The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LM :DON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1863.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS—This Day

The opposed applications for licenses for music and
dancing were taken to-day. There was a very full attend-
ance of magistrates.

THE STRAND MUSIC HALL.

Mr. Morris Roberts Syers applied for a license for music
and dancing for a building No. 345, Strand, called the
Strand Music Hall.

Mr. Sleigh appeared for the Strand Music Hall Company,
and Mr. Poland opposed.
The learned counsel having entered at some length into
the objects for which the building is intended, called
The Architect, who gave a full description of the pro-
perties of the New Music Hall, and stated that the cemple-
tion of the building had been prevented by circumstb.nces
over which there was no control. lie felt certain that
everything would be so far perfected that the 11.411 would be
in a state to be opened to the public in January next, if
not sooner. _ _ _

Mr. Poland hoped the licence would be refused. The
hall was surrounded by places of amusement of all descrip-
tions rendered to the Strand Music hall unnecessary.
The Chairman thought it unadvisable to grant a license
to a building which was at present in a very unfinished
state, that no proper idea could be formed of its arrange-
ments.

The application was then put to a show of hands, when
there were seven held up in favour of the license, and eleven
against it.
The license was accordingly refused.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SYSTEMATIC ROBBERY AT CROSSE AND BLACKWELL'S.
—Henry Frost, a carpenter, employed at Messrs. Crosse
and Blackwell's sauce and pickle warehouse, Soho-square,
in doing some repairs, was charged before ➢lr. Knox with
the following robbery:—
It appears that the prisoner was seen by one of the men
to remove a bottle of jelly from a case and take it towards
the bench where he was at work. Information was then
given to Ackrill, 48 F, a large quantity of property having
been missed, and on Ackrill going to the place where the
prisoner was at work and taxing him with the robbery, he
said " It's all right. I'm sorry for it, but it's over now."
Ackrill then took the prisoner to the station, and afterwards
went to his lodgings in Lambeth, where ho found a large
quantity of property, showing that the prisoner had robbed
the firm to some extent, and there is little doubt that the
prisoner had been doing so nearly every day he was em-
ployed on their premises,
All the property produced by Ackrill having been iden-
lied by Mr. Thomas Francis Blackwell, one of the firm,
Mr. Knox committed the prisoner for trial, but he will be
again brought before the magistrate.

THE EARTHQUAKE.

Communications giving the results of personal
experiences of the earthquake on Tuesday last still
come to hand from the provinces. We subjoin a
few of them

KENT.-Mr. Charles Dickens, writing from
Gad's-hill-place, Higham-by-Rochester, Kent, thus
communicates his experience of the shock:—" I
was awakened by a violent swaying of my
bedstead from side to side, accompanied by a singular
heaving motion. It was exactly as if some great
beast had been crouching asleep under the bedstead
and were now shaking itself and trying to rise.
The time by my watch was 20 minutes past 3, and
I suppose the shock to have lasted nearly a minute,
The bedstead, a large iron one, standing nearly
north end south, appeared to me to be the only piece
of furniture in the room that was heavily shaken.
Neither the doors nor the windows rattled, though
they rattle enough in windy weather, this house
standing alone, on high ground, in the neighbour-
hood of two great rivers. There was no noise. The
air was very still, and much warmer than it had
been in the earlier part of the night. Although the
previous afternoon had been wet, the glass had not
fallen. I had mentioned my surprise at its standing
near the letter Fair,' and having a tendency
to rise. It is recorded in the second volume of the
Philosophical Transactions' that the glass stood
high at Oxford when an earthquake was felt there
iu September, 1683."

