The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

THE SU.N, LONDON, MOND k EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1862

THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 15, 1862.

Our predictions have been realised. The Confe-
derates have made the prodigious efforts we expected
of them, to rout the Federals before their armies
should all unite, and the new levies reinforce them.
As the result of those efforts Washington
has, in military matters, changed places with Rich-
mond. The late besiegers of the latter, being now
massed behind the trans-Potomac defences of Wash-
ington, and the inhabitants of the Federal capital
being now in quite as much fear as those of the
Confederate capital were recently, We can hardly
think that the Confederates will make a serious
move against Washington itself. Possibly, if they
did, it might become their turn to retreat. They
were themselves strongest at their capital. M'CLE-
LAN pushed them back from Yorktown and Wil-
liamsburg without difficulty•--he could not push
them out of Richmond. The Confederates in like
manner have pushed back the bOLlstful POPE, and
some better Generals too, till the►y' halt, in turn,
in their Torres Vedras, before Washington. And
we may be pretty sure such able commanders as
the South have, will not risk being driven back
again to Richmond. If Washington be attacked
it will not be in vain. They will first make sure of
success. It would indeed be a splendid triumph for
them to proclaim the Confederacy from the steps of
the Capitol,but it might be bought too dear. Besides,
if anything could madden the North into rising en
masse it would be the capture of its Capital. Pro-
bably, the political chief will be more chary of its
attempt than even the Commander-in-Chief. Humi-
liation enough that the PRESIDENT should again
hear in the White House the roar of the Confederate

cannon.

We now know, with tolerable precision, the re-
sult of the battle of Friday, the 29th of August,
described as a great victory in General PoTE
despatch of the 30th, which was brought by the
last rnai!. An eye-witness writes that the enemy
had at first been driven back two;miles ; it proved,
however, that they only fell back on reinforcements,
and when these were reached they regained one
mile. POPE S victory of the Friday was the gain
of a mile of ground. But Saturday proved that it
was a losing gain. IVPDowELL, SIGEL, POPE, all
fought with desperation ; but all would
not avail.
They were driven back by
greater enerru, wielded by greater skill, and
saving nothing but their honour, fell back to places
whose names were familiar to us last Tear—Cen-
treville and Fairfax, between Bull's Run and Wash-
ington. Thus has Bull's Run become a third time
celebrated. A Federal rout about fifteen months ago
gained it a world-Wide reputation. A repulse from
it of the Confederates on the 29th seemed to restore
again the balance—it was but for a night. POPE
had, as usual, prepared us to hear of his pursuit of
the enemy, and complete triumph on the 30th, but
again the Federals had to flee from Bull's Run to
Washington, this time, however, in the manner of
soldiers. The very teamsters, who last year were
said to be the cause of the panic, this time seem to
have learned to be cool under fire. When an ene-
my's bombshell burst in their line of waggone, de-
stroying one of them, we read of their coolly re-
moving the fragments out of the road, and pro-
ceeding as usual.

Thus again the " defence of Washing ton" was
the business of the day on the 4th of September.
All forces in the neighbourhood were concentrating
to the capital, from Winchester on the west side
in the Valley of the Shenandoah, and from
Acquia
Creek on the south-east, 'where vr.,....‘CLELLAN was
with part of his late army of Richmond, all are
brought to the capital, and the other positions eva.
cuated. The large Federal fleet of gunboats com-
mand, indeed, the Potomac, and probably Wash_
ington itself will owe much to them. The re-
mains of the Northern armies ought still largely

to outnumber the Confederates, and, though dis-
couraged by the want of competent field com-
manders, they must, we may suppose, be able
easily to hold the enemy in check behind fortifi-
cations. Those fortifications are indeed but earth-
works, but what resistance earthworks can make,
is well known to our Crimean soldiers. The Pre-
sident seems to think that some change of men
is indispensable. General HALLECK is said to
have superseded Mr. STANTON as Secretary for
war, and General M'CLELLAN to be entrusted
with the defence of Washington. The latter is
indeed charged with not having sent reinforce-
ments demanded of him from Acquia Creek, and
hence to have caused the loss of the great battle
of Bull's Run on the 30th ; the President, how-
ever, can hardly believe this, or ho would not have
intrusted his own safety to a traitor. Thus
Washington is once more become a camp, with
M'CLELLAN in command.

