The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-20 00:00:00

CAPE TOWN.

The traffic receipts on this line (63 miles in length)
for the month of September last amounted to
£3,272, including £2,083 for 25,634 passengers,
and £1,189 for 2,169 tons of goods.

PANAMA, NEW ZEALANI?, AND AUSTRALIAN

ROYAL MAIL.

The report of the directors states that the revival
in commerce was, until within the last few months,
only partial, but owing to the success of the recently-
discovered goldfields in the province of Canterbury,
and the prospect of an immediate termination of the
war in New Zealand, the business of the colony had
resumed its former activity, and the returns on many
of the company's lines showed a large increase. The
receipts for the six months ended the 30th of June last
amounted for freight and passage money to £60,430,
and for Government subsidies to £20,534 ; total,
£80,964. The disbursements, exclusive of charges to
repair and renewal account, were £6,156, leaving
£15,808. The surplus would have been largerbut for
the further loss sustained in working the new line
between Melbourne and the northern provinces
of New Zealand. This line had been discontinued,
and no further charges on this account would occur.
The directors were in a position to recommend a
dividend for the six months ending June en the old
and new shares at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum,
clear of income tax. This would absorb £7,300,
and leave £8,508 available for repairs and depre-
ciation. Until the Panama line was in operation, a
vast amount of capital must remain unproductive.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, Nov. 13.—The Commander-in-Chief
Vice-Admiral Sir R. Smart, K.C.8., K.H., returned
to Malta for the winter on the 6th inst., on board
the Victoria, 102, screw line-of-battle ship (Capt.
T. G. Goodenough), having sailed from Naples on
the 30th ult., as briefly announced by the last mail.
The squadron left this island on the Ist July, and
has visited Barcelona, Rosas, Genoa, Spezzia, Leg-
horn, Castellamare, and Naples, remaining a short
time at each of these places. The cruise has been
made almost entirely under sail. During the whole
summer steam has only been employed in the Vic-
toria for about 36 hours. The officers of the squa-
dron appear to have thoroughly enjoyed themselves,
and have had an opportunity given them of visiting
various noted spots. Under the new Admiralty re-
gulations also, respecting " special and privilege
leave" (which were brought about throughithe re-
presentations of Sir R. Smart), many of the best
behaved petty officers and men have been allowed
leave on shore at every port. Not a single case of
cholera has occurred on board any of the large ships.
The ironclads Caledonia, 31 (bearing the flag of
Rear-Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.), Resistance,
16, and Enterprise, 4, are at Syracuse, awaiting in-
structions. The Royal Oak, 35, ironclad, is here.
She is to be docked, so as to be cleaned and to have
additional scuttles pierced in her sides for the pur-
pose of improving the ventilation. From some cause
unexplained she has been more unhealthy than any
iron or wooden ship of the squadron. The preva-
lent sickness has been diarrhoea and typhus fever.
Two or three Italian ironclads are shortly ex-
pected here from Greece to be docked, the
Italian Government not at present possess-
ing the necessary accommodation. The Chanti-
cleer, 17, Commander W. H. Fenwick, leaves
to-day (13th) for the Julian Islands, and the Magi-
cienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage, will leave for Eng-
land, after the arrival of the Marseilles mail, to be
paid off. The Orlando, 46, Capt. J. B. Dickson,
will not proceed home for the present. It is thought
she will go to Gibraltar after the termination of the
Court of Inquiry which has been appointed to sit
relative to the conduct of the Rev. Loftus Graham,
chaplain of that ship, towards the captain. The
Phoebe, 35, Capt. W. R. Rolland, will leave shortly
for the coast of Syria. A Court-martial was held
on the 11th inst., on board the Hibernia, to try Dr.
W. J. Baird, surgeon, of the Cossack, for drunken-
ness. Capt. Dickson, of the Orlando, presided, and
Mr. F. J. Fegen, officiated as judge-advocate. The
prisoner pleaded guilty. In consequence of very
high testimonials, especially for war servicetin the
Crimea and in China, from Dr. Deas, Inspector-
General of Hospitals (now at Haslar), and Colonel
Lemon, commanding the Royal Naval Brigade, he
was sentenced to be dismissed his ship, and forfeit
to
Pwr nc e years
C ntsionir te, ironclad.ln addiftriiognatetoe,
uthnede
rorders
Hector
the Mediterranean, the Favourite, 10, ironclad cor-
vette, is also to be sent to - this station. On the 9th
inst. (birthday of the P •
rmce of Wales) a dejefiner
dansant was given by the t • cap am and officers of the
Russian frigate Peresvet, in return for the hospitali-
ties received here. The entertainment passed off
very pleasantly. The Peresvet left on the 11th for
Athens. Mr. E. B. Boyle, acting Sub Li
- ea. of
the Cossack, has been appointed to the Orlando,
and Mr R. C. Leader, midshipman of the Orlando,
to the Cossack, in exchange. The Caradoc, 2,
paddlewheel despatch vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander Wilkinson, has arrived at Naples with Sir
Henry Bulwer, on board, on her way to Marseilles.
The Psyche, 2, paddlewheel despatch vessel, Lieut.-
Commander A. R. Blane, has received orders to
hold herself in readiness for immediate service. It
is reported that these orders have reference to
the tour of Prince Alfred, who has left England in
the Racoon. Her Majesty's surveying steamer
Firefly, 5, Commander G. R. Wilkinson, returned
on the 9th inst. from the coast of Tunis. She left
Malta on the 22d September. After calling at Tra-
, pani to perform quarantine, she arrived at Sousa on
the 12th of October, and found there a Tunisian