SOUTHAMPTON.-our own correspondent ►rites
that Captain Goodridge, the commander of the mail
packet Southampton, left Havre for this port at
midnight on Monday, and when about 30 miles
from Havre he experienced, as he was standing on
the bridge of the steamer, a peculiar shock. He
thought at first that something was the matter with
the engine, and went below to inquire. He then
looked at his watch, and found that it was about
20 minutes past three. At West End, a few miles
to the north-east of this town, the earthquake was
felt. In one gentleman's house the crockery rattled
to such an extent that some of the inmates got up
to see what was the matter. At Warsash, near
Fareham, in Hants, the shock was so obviously felt,
that some of the inhabitants, as soon as they got up
the next morning, declared that an earthquake had
taken place during the night. Mr. Stroud, the
toil-keeper of the Southampton Pier, states that he
was standing in the toll-house on Tuesday last, and
once during the day he felt the house rock in such a
peculiar manner that he remarked to a gentleman
standing by that the motion was like that of an
earthquake. This is important, as it shows that
beside the grand shock on Tuesday morning, the
earth sensibly trembled at a different hour. It is
surmised that the earthquake is coincident with an
eruption of some volcano. It would be a matter of
great importance if the time of the shock at a few
places could be accurately ascertained, so as to know
the direction and speed of the earthquake. The
most likely persons to give information on this
point would be the engine-drivers who were travel-
ling between 3 and 4 a.m. ou Tuesday. Earth-
quake shocks also cause clocks and watches to stop;
and if in any instance such has been the case, this
would give the necessary information. The Effect
of an earthquake at sea is oftentimes most curious_
The shock is as if the ship struck suddenly on a
rock. This can be only effected by the earthquake
wave as it proceeds onward driving the sea
violently against a ship and suddenly stopping it.
During yesterday the wind here shifted to all
points of the compass. -

MANCHESTER.—A correspondent at Manchester
says the shock during Monday night was distinctly
felt by a number of people in that neighbourhood,
but apparently not so sensibly as in scme other parts
of the country. A similar shock is spoken to by
several people as having been felt at about ten
minutes to eleven o'clock on the previous Friday
night. One gentleman describes the tremor of the
earth as something like that he has felt at a railway
station when a heavy train has been passing, and he
says the shock was accompanied by a great noise
and the shaking of the doors and windows.
BEESTON.—Mr. J. Lowe, writing from the Ob-
servatory at Beeston, says A. smart shock was
felt here at 3.30. Many persons awoke from the
shaking of their beds and windows. At the
time the sky was cloudless, the wind west, baro-
meter stationary, and the temperature 31 deg. The
motion of earthquake pendulum at this observation
was from W.N.W. to E.S.E., and the displacement
of chalk by the 30-feet rod was half an inch, the
index needle moving the chalk so as to leave an
oval, or rather a lengthened oval hole. There must
have been at least two shocks, as numerous letters
describe the time as both 2.35 a.m. and 3.30 a.m.;
that the latter was the time of a severe lateral shock
is certain, as the zero pencils on my atmospheric
recorder marked the paper in a remarkable manner
at that hour. Information as to the extent of the
shock is desirable, as in all probability the earth-
quake of this morning was of a severe nature."
HEREFORD.—The Rev. H. C. Key writes from
Stretton Rectory, Hereford—" At 3.23 a.m., Green-
wich mean time, or very nearly so, a smart shock
of an earthquake was felt in this neighbourhood.
Its duration, as far as I could judge, was about
eight seconds; some persons Bay more. The effect
was that of a very heavy and long train rushing
furiously through a station, but the jar or shock
experienced was greater than any I ever felt pro-
duced by a train. The bed on which I lay was
violently shaken, and the iron bars of the shut-
ters of the room (the shutters being closed but not
barred) rattled loudly against the shutters, and I
found that it required a considerable amount of
shaking with the hand to effect this. The sound
at first increased rapidly with a gradual crescendo
for two or three seconds, until the crash was felt
(which lasted for about one second and a half, and
consisted of two concussions), and then subsided
as gradually for some seconds more, until it died
away in the distance. It appeared to me to equal
the loudest peal of thunder I ever heard, but it was
fuller and deeper and grander than thunder. In
about three minutes afterwards a second faint
rumble was heard. The night was beautifully
still and clear, and not a sound was heard from
any animal either before or after. The direction
of the wave of concussion appeared to be from a
little W. of S. to E. of N.*'From Clifford, in Here-
fordshire, a correspondent states that at about half-
past two his family were aroused from their slum-
bers by the smart shock of an earthquake, preceded
by loud rumbling noises, which continued for seve-
ral minutes. The house rocked steadily to and fro,
and then settled itself with a violent trembling.
The hoarse, volcanic-like groanings echoed back
from the mountains en the opposite side of the
valley like the peals of departing thunder, and then
all was still.
TAVISTOCK.—Mr. W. F. Ocllier, of Woodtown,
The shock of an earthquake
Tavistock, writes :—"
was felt here by me at 3.25 a.m. It commenced
with a cracking noise, and the house appeared to
tremble. Then, after aninterval of two or three
seconds, the trembling
recommenced, and continued
fur about fifteen seconds,
The house was violentlyFradually increasing in
severity until it ceased.
shaken, so much so
as to awaken and alarm all the
inmates. It was accompanied by a loud rumbling
noise underground. The weather was exceedingly
still and calm at the time, the atmosphere clear, and
no rain was falling. This house is on the borders
of Dartmoor, and the shock Which I now describe
is the third distinct shock of an earthquake which
the last five yearß. This
I have felt here within
shock, however,
was far more natenso than any pre-
vious one, and was sufficient create considerable
to
alarm. My brother,
who lives two milee from here,
felt the stock precisely at the same time, and
describes it exactly as flo-

