The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-03 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

PAYMASTER SMALES.

We have been requested to publish the following
communications from the Horse Guards and War
Office in the case of Paymaster Smales :
Horse Guards 28th July, 1863.
Sir,—l am desired by the Field Marshal Com-
manding in Chief to inform you that the Judge-
Advocate-General has represented to his Royal
Highness that in consequence of further information
having been obtained concerning the manner in
which your trial by general court-martial had been
conducted, the proceedings are in his opinion
vitiated.

His Royal Highness, therefore, felt himself called
upon to recommend to the Queen, in accordance
with the suggestion of the Judge•Advocate-General,
that her Majesty would be pleased to extend to you
her most gracious pardon, to take effect from the
date thereot (the 21st inst.), but not to operate i❑
any manner to reinstate you as paymaster of the
6th Dragoons, and her Majesty has been graciously
pleased to approve of this recommendation, and to
grant you her pardon accordingly.
(Signed) W. F. FORSTER.
To Thomas Smales, Esq , late Paymaster,
6th Dragoons.

War Office, 26th August, 1863.
Sir,—ln reply to your letter of the 30th ultimo, in
which you request, with reference to her Majesty's
pardon which has been recently granted to you, that
you may receive your pay as a paymaster, and that
your name may be noted for immediate active em-
ployment, I am directed to acquaint you that the
Secretary of State for War has been advised that
the pardon which her Majesty has been pleased to
grant you has left you in the position of a civilian.
I am, therefore, to inform you that you are not
entitled to receive any pay ; and further, it is not
the intention of Earl De Grey and Ripon to submit
your name to the Queen for appointment as a pay-
master.

(Signed) EDWARD LUGARD.
To Thomas Senates, Esq.

T he Story of a Hero, Told by his Valet.

Under this title there is a charming paper in Mr.
Blanchard Jerrold's new book of miscellanies, called
" A Book for the Beach." The Hero is one no less
worthy of the name than the Emperor Napoleon the
Great—the Valet, being Santini, one of the many
faithful attendants upon the Great Captiin during
the miserable years of his Exile at St. Helena.
From Mr. Blanchard Jerrold's narrative of that
Exile we take the following picturesque passages :

SPARKENHOE FARMERS' CLUB.

NUNEATON, Wednesday.
The annual meeting of tho Sparkenhoe Farmers' Club
took place this day in extensive grounds in the vicinity of
Nuneaton. The show of stock commenced yesterday, and
was one of the largest ever exhibited at the meetings of the
club. The whole place assumed the aspect of a fair. There
were trials of young hunters in galloping and fencing,
poultry and flower shows, exhibition of implements, compe-
tition in horse-ploughing, hedge-cutting and draining.
trials of steam ploughs, mowing and reaping machines, and
a general exhibition of corn, roots, cheese, vegetables, and '
fruit. Prizes to the amount of £9OO were distributed, and
during the two days occupied by the show the grounds were
visited by many thousands of spectators. There were 400
entries in the live stock department ; 240 pens in the poultry
exhibition ; and 350 entries in the corn, root, and vegetable
class. The proceedings wore enlivened by the bands of the
Scots Greys and of the Nuneaton Rifle Volunteers, who
during the day performed selections of operatic music.
The annuli dinner took place in a spacious pavilion, in
which about 1,000 of the gentry and farmers of this and
the adjoining aistricts dined together this afternoon. A very
large number of ladies attended the dinner.

The chair was occupied by Mr. Newdegate, M.P., the
lady patroness of the meeting being Lady Aylesfurd. Mr.
Newdegate was supported by Lord Leigh (Lord Lieutenant),
Lord Calthorpe, Mr. Caldecott (High Sheriff of Warwick •
shire), the Hon. Mr. Butler, the Rev. Mr. Quirk, the Hon,
E. Talbot, Earl Howe, Sir J. H. Crewe, the Hon. C. G.
Scott, Mr. Soden (Mayor of Coventry), Mr. Davenport, ecc.
The usual loyal toasts having been drunk,
The toast of the "House, of Lords" was proposed by Mr.
CALDECOTT, and acknowledged by Lord CALTHORPE, who
observed that he hoped that that house would never be un-
mindful of its origin and of the source from which it was
recruited. The House of Lords was, as they well knew, re-
cruited from the most intelligent portion of the middle
classes of this country, and it was one of the greatest boasts
of Englishmen that there was not a single person in the
realm, however humble he might be, but who by the exer-
cise of those talents which God had given him might be-
come a peer of the realm. (Cheers.)
The Hon. Mr. BUTLER then gave "The House of Com-
mons," observing that there was no class of men in the
kingdom who did more to promote the welfare of the coun-
try than the British House of Commons. There were very
few among them who had not the pleasure of associating
with their friend the member for North Warwickshire, and

it was therefore with great pleasura that they saw him oc-
cupy the chair on the present occasion. No doubt there were
some among them who thought that the privileges and ad-
vantages enjoyed by thellouse of Commons were very great,
but he assured them that the greatest privilege they en-
joyed was that of representing the people of England fully
and fairly in Parliament. (Cheers.) There were, in point
of fact, no men harder worked than were members of Par-
liament during certain months of the year, especially if
they did their duty honestly and faithfully to their con-
stituents. It might be said, as it had been, that very little
was done last session in the House of Commons, but he re-
minded them that on certain occasions silence was the
best policy which could be pursued, and there never had
been an occasion on which the silence of hon. members in
Parliament had been of greater service than during the
last session. A judicial silence oftentimes did more than
long speeches, and it was so in this instance. Hon. members
had had a difficult part to play in the excitement of the
Session. They had to uphold the dignity of the nation, sad
at the same time to mainta n its neutrality in the present
deplorable war. He thought that great praise was due to
them for the manner in which they had acted, and he be-

lieved that the Americans themselves in their ccoler mo-
ments admitted that we had honestly maintained oar neu-
trality. (Cheers.)
Mr. HIBBERD, M.P., replied to the toaet.
Several other local toasts were given, and the proceedings
terminated.