squadron of five steamers, which were collecting
conscripts for the Tunisian army. Thence she pro-
ceeds to Ras-Salaktah, and resumed surveying from
this point, where she left off last year. Soundings
were taken round the dangerous bank off the Kar-
kenahs, which extend about ten miles to the north-

ward of the spot indicated in the existing charts.

The vessel arrived at Sfax on the 22d October, and

remained there till the 26th, and she continued her

work as far south as the Nathor Tower, in the Gulf
of Kabes. Want of coal obliged her to return to

Malta, looking in at Sfax, where she communicated
with the new Vice-Consul, Mr. Edward Carleton,
who now occupies the post of his deceased brother.
On her passage back to Malta the Firefly continued
her examination of the southern edge of the Kar-
kenah-bank which it is important should be well
known to navigators, as in some parts of it, out of
sight of land, there is but 15ft. of water. As it shoals
gradually, there is, however, but little danger, if ap-
proached with caution, using the lead. The Firefly
leaves some time this week to complete her work in
the neighbourhood of Sfax. Her Majesty's ship

Terrible, 21, paddlewheel frigate, Capt. G. J. Na-
pier, arrived on tho 10th inst., 20 days from Ply-
mouth, and the Megxra, 4, screw storeship, Capt.
M. B. Dunn, came in on the same night, 13 days from

the same port of departure, after very boisterous

passages. Mr. R. Munday, secretary to Rear-Ad-
miral Kellett, and Mrs. Munday, arrived by the
latter ship. The Tyrian, 2, screw gunboat, Lieut.-

Com. W. G. D. Selby, arrived on the 11th inst., 12

days from Naples. The Meeanee, 60, and the Gib-
raltar, 81, are in Greece, the former at the Piraeus
and the latter at Corfu. The Racer, 11, arrived

yesterday from Corfu, and Zante. In Greece fresh
disturbances are apprehended.
The launch of the screw steam frigate Endymion
took place on Saturday at Deptford, under the super-
intendence of Mr. Ladd, master shipwright of the

establishment. Ample arrangements had previously

been made in anticipation of a large number of visi-
tors, of whom it was calculated there were 1,000
present. At 18 minutes before 2 o'clock, when the
tide was about to turn, the dog shores fell, and
without any pressure or artificial appliance, the fri-

gate slid down the greased way, and took her place
in the river amid the cheers of the spectators. The