-_,-- -
ANOTHER NEW METAL —l-3isCoVERED —being
a fresh victory gained by spectrum-analysis.—Allti.
Reich and Ritter of Freibarg havo by its means discovered
a new metal, which they have named Indium, as it is dis-
tinguished by a very brilliant blue ray.
GOETHE'S ROOM—THE LONG LOST SKETCH OF
1T DISCOVERED.—.-Among the papers left by the
Countess Auguste Stolberg, the long-missed sketch of
Goethe's room atFrankfort, drawn by the poet himself, has
been found. Its pr3sent possessor, States Councillor II ege-
witsch at Kiel, has placed it in the hands of the Franlciort
" Hochstift," and the room will be restored, together with
the enure Ooettto bone, 14COOrdillg to this precMofe
plane

Cotton Supply Association.

At the weekly meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee on Tuesday, a sample of a bale of cotton
just sent from Fiji was submitted for examination,
and valued at 29d. per lb. The people had been
discouraged in the cultivation from not finding;
a market for their small quantities ; but now that
they can obtain slates, books, knives, scissors,
calico, &c., from the merchants in exchange for
their cotton, the natives in different parts of the
group, under the guidance of the white inhabitants,
are entering more largely into the growth of cot-
ton. A sample from New Granada, South America,
grown from New Orleans seed sent out by the As-
sociation, was examined, and valued at 22d. per
lb. ; a sample of cotton from the West Indies,
grown from Egyptian seed, was valued at 29d.
per lb.; and a sample of Bellary cotton at 16d.
per lb. A letter was received from Mr. Consul
Grierson, Latakia, N. Syria, forwarding a sample
of cotton gathered from the growing plants, and
stating that the extent of land under cultivation is
four times greater than formerly, but the staple is
not improved. A letter was read from Mr. Consul
Hutchinson, Rosario, reporting that the Egyptian
seed forwarded to him by the Association has been
distributed amongst thirty-three cultivators in
various parts of the Argentine republic. The
sowing season is the month of September. A letter
was received from the honorary agents of the
Association in Calcutta, enclosing reports from
parties to whom seed has been distributed. One of
them states that all the seed sown with scarcely an
exception germinate freely. Letters were re-
ceived reporting that the Bombay, Baroda, and
Central India railway is at present open from
Ahmedabad, in the north, to Bulsar, a distance
of 185:1,-, miles, passing through Broach, Baroda,
and Surat. The remaining 125 miles to
Bombay were nearly ready for opening when the
monsoon came on in June, and it is expected the
opening throughout will not be delayed beyond the
end of the year. The Great Indian Peninsular line
is open, with the exception of the gap of nine miles
at the Thull Ghaut, from Bombay to Mulkapore, in
Berar, in a north-east direction 2951 miles, and
from Bombay to Sholapore in the south-east 276 k
miles. Mulkapore is within the limits of the great
Berar cotton field, and cotton can be readily con-
veyed to that and other points on the railway
(Barbee, on the S.E. line) for transport to Bombay.
It is expected that the gap in the railway system
at the Thull Ghaut will be closed by the com-
pletion of the line over the Ghaut in the course
of next spring, and about the same time a fur-
ther portion of the railway will be opened towards
oornrawuttee.—An extract from a despatch re-
ceived from her Majesty's Consul-General at Alex-
andria states that the Viceroy was much pleased
with his visit up to Sicot. Both sides of the river,
cow at its highest point, were covered with cotton
