The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-09 00:00:00

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. „.---......---.,„_-_-A- ___
1865. 1864. 1865 1864
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties 9)l 991 2,137 1.860
Belfast and County Down 441 111 775 me
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 2,54 2,037
Brecon and Merthyr
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1211 7,111 7,276
Caledonian, Scottish Central 403 405 28 526 27,143
Cambrian
Coc%ermoutti K & Yenrith .. 314 - 451 -
CocksTmouth and Workin .. 9 9 317 33/
Cork and Bandon 2- 20 443 3.`9
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 I+4 220 187
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 654 654 2, 00 1.943
Deeside l7 17 519 137
Dublin & Bell ast J unction 63 63 1,802 1.536
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 2,173 1.819
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 91 f 4, 71 4,056
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, kc 5O 5) 3,905 3.209
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 4Ol 365 40,811 39,641
Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,745 1,4
408
Cit. Nortlin. & Westn.(lrel.) 7ll 711 873 1
lt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) BB7} 887} 11.051 9•955
Great Western l2BO 1236 78,819 77,115
Hull & Hornsea
Highland
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,989 1,7,15
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 43,315 39,184
Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 166 171
Limerick and Foynes 264 26} 140 107
Llanelly
• 83 t
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Biackwall 5l 61 2,115 1,967
London Sr South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 272 2671 27,177 23,351
London, Chatham, & Dover; f 134 127 1 13,0 2 10.829
all Metropolitan Extension tl2 11f j 2,550 2,020
Do. Kent Coast 27 2,6.0 2.150
2,370 2,071
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffield, & Linoolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham.. 94
91 1,61/ 1,610
22 28 1,623 1,3
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan ... 3l 3/ 2,6; 6 2,51
97
611 53,818 52,568
Midland (incl. N.-Western).. 672'1
Midland (it.Westn. of 'rind... 2601 2601 5,5.9 5.190
Konmouthsh. Rail. & Canal.. 44 44 3,027 2,7 i 7
North British, Edin., Perth •
....... 6934 6561 26,562 24.772
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl. 11911 11601 73, 63 69 357
North London ... ............ 9 9 3,611 3,330
North Staffordshire.......... 258 258 8,350 8,561
Pembroke and Tenby ........ 116 114 203 106
Rh ... !.. .
....: ! ......... 192 194 1,069 1,0 4
Scottish North-zastern ..... . 138 138 6,11) 6,085
Somerset and D0r5et........ 66 66 1,158 989
98 794 4.715 1,562
South Devon ........... ....• •
South-Eastern ............... 315 806 82,001 30,363
Taff Vale .................... 61 61 6,177 5,385
Ulster ... ............... lO5l 105 i 2,900 2.436
Vale of Clwyd. . lO 10 2.0 243
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 552 420
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,502 1,4°,8
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 6tB 759
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 986 1,012
Whitehaven & Furness
FOREIGN AND •
COLONIAL.un
Austrian B2B 828 41, '4l 4?,000
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction 264 264 421 866
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 185} 3,' 4) 2,057
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 9,333 6,224
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 6,733 5,761
Eastern of France
Eastern Bengal - -
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1335 30 860 25.481
Great Central of Belgium 285 261 7,574 6,C89
Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 16,309 7,940
Great Lukembourg l3l 134 6,150 4,978
Great Southe.'n of India
Great Western of Canada 345 315 19,616 13,1.64
Madras.

Madrid, Saragossa dcAlicant 683 650 18,175 19,01
Northern of Canada 94 91 1,852 1,632
Northern of France. 728 728 70,445 61,824
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
_ _ _

_
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967- 1781 143,680 143,719
Paris and Orleans 1616 1611 78,225 74.899
Recife and San Francisco. &c 774 774 052 550
Sande lO5 103 1,0E6 1,226
Do. Punjab, itc 253 32 1.316 117
South Austrian, &c. ...
southern of France 823 770 3 ,754 35,252
Victoria
Welland_
___ 25 25 1,015 589

West & Li-Wn. of France .. 1119 959 61,511 59,458

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DIIE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Oct. 19.

Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verdi!. by British paolet Nov. 5.

Ditto, by N'rench packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. • oct. 22
China. Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct. 13.

Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. —.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 13.