A Policeman Severely Wounded in a

Poaching Affray,

On Tuesday, at the West Riding Court, Leeds, Thomas
James Handley, alias Towneley, alias Teasdale, and John
Thomas Hey, were charged with maliciously and unlaw-
fully wounding Isaac Waddington, with intent to do him
grievous bodily harm. Waddington is a member of the
West Riding Constabulary, and is stationed at Shadwell,
near Leeds. On the 31st July he was on duty at Roundhay,
the night being beautifully clear and the moon shining
brightly. Near the parsonage house he saw two men stand-
ing on the footpath, and Handley was one of them. They
passed him, and wished him "good night." This would be
about 10 o'clock. The officer then saw a man coming down
the field behind the parsonage, and carrying a dark coloured
sack under his arm. Waddington identified him as the pri-
soner Hey, and he said to him, "It's you, is it, what have
you got in that bundle ?" Hey replied, " What the —is
that to thee ?" Waddington then seized the bag, and there
was a scuffle between them, in the course of which the offi-
cer tore the button off the bag and felt some nets in it.
Whilst the officer and Hey were struggling, the other two
men returned, Handley be;ng armed with the barrel of a
gun, and the other poacher with the stock. Handley
aimed a blow at the policeman's head, but the latter gave
way, and he was struck heavily on the shoulder. Hey
then got away, and running to a dross heap he picked a
great stone, and hurled it violently at the officer, who
was struck ever the mouth with the missile, and knocked
down. Waddington's lip was cut quite through, five teeth
were knocked out or broken, and the jawbone was fractured.
The policeman was stunned by the blow, and remained a
little time on the ground ; and as he was recovering, he ob-
served the three men running accross a field in the direc-
tion of Coble Hall Lane. He managed to crawl to the toll-
house, about 150 yards off, and there assistance was ren-
dered him, and he was under medical assistance for nearly
a month, and at one time his life was in danger.—Charles
Preston, a blacksmith, residing at Moorton, near Leeds, met
the prisoners at four o'clock the next morning, or about six
hours after the affray. They were then near Moortown
church, and Handley was carrying a bag across his shoul-
ders which apparently contained game, and blood was run-
ning out of the bottom of it. " How far halt thou come ?"
Preston replied "From Moortown." Hey rejoined "Halt
thou seen ought of any policeman?" Preston answered in
the negative. He then asked if they could direct them a way
of getting into Leeds without passing through Chapeltown,
and he gave them certain instructions with that object.
There was a third man with the prisoner, and he was carry-
ing three sticks. The prisoners were apprehended by Super-
intendent Pollard and Sergeant Midgley, as they were
entering a beerhouse in Kirkgate, on the 25th ult. After
they had been taken before the magistrate for remand, Hey,
addressing the prosecutor, Waddington, said, "It's thee we
are taken for I I wish the stone had knocked thy brains
out. If ever thou meets me again in that way, thou'l meet
nobody else." Superintendent Pollard, in searching Hey's
house, subsequently found 61 snares and wires, 49 purse
nets, four gate nets, three long nets and iron pegs, 53
wooden pegs, a gun, which could be taken in pieces, and
sporting appendages, 9 living wild rabbits, and 3 dead ones,
Three long nets were wet, as if they had been recently used,
and were hung up on the clothes line.—The prisoners were
committed for trial at the next West Riding sessions.

BALLOON ASCENT.—NARROW ESCAPE.—The
balloon ascent on Monday, by Mr. Glaisher, Mr.
Coxwell, the representative of the Newcastle Chronicle, and
others, was highly successful, though the descent was at-
tended with considerable danger, as the following report for
the paper just named wilt show :—Mr.Coxwell, looking out
for a favourable position for the descent, thought at first to
pass a range of hills right ahead of us ; but, finding a
favourable field nearer at hand, he lowered us quickly, and
warned us how to avoid injury by bumps, In accordance
with his directions we cowered down in the car, and hold-
ing fast the ropes on each side, were ready for the
bumps when they should come ; and come they did. In
avoiding the wires on the North-Eastern Railway we got
out of the pan into the fire, as the phrase goes, and caught
the telegraph wires on a waggon-way that had be en
quite unobserved. The Mammoth, impatient of restraint,
swayed his immense bulk to and fro, and dragged most mon-
strously against the resistance of the grapnel on the wires.
" Bravo wires!" said one, and bump went we on the ground.
Up for an instant, and then down again with a bump bigger
than ever, and most vilely stunning in its effects. The
huge balloon flapped and tore in front of us, and suddenly
carried us right off from our hold. Looking over the edge
of the car, it was seen that she bad torn up two of the tele-
graph posts, and brought them over the hedge into the
field of shorn and sheaved corn. Worse than this, an ex-
clamation from Mr. Smith told us that the rope had broken,
and that the grapnel was ]eft hanging to the wire. Mr.
Smith shouted to the peasantry, who, like the Britons of
old, when alarmed at the appearance of Casar, had congre-
gated on the adjacent heights, and requested them to come
to our assistance and seize the rope. They came down fast
enough, but not understanding what was required of them,
and being perchance apprehensive of being carried off into
the heavens, did not seize hold of either car or rope. Mr.
Coxwell, with a degree of promptitude and energy which
proved him to be equal to any danger,applied himself to the
valve rope, and pulled with might and main. Neverthe-
less, the balloon had still power to drag the car and us
along the field of corn, first by slight and occasional
elevations, then by regular dragging. the car lying onits
side, and the monster balloon tearing along at an uncom-
fortable rate. Mr. Smith, taking the string, relieved Mr.
Corwell, and, obeying his rapid orders, pulled with all his
strength, Yet on we went, the car creaking and strain-
ing heavily, while we, crouched in it, were bumped and
s
knocked, and thumped. and once or twice fairly covered
in with sheaves. A. thick and high thorn fence was right
in front of us, and it seemed likely that we should be into
iatn.dl.,Ntlhr.evi
Colwellacti ty and knew
strength better, aonfdmthr.rosumghith aided also by
h generalship,
our friends of the country, who had at length Seized hold of
the car, we pulled up just at that point where a clever hun-
ter would have risen at the fence. The balloon, indeed, was
quite over the hedge, the car still on the right side. when
the people, seizing the net-work, helped to hold her back,
and so saved us from a scratching. Inquiries as to our
whereabouts elicited the intelligence that we were near the
village of Pittington, and that we had come to earth on the
farm of Mr, Newby,

Escape and Suicide of a Patient from

Armstrong's Lunatic Asylum,

Mr. Wm. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey,
held an inquest at Mr. Aylett's, the Crown Tavern,
Church-street, Lambeth, on the body of Sarah Jones,
aged 28, late an inmate of Dr. Armstrong's lunatic
asylum at Peckham.
Police-constable 184, of the L division, eaid that
on Monday morning last his attention was called
by a gentleman to something lying near Waterloo-
bridge, on the bed of the river. He went down,
and found that it was the deceased. He gave in-
formation to Mr. Adamson, and the body was taken
to Lambeth dead-house.