grounds, not of large dimensions, but in parcels of
an acre and half an acre, indicating that every pea-
sant was occupying himself with growing the
plant'—Consular despatches forwarded by the
office were received from the Acting Consal
Fifeirr.Tgn ail, Coquimbo, July 23, reporting that no cot-
ton is grown within his consular district ; and from
Mr. Consul Moore, Jerusalem, Aug. 26, stating that
the area planted with cotton this year is fully four
times as groat as the area planted in 1862. The
probable produce of the ensuing crop will be about
4,250,0001 b. The indigenous seed has been used;
no E
gyptian seed has been received, nor has any im-
provement
in the cultivation and management of the
plant been
introduced. The quality will, therefore,
be ofi the usual inferior kind, and the greater part
is
o dve el
shipped to the nearest ports of France and Italy.
Model plantations, conducted by Englishmen, with
native labour, seem necessary to extend the culti-
vation,t
and these can only be expected when there
shallbe greater security than at present exists in
Palestine, as well as a better definition of the tenure
of land by Europeans in Turkey. Mr. Consul-
General Cumberbatch, Constantinople, Sept. 8,
stated
that no cotton is grown in the neighbourhood
of Constantinople. He enclosed a report from Mr.
Vice-Consul Blunt, Adrianople, July 3, who repre-
sents r
area planted with cotton in the provinces
of
es, h
Adrianople, Phillipopoli, and Salim° to be 3,625
a
1,975 acres more than in 1862.
There
would have been a still greater increase
but for the apprehension that the' autho-
voro distributing seed with the intention
ct
rities
of
uaseizing a
part of the produce. A very small
ity of native seed has been planted ; Egyptian
has been chiefly used, and about 4,0001 b of Ameri-
can obtained from Drame, in Macedonia. It is
feared that, on account of the late sowing and the
very unusual drought, the results will not be so suc-
cessful c were anticipated. The report enclosed
from Rodosto represents the production of this year
to be double that of last year, about 20,000 okes,
or 56,8201 b. The account from Enos anticipates a
yfu uln as
considerable increase, and a more general use of
exotic seed. The Acting Consul (Mr. Bidwell),
Panama, writes that in the interior of that state
acres are now planted with cotton, and
that the cultivation
Prevails, more or less, over the
country
generally. Some Sea Island seed has been
remarkably about 7 0
productive ; cotton having been col-
lected three times, at intervals of three months. The
pleat,
which in the United States is an annual, ap-
pears panaala to be a perennial, since that
which was
0 sown thirteen months ago is still in a
flourishing
condition. This may be partially in
planted some upland seed, was ex-
plaineden-
sown
by the absence of frost. The American
aCboinesduiln three months to send a sample of cotton to
big government, which was favourably reported on,
andafur
further quantity of seed has been sent for
gratuitous distribution. The authorities of the
United States evince the utmost desire to promote
cotton on the Isthmus ; natives, as
ere, are anxious to obtain seed, and
i
that about 3,000 acres will be placed
ntwthneedl is well
estimated
ttforaohet ofdn
cotton g
on the Pacific side of the Isthmus by
'e the want of labour,
the end of next year. The cultivation is quite in its
infancy; the great difficulty l
and it is not probable that there will be any exports
of importance at present.—.A letter, recognising the
exertions of the As,sociatton, was read from the
Spinners Society, Preston.—This
thecon-
cOlpudereadtive
business of the meeting.

Opening of a New Catholic Church at Bath.

