandonment of
the temporary measures adopted in July est for diverting
the sewage from the River Lea. The accomplishment of
these works has facilitated the testing of the third 9-feet
sewer, which has been satisfactory, no leakage being per-
ceptible from either the ironwork or brickwork. The
total cost of the work done by Mr. Furness under the con-
tract is about £630,000—£15,000 being due to the progress
made since presenting my last report. One compartment
of the Northern Outfall Reservoir is completed, and a
second is in a forward state. The foundations of the re-
mainder are nearly all got in, and the brick piers and walls
are being built thereon. The amount of the work done
under this contract by Mr. 'Furness is estimated at £30,000
or £17,000 more than last reported. At the Crossness
Pumping Station the engine and boiler houses, reservoir,
culverts, and other works are all advancing. Upwards Of
130,000 cube yards of excavation and 66,000 cube yards of
concrete have been executed, in addition to about 25,000
cubic feet of masonry. 56,000 superficial feet of York
paving have been laid, and 56 penstocks fixed. The value
of Mr. Webster's works under the contract is about £147,000,
of which .C 22,000 is due to the work done since my last
report. Upwards of 11 mile of the Southern Low Level
Sewer have been constructed by Mr. Webster, at a cost
of about £17,500, being £23,501 in excess of my last report.
Messrs. Aird and Son have completed a length of nearly
three miles of the Bermondsey branch of the Southern Low
Level Sewer at an estimated cost of £86,000, or £4,000 more
than last reported. Mr. Pearson is making fair progress
with his contracf, for the completion of the Southwark new
street, between Gi•eat Guildford -street and the Blackfriars-
read. Up to tb.e present date he has completed 1,130 ft.
of the subway, wit:l. about bOOft. iu progrese 1140 ft. of
t sorer %Oft, jf tur, wall, about 1,2001 t, of pipe

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nexiens, and 119 vaults are also completed. The value of
these and other works incidental thereto, including about
1,000 yards super of new granite paving, amount to £12,500
£4,500 more than at the date of my last report.
'6 J. "W. EAZA.LGETTE, Engineer."
The report was received and ordered to be printed.
PROPOSED NEW STREET PROM HOLBORN TO LINCOLN'S

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nERRM ANN, PRESTIDIGITATEUR.—
Plum:Es 'S TTIEATRE.—TIERR HERRMANN'S
Performances, EVERY EVENT:SU, at Eight. In Two
Parts—as given by him in all the principal 'theatres and
Opera Houses of the Continent of Europe and America. The
whole of the Marvellous Illusions entirely new, and invented
by Herr Herrmann. Prices .f admission as usuaL Doors
open at half-past 7.

ETEATRE ROYAL DRURY - LANE.
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, TINE DEAL BOATMAN: Messrs. G.
Bel more, F. Charles; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund
Falconer.

To conclude with the new and original Comedy, by Ed"
'nand Fnironer, entitled NATURE'S ABOVE ART :
Ro-
mance of the Nursery : Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Itydf.
Barrett, G. Belmore, F. Charles. Neville ; bliss Charlotte
Saunders, Miss Murray, Miss R. Leclercq, 3lrs. i,
and
Mrs. Edmund Falconer.
Box-office o pen from Ten till Five daily. Prices " usual.
Commence at 7.

T IIEATI LE ROYAL
Open for the Season.
HAY MARKET.—
Open to commence at
THIS. EVENING, and during the
WMeerk William Earl-en,
7, with AN UNLUCKY 3IORTAL : -- •
Miss M. Harris,
the new Comedy of
After which, at a quarter to 8,
FINES SE ; or, Spy and counter 3:7
SPlio. we, Mr. Buckstone ;
characters by Mr.
Alfred 'Wigan, Mr. Chippendale, Air-
lifts. Dowton,'3liss L. Angel, and
TILL ABLESW .
MrTs. Alfred igan.
Concluding with TURNING
CtiAS. MATHEWS
On Mondau, Oct. 26, Air. and Mrs.
will return to the London stage.

TBEATB,E-ItO AL, ADELpilt—
sou, Pronriator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
THIS EV ENING, at 7, THE TRAGEDY QUEEN: Mrs.
Stirling*.
A t R, the is -ew Drama of Lhi EATI : Miss Bearancatemherean, supported
by Mr. Art our Stirling. (s 3d appearance ),
R. Phillips, Billington,
ton.
Stuart, A. Wood, Eberne, Miss H.
Simms and. _Mrs. Billing-
To conclrude with CATCHING AN HEIRESS : Miss
Woolgar a:ld Mr. A• Wood.