But how far are things from having reverted to
their old position ! The two armies are both in a
very different condition. The old Bull's Run panic
was rather a subject for a joke than otherwise.
Everyone knew that it had little, if any, military
significance. Not so the Bull's Run battles of the
29th and 30th of August. They were equal, stand
up fights, between two mighty armies, both sea-
soned to battle, and steady enough under fire. Both
armies fought with equal determination. Not a
regiment would yield on either side to anything
but proof that they could no longer resist ; and
then they would retreat, not run. It was general-
ship, and generalship alone, which gave the victory
to the South. Bat how much is involved in the
fact. The Southern soldier knows it, and will fight
with undoubted confidence, because confident in his
leader. The Northern soldier, equally brave, will
lose half the benefit of his courage, by doubting
whether it will not be wasted. Events, too, will
have proved that he does not fight with an enemy
who is insufficiently equipped with the means of
destruction. Where they got them from may well
be matter of wonder; but that the Southern generals
have not only superior skill, and equally courageous
soldiers, but sufficient arms of all kinds is made but
too painfully evident to the North. How is such a
struggle to end, unless mediation be accepted !
Nor does the Federal cause look more hopeful
elsewhere. In Kentucky the Unionists, Govern-
ment included, are " skedaddling," as Yankee
slang now terms a prudent and timely care for per-
sonal safety with bag and baggage. The Great
Border State seems in a fair way to be occupied
by the Confederate arms. The Legislature, with
all its archives, has migrated from Lexington, first
to Frankfort, then to Louisville, which is only sepa-
rated by the river Ohio from the State of that name.
Cincinnati, the great city of Ohio, situated on the
river, is quite in trepidation, and militia are
called out, and large bodies of Confederates, their
numbers probably magnified by the fears of the
reporters, are moving truly in the State. From the
Mississippi the reports are equally discouraging.
Baton Rouge is at last really evacuated by the Fe-
deralg, not having been first barbarously destroyed,
as was at first reported. New Orleans is also in
danger. General BUTLER is taking measures to
defend the city, but a large army of Confederates
certainly threaten it. We shall soon learn whether
the North is yet awakened to the impossibility of
subjugating its energetic enemy, or whether all
these reverses will rouse it to fresh and extraordi-
nary exertions. Pride will probably long defer the
settlement which must come at last.