Ann Hailes said twat she had laitd out the body.
°
She found a mark on the back the head, and
another on the left elbow. as it they were caused by
s. heavy fall. In her pocket were two handkerchiefs
and a halfpenny.
Eliza Shallon said that she was a widow, and
had known the deceased for about seven months,by
g reason of being employed at Mr. Armstro 's
lunatic asylum at Peckham. Witness was an at-
tendant in the asylum. The deceased was a luuatic
patient. She last saw hor alive at three o'clock on
Sunday afternoon last, at which time she was
under the charge of Mary Ann Osborn, another at-
tendant, and also herself and Emma• Marshall. She
last saw her whilst they were walking out, and
after passing Camberwell-green they turned, for the
purpose of going up Denmark-hill, when, at the
corner of Church-street, she was missed by Osborne,
who ran back towards Camberwell Church. Wit-
ness did not see her again alive.
Mary Ann Osborne said that she was an attend-
ant at Dr. Armstrong's. On Sunday afternoon the
deceased and other patients left the establishment
for a walk; There were 33 patients and three at-
tendants. On arriving at the corner of Church-
street, by the Green, she missed the deceased. She
left the other patients, and ran after her, but could
not find her, and she gave a description of her to a
policeman. She was not suicidically inclined, and
was a very quiet girl, and most amiable in her
manners. She had of late got much better in her
mind. She was entrusted with knives, and no fear
was apprehended that she contemplated suicide.
The delusions she laboured under were about religion.
Elizabeth Jones said that she was a widow. The
deceased was born 7 weeks after the death of her

father. Witness resided at 7, Gloucester-street,
Lambeth. She had been at Dr. Armstrong's esta-
blishment for 7 months as a pauper patient. She
never knew her to threaten to destroy her life. She
used to wander in her mind. She could not tell how
she got into the water.
The learned Coroner summed up ; and
The jury returned a verdict that deceased de-
stroyed her life when of unsound mind.

The Coroner recommended the attendants to use
all proper vigilance in future, so that a similar case
might not occur again.

THE MURDER AT TEIGNBRIDGE.

The coroner's inquiry concerning the death of
John Meers, aged 31, whose body was found in the
water under one of the arches at Teignbridge on
Friday, the 22d of August, was resumed on Tues-
day, at the Union Inn, Teignrace.
William Handyn, a labourer, of Leverton, de-
posed that the last time he saw deceased alive was
on Thursday, the 13th of August, at the Newton
Races, in company with a fellow workman, called
Coleman. He saw him several times during the
evening. He appeared to have been drinking.
Between nine and ten he saw deceased near the
grand stand, and heard him say to Heath, "Heath,
you are quite a different man from what I took
you to be." Heath did not reply.
Witness was cross-examined at considerable
length by Police•constable M'Ternan, in reference
to what he had told him concerning the affair.
Witness professed that he did not remember what
he had told the constable, and gave his evidence in
such a way as to call forth a severe rebuke from
the coroner.
Thomas Harris, a bargeman, of Newton, said that
on the night of the first day of the races, about
half-past ten o'clock, he was returning from the
races, and when near the Kingsteignton Bridge, a
man came up and caught him by the legs, and
attempted to throw him over the bridge. A man
called Bully came to his assistance. He followed
the man, who was a stranger to him, to the Dart-
mouth Inn, Newton, where he was told his name
was Bunker. Witness also said that he saw the
deceased on the second day of the races, en the
racecourse.
John Heath, a potter, of Bovey Tracey, was next
called, and, after being cautioned by the coroner,
in the usual way, deposed to having seen the de-
ceased at the Newton Races on Thursday, the 13th
of August. The last time he saw him alive was
between eleven and twelve in the evening. De-
ceased was then sitting on a form in the last booth
towards Newton. He appeared to have been drink-
hog. Witness shortly afterwards left to go home,
in company with a man called James Lethbridge.
When witness left the course there was fighting
going on in one of the booths, between some
sparring men and a number of Kingsteignton men.
Witness got home between two and three o'clock
in the morning. On his way home he passed over
the bridge where the deceased's body was found.
On passing the booth the deceased spoke to him
and said, " Heath, you have assaulted me." Wit-
ness, in fighting, hit the deceased twice in the face,
knocking him down each time. He never quarrelled
with the deceased before, as there was no 0119 in the
pottery he respected more.
At this stage of the proceedings the Coroner re-
marked that he saw bat very little at present that
would assist the jury in coming to a satisfactory
conclusion. The whole of the evidence having been
read over, the Coroner observed that, as the evi-
dence was now before the jury, it was for them to
form their own opinion upon the matter. He did
not think it was probable the deceased had eome
into the water by his own act, but that he must
have been violently ill-used, and afterwards, by
some parties unknown, thrown into the water. He
considered that if the jury were to return an open
verdict, the police would then be able to bring the
parties before the magistrates, as he was clearly of
the opinion that the deceased had been murdered.
Tne room was then cleared, and the jury, after
the lapse of about forty minutes, returned the fol-
lowing verdict :—" That the deceased was mur-
dered by blows inflicted upon him, and afterwards
thrown into the water, by some person or persons
unknown."
The Coroner said that he perfectly agreed with
the verdict, and intimated his intention of commu-
nicating with the Secretary of State, with a view
of having a reward offered for the discovery of the
perpetrator.

correspondent of a Scotch
LORD CLTDE.—A
paper furnishes the following :—.4 Having been pro-
fessionally occupied recently in making a search in the old
register of births and baptisms for the City of Glasgow,
now deposited in the Register House, Edinburgh, I acciden-
tally
came upon that of our illustrious and gallant towns-
man, the late Lord Clyde, and having copied it from the
register, I send it to you. The entry in the register esta-
blishes not only the name of his father, but is very strong
evidence of his having been a citizen of Glasgow, if any
further plod of these points were 'wanting. The entry is
as fellows Glasgow, October, 1792.---31'Liver,—John
M'Liver, weight, and Agnes Campbell: a L. Son, Colin,
bo. 20th. Witn., Kenneth M'Callum and Duncan "
NARROW ESCAPE OF AN EXPRESS TRAIN.--Yes-
terday John Albuary, a butcher, residing at Agnes-
place, Plumpstead, appeared before Dlr. Maude, sitting in
the Woolwich police-court, to answer an adjourned sum-
mons, charging the defendant with endangering the lives
of passengers on the North Rent Railway, by leaving a
horse and cart on the line, near the Abbey-wood station.
From the evidence previously taken it appeared that on the
12th of August the defendant, with a horse and cart, was
passing slowly over a level crossing of the railway at the
moment that an express train to London was in sight. The
danger signal was fortunately given to the driver of the
train, who instantly slackened speed, and a collision was
avoided. The defendant pleaded that his eyesight was bad,
and that he was also deaf. He did not see or hear the
train until it was neat, and he then got off the line as soon
as possible. It was stated that the South-Eastern Com-
pany did not intend to prosecute, as the offence did not ap-
pear to have been wilfully committed. The defendant was
then discharged.

REVISING BARRISTERS.—The revision of the lists
of voters in England and Wales must be completed within
the 15th inst. and the 31st October. Tho sum allowed for
the current year is £17,850, allowing 200 guineas to each
revising barrister. By the new Circuit Act (26th and 27th
Victoria, cap. 122) it is enacted that upon any alteration
being made in any of the circuits of the judges by her Ma-
jority in Council it shall bo lawful to order and direct that
the number of revising barristers to be appointed for the
several counties, cities, boroughs, and places within any
circuit affected by the alteration shall be increased or
diminished as to her Majesty, by the advice of the Privy
Council, may seem meet, anything in the Act 6th and 7th
Victoria, cap. 18, notwithstanding, provided that the num-
ber of the revising barristers be not augmented otherwise
than in accordance with the 29th section of the Act men-
tioned. _ _ _

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A collection of ancient carriages has been added
to the South Kensington Museum attractions.
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT has been adapted for ear-
gical purposes. A great difficulty in many operations is the
want of light, and by means of a small vacuum tube, bent
into a helix or screw, a kind of luminous cylinder is formed,
which may be introduced into very narrow cavities. Car-
buretted hydrogen, carbonic, and a hydrochloric acid are
used in the vacuum tube to produce whitenees in the light.
—,London I?eview,

SECOND EDITION.

BUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
DERBY RACES—Tuts DAY,

BRETBY STAKES.

Practitioner
Tomfoolery
Coimbra .

INNKEEPERS' PLATE.
Mias Livingstone
Erythia

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DONNINGTON PLATE.

Overture . 1
Lufra . 2
Redcap 3

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SELLING STAKES.

Sal vioni
Wee Aggie ....
3
Highland Al ary
3

Six ran.

CHATSWORTH STAKES.

Stockinger
Doncaster
Warhorse 2
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HARRINGTON STAKES.

Persuasion
Dawdle
........ 2
Tomfoolery
Four ran.

A Mes.gagt3 from America to 'Europe.

The follo wing " circular" has been addressed by
the Gover 'went at Washington to the United

States Cons uls in Europe :
" Department of State, Washington, Aug. 12.
"Sir,—Whomever the United States have complained of
the premature decrees of Great Britain and France, which
accorded the character of a belligerent to the insurgents,
the statesmen of those countries have answered, that from
the first they agreed in opinion that the efforts of the Go-
vernment to maintain the Union, and preserve the integrity
of the republic, could not be successful. With a view to
correct this prejudgment of so vital a question I addressed
a circular letter to the representatives of the United States
in foreign countries on the 11th of April, 1862, in which I
reviewed the operations of the war on sea and land, and
presented the results which had attended it down to that
period. The prejudice, which I then attempted to remove,
still remains, and it constitutes the basis of all that is de-
signedly or undesignedly injurious to this country is the
policy of foreign nations. The insurgents have been enabled
to protract their resistance by means of sympathy and aid
they have received from abroad, and the expectation of fur-
ther and more effective foreign assistance is now their chief
resource. A new effort, therefore, to correct that prejudice
is demanded, equally by a prudent concern for our foreign
relations, and by the paramount interests of peace and hu-
manity at home.
"In the battles of August, 1562, the Union forces suf-
fered some severe and appalling reverses. But they resulted
in the reunion of the army which had been called in from
the peninsula below Richmond with the army which hal
its position between that strongly fortified seat of the insur-
rection and this capital. The wisdom of this reunion was
soon to be vindicated. The insurgent army, flushed with its
recent successes, and expecting that a sympathetic interest
of slavery would produce an uprising of the people of Mary-
land in its favour, for the first time crossed the Potomac
river. Harper's Ferry, with many prisoners, fell into its
hands, rather through accidents in preparing its defence
than because it was indefensible. Nevertheless, the expecta-
tion of recruits signally failed. General M'Clellan, com-
manding the now consolidated forces of the Army of the
Potomac, was reinforced by fresh levies from Pennsylvania
and by detachments called in from neighbouring forts. He
drove the insurgents Irons their positions at South Mountain
and Crampton's Gap, About the middle of September the
two opposing armies confronted each other at Sharpsburg,
and a pitched battle was fought on the banks of the Antie-
tam and Potomac. It was well sustained on both sides.
Men of one race and training directed the armies, whose
rank and file were substantially of one blood, and even nearly
equal in numbers. The arrogant assumption of superior
valour and heroism which the insurgents had brought into
the contest, and had cherished throughout its early stages,
perished on that sanguinary field. The insurgent army,
shattered in the conflict, abandoned the invasion of Mary-
land, and sought refuge and opportunity to recover its
wasted strength in Virginia behind its accustomed barrier,
the Potomac.
"While Lee was thus attempting Maryland, the equally
bold and alarming enterprise of carrying the war through
Kentucky into Ohio was assigned to Bragg, who was in
command of the insurgent army on the southern border of
Tennessee. He, with great rapidity, moved from Chatta-
nooga, turned the left flank of General Buell, and appeal-
ing for reinforcements to the slavery-inspired sentiments
which existed in Kentucky and Tennessee, directed his
forces against Louisville and Cincinnati. An uprising of the
farmers of Ohio confronted and turned away the devasta-
tion from the latter city. General Buell followed the main
column of invasion, outmarched it on the way to Louisville,
and obliged it to take a direction eastward. The two in-
surgent columns, being united at Perryville, were attacked
by General Buell. The battle, like all our contests, was
obstinate and bloody. Bragg, after severe losses, retreated
through a comparatively barren, region and Buell was
obliged to abandon the pursuit by the complete exhaustion
of all the sources of supply. The insurgent commander
crossed the Cumberland Mountains, and then, marching
westward, took up a position at Murfreesborough, fortified
there, and proceeded to recruit his wasted forces.
" Van Dorn and Price were at the same period in com-
mand of very considerable forces in Mississippi and Alabama,
and to them was assigned the third part in the grand invasion
of the loyal States which the cabal at Richmond had decreed.
This was an attempt, as they called it, to deliver, but, in fact,
to subjugate Western Tennessee and Kentucky. General
Rosecrans received the assault of those portions of the in-
surgent forces at Corinth, defeated them with great slaughter
and drove them backward, so that they neither reached nor
approached the region which they were appointed to invade.
General Rosecrans, called to succeed General Buell in
command of the army of the Cumberland, then en-
tered Nashville, which the insurgents had before invested
in carrying out their general scheme of invasion. He raised
the siege and prepared for offensive action. In the last days
of the year he issued from Nashville, and delivered a san-
guinary battle at Stuns River, which gave him possession
of Murfreesborough; Bragg retreated to Shelbyville and
Tullahoma, and there again rested and intrenched. A long
period of needed rest was now employed by the respective
parties in increasing the strength and efficiency of their
armies, but this repose was broken by frequent skirmishes
and by cavalry expeditions, which penetrated hostile regions
sometimes hundreds of miles, and effected breaches of mili-
tary connections and a destruction of military stores upon
an extensive scale, while they kept up the spirit of the troops
and hardened them for more general and severe conflicts.
" Vicksburg then remained in the hands of the insur-
gents, the principal key to the navigation of the Mississippi
river—a navigation which was confessed on all sides to be
absolutely essential to the United States, and when re-
opened by them, fatal to the insurrection. The duty of
wresting that key from the insurgents had been devolved
on the navy, with the aid of a considerable land force,
then encamped on the west bank of the Mississippi river.
But new and unforeseen difficulties continually based
the enterprise, and seemed to render it impossible. General
Grant, who was at the head of the department and of the
army of the Tennessee, at length assumed the active com-
mend of the troops investing the stronghold, and these were
adequately reinforced. The naval squadron on the Missis-
sippi, under command of Rear-Admiral Porter, was also
steadily increased until more than 100 armed vessels were
employed upon the river, including many iron-clad gunboats
of great power, Part of the Gulf squadron, under Admiral
Farragut, gallantly running the batteries of Port Hudson
under a fierce fire, co-operated with the river fleets. Labo-
rious and persevering attempts were made to open an arti-
ficial channel for the river opposite Vicksburg, as had been
done with such signal success at Island No. 10. But the
various canals, projected and executed, failed, and only a
few small steamers of no considerable power were thus en-
abled to pass the city. Combined laud and naval expedi-
tions were also sent forth, which, with infinite pains and
endurance, attempted to turn the enemy's works by navi-
gating the various bayous and sluggish rivers, whose intri-
cate network forms so singular a feature of the military
topography of the banks of the Mississippi. All these attempts
having failed from physical obstacles found to be insur-
mountable, Gen. Grant and Admiral Porter at last put afloat
armed steamers and steam transports, which ran through
the fires of the long line of shore batteries which the insur-
gents had erected at Vicksburg and its thief supports,War-
renton and Grand Gulf. At the same time the land forces
moved down the right bank of the river to a point below
Grand Gulf, where they crossed in the steamers which had
effected so dangerous a passage. The batteries of Grand Gulf
for several hours resisted a bombardment by the gunboats
at
short
range, but they fell into the hands of the admiral
as soon as Gen. Grant's forces appeared behind them.
Gen. Grant, thiough a series of brilliant manoeuvres, with
marches interrupted by desperate battles day after day, suc-
ceeded in dividing and separating the insurgent forces. He
then attacked the chief auxiliary column under Johnston,
and drove it out of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
Having
_destroyed_ the railroad bridges and military stores
there, aim. Grant turned at once to the west, Numerous
comb:A.B ensued, in all of
which the loyal arms were success-
ful. Loring, with a
off towards the south- considerable insurgent force was driven
eastwnhile Pemberton, after a loss of
many GO pieces of artillery and yor
Vicksburg,
regained his shel-
ter within the fortified lines with an army
now reduced to between 30,000 and
40,C00 men. During
these movements the heavy batteriesord of the
of the insurgents
which were established near the
mouth
the defensive Yazoo
and which constituted
were taken
part
of
an system of Vicksburg,
razed Rear-
Admiral Porter, who thereupon sent a detachment by
of his
fleet up that important tributary of
the m
and effectually destroyed the numerous vessels issippi,
stores which were found within and upon its banks.
General Grant, during these brilliant operations,
had necessarily operated by a movable column. He
now re-established his communications with the river fleets
above as well as below Vicksburg., invested the tow; and
ignorant of the numbers enclosed within its defences, at-
tempted an assault. Though bravely and vigorously made
it was nevertheless unsuccessful. He thereupon sat down
before the fortifications, to reduce them by the less bloody
but sure methods of siege. Pemberton made a gallant de •
fence, hoping for relief from Johnston. Strenuous efforts
were made by the chiefs at Richmond to enable Johnston to
render that assistance. They detached and sent him troops
from Bragg's army on the frontier of Alabama, and from
Beauregard's command from South Carolina, and in (Johns.
this they endangered both of those armies. All the capable
free men of Mississippi were called to the rescue of the ca-
pital of their State, and to save the stronehold of the trea-
sonableor Confederacy which was besieged within their limits.
Never, the besieged post was in the very centre of the
slave Population of that Confederacy, and the President's
proclamation of freedom would be sounded in their hearing
if the stronghold should tail—but the effort required was
too great for the demoralised and exhausted condition of
the insargenta• Johnston did not arrive to raise the siege,
nor did success attead any of the attempts from within to
break the skilfully drawn lines of General Grant. On the
6th of July General Pemberton laid down his arms and
surrendered the post, with 30,000 men, 200 pieces of artil-
lery, 70,000 small arms, and ammunition sufficient for a
six years' defence. This capture was as remarkable as the
famous one made by Napoleon at Ulm.
" On the same day au insurgent attack upon General
Prentice, at Helena, situated en the right bank of the man
siseippi, in the State of Arkans s, nas reputsed with the