ceremony of christening her was performed byMiss
Ffrench, daughter of Major Ffrench, late of the
74th Foot. The new vessel, with a number of per-
sons on her deck, floated a short distance up the
river, and was brought about by the Widgeon,
Monkey, and Bustler, steamtug vessels, belonging
to the Deptford and Woolwich yards, when her fine
lines were seen to great advantage. She was sub-
sequently made fast to one of the buoys of the dock-
yard, where she is under orders to remain until to-
mono*, preparatory to being despatched to Sheer-
ness, as previously announced. The Endymion is
one of the old class of frigates destined to carry 36
guns. She was laid down on Oct. 20, 1860, and
was under construction until Feb. 1, 1862, when
the work was suspended. She was again taken in
hand on Feb. 7,1864, and a number of shipwrights,
ranging from_lso to 200, were kept on until she
was complete. The principal dimensions are as fol-
low:—Length between perpendiculars, 240 ft; length
of keel for tonnage, 207 ft 111 in ; breadth extreme,
47ft 10in ; do. for tonnage, 47ft 4in ; do. moulded,
46ft Bin ; depth in hold, 17ft 3in ; tonnage, 2,478
30.94 tons. The engines, which are supplied by
the firm of Messrs. Napier, of Glasgow (formerly
stated in error to be that of Messrs. Maudslay), are
of 500 nominal horse power. The length of her
engine room and boiler space are 64ft 9in. Her
armament will consist of four 100-pounder Arm-
strong rifled muzzle loading guns, weighing 125
cwt each, and 14 8-inch guns, weighing 65 cwt
each on the maindeck, and 9 110-lb breech-loaders,
weighing 82 cwt each on the upper deck, as swivel
and pivot guns. Her complement of officers, men,
and boys will be as underneath :—One captain,
one commander, five lieutenants, one master,
Gne sub-lieutenant, and one midshipman, one
second master, one gunner, one boatswain, one car-
penter, two master's assistants, and four naval cadets;
one chaplain, one surgeon, one paymaster, one naval
instructor, one assistant paymayster, one clerk's
assistant, and six engineers ; 433 seamen and boys,
making a total of 465 of all ranks.
At Deptford-green dockyard—which has become
a branch of the Millwall Ironworks—Mr. Charles
Lungley launched one of the last ships built on his
own account on the 18th inst. The vessel was the
iron cased twin screw gunboat Vixen, for her Ma-
jesty's navy. She is an interesting experiment of the
combination of wood and iron principle. Her 4i-