1 According to the old proverbial notion about
" the third" being " the charm " the Imperial
Journalist's letter in La France (the third and last
of the series) has certainly proved to be the most im-
portant to which that publicist has (in La France)
affixed his signature. M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE
blurts the whole truth out at last in regard to the
hitherto veiled and dumb Italian policy at the French
Emperor. It is true that, before closing his re-
marks, the Viscount distinctly declares that, upon
the Question under notice, he does not pretend to
be the mouthpiece of the French Government. Of
course. That is a thing, by this time, perfectly
well understood. We will not call M. DE LA
GUERRONNIERE then the mouthpiece of the
French Government. We will not designate him
even the semi-official spokesman of her Majesty
l'lmperatrice. We will not talk about back
stairs influence, or about boudoir knowledge.
We will regard these three letters in La France,
but particularly this third letter in La France,
as constituting another of those well known
" feelers" thrown out by the Imperial Govern-
ment of France at periods of mom than usual
doubt, or in times of grief or emergency. If
the direction indicated by them " takes" with
the public as one happily thought. of—to be
be accepted and followed out ! If the reverse—to
be repudiated ! Formerly this exceedingly clever
but, by this time, perfectly transparent dodge
[there is really no other word for it !] was
managed through little primrose-coloured and
lilac-coloured brochures, sold by thousands, " prix
1 franc," across the counter of M. DENTU, the
Palais Royale bookseller. Now, it is managed, by
way of novelty, through the columns of La Franca
under the auspices of its redacteur en chef, M. le
Viscomte DE LA GUERRONNIERE, the very Prince of
the Imperial Pamphleteers. It is because he occu-
pies this position before the European pub-
lic, and because his recent manifesto is
at once recognisable as another of those wonderful
feelers," thrown out from the darkness and the
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that the
La France is entitled, at any rate, to some
silenceo
days by
consideration. It is important, in the first instance,
to notice, in regard to this argument of la France,
that the acknowledgment is at length made, that,
for a solution of the
Italian Difficulty it is idle
Italy
absolutely impossible,
to dream of returning to 'it is
the
erara-
tion is still clung to. -scheme indicated by the Treaty of Villafranca!
A. Admitting that, however, the notion
Federation of
a Federa-
tion ed
edtio
ERRONNIERE--if it is
must be—says M. DE LA
to be anything at all beyond a geographical expres-
sion. A Federation of Three States—namely, two
considerable States, Northern Italy and Southern
Italy, with Central Italy between them as a bond
of union, or connecting link. The bases, in
fact, upon which the whole matter may be
settled by an European simply,
Congress, are,
according to M. DE LA GUERRONNIERE, as
follows :

"'The division of Italy into three States, united
by a Federal bond.

"The guarantee by Europe of the Pontifical
territory, formed of Rome And the patrimony of
St. Peter.

benefit
of
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66 The reservation for the
bee
Holytahned
Father of the sovereignty of th
Um-
bria, with the payment of a tribute by the Sove-
reign who should retain the administration of
those districts.

"Military, diplomatic, legal, customs, and
financial union between all the Italian States."

All very plain sailing, this, apparently. Only__
there are two rather important considerations to be
taken into account before this suggestion can in any
Way be carried out—namely, how the notion would

be regarded first of all by Italy, and afterwards by
Europe!

The value of the discovery, if such it should prove,
of a substitute for cotton will soon be fully tested.
The noble•minded discoverer has taken the course
which, but for the advice of friends, he would have
taken before, and offers it without guarantee of
pecuniary compensation to the examination of a
properly constituted committee. In this course he
is assuredly right and safe, as well as generous.
Generous he must be thought, since he fully
believes that his invention is certain to answer.
Safe we are sure he is, for should it prove at all
what he expects, and set speedily the unemployed
operatives of Lancashire to -work, the whole nation
would demand of its representatives that they
should deal with such a nationa benefactor in no
niggardly style. The money saving alone to the
country would demand a munificent reward; but
what reward could be too great for the man who
should save a body of the noblest operatives in
Europe from the demoralisation consequent on
idleness and want.

It is impossible not to be sceptical as to the possi-
bility of finding in these temperate climes any
shbstitute for the beautifully soft and delicate tree-
wool of the tropics. Failures have been so nume-
rous hitherto, as in the apparently easier case of
finding a substitute for rags in the manufacture of
paper, that success now will not be hoped for till it
is achieved. Some unforseen practical difficulty
has always been detected which has frustrated the
hopes of the sanguine discoverer. In this case
otherwise, all looks eminently hopeful. An
eminent retired cotton manufacturer, Mr.
WRIGLEY, has seen the material, and has
testified to its " length, colour, and fine-
ness" being perfectly satisfactory—it has since
been submitted to " three of the best judges in
Manchester," and they have tested and approved
the remaining quality—strength. Our readers
will ask what more can be wanted ? We know of
nothing—of nothing we mean to hinder its being
made up into a textile fabric. Whether it will
take the dyes of different kind so well as cotton, is
of course untested yet; but in any case it will take
some dyes, and if cheap, and strong, and fine fabrics,
can be produced from it, they will be sure enough
to come largely into nse. Woe to Southern slavary,
if only our discoverer has not deceived himself. He
fully believes he shall be able to establish—" That
my substitute will answer all the purposes of cotton.
That a present and sufficient supply can be procured,
and the operatives at once set to work. That the
future supply of the material may be obtained by
cultivation in the United Kingdom, without dis-
placing from other purposes one acre of land, and
thus be the means of developing a new staple in-
dustry of the country."