loss of many prisoners on the part of the assailants, As if
the anniversary so identified with the nation's hopes was

pointed to bo peculiarly eventful, Lee, who had again

entered Maryland, and passing through the State had

approached the Susquehannah, threatening Harrisburg,
Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, fell back, after
pitched battles continued for three days at Gettysburg, and
resumed his retreat, with an army even worse shattered
than before, to his accustomed position on the Rappahan-
nock,

" On the Bth of July the insurgent garrison at Port Hud-
son, 6,000 strong, after enduring a long siege with the ut-

most courage, surrendered uncmditionally to Gen. Banks;
_ _

and thus the United States recovered from the insurgents
the last of the numerous posts by which for more than two

years they had effectually destroyed the navigation of the

Mississippi. This great river, which in time of peace con:

ributes relatively as much towards.a supply of the increased

wants of mankind as the Nile did to those wants in the time

of the Roman Empire, is now again opened to the inland
commerce of the country. Steamers descend the river and
its tributaries from the navigable floods to the Gulf of
Mexico. It is not to be doubted that the insurgent losses

in these operations on the Mississippi amount to 50,000 men
and 300 pieces of artillery, a large portion of which were of
heavy calibre. Johnstone's army, which at the time of the
surrender was advancing to threaten the besiegers, at once
fell back to Jackson, and it was again driven from that
capital by a detachment which Gen. Grant had committed
to the command of Gen. Sh-rman. In retiring, Johnstone
fired many buildings filled with munitions of war, and
abandoned a large quantity of railroad locomotives and cars,
which had been detained at that place by reason of the
railroads north, south, east, and west of Jackson having
been previously cut by the Government forces.
" General Sherman now desisted from the
portion of
p ursuit of
Johnstone and returned to Vicksburg, where a
the army is enjoying repose, not more necessary
than well
' earned, while others are engaged in expelling from the Mis-
sissippi roving bands of the insurgents who infest its banks
i
and fire from thence upon passing steamers. It
s reported
that Johnstone with the troops at his disposal, now said
to number 25,000, has fallen back to Meridian, on the
eastern border of MisSissippi, 120 miles east of Vicksburg,
so that the State whose misguided penile were among the
earliest and most intemperate abettors of the insurrection
is virtually abandoned by its military agents.
" In Louisiana Gen. Banks succeeded Gen. Bntler. After
spending some months in organising the department and
disciplining the new levies which constituted its force, Gen.
Banks made a rapid and successful seres of marches and
contests, in which he drove the insurgents out of the Atta-
kapas and Teehe regions, well known as the richest por-
tions of that very productive State, captured Alexandria
and Donaldsonville, the seats of its fugitive seditious execu-
tive and legislative authorities, crossed the Mississippi at
Bayou Sara, and there receiving an additional column which
was ascending from Baton Rouge, invested Port Hudson,
which, excluding Vicksburg, was the only remaining strong-
hold of the insurrection on the great river.
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advanced into the insurrectionary territories, slaves in con-
siderable numbers accepted their freedom, and came under
the protection of the national flag. Amid the great prejudice
and many embarrassments which attended a measure so
new and so divergent from the political habits of the