Ditto, via Marseilles . Oct. —.
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct. 11.
Ditto, via Marseilles .. Oct. 5.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil'e 3. Oct. 5.
Newfoundland .• • 1 0000000 Oct. 25.
Portugal ..... . • • ..Nov. 5.

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet ....... ...Oct. 14.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-

ton ........ . ...............................
Ditto, Tia Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—Oct. 6.
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe
West Indies and Pacific (except Balla:Las, Cuba,
and Mexico OCt.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE EXA3IINER7S TRIBUTE TO DUDLEY COSTELLO
—Our readers have lost a faithful servant, we a
pleasant friend, in Dudley Costello, who died last
Saturday morning, at the age of sixty-two. For
the last twenty years Mr. Costello has had charge
over the news column of the Examiner, succeeding
in his office the late Mr. Thackeray, who, when
young in his career, was sub-editor. Dudley was
the son of Colonel James Francis Costello, of the
14th Foot, a man of a high old Irish family in the
county of Mayo (of the Barony of Costello), con-
nected by marriage with the Frenches of Roscom-
mon. By his mother's side he was descended from
the great Reformer, John Knox, who married a
Stuart (Lord Ochiltree's daughter). His mother
was a woman of great wit and original genius, and
much of his talent was derived from her. But a
great uncle of his, dubbed the " Witty Counsellor
Costello," is well known in Dublin annals. Edu-
cated at the Military College, Sandhurst, Dudley
Costello's ready wit and extreme good nature en-
deared him to his companions as much as his
very remarkable quickness of observation and
talent distinguished him in the regard of the pro-
fessors. Several of his college friends remained
his intimates through life ; amongst them Sir
Richard Airey and Colonel Fancourt, late Governor
of Honduras. Having gained all honours, he had,
without delay, his commission from College in the
34th, on the return of which regiment from India
he was for a few months only on half-pay, when he
was re-appointed to the 96th, and sent to Nova
Scotia. From Canada he went to Bermuda, and
there he was in high favour among his comrades for
his wit, and the good humour with which he strove
to relieve the monotony of the Summer Islands. He
gave up all his leisure at that time to drawing and
literature, sketching in pen and ink, in a masterly
style, all the grots and caves and peculiar scenery
of the islands, and writing an account of them from
their earliest discovery. In particular he made a
drawing of Moore's calabash tree, an object of pil-
grimage to admirers of the poet, whose " Last eve
in the shade of a calabash tree" made it one of the
show objects of Bermuda. In after years he had a
fruit of the same tree set as a drinking cup, and
(together with the pen-and-ink sketch) presented it
to the poet at Sloperton. Moore wrote to tell him
that " no present he ever received gave him such
pleasure." " Bessie, he added, " does nothing but
drive about, carrying it with her and exhibiting
it to all her friends." While in Bermuda the
society of which he was the chief favourite
looked regularly every fortnight for a newspaper
" edited" by him. He took the trouble to ivrite it
in a hand like printing, in order that it might be
easily read, and there was mirth at the breakfast
tables of his friends whenever the Grouper, as he
called his paper, appeared. The staff of young offi-
cers whom he had appointed to assist were some-
times idle and indifferent, and he filled up the whole
paper himself, writing in different styles—anything
for an amusing joke that hit some topic of their
daily conversation. For several years this amateur
journalism continued to delight the world of Ber-
muda, the soldier-editor being at the time scarcely
twenty. He returned home, joined his mother and
sister in Paris, and hoped, through the interest of
Mr. Canning, to whom he was related through the
statesman's mother, once a Miss Costello, to obtain
some appointment which would prevent the neces-
sity of his returning to his regiment and to his idle-
ness—the listlessness of a soldier's life having dis-
gusted him. He had an introduction to Mr.
Canning from his son, Captain Canning, R.N., his
great friend in Canada and Bermuda ; but he had
scarcely arrived in England when the death of the
Minister occurred, which was immediately followed
by the news that young Captain Canning was
drowned while bathing in a tank at Bermuda. Cos-
tello's hopes of preferment were thus at an end. Ho
went to Paris, having now quitted the army, and
thought nothing so easy as a new pursuit, sure
to succeed. Moore gave him letters to a pub-
lisher in Paris for his Bermuda sketches
and accompanying narrative. Nothing came of
this, so far as concerned the pictures themselves,
but the talent shown in them had not been spent in
vain. For while in Paris Costello was introduced
to Baron Cuvier, who, delighted with his sketches
in pen and ink, proposed to him to replace a lost
assistant who drew for his work on comparative
anatomy. He passed some months, therefore, in
the private cabinet of Cuvier, drawing from pre-
served specimens of fishes, since published in the
work. So exquisitely delicate in execution were
his sketches that even those which failed to satisfy