The thirty-second annual meeting of the British
Association is to attraet the world of science this
year to Cambridge. The Presidential chair will be
resigned upon the inaugural day by the eminent
and veteran Engineer, who so ably filled it upon
the last occasion, namely, WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN,
LL.D. and F.R.S. It will be assumed by the rev.
gentleman selected as his successor, namely,
ROBERT WILLIS, M.A., and F.R.S. The Reverend
Professor WILLis be'ng the Jacksonian Professor
of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at the
University ; and known already far beyond the
precincts of that ancient seat of learning as the
possessor of a very distinguished reputation.
Already the arrangements are tolerably well
advanced, are in fact for the most part by this
time fairly completed. The seven Sections have been
awarded to as many well-selected Presidents. Pro-
fessor STOKES has that section which is naturally
enough marked. Adown at Cambridge, that is the
Section of Physical Science and of the " Mathe-
matics." Section B, set apart for Chemistry, is to
be presided over by Mr. MILLER, the Cambridge
Professor of Mineralogy. Section Cby Mr.
JUKES, the Director of the Geological Survey in
the sister island. Section D, combining under
one head Botany and Geology, will have for its
president Mr. HUXLEY, well known for his attain-
ments and his courtesy as the Geological Society's
Secretary. Section E, linking together the
sciences of Geography and Ethnology, is the only
section out of the seven, in reference to which we
are still left in doubt as to its new President. Not
so however is it in regard to the other two, each
of which has been awarded to a man eminent. in
some respects pre-eminent, in his profession. Section
F, the section of Economic Science and Statistics,
Having Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK for its President.
And Section 9, the section of Mechanical Science,
retaining the late President of the British Associa-
tion, Mr. W. FAIRBAIRN, as its President. Besides
which there will be proposed on the Ist proximo,
in General Committee, a sub-section of Physiology
—a sub-section which it is suggested, for reasons
then to be given, shall sit in aid of the regular sec-
tions already enumerated. And, if this idea (as is,
of course, nothing but probable) be approved of, it
is intended that the said sub-section of physiology
shall sit under Dr. PAGET'S Presidency.

The Association will inaugurate its reassembly
in 1862, upon the day but just now particularised—
namely, upon the Ist of October. The inaugural
gathering together of the General Committee en-
trusted with the routine work of electing and ap-
pointing the various sectional officers, will take
place, in the middle of that day, in the Town-hall
—a structure which will be set apart for the use of
the Association, during the period of its stay in
Cambridge, by the borough corporation. In the
evening of that day Mr. FAIRBAIRN will formally
resign the chair, and Professor SVILus, on assum-
ing it, deliver his inaugural address as President.
Occurring as this thirty-second annual meeting
of the Association does after a by no means ex-
hausting Parliamentary session, and (as is usual)
during the holiday time of the year, when almost
every one is more or less at leisure, and (as is not
usual) in one of the great seats of learning, re-
nowned, as such, in both hemispheres—the forth-
coming assembly of men of science down at Cam-
bridge, has before it many reasonable prospects of
proving more than ordinarily successful, and cer-
tainly more than ordinarily attractive. Very
heartily we trust that these auguries may be ful-
filled.