country, freedmen with commendable alacrity enlisted in
the Federal army. There was in acme quarters a painful
inquiry about their moral capacity for service. That uncer-
tainty was brought to a sudden end in the siege of Port
Hudson. The newly-raised negro regiments exhibited all
necessary valour and devotion in the military assaults which
were made, with desperate courage, and not without fearful
loss, by Gen. Banks. This protracted operation engaged
nearly all Gen. Bank's available forces, While it was going
on insurgent troops which were called up from Texas re-
occupied much of the south-western portion of Louisiana
which he had before reclaimed. Tho surrender of Port
Hudson, however, set his army at liberty, and he has already
made considerable progress in restoring the national au-
thority thus temporarily displaced.
"The complete occupation of the Mississippi by the na-
tional forces has effectually divided the insurrectionary
region into two parts, and among the important features of
this division, one which is of the highest practical signi-
ficance is that the field of military operations of the insur-
rection is chiefly on the eastern side of the river, while its
supplies have been mainly drawn from the prairies of Ar-
kansas and Texas, which stretch away from the western
shore. These prairies can no longer supply the insurgents
with cattle for sustenance and use in the field ; and, on the
other hand, arms, ordnance, and ammunition can no longer
be sent from the eastern manufactories and deposits to
forces employed or in garrison in the west. The value of
the acquisition of the Mississippi in this respect was illus-
trated only a few days since in the capture by General
Grant, near Natchez, of 5,000 beeves ana 2,000 mules which
had crossed to the eastern bank, and at the same time many
hundred thousands of cartridges and other stores which had
just been landed at the western end of the same ferry.
"A vigorous blockade has been maintained at Charleston ;
and although fast steamers, of light draught and painted
with obscure colours, occasionally succeed in slipping
through the blockading squadron in the morning and even-
ing twilight, many are destroyed and more are captured.
An attack by the fleet made on the 7th day of April last
upon the forts and batteries which defend the harbour
failed because the rope obstructions in the channel fouled
the screws of the iron-clads, and compelled them to retire
after passing through the fire of the batteries. Those
vessels bore the fire of the forts, although some defects of
construction were revealed by the injuries they received.
The crews passed through an unexampled cannonade with
singular impunity. Not one life was lost on board of a
Monitor. The defects disclosed have been remedied, and an
attack is now in progress, with good prospect of ultimate
success, having for its obj ct the reduction of the forts in the
harbour by combined sea and land forces. We occupy more
than half of Morris's Island with land forces, which, aided
by batteries afloat and batteries ashore, aro pushing siege
works up to Fort Wagner, a strong earthwork which has
been twice assaulted with great gallantry, but without suc-
cess. On the 17th of June the Atalanta, which was regarded
by the insurgents as their most formidable iron-clad ves-
sel, left Savannah, and came down the Wilmington river.
The national iron-clads Weehawken, Capt. John Rogers,and
Nahant, Commander J. Downs, were in readiness to meet
her.of
ite Weehawken, hAt
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whichtala
Atalanta fisrterdueak nrifleeasr thehet
Nahant.acro A
across the
5 15 the Weehawken, at a range of 300 yards, opened upon
the Atalanta, which had then grounded. The Weehawken
fired five shots, four of which took effect on the Atalanta.
She
arLinea surrenderedeshave
55e0t 50.
O
changed in North Carolina. All
attempts of the insurgents to recaP ture the towns from which
they had been expelled have been repulsed. Much damage
has been inflicted upon their communications, and valuable
military stores have been destroyeda expeditions into the
interior. North Carolinashowsnlaebaagm ,
prpie,
At
l Ark
some!ymptoms of disaffeo-
etixohnibtiotwedaridnstihiessiinsasuig Similara indications are
"The situation on the York and Jamnessas,riavnedraThexaassr.e.
mained unchanged since the withdrawal
ag. Attempts
of the army of
o
Gen. M'Clcllan from the Peninsula a year
by the insurgents to retake Williamsburg and Suffolk have
been defeated, but the garrison at the latter place has been
withdrawn for purely military reasons to a more defensible
line.
"I now return to the Army of the Potomac, which
was
left resting and refitting after putting an end to the firstin-
surgent invasion of Maryland. Gen. M'Clellan recrossed
the Potomac and entered Virginia in November,and obliged
the invading forces under Leo to fall backward to Gordons-
ville,
south of the Rappahannock. When the Army of the
Potomac reached Warrenton it was placed under command
of General Burnside. He marched to Falmouth, hoping to
cross the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg, and to move at
once upon Richmond. Delays,resulting from various causes,
without fault of the General, permitted the insurgents to
occupy the heights of Fredericksburg; and when at length,
in December, General Burnside crossed the Rappahannock,
his assault upon Lee's well-fortified position failed. He
skilfully recrossed the river without loss. Gen. Hooker suc-
ceeded to the command, and it was not until the beginning
of May that the condition of the river and roads permitted
a renewal of offensive operations. The General crossed the
Rappahannock and accepted a battle, which proved equally
sanguinary to both parties, and successful to the army of
the Potomac. The heightc of Fredericksburg were captured
by Gen. Sedgwipk's corps, but the whole army was com-
pelled to return to the north bank of the river. After this
battle Lee, in the latter part of May and in June, withdrew
his army from Gen. Hooker's front, and ascending the south
bank of the Rapidan, towards the sources of the Rappahan-
nock,eayThe
army
entered the Shenandoah Valley, and once more
e
tempted
sever cavalry the fortune of war by invading the loyal States. A
engagementefthaet Beverly Ford unmaskedbForredkeupite
campa
this
movement,
and marched to the encounter. The militia of Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and New York flew to arms, and occupied
Baltimore, Harrisburg
the line of the Susquehannah.
The two armies met at and Gettysburg, in Pennsylvania, Bud
after a fierce contest of three
slaughter on bath sides, the insurgents duration, and terrible
zergents re coiled from the
posit ion held by Gen. Meade, hadlie
ttLehemeenaeb.e enonon
jlyulfour
,
days in command of the army of the
anclHagertown tol%
the day of the surrender of Vicksburg, retreated,, pass-
ing through Charabersburg
where the proper disposition to attack him wilsliamasdrPieobrty,
Gem. me, je. Deceived concerning the state of thern
supposed to be unfordable, Gen. Meade, hourly expectvinr,
reinforcements, dot yoc.l the attack a day too long, and theg
insurgents partly by fording and partly by floating bridges,
succeeded in withdragiving across the river by night, with their
artillery and a great part of their baggage. Much of this bag.
gage, as well as of the plunder which Lee had collected, was
destroyed by cavalry, or thrown out of the waggons to make
room for the wounded whom Lee carried off from the battle-
field. Ile had buried most of his dead of the first day's conflict
at Gettysburg. The remainder, together with those who
fell on the second Find third days of the battle, in all, 4,500,