inch armour plates are sheathed with wood, so that
she can be coppered, and thus not have her speed
retarded by the foulness to which iron ships are
liable, while she is quite their equal in strength. The
Vixen is 160 ft. in length, 32/ in breadth, 13/ in
depth, and her builders' measurement is 740 tons.
Her twin screw engines are 160 nominal horse power.
She is to be armed with two 300-pounder shunt guns
and two 24-pounder howitzers. Her complement of
men will be;80, and she will carry 97 tons of coals,
sufficient for six days' consumption at full power, or
12 days' ordinary steaming; 10 tons of water for
four weeks' use ; and 10 tons of provisions for 12
weeks. Her total displacement, when fully equipped,
will be about 1,121 tons.
The Bristol, 35, screw frigate, Capt. L. E. H.
Somerset, flagship of Commodore G. P. Hornby,
the successor of Commodore E. Wilmot, C. 8., the
present senior officer on the West Coast of Africa,
sailed from Spithead yesterday at 10 a.m. for Ascen-
sion and the West Coast, taking out with her a large
number of supernumerary officers and seamen for
ships on the station. The Bristol left Spithead by
the Eastern Channel. The wind was fresh from the
S.W., accompanied with rain in occasional squalls.
The Royal Sovereign, 5, turret ship, Captain A.
Herbert, on Saturday completed a very satisfactory
course of experimental firing from the two guns
in her forward turret in testing the new winch
purchases fitted to the gars, under the super-
intendence of Captain C. P. Coles. The Royal
Sovereign is expected to return into Portsmouth
harbour to-day, unless renewed trials are ordered,
and will most probably afterwards remain there for
the winter.
The Arethusa, 35, screw frigate, Capt. Reginald
J. J.G. Macdonald, anchoredat Spithead onFriday,
from tha eastward, and sailed again on Saturday
for the Mediterranean.
The Thunderer target ship is being prepared at
Portsmouth for her first trial of experimental and
sample armour plates. In all previous trials of ar-
mour plates at Portsmouth, whether for ships or
forts, the conditions have been a distance of 200
yards from the muzzle of the gun to the armour
plate, with the latter bolted on to the side of some
old wooden frigate moored for the purpose in the
upper waters of Portsmouth harbour, and the gun
mounted on the deck of a gunboat. With the Thun-
derer the conditions are entirely altered, both gun
and plate being mounted on board the ship at only
25f t. distance from each other. To attain this ob-
ject the Thunderer has been cut down to her lower
deck overhead beams, and 25ft. space of the lower
deck converted into an iron-lined roofless room or
proof house, one end of the room being formed by
a timber-built bulkhead of immense strength, on
which is bolted the armour plates under trial, and
the other end by an armour plated bulkhead with
portholes for four guns. The guns are first laid
at any particular part of the armour plate required,
and are afterwards fired by means of a voltaic
battery from below. Of the plates now ordered
for trial one is for the iron-cased hydraulic
vessel Waterwitch, a vessel building for the
Admiralty by the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuild-
ing Company, at their yard, Blackwall. This vessel
is remarkable as having been designed on a plan
expected to supersede all other steam-vessels, screw
or paddle, by proving the practicability of propelling
vesselsh b
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byera
scitillerbine wheel arrangement through a ship's
bottom,
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be obtained, they will be:rendered unimportant by
excessive cost of their production. The plate for this
ship'srow n ar,
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Co.,sel up as a sample from Messrs. J.
B Co., of the Atlas Works, Sheffield, is 4i
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inches thick, and. under the drilling machine in
Portsmouth Dockyard Steam Factory gave indica-
tions of being a very superior piece of metal. The
other armour-plate being drilled in the same work-
shop for trial in the Thunderer has a new form. It
has a ridge and furrow outer surface on a peculiar
and patented design. Extraordinary results are
expectedwatched wf riot
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The paddlewheel steam frigate Gladiator, 6, Capt.

F. H. Shortt, which arrived in Plymouth Sound
from Ireland on Friday, discharged her powder on
Saturday, and was taken up Hamoaze to repair de-
fects caused by collision with a merchant vessel' in
the Channel.

The Spanish frigate Gerona, 50, Capt. B. Escalera,
was appointed to leave Plymouth yesterday morn-
ing at daylight, with the Duke and Duchess de
Montpensier. Should the weather prove unfavour-
able, their royal highnesses will land at Ferrol ;
otherwise the frigate will proceed to Cadiz, near
which the duke has a residence whichhe will visit.