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and
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Misses Stanley, arrived a rover-
street on Friday from Carlsbad. Lady stanal
ey and
daughters left the following day for Alderley
Park,
Cheshire,
Viscount and Viseoui:fess Palmerston will leav °
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town •
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ROTE,eY,." 4 at
Hants. A select
noble Premier'sparty will assenk.. the
country seat at the close of the week,

The Countess (Dowager) of Yersey passed through
town on Saturday to Brighton from Osterley Park, near
Brentford.

Viscount and Viscountess Campden have been
receiving a succession of visitors at Campden House,
Gloucestershire. Prince Doria Pamphili and his youthful
family have been among the guests of the noble viscount
and viscountess.

Lord and Lady Herries and the Hon. Misses
Maxwell have arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square,
from Everinghara Park, Yorkshire.

Prince Wasa, the Earl of Winchilsea, and Sir
Robert Peel have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris.
General de Sonnaz, Env3y Extraordinary from Italy to the
Court of Russia, has left the same hotel for Turin.
THE LATE EARL OF HARRINGTON —The mortal
remains of the Earl of Harrington were deposited in the
ancestral vault in Elvaston Church, almost adjoining the
aisle, near Derby, on Saturday. The funeral was very
solemnly conducted. It has not been publicly stated that
the death of the Earl was rather sudden.

GEORGE STEPHENSON, THE ENGINEER. —The
Newcastle monument to George Stephenson, the great en-
gineer, was completed last week, and will :be shortly in-
augurated by Lord Ravensworth. It has been erected in
Neville-street, closely adjoining the Central Railway Sta-
tion, and consists of a massive stone pedestal bearing a
colossal statue of George Stephenson by Lough, together
with certain emblematical figures, viz., that of a blacksmith
naked to the waist, sitting and leaning against an anvil,
while his right hand grasps a hammer; a pitman, carrying
a "Geordie" lamp ; a platelayer, holding a model of Mr.
Stephenson's old fish-bellied rail ; and an engine-driver
leaning against a locomotive. The monument promises to
be very effective, and a great ornament to the town. The
monument to the late Mr. Robert Stephenson will be placed
nearer to the railway station.

LORD PALMERSTON.—During the stay of Lord
Palmerston in Nottingham, last week, a number of ladies
presented his lordship with a smoking cap from a bazaar
that was being held at the Exchange Hall to liquidate the
debt on one of the local churches. The cap was made of
scarlet and blue silk velvet, richly embroidered with gold
lace. It was forwarded to the George Hotel, where his
lordship was staying, accompanied with a complimentary
note. The noble Premier has sent the following reply :
" 94, Piccadilly, September, 1862. —Lord Palmerston pre-
sents his compliments to the ladies conducting the Not-
tingham bazaar, and while returning them his thanks for
the beautiful cap which they were so good as to send him,
encloses a draft for his contribution to their bazaar," The
enclosed was a cheque for V,

The following are the principal conditions of the
contract of marriage between the King of Portugal and the
Princess Maria-Pia :—" Ist. The sum allowed by the
King of Portugal to his consort is to be 60 contos of reis
(350,000 f.) per annum ; 2d. The guarantee for the payment
is his Majesty's civil list ; 3d. If the Princess of Italy be-
comes a widow she shall be allowed a handsomely-fur-
nished palace in addition to the allowance, but if she goes
to a foreign country to live, she shall receive the allowance
only ; and, 4th, If the King becomes a widower without
children, all the personal property of the Princess shall
revert to her own family."
REPRESENTATION OF STOKE-UPON-TRENT.
Mr. Hope has retired. In his address to the electors he
says :—" I withdraw from this contest. I make this an-
nouncement with deep regret after the unexampled kind-
ness I have received from you, but upon a careful examina-
tion of the register I have come to the conclusion that the
defeat of the Liberal cause is certain if I now press my ad-
mitted claims to the poll."