were buried by the victorious army. Many thousand in-

surgents, wounded and captives, fell into the hands of

General Meade. It is not doubted that the second =sue-

cessful invasion cost the insurgents 40,000 men. Our own
loss was severe, for the strife was obstinate and deadly.
General Meade crossed the Pctomac. Lee retired again to
Gordonsville, where he is now understood to be in front of
our forces.
" While the stirring events which have been related were
occurring in the East and in the West, General Rosecrans
advanced upon Bragg, who, with little fighting, hastily
abandoned his fortified positions of Shelbyville and Tulla-
homa, in Southern Tennessee. General Rosecrans took,
and he yet holds them, while Bragg, with severe loss in a
hurried retreat, has fallen back to Chattanooga. It is un-
derstood that his army had been already much weakened
by detachments sent from it to reinforce Johnstone, with a
view to a raising of the siege of Vicksburg.
"I must not overlook the operations of cavalry. General
Stoneman, in connection with the movement upon Chan-
cellorsville, made a rapid and effective passage through the
insurgent country, from the Rappahannock to the York
river, which will be remembere(i among the striking achieve-
ments of the war. While our forces were operating against
Vicksburg and Port Hudson, Colonel Grierson, with a force
of 1,500 men, left Corinth, on the northern border of the
State of Mississippi, and made an expedition, in which he
broke military communications, destroyed stores, and
effected captures through the length and breadth of the
State, and finally, without serious loss, joined the army of
General banks, then engaged in the siege of Port Hudson,
" John Morgan, hitherto the most successful of the in-
surgent partisans, recently passsed through the lines of Gen.
Burnside, accross the States of Tennessee and Kentucky ;
moving northward, and avoiding all large bodies of our
troops, he reached the Ohio river at Brandenburg, below
Louisville, and seized two steamboats, with which he crossed
into Indiana. Thence proceeding rapidly eastward, subsist-
ing on the country and impressing horses as his own gave
out, he traversed a portion of Indiana and nearly the whole
breadth of Ohio, destroying railroad stations and bridges,
and plundering the defenceless villages. The people rallied
to arms under the call of their governors. Some of them
occupied the most important points, while others barricaded
the road or hung upon the rear of the intruders. Morgan
found no disaffected citizens to recruit his wasted ranks,
and when he reached the Ohio his force was prevented from
croszing by the gunboats and driven backward with great
slaughter. His force was between 2,600 and 4,000 horse,
with several pieces of artillery. Only some 300 succeeded
in recrossing the Ohio and escaping into the wilds of
Western Virginia. Many perished in battles and skirmishes,
and the remainder, including Morgan himself, his principal
officers, and all his artillery, were finally captured by the
national forces. An attempt has just been made by the in-
sargents to invade Eastern Kentucky, which probably was
begun with a view to make a diversion in favour of Morgan's
escape, but the forces, after penetrating as far as Lexington,
have been routed by detachments from General Burnside'e
army and pursued, with the capture of many prisoners and
all their artillery.
" This review of the campaign shows that no great pro-
gress has been made by our arms in the East. The opposing
forces there have been too equally matched to allow great
advantages to accrue to either party ; while the necessity of
covering the national capital in all contingencies has con-
stantly restrained our generals, and forbidden such bold and
dangerous movements as usually conduct to brilliant mili-
tary success. In the West, however, the results have been
morn gratifying. 50,000 square miles have been reclaimed
from the possession of the insurgents. On referring to the
annexed map it will bo seen that since the breaking out of
the insurrection the Government has extended its former
sway over and through a region of 200,000 square miles, an
area as large as Austria or France, or the peninsula of Spain
and Portugal. The insurgents lost in the various field and
siege operationsof the month of July which I have described
one-third of their whole forces. _ .

" Jeff-rsOn Davis, the leader of the sedition, has since
proclaimed a levy of all the able-bodied men within his mili-
tary lines. This, if carried into effect, will exhaust the whole
material of which soldiers can be made. The insurgents
estimate the total number of conscripts thus to be gained at
from 70,000 to 95,000. Our armies now confront the insur-
gents at all points with superior numbers. A draught for
300,000 more is in progress to replace those whose terms of
service have expired, and to fill up the wasted ranks of our
veteran regiments; and the people, just so fast as the evi-
dence of the necessity for that measure is received and di-
gested, submit with cheerfulness tothe ascertained demands.
Our armies everywhere are well equipped, abundantly fed,
and supplied with all the means of transportation. The sol-
diers of two years' service bear themselves as ♦eterans, and
show great steadiness in every conflict. The men, accus-
tomed to the camp, and hardened by exercise and experi-
ence, make marches which would have been impossible in
the beginning of the contest. The nation is becoming fami-
liar with aims, and easily takes on the habits of war. Large
voluntary enlistments continually augment our military
force. All supplies are abundantly and cheaply purchased
within our lines. The country shows no signs of exhaustion
of money, material, or men. A requisition for 6,200 re-
mount horses was filled and the animals despatched from
Washington all in four days. Our loan is purchased at par
by our own citizens at the average rate of 1,200,000 daily.
Gold sells in our market at 120 to 128, while in the insur-
rectionary region it commands 1,200 per cent. prem.
" Every insurgent port is either blockaded, besieged, or
occupied by the national forces. The field of the projected
confederacy is divided by the Mississippi. All the fortifica-
tions on its banks are in our hands, and its flood is patrolled
by the Federal fleet.
" Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland—all slave
States—support the Federal Government, Missouri has
already in convention ordained the gradual abolition of
slavery, to take effect at the expiration of seven years.
Four-fifths of Tennessee, two-thirds of Virginia, the coasts
and Sounds of North Carolina, half of,Mississippi, and half
of Louisiana, with all their large cities, part of Alabama,
and the whole sea coast of Georgia and South Carolina, and
no inconsiderable part of the coast of Florida, are held by
the United States. The insurgents, with the slaves whom
they yet hold in defiance of the President's proclamation,
are now crowded into the central and southern portions of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and
Alabama, while the pioneer slaveholding insurgents beyond
the Mississippi are cut off from the main force. On the other
hand, although it is less than six months since the laws or
customs of the United States would allow a man of African
descent to bear arms in defence of his country, there are now
in the field 22,000 regularly enlisted, armed and equipped
soldiers of that class, while 50 regiments of 1,000 each are in
process of organisation, and 62,800 persons of the same class
are employed as teamsters, labourers, and camp followers.
These facts, show that, as the insurrection continues, the
unfortunate servile population, which was at the beginning
an element of its strength, is being transferred to the sup-
port of the Union.
,4 You will use the facts presented in this paper in such a
way as may be most effective to convince those who seek a
renewal of commercial prosperity through the restoration of
peace in America, that the quickest and shortest way to gain
the desired end is to withdraw support and favour from the
insurgents, and to leave the adjustment of our domestic
controversies, exc.usively with the people of the United
States.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" WILLIAM H. SEWARD."