A new Catholic place of worship was consecrated on
Tuesday, and opened on -Wednesday with considerable
ritualistic pomp and ceremony in the city of Bath, There
was a large gathering of ecclesiastical dignitaries, and the
service,sn wasay a r
imposinghe as great Catholic religious cereino-
n a new church is a spacious and hand-
someusll as
e.T
one, and adds to the architectural beauty of Bath.
The architect is Mr. .A.nsora, of Clifton. Immediately fol-
lowing the service at the church was a luncheon at the
Assembly Rooms. Amongst those who partook of it were
the Right Hon. Lord Clifford, who presided ; Lady Clifford,
1)r. Clifford (Bishop), Dr. Morris, Dr. Ullathorne, Dr.
Manning, Dr. Vaughan, Mr. R. Berkeley ( Worcestershire),
Mr. and Mrs. Shuttletvorth, Miss Bateman, Mr. Charles
Clifford, Mrs. Charles Stapleton, Mr. E. and Mrs.
Weld, Mrs. Worsley, together with a large number
of monks and priests, and members of the Catholic
church. The health of his Holiness the Pope having been
drunk, the chairman proposed that of her Majesty and the
rest of the royal family, remarking that it was during
the the
present reign that the fires of persecution which existed in
the days of her Majesty's predecessors had been finally
trampled out and Catholic emancipation had become notn
merely a legal technicality, but an actual reality.
I
re-
sponding for the "Catholic Hierarchy of England," Bishop
Ullathorne said he recognised the hierarchy as a
great institution. It was the restoration of nor-
mal government of the church. When the hierarchy was
established, ten or twelve years ago, questions arose, how
was it to exist ? How was this great multiplic.ttion of
bishops to find employment ? How were they to sustain au
advance of that magnitude in this country P Why, the facts
of the last ten years had given a response which had satis-
fied all minds. Already they found that the 13 prelates had
almost more work in hand than they could manage, and
they found on every side churches rising, clergy multiply-
ing, seminaries increasing, and the whole country was being
covered with the action of the hierarchy. The announce-
ment of the establishment of that hierarchy was received
with a groan by a a great portion of this country, and now
they found the very press engaged at that moment in exalt-
ing the head of that hierarchy as a man who was an orna-
ment to the country. Let them congratulate their brethren
that they had come completely to their senses; let them
also congratulate them that they had begun to discover that
Catholics were " an important body in this country," and let
them congratulate themselves that the Catholic vote was of
importance in the politics of the country. A number of
other toasts followed. In the evening there were vespers
in the church, and a sermon preached by Dr. Manning to
an attentive congregation.— /Voter": J)aiiy Press.

The Scandalous Outrage on a Lady.

(From the Morning Post.)

BIARRITZ, Oct. 6.
You will recollect the affair of the Countess
Przezdiecka, whose hair and eyebrows were burnt
by the explosion of some detonating Powder, which
had been concealed in the seal of a letter sent to her
by an unknown enemy. It has now
transpired
that the writer of this letter was a Russian
lady,
the wife of a colonel of the Imperial Guard, residing
at St. Petersburg. The matter has been brought
before the local magistracy, and will probably be
settled at the next criminal sessions at Bayonne.
The Cracow journals announce the arrest, in
Podolia, of Princess Johanna Czartoryski and her
mother. It has been remarked here that this news
has produced a most painful impression on the
Emperor and Empress, who had formerly received
the princesses at the Tuileries.

HER MAJESTY'S IRON STEAMSHIP VALIANT, of
34 guns and 4,063 tone, will be launched from Messrs.
Westwood and Baillie's yard, at Milwall, on Saturday, the
17th inst.

The Duke of St. Albans, Viscount Newport, the
Earl of Durham, Lord Rendlesham, Captain Douglas
Lang, and Lord George Manners were recently elected
members of the Jockey Club.
THE NEWCASTLE MURDER: The detective
police at Newcastle-on-Tyne seem at last to have
discovered the person who is supposed to have mortally
stabbed the Irishman, Martin Luskey, in Scotswood-road,
in that town, on Saturday night. He also turns out to be
an Irishman (aot a pitman, as was thought), and his name
is reported to be Terence Quin. His companion, named
M'Gurk, the person who was carrying a bandbox, which
was knocked out of his hands by Luskey, just before he
(Luskey) was stabbed, has made a statement which impli-
cates Quin as the person who did it. Quin appears to have
fled to Ireland.

A LARGE SHIP WRECKED OFF MARGATE.—
GRAVESEND, Thursday. The Leda, steamer, Captain
Castles, from Dublin, which arrived in the river this
morning, reports seeing a large ship wrecked off the Brake
Sands. She appeared to be an American, with her decks
and round stern washed out of her. Several Deal boatmen
were making for the wreck when the Leda passed. No signs
of any living person could be seen belonging to her. It blew
a heavy gale ltist night and this morning from the eastward,
accompanied by heavy rain and thunder.

ALEXANDER SELKIRK, the original of De Foe's
noble, creation of " Robinson Crusoe."—A Scotch
warehouseman of the name of Hutchinson, in Warwick-
street, Regent-street, has recently come into possession of
the two Selkirk relics, the cup and the chest. The former,
which is made of a cocoa-nut, rudely carved, was put upon
a stalk and mounted with silver by Sir Walter Scott, and
so almost loses its identity and interest ; but the latter is a
curiously-dovetailed piece of ingenious workmanship by the
" monarch of all he surveyed." These relics, up to the
present time, have been in the possession of Selkirk's de-
scendantsin Largo, Fifeshire, where he was born.