" A great sensation is being produced at Copen-
hagen (says a journal of that city) by a singer of the name
of Nyerup, formerly a fisherman himself, in the character
of Masaniello. A musician having accidentally discovered
that the young man possessed a wonderful voice, prevailed
on him to study singing. Nyerup studied for two years.
He has now appeared, and is described as a perfect pheno-
menon." If the above paragraph be true, we know a
theatre where he should be received with open arms—not a
hundred miles from the Rue Pelletier,

The Cologne Gazette states that the corvette
Danzig, of the Prussian navy, has just been put up f9r sale
by auction, and the highest bidding was only 25,000 thalers
(93,750 fr.), although the vessel cost the Prussian govern-
ment 200,000 thalers (750,000 fr.)

WORCESTER HOP MARKET, Sept. 13.—The
weather of the past week has been favourable for the
growth of the hop, and where planters are fortunate enough
to have escaped the general blight there will be a good
sample gathered. Picking, however, has not yet com-
menced, although our great hop fair takes place on Friday
next, when we have in a good season thousands of pockets
brought to Worcester. We do not expect a single pocket
of new Worcester hops, however, next week. There is
little doing in the market, the trade being limited to a
slow sale of old hops at about the currencies last quoted.
ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. MONDAY
MORNING.—About half-past three o'clock a fire of a very
alarming character took place
,in the premises belonging
to Messrs. Kellard and Sons, known as the City Saw
Mills, situate in Wentworth •street, Whitechapel. The
premises in question were of considerable extent, and com-
prised sundry erections; the one in which the misfortune
commenced was the boiler-house, a building about 40 feet
long. From that part of the premises the flames seized
upon the veneer-house, which contained a valuable stock
of cut veneers. In less than five minutes both buildings
presented two great sheets of flame. Information of the
disaster was sent off to the Royal Society's fire-escape
stations, and also to the parish and London Brigade
stations. In the course of a few minutes the escapes and
engines arrived, including two steam fire-engines by Shand
and Mason. The mains of the East London Company
having been drawn, the firemen, under the command of
Captain Shaw, went to work, and with the aid of 28 hired
auxiliaries they managed to prevent the fire from reaching
other buildings belonging to the firm, but the boiler house
and the veneer house were both burned out and the roofs
destroyed. The origin of the fire is enveloped in obscurity.
The loss is considerable, but the sufferers were fortunately
insure' in the Royal Fire-office. Mr. Langham and Mr. H.
White of that office were early in attendance to ascertain if
possible the cause of the fire, but they could learn nothing
of a satisfactory character.—Another fire broke out between
8 and 9 o'clock in the tar works at Rotherhithe. The bri-
gade again quickly attended, and the fire was extinguished
before any considerable damage was done.
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The British Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science will hold its 32d
annual meeting at Cambridge on Wednesday, Oct. 1. The
president of the year is the Rev. Professor Willis, and the
vice-presidents are the Very Rev. the Dean of Ely, Profes-
sor Whewell, Professor Sedgwick, the Astronomer Royal
(Mr. G. B. Airy), Professor Stokes, and Professor Adams.
The general secretaries are Professor Phillips and Mr.
Hopkins; and the local secretaries are Professor Robing-
ton, Professor Liveing, and Mrs. Ferrers. The first meeting
of the general committee will be held early in the afternoon
of the day of meeting; and in the evening the first general
gathering of the members will be held in the Town-hall,
when Mr. Fairbairn will resign the chair to Professor Willis,
upon whom devolves the task of delivering the customary
inaugural address. The sectional meetings will commence
in rooms at the Town-hall on Thursday, the 2d of October,
and will be continued de die in them until Tuesday, the 7th
of October (Sunday, of course, excepted). The mathema-
tical and physical science section will be presided over by
Professor Stokes ; the chemical science section by Professor
Miller ; the geological section by Mr. J. B. Jukes, director