COLT'S REVOLVERS are to be extensively intro-
duced into the Prussian army, and the cavalry and artillery
officers are to be supplied with them immediately.
A violent hailstorm broke over the town and
neighbourhood of Cahors (Lot) two days ago. At Bellevue, a
man named Tilsac had just entered his house when the
building was struck by lightning and set on fire. The
owner escaped uninjured, but an umbrella which he carried
in his hand was literally consumed by the electric fluid.
The flames of the house spread so rapidly that nothing could
be saved.

A NAPLES letter in the Opinione of Turin gives
an account of the trial now going on of the mur-
derers of a watchmaker, named Ruffo, who was waylaid
about a fortnight back in the immediate Leighbourhood of
that city. The trial excites great interest, and on the 25th
August the Court was crowded, especially with cammor-
Hats, who want, if possible, to intimidate the judges.
While one of the counsel was engaged in the defen-...e of a
workman named Cherubini, who had been in the service of
deceased,
and was supposed to be the chief author of the
murder, the report of a musket was suddenly heard, and
immediately afterwards the roll of the drums calling out
the guard. Great confusion was occasioned in Court by
this occurrence, the President ordered the hall to be cleared
and the strictest watch to be kept over the prisoners. Soon
after the cause of the disturbance became known ; a sen-
tinel upon guard under the windows of the prisons hard by,
had fired upon one of the prisoners, who had been address-
ing him in the grossest and most insulting language for
upwards of a quarter of an hour. The sentinel in so doing
had only obeyed orders ; but most probably the prisoner
was acting according to instructions received from the Ca-
morra, in order b create a disturbance. The trial was at
once
and the belief is that the persons accused
will &void medicines: they always ag•gra
.
but Du Barry's Delicious Health
Restoring Revalcnta Ara
Tate chronic complaints,
Food, which saves fifty times
its cost in other remedies,
b resumed, escuom condemned.
.
ned
invariably cures them, restoring
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pure blood, refreshing sleep,
We extract a few out
t,) the most disordered or enfeebled.
21
perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs. healthy liver,unctional regularity, and energy
of 60,000 Cures :—Curt No. 58,6 of the Marchioness de
Brehan, Paris, of a liver complaint,
all over, bad
years, debility, with a nervous palpitationintolerable
most
nervous
digestion, constant sleeplessness, the
i_ away for seven
agitation, and dreadfully low spiri ter
of many years'
Stuart de Decies, Lord I.ftut. of Waterford,
indescribable a.,ony
dyspepsia.—No. 40,8:32. "I illy years'
o,_ constipatioo,
wasting
e ure N
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from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cou,it
• 'Maria Jolly."
,771. Lora
flatulency, spasms, sickness, and voniiting.
derang,e-
tElizabeth
—Cue e No. .16,270. Mr. James Roberts, of Frlmley, Surrey, of
thirty years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver
ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Miss
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Cotton Supply Association,

At the usual weekly meeting of the Executive
Committee held on Tuesday a letter was read from
Havannab, stating that the writer, after travelling
in the United States and America for the purpose
of making himself acquainted with the progress of
agriculture, determined on his return to enter on
the cultivation of cotton, and to prove that free
labour might be introduced with great advantage to
the country. He has planted about 100 acres, com-
prising the different varieties of soil in order to de-
termine which is most suitable, the plants are bear-
ing luxuriantly, having an average of 60 pods on
each stalk, and promising to produce on an average
150 pods each. Previous planters affirm that the
first year does not pay, but the plant being peren-
nial the second year yields good interest for the
money expended.

A letter was received respecting cotton cultivation
in Grenada, West Indies, and reporting that
formerly cotton was largely grown in the island, as
is still the case in some of the small islands of the
Grenadian group. Several estates are available for
the cultivation. A letter was received requesting
Sea Island seed for Trinidad, and reporting that
cotton grown from seed supplied by the Association
has been valued in Liverpool at 4s. per lb.
A letter from Tortola enclosing a small sample of
cotton stated that the cultivation has extended
greatly in that and adjacent islands, but as hitherto

there has been no direct opportunity of shipping to
England the crop has been sold in St. Thomas's for
the American states. Facilities are, however, now
afforded for shipping to Liverpool direct, by the
establishment of steamers between that port and
St. Thomas's, and this, it is expected, will still
further stimulate the production of cotton.
A letter was read from the Haytian Minister in
London, stating that his Government is doing every
thing possible, by the offer of prizes and otherwise,
to extend the cultivation of cotton in Hayti.
A letter was read from the honorary agents of

the Association at Calcutta, stating that the new
crop is reported to be considerably in excess of
previous seasons, and that though the quality of
cotton as yet come forward is not above the average
a large quantity of superior quality is said to be on
the way to market. The use of New Orleans seed
is extending ; Dr. Bonavia of Lucknow, who is
eending to the committee some beautiful specimens
of cotton, is desirous of sowing
200 acres in the
Oude district.
Letters were read from Buenos Ayres advising
the shipment of eight bags of cotton of Entre Rios,
and stating that a quantity of Sea Island and
Georgian Seed has been presented to the Argentine
Government with a view :o extend the cultivation
in the Republic. An honorary member of the asso-
ciation, who is indefatigable in his efforts, adds—
"The advantages of cotton planting are so manifest
that I am convinced the natives only require a little
good example and encouragement, which I am re-
solved to lend them to the best of my power."
A letter was read from Corrientes, River Plate,
stating that the cotton question has excited there
the warmest interest, and that it was proposed to
form a Cotton Plantation Company, the Government
of the State being at the head of the project. The
climate and soil are most favourable and the native
quality is expected to rival the New Orleans and
Mobile varieties. The planting is
between August
and October and the crop is gathered after January.
From the number of persons establishing plantations
the next crop may be estimated at 2,500 " paks."
A letter was read from the Commendatore Devin-
cenei, Turin, 'announcing that the Royal Italian
Commission, of which he is President, has decided
to hold an Exhibition of Italian grown cotton, and
also of gins, presses, ploughs, and other cotton ag-
ricultural implements of which English and other
foreign manufacturers are invited to become exhi-
bitors. The Exhibition will beheld during the month
of January next, and will, it is expected, greatly
stimulate the growth of cotton in Italy.
With respect to the Calcutta Agricultural Exhi-
bition, to be held in January next, the honorary
agents of the Association at Calcutta, Messrs. Mosley
and Hurst have generously offered to receive and
superintend the exhibition of
gins, presses, ploughs,
and other implements, free of allcharges beyond
actual disbursements. Makers who intend to exhibit
may see a list of prizes at the rooms of the Associa-
I tion, and obtain any information they require.