0-y AL STRAND THEATRE.
R• Manager, Mr. W. 11. Swanborough.
,“is EVENING, WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Bel-
ford, Miss ;Simpson.
Followed. by (fiGth time) THE MOTTO, " I'M ALL
TilEttE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Clifton ;
Mes dames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria
Simpson, Wallace, ana Jenny White.
To conclud e with TURN HIM OUT. Mr. Turner, Miss
Thorne.

Commence at 7.

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Barometer-29.90,
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LONDON, SATURDAY, OCr. 3, 1863.

The defeat of ROSENCRANZ by the Confederates
is in sc me respects the most disastrous incident that
has yet befallen the Federal Government. It is
certainly the most disastrous that has happened to
them for many months past. It comes, for one
thing, at this to oment, as so ranch of an anti-climax.
After Gettyebtag, we were virtually assured by all
the braggart, organs of the North that the contest
would be fiedshed off with a rush. LEE was not
only beateei, but beaten irretrievably. His army
was not o oly driven back, but routed. Its flying
columns were disorganised throughout. MEADE
had only to follow up his victory with reasonable
vigour, and the Confederate Commander-in-Chief
was effectually done for, his army scattered, his re•
putatiou gene, the way to Richmond cleared before
the advan 2e of the victors, President Davis re-
duced to a nonentity. Weeks rolled by, one of
the caleeidar months run out, another opened
np in its turn—the war was not at an end,
nor anything like it—MEADE assumed the attitude
and occupied the position of anything bat a victo-
rious Geucralisimo. LEE, it turned out, had retired
in the most deliberate and leisurely way imaginable.
Ilis forces were in no respect disorganised, or even,
for that matter, in the smallest degree dispirited.
lie simply assumed a new position, modified his
plans, altered his position again upon mature con-
sideration—his watchful opponent, it is true, moving
wherever he moved, bat doing only that : respect-
fully keeping at a distance—waiting for, what has
not yet turned up, his opportunity. And now, while
this yet continues to be the situation of the war so
hr as relates to the confronting Commanders-in-
Chief, MEADE for the Federals, LEE for the Con.
federates—come these tidings that the army
of General ROSENCRANZ, in Tennessee, has
been severely beaten in a great pitched
battle of two days' duration, has been clean
sat in two, bas been mortally injured to the extent
.of some twelve thousand men killed, wounded, and
captured ! ROSENCRANZ having hitherto, all this
while, been, not only one of the ablest, but also one
of the most fortunate and generally successful
among the few eminent soldiers leading the forces
of Mr. LINCOLN in the field. Yet now—even from
Tennessee—come these tidings of a Fresh Victory,
another Great Victory, as it proves to be, on the
side of the Confederates! At this juncture of all
junctures, these tidings have come when the
howdy Government of the North, bespattered
with the mud into which it has been so often
knocked by the fierce blows cf its Southern an-
tagonist, splashed with the mere hurry scurry of
a° much systematic skedaddlingafor strategic pur-
-1°9.'4 I), bleeding and almost blinded with rage and
punishment—was in the middle of sparring so defi-
antly with the most imbecile obtuseness of purpose
at the tssei,ll ncipal onlookers among the crowd of
the war
observing 1.?
elvers not in any way as yet engaged in
At
the very midst snee, that is, and at England ! In
defiance On thepl't at these flagrant demonstrations of
against Engis,„,4:.q the North against France,and
from Tennessee t.°.°'() these inopportune tidings
I
under BRAGG haanis that the Southern forces
driven back, and eatiered signally victorious, have
ROSENCRANZ, have put Federal army under
only ROSENCRANZ,
himself, but Bue.NsiDE,Noio
iente) to tho aid of that tiovv'' hastening (festina
defeated brother-in-
arms, in a position of fearful jet)
turn in the events of the war, ~laanihl' At this new
to see what will be Fetid by v`il. be eurioui
BOANERG ES of the Northern Prf-.bS, NIA that
yanks;;
according to whose bouncing estimate or ItAnT.T--N
N-ve should
general, of late, as we recently took occ:7'
remark, the war was to have been rtgard:ld as
t')
already virtually at an end. Myr now,
like to know, about that extraordinary mission to
Europe about to be undertaken by Mrs.ABELIN COLN,
the President ess? MANHATTAN certainly seemed in
his very last communication, at the close of his
loudest and most brazen boasting, to evidence by
w:e, passing re:nark, a sudden presentiment of evil
o
--namely, where he spoke of the certainty of gold
conning up to - "00 if Washington should chance,
by the Confederates !
,after all, to be taken
A al ornult preriousiy to his blurting out
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