of the geological survey of Ireland ; the zoological and bo •
tanical section by Mr. T. Huxley; the economical science
and statistical section by Mr. E. Chadwick; and the me-
chanical science section by Mr. Fairbairn. The geogra-
phical and ethnological section seems to be at present with-
out an appointed chairman. On the Thursday evening of
the week over which the congress will extend, a soiree will
take place at the Town-hall ; Friday evening will be devoted
to a discourse by Professor Willis, and Monday evening to
a discourse by Dr. Odling. A second soiree on Tuesday
evening will conclude the doings of the week, which will be
a memorable one in the annais of Cambridge.
DEATH OF MADAME AURIOL.—" It is a melan-
choly fact," says the _Entr'acte, "that those persons whose
profession it is to amuse the public often have to support
an unusually large share of the trials of life. Auriol, the
popular clown of the Cirque de l'lmperatrice, has recently
been plunged into the deepest affliction. After losing his
son, a fine young man, who was to have succeeded him as
clown, he has now lost his only remaining child, a daugh-
ter, Mme. Auriol, married to a cousin of the same name,
and who died a few days since in childbed. The funeral
took place in the chapel of the Avenue de St. Cloud, and
presented a heartrending spectacle. At the cemetery the
bereaved husband could not stand without support, and
the unhappy father, on taking the last look at his daughe
ter's coffin, fell back insensible in the arms of his friends.
Poor Auriol, who is now 65, will hardly recover this ter-
rible shock, and yet perhaps he may be obliged still to
amuse the public with his jests and antics."
THE POOR IN ST. PANCRAS.—At the weekly
meeting of the directors of the poor of St. Pancras, a commu-
nication was read from the Poor-law Board on the subject
of a recent inquest held by Dr. Lankester on the body of a
poor woman who, it was alleged, had been cruelly thrust
out of her lodgings, and had died of want. The letter was
as follows:—"Poor-law Board, Whitehall, Sept. 4.—Sir,—l
am directed by the Poor-law Board to enclose, for the informa-
tion of the directors of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras,
a copy of a paragraph relative to the inquest recently held in
the case of Matilda Martin, late of 23, Tottenham-place,
Tottenham Court •road. The board direct me to request that
they may be furnished with any observations which the
directors may wish to offer on the statement contained in
the paragraph referred try. The board also direct me to re-
quest that the directors will be good enough to obtain and
forward to the board the explanation of Mr. Saddler, reliev-
ing officer, of the allegations affecting his conduct in the
case.—l am, air, your obedient servant, C. Gum, Secre-
tary." After some discussion, it was determined to appoint
a committee to investigate the case; and a reply was written
to the P9or-law Board, stating that the directors had the
matter Under their ponsideration, and that so soon as they
ould be form.rdeq,
`^4 completed it, their report eh

LA T s r NEW S•

PARIS, SEPT. 14 (Evening),

Nothing definite seems to have been decided with
regard to the elections to the Corps Legislatif. The
question appears to have been raised in a Cabinet
Council, and now awaits the decision of the Emr.
peror.

The Presse of this evening says—
It is asserted that the entire number of the
effective force which has arrived in Mexico will
approach 6,000 men.

BERLIN, SEPT. 14.

The semi-official Neue Preussische (Stern) Zeitung
of to-day discusses Friday's debate in the Chamber
of Deputies upon the military budget.
The article, commenting upon the speeches of
Herren von Patow and Von Vincke, bases thereon
a hope, strengthened by several incidents of the
debate, that the voice of moderation and reflection
has not been raised in vain in the house.

The Stern Zeitung adds that, possibly even at a late
period of the debate, the opinions of the Chamber,
especially in reference to the military budget of
1862, may be so changed as to keep in view not
only the arguments in favour of the ancient organi-
sation of the army, but also the facts of recent date,
by which those arguments have been enfeebled.

THORN, SEPT. 14.

During a domiciliary visit instituted at Warsaw
yesterday upon the premises of the Academy of
Painters, the artists fired upon the military, but
without result. Several revolvers and daggers
were discovered.