The Turkish yacht, the Sultan Mahmoud, went
down the river last week on a trial of speed and ma-
chinery. She is an iron frigate, ironclad with sfin.
plates, and is upwards of 4,000 tons burden. She is
engined by Messrs. Ravenhill, Hodgson, and Co.
The ship was built by the Thames Iron Shipbuilding
Company. She was tried and commenced her offi-
cial run at the Maplin on the 15th inst., and after-
wards proceeded on her voyage to Constantinople
calling at Plymouth. The Turkish officer in charge
was Capt. Hassan Bey. The speed of the ship was
over 12 knots per hour, the engines making 55 re-
volutions per minute. The engines are of excellent
workmanship, and showed no signs of hotbearings,
nor the slightest indications to induce a delay of her
voyage home. The boilers furnished steam abun-
dantly. The British Government authorities were
represented on board by Mr. Trickett, chief engi-
neer of her Majesty's dockyard at Woolwich ; the
shipbuilding company by Capt. Ingledew, late su-
perintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's fleet at Southampton, manager of the com-
pany ; and the engine-makers by Mr. Hodgson, one
of the firm. The ship was launched about a year
ago, and has not been docked since, consequently
her bottom is exceedingly foul. She and the Turkish
frigate Abdul Aziz, Capt. Huessein Bey, from
Greenock, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday. While
in the Sound they will, it is said, embark 1,600 tons
of coal, and will not therefore be under the neces-
sity of taking in any fuel between Plymouth and
their port of destination—Constantinople. It is re-
ported that on her passage down Channel the Sul-
tan Mahmoud ran into and damaged a merchant
schooner or brig.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON SIR CHARLES
WOOD TO THE LORDS !—Should Mr. Bright ever
succeed in putting down the House of Lords he will
come to feel the want of it when he is summoned
by the voice of Salisbury Plain to be Prime Minis-
ter. Since Mr. Pitt struck out the idea of making
peerages do the work of all his abolished political
sinecures, the House of Lords has been to the House
of Commons a sort of blessed Elysian fields—a
purpureal region in which it is understood that the
shades of extinct ?louse of Commons heroes live
and are happy. Under the presidency of some de-
parted Chancery Milos, Greeks and Trojans move
about in those calm abodes either in generous friend-
ship or at least in gentlemanly enmity, and converse
thinly and in disembodied whispers across a deserted
floor. It surely is not ungrateful to wish to see
others added to that serene retreat, where the
Premier himself,with much magnanimity, has gone
before. The boat that has ferried across not only
Lord Russell, but minor ghosts, such as Lord Llanover
and Lord Lyveden, appears to be stopping the way
again, and silently asking for more Whig passengers.
We do not know what Sir George Grey feels, but
we can imagine that " brother spirits" seem almost
urging on Sir Charles Wood to " come away."
The murderers of the United Kingdom would sadly
miss Sir George, but who is there that would re-
gret Sir Charles Wood ? The loss of his Halifax
seat is, at all events, an omen. It is both natural
and laudable that he should still hold on to the lower
existence of the House of Commons, for the sake of
India. Accepting a coronet would, in his eyes, be
equivalent to trifling with the fate of half a hemi-
sphere. It must, on the other hand,- be recollected
that Providence, when one great man is taken, pro-
vides another in his place. Sir Charles Wood has
long succeeded to the honours, if not to the reputa-
tion, of Mr. Vernon Smith ; and India; which has
survived the political disease of the latter, might in
time learn to acquiesce in the apotheosis of Sir
Charles. As far as debating power goes the Trea-
sury Benches, of course, would miss something, and
it is easy to calculate what they would miss. They
would lose one annual speech upon India, which
would be effective and interesting if Heaven had
not conferred on Sir Charles an almost super-
human capacity for being inaudible, and if
it were not apparently the inscrutable will
of destiny that on each annual return of his one
speech-day he should be afflicted with an annual
cold in the head. The House of Lords is the very
place for a statesman who is beset with this myste-
rious dispensation. It is thoroughly well-aired, and
no one minds whether a speaker is audible or not.
Perhaps it is even more graceful and more becoming
to be inaudible. Even Mr. Grant Duff will not be
unfeclicg enough to object to Sir Charles's indis-
tinctness in debate, if Sir Charles has once migrated
to join the glorious company of glorified Whig
peers. While Lord Lyveden and Lord Llanover
are occupied in pouring out nectar for the new
comer, Lord Russell will be able to dispose of any
posts which may be thus vacated, with advantage to
the public service and to his own Ministry. More
than one seat in the Cabinet might easily be filled
from among available and unattached politicians in
the House of Commons. Lord Stanley's re-
fusal to occupy a place, which he might ac-
cept without inconsistency or indecorum, would
be understood, though. it would be regretted,
by the general public. But if Lord Russell
has the courage to neglect the traditions of
clique, and to take good men where he can find
them, he can hardly be at a loss where to turn for
able auxiliaries in debate. Mr. Lowe and Mr.
independent
Horsman have, as members, pledged
themselves to a somewhat Conservative line of
action and of thought ; and Mr. Horsman has once
in his life committed the clumsy sin of personal in-
gratitude to the brother of the Duke of Bedford.
As subordinates of a Liberal Premier, both might
be willing to make their peace with the party which
they have offended if not deserted ; and it may
not be impossible to frame a many-sided Reform
Bill to which the opponents of Mr. Baines' naked
measure might not on principle object. Mr.
Goschen's commercial position as first member
for the City, his acknowledged genius in finance,
and the aptitude he has shown for Parlia-
mentary debate, raise him above the usual
level of young members, and would render him
a valuable accession of strength to the new
Ministry. Anything less than a seat in the Cabi-
net it would probably be idle to offer him, while his
nomination to an office of real power would be ac-
ceptable both to commercial circles and to the Libe-
ral party. Mr. Forster enjoys the advantage, or
disadvantage, of being connected with the section of
advanced Liberals whom it is scarcely expedient
that Lord Russell should altogether neglect. It is,
moreover, desirable that the gulf of personal preju-
dice which the late Premier was not unwilling to see
between the two Liberal sections should be narrowed,
and not widened ; and perhaps a more respectable
bridge could not be found than in the person of the
-member for Bradford. Of Mr. Stansfeld's claims it
is needless to speak. Rusticated, so to speak, for a
term from office, he has by this time expiated suffi-
ciently the serious but not unpardonable crime of a
gross personalindiscretion. Thesenames occur imme-
diately to every one 'who casts his eyes on the Liberal
host ; and there are doubtless others. While such
men are outside the Cabinet, we are justified in
.
asking who and what manner of men are in ; and
whether nothing can be done, by the means of a
stray peerage or two, to clear the way. At the pre-
sent moment it is not so much the Liberal party that
is on its trial as Lord Russell. His failure to con-
struct a powerful Cabinet may or may not be visited
upon his party, but it will be certainly visited on
his own head. He has an opportunity, and it re-
mains to be seen how he will use it. Mere party
considerations will always occupy the first place in
the minds of enthusiasts or partisans ; but, apart
from questions of party, it is obviously desirable
that Prime Ministers should be taught to build their
Cabinets, whatever the shape and colour, of the best
bricks within their reach. So experienced a Cabinet-
maker as Lord Russell is perfectly aware that better
bricks than some that he has got at present are in
the market. If Sir Charles Wood, Sir George Grey,
and others stop the path, all that we can say is, I o
the House of Lords with the obstructives.
THE " SPECTATOR" ON THE JAMAICA INSU
RREC -
TION AND ITS SUPPRESSION.—The rebellion in
Jamaica, and its bloody suppression, at the cost of
200, nr as some reports say, near 400 lives, some
of them women's, taken with no further security for
justice.than court-martial trials--which practically
mean of course trials without any defence for the
criminal—must at least produce that thorough in-
vestigation of our system of government in Jamaica
which would have been deferred for years but for
such an outbreak. Had the Fenian outbreak really
occurred in Ireland, England would scarcely have
tolerated the summary infliction of capital punish-
ment on hundreds of prisoners i',without any
conviction before a criminal tribunal, even if
the outbreak had begun with atrocities such
as were threatened in the letters of the
Fenian conspirators, or such as have apparently
beeninflicted on some of the upper classes