THE VOLUNTEERS AS JURYMEN.—A novel point
was raised before the Kent county magistrates at
Bromley on Monday as to whether a person holding a com-
mission as an officer in a Volunteer Rifle Corps was exempt
from serving as a juryman at the county sessions and
assizes. It appears that the name of a lieutenant of one of
the local corps had been omitted from the jury list, and the
overseer, on being questioned, said that exception had been
claimed, and the omission made by him, on account of the
gentleman referred to holding a commission, as stated. On
referring to the list it was ascertained that the name of the
commanding officer of the same company was inserted, and
Colonel Lenuard, one of the bench of magistrate, having
remarked that he, although colonel of a Militia regiment,
would not be exempt, the name of the lieutenant was
ordered to be placed on the list.
TRIAL OF NEW LIFEBOATS.—Yesterday some har-
bour trials were made in the Regent's Canal Dock,
Limehouse, with two new lifeboats belonging to the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution. There were present—Mr. T.
Chapman, F.R.S., Sir E. Porrott, Capt. De St. Croix, Mr.
R. Lewis, Mr. W. H. Harton, Capt. D. Robertson, R.N.,
and several othbr gentlemen. Both boats underwent the
usual trials, of self-righting and self-ejecting the water, of
the craft of the National Lifeboat Institution. One of the
boats, which is 33 feet long and rows ten oars, double
banked, is intended for Teignmouth, Devon, to replace an
old and inferior boat there, She is an experimental boat,
being built of iron, and being the first lifeboat on the self-
righting principle which has been made of that material.
She was built by Mr. Hapworth, the iron shipbuilder at
Millwail, under the immediate superintendence of Mr. J.
Prowse, of her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, purveyor
to the institution. Her cost was raised at the British set-
tlements at Hong-Kong and Shanghai in 1862 by Mr. W.
H. Harton, a member of the general committee of the
Lifeboat Institution, in conjunction with Messrs. Gilman
and Co., of Hong-Kong, for the express purpose of present-
ing a lifeboat to th© society, to be stationed on the English
coast. In compliment to the subscribers who thus remem-
bered an important work in their own country when far
away from it, she has been named the China. A new and
commodious boathouse has been built for her at 'reign-
mouth, and she has been supplied with a new transporting
carriage. The other boat which was tried yesterday is 30
feet long, and rows 10 oars double banked, and is to go to
Swansea, She was built by the Messrs. Forrestt, of Lime-
house, lifeboat builder to the National Institution. The
Great Western Railway and the other connecting railway
companies have, as usual, readily given a free conveyance
to each of the boats to their destinations on the coast.