the naturalist because of the omission of a scale or
a fin were shown as wonders of neat-handed skill.
After a time he devoted himself to copying MSS.
in the Bibliotheque Royale, where he made friends
with all the authorities. His copies of the wonder-
ful work of King Rene of Sicily (on Tournaments
and their Laws) are mast aecurate and beautiful,
and were much admired in Paris. He continued
for some years to draw in this way, and he and
his sisters were, in fact, the first who drew public
attention to illuminated MS. copying both in
Paris and at the British Museum ; and he executed
many curious works before the art had become
common, as it has of late. He assisted his sister in
her works on the Early Poetry of France and Per-
sian Rosegarden, each illustrated with curious
illuminations laboriously executed, by hand, by
both. Soon after this, by some accident, he was
induced to become foreign correspondent to
the Morning Herald—being a very good lin-
guist and went to Hanover, where his
own introductions from friends and relations
caused him to be presented at Court, and for his
pleasantness he was much liked. He divided his
time between Paris and London, always writing
for papers and magazines, reading and studying to
help his sister's works, contributing chapters to
them, and enriching them with his notes, &c.; they
in fact frequently wrote together upon many sub-
jects. He was an enlightened lover of art, devoted
to study and literature, and possessed a memory
of singular power, an accuracy of detail and a mili-
tary precision in fulfilment of all duties, that made
him one of the most exact and reliable of men, but
his charm consisted in his extreme gentleness and
kindness of manner and of disposition. He married,
but has left no children. The recent loss of a be-
loved wife contributed fatally to his end, for an
insidious malady declared itself, when his broken
spirit could not afford him the means of rallying.
He tried a journey through Spain to divert his
melancholy, but it failed of its effect, and a work on
Spain which he had projected was not even attempted
by him. He had written for many years stories,
chiefly comic, for Bentley's Miscellany, and his
charming " 'Liu through the Valley of the Meuse"
is a hand-book in Belgium much appreciated ; the
drawings are executed by himself, and are done with
his usual delicacy.
THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON A SCANDAL OF
JOURNALISM.—On Tuesday last the Morning Star
published a list of " The English Victims to the
Rebel Loan." This list purported to have been
printed in the New York papers of the 19th Sep-
tember, and certain sums set opposite each name
represented English investors in the Confederate
Cotton Loan, and " an estimate of the losses sus-
tained by them respectively." The figures were
large, but there was a very unhistorical aspect
about them. A critical eye in an instant detected
cooking and manufacture. Just as, in mythical
narratives, round and complete eras and cycles
occur, so there was in this list an artificial aspect
which could only be mistaken by those who wished
to be deceived. The symmetrical apportionment
of losses to the real or supposed means and
social standing of the adventurers, checked
and modified and intensified respectively by
their avowed sentiments in favour of the
South—and ranging from the princely fervour
of Sir Henry de Hoghton's zeal, appraised
at £lBO,OOO, to the tepid enthusiasm of Mr. Ashley,
which only warmed up to £soo—was so very trans-
parent a specimen of a fictitious event that, had this
absurd list been only quoted as the last New York
canard, it might have been passed over as a sorry
but malicious joke. It need not be said that there
was a coarse, insolent spice of personalty in it, as
benefited the New York press. Two gentlemen in-
timately connected with the Times, and one the
registered proprietor of the Morning Post, figured
for sums very creditable to the New York estimate
of the pecuniary position of London newspapers of
the first class. But when, just as an afterthought,
Mr. Gladstone's name the list as a victim to
the extent of £2,000, it could only have been the
most malicious virulence of party, or the deepest
intensity of stupidity, that could pretend to mis-
understand this document. Indeed, to do the New
York papers justice, they do not pronounce
the paper to be authentic. All that is asserted
is a wish " to enlighten the London journals
by the following list." The sole object was
to hoax those who were anxious to be hoaxed. We
do not say that the Morning Star was hoaxed. The
Morning Star knew the fictitious character of the
list of victims as well as we did. Good feeling,
good taste, or propriety of any sort was not to be
expected from the Morning Star, nor, perhaps, was
good sense. But a certain intelligence above that
of idiocy is to be looked for even in the lowest of
London journals. To believe, therefore, that the
Morning Star believed itself when it professed to
accredit the New York joke, is an imputation on
that journal on which we do not venture. So tho
Morning Star, for its own purposes, gave the list,
with an accompaniment of two leading articles—
one directed against Mr. Gladstone, and the other
against the conductors of the Times. Of course there
was the usual ingenious affectation of disbelief, as
far as the_ Chancellor of the Exchequer was con-
, cerned, coupled with the plainest insinuations of