of Jamaica. In the present state of our know-
ledge of what haos actually occurred, it would almost
seem that there have been ten times as many execu-
tions of rebels as crimes of personal violence com-
mitted by them. That of course may be a false
inference, due to the insufficiency of our news, and
there may be excuses for violent measures of re-
pression, which in Ireland we should not have, in
the small force at the disposal of the Governor when
the outbreak first occurred. But whatever the truth
may be, a rebellion which has provoked—and still
more, if it were possible to speak of it as a rebellion,
which has justified—the summary execution of hun-
dreds of her Majesty's subjects, in an island whose
whole population is not larger than that of a first-
class manufacturing town, and this when the rebel-
lion did not to all appearance even touch more than
a tenth part of the population, cannot, after its sup-
pression, be passed by without searching inquiry
into causes and remedies. What has happened in
Jamaica is probably equivalent to the reckless
shooting or hanging by court-martial of upwards of
200, perhaps nearly 400, persons for insurrection
in a population not larger than that of Derby,—for
it is pretty clear that the rebellion had not extended
to the west of Kingston, and has not affected any-
thing like the whole population to the east of it.
Some of the despatches of the officers charged with
the suppression of the rebellion have, too, been
written in a tone of vindictive and vulgar
triumph over their bloody measures. Colonel J.
Francis Hobb, of the 6th Royals, writes in a style
which, if it had been adopted by a Northern
General in the late war, would have been held up
to public loathing. Thus :—" I have Paul Bogle's
valet for my guide, a little fellow of extraordinary
intelligence. A light rope tied to the stirrups, and
a revolver now and then to his head, cause us
thoroughly to understand each other ; and he knows
every single rebel in the island by name and face,
and has just been selecting the captains, colonels,
and secretaries out of an immense gang of prisoners
just come in here, whom I shall have shot to-mor-
row morning." Now either these bloody measures
were due to a comparatively legitimate panic in
which case the danger must have been fearful, and
the rebellion therefore one exciting universal enthu-
siasm among the black population, and then, we
think, it will be pretty clear that the system of
government must be both improved and strength-
ened ; or, as is pretty clear, they were beyond what
the circumstances justified, and taken in the violent,
passion of caste-hatred and revenge for the outrages
committed by the negroes, and in that case there '
can be little doubt that justice demands a tho-
rough investigation.
THE " ANGLO-AMERICAN TIMES" ON CAPTAIN
WADDELL'S WORK IN THE PACIFIC. —ln the let-
ter of Captain WADDELL to Earl RUSSELL he
states that he received for the first time the
news of the series of reverses -which had befallen
the Confederate Government on the 2d August
last, on communicating, at sea with the British
barque Barrocouta, of Liverpool, 14 days from San
Francisco. He invites Earl RUSSELL to " imagine
his surprise " at the receipt of such intelligence,
and says that he then immediately ceased from
further acts of war, and determined to suspend
further action until he had communicated with an
English port to learn if the intelligence was true.
Now we learn from San Francisco that the whale-
ship Ontario had arrived at that port from the Arc-
tic Ocean, with dates from the whaling fleet up to
September 28th. The captain and officers of the
Ontario state that Captain WADDELL was met on
the 28th June and informed that the war was closed,