A YANKEE BOOBY—(worse than Dogberry)—
fairly " written down An Ass"—by Consul Nathaniel
Hawthorne, in his new book of " Our Old Home."—One
day a queer, stupid, good-natured, fat-faced individual came
into my private room, dressed in a sky blue cut-away coat
and mixed trousers, both garments worn and shabby, and
rather too small for his overgrown bulk. After a little preli-
minary talk he turned out to be a country shopkeeper (from
Connecticut I think), who had left a flourishing business,
and come over to England purposely and solely to have an
interview with the Queen. Some years before he had named
his two children, one for her Majesty and the othere little
for
Prince Albert, and had transmitted photographs of h
people, as well as of his wife and himself, to the ' iltustrious
godmother. The Queen had gratefully ackn:t secretary.
: ;edged the
favour, in a letter under the hand of her iv
Now the shopkeeper, like a great many
t was one of te
other Americans,
had long cherished a fantastic notion tho
rightful heirs of a rich English estate;
and on the strength
of her Majesty's letter, and the hopesi little country storeof a royal patronage
which it inspired, he had shut up his
and come over to claim his independence. On the voyage a
German fellow-passenger had relieved him of his money on
pretence of getting it favourablyexchanged, and had disap-
peared immediately on the ship's arrival, so that the poor
fellow was compelled to pawn all his clothes except the re-
markably shabby ones in which I behold him, and in which
(as he himself hinted, with a melancholy yet good-natured
smile) he did not look altogether fit to see the Queen. I agreed
with him that the bobtailed coat and mixed trousers consti-
tuted a very odd looking court dress, and suggested that it
was doubtless his present purpose to get back to Connecticut
as fast as possible. But no; the resolve to see the Queen was
as strong in him as ever,and it was marvellous the pertinacity
with which he clung to it amid raggedness and etarvation,and
the earnestness of his supplication that I would supply him
with funds for a suitable appearance at Windsor Castle.
I never had so satisfactory a perception of a complete booby
before in my life; and it caused mo to feel kindly towards
him, and yet impatient and exasperated on behalf of com-
mon sense, which could not possibly tolerate that such an
unimaginable donkey should exist. I laid his absurdity
before him in the very plainest terms, but without either
exciting his anger or shaking his resolution. Oh, my dear
man,' quoth he, with good-natured, placid, simple, and
tearful stubborness, •if you could but enter into my feel-
ings and see the matter from beginning to end as I see it !'
To confess the truth, I have since fel; I was hard-hearted
to the poor simpleton, and that there was more weight in
his remonstrance than I chose to be sensible of, at the time ;
for, like many man who have been in the habit of making
playthings or tools of their imagination and sensibility, I
was too rigidly tenacious of what was reasonable in the
affairs of real life. And even absurdity has its rights, when,
as in this case, it has absorbed a human being's entire na-
ture and purposes. I ought to have transmitted him to
Mr. Buchanan, in London, who, being a good-natured old
gentleman, and anxious, just then, to gratify the universal
Yankee nation, might, fur the joke's sake, have got him
admittance to the Queen, who had fairly laid herself open
to his visit, and has received hundreds of our country-
men on infinitely slighter grounds. But I was inexor-
able, being turned to flint by the insufferable proximity of
a fool, and refused to interfere with his business in any
Way except to procure him a passage home. I can see his
face of mild, ridiculous despair, at this moment, and aP"
preciate, better than I could then, how awfully cruel he
must have felt my obduracy to be. For years and Years'
the idea of an interview with Queen Victoria had
haunted his poor foolish mind ; and now, whenb.eangingY
stood on English ground, and the palace-doer w..
niless and
ajar for him, he was expected to turn back, a peri'on.boarted
bamboozled simpleton, merely because
lock had his demand
Consul refused to lend him 30s. 0°icket the rail for
ultimately sunk) to buy a second-
London Ile visited the Consulealattes:
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too
enneeticut, assail-
hope of gradually starving hi)"
every portunity, looking
ing me with the old petition at
thoroughly good-tempered,
shabbier at every visit, but.. stillthrough h
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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT EA STERN.

Yesterday this company's ati lamer Blenheim arrived at
Harwiall, with a eonsignment of 746 head of cattle and a
general cargo, at 9 a.m., after encountering a heavy gale,
having left Rotterdam at 5 30 a.n i. on the previous evening,
making her second experimental voyage in and out between.
Rotterdam and Harwich, and in connection with the Great
Eastern and Dutch Rhenish railways, during the week. At
Harwich, under the new regulations, the cattle were landed,
placed in sheds built for the purpose, arid examined by the
veterinary surgeon of the Board of Trade. After resting
they were conveyed in special trains from Harwich to Strat-
ford in two hours, and from thence by the North London
Junction line direct to the New Metropolitan Market in
the Caledonian-road, thus avoiding the necessity that pre-
viously existed of driving them from the docks through the
streets to market. Two new steamers are being built for this
route in addition to the Blenheim, and three other steamers
are to be constructed for the passenger service.

CHARING-CROSS.
Yesterday 'workmen commenced the demolition of a large
number of houses and shops in the Borough-market, and
portions of the Borough-market Distillery, lately belonging
to Messrs. Vickers, and great progress is being made with
the clearance of all the properties required for the exten.
sion of the line into Cannon-street.

BRISTOL AND NORTH SOMERSET.
The first sod of this line was turned at Glutton on Wed -
and yesterday the first rail of the line at the
nesday by Mrs. Milward, wife of the Rev. Prebendary
BristolMiiwar enda; was laid by Mrs. L. V. Hare, Mayoress of that
city. There were great rejoicings at both places. The line
from Radstock to Bristol, including a branch
to
Camerton,
will be 22 miles in length. Messrs. Bathe 11 and Walton aro
the contractors. The cost of the undertaking is estimated
at £270,000, and it appears that arrangements have been
made for completing the line within two years.