all but proved guilt. As regarded the Times not
even this flimsy attempt at hypocrisy was
put forward. The Editor and City Correspondent
were openly charged with having written in favour .
of the South only in the interests of the Confederate
Loan, of which they were large holders. So direct
and personal was the charge that a special article in
the Times, much in favour of the Confederates, was
traced to the day on which the loan was issued. Of
course it was published only as a Stock Exchange
manoeuvre to force up the new stock. And yet
more, by way of infusing blacker venom into the
attack, the New York list was spoken of throughout
as " official"—from " official sources "—a lie which,
only to do them justice, we must say the New York
fictionists did not venture on. It need hardly be
added that, as far as is yet known, the list is a mere
piece of mendacity. Most likely it does include the
names of some capitalists who have invested, and, of
course lost, in the Confederate loan ; but the prin-
cipal persons concerned, and to damage whom it
was especially constructed, have denied that they
ever held a shilling of the loan. There would be
no disgrace if they had ; but, as a fact, they had
not. Mr. Seymour's £40,000, and Mr. Beresford
Hope's £40,000, Mr. Ashley's £5OO, the £25,000
invested by the Times and the £4,000 of the Post,
Mr. Gladstone's little slice of £2,000, and Mr.
Laird's sumptuous £20,000, are all indignantly de-
nied. In fact, the whole thing is proved to be—
what everybody of sense knew it to be—a vulgar,
insolent, horse joke, sadly characteristic of Ameri-
can journalism, and, we fear, sadly congenial to
American taste. But how about the Star,the only
English newspaper which affected to beieve this
misshapen slander—the only one which, for personal
and party purposes, ventured to hint that a news-
paper like the Times could sell itself for such
miserable hire as this? We have often had
occasion to differ from the Times ; now and then
we have been called upon to point out what we be-
lieve to be its errors in fact, taste, judgment, or
policy. But, as was said of Lord Palmerston, we
are all of us in a way proud of the Times, and we
know that its Editor is just as incapable as we are
of doing that which the Morning Star, with
scarcely a simulated kind of disbelief, charged him
with. Nay, we will say more. W e honestly be-
lieve that there is not a man connected with any
London paper who would have acted as the Morning
Star assumed the Editor of the Times to have acted
—except, of course, the editor of one newspaper,
which we leave to the Morning Star to specify. But
does the calumniator apologise ? By no means.
It is really doing. Mr. Gladstone and the gentle-
men of the Times a very great favour to give them
an oppportunity of saying that they are not rogues,
that they have not misused their position; that they
have not prostituted their opportunities, that they
have not abused that confidence which their country
and honourable men place in them. On the whole,
the English victims of this impudent hoax ought to
be very grateful to the Morning Skin Possibly. We
have seen this argument before. There was once a
newspaper called the Satirist ; nay, there were two
newspapers, the Age and the Satirist. There is even
now (or lately was) a little shabby obscene penny
print, called Peter Spy, which we once had the mis-
fortune to see. The practice of these journals is to se-
lect some unfortunate man or woman, and to charge
them with every filthy vice. The charge is disavowed ;
but the vindication of the libeller is always forth-
coming. The purveyor of scandal and defamation,
and the slanderer of innocence, like the Morning
Star, thinks that nothing is so foolish as to complain
of putting into print any scandal, because it gives
an opportunity of contradicting it. That is to say,
it is the right thing to publish to the world, of any
honest man, that he is said to have forged a bill, or
of any honest woman that " it is whispered about
from coterie to coterie" that she was discovered, &c.,
because everybody ought to be grateful for the
opportunity of publicly declaring that he or she is
neither felon nor harlot. As there is but one Eng-
lish newspaper which could have committed the
offence of the Morning Star, so there is but one
which could on these grounds justify it.