and several captains showed him newspapers con-
taining the particulars of .LEE'S surrender and the
downfall of the Confederacy. And yet, from
WADDELL'S own admission in his letter to Earl
RUSSELL, he only ceased from acts of war on Au-
gust 2nd, more than five weeks after the date on
which he read in the newspapers of the collapse of
the rebellion. What was he during this interval,
if not a pirate ? We learn from the New Bedford
Standard that the loss to New Bedford by the
depredations of the Shenandoah is very large. If
no other vessels were destroyed except those
already reported, the premiums paid by the New
Bedford owners to New York and Boston
insurance offices amount to more than the losses.
We have no desire to criticise the action of the
British Government in ordering the release of Cap-
tain WADDELL and the crew of the Shenandoah.
It is more than probable that communications
passed between the Government and Mr. ADAMS
before that step was taken, for it is incredible that
Earl RUSSELL would have permitted these pirates
to escape without communicating with the Ameri-
can Minister. The fact of Captain WADDELL'S
discharge should not by any means be construed
into an endorsement of, or even an excuse for, his
piratical work. The truth is, there is no disposition
on the part of the United States Government to
pursue the late rebels with rigour, however unques-
tionable their acts of rebellion. The work of the
United States is now a work of conciliation and
peace ' • and however much we may condemn the
illegal and high-handed outrages perpetrated by
Captain WADDELL, he is entirely too small game
to merit the attention of Americans. If the Federal
Government, having vindicated its authority and
re-established peace, can afford to throw the mantle
of oblivion 'over the acts of such an arch-rebel as
DAVIS, which is now extremely probable, it would
be inconsistent with its dignity and power to pursue
a miserable outcast like WADDELL, who has no
home and no country, and whose acts of war
against the American Government were as con-
temptible as they were criminal.

LADY GAMBLERS IN NEW Yom—ln one of my
recent letters I spoko of gambling as one of the vices of
our fashionable women, and I have since learned that it
is practised in certain modish quarters far more than I
had supposed. In Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth and
Twenty-third-streets there are often parties of ladies from
which the opposite sex are sternly excluded, whore the
fair gamesters play until daylight for large stakes ; and
it not, unfrequently happens that when their purses are
depleted, they put up their bracelets, necklaces, and watches
as wagers. Some of the feminine gamesters lose heavily,
and their desperate shifts—no allusion to their wardrobe—
to which they are put to conceal their losses and replace
them, must be fearfully demoralizing. A young woman,
the daughter of one of our most opulent citizens, was
pointed out to me in the Park, as a notorious gambler,
by one of her own sox, who informed me that she had
parted with nearly $lOO,OOO since she went to Saratoga,
in July, and made her doting papa believe she had ex-
pended the sum in dress and charity. The young woman
in question is very pretty, not more than twenty ; and
no one regarding her pale, spirituelle face, hor soft blue
eyes, and gentle and reserved manner, would imagine
she had fallen a victim to one of the most dangerous of
vices.—New York Correspondent of Cincinnati Gazette.
RICHMOND.--This city, which suffered so severely
by fire at the time of its evacuation by the Confederate
troops, seems, like the Phoenix, to be rising from its ashes
brighter and more splendid than before ; at least such is
the inference which we draw from the following article cut
from the Richmond Times :—" The extraordinary activity,
animation, and industry' now visible in every part of the
burnt district' is most gratifying to contemplate. When
the disconsolate citizens of Richmond first gazed upon that
wide expanse of tottering walls, smoking ruins, and gaunt
ghostly chimneys, their hearts sunk within them, and they
said, 'Richmond can never be rebuilt.' When a few enter-
prising real estate owners, two weeks alter the great fire,
plucked up a little courage and went to work erecting rude
huts and shanties of wood and canvass for the sutlers, the
opinion was prevalent that in twenty years Richmond
would arise from the debris and ashes of the groat confla-
gration, but after a most grotesque and hideous fashion. A
few months afterward, when a considerable number of
plain brick buildings were commenced, men became more
hopeful, and only a decade was regarded as necessary for
the work of architectural reconstruction. Fear of confis-
cation, uncertainty as to the President's policy, dread of
the Radicals, and the intense heat of last summer also
interfered materially with the work of improvement in the
burnt district. Within the last two weeks the work has
commenced with a vengeance. No city after a disastrous
fire ever gave signs of 'greater enterprise than Richmond
does to-day. We hear the opinion everywhere expressed
that the whole of Main-street will be rebuilt in less than
twelve months. There now seems to be scarcely a lot
where workmen are not swarming like bees, digging new
cellars, cleaning bricks, removing rubbish, laying founda-
tions, running up walks, doing the wood work, and roofing,
lathing, plastering, and completing the work of the more
advanced buildings. Many of the new buildings, it is now
evident, will be larger than any which were destroyed by
fire. Iron, brownstone, marble and granite will enter
largely in the adornment of many of these palatial stores
and warehouses.

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homoeopathic practitioners, and
the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as being
the most healthful of all beverages. When the doctrine of
homeopathy was first introducteJ into this country, there
were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac-
tive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut was
either supplied in the crude state, or so unskilfully manu-
factured as to obtain little notice. 3. Epps, of London,
homoeopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn
his attention to this subje t, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first to
produce an article pure in its composition, a3d so refined by
the pert et trituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps' cocoa is distin.niished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delicious aroma
Dr. Hassell in his work, "Food and its Adulterations,"
says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of important nutritive
principles ; every ingredient necessary to the growth and
sustenance of the body." Again, "As a nutritive, cocoa
stands very much higher than either coffee or tea." Direc-
tions : —Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a breakfast cup,
filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured in tin-lined
}-Ib.. i-lb , and Ilb. labelled packets, and sold at is. 6d. per
lb. by grocers, confectioners, and chemists.